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Tree Guardians by John Kent

Parker the Beagle was timid and shy and failed as a hunting dog, so he was kept in a cage. But a kind woman rescued him.

The greatest dog video I've ever seen.

Arranging a marriage for a lonely bachelor bunny.

Tiny piglet makes friends with the whole farm.

Crow knocks on the window every morning to play with the house's dog and cat.
Poor golden retriever has had his bed stolen by an evil kitten.

Republican whale pounces.


Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:00 PM




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1 hola chamucos y chamucas

Posted by: alpine_beer at July 17, 2026 07:02 PM (van9r)

2 {{{echo}}}

Posted by: alpine_beer at July 17, 2026 07:03 PM (van9r)

3 Best dog video?
Worst auto play ads that won't go away.
Fuck it.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 17, 2026 07:05 PM (Kt19C)

4 Not the sponge blade

Posted by: Accomack at July 17, 2026 07:05 PM (/Chlc)

5 I could have been first but I was making friends with barnyard animals.

Posted by: Man who lives as a pig at July 17, 2026 07:06 PM (MWfyi)

6
Two Best of Breed wins for The Big Dummy at today's Houston KC and concurrent Houston Area Hound Association shows. No joy in either Hound Group, but there are lots of high rollers in town.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2026 07:06 PM (O0L8i)

7 Cuties!

The top image reminds me that I LOVED Sheep Detective. IT was charming, a fun mystery, and also made me have deep feelings about death and memory.

And before the weekend box office rolls in for Nolan's Odyssey...I think it will do great its first two weeks because of the huge IMAX presales, and the Nolan stans are a strong force. The drop off two weeks from now will be telling if it has legs. But the new Spider-Man movie will swoop into theaters right after, and that film is going to be HUGE. The last one ended on a gangbuster cliffhanger, and Peter finally got his big losses. People want to see the resolution. It might take away the Nolan audience. We'll see. I'm interested in seeing both movies, but not opening weekend, maybe in a few weeks.

Posted by: LizLem at July 17, 2026 07:06 PM (Eng1Z)

8 Aargh. Read the content. Rookie mistake.

Posted by: Nazdar at July 17, 2026 07:07 PM (NcvvS)

9 Congrats, Hadrian! I always love hearing news about your babies and their wins.

Posted by: LizLem at July 17, 2026 07:07 PM (Eng1Z)

10
SpongeBlade Bobpants.
SpongeBlade Bobpants.
SpongeBlade Bobpants!

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 07:08 PM (Fi81e)

11 Nooded, but axeman did it first.

Posted by: Nazdar at July 17, 2026 07:08 PM (NcvvS)

12 @PolitlcsUK
🚨 BREAKING: Ann Widdecombe's murder suspect has been named as Joshua Kerry by the Daily Mail

The soy is strong in that one.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2026 07:09 PM (gKWVE)

13 Piglet reminds me of the moviw Babe. What a great movie

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 17, 2026 07:14 PM (DbmIv)

14 to your fleece be true

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 07:16 PM (4NO2D)

15
Made a major deposit in the Favor Bank today. They were short of stewards to cover all the rings, so I offered to run one by myself. Long, hard day, but I done good by all parties.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2026 07:16 PM (O0L8i)

16 Why does the top photograph remind me of the Movie, "The Stepford Wives"?

Posted by: Orson at July 17, 2026 07:16 PM (dIske)

17 that rickroll is so very bad.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 07:17 PM (4NO2D)

18 Favorite daydream of the Tree Guardians:
https://tinyurl.com/yzhthfas

Posted by: gp at July 17, 2026 07:18 PM (Jr5Lq)

19 Is that Canadian smoke?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2026 07:19 PM (Cqx++)

20 My compliments, Ace, on some very comprehensive and incisive coverage of the President's speech and media responses today.

My question is: are we in stage 4 or in end stage corruption?

Posted by: Paco at July 17, 2026 07:19 PM (2L+MU)

21 I made another batch of yellow plum jam today.
It is going to be a long summer, I think I am running out of jars.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2026 07:22 PM (rbvCR)

22 Cat and dog and bed is hilarious!

Posted by: gp at July 17, 2026 07:24 PM (Jr5Lq)

23 Dog and deer video is very cute. Thanks,. Ace.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 07:24 PM (D+BhG)

24 17 that rickroll is so very bad.
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 07:17 PM (4NO2D)
Well ain't much you can do with a rickroll.

Posted by: Eromero at July 17, 2026 07:24 PM (LHPAg)

25 That'll do pig. That'll do.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 07:24 PM (viF8m)

26 Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2026 07:22 PM (rbvCR)

Did the berry one ever work

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 07:28 PM (vE0+H)

27 25 That'll do pig. That'll do.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 07:24 PM (viF8m)
James Cromwell is a pretty good actor, he's just not very much of a person.

Posted by: Eromero at July 17, 2026 07:29 PM (LHPAg)

28 I could have been first but I was making friends with barnyard animals.
Posted by: Man who lives as a pig
......

It's all fun and games until you meet the ducks.

Posted by: wth at July 17, 2026 07:29 PM (UjdFS)

29 16 Why does the top photograph remind me of the Movie, "The Stepford Wives"?

Posted by: Orson at July 17, 2026 07:16 PM (dIske)

Why do the dancing Japanese chicks remind me of Oompa -Loompas?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 17, 2026 07:30 PM (6ydKt)

30 I like this bizarre cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZzdYqBf8Mc

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 07:30 PM (4NO2D)

31 Is that dance practice AI of the same girl, or are there that many girls somewhere who look exactly the same?

Posted by: Eromero at July 17, 2026 07:32 PM (LHPAg)

32 Did the berry one ever work
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 07:28 PM (vE0+H)


The cherry batch? No, both batches are runny, though a couple did set sort of OK.

I need to dig potatoes this weekend, the vines are starting to die back, and I want to get them up so I can plant bush beans. I dug a couple up and they are just wonderful

Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2026 07:32 PM (rbvCR)

33 He also covers Toto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxsyB5sbKzY

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 07:33 PM (4NO2D)

34 >>James Cromwell is a pretty good actor, he's just not very much of a person.

I didn't know that. But I did like the movie.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 07:35 PM (viF8m)

35 27 25 That'll do pig. That'll do.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 07:24 PM (viF8m)
James Cromwell is a pretty good actor, he's just not very much of a person.
Posted by: Eromero at July 17, 2026 07:29 PM (LHPAg)
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Glen Corbett Zefram Cochrane > James Cromwell Zefram Cochrane

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 17, 2026 07:35 PM (n9eFH)

36 Why does the top photograph remind me of the Movie, "The Stepford Wives"?

Posted by: Orson at July 17, 2026 07:16 PM (dIske)
----
Which is more chilling? A flock of birds watching you like that? Or a herd of sheep?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2026 07:35 PM (FZ29D)

37 The young, unpaired cocks that hang around the edges of a penguin colony are known as "hooligans".

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 17, 2026 07:35 PM (0sNs1)

38 Glen Corbett Zefram Cochrane > James Cromwell Zefram Cochrane
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 17, 2026 07:35 PM


Oh yeah.

Posted by: The Companion at July 17, 2026 07:36 PM (4NO2D)

39 He also covers Toto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxsyB5sbKzY

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 07:33 PM (4NO2D)


I have no idea how to process these covers.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 17, 2026 07:37 PM (6ydKt)

40 Is that dance practice AI of the same girl, or are there that many girls somewhere who look exactly the same?
Posted by: Eromero at July 17, 2026 07:32 PM (LHPAg)
----
Ghola clones created by the Bene Tleilax.

(I've been reading Dune novels recently...)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2026 07:37 PM (FZ29D)

41 I think it's because all Asian girls look the same from a distance.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 17, 2026 07:40 PM (6ydKt)

42 I have no idea how to process these covers.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 17, 2026 07:37 PM


One Word: Japanese

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 07:42 PM (4NO2D)

43 Glenn Corbett died three years before First Contact was filmed. I wonder if they would have tried to use him if not for lung cancer.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2026 07:43 PM (Cqx++)

44 I had a friend that used to say that Japan was like the USA, if some Super Villain was putting LSD in our water supply.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 07:44 PM (4NO2D)

45 He also covers Toto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxsyB5sbKzY
Posted by: toby928(c)

I have no idea how to process these covers.
Posted by: SpeakingOf


Perhaps something classical would help? Different people, but the same chicken.

https://youtu.be/khOfSVULtsU
https://youtu.be/O3HW67QzTpU

Posted by: mikeski at July 17, 2026 07:44 PM (VHUov)

46 I think it's because all Asian girls look the same from a distance.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 17, 2026 07:40 PM


What about after you get up close and get a sideways glance?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 17, 2026 07:44 PM (0sNs1)

47 James Cromwell is the Mike Farrell of Alan Aldas.

Fucking smug sonofabitch.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at July 17, 2026 07:46 PM (0aYVJ)

48 40 Is that dance practice AI of the same girl, or are there that many girls somewhere who look exactly the same?
Posted by: Eromero at July 17, 2026 07:32 PM (LHPAg)

________________________

Two things disturb me about that vid. First, the choreography is bizarre....and secondly, I happen to know it isn't AI. They are called "Avantgardey" and were a big deal on "America's Got Talent."

Posted by: Orson at July 17, 2026 07:47 PM (dIske)

49 Has Canada put out their wild fires yet?

Posted by: Case at July 17, 2026 07:47 PM (bqIVz)

50 49 Has Canada put out their wild fires yet?
Posted by: Case at July 17, 2026 07:47 PM (bqIVz

The smoke is in VA. Crazy.

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 07:48 PM (p4NUW)

51 Perhaps something classical would help? Different people, but the same chicken.

https://youtu.be/khOfSVULtsU
https://youtu.be/O3HW67QzTpU

Posted by: mikeski at July 17, 2026 07:44 PM (VHUov)

I guess it's more fun than a kazoo.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 17, 2026 07:49 PM (6ydKt)

52 I click on one freakin link all week of cafes and this happens.

The worst part is I couldn't stop watching.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 17, 2026 07:49 PM (E9Zz8)

53 Cromwell made appearances on All in the Family, I believe.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 07:50 PM (wOO3z)

54 Canada belongs to the indigenous people, so maybe the wypeepo are lettin' dem put it out.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 17, 2026 07:50 PM (YlWIZ)

55 What kind of whale was that in the paddleboard video -- a humpback?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 17, 2026 07:51 PM (wzUl9)

56 31 Is that dance practice AI of the same girl, or are there that many girls somewhere who look exactly the same?
Posted by: Eromero

------------

1. they were wearing wigs
2. I am not sure they were all girls. I didn't look too close though.
3. Some have "daikon legs" so no, they don't look the same. Not enough pixes to see their faces though.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 17, 2026 07:51 PM (E9Zz8)

57 Good evening everyone from Historicon
Refighting the 1813 cavalry battle Lieberwolkwitz in 1813
Russian, Prussians and Austrians vs French

Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2026 07:52 PM (xWme4)

58 I'll see your chicken and raise you a nose flute and ukulele.

https://youtu.be/G50u9syopYg

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 17, 2026 07:52 PM (n9eFH)

59 that rickroll is so very bad.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Well ain't much you can do with a rickroll.
Posted by: Eromero


They almost always let you down.

Posted by: mikeski, ironically at July 17, 2026 07:52 PM (VHUov)

60 Is that dance practice AI of the same girl, or are there that many girls somewhere who look exactly the same?
Posted by: Eromero at July 17, 2026


***
They are all wearing the same outfit and hairstyle, but there weren't any closeups, so naturally they all look alike.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 17, 2026 07:53 PM (wzUl9)

61 After this battle have to drive home so I can come back tomorrow morning

Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2026 07:54 PM (xWme4)

62 Two things disturb me about that vid. First, the choreography is bizarre....and secondly, I happen to know it isn't AI. They are called "Avantgardey" and were a big deal on "America's Got Talent."
Posted by: Orson


They need a cinematographer with a clue, though. Unless having invisible arms was the point. Long white sleeves waving around in front of an all-white background?

Posted by: mikeski at July 17, 2026 07:54 PM (VHUov)

63 The young, unpaired cocks that hang around the edges of a penguin colony are known as "hooligans".
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 17, 2026 07:35 PM

Whereas the colony of penguins is a conspiracy.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 17, 2026 07:54 PM (Wnv9h)

64 "An 80's song, sung by a 90's band, with an MV which the actor born in the 2000's, made in the 2010's, watched by the people in the 2020's."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7RwDnZI7Tw

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 07:55 PM (4NO2D)

65 You have to give a warning on sad endings. It was a punch in the gut to learn that cool crow was eaten by a hawk.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 07:56 PM (/WQyy)

66 ohai Black Lives Matter was a CCP op
tinyurl.com/4s5veh6x

Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2026 07:57 PM (gKWVE)

The Same Media That Pushed Hillary's Fake Opposition Research About Russia Collusion For Six Years Can't Believe Trump Is Alleging Election Irregularities

Hillary's oppo fictions were worth reporting -- but an actual scandal with actual documentation doesn't.

MJTruthUltra
@MJTruthUltra

DECLASSIFIED

This is a December 2021 internal email from the U.S. intelligence community's top cyber official.

* In 2020, the official intelligence assessment said certain Chinese units were not trying to influence the U.S. election (only general "issue" stuff). The email writer disagreed -- he thought they were.

* A newer report now says China is influencing another election and labels the same units as "election influence" operations.

The writer questions why the same activity gets called "election meddling" in one place but not in the U.S. -- and calls for oversight.

This shows the double standards in how U.S. intelligence judged Chinese election interference.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

MJTruthUltra
@MJTruthUltra


🚨 SHOCKING: FBI Director Wray Signed Off as FBI Called China Election Meddling Warning an "Absolute Red Line"

In a December 30, 2020 email, top FBI Counterintelligence official Nikki Floris slammed a draft Intelligence Community Assessment on the 2020 election.

She warned that including the minority view -- which said China did try to influence the election -- was unacceptable and called it "an absolute red line for the FBI."

Director Wray had already signed off on the main ICA text.

The FBI pushed hard to keep the China "yes they interfered" view buried or heavily downplayed.

Floris accused the dissenting comments of being misleading and lacking proper evidence.

It shows Wray signed off on the main report that said China didn't try to mess with the 2020 election.

The FBI team then fought hard to keep the part that said China did try from being included.

Brian Stelter
@brianstelter


CNN's Kaitlan Collins: "We'll be monitoring what the president says tonight, as we always do, but aren't taking it live, given the president has a well documented history of saying blatantly false things about elections."


The media aired all of James Comey's false allegations -- made WITHOUT EVIDENCE, as Jake Tapper's gay chirons lisp -- without challenge.


CNN claims that no one is stuffing these unsecured drop boxes. But they did happen to film a woman stuffing ballots into an unsecured drop box.


It just turns out this is so common that when you do a random shot from a ballot box, you're bound to catch someone stuffing the box.


Flashback: Hillary Clinton, whose husband was elected with China's straw donations made through "nuns" with no money, expressly called for China to interfere in the US elections on the Democrats behalf -- which they did.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:00 PM




Comments

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1 ta da

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 17, 2026 06:01 PM (n5tGW)

2 1

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 06:01 PM (GD0B3)

3 Remember:
Not one Dem anywhere has ever said the Steele Dossier was fake.
Not even the part about Trump paying prostitutes to urinate on the bed in Moscow that Obama slept on.

Not one.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 17, 2026 06:02 PM (3cUTc)

4 THIS CANNOT BE GOOD FOR THE CHILDREN !!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at July 17, 2026 06:03 PM (xl8DV)

5 10,000 Chinese Waiters Can't Be Wrong

Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2026 06:03 PM (uzmqU)

6 Wellp

Posted by: H at July 17, 2026 06:04 PM (gVd9B)

7 Trump is just a lying liar who lies.
The Media

Posted by: steevy at July 17, 2026 06:05 PM (YwEeS)

8 Gonna go out on a limb and guess they are not saying "You're repeating Chinese propaganda!" if you don't believe China did that.

Also, won't be heard: "AMERICA WAS ***ATTACKED!!!!!!!!***"

Posted by: Gilligan 10 Years On the Island at July 17, 2026 06:05 PM (Fi81e)

9 Commie News Network doesn't want people to know about commie interference in elections. Shocker.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 17, 2026 06:05 PM (n5tGW)

10 CBS: Yeah, we only cover the news we agree with.


Excellent job, Bari Weiss!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 17, 2026 06:05 PM (4KUe5)

11 They lie as naturally as they breathe

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 17, 2026 06:06 PM (xcxpd)

12 Richly rewarded

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2026 06:06 PM (Cqx++)

13 Trump is just a lying liar who lies.
The Media
Posted by: steevy at July 17, 2026 06:05 PM (YwEeS)
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All the new papers to be released were all debunked by older government curated releases!!

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 06:06 PM (Fi81e)

14 A few well placed shots might cause the left to reevaluate their current MO.

Just saying.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 06:06 PM (jehhT)

15 Wray, Comey and the whole FBI are a bunch of fuck sticks.

Get rid of that God forsaken agency already. Haven't they done enough damage to the country?

Posted by: Big Pile Of Shit at July 17, 2026 06:07 PM (45BvE)

16 And yet no one over there is going to see this insanity for what it is. Rationalized away no matter the mental gymnastics required.

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 06:07 PM (hftzA)

17 14 A few well placed shots might cause the left to reevaluate their current MO.

Just saying.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 06:06 PM (jehhT)

more than a few, just to be sure

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 17, 2026 06:08 PM (xcxpd)

18 Old and busted MSM: Vote fraud never happens, you can’t prove it!

New hotness: LALALALALA we can’t hear you or see your proof.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 17, 2026 06:08 PM (4KUe5)

19 Ah, Rachel Maddow interviews the Optimus Prime of election denial on the subject of election denial.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 06:08 PM (Fi81e)

20 the fact that the media is forced to deny the possibility that china might influence our elections just illustrates the depths of the perfidy of orangemanbad.

Posted by: anachronda at July 17, 2026 06:09 PM (qdr3M)

21 If you loved your country and cared about truing the vote you would say this needs to be known. CNN and dems do the opposite. They know cheating only goes one way.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 17, 2026 06:09 PM (n5tGW)

22 "Judges who never heard these cases ALREADY DEBUNKED ALL THIS!!!"

(Disclaimer: I was not a Stop-the-Steal guy)

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 06:09 PM (Fi81e)

23 TRUMP!

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 17, 2026 06:10 PM (DbmIv)

24 NO STANDING!

Posted by: 496 at July 17, 2026 06:10 PM (OZXjq)

25 The media is shocked, shocked that there's Chinese interference going on around here.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 17, 2026 06:11 PM (6ydKt)

26 If you loved your country and cared about truing the vote you would say this needs to be known. CNN and dems do the opposite. They know cheating only goes one way.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 17, 2026 06:09 PM (n5tGW)
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All of the broadcast networks but Fox flat-out carried the Democrat water last night!!

Prime, Grade-A bullshit.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 06:11 PM (Fi81e)

27 I wonder how many will actually look at the intelligence reports. They show Russia and China WERE meddling in the elections... on Trump's behalf.

Why were the Chinese more successful when Trump was president at rigging elections against Trump than during Biden's term. Otherwise, Trump would not have won. Conclusion: Trump's elections are less secure because he lost but somehow democrats elections are more beneficial to Trump.

The mental gymnastics his worshippers have to do to believe this is astounding. If only they did the same to understand what’s actually happening

Trump, you ARE thr deep state. Literally everyone involved is sketchy, wielding influence they shouldn’t have, manipulating an entire country to make everything as profitable as possible for themselves, right down to the Epstein files.

He and the MAGA movement have been in the government for 10 years. He had a 4 year break but the MAGA people were still in office. Isn’t he the deep state at this point

Everyone needs to call their Congressional Reps to demand they vote against the SAVE act. It’s very important. Trump is desperately trying to rig the next election

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 17, 2026 06:11 PM (5/BQI)

28 America's not buying it.

CNN Poll Shows 125% Of Americans Don’t Believe Trump’s Claim Of Election Fraud

-
From the Bee.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 06:11 PM (ndZc7)

29 Here' s a couple of tidbits that should be stored as threads to the rotten blanket of conspiracy the Dems engaged in to steal elections:

- the person who received an Amazon delivery (of goods from China) filled with blank election ballots
- International Falls, MN customs seizes a shipment of over $900k in counterfeit $1 bills
- Somali airport workers in MN routinely waived through millions in cash leaving America
- affidavits were submitted in 2020 of mystery semi trailers full of ballots

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 17, 2026 06:11 PM (3cUTc)

30 the fact that the media is forced to deny the possibility that china might influence our elections just illustrates the depths of the perfidy of orangemanbad.

Posted by: anachronda at July 17, 2026 06:09 PM (qdr3M)
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They're like the cheating spouse who wonders "So you're really going to make me lie to your face about this?"

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 06:12 PM (Fi81e)

31
Excellent job, Bari Weiss!
Posted by: Lizzy

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

I don't even know why CBS long-timers are bitching. What difference is she making?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 17, 2026 06:12 PM (mmrXZ)

32 Lies and delusional thinking can only go so far before a horrific collapse occurs. The Dems may be seeing this now in their elections coming up and in their fund raising. If that's all that happens fantastic, but horrible violence also occurs because of such thinking. Read about leftist revolutions where the hard left destroys the softer left and it will happen again. And again. And again.....

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 06:13 PM (OXYE0)

33 Like I said, they follow 1984 so closely that it's creepy that they have no self awareness of that fact.

Men are women

Lies are Truth

Murder is Resistance

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 06:13 PM (/WQyy)

34 7 million Dem votes lost between Biden and Harris.

Come on, Media, aren't you just a wee bit curious?

No?

I didn't think so.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 17, 2026 06:13 PM (6ydKt)

35 We Chinee
We play joke
We put pee pee
In your vote

Posted by: A Heathen Chinee at July 17, 2026 06:13 PM (MWfyi)

36 The reality based community appears to have an issue with reality.

How are we supposed to share a country with people who just ignore facts and insert their own made up shit as reality? Seriously, it's like dealing with a particularly stupid 3 year old.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 06:13 PM (viF8m)

37 I guess they've all forgotten China sending money to Bill Clinton's campaign in 96, and that wasn't the first time China was dicking around in our elections.

Posted by: huerfano at July 17, 2026 06:13 PM (VJX5o)

38 We should have been more skeptical of the Russia collusion thing. To make up for it, we’ll be extra of these allegations.

The media

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 17, 2026 06:13 PM (u73oe)

39 Prime, Grade-A bullshit.

And consider that no one even had a chance to look at the documents at that point. Yet they dismiss it immediately.
This is what they call "journalism".

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 17, 2026 06:14 PM (n5tGW)

40 I wonder how many will actually look at the intelligence reports. They show Russia and China WERE meddling in the elections... on Trump's behalf.
---
1. IT'S ALL BULLSHIT!!

2. IF IT'S TRUE--THEY COULD ONLY BE HELPING TRUMP CHEAT!!

Orwellian doublethink is complete.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 06:14 PM (Fi81e)

41 MSM two-step:

1. Trump only lies.

2. We won’t cover anything he says because he’s a known* liar (based on our reporting).


Dunno, looks like China has been‘ credibly accused’ and that’s the same a totes guilty for one side.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 17, 2026 06:14 PM (4KUe5)

42 And consider that no one even had a chance to look at the documents at that point. Yet they dismiss it immediately.
This is what they call "journalism".
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 17, 2026 06:14 PM (n5tGW)
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And why I call it urinalism.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 06:15 PM (Fi81e)

43 34 7 million Dem votes lost between Biden and Harris.

Come on, Media, aren't you just a wee bit curious?

No?

I didn't think so.

Posted by: SpeakingOf

The far Left analyst guests are curious, and violently debate the reason: is America more sexist or racist?

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 17, 2026 06:15 PM (5/BQI)

44 The Left have more projection than a person who just ate lettuce at Taco Bell .

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 06:15 PM (/WQyy)

45
Everyone needs to call their Congressional Reps to demand they vote against the SAVE act. It’s very important. Trump is desperately trying to rig the next election
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

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

Do they have the slightest idea what's in the SAVE Act?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 17, 2026 06:16 PM (mmrXZ)

46 Without evidence.
Debunked.
Old news.
What different does it make?
Squirrel!

The TDS journalism (il)logic tree progression.

Posted by: LASue at July 17, 2026 06:16 PM (lCppi)

47 I guess they've all forgotten China sending money to Bill Clinton's campaign in 96, and that wasn't the first time China was dicking around in our elections.
Posted by: huerfano

Ah, Crenis gives us prans fo pranes.

Posted by: Ho Lee Fuk at July 17, 2026 06:16 PM (wOO3z)

48 Jake Tapper should really, really not get so close to the camera.

Uffdah.

Posted by: LASue at July 17, 2026 06:17 PM (lCppi)

49 37 I guess they've all forgotten China sending money to Bill Clinton's campaign in 96, and that wasn't the first time China was dicking around in our elections.
Posted by: huerfano

I assumed Swalwell was the one doing the dicking around with Fang Fang, unless....!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at July 17, 2026 06:17 PM (5/BQI)

50 guess they've all forgotten China sending money to Bill Clinton's campaign in 96, and that wasn't the first time China was dicking around in our elections.
Posted by: huerfano at July 17, 2026 06:13 PM (VJX5o)

No controlling legal authority

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 06:17 PM (/WQyy)

51 7 million Dem votes lost between Biden and Harris.

Come on, Media, aren't you just a wee bit curious?

No?

I didn't think so.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 17, 2026 06:13 PM (6ydKt)

um, racism?

Posted by: LASue at July 17, 2026 06:18 PM (lCppi)

52 Do they have the slightest idea what's in the SAVE Act?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 17, 2026 06:16 PM (mmrXZ)

No fucking clue. Their overlords to them to oppose this.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 06:18 PM (wOO3z)

53 Yeah, Bari Weiss is pulling them only slightly back towards the middle. The CBS staff seem pissed simply for having to show a minor bit of restraint.

Honestly, Stelter’s tweet is d@mning, admitting they straight up recto cover some news - a speech - instead choosing to spend time debunking it for the opposition. How do you “pre ink” a speech that hasn’t happened yet? That’s not news, that’s propaganda.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 17, 2026 06:19 PM (4KUe5)

54 I don’t think China has to do anything elaborate to interfere in our elections. They have millions of Chinese illegals here casting illegal votes that nevertheless get counted.

There’s a reason Democraps are shitting bricks out of their monkeypoxed assholes like howitzer shells.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 17, 2026 06:19 PM (HwHEG)

55 MSM two-step:

1. Trump only lies.

2. We won’t cover anything he says because he’s a known* liar (based on our reporting


He lied over 30,000 times his first term! It's science! We documented it and everything, 100% objective and true!!!

Posted by: Washington Post Trump Firsf Term Fact Checker at July 17, 2026 06:19 PM (5/BQI)

56 The left has convinced themselves, out of existential necessity, that Trump is trying to steal the election with the SAVE Act by requiring voter ID and proof of citizenship to register to vote.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 17, 2026 06:20 PM (6ydKt)

57 When ~50% of the people are wish-cast-locked ...

It's almost like you can't say there is a future for that country.

They can conceive that Russia helped Trump to win, but they can't conceive that the reality actually was Putin preferred Hillary.

However, they can't concede that China interfered to prevent a Trump victory, but they can imagine that China really wanted to help Trump and so THEN interfered.

It's not possible for the side to be actually reversed in one case, and it's the only possibility in the other.

Depending on their wish-casting.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 06:20 PM (Fi81e)

58 52 Do they have the slightest idea what's in the SAVE Act?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 17, 2026 06:16 PM (mmrXZ)

No fucking clue. Their overlords to them to oppose this.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

If Trump’s fer it, we're against it.

Posted by: Mindless Dem NPCs at July 17, 2026 06:20 PM (5/BQI)

59
Hilary Clinton. So utterly evil, so utterly fake and plastic in public.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 17, 2026 06:21 PM (biznJ)

60 @LeadingReport
Trump admin moving to de-bank illegal immigrants, per Stephen Miller

Posted by: #winning at July 17, 2026 06:21 PM (gKWVE)

61 I think the hardest thing in the world to do is to get people to accept reality. I miss Scott Adams -- he understood the value of persuasion.

We need a critical thinking class in all schools. I think it could cover
-science and the scientific method
-legal rules of evidence and justice
-political conflict and how reality is manipulated
-argumentation, fallacies, and persuasion
-corruption and conflict of interest

It seems half our country hangs on to these crazy ideas and I can't really think of a long term solution other than a lot of helicopters.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 17, 2026 06:21 PM (f6IDb)

62 If they could , the left would put your head in a cage with a rat until you agreed with their insanity.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 06:21 PM (/WQyy)

63 Shot opens.

LeBron James sitting in a locker room, reading (the first page) of How To Be A Better Woman. He looks up, as if surprised to find you there, and says, "I just spoke to my good friend, Chairman Pooh, and he assured me that allegations of China interfering in US elections hold no more validity than people saying that I flop in games." He then begins singing "March of the Volunteers".

Fade.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 06:21 PM (ExV1e)

64 um, racism?

Posted by: LASue at July 17, 2026 06:18 PM (lCppi)

7 million is a lot of racism.
Even for a racist, white supremacist, nation like the U.S.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 17, 2026 06:21 PM (6ydKt)

65 The left has convinced themselves, out of existential necessity, that Trump is trying to steal the election with the SAVE Act by requiring voter ID and proof of citizenship to register to vote.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 17, 2026 06:20 PM (6ydKt)
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Tom Thillis (yes, I know) said that documenting the vote would only "confuse the election".

You can't hate the Republican party enough.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 06:22 PM (Fi81e)

66 Polynykes, they are too young to remember a Clinton scandal from 92(?).

Obama’s guy Rhoda’s had one thing right: theyre all around 27 and dumb. The older ones like Tapper are fully committed to The Narrative.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 17, 2026 06:22 PM (4KUe5)

67 Get rid of that God forsaken agency already. Haven't they done enough damage to the country?
Posted by: Big Pile Of Shit at July 17, 2026 06:07 PM (45BvE)


The same could be said about almost every federal agency.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 06:22 PM (ExV1e)

68 "Trump admin moving to de-bank illegal immigrants, per Stephen Miller"

It's about f'n time. I'm looking at you in particular, Bank of America.

Posted by: fd at July 17, 2026 06:22 PM (MWfyi)

69 Ever wonder why tyrannical revolutionaries take out the academics and media/coms first during the initial purge? CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBCNOW, et al are why.

A frustrated population with "news" they know has failed them (along with flailing political leadership) is receptive to a power that "corrects" things. So the fact that there's an overcorrection by the new tyrants is not only expected, it's pretty much guaranteed. Corrupted media leads to its own homicide.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 17, 2026 06:22 PM (oji8u)

70 Hey Kaitlin, he is giving you the docs that prove he was telling the truth about elections. What? Oh I see, you don't care about evidence.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 17, 2026 06:23 PM (n5tGW)

71 It seems half our country hangs on to these crazy ideas and I can't really think of a long term solution other than a lot of helicopters.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus)

A Vermeer or Morbark woodchipper is definitely more cost effective.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 06:23 PM (wOO3z)

72 Do they have the slightest idea what's in the SAVE Act?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 17, 2026 06:16 PM (mmrXZ)
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It's Jim Eagle!

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 06:23 PM (Fi81e)

73
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 06:21 PM (ExV1e)

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

Bravo!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 17, 2026 06:24 PM (mmrXZ)

74
International Falls, MN customs seizes a shipment of over $900k in counterfeit $1 bills

Might as well counterfeit pennies.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2026 06:24 PM (Cqx++)

75 54 I don’t think China has to do anything elaborate to interfere in our elections.

Posted by: Elric the Blade

-----------
Yes, I am sure they just wanted all the voting records because they were curious.

Ballot stuffing starts with access to voter rolls, and inability for the public to verify, canvass before the vote that people exist, and verify afterward that they really voted.

I think *most* illegals don't vote. That still leaves enough to change an election, especially in certain areas, but I think the main cheat was false ballots made out in the names of real people off the rolls.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 17, 2026 06:25 PM (f6IDb)

76 Ever wonder why tyrannical revolutionaries take out the academics and media/coms first during the initial purge? CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBCNOW, et al are why.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 17, 2026 06:22 PM (oji8u)
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It's just like long-term the only thing a judiciary can do is fuck up and get a lot of civilians killed. And then the representative parts of government have to fix their mess. Because the World dast to defy their theories.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 06:25 PM (Fi81e)

77 It seems half our country hangs on to these crazy ideas and I can't really think of a long term solution other than a lot of helicopters.
Posted by: bob

Banishment. There are people that refuse to fit in with society, and ideally they should be banished to some far off land.

The best part is a lot of the problem (AWFLs and young white commies) could be convinced to go voluntarily with a little Federal persuasion. Make a deal with some "socialist" country, give them $30,000 and free transportation, on condition they revoke citizenship, never to get it back.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 17, 2026 06:25 PM (5/BQI)

78 Think how much it would have been worth if it was $100 bills.

Posted by: fd at July 17, 2026 06:25 PM (MWfyi)

79 I’m shocked.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 17, 2026 06:26 PM (asZ+E)

80
*hic* *shart* *cackle*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 17, 2026 06:26 PM (sYM3s)

81 Massie, Cassidy and Tillis are burning down everything they can on their way out. They move to the top of my list.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 06:27 PM (/WQyy)

82 The left has convinced themselves, out of existential necessity, that Trump is trying to steal the election with the SAVE Act by requiring voter ID and proof of citizenship to register to vote.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 17, 2026 06:20 PM (6ydKt)
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Trump is an existential threat to their bubble.

It's all hurty outside of that.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 06:27 PM (Fi81e)

83 Which means the GOPe is cheating as well.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 17, 2026 06:28 PM (zZu0s)

84 LASue:

"Without evidence.
Debunked.
Old news.
What different does it make?
Squirrel!

The TDS journalism (il)logic tree progression."


The only step missing is "Steal Underpants."

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 17, 2026 06:29 PM (oji8u)

85 Trump either with loads of evidence of violations of broadcast standards regarding fair and honest reporting shuts down one—ANY one -of these propaganda machines or this charade of ‘reporting ‘ only gets worse.
Trump is starting to look weak. The monsters on the other side —ie virtually the MSm are NOT afraid or concerned.
Trump must MAKE them be concerned. Very concerned.
Yes, the propagandists will go to the courts immediately —so f’in what? You fight , you might win. All Trump is doing now is complaining . And none of these Commie networks cares what he says…..he must DO something.

Posted by: Voter theater. at July 17, 2026 06:29 PM (FCPbW)

86 Lots of organizations die when the founder dies. Hoover ran the F.B.I. for over 50 years.

Then the Fucksticks took over, and flipped the script. That’s what it looks like from out here in the cheap seats anyhow. We were regaled with tales during the Frank Church committee hearings how horrible it all was, and this sort or thing must never be allowed to happen again, blah blah blah.

Posted by: Three Daryl Night at July 17, 2026 06:30 PM (4DF5d)

87 I keep hoping that I'm only fuming at the funhouse mirror that the establishment press is.

Because black Americans don't seem to be backing off a widespread support for voter ID however much the Dems tell them "IT'S JIM CROW!!" I mean, it's like they can't vote in their own self-interest (a textbook Marxist will assign that to you, btw).

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 06:30 PM (Fi81e)

88 >>Massie, Cassidy and Tillis are burning down everything they can on their way out. They move to the top of my list.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 06:27 PM

Don't forget that asshole, Cornyn. He's busy proving why he needed to booted.

Posted by: huerfano at July 17, 2026 06:31 PM (VJX5o)

89 It is absolutely central to the leftist worldview that they are always the underdog, the rebel, the heroic rebellion against The Man
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2026 05:49 PM (UZCuZ)

It is - but after the age of about 15 they realize it's all a bullshit excuse to justify aggression from themselves and those they agree with. They continue the story because admitting anything else would pop the bubble.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 06:32 PM (vE0+H)

90 Stupidest take ever is Trump is starting to look weak. In what bizarro universe is that happening? One may not like or agree what Trump does but it sure in the hell ain't out of weakness.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 06:33 PM (/WQyy)

91 Which means the GOPe is cheating as well.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 17, 2026 06:28 PM (zZu0s)

There it is.

And who are we asking to pass this? The people that have been cheated in. And I don't just mean the 4 or 5 people who are saying no.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 06:34 PM (vE0+H)

92 “ .. that Trump is trying to steal the election with the SAVE Act by requiring voter ID and proof of citizenship to register to vote”
—-
By any means necessary, aka do what thou wilt, is their philosophy. They don’t look at election fraud as cheating per se, voting 16 times is just doing whatever it takes. “Get Out The Vote” as it were. They think it’s their right to cheat, and so on.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 06:35 PM (4DF5d)

93 It's Comey, Behind The Curtains, With A Dildo In His Rectum...

Posted by: Clue 2: Deep State Boogaloo at July 17, 2026 06:35 PM (45BvE)

94 Stupidest take ever is Trump is starting to look weak. In what bizarro universe is that happening? One may not like or agree what Trump does but it sure in the hell ain't out of weakness.
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 06:33 PM (/WQyy)

Especially dumb if your other take is "Trump is a uniquely awful Super Hitler who must be killed at any cost"

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 06:35 PM (uhVAy)

95 Broadcast license revocation should be immediate for violation of the public trust after all this time.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 17, 2026 06:35 PM (YlWIZ)

96 If Trump is worried about Dems stealing an election, the answer is YOU CAN'T STEAL elections, dumbass!!!

If Trump wins, he stole the unriggable elections--WITH FOREIGN HELP!!

In 2020, Trump "loses", the Democrats who spent as long as they could trying to convince us "AMERICA WAS ATTACKED!!!!" through our elections, again assert THIS election was impossible to rig.

In 2024, Donald Trump wins again. So OF COURSE, he RIGGED it!!

I just can't be damnably dumb enough to be a Democrat. It's like the chameleon on the old Warner Brothers cartoon who gets a plaid background and cries out "I TRIED!! I TRIED!!"

I'm trying just to consider how I could play ping-pong with my mind like that and it hurts my head.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 06:36 PM (Fi81e)

97 You can raise these things to a certain level of awareness, but nobody cares because Sidney Sweeney did a new photo shoot of her splendorous tits.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 17, 2026 06:36 PM (sYM3s)

98 Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton

Trump's embarrassing rant last night about an election he lost six years ago made two things very clear:

1. He's not focused on making life better for Americans. Not even close.

2. We should act now to counteract any efforts to undermine our elections.
_____________________________

She then links to "Indivisible" which is a State Dept. subcontractor (or was) that used to be used to start Color Revolutions in foreign nations...until Trump's second term. Then they aimed their resources towards a "color revolution" in the US. They were the primary funder of the "No Kings" nonsense. It's a good bet that a significant number of agency and State Dept. personnel that were given their walking papers by Trump are now involved in "Indivisiable.

Hillary really is a detestable growth.

Posted by: Orson at July 17, 2026 06:36 PM (dIske)

99 It is absolutely central to the leftist worldview that they are always the underdog, the rebel, the heroic rebellion against The Man
——-

That was clearly evident during the JEF administration. Their rhetoric reflected this perfectly. But it was pretty bizarre to hear it coming straight from inside the White House. Talk about delusional

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 06:37 PM (4DF5d)

100 Stupidest take ever is Trump is starting to look weak. In what bizarro universe is that happening? One may not like or agree what Trump does but it sure in the hell ain't out of weakness.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 06:33 PM (/WQyy)
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The weakest thing at all would be to wave the white flag and say we can't win without a new leader.

I consider that far weaker than the case that "Trump is starting to look weak".

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 06:39 PM (Fi81e)

101
it was pretty bizarre to hear it coming straight from inside the White House. Talk about delusional
Posted by: Common Tater

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

lol I remember that. Lefties moved to tears: "President Obama is speaking truth to power!"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 17, 2026 06:40 PM (mmrXZ)

102 That was clearly evident during the JEF administration. Their rhetoric reflected this perfectly. But it was pretty bizarre to hear it coming straight from inside the White House. Talk about delusional

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 06:37 PM (4DF5d)
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The most powerful man in the free world said "I'm speaking truth to power" about patching a pipeline.

I shook my head so hard in utter disbelief that he hadn't updated his understanding.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 06:41 PM (Fi81e)

103 Republicans claim there is cheating in every election.

Democrats claim there is only cheating in the elections they lose and every other election is pure and perfect.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 06:42 PM (vE0+H)

104 Especially dumb if your other take is "Trump is a uniquely awful Super Hitler who must be killed at any cost"

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 06:35 PM (uhVAy)
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Trump is an existential threat--but only the kind that always chickens out.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 06:42 PM (Fi81e)

105 My counties leftist legislature has asked the NYS to allow it to put in a high earners surcharge for taxing local wealthy. People are already leaving. This place got more left as NYC people moved here but the same results are expected.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 06:42 PM (OXYE0)

106 "HillaryClinton [...]
1. He's not focused on making life better for Americans. Not even close..."


Right. Because election integrity isn't something Americans care about. And elections have absolutely nothing to do with voters trying to manage their lives or anything.

There's not an older, more sinister hack in the US that I can think of right now. Maybe George Soros. Let's call it a tie.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 17, 2026 06:42 PM (oji8u)

107 One of the best things that Trump ever did for the country is keep that filthy cunting bitch Hillary and her scumbag pervert husband out of the white house. Whatever Trump may do or not do, the country should be eternally grateful for that.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 17, 2026 06:44 PM (HwHEG)

108 Hag-bags-eye Hil always bobs her head for emphasis of certain words. I guess she hasn't discovered the bird hand emphasis or her claws can't do it.

Who let her out of Chappedick's woods? I still like the story, after she LOST to President Trump, of random people coming upon her lurching in the woods. I am sure with a box of chardonnay under her rancid armpit and a voodoo doll of Trump she stuck pins in every hour.

I used to like to imagine Hil and Bill's happy home there. The dialogue, the harpy shrieking, a padded room, Bill fleeing or never coming home...and often do wonder who is buried under the pool they filled.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 17, 2026 06:44 PM (hzuYO)

109 Katie Porter says she's done with politics after failed governor bid as she teases next chapter
trib.al/zEhbCDW

Posted by: #winning at July 17, 2026 06:45 PM (gKWVE)

110 Trump is like every other fascist dictator in history who sucked the cock of another foreign leader!! ("cockholster")

Hitler must have sucked Stalin's cock, because Trump PARALLELS HITLER!!

Trump paralleled Hitler so closely that the historical illiterates who couldn't bring up a single case except that they both were a type of populist and got popular were astounded.

I mean, these evidently historical illiterates, argued from gobsmacked incredulity that people who didn't think like they did JUST COULDN'T SEE IT!!

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 06:47 PM (Fi81e)

111
Bush-Clinton-Clinton-Bush-Bush-Clinton-Clinton-Jeb! was the deep state plan.

Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 06:47 PM (Y8DZL)

112 Maybe Katie can take on a new identity as Potato Woman. She can dress up like Batman and drop her special recipe on miscreants from a high altitude

Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2026 06:47 PM (gKWVE)

113 88 >>Massie, Cassidy and Tillis are burning down everything they can on their way out. They move to the top of my list.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 06:27 PM

Don't forget that asshole, Cornyn. He's busy proving why he needed to booted.
Posted by: huerfano at July 17, 2026 06:31 PM (VJX5o

For this group who thinks they may have a shot at another political position- who do you think is going to be the ones you need to vote for you? Start giving people a reason to question why they voted you out, not confirm it!

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 06:47 PM (Dd38x)

114 90 Stupidest take ever is Trump is starting to look weak. In what bizarro universe is that happening? One may not like or agree what Trump does but it sure in the hell ain't out of weakness.
Posted by: polynikes



Well, Trump hasn't rounded up his political enemies, thrown them into a pit, and then pour boiling oil into the pit. So yea, he's kind of weak. I mean they keep calling him an authoritarian and tyrant, yet not once has Trump pushed Brian Stelter off a tall building. Very disappointing.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 17, 2026 06:47 PM (jrKun)

115 It's clear that since Katie Porter is leaving politics, her next step is OnlyFans

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 06:48 PM (OXYE0)

116 I used to like to imagine Hil and Bill's happy home there. The dialogue, the harpy shrieking, a padded room, Bill fleeing or never coming home...and often do wonder who is buried under the pool they filled.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Clenis and Grandma Death haven't lived together since Jan 2001.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 06:48 PM (wOO3z)

117 #winning: "Katie Porter says she's done with politics after failed governor bid as she teases next chapter
trib.al/zEhbCDW"


I doubt it. She's done until she isn't. Certain personalities simply cannot let go. When the opportunity reappears - and they almost always do - the vampires rise again.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 17, 2026 06:49 PM (oji8u)

118 Hated this Outkick headline.

Sophie Cunningham manages to anger both the left and right with a simple social media post.

You know what she said. Basically whatsup with these data centers taking over usable farmland.

I think most of the horde is on her side. I'd love her to be an ette.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 06:50 PM (/WQyy)

119 115 It's clear that since Katie Porter is leaving politics, her next step is OnlyFans
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 06:48 PM (OXYE0)

This is not very nice!

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 06:50 PM (Dd38x)

120
@HillaryClinton

2. We should act now to counteract any efforts to undermine our elections.

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

Her intent is as dark and huge and insidious as anything. She would really like to let loose a harvest of snakes.

Thank God she's also limp and dull. Back in 2017, she had started this "RIPE" movement. Resist, Insist, Persist, Enlist. Get it? I don't think a damn thing happens because of Hillary, except that some silly people go to zoom meetings, strategy sessions, book signings, and fund raisers where 90% of the money goes to first-class plane fare for the featured speaker, likely some disaffected professor of Gender Studies.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 17, 2026 06:51 PM (mmrXZ)

121 I wish Trump would have explained how the 2024 election theft was prevented (I presume white hats in the IC did it).

There was some reporting last year on this by Emerald Robinson, Patrick Byrne, and others -- but Trump exposing publicly would confirm that there were cheating methods in place (Venezuelan machines like Dominion, "The Serbian Server," et. al.) that had been identified and defeated.

I suppose there might be concerns about letting Our Enemies -- Foreign and Domestic -- know exactly what techniques you used to overcome theirs, giving them intel to which they can adapt and in the future overcome your countermeasures with their own new countermeasures.

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 06:51 PM (FRcTi)

122 It's clear that since Katie Porter is leaving politics, her next step is OnlyFans
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 06:48 PM (OXYE0)

Oh boy! I can't wait to see what she can do with some potatoes au gratin! Yeah baby! Rub that in there...oh yeah! oh yeah!

Posted by: Bob Kraft, Pervert at July 17, 2026 06:51 PM (45BvE)

123 Repeating a comment I made elsewhere (b/c I have a limited number of ideas and repeat them often) - Talking about voting machines and Chinese interference just muddies the waters. None of that stole the election. Democratic operatives in this country stole the election, and they did it the old-fashioned way- by generating and counting fraudulent ballots, particularly mail in ballots, and having election officials in certain places putting their thumb on the scales to count, or not count.

You may say that the Chinese facilitated it, but good luck getting anywhere with that. Deal with the near enemy, not the far enemy. The near enemy in this country is far more dangerous, but the ability to reach out and touch them is also far greater. Problem is, the current election system benefits too many of the people who would be charged with fixing it.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 17, 2026 06:51 PM (QaH55)

124
Obama-Obama-Clinton-Clinton would have been the closing of the circle, with rump opposition parties splitting the vote with House, Senate and Supremes working seamlessly with talented technocrats forever.

Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 06:52 PM (Y8DZL)

125 Katie Porter and "teases" should not be used in the same sentence.

Posted by: LASue at July 17, 2026 06:52 PM (lCppi)

126 Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 06:47 PM (Fi81e)

Except Trump got over 50% of the vote in his election which Hitler never got.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 06:52 PM (/WQyy)

127 lol I remember that. Lefties moved to tears: "President Obama is speaking truth to power!"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 17, 2026 06:40 PM (mmrXZ)
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That's what B.O. said himself.

Probably somewhat rare here, but I actually gave the Big B.O. a clean slate.

After he shook the senior investors out of the Detroit car companies like bugs infesting a rug, I could be heard to say that he should be wearing orange.

His lawlessness was 100% akin to fascism. The government have "invested" into some of these car companies, they couldn't have the senior investors rip apart the company going into a unique receivership. So he shook them off and awarded 50% of the company to the unions where the conflict of interest was BLATANT.

Ripping owed capital away from people promised and giving it to political cronies. That's hallmark fascism.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 06:54 PM (Fi81e)

128
"Katie Porter says she's done with politics after failed governor bid as she teases next chapter
trib.al/zEhbCDW"

I doubt it. She's done until she isn't. Certain personalities simply cannot let go. When the opportunity reappears - and they almost always do - the vampires rise again.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel

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

"Next chapter" my apter. She's thinking of the chapter AFTER that, which will be her return to politics. What she's doing in between will be carefully aimed at it. Consulting, teaching, speaking -- oh, and an appointment with the Ozempic doctor. She'll be new and fabulous for her triumphal return I'm sure.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 17, 2026 06:54 PM (mmrXZ)

129 Katie Porter and "teases" should not be used in the same sentence.
Posted by: LASue at July 17, 2026 06:52 PM (lCppi)

{shudder}

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 06:55 PM (vE0+H)

130 Well, Trump hasn't rounded up his political enemies, thrown them into a pit, and then pour boiling oil into the pit. So yea, he's kind of weak. I mean they keep calling him an authoritarian and tyrant, yet not once has Trump pushed Brian Stelter off a tall building. Very disappointing.
Posted by: Puddleglum

I myself would pay yuge money for the pay-per-view.

Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 06:55 PM (Y8DZL)

131 None of that stole the election. Democratic operatives in this country stole the election, and they did it the old-fashioned way- by generating and counting fraudulent ballots, particularly mail in ballots, and having election officials in certain places putting their thumb on the scales to count, or not count."

True.

Posted by: man at July 17, 2026 06:55 PM (XuXeR)

132 Hillary is the ultimate "doormat". Her husband abused her, her girlfriend dumped her; maybe some leftists think she's important. History will not be "kind"...

Posted by: pahound at July 17, 2026 06:55 PM (AjR4+)

133 She then links to "Indivisible" which is a State Dept. subcontractor (or was) that used to be used to start Color Revolutions in foreign nations...until Trump's second term. Then they aimed their resources towards a "color revolution" in the US. They were the primary funder of the "No Kings" nonsense. It's a good bet that a significant number of agency and State Dept. personnel that were given their walking papers by Trump are now involved in "Indivisiable.

Hillary really is a detestable growth.
Posted by: Orson at July 17, 2026 06:36 PM (dIske)

I always thought she was a cyst, but she's more of a puss filled tumor .

Posted by: LASue at July 17, 2026 06:56 PM (lCppi)

134 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 17, 2026 06:51 PM (mmrXZ)

__________________

Back in early 2017 Donna Brazill just about had a cow when she learned that Hillary was controlling the purse strings of the whole DNC. I remember some very harsh words from Brazill and then she suddenly went quiet. They had brought her into shore up the party. The first thing she did was take the credit card out of Hillaries clawed fingers.

Posted by: Orson at July 17, 2026 06:57 PM (dIske)

135 >> I wish Trump would have explained how the 2024 election theft was prevented (I presume white hats in the IC did it).

Last night was just the table setting speech. There's not a chance in hell that was a one off. There will be a lot more documents and detail to come.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 06:57 PM (viF8m)

136 ...not once has Trump pushed Brian Stelter off a tall building

TACO

Posted by: Oddbob at July 17, 2026 06:57 PM (vTZFs)

137 Hillary is that mentally unstable and unlikable butch lesbian everyone has come into contact with at some point in their life.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 06:58 PM (/WQyy)

138
Maybe Katie can take on a new identity as Potato Woman. She can dress up like Batman and drop her special recipe on miscreants from a high altitude
Posted by: gKWVE


Extra lumpy and extra sticky.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2026 06:58 PM (Cqx++)

139 109 Katie Porter says she's done with politics after failed governor bid as she teases next chapter
trib.al/zEhbCDW

Posted by: #winning at July 17, 2026 06:45 PM (gKWVE)

Yeah, I'm not entirely sure if it's physically possible for Katie Porter be a tease anywhere at anytime.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 17, 2026 06:58 PM (6ydKt)

140 #winning: "Katie Porter says she's done with politics after failed governor bid as she teases next chapter
trib.al/zEhbCDW"

--------------

She'd be great as a spokeshole for hot mashed potatoes.

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 06:59 PM (FRcTi)

141
I think that Trump's speech last night was a bit like his "agreement" with Iran.

He's giving the Democrats and the Reps an opportunity to show that they are not corrupt dickweeds committing voter fraud on a regular basis and want secure elections by cooperating with securing the areas where voter fraud was worst, but

when they won't and will probably (in blue states) double down on the potential fraud.

That's when he'll hit them with the Guarantee Clause cuz he's got the stone cold proof, the only thing keeping the corrupt Dims and Reps from doing the right thing is...well, bone-deep, 100% Pure Dickweedery.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 17, 2026 06:59 PM (iJfKG)

142 Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 06:47 PM (Fi81e)

Except Trump got over 50% of the vote in his election which Hitler never got.
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 06:52 PM (/WQyy)
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I mentioned that they were historical illiterates that couldn't bring up a specific instance that would impress someone that they knew what they were talking about.

They are myriad.

But a big one is: Trump was not appointed to his first position of national power by the actual head of state.

Even if you count January 6th as Trump's "Beer Hall Putsch" that's about all you can do. And besides they were saying this before January 6th ever happened.

Mein Kampf was written in prison to become a major force in a party. Art of the Deal was written so Trump could make himself more of a celebrity, long before he was working toward political aspirations.

There are just NO major parallels.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 07:00 PM (Fi81e)

143 Obama stopped speaking truth to power as soon as he got any power.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 17, 2026 07:00 PM (6ydKt)

144 "Hillary is that mentally unstable and unlikable butch lesbian everyone has come into contact with at some point in their life.
Posted by: polynikes"

I avoid one local auto parts store because one of those bitches works there. She's got what I call a SFA. A shitty fucking attitude.

Posted by: fd at July 17, 2026 07:00 PM (MWfyi)

145 Anybody who puts out a happy birthday to the future president and a picture of herself deserves whatever is coming to her. Looking at you Hill

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 07:00 PM (OXYE0)

146 I'm trying just to consider how I could play ping-pong with my mind like that and it hurts my head.
Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 06:36 PM (Fi81e)


It's been awhile since GamerGate, but I think it was Literally Wu that had mused about the need to 'mindkill' himself daily, to keep the politically incorrect thoughts at bay. Memorable, because horrifying, because who could live like that?

Posted by: SciVo at July 17, 2026 07:01 PM (Sy6m/)

147 Hillary is that mentally unstable and unlikable butch lesbian everyone has come into contact with at some point in their life.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 06:58 PM (/WQyy)

---------------

Every man's nightmare of the smug nagging wife.

El Rushbo always cracked me up when he called her "The Most Cheated On Woman In The World."

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 07:02 PM (FRcTi)

148 Well, Trump hasn't rounded up his political enemies, thrown them into a pit, and then pour boiling oil into the pit. So yea, he's kind of weak.

Posted by: Puddleglum
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By Cesare Borgia standards, Trump is a transman.

So, yeah.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 07:02 PM (Fi81e)

149 [Babylon Bee headline:]

"Man Who Ate At Taco Bell Getting More Baja Blast Than He Bargained For"

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 07:03 PM (FRcTi)

150 I wish Trump would have explained how the 2024 election theft was prevented (I presume white hats in the IC did it).

Last night was just the table setting speech. There's not a chance in hell that was a one off. There will be a lot more documents and detail to come.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 06:57 PM (viF8m)

I am starting to see this as well. PDT knows well just how delicate the Republic is. He is an old man, but he will never surrender. He's got a great team of people with the same mindset. Perhaps our last best hope.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at July 17, 2026 07:03 PM (0aYVJ)

151 I would pay to see Katie Porter do a baywatch run down the beach in a bikini. Her fundraising would double.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 17, 2026 07:04 PM (sYM3s)

152 I did not understand why PDT distanced himself so completely from Pompeo. Perhaps bc Pompeo hand-picked Haspel to succeed him at CIA?

Posted by: EveR at July 17, 2026 07:05 PM (98rUz)

153 Between 2015 & 2025, over 80,000 Chinese nationals were officially recorded by U.S. authorities for attempting to enter the United States without authorization, predominantly crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.

During the 2015 to 2025 period, over 3.3 million Chinese nationals were enrolled in U.S. higher education institutions, making up roughly 25% to 35% of all international students in the country. Mathematics, Computer Science & Business were the most dominant fields of study for Chinese nationals. Overstays? Estimated at 40,000 to 55,000

There was a steady rise to a historic peak, followed by a sharp & continuous decline due to the pandemic, strict visa crackdowns, and rising geopolitical tensions. In 2023-2024, it dropped below 300,000; India overtook China as the #1 source.

Think tanks have estimated that 20,000 to 26,000 babies total are born annually in the U.S. to "birth tourists" from all countries combined, with China historically being one of the top countries of origin. Conservative groups & lawmakers presented data alleging that between 100,000 & 150,000 babies are born to Chinese parents in the U.S. each year, totaling an estimated 1.5 million over 15 years,

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 17, 2026 07:05 PM (NFX2v)

154 Basically whatsup with these data centers taking over usable farmland.

Because we want to hand over the entire AI industry over to China just like we did with every other industry.

That farmland can be better served for depleting the soil and the aquifers to provide feedstock for the ethanol industry and consume tax dollars in subsidies

Or that same land can be plowed over for another 1000 unit multi-family "affordable housing" which too is a net tax drain and does 100x more to add to noise and traffic while consuming almost as much water and electricity as the data warehouse that would have been a quiet tax and job producer.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 17, 2026 07:05 PM (a6PrB)

155 It's clear that since Katie Porter is leaving politics, her next step is OnlyFans
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 06:48 PM (OXYE0)
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Hell no. We refused her application.

Try OnlyPlatner.com

Posted by: OnlyFans at July 17, 2026 07:06 PM (Fi81e)

156 NOOD cafe.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 07:06 PM (Fi81e)

157 "Man Who Ate At Taco Bell Getting More Baja Blast Than He Bargained For"
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 07:03 PM (FRcTi)

When they have to measure the emissions in Specific Impulse, they really do need to start vetting their vendors.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2026 07:07 PM (gKWVE)

158 Nood, y'all.

Posted by: Nazdar at July 17, 2026 07:08 PM (NcvvS)

159 I avoid one local auto parts store because one of those bitches works there. She's got what I call a SFA. A shitty fucking attitude.
Posted by: fd at July 17, 2026 07:00 PM (MWfyi)

These types are usually found in your local post office or Child and Family Services Center or any place where they hire based upon party affiliation and being a homosexual with purple hair and nose rings.

They usually lay in wait and pounce once a heterosexual white male ventures too close.

Posted by: Heterosexual And Loving It! at July 17, 2026 07:09 PM (45BvE)

160 109 Katie Porter says she's done with politics after failed governor bid as she teases next chapter
trib.al/zEhbCDW
Posted by: #winning

Finishing school, anger management classes, good girdle and a facelift for starters.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 17, 2026 07:10 PM (NFX2v)

161 it was the ozempic!

Posted by: pahound at July 17, 2026 07:11 PM (AjR4+)

162 Posted by: naturalfake at July 17, 2026 06:59 PM (iJfKG)

There it is.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 07:11 PM (vE0+H)

163 I'm trying just to consider how I could play ping-pong with my mind like that and it hurts my head.
Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 06:36 PM (Fi81e)

They say things if they think they are useful not if they are actually true.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 07:13 PM (uhVAy)

164 Ripping owed capital away from people promised and giving it to political cronies.
——-

Somebody smarter than I pointed out this upended about 900 years of financial precedent.

Bondholders are senior in a bankruptcy. There’s a reason for this. “Greed”’has nothing to do with it. Politics is often like letting toddlers operate highly complex machinery. What could go wrong?

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 07:14 PM (4DF5d)

165 They say things if they think they are useful not if they are actually true.
——

“We believe in truth, not facts” Joe Biden

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, though not their own set of “facts”. This is what they’ve done with “My Truth” or “Lived Experience” inculcated at the schools.

Any opinion, demonstrably false, no matter how insane, is equally valid to observed reality that we all share, that is not debatable as such. Stuff figured out 5000 years ago is suddenly open to debate. It’s really quite astonishing.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 07:20 PM (4DF5d)

166 Excellent job, Bari Weiss!
Posted by: Lizzy

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

I don't even know why CBS long-timers are bitching. What difference is she making?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 17, 2026 06:12 PM (mmrXZ)

I think you can trust them on this. She's doing something they don't like.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 07:23 PM (uhVAy)

Scott Bessent: A Deranged Leftist Attempted to Assassinate Me Shortly After I Became Secretary of the Treasury
The New Republic: Don't You Understand You're Forcing Us Lefties to Murder You?

Gerald Posner
@geraldposner

🔥 At the State Department's Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent answered critics who doubt the seriousness of far left political violence by making the threat personal.

Off-script, he reminded the room -- delegates from roughly 65 nations -- that he was the target of an assassination attempt by a left-wing activist two hours after being sworn in. (Bessent gave the wrong year on camera -- he said 2024; the actual date was January 27, 2025 -- but the case is real: a guilty plea, a federal docket, sentencing set for August 14.)

Bessent also announced Treasury is expanding its financial enforcement authorities -- OFAC, FinCEN, IRS-CI -- to investigate nonprofits and charities being used as cover to finance political violence, saying "violence requires money, channels through which funding can move, and institutions behind which it can hide."

This is the same pattern Secretary Rubio has been warning about -- violent far-left extremism dismissed as fringe, until it's the Treasury Secretary himself.
Bessent's challenge to the skeptics: be there for the sentencing.

The New Republic makes the case for terrorism and assassination by mocking Bessent and asking him, doesn't he realize that he has forced people to "resist" in just this way?


Bonus:

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:45 PM




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1 1

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 04:46 PM (GD0B3)

2 Seems like assassination attempts always come from the left.

Posted by: Emmie at July 17, 2026 04:46 PM (OlzlW)

3 I can't wait until the bullets are flying in their direction.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 17, 2026 04:47 PM (Sco7b)

4 Bessent also announced Treasury is expanding its financial enforcement authorities -- OFAC, FinCEN, IRS-CI -- to investigate nonprofits and charities being used as cover to finance political violence, saying "violence requires money, channels through which funding can move, and institutions behind which it can hide."

==

Good, good.

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 04:47 PM (GD0B3)

5 I coulda been first, but I read the content.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 17, 2026 04:47 PM (Wnv9h)

6 was caught out using an exceptionally flattering AI image of herself to promote her memoir.

I don't see the difference.

(Body dysmorphia is still a recognized mental illness, right?)

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at July 17, 2026 04:48 PM (5/BQI)

7 That "she" in Maine's a he ...

And it ain't even close !

Posted by: browndog says woof at July 17, 2026 04:49 PM (3sXRv)

8 That tranny, wow

Posted by: Ventura Highway at July 17, 2026 04:49 PM (S+j2h)

9 was caught out using an exceptionally flattering AI image of herself to promote her memoir.

The worst Tinder catfishing ever?

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at July 17, 2026 04:49 PM (5/BQI)

10 Situation Normal.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 04:50 PM (Fi81e)

11 This is the same pattern Secretary Rubio has been warning about -- violent far-left extremism dismissed as fringe, until it's the Treasury Secretary himself.
Bessent's challenge to the skeptics: be there for the sentencing.

===


Look out for Communists !!

https://tinyurl.com/yfr9hj5s

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 04:50 PM (GD0B3)

12 Dude looks like a lady is more Meatloaf than a lady.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 04:50 PM (E4rtv)

13 1. The left does not do political violence.

2. Even if it does, it is because you haters deserve it. (You are here)

3. Leftist political violence is good and there should be much more.

Posted by: Ripley at July 17, 2026 04:50 PM (GUOwU)

14 Don't want to be assassinated? Don't support or be part of a uniquely evil administration. The New Republic is right.

Posted by: Sid at July 17, 2026 04:51 PM (d3IoH)

15 8 That tranny, wow
Posted by: Ventura Highway
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Which way wow?

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 04:51 PM (E4rtv)

16 12 Dude looks like a lady is more Meatloaf than a lady.
Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 04:50 PM (E4rtv)

/sings

I would do annnyyything for love...
But I won't do THAT.. no no... I won't do thatttttt

Posted by: Meatloaf at July 17, 2026 04:51 PM (mP0Kj)

17 The Troon from Maine is now the face of the democrat party.

How soon before it shoots up a school or local church?

Posted by: Pray The Gay Away at July 17, 2026 04:52 PM (45BvE)

18 PDJT isn't here to make your life better, that is up to you to do. His focus is taking down the impediments so that you can thrive without government

You’re minding your own business at home, cutting the grass or whatever. A man from the government shows up, smashes your kneecap with a hammer, and then hands you a crutch.

“Aren’t you glad I came along?”

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 04:52 PM (i1NbZ)

19
btw, Bessent accidentally said 2024. Should have been 2025.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 17, 2026 04:53 PM (mmrXZ)

20 "exceptionally flattering"

When your euphemism needs a euphemism.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at July 17, 2026 04:53 PM (yFLFB)

21 6 was caught out using an exceptionally flattering AI image of herself to promote her memoir.

I don't see the difference.

(Body dysmorphia is still a recognized mental illness, right?)


out: colorblind society
in: shapeblind society

Posted by: anachronda at July 17, 2026 04:53 PM (qdr3M)

22 14 Don't want to be assassinated? Don't support or be part of a uniquely evil administration. The New Republic is right.
Posted by: Sid

While conservatives want to live under their rules (don't kill your political opponents), we're willing to live under our opponent's rules (kill your political enemies if you think they're tyrants) as long as the rule is applied equally.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 17, 2026 04:54 PM (5/BQI)

23 I like how they refer to assassination attempts with the verb "resist".

That shines right through with convincing calm sanity and the moral upper hand.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 04:54 PM (Fi81e)

24 Fun story that just broke,

"In a bizarre move, the Democratic National Committee required its senior leadership to sign non-disclosure agreements before a private meeting on the party's finances, according to two people familiar with the conversations who spoke to Axios. That alone is a break from past practice. DNC officers are high-ranking members of chair Ken Martin's team, not entry-level staffers. Officers at that level don't typically get handed a confidentiality agreement before they can hear how much money they have in their piggy bank and what they plan to do about it."

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 04:54 PM (E4rtv)

25 I'm not totally convinced that Ashley isn't really a clean-shaven Platner with a Party City wig, trying to sneak back in the race incognito.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 17, 2026 04:54 PM (bNf8H)

26 Maine's Trans Sister looks like the Pawn Stars guy in a wig.

Posted by: Bilwis - at July 17, 2026 04:55 PM (w/O5Q)

27 Wow, Sid.

Your comment went straight to my heart. You’re right. Jeepers, man. How could I continue on?

My everlasting gratitude,

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 17, 2026 04:55 PM (bWDwv)

28 Wait... nothing wrong with that, she looks just like him.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 17, 2026 04:55 PM (n5tGW)

29 Rubio's speech at this event was th absolute best I've ever heard anyone give on this subject.

Posted by: Cheri at July 17, 2026 04:55 PM (5vEC/)

30 For any newbs, Sid is the sock puppet of someone who parodies a crazy leftist.

Posted by: PabloD at July 17, 2026 04:55 PM (QDulm)

31 Meet The New Republic...

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2026 04:55 PM (Cqx++)

32 They're the same picture!

Posted by: Bizarro World Pam Beasly at July 17, 2026 04:55 PM (Fi81e)

33 out: colorblind society
in: shapeblind society
Posted by: anachronda

Out: Faith-based society
In: fantasy-based society

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 17, 2026 04:55 PM (5/BQI)

34
I drink, but have never been so far into it that the picture on the right could look like the one on the left at 2 a.m. in any bar.

Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 04:56 PM (Y8DZL)

35 8 That tranny, wow
Posted by: Ventura Highway at July 17, 2026 04:49 PM (S+j2h)


We learned in another thread that he has actual delusions about having female internal organs, despite medical imaging showing otherwise. I'm no doctor, but that sounds like full-blown schizophrenia.

Posted by: SciVo at July 17, 2026 04:56 PM (Sy6m/)

36 It was just an eye-blink ago when the Commies were cheering on Lois Lerner and her Cincinnati confederates. Now they're targeting senior Treasury officials.

Posted by: mrp at July 17, 2026 04:56 PM (rj6Yv)

37 Thanks Sid, we were almost all out of crazy.

Posted by: Bizarro World Pam Beasly at July 17, 2026 04:56 PM (Fi81e)

38 Funny they don't recognize the language of abuse.

"See what you made me do?"

"Baby, don't make me hit you no more."

"Now look what you did-- you made me try to kill you."

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 17, 2026 04:56 PM (f6IDb)

39 That's one ugly woman. She gots the crazy-eyes to boot.

Posted by: Polka will never die at July 17, 2026 04:56 PM (Ek9hi)

40 But I won't do THAT.. no no... I won't do thatttttt
Posted by: Meatloaf at July 17, 2026 04:51 PM (mP0Kj)

Can't wait for her to bust her way into here.

Posted by: der Mainegauleiter at July 17, 2026 04:57 PM (gKWVE)

41 Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 04:54 PM (E4rtv)

Signing an NDA must mean they're broke.

Posted by: beckster at July 17, 2026 04:57 PM (kX27y)

42 Meatloaf — Two out of three ain’t bad…. But that dude is bad news no doubt about it. He does look like Meatloaf, Whig 😂

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 04:57 PM (26GAh)

43 I know he's trying, but dude still doesn't look like a lady.

Posted by: Aerosmith at July 17, 2026 04:57 PM (5/BQI)

44 Dude in a wig is such an eloquent speaker too.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 17, 2026 04:57 PM (n5tGW)

45 once again, looking at that picture, I miss Chris Farley

Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2026 04:58 PM (gKWVE)

46 The only thing I can say about Webb is . . .


MEATLOAF!

Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2026 04:58 PM (rbvCR)

47 That’s a Man, Baby! Not a “herself”.

Never accept their false premises. Do not ever use their euphemisms or weasel word phrases. Ever ever ever. He can call himself Napoleon or Joan of Arc, but he can’t require you to do that. It is not incumbent upon anyone to humor mentally ill delusions or fairy tales. We do not have to live like this.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 04:58 PM (i1NbZ)

48 That pic is quite disturbing and funny at the same time.

Posted by: dantesed at July 17, 2026 04:58 PM (w1twS)

49 Sometimes I feel sorry for AI.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 17, 2026 04:58 PM (f6IDb)

50 It was just an eye-blink ago when the Commies were cheering on Lois Lerner and her Cincinnati confederates. Now they're targeting senior Treasury officials.
Posted by: mrp at July 17, 2026 04:56 PM (rj6Yv)
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Remember what the Lois Lerner thing was about?

"How DARE conservatives organizations try to get out of paying taxes!! Do they expect the government to FUND their politics!!"

Countless billions of left-embezzling later, we're here.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 04:59 PM (Fi81e)

51
I wrote a book called "To Hell and Back." People bought it and read it. Actual people, not gendermutants scurrying around in a benighted forest like unseemly creatures from a fairytale.

And I wrote songs... popular songs that millions of people loved and many of you could recite lyrics from.

Stop comparing me to a Maine Senator. It's beneath my dignity as an author and songwriter.

Posted by: Meat Loaf (2 Words, Motherfuckers) at July 17, 2026 04:59 PM (BI5O2)

52 was caught out using an exceptionally flattering AI image of herself to promote her memoir.

The worst Tinder catfishing ever?
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at July 17, 2026 04:49 PM (5/BQI)

it may be artificial, but getting from picture 1 to picture 2 there can't be described as intelligence.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 04:59 PM (uhVAy)

53 The old saw is that leftists view violence as a dial to go up and down to achieve purposes--the right looks at it as a binary switch--no violence right up to the kill all the commies is thrown. Left likes indiscriminate violence, the right is much more purposeful when such occurs.

Only stupid people would want to turn on that switch but then again, leftism is inherently stupid as are their worn out ideas of Communism, racism, and other isms that Trotsky applied to western society so long ago.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 05:00 PM (E4rtv)

54 The tranny's pronouns are xy and XY, all the damn day long.

Posted by: Science! at July 17, 2026 05:00 PM (0hRE+)

55 Sid just literally justified murder for those who have different political opinions. What a maggot.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 17, 2026 05:00 PM (qBdHI)

56 New Republic calling assassinations just resistance. Ahhh, the left... never let you down with their violence seeking.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 17, 2026 05:00 PM (n5tGW)

57 like saying that oscar in a wig looks like gloria

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 17, 2026 05:00 PM (CWTWj)

58 Funny they don't recognize the language of abuse.

"See what you made me do?"

"Baby, don't make me hit you no more."

"Now look what you did-- you made me try to kill you."
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 17, 2026 04:56 PM (f6IDb)
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They don't recognize how bullies behave if it's advised as Saul Alinsky's rules.

It fucking does not surprise me.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 05:00 PM (Fi81e)

59 Signing an NDA must mean they're broke.
Posted by: beckster at July 17, 2026 04:57 PM (kX27y)
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And they don't want their top contributors identified.

Posted by: mrp at July 17, 2026 05:00 PM (rj6Yv)

60 New Republic calling assassinations just resistance. Ahhh, the left... never let you down with their violence seeking.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 17, 2026 05:00 PM (n5tGW)
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And their capacity to bend words to fit their crazy.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 05:01 PM (Fi81e)

61 52 it may be artificial, but getting from picture 1 to picture 2 there can't be described as intelligence.

more like inthelligence, am i right?

Posted by: anachronda at July 17, 2026 05:01 PM (qdr3M)

62 The would be assassin said, "
This is terrible but I cant do nothing while nazis kill my sisters…"

So driven by FNM coverage 100%...

But until we start arresting and charging the people organizing leftwing terror cells this shit will continue

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 05:01 PM (sKqQm)

63 Signing an NDA must mean they're broke.
Posted by: beckster

Last required filing, DNC had twelve million on hand but 18 million in debt. RNC, no debt and well over 100 million. Same story on House and Senate party committees apparently. Seems socialism is not exactly something that floats big Democrat donors to give to that party.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 05:02 PM (E4rtv)

64 There is a strain in Maine that is hard to contain.

Is there any product that is marketable coming out of Maine? Maple syrup maybe?

Posted by: DanMan at July 17, 2026 05:02 PM (8uzBS)

65 And I wrote songs... popular songs that millions of people loved and many of you could recite lyrics from.

Posted by: Meat Loaf (2 Words, Motherfuckers) at July 17, 2026 04:59 PM (BI5O2)

Also, your songs were used as background music for, um, strenuous fluid-exchange activities. Between beings with and sans a "front-hole".

Posted by: Thrawn at July 17, 2026 05:02 PM (LviRI)

66 With all the focus on Trump's election speech yesterday that meeting Rubio, Bessent and others attended was pretty extraordinary too. 65+ nations working together to smoke out the money trails that feed leftwing dirtbags like antifa and BLM.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 05:02 PM (viF8m)

67 Some good news today:

"US airstrikes appear to have collapsed a tower at Iran’s Chabahar port on the Gulf of Oman, a key trade route for Afghanistan, according to images shared by defence secretary Pete Hegseth.

Hegseth shared the image of the surveillance tower appearing to collapse, which had circulated on social media via activists prior to Hegseth sharing it."

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2026 05:02 PM (edUvp)

68 Can you imagine going on a date expecting the girl in the purple dress and instead having Chunk from the Goonies show up?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 05:02 PM (sKqQm)

69 sid is mad because the sperm bank ran out and he was still hungry

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 17, 2026 05:03 PM (CWTWj)

70 “Don't want to be assassinated? Don't support or be part of a uniquely evil administration”

You’re so cute when you throw a tantrum. LOL. I think it’s time for your nap.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 05:03 PM (i1NbZ)

71
Why did you make me rape you!!!????

Posted by: Graham Platner, Oyster farmer/rapist at July 17, 2026 05:03 PM (OkYzo)

72 Seems like assassination attempts always come from the left.
Posted by: Emmie at July 17, 2026 04:46 PM (OlzlW)
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There isn't a President that wasn't shot by somebody further to the left. (Maybe Garfield, but something tells me Giteau was not a Law n' Order guy.)

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 05:03 PM (Fi81e)

73 We learned in another thread that he has actual delusions about having female internal organs, despite medical imaging showing otherwise. I'm no doctor, but that sounds like full-blown schizophrenia.
Posted by: SciVo at July 17, 2026 04:56 PM (Sy6m/)

Another sad case of intracranial lead deficiency.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 17, 2026 05:04 PM (1z8ji)

74 There is a strain in Maine that is hard to contain.

Is there any product that is marketable coming out of Maine? Maple syrup maybe?
Posted by: DanMan at July 17, 2026 05:02 PM (8uzBS)

lobster.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 05:04 PM (uhVAy)

75 These same people champion killing an infant up until birth for any reason. No surprises here.

Posted by: Cheri at July 17, 2026 05:04 PM (5vEC/)

76 And, as the journalists were walking out after listening to Bessent, they were kicking themselves for not labeling the would-be assassin a MAGA Republican, since he obviously wanted to assassinate the gay cabinet member.

Posted by: Orson at July 17, 2026 05:04 PM (dIske)

77 Isn't it interesting how the left claims all political violence is right wing but they've murdered one of the rights most important political figures, tried to assassinate a rightwing president 3 times, tried to assassinate a rightwing cabinet official and tried to assassinate a rightwing SC justice?

Of course that "right wing political violence" is some Aryan nation scum bag shanking a Latin Kings scum bag in prison over a drug deal gone wrong...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 05:04 PM (sKqQm)

78
Why did you make me sleep with you, you seductive interns!?

Posted by: Ruben Gallegos at July 17, 2026 05:04 PM (OkYzo)

79 74 There is a strain in Maine that is hard to contain.

Is there any product that is marketable coming out of Maine? Maple syrup maybe?
Posted by: DanMan at July 17, 2026 05:02 PM (8uzBS)

lobster.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 05:04 PM (uhVAy)

cups of kaffee.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2026 05:04 PM (l3cgK)

80 And they don't want their top contributors identified.
Posted by: mrp

Nope, it is because they are broke--top contributors are reported to the FEC and the report cycles shorten as we approach an election. At some point it becomes monthly instead of quarterly and then even week by week. Hard to hide contributors anymore which is why the big Democrat donors like Reid Hoffman just fund a Superpac themselves instead of handing it to party apparatus. That though comes with a lot of limitations that party commitees don't have.

I think Hoffman has shelled out at least ten million recently for Talarico.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 05:04 PM (E4rtv)

81 They need to check that fucker’s crawlspace out too.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 05:05 PM (i1NbZ)

82 Is there any product that is marketable coming out of Maine? Maple syrup maybe?
Posted by: DanMan
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Somalian immigration and benefit fraud.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 05:05 PM (E4rtv)

83 Democrats, All My Life: Don't blame the victim!

Democrats Today: Don't make us kill you for not voting our way!

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 05:05 PM (Fi81e)

84
There is no free will in the liberal Faith

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 17, 2026 05:06 PM (OkYzo)

85 Giteau thought he deserved a govt sinecure so yeah a lefty thought stream.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 17, 2026 05:06 PM (n5tGW)

86 I've been very impressed with Bessent. He seems like a happy warrior for our side. He has power and understands how to use it (and why it's important to use it).

It's surely not in the cards, but at this point I'd welcome him as the next president

Posted by: 496 at July 17, 2026 05:06 PM (OZXjq)

87 These same people champion killing an infant up until birth for any reason. No surprises here.
Posted by: Cheri at July 17, 2026 05:04 PM (5vEC/)

and after. Don't forget that.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 05:06 PM (uhVAy)

88 Officers at that level don't typically get handed a confidentiality agreement before they can hear how much money they have in their piggy bank and what they plan to do about it."
Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 04:54 PM (E4rtv)

Bet it's about the Act Blue investigation... that should soon be showing actual results.

Posted by: Meatloaf at July 17, 2026 05:06 PM (mP0Kj)

89 She was asking for it wearing that short skirt.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 05:06 PM (wOO3z)

90 Wall Street to the DNC:

"Sorry guys, we're busy moving our offices to Texas and Florida. We'll right back with ya as soon as we unpack the boxes! Swearsies!"

Posted by: mrp at July 17, 2026 05:06 PM (rj6Yv)

91 The New Republic makes the case for terrorism and assassination by mocking Bessent and asking him, doesn't he realize that he has forced people to "resist" in just this way?

We might have to cease our involvement with them.

Posted by: Jukt Micronics at July 17, 2026 05:07 PM (gKWVE)

92 Oh, wow. That last tweet.

Right: what you think the girl youre texting with looks like.

Left: what she ACTUALLY looks like.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 17, 2026 05:07 PM (zZu0s)

93 Seems like assassination attempts always come from the left.
Posted by: Emmie at July 17, 2026 04:46 PM


The bullets do seem to all be coming from the left. This is like the 60s and 70s, with the constant bombings. You would pick up the paper in the morning and read about the latest bombing or race riot.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 17, 2026 05:07 PM (0N4FZ)

94 >>Is there any product that is marketable coming out of Maine?

lobstah

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 05:07 PM (viF8m)

95 86 I've been very impressed with Bessent. He seems like a happy warrior for our side. He has power and understands how to use it (and why it's important to use it).

It's surely not in the cards, but at this point I'd welcome him as the next president
Posted by: 496 at July 17, 2026 05:06 PM (OZXjq)

So, second Gay President?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 05:07 PM (mP0Kj)

96 I've been very impressed with Bessent. He seems like a happy warrior for our side. He has power and understands how to use it (and why it's important to use it).

It's surely not in the cards, but at this point I'd welcome him as the next president
Posted by: 496 at July 17, 2026 05:06 PM (OZXjq)

Just rack em up as far as you can because we may need all of them to cover the time before the Dems learn to become Americans again, like after the Civil War.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 05:07 PM (uhVAy)

97 As near as I can tell, Ashley Webb is the long-haired son of Jaws and the blonde chick in glasses from Moonraker.

No way you can legitimately repair that face with AI so he just prompted it with:
“Young, Pretty, Thin, Brunette, Girl, wearing a lavender dress, and working at a retail store holding a really weird looking horseshoe-shaped device on a desk.”

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 17, 2026 05:08 PM (6ydKt)

98 Is there any product that is marketable coming out of Maine? Maple syrup maybe?
Posted by: DanMan at July 17, 2026 05:02 PM (8uzBS)
_________________________

Well, considering 90% of Maine is forests, I think you can guess what the cornerstone of their economy is. That's right....Whoopie Pies and blueberries.

Posted by: Orson at July 17, 2026 05:08 PM (dIske)

99
That guy's picture as a woman is just a lighting trick photographers use. It's the same person. If you squint, close your eyes and don't look you'll see.

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 17, 2026 05:08 PM (OkYzo)

100 crazy days and I struggle to be optimistic about what happens when a fighter like Trump leaves the White House.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 17, 2026 05:08 PM (xcxpd)

101 Scott Bessent is one of the most brilliant people President Trump gave a job to. I love him. I love to see him go calm murder hornet with a few slice and dice words to nitwit talking heads or reporters.

Ace, I love you as well for the new photo of our Ashley Webb. Who should be the mascot for today's insanity. Or a figurehead on the prow of a sinking ship (perhaps on the fag cruise that has been denied port in Egypt and Turkey...I refuse to spell that the way they want).

Ashley has made my Friday morning start off with choke laughter.

I then showed my husband the photo I took of him gorked out on happy medicine last night and we keep laughing about this...he wanted to kiss me goodnight and instead I erupted into loud laughing. He now knows why, bless him for putting up with me. His hair alone is enough to make me lose my mind in the photo. We are too scared to text it to our sons as it might go viral.

Anyone who falls for Ashley's catfishing photo and meets him at a restaurant may have started the exploding diarrhea expo across our land.

Not sure what type of dysmorphia Ashley has, but the fun mirror from the carnival has been found.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 17, 2026 05:08 PM (hzuYO)

102 42 Meatloaf — Two out of three ain’t bad…. But that dude is bad news no doubt about it. He does look like Meatloaf, Whig 😂
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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But to my knowledge, Meatloaf never made appearances in a girl's bathroom at stores.

Nor asked people their pronouns.

Advantage Meatloaf may he rest in peace.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 05:08 PM (E4rtv)

103 49 Sometimes I feel sorry for AI.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 17, 2026 04:58 PM (f6IDb)


It occurs to me -- since that made me think about who wouldn't -- that influencers have a reason to be prejudiced against AI data centers. Chasing views has trained them to *hate* The Algo, so if you explain AI to them as "basically a big, complicated algorithm," well... they have feelings about that.

Posted by: SciVo at July 17, 2026 05:08 PM (Sy6m/)

104 So, second Gay President?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 05:07 PM (mP0Kj)
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I laughed.

Posted by: 496 at July 17, 2026 05:09 PM (OZXjq)

105 Speaking of fake magazines publishing bullshit

A powerful new AI tool has uncovered what could be one of the biggest integrity problems in modern science. After analyzing 2.6 million cancer research papers published between 1999 and 2024, researchers identified more than 250,000 studies with writing patterns resembling papers suspected of being produced by fraudulent "paper mills."
- from Queensland University of Technology

Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2026 05:09 PM (gKWVE)

106 The developing world has to be looking bar us and saying " they're so successful but they have many lunatics"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 05:09 PM (OXYE0)

107 78
Why did you make me sleep with you, you seductive interns!?
Posted by: Ruben Gallegos at July 17, 2026 05:04 PM (OkYzo)

The power of the Cannons is compelling...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 17, 2026 05:09 PM (xcxpd)

108
I wrote a book called "To Hell and Back."

Sounds vaguely familiar.

Posted by: Zombie Audie Murphy at July 17, 2026 05:09 PM (Cqx++)

109 Advantage Meatloaf may he rest in peace.
Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 05:08 PM (E4rtv)

+1

This twink is not fit to shine Mr Loaf's boots.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 17, 2026 05:10 PM (zZu0s)

110 Top Trump official, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, was targeted in assassination attempt 2 hours after being sworn in

Sure he was. 🙄 Was it politically motivated or was it a Grindr hookup gone wrong… suppose both scenarios could be possible at the same time.

He must feel left out. Let us know when they're successful 🥱

I mean, his own party is doing most of the attempts, and terrorism, and aren't big on gays

Funny how none of these guys ever get killed when they're targeted for assassination. So many lousy shots in this country of Guns.

">Bessent was likely speaking about Ryan “Reily” Michael English, a 24-year-old Massachusetts man who pleaded guilty in March to charges related to attempting to kill Bessent in the U.S. Capitol. According to the Justice Department, English arrived in Washington on January 27, 2025, carrying two improvised Molotov cocktails and a folding knife. According to the affidavit, English walked up to an officer at the Capitol’s south door and stated, “I’d like to turn myself in.”

Thats the assassination attempt. Some mentally ill dude carrying a molotov turned himself in.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 17, 2026 05:10 PM (5/BQI)

111 Burly men of of Maine like lobster and oyster sammiches I bet

Posted by: DanMan at July 17, 2026 05:10 PM (8uzBS)

112 The Left are Children of Hell and are in a desperate need to have their foreheads creased by a tire iron

Posted by: H8 Marxist Rat Bastards & MSM InfoWhores at July 17, 2026 05:10 PM (5DfsO)

113 83 Democrats, All My Life: Don't blame the victim!

Democrats Today: Don't make us kill you for not voting our way!

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 05:05 PM (Fi81e)

::: Insert meme of dead man in chair, black man with gun, saying, "Why did you make me shoot this man?"... :::

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2026 05:10 PM (l3cgK)

114 108
I wrote a book called "To Hell and Back."

Sounds vaguely familiar.
Posted by: Zombie Audie Murphy at July 17, 2026 05:09 PM (Cqx++)

Lol.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 17, 2026 05:10 PM (zZu0s)

115 The girl in the purple dress looks a lot like Shannen Doherty when she was first doing 90210 in 1990.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 17, 2026 05:10 PM (wzUl9)

116 I don't have a lot of CD's, but 4 Meatloaf ones are here within arm reach.

And Anne Murray and Alabama....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 17, 2026 05:10 PM (Sco7b)

117 The New Republic, which brought us the Scott Beauchamp and Elle Reeve fiasco, has done it again!

Posted by: huerfano at July 17, 2026 05:10 PM (VJX5o)

118 There isn't a President that wasn't shot by somebody further to the left. (Maybe Garfield, but something tells me Giteau was not a Law n' Order guy.)
Posted by: Axeman
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Guiteau was a mentally ill person that got rejected for a patronage appointment. So entitled in his head just like a leftist.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 05:11 PM (E4rtv)

119 111 Burly men of of Maine like lobster and oyster sammiches I bet

Posted by: DanMan at July 17, 2026 05:10 PM (8uzBS)

Some want Rocky Mountain Oysters, raw...

Posted by: Don Lemon at July 17, 2026 05:11 PM (l3cgK)

120
These same people champion killing an infant up until birth for any reason. No surprises here.
Posted by: Cheri at July 17, 2026 05:04 PM (5vEC/)

____________

Until birth? Ask a Democrat if a fetus born alive has a right to medical treatment. You won't get an answer.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2026 05:11 PM (flEsB)

121 Scott Bessent is one of the most brilliant people President Trump gave a job to. I love him. I love to see him go calm murder hornet with a few slice and dice words to nitwit talking heads or reporters.

===

The man did not need it, successful, billionaire, but he thought it was worth it to put his life on hold and do what he is doing. For which we all should be very grateful.

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 05:12 PM (GD0B3)

122 a long standing rule is that that hot woman you're chatting with online is probably a guy in india or pakistan. or sid

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 17, 2026 05:12 PM (CWTWj)

123 That troon has murder in his eyes. Be very wary around that freak.

Creepy AF!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at July 17, 2026 05:12 PM (0aYVJ)

124 104 So, second Gay President?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 05:07 PM (mP0Kj)
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I laughed.

Posted by: 496 at July 17, 2026 05:09 PM (OZXjq)

>>>

The Obama brats have two daddies

Posted by: H8 Marxist Rat Bastards & MSM InfoWhores at July 17, 2026 05:12 PM (5DfsO)

125 Garfield was mostly killed by the Swedish Chef holding himself out as a doctor.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2026 05:12 PM (gKWVE)

126 Until birth? Ask a Democrat if a fetus born alive has a right to medical treatment. You won't get an answer.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Some go beyond that and argue killing someone outside the womb is permissible. Damn death cult is what it is.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 05:12 PM (E4rtv)

127 122 a long standing rule is that that hot woman you're chatting with online is probably a guy in india or pakistan. or sid

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 17, 2026 05:12 PM (CWTWj)

but not Paul...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2026 05:13 PM (l3cgK)

128 These same people champion killing an infant up until birth for any reason. No surprises here.
Posted by: Cheri at July 17, 2026 05:04 PM (5vEC/)

Imagine there were some kind of "test" to see if the fetus had a tendency to be trans - I think those abortions would be banned, huh?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 17, 2026 05:13 PM (w6EFb)

129 Is there any product that is marketable coming out of Maine? Maple syrup maybe?
Posted by: DanMan at July 17, 2026 05:02 PM (8uzBS)


Timber, dimensional lumber, plywood veneer, pulp and paper, but most important, it is the path to the soft underbelly of New Brunswick!

Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2026 05:13 PM (rbvCR)

130 126 Until birth? Ask a Democrat if a fetus born alive has a right to medical treatment. You won't get an answer.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Some go beyond that and argue killing someone outside the womb is permissible. Damn death cult is what it is.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 05:12 PM (E4rtv)

I'm for killing someone outside the womb...rapists, child molesters, murders...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2026 05:13 PM (l3cgK)

131 Ashley Webb might be the most successful Maine candidate. Let's send a crazy person to DC the rest of our candidates suck

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 05:13 PM (OXYE0)

132 Ann Coulter wrote a thorough section in one of her books that outlined how it 99% of the time it was left leaning people who did the assassinations or attempts.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 05:14 PM (/WQyy)

133
Well, considering 90% of Maine is forests, I think you can guess what the cornerstone of their economy is. That's right....Whoopie Pies and blueberries.
Posted by: Orson


Whoopie Pie looks like a Yankee version of a Moon Pie.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2026 05:14 PM (Cqx++)

134 128 These same people champion killing an infant up until birth for any reason. No surprises here.
Posted by: Cheri at July 17, 2026 05:04 PM (5vEC/)

Imagine there were some kind of "test" to see if the fetus had a tendency to be trans - I think those abortions would be banned, huh?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 17, 2026 05:13 PM (w6EFb)

Remember when the gays were all upset when a company came up with a cure for gay rams? ...

Posted by: Pepperidge Farm at July 17, 2026 05:15 PM (l3cgK)

135 Signing an NDA must mean they're broke.
Posted by: beckster at July 17, 2026 04:57 PM (kX27y)
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And they don't want their top contributors identified.
Posted by: mrp at July 17, 2026 05:00 PM (rj6Yv)

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For later prosecution purposes as these contributions are likely to be used to fund Antifa attacks.

Posted by: Decaf at July 17, 2026 05:15 PM (ZNpJk)

136 @libsoftiktok
BREAKING: Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor Sara Rodriguez (D) has DROPPED her campaign for Wisconsin governor after “serious mismanagement and inaccuracies” were discovered in her campaign finance reports.
Jul 17, 2026 · 5:30 PM UTC

Posted by: idiot, you're supposed to skim AFTER the election at July 17, 2026 05:15 PM (gKWVE)

137 133
Well, considering 90% of Maine is forests, I think you can guess what the cornerstone of their economy is. That's right....Whoopie Pies and blueberries.
Posted by: Orson

Whoopie Pie looks like a Yankee version of a Moon Pie.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2026 05:14 PM (Cqx++)

Whoopie Goldberg pie, on the other hand...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2026 05:15 PM (l3cgK)

138 "When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles."

Posted by: The Left at July 17, 2026 05:15 PM (V362x)

139 Where can a man in a dress poop around here?
- Ashley

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 17, 2026 05:16 PM (n5tGW)

140 Ashley Webb. Just a tad psycho.

Posted by: wth at July 17, 2026 05:16 PM (v0R5T)

141 The thing about perverts with autogynophilia who demand the whole world participate in their sexual fetish by being forced to pretend they lok like girtls:

They're so delusional, that when they look in the mirror, they actuall see the AI mage that the fat ugly tranny used to promote his memoir.

Just as an anorexic girl looks into the mirror and instrad of accurately perceiving her skeletal frame, she sees a "fat girl"staring back at her -- these AGP perverts literally see a pretty feminine girl in the mirror.

They are insane. And perverted. And power-mad.

Posted by: zombie at July 17, 2026 05:17 PM (Av6i5)

142 "A transgender Democrat vying to be the Senator for Maine in the wake of Graham Platner stepping down was caught out using an exceptionally flattering AI image of herself to promote her memoir."


That Tinder date is gonna be PISSED

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 05:17 PM (iFTx/)

143 140 Ashley Webb. Just a tad psycho.

Posted by: wth at July 17, 2026 05:16 PM (v0R5T)

But is she hot?!

Posted by: Moron who forgets rules at July 17, 2026 05:18 PM (l3cgK)

144 Garfield was mostly killed by the Swedish Chef holding himself out as a doctor.
Posted by: gKWVE

Bork, bork, bork

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 05:18 PM (wOO3z)

145 You can't be reasonable with the mentally ill and 99% of the Left is just that.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 05:18 PM (/WQyy)

146 researchers identified more than 250,000 studies with writing patterns resembling papers suspected of being produced by fraudulent "paper mills."
- from Queensland University of Technology
Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2026 05:09 PM (gKWVE)


One of the biggest impediment to useful development of new technology and discovering new bits of science is the fraudulent paper. There are a couple of industry voices warning that western science is broken because of it, and they still can't figure a solution.

I can think of a couple, like making the final requisite for an MA to reproduce some Doctoral thesis as part of proof of Mastery, with extra points for falsifying it.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2026 05:19 PM (rbvCR)

147 Look at idiot Sid. Saying the quiet part out loud. What does he remind me of again...??? Oh yeah. Hitler. Don't want to be killed? Don't be a Jew. And Stalin. Don't want to be killed? Don't oppose me and prove it by giving up everything to the state. And Pol Pot. Don't want to be killed? Don't be educated or wear glasses. And Sid's leader, Mao. Don't want to be killed? Stop eating.

Posted by: LASue at July 17, 2026 05:19 PM (lCppi)

148 I love lefties and their mentality that they're saving the world. Have at it and see what happens.

Here's a message;

https://tinyurl.com/y8pmmvce

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 17, 2026 05:19 PM (sYM3s)

149 144 Garfield was mostly killed by the Swedish Chef holding himself out as a doctor.
Posted by: gKWVE

Bork, bork, bork

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 05:18 PM (wOO3z)

Garfield was a fat cat...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2026 05:19 PM (l3cgK)

150 Mr. Garfield’s been shot down, shot down, shot down

Mr. Garfield’s been shot, way down low


Yeah, Charles G. was a mental case, I think he wanted to be named (or felt entitled) to be an ambassador iirc. He may have even met with Garfield to discuss the situation, (besides the crackpot letters) in those days if he wasn’t too busy there was a waiting room at the WH where anybody could hang around for a while and maybe get a chance to talk personally with the President.

Don’t try this now

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 05:20 PM (i1NbZ)

151 78
Why did you make me sleep with you, you seductive interns!?
Posted by: Ruben Gallegos at July 17, 2026 05:04 PM (OkYzo)


My mind is still boggled that this squat, slouching, cylindrical dork has (allegedly) tricked at least *four* adult women into playing with his peepee. He's even spawned! And married twice! It must be true what they say, that power is the greatest aphrodisiac.

Posted by: SciVo at July 17, 2026 05:20 PM (Sy6m/)

152
Where can a man in a dress poop around here?
- Ashley


Poop at home, asshole.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2026 05:21 PM (Cqx++)

153 122 a long standing rule is that that hot woman you're chatting with online is probably a guy in india or pakistan. or sid

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 17, 2026 05:12 PM (CWTWj)

but not Paul...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2026 05:13 PM (l3cgK)


But possibly Garrett.

Posted by: LASue at July 17, 2026 05:21 PM (lCppi)

154 But is she hot?!
Posted by: Moron who forgets rules
.......

Oh sure. Just a neck lift and some makeup, you're good to go.

Posted by: wth at July 17, 2026 05:21 PM (v0R5T)

155 These same people champion killing an infant up until birth for any reason. No surprises here.

Posted by: Cheri at July 17, 2026 05:04 PM (5vEC/)
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Interestingly enough, as an adult that was my first step back toward a faith.

When I had been a Catholic lad, I internalized the idea that abortion would lead to a degradation of the value of life.

As an agnostic/skeptic I laughed at the certainty. Of course religious people would be certain about things.

But finally, at the end of my disbelief, I couldn't help but see it. The Catholics/Christians had predicted it, and we were slipping that way.

While I didn't immediately attribute that to the exact same effect, I at least noted that Christians could be closer to the truth than scoffers who were positive they couldn't.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 05:22 PM (Fi81e)

156 Signing an NDA must mean they're broke.
Posted by: beckster

I thought that was already public knowledge? I thought I had seen tons of reports about how they're out if money, people joking (speculating) that it had to do with shutting down USAID and more Fed oversight of groups like ActBlue, etc?

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 17, 2026 05:23 PM (5/BQI)

157 Where can a man in a dress poop around here?
- Ashley

Poop at home, asshole.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr
.......

But...but...public restrooms are so damn exciting!

Posted by: wth at July 17, 2026 05:23 PM (v0R5T)

158 152
Where can a man in a dress poop around here?
- Ashley

Poop at home, asshole.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr

I don't understand the question?

Posted by: India at July 17, 2026 05:23 PM (5/BQI)

159 Before-Meatloaf; after Mindy the girl next door...


Posted by: pahound at July 17, 2026 05:24 PM (AjR4+)

160 Look at idiot Sid. Saying the quiet part out loud. What does he remind me of again...??? Oh yeah. Hitler. Don't want to be killed? Don't be a Jew. And Stalin. Don't want to be killed? Don't oppose me and prove it by giving up everything to the state. And Pol Pot. Don't want to be killed? Don't be educated or wear glasses. And Sid's leader, Mao. Don't want to be killed? Stop eating.

Posted by: LASue at July 17, 2026 05:19 PM (lCppi)
---
Dunning-Kruger in action.

It would be a joke, it it weren't also at the same time dangerous because of how loony these people are and they think they make sense because they are putting words together in some order that kind of sounds like sane people would.

Progs are proto AI slop.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 05:25 PM (Fi81e)

161 Audie Murphy's book and screenplay are better than my book of the same name. Everyone knows that.

But I'll hold my work up against any twelve-toed Maine hermaphrodite's.

Posted by: Meat Loaf (2 Words, Motherfuckers) at July 17, 2026 05:25 PM (BI5O2)

162 Chef's Surprise: Ashley's MeatLoaf.

Posted by: Joe Mama at July 17, 2026 05:25 PM (TezPK)

163 Where can a man in a dress poop around here?
- Ashley
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Just anywhere.

Posted by: India at July 17, 2026 05:25 PM (Fi81e)

164 OT:

Singer Randy VanWarmer...what kind of name is that?
Sounds like the name of a guy who goes around neighborhoods with signs on his car that say, "Free Candy, Puppies, and Wifi"...

And it was his GIVEN NAME AT BIRTH...
"Randall Edwin Van Warmer"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2026 05:25 PM (l3cgK)

165 Where can a man in a dress poop around here?
- Ashley

Poop at home, asshole.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr

I don't understand the question?
Posted by: India
......

Upstream bro. Always poop upstream. Unless you're doing laundry. Then maybe downstream.

Posted by: wth at July 17, 2026 05:26 PM (v0R5T)

166 Posted by: SciVo at July 17, 2026 05:20 PM (Sy6m/)

I just saw some vids ( who knows if they are set ups ) called the Lamborghini pick up. I guy approaches a pretty girl at a table and compliments her looks and asks if she would go out with him. She immediately turns him down and he says okay and walks and gets in the 500k Lamborghini parked on the street . She sees this and decides he ain't so bad and gets up to start a conversation with him.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 05:26 PM (/WQyy)

167 "But that right-winger was wearing a short skirt! Just begging for assasination!

Posted by: Average Atlantic Reader at July 17, 2026 05:26 PM (sFNX2)

168 They are perfectly willing to kill babies. And, the elderly.

Why anybody in between would feel safe with this state of affairs is a question.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 05:26 PM (i1NbZ)

169 154 But is she hot?!
Posted by: Moron who forgets rules
.......

Oh sure. Just a neck lift and some makeup, you're good to go.
Posted by: wth at July 17, 2026 05:21 PM (v0R5T)

I had on "The Sarah Connor Chronicles".

Summer Glau. Damn, she was amazing. Hard to believe she didn't have a more amazing career.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 17, 2026 05:26 PM (Sco7b)

170 Those pics -the difference between Shannon Doherty in her absolute prime and Rosie O'Donnell, today.

Posted by: LASue at July 17, 2026 05:27 PM (lCppi)

171 These horrifying images of alien races have cracked all of my reflecting mirrors.

Posted by: James Webb Space Telescope at July 17, 2026 05:27 PM (ZypAx)

172 I've never been to Maine. I want to go to Maine to see the landscapes, but my husband fears I will be arrested if I can't be controlled in public spaces with people vs trees. Ashley proves this.

There have been times in my life, and I am not proud of them, but sometimes I can't sit by certain people in cathedrals or at funerals. Because one eye lock with these people will undo my dignified and ladylike aura I try to project.

Then I am choke laughing and pretending to be weeping (I did this on my brother's shoulder at our aunt's funeral). This was because I asked who just yelled, "QUIET" in the somber space and shocked the entire crowd. It was the weirdest of our cousin's second husband who my mother thinks has a criminal record.My brother indicated him and I lost it.

I brought St. Giles Cathedral to a quiet halt once coughing like I had TB and looking for a cough drop in my purse, which I put behind our son on a pew right under the altar. My husband then asked if I was harfing into my purse and I lost my mind choke laughing and making noises that should not come from a lady.

I should be on drugs of some sort at times to subdue me or I bubble to the top and people stare.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 17, 2026 05:27 PM (hzuYO)

173 156 Signing an NDA must mean they're broke.
Posted by: beckster

I thought that was already public knowledge? I thought I had seen tons of reports about how they're out if money, people joking (speculating) that it had to do with shutting down USAID and more Fed oversight of groups like ActBlue, etc?
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 17, 2026 05:23 PM (5/BQI)

Act Blue is under investigation for knowingly bypassing Federal Campaign finance law... fraud... and international wire fraud.

IF during the investigation they have found evidence the DNC directly knew about it? maybe emails talking about lowering the safeguards against fraudulent contributions?

Yeah, could start a whole shitstorm.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 05:28 PM (mP0Kj)

174 Damn death cult is what it is.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 05:12 PM (E4rtv)
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It just gives them more in common with the Muzzies.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 05:28 PM (Fi81e)

175 Rest of the Rodriguez story, takes a heart of stone not to laugh.

From WPR
"Rodriguez said her manager had double-counted numerous donations, leaving her with hundreds of thousands of dollars less in the bank than she had expected.

Rodriguez also said it was her manager who made the decision to issue a July 7 press release promoting a $1 million TV ad buy despite her campaign’s hidden financial woes. Rodriguez told reporters Monday that she confronted her manager days later when she noticed the ads had not run.

Her campaign eventually announced another ad buy, this one much smaller. But she reported only $35,000 cash on hand to carry her through the closing days of the race — a miniscule sum for the closing days of a statewide primary for governor."

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 05:28 PM (E4rtv)

176 Where can a man in a dress poop around here?
- Ashley


recent indicators say the train to DC

Posted by: DanMan at July 17, 2026 05:29 PM (8uzBS)

177 That picture of the tranny guy, I am certain that's what they have in their heads. I am actually this girl, if I take drugs and hack my dong off I'll be her!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2026 05:30 PM (UZCuZ)

178 It just gives them more in common with the Muzzies.
Posted by: Axeman
=====
Except leftists want to kill their fellow citizens, Muzzies want to kill all infidels or all heretics but not themselves.

Again, the self destructive behavior of Western leftists since WWI. Muzzies may be dense at times but they are smart enough to aim the guns at others, not their own society.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 05:30 PM (E4rtv)

179 163 Where can a man in a dress poop around here?
- Ashley
---
Just anywhere.
Posted by: India at July 17, 2026 05:25 PM (Fi81e)

Hallways...

Posted by: EPA Employee at July 17, 2026 05:30 PM (mP0Kj)

180 Tubby troon

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 17, 2026 05:31 PM (Kt19C)

181 Progs are proto AI slop.
Posted by: Axeman
=======
Goes along with being badly programmed NPCs.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 05:31 PM (E4rtv)

182 But...but...public restrooms are so damn exciting!

Posted by: wth at July 17, 2026 05:23 PM (v0R5T)
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They're sexy!!

Imagine rape IN a public restroom!!

I know I have!

There are a number of places I imagined rape!

Posted by: E. Jean Carroll at July 17, 2026 05:31 PM (Fi81e)

183 165 Where can a man in a dress poop around here?
- Ashley

Poop at home, asshole.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr

I don't understand the question?
Posted by: India
......

Upstream bro. Always poop upstream. Unless you're doing laundry. Then maybe downstream.
Posted by: wth at July 17, 2026 05:26 PM (v0R5T)

********************
This is the intelligent knowledge I am here for when I should be doing something productive or normal.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 17, 2026 05:31 PM (hzuYO)

184 Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 05:28 PM (E4rtv)

She hire a Somali?

Posted by: EPA Employee at July 17, 2026 05:32 PM (mP0Kj)

185 Except leftists want to kill their fellow citizens, Muzzies want to kill all infidels or all heretics but not themselves.

Again, the self destructive behavior of Western leftists since WWI. Muzzies may be dense at times but they are smart enough to aim the guns at others, not their own society.
Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 05:30 PM (E4rtv)


Sunni vs Shiite says differently.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 05:32 PM (uhVAy)

186 Well I’ve never been to Maine
But I kind of like the music
Say the ladies are insane there
But they sure know how to use it
They don’t abuse it
Never gonna lose it
I can’t refuse it

Posted by: Three Daryl Night at July 17, 2026 05:32 PM (i1NbZ)

187 179 163 Where can a man in a dress poop around here?
- Ashley
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Just anywhere.
Posted by: India at July 17, 2026 05:25 PM (Fi81e)

Hallways...
Posted by: EPA Employee
=========
Here, There, and Everywhere

Posted by: The Beatles at July 17, 2026 05:32 PM (E4rtv)

188 Muzzles do like to kill each other also . Lots of examples. Just like Commies.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 05:32 PM (/WQyy)

189 177 That picture of the tranny guy, I am certain that's what they have in their heads. I am actually this girl, if I take drugs and hack my dong off I'll be her!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2026 05:30 PM (UZCuZ)

*whistles Q Lazzarus*

Posted by: Jaime Gumb at July 17, 2026 05:32 PM (gKWVE)

190 169 154 But is she hot?!
Posted by: Moron who forgets rules
.......

Oh sure. Just a neck lift and some makeup, you're good to go.
Posted by: wth at July 17, 2026 05:21 PM (v0R5T)

I had on "The Sarah Connor Chronicles".

Summer Glau. Damn, she was amazing. Hard to believe she didn't have a more amazing career.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 17, 2026 05:26 PM (Sco7b)

She's now 44...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2026 05:33 PM (l3cgK)

191 Sunni vs Shiite says differently.
Posted by: Oldcat
=======
I mentioned heretics including the Druze, etc. But leftists are perfectly happy with killing their own babies. That takes a level of death cult to the level of Molech.

Posted by: The Beatles at July 17, 2026 05:34 PM (E4rtv)

192 176 Where can a man in a dress poop around here?
- Ashley

recent indicators say the train to DC

Posted by: DanMan at July 17, 2026 05:29 PM (8uzBS)

The Streets of San Francisco...
Yeah, not like the TV show at all...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2026 05:34 PM (l3cgK)

193
35 8 That tranny, wow
Posted by: Ventura Highway at July 17, 2026 04:49 PM (S+j2h)

We learned in another thread that he has actual delusions about having female internal organs, despite medical imaging showing otherwise. I'm no doctor, but that sounds like full-blown schizophrenia.
Posted by: SciVo at July 17, 2026 04:56 PM

-----------

If that guy actually has blood coming out of his butt, it might be cancer.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 17, 2026 05:35 PM (FaGPp)

194 Summer Glau hasn't really done much other than guest roles for over a decade.

Her last regular cast show was Sequestered, about a jury, from 2014.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1132359/

She is a cutie.
Summer just never got a big break on a hit show after the Terminator show.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 17, 2026 05:35 PM (6ydKt)

195 I brought St. Giles Cathedral to a quiet halt once coughing like I had TB and looking for a cough drop in my purse, which I put behind our son on a pew right under the altar. My husband then asked if I was harfing into my purse and I lost my mind choke laughing and making noises that should not come from a lady.

I should be on drugs of some sort at times to subdue me or I bubble to the top and people stare.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 17, 2026 05:27 PM (hzuYO)

I periodically get nagging coughs and I recommend Cinnamon hard candy instead of any cough drip. Worked for 35 years.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 05:35 PM (uhVAy)

196 She's now 44...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2026 05:33 PM (l3cgK)

A lot of my favorite teen actresses from my kids shows are getting older. Summer's still beautiful.

But again, Madonna is doing halftime at FIFA. LOL
President Trump HAD to be behind that.
That'll teach the world not to help out with Iran.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 17, 2026 05:36 PM (Sco7b)

197 Michael Douglas never had to hurdle poop running through the Streets of San Francisco.

I wonder if anybody who only knows that show from streaming or MP3s ever thinks that show is completely made up?

They need to bring that show back just to add that bit of reality.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 05:37 PM (Fi81e)

198 Trump is live on TV now saying "We are a soccer country."

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2026 05:37 PM (Cqx++)

199 196 She's now 44...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2026 05:33 PM (l3cgK)

A lot of my favorite teen actresses from my kids shows are getting older. Summer's still beautiful.

But again, Madonna is doing halftime at FIFA. LOL
President Trump HAD to be behind that.
That'll teach the world not to help out with Iran.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 17, 2026 05:36 PM (Sco7b)

I don't want to know where she's shoving the vuvuzela...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2026 05:37 PM (l3cgK)

200 She is a cutie.
Summer just never got a big break on a hit show after the Terminator show.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Firefly/Serenity was peak Summer.

Posted by: Joe Mama at July 17, 2026 05:38 PM (TezPK)

201 Cheryl Ladd is 75 years old.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 05:38 PM (/WQyy)

202 If that guy actually has blood coming out of his butt, it might be cancer.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

or he was a virgin. Tee hee.

Posted by: Mayo Pete at July 17, 2026 05:38 PM (v0R5T)

203 Michael Douglas never had to hurdle poop running through the Streets of San Francisco.

I wonder if anybody who only knows that show from streaming or MP3s ever thinks that show is completely made up?

They need to bring that show back just to add that bit of reality.
Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 05:37 PM (Fi81e)

hell I watch Dirty Harry nostalgically for the positive view it gives of the city and its government.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 05:38 PM (uhVAy)

204 198 Trump is live on TV now saying "We are a soccer country."

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2026 05:37 PM (Cqx++)

soccer or sucker? I mean, look at all the gays and dems and illegal aliens...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2026 05:38 PM (l3cgK)

205 Well, since Trump endorsed her to run for the senate seat, I guess Darline is going to be senator for at least another 12 years.

Lindsey 2.0 here we come.
His senate staff will run everything the same, she'll just go along, I guess.

We'll see how she does in the campaign if she runs.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 17, 2026 05:39 PM (6ydKt)

206 202 If that guy actually has blood coming out of his butt, it might be cancer.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

or he was a virgin. Tee hee.

Posted by: Mayo Pete at July 17, 2026 05:38 PM (v0R5T)

Doc said it was hemorrhoids...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2026 05:39 PM (l3cgK)

207 If that guy actually has blood coming out of his butt, it might be cancer.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
---
Or lupus.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 05:39 PM (Fi81e)

208 >>>But possibly Garrett.

Posted by: LASue

>I'm seeing this as an opportunity to make Garrett jealous. There's that certain twinkle in her eyes.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 17, 2026 05:40 PM (sYM3s)

209 She's now 44...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2026 05:33 PM (l3cgK)
====

She's only 44?

Posted by: mrp at July 17, 2026 05:40 PM (rj6Yv)

210 198 Trump is live on TV now saying "We are a soccer country."

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2026 05:37 PM (Cqx++)

soccer or sucker? I mean, look at all the gays and dems and illegal aliens...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2026 05:38 PM (l3cgK)

Sticking it to the europeans again with the foosball or whatever they call it.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 05:40 PM (uhVAy)

211 Madonna is doing halftime at FIFA.
......

Soccer has halftime shows? How bored can you get?

Posted by: wth at July 17, 2026 05:40 PM (v0R5T)

212 Ashley Webb also towers over the other candidates. "She" is the white version of the guy in Animal House who wantsta dance wit yo dates.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2026 05:40 PM (gKWVE)

213 210 198 Trump is live on TV now saying "We are a soccer country."

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2026 05:37 PM (Cqx++)

soccer or sucker? I mean, look at all the gays and dems and illegal aliens...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2026 05:38 PM (l3cgK)

Sticking it to the europeans again with the foosball or whatever they call it.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 05:40 PM (uhVAy)

Oh Please! Put your Vuvuzela right up there!

Posted by: Don Lemon at July 17, 2026 05:41 PM (l3cgK)

214 I heard a couple of days ago that NOTwomen are saying they have a right to menstruate.

That probably would make sense to Sid or Paul.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 05:41 PM (Fi81e)

215 Whoopie Goldberg pie, on the other hand...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2026 05:15 PM (l3cgK)
__________________

Jim, we could have all done without that observation. I much rather be disgusted by ACE's weekly blood pressure rising sadistic offerings disguised as "This Week in Woke".

Both are disturbing, although your comment is bordering on psychological torture.

Posted by: Orson at July 17, 2026 05:41 PM (dIske)

216
Darlene? Miklos must be delighted.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2026 05:42 PM (flEsB)

217 139 Where can a man in a dress poop around here?
- Ashley
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 17, 2026 05:16 PM (n5tGW)

Lol.

The kennel (pet resort!) where I take my dogs on vacation has a review posted that says, "I would poop here again."

Always makes me chuckle.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 17, 2026 05:43 PM (bl07w)

218 I should be on drugs of some sort at times to subdue me or I bubble to the top and people stare.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 17, 2026 05:27 PM (hzuYO)

Oh, pshaw. The world needs more people who laugh, no matter the timing. Never stop being you!

Posted by: hobbitopoly at July 17, 2026 05:43 PM (k9OZB)

219 So the Maine senate candidate who is “trans” is still a “P3”, a person possessing penis?
Has the dick fairy left a quarter under that person’s pillow?

Posted by: Fenderbender at July 17, 2026 05:43 PM (1FEc1)

220 If that guy actually has blood coming out of his butt, it might be cancer.

"ITS NOT A TOOMAH!!!"
--bleeding dude

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2026 05:43 PM (UZCuZ)

221 214 I heard a couple of days ago that NOTwomen are saying they have a right to menstruate.

That probably would make sense to Sid or Paul.
Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 05:41 PM (Fi81e)

And we thought black market blood would be to satisfy the vampires...

Oh the horror...

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 17, 2026 05:43 PM (Sco7b)

222 216
Darlene? Miklos must be delighted.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2026 05:42 PM (flEsB)

It's a step up from Walmart and Waffle House, I guess.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 17, 2026 05:43 PM (bl07w)

223 I heard a couple of days ago that NOTwomen are saying they have a right to menstruate.
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That's right out of the scene in "Life of Brian" where Judith says that Stan/Loretta has the right to have babies.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 17, 2026 05:44 PM (amcLV)

224

That's Platner all shaved down with some rouge.

I happened across a trantifa on FB.

Someone should be watching this guy. He posted some weird shit on a community post, I looked at his public profile. Just demented.

There is a subculture of violent nutjobs propelled by the internet and stronger drugs than Charlie Manson had.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at July 17, 2026 05:44 PM (et1vG)

225 Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 17, 2026 05:44 PM (amcLV)

Oh, hey, you are alive and well! How's the ticker?? all good, I trust?

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 05:45 PM (GD0B3)

226 That's right out of the scene in "Life of Brian" where Judith says that Stan/Loretta has the right to have babies.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 17, 2026 05:44 PM (amcLV)

Someone pointed out to me that toward the end of that bit, Eric Idle stopped talking because he was trying like hell not to laugh.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at July 17, 2026 05:46 PM (0aYVJ)

227 English has some of the wildest rules.

Like "trans" before Atlantic and "mission" is pronounced TRANZ.

But before words like "man", "woman", "male" and "female" it's pronounced NOT.

And "cis" as the prefix to any word is always silent.

Crazy.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 05:46 PM (Fi81e)

228 Oh, hey, you are alive and well! How's the ticker?? all good, I trust?
Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 05:45 PM (GD0B3)
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Doing OK. They're fiddle-farting around with getting me a cardiology referral, which has me irked.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 17, 2026 05:46 PM (amcLV)

229 I was hoping for a new person/perspective in the senate but nope, we get blood relations and a mini-dynasty.

Maybe one of Lindsey's nieces can take the seat after her mother leaves so we can keep it going.

SC's own little three-peat, all female version of the Kennedys.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 17, 2026 05:47 PM (6ydKt)

230 23 I like how they refer to assassination attempts with the verb "resist".

That shines right through with convincing calm sanity and the moral upper hand.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 04:54 PM (Fi81e)

----

They keep saying "resist" which is a defensive stance, but they have been on offense for at least a decade.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 17, 2026 05:47 PM (9CZQg)

231 the Maine senate candidate who is “trans” is still a “P3”, a person possessing penis?
Has the dick fairy left a quarter under that person’s pillow?
Posted by: Fenderbender at July 17, 2026 05:43 PM (1FEc

They never clarify or imply but my guess is that 99.9% of trannies who compete at high level women's sports are all still fully intact.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 05:48 PM (/WQyy)

232 Looking at recent photos of Summer Glau, she reminds me a lot of Sigourney Weaver.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at July 17, 2026 05:48 PM (5/BQI)

233 Doing OK. They're fiddle-farting around with getting me a cardiology referral, which has me irked.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 17, 2026 05:46 PM (amcLV)

I think it's standard procedure to send to a specialist.

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 05:48 PM (GD0B3)

234 Leftists in the 1966: Give Peace a Chance... Woodstock, John Lennon, etc....

Leftists in 2026: Death to America, We love Chairman Mao, Communism is great, Free Shit for everybody on the earth, Rich must pay their fair share, Rich steal money from the poor (Elected Democrats (Omitted), AOC (A retarded Big Boobed Bartender) for POTUS.....

Posted by: Jackson K. at July 17, 2026 05:49 PM (xl8DV)

235 Mexico warns citizens that traveling to the U.S. may expose them to contaminated lettuce from Mexico

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I guess they keep the clean stuff for themselves.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 05:49 PM (ndZc7)

236 They keep saying "resist" which is a defensive stance, but they have been on offense for at least a decade.

It is absolutely central to the leftist worldview that they are always the underdog, the rebel, the heroic rebellion against The Man

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2026 05:49 PM (UZCuZ)

237 Someone pointed out to me that toward the end of that bit, Eric Idle stopped talking because he was trying like hell not to laugh.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at July 17, 2026 05:46 PM (0aYVJ)
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During the "she's a witch" scene in "Holy Grail," he had to bite his agricultural tool to keep from cracking up.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 17, 2026 05:49 PM (amcLV)

238 Of course when Trump says "soccer" he's really talking about violence against women!

Posted by: Mind Reader at July 17, 2026 05:50 PM (Fi81e)

239 Offer to Canada:

We will trade you Maine for a Six Pack of Molson Golden....

Posted by: Jackson K. at July 17, 2026 05:50 PM (xl8DV)

240 They keep saying "resist" which is a defensive stance, but they have been on offense for at least a decade.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 17, 2026 05:47 PM (9CZQg)

You forgot that they unintentionally follow 1984 like an instruction manual . Everything is Newspeak .

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 05:50 PM (/WQyy)

241 There was a video awhile back where Summer Glau, Gina Torres, and Nathan Fillion were all talking about doing a new Firefly series. It might have been animated, or something, can't remember.

That'd be cool, but I haven't seen anything about it since.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 17, 2026 05:50 PM (6ydKt)

242 203 Michael Douglas never had to hurdle poop running through the Streets of San Francisco.

I wonder if anybody who only knows that show from streaming or MP3s ever thinks that show is completely made up?

They need to bring that show back just to add that bit of reality.
Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 05:37 PM (Fi81e)

hell I watch Dirty Harry nostalgically for the positive view it gives of the city and its government.


i watch rockford files and think about how different it would be if had a smartphone in his pocket

Posted by: anachronda at July 17, 2026 05:51 PM (qdr3M)

243 Summer Glau. Damn, she was amazing. Hard to believe she didn't have a more amazing career.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 17, 2026 05:26 PM (Sco7b)

She's now 44...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2026 05:33 PM (l3cgK)

Great. Now I'm thinking of Firefly and how they barely got a season and a movie while woke dogsh*t written by r*tards gets renewed before the season is even viewed once.

Posted by: Nelly at July 17, 2026 05:51 PM (6+ehB)

244 235 Mexico warns citizens that traveling to the U.S. may expose them to contaminated lettuce from Mexico

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I guess they keep the clean stuff for themselves.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 05:49 PM (ndZc7)

Nah. Mexico shits on everything.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 17, 2026 05:51 PM (bl07w)

245 241 There was a video awhile back where Summer Glau, Gina Torres, and Nathan Fillion were all talking about doing a new Firefly series. It might have been animated, or something, can't remember.

That'd be cool, but I haven't seen anything about it since.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 17, 2026 05:50 PM (6ydKt)

THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO KILL WASH!

That is all.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 17, 2026 05:52 PM (bl07w)

246 Here's a solid Mary Ann /Ginger scenario .

Farscape >>>Firefly

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 05:52 PM (/WQyy)

247 227 English has some of the wildest rules.

Like "trans" before Atlantic and "mission" is pronounced TRANZ.

But before words like "man", "woman", "male" and "female" it's pronounced NOT.

And "cis" as the prefix to any word is always silent.

Crazy.


also, "transistor" is not the same as "trans sister".

Posted by: anachronda at July 17, 2026 05:52 PM (qdr3M)

248 We resist Nazis.

By walking up to somebody we don't know, calling them a "Nazi", and punching them ... if they're helpless enough.

Posted by: A Prog at July 17, 2026 05:53 PM (Fi81e)

249 If the guy in the next stall says his buhoe is bleeding and needs more TP do you:

1. hand him a few squares

2. ask him on a date

3. tell him to see a doctor about that shit

4. pretend you're deaf

Posted by: public restroom protocal at July 17, 2026 05:53 PM (UjdFS)

250 BraveAI sez:

Firefly is returning in two distinct formats: an animated television series and a new comic book series, both announced in 2026.

Animated Series Revival

An animated continuation of the cult classic is in advanced development, set to take place between the original 2002 TV run and the 2005 film Serenity.

Status: The series is in advanced development and is currently being pitched to networks or streamers, though no release date or platform has been confirmed.

New Comic Book Series

Separately, Dynamite Entertainment has launched a new Firefly comic series written by Mark Russell and illustrated by Lorenzo Re.

Release: The first issue, Firefly #1, was released in September 2026.

Plot: The story follows Captain Malcolm Reynolds struggling to keep the Serenity operational while Simon and Kaylee pose as a married couple for a heist. Promotional art suggests it may take place before the events of the Serenity film, as characters like Wash and Shepherd Book appear.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 17, 2026 05:53 PM (6ydKt)

251 I saw Trump's Speech from last night on Cable Channel "88" today !!!!!!

The 8th letter of the alphabet is H !!!!!!!!!

So, 88 means HH !!!!!!!!!!!

HH translate into Heil Hitler (Platner Not included)

So, Trump is a BAD NAZI compared to Platner who is a "MOSTLY PEACEFUL" Type of Nazi !!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at July 17, 2026 05:54 PM (xl8DV)

252 THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO KILL WASH!

That is all.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 17, 2026 05:52 PM (bl07w)

I saw that, and screamed WTF!!! I almost stopped the movie right there.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at July 17, 2026 05:54 PM (0aYVJ)

253 250 BraveAI sez:

Firefly is returning in two distinct formats: an animated television series and a new comic book series, both announced in 2026.

Animated Series Revival

An animated continuation of the cult classic is in advanced development, set to take place between the original 2002 TV run and the 2005 film Serenity.

Status: The series is in advanced development and is currently being pitched to networks or streamers, though no release date or platform has been confirmed.

New Comic Book Series

Separately, Dynamite Entertainment has launched a new Firefly comic series written by Mark Russell and illustrated by Lorenzo Re.

Release: The first issue, Firefly #1, was released in September 2026.

Plot: The story follows Captain Malcolm Reynolds struggling to keep the Serenity operational while Simon and Kaylee pose as a married couple for a heist. Promotional art suggests it may take place before the events of the Serenity film, as characters like Wash and Shepherd Book appear.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 17, 2026 05:53 PM (6ydKt)



I didn't know about the comic but I was quietly excited about the animated series. I hope somebody picks it up.

Posted by: Nelly at July 17, 2026 05:55 PM (6+ehB)

254 246 Here's a solid Mary Ann /Ginger scenario .

Farscape >>>Firefly

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 05:52 PM (/WQyy)

I can watch Firefly in a week, so I'll go with that for that reason alone.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 17, 2026 05:55 PM (6ydKt)

255 When flying:
Alway put your shoes back on before using the lavatory.

Posted by: public restroom protocal at July 17, 2026 05:56 PM (UjdFS)

256 I didn't know about the comic but I was quietly excited about the animated series. I hope somebody picks it up.

Posted by: Nelly at July 17, 2026 05:55 PM (6+ehB)

It also says the entire original cast will do voices, but I didn't want to hit the character limit.

Somebody should pick it up.
It's got a built-in audience that will watch at least one season.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 17, 2026 05:57 PM (6ydKt)

257 I heard that the guy who played Simon Tam is gay.

So maybe he's the character that's got to be gay. Or maybe post-Wash, Zoe decides she likes trans-men.

Please don't let it be Mal who decided he likes dick.

But that would probably be Jayne because who does Adam Baldwin think he is?!! Having conservative politics!!

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 05:58 PM (Fi81e)

258 246 Here's a solid Mary Ann /Ginger scenario .

Farscape >>>Firefly

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 05:52 PM (/WQyy)

I have Farscape on now in the background while I'm fighting with AIs.

Never seen it. I'll fully sit down and watch it some time. Very fun show.

I loved Ben and Claudia on Stargate-SG1.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 17, 2026 05:58 PM (Sco7b)

259 THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO KILL WASH!

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It was either that or turn him gay.

Posted by: Modern Writing at July 17, 2026 05:59 PM (Fi81e)

260
Dude looks like a lady is more Meatloaf than a lady.
Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 04:50 PM (E4rtv)



Two google eyes stuck on Your Mom's Meatloaf would look more human and womanly attractive than that insane trans critter.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 17, 2026 05:59 PM (iJfKG)

261 254 246 Here's a solid Mary Ann /Ginger scenario .

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 05:52 PM (/WQyy)

How long were they stranded on that island and Mary Ann and Ginger never got pregnant ????

Posted by: Jackson K. at July 17, 2026 06:00 PM (xl8DV)

262 When flying:
Alway put your shoes back on before using the lavatory.
Posted by: public restroom protocal at July 17, 2026 05:56 PM (UjdFS)

I never remove my shoes when flying. And I wear durable athletic shoes, in the event of a hard landing that requires a long walk back to the terminal. Open toed shoes when travelling is a terrible idea.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at July 17, 2026 06:00 PM (0aYVJ)

263 Taxpaying Angelenos write big checks every year. They dump billions into homelessness services –– and the tents, needles and suffering still turn neighborhoods into obstacle courses.

Then Mayor Karen Bass drops her latest pearl of wisdom: Homeless folks use meth “to stay awake for protection on the city’s dangerous streets.”

Bless her heart.

Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2026 06:00 PM (O7XEN)

264
Adam Baldwin is not of the Body.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 06:01 PM (Fi81e)

265 They keep saying "resist" which is a defensive stance, but they have been on offense for at least a decade.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 17, 2026 05:47 PM (9CZQg)

In 1939 the Germans started 'resisting' into Poland.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 06:01 PM (uhVAy)

266 Dude looks like a lady is more Meatloaf than a lady.
Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 04:50 PM (E4rtv)
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Lionel Ritchie would probably say he's 3 times a lady

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 06:02 PM (Fi81e)

267 How long were they stranded on that island and Mary Ann and Ginger never got pregnant ????

Posted by: Jackson K. at July 17, 2026 06:00 PM (xl8DV)

Could be that Mary Ann and Ginger were lesbians.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 17, 2026 06:02 PM (6ydKt)

268 In 1939 the Germans started 'resisting' into Poland.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 06:01 PM (uhVAy)
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LOL! Noice!

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 06:03 PM (Fi81e)

269 Could be that Mary Ann and Ginger were lesbians.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 17, 2026 06:02 PM (6ydKt)
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What's that got to do with anything?!

Posted by: Gilligan 10 Years On the Island at July 17, 2026 06:03 PM (Fi81e)

270 Posted by: anachronda at July 17, 2026 05:52 PM (qdr3M)

When in doubt, blame the Brits. When the printing press started it's run, the switch from Old English written and Simplified English spoken never met in the middle.

That's how we get stupid ass spellings like the silent "w" in the word "answer." And, in protest, I pronounce the damn "w" as it was in the Old English "andswaru".

Posted by: Orson at July 17, 2026 06:03 PM (dIske)

271 And "cis" as the prefix to any word is always silent.

Crazy.

also, "transistor" is not the same as "trans sister".
Posted by: anachronda at July 17, 2026 05:52 PM (qdr3M)

The Roman Provinces of " Alpine Gaul" and "NOTAlpine Gaul" are weeping.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 06:04 PM (uhVAy)

272 Could be that Mary Ann and Ginger were lesbians.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 17, 2026 06:02 PM (6ydKt)

I remember a meme where a guy says, now that I am older, Lovey Howell is a viable third option.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at July 17, 2026 06:05 PM (0aYVJ)

273 What's that got to do with anything?!

Posted by: Gilligan 10 Years On the Island at July 17, 2026 06:03 PM (Fi81e)

It's got everything to do with the start of a very nice fantasy for millions of men around the world.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 17, 2026 06:05 PM (6ydKt)

274 Lovey was 64 years old when Gilligan's Island premiered.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 06:07 PM (/WQyy)

275 Nood media Hillary

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 17, 2026 06:07 PM (6ydKt)

276 America's not buying it.

CNN Poll Shows 125% Of Americans Don’t Believe Trump’s Claim Of Election Fraud

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From the Bee.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 06:09 PM (ndZc7)

277 223 I heard a couple of days ago that NOTwomen are saying they have a right to menstruate.
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That's right out of the scene in "Life of Brian" where Judith says that Stan/Loretta has the right to have babies.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 17, 2026 05:44 PM (amcLV)


Or the scene in "Death Becomes Her," where the person before Fat Goldie Hawn in the Nutjob Support Group is a big black guy talking about how sometimes, he gets the menstrual cramps real bad...

Posted by: SciVo at July 17, 2026 06:16 PM (Sy6m/)

278 235 Mexico warns citizens that traveling to the U.S. may expose them to contaminated lettuce from Mexico

-
I guess they keep the clean stuff for themselves.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 05:49 PM (ndZc7)

Oh, the irony, it burns!

Posted by: Don Lemon at July 17, 2026 07:05 PM (l3cgK)

279 Off nasty sock...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2026 07:07 PM (l3cgK)

280 Maine, you must have some powerful beer goggles to mate with Mainers.

Posted by: Enola Gay Pride at July 17, 2026 07:42 PM (DIS3S)

Trump: We Recovered Documents From the CIA About Their Scheme to Hide All Intelligence from Me That Could Help Me in My 2020 Re-Election Campaign

Overton
@overton_news

Catherine Herridge says a whistleblower was sounding the alarm about China's influence operations in the summer of 2020 -- but "suddenly it all was suppressed" instead of being elevated.

HERRIDGE: "So in the summer of 2020, as we're heading into the election, in the intelligence community, there were indicators of this Chinese influence operation."

"Influence operations means that you're trying to affect the outcome of how people vote or their sentiment about a presidential candidate."

"It's different than an interference operation, which is penetrating voting rolls and voter systems."

"And this whistleblower was raising the alarm about the influence operation and then suddenly it all was suppressed."

"My understanding is that some of their reports, there were in officials on hand writing that they wanted everything out could help President Trump in his re-election."

"So there clear evidence of political and personal bias, and intelligence is supposed to be neutral."

"So what we heard tonight from the president is an allegation that this intelligence was suppressed in order harm him. And now we're seeing documents already which back those claims."

More from Breitbart:

"Compounding the travesty, the second set of documents we are releasing reveals that members of the deep state ... in our intelligence agency worked to actively suppress and downplay information about the extent of China's sinister election meddling, covering it up from both the president and the American people like nobody thought was possible," he said.

He also said while outlining the second area of documents, "CIA reporting explicitly stated, and I quote: 'In mid 2018, the Chinese Communist Party's policy was to leverage all domestic and foreign elements that were opposed to the U.S. president in an effort to reduce the U.S. president's votes and make him resign or prevent his re-election.'"

Trump went on to add that "Raw intelligence obtained by the FBI in 2020, yet buried by rogue bureaucrats, stated that China's activities even included an attempt to manufacture illegal ballots for Joe Biden."

Trump added that the documents reveal that reports regarding "China's election targeting" were omitted from his daily presidential briefs during his first term.

"Documents show that during this period, dozens of significant CIA and NSA reports about China's election targeting were kept out of the presidential briefing. These were briefings I would get almost every day," he added.

"Everything was kept out that was of importance. One email among intelligence analysts admitted that they had quote: 'deliberately massaged the presidential daily briefing to withhold information regarding Chinese activities related to the election,'" Trump added.

More from Catherine Herridge:


Catherine Herridge
@C__Herridge


EXCLUSIVE: Whistleblower Alleges 2020 CCP Election Influence Ops Targeting Trump Were Suppressed

Multiple sources tell me that a credible whistleblower complaint was filed alleging the CIA, FBI and other IC agencies suppressed intelligence about China's influence operations during the 2020 election targeting President Trump and his campaign.

Based on my reporting, China's goal was to "impede" President Trump's re-election and "denigrate" him as a candidate. I understand the DNI is actively working to declassify the records.

According to these accounts, the CIA, then led by Director Gina Haspel, would not document the Chinese influence operations, in a formal way, out of concern that President Trump would use the intelligence to his advantage.

Based on the complaint, senior intelligence officials are accused of heavy-handed editing of the whistleblower's reports about China's sweeping influence operations during the 2020 election cycle.

In some instances, senior CIA officials are accused of taking "pen to paper" to strike sections because "the intelligence assessments would help Trump." I am told some track changes make "specific reference to domestic politics."

A senior intelligence official emphasized that in 2020 China was not held to the same standard as Russia and other adversaries, including North Korea, Iran and its proxy Hezbollah. The official said Chinese influence operations were consistently "downplayed," while Russia's activities were routinely "amplified."

The official added that the CIA was "driving political bias" in the intelligence assessments as well as the need to "massage" the President's Daily Brief. Known as the "PDB," it is a highly classified summary of intelligence and analysis on national security.

For calling out the apparent suppression of China intelligence targeting President Trump before the 2020 Presidential election, the whistleblower was allegedly retaliated against. The alleged retaliation included:

* Change in the whistleblower's job responsibilities

* Threats to destroy their reputation

* The "dissent" report that challenged the majority view about China's election activities was allegedly altered and the "confidence level" downgraded

Independent, publicly available cyber security reports appear to back up the whistleblower's allegations that intelligence was suppressed about China's activities in 2020.

In April 2020 a classified intelligence assessment found Beijing was ramping up activities in advance of the US election.

...

Based on my reporting, by May 2020, there was a general consensus among the intelligence agencies that China was planning a "potentially huge campaign" targeting the upcoming Presidential election.

The Chinese Community Party's (CCP) effort was considered to be much bigger than similar election campaigns launched by Russia because the CCP campaign would be executed across multiple domains.


As one government contact put it, "If the IC (intelligence community) was suppressing the China intelligence in 2020, what else was it suppressing?"

Read the whole thing.


DISCONNECTING THE DOTS: China's 'multi-domain' influence operation was suppressed by striking references to the 2020 election and "massaging" intelligence reports for the President.

Friday, November 20, 2020: "We have deliberately massaged our one pending PDB (President's Daily Brief) to avoid any direct links to the election."

- Strategic Intelligence Analyst, China & North Korea Strategic Assessments.



Dolly Dagger
@Cookie1inPA

2h

And we have a joint chief Milley declaring he would contact his Chinese counterpart if the President were to consider any move on China. Makes perfect sense in light of this..

Below: an "intelligence" employee complains about the China interference evidence being scrubbed from the record, with clear efforts to influence an election being called "issue" influence -- influencing only on particular issues -- even though in other cases they call this election interference and this so-called "issue interference" is conducted by the exact same unit and personnel who conduct election interference efforts.

whistlebloweremail.jpg

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:30 PM




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1 Unpossible!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2026 03:29 PM (vDZgA)

2 "Who gives a shit about China hacking our elections when Putin hacked Michigan's voting machines in 2016 to give Trump the win!"
-50+% of Democrats, according to one poll

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 03:30 PM (PIaQL)

3 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:30 PM (2YhKe)

4 People need to hang for this.

Posted by: Jmel at July 17, 2026 03:31 PM (3TlS+)

5 Shadow Government!

DeepState is real, who runs it? Globalists? China? Or is it a Hydra of our enemies?

Posted by: illiniwek at July 17, 2026 03:31 PM (vbXSk)

6 4 Spoiler: people won't get hangnails over this.

Posted by: Bete at July 17, 2026 03:31 PM (LX4y3)

7 Disband the CIA and the FBI.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 03:32 PM (4NO2D)

8 It's not paranoia when they are really out to get you.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 03:32 PM (/WQyy)

9 5 Yes

Posted by: Bete at July 17, 2026 03:32 PM (LX4y3)

10 What if all of the Democrat popularity since 2008 has been manufactured and fake?

Ballot drops getting Obama re-elected in 2012.

The 2018 midterms being a dress rehearsal for 2020.

2020 being 2020

2022 being 2020 but even worse because who gives a shit about midterms and Biden's DOJ probably helped.

What happens if you knock out a couple of pillars that propped up the Democrat party for the last 14 years?

Well, you get the Maine Senate Democrat debate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 03:32 PM (PIaQL)

11 >>> 5 Shadow Government!

DeepState is real, who runs it? Globalists? China? Or is it a Hydra of our enemies?
Posted by: illiniwek at July 17, 2026 03:31 PM (vbXSk)

Yes.

The "intelligence" industrial complex is a problem.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2026 03:32 PM (vDZgA)

12 We know intelligence was withheld from Trump in many cases. The military also admitted(bragged) about withholding information from him ie Chinese surveillance baloons.

Posted by: steevy at July 17, 2026 03:33 PM (YwEeS)

13
So, what?

Posted by: I gotta ask at July 17, 2026 03:33 PM (2Ez/1)

14 Why didn't China cheat for MEEEEEEEE!!!!??????

Posted by: Hillary Cunton at July 17, 2026 03:34 PM (2YhKe)

15 12 We know intelligence was withheld from Trump in many cases. The military also admitted(bragged) about withholding information from him ie Chinese surveillance baloons.

Posted by: steevy at July 17, 2026 03:33 PM (YwEeS)

======

Scarf lady bragged about it in her own book.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 03:34 PM (PIaQL)

16 13 well... um... something

Posted by: Bete at July 17, 2026 03:34 PM (LX4y3)

17 I want a hamburger!

Posted by: Ashley Webb at July 17, 2026 03:34 PM (wOO3z)

18 I'm sure someone somewhere justified leaving out the details in the PDB as "irrelevant."

In other words, the PDB is only the distilled essence of information that others have deemed worthy of the President's time/attention.

So it's a relatively simple matter to classify something as "irrelevant" or "low priority" so that the President never sees it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2026 03:34 PM (FZ29D)

19 "If the IC (intelligence community) was suppressing the China intelligence in 2020, what else was it suppressing?"


Give me a concrete floor, a ballpeen hammer, and these administrators feet and I will get you answers lickety-split.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 03:34 PM (4NO2D)

20 "But Trump is committing war crimes!!!" -- leftists who think they are just like the guys who ran up the beaches on D-Day, but object to bombing bridges because that never happened in World War Eleven

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2026 03:35 PM (vDZgA)

21 Catherine Herridge says a whistleblower was sounding the alarm about China's influence operations in the summer of 2020 -- but "suddenly it all was suppressed" instead of being elevated.

That's because if you scratch a dem/socialist, there's a commie underneath...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2026 03:35 PM (l3cgK)

22 People should hang for this; alas,
We are no longer that country.

Posted by: Archer at July 17, 2026 03:35 PM (wvc0i)

23 Is there someone at the head of this shadow government? 1 person in a volcano lair who gives the direction out to the minions?

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 03:35 PM (hftzA)

24 Still waiting for all those honest, red blooded, ham n egger, flag waving, patriotic FBI and CIA agents to resign in protest of all this Deep State democrat skullduggery.

Posted by: Gentleman, My Pension! at July 17, 2026 03:35 PM (45BvE)

25
Scarf lady bragged about it in her own book.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 03:34 PM (PIaQL)/i]


That bitch should be hanged with those scarfs.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:36 PM (2YhKe)

26 20 Can't even get the Republican party to pass anything that will give lip service to making changes in the future.

Posted by: Bete at July 17, 2026 03:36 PM (LX4y3)

27 We've got our pensions to think about.

Posted by: those honest, red blooded, ham n egger, flag waving, patriotic FBI and CIA agents at July 17, 2026 03:37 PM (2Ez/1)

28 Executed bodies would shut up "Nothing will happen" guy.

It'd help my mood too.

Have President Trump pull the switch live on tv.
Just for laughs.
And liberal anger and tears.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 17, 2026 03:37 PM (Sco7b)

29 A conservative says anything about the 2020 election and it's an attack on democracy.

Leftists still claim the 2000, 2004, 2016, and 2024 elections as "stolen elections".

If Trump was a "Putin Puppet", why didn't Putin invade Ukraine between January 2017 and January 2021? Why did he wait until Cottonhead Joe was POTUS?

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at July 17, 2026 03:37 PM (k1E2D)

30 The most serious whistle-blowers write up an essay coordinating what they saw on TV!

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 03:37 PM (Fi81e)

31 Why do you think the networks refused to air the speech and had already pre-written statements..... Some of them are also connected to this...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 03:37 PM (bBCpC)

32 Sharyl Attkisson was on the receiving end of deep state intimidation starting around 2012.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 17, 2026 03:37 PM (afJtY)

33 >People should hang for this; alas,
We are no longer that country.
Posted by: Archer at July 17, 2026 03:35 PM (wvc0i)


We haven't been for several decades. Jane Fonda should have been hanged the moment she came back from North Vietnam.

Posted by: mr tmz at July 17, 2026 03:38 PM (rJ48h)

34 Planter said he would enjoy letting his extra manly slaveboy penetrate him repeatedly and was looking forward to biting the pillow in such a masculine way that the feathers would fly everywhere in an aggressive macho flurry of Y chromosomes.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 03:38 PM (/bHKT)

35 Connections between the CCP and The Clinton Crime Organization... iirc, The first mention of, "Russia!" was when Hillary said Russia hacked her e-mails.

Posted by: davidt at July 17, 2026 03:39 PM (Q+gd/)

36
*blah blah blah*

McCarthyism

*blah blah blah*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2026 03:39 PM (flEsB)

37 A conservative says anything about the 2020 election and it's an attack on democracy.

Leftists still claim the 2000, 2004, 2016, and 2024 elections as "stolen elections".

If Trump was a "Putin Puppet", why didn't Putin invade Ukraine between January 2017 and January 2021? Why did he wait until Cottonhead Joe was POTUS?

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at July 17, 2026 03:37 PM (k1E2D)
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It's absurd, I know. But take a look at the demographic it seems to work for.

And then compare that with their voting base.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 03:39 PM (Fi81e)

38 terlit hobo sighting (penguinz0)
youtu.be/2HQ1XWXPuCw

Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2026 03:39 PM (gKWVE)

39 A telling moment in President Trump's speech last night: He named Barack Obama as a participant in these schemes.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at July 17, 2026 03:40 PM (eGzf1)

40 Community party?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2026 03:40 PM (Cqx++)

41 Sharyl Attkisson was on the receiving end of deep state intimidation starting around 2012.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 17, 2026 03:37 PM (afJtY)




Never FOOL with Barack Owebama......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:40 PM (2YhKe)

42 39 It's absurd, I know. But take a look at the demographic it seems to work for.

And then compare that with their voting base.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 03:39 PM (Fi81e)

========

There are probably somewhere between 1.4 million and 6.7 million illegal aliens on our voter rolls and actively voting.

Not just on the voter rolls, but actively voting.

What if we imported 7 million people who hate this country and asked them to vote in every presidential election?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 03:40 PM (PIaQL)

43
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:30 PM

1 Unpossible!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2026 03:29 PM (vDZgA)

hmm

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 03:40 PM (6wpGE)

44 Never served in the military because of horrible eyesight, but when Milley said he would contact the Chinese if Trump orders an attack I wanted him court martialed then and there. He didn't even consider that telling the Chinese could get hundreds, maybe thousands of US troops killed

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 03:41 PM (OXYE0)

45 What ever happened to Sheryl?

Posted by: Ashley Webb at July 17, 2026 03:41 PM (wOO3z)

46 So China was trying to "influence" the election... That's not the same as actually manufacturing "votes" . I wonder if they have anything to show that happened ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 03:42 PM (bBCpC)

47 How would Chinese influence, as has been supposedly revealed in the declassified documents (and why were they classified in the first place) alter election results?

I can understand cyber warfare against the voting machines and counting, I can understand directly manipulating election officials to mishandle and erroneously count ballots.

But what I'm seeing is that they just collected a bunch of information on voters. Did they use this information to direct targeted vote harvesting action?

What exactly is so horrible? I mean domestic enemies such as Google and Facebook had far more influence in terms of news manipulation and managing narratives.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 17, 2026 03:42 PM (NzX/y)

48 The Third Circus just struck down New Jersey's ban on AR-15s and 30 round magazines.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 17, 2026 03:42 PM (IG3/x)

49 32 Why do you think the networks refused to air the speech and had already pre-written statements..... Some of them are also connected to this...
Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 03:37 PM (bBCpC)

Connected? More like paid. Follow the money.

Some of the "journalists" are true believers, but I think the coordination indicates a payoff scheme.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 17, 2026 03:42 PM (bl07w)

50 Is it a committee? Seriously, how did this happen - was it Hillary who stamped horrible terrible scary man for reasons we cannot articulate on Trump and then stupid people like Milley grabbed that ball and ran? And the rest of the dems in the government labyrinth started doing the same thing To SaVe DeMoCrAcY?

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 03:42 PM (hftzA)

51 Things are getting spicy!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 17, 2026 03:42 PM (hzuYO)

52 Connections between the CCP and The Clinton Crime Organization... iirc, The first mention of, "Russia!" was when Hillary said Russia hacked her e-mails.

Posted by: davidt at July 17, 2026 03:39 PM (Q+gd/)
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Norm's joke on SNL news has Clinton saying "And, of course, you understand, I have to look out for AmericaChina".

Norm did all kinds of jokes that your typical SNL-ers never would have because they weren't soft touches, like when Phil Hartman did that hilarious sketch about Bill Clinton eating people's food at McDonalds. It was a great sketch, but it was still on the soft touch side.

No, Norm's jokes were about Clinton being in China's pocket.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 03:43 PM (Fi81e)

53 So China was trying to "influence" the election... That's not the same as actually manufacturing "votes" . I wonder if they have anything to show that happened ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 03:42 PM (bBCpC)
--------------------

It costs money to commit fraud on the scale it was committed in 2020. Makes any bets where the money came from?

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at July 17, 2026 03:43 PM (eGzf1)

54 I'm watching "Nicky, Ricky, Dicky and Dawn" in the background. A cute kids show from 10 years back.

Mae: "A real reporter? So a real reporter dresses up her brother in a pig costume and makes up a bunch of lies?"

.................

Pretty much....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 17, 2026 03:43 PM (Sco7b)

55 Again with the Boomer bs, Scogg?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 03:43 PM (Bw1/o)

56 10 What if all of the Democrat popularity since 2008 has been manufactured and fake?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 03:32 PM (PIaQL)

IF? No sane person could ever believe democrats have that kind of power because rational people voted them into office.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 17, 2026 03:44 PM (bl07w)

57 56 IF? No sane person could ever believe democrats have that kind of power because rational people voted them into office.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 17, 2026 03:44 PM (bl07w)

======

50% of people in America are below median intelligence.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 03:45 PM (PIaQL)

58 I miss Russian Collusion.

Posted by: wth at July 17, 2026 03:45 PM (UjdFS)

59 It costs money to commit fraud on the scale it was committed in 2020. Makes any bets where the money came from?
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at July 17, 2026 03:43 PM (eGzf1)

Well, in WI it was Zuckerberg.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 17, 2026 03:45 PM (bl07w)

60 > 39 A telling moment in President Trump's speech last night: He named Barack Obama as a participant in these schemes.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at July 17, 2026 03:40 PM (eGzf1)

I guess I sorta disagree? I don't think Barky is actually smart enough to run an op like this, or even participate in any meaningful way.

He's basically a sock puppet who parrots whichever communist has his hand up his ass at any particular moment. And he does like having hands up his ass...

See also: AOC.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 17, 2026 03:45 PM (IG3/x)

61 The Third Circus just struck down New Jersey's ban on AR-15s and 30 round magazines.

Can't wait to bring back all the magazines and guns I got rid of because I'm a stern patriot from NJ. Who just can't stand to move to somewhere with less dining options.

Posted by: Not A Mod - but a Stern Patriot at July 17, 2026 03:46 PM (mn6AA)

62 Meh. Old news. Unless they're going to come up with ways to audit this level of fraud and corruption, I can't get my dander up. It's standard procedure. Do something about it.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 17, 2026 03:46 PM (sYM3s)

63 If Elon hadn't bought X Trump would not have been elected in 24'... I firmly believe that

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 03:46 PM (bBCpC)

64 General Tso, when the walls fell.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 17, 2026 03:46 PM (nDXEV)

65 We haven't been for several decades. Jane Fonda should have been hanged the moment she came back from North Vietnam.
Posted by: mr tmz at July 17, 2026 03:38 PM (rJ48h)

She has at least suffered from being Jane Fonda for decades. Can you imagine?

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 17, 2026 03:47 PM (bl07w)

66 61 But a shame about all the items lost when the boat tipped over

Posted by: Bete at July 17, 2026 03:47 PM (LX4y3)

67 Jane Fonda should have been hanged the moment she came back from North Vietnam.
——

Now you know one reason why Congress hasn’t declared war in over 80 years.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 03:47 PM (i1NbZ)

68 >>So China was trying to "influence" the election... That's not the same as actually manufacturing "votes" . I wonder if they have anything to show that happened ?

One of the core arguments of the Russia collusion BS was that Putin sent a swarm of bots to various social media sites to influence the election. No votes manufactured, just bots. And that was enough for the left to claim the election was stolen by Trump working with Russia and get a special prosecutor.

Besides, it's day 2. Let's see what else comes out in time.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 03:47 PM (viF8m)

69 I'm starting to think that the reason networks did not want to carry the speech is that they are hoping they can provide some sort of screen against Trump revealing that reporters were on the grift with China.

Heck, it's almost certain that the "War Games" where Toobin' was beating it at half-time, was about the press and DC collaborating on how to "Stop Trump's re-election".

That may have been only domestic money, but it wouldn't surprise me too much if they were using Chinese money as well.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 03:47 PM (Fi81e)

70
China spying and trying to change the outcome of the US pres election is expected and normal.

The IC trying to hide it from Trump is another matter. The object, I take it, was to let it just happen without Trump ordering a counter-effort?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 17, 2026 03:48 PM (mmrXZ)

71 I guess I sorta disagree? I don't think Barky is actually smart enough to run an op like this, or even participate in any meaningful way.

He's basically a sock puppet who parrots whichever communist has his hand up his ass at any particular moment. And he does like having hands up his ass...

See also: AOC.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 17

But Hillary is - and Obama thinks he is.

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 03:48 PM (hftzA)

72 50% of people in America are below median intelligence.

Slick ... to understand America is to understand the mentality that WW II made us rich.

Posted by: Not A Mod - but a Stern Patriot at July 17, 2026 03:48 PM (mn6AA)

73 TJM, look no further than the state of the DNC's finances. A report the other day said chairman Martin required an NDA before briefing the party officials about the state of finances. Killing USAID was a gut punch to the Dems

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 03:48 PM (OXYE0)

74 I don't think Barky is actually smart enough to run an op like this, or even participate in any meaningful way.

You will still get prosecuted for armed robbery if you use a plastic toy gun and the victim believes its real.

Same idea.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 17, 2026 03:49 PM (PVBkQ)

75 I guess I sorta disagree? I don't think Barky is actually smart enough to run an op like this, or even participate in any meaningful way.

He's basically a sock puppet who parrots whichever communist has his hand up his ass at any particular moment. And he does like having hands up his ass...

See also: AOC.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 17, 2026 03:45 PM (IG3/x)
---------------

It's why I described Obama as a "participant." We know he's not smart enough to run something like that but he's certainly willing to sign off.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at July 17, 2026 03:49 PM (eGzf1)

76 All I know is that in 2020 Biden did not get 81 million votes....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 03:49 PM (bBCpC)

77 > Who just can't stand to move to somewhere with less dining options.

I see your point, but you have to consider that sometimes non-communists need to change planes in New Jersey, or drive through on the way to from somewhere else sane to somewhere else sane.

I believe non-residents have been charged under this law, even if they were just passing through.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 17, 2026 03:49 PM (IG3/x)

78 One of the core arguments of the Russia collusion BS was that Putin sent a swarm of bots to various social media sites to influence the election. No votes manufactured, just bots. And that was enough for the left to claim the election was stolen by Trump working with Russia and get a special prosecutor.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 03:47 PM (viF8m)
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Fuck that. That was enough for these words: "Russia ATTACKED us!!" or "America WAS ATTACKED!!"

The yapping heads didn't care how big a distortion this was about Facebook ads. They don't measure the Democrat distance to Truth the way they do Trump.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 03:50 PM (Fi81e)

79 63 If Elon hadn't bought X Trump would not have been elected in 24'... I firmly believe that
Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 03:46 PM (bBCpC)

Bouncing around like I do. It's insane how leftists are given a completely different set of 'reality.' They get a constant diet of the evils of Trump, his revenge on his enemies, etc.

We see their side because we can't avoid it. But I don't think they EVER find out our side.

They're left blindsided wondering how President Trump won in 2016.

Or how was Biden suddenly so brain dead.

Most have no idea of ANY of this....
Sad.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 17, 2026 03:51 PM (Sco7b)

80 Today is the day news about Fulton County, GA is supposed to break, isn't it?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 17, 2026 03:51 PM (N39Ws)

81 I expect the counter-attack to be, "Trump is blaming China for Putin!"

Posted by: davidt at July 17, 2026 03:51 PM (Q+gd/)

82 "Who gives a shit about China hacking our elections when Putin hacked Michigan's voting machines in 2016 to give Trump the win!"
-50+% of Democrats, according to one poll


It is amazing to watch a Democrat say Russia hacked the 2016 elections and changed vote total to Trump, 5m later that it is impossible to hack elections so obviously the 2020 election had not even a hint of fraud and then to close with noting Trump stole the 2024 election.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 03:51 PM (sKqQm)

83 It's absurd, I know. But take a look at the demographic it seems to work for.

And then compare that with their voting base.
Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 03:39 PM (Fi81e)

Oh, I know. In 2016 I had childhood friends on Zucker's site talking about how we needed to come together after the election and all that bullshit. That was on Monday night when the NYT had Hillary! at 85% chance of winning. Wednesday morning? Those same people were "fuck you assholes who elected him!!!!!". I even asked them what changed, they wouldn't answer that just that Trump was a meany.

I was a Democrat about 35 years ago, and actually worked for some Democrat office holders, so I know exactly what they believe and what they are like behind closed doors. That's one of the many reasons why I left 35 years ago.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at July 17, 2026 03:51 PM (k1E2D)

84 > She has at least suffered from being Jane Fonda for decades. Can you imagine?
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 17, 2026 03:47 PM (bl07w)

At one time she was an outstanding example of the "hot/crazy matrix" model.

Not for a long time, though.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 17, 2026 03:52 PM (IG3/x)

85 If Elon hadn't bought X Trump would not have been elected in 24'... I firmly believe that

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 03:46 PM (bBCpC)

I think it helped overall but nah, Trump destroyed the bitch. Twitter probably isn't enough of an influence either way, it's good for morale and general information and Elon's support was in the mi like RFK but it wasn't the election. He won in 2020 without Twitter during a pandemic that was blamed on him.

Honestly his bloody Fight Fight Fight sealed the deal. The thing that was intended to destroy him is what raised him up.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 03:52 PM (/bHKT)

86 Barky is an empty suit. A composite “president”.

The president is far too important to be left to the voters, they have made that very clear for a long time now.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 03:52 PM (i1NbZ)

87 >>I guess I sorta disagree? I don't think Barky is actually smart enough to run an op like this, or even participate in any meaningful way.

I don't think Trump dropped Obama's name as a throwaway line. We already know Obama was running the Russia hoax even if he didn't pull every lever.

Obama is a creation of the deep state. He might not be the ultimate mastermind but he's up to his skinny ass in all of this shit.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 03:52 PM (viF8m)

88
A telling moment in President Trump's speech last night: He named Barack Obama as a participant in these schemes.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at July 17, 2026 03:40 PM (eGzf1)

I guess I sorta disagree?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

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

Barack apparently ordered the destruction of evidence:

Other officials who witnessed such efforts perceived the motivations to be blatantly political. Recently, we found significant numbers of burn bags information, and this is a group of bags that were used to destroy information, given by President Barack Hussein Obama to be burned, it was supposed to be burned.

These bags were supposed to be at a different level by different people, incinerated and checked, but it never happened. Maybe we got lucky. We believe this was not done on purpose, but rather through gross incompetence of the people that were supposed to burn the bags. But the findings are stunning.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 17, 2026 03:53 PM (mmrXZ)

89
Things are getting spicy!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat


Explosive!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2026 03:53 PM (Cqx++)

90 @79 Stateless, correct and it's worse than that. Try to tell Dems that Trump might drive them crazy but the DSA will get them killed drives them nuts.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 03:53 PM (OXYE0)

91 We see their side because we can't avoid it. But I don't think they EVER find out our side.

I remember talking with a smart lefty guy I knew.

Slick Willy came up and I made a crack about him forcing himself on women and this guy who theoretically keeps up with politics said he was aware Clinton had an affair but he had never heard that Clinton did anything non-consensual. And I could see in his face he wasn't lying. He had no idea about Paula Jones let alone Juanita Broaddrick

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 03:54 PM (sKqQm)

92 I been up, I been down, take my word, my way around
I ain't asking for much
I said, Lord, take me downtown Bangkok
I'm just looking for some Wang, Bang Sweet Poon Tang, Tush and Filiopino Billy-Boy Cock..

I been bad, I been good, Hanoi, Tehran, Bollywood
I ain't asking for much I said, Lord,
Take me downtown Olongapo for $10 GI good time
I'm just looking for some Filipino LBFM tush

Take me back, way back home to my Delaware home
Not by myself, not alone, but not with Jill
I ain't asking for much, I said, Lord, take me, Graham and Hunter downtown Olongapo

I'm just looking for some LBFM tush.....

Posted by: Joe "Moose Cock" Biden and Billy Boy Platner at July 17, 2026 03:54 PM (38587)

93 I guess I sorta disagree? I don't think Barky is actually smart enough to run an op like this, or even participate in any meaningful way.
---
People are always forgetting who they could have had in their corner, I think.

I think Obama is intelligent. But I also don't think it takes a seance or sacrifice or any kind of alternative faith to accept that the genius of Satan (or one of his minions) could have orchestrated DC's efforts to defraud the people they are supposed to be working for.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 03:54 PM (Fi81e)

94 The best take on Nolan's Odyssey I've seen: https://tinyurl.com/mru2ezrz

Link goes to a facebook reel.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 03:54 PM (sKqQm)

95 Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 17, 2026 03:51 PM (N39Ws)


In response to a convo we started the other day.......

Glad to hear you're doing well. First Lady just had her 2 year checkup after original diagnosis and everything looked GREAT. She's very happy. Red cell count is still low, but improving with each test. She's graduated to the 6 month checkup instead of every 3 months, so another bonus.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:54 PM (2YhKe)

96 Posted without any sense of irony:

Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
Trump's embarrassing rant last night about an election he lost six years ago made two things very clear:

1. He's not focused on making life better for Americans. Not even close.

2. We should act now to counteract any efforts to undermine our elections.

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 03:54 PM (hftzA)

97 terlit hobo sighting (penguinz0)
youtu.be/2HQ1XWXPuCw
Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2026 03:39 PM (gKWVE)

Was he wearing a mask? Unclean! Unclean! Run away!

Posted by: Why Won't You Wear The Ribbon? at July 17, 2026 03:55 PM (45BvE)

98 >>"As one government contact put it, "If the IC (intelligence community) was suppressing the China intelligence in 2020, what else was it suppressing?""

Is anyone asking the logical follow-up: what is the IC suppressing NOW?

The whole concept of "Trump's IC", or "Trump's CIA" is naive and laughable, even with the firings and replacements, I believe. They're never not an adversarial parallel government.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 17, 2026 03:55 PM (IhL8c)

99 I see your point, but you have to consider that sometimes non-communists need to change planes in New Jersey, or drive through on the way to from somewhere else sane to somewhere else sane.

Nope. Back in the day, "Watch a Man Golf" was a bullshit way of judging character. Stupid at the time. The kind of mentality that really did require someone trying to ascend go to the club and play a "road game". Total bullshit.

Want to know somebody ? Look where they live. And watch them drive. Not all to know about them. But all you need.

End of story, really.

Posted by: Not A Mod - but a Stern Patriot at July 17, 2026 03:55 PM (mn6AA)

100 Trump communicates in Big Ideas, much like the Left. He uses loaded things that mean things to people. Unlike the Left he has truth on his side. Obama is a way to "personalize" the treachery. Simplifies how people think about these things and makes them mean more.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 03:56 PM (/bHKT)

101 The deep state used Barky's God like popularity to do what they did. Barky is a lazy arrogant halfwit who was built up by bullshit and believed by sheep

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 03:56 PM (OXYE0)

102 Obama is a creation of the deep state. He might not be the ultimate mastermind but he's up to his skinny ass in all of this shit.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 03:52 PM (viF8m)

He'd be a great guy to put to the screws and find out what bigger fish he flips on.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at July 17, 2026 03:56 PM (vSvIl)

103 "As one government contact put it, "If the IC (intelligence community) was suppressing the China intelligence in 2020, what else was it suppressing?""

I remember when the DoD was hacked in 2021 and it revealed the DoD:

1) Knew COVID came from the Wuhan lab
2) Knew the clot shots did nothing positive
3) Knew COVID wasn't dangerous to young/in shape people

This is while they were mandating the clot shot of course.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 03:56 PM (sKqQm)

104 88
A telling moment in President Trump's speech last night: He named Barack Hussien Obama as a participant in these schemes.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at July 17, 2026 03:40 PM (eGzf1)


THIS PROVE$S TRUMP IS A RACIST AND IS PRTEJUDICE AGAINST OUR 50% BLACK PRESIDENT !!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at July 17, 2026 03:57 PM (rWPJ3)

105 No wonder ABC, NBC, and CNN didn't carry Trump's address.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at July 17, 2026 03:58 PM (xvV+O)

106
Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
Trump's embarrassing rant last night about an election he lost six years ago made two things very clear:

1. He's not focused on making life better for Americans. Not even close.

2. We should act now to counteract any efforts to undermine our elections.
Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 03:54 PM (hftzA

Ca. Gov greaseball was worse... He said Trump ranted like a mad King and needed to get the 25th Amendment

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 03:58 PM (bBCpC)

107 Basically Trump uses visual imagery.

The "Obama burn bags" are imagery and they are plausible imagery that is hard for the Left to shake off because they know the public knows that Obama "hates" Trump.

Plus burning gives bad juju vibes. Imagery like covering things up, Hell, etc.

People feel these things before intellectualizing them.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 03:58 PM (/bHKT)

108 Do you know what happened after January 6th, 2021? Everyone stopped talking about a rigged election.

That was very handy for the election riggers.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 03:59 PM (viF8m)

109 Nobody has time to keep up with everything, they have armies of “policy analists” to get shit done under Presidential authority, I expect.

Biden of course, made that abundantly obvious. He didn’t even know what planet he was on at times, but the machine rolls on unabated. I sort of question whether he even wanted to run.

They just need somebody. Some body.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 03:59 PM (i1NbZ)

110 THIS PROVE$S TRUMP IS A RACIST AND IS PRTEJUDICE AGAINST OUR 50% BLACK PRESIDENT !!!

This thing amazes me, BTW...

If you are genetically 50% black Africa and 50% north European like Obama you are...black.

If you are 50% Indian, 25% black African, and 25% north European like Kamala you are either Indian or Black whichever is more useful at the moment.

Or to take an AoS favorite...Sparkle Farkle. When I first saw her I assumed southern Italian...until she demanded everyone recognize she was being discriminated against because she was black.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 03:59 PM (sKqQm)

111 Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
Trump's embarrassing rant last night about an election he lost six years ago made two things very clear:

1. He's not focused on making life better for Americans. Not even close.

2. We should act now to counteract any efforts to undermine our elections.
Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 03:54 PM (hftzA

Ca. Gov greaseball was worse... He said Trump ranted like a mad King and needed to get the 25th Amendment
Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 03:58 PM (bBCpC)
______

That only means that Trump hit the bullseye and they are very worried

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 03:59 PM (iFTx/)

112 Fortifying!

Posted by: Newsweek at July 17, 2026 03:59 PM (Jzq+E)

113 Waves from the back row.

Posted by: Nothing Will Happen Guy at July 17, 2026 03:59 PM (gSIIK)

114 One of Trump's fake accusers in 2016 said he got her on an airplane (it was a lie) and "he was like an octopus".

It was scripted imagery intended to creep out and turn off women.

That's how the Left communicates because it works. Trump is the same.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 03:59 PM (/bHKT)

115 102 Obama is a creation of the deep state. He might not be the ultimate mastermind but he's up to his skinny ass in all of this shit.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 03:52 PM (viF8m)

Obama was the MAX HEADROOM of Politics..........

PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPoetry to Democrat Sheeple population !!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at July 17, 2026 04:00 PM (rWPJ3)

116 Ca. Gov greaseball was worse... He said Trump ranted like a mad King and needed to get the 25th Amendment
Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 03:58 PM (bBCpC)



Of course he did.

It's just so rich they're complaining about Trump's mental capacity and the 25th Amendment all while they had NO CLUE Joe Biden was firing on every 4th synapse.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 04:00 PM (2YhKe)

117 Things are getting spicy!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Explosive!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2026 03:53 PM (Cqx++)
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*slantendicular look at the line for the restroom*

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 17, 2026 04:00 PM (amcLV)

118 Hillary should shut her piehole. She got 4 brave people killed in Benghazi.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at July 17, 2026 04:00 PM (eGzf1)

119 I liked when Trump said "Barack HUSSEIN Obama". He was definitely saying something

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 04:00 PM (OXYE0)

120 This is all just a distraction from the Epstein files.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 17, 2026 04:00 PM (82ELq)

121 45 What ever happened to Sheryl?
Posted by: Ashley Webb at July 17, 2026 03:41 PM (wOO3z)

She has a show called "Full Measure" that airs on Sinclair Television stations. It's like 60 minutes but she goes after government corruption instead of cozying up to politicians.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at July 17, 2026 04:00 PM (k1E2D)

122 We should act now to counteract any efforts to undermine our elections.

The left: Any claims about election theft at obviously lies from a bitter loser

Also the left: Trump stole the 2016 election

Bonus the left: And the 2024 election

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 04:00 PM (sKqQm)

123 Oh, I know. In 2016 I had childhood friends on Zucker's site talking about how we needed to come together after the election and all that bullshit. That was on Monday night when the NYT had Hillary! at 85% chance of winning. Wednesday morning? Those same people were "fuck you assholes who elected him!!!!!". I even asked them what changed, they wouldn't answer that just that Trump was a meany.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at July 17, 2026 03:51 PM (k1E2D)
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They don't really have a mentality to mean anything they say. They have emotions.

They don't conceive anything (but schemes) carefully, so when they later have to directly flout what they recently said, they just do it. The past does not matter.

The "Let's all ..." was to control what YOU would do. It's not like they ever intended to void it, they just didn't think it through enough when they said it.

They just want YOU to move. They wanted to prime the pump with your acceptance of a loss. Their overture only existed in the context of their winning.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 04:00 PM (Fi81e)

124 Biden of course, made that abundantly obvious. He didn’t even know what planet he was on at times, but the machine rolls on unabated. I sort of question whether he even wanted to run.

He declined to run in 2016. Go back and look at the articles. The DNC, the media, knew that Hillary was a bad horse.

There was an entire summer where the narrative was "Draft Joe".

Posted by: Not A Mod - but a Stern Patriot at July 17, 2026 04:00 PM (mn6AA)

125 Ca. Gov greaseball was worse... He said Trump ranted like a mad King and needed to get the 25th Amendment
Posted by: It's me donna

*shoulder shimmy*
*milking a cow hand motions*

Posted by: Nav Gewsom at July 17, 2026 04:01 PM (UjdFS)

126 I can't believe there's not an AI Max Headroom out there you can use......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 04:01 PM (2YhKe)

127 95
In response to a convo we started the other day.......

Glad to hear you're doing well. First Lady just had her 2 year checkup after original diagnosis and everything looked GREAT. She's very happy. Red cell count is still low, but improving with each test. She's graduated to the 6 month checkup instead of every 3 months, so another bonus.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:54 PM (2YhKe)

That's great news! I just got back from my Onco appt. Pretty much the same as the First Lady. Red cell and white cell counts are a little low, but ok. Still on a 3 month checkup schedule which is fine. But scans and bloodwork all clean. So happy for you guys, and as glad that I'm cancer free so far too.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 17, 2026 04:01 PM (N39Ws)

128 The left: Any claims about election theft at obviously lies from a bitter loser

Also the left: Trump stole the 2016 election

Bonus the left: And the 2024 election
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 04:00 PM (sKqQm)

Ahem.

Posted by: 2000 Election at July 17, 2026 04:01 PM (gSIIK)

129 This is all just a distraction from the Epstein files.

I did enjoy the people ranting about "The Epstein Class" taking a day or two to tell us someone that rapes a 10 year old doesn't deserve to be deported because you can't judge someone based on their worst day

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 04:01 PM (sKqQm)

130 She has a show called "Full Measure" that airs on Sinclair Television stations. It's like 60 minutes but she goes after government corruption instead of cozying up to politicians.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at July 17, 2026 04:00 PM (k1E2D)

That'll keep her busy.
And her future generations...

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 17, 2026 04:02 PM (Sco7b)

131
Ca. Gov greaseball was worse... He said Trump ranted like a mad King and needed to get the 25th Amendment



The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter

Posted by: Sam Spade at July 17, 2026 04:02 PM (Riz8t)

132 If you are 50% Indian, 25% black African, and 25% north European like Kamala you are either Indian or Black whichever is more useful at the moment.

Until she demanded everyone recognize she was being discriminated against because she was black.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 03:59 PM (sKqQm)

I thought she looked like "Joe Camel" from the old cigarette commercials ????

Posted by: Jackson K. at July 17, 2026 04:02 PM (rWPJ3)

133 But scans and bloodwork all clean. So happy for you guys, and as glad that I'm cancer free so far too.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 17, 2026 04:01 PM (N39Ws)



That's awesome. Good for you.

*brohug*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 04:02 PM (2YhKe)

134 This confirms my opinion that the IC is a greater threat to us than the various foreign bad actors.

Posted by: Butch at July 17, 2026 04:03 PM (98xTj)

135 49 32 Why do you think the networks refused to air the speech and had already pre-written statements..... Some of them are also connected to this...
Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 03:37 PM (bBCpC)

Connected? More like paid. Follow the money.

Some of the "journalists" are true believers, but I think the coordination indicates a payoff scheme.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Trump said paid in his part of the speech dealing with reporters. That means specific names took payola from China to run negative stories on Trump.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 04:03 PM (E4rtv)

136 DISCONNECTING THE DOTS:

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AKA Consciousness of Guilt

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 04:03 PM (9VHuR)

137 Until people start getting arrested nothing will change. Also, this is probably still going on to some extent.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at July 17, 2026 04:03 PM (V362x)

138 If Trump was a "Putin Puppet", why didn't Putin invade Ukraine between January 2017 and January 2021? Why did he wait until Cottonhead Joe was POTUS?
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at July 17, 2026 03:37 PM (k1E2D)


Whoever the nominees for 2028, it's worth making the argument that if the Democrat wins, Putin will invade the Baltics.

Not because he would; I think he has neither the desire nor the ability. Rather, I will say it because lefty beliefs are a mass of insane dogmas, and it strikes directly at a cluster of contradictions.

Because of Hillary's loss and the IC's lies about Russian collusion, American leftists are unable to fully align with their global fellow travelers. All of the other international socialists are aligned with Russia, but Hillary's revenge quest against Trump mind-screwed American socialists -- and as NPCs, they're incapable of individual reassessment of beliefs in the face of evidence.

Posted by: SciVo at July 17, 2026 04:04 PM (Sy6m/)

139 Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
Trump's embarrassing rant last night about an election he lost six years ago made two things very clear:

1. He's not focused on making life better for Americans. Not even close.


By the way Hill Trump started the speech you didn't watch with the economy...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 04:04 PM (bBCpC)

140 Dims will never believe this. My late MIL for example. If CNN does not report it is not news, but "trumped" up. She did not believe me after Obungo was elected. However, I did get her to vote green party after I mentioned his abortion ideas of keeping babies in utility closets til they die if they survive abortion.

Changing Independent's minds? Possibly.

The lies began with Barky and hopefully will end with his arrest. I'm not holding my breath but I am laughing a lot, which sort of counts.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 17, 2026 04:04 PM (hzuYO)

141
Sorry, Hillary. Democrats are in no way interested in making life better for Americans.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2026 04:04 PM (flEsB)

142 Connected? More like paid. Follow the money.

Bullshit. 100% bullshit.

NYC and LA know they are subsidized by the rest of us. Spread that geography out a little bit.

That's all it is.

Posted by: Not A Mod - but a Stern Patriot at July 17, 2026 04:04 PM (mn6AA)

143 Oh another funny thing I've noticed with leftists...

"I can't believe Trump won because no one I know voted for him"

Also, "I stopped talking with the rest of my family because they are all disgusting MAGAts"

and "I went to this cute new store downtown and the owner had a MAGA hat on. You know I downvoted him on Yelp!"

further, "Why did I keep running into MAGAts everywhere on July 4th. I mean I didn't even go to the fireworks and all these losers had American flags and Trump hats on!"

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 04:04 PM (sKqQm)

144 After the hubbub of the Gabby Giffords shooting, Barack Obama gave an eloquent speech about how we all have to rein in our rhetoric.

And almost everybody on both sides of the political divide credited Obama with delivering a great speech.

But God had other plans. It was less than a week that Tea Party advocates could point to the head of the Teamsters saying "We really got to take these guys out" , and it forced Mr. Eloquent "Can't We All Get Along" Barack Obama into saying that he's not a Speech Cop.

The speech was to control YOU, conservative America, he wasn't going to declaim a comrade.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 04:04 PM (Fi81e)

145 My dog's, aunt, uncle's, brother's, sister's, father in law on the African side gives me 0.0000004% African Blood in me

SO, I CONSIDER MY SELF AFRICAN AMERICAN !!!!!!!!!!!

If Fauxatantus from BOOOOOston can do it, so can I !!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at July 17, 2026 04:05 PM (rWPJ3)

146 And we have a joint chief Milley declaring he would contact his Chinese counterpart if the President were to consider any move on China. Makes perfect sense in light of this..

--------------

None Dare Call It Treason.

We're gonna need a stronger rope for Milley Vanilley ...

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 04:05 PM (9VHuR)

147 " The Third Circus just struck down New Jersey's ban on AR-15s and 30 round magazines." Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Good. In Illinois (ISRA) we are waiting to go to the Supremes, as we lost at a lower level, on the same question.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 17, 2026 04:05 PM (vbXSk)

148 111 Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
Trump's embarrassing rant last night about an election he lost six years ago made two things very clear:

1. He's not focused on making life better for Americans. Not even close.

2. We should act now to counteract any efforts to undermine our elections.
Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 03:54 PM (hftzA

Ca. Gov greaseball was worse... He said Trump ranted like a mad King and needed to get the 25th Amendment
Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 03:58 PM (bBCpC)
______

That only means that Trump hit the bullseye and they are very worried
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 03:59 PM (iFTx/)

Holy shit, hasn't that crusty old bint been bitching about 2016 since 2016?

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at July 17, 2026 04:06 PM (k1E2D)

149 139 Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
Trump's embarrassing rant last night about an election he lost six years ago made two things very clear:

When is AUNT HAGATHA going to just go away ?????

Posted by: Jackson K. at July 17, 2026 04:06 PM (rWPJ3)

150 further, "Why did I keep running into MAGAts everywhere on July 4th. I mean I didn't even go to the fireworks and all these losers had American flags and Trump hats on!"
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 04:04 PM (sKqQm)

Fingers dug into eyes, yelling "La la la la I can't see you".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 17, 2026 04:07 PM (Ot/FD)

151 There isn't a single person that doesn't happen to be a dummy, a plain dummy or a leftist dummy, that doesn't already assume any of this. Dummies of any type, are by their very nature immune from being affected by this.

So why do this? Because Trump at his base is a cross your "t"s and dot your "i"s sort of guy? Maybe. Building up a legal case? The left built up a legal case out of anally extracted evidence presented in media side shows. So sure. A bit of both.

Based on what I know, which isn't much, I think it's both but rooted more in him following rules. Trump identifies what the rules are in a system, no matter how corrupt, he gets an understanding of the rules, and acts within to his advantage. I think he thinks he understands things now enough to proceed. For what ends? who knows.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 17, 2026 04:07 PM (3uBP9)

152 "What else were they suppressing?"


Well, covid origins and Hunter's laptop to name a couple other things.

Posted by: the dandy at July 17, 2026 04:07 PM (8l8nW)

153 80 Today is the day news about Fulton County, GA is supposed to break, isn't it?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed
====
Report was supposed to done by today, not necessarily released. My guess is that the administration does not want to waste the release on a summer weekend.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 04:08 PM (E4rtv)

154 >>> 149 139 Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
Trump's embarrassing rant last night about an election he lost six years ago made two things very clear:

When is AUNT HAGATHA going to just go away ?????
Posted by: Jackson K. at July 17, 2026 04:06 PM (rWPJ3)

You think I want to listen to her up close?

Posted by: Stan at July 17, 2026 04:08 PM (vDZgA)

155 “Compromise” to the leftists means getting everything they want, plus more.

“BiPartisan” is when the Democrats act partisan, and the Republicans act Bi.

The normal course of events is for Republicans to lose gracefully, and accept false premises, play Piñata on the news, and manage expectations for the sorry rubes that expected to have representation in government.

Mr. Trump committed an unpardonable sin in Washington - getting shit done that he said he would do. “His kind must never be allowed to rise again” LOL.

It’s all so fucking pathetic and obvious I can’t believe anyone still falls for the good cop bad cop Uniparty production.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 04:08 PM (i1NbZ)

156 When your response to "We caught you red handed rigging elections with an Aggressor Nation" is "yeah, but, like, what does that have to do with the price of bread".....

You're toast.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 17, 2026 04:08 PM (Ot/FD)

157 The first thing you should understand is this type of division is being pushed by China, Russia and the rest of our enemies. 90% of what you read online, especially on social media is demonstrably driven by nefarious forces. It’s being consumed by people who are taking it as the “truth” because they read it online. Ultimately it is all designed to do one thing- subvert and bring down the US government. Any sunlight that is factually and truthfully shined on their operations is a threat to their entire operation. It simply needs mendacity and kneeling to the father of lies to succeed.

Do not let it. Bow to the truth and your Father in Heaven will protect us and set us on the righteous path. Love your neighbor by exposing him to the truth and the light.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 17, 2026 04:08 PM (04KGT)

158 It's like the trivial zero of the Whaddabout equation.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 17, 2026 04:09 PM (Ot/FD)

159 So not only did the chinks release the wong fong shimmy chong bing bong ho lee fuk virus, they also fucked with our elections so Biden would "win"

Nuke China from orbit, its the only way to be sure

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now With Extra Fapness at July 17, 2026 04:09 PM (fapp/)

160 further, "Why did I keep running into MAGAts everywhere on July 4th. I mean I didn't even go to the fireworks and all these losers had American flags and Trump hats on!"
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 04:04 PM (sKqQm)
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You forgot: MAGAts have weaponized patriotism!!

And also: MAGAts appropriated patriotism, because we're loathe to show it because we mentally associate it with MAGAts!!

Because they are the victims of their previous mental associations.

And how could that be if they were being more rational than emotional? Or even partly as rational as emotional?

No, their politics is an emotional spiral , where no matter what you're at fault for making the choices you made and "making" them react the way they reacted.

They can't land at Palm Springs airport BECAUSE OF TRUMP!!

TDS is a debilitating disease.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 04:09 PM (Fi81e)

161 10

"What if all the DEM popularity since 2006... was fake?"

The economy is perceived as being very bad right now. Trump is getting the blame.

As soon as the DEM primaries are over, "the economy & affordability" are going to be the ONLY things DEMs mention in their ads. No "abolish ICE"; no trans stuff , just the economy 24/7.

And the DNC's finances may be in bad shape, but independent expenditures will correct that, as always.







Posted by: mnw at July 17, 2026 04:09 PM (RCjYY)

162 Saw Gav on TV a couple days ago, he seems to have lost control of his hands again.

Posted by: wth at July 17, 2026 04:09 PM (UjdFS)

163
Holy shit, hasn't that crusty old bint been bitching about 2016 since 2016?
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at July 17, 2026 04:06 PM (k1E2D)
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You want to know what really chaps her, though? President Trump in office twice. Hillary couldn't even manage once. That hag will never be able to live down the fact she couldn't beat a NY property developer.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at July 17, 2026 04:09 PM (eGzf1)

164 Sorry, Hillary. Democrats are in no way interested in making life better for Americans.

Well, Democrats are invested in making life better for Central and South Americans.

But Hitlary's statement was that PDJT "is not focused" on making life better for Americans. Which isn't a lie because PDJT moves his focus around to deal with the numerous fires the Left keeps setting. Its the framing of "making life better for Americans". which is very different from "Make America Great Again". Hillary comes from the perspective that people can only have improved lives if government focuses on them—like being on the receiving side of entitlements, handouts and grants. PDJT isn't here to make your life better, that is up to you to do. His focus is taking down the impediments so that you can thrive without government.

Further evidence that the Left doesn't even share our vocabulary.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 17, 2026 04:10 PM (nCgQz)

165 Do not let it. Bow to the truth and your Father in Heaven will protect us and set us on the righteous path. Love your neighbor by exposing him to the truth and the light.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 17, 2026 04:08 PM (04KGT)
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Amen.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 04:11 PM (Fi81e)

166 The lefty fuckpickles who deride us for challenging the 2020 election are the same ones who believe Elon Musk beamed votes for Trump from his Starlink satellites.

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now With Extra Fapness at July 17, 2026 04:11 PM (fapp/)

167 I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 17, 2026 04:11 PM (rWPJ3)

168 Do not let it. Bow to the truth and your Father in Heaven will protect us and set us on the righteous path. Love your neighbor by exposing him to the truth and the light.
Posted by: Marcus T at July 17, 2026 04:08 PM (04KGT)

This "division" is a gift from God.

I don't want unity with these scumbags, liars, manipulators, all those who serve their master in Hell trying to rule our little temporary home here on Earth.

I want them divided. Carved off of the body politic like the gross tendony bit of a boneless chicken breast, and fed to the dog.

Gone.

Divide Away, Lord. We know they're going to squawk and scream and rend their ridiculous garments. Let them. And let us be happier for it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 17, 2026 04:11 PM (Ot/FD)

169 > She's graduated to the 6 month checkup instead of every 3 months, so another bonus.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:54 PM (2YhKe)

Congrats. I'm hoping to go to 6 months after my next one. I think after two clean 6 month checkups it goes to once a year, at least with the type of evil invader that is (or, hopefully, was) squatting in my body.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 17, 2026 04:12 PM (IG3/x)

170 Saw Gav on TV a couple days ago, he seems to have lost control of his hands again.

Like his mouth, his hands have been surrendered to the demons within.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 17, 2026 04:12 PM (nCgQz)

171
I'm tired of people claiming scoops falsely. Me and Bob Woodward broke the story on military and IC officials deceiving the President and the chain of command on behalf of Democrats and the Chinese, in my book/rakeoff... 5 YEARS AGO!

GIVE ME MOAR ROYALTIES

Posted by: General Milley at July 17, 2026 04:12 PM (BI5O2)

172 Headline (The Hill 9 days ago):

"Judge quashes DOJ subpoena for names of Fulton County’s 2020 election staff"

Excerpt:

"A federal judge on Tuesday denied the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) request for personal information from election workers in Fulton County, Ga., as part of its investigation into President Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of widespread election fraud in the 2020 election.

U.S. District Judge William Ray found in his order that the DOJ could not use a grand jury subpoena “as their tool” to investigate these fraud claims, nor could they subpoena private information “with no legitimate law enforcement purpose.”"

Me:

A federal grand jury was empaneled in January, 2026 to look into Fulton Co.'s 2020 election debacle.

Posted by: mrp at July 17, 2026 04:12 PM (rj6Yv)

173
Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton

Trump's embarrassing rant last night about an election he lost six years ago made two things very clear:

--------------

While still 10 years later you blame Russia & Trump for stealing the election from you.

Cognitive Dissonance is not just a river in Egypt ...

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 04:12 PM (9VHuR)

174 I think the plan was for Jeb! to lose gracefully to Cankles.

Nobody fought harder initially than the Establishment Republicans. They figured they would drop some career killing stuff, and everything would get back to “normal”.

The fucking speaker of the House wanted Trump to drop out a month before the general, iirc. Ryan?

It’s a big Club, and … you know the rest.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 04:12 PM (i1NbZ)

175 They don't really have a mentality to mean anything they say. They have emotions.

They don't conceive anything (but schemes) carefully, so when they later have to directly flout what they recently said, they just do it. The past does not matter.

The "Let's all ..." was to control what YOU would do. It's not like they ever intended to void it, they just didn't think it through enough when they said it.

They just want YOU to move. They wanted to prime the pump with your acceptance of a loss. Their overture only existed in the context of their winning.
Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 04:00 PM (Fi81e)

To quote Cousin Eddie, "bingo".

That's all it was, they were thinking "we won, so shut up and accept what we do". Now that the shoe was on the other foot it was all "Resist! Resistance!"

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at July 17, 2026 04:12 PM (k1E2D)

176 Love your neighbor by exposing him to the truth and the light.

***************


Come out from among them. and be ye separate saith the Lord

and touch not the unclean communist lefty turd walkers

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now With Extra Fapness at July 17, 2026 04:13 PM (fapp/)

177 "Trump's embarrassing rant" = scripted visual imagery

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 04:13 PM (/bHKT)

178 We can either have an Intelligence Community OR we can have a free Republic.

We can't have both.

I submit we can survive without the IC. I'd happily go back to a 1940 era America and not have to worry about groups with that kind of power wielding it over Americans.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 17, 2026 04:13 PM (xcxpd)

179 I GOUGED OUT MY EYES BECAUSE I DID NOT WANT TO SEE ANY MORE MAGA HATS!!!

YOU BLINDED ME, YOU BASTARDS!! ALL BECAUSE YOU HAD TO HAVE YOUR RACIST OVERLORD TRUMP!!!

Posted by: One Sane Voice at July 17, 2026 04:13 PM (Fi81e)

180 It’s a big Club, and … you know the rest.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 04:12 PM (i1NbZ)

They're swinging it at our heads?

Wait, no that's not it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 17, 2026 04:13 PM (Ot/FD)

181 Mike Pompeo! You have some 'splaining to do.

(I never trusted that guy. Especially after not giving Trump the head's up about Haspel).

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 17, 2026 04:14 PM (0CU3H)

182 Saw Gav on TV a couple days ago, he seems to have lost control of his hands again.

Like his mouth, his hands have been surrendered to the demons within.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 17, 2026 04:12 PM (nCgQz)

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OUT: Jazz Hands.
IN: Spaz Hands.

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 04:14 PM (9VHuR)

183 CIA is Deep State

Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2026 04:15 PM (vdz0B)

184 Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton

Trump's embarrassing rant last night about an election he lost six years ago made two things very clear:


I watched it last night and I thought Trump was amazingly subdued... For Trump anyway

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 04:15 PM (bBCpC)

185 I'd like to know the name of the gal who put, in an email, that "she's running a shadow government" or whatever it was.

Mainly because I'd like to have a face to go with that much stupidity.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at July 17, 2026 04:15 PM (eGzf1)

186 Ask the left should anything be on the table to stop racist, NAZI, Russian cockholster Trump from winning an election and you'll get a response along the lines of "You would do anything to stop Hitler wouldn't you?"

Then ask them if it is possible that leftwing elected officials in deep blue areas juiced vote totals for Hillary/Biden/Kamala by casting votes on behalf of the dead/illegals/the homeless and the response you'll get is "What kind of people do you think we are? Our elections are sacred and incorruptible. Well, except for '16 and '24 when Trump stole them somehow"

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 04:15 PM (sKqQm)

187 Newsom's wife was actually asked tough questions by MSNOW and babbled idiotically. She was asked about the investigation starting under Biden and blamed Trump.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 04:15 PM (OXYE0)

188 Iran loves showing off the "Phallic Symbol" Missiles every day. Now whether they are real or not we do not know....

Forget it Ragheads.... Trump's Balls and Dick are bigger the "King Kong" compared to your Mosquito Balls...

Posted by: Jackson K. at July 17, 2026 04:16 PM (rWPJ3)

189 Right now my diet of cold cut sandwiches with no lettuce and canned foods is looking pretty prescient.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 17, 2026 04:16 PM (zZu0s)

190 181 Mike Pompeo! You have some 'splaining to do.

(I never trusted that guy. Especially after not giving Trump the head's up about Haspel).
Posted by: Darrell Harris

Notice he has no place in Trump's second term and the few references to him by Trump haven't been pleasant. Ditto for Haspel.
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I think the whole Ukrainian crap impeachment was designed to replace Trump with Pence in agreement with the Democrats. After that dissipated, Covid 19 came around. And again that was from the Deep State origins.

And Pompeo and Haspel are in that up to their necks.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 04:17 PM (E4rtv)

191 I wonder if Barky and Mooch are still in the Hamptons with all of this going on. Rice? Valjar? Than hideous Nunan woman? Reggie?

President Trump did not mention the Water Buffalo Hag Hillary last night, but he did mention Obungo.

Did Barky get paler and sprout new white hairs? Did Mooch slam him into a headlock?

I hope they are scared. I hope they try to flee.

My life is based on hope when I am not laughing. It all started with his little pretend DC house and probably the Lincoln Project (purely because I despise them).

Hag Hil was too gorked out on Chardonnay and stumbling around with her exoskeleton after Maria shredded all her stuff not wiped with a cloth. Bill was boinking someone with his crooked shaft. They were left out of the key plans as worthless, washed up old relics, rotting from the inside.

All arrows park to Obungo with no detours.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 17, 2026 04:17 PM (hzuYO)

192 "What kind of people do you think we are?

Corrupt assholes.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 04:17 PM (wOO3z)

193 MSNOW makes me think of the "eternal present"

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 04:17 PM (/bHKT)

194 Report was supposed to done by today, not necessarily released. My guess is that the administration does not want to waste the release on a summer weekend.

Because finishing it today and giving it all weekend to leak is so much moar fun

Posted by: Community Notes at July 17, 2026 04:18 PM (9s47C)

195 We can either have an Intelligence Community OR we can have a free Republic.


Well here is the extension on that...you can't handle jihadi threats without an IC unless you go back to how 1940s America handled foreign enemies that attacked us out of the blue.

Now, I'm fine with it - Muslim cities should have burned after 9/11 AND after Saddam Hussein's attempt to assassinate Bush 41. But the GOPe/Left pretend this isn't a likely more effective response to jihadis then letting the IC handle it...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 04:18 PM (sKqQm)

196 Somebody showed a timeline concerning Ana Kasparian's tweets.

They showed the tweet where she said "No one should ever celebrate the death of another human".

And then they showed the one where apparently "ever" expired where she was glad Lindsay Graham was dead, and she clarified that she was really glad he was dead.

She didn't mean the first post, because she hadn't put enough though into how broadly applicable she meant. But she probably meant the second and third posts, because those were honest emotional reactions that also didn't require any thought.

She was just posing as a reasonable human being on the first tweet. Effect achieved.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 04:18 PM (Fi81e)

197 Sooo... looks like the Chi Coms have more voter data then the US Federal Government does... because of Lefty State Lawfare.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 04:18 PM (mP0Kj)

198
So not only did the chinks release the wong fong shimmy chong bing bong ho lee fuk virus, they also fucked with our elections so Biden would "win"

Nuke China from orbit, its the only way to be sure
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger

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Everyone's asking why Trump gave this speech, what was significant about his revelations. Maybe as simple as providing the evidence of China's attempts to change our election results? I'm not even sure Dems have admitted to China's hostility yet.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 17, 2026 04:18 PM (mmrXZ)

199 2. We should act now to counteract any efforts to undermine our elections.
Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 03:54 PM (hftzA

Ca. Gov greaseball was worse... He said Trump ranted like a mad King and needed to get the 25th Amendment
Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 03:58 PM (bBCpC)
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That only means that Trump hit the bullseye and they are very worried
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 03:59 PM (iFTx/)

Holy shit, hasn't that crusty old bint been bitching about 2016 since 2016?
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at July 17, 2026 04:06 PM (k1E2D)
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Schadenfreude Fridays!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 04:18 PM (iFTx/)

200 The American Pig Dogs are losing and we........ BOOM

STATIC.........

Posted by: The Gayatolla AI Image at July 17, 2026 04:18 PM (R6Fy1)

201 PDJT isn't here to make your life better, that is up to you to do. His focus is taking down the impediments so that you can thrive without government.
......

WHAT, NO FREE SHIT ?!?

Posted by: wth at July 17, 2026 04:18 PM (UjdFS)

202 We can either have an Intelligence Community OR we can have a free Republic.

We can't have both.

I submit we can survive without the IC. I'd happily go back to a 1940 era America and not have to worry about groups with that kind of power wielding it over Americans.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 17, 2026 04:13 PM (xcxpd)
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Well, we can't abide a nuclear Pearl Harbor, either. Ronald Reagan's "Trust, but verify" should address not only our foreign adversaries' penchant for adversarial misbehavior, but it MUST address the problem of great power being held in domestic near-unaccountable hands.

Posted by: mrp at July 17, 2026 04:19 PM (rj6Yv)

203 I hate it when I don't check my spelling and you need an Ovaltine ring to read my posts.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 17, 2026 04:19 PM (hzuYO)

204 >>And the DNC's finances may be in bad shape, but independent expenditures will correct that, as always.

No question Republicans have issues. There is still a large portion of the party that is old school GOP but they are slowly being replaced. Ask Cornyn and Tillis.

But it's crazy to look at what is happening to the Democrat Party right now and claim they are some unified monolith we are doomed to lose to. The D Party is being taken over in a rapid fashion by flat out communists and has substantial issues with money. The reason they are broke is because they aren't getting money from the places they always used to get it from like USAID and ActBlue. Hell, they aren't even getting kickbacks from the "aid" we've been sending Ukraine at the previous rate.

The Dem Lt Gov. of Wisconsin who was running for Gov. just dropped out of the race due to gross mismanagement of campaign funds. They're a frigging mess that can't win without cheating which is why they've been doing it.

We've come one hell of a long way from 2016. Many didn't think Trump would even win in 2024. It's July, let's see where we are in September when people care more about the race than they do sunscreen.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 04:19 PM (viF8m)

205
 That hag will never be able to live down the fact she couldn't beat a NY property developer.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at July 17, 2026 04:09 PM (eGzf1)

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She will never be able to live down the fact that despite having all journalists, all bureaucrats, all academics, all the arts and entertainment, all the "public intellectuals" and all the foreign governments on her side, she lost to a man more than half of whose party wanted him ground up for dog meat.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2026 04:19 PM (flEsB)

206 173
Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton

Trump's embarrassing rant last night about an election he lost six years ago made two things very clear:


C'mon Hillary!!
Run!!
You can still be THE FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT!
And the second gay one!

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 17, 2026 04:19 PM (Sco7b)

207 The purple lipped dog eater's people ran an election interference operation aka 'color revolution' in Ukraine which forced the duly elected pro-Russian leader to decamp for Russia. The ensuing violence from that chaos has killed over a million. So mass murder. And nothing bad has happened to the people that caused all that destruction.

Posted by: torabora at July 17, 2026 04:19 PM (cDzUt)

208 I think the whole Ukrainian crap impeachment was designed to replace Trump with Pence in agreement with the Democrats. After that dissipated, Covid 19 came around. And again that was from the Deep State origins.

And Pompeo and Haspel are in that up to their necks.
Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 04:17 PM (E4rtv)
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Damn, whig! That's a timeline!

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 04:20 PM (Fi81e)

209 Because finishing it today and giving it all weekend to leak is so much moar fun
Posted by: Community Notes

Also time to smoke out leakers. The networks and Democrats were expecting the Thursday speech to be something other than what it was--they expected it to be blasting Democrat cheating and their response shows. Instead it was about China and foreign threats which weakens their preprogrammed response that it was just politics.

Not even most Dems want China running our elections.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 04:20 PM (E4rtv)

210 I hate ethanol in my gas. I wrote letters to Cornyn, Cruz and Nehls about it. Cruz and Nehls replied with no mention of ethanol but Cruz did mention energy supply.

Am I the only guy that hates corn in his gas?

Posted by: DanMan at July 17, 2026 04:20 PM (8uzBS)

211 She was just posing as a reasonable human being on the first tweet. Effect achieved.

The left only cares about the ends, they have no true moral constraints.

They say political violence is wrong when they can claim the right is engaged in it, then they say political violence is just free speech or some similar bullshit when right leaning people are getting shot.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 04:20 PM (sKqQm)

212
You want to know what really chaps her, though? President Trump in office twice. Hillary couldn't even manage once. That hag will never be able to live down the fact she couldn't beat a NY property developer.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing


Posting online her own photo from younger days with the caption, "Happy Birthday to this Future President" ahead of the election she lost has to be the best own goal ever of all own goals.

There's no takeback for that one and I larf out loud about that.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 17, 2026 04:20 PM (s9VOe)

213 181 Mike Pompeo! You have some 'splaining to do.

(I never trusted that guy. Especially after not giving Trump the head's up about Haspel).
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 17, 2026 04:14 PM (0CU3H)

You misspelled Bill Barr.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 04:20 PM (mP0Kj)

214 I still want to know which reporters were on the take.

Which were the ones that were being paid (or taking "bonuses") for attacking Trump.

I bet we could narrow it down some; I bet there are a few who are normally almost instant to attack Trump that haven't mentioned him since last night.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 17, 2026 04:20 PM (3cUTc)

215 If the IC (intelligence community) was suppressing the China intelligence in 2020, what else was it suppressing?"

Easier to quantify what they were not suppressing.

Answer Nothing that would help America.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 17, 2026 04:21 PM (NnhvP)

216 I'd like to know the name of the gal who put, in an email, that "she's running a shadow government" or whatever it was.

Mainly because I'd like to have a face to go with that much stupidity.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at July 17, 2026 04:15 PM (eGzf1)

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Imagine Rosa DeLauro ... and then subtract 100 IQ + 100 Beauty Points.

/Good to see you, Blake -- I haven't been around as much and haven't seen you around as much ... Cheers!

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 04:21 PM (9VHuR)

217 I am waiting for a factual response about the material that was released.

I could ask a child questions like “why do you think the Chinese would steal the voter registrations of 200k Americans?” and get a more cogent response. Or how about- why are their almost 300k illegals aliens in 5 states registered to vote, and other states are hiding that data from the DOJ?

Why isn’t the msm investigating any of the actual material and making plausible, factual conclusions?

Posted by: Marcus T at July 17, 2026 04:22 PM (04KGT)

218 161 10

"What if all the DEM popularity since 2006... was fake?"

The economy is perceived as being very bad right now. Trump is getting the blame.

As soon as the DEM primaries are over, "the economy & affordability" are going to be the ONLY things DEMs mention in their ads. No "abolish ICE"; no trans stuff , just the economy 24/7.

And the DNC's finances may be in bad shape, but independent expenditures will correct that, as always.

Posted by: mnw at July 17, 2026 04:09 PM (RCjYY)

USAID is where that money came from so the 3rd party expenditures aren't going to be there this election season as they have been in the past.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at July 17, 2026 04:22 PM (k1E2D)

219 "Trump's embarrassing rant"

It should be embarrassing to the perps he called out.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 17, 2026 04:22 PM (9s47C)

220 185 I'd like to know the name of the gal who put, in an email, that "she's running a shadow government" or whatever it was.

Mainly because I'd like to have a face to go with that much stupidity.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal

Here you go!


https://tinyurl.com/mvdfu2yw

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 04:23 PM (hftzA)

221
/Good to see you, Blake -- I haven't been around as much and haven't seen you around as much ... Cheers!
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 04:21 PM (9VHuR)
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Not around as much either. I'm hit or miss on the gun thread, too.

Likewise good to see you. Hope things are well with you and your lovely wife.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at July 17, 2026 04:23 PM (eGzf1)

222
Newsom's wife was actually asked tough questions by MSNOW and babbled idiotically. She was asked about the investigation starting under Biden and blamed Trump.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

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Maybe the Dems are trying to get that guy out of the way before he gets nominated and then the scandals get so messy he has to "move on and leave the race for a browner, more feminine generation."

Or maybe this was just a courtesy for Mrs. Newsom and MSNOW to be able to say she's sat for those questions from an impartial press and provided answers.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 17, 2026 04:23 PM (mmrXZ)

223 Never underestimate the CCP. Here in Canada they threaten expats and their families in China and we have actual Chinese police stations. I truly believe most, not all, but a large percentage of our politicians are in the pockets of the CCP and we are truly hooped. President Trump knows this and that’s why he’s been so eager to kick Carneys ass whenever the opportunity arises and I love him for it

Posted by: kelly at July 17, 2026 04:23 PM (+9z5u)

224 Damn, whig! That's a timeline!
Posted by: Axeman
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Doesn't take a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. Trump had one op after another thrown at him--Russia Russia, fake Ukraine impeachment, Covid 19, Jan 6 and impeachment part deux, lawfare prosecutions like Mar a Lago and the ridiculous cases in NY state and barring from the ballot in CO, and ultimately a failed assassination. The continuous thread running through this series of events are Democrats in government offices promoting and allowing these things to happen to Trump. And GOPe plus judicial collaborators that aided them as much as they dared like Pence, McConnell, Tillis, and others like CJ Roberts who is over the FISA court.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 04:24 PM (E4rtv)

225 USAID is where that money came from so the 3rd party expenditures aren't going to be there this election season as they have been in the past.

Has Congress pulled back any of the grift from the myriad of other money laundering operations?

Of course not, we are rocketing past $40T in debt and much of that still continues to flow to the Demonic Party—just not through the direct pipeline of USAID.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 17, 2026 04:24 PM (pawvM)

226 167 I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 17, 2026 04:11 PM (rWPJ3)

Can you imagine being that hag? She is consumed with envy, malice, and homicidal tendency. Every morning she wakes up with a hangover and gets to see in the mirror... the horror that is herself.

Talk about hell on earth.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 17, 2026 04:25 PM (bl07w)

227 All I know is that in 2020 Biden did not get 81 million votes....
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I bet he got around 50 million, and only that many because people on the left are mentally ill and would vote for the walking corpse so long as they promised government money and abortion.

Posted by: Crusader at July 17, 2026 04:25 PM (TN0g+)

228
Here you go!


https://tinyurl.com/mvdfu2yw
Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 04:23 PM (hftzA)
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Lisa Page, is that you? Now with less gums!

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at July 17, 2026 04:25 PM (eGzf1)

229 > @HillaryClinton

Embarrassing is your husband schtuping a girl
young enough to be his daughter in the Oval Office while you’re just a floor away.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 17, 2026 04:25 PM (04KGT)

230 "Trump: I asked Darline Graham to run for U.S. Senate in the special Republican primary on Tuesday, August 11."

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 04:25 PM (GD0B3)

231 220 185 I'd like to know the name of the gal who put, in an email, that "she's running a shadow government" or whatever it was.

Mainly because I'd like to have a face to go with that much stupidity.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal

Here you go!


https://tinyurl.com/mvdfu2yw
Posted by: Piper

And she works for former Obama DoJ high official Lisa Monaco there at Microsux.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 04:26 PM (E4rtv)

232 Thanks Piper.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at July 17, 2026 04:26 PM (eGzf1)

233 >>Never underestimate the CCP. Here in Canada they threaten expats and their families in China and we have actual Chinese police stations. I truly believe most, not all, but a large percentage of our politicians are in the pockets of the CCP and we are truly hooped. President Trump knows this and that’s why he’s been so eager to kick Carneys ass whenever the opportunity arises and I love him for it

Read this if you have any doubt we are just getting started unraveling what China was doing and likely continues to do in our elections. This is all well documented.

https://tinyurl.com/yn6wevfk

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 04:26 PM (viF8m)

234 I truly believe most, not all, but a large percentage of our politicians are in the pockets of the CCP

Thats true for all Western governments.

China learned a long time ago that it is cheaper to buy politicians than it is to build aircraft carriers.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 17, 2026 04:27 PM (pawvM)

235 230 "Trump: I asked Darline Graham to run for U.S. Senate in the special Republican primary on Tuesday, August 11."

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 04:25 PM (GD0B3)

See... I told you all this was part of the plan.. I knew she wouldn't be doing it without Trump's approval

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 04:27 PM (bBCpC)

236 OH, and I think we might bomb Canada for the "filthy, polluted air.."

"Trump: 'We are holding Canada responsible for the fact that they are not properly maintaining their Forests, and Brush therein, and the United States is being unnecessarily invaded by filthy, polluted, and unhealthy air, the quality of which is dangerous, and totally unacceptable! I will call the Prime Minister during the day to find out what they are going to do about it. The cost is incalculable! Canada has refused to engage in basic Forest Management and Debris Removal, knowing that such refusal will lead to exactly this result. This is Willful Negligence, and becoming a yearly occurrence, costing the United States Billions of Dollars, which cost of this pollution must of necessity be added to the TARIFFS Canada is currently paying. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 04:27 PM (GD0B3)

237 215 If the IC (intelligence community) was suppressing the China intelligence in 2020, what else was it suppressing?"

Easier to quantify what they were not suppressing.

Answer Nothing that would help America.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 17, 2026 04:21 PM (NnhvP)

Let's jump in the wayback machine, to 1983... the CIA had positive intelligence that Iran had designed, built, and drove across Iraq, the Garbage truck that blew up the Marine Barracks in Beirut... but buried it and classified it, because THEY did not want us to take on Islam while they were worried about the Soviet Union.

Some memos were accidentally declassed a few years ago, for about 10 minutes, then reclassed... that brought the whole lie about not really knowing who did it, to light.

Why? partly because they had intel BEFORE the Barracks got bombed, which they did not share...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 04:28 PM (mP0Kj)

238 And the DNC's finances may be in bad shape, but independent expenditures will correct that, as always.

Posted by: mnw

They have lost a big portion of AID /ACT BLUE money but the launderers for Gulf state and Chinese money are there.

The corporate squeeze they used to expect will narrow down to commie CEO's.

Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 04:28 PM (Y8DZL)

239 I tried to send a few article to a friend of mine in Canada. He was blocked from reading them. Apparently Foxnews is blocked too. I had to screenshot it. That country is gone.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 17, 2026 04:28 PM (04KGT)

240 USAID is where that money came from so the 3rd party expenditures aren't going to be there this election season as they have been in the past.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at July 17, 2026 04:22 PM (k1E2D)
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They've been smurfing low non-reportable donations for decades. USAID was just a portion of the operation. Keep in mind that in Minneapolis alone and esitmated $18 Million a week in cash was taken out of the country via international flights as part of the multitude of frauds. That money goes overseas, and portion is pushed back to the Democrats thruough these "grassroots" small donations. Hillary was actually using a Sheik in Saudi Arabia to do that, and he was put under house arrest when she lost.

They have a multitude of ways to get the funds they need...every one of them egregious. It would not surprise me to learn that Media Outlets accept payment for airtime then pay that amount back into a separate account that the candidate then pushes back in small unreportable donations through orgs like ActBlue.

Posted by: Orson at July 17, 2026 04:28 PM (dIske)

241
Of course not, we are rocketing past $40T in debt and much of that still continues to flow to the Demonic Party—just not through the direct pipeline of USAID.
Posted by: Community Notes

AID had the machinery in place as connecting with foreigners and media operations. Right now, funding is disrupted as AID was the spigot directing other ngos, etc. to direct funds appropriately and stage (and probably pay) for media hits. ActBlue is similarly disrupted by investigations and the risk that foreign cash recycled from US spending will be discovered.

It takes time to set up plausible deniability.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 04:28 PM (E4rtv)

242 Maxism Socialism Now

Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2026 04:29 PM (vdz0B)

243 Am I the only guy that hates corn in his gas?

Posted by: DanMan at July 17, 2026 04:20 PM (8uzBS)

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Nope. And I was pissed when I stopped at a truck stop in Ash Fork, AZ a couple years ago cuz they seemed to have the lowest price around.

After filling my tank I realized it said "E15" on a sticker on the pump.

Was in Iowa for the first time a couple weeks ago driving with a friend and saw LOTS of corn fields. He lives in Cedar Rapids, and most of the folks are pissed that they're building two giant data centers on the outskirts ...

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 04:29 PM (9VHuR)

244 I'm pretty sure Thom Tillis has already received his marching orders from whoever is his new paymaster.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 17, 2026 04:29 PM (n5tGW)

245 USAID is where that money came from so the 3rd party expenditures aren't going to be there this election season as they have been in the past.

Don't forget that this recent "Affordable Housing Bill" that Trump didn't sign was tens of billions in unmarked bills given to the usual Demonic Party laundering operations.

They timed this so that the money will flow back to the streets again in time for the November "elections".

Posted by: Community Notes at July 17, 2026 04:30 PM (pawvM)

246 Pray for President Trump is you're not already doing so and pray a lot. He has so many people against him.

Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 04:31 PM (Bw1/o)

247 Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 04:29 PM (9VHuR)

Turning food in gas, while there are still hungry people in the world.. is downright evil IMO.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 04:31 PM (mP0Kj)

248 238 And the DNC's finances may be in bad shape, but independent expenditures will correct that, as always.

Posted by: mnw


No, it doesn't and that is because of the coordination rules. Ironically the GOP is in better shape over that because of the recent Supreme Court decision, ignored by those here, that overturned coordination rules by the FEC involving party committees. Indy spending is limited on what it can say and do, party coordinated funds are now no longer under restrictions. And the Democrat fundraising for those committees has been poor.

GOP will have probably a rare financial advantage going forward in this election compared with previous years.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 04:31 PM (E4rtv)

249 Now c'mon, lunatics!! She didn't mean shadow-government-shadow-government!!

Geez, calm down!

Haven't you heard that turn of phrase "I'm running a shadow government here"?!

Geez, you'll leap at anything!

Posted by: People Who Were Convinced Trump Was the Kremlin Candidate Because He Wanted to Deal With PUTIN at July 17, 2026 04:31 PM (Fi81e)

250 Of course not, we are rocketing past $40T in debt and much of that still continues to flow to the Demonic Party—just not through the direct pipeline of USAID.
Posted by: Community Notes

AID had the machinery in place as connecting with foreigners and media operations. Right now, funding is disrupted as AID was the spigot directing other ngos, etc. to direct funds appropriately and stage (and probably pay) for media hits. ActBlue is similarly disrupted by investigations and the risk that foreign cash recycled from US spending will be discovered.

It takes time to set up plausible deniability.
Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 04:28 PM (E4rtv)

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Although I was on vacation and not reading news at the time, once I heard about the Venezuela earthquakes my first thought was that the usual suspects will be blaming those of on "climate change" and Trump having ended USAID, but mostly Trump having ended USAID.

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 04:32 PM (9VHuR)

251 239 I tried to send a few article to a friend of mine in Canada. He was blocked from reading them. Apparently Foxnews is blocked too. I had to screenshot it. That country is gone.
Posted by: Marcus T at July 17, 2026 04:28 PM (04KGT)

I have FoxNews on my cable system....
Mom loved Tucker before....
And she LOVED Hannity. I learned to tolerate him...

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 17, 2026 04:32 PM (Sco7b)

252 They have lost a big portion of AID /ACT BLUE money but the launderers for Gulf state and Chinese money are there.

The corporate squeeze they used to expect will narrow down to commie CEO's.
Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 04:28 PM (Y8DZL)
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From what I've read, Bezos' ex-wife is using her new-found wealth to fund left-wing NGOs, activist organizations, etc.

Posted by: mrp at July 17, 2026 04:33 PM (rj6Yv)

253 236 OH, and I think we might bomb Canada for the "filthy, polluted air.."

"Trump: 'We are holding Canada responsible for the fact that they are not properly maintaining their Forests, and Brush therein, and the United States is being unnecessarily invaded by filthy, polluted, and unhealthy air, the quality of which is dangerous, and totally unacceptable! I will call the Prime Minister during the day to find out what they are going to do about it. The cost is incalculable! Canada has refused to engage in basic Forest Management and Debris Removal, knowing that such refusal will lead to exactly this result. This is Willful Negligence, and becoming a yearly occurrence, costing the United States Billions of Dollars, which cost of this pollution must of necessity be added to the TARIFFS Canada is currently paying. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 04:27 PM (GD0B3)

The USA should get gigantic fans and blow it back.

After a couple? of summers of this I can't figure out how they have anything to burn.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 17, 2026 04:33 PM (hzuYO)

254 Turning food in gas, while there are still hungry people in the world.. is downright evil IMO.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 04:31 PM (mP0Kj)
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Corn is roughage, not food.

That's why you can see it on the other end.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 04:33 PM (Fi81e)

255 Don't forget that this recent "Affordable Housing Bill" that Trump didn't sign was tens of billions in unmarked bills given to the usual Demonic Party laundering operations.

They timed this so that the money will flow back to the streets again in time for the November "elections".
Posted by: Community Notes
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Not if HUD slow rolls it as they probably will.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 04:33 PM (E4rtv)

256 Is there someone at the head of this shadow government? 1 person in a volcano lair who gives the direction out to the minions?

I think it's mostly self-organizing, but there are also middle managers, one of whom is Obama.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 17, 2026 04:33 PM (2ocoG)

257 Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 04:26 PM (viF8m)

_____________________

Watch what happens in three days when the USMCA discussion heat up. Carney is going to challenge Trump. Trump is going to initiate the six month dissolvement clause. Canada is going to panic...and China is going to swoop in and purchase Canadian goods for pennies on the dollar. The Japanese carmakers still in Canada are going to pack up and leave. China is going to work a deal to use that factory space for EV's, and unfortunately for Canada, China is going to bring their own workforce in.

Shit is about to hit the proverbial fan for Canada. They should be considering doing a cash transfer to American dollars quickly. While this is all going on we will work out a bi-lateral trade agreement with out biggest trading partner....Mexico.

Posted by: Orson at July 17, 2026 04:34 PM (dIske)

258 I seem to recall some news items years ago about ballots printed for some state were found to be fakes that came from a boat from China...
You'd think it'd be easier just to print them up here...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2026 04:34 PM (l3cgK)

259 So what they are saying is that Chyna has a shitload (a significant controlling number) of fellow travelers running the CIA.

They do Chyna's work for them without explicit direction or getting paid.
So, traitors, not spies.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 17, 2026 04:34 PM (/lPRQ)

260 166 The lefty fuckpickles who deride us for challenging the 2020 election are the same ones who believe Elon Musk beamed votes for Trump from his Starlink satellites.
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now With Extra Fapness at July 17, 2026 04:11 PM (fapp/)

Is there nothing that Elon Musk can't do??!!

Nice hash ya got there btw

Posted by: Polka will never die at July 17, 2026 04:34 PM (Ek9hi)

261 which they did not share...
Posted by: Romeo13

AKA: Lone wolf known to authorities before violent event, ad nauseum.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 17, 2026 04:35 PM (NnhvP)

262 The USA should get gigantic fans and blow it back.

After a couple? of summers of this I can't figure out how they have anything to burn.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 17, 2026 04:33 PM (hzuYO)


GIGANTIC FANS!!

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 04:35 PM (GD0B3)

263 Man. On this thread, It's going so fast I feel like I'm running a shadow government, here.

Posted by: Axeman (Trying it Out) at July 17, 2026 04:35 PM (Fi81e)

264 From what I've read, Bezos' ex-wife is using her new-found wealth to fund left-wing NGOs, activist organizations, etc.
Posted by: mrp
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She has already blown billions and ironically most of it gets wasted on leftist salaries and grifting rather than action. The problem with running a massive criminal gang like the Dems is that criminals infest the entire organization doing criminal things like taking the money. Democrats keeping their quasi legal status have a much harder time whacking their criminals stealing from them than did the Mafia.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 04:35 PM (E4rtv)

265 From what I've read, Bezos' ex-wife is using her new-found wealth to fund left-wing NGOs, activist organizations, etc.

The media smoke-screens as her being one the largest charitable givers in history. But the charities are all Antifa and related groups.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 17, 2026 04:36 PM (2ocoG)

266 @257...Canada is going to panic...and China is going to swoop in and purchase Canadian goods for pennies on the dollar. The Japanese carmakers still in Canada are going to pack up and leave. China is going to work a deal to use that factory space for EV's, and unfortunately for Canada, China is going to bring their own workforce in.

No! I don't want more chy knee near us!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 17, 2026 04:36 PM (hzuYO)

267 Avril Haines was a lawyer & White House official who had never worked at the CIA before President Obama appointed her directly to the #2 spot (Deputy Director) in 2013. She seemed to solidly concentrate on China as THE major US concern.

Gina Haspel followed a completely different path as a deeply embedded career officer, joining the CIA in 1985 & spending > 30 years as an undercover clandestine operations officer & foreign Chief of Station before ever reaching executive leadership.

While Haines was Deputy Director from 2013 to 2015, Haspel was working in senior classified roles within the CIA's Directorate of Operations. By the time Haines became DNI in 2021 to oversee the entire intelligence community, Haspel had already resigned from the CIA.

In March 2021, Haines declassified an Intelligence Community assessment concluding that while Russia actively meddled in the 2020 election, China "considered but did not deploy" influence efforts to change the outcome. Her Annual Threat Assessment testimonies to Congress also indicated China an adversarial threat but Beijing still believed it benefited from "preserving stability.

I'd say PDT is correct but solid proof the enigma.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 17, 2026 04:36 PM (NFX2v)

268 Shit is about to hit the proverbial fan for Canada. They should be considering doing a cash transfer to American dollars quickly. While this is all going on we will work out a bi-lateral trade agreement with out biggest trading partner....Mexico.
Posted by: Orson at July 17, 2026 04:34 PM (dIske)
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Will the Canadian government strict currency controls for hoi polloi?

Posted by: mrp at July 17, 2026 04:37 PM (rj6Yv)

269 The USA should get gigantic fans and blow it back.

Send current into those stupid windmills instead of taking it out and voila, gigantic fans.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 17, 2026 04:37 PM (2ocoG)

270 Corn is roughage, not food.

That's why you can see it on the other end.
Posted by: Axeman

Corn is the fat in my ribeye

Posted by: MkY at July 17, 2026 04:37 PM (q6tQZ)

271 263 Man. On this thread, It's going so fast I feel like I'm running a shadow government, here.
Posted by: Axeman

Shadows always fear the light and fearful people have a hard time reconciling information that does not agree with their fear.

Neither the worst case scenario or its cousin Rosy are accurate usually. So we muddle along as best we can.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 04:37 PM (E4rtv)

272 The 2018 midterms being a dress rehearsal for 2020.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 03:32 PM (PIaQL)

I don't know offhand if they practiced any vote fraud in 2018. The dozens and dozens of GOPe people not running for re-election "coincidentally" may have been enough by itself. But that certainly seems like sabotage by GOPe.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 04:38 PM (uhVAy)

273 Time for the Chinook Nosedive.

Posted by: zombie at July 17, 2026 04:38 PM (Av6i5)

274 Why? partly because they had intel BEFORE the Barracks got bombed, which they did not share...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 04:28 PM (mP0Kj)
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Well, on the plus side, Ronald Reagan got blamed for it!

Posted by: Our Intelligence Community at July 17, 2026 04:38 PM (Fi81e)

275 I trust the rope budget will accommodate the need.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 17, 2026 04:39 PM (UD2+p)

276 246 Pray for President Trump is you're not already doing so and pray a lot. He has so many people against him.

Thanks.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 04:31 PM (Bw1/o)


Every night!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 17, 2026 04:39 PM (hzuYO)

277 So I just saw the Canuckistani woman that assaults a kid for having a MAGA hat...why was she dressed like a gay male hooker?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 04:39 PM (sKqQm)

278 258 I seem to recall some news items years ago about ballots printed for some state were found to be fakes that came from a boat from China...
You'd think it'd be easier just to print them up here...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Arizona and Georgia among others. The connection is Runbeck, a corporation in AZ that provides ballots to a bunch of states and is run by former Dem operatives.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 04:40 PM (E4rtv)

279 The dozens and dozens of GOPe people not running for re-election "coincidentally" may have been enough by itself. But that certainly seems like sabotage by GOPe.

It was 100% sabotage. But on the other hand, it also rid us of many GOPe idiots. So you win some, you lose some.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 17, 2026 04:40 PM (2ocoG)

280 I seem to recall some news items years ago about ballots printed for some state were found to be fakes that came from a boat from China...
You'd think it'd be easier just to print them up here...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2026 04:34 PM (l3cgK)

Could also just be that they were the low bidder and not a China op at all. China could do nothing if the Dems were all loyal to the USA.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 04:40 PM (uhVAy)

281 I live in Grandville, Michigan, right outside of Grand Rapids.

Last night I walked out to put out the garbage and I could swear somebody smoked up the whole neighborhood with their smoker.

Instantly, as soon as I walked out of the garage.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 04:40 PM (Fi81e)

282 There will never be free, fair and transparent elections with mail in ballots. That's just the way it is. So who knows who should actually be the winner in any race in the places with mail in.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 17, 2026 04:41 PM (n5tGW)

283 277 So I just saw the Canuckistani woman that assaults a kid for having a MAGA hat...why was she dressed like a gay male hooker?
Posted by: 18-1 a

Punk rock band member apparently and her loathsome husband is apparently trying to be a social media influencer. Both of them are hideous and nasty critters along with lunacy so common among white Democrats.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 04:41 PM (E4rtv)

284 I trust the rope budget will accommodate the need.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 17, 2026 04:39 PM (UD2+p)

Ropes are reusable an sustainably sourced.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 04:41 PM (uhVAy)

285

In May 2019 Hillary Clinton sat down with chief Russia conspiracy theorist Rachel Maddow and called on China to interfere in the 2020 general election.

Hillary Clinton suggested that the 2020 Democrat candidate for president call on China to hack into the IRS to get Trump’s tax returns.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2026 04:41 PM (Cqx++)

286 Pray for President Trump is you're not already doing so and pray a lot. He has so many people against him.

Thanks.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 04:31 PM (Bw1/o)
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If the Lord lets him go at this point, He's really got a change in mind.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 04:42 PM (Fi81e)

287 I don't know offhand if they practiced any vote fraud in 2018. The dozens and dozens of GOPe people not running for re-election "coincidentally" may have been enough by itself. But that certainly seems like sabotage by GOPe.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Orange County steal of GOP House seats using mail in ballots.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 04:42 PM (E4rtv)

288 Will the Canadian government strict currency controls for hoi polloi?
Posted by: mrp at July 17, 2026 04:37 PM (rj6Yv)


Is that chubby short womman in too tight dresses still Castro Junior's treasury nitwit? Anything is possible!

Can we trade MN and Maine for Alberta? Or the province that has that blue eyed farmer who likes the USA? Seems like a fair trade.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 17, 2026 04:42 PM (hzuYO)

289 190. I think the whole Ukrainian crap impeachment was designed to replace Trump with Pence in agreement with the Democrats. After that dissipated, Covid 19 came around. And again that was from the Deep State origins.

And Pompeo and Haspel are in that up to their necks.
Posted by: whig

I think you're on point, as usual.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 17, 2026 04:43 PM (NFX2v)

290 After a couple? of summers of this I can't figure out how they have anything to burn.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 17, 2026 04:33 PM (hzuYO)
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Canada is basically one gargantuan forest.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2026 04:43 PM (FZ29D)

291 Man, it's as smokey as a shadow government--that I feel like I'm running--in Michigan!

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 04:43 PM (Fi81e)

292 >>Gina Haspel followed a completely different path as a deeply embedded career officer, joining the CIA in 1985 & spending > 30 years as an undercover clandestine operations officer & foreign Chief of Station before ever reaching executive leadership.

Do you know where Gina Haspel was CIA station chief in 2016, right around the time Steele was cooking up his bullshit dossier?

London.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 04:44 PM (viF8m)

293 >>>Well, you get the Maine Senate Democrat debate.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 03:32 PM (PIaQL)

"THE ARISTOCRATS!"

Posted by: Max Power at July 17, 2026 04:44 PM (SwyyQ)

294
Time for the Chinook Nosedive.
Posted by: zombie


Is that some disgusting act performed on Folsom Street?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2026 04:44 PM (Cqx++)

295 Canada is basically one gargantuan forest.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2026 04:43 PM (FZ29D)
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Populated with beavers and loons.

Posted by: mrp at July 17, 2026 04:45 PM (rj6Yv)

296 282 There will never be free, fair and transparent elections with mail in ballots. That's just the way it is. So who knows who should actually be the winner in any race in the places with mail in.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 17, 2026 04:41 PM (n5tGW)

I'd long suspected problems... but it was the Newsome recall election that was the nail in the coffin for me...

No WAY he got almost 62% of the votes.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 04:45 PM (mP0Kj)

297 Turning food in gas, while there are still hungry people in the world.. is downright evil IMO.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 04:31 PM (mP0Kj)
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If the hungry people don't buy it, why not turn it into something useful?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 04:45 PM (uhVAy)

298
Honestly his bloody Fight Fight Fight sealed the deal. The thing that was intended to destroy him is what raised him up.
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 03:52 PM (/bHKT)




When I saw that fist raised, with blood on his face, in that moment I knew how the election was going to go. I'm convinced that his immediate fight reaction and the reaction of the nation at large scared the shit out of the Donk commie cocksuckers, because they couldn't engage in the same level of election fraud buttfucking that they wanted to use without risking their own asses if Trump pulled it off.

They still tried, but it wasn't nearly as blatant as in 2020.

Posted by: USAID at July 17, 2026 04:45 PM (y9nCu)

299 I'd long suspected problems... but it was the Newsome recall election that was the nail in the coffin for me...

No WAY he got almost 62% of the votes.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 04:45 PM (mP0Kj)

sure, that was fraud. Plenty of suspicious little reported piles of mail ballots seen and ignored.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 04:46 PM (uhVAy)

300 Most of the stuff these corrupt fucks have done in the last 11 years, even the most crazy/retarded stuff that you just can't wrap your mind around, is easily explained.

From 2015 forward, they've pulled every dirty, nasty, butt-ugly, down-low, contemptible trick in the DC playbook, and then invented a few more, in the *SURE KNOWLEDGE* that this time, there'd be no more Donald John Trump to contend with.

Every time, they think "this is it, we'll kill the King and be hailed as a conquering heros by our august class of cucks and swindlers! We'll eat out on this forever, once the new King comes!"

But this time, all they have to do is wait two years, and he really will be gone. DC is about to get lit.

Posted by: General Milley at July 17, 2026 04:46 PM (BI5O2)

301
Is our smoke bothering you?

Ending it all could really help. And relieve the burden on your family and friends.

Posted by: Canadian Health Service at July 17, 2026 04:46 PM (Fi81e)

302
What's left of big manufacturing in Canada is already on government life support, Algoma steel is sustained by grant, loan and fed purchase orders, with small business machine shops throughout Ontario that feed them closing left and right.

Carney's asshole comments about the fires and the U.S. not supporting climate communism seem to be the last straw.

Elbows up types have been knees down sucking CCP cock going way back.

Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 04:47 PM (Y8DZL)

303 Nood.

Scott Bessent: A Deranged Leftist Attempted to Assassinate Me Shortly After I Became Secretary of the Treasury
The New Republic: Don't You Understand You're Forcing Us Lefties to Murder You?

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 17, 2026 04:47 PM (Sco7b)

304 297 Turning food in gas, while there are still hungry people in the world.. is downright evil IMO.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 04:31 PM (mP0Kj)
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If the hungry people don't buy it, why not turn it into something useful?
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 04:45 PM (uhVAy)

Supply... demand... and all that water and land could be used for other crops.

Grocery prices in the US are through the roof the last 5 years...

It's like Electricity prices in Calif, the more the government gets involved, the higher prices get.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 04:47 PM (mP0Kj)

305 Do you know where Gina Haspel was CIA station chief in 2016, right around the time Steele was cooking up his bullshit dossier?

London.
Posted by: JackStraw

And you have Dearlove muddying the waters and directing the Maltese professor to make it appear that Carter Page and an unfortunate American-Greek Trump campaign advisor were involved with the Russians. So 5 Eyes got triggered along with FISA warrants for both. They actually tried to plant money on Papadoulous (sp) who was smart enough not to come back with it to the States.

MI-6 was involved in this along with apparently Italian intel, Australian former foreign ministry spook, etc.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 04:47 PM (E4rtv)

306 Orange County steal of GOP House seats using mail in ballots.
Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 04:42 PM (E4rtv)

yeah, that's traditional though.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 04:48 PM (uhVAy)

307
Oops. Sock fail.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 17, 2026 04:48 PM (y9nCu)

308 The Hawaii Supreme court just vacated a decision and used their ruling to patter on for pages about white people and republicans. I bet Roberts is creaming himself right now.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 17, 2026 04:49 PM (3uBP9)

309 Well, he's got Herridge so my mind is made up.

Like a stern goddess carved out of Gravitas,
the Last Honest Reporter in The City of Unending Night.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 17, 2026 04:50 PM (zdLoL)

310 Grocery prices in the US are through the roof the last 5 years...

It's like Electricity prices in Calif, the more the government gets involved, the higher prices get.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 04:47 PM (mP0Kj)

Those price spikes are more govt manipulation. Eggs even in CA are down to about half or less. Chicken (cooked and shredded) down by a third since Trump came in.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 04:50 PM (uhVAy)

311 But this time, all they have to do is wait two years, and he really will be gone. DC is about to get lit.
Posted by: General Milley at July 17, 2026 04:46 PM (BI5O2)

Not when Pres Rubio-Vance appoints him Envoy to the EU or something.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 04:51 PM (uhVAy)

312 From what I've read, Bezos' ex-wife is using her new-found wealth to fund left-wing NGOs, activist organizations, etc.
Posted by: mrp at July 17, 2026 04:33 PM (rj6Yv)


She may want to walk a bit gingerly. Another Billionaire heir, James "Fergie" Cox Chambers Jr., was arrested on an international arrest warrant for money laundering and supporting terrorism, like Hamas and Antifa, and the US wants him for prosecution.

(the facial and neck tattoos make him look so wonderful, just like some Russian mob boss' kid.)


https://tinyurl.com/53b9xb94

Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2026 04:52 PM (rbvCR)

313 I'd long suspected problems... but it was the Newsome recall election that was the nail in the coffin for me...

Yup. The petition to get the recall on the ballot was hugely popular but the actual recall magically wasn't. Because the first one had stricter verifiability standards.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 17, 2026 04:52 PM (2ocoG)

314 I don't think you can fully judge an intelligence agency without looking at the positive qualities of the people in it. The CIA has a long-standing tradition of existence to its own spooks and to the Deep State.

Posted by: CIA Chief Spook at July 17, 2026 04:52 PM (wVcYX)

315 PA Democrats don't waste a minute to respond.
--
Haverford Township Democrats
Pennsylvania election process ensures secure and accurate voting

🚨 Pennsylvania voters: your vote is safe.🚨
Our elections are run locally with state oversight.

More than 45,000 election workers and officials help ensure ballots are secure, accurate, and counted properly.

Pennsylvania uses certified voting machines that are not connected to the internet, and every voting machine produces a paper ballot that can be audited for accuracy.

Ballots are also protected by strict chain-of-custody rules from the moment they’re cast through counting and storage.

Counties routinely test voting equipment before every election, and secure paper records mean results can be checked if needed.

Trusted facts matter. Before you share election rumors, check reliable sources and look for evidence—not outrage.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 17, 2026 04:54 PM (NFX2v)

316 Yup. The petition to get the recall on the ballot was hugely popular but the actual recall magically wasn't. Because the first one had stricter verifiability standards.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 17, 2026 04:52 PM (2ocoG)

and more to the point - popular among the leftist elite Democrats. This wasn't a GOP uprising, it was the Wine Moms angry at their kids getting Communist indoctrination.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 04:54 PM (uhVAy)

317 Am I the only guy that hates corn in his gas?
Posted by: DanMan at July 17, 2026 04:20 PM (8uzBS)
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Because I woke up laughing at Ashley Webb's debate and swinging through the chandeliers, I misread this for something else.

Too many Saturday morning cartoons in my upbringing.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 17, 2026 04:55 PM (hzuYO)

318 Trusted facts matter. Before you share election rumors, check reliable sources and look for evidence—not outrage.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 17, 2026 04:54 PM (NFX2v)

Then how does Philadelphia routinely get more than 100 percent turnout?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 04:55 PM (uhVAy)

319 Make me.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 17, 2026 04:57 PM (4g5V+)

320 318 Trusted facts matter. Before you share election rumors, check reliable sources and look for evidence—not outrage.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 17, 2026 04:54 PM (NFX2v)

Then how does Philadelphia routinely get more than 100 percent turnout?
Posted by: Oldcat

Nope. We don't talk about that here in Delaware County, or the other rings counties.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 17, 2026 07:14 PM (NFX2v)

321 I just came across these. Both are from Brennan Center Org:

Expert Brief, Beware of Novel Claims of 2020 Election Fraud
Any ostensibly new intelligence that the Trump administration might muster should be met with extreme skepticism. Published March 13, 2026

It begins, The Trump administration has recently escalated its campaign to cast doubt on the 2020 election as part of a broader effort to undermine future elections. Senior political appointees have enlisted intelligence officials and agencies to do so, even as these same agencies have repeatedly affirmed that the election was secure and accurate.

And, Analysis
Trump Administration Cuts Make Elections More Vulnerable to Foreign Influence and Disinformation
The depletion of staff and resources at various agencies leaves the government underprepared to respond to attempts to influence elections by China, Russia, and others. July 15, 2026

It begins, The midterms are just months away, yet the Trump administration has spent the last year systematically slashing agency staff and scuttling initiatives responsible for detecting and disrupting foreign disinformation operations in American elections. (Much more.)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 17, 2026 07:24 PM (NFX2v)

322 Turning food in gas, while there are still hungry people in the world.. is downright evil
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Not this shit again. Corn ethanol is stupid in a lot of ways, but this is not factual.

Corn is just feed that hasn’t been turned into steaks yet.

The farmers feed the remainder after ethanol production to hogs and cattle, in fact. DDGs aka “distillers dried grain”.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 07:46 PM (4DF5d)

323 .
So ... after almost four years of tRump's first term, he FAILED to purge the partisans from the CIA. What a loser.

Posted by: Marooned at July 17, 2026 07:51 PM (kt8QE)

Maine Democrats' Debate to Replace Graham Platner Sparks Question, "Say, Why Did We Get Rid of Graham Platner?"

Maine Democrats staged a Candidate Cattle Call last night.

The Context: Maine Democrats held a televised debate on July 16, 2026, as they sprint to replace Graham Platner, who withdrew from the race following sexual assault allegations. The newly nominated candidate will face long-time Republican Senator Susan Collins in the November 3 general election.

Immigration & ICE: The debate was heavily dominated by discussions of immigration and law enforcement, following a fatal shooting by an ICE agent in Biddeford just days prior. All participating candidates called for the abolition of ICE. Pressed for practical reforms under the current Trump administration, candidates advocated for mandatory body cameras, banning masks for agents, and stripping them of immunity.

The debate featured a diverse selection of morons, half-wits, and the mentally ill.

A good cross-section of the Democrat Party, then.

And of course one man who just showed up to say he wants to use the women's bathrooms and changing rooms.

5 Takeaways From a Maine Debate That Showed Replacing Platner Isn't Easy

Maine Democrats vying to become the state’s new Senate nominee met, and mostly agreed, at a debate filled with halting answers and stilted deliveries.

As Maine Democrats rush to replace Graham Platner with a new Senate nominee, eight candidates gathered on Thursday night for a debate that starkly showed the party's challenge in unseating Senator Susan Collins, the incumbent Republican.

The implosion of Mr. Platner, who dropped out days after being accused of rape, has left Maine Democrats choosing from a sparse buffet of candidates who either lost primaries for other offices this year or lack any traditional résumé to run for the Senate.

The contenders are sprinting through a truncated primary process that will culminate on July 25 with a nominating convention where roughly 600 party delegates will choose the nominee. The winner will plunge immediately into a race widely seen as crucial to the battle for control of Congress.

Onstage at a TV studio in Portland, all of the candidates were quick to highlight their anti-Trump bona fides and promoted a broad playbook of progressive policies to appeal to Democratic primary voters.

I think the cattle call consisted of two panels of four each.

Here are five takeaways from the hastily arranged debate, where the candidates had to be split up into two groups because there were so many of them:

Maine Democrats don't exactly have a deep bench.

The debate's first hour included four leading candidates with something notable in common: They all recently lost Democratic primaries for higher office in the state.

Halting answers. Convoluted responses and stilted deliveries. Former State Senator Troy Jackson, Secretary of State Shenna Bellows and Jordan Wood, a former congressional aide, all struggled to match the forceful message and rhetorical prowess of Mr. Platner, whose rallies electrified voters over the last year.


...

The candidates love Platner's policies but not the man.

All of the candidates tried to thread a fine needle on Thursday night: They wanted to embrace the grass-roots energy that Mr. Platner captured and the policies he ran on, while not condoning the behavior that drove him from the race.

For Mr. Jackson, that meant celebrating Mr. Platner's support for "Medicare for all" -- a policy Mr. Jackson has long supported. Dr. Shah pointed approvingly to Mr. Platner's long-stated desire to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Below, some highlights.

It's pretty amazing.

There was also an actual woman at the debate.

But she's a Democrat, so she's an idiot too.

And this Karen too.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:27 PM




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1 Platner followed orders.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 02:28 PM (ExV1e)

2 but I don't want to be assaulted."
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No he wants to do the assaulting.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 02:29 PM (/bHKT)

3 I haz nooded.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 02:29 PM (ExV1e)

4 This reminds me of the Libertarian Party's presidential debates.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 02:29 PM (PIaQL)

5 🤣🤣🤡

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 02:29 PM (GD0B3)

6 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 02:29 PM (2YhKe)

7 Those are typical Democrats.

Posted by: steevy at July 17, 2026 02:29 PM (YwEeS)

8 Some of the time I think we are all in a giant life sized episode of Punk'd.

Posted by: nckate at July 17, 2026 02:30 PM (enNUy)

9 ".....where are we gonna find a new Nazi rapist port-a-potty peter wanker?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 02:30 PM (2YhKe)

10 As a wise man once said:

"Check it out. Dustin Hoffman, 'Rain Man,' look retarded, act retarded, not retarded. Count toothpicks, autistic. Charismatic. Impressive. Jimmy Fallon, 'The Taxi Driver'? Retarded. Not charismatic. Dustin Hoffman in 'Rain Man,' 'I Am Sam'? Look retarded, act retarded, not retarded. You went full retard, man. Never go full retard. You went full retard, man. Never go full retard. You don't buy that? Ask Sean Penn, 2001, 'I Am Sam.' Remember? Went full retard, went home empty-handed."

Posted by: Nelly at July 17, 2026 02:30 PM (6+ehB)

11 >>I haz nooded.

First and first nood. Well done!

Posted by: Nazdar at July 17, 2026 02:30 PM (NcvvS)

12 BELLOWS: I love when it gets light in the morning and dark at night.
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Holy shit this guy's a fucking idiot

Posted by: Lennie from Of Mice and Men at July 17, 2026 02:30 PM (/bHKT)

13 This reminds me of the Libertarian Party's presidential debates"

Not enough weed...

Posted by: man at July 17, 2026 02:30 PM (HnvTr)

14 The debate featured a diverse selection of morons, half-wits, and the mentally ill.

To say nothing of the Methodists...

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 02:31 PM (Riz8t)

15 A plethera of excellent choices! Can I pick more than one?

Posted by: Maine Kampf Dem at July 17, 2026 02:31 PM (sFNX2)

16 I think they should go with Ashley Webb.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 17, 2026 02:31 PM (NpAcC)

17 The rapist Nazi was the best they had.

Posted by: huerfano at July 17, 2026 02:31 PM (VJX5o)

18 Lol.

Anyone here want to bang Ashley? Anyone drunk enough?

In other funny news, the rumors are true. A FIFA halftime show!

WITH MADONNA!

The casting couch screamed in horror that day my friends....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 17, 2026 02:31 PM (Sco7b)

19 It's Meatloaf!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 02:31 PM (wOO3z)

20 stripping them of immunity

And would that apply to all federal agents, or only the ones arresting illegals?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 02:31 PM (ExV1e)

21 The contenders are sprinting through a truncated primary process that will culminate on July 25 with a nominating convention where roughly 600 party delegates will choose the nominee. The winner will plunge immediately into a race widely seen as crucial to the battle for control of Congress.

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Only 600 Democrats in Maine then?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:31 PM (uhVAy)

22 BELLOWS: I love when it gets light in the morning and dark at night.
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I don't think there are many branches on this family tree.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 02:32 PM (/bHKT)

23 Kurt Schlichter would point out that the stage included a number of geebos and mutants.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 02:32 PM (Riz8t)

24 13 This reminds me of the Libertarian Party's presidential debates"

Not enough weed...

Posted by: man at July 17, 2026 02:30 PM (HnvTr)

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The implied question in my head would be:

Could the Democrat Party be becoming a joke party like the Libertarian Party by elevating freaks so frequently?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 02:32 PM (PIaQL)

25 The rapist Nazi was the best they had.

Astonishing, isn't it.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 02:32 PM (Riz8t)

26 25 The rapist Nazi was the best they had.

Astonishing, isn't it.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 02:32 PM (Riz8t)

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Janet Mills would have loved to have been the nominee if everyone had just let her have it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 02:33 PM (PIaQL)

27 Look man, it happens.

Posted by: Rick Perry at July 17, 2026 02:33 PM (3uBP9)

28 Ashley webb

is that human

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 17, 2026 02:33 PM (j+aD2)

29 Whomever said Ashley Webb looks like Meat Loaf..........


#ThreadWinner

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 02:33 PM (2YhKe)

30 That thing on the right calls itself "Ashley?"

Wow. Just wow.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 17, 2026 02:33 PM (2Ez/1)

31 12 BELLOWS: I love when it gets light in the morning and dark at night.
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She could do my job!!

Posted by: Al Sleet, Your Hippy Dippy Weatherman at July 17, 2026 02:33 PM (n9eFH)

32
Principled Democrats.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 02:33 PM (Fi81e)

33 25 The rapist Nazi was the best they had.

Astonishing, isn't it.


not really, I'm up in Maine a lot

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 17, 2026 02:33 PM (j+aD2)

34 The Circus came to Maine.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2026 02:33 PM (ZpG08)

35 It's like a night at the circus and you've taken the brown acid.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 02:34 PM (wOO3z)

36 Where are the candidates of color? Why does Maine hate persons of color?

Posted by: nckate at July 17, 2026 02:34 PM (enNUy)

37 /Sings...

I write the songs that make the whole world cringe...

Posted by: Ashley at July 17, 2026 02:34 PM (mP0Kj)

38 I don't think there are many branches on this family tree.
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 02:32 PM
++++++++++
It's a straight line.

Posted by: Just the punchline at July 17, 2026 02:34 PM (2Ez/1)

39 Only 600 Democrats in Maine then?
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:31 PM (uhVAy)


Only 600 that matter.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 02:34 PM (ExV1e)

40 BELLOWS: I love when it gets light in the morning and dark at night.
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After a few drinks, I love it when it gets dark in the morning and light at night, or something like that.

Kittens! Have I mentioned that I love kittens! And puppies!

Posted by: Martin Tell at July 17, 2026 02:34 PM (sFNX2)

41 Ashley.

Webb.

wow

apparently this dude claims to be a real female

he bleeds from his butt and everything

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 17, 2026 02:34 PM (j+aD2)

42 5 Takeaways From a Maine Debate That Showed Replacing Platner Isn't Easy
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'Cause of the widespread lunacy of a party that would spend a season selling that there was nothing that wrong in accidentally getting an SS tattoo and jacking off in shitboxes.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 02:35 PM (Fi81e)

43 Maine Dems selecting Ashley Webb might actually give them the best chance. "Let's send this goof to DC"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 02:35 PM (OXYE0)

44 imagine if Stephen King looked honestly on this group

lots of fodder for his books there

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 17, 2026 02:35 PM (j+aD2)

45 BELLOWS: I love when it gets light in the morning and dark at night.
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This guy makes Jim Comey sound like Socrates.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 02:35 PM (/bHKT)

46 That Webb dude's reddit posts have been found. He claims he ovulates and period blood comes out his anus. He claims he has female internal parts that a CAT scan and colonoscopy failed to identify, but they're really there.

The dude is an absolute loon.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 17, 2026 02:36 PM (mkw2N)

47 Shenna Bellows saying she’s lost to Collins before as if it’s a strength is wild. Who programmed this robot?

Holy shit is there not a single person with a crumb of charisma in the entire state of Maine? Sadly, Democrats have to woo people.

There is! He's just also a rapist

Hundreds of war crimes against Iraqi civilians, including women and children? I sleep. One rape of a white woman? CANCEL THIS MONSTER NOW.

Troy IS Maine charisma. That dude is the guy you run into at the corner store and chat with for 10 minutes over a cheap coffee and he always has a story about something. My guy is real.

I’m not gonna lie, they all suck. I like Jackson, but not sure he has IT. His performance tonight could be better.

Ashely Webb gave me some good laughs!! Who the hell let it on the stage?!

Wood has grifted enough and Maine has made it clear over the last year they’re not interested.

This debate is more consequential than whatever the fuck trumps dementia rambling will be.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 17, 2026 02:36 PM (5/BQI)

48 44 imagine if Stephen King looked honestly on this group

lots of fodder for his books there

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 17, 2026 02:35 PM (j+aD2)

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"Did that one...did that one...did that one...Nope. Nothing new here."
-King, doing as you say

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 02:36 PM (PIaQL)

49 I'm telling ya... Maine's State animal is Sawney Bean.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 02:36 PM (BI5O2)

50 “I believe they called it pork bellying by cutting out the pork belly from all the bills, sure that would save a lot of money as well…”

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Graduate of the AOC College of Economic Knowledge.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 02:36 PM (ndZc7)

51 Maine would do better by lobbing Ashley into the Atlantic in a crab pot.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2026 02:36 PM (ZpG08)

52 Ashley.

Webb.

wow

apparently this dude claims to be a real female


It wonders where the real men have gone and won't settle for less that a 6' multi-billionaire who looks like Henry Cavill.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 02:37 PM (ExV1e)

53 Last call at the bar, somebody has to go home with the fat chick.

Posted by: Cray Cray at July 17, 2026 02:37 PM (XjfpJ)

54 BELLOWS: I love when it gets light in the morning and dark at night.

I bet he gets PTSD when there's an eclipse.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 02:37 PM (Riz8t)

55 It's Meatloaf!
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 02:31 PM (wOO3z)
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Meatloaf, beetloaf, I hate meatloaf!

Posted by: Randy at July 17, 2026 02:37 PM (Fi81e)

56 Ashley Webb was the first thing I saw on the news today and I may never be the same. I laughed and knew, I KNEW, Ace would have Ashley today!!!

I don't think there was an audience in Maine, but if there had been one I would have been lying in the aisle laughing hysterically before my arrest. He's got my vote.

At the very least Ashley is schizo as I recognized the eyes from my cousin (who did not wear a dress, but thought he wrote songs and could draw).

One summer day in FL the mailman delivered a rolled up scroll in Christmas wrapping paper to our mailbox from him. Similar to a Christmas Cracker with ends tied in paper ribbon.

It had been through the local airport to check for anthrax or worse as it reeked of cig smoke. There was an airport label of the inspection. I guess verification that I did not associate with terrorists.

It was a strange Grandma Moses drawing of a local outdoor rock concert I apparently attended with him and my brother (could not remember).

I nearly died laughing, in horror as the beachtown knew me, and called my mother. She'd gotten similar that week.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 17, 2026 02:37 PM (hzuYO)

57 46 That Webb dude's reddit posts have been found. He claims he ovulates and period blood comes out his anus. He claims he has female internal parts that a CAT scan and colonoscopy failed to identify, but they're really there.

The dude is an absolute loon.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 17, 2026 02:36 PM (mkw2N)


We're hiring!

Posted by: The Harvard Medical School at July 17, 2026 02:37 PM (n9eFH)

58 "Turn off the Nazi Pedo Rapist thrusters. Set phasers to RETARDO."

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 02:37 PM (/bHKT)

59 47 This debate is more consequential than whatever the fuck trumps dementia rambling will be.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 17, 2026 02:36 PM (5/BQI)

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The bitter, angry fight to be first loser in Maine is just...fascinating.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 02:37 PM (PIaQL)

60 29 Whomever said Ashley Webb looks like Meat Loaf..........


#ThreadWinner
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 02:33 PM (2YhKe)

So... dead for 4 years?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 02:37 PM (mP0Kj)

61 I thought that was the lineup of the next guests on "The Tucker Carlson Show".
Maybe they can replace Tucker's favorite "military" expert Douglas Macgregor. They seem to be a little more intelligent.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 17, 2026 02:37 PM (iVhsR)

62 The moderators were very good, based on those clips. They didn't accept bullshit or bob-and-weave answers. I wish all moderators were like that.

Hate to say it, but my fav was ... the mentally ill fat tranny. He's just some fat loser who got up there with no fucks given. "Why are you qualified to be a Senator?" "I write songs." At least he's good for some comedy. The others were bogshit awful offal up there.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 02:37 PM (iFTx/)

63 Anyone of these is guaranteed at least 45% of the vote.

Posted by: Bete at July 17, 2026 02:38 PM (LX4y3)

64 Note, looks like the Chinese Communists have more access to the State voter lists, then the US Federal Government...

/scratches head...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 02:38 PM (mP0Kj)

65 Maine should be removed from the Union. The yankees there are too stupid to be US citizens and to be part of the United States.

Change the name of the place from Maine to Dummyland.

Posted by: A Whole Mess Of Stupid at July 17, 2026 02:38 PM (45BvE)

66 “I believe they called it pork bellying by cutting out the pork belly from all the bills, sure that would save a lot of money as well…”

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Graduate of the AOC College of Economic Knowledge.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 02:36 PM (ndZc7)

Its called Pork BARREL not belly.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:38 PM (uhVAy)

67 63 Anyone of these is guaranteed at least 45% of the vote.

Posted by: Bete at July 17, 2026 02:38 PM (LX4y3)

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In Maine against Collins, it's more like 30% of the vote.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 02:39 PM (PIaQL)

68 Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 02:37 PM (Riz8t)

LOL

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 02:39 PM (/bHKT)

69 Hundreds of war crimes against Iraqi civilians, including women and children? I sleep. One rape of a white woman? CANCEL THIS MONSTER NOW.

Wow. That's quite the take. I wonder how many leftist white women are happy to discover that their fellow travelers wouldn't blink an eye at them being raped.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 02:39 PM (ExV1e)

70 Meatloaf looking at Ashley, "I would do anything but that!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2026 02:39 PM (ZpG08)

71 Maine would do better by lobbing Ashley into the Atlantic in a crab pot.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2026 02:36 PM (ZpG0
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* buzzer *

The judges were looking for "by staging a raffle", staging a raffle.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 02:39 PM (Fi81e)

72 Normally they have a casting call and include some actors who can deliver lines reliably.

I guess time was short.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 17, 2026 02:39 PM (xcxpd)

73 This time, they are sending their best and brightest.

Posted by: Cray Cray at July 17, 2026 02:39 PM (XjfpJ)

74 So here we'll do the thing where some dude - up from the North East - gets really vocal that "The North East is just like the rest of us".

They ain't. You get this kind of shit show because that's what comes from the North East.
Posted by: Math at July 17, 2026 02:38 PM (7wXA5)

Now I know what Lovecraft meant by "The Innsmouth Look"

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:39 PM (uhVAy)

75 71 Meatloaf looking at Ashley, "I would do anything but that!"
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2026 02:39 PM (ZpG0

lol

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 17, 2026 02:39 PM (xcxpd)

76 70 Hundreds of war crimes against Iraqi civilians, including women and children? I sleep. One rape of a white woman? CANCEL THIS MONSTER NOW.

Wow. That's quite the take. I wonder how many leftist white women are happy to discover that their fellow travelers wouldn't blink an eye at them being raped.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 02:39 PM (ExV1e)

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"Someone will touch me sexually?!"
-AWFL

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 02:39 PM (PIaQL)

77 Meatloaf looking at Ashley, "I would do anything but that!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2026 02:39 PM (ZpG0
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* golf clap *

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 02:39 PM (Fi81e)

78 Seriously it's like Raimondo, Sid and Paul had a "debate".

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 02:40 PM (/bHKT)

79 I don't doubt that a Dem Senate candidate bleeds from his asshole at least once a month.

Probably twice, like a bad case if Mittelschmerz, but for fags.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 02:40 PM (BI5O2)

80 Hundreds of war crimes against Iraqi civilians, including women and children? I sleep. One rape of a white woman? CANCEL THIS MONSTER NOW.

Wow. That's quite the take. I wonder how many leftist white women are happy to discover that their fellow travelers wouldn't blink an eye at them being raped.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 02:39 PM (ExV1e)

I wasn't sure if they OP meant that he agreed to ignore the war crimes or if he meant we should ignore the rape as well.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:41 PM (uhVAy)

81
So... dead for 4 years?
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 02:37 PM (mP0Kj)



It's brain has been, for sure.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 02:41 PM (2YhKe)

82 Why do you want to be the senator from Maine?

Cuz that would be like all cool and shit.

Ok, moving on.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 17, 2026 02:41 PM (u73oe)

83 Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2026 02:39 PM (ZpG0

Shut the blog down, we're done.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 02:41 PM (/bHKT)

84 I still suspect that Platner is guilty of war crimes.

Too bad he dropped out so we'll never know.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 02:41 PM (PIaQL)

85
"And this Karen too."

Worthy of Honorable Mention at least.

>Maine Moonbat Elizabeth Dickerson (Democrat, obviously) says she is running for Senate because she is "very interested in climate."

https://tinyurl.com/bdhp7y6t

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 17, 2026 02:41 PM (2Ez/1)

86 There's a significance to the passing of daylight savings time.

Posted by: Rex B at July 17, 2026 02:41 PM (NY5LD)

87 You all saw the tranny image of himself right? Someone posted it on an earlier thread I think.

Contrast and compare: (daily mail of course)
mol.im/a/15985025

Posted by: banana Dream at July 17, 2026 02:41 PM (3uBP9)

88 "Maine Moonbat Elizabeth Dickerson (Democrat, obviously) says she is running for Senate because she is 'very interested in climate.'"

OMG. That woman is not well. I'm serious. She's not mentally ill in a colloquial or dismissive sense. She is literally pathologically mentally ill.

Her eyes can't focus, she's fidgeting like Hunter Biden after a cocaine OD, she's barely making sense, her facial expression is blank, and she looks like she just got out of bed.

She has no idea what planet she's on.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 02:41 PM (iFTx/)

89 If Webb won the tranny caucus in DC would be him and McBride. I can hear McBride saying "keep this weirdo away from me"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 02:41 PM (OXYE0)

90 Hate to say it, but my fav was ... the mentally ill fat tranny. He's just some fat loser who got up there with no fucks given. "Why are you qualified to be a Senator?" "I write songs." At least he's good for some comedy. The others were bogshit awful offal up there.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 02:37 PM (iFTx/)

Wait... it's got the Job NAILED...

I give you... sidestep, from Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.

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

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 02:42 PM (mP0Kj)

91 Your kids are in good hands.

https://tinyurl.com/4tft589r

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 02:42 PM (ndZc7)

92 20 stripping them of immunity
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 02:31 PM (ExV1e)

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 02:42 PM (6wpGE)

93 That Webb dude's reddit posts have been found. He claims he ovulates and period blood comes out his anus. He claims he has female internal parts that a CAT scan and colonoscopy failed to identify, but they're really there.

The dude is an absolute loon.
Posted by: bonhomme

He/she/it may feature prominently in GOP ads in the midterms. The face that launched a thousand ads.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 17, 2026 02:42 PM (5/BQI)

94 OT: I wonder if Ms. Walz is leaving the windows open to to enjoy the smell of Canada's forest maintenance.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 02:42 PM (Fi81e)

95 After this, I don't wanna hear one WORD from y'all Yankees about my kinfolk.

Posted by: Cletus Delroy Spuckler at July 17, 2026 02:42 PM (n9eFH)

96 Why do you want to be the senator from Maine?

Cuz that would be like all cool and shit.

Ok, moving on.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 17, 2026 02:41 PM (u73oe)



"The graft, obviously."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 02:42 PM (2YhKe)

97 The dashboard lights were more for her sake than mine.

Posted by: Meatloaf at July 17, 2026 02:43 PM (kAEfL)

98 Her eyes can't focus, she's fidgeting like Hunter Biden after a cocaine OD, she's barely making sense, her facial expression is blank, and she looks like she just got out of bed.

She has no idea what planet she's on.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 02:41 PM (iFTx/)

Climate in Maine? That's FOGGY or NOR'EASTER.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:43 PM (uhVAy)

99 Her eyes can't focus, she's fidgeting like Hunter Biden after a cocaine OD, she's barely making sense, her facial expression is blank, and she looks like she just got out of bed.

She has no idea what planet she's on.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 02:41 PM (iFTx/)

Ok but what are her bad qualities.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 02:43 PM (/bHKT)

100 That Webb dude's reddit posts have been found. He claims he ovulates and period blood comes out his anus.
---
Just like a chick!

... if you ignore the part that it's not.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 02:43 PM (Fi81e)

101 hat Webb dude's reddit posts have been found. He claims he ovulates and period blood comes out his anus.


I've got another diagnosis.........

Posted by: Preparation H at July 17, 2026 02:43 PM (2YhKe)

102 What a pathetic bunch. If this is the best they can field, I suggest trading Maine for Alberta, straight up.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 17, 2026 02:43 PM (9qk+Q)

103 Good G-d, I've seen junior high school elections with higher IQs and my JrHS was terrible.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2026 02:44 PM (gKWVE)

104 Try picturing Webb as the third candidate in the Lincoln -Douglas debates. That's how far we've fallen

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 02:44 PM (OXYE0)

105 Why do I want to be a Senator?

So I can get the fuck out of Maine, bang 18 year old, female congressional aides, and write lines in legislation that gives billions of dollars to my family owned businesses.

Fuck you.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 02:44 PM (PIaQL)

106 Like the famous freaky bar scene in Star Wars.

Posted by: Random PJ at July 17, 2026 02:44 PM (+jscL)

107 our intellectual social and moral betters...

Posted by: sven at July 17, 2026 02:44 PM (Int1s)

108 I wasn't sure if they OP meant that he agreed to ignore the war crimes or if he meant we should ignore the rape as well.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:41 PM (uhVAy)


I took it as they believe that war crimes have been committed, that this is heinous, and that it's being ignored BUT a guy trips and his cock accidentally ends up in the ass of some woman (allegedly) and everyone is up in arms like it's a big deal.

Maybe that's not how they meant it but I see no reason to give them the benefit of the doubt.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 02:44 PM (ExV1e)

109 I suggest trading Maine for Alberta, straight up.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 17, 2026 02:43 PM (9qk+Q)

They won't let us have Alberta but they might give us $32 worth of glass beads and a woodcut of a beaver.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2026 02:45 PM (gKWVE)

110 Her eyes can't focus, she's fidgeting like Hunter Biden after a cocaine OD, she's barely making sense, her facial expression is blank, and she looks like she just got out of bed.

She has no idea what planet she's on.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

We just want free healthcare.

Posted by: Disingenuous Commies at July 17, 2026 02:45 PM (5/BQI)

111 I would like to be a Senator from anywhere. Never work a day, and even your great grandchildren die as rich as kings.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 02:45 PM (BI5O2)

112 "I love when it gets light in the morning and dark at night."

OMG. Finally a politician who gets me!

Posted by: The Mantastic Tor at July 17, 2026 02:45 PM (We5PL)

113 109 I took it as they believe that war crimes have been committed, that this is heinous, and that it's being ignored BUT a guy trips and his cock accidentally ends up in the ass of some woman (allegedly) and everyone is up in arms like it's a big deal.

Maybe that's not how they meant it but I see no reason to give them the benefit of the doubt.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 02:44 PM (ExV1e)

======

Probably that Collins voted for the Iraq War which makes her personally responsible for all war crimes committed by the US Armed Forces in Iraq which is worse than Platner raping a Republican.

Listen, they're not electing their pastor, just someone who will vote the right way and not take money from JOOOS.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 02:45 PM (PIaQL)

114 Webb actually looks like Lt. Gormley from Blue Bloods........

Posted by: Preparation H at July 17, 2026 02:45 PM (2YhKe)

115 It's like a slow motion train wreck off a cliff carrying nuclear fuel into a burning dumpster between an elementary school and a retirement home.

You can't NOT watch...

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 17, 2026 02:46 PM (2Ez/1)

116 I wish someone could explain to my why men pretending to be women trannies fear "assault" if they use the mens room to take a whiz. Dear Ashley fears this trans nightmare like a Stephen King novel (who also looks like an old trans cat lady who adopts ferals).

My idea of assault is probably different than theirs.

Mine: Men laughing at urinals and pointing with their free hand to the creature before throwing him out and showing his crinoline petticoat.

His/hers/trans/freak: I am more gorgeous than Sidney Sweeney and I will be rape raped (and like it!).

I conclude that public bathrooms are the highlight of their freak day in my anthropology study of trans.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 17, 2026 02:46 PM (hzuYO)

117 Trump + military actions = "War Crimes"

Because war actions and meanness.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 02:46 PM (Fi81e)

118 Maine is one fucked up place. I've been there a couple of times but I never realized that they had so many issues.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 17, 2026 02:46 PM (sYM3s)

119 Norm Macdonald had a thing about the perfect joke.

He said the perfect joke would have a setup and punchline that are exactly the same. I humbly submit:.

"He claims he ovulates and period blood comes out his anus."

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 02:46 PM (/bHKT)

120 “I'm a songwriter and I write my own books."

She has a cooter too, (aka “front hole” what more qualification is really necessary? Isn’t it time we elect a Vagina-American? Penis-Americans are icky

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 02:46 PM (2/ueB)

121 I wasn't sure if they OP meant that he agreed to ignore the war crimes or if he meant we should ignore the rape as well.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:41 PM (uhVAy)

The rape of the white woman is not politically useful to him and he probably thinks they are all whores who are begging for it, its the commie position. Thats probably what it is.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 17, 2026 02:46 PM (zZu0s)

122 In the Amazon Prime miniseries, the part of Elizabeth Dickerson will be played by Holly Hunter.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 17, 2026 02:46 PM (n9eFH)

123 106 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 02:44 PM (PIaQL)

and this too is the story of Graham Platner....

Posted by: sven at July 17, 2026 02:46 PM (Int1s)

124 119 Trump + military actions = "War Crimes"

Because war actions and meanness.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 02:46 PM (Fi81e)

=====

They mentioned Iraq and are talking within the context of the Maine Senate race.

It's much more likely it's about Collins voting for the Iraq War than anything about Trump.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 02:46 PM (PIaQL)

125 That Webb dude's reddit posts have been found. He claims he ovulates and period blood comes out his anus.

Sorry about that. We've had some supply chain issues with our lettuce vendor.

Posted by: Taco Bell at July 17, 2026 02:46 PM (5/BQI)

126 67 “I believe they called it pork bellying by cutting out the pork belly from all the bills, sure that would save a lot of money as well…”

-
Graduate of the AOC College of Economic Knowledge.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 02:36 PM (ndZc7)

Its called Pork BARREL not belly.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:38 PM (uhVAy)

the use of government funds for projects designed to please voters or legislators and win votes: they should not be allowed to dip into the pork barrel | [as modifier] : wasteful, pork-barrel spending.

origin
late 19th century: from the use of a barrel to keep a reserve supply of meat.

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 02:47 PM (6wpGE)

127 "I love when it gets light in the morning and dark at night."


If I may suggest, move farther south.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 17, 2026 02:47 PM (9qk+Q)

128 Lord....give me strength.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 02:47 PM (2YhKe)

129 Susan Collin's delivery is stilted too. She sounds, and acts like someone about to have a massive seizure.

Look, I get that "we" need her to remain in the Senate, but for God's sake Maine, find another Republican who doesn't appear to be at death's door all the time.

And, no, she's not alone. 3/4 of the sitting GOP need to be replaced with younger, conservatives not married to the corrupt system in place. As we debate the mental acuity of McConnell and the duplicity of Thune.

*spits*

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 02:47 PM (jehhT)

130 So I can get the fuck out of Maine, bang 18 year old, female congressional aides, and write lines in legislation that gives billions of dollars to my family owned businesses.

Fuck you.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 02:44 PM (PIaQL)


I would add "Plus, Senators serve for six years so that would be enough to get me a pension for life," but that would require way more civic knowledge than can reasonably be expected. You gotta be a butterface from Georgia to come up with that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 02:47 PM (ExV1e)

131
I promise if it gets men out of ladies' room, I will not assault a guy who thinks he's a chick. I'll even try to ignore you.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 02:47 PM (Fi81e)

132 After watching that debate 50%of Dems in Maine are saying 1) I ain't voting or 2) I guess I'll vote for Susan Collins

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 02:47 PM (OXYE0)

133 118 Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 17, 2026 02:46 PM (hzuYO)

Eh he admitted to a degree that women's safety is disposable...

Posted by: sven at July 17, 2026 02:48 PM (Int1s)

134 107 Like the famous freaky bar scene in Star Wars.
Posted by: Random PJ at July 17, 2026 02:44 PM (+jscL)

; )

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 02:48 PM (6wpGE)

135 "What is your number one qualification to be the next Senator from Maine?" "Well, my bathtub farts smell like our precious paper mills in Skowhegan."

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 17, 2026 02:48 PM (gm9Sb)

136 What is tragic is that Meatloaf's floor if it were the Democrat nominee for President in 2028 is the vote Kamala got in 2024. #ItsACult

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 17, 2026 02:48 PM (iVhsR)

137 late 19th century: from the use of a barrel to keep a reserve supply of meat.
Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 02:47 PM (6wpGE)



Meat Whiskey.......Hmmmmmmmmm


Our whiskey is aged in fine meat barrels.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 02:48 PM (2YhKe)

138 After watching that debate 50%of Dems in Maine are saying 1) I ain't voting or 2) I guess I'll vote for Susan Collins
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Wow, You watched it?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 02:48 PM (wOO3z)

139 I wish someone could explain to my why men pretending to be women trannies fear "assault" if they use the mens room to take a whiz. Dear Ashley fears this trans nightmare like a Stephen King novel (who also looks like an old trans cat lady who adopts ferals).
....

I conclude that public bathrooms are the highlight of their freak day in my anthropology study of trans.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 17, 2026 02:46 PM (hzuYO)

It is simple, really. If you have more victim points than another person, you are blameless of anything and are immune to punishment for all crimes and should be Senator.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:48 PM (uhVAy)

140 That Webb dude's reddit posts have been found. He claims he ovulates and period blood comes out his anus. He claims he has female internal parts that a CAT scan and colonoscopy failed to identify, but they're really there.

The dude is an absolute loon.
Posted by: bonhomme

He/she/it may feature prominently in GOP ads in the midterms. The face that launched a thousand ads.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 17, 2026 02:42 PM (5/BQI
____________

See my comment above. Pure comedy gold. I can't believe they let that ... thing ... up on the stage in what was supposed to be a serious debate.

I think we now know why they were so hot for Gay Shit Nazi. As bad as he is, the others are much worse. When you go to a whorehouse and your options are a literal horse, a pig, a goat, and a Golden Corral 3, you take the GC3.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 02:48 PM (iFTx/)

141 It's like a slow motion train wreck off a cliff carrying nuclear fuel into a burning dumpster between an elementary school and a retirement home.

You can't NOT watch...


Sorry, but where do the flaming clown boners come in?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 02:48 PM (Riz8t)

142 I say everyone should choose whichever time they wish. If I want to live on Tulsa time, I'll damn well live on Tulsa time!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 02:49 PM (ndZc7)

143 You all don't understand... their incompetence is not a BUG, it's a feature.

The dems elected a brain damaged guy to the Senate... could barely talk...

Sadly, for them, he got better, and is now one of the few sane voices on that side of the aisle.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 02:49 PM (mP0Kj)

144 I mean, it's a reasonable assumption that all Dems are at least casually gay.

But if it's a tranny, you know he's the submissive partner, and that makes it even worse.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 02:49 PM (BI5O2)

145 "I love when it gets light in the morning and dark at night."

Dude must have flipped his shit when he saw Tattooine.

See that James? A little Star Trek humor for ya

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 02:49 PM (/bHKT)

146 One of my favorite tiny X spats right now is Canadian liberals insisting that it's impossible to do forest management in Canada because they have so many trees.

Set aside the ludicrous nature of the argument at hand, it's an admission that absolutely any effort to curb greenhouse gases is useless because forest fires will put out many times more every year than what gets saved by partially switching to solar, or something.

And no one seems to realize it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 02:49 PM (PIaQL)

147 143 It's like a slow motion train wreck off a cliff carrying nuclear fuel into a burning dumpster between an elementary school and a retirement home.

You can't NOT watch...

Sorry, but where do the flaming clown boners come in?
Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 02:48 PM (Riz8t)

Will it create Zombie Dinosaurs? Tell me it will create Zombie Dinosaurs!

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 02:50 PM (mP0Kj)

148 At least with Platnercyou know you were getting a gay rapist, which is much better. He's a real man's faggot.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 02:50 PM (BI5O2)

149 Susan Collin's delivery is stilted too. She sounds, and acts like someone about to have a massive seizure.

Look, I get that "we" need her to remain in the Senate, but for God's sake Maine, find another Republican who doesn't appear to be at death's door all the time.

And, no, she's not alone. 3/4 of the sitting GOP need to be replaced with younger, conservatives not married to the corrupt system in place. As we debate the mental acuity of McConnell and the duplicity of Thune.

*spits*
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 02:47 PM (jehhT)

Senate does derive from 'old'. The Romans didn't intend it to be quite THIS old though.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:50 PM (uhVAy)

150 "...if they want me to use the men's room I will but I don't want to be assaulted."

---------

Good God, man! Have you looked in a mirror lately? You look like the love child of Meatloaf and Rachel Zegler ...

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 02:50 PM (27aLr)

151 Maine DNC: Who is going to replace Graham Platner?

Maine Democrats: *Empties carnival sideshow onto DNC stage.*

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 02:50 PM (Fi81e)

152 Oops!

Errata: As it happens, we reported Mr. Webb has a cooter. He does not, in fact have a cooter. We regret the error.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 02:50 PM (2/ueB)

153 It's like a slow motion train wreck off a cliff carrying nuclear fuel into a burning dumpster between an elementary school and a retirement home.

You can't NOT watch...



Wasn't this a scene in the movie Broken Arrow?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 02:50 PM (2YhKe)

154 But if it's a tranny, you know he's the submissive partner, and that makes it even worse.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 02:49 PM (BI5O2)

I don't know that we know that at all.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 02:50 PM (/bHKT)

155 140 After watching that debate 50%of Dems in Maine are saying 1) I ain't voting or 2) I guess I'll vote for Susan Collins
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Wow, You watched it?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 02:48 PM (wOO3z)

======

Collins is going to win by at least 20.

She won by 8 in 2020 (which we're finding out was more compromised that we even thought) and by 37 in 2014.

The whole kerfuffle is hilarious because it's an expensive damaging fight for first loser.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 02:50 PM (PIaQL)

156 Basil the Great
@BasilTheGreat
They made a rap to promote The Odyssey (2026)
Yes this is real
Yes it is horrendous
Video: x.com/BasilTheGreat/status/2077759152969953626
7:15 AM · Jul 16, 2026

Chris Gore
@ThatChrisGore
Why is it so important to some that every critic hold exactly the same opinion?
This attitude of intolerance has made discussing films so boring.
My opinion does not invalidate your opinion.
In any case, enjoy this video of
@FilmThreat’s review of The Odyssey to music.
The Only Honest Review of Odyssey Comments As A Song Video based on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYGvGfHhbLs
10:31 AM · Jul 16, 2026

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 17, 2026 02:51 PM (iVhsR)

157 The candidates love Platner's policies but not the man.

But, obviously, they can adapt.

Male, woman, fruit or flower, there's not a norm in the whole lot of Democratic commie, comb as eating utensil, parents as their foundational pillars through they worked for real cults, China loving, insider trading, yada yada, members of Congress.

Plus he's a Veteran on 100% disability payments with spousal support.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 17, 2026 02:51 PM (NFX2v)

158 144 I say everyone should choose whichever time they wish. If I want to live on Tulsa time, I'll damn well live on Tulsa time!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 02:49 PM (ndZc7)

I chose 5'oclock... not somewhere, but HERE!

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 02:51 PM (mP0Kj)

159 Our whiskey is aged in fine meat barrels.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 02:48 PM (2YhKe)

I bet you could make an inner sleeve for a whiskey barrel made of jerky. Might ruin the whisky, but I bet that jerky would be dynamite.

My phone does not know the word jerky. Who writes these things, effette New Yorkers? Is this CBD?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 17, 2026 02:51 PM (zZu0s)

160 The ones we didn't see clips of, maybe they are more normal?

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 02:51 PM (6wpGE)

161 I can see why the Nazi won the primary, it was by default.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 17, 2026 02:51 PM (9qk+Q)

162 When you go to a whorehouse and your options are a literal horse, a pig, a goat, and a Golden Corral 3, you take the GC3.

I spent some time trying to figure out what kind of a sex act a Golden Corral 3 would be. It must be popular if they have to number them.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 02:51 PM (Riz8t)

163 "Sorry, but where do the flaming clown boners come in?"


I think they're the ones driving the fire trucks.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 17, 2026 02:51 PM (2Ez/1)

164 96 After this, I don't wanna hear one WORD from y'all Yankees about my kinfolk.
Posted by: Cletus Delroy Spuckler at July 17, 2026 02:42 PM (n9eFH)

*Rebel yell, bro!

I think it is hilarious. I am sure I should think this is sad and go flagellate myself with a whip. Yet I choose to laugh instead in my fire retardant handbasket.

This was the FIRST thing I saw on the news today and I am not used to laughing so loudly early in the morning.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 17, 2026 02:52 PM (hzuYO)

165 Troy IS Maine charisma. That dude is the guy you run into at the corner store and chat with for 10 minutes over a cheap coffee and he always has a story about something. My guy is real.

I'm glad Maine isn't so far gone that Ashley is the dude that corners you in the bathroom to talk about her period...just online. As nuts as he is, he actually didn't seem as insufferable and smug as someone like Lilly Tino that deliberately goes out to make normies uncomfortable.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at July 17, 2026 02:52 PM (5/BQI)

166
Those moderators must have been exercising inhuman levels of facial muscle control.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 17, 2026 02:52 PM (mmrXZ)

167 What a shitshow.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 17, 2026 02:52 PM (+zMHf)

168 Jackson was a former state senator. He came off as an angry, drunken ignorant nitwit

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 02:53 PM (OXYE0)

169 "I don't want to hurt anybody, I just want to use the bathroom...if they want me to use the men's room I will but I don't want to be assaulted."

Comedy gold! I like this guy. He can't be real. He's got to be a comedian with a drag gimmick. He looks like a stoned, goofy retard that someone like John Belusi would play back in his heyday.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 02:53 PM (iFTx/)

170 "I love when it gets light in the morning and dark at night."

--

Finally, someone in modern day American politics that can rival the intelligence of our Founding Fathers!

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 17, 2026 02:53 PM (qBdHI)

171 It's like a discarded scene from Idiocracy.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 17, 2026 02:53 PM (diia5)

172 It's like the creepiest, dumbest people said, "I want to show everyone how dumb and weird I am. I know, I'll run for the Senate!"

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 17, 2026 02:53 PM (fgSb9)

173 After this, I don't wanna hear one WORD from y'all Yankees about my kinfolk.

Posted by: Cletus Delroy Spuckler at July 17, 2026 02:42 PM (n9eFH)

---
Or your other brother Daryl.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 02:53 PM (Fi81e)

174 Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 02

Platner was gay too? Why then was he sexually assaulting women?I just thought he was a complete weirdo minus the gay sexual orientation , but I leave it to you, Elric, to clue us all on one who's a secret gay.


Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 02:53 PM (D+BhG)

175 I’ve always loved when it gets light in the morning and dark at night… let’s not be too hard on Bellows!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 02:53 PM (yz/88)

176 It is Maine. I knew a girl from there. Attractive until you tried to have a conversation.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 17, 2026 02:53 PM (9qk+Q)

177 Men - at least Men like me - don't have Unconditional Love. Men like me have expectations. We'll cut off ties to family. Even a child. I have.

The opposite is a Woman.
Posted by: Math at July 17, 2026 02:51 PM (7wXA5)

the fact that 70-90 percent of divorces are started by women says otherwise.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:53 PM (uhVAy)

178 174 It's like a discarded scene from Idiocracy.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 17, 2026 02:53 PM (diia5)

========

"Conservatives aren't allowed to like Idiocracy! It's about W and Trump!"
-the left

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 02:53 PM (PIaQL)

179 The ones we didn't see clips of, maybe they are more normal?
Posted by: m

That's a lot of wishful thinking.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 02:53 PM (wOO3z)

180 BELLOWS: I love when it gets light in the morning and dark at night."

-----------

The judges also would have accepted "Poor kids are just as bright as white children."

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 02:53 PM (27aLr)

181 It's like a discarded scene from Idiocracy.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 17, 2026 02:53 PM (diia5)
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Without the obvious choice of Camacho.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 02:54 PM (Fi81e)

182 174 It's like a discarded scene from Idiocracy.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 17, 2026 02:53 PM (diia5)

Yeah, we had to cut that scene out, too unbelievable.

Posted by: Idiocracy Editor at July 17, 2026 02:54 PM (mP0Kj)

183 The whole kerfuffle is hilarious because it's an expensive damaging fight for first loser.

And not just for Maine. The entire country has been watching this fiasco, and I'd guess many people are wondering if the DNC needs to be medicated, but it certainly can't be trusted with power in ANY state.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 02:54 PM (Riz8t)

184 After this, I don't wanna hear one WORD from y'all Yankees about my kinfolk.

Posted by: Cletus Delroy Spuckler at July 17, 2026 02:42 PM (n9eFH)

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Or your other brother Daryl.
Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 02:53 PM (Fi81e)

The 2 Daryls were from...Vermont.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:54 PM (uhVAy)

185
The most convincing evidence yet that China is picking our political candidates.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 17, 2026 02:54 PM (mmrXZ)

186 Janet Mills would have loved to have been the nominee if everyone had just let her have it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 02:33 PM (PIaQL)


Elections in New England do sometimes work like "I'm a Democrat, whoo hoo" and then you get to loaf around and maybe show up to a cocktail party.
Not, however, in Maine where Collins will make you get off your ass.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2026 02:54 PM (gKWVE)

187 I can say this: our homosexual sadist Senator actually killed a shitload of people in between his boy parties.

All we get from Platner is big talk about what he *would* do, if he had an ax, and a prostrate male victim.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 02:54 PM (BI5O2)

188
Good God, man! Have you looked in a mirror lately? You look like the love child of Meatloaf and Rachel Zegler ...
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 02:50 PM (27aLr)
**************

Nay, my good man: Lena Dunham.

His/her favorite tee shirt reads: Assault me...please!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 17, 2026 02:55 PM (hzuYO)

189 Platner was gay too? Why then was he sexually assaulting women?I just thought he was a complete weirdo minus the gay sexual orientation , but I leave it to you, Elric, to clue us all on one who's a secret gay.


Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 02:53 PM (D+BhG)

You'll remember, Fen, that Platner spoke of wanting to screw another fella in the ass- not in a gay way- but to 'dominate' them. Like a viking. This was per an ex-gf, iirc.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 17, 2026 02:55 PM (zZu0s)

190 The idea that Democrat voters care about issues and positions should have been dismissed long ago. All they care about is "Who has the (D) after their name? Whoever that is has my vote!"

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 17, 2026 02:55 PM (CHHv1)

191 186 The whole kerfuffle is hilarious because it's an expensive damaging fight for first loser.

And not just for Maine. The entire country has been watching this fiasco, and I'd guess many people are wondering if the DNC needs to be medicated, but it certainly can't be trusted with power in ANY state.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 02:54 PM (Riz8t)

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I don't think these sorts of things translate well to other states. Neighboring states, especially small states like in New England, I would imagine the effect larger (could make the NH senate race closer, maybe), but are the people of NC going to equate Roy Cooper with Graham Platner?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 02:55 PM (PIaQL)

192 BELLOWS: I love when it gets light in the morning and dark at night.
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I don't think there are many branches on this family tree.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 02:32 PM (/bHKT)

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In genealogy I believe they call it a "family stump."

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 02:55 PM (27aLr)

193 When you go to a whorehouse and your options are a literal horse, a pig, a goat, and a Golden Corral 3, you take the GC3.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Whoa! Let's not be so hasty here...

Posted by: Muhammed at July 17, 2026 02:55 PM (5/BQI)

194 You're as dumb as your dumbest statement during a debate the whole country can see.

So, no, the rest of the debate wasn't "smarter."

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 17, 2026 02:55 PM (fgSb9)

195 Those moderators must have been exercising inhuman levels of facial muscle control.

During the breaks, they were mainlining Botox.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 02:55 PM (Riz8t)

196 Would you say these Maine Dems are Not Ready For Prime Time?

Posted by: Lorne Michaels at July 17, 2026 02:56 PM (wVcYX)

197 174 It's like a discarded scene from Idiocracy.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 17, 2026 02:53 PM
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It's got electrolytes. Plants love it.

Posted by: Brawndo at July 17, 2026 02:56 PM (2Ez/1)

198 The 2 Daryls were from...Vermont.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:54 PM (uhVAy)
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I know. I reflected on that for about 2 seconds.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 02:56 PM (Fi81e)

199 Why are they still trying to make Zendaya a thing?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 02:56 PM (2YhKe)

200 leave it to you, Elric, to clue us all on one who's a secret gay.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 02:53 PM (D+BhG)


Platner was posting about fantasies about doing other men LIKE A VIKING if they broke into his home.
That's pretty gay in my book.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2026 02:56 PM (gKWVE)

201 193 The idea that Democrat voters care about issues and positions should have been dismissed long ago. All they care about is "Who has the (D) after their name? Whoever that is has my vote!"

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 17, 2026 02:55 PM (CHHv1)

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Partisans are partisan.

For most, it's like having a favorite football team and only paying attention when they get to the Super Bowl. However, there are only two teams in American football politics, and the team always makes the Super Bowl.

It's just a thing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 02:57 PM (PIaQL)

202 Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 02

Platner was gay too? Why then was he sexually assaulting women?I just thought he was a complete weirdo minus the gay sexual orientation , but I leave it to you, Elric, to clue us all on one who's a secret gay.


Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 02:53 PM (D+BhG)
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He bragged about jerking off in porta-potties. He bragged that he would anally rape men to show his dominance.

There is no straight guy on the planet who would do such things, let alone admit them publicly.

Dude is gaaaaaaaaaaay.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 02:57 PM (iFTx/)

203 Will the new Maine Dem Senate nominee be at least as intelligent and wise as Caligula's horse would have been in the Roman Senate?

My Magik 8-Ball says: "No frickin way!"

Posted by: Gref at July 17, 2026 02:57 PM (WVdA/)

204 You're as dumb as your dumbest statement during a debate the whole country can see.

So, no, the rest of the debate wasn't "smarter."
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 17, 2026 02:55 PM (fgSb9)

At some point just being there is guilt by association. This is the future leader of your party?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:57 PM (uhVAy)

205 This looks like a group of mutants from a 1950s SF movie

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 02:57 PM (sKqQm)

206 It is Maine. I knew a girl from there. Attractive until you tried to have a conversation.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 17, 2026 02:53 PM (9qk+Q)

Yeah.

That's when you see the dental work crafted from hardwood and barnyard animals' castoffs.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 02:57 PM (BI5O2)

207 In genealogy I believe they call it a "family stump."

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 02:55 PM (27aLr)

NOT FUNNY

Posted by: Michelle Fields at July 17, 2026 02:57 PM (/bHKT)

208 The problem is never, ever the message.

Only the messenger.

I've said it many times before. It's magical thinking.

They really do believe if they can just find the right incantation, they can alter our perceptions of reality to match their own.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2026 02:57 PM (FZ29D)

209 I love when it gets light in the morning and dark at night.

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I'm going to have this printed on a T-shirt...to show how smart I am.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 17, 2026 02:58 PM (fgSb9)

210 Key moment of the debate/interview process:

Troy Jackson: "We have some common ground here, I think. For example, I'm quite sure we all put our pants on before our shoes so as to allow our legs to slide in easier."

Shenna Bellows: "You..I mean....THAT WORKS? I never even considered...That's amazing. I mean...that REALLY works?"

Ashley Webb: "Oh, that's great. But, also a result of privilege. I don't WEAR pants!!! And, if I were allowed to do my business in the Girl's Room, I could show you right now."

Moderator: "Ms. Bellows, please put your shoes and slacks back on. This is being televised."

Posted by: Orson at July 17, 2026 02:58 PM (dIske)

211 Platner was posting about fantasies about doing other men LIKE A VIKING if they broke into his home.
That's pretty gay in my book.



Right?

Posted by: Liberace's candelabrum at July 17, 2026 02:58 PM (Riz8t)

212 Personally I prefer when it gets dark in the morning and light at night. That's cuz when I wake up I forget I have a sleep mask on, and at first I panic cuz I think I went blind. That wakes you up quick! I'm not sure why I like it light at night, maybe cuz I don't bump into things.

Posted by: AOC at July 17, 2026 02:58 PM (YSQQv)

213 You'll remember, Fen, that Platner spoke of wanting to screw another fella in the ass- not in a gay way- but to 'dominate' them. Like a viking. This was per an ex-gf, iirc.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 17, 2026 02:55 PM (zZu0s)



I got news for him.....

Posted by: Ice-T at July 17, 2026 02:58 PM (2YhKe)

214 "I love when I sit in a chair, and stand up from.... a chair."

Posted by: BELLOWS at July 17, 2026 02:59 PM (/bHKT)

215 201 The 2 Daryls were from...Vermont.
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So am I.

Posted by: The Bern at July 17, 2026 02:59 PM (2Ez/1)

216 The idea that Democrat voters care about issues and positions should have been dismissed long ago. All they care about is "Who has the (D) after their name? Whoever that is has my vote!"

Remember when Trump fired Comey? Colbert was broadcasting his live show and the audience started cheering. The left had been arguing for Comey to be fired for some time.

But Colbert voxplained to them that this was now bad and after about 5m of him haranguing them they all started booing Comey being fired.

This was a case of seeing the NPC software being updated live.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 02:59 PM (sKqQm)

217 I love when it gets light in the morning and dark at night.

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I'm going to have this printed on a T-shirt...to show how smart I am.
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 17, 2026 02:58 PM (fgSb9)

it does seem better than the alternative.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:59 PM (uhVAy)

218 143 It's like a slow motion train wreck off a cliff carrying nuclear fuel into a burning dumpster between an elementary school and a retirement home.

You can't NOT watch...

Sorry, but where do the flaming clown boners come in?
****

They are why the dumpster is on fire.

Posted by: clarence at July 17, 2026 02:59 PM (1QT7n)

219 142. When you go to a whorehouse and your options are a literal horse, a pig, a goat, and a Golden Corral 3, you take the GC3.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

🤣

Now for the serious side: Law school quiz? 😬

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 17, 2026 02:59 PM (NFX2v)

220 imagine if Stephen King looked honestly on this group

lots of fodder for his books there


It turns out random small towns in Maine are an excellent setting for horror stories.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 17, 2026 02:59 PM (2ocoG)

221 I was very pessimistic about Collin's chances until the DEMs' Platner debacle. That means the DEM nominee will have lost a lot of campaign time-- wasted on Platner.

Collins, meanwhile, is reported to have an $8 million war chest. I think she must now be regarded as the favorite.

However Cooper (D) in NC is cruising for the GOP seat previously held by Tillis (R). Cooper leads by even more than Ossoff does in GA, even though Ossoff ia an incumbent.

The Senate race in MI is quite interesting, & might yield a GOP pickup. Esp so if the DEMs nominate that "abolish the police" jihadist El-Sayed. He seems to have a good chance of winning the DEM primary.

Posted by: mnw at July 17, 2026 03:00 PM (RCjYY)

222 Do better Maine. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: Archer at July 17, 2026 03:00 PM (wvc0i)

223 The Maine debate should have been called " who's as dumb as Maisie Hirono"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 03:00 PM (OXYE0)

224 Very Timely !

PSA!!!



How to spot a Communist (and remember kids, Socialism is a gateway to Communism !)

"Wasson Watch Co.
@WassonWatch
1h
Look out for Communists

https://tinyurl.com/yfr9hj5s "

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 03:00 PM (GD0B3)

225 "I love it when a cow goes moo, and cat goes meow."

Posted by: BELLOWS at July 17, 2026 03:00 PM (/bHKT)

226 The entire country has been watching this fiasco, and I'd guess many people are wondering if the DNC needs to be medicated, but it certainly can't be trusted with power in ANY state.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 02:54 PM (Riz8t)

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I don't think these sorts of things translate well to other states. Neighboring states, especially small states like in New England, I would imagine the effect larger (could make the NH senate race closer, maybe), but are the people of NC going to equate Roy Cooper with Graham Platner?



At some point just being there is guilt by association. This is the future leader of your party?


Yup. That was my point. If your party is that stupid in Maine, you have to start wondering about your own state.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 03:00 PM (Riz8t)

227
The rapist Nazi was the best they had.
Posted by: huerfano

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I bet that Council of 600 tries to get him back on the ballot.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 17, 2026 03:00 PM (mmrXZ)

228 The 2 Daryls were from...Vermont.


Weren't there 3 Daryls?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:00 PM (2YhKe)

229 And not just for Maine. The entire country has been watching this fiasco, and I'd guess many people are wondering if the DNC needs to be medicated, but it certainly can't be trusted with power in ANY state.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 02:54 PM (Riz8t)

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Heard a recent interview with somebody from (IIRC, The Media Research Center) reporting on a study they did of the Platner Nightmare in Maine.

Turns out that something like 54% of Americans get their news from one or more of the following 5th Column Commie Propaganda Mills: Apple News, Google News, Yahoo News, and NPR.

UNEXPECTEDLY, in analyzing the past coverage of those four rags of this Maine Senate race, the found virtually zero stories about the Platner Idiocies.

So, basically half the country presumably has no clue about those controversies ...

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 03:01 PM (27aLr)

230 210 In genealogy I believe they call it a "family stump."

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 02:55 PM (27aLr)

NOT FUNNY
Posted by: Michelle Fields at July 17, 2026 02:57 PM (/bHKT)

/Golf Clap...

One from the Vaults...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 03:01 PM (mP0Kj)

231 Do better Maine. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Posted by: Archer at July 17, 2026 03:00 PM (wvc0i)

From the cheap seats, it doesn't look like they can.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 03:01 PM (wOO3z)

232 182 The ones we didn't see clips of, maybe they are more normal?
Posted by: m

That's a lot of wishful thinking.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 02:53 PM (wOO3z)

Yes, but ... maybe?

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 03:01 PM (6wpGE)

233 Comedy gold! I like this guy. He can't be real. He's got to be a comedian with a drag gimmick. He looks like a stoned, goofy retard that someone like John Belusi would play back in his heyday.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 02:53 PM (iFTx/)
*************

I kept waiting for his right eye to twirl around like Marty Feldman's!

Ashley has my illegal vote!

If she stood next to the Maine Governor Mills I think the thin veil will rip and the matrix be revealed, nuclear fission and volcanos erupting in cheetos during massive earthquakes and tsunamis. In other words, End Times.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 17, 2026 03:01 PM (hzuYO)

234 She's standing up for us!

Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
Trump's embarrassing rant last night about an election he lost six years ago made two things very clear:
1. He's not focused on making life better for Americans. Not even close.
2. We should act now to counteract any efforts to undermine our elections.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 03:01 PM (ndZc7)

235 Platner was posting about fantasies about doing other men LIKE A VIKING if they broke into his home.
That's pretty gay in my book.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2026 02:56 PM (gKWVE)
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Especially when it doesn't make sense as to whom he's sending that message to.

A guy who's likely going to get raped more in prison? The prisoners who would rape that guy themselves?

Who?? But Platner apparently has put some thought into this, but we can't tell what thought that is.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 03:02 PM (Fi81e)

236 "I love when I sit in a chair, and stand up from.... a chair."

Posted by: BELLOWS


Sure, rub it in.

Posted by: Pandas at July 17, 2026 03:02 PM (Riz8t)

237 The 2 Daryls were from...Vermont.


Weren't there 3 Daryls?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:00 PM (2YhKe)

Yes but one actually spoke so I gave him a break.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 03:02 PM (uhVAy)

238 Why are they still trying to make Zendaya a thing?

She's a free diversity score that doesn't immediately look like one.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 17, 2026 03:02 PM (2ocoG)

239 Ashley is Chris Farley's sister in the Gap Girls SNL sketch.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 17, 2026 03:02 PM (bNf8H)

240 So, basically half the country presumably has no clue about those controversies ...
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 03:01 PM (27aLr)

Wait, Trump gave a speech last night?

Posted by: Lefty Leftowski at July 17, 2026 03:02 PM (mP0Kj)

241 Why are they still trying to make Zendaya a thing?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 02:56 PM (2YhKe)
________

She's been major characters in movies that made billions of dollars. She is a thing. I don't understand why she ever became a thing, but she is.

She's also an attractive "black" actress who everyone knows is a lefty, but she's smart enough to not go out there like Rachel Zegler and shit over the potential audience for her movies.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 03:02 PM (iFTx/)

242 It turns out random small towns in Maine are an excellent setting for horror stories.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 17, 2026 02:59 PM
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Why don't we hide behind that row of hanging chainsaws?

Posted by: Clueless Blonde Teenage Girl at July 17, 2026 03:02 PM (2Ez/1)

243
BELLOWS: I love when it gets light in the morning and dark at night.


How old is she and how long did it take her to grasp this fact of life? What an idiot.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 17, 2026 03:02 PM (s9VOe)

244 "Hot Air " has more on these candidates from Maine including:

One of the sterling individuals on the stage was Shenna Bellows, Maine's infamous Secretary of State. I say 'infamous' because you might remember her attempt to keep Trump off the Maine GOP primary ballot over the insurrection clause until crushed like a bug by SCOTUS.

I did not recall that,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 03:02 PM (D+BhG)

245 What was the point of this debate? Not like any Maine voters are going to have input on who's on the ballot in November.

Posted by: Octochicken at July 17, 2026 03:02 PM (oCS0o)

246 We should trade Maine straight up to Canada for Alberta.

Posted by: Archer at July 17, 2026 03:03 PM (wvc0i)

247 @HillaryClinton
Trump's embarrassing rant last night about an election he lost six years ago made two things very clear:
1. He's not focused on making life better for Americans. Not even close.
2. We should act now to counteract any efforts to undermine our elections.



Oh, f*cking go die already, you sniveling twatwaffle.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:03 PM (2YhKe)

248 "I love it when a refrigerator light goes on, and also off."

Posted by: BELLOWS at July 17, 2026 03:03 PM (/bHKT)

249 Maybe Ashley Webb should break into Platner's house for some ax sharpening action!

I will never be the same.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 17, 2026 03:03 PM (hzuYO)

250 175 It's like the creepiest, dumbest people said, "I want to show everyone how dumb and weird I am. I know, I'll run for the Senate!"
Posted by: Seems Legit

It is odd...there must have been a screening criteria? How did some of these wackjobs make it onto the state? We don't typically let losers with only a handful of supporters onto the big stage (like Lord Binface in the UK).

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 17, 2026 03:03 PM (5/BQI)

251 224 However Cooper (D) in NC is cruising for the GOP seat previously held by Tillis (R). Cooper leads by even more than Ossoff does in GA, even though Ossoff ia an incumbent.

Posted by: mnw at July 17, 2026 03:00 PM (RCjYY)

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Cooper is running behind Cunningham's numbers from summer of 2020, and Cunningham lost in 2020. NC summer polling is notoriously bad.

Republican gains in registrations (from 400,000 Dem to 10,000 GOP advantage) since Cooper last ran for statewide office put him at a disadvantage.

He last won statewide by 250,000 when there were 400,000 more Dems than GOP in the state.

And, federal races trend more towards pure partisan leaning rather than statewide, state-level races.

The 2026 senate race will be more likely to reflect the 2024 presidential result than anything else.

I suspect Whatley will get a win in the end.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 03:03 PM (PIaQL)

252 Look out for Communists

https://tinyurl.com/yfr9hj5s "

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 03:00 PM (GD0B3)cartoons.

They were far too lenient and forbearing. That's how we got in this mess.

When I'm King, it'll be one strike and you're out... in the panther pits.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 03:03 PM (BI5O2)

253 28 Ashley webb

is that human

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 17, 2026 02:33 PM (j+aD2)

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Manatee

Still has the word "man" in it though

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 17, 2026 03:03 PM (9CZQg)

254 There are worse things than a paunchy trans-dyke. (s)he could be angry and nasty and want to kill you pet and feast upon its entrails.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 17, 2026 03:03 PM (sYM3s)

255 If she stood next to the Maine Governor Mills I think the thin veil will rip and the matrix be revealed, nuclear fission and volcanos erupting in cheetos during massive earthquakes and tsunamis. In other words, End Times.

Are they Flamin' Hot Cheetohs?

Posted by: That guy who always misses the main point at July 17, 2026 03:04 PM (Riz8t)

256 Weren't there 3 Daryls?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:00 PM (2YhKe)

Yes but one actually spoke so I gave him a break.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 03:02 PM
___________
*polite cough*

Posted by: Larry at July 17, 2026 03:04 PM (2Ez/1)

257 Many years ago I concluded that the government sector is really only profitable if you are corrupt.
Give that, candidates for public office are usually morons, half-wits, and the mentally ill, with the occasional good citizen who thinks they might volunteer some time to make their community better.
That latter category is very thin.

Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2026 03:04 PM (RHGPo)

258 Do better Maine. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Posted by: Archer at July 17, 2026 03:00 PM (wvc0i)
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* Flips Archer the bird *

Posted by: Maine at July 17, 2026 03:04 PM (Fi81e)

259 229 At some point just being there is guilt by association. This is the future leader of your party?


Yup. That was my point. If your party is that stupid in Maine, you have to start wondering about your own state.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 03:00 PM (Riz8t)

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"That's just one guy in Maine, another state on the other side of the country. And the party pushed him out."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 03:04 PM (PIaQL)

260 Some of the time I think we are all in a giant life sized episode of Punk'd.
Posted by: nckate

The OG -- Candid Camera

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 17, 2026 03:04 PM (DZ9Lv)

261 I was very pessimistic about Collin's chances until the DEMs' Platner debacle.

But why? Collins has polled as "losing to actual Nazis" her entire career but always wins by double digits.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 17, 2026 03:04 PM (2ocoG)

262 254 175 It's like the creepiest, dumbest people said, "I want to show everyone how dumb and weird I am. I know, I'll run for the Senate!"
Posted by: Seems Legit

It is odd...there must have been a screening criteria? How did some of these wackjobs make it onto the state? We don't typically let losers with only a handful of supporters onto the big stage (like Lord Binface in the UK).
Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 17, 2026 03:03 PM (5/BQI)

As I said a few years ago... I'm kinda tempted to run for National Public Office... so I can find out what I actually did in the 80's...

Posted by: Lefty Leftowski at July 17, 2026 03:04 PM (mP0Kj)

263 Weren't there 3 Daryls?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:00 PM (2YhKe)
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I only see TWO!

Posted by: Jean Luc Picard at July 17, 2026 03:04 PM (Fi81e)

264 BELLOWS: I love when it gets light in the morning and dark at night.

That's so deep! (scribbles furiously) I'm going to add that to my stump speech.

Posted by: Kamala Harris at July 17, 2026 03:05 PM (5/BQI)

265 Zendaya identifies as black.? Her father is black. He mother is white.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 03:05 PM (D+BhG)

266 Posted by: Lefty Leftowski at July 17, 2026 03:04 PM (mP0Kj)

Sock failage...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 03:05 PM (mP0Kj)

267 Vote for me! My little Totenkoph has a red, Hello Kitty bow!

Posted by: Ashley Webb at July 17, 2026 03:05 PM (IOrPZ)

268 For my own mental health, I have not been paying too much attention to the new DSA platform. I only know that it's insane.

What are the chances we get a serious DSA candidate from the Dems? I think that Newsom said something about supporting the DSA, but it might have been AI.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 17, 2026 03:05 PM (fgSb9)

269 The 2 Daryls were from...Vermont.


Weren't there 3 Daryls?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:00 PM (2YhKe)

Forget it he's rolling

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 03:05 PM (/bHKT)

270 238 She's standing up for us!

Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
Trump's embarrassing rant last night about an election he lost six years ago made two things very clear:
1. He's not focused on making life better for Americans. Not even close.
2. We should act now to counteract any efforts to undermine our elections.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 03:01 PM (ndZc7)

How much would it kill Hillary to see AOC win the Presidency?

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 03:05 PM (6wpGE)

271 265 I was very pessimistic about Collin's chances until the DEMs' Platner debacle.

But why? Collins has polled as "losing to actual Nazis" her entire career but always wins by double digits.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 17, 2026 03:04 PM (2ocoG)

=====

Collins outran her polls by 15 points both 2014 and 2020.

And she was within the margin of error against Platner before the last controversy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 03:06 PM (PIaQL)

272 Some of the time I think we are all in a giant life sized episode of Punk'd.
Posted by: nckate

The OG -- Candid Camera

==

Impractible Jokers.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 17, 2026 03:06 PM (qBdHI)

273 My phone does not know the word jerky. Who writes these things, effette New Yorkers? Is this CBD?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I do the NYT spelling bee every day.
Skip nautical terms. They don't exist. Skip botanical terms. They don't exist. Skip almost any scientific term, they MIGHT exist.
I figgered a NY homo

Posted by: MkY at July 17, 2026 03:06 PM (q6tQZ)

274 ok come on this is a fun thread

I'm laughing! it's Friday!

no Hillbitch quotes!

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 17, 2026 03:06 PM (j+aD2)

275 ___________
*polite cough*
Posted by: Larry at July 17, 2026 03:04 PM (2Ez/1)



Oops......

Was never a Bob Newhart fan anyway......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:06 PM (2YhKe)

276 Lets flip all the cards "Whats My Line?" style:
A danger to self
A danger to others
Gravely disabled

You be the judge

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 17, 2026 03:06 PM (YlWIZ)

277 King was onto something about that. When he moved on from New England ? He wrote a ton about the Upper Midwest.

He's a freak. But I also think attuned to culture. He got, if nothing else, the different cultures here.
Posted by: Math at July 17, 2026 03:04 PM (7wXA5)

Not one of his stories is about high school football. Attuned to Midwest culture, feh!

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 03:06 PM (uhVAy)

278 Maine Man is edging up on Florida Man as we speak.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 03:07 PM (Fi81e)

279 Fight the White Supremacist Matriarchy!!!!!

Posted by: Zendaya at July 17, 2026 03:07 PM (IOrPZ)

280 no Hillbitch quotes!
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 17, 2026 03:06 PM
###

What difference, at this point, does it make?

Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at July 17, 2026 03:07 PM (2Ez/1)

281 As I said a few years ago... I'm kinda tempted to run for National Public Office... so I can find out what I actually did in the 80's...
Posted by: Lefty Leftowski at July 17, 2026 03:04 PM (mP0Kj)

--------

LOL

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 17, 2026 03:07 PM (fgSb9)

282
BELLOWS: I love when I wipe my own butt and when someone else wipes my butt.

I'm a wiper, not a viper!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 17, 2026 03:07 PM (s9VOe)

283 ok come on this is a fun thread

I'm laughing! it's Friday!

no Hillbitch quotes!
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 17, 2026 03:06 PM (j+aD2)

laugh at the fact that Hillz is utterly irrelevant and she hates it. "We must SAVE Chinese cheating !!!"

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 03:08 PM (uhVAy)

284 Not one of his stories is about high school football. Attuned to Midwest culture, feh!
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 03:06 PM (uhVAy)



Pick six, people!

Posted by: Coach T. Walz at July 17, 2026 03:08 PM (n9eFH)

285 Who saw that coming:

@NEWSMAX
·
6m
Newly appointed Sen. Darline Graham Nordone is reportedly considering a run for the full Senate term

Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2026 03:08 PM (ZxPkt)

286 177 Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 02

Platner was gay too? Why then was he sexually assaulting women?I just thought he was a complete weirdo minus the gay sexual orientation , but I leave it to you, Elric, to clue us all on one who's a secret gay.


Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 02:53 PM (D+BhG)

I don't think Platner said the words that he was g*y but he did say if someone ever broke into his house, he would buttf*ck them to show dominance.
All of us other men who smack people in the mouth to show dominance assumed he was admitting he was g*y.

Posted by: Nelly at July 17, 2026 03:08 PM (6+ehB)

287 Platner apparently has put some thought into this, but we can't tell what thought that is.
Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 03:02 PM (Fi81e)

------

Allow me to take a guess.

He was thinking: "I want to tell my girlfriend that I'm a mudjacker just like Obama did that one time, but I don't want to sound as fruity as that guy. I'll go with rape. Much more hetero that way."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 03:08 PM (BI5O2)

288
Is Cthillary saying the stars are right?

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 03:08 PM (Fi81e)

289 283 Maine Man is edging up on Florida Man as we speak.
Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 03:07 PM


Also receiving votes: Maryland Man.

Posted by: The judges at July 17, 2026 03:08 PM (2Ez/1)

290 @NEWSMAX
·
6m
Newly appointed Sen. Darline Graham Nordone is reportedly considering a run for the full Senate term
Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2026 03:08 PM (ZxPkt)



She found the graft pipeline pretty damn quick.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:09 PM (2YhKe)

291 If you're going to run around screaming about polls, at least do it intelligently.

See how accurate polling in the same time period in the same state have been in recent history.

Never, ever compare polls from outside the final month of a campaign to polls inside the final month of a campaign. Pollsters run them differently because they are "graded" on how accurate their final polls are, not the ones that were way, way wrong months before (the electorate shifted, my ass).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 03:09 PM (PIaQL)

292 How much would it kill Hillary to see AOC win the Presidency?

Imagine the psychic turbulence she's generating already. She married Bill to become our first lesbian President and she was deprived of it by Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Men! With icky dangly things!

Posted by: Ian S. at July 17, 2026 03:09 PM (2ocoG)

293 >>> 231 The 2 Daryls were from...Vermont.
==

Weren't there 3 Daryls?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:00 PM (2YhKe)

NO.

Posted by: Larry at July 17, 2026 03:09 PM (vDZgA)

294 Who at the TV station decided to allow Ashley Webb onto the stage? In NYC a few years back you had "the rent is too damn high" guy , but he at least had an issue. Webb was just a freak who made the whole thing a freakshow

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 03:10 PM (OXYE0)

295 Meatloaf looks terrible in a dress.

Posted by: Joe Mama at July 17, 2026 03:10 PM (TezPK)

296
I don't think Platner said the words that he was g*y but he did say if someone ever broke into his house, he would buttf*ck them to show dominance.
All of us other men who smack people in the mouth to show dominance assumed he was admitting he was g*y.
Posted by: Nelly at July 17, 2026 03:08 PM (6+ehB)



Someone breaks into my house, I'm shooting them with hot lead, not a hot load.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:10 PM (2YhKe)

297 I did not recall that,
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 03:02 PM (D+BhG)
___________________________

Yeah, she did it, and a similar clown in Colorado tried too...which was interesting, because Colorado one was triggered by an organization made up of GOP anti-Trumpers filing to keep Trump off the ballot and the Dem SoS went with it.

Both SoS got their posteriors handed to them but the USSC.

Posted by: Orson at July 17, 2026 03:10 PM (dIske)

298 270 Zendaya identifies as black.? Her father is black. He mother is white.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Good enough for us.

Posted by: Barack Obama and Kamala Harris at July 17, 2026 03:10 PM (5/BQI)

299 >Newly appointed Sen. Darline Graham Nordone is reportedly considering a run for the full Senate term
Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2026 03:08 PM
-----------
Why not?

Posted by: The ghost of Lurleen B. Wallace at July 17, 2026 03:11 PM (2Ez/1)

300 >>> 231 The 2 Daryls were from...Vermont.
==

Weren't there 3 Daryls?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:00 PM (2YhKe)

NO.
Posted by: Larry at July 17, 2026 03:09 PM (vDZgA)

Biden's inflation was so bad we have an entire extra Daryl

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 03:11 PM (uhVAy)

301 >>> Weren't there 3 Daryls?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:00 PM (2YhKe)

NO.
Posted by: Larry at July 17, 2026 03:09 PM (vDZgA)


THERE ARE FOUR DARYLS

Posted by: Picard at July 17, 2026 03:11 PM (3uBP9)

302 303 Both SoS got their posteriors handed to them but the USSC.

Posted by: Orson at July 17, 2026 03:10 PM (dIske)

======

False.

SCOTUS has never, ever sided with Trump. Not once.

The entire judiciary only hands Trump loses.

Black pill.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 03:11 PM (PIaQL)

303 298 >>> 231 The 2 Daryls were from...Vermont.
==

Weren't there 3 Daryls?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:00 PM (2YhKe)

NO.
Posted by: Larry at July 17, 2026 03:09 PM (vDZgA)

Buncha fakes!

Posted by: Ernest P. Worrel at July 17, 2026 03:11 PM (mP0Kj)

304 New England is geographically beautiful and Lefty nutz just like the West coast. There has to be a correlation there somewhere but I'll be damn if I can figure it out.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 03:11 PM (/WQyy)

305 252 "I love it when a refrigerator light goes on, and also off."
Posted by: BELLOWS at July 17, 2026 03:03 PM (/bHKT)

How do you know it goes off?

Posted by: Reforger at July 17, 2026 03:11 PM (kAEfL)

306 BELLOWS: I love when it gets light in the morning and dark at night.

>>>

Get a load of this idjit.

Posted by: Chance the Gardener at July 17, 2026 03:11 PM (wVcYX)

307 What a crap fest this will turn into in SC.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 03:12 PM (wOO3z)

308
I'm Larry and this is my brother Daryl and my other brother Daryl.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 17, 2026 03:12 PM (s9VOe)

309 I want to speak to the manager of the simulation we are in; it's terrible.

Posted by: Archer at July 17, 2026 03:12 PM (wvc0i)

310 This is what late stage TDS looks like.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 17, 2026 03:12 PM (2e+pG)

311 There were plenty here who didn't expect Graham's sister to run. Because they desperately want to think their Party is above that.

At any cost.

Of course she'll run.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 03:12 PM (BI5O2)

312 295 @NEWSMAX
·
6m
Newly appointed Sen. Darline Graham Nordone is reportedly considering a run for the full Senate term
Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2026 03:08 PM (ZxPkt)


She found the graft pipeline pretty damn quick.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:09 PM (2YhKe)
__________________________

LMAO, the whole point of placing her in the position was so that other parties would not have an unfair advantage in the next election for that position.

I truly, deeply, hate opportunistic politicians.

Posted by: Orson at July 17, 2026 03:13 PM (dIske)

313 311 BELLOWS: I love when it gets light in the morning and dark at night.

Don't ask me to write her speeches for her.

Posted by: Kamala's six year old speechwriter at July 17, 2026 03:13 PM (n9eFH)

314 New England is geographically beautiful and Lefty nutz just like the West coast. There has to be a correlation there somewhere but I'll be damn if I can figure it out.
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 03:11 PM (/WQyy)



One thing I learned from binging all the Euro's in the USA videos, the Scots HATE the Brits. While in Boston, they were petitioning the people to rename it New Scotland instead.

That and they wanted to drink all the beer so England fans didn't get any.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:13 PM (2YhKe)

315 How much would it kill Hillary to see AOC win the Presidency? Trump serve a third term?

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at July 17, 2026 03:13 PM (5/BQI)

316 This looks more like a skit from a Monty Python Movie ......

Posted by: Jackson K. at July 17, 2026 03:13 PM (X7dyz)

317 Second Darryl Theory.

Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2026 03:14 PM (ZxPkt)

318 Of course she'll run.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Is she a confirmed bachelorette?

Posted by: MkY at July 17, 2026 03:14 PM (q6tQZ)

319 314 I want to speak to the manager of the simulation we are in; it's terrible.
Posted by: Archer at July 17, 2026 03:12 PM

Get in line.

Posted by: Karen at July 17, 2026 03:14 PM (2Ez/1)

320 This looks more like a skit from a Monty Python Movie ......
Posted by: Jackson K. at July 17, 2026 03:13 PM (X7dyz)
---
The Silly Party.

That's on track.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 03:14 PM (Fi81e)

321 Second Darryl Theory.
Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2026 03:14 PM (ZxPkt)

Three Darryl Problem.

Posted by: Einstein at July 17, 2026 03:15 PM (wVcYX)

322 312 What a crap fest this will turn into in SC.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory


It might be just a WEE bit premature to set our hair on fire.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 03:15 PM (Riz8t)

323 E = MDaryl2

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:15 PM (2YhKe)

324 323 Second Darryl Theory.
Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2026 03:14 PM (ZxPkt)

Other Darrel was on the grassy knoll?

Posted by: Ernest P. Worrel at July 17, 2026 03:16 PM (mP0Kj)

325 That's Mary Clogginstein's brother !!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at July 17, 2026 03:16 PM (X7dyz)

326 Yeah, I don't know how to HTML Tag the little 2 for squared.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:16 PM (2YhKe)

327 If Whatley (R) were to beat Cooper (D) in NC, then the GOP would hold the Senate at least. I'm beyond skeptical about the GOP holding Tillis' NC seat, though.

I think Tillis deserves some of the blame for the GOP's troubles in NC this year.

Posted by: mnw at July 17, 2026 03:16 PM (RCjYY)

328 But a TON of King stories are EXACTLY about "High School transition to Adult". How fucked up those first 18 years are. How they don't matter in the big scheme - although those that enjoyed them the most won't let go.

Posted by: Math at July 17, 2026 03:13 PM (7wXA5)

Nobody in the Midwest cares about teen angst bullshit. DID WE WIN THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP?

(note: our football team did, indeed win State my senior year. I wasn't on the team but they were pretty good.)

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 03:16 PM (uhVAy)

329 " How much would it kill Hillary to see AOC win the Presidency?"

Imma gonna guess it'll kill aoc even more when she loses.

Posted by: Will Robinson at July 17, 2026 03:16 PM (KmvoS)

330 Maine Democrat Shenna Bellows can't answer the most basic question:

Q: Would you approve of ending daylight savings?

BELLOWS: Trump is a rapist and Nazi and threat t o our Democracy!

Posted by: Ripley at July 17, 2026 03:16 PM (GUOwU)

331 THERE ARE FOUR DWIGHTS!!

Posted by: Picard Watching the Office at July 17, 2026 03:16 PM (Fi81e)

332 329 312 What a crap fest this will turn into in SC.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

It might be just a WEE bit premature to set our hair on fire.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 03:15 PM (Riz8t)

======

If she runs (anonymously sourced article about how she's "considering it", so grain of salt), I doubt she gets close to winning.

The Nancy Mace saga from her governor run has told me that the SC primary electorate isn't just running towards familiar names, and Graham's sister doesn't even share Graham's last name. Graham is her middle name, so name recognition will be hard to actually manifest for her.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 03:16 PM (PIaQL)

333 In the Multiverse, there are an infinite number of Darryls.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at July 17, 2026 03:16 PM (n9eFH)

334 The contenders are sprinting through a truncated primary process that will culminate on July 25 with a nominating convention where roughly 600 party delegates will choose the nominee.

Or as the Democrats call it: Our Democracy.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 03:16 PM (4NO2D)

335
Nobody in the Midwest cares about teen angst bullshit. DID WE WIN THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP?

(note: our football team did, indeed win State my senior year. I wasn't on the team but they were pretty good.)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 03:16 PM (uhVAy)



I scored 4 touchdowns in one game.

Posted by: Al Bundy at July 17, 2026 03:17 PM (2YhKe)

336 As the speed of time approaches zero, Darryl comes to a stop.

Posted by: Copernicuss at July 17, 2026 03:17 PM (2Ez/1)

337 No relation.

Posted by: Dr. Alfred Bellows, Cocoa Beach, FL at July 17, 2026 03:17 PM (wVcYX)

338 One thing I learned from binging all the Euro's in the USA videos, the Scots HATE the Brits. While in Boston, they were petitioning the people to rename it New Scotland instead.

That and they wanted to drink all the beer so England fans didn't get any.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:13 PM (2YhKe)

They may hate the Brits but politically it is because they are not Leftist or Pro EU ENOUGH.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 03:17 PM (uhVAy)

339 334 If Whatley (R) were to beat Cooper (D) in NC, then the GOP would hold the Senate at least. I'm beyond skeptical about the GOP holding Tillis' NC seat, though.

I think Tillis deserves some of the blame for the GOP's troubles in NC this year.

Posted by: mnw at July 17, 2026 03:16 PM (RCjYY)

======

Tillis sucks.

But everything is showing Cooper to be a shockingly weak candidate for someone who is supposedly a "popular former governor" which makes him as close to being an incumbent as you can be without being an incumbent.

His governorship also ended really badly with Helene fuck ups he was directly responsible for, and his policies as governor are tied intimately to the killing if Ilyana.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 03:18 PM (PIaQL)

340 And she spells her name funny.

Posted by: Darlenes everywhere at July 17, 2026 03:18 PM (2Ez/1)

341 343 As the speed of time approaches zero, Darryl comes to a stop.
Posted by: Copernicuss at July 17, 2026 03:17 PM (2Ez/1)

Schrodeingers Darryl?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 03:18 PM (mP0Kj)

342 165 >>> When you go to a whorehouse and your options are a literal horse, a pig, a goat, and a Golden Corral 3, you take the GC3.

I spent some time trying to figure out what kind of a sex act a Golden Corral 3 would be. It must be popular if they have to number them.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 02:51 PM (Riz8t)


A "Golden Corral 3" is someone who is a 3/10 on a scale to the hottest patron of the budget buffet-style restaurant.

Posted by: SciVo at July 17, 2026 03:18 PM (Sy6m/)

343 It would kill me to see AOC as President .

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 03:18 PM (/WQyy)

344 Not one of his stories is about high school football. Attuned to Midwest culture, feh!
Posted by: Oldcat
------

Pfft.

Posted by: Hoosier hysteria at July 17, 2026 03:19 PM (XeU6L)

345 Wasn't Darryl's Schrodinger a porn movie?

Posted by: Al Bundy at July 17, 2026 03:19 PM (2YhKe)

346 In the Multiverse, there are an infinite number of Darryls.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at July 17, 2026 03:16 PM (n9eFH)
---
You can't even get out of the galaxy, Roddenberry spawn!!

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 03:19 PM (Fi81e)

347
origin
late 19th century: from the use of a barrel to keep a reserve supply of meat.
Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 02:47 PM (6wpGE)

********************
Ashley Webb thought it was literal pork belly, like she eats when she/he's swanning around town to bougie restaurants and using the lady's room to test outrage.

An easy mistake for the hormone confused wearing a dress off the rack from Target's Trans area/arena/areola.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 17, 2026 03:19 PM (hzuYO)

348 I'll allow that sock screwup as I think it fits and is funny.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:19 PM (2YhKe)

349 165 >>> When you go to a whorehouse and your options are a literal horse, a pig, a goat, and a Golden Corral 3, you take the GC3.

I spent some time trying to figure out what kind of a sex act a Golden Corral 3 would be. It must be popular if they have to number them.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 02:51 PM (Riz8t)

A "Golden Corral 3" is someone who is a 3/10 on a scale to the hottest patron of the budget buffet-style restaurant.
Posted by: SciVo at July 17, 2026 03:18 PM (Sy6m/)

. . . and somehow, the melty cheese fountain is involved.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 17, 2026 03:19 PM (wVcYX)

350 If coach just would have put me in last quarter. We could've taken state.

Posted by: Uncle Rico Dynamite at July 17, 2026 03:20 PM (kAEfL)

351 333 Yeah, I don't know how to HTML Tag the little 2 for squared.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:16 PM (2YhKe)

You can approximate it like this:

E= mc^2

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 03:20 PM (6wpGE)

352 It would kill me to see AOC as President .

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 03:18 PM (/WQyy)
---
Now you know how I felt to see Joe Biden take office.

I had been watching that guy on CSPAN-2 before the Clarence Thomas hearings.

What the fuck, America?!

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 03:20 PM (Fi81e)

353 349 165 >>> When you go to a whorehouse and your options are a literal horse, a pig, a goat, and a Golden Corral 3, you take the GC3.

I spent some time trying to figure out what kind of a sex act a Golden Corral 3 would be. It must be popular if they have to number them.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 02:51 PM (Riz8t)

A "Golden Corral 3" is someone who is a 3/10 on a scale to the hottest patron of the budget buffet-style restaurant.
Posted by: SciVo at July 17, 2026 03:18 PM (Sy6m/)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HE TRIED TO EXPLAIN IT

Posted by: BEN ROTHLESBERGER... at July 17, 2026 03:20 PM (mP0Kj)

354
Who at the TV station decided to allow Ashley Webb onto the stage? In NYC a few years back you had "the rent is too damn high" guy , but he at least had an issue. Webb was just a freak who made the whole thing a freakshow
Posted by: Smell the Glove


She just made an existing freak show freakier.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2026 03:20 PM (Cqx++)

355 360
A "Golden Corral 3" is someone who is a 3/10 on a scale to the hottest patron of the budget buffet-style restaurant.
Posted by: SciVo at July 17, 2026 03:18 PM (Sy6m/)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HE TRIED TO EXPLAIN IT

Posted by: BEN ROTHLESBERGER... at July 17, 2026 03:20 PM (mP0Kj)

======

I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 03:20 PM (PIaQL)

356
Graham Clapner took an axe
And gave his pecker forty whacks.
When he saw what he had done
He gave his pecker forty one.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 17, 2026 03:21 PM (s9VOe)

357
. . . and somehow, the melty cheese fountain is involved.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 17, 2026 03:19 PM (wVcYX)



When the guy that did the Chili's 'barbeque sauce' song died, they had the bbq sauce fountain and everyone was given a rib to dip when paying their respects.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:21 PM (2YhKe)

358 Someone breaks into my house, I'm shooting them with hot lead, not a hot load.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:10 PM



Are we totally ruling out despoiling the body?

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 03:21 PM (4NO2D)

359 ======

I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 03:20 PM (PIaQL)



Illiterate asshole.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:21 PM (2YhKe)

360 333 Yeah, I don't know how to HTML Tag the little 2 for squared.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:16 PM (2YhKe)
----
It's this type of question that I use AI for...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2026 03:22 PM (FZ29D)

361 Now you know how I felt to see Joe Biden take office.

I had been watching that guy on CSPAN-2 before the Clarence Thomas hearings.

What the fuck, America?!
Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 03:20 PM (Fi81e)

Well, Delaware.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 03:22 PM (uhVAy)

362 314 I want to speak to the manager of the simulation we are in; it's terrible.
Posted by: Archer at July 17, 2026 03:12 PM (wvc0i)
------------
I've been hitting the reset button for over thirty years and it still doesn't work

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 17, 2026 03:22 PM (iVhsR)

363 Eh, I don't see what would really stop her. SC voters knew and loved Lindsey Graham in spite (or perhaps because) of all his terrible flaws.

All she has to do is say "I'm just like my brother, but less effeminate. I'll carry on all his policies. And I maintain his connection with all the major donors and Republican Senate grande&ecaute;s who keep the pork flowing to you, his voters."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 03:22 PM (BI5O2)

364 You can't even get out of the galaxy, Roddenberry spawn!!
Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 03:19 PM (Fi81e)

The Milky Way is 120,000 light years large. They couldn't get out of a small quadrant of the galaxy.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 03:22 PM (/WQyy)

365 ----
It's this type of question that I use AI for...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2026 03:22 PM (FZ29D)



I cannot. It goes against the fiber of my being at the moment.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:23 PM (2YhKe)

366 Graham,
Remember when you ran away and I got on my knees to service you and begged you not to leave the Commie-crat Party because I'd go berserk?

Well, you left me anyhow and then the days got worse and worse and now you see I've gone completely out of my mind

And they're coming to take me away, ha-ha
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-ha
To New England where life is beautiful all the time

And I'll be happy to see those nice transgender men in their clean white coats

And they're coming to take me away, ha-ha

Posted by: Chuck Schumer at July 17, 2026 03:23 PM (X7dyz)

367 (note: our football team did, indeed win State my senior year. I wasn't on the team but they were pretty good.)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 03:16 PM (uhVAy)

Seriously ? You didn't play ? But "we" won ?

Dude. You are stereotypical.
Posted by: Math at July 17, 2026 03:22 PM (7wXA5)

i told you it is standard Midwest culture.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 03:23 PM (uhVAy)

368 "Who at the TV station decided to allow Ashley Webb onto the stage?"


He/she/it is the Dems idea of reaching out to young white men.

Posted by: Ripley at July 17, 2026 03:23 PM (GUOwU)

369 Darryl is just a patsy.

Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2026 03:23 PM (ZxPkt)

370 In a psych diagnosis, of which I have tried to forget all I ever learned because I hated every class required to take...

Ashley has a very "flat affect."

His is rather so flat it is if a steam roller smushed his face into hot asphalt and he somehow lived.

He has my vote! He and Mitch could sit together crossing the aisle.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 17, 2026 03:23 PM (hzuYO)

371 I blame Big Darryl.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:24 PM (2YhKe)

372 "....and somehow, the melty cheese fountain is involved.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 17, 2026 03:19 PM"
+++

We're still gorging ourselves on ranch dressing.

Posted by: Men's Metric Kickball fans at July 17, 2026 03:24 PM (2Ez/1)

373 Yeah, I don't know how to HTML Tag the little 2 for squared.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:16 PM (2YhKe)
---
Does HTML even work on this board?

It's <sup>, btw.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 03:24 PM (Fi81e)

374 356 165 A "Golden Corral 3" is someone who is a 3/10 on a scale to the hottest patron of the budget buffet-style restaurant.
Posted by: SciVo at July 17, 2026 03:18 PM (Sy6m/)

. . . and somehow, the melty cheese fountain is involved.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 17, 2026 03:19 PM (wVcYX)

ewww

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 03:24 PM (6wpGE)

375

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:24 PM (2YhKe)

376 Seriously ? You didn't play ? But "we" won ?



*shifty eyes*

Posted by: The Marching Band at July 17, 2026 03:24 PM (4NO2D)

377 Chance the Gardener would wipe the lot of 'em. It's just a matter of being there for those Mainers.

Posted by: mrp at July 17, 2026 03:24 PM (rj6Yv)

378 Oooh.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:24 PM (2YhKe)

379 Planter also said he wanted to blow some dudes but like I'm a way that shows them who is the alpha boss of their penis

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 03:24 PM (/bHKT)

380 ²

To display the superscript two (² in HTML, you can use the HTML entity & # 1 7 8 ;

Eliminate the spaces.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 17, 2026 03:24 PM (XeU6L)

381 I'm so old I played HS football before we had state championships.

Posted by: Archer at July 17, 2026 03:24 PM (wvc0i)

382 E = MDarryl2²

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:25 PM (2YhKe)

383 Thanks autocorrect

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 03:25 PM (/bHKT)

384 almost......


E=MDarryl²

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:25 PM (2YhKe)

385 #Winning.

I'll never remember that, however.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:25 PM (2YhKe)

386 360 349 165 A "Golden Corral 3" is someone who is a 3/10 on a scale to the hottest patron of the budget buffet-style restaurant.
Posted by: SciVo at July 17, 2026 03:18 PM (Sy6m/)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HE TRIED TO EXPLAIN IT
Posted by: BEN ROTHLESBERGER... at July 17, 2026 03:20 PM (mP0Kj)

I'm glad he did, because it looked like it was not being understood by everyone in class.

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 03:25 PM (6wpGE)

387 339

Nominating Graham's sister might be the only way the DEMs stand a chance to pick up this seat.

It's a terrible idea. I keep thinking back to Jean Carnahan's short career in MO. She looked terribly out of her depth in the debate. Reminded me of Adm. Stockdale saying, "Why am I here?"

Posted by: mnw at July 17, 2026 03:25 PM (RCjYY)

388 Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 03:20 PM (Fi81e)

It didn't kill me but didn't d put me in a coma.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 03:25 PM (/WQyy)

389 I'm so old I played HS football before we had state championships.
Posted by: Archer at July 17, 2026 03:24 PM


Not even a Territorial Champ?

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 03:25 PM (4NO2D)

390 I'm so old I played HS football before we had state championships.
Posted by: Archer at July 17, 2026 03:24 PM (wvc0i)

unorganized territorial champs, 1798

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 03:25 PM (uhVAy)

391 369 Now you know how I felt to see Joe Biden take office.

I had been watching that guy on CSPAN-2 before the Clarence Thomas hearings.

What the fuck, America?!

======

Well, first Obama destroyed the Democrat Party. Then, to make up for it, they opened the borders, opened the floodgates of government grant money to NGOs, and started fortifying elections like Chicago through the DNC in other Democrat strongholds in order to make up for it.

And then, weakened and without a message beyond, "Trump is bad because Russia" because Hillary Clinton was deeply unlikeable and awful, they had no candidate who could appeal to anyone other than Bernie Sanders, who could have gone off the reservation given the powers of the presidency (and isn't even a Democrat anyway).

So, they elevated the only possible anti-Bernie left late in the primary process, Biden, and shut down the planet's economy and stoked BLM riots for months in order to convince America to vote for Biden.

When that didn't work, even after months of mail in ballot fraud, they shut down ballot counting in six states in the middle of the night to ballot box stuff like Tammany Hall to barely give Biden a victory.

And, when you take a step back and look at it all, there's only one conclusion to draw:

It's because Trump said pussy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 03:26 PM (PIaQL)

392 Chance the Gardener would wipe the lot of 'em. It's just a matter of being there for those Mainers.
Posted by: mrp at July 17, 2026 03:24 PM (rj6Yv)

ISWYDT

Got my eye on you for future clever comments.
*does the two finger eye point thing*

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 17, 2026 03:26 PM (wVcYX)

393 It would kill me to see AOC as President .
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 03:18 PM (/WQyy)

Me too.

I'd laugh til my thorax collapsed and jammed my ribs through my lungs.

My big fear is that the next Dem President won't be as funny as Biden. She'll be a riot.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 03:26 PM (BI5O2)

394 To display the superscript two (² in HTML, you can use the HTML entity & # 1 7 8 ;

Eliminate the spaces.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 17, 2026 03:24 PM (XeU6L)
---
Yeah, we can do HTML entities. ™

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 03:26 PM (Fi81e)

395 383 2²
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:24 PM (2YhKe)

5!

Posted by: Reforger at July 17, 2026 03:26 PM (kAEfL)

396 It was like an SNL skit, only funny.

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 03:27 PM (hftzA)

397 I was going to say that scogg's into his cups early but, it is after noon DST.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 03:27 PM (4NO2D)

398 Sup? Sup²?

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 03:27 PM (Fi81e)

399
371 Eh, I don't see what would really stop her. SC voters knew and loved Lindsey Graham in spite (or perhaps because) of all his terrible flaws.

All she has to do is say "I'm just like my brother, but less effeminate. I'll carry on all his policies. And I maintain his connection with all the major donors and Republican Senate grande&ecaute;s who keep the pork flowing to you, his voters."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 03:22 PM (BI5O2)

=====

Her only hope is that her name recognition carries her over a crowded field.

Except she doesn't have name recognition.

She's not former governor Mark Sanford running in a 15 person race in SC-1.

She doesn't even share her brother's last name.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 03:27 PM (PIaQL)

400
How much would it kill Hillary to see AOC win the Presidency?
Posted by: m

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

I think Hillary's already been killed:

1 - Michelle Obama's popularity and wealth

2 - Sasha and Malia's slaggy bullshit and they're probably bigger "gets" than Chelsea

3 - Tim Kaine continues in the senate while she's unemployed

4 - Watching Jill Biden be such a POS fuckup

5 - She set up Kamala for years and Kamala blew it

I think she kibbitzes her t.v. all day. "I could have done it better! Shut up, you idiot! If I'd made it to the White House, NONE of these people would be losing now. I'd have built a machine that would have lasted."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 17, 2026 03:27 PM (mmrXZ)

401 Not even territorial champs. Now get off my lawn.

Posted by: Archer at July 17, 2026 03:27 PM (wvc0i)

402 Not even territorial champs. Now get off my lawn.
Posted by: Archer at July 17, 2026 03:27 PM


Colonial Champs?

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 03:28 PM (4NO2D)

403
She's not former governor Mark Sanford running in a 15 person race in SC-1.

She doesn't even share her brother's last name.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 03:27 PM (PIaQL)


Mark Sanford ? Seriously

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 03:28 PM (bBCpC)

404 Hmm.

2₂

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 17, 2026 03:28 PM (XeU6L)

405 Somebody go wake Ace up...

Posted by: MkY at July 17, 2026 03:28 PM (q6tQZ)

406
Q: Would you approve of ending daylight savings?
Posted by: Ripley


BELLOWS: I enjoy saving daylight and I enjoy spending daylight.

I just wish that the daylight savings bank had more branches and more ATM machines in Maine's bait stores.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 17, 2026 03:28 PM (s9VOe)

407 371

Nominating Carnahan's widow sure backfired in MO. And THIS woman isn't even the widow!

Posted by: mnw at July 17, 2026 03:29 PM (RCjYY)

408 412
She's not former governor Mark Sanford running in a 15 person race in SC-1.

She doesn't even share her brother's last name.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 03:27 PM (PIaQL)


Mark Sanford ? Seriously

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 03:28 PM (bBCpC)

======

Sanford probably has a better chance than Graham's sister.

But he has no chance.

Sanford will place 5th. Graham's sister will place 8th.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 03:29 PM (PIaQL)

409 Territorial Champs > Territorial Pissings

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:29 PM (2YhKe)

410 And of course one man who just showed up to say he wants to use the women's bathrooms and changing rooms.
......

BATHROOMS
Take a shit at home, asshole. Public restrooms are disgusting enough without you in them.
Freakin' perverts and their bathrooms.

Posted by: wth at July 17, 2026 03:29 PM (UjdFS)

411 Nominating Carnahan's widow sure backfired in MO.

They got six years in the Senate.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 03:29 PM (4NO2D)

412 Hmm.

2₂
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 17, 2026 03:28 PM (XeU6L)



You found the same code I did.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 03:29 PM (2YhKe)

413
"1 - Michelle Obama's popularity and wealth
2 - Sasha and Malia's slaggy bullshit and they're probably bigger "gets" than Chelsea
3 - Tim Kaine continues in the senate while she's unemployed
4 - Watching Jill Biden be such a POS fuckup
5 - She set up Kamala for years and Kamala blew it"


Hey. I used to be the next President of the United States!

Posted by: AlGore at July 17, 2026 03:30 PM (2Ez/1)

414 Nood. Which means a new thread.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at July 17, 2026 03:30 PM (n9eFH)

415 NOOD

SEE EYE AY

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2026 03:30 PM (vDZgA)

416 No witness the power of my sister's machine!!

Posted by: Zombie Lindsey at July 17, 2026 03:30 PM (kAEfL)

417 Well Bryan DeChambeau ain't blowing this major and will make the British Open cut. But I had to stop being neutral about him because he doesn't believe we landed on the moon.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 03:30 PM (/WQyy)

418 sid's ass is the best tasting ass

Posted by: Paul at July 17, 2026 03:31 PM (jO13S)

419 Sanford probably has a better chance than Graham's sister.

But he has no chance.

Sanford will place 5th. Graham's sister will place 8th.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 03:29 PM (PIaQL


I'm not keen on Graham's sister running but I have to think she's doing what Trump and the Governor required her to ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 03:31 PM (bBCpC)

420 TJM is right.

I think Ralph Norman will win the nomination.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 03:31 PM (wOO3z)

421 Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 03:27 PM (4NO2D)

I think he should have a new handle on every thread. Only Two so far on two different threads seems a little lame.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 03:31 PM (D+BhG)

422 Nominating Carnahan's widow sure backfired in MO.

They got six years in the Senate.
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 03:29 PM (4NO2D)

But lost their 'swing state' status for good. Related? Maybe.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 03:31 PM (uhVAy)

423 Planter also said he would accept man meat in his dung filter, but he will clench at a time of HIS OWN choosing as any dominator would, to let the other dude know he is the master and they are his penile slave.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 03:32 PM (/bHKT)

424 Hillary lost to Trump. There can be nothing worse in Democrat circles.

Posted by: davidt at July 17, 2026 03:32 PM (Q+gd/)

425 I'm not keen on Graham's sister running but I have to think she's doing what Trump and the Governor required her to ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 03:31 PM (bBCpC)

Taking his unfilled term makes sense politically, no taking sides unilaterally. Having her backed for the future, nah, I don't like it per se.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 03:33 PM (uhVAy)

426 Posted by: Paul at July 17, 2026 03:31 PM (jO13S)

======

72% of Maine Democrats voted for Platner after it was revealed he sexually abused a woman and had a Nazi tattoo.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 03:33 PM (PIaQL)

427 unorganized territorial champs, 1798
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 03:25 PM (uhVAy)

Come on ... this has to be bullshit. Surely.
Posted by: Math at July 17, 2026 03:32 PM (7wXA5)

let me explain the concept of a 'joke' to ya.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 03:33 PM (uhVAy)

428 Still wouldn't be surprised to see Hillary run in 28

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 03:34 PM (OXYE0)

429 Well Bryan DeChambeau ain't blowing this major and will make the British Open cut. But I had to stop being neutral about him because he doesn't believe we landed on the moon.
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 03:30 PM (/WQyy)

I've only seen the 17th green on film...might be a setup.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 03:34 PM (uhVAy)

430 Yes, Paul. Democrats take sexual harassment "very seriously" after very seriously trying to hush it up fails to work.

Totally. A president getting a blowjob from an intern is "JUST ABOUT SEX", you prying perverts! Like there's no power imbalance from the Most Powerful Man in the World and an unpaid wannabe.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 03:35 PM (Fi81e)

431 Still wouldn't be surprised to see Hillary run in 28
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 03:34 PM (OXYE0)

I would. Straight women are low on the victim totem pole.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 03:35 PM (uhVAy)

432 Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 03:35 PM (Fi81e

He stuck a cigar in her bajangle.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 03:36 PM (/WQyy)

433 I think I have figured it all out, y'all.

In 2020 we emerged into a new dynamic and did not know. Some of us survived normally but grumpier and more sarcastic yet more beautiful. Some became ugly trans at rapid speed.

We're watching an old series called The Last Ship on Netflix with Eric Dane (who died in real life recently). The bad people were the immunes for awhile and were taking over the world. Eric Dane was on a ship trying to find the cure during the apocalypse.

I love this show but mostly a hunky Australian guy. However, I do think we crossed the rubicon and were unaware in 2020 as nothing has been the same.

My life is mostly very good in the new paradigm. I was somehow immune but not wanting to take over the world as queen.

Others become trans or think homo intruder thoughts like Platner and Ashley Webb.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 17, 2026 03:40 PM (hzuYO)

434 I want to get rid of ICE. As soon as every illegal is deported or jailed and no illegals ever come into our country.
See, I can look for a middle ground.
P.S. Commies still will be dropped from helicopters but that will be a different group, state militias.

Posted by: Enola Gay Pride at July 17, 2026 03:42 PM (DIS3S)

435 403 To display the superscript two (² in HTML, you can use the HTML entity & # 1 7 8 ;

Eliminate the spaces.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 17, 2026 03:24 PM (XeU6L)
---
Yeah, we can do HTML entities. ™
Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 03:26 PM (Fi81e)


Wait. Can I make an upside-down exclamation (#161)?

¡

Posted by: SciVo at July 17, 2026 03:44 PM (Sy6m/)

436 ¡Si se puede!

Posted by: SciVo at July 17, 2026 03:44 PM (Sy6m/)

437 Oops, need the accented i (#237).

¡Sí se puede!

Posted by: SciVo at July 17, 2026 03:48 PM (Sy6m/)

438 Planter also said he would accept man meat in his dung filter, but he will clench at a time of HIS OWN choosing as any dominator would, to let the other dude know he is the master and they are his penile slave.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 03:32 PM (/bHKT)
===

Ace level stuff there. Golf Clap.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at July 17, 2026 03:52 PM (xvV+O)

439 Wow

Nobody can convince me that trannys are really adored. That fat idiot *Ashley" looks like a Reddit moderator.

This isn't 2020 anymore you psycho fag

Nobody cares

Posted by: Melodicmetal at July 17, 2026 04:19 PM (61TgR)

As US Forces Knock Out Iranian Power Plants, the IRGC Tells Iranians to be Like the UK and France and Turn Off the AC and Die In the Summer Heat

Trump's bombing them all the way back to modern day Europe.


Iran has told its citizens to turn off their air conditioning during peak hours as the country's power grid came under strain amid US strikes.

Tehran's energy ministry said that the power restrictions were necessary 'to help ensure a stable electricity supply in the southern provinces, which are currently facing extreme heat and attacks on electricity supply facilities.'

Temperatures in the capital were expected to hit triple digits Friday, with highs of 102F on Saturday and Sunday.

Donald Trump ordered the US military to hit Iranian bridges throughout coastal cities along the Strait of Hormuz. A report from Iranian state media claims an American missile struck Qeshm, an island which is home to a hidden 'missile city' buried underground. The US also fired on a ship which was trying to breach the blockade.

Qeshm extends out into the Strait and is, presumably, a key staging area for attacks on shipping. US forces appear to be attempting to bomb all roads and bridges to the island, to cut it off completely.


...

Just hours prior, Trump directed the US military to hit Iranian bridges throughout coastal cities along the Strait of Hormuz.

Iranian officials reported Thursday explosions in Bandar Abbas and two blasts in Bushehr, home to Iran's largest civilian nuclear plant.

The US said its forces struck Iranian command centers, air defense sites, missile and drone capabilities, and coastal surveillance facilities tied to the battle over the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran hit the power infrastructure of other Gulf states in retaliation.

John Spencer
@SpencerGuard


Updates on Iran: Following the breakdown of the ceasefire/memorandum of understanding, fighting has escalated/resumed over the past 6 days (roughly July 13--17), with the US conducting multiple nights of strikes and Iran lashes out.

US (according to USCENTCOM) has conducted strikes for six consecutive nights, using aircraft, drones, warships, and precision munitions. The stated goal is to degrade Iran's ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

Key targets hit (primarily southern/coastal Iran, focused on Bandar Abbas area and nearby islands):

* Coastal defense systems, air defenses, radar/coastal surveillance sites, missile/drone capabilities, command centers, and maritime/small boat assets.

* Locations: Bandar Abbas (port/naval hub), Qeshm Island, Kish Island, Abu Musa, Bushehr province (including Jam and Kangan), Chah Bahar (Chabahar), Jask, Konarak, Sistan-Baluchestan province (including areas near Rask and Saravan), and others.

* Military Infrastructure: Bridges (at least six in Hormozgan province), a maritime control tower in Chabahar (collapsed), military logistics infrastructure, and some inland sites (e.g., airports, possible rail/power elements).

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:15 PM




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1 Good preparation for the afterlife.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 01:15 PM (ExV1e)

2 There you go

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 01:16 PM (/bHKT)

3 I haz nooded.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 01:16 PM (ExV1e)

4 And the Iranians retaliated with Taco Bell.

Innovative strategy.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 17, 2026 01:16 PM (Sco7b)

5 We should send our lettuce to the IRGC.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 17, 2026 01:17 PM (3uBP9)

6 There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to Heaven
When she gets there, she knows if the stores are all closed
With a word, she can get what she came for
Ooh, and she's buying a stairway to Heaven

There's a sign on the wall, but she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings
In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven

There's a feeling I get when I look to the west
And my spirit is crying for leaving
In my thoughts, I have seen rings of smoke through the trees
And the voices of those who stand looking ...

AT THE BLADE STEALING ANOTHER FIRST!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 01:18 PM (iFTx/)

7 I wonder if heaven has A.C. ?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 17, 2026 01:19 PM (t7WpP)

8 When you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at July 17, 2026 01:19 PM (nYjOQ)

9 6 There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
...
AT THE BLADE STEALING ANOTHER FIRST!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 01:18 PM (iFTx/)


All that effort, for sixth.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 01:19 PM (ExV1e)

10 Trump's bombing them all the way back to modern day Europe.

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"WAR CRIMINAL!" charges coming in 5 .. 4 .. 3 ... AKA another day ending in "day."

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 01:19 PM (KBK+H)

11 The Iranians are bombing Taco Bell? Oh Noes!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 17, 2026 01:19 PM (tWxgu)

12 The Saif Alderai video made me laugh. It sounds like a bunch of kids are watching the explosion and then saying "Wow!".

I don't know if Persian has a word for "awesome", but if they did, they'd be saying it.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 01:20 PM (Riz8t)

13
Can we all pitch in to get Elric and Sponge a motel room somewhere?

Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 01:20 PM (Y8DZL)

14 Finally!! Bridge and power plant days… what I’ve been waiting for. Don’t stop

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 01:20 PM (yz/88)

15 "Iran is imploding, the regime is broke, and their war machine is running on empty. Workers aren't getting paid, soldiers are deserting, and military camps are literally facing food shortages. Their entire proxy network is crumbling."

I've heard this 100x over the last few months. I hope this time it's based on real facts and not wishcasters pulling optimism out of their assholes.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 01:21 PM (iFTx/)

16 As US Forces Knock Out Iranian Power Plants, the IRGC Tells Iranians to be Like the UK and France and Turn Off the AC and Die In the Summer Heat

See? With Trump's influence, they're becoming more westernized already!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 17, 2026 01:21 PM (kgE5c)

17 Sad!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 17, 2026 01:21 PM (amcLV)

18 Thank you, good night, and Lettuce Roll

Posted by: Zombie Peter Jennings at July 17, 2026 01:21 PM (3uBP9)

19 > There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold

You just reminded me of a pet peeve of mine. The phrase, "All that glitters is not gold." I hate it so much. Gold glitters. It's false. More formally, if you take the set of all things that glitter, nothing within that set is gold. Obviously that's not true.

What you mean to say is, "Not all that glitters is gold." Meaning, of the set of all things that glitter, not everything in that set is gold. That is correct.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 17, 2026 01:22 PM (mkw2N)

20 Trump's bombing them all the way back to modern day Europe.
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LOL! Classic ace.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 01:22 PM (Fi81e)

21 Why is Iran hitting other gulf states in retaliation? It doesn't seem like the best plan for them to hit their Muslim neighbors?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 01:22 PM (Bw1/o)

22 I wonder if heaven has A.C. ?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 17, 2026 01:19 PM (t7WpP)

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They should be more worried about hell not having A.C.

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 01:22 PM (KBK+H)

23 There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
...
AT THE BLADE STEALING ANOTHER FIRST!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 01:18 PM (iFTx/)

All that effort, for sixth.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 01:19 PM (ExV1e)
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Takes too much time to do the cut and paste and formatting, alas

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 01:23 PM (iFTx/)

24 Afternoon.

Posted by: Robert at July 17, 2026 01:23 PM (dpXJq)

25 Stairway to Heaven… great song but I always thought Robert Plant was intentionally enunciating in strange ways on the song to make the lyrics hard to understand. Like Manfred Mann’s Earth Band on Blinded by the Light…. I mean what in the world is a coliappi??

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 01:23 PM (yz/88)

26 21 Why is Iran hitting other gulf states in retaliation? It doesn't seem like the best plan for them to hit their Muslim neighbors?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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For hosting US forces. USAF in Qatar, Navy and others in Bahrain, and I think US Army in Kuwait. UAE has some US forces there as well.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 01:23 PM (E4rtv)

27 It's about time. Put a few MOABs onto Karg Island.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 17, 2026 01:23 PM (g8Ew8)

28 In heaven, there is no beer.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 01:23 PM (Fi81e)

29 21 Why is Iran hitting other gulf states in retaliation? It doesn't seem like the best plan for them to hit their Muslim neighbors?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 01:22 PM (Bw1/o)


Supposedly they are going for American bases in these Countries

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 01:24 PM (FtULh)

30 What you mean to say is, "Not all that glitters is gold." Meaning, of the set of all things that glitter, not everything in that set is gold. That is correct.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 17, 2026 01:22 PM (mkw2N)

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Kommie-la has a Venn Diagram for that.

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 01:24 PM (KBK+H)

31 Love listening to the Iranian people watching the explosions and hoping the mullahs are about to fall

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 01:24 PM (OXYE0)

32 How you like them TACOs?

Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2026 01:24 PM (uzmqU)

33 Zorro was Bandar Abbas best movie.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 01:24 PM (ndZc7)

34 Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 01:23 PM (E4rtv)

Thanks. I'm sure that will get their neighbors on the side of Iran./s

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 01:25 PM (Bw1/o)

35 The Saif Alderai video sounds amazingly like the Ewoks in the Star Wars movie when they met C3PO the first time.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 17, 2026 01:25 PM (3Ope8)

36 AT THE BLADE STEALING ANOTHER FIRST!
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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And like the song you cite, not quite ready for greatness.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 01:25 PM (E4rtv)

37 I've heard this 100x over the last few months. I hope this time it's based on real facts and not wishcasters pulling optimism out of their assholes.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 01:21 PM (iFTx/)


Maybe civilizations take longer to crumble than an episode of Matlock.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 01:25 PM (ExV1e)

38 You just reminded me of a pet peeve of mine. The phrase, "All that glitters is not gold." I hate it so much. Gold glitters. It's false. More formally, if you take the set of all things that glitter, nothing within that set is gold. Obviously that's not true.

What you mean to say is, "Not all that glitters is gold." Meaning, of the set of all things that glitter, not everything in that set is gold. That is correct.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 17, 2026 01:22 PM (mkw2N)

You just gave a non-mathematical description of what mathematicians refer to as naive set theory

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 01:25 PM (yz/88)

39 Good.

More.

Gooder and harderer...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2026 01:25 PM (FZ29D)

40 NO STAIRWAY

Posted by: toby928(c) points at the sign at July 17, 2026 01:26 PM (4NO2D)

41 What you mean to say is, "Not all that glitters is gold." Meaning, of the set of all things that glitter, not everything in that set is gold. That is correct.

Posted by: bonhomme

Don Lemon glitters.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 01:26 PM (ndZc7)

42 I mean what in the world is a coliappi??

Caliope (or Calliope) most famously refers to the Muse of epic poetry in Greek mythology, known for her beautiful voice. The name is also used for a loud, steam-powered keyboard instrument often heard at carnivals, a European retail fashion brand, and several technical, environmental, or media-related projects.

Glad I could help.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 01:26 PM (Riz8t)

43 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 01:26 PM (2YhKe)

44 Trump's bombing them all the way back to modern day Europe.



Sick. Burn.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 01:26 PM (2YhKe)

45 How you like them TACOs?
Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2026 01:24 PM (uzmqU)


Exploding bridges >> explosive diarrhea.

Posted by: far cry at July 17, 2026 01:26 PM (+IsEU)

46 Stairway to Heaven… great song but I always thought Robert Plant was intentionally enunciating in strange ways on the song to make the lyrics hard to understand.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 01:23 PM (yz/8
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It's for the backwards masking...
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Like Manfred Mann’s Earth Band on Blinded by the Light…. I mean what in the world is a coliappi??
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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/calliope

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 01:26 PM (Fi81e)

47 Thanks for the earworm.
Now where is that ice pick?

Posted by: Reforger at July 17, 2026 01:26 PM (YHaz5)

48 Perhaps the sand people will rise up and topple the ragheads governing them.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 17, 2026 01:27 PM (W2Pud)

49 Glad I could help.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 01:26 PM (Riz8t)

Archimedes, you just ruined my enjoyment of Blinded by the Light (whiny voice)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 01:27 PM (yz/88)

50 Why is Iran hitting other gulf states in retaliation? It doesn't seem like the best plan for them to hit their Muslim neighbors?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 01:22 PM (Bw1/o)


Sunni vs. Shia is enough of an excuse.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 17, 2026 01:27 PM (tWxgu)

51 34 Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 01:23 PM (E4rtv)

Thanks. I'm sure that will get their neighbors on the side of Iran./s
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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I think the Gulf emirates, Jordan, Iraq, Oman, and Saudi Arabia have decided themselves that the mullahs and IRGC must go. But the trick is that they want us to do it for them. But the Arab street is not supporting the Persians for ethnic and religious reasons (Shi'a v Sunni).

And Iran's proxies which are Shi'a but Arabs are being neutered one by one.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 01:28 PM (E4rtv)

52 AT THE BLADE STEALING ANOTHER FIRST!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 01:18 PM (iFTx/)

All that effort, for sixth.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 01:19 PM


to be a rock, and not to roll...

Posted by: toby928(c) points at the sign at July 17, 2026 01:28 PM (4NO2D)

53
FAFO

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 17, 2026 01:28 PM (XeU6L)

54 >>> What you mean to say is, "Not all that glitters is gold." Meaning, of the set of all things that glitter, not everything in that set is gold. That is correct.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 17, 2026 01:22 PM (mkw2N)

If there is not a bustle in your hedge row, there are no spring cleans for the may queen.

.no.

If there is not a spring clean for the may queen you can be assured there was not a bustle in your hedge row.

...no that's not it either.

You cannot have a spring clean unless...

For every bustle there must be..

Ah to hell with it! GUITAR SOLO!!!

Posted by: banana Dream at July 17, 2026 01:29 PM (3uBP9)

55 Can we all pitch in to get Elric and Sponge a motel room somewhere?
Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 01:20 PM (Y8DZL)


I got $5.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 17, 2026 01:29 PM (/HDaX)

56 Thanks for the earworm.
Now where is that ice pick?

Posted by: Reforger at July 17, 2026 01:26 PM (YHaz5)
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I still like early Springsteen. Born in the USA and following is what I don't care that much about. Or perhaps Nebraska on.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 01:29 PM (Fi81e)

57 Various sites are reporting that Trump is "surging" refueling planes to Israel (in addition to the ones already parked there). This weekend is going to be interesting.

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 01:29 PM (GD0B3)

58 Like Manfred Mann’s Earth Band on Blinded by the Light…. I mean what in the world is a coliappi??
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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/calliope
Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 01:26 PM (Fi81e)

It helps with douches in the night.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 17, 2026 01:29 PM (g8Ew8)

59 Sunni vs. Shia is enough of an excuse.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 17, 2026 01:27 PM (tWxgu)


"Sunni vs. Shia" should be the name of a film about a contest between an aging pron star and a nutcase actor.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 01:29 PM (ExV1e)

60 Iran retaliating against gulf neighbors is equivalent to the little runt who gets beat up by captain of the football team so he goes and pulls the ponytails of 6th grade girls…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 01:29 PM (yz/88)

61 Zorro was Bandar Abbas best movie.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 01:24 PM (ndZc7)
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Antonio Banderas, not Bandar Abbas!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 17, 2026 01:29 PM (amcLV)

62 "Bombing them back to modern day Europe"
Mamdani - "You left me out of this conversation because you're racist?"

Posted by: Greg Alan at July 17, 2026 01:30 PM (4JrN8)

63 Why is Iran hitting other gulf states in retaliation? It doesn't seem like the best plan for them to hit their Muslim neighbors?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

When all you have is Islam, every problem looks like an infidel.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 01:30 PM (ndZc7)

64 AT THE BLADE STEALING ANOTHER FIRST!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 01:18 PM (iFTx/)

All that effort, for sixth.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 01:19 PM

to be a rock, and not to roll...


That's what you do when your shadow is taller than your soul.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 01:30 PM (Riz8t)

65 >>I still like early Springsteen.


Mr State Trooper is one of the worst songs ever recorded.

Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2026 01:30 PM (uzmqU)

66 NO STAIRWAY
Posted by: toby928(c) points at the sign at July 17, 2026 01:26 PM (4NO2D)


Denied!

I always wondered why it never sounded like Wayne was playing Stairway. Today AI tells me:

While the original theatrical release included the recognizable opening notes, copyright restrictions forced the studio to replace the riff with generic, unrecognizable guitar strumming for all subsequent home video, television, and foreign releases.

Posted by: far cry at July 17, 2026 01:30 PM (+IsEU)

67 I got $5.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 17, 2026 01:29 PM (/HDaX)

And a first! To donate.

Posted by: Reforger at July 17, 2026 01:30 PM (YHaz5)

68 If there is not a bustle in your hedge row,
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I don't know, haven't checked by hedge row in a while.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 01:30 PM (Fi81e)

69 Like Manfred Mann’s Earth Band on Blinded by the Light…. I mean what in the world is a coliappi??
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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/calliope
Posted by: Axeman

Bruce Springstain's mumbling lyrics period where he tried to emulate Bob Dylan with less clever lyrics. His original take on Blinded by the Light is much inferior to Manfred Mann's later hit version.

Same with Fire and the Pointer Sisters or Because the Night with Patti Smyth. All of these were better singers than him and all of those songs did better with those groups covering them than his original version.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 01:30 PM (E4rtv)

70 It helps with douches in the night.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 17, 2026 01:29 PM (g8Ew

I don’t even wanna know how one revs up a douche….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 01:30 PM (yz/88)

71 Can we all pitch in to get Elric and Sponge a motel room somewhere?
Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 01:20 PM (Y8DZL)




WTF did I do to deserve that?

He stole my schtick. I had nothing to do with it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 01:30 PM (2YhKe)

72 Iran bombed Qatar and Saudi...and then they showed up to funeral of Dear Charcoal to pay respects.

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 01:30 PM (GD0B3)

73 Posted by: bonhomme at July 17, 2026 01:22 PM (mkw2N)

I hate to nitpick a good nitpick but I feel it's pretty clear the not is about all, not any.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 01:31 PM (/bHKT)

74 It helps with douches in the night.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 17, 2026 01:29 PM (g8Ew

Damn.. Now I have that song in my brain

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 01:31 PM (FtULh)

75 Don Lemon glitters.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 01:26 PM (ndZc7)

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I've heard that his fingers often glitter with some substance.

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 01:31 PM (KBK+H)

76 We also took out another maritime control tower. I think this one was at the Chah Bahar Shahid Kalantari Port, on the Gulf of Oman.

It was being used to target commercial vessels.

And a lot (more) IRGC infrastructure is now smoking ruins.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 01:31 PM (jehhT)

77 >>I still like early Springsteen.


Mr State Trooper is one of the worst songs ever recorded.
Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2026 01:30 PM (uzmqU)
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Yeah. I said I wasn't crazy about Nebraska.

But the artsy people were impressed.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 01:31 PM (Fi81e)

78 "... and their war machine is running on empty..."

Why is it running at all?

Posted by: I gotta ask at July 17, 2026 01:32 PM (2Ez/1)

79 Yeah. I said I wasn't crazy about Nebraska.

But the artsy people were impressed.
Posted by: Axeman
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Springstain was emulating Woody Guthrie who was a Commie pig that the music press adored.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 01:32 PM (E4rtv)

80 This back and forth will continue UNLESS the League of Arab States declares war on Iran.

They have enough wealth and firepower to put troops on the ground inside Iran to help an insurrection...

If we tried that, we would make a whole bunch of new enemies... but if THEY do it? If THEY fix their own regional problem? It may just hold.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 01:32 PM (mP0Kj)

81 I said I wasn't crazy about Nebraska.

But the artsy people were impressed.
Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 01:31 PM (Fi81e)


Artsy people are never impressed by Nebraska. No 3am Thai food and hardly any gay bathouses.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 01:33 PM (ExV1e)

82 Despite the Dems screeching, no one in the world is really paying attention to Iran anymore.

How can you tell?
Oil futures are at $81; peak in April was $108

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 17, 2026 01:33 PM (3cUTc)

83 "Blinded by the light" is easily in my top 20 of most hated songs, though nothing could ever unseat John Lennon's "Imagine" as No. 1.

Posted by: PabloD at July 17, 2026 01:33 PM (QDulm)

84 Racked up like a douche, another boner in the night.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 17, 2026 01:33 PM (amcLV)

85 WTF did I do to deserve that?

He stole my schtick. I had nothing to do with it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 01:30 PM (2YhKe)

My schtick is stealing schticks 😁

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 01:33 PM (yz/88)

86 Wrapped up like a douche in your hedgerow
Because you don't know

Oh yeah. Ice pick, where is that thing?

Posted by: Reforger at July 17, 2026 01:33 PM (YHaz5)

87 We need new tropes.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 01:33 PM (4NO2D)

88 Zorro the Gay Blade : slashes the door. Says to farmer "do you know what that is ?
Farmer : si, senor , it's a 2
Zorro: no it's a Z
Farmer : no , senor, that's a 2
Zorro, shakes head "peasant" , rides away

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 01:34 PM (OXYE0)

89 >>"Blinded by the light" is easily in my top 20 of most hated songs, though nothing could ever unseat John Lennon's "Imagine" as No. 1.


Mark David Chapman Saved Us, All.

Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2026 01:34 PM (uzmqU)

90 Oh yeah. Ice pick, where is that thing?
Posted by: Reforger at July 17, 2026 01:33 PM


Lie back and think of Hendrix.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 01:34 PM (4NO2D)

91 This back and forth will continue UNLESS the League of Arab States declares war on Iran.

They have enough wealth and firepower to put troops on the ground inside Iran to help an insurrection...


Nope. That would do nothing but provide an center of resistance for the IRGC. SA and the US do not need boots on the ground. Just keep doing what we're doing.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 01:34 PM (Riz8t)

92 He stole my schtick. I had nothing to do with it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 01:30 PM (2YhKe)
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Why should you have to change your schtick when he's the one who sucks!

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 01:34 PM (Fi81e)

93 They have enough wealth and firepower to put troops on the ground inside Iran to help an insurrection...

Has an Arab army fought anyone in the past 1000 years or so other than getting their asses kicked by Israel?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 01:34 PM (ExV1e)

94
The DNC's secrecy concerns might be in regard to their dark horse '28 Presidential Contender being the 12th Imam.

Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 01:34 PM (Y8DZL)

95 Stairway to Heaven… great song but I always thought Robert Plant was intentionally enunciating in strange ways on the song to make the lyrics hard to understand. Like Manfred Mann’s Earth Band on Blinded by the Light…. I mean what in the world is a coliappi??
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 01:23 PM (yz/8
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Geoff Tate has entered the chat ....

Plant probably recorded the song high as fuck.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 01:34 PM (iFTx/)

96 Springstain was emulating Woody Guthrie who was a Commie pig that the music press adored.
Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 01:32 PM (E4rtv)
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I thought he was attempting to imitate Roy Orbison.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 17, 2026 01:34 PM (amcLV)

97 Sure seems that at some point (soon?) the IRGC will run out of the ability to send ballistic missiles and suicide drones to attack their neighbors. Iran is a big place, and they spent years (decades?) preparing caves and tunnels full of missiles and boats (I guess), but we must be watching each time they come out of their holes with another launch, and we can bomb at least the entrances, if not the cave itself?

Posted by: illiniwek at July 17, 2026 01:35 PM (vbXSk)

98 Yeah WTF does it mean to have a bustle in your hedgerow??? Whatever it’s just a sprinkling for the bake queen…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 01:35 PM (yz/88)

99 In before the guy that overshares.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 01:35 PM (4NO2D)

100 @70 whig, The Band's version of Atlantic City blows away Springsteen's

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 01:35 PM (OXYE0)

101 We need new tropes.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 01:33 PM (4NO2D)

At one time I was responsible for easily half a dozen memes here but many have fallen by the wayside. Also I haven't done any new ones in some time which means I have gotten less funny or this place has gotten more funny. Or we have all gotten less funny.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 01:35 PM (/bHKT)

102 Damn it! It's supposed to be Heaven! I demand a escalator!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 01:35 PM (ndZc7)

103 "No 3am Thai food and hardly any gay bathouses."
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But more sheep than people.

Posted by: Nebraska Board of Tourism at July 17, 2026 01:36 PM (2Ez/1)

104 >>Springstain was emulating Woody Guthrie who was a Commie pig that the music press adored.


Commie Fag, yes.

But, 'Mermaid Ave' - Wilco w/Billy Bragg is a helluva album.

Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2026 01:36 PM (uzmqU)

105 Iceberg leaves in flight, afternoon delight

Posted by: I got your ear worm right here pal at July 17, 2026 01:36 PM (3uBP9)

106 "Blinded by the light" is easily in my top 20 of most hated songs, though nothing could ever unseat John Lennon's "Imagine" as No. 1.

Posted by: PabloD at July 17, 2026 01:33 PM (QDulm)
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Imagine is kinda tied with Watching the Wheels with me.

I mean imagine is more intrusively awful and sucks as a concept. But Watching the Wheels is pretty bad too.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 01:36 PM (Fi81e)

107 Whatever it’s just a sprinkling for the bake queen…

Yeah, that's what I though the lyric was until just a few years ago.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 01:37 PM (Riz8t)

108 Yeah. I said I wasn't crazy about Nebraska.
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Great...now you've done it. Bob Seger playing in my head.

'On a long and lonesome highway, east of Omaha
You can listen to the engine moanin' out his one note song...'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 17, 2026 01:37 PM (XeU6L)

109 >>>military camps are literally facing food shortages

yikes

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 01:37 PM (6wpGE)

110 Springstain was emulating Woody Guthrie who was a Commie pig that the music press adored.
Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 01:32 PM (E4rtv)
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I thought he was attempting to imitate Roy Orbison.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

I thought Chairman Mao.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 01:37 PM (ndZc7)

111 The US also fired on a ship which was trying to breach the blockade.

Its telling that shippers are more afraid of Iranian drones and speedboats than they are of the US Military.

Iran threatens to shut down the Strait? Terror on the High Seas!

US determines to blockade ships serving Iran? We can run it!

Posted by: Community Notes at July 17, 2026 01:37 PM (9s47C)

112 I don’t even wanna know how one revs up a douche….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 01:30 PM (yz/8

Shaken, not stirred.

Posted by: Nelly at July 17, 2026 01:37 PM (6+ehB)

113 I don't know if Persian has a word for "awesome", but if they did, they'd be saying it.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 01:20 PM (Riz8t)


SHABASH = well done, bravo or good job.

Posted by: Homer at July 17, 2026 01:37 PM (nvKZ7)

114
My schtick is stealing schticks 😁
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 01:33 PM



You will forever be an Amy Schumer sock.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 01:37 PM (2YhKe)

115 @106 definitely. Saw Jeff Tweedy play a show with just a drummer. Played a lot off Mermaid Ave. Great show

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 01:37 PM (OXYE0)

116 WTF did I do to deserve that?

He stole my schtick. I had nothing to do with it.
Posted by: Sponge

My bad. I was just wondering who'd come first.

Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 01:37 PM (Y8DZL)

117 Is making life difficult for civilians really the best idea if the goal is regime change?

The IRGC brass is going to have backup generators.

Posted by: Sharpie at July 17, 2026 01:38 PM (FUjuU)

118 Pretty much anything done by Paul McCartney after the Beatles breakup sucks bigly.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 01:38 PM (Riz8t)

119 There should be ships pulling up full of small arms and loaded magazines. Taught by Green Berets on site.
Posted by: Blues Junior at July 17, 2026 01:28 PM (AoR1V)

that didn't work well for us long term in Afghanistan.

Initially it worked... we armed a bunch of disparate groups, but we could not control them once armed... because the Operators on the ground were constantly overruled by folks sitting behind desks in DC.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 01:38 PM (mP0Kj)

120 Damn it! It's supposed to be Heaven! I demand a escalator!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 01:35 PM (ndZc7)
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There are probably escalators in Heaven. Because an escalator can never be temporarily broken, it can only be temporarily stairs. ("Pardon the convenience")

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 01:38 PM (Fi81e)

121 Sorry, you'll have to put your memes somewhere else. I'm full up.

Posted by: The wayside at July 17, 2026 01:38 PM (2Ez/1)

122 But Watching the Wheels is pretty bad too.
Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 01:36 PM (Fi81e)

In the sky? turning?
Shit.

My kingdom for an ice pick!

Posted by: Reforger at July 17, 2026 01:38 PM (YHaz5)

123 Why should you have to change your schtick when he's the one who sucks!
Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 01:34 PM (Fi81e)



I haven't. I will continue beating that dead horse until it comes back to life, dies and the beatings continue.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 01:39 PM (2YhKe)

124 Born In the USA was one of those moments I realized my Mom and Dad were pretty fucking dumb.

Because they'd get all tuned in ... but listen to the song. The Boss is singing about how much it sucks here.

Posted by: Blues Junior at July 17, 2026 01:34 PM (AoR1V)

I promise not to make any comments about honeycrisps or red delicious. That up you have teed is pure torture.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 01:39 PM (/bHKT)

125 >> Pretty much anything done by Paul McCartney after the Beatles breakup sucks bigly.


Everything.

He even ruined 'Thriller'.

Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2026 01:39 PM (uzmqU)

126 The IRGC brass is going to have backup generators.

And if they have no gas?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 01:39 PM (Riz8t)

127 Pretty much anything done by Paul McCartney after the Beatles breakup sucks bigly.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 01:38 PM (Riz8t)
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After Beatles, for me:

George > Paul > John

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 01:39 PM (Fi81e)

128 Some Moron posted this Japgirl band link a while back and it is beyond an earworm for me. It's a brain worm, even though I understand not a word.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu2z4Uf9Tgc

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 01:39 PM (4NO2D)

129 Born In the USA was one of those moments I realized my Mom and Dad were pretty fucking dumb.

Because they'd get all tuned in ... but listen to the song. The Boss is singing about how much it sucks here.
Posted by: Blues Junior at July 17, 2026 01:34 PM (AoR1V)

Artists don't control the interpretation once it leaves they yap. They might wish they did, but they don't.

If your parents liked it because it made them feel patriotic, well, then it is a patriotic song.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 01:39 PM (uhVAy)

130 The bathroom's on the right.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 01:39 PM (wOO3z)

131 This back and forth will continue UNLESS the League of Arab States declares war on Iran.

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Is this really necessary to solve the Blade/Sponge spat?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 01:40 PM (ndZc7)

132 There's a movie coming up about Wat Tyler. Schola Gladiatoria worries there won't be enough LONG BOWS
youtu.be/wNha4eMd-Sw

Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2026 01:40 PM (gKWVE)

133 > If there is not a spring clean for the may queen you can be assured there was not a bustle in your hedge row.

But which cup has the pellet with the poison?

Posted by: bonhomme at July 17, 2026 01:40 PM (mkw2N)

134 I'm looking for info on that mural they just painted...is the building it's on still standing? Gosh I hope not.

Posted by: connected and litigious at July 17, 2026 01:40 PM (cS1cw)

135 Is this really necessary to solve the Blade/Sponge spat?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 01:40 PM (ndZc7)
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Wait. Spats? With or without pants?

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 01:40 PM (Fi81e)

136 We are off the headliner topic of

As US Forces Knock Out Iranian Power Plants, the IRGC Tells Iranians to be Like the UK and France and Turn Off the AC and Die In the Summer Heat

and onto misheard song lyrics as early as comment #50?

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 01:41 PM (6wpGE)

137 Damn it! It's supposed to be Heaven! I demand a escalator!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 01:35 PM (ndZc7)
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There are probably escalators in Heaven. Because an escalator can never be temporarily broken, it can only be temporarily stairs. ("Pardon the convenience")
Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 01:38 PM (Fi81e)

Only for sufficiently minor breakdowns.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 01:41 PM (uhVAy)

138 The IRGC brass is going to have backup generators.

And if they have no gas?
Posted by: Archimedes

==

I just don't see any scenario where the people in charge don't have access to what they want.

It was the same in the Soviet Union or Cuba. The Politurbo lved luxurious lives despite all the sanctions.

I'd honestly rather the US just go in there with Special Forces and start taking out their leadership.

Posted by: Sharpie at July 17, 2026 01:41 PM (FUjuU)

139 Born In the USA was one of those moments I realized my Mom and Dad were pretty fucking dumb.

Because they'd get all tuned in ... but listen to the song. The Boss is singing about how much it sucks here.
Posted by: Blues Junior
_________

New Jersey considered making Born to Run the official state song. "It's a death trap, a suicide rap."

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 17, 2026 01:41 PM (XvL8K)

140 We are off the headliner topic of

As US Forces Knock Out Iranian Power Plants, the IRGC Tells Iranians to be Like the UK and France and Turn Off the AC and Die In the Summer Heat

and onto misheard song lyrics as early as comment #50?
Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 01:41 PM (6wpGE)

The 100 rule is only for non ACE posts. This is known.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 01:41 PM (uhVAy)

141 If there is not a spring clean for the may queen you can be assured there was not a bustle in your hedge row.

But which cup has the pellet with the poison?


You crossed the streams! Never cross the streams.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 01:42 PM (Riz8t)

142 Pardon me...

Posted by: While I kiss this guy at July 17, 2026 01:42 PM (2Ez/1)

143 We need to hit one of their dams with dam buster bouncing barrels and flood a strategic area reliant upon power generation supplying military facilities. Take out their power, take out their water, flood the valley and set them back 10 years.

Pick one. For starters.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 17, 2026 01:42 PM (sYM3s)

144 You know about the cup sizes?

Posted by: Frank Costanza at July 17, 2026 01:42 PM (2Ez/1)

145 'Scuse me while I kiss this guy!

Posted by: Jimi Hendrix at July 17, 2026 01:43 PM (Fi81e)

146 Like Manfred Mann’s Earth Band on Blinded by the Light…. I mean what in the world is a coliappi??
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 01:23 PM

A coliappi gets wrapped up in a douche.

Posted by: JuJuBee at July 17, 2026 01:43 PM (YSQQv)

147 One views the videos and the landscape is simply brown dust. What an awful place to live. No wonder they're crazy.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at July 17, 2026 01:43 PM (rii+a)

148 This has absolutely nothing to do with Iran but "they" are sure trying to push that Odyssey movie...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 01:43 PM (FtULh)

149 I just don't see any scenario where the people in charge don't have access to what they want.


At the end, the Emperor couldn't even scrape up a car that ran on gas. Patience, grasshopper, patience.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 01:43 PM (Riz8t)

150 It was the same in the Soviet Union or Cuba. The Politurbo lved luxurious lives despite all the sanctions.

I'd honestly rather the US just go in there with Special Forces and start taking out their leadership.
Posted by: Sharpie at July 17, 2026 01:41 PM (FUjuU)

Sanctions by nature don't hit the elite directly.

And killing the leadership is what we have been doing all along. Even blowing up factories has been secondary.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 01:43 PM (uhVAy)

151 Hold me closer, Tony Danza!

Posted by: Bernie Taupin at July 17, 2026 01:43 PM (Fi81e)

152 A coliappi gets wrapped up in a douche.
Posted by: JuJuBee at July 17, 2026 01:43 PM



the ruler in the night

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 01:43 PM (4NO2D)

153 We're not too sophisticated here. We play shtick ball.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 01:43 PM (ndZc7)

154 They can shop, drink and fornicate. Right?

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 17, 2026 01:43 PM (YlWIZ)

155 Generator have heat signatures. "Achmed, cut the power!"

Posted by: connected and litigious at July 17, 2026 01:44 PM (cS1cw)

156 140 We are off the headliner topic of
Posted by: m

Attention Deficit Disorder is how the hoarde rolls.

Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 01:44 PM (Y8DZL)

157 Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on

Get it?

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 01:44 PM (/bHKT)

158 How can you tell?
Oil futures are at $81; peak in April was $108
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 17, 2026 01:33 PM (3cUTc)
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Another key tell is that this thread has quickly morphed into a music thread....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2026 01:44 PM (FZ29D)

159 I am proud the people of Iran are conserving electricity to slow the process of "GLOBAL WARMING" ...

Posted by: Al Gore at July 17, 2026 01:44 PM (1Fh1q)

160 144 We are off the headliner topic of

As US Forces Knock Out Iranian Power Plants, the IRGC Tells Iranians to be Like the UK and France and Turn Off the AC and Die In the Summer Heat

and onto misheard song lyrics as early as comment #50?
Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 01:41 PM (6wpGE)

The 100 rule is only for non ACE posts. This is known.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 01:41 PM (uhVAy)

I wasn't raising rules. Just surprised we moved away so quickly from The Big News.

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 01:44 PM (6wpGE)

161 My son is in IT Cloud services and really hates dot Indians.

He sent me this link

https://x.com/DryMouthGroyper/status/2077645182304965040

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 01:45 PM (4NO2D)

162 The fireworks I have waited for.

Thankful that Tousi and wife are moving to Florida!

I don't want anyone to mention the MOU again.

MOO aka the Massive Obliteration Oopsie is preferred after the FAFO.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 17, 2026 01:45 PM (hzuYO)

163 I'd honestly rather the US just go in there with Special Forces and start taking out their leadership.
Posted by: Sharpie at July 17, 2026 01:41 PM (FUjuU)


You and about 12 other people.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 01:45 PM (ExV1e)

164 About time for the Egyptians and the Kurds to redirect the IRGC, a tad or so.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 17, 2026 01:45 PM (NFX2v)

165 141 Damn it! It's supposed to be Heaven! I demand a escalator!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 01:35 PM (ndZc7)
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There are probably escalators in Heaven. Because an escalator can never be temporarily broken, it can only be temporarily stairs. ("Pardon the convenience")
Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 01:38 PM (Fi81e)

Only for sufficiently minor breakdowns.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 01:41 PM (uhVAy)

Nah, the escalator? be careful...

there is one there with a sign that points up, 'To Heaven'... but once you get on you realize it runs backwards, and never stops...

It's called purgatory.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 01:45 PM (mP0Kj)

166 The 100 rule is only for non ACE posts. This is known.

==

What is know is that "the 100 rule" applies only to one thread. The art thread.

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 01:45 PM (GD0B3)

167
I wasn't raising rules. Just surprised we moved away so quickly from The Big News.
Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 01:44 PM (6wpGE)

Yeah we're good at that.. Something comes in ones head and out it comes...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 01:45 PM (FtULh)

168 a colappi, a ruler, and a douche.

The Earth Band had some good shit back in the day.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 01:46 PM (wOO3z)

169 They took the last train for the coast.

Posted by: F, S & HG at July 17, 2026 01:46 PM (2Ez/1)

170 Hey, IRGC. Charles Manson wants his foreign policy back.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 17, 2026 01:46 PM (YlWIZ)

171 If your parents liked it because it made them feel patriotic, well, then it is a patriotic song.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 01:39 PM (uhVAy)

And here we go ...

Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
End up like a dog that's been beat too much
'Til you spend half your life just to cover it up now
Posted by: Blues Junior at July 17, 2026 01:40 PM (AoR1V)

Good thing he mumbles, right?

Besides its something in every generation to bitch about the older one, and the younger one. You can read it in Babylonian clay tablets.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 01:47 PM (uhVAy)

172 We are off the headliner topic
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This is Getting Hit on the Head lessons!

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 01:47 PM (Fi81e)

173 I wasn't raising rules. Just surprised we moved away so quickly from The Big News.
Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 01:44 PM (6wpGE)

What big news?

Posted by: Reforger at July 17, 2026 01:47 PM (YHaz5)

174 End up like a dog that's been beat too much
'Til you spend half your life just to cover it up now
Posted by: Blues Junior

Life's been almost as hard on Bruce as on Mooch.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 01:47 PM (ndZc7)

175 Parents should condition their children to fear and respect the escalator.

Posted by: Brodie at July 17, 2026 01:47 PM (+IsEU)

176 Just surprised we moved away so quickly from The Big News.
Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 01:44 PM (6wpGE)


Are you suggesting that you have the naive belief that people read the actual post?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 01:47 PM (ExV1e)

177 The fact that there is a highway to hell but only a stairway to heaven says a lot about the anticipated traffic ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 01:48 PM (iFTx/)

178 BUT BUT BUT....I was assured America was running out of missiles and munitions by very smart people!

Posted by: Max Power at July 17, 2026 01:48 PM (SwyyQ)

179 Ask your periodontist if Coliappi is right for you.

Posted by: Big Fat Fizer at July 17, 2026 01:48 PM (2Ez/1)

180 Boy928 sends further

Indians are quite horrifying

If you've never played Pindia, you should. Go on Google Maps, grab the little streetview man and drop him randomly anywhere in India. Look around for piles of trash. Count how many times it takes before you land and there's signs of civilization and no piles of trash. Golf-style scoring where lower scores are higher.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 01:48 PM (4NO2D)

181 And that's the last two verses. Yes, my parents were Idiots for getting excited about this. Its a protest song.

I'm sure many here also got excited about it. Never listened to a single fucking word.
Posted by: Blues Junior at July 17, 2026 01:46 PM (AoR1V)

What's he protesting?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 01:48 PM (uhVAy)

182 FAFO
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

FAFO MOFOS

Posted by: Miklos revises and extends at July 17, 2026 01:48 PM (bziMQ)

183 A reminder that, when the war started, the Democrats have been flopping back and forth between "Illegal War! Warmonger! Impeach!" and "TACO! Trump Always Chickens Out!".

Few dems in power ever mention the threat of nuclear material. Of which the Iranians themselves stupidly claimed to have as part of their strong-horse dick-waving. Nor of the long-range missiles they proved to have in the early days of the war; the ones they weren't supposed to have or develop.

But they sure as hell were going to grandstand against the war. And they would whip their caucas to deny continuing authorization of the war, under that whole War Powers act.

So, Trump pushes for the MOU and a peace agreement. Open the straight. No more attacking ships. We stop bombing Iran. And with that, the 60-day window of the act gets thrown out.

Yeah, Iran's leaders are a bunch of filthy liars; taqiyya and all that.

But on the other hand, our army could taqiyya too. Restock our own bombs and missiles. Track what the hell they're doing, where all the heat signatures suddenly begin to congregate during the "peace" time. And when Iran could no longer help itself, we now have another 60 days to pound them.

Posted by: Another Anon at July 17, 2026 01:48 PM (4h45B)

184 Boy928 sends further

Indians are quite horrifying

If you've never played Pindia, you should. Go on Google Maps, grab the little streetview man and drop him randomly anywhere in India. Look around for piles of trash. Count how many times it takes before you land and there's signs of civilization and no piles of trash. Golf-style scoring where lower scores are higher.
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 01:48 PM (4NO2D)

Asmongold was doing that

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 01:49 PM (uhVAy)

185 “Qeshm extends out into the Strait and is, presumably, a key staging area for attacks on shipping. US forces appear to be attempting to bomb all roads and bridges to the island, to cut it off completely.”

Interesting. I’ve been writing that we needed to focus a lot of attention on Qeshm for 2 or 3 months now. It is in a much more strategic position than Kharg.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2026 01:49 PM (wLnmp)

186 For sale 72-hour deodorant on E-Bay.

I will only charge $100 USD per stick and free shipping to your nearest destroyed Post Office ........

Posted by: Mike Hunt at July 17, 2026 01:49 PM (xl8DV)

187 FAFO MOFOS
Posted by: Miklos revises and extends at July 17, 2026 01:48 PM (bziMQ)
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FAFO AF.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 01:49 PM (Fi81e)

188 >>I'm sure many here also got excited about it. Never listened to a single fucking word.


It's a good thing we have people like you to tell us what words mean.

Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2026 01:49 PM (uzmqU)

189 175 They took the last train for the coast.
Posted by: F, S & HG at July 17, 2026 01:46 PM (2Ez/1)

It's CLARKESVILLE!

Posted by: Mike Nesmith at July 17, 2026 01:49 PM (mP0Kj)

190 What's he protesting?

Whattya got?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 01:49 PM (Riz8t)

191 We need to hit one of their dams with dam buster bouncing barrels and flood a strategic area reliant upon power generation supplying military facilities. Take out their power, take out their water, flood the valley and set them back 10 years.

Pick one. For starters.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone


Three Gorges Dam.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 01:50 PM (v3afF)

192 The fact that there is a highway to hell but only a stairway to heaven says a lot about the anticipated traffic ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 01:48 PM


Don't pay the ferryman, don't even fix a price
Don't pay the ferryman, 'til he gets you to the other side

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 01:50 PM (4NO2D)

193 Doowa, diddy , diddy ,dum, diddy do
Now those lyrics make some sense

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 01:50 PM (OXYE0)

194 Boy928 sends further

Indians are quite horrifying

If you've never played Pindia, you should. Go on Google Maps, grab the little streetview man and drop him randomly anywhere in India. Look around for piles of trash. Count how many times it takes before you land and there's signs of civilization and no piles of trash. Golf-style scoring where lower scores are higher.
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 01:48 PM (4NO2D)

Asmongold was doing that
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 01:49 PM (uhVAy)

PS this is a bit unfair because long before present I noticed that train travel takes you through the crummiest and back side of everything where messes are shoveled.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 01:50 PM (uhVAy)

195 185 BUT BUT BUT....I was assured America was running out of missiles and munitions by very smart people!
Posted by: Max Power

We'll beg them from the Ukraine soon enough.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 17, 2026 01:50 PM (NFX2v)

196 I will not interrupt this thread for a pound.

Posted by: Mr. Badger at July 17, 2026 01:50 PM (Fi81e)

197 Iran is learning about consequences. Good. Whe will China learn?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 17, 2026 01:50 PM (LnMJr)

198 I’ve been writing that we needed to focus a lot of attention on Qeshm for 2 or 3 months now. It is in a much more strategic position than Kharg.

Not sure I agree, but regardless, embrace the healing power of "and".

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 01:51 PM (Riz8t)

199 The bombing may be prep for invasion of Qeshm (is that some sort of dirty word?).

I certainly do not want a reply of Iwo Jima, but I know the Marines are the best trained and equipped forces in the world. They will accomplish their mission.

Posted by: Martin Tell at July 17, 2026 01:51 PM (sFNX2)

200 We need to hit one of their dams with dam buster bouncing barrels and flood a strategic area reliant upon power generation supplying military facilities. Take out their power, take out their water, flood the valley and set them back 10 years.

Pick one. For starters.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone


Three Gorges Dam.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 01:50 PM (v3afF)

That's quite a shot from the Persian Gulf.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 01:51 PM (uhVAy)

201 Eliminating bridges will cut supplies to extended IRGC units.
This may help some brave citizens take advantage of
under supplied personnel.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 01:51 PM (xHEjv)

202 >>> The 100 rule is only for non ACE posts. This is known.

==

What is know is that "the 100 rule" applies only to one thread. The art thread.
Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 01:45 PM (GD0B3)


It's really just a suggestion. Think of CBD as a friendly Bison that eagerly wants you to walk up and give him scritches and belly rubs in the form of a non-art comment at around #20.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 17, 2026 01:51 PM (3uBP9)

203 the north coast looks like the lake Geneva shoreline, it's so thick with smoke.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 17, 2026 01:51 PM (2ap+5)

204 The fact that there is a highway to hell but only a stairway to heaven says a lot about the anticipated traffic ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 01:48 PM

Don't pay the ferryman, don't even fix a price
Don't pay the ferryman, 'til he gets you to the other side
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 01:50 PM (4NO2D)
______

That was my text "song-lyric first," ya bastad!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 01:52 PM (iFTx/)

205 Trump's bombing them all the way back to modern day Europe.

Genius.

Posted by: Absolute genius at July 17, 2026 01:52 PM (TbWk/)

206 112 Springstain was emulating Woody Guthrie who was a Commie pig that the music press adored.
Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 01:32 PM (E4rtv)
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I thought he was attempting to imitate Roy Orbison.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

I thought Chairman Mao.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
========
Orbison could sing, Bruce cannot. Mao could dance but not sing.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 01:52 PM (E4rtv)

207 How many "Gay Raghead Children" have died today because of 666 Hitler Trump !!!!!!!

Posted by: Mike Hunt at July 17, 2026 01:53 PM (xl8DV)

208 The bombing may be prep for invasion of Qeshm (is that some sort of dirty word?).

But why? Qeshm and Kharg are only important because of what moves through them. We don't need BOTG to stop that.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 01:53 PM (Riz8t)

209 Yeah, you can always pound later.

Posted by: Hunter's brain, off drugs at July 17, 2026 01:53 PM (NFX2v)

210 200 Doowa, diddy , diddy ,dum, diddy do
Now those lyrics make some sense
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 01:50 PM (OXYE0)

But... but...

Bird, is the word!

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 01:53 PM (mP0Kj)

211 Someone asked Trump if he would use ground troops last week and he said he wouldn't rule it out but he said it wouldn't be our troops... I thought that was interesting...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 01:53 PM (FtULh)

212 The fact that there is a highway to hell but only a stairway to heaven says a lot about the anticipated traffic ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 01:48 PM
---
But it is quasi-Biblical.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 01:53 PM (Fi81e)

213 How many "Gay Raghead Children" have died today because of 666 Hitler Trump !!!!!!!
Posted by: Mike Hunt at July 17, 2026 01:53 PM (xl8DV)


Zero. There are no homosexuals in Iran. -- Iranian government

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 01:53 PM (ExV1e)

214 What's he protesting?

Whattya got?
Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 01:49 PM (Riz8t)
________

Hooray for our side

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 01:53 PM (iFTx/)

215 The fact that there is a highway to hell but only a stairway to heaven says a lot about the anticipated traffic ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 01:48 PM (iFTx/)

Jacob just dreamed about a ladder. Heaven got some new tech.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 01:54 PM (uhVAy)

216 We're s'posed to give CBD belly rubs?

Posted by: Gotta think about that... at July 17, 2026 01:54 PM (2Ez/1)

217 Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949)
From his Wiki:
At age 19, Springsteen was called for his draft physical, but failed it because of a concussion he had suffered in a motorcycle accident two years earlier; the concussion, combined with his behavior at induction, reportedly made him unacceptable for military service. In failing his examination, Springsteen likely avoided service in the Vietnam War

Fucking poser.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 01:54 PM (jehhT)

218 This may help some brave citizens take advantage of
under supplied personnel.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 01:51 PM (xHEjv)

They should take their guns. Not just "take advantage" of them.

Posted by: Reforger at July 17, 2026 01:54 PM (YHaz5)

219 Back in my day, you could disqualify yourself from the draft by putting an envelope at the bottom of an illegally dumped pile of trash.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 17, 2026 01:54 PM (2ap+5)

220 >PS this is a bit unfair because long before present I noticed that train travel takes you through the crummiest and back side of everything where messes are shoveled.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 01:50 PM (uhVAy)

Amtrak trains through North Philly have entered the chat.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at July 17, 2026 01:54 PM (GTqXr)

221 Given how Chinese dams are collapsing in the last few weeks I don't think anybody has to hit the Three Gorges Dam with anything

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 01:54 PM (OXYE0)

222 Pick one. For starters.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone


Three Gorges Dam.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 01:50 PM (v3afF)

That's quite a shot from the Persian Gulf.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 01:51 PM (uhVAy)

Not if you are flying out of Diego Garcia anyway...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 01:54 PM (mP0Kj)

223 I thought he was attempting to imitate Roy Orbison.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea
---
I thought that Chris Isaak.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 01:55 PM (Fi81e)

224 The fact that there is a highway to hell but only a stairway to heaven says a lot about the anticipated traffic ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 01:48 PM (iFTx/)

Jacob just dreamed about a ladder. Heaven got some new tech.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 01:54 PM (uhVAy)


Maybe Jacob was a sailor. We called stairs ladders.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 01:55 PM (ExV1e)

225 It is in a much more strategic position than Kharg.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2026 01:49 PM (wLnmp)


My cat used to Kharg. Always on the carpet; never on a surface that was easy to clean.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at July 17, 2026 01:55 PM (OlzlW)

226 We'll beg them from the Ukraine soon enough.

Posted by: L - No nic,
---

Good, we have no business in Ukraine. If Europe wants to fight Russia let them have a go at it. Merkel and her buddies will be more comfortable with Putin anyway.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 01:55 PM (xHEjv)

227 Doowa, diddy , diddy ,dum, diddy do
Now those lyrics make some sense
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 01:50 PM (OXYE0)

But... but...

Bird, is the word!
Posted by: Romeo13

I'm the eggman, I am the walrus... koo koo ka choo

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 01:55 PM (wOO3z)

228 >>Someone asked Trump if he would use ground troops last week and he said he wouldn't rule it out but he said it wouldn't be our troops... I thought that was interesting...

I heard that too. Been wondering which troops he had in mind. Lot of people in that neighborhood who have a serious problem with Iran and now realize who is the big dog.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 01:55 PM (viF8m)

229 Orbison could sing, Bruce cannot. Mao could dance but not sing.
Posted by: whig

Mao could swim the Yellow River.

There are pictures

Posted by: Miklos, emulating Lei Feng at July 17, 2026 01:55 PM (bziMQ)

230 The Underwear Gnomes are back!

Detroit Free Press
@freep
Opinion: Sick of wildfire smoke? Bring back tax credits for EVs, solar panels

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 01:55 PM (ndZc7)

231 @226 so Springsteen jerked off during his induction physical

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 01:55 PM (OXYE0)

232 Zero. There are no homosexuals in Iran. -- Iranian government
Posted by: I used to have a different nic


Not now. No. There were a hundred thousand yesterday before flying lessons.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 01:55 PM (v3afF)

233 We're s'posed to give CBD belly rubs?
Posted by: Gotta think about that... at July 17, 2026 01:54 PM (2Ez/1)
----
Only on Tummy Rub Tuesdays.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2026 01:56 PM (FZ29D)

234 Three Gorges Dam.
Posted by: rickb223

Built on gypsum. Not worth the price of the ammo.

Also unworthy targets, the massive fleet they're building, reminiscent of the massive ghost cities that threw up and abandoned 20 years ago.

Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 01:56 PM (Y8DZL)

235 >>I thought that Chris Isaak.


There was a lot of Eddie Rabbit in Chris Isaak's quiver. And more than a little Roy.

Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2026 01:56 PM (uzmqU)

236 Did Springsteen eschew patriotic marketing or did he lean into it?

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 01:56 PM (/bHKT)

237 Easy again. He's pissed that he's here, instead of that perfect place to go in his mind.

And also pissed he got drafted, then can't get a job. That's kind of a thing.
Posted by: Blues Junior at July 17, 2026 01:52 PM (AoR1V)

He didn't get drafted, he 'got into a jam' = broke the law and got busted and went into the army to escape prison.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 01:57 PM (uhVAy)

238 so Springsteen jerked off during his induction physical
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 01:55 PM (OXYE0)


Who did he jerk off? Were they excused also?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 01:57 PM (ExV1e)

239 At age 19, Springsteen was called for his draft physical, but failed it because of a concussion he had suffered in a motorcycle accident two years earlier; the concussion, combined with his behavior at induction, reportedly made him unacceptable for military service. In failing his examination, Springsteen likely avoided service in the Vietnam War

Fucking poser.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Dain bamage

Posted by: Miklos, in best Eddie Murphy voice at July 17, 2026 01:57 PM (bziMQ)

240 231 The Boss is probably also pissed just because he lived in New Jersey. I was in New Jersey last week. Not by choice.
Posted by: Blues Junior at July 17, 2026 01:54 PM (AoR1V)

Eddie Wilson:
Baby, there's nowhere else in the world like the Garden State! You got miles of swamps, and mountains of dumps... different colored rivers... automobiles graveyards... breweries, factories, ballparks, all mixed up together. It's the best place to live.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 01:57 PM (mP0Kj)

241 Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949)
From his Wiki:
At age 19, Springsteen was called for his draft physical, but failed it because of a concussion he had suffered in a motorcycle accident two years earlier; the concussion, combined with his behavior at induction, reportedly made him unacceptable for military service. In failing his examination, Springsteen likely avoided service in the Vietnam War

Fucking poser.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 01:54 PM (jehhT)
---
He told the story on stage. He also said that his father was relieved that his son wasn't going in to the military.

How abusive was his father and how bad could his childhood have been if his father hugs him because he's not going to be drafted?

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 01:57 PM (Fi81e)

242 I'd much rather see Peking get a shot than some damn dam.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 01:57 PM (xHEjv)

243 Last night proves Trump stole the election from Kumalot Harris and now he is losing his mind and killing innocent people in Iran.

We call on Joe Biden to bring back Strategic Thought and Sanity !!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Chuck Schumer and Hakeen Jefferies at July 17, 2026 01:57 PM (xl8DV)

244 Rupert Lowe speaks of Depoetation NATO.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 17, 2026 01:57 PM (t7WpP)

245 241 @226 so Springsteen jerked off during his induction physical
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 01:55 PM


Was that wrong?

Posted by: Jeffrey Toobin at July 17, 2026 01:57 PM (2Ez/1)

246 >Fucking poser.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 01:54 PM (jehhT)

I've said it before, Mr. 'man o' the people' owns a stable of horses for dressage. Not exactly a sport Joe Sixpack can afford.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at July 17, 2026 01:58 PM (GTqXr)

247 Living in America by James Brown

Much better stuff.

Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2026 01:58 PM (uzmqU)

248 The Underwear Gnomes are back!

Detroit Free Press
@freep
Opinion: Sick of wildfire smoke? Bring back tax credits for EVs, solar panels
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 01:55 PM (ndZc7)


Lol. Canada has a punitive carbon tax. Apparently the forests didn't get the memo.

Posted by: far cry at July 17, 2026 01:58 PM (+IsEU)

249 200 Doowa, diddy , diddy ,dum, diddy do
Now those lyrics make some sense
Posted by: Smell the Glove

For the secret meaning, watch LA Story with Steve Martin. One of his better but less known films. And to watch it is to sigh as it was peak LA before the Democrats ran it into the ground.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 01:58 PM (E4rtv)

250 It is in a much more strategic position than Kharg.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2026 01:49 PM (wLnmp)

My cat used to Kharg. Always on the carpet; never on a surface that was easy to clean.
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at July 17, 2026 01:55 PM (OlzlW)

They like to grip something with the front toes when barfing.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 01:58 PM (uhVAy)

251 Family values.

Democrats Deliver
@DemzDeliver
Zohran Mamdani launches pilot program offering parents free babysitting during a night out.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 01:58 PM (ndZc7)

252 Maybe civilizations take longer to crumble than an episode of Matlock.

I love Elric, but his entire schtick is that everything conservatives think is wrong.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 17, 2026 01:59 PM (2ocoG)

253 >>Zohran Mamdani launches pilot program offering parents free babysitting during a night out.


I can't see that going wrong at all.

Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2026 01:59 PM (uzmqU)

254 Someone asked Trump if he would use ground troops last week and he said he wouldn't rule it out but he said it wouldn't be our troops... I thought that was interesting...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 01:53 PM (FtULh)

------------

Maybe Israelis?

Can't think of any other country that wants to help us ...

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 01:59 PM (KBK+H)

255 Democrats Deliver
@DemzDeliver
Zohran Mamdani launches pilot program offering parents free babysitting during a night out.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 01:58 PM (ndZc7)


It's in partnership with a pedo halfway house.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 01:59 PM (ExV1e)

256 But why? Qeshm and Kharg are only important because of what moves through them. We don't need BOTG to stop that.
---------
What gives Iran "control" over Hormuz? Would it be drones 'n missiles? If so, where are they stored and launched? If it's from Q island, invasion makes perfect sense and may be needed to secure strait.

Posted by: Martin Tell at July 17, 2026 02:00 PM (sFNX2)

257 >>Lol. Canada has a punitive carbon tax. Apparently the forests didn't get the memo.

Solar panels and EVs aren't going to clean the forests of dead wood. Governor greaseball found that out the hard way.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 02:00 PM (viF8m)

258 We're s'posed to give CBD belly rubs?

Posted by: Gotta think about that... at July 17, 2026 01:54 PM (2Ez/1)


Good luck with that!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 17, 2026 02:00 PM (l4RKn)

259 Guthrie and all those true believers had a rough time of it. First this Stalin guy came along, had Trotsky whacked after becoming persona non grata. The NEP prior, well, never mind. Mass famine and starvation among millions is a little awkward, particularly when the Ukraine is among the very very best farmland in the world, and it isn’t even close.

Then, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The Nazis are our Friends! It’s True! It’s always been true, Comrade …

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 02:00 PM (2/ueB)

260 Family values.

Democrats Deliver
@DemzDeliver
Zohran Mamdani launches pilot program offering parents free babysitting during a night out.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks


Q: How many children will be sexually abused during that night out?

A: All of them.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 02:00 PM (v3afF)

261 Good, we have no business in Ukraine. If Europe wants to fight Russia let them have a go at it. Merkel and her buddies will be more comfortable with Putin anyway.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 01:55 PM (xHEjv)

The Saber rattling amongst the Defense Industry class in Europe amuses me... why do we need to spend more in the EU, to protect the EU, from a country that can't even win a war against Ukraine?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 02:00 PM (mP0Kj)

262 >263 >>Zohran Mamdani launches pilot program offering parents free babysitting during a night out.


I can't see that going wrong at all.

Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2026 01:59 PM (uzmqU)

Bring the children to me...

Posted by: Pedo Troon Babysitter Club at July 17, 2026 02:00 PM (GTqXr)

263 Mao could swim the Yellow River.

There are pictures
Posted by: Miklos
=======
He spent his declining years at poolside attended by a bunch of young women while the Gang of Four ran the country into the ground. So yeah, he could swim.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 02:00 PM (E4rtv)

264 r/TheBulwark

We're targeting civilian infrastructure. The US Military is following orders to commit war crimes in an unconstitutional war. Laws are fake if they aren't enforced. A lot of people need to go to prison for this.

This is why Marco Rubio wants to dismantle the International Criminal Court. He’s committing war crimes right and left and doesn’t want to be prosecuted for them.

Gas prices go higher, GOP approval goes lower! 😃

if there is anything that’s going to get us to the point where Republicans propaganda starts to break down, it’s going to be a failing economy. I want Trump voters to feel actual physical pain, listening to Fox News.

I think the only way out of this (to a point of stability) is a Great Depression tier collapse. Something like energy crisis + AI bubble burst + housing crash (replace any of these with: drawn out super El Niño, invasion of Taiwan, corporate bond failure, student loan bubble) followed by a new era of reconstruction. You’re absolutely correct… it will suck balls. It’s honestly more likely that Trump just pseudo-coups the USA and the country backslides further.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 17, 2026 02:01 PM (5/BQI)

265 >>Zohran Mamdani launches pilot program offering parents free babysitting during a night out.

I can't see that going wrong at all.

Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2026 01:59 PM (uzmqU)

---------------

BREAKING: Mamdani Hires 100,000 Child Molesters for New Free Babysitting Program. Film at 11:00 ...

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 02:01 PM (KBK+H)

266 Mamdani's babysitting service will quickly be overrun by tranny babysitters

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 02:01 PM (OXYE0)

267 Good luck with that!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 17, 2026 02:00 PM (l4RKn)


What if the belly rubber were a cute female with cartoonishly large breasts?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 02:01 PM (ExV1e)

268 Please, NJ voted for "Mikey" Sherrile, sticking up their butts
with taxpayer funded helicopter ride.

Attended an official black-tie alumni reception commemorating 50 years of women at the institution.

And, she has kids attending the U.S. Military Academy, too. Remember??

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 17, 2026 02:01 PM (NFX2v)

269 263 >>Zohran Mamdani launches pilot program offering parents free babysitting during a night out.


I can't see that going wrong at all.
Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2026 01:59 PM

Call me.

Posted by: Chester the molester at July 17, 2026 02:01 PM (2Ez/1)

270 Zohran Mamdani launches pilot program offering parents free babysitting during a night out.
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This is what I've been referring to as "candy coated communism". Get ready for a lot more. A LOT more.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 02:01 PM (/bHKT)

271 @259, whig, an excellent movie. Martin being droll

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 02:02 PM (OXYE0)

272
What is know is that "the 100 rule" applies only to one thread. The art thread.
Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 01:45 PM (GD0B3)



Several of the weekend threads have the same rule.

Book Thread, Gardening Thread.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 02:02 PM (2YhKe)

273 Maybe Israelis?

Can't think of any other country that wants to help us ...
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 01:59 PM (KBK+H)

No. There aren't a lot of them and they would provoke a unifying reaction among the bitter enders.

Once it gets to the stage of slicing up areas, these dudes are gonna be a police force more than being in combat. They can hold an area while defecting Iranians train up and get equipped. Any blowback can be managed by airstrikes and the like.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:02 PM (uhVAy)

274 >>Can't think of any other country that wants to help us ...

I think they all want to after Iran has been tossing missiles at them recently. Seems like the real question is who besides Israel has the capabiility to help.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 02:02 PM (viF8m)

275 "...a cute female with cartoonishly large breasts?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 02:01 PM"

You know about the cup sizes?

Posted by: Frank Costanza at July 17, 2026 02:02 PM (2Ez/1)

276 He spent his declining years at poolside attended by a bunch of young women while the Gang of Four ran the country into the ground. So yeah, he could swim.
Posted by: whig

Not "declining"

Reclining

Posted by: the Chiarman will have another Mai Tai, comrade barktender at July 17, 2026 02:03 PM (bziMQ)

277 Zohran Mamdani launches pilot program offering parents free babysitting during a night out.
--------

This is what I've been referring to as "candy coated communism". Get ready for a lot more. A LOT more.
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 02:01 PM (/bHKT)

I always liked "Mickey Marxism"

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:03 PM (uhVAy)

278 Something like energy crisis + AI bubble burst + housing crash (replace any of these with: drawn out super El Niño, invasion of Taiwan, corporate bond failure, student loan bubble) followed by a new era of reconstruction.
--------

AKA The Democrat Platform

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 02:03 PM (/bHKT)

279 > Also unworthy targets, the massive fleet they're building, reminiscent of the massive ghost cities that threw up and abandoned 20 years ago.
----------
Several months ago there was video of a Taiwanese boat (fishing or Coast Guard, I forget which) being chased by a Chinese Coast Guard vessel and a PLAN (Chinese Navy) warship. The Chinese Guard and warships collided with significant damage to both. Like torn up, with holes punched in the hull.

Naval experts were all over this. Concluding the Chinese warships are literally paper tigers... thin hulls not able to withstand much damage.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 02:03 PM (jehhT)

280 But why? Qeshm and Kharg are only important because of what moves through them. We don't need BOTG to stop that.
---------
What gives Iran "control" over Hormuz? Would it be drones 'n missiles? If so, where are they stored and launched? If it's from Q island, invasion makes perfect sense and may be needed to secure strait.


What gives them the missiles? It's money from selling oil. No oil, no missiles. No Kharg or Qeshm, no oil.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 02:03 PM (Riz8t)

281 “Opinion: Sick of wildfire smoke? Bring back tax credits for EVs, solar panels“

Wha? My Uncle had a chainsaw.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 02:04 PM (2/ueB)

282 The fact that there is a highway to hell but only a stairway to heaven says a lot about the anticipated traffic ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 01:48 PM

Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. — Matthew 7:13-14

Who knew one could find so much theology in rock ‘n roll?!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 02:04 PM (+gA9j)

283 We're s'posed to give CBD belly rubs?
Posted by: Gotta think about that... at July 17, 2026 01:54 PM (2Ez/1)

Good luck with that!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 17, 2026 02:00 PM (l4RKn)

-------------

I've heard it's the only way to make you purr ...

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 02:04 PM (KBK+H)

284 269 Guthrie and all those true believers had a rough time of it. First this Stalin guy came along, had Trotsky whacked after becoming persona non grata. The NEP prior, well, never mind. Mass famine and starvation among millions is a little awkward, particularly when the Ukraine is among the very very best farmland in the world, and it isn’t even close.

Then, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The Nazis are our Friends! It’s True! It’s always been true, Comrade …
Posted by: Common Tater
=======
Ole Woody didn't give a shit about all that, he made bank from the idiot Commies in the US and he sure as hell was not going to redistribute that to the masses. Same with ole Pete Seeger. Neither died poor. Springstain came from a long line of horseshit peddlers and to his credit, Bob Dylan, to the dismay of Joni Mitchell, didn't follow that tradition.

You would never see Springstain release gospel albums nor Neighborhood Bully like Dylan did.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 02:04 PM (E4rtv)

285 Several of the weekend threads have the same rule.

Book Thread, Gardening Thread.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 02:02 PM (2YhKe)



WHAT??!! THIS IS SOCIALISM !!

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 02:04 PM (GD0B3)

286 He didn't get drafted, he 'got into a jam' = broke the law and got busted and went into the army to escape prison.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 01:57 PM (uhVAy)

You really are a "Super-Republican". That's the kind of shit the British used. Enlist or Go to Jail.

I'm sure you're sitting around, right now, wondering why boys and girls ain't enlisting by droves.

And why we ain't doing Post High School Conscription.
Posted by: Blues Junior at July 17, 2026 02:02 PM (AoR1V)

Everyone uses that - even Antifa does. You need guys to live the military life, guys who aren't fitting in to civilian life are the main source.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:04 PM (uhVAy)

287 San Francisco Days by Chris Isaak is an excellent CD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 02:04 PM (OXYE0)

288 He spent his declining years at poolside attended by a bunch of young women while the Gang of Four ran the country into the ground. So yeah, he could swim.
Posted by: whig

Not "declining"

Reclining


Mao spent a lot of time at Trader Zhou's.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 02:04 PM (Riz8t)

289 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. — Matthew 7:13-14

Who knew one could find so much theology in rock ‘n roll?!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
======
Fun fact, it was an actual gate to Jerusalem city at the time. It was narrow in order to be defensible.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 02:05 PM (E4rtv)

290 Absent an invasion, I think this is the best way to deal with the Mullahcracy...a gradual degradation of everything they have built over the past 47 years.

I guess we will see whether they are all true believers, or opportunists who will cut and run.

President Trump is inflicting maximum pain on therm with very little risk to our troops, and that is a fantastic combination.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 17, 2026 02:06 PM (l4RKn)

291 ------------

Maybe Israelis?

Can't think of any other country that wants to help us ...

Posted by: ShainS
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Oh, No! Israelis wouldn't want to go tear ass into Iran.

down boy, down

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 02:06 PM (xHEjv)

292 277. What if the belly rubber were a cute female with cartoonishly large breasts?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

More than that, great legs on a woman of a certain age - and wearing heels - were his thing, IIRC.

Posted by: Hunter's brain, off drugs at July 17, 2026 02:06 PM (NFX2v)

293 beyond the palace hemi powered drones, scream down the boulevard.....

Posted by: what the cat drug in at July 17, 2026 02:06 PM (jrgJz)

294 Ole Woody didn't give a shit about all that, he made bank from the idiot Commies in the US and he sure as hell was not going to redistribute that to the masses. Same with ole Pete Seeger. Neither died poor. Springstain came from a long line of horseshit peddlers and to his credit, Bob Dylan, to the dismay of Joni Mitchell, didn't follow that tradition.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 02:04 PM (E4rtv)

To be fair, Stalin and Trotsky and Lenin all were pretty well off too.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:06 PM (uhVAy)

295 The internet sez:

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Springsteen used this patriotic imagery to contrast with his lyrics, which painted a darker picture.
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Sure he fucking did. No - he used it to sell albums because he's a corrupt asshole who knew if he stood behind his lyrics all the way it would turn people off. Far better to profit off of a lie. It's the leftist way.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 02:06 PM (/bHKT)

296 We're targeting civilian infrastructure.

Now do BLM during the height of the Mostly Peaceful Protests

Posted by: Community Notes at July 17, 2026 02:06 PM (U4c/V)

297
291 But why? Qeshm and Kharg are only important because of what moves through them. We don't need BOTG to stop that.
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Not true for Qeshm - it’s a place of many radar and surveillance sites, docking facilities for the mosquito fleet, hidden drone bases and reportedly a buried missile base. Kharg is commercial, Qeshm is a military outpost.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2026 02:06 PM (wLnmp)

298 Mao spent a lot of time at Trader Zhou's.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 02:04 PM


He's a blood thirsty devil but his chicken is so good.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 02:06 PM (4NO2D)

299 And he liked my chicken recipe.

Posted by: General Zhou at July 17, 2026 02:06 PM (2Ez/1)

300 Lexus Liberals. Suburu Socialists.

“Cadillac Communists” for a time had a certain panache, but the car make itself has lost quite a bit of its luster, hence more modern vehicles are appropriate.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 02:06 PM (2/ueB)

301 “Opinion: Sick of wildfire smoke? Bring back tax credits for EVs, solar panels“

Wha? My Uncle had a chainsaw.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 02:04 PM (2/ueB)

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Wouldn't it be cheaper, easier, and more efficient to just stop lightning strikes by building Trump's Golden Dome Missile Shield?

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 02:07 PM (KBK+H)

302 Who knew one could find so much theology in rock ‘n roll?!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Put not your faith in princes=Won't Get Fooled Again.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 02:07 PM (E4rtv)

303 I always liked "Mickey Marxism"

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:03 PM (uhVAy)

That's good

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 02:07 PM (/bHKT)

304 Mao enjoyed raping 12 yr old girls. Communists are big on child rape

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 02:07 PM (OXYE0)

305 Maybe civilizations take longer to crumble than an episode of Matlock.

I love Elric, but his entire schtick is that everything conservatives think is wrong.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 17, 2026 01:59 PM (2ocoG)
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Not at all. I agree with 95% of conservative theory and policy. But I think too many of us believe what we want to believe -- whether it's positive or negative -- and will cling to that like Ahab.

I'm sure there are some people who still think the Iranian people are just "days away" from a massive rebellion.

And the comment above proves my point: I do think civilizations take a very long time to crumble. Hence my continued skepticism every time I hear for the 100th time that "IRAN IS ABOUT TO FALL."

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 02:07 PM (iFTx/)

306 If you read Marcuse, it's kind of funny that by the time he had sworn off the USSR, that his great commie hope was China.

That was during the time that Mao had the Great Famine while exporting produce to "prove to the world" that "socialism works".

Marcuse's fans want to sell socialism to us, today.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 02:07 PM (Fi81e)

307 > Can't think of any other country that wants to help us ...

I think they all want to after Iran has been tossing missiles at them recently. Seems like the real question is who besides Israel has the capabiility to help.
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Saudi, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait... all of the Gulf States except Iran have been kitted out with some of the United States best military gear. F-16's, 15's and AWACS. M-1 tanks and Bradley IFV's. Patriot SAM's. Etc. Yet the manpower isn't there, or willing to fight. They will show up for a parade however.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 02:07 PM (jehhT)

308 Springsteen is one of those guys who position themselves to catch anything that drips out of the gloryhole.

He basks in it like a Tijuana whore.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 17, 2026 02:08 PM (sYM3s)

309 278 Something like energy crisis + AI bubble burst + housing crash (replace any of these with: drawn out super El Niño, invasion of Taiwan, corporate bond failure, student loan bubble) followed by a new era of reconstruction.
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AKA The Democrat Platform
Posted by: ...

That's the "only way out of this (to a point of stability)". If all that needs to go wrong, maybe we're pretty stable and doing alright?

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 17, 2026 02:08 PM (5/BQI)

310 Several of the weekend threads have the same rule.

Book Thread, Gardening Thread.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 02:02 PM (2YhKe)
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Strictly speaking the Sunday Morning Book Thread does NOT have a "100 comment rule." It's more like a guideline.

Only once in recent memory have I altered a comment and that was from Paul because he was being his retarded self.

However, pants ARE required, per AoSHQ Etiquette Rules.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2026 02:08 PM (FZ29D)

311 We're targeting civilian infrastructure.

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Infrastructure, exostructure, we're targeting it all!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 02:08 PM (ndZc7)

312 An argument could be made that Stalin was the richest man that ever lived. He literally owned everyone and everything in a continent spanning empire.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 02:09 PM (4NO2D)

313
Also unworthy targets, the massive fleet they're building, reminiscent of the massive ghost cities that threw up and abandoned 20 years ago.
Posted by: Auspex

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I'm gonna be willowed, but what's this? I never knew their fleet was as soy as their ghost cities.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 17, 2026 02:09 PM (mmrXZ)

314 To be fair, Stalin and Trotsky and Lenin all were pretty well off too.
Posted by: Oldcat

You left out Castro, Chavez, Mao, etc. Dictatorship of the Proletariat should have Joe Walsh's "Life's Been Good to Me" as its theme song.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 02:09 PM (E4rtv)

315 Not true for Qeshm - it’s a place of many radar and surveillance sites, docking facilities for the mosquito fleet, hidden drone bases and reportedly a buried missile base. Kharg is commercial, Qeshm is a military outpost.

Then we know where they are, and that means we can destroy them from the air.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 02:09 PM (Riz8t)

316 Several months ago there was video of a Taiwanese boat (fishing or Coast Guard, I forget which) being chased by a Chinese Coast Guard vessel and a PLAN (Chinese Navy) warship. The Chinese Guard and warships collided with significant damage to both. Like torn up, with holes punched in the hull.

Naval experts were all over this. Concluding the Chinese warships are literally paper tigers... thin hulls not able to withstand much damage.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 02:03 PM (jehhT)

Light ships like destroyers are always like that. If you want to go fast, carry all the weapons too well something has to give. They were called 'tin cans' for a reason. In Mid War they found a B-25 with 50 cal guns on it could just ventilate the crap out of them.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:09 PM (uhVAy)

317 304 Mao enjoyed raping 12 yr old girls. Communists are big on child rape
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Islam 💘 Communism

Posted by: Child Rapin' Muhammed at July 17, 2026 02:10 PM (5/BQI)

318 268 We're s'posed to give CBD belly rubs?

Posted by: Gotta think about that... at July 17, 2026 01:54 PM (2Ez/1)

Good luck with that!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 17, 2026 02:00 PM (l4RKn)

Skriiiiitch, skritch, skritch, skritch, skritch, skritch.

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 02:10 PM (6wpGE)

319 This may have already been mentioned. I only read half of the comments.

Iran International is a VERY useful site for war news. Today it reported on a leaked poll, taken in May, and commissioned by the so-called Iran moderates, led by the Iranian Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf.

To cut to the chase, the poll shows the regime, its works, and its policies to be just extraoridnarily unpopular.

The people can't afford food. This was in May. I suspect it's gotten worse. They have a very bleak view of their future. They would like to see fundamental changes made in the govt.

The article points out (intuitively correct) that the terrible polling data likely understates the real extent of disapproval... because many people are afraid to answer.

I've often wondered-- if the U.S. set up a Free Iran Republic, perhaps in the Kurdish territory, if many non-Kurds might rally to it.

Posted by: mnw at July 17, 2026 02:10 PM (RCjYY)

320 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
British leftist Roger Waters calls the US "the absolute devil" on Tucker's show today

He says the Maduro raid proves it

https://tinyurl.com/7txyuaba

Posted by: redridinghood at July 17, 2026 02:11 PM (NpAcC)

321 To be fair, Stalin and Trotsky and Lenin all were pretty well off too.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:06 PM (uhVAy)
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Commie leaders have all sorts of mouthed good intentions about "To each according to his need", but they really believe that they should be compensated in accord to their "great contribution" to the advancement of mankind.

Berea was flat out extorting hot wives for sex with the prosecution of their husbands.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 02:11 PM (Fi81e)

322 Also unworthy targets, the massive fleet they're building, reminiscent of the massive ghost cities that threw up and abandoned 20 years ago.
Posted by: Auspex

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I'm gonna be willowed, but what's this? I never knew their fleet was as soy as their ghost cities.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 17, 2026 02:09 PM (mmrXZ)

Getting a strong navy isn't just about building boats and never has been. Germany, say, never really managed it very well despite all the wasted effort.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:11 PM (uhVAy)

323 >>And the comment above proves my point: I do think civilizations take a very long time to crumble. Hence my continued skepticism every time I hear for the 100th time that "IRAN IS ABOUT TO FALL."

The ruling minority it Iran is not a civilization. It is a mafia organized around a tyrannical system that enslaves the overwhelming majority of Persians that actually are a civilization that goes back to ancient times.

The mullahs grip is through force not consent. Even system like that throughout history is brittle once they lose their grip on power and that can happen in a flash once desparate people see no other option.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 02:11 PM (viF8m)

324 To be fair, Stalin and Trotsky and Lenin all were pretty well off too.
Posted by: Oldcat

You left out Castro, Chavez, Mao, etc. Dictatorship of the Proletariat should have Joe Walsh's "Life's Been Good to Me" as its theme song.
Posted by: whig

I read that Hugo Chavez's daughter is holed up in the Caribbean somewhere with $4 billion.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 02:11 PM (wOO3z)

325 Cut off Southern Iran and the rest of the country dies. Everything comes in and goes out through the Southern ports.

We do not need $200K Soldiers to occupy Iran. Our history on nation building SUX !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Marines Occupy Kharg Island and the other Islands and Iran is over. US Navy patrols along the coast and islands and bang we control Iran.

We can take the oil and use it for ourselves.

Posted by: Jackson K. at July 17, 2026 02:11 PM (E1Bcr)

326 Not true for Qeshm - it’s a place of many radar and surveillance sites, docking facilities for the mosquito fleet, hidden drone bases and reportedly a buried missile base. Kharg is commercial, Qeshm is a military outpost.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2026 02:06 PM (wLnmp)
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Which makes it somewhat baffling that Qeshm wasn't taken out immediately during the opening salvos. I get it's a hard target, but drop enough ordinance and that buried missile base ain't launching anything.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2026 02:12 PM (FZ29D)

327 British leftist Roger Waters calls the US "the absolute devil" on Tucker's show today

He says the Maduro raid proves it

https://tinyurl.com/7txyuaba
Posted by: redridinghood at July 17, 2026 02:11 PM (NpAcC)
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Didn't Maduro lose his election and fail to leave office?

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 02:12 PM (Fi81e)

328 They would like to see fundamental changes made in the govt.

By someone else. Nothing ever changes in the world until the "by someone else" part goes away.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 02:12 PM (ExV1e)

329 nd Wokeness
@EndWokeness
British leftist Roger Waters calls the US "the absolute devil" on Tucker's show today

He says the Maduro raid proves it

https://tinyurl.com/7txyuaba
Posted by: redridinghood at July 17, 2026 02:11 PM (NpAcC)

He's been saying that all his life. Along with all the other Brit Leftists.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:12 PM (uhVAy)

330 Put not your faith in princes=Won't Get Fooled Again.
Posted by: whig
_________

Also, The Seeker. Although I read somewhere that Townshend hated that song.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 17, 2026 02:12 PM (XvL8K)

331 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
British leftist Roger Waters calls the US "the absolute devil" on Tucker's show today

He says the Maduro raid proves it

https://tinyurl.com/7txyuaba
Posted by: redridinghood at July 17, 2026 02:11 PM (NpAcC)
_________________

"That dude is a fucking wanker"

-- David Gilmour

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 02:13 PM (iFTx/)

332 One rumor or theory is that Dylan avoided the draft, he was prime age, by eschewing the “protest” schtick and tunes.

“Magee’s Farm” tells the tale, in this account, a mangling of the McGee farm, where he played some tunes down south during a voter registration drive or whatever. Everyone was polite as could be, but “who the hell is this guy” wasn’t too far under the surface.

I think it was Joan Baez among others who were upset Bob stood down from opining too heavily on political issues.

“I’m just a song and dance man” was how he described himself at a press conference in California in 1965. Good for him.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 02:13 PM (2/ueB)

333
I've heard this 100x over the last few months. I hope this time it's based on real facts and not wishcasters pulling optimism out of their assholes.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

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

It's probably true, but somehow things never implode -- except maybe the Roman Empire. I don't know how. Liberia and North Korea should have imploded.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 17, 2026 02:13 PM (mmrXZ)

334 This is what I've been referring to as "candy coated communism". Get ready for a lot more. A LOT more.
Posted by: ...

This sh*t is candy coated! Try it, it's delish!

Posted by: Just about every College Prof at July 17, 2026 02:13 PM (LnMJr)

335 @EndWokeness
British leftist Roger Waters calls the US "the absolute devil" on Tucker's show today

He says the Maduro raid proves it

https://tinyurl.com/7txyuaba
Posted by: redridinghood at July 17, 2026 02:11 PM (NpAcC)

He's been saying that all his life. Along with all the other Brit Leftists.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:12 PM (uhVAy)


In fairness, he spends a lot of time saying "Joos Bad".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 02:14 PM (ExV1e)

336 You left out Castro, Chavez, Mao, etc. Dictatorship of the Proletariat should have Joe Walsh's "Life's Been Good to Me" as its theme song.
Posted by: whig
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You cut the name short. It's really "Dictatorship (In The Name) of the Proletariat".

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 02:14 PM (Fi81e)

337 312 An argument could be made that Stalin was the richest man that ever lived. He literally owned everyone and everything in a continent spanning empire.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 02:09 PM (4NO2D)

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And that's different from the tsars...how?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 02:14 PM (PIaQL)

338 Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:02 PM (uhVAy)

Gulf Council led by the House of Saud.

Saudis have 225,000 in their army, with American Training and Equipment. They have stockpiles of Abrahms tanks, still being maintained from Desert Storm and such.

They would need to get Iraq's permission to get to Iran, and have supply lines... but with American Airpower... do able IMO.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 02:14 PM (mP0Kj)

339 nd Wokeness
@EndWokeness
British leftist Roger Waters calls the US "the absolute devil" on Tucker's show today

He says the Maduro raid proves it

https://tinyurl.com/7txyuaba
Posted by: redridinghood at July 17, 2026 02:11 PM (NpAcC)

He's been saying that all his life. Along with all the other Brit Leftists.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:12 PM (uhVAy)
________

It's almost like they don't know we fought -- and won -- a big war so we could stop giving a rat's ass what Brits think

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 02:14 PM (iFTx/)

340 "That dude is a fucking wanker"

-- David Gilmour
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 02:13 PM (iFTx/)


And then he'd play an awesome 30 minute guitar solo.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 02:14 PM (ExV1e)

341 Love listening to the Iranian people watching the explosions and hoping the mullahs are about to fall

--

I've been assured that all Iranian people hate Trump.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 17, 2026 02:14 PM (qBdHI)

342 335 This is what I've been referring to as "candy coated communism". Get ready for a lot more. A LOT more.
Posted by: ...

This sh*t is candy coated! Try it, it's delish!
Posted by: Just about every College Prof at July 17, 2026 02:13 PM (LnMJr)

First one's free!

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 02:14 PM (6wpGE)

343 Kennedys. Bushes. Roosevelts.

On and on. We have Aristocracy as well.
Posted by: Noise Gate

What are we, chopped liver?

Posted by: Sasha and Malia, heirs to fabled Obama Netflix fortune at July 17, 2026 02:14 PM (bziMQ)

344 You cut the name short. It's really "Dictatorship (In The Name) of the Proletariat".
Posted by: Axeman
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I don't follow Communist style guides. To name something means that you should name it truly rather than obfuscate.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 02:15 PM (E4rtv)

345 >>"W" avoided the draft. Discuss.

So did Joey shit pants. Cause he had hairy legs.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 02:15 PM (viF8m)

346 It takes years to build an army.
It takes decades to build a navy.

Posted by: Well Established Pentagon Mantra at July 17, 2026 02:15 PM (2Ez/1)

347 This isn't the Armageddon Iran wanted, but what the Mullahs deserve.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2026 02:15 PM (ZpG08)

348 And that's different from the tsars...how?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 02:14 PM (PIaQL)


He called people comrade. And he was way more willing to have people killed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 02:15 PM (ExV1e)

349 I've heard this 100x over the last few months. I hope this time it's based on real facts and not wishcasters pulling optimism out of their assholes.

Americans have little patience for extended wars when men are being killed. That's why the Dems are trying so hard to make it sound like they are in Iran.

By contrast, we can continue to take out targets remotely forever, because there are no sad pictures of caskets coming home to DE, no matter how much the Dems want there to be.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 02:16 PM (Riz8t)

350 >"W" avoided the draft. Discuss.
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And I've got proof.

Posted by: Dan Rather at July 17, 2026 02:16 PM (2Ez/1)

351 To be fair, Stalin and Trotsky and Lenin all were pretty well off too.
——-

That’s how it always works. They feel guilty about not being born poor, and set about annoying the poor by trying to “help” them.

Often resulting in piles of skulls and utter ruin in their wake, but hey they mean well. Good intentions are what counts, not results.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 02:16 PM (2/ueB)

352 "W" avoided the draft. Discuss.

"W" was in the military. They don't draft people who're already in the military.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 02:17 PM (ExV1e)

353 Gulf Council led by the House of Saud.

Saudis have 225,000 in their army, with American Training and Equipment. They have stockpiles of Abrahms tanks, still being maintained from Desert Storm and such.

They would need to get Iraq's permission to get to Iran, and have supply lines... but with American Airpower... do able IMO.
Posted by: Romeo13
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I don't see it happening. Saudis tried and failed to take on Houthis several years ago, Iran would be a much tougher nut to crack.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 02:17 PM (E4rtv)

354 "W" avoided the draft. Discuss.
Posted by: Noise Gate
________

He probably had a higher chance of dying in that plane than Vietnam. What was it, the F104?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 17, 2026 02:17 PM (XvL8K)

355 After Gulf war 1 we left an entire division's worth of equiptment in Kuwait. I don't know what happened to it but it was there in '93 when my brigade went over there to take it all out for a spin.
And map out the desert for some secret navigation system.

Posted by: Reforger at July 17, 2026 02:17 PM (YHaz5)

356 Always liked Pink Floyd, but Roger Waters is a complete asshole

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 02:17 PM (OXYE0)

357 An argument could be made that Stalin was the richest man that ever lived. He literally owned everyone and everything in a continent spanning empire.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 02:09 PM (4NO2D)

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And that's different from the tsars...how?


Compared to Stalin and Lenin, the tsars were libertarians who only wanted to sit in their palaces and smoke weed.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 02:17 PM (Riz8t)

358 353 To be fair, Stalin and Trotsky and Lenin all were pretty well off too.
——-

That’s how it always works. They feel guilty about not being born poor, and set about annoying the poor by trying to “help” them.

Often resulting in piles of skulls and utter ruin in their wake, but hey they mean well. Good intentions are what counts, not results.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 02:16 PM (2/ueB)

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We don't know the names of the leaders of the great leftist rebellions who failed, like the Red Brigade in Italy.

It's never a fait accompli once the rich kids get some Marx in them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 02:17 PM (PIaQL)

359 And the comment above proves my point: I do think civilizations take a very long time to crumble. Hence my continued skepticism every time I hear for the 100th time that "IRAN IS ABOUT TO FALL."

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 02:11 PM (viF8m)
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Things are what they are. They don't just fall to ruin when our expectations of them are changed. Power in an organization like a state remains in it.

Power, like freedom, has no necessary content. Which is why we jail and kill people who would take our freedom from us if we can. (That's because freedom is more or less power).

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 02:17 PM (Fi81e)

360 He says the Maduro raid proves it

https://tinyurl.com/7txyuaba
Posted by: redridinghood at July 17, 2026 02:11 PM (NpAcC)

He's been saying that all his life. Along with all the other Brit Leftists.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:12 PM (uhVAy)
________

It's almost like they don't know we fought -- and won -- a big war so we could stop giving a rat's ass what Brits think
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 02:14 PM (iFTx/)

And when you ask him about his own government locking people into prison for telling the truth on the internet? /crickets

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 02:18 PM (mP0Kj)

361 >>@EricLDaugh
·
16m
>>🚨 BREAKING — MASSIVE 2A WIN: US federal appeals court STRIKES DOWN New Jersey Democrats' law that bans Americans possessing semiautomatic rifles like the AR-15, and "large capacity magazines" with over 10 rounds...

>>...it has been declared a VIOLATION of the 2nd Amendment

>>LFG!

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 02:18 PM (viF8m)

362 Dan Rather avoided the Draft during the Korean War by joining the National Guard.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2026 02:18 PM (ZpG08)

363 349 This isn't the Armageddon Iran wanted, but what the Mullahs deserve.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2026 02:15 PM
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You have to go war with the Armageddon that you have, not the Armageddon that you want.

Posted by: The ghost of Don Rumsfeld at July 17, 2026 02:18 PM (2Ez/1)

364 An argument could be made that Stalin was the richest man that ever lived. He literally owned everyone and everything in a continent spanning empire.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 02:09 PM (4NO2D)

========

And that's different from the tsars...how?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror

Alexander II ended serfdom.

The commies brought it back and made it universal.

Posted by: Miklosov, Ancient Slavonaut Theorist at July 17, 2026 02:18 PM (bziMQ)

365 The Saudi army is there for show only. Completely inept.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 02:18 PM (wOO3z)

366 355 I don't see it happening. Saudis tried and failed to take on Houthis several years ago, Iran would be a much tougher nut to crack.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 02:17 PM (E4rtv)

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Well, Israel took care of the Houthis.

But, the larger point of the Gulf States seem unwilling to use the militaries that they do have seems like an ironclad reality of life.

The military is a plaything for the regime, and not much else.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 02:18 PM (PIaQL)

367 I've heard this 100x over the last few months. I hope this time it's based on real facts and not wishcasters pulling optimism out of their assholes.

Americans have little patience for extended wars when men are being killed. That's why the Dems are trying so hard to make it sound like they are in Iran.

By contrast, we can continue to take out targets remotely forever, because there are no sad pictures of caskets coming home to DE, no matter how much the Dems want there to be.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 02:16 PM (Riz8t)
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Well, yea -- but that would be a longer, drawn-out war, which is how I think this will end up. It's more likely to fade into the background while continuing -- like the war in Ukraine that 99% of people forgot about -- than end in spectacular fashion with the collapse of Iran.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 02:19 PM (iFTx/)

368 The fact that the tested Iran regime holds power only by force kind of supports my musing about setting up a Republic of Free Iran in the Kurdish territory.

That would be a place where non-Kurdish opponents of the regime could rally, as well as Kurds.

Posted by: mnw at July 17, 2026 02:19 PM (RCjYY)

369 Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:02 PM (uhVAy)

Gulf Council led by the House of Saud.

Saudis have 225,000 in their army, with American Training and Equipment. They have stockpiles of Abrahms tanks, still being maintained from Desert Storm and such.

They would need to get Iraq's permission to get to Iran, and have supply lines... but with American Airpower... do able IMO.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 02:14 PM (mP0Kj)

Might be able to grab a port city on the cheap with them and hold it using air power and naval resupply. However feeding the local populace would be a problem, even if drones/missiles are just an irritant.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:19 PM (uhVAy)

370 @EndWokeness
British leftist Roger Waters calls the US "the absolute devil" on Tucker's show today

He says the Maduro raid proves it



He should watch all the Euro videos from the US during the World Cup.

Not much Devil coming from that stuff........

What a maroon.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 02:19 PM (2YhKe)

371 I don't really give a shit about the Iranian people because they put up with this shit for over 47 years. Fuck them too. They're on their own.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 17, 2026 02:19 PM (sYM3s)

372 >>And the comment above proves my point: I do think civilizations take a very long time to crumble. Hence my continued skepticism every time I hear for the 100th time that "IRAN IS ABOUT TO FALL."

>>Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 02:11 PM (viF8m)

T'was not me.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 02:19 PM (viF8m)

373 Watching high explosive ordnance detonate heavy infrastructure really is beautiful to watch, if nothing else.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 02:19 PM (BI5O2)

374 > Getting a strong navy isn't just about building boats and never has been. Germany, say, never really managed it very well despite all the wasted effort.
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A lot of analysis has gone into the PLAN's new carriers. There's speculation the next one they build will be nuke powered. That'll be interesting. The CCP has a lot invested in their Navy right now, but they're still unable to fully operate a carrier strength air wing off of any of their flattops.

Although they have (somewhat) got a grip on nuke power for some of their submarines. Of course the do not advertise anything like a safety record on them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 02:19 PM (jehhT)

375 363 He says the Maduro raid proves it

https://tinyurl.com/7txyuaba
Posted by: redridinghood at July 17, 2026 02:11 PM (NpAcC)

He's been saying that all his life. Along with all the other Brit Leftists.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:12 PM (uhVAy)
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It's almost like they don't know we fought -- and won -- a big war so we could stop giving a rat's ass what Brits think
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 02:14 PM (iFTx/)

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It's almost like he thinks that dull, midwit rhetoric should be the ruling edifice of the planet instead of actual power.

It's a nice fantasy, I guess. Except for all the side effects.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 02:20 PM (PIaQL)

376 Just reported that all Iranian Airspace is Shut Down. No flights in or out. This is "THE END"........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFUQPrUUx4U

Posted by: Jackson K. at July 17, 2026 02:20 PM (E1Bcr)

377 That’s how it always works. They feel guilty about not being born poor, and set about annoying the poor by trying to “help” them.

Often resulting in piles of skulls and utter ruin in their wake, but hey they mean well. Good intentions are what counts, not results.
Posted by: Common Tater
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I don't think Stalin or Lenin (not as familiar with Trotsky's works) gave one thin damn about the poor--to them it was these dear leaders were the instruments of history Marx style to raise up their society to utopia. If a bunch of peasants had to die in order to keep the dream alive, so what.

Individuals don't count for shit in that particular system other than NPCs that will be lead by the Guardians (Marxism is really recycled crap from Plato's Republic).

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 02:20 PM (E4rtv)

378 347 >>"W" avoided the draft. Discuss.

So did Joey shit pants. Cause he had hairy legs.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 02:15 PM (viF8m)

Joey Bidet saw combat with Corn Pop!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 02:20 PM (CUP/i)

379 The IRGC brass is going to have backup generators.
Posted by: Sharpie at July 17, 2026 01:38 PM (FUjuU)


What are they going to fuel them with, prayers?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 17, 2026 02:20 PM (tWxgu)

380 Yep. So lets call this what it is. And shit-can this idea of "Great Americans Volunteering to Serve the Country".

Our Ruling Class calls bullshit on this.
Posted by: Noise Gate at July 17, 2026 02:17 PM (cY6ao)


Both Presidents Bush served in the military. Nixon served. Reagan was 4F, I believe, as was Trump.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 02:20 PM (ExV1e)

381 *Yep. So lets call this what it is. And shit-can this idea of "Great Americans Volunteering to Serve the Country".*
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Saw a trailer recently for a movie about Jimmy Stewart and the war. Might be good.

https://youtu.be/EURriesRel0

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 17, 2026 02:20 PM (2Ez/1)

382 Gen. Teddy Roosevelt Jr went ashore at Normandy on 6 June.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2026 02:21 PM (ZpG08)

383 But it's a dry heat.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 17, 2026 02:21 PM (QaH55)

384 371 The fact that the tested Iran regime holds power only by force kind of supports my musing about setting up a Republic of Free Iran in the Kurdish territory.

That would be a place where non-Kurdish opponents of the regime could rally, as well as Kurds.

Posted by: mnw at July 17, 2026 02:19 PM (RCjYY)

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I welcome Iran continuing to be ruled by violent, inbred retards as long as they can't project power outside their borders.

I don't care about the Iranian people if they're unwilling to rise up themselves.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 02:21 PM (PIaQL)

385 "That dude is a fucking wanker"

-- David Gilmour
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 02:13 PM (iFTx/)

And then he'd play an awesome 30 minute guitar solo.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 02:14 PM (ExV1e)
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Or, often enough, Waters bass track for him.

Gilmour said he's never met a musician that is less interested in improving on their instrument than Waters. He's tell Waters, "Looks like I won another award for you."

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 02:21 PM (Fi81e)

386 "W" avoided the draft. Discuss.
Posted by: Noise Gate
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He probably had a higher chance of dying in that plane than Vietnam. What was it, the F104?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 17, 2026 02:17 PM (XvL8K)

yeah, that plane had a bad rep.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:21 PM (uhVAy)

387 Both Presidents Bush served in the military. Nixon served. Reagan was 4F, I believe, as was Trump.
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Sitting right here, boss.

Posted by: Gerald Ford at July 17, 2026 02:21 PM (2Ez/1)

388 Just reported that all Iranian Airspace is Shut Down. No flights in or out. This is "THE END"........

Jim Morrison has entered the chat.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 02:22 PM (wOO3z)

389 They will show up for a parade however.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 02:07 PM (jehhT)

Back in the day, the Qataris showed up in alongside the Marines Kafji and had an exchange with the Iraqis. The Saudis showed up too...just not as much.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 17, 2026 02:22 PM (3Ope8)

390
Well, yea -- but that would be a longer, drawn-out war, which is how I think this will end up. It's more likely to fade into the background while continuing -- like the war in Ukraine that 99% of people forgot about -- than end in spectacular fashion with the collapse of Iran.


Could be, or maybe not. An intelligence agency that can't forecast the collapse off the USSR is probably not going to get it right. However, in the meantime, we can just wait until the IRGC holdouts have had enough bombing. It sucks for the people of Iran, but it gives our fifth column leftists nothing to work with.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 02:22 PM (Riz8t)

391 A Viet Nam veteran many years ago, kind of a hippie type hybrid allowed that “Elvis died in the Army”. Not literally of course, but he wasn’t quite the same afterwards.

Afaik, he was a standup guy and didn’t want special treatment. The Army obliged and sent him to an armor unit in West Germany.

Dylan in the Army would have been pretty whack. Or, “out of whackl maybe. I would have paid good money to hear Jonathon Winters in the Marine Corps. You know that guy was a comedian then too, most people don’t know the military is a laugh a minute at times, just because.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 02:22 PM (2/ueB)

392 He says the Maduro raid proves it

https://tinyurl.com/7txyuaba
Posted by: redridinghood at July 17, 2026 02:11 PM (NpAcC)

He's been saying that all his life. Along with all the other Brit Leftists.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:12 PM (uhVAy)
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It's almost like they don't know we fought -- and won -- a big war so we could stop giving a rat's ass what Brits think
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 02:14 PM (iFTx/)

And when you ask him about his own government locking people into prison for telling the truth on the internet? /crickets
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2026 02:18 PM (mP0Kj)
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Waters is a bitter, miserable old prick. It seems that anyone who has ever worked with him hates his guts. He makes Glen Frey and Don Henley seem like nice guys.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 02:22 PM (iFTx/)

393 393 Just reported that all Iranian Airspace is Shut Down. No flights in or out. This is "THE END"........

Jim Morrison has entered the chat.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 02:22 PM (wOO3z)

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"Can't we get our own music!"
-Jarhead

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 02:22 PM (PIaQL)

394 children and the crops in the field.

Posted by: banana Dream - You picked a bad time to leave me lucile. at July 17, 2026 02:22 PM (3uBP9)

395 A federal appeals court on ​Friday ruled that New ‌Jersey's assault-weapons law barring the possession of ​AR-15 semi-automatic ​rifles and large capacity magazines ⁠containing more ​than 10 rounds of ​ammunition is unconstitutional. The ruling by the Philadelphia-based 3rd ​U.S. Circuit Court ​of Appeals marked the first ‌time ⁠a federal appeals court had ruled that a state's ​assault ​weapons ⁠ban violated the U.S. Constitution's ​Second Amendment by ​burdening ⁠the right to keep and bear ⁠arms ​for self-defense.

Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2026 02:23 PM (RHGPo)

396 dang it

Posted by: banana Dream - You picked a bad time to leave me lucile. at July 17, 2026 02:23 PM (3uBP9)

397 He probably had a higher chance of dying in that plane than Vietnam. What was it, the F104?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 17, 2026 02:17 PM (XvL8K)

yeah, that plane had a bad rep.
Posted by: Oldcat


Aka, Widowmaker or Missile with a Man In It.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 02:23 PM (v3afF)

398 I’m glad we’re back to my favorite Beach Boys song… but it is becoming clear that this regime is NOT close to collapse. I’ve hear that too often the last few months to take it seriously… but bombing these people is better than talking

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 02:23 PM (+gA9j)

399 I will bust this all day. He got an Air Guard position ... same way as my dad dodged by getting into the Kentucky National Guard. Because the idea was that a State had to send a National Guard Unit.
Posted by: Noise Gate at July 17, 2026 02:21 PM (cY6ao)


In which branch did you serve?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 02:23 PM (ExV1e)

400 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 02:17 PM (PIaQL)

Hey, I got a bunch of ads during your video today. Did you get monetized?

Congrats, if so.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at July 17, 2026 02:24 PM (vSvIl)

401 "W" was in the military. They don't draft people who're already in the military.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 02:17 PM (ExV1e)

I will bust this all day. He got an Air Guard position ... same way as my dad dodged by getting into the Kentucky National Guard. Because the idea was that a State had to send a National Guard Unit.
Posted by: Noise Gate at July 17, 2026 02:21 PM (cY6ao)

All drafts at all times are mostly a stimulus for people to enlist on their own to get a spot they like better (and not always be safe from deployment - Nat Guard units went into the Pacific from the start.)

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:24 PM (uhVAy)

402 Vas ist der scheis scheine cY6ao?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2026 02:24 PM (ZpG08)

403 Temperatures in the capital were expected to hit triple digits Friday, with highs of 102F on Saturday and Sunday.

.. simple fix .. use celsius instead of fahrenheit

Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2026 02:24 PM (RHGPo)

404 Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we're Free at last!

NOT SATIRE: United Airlines Lets Libs Switch Flights If They Don’t Want To Land At New Donald J. Trump Airport

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 02:25 PM (ndZc7)

405 Reagan served in the military but he couldn't get into flight training because of poor eyesight. He was in national guard before WWII

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 02:25 PM (OXYE0)

406 A lot of analysis has gone into the PLAN's new carriers. There's speculation the next one they build will be nuke powered. That'll be interesting.

I believe it is absolutely certain that it will be nuke-powered. Say what you will about its predecessors, the PRC has made incredible progress in a very short time.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 02:25 PM (Riz8t)

407 They will show up for a parade however.

Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Question becomes; Who will they pay to do their work?
India?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 02:25 PM (xHEjv)

408 " Iran has told its citizens to turn off their air conditioning during peak hours as the country's power grid came under strain amid US strikes."

/// This just in.. Iran has better air conditioning that all of Europe..

Posted by: Blanco at July 17, 2026 02:25 PM (rnXoa)

409 Convair F-102 Delta Dagger.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2026 02:25 PM (ZpG08)

410 I don't think Stalin or Lenin (not as familiar with Trotsky's works) gave one thin damn about the poor--to them it was these dear leaders were the instruments of history Marx style to raise up their society to utopia. If a bunch of peasants had to die in order to keep the dream alive, so what.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 02:20 PM (E4rtv)
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Lenin even wrote that he liked putting the scare into Russian civilians. He liked that when the NKVD visited an apartment complex late at night people trembled behind their doors that they might be the target.

Total fucking liar, that guy. Remember, he was one of the noble born in the "Bolshevik" leadership who chose Marxism as the new pattern.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 02:25 PM (Fi81e)

411 Kermit Roosevelt, TR’s grandson, was a serious spook agent hopping around Iran of all places in the 1950s

He played a big part in getting rid of Mossedega and installing Shah

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 02:26 PM (2/ueB)

412 It's almost like he thinks that dull, midwit rhetoric should be the ruling edifice of the planet instead of actual power.

It's a nice fantasy, I guess. Except for all the side effects.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Guy was traumatized by his father's death in Anzio. So after he tackled mental illness in Dark Side of the Moon (Syd Barrett), the music business (Wish you were Here), he started in on Orwell (Animals) and then the Wall where he had his own reckoning with the alienating effects of musical stardom, his father's death at Anzio and a fear of an Orwellian government. Final Cut dealt with Maggie's England and nuclear war.

Then he went totally anti-Semite. From what I recall, part of the Wall's bitter ashes of stardom was from the Animal's tour where Roger got annoyed at a fan yelling and screaming on the front row for every song--loud or soft. So he beckoned the fan closer and then spit on him from the stage.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 02:26 PM (E4rtv)

413 Always liked Pink Floyd, but Roger Waters is a complete asshole

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 02:17 PM (OXYE0)

That's not allowed.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 02:26 PM (/bHKT)

414 Reagan served in the military but he couldn't get into flight training because of poor eyesight. He was in national guard before WWII
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 02:25 PM (OXYE0)


Thank you for the correction.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 02:26 PM (ExV1e)

415 Blasting trolls would have messed the number anyway. Sorry Kenny, I tried.

Posted by: banana Dream - This one's for Becky at July 17, 2026 02:26 PM (3uBP9)

416 >>Military recruiting hit a 15-year high. How quickly do recruits become mission ready?

https://tinyurl.com/33v5wekb

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 02:26 PM (viF8m)

417 Say what you want about my White House tour of duty, but I was a nuke.

Posted by: Jimmah at July 17, 2026 02:27 PM (2Ez/1)

418 This is "THE END"........

Jim Morrison has entered the chat.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 02:22 PM (wOO3z)


Zepplin's second worst song.

Posted by: Reforger at July 17, 2026 02:27 PM (kAEfL)

419 NOT SATIRE: United Airlines Lets Libs Switch Flights If They Don’t Want To Land At New Donald J. Trump Airport

Good grief. What a bunch of weenies!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 02:27 PM (D+BhG)

420 Kermit Roosevelt, TR’s grandson, was a serious spook agent hopping around Iran of all places in the 1950s

He played a big part in getting rid of Mossedega and installing Shah
Posted by: Common Tater

He got Miss Piggy to ditch the burqa.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 02:27 PM (wOO3z)

421 I’m glad we’re back to my favorite Beach Boys song… but it is becoming clear that this regime is NOT close to collapse. I’ve hear that too often the last few months to take it seriously… but bombing these people is better than talking
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 02:23 PM (+gA9j)

it is never clear until the collapse happens. That's why it is called a collapse.

I agree that there is "a lot of ruin in a nation" so people who think if it doesn't go down in a week everything has failed are being silly.

What I don't see yet is any sign that the country is rallying and getting stronger. Factions fight factions, leaders get killed, the 'reprisals' become weaker and nations join our alliance and join in.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:28 PM (uhVAy)

422 James Madison didn't serve in the military, therefore he was a bad person and a bad president.

Did command an artillery battle during the War of 1812, though, while he was president.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 02:28 PM (PIaQL)

423 He makes Glen Frey and Don Henley seem like nice guys.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 02:22 PM (iFTx/)
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LOL. No disagreement.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 02:28 PM (Fi81e)

424 Nood. Maine.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 02:29 PM (ExV1e)

425 >>Military recruiting hit a 15-year high. How quickly do recruits become mission ready?

https://tinyurl.com/33v5wekb
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 02:26 PM (viF8m)

If the mission is 'free up regular troops for real missions' the answer is almost at once.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:29 PM (uhVAy)

426 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at July 17, 2026 02:29 PM (NcvvS)

427 Army National Guard units fought in Java and in the Philippines at the start of the war.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2026 02:29 PM (ZpG08)

428 nood



Maine

Posted by: banana Dream - This one's for Becky at July 17, 2026 02:29 PM (3uBP9)

429 392. Its the same as Boomers claiming "Vietnam Era Vet". They were never in country.
Posted by: Noise Gate

"Era" designation, could be likely they were not in country.

HOWEVER, Millions of Baby Boomers served as soldiers during the Vietnam Era. Born between 1946 and 1964, they comprised the primary generation that fought in the conflict. While roughly half of the draft-eligible men in that generation received deferments (often for college), millions of others volunteered or were drafted.

Older Boomers (born 1946–1952) were the demographic most heavily impacted by the draft and were the soldiers who fought on the ground during the height of the Vietnam War in the 1960s.

Younger Boomers (born 1953–1964) were teenagers or younger during the majority of the conflict. By the time the draft lottery was introduced in 1969 and the draft ended in 1973, many were still too young to serve.

Overall, roughly 10 percent of all Baby Boomer men served in the U.S. armed forces, with millions actively deployed to Southeast Asia.

God bless them.

Posted by: Hunter's brain, off drugs at July 17, 2026 02:29 PM (NFX2v)

430 423 James Madison didn't serve in the military, therefore he was a bad person and a bad president.

Did command an artillery battle during the War of 1812, though, while he was president.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 02:28 PM
******
Young Washington is a good movie, by the way. Recommend.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 17, 2026 02:30 PM (2Ez/1)

431 F-105 Thunderchief. Called the "Thud" after the sound it made hitting the ground

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 02:30 PM (OXYE0)

432 381 Saw a trailer recently for a movie about Jimmy Stewart and the war. Might be good.

https://youtu.be/EURriesRel0
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 17, 2026 02:20 PM (2Ez/1)

WOW

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 02:30 PM (6wpGE)

433
Fine.

But I want an option on all my frequent Florida flights on United, even direct ones, to change to or add a stop at Trump International.

Fair is fair.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 02:30 PM (BI5O2)

434 >>> All drafts at all times are mostly a stimulus for people to enlist on their own to get a spot they like better (and not always be safe from deployment - Nat Guard units went into the Pacific from the start.)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 02:24 PM (uhVAy)

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My dad is his next younger brother were drafted. The 3rd brother (and youngest) enlisted and became a Ranger. He got artillery because he was good with math. At least that's what my brother told me.

Posted by: Turn 2 at July 17, 2026 02:30 PM (Y2/Vj)

435 431 Young Washington is a good movie, by the way. Recommend.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 17, 2026 02:30 PM (2Ez/1)

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And yet, it doesn't contain the true story of what happened when he went to Fort Laboeuf.

See the real story here!

https://amzn.to/4vxynjt

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 02:31 PM (PIaQL)

436 Yeah, I always suspected that "In the Flesh?" was Waters confession about his own power-tripping before he reflected that something about rock concerts is "deeply fascist".

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 02:31 PM (Fi81e)

437 384 TJM

They already DID rise up. 30,000 or so dead.

That anti-regime hatred is still there. Iran hanged a woman today-- one of the protest leaders. This is a first.

I wouldn't encourage my own kids to protest against Iran's regime if they were Iranian, bc they hang people. We know that.

If there was a safe area in Iranian Kurdish territory, that might change the risk calculus.

Posted by: mnw at July 17, 2026 02:32 PM (RCjYY)

438 Your kids are in good hands.

https://tinyurl.com/4tft589r

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 02:32 PM (ndZc7)

439 So after he tackled mental illness in Dark Side of the Moon (Syd Barrett)
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L.S.D., not mental illness. Huge bodycount, actually. One of the original Fleetwood Mac members never came down after getting dosed in Germany. Lennon’s cheese slipped off his cracker, Brian Jones, and Brian Wilson was reduced to wandering around in his bathrobe everywhere

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 02:34 PM (2/ueB)

440 Only 12% of the male population served in WW II.

Posted by: Math at July 17, 2026 02:36 PM (7wXA5)

441 439 So after he tackled mental illness in Dark Side of the Moon (Syd Barrett)
——-

L.S.D., not mental illness. Huge bodycount, actually. One of the original Fleetwood Mac members never came down after getting dosed in Germany. Lennon’s cheese slipped off his cracker, Brian Jones, and Brian Wilson was reduced to wandering around in his bathrobe everywhere
Posted by: Common Tater
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Actually it was mental illness. Syd Barrett whether he fried his brain on LSD. other drugs, or whether he used it to treat whatever mental problems he had actually showed up at the lengthy recording sessions for Dark Side.

He was unrecognizable to the rest of the band from the Syd they all knew. The link between mental illness and drug usage is slippery and depends on just what drug and what their preexisting,usually unknown, mental issues were.

Add in the pressure of public performing, constant requirements of the biz to do promos, record more songs, make hits, ego development from being worshipped, etc., is not the best environment for healthy living. Bad Finger had two suicides in part based on such stress and a real villain as manager.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 02:39 PM (E4rtv)

442 Say what you want about my White House tour of duty, but I was a nuke.
——-

False. Carter was not a nuke or a boomer or anything like that. He did some radiation contamination cleanup. He was a fucking dunce as president.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 02:39 PM (2/ueB)

443 The link between mental illness and drug usage is slippery and depends on just what drug and what their preexisting,usually unknown, mental issues were.
——-

Don’t take my word for it. But, yeah. It was the Acid

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 02:41 PM (2/ueB)

444 436 Yeah, I always suspected that "In the Flesh?" was Waters confession about his own power-tripping before he reflected that something about rock concerts is "deeply fascist".
Posted by: Axeman

Probably so. It led Pete Townshend to several nervous breakdowns and his Punk and Godfather song on Quadrophenia directly addresses it.

Stones did It's Only Rock and Roll for similar reasons after Brian Jones and then Mick Taylor imploded.

A birdseye view, that sometimes lacks the details that we crave, is Soundman by legendary sound engineer and producer Glyn Johns. He notes the issues carefully with working with so many bands and keeps it ground to avoid making broader assertions about the stars he worked with. By doing so, he avoided any legal hassles from those still living.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 02:43 PM (E4rtv)

445 Don’t take my word for it. But, yeah. It was the Acid
Posted by: Common Tater
======
Have you ever listened to Pink Floyd's first album? Piper's at the Gates of Dawn, Syd's girlfriend on the minor hit of See Emily Play notes that it was about the name of a future hoped for child of the two, not from drugs. Brian Jones dabbled in psychedelics but combined them with uppers and downers and alcohol. Like Keith Moon, Brian took everything and anything.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 02:47 PM (E4rtv)

446 I also gave service to the USA also............

I was a Soldier in the War on Global Warming with Sir Albert Gore of Globalwarmington..

Posted by: Barry Soetoro at July 17, 2026 03:01 PM (J1l9E)

Trump: There Is Evidence of a Massive Chinese Effort to Compromise America's Voting Rolls -- But the Deep State Covered It Up

This is treason.

And the death penalty should be on the table.

There was a lot in last night's speech. I'm going to break it up into two posts.

First -- this post -- about what China did.

Second -- in another post -- about treasonous US "intelligence" operatives covering it up to protect their Chinese pals -- and aid and abet China's efforts to influence our elections in the Democrats' favor -- and thus to interfere in the election themselves.

The president said the People's Republic of China (PRC) illicitly acquired a whopping 220 million U.S. voter files through "what is believed to be the largest compromise of election data in history."

"That information includes names, addresses, phone numbers, political party preferences, and other sensitive data that would be needed to register to vote and engage in other nefarious activities, which is exactly what was happening," Trump said.

"This data loss presents an unprecedented election security nightmare. The intelligence even shows that China assigned a data exploitation unit specifically to this new project," he added.

Trump said another key area of concern is a "deep state" cover-up of the extent of China's meddling.

The third set of documents "proves that for many years Americans were blatantly lied to about the security of our election infrastructure, including electronic voting machines and ballot counting systems, dishonest almost all," the president said, adding:

They're vulnerable and they're easily compromised, and people within our government knew that. Tonight, we're publishing a series of previously classified U.S. intelligence community assessments and other reports proving that our government has long known these machines are extremely exposed to attack. As one assessment states, we judge that the United States adversaries, including at a minimum Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, as well as non-state groups, have the capability to compromise U.S. election infrastructure.

Trump said documents "show the CIA obtained reporting of a specific plot to do a big number in favor of the corrupt Maduro regime in Venezuela, and that's exactly what happened, conspiring to digitally rig their own country's elections in 2020, and that's what they did."

The fourth set shows "significant evidence of fraud" was "buried and covered up," Trump said, pointing to "FBI files detailing evidence of alleged fraud by a large-scale voter registration operation in Michigan."

He added:

In 2020, Michigan State Police raided a Democrat Get Out the Vote organization, corrupt group, in Muskegon, and were so concerned by what they found ... that they contacted the FBI in Detroit. The documents state that some canvassers admitted to FBI agents that they signed voter registration forms in other people's names, submitted fraudulent registration for people who did not exist, and received gift cards tied to their number of applications that they produced. In other words, it was pay, play, and cheat.

The final area of documents is a release of a Department of Homeland Security investigation, which uncovered hundreds of thousands of noncitizens registered to vote in federal elections, he said:

According to the DHS review, state voter rolls, and public records, they identified approximately 278,000 non-citizens who are registered to vote in federal elections. Since Democrat states refuse to share their voter files, the real number is actually much higher than that. Yet, even this limited analysis found more than a quarter of a million foreigners illegally registered to vote.

The president added that the information he detailed throughout the address shows "an election system so broken and so vulnerable that no one can possibly defend it"

He also said, accurately, that you would only defend this broken system if you had the intention of cheating in elections.

There was election interference by a hostile foreign power.

But that power was not Russia, as the Democrat cover story had it.

That power was China, interfering in our elections in favor of Joe Biden, just as they interfered in the 1992 and 1996 elections in favor of Bill Clinton.

"As the documents we are releasing show, CIA reporting explicitly stated, 'in mid-2018, the Chinese communist party's policy was to leverage all domestic and foreign elements that were opposed to the U.S. president in an effort to reduce the U.S. president's votes, and make him resign or prevent his reelection," he said.

The president further alleged that China meddled in the 2018 mid-term elections and the 2020 elections, adding that China sought to undermine domestic confidence in the U.S. president during the year 2019.

At least one "CIA Note" posted to the White House website said that China had accessed data from the 2015 presidential elections.

"China was working to influence the results of the U.S. mid-term elections, and later the resuits of the 2020 U.S. Presidential elections," it said. "As part of this campaign, China was analyzing the 2015 U.S. Presidential elections and identifying U.S. states who voted for the U.S. President."

"The Chinese would then identify sectors within these states that voted to support the U.S. President's political party, and would attempt to make these sectors experience negative financial consequences by levying tariffs on exports to China from those sectors," it added. "The Chinese hoped that these measures would induce representatives from these sectors to lobby the U.S. President."



Steve Robinson
@SteveRob

My top lines from President Trump's election document release so far:

Homeland Security says more than 250,000 noncitizens were illegally registered to vote in California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Nevada alone.

In Michigan, FBI database checks on 107 voter registration applications found 91 with no matching person in government records.

An unevaluated FBI report from Albany claimed China made fake U.S. driver's licenses to enable mail-in votes for Biden.

A CIA note on 2018--2020 reporting says China's goal was to stop President Trump from winning reelection. Other documents show this reporting was "massaged" in order to mislead POTUS.

Declassified tables describe roughly 204 million U.S. voter records among datasets held or possessed by Chinese actors. Documents note these records could be used to request absentee ballots in the names of low propensity voters.

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) found many state and local election office networks so poorly secured that its testers could take full control in hours or days.

A Michigan witness told the FBI canvassers were paid with debit cards to register phony voters and said the operation seemed aimed at suppressing votes for President Trump.

The Michigan FBI registration-fraud case ran about four years before prosecutors declined charges, with long delays at the Justice Department. The case suggests the Biden Admin was deliberating thwarting investigations into pro-Biden election fraud, much as investigations into Hillary Clinton were slow-walked or killed prior to 2016.

A federal threat paper says China breached state voter registration systems and that stolen data can be used later to request absentee ballots or change voter rolls.

TL;DR - Foreign regimes targeted American elections to stop President Trump, and the Biden Admin greatly strengthened those efforts.


Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:10 PM




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1 Not first, but I checked first to see if anyone nooded.

Posted by: the lower depths at July 17, 2026 12:10 PM (Yh7zv)

2 howdy

Posted by: doug at July 17, 2026 12:11 PM (B1+sW)

3 None Dare Call It Treason!

Except now, there are so many facts being laid out, it is the only logical conclusion. (and/or "Insurrection")

Posted by: illiniwek at July 17, 2026 12:11 PM (vbXSk)

4 Magaret Brennan isn't even that old, and she already looks like a victim of plastic surgery. Also, that white outfit does NOT work on her.

Posted by: the lower depths at July 17, 2026 12:11 PM (Yh7zv)

5 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2026 12:12 PM (0CVPB)

6 And the "media's"takeaway is that there is no proof, Trump is an election denier, and he is gonna try to steal the midterms...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 12:12 PM (3iJWA)

7 Apparently, ABC didn't cover the speech, but they interrupted programming afterwards to tell you what they thought of it.

I'm leery about too much FCC pressure, but that sounds like a case for it.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 12:12 PM (Fi81e)

8 CA, NY, and MN Electoral College votes need to be decertified.

As a start.

And cut off all Federal funding.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2026 12:13 PM (2GVsD)

9 But what about Medicare for all?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2026 12:13 PM (Cqx++)

10 Suspected this happened since voter fraud in 2020
Boxes of fake ballots were processed in many states

Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2026 12:13 PM (0CVPB)

11 And the "media's"takeaway is that there is no proof, Trump is an election denier, and he is gonna try to steal the midterms...
Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 12:12 PM (3iJWA)

I actually like the "stolen election" narrative on their side. A lot of us have been complaining about blackpillers on our side for years. If the left is convinced they are going to lose because they get "cheated", they will work less and whine more. I am fine with that.

Posted by: the lower depths at July 17, 2026 12:14 PM (Yh7zv)

12 Does anybody remember when Dems practically wanted your execution for "siding with Russia"?

Simply for not believing that the "Russians INVADED our elections" (that were completely unriggable in June when Trump mentioned that idea!!)

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 12:14 PM (Fi81e)

13 When we were investigating Chinese cannabis cartels, a source told me that he witnessed one of the higher level operatives flipping through a binder full of New York drivers licenses.

When they needed a new identity for a cartel member, they�d just search the binder. pic.twitter.com/A0wpkl9Lk6

===

there is so much there

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 12:14 PM (GD0B3)

14 And Congress needs to revoke the concept of Motor Voter.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2026 12:14 PM (2GVsD)

15 I don't really care Margaret.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 17, 2026 12:15 PM (3uBP9)

16 Wow, Maggie's looking pretty rough there.

Guess being a ChiCom shill really takes it out of you.

Posted by: far cry at July 17, 2026 12:16 PM (fmbc9)

17 Never forget that Gaylord Merkin Focker the Wurst allowed Beijing access to all military security clearances.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2026 12:16 PM (2GVsD)

18 If no one is prosecuted and no one goes to jail, this is all moot. Bad stuff, but moot. It has to be handled like the border, with actions, arrests, deportations.

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 12:16 PM (GD0B3)

19 “This is treason”

Incidentally, so is importing illegal aliens by the millions in a “democracy”. Weird, huh?

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 12:16 PM (8fTKG)

20 Clark Gable, "Frankly Margaret, I don't give a damn."

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2026 12:17 PM (2GVsD)

21 Add all that in with the deep state shenanigans from the russia collusion hoax and domestic political spying and you see how massive this whole corrupt thing is.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 17, 2026 12:17 PM (n5tGW)

22 Death penalty - can I do it?

I'll bring my own axe. It's old and not that sharp.
But that's alright.

MS Now and CBS BOTH cut into the middle of the President's speech last night to tell their retarded viewers what they should be thinking.

Seriously,

THAT WAS INSANE!

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 17, 2026 12:17 PM (Sco7b)

23 But clowns like Senator Murkowski are still fine trying to kill the SAVE act because Trump said pussy.

That's way more important than China compromising our entire democracy.

Posted by: Sharpie at July 17, 2026 12:17 PM (Bjzmv)

24 Does anyone remember when Jimmy Carter celebrated the Venezuelan elections as the model for the free world?

This was continually reported prior and after that time by the CIA that there were severe issues and shortcomings by the government of Venezuela in ensuring honest elections.
The procedures "speculated" on by the CIA seem to have bearing on the recent oddities in US elections.

I do not wish ill on people, and painful death is not something I hope for anyone, but I do not regret Jimmah's death nor his indignity in being wheeled around like a trophy by the Dems.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2026 12:17 PM (rbvCR)

25 The media didn't need to watch the speech... They had their responses to it already written...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 12:18 PM (3iJWA)

26 And the "media's"takeaway is that there is no proof, Trump is an election denier, and he is gonna try to steal the midterms...

Posted by: It's me donna



I could have written this verbatim in 2025.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 12:18 PM (Riz8t)

27 No indictments, no news.

Show me something tangible, not just another document dump.

Hell, throw out the Chinese ambassador as persona non grata and tell the Chinese in very clear terms using little words to stop giving us causus belli.

DO SOMETHING. Doc dumps don't move the meter. At all.

*signed*
fed-up filbert

Posted by: filbert at July 17, 2026 12:18 PM (p9Pe7)

28 Defunding is the only way to have an impact.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 17, 2026 12:18 PM (afJtY)

29 We need two things. Hearings and hangings.

Posted by: Weasel at July 17, 2026 12:18 PM (8jVAy)

30 There was no cheating in elections. -- Democrats
Good enough for me. They'd never lie. -- GOPe

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 12:18 PM (ExV1e)

31 Not to mention the covid all mail in ballot scam.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 17, 2026 12:19 PM (n5tGW)

32 The New York Times characterizes the Trump speech as replete with false election claims that "carry a cost for democracy." But 81.3 million votes for the addlepated, incontinent asshole Biden is simply impossible.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 17, 2026 12:19 PM (2ap+5)

33 If only Comrade GOP had known.

Posted by: connected and litigious at July 17, 2026 12:19 PM (cS1cw)

34 Jimmy Carter and Hugo Chavez are presently sharing a flaming barbed cock.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2026 12:19 PM (2GVsD)

35 The PRC's whole "let's you and him fight" maneuver to try to keep us focused on the Russians rather than real problems is...sadly effective.

Let's be clear, I'm not saying "We should be buddies with the Rooskies". They aren't are friends, and even if they were they really wouldn't be that helpful in most respects right now, all things considered. But it's like the stage magician keeping you from watching what he's doing with endless distractions.

Not that it may do China that much good in the long term, but it may buy them some breathing space.

Anyway, we're officially out of "we can politics our way out of this" excuses at this stage. Not that some won't try.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at July 17, 2026 12:19 PM (OUMaO)

36 But the TV said Trump was making this claim "falsely"

Posted by: brak at July 17, 2026 12:19 PM (sCxmP)

37 Our friends. Aren't our friends. Holy crap I can't even comment in proper Americanglish anymore. FML, I am going downhill.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at July 17, 2026 12:20 PM (OUMaO)

38 DO SOMETHING. Doc dumps don't move the meter. At all.

*signed*
fed-up filbert
Posted by: filbert at July 17, 2026 12:18 PM (p9Pe7)

What you said....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 12:20 PM (3iJWA)

39 >>> We need two things. Hearings and hangings.
Posted by: Weasel at July 17, 2026 12:18 PM (8jVAy)


Don't forget the fun part in the middle!

Posted by: tarring and feathering at July 17, 2026 12:20 PM (3uBP9)

40 about treasonous US "intelligence" operatives covering it up to protect their Chinese pals

We have George W. Bush to thank for this.

After the worst intelligence failure in American history on 9/11, the "intelligence community" steeled itself for the mass firings that obviously were going to take place, along with the root-and-branch restructuring of the "agencies" that was obviously needed.

And what happened?

Nothing. Nobody lost their job over this. The intelligence bureaucracies continued as before.

This convinced the "intelligence community" that they were bulletproof- that they could do anything they wanted to do without consequence.

All our problems with the "intelligence community" over the last twenty-five years are downstream from this.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 17, 2026 12:20 PM (u6/wt)

41 I don’t get annoyed by talking heads very often, they aren’t worth my energy. But the smugness in this clip of Ms. Margaret is annoying. Or maybe I am annoyed by her really bad haircut- good heavens, girl, who did this to you? Get thee a little bit of an a-line, and let your hair grow past your chin line. Otherwise your entire head looks like a potato.

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 12:21 PM (Dd38x)

42 So the states have given more voter roll access to the Chinese government than the Federal government.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 17, 2026 12:21 PM (DbmIv)

43 Add all that in with the deep state shenanigans from the russia collusion hoax and domestic political spying and you see how massive this whole corrupt thing is.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 17, 2026 12:17 PM (n5tGW)
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I'm on my 6th year of not rejecting conspiracy theories outright.

That said: they cheated Nixon the first go round, and then they took him out after a 49-state landslide.

And I don't love Nixon. But it's almost certain the Deep State took him out. Created Watergate, because Republicans wanted to be more responsible to the voters than the DC machine (I'd guess).

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 12:21 PM (Fi81e)

44 >>>>>> We need two things. Hearings and hangings.

Best we can do is hearings and a strongly-worded letter

Posted by: GOP Senate at July 17, 2026 12:21 PM (sCxmP)

45
*blah, blah*

... An increasing unhinged President Trump unleashed another volley of baseless charges...

*blah, blah*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2026 12:21 PM (flEsB)

46 220 million is practically every voter.
Single day in person voting with ID is the only way to impact this.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 17, 2026 12:21 PM (n5tGW)

47 Listen to the bravado she gives the Chinese while she reads: "China has never and will never interfere in a the presidential elections of a the United States."

For the record Russia repeatedly said they don't interfere in American elections as well...the FNM just covered it as "of course election interfering foreigners would say that...their denial is almost proof itself!"

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 12:22 PM (sKqQm)

48 Deep Throat was an embittered Deep State toady.

And the press hated Nixon's guts.

So the perfect narrative for a lynching.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2026 12:22 PM (2GVsD)

49 But we'll fix all this by voting harder? Horseshit. Suits will be filed, evidence presented and the judiciary will rule in the corruption's favor.

More severe methods are going to be needed here.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 12:23 PM (jehhT)

50 no, it wasn't china it was russia!!

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 17, 2026 12:23 PM (CWTWj)

51 And what happened?

Nothing. Nobody lost their job over this. The intelligence bureaucracies continued as before.


The biggest fallout from 9/11 was Muslim immigration +100000% for some reason

Posted by: brak at July 17, 2026 12:23 PM (sCxmP)

52 ... An increasing unhinged President Trump unleashed another volley of baseless charges...

The Democrats now claim the 2024, 2016, 2004, 2000, and 1980 elections were all stolen with no evidence whatsoever to back them up

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 12:23 PM (sKqQm)

53
House hearings aren't enough!

We need Senate hearings to go total phoney balcony do nothing.

Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 12:23 PM (Y8DZL)

54 All this crap makes me believe COVID was an op to take out Trump.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 17, 2026 12:23 PM (W2Pud)

55 And Newsom said it was "The Ramblings of a mad King "and the 25th Amendment should be called up...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 12:24 PM (3iJWA)

56 Speaking of being in the service of China, where is the Turtle and his wife?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2026 12:24 PM (2GVsD)

57 Brennen needs to be replaced by a younger, hotter biological female. A woman of color would be cool. Skimpy clothes. Nice boobs.

If I'm going to be lied to, there may as well be something in it for me.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 17, 2026 12:24 PM (Sco7b)

58 “This is treason”

Incidentally, so is importing illegal aliens by the millions in a “democracy”. Weird, huh?
Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 12:16 PM (8fTKG)
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Sedition.

Treason is defined in the Constitution and limited.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 12:24 PM (Fi81e)

59 The left: Any claim non citizens vote in our elections is false.

Also the left: Of course we have to give undocumented immigrants drivers licenses...and...send voter registration forms to everyone with a drivers license

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 12:25 PM (sKqQm)

60 I find it impossible to care about this. If I did, it would just amount to despair.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 17, 2026 12:25 PM (tgl2u)

61 >>> 220 million is practically every voter.
Single day in person voting with ID is the only way to impact this.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 17, 2026 12:21 PM (n5tGW)


Yeah man, somebody should do something!

Posted by: your feckless gop blocking SAVE at July 17, 2026 12:25 PM (3uBP9)

62 let your hair grow past your chin line. Otherwise your entire head looks like a potato

Wow. Once you've seen it, you can't unsee it.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 12:26 PM (Riz8t)

63 25 The media didn't need to watch the speech... They had their responses to it already written...
Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 12:18 PM

We talked about this before the speech. It wouldn’t matter what was said, they cannot come off this narrative. This wasn’t going to open anyone’s eyes. We are so balkanized, and the media is living on the other Balkan with the left, so there will be no minds changed. This is a scary time and I wish Trump was just a smidge of the dictator they all claim him to be.

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 12:26 PM (Dd38x)

64 Seems like a blog screwup starting near the signature of it's me Donna

Looks like somehow their is a bug causing the blog to eat comments. Garret's comment appears in Donna's sig. Not saying she's at fault; simply point out the locality of the weirdness.

Garrett had some earlier comments eaten. Maybe it's a feature not a bug.

Posted by: meh at July 17, 2026 12:27 PM (zZxsY)

65 62 >>> 220 million is practically every voter.
Single day in person voting with ID is the only way to impact this.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 17, 2026 12:21 PM (n5tGW)


Yeah man, somebody should do something!
Posted by: your feckless gop blocking SAVE at July 17, 2026 12:25 PM (3uBP9)

And it looks like today they are digging there heels in deeper to stop it's passage...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 12:27 PM (3iJWA)

66 Meanwhile, Israel is making up for its intelligence failures against Hamas:

In an attack in Nuseirat, "The Commanding Mujahed" Taher Abd al-Wahid was eliminated today. He joins his 3 brothers who were eliminated in the past.

...and the plot twist:

Unusual incident:
IDF attacked now a group of terrorists at his funeral. 6 dead so far.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 17, 2026 12:27 PM (u6/wt)

67 We need two things. Hearings and hangings.

Posted by: Weasel at July 17, 2026 12:18 PM (8jVAy)

With an intermission of shotgun pinata and Pinochet skeet.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 17, 2026 12:28 PM (S41Gd)

68 And not just regular hearings, but sleeveless hearings!

Posted by: Weasel at July 17, 2026 12:28 PM (8jVAy)

69 We're gonna need MOAR lampposts!

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 12:28 PM (KBK+H)

70 >>> Get thee a little bit of an a-line, and let your hair grow past your chin line. Otherwise your entire head looks like a potato.
Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 12:21 PM (Dd38x)


That's so hot.

Posted by: Brian Stelter at July 17, 2026 12:28 PM (3uBP9)

71 Yeah man, somebody should do something!
Posted by: your feckless gop blocking SAVE at July 17, 2026 12:25 PM (3uBP9)

And it looks like today they are digging there heels in deeper to stop it's passage...


This could be a career killer for Thune if he STILL refuses to engage with the SAVE Act.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 12:28 PM (Riz8t)

72 Nobody cares. Trump's speech means nothing. Nobody cares. Not on the big stage, in the macro.

Posted by: Blues Junior at July 17, 2026 12:24 PM (AoR1V)
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That's not the way things have been working for Trump.

Trump states his claim, the media call him all sorts of name, but the Lord orchestrates the events, and the truth about who is lying to them gradually seeps down to people who are willing to question what they thought they knew.

In the past, Trump would make a bombastic statement just so the media would highlight what he said, any number of times when the attention of the people was turned to it by the apoplexy of the media, more and more people would conclude that Trump was closer to the truth than the media.

I fully believe that Trump was directing the media's attention by their inability to control their outrage.

Now, the spotlight is on China. We can wait and see what the Lord will do with that.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 12:28 PM (Fi81e)

73 We need two things. Hearings and hangings.

Posted by: Weasel at July 17, 2026 12:18 PM (8jVAy)

---------

You left out Waterboardings.

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 12:29 PM (KBK+H)

74 Hearings with perps in a glass box!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 17, 2026 12:29 PM (n5tGW)

75 The media didn't need to watch the speech... They had their responses to it already written...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 12:18 PM
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Just like Trump's obituary on July 9th, it seems.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 12:30 PM (Fi81e)

76 There is no WIDESPREAD espionage and interference. It's just one country.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 12:30 PM (/bHKT)

77 Hearings with perps in a glass box!

Air holes verboten.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 12:30 PM (Riz8t)

78 Speaking of being in the service of China, where is the Turtle and his wife?

I'm feeling better, and I don't want to go on the cart!

Just because I'm incapable of releasing a thirty-second video talking about current events doesn't mean that I'm dead!

Posted by: Mitch, Pining For The Fijords! at July 17, 2026 12:30 PM (u6/wt)

79 We're gonna need MOAR lampposts!

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 12:28 PM (KBK+H)

That's why I favor the field of the impaled. We got the space, and wood poles are cheap.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 17, 2026 12:30 PM (S41Gd)

80 Nobody cares. Trump's speech means nothing. Nobody cares. Not on the big stage, in the macro.

This is largely true. If it ends with a speech and some document dumps.

Nothing will change until people go to jail.

But I hope, and honestly do expect, that Trump has that underway as well.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 12:30 PM (sKqQm)

81 14 And Congress needs to revoke the concept of Motor Voter.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Yep. But states could still do cheating even without the motor voter aka NVRA and did.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 12:30 PM (E4rtv)

82 With an intermission of shotgun pinata and Pinochet skeet.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division


I like the term Screaming Lawn Darts myself.

(Now waiting for the inevitable I saw Screaming Lawn Darts open for- remark.)

Posted by: NR Pax at July 17, 2026 12:30 PM (99eI0)

83 We need two things. Hearings and hangings.

Posted by: Weasel at July 17, 2026 12:18 PM (8jVAy)


Swift justice and slow executions!

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 12:31 PM (GD0B3)

84 My Gawd ... this really is a combination of Trump and Old Republican. We'll just make a speech, and all the sudden everything will change.

I won't say "don't know why he bothered" because I know EXACTLY why he bothered. The Old Man doesn't understand how things work now. He doesn't understand that things have changed. Have been changed for decades.


Your concern is:

[X] Noted
[ ] Not noted

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 12:31 PM (Riz8t)

85 Wouldn't 220 million voter files be pretty much *all* of them?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 17, 2026 12:31 PM (lFFaq)

86 of course Dems are compromised:

1. illary's financial deals w China were exposed on 2015. No one cared.


2. Joey B (thru son Cunter) was exposed with the Seneca Rosemont stuff. No one cared.

Posted by: free at July 17, 2026 12:31 PM (yPEqT)

87 I am disappointed that we are not waking up to Footage of Overnight Raids and Frog Marches.

Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2026 12:31 PM (uzmqU)

88 New day, New handle for the man of many handles, I see.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 12:32 PM (guLpK)

89 This could be a career killer for Thune if he STILL refuses to engage with the SAVE Act.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 12:28 PM (Riz8t)

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Yeah, it might limit his career to the length of Cocaine Glitch McConnell's.

/sorry Archimedes, couldn't resist ...

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 12:32 PM (KBK+H)

90 Dems 2017: AMERICA WAS **ATTACKED**!!!

... by Facebook ads!!!

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 12:32 PM (Fi81e)

91 Will anything happen?

Posted by: Because I've often heard Nothing Will at July 17, 2026 12:32 PM (2Ez/1)

92 Lot of chatter about Gallego in Arizona. Women coming forward in same sense as Salawell and Planter?

Posted by: Jonah at July 17, 2026 12:32 PM (gwrBY)

93 China usually has to pay a lot for this type of propaganda amplification
pay a lot for this type of propaganda amplification
this type of propaganda amplification
type of propaganda amplification
propaganda amplification
propaganda amplification
propaganda amplification

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 12:32 PM (xHEjv)

94 The Senate has paid zero price for blocking Trump's ability to make recess appointments. I assume they feel they will pay no price for blocking the SAVE Act, as they continue their policy of riding out Trump until it's back to business as usual.

But hopefully they are wrong.

Posted by: brak at July 17, 2026 12:32 PM (sCxmP)

95 ... and no one will be held accountable.

But maybe Trump will manage to get the dems to cool it for a bit. Maybe clean elections for 2028.

Posted by: you're in hell, the world ended at July 17, 2026 12:32 PM (Lqp/b)

96 A guy I worked with once told me don't throw the turd on the table unless you have a proposal to clean it up.

All I heard about last night was that there's a big turd on the table; several turds actually. No mention of the names of the persons who ran the agencies who were derelict or seditious, and certainly no proposals to clean the turds off the table.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 17, 2026 12:32 PM (3Ope8)

97 Sleeveless hearings should necessarily lead to denunciations!

Posted by: Weasel at July 17, 2026 12:33 PM (8jVAy)

98 Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 12:31 PM

Everytime he comes on here he uses "old man" to refer to Trump.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 12:33 PM (guLpK)

99 We have George W. Bush to thank for this.

After the worst intelligence failure in American history on 9/11, the "intelligence community" steeled itself for the mass firings that obviously were going to take place, along with the root-and-branch restructuring of the "agencies" that was obviously needed.

And what happened?

Nothing. Nobody lost their job over this. The intelligence bureaucracies continued as before.


The elder George Bush had been CIA Director before becoming Reagan's VP.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 12:33 PM (ExV1e)

100 All this crap makes me believe COVID was an op to take out Trump.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 17, 2026 12:23 PM (W2Pud)


It’s taken you this long to fit the puzzle pieces together? Well, welcome to the party!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 17, 2026 12:33 PM (tWxgu)

101 We are in some seriously deep shit.
This demonstrates an intense and long-term operation to essentially seize control of the US. Deep staters and foreign governments working together. They would keep us ignorant and continue to feed us "bread and circus" (keep us ignorant) until such time as they had control of all the organs of government. Then, they take control, eliminating any opposition.
But! But! Diogenes, it can't happen here!!!
Bull. It absolutely can and thanks to President Trump, it has been stopped, for now. (I hope)
It's no wonder they have tried to kill him.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 17, 2026 12:33 PM (2WIwB)

102
Hangings and more hangings

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 17, 2026 12:33 PM (s9VOe)

103 63 let your hair grow past your chin line. Otherwise your entire head looks like a potato

Wow. Once you've seen it, you can't unsee it.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 12:26 PM (Riz8t)

I really should get paid more for my advice. 🤣

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 12:33 PM (Dd38x)

104 I fully believe that Trump was directing the media's attention by their inability to control their outrage.

Now, the spotlight is on China. We can wait and see what the Lord will do with that.
Posted by: Axeman
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I would surmise you are correct and a lot of what can be done can be done by CISA for example decertifying voting machines that have outside modems, etc. That means they cannot be used in elections so another means has to be used.

Iran is a counter example where the stupid TACO crap came back to bite a lot of people including some here on the ass. Tariffs too.

Watch what Trump does as much as what he says.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 12:33 PM (E4rtv)

105 Yeah, it might limit his career to the length of Cocaine Glitch McConnell's.

/sorry Archimedes, couldn't resist ...

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels!


No worries. I can take criticism.
*makes note of ShainS in "the list"*

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 12:33 PM (Riz8t)

106 “You can’t hug children with secure elections.”

Posted by: Cray Cray at July 17, 2026 12:33 PM (XjfpJ)

107 This might be Trump's push to get the Save Act passed NOW. He knows that 2/3 of Americans want Voter ID. He is putting Senate holdouts on the spot.

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 12:33 PM (GD0B3)

108 Election policy has been driven exclusively by the notion that there are millions of eligible people being kept from voting.

Of course not one such person has ever been identified.

And even with the media/Democrats covering for any and all voter fraud we have thousands of cases in recent years.

Yes they do the Motte and Bailey thing and switch from arguing "there is no election fraud" to "there isn't enough election fraud to change election results" when pressed but...there should be ANY voter fraud allowed to occur

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 12:33 PM (sKqQm)

109 Nothing will change until people go to jail bodies are found floating in the Potomac.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 17, 2026 12:34 PM (tgl2u)

110 "All this crap makes me believe COVID was an op to take out Trump."

Correct, it's obvious. "Trillions at stake", is not just a catchy line.

Posted by: connected and litigious at July 17, 2026 12:34 PM (cS1cw)

111
Kristen Walker and Margaret Brennan hosting a debate between Elissa Slotkin and Haley Stevens might.be the safest alternative to chemical castration.

Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 12:34 PM (Y8DZL)

112 I have always believed that The Wuhan virus was used by the CCP to crush the Umbrella Uprising in Hong Kong, and to partner with their fellow travelers in the Democrat party (led by Comrade Nancy Pelosi) to try and defeat Trump in the 2020 election.
The need to (illegally, according to many of the state constitutions) use ballot harvesting due to “social distancing” was the biggest cheat in that election. Nancy’s nephew Gavin did a trial run for her in California during the 2018 mid-terms, to flip Orange County from red to blue. Recall that she also demanded that Trump’s impeachment in 2019 had to happen before Christmas, in order to get the trial in the Senate done as soon as possible, yet then once the House impeached, she slow-walked it to the Senate, taking 31 days to deliver the Articles there…
The Chinese certainly knew that the Wuhan was spreading, and certainly knew that they had exported it to the US, with hundreds of thousands of Chinese already in the US (especially the West Coast) via direct flights out of Wuhan…
It is possible (if not probable) that she plotted to allow the Wuhan to take root in order to “necessitate” an “emergency” for the November election…

Posted by: Uncle Jefe at July 17, 2026 12:34 PM (DzC+b)

113 I'd like to know how many of the 278,000 actually voted versus just being registered.

Posted by: WisRich at July 17, 2026 12:34 PM (G0vdT)

114 89 I am disappointed that we are not waking up to Footage of Overnight Raids and Frog Marches.

Posted by: garrett
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They've got to nail the judges first.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 12:35 PM (xHEjv)

115 Wouldn't 220 million voter files be pretty much *all* of them?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 17, 2026 12:31 PM (lFFaq)

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I said the same thing to The Wifey last night while we watched.

* searches interwebz *

"In the 2024 U.S. presidential election, there were approximately 174 million registered voters, while 154 million people actually cast ballots."

Of course, in 2020 we jokingly claim -- despite it being true in many areas -- that there were actually more "voters" than registered voters ...

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 12:35 PM (KBK+H)

116 When they needed a new identity for a cartel member, they’d just search the binder

I'll give you an example of the devil-may-care attitude the government has with your information.

While I was still working for Xerox, we had the county of Miami-Dade DMV submit a bug report for our software they were using. Included with the report was a PDF file that contained the complete, unredacted information of every licensed driver in the county. I was utterly shocked by this. We had an overall mandate to safeguard this kind of info, but there was no formal process in place for doing so.

Posted by: Halfhand at July 17, 2026 12:35 PM (cA62d)

117 Wouldn't 220 million voter files be pretty much *all* of them?
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 17, 2026 12:31 PM (lFFaq)


If you can control the rolls, you can invent people, if only for the duration of the election.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 17, 2026 12:35 PM (2WIwB)

118 Posted by: Sid at July 17, 2026 12:35 PM (0qg6L)

F' off troll

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 12:36 PM (3iJWA)

119 Now, the spotlight is on China. We can wait and see what the Lord will do with that.

Slick - are you really down with Angels Will Save Us ? Really ?

That's rhetorical. Of course you are. Other people might want to rethink Angels Will Save Us.
Posted by: Blues Junior at July 17, 2026 12:32 PM (AoR1V)
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Gee, I'll stop stopping them from coming to their own opinion then!!

Immediately, I'll cease my mind control ray.

There, it's off.

Actually, I don't know if "Angels will save us" or not. I'm only talking about the observed pattern of events that have lead us to the possibility to the Dems not taking a midterm election, when the Pubs seem to be trying their best to throw it to them.

Imagine the egg on my face when rampant godlessness leads to near complete secular betrayal of fundamental concepts of our republic!!

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 12:36 PM (Fi81e)

120 Morning.

Guys, if the Chicoms said they didn't interfere why that's good enough for me.

In other news I'm being told there's hot single milfs in my area looking for love. Hit damn, it's my lucky day!

Posted by: Robert at July 17, 2026 12:36 PM (dpXJq)

121 GOP Senators are still the only ones in our tent, who still give a damn about what WAPO and the Nytimes think, and those at the Georgetown Cocktail parties. That is the problem right there

Posted by: Jonah at July 17, 2026 12:36 PM (gwrBY)

122 You would think there's be a mob of patriots at the Capitol ala J6 demanding this be addressed. Seriously. But there's not.

J6 scared the congressional weasels so bad that it'd be difficult for the public to assemble and demand redress for this sort of shit. But they've been conditioned not to.

Even a singular reporter inside the Capitol asking hard questions is shoved away so as to not agitate someone in Congress. Even the entire region around the capitol city is infested with leftists... as protection from anyone examining the actual goings on there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 12:36 PM (jehhT)

123 They've got to nail the judges first.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 12:35 PM (xHEjv)

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"Nail, you mean, like, with a hammer?"

/obligatory Hillary and Paul Pelosi

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 12:37 PM (KBK+H)

124 China is asshoe

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 12:37 PM (iFTx/)

125 =====
Yep. But states could still do cheating even without the motor voter aka NVRA and did.

Posted by: whig
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It's like defense of property. Every little thing to deter the criminal helps.


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 12:37 PM (xHEjv)

126 Welker is a beast, Brennan is a babe

Posted by: Jonah at July 17, 2026 12:37 PM (gwrBY)

127 99 A guy I worked with once told me don't throw the turd on the table unless you have a proposal to clean it up.

All I heard about last night was that there's a big turd on the table; several turds actually. No mention of the names of the persons who ran the agencies who were derelict or seditious, and certainly no proposals to clean the turds off the table.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead
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Politics does not work that way--you have to prep people for what you do--basically tell them, tell them so more, and tell them again. Politics on important matters where sides are dug in is more like using speeches combined with action for a Time on Target approach of a rolling artillery barrage. It is not a one and done matter.

And that is because people, especially older people, get stuck in what they claim to know because acknowledging otherwise is to mean that they were stupid, manipulated, and cheated.

Ego doesn't allow a lot of people to do that absent an assault on what they believe to be true that is so massive it overcomes the defenses that what these people know to be true is actually false.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 12:38 PM (E4rtv)

128
All I heard about last night was that there's a big turd on the table; several turds actually. No mention of the names of the persons who ran the agencies who were derelict or seditious, and certainly no proposals to clean the turds off the table.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 17, 2026 12:32 PM (3Ope

Tragically, you are correct.
In some respects it almost makes you want Trump to move on because we are light years beyond complaining and expecting anybody to do anything. Trump either directs HIS people to take specific actions or just drop it. He( we) cannot win going forward unless Trump becomes FAR more involved and directive. Jawboning sounds good and is essentially worthless in the current situation. TELL people to do things and tell us that you told them to do. Name and take action on those who don't follow direct orders. Quit f'in whining.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at July 17, 2026 12:38 PM (5A5PV)

129 President Trump said tonight the CCP's operations obtained 220 million voter records.

... and the DOJ has been in court trying to get voter records of some "blue states".
Perhaps President Xi can help.

Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2026 12:38 PM (RHGPo)

130 “You can’t hug children with secure elections.”
Posted by: Cray Cray at July 17, 2026 12:33 PM (XjfpJ)
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Nor with "Our Democracy", so what's the point? (Not to you, to the cray-cray people who would say that shit.)

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 12:38 PM (Fi81e)

131 Posted by: Blues Junior at July 17, 2026 12:29 PM (AoR1V)

Would you, then, describe Trump as a big poopyhead?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 12:39 PM (ExV1e)

132 You can never let your guard down with the Left. They are always plotting evil.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 12:39 PM (/WQyy)

133 I echo Biden's Dog's comment the other night, 'Something won't happen'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 17, 2026 12:39 PM (XeU6L)

134 Literally treason: China is unquestionably our enemy and has officially declared "cyber war" on us in the 90s. China ginning up the BLM riots is another massive act of war.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2026 12:39 PM (UZCuZ)

135 "Perhaps President Xi can help."

Trump may indeed ask for the data from China. It might cause the media to stroke out. Dare to dream.

Posted by: connected and litigious at July 17, 2026 12:40 PM (cS1cw)

136 Hmm.

Paper ballots then?

Nah.

Posted by: man at July 17, 2026 12:40 PM (XuXeR)

137 Like someone said yesterday, I believe it was an Ette, they were prepared to be whelmed...That's where I am....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 12:40 PM (3iJWA)

138 In the CBS show, FBI, there was an episode where a "right-wing" group called "StornFront" infiltrates the FBI, after aligning with .. get this .. China

Coincidence ?

Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2026 12:40 PM (RHGPo)

139 You can see how far our republic has fallen by simply watching how hard Democrats and their friends in the media avoid the truth.

There was a time when we could disagree on the basis of facts and demonstrable outcomes. It was easy in that environment to identify the truth because it was unavoidable and unmistakable.

Now we have the media, Democrat Cult acolytes, and every enemy force aligned against our republic telling you the truth isn’t what is demonstrable, but rather what they say it is.

You had major broadcast media stations and formerly respectable publications like the WSJ peddling narratives before the factual evidence was even available to them last night. They could not possibly have gone through all that information, digested it, examined its veracity and made truthful, intellectually derived, logical conclusions in that timeframe. That’s not just bias, it’s a subversive op against our country.

Reasonable people want election security. That integrity is fundamental to the legitimacy of our government. The only people who don’t want or seek an end to our country. It’s time to crush them once and for all of eternity.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 17, 2026 12:40 PM (6GFFE)

140 Zombie Jessica Savitch >>>>>>>> Kaitlin Collins >>> Brennan >>Welker

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 12:40 PM (Riz8t)

141 Trump doesn't understand how to communicate or bring up subjects that enter the discourse. Or get people's attention. Or refocus attention. Or change narratives to something that suits us rather than the Left.

We need someone who can do that effectively. I bet that guy would be able to actually win.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 12:41 PM (/bHKT)

142 A guy I worked with once told me don't throw the turd on the table unless you have a proposal to clean it up.

All I heard about last night was that there's a big turd on the table; several turds actually. No mention of the names of the persons who ran the agencies who were derelict or seditious, and certainly no proposals to clean the turds off the table.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead
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The SAVE Act has been on the table for months.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 12:41 PM (/WQyy)

143 I wonder if they also have Mitt’s binder full of women.

Posted by: Cray Cray at July 17, 2026 12:41 PM (XjfpJ)

144 Trump may indeed ask for the data from China.

==

or, OR..we can cut China off from our financial markets

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 12:41 PM (GD0B3)

145 Talk is cheap. Try and execute.

Posted by: mr tmz at July 17, 2026 12:41 PM (rJ48h)

146 we jokingly claim -- despite it being true in many areas -- that there were actually more "voters" than registered voters ..."

District I lived in had approx 120 percent turnout.

Posted by: man at July 17, 2026 12:42 PM (XuXeR)

147 If no one is prosecuted and no one goes to jail, this is all moot. Bad stuff, but moot. It has to be handled like the border, with actions, arrests, deportations.
Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 12:16 PM (GD0B3)

And some shitmaggots need to simply "flee the country to avoid prosecution". And never be seen again.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 17, 2026 12:42 PM (1z8ji)

148 Ego doesn't allow a lot of people to do that absent an assault on what they believe to be true that is so massive it overcomes the defenses that what these people know to be true is actually false.
Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 12:38 PM (E4rtv)
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It's even harder for those on the Left to acknowledge error of any kind.

What they "know" is bound up in their identity as a Leftist.

For them, "I'm on the Left, therefore by definition I am good and noble and pure."

They will let NOTHING spoil that delusion.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2026 12:42 PM (FZ29D)

149 idk details on "treason" versus "sedition" versus "insurrection".

BUT, we are still on a "War Footing against Terrorism" as I understand it, so some acts could be tried in a military tribunal, afaik. And the biggest terrorist attack in decades may be the Covid Crimes, and the forced jabs and insane shutdowns that harmed a nation of kids, and harmed and killed millions of others.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 17, 2026 12:42 PM (vbXSk)

150 I think we are close to it actually being a legitimately Constitutional move for the federal government to heavily investigate voting behavior as part of the guarantee of a republican form of government clause.

I say that as a staunch Constitutionalist, who questions where Congress gets the grant to regulate time zones--unless of course it is the now ever-growing catchall "interstate commerce".

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 12:42 PM (Fi81e)

151 If you can control the rolls, you can invent people, if only for the duration of the election.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 17, 2026 12:35 PM (2WIwB)


This is just one of the many manipulations commonly done to cheat a win.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 17, 2026 12:42 PM (tWxgu)

152 I believe the arrests will come but the media sure isn't going to publicize them. The legal process will work. Eventually.
Hell, DHS is arresting over a thousand every day. did anyone hear about that, except here? And knowing the IC, I have no doubt there are a lot of GS12-15's making deals to avoid prosecution.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 17, 2026 12:42 PM (2WIwB)

153 We need someone who can communicate with "everyone". Trump ain't it.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 12:42 PM (/bHKT)

154 I am disappointed that we are not waking up to Footage of Overnight Raids and Frog Marches.

Posted by: garrett
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They've got to nail the judges first.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 12:35 PM (xHEjv)

1000X This.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 17, 2026 12:43 PM (S41Gd)

155 Politics does not work that way--you have to prep people for what you do--

+++
Absolutely. Agree that something good is coming. Hope it works.

Meanwhile not the Babylon Bee: a man pretending to bej a woman, running for office in Maine has said "I won't lie and I won't deceive you".

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at July 17, 2026 12:43 PM (jPdyB)

156 Part of the CBS coverage included a claim that the SAFE Act was unconstitutional because elections are “local”.

“The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators” (U.S. Const. art. I, §4, cl. 1)

Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2026 12:43 PM (RHGPo)

157 I can’t bring myself to watch that clip of Margaret “bitch face” Brennan. I don’t need a BP mega spike

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 12:43 PM (yz/88)

158 SFB Amey Coney Barrett is scared out of her mind. She always wears a bullet proof vest. Is that not inordinately influencing SCOTUS? A couple of floating bonasburgs would help ease the tension.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 12:43 PM (xHEjv)

159 This explains not just the RUSHUN CUHLOOOSHUN nonsense but the January 6 "insurrection" hoax as well. They needed as much misdirection and cover as possible to distract from the actual fuckery going on.

Posted by: Schumer turned...for much less at July 17, 2026 12:44 PM (TbWk/)

160 220 Mil is essentially the entire Voting Population.

So. It sounds like the solution is a new, unique Voter ID for all eligible Voters, paid for by the Government?

That would make the SAVE Act a Budgetary Act and allow passage with 50 Votes?

Sure. They are gonna take it to Court. But maybe it sneaks by the Senate that way?

Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2026 12:44 PM (uzmqU)

161 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 12:44 PM (2YhKe)

162 Odyssey opening to massive numbers. Projected to be bigger than Oppenheimer. With a black actress and a trans actor. The horror.

Maga in shambles.

Posted by: lol at July 17, 2026 12:44 PM (gSIIK)

163 You can see how far our republic has fallen by simply watching how hard Democrats and their friends in the media avoid the truth.

I started to watch some videos from a new conservative pundit (who looks surprisingly like Abe Lincoln) and he told the story of a friend of his, who he claimed was smart who voted for the local Dem candidate for governor.

He pointed out that on actual policy questions the friend mostly aligned with the Republican challenger. So why did the friend vote D? Well because the FNM told him the D candidate was a nice woman that would do good things and that the Republican was a bad bad person and the friend didn't bother to even listen to the two candidates or read their platforms.

And yes the friend now bitches about what the Dem governor is doing...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 12:44 PM (sKqQm)

164 Piper (or whoever is socking her, RIP Kale Goddess), I'm still laughing at "your hair makes you look like a potato".
Would love to see a fashion guest spot some weekend, where you as surgically take apart more of our esteemed female betters in media.

Posted by: barbarausa at July 17, 2026 12:44 PM (enw9G)

165 Is this what Tulsi Gabbard was working on when people were saying she was doing nothing?

Posted by: huerfano at July 17, 2026 12:44 PM (VJX5o)

166 The way Trump is rolling this out is smart. Not one big drop but document drops constantly.

And yes, people do care. That's why nearly every media organization refused to cover it. They are part of the treason.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 12:44 PM (viF8m)

167 It's like defense of property. Every little thing to deter the criminal helps.


Posted by: Braenyard

The issue is primarily of states that allow widespread cheating which is any state that uses cheat by mail as a voting system and states that purposefully refuse to clean voting rolls of illegals, dead, moved, and ineligible voters (felons, etc.).

Motor voter makes it marginally worse but NVRA simply sets the basic floor for states--not how easy they can make voter registration as some have same day voting and registration which is also a big cheat factor and this preceded NVRA by years.

This is one of those issues of federalism--it incentivizes D dominated states to cheat on voting, allowing illegals in, and making voting registration unlimited to hide fraud. These blue states benefit from the government spending formulas, greater representation due to the presence of illegals, and political power to keep themselves in office. They have no reason to run free and fair elections and they don't because the incentives run all toward fake, fraudulent, and illegal actions.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 12:44 PM (E4rtv)

168 You can do basic math on the back of a napkin to see that an over 90% turn out of registered voters is more than improbable unless we were North Korea.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 12:44 PM (/WQyy)

169 MAJOR BREAKING: President Trump says 220 million U.S. voter files were stolen by the People�s Republic of China and says the intelligence was deliberately covered up by deep state actors within the U.S. government. pic.twitter.com/nUGGnVoNeJ

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) July 17, 2026



My kingdom for a Queensrÿche lyric........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 12:44 PM (2YhKe)

170 I believe the arrests will come but the media sure isn't going to publicize them.

They will if the FBI breaks into the studio during the nightly "news" cast, and frogmarches the anchor away.

*stares dreamily into the distance*

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 12:44 PM (Riz8t)

171 Don't forget General Milley or whoever told the Chinese that he would make sure that he would tell the Chinese or not follow orders from Trump if he gave the order to attack China

This information from last night puts a whole knew spin on that. It tells me the intrlligence knew the Chinese were doing some serious shit, some might say "act of war" type stuff.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 17, 2026 12:45 PM (trfdu)

172 We need to find someone down to earth that doesn't feel like a stuffy Republican. Someone who doesn't talk down to people or feel like Sheldon Cooper came to life and decided he was gonna teach everyone trickle down economics.

Someone who can talk to people and make them care about issues that affect them. Someone who unabashedly loves America and has a positive message that isn't leftarded.

I wish we could find one. Trump's simply out of touch.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 12:45 PM (/bHKT)

173
Second -- in another post -- about treasonous US "intelligence" operatives covering it up to protect their Chinese pals




Cocksuckers like General Thoroughly Modern Milley should be shitting their dainty lace panties right now.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 17, 2026 12:46 PM (y9nCu)

174 So what will come of this? Forgotten in two weeks? The media allowed to scumble it all as propaganda and a predicate to election-rigging of its own? If the crisis is so real, what emergency powers can be invoked and should they be invoked?

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 17, 2026 12:46 PM (t+TFX)

175 95 Lot of chatter about Gallego in Arizona. Women coming forward in same sense as Salawell and Planter?
Posted by: Jonah at July 17, 2026 12:32 PM (gwrBY

It is not news a skeezy guy is skeezy. The 2 brought up did not work for him, he wasn’t married. I can’t get excited about an adult having sex with another adult. The scandal is what he did to his wife, but apparently this is no big deal to the left, being the party of moral relativity. Now if something comes up more untoward than a single guy had sex with 2 people on 2 different occasions, maybe it becomes a thing.

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 12:46 PM (Dd38x)

176
China would never interfere with our elections.

They're so good and pure they don't even have them there anymore.

Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 12:46 PM (Y8DZL)

177 >>Someone who can talk to people and make them care about issues that affect them. Someone who unabashedly loves America and has a positive message that isn't leftarded.


Because the Left won't slander that guy?

Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2026 12:46 PM (uzmqU)

178 Did Trump also say that major media figures are directly on China's payroll?

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 12:47 PM (4NO2D)

179 Wisconsin apparently voted 15% more than the rest of the country in 2020. Almost 80% turnout.


Also 10K voters aged 120 or older...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 12:47 PM (sKqQm)

180 >>Is this what Tulsi Gabbard was working on when people were saying she was doing nothing?

Yes.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 12:47 PM (viF8m)

181 The SAVE Act has been on the table for months.
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 12:41 PM (/WQyy)
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I suspect that there are actually Pubs in the "53 Yeses" that are glad for the lack of the cloture votes and are thanking Thune behind the scenes so they get to pose to their conservative base back home that they "wanted the SAVE act!"

The cloture vote has become it's own monster. The talking filibuster was actually STILL about "conversation" in that words were STILL being used.

The tea & crumpet filibuster TOTALLY denies that the filibuster is about "further discussion" and instead means that cloture has gone rogue.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 12:47 PM (Fi81e)

182 Apparently, ABC didn't cover the speech, but they interrupted programming afterwards to tell you what they thought of it.

I'm leery about too much FCC pressure, but that sounds like a case for it.
Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 12:12 PM (Fi81e)



That's Ok. Brian 'Sex Machine' Stelter says that they did a pre-debunk on anything Trump might've said in his upcoming speech.

All is well......all is well.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 12:47 PM (2YhKe)

183 Is this what Tulsi Gabbard was working on when people were saying she was doing nothing?

I'm thinking now about a Tulsi v. Sophie Cunningham jello-wrestling match.

*stares dreamily into the distance*

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 12:47 PM (Riz8t)

184 All this crap makes me believe COVID was an op to take out Trump.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 17, 2026 12:23 PM (W2Pud)


It was an excuse to lock down the financial markets to avoid another crash. We got the inflation instead.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2026 12:47 PM (rbvCR)

185 The scandal is what he did to his wife, but apparently this is no big deal to the left, being the party of moral relativity. Now if something comes up more untoward than a single guy had sex with 2 people on 2 different occasions, maybe it becomes a thing.
Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 12:46 PM


Lefty women expect the worst of men because Lefty men are the worst of men.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 12:48 PM (4NO2D)

186 I do not believe this. Biden won because everyone loved him and was the best brain dead POTIUS in US History.

Just ask him and Kami about there election being the most SECURE in Universal History ......

Posted by: Jackson K. at July 17, 2026 12:48 PM (1Fh1q)

187 The first problem - not the only problem, but the first one - is simple. Really, really simple.

House and Senate members get a Federal Check. They work for the Fed. Sure - they nominally get votes from their own State ... although anyone not a Howdy-Dudy sees those contests are rigged.

But they get a Federal Check. That's Problem Number One.
Posted by: Blues Junior at July 17, 2026 12:41 PM (AoR1V)

----

Been saying for years their pay should come from state legislatures.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 17, 2026 12:48 PM (trfdu)

188 @SaraGonzalesTX

I asked Senator Thom Tillis about his vote against the Save America act and whether it has anything to do with the money he’s receiving from industries who profit off of cheap illegal labor.

He was VERY mad about the question.

https://tinyurl.com/r5wu5jj8

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 12:48 PM (xHEjv)

189 171 The way Trump is rolling this out is smart. Not one big drop but document drops constantly.

And yes, people do care. That's why nearly every media organization refused to cover it. They are part of the treason.
Posted by: JackStraw
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I would agree. You have to prepare the public before you take actions and take the temperature of the public by tweaking actions as needed.

This speech was the why that something needs to be done and a political club to push the Senate to adopt the SAVE act via reconciliation. Adding in China means that GOP senators opposing it plus the fact that the House embedded it into the National Defense Authorization Act (defense spending bill) means that people like Murcow and Thune have to address the fact that China is interfering with our elections. A few fools, like Tillis or the semi dead Turtle if he could even make it to the Capitol to vote, are against it but this is a wedge against others that might oppose it.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 12:48 PM (E4rtv)

190 Did anybody notice that Sen Jon Ossoff (D-Ga) and Sen Raphael Warnock (D-Ga) were acting like they expected Trump to de legitimize them last night ?

Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2026 12:48 PM (RHGPo)

191 >>Did Trump also say that major media figures are directly on China's payroll?

How dare you!

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 12:48 PM (viF8m)

192 And yes, people do care. That's why nearly every media organization refused to cover it. They are part of the treason.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 12:44 PM (viF8m)



When. Will. Heads. Roll.

It all means jack shit until someone is punished severely for actions detrimental to The United States.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 12:48 PM (2YhKe)

193 Much of the content on whitehouse.gov is redacted. I want those that got Cinese money to be named and shamed, prior to prosecution and execution.

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at July 17, 2026 12:49 PM (RlgNa)

194
More voters than voters!
More voters than voters!

Posted by: Rob Zombie at July 17, 2026 12:49 PM (Fi81e)

195 Did Trump also say that major media figures are directly on China's payroll?

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 12:47 PM (4NO2D)

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Yes, I recall him either stating or implying it.

He could have also gone with Senate & House Members of Congress ...

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 12:49 PM (KBK+H)

196 Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 12:38 PM (E4rtv)

Maybe so, but if the fraud and its cover-up constitute an existential threat to the nation as it was presented, it seems like it's time to put politics aside and use the executive power to act expediently. I think EOs would be appropriate mechanism to get the ball rolling.

For example, each person who was in charge of the agencies involved in covering up the fraud has their security clearance revoked immediately. Each news agency who engaged in covering this up has their broadcast license suspended immediately. All Chinese nationals who are not here on a valid visa are repatriated immediately. No new visa for any Chinese person will be issued and expiring visa will not be renewed. No federal funds will be provided to any state until such time as their voter rolls are audited, purged and certified.

Just for starters.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 17, 2026 12:49 PM (3Ope8)

197 Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 12:46 PM (Dd38x)

The releases about Democrats including the takedowns are intentionally masculine. I've been pointing it out for more than a year. It's a rebrand.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 12:50 PM (/bHKT)

198 197 Did anybody notice that Sen Jon Ossoff (D-Ga) and Sen Raphael Warnock (D-Ga) were acting like they expected Trump to de legitimize them last night ?


yep! they were faked out by the Admin hinting at Fulton County fraud (which is massive).

INSTEAD we got a start, a taste, a calm conversation (for PDJT), I was very impressed.

The ball, she is rolling.

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 17, 2026 12:50 PM (j+aD2)

199 Cocksuckers like General Thoroughly Modern Milley should be shitting their dainty lace panties right now.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 17, 2026 12:46 PM (y9nCu)

That rotund motherfucker should have been tossed out of a helicopter and machine gunned on the way down.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 17, 2026 12:50 PM (S41Gd)

200 So Dem strategy is to dismiss and deny everything in toto as blanket denial rather than attempt to deal with each (or any) of Trump's assertions and evidence.

The DoJ needs to make arrests. Arrests will force their focus. Trade with China needs to end--no, belay that: All ties need to be cut. What they've done constitutes an attack.

Posted by: troyriser at July 17, 2026 12:51 PM (v1M8F)

201 Been saying for years their pay should come from state legislatures.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken

They tried that in the Articles of Confederation along with recalls,etc. Did not work well so the Founders dropped that--the federal government should not be beholden to the states and in fact was set up to be Supreme in its areas of nat defense, etc.

I see the problem is more that the Fed govt decided to get into social policies and this accelerated from ending segregation to meddling in a lot of other 'rights' that suddenly were discovered.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 12:51 PM (E4rtv)

202 I'd like to know how many of the 278,000 actually voted versus just being registered.
Posted by: WisRich at July 17, 2026 12:34 PM (G0vdT)

You can be certain that Democrat ballots were cast in their names. Whether they "voted" or not.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 17, 2026 12:51 PM (1z8ji)

203 All I heard about last night was that there's a big turd on the table; several turds actually. No mention of the names of the persons who ran the agencies who were derelict or seditious, and certainly no proposals to clean the turds off the table.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 17, 2026 12:32 PM (3Ope


There is a difference between throwing a turd on the table and pointing out to the people around the table that they are ignoring that there are already turds on the table that need to be cleaned up.

I have noticed that Trump seems to have a rumor appear, then a statement of the problem, then release of documents officially, and then the hammers show up. It seems to work so far. It just drives everyone nuts since it is so backwards to what is demanded.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2026 12:51 PM (rbvCR)

204 Afternoon Ace.
Margaret Brennan actually is worse than the Dan Rather types. Her stupidity overwhelms everything.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 12:51 PM (OXYE0)

205 When. Will. Heads. Roll.

It all means jack shit until someone is punished severely for actions detrimental to The United States.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 12:48 PM (2YhKe)

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And start with The Clintons before those treasonous f*cks finally get their "Just Rewards" via the Express Stairway To Hell.

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 12:52 PM (KBK+H)

206 Joe fucking Biden was directly on China's payroll. We all know it. And yet somehow our cracker jack intel community and our media somehow completely overlooked it. Somehow.

Apparently, the orange menace did not overlook it.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 12:52 PM (viF8m)

207 Is Trump reducing the number of visas given to Chinese "students"?

Posted by: mr tmz at July 17, 2026 12:52 PM (rJ48h)

208 Anybody remember that fire at the Chinese consulate in... Houston? The one they wouldn't let firefighters in to fight.
They were going to do the cheat thing in Texas in 2020 too.
That fire was ballots is my theory.

Posted by: Reforger at July 17, 2026 12:52 PM (YHaz5)

209 197 Did anybody notice that Sen Jon Ossoff (D-Ga) and Sen Raphael Warnock (D-Ga) were acting like they expected Trump to de legitimize them last night ?
Posted by: SMOD

Fulton County was the dog that didn't bark last night.

Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 12:53 PM (Y8DZL)

210 206 197 Did anybody notice that Sen Jon Ossoff (D-Ga) and Sen Raphael Warnock (D-Ga) were acting like they expected Trump to de legitimize them last night ?


yep! they were faked out by the Admin hinting at Fulton County fraud (which is massive).

INSTEAD we got a start, a taste, a calm conversation (for PDJT), I was very impressed.

The ball, she is rolling.
Posted by: Black Orchid

I don't think Trump wanted to jeopardize possible criminal indictments from the Northern District of Georgia grand jury. He mentioned more dead case of Michigan which obviously has traction in the Michigan gubernatorial race as the Sec. of State that allowed the fraud is running for governor.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 12:53 PM (E4rtv)

211 My kingdom for a Queensrÿche lyric........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 12:44 PM (2YhKe)

https://youtu.be/l5SVkjJYMOw

Posted by: Robert at July 17, 2026 12:53 PM (dpXJq)

212 BTW…. I didn’t need a document dump to know that 2020 was rigged. The moment a single clogged toilet stopped voting in 6 states it was obvious something was rotten in Denmark.

Covid was a huge historical pivot; whether planned or opportunistically taken advantage of the bastard lefties grabbed as much control and power to make the changes they wanted during that period

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 12:53 PM (yz/88)

213 195 @SaraGonzalesTX

I asked Senator Thom Tillis about his vote against the Save America act and whether it has anything to do with the money he’s receiving from industries who profit off of cheap illegal labor.

He was VERY mad about the question.

https://tinyurl.com/r5wu5jj8
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 12:48 PM (xHEjv)


He's been crap since before he was a senator. I based that completely off the loser who's name I forget here that was constantly deepthroating him. That loser also loved him some illegals.

Posted by: buzzion at July 17, 2026 12:54 PM (3tZV2)

214 Ahem. You're NOT supposed to sleep with SUBORDINATES.

Dems are the first one to hang you out to dry, even if your romantic relationship did not affect your job behavior. It's considered a CONFLICT OF INTEREST.

It's bad in itself.

Which is why it was bad when Monica was blowing Willie in the Oral Office.

Because at the same time as that was going on, the Clintons were forcing federal employees to attend all-day seminars about NO SEX at work--it was ALL bad.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 12:54 PM (Fi81e)

215 158 We need someone who can communicate with "everyone". Trump ain't it.
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 12:42 PM

Who is that person? And do you honestly think that it would make a difference to anyone in that part of the forest? Because I think we could have the most charismatic person drop from heaven and deliver the message flawlessly, and the result would be the left calling that person Hitler adjacent while simultaneously being a dreaded Zionist, and probably a grifter of the most epic proportions. And Miss CNN would note this person is an election denier *gasp* who doesn’t grasp the magnitude of January 6th. Probably also sleeps on a MyPillow. The.worst.ever.

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 12:54 PM (p4NUW)

216 201
More voters than voters!

In Pennsylvania, there were 200,000+ more votes than voters.
The AP claimed this was incomplete data at the time it was first reported, but 5 years later, there still are more votes than voters tallied in the 2020 election.

Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2026 12:54 PM (RHGPo)

217 @SaraGonzalesTX

RINO Thom Tillis is so MAD about me calling him out for voting AGAINST the Save America Act that he’s talking about me on the Senate floor!
--
She upset Tillis so much he attacked her from the Senate floor.
Precious, Tom.

https://tinyurl.com/2cwvhh7x

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 12:54 PM (xHEjv)

218 PSA.
Lettuce at Taco Bell in 5 states confirmed as source of a diarrhea-causing parasite outbreak

Posted by: Yer Sistahs Tomato at July 17, 2026 12:54 PM (1GajY)

219 >>Anybody remember that fire at the Chinese consulate in... Houston? The one they wouldn't let firefighters in to fight.
They were going to do the cheat thing in Texas in 2020 too.
That fire was ballots is my theory.

You mean the Chinese consulate that was funding BLM/antifa riots? That Chinese consulate?

I seem to recall it.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 12:55 PM (viF8m)

220 Am I the only one who is completely tired of cloudflare? Now my bank has it. It is always fing up with an error.

enshitification.com they should be called

Hey I have a great new security idea! It's called syphilitic-midget- who-punches-your -customers-in-the-nuts -flare.

How does it work? Well it's a syphilitic midget who punches your customers in the nuts.

Over time you will notice fewer and fewer attempts at security breaches until eventually there will be no attempts of anything at all! 100% guaranteed.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 17, 2026 12:55 PM (3uBP9)

221
He's been crap since before he was a senator. I based that completely off the loser who's name I forget here that was constantly deepthroating him. That loser also loved him some illegals.
Posted by: buzzion at July 17, 2026 12:54 PM (3tZV2)

-------


Nip sip

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 17, 2026 12:55 PM (trfdu)

222 I dunno. I think this was much, much less about Trump wanting prosecutions than obtaining maximum leverage for a last-ditch effort to pass the Save Act.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 17, 2026 12:55 PM (bNf8H)

223 major media figures are directly on China's payroll

==

The entire editorial board of the NYT, see this is very easy!

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 12:55 PM (GD0B3)

224 The DoJ needs to make arrests. Arrests will force their focus. Trade with China needs to end--no, belay that: All ties need to be cut. What they've done constitutes an attack.

Posted by: troyriser at July 17, 2026 12:51 PM (v1M8F)

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Said the same thing last night: that this was an Act Of War on the U.S. by Chy-na.

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 12:55 PM (KBK+H)

225 220 My kingdom for a Queensrÿche lyric........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 12:44 PM (2YhKe)

JET.
CITY.
WOOOOO-MAAAAANNNNNN!!!!!

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at July 17, 2026 12:55 PM (0bjKf)

226 I'm sure a totalitarian regime looking to corrupt our elections would never even consider releasing a virus we helped them engineer.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 17, 2026 12:56 PM (g/cZn)

227 I don't think Trump wanted to jeopardize possible criminal indictments from the Northern District of Georgia grand jury. He mentioned more dead case of Michigan which obviously has traction in the Michigan gubernatorial race as the Sec. of State that allowed the fraud is running for governor.


yep agree whig

that said the MI stuff was really the start of I think Trump's people sniffing around this and truly believing we have a huge problem

JILL STEIN. she started it ironically, when she insisted on looking in MI and the actual number of votes in the sealed boxes. and how they bore no resemblance to the number claimed.

from there it just continued and continued. once you see something like that for certain, you change your mindset.

like when I saw station wagons drive up to west philly voting "centers" (literally corner stores and homes it's so crazy here) and start shoving those boxes pre-filled into the place.

or my friend from LA who thought Lousiana was the most corrupt city in the nation told me what she was seeing working for the Ds in Philly. it dwarfed New Orleans!

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 17, 2026 12:56 PM (j+aD2)

228 213 When. Will. Heads. Roll.

It all means jack shit until someone is punished severely for actions detrimental to The United States.

Posted by: Sponge

If we were a dictatorship, such things would be easy but elections wouldn't matter anyway. Chavez laughed when he won by cheating as did Maduro because those being cheated could not do a damn thing against them.

Criminal charges, especially in a polarized electorate, are hard to make on complicated cases and these are very complicated cases involving the actions of hundreds if not thousands of individuals that created teh Democrat cheat machine. So it is more like a Mafia and corruption investigation than arrest the bad guys with the illegal drugs, cash, and money.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 12:56 PM (E4rtv)

229 Fulton County was the dog that didn't bark last night.

Nice 19th C callback.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 12:56 PM (Riz8t)

230
That rotund motherfucker should have been tossed out of a helicopter and machine gunned on the way down.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 17, 2026 12:50 PM (S41Gd)



I AM INTRIGUED BY YOUR IDEAS AND WOULD LIKE TO SUBSCRIBE TO YOUR NEWSLETTER

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 17, 2026 12:57 PM (y9nCu)

231 When. Will. Heads. Roll."

Never. This isn't about China - if voting and counting those votes were critical, interference wouldn't be a factor.
Instead, it's just a big show for the two political parties...

Posted by: man at July 17, 2026 12:57 PM (XuXeR)

232 Who is that person? And do you honestly think that it would make a difference to anyone in that part of the forest? Because I think we could have the most charismatic person drop from heaven and deliver the message flawlessly, and the result would be the left calling that person Hitler adjacent while simultaneously being a dreaded Zionist, and probably a grifter of the most epic proportions. And Miss CNN would note this person is an election denier *gasp* who doesn’t grasp the magnitude of January 6th. Probably also sleeps on a MyPillow. The.worst.ever.
Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 12:54 PM (p4NUW)



Too many people forget that what they did to Trump to try and beat him they did to ROMNEY and MCCAIN. Two of the biggest fucking worthless cuck RINOs that would side with Dems to screw over conservative goals at any opportunity.

Posted by: buzzion at July 17, 2026 12:57 PM (3tZV2)

233 Nip sip
Posted by: MAGA_Ken
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Curiously, but satisfyingly, absent here in recent years.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 17, 2026 12:57 PM (XeU6L)

234 PSA.
Lettuce at Taco Bell in 5 states confirmed as source of a diarrhea-causing parasite outbreak
Posted by: Yer Sistahs Tomato at July 17, 2026 12:54 PM (1GajY)

Don't look at us, we had nothing to do with it. This time.

Posted by: Chipotle at July 17, 2026 12:58 PM (dpXJq)

235 PJM:

In a bizarre move, the Democratic National Committee required its senior leadership to sign non-disclosure agreements before a private meeting on the party's finances, according to two people familiar with the conversations who spoke to Axios. That alone is a break from past practice. DNC officers are high-ranking members of chair Ken Martin's team, not entry-level staffers. Officers at that level don't typically get handed a confidentiality agreement before they can hear how much money they have in their piggy bank and what they plan to do about it.

Make no mistake about it, you don't slap NDAs on your own leadership team unless you're worried about what might leak. And boy, it’s gotta be something really juicy.

Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2026 12:58 PM (RHGPo)

236 I echo Biden's Dog's comment the other night, 'Something won't happen'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 17, 2026 12:39 PM (XeU6L)


Lots of things aren't going to happen. That is because other things will.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2026 12:58 PM (rbvCR)

237 Guys, if the Chicoms said they didn't interfere why that's good enough for me.

In other news I'm being told there's hot single milfs in my area looking for love. Hit damn, it's my lucky day!


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Posted by: Oddbob at July 17, 2026 12:58 PM (vTZFs)

238 And now you understand the shit-show of ObamaCare. McCain took one for the team. If McCain didn't cast that vote ? Another Republican would have.

Posted by: Blues Junior at July 17, 2026 12:49 PM (AoR1V)
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Nah. I've been saying for *years* that I didn't know whether McCain drew the short or the long straw.

Did he *have* to? Or did he *get* to?

So, that wouldn't be a new understanding for me.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 12:58 PM (Fi81e)

239 Lots of deeply concerned people who have never commented before on this thread. DNC check cashing machine must be working overtime.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 17, 2026 12:59 PM (xComp)

240 Lettuce at Taco Bell in 5 states confirmed as source of a diarrhea-causing parasite outbreak


lol they covered that up for a looooooong time didn't they

meanwhile my Aldi produce section has been untouched

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 17, 2026 12:59 PM (j+aD2)

241 Treason.

This word gets a play around here. If this is really treason then it should be treated as such. If it's something else, treat it as that.

I would hope that the administration is finally waking up to the fact that simply pointing out treason, or whatever they think this is, and then walking away, expecting it to somehow be taken care of isn't working.

They have to actively direct the actions they want, or surely nothing will happen. And they better be ready to deal with the judicial insurrection that'll make every attempt to derail it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 12:59 PM (jehhT)

242 or my friend from LA who thought Lousiana was the most corrupt city in the nation told me what she was seeing working for the Ds in Philly. it dwarfed New Orleans!
Posted by: Black Orchid

I was semi amused that Michael Myers, the PA US House representative that got expelled over Abscam turned up in another case just the last couple of years and got sentenced to prison again for election scumbuggery in PA. From wiki

"After release (for accepting bribes as a Congressman), Myers started his own political consulting firm.

Myers was accused of conspiring to violate voting rights by fraudulently stuffing the ballot boxes for Democratic candidates in the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018 elections. He was charged on July 21, 2020, with bribery of an election official, falsification of records, voting more than once in federal elections, and obstruction of justice."

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 12:59 PM (E4rtv)

243 >>Did anybody notice that Sen Jon Ossoff (D-Ga) and Sen Raphael Warnock (D-Ga) were acting like they expected Trump to de legitimize them last night ?

Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2026 12:48 PM

Defensive prebuttals are tight.

Posted by: huerfano at July 17, 2026 12:59 PM (VJX5o)

244 Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 12:54 PM (p4NUW)

Forget it, I'm rolling.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 01:00 PM (/bHKT)

245 223 Ahem. You're NOT supposed to sleep with SUBORDINATES.

Dems are the first one to hang you out to dry, even if your romantic relationship did not affect your job behavior. It's considered a CONFLICT OF INTEREST.

It's bad in itself.

Which is why it was bad when Monica was blowing Willie in the Oral Office.

Because at the same time as that was going on, the Clintons were forcing federal employees to attend all-day seminars about NO SEX at work--it was ALL bad.
Posted by: Axeman at July 17

Zero disagreements. But the 2 women who were staffers were not his staffers. They were someone else’s. Is there more out there? Probably, he is skeezy. But so far, this isn’t that exciting.

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 01:00 PM (p4NUW)

246 249 Lots of deeply concerned people who have never commented before on this thread. DNC check cashing machine must be working overtime.


..
Posted by: Ian S. at July 17, 2026 12:59 PM (xC

I noticed that too...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 01:00 PM (3iJWA)

247 Lettuce at Taco Bell in 5 states confirmed as source of a diarrhea-causing parasite outbreak

That sounds like normal Taco Bell.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 17, 2026 01:00 PM (xComp)

248 And Miss CNN would note this person is an election denier *gasp* who doesn’t grasp the magnitude of January 6th.

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 12:54 PM (p4NUW)

You know, that another thing that chaps my ass. NOBODY in the conservative sphere ever seems to push back, let alone vigorously on that whole 'J6 was an insurrection' bullshit.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 17, 2026 01:01 PM (3Ope8)

249 We need someone who can communicate with "everyone". Trump ain't it.
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 12:42 PM

Who is that person? And do you honestly think that it would make a difference to anyone in that part of the forest?

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Somewhere in the AoSHQ Style Guide is the recommendation to not fall for ellipsis' sarcasm!

/I once considered putting a permanent /sarc tag in my nic here as well ...

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 01:01 PM (KBK+H)

250 Probably also sleeps on a MyPillow. The.worst.ever.
Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 12:54 PM (p4NUW)

I love that I can give a big fuck you to the dems while I sleep.
Giza Cotton Sheets and a My Pillow for the win.

Posted by: Reforger at July 17, 2026 01:01 PM (YHaz5)

251 Blues Johnson Junior is right!

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 01:01 PM (4NO2D)

252 I'm so damn cynical and blackpilled that nothing I heard last night rose to the level of "noteworthy" or even "surprising". I already assumed this was going on. Nice to have my doom prophecies confirmed for once.

Hand in hand with that cynicism is the complete faith that absolutely nothing will be done to fix any of this - because it was Trump that was the messenger.

Posted by: Defenestratus at July 17, 2026 01:01 PM (WYStd)

253 Lots of deeply concerned people who have never commented before on this thread"

Well, they can't hang out at taco bell...

Posted by: man at July 17, 2026 01:01 PM (XuXeR)

254 Trump .... saying the broadcast licenses OUGHT to be revoked.
Just do it. . Quit fuckin talking and DO something.
Order someone(s) to take action by a date and time.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at July 17, 2026 01:02 PM (5A5PV)

255 I'm leery about too much FCC pressure, but that sounds like a case for it.
Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 12:12 PM (Fi81e)

I'm not leery about it. The problem is, we're not sufficiently making the case to the people. We need to be much more aggressive, proactive, with specifics. The idea that the same media that screamed "Russia, Russia!" and unquestioningly endorsed the 51 signatories to the Biden laptop lie are refusing to even cover this evidence is insane. Who is saying this?

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 17, 2026 01:02 PM (t+TFX)

256 The leftists I know on Facebook are saying , as expected, that Trump is full of shit. It won't change until people are convicted, or more to the point pleas guilty and admit what they did

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 01:02 PM (OXYE0)

257 Am I the only one who is completely tired of cloudflare? Now my bank has it. It is always fing up with an error.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 17, 2026 12:55 PM (3uBP9)
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But they're only doing the flare minimum.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 01:02 PM (Fi81e)

258 MSNow - Trump attacks Intel Community in speech filled with lies - fair and balanced...

CNN - Canadian wildfires - sorry about that...

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 17, 2026 01:02 PM (Sco7b)

259 >>Make no mistake about it, you don't slap NDAs on your own leadership team unless you're worried about what might leak. And boy, it’s gotta be something really juicy.

As I've been saying for months, the DNC is dead ass broke because their money machines at USAID and ActBlue among others are no more.

How does the DNC, a party that constantly brags about their money raising prowess, go literally broke? That's the scandal.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 01:02 PM (viF8m)

260 So you've never seen 10K average people try to do something.
——

Ha! I used to be incensed the way the military seemed to treat everyone like idiots at times. “One size fits all” is maddening. One person shits their pants, well, we all gotta wear diapers.

Later, when I was a supervisor, it started to make sense. I’m not sure how simple basic instructions get mangled, but they will. Some guys can break an Anvil with a rubber hammer.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 01:02 PM (2/ueB)

261 My money is that China performed the op but it was suggested by traitors in our country.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 17, 2026 01:02 PM (xcxpd)

262 And this corruption goes back a long time as Pennsylvania is a key state in elections--Boss Cameron, who became Sec of War in Lincoln's administration after playing a big part in getting Lincoln the nomination was such a corrupt critter.

I think it was Thaddeus Stevens, GOP House rep that said of Cameron, " He would steal a red hot stove if he could get away with it." Stevens got blowback from Cameron's supporters so Stevens then amended his statement, "I said that Cameron would steal a red hot stove if he could get away with it, I withdraw that, he would steal the red hot stove only if he had gloves on." Paraphrased, too lazy to pull up original quote.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 01:02 PM (E4rtv)

263 Ace, garrett said not to tell you this:

157 Don't tell Ace, but I just finished up a 36 hour fast.

Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2026 11:35 AM (uzmqU)

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 01:03 PM (6wpGE)

264 My kingdom for a Queensrÿche lyric........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 12:44 PM (2YhKe)


Be nice about it, that is all

https://9gag.com/gag/ayNb9mb

Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2026 01:03 PM (rbvCR)

265 254 Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 12:54 PM (p4NUW)

Forget it, I'm rolling.
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 01:00 PM (/bHKT)

I don’t think you are wrong. I do not like how Trump communicates. It’s why when he gives a good speech, we are blown away. And he has given a few, but they aren’t the norm.

I believe the only person who could tell the mind hive they have new thoughts is Obama. But I think even IF we mind controlled him into saying something useful, they very well could turn on him, too.

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 01:03 PM (p4NUW)

266 No juicy steak ever made this banana fart his butt off. Just sayin.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 17, 2026 01:03 PM (3uBP9)

267 249 Lots of deeply concerned people who have never commented before on this thread. DNC check cashing machine must be working overtime.

Yes, it's the DNC. Velly, velly bad.

Posted by: Xi Jinping at July 17, 2026 01:03 PM (Riz8t)

268 Posted by: Weasel at July 17, 2026 12:18 PM (8jVAy)

With an intermission of shotgun pinata and Pinochet skeet.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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La cucaracha, la cucaracha, bam, bam
Show me the money por favor
La cucaracha, la cucaracha, bam, bam
La cucaracha, bam, bam
We are being raided or something
Call up Pixy on the telephone
tell him to get us out of this jail

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 01:03 PM (xHEjv)

269 267 Am I the only one who is completely tired of cloudflare? Now my bank has it. It is always fing up with an error.

Posted by: banana Dream
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I think they rely on fingerprinting your system by cookies, and other such crap. If your browser settings kill those tracking devices, Cloudflare has a fit because your computer appears different to the system each time. So you get endless boxes to verify you are not a bot crap.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 01:04 PM (E4rtv)

270 At least the weekend Talking heads shows will have something to talk about

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 01:04 PM (3iJWA)

271 It's like explosive diarrhea, you throw your underpants in the garbage and jump into the shower.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 17, 2026 01:04 PM (sYM3s)

272 ConfirmBias @Fulcrumbs44

My guess is that the networks thought that President Trump would be speaking about Fulton County last night. They likely had all of their talking points set.

Instead he threw them a curveball, and spoke about the fact that our media had been compromised by foreign entities.

While he was revealing they were compromised, they were kind enough to suppress his address....and prove his point!

Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2026 01:05 PM (RHGPo)

273 Zero disagreements. But the 2 women who were staffers were not his staffers. They were someone else’s. Is there more out there? Probably, he is skeezy. But so far, this isn’t that exciting.
Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 01:00 PM (p4NUW)

My sister was a Republican Senate fundraiser back in the 2010's.

Senators sleeping with staffers is about the most mild form of drama you can imagine goes on.

She said that the "Family Values Holy Roller" senators were amongst the worst sex-addicted whores in DC and that the entire thing is held together mutually assured destruction. It's why the sexual discrimination payout list isn't public.

These types of stories are used to push someone out instead of releasing much more party-damaging types of drama.

Posted by: Defenestratus at July 17, 2026 01:05 PM (WYStd)

274 200 Much of the content on whitehouse.gov is redacted. I want those that got Chinese money to be named and shamed, prior to prosecution and execution.
_-_
Why do we allow the glvernment(s) to redact...anything? Sources and methods, my ass...no need to protect sources and methods if they are never used to OUR benefit.

By the way, Mike Hammer, etc. etc. had a great take in that last thread about AI being a parasite. Good words, Mike:
"...we are the fodder that AI feeds upon. I imagine it to be a parasite (or worse) that feeds on the host, until the host is bled dry."

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 17, 2026 01:05 PM (JWDez)

275
/I once considered putting a permanent /sarc tag in my nic here as well ...
Posted by: ShainS
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Conveying sarcasm/satire in text is sometimes difficult.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 17, 2026 01:05 PM (XeU6L)

276 I'm not leery about it. The problem is, we're not sufficiently making the case to the people.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 17, 2026 01:02 PM (t+TFX)
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That's exactly why I am leery about it.

Our best case is that we are still in a representative republic where votes matter some. And you don't want to scare the herd.

I wish I lived in a world where I could refuse to believe that last sentence, but I don't think I do.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 01:05 PM (Fi81e)

277 How does the DNC, a party that constantly brags about their money raising prowess, go literally broke?

Slowly, then all at once?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 01:05 PM (Riz8t)

278
You mean the Chinese consulate that was funding BLM/antifa riots? That Chinese consulate?

I seem to recall it.

Posted by: JackStraw
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They had a shit ton of employees at the Texas Medical Center.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 01:05 PM (xHEjv)

279
Because at the same time as that was going on, the Clintons were forcing federal employees to attend all-day seminars about NO SEX at work--it was ALL bad.
Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 12:54 PM (Fi81e)


Never dip your pen in company ink.

Don't punch in with the timecard in your pants.

You do it like I did with two ex-girlfriends... wait until they quit the company, THEN shamelessly hit on them.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 17, 2026 01:06 PM (y9nCu)

280 It's like explosive diarrhea, you throw your underpants in the garbage and jump into the shower.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 17, 2026 01:04 PM



Trouser chili.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 01:06 PM (4NO2D)

281 255 223 Ahem. You're NOT supposed to sleep with SUBORDINATES.
Posted by: Piper

HE WAS IN THE POWER POSITION SO IT WAS RAPE!

Also, Monica Lewinsky wasn't, 'cause she blamed Republicans.

Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 01:06 PM (Y8DZL)

282 >>I would hope that the administration is finally waking up to the fact that simply pointing out treason, or whatever they think this is, and then walking away, expecting it to somehow be taken care of isn't working.

I would hope people start realizing there really is a grand jury in Florida that has been hearing evidence of a grand conspiracy for months and just because the garbage and likely treasonous media doesn't breathlessly report on it daily like Russia collusion doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 01:06 PM (viF8m)

283 But the 2 women who were staffers were not his staffers.

But they did have positions on his staff.

(*rimshot*)

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 17, 2026 01:06 PM (g/cZn)

284 In the previous thread we were shown pretty obvious evidence of cheating in a class at Brown University. Now what if some of the students accused of cheating had strong advocates in the Brown administration asserting they were NOT cheating, despite the evidence. That could bump it up to a dispute hearing at a higher level, where the judge could be partisan for the administration, where sworn evidence could just be thrown out, so the preferred verdict could be preserved: there’s no cheating going on here. Don’t believe the lies this Brown professor is peddling. You get where I am going. Who you going to believe, the Deep State or your lying eyes?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 17, 2026 01:06 PM (tWxgu)

285 Giza Cotton Sheets and a My Pillow for the win.

MyAssJack.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 17, 2026 01:07 PM (Kt19C)

286 Zero disagreements. But the 2 women who were staffers were not his staffers. They were someone else’s.

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 01:00 PM (p4NUW)
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Ah, didn't know that. Thanks, Piper.

I guess I assumed too much and read too little.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 01:07 PM (Fi81e)

287 287 How does the DNC, a party that constantly brags about their money raising prowess, go literally broke?

No honor among thieves?

Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 01:08 PM (Y8DZL)

288 I didn't know there were Taco Bell offerings with lettuce.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 17, 2026 01:08 PM (2ap+5)

289 264 Trump .... saying the broadcast licenses OUGHT to be revoked.
Just do it. . Quit fuckin talking and DO something.
Order someone(s) to take action by a date and time.
Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters

He can't--it is a process where the FCC has to investigate, provide notice and comment, and then adjudicate as there will be lawsuits, injunctions, etc. Broadcast licenses are treated as a limited property right and like eminent domain, Scotus requires due process for revocation.

Trump's talk was aimed at something as a direct effect though while the machinery goes on--stock prices of Comcast and Disney which if their broadcast rights to stations are threatened, it reduces their stock price.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 01:08 PM (E4rtv)

290 300

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 01:08 PM (6wpGE)

291 Lettuce at Taco Bell in 5 states confirmed as source of a diarrhea-causing parasite outbreak

Diarrhea-poisoned?

Posted by: The Janitor Always Mops Twice at July 17, 2026 01:08 PM (+IsEU)

292 Did anybody notice that Sen Jon Ossoff (D-Ga) and Sen Raphael Warnock (D-Ga) were acting like they expected Trump to de legitimize them last night ?
Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2026 12:48 PM (RHGPo)


Were I Trump, I would be keeping them on a very short leash. The alternative is chaos that starts with the indictments and Trump seems to avoid chaos

Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2026 01:08 PM (rbvCR)

293 But the 2 women who were staffers were not his staffers.

But they did have positions on his staff.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 17, 2026 01:06 PM (g/cZn)
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They were temporarily working on his staff.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 01:08 PM (Fi81e)

294 The election fraud is baked in.

“Automatic recount” is worse than useless, naturally it will spit out the same result. Democrats aren’t necessarily stupid, but they think you are.

The tell is they start screeching like wounded eagles at the suggestion of cleaning up voter rolls, signature verification, “mail in” ballots, ID to vote, etc etc.

Even the perception that elections are rigged is a very serious national security issue. Confidence and Trust is everything. They are willing to go “scorched earth” rather than give up their fraudulent sinecures, but that’s not news.

If they had a shred of integrity they would be more than cooperative - “Oh, you want to look under the hood on this process? By all means”. Instead, they want to throw you in jail.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 01:09 PM (2/ueB)

295 Just because people fuck up does not mean that there isn't a conspiracy.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 01:09 PM (4NO2D)

296 301 300
Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 01:08 PM


Whatever works.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 17, 2026 01:09 PM (kgE5c)

297
How does the DNC, a party that constantly brags about their money raising prowess, go literally broke?




Word

Posted by: USAID at July 17, 2026 01:10 PM (y9nCu)

298 I'm waiting to see if they name the media "personalities" (they certainly aren't journalists) that are alledged to have been bribed by the Chinese.

Posted by: Orson at July 17, 2026 01:10 PM (dIske)

299 The clogged toilet stopped vote COUNTING in 6 states…. What I meant to type, but all you smart morons knew that

It stunk to high heaven and I’m not talking about the toilet

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 01:10 PM (yz/88)

300 I would hope people start realizing there really is a grand jury in Florida that has been hearing evidence of a grand conspiracy for months and just because the garbage and likely treasonous media doesn't breathlessly report on it daily like Russia collusion doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Posted by: JackStraw

There are at least two grand juries--one in Atlanta in the Northern District of GA investigating Fulton County and probably the link between Fulton and Maricopa County via Runbeck providing ballots, etc. to both. The second is in SD of Florida looking at the Russia Russia hoax and probably involving illegal surveillance and FISA misconduct as well. Possibly more but these have verified court actions regarding subpoenas, witnesses, etc.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 01:11 PM (E4rtv)

301 Throwing out thousands of pages heavily redacted doesn't particularly help Trump's case in my opinion... I'm hoping this is a step towards indictments and convictions

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 01:11 PM (3iJWA)

302 there is not sense even arguing with you.

And yet, here you are, unwanted, doing exactly that.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 01:11 PM (Riz8t)

303 =====
I think they rely on fingerprinting your system by cookies, and other such crap. If your browser settings kill those tracking devices, Cloudflare has a fit because your computer appears different to the system each time. So you get endless boxes to verify you are not a bot crap.

Posted by: whig
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The best way to circumvent that - Just Say No.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 01:11 PM (xHEjv)

304
I love that I can give a big fuck you to the dems while I sleep.
Giza Cotton Sheets and a My Pillow for the win.
Posted by: Reforger
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You're not David Hogg.

Posted by: David Hogg at July 17, 2026 01:11 PM (XeU6L)

305 Yank their FCC licenses.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 17, 2026 01:11 PM (qFwJc)

306 >>I didn't know there were Taco Bell offerings with lettuce.


I didn't know they offered anything but explosive diarrhea on their Menu.

Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2026 01:11 PM (uzmqU)

307 I didn't know they offered anything but explosive diarrhea on their Menu.
Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2026 01:11 PM


Projectile vomiting is a side order.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 01:12 PM (4NO2D)

308 Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 01:03 PM (p4NUW)

Trump is a weird guy but it worked.

Republicans haven't had someone who can actually talk to people about how dangerous our enemies within are since Reagan. Plus he masterful at branding. Have the Republicans even cooperated by 25% they would have had a revolution that would last 20 years. Easy. Still could. But doubtful.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 01:12 PM (/bHKT)

309 >>> I think they rely on fingerprinting your system by cookies, and other such crap. If your browser settings kill those tracking devices, Cloudflare has a fit because your computer appears different to the system each time. So you get endless boxes to verify you are not a bot crap.
Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 01:04 PM (E4rtv)

It will tag every computer on my home ethernet. The only way I've found a way out is to open up cloudflare's trouble shooting website. Hit a test page, fail out once, hit the retry button, pass, then bam I'm good for the rest of the day. No vpn. But every computer on my home subnet.

One company. They are close to controlling everything now. Like ICANN. I wonder if people realize how much cloudflare controls. Did that one day a year ago where computers all across the world fail to start up, just get memory holed? That was a cloudflare oopsie. Sorry for bringing the earth to a standstill, our bad.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 17, 2026 01:12 PM (3uBP9)

310 297 Zero disagreements. But the 2 women who were staffers were not his staffers. They were someone else’s.

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 01:00 PM (p4NUW)
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Ah, didn't know that. Thanks, Piper.

I guess I assumed too much and read too little.
Posted by: Axeman
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Keyword is yet. Someone that cavorts with another Congress critter that hires whores and also does the same DC dogging crap is likely to have a long pattern of behavior and pulling a string simply unravels and exposes the real truth.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 01:13 PM (E4rtv)

311 Don't know how it can be done, but we're going to have to confront the fact that a large portion of DotFed is staffed with apparat that have no interest in America as America. They see it as a disposable thing that can be traded, sold, or discarded for their own benefit.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 17, 2026 01:13 PM (diia5)

312 By the way, the culprit is Taylor Farms, who supplies a lot of produce to a lot of sources, and has their own (good, when they don’t cause diarrhea) salad kits.

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 01:13 PM (p4NUW)

313 >Trump: There Is Evidence of a Massive Chinese Effort to Compromise America's Voting Rolls -- But the Deep State Covered It Up
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tough hill to climb to make any of this stick

Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2026 01:14 PM (ZxPkt)

314
I'm sure the income statement of the DNC is scandalous, but the expenses is probably where all the laughs are.

Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 01:14 PM (Y8DZL)

315 It will tag every computer on my home ethernet. The only way I've found a way out is to open up cloudflare's trouble shooting website. Hit a test page, fail out once, hit the retry button, pass, then bam I'm good for the rest of the day. No vpn. But every computer on my home subnet.

One company. They are close to controlling everything now. Like ICANN. I wonder if people realize how much cloudflare controls. Did that one day a year ago where computers all across the world fail to start up, just get memory holed? That was a cloudflare oopsie. Sorry for bringing the earth to a standstill, our bad.
Posted by: banana Dream
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You can use them as your DNS servers and fwiw, and queries back and forth with the name server are encrypted to and from the server. Might help. I've used Google DNS servers as well in the past.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 01:14 PM (E4rtv)

316 The clogged toilet stopped vote COUNTING in 6 states…. What I meant to type, but all you smart morons knew that

It stunk to high heaven and I’m not talking about the toilet

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 01:10 PM (yz/8
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Well, not without a metaphor.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 01:15 PM (Fi81e)

317 My guess is that the networks thought that President Trump would be speaking about Fulton County last night. They likely had all of their talking points set.

Instead he threw them a curveball, and spoke about the fact that our media had been compromised by foreign entities.

While he was revealing they were compromised, they were kind enough to suppress his address....and prove his point!
Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2026 01:05 PM (RHGPo)

***

Mrs D worked for years at a major NW-based Airplane company (that will remain nameless) and she was in their communication division where they had to deal with the media every day. She came away convinced the media, almost without exception, are the laziest, most egotistical, and corrupt group of people next to politicians.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 17, 2026 01:15 PM (2WIwB)

318 No evidence! Injunction ! - Chief Watchmewackoff, respected Hawaiian judge.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at July 17, 2026 01:15 PM (FIXtj)

319 >>Just do you, man. Light up another.

I'm not arguing with you dumbass new nic who has never posted here before. There has been a grand jury in the southern district of Florida hearing evidence of a conspiracy to deprive Trump of his rights since January.

Joe DiGenova was recently hired to help organize the vast amount of evidence, likely including this, because of the sheer scope of the conspiracy.

Are you really stupid enough to believe virtually every traditional media source decided to boycott a national speech by the President of the United States because they are offended by his orange hue?

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 01:15 PM (viF8m)

320 All this crap makes me believe COVID was an op to take out Trump.
Posted by: nurse ratched.
==
Of course it was. Of course the deep state has been working with the chi coms for a long time. FFS the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs in Trumps first term called them and told them not to worry about Trump. . .

Biden and chinese money - Hunter and the laptop Rosemont . . .

Didn't clinton manage to give the chinks nuclear sub techology if I recall?

Its traitors all the way down.

Posted by: Connect the dots at July 17, 2026 01:15 PM (anL5R)

321 Nood. Iran.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 01:16 PM (ExV1e)

322 Looking forward to part duex of this topic. Meanwhile, I have to go pick up J’s dry cleaning. I guess it’s the least I can do considering he bankrolls my princess lifestyle.

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 01:16 PM (p4NUW)

323 Ossoff and Warnock did cheat their way into office. My vote was stolen in that election. I walked into my voting location on Election Day and was told I had already voted by mail. I had never asked for, and never received a mail-in ballot. In Georgia, you have to request a mail-in ballot. I never did. If it happened to me it happened to many others. Ossof and Warnock are both illegitimately in the Senate.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 17, 2026 01:16 PM (tWxgu)

324 I would hope people start realizing there really is a grand jury in Florida that has been hearing evidence of a grand conspiracy for months and just because the garbage and likely treasonous media doesn't breathlessly report on it daily like Russia collusion doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Yup. There are roughly 140 lawsuits from the RNC alone ongoing towards that end and several more from Harmeet Dhillon at DOJ. Getting elections into a less-cheatable state is the important part. Punishing the perps is satisfying, but they're out of power now so fixing elections as best as can be done prior to November is the 5-alarm emergency.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 17, 2026 01:16 PM (2ocoG)

325 The best way to circumvent that - Just Say No.

Posted by: Braenyard
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You can, but you got through the process of verifying you are not a bot and bad gateway crap.

Due to bot army DDOS attacks and other such behavior from internet worms, Cloudfare has become standard for a lot of commercial websites.

Not something you can really avoid as it is on the server end, not yours.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 01:17 PM (E4rtv)

326 Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 01:15 PM (viF8m)

Probably that Scogg Dogg asshat. Just ignore him.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 17, 2026 01:17 PM (3Ope8)

327 Zero disagreements. But the 2 women who were staffers were not his staffers. They were someone else’s.

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 01:00 PM (p4NUW)
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Ah, didn't know that. Thanks, Piper.

I guess I assumed too much and read too little.
Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 01:07 PM (Fi81e)
______

I believe both ladies were on his staff at the time, perhaps temporarily.

I don't care what adults do in private. But I think preying on subordinates -- even if technically not under your direct control -- is total sleaze and marks a man as a beta loser.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 01:17 PM (iFTx/)

328 By the way, the culprit is Taylor Farms, who supplies a lot of produce to a lot of sources, and has their own (good, when they don’t cause diarrhea) salad kits.
Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 01:13 PM (p4NUW)

Maybe the Taco Bell parasites and the bagged salad parasites are different enough that consuming both causes the parasites to fight and kill each other.

Could work.

Posted by: Chipotle at July 17, 2026 01:18 PM (dpXJq)

329 Probably that Scogg Dogg asshat. Just ignore him.

It's the onanist. The writing style is pretty distinctive.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 17, 2026 01:19 PM (2ocoG)

330 I’m looking forward to multiple perp walks.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at July 17, 2026 01:19 PM (FIXtj)

331 What Gallego did is still against the *zero-tolerance* policy the Clintons were pushing (mainly to redistribute power to the female, I believe, as most "sexual harassment" laws are) that said that "sex does not belong at work".

So even if Gallego was banging other congresscritters staffers, it would still run against the zero-tolerance for "sex in the workplace".

You don't think a congressman can get staffers on other staff fired? Don't you know who they are?!

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 01:19 PM (Fi81e)

332 Lots of deeply concerned people who have never commented before on this thread. DNC check cashing machine must be working overtime.
..
Posted by: Ian S. at July 17, 2026 12:59 PM (xC


her a bot, there a bot, everywhere a bot-bot
Commissioner General Chen Yixin, Minister of State Security had a farm,
E-I-E-I-Oh!

Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2026 01:19 PM (rbvCR)

333 >>There are at least two grand juries--one in Atlanta in the Northern District of GA investigating Fulton County and probably the link between Fulton and Maricopa County via Runbeck providing ballots, etc. to both. The second is in SD of Florida looking at the Russia Russia hoax and probably involving illegal surveillance and FISA misconduct as well. Possibly more but these have verified court actions regarding subpoenas, witnesses, etc.

It's worth tuning in to MS whatever they are calling themselves these days when Brennan is on. He is shitting himself because he is a target. He's already admitted as much.

Targeting the former head of the CIA for felonies is kind of big deal.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 01:19 PM (viF8m)

334 Not really mad at the Chinese. Of course they are going to try things to better themselves. Now the US governmental citizens who are happy to better themselves by selling the rest of us out....Trump Group better do something serious while they control whatever they actually control. No time for niceties and collegiate norms.

Posted by: Azjaeger at July 17, 2026 01:19 PM (mMytc)

335 >>>Trouser chili.

Posted by: toby928(c)

>That's the kind of stealth shart that really brings home the seriousness of the situation.

That's just not leakage do to old age.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 17, 2026 01:21 PM (sYM3s)

336 >>The shit never hits the fan.

Who is president, dumbass.

Play nice or I'll come let the air out of the tires under your house.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 01:21 PM (viF8m)

337 Don't know how it can be done, but we're going to have to confront the fact that a large portion of DotFed is staffed with apparat that have no interest in America as America. They see it as a disposable thing that can be traded, sold, or discarded for their own benefit.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
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This. It boils down to the fact that their own political well-being/stature/status is more important than the well-being of the country.

One of the great appeals re Trump is that he is decidedly not a politician, in the conventional sense.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 17, 2026 01:22 PM (XeU6L)

338 I had to look Oanist up. Never seen that word before. I would think an Oanist would type one-handed. Mouse or Keyboard.
Posted by: Blues Junior
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Better to spill thy seed onto a keyboard than in the belly of a whore?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 17, 2026 01:25 PM (XeU6L)

339 Play nice or I'll come let the air out of the tires under your house.
Posted by: JackStraw
****

I'ma stealing dat.

Posted by: clarence at July 17, 2026 01:26 PM (1QT7n)

340 2014 and 2015, massive cyberattacks hit the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), resulting in the theft of sensitive background investigation and personnel records for over 22 million individuals. The breach was widely attributed by US officials and cybersecurity firms to state-sponsored Chinese hackers. (Including, but limited to, fingerprints, physical evaluations., specific service, addresses, relatives...)

Big shrug from the press, the public, even many feds. On average, two years of paid identify theft monitoring awarded.

Early 2014, it was revealed that the CIA secretly penetrated & searched computers used by Senate Intelligence Committee staffers. Staffers were reviewing the CIA's controversial detention & interrogation program. CIA Director Brennan initially denied the intrusion but was forced to formally apologize to lawmakers in July 2014 after an Inspector General's report confirmed the agency's actions.

Another big shrug, including from the then Pres and VP.

It's any f**king wonder years later 'they' were going to recycle those 'stunts,' bigger & better, especially with a rapidly rising immigrant population from 2000 through 2025?

Who's the 'they'?

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 17, 2026 01:27 PM (NFX2v)

341 nood
As US Forces Knock Out Iranian Power Plants, the IRGC Tells Iranians to be Like the UK and France and Turn Off the AC and Die In the Summer Heat
—Disinformation Expert Ace

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 01:30 PM (6wpGE)

342 Cloudflare, give me your independence I will give you... What? a few moments of extra free time?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 01:31 PM (xHEjv)

343 =====
You can, but you got through the process of verifying you are not a bot and bad gateway crap.

Due to bot army DDOS attacks and other such behavior from internet worms, Cloudfare has become standard for a lot of commercial websites.

Not something you can really avoid as it is on the server end, not yours.

Posted by: whig
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Is this a business necessity? If so why not have a separate computer with appropriate setting for that and a personal computer without the crap.
If it's personal why have anything to do with it at all?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 01:34 PM (xHEjv)

344 54 All this crap makes me believe COVID was an op to take out Trump.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 17, 2026 12:23 PM (W2Pud)


Consider the difference in response to the coronavirus epidemic in 2020 compared to the coronavirus epidemic in 2003. The timing with regard to a Republican president's reelection was similar. The difference may very well be that Bush went ahead and fed the military-industrial complex beast but Trump did not. Therefore the shutdown did not happen in 2003-2004 but did happen in 2020.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at July 17, 2026 01:35 PM (OlzlW)

345 AI Overview: In late 2023 and 2024, background check company National Public Data (NPD) suffered a massive data breach that exposed the personal information of nearly 3 billion records. Compromised data includes full names, Social Security numbers, mailing addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers.

Because NPD is a data broker that collects and aggregates public records and personal information (often without direct consumer interaction), anyone with a footprint in U.S., U.K., or Canada public records could be affected.

NPD's business model relied on extracting voter registration lists, court filings, property deeds, and arrest logs from municipal, state, and federal data bases.

Once aggregated, NPD sold access to this compiled information strictly to private commercial clients, such as background check services, human resource firms, insurance companies, and investigators.

In late 2024, NPD's parent company (Jerico Pictures, Inc.) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and ceased operations.

No active settlements, and victims are unlikely to receive direct financial compensation from the company.

Oh, golly! Oh, gee!

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 17, 2026 01:35 PM (NFX2v)

346 54 All this crap makes me believe COVID was an op to take out Trump.
Posted by: nurse ratched.

👍

Also, shut up &/or take out supporters, and move politicians around the nation to run for local, political offices, etc.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 17, 2026 01:39 PM (NFX2v)

347 Xi says this is not true and stomped his cloven hooves.

CNN is outraged and having explosive diarrhea.

I hope for arrests and wailing.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 17, 2026 01:41 PM (hzuYO)

348 "That information includes names, addresses, phone numbers, political party preferences, and other sensitive data that would be needed to register to vote and engage in other nefarious activities, which is exactly what was happening," Trump said.

OK, I'm calling bulls**t. They stole voter information. The stuff that would allow them to register to vote? Those people are ALREADY REGISTERED. Registering again won't accomplish much of anything. Maybe it allows them to try and vote a second time... but that's already a problem, without China's help.

Posted by: GWB at July 17, 2026 02:20 PM (kU0PQ)

349 I never took enough drugs to really enjoy Pink Floyd, even in the 70's. We cool kids thought Floyd fans were pu$$y losers.

So fight me.

Posted by: Martin Tell at July 17, 2026 02:25 PM (sFNX2)

350 So fight me.
Posted by: Martin Tell at July 17, 2026 02:25 PM (sFNX2)

Plays "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict" loudly.

Posted by: GWB at July 17, 2026 02:41 PM (kU0PQ)

THE MORNING RANT: Brown University Professor Sets Trap for Students to Reveal they Cheated Using AI

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When a professor at Brown University decided that mid-term and final exams would be take-home tests following the campus shooting last December, he inadvertently set a trap that revealed the seriousness of AI cheating on exams.

Professor Roberto Serrano wrote a first-hand account of the AI cheating story at The Free Press (“I’m a Brown University Professor; Half My Students Are Cheating” ) but it’s behind a paywall.

For an account of the situation without a paywall, Inside Higher Ed gave the story wide exposure last week in a piece titled “Brown Professor Suspects Majority of His Class Used AI to Cheat

Here is a brief overview of the highlights (written by me, not by AI.)

• Roberto Serrano is an Economics professor at Brown, who teaches a course titled “Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory.”

• This was the first time that Serrano was going to have the mid-term and final exam be in “take-home, closed-book” format rather than in-class as they had always been.

• The mid-term exam was accessible through an online portal, and students had an 11-hour window to complete it.

• Of the 86 students who took the mid-term, 40 had perfect scores. The average score was 96. By contrast, in prior semesters with in-class exams, the average scores ranged from 65 to 80.

• By running the test through ChatGPT, Serrano found that its AI answers closely mirrored what his students had written.

With this information, Professor Serrano announced to the class that he suspected many students had cheated using AI. He then sprung the trap by announcing:

1) The final exam was now going to be in-person.

2) The mid-term results would be considered void unless the final exam had a similar distribution of extraordinary grades.

In the words of Mr. Serrano “I am not declaring [the midterm] void for now. I am going to give the class a chance to prove me wrong. That is, if the distribution of the final exam is roughly similar to the distribution of the midterm, I will count the midterm. Otherwise, which is of course what I expect to happen, I will declare the midterm void and reweigh the final accordingly.”

Following that announcement, 27 of the 86 students either dropped the class entirely, or didn’t show up for the final exam. That is a whopping 31% who pretty much admitted to cheating on the mid-term.

But it gets even funnier for those who stayed in class:

• The remaining 59 students had an average score on the final exam of just 49%, a huge dropoff from the 96% average on the mid-term.

• Serrano therefore announced that the mid-term would not be counted in their grade. A score of 40 on the final was now required to pass. (This was lower than the 50 that was his previous pass threshold.)

• 19 of the remaining 59 students failed the class.

Below the fold is a chart showing the distribution of the 59 students’ final exam grades on the left, and their extraordinary, AI-assisted mid-term grades on the right.

A few students stand out. Especially noteworthy are the two students who clearly didn’t cheat:

• Student #1 scored a 95 on both exams.

• Student #22 scored a 55 on the midterm and then improved to a 59 on the final. S/he is the only student whose grade improved on the final.

• Two students scored a 100 on the mid-term and a 0 on the final.

Brown midterm bubble graph.png

Historically for employers, the importance of a college degree was that it served as an aptitude test, and it also documented that graduating students had endured a rigorous, four-year (or more) credentialing program. This scholastic tenacity was assumed to translate into a solid work ethic.

At this point, a mail-order diploma is as much a signifier of aptitude as a degree earned by ChatGPT, and the brazen use of AI to take an exam is no different than hiring a scholastic ringer to take the final for you. People in my day got expelled for doing that.

An actual education has almost nothing to do with why young adults are still going to college. There is still some residual prestige to having a degree from a name-brand university, and the power of networking is still strong. Plus, there is the pull of “the college experience.” But if the majority of students have no interest in actually getting an education, then the university model has run its course.

I almost feel sorry for the kids graduating college now, because there is an assumption that their degree is fraudulent due to AI. Even sadder, those who don’t cheat are almost certainly paying the price with a below-average GPA.

With all that said, if I were hiring right now, I’d try to find out who student number 22 is and hire him. He is smart enough to be a middle-of-the-pack student, and he’s ethical enough not to cheat, even when it’s an accepted practice by virtually all of his peers.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 10:52 AM




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1 ooo, early

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 17, 2026 10:55 AM (XHO5P)

2 But still first!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 17, 2026 10:56 AM (XHO5P)

3 Wow, that distribution suggests that maybe 3 people didn't cheat.

But what can we expect when we make men without chests?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 17, 2026 10:58 AM (XHO5P)

4 Here! Still reading content.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 17, 2026 10:58 AM (NFX2v)

5 I guess I better nood, no one will think it's already up.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 17, 2026 10:59 AM (XHO5P)

6 I've never had to nood the morning rant, though. Do I do the art thread for a nood?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 17, 2026 10:59 AM (XHO5P)

7 Eh, people will figure it out.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 17, 2026 11:00 AM (XHO5P)

8 Once in a while, I’ll still have a dream (nightmare?) where I have a Final Exam and I’d completely forgotten to go to that class all semester. Oops!

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 11:00 AM (8fTKG)

9 Nice to see that Brown took a break from indoctrinating their students in anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism and pro-socialist dogma long enough to teach them about "Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory."
Oh, wait...

Never mind.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at July 17, 2026 11:00 AM (MNCvZ)

10 Sounds like solid C/C+ students will be our hope for the future.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 17, 2026 11:01 AM (cWLG3)

11 With all that said, if I were hiring right now, I’d try to find out who student number 22 is and hire him. He is smart enough to be a middle-of-the-pack student, and he’s ethical enough not to cheat, even when it’s an accepted practice by virtually all of his peers.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 10:52 AM

It's hard to find that guy because that doesn't show up on a resume.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 17, 2026 11:01 AM (XHO5P)

12 In HS, I had to stop giving out a simple assignment of ten questions based on a period of history I was teaching. Why? The students would C&P the answers from the Net and they did so very poorly. (A question about Czar Nicolas I inevitably has C&P answers that pertained to Nicolas II, for example.)

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 17, 2026 11:01 AM (4g5V+)

13 I almost feel sorry for the kids graduating college now, because there is an assumption that their degree is fraudulent due to AI. Even sadder, those who don’t cheat are almost certainly paying the price with a below-average GPA.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 10:52 AM

I've decided I need to be racist when I'm picking a new doctor.

If it's a young doctor, I will only accept a white male. Because I know he didn't skate by with shoddy work.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 17, 2026 11:02 AM (XHO5P)

14 Learning how to use AI.

Posted by: davidt at July 17, 2026 11:02 AM (Q+gd/)

15 11 With all that said, if I were hiring right now, I’d try to find out who student number 22 is and hire him. He is smart enough to be a middle-of-the-pack student, and he’s ethical enough not to cheat, even when it’s an accepted practice by virtually all of his peers.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 10:52 AM

It's hard to find that guy because that doesn't show up on a resume.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 17, 2026 11:01 AM (XHO5P)

And he probably doesn’t “know people”.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 17, 2026 11:02 AM (4g5V+)

16 College students cheated? Umpossible.

I've mentioned before that at the Catholic school in Oak Ridge, the good Sisters require all assignments to be done in class, with no electronics, and to be written in cursive to help keep the cheating down. The parents of the students love it.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 17, 2026 11:02 AM (pyNYl)

17
I almost feel sorry for the kids graduating college now, because there is an assumption that their degree is fraudulent due to AI.


Time to switch to trade school, kiddos. You can't fake a weld, a plumbing repair, wiring a structure, and so forth.

Unless faking it is your modus operandi. Your barista career awaits you!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 17, 2026 11:03 AM (s9VOe)

18 I almost feel sorry for the kids graduating college now, because they were weaned on cock

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 17, 2026 11:03 AM (Kt19C)

19 If I were a professor, I would assign my students writing assignments that had to be explicitly racist or anti-Semitic in nature.

Because AI has been programmed to refuse these topics, students would not be able to use it to write their papers.

Posted by: Based Conservative at July 17, 2026 11:03 AM (uSpHL)

20 I almost feel sorry for the kids graduating college now, because there is an assumption that their degree is fraudulent due to AI. Even sadder, those who don’t cheat are almost certainly paying the price with a below-average GPA.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 10:52 AM

I've decided I need to be racist when I'm picking a new doctor.

If it's a young doctor, I will only accept a white male. Because I know he didn't skate by with shoddy work.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 17, 2026 11:02 AM (XHO5P)

I say this because it's a similar dilemma: we know the universities are not a useful tool for determining competence.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 17, 2026 11:03 AM (XHO5P)

21 217
Community note
Broadcast networks have declined primetime addresses from Democratic presidents before. In 2022, ABC, CBS and NBC skipped Biden’s speech on threats to democracy for reruns. In 2014, they declined Obama’s immigration address as too political.

Damin Toell
@damintoell
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When Biden gave his primetime Independence Hall address in 2022 (the one with the scary red background that people still post images of), ABC ran Press Your Luck, NBC ran a Law & Order rerun, and CBS ran a Young Sheldon rerun.

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026
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I give.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 11:04 AM (xHEjv)

22 I always learned more from open book tests. If I had to find the answer and apply it, it stuck

Posted by: Ventura Highway at July 17, 2026 11:04 AM (S+j2h)

23 #22?

Isn't 31 the more impressive student? Honest on the midterm and capable of learning.

Posted by: purely an academic question at July 17, 2026 11:05 AM (F/35S)

24 When I was in college, all tests were in class. I don't see a problem with returning to that system.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 11:05 AM (Riz8t)

25 S31 probably didn't cheat, or the midterm score would be higher.

I'm guessing s/he studied before the midterm but spent the night before finals chugging white claw and dick.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 11:05 AM (BI5O2)

26 Brown University is like shit heel of the ivy league. Even Stanford laughs at them.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 17, 2026 11:05 AM (sYM3s)

27 Once in a while, I’ll still have a dream (nightmare?) where I have a Final Exam and I’d completely forgotten to go to that class all semester. Oops!
Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 11:00 AM (8fTKG)

This happens to me, I dream that I am not gonna graduate

Posted by: Ventura Highway at July 17, 2026 11:06 AM (S+j2h)

28 I cheated at auto racing all 22 times I won

Cheating made me a lot of money

Posted by: The Ballots at July 17, 2026 11:06 AM (LOZbR)

29 Once in a while, I’ll still have a dream (nightmare?) where I have a Final Exam and I’d completely forgotten to go to that class all semester. Oops!
Posted by: Common Tater

Me too.

Posted by: Tuna at July 17, 2026 11:06 AM (lJ0H4)

30 I’m a Brown University Professor
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I'm annoyed at how this sentence has to be interpreted in "modern"" times. I can't keep up with their bullshit. Meanwhile the sentence is actually totally innocuous.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 11:06 AM (/bHKT)

31 I went back to college in the 2010s for a comp sci degree. I couldn't believe how bitchy little spoiled brats the students were. And what they were allowed to get away with. The AE profs I had, just a few decades earlier, would have smiled with glee before they tore into you for showing any weakness.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 17, 2026 11:07 AM (3uBP9)

32 The answer is go back to in-person tests either in a classroom or in a proctored testing center. Blue books and hand-written answers.

Posted by: Rick Tq at July 17, 2026 11:07 AM (xeXUW)

33 The prevalence of AI assisted/enhanced degrees, is yet another nail in the eventual coffin of credentialism. A good thing, IMO. More and more we move to "What can you do?" versus "Where did you get your credential? or What credential do you have?" In other words AI is facilitating the bursting of the "Education Bubble."

Posted by: RS at July 17, 2026 11:08 AM (GYx3d)

34 always learned more from open book tests. If I had to find the answer and apply it, it stuck

Depends on the subject. Some subjects are merely regurgitation of random facts. Those are the ones most susceptible to cheating. However, when I was in STEM grad school, almost all tests were open book and take home. If you didn't understand the material, you really couldn't cheat, because it was immediately obvious you didn't understand the material. The only way to cheat would have been for someone else to take the test for you.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 11:08 AM (Riz8t)

35 "Historically for employers, the importance of a college degree was that it served as an aptitude test, . . . This scholastic tenacity was assumed to translate into a solid work ethic."

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!

I'd love to see Griggs v. Duke Power Co. overturned. You know to level the playing field for ALL!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 17, 2026 11:08 AM (pyNYl)

36 The answer is go back to in-person tests either in a classroom or in a proctored testing center. Blue books and hand-written answers.
Posted by: Rick Tq at July 17, 2026 11:07 AM (xeXUW)

Rectal Procter, school doctor

Posted by: Ventura Highway at July 17, 2026 11:08 AM (S+j2h)

37 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 11:08 AM (2YhKe)

38 In the BC years (Before Clankers), someone fresh out of college at least had managed to do something, e.g., pay attention long enough to graduate. Certifications could be even more specialized.

Now certifications are a 'subscribe to win' treadmill and college teaches nothing except how to cheat and party and be a commie.

The credentialism establishment can't die fast enough.

Posted by: RandomDave at July 17, 2026 11:09 AM (aJQbY)

39
Open books and closed minds -- the contributions of higher education could not be more worthless.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 17, 2026 11:09 AM (s9VOe)

40 Take home and open book examinations were never a good idea. The trouble with AI is that any kind of unsupervised work (e.g. term papers) is now suspect. I never much cared for essay questions on tests - thinking problem sets and short answer questions were apposite for examinations - but now they will be necessary.

Posted by: Art Deco at July 17, 2026 11:09 AM (pawNB)

41 But what can we expect when we make men without chests?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 17, 2026 10:58 AM (XHO5P)

...and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.

Posted by: The feminist and tradcon agenda at July 17, 2026 11:09 AM (TbWk/)

42 Some percentage of time spent in college was devoted to cheating. It's always been so. AI has made it effortless however.

It's made a lot of things that used to require actual analysis and thought, effortless.

It shows in the online and in person discourse on most anything.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 11:09 AM (jehhT)

43 "Historically for employers, the importance of a college degree was that it served as an aptitude test, and it also documented that graduating students had endured a rigorous, four-year (or more) credentialing program. This scholastic tenacity was assumed to translate into a solid work ethic."

Historical note. Once employers were barred from giving aptitude tests (because... "racism"), they fell back on using degrees as a proxy like this. Total fucking retarded waste of societal time and money, especially since the military was exempt and has used the ASVAB for decades.

Some people are only good for digging holes or bagging groceries and pretending they can be astronauts or doctors or skilled office workers is delusional. Of course, the progs didn't wreck 3 generations with student debt exactly by accident, either. Give credit where it is due, when they start wrecking things, they realize quickly and iterate on it to wreck even more.

Posted by: heya at July 17, 2026 11:09 AM (ND37T)

44 I will admit, the internet made my career slightly easier as there's a vast wealth of knowledge there.

It's also removed the requirement for me to take notes, remember and store a knowledge base.

We're getting dumber because of technology.

YMMV

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 11:10 AM (2YhKe)

45 I've decided I need to be racist when I'm picking a new doctor.

If it's a young doctor, I will only accept a white male. Because I know he didn't skate by with shoddy work.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 17, 2026 11:02 AM (XHO5P)


That's not racist...that's understanding the medical education system.

Personally, I add Jewish or Italian or WASP to the mix, because they are underrepresented with the double whammy of White and the wrong ethnic group.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 17, 2026 11:10 AM (l4RKn)

46 > 24 When I was in college, all tests were in class. I don't see a problem with returning to that system.

Posted by: Archimedes
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And 50 a passing grade?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 11:10 AM (xHEjv)

47 The prevalence of AI assisted/enhanced degrees, is yet another nail in the eventual coffin of credentialism. A good thing, IMO. More and more we move to "What can you do?" versus "Where did you get your credential? or What credential do you have?" In other words AI is facilitating the bursting of the "Education Bubble."

My daughter is a CS person, and the interview process for jobs in CS has become almost like taking a CS course in length and rigor. I guess the companies have figured out that credentials no longer mean much.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 11:10 AM (Riz8t)

48 In tech employment, AI attitudes are schizophrenic.

In interviews a candidate using AI is verboten. But if hired, the same candidate who can’t use AI during an interview is expected to do all their work with AI. To the point where some employees are reprimanded if they use too little AI.



Posted by: Clown World at July 17, 2026 11:11 AM (2hwDr)

49 How many teachers are using AI to grade exams?

Posted by: davidt at July 17, 2026 11:11 AM (Q+gd/)

50 I've decided I need to be racist when I'm picking a new doctor
——-

They’ve been cultivating racial hatreds for decades now, it is absolutely vile. It sucks but they are very insistent about this.

Posted by: Getting There at July 17, 2026 11:11 AM (8fTKG)

51 If it's a young doctor, I will only accept a white male. Because I know he didn't skate by with shoddy work.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian


Based upon what I saw the last time I took classes 20 years ago, that may not be an entirely justified conclusion...

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at July 17, 2026 11:12 AM (OUMaO)

52 But can they still shop, drink and fuck?

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 17, 2026 11:12 AM (YlWIZ)

53 The answer is go back to in-person tests either in a classroom or in a proctored testing center. Blue books and hand-written answers.

Posted by: Rick Tq

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Seconded.

Any school that made this a policy would probably get noticed both by students and hiring managers.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 17, 2026 11:12 AM (4HoLg)

54 Open Book tests were hard!

Or at least they used to be. Now the book is on students' laptops, and I am confident that they cheat even on a proctored test.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 17, 2026 11:13 AM (l4RKn)

55 33 The prevalence of AI assisted/enhanced degrees, is yet another nail in the eventual coffin of credentialism. A good thing, IMO. More and more we move to "What can you do?" versus "Where did you get your credential? or What credential do you have?" In other words AI is facilitating the bursting of the "Education Bubble."
Posted by: RS at July 17, 2026 11:08 AM (GYx3d)

What would you say...you do here?

Posted by: The Bobs at July 17, 2026 11:13 AM (TbWk/)

56 The only people I remember cheating in college were the foreigners, asians mostly, and they cheated a lot. Every homework was done as a group. They had libraries of past tests, they used every trick they could get. Still didn't do that well.

The ME foreigners were too busy trying to get their hands on white girls to take part in any cheating at all. And their goal was to stay in college with bad grades until their rich family dragged them back.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 17, 2026 11:13 AM (3uBP9)

57 Brown?

A college that brings to mind a sh*tpile.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 17, 2026 11:13 AM (GC/eJ)

58 I'd love to see Griggs v. Duke Power Co. overturned. You know to level the playing field for ALL!

IIRC, there is an expectation that this is coming soon.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 11:13 AM (Riz8t)

59 Proof-based math classes always relied on take home exams because a formal proof take a long time to develop. I wonder how AI has changed this. I think I would want to have my students meet with me independently and explain their work. That still leaves open the possibility that the student ripped the proof from AI, but at least they took the time, and the had the ability, to comprehend the work.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 17, 2026 11:14 AM (2ap+5)

60
That's not racist...that's understanding the medical education system.

Personally, I add Jewish or Italian or WASP to the mix, because they are underrepresented with the double whammy of White and the wrong ethnic group.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 17, 2026 11:10 AM (l4RKn)




Hello for you. My name is Doctor Manish. Please to be telling me how I can diagnose you today.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 11:14 AM (2YhKe)

61 Whatever happened to looking over the smart kid's shoulder for test answers and finding out he's as dumb as you.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 17, 2026 11:14 AM (gm9Sb)

62 No wonder the 'elites' call testing "raycist."

It culls out chaff like them.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2026 11:14 AM (2GVsD)

63 “Following that announcement, 27 of the 86 students either dropped the class entirely”

Dropped the class during finals? In my day I had something like 3 weeks to drop classes. Past that point it was locked in and it was an F if you decided not to show up.

Posted by: Clown World at July 17, 2026 11:14 AM (2hwDr)

64 AI will both be required (and prohibited).

Regurgitating only Approved Narratives, same as it ever was.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 11:14 AM (8fTKG)

65
A college that brings to mind a sh*tpile.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 17, 2026 11:13 AM (GC/eJ)



You're in San Fran. I bet you see a lot of brown every day.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 11:14 AM (2YhKe)

66
But can they still shop, drink and fuck?
Posted by: Hokey Pokey


And choose copiously among the many varieties of self disfigurement provided in today's vibrant market places?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 17, 2026 11:15 AM (s9VOe)

67 32 The answer is go back to in-person tests either in a classroom or in a proctored testing center. Blue books and hand-written answers.
Posted by: Rick Tq at July 17, 2026 11:07 AM (xeXUW)

Any good teacher can find a way to test knowledge, skills, and effort. College professors have just learned that their own laziness doesn't work anymore.

Posted by: Nova Local at July 17, 2026 11:15 AM (tOcjL)

68 Does this asshole supply his stupid fucking mental fuck up indoctrination questions in the article?

I want to know what the respective exams were asking, and expecting for answers. Numbers don't tell me anything.

I'm not saying students didn't use AI. I'm saying a chart of numbers might as well as be a professor's piss stain. Show me what the exams each asked and how they were graded.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 11:15 AM (/bHKT)

69 Take home exams in college and, wink wink, closed book?

Really?

Posted by: WisRich at July 17, 2026 11:15 AM (G0vdT)

70 19 If I were a professor, I would assign my students writing assignments that had to be explicitly racist or anti-Semitic in nature.
Because AI has been programmed to refuse these topics, students would not be able to use it to write their papers.
Posted by: Based Conservative at July 17, 2026 11:03 AM (uSpHL)


You'd need to be plausibly deniable here.
Maybe something on the Bantu Expansions or intra-African slavery, better yet a defense of certain colonial projects or even a comparison between Portugal's adventures and Oman's. In the US: an indepth look at Reconstruction perhaps?
As for antisemitism, that's gay, but assigning David "Stein" Cole on proper Holocaust critique would be an epic troll.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2026 11:15 AM (gKWVE)

71 "My daughter is a CS person, and the interview process for jobs in CS has become almost like taking a CS course in length and rigor. I guess the companies have figured out that credentials no longer mean much.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 11:10 AM"

Elder Son, M.S. Comp Sci & Math, pre AI does interviews for his company. He can spot AI phonies a mile off. Most are from the so-called blue chip STEM schools.

Posted by: RS at July 17, 2026 11:15 AM (GYx3d)

72 In interviews a candidate using AI is verboten. But if hired, the same candidate who can’t use AI during an interview is expected to do all their work with AI. To the point where some employees are reprimanded if they use too little AI.

I think it means the company expects that someone will have a sufficient knowledge and skills base to know when AI gets it wrong, which it often does.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 11:15 AM (Riz8t)

73 Heh.

This is absolutely necessary, in college and before.
We risk having our next generation learning nothing except how to query the information needed at the moment, worthless without phone/laptop/internet/AI.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 17, 2026 11:15 AM (X8xt3)

74 Dropped the class during finals? In my day I had something like 3 weeks to drop classes. Past that point it was locked in and it was an F if you decided not to show up.

Posted by: Clown World at July 17, 2026 11:14 AM (2hwDr)

=======

My worst nightmare in college was that I had signed up for a class that I'd forgotten to attend and now it was past the date where I could drop it.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 17, 2026 11:15 AM (2ap+5)

75 Once in a while, I’ll still have a dream (nightmare?) where I have a Final Exam and I’d completely forgotten to go to that class all semester. Oops!
Posted by: Common Tater

Me too.

Posted by: Tuna at July 17, 2026 11:06 AM (lJ0H4)

Occasionally I have a dream where I'm back in high school. I'm wandering around, don't know where my classes are, don't know the combination for my locker, etc. Then it becomes fun since I can eventually tell if I'm dreaming. A teacher tries to give me shit for wandering around, and I'll say something like "yeah, blow it out your ass, I already graduated years ago, my diploma is old enough to vote, me go now". lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 17, 2026 11:15 AM (S41Gd)

76 Yearlings past, sorority girls worked in professor's office, made copies of his tests and passed them to their fraternity brothers.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 11:16 AM (xHEjv)

77 >>> Dropped the class during finals? In my day I had something like 3 weeks to drop classes. Past that point it was locked in and it was an F if you decided not to show up.

Posted by: Clown World at July 17, 2026 11:14 AM (2hwDr)

There's also an (I) incomplete. Which just means the same thing and has an effect on your GPA.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 17, 2026 11:16 AM (3uBP9)

78 >>Dropped the class during finals? In my day I had something like 3 weeks to drop classes. Past that point it was locked in and it was an F if you decided not to show up.

By allowing you to Drop the course at any time, I am sure they have a higher rate of people paying to re-take the course than those that they Fail outright.

Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2026 11:16 AM (uzmqU)

79 Shitass economics deserves to be answered by AI. The degree is worthless. Always was. The idiot isn't testing organic chemistry, the entire point of these exams is simple regurgitation. Of course the answers are easily recreated by AI.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 11:16 AM (/bHKT)

80 Looks like 5 students did not cheat. S1, S2, S8, S22, maybe S31

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at July 17, 2026 11:16 AM (wGerL)

81 "...I’d try to find out who student number 22 is and hire him. He is smart enough to be a middle-of-the-pack student..."


Right there in the meaty part of the curve!

https://youtu.be/M0AuU7maBMU

Posted by: George Costanza at July 17, 2026 11:17 AM (2Ez/1)

82
The ME foreigners were too busy trying to get their hands on white girls to take part in any cheating at all. And their goal was to stay in college with bad grades until their rich family dragged them back.

Posted by: banana Dream

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My experience was different. Engineering school and the ME students all but moved their desks into a circle around the person they'd be copying from.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 17, 2026 11:17 AM (4HoLg)

83
There's also an (I) incomplete. Which just means the same thing and has an effect on your GPA.
Posted by: banana Dream at July 17, 2026 11:16 AM (3uBP9)



The I, I believe, gives you a chance to retake and replace that grade. I think you can replace an F once by retaking that class as well.

Still costs you $$$$ tho.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 11:17 AM (2YhKe)

84 There is still some residual prestige to having a degree from a name-brand university, and the power of networking is still strong.

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When I entered a small private liberal arts college in 1979 -- whose economics department was considered elite and almost all believed in and taught the "Austrian School" of Economics -- the motto of the school, displayed proudly on t-shirts given to the entering freshmen each year was:

"Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll, and The Wall Street Journal."

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 11:17 AM (9EFgU)

85 I've decided I need to be racist when I'm picking a new doctor.

I don't call it racist. I call it "looking out for my own self interest."

Posted by: NR Pax at July 17, 2026 11:17 AM (99eI0)

86 >>In interviews a candidate using AI is verboten. But if hired, the same candidate who can’t use AI during an interview is expected to do all their work with AI. To the point where some employees are reprimanded if they use too little AI.


They want it both ways.
Similar to expecting candidates to be 10% qualified/experienced for a job, and when they can't find one, they hire an H1B* who learns on the job.

*We are long past the point of H1Bs being used for specialized knowledge jobs. They are now used for 7-11, entry-level university admin, resort golf course jobs, etc..

Posted by: Lizzy at July 17, 2026 11:17 AM (X8xt3)

87 I want that professor to teach ethics and statistics classes.

Posted by: Roy at July 17, 2026 11:17 AM (qwype)

88 Back in my day, when blue books were made of papyrus, having an open book test didn't make things any easier because you were required to have already processed the material and be capable of synthesizing and providing critical analysis (not in the critical theory way). It was helpful to find specific facts or what have you, but if you were going to bomb the book wasn't going to help.

Posted by: Let the name of ChatGPT be stricken from every book and tablet at July 17, 2026 11:18 AM (TbWk/)

89 >>>The answer is go back to in-person tests either in a classroom or in a proctored testing center. Blue books and hand-written answers.

>This was the only thing I remember. The digital age was still running on punch cards.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 17, 2026 11:18 AM (sYM3s)

90 take-home, closed-book

That is the stupidist test condition I have ever heard. That would be impossible to police 40 years ago, let alone today.

Posted by: Chuck C at July 17, 2026 11:18 AM (0GLZr)

91 think it means the company expects that someone will have a sufficient knowledge and skills base to know when AI gets it wrong, which it often does.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 11:15 AM (Riz8t)

Yeah that’s fine. But why not interview that way? Give the candidate a problem and have them solve it using AI. Then walk through the steps taken to make sure the candidate understands what the AI created.

Instead the interview questions are memorization questions.

Posted by: Clown World at July 17, 2026 11:18 AM (2hwDr)

92 73 Heh.

This is absolutely necessary, in college and before.
We risk having our next generation learning nothing except how to query the information needed at the moment, worthless without phone/laptop/internet/AI.

Posted by: Lizzy
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Job applicants will be given pre-interview tests in a clean room.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 11:18 AM (xHEjv)

93 This is absolutely necessary, in college and before.
We risk having our next generation learning nothing except how to query the information needed at the moment, worthless without phone/laptop/internet/AI.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 17, 2026 11:15 AM (X8xt3)

I think we are better off with a generation of people who haven't bothered to learn leftist indoctrination and just queue it up from AI when they need it.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 11:18 AM (/bHKT)

94 I suspect nightmares are Darwin's way of ensuring you don't like to sleep too much. Imagine if all dreams were about wrestling Sophie Cunningham all night. Half of us wouldn't want to wake up

Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2026 11:19 AM (gKWVE)

95 Students at an "Elite" school and they don't know that you don't get perfect when you cheat. SMH. What is wrong with these fools?

Posted by: fozzy at July 17, 2026 11:19 AM (zH2yS)

96 "7 Eh, people will figure it out.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 17, 2026 11:00 AM (XHO5P)"

The majority of civilizations to have ever existed said this and then proceeded to implode.

What we are doing is not working on a lot of levels, and we are headed the same way. Performative bullshit "education". Tolerating groups dedicated to our destruction. Importing hordes of cousin-fucking/street-shitting barbarians. Etc. Our nation is glaringly, blatantly more dysfunctional, poor, and violent than a mere 30 years ago.

The most I have personally managed to get out of anyone over 55 or so on these problems is "well I'll be dead so haha whatever"

It will take a lot more than just "figuring it out" for our culture and nation to exist in 2100.

Posted by: heya at July 17, 2026 11:19 AM (ND37T)

97 I have an engineering professor who is playing the "arms race" against AI in his class.

Lots of students are using AI. It's an online class so it's vey easy for them to cheat, even when the instructor uses an online proctoring tool. Students are clever about getting around them.

The reality is that graduating students WILL use AI in their jobs because that is the expectation. Companies will use AI for lower-level tasks. It's up to students who want a job to demonstrate they know how to leverage AI to do the hard stuff (like geospatial engineering). And can do it better than AI by itself.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2026 11:19 AM (FZ29D)

98 I don't have the college or class dreams but I still often have the naked dreams where I'm out & about and suddenly notice I'm naked and try to hide it with a piece of paper or a grocery bag hoping the people looking right at me don't notice and I'm horrifically embarrassed.

Probably a lot going on in my noggin I don't want to know about.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 17, 2026 11:20 AM (3uBP9)

99 We risk having our next generation learning nothing except how to query the information needed at the moment, worthless without phone/laptop/internet/AI.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 17, 2026 11:15 AM (X8xt3)



Remember, millennials think they're the smartest generation ever because they grew up with a computer in their hand.

Then they turn around and say things like "we need a hard wired phone for times when cell phones don't work" as if they've just cured cancer.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 11:20 AM (2YhKe)

100 Blue Books, oh, the horror.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 11:20 AM (xHEjv)

101 Something few want to acknowledge: The famous adage that "C students run the world" (often attributed to President Harry S. Truman) continues to hold a surprising amount of truth today.

Between the PhDs I worked with, often worthless in the agency in their own right, who also worked as adjunct professors and then, when back in the office, constantly whined over grad students trying so very hard - just not cutting it - and then threatening to have their important family members speak with the Dean to have grades changed. In the end, they always changed those grades higher.

AND

Hunter Biden attending Yale Law School, transferring there after completing his first year at the Georgetown University Law Center, and graduating with his Juris Doctor (JD) degree in 1996. Working for the US Commerce Department, going into the U.S. Navy as an Officer.

Much of it was BS for years.

Class structure, family networking, DEI, weird new educational programs still holds the norms mostly in the middle.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 17, 2026 11:20 AM (NFX2v)

102 I am not a number. I am a free man!

Posted by: Student #22 at July 17, 2026 11:20 AM (Cqx++)

103 At Stanford in the mid-80s, their policy for dropping a class was:

. you could drop it at ANYTIME throughout the term; including
. if you took the final exam and decided NOT to turn it in, you were considered to have dropped the class.

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 11:20 AM (9EFgU)

104 The Spies Like Us cheating scene was a classic.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 11:20 AM (wOO3z)

105 think it means the company expects that someone will have a sufficient knowledge and skills base to know when AI gets it wrong, which it often does.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 11:15 AM (Riz8t)

Yeah that’s fine. But why not interview that way? Give the candidate a problem and have them solve it using AI. Then walk through the steps taken to make sure the candidate understands what the AI created.


I don't disagree. That's an argument for better testing methods, which I think we all want.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 11:21 AM (Riz8t)

106 Oral 1-on-1 in person exams beat AI every time...10 minutes a student for a 20 person class fills the 3 1/2 hour exam time...

Student can leave the oral exam and write a response back to the professor fixing anything he knew he didn't know or got wrong to earn half points back (testing effort and care, even if AI is included)...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 17, 2026 11:21 AM (tOcjL)

107 >Imagine if all dreams were about wrestling Sophie Cunningham all night.

Especially the part when she points and laughs.

Posted by: davidt at July 17, 2026 11:21 AM (Q+gd/)

108 All my medical "professionals" are white. Younger than me (which is pretty easy.) Even the various assistants are all white; X-ray techs, phlebotomists, PT, etc. Predominantly females. They like to discuss shoes.*

*I wear "barefoot" style kicks during the summer because I hate wearing regular shoes. So it opens up a conversation with them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 11:21 AM (jehhT)

109 These students are dummies.

The first rule of Cheat Club is not to get 100% of the answers correct. You have to build in a few wrong answers so it looks like you did the work yourself.

Amateurs.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 11:21 AM (iFTx/)

110 I almost feel sorry for the kids graduating college now, because there is an assumption that their degree is fraudulent ...

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* Affirmative Action and DEI hires have entered the post *

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 11:21 AM (9EFgU)

111
The reality is that graduating students WILL use AI in their jobs because that is the expectation. Companies will use AI for lower-level tasks. It's up to students who want a job to demonstrate they know how to leverage AI to do the hard stuff (like geospatial engineering). And can do it better than AI by itself.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2026 11:19 AM (FZ29D)



I have yet to use AI for anything. I even close the CoPilot app when it autoloads on my computers.

I guess you can say I'm fighting it tooth and nail.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 11:22 AM (2YhKe)

112 the motto of the school, displayed proudly on t-shirts given to the entering freshmen each year was:

"Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll, and The Wall Street Journal."


Broads, Buicks and Buckley!

Posted by: Steve Dallas at July 17, 2026 11:22 AM (wBRco)

113 This was the only thing I remember. The digital age was still running on punch cards.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

Computer majors walking around campus with their rubber banded stacks of punch cards.

Posted by: Tuna at July 17, 2026 11:23 AM (lJ0H4)

114 >>Especially the part when she points and laughs.


That's only was when she wrestles BananaDream.

Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2026 11:23 AM (uzmqU)

115 Or at least they used to be. Now the book is on students' laptops, and I am confident that they cheat even on a proctored test.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 17, 2026 11:13 AM (l4RKn)
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Yep. Proctoring software just keeps the honest students honest. Like the lock on your front door.

Determined students are VERY clever about circumventing the proctoring software. They see it as a personal challenge.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2026 11:23 AM (FZ29D)

116 The Spies Like Us cheating scene was a classic.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 11:20 AM (wOO3z)



I watched that movie the night my mom cut her fingers off with a table saw.

"Every minute you don't tell us why you're here, we cut off a finger......"

I was a mess at that point........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 11:23 AM (2YhKe)

117 13. If it's a young doctor, I will only accept a white male. Because I know he didn't skate by with shoddy work.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

In my region, they're the biggest bangers of the DEI drums and the need to attend annual "Medicare" physicals.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 17, 2026 11:24 AM (NFX2v)

118 I have yet to use AI for anything. I even close the CoPilot app when it autoloads on my computers.

I guess you can say I'm fighting it tooth and nail.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 11:22 AM (2YhKe)
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I use it on a semi-regular basis. For instance, when troubleshooting HTML code that's broken or when I want to do something with HTML and it walks me through the thing I want to do.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2026 11:24 AM (FZ29D)

119 The head of the Bonneville Power Administration in Portland just resigned, and I asked one of the AI models about the guy. The guy is in his mid-50s.

The AI model correctly informed me about his being the head of the Bonneville Power Administration, and then went on to inform me that he had played baseball for the Chicago Cubs in 1969 (I believe that was his father).

Yeah, I'm going to trust AI.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 17, 2026 11:25 AM (u6/wt)

120 107 >Imagine if all dreams were about wrestling Sophie Cunningham all night.

Especially the part when she points and laughs.


A man's got to know his limitations.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 11:25 AM (Riz8t)

121 I use it on a semi-regular basis. For instance, when troubleshooting HTML code that's broken or when I want to do something with HTML and it walks me through the thing I want to do.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2026 11:24 AM (FZ29D)



I can see that. I don't do programming or code anymore, so it's easier to avoid.

I'm more of a grunt these days.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 11:25 AM (2YhKe)

122 You're in San Fran. I bet you see a lot of brown every day.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 11:14 AM (2YhKe)
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Which is why Imma expert!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 17, 2026 11:25 AM (GC/eJ)

123 Something few want to acknowledge: The famous adage that "C students run the world" (often attributed to President Harry S. Truman) continues to hold a surprising amount of truth today.

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This is true. But it’s not because people who run the world are dumb. The C students who run things spent their time networking and building relationships instead of spending their nights in the library getting As.

That network and a 3.0 GPA is far more valuable than the 4.0 GPA.

Posted by: Clown World at July 17, 2026 11:25 AM (2hwDr)

124 Even sadder, those who don’t cheat are almost certainly paying the price with a below-average GPA.

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My understanding from some time ago (assume it hasn't changed unless it's gotten worse) is that owing to "grade inflation," virtually nobody at an "elite" university gets a grade below a "B" [using Grok to confirm: "Grades below B do exist but are uncommon overall, and the distribution is heavily compressed at the top"].

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 11:26 AM (9EFgU)

125 have yet to use AI for anything. I even close the CoPilot app when it autoloads on my computers.

I guess you can say I'm fighting it tooth and nail.


Same, but then, my job doesn't depend on my ability to use AI. Retirement is bliss.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 11:26 AM (Riz8t)

126 "Oh no, Sophie.... YOU WIN AGAIN!!!"

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 11:26 AM (/bHKT)

127 In law school, my torts final was a 3-day take home, open book. This was 1993. I picked my exam up around 10 a.m., back to my grad student dorm room by 10:15. 11 a.m. my law school classmate in a nearby dorm room comes in and asks if I also think the exam is hard. I say, "no". As he comes closer to my desk he cries out, "Are you drinking a beer???" "Yes. You want one?" It was 3-day take home. I had several beers. He had none. (I got the 3rd highest grade on the exam.)

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 17, 2026 11:26 AM (DZ9Lv)

128
My (now long over) education nightmare was being told that I could not finish working on my Chemistry Ph.D. because the school learned that I had not taken an English class to satisfy that requirement for my Batchelor if Science degree. (I had done so, but for only one academic quarter because I had been well schooled in writing in high school.)

That foolishness plagued me over the course of about six months before my sleeping self gave it the boot. All this occurred decades after I had left higher education behind.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 17, 2026 11:27 AM (s9VOe)

129 75 Once in a while, I’ll still have a dream (nightmare?) where I have a Final Exam and I’d completely forgotten to go to that class all semester. Oops!
Posted by: Common Tater

Me too.

Posted by: Tuna at July 17, 2026 11:06 AM (lJ0H4)


I had this same recurrent nightmare for more than a decade after finishing school (much prolonged by law school afterward) plus variants, like: an hour late to the final due to sleeping through alarm; stopped reading books for a course in the English department early in the semester and now had to read a half dozen or so novels while cramming for other courses. On and on. I sometimes wonder about my sanity. Doesn't seem like something that should haunt you for that long.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 17, 2026 11:27 AM (tgl2u)

130 Did someone say oral exam?

Posted by: Ms. Fluke at July 17, 2026 11:27 AM (2hwDr)

131 By allowing you to Drop the course at any time, I am sure they have a higher rate of people paying to re-take the course than those that they Fail outright.
Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2026 11:16 AM (uzmqU)

Colleges largely aren't in the education business they're in the tuition collecting business. It's the enshittification model yet again.

Posted by: Fleece fleece fleece some more at July 17, 2026 11:27 AM (TbWk/)

132 AI was very useful in helping me do some plumbing around the house and bringing an old refrigerator that had sat unplugged in the basement for years back from the dead. It does require a bit of common sense because it is completely wrong from time to time.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 17, 2026 11:27 AM (2ap+5)

133 Looking for a better outcome? Test their shopping, drinking and fucking. Oh, wait. Just search browser histories.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 17, 2026 11:28 AM (YlWIZ)

134
Which is why Imma expert!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 17, 2026 11:25 AM (GC/eJ)



What can brown do for you.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 11:28 AM (2YhKe)

135 You'd need to be plausibly deniable here.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2026 11:15 AM (gKWVE)




Oh, it couldn't be done in actuality. You'd be fired within 8 minutes of handing out the assignment.

But in debate classes/competitions, you are often given a topic you do not necessarily believe and asked to defend it.

And you are often asked to write in creative writing classes from a third person perspective, imagining yourself as a person you aren't.

It wouldn't require that you actually be racist or anti-Semitic, merely that you write papers defending those positions or write papers from the "perspective of a racist".

These would both be things that AI refuses to do, and you would actually be able to gauge the students ability to write a persuasive paper, a defense of a thesis, or a 3rd person fiction narrative.

Posted by: Based Conservative at July 17, 2026 11:28 AM (uSpHL)

136 >>> The reality is that graduating students WILL use AI in their jobs because that is the expectation. Companies will use AI for lower-level tasks. It's up to students who want a job to demonstrate they know how to leverage AI to do the hard stuff (like geospatial engineering). And can do it better than AI by itself.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2026 11:19 AM (FZ29D)


I don't trust other engineers, I also don't trust myself. I require easy to follow exposition on anything anyone is doing every time. I even have to convince myself of what I'm doing constantly. I will poke and pry to break anything to see if it still holds up. I do this while sleeping at night over the analysis I did the day before. Why would I ever trust some linear system goal seeking to make me happy using statistically derived montecarlo models of trust systems?

And maybe that's a real big problem. People will lose the ability to convince. As an engineer that is your biggest challenge. Convince others you know what you are doing and aren't a dummy. If you are not "doing" anymore how well do you think you'll be at "convincing"?

Posted by: banana Dream at July 17, 2026 11:29 AM (3uBP9)

137 My (now long over) education nightmare was being told that I could not finish working on my Chemistry Ph.D. because the school learned that I had not taken an English class to satisfy that requirement for my Batchelor if Science degree.

Heh. Mine was that they were "taking back" my PhD for unspecified reasons. I suspect it's a symptom of Imposter Syndrome.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 11:29 AM (Riz8t)

138 Hunter Biden attending Yale Law School, transferring there after completing his first year at the Georgetown University Law Center

I still think that the Trump Administration should do a simultaneous SWAT raid at 2 AM of the admissions departments of all prestigious universities to seize the records.

I'm sure that the notes to Chelsea Clinton's admission to Stanford, for example, are just hilarious.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 17, 2026 11:30 AM (u6/wt)

139 Doctors, minimum age 45.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 11:30 AM (xHEjv)

140 I have yet to use AI for anything. I even close the CoPilot app when it autoloads on my computers.

I guess you can say I'm fighting it tooth and nail.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 11:22 AM (2YhKe)

You and me both.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 17, 2026 11:31 AM (S41Gd)

141 Doctors, minimum age 45.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 11:30 AM (xHEjv)



F*ck you.

Posted by: Doogie Howser at July 17, 2026 11:31 AM (2YhKe)

142 Then they turn around and say things like "we need a hard wired phone for times when cell phones don't work" as if they've just cured cancer.
——

Some silly broad on X was talking about the absolute necessity for a similar wireless device for authorities to get important information out to the public during emergencies or natural disasters.

“Radio. You’re talking about radios”. It was hilarious.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 11:31 AM (8fTKG)

143 AI was very useful in helping me do some plumbing around the house and bringing an old refrigerator that had sat unplugged in the basement for years back from the dead. It does require a bit of common sense because it is completely wrong from time to time.

Did you realize it was wrong when it told you to strip and sit on the compressor to hatch an egg?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 11:31 AM (Riz8t)

144
You and me both.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 17, 2026 11:31 AM (S41Gd)



I'm trying to bide my time until I either retire or don't have to work in the IT world anymore.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 11:32 AM (2YhKe)

145 >>You and me both.


Pure of Blood and Pure of Mind.

Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2026 11:32 AM (uzmqU)

146 Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 17, 2026 11:27 AM (tgl2u)

That stuff is usually a throwback to something quite traumatic that happened to you. But it's very likely NOT that similar or only a little similar. So it didn't have to have happened in school (although it might have if for example you got a call with bad news while you were in school or moving or preparing for something important).

So if you think about a time when you were unprepared or realized there was too much to do to solve something (usually something kind of very awful that got sprung on you) - you might be able to consciously put it to bed and never have that dream again.

Basically - point your brain to a rather traumatic episode that you can say roughly matches the feeling the dream gives you. Connect them consciously. The dream keeps wanting to tell you it doesn't know what to do with that thing. Once you see it, if you in fact have the right event (you'll know), the dreams will stop.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 11:32 AM (/bHKT)

147 Griggs v. Duke Energy IIRC is the source of forcing everyone to go to college.

Was thinking, why so many accepted the loss of manufacturing jobs:
"MY child is going to college and is NOT going to work in a factory."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 17, 2026 11:32 AM (3cUTc)

148 Did you realize it was wrong when it told you to strip and sit on the compressor to hatch an egg?
Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 11:31 AM (Riz8t)

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Are you saying I've been wasting my time here?

Posted by: Oglebay at July 17, 2026 11:33 AM (2ap+5)

149 That network and a 3.0 GPA is far more valuable than the 4.0 GPA.
Posted by: Clown World at July 17, 2026 11:25 AM (2hwDr)
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Where were you when I was a drunken freshman.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 17, 2026 11:33 AM (GC/eJ)

150 >>> That's only was when she wrestles BananaDream.
Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2026 11:23 AM (uzmqU)


no no, not that dream again...

Posted by: banana Dream at July 17, 2026 11:33 AM (3uBP9)

151 Well, my first almost week of radiation treatments is over. Sadly, I'll have to spend two days where some cute young woman isn't going to ask me to drop my pants.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 11:33 AM (ExV1e)

152 I was skeptical about AI for a long time. Then gradually started using it. Now I can’t imagine life without it.

At work what used to take an hour can now be done in minutes. Not everything, but a lot.

Which is good and bad of course. It’s good for me now because I can do a lot of fucking off. But it’s bad long term since eventually employers will realize they no longer need me. But I’ll be retired by then hopefully. 😀

Posted by: Clown World at July 17, 2026 11:33 AM (2hwDr)

153 What can brown do for you.....
Marry me Eva!
- hitler

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 17, 2026 11:34 AM (KlUCT)

154 138. Posted by: The ARC of History!

👍

But only in our dreams.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 17, 2026 11:34 AM (NFX2v)

155 Well, my first almost week of radiation treatments is over. Sadly, I'll have to spend two days where some cute young woman isn't going to ask me to drop my pants.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 11:33 AM (ExV1e)



At least you've got something to look forward to next week.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 11:34 AM (2YhKe)

156 Mine was that they were "taking back" my PhD for unspecified reasons.

Although you graduated with a perfect GPA, during a random audit we discovered that you took a class without having taken the required prerequisite for that class. That invalidates your Bachelor's degree which then invalidates your Master's degree and that invalidates your PhD

Posted by: Chuck C at July 17, 2026 11:34 AM (0GLZr)

157 Don't tell Ace, but I just finished up a 36 hour fast.

Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2026 11:35 AM (uzmqU)

158 In the last class I taught at the University where I don't teach any more except for when I need beer money, i deliberately created a test for using AI. I didn't announce it to the class and it was an in-class test. The results were about what I expected. One guy was up and out in less than 5 minutes. The rest of the class, except one, were looking around wondering WTF??? So they relooked the instructions and voila! Exams started rolling in. All except my foreign (Chinese) student. She sitting there busting her butt looking up stuff and trying to write. I quietly pointed out the instructions and she was stunned.
I found the whole exercise insightful.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 17, 2026 11:35 AM (2WIwB)

159 "But in debate classes/competitions, you are often given a topic you do not necessarily believe and asked to defend it."

LOL - that's where the counterintuitive position comes in. Academic debate competitions these days aren't close to what they were before the internet.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 17, 2026 11:37 AM (DZ9Lv)

160 Isn't 31 the more impressive student? Honest on the midterm and capable of learning.

Posted by: purely an academic question at July 17, 2026 11:05 AM (F/35S)


You have it backward. The orange dot is the midterm score so their grade decreased by 17 points.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 11:37 AM (ExV1e)

161 I know this sounds like Crazy Talk, but I took great satisfaction in doing my own work, doing the studying, and mastering the material, Finals are still stressful, but then you find out the Grades Have Been Posted, and you got an “A”. Professors are human too (well most of them) and I’ve no doubt they tend to cut a little slack to those making honest effort and not trying to get over.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 11:38 AM (8fTKG)

162 Handwritten, in-person exams--that's all that is needed.

On the other side, teachers and professors are now using AI to grade tests.

And there is the issue of AI, each iteration getting worse than the one before. Something like it's cutting the tails off so all that's left is the most common.
And then next generation trains on that and cuts more off the ends.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 17, 2026 11:39 AM (3cUTc)

163 >>Professors are human too (well most of them) and I’ve no doubt they tend to cut a little slack to those making honest effort and not trying to get over.


I found the best path was to always take advantage of Office Hours and spend some time with the Profs.

Take the opportunity to discuss the materials and test your knowledge while establishing a decent relationship with the Professor.

Worked like a charm.

Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2026 11:40 AM (uzmqU)

164 nd there is the issue of AI, each iteration getting worse than the one before. Something like it's cutting the tails off so all that's left is the most common.
And then next generation trains on that and cuts more off the ends.


Some clever soul called this the AI ouroboros.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 11:40 AM (Riz8t)

165 I'm old enough to remember when you asked Google AI for a picture of George Washington and it gave you back a black broad with British style wig.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 11:40 AM (2YhKe)

166 @17 You can't fake a weld, a plumbing repair, wiring a structure, and so forth.

The hell you say.
You people must live in a bubble. Jesus Christ Almighty.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 17, 2026 11:40 AM (zdLoL)

167 >> You can't fake a weld, a plumbing repair, wiring a structure, and so forth.


You can. But, if you aren't in a Union you risk losing your job.

Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2026 11:41 AM (uzmqU)

168 My scholastic nightmares are usually that I didn't take some required high school class and therefore my HS diploma was invalid, therefore my undergraduate degree was invalid, therefore my post-grad degree was invalid, therefore I had to go back and take the high school class.

Then there's also going back to college decades later and finding that I still have a key to my room there and a boatload of stuff in it that I need to remove. The remainder of the dream is an exercise in futility and I can never successfully get my stuff.

Posted by: Unresolved baggage and unfinished business at July 17, 2026 11:41 AM (TbWk/)

169 My daughter is a CS person, and the interview process for jobs in CS has become almost like taking a CS course in length and rigor. I guess the companies have figured out that credentials no longer mean much.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 11:10 AM (Riz8t)


A lot of places have gone to requiring a (paid) internship prior to getting hired. For this very reason.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 11:41 AM (ExV1e)

170 I had a colleague, much better programmer than me, who had to take "Intro to Computer Programming 101" his senior year because of the prerequisite issue. This was while he was completing his senior class project. Luckily, that class's professor realized the absurdity and told him to just show up to take the midterm and final.

Posted by: Chuck C at July 17, 2026 11:42 AM (0GLZr)

171 165 I'm old enough to remember when you asked Google AI for a picture of George Washington and it gave you back a black broad with British style wig.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 11:40 AM (2YhKe)

As we learned this summer, she's the Ben Franklin spitting image.

Posted by: Nova Local at July 17, 2026 11:42 AM (tOcjL)

172
As we learned this summer, she's the Ben Franklin spitting image.
Posted by: Nova Local at July 17, 2026 11:42 AM (tOcjL)



See? Even AI gets it wrong. Ben was a black woman. NOT George Washington.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 11:43 AM (2YhKe)

173 Worked like a charm.

Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2026 11:40 AM (uzmqU)

The key is sincerity. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 11:43 AM (/bHKT)

174 Based upon what I saw the last time I took classes 20 years ago, that may not be an entirely justified conclusion...
Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at July 17, 2026 11:12 AM (OUMaO)

I was teaching 20 years ago. It's very different now.

Also, if they were taking classes 20 years ago, they don't qualify as "young doctor".

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 17, 2026 11:43 AM (XHO5P)

175 The only people I remember cheating in college were the foreigners, asians mostly, and they cheated a lot.

Specifically, Chinese and Indian. Saw them blatantly cheat during in-class exams. The Japanese and Korean seemed to do things the right way.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 11:44 AM (ExV1e)

176 “You can't fake a weld, a plumbing repair, wiring a structure, and so forth.”

My house says otherwise lol.

I bought an old house that needed mucho renovations. My contractor used the phrase”what the fuck were they thinking” many man maaaaany times throughout the project.

Posted by: Clown World at July 17, 2026 11:44 AM (2hwDr)

177 Thx Buck
Years ago before he started huffing his own farts, George will write a column about a history professor who did something similar but with ideology ( don't recall if it was U of Mich or Wis)
The professor showed an old black and white vid of combat with a narrator say " here are the rebels going over the top and charging enemy lines"
The students cheered the rebels. The professor stopped the vid and said "so you support the rebels". They cheered. Then he said "the rebels are Franco's Fascists." "Learn context"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 11:44 AM (OXYE0)

178 > have yet to use AI for anything. I even close the CoPilot app when it autoloads on my computers.
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You can disable that, you know. Assuming it's on your home or non-managed PC.

Open up Settings and go to Apps. Then click on Installed Apps and find CoPilot in the list. Click on the 3 dots to the right, select "uninstall."

It will likely reinstall itself after every Windows Update, but for the duration it'll be disabled.

You can also edit the registry and kill it there. Again, assuming it's a home PC and not part of a corporate network.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 11:44 AM (jehhT)

179
The key is sincerity. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 11:43 AM (/bHKT)



Either that, or have tits and give good blow jobs.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 11:44 AM (2YhKe)

180 I think we are all struggling with AI and how it can be a useful tool in education and work environments. If these students had spent time reading what AI told them, and checking sources provided by AI, they may have actually learned a little bit. They would have learned AI can be wrong, too.

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 11:46 AM (hftzA)

181
It will likely reinstall itself after every Windows Update, but for the duration it'll be disabled.

You can also edit the registry and kill it there. Again, assuming it's a home PC and not part of a corporate network.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 11:44 AM (jehhT)




I'm aware how to, but it's mostly work stuff and I can't modify that, so I just exit it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 11:46 AM (2YhKe)

182
Once in a while, I’ll still have a dream (nightmare?) where I have a Final Exam and I’d completely forgotten to go to that class all semester. Oops!
Posted by: Common Tater



40 years after leaving Ft Benning, I STILL suffer from the Basic Training Trying To Find A Clean Uniform nightmare from time to time.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 17, 2026 11:46 AM (iqcvy)

183 if you aren't in a Union you risk losing your job.

Speaking of which:
Fear of humanoid robots spurs human workers to strike at Hyundai auto factory

Thousands of unionized Hyundai auto workers began walking off the job early after negotiations with the South Korean automaker broke down over plans to deploy humanoid robots—the most significant pushback from organized labor so far over the latest wave of robotic automation.


https://tinyurl.com/y93kkve4

These are hardworking Koreans, so if they're worried, the UAW should be terrified. Thus far, their response is to call automation a witch.

But labor unions in both South Korea and the United States clearly want to see stronger commitments from automakers in the face of such automation efforts. The UAW recently criticized GM for installing about 50 new robot arms at the automaker’s flagship electric vehicle factory in Detroit after laying off more than 1,300 workers as a supposedly temporary measure.

During the UAW Convention held in Detroit in June 2026, UAW President Shawn Fain also warned against “the threat of humanoid robotics and mass automation” undermining worker employment and compensation.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 11:47 AM (Riz8t)

184 Once in a while, I’ll still have a dream (nightmare?) where I have a Final Exam and I’d completely forgotten to go to that class all semester. Oops!
Posted by: Common Tater




I occasionally have one where I know I have a specific class, but I haven't been to it in a while and don't remember where it is.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 11:47 AM (2YhKe)

185 The professor showed an old black and white vid of combat with a narrator say " here are the rebels going over the top and charging enemy lines"
The students cheered the rebels. The professor stopped the vid and said "so you support the rebels". They cheered. Then he said "the rebels are Franco's Fascists." "Learn context"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 11:44 AM (OXYE0)


[raises hand] . . . Um . . .

Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2026 11:48 AM (rbvCR)

186 At NYMag: "I Got a Beard Transplant So I’d Be Taken Seriously at Work"

tl;dr: Job title is 'Carnival Bearded Lady.'

Posted by: gp at July 17, 2026 11:48 AM (Jr5Lq)

187
[raises hand] . . . Um . . .
Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2026 11:48 AM (rbvCR)



Yeah, he spelled Democrats wrong.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 11:48 AM (2YhKe)

188 Wow, that distribution suggests that maybe 3 people didn't cheat.

But what can we expect when we make men without chests?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

No, just the two. It also shows even the smarter ones will cheat, just to keep up if for no other reason.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 17, 2026 11:49 AM (sl73Y)

189 > I'm aware how to, but it's mostly work stuff and I can't modify that, so I just exit it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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Got it.

I worked for DoD (DoW) and the workstation I used was locked down tight. Sucked. Couldn't use home PC for anything other than WebMail through Outlook. And that only worked when it felt like it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 11:49 AM (jehhT)

190 >>>Computer majors walking around campus with their rubber banded stacks of punch cards.

Posted by: Tuna

>Ha. Actually I got in and had one of the original Macs, no hard drive. But I like to bust their balls. Still, back the then the original data centers were rooms filled with reel-to-reel tape readers. We'd bring them in on pallets and have a dedicated staff of women loading tapes.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 17, 2026 11:49 AM (sYM3s)

191 I know I'm a closed minded bigoted luddite lazy shiftless intellectually incurious arsehole, but what the HELL is there to learn about welfare economics and social justice or whatever bullshit this idiot thinks he's an "expert" in? Be honest. Has it actually made an impact on the world, or is it just lesbian masturbation porn for communist HOA wannabe fuckheads?

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 11:50 AM (/bHKT)

192
The previous owners of our home -- the male, actually -- was a firm believer that cove molding paired with an adhesive was the preferred method to repair just about anything. Wrapping leaky duct joints with carpet padding and tying it off with clothesline earned high honors, too.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 17, 2026 11:51 AM (s9VOe)

193 I always felt though the teachers that complained the loudest about cheating were usually too lazy to make it harder to cheat.

A take home exam is a good example. Of course people are going to cheat on that. Even before AI.

I had a teacher in HS that constantly warned and complained about students cheating in her class. The reasoning? She had the same tests for like 25+ years straight. Like word for word. Everybody had an old copy of one. She knew this, but still wouldn't at least change them around a little bit. Just warned everybody about not cheating.

Posted by: Sharpie at July 17, 2026 11:51 AM (Bjzmv)

194 Woa, tell us how you really feel ellipsis. Don't hold back

Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2026 11:51 AM (rbvCR)

195 AI was very useful in helping me do some plumbing around the house and bringing an old refrigerator that had sat unplugged in the basement for years back from the dead. It does require a bit of common sense because it is completely wrong from time to time.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 17, 2026 11:27 AM (2ap+5)

It can be catastrophically wrong sometimes.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 17, 2026 11:52 AM (S41Gd)

196 Sounds like solid C/C+ students will be our hope for the future.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO
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That may have been the case for a long time. When I was at school, the Gentleman's 'C' was regarded as nominal.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 17, 2026 11:52 AM (XeU6L)

197 Once in a while, I’ll still have a dream (nightmare?) where I have a Final Exam and I’d completely forgotten to go to that class all semester. Oops!

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 11:00 AM (8fTKG)
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Oh I have had that dream many times. I learned early, some classes made sense to attend and some were better just working in the text book and showing up for exams and quizzes. Of course, you still needed to know the material, no internet back in the stone age when I went to school.

Posted by: Black JEM at July 17, 2026 11:52 AM (GZYu7)

198 The previous owners of our home -- the male, actually -- was a firm believer that cove molding paired with an adhesive was the preferred method to repair just about anything. Wrapping leaky duct joints with carpet padding and tying it off with clothesline earned high honors, too.

I...have no response to that.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 11:52 AM (Riz8t)

199 Doctors, minimum age 45.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 11:30 AM (xHEjv)


My radiotherapist looks like he's late 20s but he looked that way 7 years ago when he was my wife's radiotherapist.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 11:52 AM (ExV1e)

200 There was a big data storage company that would only hire C students with extracurricular activities for their salesforce . Theory was the brainiacs didn't make good sales people.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 11:53 AM (/WQyy)

201 168 My scholastic nightmares are usually that I didn't take some required high school class and therefore my HS diploma was invalid, therefore my undergraduate degree was invalid, therefore my post-grad degree was invalid, therefore I had to go back and take the high school class.

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In grad school, one of my classmates close to finishing his PhD program was notified that his undergrad university has rescinded his BS because he didn't meet the freshman English requirement and slipped through the cracks when given approval to graduate. Because everyone refused to bend the rules, he had to take leave for a semester, return back to his old uni and take the required class. We joked that he should double check with his high school too.

Posted by: justALurker at July 17, 2026 11:53 AM (4jnbQ)

202 And acquaintance from my High School get admitted and attended Brown in the Fall of 1973.

He was a very sharp guy. Oh how Brown has fallen.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 17, 2026 11:54 AM (qFwJc)

203 The reasoning? She had the same tests for like 25+ years straight. Like word for word. Everybody had an old copy of one.
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I recall that fraternities had years of exams/quizes on file, for use by the brothers as references.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 17, 2026 11:54 AM (XeU6L)

204 Bravo to students 1 and 22 and, perhaps 31. Integrity deserves to be rewarded. (31 might just be a smarter cheater.)

Posted by: Cybersmythe at July 17, 2026 11:55 AM (aTl7+)

205 I'd love to see Griggs v. Duke Power Co. overturned. You know to level the playing field for ALL!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 17, 2026 11:08 AM (pyNYl)
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It's time is coming.

Posted by: Black JEM at July 17, 2026 11:55 AM (GZYu7)

206 I...have no response to that.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 11:52 AM (Riz8t)

Yeah what was he thinking when there's Flex Tape!

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 11:56 AM (/WQyy)

207 eventually employers will realize they no longer need me
_-_
Manager: Nope. You know those four projects that were due next week? You now have eight of them that are due by"Tuesday week or you don't get paid!"

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 17, 2026 11:56 AM (JWDez)

208 In my final semester of senior year of college, I took a class that I thought was graded solely on a take-home final exam.

"No sweat," I thought. "I can bag this entire thing and just ace the test."

So I never went to class. A few days before the exam, I get called to the professor's office. He informs me that the grade is not based only on the final, but also on a midterm and class participation. Oh, and the final is not take-home. It's in-class.

I shit a brick. I didn't take the midterm, because I didn't know about it, and I failed class participation because I was never there.

Professor says I need to ace the final or I fail the class. If I fail the class, I won't get credit for the course, and I won't graduate because I need those credits.

I was shitting bricks like howitzer rounds.

I had to learn the entire course in about 72 hours. I crammed for the exam in the most grueling, most gruesome 72 hours in the history of education. Pretty much no sleep.

I apparently aced the test because the professor gave me a B- for a final grade.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 11:56 AM (iFTx/)

209 UAW President Shawn Fain also warned against “the threat of humanoid robotics and mass automation” undermining worker employment and compensation.
———

That’s where all those millions and millions of unskilled, illiterate illegal aliens pouring across the open borders makes a lot of sense.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 11:57 AM (8fTKG)

210 So I never went to class. A few days before the exam, I get called to the professor's office. He informs me that the grade is not based only on the final, but also on a midterm and class participation. Oh, and the final is not take-home. It's in-class.


a real life Jeff Winger!

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 17, 2026 11:57 AM (j+aD2)

211 The reasoning? She had the same tests for like 25+ years straight. Like word for word. Everybody had an old copy of one.
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I recall that fraternities had years of exams/quizes on file, for use by the brothers as references.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

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And some student in every class would always have an older sibling that had saved the old tests because she handed them back with the grade.

This teacher wouldn't even change up the order of the questions.

Some would literally memorize "a,c,c,d,a,c..." etc and then ace the test.

If anything it was more of an indictment of the teacher.

Posted by: Sharpie at July 17, 2026 11:58 AM (Bjzmv)

212 Some would literally memorize "a,c,c,d,a,c..." etc and then ace the test.

If anything it was more of an indictment of the teacher.


It absolutely was an indictment of the teacher. Did she not think anything was amiss when students finished the test in 30 seconds?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 12:00 PM (Riz8t)

213
I...have no response to that.
Posted by: Archimedes


As the home inspector and I went through the premises, Stan (the owner) was bird dogging us and getting more and more pissed off as the inspector racked up the many deficiencies. He wanted the inspector to be fired and expelled from the property. Our realtor had to corral him and remove him from our presence while telling him, "The inspector doesn't work for you, he works for the buyer."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 17, 2026 12:00 PM (s9VOe)

214 I think more than 3 didn't cheat.

Take home vs in class, the mid term could likely have been an easier environment (I don't know the wholes story)

There are a few in there where yes the mid term they performed better, but didn't tank the final either.

However, the point of the story is still valid... so I suppose I'm just listening to myself pontificate.

Most of the class cheated, obviously.

Posted by: Inogame at July 17, 2026 12:01 PM (53oGX)

215 >>> There was a big data storage company that would only hire C students with extracurricular activities for their salesforce . Theory was the brainiacs didn't make good sales people.
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 11:53 AM (/WQyy)


Sales guy to hardware engineers: So yeah, she was really hot so I said we'd provide one of our new 80 doggobyte racks and...

(engineer raises hand) What's a doggobyte?

Pshah! Like I know bro, you just stuff 80 of them in a box by close of business Friday because me and CIO babe have a date. Alright bros, later...

Posted by: banana Dream at July 17, 2026 12:01 PM (3uBP9)

216 "I am really upset that so much cheating occurs."

"Then why do you make it so easy?"

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 17, 2026 12:01 PM (qFwJc)

217 If anything it was more of an indictment of the teacher.

Sounds like you're bad mouthing the United States of America! -- Eric Stratton, Rush Chairman, Damn glad to meet you.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 12:01 PM (ExV1e)

218 My radiotherapist looks like he's late 20s but he looked that way 7 years ago when he was my wife's radiotherapist.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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My primary care guy of 20 years took early retirement after Obamacare became a reality. The practice plugged in a young guy who we came to call Doogie Houser. Nice guy, probably qualified and competent, but simply lacked confidence-inspiring experience in contact with the patients.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 17, 2026 12:01 PM (XeU6L)

219 But we must always defer to the moral superiority and civic wisdom of our Ivy League betters.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 17, 2026 12:01 PM (t+TFX)

220 Back in the day, at UCSD, we NEVER got a "take-home" exam.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 17, 2026 12:02 PM (qFwJc)

221 Historically for employers, the importance of a college degree was that it served as an aptitude test, and it also documented that graduating students had endured a rigorous, four-year (or more) credentialing program. This scholastic tenacity was assumed to translate into a solid work ethic.
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It was when they banned IQ tests for employment, that employers started wanting to see a college track record.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 12:03 PM (Fi81e)

222 My primary care guy of 20 years took early retirement after Obamacare became a reality. The practice plugged in a young guy who we came to call Doogie Houser. Nice guy, probably qualified and competent, but simply lacked confidence-inspiring experience in contact with the patients.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 17, 2026 12:01 PM (XeU6L)


My guy was the one who, when told that the other radiotherapist had indicated a need for hormone treatment when he hadn't, responded with, "Well, I'm looking at the biopsy report and you don't need them." No lack of confidence at all.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 12:04 PM (ExV1e)

223 Take home exam? Are you kidding me?

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 17, 2026 12:04 PM (t+TFX)

224
It absolutely was an indictment of the teacher. Did she not think anything was amiss when students finished the test in 30 seconds?
Posted by: Archimedes

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People were more savvy than that, they'd take your time, miss a few, etc.

The reality is, they weren't all that hard anyway, but if the entire class has a copy of every test, you're going to "study" off that.

Posted by: Sharpie at July 17, 2026 12:05 PM (Bjzmv)

225
...UAW President Shawn Fain

Sounds like an IRA guy.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2026 12:05 PM (Cqx++)

226 Back in the day, at UCSD, we NEVER got a "take-home" exam.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 17, 2026 12:02 PM (qFwJc)
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You could take it home after it was graded, but that was about it.

The most we ever had was open-book or even "allowed notes" exams.

One of our instructors allowed a 3x5 note card at every exam he gave, because he read that the process of compiling, compressing and prioritizing the notes would actually cement the knowledge better than studying by reading.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 12:06 PM (Fi81e)

227 During the UAW Convention held in Detroit in June 2026, UAW President Shawn Fain also warned against “the threat of humanoid robotics and mass automation” undermining worker employment and compensation.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 11:47 AM (Riz8t)

This should be something they worry about. Especially because bringing them in isn’t something necessarily negotiable- potentially there could be effects bargaining. The UAW is very reluctant to cross train, and they are completely spoiled by negotiations with auto manufacturers. For those they represent outside of this sphere, they get a bit flummoxed when faced with needing to make concessions and be more flexible. They also get flummoxed by real contingency planning. I locked the UAW out once. They at least got themselves together more quickly than when I did it to the USW. Twice. Good times, good times.

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 12:06 PM (hftzA)

228 Me: Okay, AI, I have completed maintenance routine XYZ

AI: Excellent work. Do not reinsert the fuel rods until XYZ is complete.

Me: Reinsert the fuel rods???

Posted by: Oglebay at July 17, 2026 12:06 PM (2ap+5)

229 Back in the day, at UCSD, we NEVER got a "take-home" exam.

Posted by: no one of any consequence

I went to UCSD from '85-'87. Loved working at the radio station.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 17, 2026 12:06 PM (DZ9Lv)

230 Canada has "open book barrister examination" and "open book solicitor examination". It's one of a number of exams you have to take to get a license.

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 12:06 PM (GD0B3)

231 I had a course with a particularly lazy professor (former Reagan administration official, ran for senate later) who decreed that if you aced the mid-term you didn't have to take the final. So I didn't.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 17, 2026 12:06 PM (YZkcf)

232
The dentist who took over the practice from my longstanding and now retired previous dentist is young. And spent all of ninety seconds examining me during my visit this past week.

The missus and I will be shopping for a replacement once her dentist retires later this year.

Were it not for the thorough job my hygienist does, I'd bail on him right now.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 17, 2026 12:07 PM (s9VOe)

233 ---
You could take it home after it was graded, but that was about it.

The most we ever had was open-book or even "allowed notes" exams.
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Same for me.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 17, 2026 12:08 PM (XeU6L)

234 I can honestly say I don't remember taking any of my tests in college because none of them stand out. I do remember writing a lot of papers though. I still have most of my papers from graduate school.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 12:08 PM (/WQyy)

235 ..I bet unless you know what the heck is in those law books, and how to apply it, having them on an exam won't help....especially if the exam is timed

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 12:08 PM (GD0B3)

236 Professors would sometimes ask if the class would prefer a closed book or an open book exam. The class always chose the latter. Idiots.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 17, 2026 12:09 PM (2ap+5)

237 Did people, anywhere, actually think students or anyone for that matter would not use AI to cheat? Plezzzzz lmfao

Posted by: sidney at July 17, 2026 12:09 PM (Uy/WF)

238 nood



lum

Posted by: banana Dream at July 17, 2026 12:10 PM (3uBP9)

239 Hardest test I ever took was the Louisiana Real Estate license exam. Common Law and Napoleonic real estate law.

It was 90% multiple choice but the available answers were all similar to:

A
B
C
A and B
A and C
B and C

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2026 12:14 PM (/WQyy)

240 163 >>Professors are human too (well most of them) and I’ve no doubt they tend to cut a little slack to those making honest effort and not trying to get over.


I found the best path was to always take advantage of Office Hours and spend some time with the Profs.

Take the opportunity to discuss the materials and test your knowledge while establishing a decent relationship with the Professor.

Worked like a charm.
Posted by: garrett
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Words of wisdom here. Speaking as a retired tenured prof. We have office hours for a reason.

And as a professor, I tried and used multiple different ways to assess students which is at the heart of education--not tests per se.

Recitation and vomiting of assorted miscellaneous trivia memorized is about the lowest form of education there is. In a social science, the key is being able to form analogies and apply those miscellaneous trivia to new conditions whether by simulations, exam questions, or writing assignments.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 12:16 PM (E4rtv)

241 I’m way late to this thread but I just want to say: I hate student #1… that annoying egghead that always set the curve unreasonably high in every class. Get a life dude!!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 12:16 PM (yz/88)

242 I suppose that I am the last one to recognize this, but it occurs to me that we are the fodder that AI feeds upon. I imagine it to be a parasite (or worse) that feeds on the host, until the host is bled dry.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 17, 2026 12:17 PM (XeU6L)

243 235 ..I bet unless you know what the heck is in those law books, and how to apply it, having them on an exam won't help....especially if the exam is timed
Posted by: runner
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Pretty much. I didn't give a choice in most instances. Did for basic foundational class.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 12:17 PM (E4rtv)

244 I still think that the Trump Administration should do a simultaneous SWAT raid at 2 AM of the admissions departments of all prestigious universities to seize the records.

I'm sure that the notes to Chelsea Clinton's admission to Stanford, for example, are just hilarious.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 17, 2026 11:30 AM (u6/wt)

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 17, 2026 12:17 PM (tWxgu)

245 “Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory.”

_______________________________

You never would have caught me cheating on that test, becaused I wouldn't have taken that nonsense class in the first place. Really? "Welfare Economics?" Is that the "throw taxpayer money at it to make it go away after creating the problem in the first place, only to make it worse?" And, "Social Choice Theory". Oh, I'm sure the "theory" part is just some leftist's opinion, and if you come up with a theory of your own that contradicts the "Social Choice" theory, you're just WRONG. Classes like this with an over-emphasis in justifying stupidity and making excuses wastes everyone's time, money, and patience.

Posted by: Orson at July 17, 2026 12:17 PM (dIske)

246 Then he said "the rebels are Franco's Fascists." "Learn context"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 11:44 AM (OXYE0)

They were killing Commies. Why would you not support them?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 17, 2026 12:18 PM (1z8ji)

247 241 I’m way late to this thread but I just want to say: I hate student #1… that annoying egghead that always set the curve unreasonably high in every class. Get a life dude!!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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Curving grades is a lazy STEM practice to rank students. There are better ways to drive student learning and performance.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 12:18 PM (E4rtv)

248 I still think that the Trump Administration should do a simultaneous SWAT raid at 2 AM of the admissions departments of all prestigious universities to seize the records.

I'm sure that the notes to Chelsea Clinton's admission to Stanford, for example, are just hilarious.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 17, 2026 11:30 AM (u6/wt)


I would like to see Obama’s transcript.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 17, 2026 12:19 PM (tWxgu)

249 Words of wisdom here. Speaking as a retired tenured prof. We have office hours for a reason.

And as a professor, I tried and used multiple different ways to assess students which is at the heart of education--not tests per se.
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A cousin, well-respected math professor at well-known university, held his office hours at the student union. Apparently it worked out well, the informality of the setting having some appeal.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 17, 2026 12:21 PM (XeU6L)

250 You never would have caught me cheating on that test, becaused I wouldn't have taken that nonsense class in the first place. Really? "Welfare Economics?" Is that the "throw taxpayer money at it to make it go away after creating the problem in the first place, only to make it worse?" And, "Social Choice Theory". Oh, I'm sure the "theory" part is just some leftist's opinion, and if you come up with a theory of your own that contradicts the "Social Choice" theory, you're just WRONG. Classes like this with an over-emphasis in justifying stupidity and making excuses wastes everyone's time, money, and patience.
Posted by: Orson
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Actually as a former econ undergraduate, welfare economic is a pretty important field as that is a massive expenditure for governments and Social Choice Theory, is actually rational choice theory which applies how individuals and institutions make rational decisions in light of available information, human behavior patterns, etc.

Really more a conservative class archetype than a liberal one.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 12:22 PM (E4rtv)

251 Yeah, I would support the Falangists over the Communist Republicans in Spain. Strange how familiar words take on new meanings in new contexts, isn’t it?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 17, 2026 12:22 PM (tWxgu)

252 A cousin, well-respected math professor at well-known university, held his office hours at the student union. Apparently it worked out well, the informality of the setting having some appeal.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

I ditched students doing in class presentations for a one on one with me over required research papers. It does work better. I always picked a public place for such though as I avoided private meetings one on one with students for classes-if I had to use my office, I kept the door open.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 12:24 PM (E4rtv)

253 Really more a conservative class archetype than a liberal one.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 12:22 PM (E4rtv)

Ha! I knew someone would call me on this, why did it have to be you

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 12:26 PM (/bHKT)

254 241 I’m way late to this thread but I just want to say: I hate student #1… that annoying egghead that always set the curve unreasonably high in every class. Get a life dude!!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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Curving grades is a lazy STEM practice to rank students. There are better ways to drive student learning and performance.
Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 12:18 PM (E4rtv)

There were occasions when I set the curve… I almost felt guilty when it happened. Almost!

As you probably know, there are a lot of graduate level classes in STEM where the prof could create an exam that was undoable for the students. I took graduate level classes in mathematics where a prof could’ve asked for proof of a single theorem on the exam and not one student could’ve produced the proof. It is a quandary to produce “fair” tests with that kind of advanced material

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 12:31 PM (+gA9j)

255 Way back in ~1980 one of my math teachers caught a bunch of foreign students cheating. He'd suspected they were and deliberately set up a test to catch them, with another teacher administering that test. Two slightly different versions, caught folks clearly copying answers from the wrong version. He triedd to get them thrown out of the class.

Administration would only let him fail them an that exam. No punishments. They were paying way too much, and admin didn't want foreign students avoiding that college.

Posted by: you're in hell, the world ended at July 17, 2026 12:36 PM (Lqp/b)

256 The idea that it's cheating to use AI is old-line thinking, grandpa. These kids are never going to write another word without AI again! They may as well start depending on it now.

Of course, the results will be exactly as good as everyone else's AI-based writing -- so a Brown University education is essentially worthless. They may as well start getting used to that now, too.

Posted by: TR at July 17, 2026 01:16 PM (hazdd)

257 SOME of them were definitely cheating, but that's also demonstrating that a take-home exam in general, even before AI, was crap, because it was effectively an open-book exam.

Giving students 11 hours for an open-book exam shouldn't be surprising that they had significantly better scores than a restricted in-person exam with a much stricter time limit, unless both exams were open book.

Obviously some of them cheated, but you have to be cautious about reading ALL of them cheated.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at July 17, 2026 01:25 PM (setIA)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

Estes Ansonia1.jpg

Ansonia
Richard Estes

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM




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1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 09:30 AM (v3afF)

2 yow!

Posted by: cmeat at July 17, 2026 09:30 AM (R11M+)

3 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 09:30 AM (2YhKe)

4 Photographic.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 09:31 AM (2YhKe)

5 How.... urban.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 09:31 AM (jehhT)

6 Corgis called

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 09:31 AM (v3afF)

7 No bewbs 😢

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 09:31 AM (v3afF)

8 Picture perfect? Perfect!

Posted by: Unwillin' Barkis at July 17, 2026 09:31 AM (S+LRT)

9 No boobs. No dog. Not art.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 17, 2026 09:31 AM (Kt19C)

10 While this demonstrates impressive fidelity it's otherwise pointless and, worse, lacks the bosoms present in prior art.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 09:32 AM (ExV1e)

11 Very nice.

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 09:32 AM (6wpGE)

12 Ask your cardiologist if Ansonia is right for you.

Posted by: Big Phat Pharma at July 17, 2026 09:32 AM (2Ez/1)

13 I like this one. It reminds me somehow of portions of downtown LA (before it was overrun by homeless). The detail is amazing

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 09:32 AM (+gA9j)

14 and isn't that a nice reflection on you!

Posted by: cmeat at July 17, 2026 09:33 AM (R11M+)

15 Is this one of those “Check all the squares with buses” security dealios?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at July 17, 2026 09:33 AM (/0tBI)

16 Wait... is this one of those "Find the three differences..." quizzes?

Posted by: red speck at July 17, 2026 09:33 AM (Ve/HL)

17 Where's Potsie?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 17, 2026 09:34 AM (qRla/)

18 connecticut?

Posted by: cmeat at July 17, 2026 09:34 AM (R11M+)

19 Where's Potsie?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 17, 2026 09:34 AM (qRla/)

ISWYDT

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 09:35 AM (wOO3z)

20 smells like weewee.

Posted by: cmeat at July 17, 2026 09:35 AM (R11M+)

21 If you zoom into the flatiron building on the left, 5th floor, 4th window from the right, just above the tree line, in the shadowy part just behind the drawn shades, there's nothing to see there either.

Remarkable attention to detail, though.

Posted by: red speck at July 17, 2026 09:35 AM (Ve/HL)

22 Sniper in the Ghillie suit must be a midget.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 17, 2026 09:35 AM (967/Q)

23 Alternate title:

"The Doorway to an Alternate Earth Where Right and Left Are Reversed!"

Posted by: naturalfake at July 17, 2026 09:37 AM (iJfKG)

24 Where in the hell is Ansonia?

Posted by: dantesed at July 17, 2026 09:37 AM (Oy/m2)

25 water tower, bird, rat?

Posted by: cmeat at July 17, 2026 09:37 AM (R11M+)

26
Born May 14, 1932 (age 94)
Kewanee, Illinois

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 09:37 AM (6wpGE)

27 Can't be SF. No poop on the sidewalk.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 17, 2026 09:37 AM (967/Q)

28 I think it's interesting when people paint optical phenomena, like this one and that famous painting of the man and woman with the curved mirror. As a person who's always dealt with being nearsided I've wondered if someone could make a picture, paint or digitally create one that when I looked at it with no lenses glasses, naked eye whatever, it would look in focus. I wasn't that great in optics class in college so I probably don't understand the physics that well. But I've always wondered.

This one's nice. It looks like he did a whole series on architecture, light, and reflection.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 17, 2026 09:38 AM (3uBP9)

29 In about five minutes, Laverne and Shirley will come around the corner, singing, "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight -- schlemiel, schlimazel, hasenpfeffer incorporated."

Posted by: red speck at July 17, 2026 09:38 AM (Ve/HL)

30 If you squint just right, you can almost see a hooter in the pedestrian crossing sign.

Posted by: No Name Today at July 17, 2026 09:38 AM (8mulE)

31 23 agree. the peddleyestrian xing sign is correct in the reflection.

Posted by: cmeat at July 17, 2026 09:38 AM (R11M+)

32 Huh.
Looks like something I'd see on Instagram: "5 Hacks for Street Photography" comment 'street' and I'll send you my free guide!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 17, 2026 09:38 AM (X8xt3)

33 21 If you zoom into the flatiron building on the left, 5th floor, 4th window from the right, just above the tree line, in the shadowy part just behind the drawn shades, there's nothing to see there either.
Posted by: red speck at July 17, 2026 09:35 AM
.....
Actually, that's me. With a big pair of binoculars. In a wheelchair.

Posted by: Jimmy Stewart at July 17, 2026 09:39 AM (2Ez/1)

34 Amazing. I really like this. Would definitely hang.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 17, 2026 09:39 AM (g8Ew8)

35 Wiki

"Ansonia" is a notable painting by Richard Estes that exemplifies his photorealistic style. The artwork captures the architectural grandeur of the Ansonia building in New York City, showcasing intricate details and reflections. This painting transforms a seemingly mundane scene into a compelling visual experience, highlighting Estes's ability to blend realism with artistic interpretation.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 17, 2026 09:39 AM (NpAcC)

36 28 asnopposed to gary larsen being farsided.

Posted by: cmeat at July 17, 2026 09:40 AM (R11M+)

37 It also kinda reminds me of Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks… a daytime version

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 09:40 AM (+gA9j)

38 Posted by: dantesed at July 17, 2026 09:37

Manhattan, NYC.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 09:40 AM (VFl1u)

39 There are probably a whole lot of bosoms in that picture. Just comfortably apportioned within the buildings. Also naked guys on ottomans. So be aware.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 17, 2026 09:41 AM (3uBP9)

40 I missed Captain Josepha on the ONT.
If she stops by again, I just want her to know that I am praying that the Lord comfort her & her family as they mourn her daughter.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 17, 2026 09:41 AM (PHCb/)

41 This was done before the riots, huh … ?

Posted by: Dr_No at July 17, 2026 09:41 AM (ayRl+)

42 29 wasn't that m'waukee?

Posted by: cmeat at July 17, 2026 09:41 AM (R11M+)

43
I love how the reflected image in the window is clearer than the real thing to the left.

Would like to see this in person.

Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 09:41 AM (Y8DZL)

44 First piece I can recall that includes a McDonalds.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 09:41 AM (jehhT)

45 37 It also kinda reminds me of Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks… a daytime version
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 09:40 AM (+gA9j)

Wikipedia

At an early age, Estes moved to Chicago with his family, where he studied fine arts at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1952–56).

He frequently studied the works of realist painters such as Edgar Degas, Edward Hopper, and Thomas Eakins, who are strongly represented in the Art Institute's collection.

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 09:42 AM (6wpGE)

46 Also naked guys on ottomans. So be aware.
Posted by: banana Dream at July 17, 2026 09:41 AM
++++

And ficus trees.

Posted by: Jeffrey Toobin at July 17, 2026 09:42 AM (2Ez/1)

47 Impressive painting. I would love it if there was one surreal detail.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 17, 2026 09:43 AM (+El+t)

48 The photorealist aspect of this painting serves to underline the orderliness and stability of a Socialist city, well-run and efficient. Around the corner, one would certainly find citizens, well-fed and happy, spontaneously extolling the goodness of their Socialist leaders.

Also, OrangeManBad.

Posted by: Your Kid's Woke Art Teacher at July 17, 2026 09:43 AM (967/Q)

49 A 348 square foot studio apartment can be yours for $599,000 at the Ansonia.

Posted by: mr tmz at July 17, 2026 09:43 AM (rJ48h)

50 I see a plant on the left side but on the reflection side there are two plants. Am I the only one seeing that?

Posted by: dantesed at July 17, 2026 09:43 AM (Oy/m2)

51 For anyone who doesn't get enough art from the daily art thread.... this guy on X is worth following.

https://x.com/dinamittEros

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 17, 2026 09:43 AM (IG3/x)

52 Where in the hell is Ansonia?
Posted by: dantesed at July 17, 2026 09:37 AM (Oy/m2)


Ansonia was a mean bitch
Dull art gave her an itch
Yes, an itch down there
Beneath underwear
On OnlyFans. Made her quite rich!

Posted by: naturalfake at July 17, 2026 09:43 AM (iJfKG)

53 I bet y' hafta walk thru all the Port Authority winos sleeping on the floor in their own pee to get to this place …

Posted by: Dr_No at July 17, 2026 09:43 AM (ayRl+)

54 50 one is behind the glass.

Posted by: cmeat at July 17, 2026 09:44 AM (R11M+)

55 44 First piece I can recall that includes a McDonalds.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 09:41 AM
*******

I was loving it.

Posted by: Young Dick Estes at July 17, 2026 09:44 AM (2Ez/1)

56 Beyond the technical aspect, I don't know how I feel about this painting. It strikes me as 'cheating,' in so much as I can imagine the artist propping up a photograph and then copying it to the last detail, rather than rely on memory or give the location are more 'painterly' feel.

But then, I am just an asshole commenter on a Smart Military Blog.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 17, 2026 09:44 AM (qRla/)

57 44 First piece I can recall that includes a McDonalds.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 09:41 AM (jehhT)

Huh! Took me a minute to find it.

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 09:44 AM (6wpGE)

58 A nice mid-century portrait of a clean busy city, perhaps early in the morning before the traffic builds up. Commuters going to their early shifts, or coming home from the night shift, on that bus.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 17, 2026 09:45 AM (wzUl9)

59 I see a plant on the left side but on the reflection side there are two plants. Am I the only one seeing that?
Posted by: dantesed at July 17, 2026 09:43 AM (Oy/m2)

The second plant is on the inside of the window.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 17, 2026 09:46 AM (g8Ew8)

60 Ansonia is the building at center, in the backround.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 09:46 AM (BI5O2)

61 ah, manhattan. i hurled there right after hurricane sandy. mutual assistance.

Posted by: cmeat at July 17, 2026 09:46 AM (R11M+)

62 I am seriously amazed at the talent needed to create these realistic images with paint. Having said that, I don't like cities so my interest is only in the technique, not the scene.

Oddly, perhaps, his landscapes are less photorealistic. They are close but the brushwork is obvious if seen up close.

Posted by: JTB at July 17, 2026 09:46 AM (yTvNw)

63 I see a plant on the left side but on the reflection side there are two plants. Am I the only one seeing that?
Posted by: dantesed at July 17, 2026 09:43 AM (Oy/m2)
---
Oooh! Good catch!

Now I have to ask myself...Which image is the "real" image?

Are we, perhaps, *inside* the reflection of the real world?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2026 09:46 AM (FZ29D)

64 The second plant is on the inside of the window.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 17, 2026 09:46 AM (g8Ew

Ok, I see that now.

Posted by: dantesed at July 17, 2026 09:47 AM (Oy/m2)

65 56 no, you can see a wee bit of his easel if you squint.

Posted by: cmeat at July 17, 2026 09:47 AM (R11M+)

66 47 Impressive painting. I would love it if there was one surreal detail.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 17, 2026 09:43 AM (+El+t)

maybe:

21 If you zoom into the flatiron building on the left, 5th floor, 4th window from the right, just above the tree line, in the shadowy part just behind the drawn shades, there's nothing to see there either.
Posted by: red speck at July 17, 2026 09:35 AM (Ve/HL)

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 09:47 AM (6wpGE)

67 >>> Beyond the technical aspect, I don't know how I feel about this painting. It strikes me as 'cheating,' in so much as I can imagine the artist propping up a photograph and then copying it to the last detail, rather than rely on memory or give the location are more 'painterly' feel.

But then, I am just an asshole commenter on a Smart Military Blog.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 17, 2026 09:44 AM (qRla/)


I heard that in the original Moody Blues

Posted by: banana Dream at July 17, 2026 09:47 AM (3uBP9)

68 44 First piece I can recall that includes a McDonalds.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 09:41 AM
###

I'm back. But for a limited time.

Posted by: The McRib at July 17, 2026 09:48 AM (2Ez/1)

69 That looks like an uninteresting photograph.
Would not hang. Wouldn't even bother to put in a photo album.

Posted by: GWB at July 17, 2026 09:49 AM (kU0PQ)

70 Definitely done from a photo. The window looks to be at the wrong angle for its reflection because of the lens curvature.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 09:49 AM (BI5O2)

71 Spectacular technical skill. Looks like a photograph. But bland subject matter. I live not far from that building (the Ansonia).

Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 17, 2026 09:49 AM (HwHEG)

72 kinda weird that the window has a 30.06 sticker banning berettas.

Posted by: cmeat at July 17, 2026 09:50 AM (R11M+)

73 First piece I can recall that includes a McDonalds.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 09:41 AM (jehhT)

Huh! Took me a minute to find it.
Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 09:44 AM (6wpGE)

Where?

Posted by: GWB at July 17, 2026 09:50 AM (kU0PQ)

74 Son of Ann or Agnes. I was wondering what Ansonia means. It sounds like an actual greek latin word but just a name.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 17, 2026 09:50 AM (3uBP9)

75 Never mind. I found it.

Posted by: GWB at July 17, 2026 09:50 AM (kU0PQ)

76 There's a person, in front of the "crossing" sign.

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 09:51 AM (6wpGE)

77 it's not in the reflection but you can see part of a golden arch. look for yeller.

Posted by: cmeat at July 17, 2026 09:51 AM (R11M+)

78 First piece I can recall that includes a McDonalds.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 09:41 AM
###

I'm back. But for a limited time.
Posted by: The McRib at July 17, 2026 09:48 AM (2Ez/1)


Look, McRib. You're made from pureed insects, and that's still meat! Heathen!

I'm The Real King of SanFran-

Posted by: The McTofu at July 17, 2026 09:51 AM (iJfKG)

79 44 First piece I can recall that includes a McDonalds.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 09:41 AM
###

I'm back. But for a limited time.
Posted by: The McRib at July 17, 2026 09:48 AM


And I'm out of order. As usual.

Posted by: The ice cream machine at July 17, 2026 09:51 AM (2Ez/1)

80 If you zoom into the flatiron building on the left, 5th floor, 4th window from the right, just above the tree line, in the shadowy part just behind the drawn shades, there's nothing to see there either.

Remarkable attention to detail, though.
Posted by: red speck


*SNORT

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 09:51 AM (v3afF)

81 The lady with the newspaper walking toward us from the bus looks tired, or maybe just indecisive. "Should I stop for a coffee and a donut . . . or pick up a pint of Jim Beam?"

Note the parking restrictions sign and the "Watch for pedestrians" sign both over on the right.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 17, 2026 09:52 AM (wzUl9)

82 Photographic.
Posted by: Sponge

Agree look at the blur on the far left buildings

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 17, 2026 09:52 AM (NnhvP)

83 Wasn't the Asonia apartment building the party central of NYC for awhile because it was restricted to only affluent single tenants with no kids?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 17, 2026 09:52 AM (g8Ew8)

84 Dude knows his way around a palette.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 17, 2026 09:53 AM (6/7Fs)

85 Is that a pers, oh crap! WitSec!

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 09:53 AM (v3afF)

86 It's a McDowell's.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 09:53 AM (wOO3z)

87 76 that's the waitress for the large party seated in the alfresco dining section. "ansonia gonna arder or wut?"

Posted by: cmeat at July 17, 2026 09:53 AM (R11M+)

88 In a way, this reminds me of Robert Bateman. His wildlife paintings are so realistic from a distance but seen up close you can see each brush stroke. That ability to go from paint brush to realism is amazing.

Posted by: JTB at July 17, 2026 09:53 AM (yTvNw)

89 Spectacular technical skill. Looks like a photograph. But bland subject matter. I live not far from that building (the Ansonia).
Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 17, 2026


***
Ah, so this is upper Broadway in New York.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 17, 2026 09:55 AM (wzUl9)

90 Is this art?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 17, 2026 09:55 AM (nGQj1)

91 Beyond the technical aspect, I don't know how I feel about this painting. It strikes me as 'cheating,' in so much as I can imagine the artist propping up a photograph and then copying it to the last detail, rather than rely on memory or give the location are more 'painterly' feel.

Same. I'm a fan of still lifes (lives?) but they have to be of something visually interesting. This is not.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 09:55 AM (Riz8t)

92 stick it upper broadway.

Posted by: cmeat at July 17, 2026 09:55 AM (R11M+)

93 Nice but not fitting the theme for this week

Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2026 09:56 AM (0CVPB)

94 Worthy of a 1000-piece puzzle.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 17, 2026 09:56 AM (6/7Fs)

95 The Ansonia’s basement was the location of the sex-swingers club Plato’s retreat and I think a gay bathhouse too. I think the building is now multi-million-dollar condos.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 17, 2026 09:57 AM (HwHEG)

96 Check each state that contains a hobo.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 17, 2026 09:57 AM (6/7Fs)

97
This is too boring even for a doctor's or dentist's office-

nice limited area wallpaper, and nothing else.

Would not hang.


Posted by: naturalfake at July 17, 2026 09:57 AM (iJfKG)

98 I'm amazed at the lack of traffic, drug dealers, homeless, trash and Socialists in this painting.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 09:57 AM (jehhT)

99 Nice but not fitting the theme for this week
Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2026 09:56 AM (0CVPB)



I definitely expected moar boobs.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 09:58 AM (2YhKe)

100 100

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 09:58 AM (6wpGE)

101 Now I have to ask myself...Which image is the "real" image?

Are we, perhaps, *inside* the reflection of the real world?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2026 09:46 AM (FZ29D)


Book Thread: Simulacron-3, by Daniel Galouye.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 17, 2026 09:58 AM (XE5AP)

102 Spectacular technical skill. Looks like a photograph. But bland subject matter. I live not far from that building (the Ansonia).
Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 17, 2026

***
Ah, so this is upper Broadway in New York.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 17, 2026 09:55 AM (wzUl9)
—-

Yea, broadway around 75th street

Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 17, 2026 09:59 AM (HwHEG)

103 Under The Overpass - a limerick (of sorts)

I understand an overpass is often understated
While overlooked and underfunded art is overrated
Now I undertake to understand
How overstaffed yet undermanned
Such undertakings are over-appreciated

Posted by: muldoon at July 17, 2026 09:59 AM (I0N4X)

104 I like his model rockets

Posted by: The oppression continues. at July 17, 2026 10:00 AM (+abK1)

105 False advertising. Photo would be Maine senate candidate uses to promote "her" book compared to real life.

https://tinyurl.com/5cbw6krc

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 10:00 AM (ndZc7)

106 I'm amazed at the lack of traffic, drug dealers, homeless, trash and Socialists in this painting.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 09:57 AM (jehhT)


look closely and you'll see the socialists protesting for the return of The McPlant Vegan burger.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 17, 2026 10:01 AM (iJfKG)

107 What's the over/under on a limerick about this today?

Oops...too late.

Bravo!

Posted by: Limerick Lover at July 17, 2026 10:01 AM (2Ez/1)

108 like his model rockets"

Si

Posted by: man at July 17, 2026 10:03 AM (XuXeR)

109 False advertising. Photo would be Maine senate candidate uses to promote "her" book compared to real life.

https://tinyurl.com/5cbw6krc
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy

That troon looks like Meatloaf.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 10:04 AM (wOO3z)

110 The View is like Sgt. Friday, just the facts, ma'am.

“The View” Says Trump “Executing People in the Streets,” Trying to “Stop the Election”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 10:04 AM (ndZc7)

111 104 i was a century kid.

Posted by: cmeat at July 17, 2026 10:04 AM (R11M+)

112 Old man Trump yells lies at clouds. As always, Trump provides no evidence of voter fraud. After all the audits and investigations, no fraud. Nada. Freaking liar 🤥

Posted by: Sid at July 17, 2026 10:05 AM (d3IoH)

113 I like this one. It reminds me somehow of portions of downtown LA (before it was overrun by homeless). The detail is amazing
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 09:32 AM (+gA9j)

Are they still counting votes in the Mayor Bass Mayor For Life sham election?

Posted by: Election Fraud 101 at July 17, 2026 10:06 AM (45BvE)

114 That troon looks like Meatloaf.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 10:04 AM (wOO3z)
----------------
Are there ANY normal people in Maine?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 17, 2026 10:06 AM (XE5AP)

115 Spot the tittay

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 10:06 AM (/bHKT)

116 112 are you hawaiian?

Posted by: cmeat at July 17, 2026 10:07 AM (R11M+)

117 65 56 no, you can see a wee bit of his easel if you squint.
Posted by: cmeat at July 17, 2026 09:47 AM (R11M+)

Really? Where?

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 10:07 AM (6wpGE)

118 Are there ANY normal people in Maine?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper

There's a few commentors here. Other than that.....

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 10:07 AM (wOO3z)

119 When we were kids, my sister's and I used to draw invisible lines on the car seat so this kind of thing wouldn't happen.

Argentina Complains to London That UK Navy Sailed near Falkland Islands After World Cup Outburst

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 10:08 AM (ndZc7)

120
Ansonia


Without Sonia? Sonia free?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 17, 2026 10:09 AM (s9VOe)

121 Argentina Complains to London That UK Navy Sailed near Falkland Islands After World Cup Outburst
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy

With someone else's boats?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 10:09 AM (wOO3z)

122 I wonder if buildings like that are kind of a nightmare vision for Russian politicos that are out of favor.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 17, 2026 10:10 AM (3uBP9)

123 Nice but not fitting the theme for this week
Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2026 09:56 AM (0CVPB)


I definitely expected moar boobs.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer


I'm crushed. This is the only time I get to see bewbs.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 10:10 AM (v3afF)

124 120 sonia it's gotta hurt.

Posted by: cmeat at July 17, 2026 10:10 AM (R11M+)

125 Argentina Complains to London That UK Navy Sailed near Falkland Islands After World Cup Outburst
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 10:08 AM (ndZc7)

Obviously a lie, there is no UK Navy any longer.

Just a dingy or two and a barge anchored in the Thames River for muslim rape parties.

Posted by: Britannia, Broke, Busted And Raped at July 17, 2026 10:10 AM (45BvE)

126 Argentina Complains to London That UK Navy Sailed near Falkland Islands After World Cup Outburst
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy

With someone else's boats?


It was the gay cruise ship rejected by Turkey and Egypt.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 10:11 AM (Riz8t)

127 Kurt Schlichter: Leftist Women Are an Abomination

-
Snow women?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 10:11 AM (ndZc7)

128 I like his model rockets
Posted by: The oppression continues. at July 17, 2026 10:00 AM

And his park in Colorado.

Posted by: But that's just me at July 17, 2026 10:11 AM (2Ez/1)

129 Obviously a lie, there is no UK Navy any longer.

Just a dingy or two and a barge anchored in the Thames River for muslim rape parties.
Posted by: Britannia, Broke, Busted And Raped


The sun has definitely set on the British Empire.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 10:12 AM (v3afF)

130 127 snow women, snow peace.

Posted by: cmeat at July 17, 2026 10:12 AM (R11M+)

131 Argentina Complains to London That UK Navy Sailed near Falkland Islands After World Cup Outburst
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 10:08 AM (ndZc7)


And tweeted something offensive to Trans-Muslims.

That'd get the UK to order everyone executed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 10:13 AM (ExV1e)

132 The horizontal gray item in the center of the photo, against a column, suggests the shape of a military rifle, and thus is clearly intended to subtly remind viewers of the force required to support this pleasant facade.

It might as well be shouting “See the Violence inherent in the System!! See the Violence inherent in the System!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2026 10:13 AM (wLnmp)

133 Are there ANY normal people in Maine?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 17, 2026 10:06 AM

Yeah man, I'm sick of every depiction of hillbilly freaks with slack jaws and wide set eyes being in Southern Appalachia. It's not really like that here.

Maine looks to be a State of Sawney Bean type inbred rape bandits.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 10:14 AM (BI5O2)

134 That's why you always wear a cup.

Caitlin Clark Goes Ballistic on Refs After Getting Kneed in the Quad on Another Dirty Play

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 10:14 AM (ndZc7)

135 >>> https://tinyurl.com/5cbw6krc
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy

That troon looks like Meatloaf.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 10:04 AM (wOO3z)


People like that were great when they were safely contained in british comedy and spoke with a ridiculous raspy voice.

Posted by: banana Dream - R3TVRN at July 17, 2026 10:14 AM (3uBP9)

136 "With someone else's boats?"
+++

You mean motorboats?

Posted by: Boob enthusiast at July 17, 2026 10:14 AM (2Ez/1)

137 132 The horizontal gray item in the center of the photo, against a column, suggests the shape of a military rifle, and thus is clearly intended to subtly remind viewers of the force required to support this pleasant facade.

It might as well be shouting “See the Violence inherent in the System!! See the Violence inherent in the System!”
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2026 10:13 AM (wLnmp)

Maybe limit your caffein intake just a tiny bit?

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 10:15 AM (6wpGE)

138 On Friends Joey said it would be great to be a woman because "you can see breasts any time you want".

May have turned out to be quite unintentionally prophetic.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 10:15 AM (/bHKT)

139 *caffeine

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 10:16 AM (6wpGE)

140 @127
That was one of his better columns. Here are some extracts:

she was one of those ridiculous ladies who stand there with a sign that says, “Refugees Welcome,” demanding that even more perverted Third World peasants flood her country. Like gays for Palestine, it’s a societal suicide pact that they somehow think they’re exempt from. The numbers are undeniable. The majority of rapes in Europe are linked to migrants, even though they make up less than 10 percent of the population in many countries. But does that stop liberal women? No, it probably encourages them. Oh, I don’t think they want to be raped and beaten to death personally, but I think that they believe, at some level, that members of their own society deserve that fate. They believe their societies are evil, which naturally makes them the heroines in the young adult novel that is their lives, and they’re trying to atone for it by this ritual humiliation and sacrifice...They cast it as mercy and grace, but it’s not. They’re seeking to punish the rest of us for the sins they have adjudicated us guilty of committing as a society.
https://tinyurl.com/ynv4d6t5

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 10:16 AM (Riz8t)

141 > I'm crushed. This is the only time I get to see bewbs.
Posted by: rickb223
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You must be new to this thing called "The Internet." It's literally filled with bewbs. Some are even in pictures or videos.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 10:17 AM (jehhT)

142 The View is like Sgt. Friday, just the facts, ma'am.

“The View” Says Trump “Executing People in the Streets,” Trying to “Stop the Election”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, D

Location please! Let's put up bleachers.

Posted by: LASue at July 17, 2026 10:17 AM (lCppi)

143
Is this the frigidity of rugged individualism or the warmth of collectivism?

It certainly satisfies the indifference of "hang it?"-ism.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 17, 2026 10:17 AM (s9VOe)

144 Hey, Sid! Fuck off!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 17, 2026 10:19 AM (g8Ew8)

145
I do hope he painted something similar with Gaza City as its subject.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 17, 2026 10:19 AM (s9VOe)

146 Doesn't Maine also have a huge Somali presence like Minnesota?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 10:19 AM (BI5O2)

147 Rape Bandits opened for the Sex Pistols back in '77 at the Ritz.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 10:19 AM (wOO3z)

148 >>> On Friends Joey said it would be great to be a woman because "you can see breasts any time you want".

May have turned out to be quite unintentionally prophetic.
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 10:15 AM (/bHKT)


Confession: For the longest time I thought the actor that played Joey and News Radio/Fear Factor Joe Rogan were the same guy, I just figured Friends was a different gig. They look similar.

Posted by: banana Dream - I sort of have bad eyesight at July 17, 2026 10:20 AM (3uBP9)

149 No, it's not Maine. I was thinking of Ohio.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 10:20 AM (BI5O2)

150 There's bunches of Somali inbreds in Maine.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 10:21 AM (wOO3z)

151 "...one of those ridiculous ladies who stand there with a sign that says, “Refugees Welcome,” demanding that even more perverted Third World peasants flood her country. Like gays for Palestine..."
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It was always the women, especially the young ones...

Posted by: George Orwell at July 17, 2026 10:21 AM (2Ez/1)

152 There's bunches of Somali inbreds in Maine.

We finally find a use for Stephen King, and where is he?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 10:22 AM (Riz8t)

153 Speaking of the Chinese fraudsters, I ordered a wedding present from an independent boutique in California. After a month, the packages arrived ,with a California return address but from the horrible Engrish on the labels I suspected it came directly from china. Sure enough- obviously counterfeit goods. The company hides it because everyone knows Sid and his Chinese cronies are asshole. Copy, steal, copy, steal.

Posted by: LASue at July 17, 2026 10:22 AM (lCppi)

154 I wonder what a remake of “Laverne and Shirley” would look like today.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 17, 2026 10:22 AM (R+X/W)

155 The thing I like best about this painting is the blue sky. I would like to have that instead of the grey haze and hazardous air quality that we have today.

Posted by: bluebell at July 17, 2026 10:23 AM (afFes)

156 I wonder what a remake of “Laverne and Shirley” would look like today.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 17, 2026 10:22 AM (R+X/W)

Well, it would be just Lenny. The rest are dead.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 10:23 AM (wOO3z)

157 The thing I like best about this painting is the blue sky. I would like to have that instead of the grey haze and hazardous air quality that we have today.

I stepped outside to walk the dog for a couple of minutes, and I'm still feeling it. Nasty!

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 10:24 AM (Riz8t)

158
Caitlin Clark Goes Ballistic on Refs After Getting Kneed in the Quad on Another Dirty Play
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy


Next year the WNBA will introduce open carry for its players.

"It's Like A Street Brawl With 'Pew-Pew'!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 17, 2026 10:25 AM (s9VOe)

159 Because I'm smart enough! I'm good enough! And Gosh Darn it, people in Maine like me!

Posted by: Stuart Somali at July 17, 2026 10:25 AM (I0N4X)

160 138 On Friends Joey said it would be great to be a woman because "you can see breasts any time you want".

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 10:15 AM

Saw a funny meme featuring a wide eyed Joey with the caption "A pizza is basically a real-time pie chart of how much pizza is left."

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 17, 2026 10:26 AM (2Ez/1)

161 The weather here has been wonderful. High 80s maybe up to 91, partly cloudy, a little rain here and there but short spurts. Pretty comfortable for these parts in July.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 17, 2026 10:27 AM (3uBP9)

162 After Getting Kneed in the Quad...

...gazebo

Posted by: muldoon at July 17, 2026 10:27 AM (I0N4X)

163 Javier Milei seems to be keeping a low profile during Argentina's World Cup run.

Posted by: mr tmz at July 17, 2026 10:27 AM (rJ48h)

164 Clouds and 56 here.

High of 72 today

80s next week.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 17, 2026 10:29 AM (4qqJ6)

165 Lenny could invent a time machine and transport to current-day England where he could form a band with Nigel and Derek and ( insert name of drummer here ) .

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 17, 2026 10:29 AM (XE5AP)

166
Some notes from recently visited Old Blighty-

Yes, the 3rd Worldization is continuing apace, at least in London.

Since I visited London about 2 years ago the change has been noticeable. The streets and sidewalks are now trashy or trashier with discarded cigarette butts everywhere springing like the flowers in Spring. Little crap shops have sprung up on whole streets.

Yrs, it's still possible to find areas of Old Old Blighty that are clean and well-organized but they are surrounded.

The one thing that strikes you is the huge influx of muslims and bagged up women. Mostly, because England was historically constructed became very much a Church-State (Protestant-style) to establish the Church of England. Its signs re everywhere in their Coronation, their Churches, Their Gov't Building. They make the point literally in words that, the power of their state is subject and founded on the grace and power of the Lord Jesus Christ.

But, you know, nah, forget all that guff.

They still go nutty over the Catholic Church, however islam is a-ok.

At least they've got Their National Health and Its Spiffy Fast-Track Euthanasia working for them.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 17, 2026 10:30 AM (iJfKG)

167 I stepped outside to walk the dog for a couple of minutes, and I'm still feeling it. Nasty!

Posted by: Archimedes

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Is this Canadian wildfire thing a development in recent years? I've lived in the great lakes region my whole 29+ years, and don't remember this happening when I was a cute.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 17, 2026 10:31 AM (4HoLg)

168 I grew up in SW PA and never saw this wildfire shit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 10:33 AM (wOO3z)

169 This is pasta, not elections.

Olive Garden
@olivegarden
No. The Never-Ending Pasta Pass is only for use by the Passholder whose name is printed on the Pass. Passes are personalized and non-transferable. Passholders must present a valid photo I.D., along with the Pass at the time of ordering.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 10:34 AM (ndZc7)

170
The one thing that strikes you is the huge influx of muslims and bagged up women.


Napoleon reportedly referred to England as being "a nation of shopkeepers".

Today it is "a nation of beekeepers".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 17, 2026 10:34 AM (s9VOe)

171 Nothing to see here but urban malaise.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 17, 2026 10:34 AM (sYM3s)

172 138 "hey!"

Posted by: men's breasts everywhere. at July 17, 2026 10:35 AM (R11M+)

173 Spectacular technical skill. Looks like a photograph. But bland subject matter. I live not far from that building (the Ansonia).
Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 17, 2026


***
"What's the rent?"
( -- Obligatory Seinfeld reference)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 17, 2026 10:35 AM (wzUl9)

174 It's like a photograph of a bowl of fruit. Yeah, you can complement the lighting but it's not impressive.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 10:36 AM (4NO2D)

175 Reading the morning report I see that none of the 3 networks carried the president's speech in its entirety and those that did carry part of it editorialized in an obscenely negative manner.

Our major news outlets censored the leader of the free world's speech to the American people. This is a violation of the first Amendment.

These corporations should be stripped of their right to broadcast, stripped of any and all license, and figuratively burnt to the ground. The employees, the on air talent should also be stripped of any ability to appear in such capacity ever again.

Give them a broom, a cart and let them sweep the streets.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 10:36 AM (xHEjv)

176 We should probably invade canada, at least to take over the forestry management on the border. Like other wars we can subsidize it by pumping away at their sugar maples to refine and sell on the market for profit.

Posted by: banana Dream - No Blood for Syrup! at July 17, 2026 10:36 AM (3uBP9)

177 @175
Bari Weiss reversed their original decision and carried at least part of it. Still, this should have been an utter no-brainer. She's still a liberal, after all.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 10:39 AM (Riz8t)

178 >>Today it is "a nation of beekeepers".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:
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What have you got against beekeepers?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 10:39 AM (xHEjv)

179 154 substance.

Posted by: cmeat at July 17, 2026 10:39 AM (R11M+)

180 "The one thing that strikes you is the huge influx of muslims and bagged up women."
Posted by: naturalfake at July 17, 2026 10:30 AM


"Hag in a bag."

Posted by: It's not a religion at July 17, 2026 10:39 AM (2Ez/1)

181 Today's realism brought to you by rocket man.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 17, 2026 10:40 AM (sl73Y)

182 175

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 10:36 AM (xHEjv)

- Our major news outlets censored the leader of the free world's speech to the American people.

precedented: see, for example, @redsteeze

- This is a violation of the first Amendment

no; no, it is not

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 10:43 AM (6wpGE)

183 Richard Estes
Ansonia, 1977

I love his photorealist paintings.

Whitney Museum of American Art - This painting depicts one of Richard Estes’ favorite landmarks, the Beaux Arts Ansonia building near his apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, here seen from about West 69th Street and Broadway looking north. The extraordinary detail and precision of the painting has led many to mistake it at first glance for a color photograph. Yet unlike a camera or the human eye, Ansonia depicts every detail in precise focus. And while the stone column functions as an axis on which the two sides of the painting hinge, creating a rough symmetry, Estes throws the composition off balance by taking small pictorial liberties that are revealed in the reflection of the glass window. The Ansonia is absent in the reflection, a Visa card sticker obscures the McDonald’s, and the colors have become slightly warmer. With the exception of a single figure, mostly obscured by shrubbery and a bus that seems stopped indefinitely at a red light, the painting includes very few signs of life—a near impossibility in daytime Manhattan.

Thanks

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 17, 2026 10:44 AM (NFX2v)

184 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Some art. And the week started with such promise.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 17, 2026 10:45 AM (2WIwB)

185
BONUS! The gov't if it's serious about border control should take a look at DFW airport.

On our flight back from England, there was another big change from 2 years ago. Our flight was maybe 65-35 people derived from the Subcontinent, the Middle East Plus a soupçon of Africa and Hispanic derived vs people looking Euro-derived.

Not saying they were all illegal or even not citizens of the US, but none of them were speaking English.

I hate that I even think this way but the Democrats and Biden/Obama kind of forced this stupid hyperawareness on us.

DOUBLE BONUS!! There may be a new scam for getting past border control, that I haven't seen before.

Getting off the plane, there were literally 20 or more wheelchairs lined up outside the plane door with folks from India? I think based on garb, who walked fine in London's airport, using them and the wheelchair pushers to take them away from the plane. They went through a different door through customs etc.

Now, I didn't stay there to confirm that all wc were filled and where they went but it was really strange.

i've never seen that before.

Anyone with border control knowledge have thoughts?

Posted by: naturalfake at July 17, 2026 10:45 AM (iJfKG)

186 169 that's a hay man, right there. pasta fraud directly affects the corporation. elections do not affect corporations.

Posted by: cmeat at July 17, 2026 10:45 AM (R11M+)

187
Looks like one of my late step-dad's architectural renderings that he painted for a living. Sterile, with a commercial goal in mind, both for Jan and his customers.

His art for art's sake paintings were quite a bit different. I have bunches of both types that I've had in my apartment and my office for years.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 17, 2026 10:45 AM (iqcvy)

188 This isn’t new phenomenon. I recall as far back as the 1990s people were absolutely appalled at London being invaded.

Many Californians tried to warn the rest of America around the same time frame.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 10:47 AM (8fTKG)

189 -no; no, it is not

Posted by: m
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What is denying access of the president to the American public?
He is the leader of our country and denying him access to us that we may be informed citizens is felonious.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 10:47 AM (xHEjv)

190 Lame

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 17, 2026 10:48 AM (4g5V+)

191 Ah, so this is upper Broadway in New York.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 17, 2026 09:55 AM (wzUl9)
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Yea, broadway around 75th street
Posted by: Elric the Blade

I went on Google Maps to look for the columns on that side of Broadway. Looks like 2020 Broadway, with a nail salon to the right. The artist may have modified the columns in his painting.
And the McD's is still at that corner.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 17, 2026 10:48 AM (ZypAx)

192 This isn’t new phenomenon. I recall as far back as the 1990s people were absolutely appalled at London being invaded.

The whole country was invaded. You could go to an small village and there was a kebab stand and/or Paki restaurant. This was early 90's.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 10:50 AM (wOO3z)

193 Any culture that forces their women to be sacked up is fucked up and primitive. We don't need them here.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 17, 2026 10:51 AM (sYM3s)

194 any small village

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 10:51 AM (wOO3z)

195
Is this Canadian wildfire thing a development in recent years? I've lived in the great lakes region my whole 29+ years, and don't remember this happening when I was a cute.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 17, 2026 10:31 AM (4HoLg)

When I visited Ottawa in 2010 there was a day or two where I was standing in front of Parliament but could barely see it thanks to forest fires in QC.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 17, 2026 10:51 AM (4g5V+)

196 they don't really need them there, either.

Posted by: cmeat at July 17, 2026 10:51 AM (R11M+)

197 At WaPo: "ICE has arrested on average more than 1,400 people every day in July, the highest point during this administration"

I'm impressed!

Posted by: gp at July 17, 2026 10:53 AM (Jr5Lq)

198 The artist may have modified the columns in his painting.
And the McD's is still at that corner.
_____
And the ice cream machine is still out of order.

Posted by: Someone has to say it at July 17, 2026 10:53 AM (2Ez/1)

199 Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 10:36 AM (xHEjv)

Wait until the "live fact checking" for the presidential debates.

Also the D is going to have a preprogrammed AI assistant in his ear listening to the questions and answers and coming up with "zingers".

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 10:53 AM (/bHKT)

200 Because we Michiganders are in a tropical firestorm funk, I'm treating myself to a gin and tonic with fresh squeezed lime and grapefruit.

The gin, Kuiper Belt "Atmospheric", might be my new favorite.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 17, 2026 10:53 AM (kpS4V)

201 Painting: very nice.

Posted by: gp at July 17, 2026 10:53 AM (Jr5Lq)

202 187
Looks like one of my late step-dad's architectural renderings that he painted for a living. Sterile, with a commercial goal in mind, both for Jan and his customer


You know who else painted sterile landscapes?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 10:54 AM (Riz8t)

203 Anyone with border control knowledge have thoughts?
Posted by: naturalfake at July 17, 2026 10:45 AM (iJfKG)

Phoenix Sky Harbor has for years one of the biggest entry points for illegals; entire plane loads at a time, as you say. This always made me roll my eyes on people who focused on a Wall as the main source of border control.

The wheelchairs are a different scam. Airlines have started allowing anyone who requires a wheel chair to board and disembark before all other passengers, and all those who are by nature scammers with no shame have jumped at the chance to take advantage.
Interesting that on your flight it was all Indians.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2026 10:54 AM (wLnmp)

204 China stole all your names, addresses, phone numbers and voting history!

Dude, I can literally walk into my local election commission office, give them $19.95 and they will hand me a thumb drive with all that info for my county on it.

It's how candidates acquire your data for mailers and campaign calls. It's not some super secret info.

Posted by: Hair on Fire at July 17, 2026 10:54 AM (uSpHL)

205 Without Sonia? Sonia free?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 17, 2026 10:09 AM (s9VOe)

I knew of an incredibly hot girl named Sonia back in my HS days…

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 17, 2026 10:54 AM (4g5V+)

206 >>precedented: see, for example, @redsteeze
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Because they were allowed to do it before does not indicate appropriateness or legality. BLM has set precedent for burning and looting. Does that mean it's OK to burn and loot again?

Not allowing the President of the US full air time is an affront to the Republic and its people.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 10:55 AM (xHEjv)

207 The west has massive forest fires every year. Thick can’t see 10 ft in front of you smoke that can last for weeks at a time. Never hear a thing about it in the national media.

But smoke affects NYC where the msm is HQed and it’s non stop coverage.

Posted by: Whatevs at July 17, 2026 10:56 AM (2hwDr)

208 Good morning good people. Slept in for a change.

Do I reheat the leftover coffee in my cup from yesterday or make some new?



I'm no coward - reheating it is!!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 17, 2026 10:56 AM (pyNYl)

209 200 it was THIS PLACE that got me on aviators.
yours sounds refreshing.

Posted by: cmeat at July 17, 2026 10:56 AM (R11M+)

210 Phoenix Sky Harbor has for years one of the biggest entry points for illegals; entire plane loads at a time, as you say. This always made me roll my eyes on people who focused on a Wall as the main source of border control.

The wheelchairs are a different scam. Airlines have started allowing anyone who requires a wheel chair to board and disembark before all other passengers, and all those who are by nature scammers with no shame have jumped at the chance to take advantage.
Interesting that on your flight it was all Indians.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2026 10:54 AM (wLnmp)

A wall is only part of good border control. Which is why we need to check passports coming AND going in this country.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 17, 2026 10:56 AM (4g5V+)

211 😄

Reportedly: Milwaukee is a vibrant, revitalized Midwestern hub balancing its historic rust-belt charm with a modern, cosmopolitan skyline. Highly diverse, multicultural with a population roughly 38% White, 38% Black or African American, and 20% Hispanic or Latino.

No more show opening with two women doing the, "Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!" hopscotch chant.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 17, 2026 10:56 AM (NFX2v)

212 We have more than just the usual retards posting here. They are sending the mental defectives too.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 10:57 AM (/bHKT)

213 Smoke is thick in N IL this AM. You'd think Canuck wildfire smoke would smell piney or mapley. This smells like mild industrial waste dump fire.

Posted by: gp at July 17, 2026 10:57 AM (Jr5Lq)

214 203 all former royal enfield riders.

Posted by: cmeat at July 17, 2026 10:57 AM (R11M+)

215 >>> Ansonia

Without Sonia? Sonia free?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 17, 2026 10:09 AM (s9VOe)


I found out it means son of Ann or Agnes.

Posted by: banana Dream - No Blood for Syrup! at July 17, 2026 10:58 AM (3uBP9)

216 No more show opening with two women doing the, "Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!" hopscotch chant.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day

Schotz Brewery makes malt liquor now.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 10:58 AM (wOO3z)

217
Community note
Broadcast networks have declined primetime addresses from Democratic presidents before. In 2022, ABC, CBS and NBC skipped Biden’s speech on threats to democracy for reruns. In 2014, they declined Obama’s immigration address as too political.

Damin Toell
@damintoell
16h
When Biden gave his primetime Independence Hall address in 2022 (the one with the scary red background that people still post images of), ABC ran Press Your Luck, NBC ran a Law & Order rerun, and CBS ran a Young Sheldon rerun.

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 10:58 AM (6wpGE)

218 Whatevs, I do have great sympathy for western states who have to deal with this constantly.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 17, 2026 10:59 AM (kpS4V)

219

Sabrina Swenson
@SabrinaSwenso11
10h
Replying to @BasedMikeLee

Mike, you are a liar:
Major television networks do not have a set tally of the exact number of times they have declined to air presidential addresses. However, it is an established practice that networks occasionally pass on broadcasting speeches they deem primarily political or partisan rather than official governance.Prominent examples of networks declining to carry a president's live address on their primary broadcast channels include:July 2026: ABC and NBC elected not to interrupt regular programming for an election-focused White House address by President Donald Trump, streaming it on their digital platforms instead.September 2022: Major networks declined to carry President Joe Biden's live, prime-time speech on democracy ("Battle for the Soul of the Nation"), classifying it as a political address.November 2014: Several major broadcast networks chose to stick with their regular prime-time entertainment schedules rather than air President Barack Obama's national address on immigration reform

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 10:59 AM (6wpGE)

220 Nood early

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 17, 2026 10:59 AM (XHO5P)

221 I went on Google Maps to look for the columns on that side of Broadway. Looks like 2020 Broadway, with a nail salon to the right. The artist may have modified the columns in his painting.
And the McD's is still at that corner.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks
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Can't be NY, it looks clean.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 11:00 AM (xHEjv)

222 213 acrid.

Posted by: cmeat at July 17, 2026 11:01 AM (R11M+)

223 216 No more show opening with two women doing the, "Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!" hopscotch chant.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day

Schotz Brewery makes malt liquor now.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

216 No more show opening with two women doing the, "Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!" hopscotch chant.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day

Pabst Brewing Company permanently discontinued the production of Schlitz in 2026. 😞

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 17, 2026 11:01 AM (NFX2v)

224 223 what will the tied houses pour?

Posted by: cmeat at July 17, 2026 11:03 AM (R11M+)

225 I’ve never understood the need for people to be first on a plane. You will be in your cramped seat for 3 hours. Why do you so desperately want to sit there for an extra 30 mins while everyone boards?

Ahh but you want to make sure there room for your bag up top. As long as you’re not at the very end of boarding it’s fine. Time it so there are 15 or so people behind you and you’re good.

Posted by: Take a breath at July 17, 2026 11:05 AM (2hwDr)

226 "Broadcast networks" are almost anachronistic now, as television continues to plod along towards it's ultimate demise.

I mean, seriously - who can't see the speech real time or later at the time of their choosing with the omniscient glowing rectangle in their pocket?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 17, 2026 11:06 AM (2Ez/1)

227 214 203 all former royal enfield riders.

My Royal Enfield Interceptor was made at Redditch.
Punk.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 17, 2026 11:32 AM (zdLoL)

228 i grew up in urshell's friendly royal enfield service.
the asian clones ain't the same.

Posted by: cmeat at July 17, 2026 07:17 PM (R11M+)

The Morning Report — 7/ 17 /26

XiRobIt.jpg


Good morning kids. Last night President Trump took to the airwaves and took a massive swing at the Chi-Coms.


President Trump revealed that China stole the voter registration data of 220 million Americans as part of his primetime speech on Thursday.

“Over a period of years, starting during the 2020 election cycle, the People’s Republic of China carried out what is believed to be the largest compromise of election data in history, resulting in China’s illicit acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files,” Trump said in remarks from the East Room of the White House.  

“That information includes names, addresses, phone numbers, political party preferences, and other sensitive data that would be needed to register to vote and engage in other nefarious activities, which is exactly what was happening,” the president continued. “This data loss presents an unprecedented election security nightmare.

While this is of course a serious breach of our security it's obviously not a one-off as it goes hand in hand with the breach that occurred about a decade ago that hacked the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) exposing thousands of government employees including many in the most sensitive departments and agencies, as well as myriad breaches in the private sector.

Obviously, Donald Trump was and remains an existential threat to the plans and schemes of the Chi-Coms and every other malign actor in the world and they have a vested interest in derailing and sabotaging him at every turn. Did their hack actually interfere with or otherwise corrupt and subvert the results of 2020? Who knows.

But President Trump's and by extension our greatest threat continues to come from within our own country with its epicenter in the Democrat Party and leftist movement. It was and remains my assertion beyond any doubt that they did in fact steal the 2020 election via several tactics, most notably the massive mail-in ballot fiascos as a result of the coronavirus lockdowns that destroyed any semblance of ballot/election integrity most notably in the several key swing states and districts where corrupt Democrat operatives engaged in massive ballot dumping and cessation of the counts that allowed that to happen.

As you my recall, I wrote a book about it that is based on my reportage on election day/night and covering the subsequent weeks up until one of our darkest days in history, January 6th, 2021 when the electoral college vote was made kosher in Congress and the Democrats attempted to blood libel us with causing an insurrection.

If you don't want to purchase the book (and to this day I have yet to receive a penny in royalties, feh.) you can just access my column here in the archives from that day forward and read it there.

Of course equally as horrendous was the fact that several of the major networks refused to even carry the speech which only serves to underscore their naked corruption as Leftist/Globalist propaganda house organs.

CBS News aired part of President Trump’s prime-time speech on election fraud Thursday night, joining in late and switching away as the commander-in-chief called for ABC and NBC to lose their licenses for not showing his remarks.  Before tuning into Trump’s speech, CBS anchor Tony Dokoupil explained why the network was airing it: “Much of what the President has said on [security of American elections] has been false.” “There is an argument that it’s irresponsible to air the president’s speech tonight. But this speech will be made. It will be news. And it’s our job to cover the news,” Dokoupil said.

Dokoupil, Douche-chill? And speaking of Leftwing terrorism

For far too long our counterterrorism doctrine has had a blind spot — a blind spot when it comes to extremist violence from the political left.
Even today, the very idea that far-left terrorism could be a serious threat is treated as a right-wing fever dream, or worse, as a dangerous fascist conspiracy. It’s treated this way by many in the press, by many in academia and our universities, and by many of our legacy institutions. You will no doubt see the dogma rear its head in the coverage of this very conference.

In spite of the clear and the undeniable reality, in spite of the objective numbers and statistics, in spite of the fact that in this room today there are representatives from across the political spectrum, we will hear this organized — that this kind of organized violence and terror will be dismissed. It will be dismissed as a partisan fiction. . . For years, this extraordinary ideological prejudice was embedded in the way we talked about political violence and extremism. It was repeated again and again, until it was accepted as the neutral and objective baseline, so entrenched in the mainstream conventional wisdom that it came to be regarded as an apolitical fact.

It is the reason why, here in my country, so many people in positions of power have repeatedly dismissed acts of violence and even terrorism as legitimate forms of political expression so long as they served a left-wing cause.

It is why during those so-called George Floyd riots in the summer of 2020, as criminals and extremists burned and looted their way through America’s great cities and nearly brought the country to its knees, city governments all across the country simply refused to prosecute the people conducting these acts of violence and terror.

Of course our fantastic Secretary of State is absolutely right. The question is what are we going to do about it?! Yes, there are threats that do come from abroad but the cancer of Leftism/Communism which had its origins overseas a century ago have now metastasized here. It must be utterly eradicated root and branch and I'm afraid that is going to be a painful and bloody affair, both figuratively and quite literally given the nature of our most implacable of enemies, our fellow citizens in name only who view the nation and society that we allegedly share as both illegitimate and an evil to be eradicated by any means necessary.

I think Rubio one day will or could be a truly outstanding president, that is if the Democrat forces of darkness and evil do not snuff us out in the years ahead.

Unlike J.D. Vance who is truly turning into a big time disappointment.

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1 First!

Posted by: China at July 17, 2026 07:32 AM (MWfyi)

2 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 07:32 AM (u82oZ)

3 Lies! All lies!

Posted by: New York Times at July 17, 2026 07:33 AM (XCCeP)

4 Good morning horde! Happy Friday!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 07:33 AM (ExV1e)

5 Happy Friday

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 17, 2026 07:33 AM (/+uur)

6 G'morning J.J.!

(Thanks to NaCly Dog for calling the Nood)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2026 07:34 AM (O7YUW)

7 J.J. Good morning.
Hope your Doctor visit went so well you are the guy he brags about to other doctors.

I bought your book. And no royalties? Inconceivable!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 07:35 AM (u82oZ)

8 PDJT starts every speech with the Propaganda media already convinced he is wrong in everything he says, though some statements are mere "exaggerations" while others are "lies" or, worse, "dangerous lies".

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 17, 2026 07:36 AM (XCCeP)

9 7 J.J. Good morning.
Hope your Doctor visit went so well you are the guy he brags about to other doctors.

I bought your book. And no royalties? Inconceivable!
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 07:35 AM (u82oZ)

So far so good with the medical stuff. Yeah the publisher fucked me over.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 17, 2026 07:36 AM (x0n13)

10 Vice President JD Vance needs to get his head out of the conspiratorial “rabbit holes” he says he loves to explore and drop the bizarro line he just pitched to Joe Rogan that the Israelis blew up the Iran peace deal because they want “to keep the war going on indefinitely.”

JD Said there are a few people in the Israeli government that want “to keep the war going on indefinitely.”

By Post Editorial Board is asshoes.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 17, 2026 07:37 AM (/+uur)

11 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 07:38 AM (jehhT)

12 1 First!
Posted by: China at July 17, 2026 07:32 AM
.......
*ahem*

That's "Chy-na."

Posted by: Please make a note of it at July 17, 2026 07:41 AM (2Ez/1)

13 Trump Admin to Exclude Migrants on Welfare from Green Cards

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Will it be by the end of the day or Monday that we get a bottom feeder judge to rule it illegal to not give wads of taxpayer cash to illegals?

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 17, 2026 07:43 AM (qBdHI)

14 BOING!

שבת שלום ומבורך

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 17, 2026 07:43 AM (yMCWt)

15 Top 20 because work was interfering. Happy Friday, everyone. Those of us in the DC area should stay indoors and avoid people.

OK, avoid people anyway but you know what I mean.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 17, 2026 07:44 AM (99eI0)

16
Schumer farts on Senate Floor? He does that every time he opens his mouth.

News you can use...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 17, 2026 07:44 AM (x0n13)

17 Thanks for your linkage and commentary, J.J.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 07:45 AM (Bw1/o)

18 Happy Friday!

Posted by: Mick at July 17, 2026 07:45 AM (HFx9z)

19 Lady in Black

A few District judges ruling in favor of Trump policies would tame Judicial tyranny.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 07:46 AM (u82oZ)

20 SpaceX scrubbed their Starship flight test yesterday a fraction of a second before liftoff, apparently due to a malfunction of some sort, the details of which are not yet public.

Sad!

Posted by: Huck Follwood at July 17, 2026 07:46 AM (5xBgn)

21 Willowed from previous post about my local squirrels.

1. I call 'em "Tree Rats".

Tree Meat is another acceptable term. But the one I was referencing needs to be encouraged to head to his tree. We have to check for him and a few others before we open the door.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 17, 2026 07:46 AM (99eI0)

22 17 Thanks for your linkage and commentary, J.J.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 07:45 AM (Bw1/o)


It's more than a pleasure. It's an inconvenience.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 17, 2026 07:46 AM (x0n13)

23 @All: The publisher on J.J.'s book that isn't paying him royalties is Calamo Press.

@J.J.: Check with a lawyer who specializes in copyright and book publication.

See if there's a clause in your contract about getting the rights for your book to revert back to you if they DON'T pay you royalties. I'd be looking to invoke that and self publish after confirming that the rights have reverted back to you.

(Caveat: If they paid you an advance, then they may not have sold enough copies to cover their costs and start paying you royalties. They should be able to account for this though and they should be sending you yearly statements.)

Next time, publish with Raconteur Press if possible. Those guys won't screw you over, they've built the whole business on treating authors right.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2026 07:46 AM (O7YUW)

24 I had to laugh at today's "NY Post" headline: "Capitol Swill" about the D guys in Congress acting like idiots in their personal lives.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 07:47 AM (Bw1/o)

25 breach that occurred about a decade ago that hacked the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) exposing thousands of government employees including many in the most sensitive departments and agencies

Yep. I was one of them. Needless to say, I am reluctant to venture outside the US on account of that.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 17, 2026 07:47 AM (99eI0)

26 JD Said there are a few people in the Israeli government that want “to keep the war going on indefinitely.”

I don't doubt that there are people in the US government that want “to keep the war going on indefinitely.”

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 07:48 AM (ExV1e)

27 Apparently several of the booster engines failed to start.

Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2026 07:49 AM (ZxPkt)

28 I know certain sections of the country won't believe this but I don't give a shit what the New York Times has got to say. Or most of the media for that matter.

Posted by: Case at July 17, 2026 07:50 AM (bqIVz)

29 @21/NR Pax: "Tree Meat is another acceptable term."

*snorts* Good term, I'm stealing that. :-)

In related news, we saw THREE juvenile hawks tearing apart some critter's small carcass on our lower roof this morning. Also, there is a distinct lack of bustling of a certain red squirrel who wanted to take up residence in our garage.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, WE GOT HIM!"

Good little hawks. Please stick around?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2026 07:51 AM (O7YUW)

30 23 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2026 07:46 AM (O7YUW)

Thanks for the tip. I doubt I'll write another but who knows?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 17, 2026 07:51 AM (x0n13)

31 It's good Trump aired this dirty laundry in public.

But that's as far is it goes - this is a nothing burger.

Congress will protect the hive. They're not going to pass SAVE. The Courts will protect the hive. They'll squash any legal action Trump tries to make against fraud.

As for the American people? Doesn't move the needle. We all knew about the fraud already. Those of us who were pissed about it will remain pissed about it. Democrat voters will continue to wholeheartedly approve of it.

*shrugs*

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 07:51 AM (BI5O2)

32 Don Black

Sound Space-X engineering to be able to abort so late in the take off sequence, and not blow up the pad, like Blue Origin.

Hope they fix it today.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 07:52 AM (u82oZ)

33 >> reach that occurred about a decade ago that hacked the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) exposing thousands of government employees including many in the most sensitive departments and agencies

Yep. I was one of them. Needless to say, I am reluctant to venture outside the US on account of that.
Posted by: NR Pax
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Me 2. The GSA sponsored ID monitoring service just lapsed last year. Never had a hit. Did get some weird (suspicious) e-mails off and on.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 07:52 AM (jehhT)

34 I don't doubt that there are people in the US government that want “to keep the war going on indefinitely.”
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 07:48 AM
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*averts eyes, shifts in seat, and shuffles papers nervousl*

Posted by: Lockheed, Raytheon, and Northrop at July 17, 2026 07:52 AM (2Ez/1)

35 "Trump Advances Plan to Replace Illegal Immigrant Truck Drivers with American Veterans."

This is a good idea so probably won't happen.

Posted by: fd at July 17, 2026 07:53 AM (MWfyi)

36

It's more than a pleasure. It's an inconvenience.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 17, 2026 07:46 AM (x0n13)

Well, I hope you are inconvenienced for many more years. 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 07:53 AM (D+BhG)

37 I'm not sure why Vance would say (in essence) that Israel is "running the show" on the Iran war. Israel is diligently working to secure its own safety while it can and cant really worry about how our war effort is going. So, Israel's behavior is unsurprising. Perhaps Vance is saying this to allow Israel to be "rogue" while we act exasperated but don't actually stop them.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at July 17, 2026 07:54 AM (rii+a)

38 “This case exposes the depravity of the Radical Left: they will literally pardon child rapists and defy federal law to protect criminal illegals,” the White House said in a press release. “Walz and Ellison stood with a monster

They really really need illegal voters.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 17, 2026 07:54 AM (/+uur)

39 Good little hawks. Please stick around?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant


The only problem I've ever had with a hawk was when one dropped a squirrel carcass in my yard. The smell was so bad, Winnie was trying to bury her nose in it. Thankfully, she was muzzled.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 17, 2026 07:55 AM (99eI0)

40 > don't doubt that there are people in the US government that want “to keep the war going on indefinitely.”
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Hey, I'm dead now.

Posted by: Lindsey Graham at July 17, 2026 07:56 AM (jehhT)

41 It's Flapjack Friday!

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 17, 2026 07:56 AM (0N4FZ)

42 JD Said there are a few people in the Israeli government that want “to keep the war going on indefinitely.”

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Considering the anti-Semitism running rampant in the D party, and the world in general now, it just seems like an inflammatory statement to make that should've been left unstated. It's unnecessarily incendiary when the rabid joo haters are just looking for reasons to cause chaos, violence and mayhem. YMMV

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 17, 2026 07:56 AM (qBdHI)

43 37 I'm not sure why Vance would say (in essence) that Israel is "running the show" on the Iran war.
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at July 17, 2026 07:54 AM


Prolly got something to do with the weather machine.

Posted by: Or so I'm told at July 17, 2026 07:56 AM (2Ez/1)

44 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent disclosed publicly for the first time Thursday that he was the target of an alleged assassination plot just hours after being sworn into office. Speaking at a State Department ministerial on political terrorism, Bessent said he was the subject of an alleged assassination attempt “two hours after being sworn into my job,” adding that the case demonstrates that politically motivated violence remains a real threat. Federal prosecutors have charged Ryan Michael English, 24, of Massachusetts, in connection with the alleged plot.

Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2026 07:57 AM (YtmxO)

45 I know
I was watching the launch, and the water deluge started and then all the smoke from the rocket engines billowed out but the rocket did not move. I thought for sec the whole thing might go kablooey.

Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2026 07:57 AM (ZxPkt)

46 So does this mean the hundreds of thousands of red chinamen attending our crappy colleges can be sent home now?

Posted by: Walter Sobchak at July 17, 2026 07:58 AM (45BvE)

47 I think Rubio one day will or could be a truly outstanding president,

He's really good. I can now totally understand that little garbage problem he had back in the day with the Ewoks.

Can Stephen Miller be his Press Secretary?

Posted by: t-bird at July 17, 2026 07:59 AM (EJWxb)

48 Okay, gotta go woosh. Work beckons.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2026 08:00 AM (O7YUW)

49 That's "Chy-na."

"Ass-ho"

Posted by: man at July 17, 2026 08:01 AM (XuXeR)

50 46 So does this mean the hundreds of thousands of red chinamen attending our crappy colleges can be sent home now?
Posted by: Walter Sobchak at July 17, 2026 07:58 AM
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You been heah fo' yea-uh! You go now!

Posted by: Chinese lady who runs the college buffet at July 17, 2026 08:01 AM (2Ez/1)

51 "Trump Advances Plan to Replace Illegal Immigrant Truck Drivers with American Veterans."

I can now announce my own plan to replace holes in the Iranian desert with illegal immigrant truck drivers...

Posted by: t-bird at July 17, 2026 08:01 AM (EJWxb)

52 Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche drew a hard line on X, making it clear that the administration will not tolerate judicial interference in executive matters. “District court judges can appoint a temporary U.S. Attorney, and POTUS can fire them,” Blanche posted
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Ok Boomer

Posted by: Biden Judges everywhere at July 17, 2026 08:01 AM (ZTyuZ)

53 Recall the “OPM Hack”? It really wasn’t a hack, previous administration had outsourced database management of all Federal employees to a foreign firm cutout. With access to Root.

They must have quite the dossiers on everybody by now. Sleep Well, America!

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 08:02 AM (uwLak)

54
It was sort of cool watching the blood red sun this morning through the Canadian smoke.

Also, Carney's immediate family is squatting in the U.S.

Throw them out.

Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 08:04 AM (Y8DZL)

55 > Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche drew a hard line on X, making it clear that the administration will not tolerate judicial interference in executive matters.
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A little late there bud. But, good luck with that "hard line" that nobody will recognize.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 08:04 AM (jehhT)

56 JD Said there are a few people in the Israeli government that want “to keep the war going on indefinitely.”

Well, and ours, and the EU, and London.

Posted by: t-bird at July 17, 2026 08:04 AM (EJWxb)

57 Blue Angel 3, who made the low pass Wednesday that caused the leftists to shit themselves, did not fly in the practice show over the beach yesterday. Presumably grounded pending review, was completed. (He'll fly today's show).

I need an AI pic of Rubio sitting on that White House sofa wearing Blue Angel 3 flight suit.

Posted by: one hour sober at July 17, 2026 08:04 AM (J4Dwc)

58 It really wasn’t a hack, previous administration had outsourced database management of all Federal employees to a foreign firm cutout. With access to Root.

Very brutal and painful examples should have been made of people over that.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 17, 2026 08:04 AM (99eI0)

59 Rubio's speech should to be heard in full by every American. It won't be, unfortunately.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 17, 2026 08:05 AM (t+TFX)

60 Vance is playing his own game. He wants to President. He sees anti-Israel sentiment as a good differentiator from Trump, and anti-war sentiment as fertile soil to till in the '28 cycle.

As I've tried to warn for years - he's a career GOP politician. None of them can be trusted further than they can be manually strangled, and he won't hesitate to undermine Trump for his own ends - it only increases his credibility with the rest of his Party, in any event.

Same goes for Rubio, De Santis, or any other GOP candidate, though they'll choose some other angle for their treachery, since Vance has staked out this one.

It will get much worse after November. That's when the intra-Party melee to see which hyena gets the best piece of the MAGA carcass begins in earnest.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 08:06 AM (BI5O2)

61 Common Tater

Only my Google file has more information on me than China.

Before that, I was approached by a young female Chinese student asking me about TS military information. I was in a Service Dress Blue uniform on the Metro coming back from NIH. I reported her to NIS. Yes, even her cup size estimate was in my description.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 08:06 AM (u82oZ)

62 Good morning!
I got a new IPad and I am playing around with it. Husband and I listened to the speech last night. I want to see arrests. I want to see journalists in the gray bar hotel. I am still angry this AM.

Posted by: Jmel at July 17, 2026 08:06 AM (3TlS+)

63 Ben Had, if you're here, can you spell out TecumsehTea's email?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 17, 2026 08:07 AM (wzUl9)

64 > Recall the “OPM Hack”? It really wasn’t a hack, previous administration had outsourced database management of all Federal employees to a foreign firm cutout. With access to Root.

They must have quite the dossiers on everybody by now. Sleep Well, America!
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While probably the most well known data breach, there were (are) so many others that it's more than likely every single American has had some form of their personal info "stolen" or accessed without proper authorization.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 08:07 AM (jehhT)

65 A Clinton-appointed federal judge in Florida has died just days after he controversially released a Cuban plane hijacker who was awaiting deportation... A legal source in Miami also confirmed Steele’s sudden death. The circumstances were not immediately clear.

Where was Nick Reiner at the time of the crime?

Posted by: Oglebay at July 17, 2026 08:07 AM (2ap+5)

66 Before that, I was approached by a young female Chinese student asking me about TS military information. I was in a Service Dress Blue uniform on the Metro coming back from NIH. I reported her to NIS. Yes, even her cup size estimate was in my description.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 08:06 AM (u82oZ)

Very observant of you in a stressful situation.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 17, 2026 08:09 AM (wVcYX)

67 Before that, I was approached by a young female Chinese student asking me about TS military information. I was in a Service Dress Blue uniform on the Metro coming back from NIH. I reported her to NIS. Yes, even her cup size estimate was in my description.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 08:06 AM
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You know about the cup sizes?

Posted by: Frank Costanza at July 17, 2026 08:10 AM (2Ez/1)

68 I did observe that Vance was owned. And he is. It is all over these creatures, they cannot hide it in their body language.

As to why he would blatantly blow it up now instead of riding a wave of popularity to a nomination in Trump's wake, that is the openest of open questions.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 08:11 AM (/bHKT)

69 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at July 17, 2026 08:11 AM (53oGX)

70 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Ruben Gallego at July 17, 2026 08:12 AM (2YhKe)

71
Well, I'm at the show, went to my ring to steward and found out I'm handling both the inner and outer steward's jobs. It'll be an exciting morning.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2026 08:12 AM (flEsB)

72 Oh wow......Stellar start to the day.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 08:12 AM (2YhKe)

73 Count de Monet

Ya gotta have observational priorities. I would have loved to give her disinformation, but that is forbidden by policy.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 08:12 AM (u82oZ)

74 I should just go back to bed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 08:12 AM (2YhKe)

75 As to why he would blatantly blow it up now instead of riding a wave of popularity to a nomination in Trump's wake, that is the openest of open questions.
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 08:11 AM (/bHKT

Because this not only differentiates him from the old boss, but from Rubio, who appears to be the more popular candidate at this point.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 08:13 AM (BI5O2)

76 As quoted on Elon's X account, Mark Twain is credited with saying "Never argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 17, 2026 08:13 AM (nECtM)

77 Hadrian the Seventh

You handle responsibility well, unlike others.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 08:13 AM (u82oZ)

78 I don't understand why JD is the guy that has to go out there and defend what is clearly Trump's peace deal. JD didn't create it, if I remember hearing correctly, EVERYONE told Trump don't go into Iran. Why is JD taking the fall for what was clearly Trump's plan and now his issue.

Posted by: Jaimo at July 17, 2026 08:13 AM (2noDb)

79 Trump told a reporter that he wasn’t worried about his successor removing his Oval Office decorations because “Cubans love gold”. Hmmm

Posted by: Jmel at July 17, 2026 08:14 AM (3TlS+)

80 Leftism is so redundant, boring and dismally, endlessly barren you'd think it would be last choice of idealistic young people. But when you see it's appeal to the adolescent Id, to the rage to vandalize, to frustrated self-righteousness, to the glorification of instant gratification and envy, it all makes sense.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 17, 2026 08:15 AM (t+TFX)

81 I’m beginning to believe that, sadly, there will be no heir apparent to Trump for 28. Vance is disappointing; Rubio seems good now but remember he was considered a RINO squish when he was in the senate. Never trust any politician

Don Jr… no, I don’t like family dynasties.

Trump was/is a one-off. A unicorn… we won’t have anything close to his equal going forward. I’m not happy about it but that’s the way I see it

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 08:16 AM (+gA9j)

82 “Did that make us any safer?”

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It made Walz safer from losing elections.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 08:16 AM (ndZc7)

83 Some French are cleverer than others

https://tinyurl.com/3nttnpkz

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 17, 2026 08:18 AM (wUQJO)

84 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 08:18 AM (v3afF)

85 Why is JD taking the fall for what was clearly Trump's plan and now his issue.
Posted by: Jaimo at July 17, 2026 08:13 AM (2noDb)

1. Because that's what VPs do.
2. I presume because he doesn't believe it involves "taking the fall." That is, he understands how it will ultimately play out, and that his performance of loyalty will pay off.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 17, 2026 08:18 AM (t+TFX)

86 There's no need to fear,
Hadrian the Seventh is here!

Posted by: Dog Show Event at July 17, 2026 08:19 AM (wVcYX)

87 Norway Wants to Kick Israel Out of World Soccer

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I hate Viking Nazis.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 08:19 AM (ndZc7)

88 Before that, I was approached by a young female Chinese student asking me about TS military information.

Kind of surprising that she was that blatant. Usually, they try flattering you and getting close. Maybe she just hated her job and was ready to go home.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 17, 2026 08:20 AM (99eI0)

89 Good morning again Horde thx JJ. Happy Friday everybody.
Is saw Mika Brzezincki's Crotch open for ... ah nevermind

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 08:20 AM (OXYE0)

90 Serious question:
Did Trump allege that some use was made of said "election data" or "voter files" to actually change votes, intimidate voters, or anything of the sort? Did they submit fake votes?

If not, then it's a big deal but not a matter of "election fraud" - which is what everyone hyped it as.

Posted by: GWB at July 17, 2026 08:20 AM (kU0PQ)

91 Trump told a reporter that he wasn’t worried about his successor removing his Oval Office decorations because “Cubans love gold”. Hmmm

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Oh gosh, LOL....

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 17, 2026 08:20 AM (qBdHI)

92 Very brutal and painful examples should have been made of people over that

They hauled some clueless bint before Congress and axed a couple questions. “We shall never speak of this again” is the routine, apparently.

What more do you want? The cherry on top - they signed everyone up for “Life Lock” or some BS like that. Clown Show.

The national security implications of this debacle are almost too horrible to even think about.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 08:20 AM (uwLak)

93 Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2026 08:12 AM (flEsB)

Demand double pay!

Posted by: dantesed at July 17, 2026 08:21 AM (Oy/m2)

94 >I don't understand why JD is the guy that has to go out there and defend what is clearly Trump's peace deal.
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VPs get some shitty assignments

Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2026 08:21 AM (ZxPkt)

95 It will get much worse after November. That's when the intra-Party melee to see which hyena gets the best piece of the MAGA carcass begins in earnest.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 08:06 AM (BI5O2)

We can't leave out the "Black Swan" phenomenon. That is, a candidate, a populist, who reinvigorates MAGA; someone not on the radar at the moment.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 17, 2026 08:21 AM (t+TFX)

96 Lady in Black

I think President Trump finds ways to enjoy his job.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 08:22 AM (u82oZ)

97 Canada is asshoe. The sky is completely smoke-filled. Clean up your problem Canada!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 17, 2026 08:22 AM (ji8TS)

98 Huck Follywood

Send LA firefighter north?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 08:23 AM (u82oZ)

99 Did Trump allege that some use was made of said "election data" or "voter files" to actually change votes, intimidate voters, or anything of the sort? Did they submit fake votes?

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If it's true China got ahold of 2/3rds of America's voter rolls (don't check my maths), I doubt they wanted the info to send us individual Christmas cards. Whatever they did with it, I can only assume it was for nefarious purposes. If not now, then in the near future. It should be front page news.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 17, 2026 08:23 AM (qBdHI)

100
It's Working breeds today, so I'm likely to be pelted with flying chunks of meat used as bait. The handlers use it to get the dog's attention, then toss it. If their aim is bad, I get hit.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2026 08:24 AM (flEsB)

101 >I don't understand why JD is the guy that has to go out there and defend what is clearly Trump's peace deal.
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VPs get some shitty assignments
Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2026 08:21 AM (ZxPkt)

. . . not worth a bucket of warm (piss) spit.

Posted by: John Nance Garner, 32nd VP at July 17, 2026 08:24 AM (wVcYX)

102 Prosecute a few lower level people like the lady saying she was running a parallel FBI. Low level bureaucrats don't have the callousness that the upper level deep staters have and the flunkies will crack and rat on their bosses

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 08:24 AM (OXYE0)

103 78 I don't understand why JD is the guy that has to go out there and defend what is clearly Trump's peace deal. JD didn't create it, if I remember hearing correctly, EVERYONE told Trump don't go into Iran. Why is JD taking the fall for what was clearly Trump's plan and now his issue.
Posted by: Jaimo at July 17, 2026 08:13 AM (2noDb)

B/c this VP supports his Pres. JD is doing nothing without Trump's say so. Trump wants JD's message out there...but he doesn't want it coming from him...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 17, 2026 08:24 AM (tOcjL)

104 Leftism is so redundant, boring and dismally, endlessly barren you'd think it would be last choice of idealistic young people. But when you see it's appeal to the adolescent Id, to the rage to vandalize, to frustrated self-righteousness, to the glorification of instant gratification and envy, it all makes sense.
Posted by: Ordinary American



There's only appeal because there is no pushback.

If asses were capped and bodies left to lay where they fell when they were vandalizing/burning, it would lose it's appeal toot sweet.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 08:24 AM (v3afF)

105 Before that, I was approached by a young female Chinese student asking me about TS military information.

Kind of surprising that she was that blatant. Usually, they try flattering you and getting close. Maybe she just hated her job and was ready to go home.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 17, 2026 08:20 AM (99eI0)

He at least should have fucked her before turning her in.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 17, 2026 08:25 AM (g8Ew8)

106 WRT the Vance kerfuffle...

Is it impossible to conceive that the Israeli government, or elements within the Israeli government, might believe that there are things in their best national interest which differ from what the US government believes?

If they were to believe that, is it impossible to conceive that they might act on those things?

If they were to act on those things, is it impossible to conceive that elements of the US government might be exasperated by it?

Or is it just that Israel is never permitted to be criticized?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 08:25 AM (ExV1e)

107
78 I don't understand why JD is the guy that has to go out there and defend what is clearly Trump's peace deal. JD didn't create it, if I remember hearing correctly, EVERYONE told Trump don't go into Iran. Why is JD taking the fall for what was clearly Trump's plan and now his issue.
Posted by: Jaimo at July 17, 2026 08:13 AM (2noDb)

There were always rumors that inside the Administration, Vance lobbied harder for negotiations than anyone, while Rubio and Hegseth were opposed. Vance’s obvious bitterness at it all blowing up gives credence to those claims.

Also many forget, but I noted at the time - the MOU was wrecked when Rubio announced an agreement between the US, Lebanon, and Israel that completely negated Hezbollah’s claims to power and legitimacy. This infuriated Iran, which thought they had secured an Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon; and they resumed attacking ships in the straits within a couple days of that.

I suspect that Vance is attacking Israel because he doesn’t dare attack Rubio openly; but I repeat my claim that they’ll never serve together in an administration after this one.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2026 08:25 AM (wLnmp)

108 Ontario and California seem to have the same forest management philosophies: Let It Burn

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 17, 2026 08:25 AM (ji8TS)

109 I'm headed to Buffalo to visit relatives next week. I demand that Canada clean up this problem before my arrival!

(I hear from my WNY peeps that it's really bad there.)

Posted by: Delurker at July 17, 2026 08:25 AM (2Drhq)

110 The 5 Dumbest Arguments Against The Sunshine Protection Act

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They can have my sunshine when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 08:26 AM (ndZc7)

111 Jr. Black just informed me that our own past SC governor, the errant "Argentine-curious" Mark Sanford, has filed for a senate run to replace Graham. Oh goodie.... :/

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 17, 2026 08:26 AM (qBdHI)

112 @CBSEveningNews
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12h
Federal health officials say Taylor Farms is the likely source of the nationwide cyclosporiasis outbreak that has sickened people in at least 34 states. The California supplier provides lettuce to Taco Bell and major retailers including Walmart, Target and Whole Foods. https://cbsn.ws/4fj6plH

Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2026 08:27 AM (ZxPkt)

113 Jr. Black just informed me that our own past SC governor, the errant "Argentine-curious" Mark Sanford, has filed for a senate run to replace Graham. Oh goodie.... :/
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 17, 2026 08:26 AM (qBdHI)
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He needs a job

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 17, 2026 08:28 AM (ji8TS)

114 Dookypill. Cause you have to swallow shit to listen to him

Posted by: Drunken Yoda at July 17, 2026 08:28 AM (ilHZO)

115 Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

Nay, bro.

Had a French girlfriend.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 08:28 AM (u82oZ)

116 We can't leave out the "Black Swan" phenomenon. That is, a candidate, a populist, who reinvigorates MAGA; someone not on the radar at the moment.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 17, 2026 08:21 AM (t+TFX)

The desire for something like that is how the Dems got Graham Platner.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2026 08:29 AM (wLnmp)

117 Silver spot price is down to $55 and change, taking a much deeper tumble than gold.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 17, 2026 08:29 AM (wVcYX)

118 >>The handlers use it to get the dog's attention, then toss it.

And some handlers do it during the initial go-around to cause the dog(s) behind them to lunge for it while the judge is watching.

Posted by: one hour sober at July 17, 2026 08:29 AM (J4Dwc)

119 We can't leave out the "Black Swan" phenomenon. That is, a candidate, a populist, who reinvigorates MAGA; someone not on the radar at the moment.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 17, 2026 08:21 AM (t+TFX

Certainly not. That's the forlorn hope, anyway.

I'm speaking specifically of the GOP candidates everyone is enthusing about at this time - they all bear the mark of McCain.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 08:29 AM (BI5O2)

120 Huck Follywood
Send LA firefighter north?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 08:23 AM (u82oZ)

Are they still counting Karen Bass's fraudulent votes in L.A.?

Posted by: Election Fraud at July 17, 2026 08:29 AM (45BvE)

121 @CBSEveningNews
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12h
Federal health officials say Taylor Farms is the likely source of the nationwide cyclosporiasis outbreak that has sickened people in at least 34 states. The California supplier provides lettuce to Taco Bell and major retailers including Walmart, Target and Whole Foods. https://cbsn.ws/4fj6plH
Posted by: Don Black



*marked safe from cyclosporiasis as I do not take part in the devil's weed.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 08:29 AM (v3afF)

122 [i9]12h
Federal health officials say Taylor Farms is the likely source of the nationwide cyclosporiasis outbreak that has sickened people in at least 34 states. The California supplier provides lettuce to Taco Bell and major retailers including Walmart, Target and Whole Foods. https://cbsn.ws/4fj6plH
Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2026 08:27 AM (ZxPkt)


Dear Mexicans.

In America, we have toilets and indoor plumbing. We also have port-a-potties where you can do your business wherever you're working. Please stop shitting on our food while you're harvesting it.

Sincerely,

The Civilized World

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 08:30 AM (2YhKe)

123 > Iran: Hey, We’ve Got Moses

I remember the bizarre feeling I got when I learned the Quran refers to Moses as a "Muslim".

Sorry, Mohammed... I'm *pretty sure* that Moses was, in fact, Jewish.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 17, 2026 08:30 AM (IG3/x)

124 Lady in Black at July 17, 2026 08:26 AM (qBdHI)

Mark Sanford? Wasn't he the one who went hitch-hiking along the Appalachian Trail?

Posted by: dantesed at July 17, 2026 08:31 AM (Oy/m2)

125 Silver spot price is down to $55 and change, taking a much deeper tumble than gold.
Posted by: Count de Monet


Needs to dip into the mid twenties for a day or so. 😉

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 08:31 AM (v3afF)

126 We can't leave out the "Black Swan" phenomenon. That is, a candidate, a populist, who reinvigorates MAGA; someone not on the radar at the moment.
Posted by: Ordinary American

The Jeb Bush / Mike Pence "Return to Reasonableness" movement has momentum!

Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 08:31 AM (Y8DZL)

127 Lady in Black at July 17, 2026 08:26 AM (qBdHI)

Mark Sanford? Wasn't he the one who went hitch-hiking along the Appalachian Trail?
Posted by: dantesed


I thought he hitchhiked his secretary's tail?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 08:32 AM (v3afF)

128 Because this not only differentiates him from the old boss, but from Rubio, who appears to be the more popular candidate at this point.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 08:13 AM (BI5O2)

And let's fact it, the anti-Jew sentiment is very very important to these people.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 08:32 AM (/bHKT)

129 Lady in Black at July 17, 2026 08:26 AM (qBdHI)

Mark Sanford? Wasn't he the one who went hitch-hiking along the Appalachian Trail?
Posted by: dantesed at July 17, 2026 08:31 AM (Oy/m2)

Time for another "Road To . . ." movie!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 17, 2026 08:32 AM (wVcYX)

130 No, thanks. I don't need protection.

Posted by: Sunshine at July 17, 2026 08:33 AM (2Ez/1)

131
The Jeb Bush / Mike Pence "Return to Reasonableness" movement has momentum!

Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 08:31 AM (Y8DZL)



Please crap!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 08:33 AM (2YhKe)

132 The Jeb Bush / Mike Pence "Return to Reasonableness" movement has momentum!
Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 08:31 AM (Y8DZL)

Remember, stay out Da Bushes!

Posted by: Zombie Jesse Jackson, Race Hustler and Warlord Jew Hater at July 17, 2026 08:34 AM (45BvE)

133 NYPost:

A Clinton-appointed federal judge in Florida has died just days after he controversially released a Cuban plane hijacker who was awaiting deportation. Judge John E. Steele, 77, passed away, according to a law clerk for Chief Judge Marcia Morales Howard of the Middle District of Florida — where Steele served. A legal source in Miami also confirmed Steele’s sudden death. The circumstances of his passing were not immediately clear. Steele came under criticism for his July 8 ruling to release Cuban plane hijacker Maikel Guerra Morales from ICE custody.

Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2026 08:34 AM (RHGPo)

134 * Stretching * Two fresh pages written, and as I was advised to do by Papa Hemingway, I've stopped in the middle of a scene and a sentence. Maybe I can finish the story tomorrow or Sunday!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 17, 2026 08:35 AM (wzUl9)

135 Federal health officials say Taylor Farms is the likely source of the nationwide cyclosporiasis outbreak that has sickened people in at least 34 states. The California supplier provides lettuce to Taco Bell and major retailers including Walmart, Target and Whole Foods. https://cbsn.ws/4fj6plH
Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2026 08:27 AM (ZxPkt)
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I always suspected lettuce was a devil weed.

Now we have proof!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2026 08:35 AM (FZ29D)

136 Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 17, 2026 08:30 AM (IG3/x)

The Koran acknowledges the Virgin Birth which to me is insane for multiple reasons. In it her consent is interestingly skipped over, but she is told, it happens, and then she hides away.

Jesus speaks from the cradle and I believe tells everyone that he is a human prophet of Allah, so that's a new miracle that I'm pretty sure isn't included in King James.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 08:36 AM (/bHKT)

137 Silver hovered around $4 for a long time. Nobody wanted it then. “You make money on the buy”. Always remember that! The common refrain is always to compare its return with investments, like stocks. Silver and gold are not investments.

Compared with cash stuffed in the mattress it did very, very well.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 08:36 AM (uwLak)

138
And some handlers do it during the initial go-around to cause the dog(s) behind them to lunge for it while the judge is watching.

Posted by: one hour sober at July 17, 2026 08:29 AM (J4Dwc)

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That's why, as a steward, I'm fanatical about keeping the ring clean. Many years ago we had a dog lose because it lunged for a piece of liver on the floor on the final go-around.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2026 08:37 AM (flEsB)

139 The Russian Collusion scam always seemed too convenient for the CCP.

Posted by: davidt at July 17, 2026 08:37 AM (Q+gd/)

140 Trump was/is a one-off. A unicorn… we won’t have anything close to his equal going forward. I’m not happy about it but that’s the way I see it
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 08:16 AM (+gA9j)

I don’t know about his domestic priorities, but Rubio has got the best strategic views of any sec of State since Kissinger, maybe better. And he hates communism personally. That’s enough for me to give him a chance.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2026 08:37 AM (wLnmp)

141 I think Rubio one day will or could be a truly outstanding president, that is if the Democrat forces of darkness and evil do not snuff us out in the years ahead.

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Or their Assassination Culture doesn't (God forbid) first snuff out his life like they did Charlie Kirk's and have attempted to with President Trump (multiple times).

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 08:38 AM (9EFgU)

142 Sorry, Mohammed... I'm *pretty sure* that Moses was, in fact, Jewish.

Sorry, Rodrigo Borgia, Moses was a Levite, a Hebrew as recognized by the Egyptians, though the descendants of Jacob were called Israelites by God.

It wasn't until 930BC when the kingdom was divided and the people of the southern kingdom were called Judahites.

But to be safe, it wasn't until after the Babylonian Exile (6th century BC) where we get the distinction between Hebrew and Jew—mainly because most of the survivors where people from Judah.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 17, 2026 08:38 AM (PVBkQ)

143 And who does Taylor Farms employ. Dare I ask.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 08:38 AM (/bHKT)

144 CBS News @CBSNews

President Trump announced that his administration is declassifying intelligence that reveals "shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure," including "hacking, exploitation and foreign interference."

FACT CHECK RATING: False.

Officials have repeatedly said election infrastructure remains secure.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said there was “no evidence of any malicious activity” affecting the integrity of the 2024 elections. CISA also said the 2020 election was “the most secure in American history,” with no evidence that voting systems deleted, lost or compromised votes.

... in on-air comments CBS wondered why 1/3rd of CISA was laidoff at the beginning of this current administration. It never occurred to them that perhaps, just perhaps, it was because CISA was wrong.

Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2026 08:38 AM (RHGPo)

145 Wasn’t Taylor Farms behind the last veggie issue, too? I suppose I can grok that.

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 08:39 AM (Dd38x)

146 Here in the United States, the share of left-wing terrorist attacks and plots has risen to levels not seen in decades. In Germany, far-left violence has jumped by more than 40 percent in just the last year alone. In Greece, more than 80 percent of radical violence is now driven by far-left and anarchist actors. These are not abstract statistics.

Americans have seen what those numbers mean – an all-out assault on our immigration officers, sniper attacks, explosives, armed ambushes. A transgender shooter opening fire on Catholic elementary school students as they pray, his gun marked with slogans like, “Where is your God now?” A health care executive executed in cold blood in the streets. Multiple assassination attempts on a sitting president. And the murder of the greatest conservative activist of a generation, a man who happened also to be a husband and the father of two young children, shot and killed while speaking to a crowd of students.

This is a distinctive and unique evil. It has always been driven by a hatred above all else, a hatred for civilization itself.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 17, 2026 08:40 AM (rvRiq)

147 The desire for something like that is how the Dems got Graham Platner.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2026 08:29 AM (wLnmp)

It's how we got Trump.

And the intervening 11 years have not cooled my burning hatred of the GOP, they've doubled the temperature.

This is something GOP voters don't seem to grasp. People like me may not be a majority, but there are millions of us. If you think the GOP has been winning elections on the strength of their awesome candidates like Rubio and Vance, you're sorely mistaken.

We're not coming back to their church without Trump in the pulpit. We put him there because we hate the GOP, and that hasn't changed.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 08:40 AM (BI5O2)

148 It is a revolt of the worst against the best, a revolt of the weak and the cowardly against the strong and the good. It is perpetrated by those who cannot build, who cannot create, who cannot achieve great things, and take their revenge upon the world for their own inadequacy by seeking to destroy those who can. This is what radical leftism is.

- Marco Rubio

Posted by: Vengeance at July 17, 2026 08:40 AM (rvRiq)

149 NYPost:

A Clinton-appointed federal judge in Florida has died just days after he controversially released a Cuban plane hijacker who was awaiting deportation. Judge John E. Steele, 77, passed away, according to a law clerk for Chief Judge Marcia Morales Howard of the Middle District of Florida — where Steele served. A legal source in Miami also confirmed Steele’s sudden death. The circumstances of his passing were not immediately clear. Steele came under criticism for his July 8 ruling to release Cuban plane hijacker Maikel Guerra Morales from ICE custody.
Posted by: SMOD



When ICE fights back.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 08:41 AM (v3afF)

150 I believe in one of the apocryphal books Child Jesus gets annoyed with a playmate and strikes him dead. Then Mary yells at him and makes him bring the other kid back to life.

There's some crazy shit out there. The problem is that Mohammed's crazy shit has two billion people who believe in it.

We need to do something about that.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 17, 2026 08:41 AM (IG3/x)

151 TGIF, all!!

Sorry I missed Trump's speech, but I'm sure I'll be reading about it all day.

More cowbell, Donald!!!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 17, 2026 08:41 AM (X8xt3)

152 Vice President JD Vance needs to get his head out of the conspiratorial “rabbit holes” he says he loves to explore and drop the bizarro line he just pitched to Joe Rogan that the Israelis blew up the Iran peace deal because they want “to keep the war going on indefinitely.” (he needs to get his head out of Tuq'r Qatarlson's ass - jjs)

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Sounds like he has a future in Podcastistan.

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 08:41 AM (9EFgU)

153 April, 2021. President Biden claims that Russia interfered in the 2020 election and announces sanctions against them.

Biden offered no proof of election interference and he never mentioned China.

Biden announced in 2021 that Russia interfered in the 2020 election. Released no evidence, media had no questions. They just went along.

Trump announces Chinese interference, releases documents, media spends all night trying to discredit him.

They are so pathetic.

Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2026 08:42 AM (RHGPo)

154 Rogues gallery. The contenders who want to replace Platner on the ballot and yikes!

https://tinyurl.com/yethvne4

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 08:42 AM (ndZc7)

155 You know, we take the sewage pumped out of septic tanks and water treatment plants to process it into liquid fertilizer and spray it on our fields. Nitrogen rich liquid fertilizer.

Y'all know this. Right?

It's been "processed" into something "safe" but it's still human waste at the start. And, no, it's not used on every single crop grown here. But I know for a fact it is used as fertilizer on hay fields that cattle graze on, soybean fields and corn. Sprayed on the ground before planting. It stinks.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 08:42 AM (jehhT)

156 In total, Taylor Farms has been connected to at least 3–5 significant outbreaks with documented illnesses over the past decade-plus, with the two 2024 E. coli events being the largest (hundreds of cases combined).

They are based in Salinas, Ca.

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 08:44 AM (hftzA)

157 >>I think Rubio one day will or could be a truly outstanding president, that is if the Democrat forces of darkness and evil do not snuff us out in the years ahead.


THIS

He's doing the big things on an international level, but he's also doing the little things that really mean a lot, such as deporting "students" who came here to sow revolution and pardoned Laotian child rapists.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 17, 2026 08:44 AM (X8xt3)

158 Rubio Op-Ed: For far too long our counterterrorism doctrine has had a blind spot — a blind spot when it comes to extremist violence from the political left.

When I read through lefty forums direct calls for killing people are common.

I don't mean calls to prosecute or even veiled "it would be a shame if something bad happened to X" but just repeated "we should kill X, his wife, and his kids"

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 08:44 AM (sKqQm)

159 Everything has now changed with ESG. In a turnaround that surprised Wall Street, woke funds are no longer trendy. The savvy investors are staying away. Call it something else, but avoid the ESG tag at all costs.

The heyday of ESG investing was between 2018 and 2021, when the trend took hold. Hundreds of billions of dollars entered this new market. At that time, the ESG juggernaut seemed impossible to stop. Wall Street giants like BlackRock and Vanguard put their weight behind the move. Investment capital and state pension funds poured into these ESG funds that favored leftist causes, furthering the Climate Change grift.

Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2026 08:44 AM (RHGPo)

160 ... in on-air comments CBS wondered why 1/3rd of CISA was laidoff at the beginning of this current administration. It never occurred to them that perhaps, just perhaps, it was because CISA was wrong.
Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2026 08:38 AM (RHGPo)
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or lying...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2026 08:45 AM (FZ29D)

161 >>Wasn’t Taylor Farms behind the last veggie issue, too?

Yes, a couple of years ago -- onions supplied to McDonalds.

And before that, lettuce in 2013.

Posted by: one hour sober at July 17, 2026 08:46 AM (J4Dwc)

162 > They are based in Salinas, Ca.
Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 08:44 AM (hftzA)

Why do I get the feeling that a thorough audit would show big payoffs going to the Pelosis and the Newsoms and the Feinsteins and the...

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 17, 2026 08:46 AM (IG3/x)

163 The circumstances of his passing were not immediately clear. Steele came under criticism for his July 8 ruling to release Cuban plane hijacker Maikel Guerra Morales from ICE custody.
Posted by: SMOD
......
Police suspect fair play.

Posted by: The ghost of Dennis Miller at July 17, 2026 08:46 AM (2Ez/1)

164 All you need to know is the media went straight to attacking the president, ad hominems, repeating tired, worn narratives and protecting left wing shibboleths.

What they did not do is examine the facts, present in the documents. They voiced absolutely zero concerns about demonstrable evidence from intelligence agencies that foreign actors have stolen US voter data and are directly involved in trying to manipulate our elections. That’s before we get to the illegal aliens registered to vote, and evidence they did.

Not a single outlet paused to examine any of the documents, then draw a single inference about why foreign actors would do things such as steal voter data and what that means to election integrity.

Not a single one. Why is that?

Posted by: Vengeance at July 17, 2026 08:46 AM (rvRiq)

165 They've finally admitted the murder of the old conservative dame in England was politically motivated. Another Leftist assassination.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 17, 2026 08:47 AM (t+TFX)

166 I don't like lettuce at all.

Posted by: dantesed at July 17, 2026 08:47 AM (Oy/m2)

167 Taylor Swift owns produce farms now?

Posted by: Who knew at July 17, 2026 08:47 AM (2Ez/1)

168 Not a single one. Why is that?
Posted by: Vengeance


Because the media is the enemy.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 17, 2026 08:48 AM (99eI0)

169 >>A legal source in Miami also confirmed Steele’s sudden death. The circumstances of his passing were not immediately clear. Steele came under criticism for his July 8 ruling to release Cuban plane hijacker Maikel Guerra Morales from ICE custody.


*ahem*

Posted by: Citizen Vigilante at July 17, 2026 08:48 AM (X8xt3)

170 Today Is National Tattoo Day.
Don't do anything crazy.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 17, 2026 08:48 AM (NpAcC)

171 They've finally admitted the murder of the old conservative dame in England was politically motivated. Another Leftist assassination.

Based on how this works in western countries, the assassin will get a slap on the wrist and his material accomplices which likely include British governmental figures will intentionally not be investigated.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 08:48 AM (sKqQm)

172 FACT CHECK RATING: False.

I always find it funny that the post modernist Left, whose chief characteristic is categorically rejecting the notion of absolute truth, somehow disavow that core tenet when they need to call Trump a liar.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 17, 2026 08:48 AM (U4c/V)

173 I don't mean calls to prosecute or even veiled "it would be a shame if something bad happened to X" but just repeated "we should kill X, his wife, and his kids"
Posted by: 18-1

And if you're in Virginia, piss on their graves when you're done.

Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 08:49 AM (Y8DZL)

174 We're not coming back to their church without Trump in the pulpit. We put him there because we hate the GOP, and that hasn't changed.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 08:40 AM (BI5O2

Okay….so Trump won’t be there next time, because he can’t. Then what? Vote dem? Don’t vote (which is the same as voting dem)? I am just as frustrated as anyone over the Thunes of our world. Luckily they are dwindling either by being voted out kicking and screaming, or through the Grim Reaper. But we need to figure out how to go forward without Trump at the helm.

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 08:49 AM (hftzA)

175 Taylor Swift owns produce farms now?
Posted by: Who knew at July 17, 2026 08:47 AM (2Ez/1)

Enshittening two industries simultaneously.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 17, 2026 08:49 AM (wVcYX)

176 When I read through lefty forums direct calls for killing people are common.

I don't mean calls to prosecute or even veiled "it would be a shame if something bad happened to X" but just repeated "we should kill X, his wife, and his kids"
Posted by: 18-1


I'm their huckleberry.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 08:49 AM (v3afF)

177 166 I don't like lettuce at all.
Posted by: dantesed at July 17, 2026 08:47 AM

I shall Romaine neutral.

Posted by: Oh, no... at July 17, 2026 08:49 AM (2Ez/1)

178 If you bring in people from the 3rd world to pick your crops you are going to get diseases spread by fecal contamination. That's just a given.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 08:49 AM (sKqQm)

179 Taylor Swift owns produce farms now?
Posted by: Who knew at July 17, 2026 08:47 AM (2Ez/1)

Enshittening two industries simultaneously.
Posted by: Count de Monet


Three. Music, food & now, the NFL.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 08:50 AM (v3afF)

180 >>They've finally admitted the murder of the old conservative dame in England was politically motivated. Another Leftist assassination.


Yeah, MSM was all upset about Uwe Boll's vigilante movie a month ago, but when their side *continues* to take out what they perceive to be a threat to their society, it's all don't be a conspiracy theorists, move along, move on.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 17, 2026 08:50 AM (X8xt3)

181 I don't like lettuce at all.
Posted by: dantesed at July 17, 2026 08:47 AM

I shall Romaine neutral.
Posted by: Oh,


Oh geez. Slow clap.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 08:50 AM (v3afF)

182 162 > They are based in Salinas, Ca.
Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 08:44 AM (hftzA)

Why do I get the feeling that a thorough audit would show big payoffs going to the Pelosis and the Newsoms and the Feinsteins and the...
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 17, 2026 08:46 AM (IG3/x)

A raid on their farms would probably remove half of our illegal. (Maybe a little exaggerated)

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 08:51 AM (hftzA)

183 We would have also accepted "enshittifying."

Posted by: The Judges at July 17, 2026 08:51 AM (2Ez/1)

184 > 167 Taylor Swift owns produce farms now?
Posted by: Who knew at July 17, 2026 08:47 AM (2Ez/1)

I hear she's also into meat packing.

In all senses of that term.

What, you've never heard of Swift Premium meats?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 17, 2026 08:51 AM (IG3/x)

185 I shall Romaine neutral.
Posted by: Oh, no... at July 17, 2026 08:49 AM (2Ez/1)

Lettuce not go down that road, okay?

Posted by: dantesed at July 17, 2026 08:51 AM (Oy/m2)

186 Today Is National Tattoo Day.
Don't do anything crazy.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 17, 2026 08:48 AM (NpAcC)

"Welcome to Jamaica, mon. Have a nice day!"

Posted by: Just The Punchline at July 17, 2026 08:51 AM (wVcYX)

187 We're not coming back to their church without Trump in the pulpit. We put him there because we hate the GOP, and that hasn't changed.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 08:40 AM (BI5O2)

The Republican old guard is getting weaker and weaker as they leave office (Tillis, Cornyn, Cassidy, McConnell, Massie) or pass away, as we saw recently. The Trump vision of the party is ascendant.

Meanwhile the Democrats are handing Mamdani and the DSA the keys to the house.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2026 08:51 AM (wLnmp)

188 185 I shall Romaine neutral.
Posted by: Oh, no... at July 17, 2026 08:49 AM (2Ez/1)

Lettuce not go down that road, okay?

Posted by: dantesed at July 17, 2026 08:51 AM (Oy/m2)

Leaf it alone.

Posted by: davidt at July 17, 2026 08:52 AM (Q+gd/)

189 Sorry, Mohammed... I'm *pretty sure* that Moses was, in fact, Jewish.

-
Our standard response asking if the Pope is Catholic is no longer clear so we should change it to is Moses Jewish.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 08:52 AM (ndZc7)

190 This is what radical leftism is.

- Marco Rubio
--------

It's what every kind of leftism is.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 08:52 AM (/bHKT)

191 I shall Romaine neutral.
Posted by: Oh, no...


I get green with envy when I see the puns here. I'll just kale time reading them.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 17, 2026 08:52 AM (99eI0)

192 rickb223

Did she sign a prenup to not sing "My ex-husband dropped a pass on 4th and goal"?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 08:52 AM (u82oZ)

193 Today Is National Tattoo Day.
Don't do anything crazy.
Posted by: redridinghood

"Welcome to Jamaica, mon. Have a nice day!"
Posted by: Just The Punchline



Aka, WENDY.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 08:52 AM (v3afF)

194 All you need to know is the media went straight to attacking the president Senator McCarthy ad hominems, repeating tired, worn narratives and protecting left wing shibboleths. What they did not do is examine the facts, present in the documents.
——-

They have been doing this a long, long time. They have it down to a science. Attack the messenger.

“Blacklisted By History” should be required reading, they have been using the same playbook for 80 years, at least. This will become excruciatingly obvious when you go through this book. Not much has changed.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 08:53 AM (uwLak)

195 I shall Romaine neutral.
Posted by: Oh, no... at July 17, 2026 08:49 AM (2Ez/1)

Lettuce not go down that road, okay?
Posted by: dantesed at July 17, 2026 08:51 AM (Oy/m2)

It a Field of Greens.
Plant it and they will come.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 17, 2026 08:53 AM (wVcYX)

196 Did she sign a prenup to not sing "My ex-husband dropped a pass on 4th and goal"?
Posted by: NaCly Dog


*snooooooort

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 08:53 AM (v3afF)

197 NR Pax

Head those comments back to the ranch.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 08:53 AM (u82oZ)

198 We need a full-on, head-on attack on the media. I want to see a team of forensic analysts precede every Leavitt press conference with a 10-minute Power Point presentation of media lies dating back 20 years right up to yesterday. They can break it into two parts: historic lies, and current lies. I want them to call out specific "lies" and "liars," by name, by outlet, and to their faces -- coldly, matter-of-factly, unsparingly.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 17, 2026 08:53 AM (t+TFX)

199 >>Jr. Black just informed me that our own past SC governor, the errant "Argentine-curious" Mark Sanford, has filed for a senate run to replace Graham.


A squish, iirc?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 17, 2026 08:54 AM (X8xt3)

200 187 We're not coming back to their church without Trump in the pulpit. We put him there because we hate the GOP, and that hasn't changed.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 08:40 AM
+++++
Have you tasted the fried chicken at our Wednesday night suppers?

Posted by: The Southern Baptist Church across town at July 17, 2026 08:54 AM (2Ez/1)

201 The Republican old guard is getting weaker and weaker

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Except for McConnell. He's training for a Marathon now.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 08:54 AM (ndZc7)

202 But we need to figure out how to go forward without Trump at the helm.

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 08:49 AM (hftzA)

The GOP already knows how they will go forward without Trump and it's called "business as usual".

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 08:55 AM (/bHKT)

203 Have you tasted the fried chicken at our Wednesday night suppers?
Posted by: The Southern Baptist Church across town


Yeah. Grandy's.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 08:55 AM (v3afF)

204 JD Said there are a few people in the Israeli government that want “to keep the war going on indefinitely.”

Is that actually hard to believe? We have plenty of pro forever war types here, but at least the two most prominent are gone now (McCain and Graham).

Posted by: Ian S. at July 17, 2026 08:56 AM (QZThv)

205 Stop being butt(er)heads with the lettuce puns

Posted by: one hour sober at July 17, 2026 08:56 AM (J4Dwc)

206 >>Can Stephen Miller be his Press Secretary?


If Rubio or Vance are elected, Stephen Miller needs to be the next "Rubio," the guy who keeps getting new responsibilities and kicks azz!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 17, 2026 08:56 AM (X8xt3)

207 Meanwhile the Democrats are handing Mamdani and the DSA the keys to the house./i]

I was thinking about this yesterday and it is interesting to look at the contrast in the two party's populist wings.

The Republican one is defined mostly be ideology. While the establishment Republicans mostly say the same things as the MAGA polls they don't actually do them.

The Dem upstarts and establishment DO the same things though the establishment doesn't talk about it ahead of time. The big difference is the Dem "populists" aren't heritage Americans - either immigrants are children of immigrants. It is basically the voters they've imported demanding a higher share of the graft through their own tribal leaders

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 08:56 AM (sKqQm)

208 Early ICE raids in California were at a weed farm IIRC. Video of children working the crops, people running all over the place, smoke from teargas.

Funny how that little episode is forgotten by the left.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 08:56 AM (jehhT)

209 >>Stop being butt(er)heads with the lettuce puns


Or what? Head will escarole?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 17, 2026 08:56 AM (X8xt3)

210 "Vice President JD Vance needs to get his head out of the conspiratorial “rabbit holes” he says he loves to explore and drop the bizarro line he just pitched to Joe Rogan that the Israelis blew up the Iran peace deal because they want “to keep the war going on indefinitely.” (he needs to get his head out of Tuq'r Qatarlson's ass - jjs)

=====

way ahead of you, boss !

https://tinyurl.com/khae2xfe


Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 08:57 AM (GD0B3)

211 Have you tasted the fried chicken at our Wednesday night suppers?
Posted by: The Southern Baptist Church across town


Spaghetti lunch is where it's at.

Posted by: Greek Church at July 17, 2026 08:57 AM (wVcYX)

212 Yeah. Grandy's.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 08:55 AM
+++
Whoa. What a flash from the wayback machine.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 17, 2026 08:57 AM (2Ez/1)

213 An Aussie golfer, Lucas Herbert , is -9 after 17 holes at the Open. If he pars 18 he'll have the lowest round , 61, in a major championship history. Even more impressive is that they're playing at Birkdale a very tough course

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 08:58 AM (OXYE0)

214 President Trump said tonight the CCP's operations obtained 220 million voter records.

... and the DOJ has been in court trying to get voter records of some "blue states".
Perhaps President Xi can help.

Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2026 08:58 AM (RHGPo)

215 Sorry, Mohammed... I'm *pretty sure* that Moses was, in fact, Jewish.

The common argument from Muslims is that modern Jews are not related to Kingdom of Israel era Jews - instead Khazars from what is near modern Ukraine.

It is bullshit, DNA testing has actually been done and while the Romans killed a lot of them there have been Jews in Israel since before recorded history.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 08:59 AM (sKqQm)

216 1 class to go, and then home to our community doggy who is wondering why he has been left alone so long. He is the world’s clingiest Shiba.😂

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 08:59 AM (Dd38x)

217 Aaaaaand it's a food thread.

Posted by: I'm hungry at July 17, 2026 08:59 AM (2Ez/1)

218 Video of children working the crops, people running all over the place, smoke from teargas.

Lefties don't mind slave labor building their apple devices, I'm sure children picking their pot doesn't bother them at all either

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 09:00 AM (sKqQm)

219 How can you not love this guy?

Roger Rogoff, a former state judge, was unilaterally installed as the interim U.S. Attorney for Western Washington by a panel of 17 district judges. The local bench completely bypassed the long-standing tradition of consulting with the White House, attempting to force their own preferred candidate into a critical law enforcement role.

The administration’s counter-strike was near-instantaneous. While Rogoff was waiting in the lobby of the federal prosecutor’s office, he received an email informing him that the President had terminated his appointment, ending his tenure before he could even unpack.


Nope! You don't install your own U.S. Attorney, Washington state.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 17, 2026 09:00 AM (X8xt3)

220 I always find it funny that the post modernist Left, whose chief characteristic is categorically rejecting the notion of absolute truth
———

“Believe nothing!” Is the general part where they break down previous beliefs.Isolation. Only approved sources of information. In the extreme, this is how Cults work. “Reverend” Jim Jones, or Charlie Manson were pros..

But this “Believe nothing!” somehow doesn’t apply to them however.

They’d never steer ya wrong! No sir.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 09:00 AM (uwLak)

221 208 Early ICE raids in California were at a weed farm IIRC. Video of children working the crops, people running all over the place, smoke from teargas.

Funny how that little episode is forgotten by the left.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

DUDE! I totally forgot about that! And the pizza I left in the oven last night!

Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 09:01 AM (Y8DZL)

222 The White House’s new talking point on the Save Act is great: you need an ID for Olive Garden’s unlimited pasta pass, so why don’t elections?

Posted by: Ian S. at July 17, 2026 09:01 AM (QZThv)

223 Senate Bill 624 – filed Jan. 14 and on Feb. 2 moved to the 2027 legislative session – proposes adding a definition of “Islamophobia” to Virginia’s assault-and-battery statute. The legislation does not create a new criminal offense; rather, it addresses how certain bias-related incidents could be classified and tracked.

Words now be violence

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 17, 2026 09:01 AM (/+uur)

224 The only difference between the DSA and Democrats is DSA puts a little heart over the i in Communism.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 09:01 AM (/bHKT)

225 Allowing judges to install a US attorney we could seem to violate the separation of powers. At least I recall learning that in law school. The high and mighty may have forgotten

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 09:02 AM (OXYE0)

226 No attorney for you!
Come back...one year!

Posted by: The Judge Nazi at July 17, 2026 09:02 AM (2Ez/1)

227 "JD Said there are a few people in the Israeli government that want “to keep the war going on indefinitely.”

He said this? Jeezus.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 17, 2026 09:03 AM (t+TFX)

228 All you need to know is the media went straight to attacking the president, ad hominems, repeating tired, worn narratives and protecting left wing shibboleths.

-
Brian Stelter
@brianstelter
CBS is prebunking the president's address by sharing accurate info about voter rolls and election systems.

-
Whatever he says, it'll be a lie.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 09:03 AM (ndZc7)

229 It’s so bad, it’s good. The stars of the Odyssey have released a rap video.

ha

hahah

hahahahaha

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 17, 2026 09:03 AM (/+uur)

230
Yeah. Grandy's.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 08:55 AM (v3afF)



Is there still a Grandy's in Paris?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 09:04 AM (2YhKe)

231 The Left claims there is no central truth and that everyone has a perspective and it's all subjective and no such thing as good and evil - EXCEPT for anything they believe which is categorically correct and gold - and anyone who disagrees with them is categorically incorrect and evil.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 09:04 AM (/bHKT)

232 Whoa. What a flash from the wayback machine.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty


Yeah. Every Wednesday night. Girlfriend's mom & dad back in high school picked it up for Wednesday night suppers. They'd bring home the leftovers.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 09:04 AM (v3afF)

233 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 70 cool degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor, though highs in the mid 80s are predicted.

I did not watch the speech last night, because I knew what it would be: accusations against China, no (or hardly any) mention of Democrat thievery and, most especially, no arrests.

Who was the woman Trump mentioned who bragged about operating a 'shadow government?' Why is she not in jail or up against a wall?

I'm tired of 'bombshell revelations' that only confirm what we already know and lead nowhere. I'm not even satisfied with arrests anymore. I want executions.

So I'm sorry to drag things down, but as the saying goes, wake me when someone actually goes to jail.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 17, 2026 09:04 AM (qRla/)

234 The administration’s counter-strike was near-instantaneous. While Rogoff was waiting in the lobby of the federal prosecutor’s office, he received an email informing him that the President had terminated his appointment, ending his tenure before he could even unpack.
****

I saw the announcement earlier but not the background. Giant fuck you from the Trumpster.

Posted by: clarence at July 17, 2026 09:04 AM (1QT7n)

235 @brianstelter
CBS is prebunking the president's address by sharing accurate info about voter rolls and election systems.



ESAD, fag.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 09:04 AM (2YhKe)

236 And who does Taylor Farms employ. Dare I ask.
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 08:38 AM (/bHKT)

Tom Joad I think.

Posted by: Grapes Of Ass, A Communist Myth at July 17, 2026 09:04 AM (45BvE)

237 > Lefties don't mind slave labor building their apple devices

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 09:00 AM (sKqQm)

See, now this is the kind of thing I just don't get.

Are people seriously suggesting that the working conditions in the factories that build Android, Dell, Lenovo, or Huawei crap are any better?

I would bet a large sum that they are not, and would even bet a reasonable sum that they are, overall, considerably worse.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 17, 2026 09:05 AM (IG3/x)

238 He said this? Jeezus.

He said a few people, not that it was official policy. Lindsey Graham wanted all the wars all the time and was in our government until a week ago.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 17, 2026 09:05 AM (QZThv)

239 I wonder if they served iceberg lettuce on the Titanic

Posted by: Bilwis - at July 17, 2026 09:05 AM (w/O5Q)

240 Is there still a Grandy's in Paris?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer


No idea. There's one in Sherman. Girlfriend's mom & dad would get Grandy's for Wednesday night supper in Lewisville.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 09:05 AM (v3afF)

241 Sorry I missed Trump's speech, but I'm sure I'll be reading about it all day.
More cowbell, Donald!!!
Posted by: Lizzy at July 17, 2026 08:41 AM (X8xt3)
~~~~~

The only ones talking about it are X and Newsmax. Even Fox (which did carry the speech live) and Fox Business have not even mentioned it today, at least from 6:00am through 7:30am. And that includes Trump fan Maria Bartiromo. Hannity gave it about 30 seconds last night right after the speech. That's it.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at July 17, 2026 09:05 AM (3ImbR)

242 They have been doing this a long, long time. They have it down to a science. Attack the messenger.

As mentioned earlier, this is the "D" in DARVO. More letters to come shortly.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 17, 2026 09:06 AM (/TiS1)

243 Are people seriously suggesting that the working conditions in the factories that build Android, Dell, Lenovo, or Huawei crap are any better?

It’s the same factory. Sony too, and Microsoft.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 17, 2026 09:06 AM (QZThv)

244 Point of Order: Brian Stelter is NOT the media.
He's a crank.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 17, 2026 09:06 AM (2Ez/1)

245 Senate Bill 624 – filed Jan. 14 and on Feb. 2 moved to the 2027 legislative session – proposes adding a definition of “Islamophobia” to Virginia’s assault-and-battery statute. The legislation does not create a new criminal offense; rather, it addresses how certain bias-related incidents could be classified and tracked.

Words now be violence
Posted by: r hennigantx

Damn Rob Schneider stirring up trouble!

Rob Schneider
@RobSchneider
Islamophobia does not exist.
It is a weapon to gain power by deflecting away Islamic terrorism, rape, murder and other Sharia Law anti-Women anti-American crimes.
They are very Christianophobic.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 09:07 AM (ndZc7)

246 No idea. There's one in Sherman. Girlfriend's mom & dad would get Grandy's for Wednesday night supper in Lewisville.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 09:05 AM (v3afF)



I remember the Grandy's in Lewisville.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 09:07 AM (2YhKe)

247 239 I wonder if they served iceberg lettuce on the Titanic
Posted by: Bilwis - at July 17, 2026 09:05 AM

Watercress.

Posted by: Oof at July 17, 2026 09:08 AM (2Ez/1)

248 And who does Taylor Farms employ. Dare I ask.
Posted by: ...


If Tay Tay DID own a vegetable farm, she could hire all the broke down ex nfl players.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 09:08 AM (v3afF)

249 I saw that wanker Starmer is pushing for Lordship for the jihadi prick London mayor. What a dhimmy.

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 09:08 AM (GD0B3)

250 We used to be a thing.

Posted by: Po' Folks at July 17, 2026 09:09 AM (2Ez/1)

251 Damn that Biden!

Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
Talarico says Biden failed to secure the border, and that's "unacceptable."

He's trying so hard to play the sensible, border security Democrat in Texas — while the rising wing of his "Big Tent" party wants no borders at all.

The wildly dissonant messaging just doesn't work.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 09:09 AM (ndZc7)

252 “If I see a reconciliation bill come from the House with another failed attempt to confuse this election, I will use every device I have available to slow down the wheels of government until people cop a clue and do the math,” Tillis said, nearly shouting, on the Senate floor.

muttering under his breath
Im a gonna go eat worms

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 17, 2026 09:10 AM (/+uur)

253 @WesternLensman
Talarico says Biden failed to secure the border, and that's "unacceptable."

He's trying so hard to play the sensible, border security Democrat in Texas — while the rising wing of his "Big Tent" party wants no borders at all.

The wildly dissonant messaging just doesn't work.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 09:09 AM (ndZc7)



He's a lying sack of shit. F*ck that guy. He's a heretic.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 09:10 AM (2YhKe)

254 Okay….so Trump won’t be there next time, because he can’t. Then what? Vote dem? Don’t vote (which is the same as voting dem)?

------

That's the dilemma the GOP faces - not me.

They should ask themselves if they can live with another populist outsider at the helm. Because my faction can't live with another GOP stooge.

So the choice is:give us what we want, or go get fucked. They can't win without us and we won't budge.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 09:10 AM (BI5O2)

255 > 225 Allowing judges to install a US attorney we could seem to violate the separation of powers. At least I recall learning that in law school.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 09:02 AM (OXYE0)

Heck, you don't even need law school to know that DoJ is in the executive branch while judges are in the judicial branch.

Just a competent K-12 education.

Granted, competent K-12 educations are pretty thin on the ground nowadays.


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 17, 2026 09:10 AM (IG3/x)

256 Fox was just as bad as CBS. Bret Baier cannot hide his hatred of Trump. The lie that none of the steal was proven is a half-truth. The corrupt judiciary refused to hear any of the arguments for fear that they would be proven true.

Posted by: Rotkappchen at July 17, 2026 09:11 AM (j3Fsw)

257 "I don't remember any Democratic president calling the attorney general and saying you need to prosecute him. And you need to prosecute her, and you need to prosecute them, and you need to go after this organization. We have never seen that before, or anything like it, anything like it," Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said.

Politico: 02/10/2024

In recent weeks, President Biden has grumbled to aides and advisers that had Garland moved sooner in his investigation into former President Donald Trump’s election interference, a trial may already be underway or even have concluded, according to two people granted anonymity to discuss private matters. That trial still could take place before the election and much of the delay is owed not to Garland but to deliberate resistance put up by the former president and his team.

Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2026 09:12 AM (RHGPo)

258 Is there still a Grandy's in Paris?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer


yes
and it is pronounced Granday"s

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 17, 2026 09:12 AM (/+uur)

259 I remember the Grandy's in Lewisville.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer


I haven't had Grandy's since then. I have no idea how it tastes. Probably not the same.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 09:12 AM (v3afF)

260 251 Damn that Biden!

Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
Talarico says Biden failed to secure the border, and that's "unacceptable."

He's trying so hard to play the sensible, border security Democrat in Texas — while the rising wing of his "Big Tent" party wants no borders at all.

The wildly dissonant messaging just doesn't work.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 09:09 AM (ndZc7)

=========

Is he saying this because he's winning easily and Paxton is such a flawed candidate?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 17, 2026 09:12 AM (PIaQL)

261 Nope! You don't install your own U.S. Attorney, Washington state.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 17, 2026 09:00 AM (X8xt3)


Just a reminder that they attempted this because the GOP controlled Senate STILL hasn't confirmed Trump's nominee for the post.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 09:13 AM (ExV1e)

262 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 17, 2026 09:13 AM (GC/eJ)

263 Off topic: How did I not know that "Major League Fishing" is now a thing?

I presume it's on cable, which I haven't had for decades?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 17, 2026 09:13 AM (IG3/x)

264 Getting a little jiggy and philosophical for a moment.

"There is no such thing as absolute truth" is a logical fallacy. Because it would mean to also say that "truth exists" is untrue. Which is impossible.

Apparently the relativists get around this by claiming that truth is real but "difficult to access". Boy, the Left spends a lot of time justifying being corrupt assholes.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 09:13 AM (/bHKT)

265 Who was the woman Trump mentioned who bragged about operating a 'shadow government?' Why is she not in jail or up against a wall?”

You didn’t know? She’s head of Security for Microsoft now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2026 09:13 AM (wLnmp)

266 Po Folks. White building with red trim? I think there was one on the east side of San Antonio by Randolph AFB.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 09:13 AM (wOO3z)

267 Vice President JD Vance needs to get his head out of the conspiratorial “rabbit holes” he says he loves to explore and drop the bizarro line he just pitched to Joe Rogan that the Israelis blew up the Iran peace deal because they want “to keep the war going on indefinitely.”
=====

*wet fart*

His performance here has been lackluster.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 17, 2026 09:14 AM (GC/eJ)

268 Talarico says Biden failed to secure the border, and that's "unacceptable."

He's trying so hard to play the sensible, border security Democrat in Texas — while the rising wing of his "Big Tent" party wants no borders at all.

The wildly dissonant messaging just doesn't work.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 09:09 AM (ndZc7)


He's a lying sack of shit. F*ck that guy. He's a heretic.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer


That too.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 09:14 AM (v3afF)

269 Herbert missed a 3 ft putt at 18 and bogeyed. . He'll have to settle for a 62. I wish I could settle for that

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 09:14 AM (OXYE0)

270 Good morning JJ and horde
From Historicon in Lancaster Pa

Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2026 09:15 AM (0CVPB)

271 Independent journalist Sara Gonzalez calls out Tillis the other day, causing him to basically admit he's paid by pro-illegal lobbyists. Rare, beautiful moment in political confrontation, corruption and clarity.

https://tinyurl.com/nhc9txkv

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 17, 2026 09:16 AM (t+TFX)

272 Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
Talarico says Biden failed to secure the border, and that's "unacceptable."


Is this an attempt to recover from calling the meth guy who got shot while attempting to run over an ICE agent a "fellow Texan"?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 09:16 AM (ExV1e)

273 >>Brian Stelter
@brianstelter
CBS is prebunking the president's address by sharing accurate info about voter rolls and election systems.



Translate: We don't report the news, we decide what's news.


Does Stelter understand what he's just said?
Gee, that Bari Weiss sure is cleaning up shop, eh? /sarc

Posted by: Lizzy at July 17, 2026 09:17 AM (X8xt3)

274 He's trying so hard to play the sensible, border security Democrat in Texas — while the rising wing of his "Big Tent" party wants no borders at all.

The wildly dissonant messaging just doesn't work.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 09:09 AM (ndZc7)

Talarico’s problem is that Hispanic residents in the Texas border counties - whose vote he is depending on - support Trump’s border crackdown more than anyone. They’re the ones whose lives were being ruined by the millions crossing freely; Dems in California and NYC don’t understand that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2026 09:17 AM (wLnmp)

275 So the choice is: give us what we want, or go get fucked. They can't win without us and we won't budge.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 09:10 AM (BI5O2)

They're perfectly happy being in the minority. A lot of pressure is removed.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 17, 2026 09:18 AM (t+TFX)

276
Talarico is the democrat norm.

My congresswoman tells local media she's against high gubmnt spending.

Their base couldn't care less about the lies.

Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 09:18 AM (Y8DZL)

277 RNC Research
@RNCResearch
MODERATOR: "What qualifications do you have to serve in the U.S. Senate?"

Maine Democrat Ashley Webb: "I'm a songwriter and I write my own books."

-
"Ashley" appears to be a troon.

https://tinyurl.com/4nte4wbp

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 09:18 AM (ndZc7)

278 Talarico’s problem is that Hispanic residents in the Texas border counties - whose vote he is depending on - support Trump’s border crackdown more than anyone. They’re the ones whose lives were being ruined by the millions crossing freely; Dems in California and NYC don’t understand that.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2026 09:17 AM (wLnmp)


That's because Dems in Cali and NY think that they're all illegals rather than folks whose families have been there for hundreds of years.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 09:19 AM (ExV1e)

279 "Secretary Marco Rubio
@SecRubio
10h
Without trust, there can be no greatness.

Under @POTUS, the Trump Administration will rout out foreign interference in our elections and safeguard our democracy.

America’s future belongs to Americans."

Make China Poor Again!

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 09:19 AM (GD0B3)

280 The Dem argument on election security is bizarre if you actually take it at face value.

Only citizens can vote and they can only vote for themselves...even though we send registrations to non-citizens and unless you have very, very strict signature matching there is no way at all to validate that a mail in ballot came from the person it is in the name of.

And further 1/4 mail in ballot voters have admitted to submitting a ballot in someone else's name

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 09:19 AM (sKqQm)

281 He's trying so hard to play the sensible, border security Democrat in Texas — while the rising wing of his "Big Tent" party wants no borders at all.

The wildly dissonant messaging just doesn't work.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 09:09 AM (ndZc7)

And not just the rising wing. The literal entire party for the last 60 years. The difference is the supposed "rising" people are not bothering lying about it at all. And why? Because Trump cornered the party so now they are playing both sides. Here's our bold message and by the way we're still reasonable and fighting these "crazies". Yet the message will keep getting amplified because that's what they want in the end.

Honestly Kamala and Biden and them have all been front for open borders too, in word and deed.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 09:20 AM (/bHKT)

282 "Deport Illegals to Reduce Inequality"

Heck, we don't need an excuse. Just deport them.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 17, 2026 09:20 AM (99eI0)

283 >>@WesternLensman
Talarico says Biden failed to secure the border, and that's "unacceptable."


"Criminal"

The word you're looking for is criminal, or even "treasonous."

His pinched face disapproval is lame.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 17, 2026 09:21 AM (X8xt3)

284 My congresswoman tells local media she's against high gubmnt spending.

Their base couldn't care less about the lies.


High info leftists want power.

Low info leftists want money.

Neither group gives a sh*t about *anything* else

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 09:21 AM (sKqQm)

285
Back from Euroworld...I have thoughts.

I'll probably dump them in the Art Thread.

Today, the globe-trotting and lovely Mrs naturalfake and I will go see a movie as part of Our Jetlag Recovery Protocol, probably-

"The Odyssey'(I know, I know) Ok, fiiiiiine-

We'll probably go see "The Oddyttey".

Or, "MC Young GW'....what it's not in rap?!?!
well I don't know then.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 17, 2026 09:21 AM (iJfKG)

286 They're perfectly happy being in the minority. A lot of pressure is removed.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 17, 2026 09:18 AM (t+TFX)

Correct.

Which is why they always behave like this in the majority.

Which means it's really not a dilemma.

People like me gain nothing from their success, and they don't want success.

So, Trump will go, and their Party will die on the vine. They don't care because they'll all get a nice cut of the heist before the Party is in the cold ground.

And life goes on.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 09:22 AM (BI5O2)

287 People like me gain nothing from their success, and they don't want success.

I remember watching Mitt Romney intentionally lose the '12 election. It was an amazing thing to watch.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 09:23 AM (sKqQm)

288 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 09:18 AM (ndZc7

As fake transgenders go, Ashley is a really bad example of one.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 09:23 AM (Bw1/o)

289 Okay….so Trump won’t be there next time, because he can’t. Then what? Vote dem? Don’t vote (which is the same as voting dem)?
Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2026 08:49 AM (hftzA)
------------/
The evidence is already in: without Trump on the ticket, GOP turnout goes way down. People just don't feel the Thune-momentum.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 17, 2026 09:23 AM (0aOmD)

290 I have a strong suspicion that NYT is heavily influenced by the ChiCom funded editors and "journalists".

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 09:24 AM (GD0B3)

291 I watched the speech.... Less than I expected but newsworthy just the same... The media doesn't seem it's worth anything except to dispute it.... So a day that ends in "Y"

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 09:25 AM (3iJWA)

292 >>Just a reminder that they attempted this because the GOP controlled Senate STILL hasn't confirmed Trump's nominee for the post.


Thune is a back-stabber.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 17, 2026 09:25 AM (X8xt3)

293 That Maine candidate looks like Meatloaf.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 09:26 AM (wOO3z)

294 Here's a pic of Nikki Floris, the person who claimed she was running a shadow government.

https://tinyurl.com/y4rha8a2

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at July 17, 2026 09:26 AM (3ImbR)

295 Thune is a back-stabber.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 17, 2026 09:25 AM (X8xt3)

I think it will be easier to list those in the GOP that aren't backstabbers, or backstabbers in waiting. I'll start.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 09:26 AM (/bHKT)

296 People like me gain nothing from their success, and they don't want success.

I remember watching Mitt Romney intentionally lose the '12 election. It was an amazing thing to watch.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 09:23 AM (sKqQm)


Yes, it was.

Debate 1: Whips Oblabla like the ignorant jackass he was.

Debate 2: Oh, the jewels that fall from your mouth, Oh Great Bringer of Light! And i dare not gainsay the genius of the Crowley Whale

Feh.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 17, 2026 09:26 AM (iJfKG)

297 If there's ever a fire in the Capitol while Congress is in session someone needs to padlock all the doors from the outside and throw away the key.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 09:27 AM (jehhT)

298 Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2026 09:26 AM (wOO3z)

LOL. He does!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 09:27 AM (Bw1/o)

299 "Manny Rutinel rarely discusses his father, a self-described socialist"

From the article:
Manny’s mother moved to the United States when her son was six years old...

I've had it up to here with foreigners in our government. Seriously fed up.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at July 17, 2026 09:27 AM (d5z8u)

300 Trump told a reporter that he wasn’t worried about his successor removing his Oval Office decorations because “Cubans love gold”. Hmmm
Posted by: Jmel at July 17, 2026 08:14 AM (3TlS+)
******
Whether or not Trump's successor is Rubio or Vance. They should find a way to tell Trump that he needs to take a lot of the gold and put it in his presidential library.
That's my one pet peeve about Trump. His decorating skills can sometimes be a little on the tacky side.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 17, 2026 09:28 AM (NpAcC)

301 If there's ever a fire in the Capitol while Congress is in session someone needs to padlock all the doors from the outside and throw away the key.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 09:27 AM (jehhT)

If we ever build a new Republic from the ashes of this one, the Senate is getting a good old-fashioned tile roof.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2026 09:28 AM (BI5O2)

302 That's my one pet peeve about Trump. His decorating skills can sometimes be a little on the tacky side.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 17, 2026 09:28 AM (NpAcC)


Agreed

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 09:29 AM (3iJWA)

303 Weird fact of the day:

Since Lincoln's assassination, every US President has been alive at the same time as Herbert Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964).



Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 17, 2026 09:29 AM (IG3/x)

304 Thou shalt pronoun correctly, sayeth Bill Gates.

Microsoft Word’s Woke New Feature Will Make Sure You Are Always Inclusive of “Every Gender”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 09:29 AM (ndZc7)

305 I remember watching Mitt Romney intentionally lose the '12 election. It was an amazing thing to watch.
Posted by: 18-1


I think the Powers That Be saw how easily Romney made Obama his wife during the debate so they dug up something unpleasant on him and he got the lecture about that sting you feel is pride fucking with you.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 17, 2026 09:29 AM (99eI0)

306 Art up. No bewbs. 😢

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 09:30 AM (v3afF)

307 Trump told a reporter that he wasn’t worried about his successor removing his Oval Office decorations because “Cubans love gold”. Hmmm
Posted by: Jmel at July 17, 2026 08:14 AM (3TlS+)
******
Whether or not Trump's successor is Rubio or Vance. They should find a way to tell Trump that he needs to take a lot of the gold and put it in his presidential library.
That's my one pet peeve about Trump. His decorating skills can sometimes be a little on the tacky side.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 17, 2026 09:28 AM (NpAcC)


Eh, I'll disagree. If there one thing my current Euroquest 2026 taught me, it's that gold and plenty of it has always been the preferred display of power and wealth throughout histy and "The People" respond to it that way.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 17, 2026 09:31 AM (iJfKG)

308 >>>You didn’t know? She’s head of Security for Microsoft now.
~~~~~

Same place her friend Lisa Monaco landed. Funny, isn't it?

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at July 17, 2026 09:31 AM (3ImbR)

309 “Cubans love gold”.

The remark was detailed in the book Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan. Trump was seemingly referring to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is of Cuban heritage, as a top choice to succeed him
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In other words, absolute medical grade Hawaiian Kush horseshit.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 09:31 AM (/bHKT)

310 I remember watching Mitt Romney intentionally lose the '12 election. It was an amazing thing to watch.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 09:23 AM (sKqQm)

I remember the exact moment the intention crystallized.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 17, 2026 09:33 AM (t+TFX)

311 Kelly Monaco > Lisa Monaco.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 17, 2026 09:35 AM (IG3/x)

312 It's been "processed" into something "safe" but it's still human waste at the start. And, no, it's not used on every single crop grown here. But I know for a fact it is used as fertilizer on hay fields that cattle graze on, soybean fields and corn. Sprayed on the ground before planting. It stinks.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 08:42 AM (jehhT)

Only for a little while. The excellent growth factor outweighs the stink every time. 😎

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 17, 2026 09:36 AM (g8Ew8)

313 ... that is if the Democrat forces of darkness and evil do not snuff us out in the years ahead.

That's why this was revealed this week
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-WeaponizedKragleWH

LET'S GO BRANDON! Indict Brennan!
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-HereComeTheDRUMS
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-signedSCHWARTZWALD

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at July 17, 2026 09:39 AM (QzizI)

314 46 So does this mean the hundreds of thousands of red chinamen attending our crappy colleges can be sent home now?
Posted by: Walter Sobchak at July 17, 2026 07:58 AM (45BvE)

If only.
Remember the Confucius Institute debacle? Hundreds on college campuses, revealed to be , oh, I don't know, Chinese spy and infiltration agencies?
"While China describes the institutes as cultural bridges, critics and intelligence agencies allege they suppress discussion of sensitive topics like Tibet, Taiwan, and the Tiananmen Square protests, leading to widespread closures across the United States, Australia, and Europe. U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley and the FBI have warned that the institutes pose national security risks, including potential intellectual property theft and espionage."

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at July 17, 2026 09:39 AM (d5z8u)

315 If you look at everything on Rubio's plate, he's clearly demonstrating that he is world class. Vance is getting the same opportunity to step up but he's so far unimpressive. It's like watching Political Apprentice

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at July 17, 2026 09:40 AM (jPdyB)

316 It's like watching Political Apprentice
Posted by: Smellslikevictory at July 17, 2026 09:40 AM (jPdyB)

I don't know. Vance is slick, perhaps no one slicker in Republican garb has come along in a long time. He knows how to play the game both short-term and long-term. He understands the trade-offs being VP.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 17, 2026 09:43 AM (t+TFX)

317 122 Please stop shitting on our food while you're harvesting it.

Sincerely,

The Civilized World

It amazes me, though, that people actually do not wash their produce before eating it. Not rinse. Wash. Soaking in vinegar and water typically works, although I don't know about this explosive diarrhea bug.

But I don't eat that stuff, anyway. My food eats that stuff.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at July 17, 2026 09:52 AM (d5z8u)

318 316 It's like watching Political Apprentice
Posted by: Smellslikevictory at July 17, 2026 09:40 AM (jPdyB)

I don't know. Vance is slick, perhaps no one slicker in Republican garb has come along in a long time. He knows how to play the game both short-term and long-term. He understands the trade-offs being VP.
Posted by: Ordinary American

VANCE is cTHIEL's asset, and when Musk makes his move to form (Dare to be St00p1d) Third Party before his funds run out, the inevitable will happen.

When ELON Musk goes bust, Harry Lime like fingers pressing up against a welded sewer plate as the filth and corruption foam up around his waist -- Trump will look down with his BFF/Bezo's next to him and whisper: NO.

How many products does fElon make that you really wan't vs Bezos. Russia/China by then will take down Starlink. Bezos' Kuiper, Prometheus deriivitives will fill the void.

What could possibly go wrong?

LET's GO BRANDON!
Defeat LIB Strategic Insanity Free the World
Indict Brennan -- his compromatee's will dtop ship the canoe.
Kharg administered by Gulf Nations as reparations for IRG damage upon them
Freeport Cuba, as the new Kharg exporting American Shale/Oil

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at July 17, 2026 09:58 AM (eQL4L)

319 'Morning, all, and thank you, J.J.

As of 2026, according to mid-year estimates provided by the U.S. Census Bureau and demographic outlooks, the current population is approximately 349,000,000 people, an increase by 67,578,094 people since the 2000 Census officially counted the population at 281,421,906. A 24.1 % larger.

Because domestic birth rates have steadily declined over the past two decades, immigration became the primary engine keeping the U.S. population growing. The total foreign-born population climbed from roughly 31 million in 2000 to a record peak of 53.3 million.

Over the last decade, Latin American migration remained high but there's been a massive surge in immigration from Asian nations (particularly India & China).

Texas, Florida, North Carolina are gaining in population and political power, well over the rustbelt states.

The promise of a U.S. European-style social safety net - universal healthcare, affordable higher education, stronger labor laws - appear to be what the "progressives" are offering for the U.S. future. "Like Sweden," I often hear.

Sweden's population is about 10.7 million. The U.S. population is 32.6 percent larger!

Continued -

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 17, 2026 10:32 AM (NFX2v)

320 Sweden is not a socialist country; it is a highly competitive, free-market capitalist economy w/ a robust social welfare system. While it famously provides universal healthcare and free education, the private sector drives wealth creation, and the government does not own the means of production.

Note that recently Sweden drastically shifted from having one of Europe’s most open migration frameworks to imposing some of its strictest immigration policies: The Controversial "Good Behavior" Law

Passed by the Swedish Riksdag in June 2026, this landmark legislation allows authorities to revoke residency permits and deport non-citizens for lacking an "honest and orderly lifestyle."

It applies retroactively to existing permit holders & targets "bad behavior" that falls outside standard criminal offenses, such as: Tax evasion, unpaid debts, and welfare fraud. Affiliation with extremist groups or criminal networks. Conduct deemed fundamentally disrespectful to Swedish civic norms and values.

Under the new laws, there is a MUCH harder path to citizenship; strict labor immigration limits; curbs on asylum & family reunification.

And there's a great deal of debate in country:

Cont'd

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 17, 2026 10:32 AM (NFX2v)

321 Mandatory alignment w/Swedish cultural values & strict legal accountability are vital to combat rising gang crime & protect the welfare state vs. concern over the potential for arbitrary deportations and argue the strict rules make it difficult for corporations to recruit crucial foreign tech talent. (It can work out its own "issues" during the Fall.)

The fundamental misunderstanding in the U.S. is who pays for safety nets. In Nordic countries, the middle & lower-middle classes shoulder the majority of the tax burden, not just the ultra-wealthy.

For the U.S. to achieve there level of public funding, it would require introducing a national Value-Added Tax (VAT) of roughly 20–25% and drastically raising income taxes on the American middle class. Also, statutory corporate tax rates are lower or more streamlined than the combined federal & state corporate tax rates found in the U.S.

For the US to expand citizen benefits, can it choose between very different approaches to immigration policy, i.e. the Nordic/European Path (wall around the country) or the Free-Market Path (wall around the welfare)? PLUS strongly regulate access to subsidized, public goods. 🤷‍♀️
--
Good weekend 🤗

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 17, 2026 10:32 AM (NFX2v)

322
It is why during those so-called George Floyd riots in the summer of 2020, as criminals and extremists burned and looted their way through America’s great cities




Ironically, the people who largely suffered the most from the violence and chaos were their own fellow travelers in the ghetto.

PDs can do a lot to reduce the larger social impact of the violence by simply walling off the riot areas and letting nature take it's course. The ghetto community organizers (who largely live OUTSIDE of the ghetto) scream about how PDs need to be abolished. Give them what they say they want, and let them experience the violence inherent in the system.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 17, 2026 10:38 AM (iqcvy)

323 I tuned in late to CBS correspondents telling their audience in detail how Trump is lying and wrong about everything. No need for details or proof when you can cut directly to the conclusion.

Of course, no news organization can allow these allegations any oxygen, because they are complicit in both the events and cover up. No examination will be allowed. It reminds me of seeing CBS news wrapping up the democratic convention in 2020 with a discussion of how democrats could win the election. No bias there.

Posted by: Advo at July 17, 2026 10:49 AM (jO4mz)

324 323 I tuned in late to CBS correspondents telling their audience in detail how Trump is lying and wrong about everything. No need for details or proof when you can cut directly to the conclusion.

Of course, no news organization can allow these allegations any oxygen, because they are complicit in both the events and cover up. No examination will be allowed. It reminds me of seeing CBS news wrapping up the democratic convention in 2020 with a discussion of how democrats could win the election. No bias there.
Posted by: Advo

the obviousness of the Truth for eyes that do not refuse to see.
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-PutASmileOnThatFace
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-atLongLongLAST
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-getThisPartySTARTED

Remember who did this:
"to leave now we would send a message to terrorists and other potential adversaries around the world that they can change our policies by killing our people. It would be open season on Americans." -- Bill Clinton '93 just before he pulled out of Somalia.

To abandon this area now -- and to rely only on efforts against alQaeda from a distance..."-- OBAMA'09

"What is the vital National Interest?" -- IceKingJOE

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at July 17, 2026 10:57 AM (pmI1l)

325 cont'd:
"What is the vital National Interest?" -- IceKingJOE

A: Upon the next 911 and Kirkiversary Year1. DSA
s/1960's Klingon Earth Ambassador MADMANI with a megaphone presiding over shrieking hapless throngs who "Don't know what to believe" with the edict (not REMAIN KLINGON, but) REMAIN SINWAR.

What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at July 17, 2026 10:59 AM (pmI1l)

326 Taylor Swift covered the city's expenses for her Madison Square Garden wedding, as confirmed by NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

The singer paid over $160,000 to cover special event permits, street closures, and police overtime, and privately (and hugely) funded her charitable donations to local food programs and shelters.

If TayTay & football brained hubby have no problem with the communist, why should we? /R

The millionaires and billionaires (TayTay) play both sides of the coin. And, apparently, we like it.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 17, 2026 11:31 AM (NFX2v)

327 Pennsylvania allows voters without a standard address to register by using a shelter's location. They may also use a descriptive map of where they sleep.

Discrepancies often occur because voter rolls take time to clean. State and federal laws require a multi-year process. Counties must send notices to make sure eligible voters are not removed by mistake.

Shelters see high daily and weekly turnover. A single shelter bed can serve dozens of different individuals throughout a multi-year cycle.

😉

Save America Act

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 17, 2026 12:11 PM (NFX2v)

Daily Tech News 17 July 2026

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Disclaimer: Roast loin of... What?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:44 AM




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1 w00t

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 04:44 AM (6wpGE)

2 Hi Pixy!

Posted by: JQ at July 17, 2026 04:44 AM (rdVOm)

3 Hi, m!

Posted by: JQ at July 17, 2026 04:45 AM (rdVOm)

4 Hola Tech Morons. Top o the morning

Posted by: Pete Bogs Agentic alter ego at July 17, 2026 04:45 AM (Wejm4)

5 Morning all.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 17, 2026 04:48 AM (BLOW1)

6 1 rupee is ~1 cent U.S.

So... HP needs to check under their couch cushions.

Posted by: JQ at July 17, 2026 04:48 AM (rdVOm)

7 Hey Pixy, if your question was not rhetorical, TSMC put the new lines in Arizona because they opened a massive facility there a few years ago. And I suspect AZ and the US government threw lots of money at them.

Posted by: Pete Bogs Agentic alter ego at July 17, 2026 04:49 AM (Wejm4)

8 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 04:49 AM (u82oZ)

9 Pete Bogs Agentic alter ego

Are they using cooling fluids other than water for the Data Center? Seems important for AZ agriculture.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 04:52 AM (u82oZ)

10 It's almost 2 a.m. here.

Finally (!) whole house is cooled enough to close windows and go to bed...

TGIF!!!

Posted by: JQ at July 17, 2026 04:52 AM (rdVOm)

11 Singing and dancing pastor ( and no, it's not me 😉 takes internet by storm. Faithpot site :

https://tinyurl.com/3b8744vv

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 04:55 AM (Cjc4c)

12 Scripture from the Old and New Testament about God's faithfulness . "Faithpot" site:

https://tinyurl.com/2wyr4few

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 04:58 AM (Cjc4c)

13 TSMC put it in Arizona because that causes the most collateral damage.
You wouldn’t want to put a water intensive industry in Missouri or West Virginia, too much of the wrong sort of water.

Posted by: Accomack at July 17, 2026 05:00 AM (GbONR)

14 A reflection on " A future with hope" Deuteronomy 16:13-17:

https://tinyurl.com/f37rjf4z

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 05:02 AM (Cjc4c)

15 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 17, 2026 05:03 AM (K861k)

16 >>>I'm not sure exactly why they chose Arizona apart from the fact that China is unlikely to successfully invade

And Canada. Canada is unlikely to successfully invade Arizona.

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 05:08 AM (6wpGE)

17 3 Hi, m!
Posted by: JQ at July 17, 2026 04:45 AM (rdVOm)

Hi, back, JQ! Good to see you here.

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 05:09 AM (6wpGE)

18
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 17, 2026 05:13 AM (AMvSw)

19
I am NOT going to stay up until 4:00 this morning. not Not NOT! Good night for real, you lovely people.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 17, 2026 05:15 AM (mmrXZ)

20 16: Canada is kind of busy right now, with it being on fire and all.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 17, 2026 05:15 AM (K861k)

21 FenelonSpoke

Ill bet you have singing and dancing skills from your drama background. But not the Rockettes style dancing.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 05:16 AM (u82oZ)

22 Mexico is also unlikely to invade Arizona, since they're already there. Waste of effort to do it again.

Posted by: SciVo at July 17, 2026 05:16 AM (Sy6m/)

23 Hey salty, I’m not sure how much water is required in current technologies for semiconductor manufacturing. Or how many contaminants are produced.

Posted by: Pete Bogs Agentic alter ego at July 17, 2026 05:19 AM (Wejm4)

24 And Arizona is right smack next to California, so TSMC can laugh and point at California taxing authorities.

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 05:20 AM (6wpGE)

25 23 Hey salty, I’m not sure how much water is required in current technologies for semiconductor manufacturing. Or how many contaminants are produced.
Posted by: Pete Bogs Agentic alter ego at July 17, 2026 05:19 AM (Wejm4)

Maybe they can desalinate the Gulf of California.

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 05:23 AM (6wpGE)

26 Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 05:16 AM (u82oZ

LOL. I was more in the straight drama or comedy line.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 05:23 AM (D+BhG)

27 m

In that case, go long on reverse osmosis membranes.

Data centers need cooling. There is very active research in new coolants, but water is the cheapest available.

According to Copilot: Chip manufacturing is highly water-intensive, requiring significant amounts of ultrapure water for various processes, with facilities using up to 10 million gallons per day, equivalent to the daily consumption of 33,000 households. TSMC's new facility in Arizona aims to reclaim about 65% of its water usage.

Still a lot of water needed.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 05:28 AM (u82oZ)

28
TSMC =
Taiwan
Semiconductor
Manufacturing
Company Limited

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 05:29 AM (6wpGE)

29 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at July 17, 2026 05:32 AM (V0/Sp)

30 m

I had no idea such a large amount of very pure water was needed to make chips.
No wonder China has problems with manufacturing of high end chips. Takes even more effort to purify their water.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 05:33 AM (u82oZ)

31 G'Day everyone
Was up for a bit in middle of the night but didn't look at clock
Should be outta here within 2 hours

Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2026 05:33 AM (Ia/+0)

32 new lingo for me

fab
noun
- a microchip fabrication plant: the process will reduce the environmental damage caused by chip fabs.
- a particular fabrication process in a manufacturing plant: it can only be made using five-layer fabs

verb (fabs, fabbing, fabbed) [with object]
- produce (a microchip).

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 05:33 AM (6wpGE)

33 Long past time to build nuclear plants to do nothing but produce fresh water and extract the minerals in the salts.

Posted by: Pete Bogs Agentic alter ego at July 17, 2026 05:34 AM (Wejm4)

34 >>> I'm not sure exactly why they chose Arizona

Because they think the cheap land will offset the cost of air conditioning.

Posted by: fluffy at July 17, 2026 05:35 AM (V0/Sp)

35 27 Data centers need cooling. There is very active research in new coolants, but water is the cheapest available.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 05:28 AM (u82oZ)

Hope it's getting better all the time.

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 05:36 AM (6wpGE)

36 For those of you keeping score, I just heard an oriole chittering loudly in the backyard.

Good to know the jelly isn't all going to chipmunks and grackles.

Posted by: fluffy at July 17, 2026 05:37 AM (V0/Sp)

37 "India has fined Hewlett Packard 1.4 billion rupees for price fixing.

About tree fiddy in real money.
"

Well, $1.4 Million USD. Enough to get the attention of a small to medium sized company, but barely a mosquito bite to a company as large as HP.

When fines are only a "cost of doing business", then the punishments need to be something they can't ignore.

Perhaps pass a law that removes legal protection for the company's copyrights and patents inside your company specific to the devices they were selling related to the conviction for cartel-like behaviour.

"Hey everyone, it's open season on HP's ink, its printer cartridges, its printers, and its software and firmware with regards to same. Reverse engineer and copy all you want so you can make your own clones of these things to use and sell. We'll slap down any attempt to seek damages in our own courts, applications from courts from other countries."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2026 05:37 AM (O7YUW)

38 And Arizona is right smack next to California, so TSMC can laugh and point at California taxing authorities.

Something about Arizona building a tech platform and has partnered with other semi-conductor manufacturers to cluster there (e.g. intel). CHIPS Act, Phoenix building Silicon Desert infrastructure to secure supply-chain.

Also lack of hurricanes, earthquakes and floods which is critical for delicate manufacturing parts.

Also university system to attract new workers

Posted by: Community Notes at July 17, 2026 05:38 AM (pawvM)

39 @20/Puddleglum: "Canada is kind of busy right now, with it being on fire and all."

https://youtu.be/1EBfxjSFAxQ

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2026 05:39 AM (O7YUW)

40 Wikipedia, TSMC

In December 2022, TSMC announced its plans to triple its investment in the Arizona plants in response to the growing tensions between the US and China and the supply chain disruption that has led to chip shortages. ...

In April 2024, the Biden administration announced a preliminary agreement to award TSMC Arizona up to $6.6 billion in direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act, alongside up to $5 billion in proposed loans, to support TSMC's planned investment of more than $65 billion across three fabrication plants in Phoenix. ...

In July 2025, [C.C.] Wei [President, Chairman, and CEO of TSMC] indicated that TSMC would speed up its production timelines toward the completion of a "gigafab" cluster totalling six facilities after an additional $100 billion investment in Arizona.

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 05:41 AM (6wpGE)

41 Long past time to build nuclear plants to do nothing but produce fresh water and extract the minerals in the salts.

In the meantime, redirect the windmills to power desalination since reverse-osmosis plants can (but shouldn't) run intermittently. This is where they can experiment with battery and water storage for smoothing out the power delivery without screwing up the grid.

Thermal desalination, nah.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 17, 2026 05:43 AM (U4c/V)

42 m

I predict ground water levels will drop. This will affect everyone in AZ.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 05:43 AM (u82oZ)

43 Community Notes

AZ can use gravity water storage as a liquid battery. But again. water loss is the rate-limiting step.

Where is there too much water? Louisiana? Hurricanes are an issue.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 05:46 AM (u82oZ)

44 in response to the growing tensions between the US and China

I guess we will be seeing a lot of H1Bs out of Taiwan settling in Phoenix.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 17, 2026 05:48 AM (U4c/V)

45 Good night all. If you missed the news in ONT comment #291, Captain Josepha Sabin's daughter passed from the recent sudden heart event; too long without oxygen to the brain. She is survived by a husband and a twin.

Posted by: SciVo at July 17, 2026 05:50 AM (Sy6m/)

46 Put Elon Musk on the water-production problem.

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 05:51 AM (6wpGE)

47 45 Good night all. If you missed the news in ONT comment #291, Captain Josepha Sabin's daughter passed from the recent sudden heart event; too long without oxygen to the brain. She is survived by a husband and a twin.
Posted by: SciVo at July 17, 2026 05:50 AM (Sy6m/)

Thank you, SciVo.

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 05:51 AM (6wpGE)

48 9 Pete Bogs Agentic alter ego

Are they using cooling fluids other than water for the Data Center? Seems important for AZ agriculture.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 04:52 AM (u82oZ)


Brawndo's got what plants crave.

Posted by: According to the Prophecy at July 17, 2026 05:52 AM (967/Q)

49 AZ can use gravity water storage as a liquid battery. But again. water loss is the rate-limiting step.

Up until 2021, Nestlé, now BlueTriton Brands, was bottling water from the Phoenix municipal water supply. That angered a lot of people, but Phoenix went out of their way to provide enough water so that Nestlé could competitively bottle there since 2018.

In other words, Phoenix is very aware of the value of water, and unlike most other cities is pro-active. I'm guessing that since Nestlé discontinued there, citing competitive reasons in the bottled water market moved elsewhere and that the water capacity is now available for TSMC.

Capacity not being used is money wasted. Phoenix needed a new customer.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 17, 2026 05:54 AM (pUU4E)

50 Community Notes

The Western Kansas winter wheat harvest declines year over year as the underlying Ogallala Aquifer is being depleted.

Water use in the West continues to be a big deal. Even mega-engineering projects may not be enough.

One immediate result is higher beef prices. In Western Kansas, most of the calves were sent to meat-packing plants this spring due to lack of fodder.
Takes 3 years from calf to market normally.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 05:54 AM (u82oZ)

51 @44/Community Notes: "I guess we will be seeing a lot of H1Bs out of Taiwan settling in Phoenix."

And if the U.S. Government is smart, they'll help with converting those to permanent residency and citizenship with a quickness, since these folks have mad skills that the USA will want to secure in a permanent fashion.

Also, build out some Buc-ee's near those new fabrication plants, stat.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2026 05:54 AM (O7YUW)

52 Any 'puter techies available at the moment?

I've been having an issue with my laptop for the last few days. Every so often, when surfing the net, everything freezes up. I cannot open tabs, I cannot close down the browser. The only thing that gets me surfin' again is Cntl-Alt-Delete and selecting task manager. I don't even have to do anything when the task manager window opens. I just have to immediately close it and everything returns to normal...until it happens again

wash-rinse-repeat many times per day.

Occurs using Brave or Chrome.

Any idea what may be going on and how to fix it?

Thanks in advance.

Posted by: one hour sober at July 17, 2026 05:55 AM (J4Dwc)

53
If you missed the news in ONT comment #291, Captain Josepha Sabin's daughter passed from the recent sudden heart event; too long without oxygen to the brain.
____________

Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2026 05:56 AM (O0L8i)

54 Community Notes

Good point on Phoenix water use, but a receding water table hints at a declining supply for the future.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 05:56 AM (u82oZ)

55 Corona - The Rhythm of the Night

"The Rhythm of the Night" is a song by Italian Eurodance group Corona.

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 05:56 AM (6wpGE)

56 32 new lingo for me

fab
noun
- a microchip fabrication plant: the process will reduce the environmental damage caused by chip fabs.
- a particular fabrication process in a manufacturing plant: it can only be made using five-layer fabs

verb (fabs, fabbing, fabbed) [with object]
- produce (a microchip).
Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 05:33 AM (6wpGE)


adjective
fabulous
- a microchip fabrication plant during Pride Month.
- a DEI employee of said plant

Posted by: According to the Prophecy at July 17, 2026 05:57 AM (967/Q)

57 Hadrian the Seventh

Thank you for that. Sigh. That will hit her hard. She was so proud of her.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 05:57 AM (u82oZ)

58 Belated BOING!

In the heat of the kitchen, cooking tons, when Mrs. BD gets a call from a pup and his wife that some of their 5 pups have come down with a nasty stomach virus.

Gotta find freezer space!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 17, 2026 05:57 AM (yMCWt)

59 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2026 05:56 AM (O0L8i)

So sorry to hear that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 05:58 AM (rZCVI)

60 Evening and morning, adherents of the vast body of philosophies that is AosHQ! 'Tis Friday at last, the consummation devoutly to be wished.

Got the Buick's rear brakes done yesterday. While my bank account is a touch lighter, the car -- partly due to a quick wash & spray wax before visiting the shop, partly due to the better roads out in the 'burbs -- seems to drive even better than it did a few days ago. Funny how that happens, huh?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 17, 2026 05:59 AM (wzUl9)

61 55 Corona - The Rhythm of the Night

Not sure which one's garrett.

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 05:59 AM (6wpGE)

62 @52/one hour sober:

Just the browser freezing? Can you open or use other applications in the operating system when the problem is manifesting?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2026 06:02 AM (O7YUW)

63 The Western Kansas winter wheat harvest declines year over year as the underlying Ogallala Aquifer is being depleted.

Wheat is a low value crop that can be grown all over the place. Think "Wealth of Nations", sure your CPA can balance your checkbook, but...

GMO is getting better at water management with shorter stalks, more drought resistant strains. With CO2 levels rising, plants need for water declines. Continue to see movement away from water-intensive farming.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 17, 2026 06:04 AM (NzX/y)

64 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Roast beast.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 17, 2026 06:05 AM (amcLV)

65 >>Just the browser freezing? Can you open or use other applications in the operating system when the problem is manifesting?

Not just the browser. All applications frozen. Thanks.

Posted by: one hour sober at July 17, 2026 06:05 AM (J4Dwc)

66 In Western Kansas, most of the calves were sent to meat-packing plants this spring due to lack of fodder.
-----------
Get rid of idiotic ethanol mandates for gasoline and suddenly there'll be lots of fodder.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 17, 2026 06:07 AM (amcLV)

67 When Texas Instruments new Sherman,Tx plant is completed they will employ 3,000 workers. Part of it is already open and manufacturing chips.

Posted by: Case at July 17, 2026 06:07 AM (bqIVz)

68 Community Notes

Yes. Kansas State University is part of that effort to breed better plants.
Tax policy is making corn growing more lucrative, even in a dry area.

I would need an answer from my Ag Econ neighbor on the value of winter wheat in an area that normally is used for hay, an even lower cost plant.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 06:08 AM (u82oZ)

69 Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

How are you doing?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 06:09 AM (u82oZ)

70 It's Friday, it's Friday! Happy, happy Friday!

*twirl*

Posted by: Rosasharn at July 17, 2026 06:09 AM (PzBTm)

71 I can't think of a worse place to put water intensive businesses than in the American Southwest.

The Colorado river supplies 7 Western states and it is wildly over allocated. The question at this time is not if but when water runs short that will require draconian rationing that will affect aspect of life. Arizona, Phoenix, in particular are in the bullseye of this looming disaster; it seems putting a water intensive major metropolitan area smack in the middle of a desert where summertime temperatures reach a 115° is a problem.

The current negotiations between the seven states and the federal government over what to do next is at a standstill. The issue is each state wants all the other ones to give up their water. If these states were countries they'd be at war with each other right now. At the end of 2026 the Colorado river water agreements end; the lawyers are already popping the corks on the champagne bottles.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 17, 2026 06:10 AM (/eAef)

72 70 It's Friday, it's Friday! Happy, happy Friday!

*twirl*
Posted by: Rosasharn at July 17, 2026 06:09 AM (PzBTm)

Yay!

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 06:10 AM (6wpGE)

73 20 16: Canada is kind of busy right now, with it being on fire and all.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 17, 2026 05:15 AM (K861k)

Who cares?

Posted by: PM Carney at July 17, 2026 06:10 AM (8l6/L)

74 84 F. now, and viciously humid. I'm glad Miss Linda and I are going to work out at the mall at ten am.

Otherwise, I got about enough sleep. Though Stirling the Great Black Worm took the opportunity to leap over and kick me a while back, it didn't keep me awake. Coffee, food for me, food for them, some writing time, and a quick visit to Aldi are on the schedule before workout time.

We watched 1981's Evil Under the Sun with Peter Ustinov as Poirot, and with Maggie Smith and Jane Birkin, last night. Good stuff, very clever. I spotted half of the murderous team, the essential trick, but not the murderer's accomplice. And Ustinov's Poirot lumbering out in a dressing gown, 1920s bathing suit, and bathing cap for a morning "swim" has to be seen to be believed.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 17, 2026 06:10 AM (wzUl9)

75 {{{Rosasharn}}}

Huzzah! And she is twirling!

*Does Happy Dance to Peter White's Reveillez-vous. *

Seriously, you make Friday start on a good note.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 06:10 AM (u82oZ)

76 GMO is getting better at water management with shorter stalks, more drought resistant strains. With CO2 levels rising, plants need for water declines. Continue to see movement away from water-intensive farming.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 17, 2026 06:04 AM (NzX/y)

Fuck you!

Posted by: Rice at July 17, 2026 06:11 AM (8l6/L)

77 Good point on Phoenix water use, but a receding water table hints at a declining supply for the future.

Phoenix gets 98% of its water from surface-water source and uses its massive ground-water reserves for backup. Think of it as the water equivalent of the Strategic Oil Preserve.

In the meantime, Phoenix is leading in Advanced Water Purification because they are a junior partner to California in tapping the Colorado River. That in itself is interesting, because Arizona may pay for California to desalinate water so that there is no need for building pipelines from the Pacific into Arizona and thus reduce California's dependence on the Colorado River.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 17, 2026 06:11 AM (NzX/y)

78 Salty, doing OK. Still having palpitations - they come and go, but are not as bad as they were Monday - and they have yet to get back to me about a cardiology appointment. Supposed to hear about that today, though.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 17, 2026 06:12 AM (amcLV)

79 system restore

Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2026 06:14 AM (ZxPkt)

80 16 >>>I'm not sure exactly why they chose Arizona apart from the fact that China is unlikely to successfully invade

And Canada. Canada is unlikely to successfully invade Arizona.
Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 05:08 AM (6wpGE)

Our old alliance and relationship with the United States…is…over.

Posted by: PM Carney at July 17, 2026 06:14 AM (8l6/L)

81 Community Notes

Thank you for this inside perspective. Sounds like there are possible solutions to lack of water.

However, depending on CA to solve problems seems fraught.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 06:15 AM (u82oZ)

82 Glad to see twirl
Now we can Friday

Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2026 06:15 AM (ZxPkt)

83 @65/one hour sober: Sounds like some kind of hardware lockup. Not good.

If Windows, check the event viewer (It's under Administrative tools in an old copy of Windows 7 I have).

In the event viewer, expand Windows Logs, System. Search near the time the problem was happening for critical events (Red X). That'll at least give you a clue.

Might be a thermal issue if you see CPU throttling. Get a tech to open it up, clean out the dust, and replace the thermal paste on the CPU and GPU.

Might be a storage device starting to go bad. Check for drive errors read-or-write in that event viewer.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2026 06:15 AM (O7YUW)

84 Looking at a new laptop and…yikes.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 17, 2026 06:15 AM (8l6/L)

85 Our old alliance and relationship with the United States…is…over.
Posted by: PM Carney

War... War never changes.
The first Fallout game had the US invade Canada.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 06:16 AM (u82oZ)

86 Looking at a new laptop and…yikes.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 17, 2026 06:15 AM (8l6/L)
-

You dropped it?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 17, 2026 06:17 AM (yMCWt)

87 @one hour sober: Don Black @ #79 just mentioned something potentially worthwhile - doing a system restore to an earlier point in time before the problem started showing up.

Might be software, especially since Microsoft just released a HUGE whack of updates. They may have broken something. Wouldn't be the first time, won't be the last.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2026 06:18 AM (O7YUW)

88 Walmart near me has MacBook Air laptops for $699. I looked at the one on display. Though I didn't measure, the screen seems to be smaller than the 2014 I'm using now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 17, 2026 06:18 AM (wzUl9)

89 @84/Cow Demon: "Looking at a new laptop and…yikes."

No kidding, right? Any piece of computing equipment I'm looking at right now results in me slamming my wallet shut and saying, "NOPE! Waiting."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2026 06:19 AM (O7YUW)

90 85 Our old alliance and relationship with the United States…is…over.
Posted by: PM Carney

War... War never changes.
The first Fallout game had the US invade Canada.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 06:16 AM (u82oZ)

Our middle powers alliance with counter your country. As well as our support for the PRC and the New…World…Order.

Posted by: PM Carney at July 17, 2026 06:19 AM (8l6/L)

91
You dropped it?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 17, 2026 06:17 AM (yMCWt)

No.

Wish the prices would drop though. Though that isn’t likely according to everything I read here.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 17, 2026 06:20 AM (8l6/L)

92 Seriously, you make Friday start on a good note.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Aw gee thanks Salty!

Posted by: Rosasharn at July 17, 2026 06:21 AM (PzBTm)

93 I foresee a rise in markets for bug proteins. Blech.

But I bet John the baptist was shredded. Think about it.

Posted by: H at July 17, 2026 06:21 AM (oLx2/)

94 Might be a thermal issue if you see CPU throttling.

All notebook computers can take advantage of a good session with an air compressor. Keyboard too.

A lot of that dust is you. (flaked off dead skin cells)

Posted by: Community Notes at July 17, 2026 06:22 AM (nCgQz)

95 Thank you for that.

Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2026 06:23 AM (ZxPkt)

96 Guten morgen, horde.

Posted by: clarence at July 17, 2026 06:24 AM (JGS5U)

97 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at July 17, 2026 06:25 AM (2Ez/1)

98 Where is there too much water? --Posted by: NaCly Dog

The southern third of the whole Mississippi Valley, for several months a year. A canal and reservoir system to put the overage into aquifers would dwarf the pyramids as a public works project, but just think of all the topsoil and wrecked cars we'd keep out of the Gulf. You could water about five states with the wastage, and replenish farmland all over the west. And if you needed to improve employment numbers, you could do it with spoons.
Maybe we'll move into this when the Stalinists take over. They used to love that kind of stuff. And now you can call it AI!

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 17, 2026 06:25 AM (zdLoL)

99 Captain Josepha Sabin was hanging out on the ONT reading morons!

327 Right now I'm just scrolling, scrolling, scrolling to keep from thinking. Keep the comments coming so I can keep on scrolling.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 16, 2026 11:52 PM (DK5Sh)

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 06:26 AM (6wpGE)

100 100

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 06:26 AM (6wpGE)

101 Way, Way Downriver

I will propose a pipeline from there to replenish the Aquifer to my State Reps. Why should the CA Train to Nowhere siphon up all the graft in the USA.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 06:28 AM (u82oZ)

102 A canal and reservoir system to put the overage into aquifers would dwarf the pyramids as a public works project,
-----------
The North American Dignity Canal has just become feasible.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 17, 2026 06:28 AM (amcLV)

103 I still haven't figured out how all the electronic gizmos work on the Mazda. Old phones I want to delete. Add my radio stations on favorites.

Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2026 06:28 AM (Ia/+0)

104 Opened "event viewer" and nosed around. No red X observed anywhere in the logs. Plenty of yellow flags though with 'DistributedCOM' being the common link.

No idea what that is.

Posted by: one hour sober at July 17, 2026 06:30 AM (J4Dwc)

105 Did or did not President Trump last night layout the predicate that China effectively engaged in acts of war on the United States of America?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 17, 2026 06:30 AM (/eAef)

106 Good morning, one and all! The air sucks out here to the point a Code Red has been called and we're told to not go outside if at all possible. I'm sure that some talking head will claim that this is climate change in action.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 17, 2026 06:32 AM (99eI0)

107 52 I've been having an issue with my laptop for the last few days. Every so often, when surfing the net, everything freezes up. I cannot open tabs, I cannot close down the browser. The only thing that gets me surfin' again is Cntl-Alt-Delete and selecting task manager. I don't even have to do anything when the task manager window opens. I just have to immediately close it and everything returns to normal...until it happens again.
Posted by: one hour sober at July 17, 2026 05:55 AM (J4Dwc)

(I am not a techie!) To the techies: does this "fix" help to diagnose the problem?

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 06:34 AM (6wpGE)

108 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 17, 2026 06:34 AM (Hbeqj)

109 Alteria Pilgram

The war in Iran is part of the US conflict with China.

Xi's actions are helping the US, so leave him in power.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 06:35 AM (u82oZ)

110 You have my sympathies, one hour sober.

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 06:35 AM (6wpGE)

111 Maybe we'll move into this when the Stalinists take over.

I never understood the reasoning of the Leftists when they say we need to save This and preserve That and leave that Other Thing in pristine shape.

Translation: I must deprive myself of the spoils of a modern prosperous, flourishing society so that third world heathen savages can do what with it?

Posted by: Community Notes at July 17, 2026 06:35 AM (xE0sV)

112 olddog in mo

How is the lake?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 06:35 AM (u82oZ)

113 The air sucks out here to the point a Code Red has been called and we're told to not go outside if at all possible.

I'm about to head out to Cleveland where today's events just got canceled. Tomorrow's big storms should clear out the smoke and allow my competition...never mind. My event will get canceled, too. But the air will be good!

Posted by: t-bird at July 17, 2026 06:36 AM (EJWxb)

114 Did or did not President Trump last night layout the predicate that China effectively engaged in acts of war on the United States of America?

What? Only Five Eyes have the franchise of election interference, regime change and nation building?

Our CIA exists to engage in Acts of War on every other sovereign nation on this planet.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 17, 2026 06:37 AM (xE0sV)

115 The only thing that gets me surfin' again is Cntl-Alt-Delete and selecting task manager...

Have you tried rebooting the machine? If there is a pending update that needs to restart, it can cause the PC to act all wonky.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 17, 2026 06:38 AM (/eAef)

116 106 The air sucks out here to the point a Code Red has been called and we're told to not go outside if at all possible.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 17, 2026 06:32 AM (99eI0)

yikes

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 06:38 AM (6wpGE)

117 We have a "Code Purple" today in PA. Did they just make that up yesterday?

Posted by: t-bird at July 17, 2026 06:39 AM (EJWxb)

118 The air sucks out here to the point a Code Red has been called and we're told to not go outside if at all possible. I'm sure that some talking head will claim that this is climate change in action.

I'm pretty sure that my SUV and BBQ, or use of air-con never threw off this much Carbon™ and Climate Change™

Apparently nature can tell the difference between mega-volcanoes, Saharan dust and Mexican/Canadian wildfires and the environmental crime of me merely existing.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 17, 2026 06:41 AM (xE0sV)

119 Our CIA exists to engage in Acts of War on every other Every sovereign nation on this planet.
Posted by: Community Notes

FIFY.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 06:42 AM (u82oZ)

120 Often make stove top oatmeal with milk, oatmeal, raises and cinnamon and thats it.
Have dried cranberries and was going to make oatmeal with them, except out of oatmeal. So use Cream of wheat. Was pretty good.

Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2026 06:42 AM (Ia/+0)

121 120 dried cranberries
Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2026 06:42 AM (Ia/+0)

yum

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 06:46 AM (6wpGE)

122 I still haven't figured out how all the electronic gizmos work on the Mazda. Old phones I want to delete. Add my radio stations on favorites.
Posted by: Skip

Don't feel bad. I've had my car for almost 2 years and I still haven't figured out all the gadgets yet.

Posted by: Tuna at July 17, 2026 06:47 AM (lJ0H4)

123 "Opener "event viewer" and nosed around. No red X observed anywhere in the logs. Plenty of yellow flags though with 'DistributedCOM' being the common link.

No idea what that is.
Posted by: one hour sober"

Those are common and probably insignificant. Does the laptop have an SSD? I have seen that kind of behavior with a failing drive. Nothing in the event log like read failures that would indicate it. I would try to clone the drive to see if it can make it all the way thru.

Posted by: fd at July 17, 2026 06:49 AM (MWfyi)

124 NYT this morning

"Trump Exaggerates Claims About Election Vulnerabilities in Speech"

F'n commies.

Posted by: fd at July 17, 2026 06:51 AM (MWfyi)

125 124 NYT this morning

"Trump Exaggerates Claims About Election Vulnerabilities in Speech"

F'n commies.
Posted by: fd at July 17, 2026 06:51 AM (MWfyi)

The disrespect for the office is astonishing.

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 06:52 AM (6wpGE)

126 @104/one hour sober: { Opened "event viewer" and nosed around. No red X observed anywhere in the logs. Plenty of yellow flags though with 'DistributedCOM' being the common link. }

DistributedCOM is a class of errors. There'll be an ID with it, and more information under the details tab, and get the GUID of what caused the error.

Also, is there a group of those showing up right before each freeze-in-time? (Start writing down the times of the freeze so you can check.)

But don't get too invested in chasing the DCOM errors UNLESS they're clustering up right before a freeze, because they're only "yellow" warnings, not critical events. They may not be related at all.

I'm leaning towards what Don Black suggested.

Reboot the system so you're on a clean restart, then do a system restore to before Tuesday July 14.
See here:
https://tinyurl.com/yc6x7z4u

That's a LOT of fixes for one day.

Of course this begs the question: WHEN did this problem start showing up? If it was after the most recent patch-Tuesday (the 14th) then yeah, that strongly points to "Microsoft done screwed something up. Again."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2026 06:53 AM (O7YUW)

127 "Trump Exaggerates Claims About Election Vulnerabilities in Speech"


How can they prove that? What they are claiming is that they know for a fact that the level of fraud and the exposure to outside meddling is no where near what he says.

Which is weird, because the NYT doesn't do any investigation, they just publish narratives and unsubstantiated propaganda.

Trump, OTOH, has thrown large multiples of man-hours and subpoeana power at uncovering election irregularities.

Even with the incompetence of government employees, kicking over some rocks ought to yield more facts and data than doing nothing more than covering over a corrupt election rigging political party.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 17, 2026 06:57 AM (xE0sV)

128 The Cultural Marxists are not going to admit they had help with voter fraud.
I remember straight away in 2020 that China might have printed fake ballots

Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2026 06:57 AM (Ia/+0)

129 "How can they prove that? "

Since when does proof matter to the NYT? Propaganda does not require proof.

Posted by: fd at July 17, 2026 06:59 AM (MWfyi)

130 @127/Community Notes: If the NYT claimed the sky was blue or water was wet, I'd go out and check for myself.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2026 07:00 AM (O7YUW)

131 I hate to say it, but nothing will happen other than the media will use this to "prove" Trump is crazy and unfit for office.

Posted by: fd at July 17, 2026 07:00 AM (MWfyi)

132 Iran attacking it's Arab neighbors hard.

What to do? What to do?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 07:01 AM (u82oZ)

133 Morning peeps. Didn't get to watch Trump's speech last night.

I assume election fraud was the topic? Any big revelations? Anyone going to prison?*

*I kid, I kid

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 07:02 AM (jehhT)

134 If it was after the most recent patch-Tuesday (the 14th) then yeah, that strongly points to "Microsoft done screwed something up. Again."

I did an A/B with corporate computer and personal computer (I intentionally delay all updates for a few weeks because of this exact "feature" of Microsoft's H1B development core)

Lots of new irregular behavior with the most recent update. Lock ups, dropped or profoundly slow internet, tools freezing, OneDrive connection failing auth/authz, etc.

Personal... just the usual Microsoft slop.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 17, 2026 07:02 AM (BvPIe)

135 It's all about the headlines, which travel quickly around the world.

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 07:02 AM (6wpGE)

136 moar covfefe

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 07:03 AM (6wpGE)

137 G'mornin' everyone!

So, martial law upon everyone who doesn't have a MAGA hat, right?

it's about time!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 17, 2026 07:04 AM (VyBeY)

138 Here we go again. The school supplies drives have started up because the schools spend some much damn money on crap they can't afford pencils and crayons.

Posted by: fd at July 17, 2026 07:04 AM (MWfyi)

139 "And if you needed to improve employment numbers, you could do it with spoons."
++++

*scribbles notes*

Posted by: Chamber of Commerce at July 17, 2026 07:04 AM (2Ez/1)

140 I still haven't figured out how all the electronic gizmos work on the Mazda. Old phones I want to delete. Add my radio stations on favorites.
Posted by: Skip
*
Don't feel bad. I've had my car for almost 2 years and I still haven't figured out all the gadgets yet.
Posted by: Tuna at July 17, 2026


***
I'd had the Buick for four years when I discovered that by twiddling the right stereo knob while playing songs from the USB drive, the screen displays the entire list of songs on the drive, and you can scroll up and down to select a particular cut.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 17, 2026 07:04 AM (wzUl9)

141 I'm now using my late wife's Dell laptop, also with Windows 11. It's a mostly new laptop. Same thing is happening.

Posted by: one hour sober at July 17, 2026 07:05 AM (J4Dwc)

142 Memeorandum aggregates 23 news stories this morning reporting on PDJT's speech last night. Every single headline disparages his words or him directly. There is no pretense at all of fairness or even the slightest credence given, it's all false, misleading, exaggerated, or just called out and out lies.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 17, 2026 07:05 AM (UpmsQ)

143 Apparently nature can tell the difference between mega-volcanoes, Saharan dust and Mexican/Canadian wildfires and the environmental crime of me merely existing.
Posted by: Community Notes


Our existence is why the ice caps on Mars are melting. There is only one solution available to us!

Posted by: NR Pax at July 17, 2026 07:06 AM (99eI0)

144

*hic*



Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 17, 2026 07:06 AM (sUMTS)

145 Wolfus, if you want to contact me, BenHad has my email.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 17, 2026 07:07 AM (4VH0B)

146 India has fined Hewlett Packard 1.4 billion rupees for price fixing.

"Here you are. I just happened to have that much in my couch. I'll throw in an extra ten so get my bags to the car please."

Posted by: NR Pax at July 17, 2026 07:07 AM (99eI0)

147 I just stepped outside to pick up the paper and wow, you can really smell the smoke here inside the beltway.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at July 17, 2026 07:07 AM (rii+a)

148 There is no pretense at all of fairness or even the slightest credence given, it's all false, misleading, exaggerated, or just called out and out lies.

And Karmelo didn't kill anyone.

This is the 'D' in DARVO, expect the other letters to arrive shortly.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 17, 2026 07:08 AM (BvPIe)

149 The closest to a fair hearing from the major networks appears to have been CBS, who joined the speech late and left it early, and whose anchor then began to nitpick the President while he still spoke.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 17, 2026 07:08 AM (UpmsQ)

150 fd

Schools are teaching learned helplessness.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 07:08 AM (u82oZ)

151 {{{TecumsehTea}}}

May the path for you and yours be made smooth.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 07:09 AM (u82oZ)

152 124 NYT this morning

"Trump Exaggerates Claims About Election Vulnerabilities in Speech"

F'n commies.
Posted by: fd



Ah. So, the NYT's confirms that Trump is right about Election Vulnerabilities and its worse than we thought. Thanks NYT's.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 17, 2026 07:09 AM (sAmhv)

153 122 I still haven't figured out how all the electronic gizmos work on the Mazda. Old phones I want to delete. Add my radio stations on favorites.
Posted by: Skip

***
Android Auto now uses Google Gemini to tell you stuff.
You can ask it to find you the lowest price gas in a two mile radius, the location of the nearest coffee shop or the airspeed of an unladen swallow.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 17, 2026 07:10 AM (2Ez/1)

154 @one hour sober:

More circumstantial evidence that doing a system restore to prior to July 14 might be the way to go.

See #134 by Community Notes:

"I did an A/B with corporate computer and personal computer (I intentionally delay all updates for a few weeks because of this exact "feature" of Microsoft's H1B development core)

Lots of new irregular behavior with the most recent update. Lock ups, dropped or profoundly slow internet, tools freezing, OneDrive connection failing auth/authz, etc.
"

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2026 07:10 AM (O7YUW)

155 Hillary Clinton

Bravo. Being able to type while almost blackout drunk is a neat skill you have.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 07:10 AM (u82oZ)

156 Top story on the DM is someone broke into a NBC studio. The media will try to bury the story by ignoring it.

Posted by: fd at July 17, 2026 07:10 AM (MWfyi)

157 Hi NaCly, thanks for the prayers.
Things are moving forward here, and it's better.

You are most kind.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 17, 2026 07:11 AM (4VH0B)

158 fd

Perp walks in GA will push that off the headlines. Go get them, FBI.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 07:11 AM (u82oZ)

159 >>>Our CIA exists to engage in Acts of War on every other Every sovereign nation on this planet.
Posted by: Community Notes

>Now is time to act on Cuba. Trade Ukraine for Cuba and let NATO handle Ukraine. Give Putin time to remove his emissaries but make it certain we're taking Cuba.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 17, 2026 07:12 AM (sYM3s)

160 Yesterday was our 49th wedding anniversary.
God is good, patient, compassionate and He has a sense of humor.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 17, 2026 07:13 AM (4VH0B)

161 @147/actually inside the beltway: "I just stepped outside to pick up the paper and wow, you can really smell the smoke here inside the beltway."

I fart in your general direction! {/outrageous French accent}

Posted by: Une forêt au Québec at July 17, 2026 07:13 AM (O7YUW)

162 "Trump Exaggerates Claims About Election Vulnerabilities in Speech"

F'n commies.
Posted by: fd at July 17, 2026 06:51 AM (MWfyi)

The disrespect for the office is astonishing.

--

That's exactly what it is. Disrespect, but for him more than the office itself. They treat him like trash.

Funny, he has all the federal gov't records and proof at his fingertips and explains it to the people...and the "media" has none of those records, but say he "exaggerates." How would they know? They don't. Their entire purpose is to slime and disrespect him, and do everything in their power to keep the massive fraud going.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 17, 2026 07:13 AM (qBdHI)

163 Freakin' accented characters in French cause those weird characters here.

The name was supposed to be: Une foret au Quebec (A forest in Quebec).

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2026 07:14 AM (O7YUW)

164 The funny part about the NYT and other outlets claiming Trump is lying is that they aren't the gatekeepers any more.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 17, 2026 07:15 AM (99eI0)

165 "Perp walks in GA will push that off the headlines."

I don't have much confidence in that happening. In fact, I expect that probably most likely there is a good chance that nothing will happen.

Posted by: fd at July 17, 2026 07:15 AM (MWfyi)

166 Well of to wars
Will try to pop in every once in awhile
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2026 07:15 AM (Ia/+0)

167 Now is time to act on Cuba. Trade Ukraine for Cuba and let NATO handle Ukraine. Give Putin time to remove his emissaries but make it certain we're taking Cuba.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 17, 2026 07:12 AM (sYM3s)
-----------
Why? Let the Cubans decide the fate of the Castros. Just keep Russia and China out, like Trump is doing now.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 17, 2026 07:15 AM (5xBgn)

168 @156/fd: "Top story on the DM is someone broke into a NBC studio."

And all they found was communist propaganda?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2026 07:16 AM (O7YUW)

169 TecumsehTea

Keep going! I was told by a couple married 54 years that the first 50 were the toughest. Now they are coasting.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 07:16 AM (u82oZ)

170 Nobody watches "the media" anymore anyway. Why would you look to them for validation of anything?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 17, 2026 07:16 AM (2Ez/1)

171 NaCly -- lol

Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 17, 2026 07:18 AM (4VH0B)

172 @141/one hour sober: "141 I'm now using my late wife's Dell laptop, also with Windows 11. It's a mostly new laptop. Same thing is happening."

That's very strong evidence that the latest updates have borked things.

System restore, prior to July 14, then delay updates for two+ weeks until they sort their garbage updates out.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2026 07:18 AM (O7YUW)

173 Quarter Twenty

Media is like a 17 year old boy, promising to love her forever. But first ...

Media is proven to be untrustworthy, and an enemy of advanced civilization.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 07:19 AM (u82oZ)

174 The funny part about the NYT and other outlets claiming Trump is lying is that they aren't the gatekeepers any more.

Considering the integration of departments and agencies under the Trump administration, I don't think it was a stretch that they borrowed SIGINT from the Department of War and watched the telephones light up from certain people to other certain people shortly after the speech.

Flushing quail.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 17, 2026 07:19 AM (U4c/V)

175 Microslop. Gotta start using that term more. They are not deserving of any respect whatsoever.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2026 07:19 AM (O7YUW)

176 Good morning Horde thx Pixy
@160 Tecumseh Tea, congrats many more
To Captain Sabin my condolences to you and your family on your loss.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 07:19 AM (OXYE0)

177 @173/NaCly Dog: "Media is proven to be untrustworthy, and an enemy of advanced civilization."

Presstitutes!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2026 07:19 AM (O7YUW)

178 Has there been any further news about Captain Josepha Sabins's daughter, the one who had sudden heart failure about 2 days ago? I kinda looked through the threads for an update but didn't see one.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 17, 2026 07:20 AM (4VH0B)

179 Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Microsoft has certainly abused First Mover advantages. I expect market share is dropping.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 07:20 AM (u82oZ)

180 Oh, I saw the comment above just now.
How terrible for them. Goodness.

Prayers for comfort.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 17, 2026 07:21 AM (4VH0B)

181 That's very strong evidence that the latest updates have borked things.

Confirmed by Corporate IT, they are doing enterprise level roll-backs until the latest updates become settled.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 17, 2026 07:21 AM (U4c/V)

182 "Top story on the DM is someone broke into a NBC studio."

--

Pravdagate!

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 17, 2026 07:21 AM (qBdHI)

183 TecumsehTea

ONT comment #291. Very sad. Unrecoverable heart attack.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 07:23 AM (u82oZ)

184 I'm on a WIN11 Dell laptop, getting all the MS updates, and I feel fine. I use Firefox.

Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2026 07:24 AM (ZxPkt)

185 Media is proven to be untrustworthy, and an enemy of advanced civilization.

--

The "media" bears the full force of our steep decline. They have ruined this country with as much force as any politician could ever have done.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 17, 2026 07:24 AM (qBdHI)

186 And kill your OneDrive.

Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2026 07:24 AM (ZxPkt)

187 "Top story on the DM is someone broke into a NBC studio."
....
Oh, no!
.
.
.
Anyway...

Posted by: Most people at July 17, 2026 07:25 AM (2Ez/1)

188 With MS, it helps to turn a lot of things off.

Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2026 07:25 AM (ZxPkt)

189 "Pravdagate!
Posted by: Lady in Black"

The guy was charged with hate crime menacing, hate crime burglary, hate crime criminal trespass and harassment.


Hate makes all those crimes worse. The guy will be out in two weeks instead of one.

Posted by: fd at July 17, 2026 07:26 AM (MWfyi)

190 {{{Lady in Black }}}

Looking at today's Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki compared with NYC, Detroit and LA, the Media and Dem policies they tout are more destructive than kiloton atomic bombs. For LA, more than megaton hydrogen bombs.

They are evil, a term I do not use a lot.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 07:27 AM (u82oZ)

191
You shall not cheat!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 17, 2026 07:28 AM (s9VOe)

192 Meanwhile, we have a squirrel in my yard that we have dubbed "Cheese Stick" because that's how we describe his level of survival instincts. A few days ago, I watched him climb down from his tree while the dogs were out, get a few yards away from one of my pups and stare at him.

Yesterday, the pack almost got him. The dogs are muzzled in the yard so they couldn't grab him and he managed to duck under them and get to his tree.

Stupid tree bunnies. But at least it's entertaining to watch.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 17, 2026 07:28 AM (99eI0)

193 142 Memeorandum aggregates 23 news stories this morning reporting on PDJT's speech last night. Every single headline disparages his words or him directly. There is no pretense at all of fairness or even the slightest credence given, it's all false, misleading, exaggerated, or just called out and out lies.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 17, 2026 07:05 AM (UpmsQ)

... and unresearched. See comment #127.

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 07:29 AM (6wpGE)

194 Someone in Canadia is missing a bunch of smoke, eh?

Posted by: Don't look now at July 17, 2026 07:29 AM (2Ez/1)

195 I hate hate

Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2026 07:30 AM (ZxPkt)

196
TSMC =
Taiwan
Semiconductor
Manufacturing
Company Limited
Posted by: m


And here i thought it meant Transylvania Marine Corps.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 17, 2026 07:30 AM (s9VOe)

197 @192/NR Pax: "Stupid tree bunnies. But at least it's entertaining to watch."

1. I call 'em "Tree Rats".

2. I've seen too many drivers of cars out there that exhibit "squirrel brain" - darting out at the last second, unexpected changes in direction, etc...

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2026 07:31 AM (O7YUW)

198 Gah, nearly 200 comments this morning, we be chatty!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2026 07:31 AM (O7YUW)

199 We know have a fox living in our neighborhood, and so we have fewer rabbits and squirrels than we once had. The fox is pretty brazen, just wandering through yards in a leisurely manner.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 17, 2026 07:32 AM (zyFko)

200 Any idea what may be going on and how to fix it?

Stop using Windows to do your web browsing. Unless you're doing something really specific, you could switch to a linux distribution to do whatever you are probably doing.

That includes using Excel spreadsheets, reading Word documents, and looking at PowerPoint documents.

For some really odd reason, editing an Excel spreadsheet, Word Document, or PowerPoint document may result in something Windows users won't enjoy. There are OpenOffice document equivalents that MicroSoft Office *should* import correctly, but where's the money in that?

Posted by: Richard Cranium at July 17, 2026 07:32 AM (KDWdp)

201 Grumpy and Recalcitrant

J.J. Arrived runway 270.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 17, 2026 07:32 AM (u82oZ)

202
It's the rovers on Mars causing the ice caps to melt.

Seriously, NASA came up with a 10 Billion dollar price tag to bring back a sample of martian soil.

Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 07:33 AM (Y8DZL)

203 191 You shall not cheat!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 17, 2026 07:28 AM (s9VOe)

wut

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 07:40 AM (6wpGE)

204 Good night all. If you missed the news in ONT comment #291, Captain Josepha Sabin's daughter passed from the recent sudden heart event; too long without oxygen to the brain. She is survived by a husband and a twin.

I have absolutely no context about this event. Please provide some which does not assume that current readers have been obsessively reading every single AOS comment for years.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at July 17, 2026 07:40 AM (KDWdp)

205 I'm not sure exactly why they chose Arizona

There are already fabs in the area, which means they can poach some talent

Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2026 07:53 AM (YtmxO)

206
204 Good night all. If you missed the news in ONT comment #291, Captain Josepha Sabin's daughter passed from the recent sudden heart event; too long without oxygen to the brain. She is survived by a husband and a twin.

I have absolutely no context about this event. Please provide some which does not assume that current readers have been obsessively reading every single AOS comment for years.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at July 17, 2026 07:40 AM (KDWdp)

type into a google search bar:

sabin site:acecomments.mu.nu

hits include e.g.
Daily Tech News 15 July 2026

68 My daughter needs every prayer the Horde can muster. Almost six hours ago she had complete heart failure. She is currently in the ICU on a heart lung machine. They will soon take her to the OR to see if they can figure out what is happening. My thanks in advance. I have faith in the Hor[d]e's power of prayer.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 15, 2026 06:26 AM (l4yIu)

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 07:55 AM (6wpGE)

207 The daughter has a twin sister and is married.

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 07:56 AM (6wpGE)

208 Work beckons. I gotta git.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2026 08:00 AM (O7YUW)

209 Here in the United States, the share of left-wing terrorist attacks and plots has risen to levels not seen in decades. In Germany, far-left violence has jumped by more than 40 percent in just the last year alone. In Greece, more than 80 percent of radical violence is now driven by far-left and anarchist actors. These are not abstract statistics.

Americans have seen what those numbers mean – an all-out assault on our immigration officers, sniper attacks, explosives, armed ambushes. A transgender shooter opening fire on Catholic elementary school students as they pray, his gun marked with slogans like, “Where is your God now?” A health care executive executed in cold blood in the streets. Multiple assassination attempts on a sitting president. And the murder of the greatest conservative activist of a generation, a man who happened also to be a husband and the father of two young children, shot and killed while speaking to a crowd of students.

This is a distinctive and unique evil. It has always been driven by a hatred above all else, a hatred for civilization itself.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 17, 2026 08:37 AM (RV6uI)

210 It is a revolt of the worst against the best, a revolt of the weak and the cowardly against the strong and the good. It is perpetrated by those who cannot build, who cannot create, who cannot achieve great things, and take their revenge upon the world for their own inadequacy by seeking to destroy those who can. This is what radical leftism is.

- Marco Rubio

Posted by: Vengeance at July 17, 2026 08:37 AM (RV6uI)

211 Okay, India did not fine Hewlett Packard anything. Hewlett Packard no longer exists as a company. The company that was Hewlett Packard is what became HPInc, where the "HP" doesn't stand for anything. What was Hewlett Packard's server business became Hewlett Packard Enterprise which, thanks to the training they made me take when they spun us off, I know is supposed to be introduced as "Hewlett Packard Enterprise" before you can shorten it to HPE.

It's been more than a decade since the split happened. I missed the easy access to the color laser printers at the end of every cube row before HPE laid me off. Now, I work elsewhere and I have a Brother color laser printer at the house. I don't know if I can print anything at work.

Thank you for reading this far.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at July 17, 2026 10:49 AM (aTl7+)

212 Arizona does not currently have statewide Daylight Savings Time, so there may be a *remote* correlation that abolishing DST won't have any impact on them at all. Which is a cost savings for programming timesheets.
Either that or they like dry heat?

Posted by: Jon at July 17, 2026 02:18 PM (woxlq)

Thursday Overnight Open Thread - July 16, 2026 [Doof]

Open thread. That's it. That's the content. Whelm yourselves!



***

Doof Enterprises, LLC would like to apologize for the lack of a proper ONT tonight. We'd also like the SAVE Act signed into law. We don't see either happening.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:08 PM




Comments

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1 1st

Posted by: Shen Nan I Gan at July 16, 2026 10:09 PM (TPz4F)

2 Fair enough

Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2026 10:09 PM (rdVOm)

3 I am whelmed.

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 16, 2026 10:09 PM (zZu0s)

4
Hi

Posted by: four seasons at July 16, 2026 10:09 PM (/QHx4)

5 Whelm yourselves!

In public?!?

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

6
Nothing wrong about open threads.

Enjoy the break.

Posted by: four seasons at July 16, 2026 10:10 PM (/QHx4)

7 Ok..
I'm back.
I.was whelming in my bunk.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 16, 2026 10:10 PM (2WIwB)

8 I read the content. Rookie mistake

Posted by: 496 at July 16, 2026 10:10 PM (sOtuf)

9 Woulda been earlier but I read the content.

Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at July 16, 2026 10:10 PM (X5FXP)

10 Totally Whelmed.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 16, 2026 10:11 PM (NnhvP)

11 that was quite a speech Shoert & concise. Save America now!

Posted by: DanMa'am at July 16, 2026 10:11 PM (8uzBS)

12 I’ve been whelmed and I can’t get up!

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at July 16, 2026 10:11 PM (ZTJjv)

13 I would like to speak to the manager about the shameful lack content in tonights's ONT.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 16, 2026 10:11 PM (u/oMr)

14 Didnt read and still not first

Posted by: LASue at July 16, 2026 10:11 PM (lCppi)

15 I.was whelming in my bunk.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 16, 2026 10:10 PM (2WIwB)

*pointedly does not shake hands*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 16, 2026 10:11 PM (zZu0s)

16 You're soaking in it.

Posted by: Madge at July 16, 2026 10:12 PM (2Ez/1)

17 I was already whelmed, so I guess I have to un-whelm, and then rewhelm.

How long after whelming before I can go swimming?

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 16, 2026 10:12 PM (BqIN1)

18 I heard I could get some whelm here. That true?

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 16, 2026 10:12 PM (ftFVW)

19 17 I was already whelmed, so I guess I have to un-whelm, and then rewhelm.

---------

I was feeling pretty gruntled until I read this comment.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 16, 2026 10:13 PM (u/oMr)

20 How long after whelming before I can go swimming?
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 16, 2026 10:12 PM (BqIN1)

You can whelm while swimming- fish do it all the time.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 16, 2026 10:13 PM (zZu0s)

21
*runs into room*
*skids on one foot*
*hangs onto door frame*

Know what the top news item is on the local news? The guy shot by ICE. And illegal dumping in Houston. REEEEEEEE!!!!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2026 10:13 PM (O0L8i)

22
Wham, bam, whelm you ma'am.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 10:13 PM (w6EFb)

23 Wake me up
before you goo goo

Posted by: Whelm! at July 16, 2026 10:13 PM (wVcYX)

24 Slow news day.

Unless you drive across bridges in Iran.

Or fill ballot boxes for China.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at July 16, 2026 10:13 PM (vSvIl)

25 What's the over/under odds on whelmed?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 16, 2026 10:14 PM (n5tGW)

26 Amazing content!

Wait, what!?

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 10:14 PM (Jexy3)

27 I heard I could get some whelm here. That true?
Posted by: She Hobbit
-------

$20, same as last thread.

Posted by: Turncoat Thommy Tillis at July 16, 2026 10:14 PM (XeU6L)

28 Are we still on the same guy shot by ice? The guy with meth?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 16, 2026 10:14 PM (zZu0s)

29 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 16, 2026 10:14 PM (S8cdb)

30 China interfering and working with the Commie-crats to fix elections !!!!!!!!!!

THE HORROR ......................... THE HORROR .........

Who would have believed this ???????

Posted by: Jackson K. at July 16, 2026 10:14 PM (ppijb)

31 I.was whelming in my bunk.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 16, 2026 10:10 PM (2WIwB)

*pointedly does not shake hands*
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 16, 2026 10:11 PM (zZu0s)

***

*lights cigarette*
*blows smoke towards ceiling*
*feigns indifference*

Posted by: Diogenes at July 16, 2026 10:14 PM (2WIwB)

32 Some kid put a Trump rubber ducky on my chair today. I was watching spawn shooting and when I came back it was there. Kinda cute.

Posted by: lin-duh at July 16, 2026 10:14 PM (YbiW4)

33 Well okay! I am guessing Doof is driving back from the northern HQ.

Posted by: Piper at July 16, 2026 10:14 PM (Dd38x)

34 Thanks for posting the ONT, Doof!

I am adequately whelmed.

Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2026 10:15 PM (rdVOm)

35 I was already whelmed, so I guess I have to un-whelm, and then rewhelm.

How long after whelming before I can go swimming?
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus)

I'd think you'd be more worried about the length of the whelm refractory period. I've heard it gets longer as you age.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 16, 2026 10:15 PM (ftFVW)

36 Problem with Whelm is the agoraphobia effect.
Now Blackrazor on the other hand . . .

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 10:15 PM (gKWVE)

37
*flips calendar pages irritably*

Isn't this Thursday? Where's the content? For the money we pay this guy, you'd think there would be more red meat for the Horde.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2026 10:16 PM (O0L8i)

38 13 I would like to speak to the manager about the shameful lack content in tonights's ONT.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 16, 2026

Your complaint has been duly noted.

Posted by: Piper at July 16, 2026 10:16 PM (Dd38x)

39 *I heard I could get some whelm here.*
+++
No whelm in this realm.

Posted by: Look in the elm at July 16, 2026 10:16 PM (2Ez/1)

40 Entering tonight's ONT...

https://youtu.be/fREmwwfT_Ts

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

41 Whelm, whelm, whelm....what have we hear?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 16, 2026 10:16 PM (xcxpd)

42 To repeat what I said earlier "whelmed" means capsized.

The "over" is actually redundant or emphatic or just idiom.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 10:16 PM (ikSmX)

43 Sorry I'm late, I had to go and read all the content before making a comment.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 16, 2026 10:17 PM (tZibE)

44 Some kid put a Trump rubber ducky on my chair today. I was watching spawn shooting and when I came back it was there. Kinda cute.
Posted by: lin-duh

We'll remember when that duck is part of the MOME raffle!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 16, 2026 10:17 PM (NnhvP)

45 I've heard it gets longer as you age.
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 16, 2026 10:15 PM (ftFVW)

----------
Seriously? Like ears.

Something to look forward to I guess.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 16, 2026 10:17 PM (BqIN1)

46 DIY ONT---

https://youtu.be/ZdJmXeod0RE

Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2026 10:18 PM (rdVOm)

47 Obligatory "I think you can in Europe" comment.

Posted by: pookysgirl, adjusting to the time zone at July 16, 2026 10:18 PM (IpEsz)

48 And in Olde English it's hwelmed.

Thanks to the Flemish typsetters that thought "hw" was the wrong order.

All stuff I learned from "Rob Words" on youtube.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 10:18 PM (ikSmX)

49 I just want it on the official record that I am the man who coined the phrase "sewer flotsam."

I expect thst fact to appear in my obituary.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 16, 2026 10:18 PM (tZibE)

50 Injunction ! - signed Chief Chokindachicken respected Hawaiian Judge.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at July 16, 2026 10:18 PM (zqeQL)

51 I, for one, am plussed.

Which is a good thing.

I think.

It's a weird word.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, so easily distracted at July 16, 2026 10:19 PM (0aYVJ)

52 So much whelming. Im exhausted.

Posted by: LASue at July 16, 2026 10:19 PM (lCppi)

53
Ready about!

Whelm's alee!

Posted by: Cpt. Mike Hammer, waxing maritime at July 16, 2026 10:19 PM (XeU6L)

54 Yahoo 'news' says: Trump claims China accessed US voter data.

What, no WITHOUT EVIDENCE! included???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 16, 2026 10:19 PM (vDZgA)

55 Fucking Flemish typesetters.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 16, 2026 10:19 PM (6/7Fs)

56 Looks like we've got some fresh whelm.

Posted by: Just came over the helm at July 16, 2026 10:19 PM (2Ez/1)

57 more red meat for the Horde.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

The speech was covered in the last thread!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 16, 2026 10:19 PM (NnhvP)

58 Hank Johnson was worried about whelming.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 10:19 PM (ikSmX)

59 “Re-iterate” is redundant too, I’ve been told. And how does pre-registration differ from regular old registration?

Irregardless, for all intensive purposes it’s a mute point, I suppose

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 10:20 PM (fO4iR)

60 Looks like I was late with the "read the content" comment. Only about a dozen other Morons best me to it.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 16, 2026 10:20 PM (tZibE)

61 Thx Doof. Brevity is the soul of wit
You can be overwhelmed, underwhelmed, but can you be sidewhelmed?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2026 10:20 PM (OXYE0)

62 Evening, Horde....I missed all the fun and excitement today.

I was busy leading a company of squirrel commandos on a daring raid in enemy territory to rescue a damsel in distress.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 16, 2026 10:20 PM (FZ29D)

63 Can you "peat"?

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 10:20 PM (ikSmX)

64 >>> 32 Some kid put a Trump rubber ducky on my chair today. I was watching spawn shooting and when I came back it was there. Kinda cute.
Posted by: lin-duh at July 16, 2026 10:14 PM (YbiW4)

Hope she's kicking lots of steel and/or cardboard ass.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 16, 2026 10:21 PM (vDZgA)

65 can you be sidewhelmed?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2026 10:20 PM (OXYE0)


Crosscurrents on South Padre. Stay in the shallows.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 10:21 PM (gKWVE)

66 Plussed means youse ain’t gruntled, right?

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 10:21 PM (fO4iR)

67 Thx Doof. Brevity is the soul of wit
You can be overwhelmed, underwhelmed, but can you be sidewhelmed?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2026 10:20 PM (OXYE0)

Sure, but it'll cost extra.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, so easily distracted at July 16, 2026 10:21 PM (0aYVJ)

68 Buncha deviated preverts.

Posted by: Colonel Bat Guano at July 16, 2026 10:21 PM (/HDaX)

69 I, for one, am plussed.

Which is a good thing.
I think.

It's a weird word.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

"Renege"

Let's not even go there.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 16, 2026 10:22 PM (pyNYl)

70 23 Wake me up
before you goo goo
Posted by: Whelm! at July 16, 2026 10:13 PM (wVcYX)

You're such a doll.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 16, 2026 10:22 PM (tZibE)

71 I've heard it gets longer as you age.
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 16, 2026 10:15 PM (ftFVW)

----------
Seriously? Like ears.

Something to look forward to I guess.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 16, 2026 10:17 PM (BqIN1)

Getting older:

What I once used to do all night now takes me all night to do once.

and

Once a King, always a King
But once a night is enough.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 16, 2026 10:22 PM (wVcYX)

72 DIY ONT
Posted by: JQ


Okay!

DJ Doof mikeski - Content Tie-in Edition

https://youtu.be/jFHpVrLX5AQ
https://youtu.be/VcEiLilmUmw
https://youtu.be/YXFlDz-TtfI

Posted by: mikeski at July 16, 2026 10:22 PM (VHUov)

73 >>> 67 Thx Doof. Brevity is the soul of wit
You can be overwhelmed, underwhelmed, but can you be sidewhelmed?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2026 10:20 PM (OXYE0)

Sure, but it'll cost extra.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, so easily distracted at July 16, 2026 10:21 PM (0aYVJ)

It's *not* the same as in town?!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 16, 2026 10:22 PM (vDZgA)

74 Here ya go, Hadrian:

https://youtu.be/N5E3mhZOOoQ

Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2026 10:22 PM (rdVOm)

75 I've heard it gets longer as you age.
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 16, 2026 10:15 PM (ftFVW)

***

*checks tie in mirror*
*winks*

Hi there!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 16, 2026 10:22 PM (2WIwB)

76 What's the over under on the whelm?

Posted by: Dunno. Ask Wilhelm at July 16, 2026 10:22 PM (2Ez/1)

77 If a device or appliance is said to be “out of whack”, it necessarily implies a state or condition of whack exists, and presumably, is preferable.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 10:23 PM (fO4iR)

78 Ask your doctor if Whelm is right for you.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 16, 2026 10:23 PM (ftFVW)

79 Nice! Mikeski @72

Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2026 10:25 PM (rdVOm)

80 I made plum jam today, the yellow plums are just ripe, and I made 10 half pints.
And I tried to seal off two jars as syrup, and darn it the entire batch set like it was supposed to.

Who want's yellow plums? I have more than I can eat and more than I can probably give away to the neighbors.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2026 10:25 PM (rbvCR)

81 Can you "peat"?
Posted by: Axeman


* pours some Ardbeg *

Aye, laddie.

Posted by: macmikeski at July 16, 2026 10:25 PM (VHUov)

82 77 If a device or appliance is said to be “out of whack”, it necessarily implies a state or condition of whack exists, and presumably, is preferable.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 10:23 PM (fO4iR)

---------

Only intensive meditation can center one's self in a perfectly balanced state of whack. It isn't a method for beginners.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 16, 2026 10:25 PM (6/7Fs)

83 Hang on. Let me gainly furl my umbrella.

Posted by: I'm plussed and sheveled at July 16, 2026 10:26 PM (2Ez/1)

84 Does anyone have a concise summary of Trump's speech? I didn't even know it was happening today.

Posted by: pookysgirl, adjusting to the time zone at July 16, 2026 10:26 PM (IpEsz)

85 Who want's yellow plums?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2026 10:25 PM (rbvCR)


Please tell me that isn't a euphemism.

Lie to me if you must!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 16, 2026 10:27 PM (l4RKn)

86 Seaweed & Iodine, strained through campfire ashes

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 10:27 PM (fO4iR)

87 I sure hope that the optimism I hear bears-out, but what I see is a token level of deportation compared to what should be happening, population replacement using H1-B visas instead of illegal immigration, possible prosecution of misdeeds in past elections but not eliminating voting machines which never should have existed, DOGE identifies lots of fraud but congress enacts nothing to get rid of the stupid level of spending and government overreach....all of this when "the good guys" are in charge. And on the war front? Well, time to stop before this comment is too long.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 16, 2026 10:27 PM (ehoYw)

88 Mary is passed out on her living room floor.

Posted by: wth at July 16, 2026 10:27 PM (oq9dX)

89 If a device or appliance is said to be “out of whack”, it necessarily implies a state or condition of whack exists, and presumably, is preferable.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 10:23 PM (fO4iR

***

Is there a whack switch?
Can one whack on and then whack off?

Posted by: Diogenes at July 16, 2026 10:28 PM (2WIwB)

90 Who want's yellow plums?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2026 10:25 PM (rbvCR)

Please tell me that isn't a euphemism.

Lie to me if you must!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 16, 2026 10:27 PM (l4RKn)

Wouldn't that be a question for the ladies?

And ace and garrett?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 16, 2026 10:28 PM (zZu0s)

91 61 Thx Doof. Brevity is the soul of wit
You can be overwhelmed, underwhelmed, but can you be sidewhelmed?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2026 10:20 PM (OXYE0)

The Reverse Whelm was the finishing move of noted old time wrestler Oggie MacOrnsteen.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 16, 2026 10:29 PM (tZibE)

92 Nood.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 16, 2026 10:29 PM (myKbc)

93 I reckon one can be combobulated too! Ordinarily

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 10:29 PM (fO4iR)

94 90 days til the TXMoMe.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 16, 2026 10:29 PM (afJtY)

95 I hope the treasonous deep staters get overwhelmed soon.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 16, 2026 10:29 PM (n5tGW)

96 "And on the war front? Well, time to stop before this comment is too long."
+++

Thanks. We're having to ration the whelm tonight.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 16, 2026 10:29 PM (2Ez/1)

97 Can one whack on and then whack off?
Posted by: Diogenes at July 16, 2026 10:28 PM (2WIwB)

----------

Only in a perfect state of whack.

Posted by: Mr. Miyagi at July 16, 2026 10:30 PM (6/7Fs)

98 62 I was busy leading a company of squirrel commandos on a daring raid in enemy territory to rescue a damsel in distress.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 16, 2026 10:20 PM (FZ29D)

Please elaborate.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 16, 2026 10:30 PM (tZibE)

99 84 Does anyone have a concise summary of Trump's speech? I didn't even know it was happening today.
_-_
We have proof of pervasive election fraud, much interference and stealing of election data by China (see whitehouse.gov), and we're going to investigate and prosecute it. To Congress: If you don't want to pass the Save America Act, it is because you want to cheat in elections.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 16, 2026 10:31 PM (ehoYw)

100 I reckon one can be combobulated too! Ordinarily
Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 10:29 PM

Just don't let your catty get wampussed.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 16, 2026 10:31 PM (2Ez/1)

101 I'm very whelmed, if this counts?

I've had a very whelming day of not much.

For our big nursing school reunion in September I rebelled, as always, and am only going to the dinner vs the university or hospital tours to see all the new stuff since Florence Nightingale and I graduated. I informed a former roommate and two friends of my decision as I am not a good alumnus.

I am fairly sure my college daze would return if I were in a crowd of women being herded. Pretty dang sure I'd be sarcastic, cracking jokes & getting into trouble. Therefore I made the decision not to put myself in this position & just go to a dinner.

I would offer a room or two to people but fear they are liberal or gross. My former roommate lives nearby and the one person I want to come from out of state probably can't due to travel.

I asked my husband, who knew my friends and classmates, if he wanted to go to dinner and he said no thanks. I don't blame him as I am mainly going out of curiosity & to see a couple of friends I bonded with in my 20's. Who know most of my secrets. Who know that I named a nun instructor Sister Catsh*t (she's dead).

So whelm away and go to overwhelming.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 16, 2026 10:31 PM (hzuYO)

102 For some reason, I thought calling something, or someone, out of whack implies it needs a solid whack from a hammer or wrench.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 16, 2026 10:32 PM (qx7Zg)

103 86 Seaweed & Iodine, strained through campfire ashes
Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 10:27 PM (fO4iR)

Someone's pouring Laphroiag ... ?

***holds out a glass***

Posted by: browndog says woof at July 16, 2026 10:32 PM (3sXRv)

104 Please tell me that isn't a euphemism.

Lie to me if you must!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 16, 2026 10:27 PM (l4RKn)


They could be Shiro or Mirabelle. Maybe a yellow gage. It is a graft I took off a tree in a vacant lot because it had loads of nice fruit

Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2026 10:32 PM (rbvCR)

105 What did that guy just say?

😎

Posted by: mindful webworker - who was that guy, anyway? at July 16, 2026 10:32 PM (p+5Bi)

106 I was busy leading a company of squirrel commandos on a daring raid in enemy territory to rescue a damsel in distress.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
......

Please keep your troops from raiding my bird feeders.

Posted by: wth at July 16, 2026 10:32 PM (oq9dX)

107 So NOT Russia, Russia, Russia,
BUT Chyna, Chyna, Chyna!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 16, 2026 10:32 PM (tWxgu)

108 If you don't want to pass the Save America Act, it is because you want to cheat in elections.
Posted by: Don
-----------

Manifestly obvious truth.

Posted by: Cpt. Mike Hammer, waxing maritime at July 16, 2026 10:32 PM (XeU6L)

109 94 90 days til the TXMoMe.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 16, 2026 10:29 PM (afJtY)

Ben ...

Check your email, I sent you a missive earlier tonight

Posted by: browndog says woof at July 16, 2026 10:33 PM (3sXRv)

110 Saw this road sign online. It fits tonight.

This post has been fact checked.
It is, in fact, a post.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 16, 2026 10:33 PM (qx7Zg)

111 Just don't let your catty get wampussed.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 16, 2026 10:31 PM (2Ez/1)

That's kittycornered.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 16, 2026 10:34 PM (hzuYO)

112 If a device or appliance is said to be “out of whack”, it necessarily implies a state or condition of whack exists, and presumably, is preferable.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 10:23 PM (fO4iR)
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Which is whack!

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 10:34 PM (ikSmX)

113 I am kind of disappointed that DJT did not mention Canada as being complicit in the vote fraud. Dominion is a Canadian company, after all. I would live to see arrest warrants issued for all high-ranking members of the Liberal Party of Canada.

And offer bounties: if a Canadian patriot whacks one of the pols on the list, he gets a million dollars and a green card.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 16, 2026 10:34 PM (1z8ji)

114 browndog, will do so. Always lovely to hear from you.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 16, 2026 10:34 PM (afJtY)

115 Old hymn: “My hope is built on nothing less” mentions the “whelming flood” in its third verse.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 16, 2026 10:34 PM (tWxgu)

116 What a mistake. I hired my cousin. Big mistake. Now I gotta fire him.
This sucks.

Posted by: Reforger at July 16, 2026 10:35 PM (kHsjk)

117 Or your horn get swoggled.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 16, 2026 10:35 PM (2Ez/1)

118 For some reason, I thought calling something, or someone, out of whack implies it needs a solid whack from a hammer or wrench.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf


That also implies that something, or someone, could be two, three, or more whacks out. However many whacks it takes to get them to the not-out-of-whack state.

Posted by: mikeski at July 16, 2026 10:36 PM (VHUov)

119 62 I was busy leading a company of squirrel commandos on a daring raid in enemy territory to rescue a damsel in distress.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 16, 2026 10:20 PM (FZ29D)

Please elaborate.
Posted by: tankdemon at July 16, 2026 10:30 PM (tZibE)-------
Afraid the details are classified for now...Check again on Saturday afternoon.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 16, 2026 10:36 PM (FZ29D)

120 Seaweed & Iodine, strained through campfire ashes
Posted by: Common Tater

Uh... no thanks, man... this bong water will be just fine. No, really. Thanks anyway.

Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2026 10:36 PM (rdVOm)

121 Or your horn get swoggled.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 16, 2026 10:35 PM (2Ez/1)
---
Some people pay good money for that action.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 10:36 PM (ikSmX)

122 that is whacked. Totally whacked.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2026 10:37 PM (rbvCR)

123 94 90 days til the TXMoMe.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 16, 2026 10:29 PM (afJtY)

Ben ...

Check your email, I sent you a missive earlier tonight
Posted by: browndog says woof at July 16, 2026 10:33 PM (3sXRv)

... And I sent you one yesterday.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 16, 2026 10:37 PM (wVcYX)

124 117 Or your horn get swoggled.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 16, 2026 10:35 PM (2Ez/1)

That is the worst!

Posted by: Piper at July 16, 2026 10:37 PM (Dd38x)

125 I made plum jam today, the yellow plums are just ripe, and I made 10 half pints.
And I tried to seal off two jars as syrup, and darn it the entire batch set like it was supposed to.

Who want's yellow plums? I have more than I can eat and more than I can probably give away to the neighbors.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2026 10:25 PM (rbvCR)

Build a still, make slivovitz.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 16, 2026 10:37 PM (1z8ji)

126 Know what the top news item is on the local news? The guy shot by ICE.
So one less illegal who needs to be deported. Sounds efficient.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 16, 2026 10:37 PM (0Htd1)

127 Whelm! was a pop duo with George Michael and Andrew Ridgely, right?

Posted by: JuJuBee at July 16, 2026 10:37 PM (YSQQv)

128 Yep. China is more an adversary long term than Russia ever was. This Ukraine bullshit was a really bad idea. The Russians make better allies than enemies for us...but we're not so good at admitting these mistakes. It's like our three letter agencies are stuck in the past.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 16, 2026 10:38 PM (ehoYw)

129 Things can get pretty fk'd up. Do they ever get fk'd down?

Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2026 10:38 PM (rdVOm)

130 What's the over/under on the whelming?

Posted by: JuJuBee at July 16, 2026 10:38 PM (YSQQv)

131 Surveyor measurements:

Half a bubble off level.

Two c*nt hairs to your left.

17, balls.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, so easily distracted at July 16, 2026 10:38 PM (0aYVJ)

132 Count de Monet, received and will answer in the morning. Happy to hear from you.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 16, 2026 10:38 PM (afJtY)

133 I don't think the current allegations against Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) are enough to ring the expulsion bell, UNLESS more comes out.

What is now known: He had consensual relationships with 2 female House employees when he was a Congressman. The women in question were not his employees. They were employed by other Congresspersons. Gallego was single at the time, at least sort of-- he was in between his divorce and his re-marriage to his new wife.

He also is accused of using campaign donations to take his family to the Super Bowl.

By 2026 standards, this is weak beer. Scumbag? You betcha. Expulsion? Un, no.

When these things are made public, often other accusers come out of the woodwork, though. That's what happened to former Rep. Eric Swalwell.







Posted by: mnw at July 16, 2026 10:38 PM (RCjYY)

134 Or your horn get swoggled.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 16, 2026 10:35 PM (2Ez/1)

Or your twitter gets pated.

Posted by: Bambi at July 16, 2026 10:39 PM (wVcYX)

135 Count de Monet, received and will answer in the morning. Happy to hear from you.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 16, 2026 10:38 PM (afJtY)

Awesome!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 16, 2026 10:39 PM (wVcYX)

136 Know what the top news item is on the local news? The guy shot by ICE.

By the way, I watch a lot of old movies from the forties and fifties. At one time it was common for police to shoot at fleeing criminals, like bank robbers. I guess that was back before liberals and democrats became pro-criminal.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 16, 2026 10:40 PM (0Htd1)

137 72 DIY ONT
Posted by: JQ

Okay!

DJ Doof mikeski - Content Tie-in Edition

...

Posted by: mikeski at July 16, 2026 10:22 PM (VHUov)

I was just gonna scroll by, but then I remembered that mikeski is the guy who posted that Tides From Nebula video a while back, so this is probably going to be interesting.

I was not disappointed.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 16, 2026 10:40 PM (tZibE)

138 Duane Allman & Boz Scaggs ~ ''Loan Me A Dime'' 1969

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv60Dz9hUPo


How it happened

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRpc9_Aq4Sk




Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 10:40 PM (vC80E)

139 Trump rehashes unproven fraud claims.

Posted by: MSM Headlines About Speech at July 16, 2026 10:40 PM (2hwDr)

140 I'm looking forward to the MoMe.
I hope to be a full time nomad by then.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 16, 2026 10:40 PM (2Ez/1)

141 Half a bubble off level.

Two c*nt hairs to your left.

17, balls.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, so easily distracted at July 16, 2026 10:38 PM (0aYVJ)

---------

That's dead on balls accurate.

Posted by: Miss Mona Lisa Vito at July 16, 2026 10:40 PM (6/7Fs)

142 vote fraud. Dominion[snip]
_-_
Voting machines should not exist. We don't need them, and they are ripe for abuse.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 16, 2026 10:40 PM (ehoYw)

143 Wait til you get weewalkyswitched.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 16, 2026 10:41 PM (afJtY)

144 Emergency Links cluttering up my stuff:

So you're in a Bangkok store looking for two or three things: https://tinyurl.com/kv4c7w6d

Dolly Parton telling nsfw joke: https://tinyurl.com/2s447fdf

Hold on tight: https://tinyurl.com/yj4mvmmp

When static gets all clingy: https://tinyurl.com/4bsrvdzn

Today's cars are so bland: https://tinyurl.com/5a64khbx

Posted by: Bilwis - at July 16, 2026 10:41 PM (w/O5Q)

145 It's a weird word.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, so easily distracted at July 16, 2026 10:19 PM (0aYVJ)
****************8
I absolutely hate certain words like hue and extrude.

There are others but I am so whelmed I can't think of them now. Sometimes my husband says them to get me irritated.

Today he simply asked that I not drive over the curb after a MD appt for him. Because last time I drove over the curb as he was talking to me and got alarmed.

I mean, I am not drinking like I was when I hit a fence with his car in college at a burger place with my brother. I had to then park so we could laugh and get it together. It was an old beater car and what was a few more dents and scratches? In my defense it was a sharp left turn after the drive up burgers and his old car did not do sharp turns. He didn't care that I remember.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 16, 2026 10:41 PM (hzuYO)

146 139 Trump rehashes unproven fraud claims.
Posted by: MSM Headlines About Speech at July 16, 2026 10:40 PM (2hwDr)

---------

More of his crazy obsession with having the 2020 elections stolen out from under him.

*eyeroll*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 16, 2026 10:41 PM (6/7Fs)

147 Or your twitter gets pated.
Posted by: Bambi at July 16, 2026 10:39 PM (wVcYX)

A lot of that going around, I guess.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at July 16, 2026 10:41 PM (vSvIl)

148 I made plum jam today, the yellow plums are just ripe, and I made 10 half pints.
And I tried to seal off two jars as syrup, and darn it the entire batch set like it was supposed to.

Who want's yellow plums? I have more than I can eat and more than I can probably give away to the neighbors.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2026 10:25 PM

All The Japanese ladies I watch on YT make plum syrup every year. Sometimes jam, too. I think I've seen the procedure so many times I could probably do it myself from memory. Just the thought overwhelms me though.

Posted by: JuJuBee at July 16, 2026 10:42 PM (YSQQv)

149 99

Pretty good thumbnail summary.

Posted by: mnw at July 16, 2026 10:42 PM (RCjYY)

150 Quarter Twenty, looking forward to visiting with you again.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 16, 2026 10:42 PM (afJtY)

151 Stunning content as always, Doof!

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at July 16, 2026 10:42 PM (qhuGC)

152 Surveyor measurements:
Half a bubble off level.
Two c*nt hairs to your left.
17, balls.
Posted by: Pug Mahon


Just a skosh further.

That one's from a Japanese surveyor.

Posted by: mikeski at July 16, 2026 10:42 PM (VHUov)

153 Hey, did we get an update about Capt Sabin's daughter?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 16, 2026 10:43 PM (WL2lA)

154 151 Stunning content as always, Doof!
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at July 16, 2026 10:42 PM (qhuGC)

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Kiss-ass

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 16, 2026 10:43 PM (6/7Fs)

155 mnw, you might find Iran International helpful for war news .

Posted by: Ben Had at July 16, 2026 10:43 PM (afJtY)

156 Evening.

Is there a fucking secret on how to Tweet on X using a phone? Jesus fucking Christ, this is fucking garbage.

Posted by: Robert at July 16, 2026 10:44 PM (dpXJq)

157 DJ Jazzy Doof

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 10:44 PM (ikSmX)

158 I’ve experienced an issue lately with X “stuff” linked on this site, and at least 1 other. When I try to watch the video, I get thrusted int X orbit with requirements that I download the X app to see it. Time and time again.
Is this a thing for anyone else, or am I just an internet dumbass?
As a rule, I don’t do social media. No Facebook, linked in, instagram, or even yelp.
Is it just me?

Posted by: Gunslinger at July 16, 2026 10:44 PM (qfGxA)

159 We'll remember when that duck is part of the MOME raffle!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron
----
You can't even remember my name...

Posted by: lin-duh at July 16, 2026 10:45 PM (YbiW4)

160 Chopfallen. S J Perelman liked that one.

"Someone who looks or feels emotionally crushed, defeated, or in low spirits."

Hopefully Tillis if the SAVE Act passes.

Posted by: JuJuBee at July 16, 2026 10:45 PM (YSQQv)

161 150 Quarter Twenty, looking forward to visiting with you again.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 16, 2026 10:42 PM

Likewise.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 16, 2026 10:45 PM (2Ez/1)

162 DJ Jazzy Doof, he can dance and he can sing !

Posted by: Ben Had at July 16, 2026 10:46 PM (afJtY)

163 Voting machines should not exist. We don't need them, and they are ripe for abuse.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 16, 2026 10:40 PM (ehoYw)

Canada manages with paper ballots, hand-counted. If a third-world shithole like Canada can manage it, the USA ought to be able.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 16, 2026 10:46 PM (1z8ji)

164 163 Voting machines should not exist. We don't need them, and they are ripe for abuse.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 16, 2026 10:40 PM (ehoYw)


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One of the selling points for my new dishwasher was that I could vote online through it. I don't want to give that up.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 16, 2026 10:47 PM (6/7Fs)

165 Just getting started. There really is a grand jury in Florida.

>>@EzraACohen
·
31m
>>The day has finally come. Americans can now see a portion of what we caught the permanent security state covering up in the winter of 2020—CCP interference in our elections to harm President Trump’s candidacy.

>>Much more remains to be declassified and released. Great work is being done today by a small team of patriots working long hours to uncover the truth and share it with the American people.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 10:47 PM (viF8m)

166 I truly wish I could come to the MoMe, Ben Had. Except I can't and the boys would snap my bra strap or something and remind me too much of my late brother.

You are all still unknown to my husband and he would be very alarmed to find out that I play here now and then. There would be questions: "Who are these people" Morons. And then it would get worse and I'd lose my laptop (he's really a great guy or I would not be with him and he thinks I am very entertaining and never boring).

Plus I am olde, although I am often told I don't look or act olde, I am. This is a bummer, but it is wut it is.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 16, 2026 10:48 PM (hzuYO)

167 A different time, a different dime:

“Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?”

https://shorturl.at/shicX

Tube of Ewes, 3:11

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 16, 2026 10:48 PM (tWxgu)

168 Nevermind.

Twitter is fucking gay and retarded.

Posted by: Robert at July 16, 2026 10:48 PM (dpXJq)

169 136 Know what the top news item is on the local news? The guy shot by ICE.

By the way, I watch a lot of old movies from the forties and fifties. At one time it was common for police to shoot at fleeing criminals, like bank robbers. I guess that was back before liberals and democrats became pro-criminal.

Posted by: nerdygirl
-------

At the quickstop across the street, (check out was in the center of the store - old timey) the proprietor kept a .357 stainless sitting on the lip of the register - no secret.
Some dumb ass robbed him. The proprietor shot him in the back as he was running away. Clean shoot so sayeth the cops.

That was back in the day of a high trust society.



Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 10:48 PM (vC80E)

170 I think we all have to succumb to the Gods Of X and create an account and download the app in order to partake of the geometrically increasing content it provides.

Or just stick with MySpace.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 16, 2026 10:49 PM (2Ez/1)

171 159 We'll remember when that duck is part of the MOME raffle!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron
----
You can't even remember my name...
Posted by: lin-duh at July 16, 2026 10:45 PM (YbiW4)

Obligatory:

That's Not My Name

https://shorturl.at/uXDhB

Posted by: browndog says woof at July 16, 2026 10:49 PM (3sXRv)

172 One of the selling points for my new dishwasher was that I could vote online through it. I don't want to give that up.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 16, 2026 10:47 PM (6/7Fs)


LOL!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 16, 2026 10:49 PM (tWxgu)

173 Why is it everything online is getting aggressively shittier?

It's the fucking jeets, isn't it?

Posted by: Robert at July 16, 2026 10:50 PM (dpXJq)

174 Howdy everyone. Good job with the whelm.

Had some unexpected travel adventures today so was unable to package content for you all to not read.

Glad everyone remained combobulated. Or is it bobulated?

Posted by: Doof at July 16, 2026 10:50 PM (VmIVS)

175 " you never even call me by my name"

Posted by: Ben Had at July 16, 2026 10:51 PM (afJtY)

176 One of the selling points for my new dishwasher was that I could vote online through it. I don't want to give that up.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 16, 2026 10:47 PM (6/7Fs)

LOL!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 16, 2026 10:49 PM (tWxgu)
----
Reminds me of a joke from Futurama when the Head of Richard Nixon ran for president (again).

The robot vote was counted literally in one second and the results let Nixon's Head win by a single vote.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 16, 2026 10:51 PM (FZ29D)

177 >>> 113 I am kind of disappointed that DJT did not mention Canada as being complicit in the vote fraud. Dominion is a Canadian company, after all. I would live to see arrest warrants issued for all high-ranking members of the Liberal Party of Canada.

And offer bounties: if a Canadian patriot whacks one of the pols on the list, he gets a million dollars and a green card.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 16, 2026 10:34 PM (1z8ji)

Gotta leave everyone guessing.

But I do want bounties.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 16, 2026 10:51 PM (vDZgA)

178 Gallego is probably safe, unless the ex-wife really delivers some goodies. But in all likelihood, she's being generously compensated.

Posted by: Wally at July 16, 2026 10:51 PM (0e5Te)

179 EVERY time someone has published a claim that Dominion participated in vote fraud, Dominium has sued... and won. That's happened in multiple jurisdictions.

Truth is an absolute defense to a corporate libel action, so... none of the defendants were able to establish the proof to back up their claims against Dominion. Most conceded and settled.

As a result, you don't read much any more about Dominion and election fraud, bc FEAR.

On a related topic, I was surprised tonight that Trump didn't mention the yuuge disparity between total votes cast in 2020 (ginormous) compared to total votes cast in 2016 and 2024 (far less turnout). That has always seemed to me to stink on ice, but Trump never touched on that tonight.

Posted by: mnw at July 16, 2026 10:52 PM (RCjYY)

180 And don't let your bum get fuzzled.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 16, 2026 10:52 PM (2Ez/1)

181 Seriously, why does the Amazon app look like it was developed by fucking 14 year old girls circa 2003?

I am a fucking bundle of hate. Globalism failed us all in the most complete fashion possible.

Posted by: Robert at July 16, 2026 10:52 PM (dpXJq)

182 Howdy everyone. Good job with the whelm.

Had some unexpected travel adventures today so was unable to package content for you all to not read.

Glad everyone remained combobulated. Or is it bobulated?
Posted by: Doof at July 16, 2026 10:50 PM (VmIVS)

Well, around here it's more like boobulated.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 16, 2026 10:52 PM (wVcYX)

183 But I do want bounties.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket


The Quicker Hanger-Upper!

Posted by: mikeski at July 16, 2026 10:53 PM (VHUov)

184 Somebody needs to hand Robert a Snickers.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 10:54 PM (ikSmX)

185 Glad everyone remained combobulated. Or is it bobulated?
Posted by: Doof
------

I was vaccinnated against combobulation. It's in my shot record.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 16, 2026 10:54 PM (XeU6L)

186 Globalism failed us all in the most complete fashion possible.
Posted by: Robert at July 16, 2026 10:52 PM

Is this about me?

Posted by: Temu at July 16, 2026 10:54 PM (2Ez/1)

187 Favorite ONT

\o/

Posted by: H at July 16, 2026 10:54 PM (w8ire)

188 On a related topic, I was surprised tonight that Trump didn't mention the yuuge disparity between total votes cast in 2020 (ginormous) compared to total votes cast in 2016 and 2024 (far less turnout). That has always seemed to me to stink on ice, but Trump never touched on that tonight.
Posted by: mnw


Having more votes than registered voters is normal in a democracy.

Posted by: mikeski at July 16, 2026 10:55 PM (VHUov)

189 But I do want bounties.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
---
My wife wanted to use another brand.

But I said I would take no mutiny on the bounty!

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 10:55 PM (ikSmX)

190 184 Somebody needs to hand Robert a Snickers.
Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 10:54 PM (ikSmX)

--------

The poor fella does seem a might riled up about something.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 16, 2026 10:55 PM (6/7Fs)

191 >>> 166 I truly wish I could come to the MoMe, Ben Had. Except I can't and the boys would snap my bra strap or something and remind me too much of my late brother.

You are all still unknown to my husband and he would be very alarmed to find out that I play here now and then. There would be questions: "Who are these people" Morons. And then it would get worse and I'd lose my laptop (he's really a great guy or I would not be with him and he thinks I am very entertaining and never boring).

Plus I am olde, although I am often told I don't look or act olde, I am. This is a bummer, but it is wut it is.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 16, 2026 10:48 PM (hzuYO)

Meh. You would have fun! and I bet we could convince MrBlinkyTheGreat to join you.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 16, 2026 10:56 PM (vDZgA)

192 So Part 1 I hear shit
There was a dog growling at the back door.
Part 2
UPS throws a box about 10 feet up on a front porch and it sounds like gunfire. Then my wife wakes up

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 16, 2026 10:56 PM (/+uur)

193 Unless he's super weird and doesn't like bacon.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 16, 2026 10:56 PM (vDZgA)

194 Robert, here's something to help you relax. ~2 1/2 minutes of meditation:

https://youtu.be/92i5m3tV5XY

Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2026 10:57 PM (rdVOm)

195

It looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue...

Posted by: Biggus at July 16, 2026 10:57 PM (ntcW9)

196 I pulled a total moronette move today. I drove my husband to the doctor's office as he was on a happy drug for an injection.

Got dressed in a hurry and after I got there I realized my skirt was on inside out when I was in the car...with the seams and tag on the outside as I grabbed it off a guestroom bed. A black, gauze maxi skirt so not too bad.

I planned to stay in my car, burning fossil fuel for the AC, and listen to loud rock music and read anyway and hoped he did not require me going inside or have an emergency.

I also did not care much as I still looked better than most of the people I am around at any time or place.

However, this has never happened to me before. Shocking, I know, but at least I remembered my underwear.

I once saw a girl with her mother drive up there at 2pm. She was in flannel pj's (it is hot) and looked like she was dragged to the car from her bed by her hair. I sho' nuff looked better than her with my wrong side out skirt today.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 16, 2026 10:57 PM (hzuYO)

197 Ben Had

I'll check Iran International out. Those two Israeli publications I mentioned* usually cover EVERYTHING in great detail.

*Jerusalem Post & Times of Israel. I've had both bookmarked for years.

Posted by: mnw at July 16, 2026 10:57 PM (RCjYY)

198
Some dumb ass robbed him. The proprietor shot him in the back as he was running away. Clean shoot so sayeth the cops.
That was back in the day of a high trust society

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others


I'll bet there are prosecutors in other jurisdictions that would have charged him since he was shot while running away.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 16, 2026 10:57 PM (Cqx++)

199 Why is it everything online is getting aggressively shittier?

It's the fucking jeets, isn't it?
Posted by: Robert at July 16, 2026 10:50 PM (dpXJq)

Too many of the people who are responsible for running things believe that AI is better because it's newer.

And also it means they don't have to pay attention anymore and go do something they care about.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at July 16, 2026 10:59 PM (vSvIl)

200 Canada manages with paper ballots, hand-counted. If a third-world shithole like Canada can manage it, the USA ought to be able.
——-

India has a large portion of their population living in abject poverty - well over 400 millions - that far exceeds the entire population of the United States,

…. and everyone in India has photo ID for voting purposes.

Everything our political classes claim is just abject horse shit.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 11:00 PM (fO4iR)

201 Plus I am olde, although I am often told I don't look or act olde, I am. This is a bummer, but it is wut it is.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 16, 2026 10:48 PM (hzuYO)

My bride does not follow this site, but she has accompanied me to two CO meet-ups (RIP WDS) and one TX MOME. She was always very happy with the folks she met.

But she still thinks we're really weird. Heh.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, so easily distracted at July 16, 2026 11:00 PM (0aYVJ)

202 Question:

What if Nixon had declared China a mortal enemy rather than visiting China?

Posted by: Crusader at July 16, 2026 11:00 PM (Cjcf6)

203 146 139 Trump rehashes unproven fraud claims.
Posted by: MSM Headlines About Speech at July 16, 2026 10:40 PM (2hwDr)
_______________________

The Michigan comments grabbed my interest. About two weeks after the election the FBI and took over the State Police investigation into fraud (which was turning over some very disturbing details)...but then the FBI buried the investigation.

Tonight, I went to the White House page for tonight's speech, and sure enough they reference the FBI supressing that very information, and the fact that they recovered the detailed State Police investigation in total. As usual, the cover-up end up being the most damning part of the issue.

Posted by: Orson at July 16, 2026 11:01 PM (dIske)

204 At the quickstop across the street, (check out was in the center of the store - old timey) the proprietor kept a .357 stainless sitting on the lip of the register - no secret.
Some dumb ass robbed him. The proprietor shot him in the back as he was running away. Clean shoot so sayeth the cops.

From an extremely funny movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHZ-Rc-go3U

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 16, 2026 11:02 PM (0Htd1)

205 Starting to feel the direct opposite of that famous(vulgar) cartoon from that famous (vulgar) cartoonist, Bernard Kliban, where the caveman is seen walking away from his peers saying, "F@ck this primitive sh*t". The modern world has automated waaay too much. Ain't healthy.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 16, 2026 11:02 PM (ehoYw)

206 >>On a related topic, I was surprised tonight that Trump didn't mention the yuuge disparity between total votes cast in 2020 (ginormous) compared to total votes cast in 2016 and 2024 (far less turnout). That has always seemed to me to stink on ice, but Trump never touched on that tonight.

I'm not. If Trump had made this all about him and 2020 we all know what the media would write about tomorrow. If at all.

Tonight was about proving our elections are not secure. It was a mostly non-partisan message that there is evidence that at least our chief foreign adversary is attacking our elections successfully to the tune of 220 million Americans and our intelligence agencies at the very least lied about it and covered it up. Our media gave a helpful assist toward proving they can't be trusted because they refused to even cover it.

Tonight was the opening salvo and documents Trump has declassified are already being posted on X. This was not a one time event, just the start. It's bigger than 2020, it's every election including the one coming up in November.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 11:02 PM (viF8m)

207 Question:

What if Nixon had declared China a mortal enemy rather than visiting China?
Posted by: Crusader at July 16, 2026 11:00 PM (Cjcf6)

Macarthur might have finally gotten his way and the USA would have economic independence. And probably fewer commie agents in the federal government.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at July 16, 2026 11:02 PM (vSvIl)

208 ChristyBlinky, Jewel's family was sure she was going to get kidnapped by a cult coming to her first MoMe. The MoMe is about great conversations with shooting, exceptional food and dancing included.

Darlin, I probably have 10 years on you !

Posted by: Ben Had at July 16, 2026 11:03 PM (afJtY)

209 Glad everyone remained combobulated. Or is it bobulated?
Posted by: Doof at July 16, 2026 10:50 PM (VmIVS)


I would say "confabulated" but that would just be making things up

Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2026 11:03 PM (rbvCR)

210 What if Nixon had declared China a mortal enemy rather than visiting China?
Posted by: Crusader

Only Nixon could bomb China.

Posted by: Old Vulcan proverb at July 16, 2026 11:04 PM (DZ9Lv)

211 202 Question:

What if Nixon had declared China a mortal enemy rather than visiting China?
_-_
Or, perhaps, some middle ground where they are an irrelevant backwater of sorts?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 16, 2026 11:05 PM (ehoYw)

212 170 I think we all have to succumb to the Gods Of X and create an account and download the app in order to partake of the geometrically increasing content it provides.

Or just stick with MySpace.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 16, 2026 10:49 PM (2Ez/1)

If you are logged in to an account, you don't need the app. Obviously you need an account to be logged in
I think it changed recently that you need an account to view linked posts/videos.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 16, 2026 11:05 PM (tZibE)

213 206

Trump referred to himself many times in the speech tonight, but he said "the President "or "President of the United States" instead of "I and "me."

Posted by: mnw at July 16, 2026 11:05 PM (RCjYY)

214 ChristyBlinkyTheGreat, inside out clothes happen, I've done the back-to-front undies thing, which nobody can see obviously but it's not comfortable.
Why didn't you just run in the place and say, "I have to powder my nose, sorry"? everyone pees, after all.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 11:05 PM (gKWVE)

215 I look at the election of 2020 this way:

If it had not happened as it did there are many good things after the horror of 3am the next day:

1. Trump would not be so mad today and doing stuff to irritate Dims and strike fear in the hearts of our enemies. I think this loss made him bolder and he's planned everything out for four years as he simmered.
2. We would remain ignorant about voter fraud
3. We would not have had Biden to laugh at
4. States were identified as cheating pits of hellfire
5. We might not have ever known about MN and Somolian's Learing Centers

I'm sure there are more but I need to do other things that are overwhelming.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 16, 2026 11:06 PM (hzuYO)

216 Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 16, 2026 10:31 PM (ehoYw)

Dankeschoen.

Posted by: pookysgirl, worn out from the pool at July 16, 2026 11:06 PM (IpEsz)

217 Before FDIC, when a Bank was robbed, that money was gone. The locals took a dim view of this. I’m not sure how this was handled for accounting purposes, maybe they gave everyone a proportional haircut?

In any event, the banks would often issue shotguns to local businesses on either side, across the street, and some of those old retired guys sitting around playing checkers sort or kept an eye on things. There was no problem getting a posse formed up.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 11:06 PM (fO4iR)

218 Hello folks. RtC says hello as well. He has promised me this.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 16, 2026 11:06 PM (CHHv1)

219 This was not a one time event, just the start.
_-_
Sure hope you are right on that one.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 16, 2026 11:06 PM (ehoYw)

220 146 139 Trump rehashes unproven fraud claims.
Posted by: MSM Headlines About Speech at July 16, 2026 10:40 PM (2hwDr)
_______________________

The Michigan comments grabbed my interest. About two weeks after the election the FBI and took over the State Police investigation into fraud (which was turning over some very disturbing details)...but then the FBI buried the investigation.

Tonight, I went to the White House page for tonight's speech, and sure enough they reference the FBI supressing that very information, and the fact that they recovered the detailed State Police investigation in total. As usual, the cover-up end up being the most damning part of the issue.

Posted by: Orson at July 16, 2026 11:01 PM (dIske)



I want to see the FBI officials who suppressed that information named and imprisoned. Nothing else will satisfy me.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 16, 2026 11:07 PM (VqCOT)

221 179 EVERY time someone has published a claim that Dominion participated in vote fraud, Dominium has sued... and won. That's happened in multiple jurisdictions.

Truth is an absolute defense to a corporate libel action, so... none of the defendants were able to establish the proof to back up their claim against Dominion. Most conceded and settled.

Posted by mnw

Extremely whelmed and gritting my teeth as I post-

UK Gardian, Tucker Carlson claims in book Fox News firing was part of $787.5m settlement
Former prime-time host tells biographer he ‘knows’ firing was part of deal to resolve Dominion Voting Systems defamation case

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 16, 2026 11:08 PM (NFX2v)

222 Does anyone plan to pick up Biden's new book, and a box of crayons? I assume it's going to be a coloring book, or he goes upscale and it's a paint-by-number book.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 16, 2026 11:09 PM (qx7Zg)

223 Trump is setting the terms for November. R's will keep both houses and (again) not deserve it. What this man has been able to do on what seems like a wing and a prayer, with headwinds that most of us can't even imagine, is mindblowing.

I said in 2016 (to mostly laughter and derision) he had a chance to be the most conservative president since Reagan. By 2017 I realized something much different about him (and said it often here), which took a further 8 years to confirm because both the R's and maybe some of his naivety and then COVID really fucked his first term good -- he is not just the most conservative since Reagan, he is one of the most consequential figures in the history of the world.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 11:09 PM (vE0+H)

224 In any event, the banks would often issue shotguns to local businesses on either side, across the street, and some of those old retired guys sitting around playing checkers sort or kept an eye on things. There was no problem getting a posse formed up.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 11:06 PM (fO4iR)


Per my grandfather, the bank in Tenino Washington bought all the neighboring businesses old trapdoor Springfields and ammo.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2026 11:09 PM (rbvCR)

225 216 Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 16, 2026 10:31 PM (ehoYw)

Dankeschoen.
_-_
Bitte schön. I'm not really that polite, just wanted to brag that I found the umlaut.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 16, 2026 11:09 PM (ehoYw)

226 Does anyone plan to pick up Biden's new book, and a box of crayons? I assume it's going to be a coloring book, or he goes upscale and it's a paint-by-number book.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Only if it hits the Dollar Tree shelves, like Slick Willie's and Shrillary's books...

Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2026 11:10 PM (rdVOm)

227 Blinky

You are not alone.

I'd love to attend a TX MoMe, but I'm just too old and feeble to do it.

About 7 years ago, I hosted a small MoMe in the Ozarks. Proof that I exist.

I can't even go down there any more, let alone to Corsicana, TX.

Posted by: mnw at July 16, 2026 11:10 PM (RCjYY)

228 everyone pees, after all.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 11:05 PM (gKWVE)
**************
I whiz. I also did not care because if I was called to go inside it would be that something was wrong with the spinal injection and no one would notice my skirt seams and/or think I was on trend somehow.

My dude and I were texting back and forth as the doc was running late and he was saying lewd things about the whiney patient ahead of him. I told him about the skirt in the event he had to claim me.

I don't like waiting rooms in the event you wondered. Not really germs at this office, but people I try to avoid.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 16, 2026 11:11 PM (hzuYO)

229 Somebody needs to hand Robert a Snickers.
Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 10:54 PM (ikSmX)

I'm gonna need about a dozen.

Posted by: Robert at July 16, 2026 11:12 PM (dpXJq)

230 I was going to write a limerick but I couldn't think of anything that rhymes with Whelm...

Posted by: muldoon at July 16, 2026 11:12 PM (I0N4X)

231 But she still thinks we're really weird. Heh.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

We ARE really weird!

I tried to prepare the lovely Mrs. for the TXMoMe by describing to her the Delta pledges in Animal House.

Pretty damn close. That, or the way the school secretary (Grace) describes all those that think Bueller is a righteous Dude. You know - "a collection of sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, and d*ckheads."

Posted by: Tonypete at July 16, 2026 11:12 PM (pyNYl)

232 175 " you never even call me by my name"

Posted by: Ben Had
---

That was a good song without that "trains and pickups" tag at the end. There was a lawsuit.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 11:13 PM (vC80E)

233 202 Question:

What if Nixon had declared China a mortal enemy rather than visiting China?
Posted by: Crusader

He would not have been hated less or loved more.

Since Nixon's 1972 trip, every modern U.S. president has visited China, including Ford, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, George W. Bush, Obama, and Trump. Additionally, high-level cabinet officials, such as Secretaries of State, Defense, and Treasury, alongside congressional delegations, have routinely traveled to Beijing for diplomatic, economic, and security summits. AI overview

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 16, 2026 11:13 PM (NFX2v)

234 Per my grandfather, the bank in Tenino Washington bought all the neighboring businesses old trapdoor Springfields and ammo.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2026 11:09 PM (rbvCR)



My only knowledge of Tenino is that those were some of the topographical maps the Army used to teach land navigation. Back before GPS and all that. It's how I learned to read terrain contour intervals. Tenino must be pretty hilly because I remember LOTS of contour lines. Heh.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 16, 2026 11:13 PM (VqCOT)

235 ChristyBlinkyTheGreat I totally agree with you that as upsetting as the 2020 loss was, Trump was freed of a lot of RINO/uniparty baggage and this administration is accomplishing SO many things. Also gives us reason to actually fix the cheat not just deal with it.

Posted by: Iris at July 16, 2026 11:14 PM (286+n)

236 I want to see the FBI officials who suppressed that information named and imprisoned. Nothing else will satisfy me.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above!


That's a funny way to spell [redacted].

Posted by: mikeski at July 16, 2026 11:14 PM (VHUov)

237 I'll bet there are prosecutors in other jurisdictions that would have charged him since he was shot while running away.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
---

Not in this state.
The state of FAFO keeps things clean.
Praise the Lord.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 11:14 PM (vC80E)

238 he is not just the most conservative since Reagan, he is one of the most consequential figures in the history of the world.
Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 11:09 PM (vE0+H)


Totally agree. XXXX

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 16, 2026 11:15 PM (hzuYO)

239 I was going to write a limerick but I couldn't think of anything that rhymes with Whelm...
Posted by: muldoon at July 16, 2026 11:12 PM (I0N4X)

Helm
Jelm (mountain in Wyoming, near Laramie, has an observatory)
Realm
uh..blelm?

That's about it.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, so easily distracted at July 16, 2026 11:15 PM (0aYVJ)

240 ...Since Nixon's 1972 trip, every modern U.S. president has visited China,...


Hell of a long way to go for Take-Out.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 16, 2026 11:16 PM (VqCOT)

241 Realm, helm, elm

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 16, 2026 11:16 PM (NFX2v)

242 as upsetting as the 2020 loss was, Trump was freed of a lot of RINO/uniparty baggage and this administration is accomplishing SO many things.
Posted by: Iris


They struck him down, and he became more powerful than they could possibly imagine.

Posted by: mikeski at July 16, 2026 11:16 PM (VHUov)

243 We should quietly reduce our embassy staff in China to...zero.

Announce it afterwards after every American is safely home.

If we have something to tell them, Trump can do it by phone.

Screw China, and make it *official*.

Posted by: Crusader at July 16, 2026 11:16 PM (Cjcf6)

244 Saw a statement earlier today to the effect that the Torah was rather wonky. Some don't understand that it is the foundation of civilized society.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 11:16 PM (vC80E)

245 This might be a good reason to have an X account. This is where news is being reported now.

Just one of the documents Trump has declassified.

>>@greg_price11

>>Nikki Floris, who was then in the FBI's Counterintelligence Division, wrote this email in 2020 stating she was "basically running a shadow government" by hiding information from President Trump.

>>According to her LinkedIn, she's now the 'Director of Insider Risk' at Microsoft.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 11:17 PM (viF8m)

246 But she still thinks we're really weird. Heh.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, so easily distracted at July 16, 2026 11:00 PM (0aYVJ)

The question is not, "Are we really weird?"

The question is, "How weird are we?"

Posted by: pookysgirl wants her cult robe to at least look cool at July 16, 2026 11:17 PM (IpEsz)

247 "You people" are interesting. Thanks for not voting me off the island. Gettin' close to my bedtime. Seeya.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 16, 2026 11:17 PM (ehoYw)

248 Got dressed in a hurry and after I got there I realized my skirt was on inside out

My wife catches me wearing white t-shirts inside out all the time. It's embarrassing.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 16, 2026 11:17 PM (tgl2u)

249 https://youtu.be/92i5m3tV5XY
Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2026 10:57 PM (rdVOm)

Takes a deep fucking breath

Breaths out bullshit

Deep fucking breath

Shuts out all the faggotry


Bro...this shit works!

Posted by: Robert at July 16, 2026 11:18 PM (dpXJq)

250
Overwhelmed at the helm of the realm.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 11:19 PM (w6EFb)

251 244

The ultra-Orthodox who are successfully avoiding the draft have created a LOT of bitter resentment.

Posted by: mnw at July 16, 2026 11:19 PM (RCjYY)

252 230 I was going to write a limerick but I couldn't think of anything that rhymes with Whelm...
Posted by: muldoon at July 16, 2026 11:12 PM (I0N4X)

Helm (Levon or control of a ship,) elm, realm,

Posted by: tankdemon at July 16, 2026 11:19 PM (tZibE)

253 Totally agree. XXXX

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 16, 2026 11:15 PM (hzuYO)

Appreciate that, CBTG, more than you know. Hope those X's weren't typos or I'm gonna feel a right fool. 😀

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 11:19 PM (vE0+H)

254 Realm, helm, elm

*********

Yeah. Let's see YOU make something funny out of that.

Posted by: muldoon at July 16, 2026 11:19 PM (I0N4X)

255 An inside out skirt with the seams and tag showing?

Bitch, puhleez.

Posted by: The yoga pants at Walmart at July 16, 2026 11:19 PM (2Ez/1)

256 I dispute some of the numbers, but this shirt makes sense.

https://youtube.com/shorts/e_seyCtGmxg

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 16, 2026 11:20 PM (qx7Zg)

257 Current whelmness:

[ ] underwhelmed
[X] whelmed
[ ] overwhelmed

Posted by: WaitingForMartel at July 16, 2026 11:21 PM (k3cww)

258 My wife catches me wearing white t-shirts inside out all the time. It's embarrassing.
Posted by: bear
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I've done inside out, and backwards. The label-less shirts are the worst.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 16, 2026 11:21 PM (XeU6L)

259 Posted by: Pug Mahon, so easily distracted at July 16, 2026 11:00 PM (0aYVJ)

The question is not, "Are we really weird?"

The question is, "How weird are we?"
Posted by: pookysgirl wants her cult robe to at least look cool at July 16, 2026 11:17 PM (IpEsz)

She's married to me, and has two grown sons with the same sense of humor. She's resigned to the reality, but tolerates us well.

She is so happy that elder son is married to a sweet young lady with whom she commiserate while we guys watch Galaxy Quest for the 40th time.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, so easily distracted at July 16, 2026 11:21 PM (0aYVJ)

260 as upsetting as the 2020 loss was, Trump was freed of a lot of RINO/uniparty baggage and this administration is accomplishing SO many things.
Posted by: Iris

They struck him down, and he became more powerful than they could possibly imagine.

Posted by: mikeski at July 16, 2026 11:16 PM (VHUov)



I think if he'd have won 2020 they would have continued to hobble him, with continuing impeachments et al., just like the Lilliputians with Gulliver. Stealing 2020 strengthened his resolve. And ours.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 16, 2026 11:21 PM (VqCOT)

261 I've noticed that since the only store within 35 miles is a Dollar General our snack food trends have taken a downward turn...

Being in the mountains has its down side.

Posted by: muldoon at July 16, 2026 11:21 PM (I0N4X)

262 An inside out skirt with the seams and tag showing?

Bitch, puhleez.
Posted by: The yoga pants at Walmart at July 16, 2026 11:19 PM (2Ez/1)

Barn door left open at an inopportune moment.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 16, 2026 11:21 PM (wVcYX)

263 Me no type good. Hulk smash.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, so easily distracted at July 16, 2026 11:22 PM (0aYVJ)

264 233 202 Question:

What if Nixon had declared China a mortal enemy rather than visiting China?
Posted by: Crusader
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Trump plays the same game. Nixon was putting a wedge between China and Russia. For some reason some group of people don't remember that elementary tale that one gets more with sugar than salt.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 11:22 PM (vC80E)

265 Tenino section was used in the Army Land Navigation manual to illustrate topographic features and contour intervals and all that stuff.

I used to love getting USGS maps and poring (not pouring!) over features. Benchmarks and the like are neat. Those old time survey fellers in 1909 really got around.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 11:22 PM (fO4iR)

266 Darlin, I probably have 10 years on you !
Posted by: Ben Had at July 16, 2026 11:03 PM (afJtY)
***********
Ben, I just turned 72yrs but don't look or act it (people tell me this...people I don't even know or pay to tell me this). I have always had the humor of a junior high boy. My face is preserved from either genetics or getting skin cancer at 32yrs and being so pale I glow in the dark.

My dude would like it but his spine does not travel well due to 40yrs of long distance running and his parent's arthritis genetics. He's a Moron and knows it because I tell him at times.

He really likes fruitcake so I suppose I could say I was Christmas shopping for him and it requires Delta Airlines. He also knows I am horrible with directions and he'd never see me again.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 16, 2026 11:23 PM (hzuYO)

267 Something something Dutch Whelm disease.

Posted by: Limerick Lover at July 16, 2026 11:23 PM (2Ez/1)

268 Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 16, 2026 11:21 PM (VqCOT)

I think what really strengthened his resolve was when they tried to jail him once and kill him three times.

Not only that - rifling Melania's drawers without cause and having a good old laugh about it. He thought "oh you think that's funny do you? Watch this, yer cunts."

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 11:25 PM (vE0+H)

269 But she still thinks we're really weird. Heh
——-

“Everyone seems normal, till you get to know them”
Unknown

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 11:25 PM (fO4iR)

270
Ran into the ugly side of things at the nursing home over the past couple of days. The rooms have shared bathroom. One bathroom per two rooms with a door to each room.

Well, my mother's neighbors, are not right in the head. One of them is the bathroom police. She sits in a wheelchair right next to it, and will cuss you out if you go into "her bathroom". Nice. Miley and I both have been blessed out by the nasty old biddy for stepping foot in it.

And then, another really demented woman cusses out the staff all the time. She brought one of the nurses to almost tears. I gave her my sympathy, and she said that woman has hit her a time or two.

She said it's tricky. If they even defend themselves too much, they can get fired.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 11:25 PM (w6EFb)

271 There was an ONT with much whelm.
It was praised throughout all the realm
Thing always go right
On our thread of the night
When Doofmeister's the one at the helm

Posted by: tankdemon at July 16, 2026 11:26 PM (tZibE)

272 So, Trump was supposed to give a speech tonight?

/Looks at news coverage...

Sure don't look like it.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 16, 2026 11:26 PM (mP0Kj)

273 Tenino section was used in the Army Land Navigation manual to illustrate topographic features and contour intervals and all that stuff.
--

Stereoscopic viewers to identify features/objects from aerial photos.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 16, 2026 11:27 PM (XeU6L)

274 and he'd never see me again.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
---

Ha, ha, too funny. Your husband has the patience of Job.
You both are blessed. But you know that.


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 11:27 PM (vC80E)

275 > Bitte schön. I'm not really that polite, just wanted to brag that I found the umlaut.
> Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 16, 2026 10:31 PM (ehoYw)

...and HOW!!

Posted by: Mrs. Don at July 16, 2026 11:28 PM (k3cww)

276 In such a small country like Israel - and in a bad neighborhood so to speak, with a history, I am astonished anybody would have a carve-out for the military draft. What were they thinking?

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 11:28 PM (fO4iR)

277 tankdemon
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A threefer!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 16, 2026 11:28 PM (XeU6L)

278 There was an ONT with much whelm.
It was praised throughout all the realm
Thing always go right
On our thread of the night
When Doofmeister's the one at the helm
Posted by: tankdemon at July 16, 2026 11:26 PM (tZibE)

Noice!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, so easily distracted at July 16, 2026 11:28 PM (0aYVJ)

279 Doggies raising a fuss out on the deck. Maybe something interesting. I'll check it out. If I don't come back I was eaten by a bear.

Posted by: muldoon at July 16, 2026 11:28 PM (I0N4X)

280 Appreciate that, CBTG, more than you know. Hope those X's weren't typos or I'm gonna feel a right fool. 😀
Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 11:19 PM (vE0+H)
******************
Nope! Supermodel kisses!!!

My husband, who is still doped up, came to kiss me goodnight as he's sleeping in his office tonight. I busted out laughing and took his photo as his hair was whelmed all over the place.

The most cool thing of having grandchildren is to have one cloned just like you. Her Dad looks like me and my father and we have a streak of insanity. We laugh the same things and sound identical...and our son and DIL are starting to get a bit alarmed. She even looks like me!
I LOVE IT!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 16, 2026 11:28 PM (hzuYO)

281 Bravo!

Posted by: Limerick Lover at July 16, 2026 11:29 PM (2Ez/1)

282 I think if he'd have won 2020 they would have continued to hobble him, with continuing impeachments et al., just like the Lilliputians with Gulliver. Stealing 2020 strengthened his resolve. And ours.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 16, 2026 11:21 PM (VqCOT)

Abosolutely agree. Wish I could have been a fly on the wall when they came up with DOGE, complete with the legal standing.

Posted by: Iris at July 16, 2026 11:30 PM (286+n)

283 I was going to write a limerick but I couldn't think of anything that rhymes with Whelm...
Posted by: muldoon at July 16, 2026 11:12 PM (I0N4X)

Helm
Jelm (mountain in Wyoming, near Laramie, has an observatory)
Realm
uh..blelm?

That's about it.
Posted by: Pug

Phlegm

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 16, 2026 11:31 PM (7gFa4)

284 282 I think if he'd have won 2020 they would have continued to hobble him, with continuing impeachments et al., just like the Lilliputians with Gulliver. Stealing 2020 strengthened his resolve. And ours.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 16, 2026 11:21 PM (VqCOT)

Abosolutely agree. Wish I could have been a fly on the wall when they came up with DOGE, complete with the legal standing.
Posted by: Iris at July 16, 2026 11:30 PM (286+n)

He would have been forced by the GOP to keep much of the same cabinet and staff.... the same folks who we KNOW actively sabotaged him...

Like Bill Barr, who never even LOOKED at election shenanigans. or Pence, who lied to destroy the best chance of destroying the Intel deep state, by lying about Gen. Flynn....

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 16, 2026 11:32 PM (mP0Kj)

285 Ahem

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 11:32 PM (viF8m)

286 Well fuck me then...

Posted by: Mudshark at July 16, 2026 11:33 PM (ZTMJg)

287 Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 16, 2026 11:28 PM (hzuYO)

LOL thanks, that's awesome. I'm sure my father felt that way about me. Before he passed young, he actually used to refer to me as his "clone". Funny you reminding me of that. You are doing yeoman work tonight, girl. Enjoy them they are only this little once.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 11:34 PM (vE0+H)

288 Like Bill Barr, who never even LOOKED at election shenanigans. or Pence, who lied to destroy the best chance of destroying the Intel deep state, by lying about Gen. Flynn....

Pinochet, anyone?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 11:34 PM (vC80E)

289 The guy is indefatigable. I remember the moment I realized he wasn’t giving up and was going to run again! After all that bullshit, and having 2020 stolen. It wasn’t just taken from him, it was taken from the voters, the American people. And he didn’t just slink away, which of course was their intent. “His kind must never be allowed to rise again” was how one wag put it. Nice.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 11:36 PM (fO4iR)

290 I can't wait for the MoMe, trust me I am no spring chicken.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 16, 2026 11:36 PM (ibDUx)

291 153 -- She is gone. Too much time without oxygen to the brain. She never woke up once. You read about this happening, but you never even think it could happen to one of yours.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 16, 2026 11:36 PM (DK5Sh)

292 276

The IDF even created a special super-Orthodox menu for them. Didn't make any difference.


Netanyahu's coalition includes the ultra-Orthodox. They are a small minority with the ability to make or break a Likud govt.

In the forthcoming general election this October, having exempted the Haredi from the draft is a big anchor tied to Netanyahu's foot.

If I got any of this wrong, and I don't think I DID, Brown Dog Smells a lot of Malarkey posts from Israel, and he can correct me.

Posted by: mnw at July 16, 2026 11:37 PM (RCjYY)

293 She is gone.

So very, very sorry.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 16, 2026 11:38 PM (+9wcF)

294 >> She is gone. Too much time without oxygen to the brain.

Oh my, I'm so sorry.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 11:38 PM (w6EFb)

295 My husband told me some wonky stuff about Vance tonight that I can't defend. Said he had an interview and was yammering stuff about Israel wanting to always be in war (I am paraphrasing as I was busy putting on my skirt wrong side out and slapping on mascara for his appt).

I won't defend him anymore, altho I did initially like him. Something ain't right, boys and girls.

Rubio/DeSantis 2028

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 16, 2026 11:38 PM (hzuYO)

296 She is gone. Too much time without oxygen to the brain. She never woke up once. You read about this happening, but you never even think it could happen to one of yours.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 16, 2026 11:36 PM (DK5Sh)

Please accept my condolences, dear lady.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 16, 2026 11:39 PM (1z8ji)

297 I'm so sorry to hear that, Captain Sabin.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 16, 2026 11:39 PM (tZibE)

298 I think we all have to succumb to the Gods Of X and create an account and download the app in order to partake of the geometrically increasing content it provides.

Or just stick with MySpace.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
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Xcancel.
Click on the pic which will take you to the x.com site.
In android, click your browsers address window, which will bring up a drop down with "edit" (a little pencil icon). Add "cancel" behind the "x" and before the ".com". Hit return.
I think editing the address in Windows requires a right-click of the mouse, but you get the idea. Just convert " x.com/xxxx..." to "xcancel.com/xxx...".

Posted by: buddhaha at July 16, 2026 11:39 PM (a8Wd8)

299 Thanks for the condolences. I haven't processed it in the least bit yet.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 16, 2026 11:40 PM (DK5Sh)

300
{{{Captain Josepha Sabin}}}

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 11:40 PM (vC80E)

301 291 153 -- She is gone. Too much time without oxygen to the brain. She never woke up once. You read about this happening, but you never even think it could happen to one of yours.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 16, 2026 11:36 PM (DK5Sh)


I am so very sorry and have no idea what happened and don't need to. You and family are in my prayers starting tonight.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 16, 2026 11:41 PM (hzuYO)

302 Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 16, 2026 11:36 PM (DK5Sh)

Oh, dear Lord. I am so sorry. Praying.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, so easily distracted at July 16, 2026 11:41 PM (0aYVJ)

303 Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin

Prayers for you and yours.

Posted by: mikeski at July 16, 2026 11:42 PM (VHUov)

304 She is gone.

********

Oh my! So sorry to hear that . Godspeed.

Posted by: muldoon at July 16, 2026 11:42 PM (I0N4X)

305 291 153 -- She is gone.

So very sorry for your loss.

There are no words, but please know you're in prayers.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 16, 2026 11:43 PM (NFX2v)

306 Captain Sabin-- I never have the right words. Thoughts and prayers for you.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 16, 2026 11:43 PM (XeU6L)

307 Or just stick with MySpace
——-

Prodigy network!

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 11:43 PM (fO4iR)

308 In a primetime speech Trump admits that he stole the election from Kamala Harris with help of the PRC !!!

Immediately Chuck Schumer calls for impeachment and to install Kami Harris a POTUS to finish Trump's illegal term.

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at July 16, 2026 11:43 PM (ppijb)

309 Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 16, 2026 11:36 PM (DK5Sh)

Oh no. Omg. Oh. I'm so sorry. Words fail me. I'm just sorry.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 11:43 PM (vE0+H)

310 I don't know who is grieving worst -- her husband or her twin.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 16, 2026 11:44 PM (DK5Sh)

311 295 My husband told me some wonky stuff about Vance tonight that I can't defend. Said he had an interview and was yammering stuff about Israel wanting to always be in war (I am paraphrasing as I was busy putting on my skirt wrong side out and slapping on mascara for his appt).

I won't defend him anymore, altho I did initially like him. Something ain't right, boys and girls.

Rubio/DeSantis 2028

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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Saw that. He needs a kick in the butt.
I like Rubio but think he's an excellent El Segundo.
We need a mind like Stephen Miller with charismatic skills.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 11:44 PM (vC80E)

312 I won't defend him anymore, altho I did initially like him. Something ain't right, boys and girls.

Rubio/DeSantis 2028

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 16, 2026 11:38 PM (hzuYO)

It was the Joe Rogan interview. Way too many unforced errors in that; I was open to the idea that he’d been playing bad cop good cop with Trump on some things, but he came off as genuinely butthurt that people didn’t like the MOU he was pushing.

He should just let it go, like Trump is doing. Talking about it just reminds people how much it sucked.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 16, 2026 11:45 PM (wLnmp)

313
Captain Sabin, I'm so sorry.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 16, 2026 11:45 PM (mmrXZ)

314 299 Thanks for the condolences. I haven't processed it in the least bit yet.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 16, 2026 11:40 PM (DK5Sh)

Nobody expects you to. You might not ever fully process it, which is just fine. Concentrate on the joyful memories and let them bring smiles and laughter.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 16, 2026 11:46 PM (tZibE)

315 Immediately Chuck Schumer calls for impeachment and to install Kami Harris a POTUS to finish Trump's illegal term.

Posted by: CNN Breaking News
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Is this from the Comedy Channel?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 11:46 PM (vC80E)

316 I looked at CNBC online, & their coverage of Trump's speech was pretty evenhanded. imo. I'd been expecting the full leftwing monty.

Posted by: mnw at July 16, 2026 11:46 PM (RCjYY)

317 I would have thought, or assumed, that going back to 1948 that from the start it would be everybody loddi-doddi, no exceptions, all hands on deck, as far as national service obligations. Possibly alternative non-combat roles for genuine, authentic pacifists. But everyone is liable for military service.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 11:47 PM (fO4iR)

318 Open thread means open bar; Right?

JQ, make that G&T a double. Gonna' get down tonight.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 11:47 PM (vC80E)

319 Thanks for the condolences. I haven't processed it in the least bit yet.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 16, 2026 11:40 PM (DK5Sh)



I pray that the Good Lord helps you find peace in her memory. I am so sorry.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 16, 2026 11:48 PM (VqCOT)

320 CJS nothing I say will do much and I know that. My wife lost her adult son to suicide in 2020. I'm just.... so sorry for you and your family. So far beyond grief for you.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 11:48 PM (vE0+H)

321 >> I think we all have to succumb to the Gods Of X and create an account and download the app in order to partake of the geometrically increasing content it provides.

It's a website. You don't have to download anything and you can follow whomever you want. It's like saying the internet has to many websites so I won't look at any of it.

Since Musk took it over it is now a place where information that was previously censored is now being shared. It's why Trump has released all the documents he said he declassified tonight are being posted there.

You don't have to say anything or follow any leftists or anyone else you don't want to but it is today the most neutral site for actual factual evidence. Times change, the media sure as shit isn't giving anyone the truth and they proved that tonight.

To each their own but you will read what is posted on X tomorrow right here.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 11:49 PM (viF8m)

322 {{{Captain Josepha}}} prayers for you and your family. I have no other words.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 16, 2026 11:49 PM (ibDUx)

323 Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 16, 2026 11:36 PM

Adding my prayers and condolences... I'm sorry.

Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2026 11:50 PM (rdVOm)

324 Captain Josepha Sabin -

May you & your Family be Blessed with Peace and Strength at this terrible time...

Posted by: Adriane the Critic . . . at July 16, 2026 11:50 PM (3ZUWJ)

325 Open thread. That's it. That's the content. Whelm yourselves!
-

Sabotaz'ee.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 16, 2026 11:51 PM (F4PNo)

326 Captain Josepha Sabin

Sad to hear. I'm very sorry.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 16, 2026 11:51 PM (K861k)

327 Right now I'm just scrolling, scrolling, scrolling to keep from thinking. Keep the comments coming so I can keep on scrolling. ( And, yes, that was a very weak joke about Rawhide.)

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 16, 2026 11:52 PM (DK5Sh)

328 Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 16, 2026 11:44 PM (DK5Sh)
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May her memory be a blessing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2026 11:52 PM (WAaS/)

329 Doooof! Just found this before, but you probably already saw it. In case you didn't.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HegkhtF1y_0&list

A remix by Terri brown of Distant early warning.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 16, 2026 11:53 PM (S41Gd)

330 Captain Josepha Sabin, my condolences.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 11:53 PM (viF8m)

331 317

"I expected everyone is liable for military service"

Nope. Not in Israel. "Alternative non-combat service" doesn't cut it with the Haredi, either. No dice.

I know all about this controversy because it gets as much attention in the Israeli press as military news. I go to the news sites in Israel for war news... and learned a lot about the Haredi as a byproduct of that.

The bitterness created by this draft exemption has been immense.

Posted by: mnw at July 16, 2026 11:54 PM (RCjYY)

332 325 Biden's Dog

Did I get the Haredi draft controversy appx correct?

Posted by: mnw at July 16, 2026 11:56 PM (RCjYY)

333 If I got any of this wrong, and I don't think I DID, Brown Dog Smells a lot of Malarkey posts from Israel, and he can correct me.

Posted by: mnw at July 16, 2026 11:37 PM (RCjYY)
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You got the Brown Dog part wrong.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 16, 2026 11:57 PM (F4PNo)

334
The Dragonfly drone "helicopter" mission to Titan is going well. It should launch in 2028, and arrive at Titan by 2034.

Flying on Titan is much easier. Density is 4 times that of earth atmosphere, and gravity is 0.14g. Result is it takes 1/40th of the power per unit mass to fly.

Terminal velocity for a human would be just 11 mph. And, if you could breath and it wasn't so cold, you could actually strap bird like wings to your arms and flap and actually fly.

Of course, you'd need a spacesuit and heaters and that add so much mass you couldn't do it by a long shot.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 11:57 PM (w6EFb)

335 You all are talkin' bout me.

Posted by: Fanni Willis at July 16, 2026 11:58 PM (OHtcs)

336 Hm. Has this been longstanding policy, or is this a newer thing? Why do you suppose this draft exemption for a particular group had become so controversial now, if in fact it has been a longstanding policy?

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 11:59 PM (fO4iR)

337 Open thread means open bar; Right?
JQ, make that G&T a double. Gonna' get down tonight
Posted by: Braenyard
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Bar's always open, here. Threads, not so much LOL.

****Now hear this!****

Doubles all 'round!

Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2026 11:59 PM (rdVOm)

338 Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 16, 2026 11:52 PM (DK5Sh)

Saying a prayer right now for you. And all of yours. And they will continue.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 11:59 PM (vE0+H)

339 Biden's Dog

Sorry about that. Hope that was my only mistake.

I'd like to hear your thoughts about the Haredi draft exemption controversy.

Posted by: mnw at July 17, 2026 12:00 AM (RCjYY)

340 C'mon Braenyard-- get down!

https://youtu.be/BXIBEW5MLuU

Posted by: JQ at July 17, 2026 12:00 AM (rdVOm)

341 317 I would have thought, or assumed, that going back to 1948 that from the start it would be everybody loddi-doddi, no exceptions, all hands on deck, as far as national service obligations. Possibly alternative non-combat roles for genuine, authentic pacifists. But everyone is liable for military service.

Posted by: Common Tater
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Saying was, especially for undecided fellows - which most 18yo were - join the military, you'll come out a man. It wasn't a negative, it was the thing to do.
-- direction, discipline, responsibility, manhood

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 12:01 AM (vC80E)

342 325 Biden's Dog

Did I get the Haredi draft controversy appx correct?

Posted by: mnw at July 16, 2026 11:56 PM (RCjYY)
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Yes. The dislike of the Haredim is palpable everywhere.

The only thing you need to add is that the same leftists locally and abroad who heavily funded the anti-Netanyahu protests after Oct. 7, 2023 are fanning the flames of hate.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 17, 2026 12:01 AM (F4PNo)

343 Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 16, 2026 11:36 PM (DK5Sh)

My condolences, and prayers.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 17, 2026 12:02 AM (S41Gd)

344 I was going to write a limerick but I couldn't think of anything that rhymes with Whelm...
Posted by: muldoon at July 16, 2026 11:12 PM (I0N4X)
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Helm, realm help?

Posted by: mrp at July 17, 2026 12:03 AM (rj6Yv)

345
Well, Titan's surface pressure is about 1.5 atm. You wouldn't need a pressure suit. But, surface temperature is -290F, so you need one hell of insulating, heated suit of some sort.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 17, 2026 12:03 AM (w6EFb)

346 340 C'mon Braenyard-- get down!

https://youtu.be/BXIBEW5MLuU

Posted by: JQ
--

Tonight's the night.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 12:03 AM (vC80E)

347 Very sorry to hear Captain Sabin. Prayers and condolences.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 17, 2026 12:04 AM (CHHv1)

348 I'm sorry to hear about Captain Sabin's daughter. Been there on a smaller scale decades ago. Only time, family and friends will help.

Anyone hear or see anything from Captain Obvious?

Out the door I must go!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 17, 2026 12:04 AM (F4PNo)

349 334 - Ever since I read "Foundation" in grade school I believed that humans would colonize the universe. But I have seen some hard science YouTube's that have nearly convinced such will not happen. I like to fantasize that it could happen, but I know deep down inside we won't get past Mars.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 17, 2026 12:04 AM (DK5Sh)

350 I was going to write a limerick but I couldn't think of anything that rhymes with Whelm...
Posted by: muldoon at July 16, 2026 11:12 PM (I0N4X)


Pelham?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2026 12:05 AM (rbvCR)

351 Bar's always open, here. Threads, not so much LOL.

****Now hear this!****

Doubles all 'round!

Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2026 11:59 PM (rdVOm)

Don't mind if I do. Hmm, I might need to do a booze run tomorrow, I'm almost out of JD. Its time for something different anyway. Maybe back to Woodford.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 17, 2026 12:05 AM (S41Gd)

352 I was going to write a limerick but I couldn't think of anything that rhymes with Whelm...
Posted by: muldoon at July 16, 2026 11:12 PM (I0N4X)

Helm

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 17, 2026 12:05 AM (S41Gd)

353 336

I don't know how long the exemption has been around.

This is probably their biggest war since the 1948 War of Independence, so that might be a facor.

I don't even know if Israel HAD universal conscription before this war.

Israel suffered about the same number of casualties on 10/7 as we did on 9/11-- appx 3000. Our population is 330 some million. Israel's is about 8 million. This is a total war for Israel, and feelings are running hot.

Posted by: mnw at July 17, 2026 12:06 AM (RCjYY)

354 My only knowledge of Tenino is that those were some of the topographical maps the Army used to teach land navigation. Back before GPS and all that. It's how I learned to read terrain contour intervals. Tenino must be pretty hilly because I remember LOTS of contour lines. Heh.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 16, 2026 11:13 PM (VqCOT)


It is also the sectional that has Ft Lewis on or near it. It is pretty hilly. Most everyone that learned land nav used that map, and everyone called it ten neen oh
The sandstone that was used to rebuild San Francisco after the big earthquake and fire came from Tenino quarries.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2026 12:08 AM (rbvCR)

355 Ever since I read "Foundation" in grade school I believed that humans would colonize the universe. But I have seen some hard science YouTube's that have nearly convinced such will not happen. I like to fantasize that it could happen, but I know deep down inside we won't get past Mars.

There is nothing of value on the Moon or the closest planets so we don't have a reason to go there and since we aren't trying to get to Mars we aren't going to learn how to go farther.

But hey at least we have a brazillion Somali Learing centers so we spent that money on something valuable

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 12:08 AM (sKqQm)

356 Here's a name you won't likely here in the media tomorrow but you will eventually. Nikki Floris.

Her name is all over X right now.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 12:08 AM (viF8m)

357 I was going to write a limerick but I couldn't think of anything that rhymes with Whelm...
Posted by: muldoon at July 16, 2026 11:12 PM (I0N4X)
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Helm, realm help?

Posted by: mrp at July 17, 2026 12:03 AM (rj6Yv)

I tried to invade their realm
Their latrines did overwhelm
I had to shit in my helm.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 17, 2026 12:09 AM (S41Gd)

358 I've been playing an X-com game recently and the plot is that the aliens are actually from another dimension since it is easier to shift dimensions that it is to travel to another star system.

Its an interesting take.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 12:09 AM (sKqQm)

359
Unless we invent "warp drive" of some sort (and believe it or not, things like might be possible, but it requires, well, exotic matter, negative mass, and then a lot of other problems). Even if possible, this would be well beyond anything we could imagine doing. This is "Type 2" civilization level energy stuff. Able to manipulate and control the power output of the Sun without blowing yourself up.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 17, 2026 12:09 AM (w6EFb)

360 A moment for Captain Josepha Sabin & family... this one's for you:

https://youtu.be/XpYGgtrMTYs

Posted by: JQ at July 17, 2026 12:10 AM (rdVOm)

361 But hey at least we have a brazillion Somali Learing centers so we spent that money on something valuable

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 12:08 AM (sKqQm)

Imagine white people toiling to spend all that time colonizing the planets only for some pinko commie shitstains to trundle along sell it all to the lowest fucking bidder

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 12:10 AM (vE0+H)

362 Here's a name you won't likely here in the media tomorrow but you will eventually. Nikki Floris.
----------------

If you're a taurus, see your Floris.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 12:11 AM (vE0+H)

363 mikeski - Clearly our conversation last night calls for a taste test! I used these recipes:

Standard Aviator:
2 oz gin
3/4 oz lemon juice
1/2 oz maraschino
1/4 oz creme de violette
garnish with cherry

Chanel #5 Aviator:
2 oz gin
1/2 oz lemon juice
1/2 oz maraschino
3/4 oz creme de violette
lavender bitters
garnish with cherry

I asked my wife and she couldn't tell the difference. IMO they are both delicious. Maybe you're right about my version being a bit too strong. Still I can't shake the feeling that the creme de violette *should* be more featured.

I should have left out the bitters to make it more scientific. Perhaps another round is called for. . . .

I don't usually use the cherries, but that's what the recipe I found online called for. I used the good kind; we don't buy the radioactive sort. I think if you add a bit of juice, that might do more to color the drink than the violette.

Posted by: frammish at July 17, 2026 12:11 AM (rcENI)

364 Thanks JQ, nods to the patrons at the bar.

tankdemon, sterling effort with the limerick, very well done.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 17, 2026 12:11 AM (ibDUx)

365 Unless we invent "warp drive" of some sort (and believe it or not, things like might be possible, but it requires, well, exotic matter, negative mass, and then a lot of other problems). Even if possible, this would be well beyond anything we could imagine doing. This is "Type 2" civilization level energy stuff. Able to manipulate and control the power output of the Sun without blowing yourself up.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 17, 2026 12:09 AM (w6EFb)

Yeah, and we're not even Type 1 yet.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 17, 2026 12:12 AM (S41Gd)

366 Trump’s refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election — which he lost to Joe Biden — has persisted into his second term, despite nearly all of the dozens of court cases contesting the outcome being dismissed or dropped due to lack of evidence or standing. The 2020 election — which one expert told NOTUS was “probably the most investigated election in American history”

In 2000 the Dems claimed the election had been stolen. Bush and the Floridan government gave them direct access for a full forensic analysis of the ballots. The finding? Shrub had won by a handful more votes then the official count.

So then why the response to jail people investigating the 2020 election, to destroy records, and to hide everything that could be hidden if there was no fraud?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 12:12 AM (sKqQm)

367 Nikki Floris.

Her name is all over X right now.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 12:08 AM (viF8m)

Even funnier is she now works for Microsoft as head of their Insider Threat division. How's that for irony?

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at July 17, 2026 12:12 AM (MsFGo)

368 “I know deep down inside we won't get past Mars”
——

[Professor Goddard] “… seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools”.

Rockets schrockets. New York Times, 1920

“It will never go off. And I speak as an expert on explosives” Admiral Ernest King, on the Atomic bomb

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 12:12 AM (fO4iR)

369 Even if possible, this would be well beyond anything we could imagine doing. This is "Type 2" civilization level energy stuff.

Arguably we should be able to SEE the results of something like this were their other intelligences in the universe and this was possible...and we don't.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 12:13 AM (sKqQm)

370 342

Thanks. It's gratifying to know I didn't f that up too bad.

Posted by: mnw at July 17, 2026 12:14 AM (RCjYY)

371 Erratum: Admiral Richard Leahy, USN

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 12:14 AM (fO4iR)

372 >>According to her LinkedIn, she's now the 'Director of Insider Risk' at Microsoft.

Part of the way the deep state/uniparty works is giving lucrative do nothing jobs to political insiders in return for favors.

And then in turn the people in the deep state/uniparty will compensate microsoft...ultimately with our taxpayer dollars.

It is a sick sick system

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 12:15 AM (sKqQm)

373 Here is my current prediction for '26

The Trump admin will have a few high profile busts on and around election day.

The Republicans will make major gains in the house and pick up more Senate seats.

The FNM/Dems will claim Trump stole the election and this will be the Dems rallying cry going into '28 which will be hilarious remembering their stated views on people that claim election theft...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 12:18 AM (sKqQm)

374 Trump, of course, has never made an unforced error in his entire political career.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2026 12:21 AM (rbvCR)

375
336 Hm. Has this been longstanding policy, or is this a newer thing? Why do you suppose this draft exemption for a particular group had become so controversial now, if in fact it has been a longstanding policy?
Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 11:59 PM (fO4iR)

Israeli politics is incredibly opaque, but I gather that one of the big complaints about Bibi is that he’s protected their exemption in exchange for their votes.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2026 12:21 AM (wLnmp)

376 254 Realm, helm, elm

*********

Yeah. Let's see YOU make something funny out of that.
Posted by: muldoon

🙈🙉🙊 😁

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 17, 2026 12:21 AM (NFX2v)

377 >>Even funnier is she now works for Microsoft as head of their Insider Threat division. How's that for irony?

I wish it was irony. I've been saying this for years like the cranky old guy shouting at clouds that I am and it's still true that the internet and lots of the most popular apps were either funded by or supported and infested by the intel community. Saw it.

That's why they hate Musk. He's right beside Trump as one of the people who might have saved this country and that is not hyperbole.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 12:22 AM (viF8m)

378 >> should be able to SEE the results of something

Such warp drive spacetime disturbances would indeed create observable effects. But, well, I'm gonna put Grok on what is known about the probability of detecting this, imagining that some aliens somewhere in the Milky Way are using such a thing.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 17, 2026 12:22 AM (w6EFb)

379 Is this Robert the Cat having a good dream?

https://youtu.be/W85oD8FEF78

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 17, 2026 12:23 AM (qx7Zg)

380 I tried to prepare the lovely Mrs. for the TXMoMe by describing to her the Delta pledges in Animal House.

Pretty damn close. That, or the way the school secretary (Grace) describes all those that think Bueller is a righteous Dude. You know - "a collection of sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, and d*ckheads."

Posted by: Tonypete at July 16, 2026 11:12 PM (pyNYl)

She seemed to have a good time. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 17, 2026 12:25 AM (S41Gd)

381 Such warp drive spacetime disturbances would indeed create observable effects. But, well, I'm gonna put Grok on what is known about the probability of detecting this, imagining that some aliens somewhere in the Milky Way are using such a thing.

Another one is the creation of a Dyson sphere.

We have seen some odd things with star power output - there are stars that have regularly variable output for example, but we should be able to see quite clearly a star disappearing over some period of time if another civilization were building these in our galaxy...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 12:25 AM (sKqQm)

382 Clearly our conversation last night calls for a taste test!

I asked my wife and she couldn't tell the difference. IMO they are both delicious. Maybe you're right about my version being a bit too strong. Still I can't shake the feeling that the creme de violette *should* be more featured.

I don't usually use the cherries, but that's what the recipe I found online called for. I used the good kind; we don't buy the radioactive sort. I think if you add a bit of juice, that might do more to color the drink than the violette.
Posted by: frammish


Maybe I'll have to give this a try, too. A person's sense of taste does change over time.

Cherries are an odd addition. I suppose someone saw "maraschino liqueur" and said "obviously maraschino cherries would go with that." Despite not really.

And yes, the syrup from some Luxardo-brand or similar cherries would add some color. But more purple than blue? Maybe call that one an "aviation at twilight" or something.

Posted by: mikeski at July 17, 2026 12:27 AM (VHUov)

383 Even funnier is she now works for Microsoft as head of their Insider Threat division. How's that for irony?

I wish it was irony. I've been saying this for years like the cranky old guy shouting at clouds that I am and it's still true that the internet and lots of the most popular apps were either funded by or supported and infested by the intel community. Saw it.

That's why they hate Musk. He's right beside Trump as one of the people who might have saved this country and that is not hyperbole.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 12:22 AM (viF8m)

Some of these incestuous relationships may be impervious to legal remedies...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 17, 2026 12:28 AM (1z8ji)

384 In the U.S., draft exemptions were (sometimes) allowed, for pacifists like Quakers.

But, it generally had to have been a longstanding deeply held belief thing, not a sentiment miraculously picked up on the fly the day after Uncle Sam sent out his “Greeting.” letter in the mail.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 12:29 AM (fO4iR)

385 Perfection? Mozart says, yeah.

youtube.com/watch?v=5wNKQ7RRXfk&t=3190s

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 12:29 AM (vC80E)

386 Trump, of course, has never made an unforced error in his entire political career.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2026 12:21 AM (rbvCR)

The idea of life is not to never make errors, unforced or otherwise, but how you handle the ones you make.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 12:31 AM (vE0+H)

387 382 Maybe I'll have to give this a try, too.

If you do, please let me know what you think!

Posted by: frammish at July 17, 2026 12:33 AM (rcENI)

388
Israel suffered about the same number of casualties on 10/7 as we did on 9/11-- appx 3000. Our population is 330 some million. Israel's is about 8 million. This is a total war for Israel, and feelings are running hot.

Posted by: mnw
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They are exercising extreme restraint.
_ghost of Texas Ranger

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 12:33 AM (vC80E)

389 230 I was going to write a limerick but I couldn't think of anything that rhymes with Whelm...
Posted by: muldoon at July 16, 2026 11:12 PM (I0N4X)


Helm?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 17, 2026 12:33 AM (tWxgu)

390 Another one is the creation of a Dyson sphere.

We have seen some odd things with star power output - there are stars that have regularly variable output for example, but we should be able to see quite clearly a star disappearing over some period of time if another civilization were building these in our galaxy...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2026 12:25 AM (sKqQm)

Maybe a civilization capable of building a Dyson Sphere is smart enough to understand that it would be a bad idea.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 17, 2026 12:34 AM (1z8ji)

391 Some of these incestuous relationships may be impervious to legal remedies...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Therefore, extra judicial execution is necessary.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 12:35 AM (vC80E)

392 So we were whelmed by Trump's speech ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 12:36 AM (wztfS)

393 386 Trump, of course, has never made an unforced error in his entire political career.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2026 12:21 AM (rbvCR)

The idea of life is not to never make errors, unforced or otherwise, but how you handle the ones you make.
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 12:31 AM (vE0+H)

This, x1000. If you know anyone who has never made a mistake, that person is a rank liar.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 17, 2026 12:37 AM (bl07w)

394 Pithy ONT. Laconic even.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 12:38 AM (4NO2D)

395 I just made the Kessel run in one whelm. Need to refuel. Also I broke my clutch, so I have that going for me.

Posted by: GT 5.0 at July 17, 2026 12:39 AM (+HnGh)

396 Trump reminds everyone what an American is.
Some hate it.
Some run from it.
Some bask in its glory
and stand ready to help its
re-ascendance.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 12:39 AM (vC80E)

397 Great God Almighty, I make mistakes all the damned time. Hopefully not the same ones over and over, but my confessor might have a thing or two to say about that if he were allowed to.

Recognize your error, own up to it, do your best to mitigate the fallout, and then take steps to not make it again.

Wisdom does not come from being "perfect" but from striving for perfection. You will never achieve perfection this side of Heaven, but you will at least achieve good and/or quality.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 17, 2026 12:39 AM (bl07w)

398 Why do these Haredi fellows think they are all that and a bag of chips anyway? There are many ways to serve, not everyone is needed in the Infantry or combat roles. Heck, it’s starting to piss me off, too. LOL

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2026 12:41 AM (fO4iR)

399 Doof, did you remember to play “Manhattan Project” by Rush today?

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 17, 2026 12:41 AM (8l6/L)

400 >>Some of these incestuous relationships may be impervious to legal remedies...

What it will require no matter how it resolved is an educated population that is sufficiently aware of the truth. And by educated I don't mean intelligent, lots of intelligent people. I mean aware of the real facts. That's why the media boycotted Trump's speech tonight and likely won't publish a lot of the documents being released.

The biggest revelation tonight might be that the deep state is real and worked to oust Trump. We all knew this but we never had proof. Now we do.

When people see things, for most normal people it's hard to pretend they didn't.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 12:42 AM (viF8m)

401 So sorry to hear about it, Captain Sabin. I will say prayers for your family.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 17, 2026 12:42 AM (tWxgu)

402 "Processed" three starters and a generator today. One starter got refurbished, and put into stock as "usable", the remainder were rendered for their iron and copper content, and some aluminum, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 17, 2026 12:43 AM (1z8ji)

403 Ribposting for her pleasure

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True - I may be underselling. I guess I'm talking to the people who are hoping to be whelmed tonight. You may not be, but remember Trump is always working multiple angles. And whether we like it or not there is an election to win.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 09:21 AM (OMEzs)
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Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 12:44 AM (vE0+H)

404 It was true of George Washington. He made lots of mistakes in the Revolutionary War, but he learned from each one, and didn’t make the same mistake twice.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 17, 2026 12:46 AM (tWxgu)

405 That's why the media boycotted Trump's speech tonight and likely won't publish a lot of the documents being released.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 12:42 AM (viF8m)

Perhaps it's time for the President to commandeer the media, and force them to broadcast the entire speech, without any editorializing at. all. Gun to the head, if need be.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 17, 2026 12:46 AM (1z8ji)

406
Interesting. Using the basic Alcubierre "warp drive" metric, a bubble during "cruise" phase would emit no gravitational radiation of any sort. It would look flat from afar, as the total ADM mass-energy would be zero (you've got roughly equal positive and negative mass).

Start up and shut down would be a different story. Creating the bubble and engaging to superluminal coordinate speed would produce very high frequency gravitational wave "chirps". None of our current detectors can operate at this frequency.

So, we'd be blind to that. But there's optical effects of a bubble passing by that I'm looking at now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 17, 2026 12:46 AM (w6EFb)

407 Left an initial comment, then wandered off to watch a bunch of stuff. Since this was a DIY ONT. Now it's bedtime. Hope I didn't miss anything vital in the comments tonight.

Back in high school, I was visiting a friend and he pulled out an album he'd just bought. Some group called the Mothers of Invention. I'd seen ads for a previous album (Only in it for the Money) in Marvel comics, of all places, which was weird. Then he put on side one, and I heard Frank for the first time.

https://youtu.be/5Ykt9Kce2MQ

G'nite, y'all.💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - hungry freaks at July 17, 2026 12:47 AM (p+5Bi)

408 So, we'd be blind to that. But there's optical effects of a bubble passing by that I'm looking at now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 17, 2026 12:46 AM (w6EFb)

Bubbles passing have acoustical effects, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 17, 2026 12:49 AM (1z8ji)

409 What networks or cable channels DID air the speech? Anyone?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 17, 2026 12:50 AM (tWxgu)

410 My husband told me some wonky stuff about Vance tonight that I can't defend. Said he had an interview and was yammering stuff about Israel wanting to always be in war (I am paraphrasing as I was busy putting on my skirt wrong side out and slapping on mascara for his appt).

I won't defend him anymore, altho I did initially like him. Something ain't right, boys and girls.

Rubio/DeSantis 2028

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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The knives are out for Vance.
Watch the interview yourself with that thought in mind, and also with the thought that Israel has their own agenda. I think that, simply because they are about the only country in the ME that is not full of Islamic crazies who want kill us AND the only country there who even comes close to being a western style democracy, we should support them, but I also remember the USS Liberty.
Israel wants regime change in Iran, which isn't a US priority, and Vance, during the MOU negotiations, made that clear.

Posted by: buddhaha at July 17, 2026 12:51 AM (a8Wd8)

411 PBS carried it live in its entirety.

Posted by: mnw at July 17, 2026 12:52 AM (RCjYY)

412 Weighting on the blues

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wNKQ7RRXfk&t=4108s

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 12:53 AM (vC80E)

413 I see Newsmax did cover it. Did CBS?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 17, 2026 12:53 AM (tWxgu)

414 >>Perhaps it's time for the President to commandeer the media, and force them to broadcast the entire speech, without any editorializing at. all. Gun to the head, if need be.

Might be.

And those of us who said electronic voting machines were designed for cheating, yea, we were right. Kind of ads a bit of context to why Maduro is sitting in a US prison.

https://tinyurl.com/46tcdf3a

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 12:54 AM (viF8m)

415 PBS carried it live in its entirety.

Posted by: mnw at July 17, 2026 12:52 AM (RCjYY)
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Public BS.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 12:54 AM (ikSmX)

416 The idea of life is not to never make errors, unforced or otherwise, but how you handle the ones you make.
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 12:31 AM (vE0+H)


I am impressed that Trump's cabinet is full of people doing their jobs, whatever their jobs are. It is a nice change from the previous administrations where either the boss didn't have a good grip on who did what, or didn't care enough to police it.
Trump's posse is on message and on task, even on their own time.
I have to see Scott Bessent interviewed by Mike Rowe.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2026 12:55 AM (rbvCR)

417 Bubbles passing have acoustical effects, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 17, 2026 12:49 AM (1z8ji)


Acoustics in Spaaaace!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 17, 2026 12:56 AM (tWxgu)

418
I won't defend him anymore, altho I did initially like him. Something ain't right, boys and girls.

Rubio/DeSantis 2028

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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There is some framing that he put around what he said about Israel.

Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 12:56 AM (ikSmX)

419
Some raytracing work on what an Alcubierre warp bubble moving at 1.5 c passing in front of the Erf would look like. The sun is behind us:

https://t.ly/xC4o1

The math here is far, far from trivial. That is the insane lensing such a bubble would do. Note an intuitive principle. If a bubble is moving toward you faster than light, you won't see anything, because whatever it does to light passing by won't get to you unitl after the bubble has passed. With this sideways view, you don't see anything until the radial velocity of the bubble relative to you drops below c.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 17, 2026 12:57 AM (w6EFb)

420
So if a bubble was coming directly at you, you'd never see it until it hit you. But looking at the ass end in the wake, you'd see all sorts of lensing effect similar to the above.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 17, 2026 12:59 AM (w6EFb)

421 Vance tokd Rogan that "super hawks" are proposing “thst the military campaign go on forever and they can't actually identify what it is that they're trying to accomplish.”

But we can:

“Our objectives are clear. First, we’re destroying Iran’s missile capabilities… and their capacity to produce brand new ones — pretty good ones they make. Second, we’re annihilating their navy… Third, we’re ensuring that the world’s number one sponsor of terror can never obtain a nuclear weapon… And finally, we’re ensuring that the Iranian regime cannot continue to arm, fund, and direct terrorist armies outside of their borders.” - Donald Trump, April 1

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2026 01:02 AM (wLnmp)

422 but I also remember the USS Liberty.

Posted by: buddhaha at July 17, 2026 12:51 AM (a8Wd

Yeah, call me kooky, but I would blown every ship they had out of the water after that. No fucking way they mistook that ship for anything other then American. I never bought that bullshit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 17, 2026 01:03 AM (S41Gd)

423
Oh, BTW, the energy requirements of this. We enginner a warp bubble maybe 1km wide. We'd need probably a few Jupiter masses worth of negative mass-energy, and all that concentrated in thin walls around that bubble. And a corresponding amount of regular positive energy.

All this depends on all sorts of shit that is unknown. Quantum field theory (the physics of matter), and General relativity (the physics of spacetime) haven't been unified.

All sorts of unknowns there. You might need solar masses worth or even more depending. Or you might do with less.

Again, this stuff is so far beyond anything we could engineer.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 17, 2026 01:03 AM (w6EFb)

424 Israel wants regime change in Iran, which isn't a US priority, and Vance, during the MOU negotiations, made that clear.

Posted by: buddhaha
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One either respects that Israel wants regime change or doesn't.
I expect us to get the uranium then turn Israel loose. If we don't I will be disappointed in Trump and his decision. We get the uranium and leave the middle east to the middle east.
Israel, take them out.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 01:04 AM (vC80E)

425 DeSantis is an also ran. He didn't do too much when he was in congress and word has it that his the director of the show and he is the performer. Call me doubtful.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 01:07 AM (vC80E)

426 We are never going to get perfect politicians. We have to work with what we have and try to mold them correctly

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 17, 2026 01:07 AM (CHHv1)

427 Until the truce broke down, Trump SEEMED to me to have reduced our objectives to the "no nuclear weapons" part.

I think our objectives expand and shrink according to the state of play in the ME.

Posted by: mnw at July 17, 2026 01:08 AM (RCjYY)

428 his wife is the director

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 01:08 AM (vC80E)

429 To each their own but you will read what is posted on X tomorrow right here.
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I'll be waiting until then, apparently.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at July 17, 2026 01:08 AM (vSvIl)

430 The noise used to be Vance vs DeSantis, with a particular flavor for each group in conflict. Rubio has changed that.
The good thing is that all three are competent, wildly competent, and young and energetic. The main question is what area of competence do we need.

Trump is a genius, he got Rubio, Vance, and Cruz working together for him. I would have never thought that possible.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2026 01:12 AM (rbvCR)

431 >>I'll be waiting until then, apparently.

Where do you think ace gets his content?

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 01:12 AM (viF8m)

432 To say nothing of Robert Kennedy-- now there's an unlikely recruit.

I think Scott Bessent has been outstanding.

Posted by: mnw at July 17, 2026 01:15 AM (RCjYY)

433 Who want's yellow plums? I have more than I can eat and more than I can probably give away to the neighbors.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2026 10:25 PM (rbvCR)

We had a ton of plums (purple) two years ago, delicious and juicy but way more than we could eat so we put out the call to some neighbors. One who makes his own wine and cider took a bunch and made plum wine. Gifted us 6 or 8 bottles in return and it's REALLY GOOD. Kinda tastes like sangria. Nice chilled.

Posted by: The Mantastic Tor at July 17, 2026 01:18 AM (We5PL)

434
It's important to understand with that warp drive bubble, you're not going faster than light. You've just engineered spacetime in the bubble so that light goes much faster than normal in the bubble. :-)

Now, to do that, turns out you need exotic matter, negative mass-energy in this case. No way to do this with regular mass-energy.

There are several ways to think of how such a bubble works. Like everything in GR, it's coordinate dependent. What "it's doing" depends on just what coordinates you use, how you look at it, so to speak. One such common picture is this: the bubble contracts space in front of it, and expands space behind it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 17, 2026 01:19 AM (w6EFb)

435 we should support them, but I also remember the USS Liberty.
Israel wants regime change in Iran, which isn't a US priority, and Vance, during the MOU negotiations, made that clear.
Posted by: buddhaha at July 17, 2026 12:51 AM (a8Wd

Israel can never do enough to make up for the friendly fire incident on the USS Liberty for some people.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 17, 2026 01:20 AM (8l6/L)

436 >>I think Scott Bessent has been outstanding.

Wait until you see what he had to say today at the alliance being led by Rubio to go after the transnational leftist groups spawning groups like antifa and BLM.

Anyone who says this administration isn't completely aligned is either listening to the garbage media or lying.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 01:22 AM (viF8m)

437 I like to fantasize that it could happen, but I know deep down inside we won't get past Mars.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 17, 2026 12:04 AM (DK5Sh)

We also were never going to fly.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 17, 2026 01:22 AM (8l6/L)

438 My husband told me some wonky stuff about Vance tonight that I can't defend. Said he had an interview and was yammering stuff about Israel wanting to always be in war

I've listened to about half of it. So far he is defending the MOU and trying to make a deal and open the Strait vs seeking regime change. Personally I would be happy for regime change and don't trust Iran with any deals, but it seems like Vance is echoing Trump's priorities. He is toeing the line so much I wondered what his real beliefs are.

And he says Israel cares more about regime change. I knew that already. People say Trump is following Israel's orders when really they are following ours.

Maybe Vance says something shocking later in the interview, but so far I don't get what the big deal is.

Posted by: frammish at July 17, 2026 01:23 AM (rcENI)

439 Well, getting close to 2330 here. Going to call it a night. Later, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 17, 2026 01:26 AM (1z8ji)

440 437

"He hates the war and thinks everyone else does too."

I got an idea. Why don't you state your own opinions instead of misstating mine?

Posted by: mnw at July 17, 2026 01:27 AM (RCjYY)

441 >>Israel can never do enough to make up for the friendly fire incident on the USS Liberty for some people.

Or they really don't understand what happened with the USS Liberty.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 01:28 AM (viF8m)

442 'Night AOP, hope you get that Studebaker running.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 01:29 AM (vC80E)

443 Or they really don't understand what happened with the USS Liberty.

Posted by: JackStraw
__

Does anybody?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 01:30 AM (vC80E)

444 >>I'll be waiting until then, apparently.

Where do you think ace gets his content?
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 01:12 AM (viF8m)

He's said as much, over the years.

I just mean that X thinks I'm a bot and has locked my account, and apparently this means, among other inconveniences, I can't look at my Following tab.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at July 17, 2026 01:30 AM (vSvIl)

445 In for a penny in for a dime.
JQ, it's been blues all night.
https://youtu.be/5wNKQ7RRXfk?t=6469
Slide another double down this way.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 01:32 AM (vC80E)

446
Sabine Hossenfelder has done several videos on this warp drive business if you're interested.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 17, 2026 01:33 AM (w6EFb)

447
X thinks I'm a bot and has locked my account, and apparently this means, among other inconveniences, I can't look at my Following tab.
Posted by: Methos

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

A bot has decided you're not human. Marinate in that.

Posted by: But hey, what was your worst day? at July 17, 2026 01:34 AM (mmrXZ)

448
443 Or they really don't understand what happened with the USS Liberty.

Posted by: JackStraw
__

Does anybody?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 01:30 AM (vC80E)

Friendly fire is always tragic, but it also happens in every war, and the US has done it as much of it as anyone. Kuwait shot down a couple of our planes a few weeks ago, but nobody says we should go to war with Kuwait, because it was clearly a stupid mistake.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2026 01:36 AM (wLnmp)

449 Again, this stuff is so far beyond anything we could engineer.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 17, 2026 01:03 AM (w6EFb)


Reminds of a 16th century design for an airship: take an ordinary sailing ship and make it rise in the air by attaching large metal spheres filled with vacuum. Archimedes’s principle right? To keep the weight down make the spheres have very thin walls of some lightweight metal, say copper. Of course WE see the problem, having done the experiment. I swear I’ve seen an etching of this design in some old book about flight. I’m afraid our best designs for interstellar flight today are on a par with this 16th century airship design: some parts are right but the whole will never work that way.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 17, 2026 01:36 AM (tWxgu)

450 >>Does anybody?

Doubtful. Few even know what the USS Liberty really was or that she was in the middle of a war when hit.

The real question is who would believe Israel would purposefully target a US war ship and why would the US not respond in kind if there wasn't a logical explanation that might not be broadcast?

Other than Candace Owens or Tucker Carlson.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2026 01:40 AM (viF8m)

451 I think LBJ wanted to pin the USS Liberty’s sinking, with all hands lost, on the Egyptians and draw the US into the war on the Israeli side. The Israeli side was willing to play along. Too bad that the resourcefulness of the Liberty’s crew kept them from sinking. But they were kept from talking about it for many years. Tell me where I’m wrong.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 17, 2026 01:44 AM (tWxgu)

452
X quote of the day: "Thanks to socialism, the average Zimbabwean became a trillionaire.”

Posted by: But hey, what was your worst day? at July 17, 2026 01:45 AM (mmrXZ)

453 Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 01:32 AM

Another double, comin' up!

Sorry-- had to shower. It's just so fk'n hot here!

Posted by: JQ at July 17, 2026 01:52 AM (rdVOm)

454 Another double, comin' up!

Sorry-- had to shower. It's just so fk'n hot here!

Posted by: JQ
--

Clean and on time.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 02:01 AM (vC80E)

455 Didn't get as hot as they predicted-- only 104* LOL.

It's not cooling as well as last night. Still 82 outside, and my little a/c is keeping the front room at 76. I may stay in this room all night! Too bad the bed won't fit here, and the a/c won't fit in bedroom...

Posted by: JQ at July 17, 2026 02:01 AM (rdVOm)

456 451 I think LBJ wanted to pin the USS Liberty’s sinking, with all hands lost, on the Egyptians and draw the US into the war on the Israeli side.
---

He was such a sorry pos, it's totally possible. Along with his idiot familiar Robert McNamara.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 02:05 AM (vC80E)

457 and the a/c won't fit in bedroom...

Posted by: JQ
--

Sofa?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 02:06 AM (vC80E)

458 Sofa?
Posted by: Braenyard

No, recliner probably. Sofa is only there for decoration-- too hot & scratchy to sleep on. Also, makes for wicked bachache!

Posted by: JQ at July 17, 2026 02:10 AM (rdVOm)

459 *backache

Posted by: JQ at July 17, 2026 02:11 AM (rdVOm)

460
Just reading about the warp drive spacetimes. One amusing little problem: causal disconnection with the inside of the bubble.

If you got the bubble going, you couldn't get a signal from the inside to the "walls" in finite time. Thus you could never send the signal to stop the engine....

That's one little problem in some of the solutions....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 17, 2026 02:12 AM (w6EFb)

461 and no one declared the obvious?
"Whellllma...." -- Fred Flintstone/Bedrock.

AND PLEASE, DON'T FORGET TO VOTE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDEyL_sS0eY&t=89s

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at July 17, 2026 02:15 AM (2DYeI)

462 >>Also, makes for wicked backache!
-------

I'm a mean girl-- freeloading BIL got to sleep on that sofa for 2 weeks. Wasn't about to make up the spare bed & let him get comfortable here.

Posted by: JQ at July 17, 2026 02:17 AM (rdVOm)

463 Damn. Checked the air quality map for Eastern U.S... Ugh!

Welcome to our Western U.S. summer world, guys. We're not getting the worst yet, but summer has only just begun.

(Funny how it's never *so terrible* until sh!tcago & noo yawk get affected)

Posted by: JQ at July 17, 2026 02:31 AM (rdVOm)

464 Gertude Stein said this about Oakland ;but fits Trump's speech. "There is no there there!

Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at July 17, 2026 02:35 AM (etu5T)

465 352 I was going to write a limerick but I couldn't think of anything that rhymes with Whelm...

Posted by: muldoon at July 16, 2026 11:12 PM (I0N4X)
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MOT member here!

Have I gotta solution for you!

https://tinyurl.com/4cthk6vv

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 17, 2026 02:42 AM (F4PNo)

466 Israel can never do enough to make up for the friendly fire incident on the USS Liberty for some people.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 17, 2026 01:20 AM (8l6/L)

It was more of a battle.

Posted by: Reforger at July 17, 2026 02:45 AM (kHsjk)

467 Oh, Ashley! Ashley!

https://tinyurl.com/56d7hjwv

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 17, 2026 02:49 AM (F4PNo)

468 Israel can never do enough to make up for the friendly fire incident on the USS Liberty for some people.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 17, 2026 01:20 AM (8l6/L)
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Same goes for every friendly fire incident, including a history full of US ones:

https://tinyurl.com/5c4thbuk

Ain't that right, clown?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 17, 2026 02:53 AM (F4PNo)

469 467 Oh, Ashley! Ashley!

https://tinyurl.com/56d7hjwv

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,
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Mexico used to have a, zona rosa or zona rojo. Usually with a stone wall around it. They could do that with the west coast.
Although I am confident, being our defense from the far east, the military will take over if things get too far out of hand.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 03:01 AM (vC80E)

470 >>Oh, Ashley! Ashley!

That's a MAN, baby!

Posted by: JQ at July 17, 2026 03:06 AM (rdVOm)

471
Ain't that right, clown?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,
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Consider that you may have misunderstood what he was imparting.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 03:07 AM (vC80E)

472 LOL Biden's Dog, I wonder if Ashley is Liz Warren's kind of guy!

JQ, I hope that you get a comfy sleep.

Sweet dreams Horde.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 17, 2026 03:07 AM (ibDUx)

473
That's a MAN, baby!

Posted by: JQ
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or

a MAN baby.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 03:08 AM (vC80E)

474 'Night, Debby!

It's getting cooler, so I may be able to sleep *in my bedroom* eventually.

Posted by: JQ at July 17, 2026 03:10 AM (rdVOm)

475 Same goes for every friendly fire incident, including a history full of US ones:

https://tinyurl.com/5c4thbuk

Ain't that right, clown?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 17, 2026 02:53 AM (F4PNo)

Take a chill pill. I am on your side.

I am sick and fucking tired of people bitching about “Oh, Israel attacked the Liberty.” That was FRIENDLY FIRE. But every anti-Semite ass clown and someone with an axe to grind about Israel can’t wait to bring it up. It was the fog of war. I am more than willing and eager to give Israel the benefit of the doubt on that.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 17, 2026 03:10 AM (8l6/L)

476 >>>Wasn't about to make up the spare bed & let him get comfortable here.

Posted by: JQ
---

That was a bitch of an episode.
You have great wisdom and handled it with grace.
Kudos.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 03:12 AM (vC80E)

477 or
a MAN baby.
Posted by: Braenyard

Guess I'll just go with: it's a mentally-ill, cross-dressing, biological male.

Posted by: JQ at July 17, 2026 03:14 AM (rdVOm)

478 >>That was a bitch of an episode.
------

Understatement.

Took him to homeless shelter ~4 months ago, and their limit of residency is 6 months for those who can comply with the rules/complete their "program".

I do so hope that they are truly helping him straighten out his MANY issues!

But I'm wary of the other shoe dropping, in about 2 more months...

Posted by: JQ at July 17, 2026 03:21 AM (rdVOm)

479 Have two window shakers, a 10K and 12K. For reasons I am in the living room adjacent to the 12K. When it gets hotter I'll buy a new mattress and move back into the bed room. Then in the daytime run both of them.

The HVAC is mechanically sound but the O'Bidens in their wisdom deemed the coolant it uses harmful, thus, illegal to buy or sell.
I'm still looking for another house but nada. All the lots in this neighborhood are 1/2 acre or better and are civil people. My desire is, out in the county with a 3K sq ft metal building that was a welding shop. - Ha.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 03:22 AM (vC80E)

480
But I'm wary of the other shoe dropping, in about 2 more months...
Posted by: JQ

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

Man, you'd think 6 months of having a roof over his head and 3 meals a day and people trying to talk him out of his problems would be an incentive for that kind of life. Crazy.

How you all doin'?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 17, 2026 03:26 AM (mmrXZ)

481 Posted by: Cow Demon at July 17, 2026 03:10 AM (8l6/L)
-

Chiiled.

My apologies. Fully misunderstood you comment.

/looks for invisible aoshq comment edit button

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 17, 2026 03:30 AM (F4PNo)

482 Hubby removed the "window shakers" several years ago. They were NOISY! And we were younger then, didn't mind just having box fans. No central air in this house (or furnace!)

I eventually got fed up, due to the suffering of menopause, and just ordered free-standing units-- one for upstairs, one for down-- delivered right to our door! Hah! And they are whisper-quiet.

Only have the one running, as I spend most time on main floor. It's an 8k unit. Just enough to take a bite out of the heat. Open windows at night when it's cooler.

Posted by: JQ at July 17, 2026 03:32 AM (rdVOm)

483 Hi, Blondie!

Doin' alright here. You?

Posted by: JQ at July 17, 2026 03:34 AM (rdVOm)

484 BIL isn't a criminal-- he's just been coddled by so many for so long-- and learned to use his deafness as a crutch, an excuse to not be responsible for his actions/inactions.

He freeloaded off hubby & his XW, back in the early 80s, and took advantage for I don't know how long. They finally kicked him out for growing weed (not legal here, ever) in their yard.

Dude is clean now. No drugs or alcohol at all. Just... "helpless" and "poor me" attitude, while being totally fking selfish.

Posted by: JQ at July 17, 2026 03:40 AM (rdVOm)

485 Just starting to catch up with Trump's election fraud presentation last night.

So pretty much everything we understood to be true years ago is being confirmed.

Teaser question: Will anything happen?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 17, 2026 03:43 AM (F4PNo)

486 "Friendly fire" is when you drop arty on the wrong position. "Friendly fire" is when your radar gives you 20 seconds to respond. Having multiple aircraft and multiple torpedo boats attack a boat flying the American flag over a period of an hour and a half is NOT "friendly fire".
The Israeli military, or at least some portion of it, did not want the spy ship, American or not, recording what they were doing. What possible reason, you say? How about discussing use of a nuke over radio channels? I don't know, but there was something.
Here's the kicker - 60 years later, despite FOIA requests and much pressure, the inquiry records are STILL classified.
All I was pointing out was that, sometimes, US and Israeli interests are in conflict.

Posted by: buddhaha at July 17, 2026 03:44 AM (a8Wd8)

487 >>Teaser question: Will anything happen?
---------

Not getting my hopes up, but would be *delicious* if there were convictions!

Posted by: JQ at July 17, 2026 03:46 AM (rdVOm)

488 Gamma was so good... even though dated...

https://youtu.be/eBCVnGn5V5Y

Posted by: JQ at July 17, 2026 03:53 AM (rdVOm)

489 You won't get past Mars with a warp drive as long as you keep mixing up an Aviation Cocktail with an Aviator. Dubonet, Violette.

That's a whelmer.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 17, 2026 04:00 AM (zdLoL)

490 Holy crap am I whelmed.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 17, 2026 04:02 AM (Ve66z)

491
Hi, Blondie!

Doin' alright here. You?
Posted by: JQ

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

Doin' all right here. One of these mornings I'm just going to have to force myself out of bed at 7:00 no matter how late I've stayed up.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 17, 2026 04:02 AM (mmrXZ)

492 All I was pointing out was that, sometimes, US and Israeli interests are in conflict.

Posted by: buddhaha at July 17, 2026 03:44 AM (a8Wd

You must be new here.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 17, 2026 04:03 AM (Ve66z)

493 One of these mornings I'm just going to have to force myself out of bed at 7:00 no matter how late I've stayed up.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Hahaha, yeah, I tell myself that too... doesn't work for me.

Posted by: JQ at July 17, 2026 04:04 AM (rdVOm)

494 Wow! ONLY 97* Friday... uh huh. Better get my sweatshirt out, just in case!

Posted by: JQ at July 17, 2026 04:07 AM (rdVOm)

495
Teaser question: Will anything happen?
Posted by: Biden's Dog

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

We haven't seen the files yet, but I suspect:

There will be investigations and maybe some new regulations. There might be some cleanup of voter rolls.

There needs to be a follow-up speech, in which Trump talks about those noncompliant states that won't cough up their voter data to make sure illegal aliens aren't registered. In this speech, Trump announces that under XYZ Act or authority, those states don't get to participate in federal elections until they clean up.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 17, 2026 04:13 AM (mmrXZ)

496 All I was pointing out was that, sometimes, US and Israeli interests are in conflict.

Posted by: buddhaha
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Especially when LBJ and Robert McNamera are involved.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 04:15 AM (vC80E)

497 ================

Doin' all right here. One of these mornings I'm just going to have to force myself out of bed at 7:00 no matter how late I've stayed up.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia
---

Step #1, stop bidding the sun, good morning.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 04:30 AM (vC80E)

498 487 >>Teaser question: Will anything happen?
---------

Not getting my hopes up, but would be *delicious* if there were convictions!

Posted by: JQ
--

When they start building the gibbets we can put on the brisket.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 04:34 AM (vC80E)

499 July be Hot.

Posted by: Case at July 17, 2026 04:35 AM (bqIVz)

500 I'm folding, yall have a good evening, bid the sun good morning for me. 'night.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 04:35 AM (vC80E)

501 Canada is on fire. Now that's hot.

Posted by: Case at July 17, 2026 04:37 AM (bqIVz)

502 'Night, B!

Posted by: JQ at July 17, 2026 04:38 AM (rdVOm)

503 5 Whelm yourselves!

In public?!?
Posted by: mikeski at July 16, 2026 10:10 PM (VHUov)

haha

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 04:42 AM (6wpGE)

504
Come baaaack Braen! I like ya, Braen!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 17, 2026 04:42 AM (mmrXZ)

505 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 04:44 AM (6wpGE)

506 486 "Friendly fire" is when you drop arty on the wrong position. "Friendly fire" is when your radar gives you 20 seconds to respond. Having multiple aircraft and multiple torpedo boats attack a boat flying the American flag over a period of an hour and a half is NOT "friendly fire".
The Israeli military, or at least some portion of it, did not want the spy ship, American or not, recording what they were doing. What possible reason, you say? How about discussing use of a nuke over radio channels? I don't know, but there was something.
Here's the kicker - 60 years later, despite FOIA requests and much pressure, the inquiry records are STILL classified.
All I was pointing out was that, sometimes, US and Israeli interests are in conflict.
Posted by: buddhaha at July 17, 2026 03:44 AM (a8Wd

Congratulations on sounding exactly like every hate-filled anti-Semite bigot on the subject. The Morning Report had a great article on the matter I wish I had bookmarked that takes down every point you mentioned.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 17, 2026 06:07 AM (8l6/L)

Trump Speech

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 09:00 PM




Comments

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1 Yeet

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 16, 2026 08:56 PM (yEz+x)

2 Soon

Posted by: Ann at July 16, 2026 08:56 PM (K4KCe)

3 Hi.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 16, 2026 08:56 PM (qFwJc)

4 Thank you for the link!

Posted by: Iris at July 16, 2026 08:56 PM (286+n)

5 Hrothgar mentioned he wanted to see some people arrested during the speech. Now THAT would be winning!

Posted by: Iris at July 16, 2026 08:57 PM (286+n)

6 Good evening all!
I hope FBI raids are happening as he speaks. That would be awesome.

Posted by: Jmel at July 16, 2026 08:59 PM (3TlS+)

7 Remember when we used to get LiveBlogs?

Posted by: garrett at July 16, 2026 08:59 PM (uzmqU)

8 Jmel

I have a little list ... of people that will not be missed.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 16, 2026 09:00 PM (u82oZ)

9 Let's go!

Posted by: Texican ette at July 16, 2026 09:00 PM (SNf74)

10 Remember when we used to get LiveBlogs?

Posted by: garrett at July 16, 2026 08:59 PM (uzmqU)

Yeah but, why aren't my comments showing up?

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 16, 2026 09:00 PM (wVcYX)

11 "I, Donald Trump, am placing a 50% tariff on Canada's unathorized smoke exports, and filing a grievence with the United Nations for the applicable Canadian Provinces to purchase carbon credits equal to the release of green house gases due to their wild fires."

Thank You,
Good Night.

Posted by: Orson at July 16, 2026 09:02 PM (dIske)

12 I really hope he frequently uses the preferred pronunciation "Chy-Na."

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 16, 2026 09:02 PM (CWMF2)

13 and here we go!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 16, 2026 09:02 PM (wVcYX)

14 Watching on RAV. CBS evidently is covering it.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 16, 2026 09:02 PM (l26NL)

15 Evening all

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at July 16, 2026 09:02 PM (OF02a)

16 Remember when we used to get LiveBlogs?
Posted by: garrett


Did we get those for Trump, or just when Ace wanted to fisk a democrat in real time?

Posted by: mikeski at July 16, 2026 09:03 PM (VHUov)

17
Remember when we used to get LiveBlogs?

Pepperidge Farm remembers!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 16, 2026 09:03 PM (6HIFq)

18 I have a feeling this is going to be a looooong address.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 16, 2026 09:03 PM (CWMF2)

19 Why aren't my comments being posted?

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 09:03 PM (viF8m)

20 Good Evening.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 16, 2026 09:04 PM (wOO3z)

21 7 Yeah, but this ain't a new Sharknado

Posted by: Bete at July 16, 2026 09:04 PM (LX4y3)

22 You know, a solid Troll would do a real time posting of this speech on NBC's and ABC's "X" page.

Posted by: Orson at July 16, 2026 09:04 PM (dIske)

23 Sounds like a SOTU speech.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 16, 2026 09:04 PM (CWMF2)

24 This better be good, or the media is gonna kill him.
Hell, they'll kill no matter what.
;-(

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at July 16, 2026 09:04 PM (MNCvZ)

25
I don't get it.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 16, 2026 09:04 PM (6HIFq)

26 No red tie.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 16, 2026 09:05 PM (l26NL)

27 I'm ready for the meat. Enough.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 16, 2026 09:05 PM (Riz8t)

28 I really miss the Trump rallies. It was so much fun to mock the press and Democrats. He's being diplomatic right now...

Posted by: Iris at July 16, 2026 09:06 PM (286+n)

29 he is doing in this one speech what the bastard republicans should be focusing their efforts. We have NOTHING except no more time change

Posted by: paulnjax at July 16, 2026 09:06 PM (PPnyU)

30 He's going to declare Crows a Terrorist Organization.

Posted by: garrett at July 16, 2026 09:06 PM (uzmqU)

31 I'm ready for the meat. Enough.

I should probably rephrase that.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 16, 2026 09:06 PM (Riz8t)

32 Wanted s stronger , bolder start. This just sounds like a c campaign speech.
Then again Trump is usually right about these things.
We shall see……

Posted by: Voter theater. at July 16, 2026 09:06 PM (FCPbW)

33 No red tie.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 16, 2026 09:05 PM (l26NL)

I noted that too.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 16, 2026 09:06 PM (2WIwB)

34 Now, the segue to elections.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 16, 2026 09:07 PM (wVcYX)

35 I'll check out the highlights tomorrow. Good evening.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 09:08 PM (ZOv7s)

36 here we go: release of election data

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 09:08 PM (gKWVE)

37 On to elections! Excellent.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 16, 2026 09:08 PM (Riz8t)

38 I wonder how much of Washington state's corruption willbe exposed?

Posted by: Diogenes at July 16, 2026 09:08 PM (2WIwB)

39 document release starting tonight

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 16, 2026 09:08 PM (wVcYX)

40 Whitehouse.gov

Posted by: Diogenes at July 16, 2026 09:09 PM (2WIwB)

41 Hello segway!!!

Posted by: Teleprompter Guy at July 16, 2026 09:09 PM (rjFy0)

42
Wheel out Jack Smith and Adam Schiff trussed up and fitted with ball gags and let the good times roll!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 16, 2026 09:09 PM (6HIFq)

43 That ought to break whitehouse.gov.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 09:09 PM (viF8m)

44 BTW...nice first Nurse!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 16, 2026 09:09 PM (2WIwB)

45 China is asshoe!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 16, 2026 09:09 PM (wVcYX)

46 CHINA!

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 09:09 PM (GD0B3)

47 Deep State is asshoe!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 16, 2026 09:10 PM (wVcYX)

48 Now penalties for states that won't allow the Federal govt to review their election rolls and processes

Posted by: Iris at July 16, 2026 09:10 PM (286+n)

49
Jmel

I have a little list ... of people that will not be missed.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 16, 2026 09:00 PM (u82oZ)




Before he pussed out late in life, PJ O'Rourke observed that the best part of being a conservative was *composing the enemies list*, Nixon-style.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 16, 2026 09:10 PM (iqcvy)

50 Derin devlet

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 09:10 PM (gKWVE)

51 COVERUP!!

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 09:11 PM (GD0B3)

52 CBS is running the speech. Good on Bari Weiss.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2026 09:11 PM (OXYE0)

53 They served the voting machines undercooked Pangolin!

Posted by: garrett at July 16, 2026 09:11 PM (uzmqU)

54 HACKED DATA!

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 09:11 PM (GD0B3)

55 CHINA!! drink

Posted by: Teleprompter Guy at July 16, 2026 09:11 PM (rjFy0)

56 Oh, look ...

A Kraken!

Posted by: garrett at July 16, 2026 09:12 PM (uzmqU)

57 CCP!!

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 09:12 PM (GD0B3)

58 CBS basically opened their coverage by saying this speech was BS and he should be focusing on important things, not this.

Posted by: Biergood at July 16, 2026 09:12 PM (PwgSL)

59 China, China, China

Posted by: occam's brassiere at July 16, 2026 09:12 PM (vlkrO)

60
Waiting for the Mike Pence equal time speech.

Not really, going to bed, in spite of freaking out here about making ABC and NBC carry it.

Trump I can handle live for just so long.

Posted by: Auspex at July 16, 2026 09:12 PM (Y8DZL)

61 tell us how they bought BIden!

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 09:13 PM (GD0B3)

62 Trump should bring up Tina Peters!

Posted by: Teleprompter Guy at July 16, 2026 09:13 PM (rjFy0)

63 Unseat Mitch McChao. DO IT

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 09:13 PM (gKWVE)

64 INFLUENCE US BUSINESS LEADERS!

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 09:13 PM (GD0B3)

65 This level of meddling...an act of war?

Posted by: Diogenes at July 16, 2026 09:13 PM (2WIwB)

66 JOURNALISTS BRIBED!

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 09:13 PM (GD0B3)

67 Wow.

Now we know why the media is boycotting.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 09:14 PM (viF8m)

68 OK, are we placing nukes in Taiwan ??

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 09:14 PM (GD0B3)

69 I want a list of those paid articles. Not that we can shame the "journalists" but they should be discredited.

Posted by: Iris at July 16, 2026 09:14 PM (286+n)

70 60 Waiting for the Mike Pence equal time speech.

Put me in, Coach!

Posted by: David French at July 16, 2026 09:14 PM (gKWVE)

71 Chinese shots around!1

Posted by: Teleprompter Guy at July 16, 2026 09:14 PM (rjFy0)

72 For me, Trump is very listenable-to, unlike, say, Barry. Sure, Trump needs a cough drop and maybe someone to keep him on track, but at least he doesn't sound like he's scolding you for being American.

Posted by: RandomDave at July 16, 2026 09:14 PM (aJQbY)

73 MANUFACTURE ILLEGAL BALLOTS!

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 09:14 PM (GD0B3)

74
Wait, what? ABC and NBC forced to carry it?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 16, 2026 09:14 PM (mmrXZ)

75 MASSAGE!

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 09:15 PM (GD0B3)

76 I love listening to this man!

whew this is crazy

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 16, 2026 09:15 PM (j+aD2)

77 A shadow government???
That is absolute fucking treason!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 16, 2026 09:15 PM (2WIwB)

78 Bless you for providing this for us, Ace.

Posted by: Wenda at July 16, 2026 09:15 PM (dXRTU)

79 Barack HUSSEIN Obama

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2026 09:15 PM (OXYE0)

80 Don't see any docs at whitehouse.gov.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 16, 2026 09:15 PM (CWMF2)

81 Obama.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 09:15 PM (viF8m)

82 MASSAGE!
Posted by: runner

Ready!

Posted by: Robert Kraft at July 16, 2026 09:16 PM (wOO3z)

83 Barack Hussein Obama
mm mmm mm

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 09:16 PM (gKWVE)

84 I can't watch it - I appreciate all these updates!

Posted by: 496 at July 16, 2026 09:16 PM (sOtuf)

85 Ballots for Biden from Chy-na!

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 16, 2026 09:16 PM (l26NL)

86
Uh-oh. They didn't burn the evidence. Obama rubbing his nose right about now?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 16, 2026 09:16 PM (mmrXZ)

87 Anyone who came in late, like me: you can safely skip to 01:30:00 in the video. Before that is just non-Trump talking heads yammering away.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 16, 2026 09:16 PM (IG3/x)

88 Now it's working. Phew

Posted by: 496 at July 16, 2026 09:16 PM (sOtuf)

89 Criminal charges against these people
... like BHO?

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 09:16 PM (gKWVE)

90 Trump: "If you take a look behind me on the screen you can see the FBI surrounding John Brennan's house..."

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 09:16 PM (ikSmX)

91 The flag behind him says WAR!! All arrows.

Posted by: Indiana Lurker at July 16, 2026 09:17 PM (3ZVqj)

92 Kiss my ass Brian in New Orleans.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 09:17 PM (viF8m)

93 Electronic voting machines and ballot counting machines are asshoe!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 16, 2026 09:17 PM (wVcYX)

94 MACHINES EXPOSED!

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 09:17 PM (GD0B3)

95 I want frog suits.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 16, 2026 09:17 PM (wOO3z)

96 hope this doesn't blow the margins
whitehouse.gov/election-integrity

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 09:17 PM (gKWVE)

97 Trump is be layering about Presdent Bidum and shroud bedspread now

. Trump is tryering t we o hurts my bank pred d ent.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at July 16, 2026 09:17 PM (VR8N0)

98 Trump is easy to listen to. He speaks to Americans and without the scrubbed, nuanced, and focus group approved slogans.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 16, 2026 09:18 PM (2WIwB)

99 Hey, just because someone was able to hack it over the air in realtime doesn't mean they're insecure! That was a feature, not a bug!

Posted by: RandomDave at July 16, 2026 09:18 PM (aJQbY)

100 MASSAGE!
Posted by: runner

Ready!
Posted by: Robert Kraft at July 16, 2026 09:16 PM (wOO3z)

Chakras at the ready!

Posted by: Al Gore at July 16, 2026 09:18 PM (wVcYX)

101
"Vulnerable" isn't necessarily hacked.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 16, 2026 09:18 PM (mmrXZ)

102 The Dems are saying "fraud, old news, Epstein, fascist, pedo, climate change"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2026 09:18 PM (OXYE0)

103 CYBER THREAT AIMED AT HEART OF OUR DEMOCRACY!

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 09:18 PM (GD0B3)

104 "My fellow Americans... The hangings begin in five minutes."

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 16, 2026 09:18 PM (IhL8c)

105 Mary's hitting the turpentine extra hard tonight.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 09:18 PM (ikSmX)

106
Aha, Maduro election was hacked.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 16, 2026 09:18 PM (mmrXZ)

107 Yes! Maduro!

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 09:18 PM (viF8m)

108 there's documents. a zip file

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 09:19 PM (gKWVE)

109 72 For me, Trump is very listenable-to, unlike, say, Barry. Sure, Trump needs a cough drop and maybe someone to keep him on track, but at least he doesn't sound like he's scolding you for being American.
Posted by: RandomDave at July 16, 2026 09:14 PM (aJQbY)

Same for me! I could not stand to that pretentious asshole Barry. Trump seems normal.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 16, 2026 09:19 PM (edUvp)

110 Katlin Collins today to Karoline Leavitt .. Will the President announce name of people who will be locked up?

Uh why yes Katlin good question

Posted by: Teleprompter Guy at July 16, 2026 09:19 PM (rjFy0)

111
How'd we get to Michigan all of a sudden?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 16, 2026 09:19 PM (mmrXZ)

112 FRAUD IN MICHIGAN!

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 09:19 PM (GD0B3)

113 Voter Registration Orgs are asshoe!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 16, 2026 09:20 PM (wVcYX)

114 That's my home town! Muskegon, Michigan!

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 09:20 PM (ikSmX)

115 yes link worked but im on my ipad will peruse docs later

so far im sorry but this is a WOW

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 16, 2026 09:20 PM (j+aD2)

116 How'd we get to Michigan all of a sudden?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 16,

You take the exit off I-80...

Posted by: Josephistan at July 16, 2026 09:20 PM (FLx59)

117 PAY, PLAY AND CHEAT!

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 09:20 PM (GD0B3)

118 How'd we get to Michigan all of a sudden?

Having taken power again, Democrats want to make sure Michigan does not go to Republicans again. Not that Michigan Republicans particularly want to be in power anyway.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 16, 2026 09:20 PM (sk9DV)

119 OVER 250,000 NON-CITIZENS ARE ILLEGALLY REGISTERED TO VOTE IN JUST THE FOUR STATES FOR WHICH PUBLIC DATA FILES HAVE BEEN REVIEWED.
State election officials in California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Nevada

Posted by: gKWVE opened the pdf at July 16, 2026 09:20 PM (gKWVE)

120 That's my home town! Muskegon, Michigan!
Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 09:20 PM (ikSmX)



...you are famous now...

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 09:21 PM (GD0B3)

121 How'd we get to Michigan all of a sudden?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 16, 2026 09:19 PM (mmrXZ)

It appears to be the state we have the best documentation of criminal behavior in, at the moment.

Posted by: the lower depths at July 16, 2026 09:21 PM (Yh7zv)

122 FRAUD IN MICHIGAN!

Posted by: runner

=====

Well . . . duh!

Posted by: Jim Harbaugh, Asshole at July 16, 2026 09:21 PM (4HoLg)

123 Uncleaned state voter rolls in Blue states are asshoe!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 16, 2026 09:21 PM (wVcYX)

124 Wait!
You're telling me that Biden didn't really get 81M legit votes?
Really?
I'm gobsmacked.
Butter my butt and call me a muffin!

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at July 16, 2026 09:21 PM (MNCvZ)

125 105 Mary's hitting the turpentine extra hard tonight.
Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 09:18 PM (ikSmX)

you owe me a monitor lmao. btw Who is Mary?

Posted by: Teleprompter Guy at July 16, 2026 09:21 PM (rjFy0)

126 What are we going to do for Nov? can it be fixed by midterms?

Posted by: Iris at July 16, 2026 09:22 PM (286+n)

127 That's my home town! Muskegon, Michigan!

I grew up in Oceana and Newaygo County.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 16, 2026 09:22 PM (sk9DV)

128 I've been saying for years that Michigan is a captive state.

Lord only knows how it went to Trump in 2024. But praise him for that.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 09:22 PM (ikSmX)

129 Dems are saying "fraud, old news, Epstein, fascist, pedo, climate change"
Posted by: Smell the Glove

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

I bet the MSM legal experts might breathe heavily when they see the documents.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 16, 2026 09:22 PM (mmrXZ)

130 DEAD PEOPLE ARE ACTIVE!

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 09:22 PM (GD0B3)

131 Damn, Mary.
You're hitting the sauce pretty hard, aren't you?

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at July 16, 2026 09:22 PM (2Ez/1)

132 CA took a month plus to count their recent vote. CA is asshoe!

Also, ABC and NBC are asshoe!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 16, 2026 09:23 PM (wVcYX)

133 DEAD PEOPLE ARE ACTIVE!

Please give generously when death knocks at your door.

Posted by: United Appeal for the Dead at July 16, 2026 09:23 PM (sk9DV)

134 Martial Law!! Martial Law!! Do It!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Teleprompter Guy at July 16, 2026 09:23 PM (rjFy0)

135 That's my home town! Muskegon, Michigan!
Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 09:20 PM


No kidding? My cousin was the priest at Muskegon's Greek Orthodox church.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 16, 2026 09:23 PM (Wnv9h)

136 REVOCATION OF LICENSES !

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 09:23 PM (GD0B3)

137 now you are talking! take away their licenses!

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 09:24 PM (GD0B3)

138
Li'l nod to California's slow-ass system.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 16, 2026 09:24 PM (mmrXZ)

139 Col. Trump is drawing a line in the sand at the Alamo now.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 16, 2026 09:24 PM (wVcYX)

140 People's Republic , you screwed.

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 09:25 PM (GD0B3)

141 This guy doesn't age. I love our president. So lucky to live in America.

Fck you, Brandon. Drool off into the sunset, you demented diseased circus monkey.

Posted by: fly gal at July 16, 2026 09:25 PM (00Rtw)

142 I wish the agencies had already started the investigations. I guess couldn't risk deep state interference.

Posted by: Iris at July 16, 2026 09:25 PM (286+n)

143 114 That's my home town! Muskegon, Michigan!
Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 09:20 PM (ikSmX)

+++++++++++

If memory serves, the cheating was so obvious and blatant that the Michigan State Police opened a all encompassing investigation that was initiated due to the number of votes in Muskegon exceeding the number of registered voters. They had a solid base and intitial investigation....AND THEN...the FBI took over the investigation claiming jurisdiction, and it disappeared.

Posted by: Orson at July 16, 2026 09:25 PM (dIske)

144 Muskegon . . . The gateway to Ludington

Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 16, 2026 09:25 PM (4HoLg)

145 Every time I hear him say "hangings" or "firing squads" I take a drink.

Still sober, nearly 8 years now.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 16, 2026 09:25 PM (IhL8c)

146 That's my home town! Muskegon, Michigan!

I grew up in Oceana and Newaygo County.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 16, 2026 09:22 PM (sk9DV)
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Well, we moved out to Eggelston Twp. After the scammers did a eminent domain scam on several blocks of houses and bought my folks out dirt cheap.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 09:25 PM (ikSmX)

147 NTD News has speech live.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 16, 2026 09:25 PM (yEz+x)

148 The subhuman bitch on MSNow started breaking into the speech to interpret it for her retarded viewers.

CBS just did that too now. WOW!

Bloodlines. Entire bloodlines....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 16, 2026 09:25 PM (Sco7b)

149 I forgot and now have to catch up!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 16, 2026 09:26 PM (hzuYO)

150 Wonder if Jared Polis and Josh Shapiro will go along with this. They don't want antisemites to take over their party.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 09:26 PM (gKWVE)

151 man, CNN and MSPMC aren't even covering it...so, just fox and Newsmax, and the other 2 I don't have?

Posted by: zigggggy at July 16, 2026 09:26 PM (EDeJ/)

152 Four months to clean things up before mid-terms.

Congress is asshoe for not passing Save America Act!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 16, 2026 09:26 PM (wVcYX)

153
"Your candidates are so pathetic. " Applies to both parties.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 16, 2026 09:26 PM (mmrXZ)

154 "SAVE AMERICA ACT: How easy is that to do unless you want to cheat?"

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 09:26 PM (gKWVE)

155 He's calling the Democrats cheaters! wouldn't it be a miracle if he could shame them into passing the SAVE act?

Posted by: Iris at July 16, 2026 09:27 PM (286+n)

156 November elections are going to be hilarious. SCOTUS will be busy

Posted by: occam's brassiere at July 16, 2026 09:27 PM (vlkrO)

157 Just saw a piece about how Tom Tillis says he will do anything he can to block the SAVE act. He's out, he doesn't give a shit about hiding his true face anymore.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 16, 2026 09:27 PM (edUvp)

158 seriously, who the fk watches broadcast TV and does not just stream ? it's like landline phones, who has those ??

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 09:27 PM (GD0B3)

159
Not a word about Georgia.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 16, 2026 09:27 PM (mmrXZ)

160 Call your asshoe Congress critters and DEMAND they pass the Save America Act!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 16, 2026 09:27 PM (wVcYX)

161 Well, we moved out to Eggelston Twp. After

I never understood the township thing in Michigan. And my mother was a township clerk. They were like mini-counties that no one paid any attention to and whose buildings looked like they were all built in the nineteenth century—if they even had one.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 16, 2026 09:28 PM (sk9DV)

162 BooYa!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 16, 2026 09:28 PM (wVcYX)

163 Born in South Haven, moved from there to FL in 2019.

From Whitmer to Desantis. I do miss Lake Michigan, so much.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 16, 2026 09:28 PM (IhL8c)

164 seriously, who the fk watches broadcast TV and does not just stream ? it's like landline phones, who has those ??
Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 09:27 PM (GD0B3)


Me. I get it free with my internet fiber.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2026 09:28 PM (rbvCR)

165 That's "THOM", you timewasting peasant. Fuck you.

Posted by: Thom Tillis at July 16, 2026 09:28 PM (gKWVE)

166 That was unbelievable. This is a big moment in US history.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 09:28 PM (viF8m)

167 @159...good point

Posted by: occam's brassiere at July 16, 2026 09:28 PM (vlkrO)

168 30 minutes, tight and exact.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2026 09:28 PM (rbvCR)

169 Well I wish there was more actual evidence presented, but I understand how that has to come later.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 16, 2026 09:28 PM (edUvp)

170 Polling places will be monitored by the National Guard. BTW Jim (Ohio State Wersteling Champ) Jordan has been all over Gateway Pundit today. Kickin ASS!!! Hello Jimmy about time!!

Posted by: Teleprompter Guy at July 16, 2026 09:28 PM (rjFy0)

171 Mary's hitting the turpentine extra hard tonight.
Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 09:18 PM (ikSmX)

you owe me a monitor lmao. btw Who is Mary?
Posted by: Teleprompter Guy at July 16, 2026 09:21 PM (rjFy0)
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"Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt ", post 97.

Which, I believe, like "The Paolo" is a community sock for a crazed, incoherent lib lady.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 09:29 PM (ikSmX)

172
Nothing about Iran either.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 16, 2026 09:29 PM (mmrXZ)

173 I'm shocked Trump stopped before 30 minutes. That's a telegraph message, for him.

Posted by: Texican ette at July 16, 2026 09:29 PM (SNf74)

174 seriously, who the fk watches broadcast TV and does not just stream ?

I watch broadcast TV—but by streaming. I have an Over-the-Air DVR; tell it to record what I want, and then I can watch it on my TV, my phone, my computer, whatever. And whenever.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 16, 2026 09:29 PM (sk9DV)

175 So the 220 million voter files that China has accessed must be pretty close to all of them, I think.

Posted by: Methos at July 16, 2026 09:29 PM (vSvIl)

176 Not a word about Georgia.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 16, 2026 09:27 PM (mmrXZ)

woo woo!

Posted by: The Pips at July 16, 2026 09:29 PM (wVcYX)

177 164 seriously, who the fk watches broadcast TV and does not just stream ? it's like landline phones, who has those ??
Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 09:27 PM (GD0B3)

Me. I get it free with my internet fiber.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2026 09:28 PM (rbvCR)
_________________________

You do realize that some of us mountain folk still only have DSL, right?

Posted by: Orson at July 16, 2026 09:30 PM (dIske)

178 November elections are going to be hilarious. SCOTUS will be busy
Posted by: occam's brassiere


No standing!

Posted by: John "Closet Skeletons" Roberts at July 16, 2026 09:30 PM (VHUov)

179 166 That was unbelievable. This is a big moment in US history.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 09:28 PM

For those that saw it.
Punishments need to be vicious.
Man, I'm in a mood.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 16, 2026 09:30 PM (Sco7b)

180 Polling places will be monitored by the National Guard. BTW Jim (Ohio State Wersteling Champ) Jordan has been all over Gateway Pundit today. Kickin ASS!!! Hello Jimmy about time!!
Posted by: Teleprompter

Rolled up sleeves and all.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 16, 2026 09:30 PM (wOO3z)

181 Damnit, no public executions

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 16, 2026 09:30 PM (y+4oH)

182
Well I wish there was more actual evidence presented, but I understand how that has to come later.
Posted by: Tom Servo

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

Documents incoming.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 16, 2026 09:30 PM (mmrXZ)

183 I agree with what the President said, but...Paper ballots ,or this is all theater.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 16, 2026 09:30 PM (ehoYw)

184 92 Kiss my ass Brian in New Orleans.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 09:17 PM (viF8m)

Yeah I was puzzled by his adamant stance too.
But then I don't get Maturbating Pete or Boulder Terlit Hobo's mental illness either.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 16, 2026 09:30 PM (xcxpd)

185
We Michiganders should just stage a coup.

A.H. Lloyd will be amazed when he wakes up to discover he's Dear Leader.

Posted by: Auspex at July 16, 2026 09:31 PM (Y8DZL)

186 Nothing about Iran either.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 16, 2026 09:29 PM (mmrXZ)

He lumped them in with China and Russia and a couple other asshoe nations.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 16, 2026 09:31 PM (wVcYX)

187 I still remember the night of the 2020 election the vote counting froze at 12 AM and three hours later it was a landslide for Biden.

So Obvious that a MAJOR SCAM OCCURRED .....

Posted by: Jackson K. at July 16, 2026 09:31 PM (ppijb)

188
So the 220 million voter files that China has accessed must be pretty close to all of them, I think.
Posted by: Methos

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Fucking insane. Like they went to all fifty states.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 16, 2026 09:31 PM (mmrXZ)

189 Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 16, 2026 09:29 PM (mmrXZ)

Didn't need to be nothing about Iran.
More annoying is that Georgia wasn't noted here. There are a few PDFs on whitehouse.gov but not much raw data. Maybe DataRepublican is getting that.
Also what's with "vacation" being an excuse not to vote. Your civic duty is to vote so you owe it to be there if you can do so possibly. Or just blow off the election because you clearly would rather be buttfucking cabana bois in St. Lucia.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 09:32 PM (gKWVE)

190 Well, we moved out to Eggelston Twp. After

I never understood the township thing in Michigan. And my mother was a township clerk. They were like mini-counties that no one paid any attention to and whose buildings looked like they were all built in the nineteenth century—if they even had one.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 16, 2026 09:28 PM (sk9DV)
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Apparently some kind of syndicate was big in Eggelston. People disappeared, including the community librarian's undercover cop son who was hot on a major drug bust. Gone.

IIRC, he called the wrong person.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 09:32 PM (ikSmX)

191 So is this a Something Will Happen?

Posted by: I gotta ask at July 16, 2026 09:32 PM (2Ez/1)

192 I want video of all the deep staters being arrested in 3am swatting raids. The process is the punishment. Treason!

Posted by: Iris at July 16, 2026 09:32 PM (286+n)

193 We need to make China very, very poor.

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 09:32 PM (GD0B3)

194 *not to vote in person

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 09:32 PM (gKWVE)

195 I haven’t watched Fox News in ages, but that was the easiest way to see the speech in my hotel room.

When did they hire Jackie Gleason?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 16, 2026 09:32 PM (sk9DV)

196
He lumped them in with China and Russia and a couple other asshoe nations.
Posted by: Count de Monet

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

Yeah , I meant nothing about airstrikes and that sort of thing , but i'm fine with it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 16, 2026 09:32 PM (mmrXZ)

197 I watched in real time on PBS, streaming.

Posted by: mnw at July 16, 2026 09:32 PM (RCjYY)

198 Which we are kinda doing now. In many different ways.

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 09:32 PM (GD0B3)

199 that was amazing

and more to come!

also we’ve been bombing Iran since like noon EST

no reason to muddy up this speech with that

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 16, 2026 09:33 PM (j+aD2)

200 SAVE AMERICA

NOW MOTHERFUCKINGHAMPSTERFUCKERS!

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 16, 2026 09:33 PM (N7OEF)

201 Yeah I was puzzled by his adamant stance too.
But then I don't get Maturbating Pete or Boulder Terlit Hobo's mental illness either.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Brian claimed he worked in the Louisiana government having something to do with the voting machines. And I think he had a internet comment automated trigger whenever anyone mentioned a certain company that he would instantly pop up to deny, deny, deny, anything casting doubt of that company and voting machine legitimacy.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 09:34 PM (E4rtv)

202 Michigan led coup? I’m in!

Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at July 16, 2026 09:34 PM (sj7aD)

203 His usual strategery. Trump throws out the bait. When the Dems react...

Posted by: davidt at July 16, 2026 09:34 PM (Q+gd/)

204 At this point I'm pretty much thinking the other half of the planet needs to be scraped away and tossed into space. Elon needs to invent a Borg weapon.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 16, 2026 09:34 PM (S41Gd)

205 "Your candidates are so pathetic. " Applies to both parties.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 16, 2026 09:26 PM (mmrXZ)
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And thus to the entirety of America who has to pick through the dumpster.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 09:34 PM (ikSmX)

206 That was unbelievable. This is a big moment in US history.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 09:28 PM

For those that saw it.
Punishments need to be vicious.
Man, I'm in a mood.
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 16, 2026 09:30 PM (Sco7b)


There needs to be some very public arrests...with very solid evidence so some fucktard doesn't walk on bullshit bail.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 16, 2026 09:35 PM (2WIwB)

207 Good speech -- disciplined -- and less repetitive than usual.

Sadly, we all know that any attempt by Trump's Administration to clean-up election fraud in the blue shithole states will be met with serial lawsuits by those states -- along with US District Clown Judge rulings forbidding ANY election reform -- and they'll use Lawfare to keep such reforms tied-up in the Courts for decades.

Posted by: ShainS -- He of the Unnecessary Vowels! at July 16, 2026 09:35 PM (9EFgU)

208
So is this a Something Will Happen?
Posted by: I gotta ask

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I think he almost said that president obama's name was on these burn orders that woopsie weren't executed. So, nothing domestically , but he might be a little harsher with china.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 16, 2026 09:35 PM (mmrXZ)

209 191 So is this a Something Will Happen?
_-_
I think Something Will Happen, but will it matter? In-person voting seems to be on the agenda, but we also need paper ballots...that are not allowed to be destroyed until after the dust settles...whatever that turns out to mean as a practical matter.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 16, 2026 09:35 PM (ehoYw)

210 SAVE AMERICA

NOW MOTHERFUCKINGHAMPSTERFUCKERS!
Posted by: nurse ratched

Word.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 16, 2026 09:35 PM (ftFVW)

211 Yeah , I meant nothing about airstrikes and that sort of thing , but i'm fine with it.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 16, 2026 09:32 PM (mmrXZ)

there are airstrikes, IRGC is being cut off in Bandar Abbas, all their supply lines are gone, probably part of securing Hormuz

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 09:36 PM (GD0B3)

212 188
So the 220 million voter files that China has accessed must be pretty close to all of them, I think.
Posted by: Methos

Voting files are public records of a sort with some information redacted upon release. But anyone with any serious computing power and access to other commercial databases can fill the redacted information like social security numbers, phone numbers, email pretty easily using standard database matching techniques.

The same techniques I suspect that Fedgov is using--a combination of commercial databases with federal ones to suss out illegally registered voters, dead voters, voter info matches in multiple states, and so on.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 09:36 PM (E4rtv)

213 So is this a Something Will Happen?
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No.

Posted by: The Guy Who Says Nothing Will Happen at July 16, 2026 09:36 PM (ikSmX)

214 F'ng china.


Posted by: LASue at July 16, 2026 09:36 PM (lCppi)

215 One of Hochul's people was prosecuted (hung jury as I recall) for being a Chinese agent. Wonder if she was part of it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2026 09:37 PM (OXYE0)

216 We need to make China very, very poor.

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 09:32 PM (GD0B3)

I do believe you misspelled extinct.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 16, 2026 09:37 PM (S41Gd)

217 I think Something Will Happen, but will it matter? In-person voting seems to be on the agenda, but we also need paper ballots...that are not allowed to be destroyed until after the dust settles...whatever that turns out to mean as a practical matter.
Posted by: Don in SoCo

Already law that locales must keep election data for almost two years after, longer if litigation exists which is why the 2020 Georgia ballots, etc. in Fulton Cty are still around to be investigated.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 09:38 PM (E4rtv)

218 Punishments need to be vicious.

---------

Agreed Stateless.

Straight-up Serial Treason that should be met with Swift Executions. F*ck all these m*therf*cking traitors!

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 16, 2026 09:38 PM (9EFgU)

219 yeah and just today CNN reporter Kaitlin Collins asked Karoline Leavitt "Will the president announce the names of people who will be arrested"
guilty as sin.........

Posted by: Teleprompter Guy at July 16, 2026 09:38 PM (rjFy0)

220 I think we will get our theater all right, but like electing a republican house and senate, much pressure must be brought to bear for it to mean anything.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 16, 2026 09:39 PM (ehoYw)

221 Did he declare war on Canadia for smoking us out?

Posted by: steevy at July 16, 2026 09:39 PM (YwEeS)

222 We Michiganders should just stage a coup.

A.H. Lloyd will be amazed when he wakes up to discover he's Dear Leader.
Posted by: Auspex at July 16, 2026 09:31 PM (Y8DZL)
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I'll await his orders.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 09:39 PM (ikSmX)

223 Cliff’s Notes on the president’s address? Salient points, erudite comments, snide remarks?

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 09:39 PM (Jexy3)

224 Well, nuts. My X account has been suspended for "inauthentic activity" (which could mean one of a list of things I haven't done, but I'm supposed to guess which). And the automated reply, while acknowledging my success with the captcha, still thinks I'm fake.

So I can't post or like, and apparently I can't see the "Following" tab which was the only one I looked at.

I guess I liked one too may of ace's posts or something.

Posted by: Methos at July 16, 2026 09:40 PM (vSvIl)

225 So the 220 million voter files that China has accessed must be pretty close to all of them, I think.
Posted by: Methos

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Fucking insane. Like they went to all fifty states.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 16, 2026 09:31 PM (mmrXZ)

***

Hell, here in WA state they probably gave their chinese masters the complete list willingly.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 16, 2026 09:40 PM (2WIwB)

226 NOW MOTHERFUCKINGHAMPSTERFUCKERS!
Posted by: nurse ratched


I saw MOTHERFUCKINGHAMPSTERFUCKERS open for iamthemorning at Space in 2023.

https://youtu.be/TmNR7BfO2KE

Posted by: mikeski at July 16, 2026 09:40 PM (VHUov)

227 So.

We can haz bounties now? Letters of marque and reprisal?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 16, 2026 09:40 PM (vDZgA)

228 Sadly, we all know that any attempt by Trump's Administration to clean-up election fraud in the blue shithole states will be met with serial lawsuits by those states -- along with US District Clown Judge rulings forbidding ANY election reform -- and they'll use Lawfare to keep such reforms tied-up in the Courts for decades.
Posted by: ShainS

Actually, states resisting having been losing at a pretty good clip in federal court as it is statutory law via HAVA on purging voting rolls and states cannot invoke privacy to deny the fedgov access when a state gives the same information to third parties or ngos like the states have done.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 09:40 PM (E4rtv)

229 211 Yeah , I meant nothing about airstrikes and that sort of thing , but i'm fine with it.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 16, 2026 09:32 PM (mmrXZ)

there are airstrikes, IRGC is being cut off in Bandar Abbas, all their supply lines are gone, probably part of securing Hormuz

Took out a bridge going all WWII on their AZZ... Trump talking about "boots on the ground" today

Posted by: Teleprompter Guy at July 16, 2026 09:41 PM (rjFy0)

230 We Michiganders should just stage a coup.

A.H. Lloyd will be amazed when he wakes up to discover he's Dear Leader.
Posted by: Auspex at July 16, 2026 09:31 PM (Y8DZL)
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I'll await his orders.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 09:39 PM (ikSmX)


Well you can start by invading dearborn. That the women and children, slaughter the men.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 16, 2026 09:41 PM (S41Gd)

231 must keep election data
_-_
Paper is not perfect, but harder to manipulate. Election data on an electronic storage device - much easier.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 16, 2026 09:41 PM (ehoYw)

232 er..take the women and children

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 16, 2026 09:42 PM (S41Gd)

233 Isn't Mich Sec of State running for governor? Nice to see this put a crimp in her campaign

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2026 09:42 PM (OXYE0)

234 Four months to clean things up before mid-terms.

Congress is asshoe for not passing Save America Act!
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It's less than 4 months--the Supremes will be involved in regard to the actions that need to take place.

*Every* *single* *member* of Congress that doesn't move to pass that is the *enemy* of our constitutional republic.

Posted by: Crusader at July 16, 2026 09:42 PM (Cjcf6)

235 Didn't need to be nothing about Iran.
More annoying is that Georgia wasn't noted here. There are a few PDFs on whitehouse.gov but not much raw data. Maybe DataRepublican is getting that.
Also what's with "vacation" being an excuse not to vote. Your civic duty is to vote so you owe it to be there if you can do so possibly. Or just blow off the election because you clearly would rather be buttfucking cabana bois in St. Lucia.
Posted by: gKWVE
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FBI report on Georgia is due tomorrow. But Trump is not going to release information if charges are about to drop as the indictments will speak for themselves.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 09:42 PM (E4rtv)

236 er..take the women and children
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Take them far away.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 16, 2026 09:42 PM (ftFVW)

237 For war news, I scan the "live updates" of The Jerusalem Post and the Times of Israel.

They have a vested interest in detailed, timely war reporting, in my experience, that U.S. media usually doesn't have. Even FOX News doesn't cover the Iran war in anything like the same amount of detail.

I like the Institute for the Study of War also. But they don't usually get their analysis out there as fast as the Israeli press.

Posted by: mnw at July 16, 2026 09:43 PM (RCjYY)

238 yeah and just today CNN reporter Kaitlin Collins asked Karoline Leavitt "Will the president announce the names of people who will be arrested"


Ms Collins, please keep your seat at the end of this press conference. Some people here want to talk to you.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 16, 2026 09:43 PM (2WIwB)

239 Call your asshoe Congress critters and DEMAND they pass the Save America Act!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 16, 2026 09:27 PM (wVcYX)

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Here in AZ, we have a Great Patriot CongressCritter (former Navy SEAL) Eli Crane.

Our two asshoe Senators are, of course, bought and paid for by The ChiComms and Cartels.

"Maricopa County: Stealing Elections Since (Probably) 1912!"

I was disappoint that Trump didn't reference AZ nor Maricopa and Pima Counties ...

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 16, 2026 09:44 PM (9EFgU)

240 > You do realize that some of us mountain folk still only have DSL, right?
Posted by: Orson at July 16, 2026 09:30 PM (dIske)

No Starlink?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 16, 2026 09:44 PM (IG3/x)

241 I'm flipping around and see that Hannity is covering the flooding in Texas. Before that he had Gen. Kellogg on regarding Iran. Nothing on the speech!

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at July 16, 2026 09:44 PM (3ImbR)

242 Good address.

Posted by: Muad'dib at July 16, 2026 09:44 PM (DQ4Ez)

243 I sincerely hope this makes a difference. 25 years ago it might have.
Not black-pilling, just trying to be realistic.
Because the alternative is bad.

Posted by: RI Red at July 16, 2026 09:44 PM (30Gj0)

244 If they have the money trail for those articles and they lead to a foreign country, isn't that at a minimum illegal for not registering as an agent??

Posted by: Iris at July 16, 2026 09:44 PM (286+n)

245 Isn't Mich Sec of State running for governor? Nice to see this put a crimp in her campaign
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2026 09:42 PM (OXYE0)
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You want to know what's funny about that?

She's the only person in Michigan who can order any kind of recount of state elections!

No doubt the Dems will line up a succession of Sos - Governor pipeline.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 09:44 PM (ikSmX)

246 Actually Trump aint going nowhere! Tonights disclosure is a segway into 'Fuck elections I am El Presidente

Posted by: Teleprompter Guy at July 16, 2026 09:44 PM (rjFy0)

247 er..take the women and children
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Take them far away.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 16, 2026 09:42 PM (ftFVW)

Yup, like a few land masses away.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 16, 2026 09:45 PM (S41Gd)

248 190 Well, we moved out to Eggelston Twp. After

I never understood the township thing in Michigan. And my mother was a township clerk. They were like mini-counties that no one paid any attention to and whose buildings looked like they were all built in the nineteenth century—if they even had one.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair

Northwest Ordinance of 1787 and reenacted by the first Congress. Set up townships as the basic organizational blocs for land sales and funding public schools.

Brave AI summary, "The basic unit of this survey was the township, defined as a square area measuring six miles on each side, totaling 36 square miles. Each township was subdivided into 36 sections, with each section containing 640 acres (one square mile). A key provision of this system was the reservation of Section 16 in every township specifically for the support of public education, establishing an early precedent for state-funded schooling"

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 09:45 PM (E4rtv)

249 NBC had three commies explaining how the FBI said the 2020 election was legit. Of course they failed to mention how corrupt Biden’s FBI was.

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at July 16, 2026 09:46 PM (ZTJjv)

250 er..take the women and children
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 16, 2026 09:42 PM (S41Gd)


I think Dearborn went for Trump in 2024? Like by 3%?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2026 09:46 PM (rbvCR)

251 It's going to be wild listening to politicians on both sides of the aisle try and justify not supporting cleaning up our elections after people find out 220 million Americans, not just Republicans but Democrats too, had their voter data stolen by China.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 09:46 PM (viF8m)

252 I'm flipping around and see that Hannity is covering the flooding in Texas.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at July 16, 2026 09:44 PM (3ImbR)
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Stevie Ray Vaughn was unavailable for comment.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 09:46 PM (ikSmX)

253 Sean Hannity used to paint houses.

Posted by: davidt at July 16, 2026 09:46 PM (Q+gd/)

254 Not one of the Democrats or Socialists or Commies or crooked Republicans will vote for the SAVE America Act.
Because they are the target and don't give a shit about this country.

Posted by: Case at July 16, 2026 09:47 PM (bqIVz)

255 Nixon "graciously" bowing out to Kennedy was bad (imo), then DeepState taking out (49 state winner) Nixon was worse.

BUT, it has only gotten worse, and we didn't "Nip it NipIT NIP IT in the BUD" (thx Barney), so we better cut it off now, or we lose to the vicious commies (of DeepState).

Posted by: illiniwek at July 16, 2026 09:47 PM (vbXSk)

256 "Maricopa County: Stealing Elections Since (Probably) 1912!"

I was disappoint that Trump didn't reference AZ nor Maricopa and Pima Counties ...

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 16, 2026 09:44 PM (9EFgU)

Maybe he has...other plans for them.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 16, 2026 09:47 PM (S41Gd)

257 We need to make China very, very poor.
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Ann Coulter's remarks ring in my ears. Godless nations do Godless things.

Posted by: Crusader at July 16, 2026 09:48 PM (Cjcf6)

258 Sean Hannity used to paint houses.

Posted by: davidt at July 16, 2026 09:46 PM (Q+gd/)

His head looks like it would make a good roller.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 16, 2026 09:48 PM (S41Gd)

259 She's the only person in Michigan who can order any kind of recount of state elections!
Posted by: Axeman

That little bit got blown up by Scotus making candidates parties able to challenge elections in federal courts and that would appear to include recount provisions.

"The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in January 2026 that political candidates have legal standing to challenge election laws before voting or counting begins, regardless of whether they can prove the rules will harm their electoral prospects. In a 7-2 decision in Bost v. Illinois State Board of Elections"

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 09:48 PM (E4rtv)

260 The left will insist all he said is bullshit because no one has been arrested. Then when they start arresting people, the left will scream about the politicization of the justice system.

Posted by: Muad'dib at July 16, 2026 09:48 PM (DQ4Ez)

261 That's my home town! Muskegon, Michigan!

(points at lower center of right hand palm)
I grew up here - Lansing

Posted by: weew at July 16, 2026 09:48 PM (bBFlh)

262 Basically China and deep state worked together to rig elections. We knew but now we know know.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 16, 2026 09:49 PM (n5tGW)

263 So has any of AoSPHqer's folks bothered to go to Whitehouse.guv to actually read the declassified Docs? Mhmm me either ... lmao

Posted by: Teleprompter Guy at July 16, 2026 09:49 PM (rjFy0)

264 So is this a Something Will Happen?
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Of course not.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 16, 2026 09:49 PM (BI5O2)

265 >>> 256 "Maricopa County: Stealing Elections Since (Probably) 1912!"

I was disappoint that Trump didn't reference AZ nor Maricopa and Pima Counties ...

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 16, 2026 09:44 PM (9EFgU)

Maybe he has...other plans for them.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 16, 2026 09:47 PM (S41Gd)

Let them, and the asshoes in Hotlanta, and other places, all wonder what he knows.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 16, 2026 09:49 PM (vDZgA)

266 We dont need no steenking whitehouse .guv..

Posted by: Teleprompter Guy at July 16, 2026 09:49 PM (rjFy0)

267 I remember hearing Hannity for the first time in my 20's and thinking, "That's not a smart man."

Of course, I'd been listening to Rush for a while, so maybe I wasn't the target demographic.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 16, 2026 09:50 PM (ftFVW)

268 Hannity spent about 45 seconds on the speech after it ended. Then, on to Iran and the weatner. I don't think this one will have much of an impact.

Posted by: occam's brassiere at July 16, 2026 09:50 PM (vlkrO)

269 I absolutely believe that China influenced the election with Biden, but how did they not manage to do it when Trump was last elected?Couldn't overcome the sheer volume of votes for him?

Disclaimer : I was not able to see his speech.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2026 09:50 PM (dSKRp)

270 256 "Maricopa County: Stealing Elections Since (Probably) 1912!"

I was disappoint that Trump didn't reference AZ nor Maricopa and Pima Counties ...

Posted by: ShainS

Again, very possible that charges and indictments may be pending. Arizona and Georgia are the two states that have actual voting records of the cheating elections due to litigation that are missing from other states.

There is definitely a grand jury in the N. District of Georgia investigating voting fraud in Fulton County among other places and it is possible a similar effort is in place in AZ.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 09:50 PM (E4rtv)

271 >>Maybe he has...other plans for them.

Tonight was big picture night. I'm sure there is a lot more coming. He talked about voting machines and Maduro but he didn't give any details. There's got to be more.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 09:50 PM (viF8m)

272 Stevie Ray Vaughn was unavailable for comment.
Posted by: Axeman
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Yes, but he's achieved immortality on tube of ewe...

youtu.be/KC5H9P4F5Uk

Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2026 09:51 PM (rdVOm)

273 We Michiganders should just stage a coup

Nah. The winters suck and the roads are a mess. I'm not going back.

Posted by: weew at July 16, 2026 09:51 PM (bBFlh)

274 His head looks like it would make a good roller.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 16, 2026 09:48 PM (S41Gd)


Merv Griffin supposedly said that you had to have a large head to succeed on television. Hannity probably is proof of that.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2026 09:51 PM (rbvCR)

275 And Runbeck from AZ is at the center of both Arizona and Georgia as a provider of ballot paper, etc. and a nexus with Chinese influence by some--so it could be that the N. District of Georgia grand jury is also investigating AZ cheating as well through Runbeck.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 09:52 PM (E4rtv)

276 254 Not one of the Democrats or Socialists or Commies or crooked Republicans will vote for the SAVE America Act.
Because they are the target and don't give a shit about this country.
Posted by: Case at July 16, 2026 09:47 PM (bqIVz)

In the Senate and JD is in the house!

Posted by: Teleprompter Guy at July 16, 2026 09:52 PM (rjFy0)

277 "The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in January 2026 that political candidates have legal standing to challenge election laws before voting or counting begins, regardless of whether they can prove the rules will harm their electoral prospects. In a 7-2 decision in Bost v. Illinois State Board of Elections"

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 09:48 PM (E4rtv)
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Although I have wary of a lot of federal judge action.

I believe their is a Constitutional argument for interference by the republican guarantee clause.

It makes it in the interest of the union to check and make sure that the powers that be in each state aren't scamming there citizens too much.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 09:52 PM (ikSmX)

278 OVER 250,000 NON-CITIZENS ARE ILLEGALLY REGISTERED TO VOTE IN JUST THE FOUR STATES FOR WHICH PUBLIC DATA FILES HAVE BEEN REVIEWED.
State election officials in California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Nevada
Posted by: gKWVE opened the pdf at July 16, 2026 09:20 PM (gKWVE)
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Was that actually stated in the President's speech?

Posted by: mrp at July 16, 2026 09:53 PM (rj6Yv)

279 My Dad and I did a LOT of fishing on the South Haven pier.

Posted by: mrp at July 16, 2026 09:54 PM (rj6Yv)

280 253 Sean Hannity used to paint houses.
Posted by: davidt

Now he has vast holding of rental properties across the country.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 16, 2026 09:54 PM (NFX2v)

281 Merv Griffin supposedly said that you had to have a large head to succeed on television. Hannity probably is proof of that.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2026 09:51 PM (rbvCR)

As well as the cast of Seinfeld. They all had yuge noggins.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, so easily distracted at July 16, 2026 09:55 PM (0aYVJ)

282 Sean Hannity used to paint houses.
Posted by: davidt

Now he has vast holding of rental properties across the country.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 16, 2026 09:54 PM (NFX2v)
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He uses his karate skills to evict tenants with violence.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 09:56 PM (ikSmX)

283 268 Hannity spent about 45 seconds on the speech after it ended. Then, on to Iran and the weatner. I don't think this one will have much of an impact.
Posted by: occam's brassiere
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Fox and election fraud is not a subject that Murdoch wants raised. He paid out hundreds of millions to Dominion just so his dirty email laundry did not get exposed in discovery like Tucker pooh poohing on election fraud, mentioning he hated Trump, etc. etc.

Hannity is not any kind of news breaker nor really even important anymore except to the Geritol set.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 09:57 PM (E4rtv)

284 255

I always thought that the book "Boss" by. Mike Royko makes a strong case that the Chicago Daley machine successfully stole the Cook County State's Attorney race from Ben Adamowski (R) in 1960.

Royko wrote that he didn't find the same indicia of fraud in the Kennedy-Nixon results.

The Cook County State's Attorney (prosecutor) race was of obvious interest to Daley. Otoh, there was very little federal patronage that Kennedy could deliver in 1961.

Posted by: mnw at July 16, 2026 09:57 PM (RCjYY)

285 It's going to be wild listening to politicians on both sides of the aisle try and justify not supporting cleaning up our elections after people find out 220 million Americans, not just Republicans but Democrats too, had their voter data stolen by China.
Posted by: JackStraw
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We can't do this! We can't do this!

Posted by: Turncoat Thommy Tillis at July 16, 2026 09:58 PM (XeU6L)

286 Merv Griffin supposedly said that you had to have a large head to succeed on television. Hannity probably is proof of that.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2026 09:51 PM (rbvCR)

As well as the cast of Seinfeld. They all had yuge noggins.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, so easily distracted at July 16, 2026 09:55 PM (0aYVJ)
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Face size has a pretty good correlation with people who are deemed "attractive".

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 09:58 PM (ikSmX)

287 You know.

Posted by: Nothing Will Happen Guy at July 16, 2026 09:58 PM (2hwDr)

288 Arizona Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego, a potential 2028 presidential candidate, engaged in sexual relationships with at least two House staffers and his “very flirtatious” habits with others may come back to haunt him, The Post has learned.

SO I was in business about *thinks hard* 44 years and never fucked the help.
Is that a record if I was a (D).

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 16, 2026 09:58 PM (/+uur)

289 BOOM on Gateway Pundit..
BREAKING: House Budget Committee ADVANCES the SAVE America Act in Reconciliation Which Needs Just 50 Votes + JD Vance in Senate

Posted by: Teleprompter Guy at July 16, 2026 09:58 PM (rjFy0)

290 Was that actually stated in the President's speech?
Posted by: mrp

Yep, the number was higher, about 278k I think and Trump mentioned that these states resisted giving full information which means probably it is higher than that.

Now you see the trap--a letter from DoJ has already been sent that state election officials and local ones can face charges if they allow illegals to vote knowingly. If these states are informed of these illegal voters and any of them vote--they have been given notice and time to comment upon by election time, they face possible charges themselves.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 09:59 PM (E4rtv)

291 Again, very possible that charges and indictments may be pending. Arizona and Georgia are the two states that have actual voting records of the cheating elections due to litigation that are missing from other states.

There is definitely a grand jury in the N. District of Georgia investigating voting fraud in Fulton County among other places and it is possible a similar effort is in place in AZ.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 09:50 PM (E4rtv)

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Good points per usual, whig.

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 16, 2026 10:00 PM (9EFgU)

292 Headline (FOX News):

"More than a quarter-million noncitizens may be registered to vote in 4 key states, DHS alleges
California tops the list with nearly 191,000 flagged registrations as states are asked to verify voter rolls"

Posted by: mrp at July 16, 2026 10:00 PM (rj6Yv)

293 Over 2.5 inches in less than 30 mins

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 16, 2026 10:01 PM (NnhvP)

294 284 255

I always thought that the book "Boss" by. Mike Royko makes a strong case that the Chicago Daley machine successfully stole the Cook County State's Attorney race from Ben Adamowski (R) in 1960.

Royko wrote that he didn't find the same indicia of fraud in the Kennedy-Nixon results.

The Cook County State's Attorney (prosecutor) race was of obvious interest to Daley. Otoh, there was very little federal patronage that Kennedy could deliver in 1961.
Posted by: mnw
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I like Royko but election fraud reporting was never his strong point--Justice Stevens was actually involved in investigating voting fraud in Chicago which is why he sided with the majority on voter id when it came before the court.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 10:01 PM (E4rtv)

295 Very strange that FOX is not covering the details of the speech at all. Hannity glossed over it, and Gutfeld is taped. I would have thought that they would preempt regular programing.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at July 16, 2026 10:01 PM (3ImbR)

296 I read Boss back in 2009, and highly recommend it. Looking back over my (2009) review of it:

“The lessons of Boss are not out of date. Some of what Royko describes is frightening in its familiarity. Our recent fiasco with car dealerships, the billion-dollar payout to auto unions, the trillion-dollar payout to various Democratic groups, all look a lot like Chicago politics taken national. It’s like someone is setting up Daley’s machine in Washington.”

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 16, 2026 10:01 PM (sk9DV)

297 Over 2.5 inches in less than 30 mins

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 16, 2026 10:01 PM (NnhvP)
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Call a doctor if it lasts more than 4 hours.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 10:02 PM (ikSmX)

298 AZ deplorable moron

I hope you are talking about rainfall amount.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 16, 2026 10:02 PM (u82oZ)

299 More on the FOX News report on DHS findings:

"The department said it found 81,336 California registrants, 19,497 New Jersey registrants, 8,576 Nevada registrants and 8,594 Pennsylvania registrants whose names, dates of birth, addresses and Social Security numbers match noncitizens in DHS records."

Posted by: mrp at July 16, 2026 10:03 PM (rj6Yv)

300 261 That's my home town! Muskegon, Michigan!


I grew up here - Lansing

Me, Cassopolis. Diamond Lake. Those were good times. 70s and 80s.

In Texas now.

Posted by: The Ghost of PugBoo at July 16, 2026 10:03 PM (HueKi)

301 BOOM on Gateway Pundit..
BREAKING: House Budget Committee ADVANCES the SAVE America Act in Reconciliation Which Needs Just 50 Votes + JD Vance in Senate

Posted by: Teleprompter Guy at July 16, 2026 09:58 PM (rjFy0)

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"DON'T TEASE ME, BRO!"

/Battered Conservative Syndrome Sufferer since 1980 ...

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 16, 2026 10:03 PM (9EFgU)

302 Just the News

In part, "The four states opted not to utilize the SAVE system, prompting the agency to conduct a separate review using publicly available voter records.

That review found that “over 250,000 non-citizens are illegally registered to vote” in just those four states.

“State election officials in California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Nevada have been notified of this serious threat to national security and DHS stands ready to support their efforts to identify and remove ineligible registrants,” the agency wrote in the memo."

So they could, but they won't. And the msm will claim PDT is just rehashing previously reported information.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 16, 2026 10:03 PM (NFX2v)

303 We can't do this! We can't do this!
Posted by: Turncoat Thommy Tillis

The funny thing is Tillis is actually destroying his ability to sell influence on Capitol Hill after his term. He will still be poisonous and radioactive during the last two years of Trump's term.

I also heard rumors that he has delusions about being able to run for governor as a GOP in 2028 and this type of behavior won't help him in the least for that.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 10:04 PM (E4rtv)

304 BREAKING: House Budget Committee ADVANCES the SAVE America Act in Reconciliation Which Needs Just 50 Votes + JD Vance in Senate
Posted by: Teleprompter Guy at July 16, 2026 09:58 PM (rjFy0)

More failure theater from the gop. Thune, Turtle, Murkie, Collins and Tillis would eat shredded glass before voting for it. SAVE is Fetch. Not happening Gretchen.

Posted by: Nothing Will Happen Guy at July 16, 2026 10:04 PM (2hwDr)

305 “State election officials in California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Nevada have been notified of this serious threat to national security and DHS stands ready to support their efforts to identify and remove ineligible registrants,” the agency wrote in the memo."

So they could, but they won't. And the msm will claim PDT is just rehashing previously reported information.

Posted by: L

You left out the part where US DoJ sent warning letters to all 50 state election officials that if illegals voted after the administration named them and gave states and localities their names, they could face federal charges. Harmeet Dhillon don't play.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 10:05 PM (E4rtv)

306 Fox and election fraud is not a subject that Murdoch wants raised.
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Fox sold us out in 2020 when they announced Arizona for Biden WAY ahead of the polls closing when none of the other networks had done so.

Posted by: Crusader at July 16, 2026 10:05 PM (Cjcf6)

307 That's my home town! Muskegon, Michigan!

I grew up here - Lansing

Me, Cassopolis. Diamond Lake. Those were good times. 70s and 80s.

In Texas now.
Posted by: The Ghost of PugBoo at July 16, 2026 10:03 PM (HueKi)
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I've lived in every metro area along 96. Went to Michigan State and lived in Delta Twp. Lived in Okemos and Haslett for ~ 7 years.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 10:06 PM (ikSmX)

308
I hope you are talking about rainfall amount.
Posted by: NaCly

Yes and now we are above 3" of rain.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 16, 2026 10:06 PM (NnhvP)

309 Over 2.5 inches in less than 30 mins
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 16, 2026 10:01 PM (NnhvP)

A Texas frog strangler!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 16, 2026 10:06 PM (wVcYX)

310 282. He uses his karate skills to evict tenants with violence.
Posted by: Axeman

Or talks them to death. 😉

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 16, 2026 10:07 PM (NFX2v)

311 Over 2.5 inches in less than 30 mins
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

I hope you are talking about rainfall amount.
Posted by: NaCly Dog


Could be a snail race.

Posted by: mikeski at July 16, 2026 10:07 PM (VHUov)

312 You left out the part where US DoJ sent warning letters to all 50 state election officials that if illegals voted after the administration named them and gave states and localities their names, they could face federal charges. Harmeet Dhillon don't play.
Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 10:05 PM (E4r

Harmeet carries a knife. Literally and figuratively . They shouldnt f with her.

Posted by: LASue at July 16, 2026 10:08 PM (lCppi)

313 More failure theater from the gop. Thune, Turtle, Murkie, Collins and Tillis would eat shredded glass before voting for it. SAVE is Fetch. Not happening Gretchen.
Posted by: Nothing Will Happen Guy at July 16, 2026 10:04 PM (2hwDr)
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To be specific, what's going into the reconciliation bill isn't the Save America bill en toto, what they're doing is putting important parts of the bill, like Voter ID and proof of citizenship in it, maybe some other stuff, too. At least that's what I've been reading.

Posted by: mrp at July 16, 2026 10:08 PM (rj6Yv)

314 Over 2.5 inches in less than 30 mins
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 16, 2026 10:01 PM (NnhvP)

6.35 centimeters!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 16, 2026 10:08 PM (wVcYX)

315 I believe their is a Constitutional argument for interference by the republican guarantee clause.

It makes it in the interest of the union to check and make sure that the powers that be in each state aren't scamming there citizens too much.
Posted by: Axeman
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Luther v. Borden argued that the courts are not there for deciding which government of Rhode Island should be recognized but gave the power to the President and Congress to do so under the Guaranty clause. I think Insty had a substack (or linked someone else's) on that very item just recently.

I think this is a campaign with the FBI Atlanta report due tomorrow rather than a one off. I suspect you will have one issue after another follow in rapid succession rather than a one off.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 10:09 PM (E4rtv)

316 Over 2.5 inches in less than 30 mins
——

Well I tried

Posted by: It Was Good For Me! at July 16, 2026 10:09 PM (Jexy3)

317
6.35 centimeters!
Posted by: Count de Monet

About a mouse tails worth.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 16, 2026 10:10 PM (NnhvP)

318 I wonder if there is any connection between going after China directly and the rise of communist candidates in the Democrat Party.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 10:10 PM (viF8m)

319 There is a federal statute that makes it a crime for a non-citizen to vote in a federal election, but it's only a misdemeanor.

I never saw a federal prosecution for it. There are easier ways to deal with illegal aliens.

But perhaps the misdemeanor statute should be revisited. Of course ideally this offense should be made a felony.

Posted by: mnw at July 16, 2026 10:10 PM (RCjYY)

320 Well, if we're taking over Michigan from the current regime, I intend to be King of Fremont, and I'm reclaiming Dayton Township in the name of my ancestors.

That is all.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at July 16, 2026 10:10 PM (/HDaX)

321 Over 2.5 inches in less than 30 mins
——

That... that actually wasn't as bad as I'd expected...

Posted by: the chicken at July 16, 2026 10:11 PM (rdVOm)

322 I think this is a campaign with the FBI Atlanta report due tomorrow rather than a one off. I suspect you will have one issue after another follow in rapid succession rather than a one off.
Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 10:09 PM (E4rtv)
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That's my guess, too.

Posted by: mrp at July 16, 2026 10:11 PM (rj6Yv)

323 BTW, the ONT is up. Whelming content.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 16, 2026 10:12 PM (wVcYX)

324 Newd

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 16, 2026 10:12 PM (DZ9Lv)

325
Our all-time record one hour rainfall at GSP was 3.7", which occurred on Jun. 16, 1969. I was two years old.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 10:12 PM (w6EFb)

326 Brave AI summary, "The basic unit of this survey was the township, defined as a square area measuring six miles on each side, totaling 36 square miles. Each township was subdivided into 36 sections, with each section containing 640 acres (one square mile). A key provision of this system was the reservation of Section 16 in every township specifically for the support of public education, establishing an early precedent for state-funded schooling"
Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 09:45 PM (E4rtv)

That's how it works here in Alberta, too, although my lot, which used to be a school site, is section 15, I think.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 16, 2026 10:13 PM (1z8ji)

327 313 More failure theater from the gop. Thune, Turtle, Murkie, Collins and Tillis would eat shredded glass before voting for it. SAVE is Fetch. Not happening Gretchen.
Posted by: Nothing Will Happen Guy
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They don't have the power to strip out House provisions--Majority leader can but not individuals without a floor vote in vote a rama and McConnell's replacement as head of Rules due to Mitch's incapacity is Cruz who supports it.

Murcow will cut her own throat if she tries to stall the NDAA (national defense authorization act) and Collins already voted for it after voting against it earlier. A lot of the pressure then is on Thune and people are beginning to put some distance between him and the rest of the GOP caucus.

Simply put, the SAVE act got a majority, just not one large enough to overcome a filibuster. In reconciliation, Thune's natural deference to the parliamentarian has been cock blocked by Mike Lee already who points out that the parliamentarian is advisory only--the floor majority leader and majority determines whether or not to accept the advice.

As a reminder, Thune is up for reelection in 2028 and he and his colleague's favorability has been dropping.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 10:14 PM (E4rtv)

328 The funny thing is Tillis is actually destroying his ability to sell influence on Capitol Hill after his term. He will still be poisonous and radioactive during the last two years of Trump's term.

I also heard rumors that he has delusions about being able to run for governor as a GOP in 2028 and this type of behavior won't help him in the least for that.
Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 10:04 PM (E4rtv)

Sens Tillis a pic of his granddaughter, and a pic of a wood chipper, and a text, "some assembly required".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 16, 2026 10:19 PM (1z8ji)

329 I think this is a campaign with the FBI Atlanta report due tomorrow rather than a one off. I suspect you will have one issue after another follow in rapid succession rather than a one off.
Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 10:09 PM (E4rtv)


It is Thursday. Big splashes tend to come on Thursdays, it gives it 3 days to sink in.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2026 10:19 PM (rbvCR)

330 MNW,

State officials have liability under HAVA and the NVRA motor voter. Dhillon is Asst. AG for Civil Rights and wrote the letter.

To wit,
"According to the letters, election officials "could be criminally prosecuted for aiding and abetting" noncitizen voting. The department said officials who knowingly keep noncitizens on statewide voter registration lists or facilitate noncitizens receiving or casting ballots could face criminal liability.

"An intentional act that is aimed at diluting the votes of citizens could also constitute a violation" of federal law, the letters state."

The release to states of known illegal registrants to these sec. of states means that they have been notified and thus if no action is taken to remove these voters, then they can be assumed to have acted knowingly and willingly to violate provisions of the NVRA and HAVA under the vote dilution theory. Allowing illegals to vote violates federal laws on elections that are designed to prevent voters from having their voting diluted by different intentional acts by the states.

This is apart and different from charges against individuals but rather like in the Civil Rights era, aimed at govt.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 10:20 PM (E4rtv)

331 Sean Hannity used to paint houses.
Posted by: davidt
......

He got fired for talking to his paintbrush.

Posted by: wth at July 16, 2026 10:21 PM (oq9dX)

332 It's a start. May it continue.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 16, 2026 10:29 PM (u82oZ)

333 NYPost:

A Clinton-appointed federal judge in Florida has died just days after he controversially released a Cuban plane hijacker who was awaiting deportation. Judge John E. Steele, 77, passed away, according to a law clerk for Chief Judge Marcia Morales Howard of the Middle District of Florida — where Steele served. A legal source in Miami also confirmed Steele’s sudden death. The circumstances of his passing were not immediately clear. Steele came under criticism for his July 8 ruling to release Cuban plane hijacker Maikel Guerra Morales from ICE custody.

Posted by: SMOD at July 16, 2026 10:32 PM (O7XEN)

334 seriously, who the fk watches broadcast TV and does not just stream ? it's like landline phones, who has those ??
Posted by: runner
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I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken. But sometimes when I’m in a theater I can feel them.

Posted by: Pauline Kael at July 16, 2026 10:34 PM (a8Wd8)

335 Lost in this is Rubio's speech and the entire meeting of the group to combat transnational leftwing violence. That would have been huge news on a normal day.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 10:36 PM (viF8m)

336 395. You left out the part where US DoJ sent warning letters to all 50 state election officials that if illegals voted after the administration named them and gave states and localities their names, they could face federal charges. Harmeet Dhillon don't play.
Posted by: whig

👍🏼

But this county, called out a number of times in the past regarding voting is fascinating. Essentially run by lawyers of a very well known law firm, it can devise & get schemes in action quickly and just as quickly disassemble them. Those women are fearless, well supported by the LWV, etc. (Musk campaigned for Trump here.)

In November 2020, it reported a ransomware attack & paid a ransom plus a great deal for aid from and operation by outside contractors. Ironically, there has just been another & it's very slowly coming out of it. (No word if ransom will or has been paid for this occasion.). I suppose lighting can strike twice but...

PA is already loose with the issuance of state drivers' licenses and/or IDs for immigrants. Further, the fact that county (governmental) libraries can also handle new passport applications provides little comfort when it comes to voter ID.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 16, 2026 10:43 PM (NFX2v)

337 Interesting... according to the main news sights?

/crickets....

No coverage of the speech on the first pages...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 16, 2026 11:25 PM (mP0Kj)

Secret Passages and Doodle Mansions Cafe

manhattanhenge.jpg
"Manhattanhenge" sunset this past weekend,
when the path of the sun lines up over NYC's streets

Good internet correction.

A micro-drone that hunts... mosquitos.

I, Pencil.

World's worst drivers.

Orange C-section.

Fun short film about the practical drawbacks of time travel. If you know the Rick and Morty "Vat of Acid" episode, this will be familiar. Very familiar. Rick and Morty seem to have swiped the basic idea.

Flea-sy Rider.

Shadow Frogger.

This cat is aura-maxxing and mogging me with all his rizz. I don't understand what I just said either.


Twenty years from now, when everyone agrees, you will remember I was the sole prophet warning you that bears are out of control.



Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:30 PM




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1 Twenty years from now, when everyone agrees, you will remember I was the sole prophet warning you that bears are out of control

Ow, my ass.

Posted by: Zombie Dennis Miller at July 16, 2026 07:31 PM (gKWVE)

2 Sunshine on a toilet.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 16, 2026 07:32 PM (9NN0K)

3 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 07:32 PM (Ia/+0)

4 Happy cafe! Man teaching was hard today after just a few days off!

Posted by: Piper at July 16, 2026 07:32 PM (hftzA)

5 >>Ow, my ass.
Posted by: Zombie Dennis Miller

wow, that is a deep cut.

Posted by: ace at July 16, 2026 07:33 PM (1wjle)

6 Pic has a 70s filmstrip vibe.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 16, 2026 07:33 PM (XvL8K)

7 Would have put money on the drone that hunts bugs was a Bat

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 07:34 PM (Ia/+0)

8 That house is…a lot. I hope he doesn’t ever want to sell.

Posted by: Piper at July 16, 2026 07:34 PM (hftzA)

9 the first cut is the deepest

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 07:34 PM (gKWVE)

10 NYC looks a mess!!

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 07:35 PM (GD0B3)

11 Bear caddy.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 16, 2026 07:36 PM (9NN0K)

12 How does doodle man have enough money to turn a mansion into a mansion no one will ever buy? Like, what does he do for a living? Computers? A crypto bro?

Posted by: banana Dream at July 16, 2026 07:37 PM (3uBP9)

13 More than once, as a young pupil, I was entrusted by the Teacher with the solemn responsibility to handle the Filmstrip Clicker.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 07:37 PM (wBcdF)

14 I’d break my leg on day one in the fun house. But it would be fun.

Posted by: Billythesquid at July 16, 2026 07:39 PM (gN+5I)

15 1. I am not cleaning the Chaos House. Wouldn't be prudent.

2. The Doodle House will spawn 438 Archaelogy Ph.D theses in the year 2315.

3. The boy holding the ribbon is most likely related to the 2nd place finisher.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 16, 2026 07:39 PM (B0NCh)

16 I’ll have you know I pounded out some chalkboard erasers, too. We even had a song.

*clears throat*

Castle Hill, yes, that’s the School for Me
I’m proud and glad, to give it my Loyalty
And to Castle Hill - Yes that’s the School for Me!
I promise to be faithful evermore to you!

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 07:41 PM (wBcdF)

17 You know what else is black and white with doodles?

Posted by: Penguin Facts at July 16, 2026 07:43 PM (MWfyi)

18 I don't see homeless encampments or impaled white people.

Must be AI.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 16, 2026 07:43 PM (zZu0s)

19 12 How does doodle man have enough money to turn a mansion into a mansion no one will ever buy? Like, what does he do for a living? Computers? A crypto bro?
Posted by: banana Dream at July 16, 2026

He is an artist. Apparently one of the most successful artists under 40.

Posted by: Piper at July 16, 2026 07:44 PM (Dd38x)

20 12 How does doodle man have enough money to turn a mansion into a mansion no one will ever buy? Like, what does he do for a living?
Posted by: banana Dream at July 16, 2026 07:37 PM

It reminds me of my old Spirograph. Do they even make those anymore?

Posted by: TxAnn at July 16, 2026 07:44 PM (SjAWL)

21 Come on Canada, get your shit together and put the fires out. This is getting tiresome.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 07:45 PM (viF8m)

22 More than once, as a young pupil, I was entrusted by the Teacher with the solemn responsibility to handle the Filmstrip Clicker.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 07:37 PM (wBcdF)
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Oh, so you were one of *those* kids. Explains a lot.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 07:46 PM (ZOv7s)

23 Spirograph was pretty cool, actually. Better than the stacked tube of marbles, anyhow

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 07:47 PM (wBcdF)

24 Come on Canada, get your shit together and put the fires out. This is getting tiresome.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 07:45 PM (viF8m)
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The Detroit Free Press posted an op-ed telling us that to avoid shitty Canadian forest management, we need to use solar panels and EVs. The ratio on X was something else.

My favorite retort: "What good are the solar panels going to be when Canada blots out the sun with smoke!?"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 07:48 PM (ZOv7s)

25 There is a breed called a Selkirk Rex. That kitten does not look like one, I suspect AI

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 07:48 PM (uhVAy)

26 Hmm AQI 336. "Hazardous."

Running: Very Poor.

Canada delenda est.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 07:49 PM (ZOv7s)

27 CurlyCat is a high mainTenance cat.

Posted by: Eromero at July 16, 2026 07:49 PM (LHPAg)

28 >>>This cat is aura-maxxing and mogging me with all his rizz.

If that cat's a female, I'd ooo and aah her and tell her she's a pretty kitty.

If it's male, I'd tell him to quit acting like a fag.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 16, 2026 07:49 PM (syz1S)

29

2. The Doodle House will spawn 438 Archaelogy Ph.D theses in the year 2315.


Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 16, 2026 07:39 PM (B0NCh)

"Ritual Purposes" is the Go-To response when they don't know what something is.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 07:50 PM (uhVAy)

30 Fruchtman?

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 16, 2026 07:51 PM (4NO2D)

31 I think fun-house man should design video game dungeons

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 16, 2026 07:51 PM (vJrRc)

32 "Manhattanhenge" sunset this past weekend,
when the path of the sun lines up over NYC's streets
---
Paul Kersey is about to go out for his evening stroll.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 07:52 PM (ZOv7s)

33 "Ritual Purposes" is the Go-To response when they don't know what something is.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 07:50 PM (uhVAy)
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*nods knowingly*

Motel of the Mysteries

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 16, 2026 07:52 PM (B0NCh)

34 More than once, as a young pupil, I was entrusted by the Teacher with the solemn responsibility to handle the Filmstrip Clicker.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 07:37 PM


I was a power-mad crossing guard.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 16, 2026 07:52 PM (4NO2D)

35 >>>This cat is aura-maxxing and mogging me with all his rizz.

If that cat's a female, I'd ooo and aah her and tell her she's a pretty kitty.

If it's male, I'd tell him to quit acting like a fag.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 16, 2026 07:49 PM (syz1S)

Cats with both black and orange are almost always female. The different colors are from having 2 different X chromosomes so parts of the body use one, and others the second. Females have to turn off one or the other pretty early in development. A gene on the X determines if orange color replaces black color.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 07:54 PM (uhVAy)

36 >>>He had just one job!

What a dick!

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 16, 2026 07:54 PM (syz1S)

37 "I was a power-mad crossing guard.
Posted by: toby928(c)"

Did you have an armband? Those were so cool.

Posted by: Guy who never got an armband at July 16, 2026 07:54 PM (MWfyi)

38 I don't hear a lot of birds today. Probably just trying to breathe.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 07:54 PM (ZOv7s)

39 "Ritual Purposes" is the Go-To response when they don't know what something is.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 07:50 PM (uhVAy)
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*nods knowingly*

Motel of the Mysteries
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 16, 2026 07:52 PM (B0NCh)

Also a standard joke on the long running Brit "Time Team" show.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 07:54 PM (uhVAy)

40 wow, this was a fun one.

Posted by: t-bird at July 16, 2026 07:55 PM (aZ9eR)

41
If it's male, I'd tell him to quit acting like a fag.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous


I would hold him and squeeze him and call him Gorgeous George.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 16, 2026 07:56 PM (Cqx++)

42 Evidently Canada has 14 different forest fire response organizations, who don't talk or coordinate.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 16, 2026 07:56 PM (u82oZ)

43 Evidently Canada has 14 different forest fire response organizations, who don't talk or coordinate.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 16, 2026 07:56 PM (u82oZ)

And probably 14000 fire starting immigrant groups.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 07:57 PM (uhVAy)

44 If Mexico can sue us because of ICE, we sue Canada because of the smoke.

Posted by: nckate at July 16, 2026 07:57 PM (enNUy)

45 Salty yeah I can see that

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 07:57 PM (Ia/+0)

46 34 More than once, as a young pupil, I was entrusted by the Teacher with the solemn responsibility to handle the Filmstrip Clicker.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 07:37 PM

I was a power-mad crossing guard.
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 16, 2026 07:52 PM (4NO2D)

I had a chair with my name on it in the principal's office.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 16, 2026 07:58 PM (zYpTz)

47 Evidently Canada has 14 different forest fire response organizations, who don't talk or coordinate.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 16, 2026 07:56 PM (u82oZ)
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That's because 13 are run by lesbian women who don't like each other. The 14th is run by a Sikh who has replaced all the white firefighters and they have embezzled the operational budget.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 07:58 PM (ZOv7s)

48 “I was a power-mad crossing guard”

I was relieved of crossing guard duties, for laying down in the middle of the crossing. LOL.

It seemed like a good idea at the time

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 07:58 PM (wBcdF)

49 He is an artist. Apparently one of the most successful artists under 40.
Posted by: Piper at July 16, 2026 07:44 PM (Dd38x)


. . . Banksy with OCD . . .

Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2026 07:59 PM (rbvCR)

50 Evidently Canada has 14 different forest fire response organizations, who don't talk or coordinate.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 16, 2026 07:56 PM (u82oZ)
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Maybe they are missing key figures who didn't show up to work because they were euthanized after clicking on the wrong button on a government website.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 08:00 PM (Fi81e)

51 Can we just get rid of daylight saving time?
I don’t want to wait another hour to hear what DJT has to say.

Posted by: RI Red at July 16, 2026 08:00 PM (tez/p)

52 “I was a power-mad crossing guard”

I was relieved of crossing guard duties, for laying down in the middle of the crossing. LOL.

It seemed like a good idea at the time
Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 07:58 PM (wBcdF)

With Great Power comes Great Responsibility ... to not act too silly.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 08:00 PM (uhVAy)

53 Fun house dude needs a hobby.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 16, 2026 08:00 PM (S41Gd)

54 "It seemed like a good idea at the time
Posted by: Common Tater"

Guarding the crossing with your life. That's dedication.

Posted by: Guy who never got an armband at July 16, 2026 08:00 PM (MWfyi)

55 Dash my lace wigs

Cool. Did you have a cool nickname like Raptor, Viper, or Elvira?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 16, 2026 08:00 PM (u82oZ)

56 Paul Kersey is about to go out for his evening stroll.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

We were talking about this a day or two ago, but my image of NYC was formed by '70s movies like Death Wish, French Connection, Serpico, Midnight Cowboy. It made NYC just seem hideous. I couldn't imagine setting foot in it.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 16, 2026 08:02 PM (l26NL)

57 If Mexico can sue us because of ICE, we sue Canada because of the smoke.

Posted by: nckate at July 16, 2026 07:57 PM (enNUy)
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I don't think Mexico should really want to open that door if they have been conducting "refugees", who are supposed to stop at the first country they are safe in, all the way through Mexico and into the US.

If they did, it would kind of suggest that people in the US are NOT "subject to [our] jurisdiction" just because they are here and not supposed to be breaking our laws. (Which they are, anyway).

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 08:02 PM (Fi81e)

58 Ok, doodle dude needs a different hobby.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 16, 2026 08:03 PM (S41Gd)

59 Can we just get rid of daylight saving time?
I don’t want to wait another hour to hear what DJT has to say.
Posted by: RI Red at July 16, 2026 08:00 PM (tez/p)
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I don't get the hate for DST. Yeah, in the winter the sunrise comes late. So what? What kind of lazy puke waits for the sun to come up to go to work? It's overcast most of the time in winter anyway, so gloomy whether or not the sun is up.

It's obvious that the corporate handlers want that one, so let's kill the switch and take it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 08:03 PM (ZOv7s)

60 Cool. Did you have a cool nickname like Raptor, Viper, or Elvira?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 16, 2026 08:00 PM (u82oZ)

Sadly, no.

And also, it was never my fault. Really.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 16, 2026 08:04 PM (zYpTz)

61 That 'fun house' can turn into a nightmare in no time. I wonder where that guy hides the bodies.

I met a guy in Ayr, Scotland who turned the inside of his white brick pub into the inside liner and cover of Pink Floyd 'The Wall'. Art work, lyrics, everything. It was impressive.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 16, 2026 08:04 PM (S8cdb)

62 We were talking about this a day or two ago, but my image of NYC was formed by '70s movies like Death Wish, French Connection, Serpico, Midnight Cowboy. It made NYC just seem hideous. I couldn't imagine setting foot in it.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 16, 2026 08:02 PM (l26NL)
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Don't forget "Welcome Back, Kotter." Sweat Hogs in a decrepit school.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 08:05 PM (ZOv7s)

63 “I was a power-mad crossing guard”
---
Classic Kids in the Hall sketch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_grOSmTnLc

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 08:05 PM (Fi81e)

64
Best of Breed for The Big Dummy at today's Houston KC show. Made the cut in the Hound Group, but nothing further.

Almost had a perfect day stewarding, but I accidentally skipped a class before Winners. Redeemed myself by pointing out that for Best Bred by Exhibitor Winners Dog came from the Bred-By class and by going Best of Winners he defeated any Bred-By female.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2026 08:07 PM (O0L8i)

65 The Quartermass Xperiment is on TCM.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 16, 2026 08:07 PM (l26NL)

66 Lock up the crooks, not the toothpaste. Nome sayin’?

Same principle with the clock time. Leave these alone. Businesses or various agencies, your other brother Daryl, can adjust his schedule if desired.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 08:07 PM (wBcdF)

67 I had a chair with my name on it in the principal's office.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 16, 2026 07:58 PM (zYpTz)

I went to school with a dude who had a desk in the hallway. That's where the teacher put him constantly. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 16, 2026 08:08 PM (S41Gd)

68 Taxi Driver was another one.

Spoiled brats bored with Rudy's safe, clean New York got their wish of a grittier city.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 08:08 PM (ZOv7s)

69 I had a chair with my name on it in the principal's office.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

Dean of Students - "Damnit Tonypete, we all know Miss Singer is a slut but you can't say that in her class!! Now get out of her you knucklehead and put out that damn cigarette!!"

Posted by: Tonypete at July 16, 2026 08:08 PM (pyNYl)

70 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 08:03 PM (ZOv7s)

You're a lazy puke! DSt sux!!

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 08:08 PM (GD0B3)

71 I had a chair with my name on it in the principal's office.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 16, 2026 07:58 PM (zYpTz)
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Cause you brought a sharpie one day, right?

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 08:09 PM (Fi81e)

72 BraveAI:
As of mid-July 2026, Prime Minister Mark Carney holds an approval rating between 56% and 66%, depending on the polling firm. The most recent data from Liaison Strategies (July 13, 2026) places his approval at 56%, while a Spark Insights study from early July reports a higher figure of 66%

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 08:10 PM (gKWVE)

73
We were talking about this a day or two ago, but my image of NYC was formed by '70s movies like Death Wish, French Connection, Serpico, Midnight Cowboy. It made NYC just seem hideous. I couldn't imagine setting foot in it.
Posted by: Blutarski


And those were the good old days.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 16, 2026 08:10 PM (Cqx++)

74 Dean of Students - "Damnit Tonypete, we all know Miss Singer is a slut but you can't say that in her class!! Now get out of her you knucklehead and put out that damn cigarette!!"
Posted by: Tonypete at July 16, 2026 08:08 PM (pyNYl)

LOL

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 16, 2026 08:11 PM (zYpTz)

75 >>I had a chair with my name on it in the principal's office.

When the principal gave the address at our graduation he started with a line that went something like "It's usually a bittersweet moment when I say congratulations and goodbye to a senior class, but not this year." It went downhill from there.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 08:11 PM (viF8m)

76 Daylight Sheeple Time is stupid and sucks

Posted by: what the cat drug in at July 16, 2026 08:12 PM (jrgJz)

77 DST is a communist abnormality.

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 08:13 PM (GD0B3)

78
DST is the chronological equivalent of the Novus Ordo Mass.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2026 08:13 PM (O0L8i)

79 "I was a power-mad crossing guard.
Posted by: toby928(c)"

Did you have an armband? Those were so cool.
Posted by: Guy who never got an armband at July 16, 2026 07:54 PM



Better, Reflective Cross Belts.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 16, 2026 08:14 PM (4NO2D)

80 and a pole with a stop flag on it.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 16, 2026 08:14 PM (4NO2D)

81 You're a lazy puke! DSt sux!!
Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 08:08 PM (GD0B3)
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I prefer Standard Time, but I hate changing the clock more than I hate DST. So I'll take whichever one can garner a majority.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 08:14 PM (ZOv7s)

82
Safety Patrol FTW! I had the crossing farthest from school.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2026 08:15 PM (O0L8i)

83 what JS said @ 21 endorsed & redoubled!

got up this morning, thought it was foggy ... no.

thick all day, like 2 or 3 mile visibility, max.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 16, 2026 08:15 PM (VyBeY)

84 I saw Power Mad Crossing Guards open for Tyrannical Teaching Assistants at the Orpheum in '93.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 16, 2026 08:15 PM (B0NCh)

85 got up this morning, thought it was foggy ... no.

thick all day, like 2 or 3 mile visibility, max.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 16, 2026 08:15 PM (VyBeY)
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I went out for my morning walk and had to cut it short. Nasty stuff.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 08:17 PM (ZOv7s)

86 Canada owes us reparations!

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 08:18 PM (GD0B3)

87 it's called Standard Time for a reason.

we tried year-round dst last century; in less than a year everyone got the red ass and it was repealed.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 16, 2026 08:18 PM (VyBeY)

88 We need to designate someone to do a rain dance.

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 08:18 PM (GD0B3)

89 47, LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 16, 2026 08:19 PM (VyBeY)

90
The morning is for work and the evening is for rest. DST is pushed by lazy slugabeds who want to sleep until 10:00 and party at night

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2026 08:19 PM (O0L8i)

91 DST was a real pain, back when I had to be *at* work by 5 (sometimes 4) A.M..

Sorry, but black-out drapes don't quite cut it, and "white noise" still doesn't drown out the sound of kids playing outside, while trying to fall asleep by 7 or 8 p.m.

It would be nice to not reset clocks twice a year, whichever way the time remains.

Posted by: just the punchline at July 16, 2026 08:21 PM (rdVOm)

92 Maybe Trump's speech will be about DST.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 16, 2026 08:21 PM (Cqx++)

93 we tried year-round dst last century; in less than a year everyone got the red ass and it was repealed.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 16, 2026 08:18 PM (VyBeY)
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So what? Demographics have shifted a lot since then. Most people work odd hours and schools can change their start times if they want.

What is stupid that we use Standard Time for only four months of the year. What's the point?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 08:21 PM (ZOv7s)

94 A micro-drone that hunts... mosquitos.
__________________

This is NOT a good idea. See you at the apocalypse.

Next thing you know, auto repair shops send out micro-drones to clog up your carburetor to drum up business. Maybe it's the bottom of the 9th, tie score, full count, best hitter at the plate and a micro-drone pops up out of nowhere and pokes him in the eye as the ball is pitched. Less risky use of date rape drugs.

Bottom line: Humans can't be trusted with stuff like this.

Posted by: Orson at July 16, 2026 08:21 PM (dIske)

95 If we had an away game during the week I was allowed to sleep in Miss English's English class. I got an A.

She was probably in her late 60s.

Posted by: javems at July 16, 2026 08:22 PM (zFsEm)

96 Didn't we have Canadian Smoke Attack last year too?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 16, 2026 08:23 PM (Cqx++)

97 The morning is for work and the evening is for rest. DST is pushed by lazy slugabeds who want to sleep until 10:00 and party at night
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2026 08:19 PM (O0L8i)
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No, it is pushed by outdoor industries like golf because people can get in a few holes after work due to the extra daylight.

And for that reason, it will never go away. There is corporate money behind it.

So the options are stupid clock-changing or not, and since the bulk of the year uses DST anyway, I'm fine with leaving it there.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 08:23 PM (ZOv7s)

98 Hard to believe we're at a point where 2 of the major broadcast networks are refusing to air an address by the President on what he claims is breaking news that is important to the entire country.

We truly are in a cold civil war.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 08:23 PM (viF8m)

99 Didn't we have Canadian Smoke Attack last year too?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 16, 2026 08:23 PM (Cqx++)
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Yes. And the year before that. It used to be unknown, but Canada has been slacking off worse and worse over the last few years. It's a failed state, but as long as America suffers, they'll keep importing India and polishing China's knob.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 08:24 PM (ZOv7s)

100 Star Trek is on. It's the one where Spock kissed a girl and he liked it.

Posted by: fd at July 16, 2026 08:24 PM (MWfyi)

101 Trump is turning Iran into a parking lot and there is nothing they can do except watch....

About time to clean out this roach nest fueled by Barry Soetoro and Blo Jiden.....

Posted by: Jackson K. at July 16, 2026 08:24 PM (qD4Ju)

102 No, it is pushed by outdoor industries like golf because people can get in a few holes after work due to the extra daylight.


===

then they should work 6-3 if they love mornings that much..stupid a-holes

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 08:24 PM (GD0B3)

103 And on a winning note…..


My oldest son texted me this morning with an invitation to go to WSU Night at the Matiners game on Saturday! It will be super fun to be with him and hang out at the ballpark.

It’s a win anytime your adult kid wants to hang out with you. I love him so much. He’s my rock.

Yay!

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 16, 2026 08:24 PM (r+J3S)

104 Safety Patrol FTW! I had the crossing farthest from school.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2026 08:15 PM (O0L8i)

______________________

LMAO...I did that. Flourescent Orange belt. There was a kid that played dead in the middle of the street each afternoon. It became normal to just pick him up by his pants belt and toss him onto the adjascent lawn. Weird kid. Probably became an Air Traffic Controller.

Posted by: Orson at July 16, 2026 08:25 PM (dIske)

105 *MARINERS GAME*

all thumbs

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 16, 2026 08:25 PM (r+J3S)

106 ...and leave the rest of us , normal people, out of it

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 08:25 PM (GD0B3)

107
Actually I'm less concerned with which time we adopt than putting up with HM bitching about the time change and Diana complaining about when she gets her dinner.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2026 08:26 PM (O0L8i)

108 What is stupid that we use Standard Time for only four months of the year. What's the point?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 08:21 PM (ZOv7s)

we use DST in Spring and Autumn

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 08:26 PM (uhVAy)

109 haha

"Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
1h
🚨 WOW! A known criminal released on Illinois Democrats' no cash bail law just BROKE IN to Gov. JB Pritzker's yard — and he is a 10-TIME CONVICTED FELON 🤯

The man has a "history of violence".."

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 08:26 PM (GD0B3)

110 New Yorkers finally realized the sun sets in the West no matter if it leads up to the solstice or after the solstice. They literally thought the sunsets go further and further north until it goes around the earth.

Posted by: wferrin at July 16, 2026 08:27 PM (lCdHU)

111 NO cash bail has to go. Breeds criminality.

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 08:27 PM (GD0B3)

112 Hard to believe we're at a point where 2 of the major broadcast networks are refusing to air an address by the President on what he claims is breaking news that is important to the entire country.

We truly are in a cold civil war.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 08:23 PM (viF8m)
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Well, yes, but it's been going on for a while. The funny thing is how pointless it is. Broadcast news has terrible ratings. If it was 1985, yeah, that would suppress it but now, it's just going to make people wonder why ABC and NBC are scared.

They've made the story bigger than it would have been. Streisand Effect. CBS will make bank.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 08:27 PM (ZOv7s)

113 Diana complaining about when she gets her dinner.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2026 08:26 PM (O0L8i)

Really, it all boils down to this. The dogs do not understand.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 16, 2026 08:29 PM (zYpTz)

114 Too hot to be wearing socks, yeesh...

Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2026 08:29 PM (rdVOm)

115 Actually I'm less concerned with which time we adopt than putting up with HM bitching about the time change and Diana complaining about when she gets her dinner.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2026 08:26 PM (O0L8i)
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Yes, the cats hate the time change and that's another reason why I'm not digging in on the ST hill. Don't get me wrong, I prefer ST, but that ship has sailed. Too much money is tied up in touristy evening stuff during the summer and that's not going to be given up, so legislators digging in are just more Failure Theater to ensure nothing ever gets done.

Muh Principles!1 to keep things shitty.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 08:30 PM (ZOv7s)

116 None of local tv channels in Philadelphia have it on the program

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 08:30 PM (Ia/+0)

117 >>They've made the story bigger than it would have been. Streisand Effect. CBS will make bank.

They are also destroying what little credibility they had left. They had no problem airing Biden's insane speech where he called half the country a threat to democracy. They must have a pretty good idea what's coming.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 08:30 PM (viF8m)

118
June statistics are up at Canine Chronicle and The Big Dummy is #1 Borzoi in Breed and Grand Champion points and #2 in All-breed.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2026 08:30 PM (O0L8i)

119 None of local tv channels in Philadelphia have it on the program
Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 08:30 PM (Ia/+0)
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And yet somehow, in some strange way, people will still find out about it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 08:31 PM (ZOv7s)

120 They've made the story bigger than it would have been. Streisand Effect. CBS will make bank.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

I thought CBS threw in with NBC and ABC. I saw it on X so it could be baloney. I'll probably stream Real America's Voice on Roku to watch it.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 16, 2026 08:31 PM (l26NL)

121 A micro-drone that hunts... mosquitos.
__________________

This is NOT a good idea. See you at the apocalypse.

Posted by: Orson at July 16, 2026 08:21 PM (dIske)

Isaac Asimov wrote a story about this, nearly his last Robot story. People's fear of Robots has led to them being almost illegal, so US Robots makes a new robot with a small modification of the three laws. He suggests making animal robots - like a robo-bird to kill bugs, etc. to guide the ecology. The plan is that eventually a robo-man will not seem scary to humans. The robots suggested it because the change to their brains enables them to considers robots as humans too, and their kind of human will be the one to dominate the future.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 08:31 PM (uhVAy)

122 No cash bail is because the Marxists llve have street thugs running around

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 08:31 PM (Ia/+0)

123 Yes, the cats hate the time change and that's another reason why I'm not digging in on the ST hill. Don't get me wrong, I prefer ST, but that ship has sailed. Too much money is tied up in touristy evening stuff during the summer and that's not going to be given up, so legislators digging in are just more Failure Theater to ensure nothing ever gets done.

Muh Principles!1 to keep things shitty.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 08:30 PM (ZOv7s)

I trained my cats decades ago that breakfast time is flexible. Now when I get new cats they train the new guy to be the same way so I don't train them anymore.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 08:33 PM (uhVAy)

124 Lol. Population got banned off bluesky for saying there was a moral upside if someone capped Elon.

What a fucking world.

How is that any different than most of the shit posted there re trump?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 16, 2026 08:33 PM (zZu0s)

125 It reminds me of my old Spirograph. Do they even make those anymore?

Yes, but they’re more novelty gifts than actual toys. The same kind of places that sell fake vintage candy, will sell them in much smaller boxes than they originally came in.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 16, 2026 08:33 PM (sk9DV)

126 I think that in the 1970s, the population was much more tied to the natural world, more rooted in it, but that country is long gone.

We are now a 24-hour culture, people work odd hours, and night or day just isn't that big a deal. In the 1970, the vast majority of kids walked to school, so sending them out in the dark was scary. Now they either take the bus or get dropped off. ALL the schools in my district have been rebuilt with huge loops for drop-offs that have ample lighting. You're not going to see a "mom rebellion" like last time.

Everyone's too much of a screen addict to care about whether the sun is up.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 08:34 PM (ZOv7s)

127 Hard to believe we're at a point where 2 of the major broadcast networks are refusing to air an address by the President on what he claims is breaking news that is important to the entire country.

We truly are in a cold civil war.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 08:23 PM (viF8m)


Really? Seems a lot like the post-2020 election deplatforming.


I certainly hope ABC and NBC no longer have seats at the WH briefing, are booted from AF1, and the View wanting to be considered news? Pfffft


Posted by: Ann at July 16, 2026 08:34 PM (K4KCe)

128 Popehat, not population.

Good one, phone.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 16, 2026 08:34 PM (zZu0s)

129 Really? Seems a lot like the post-2020 election deplatforming.


I certainly hope ABC and NBC no longer have seats at the WH briefing, are booted from AF1, and the View wanting to be considered news? Pfffft


Posted by: Ann at July 16, 2026 08:34 PM (K4KCe)

The foolish thing is in the old days playing the speech left them contact everyone to put their spin on it. Now by not playing it, they are irrelevant and nobody hears their spin.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 08:35 PM (uhVAy)

130 More and more all of our principled 'allies' who balked at Trump were really on the other side.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 16, 2026 08:36 PM (zZu0s)

131 I trained my cats decades ago that breakfast time is flexible. Now when I get new cats they train the new guy to be the same way so I don't train them anymore.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 08:33 PM (uhVAy)
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That's not how the feline population at Chateau Lloyd operates, and most animals get used to a set time and don't easily shift. We have more pet owners than parents in this country and I can see them rolling with it.

They also probably enjoy extra daylight to walk the pooch.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 08:36 PM (ZOv7s)

132 It begs the question whether it’s a “cold” civil war or not, seems pretty hot to me in recent and not so recent decades, but I agree the networks jumped the shark a long time ago. How about “low level insurgency” by the usual suspects

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 08:37 PM (2XnYE)

133 Now by not playing it, they are irrelevant and nobody hears their spin.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 08:35 PM (uhVAy)

Its the same rationale as deplatforming or silencing free speech- it does not stifle it, people just get more pissed off.

But it is a mindset that continues to pick up speed amongst the elites.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 16, 2026 08:37 PM (zZu0s)

134 Hard to believe we're at a point where 2 of the major broadcast networks are refusing to air an address by the President on what he claims is breaking news that is important to the entire country.

We truly are in a cold civil war.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 08:23 PM (viF8m)
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Well, yes, but it's been going on for a while. The funny thing is how pointless it is. Broadcast news has terrible ratings. If it was 1985, yeah, that would suppress it but now, it's just going to make people wonder why ABC and NBC are scared.

They've made the story bigger than it would have been. Streisand Effect. CBS will make bank.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 08:27 PM (ZOv7s)

Everyone watches these things on Fox and the internet anyway. ABC and NBC are just cutting off their noses to spite their already ugly faces.

Posted by: LASue at July 16, 2026 08:38 PM (lCppi)

135 The foolish thing is in the old days playing the speech left them contact everyone to put their spin on it. Now by not playing it, they are irrelevant and nobody hears their spin.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 08:35 PM (uhVAy)
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Yes, this means that tomorrow on X, all the clips and commentary will be from Fox or a conservative stream.

Great job, idiots.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 08:38 PM (ZOv7s)

136 England is a case study in it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 16, 2026 08:38 PM (zZu0s)

137 That's not how the feline population at Chateau Lloyd operates, and most animals get used to a set time and don't easily shift. We have more pet owners than parents in this country and I can see them rolling with it.

They also probably enjoy extra daylight to walk the pooch.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 08:36 PM (ZOv7s)

well i have dry food out for nibbling if they get hunger pangs.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 08:39 PM (uhVAy)

138 It begs the question whether it’s a “cold” civil war or not, seems pretty hot to me in recent and not so recent decades, but I agree the networks jumped the shark a long time ago. How about “low level insurgency” by the usual suspects
Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 08:37 PM (2XnYE)
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The Weathermen and other groups were far more violent than Antifa. I wasn't around then, but I saw someone pointing out that things were much, much worse during the Days of Rage. We're comparatively soft because being 29, we don't remember those days.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 08:39 PM (ZOv7s)

139 Our 2 cats had hard food a 24/7 whenever they wanted and got a pouch or can food at our supper time. Both lkved long lives

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 08:42 PM (Ia/+0)

140 well i have dry food out for nibbling if they get hunger pangs.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 08:39 PM (uhVAy)
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Our elder eats whatever you put in her dish. All of it. At once. And then throws it up.

The younger cat was much more reasonable but then our middle kid took her to college, and she lived in a suite where everyone loved her and fed her. She got morbidly obese and when she came home, we put her on a diet.

Now she eats anything she can, determined to be fat again. She will actually snatch food off of plates if she can get away with it. It's crazy.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 08:42 PM (ZOv7s)

141 >>The Weathermen and other groups were far more violent than Antifa. I wasn't around then, but I saw someone pointing out that things were much, much worse during the Days of Rage. We're comparatively soft because being 29, we don't remember those days.

I was. And it was much worse.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 08:43 PM (viF8m)

142 The man has a "history of violence".."
Posted by: runner
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To be fair, so does Hillary Clinton and she is still out and about walking around. Also a former resident of Chicago area.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 08:46 PM (E4rtv)

143 Things change, oftentimes quickly or overnight.

The Weathermen, SDS, and other radical whack jobs operated in a political environment decidedly not particularly favorable to their objectives.

All that has atrophied under progressive administrations over the years, and the radicals infest government today. And the younger demographics are primed for violence and pretty well inoculated against facts, logic and reason. Standard issue Hippies were arch conservatives compared to these clowns.

It is not a prescription for confidence going forward

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 08:46 PM (2XnYE)

144 The length of days change seasonally. You don't save anything by resetting the clocks.

Once more for those who need it, apologies to those in the DST cult:

https://bit.ly/no-dst

Daylight Saving Time: The Simple Alternative
How free people would handle the seasons
2023 Mar 12

Instead of the ludicrous and ignorant re-setting of clocks, how much harder would it be to say, on such-and-such days, businesses, schools, et al. shift to summer (or winter) hours Anyone can follow the gov't recommended (but not mandated) "shift" days if preferred. Just change the "business" hours for those that want to. Not the clocks.

© Mindful Webworks😁

Posted by: mindful webworker - hate resetting my sundial at July 16, 2026 08:46 PM (p+5Bi)

145 Still 9 PM EST?

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 08:47 PM (gKWVE)

146 I knew the guy with the Vegas fun house when he was just a kid at my church. Great guy!

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at July 16, 2026 08:47 PM (qhuGC)

147
134 Hard to believe we're at a point where 2 of the major broadcast networks are refusing to air an address by the President on what he claims is breaking news that is important to the entire country.

We truly are in a cold civil war.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 08:23 PM (viF8m)
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Well, yes, but it's been going on for a while. The funny thing is how pointless it is. Broadcast news has terrible ratings. If it was 1985, yeah, that would suppress it but now, it's just going to make people wonder why ABC and NBC are scared.

They've made the story bigger than it would have been. Streisand Effect. CBS will make bank.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 08:27 PM (ZOv7s)

Everyone watches these things on Fox and the internet anyway. ABC and NBC are just cutting off their noses to spite their already ugly faces.
Posted by: LASue at July 16, 2026 08:38 PM (lCppi)

A proxy battle to win the fight against the systemic election cheating is to take on a defeat one of the major lying , cheating , treasonous major 'news' outlets. Investigate them . Challenge their right to broadcast and retain their license. Pick one. Any one of them. Nail them.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at July 16, 2026 08:48 PM (FCPbW)

148 right, you can also stream it from the official WH account on yout-ube

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 08:48 PM (GD0B3)

149 Sam Cox spent two years transforming his 12-room mansion in Kent into a surreal, doodle-covered masterpiece. Every inch of the house, from walls and floors to furniture and even appliances, is adorned with black-and-white doodles, that consumed over 900 liters of paint and 2296 pen nibs

One wonders if he ever said to himself "why the hell am I doing this?" Also, "I wonder what it's like to touch real boobs."

Posted by: Archimedes at July 16, 2026 08:49 PM (Riz8t)

150 The Weathermen and other groups were far more violent than Antifa. I wasn't around then, but I saw someone pointing out that things were much, much worse during the Days of Rage. We're comparatively soft because being 29, we don't remember those days.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

I do. As a kid, saw one of the last big 70's riots in Albuquerque NM-started as a street protest and exploded into attacks on a police station etc. with martial law being declared. Univ. of New Mexico had its library torched and lost some important historical documents if I remember correctly.

I can remember the local ROTC unit at the local college being burned down by arson and other such not so pleasant outcomes.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 08:49 PM (E4rtv)

151 I work in a land survey office. these are people who think sleeping in is 0600. I do not care if it's dark when I go to work, or if it's dark when I go home from work.

I simply want the semi-annual time change to go away. I do not care which one is chosen.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, so easily distracted at July 16, 2026 08:50 PM (0aYVJ)

152 here is the white house link
youtu.be/iIlqG0untYM

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 08:51 PM (gKWVE)

153 Republican William Upham from Florida who is running for congress was just arrested for this campaign video and only because he threatens to kill Trump plus he's pure f*cking nuts.

https://tinyurl.com/4v9kxv8b

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 16, 2026 08:51 PM (ndZc7)

154 Boobs!

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2026 08:52 PM (77rzZ)

155 Once more for those who need it, apologies to those in the DST cult:

Posted by: mindful webworker - hate resetting my sundial at July 16, 2026 08:46 PM (p+5Bi)
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But it's not a cult. It's now the default setting for our clocks, and corporate interests are determined to keep it that way.

So if the goal is to keep the clocks the same, that's the only open path.

But the same also applies to Standard Time fanatics: ask your boss to shift your hours for a couple of months in the winter.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 08:53 PM (ZOv7s)

156 It's very rare I watch the big three stations anymore. Maybe the local news and weather. National new I'll watch Newsmax or Fox.

Posted by: Case at July 16, 2026 08:54 PM (bqIVz)

157 Republican William Upham from Florida

He was a write-in candidate. He's 5'5 btw.
Personally I'm all for dwarven representation in Congress but do you have to live up to the stereotype. I mean, really.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 08:55 PM (gKWVE)

158 It is not a prescription for confidence going forward
Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 08:46 PM (2XnYE)
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Counterpoint: today's activists are not willing to do jail for the cause. They are paid lunatics and cutting their funding stream *from the government* made them largely go away.

The next step is to unwind the NGO/Charitable foundation pathway, which will wreck what is left.

It's all astroturf, and their "street muscle" cry on TikTok if their latte is too cold.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 08:56 PM (ZOv7s)

159 Odds that President Trump starts promptly at 9pm?

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 08:56 PM (Ia/+0)

160 Anyone see nurse around?

https://tinyurl.com/57vpkz6w

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 16, 2026 08:56 PM (/0H7F)

161 The whole time-change thing is ridiculous. Another gimmick sprung by Our Betters on the proles. Get rid of it.

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2026 08:57 PM (77rzZ)

162 Good point. The old school radicals were tough. Agreed.

Still, it is a mistake to think they are all soybois and poofters. Hell, the trannies are quite murderous and especially violent. I didn’t have that on my bingo card

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 08:58 PM (2XnYE)

163 Pfffttt screw Trumps speech George Allen said Macacca!!! Yes he said it!1 Maccaca!!! in 2006 never forget!

Posted by: Yer Sistahs Tomato at July 16, 2026 08:59 PM (rjFy0)

164 But it's not a cult…
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd


That's just what a cultist says.🙄

Posted by: mindful webworker - stop the clock it's time-out at July 16, 2026 08:59 PM (p+5Bi)

165 CNN is out too.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 08:59 PM (viF8m)

166 It's very rare I watch the big three stations anymore. Maybe the local news and weather. National new I'll watch Newsmax or Fox.
Posted by: Case at July 16, 2026 08:54 PM (bqIVz)
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I have an antenna I put up during football season to watch college games, which means I get maybe nine over the course of a Saturday, which is fine, I don't need to spend that much time on the couch.

I kind of like inconsequential teams playing each other. I like dozing off the sound of football and wind in the trees outside.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 09:00 PM (ZOv7s)

167 Still, it is a mistake to think they are all soybois and poofters. Hell, the trannies are quite murderous and especially violent. I didn’t have that on my bingo card
Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 08:58 PM (2XnYE)
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Yeah, they are committed but also unhinged and hard to control. Basically freelance kamikazes.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 09:01 PM (ZOv7s)

168 Man teaching was hard today after just a few days off!
Posted by: Piper


Without the comma, this sounds vaguely dirty.

"NOOD SPEECH" also sounds vaguely dirty.

Posted by: mikeski at July 16, 2026 09:01 PM (VHUov)

169 Rather go to year around standard time

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 09:01 PM (Ia/+0)

170 159 Odds that President Trump starts promptly at 9pm?
Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 08:56 PM (Ia/+0)

50 to 1

Posted by: Teleprompter Guy at July 16, 2026 09:01 PM (rjFy0)

171 New Yorkers finally realized the sun sets in the West no matter if it leads up to the solstice or after the solstice.

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Well, in the northern hemisphere, sure.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 16, 2026 09:02 PM (ndZc7)

172 He started, and he's already teabagging Biden

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 09:02 PM (gKWVE)

173 That's just what a cultist says.🙄
Posted by: mindful webworker - stop the clock it's time-out at July 16, 2026 08:59 PM (p+5Bi)
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Yeah, and that's what a dishonest person says when faced with a factual argument.

There is no constituency for year-round Standard Time. It's my preference, but it's also unrealistic, so I'm pragmatic enough to accept the least worst alternative.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 09:03 PM (ZOv7s)

174 Good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 09:03 PM (Ia/+0)

175 Rather go to year around standard time
Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 09:01 PM (Ia/+0)
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Yes, but that's not a politically viable option. Good night!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 09:04 PM (ZOv7s)

176 Oh, nood

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 09:06 PM (ZOv7s)

177 96 Didn't we have Canadian Smoke Attack last year too?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 16, 2026 08:23 PM (Cqx++)

We did, and I believe that a number of those fires were ARSON related.

There was a satellite tame lapse photo of the western fires:
Clear Skies prior to the outbreak of simultaneous fires, running in a line from south to north (5 to 11 on the clock).
They just up and started ... no lightning strikes ...

I call this Eco Terrorism

Posted by: browndog says woof at July 16, 2026 09:10 PM (3sXRv)

178 Motel of Toot an’ Come-On!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 16, 2026 09:48 PM (tWxgu)

US Will Withdraw All Forces from Iraq by September

Is this good? I don't know.



WASHINGTON -- All remaining US military forces will be out of Iraq by the end of September, the nation's new prime minister Ali al-Zaidi said during a Tuesday visit to the White House.

"On the 30th of September, the US forces will be out of Iraq, while these companies will be inside Iraq," al-Zaidi said through a translator when speaking to reporters alongside President Trump in the Oval Office.

About 2,000 US troops currently are stationed in Iraq, mostly at the Harir Air Base in Erbil in the northern Kurdistan region.

Washington and Baghdad agreed in September 2024 to a phased withdrawal of US forces who had remained to support counter-Islamic State (ISIS) operations at the request of the Kurdish regional government.


Trump withdrew US troops in April from Syria, where they also helped crush the jihadist caliphate, which once claimed vast territories in the two countries.


...

The current withdrawal reflects a shift in US focus after Trump forged a partnership with Syria's ex-al Qaeda president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, whom he has credited with imposing stability over his nation.


...

Trump showered al-Zaidi with praise during his visit, announcing the men would have an unplanned lunch and predicting the "handsome" new leader, 41, would serve as a long-term leader with significant influence in the region.

The strikes continue in Iran.

And the blockade.

U.S. Central Command
@CENTCOM

53m

U.S. Marines from the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit conduct a verification boarding aboard M/T Wen Yao in the Gulf of Oman, July 16.

As of today, American forces have redirected 3 commercial vessels trying to run the blockade, disabled 1 that didn’t comply, and boarded 1 to ensure full compliance with the ongoing U.S. naval blockade against Iran.

The Strait of Hormuz and the surrounding waters remain free and open, except for vessels attempting to violate America’s steel wall blockade.

Trump's long-promised campaign to take out the bridges has begun:

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:40 PM




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1 Yep

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 16, 2026 06:41 PM (9NN0K)

2 I'm fer it.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 16, 2026 06:42 PM (kpS4V)

3 I think it's the correct decision.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2026 06:43 PM (ExV1e)

4 What About It stream of Starship XIII
youtu.be/i4m9kWLlqr0

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 06:44 PM (gKWVE)

5
This test is going to deploy about 20 Starlinks. They will be sacrificed, as it's a sub-orbital trajectory and they'll just burn up. But it's testing the deployment of real satellites, not dummies, and some other comms stuff.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 06:44 PM (w6EFb)

6 One thing cutting the route to Bandar Abbas does is keep the IGRC from *reinforcing* Bandar Abbas if needed.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 06:45 PM (uhVAy)

7 Persian bridges lost their arch supports.

Posted by: mrp at July 16, 2026 06:45 PM (rj6Yv)

8 U.S. STRIKES IRANIAN INFRASTRUCTURE

The United States is now targeting Iranian infrastructure, following through on President Donald Trump’s warning that Tehran would face escalating consequences for its continued aggression.

Reports indicate that multiple bridges, railway lined and airports have been struck....and it's still early in the night.


It's the last act of a desperate man! Iran really had Trump bent over a barrel now!

Posted by: Bluesky, probably at July 16, 2026 06:45 PM (5/BQI)

9 >>>Is this good? I don't know.


Some are saying that this move is to make sure, should the US have a President Slotkin or worse in 2028, there will be no forward bases to gin up further Middle East wars to the benefit of the Chinese, or whoever else is getting fat and rich off of forever wars.

Some are saying this is the move that guarantees Trump's position next to James Buchanan in idiotic moves.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2026 06:46 PM (rbvCR)

10 abort

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 06:46 PM (gKWVE)

11
Uh-oh, a dud. Something triggered a last second hold.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 06:46 PM (w6EFb)

12 Wow. Aborted after engine ignition.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2026 06:46 PM (ExV1e)

13 Pickaxe mountain facility. Trump sort of mentioned that. That thing is going to be hit.

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 06:46 PM (GD0B3)

14
Scrub. Abort.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 06:46 PM (w6EFb)

15
Maybe for the super unhinged we should try to convince them that it's really not worth remaining alive in a world that produced Donald Trump ....

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 06:47 PM (Fi81e)

16 This is great. Looking at our Iran operations, it is clear that Trump told the planners to prioritize force protection and you can see that in the results. I've said it before, but NO ONE thought we could destroy Iran's air defenses with as few losses as we took. Incredible work.

And since then, we've continued to use stand-off tactics whenever we can. One of the downsides is that we have a more limited target selection, and often can't hit certain things when we want to. However, war is all about tradeoffs, and it is clear that Trump prioritizes the safety of our troops above everything else.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 06:47 PM (ZOv7s)

17 Aborted at startup. Awww.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 16, 2026 06:47 PM (kpS4V)

18 How many embassy guards will be stationed in Baghdad?

Posted by: Goatweed at July 16, 2026 06:47 PM (jK3NL)

19 Wow, abort at startup.

Posted by: WisRich at July 16, 2026 06:48 PM (mMoRd)

20 i guess conor macgregor was running this test

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 06:48 PM (gKWVE)

21 >>Trump's long-promised campaign to take out the bridges has begun:


We've got them right where we want them now, Boys!
-Iran

Posted by: garrett at July 16, 2026 06:48 PM (uzmqU)

22 I’m in favor of leaving Iraq, I don’t know what the purpose of keeping small numbers of troops there is. Seems like they’re targets more than anything.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 16, 2026 06:48 PM (wLnmp)

23 Some are saying this is the move that guarantees Trump's position next to James Buchanan in idiotic moves.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2026 06:46 PM (rbvCR)


Trump could simultaneously cure cancer, solve the unsolved questions in math, and determine the sound of one hand clapping all while spinning 250 plates on sticks and SOME would still say that he's an idiot poopyhead.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2026 06:49 PM (ExV1e)

24 Abort, abort, abort!

Posted by: pawn at July 16, 2026 06:49 PM (R8m8a)

25 Trump's long-promised campaign to take out the bridges has begun
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But The Fabulous Baker Boys is one of my favorite movies!

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 06:49 PM (Fi81e)

26 Some are saying this is the move that guarantees Trump's position next to James Buchanan in idiotic moves.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2026 06:46 PM (rbvCR)
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It's past time to remove US forces from Iraq. They're sitting ducks if things escalate even more. Besides, they might be useful in the theater.

Posted by: mrp at July 16, 2026 06:50 PM (rj6Yv)

27 Some are saying this is the move that guarantees Trump's position next to James Buchanan in idiotic moves.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2026 06:46 PM (rbvCR)
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Those tiny garrisons are nothing but hostage bait and should have been pulled out in his first term. They are there to justify Forever War deployments. They serve no other purpose. Watch all the Forever War DEI flag officer/weapons contractors flip out.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 06:50 PM (ZOv7s)

28 >>>Is this good? I don't know.


Some are saying that this move is to make sure, should the US have a President Slotkin or worse in 2028, there will be no forward bases to gin up further Middle East wars to the benefit of the Chinese, or whoever else is getting fat and rich off of forever wars.

Some are saying this is the move that guarantees Trump's position next to James Buchanan in idiotic moves.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2026 06:46 PM (rbvCR)

Both are kind of silly. If we need troops in Kurdistan they can fly right up there again and reoccupy the base. While Prez Slotkin might be an idiot the Trans General they pick to lead could handle that operation.

Trump orienting the entire region to think about their own national economies and interests instead of Islamic juju thought will probably make the neocon forever wars much harder to start.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 06:50 PM (uhVAy)

29 Abort, abort, abort!

Posted by: pawn at July 16, 2026 06:49 PM (R8m8a)
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Margaret Sanger, is that you?

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 06:50 PM (Fi81e)

30 The first nation to take advantage of no US troops in Iraq will be Turkey. Erdogan will go after Kurds in the area. Erdogan wants to rebuild the Ottoman Empire and us out of the way is a big help

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2026 06:50 PM (OXYE0)

31 One of the things we wanted to come out with was a channel on the Iranian side for reducing conflict, which we did. They were like, ‘OK, fine, we’ll send somebody from the IRGC to go hang out in Doha with somebody from CENTCOM,’ and that’s how we’re going to settle a lot of these disputes.

Posted by: Vantz Kant Dantz at July 16, 2026 06:50 PM (T8IDo)

32 Yes, it is a good idea. American troops are targets, and even with Trump's intelligent rules of engagement, that is too big a temptation for too many islamists and others. If we need to send troops, we can send them quickly.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 16, 2026 06:51 PM (p1bWh)

33 India Today: Iran has warned that any US attack on its infrastructure will trigger retaliatory strikes on infrastructure across the region. Khatim Al-Anbiya Headquarters spokesperson Ebrahim Zolfaghari issued the warning amid escalating tensions, raising fresh concerns over regional security.

Do you really think Americans care if one middle eastern country is shooting missiles at another middle eastern country?

Ever really look at a map? The size of Iran is massive. It’s going to be a task to “cripple” that country.

Isreal is loving this rhetoric! Get them puppet Americans to fight their holy war! We dumb Americans have a Congress bought and paid for while our congress votes to keep fleecing our tax dollars to the Zionist regime!

So, according to Iran, US may have thought that strikes could go unanswered? Donald's arrogance has no limit. Right now he's fucking around...

Those in the US Military need to stand up against illegal orders from these tyrants, and the traitors in the administration by continuing this illegal war. We support each and every one of you, and our nation is depending on you.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 16, 2026 06:51 PM (5/BQI)

34 The first nation to take advantage of no US troops in Iraq will be Turkey. Erdogan will go after Kurds in the area. Erdogan wants to rebuild the Ottoman Empire and us out of the way is a big help
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2026 06:50 PM (OXYE0)


Call me callous but that sounds like a THEM problem.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2026 06:51 PM (ExV1e)

35 OT - WTH????


New York Post
@nypost
Lefty actress Cynthia Nixon appointed to panel that screens, recommends NY judges
https://trib.al/QIDqJN1

Posted by: beckster at July 16, 2026 06:51 PM (kX27y)

36 >>Trump orienting the entire region to think about their own national economies and interests instead of Islamic juju thought will probably make the neocon forever wars much harder to start.


Not to mention the display of American willingness to actually kill terrorists.

This is Trump saying that he trusts them to Police their own...right after he showed them what happens when they disappoint Dad.

Posted by: garrett at July 16, 2026 06:52 PM (uzmqU)

37 Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2026 06:50 PM (OXYE0)

We don't need troops in Iraq to protect the kurds. We need political will to protect the kurds.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 16, 2026 06:52 PM (p1bWh)

38 The first nation to take advantage of no US troops in Iraq will be Turkey. Erdogan will go after Kurds in the area. Erdogan wants to rebuild the Ottoman Empire and us out of the way is a big help
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2026 06:50 PM (OXYE0)

Erdogan is happy with his bite of Syria he has, he doesn't need to mess with Iraq if they don't start blowing stuff up in his area.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 06:52 PM (uhVAy)

39 And since then, we've continued to use stand-off tactics whenever we can. One of the downsides is that we have a more limited target selection, and often can't hit certain things when we want to. However, war is all about tradeoffs, and it is clear that Trump prioritizes the safety of our troops above everything else.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 06:47 PM (ZOv7s)

Agreed - protecting our people is an area where we’ve had stellar performance. I still remember the sad spectacle of captured pilots being paraded for the cameras during the war with Saddam.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 16, 2026 06:53 PM (wLnmp)

40 30 The first nation to take advantage of no US troops in Iraq will be Turkey. Erdogan will go after Kurds in the area. Erdogan wants to rebuild the Ottoman Empire and us out of the way is a big help
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2026 06:50 PM (OXYE0)

Right now the Kurds in Iraq at least one group anyway, are not our friends

Posted by: It's me donna at July 16, 2026 06:53 PM (FtULh)

41 Trump could simultaneously cure cancer, solve the unsolved questions in math, and determine the sound of one hand clapping all while spinning 250 plates on sticks and SOME would still say that he's an idiot poopyhead.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2026 06:49 PM (ExV1e)
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Not to mention the deluge of articles starting with headlines like "The Hidden Wisdom of James Buchanan" and "James Buchanan: One of Our Greatest Presidents?"

Posted by: mrp at July 16, 2026 06:53 PM (rj6Yv)

42 Get your kicks on Route 76.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 16, 2026 06:54 PM (Cqx++)

43 SpaceX is inheriting NASAs bad luck with the Big Thirteen.

Posted by: pawn at July 16, 2026 06:54 PM (R8m8a)

44
Well, nothing blew up. Didn't pull a Bezos tonight.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 06:56 PM (w6EFb)

45 The second planning priority I see with regards to Iran is being able to sustain the operational tempo. The cease fires are not for Iran, nor are they for diplomacy, they are designed to give US forces time to rest, do maintenance, resupply and identify new targets.

What this does is keep the force rested and that restores morale. We can rotate people in and out without any difficult. A huge factor in suicide rates GWOT was deployment burnout. The generals thought nothing about deploying people until they killed themselves (assuming they survived the self-defeating ROE).

Iran is a tough nut to crack, but Trump's planners have got this thing to a nice simmer and as alternative oil routes come into play (and Iran's remaining weapons are used up), we basically win by default.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 06:56 PM (ZOv7s)

46 Trump wans to stay in Our Hemisphere.. he's done with Europe and would like to be done with the rest of the Middle East

Posted by: It's me donna at July 16, 2026 06:56 PM (FtULh)

47 @34+37, don't get me wrong , I want us out. The kurds can handle themselves. One of the problems with the Kurds is if they become independent a good number want a commie government . They'd be fighting each other quickly.
The Turks are going to stick their noses in both Syria and Iraq. The Israelis may not be happy about them being in Syria , but welcome to the Middle East.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2026 06:56 PM (OXYE0)

48
I agree with the decision to abort.

Posted by: Planned Parenthood at July 16, 2026 06:56 PM (OkYzo)

49 Apollo 13 was awesome though. Everyone lived, the engineering on the program leapt forward, no disaster like that happened again.
Compare the flying pig that was the Shuttle.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 06:58 PM (gKWVE)

50 So to Reddit assholes: Trump Always Chickens Out until there's no stopping this maniac!

Got it.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 06:59 PM (Fi81e)

51
Trump should offer other nations that want to get rid of old munitions to fire it at Iran. Use their nations as a munitions dump/testing range.

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 16, 2026 06:59 PM (OkYzo)

52 Didn't pull a Bezos tonight.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 06:56 PM (w6EFb)

Word.

Posted by: MacKenzie Scott at July 16, 2026 06:59 PM (gKWVE)

53 Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 06:59 PM (Fi81e)

that was yesterday, today is "innocent civilian bridges" ...prpbably

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 07:00 PM (GD0B3)

54 Nothing has been leaked from tonight's speech... Either there is nothing new or there's a whole bunch of whoop ass and they kept it quiet

Posted by: It's me donna at July 16, 2026 07:00 PM (FtULh)

55 don't get me wrong , I want us out. The kurds can handle themselves. One of the problems with the Kurds is if they become independent a good number want a commie government . They'd be fighting each other quickly.
The Turks are going to stick their noses in both Syria and Iraq. The Israelis may not be happy about them being in Syria , but welcome to the East.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2026 06:56 PM (OXYE0)
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The frontiers in that part of the world are written in pencil. No reason for the United States to waste blood and treasure enforcing them.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 07:01 PM (ZOv7s)

56 I like that pic of the Reddit reunion. It looked like a trip to the circus.

Fucking freaks.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 16, 2026 07:01 PM (9NN0K)

57 Weird story: the judge who freed the Cuban hijacker has died . He was a Clinton appointment and was a senior judge at 77. Senior judges should be abolished, they want to get into heaven , so they make "nice" rulings

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2026 07:02 PM (OXYE0)

58 Something called Shiraz was destroyed? The AWFLs will be confused and outraged.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 16, 2026 07:02 PM (VscIk)

59 Umm, I hope we take our equipment this time with us

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 07:02 PM (Ia/+0)

60 What time is President Trump speech?

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 07:03 PM (Ia/+0)

61 2100 hrs

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 16, 2026 07:04 PM (9NN0K)

62 34 The first nation to take advantage of no US troops in Iraq will be Turkey. Erdogan will go after Kurds in the area. Erdogan wants to rebuild the Ottoman Empire and us out of the way is a big help
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2026 06:50 PM (OXYE0)

Call me callous but that sounds like a THEM problem.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

The Kurds are very destabilizing for the region. They are very much like the ethnic Albanians- they view their nation as where their ethnic people live, and want to unite then in a Greater Kurdistan. Of course, that area encompasses multiple already existing countries...

If we leave, and Turkey starts invading Kurdish-controlled Iraqi land, Iraq and the Kurds may push back pretty hard. Would be hilarious to see Turkey invoke NATO Article 5 to fight against Iraq...

Posted by: Military Moron at July 16, 2026 07:04 PM (5/BQI)

63 >>Is this good? I don't know.


Man, all these years of bullshit and Ace is still optimistic assuming it *might* be good.

The better formulation is "is this *bad*? I don't know.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 16, 2026 07:04 PM (dj+UN)

64 "Not to mention the deluge of articles starting with headlines like "The Hidden Wisdom of James Buchanan" and "James Buchanan: One of Our Greatest Presidents?""

Don't talk smack about Jimmy B.

No States ever seceded on HIS watch.

Posted by: purely an academic question at July 16, 2026 07:04 PM (F/35S)

65 I suspect the Kurds ripping us off may have just had some detrimental consequences for them.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 16, 2026 07:04 PM (BI5O2)

66 Im waiting to be whelmed

Posted by: LASue at July 16, 2026 07:04 PM (lCppi)

67 41 Trump could simultaneously cure cancer...
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2026 06:49 PM (ExV1e)

__________________________

Trump is contributing to over-population!!!!!

Posted by: Orson at July 16, 2026 07:05 PM (dIske)

68 66 Im waiting to be whelmed
Posted by: LASue at July 16, 2026 07:04 PM (lCppi)

Maybe if you built a big coracle . . .

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 07:05 PM (gKWVE)

69
Right now the Kurds in Iraq at least one group anyway, are not our friends
Posted by: It's me donna at July 16, 2026 06:53 PM (FtULh)

I’ve seen the Kurds described as more like 14 groups who all want to kill each other. Probably why the idea of building some large scale fighting force out of them never works.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 16, 2026 07:07 PM (wLnmp)

70 60 What time is President Trump speech?
Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 07:03 PM (Ia/+0)

9 ET I believe

Posted by: It's me donna at July 16, 2026 07:07 PM (FtULh)

71 46 Trump wans to stay in Our Hemisphere.. he's done with Europe and would like to be done with the rest of the Middle East
Posted by: It's me donna

He's been awfully involved in the Middle East, both terms, for someone trying to get out. His first term, I think he was hoping to negotiate some kind of Israeli/Palestinian peace deal to have a shot at the Nobel. Now...I think he has no fucks left to give, and like Michael Corleone, he wants to settle all the family business while he has the chance.

Posted by: Military Moron at July 16, 2026 07:07 PM (5/BQI)

72 Don't talk smack about Jimmy B.

No States ever seceded on HIS watch.
Posted by: purely an academic question
________

Only seven of them.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 16, 2026 07:08 PM (XvL8K)

73 49 Apollo 13 was awesome though. Everyone lived, the engineering on the program leapt forward, no disaster like that happened again.
Compare the flying pig that was the Shuttle.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 06:58 PM (gKWVE)
How did we ever pull that Apollo 13 one without muslims and women in charge?

Posted by: Eromero at July 16, 2026 07:08 PM (LHPAg)

74 Im waiting to be whelmed
Posted by: LASue at July 16, 2026 07:04 PM (lCppi)
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To be whelmed is to be capsized. "Over" actually plays an emphatic/redundant role in the more common word.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 07:08 PM (Fi81e)

75 "Not to mention the deluge of articles starting with headlines like "The Hidden Wisdom of James Buchanan" and "James Buchanan: One of Our Greatest Presidents?""

Don't talk smack about Jimmy B.

No States ever seceded on HIS watch.
Posted by: purely an academic question at July 16, 2026 07:04 PM (F/35S)
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Seven states seceded before Lincoln took office on March 4, 1861.

Posted by: mrp at July 16, 2026 07:08 PM (rj6Yv)

76 Last two days been up since 2am, get to sleep in a bit but doesn't mean I can

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 07:08 PM (Ia/+0)

77 Anyone know what Cuber is up to?

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 16, 2026 07:09 PM (uItPR)

78 Posted by: purely an academic question at July 16, 2026 07:04 PM (F/35S)

Consider retaking your HIST class, bro

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 07:10 PM (gKWVE)

79 Right now the Kurds in Iraq at least one group anyway, are not our friends"

Not a single one is our "friend". It's up to us to remember that.

Posted by: man at July 16, 2026 07:10 PM (XuXeR)

80
Those tiny garrisons are nothing but hostage bait and should have been pulled out in his first term. They are there to justify Forever War deployments. They serve no other purpose. Watch all the Forever War DEI flag officer/weapons contractors flip out.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 06:50 PM (ZOv7s)



That hostage-bait shit has been one of the most important features of post-Vietnam US military strategy. In the mid-80s, the Reagan-era DoD came up with the brilliant idea of the Infantry Division (Light), which I was lucky enough to experience first hand. *eye roll* Start with a regular infantry division, and take away all of their vehicles and a big chunk of their heavy weapons so that you can transport the whole division in 500 cargo aircraft sorties.

We used to darkly joke that our main function was to be airlifted into some foreign land so that we could die in a loud, orderly military manner so that in 6 months, a couple of armored divisions could be transported in theater to avenge our deaths.

There's a reason that the Infantry Division (Light) doesn't exist in the Army any more.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 16, 2026 07:11 PM (y9nCu)

81
65 I suspect the Kurds ripping us off may have just had some detrimental consequences for them.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 16, 2026 07:04 PM (BI5O2)

I still don’t believe that story, mainly because only an idiot could have thought that would work. And I hope our people making decisions like that aren’t complete idiots.

More likely I think - we were talking about doing something using the Kurds, and Erdogan got wind of it and promised to raise hell if we tried it. So we backed off, abandoned any idea of staging an insurrection, and came up with a cover story blaming the Kurds in order to make Erdogan happy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 16, 2026 07:11 PM (wLnmp)

82 Obligatory: If Turkey invaded Kurdistan's rear, would Greece be involved?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 07:11 PM (ZOv7s)

83 Anyone know what Cuber is up to?"

Libre?

/nice and chilled

Posted by: man at July 16, 2026 07:12 PM (XuXeR)

84 IIRC the Kurdish YPG trained a bunch of Western antifa who then went home.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 07:12 PM (gKWVE)

85 Gol durn it. Trying to read Ace in Wyoming screws up my sense of time! When does the ONT start?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 16, 2026 07:12 PM (N6gUB)

86 When does the ONT start?"

Right after the train leaves Pittsburgh.

Posted by: man at July 16, 2026 07:13 PM (XuXeR)

87 10pm, AoSHq time

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 07:14 PM (Ia/+0)

88 82 Obligatory: If Turkey invaded Kurdistan's rear, would Greece be involved?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

I'm THERE, man!

Posted by: Muhammed and the men of Al-Zutt at July 16, 2026 07:14 PM (5/BQI)

89 There's a reason that the Infantry Division (Light) doesn't exist in the Army any more.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 16, 2026 07:11 PM (y9nCu)
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Ummm...25th Infantry (L) still exists.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 16, 2026 07:14 PM (/0H7F)

90 57 Senior judges should be abolished, they want to get into heaven , so they make "nice" rulings

we need angsty teenage judges that want to piss everyone off

Posted by: anachronda at July 16, 2026 07:14 PM (v3pYe)

91 More likely I think - we were talking about doing something using the Kurds, and Erdogan got wind of it and promised to raise hell if we tried it.

I don't see Trump backing down from a plan he wants to execute because Erdogan is unhappy about it. What possible leverage would he have?

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 16, 2026 07:15 PM (5/BQI)

92 we need angsty teenage judges that want to piss everyone off
Posted by: anachronda at July 16, 2026 07:14 PM (v3pYe)

Or GenXers
But I'm just repeating what you said

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 07:16 PM (gKWVE)

93 First Lady Graham passes away and the first thing that happens is we pull out of Iraq and end a forever war

Coincidence?

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now With Extra Fapness at July 16, 2026 07:16 PM (fapp/)

94 Huh.

25th lost the 'light' designation in 2006.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 16, 2026 07:17 PM (/0H7F)

95 I’ll Tempered Cur, the Army is debating whether heavy armor will be useful going forward. They are currently focusing on maneuverability and owning the micro grid. Basically, light infantry with robots.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 16, 2026 07:17 PM (uItPR)

96 There's a reason that the Infantry Division (Light) doesn't exist in the Army any more.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 16, 2026 07:11 PM (y9nCu)
__

Ummm...25th Infantry (L) still exists.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 16, 2026 07:14 PM


The 10th Mountain says hi.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 16, 2026 07:17 PM (Wnv9h)

97 Ummm...25th Infantry (L) still exists.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 16, 2026 07:14 PM (/0H7F)
It had to be Light Infantry so Hawaii won't capsize.

Posted by: Eromero at July 16, 2026 07:17 PM (LHPAg)

98 66 Im waiting to be whelmed
Posted by: LASue at July 16, 2026 07:04 PM (lCppi)

Maybe if you built a big coracle . . .
Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 07:05 PM (gKWVE)


Making a coracle: a surprising sub genre of YT videos. I always learn from the horde.

Posted by: LASue at July 16, 2026 07:18 PM (lCppi)

99 lol Eromero.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 16, 2026 07:18 PM (/0H7F)

100 93 First Lady Graham passes away and the first thing that happens is we pull out of Iraq and end a forever war

Coincidence?
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger

Meh. We've been bombing Iran since February. Good enough for us.

Posted by: Zombies McCain and Graham at July 16, 2026 07:18 PM (5/BQI)

101 What, 70 YO Judges don't piss us off enough?

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 07:18 PM (Ia/+0)

102 I don't see Trump backing down from a plan he wants to execute because Erdogan is unhappy about it. What possible leverage would he have?
Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 16, 2026 07:15 PM (5/BQI)
**************************

Erdogan is our great ally, and we need to be sensitive to his needs, such as keeping the Islamic Republic of Iran intact.

Posted by: Vantz Kant Dantz at July 16, 2026 07:18 PM (T8IDo)

103 When does the ONT start?"

Right after the train leaves Pittsburgh.
Posted by: man at July 16, 2026 07:13 PM


That's a fargin' trick question!!!!

Posted by: Roman Moroni at July 16, 2026 07:19 PM (Wnv9h)

104 Apropos of nothing, a recent "Rob Words" video I saw on Youtube, told me that we used to spell our "wh" words "hw"

Hwen, hwere, hwo, hwy. But Flemish typesetters from the mainland saw all the English "th", "ch", "sh" words and thought surely it must be "wh".

Think about it, there's almost no way to aspirate a vowel at the tail of the w sound.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 07:20 PM (Fi81e)

105 LASue: there was a theory that Noah's ark was a coracle some years back. Irving Finkel

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 07:20 PM (gKWVE)

106 "Not to mention the deluge of articles starting with headlines like "The Hidden Wisdom of James Buchanan" and "James Buchanan: One of Our Greatest Presidents?""

Don't talk smack about Jimmy B.

No States ever seceded on HIS watch.
Posted by: purely an academic question at July 16, 2026 07:04 PM (F/35S)
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Seven states seceded before Lincoln took office on March 4, 1861.
Posted by: mrp at July 16, 2026 07:08 PM (rj6Yv)

He was so bad even the Democrats of the time made him replace his entire Cabinet with Northerners, including Stanton, later Lincolns second Secretary of War.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 07:20 PM (uhVAy)

107 When does the ONT start?"

Right after the train leaves Pittsburgh.
Posted by: man at July 16, 2026 07:13 PM (XuXeR)

87 10pm, AoSHq time
Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 07:14 PM (Ia/+0)

So, if it leaves Pittsburgh at 10 traveling 100mph, what time is it in Rawlins?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 16, 2026 07:20 PM (N6gUB)

108 NASA did sort of tempt superstition with Apollo 13

The Lunar Module that saved their ass, was number 7, fwiw.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 07:22 PM (wBcdF)

109
Right now the Kurds in Iraq at least one group anyway, are not our friends"

Not a single one is our "friend". It's up to us to remember that.
Posted by: man at July 16, 2026 07:10 PM (XuXeR)



Maxim 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.

I get the feeling that the Golden Scalp Weasel based his foreign policy on the Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries, specifically the following:

Maxim 12. A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head.

Maxim 13. Do unto others.

Maxim 16. Your name is in the mouth of others: be sure it has teeth.

Maxim 58. The pen is mightiest when it writes orders for more swords.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 16, 2026 07:22 PM (y9nCu)

110 I’ll Tempered Cur, the Army is debating whether heavy armor will be useful going forward. They are currently focusing on maneuverability and owning the micro grid. Basically, light infantry with robots.
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 16, 2026 07:17 PM (uItPR)

There are a lot of places a middle sized tank would be useful and a lot easier to run. Not everything is apocalyptic tank battles in West Germany.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 07:23 PM (uhVAy)

111 it is clear that Trump prioritizes the safety of our troops above everything else.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 06:47 PM (ZOv7s)

Agreed - protecting our people is an area where we’ve had stellar performance. I still remember the sad spectacle of captured pilots being paraded for the cameras during the war with Saddam.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 16, 2026 06:53 PM (wLnmp)

I'm sure the Iranians had that in mind when they sent everyone who could run after that one pilot that was downed the last time around.

I wonder if we have plans to use that against them in the future.

Posted by: Methos at July 16, 2026 07:23 PM (vSvIl)

112 I wonder if we have plans to use that against them in the future.
Posted by: Methos at July 16, 2026 07:23 PM (vSvIl)

I assume someone has to volunteer to be the bait.
Joy Behar?

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 07:24 PM (gKWVE)

113 There's a reason that the Infantry Division (Light) doesn't exist in the Army any more.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 16, 2026 07:11 PM (y9nCu)

I was in Reforger -72. Imaging a Armor Brigade flying to Germany from Ft.Hood and drawing all materials, including weapons, in time to stop a Soviet Block invasion.

The mother of all fuckups,

Posted by: javems at July 16, 2026 07:24 PM (zFsEm)

114 I wore the Electric Strawberry for a time. Hawaii is an interesting place.

Face sized spiders. More like lobsters, really

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 07:25 PM (wBcdF)

115 So, if it leaves Pittsburgh at 10 traveling 100mph, what time is it in Rawlins?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 16, 2026 07:20 PM (N6gUB)

More importantly, of all the places to go in Wyoming, you chose Rawlins?

*I'm sure you have good reason, but I couldn't help asking

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 16, 2026 07:26 PM (zYpTz)

116 Hopefully pulled out of Iraq but not put into Iran

Posted by: nckate at July 16, 2026 07:27 PM (enNUy)

117 Surprised really anyone is in Iran

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 07:28 PM (Ia/+0)

118 https://tinyurl.com/2s3uyxvm

Iconic photo of Margaret Hamilton next to the print out of the Apollo guidance computer code.

She's hot in nerdy geek girl kinda way.

Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at July 16, 2026 07:28 PM (iKvf9)

119
Not to mention the deluge of articles starting with headlines like "The Hidden Wisdom of James Buchanan" and "James Buchanan: One of Our Greatest Presidents?"
Posted by: mrp at July 16, 2026 06:53 PM (rj6Yv)


Our First Gay President!!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2026 07:28 PM (O0L8i)

120 There's a reason that the Infantry Division (Light) doesn't exist in the Army any more.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 16, 2026 07:11 PM (y9nCu)

I was in Reforger -72. Imaging a Armor Brigade flying to Germany from Ft.Hood and drawing all materials, including weapons, in time to stop a Soviet Block invasion.

The mother of all fuckups,
Posted by: javems at July 16, 2026 07:24 PM (zFsEm)

I was a kid and reading wargame magazines and playing them, but even then I could not believe that Reforger was going to work in any scenario.

There's a story from Russia that a bit earlier they redesigned the greatcoats to have fancy buttons on them in addition to the hook fasteners. But the troops told them that for every alert, they would have to cut the buttons off so they could squirm in the dirt to fight, then if it was just a practice alert sew all the buttons on again. The 5 minute window for 'go' time was too short.

So down from the brass came orders that the time to be ready after the alert to move out was changed to 30 minutes.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 07:29 PM (uhVAy)

121 Out of trad networks, seems ABC and NBC are not airing Trump's speech. I guess CBS is.

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 07:30 PM (GD0B3)

122 She's hot in nerdy geek girl kinda way.
Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone

Ahhh......

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 16, 2026 07:30 PM (9NN0K)

123
I still don’t believe that story, mainly because only an idiot could have thought that would work. And I hope our people making decisions like that aren’t complete idiots.

More likely I think - we were talking about doing something using the Kurds, and Erdogan got wind of it and promised to raise hell if we tried it. So we backed off, abandoned any idea of staging an insurrection, and came up with a cover story blaming the Kurds in order to make Erdogan happy.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 16, 2026 07:11 PM (wLnmp)



My own theory is that Trump told CIA "start a Persian insurrection and ship them guns". And the Ivy League thumbsuckers at CIA decided to route the weapons through the Kurds because the Great Unwashed can't be trusted with guns without strict supervision.

But your idea makes sense too, so I'm open to the possibility that this is what went down.

The CIA is still largely populated by Ivy League pansies though.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 16, 2026 07:30 PM (y9nCu)

124 95 I’ll Tempered Cur, the Army is debating whether heavy armor will be useful going forward. They are currently focusing on maneuverability and owning the micro grid. Basically, light infantry with robots.
Posted by: Pudinhead

I've seen light infantry companies equipped with several MUTTs to help haul their gear: https://tinyurl.com/3x8uk39t

And the new Infantry Squad Vehicle: https://tinyurl.com/y9b8fd6z

Remember in the opening days of Iraqi Freedom, and the casualties from troops in unarmored Humvees, and Rumsfeld saying you go to war with the Army you have. There's not much armor on that ISV...

Posted by: Military Moron at July 16, 2026 07:31 PM (5/BQI)

125 With the bridges out they're going to have to find another way around. And the may want to bring a shitload of dimes too

Posted by: 496 at July 16, 2026 07:31 PM (sOtuf)

126 *I'm sure you have good reason, but I couldn't help asking
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 16, 2026 07:26 PM (zYpTz)

Half way point.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 16, 2026 07:31 PM (N6gUB)

127 If we leave, and Turkey starts invading Kurdish-controlled Iraqi land, Iraq and the Kurds may push back pretty hard. Would be hilarious to see Turkey invoke NATO Article 5 to fight against Iraq...
Posted by: Military Moron

Articled V does not apply to any NATO member invading somewhere else. US did not invoke Article V when we hit Iran either time.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 07:31 PM (E4rtv)

128 nood


cafe

Posted by: banana Dream - YEAH BUDDY! at July 16, 2026 07:32 PM (3uBP9)

129 Old cat, currently the M-1 MBT can be destroyed by a cheap drone. A smaller tank doesn’t solve the problem. Owning and growing your own microgrid on the battlefield will be the answer. Hell, drones will likely replace artillery

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 16, 2026 07:32 PM (uItPR)

130 Half way point.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 16, 2026 07:31 PM (N6gUB)

*Whew. So, you're not there to break your brother from prison or some such. Good.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 16, 2026 07:33 PM (zYpTz)

131 Between Gibraltar and the Kyber Pass, there is nothing worth the bones of a single Pomeranian Grenadier.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at July 16, 2026 07:33 PM (x69Nb)

132 So, if it leaves Pittsburgh at 10 traveling 100mph, what time is it in Rawlins?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 16, 2026 07:20 PM (N6gUB)

More importantly, of all the places to go in Wyoming, you chose Rawlins?

*I'm sure you have good reason, but I couldn't help asking
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 16, 2026 07:26 PM (zYpTz)

Its pretty much the only place to stop that isn't all the way across (or just inside) of Wyoming. When I trucked a test instrument in a truck to Livermore Labs in Berkely back in the day we hit Rawlins on the way out. We got caught in Utah when blizzards closed the interstate on the way back.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 07:33 PM (uhVAy)

133 Erdogan is our great ally, and we need to be sensitive to his needs, such as keeping the Islamic Republic of Iran intact.
Posted by: Vantz Kant Dantz
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Kurds are not really our allies either, they, like in timeless fashion just know we don't have territorial gains in mind or exterminating Kurds on the menu unlike Syrians, Turks, Iranians, Shia, and Sunni in Iraq.

When you are a hegemon, you have no friends or allies, only supplicants and enemies. And the supplicants try to use the hegemon against their enemies.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 07:35 PM (E4rtv)

134 Speak softly and carry a big stick.

Posted by: PG at July 16, 2026 07:36 PM (5tjvu)

135 Dash, if you're still reading, it doesn't seem to be that bad. Besides, we're right near the police station.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 16, 2026 07:37 PM (cmuen)

136 125 With the bridges out they're going to have to find another way around. And the may want to bring a shitload of dimes too
Posted by: 496

Aimed at drying up their missile and drone component supply line. If Iran concentrates them to avoid shipping, then they are a saturation bombing target, if they disperse them, they have to haul them around including rail and roads with bridges.

Also makes it difficult to move troops around if a revolt starts in the periphery. Remember native Persians are a minority in the Gulf oil field areas, Arabs are the majority.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 07:37 PM (E4rtv)

137
I wore the Electric Strawberry for a time. Hawaii is an interesting place.

Face sized spiders. More like lobsters, really
Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 07:25 PM (wBcdF)




Centipedes the size of a pre-teen boy's arm. Cane spiders with the attitude of meth-addicted MMA fighters. Rats the size of raccoons. Gray-green geckos EVERYWHERE.

The mongoose imported to control the illegal alien rat population are cool, except that they realized that it was a lot easier to hunt the native birds than the giant frickin' wharf rats that jumped off of cargo ships in Honolulu harbor.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 16, 2026 07:42 PM (y9nCu)

138 We should take the troops we're pulling out of Iraq and send them into Canada to make firebreaks and logging roads.

This smoke is incredible.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 07:43 PM (ZOv7s)

139 Old cat, currently the M-1 MBT can be destroyed by a cheap drone. A smaller tank doesn’t solve the problem. Owning and growing your own microgrid on the battlefield will be the answer. Hell, drones will likely replace artillery
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 16, 2026 07:32 PM (uItPR)

Nah, nothing beats a big ass shell impacting at a zillion mph to ruin your day. Artillery will always be there. For bunkers if nothing else.

In Ukraine a lot of tanks now have mesh netting and cheap structure to keep the drone from doing a lot of damage when crashing into it. Seems to be helping. Drones are light, and pretty slow moving - spaced armor and such can help a lot against slower warheads.

A smaller tank just means you can work when the bridges can't hold heavy tanks and you aren't likely to run into other MBTs.

A tactic the Russians seem to be using now is to scamper up a road for a mile or so to a village, bail out the infantry and dig in, and have the APCs head back empty and just abandon the motorbikes/4 wheel scooters. They can then dig in before drones can react and start securing the new salient in the front. Then day by day they widen into a bulge and open up supplies.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 07:44 PM (uhVAy)

140 "That hostage-bait shit has been one of the most important features of post-Vietnam US military strategy. In the mid-80s, the Reagan-era DoD came up with the brilliant idea of the Infantry Division (Light), which I was lucky enough to experience first hand. *eye roll* Start with a regular infantry division, and take away all of their vehicles and a big chunk of their heavy weapons so that you can transport the whole division in 500 cargo aircraft sorties.

"We used to darkly joke that our main function was to be airlifted into some foreign land so that we could die in a loud, orderly military manner so that in 6 months, a couple of armored divisions could be transported in theater to avenge our deaths.

"There's a reason that the Infantry Division (Light) doesn't exist in the Army any more."

Not a vet, but was this during the Rumsfeld era, when it was thought a light military bolstered with technology could "occupy" and pacify Iraq, while sending its troops home? Result: the country had a huge supply of military-aged unemployed men, and fanatical militias. That era? Makes sense.

Posted by: Fritz at July 16, 2026 08:04 PM (J7jo9)

141 Trump has become Ghengis Khan and now killing children of color in Iran !!!!!!!!!!

I am calling on senator Schunmer to begin impeachments hearings to stop this atrocity on the peaceful people of Iran

Posted by: Hillary at July 16, 2026 08:15 PM (d6FdJ)

142 If the South left during Buchanan, would Buchanan have invaded the South?

The 1860 election, a vote on a war.

Posted by: Goatweed at July 16, 2026 08:40 PM (jK3NL)

143 I'm pretty sure that the ragheads in Iran aren't going to care about blown up bridges or railways or airports. These insane people need to be stopped but they're used to living in tunnels, eating bugs, and raping their sisters. Kind of like Gaza only much larger. And I'm still waiting on one or two of these poor Iranian people to rise up and overthrow their captors. I love Trump but think he's grabbed a snake by the tail....

Posted by: krmj at July 17, 2026 01:03 PM (b4Tuc)

Quick Hits

The networks haven't yet agreed to carry Trump's speech tonight, which means it's a "no." AOC told them not to cover it and they obeyed her orders.

LA spent $60 million on a "housing program" for bums... that $60 million bought three units, total.

This is the woman who "beat" Spencer Pratt to get into the runoff for mayor.

Just three out of a promised 2,000 apartments have been used to relocate the homeless in Nithya Raman's failed $60 million project to get people off the streets.

Councilmember Raman, the chair of the Los Angeles City Council's Housing and Homelessness Committee, introduced the Time Limited Subsidy program back in September as a cheaper alternative to Mayor Karen Bass' Inside Safe Program -- meant to get homeless people into an established residence.


Raman's plan was to lease and move homeless people into 2,000 apartments and subsidize their rent, rather than pay for them to stay in motels or shelters.

However, nearly a year after that plan was launched -- with $62.6 million in taxpayer funds behind it -- only three apartments are occupied.


The City Council first approved investing in the subsidy model last September as part of its strategy for complying with a court settlement with the Los Angeles Alliance for Human Rights.

Four months later, on January 28, the council approved resources for a redesigned program targeting 2,000 households.

The full rollout began March 1.

However, only three units had occupants by June 25, according to a July 1 presentation to Raman's powerful homeless committee -- a damning result for a program Raman has campaigned to take citywide if elected Mayor.

Fetterman: I'll quit the Democrat Party if it becomes, "officially," the anti-Israel party.

Well, for one thing, it already is the anti-Israel party. There was no official declaration but everyone understands it is now the Hamas Party. Even Rahm Emmanuel, who is Jewish, but running for president in a pro-Hamas party, announced that it's time for the US to stop funding Israel.

So Fetterman is okay with all of this, as long as they give him plausible deniability and not make it "official."

And more importantly: While I appreciate the support for Israel, there's another country the Democrats are trying to destroy that I support even more. That country is the United States of America. No problem with that, huh?

Who says The Today Show doesn't know how to party?


An unhinged heckler slipped past security at NBC's "Today" show early Thursday, lunging at host Craig Melvin and hurling a racial slur as he stormed the set, according to cops and sources.

The scary scene played out around 9 a.m. when the 41-year-old intruder barged into an unauthorized area in a vestibule near Studio 1A at the Rockefeller Plaza studio.

He demanded face time with Al Roker and got close enough to confront Melvin, calling him the N-word, according to sources.


Some bonus Cultural Enrichment for you: the Canadian whore who slapped the child for wearing pro-Trump sweatpants is in the US illegally on a visa overstay.

Her husband, who should be deported with this c***, celebrated the murder of Charlie Kirk.

charliekirkpsycho.jpg

Millionaires are fleeing NYC, taking $11 billion dollars of taxable income with them.

Lacks the rich.

New York's share of US millionaires dramatically declined in recent years, causing a nearly $11 billion loss in much-needed tax revenue in just one year, according to a bombshell new analysis.

The study released Monday by the Citizen Budget Commisison comes amid fears that socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani's push to "tax the rich" will drive even more wealthy taxpayers and their businesses out of New York City.

Even before Mamdani took office, the Empire State's share of the nation's millionaires dipped from 12.7% to 8.7% between 2010 and 2022 -- the largest decline of any state, according to the CBC's Competitive NYS: Value Proposition Tracker dashboard.

"New York's declining share of high-income taxpayers has meaningful consequences," the analysis states.


There's video of " " Elliot " " Page as "the greatest soldier I have ever known," but Warner Bros. keeps copyright-claiming it so that people can't see how ridiculous it is.

This is the clip. It will probably be zapped within minutes. Don't @ me.

Why does it look like shit? People have complained that the movie is all gray and brown.

The movie is projected to make $200 million world wide this weekend. They used to predict North America box office, but they want a bigger number, so now they talk about global takings.

The movie will make money in its first two weeks. But super hero movies and Christopher Nolan movies are very front-loaded -- the fans want to see the movie early before spoilers leak, and plus this movie was shot entirely in IMAX, and it will only have IMAX screens for two weeks (until Spider-Man comes out on July 31).

Will the movie have legs past then? I don't think so. It sounds like boring, woke homework about DEI Sailing with two good special effects (the cyclops attack and Circe turning Odysseus's men into swine).

This is going to shock you, but a National Review "writer" is, get this, taking the opportunity to defend liberals and dunk on irrational, uneducated conservatives:

Giancarlo Sopo
@GiancarloSopo

These accounts exist to lobotomize the American right.

A right that cannot recognize its values in a serious adaptation of Homer, and torches it over a casting sheet, has forfeited the culture it claims to defend.

Conservatives should ignore them. Let them lose on their own.

Giancarlo Sopo
@GiancarloSopo

You don't know that though.

Casting choices are made for a ton of reasons -- artistic and commercial.

Nolan is not a particularly ideological or subversive filmmaker. His filmography is clear on that.

Also, what's the proof that he used a "wokified translation"? He said he read Watson's along with others.

And if casting an Oscar-winning actress in a minor role is "controversial" because she's black, well, it says more about the people who find it controversial than it does about him.

Nolan named the "woke" translation as the first of the translations he consulted. And the African "Helen of Troy" confirms that the movie has rewritten the Odyssey to be more female-centric, which was the whole point of the woke feminist translation.

Update: Never change, National Review.


Gregory Izzo
@gregizzo1

8h
How about the value of justice?
How about not stealing what belongs to somebody else?
The Odyssey story belongs to the Greeks.
Nolan should've thought of that before he did his casting.


Giancarlo Sopo
@GiancarloSopo

The Odyssey is a universal story.

I look forward to the "universal story" version of Shaka Zulu.

Update: Oh my -- is this really "Helen of Troy" from the movie?

helenoftroy.jpg

Stronk and Empowered.

DEI employee is obsessed with race and tries to stir up a racial incident because... white people are peacefully hiking and there aren't enough black people here.


Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:30 PM




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1 Hello

Posted by: Ann at July 16, 2026 05:30 PM (K4KCe)

2 I will call the others

Posted by: Ann at July 16, 2026 05:30 PM (K4KCe)

3 The others have been called

Posted by: Ann at July 16, 2026 05:31 PM (K4KCe)

4 complying with a court settlement with the Los Angeles Alliance for Human Rights."

To Potomac Two Step...

Posted by: man at July 16, 2026 05:33 PM (XuXeR)

5 My spouse and son are going to see "The Odyssey" tomorrow. I am staying home.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2026 05:33 PM (KxQqp)

6 Last one might actually just be a joke...

But I don't really care to watch it to find out that i'm wrong because i'm probably wrong.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 16, 2026 05:33 PM (Ot/FD)

7 LA spent $60 million on a "housing program" for bums... that $60 million bought three units, total.

Someone pocketed around $59M.

This is what the system is DESIGNED to do

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2026 05:34 PM (sKqQm)

8 Yellin' of Troy?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 16, 2026 05:34 PM (Ot/FD)

9 Helen of *facepalm* Oy?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 16, 2026 05:34 PM (Ot/FD)

10 The face that launched a thousand lunches?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 16, 2026 05:35 PM (Ot/FD)

11 Well, that guy who says there are no black people in the park sure looks black to me. So, there's one.

Posted by: LASue at July 16, 2026 05:35 PM (lCppi)

12 TOUSI TV saved by Trump.

https://www.youtube.com/live/26Ye86Cfv10

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at July 16, 2026 05:35 PM (AGz65)

13 I hike a fair amount.

There aren't a lot of black people but there are a few at bigger trails/areas.

Of course I saw a black comedian doing a riff on "stuff white people do" as "Yall went to get up early on your day off, drive to the middle of nowhere and bust your ass for 3 hours to see some trees? What is wrong with you people?!?"

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2026 05:36 PM (sKqQm)

14 Hopefully there will be good no-commentary no-ads streams to watch that don't suck.

"Hey, @elonmusk...."

Posted by: RandomDave at July 16, 2026 05:37 PM (aJQbY)

15 I am currently in Tennessee. If you order a cocktail, they card EVERYONE. Apparently, a law was passed in 2024 that anyone who purchases alcohol is carded.

To say I was taken aback is an understatement.

What happens at a wedding? Card 300 people?

Posted by: Ann at July 16, 2026 05:38 PM (K4KCe)

16 Camping & Backpacking is basically playing homeless. Urban folks, or poor folks don’t really care to do that. funny, that.

But the leftist twats try to claim that black folks don’t go hiking, say, or skiing or whatever, because of whitey racism. Fuck You.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 05:38 PM (hkjqi)

17 There's a vid at YouTube from Piers Morgan show with Nerdrotic and The Critical Drinker discussing the casting of the Odyssey. Also on it is Mark Lamont Hill who still is a complete ahole. Hill was arguing no big deal because it's mythical not actual history.
The others pointed out Asian Isaac Newton or black Anne Boleyn. Hill couldn't process that or admit it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2026 05:39 PM (OXYE0)

18 Lost the plot

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at July 16, 2026 05:39 PM (qhuGC)

19 Don Lemon for President? Sure, it's time for a gay black fag to be President. Oh, sorry. That spot has already been taken, you say?

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 16, 2026 05:39 PM (QaH55)

20 I seriously doubt that fetterman will quit the democrat party. He needs them for all of their cash when he runs again in two years.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 16, 2026 05:39 PM (0N4FZ)

21 I'm not going to say what those photo panels of "Helen of Troy" resemble, but I just got back from the zoo.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 16, 2026 05:40 PM (bNf8H)

22 Afternoon, news folken! I got the car's rear brakes done this morning, which took ninety minutes because the rear brakes include the electric parking brake. The system kept lighting up the "Service Brakes" light.

Finally my mechanic did the obvious. He disconnected and reconnected he battery. Problem solved. I had to re-enter the time and date; otherwise, nothing was lost.

Maybe it was the nice suburban roads I was on, but after the work the Buick seemed to ride even more nicely than it did a couple of days ago. Ain't that always the way?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2026 05:40 PM (wzUl9)

23 12 TOUSI TV


Hiring 2 positions in south Florida (see link above).

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at July 16, 2026 05:41 PM (AGz65)

24 All my comments to this engorged thread:

1. No one wants Don 'Smell my Finger' Lemon for anything, but particularly not for his skinny little effeminate self to lead our nation.
2. Rap. Just no. But relatedly, I saw a review that the real trojan horse was casting Ella (?) page because her character is a fool who is fooled by everyone about who she (he?) is. Anyway, the review made the movie sound quite based and a trick on Hollywood.
3. LA is worse than a 3rd world country. A 4th world city?
4. Mandami. He says socialists understand economics- so obviously this is intentional . Next step is definitely confiscation, but somehow I doubt the city government will be a benevolent landlord.

Posted by: LASue at July 16, 2026 05:42 PM (lCppi)

25 Spoilers for a 3000 year old story?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 16, 2026 05:42 PM (zZu0s)

26 Don Lemon claims people keep asking him to run for president.
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Don, are these people in the room with us right now?

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 05:42 PM (Fi81e)

27 I'm glad people are starting to call out the "gray and brown" palette modern movies seem to use all the time. They film night scenes in such a way that you can barely tell who the camera is focused on, and even indoor scenes, if they are not dim and shadowy, have one window in the scene with bright light bursting through it, so the people in the room are hard to see.

Gimme the original True Grit, when they knew how to use color.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2026 05:42 PM (wzUl9)

28 If gooble hiker run up on a bear he better hope they some white mens around close.

Posted by: Eromero at July 16, 2026 05:42 PM (LHPAg)

29 Wonder which Democrats Propaganda Ministry will chicken out

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 05:42 PM (Ia/+0)

30 Lupita is so fkng ugly. And stupid.

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 05:42 PM (GD0B3)

31 I saw a complaint from some lefty that Helen from Brad Pitt's Troy movie was racially wrong too - being a fair skinned light haired woman. Of course here is how Helen is described in Greek mythology: fair skinned and light haired.

Note historical Greeks didn't even necessarily look like modern Greeks with the olive Complexion and dark hair - that might have come with the South Slavic invasion in the 600s. Note I said might...it really isn't clear.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2026 05:42 PM (sKqQm)

32 The networks haven't yet agreed to carry Trump's speech tonight, which means it's a "no." AOC told them not to cover it and they obeyed her orders.
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And that's why they are dying off.

It's really the perfect metaphor for legacy media: they use a tactic that hurts them and also fails.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 05:43 PM (ZOv7s)

33
President Donald... Lemon.

Posted by: But hey, what was your worst day? at July 16, 2026 05:43 PM (mmrXZ)

34 People are constantly conditioned to call something ugly "beautiful".

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 05:43 PM (GD0B3)

35 Yellin of Troy seems nice.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 16, 2026 05:43 PM (uItPR)

36

Harold Ford, Jr. just compared Tim Walz's pardon of the rapist to President Trumps's pardon of Jan 6 protesters.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 16, 2026 05:43 PM (Cqx++)

37 The ghost of Arlen Specter lives in Fetterman's hump and is advising him.

Posted by: No Name Today at July 16, 2026 05:44 PM (8mulE)

38 No one tell me how Genesis ends!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 16, 2026 05:44 PM (zZu0s)

39 It pays to check the Manual for any special instructions to be performed after re-connecting the battery. Follow the instructions exactly. In some vehicles, not all, there are a great many things affected, we’re way beyond radio presets or rough shifts for a while.

The high end cars, some makes disable the windows and air conditioning, unless and until a reset is performed with a scanner. Nice, huh?

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 05:45 PM (hkjqi)

40 >>The ghost of Arlen Specter lives in Fetterman's hump and is advising him.
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"Not Proven."

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 16, 2026 05:45 PM (bNf8H)

41 In what I watched of the clip of Ellen Page in The Odyssey, she did look like a pre-teen boy. So there's that. The ancient Greeks were fond of same-sex stuff between men and boys, right? Thus there is historical precedent.

But I don't think the "best boy" or whatever he was called would have put on armor and weapons, owned a horse, and fought in battle.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2026 05:46 PM (wzUl9)

42 The networks haven't yet agreed to carry Trump's speech tonight, which means it's a "no."

Honestly for the best. Because Trump will fuck that speech up. He'll go off topic. He'll riff - in his old man New York way. Same as always.

You have Vance or Rubio give that speech. And frankly - that's not the kind of message you do in one great big Nixon kind of moment. Again ... the big failing of Trump.

You release this kind of thing every week. For months. But Trump has absolutely zero discipline or focus. So his administration can't do this.

Posted by: Klon at July 16, 2026 05:46 PM (8+dr9)

43 WB is copyright striking channels for saying Hal Jordan dies at the start of Lanterns. There should be a penalty on this kind of false use against fair use.

Posted by: Bete at July 16, 2026 05:46 PM (LX4y3)

44 "A right that cannot recognize its values in a serious adaptation of Homer, and torches it over a casting sheet, has forfeited the culture it claims to defend."
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Are those values in it, though? This is the usual woke butchery of the Western canon, and it's nice that NR has a bunch of nameless drones with Goucher degree clapping like trained seals and smoking cigars like it's still the 90s and that's cool and subversive.

What a rag.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 05:47 PM (ZOv7s)

45 I'm seeing Spider-man on the 31st. It's the first Marvel film I'm looking forward to in some time. I've passed on a lot of Marvel films in the last 10 years but Spidey is my guy.

Posted by: Max Power at July 16, 2026 05:47 PM (SwyyQ)

46 11 Well, that guy who says there are no black people in the park sure looks black to me. So, there's one.
Posted by: LASue at July 16, 2026 05:35 PM (lCppi)


Well, he looks gay to me, so I assume he's just trying to get attention for hookups. But for one thing, if he's in Silicon Valley, he could've absorbed gay-ishness by osmosis; and for another, the 'gaydar' is a myth, guys just think everyone else looks gay.

Posted by: SciVo at July 16, 2026 05:47 PM (Sy6m/)

47 Elliot Page is tight!

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 05:47 PM (Fi81e)

48 It pays to check the Manual for any special instructions to be performed after re-connecting the battery. Follow the instructions exactly. In some vehicles, not all, there are a great many things affected, we’re way beyond radio presets or rough shifts for a while.

The high end cars, some makes disable the windows and air conditioning, unless and until a reset is performed with a scanner. Nice, huh?
Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026


***
Right, I've done it myself. The instrument cluster gives directions involving lowering and raising the front windows and some other things. My mechanic did that, and the Buick, a 2016, drives beautifully.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2026 05:47 PM (wzUl9)

49 Choose the bear, Tyrone.

Posted by: nckate at July 16, 2026 05:47 PM (enNUy)

50 The ancient Greeks were fond of same-sex stuff between men and boys, right? Thus there is historical precedent.

In some city states it was accepted for an adult man to sexual abuse a teen boy.

Amusingly the various city states commonly defamed the others by claiming they indulged in this.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2026 05:48 PM (sKqQm)

51 Hey conservatives! You're stupid and ignorant! Buy our magazine you chuds!

Posted by: National Review Marketing Geniuses at July 16, 2026 05:48 PM (ZOv7s)

52
The Yosemite guy said "no-one is here." Like the crowds of people there are insects or rabbits or something. I assume the people who work around him at Google are going to see what he posted. It would be reasonable to assume that his view applies to them too.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 16, 2026 05:48 PM (azNOR)

53 31 I saw a complaint from some lefty that Helen from Brad Pitt's Troy movie was racially wrong too - being a fair skinned light haired woman. Of course here is how Helen is described in Greek mythology: fair skinned and light haired.

Note historical Greeks didn't even necessarily look like modern Greeks with the olive Complexion and dark hair - that might have come with the South Slavic invasion in the 600s. Note I said might...it really isn't clear.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2026 05:42 PM (sKqQm)

Thracians were redheads and redheadedness has been becoming less frequent over the centuries due to being recessive.

In all likelihood the Mediterranean became more similar over a substantial period of time.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at July 16, 2026 05:48 PM (okun6)

54 The linked NY Post article is cagey on whether this idiotic homeless program actually spent the $60 million on just three units, or just that the program is funded for that much with more units to come. Two different things.

No, I’m not defining the boondoggle. But the Post has been very clickbaity and ragebaity. I don’t trust it any more.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 16, 2026 05:48 PM (HwHEG)

55 Greatest movie ever. Elliot is so hot.

Posted by: Pawl at July 16, 2026 05:49 PM (MWfyi)

56 By stereotypes I have heard out of the mouths of black friends: would he complain if he went to a beach and there was mostly white people in the water?

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 05:49 PM (Fi81e)

57 Thracians were redheads and redheadedness has been becoming less frequent over the centuries due to being recessive.

The Macedonians had blonde/red hair as well.

Amusingly before Alexander the Greek City States claimed the Macedonians were only half Greek and half barbarian.

Afterwards they all claimed the Macedonians were the most Greek people to ever Greek.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2026 05:50 PM (sKqQm)

58 The ancient Greeks were fond of same-sex stuff between men and boys, right?

The Spartans themselves were queer as a two dollar bill.

Posted by: Klon at July 16, 2026 05:50 PM (8+dr9)

59 The networks haven't yet agreed to carry Trump's speech tonight, which means it's a "no." AOC told them not to cover it and they obeyed her orders.
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And that's why they are dying off.

It's really the perfect metaphor for legacy media: they use a tactic that hurts them and also fails.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 05:43 PM


Yep they could air commercials before, during and after his speech and generate $10,000 a second in ad revenues but they refuse because orange man bad.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 16, 2026 05:51 PM (0N4FZ)

60 Every Leftist project is a cash flow to Leftists

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 05:51 PM (fO+/8)

61 Best performance ever by a man eating and drinking and then getting pierced by arrows when he comes over to investigate some riders!

In this category, they don't come better.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 05:51 PM (Fi81e)

62 >>>The Spartans themselves were queer as a two dollar bill.

I beg your pardon!
--Thomas Jefferson

Posted by: No Name Today at July 16, 2026 05:52 PM (8mulE)

63 The ancient Greeks were fond of same-sex stuff between men and boys, right?

The Spartans themselves were queer as a two dollar bill.
Posted by: Klon at July 16, 2026


***
Greeks: Wives were for reproduction and carrying on the family name. Boys were for recreation.

No wonder Rome was able to conquer them. (And got into a little of that stuff themselves)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2026 05:52 PM (wzUl9)

64 Speaking of Greek Homo/Pedos, remember when it came to why gay marriage was ok morally the left specifically used the example of Greek men raping teen boys as an example of how gay marriage was completely normal and ok.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2026 05:53 PM (sKqQm)

65 Ace, this is the actual ending to the movie.

https://tinyurl.com/4kh5ctpm

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 16, 2026 05:54 PM (l4RKn)

66 The two bridges just taken out in Southern Iran qualify as quick hits.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 16, 2026 05:54 PM (afJtY)

67 And speaking of Sparta their rise and fall is fascinating.

They blundered into a war with Athens and in winning it just empowered other Greek city states to rival them instead which would last right up until the Romans showed up

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2026 05:55 PM (sKqQm)

68 Well, what? Blacks are what?

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 16, 2026 05:55 PM (YlWIZ)

69 Those pictures of Helen look like stills from a police bodycam video.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at July 16, 2026 05:55 PM (+OpiT)

70 It's really the perfect metaphor for legacy media: they use a tactic that hurts them and also fails.

But they don't. This is the "logic" - used here - that just wears me out.

The "how I was taught economics in high school" vs "how shit works in the real world".

CNN isn't going anywhere. The New York City / Los Angeles Media will still control the narrative. Doesn't matter if you or I see it as true.

Its not about Profit or Advertisers Reaching Customers. That's not how any of this shit works at all.

"Legacy Media" ? They're still The Media.

Posted by: Klon at July 16, 2026 05:55 PM (8+dr9)

71 Our unit deployed to the Balkans. I swear, at the first chance meeting of the locals, having been “in country” for about 5 minutes, at a picnic table having some chow some guy insisted that Alexander the Great was Macedonian, not Greek. They take that shit seriously!

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 05:55 PM (hkjqi)

72
I warned y'all about them Ancient Greek Homos. They stole all our shit.

Posted by: Al Sharpton at July 16, 2026 05:56 PM (w6EFb)

73 Those pictures of Helen look like stills from a police bodycam video.

Out: The face that launched a thousand ships

In: The face that got thrown off of a Carnival Cruiseship

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2026 05:56 PM (sKqQm)

74 65 Ace, this is the actual ending to the movie.

https://tinyurl.com/4kh5ctpm

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 16, 2026 05:54 PM (l4RKn)


Snort!! Watch right to the end.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at July 16, 2026 05:56 PM (AGz65)

75 I said something to the effect “You don’t need NATO, you need TITO”.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 05:56 PM (hkjqi)

76 ‘Google project manager’ … yea, sure. Project manager of managing dick.

Dude was out trolling for cock and just got mad because he come up empty.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 16, 2026 05:57 PM (HwHEG)

77 Ancient Greece did have significant ties with Egypt and borrowed some things from them (and vice versa), but while Egyptians are African they aren't Al Sharpton African...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2026 05:57 PM (sKqQm)

78 Thinking about nipping out after dinner tonight for some Haagen-Dasz ice cream. On the other hand it will still be 90-something degrees out there. Maybe some other month.

I got the Peter Ustinov-as-Poirot Evil Under the Sun and Tarantino's The Hateful Eight out of the library. Im not that big a QT fan, but the blurb on the case back sounded really intriguing.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2026 05:57 PM (wzUl9)

79 Why does it look like shit? People have complained that the movie is all gray and brown.

they didn't have color back then.

Posted by: anachronda at July 16, 2026 05:57 PM (v3pYe)

80 Out: The face that launched a thousand ships

In: The face that got thrown off of a Carnival Cruiseship
Posted by: 18-1

They were out of honey mustard.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 16, 2026 05:57 PM (zPxy8)

81 The Spartans themselves were queer as a two dollar bill.

I beg your pardon!
--Thomas Jefferson
Posted by: No Name Today at July 16, 2026 05:52 PM (8mulE)
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Thebes had the Sacred Band of gay dudes, and there is no clear evidence Spartans were gay. Many "scholars" argue for it, but it seems more about their fantasies and agenda to make bi/gay stuff the default setting in human history than any facts.

And of course the Spartans were into literature, so history was written by their enemies. It is said that Spartans only put up grave markers for men who died in battle and women who died in childbirth.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 05:58 PM (ZOv7s)

82 Mamdani housing event features a lady in a mask ranting about her landlord, declaring "eviction = violence"
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We have no other recourse but for the state to define "violence"!

See for yourself: There are words describing violent acts in every jurisdiction, and you cannot do them because they are defined as "violence", so words define what is violence and the state decides what words to use!

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 05:58 PM (Fi81e)

83 I was in NYC last night, and it is accelerating toward 3rd World Sh*thole status. Everything is decaying: the streets, the buildings, the cleanliness, the civility, the respect for the law.

It's sad, because it used to be a great city.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 16, 2026 05:58 PM (l4RKn)

84 The Spartans themselves were queer as a two dollar bill.
Posted by: Klon


*gives the side-eye*

Doesn't know that $2 bills are legal tender.
Doesn't know that the phrase is "queer as a $3 bill"

Can be safely ignored

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 16, 2026 05:58 PM (vJrRc)

85 Ancient Greece did have significant ties with Egypt and borrowed some things from them (and vice versa), but while Egyptians are African they aren't Al Sharpton African...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2026 05:57 PM (sKqQm

Cleopatra was Macedonian.

Posted by: polynikes at July 16, 2026 05:58 PM (/WQyy)

86 The white Karen to Mamdami's left: anyone else see the two horns on her forehead?

Posted by: Joe Mama at July 16, 2026 05:59 PM (TezPK)

87 ome guy insisted that Alexander the Great was Macedonian, not Greek. They take that shit seriously!

==

How would you like to be a "Canadian" ???

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 05:59 PM (GD0B3)

88 "The broadcast networks do not always carry a presidential primetime speech upon White House request, as decisions were made to bypass Joe Biden and Barack Obama addresses as well."

IIRC, I don't think the alphabet networks chose to carry Biden's infamous Reichstag Address in Philly during primetime. They probably knew how terrible it was going to be.

The truth about it came out anyway. If Trump's address gets out on X/Twitter, it would have the widest possible distribution anyway.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 16, 2026 05:59 PM (n0W6Z)

89 CNN isn't going anywhere. The New York City / Los Angeles Media will still control the narrative. Doesn't matter if you or I see it as true.
——-

Ask Pravda and the state run Soviet media how that worked out for them. People watched it, if only to hear what the official line was.

But everyone knew it was Bullshit.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 05:59 PM (hkjqi)

90 I’m pretty sure Alex the Great was Macedonian

Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 16, 2026 05:59 PM (HwHEG)

91 Alexander of Macedonia was Macedonian.

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 06:00 PM (GD0B3)

92 Ace, this is the actual ending to the movie.

https://tinyurl.com/4kh5ctpm

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
......

lol

Posted by: wth at July 16, 2026 06:00 PM (UjdFS)

93 oh, the google manager. if you want to experience minders, surveillance, childishness and suffocation visit apple and the googleplex in silicjon vallej

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 16, 2026 06:00 PM (YlWIZ)

94 Cleopatra was Macedonian.

Yes, one of Alexander's generals took over Egypt and adopted their quaint tradition of marrying siblings so that line was VERY Macedonians

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2026 06:01 PM (sKqQm)

95 Willowed.

The networks would never block a Dem speech , even Biden's Independence Hall fascist rant.

Blocking Trump is what they would proudly call resistance, even a form of civil insurrection. The FCC shouldn't sit on their hands over it.

Lawfare the sumbitches. Especially their DEI corporate sponsors.

They've lied about the elections, they're a party to the fraud.

Posted by: Auspex at July 16, 2026 06:01 PM (Y8DZL)

96 The face that sunk a thousand ships.

Posted by: Homer at July 16, 2026 06:01 PM (nvKZ7)

97 ODYSSEUS!!

Posted by: MATT DAMON! as ODYSSEUS at July 16, 2026 06:01 PM (Fi81e)

98 I'm just in it for Starship Lucky Flight XIII. 5:45 CST.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 06:01 PM (gKWVE)

99 Cleopatra was Macedonian.
Posted by: polynikes at July 16, 2026


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True; the descendant of one of Alexander's generals, Ptolemy, who grabbed off Egypt when Alex died and his men carved up the Empire. And since the ruling dynasty didn't mix with the population -- they tended to marry brothers to sisters! -- by the time of Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, and Mark Antony, they would still have been Macedonian.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2026 06:01 PM (wzUl9)

100 More legitimate than Don Lemon's delusion that any American wants him to run for president:

https://tinyurl.com/ynh7bz24

Posted by: LASue at July 16, 2026 06:02 PM (lCppi)

101 71 Our unit deployed to the Balkans. I swear, at the first chance meeting of the locals, having been “in country” for about 5 minutes, at a picnic table having some chow some guy insisted that Alexander the Great was Macedonian, not Greek. They take that shit seriously!

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 05:55 PM (hkjqi)

The historical Kingdom of Macedonia mostly lies within Greece. The dynasty to which Alexander belonged was Dorian Greek.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at July 16, 2026 06:02 PM (okun6)

102 Spoilers for a 3000 year old story?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 16, 2026 05:42 PM (zZu0s)


The feminist adaptation of a 3000 year old story.

Apparently, it's the men's fault.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2026 06:03 PM (ExV1e)

103 Btw, Macedonians still exist. I watched a Macedonian movie recently. Mediocre at best. More post-apocalyptic zombie bullshit.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 16, 2026 06:03 PM (HwHEG)

104 They blundered into a war with Athens and in winning it just empowered other Greek city states to rival them instead which would last right up until the Romans showed up
Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2026 05:55 PM (sKqQm)
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What destroyed Sparta was the strain of managing an empire it was not set up to support. Sparta's entire society was built around defending what it had, bullying the neighbors and keeping things as they were. Super-conservative.

But having crushed Athens, they had to fill the void, and with their men constantly deployed, their birth rate collapsed because Spartan women had immense status at home but that would not translate abroad.

When the Helots finally got a decent rebellion going, it was game over.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 06:04 PM (ZOv7s)

105 Ask Pravda and the state run Soviet media how that worked out for them. People watched it, if only to hear what the official line was.

Rigged Question. Until the USSR fell ? Pravda was the only game in town.

Which is EXACTLY my point. The foolishness of Trump - of all fucking people Trump - wanting to have one big moment where he'll break down all the election fraud.

A ... he can't do it. Because he'll see a squirrel or something. He can't concentrate on a damn thing.

And B ... you can't do this through One Big Media Moment. Because the Media still runs through NYC and LA.

To do this would have taken a much longer effort. And discipline. Again ... not things Trump can do.

Posted by: Klon at July 16, 2026 06:04 PM (8+dr9)

106 18-1

If you have an interest in the migrations of different people groups, Dr Nathaniel Jeanson has been studying this using the y-chromosome.
Has a book out called "Traced" and a fair number of vids on utube.

Posted by: TeeJ at July 16, 2026 06:05 PM (dAv7M)

107 The historical Kingdom of Macedonia mostly lies within Greece. The dynasty to which Alexander belonged was Dorian Greek.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at July 16, 2026 06:02 PM (okun6)


Alexander's father was Philip the 2nd of Macedon.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 16, 2026 06:05 PM (l4RKn)

108 From No-Talent Nolan to Google "Product Managers, it's DEI hires all the way down.

Don't ask questions. Buy more product! Then get excited to BUY MORE PRODUCT.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 16, 2026 06:05 PM (wBaIH)

109 I have no interest in seeing Zendaya in anything. Maybe she has a good singing voice but she just doesn't seem like an Athena type to me.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2026 06:05 PM (LQf4v)

110 What time is Trump's speech?

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 16, 2026 06:05 PM (/0H7F)

111 Black people, black program managers, are in far more danger from other black people than they are from whitey.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 16, 2026 06:05 PM (xcxpd)

112 Ptolemaic family dynamics get very, very complicated.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 06:05 PM (gKWVE)

113 Egyptians weren’t black, not too often anyway. There are plenty of hieroglyphics showing “Nubians” as well as “Asians” as prisoners of war, arms and feet bound, and not looking particularly too happy about this turn of affairs in battle.

Some of the large early dynasty statues and things, they look vaguely like Thais or some sort of exotic. There’s a mummy at the Cairo museum, Ramess II or whoever, still has a bit of red hair. Kinda wacky. Fricking gingers in ancient Egypt.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 06:05 PM (hkjqi)

114 and yeah, I'm skipping this version of The Odyssey.

I can just watch Troy with subtitles and dubbed into Italian or something if I want Homer.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 16, 2026 06:06 PM (xcxpd)

115 We've come a long way since I first heard the story of the Iliad and the Odyssey in sixth-period English when I was thirteen. One of my favorite classes in all my school years. Possibly because I sat right next to a girl who looked like a teenage Claudia Cardinale . . . but the class was fun too. Right up there with the college anthropology class "Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2026 06:06 PM (wzUl9)

116 113 Egyptians weren’t black, not too often anyway. There are plenty of hieroglyphics showing “Nubians” as well as “Asians” as prisoners of war, arms and feet bound, and not looking particularly too happy about this turn of affairs in battle.

Some of the large early dynasty statues and things, they look vaguely like Thais or some sort of exotic. There’s a mummy at the Cairo museum, Ramess II or whoever, still has a bit of red hair. Kinda wacky. Fricking gingers in ancient Egypt.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 06:05 PM (hkjqi)

Nubia did conquer Egypt for a time, long history of war between the two realms.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at July 16, 2026 06:07 PM (okun6)

117 Posted by: Klon at July 16, 2026 06:04 PM (8+dr9)

There are some who give Trump all the credit but more who will never give him any credit.

Posted by: polynikes at July 16, 2026 06:07 PM (/WQyy)

118 When hasn't Don Lemon been prosecuted?

Posted by: I gotta ask at July 16, 2026 06:07 PM (XsZ7v)

119 Has there ever been a movie version of The Iliad with the gods in there manipulating things as they did in the original epic? The film with Brad Pitt, I understand, cut out all the Olympians.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2026 06:07 PM (wzUl9)

120 114 I can just watch Troy with subtitles and dubbed into Italian or something if I want Homer.

believe us, you'll regret wanting homer

Posted by: the stonecutters at July 16, 2026 06:08 PM (v3pYe)

121 If you have an interest in the migrations of different people groups, Dr Nathaniel Jeanson has been studying this using the y-chromosome.
Has a book out called "Traced" and a fair number of vids on utube.

Posted by: TeeJ at July 16, 2026 06:05 PM (dAv7M)
---
Thumbs up!

I have watched hours of Jeanson on the AIG Youtube channel.

Posted by: MATT DAMON! as ODYSSEUS at July 16, 2026 06:08 PM (Fi81e)

122 Why does it look like shit? People have complained that the movie is all gray and brown.

they didn't have color back then.
Posted by: anachronda at July 16, 2026 05:57 PM (v3pYe)

Homer was blind, after all.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 06:08 PM (uhVAy)

123 107 The historical Kingdom of Macedonia mostly lies within Greece. The dynasty to which Alexander belonged was Dorian Greek.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at July 16, 2026 06:02 PM (okun6)

Alexander's father was Philip the 2nd of Macedon.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 16, 2026 06:05 PM (l4RKn)

Of the Argead dynasty, which is Dorian Greek.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at July 16, 2026 06:08 PM (okun6)

124 The Greeks call Macedonians ‘chigger toes.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 16, 2026 06:08 PM (uItPR)

125 The Google "product manager" position is of course a non-technical, sales-focused job for idiots with colonialism studeez degrees.

Posted by: front toward enemy at July 16, 2026 06:09 PM (TIizU)

126 they didn't have color back then.
Posted by: anachronda

they didn't have color back then.
Posted by: Calvin's father

FIFY

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 16, 2026 06:09 PM (DZ9Lv)

127 108 Don't ask questions. Buy more product! Then get excited to BUY MORE PRODUCT.

buy. buy more.

and be happy.

Posted by: om at July 16, 2026 06:10 PM (v3pYe)

128 Whoops. Time to get ready for dinner, and to take the furry thugs' chow out of the fridge and clean their bowls.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2026 06:10 PM (wzUl9)

129 Casting choices are made for a ton of reasons -- artistic and commercial.

___________________________

Looking forward to the re-boot of "Conan the Barbarian" starring Paulie Shore. Apparently, the Director took an artistic approach. He's a minimalist who prefers clean, non-crowded movie theaters. And, the Studio is all in on the choice, because commerically, they desire a tax write-off.

In his first time in the Director's chair, Peter Dinklage has bitten off quite a bit. BUT, insiders say his point of view only enhances the genre in that every shot faces upwards making Paulie Shore seem two feet taller than he really is.

Posted by: Orson at July 16, 2026 06:10 PM (dIske)

130 OT: some good news
@davidshor
America's Jewish neighborhoods - both Hasidic and non-Hasidic - are trending fast toward Republicans while similar non-Jewish precincts matched on demographics like education and income have trended toward the Democrats
Jul 16, 2026 · 3:00 PM UTC


Mixed news, come to think of it. I don't like to think that my neighbors have become commies but I suppose I've seen them do that for 20 years.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 06:10 PM (gKWVE)

131 Egyptians weren’t black, not too often anyway. There are plenty of hieroglyphics showing “Nubians” as well as “Asians” as prisoners of war, arms and feet bound, and not looking particularly too happy about this turn of affairs in battle.

Some of the large early dynasty statues and things, they look vaguely like Thais or some sort of exotic. There’s a mummy at the Cairo museum, Ramess II or whoever, still has a bit of red hair. Kinda wacky. Fricking gingers in ancient Egypt.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 06:05 PM (hkjqi)

The famed bust of Nefertiti shows a lovely woman with creme brown skin. It currently is in the Berlin museum. I did hear that at least the high class shaved off all their hair and wore wigs due to the heat.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 06:11 PM (uhVAy)

132
Ptolemy got to be quite common a name during that era, didn't it.

Claudius Ptolemy, of Almagest fame, the astronomer, for instance. Not related to the dynasty at all.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 06:11 PM (w6EFb)

133 OUT: tossing midgets
IN: spearing midgets

Posted by: wth at July 16, 2026 06:11 PM (UjdFS)

134 Nubia did conquer Egypt for a time, long history of war between the two realms.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at July 16, 2026 06:07 PM (okun6)
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The Copts are actual Egyptians, not Arabs.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 06:11 PM (ZOv7s)

135 124 The Greeks call Macedonians ‘chigger toes.
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 16, 2026 06:08 PM (uItPR)
You so bad.

Posted by: Eromero at July 16, 2026 06:12 PM (LHPAg)

136 I thought a movie by Homer would be about donuts and beer.

Posted by: wth at July 16, 2026 06:12 PM (UjdFS)

137 I have confidence that the President will lay things out sufficiently for any reasonable person to follow along, “we” here are decidedly not the target audience.

“We”already knew all this shit years ago. The objective is to illuminate and inform those who have never and or will never hear this shit, which incidentally explains why some networks are not going to broadcast his address to the nation.

This will backfire on them. Mr. Trump seems like a loose cannon at times. Seems. It is a tactic, and a very effective one. They still haven’t figured it out, and it’s been ten years

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 06:12 PM (hkjqi)

138 Has there ever been a movie version of The Iliad with the gods in there manipulating things as they did in the original epic? The film with Brad Pitt, I understand, cut out all the Olympians.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2026 06:07 PM (wzUl9)

I wish there were, the gods fighting and bitching was a lot of the comedy in the book.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 06:13 PM (uhVAy)

139 Funny short:

YT channel is @DankPrompts

Name of short:
The Real Audition for Helen of Troy Was a Disaster

If you want to see Danny DeVito, Steve Buscemi, and Christopher Walken audition for the part of Helen, and for Whoopi Goldberg to get smacked in the face, have at it. Jeffrey Epstein makes a quick cameo at the end.

Posted by: JuJuBee at July 16, 2026 06:13 PM (YSQQv)

140 Born in Babylonia
Moved to Arizona

Posted by: King Tut at July 16, 2026 06:13 PM (XsZ7v)

141 Of the Argead dynasty, which is Dorian Greek.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at July 16, 2026 06:08 PM (okun6)

That dynasty was Dorian in origin but by Philip II's time were becoming major Athenaboos. I think Alexander was brought up speaking classical Attic and not their own Doric dialect. Even had Aristotle himself as a tutor.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 06:13 PM (gKWVE)

142 Egyptians weren’t black, not too often anyway. There are plenty of hieroglyphics showing “Nubians” as well as “Asians” as prisoners of war, arms and feet bound, and not looking particularly too happy about this turn of affairs in battle.

Some of the large early dynasty statues and things, they look vaguely like Thais or some sort of exotic. There’s a mummy at the Cairo museum, Ramess II or whoever, still has a bit of red hair. Kinda wacky. Fricking gingers in ancient Egypt.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 06:05 PM (hkjqi)

The famed bust of Nefertiti shows a lovely woman with creme brown skin. It currently is in the Berlin museum. I did hear that at least the high class shaved off all their hair and wore wigs due to the heat.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 06:11 PM (uhVAy)
——

I saw it in person. It’s in Berlin. There’s no way that’s a black lady. Even the skin looks lighter in person. And who knows what the original colors were. They could have darked — or faded — over time. But the features are definitely not a black lady.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 16, 2026 06:15 PM (HwHEG)

143 Ptolemy got to be quite common a name during that era, didn't it.

Claudius Ptolemy, of Almagest fame, the astronomer, for instance. Not related to the dynasty at all.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 06:11 PM (w6EFb)

It means warlike. I suppose once you get up to 20 or so kings with that name that's a second reason to name yourself that.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 06:15 PM (uhVAy)

144 Don Lemon is running for President? Does he have, like, a budget? I'm tanned, rested, and ready, but baby's got bills to pay...

Posted by: Asa Hutchinson's Campaign Manager at July 16, 2026 06:15 PM (brIJB)

145 Has there ever been a movie version of The Iliad with the gods in there manipulating things as they did in the original epic? The film with Brad Pitt, I understand, cut out all the Olympians.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2026 06:07 PM (wzUl9)

The Immortals is an underrated movie IMO.

Posted by: polynikes at July 16, 2026 06:16 PM (/WQyy)

146 The famed bust of Nefertiti shows a lovely woman with creme brown skin. It currently is in the Berlin museum.
——

She looks pretty pale, don’t she? Beneath the enigmatic smile though, she looks like she could cut a bitch.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 06:16 PM (hkjqi)

147 Didn't Egypt push back and ban the black Cleopatra Netflix movie?

Same shit; Cleopatra was also Greek.

Posted by: logorof at July 16, 2026 06:16 PM (jo6FO)

148 Every Moron would hit jazz songstress Annie Hagg with the heat of ten thousand suns:
youtube.com/watch?v=GWLsdTXeQ2k

Posted by: gp at July 16, 2026 06:16 PM (Jr5Lq)

149 I wish there were, the gods fighting and bitching was a lot of the comedy in the book.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 06:13 PM (uhVAy)
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Clash of the Titans has got you covered!

"Release the Kraken!"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 06:17 PM (ZOv7s)

150 "The networks haven't yet agreed to carry Trump's speech tonight, which means it's a "no." AOC told them not to cover it and they obeyed her orders."
===

Headline (AP):

"The latest: Trump is expected to make election conspiracies a focus of his national address"

First paragraph:

"President Donald Trump is set to address the nation Thursday at 9 p.m. ET on topics he said will include elections and voting machines, suggesting he could revisit long-debunked conspiracy theories about his 2020 defeat to Democrat Joe Biden. The speech comes as he’s escalated his calls for Republicans to pass tighter federal voting rules ahead of November’s midterm elections."

Me:

"Long-debunked" AP dirtbags.

Posted by: mrp at July 16, 2026 06:18 PM (rj6Yv)

151 I'm at the point in my A64 assembler studies now that I can segfault anything. I can make a f'n bowling ball panic.

Posted by: gp at July 16, 2026 06:19 PM (Jr5Lq)

152 I wish there were, the gods fighting and bitching was a lot of the comedy in the book.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026


***
The casting of the Olympians in Hercules and Xena was spot-on. Imagine their Aphrodite wrangling with their Athena and Hera over who was the fairest of all the goddesses!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2026 06:19 PM (wzUl9)

153 Those pictures of Helen look like stills from a police bodycam video.

Out: The face that launched a thousand ships

In: The face that got thrown off of a Carnival Cruiseship
Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2026 05:56 PM (sKqQm)


She's screaming that she can't breathe.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2026 06:19 PM (ExV1e)

154 This is the clip. It will probably be zapped within minutes. Don't @ me.

This has to be a “The Producers” scam. Even in the batty world of Hollywood there is no escaping how ridiculous that was. It looks like a scene from Kentucky Fried Movie.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 16, 2026 06:19 PM (sk9DV)

155
Claymation Jason & the Argonauts is better than watching "Elliott" act in anything.

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 16, 2026 06:19 PM (OkYzo)

156 Re the DIE "Helen of Troy", Didn't Ripley already battle her?

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at July 16, 2026 06:20 PM (jPdyB)

157 Why a Black Helen of Troy? Because to get any modern award in Hollyweird, you must meet certain DEI quotas.

And they must be what is considered 'major' characters.

So to meet that standard? Black Helen, and Trany Achilles? Really dumb... but this is all a play to be in the award shows.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 16, 2026 06:20 PM (mP0Kj)

158 "President Donald Trump is set to address the nation Thursday at 9 p.m. ET on topics he said will include elections and voting machines, suggesting he could revisit long-debunked conspiracy theories about his 2020 defeat to Democrat Joe Biden. The speech comes as he’s escalated his calls for Republicans to pass tighter federal voting rules ahead of November’s midterm elections."

Me:

"Long-debunked" AP dirtbags.
Posted by: mrp at July 16, 2026 06:18 PM (rj6Yv)

We Knew they were gonna do this....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 16, 2026 06:20 PM (FtULh)

159 I saw it in person. It’s in Berlin. There’s no way that’s a black lady. Even the skin looks lighter in person. And who knows what the original colors were. They could have darked — or faded — over time. But the features are definitely not a black lady.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 16, 2026 06:15 PM (HwHEG)

Given the age of the piece, I'd argue that the colors are probably close because if it had been exposed to a decay source the entire head would be gone.

But looking at surviving wall art, the color and features match pretty well with the current Egyptian/Syrian/North African shade - creme to light brown, no large amount of mixing with subSaharan Africa. And given the distance even using the Nile as a transport route this isn't a shock.

Also Egyptian portrayals of Nubians look very different from their portrayals of themselves. Also Syrians look different too.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 06:20 PM (uhVAy)

160
LA spent $60 million on a "housing program" for bums... that $60 million bought three units, total.

----------------

But each unit included 5 EV Charging Stations!

Posted by: ShainS -- Tricentennial or Bust! at July 16, 2026 06:21 PM (hmwHa)

161 "Long-debunked" AP dirtbags.
Posted by: mrp at July 16, 2026 06:18 PM (rj6Yv)
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It's so "debunked" that the SAVE Act has 80+% support.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 06:21 PM (ZOv7s)

162 153 Those pictures of Helen look like stills from a police bodycam video.

Out: The face that launched a thousand ships

In: The face that got thrown off of a Carnival Cruiseship
Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2026 05:56 PM (sKqQm)

She's screaming that she can't breathe.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2026 06:19 PM (ExV1e)

So, the Trojan War was really about who HAD TO KEEP HER?

/scratches head

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 16, 2026 06:21 PM (mP0Kj)

163 148 Every Moron would hit jazz songstress Annie Hagg with the heat of ten thousand suns:
youtube.com/watch?v=GWLsdTXeQ2k

Posted by: gp at July 16, 2026 06:16 PM (Jr5Lq)


Pon Pon Chen: https://youtu.be/_BVm-hixXt4 How high the moon.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at July 16, 2026 06:21 PM (AGz65)

164 Also Egyptian portrayals of Nubians look very different from their portrayals of themselves. Also Syrians look different too.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 06:20 PM (uhVAy)
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This also ties into trying to make Hannibal black. He was Phoenician. If he was black, the Romans would have made a big deal about it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 06:23 PM (ZOv7s)

165 Claymation Jason & the Argonauts is better than watching "Elliott" act in anything.

Actually, if you want an out-of-this-world Odysseus that is both bad and amazingly good, look up the cartoon (Japanese?) Ulysses 31. Ignore the very eighties theme song in the front. It really is quite well done and very, very, weird.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 16, 2026 06:23 PM (sk9DV)

166
I saw it in person. It’s in Berlin. There’s no way that’s a black lady. Even the skin looks lighter in person. And who knows what the original colors were. They could have darked — or faded — over time. But the features are definitely not a black lady.
Posted by: Elric the Blade

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

I've always hated that fucking miniature trash can on her head. I just told ChatGPT to get rid of it and replace it with black wavy hair falling to her shoulders. To tell you the truth, even though the bone structure cannot be beaten, she still looks a bit ill-disposed.

Posted by: But hey, what was your worst day? at July 16, 2026 06:23 PM (mmrXZ)

167 Don Lemon claims people are urging him to run for president?

Don, are these "people" in the room with us right now?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 16, 2026 06:23 PM (Wnv9h)

168 My local free arts-and-entertainment (and politics) paper had to sneak in a dig at Trump. In a story about the local Sewerage & Water Board's mis-handling of repairs on a major shopping, restaurant, and bar street in the Quarter, the writer had to add, "Donald Trump's war on Iran has resulted in higher fuel costs. . . ." And this: "Combined with his xenophobic domestic policy . . ."

Neither comment has any business in a story about local government screwing up. I'd write them a complaint email, but they would never print it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2026 06:23 PM (wzUl9)

169 So, the Trojan War was really about who HAD TO KEEP HER?

/scratches head
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 16, 2026 06:21 PM (mP0Kj)
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It prefigured the Toledo War between Michigan and Ohio. Loser got stuck with Toledo.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 06:23 PM (ZOv7s)

170 Brad Pitt would be a prettier Helen of Troy.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 16, 2026 06:24 PM (wBaIH)

171 @Polymarket
·
48m
JUST IN: United Airlines is reportedly offering free destination changes to passengers who object to Donald Trump Airport over its new name.

Posted by: Don Black at July 16, 2026 06:24 PM (ZxPkt)

172 168 My local free arts-and-entertainment (and politics) paper had to sneak in a dig at Trump. In a story about the local Sewerage & Water Board's mis-handling of repairs on a major shopping, restaurant, and bar street in the Quarter, the writer had to add, "Donald Trump's war on Iran has resulted in higher fuel costs. . . ." And this: "Combined with his xenophobic domestic policy . . ."

Neither comment has any business in a story about local government screwing up. I'd write them a complaint email, but they would never print it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2026 06:23 PM (wzUl9)

Is there nothing Trump can't do ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 16, 2026 06:25 PM (FtULh)

173 Didn't Egypt push back and ban the black Cleopatra Netflix movie?

Same shit; Cleopatra was also Greek.
Posted by: logorof at July 16, 2026 06:16 PM (jo6FO)

And extremely inbred. Her line claimed that they could only mate with descendants of Gods, which was in pretty short supply. Eventually they settled on two men with Caesarian blood who claimed Venus as an ancestor through Aeneas, but it was too late for that.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 06:25 PM (uhVAy)

174 Alexander was a Transvestite from Transylvania

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 06:25 PM (Ia/+0)

175 146 The famed bust of Nefertiti shows a lovely woman with creme brown skin. It currently is in the Berlin museum.
——

She looks pretty pale, don’t she? Beneath the enigmatic smile though, she looks like she could cut a bitch.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 06:16 PM (hkjqi)
She looks like a young Rachel Weisz. So yeah.

Posted by: Eromero at July 16, 2026 06:25 PM (LHPAg)

176
I get the feeling we'll be laughing and screaming at MSM coverage of Trump's speech in tomorrow's threads.

Posted by: But hey, what was your worst day? at July 16, 2026 06:26 PM (mmrXZ)

177 countdown clock shows 19min

Posted by: Don Black at July 16, 2026 06:26 PM (ZxPkt)

178 And extremely inbred. Her line claimed that they could only mate with descendants of Gods, which was in pretty short supply.

H. Rider Haggard, who could apparently write any genre, wrote a great Cleopatra novel. Took the mythology seriously and the history seriously.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 16, 2026 06:26 PM (sk9DV)

179 This also ties into trying to make Hannibal black. He was Phoenician. If he was black, the Romans would have made a big deal about it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026


***
Right; Carthage had been founded by the Phoenicians. Even more destructive to the "Hannibal-was-black" theory, Hannibal was born, I think, in what is now Spain and grew up there. I don't think he saw Carthage or the coast of Africa until he was a grown man -- maybe not even until the climax of the Second Punic War.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2026 06:26 PM (wzUl9)

180 It prefigured the Toledo War between Michigan and Ohio. Loser got stuck with Toledo.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 06:23 PM (ZOv7s)
=========

Funny how that worked out. Michigan got the UP, rich in minerals, lumber, and fisheries.

Wisconsin lost their claim to the UP. So the net loser in all of this was the Badger State. True to form.

Posted by: mrp at July 16, 2026 06:26 PM (rj6Yv)

181 Hannibal was from the Barca family. That seems more associated with old Cyrene. So was possibly from Greek and Berber stock more than Canaanite.
Genetics are pointing to the old Canaanite families no longer existing by the time of the Barcae.

Posted by: feeding your kids to Moloch does that at July 16, 2026 06:26 PM (gKWVE)

182 People keep telling me that I should say "YEAH BUDDY!" more often and louder when I do.

Posted by: banana Dream - YEAH BUDDY! at July 16, 2026 06:27 PM (3uBP9)

183 I've always hated that fucking miniature trash can on her head. I just told ChatGPT to get rid of it and replace it with black wavy hair falling to her shoulders. To tell you the truth, even though the bone structure cannot be beaten, she still looks a bit ill-disposed.
Posted by: But hey, what was your worst day? at July 16, 2026 06:23 PM (mmrXZ)

I hear those hats were to cover a little cooling device - a cone of scented wax that softens in the heat and cooled and made them smell nice.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 06:27 PM (uhVAy)

184 Alexander was a Transvestite from Transylvania
Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026


***
And his phone number was TRansylvania 6-5000!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2026 06:27 PM (wzUl9)

185 Don Lemon claims people keep asking him to run for president.

"I think I would be a really good president of the United States."

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Which would be yet another Historical Accomplishment for America: Our Second Gay Black Pedo POTUS.

Posted by: ShainS -- Tricentennial or Bust! at July 16, 2026 06:28 PM (hmwHa)

186 People are constantly conditioned to call something ugly "beautiful".

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
― George Orwell, 1984

Posted by: Oddbob at July 16, 2026 06:28 PM (vTZFs)

187 171 @Polymarket
·
48m
JUST IN: United Airlines is reportedly offering free destination changes to passengers who object to Donald Trump Airport over its new name.
Posted by: Don Black at July 16, 2026 06:24 PM (ZxPkt)
____________________________

Fly from Trump Airport to Sioux City/Sioux Falls, and your ticket reads:

DJT-----SUX. I'm surprised it isn't a Tik Tok Trend.

Posted by: Orson at July 16, 2026 06:28 PM (dIske)

188 Which would be yet another Historical Accomplishment for America: Our Second Gay Black Pedo POTUS.

Pretty sure we haven’t had a black pedo president yet.

Posted by: The Dog at July 16, 2026 06:29 PM (sk9DV)

189 Hannibal was from the Barca family. That seems more associated with old Cyrene. So was possibly from Greek and Berber stock more than Canaanite.
Genetics are pointing to the old Canaanite families no longer existing by the time of the Barcae.
Posted by: feeding your kids to Moloch does that at July 16, 2026 06:26 PM (gKWVE)

Carthage was a colony of Tyre so a substantial chunk of their upper class had Levantine origins. Could have mixed with the locals after that.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 06:29 PM (uhVAy)

190
I hear those hats were to cover a little cooling device - a cone of scented wax that softens in the heat and cooled and made them smell nice.
Posted by: Oldcat

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

There ya go, they had to be functional, because there is no way they were strictly aesthetic enhancements.

Posted by: But hey, what was your worst day? at July 16, 2026 06:30 PM (mmrXZ)

191 Canadian whore who slapped the child for wearing pro-Trump sweatpants is in the US illegally on a visa overstay.
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FAFO.
For some reason "Barrett's Privateers" just came to mind

'I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
We'd fire no guns, shed no tears
Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
The last of Barrett's Privateers'

As for her old man, hope for conjugal visits...while she's still in this country.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 16, 2026 06:30 PM (XeU6L)

192 Hannibal was from the Barca family. That seems more associated with old Cyrene. So was possibly from Greek and Berber stock more than Canaanite.
Genetics are pointing to the old Canaanite families no longer existing by the time of the Barcae.
Posted by: feeding your kids to Moloch does that at July 16, 2026 06:26 PM (gKWVE)
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Arrian records that when Alexander the Great stormed Tyre, a Carthaginian delegation was present to participate in a religious ceremony, so there were still ties to their founding city. I'd wager the elites were pretty pure blooded.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 06:31 PM (ZOv7s)

193 Mamdani housing event features a lady in a mask ranting about her landlord, declaring "eviction = violence"

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Make "The Rent Is Too Damn High Party" Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 16, 2026 06:31 PM (hmwHa)

194 Good, I hope United loses money over it's virtue signalling.

Posted by: steevy at July 16, 2026 06:31 PM (YwEeS)

195 “suggesting he could revisit long-debunked conspiracy theories”

LOL!

They never fucking learn. I do love the “facts by assertion” self-licking ice cream cone rhetoric though.

They are fucking infants, intellectually speaking. This is going to backfire on them. Bigly.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 06:31 PM (hkjqi)

196 People are constantly conditioned to call something ugly "beautiful".

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Posted by: Oddbob at July 16, 2026 06:28 PM (vTZFs)
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Lie to yourself. Lie to your family. Lie to your neighbors. Deny your humanity.

Obey, or the State will destroy you.

Posted by: mrp at July 16, 2026 06:32 PM (rj6Yv)

197 The face that launched a thousand shrieks.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 16, 2026 06:32 PM (n5tGW)

198 As for her old man, hope for conjugal visits...while she's still in this country.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 16, 2026 06:30 PM (XeU6L)
—-

Have you seen the ‘husband’? Dude has been up close and personal with more cocks than a urologist. That was almost certainly a fake marriage.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 16, 2026 06:32 PM (HwHEG)

199 Pretty sure the Denzel Washington Hannibal movie is no longer being made.

Posted by: steevy at July 16, 2026 06:33 PM (YwEeS)

200 There's a story about Hannibal. We all know what a superb general he was; he led the Romans a merry chase all around Italy for almost twenty years, and never lost when the Romans made the mistake of letting him pick the ground. And he was only defeated when Scipio Africanus used some of his own tactics against him.

Well, he fled Carthage (the Romans wanted him as a war criminal) and traveled around the Mediterranean for some years. At one point he was invited to hear an academic speak on "the strategy and tactics of war." He sat politely through the whole thing. Then his friend asked, "What did you think?"

Hannibal (translated into modern speech): "I've heard some old fools in my time, but this one really beats them all."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2026 06:33 PM (wzUl9)

201 What time is That Man In The White House speech, anyway?

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 06:33 PM (hkjqi)

202 How deranged do you have to be to not want to land at this airport??



Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
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13m
BREAKING:
@United
Airlines is reportedly offering free flight changes to passengers who want to AVOID landing at Donald Trump International Airport (formerly Palm Beach International Airport), according to an internal memo obtained by Live and Let's Fly.

Posted by: beckster at July 16, 2026 06:33 PM (kX27y)

203 what a gyp
no booster catch or starship catch planned

Posted by: Don Black at July 16, 2026 06:34 PM (ZxPkt)

204 Pretty sure the Denzel Washington Hannibal movie is no longer being made.
Posted by: steevy at July 16, 2026 06:33 PM (YwEeS)
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That is correct. It was stupid for a bunch of reasons, not the least of which is Washington is 71 and he'd be playing a 20-something.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 06:34 PM (ZOv7s)

205 Right; Carthage had been founded by the Phoenicians. Even more destructive to the "Hannibal-was-black" theory, Hannibal was born, I think, in what is now Spain and grew up there. I don't think he saw Carthage or the coast of Africa until he was a grown man -- maybe not even until the climax of the Second Punic War.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2026 06:26 PM (wzUl9)

he was born in Carthage, Spain wasn't really super colonialized at the time of the First Punic War over Sicily that his father fought in. After the loss of Sicily Carthage firmed up its physical hold on Spain to compensate under his father and others so he spent a lot of time there as a cadet. When his father and older relatives were killed there he took over the rule of Spain as a personal fiefdom, more or less and built his army to go for Rome.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 06:34 PM (uhVAy)

206 "President Donald Trump is set to address the nation Thursday at 9 p.m. ET on topics he said will include elections and voting machines, suggesting he could revisit long-debunked conspiracy theories about his 2020 defeat to Democrat Joe Biden. The speech comes as he’s escalated his calls for Republicans to pass tighter federal voting rules ahead of November’s midterm elections."
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Where is the Secret Service to shoot him dead if he tries to contest the sanctity of the 2020 elections!!!

A PRESIDENT CANNOT CONTEST ELECTIONS!!

THAT'S HITLER!!

Posted by: CNN Commentator at July 16, 2026 06:35 PM (Fi81e)

207 People are constantly conditioned to call something ugly "beautiful".
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My favorite is 'elegant'.

You see, the beauty of the object in question is just too sophisticated for you to understand.

See: Obama obelisk

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 16, 2026 06:35 PM (XeU6L)

208 well, I think the Carthaginian senate had political issues with the Barcae. one reason Hannibal got the silver medal in the Italian campaign is because Carthage kept fucking him over

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 06:35 PM (gKWVE)

209 Tousi reporting that the islamic resistance in Iraq (I guess that's their name?) is offering a $10 million bounty on President Trump.

Posted by: Methos at July 16, 2026 06:35 PM (vSvIl)

210 I hear those hats were to cover a little cooling device - a cone of scented wax that softens in the heat and cooled and made them smell nice.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026


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That might have worked on a shaved skull, as someone mentioned above. But wax melted into hair? Urgh.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2026 06:35 PM (wzUl9)

211 203 what a gyp
no booster catch or starship catch planned


or orbital insertion

Posted by: anachronda at July 16, 2026 06:36 PM (v3pYe)

212 omigoodness

Basil the Great
@BasilTheGreat
They made a rap to promote The Odyssey (2026)
Yes this is real
Yes it is horrendous

Posted by: m at July 16, 2026 06:36 PM (6wpGE)

213 Oh yeah
People keep asking me to run for President.

Posted by: Don Black at July 16, 2026 06:36 PM (ZxPkt)

214 Hannibal (translated into modern speech): "I've heard some old fools in my time, but this one really beats them all."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2026 06:33 PM (wzUl9)

My favorite Hannibal quote is when he and his staff were observing the huge army the Romans had raised to fight him at Cannae. When an aide named Gisco cried out at the numbers, Hannibal said "Think of it...and not one of them is named Gisco"

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 06:37 PM (uhVAy)

215 he was born in Carthage, Spain wasn't really super colonialized at the time of the First Punic War over Sicily that his father fought in. After the loss of Sicily Carthage firmed up its physical hold on Spain to compensate under his father and others so he spent a lot of time there as a cadet. When his father and older relatives were killed there he took over the rule of Spain as a personal fiefdom, more or less and built his army to go for Rome.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026


***
So by the time he kicked off Punic Two, he'd spent more time in Spain and abroad than he had at Carthage.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2026 06:37 PM (wzUl9)

216 Update: Oh my -- is this really "Helen of Troy" from the movie?

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The face that launched a thousand shits.

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 16, 2026 06:37 PM (hmwHa)

217 well, I think the Carthaginian senate had political issues with the Barcae. one reason Hannibal got the silver medal in the Italian campaign is because Carthage kept fucking him over
Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 06:35 PM (gKWVE)
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Rome had become a naval power, which made resupply very difficult. Hannibal had hoped to raise Rome's allies but not enough defected. After determining they couldn't beat him in open battle, the Romans used attrition, and it worked.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 06:37 PM (ZOv7s)

218 @209

Iranian-backed Islamic Resistance in Iraq

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 06:37 PM (GD0B3)

219 26 Don Lemon claims people keep asking him to run for president.
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Don, are these people in the room with us right now?
Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 05:42 PM (Fi81e)

heh

Posted by: m at July 16, 2026 06:38 PM (6wpGE)

220 I think all those fancy/gaudy headdresses and other outrageous clothing were designed primarily to say “I’m rich and you’re not.” Status symbols, nothing more. Like buying a Ferrari SUV.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 16, 2026 06:38 PM (HwHEG)

221 My favorite Hannibal quote is when he and his staff were observing the huge army the Romans had raised to fight him at Cannae. When an aide named Gisco cried out at the numbers, Hannibal said "Think of it...and not one of them is named Gisco"
Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026


***
A fun movie, if it were honest, could be made from his life and career. No idea who nowadays could play him as a young or mature man, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2026 06:39 PM (wzUl9)

222 13m
BREAKING:
@United
Airlines is reportedly offering free flight changes to passengers who want to AVOID landing at Donald Trump International Airport (formerly Palm Beach International Airport), according to an internal memo obtained by Live and Let's Fly.
Posted by: beckster at July 16, 2026 06:33 PM (kX27y)


Florida should take that as an opportunity and rename every airport in the state for Trump.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2026 06:39 PM (ExV1e)

223 Good, I hope United loses money over it's virtue signalling.

Posted by: steevy at July 16, 2026 06:31 PM (YwEeS)
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The unhinged buy airline tickets, too.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 06:39 PM (Fi81e)

224 I think all those fancy/gaudy headdresses and other outrageous clothing were designed primarily to say “I’m rich and you’re not.” Status symbols, nothing more. Like buying a Ferrari SUV.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 16, 2026 06:38 PM (HwHEG)
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Yes. Kind of like how wearing a suit, tie and hat marked you as affluent 70 years ago.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 06:39 PM (ZOv7s)

225 About six minutes until the 13th test flight of Starship:

https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-13

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 16, 2026 06:40 PM (kpS4V)

226 Inside Safe Program

Seems to me if you put the homeless inside of a safe and locked it, they wouldn't ever be homeless again. And it shouldn't really cost that much - safes are much cheaper than apartments or houses.

Posted by: GWB at July 16, 2026 06:40 PM (kU0PQ)

227 A fun movie, if it were honest, could be made from his life and career. No idea who nowadays could play him as a young or mature man, though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2026 06:39 PM (wzUl9)
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Do a miniseries, and it could be epic. Politics in Rome and Carthage, subplots with the various factions, it could be cool, but everyone in Hollywood forgot how to write for some reason. Even Spielberg uses retarded scripts.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 06:41 PM (ZOv7s)

228 The face that launched a thousand shits.
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 16, 2026 06:37 PM (hmwHa)
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The face that launched a thousand ships ...

until they started using the champagne bottles.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 06:41 PM (Fi81e)

229 Nood

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 16, 2026 06:41 PM (9NN0K)

230 well, I think the Carthaginian senate had political issues with the Barcae. one reason Hannibal got the silver medal in the Italian campaign is because Carthage kept fucking him over
Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 06:35 PM (gKWVE)

The local oligarchal government of Carthage were real dopes, not that I think Hannibal's strategy was the greatest. Rome had spent centuries figuring how to beat everyone except Hannibal, and once they stopped feeding armies to him to chew up he was done for.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 06:41 PM (uhVAy)

231 All I see in advertising right now is blacks. Streaming, network TV, - it's amazing because there are very few blacks families in my neighborhood or city. Maybe there would be more around if the stopped killing their babies at Planned Parenthood.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 16, 2026 06:42 PM (sYM3s)

232 Oh yeah
People keep asking me to run for President.
Posted by: Don Black at July 16, 2026 06:36 PM (ZxPkt)
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Stupid people.

Posted by: mrp at July 16, 2026 06:42 PM (rj6Yv)

233 Welp, no even bike ride today. Canada lit itself on fire and the whole state is covered in brown smoky fog.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 06:42 PM (ZOv7s)

234 re: "Nithya Raman's failed $60 million project to get people off the streets" entailing offering all the street bums free housing:

Her EXACT idea has already been tried several times, in California even, and UTTERLY FAILED every time it has been tried.

Berkeley, some years back, basically offered free housing to any homeless person. But with ne provis: No drugs in thefree house. The proviso was necessary becuase if you allow drug, the houses almost immediately become "shooting galleries" where addicts shoot up, overdose, die, etc., and the city would have more lawsuits than it could handle for basically facilitating the death of these people. So: No drugs.

Guess what happened? 99% of the street bums refused the free housing, but they'd much rather be free to take drugs and live on the street than get a free house but be forced to stop drugs.

That's how addicted they are. The drugs are mre important than anything, even theirnow comfort.

Sae program happened in Oakland, AND FAILED. Same program was tested in SF, AND FAILED. Elsewhere too.

So along comes Nithya Raman saying, "Hey' I have a brilliant idea to solve homelessness! Offer them free housing!" SRLY???

Posted by: zombie at July 16, 2026 06:43 PM (Av6i5)

235 194 Good, I hope United loses money over it's virtue signalling.
Posted by: steevy at July 16, 2026 06:31 PM (YwEeS)


Weird how displaying one's irrational hatred and intolerance is "virtue signaling."

Posted by: Emmie at July 16, 2026 06:43 PM (OlzlW)

236 Oh no , horrible news. Katie Porter is leaving politics for the foreseeable future. Not sure what else she can do. Don't want her around mashed potatoes

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2026 06:46 PM (OXYE0)

237 scrub

Posted by: Don Black at July 16, 2026 06:46 PM (ZxPkt)

238 Raman started her own NGO for the homeless. I have no doubt that monies allocated by the city or state ended up in her pockets. Wouldn't be surprised to see Bass dump evidence of Raman's fraud .

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2026 06:47 PM (OXYE0)

239 >Stupid people.

Posted by: mrp
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no need for insults

Posted by: Don Black at July 16, 2026 06:47 PM (ZxPkt)

240 The Odyssey is a universal story.

Well, he's right on that. It is a pretty universal storyline in terms of all of the plotlines running through it.

And if they had written something like "Inspired by Homer's Odysseus" then they could go all universal.

But if you're looking at it as the actual Odyssey, then you should probably play true to the tribes, ethnicities, and ... well, physiques of the original. (Page looks like a wastrel who should be holding their bowl out, saying, "More, please, sir." Except even Oliver Twist is manlier than Page.)

Posted by: GWB at July 16, 2026 06:49 PM (kU0PQ)

241 Launch Abort at T-0.0.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 16, 2026 06:50 PM (u82oZ)

242 Standing down from today’s flight test attempt

Bummer.

Posted by: GWB at July 16, 2026 06:52 PM (kU0PQ)

243 "People are constantly conditioned to call something ugly "beautiful".

How long has it been since we've heard about Moochelle's toned arms?

Posted by: fd at July 16, 2026 06:53 PM (MWfyi)

244 "All I see in advertising right now is blacks. Streaming, network TV, - it's amazing because there are very few blacks families in my neighborhood or city. Maybe there would be more around if the stopped killing their babies at Planned Parenthood.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

The closest city to me has a 75% black population. At least half of them are not like the people you see on TV commercials.

Posted by: fd at July 16, 2026 06:57 PM (MWfyi)

245 Wisconsin lost their claim to the UP. So the net loser in all of this was the Badger State. True to form.
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The UP is governed by idiots from Detroit, so they hardly came out a winner.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 16, 2026 06:58 PM (VscIk)

246 The UP has a better case for statehood than DC or Puerto Rico

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 16, 2026 06:59 PM (VscIk)

247 Welp, no even bike ride today. Canada lit itself on fire and the whole state is covered in brown smoky fog.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 16, 2026 06:42 PM (ZOv7s)

You'd think with all those giant fans 0bama and Biden built, they could just blow that stuff off to the side or something.

Posted by: GWB at July 16, 2026 07:01 PM (kU0PQ)

248 Weird how displaying one's irrational hatred and intolerance is "virtue signaling."
Posted by: Emmie at July 16, 2026 06:43 PM (OlzlW)

Their "virtues" are not your virtues.

Posted by: GWB at July 16, 2026 07:03 PM (kU0PQ)

249 That housing director or whatever her title is who Mandingo appointed is hands down the homliest woman I have ever seen. And that is a prize as wow.

Perhaps she's brilliant at what she does and has a lovely family. Or not and it does not matter because he is going to have quite the city soon after wealthy people leave.

The fact that he refuses to clean up the tent cities is telling. NYC will be tall empty and decaying buildings soon. No one will want to work there and risk getting their throats slit while getting coffee.

The NYC I knew 20yrs ago is gone.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 16, 2026 07:13 PM (hzuYO)

250 This is closer to what Homer described of Helen:

https://sniplinks.in/u00LEt

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 16, 2026 07:15 PM (tWxgu)

251
My niece in Gwinn woke up this morning to a car covered in a fine layer of white ash.

But I'll hear lectures about climate catastrophe I'm causing from the Carney Canadians who lie about taking steps to fight it.

Posted by: Auspex at July 16, 2026 08:46 PM (Y8DZL)

252 National Review. Standing athwart history and screaming, "Harder, daddy!"

Posted by: Enola Gay Pride at July 16, 2026 09:04 PM (DIS3S)

253 Your headline is wrong on New York City's millionaires.
They haven't lost 11 billion in taxable income, they have lost 11 billion in income tax, which means the income that fled is over 100 billion.

Posted by: MikeN at July 16, 2026 10:25 PM (UcIeJ)

254 "Don Lemon claims people keep asking him to run for president.
"

... And these people, are they in the room with us right now?

Posted by: DaveL at July 17, 2026 05:31 AM (9w232)

Gaza Family of 18 Wins "Right" to Settle In England Despite Speaking No English and Being Determined to be a Net Detriment to Society

The judge agreed the family of welfare ticks would be a net negative to British society, but commanded them all to be settled in England anyway, because... because the family would be missing out if they weren't allowed to jump on the UK welfare train.

Family of 18 from Gaza wins human rights challenge to allow them to come to Britain in major blow for Labour

Yes, even the Great Replacement Labour Party wanted to keep this gang of pirates out of the country.

A judge overruled them, citing Europe's pernicious, civilization-destroying European Commission on Human Rights -- basically the Enabling Act for the Great Replacement.


A family of 18 from Gaza has won the right to come to Britain after launching a human rights challenge in the British courts.

The landmark case was brought after a Gazan-born mother-of-three - who came to the UK as a refugee and is now a British citizen -- was refused permission to bring her extended family into this country.

Her relatives -- both parents; a brother, his wife and four children; a sister and four children; and another sister, her husband and three children -- won a legal challenge on human rights grounds.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood then attempted to have that decision overturned -- but this week lost the case.

The case exposes yet again how human rights laws undermine Britain's border controls by overturning decisions made by the Home Secretary.

The Conservatives said the 'shameful' ruling risked 'opening the floodgates to thousands of Palestinians claiming asylum here due to Labour's pitiful adherence to flawed human rights laws'.

The Home Office refused permission for the Palestinians' application to come to Britain under refugee family reunification rules.

Their original application was lodged in late November 2023, about a month after Israeli forces entered Gaza in the wake of Hamas' October 7 surprise attacks which killed nearly 1,200 people.

It has now emerged for the first time that the family won a human rights appeal in the lower immigration court in April last year.

That decision led to an appeal by the Home Secretary in the upper immigration tribunal.

But Upper Tribunal Judge Gemma Loughran threw out Ms Mahmood's case, agreeing that denying the family permission to come to the UK breached Labour's Human Rights Act.

The Palestinians argued they had a 'right to family life' under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and won their case under Section 6 of the Act which sets out how it is 'unlawful for a public authority to act in a way which is incompatible with a Convention right'.

The woman suing to bring this cart of invalids over to the UK admitted she could only provide for her parents -- the rest are going straight to permanent welfare.

..

The ruling showed most of the adult applicants could not speak English and that the UK-based sister would only be able to accommodate her parents.

The lower tribunal judge 'concluded that the applicants would require access to public funds', the ruling added.

The UK-based daughter and her three children had suffered 'mental health problems' caused by their relatives' 'situation in Gaza', the judge said.


Referring to the lower court's decision, Judge Loughran said: 'The judge concluded that the applicants' refusal of entry clearance would give rise to consequences of such gravity for the sponsor and her children as to be unjustifiably harsh such that the public interest was outweighed.

Related:


Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:30 PM




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1 I'll let the others know this one's gone live.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 16, 2026 04:30 PM (O7YUW)

2 Nayib Bukele, another nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2026 04:31 PM (ExV1e)

3 President Trump's promise to unveil "really big news" on election security in a primetime White House address has left lawmakers in both parties uneasy, with Dems warning he could release intel they believe could be used to cast doubt on the 2020 election


Sweat'n like a fat girl on a hot Florida Summer Day......

Posted by: Jackson K. at July 16, 2026 04:32 PM (X7dyz)

4 A judge overruled them, citing Europe's pernicious, civilization-destroying European Commission on Human Rights -- basically the Enabling Act for the Great Replacement.

Brexit? Never heard of it.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 16, 2026 04:32 PM (twdYN)

5
One word, well two: toxic empathy.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 04:32 PM (w6EFb)

6 Net detriment to society but net BENEFIT to the rulers who hate that society!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 16, 2026 04:32 PM (N1DT3)

7 Should I feel bad because I don't..

Posted by: It's me donna at July 16, 2026 04:33 PM (FtULh)

8
18 people is about what a Viking long boat could carry, passenger-wise.

Posted by: Auspex at July 16, 2026 04:33 PM (Y8DZL)

9 A judge overruled them, citing Europe's pernicious, civilization-destroying European Commission on Human Rights -- basically the Enabling Act for the Great Replacement.

I guess Brexit didn't Brexit. The elites will be so pleased.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2026 04:33 PM (ExV1e)

10 The bitch lied about her age ......

I did not know she was only 14. She looked 18 to me ....

Ask Hunter Biden as a credibility witness to my story of innocence....

Posted by: Rueben Gallego at July 16, 2026 04:34 PM (X7dyz)

11 I can't think of a more deserving Country

Posted by: It's me donna at July 16, 2026 04:34 PM (FtULh)

12 A family of 18 from Gaza
......

Good grief. How many nipples does the mom have?

Posted by: wth at July 16, 2026 04:34 PM (UjdFS)

13 ~ None of these people speak English but yes they'll all likely get jobs and all the children will easily integrate because they have the "capacity to learn" ~

Yeah, those 70 IQs won't be learing anything other than where the next freebies are.

Posted by: Joe Mama at July 16, 2026 04:35 PM (TezPK)

14 “Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood”. Hey King Chuck, I think I see the problem.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at July 16, 2026 04:35 PM (aqrdH)

15 France: Sub-Saharan migrant rapes 4-year-old French girl.

Gets just 18 months in prison.

Family and neighbors outraged, demanding real justice like for any native.


Family and neighbors subsequently sentenced to life without parole for questioning their betters.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2026 04:35 PM (ExV1e)

16
For a distraction, Sydney Sweeney is modelling her underwear line:

https://t.ly/gsEQ0

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 04:35 PM (w6EFb)

17 he could release intel they believe could be used to cast doubt on the 2020 election

No shit?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2026 04:35 PM (ExV1e)

18 17 he could release intel they believe could be used to cast doubt on the 2020 election


LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at July 16, 2026 04:36 PM (FtULh)

19 And Dar al-Islam grows slightly larger.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 16, 2026 04:36 PM (skR0U)

20 Oh, look, the Antisemites of the UN finally admit what Israel has been claiming all along.


The United Nations accused armed forces affiliated with Hamas of violently obstructing and disrupting humanitarian food distribution in Gaza. According to a statement by the UN Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, armed personnel forcibly entered a World Food Programme (WFP) warehouse and assaulted truck drivers

Posted by: Orson at July 16, 2026 04:36 PM (dIske)

21 France: Sub-Saharan migrant rapes 4-year-old French girl.

Gets just 18 months in prison.

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At that kind of sentence, if I were the girl's family, I'd ask for zero prison sentence at all. Free to leave the courthouse.

And if granted, the brute wouldn't make it down the courthouse steps alive.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at July 16, 2026 04:37 PM (KFbdf)

22 Right of self-determination, sovereign Nations had to be eliminated. This is how they do it. Under the guise of “the law” and “human rights”

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 04:37 PM (hkjqi)

23 >> Yeah, those 70 IQs

I think that's a bit generous. This bunch sounds more like what used to be called "sub-morons".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 04:37 PM (w6EFb)

24 Sweat'n like a fat girl on a hot Florida Summer Day......
Posted by: Jackson K. at July 16, 2026 04:32 PM (X7dyz)

They are not FAT Girls, they are just .....

"Gravitationally Challenged"...

Posted by: Hillary "Jabba the Hutt" Clinton at July 16, 2026 04:37 PM (d6FdJ)

25 "France: Sub-Saharan migrant rapes 4-year-old French girl.

Gets just 18 months in prison."

This is beyond the "people demand justice".

The judge, the lawyers, the politicians responsible for all of this need to be lynched and the sub-human migrant needs to be drawn and quartered in the public square.

"Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it”

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 16, 2026 04:37 PM (N1DT3)

26 Time to start Muslim Ban 2.0 beginning with England and France.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 16, 2026 04:38 PM (L5F8f)

27
Also, the court weighs the disparate iniquity of forcing these people to live with Jews, and so orders the Jews expelled.

Posted by: Auspex at July 16, 2026 04:38 PM (Y8DZL)

28 For judges that make decisions like this, and political leaders that keep enabling two-tier justice systems and who keep forcing this kind of insane immigration, the question must be asked:

Are these people on the take?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 16, 2026 04:38 PM (O7YUW)

29 Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood



What the fuck happened to me?

Posted by: UK at July 16, 2026 04:38 PM (2hwDr)

30 Every one of them can field strip and reassemble a Kalashnikov blindfolded. Learned it on Gaza TV children's programs.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 16, 2026 04:39 PM (gm9Sb)

31 As it is, I hope that family is looking at investing in a small farmstead for next spring. It may lay fallow for the summer, but then need a good plowing in late fall. Such a plan should take around 18 months.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at July 16, 2026 04:39 PM (KFbdf)

32 I like the cut of this judge’s gib.

Posted by: Boasberg at July 16, 2026 04:39 PM (2hwDr)

33 "commanded them all to be settled in England anyway, because... because the family would be missing out if they weren't allowed to jump on the UK welfare train."

There are another few billion that are still missing out on the gravy train life, not to mention the chance for rape and murder of the infidel Englanders.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 16, 2026 04:39 PM (vbXSk)

34 "Until you can hang judges, nobody is safe or free."

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 16, 2026 04:39 PM (xcxpd)

35 Wow. England is so very boned.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 16, 2026 04:40 PM (qBdHI)

36 Are these people on the take?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 16, 2026 04:38 PM (O7YUW)


Probably not. They're just unaffected by their decisions, and convinced that they're correct even if everyone else in their country must live a life of Hell... because they care.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2026 04:40 PM (ExV1e)

37 They are not FAT Girls, they are just .....

"Gravitationally Challenged"...
Posted by: Hillary "Jabba the Hutt" Clinton at July 16, 2026 04:37 PM (d6FdJ)

I'm pretty sure they are Gravitationally Gifted, actually.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 16, 2026 04:40 PM (N1DT3)

38 First the game against Argentina. Now this. Bad week for England.

Posted by: Boasberg at July 16, 2026 04:41 PM (2hwDr)

39 What the fuck happened to me?
Posted by: UK at July 16, 2026 04:38 PM (2hwDr)


All your men left or were killed in wars in Europe.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2026 04:41 PM (ExV1e)

40 "France: Sub-Saharan migrant rapes 4-year-old French girl. Gets just 18 months in prison."

That's way more than 99% of the Rotherham Rapists got

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 16, 2026 04:41 PM (iFTx/)

41
England is the USA but 30 years into the future.

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 16, 2026 04:41 PM (OkYzo)

42 Pretty sure they could have found a US judge that would have ruled the same way regardless on the immigration act of 1882 that prohibited persons likely to become a public charge.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 16, 2026 04:41 PM (0N4FZ)

43 What the fuck happened to me?
Posted by: UK

Acceptance of Socialism ? Just a guess.

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 04:42 PM (GD0B3)

44
I guess some true English citizens will be kicked out of their homes to house these pieces of shit.

Was it Germany or England doing that a few years ago?

Posted by: four seasons at July 16, 2026 04:42 PM (/QHx4)

45 The European Convention on Human Rights should be modified by referendum: Any "migrant" who is granted refuge is given their free housing next to the judge granting the status.

I'd also accept that the migrant is quartered in the judge's own house.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at July 16, 2026 04:42 PM (KFbdf)

46 For a distraction, Sydney Sweeney is modelling her underwear line:

https://t.ly/gsEQ0
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb)
.......

I hope Bulg is around.

Posted by: wth at July 16, 2026 04:42 PM (UjdFS)

47 Just further evidence they have been colonised, and enslaved by the settlers.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2026 04:42 PM (oUaFT)

48 Humor break:

@WesternLensman 18h
Don Lemon claims people keep asking him to run for president.

"I think I would be a really good president of the United States."

Yes, he's serious.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 16, 2026 04:42 PM (diia5)

49 The real problem is the European people won't settle this with mere ballots, but they still aren't even ready to vote for political parties that their state media tell them are "mean"

The response to this should be to hang the judge and ask if any of the local pols agreed with him while putting the gazans on a raft and pushing it towards France.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2026 04:43 PM (sKqQm)

50 Would be nice if courts started considering the affects on mental health of the people of the UK.

This is what happens when you turn control of your country over to an unelected bureacracy. It's been happening to us for decades but we might finally see an end or at least a significant reduction of that.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 04:43 PM (viF8m)

51 Was it Germany or England doing that a few years ago?

Posted by: four seasons at July 16, 2026 04:42 PM (/QHx4)


I'm guessing the correct conjunction is and.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2026 04:43 PM (ExV1e)

52 England is the USA but 30 years into the future.

I am honest when I say that I hope you’re right. I think that’s optimistic.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 16, 2026 04:44 PM (twdYN)

53 Publius is a Great American.

Posted by: PabloD at July 16, 2026 04:44 PM (mt4vP)

54 For a distraction, Sydney Sweeney is modelling her underwear line:

https://t.ly/gsEQ0
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb)


Her underwear line covers more than half the shit the women at the gym wear while being horrified by the male gaze... unless they're subscribers to their OF.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2026 04:45 PM (ExV1e)

55 For a distraction, Sydney Sweeney is modelling her underwear line:

https://t.ly/gsEQ0
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb)
.......

I hope Bulg is around.
Posted by: wth at July 16, 2026 04:42 PM (UjdFS)

Probably only after clicking the link.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 16, 2026 04:45 PM (N1DT3)

56
Old England: Fat bottom girls make the world go round.

New England: وآ كئلل ي

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 16, 2026 04:45 PM (OkYzo)

57 What the fuck happened to me?
Posted by: UK at July 16, 2026 04:38 PM (2hwDr)

All your men left or were killed in wars in Europe.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2026 04:41 PM (ExV1e)
_______

I also think the remaining people there aged out. The white UK population is mostly old and tired and doesn't have the will to fight any more (if they ever did).

The younger generations are mostly the barbaric hordes of parasitic migrants.

Incredibly, the UK in total is still overwhelmingly white (something like 85%). It's just that the cannibals are all concentrated in certain areas like London. London is barely 50% white now.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 16, 2026 04:46 PM (iFTx/)

58 ...we're gonna need a bigger dog...

Posted by: just the punchline at July 16, 2026 04:46 PM (rdVOm)

59 “Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood”. Hey King Chuck, I think I see the problem.
Posted by: Going deep. Out.


Hell, even Mrs Mohammad here knew the pile o' Palis was worthless. She tried to keep them out. But she got outvoted by a Karen.

But Upper Tribunal Judge Gemma Loughran threw out Ms Mahmood's case, agreeing that denying the family permission to come to the UK breached Labour's Human Rights Act.

Posted by: mikeski at July 16, 2026 04:46 PM (VHUov)

60 It's like all the cartel judges here ordering Trump to keep spending money and rehiring those fired.

At no point were the taxpayers--whose money is being spent--considered.

No, no, no--those taxpayers have no say:
The only people that matter are the people getting the money.

Not the people who have to pay for it.
Not the people who voted against paying for it.
Not the people who will never benefit from it.

That's why I keep saying:
Defund the judiciary.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 16, 2026 04:46 PM (3cUTc)

61 BAHAHAHAHA!

Posted by: John Esposito, Jesuit at July 16, 2026 04:46 PM (gKWVE)

62 Brit Judge Gemma Loughran looks like a horsefaced tranny. But then again virtually all middle aged British women do.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 16, 2026 04:46 PM (wBaIH)

63 @WesternLensman 18h
Don Lemon claims people keep asking him to run for president.

"I think I would be a really good president of the United States."

Yes, he's serious.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 16, 2026 04:42 PM (diia5)


Right after he pulls a cock out of his mouth, they say that he has all the qualifications to be President that Harris had. He takes that in a manner other than it was intended.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2026 04:46 PM (ExV1e)

64 There's footie on the telly. We're going to win third place!

Posted by: English lads at July 16, 2026 04:46 PM (wGerL)

65 54 For a distraction, Sydney Sweeney is modelling her underwear line:

https://t.ly/gsEQ0
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb)

Her underwear line covers more than half the shit the women at the gym wear while being horrified by the male gaze... unless they're subscribers to their OF.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2026 04:45 PM (ExV1e)

Great top on her, busty as she is.
Not a fan of those bottoms if its underwear.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 16, 2026 04:47 PM (xcxpd)

66 The United Nations accused armed forces affiliated with Hamas of violently obstructing and disrupting humanitarian food distribution in Gaza. According to a statement by the UN Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, armed personnel forcibly entered a World Food Programme (WFP) warehouse and assaulted truck drivers
Posted by: Orson at July 16, 2026 04:36 PM (dIske)
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Again like we are supposed to pretend this wasn't in plain evidence the entire time.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2026 04:47 PM (oUaFT)

67
Those dining tonight at White's or Brooks's in London tonight will have another Bollinger's and have a mild chuckle at your middle-class American outrage.

Posted by: Auspex at July 16, 2026 04:47 PM (Y8DZL)

68
Speaking of scantily clad hotties, I see an outrage. Google is now referring to the world's greatest golfer, Paige Spiranac. as an "American model", and not "American golfer".

This mislabeling cannot stand.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 04:48 PM (w6EFb)

69 What a stupid time to be alive.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 16, 2026 04:48 PM (wVcYX)

70 Publius is a Great American.

“Wise politicians will be cautious about fettering boobs with restrictions that cannot be observed, because they know that every breach of the fundamental fabric, though dictated by necessity, impairs that sacred reverence which ought to be maintained toward the breast, and forms a precedent for other members where the same plea of necessity does not exist at all, or is less urgent and palpable.”

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 16, 2026 04:48 PM (twdYN)

71 For a distraction, Sydney Sweeney is modelling her underwear line:

https://t.ly/gsEQ0


Honestly no impressed by the bra she is modelling.

The sheer dress they include a picture of her in though? That I approve of

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2026 04:48 PM (sKqQm)

72 They need a return of hanging judges. No, not like that, like this.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 16, 2026 04:48 PM (tWxgu)

73 I also think the remaining people there aged out. The white UK population is mostly old and tired and doesn't have the will to fight any more (if they ever did).

The younger generations are mostly the barbaric hordes of parasitic migrants.

Incredibly, the UK in total is still overwhelmingly white (something like 85%). It's just that the cannibals are all concentrated in certain areas like London. London is barely 50% white now.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 16, 2026 04:46 PM (iFTx/)

The native populace in most of Europe is not having children.

SOME was the foolish "POPULATION BOMB!!!" warnings in the 1970s, some is the current "WE'RE DESTROYING THE PLANET WITH CO2!!!", but the vast majority of the problem is telling women that they will find the fulfillment men were keeping from them by joining the workforce and getting a life-sucking job like all the men have.

That was a great idea.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 16, 2026 04:49 PM (N1DT3)

74 I hope Bulg is around.
Posted by: wth

He's waiting for the Greta Thunburg unmentionables portfolio to drop.

Posted by: Auspex at July 16, 2026 04:49 PM (Y8DZL)

75 SOME was the foolish "POPULATION BOMB!!!" warnings in the 1970s, some is the current "WE'RE DESTROYING THE PLANET WITH CO2!!!", but the vast majority of the problem is telling women that they will find the fulfillment men were keeping from them by joining the workforce and getting a life-sucking job like all the men have.

That was a great idea.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 16, 2026 04:49 PM (N1DT3)

Also particularly effective because the average woman is more susceptable to "the grass is always greener" effect.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 16, 2026 04:50 PM (N1DT3)

76 OMG...you have to see this. The judge on case was Upper Tribunal Judge Gemma Loughran . Here is another case she ruled on:

Immigration Judge Gemma Loughran is the judge that overturned a Home Office assessment on an adult asylum seeker!

The Home Office came to the conclusion that the ‘child’ asylum seeker was actually a bearded male

Loughran overturned it stating ‘the importance of not over emphasising physical characteristics.

Posted by: Orson at July 16, 2026 04:50 PM (dIske)

77
I laugh when Bulg is talking about boobs.

His nic is appropriate for him.


Posted by: four seasons at July 16, 2026 04:50 PM (/QHx4)

78 King Charles is probably okay with this as he appears to be a muslim.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at July 16, 2026 04:51 PM (GMWTj)

79 Whitey doesn’t breed well in captivity

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 04:52 PM (hkjqi)

80 Bye UK. Nice knowing ya.

Posted by: WisRich at July 16, 2026 04:53 PM (G0vdT)

81 At best they are a drain on services and welfare at worst they Alan snack bar a bunch of innocents.

Posted by: steevy at July 16, 2026 04:53 PM (YwEeS)

82 SOME was the foolish "POPULATION BOMB!!!" warnings in the 1970s, some is the current "WE'RE DESTROYING THE PLANET WITH CO2!!!", but the vast majority of the problem is telling women that they will find the fulfillment men were keeping from them by joining the workforce and getting a life-sucking job like all the men have.

TPTB have been working for a long time for the extinction of whites. For some reason.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2026 04:53 PM (ExV1e)

83 Word has it King Jugears is a goatraper convert.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 16, 2026 04:53 PM (wOO3z)

84 In about 2-300 years from now Charlton Heston will be riding a horse with a hot chick on the back along the shore of some desert island off the coast of europe. He'll come across the top section of some clock tower sticking out of the sand, get off his horse, pound his fists in the sand and yell "you bloody fucking manics, you let the apes blow it all up"

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 16, 2026 04:53 PM (S41Gd)

85 Where do you want them deported to?

Legally, they aren't Saudi, Egyptians, Lebanese, or Syrian citizens. You can't send them back to a country they aren't from.

And you don't recognize a Palestinian state.

You want them deported to Israel?

Posted by: Make Up Your Mind at July 16, 2026 04:53 PM (uSpHL)

86 telling women that they will find the fulfillment men were keeping from them by joining the workforce and getting a life-sucking job like all the men have.

That was a great idea.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 16, 2026 04:49 PM (N1DT3)

It was certainly told to me, beginning in the 1970's. At the same time, I was told that some professions belonged entirely to men, including the one I chose. Sorta kinda mixed messages.

And a housewife? The horror. The horror.

It was all bullshit and ruined the economy and made it impossible to raise good and decent kids and live according to your means, but hey, look at all the HR departments we have now that we wouldn't have had if Karen had stayed home and minded her own business.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2026 04:53 PM (bl07w)

87 but the vast majority of the problem is telling women that they will find the fulfillment men were keeping from them by joining the workforce and getting a life-sucking job like all the men have.


So after 50 years of telling women this, I see a majority of young woman arguing for socialism because working sucks.

It is almost comical.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2026 04:54 PM (sKqQm)

88 Get out of NATO and Europe. I'm of English and Irish ancestry and their governments have become suicidal. If some of their companies or more conservative people want to come here , fine, but the rest can eff right off

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2026 04:54 PM (OXYE0)

89 I shouldn't gloat. We have judges here that would do the same thing.

Posted by: WisRich at July 16, 2026 04:55 PM (G0vdT)

90 Word has it King Jugears is a goatraper convert.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
.......

B.O. was always Muslim.

Posted by: wth at July 16, 2026 04:56 PM (UjdFS)

91 Holy crap....check out the logic from this same judge. I can't wrap my head around this "logic."

It comes after a paedophile dad jailed for child sex offences escaped deportation to Pakistan after a UK judge ruled it would be “unduly harsh” on his two toddlers.

The unnamed father, who was granted anonymity by an immigration court, had been banned from living with his kids after attempting to solicit three “barely pubescent” girls for sex.

Posted by: Orson at July 16, 2026 04:56 PM (dIske)

92 That’s “Aloha Snack Bar!”

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 16, 2026 04:56 PM (tWxgu)

93 How's Brexit working out these days?

Posted by: Octochicken at July 16, 2026 04:56 PM (oCS0o)

94 The honky King Jugears over in the UK

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 16, 2026 04:56 PM (wOO3z)

95 THIS JUDGE IS INSANE...check out this case and "logic":

A WOMAN who tried and failed eight times to get asylum has been granted the right to stay in the UK after joining a terror group to boost her claim.

Upper tribunal judge Gemma Loughran, who gave the 49-year-old Nigerian the right to stay, acknowledged she was being dishonest about her political beliefs.

Posted by: Orson at July 16, 2026 04:58 PM (dIske)

96 84 In about 2-300 years from now Charlton Heston will be riding a horse with a hot chick on the back along the shore of some desert island off the coast of europe. He'll come across the top section of some clock tower sticking out of the sand, get off his horse, pound his fists in the sand and yell "you bloody fucking manics, you let the apes blow it all up"
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 16, 2026 04:53 PM (S41Gd)

"Let" them? Hell, we might be ASKING the apes to blow it all up.

Posted by: Octochicken at July 16, 2026 04:58 PM (oCS0o)

97 48 Humor break:

@WesternLensman 18h
Don Lemon claims people keep asking him to run for president.

"I think I would be a really good president of the United States."

Yes, he's serious.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 16, 2026 04:42 PM (diia5)

I suspect he could figurehead and autopen with the best of them.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2026 04:58 PM (bl07w)

98 Sucking on the Gubmint teat.

Posted by: In other words at July 16, 2026 04:59 PM (XsZ7v)

99 93 How's Brexit working out these days?
Posted by: Octochicken at July 16, 2026 04:56 PM (oCS0o)

Brexit didn't predict that Britain's own elite would simply open the doors out of spite.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 04:59 PM (gKWVE)

100 The honky King Jugears over in the UK
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
.......

I wonder if he eats dogs too.

Posted by: wth at July 16, 2026 04:59 PM (UjdFS)

101 Has Don Lemon been prosecuted?

Posted by: I gotta ask at July 16, 2026 04:59 PM (XsZ7v)

102 Where do you want them deported to?

Greta's rape boat.

Next question.

Posted by: far cry at July 16, 2026 05:00 PM (wBRco)

103 The honky King Jugears over in the UK
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
.......

I wonder if he eats dogs too.
Posted by: wth

Just horses.

Posted by: Camilla at July 16, 2026 05:00 PM (wOO3z)

104 The Boulder Toilet Hobo has resurfaced in Kansas City....

https://tinyurl.com/4dymy8t2

Posted by: Sam Adams at July 16, 2026 05:00 PM (X+xvk)

105 98 Sucking on the Gubmint teat.
Posted by: In other words at July 16, 2026 04:59 PM (XsZ7v)

Probably tastes better than what Kamala and that LeMon dude are sucking on.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2026 05:00 PM (bl07w)

106 Maybe now they'll be able to recruit enough towel heads for their soccer team to win a world cup.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 16, 2026 05:01 PM (sYM3s)

107 I'm of English and Irish ancestry and their governments have become suicidal
——-

Homicidal. Huge distinction

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 05:01 PM (hkjqi)

108 >> Where do you want them deported to?

Antarctica.

Hell, they'd ruin that. Point Nemo it is.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 05:01 PM (w6EFb)

109 This is quite the day for types deletes treats.

Posted by: Max Power at July 16, 2026 05:01 PM (SwyyQ)

110 Greta's rape boat.

Next question.

Posted by: far cry at July 16, 2026 05:00


Ha ha. Hee hee.

You're so based. What a zinger.

Now, answer the actual legal question.

Posted by: Make Up Your Mind at July 16, 2026 05:02 PM (uSpHL)

111 Yay! Yet another female "judge".

Civilization Destroyers.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 16, 2026 05:02 PM (U4c/V)

112 Now, answer the actual legal question.
Posted by: Make Up Your Mind at July 16, 2026 05:02 PM (uSpHL)
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Deport them to Jordan where they belong. With their tribe.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2026 05:03 PM (oUaFT)

113 Gaza Family of 18 Wins "Right" to Settle In England Despite Speaking No English and Being Determined to be a Net Detriment to Society

When I first read the title, I thought it said New England, and I was displeased. England is disappointing, but not nearly to the same extent. If this makes headlines, though, it may be another step on the road to PM Rupert Lowe and his Deport Restore Party.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 16, 2026 05:04 PM (5/BQI)

114 Now, answer the actual legal question.
Posted by: Make Up Your Mind at July 16, 2026 05:02 PM (uSpHL)
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Deport them to Jordan where they belong. With their tribe.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Atlantis.

Posted by: Joe Mama at July 16, 2026 05:05 PM (TezPK)

115 Loughran overturned it stating ‘the importance of not over emphasising physical characteristics.

More outstanding legal theory so we don't have to waste our time with laws.

One would get better "judgements" from a Magic 8 Ball.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 16, 2026 05:06 PM (U4c/V)

116 We really, really need to reclaim our nukes from the UK before they're used on us.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 16, 2026 05:06 PM (jehhT)

117 Deport them to Jordan where they belong. With their tribe.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2026 05:03 PM (oUaFT)



They aren't citizens of Jordan.

Jordan has no obligation to accept them anymore than America or England does.

Posted by: Make Up Your Mind at July 16, 2026 05:06 PM (uSpHL)

118 The Palestinians argued they had a 'right to family life' under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and won their case under Section 6 of the Act which sets out how it is 'unlawful for a public authority to act in a way which is incompatible with a Convention right'.

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The simple solution would have been to deport this woman back to Gaza so she no longer misses her family. Logic has completely disappeared from the legal profession anywhere. Of course I could be too kind to them when the truth is that the legal profession hates normal people, they wouldn't have a job otherwise.

Posted by: Decaf at July 16, 2026 05:07 PM (ZNpJk)

119 We have a young friend who spent 2.5 years in prison for being involved in a drunken argument with a drunken friend and accidentally grazing his friend who was banging on his car as he drove away.

Now, our friend was being highly, recklessly irresponsible and naive but was not trying to hurt anybody. But he bruised somebody with his car and drove home drunk and it cost him 2.5 years of freedom.

I cannot imagine him EVER harming a child. He wouldn't be able to live with himself if he did.

Posted by: Emmie at July 16, 2026 05:08 PM (OlzlW)

120 None of these people speak English but yes they'll all likely get jobs and all the children will easily integrate because they have the "capacity to learn"
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Give them all CDLs, of course.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 05:08 PM (Fi81e)

121 We really, really need to reclaim our nukes from the UK before they're used on us.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 16, 2026 05:06 PM (jehhT)

1) having nukes is appropriating American culture and 'colonialism.'

2) return all nukes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 16, 2026 05:08 PM (zZu0s)

122 We can take a few more immigrants.

Posted by: Constantinople at July 16, 2026 05:09 PM (t1jwT)

123 The Palestinians argued they had a 'right to family life' under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)

So her claim is that Britain owes welfare to literally any person on Earth that wants to go to Britain.

Yep, time to start getting Shakespeare on the British legal establishment

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2026 05:09 PM (sKqQm)

124 England recognizes Palestine as a state, whether Gaza or the West Bank. Send them to either place

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2026 05:09 PM (OXYE0)

125 We really, really need to reclaim our nukes from the UK before they're used on us.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 16, 2026 05:06 PM (jehhT)
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"Heretics!" -- UK

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 05:09 PM (Fi81e)

126 None of these people speak English but yes they'll all likely get jobs and all the children will easily integrate because they have the "capacity to learn"

Every leftist forum tells me there are no jobs in Britain and everyone is starving and living on the streets.

So..yeah sure she'll get a job...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2026 05:10 PM (sKqQm)

127 The UK gains more freeloaders and loses productive citizens.

Tousi TV will be fully moved to the US shortly. The bureaucratic hurdle has been cleared.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 16, 2026 05:10 PM (afJtY)

128 2) return all nukes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 16, 2026 05:08 PM (zZu0s)
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You can't have nukes on stolen land.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 05:11 PM (Fi81e)

129 We have a young friend who spent 2.5 years in prison for being involved in a drunken argument with a drunken friend and accidentally grazing his friend who was banging on his car as he drove away.

Keep in mind the FNM is currently telling us hitting someone with a car is no biggie, certainly not a serious felony.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2026 05:11 PM (sKqQm)

130 Europe’s leaders failing their own children.

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These are not leaders who have children, most of them are childless therefore their own people mean nothing to them.

If AI were programmed to take the side of the invaders how different would it be from the current elites?

Posted by: Decaf at July 16, 2026 05:11 PM (ZNpJk)

131 California employers face the steepest health premium jump in 16 years, pushing average family coverage above $30,000 in 2027.

https://archive.is/qwBxB

Posted by: Oglebay at July 16, 2026 05:11 PM (2ap+5)

132 OT- NY Post has short clip of Canadian nutcase woman who slapped the girl wearing MAGA attire at the Jersey Shore:

https://nypost.com/


Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2026 05:11 PM (5KunV)

133 So..yeah sure she'll get a job...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2026 05:10 PM (sKqQm)
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Nobody has to work under socialism!

Posted by: Socialist Dreamer at July 16, 2026 05:11 PM (Fi81e)

134 84 In about 2-300 years from now Charlton Heston will be riding a horse with a hot chick on the back along the shore of some desert island off the coast of europe. He'll come across the top section of some clock tower sticking out of the sand, get off his horse, pound his fists in the sand and yell "you bloody fucking manics, you let the apes blow it all up" "spaceballs? there goes the planet!"

fixt

Posted by: anachronda at July 16, 2026 05:12 PM (v3pYe)

135 'The judge concluded that the applicants' refusal of entry clearance would give rise to consequences of such gravity for the sponsor and her children as to be unjustifiably harsh such that the public interest was outweighed.
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[jots down on pad]

'Gross rationalization to justify his action'

Posted by: Psychologist at July 16, 2026 05:12 PM (XeU6L)

136 California employers face the steepest health premium jump in 16 years, pushing average family coverage above $30,000 in 2027.

https://archive.is/qwBxB
Posted by: Oglebay at July 16, 2026 05:11 PM (2ap+5)
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Good thing Obama "fixed healthcare".

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 05:12 PM (Fi81e)

137 124 England recognizes Palestine as a state, whether Gaza or the West Bank. Send them to either place

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2026 05:09 PM (OXYE0)



That's a reasonable legal answer.

Posted by: Make Up Your Mind at July 16, 2026 05:13 PM (uSpHL)

138 OT- NY Post has short clip of Canadian nutcase woman who slapped the girl wearing MAGA attire at the Jersey Shore:

https://nypost.com/


Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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We have no idea what you are talking about.

Posted by: NYT at July 16, 2026 05:14 PM (XeU6L)

139 Socialist Dream: Nobody has to work under socialism!

Socialist Reality: Its April. In October temperatures will be below freezing. Here are some tools and a month of food. We'll back back next April to see if you have finished building the mine or any survivors will be shot.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2026 05:15 PM (sKqQm)

140 Another step towards Englandistan and taken into the Caliphate

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 05:15 PM (Ia/+0)

141 California employers face the steepest health premium jump in 16 years, pushing average family coverage above $30,000 in 2027.

https://archive.is/qwBxB

Posted by: Oglebay at July 16, 2026 05:11 PM


They gotta cover all of that "free" healthcare for illegals that newsome signed into law last month.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 16, 2026 05:16 PM (0N4FZ)

142 @Polymarket
JUST IN: NBC & ABC will not air President Trump’s primetime address live on their broadcast networks."

At least a lot of people can still hear it, if they want to.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 16, 2026 05:17 PM (vbXSk)

143
I shouldn't gloat. We have judges here that would do the same thing.
Posted by: WisRich
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This

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 16, 2026 05:17 PM (XeU6L)

144 " NBC & ABC will not air President Trump’s primetime address live on their broadcast networks."

I'm sure they have more important things to show.

Posted by: fd at July 16, 2026 05:18 PM (MWfyi)

145 Yeah, those 70 IQs

I think that's a bit generous. This bunch sounds more like what used to be called "sub-morons".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 04:37 PM (w6EFb)

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But they still outsmart the legal fraternity.

Posted by: Decaf at July 16, 2026 05:18 PM (ZNpJk)

146 137 124 England recognizes Palestine as a state, whether Gaza or the West Bank. Send them to either place

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2026 05:09 PM (OXYE0)


That's a reasonable legal answer.
Posted by: Make Up Your Mind at July 16, 2026 05:13 PM (uSpHL)

Or Britain can cut a deal with African countries to accept certain deportees, like we have. I see no reason why this vibrant, capable Palestinian family cannot be very happy in the Congo.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 16, 2026 05:18 PM (lZt8q)

147 Or Britain can cut a deal with African countries to accept certain deportees, like we have. I see no reason why this vibrant, capable Palestinian family cannot be very happy in the Congo.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 16, 2026 05:18 PM (lZt8q)


Uganda. I understand that Mayor Mamdani's family holds land there. They wouldn't be so un-socialist as to deny a place to live, food, clothing, medical care, and explosives training to some of their fellow muzzies.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2026 05:21 PM (ExV1e)

148 Or England can figure their own shit out. we can sit back and see how that works out for them. Hope their country doesn’t burn to the ground.

Meh.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 16, 2026 05:22 PM (+zMHf)

149 On the other hand, Tousi from Tousi TV News has been cleared by Trump to move his family and operation to Florida and is hiring new US Staff. He's escaped UK oppression.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 05:22 PM (uhVAy)

150 Tonight on NBC: White MAGA pedophiles dressed up as Elmer Fudd carrying a rifle around Manhattan on Law and Order SVU

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 16, 2026 05:22 PM (wOO3z)

151 JUST IN: NBC & ABC will not air President Trump’s primetime address live on their broadcast networks."
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Ban those networks from the White House briefing room for the next 10 days and tell the judge from Hawaii who inevitably pretends his injunction matters to shove it.

Posted by: Crusader at July 16, 2026 05:22 PM (TN0g+)

152 So the UK judges do as SCOTUS, which legalized birth tourism for citizens-in-a-day, jumping the line on naturalized citizens who wait more than five years.

Outrageous!

Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 16, 2026 05:22 PM (igRTw)

153 St. Paul's Cathederal Mosque will be an excellent location for 'Call to Prayer' loudspeakers.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 16, 2026 05:22 PM (XeU6L)

154 " NBC & ABC will not air President Trump’s primetime address live on their broadcast networks."

I'm sure they have more important things to show.
Posted by: fd at July 16, 2026 05:18 PM (MWfyi)

He should throw them out of future press conferences since they aren't covering it.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 05:23 PM (uhVAy)

155 18 months for raping a 4 year old is the most ridiculous thing I've seen in awhile.

Do they deport him afterwards, or does he get to stay and find another child to rape and gets a laughable sentence.


It's no wonder Marine/National Rally are leading in the polls for president.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2026 05:23 PM (6ydKt)

156 For judges that make decisions like this, and political leaders that keep enabling two-tier justice systems and who keep forcing this kind of insane immigration, the question must be asked:

Are these people on the take?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 16, 2026 04:38 PM (O7YUW)

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I ascribe it to malice, they are no longer considered special by the rest of the population so this is their way of exacting revenge. Everyone now has access to knowledge via phones, everyone is equally mobile to almost anywhere on the planet, everyone can buy a house, car, good clothes. The legal profession are no longer special so this is their way of being above the populace.

Posted by: Decaf at July 16, 2026 05:24 PM (ZNpJk)

157
Family and neighbors outraged, demanding real justice like for any native.

Two-tier sentencing enabling horrors.

Europe’s leaders failing their own children.





WE TOLD YOU SO, WE TOLD YOU SO, WE TOLD YOU SO.

Posted by: The Second Amendment at July 16, 2026 05:24 PM (y9nCu)

158 JUST IN: NBC & ABC will not air the President’s primetime address to the Nation on their broadcast networks.
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That’s pretty gay. LOL

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 05:25 PM (hkjqi)

159 Now, answer the actual legal question.
Posted by: Make Up Your Mind at July 16, 2026 05:02 PM (uSpHL)


OK, super-genius. They wouldn't need to be deported because the extended family is, get this, still in Gaza.

Try reading the fucking article, dipshit.

Posted by: far cry at July 16, 2026 05:25 PM (wBRco)

160 These increasing numbers of short sentences may well create a "Citizen Vigilante".

Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 16, 2026 05:25 PM (O5nIL)

161 Deport them to Jordan where they belong. With their tribe.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2026 05:03 PM (oUaFT)


They aren't citizens of Jordan.

Jordan has no obligation to accept them anymore than America or England does.

Posted by: Make Up Your Mind at July 16, 2026 05:06 PM (uSpHL)

Jordan expelled the "Palestinians" when they tried to overthrow the government and kill the Royal family there.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 05:26 PM (uhVAy)

162 Or Britain can cut a deal with African countries to accept certain deportees, like we have. I see no reason why this vibrant, capable Palestinian family cannot be very happy in the Congo.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

South Africa. Former British colony. The Brits owe their former oppressed colonies all the great benefits of 3rd world immigration as reparation.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 16, 2026 05:26 PM (5/BQI)

163
Every leftist forum tells me there are no jobs in Britain and everyone is starving and living on the streets.

Why would that be? There's no MEGA there.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 16, 2026 05:27 PM (Cqx++)

164 158 JUST IN: NBC & ABC will not air the President’s primetime address to the Nation on their broadcast networks.
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I bet George Stephanopoulos is stamping his feet in a big pout

Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 16, 2026 05:27 PM (O5nIL)

165 Setting a precedent that if the president gives a speech about something you don't like just don't show it.(applies inly to Republicans)

Posted by: steevy at July 16, 2026 05:27 PM (YwEeS)

166 The UK has come a long way [down] since they would almost not let St Sophrony and his fellow monks in to start a monastery in the 1950s. There were "concerns" that the monks weren't rich enough. That was overcome when someone pointed out that under that criteria, of the Twelve Disciples only Judas would qualify to immigrate.

Posted by: Martin Tell at July 16, 2026 05:27 PM (sFNX2)

167 A 4 YEAR OLD!?!???? I am speechless. That he's still breathing air is shocking.

Posted by: LASue at July 16, 2026 05:27 PM (lCppi)

168 144 " NBC & ABC will not air President Trump’s primetime address live on their broadcast networks."
Posted by: fd

Fuck them. War. They hold licences through affiliates to broadcast on public airwaves.

Revoke them.

Posted by: Auspex at July 16, 2026 05:28 PM (Y8DZL)

169 Every leftist forum tells me there are no jobs in Britain and everyone is starving and living on the streets.

Why would that be? There's no MEGA there.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 16, 2026 05:27 PM (Cqx++)

The Government doesn't even want anyone waving their own national flag.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 05:28 PM (uhVAy)

170 @162 the South Africans are killing immigrants, legal workers from other African countries or Asia. They have to blame someone for their incompetent government because there aren't enough whites to blame

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2026 05:28 PM (OXYE0)

171 " NBC & ABC will not air President Trump’s primetime address live on their broadcast networks."

I'm sure they have more important things to show.
Posted by: fd at July 16, 2026 05:18 PM (MWfyi)

He should throw them out of future press conferences since they aren't covering it.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 05:23 PM


That's too easy for a judge to overturn.....I would start the very next press conference with the statement that due to nbc and abc not airing a presidential press conference they will no longer be called upon for questions at any future press briefings.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 16, 2026 05:29 PM (0N4FZ)

172 I wonder if Trump will sign an EO to invoke the Guarantee Clause tonight.

Posted by: beckster at July 16, 2026 05:29 PM (kX27y)

173 18 months. Let me guess, her Paw Patrol t shirt was just too irresistible.

Fricken animal.

Posted by: LASue at July 16, 2026 05:29 PM (lCppi)

174 158 JUST IN: NBC & ABC will not air the President’s primetime address to the Nation on their broadcast networks.

There MUST be consequences.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 16, 2026 05:29 PM (wVcYX)

175
NBC & ABC will not air President Trump’s primetime address live on their broadcast networks."
Posted by: fd

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

There's no need to punish them. They're punishing themselves. CBS, Fox, and internet platforms will get the views.

Posted by: But hey, what was your worst day? at July 16, 2026 05:31 PM (mmrXZ)

176 So CBS will air Trump's speech. Bari Weiss having an impact

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2026 05:31 PM (OXYE0)

177 New thread up

Posted by: Ann at July 16, 2026 05:31 PM (K4KCe)

178
We really, really need to reclaim our nukes from the UK before they're used on us.



If memory serves, the current Limey nuke arsenal was designed and built by the Limeys themselves. We sold them the Trident ICBMs that they're mated to.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 16, 2026 05:32 PM (y9nCu)

179 Setting a precedent that if the president gives a speech about something you don't like just don't show it
——

Eh, they’ve been doing this for a while. Thing is, the networks are walking pneumonia anyhow, a walking sucking chest wound. Their credibility is nil, they squandered their trust. They are losing money. So it is counterproductive really.

See also: Barbara Streisand Effect. Prediction. This backfires on them. Bigly.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 05:32 PM (hkjqi)

180 170 @162 the South Africans are killing immigrants, legal workers from other African countries or Asia. They have to blame someone for their incompetent government because there aren't enough whites to blame
Posted by: Smell the Glove

A bunch of AWFLs should go over there and remind them no one is illegal on stolen land. And immigrants make the best citizens. And men make the best women, too, as I bet they're pretty transphobic (due to evil colonialism, of course).

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 16, 2026 05:33 PM (5/BQI)

181
The networks can't argue like PBS that the good people of Bumfuck Iowa don't get informed because the big media is obsolete through the internet.

Off the air with them.

FCC sells the bandwidth to home shopping channels.

Wannabe pretentious dickheaded tyrannical lefty plutocrats can get fucked, which, in their perverse fashion, they may enjoy.

Posted by: Auspex at July 16, 2026 05:34 PM (Y8DZL)

182 I would start the very next press conference with the statement that due to nbc and abc not airing a presidential press conference they will no longer be called upon for questions at any future press briefings.

Don't bother with announcing it, just don't call on them. That way its harder to convince a judge that this is deliberate. If there is an announcement, they now have a soundbite and all they need now is a District Emperor to make the edict.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 16, 2026 05:37 PM (nAS9C)

183 Judges are just blessed knowitalls with robes.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 05:37 PM (Fi81e)

184 > The networks can't argue like PBS that the good people of Bumfuck Iowa don't get informed because the big media is obsolete through the internet.
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Trump should float nationalizing the media. Not to actually do it, but watch the heads explode.

Because under Obama and *biden, that's exactly what they were.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 16, 2026 05:41 PM (jehhT)

185 WE TOLD YOU SO, WE TOLD YOU SO, WE TOLD YOU SO.
Posted by: The Second Amendment at July 16, 2026 05:24 PM (y9nCu)

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Gun owners are the most sit on their ass people in the country.

Literally had the 2020 Presidential election stolen in front of their very eyes and they sat on their asses.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 16, 2026 05:44 PM (DbmIv)

186
Again, WAR.

Brietbart recognized it a decade ago. No more "Meet the Press" interviews. No recognition. You silence us, we silence you. No sources, no mavericks.

Lindsey Graham is dead.

Posted by: Auspex at July 16, 2026 05:47 PM (Y8DZL)

187 > Literally had the 2020 Presidential election stolen in front of their very eyes and they sat on their asses.
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I think the "law and order" mindset is to blame. If they/we were to take some sort of action it's more than likely the judiciary, which is squarely on the left, would hand down some pretty severe punishments.

They are the cornerstone. They "make the rules."

And they're on the other side.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 16, 2026 05:47 PM (jehhT)

188 I light of Twitter's decision to require a login in order to see its video content, I guess Twitter embeds are great of you assume a majority of your readers have a Twitter account.

Posted by: Born Free at July 16, 2026 06:23 PM (raD1m)

189 If this mother of three were to pass away before the leeches arrive, do they still have a claim?

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 16, 2026 07:24 PM (4NO2D)

190 Trump is a silly old man talking about non existent voter fraud.

Posted by: MSM Headlines About Speech at July 16, 2026 10:16 PM (2hwDr)

Surprise! Eric Swalwell's Adultery Wingman, Rueben Gallego, Banged At Least Two House Aides

Noooooo.

Not the guy who handed his nine-months-pregnant wife divorce papers so he could bang his side-piece openly (while claiming it's a "new relationship").

I shan't believe it.

Take your filthy lies, NY Post, and hit the road, Jack!!!


Arizona Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego, a potential 2028 presidential candidate, engaged in sexual relationships with at least two House staffers and his "very flirtatious" habits with others may come back to haunt him, The Post has learned.

The 46-year-old lawmaker admitted to the two relationships -- both with aides to Texas Democrats -- to one source while a second person said they had recently learned of the romantic entanglements.

A third source confirmed one of the dalliances, both of which are said to have been consensual and occurred during Gallego's decade representing Phoenix in the House.


The relationships are part of a broader "pattern of mistakes and missteps and judgment calls," one source said, noting the imbalanced power dynamics of an elected official dating staffers. One of the women was in her 20s and much younger than Gallego at the time.

"What else could there be out there?" this person asked.

Last month, the Senate Ethics Committee dismissed a complaint brought against Gallego by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) that alleged campaign finance violations and sexual misconduct against the Democrat, who was elected to the Senate in 2024.

The panel, chaired by Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), "didn't ask" about Gallego's relationships with the staffers -- likely because it was unaware -- and instead "focused squarely on what Luna presented to them," an insider said this week.

"Ethics looked in the wrong place," this person summed up the congressional probe.

It could also be that Lankford, who is a stone-cold liberal saboteur, deliberately went easy on Gallego because he doesn't want Senators being outed for secret sex.


When asked if The Post's reporting was accurate, Gallego again said, "I'm not going to engage in gossip."


Sources said it's believed both relationships occurred while Gallego was unmarried.


Uh-huh. You mean in between the pregnant wife he divorced and the side-piece he married later

...


"If the Ethics Committee comes back and says, 'We are opening an investigation,' question one [for Gallego] is: 'Did you ever have relationships with any staff member during your time in Congress?'" a source said.

"I wouldn't be surprised if there are more that he has to list, and he can't lie about that because, you know, it's a sworn [statement]."

A Democratic operative who has interacted with Gallego said she found news of the staffer relationships "not surprising."

"I have witnessed firsthand his very flirtatious nature after a couple of drinks," she said. "Maybe he thinks he's being charming? I don't know. Guy gives me the creeps. I've always steered clear."


Gallego married his second wife, Sydney, in June 2021. He filed for divorce from his first wife, Katie, 10 days before Christmas in 2016 when she was nine months pregnant.

In addition to the senator's personal life, Gallego faces another headache in the form of a Justice Department investigation into his alleged misuse of campaign funds to attend the Super Bowl in 2023 as well as to take vacations to St. Barts, Disney World and Disneyland. Gallego said the Trump DOJ was "targeting" him for political reasons.

The Post notes that Gallego -- hilariously -- thinks he can be president one day.

Of America, I mean. Not of Hooters, Inc.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:30 PM




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1 of course

Posted by: doug at July 16, 2026 03:32 PM (B1+sW)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 03:32 PM (2YhKe)

3 Speaking of congressional gas......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 03:32 PM (2YhKe)

4 America as Seen by Silicon Valley - "I like this guy! He fucks!"

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 16, 2026 03:32 PM (j+aD2)

5 I only care because it makes Democrats squirm having become the Puritan Party.

Otherwise,...consenting adults, blah blah blah.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 03:33 PM (PIaQL)

6 Gallego!

Scaramouch!

Little fandango.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 16, 2026 03:33 PM (fIg0u)

7 The Post notes that Gallego -- hilariously -- thinks he can be president one day.

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Name me one sitting senator who doesn't think they could be president.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 03:34 PM (PIaQL)

8 This guy sounds like a real peach.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 16, 2026 03:34 PM (zZu0s)

9 You know.

I really don’t care about anyone’s sex life.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 16, 2026 03:34 PM (agvh/)

10 The Post notes that Gallego -- hilariously -- thinks he can be president one day.
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Me too!
-Ro Khanna

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2026 03:34 PM (RIvkX)

11 If Gallego resigns from his office, how does Arizona decide on a replacement Senator?

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at July 16, 2026 03:34 PM (zB6GP)

12 But seriously.....let me know when something of significance happens to him because of his transgressions.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 03:34 PM (2YhKe)

13 Sen. Joey Bidet did become President.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 16, 2026 03:34 PM (fIg0u)

14 Banging subordinates will get you kicked out of the military, I see no reason congress should not be held to the same standards.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 16, 2026 03:35 PM (0N4FZ)

15
My guess is that there was at least some consent. That's the way you get ahead in journalism, academia, the arts, entertainment and politics.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2026 03:35 PM (+VZIW)

16 11 If Gallego resigns from his office, how does Arizona decide on a replacement Senator?

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at July 16, 2026 03:34 PM (zB6GP)

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He won't.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 03:35 PM (PIaQL)

17 The Post notes that Gallego -- hilariously -- thinks he can be president one day.

Of America, I mean. Not of Hooters, Inc.
_______________________________

Bill Clinton says otherwise. Well, actually he said, "There is no reason one can't be President of the United States AND Hooters, Inc."

Posted by: Orson at July 16, 2026 03:35 PM (dIske)

18 Bonk bonk on tha head

Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 16, 2026 03:35 PM (nDXEV)

19 ITS FUNNY TO USE ALINSKY #4 GOOD AND HARD

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at July 16, 2026 03:35 PM (4KUe5)

20 Sex pests abound. These are the kids who spent all of their formative years repeatedly touching their penises.

Only two staffers? I think maybe we need a recount.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2026 03:35 PM (bl07w)

21 You know.

I really don’t care about anyone’s sex life.
Posted by: nurse ratched


Taxpayers should care.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 16, 2026 03:36 PM (diia5)

22
He won't.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 03:35 PM (PIaQL)

____________

Democrats always have a hall pass.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2026 03:36 PM (+VZIW)

23 Amazing how many wild and crazy and ultra mega hetero men there are in the Democrat Party. Who knew?

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 03:36 PM (LuIt4)

24 9 You know.

I really don’t care about anyone’s sex life.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 16, 2026 03:34 PM (agvh/)

Neither do I, but apparently the sex pests and perverts think we need to know all about them.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2026 03:37 PM (bl07w)

25 There is a LOT of sex going on with unattractive people in Washington...

Posted by: steevy at July 16, 2026 03:37 PM (YwEeS)

26 I'm going to take a wild guess and say that Gallego will not be forced to resign by the Democrat party like they did to Swallwell.

Prove me wrong, Dems.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2026 03:37 PM (6ydKt)

27 These are the kids who spent all of their formative years repeatedly touching their penises.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2026 03:35 PM (bl07w)

Damn, tcn. That's a harsh mirror to toss around.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 16, 2026 03:37 PM (zZu0s)

28 You haven't lived till you've made a sandwich........

Posted by: Zombie Ted Kennedy at July 16, 2026 03:37 PM (2YhKe)

29 These are the kids who spent all of their formative years repeatedly touching their penises.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2026 03:35 PM (bl07w)



Was that wrong?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 03:38 PM (2YhKe)

30 Taxpayers should care.
Posted by: weft cut-loop


About how many people they are having sex with? Why?

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 16, 2026 03:38 PM (oEMAv)

31 Amazing how many wild and crazy and ultra mega hetero men there are in the Democrat Party. Who knew?
Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 03:36 PM (LuIt4)
___

*snort*

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 16, 2026 03:38 PM (/0H7F)

32
Can I really be faulted for preferring to have a lot of women on my staff?

This sounds like Nazism!

Posted by: Senator Ruben Gallego at July 16, 2026 03:38 PM (Fi81e)

33
*leans forward with furrowed brow*

Were they women? Biologically, I mean.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2026 03:38 PM (+VZIW)

34 Also, politicians and other public officers shouldn't be engaging in behavior that could lead to blackmail. So, yeah, it is a problem.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 16, 2026 03:38 PM (diia5)

35 Saw some chatter earlier that today's Blue Angels practice scheduled for 2 PM (CDT) over Pensacola Beach had been cancelled due to a "safety review" initiated following yesterday's incident regarding the opposing solo's low altitude pass over beachgoers.

Not true.

They departed Runway 25L on time, flying over my house as usual when the surface winds at KNPA are out of the west.

Posted by: one hour sober at July 16, 2026 03:38 PM (J4Dwc)

36 Was that wrong?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 03:38 PM (2YhKe)

Like a monkey hitting a cocaine button.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 16, 2026 03:38 PM (zZu0s)

37 22
He won't.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 03:35 PM (PIaQL)

____________

Democrats always have a hall pass.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2026 03:36 PM (+VZIW)

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We are well past the moment when consensual sexual affairs takes down a sitting senator.

It might get folded into a primary campaign against him because he's "damaged" or whatever, but I suspect the primary campaign would fail.

People think Gallego is possible because of Swalwell. Except Swalwell dropped out of a primary he was going to lose anyway using maximum pressure to get him out. He wasn't an incumbent to the governorship. He was just an asshole standing in Katie Porter's way.

Sitting senator is far different from House member trying for governorship he wasn't going to win anyway.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 03:39 PM (PIaQL)

38 Where is the #MeToo crowd?


Anybody? Anybody?


Bueller?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 16, 2026 03:39 PM (4KUe5)

39 Damn, tcn. That's a harsh mirror to toss around.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 16, 2026 03:37 PM (zZu0s)

It's one thing to check if it is still there, but another entirely to continually needing to rub one out.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2026 03:39 PM (bl07w)

40 2? Lol.
Rookie numbers Rueben.
Do better.

Posted by: Ted Kennedy at July 16, 2026 03:39 PM (2hwDr)

41 The most secret info in America is the Congressional names on the List of Sexual Harassment Payments.

Let the data be free.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 16, 2026 03:39 PM (u82oZ)

42 He's gonna be charged with two counts of inappropriately touching his own staff.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 03:39 PM (LuIt4)

43 It's one thing to check if it is still there, but another entirely to continually needing to rub one out.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2026 03:39 PM (bl07w)

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 16, 2026 03:39 PM (zZu0s)

44
So more proof that the DNC's "Manly men are back!"

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 16, 2026 03:39 PM (OkYzo)

45 A third source confirmed one of the dalliances, both of which are said to have been consensual and occurred during Gallego's decade representing Phoenix in the House.

I'm banging this chick on your behalf, Phoenix!

Posted by: Ruben Gallego at July 16, 2026 03:40 PM (aZ9eR)

46
I really don’t care about anyone’s sex life.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 16, 2026 03:34 PM (agvh/)



They're merely being held to the standards they've set for others.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 03:40 PM (2YhKe)

47 It's one thing to check if it is still there, but another entirely to continually needing to rub one out.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2026 03:39 PM (bl07w)

Embrace the power of and.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 03:40 PM (LuIt4)

48 I have women working on my staff around the clock.

Posted by: Senator Ruben Gallego at July 16, 2026 03:40 PM (Fi81e)

49 I get the boss-staffer part but throwing in that she was decades younger part is silly. She was in her 20's. Nevertheless, I am enjoying the popcorn.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 16, 2026 03:40 PM (n5tGW)

50
For Heaven's sake, Gerry Studds boinked House pages and he was returned term after term by his Masshole constituents.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2026 03:40 PM (+VZIW)

51 I simply will not believe that my cartel financed Senator would engage in this activity!

Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at July 16, 2026 03:40 PM (RIyP7)

52 And they freak out that SecWar is concerned with soldier Testosterone levels.

Posted by: steevy at July 16, 2026 03:41 PM (YwEeS)

53 And they freak out that SecWar is concerned with soldier Testosterone levels.

Posted by: steevy at July 16, 2026 03:41 PM (YwEeS)
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No perversion involved.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 03:41 PM (Fi81e)

54
I think "banged" has been played out. Let's go back to the classics like "Humped".

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 16, 2026 03:41 PM (OkYzo)

55 Why does every conversation have to be about sex? Or perversion. Or general nastiness and humiliation of another person.

JFC was are a sock society.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 16, 2026 03:42 PM (oEMAv)

56 “get the boss-staffer part but throwing in that she was decades younger part is silly. She was in her 20's.”

And he’s in his 40s.
Hence decades younger. 2 decades to be exact.

Posted by: The Maths at July 16, 2026 03:42 PM (2hwDr)

57 Lankford...why would he stick his ugly mug into this fight?

I cannot imagine he has sex with any gender. Maybe one of those blow up dolls and they are grossed out by the red haired lurch as well.

I know this is not the point, Ace. I had not thought of him for years. Yug.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 16, 2026 03:42 PM (hzuYO)

58
They sobbed, "My innocence was lost to this ravening monster!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2026 03:42 PM (+VZIW)

59 *SICK*


Fml.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 16, 2026 03:42 PM (oEMAv)

60 Arizona Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego, a potential 2028 presidential candidate

Are there any Democrats that the MFM doesn't consider as Presidential timber?

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 16, 2026 03:42 PM (4NO2D)

61 Smashed is the new banged.

Posted by: GenZ Dictionary at July 16, 2026 03:42 PM (2hwDr)

62 My Spidey Sense is telling me that there is sexual abuse charges and possible rape charges. I wouldn't say possible pedophile charges as well.

The guy is your typical democrap scumbag.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at July 16, 2026 03:43 PM (xvV+O)

63 *SICK*


Fml.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 16, 2026 03:42 PM (oEMAv)



I thought you were talking about all the Horde experiencing 'sock failure' today.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 03:43 PM (2YhKe)

64
And he’s in his 40s.
Hence decades younger. 2 decades to be exact.

Posted by: The Maths at July 16, 2026 03:42 PM (2hwDr)

___________

One half plus seven rule for creepitude.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2026 03:43 PM (+VZIW)

65 Smashed is the new banged.
Posted by: GenZ Dictionary at July 16, 2026 03:42 PM (2hwDr)
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There is also "clapped".

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 03:43 PM (Fi81e)

66 {{{nurse ratched}}}

Your tax dollar, in part, are used to silence accusers of people like Sen. Gallego. 

A cynical person would say that misbehavior of Congressmen is an important part of the Deep State. So they can be blackmailed to do as the Inside Party wants.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 16, 2026 03:43 PM (u82oZ)

67 nailed

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 16, 2026 03:44 PM (wOO3z)

68 2028 Democrat Presidential hopeful, Rueben Gallego!

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 03:44 PM (GD0B3)

69 62 My Spidey Sense is telling me that there is sexual abuse charges and possible rape charges. I wouldn't say possible pedophile charges as well.

The guy is your typical democrap scumbag.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at July 16, 2026 03:43 PM (xvV+O)

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I kind of doubt it.

I suspect he just convinces women to have sex with him when he's not paying women to have sex with him. And he does it a lot.

Democrats just have to come to terms with the fact that their "men who fight" also love to fuck outside of monogamous gay relationships.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 03:44 PM (PIaQL)

70 Banging congressional staffers is one of the perks of elected office. Lets not be naive.

Posted by: mr tmz at July 16, 2026 03:44 PM (rJ48h)

71 We are well past the moment when consensual sexual affairs takes down a sitting senator.

It might get folded into a primary campaign against him because he's "damaged" or whatever, but I suspect the primary campaign would fail.

People think Gallego is possible because of Swalwell. Except Swalwell dropped out of a primary he was going to lose anyway using maximum pressure to get him out. He wasn't an incumbent to the governorship. He was just an asshole standing in Katie Porter's way.

Sitting senator is far different from House member trying for governorship he wasn't going to win anyway.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Pattern of behavior where the law and boundaries don't matter to Gallegos. My guess is a lot more dirt on this guy than just this--but sex sells better than mundane financial hanky panky, electoral cheating, and other scumbuggery.

And it is aimed at AWFLs in particular as most of them resent players personally from their own wretched experiences in being used and abused.

Demobilizing D voters as the Democrats right now have no cause other than DSA tripe that scares indy voters or they hate Trump.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:44 PM (E4rtv)

72 Democrats just have to come to terms with the fact that their "men who fight" also love to fuck outside of monogamous gay relationships.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 03:44 PM (PIaQL)




EEEWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at July 16, 2026 03:45 PM (2YhKe)

73 You know.

Posted by: Nothing Will Happen Guy at July 16, 2026 03:45 PM (2hwDr)

74 Boffed

Posted by: one hour sober at July 16, 2026 03:45 PM (J4Dwc)

75
Rogered

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2026 03:45 PM (+VZIW)

76 >> a potential 2028 presidential candidate,

I love this formulation from the media.

I think the only person they haven’t named as a potential Democrat “presidential candidate” is Big Bird.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 16, 2026 03:45 PM (jlI90)

77 It's one thing to check if it is still there, but another entirely to continually needing to rub one out.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2026 03:39 PM


I think we'll need Masturbatin' Pete's thoughts, here.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 16, 2026 03:45 PM (kgE5c)

78 The Post notes that Gallego -- hilariously -- thinks he can be president one day.

It seems like all senators do.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 16, 2026 03:46 PM (cl15i)

79 70 Banging congressional staffers is one of the perks of elected office. Lets not be naive.
Posted by: mr tmz at July 16, 2026 03:44 PM (rJ48h)
-----------
The Horror!!! The Horror!

Posted by: Anonymous staffer in Rosa DeLaurio's office at July 16, 2026 03:46 PM (dJeAh)

80 Unlike you no account, layabout, rube Repubs; I had fucks to give!

Posted by: Rueben Gallego at July 16, 2026 03:46 PM (mXOPV)

81 The weekend is here

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 03:46 PM (Ia/+0)

82 the Trump DOJ was "targeting" him for political reasons.

Wow! Another Democrat Legal Theory.

We can add this to: "Don't Judge A Person On Their Worst Day".

All a criminal has to do is prove that this was his worst day (so far) or that he has TDS and thus prosecution-proof because it falls underneath the legal doctrine against political targeting.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 16, 2026 03:46 PM (pawvM)

83 Yeah , we were made to care about this with Anita Hill and #MeToo.

Your rules.
They must be enforced, either for parity, or so they stop politically weaponizing adultery.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 16, 2026 03:46 PM (4KUe5)

84 20 something is an adult, she can make her own mistakes.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 16, 2026 03:46 PM (n5tGW)

85
"monogamous gay relationships"

A creature like the unicorn.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2026 03:46 PM (+VZIW)

86 "What else could there be out there?" this person asked.


===

Excellent question, what else ??!

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 03:47 PM (GD0B3)

87 82 the Trump DOJ was "targeting" him for political reasons.

Wow! Another Democrat Legal Theory.

We can add this to: "Don't Judge A Person On Their Worst Day".

All a criminal has to do is prove that this was his worst day (so far) or that he has TDS and thus prosecution-proof because it falls underneath the legal doctrine against political targeting.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 16, 2026 03:46 PM (pawvM)

=======

Screaming "I hate Trump" while you commit wire fraud means that the DOJ can't prosecute you because it would be political retribution.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 03:47 PM (PIaQL)

88 Boinked

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 16, 2026 03:47 PM (n5tGW)

89 Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:44 PM (E4rtv)

If communism really scared indy voters, few would have been voting for Democrats for the last 20 or more years.

You would be surprised at what *doesn't* scare voters.

Put a smile on it and a smooth voice and a large subset will vote for it.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 03:47 PM (LuIt4)

90 If Gallego is "elected" President, will he be the first Little Person to serve? Because there were a lot of very short Presidents in the early years.

Posted by: Rapid Shitty at July 16, 2026 03:47 PM (qUkBO)

91 >> What else could there be out there?" this person asked.

Has anyone spoken with that feral cat that hangs around Congress?

Posted by: Marcus T at July 16, 2026 03:47 PM (jlI90)

92 chaired by Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.),"

Well, that's nice.

/what a maroon

Posted by: man at July 16, 2026 03:48 PM (cGjQu)

93 Banging congressional staffers is one of the perks of elected office. Lets not be naive.

And if we deny them the perks of sexually assaulting or bedding down interns and staffers, they will be bored and call Comet Pizza.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 16, 2026 03:48 PM (pawvM)

94 57 Lankford...why would he stick his ugly mug into this fight?

I cannot imagine he has sex with any gender. Maybe one of those blow up dolls and they are grossed out by the red haired lurch as well.

I know this is not the point, Ace. I had not thought of him for years. Yug.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Lankford's skeleton is his behavior as a supervisor over a Christian retreat camp that had a lawsuit from a sex scandal involving kids there.

From Brave AI summary, "The association stems from a 2010 deposition in which he testified that he believed 13-year-olds could consent to sex, a statement that contradicts Oklahoma law, which sets the age of consent at 16 with no provision for 13-year-olds. "

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:48 PM (E4rtv)

95 a potential 2028 presidential candidate,

I love this formulation from the media.

I think the only person they haven’t named as a potential Democrat “presidential candidate” is Big Bird.


I think they have also ruled out Joe and Hunter Biden

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at July 16, 2026 03:48 PM (8yx7s)

96 If I'm an evil Democrat, I'm finding some Kristie McBimbo willing to make up some complete bullshit about Gallego.
Then I'm proving that it's bullshit (because I'm the evil Democrat writing the script in the first place).
Then when someone else comes forward with some real evidence, I'm letting my pals in the media say "well look at Miss McBimbo over there, everyone knows that didn't happen".

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 03:48 PM (gKWVE)

97 Como se dice "Tap those asses!" en espanol?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at July 16, 2026 03:48 PM (xvV+O)

98 Sock correction.

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at July 16, 2026 03:48 PM (mXOPV)

99 If the Canada wildfire reaches the Cuyahoga River, things could go pear shaped.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 16, 2026 03:49 PM (2ap+5)

100 If communism really scared indy voters, few would have been voting for Democrats for the last 20 or more years.

You would be surprised at what *doesn't* scare voters.

Put a smile on it and a smooth voice and a large subset will vote for it.
Posted by: ...
========
It actually does, but you have to bring it up first why to youngsters. Older voters don't have that problem.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:49 PM (E4rtv)

101 Probably a Marxist with no morals
Toss the pregnant wife to the side

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 03:50 PM (Ia/+0)

102 I will keep harping on this (surprise) - his claim wasn't don't judge a person on their worst day. That's what decent people HEAR.

He said don't judge ALL people on their worst day and that exceptions must be made for child rape.

But other worst days like voting for Trump or calling Valerie Jarrett a name are fine, judge away.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 03:50 PM (LuIt4)

103 "Rueben Gallego banged at least two House aides."

That's so gross.

Posted by: Salma Hayek wearing Harvey Weinstein at July 16, 2026 03:50 PM (yFLFB)

104 Banging congressional staffers is one of the perks of elected office. Lets not be naive."

Boy, did I screw that up!

/Wilbur Mills

Posted by: man at July 16, 2026 03:50 PM (cGjQu)

105 When I see Gallego's name it triggers the Queen song in my brain:

Bohemian Rhapsody

https://tinyurl.com/2p64tez9

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 16, 2026 03:50 PM (hzuYO)

106 You'd have to have really low self esteem to bang a politician. Political ambition isn't going to cut it if they sense you're looking for a job.

And not a facial.

They're all just greasy, corrupt pieced of shit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 16, 2026 03:50 PM (jehhT)

107 I know a woman who is an aide to some Democrat in Congress. She's the daughter of a friend of mine. I hope he wasn't having an affair with her- just because I would think her taste in men was execrable.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2026 03:50 PM (D+BhG)

108 When asked if The Post's reporting was accurate, Gallego again said, "I'm not going to engage in gossip."

As one of the principles, it's not gossip.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 16, 2026 03:50 PM (4NO2D)

109 If the Canada wildfire reaches the Cuyahoga River, things could go pear shaped.
Posted by: Oglebay

Fuck it. It's just Cleveland.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 16, 2026 03:51 PM (wOO3z)

110 Put a smile on it and a smooth voice and a large subset will vote for it.

I have never understood the propensity to scream “communism” as a way of changing votes. Talk about the actual policies, not the label. Or label it those policies in a way that people will understand. (“Death panels.”)

But just yelling “communism” only makes it more likely.

Which I expect for most of the GOPe is probably the point.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 16, 2026 03:51 PM (twdYN)

111 "The 46-year-old lawmaker admitted to the two relationships -- both with aides to Texas Democrats -- to one source while a second person said they had recently learned of the romantic entanglements."

These losers are filthy predatory scumbags too weak and impotent to get women for real.

It's always affairs with "aides" or "staff" or consultants or other women they have power or control over. It's never with an equal or someone outside the political industry.

Now, there are sadly too many women who are not only OK with this, but happy to use it to advance their careers. But that doesn't change the fact that these men are sad and weak and can't get women they don't have power over.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 16, 2026 03:51 PM (iFTx/)

112 At this point, I'm surprised when a congress critter or Senator is faithful to his or her spouse. I just assume the worse with these people. Saves time.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 16, 2026 03:51 PM (sAmhv)

113 "What else could there be out there?" this person asked."

Recent events (I'm looking at you, Maine Kampf) makes me think there's probably a lot more...

Posted by: hobbitopoly at July 16, 2026 03:51 PM (k9OZB)

114 The Clintons lowered the bar in public discourse from “bad” to “unbelievably rancid”.

Recall, even liberal media types were resigned to the fact that Billy Jeff was gonna have to resign, and said so on air.

Billy Jeff abusing interns, and the icing on the cake was forcing DOD to have standup talks and “sexual harassment training”

Every whack job learned she could ruin anybody’s career with unsubstantiated allegations. It’s never let up since. Crazy

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 03:51 PM (hkjqi)

115 I remember when Madison Cawthorne reported on how all of Capitol Hill, Democrat and Republican, was just full of coke-fueled orgies.

Republican voters said "tsk, tsk, He's just too young and immature" as he was quickly primaried for reporting the truth back to his constituents.

Posted by: ZoomerCon at July 16, 2026 03:51 PM (uSpHL)

116 That's so gross.
Posted by: Salma Hayek wearing Harvey Weinstein"

I know, huh?

/Harvey's ficus

Posted by: man at July 16, 2026 03:51 PM (cGjQu)

117 More fun from Arizona

🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸
@Real_RobN
·
3h
Saying illegal aliens are not voting in U.S. elections is like saying the border was secure during the four years of Joe Biden.

It turns out that 10,000 illegal aliens, using the exact same Social Security number, voted in the Arizona November 3, 2020 general election.

Just ask Adrian Fontes—he was the one who registered them.

Pass the SAVE America Act.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:52 PM (E4rtv)

118 Old and Busted : Code of Official Conduct
New Hotness : Consensual Banging!

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 03:52 PM (GD0B3)

119 Did I take liberty with a few house staffers? Idid. But you can’t hold an entire senate responsible for a few twisted individuals. For if you do shouldn’t we blame the entire senate system? And if the whole senate system is guilty then I put it to you John Thune, isn’t this an indictment of our American society? Well you can say whatever you want about me but I will not sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America.

Good day gentlemen.

Posted by: Reuben Otter Gallego at July 16, 2026 03:52 PM (2hwDr)

120 There is a way for him to have kept this from coming out. He fucked up.

Posted by: Joe Scarborough at July 16, 2026 03:52 PM (J4Dwc)

121 The thing is, beyond pressuring a woman to have sex with you, fucking a subordinate is wrong. People are going to fuck, sure. But just by their being a subordinate IS pressure.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 16, 2026 03:52 PM (zZu0s)

122 It's always affairs with "aides" or "staff" or consultants or other women they have power or control over. It's never with an equal or someone outside the political industry.

Hey, some of them also boff spies whom the CCP pimps out at them.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 03:53 PM (gKWVE)

123 Speaking of dumb fucks

@libsoftiktok 13m
MAJOR BREAKING

William Upham has been arrested in Florida and charged for threats against the President after he said Trump must be kiIIed

FAFO time

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 16, 2026 03:53 PM (diia5)

124 People should walk with their backs to the wall when Gallego is around.

Animals too.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 16, 2026 03:53 PM (jlI90)

125 105- Hi, Christy

Here's Bohemian Rhapsody with cats:

https://tinyurl.com/mu7tna89

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2026 03:53 PM (D+BhG)

126 I really don’t care about anyone’s sex life.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 16, 2026 03:34 PM (agvh/)

Neither do I unless you lie about it while in public office.

Posted by: dantesed at July 16, 2026 03:53 PM (w1twS)

127 Lankford's skeleton is his behavior as a supervisor over a Christian retreat camp that had a lawsuit from a sex scandal involving kids there.

From Brave AI summary, "The association stems from a 2010 deposition in which he testified that he believed 13-year-olds could consent to sex, a statement that contradicts Oklahoma law, which sets the age of consent at 16 with no provision for 13-year-olds. "
Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:48 PM (E4rtv)

***************

I KNEW there was a reason I did not like him but could not remember. Pervert pedo peckerhead.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 16, 2026 03:53 PM (hzuYO)

128 I am thinking divorcing your wife 10 days before Christmas and right before she gives birth to your child should be enough to make this man hide under a rock forever more. In the end, he did this poor woman a favor, but holy hades.

As for the side piece he is with, girlfriend. If he could do this to his pregnant wife, what do you think he is capable of doing to you?

Posted by: Piper at July 16, 2026 03:53 PM (Dd38x)

129 I remember when Madison Cawthorne reported on how all of Capitol Hill, Democrat and Republican, was just full of coke-fueled orgies.

Back when The Other Trudeau was actually funny (a mythical but wonderful past) he spent a couple of weeks on this. “Does everyone do it?”

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 16, 2026 03:54 PM (twdYN)

130 109 If the Canada wildfire reaches the Cuyahoga River, things could go pear shaped.
Posted by: Oglebay

Fuck it. It's just Cleveland.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory



The industry that caused that is long gone, so Cleveland will be 'fine'.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 16, 2026 03:54 PM (sAmhv)

131 Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 16, 2026 03:53 PM (d

Was this the ex military guy who was running for Congress?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2026 03:54 PM (D+BhG)

132 128 I am thinking divorcing your wife 10 days before Christmas and right before she gives birth to your child should be enough to make this man hide under a rock forever more. In the end, he did this poor woman a favor, but holy hades.

As for the side piece he is with, girlfriend. If he could do this to his pregnant wife, what do you think he is capable of doing to you?

Posted by: Piper at July 16, 2026 03:53 PM (Dd38x)

======

Democrats don't elect moral leaders, they elect people who vote the right way.

They expect Republicans to elect moral leaders who vote the wrong way.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 03:54 PM (PIaQL)

133
As for the side piece he is with, girlfriend. If he could do this to his pregnant wife, what do you think he is capable of doing to you?
Posted by: Piper at July 16, 2026 03:53 PM (Dd38x)

I can change him.

Posted by: Every Woman at July 16, 2026 03:55 PM (2hwDr)

134 When asked if The Post's reporting was accurate, Gallego again said, "I'm not going to engage in gossip."

As one of the principles, it's not gossip.
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 16, 2026 03:50 PM (4NO2D)
---
Plus gossip is a deep, personal flaw.

He's just banging subordinates from work.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 03:55 PM (Fi81e)

135 As for the side piece he is with, girlfriend. If he could do this to his pregnant wife, what do you think he is capable of doing to you?
Posted by: Piper at July 16, 2026 03:53 PM (Dd38x)

But I can fix him.

Posted by: some floozie at July 16, 2026 03:55 PM (gKWVE)

136 “Monogamous” homosexuals?

Yeah, no. More akin to “Any Orifice Will Do”.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 03:55 PM (hkjqi)

137
If communism really scared indy voters, few would have been voting for Democrats for the last 20 or more years.

You would be surprised at what *doesn't* scare voters.


When socialism means the State owns and controls the means of production, as they are being loaded onto the bus to the sugar cane fields they experience their anagnorisis that they too are the State's means of production.

Then and only then do they get scared, because if the State decides that they are of no practical use to the State, the bus they are on heads over to the MAID camp instead.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 16, 2026 03:56 PM (PVBkQ)

138 I have never understood the propensity to scream “communism” as a way of changing votes. Talk about the actual policies, not the label. Or label it those policies in a way that people will understand. (“Death panels.”

But just yelling “communism” only makes it more likely.

Which I expect for most of the GOPe is probably the point.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair
=======
It actually does for older swing voters, that is why the Democrats are calling themselves Socialists instead of Communists. They even have some qualms about calling themselves that with younger voters. So they try to do what Labour did in the UK, slide in under the cover of Socialism which also appeals to a lot of the non Americans in their voting base.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:57 PM (E4rtv)

139 I am thinking divorcing your wife 10 days before Christmas and right before she gives birth to your child should be enough to make this man hide under a rock forever more. In the end, he did this poor woman a favor, but holy hades.

As for the side piece he is with, girlfriend. If he could do this to his pregnant wife, what do you think he is capable of doing to you?
Posted by: Piper at July 16, 2026 03:53 PM (Dd38x)
______

Some women are like communists: they always think they'll be the ones to avoid getting put against the wall.

Becky could steal Chad from Abby who stole him from Jenn who stole him from Lashandra. Becky thinks she's special and Chad is hers forever.

Once a cheater, always a cheater. Too few ladies are learning this very basic rule.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 16, 2026 03:57 PM (iFTx/)

140 Got to admit Gallego is a slime , but he's a successful hound

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2026 03:57 PM (OXYE0)

141 As for the side piece he is with, girlfriend. If he could do this to his pregnant wife, what do you think he is capable of doing to you?
Posted by: Piper at July 16, 2026 03:53 PM (Dd38x)



They always think they're better and "he'd NEVER do that to MEEEE!!!!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 03:57 PM (2YhKe)

142 We were a lot better country when the Cuyahoga had an octane rating

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 03:57 PM (hkjqi)

143
Yeah, no. More akin to “Any Orifice Will Do”.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 03:55 PM (hkjqi)




This is about me, isn't it........

Posted by: Clay Aikin at July 16, 2026 03:58 PM (2YhKe)

144 Got to admit Gallego is a slime , but he's a successful hound
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2026 03:57 PM (OXYE0)



When you've got demon seed, you must spread it.

It is written.

Posted by: Ruben Gallego at July 16, 2026 03:59 PM (2YhKe)

145 97 Como se dice "Tap those asses!" en espanol?

tappo los assos, i believe.

Posted by: anachronda at July 16, 2026 03:59 PM (v3pYe)

146 Was this the ex military guy who was running for Congress?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke


Yeah, named Upham of all things.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 16, 2026 03:59 PM (diia5)

147 Weirdos of a feather fetish stick together,

Laura Loomer
@LauraLoomer
·
9m
EXCLUSIVE:

Newly released FEC records show Jeffrey Epstein’s associate Reid Hoffman
@reidhoffman
has poured over $10 million into Lone Star Rising PAC, which is supporting Texas Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico
@jamestalarico
.

Hoffman reportedly visited Epstein Island in November 2014, long after Epstein's 2008 conviction for procuring a minor for prostitution.

President Trump has called Talarico “weird” over Talarico’s past statements saying he “loves trans children”.

Obviously, Reid Hoffman is weird because he hung out with Jeffrey Epstein at his island AFTER sex allegations were made, and so it makes sense why Hoffman is heavily backing the man who says he has a special place in his heart for trans kids… as a grown man.

Weirdos stick together!

@elonmusk
is going to have a field day when he sees this. 👇🏻

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:59 PM (E4rtv)

148 He probably leaked this to cover for the much more damaging info coming out.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at July 16, 2026 03:59 PM (wrEn7)

149 Its all.muggy here they said from Canada

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 04:00 PM (Ia/+0)

150 I can change him.
Posted by: Every Woman at July 16, 2026

Yeah, no. Not every woman.

Posted by: Piper at July 16, 2026 04:00 PM (Dd38x)

151 147 Hoffman reportedly visited Epstein Island in November 2014, long after Epstein's 2008 conviction for procuring a minor for prostitution.

President Trump has called Talarico “weird” over Talarico’s past statements saying he “loves trans children”.

Obviously, Reid Hoffman is weird because he hung out with Jeffrey Epstein at his island AFTER sex allegations were made, and so it makes sense why Hoffman is heavily backing the man who says he has a special place in his heart for trans kids… as a grown man.

Weirdos stick together!

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:59 PM (E4rtv)

=======

"Why hasn't Trump executed everyone mentioned in the Epstein Files just for being mentioned in the Epstein Files!"
-Reddit

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 04:00 PM (PIaQL)

152 The LEFT does NOT vote for a particular candidate. The LEFT votes AGAINST the other candidate. It's how they avoid arguing the issues in debate with political opponents, and with themselves.

Hell, I'll bet you can have a Nazi tattoo and get elected. I'm guessing in a milquetoast state like Delaware, you could be a man wearing a dress and get elected. I'm even willing to bet that you could rise through the ranks of politics and get elected if youir primary strategy is to give higher ranking policians blow jobs.

Posted by: Orson at July 16, 2026 04:00 PM (dIske)

153 144 Got to admit Gallego is a slime , but he's a successful hound
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Have you been much to DC and Capitol Hill, a lot of the guys are gay, a lot of the straight males are married, and the number of women to straight single males is pretty staggering in the male's favor.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 04:01 PM (E4rtv)

154 Once a cheater, always a cheater. Too few ladies are learning this very basic rule.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 16, 2026 03:57 PM (iFTx/)


Ladies know the rules. Assuming they are such is the mistake.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 16, 2026 04:01 PM (tWxgu)

155 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at July 16, 2026 04:01 PM (ODUgl)

156
Democrats sleep with aides: Sexual relationship

Republicans sleep with aides: Rape

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 16, 2026 04:01 PM (OkYzo)

157 126 I really don’t care about anyone’s sex life.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 16, 2026 03:34 PM (agvh/)

=======

"personally, I have no interest in a man's private life. what a man does in his free time is no concern of mine
.
.
.
within reason"

Posted by: Oglebay at July 16, 2026 04:01 PM (2ap+5)

158 The perks of power, at least when you're a Democrat. For a Republican it would definitely have been rape.

Posted by: PG at July 16, 2026 04:02 PM (5tjvu)

159 Still can't believe Kari Lake gave that seat away despite Trump comfortably winning AZ in the same election.

Posted by: Leupold at July 16, 2026 04:02 PM (eIzlH)

160 159 Still can't believe Kari Lake gave that seat away despite Trump comfortably winning AZ in the same election.

Posted by: Leupold at July 16, 2026 04:02 PM (eIzlH)

======

99% of losers in one election lose the next election as well.

This is going to happen to Sherrod Brown in OH this year, by the way.

Trump is the exception that people will consider the new rule, so expect a whole lot more of people losing elections and refusing to go away.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 04:03 PM (PIaQL)

161 Still can't believe Kari Lake gave that seat away despite Trump comfortably winning AZ in the same election.
Posted by: Leupold at July 16, 2026 04:02 PM (eIzlH)
___

How did she 'give it away'?

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 16, 2026 04:03 PM (/0H7F)

162 >
"personally, I have no interest in a man's private life. what a man does in his free time is no concern of mine.
------
What about the librarian?

Posted by: Bookman at July 16, 2026 04:03 PM (ODUgl)

163 Got to admit Gallego is a slime , but he's a successful hound
Posted by: Smell the Glove

==

If you have the slightest bit of power in DC, it's maybe more lopsided than being a Hollywood celebrity.

You could have zero game, be short and ugly and it's like your Brad Pitt.

Posted by: Leupold at July 16, 2026 04:04 PM (eIzlH)

164 If Kari Lake is givin' it away, where she at?

Posted by: Oglebay at July 16, 2026 04:04 PM (2ap+5)

165 These are Dem candidates,

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
·
Jul 15
Florida congressional candidate and former marine William Upham

“He [President Trump] is the enemy and must be kiIIed”

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 04:04 PM (E4rtv)

166 Still can't believe Kari Lake gave that seat away despite Trump comfortably winning AZ in the same election.
Posted by: Leupold at July 16, 2026 04:02 PM (eIzlH)

Something hinky was afoot.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 16, 2026 04:04 PM (wOO3z)

167 Ethics
Honor
Integrity
Just words to these assholes.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 16, 2026 04:04 PM (2WIwB)

168 really don’t care about anyone’s sex life.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 16, 2026 03:34 PM (agvh/)

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"personally, I have no interest in a man's private life. what a man does in his free time is no concern of mine
.



Hows that working for us?

You "don't care about sex lives" then wonder how Congress is funding sex-changes in the military,

Retarded.

Posted by: ZoomerCon at July 16, 2026 04:05 PM (uSpHL)

169 "personally, I have no interest in a man's private life. what a man does in his free time is no concern of mine
.
.
.
within reason"

Posted by: Oglebay at July 16, 2026 04:01 PM (2ap+5)


They shouldn’t do it in the street and scare the horses.

Obviously an adage from a prior age.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 16, 2026 04:05 PM (tWxgu)

170 159 Still can't believe Kari Lake gave that seat away despite Trump comfortably winning AZ in the same election.
Posted by: Leupold

You might want to investigate how Maricopa County rigged the election. Starting with election machinery breakdowns only in GOP voting areas among their cheat by mail voting system.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 04:05 PM (E4rtv)

171 Lindsey Graham, my oldest friend, told me he was about to turn against Israel before he died.

Posted by: Candace at July 16, 2026 04:05 PM (qG7ia)

172 99% of losers in one election lose the next election as well.

This is going to happen to Sherrod Brown in OH this year, by the way.

Trump is the exception that people will consider the new rule, so expect a whole lot more of people losing elections and refusing to go away.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

==

I wish Trump had not endorsed her a 2nd time.

It's clear that he told her "no more" because I think she would have run for something a 3rd time had he gone along.

The reality, she was beat by some awful Democrats in terms of electability.

I dont know what it is about her but she just cant win.

Posted by: Leupold at July 16, 2026 04:05 PM (eIzlH)

173 Yawn. Is Mitch dead yet?

Posted by: Death Rides A Pale Dildo at July 16, 2026 04:05 PM (e2lsi)

174 162 "personally, I have no interest in a man's private life. what a man does in his free time is no concern of mine.
------
What about the librarian?


ook?

Posted by: the librarian at July 16, 2026 04:05 PM (v3pYe)

175 he Post notes that Gallego -- hilariously -- thinks he can be president one day.
==
Somewhat less hilariously, a moron points out that Joe Biden has already been president and wanted a second term even though he was clearly, in every possible way, inappropriate, inadequate, incompetent, and iniquitous.

Posted by: Laugh all you want, but you be crying when Hunter Biden is president . . . at July 16, 2026 04:05 PM (anL5R)

176 personally, I have no interest in a man's private life. what a man does in his free time is no concern of mine
——-

This is an extremely dangerous fairy tale that some believe

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 04:06 PM (hkjqi)

177 Pickled the pepperoni.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 16, 2026 04:06 PM (wBaIH)

178 "personally, I have no interest in a man's private life. what a man does in his free time is no concern of mine
.


Hows that working for us?

You "don't care about sex lives" then wonder how Congress is funding sex-changes in the military,

Retarded.
Posted by: ZoomerCon at July 16, 2026 04:05 PM (uSpHL)

=======

I think Don DeLillo was letting the "within reason" do a lot of the work when he wrote those lines.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 16, 2026 04:06 PM (2ap+5)

179 Were the two aides men or women? Or one of each?

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 16, 2026 04:06 PM (XMwZJ)

180 You might want to investigate how Maricopa County rigged the election. Starting with election machinery breakdowns only in GOP voting areas among their cheat by mail voting system.
Posted by: whig

==

I agree shit happened in that election, but if Trump can win it, Lake should have been able also.

Posted by: Leupold at July 16, 2026 04:06 PM (eIzlH)

181 169 They shouldn’t do it in the street and scare the horses electric bikes.

Obviously an adage from a prior age.


fine. fixt.

Posted by: anachronda at July 16, 2026 04:07 PM (v3pYe)

182 Jul 15
Florida congressional candidate and former marine William Upham

“He [President Trump] is the enemy and must be kiIIed”

==

Does this statement constitute a crime? I thought it did.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 16, 2026 04:07 PM (qBdHI)

183 Republicans sleep with aides: Rape

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 16, 2026 04:01 PM (OkYzo)
---
The View would probably even treat it like rape-rape.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 04:07 PM (Fi81e)

184 Our political class is pathetic

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 16, 2026 04:07 PM (Bip3L)

185 "ook?"

Excellent Terry Pratchett reference! You deserve a banana!

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at July 16, 2026 04:07 PM (GMWTj)

186 Arizona to my theory is another state with major vote fraud

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 04:08 PM (Ia/+0)

187 @153 whig, not in DC but a couple of different courses in college band law school took me into the Albany cesspool. There is a thing called the Bear Mountain Compact which meant NYC politicians could have all the affairs north of Bear mountain and nobody talked
A guy two years ahead of me in law school was prosecuted for rape and ended up with 6 yrs probation for sexual misconduct. Should have gotten more but he was a top aide to Sheldon Silver who was the most powerful man in Albany for many years. He too was later jailed

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2026 04:09 PM (OXYE0)

188 Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 04:04 PM (E4rtv

I think he was also reported as saying Trump is the anti Christ. Not only is some murderous leftist but his theology stinks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2026 04:09 PM (D+BhG)

189 I think Lake said some hurty words about John McCain and that turned off some older military people in AZ.
Politics is local, as they say. Most Republicans outside AZ saw McCain as a snake but not enough inside AZ to move the needle.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 04:09 PM (gKWVE)

190 186

I have a relative that lives there, I think its clear they also have a weird electorate.

But it being so close to the border and easy mail in voting, ripe for fraud.

Posted by: Leupold at July 16, 2026 04:09 PM (eIzlH)

191 How did he know these were women he was banging? Is he a biologist?

Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 16, 2026 04:09 PM (L5F8f)

192 Democrats don't elect moral leaders, they elect people who vote the right way.
They expect Republicans to elect moral leaders who vote the wrong way.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

This being "On the side of the Angels" shit was overdue with the left almost from the beginning.

They recite the shaming without regard to anyone but the fanatic base.

Posted by: Auspex at July 16, 2026 04:09 PM (Y8DZL)

193 Ummm...I'm not sure Kari Lake lost that election. AZ is known for its election hijinks.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 16, 2026 04:10 PM (XMwZJ)

194 The representatives get young, cute, 18 year old interns fresh out of high school for a year before starting college and they get “taken advantage of”. Happened to a friend of mine who was interested in politics, She was never the same afterwards.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 16, 2026 04:10 PM (tWxgu)

195 Power corrupts

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 04:10 PM (Ia/+0)

196 193 Ummm...I'm not sure Kari Lake lost that election. AZ is known for its election hijinks.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 16, 2026 04:10 PM (XMwZJ)

So is WA but Rossi kept batting himself against that window like a retarded housefly.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 04:11 PM (gKWVE)

197 I think he was also reported as saying Trump is the anti Christ. Not only is some murderous leftist but his theology stinks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2026 04:09 PM


I may be misremembering the sequence, but IIRC you have to have the rapture before the anti-christ shows up.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 16, 2026 04:11 PM (0N4FZ)

198 *yawn*
I'm having a tuna sandwich on wheat with cheddar cheese, onions, tomatoes and jalapenos.

Posted by: wth at July 16, 2026 04:11 PM (UjdFS)

199 165 These are Dem candidates,

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
·
Jul 15
Florida congressional candidate and former marine William Upham

“He [President Trump] is the enemy and must be kiIIed”
Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 04:04 PM (E4rtv)
______________________________

I saw that. Hegseth and Hung Cao both commented, and I noticed they were very restrained towards him. The guy got a medical discharge, but still wore full dress in making his video despite being discharged. There might be some problems in the noggin with this guy. Either way, he's a write in candidate...not the primary choice of the DNC (but he could be, which was your point, and well taken)

Posted by: Orson at July 16, 2026 04:11 PM (dIske)

200 99% of losers in one election lose the next election as well.

This is going to happen to Sherrod Brown in OH this year, by the way.

Trump is the exception that people will consider the new rule, so expect a whole lot more of people losing elections and refusing to go away.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

==

I wish Trump had not endorsed her a 2nd time.

It's clear that he told her "no more" because I think she would have run for something a 3rd time had he gone along.

The reality, she was beat by some awful Democrats in terms of electability.

I dont know what it is about her but she just cant win.
Posted by: Leupold at July 16, 2026 04:05 PM (eIzlH)
______

She has limited appeal. Her entire "brand" is being aggressive and dismissive of legacy media. She "fights." That's very appealing to certain people on the right. We all liked her. But that combative style -- especially in a women -- also turns off a lot of people who otherwise would consider voting for the GOP.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 16, 2026 04:12 PM (iFTx/)

201 Arizona to my theory is another state with major vote fraud

Given what Judicial Watch and other orgs have been finding, there is major vote fraud everywhere. It’s just that it matters more in some places. Looking at the amount of fraud, even California would probably be at least in play if it weren’t for fraud.

The Democrat who said that if ballot integrity passes we’ll never be in again knows what he’s talking about.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 16, 2026 04:12 PM (twdYN)

202 ome women are like communists: they always think they'll be the ones to avoid getting put against the wall.

Becky could steal Chad from Abby who stole him from Jenn who stole him from Lashandra. Becky thinks she's special and Chad is hers forever.

Once a cheater, always a cheater. Too few ladies are learning this very basic rule.
==
Shame is part of the kink. They think they can be the one to tame the tiger, but when they don't, they enjoy the drama as much, if not more, than any taming.
You know how dudes like a good revenge movie. Chicks love crying. Movies get made just so chicks can have an excuse for a good cry. Getting dumped by Chad is good for a week long cry.

Posted by: Hoes gonna ho at July 16, 2026 04:12 PM (anL5R)

203 How did he know these were women he was banging? Is he a biologist?
Posted by: Stu Podaso
.......

Amateur gynecologist.

Posted by: wth at July 16, 2026 04:13 PM (UjdFS)

204 157 126 I really don’t care about anyone’s sex life.
Posted by: nurse ratched

I remember years ago after a 12 hour shift sitting in a bar watching people I knew pairing off and smugly musing that they deserved each other.

But, who's dating who in Hollywood tonight???

Posted by: Auspex at July 16, 2026 04:15 PM (Y8DZL)

205 I just saw the Critical Drinker and Nerdrotic on the same pannel as Victor Davis Hanson...what a wild timeline we're on.

Posted by: Cray Cray at July 16, 2026 04:16 PM (XdJ05)

206 OT but I just found Bicentenial Minutes on You Tube. If you want to feel the difference between 1976 and today in terms of culture and patriotism, these shorts are excellent.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at July 16, 2026 04:16 PM (jPdyB)

207
Arizona had some outright sketchy polling place "mishaps" in the last few elections, IIRC.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 04:17 PM (Fi81e)

208 Her entire "brand" is being aggressive and dismissive of legacy media.

One of the things about Trump is that he wasn’t dismissive of legacy media. He understood its power. He also understood its weakness: they do not understand how out of touch they are and will promote things they think are harmful to a candidate that actually boost the candidate.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 16, 2026 04:17 PM (twdYN)

209 203 How did he know these were women he was banging? Is he a biologist?
Posted by: Stu Podaso
.......

Amateur gynecologist.
Posted by: wth at July 16, 2026 04:13 PM (UjdFS)

"Let me show you how"
---Crocodile Dundee

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 16, 2026 04:17 PM (N39Ws)

210
Arizona Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego, a potential 2028 presidential candidate

---------

Talk about a long shot.

Dilettante. Flake. Low-IQ dipshit.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 16, 2026 04:17 PM (azNOR)

211 They may not admit it, but Gallego/Swalwell types are absolutely proud that people know about this stuff.

Posted by: Commodore at July 16, 2026 04:17 PM (V6W16)

212 The Democrat who said that if ballot integrity passes we’ll never be in again knows what he’s talking about.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair

Well, he doesn't have anything to worry about.

Posted by: John Thune at July 16, 2026 04:17 PM (UjdFS)

213 Don't forget that the notorious womanizer Bill Clinton became president, so fooling around doesn't necessarily disqualify somebody from being president. At least, not if you're a Democrat.

Posted by: Ralph at July 16, 2026 04:17 PM (8WZD4)

214 I think the primary election fraud in Arizona has less to do with DNC hijinx and more to do with Drug Cartel influence. One of the judges who was ruling on the fraud challenges down there actually had three illegal immigrants staying in his home.

Things kind of escalated into sketchy territory after Sherrif Joe Arpaio was removed.

Posted by: Orson at July 16, 2026 04:17 PM (dIske)

215 I think he was also reported as saying Trump is the anti Christ. Not only is some murderous leftist but his theology stinks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2026 04:09 PM


I may be misremembering the sequence, but IIRC you have to have the rapture before the anti-christ shows up.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 16, 2026 04:11 PM (0N4FZ)
_______

No. First you get the money. Then you get the power. Then you get the woman.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 16, 2026 04:17 PM (iFTx/)

216 O/T

My compliments to the 1970's surprise click of "Driver's Seat."

Have not heard that in a LONG time, bro.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 16, 2026 04:17 PM (hzuYO)

217 In reading the NY Post link, I also happened to see the big story about that Canadian witch who slapped the American girl. Someone in the comments said she looked like Nigel Tufnel. I LOL'd...because she does!

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 16, 2026 04:18 PM (qBdHI)

218 Here’s a reason to care: Congress has a fund they use to pay off people they’ve sexually harassed so that they quietly go away. According to corporate HR training I’ve been forced to attend, even consensual sex with your own staff qualifies because it creates a “hostile work environment.”


So, did Gallego pay off these women in exchange for their silence and agreement to not take legal action? We pay for that, have been for many years. That makes it our business.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 16, 2026 04:18 PM (4KUe5)

219 Dude, I want to party with that guy. It's another blowout Democrat party, bitches.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 16, 2026 04:18 PM (sYM3s)

220 194 The representatives get young, cute, 18 year old interns fresh out of high school for a year before starting college and they get “taken advantage of”. Happened to a friend of mine who was interested in politics, She was never the same afterwards.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 16, 2026 04:10 PM (tWxgu)

"Politicians definitely leave a bad taste in your mouth"
--Monica Lewinsky

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 16, 2026 04:18 PM (N39Ws)

221 “He [President Trump] is the enemy and must be kiIIed”

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 04:04 PM (E4rtv)
---
Also "Kill your local Republican".

By spreading this information that looks bad for Democrats, Republicans are just trying to get Democrats killed by their crazies!

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 04:19 PM (Fi81e)

222 She has limited appeal. Her entire "brand" is being aggressive and dismissive of legacy media. She "fights." That's very appealing to certain people on the right. We all liked her. But that combative style -- especially in a women -- also turns off a lot of people who otherwise would consider voting for the GOP.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

==

Being Bitchy, even if it's in the service of your cause, just doesn't work well on women.

I one time had a female boss long ago, and I have to say, it wears differently.

Posted by: Leupold at July 16, 2026 04:19 PM (eIzlH)

223
Sources said it's believed both relationships occurred while Gallego was unmarried.


Uh-huh. You mean in between the pregnant wife he divorced and the side-piece he married later




While he was a member of Congress, while he had a measure of power over those staffers.

#MeToo, indeed.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 16, 2026 04:19 PM (y9nCu)

224 Lizzy

See my post #41.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 16, 2026 04:20 PM (u82oZ)

225 Die Hard is on, I really don't need to watch it for the 32nd time

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 04:20 PM (Ia/+0)

226 "The Post notes that Gallego -- hilariously -- thinks he can be president one day.

Of America, I mean. Not of Hooters, Inc."

---------
LOL
Definitely worth the premium membership here at Ace's.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 16, 2026 04:21 PM (fgSb9)

227 Skip

Seen it once, two years ago.

Take home message: Wear shoes.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 16, 2026 04:21 PM (u82oZ)

228 Die Hard is on, I really don't need to watch it for the 32nd time"

Well, it's no Beastmaster

Posted by: man at July 16, 2026 04:22 PM (XuXeR)

229 Sorry, Kari Lake never came off as "bitchy" to me.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 16, 2026 04:22 PM (XMwZJ)

230 There is just a subset of women that is so turned on by the primordial urge to be with the leader of the tribe that they find any US senator irresistible.

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at July 16, 2026 04:22 PM (wGerL)

231 Die Hard is on, I really don't need to watch it for the 32nd time
Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 04:20 PM (Ia/+0)


Strange time of year to show a Christmas movie.

Posted by: far cry at July 16, 2026 04:22 PM (X+NGn)

232 Die Hard is on, I really don't need to watch it for the 32nd time"

Well, it's no Beastmaster
Posted by: man at July 16, 2026 04:22 PM (XuXeR)
_______

"Fuck you"

-- Deathstalker

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 16, 2026 04:23 PM (iFTx/)

233 I hope (and imagining so is vomit-inducing) that Swalwell & Gallego didn't ever have a throuple (weight-stress sandwich?) with Katie Porter (or Gruesome Newscum for that matter) -- a sure sign of the Approaching Apocalyptic End-Times ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Tricentennial or Bust! at July 16, 2026 04:23 PM (NrJqB)

234 A Hooters manager would face actual consequences for schtupping the staff.

Posted by: Dodd at July 16, 2026 04:23 PM (c54p6)

235 Neo says President Trump speaks tonight

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 04:24 PM (Ia/+0)

236 198 *yawn*
I'm having a tuna sandwich on wheat with cheddar cheese, onions, tomatoes and jalapenos.


we'll alert the media.

Posted by: anachronda at July 16, 2026 04:24 PM (v3pYe)

237 235 A Hooters manager would face actual consequences for schtupping the staff.

Posted by: Dodd at July 16, 2026 04:23 PM (c54p6)

====

Would he?

Are there corporate policies against managers and employees having a sexual relationship at Hooters?

Is it a corporate policy, or is it federal statute that would forbid it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 04:24 PM (PIaQL)

238 Die Hard is on, I really don't need to watch it for the 32nd time
Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 04:20 PM (Ia/+0)

Strange time of year to show a Christmas movie.
Posted by: far cry at July 16, 2026 04:22 PM (X+NGn)


Hallmark channel has entered the chat.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 16, 2026 04:25 PM (2WIwB)

239
My theory about Bitchy Bratty is that it's really horny without a socially acceptable method of relief.

Posted by: Auspex at July 16, 2026 04:25 PM (Y8DZL)

240 238 Die Hard is on, I really don't need to watch it for the 32nd time
Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 04:20 PM (Ia/+0)

Strange time of year to show a Christmas movie.
Posted by: far cry at July 16, 2026 04:22 PM (X+NGn)

======

Well, people watch the ultimate Easter movie (The Exorcist) around Halloween.

What are you gonna do?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 04:25 PM (PIaQL)

241 231 Die Hard is on, I really don't need to watch it for the 32nd time
Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 04:20 PM (Ia/+0)

Strange time of year to show a Christmas movie.


*checks calendar*

isn't it time for hallmark moves and mysteries channel to go into chrismas mode?

Posted by: anachronda at July 16, 2026 04:25 PM (v3pYe)

242 Na, Christmas in July is a thing, I don't get it but lots of Christmas stuff on this month

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 04:26 PM (Ia/+0)

243 Arizona WTF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Both of your Senators are F**k-Stains .........

Kelly the Commie and Gallego the Pervert........

Gallego would be a great Governor for Arizona ........

Posted by: Jackson K. at July 16, 2026 04:27 PM (X7dyz)

244 There is just a subset of women that is so turned on by the primordial urge to be with the leader of the tribe that they find any US senator irresistible.
Posted by: Mitch McConnell
......


You stud.

Posted by: wth at July 16, 2026 04:27 PM (UjdFS)

245 I'm having a tuna sandwich on wheat with cheddar cheese, onions, tomatoes and jalapenos."

How'd you get the tuna to swallow jalapeños?

Posted by: man at July 16, 2026 04:27 PM (XuXeR)

246 Sorry, Kari Lake never came off as "bitchy" to me.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 16, 2026 04:22 PM (XMwZJ)

-------------

Same.

And to me her voice was kind of sexy (a la Lauren Bacall) ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Tricentennial or Bust! at July 16, 2026 04:27 PM (9TM/M)

247 Exactly, NaCl!!!!!

That it even exists is appalling.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 16, 2026 04:28 PM (4KUe5)

248 I must confess to snorting when I read the hooters line.

Posted by: Inogame at July 16, 2026 04:28 PM (53oGX)

249 If Gallego's dalliance were truly consensual, then aside from the power differential, they don't matter much.

But serving your 9-months-pregnant wife with divorce papers 10 days before Christmas is a whole 'nuther kind of despicable character.

Posted by: Fritz at July 16, 2026 04:28 PM (J7jo9)

250 242 Na, Christmas in July is a thing, I don't get it but lots of Christmas stuff on this month
Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 04:26 PM (Ia/+0)

Yeah...July is 6 months till December or something...

Posted by: E. Jean Carrol.. at July 16, 2026 04:29 PM (FtULh)

251 A Hooters manager would face actual consequences for schtupping the staff.
Posted by: Dodd at July 16, 2026 04:23 PM (c54p6)
_____

Probably not, if my experience in the restaurant/bar industry is anything to go by. Everyone is fucking everyone at those places.

Sure, there are some (usually older) "career" workers who show up just to work, but the younger workers are all fucking each other.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 16, 2026 04:29 PM (iFTx/)

252 The bitch lied about her age ......

I did not know she was only 14. She looked 18 to me ....

Ask Hunter Biden as a credibility witness to my story of innocence....

Posted by: Rueben Gallego at July 16, 2026 04:30 PM (X7dyz)

253 .
NOOD

Gaza Family of 18 Wins "Right" to Settle In England Despite Speaking No English and Being Determined to be a Net Detriment to Society

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 16, 2026 04:30 PM (O7YUW)

254 I'll skip the speech tonight, counting on the filtered reporting of herself and the hourde to keep me informed.

Won't miss the Starship launch, though.

Posted by: Auspex at July 16, 2026 04:30 PM (Y8DZL)

255 He's a rotter all right but exempt because democrat

Posted by: It's me donna at July 16, 2026 04:31 PM (FtULh)

256 I just got a National Weather Service warning on my phone. Apparently, the Canadian Wildfires have caused my neck of the woods to have visibility less than 1 mile, and an air quality rating that Marlboro would struggled to compete with. And, I'm in a Mid-Atlantic state.

Posted by: Orson at July 16, 2026 04:31 PM (dIske)

257 Honda is officially pulling the plug on its only EV in the US.



Posted by: News You Can Use at July 16, 2026 04:35 PM (2hwDr)

258 The new face of Britain!

Posted by: Queer Sturmer at July 16, 2026 05:04 PM (wGerL)

259 If the Canada wildfire reaches the Cuyahoga River, things could go pear shaped.
Posted by: Oglebay

Fuck it. It's just Cleveland.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 16, 2026 03:51 PM (wOO3z)

They will set the river on fire again to act as a firebreak.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 05:18 PM (uhVAy)

260 I just got a National Weather Service warning on my phone. Apparently, the Canadian Wildfires have caused my neck of the woods to have visibility less than 1 mile, and an air quality rating that Marlboro would struggled to compete with. And, I'm in a Mid-Atlantic state.

Posted by: Orson at July 16, 2026 04:31 PM (dIske)

Canada should use those supreme social services and military to quickly suppress the fires....oh wait.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 05:19 PM (uhVAy)

The Illegal Alien Truck Driver Who Killed Three People Last Year Gets Less Than Five Years in Prison

Yeah, a little more than four years sounds right for a Family Annihilator.


If you remember this guy from last October--

indiandriver.jpg

-- he plowed into slowed traffic without slowing killing three people and injuring four more.

Speaks no English. Got a Washington state trucking license anyway.

Biden gave him a work permit. He claimed he "feared for his life" in India, so he had to come over here to make American citizens fear for their lives.

Oh, he was also on drugs when he murdered three people.

Mary Chastain at Legal Insurrection:

Singh entered the U.S. illegally in 2018. He told DHS he feared for his life in India and stayed.

However, then-President Donald Trump's administration did not issue Singh a work visa.

But in 2021, the administration of former President Joe Biden granted Dingh a work permit, allowing him to obtain a license in California.

Singh received a full-term commercial driver's license in Washington in 2023 despite not being eligible for one.

To make matters worse, in July 2024, California issued Singh a limited-term non-domiciled commercial driver's license despite his failing the English Language Proficiency assessment, answering two of 12 verbal questions, and accurately identifying only one of four highway signs.

As I keep saying: I want to see the accounting on "Cultural Enrichment." I want to see proof that this scumbag enriched our lives and our economy in excess to the horror and death he brought from the Third World with him.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:28 PM




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1 Public hanging.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 16, 2026 02:28 PM (4KUe5)

2 On the bright side, this means he'll be deported quicker.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 02:28 PM (PIaQL)

3 better news:

@InsiderWire
#BREAKING: DHS busts 75 CDL schools fraudulently certifying non-citizen truck drivers.
Jul 16, 2026 · 2:37 PM UTC

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 02:29 PM (gKWVE)

4 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 02:29 PM (k6tSo)

5 What's the cost-benefit analysis on cultural enrichment vs murder/rape/assault/theft/fraud? How many lives and crime victims are worth the purported benefit to importing these people?

Well, if it helps just one political consultant or politician of the Democrat Party afford their new home in the Hamptons, it's worth it.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 16, 2026 02:29 PM (Riz8t)

6 Motive unknown.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 02:29 PM (k6tSo)

7 But I'm supposed to be afraid of automated trucks on I 45?

Yeah, sure.

Posted by: man at July 16, 2026 02:29 PM (cGjQu)

8 And prosecute those who issued him a CDL.
No English? How are these drivers allowed on the road????

None of this makes sense.
That poor family!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 16, 2026 02:29 PM (4KUe5)

9 DHS busts 75 CDL schools fraudulently certifying non-citizen truck drivers."

See here - that's my brother in law...

Ohio politicians

Posted by: man at July 16, 2026 02:30 PM (cGjQu)

10 Good news on bust on driving schools for illegals!!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 16, 2026 02:31 PM (4KUe5)

11 Types
Deletes
Types
Deletes

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at July 16, 2026 02:31 PM (OUMaO)

12 Once again, it's the judges.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 16, 2026 02:32 PM (N1DT3)

13
@InsiderWire
#BREAKING: DHS busts 75 CDL schools fraudulently certifying non-citizen truck drivers.
Jul 16, 2026 · 2:37 PM UTC
Posted by: gKWVE

Woodchipper.

Posted by: Rabid Moroccan Donkey with a Ruptured Asshole at July 16, 2026 02:32 PM (wOO3z)

14 DOT has shut down a bunch of these CDL mills.

Asylum is being denied at roughly 98% rates in mega master hearings that hear many cases in a short time (a historic high, even higher than Trump 1.0, the effort to shift the administrative judge leanings in immigration courts is fully in effect).

I hope the female judges that are letting these guys off on lenient sentences flick their bean hard when the criminals get deported and then murdered by being dumbasses in their home countries.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 02:32 PM (PIaQL)

15 Hard to believe stories like this are so common.

If there was a decent media, Democrats would be destroyed as a party.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 16, 2026 02:32 PM (Sco7b)

16 On the bright side, this means he'll be deported quicker.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 02:28 PM (PIaQL)

So he can kill people back in India or be hit by a train?

Posted by: Robert Wagner at July 16, 2026 02:32 PM (zZu0s)

17 You can't stop this by going after the drivers. The companies are shells, with no one to hold accountable. I've posted some links from the Substack, The Tea, about this. He's in the industry and has been tracing ownership.

Here's one:
https://tinyurl.com/ycxdbvnz

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 16, 2026 02:32 PM (bkuEU)

18 On the bright side, this means he'll be deported quicker.

With California involved, I seriously doubt it.

Posted by: Unkaren at July 16, 2026 02:32 PM (+Fvj5)

19 But I'm supposed to be afraid of automated trucks on I 45?

Posted by: man at July 16, 2026 02:29 PM (cGjQu)


Good point. And they will be far more regulated than the 3rd world scum who drive on our highways.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 16, 2026 02:32 PM (l4RKn)

20 off sock

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 16, 2026 02:32 PM (wOO3z)

21 16 On the bright side, this means he'll be deported quicker.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 02:28 PM (PIaQL)

So he can kill people back in India or be hit by a train?

Posted by: Robert Wagner at July 16, 2026 02:32 PM (zZu0s)

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Hopefully, India refuses to take him back and we can deport him to Djibouti.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 02:33 PM (PIaQL)

22 What's the cost-benefit analysis on cultural enrichment vs murder/rape/assault/theft/fraud? How many lives and crime victims are worth the purported benefit to importing these people?
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We can't be judge on our worst day, though, I hear.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 02:33 PM (Fi81e)

23 Two weeks ago, California sentenced Loay Alnaji to one year in county jail for murdering a Jewish man during a "protest" in November 2023.

It seems that California's new standard is about one year per murder, if the politics are agreeable.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at July 16, 2026 02:33 PM (DvZNg)

24 The entire CDL system needs to be overhauled. There's so many loopholes that permit companies to license and/or register drivers and trucks out of the country.

Or, at least there used to be. It'd be nice if those loopholes in the various laws and trucking regulations were closed up.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 16, 2026 02:33 PM (jehhT)

25 Preferential treatment for illegal aliens who commit crimes against innocent citizens, you say? That sounds vaguely familiar. Maybe I read a similar story in a book somewhere

Posted by: Polka will never die at July 16, 2026 02:33 PM (Ek9hi)

26 18 On the bright side, this means he'll be deported quicker.

With California involved, I seriously doubt it.

Posted by: Unkaren at July 16, 2026 02:32 PM (+Fvj5)

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Why?

We just had the story about Minnesota trying to protect the pedophile with a state-level pardon and DHS immediately deported the guy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 02:33 PM (PIaQL)

27
Are any federal charges possible?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 16, 2026 02:33 PM (azNOR)

28 If you ever wonder how the left sleeps at night, and you watch Trump's speech tonight, this is how:

Tragically, no matter what evidence he presents, it will be disputed, dismissed and/or ignored by people who will shriek dictatorship and election-rigging when he moves to address the corruption.

Tragically, because confidence in election outcomes is now a partisan issue.

For Democrats, the sheep's clothing of false compassion ... in this case avoiding the inconvenience of attending a polling place on election day, claiming undue hardship in acquiring ID, and of course granting the vote to people who don't belong here ... as always is how they advance the wolf's agenda.


https://tinyurl.com/3s9wkcax

Posted by: Archimedes at July 16, 2026 02:34 PM (Riz8t)

29 On the bright side, this means he'll be deported quicker.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

You are betting on the next admin.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 16, 2026 02:34 PM (NnhvP)

30 I hope they are seizing assets of these fake cdl schools along with the busts.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 16, 2026 02:34 PM (n5tGW)

31 And they wonder why the movie Citizen Vigilante is so popular.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 16, 2026 02:34 PM (2WIwB)

32 I'd love if he could be made to serve his sentence in an Indian prison. Even if the U.S. paid India for their incarceration costs.

Posted by: PaleRider at July 16, 2026 02:34 PM (PV+Zw)

33 29 On the bright side, this means he'll be deported quicker.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

You are betting on the next admin.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 16, 2026 02:34 PM (NnhvP)

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I'm betting on him getting out early, actually.

And on the GOP winning in 2028 because Trump is taking sledgehammers to the support pillars that the Democrat Party have come to rely on over the last 20 years or so.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 02:34 PM (PIaQL)

34 Gun manufacturers get sued when some nutbag goes on a shooting spree. Things like this seem like more of a direct correlation than any of that. It's a dangerous road to go down (no pun intended), but government entities granting licenses to people who clearly shouldn't have them should face some liability when stuff like this happens.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 16, 2026 02:34 PM (QaH55)

35 I worked for a long time at a company that was able to certify its own drivers, and it was a point of considerable pride that we were way, way tougher than the commercial schools and the DMVs.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 16, 2026 02:35 PM (l4RKn)

36
Damn foreigners.

Posted by: Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull at July 16, 2026 02:35 PM (Y8DZL)

37 > What's the cost-benefit analysis on cultural enrichment vs murder/rape/assault/theft/fraud?
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Totally depends on which side of the aisle you're on.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 16, 2026 02:35 PM (jehhT)

38 But I'm supposed to be afraid of automated trucks on I 45?

Posted by: man at July 16, 2026 02:29 PM (cGjQu)

Good point. And they will be far more regulated than the 3rd world scum who drive on our highways.


They will until they rise up. I fear the autotruck uprising.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 16, 2026 02:35 PM (Riz8t)

39 As I understand, the max sentence for the charges is 10 years. For wiping out a family. Nice job, Cali.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 16, 2026 02:36 PM (bNf8H)

40 Yeah, all those CDLs that list the name a “No Name Given” and same for trucking companies with no name need to be shut down asap.

Again, it boggles the mind these even exist in America. We have to show I’d to buy Sudafed, but Jagmeet who just arrived a few months ago is issued a CDL with “No Name “ so he can share it with his brother, his cousin, his roommate, etc.

Unreal.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 16, 2026 02:36 PM (4KUe5)

41 39 As I understand, the max sentence for the charges is 10 years. For wiping out a family. Nice job, Cali.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 16, 2026 02:36 PM (bNf8H)

=====

It was a whoopsie. Boys will be boys, you know.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 02:36 PM (PIaQL)

42 Wog bastard

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 16, 2026 02:36 PM (Kt19C)

43 He goes back to India after the laughable sentence, right? Like we send him, kick him out of the plane, and call it done?

Posted by: Piper at July 16, 2026 02:36 PM (Dd38x)

44 Tragically, no matter what evidence he presents, it will be disputed, dismissed and/or ignored by people who will shriek dictatorship and election-rigging when he moves to address the corruption.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 16, 2026 02:34 PM (Riz8t)
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If he has hard documented evidence, they will accuse him of forging it.

This started a long time ago. The Dems just need a "side" of the story to tell.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 02:36 PM (Fi81e)

45 What's the cost-benefit analysis on cultural enrichment vs murder/rape/assault/theft/fraud? How many lives and crime victims are worth the purported benefit to importing these people?

---------------

"But then who would pick our lettuce?

/The pro-open borders mantra & "rationale" since 1965 ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Tricentennial or Bust! at July 16, 2026 02:36 PM (HuSmB)

46 I mean, isn't being high during the commission of murders an aggravating condition?

Like, are you telling me he would have gotten off if he weren't high????

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 16, 2026 02:37 PM (XV/Pl)

47 Why?

We just had the story about Minnesota trying to protect the pedophile with a state-level pardon and DHS immediately deported the guy.


Sure, I hope that you’re right. Aren’t I allowed my doubts? Given the right immigration lawyer and judge, can anyone accurately predict the outcome?

Posted by: Unkaren at July 16, 2026 02:37 PM (+Fvj5)

48 44 If he has hard documented evidence, they will accuse him of forging it.

This started a long time ago. The Dems just need a "side" of the story to tell.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 02:36 PM (Fi81e)

======

Partisan Democrats will be partisan Democrats. No changing that.

It's the soft partisans on both sides that matter most. The ones who nominally support the party but only sometimes manifest that in terms of actual voting behavior.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 02:37 PM (PIaQL)

49 Out of control: https://tinyurl.com/3kmjneep

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 16, 2026 02:37 PM (n5tGW)

50 Are any federal charges possible?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 16, 2026 02:33 PM (azNOR)
*********************************

It would be double jeopardy, and therefore violate our beloved Constitution, to impose further sentencing beyond my wise judgment of one day in jail per death.

Posted by: Californian Judge at July 16, 2026 02:38 PM (DvZNg)

51 Are any federal charges possible?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug


Should be. CDL's are issued by the state but CDL's are regulated by FED DOT.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 16, 2026 02:38 PM (u3HiE)

52 Some of the comments to Collin Rugg's post are ... insane. Here's a real lunatic take, of course from a white Karen:

"Not sure the intent of your post, but you are aware that we have a drug epidemic in this country. Nice white Christian folks are addicted all kinds of nasty stuff and do all kinds of nasty things like kill their children. But this guy is the problem… because he's an immigrant?"

These people literally worship illegals and barbarous scumbags. They are their messiahs. There is nothing that a brown illegal can do -- literally nothing -- that will cause these lunatics to question the wisdom of allowing them in the country. Nothing. This guy could rape and murder this Karen's entire family, and she'd be like "oh well, Christians rape people too."

There are also lefty scrunts claiming that he tested negative for drugs. Which makes him ... more culpable?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 16, 2026 02:38 PM (iFTx/)

53 PSA: they are not “Immigrants”. Words mean things, especially in the world of the Title 18 USC and Federal Law. “Alien” is a legal term of art. It is not derogatory per se, it is an observation or an adjective. Foreign nationals, here illegally. Aliens. Hence, “Illegal Alien”

Some of these guys are more sometimes more properly characterized as unlawful enemy combatants but let’s not quibble over who is killing who

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 02:38 PM (hkjqi)

54 Two weeks ago, California sentenced Loay Alnaji to one year in county jail for murdering a Jewish man during a "protest" in November 2023.

It seems that California's new standard is about one year per murder, if the politics are agreeable.
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at July 16, 2026 02:33 PM (DvZNg)

***

They will watch for the backlash and if it is too much, they will find some actual American, probably a white guy, and give him life plus 20 just to show how tough they are.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 16, 2026 02:38 PM (2WIwB)

55 I hope they are seizing assets of these fake cdl schools along with the busts.

I doubt they have much that can be seized. Buildings and trucks are probably leased and cash is moved off the books as quickly as it moves on.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 16, 2026 02:38 PM (vTZFs)

56

Same shit happens over in europe.

Who is calling the shots on these things.

Very weird.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at July 16, 2026 02:38 PM (et1vG)

57 >>I mean, isn't being high during the commission of murders an aggravating condition?
__
The reports I read said that tox reports came back negative, which was a factor in the sentencing, sayeth the judge. Still, not enough time.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 16, 2026 02:38 PM (bNf8H)

58 I'd hunt down and prosecute - with extreme prejudice - everyone involved, from Secretary of State down, involved in issuing this CDL.


We'll never persuade/convince the communist Democrat animals running our governments to do the right thing. The only tool we have left is to make them fear NOT doing the right thing.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 16, 2026 02:38 PM (P6w20)

59 47 Why?

We just had the story about Minnesota trying to protect the pedophile with a state-level pardon and DHS immediately deported the guy.

Sure, I hope that you’re right. Aren’t I allowed my doubts? Given the right immigration lawyer and judge, can anyone accurately predict the outcome?

Posted by: Unkaren at July 16, 2026 02:37 PM (+Fvj5)

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98% of all asylum claims are being denied now.

1.2 million people forcibly deported.

Guy's a convicted criminal.

Even if India says that they don't want him back, we have third party agreements with other countries to take the criminal aliens we're deporting.

He's more likely to end up in Djibouti than Los Angeles once his sentence is served.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 02:38 PM (PIaQL)

60 Did Walz tell anybody that Roseanne Barr shouldn't be judge by her worst day?

'Cause I suspect he wouldn't be consistent on that.

Just kiddie rape.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 02:39 PM (Fi81e)

61 52 These people literally worship illegals and barbarous scumbags. They are their messiahs. There is nothing that a brown illegal can do -- literally nothing -- that will cause these lunatics to question the wisdom of allowing them in the country. Nothing. This guy could rape and murder this Karen's entire family, and she'd be like "oh well, Christians rape people too."

There are also lefty scrunts claiming that he tested negative for drugs. Which makes him ... more culpable?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 16, 2026 02:38 PM (iFTx/)

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"Dead Americans is worth shitty Indian food I never buy but could if I wanted to."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 02:39 PM (PIaQL)

62 Charge the state of Washington and any of its officials who had part in issuing and/or not preventing this murderer from being granted a CDL.

Posted by: Paul Pelosi at July 16, 2026 02:40 PM (TN0g+)

63 This guy could rape and murder this Karen's entire family, and she'd be like "oh well, Christians rape people too."
——-

Nah. They think America deserves it. It’s all delusional fairy tale shit, but they are creating chaos and anarchy. They love it.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 02:40 PM (hkjqi)

64 >"Not sure the intent of your post, but you are aware that we have a drug epidemic in this country. Nice white Christian folks are addicted all kinds of nasty stuff and do all kinds of nasty things like kill their children. But this guy is the problem… because he's an immigrant?"


She fantasizes getting ravished by a brown man.

Posted by: CoC Republicans at July 16, 2026 02:40 PM (rJ48h)

65
Gray skies are gonna clear up
Put on a happy face;
Brush off the clouds and cheer up
Put on a happy face

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 16, 2026 02:41 PM (sYM3s)

66 I honestly thought the soft on crime thing ended decades ago, but it’s clear it’s still alive and well.

I just can’t believe some of the sentences. I’m seeing for straight up murder

The only time I’m seeing any sort of long prison sentences is if somebody was adjacently involved in January 6

Posted by: Maroon at July 16, 2026 02:41 PM (2JqrY)

67 Appropriate...

An actress on Instagram just had a post with a cartoon mouse in wizard robes.

"The prophecy did not foretell this bullshit."

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 16, 2026 02:41 PM (Sco7b)

68 Tangential:

@AF_Insight
·
1h
DHS issues a Final Rule to end Foreign Student Visa Abuse.

F, J, and I visas now all have a fixed period of being able to stay in America.

Before people where staying on F-1 visas "studying" for 10+ years. Now Both F and J visas are capped at 4 years. I visas are now capped to 240 Days.

The grace period for transferring schools or status after graduation has been cut in half. This also importantly changes who can extend these visas.

Before University Staff would actually have a lot of say on this, offering their recommendation to extending stays. Now USCIS is back in full control for extending these visas.

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Another visa being abused is having loopholes closed pretty tightly. More excuses to forcibly deport troublemakers here on visas.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 02:41 PM (PIaQL)

69 I hope they are seizing assets of these fake cdl schools along with the busts.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 16, 2026 02:34 PM (n5tGW)
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Assets are long gone. The entire structure of these shady companies is LLCs owning LLCs owning LLCs and one LLC leasing to the other. The real money is siphoned out from the "money earner" LLC as soon as possible.

These guys are criminals, but they ain't dumb. They know the music will stop at some point, so they make sure all the money and assets are gone by the time the music stops.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 16, 2026 02:41 PM (iFTx/)

70 Even if India says that they don't want him back, we have third party agreements with other countries to take the criminal aliens we're deporting.

I imagine those countries will not be very hospitable to the IAs. They'll give them just enough to keep them alive (maybe) so that we'll keep sending them a per capita payment.

Good.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 16, 2026 02:41 PM (Riz8t)

71 I'd hunt down and prosecute - with extreme prejudice - everyone involved, from Secretary of State down, involved in issuing this CDL.


Fixed for accuracy.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 16, 2026 02:42 PM (u3HiE)

72 Hello for you. My name is Billy. Please to be letting me do the needful and allow me to drive my truck into you, killing you instantly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 02:42 PM (k6tSo)

73 Some of the comments to Collin Rugg's post are ... insane. Here's a real lunatic take, of course from a white Karen:

"Not sure the intent of your post, but you are aware that we have a drug epidemic in this country. Nice white Christian folks are addicted all kinds of nasty stuff and do all kinds of nasty things like kill their children. But this guy is the problem… because he's an immigrant?"

These people literally worship illegals and barbarous scumbags. They are their messiahs. There is nothing that a brown illegal can do -- literally nothing -- that will cause these lunatics to question the wisdom of allowing them in the country. Nothing. This guy could rape and murder this Karen's entire family, and she'd be like "oh well, Christians rape people too."

There are also lefty scrunts claiming that he tested negative for drugs. Which makes him ... more culpable?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 16, 2026 02:38 PM (iFTx/)



I just finished reading The Camp of the Saints. Written in 1973 and absolutely prophetic about this suicidal "empathy" that would destroy the West. The book was banned for years in many countries - which should tell you a lot.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 16, 2026 02:42 PM (P6w20)

74 Disinformation Expert Lizzy (@StarChamberMaid) July 16, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:28 PM



Wait.......

Ace has a girlfriend?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 02:42 PM (k6tSo)

75
Considering all the state regulations on trucking I'm pretty surprised at some of this stuff.

A 19 year old driver who worked for a friend's trucking company went to jail overnight in Wisconsin for having his log book out of order and being on the road over 8 hours.

Posted by: Auspex at July 16, 2026 02:42 PM (Y8DZL)

76 "Not sure the intent of your post, but you are aware that we have a drug epidemic in this country. Nice white Christian folks are addicted all kinds of nasty stuff and do all kinds of nasty things like kill their children. But this guy is the problem… because he's an immigrant?"

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 16, 2026 02:38 PM (iFTx/)
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Ah, I think I see the problem.

No, he's the problem because they put him in charge of a dangerous fucking machine he can't operate and he wiped out people's lives!

We can still jail affluent white druggies that kill their entire family, at the same time.

(Yu gotta' love the strawman tack-on)

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 02:43 PM (Fi81e)

77 70 Even if India says that they don't want him back, we have third party agreements with other countries to take the criminal aliens we're deporting.

I imagine those countries will not be very hospitable to the IAs. They'll give them just enough to keep them alive (maybe) so that we'll keep sending them a per capita payment.

Good.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 16, 2026 02:41 PM (Riz8t)

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These countries accept $2-3,000 per immigrant and then just let them loose.

I suspect a good number of them just end up dead within a few weeks, crossing the wrong local gang leader or constable.

We're not sending Maria, who quietly worked in the hotel housekeeping department for 10 years, to Djibouti. We're sending Jose Gangbanger that Colombia refuses to take back.

Maria's going back home to Guatemala.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 02:43 PM (PIaQL)

78 i imagine that putin and zelinsky could both use another big rig driver

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 16, 2026 02:43 PM (CWTWj)

79 No reason any dirty, smelly turban wearing non-driving indian from dirty smelly India should be coming here for any reason whatsoever.

They should stay in India and clean that shit hole up. Learn how indoor plumbing and soap works, things like that.

Posted by: Sambo, Riding The Tiger at July 16, 2026 02:43 PM (e2lsi)

80 I honestly thought the soft on crime thing ended decades ago, but it’s clear it’s still alive and well.

I just can’t believe some of the sentences. I’m seeing for straight up murder


The soft on crime thing did end decades ago, but as usual, people have to learn the lesson anew with each generation. As I often tell my kids when they suggest we try the "root causes" approach, "We tried that already in the 60s and 70s. It doesn't work. It will NEVER work."

Posted by: Archimedes at July 16, 2026 02:43 PM (Riz8t)

81 They need to limit the number of pounds these trucks can haul, right Inslee, Newsom et al? No more high capacity trucks on the roads.

Posted by: Rex B at July 16, 2026 02:44 PM (JWYBQ)

82 If I wanted to have my life at risk from other drivers I would move to India. I hate the bastards that are importing that shit to my country.

Posted by: PaleRider at July 16, 2026 02:44 PM (PV+Zw)

83 Same shit happens over in europe.

Who is calling the shots on these things.

Very weird.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at July 16, 2026 02:38 PM (et1vG)



It's all population control commanded by the WEF and it's affiliates.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 02:44 PM (k6tSo)

84 When you're doing corporate bullshit training, it's almost never the wrong answer to choose "Contact HR..."

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 02:45 PM (Fi81e)

85 Looking back during covid follies...I saw a truck driving school performing their antics in an closed (abandoned) mall parking lot (West Chace Mall) at the corner of Hwy 6 at Westhiemer in Houston.

No facilities at all, just a guy letting foreigners pay to practice driving a semi cab around on acres of open concrete with a few orange cones.

It was a daily routine.

Posted by: DanMan at July 16, 2026 02:45 PM (8uzBS)

86 Truck accidents, like train accidents, kill hundreds of millions per year in India. Giving an illegal from there a truck license is a recipe for horror

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2026 02:45 PM (OXYE0)

87 I just can’t believe some of the sentences I’m seeing for straight up murder.
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Life sure is awfully cheap now here in these United States. Conduct yerself accordingly.

That’s what all these politicos and media fags are all about for decades now, “manage the decline”. Into third world shithole status.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 02:45 PM (hkjqi)

88 84 When you're doing corporate bullshit training, it's almost never the wrong answer to choose "Contact HR..."

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 02:45 PM (Fi81e)

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"Ask your manager" is an answer to about a third of all questions.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 02:45 PM (PIaQL)

89 When you're doing corporate bullshit training, it's almost never the wrong answer to choose "Contact HR..."
Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 02:45 PM (Fi81e)



Fact.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 02:45 PM (2YhKe)

90 Time for the DOJ to charge him with violation of civil rights of the people he killed?

Posted by: Random PJ at July 16, 2026 02:45 PM (+jscL)

91 This is the kind of sentence that seems that it was the prelude of a movie along the lines of Death Wish.

Makes a man want to take justice into his own hands.

Posted by: Defenestratus at July 16, 2026 02:46 PM (DKxfA)

92 Sick Sikhs, very disappointing. They go home with their Muslim cousins.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 02:46 PM (JS6jE)

93
"Ask your manager" is an answer to about a third of all questions.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 02:45 PM (PIaQL)



Unless, of course, they're the one harassing you sexually.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 02:46 PM (2YhKe)

94 In a normal country he would have already been hanged.

Posted by: Bobbie Sue and Mary Jane at July 16, 2026 02:46 PM (RIvkX)

95 Wog bastard
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 16, 2026 02:36 PM (Kt19C)

I am not sure Wog is the right slur here. He's a piece of shit.

'Wog' I think stands for Westernized Oriental Gentleman. Does not fit.

Posted by: Robert Wagner at July 16, 2026 02:46 PM (zZu0s)

96 A 19 year old driver who worked for a friend's trucking company went to jail overnight in Wisconsin for having his log book out of order and being on the road over 8 hours.

The most important part of training is how to "manage" your logs. Other stuff, like "don't get sh*tfaced and run into minivans" is much lower priority.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 16, 2026 02:46 PM (vTZFs)

97 These people literally worship illegals and barbarous scumbags. They are their messiahs. There is nothing that a brown illegal can do -- literally nothing -- that will cause these lunatics to question the wisdom of allowing them in the country. Nothing. This guy could rape and murder this Karen's entire family, and she'd be like "oh well, Christians rape people too."

There are also lefty scrunts claiming that he tested negative for drugs. Which makes him ... more culpable?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 16, 2026 02:38 PM (iFTx/)


I just finished reading The Camp of the Saints. Written in 1973 and absolutely prophetic about this suicidal "empathy" that would destroy the West. The book was banned for years in many countries - which should tell you a lot.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 16, 2026 02:42 PM (P6w20)
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Yea, the Saints was prophetic. Pretty much exactly what's happened in real life was what happened in the book.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 16, 2026 02:46 PM (iFTx/)

98 93
"Ask your manager" is an answer to about a third of all questions.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 02:45 PM (PIaQL)


Unless, of course, they're the one harassing you sexually.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 02:46 PM (2YhKe)

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"Nope. It's the procedure."
-HR drone

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 02:46 PM (PIaQL)

99 /two-name girl sock off

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2026 02:46 PM (RIvkX)

100 This is a fascinating reshuffle of the progressive stack. It's perfectly fine for dot Indians to kill a black people. Someone alert Derek Chauvin.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 16, 2026 02:47 PM (2ocoG)

101 5 years is a joke. And since it’s CA, he’s likely out in half the time-2 1/2 years.

Is ICE Pinochet Air going to be waiting outside the prison to drop this scum bag back into India??

Posted by: Mrs Emma Peel at July 16, 2026 02:47 PM (np2zX)

102
'Wog' I think stands for Westernized Oriental Gentleman. Does not fit.

Posted by: Robert Wagner at July 16, 2026 02:46 PM (zZu0s)



But 'Log' is the one you throw overboard, right?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 02:47 PM (2YhKe)

103 We're not sending Maria, who quietly worked in the hotel housekeeping department for 10 years, to Djibouti. We're sending Jose Gangbanger that Colombia refuses to take back.

Maria's going back home to Guatemala.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


Who will then turn around and be back in three weeks.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 16, 2026 02:47 PM (u3HiE)

104 id Walz tell anybody that Roseanne Barr shouldn't be judge by her worst day?

'Cause I suspect he wouldn't be consistent on that.

Just kiddie rape.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 02:39 PM (Fi81e)

He is consistent. That's why he said we can't ALL be judged on our worst day. To him many can and should, but not a child rapist.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 02:47 PM (LuIt4)

105 ITS FUNNY TO USE THE DRUG EPIDEMIC TO SCOLD PEOPLE FOR CARING ABOUT ILLEGAL ALIEN TRUCKERS BECAUSE THESE DRUGS ARE BROUGHT IN BY ILLEGAL ALIEN CARTELS.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at July 16, 2026 02:47 PM (4KUe5)

106 Sick Sikhs, very disappointing. They go home with their Muslim cousins.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 02:46 PM (JS6jE)

Just because a group is anti-Islam, does not mean they are stand up dudes.

Posted by: Robert Wagner at July 16, 2026 02:47 PM (zZu0s)

107 I think there was a ruling by scotus that people could sue the companies that hired the companies that hire these murder by truck scum.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 16, 2026 02:48 PM (n5tGW)

108 19 year old driver who worked for a friend's trucking company went to jail overnight in Wisconsin for having his log book out of order
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Paperwork is for citizens. If you hadn’t noticed

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 02:48 PM (hkjqi)

109 /two-name girl sock off

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2026 02:46 PM (RIvkX)



You've been rolling that one a while.

You almost topped TJM.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 02:48 PM (2YhKe)

110 They will until they rise up. I fear the autotruck uprising.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 16, 2026 02:35 PM (Riz8t)


No need to fear my friend

Posted by: Optimus Prime at July 16, 2026 02:48 PM (k1E2D)

111 101 5 years is a joke. And since it’s CA, he’s likely out in half the time-2 1/2 years.

Is ICE Pinochet Air going to be waiting outside the prison to drop this scum bag back into India??

Posted by: Mrs Emma Peel at July 16, 2026 02:47 PM (np2zX)

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DHS has been on high profile examples and handled everything since Maryland Man and Colombia Terrorist with much more alacrity and effectiveness.

On top of that, precedent keeps building that, yes, the Secretary of State has authority to rescind visas (which was never disputed because it's clearly law, but, you know, the American judiciary).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 02:48 PM (PIaQL)

112 Damn, /off Natalie Woods killer sock.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 16, 2026 02:48 PM (zZu0s)

113 When you're doing corporate bullshit training, it's almost never the wrong answer to choose "Contact HR..."

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 02:45 PM (Fi81e)

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"Ask your manager" is an answer to about a third of all questions.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 02:45 PM (PIaQL)
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Yes, that's usually first.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 02:48 PM (Fi81e)

114 We can't all be judged by our headfirst day.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 02:48 PM (LuIt4)

115
"But then who would pick our lettuce?

/The pro-open borders mantra & "rationale" since 1965 ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Tricentennial or

And give us all month long tummy troubles! Woohoo!

Posted by: Piper at July 16, 2026 02:49 PM (hftzA)

116 "As I understand, the max sentence for the charges is 10 years. For wiping out a family. Nice job, Cali."

He shouldn't be judged by his worst day, assuming this actually was his worst day.

Posted by: fd at July 16, 2026 02:49 PM (MWfyi)

117 But 'Log' is the one you throw overboard, right?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 02:47 PM (2YhKe)

Well, she was Wood.

Its was a good zinger last night.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 16, 2026 02:49 PM (zZu0s)

118 Pleasing to say sorry for killing these silly white people. Thank you come again.

Posted by: Jarmeet Patel Singh at July 16, 2026 02:49 PM (2hwDr)

119 Damn, /off Natalie Woods killer sock.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 16, 2026 02:48 PM (zZu0s)



You guys are just trying to make me feel better about myself, aren't you.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 02:50 PM (2YhKe)

120 103 Maria's going back home to Guatemala.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


Who will then turn around and be back in three weeks.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 16, 2026 02:47 PM (u3HiE)

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Border's closed.

There are no border crossers anymore, at least nothing at scale. Anyone caught gets pushed out immediately.

Visa controls at airports and train stations use facial recognition software that pings people who can't be here, and DHS has people in airports arresting and deporting those who come back, assuming the people can get on the planes in the first place.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 02:50 PM (PIaQL)

121 If Dragnet is any accurate guide, in the 1950s California grand theft auto could get 2 to 10 years at San Quentin.

Now they get less time for Murder.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 02:50 PM (hkjqi)

122 i don't recall a "Westchase Mall" at Hwy 6. There's a shopping center but it's closer to that big tollroad loop the "Sam Houston". Wilcrest

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 02:50 PM (gKWVE)

123 Just because a group is anti-Islam, does not mean they are stand up dudes.

Sikhs aren't the cool guys from that part of the world, that's the Gurkhas. And even they aren't all great.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 16, 2026 02:51 PM (2ocoG)

124
At this stage of the game, being given the choice between lethal injection or spending what's left of my life in most parts India...

Posted by: Auspex at July 16, 2026 02:51 PM (Y8DZL)

125 >>He goes back to India after the laughable sentence, right? Like we send him, kick him out of the plane..

Before landing or after?

Posted by: one hour sober at July 16, 2026 02:51 PM (J4Dwc)

126 As I keep saying: I want to see the accounting on "Cultural Enrichment."

New Language: +1
American loses job: +1
Americans taken off the street: +3
Illegal vote available: +1

All I see is pluses.

Posted by: The Left at July 16, 2026 02:51 PM (twdYN)

127
Now they get less time for Murder.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 02:50 PM (hkjqi)



Only if you're an 'immigrant.'


You or I go there and do that, we're f*cked.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 02:51 PM (2YhKe)

128 126 As I keep saying: I want to see the accounting on "Cultural Enrichment."

New Language: +1
American loses job: +1
Americans taken off the street: +3
Illegal vote available: +1

All I see is pluses.

Posted by: The Left at July 16, 2026 02:51 PM (twdYN)

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You forgot Thai food at 3am in NYC.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 02:52 PM (PIaQL)

129 In 3 years we may have a new let them all come in prez. So you just don't know. Get as many out now as possible.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 16, 2026 02:52 PM (n5tGW)

130 Just some more hijinks from Our Precious Foreigners.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 16, 2026 02:52 PM (BI5O2)

131 Now they get less time for Murder.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 02:50 PM (hkjqi)
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It's not like they are subject to our jurisdiction!

Posted by: Katanje Brown-Johnson at July 16, 2026 02:53 PM (Fi81e)

132 Sometimes, you just have to accept other people's culture, you guys.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 02:53 PM (2YhKe)

133 Unexpectedly.

>>@nypost
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59m
>>Sen. Ruben Gallego had sexual relationships with two House staffers, sources reveal to The Post

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 02:54 PM (viF8m)

134 When I'm driving behind one of these towel head fucks and they're swerving all over the freeway at 75mph, I stay back until I see an opening of straight road and then I floor the gas pedal sometimes up to 100mph just to get clear because they are clearly a menace.

It's not a coincidence. We have a serious problem on our highways and freeways, boys.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 16, 2026 02:54 PM (sYM3s)

135 @nypost
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59m
>>Sen. Ruben Gallego had sexual relationships with two House staffers, sources reveal to The Post
Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 02:54 PM (viF8m)



Resume enhancer.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 02:54 PM (2YhKe)

136 Yeah, a little more than four years sounds right for a Family Annihilator.

Come on- ONE bad day. Do better, Comrade.

Posted by: Gov. Tim Walz at July 16, 2026 02:54 PM (aZ9eR)

137 Didn't he wipe out a whole family?

Posted by: steevy at July 16, 2026 02:54 PM (YwEeS)

138 'Wog' I think stands for Westernized Oriental Gentleman. Does not fit.

Posted by: Robert Wagner at July 16, 2026 02:46 PM (zZu0s)
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Dunno abaht that. But they begin at Calais.

Posted by: Unknown Cockney Sergeant at July 16, 2026 02:54 PM (amcLV)

139 DHS has been on high profile examples and handled everything since Maryland Man and Colombia Terrorist with much more alacrity and effectiveness.

On top of that, precedent keeps building that, yes, the Secretary of State has authority to rescind visas (which was never disputed because it's clearly law, but, you know, the American judiciary).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 02:48 PM (PIaQL)

Well 2 1/2 years lands at the end of Trump’s term. Here’s hoping Rubio is still Sec of State and drops him (literally from the height of a plane) back into India. And never allowed back.

Posted by: Mrs Emma Peel at July 16, 2026 02:55 PM (np2zX)

140 69 I hope they are seizing assets of these fake cdl schools along with the busts.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 16, 2026 02:34 PM (n5tGW)
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Assets are long gone. The entire structure of these shady companies is LLCs owning LLCs owning LLCs and one LLC leasing to the other. The real money is siphoned out from the "money earner" LLC as soon as possible.

These guys are criminals, but they ain't dumb. They know the music will stop at some point, so they make sure all the money and assets are gone by the time the music stops.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 16, 2026 02:41 PM (iFTx/)

And their "insurance company"?

Some offshore shell corporation that they set up with sufficient assets that they stripped out a couple of months after setting it up. A company on paper without any true assets to pay claims.

Plenty of videos on Youtube of the drivers removing the DOT info from the trucks and replacing it with bogus ones AFTER the accident.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at July 16, 2026 02:55 PM (k1E2D)

141 129 In 3 years we may have a new let them all come in prez. So you just don't know. Get as many out now as possible.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 16, 2026 02:52 PM (n5tGW)

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6% of illegal immigrants were shown to vote in 2008.

Assume that holds after the injection of another 20 million or so immigrants since, that's 1.2 million voters.

We're on pace to deport somewhere between 18-25 million (1.2 forced deportations plus the 3-5x ratio for self-deportations) before the next presidential election.

All while DOJ is and has been and will continue to actively fight for clean elections.

Trump won in 2024 by nearly 2 million votes with none of that addressed.

I really do suspect a weird, completely unexplainable (except by voter suppression) shift rightward in American politics to last for a few years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 02:55 PM (PIaQL)

142 You forgot Thai food at 3am in NYC.

In my defense I’m currently eating Japanese sashimi in the middle of the desert.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 16, 2026 02:55 PM (twdYN)

143 He feared for his life in India? Sure.

Posted by: Jaimo at July 16, 2026 02:55 PM (2noDb)

144 When I'm driving behind one of these towel head fucks and they're swerving all over the freeway at 75mph, I stay back until I see an opening of straight road and then I floor the gas pedal sometimes up to 100mph just to get clear because they are clearly a menace.

It's not a coincidence. We have a serious problem on our highways and freeways, boys.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 16, 2026 02:54 PM (sYM3s)



I'd actually consider staying behind them. I really don't want to be in front of them when traffic slows for any reason.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 02:55 PM (2YhKe)

145 Newsom should pardon him. He can't jyst be out-Lefted by some yoke from the hinterland. California leads the nation!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 16, 2026 02:56 PM (BI5O2)

146
In my defense I’m currently eating Japanese sashimi in the middle of the desert.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 16, 2026 02:55 PM (twdYN)



Peppered tuna FTW.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 02:56 PM (2YhKe)

147
These guys are criminals, but they ain't dumb. They know the music will stop at some point, so they make sure all the money and assets are gone by the time the music stops.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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California will be dinged $160mil in federal funding starting January 2027. First, that is a shockingly small amount to me. I didn't know the feds gave Cali so little, although Sean Duffy says that amount will double in 2028 if there's still no compliance.

Second, the CDL mills are quick and flexible, as you note. They probably have a bribe budget that can withstand anything the USDOT throws at them.

I'm not trying to be a Negative Nellie -- we do have a big problem.

I think I'll keep my Thursday sock for now.

Posted by: But hey, what was your worst day? at July 16, 2026 02:56 PM (mmrXZ)

148 He feared for his life in India? Sure.
Posted by: Jaimo at July 16, 2026 02:55 PM (2noDb)



They still shit in the streets and drink cow piss there. It might not be far fetched.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 02:56 PM (2YhKe)

149 6% of illegal immigrants were shown to vote in 2028.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Time Travel is bad for your mental health, Mr. Hitler-killer.

Posted by: Auspex at July 16, 2026 02:56 PM (Y8DZL)

150 Unexpectedly.

>>@nypost
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59m
>>Sen. Ruben Gallego had sexual relationships with two House staffers, sources reveal to The Post
Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 02:54 PM


I shall not believe it! I simply shannot!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 16, 2026 02:56 PM (kgE5c)

151 Didn't he wipe out a whole family?

That was a different CDL subcontinental. There have been like half a dozen that have killed people in the last few years.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 16, 2026 02:56 PM (2ocoG)

152 States that permit this sort of thing don't seem to pay any sort of price. The local judiciary's in their pocket too. So... who, exactly, does a survivor go after? What sort of punishment does the trucking company get, if any? Seeing as how the judiciary, the ones responsible for meting out punishment, don't give a fuck about your white, middle class, minivan family that got roached.

Their survivors, if any, would be more likely to get a summons for the cleanup.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 16, 2026 02:57 PM (jehhT)

153 Peppered tuna FTW.

Pretty sure they have it. I’m doing garlic ponzu.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 16, 2026 02:57 PM (twdYN)

154 And what of the vampires?

California company gets approved to launch solar-reflection satellite to create endless daylight

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 16, 2026 02:58 PM (ndZc7)

155 As I keep saying: I want to see the accounting on "Cultural Enrichment." I want to see proof that this scumbag enriched our lives and our economy in excess to the horror and death he brought from the Third World with him.

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The important thing is that companies saved a few bucks on shipping. They pass the savings on to you!*



* They don't really, they just pocket difference as profit, most of which goes to the top 5% wealthy.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 16, 2026 02:58 PM (DbmIv)

156 You've been rolling that one a while.

You almost topped TJM.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 02:48 PM (2YhKe)
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LOL It's been a rough few weeks.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2026 02:58 PM (RIvkX)

157 156 You've been rolling that one a while.

You almost topped TJM.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 02:48 PM (2YhKe)

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You stay Amy Schumer for one 24 hour period...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 02:59 PM (PIaQL)

158 On the bright side, this means he'll be deported quicker.

Or be running the DOT

Posted by: Gavin/AOC/Mayor Pete at July 16, 2026 02:59 PM (DMpo1)

159 They should be bankrupting every company that hires illegal immigrants.

Posted by: That Guy at July 16, 2026 02:59 PM (kACBq)

160 Interesting thought:

Fresh on the heels of the "Birthright citizenship" ruling, Ro Khanna has to go to Israel and act like he's not subject to their jurisdiction just because he's in their country, because don't they know who he is?

That invalidates KBJ's argument that because she's not supposed to break laws in Japan, she would be "subject to their jurisdiction".

Would we really let Japan lock up a sitting Supreme Court Justice over shoplifting or pick-pocketing?

Do you really think she would receive the same treatment as a Japanese citizen caught breaking the law?

It would probably end up in a deal where we agree to hold her impeachment for dropping the charges.

Which would prove that she is subject to America's jurisdiction and its alone. And that her argument is disprovable bullshit.

Brittany Greiner wasn't supposed to break the laws of the country she was in, but we negotiated to get her back. "Not supposed to break the law" means nothing once you've broken the law.

("Was that wrong? Was I not supposed to do that?")

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 02:59 PM (Fi81e)

161 He feared for his life in India? Sure.
Posted by: Jaimo at July 16, 2026 02:55 PM (2noDb)
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Probably the same way Maryland Man did, because he murdered a rival gangbanger's mother!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 16, 2026 02:59 PM (amcLV)

162 159 They should be bankrupting every company that hires illegal immigrants.

Posted by: That Guy at July 16, 2026 02:59 PM (kACBq)

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Too bad eVerify provides all corporations with legal protections on that front.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 03:00 PM (PIaQL)

163 In my defense I’m currently eating Japanese sashimi in the middle of the desert.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 16, 2026 02:55 PM (twdYN)
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Mmmm hot sushi.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2026 03:00 PM (RIvkX)

164 The Brits, in India, used a method of execution, 'Rent Asunder'. The offender was tied across the mouth of a cannon, which was then fired.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 16, 2026 03:00 PM (XeU6L)

165 He feared for his life in India? Sure.

My favorite true fact: you're in significantly more danger of dying of diarrhea in India than of being shot in the US.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 16, 2026 03:00 PM (2ocoG)

166 Hey, let’s put Democrats in charge of the House. What’s the worst that could happen?

Posted by: That Guy at July 16, 2026 03:00 PM (kACBq)

167 Fearing for your life is one of the phrases these illegals are taught to say to stay in the country. Every scumbag immigration lawyer knows that.

Posted by: That Guy at July 16, 2026 03:01 PM (kACBq)

168 166 Hey, let’s put Democrats in charge of the House. What’s the worst that could happen?

Posted by: That Guy at July 16, 2026 03:00 PM (kACBq)

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Genuinely, not much.

Pointless theater will come of a Democrat majority in the House matched by a GOP majority in the Senate.

And some budget crises that Trump uses to fire more federal workers and redirect funding as is his perogative as president.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 03:01 PM (PIaQL)

169 * They don't really, they just pocket difference as profit, most of which goes to the top 5% wealthy.

And then the top 5%'s wives divorce them and give all the money to Antifa.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 16, 2026 03:01 PM (2ocoG)

170
You stay Amy Schumer for one 24 hour period...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 02:59 PM (PIaQL)



Yeah, I'm not rolling that....especially not in flour.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 03:01 PM (2YhKe)

171 The H-1B investigation into foreigners exploiting worker visas in the US has moved at a rapid pace since Vice President JD Vance announced it last week — with the Department of Labor already preparing affidavits, sources tell me, as they examine alleged abuse of a program they say is rife with fraud.

“We ... we’re already in the process of writing up affidavits to swear out search warrants,” Anthony D’Esposito,
_DOL Inspector General leading the investigation

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 03:02 PM (JS6jE)

172 Sen. Ruben Gallego had sexual relationships with two House staffers, sources reveal to The Post

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 02:54 PM (viF8m)
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Like a boss!

Posted by: That Guy at July 16, 2026 03:02 PM (Fi81e)

173 I wonder if his attorney was also an illegal alien?

Stop laughing at me and read The California Supreme Court ruling in "In re Sergio C. Garcia"

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at July 16, 2026 03:02 PM (GMWTj)

174 The only thing this asshole feared in India was cholera.

Posted by: That Guy at July 16, 2026 03:02 PM (kACBq)

175 I hope he's deported if he survives prison. I hope for prison justice.

When I was at the DMV over a decade ago for a new license in a new state, I saw similar.

A moose limb "wife" was taking her written exam from a computer for the second or third time. I am unsure how I know this but must have overheard. She looked super nervous as her jihad husband was nearby glaring at her with several of their spawn.

You HAD to pass the written part or no license.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 16, 2026 03:02 PM (hzuYO)

176 Sen. Ruben Gallego had sexual relationships with two House staffers, sources reveal to The Post

He was Swalwell's bestie

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 03:02 PM (gKWVE)

177 171 The H-1B investigation into foreigners exploiting worker visas in the US has moved at a rapid pace since Vice President JD Vance announced it last week — with the Department of Labor already preparing affidavits, sources tell me, as they examine alleged abuse of a program they say is rife with fraud.

“We ... we’re already in the process of writing up affidavits to swear out search warrants,” Anthony D’Esposito,
_DOL Inspector General leading the investigation

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 03:02 PM (JS6jE)

=======

H1-Bs reached their height in 2023, so we're getting record renewals now. The federal government has little recourse to deny renewals barring evidence of fraud.

Sounds like the federal government is collecting evidence of fraud.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 03:03 PM (PIaQL)

178 Heh. Put a bomb in his turban and it's the perfect Muhammhead image.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 03:03 PM (2YhKe)

179
Yeah, I'm not rolling that....especially not in flour.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 03:01 PM (2YhKe)

King Arthur doesn't have enough.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 16, 2026 03:03 PM (wOO3z)

180 Fresh on the heels of the "Birthright citizenship" ruling, Ro Khanna has to go to Israel and act like he's not subject to their jurisdiction just because he's in their country, because don't they know who he is?

That invalidates KBJ's argument that because she's not supposed to break laws in Japan, she would be "subject to their jurisdiction".




Makes him Jewish.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 16, 2026 03:03 PM (u3HiE)

181 'Rent Asunder', huh?

https://tinyurl.com/52937t82

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 16, 2026 03:04 PM (ndZc7)

182 'Rent Asunder', huh?

https://tinyurl.com/52937t82
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 16, 2026 03:04 PM (ndZc7)
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Do they have a rent-to-own plan?

I'm not sure I can afford a whole sunder.

Posted by: That Guy at July 16, 2026 03:05 PM (Fi81e)

183 174 The only thing this asshole feared in India was cholera.


well that can definitely kill you!

also from online videos taking the train is pretty risky

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 16, 2026 03:05 PM (j+aD2)

184 CDL Holders are subject to Random drug testing at any time.
The employer can also test anytime for Reasonable Suspicion.

What do you want to bet these "Special" drivers are never tested?

Posted by: A REAL DRIVER at July 16, 2026 03:05 PM (DMpo1)

185 "Sen. Ruben Gallego had sexual relationships with two House staffers..."

If it was in a threesome, I might start backing this guy.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at July 16, 2026 03:05 PM (GMWTj)

186 Makes him Jewish.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 16, 2026 03:03 PM (u3HiE)
=====

Hold on a sec.

Posted by: Tim Watley DDS at July 16, 2026 03:05 PM (RIvkX)

187 yeah yeah they're all hiding behind "We followed the e-Verify rules!"

bullshit

its bad enough now here that we should hold them to account no matter if they "followed the letter of" some dumb law that was probably written to allow this type of thing.

we're running out of time.

only TRAITORS help INVADERS

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 16, 2026 03:06 PM (j+aD2)

188 186 Makes him Jewish.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 16, 2026 03:03 PM (u3HiE)
=====

Hold on a sec.

Posted by: Tim Watley DDS at July 16, 2026 03:05 PM (RIvkX)

======

A rabbi, a priest, and dentist walk into a bar mitzvah...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 03:06 PM (PIaQL)

189 Ruben Gallego had sexual relationships with two House staffers, sources reveal to The Post
Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 02:54 PM (viF8m)

Only 2? Is he gay or something?

Posted by: US Senate at July 16, 2026 03:06 PM (2hwDr)

190 Mostly peaceful immigrants. Mostly.

>>@EricLDaugh
·
48s
>>🚨 JUST IN: There were just SHOTS FIRED at the ICE building in Phoenix, Arizona and the FBI is now investigating

>>PRAY FOR ICE 🙏🏻

>>They face danger DAILY so they can carry out mass deportations.

>>As of now, NO injuries reported, but bullets struck the building

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 03:07 PM (viF8m)

191 Only 2? Is he gay or something?


well, that's on top of the hoooors

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 16, 2026 03:07 PM (j+aD2)

192 134 When I'm driving behind one of these towel head fucks and they're swerving all over the freeway at 75mph, I stay back until I see an opening of straight road and then I floor the gas pedal sometimes up to 100mph just to get clear because they are clearly a menace.

It's not a coincidence. We have a serious problem on our highways and freeways, boys.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 16, 2026 02:54 PM (sYM3s)

One of the suckers of cock came off an interstate ramp and blew through the yield sign running me and the guy in the lane next to me off the road. All so he could drive down a street that is clearly marked for no trucks.

Not only did they destroy the hotel industry, and the pron selection at your local convenience store, but they have made the interstates even more dangerous.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at July 16, 2026 03:08 PM (k1E2D)

193 >They face danger DAILY so they can carry out mass deportations.

>>As of now, NO injuries reported, but bullets struck the building
Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 03:07 PM (viF8m)



Well, we can't say the shooter 'can't hit a wall.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 03:08 PM (2YhKe)

194 Makes him Jewish.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 16, 2026 03:03 PM (u3HiE)
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It's all fun an games until somebody has to arrange the mohel!

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 03:09 PM (Fi81e)

195
Only 2? Is he gay or something?
Posted by: US Senate at July 16, 2026 03:06 PM (2hwDr)



*ears perk*

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at July 16, 2026 03:09 PM (2YhKe)

196 On the good side of news,


Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
·
18h
NEW: ICE announces that its Rio Grande Valley field office in Harlingen, TX recently made a record setting 238 arrests of illegal in a single day, the highest daily total ever recorded for the office. Targets arrested included aliens with rap sheets for kidnapping, sex crimes, weapons & drug crimes, and many prior deportations.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:09 PM (E4rtv)

197 84 When you're doing corporate bullshit training, it's almost never the wrong answer to choose "Contact HR..."

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 02:45 PM (Fi81e)

======

"Ask your manager" is an answer to about a third of all questions.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 02:45 PM (PIaQL)

"Grab dem tiddies" is, however, never the correct answer in such settings.

Posted by: Unfortunate but true at July 16, 2026 03:09 PM (TbWk/)

198 Sen. Ruben Gallego had sexual relationships with two House staffers, sources reveal to The Post

He was Swalwell's bestie
Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 03:02 PM (gKWVE)

***

Unbelievable...

Posted by: Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank, Gerry Studds, Joe Biden, John Edwards, Chris Dodd, Bill Clinton at July 16, 2026 03:09 PM (affD0)

199 198 Sen. Ruben Gallego had sexual relationships with two House staffers, sources reveal to The Post

He was Swalwell's bestie
Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 03:02 PM (gKWVE)

***

Unbelievable...

Posted by: Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank, Gerry Studds, Joe Biden, John Edwards, Chris Dodd, Bill Clinton at July 16, 2026 03:09 PM (affD0)

=======

Democrats are going to regret going full Puritan to try and (unsuccessfully) get Trump.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 03:10 PM (PIaQL)

200 "Grab dem tiddies" is, however, never the correct answer in such settings.

Posted by: Unfortunate but true at July 16, 2026 03:09 PM (TbWk/)
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Officially.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 03:10 PM (Fi81e)

201 187 yeah yeah they're all hiding behind "We followed the e-Verify rules!"

bullshit

its bad enough now here that we should hold them to account no matter if they "followed the letter of" some dumb law that was probably written to allow this type of thing.

we're running out of time.

only TRAITORS help INVADERS
Posted by: Black Orchid
=========
Most of them probably do not do E-Verify as it is not required--it is a voluntary act by employers due to Democrats putting that in the bill. That is why bi-partisan reach around legislation always has poisoned turds from Democrats lodged in the bill.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:10 PM (E4rtv)

202 Sen. Ruben Gallego had sexual relationships with two House staffers, sources reveal to The Post

He was Swalwell's bestie
Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 03:02 PM (gKWVE)



And supported Platner.

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at July 16, 2026 03:11 PM (2YhKe)

203 SHIT!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 03:11 PM (2YhKe)

204 I guess he wasn't judged by his worst day...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 16, 2026 03:11 PM (xcxpd)

205 Let me be clear - I did not have sexual relations with that intern.
*waves slimy cigar at camera*

Posted by: Billy Jeff at July 16, 2026 03:11 PM (gKWVE)

206 Democrats are going to regret going full Puritan to try and (unsuccessfully) get Trump.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
=======
They regret nothing---they view rules as only applicable to GOP and their political opponents, not to them.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:12 PM (E4rtv)

207 Sen. Ruben Gallego had sexual relationships with two House staffers, sources reveal to The Post


He's going to have to use Roofies to get those numbers up.

Posted by: THE GHOST OF SEN BROCK ADAMS at July 16, 2026 03:12 PM (DMpo1)

208 Europe has a controversial big rig truck traffic regulation I like.

100 kph (62 mph) speed limit. Restricted to right hand lane only.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 03:12 PM (hkjqi)

209 They regret nothing---they view rules as only applicable to GOP and their political opponents, not to them.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:12 PM (E4rtv)
---
Apt assessment.

It is after all, part of an emotional reaction.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 03:13 PM (Fi81e)

210 Sen. Ruben Gallego had sexual relationships with two House staffers, sources reveal to The Post

He was Swalwell's bestie
Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 03:02 PM (gKWVE)

***

Wow...

Posted by: Alcee Hastings, Patrick Meehan, John Conyers, Mark Foley, Mel Reynolds, Daniel Crane, Wayne Hays at July 16, 2026 03:13 PM (affD0)

211 201 =========
Most of them probably do not do E-Verify as it is not required--it is a voluntary act by employers due to Democrats putting that in the bill. That is why bi-partisan reach around legislation always has poisoned turds from Democrats lodged in the bill.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:10 PM (E4rtv)

=======

My understanding of how eVerify works is that it doesn't.

Jose Rodruiguez gives an SSN actually assigned to Joe Bob, and eVerify passes it anyway.

The company has no enforcement option, and they have to accept the result as verified even if not.

So, they legally use it, see that it fails, and they're protected on the legal front.

Want to go after employers? I think the only real option beyond smaller operators who don't use it is going to be statutory changes to how eVerify works.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 03:13 PM (PIaQL)

212 H1-Bs reached their height in 2023, so we're getting record renewals now. The federal government has little recourse to deny renewals barring evidence of fraud.

Sounds like the federal government is collecting evidence of fraud.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

==

Isnt the way the law worded a company has to prove there are no Americans available to do the job they are requesting the H-1 visa for?

I have to think this is a blank check for the government to pursue companies for fraud.

There's plenty of Americans that can do those jobs. Just an not some menial wage for an engineering job.


Posted by: Sharpie at July 16, 2026 03:13 PM (RRuWF)

213 More criminals getting their just deserts.


Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
NINE Venezuelan nationals have pleaded GUILTY to operating a human trafficking and money laundering scheme in Tennessee.

They would smuggle women into our country with promises of employment and would then force them into s*x work under threat of physical harm.

These are the people that Democrats fight to protect.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:14 PM (E4rtv)

214 >>>CDL Holders are subject to Random drug testing at any time. The employer can also test anytime for Reasonable Suspicion.

What do you want to bet these "Special" drivers are never tested?

Posted by: A REAL DRIVER

>They should be testing them for personal hygiene, STDs and and parasites. Let's start there.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 16, 2026 03:14 PM (sYM3s)

215 The important thing is that companies saved a few bucks on shipping. They pass the savings on to you!*
* They don't really, they just pocket difference as profit, most of which goes to the top 5% wealthy.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 16, 2026 02:58 PM (DbmIv)

Hands off my Hands Free Catheter!
Ships free and at no cost me...I am actually inserting one right now while I type this...Thank you Medicare!

Posted by: I love Socialized Medicine! at July 16, 2026 03:14 PM (e2lsi)

216 166 Hey, let’s put Democrats in charge of the House. What’s the worst that could happen?
Posted by: That Guy

Impeachment. Gubmint shutdown. Naked Satanic sacrifices in the House chamber.

You know, the usual stuff.

Posted by: Auspex at July 16, 2026 03:14 PM (Y8DZL)

217 206 Democrats are going to regret going full Puritan to try and (unsuccessfully) get Trump.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
=======
They regret nothing---they view rules as only applicable to GOP and their political opponents, not to them.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:12 PM (E4rtv)

=====

And yet, the tool they wield is only being used effectively against their own.

Swalwell, Platner, and now, potentially, Gallego? (And El-Sayed from MI, apparently.)

All while Trump and Paxton get away with it?

Yes, they're regretting it, but their base and their media arm are out of control looking to enforce sexual purity from the Democrat men.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 03:14 PM (PIaQL)

218
Isnt the way the law worded a company has to prove there are no Americans available to do the job they are requesting the H-1 visa for?

I have to think this is a blank check for the government to pursue companies for fraud.

There's plenty of Americans that can do those jobs. Just an not some menial wage for an engineering job.


Posted by: Sharpie at July 16, 2026 03:13 PM (RRuWF)




Microsoft just fired 3000 employees. They turned right around and submitted requests for 5000 H1-B's.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 03:15 PM (2YhKe)

219 That is why bi-partisan reach around legislation always has poisoned turds from Democrats lodged in the bill.

Honestly, while stopping this kind of poisoned legislation is good, we also need to learn to play that game. Hire a driver who doesn’t speak English “accidentally”? You are also responsible for murder when they kill someone. “Accidentally” hire illegals and your cotton lettuce crop is tainted? You are responsible. Etc.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 16, 2026 03:16 PM (twdYN)

220 Sen. Ruben Gallego had sexual relationships with two House staffers, sources reveal to The Post
Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 02:54 PM

Funny how every D scandal lately is just more and more toxic masculinity and nothing else. Almost like they're trying to convince everyone.

David Wu, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 03:16 PM (LuIt4)

221 Isnt the way the law worded a company has to prove there are no Americans available to do the job they are requesting the H-1 visa for?
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But the authorities apparently accept "It's my lived truth".

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 03:16 PM (Fi81e)

222 And more good news in Maricopa County, Recorder Justin Heap wins and the Board of Supervisors capitulates after AZ Supreme Court ruled against the Board of Supervisors. They were trying to take over the entire function and budget of the Elected Recorder's Office. Heap won by promising to end voter fraud and then the Board of Supervisors illegally tried to take over the functions of the office while leaving Heap with nothing to do.

America First Legal
@America1stLegal
·
Jul 15
🚨MAJOR VICTORY FOR ELECTION INTEGRITY —

AFL has secured a SWEEPING settlement in its lawsuit on behalf of @azjustinheap.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:16 PM (E4rtv)

223 212
Isnt the way the law worded a company has to prove there are no Americans available to do the job they are requesting the H-1 visa for?

I have to think this is a blank check for the government to pursue companies for fraud.

There's plenty of Americans that can do those jobs. Just an not some menial wage for an engineering job.


Posted by: Sharpie at July 16, 2026 03:13 PM (RRuWF)

=====

Companies have to make good faith efforts to find Americans.

It's been a running story in the last few years of how companies are skirting that. I suspect it's part of the entire package against H1-B that the DOJ is forming.

The DOJ is making obvious moves to eliminate OPT completely and scale back H1-B as much as they can unilaterally (elimination of H1-B requires an act of Congress, but not OPT).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 03:16 PM (PIaQL)

224 Microsoft just fired 3000 employees. They turned right around and submitted requests for 5000 H1-B's.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

==

And I might be wrong, I'm not a lawyer, but it seems countries are flagrantly ignoring the law and Trump's DOJ needs to pursue it.

It's a political winner except for CEO's

Posted by: Sharpie at July 16, 2026 03:17 PM (RRuWF)

225 219 Honestly, while stopping this kind of poisoned legislation is good, we also need to learn to play that game. Hire a driver who doesn’t speak English “accidentally”? You are also responsible for murder when they kill someone. “Accidentally” hire illegals and your cotton lettuce crop is tainted? You are responsible. Etc.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 16, 2026 03:16 PM (twdYN)

======

It's been a dream of mine for years that some GOP staffer will sneak in language to an omnibus, must pass piece of legislation that ends tax withholding.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 03:17 PM (PIaQL)

226 The Left should feel blessed that we only elected Donald Trump, the softie. Wait until they see what may come next.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 16, 2026 03:17 PM (fZiTB)

227 Sadly, majority of the public has no idea that this is happening in our country.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 16, 2026 03:17 PM (NpAcC)

228 Nick Freitas did a video to the effect of "will these No Kings protestors be out protesting violations of the Constitution if Democrats win the coming elections and start violating it? No"

But I think we can take it at a more fundamental level. The sole point in having a federal/national government is to protest you from external threats. If it can't do that it isn't a real government.

The left is arguing the Constitution protects invaders from any effective action by the federal government which is insane.

The Constitution says we can (and the writers would have argued we SHOULD) shoot invaders. Hell we did that in the 1940s to great effect.

Using police powers to detain and expel them is beyond what an invader should expect.

And as I've asked before - if an American snuck into Iran and tried to run down an Iranian police officer with a car would anyone be the least surprised the American invader got shot?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2026 03:18 PM (sKqQm)

229 gKWVE - Westchase mall was between Westheimer & Richmond on Hwy. 6 near Mission Bend. The buildings are still there but are mostly empty.

Posted by: DanMa'am at July 16, 2026 03:18 PM (8uzBS)

230 Remember when they said you couldn't catch some affliction from the toilet seat? That it was a myth? Think again.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 16, 2026 03:18 PM (sYM3s)

231 The Left should feel blessed that we only elected Donald Trump, the softie. Wait until they see what may come next.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 16, 2026 03:17 PM (fZiTB)

Been saying this for years.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 16, 2026 03:19 PM (wOO3z)

232 Sadly, majority of the public has no idea that this is happening in our country.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 16, 2026 03:17 PM (NpAcC)



There are some that don't know that voting is a right they can use.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 03:19 PM (2YhKe)

233 Isnt the way the law worded a company has to prove there are no Americans available to do the job they are requesting the H-1 visa for?

I have to think this is a blank check for the government to pursue companies for fraud.

There's plenty of Americans that can do those jobs. Just an not some menial wage for an engineering job.


Posted by: Sharpie at July 16, 2026 03:13 PM (RRuWF)

I'm pretty sure this is at least one reason why we see so many bullshit ghost job listings or impossible job listings on places like LinkedIn and Indeed - so they can make it look like they're trying to hire domestically and, gosh darn it, wouldn't you know we just couldn't get any qualified Americans.

Posted by: It's a game, a sham, a scam! at July 16, 2026 03:19 PM (TbWk/)

234 The Boss got linked at Insty

Pants on everyone!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2026 03:19 PM (RIvkX)

235 Honestly, while stopping this kind of poisoned legislation is good, we also need to learn to play that game. Hire a driver who doesn’t speak English “accidentally”? You are also responsible for murder when they kill someone. “Accidentally” hire illegals and your cotton lettuce crop is tainted? You are responsible. Etc.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair

GOPe never plays that way. Because many of them are Democrats that could not be elected as such. Tillis and McVain are perfect examples of the type. Notably the living McVains are hosting a funding Election Fraud Queen Hobbs (AZ D governor). McVain's rotting corpse is probably voting D as well in the 2026 election.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:19 PM (E4rtv)

236 >>Sen. Ruben Gallego had sexual relationships with two House staffers, sources reveal to The Post

The left has said repeatedly Ken Paxton should not be allowed to be a senator because he cheated on his wife.

Well...then Gallego has to go...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2026 03:20 PM (sKqQm)

237 Isnt the way the law worded a company has to prove there are no Americans available to do the job they are requesting the H-1 visa for?
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"The magic 8-ball said no".

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 03:20 PM (Fi81e)

238 Four years is OK, as long as they execute him after he serves that time. Maybe smash him against a wall, with a truck.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 16, 2026 03:21 PM (vbXSk)

239
Sen. Ruben Gallego had sexual relationships with two House staffers, sources reveal to The Post

______________

I don't think the staffers came forward crying, "Help! Help! A Democrat raped me!" They're ambitious little shits who would submit to any degradation in order to advance.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2026 03:21 PM (+VZIW)

240
The left has said repeatedly Ken Paxton should not be allowed to be a senator because he cheated on his wife.

Well...then Gallego has to go...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2026 03:20 PM (sKqQm)



3/4 of Congress would likely need to recuse themselves from everything.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 03:21 PM (2YhKe)

241 Cultural Marxists love criminals
And judge was a Clinton appointment

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 03:21 PM (iYRFG)

242 181 'Rent Asunder', huh?

https://tinyurl.com/52937t82

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat
---

Those dumb ass millionaires too stupid to see the handwriting on the wall.
This was coming. It was obvious it was coming. And these rich assholes couldn't get together and pony up money to defeat this bastard. How did you make your millions being so stupid?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 03:21 PM (JS6jE)

243
I don't think the staffers came forward crying, "Help! Help! A Democrat raped me!" They're ambitious little shits who would submit to any degradation in order to advance.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2026 03:21 PM (+VZIW)



These are the rules they've set in place.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 03:21 PM (2YhKe)

244 The left has said repeatedly Ken Paxton should not be allowed to be a senator because he cheated on his wife.

Well...then Gallego has to go...

==

But, what else is out there , hmmmm??? What other dirt ?!

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 03:21 PM (GD0B3)

245 We have the internet and Zoom calls.

We can get all the recipes and movies and weird dance moves electronically.

We do not need any of the meat space effluvium to get the cultural enrichment.

Posted by: Tar Bae at July 16, 2026 03:21 PM (/QVpI)

246 Using police powers to detain and expel them is beyond what an invader should expect.

And as I've asked before - if an American snuck into Iran and tried to run down an Iranian police officer with a car would anyone be the least surprised the American invader got shot?
Posted by: 18-1
=======
Democrats are oppressors of heritage Americans, normies, and those of faith. They are a cartel organized around stealing from the public treasury and stealing power at elections, not a legitimate political party anymore.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:22 PM (E4rtv)

247 How did you make your millions being so stupid?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 03:21 PM (JS6jE)



Ride the backs of the smart people, silly.

Posted by: Mark Cuban at July 16, 2026 03:22 PM (2YhKe)

248 It's been a dream of mine for years that some GOP staffer will sneak in language to an omnibus, must pass piece of legislation that ends tax withholding.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

==

If every taxpayer had to submit quarterly tax payments "out of pocket" like small business owners does, the government would be slashed in half overnight.

Posted by: Sharpie at July 16, 2026 03:22 PM (OIEvo)

249 208 Europe has a controversial big rig truck traffic regulation I like.

100 kph (62 mph) speed limit. Restricted to right hand lane only.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 03:12 PM (hkjqi)

Anyone who has ever driven I-81 in Virginia will wholeheartedly endorse this. Usually 10-15 miles of two truckers going 60 and 60.5 up and down hills never passing each other and never pulling over to the right lane while 30-40 cars build up behind them.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at July 16, 2026 03:22 PM (k1E2D)

250 AFL has secured a SWEEPING settlement in its lawsuit on behalf of @azjustinheap.
Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:16 PM (E4rtv)
*******
AFL was founded by Stephen Miller. He's always been one of my favorites in the Trump administration.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 16, 2026 03:22 PM (NpAcC)

251 244 The left has said repeatedly Ken Paxton should not be allowed to be a senator because he cheated on his wife.

Well...then Gallego has to go...

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But, what else is out there , hmmmm??? What other dirt ?!

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2026 03:21 PM (GD0B3)

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"Well, since Republicans fight dirty by not forcing out Paxton, we'll also fight dirty by keeping Gallego."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 03:22 PM (PIaQL)

252 But, what else is out there , hmmmm??? What other dirt ?!
Posted by: runner
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Father was a cartel operator and Gallegos favors an open border as do many pieces of shit in AZ politics, Jeff Flake among them.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:23 PM (E4rtv)

253 240:

3/4 of Congress would likely need to recuse themselves from everything.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 03:21 PM (2YhKe)

SOLD!! Take yes for an answer.

Posted by: Tar Bae at July 16, 2026 03:23 PM (/QVpI)

254 Sen. Ruben Gallego had sexual relationships with two House staffers, sources reveal to The Post

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I know a former Senate staffer (for another member of Congress) that has "partied" with Gallego and the guy is dirty AF.

Posted by: Sharpie at July 16, 2026 03:23 PM (OIEvo)

255 I look forward to the video of this creep electrocuting himself by grabbing high voltage wires in Mumbai.

Seriously better than any videos from Pollywood.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 16, 2026 03:23 PM (wBaIH)

256 Anyone who has ever driven I-81 in Virginia will wholeheartedly endorse this. Usually 10-15 miles of two truckers going 60 and 60.5 up and down hills never passing each other and never pulling over to the right lane while 30-40 cars build up behind them.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at July 16, 2026 03:22 PM (k1E2D)



This happens everywhere, on every highway in the United States. Even those with 3 or more lanes and signs that say "No Trucks Left Lane."

Posted by: Mark Cuban at July 16, 2026 03:23 PM (2YhKe)

257 ______________

I don't think the staffers came forward crying, "Help! Help! A Democrat raped me!" They're ambitious little shits who would submit to any degradation in order to advance.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
---

Some say it goes with the territory.
Some say I play the game to get what I want.
Some say I am the controller.
Some say it's love.
Some are delusional.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 03:24 PM (JS6jE)

258
250 AFL has secured a SWEEPING settlement in its lawsuit on behalf of @azjustinheap.
Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:16 PM (E4rtv)
*******
AFL was founded by Stephen Miller. He's always been one of my favorites in the Trump administration.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 16, 2026 03:22 PM (NpAcC)

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Miller's law firm was one of the reasons that Biden couldn't stop enforcing all immigration laws. They kept bringing lawsuits in federal court that forced Biden's DHS to do things.

Not enough to end the open borders, but he was able to blunt the issues slightly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 03:24 PM (PIaQL)

259 FFS........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 03:24 PM (2YhKe)

260 Ruben Gallego accused of banging two chicks at the same time, broski - Film at 11

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 03:24 PM (LuIt4)

261 He claimed he "feared for his life" in India

Have you seen how they drive over there?!

Posted by: Jugdish Singh at July 16, 2026 03:24 PM (aZ9eR)

262 AFL was founded by Stephen Miller. He's always been one of my favorites in the Trump administration.
Posted by: redridinghood

It is a big win because Maricopa County has about 62 percent of all Arizona voters and its board of supervisors decided to steal the elections from 2020 onwards for the Dems. Pima did it also but Maricopa is the big enchilada in AZ politics.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:25 PM (E4rtv)

263 AFL was founded by Stephen Miller. He's always been one of my favorites in the Trump administration.



I love him so much.

also re: tech co H1Bs. no they will not stop. this is for leftist techies (which is most if not all of them) a form of warfare vs the Evil Orange Man (and us normies, really mainly us).

it IS a war. we need to fight it like one.

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 16, 2026 03:25 PM (j+aD2)

264 262 AFL was founded by Stephen Miller. He's always been one of my favorites in the Trump administration.
Posted by: redridinghood

It is a big win because Maricopa County has about 62 percent of all Arizona voters and its board of supervisors decided to steal the elections from 2020 onwards for the Dems. Pima did it also but Maricopa is the big enchilada in AZ politics.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:25 PM (E4rtv)

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"Such a weird shift rightward in Arizona politics happened last night. Probably voter suppression."
-Reddit, the day after election day, 2026

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 03:25 PM (PIaQL)

265
Sensing a drunk vibe from the board this afternoon.

That, or what the Canadians are burning aren't trees.

Posted by: Auspex at July 16, 2026 03:26 PM (Y8DZL)

266 also re: tech co H1Bs. no they will not stop. this is for leftist techies (which is most if not all of them) a form of warfare vs the Evil Orange Man (and us normies, really mainly us).

it IS a war. we need to fight it like one.
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 16, 2026 03:25 PM (j+aD2)

Might one even say it's a war of info?

Posted by: Not Alex Jones at July 16, 2026 03:26 PM (TbWk/)

267 Some say it goes with the territory.
Some say I play the game to get what I want.
Some say I am the controller.
Some say it's love.
Some are delusional.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 03:24 PM (JS6jE)
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Some people call me Maurice...

Posted by: Steve Miller at July 16, 2026 03:26 PM (Fi81e)

268 263
I love him so much.

also re: tech co H1Bs. no they will not stop. this is for leftist techies (which is most if not all of them) a form of warfare vs the Evil Orange Man (and us normies, really mainly us).

it IS a war. we need to fight it like one.

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 16, 2026 03:25 PM (j+aD2)

=======

New H1-B visas are down something like 80% compared to Biden's final year.

There was a massive glut built up through Biden's term, and now those have no chance of a path to a green card. So, most will end up going home, and the administration is limiting what gets replaced.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 03:27 PM (PIaQL)

269 Those dumb ass millionaires too stupid to see the handwriting on the wall.
This was coming. It was obvious it was coming. And these rich assholes couldn't get together and pony up money to defeat this bastard. How did you make your millions being so stupid?

Posted by: Braenyard
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The wealthy and/or political powerful figure they can buy/bully their way out of trouble as it always worked for them before. This is also the story of Paul Pelosi and Nanzi.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:27 PM (E4rtv)

270 The wealthy and/or political powerful figure they can buy/bully their way out of trouble as it always worked for them before. This is also the story of Paul Pelosi and Nanzi.
Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:27 PM (E4rtv)




HAMMERTIME!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 03:27 PM (2YhKe)

271 Sen. Ruben Gallego had sexual relationships with two House staffers, sources reveal to The Post
Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 02:54 PM


Lobbyists couldn't get appointments scheduled!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 16, 2026 03:28 PM (kgE5c)

272 Sentenced to nearly FIVE YEARS? Did they read all the possible penalties? He killed THREE PEOPLE!

Posted by: Eromero at July 16, 2026 03:28 PM (wFmdf)

273 "Such a weird shift rightward in Arizona politics happened last night. Probably voter suppression."
-Reddit, the day after election day, 2026
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

From my recollection, one or mebbe two of the contested House seats are in AZ. Another two are in IA. Both of which have 'non partisan' redistricting committees that are anything but. Another Democrat scam allied with GOPe.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:28 PM (E4rtv)

274
Lobbyists couldn't get appointments scheduled!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 16, 2026 03:28 PM (kgE5c)



"I can't come to the phone right now........red rocket."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 03:29 PM (2YhKe)

275 @212

"There's plenty of Americans that can do those jobs. Just an not some menial wage for an engineering job.


Posted by: Sharpie at July 16, 2026 03:13 PM (RRuWF)"

Yes. H1-B visas are not for the "smartest people in the world who are drawn to freedom and prosperity." They are for scammers to keep wages down.

They are primarily used for standard-duty jobs that can be filled by Americans - probably easily, possibly with some difficulty or short delay, but absolutely doable.

"We need foreign workers!" is a scam every time.

Posted by: Tar Bae at July 16, 2026 03:29 PM (/QVpI)

276 I should start YDVerify. It won't be foolproof, but a lot better than this.

1.) Law that only permits citizens to be hired

2.) Citizenship test already requires English proficiency. All I have to do is ask a simple question like "Shelly has twelve hamburgers. She gives 1 hamburgers to her two friends before going to a football game that ended 10-7. How many hamburgers does Shelly have, and what were the two possible types of the final points scored in the game?"

If they don't answer or don't answer correctly they fight a panther in hand combat.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 16, 2026 03:29 PM (BI5O2)

277 it IS a war. we need to fight it like one.

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 16, 2026 03:25 PM (j+aD2)
__

For some of us, we've been on a war footing for a long time.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 16, 2026 03:29 PM (/0H7F)

278 273 "Such a weird shift rightward in Arizona politics happened last night. Probably voter suppression."
-Reddit, the day after election day, 2026
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

From my recollection, one or mebbe two of the contested House seats are in AZ. Another two are in IA. Both of which have 'non partisan' redistricting committees that are anything but. Another Democrat scam allied with GOPe.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:28 PM (E4rtv)

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Statewide races are this year in AZ, too. Governor, etc.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 03:29 PM (PIaQL)

279 For Sponge,

Gunther Eagleman™
@GuntherEagleman
·
18h
🚨 PAUL PELOSI AT IT AGAIN, POSSIBLE CHARGES COMING!
Fresh off probation from his sweetheart DUI deal, Nancy’s husband wrecks his Maserati in a hit-and-run over July 4th weekend, smashes a parked Tesla then drives off like nothing happened.

Cops find him stalled down the road. Zero alcohol this time… but the pattern is crystal clear.

Multiple crashes, killed his own brother in one, special treatment every time.

Rules for thee, but not for me.

When will the elite face real accountability?

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:29 PM (E4rtv)

280 Sentenced to nearly FIVE YEARS? Did they read all the possible penalties? He killed THREE PEOPLE!
Posted by: Eromero at July 16, 2026 03:28 PM (wFmdf)



That's MORE than a YEAR per person! You want MORE!!??? You HEATHEN!!!!

Posted by: Gavin Newsom at July 16, 2026 03:30 PM (2YhKe)

281
I should start YDVerify. It won't be foolproof, but a lot better than this.

___________

Sorry, I read that as VDVerify. Need that too.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2026 03:30 PM (+VZIW)

282 Sentenced to nearly FIVE YEARS? Did they read all the possible penalties? He killed THREE PEOPLE!
Posted by: Eromero at July 16, 2026 03:28 PM (wFmdf)
___

Not surprisingly, Stan and his minions don't value human life very much.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 16, 2026 03:30 PM (/0H7F)

283
When will the elite face real accountability?

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:29 PM (E4rtv)




Thermostat's fine down here, boss!

Posted by: Satan's HVAC Tech at July 16, 2026 03:31 PM (2YhKe)

284 174 The only thing this asshole feared in India was cholera.
Posted by: That Guy at July 16, 2026 03:02 PM (kACBq)

Asshole cholera sounds pretty nasty.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2026 03:31 PM (bl07w)

285 Some more voter suppression just for TJM

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
·
Jul 15
🚨 NOW: AAG Harmeet Dhillon has just moved to PURGE 1 MILLION dirty voter names off California's voter rolls with Judicial Watch, per
@TomFitton


GREAT NEWS!

Thank you for fighting DAILY for secure elections,
@AAGDhillon


This is how we keep a republic. 🇺🇸

Clean up the rolls + pass the SAVE America Act!

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:31 PM (E4rtv)

286 Nood Swalwell

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 16, 2026 03:31 PM (/0H7F)

287 Rules for thee, but not for me.

When will the elite face real accountability?

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:29 PM (E4rtv)
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We shouldn't judge somebody by their worst couple dozen days.

Posted by: Steve Miller at July 16, 2026 03:31 PM (Fi81e)

288 This happens everywhere, on every highway in the United States. Even those with 3 or more lanes and signs that say "No Trucks Left Lane."

Part of the problem is that there are still states that do variable speed limits with lower ones for trucks. Unless a road has infinite lanes this cannot work except as a sneaky and very dangerous speed limit for all.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 16, 2026 03:31 PM (twdYN)

289 White devils killed in California were of low caste. Shrug.

Posted by: H1Bs at July 16, 2026 03:32 PM (2hwDr)

290 285 Some more voter suppression just for TJM

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
·
Jul 15
🚨 NOW: AAG Harmeet Dhillon has just moved to PURGE 1 MILLION dirty voter names off California's voter rolls with Judicial Watch, per
@TomFitton


GREAT NEWS!

Thank you for fighting DAILY for secure elections,
@AAGDhillon


Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:31 PM (E4rtv)

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I love the smell of voter suppression in the morning.

You know that smell, that gasoline smell.

It smells like...victory.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 03:32 PM (PIaQL)

291 And this is King Charle's England

"Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
·
33m
An Algerian man who tried to rape a woman near Buckingham Palace was released by police despite being caught in the act, a UK judge has revealed.

Ramzi Barkat, 54, attacked a lone woman in London's St James's Park in September 2024 after she rejected his advances, tackling her to the ground and attempting to rape her before three passing soldiers intervened after hearing her screams.

Despite being arrested, Barkat was released by police and remained free for about a year.

Sentencing him to 7 years and 3 months in prison, Judge Justin Cole condemned the investigation as a "catalogue of incompetencies," saying Barkat had been "caught red-handed" yet was allowed to walk free while posing "a continuing danger to the public."

Barkat was also convicted of assaulting one of the soldiers who stopped the attack and was handed a 10-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order and a 10-year restraining order."

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:32 PM (E4rtv)

292 Nood Swalwell
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 16, 2026 03:31 PM (/0H7F)



Ewwwwwwwww!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 03:32 PM (2YhKe)

293 And this,

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
·
19m
🚨 WOW! Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) announces he will be exiting the Democrat Party if they declare themselves anti-Israel

This comes after half of House Democrats voted to end aid to Israel:

"The Democratic Party is gonna become more anti-Israel? If you make that official platform, that's my RED LINE in the Democratic Party!"

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:33 PM (E4rtv)

294 Cops find him stalled down the road. Zero alcohol this time… but the pattern is crystal clear.

Multiple crashes, killed his own brother in one, special treatment every time.

Rules for thee, but not for me.

When will the elite face real accountability?
Posted by: whig



*Zombie Ted Kennedy has entered the chat.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 16, 2026 03:34 PM (u3HiE)

295 In W. Europe truck speed limits are often much lower than passenger vehicles on expressways. Could be 30-40 km/h differences. And it works fine because the police enforce that religiously. Along with no passing in the left lane laws.

Posted by: If there is a will it can be done at July 16, 2026 03:34 PM (2hwDr)

296 More migrants doing jobs that our legal citizens don't.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
@ICEgov
·
3h
ICE St. Paul special agents arrested Admir Didovic, a lawful permanent resident from Bosnia, after he allegedly illegally voted in two state general elections.

🛑Under
@POTUS
Trump, the U.S. won’t tolerate those who violate federal election laws.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:34 PM (E4rtv)

297 Should say No driving in left lanes other than to pass.

Posted by: If there is a will it can be done at July 16, 2026 03:35 PM (2hwDr)

298 *Zombie Ted Kennedy has entered the chat.
Posted by: rickb223
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To be fair, Chappaquiddick probably saved us from a Ted Kennedy presidency along with Jimmy Carter.

And Ted became an even more worthless alcoholic and poon hound as he aged badly.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:36 PM (E4rtv)

299 Another generic poll released today.


InteractivePolls
@IAPolls2022
·
Jul 15
New Generic Ballot poll by RMG Research

🟦 Democrats: 47% (-2)
🟥 Republicans: 45% (=)

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 03:39 PM (E4rtv)

300 Let's hope that true justice will be administered when he is released in a couple of years

Posted by: Bobinidaho at July 16, 2026 03:44 PM (zmupA)

301 Is it possible for Data Republican or someone else to track these inappropriate sentences, and include the names of:
The prosecutors
The defending lawyers, and who paid for their defense
The people who got them their licenses
The companies that hired them
The embassy individuals who signed off on their visas
The governor of the state that issued their license
And the DMV employee who certified them capable of driving

Posted by: Linda S Fox at July 16, 2026 03:45 PM (7Rs+y)

302 She gives 1 hamburgers…

Go fight the panther!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 16, 2026 03:52 PM (tWxgu)

303 @276 -- The question is ambiguous. Did Shelley give 1 hamburger to her two friends (i.e., to be shared amongst them), or 1 hamburger to each of her two friends? And there are 4 possible types of the final points scored in the game: a field goal, a point after touchdown (extra point), a touchdown, or a safety.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 16, 2026 04:00 PM (XMwZJ)

304 ICE needs to kill as many illegals as the illegals have killed Americans.
ICE, we need to pump up those numbers!
Might convince a few more to self deport.

Posted by: Enola Gay Pride at July 16, 2026 09:12 PM (DIS3S)

Tim Walz on His Pardon of the Rapist of 10-Year-Old Children: "We Can't All be Judged by Our Worst Day"

Meanwhile, Senator Sheldon Whitehorse, who proudly belongs to an all-white golf course and for some reason the media never mentions it, says that Democrats are right to disbelieve a woman alleging sexual violence if she's a Republican.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:15 PM




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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 01:14 PM (2YhKe)

2 Got lucky on that one.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 01:14 PM (2YhKe)

3 Tim Walz needs to be launched via trebuchet into the ocean to become shark shit.


Just in time for Shark Week.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 01:15 PM (2YhKe)

4 Worst day ? Uh... Tim... You've had more than one....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 16, 2026 01:17 PM (FtULh)

5 Hmm wonder what his "worst day" was

Posted by: steevy at July 16, 2026 01:17 PM (YwEeS)

6 Sure you can.

Posted by: Weasel at July 16, 2026 01:18 PM (Db7q6)

7 Tim Walz doesn't seem raping a 10 year old as a big deal.

I think this tells us something about Tim Walz's past

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2026 01:18 PM (sKqQm)

8
A: When looking at allegations you have to evaluate things like if there is corroboration, she was involved in a Koch-brothers operation.



One of the Koch's is dead and the other isn't exactly lighting up the conservative coffers with cash, dipshit.


Harry Reid called and he wants his congressional rant back.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 01:18 PM (2YhKe)

9 This comment is absolutely bonkers. Yes, Tim, you can be judged if your worst day involves harming children. In fact, you should be judged, shunned, tarred, feathered and hung from an overpass as a lesson to others.

Posted by: Piper at July 16, 2026 01:18 PM (hftzA)

10 His “worst day”…

JFC.

I can’t even.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 16, 2026 01:18 PM (4g5V+)

11 Corroboration? Koch Bros.? WTF?

But since he went that route, never believe a dem woman accusing a republican.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 16, 2026 01:18 PM (n5tGW)

12 Why is this fucker Walz not being impeached!

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 16, 2026 01:19 PM (bg6IZ)

13 What's a "Koch Brothers operation"?

Posted by: mrp at July 16, 2026 01:19 PM (rj6Yv)

14 Hmm wonder what his "worst day" was

Posted by: steevy at July 16, 2026 01:17 PM (YwEeS)



When he was overheard performing "Dick in A Minor" and was arrested.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 01:19 PM (2YhKe)

15 The left: Trump is an Epstein client! He totally molested kids!

Also the left: Yeah so this guy raped a 10 year old. I mean you can't judge a person by their worst day

Also, also the left: You shouldn't go to jail for paying a 17 year old boy for a blowjob

Bonus the left: Just because Joe Biden is on CSPAN video groping children doesn't mean he did anything wrong.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2026 01:19 PM (sKqQm)

16 “we can’t all be judged by our worst day.”

Exactly!

Posted by: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg at July 16, 2026 01:20 PM (wVcYX)

17 IIRC, this guy had several worst days as he raped the young girl repeatedly.

Wonder what her worst day was ...

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 16, 2026 01:20 PM (dtajH)

18 What's a "Koch Brothers operation"?
Posted by: mrp
......

I don't know. Did they have simultaneous hernias?

Posted by: wth at July 16, 2026 01:20 PM (UjdFS)

19 My worst days were days people I knew died which I'd say is true for most people.

Anyone whose worst day involves raping a 10 year old should get a second worst day involving a noose and a short drop.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2026 01:21 PM (sKqQm)

20 Senator Sheldon Whitehouse thinks that domestic abuse victims should not be believed if they're Republican:


Where did you stand during the Cavanaugh SC hearings?

Let me guess.......Ballsy Ford was the most credible of the credible witnesses to ever credibly witness.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 01:21 PM (2YhKe)

21 Koch Bros? Really? Still humping that Bush-era chicken? lol

Posted by: Halfhand at July 16, 2026 01:21 PM (Jax6D)

22 “we can’t all be judged by our worst day.”

It was just one apple! Jeeze!!

Posted by: Eve at July 16, 2026 01:21 PM (wVcYX)

23 If people can take off their party blinders for a few minutes, it is increasingly obvious that politicians (lately the Dems) will do anything to get and maintain power. Even at the expense of a 10yr old's innocence. Even at the expense of someone's daughter being killed.

Is this the best we can offer our country?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 16, 2026 01:21 PM (N39Ws)

24 And if you are excusing someone who harms children, you should hang next to them in continued solidarity.

Posted by: Piper at July 16, 2026 01:21 PM (hftzA)

25 Is "drawn and quartered" still a thing.

That would really lead the 6 o'clock news.

Posted by: connected and litigious at July 16, 2026 01:22 PM (cS1cw)

26 I still think it was a tremendous mistake for Trump to not invoke the Insurrection Act when that organized anti-ICE rebellion was going on in Minnesota.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 16, 2026 01:22 PM (bg6IZ)

27 Don't judge me!

Posted by: Tim Walz at July 16, 2026 01:22 PM (XeU6L)

28 His 'worst day' is still in the future when he meets his maker.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at July 16, 2026 01:23 PM (Q/FnY)

29 Walz said that like he knows his "worst day" was with a 10 year old boy.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 16, 2026 01:23 PM (n5tGW)

30 The guy was also completely unrepentant - he explained that raping 10-year-olds was acceptable behavior in Laos, so he shouldn't be judged for doing that here.

Granted, he should have been executed, but deportation was a good second-best solution.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 16, 2026 01:23 PM (u6/wt)

31 Pedos should be executed post-haste -- and that goes double for the mentally ill scumbags who defend, refuse to prosecute, and/or pardon them for those crimes.

What unprecedented levels of a Diabolical Satanic Mind Virus has infected & gripped so much of The rotting and disgusting
West in general and America in particular ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Tricentennial or Bust! at July 16, 2026 01:23 PM (NrJqB)

32 I think this guy thought raping a 10 year old was his best day.
Worst day was getting caught.

Posted by: wth at July 16, 2026 01:23 PM (UjdFS)

33 21 Koch Bros? Really? Still humping that Bush-era chicken? lol
Posted by: Halfhand
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Whitehouse is a traditionalist Democrat believing in segregation as well as hating on the Koch brother who is left.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 01:24 PM (E4rtv)

34 So according to Walz, we all get a pass for whatever heinous thing we do on one "worst day"? Is that one per lifetime, or year, or month? Planning Committee wants more detailed info on this offer..

Posted by: Azjaeger at July 16, 2026 01:24 PM (mMytc)

35 The magic words tonight for when Trump speaks will be "Maduro" and "Dominion."

There's a reason Trump went to the trouble of capturing him and his wife alive. He's the star witness in the case of China's efforts to steal the 2022 election.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 16, 2026 01:24 PM (dtajH)

36 Is "drawn and quartered" still a thing.

That would really lead the 6 o'clock news.
Posted by: connected
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I favor gibbeting. Keeps them in the public eye for a while.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 16, 2026 01:24 PM (XeU6L)

37 30 The guy was also completely unrepentant - he explained that raping 10-year-olds was acceptable behavior in Laos, so he shouldn't be judged for doing that here.

Granted, he should have been executed, but deportation was a good second-best solution.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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Returning him via air drop into Laos would combine the two.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 01:25 PM (E4rtv)

38 @GovTimWalz on why ICE shouldn�t have deported this child rapist: �we can�t all be judged by our worst day.�


This means he actually boofed some boys on the team he coached, doesn't it.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 01:25 PM (2YhKe)

39 The Democratic Party is like a factory that churns out horrible human beings on a conveyor belt, in an endless stream. There's no end to them! You mock one, defeat another -- and ten more take their place, each worse than their predecessors.

Posted by: zombie at July 16, 2026 01:25 PM (Av6i5)

40 Interesting that the left will make allowances for Tou Lue Vang, child rapist, but not for Graham Platner, AFAIK not a child rapist.

For some definition of "rape."

Tiz' a mystery.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 16, 2026 01:25 PM (jehhT)

41 Why is this fucker Walz not being impeached!
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 16, 2026 01:19 PM (bg6IZ)
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The Dem 2024 VP candidate? Governor Jazz Hands?

Posted by: mrp at July 16, 2026 01:26 PM (rj6Yv)

42 "West in general and America in particular ..."

The system protects the guilty, at the expense of the innocent. At least lately, and I mean since the Warren court. AKA my whole life.

Posted by: connected and litigious at July 16, 2026 01:26 PM (cS1cw)

43 ... or couple of years!

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 01:26 PM (Fi81e)

44 His 'worst day' is still in the future when he meets his maker.
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at July 16, 2026 01:23 PM (Q/FnY)
__

This^

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 16, 2026 01:26 PM (/0H7F)

45 So Comrade Tampon Timmy, if "on my worst day", I Minecraft some antifa commies, I can be completely absolved if I just say that I cannot be judged because that was my "worst day"?

Thought not. What a fuckin' putz. And to think this tool was almost a heartbeat away from POTUS.

Posted by: Thrawn at July 16, 2026 01:26 PM (LviRI)

46 It was a good day
I didn't have to use
my AK

Posted by: Quinntrevis Altorise Arvyda JaVaughn Dontavis RuntreZe at July 16, 2026 01:26 PM (MWfyi)

47 I know this will have been said but if your worst day contained the rape of a child yes you fucking can and should and WILL

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 01:27 PM (LuIt4)

48 Just a miracle election and a heartbeat away was this guy.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 16, 2026 01:27 PM (n5tGW)

49 19 My worst days were days people I knew died which I'd say is true for most people.

Anyone whose worst day involves raping a 10 year old should get a second worst day involving a noose and a short drop.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2026 01:21 PM (sKqQm)

We had to put our dog down yesterday. The deaths of my beloved family members and the deaths of beloved dogs and cats and other pets absolutely rank as worst days. Pretty bad days are when you mistakenly cc the entire department on a private email criticizing the boss. R*ping a child should never, ever, ever qualify as a worst day for the freaking perpetrator. For the child, absolutely, but I don't see Timmy having any compassion for her. What a loser.

Posted by: moki at July 16, 2026 01:27 PM (wLjpr)

50 SALUTATIONS TO DEPORTATIONS!

Posted by: MUMR at July 16, 2026 01:27 PM (RQr0G)

51 Tim wanted to say 'Child Rape' twice.

...because Tim Walz likes Child Rape.

Posted by: garrett at July 16, 2026 01:27 PM (uzmqU)

52 So Worst Day Do-overs will become a thing now?

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 16, 2026 01:28 PM (wVcYX)

53 For a lot of people, January 6 was their worst day.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 16, 2026 01:28 PM (bNf8H)

54 The guy was also completely unrepentant - he explained that raping 10-year-olds was acceptable behavior in Laos, so he shouldn't be judged for doing that here.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 16, 2026 01:23 PM (u6/wt)
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He also said that the girl deserved part of the blame.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 01:28 PM (Fi81e)

55 For a lot of people, January 6 was their worst day.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 16, 2026 01:28 PM (bNf8H)



.......salute the Marines.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 01:30 PM (2YhKe)

56 I don't blame myself. You see, Mister Gits, most people never have to face the fact that, in the right time and the right place, they're capable of anything.

Posted by: Noah "Walz" Cross at July 16, 2026 01:30 PM (DvZNg)

57 So if you mow over a bunch of pantifa protestors in the street, that only counts as ONE DAY, right?

Just got to pick your day.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 01:30 PM (Fi81e)

58 While the fires are burning in Canada, California is doing its part to keep up. Los Angeles County is reporting several major brush fires. Officials now are thinking of filling up the reservoirs next year or 2028.

Posted by: SMOD at July 16, 2026 01:30 PM (RHGPo)

59 He also said that the girl deserved part of the blame.
Posted by: Axeman
.......

It was that "come hither" Hello Kitty sweater.

Posted by: wth at July 16, 2026 01:30 PM (UjdFS)

60 Tim really needs to have his crawlspace checked out by cadaver dogs.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 16, 2026 01:30 PM (4NO2D)

61 Tim Walz on His Pardon of the Rapist of 10-Year-Old Children: "We Can't All be Judged by Our Worst Day"

In a perfect world, it would have been his last day.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2026 01:30 PM (ExV1e)

62
At least the catholic priests tried to cover up their penchants and predilections.

These people OTOH constantly moralize and preen and judge and then are like "child rape? OH YEAH Fucking GO FOR IT!!!"

Fucking commie shitstains.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 01:30 PM (LuIt4)

63 I didn't know the Koch Brothers were still considered the evil puppeteers. Are they even Jewish?!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 16, 2026 01:31 PM (kpS4V)

64 For a lot of people, January 6 was their worst day.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 16, 2026 01:28 PM (bNf8H)
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They promise, they'll never walk on the Capitol lawn again!!

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 01:31 PM (Fi81e)

65 Tim Walz makes retards look smart.

Posted by: ironwolf32 at July 16, 2026 01:31 PM (TM8nI)

66 I'll emphasize what's already been said but this fucker came within millimeters of being the fucking VP. And I'm talking about the miracle at Butler, PA.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 16, 2026 01:31 PM (bg6IZ)

67 I didn't know the Koch Brothers were still considered the evil puppeteers. Are they even Jewish?!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 16, 2026 01:31 PM (kpS4V)



One of them is dead.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 01:32 PM (2YhKe)

68
Should Sirhan Sirhan go to prison for one, single, solitary night when he committed a murder? Why, think of all the nights when he DIDN'T commit a murder! Thank you, ladies and gentlemen of the jury.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2026 01:32 PM (mmrXZ)

69 I have a bunch of new families in my court. I consider the innocence of these children sacred. They are not even mine. There is something wrong with Govenor Cheesedick. Very, very wrong.

Posted by: connected and litigious at July 16, 2026 01:32 PM (cS1cw)

70 I don't see Timmy having any compassion for her. What a loser.
Posted by: moki at July 16, 2026 01:27 PM (wLjpr)


One of the characteristics of the left is a complete lack of compassion, while loudly proclaiming their compassion and decrying the lack of compassion of anyone who disagrees with them.

Posted by: Emmie at July 16, 2026 01:32 PM (OlzlW)

71 I just loved the "she was involved in a Koch-brothers operation" reference.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, conspiracy theorist

Posted by: SMOD at July 16, 2026 01:32 PM (RHGPo)

72 Pedo Walz needs to quietly go away vs being deported himself as a traitor small children and our country.

May he be elected King of Somolia!

Dear Walz, you ugly, simpering douchebag:
YOU will someday be judged by God for all of your bad days...in other words, every day you had breath and raised your ugly balding head out of your bunker.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 16, 2026 01:32 PM (hzuYO)

73 The Purge. Coming to a city near you.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 16, 2026 01:32 PM (wVcYX)

74 Los Angeles County is reporting several major brush fires. Officials now are thinking of filling up the reservoirs next year or 2028.
Posted by: SMOD
.......

I heard on the radio that a water main burst and is flooding West Hollywood.

Posted by: wth at July 16, 2026 01:32 PM (UjdFS)

75 Tim Wallz needs to go bird hunting with zombie Dick Cheney.

Posted by: Cosda at July 16, 2026 01:33 PM (2v05M)

76 Just got to pick your day.
Posted by: Axeman

Make sure you start early so you have time to get it all done!

Posted by: Kratwurst at July 16, 2026 01:33 PM (36bTp)

77 I am so sorry, Moki.

Posted by: Piper at July 16, 2026 01:33 PM (Dd38x)

78 Q: Why did you dismiss Fifield?

A: When looking at allegations you have to evaluate things like if there is corroboration, she was involved in a Koch-brothers operation.

.. like he doesn't have George Soros stuffed up his butt right now.

Posted by: SMOD at July 16, 2026 01:33 PM (RHGPo)

79 Regarding Sheldon Whitehouse. Whinging about the Koch Brothers is Bush league.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 16, 2026 01:33 PM (cWLG3)

80
Just a miracle election and a heartbeat away was this guy.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk

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

Never mind even the heartbeat away. He could have done untold damage as the VP.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2026 01:33 PM (mmrXZ)

81 Should Sirhan Sirhan go to prison for one, single, solitary night when he committed a murder? Why, think of all the nights when he DIDN'T commit a murder! Thank you, ladies and gentlemen of the jury.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2026 01:32 PM (mmrXZ)
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He likely did not commit that murder. He may have just caught the gun somebody tossed to him.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 01:33 PM (Fi81e)

82
By the way, what was Derek Chauvin's worst day?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2026 01:34 PM (mmrXZ)

83 I favor gibbeting. Keeps them in the public eye for a while.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 16, 2026 01:24 PM (XeU6L)

This idea has lots of merit.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 16, 2026 01:34 PM (wVcYX)

84 Wasn't it this fucker's wife who said she opened her windows to smell the wonderful burning during the St George Floyd riots?

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 16, 2026 01:35 PM (bg6IZ)

85 I continue to believe there is more to the Tou Lue Vang pardon story.

There's some connection that we don't (yet?) know about. Somebody with power and clout wanted this guy pardoned, for whatever reason.

Not even Tim Walz is stupid enough to pardon a literal child-abusing demon, and face the inevitable political backlash heading into the midterms, without some real reason for doing it beyond hating on ICE.

Maybe Walz himself is that stupid. But he has handlers, and the Democrap party has handlers, and at least some of those handlers aren't that stupid.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 16, 2026 01:35 PM (iFTx/)

86 "Believe all Democrat women", pretty sure that is in the Bible, along with the "man causes global warming" and "whites are racists" verses.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 16, 2026 01:35 PM (vbXSk)

87 Tim really needs to have his crawlspace checked out by cadaver dogs.

I would hope he would learn from my mistakes.

Posted by: John Wayne Gacy at July 16, 2026 01:35 PM (vlMt3)

88 Walz would not have pardoned him if he was not being deported. The point was that it is pointless to keep someone in our prisons who we are going to deport anyway.

Now democrats can't even run the "guardians of pedophiles" narrative when describing the GOPs interference to the epstein files being released. Fuck they deserve to lose lol

It’s because the victim asked him to. Shouldn't the victims request that this happen be respected? I think the crime is horrendous but the victim requested it 

I think giving a pardon to a guy who hasn't reoffended with 19 years of clear opportunities to do so, with the explicit backing of the only person whose word really matters, so that his family doesn't suffer, is reasonable.

We’ll discuss in good faith after Trump and his kiddie fiddler associates go to prison for raping children. Listen folks- don’t let people beat you over the head with standards they do not hold themselves.

Would it be better if Walz, et al., refused to grant a pardon to this man because doing so would present political problems for the Democrats?

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 16, 2026 01:35 PM (r0lbJ)

89 I just loved the "she was involved in a Koch-brothers operation" reference.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, conspiracy theorist

Posted by: SMOD at July 16, 2026 01:32 PM (RHGPo)
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Especially given how the Koch brothers are funding that unstoppable wave of libertarianism that we see.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 01:35 PM (Fi81e)

90 : “we can’t all be judged by our worst day.”
__________________________________________

There it is in black and white. The philosophy of "no repercussions." That's how we end up with "too big to fail". That's how we end up with DA's refusing to prosecute people based skin color. That's how we have lifetime criminals showing up on trains and stabbing innocent people in the neck.

And, then, the subtle message, also, shown in this simple phrase. He could have said "we shouldn't be judged by our worst day" implying everyone gets that mulligan. BUT, he chose to say "we can't all be judged by our worst day" implying exceptions to that mulligan. Sheldon Whitehouse does us the favor of telling us what those exceptions are.

EXCELLENT Post, ACE.

Posted by: Orson at July 16, 2026 01:36 PM (dIske)

91 BabylonBee: Trump To Secure Strait Of Hormuz By Posting Old Man Who Asks You 3 Questions Before You May Pass

Posted by: SMOD at July 16, 2026 01:36 PM (RHGPo)

92 These people OTOH constantly moralize and preen and judge and then are like "child rape? OH YEAH Fucking GO FOR IT!!!"

Fucking commie shitstains.
Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 01:30 PM (LuIt4)
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Not easy being a kid in 2026.

First, you have to survive the pre-natal harrowing.

Second, you have to survive the Dems' abortion programs.

Third, you have to survive the Dems' trans programs.

It's a death cult. Your body is our body.

Posted by: mrp at July 16, 2026 01:36 PM (rj6Yv)

93 Now democrats can't even run the "guardians of pedophiles" narrative when describing the GOPs interference to the epstein files being released. Fuck they deserve to lose lol
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LOL. Your party had 4 years to release any Epstein documents!

The Narrative is strong in this one.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 01:36 PM (Fi81e)

94 These … people … are just vile rancid Cunts (in the British usage, mate)

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 01:36 PM (5IS0U)

95 Especially since there is only one Koch brother now. The other one died a few years back.

Posted by: Jaimo at July 16, 2026 01:37 PM (2noDb)

96 84 Wasn't it this fucker's wife who said she opened her windows to smell the wonderful burning during the St George Floyd riots?
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 16

Yes. She is loony toons even to the dem powers that be- she got her nose out of joint when she was told she can’t talk on the campaign trail anymore because she was hurting the campaign with her oddness.

Posted by: Piper at July 16, 2026 01:37 PM (Dd38x)

97 Not sure what's worse:

That the Democrats decided to take off their masks and go full commie psycho. Or, that they're getting away with it.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 16, 2026 01:37 PM (diia5)

98 The guy was also completely unrepentant - he explained that raping 10-year-olds was acceptable behavior in Laos, so he shouldn't be judged for doing that here.

And here in the USA, it is acceptable to treat such unrepentant child rapists to a quick, painful, ending. Just ask any protective father of girls. Hurt our kids, we'll take a sincere interest in your suffering.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 16, 2026 01:37 PM (N39Ws)

99 With more words from the mouths of guys like Walz and Obama and Whitehouse, I become more certain they were "voted" into office.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the children They do not Kill at July 16, 2026 01:37 PM (gxokI)

100 The Koch brothers fund libertarian causes.

They are also involved in funding enough socially liberal pushes as well!

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 01:37 PM (Fi81e)

101 63 I didn't know the Koch Brothers were still considered the evil puppeteers. Are they even Jewish?!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 16, 2026 01:31 PM (kpS4V)]/i]

I recall many years ago when I was researching the best toilet paper (when The Wirecutter was independent) that the best-performing TP was unfortunately made by a company associated with the Koch brothers and therefore could not be whole-heartedly endorsed. I thought it very sad that TP had to be politicized.

Posted by: Emmie at July 16, 2026 01:37 PM (OlzlW)

102 >>>>>>These … people … are just vile rancid Cunts (in the British usage, mate)
Posted by: Common Tater
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Brits aren't allowed to say that anymore.

Posted by: Cosda at July 16, 2026 01:38 PM (2v05M)

103 97 Not sure what's worse:

That the Democrats decided to take off their masks and go full commie psycho. Or, that they're getting away with it.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 16, 2026 01:37 PM (diia5)

Or, the populace seeing who these politicians are and shrug their shoulders and still vote for them.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 16, 2026 01:38 PM (N39Ws)

104 I think that Tampon Timmy thinks that was his finest day.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at July 16, 2026 01:38 PM (xvV+O)

105 They're rubbing it in, by the way. Kind of the Left's thing.

They love that they have appointed themselves God's stand-in, and want you to bask in awe at their command and control of reality itself. Now they tell you when grace and mercy *must* be bestowed and it is TOTALLY upside down. This inversion turns them on. They don't realize that those who know Jesus cannot and will NEVER be inverted or confused by their shell game.

The day that doddering old fag kneels and simpers before God will be one that dwarfs anything he has ever known or thought.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 01:38 PM (LuIt4)

106 Los Angeles County is reporting several major brush fires. Officials now are thinking of filling up the reservoirs next year or 2028.
Posted by: SMOD
.......
I heard on the radio that a water main burst and is flooding West Hollywood.
Posted by: wth

Ironically, S.F. doesn't seem to be having these kinds of issues. Our mayor, Lurie, by historical standards, is doing a pretty good job. I think a lot of it has to do with our population density and the fact that the really rich people and their $20M+ homes are not gated off from the rest of the city behind barricades and private infantry.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 16, 2026 01:38 PM (DZ9Lv)

107 In fact, you should be judged, shunned, tarred, feathered and hung from an overpass as a lesson to others.
——-

Hanged. Proper grammar in this context is always “Hanged”. Other than that, this is quite good.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 01:39 PM (5IS0U)

108 85 I continue to believe there is more to the Tou Lue Vang pardon story.

There's some connection that we don't (yet?) know about. Somebody with power and clout wanted this guy pardoned, for whatever reason.


i have an alibi

Posted by: jeffrey epstein at July 16, 2026 01:39 PM (v3pYe)

109 OK, I'll bite. I won't just Tampon Timmy by his worst day. After all, there are 364 other days to judge him by, and they are all nearly as bad.

As for the rapist, I hope he got a taste of what strongarm sodomy feels like while he was incarcerated. What's good for the goose...

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2026 01:39 PM (bl07w)

110
When your best day is getting married in Tienanmen Square on the anniversary and celebration of the massacre there, you have to shrug about what a bad day is for Tim Walz.

Posted by: Auspex at July 16, 2026 01:39 PM (Y8DZL)

111 95 Especially since there is only one Koch brother now. The other one died a few years back.
Posted by: Jaimo at July 16, 2026 01:37 PM (2noDb)
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I'm going to assume the deceased brother was cryogenically preserved and coordinates with his brother on their nefarious plans.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 16, 2026 01:39 PM (kpS4V)

112 he explained that raping 10-year-olds was acceptable behavior in Laos

Which it's not. Age of consent in Laos is 15. I hate that I had to look this up and, to Bob from NSA: I'm not going.
Basically he is a stinking liar as well as a pedobear and his deportation flight over Vientiane shouldn't have bothered landing.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 01:39 PM (gKWVE)

113 107 In fact, you should be judged, shunned, tarred, feathered and hung from an overpass as a lesson to others.
——-

Hanged. Proper grammar in this context is always “Hanged”. Other than that, this is quite good.


if the paolo got hanged, he would be both hanged and hung.

Posted by: anachronda at July 16, 2026 01:39 PM (v3pYe)

114 I LOVE MY RENT-TO-OWN UNDERWEAR!

Posted by: MUMR at July 16, 2026 01:40 PM (RQr0G)

115 I heard on the radio that a water main burst and is flooding West Hollywood.
Posted by: wth

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They'll have to stop counting the votes.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 01:40 PM (Fi81e)

116 111 95 Especially since there is only one Koch brother now. The other one died a few years back.
Posted by: Jaimo at July 16, 2026 01:37 PM (2noDb)
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I'm going to assume the deceased brother was cryogenically preserved and coordinates with his brother on their nefarious plans.


as illustrated in the well-known documentary dark star?

Posted by: anachronda at July 16, 2026 01:40 PM (v3pYe)

117 I know Democrats are dumb on the illegal immigration issue, but what Walz did almost seems like he's a double agent just trying to help Republicans.

I can't believe he thought politically this would play anywhere. I don't even think the base of the Democrat Party was demanding he figure out a way to keep a rapist illegal alien from being deported with a pardon.

Posted by: Sharpie at July 16, 2026 01:41 PM (rRy6K)

118 "Hey, it was just one bad day ...."

-- Judas

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 16, 2026 01:41 PM (iFTx/)

119 Now we got this El-Sayed muzzie in Michigan claiming his family has been here since the 1800's.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 16, 2026 01:41 PM (n5tGW)

120 as illustrated in the well-known documentary dark star?
Posted by: anachronda at July 16, 2026 01:40 PM (v3pYe)
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Yes!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 16, 2026 01:41 PM (kpS4V)

121 Or, the populace seeing who these politicians are and shrug their shoulders and still vote for them.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 16, 2026 01:38 PM (N39Ws)
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Because ... "balance".

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 01:42 PM (Fi81e)

122 Clearly, Walz is sympathetic to pedophiles. This raises questions.

Posted by: Don Black at July 16, 2026 01:42 PM (ZxPkt)

123 So I'm sure that #metoo and the pussy hat brigade and NOW and all the other feminist NGOs came out against Whitehorse right?

RIGHT?!?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at July 16, 2026 01:42 PM (xvV+O)

124 "We can't all be judged by our worst day."

And, then, the subtle message, also, shown in this simple phrase. He could have said "we shouldn't be judged by our worst day" implying everyone gets that mulligan. BUT, he chose to say "we can't all be judged by our worst day" implying exceptions to that mulligan
------

Actually I believe the operative word in his sentence is "all".

They will judge who they want when they want. The thing with the Left is that in their ideal world, some or maybe even most don't get judged. Well, boy do I have a fucking surprise for them.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 01:42 PM (LuIt4)

125 I’m about to take off but before I do I needed to say: Tim Walz is a piece of shit

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 16, 2026 01:43 PM (U+L0d)

126 Why is some two-bit senator popping off about shit that doesn't concern him? Somebody ought to pop him in his fat mouth.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 16, 2026 01:43 PM (sYM3s)

127
a rapist illegal alien

Posted by: Sharpie

a ^ child rapist illegal alien.

It's the worst possible.

Posted by: But hey, what was your worst day? at July 16, 2026 01:43 PM (mmrXZ)

128 Paint a dozen times and no one calls you a painter. Suck one c***, tho...

/ old joke

Posted by: man at July 16, 2026 01:43 PM (cGjQu)

129 Not even Tim Walz is stupid enough to pardon a literal child-abusing demon, and face the inevitable political backlash heading into the midterms, without some real reason for doing it beyond hating on ICE.

Maybe Walz himself is that stupid. But he has handlers, and the Democrap party has handlers, and at least some of those handlers aren't that stupid.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Democrats use criminals to do their dirty work in stealing elections, fake voter registrations, ballot harvesting, and fraud. I'd imagine this person had connections in the Laotian expat population and either did dirty work himself or someone else that did that advocated for him.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 01:44 PM (E4rtv)

130 I can't even read reports of child rape. I try, hard, not to have the information recorded in my brain of this and trafficking children.

I was incredibly blessed not to have to see the results in the five years working in the ED/Trauma unit and job sharing with a RN who never had children. I would find out the next day. I think God was protecting me.

The worst I saw was a shaken baby boy who was being airlifted and probably brain damaged for the rest of his life. The sheriff told me to not alert the father and I had to sit with this monster briefly alone in a room. They arrested him in Orlando vs in our med center. He claimed the baby fell off the couch.

I don't read most of what is printed in the news. I read the headline and done.

Demons walk this earth but they don't share my thoughts as I don't let them.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 16, 2026 01:44 PM (hzuYO)

131 "They love that they have appointed themselves God's stand-in, and want you to bask in awe at their command and control of reality itself."
___

They won't be so smug when the One who truly commands and controls judges them.

The evil, the corruption, the vileness that they embraced will come to an end.

Then we, whom He knows, will bask in awe.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 16, 2026 01:44 PM (/0H7F)

132 Judge Kaufman sentenced both Rosenburgs to death, not because it wasn’t necessarily richly deserved, but in the hopes that either or both would come clean and confess, this was part of the objective. Naming names.

It was thought that Julius would not allow his wife to be executed, and leave two children without parents. Sort of some psychological pressure involved. They could have had their death sentences commuted, but they chose to sit in the Old Sparky chair instead. Family members refused the children, and they were shuffled off to an orphanage.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 01:44 PM (5IS0U)

133 Imagine a President Kamala Harris. Imagine she dies from an overdose of semen. Imagine a President Tim Walz. Imagine the galactic levels of embarrassment emanating from the Oval Office.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 16, 2026 01:44 PM (1VZmA)

134 Slight correction, it's an all white beach club not a golf course.

A really nice beach club.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 01:44 PM (viF8m)

135 Clearly, Walz is sympathetic to pedophiles. This raises questions.
Posted by: Don Black


Commies don't have to be particularly sympathetic to any class of criminal. The goal is destruction of society by all means necessary.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 16, 2026 01:44 PM (diia5)

136 63 I didn't know the Koch Brothers were still considered the evil puppeteers. Are they even Jewish?!

the fact that you have to ask just shows how sneaky those dastardly joos are.

Posted by: anachronda at July 16, 2026 01:45 PM (v3pYe)

137 he explained that raping 10-year-olds was acceptable behavior in Laos

Which it's not. Age of consent in Laos is 15. I hate that I had to look this up and, to Bob from NSA: I'm not going.
Basically he is a stinking liar as well as a pedobear and his deportation flight over Vientiane shouldn't have bothered landing.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 16, 2026 01:39 PM (gKWVE)
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All true, but I'm sure literally anything goes in Laos. If you've got the money, honey, we've got your disease.

It's kinda like Thailand. Prostitution is technically illegal there, with some serious punishments if you're caught. But prostitution is so widespread there it's practically a tourism industry. Redlight districts might as well be Disneyland for whores, with hawkers and whores openly promoting their services.

But it's all illegal.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 16, 2026 01:45 PM (iFTx/)

138
Democrats pay for slicing up innocent children pre and post partum and for vicious sadists to sexually harass them while dressed as strippers in your school library, so simple rape doesn't seem to be the worst day ever, does it?

Posted by: Auspex at July 16, 2026 01:45 PM (Y8DZL)

139 Incidents like this make me seriously question America's trajectory over the past 50 plus years. Can anyone seriously believe that this is a pardonable offense? It was a monstrous crime for which he showed no remorse. And, as usual, there is no thought for the actual victim of the rape - a 10-year-old girl. As they used to say, hanging is too good for him. I'd be surprised if he didn't sneak back into America in the future.

OT - Hi Whig! I recall on Monday that you said you were going to get an MRI. Hope everything went well.

Posted by: Retired, thank God at July 16, 2026 01:45 PM (va0Yo)

140 Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 16, 2026 01:44 PM (/0H7F

PREACH ON PREACHER

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 01:46 PM (LuIt4)

141 Not even Tim Walz is stupid enough to pardon a literal child-abusing demon, and face the inevitable political backlash heading into the midterms, without some real reason for doing it beyond hating on ICE.

Maybe Walz himself is that stupid. But he has handlers, and the Democrap party has handlers, and at least some of those handlers aren't that stupid.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Democrats use criminals to do their dirty work in stealing elections, fake voter registrations, ballot harvesting, and fraud. I'd imagine this person had connections in the Laotian expat population and either did dirty work himself or someone else that did that advocated for him.
Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 01:44 PM (E4rtv)
__________

Agree

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 16, 2026 01:46 PM (iFTx/)

142 We all correctly criticize the shrieking white women of the left, but the soy boys like Walz and Whitehouse make them possible

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2026 01:46 PM (OXYE0)

143 "They love that they have appointed themselves God's stand-in, and want you to bask in awe at their command and control of reality itself."
---
If I may off this: it's is all on the theme of Babel.

Wanting to provide the "Solution that saved Mankind" is what all progressivism is about.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 01:47 PM (Fi81e)

144 Now we got this El-Sayed muzzie in Michigan claiming his family has been here since the 1800's.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 16, 2026 01:41 PM (n5tGW)
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Would'nt you think such an established, fully assimilated, all-American specimen be against illegal aliens?

His platform is being anti-ICE and anti-Israel, but down deep (well, not that deep), he's anti-American.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 16, 2026 01:47 PM (kpS4V)

145 . Imagine the galactic levels of embarrassment emanating from the Oval Office"

Yeah. We could've had pride flags hanging from US embassy buildings.

Oh, wait

Posted by: man at July 16, 2026 01:47 PM (cGjQu)

146 Pedos should be executed post-haste -- and that goes double for the mentally ill scumbags who defend, refuse to prosecute, and/or pardon them for those crimes.

What unprecedented levels of a Diabolical Satanic Mind Virus has infected & gripped so much of The rotting and disgusting
West in general and America in particular ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Tricentennial or Bust! at July 16, 2026 01:23 PM (NrJqB)

***

Just to be clear, if there is no body, say of a creep trying to rape a child, then there's no crime, right?
Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 16, 2026 01:47 PM (2WIwB)

147 “I know Democrats are dumb on the illegal aliens issue”

Evil. Nobody is this stupid, not even Democrats, not in the political calculus

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 01:48 PM (5IS0U)

148 Walz is such a fucking nasty, slimy monster.

His statement here is a confession, don't judge him for his worst day.
Fuck you--no one has a bad day and rapes a little girl.

It's time to dig back up why he fled Nebraska for MN.

I don't think it was the DWI or such:
It was, he got caught watching the naked boys in the shower after football practice.
Or worse.

He was "asked/forced" to get the fuck out of town.

That's why his statement was a confession:
Guilty mind never stops seeking escape.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 16, 2026 01:48 PM (3cUTc)

149 OT - Hi Whig! I recall on Monday that you said you were going to get an MRI. Hope everything went well.
Posted by: Retired

Indicated I still had a problem (disk herniation in the thoracic) and next will come the cheap fix that insurance will pay for first--nerve block.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 01:48 PM (E4rtv)

150 Imagine a President Kamala Harris. Imagine she dies from an overdose of semen.
......

Would that be her worst day, or best?

Posted by: wth at July 16, 2026 01:49 PM (UjdFS)

151 As it says in Scripture, let he/she/they who is without sin cast the first stone.

What if we, as commenters, were judged on our worst comment?

The one that disappointed Mr. O'Spades the most?

Posted by: James Talarico at July 16, 2026 01:49 PM (6fCYw)

152 so simple rape doesn't seem to be the worst day ever, does it?
Posted by: Auspex at July 16, 2026 01:45 PM (Y8DZL)

The only problem with that thought process... is that rape is a life sentence for the victim. It should be a death sentence for the perpetrator.

Fair is fair.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2026 01:49 PM (bl07w)

153 We all correctly criticize the shrieking white women of the left, but the soy boys like Walz and Whitehouse make them possible
——-

Eh, maybe it’s actually the other way around. Or a possibly bit of both.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 01:50 PM (5IS0U)

154 Each time Vang forced sex onto a young girl, it was his "worst day in a while".

So, I kinda get where Walz is going here.


</sarc>

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 01:50 PM (Fi81e)

155 100 house Democrats voted to cut ALL funding to Israel. Wasn’t just DSA types, Nancy Pelosi voted for it. Not a single Republican voted for it, other than Massie.

And yet, the overwhelming majority of Jews will vote for Democrats without a second thought.

I thought Jews were smart. Maybe not.

Posted by: WTF at July 16, 2026 01:50 PM (2hwDr)

156 The one that disappointed Mr. O'Spades the most?
Posted by: James Talarico at July 16, 2026 01:49 PM (6fCYw)

Oh, Jimmy, go lay down by your dish.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2026 01:50 PM (bl07w)

157 O/T: It could be an interesting evening. Starship launch, and Trump's speech on Chy-na.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 16, 2026 01:50 PM (bNf8H)

158 I wish it shocked me that those reddit people that want to excuse Walz for pardoning a child rapist because of some political issue. But it doesn't, they are just evil.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 16, 2026 01:50 PM (n5tGW)

159 Not even Tim Walz is stupid enough to pardon a literal child-abusing demon, and face the inevitable political backlash heading into the midterms, without some real reason for doing it beyond hating on ICE.

Maybe Walz himself is that stupid. But he has handlers, and the Democrap party has handlers, and at least some of those handlers aren't that stupid.


Not everything is a Glenn Beck whiteboard. Walz really is just a retard. The DNC cut him loose months ago leading up to his dropping out of the reelection race, and he probably thought this "bold action against ICE" would get him back in their good graces and learing center cash.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 16, 2026 01:50 PM (2ocoG)

160 153 We all correctly criticize the shrieking white women of the left, but the soy boys like Walz and Whitehouse make them possible
——-

Eh, maybe it’s actually the other way around. Or a possibly bit of both.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 01:50 PM (5IS0U)

They do kinda sorta deserve each other. I wish they would get together and go the hell away from us, though.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2026 01:51 PM (bl07w)

161 I don't read most of what is printed in the news. I read the headline and done.

Demons walk this earth but they don't share my thoughts as I don't let them.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 16, 2026 01:44 PM (hzuYO)
___

This^

I don't need to read or hear about the details.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 16, 2026 01:51 PM (/0H7F)

162 77 I am so sorry, Moki.

Posted by: Piper at July 16, 2026 01:33 PM (Dd38x)

Thanks Piper - it hurts so much. He was a very good boy.

Posted by: moki at July 16, 2026 01:51 PM (wLjpr)

163 The Balz on that Walz!

Posted by: Joe Mama at July 16, 2026 01:51 PM (TezPK)

164 We also don't want to judge Roman Polanski, who only got a 13 year old girl drunk and high on quaaludes and sodomized her just ONE DAY!

That should be his mulligan.

* phone chime *

What's that? Oh, January 6th is calling...

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 01:52 PM (Fi81e)

165 Some more good news from Da Trumpster on immigration.

Foreign students are currently admitted into the USA for unspecified periods, which of course inevitably leads to rampant abuse ("forever students"). It's an insane system that's been fucking us over for decades.

Trump is now limiting student visas to four years.


https://tinyurl.com/2xy86bxz

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 16, 2026 01:53 PM (iFTx/)

166
He didn't say nobody should be judged by their worst day.

He said not everybody should and one exception is a child rapist.

That is an astonishing difference.

This is more than a confession. It's a fucking Manifesto.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 01:53 PM (LuIt4)

167 Note well how Walz has no sympathy or concern for the victim.
The little girl scarred and traumatized for life.

No, it's only for the pedo rapist, that's the one Walz wants mercy toward.

Because he is trying to demand you give him the same mercy when his sins are revealed.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 16, 2026 01:53 PM (3cUTc)

168 Why is this fucker Walz not being impeached!

Minnesota. 'nuff said

Posted by: USMCMGB at July 16, 2026 01:53 PM (VRxcs)

169 Tampon Timmy bailed on his National Guard unit when orders came down for deployment. At one time this would have been an extinction level event for anybody in Politics.

He was an E9 - a Sergeant Major, slated for a lateral promotion to Command Sergeant Major - the highest enlisted rank member of the organization. This is a big deal, as the enlisted cadre are the backbone of any military unit.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 01:54 PM (5IS0U)

170 The entire criminal justice system is based on the idea of punishing people for their "worst days." It has to be this way. It could be no other way.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 16, 2026 01:55 PM (iFTx/)

171 The obsession with "new Americans" is insanity.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at July 16, 2026 01:55 PM (wrEn7)

172 I wish it shocked me that those reddit people that want to excuse Walz for pardoning a child rapist because of some political issue. But it doesn't, they are just evil.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 16, 2026 01:50 PM (n5tGW)
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I said to my wife yesterday that I just never knew "spiritual blindness" could be this blind.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 01:55 PM (Fi81e)

173 I heard about "good old"
Sheldon's question earlier .. I laughed at Todd Blanche's response "That's an extraordinarily obnoxious question"Good for him. I think people should use that more often with

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2026 01:55 PM (D+BhG)

174 Democrats use criminals to do their dirty work in stealing elections, fake voter registrations, ballot harvesting, and fraud.
Spot on Whig.

These scumbags are today's Bolsheviks of the DSA/Communist party. We must plan accordingly.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 16, 2026 01:55 PM (2WIwB)

175 And yet, the overwhelming majority of Jews will vote for Democrats without a second thought.

I thought Jews were smart. Maybe not.
Posted by: WTF
============
Religiously observant Jews vote Republican, ethnic but secular Jews vote Democrat. Observant Jews are having the kids that the secular Jews are not so over time, the Jewish community is becoming less and less Democratic in voting patterns as the old are replaced by the new.

Older people rarely change voting habits of a lifetime unless a cataclysm happens, and sometimes not even then.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 01:56 PM (E4rtv)

176 173- With "Democrats"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2026 01:56 PM (D+BhG)

177 Amen, Timmy! I mean, you fuck ONE chicken and...

Posted by: The guy they call Chicken Fucker at July 16, 2026 01:56 PM (0e5Te)

178 Evil. Nobody is this stupid, not even Democrats, not in the political calculus

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 01:48 PM (5IS0U)

The moment you realize that our side is doing politics while theirs is doing a way of life is like being clocked in the face with a Louisville Slugger.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 01:57 PM (LuIt4)

179 Was November 22nd 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald's worst day, or his best day? How should we judge him for it?

Posted by: a.moron at July 16, 2026 01:58 PM (X5Jzz)

180 It wasn't just Walz that signed off on the pardon, it was a pardon board that also included the state AG Keith Ellison.

Like many things that people scoffed at as a rightwing conspiracy theory, this theory turned out to be true. Just like election rigging. Democrats are all in on keeping as many illegals in the country as possible regardless of their crimes.

That idiot Slotkin gave it away in her speech the other day. If the Save Act and other election integrity issues pass the current Democrat Party is toast and they know it.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 01:58 PM (viF8m)

181 He was an E9 - a Sergeant Major, slated for a lateral promotion to Command Sergeant Major - the highest enlisted rank member of the organization. This is a big deal, as the enlisted cadre are the backbone of any military unit.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 01:54 PM (5IS0U)
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Even in the NCO corps, you have your dirtbags.

Some senior NCOs have more experience in being dirtbags and know how to play the political games.

Leading troops, not so much.

Thankfully for the troops under Walz' "leadership", they deployed without him, thus saving lives.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 16, 2026 01:58 PM (/0H7F)

182 174 Democrats use criminals to do their dirty work in stealing elections, fake voter registrations, ballot harvesting, and fraud.
Spot on Whig.

These scumbags are today's Bolsheviks of the DSA/Communist party. We must plan accordingly.
Posted by: Diogenes
=======
Rumor has it that Democrats has MS13 kill Seth Rich and I would not be surprised that migrant criminals are used beyond vote fraud. Chicago alderman are known confederates of the various gangs there for example and those aldermen don't protect them for nothing.

Other rumors connect Nanzi with the Mexican drug cartels. Again, would not be a leap to assume ties there.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 01:58 PM (E4rtv)

183 The moment you realize that our side is doing politics while theirs is doing a way of life is like being clocked in the face with a Louisville Slugger.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 01:57 PM (LuIt4)
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So, when do I stop getting hit in the face with a Louisville Slugger?

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 01:59 PM (Fi81e)

184 >I thought Jews were smart. Maybe not.
----

some Jews are Democrats first and foremost, with their Jewishness trailing far behind

Posted by: Don Black at July 16, 2026 01:59 PM (ZxPkt)

185 So sorry moki.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 01:59 PM (LuIt4)

186 Now they tell you when grace and mercy *must* be bestowed and it is TOTALLY upside down. This inversion turns them on. They don't realize that those who know Jesus cannot and will NEVER be inverted or confused by their shell game.
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I think some guy named Isaiah had some thoughts on when days became like that.
I think he goes on to explain it won't be good for people like Walz.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 16, 2026 02:00 PM (3cUTc)

187 165 Some more good news from Da Trumpster on immigration.

Foreign students are currently admitted into the USA for unspecified periods, which of course inevitably leads to rampant abuse ("forever students"). It's an insane system that's been fucking us over for decades.

Trump is now limiting student visas to four years.


https://tinyurl.com/2xy86bxz
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Welp, that will cut down on student activism time if they want to graduate.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 02:00 PM (E4rtv)

188 A bit OT...or maybe not!

Happy Bomb Day.
The Gadget was detonated at the Trinity test site on this date in 1945.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 16, 2026 02:00 PM (2WIwB)

189 107 In fact, you should be judged, shunned, tarred, feathered and hung from an overpass as a lesson to others.
——-
Hanged. Proper grammar in this context is always “Hanged”. Other than that, this is quite good.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 01:39 PM (5IS0U)


It's sad that impalement has gone out of fashion. Seems appropriate punishment for some crimes, like child rape.

Posted by: a.moron at July 16, 2026 02:00 PM (X5Jzz)

190 177 Amen, Timmy! I mean, you fuck ONE chicken and...
Posted by: The guy they call Chicken Fucker


Calling this as my worst day.

Posted by: that chicken at July 16, 2026 02:00 PM (gKWVE)

191 When you are a top level lib such as Gov tampon, life is always a beach.

Hopefully the girl has relatives in Laos who will be waiting for Vang's return.

Posted by: Lloyd Loar at July 16, 2026 02:00 PM (Mx+TJ)

192


Just remember, pizzagate is real.

Once that's accepted, the depravity and madness seems to be more understandable.


Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at July 16, 2026 02:00 PM (et1vG)

193 Hit and run threads today. Get it while it's hot or it'll be gone.
Don't think about it just do it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 02:01 PM (JS6jE)

194 We just saw a Democrat Senator from Maryland fly to El Salvador to fight to bring back a criminal illegal who is being charged with domestic abuse and human trafficking. He wasn't shy about it.

We would anyone still be surprised that Democrats will always put the rights of illegals over US citizens? They actively participated in flooding the country with 10s of millions of them.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 02:01 PM (viF8m)

195 Tim Walz needs to be launched via trebuchet into the ocean to become shark shit.


Just in time for Shark Week.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 01:15 PM (2YhKe)


I would rather see him thrown into the great pit of carkoon in the dune sea of Tatooine and be digested by sarlac over 1000 years.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 16, 2026 02:02 PM (M24rv)

196 I see the "networks" are weighing whether they should cover Trump's "election denying " speech tonight...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 16, 2026 02:02 PM (FtULh)

197 152 The only problem with that thought process... is that rape is a life sentence for the victim. It should be a death sentence for the perpetrator.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Thank you E. Jean Carroll.

Posted by: Auspex at July 16, 2026 02:02 PM (Y8DZL)

198 177 Amen, Timmy! I mean, you fuck ONE chicken and...
Posted by: The guy they call Chicken Fucker

Calling this as my worst day.
Posted by: that chicken

The bad days never seem to end.

Posted by: Rabid Moroccan Donkey with a Ruptured Asshole at July 16, 2026 02:03 PM (wOO3z)

199 Foreign students are currently admitted into the USA for unspecified periods, which of course inevitably leads to rampant abuse ("forever students"). It's an insane system that's been fucking us over for decades.

Trump is now limiting student visas to four years.

https://tinyurl.com/2xy86bxz
Posted by: Elric The Blade


Further, students from muslim countries can only get a divinity degree.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2026 02:04 PM (ExV1e)

200
Thank you E. Jean Carroll.
Posted by: Auspex at July 16, 2026 02:02 PM (Y8DZL)

That's millionairess

Posted by: E. Jean Carrol.. at July 16, 2026 02:05 PM (FtULh)

201 Agnostic Jews don't distinguish themselves from the observant; taking advantage of and distorting a position they don't deserve.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 02:06 PM (JS6jE)

202 see the "networks" are weighing whether they should cover Trump's "election denying " speech tonight...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 16, 2026 02:02 PM (FtULh)

They are likely wondering if they are implicated and how that will look if they don't air. What a pickle!

(I believe any guilty networks will air it for just this reason)

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 02:06 PM (LuIt4)

203 > That idiot Slotkin gave it away in her speech the other day. If the Save Act and other election integrity issues pass the current Democrat Party is toast and they know it.
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The GOP is trying as hard as they can to throw them a lifeline.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 16, 2026 02:06 PM (jehhT)

204 Thank you E. Jean Carroll.
Posted by: Auspex at July 16, 2026 02:02 PM (Y8DZL)


Careful. She's litigious and judges are known to bend things in her favor. You could find out that you raped her 213 years ago on Mars.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2026 02:06 PM (ExV1e)

205 Posted by: moki at July 16, 2026 01:27 PM (wLjpr

I am sorry about your dog. We had to put our cat of 16 years , Pynchon, asleep few weeks ago, it was just heartbreaking. Our pets are parts of our family

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2026 02:06 PM (D+BhG)

206
Further, students from muslim countries can only get a divinity degree.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic
--

Further is the word; muslim students should be kept further away from the USA. All muslims should be denied admittance into this country. It will be the beginning of the expatriation of all muslims.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 02:09 PM (JS6jE)

207 Amusing this, Trump tonight is pushing on an open door. And this was in 2023 before a lot more information surfaced.

Rasmussen Reports
@Rasmussen_Poll
·
1h
Conspiracy Theory? Debunked? No Evidence? False Claims?

62% of voters see right through them all ...

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2026 02:10 PM (E4rtv)

208 Pedophilia is the final frontier of sexual taboos the left wishes to break. It's what queer theory is about, it's what the CP, drag queens, and trans kids curriculum is about, it's what teaching children the inverse of protecting themselves from predators is all about (don't tell your parents they won't understand). It's their brass ring, their piece de resistance, their magnum opus.

Posted by: Of course Walz doesn't care this guy raped a 10 year old at July 16, 2026 02:10 PM (TbWk/)

209 Our pets are parts of our family

We feel the same way about our servants. I was saddened that I had to call ICE and report Conchita but I found dust on the drawing room credenza. -- Buffy St. Clair, compassionate Democrat

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2026 02:11 PM (ExV1e)

210 The Biden administration "lost" over 350,000 migrant children. They turned them over to people with zero verification of the people were and never followed up to see how they were being treated.

This isn't a secret. Democrats know this. And they did absolutely nothing about it.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 02:11 PM (viF8m)

211 Further, students from muslim countries can only get a divinity degree.

I'm surprised Harvard doesn't offer a degree in goatfucking to get that sweet, sweet oil sheikh cash.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 16, 2026 02:11 PM (2ocoG)

212 crooked, partisan shit stinks, news at 11

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 16, 2026 02:12 PM (xcxpd)

213 Benny Johnson@bennyjohnsonJul 14

Independent reporter Sara Gonzales asks Thom Tillis if he Voted against the SAVE America Act because he received $700k from the illegal labor lobby.

https://tinyurl.com/mvjzjyxk

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 02:12 PM (JS6jE)

214 Walz is a bizarre human. It's like he's from another planet.

Posted by: torabora at July 16, 2026 02:13 PM (2L6cE)

215 206
Further, students from muslim countries can only get a divinity degree.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic
--
Further is the word; muslim students should be kept further away from the USA. All muslims should be denied admittance into this country. It will be the beginning of the expatriation of all muslims.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 02:09 PM (JS6jE)


Everyone who wants to enter the US should be required to eat bacon and toss back a shot of bourbon.

Posted by: a.moron at July 16, 2026 02:13 PM (X5Jzz)

216 151 As it says in Scripture, let he/she/they who is without sin cast the first stone.

What if we, as commenters, were judged on our worst comment?

The one that disappointed Mr. O'Spades the most?
Posted by: James Talarico at July 16, 2026 01:49

You make one silly typo….

Posted by: Piper at July 16, 2026 02:13 PM (hftzA)

217 Posted by: Of course Walz doesn't care this guy raped a 10 year old at July 16, 2026 02:10 PM (TbWk/)
___

Satan and his minions have been after children for quite some time.

Corrupting innocence is what lead to the fall in the garden of Eden.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 16, 2026 02:13 PM (/0H7F)

218 This isn't a secret. Democrats know this. And they did absolutely nothing about it.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 02:11 PM (viF8m)


Of course, Republicans also know this and never mentioned it. And the "good guys" in all those federal agencies know this and they never mentioned it. And...

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2026 02:13 PM (ExV1e)

219 Pedophilia is the final frontier of sexual taboos the left wishes to break.

......

Posted by: Of course Walz doesn't care this guy raped a 10 year old at July 16, 2026 02:10 PM (TbWk/)

Human sacrifice is the real brass ring. Pedophilia must be broken first. That is the corruption. After that for them it's anything goes. And "anything" is nit corruption, but wholesale slaughter of innocents.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 02:13 PM (LuIt4)

220 210 The Biden administration "lost" over 350,000 migrant children. They turned them over to people with zero verification of the people were and never followed up to see how they were being treated.

This isn't a secret. Democrats know this. And they did absolutely nothing about it.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 02:11 PM (viF8m)

Betcha we have our own Rotherham problems right here at home, involving the same or similar sorts of people.

Posted by: Of course they know. They probably partake. at July 16, 2026 02:14 PM (TbWk/)

221 I see the "networks" are weighing whether they should cover Trump's "election denying " speech tonight...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 16, 2026 02:02 PM (FtULh)
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Well, we all elected them as the gatekeepers of information.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 02:14 PM (Fi81e)

222 Posted by: Ian S. at July 16, 2026 02:11 PM (2ocoG)

It sounds like Austin Presbyterian Seminary or whatever the name of the school where Talarico attended is pretty close to that since it's not a Christian school.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2026 02:14 PM (Bw1/o)

223 Good post at Twitchy with a vid from Schumer about Trump's speech tonight. Trying to get out in front of it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2026 02:14 PM (OXYE0)

224 Pedophilia is the final frontier of sexual taboos the left wishes to break. "

Oh yeah?

Posted by: Big Penguin at July 16, 2026 02:14 PM (MWfyi)

225 Thanks yall

It's bad, but it is certainly not as bad as what that ten year old went through. And as for her forgiving this man and saying he should stay, what minnesota government functionary gave her a script to read?

Posted by: moki at July 16, 2026 02:15 PM (wLjpr)

226 >>Of course, Republicans also know this and never mentioned it. And the "good guys" in all those federal agencies know this and they never mentioned it. And...

Some did. Few listened. And even fewer reported on it. So far the Trump administration has found over 100,000 of them.

Little doubt that an enormous percentage of those children were also raped and sexually abused.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 02:15 PM (viF8m)

227 Human sacrifice is the real brass ring. Pedophilia must be broken first. That is the corruption. After that for them it's anything goes. And "anything" is nit corruption, but wholesale slaughter of innocents.
Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 02:13 PM (LuIt4)

They crossed that bridge in 1973 with Roe v. Wade.

Posted by: 10s of millions of dead babies since then at July 16, 2026 02:15 PM (TbWk/)

228 The Biden administration "lost" over 350,000 migrant children. They turned them over to people with zero verification of the people were and never followed up to see how they were being treated.

This isn't a secret. Democrats know this. And they did absolutely nothing about it.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2026 02:11 PM (viF8m)
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Verification is racist, yo.

Unless it's a presidential library or flying, of course.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 02:15 PM (Fi81e)

229 Walz is a bizarre human. It's like he's from another planet.

He's an actual real live retard. Guy makes Ketanji Jackson sound like Einstein.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 16, 2026 02:15 PM (2ocoG)

230 We are well past the time our Founding Fathers would have started shooting.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 16, 2026 02:16 PM (u3HiE)

231 210 The Biden administration "lost" over 350,000 migrant children. They turned them over to people with zero verification of the people were and never followed up to see how they were being treated.

This isn't a secret. Democrats know this. And they did absolutely nothing about it.

Posted by: JackStraw
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Of course they did something, they facilitated it.
Handing out thousands of baby Democrats. It's the pedo model.
Democrats can't procreate they recruit.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 02:16 PM (JS6jE)

232
Satan and his minions have been after children for quite some time.

Corrupting innocence is what lead to the fall in the garden of Eden.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 16, 2026 02:13 PM (/0H7F)

AMEN!!!

Posted by: moki at July 16, 2026 02:16 PM (wLjpr)

233 Tampon Timmy bailed on his National Guard unit when orders came down for deployment. At one time this would have been an extinction level event for anybody in Politics.

He was an E9 - a Sergeant Major, slated for a lateral promotion to Command Sergeant Major - the highest enlisted rank member of the organization. This is a big deal, as the enlisted cadre are the backbone of any military unit.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 01:54 PM (5IS0U)

Probably not in his case, sounds this was the placed they stashed the political dross foisted on them.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2026 02:16 PM (uhVAy)

234 After that for them it's anything goes. And "anything" is nit corruption, but wholesale slaughter of innocents.
Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 02:13 PM (LuIt4)
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Planned Parenthood has entered the discussion.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 16, 2026 02:16 PM (/0H7F)

235 Corrupting innocence is what lead to the fall in the garden of Eden.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 16, 2026 02:13 PM (/0H7F)

Nah, Adam listening to his wife is what led to the fall

Posted by: Kidding. Sort of. at July 16, 2026 02:17 PM (TbWk/)

236 107 In fact, you should be judged, shunned, tarred, feathered and hung from an overpass as a lesson to others.
——-
Hanged. Proper grammar in this context is always “Hanged”. Other than that, this is quite good.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 01:39 PM (5IS0U)

It's sad that impalement has gone out of fashion. Seems appropriate punishment for some crimes, like child rape.
Posted by: a.moron at July 16, 2026 02:00
****
Idaho wants to shoot them.
Of course the Courts will push back and protect the criminals and the crime.

Posted by: torabora at July 16, 2026 02:17 PM (2L6cE)

237 217 Satan and his minions have been after children for quite some time.

Corrupting innocence is what lead to the fall in the garden of Eden.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 16, 2026 02

I would struggle to kill someone. Except in those circumstance. Your kids, my kids, anyone’s kids harmed? I wouldn’t bat an eye.

Posted by: Piper at July 16, 2026 02:17 PM (hftzA)

238 >What if we, as commenters, were judged on our worst comment?

The one that disappointed Mr. O'Spades the most?
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happened to me once

Posted by: Don Black at July 16, 2026 02:17 PM (ZxPkt)

239 I would rather see him thrown into the great pit of carkoon in the dune sea of Tatooine and be digested by sarlac over 1000 years.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 16, 2026 02:02 PM


Why do you hate me?

Posted by: The Sarlacc at July 16, 2026 02:17 PM (kgE5c)

240 I'm watching a tutorial on harassment in the work place.

Guy is getting bullied and insulted, and really what one would consider "harassment".

But the lesson tells me that it does not constitute as "harassment" because it's not based on his race, culture or gender.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 02:17 PM (Fi81e)

241 Will laugh my head off if the Trump speech is a headfake and he has more than just election stuff.

He's done that before when early on he announced he was doing Obamas birth certificate, got CNN to air it and it was just a campaign speech.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 02:18 PM (LuIt4)

242 Euthanasia has entered the chat.

Posted by: Rabid Moroccan Donkey with a Ruptured Asshole at July 16, 2026 02:18 PM (wOO3z)

243 When Cain murdered Abel, was it Cain’s worst day, or Abel’s?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 16, 2026 02:18 PM (umw9l)

244 I didn't know the Koch Brothers were still considered the evil puppeteers. Are they even Jewish?!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 16, 2026 01:31 PM (kpS4V)
*******
The only remaining brother is Charles and he's 90.
David Passed away 7 yrs ago.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 16, 2026 02:18 PM (NpAcC)

245 "muslim students should be kept further away from the USA. All muslims should be denied admittance into this country. It will be the beginning of the expatriation of all muslims."

Groups that stick together have power, and if there is one group that clings tightly together (plus are supremacist in their ideology), it would be Muslims in general. Their "religion" is supreme to all governments (and individuals), in their own cultish minds.

There may be some divide between Sunni and Shia, but the heads of both seem pretty united and therefore, powerful.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 16, 2026 02:18 PM (vbXSk)

246 Planned Parenthood has entered the discussion.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 16, 2026 02:16 PM (/0H7F)

True.........

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 02:19 PM (LuIt4)

247 Sheldon Whitehouse seems to be the next contestant...

Posted by: t-bird at July 16, 2026 02:21 PM (aZ9eR)

248 " I'm watching a tutorial on harassment in the work place.

Guy is getting bullied and insulted, and really what one would consider "harassment"."


A long time ago when I worked in automotive repair shops there was always constant insensitive banter back and forth that might make a sailor blush. Suck it up, cupcake.

Posted by: fd at July 16, 2026 02:21 PM (MWfyi)

249 ****
Idaho wants to shoot them.
Of course the Courts will push back and protect the criminals and the crime.

Posted by: torabora
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No way, that's an honorable execution. _ HANG THEM.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 02:22 PM (JS6jE)

250 249 ****
Idaho wants to shoot them.
Of course the Courts will push back and protect the criminals and the crime.

Posted by: torabora
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No way, that's an honorable execution. _ HANG THEM.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 02:22 PM (JS6jE)

=====

Beheading by axe by a female to male tranny.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 02:23 PM (PIaQL)

251 A long time ago when I worked in automotive repair shops there was always constant insensitive banter back and forth that might make a sailor blush. Suck it up, cupcake.

Posted by: fd at July 16, 2026 02:21 PM (MWfyi)
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I'm just talking about the stupid idea of changing a word to its legally actionable definition.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 02:23 PM (Fi81e)

252 No way, that's an honorable execution. _ HANG THEM.

Posted by: Braenyard


60 ft drop. 50 ft rope.
Pop that head off like a grape off the vine.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 16, 2026 02:24 PM (u3HiE)

253 "When Cain murdered Abel, was it Cain’s worst day, or Abel’s?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit"

What about their parents? Was that day worse than the day they got kicked out of paradise?

Posted by: fd at July 16, 2026 02:24 PM (MWfyi)

254
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Posted by: Auspex at July 16, 2026 02:24 PM (Y8DZL)

255 .@GovTimWalz on why ICE shouldn’t have deported this child rapist: “we can’t all be judged by our worst day.”

Umm...under what system? What are you even talking about, we are judged on all of our days.

Posted by: t-bird at July 16, 2026 02:24 PM (aZ9eR)

256 In fact, you should be judged, shunned, tarred, feathered and hung from an overpass as a lesson to others.
——-
Hanged. Proper grammar in this context is always “Hanged”. Other than that, this is quite good.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2026 01:39 PM


Fine. Hanged, then hung. I'm easy.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 16, 2026 02:24 PM (kgE5c)

257 255 .@GovTimWalz on why ICE shouldn’t have deported this child rapist: “we can’t all be judged by our worst day.”

Umm...under what system? What are you even talking about, we are judged on all of our days.

Posted by: t-bird at July 16, 2026 02:24 PM (aZ9eR)

=======

The system where prisons are only for political prisoners of the regime like the USSR.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 16, 2026 02:25 PM (PIaQL)

258 Yeah... but this guy isn't just a guy who had a "bad day," more like he was the PREDATOR who became someone else's "worst day"...
DEMS are not about second chances, they are about pure lawlessness, to provoke a public response that gives them an excuse to grab more power... And NO innocent person or child is too precious to sacrifice.

Posted by: Dave in So Cal at July 16, 2026 02:25 PM (Fp1bA)

259 Beheading by axe by a female to male tranny.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


Ooh, perfectly cruel. Because you know she never learned how to sharpen an ax.

Posted by: t-bird at July 16, 2026 02:26 PM (aZ9eR)

260 I would struggle to kill someone. Except in those circumstance. Your kids, my kids, anyone’s kids harmed? I wouldn’t bat an eye.
Posted by: Piper
___

Nor would I.

God giving us the means and ability to move close to our granddaughters is a prayer answered.

These sickos will literally have to go thru us to get to them.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 16, 2026 02:26 PM (/0H7F)

261 I used to think that Walz was just stupid, but he is plain fucking rotten. If he has grandchildren, then he needs to be kept away from them. Because, after all, it might just be "his worst day".

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 16, 2026 02:26 PM (0Htd1)

262 The phrase is:

Hanged by the neck until dead.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 02:26 PM (JS6jE)

263 OT- Marco Rubio articulates how absolutely
Hellish communism is. From " Hot Air" site:

https://tinyurl.com/4ws4a63s

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2026 02:27 PM (Bw1/o)

264 "We Can't All be Judged by Our Worst Day"

Can Tyler Robinson claim this legal exception?

Posted by: Community Notes at July 16, 2026 02:27 PM (pUU4E)

265 Lee Harvey Oswald - we can’t all be judged on our worst day.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 16, 2026 02:28 PM (wLnmp)

266 "We Can't All be Judged by Our Worst Day"

Can Tyler Robinson claim this legal exception?

Posted by: Community Notes at July 16, 2026 02:27 PM (pUU4E)
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We'll allow it.

Posted by: Progressive Judges at July 16, 2026 02:28 PM (Fi81e)

267 Walz give John Wayne Gacy vibes.

Posted by: mr tmz at July 16, 2026 02:28 PM (rJ48h)

268 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 16, 2026 02:29 PM (k6tSo)

269 Hmm wonder what his "worst day" was

The one he got caught. So if we just ignore that one, hey, no problems!

Posted by: Oddbob at July 16, 2026 02:30 PM (vTZFs)

270 "We Can't All be Judged by Our Worst Day"

Which is a Get Out of Jail Free card for as long as your Day After The Worst Day is worse.

So if you commit your first assassination — walk up to the window and claim "Exempt! Worst Day Clause!" then once cleared, go blow up a bus full of school children. "Exempt! Worst Day Clause"

I can see whole departments of amoral moral arbitrators considering what qualifies for Worst Day in any given criminal's life.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 16, 2026 02:31 PM (NzX/y)

271 "We Can't All be Judged by Our Worst Day"
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Have you told Rosanne Barr this?

Because I don't think you're being consistent with this.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2026 02:31 PM (Fi81e)

272 Human sacrifice is the real brass ring. Pedophilia must be broken first. That is the corruption. After that for them it's anything goes. And "anything" is nit corruption, but wholesale slaughter of innocents.
Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 02:13 PM (LuIt4)

They crossed that bridge in 1973 with Roe v. Wade.
Posted by: 10s of millions of dead babies since then at July 16, 2026 02:
****
So we somewhat overturned Roe....but layered another outrage with the Barbara decision .

Posted by: torabora at July 16, 2026 02:39 PM (2L6cE)

273 Sick evil twisted asshole!!

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at July 16, 2026 02:57 PM (sdjHr)

274 OT - Hi Whig! I recall on Monday that you said you were going to get an MRI. Hope everything went well.
Posted by: Retired

Indicated I still had a problem (disk herniation in the thoracic) and next will come the cheap fix that insurance will pay for first--nerve block.

Sorry to hear that your still having problems. Hope the nerve block works.

Posted by: Retired, thank God at July 16, 2026 03:18 PM (va0Yo)

275 Tim Walz:
Your quote, "We cannot be judged by our worst day." is indicative of your rejection to correct that maleficence.
I am incapable of describing my abhorrence of your posture as the Governor of Minnesota. Your only avenue to continue your 'position' is pure and simple 'voter fraud'. I cannot believe the majority of Minnesota 'common sense' citizens would accept your tripe!

Posted by: John at July 16, 2026 03:33 PM (9NUKl)

276 I would love to be sitting near Kash Patel on an airplane and be able to thank him for his service. The Democrat Socialists are butt hurt that they cannot scream about the FBI leader being a whitey. So they have to twist themselves into knots to disparage Patel. So, they question his qualifications for the job. And yet, Democrats did not question former POTUS in form, Joe Biden on his mental qualifications for the job.
Anyone who has the cognitive capability to discriminate this would recognize that.
OMG! That is why the Democrat Socialists control our Education Department Union, Weingarten has been scrubbed from the internet!

Posted by: John at July 16, 2026 03:58 PM (9NUKl)

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