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Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 04:01 AM (RuTUS) 2
G'Day everyone
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 04:01 AM (Ia/+0) Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 04:02 AM (RuTUS) 4
Good morning. A man is whatever room he is in. And here I am sitting on the crapper.
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 10, 2025 04:04 AM (ajk4p) Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 04:08 AM (RuTUS) 6
Please accept this note excusing Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. from yesterday's tech thread. He overslept.
Posted by: Signed, Fluffy Nuggets, Jr.'s Mother at December 10, 2025 04:13 AM (ajk4p) 7
That security update is sitting in my Windows Update as we speak waiting on me to make it so.
That's a very long CVE list at the bottom of that article. CoPilot should be finding and fixing these vulnerabilities for Microsoft, actually give it something useful to do. Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 04:15 AM (6ydKt) 8
from the ONT
401 04:01 hr Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 04:01 AM (1zOXE) Nice numerical patterning. Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 04:15 AM (RuTUS) 9
Chuck Berry's only #1 single was "My Ding-A-Ling" in 1972.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 04:15 AM (ufSfZ) 10
30 cloudy degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor. Rain expected around 6pm tonight, so perhaps I will be able to get out and run the errands I couldn't do yesterday because of the cold.
Looks like a solid 3 hours of work left over from last night, so must get going. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 04:17 AM (ufSfZ) 11
Oh, my:
a search for my ding-a-ling yields: People also search for Warm My Weiner Bo Carter My Girl's Pussy Harry Roy & His Band Please Warm My Weiner Bo Carter Big Ten Inch Record Bull Moose Jack Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 04:20 AM (RuTUS) 12
Mornin'
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 10, 2025 04:21 AM (sAmhv) 13
I watched this YT video last night before bed.
"Why Nobody Lives On This HUGE Stretch Of Australian Coast" https://youtu.be/f6gVTfmNKGc (Geography by Geoff) It's all about the Great Australian Bight and the Nullarbor Plain, and why nobody lives on this thousand km section of Oz's southern coast. It's quite interesting if you're into geography or want to learn more about Australia. I'd seen this part of the continent on a few episodes of Outback Truckers years ago when a few unfortunate drivers had to haul loads from Perth to Adelaide. Always wondered what the deal was with this oddity, and now I know. It's one desolate place, that's for sure. Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 04:22 AM (6ydKt) 14
13: I watched that last week. It was interesting.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 10, 2025 04:24 AM (sAmhv) 15
May thy gunny sack overfloweth with glad tidings and hope for the new year.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 04:28 AM (1zOXE) 16
Those kids dancing in the Chuck Berry video!
Haha! Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 04:36 AM (RuTUS) 17
>>>Those kids dancing in the Chuck Berry video!
Haha! Posted by: m >What are you saying? Stage diving into the mosh pit ain't cool any more? youtube.com/watch?v=2zxoGFjFJlk&list =RD2zxoGFjFJlk&start_radio=1 (one space, because I'm lazy) Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 04:41 AM (1zOXE) 18
17 >>>Those kids dancing in the Chuck Berry video!
Haha! Posted by: m >What are you saying? Stage diving into the mosh pit ain't cool any more? youtube.com/watch?v=2zxoGFjFJlk&list =RD2zxoGFjFJlk&start_radio=1 (one space, because I'm lazy) Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 04:41 AM (1zOXE) "They're the same video." Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 04:47 AM (RuTUS) Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 05:02 AM (RuTUS) 20
As a 29 year old I’d think attempting a stage dive would look more like unfolding the boom on a cement pump truck before it fell over sideways.
Posted by: Pete Bog at December 10, 2025 05:07 AM (i02lT) 21
>>>Australia is joining a wave of fascist dictatorships around the globe in regulating how kids spend their time online.
Same story, BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cwy54q80gy9t Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 05:07 AM (RuTUS) 22
g'mornin', 'rons Posted by: AltonJackson at December 10, 2025 05:13 AM (tljrc) 23
Not going to be a fun day, going to the city
Where there is no parking Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 05:14 AM (Ia/+0) 24
BBC:
[Julie Inman Grant, Australia's eSafety Commissioner,] said there may be "blatant non-compliance" from tech companies, "but we've got plans for that". ... But she added: "I'm trying to contain my excitement". Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 05:16 AM (RuTUS) Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 10, 2025 05:21 AM (ph+d0) 26
Morning, Tech Peeps
Posted by: fluffy at December 10, 2025 05:28 AM (AN2gy) 27
said there may be "blatant non-compliance" from tech companies, "but we've got plans for that". ... But she added: "I'm trying to contain my excitement".
Lady, before you get too excited, I suggest you do some research on 4chan. They will make your life fun and exciting without anyone in the government telling them to do it. Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 05:33 AM (jjoN6) Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - December 9, 2025 [Doof]![]() Feel Good Stories 75 Farmers Show Up To Finish Fallen Friend’s Final Harvest ![]() In rural North Dakota, where neighbors are more like family, an incredible act of kindness unfolded after a beloved farmer’s sudden passing. Near the small town of Antler, dozens of farmers came together to make sure their friend’s final harvest was completed. Randy Fyllesvold, a well-known farmer in the area, tragically lost his life in a crash near Maxbass back in September. Wanting to ease the burden on his family, friends and neighbors quickly stepped in. Led by Wyatt Thompson and Andy Gates, the group organized a large-scale harvest to gather Randy’s remaining crops — including soybeans, canola, and more than 1,000 acres of corn. Earlier this month, roughly 75 volunteers, 12 combines, and help from more than 10 communities worked together to harvest about 1,400 acres of corn in just a matter of days. The effort required careful coordination and teamwork, including working with local grain elevators to handle the massive amount of crops coming in all at once. It was truly a “divide and conquer” operation — and it worked beautifully. Randy’s widow, Kharra Fyllesvold, shared a deeply emotional message thanking everyone who showed up. She described the scene as “nothing short of breathtaking,” saying the sight of so many people harvesting her husband’s final crop was both heartbreaking and beautiful. Through their grief, she and her two sons felt overwhelmingly blessed by the love and support surrounding them. "Thank you to each and every person that had a part of today. Special thanks to Andy Gates, Kevin Tyler, and Wyatt Thompson for organizing something I will never forget," she shared on Facebook.Lotsa good folks in the upper midwest, don't ya know! Video clip at the link. ----- This 9-Year-Old Is Making The Holidays Brighter For Hundreds Of Sick Children ----- Lowe’s Staff Refuse To Give Up On Missing Cat, Find Her 85 Miles Away ----- Some feel good vids
A Florida man faces multiple charges after he told police he had a “dirty bomb” in his truck following a crash, according to a news release. *** According to the release, officers made contact with the driver, identified as 43-year-old Benjamin Donald Johnson, who refused multiple commands to exit the vehicle. Officers physically removed Johnson from the truck, where multiple firearms were seen in plain view. *** “Through investigation with the assistance of representatives from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, ATF, and an FBI bomb technician, it was advised that the device inside of the yellow container was a Moisture Density Gauge, which is commonly used for soil testing and contained less radioactivity than a medical x-ray,” the release said in part. *** In addition, a search of Johnson’s truck a led to police finding a “multitude of firearms and ammunition,” firearm magazine speed loaders, thermal scopes, knives, a battering ram, night-vision goggles, cannabis, and gummies that tested positive for THC. ![]() Everybody farts, and we are okay with that, even when they smell a little off. But a 1998 study concluded that, on average, women’s gas smelt worse than men's for a pretty simple reason. Dr Michael Levit, a gastroenterologist, conducted the study way back then and managed to get a reputation as the ‘king of farts’ for his work. So how did the study work? Well, the doctor recruited 16 healthy adults with no history of gastrointestinal issues and had each of them strap on a ‘flatus collection system’, which is basically a rectal tube connected to a bag. While it is estimated that people fart up to 23 times a day, the doctor didn’t fancy waiting around for those moments. Instead, participants chowed down on pinto beans and took a laxative, with researchers collecting their farts. These farts were then analyzed as researchers ran a gas chromatographic–mass spectroscopic test to figure out what was essentially inside those bags."Flatus collection system"?? A vanvera?!? After pinto beans and a laxative?? How much would you have to be paid to be a sniffer / judge in this experiment? ----- OK - one more related item, then hopefully I won't have any more of this type of content. At least for this year. Impressive. Most impressive!
What's the common thread / common meaning / common leitmotif? ![]() Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
First?
Posted by: the lower depths at December 09, 2025 10:00 PM (UdiE9) 2
Have a great evening/night, everyone!
Posted by: the lower depths at December 09, 2025 10:02 PM (UdiE9) 3
Doof, a man of his time, on time. Alright.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 10:02 PM (c35xG) Posted by: 29Victor at December 09, 2025 10:05 PM (0MjtC) 5
Evenin'
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 09, 2025 10:05 PM (sAmhv) 6
Colored lights (only!) all aglow, here in the weekday Club!
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 10:05 PM (rdVOm) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 10:06 PM (c35xG) 8
I have always enjoyed "What I like about you!" And I had completely forgotten who'd done it. Thanks!
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 10:08 PM (QGRvm) 9
I thought I might have stumbled into the Howard Stern blog.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:08 PM (KDPiq) 10
Doof, a man of his time, on time. Alright.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 10:02 PM (c35xG) It's part of my rookie contract which I'm still in. Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:08 PM (p6ZQj) 11
Could you post an alternative Braille version of the ONT for us vision-impaired "readers"?
Posted by: Leave Out Fart Content at December 09, 2025 10:09 PM (oftw2) 12
4 "it is estimated that people fart up to 23 times a day"
lol. amateurs. Posted by: 29Victor at December 09, 2025 10:05 PM (0MjtC) Rookie numbers ... Posted by: zombie William J. LePetomane at December 09, 2025 10:10 PM (3sXRv) Posted by: huerfano at December 09, 2025 10:10 PM (98kQX) 14
So the fart article did not say why women’s farts are worse. I’m guessing it’s because they talk more.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 10:10 PM (B47sF) 15
Colored lights (only!) all aglow, here in the weekday Club!
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 10:05 PM (rdVOm) Very nice of you, JQ - thanks! But in the spirit of the season, go ahead and give the people what they want. All lights matter! Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:10 PM (p6ZQj) 16
I'm way below the fart average.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:10 PM (KDPiq) 17
Great content tonight. Thank you Doof!
Posted by: 496 at December 09, 2025 10:11 PM (EWlvz) 18
Well, the doctor recruited 16 healthy adults with no history of gastrointestinal issues and had each of them strap on a ‘flatus collection system’, which is basically a rectal tube connected to a bag.
I already carry a bag, so I'd have been perfect for this study...well, until next week (hopefully) at any rate. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:11 PM (ynpvh) 19
Sir Doof. In all seriousness, could you give me some Pickleball sayings? (Just the PG ones) Thank you.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 09, 2025 10:12 PM (TfUTr) 20
Nice pic of the Vulcan bomber, one of the coolest planes ever built.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 10:12 PM (Riz8t) 21
A Grammy-nominated musician was struck and killed by a driver with more than 100 arrests and dozens of traffic violations in Rhode Island, police said.
Roderick Macleod, 70, was a member of the band Roomful of Blues in the 1980s and received a Grammy nomination for his work with them. The alleged driver was identified by police as as Shannon Godbout. She is 41, CBS Boston reported, and was driving recklessly. Godbout was allegedly "in possession of numerous illegal narcotics and packaging materials commonly associated with drug distribution," police said. She was arrested at the scene and taken to an area hospital. She has been charged with driving as to endanger, resulting in death, and possession of narcotics with intent to distribute. She may face additional charges, police said, and remained in custody at the hospital of Monday. Police did not detail Godbout's previous arrests, but said eight were from the Hopkinton Police Department. Eighty-two court warrants have been issued for her, police said, and she has received 40 traffic citations. She may face more charges as the investigation into the crash continues, police said. Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 10:12 PM (Cjcf6) 22
Kudos to the nine year old but the green glasses distracted me from the greater cause.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:12 PM (KDPiq) 23
two handguns, a semi-auto rifle, a shotgun, ammo....
Not bad. My car has him beat but closer than average. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 09, 2025 10:13 PM (EOjZq) 24
Great content tonight. Thank you Doof!
Posted by: 496 at December 09, 2025 10:11 PM (EWlvz) Hey there, my numeric friend! Hope you are doing well. Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:13 PM (p6ZQj) 25
Very nice of you, JQ - thanks! But in the spirit of the season, go ahead and give the people what they want. All lights matter!
Posted by: Doof Black lights matter! But only if JQ has put up those cool posters. Posted by: Some Rat at December 09, 2025 10:13 PM (TfUTr) 26
20 Nice pic of the Vulcan bomber, one of the coolest planes ever built.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 10:12 PM (Riz8t) Would be a great name for a Star Trek themed drink... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:13 PM (ynpvh) 27
Could you post an alternative Braille version of the ONT for us vision-impaired "readers"?
Also, use the Calibri font for all content, or youre ableist. Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 09, 2025 10:13 PM (EXyHK) 28
Black Olives Matter!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 09, 2025 10:14 PM (S/Y4j) 29
Hockey after dark:
Sabres vs Oilers 1-0 in the 2nd As long as we're not getting run out the rink, I'm here tonight ... Posted by: browndog clearing the zone at December 09, 2025 10:14 PM (3sXRv) 30
Who farted and made raimondo though?
Posted by: gKWVE at December 09, 2025 10:15 PM (gKWVE) 31
"Flatus collection system"?? A vanvera?!? After pinto beans and a laxative?? How much would you have to be paid to be a sniffer / judge in this experiment? That's absolutely awful. I can only say that young Sgt Bif would preload beans for 48 hours prior to a multi day NWTI. Knowing I would get partnered with the commander and the COM4ATAF Colonel for the unit certification to release the warheads. I would literraly fart my brains out for 18 solid hours in a tiny little scif maybe 3 feet by 9 feet, me, the commander, the radio operator, and the NWTI Colonel. We'd be in MOPP1 for most of the message processing so none of us smelled my malfesance. The Col on the other hand was dry heaving for most of the inspection. The last time I did it, he "killed" the commander and brought in our warrant officer. Chief Forman, masked up and came on in. Smacked me on the back of my head, and finished it all up. Continued Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 09, 2025 10:15 PM (48yvf) Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 09, 2025 10:16 PM (sAmhv) 33
27 Could you post an alternative Braille version of the ONT for us vision-impaired "readers"?
Also, use the Calibri font for all content, or you’re ableist. Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 09, 2025 10:13 PM (EXyHK) So a titular braille font... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:16 PM (ynpvh) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 10:17 PM (c35xG) 35
28 Black Olives Matter!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 09, 2025 10:14 PM (S/Y4j) Black and green olives have their place...black on pizza, green in tamales. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:17 PM (ynpvh) 36
Sir Doof. In all seriousness, could you give me some Pickleball sayings? (Just the PG ones) Thank you.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 09, 2025 10:12 PM (TfUTr) OUT! 2-bounce rule Zero-zero-two Want more? Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:17 PM (p6ZQj) 37
" Who farted and made raimondo though?
Posted by: gKWVE at December 09, 2025 10:15 PM (gKWVE)" Bono? Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at December 09, 2025 10:18 PM (/HDaX) 38
All I want for Christmas are some Rush deep cuts!
----- Does "Twilight Zone" qualify as a deep cut? Because that was my favorite track on side 2 of 2112. Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 10:19 PM (Cjcf6) 39
Hockey after dark:
Sabres vs Oilers 1-0 in the 2nd As long as we're not getting run out the rink, I'm here tonight ... Posted by: browndog clearing the zone at December 09, 2025 10:14 PM (3sXRv) Hey there, brother! I'll be going to the Panthers vs Avs game on Thursday night. Wearing my Ovi sweater, of course! Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:19 PM (p6ZQj) 40
So checking leftist sites I see the current hotness is still calling for a military coup. See engaging with narcoterrorists is an illegal order somehow.
Man, I'm so old I remember when the left was telling us about the dangers of an officer calling the president a pot smoke draft dodger, which, for the record, was true, because we have a civilian chain of command and we can't have officers having their own ideas about the quality of their presidents. Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 10:20 PM (sKqQm) 41
At the end of the event when we got recertified, the Col asked who was the rat bastard. Chief threw me under the bus.
Next year, the Col "killed" me first. So I got to do the closed book warhead demate from the missile. In Chief's domain. I paid for that. Dearly. But he's the one that put me in for war head custodian warrant so it all worked out. The Col told me years later that it became a punishment assignment to inspect our unit because of me. My response, if I gotta be in Mopp1 and uncomfortable, so do you. No one says the soviets will gas us right out of the bag, you guys were sadistic cunts so I fought nbc warfare with nbc warfare. I of course was a civiy by then so it was safe. He larfed, and said the nwti duties were onorus, but sometimes the unit's personality made it worth it. Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 09, 2025 10:21 PM (48yvf) 42
Pamela Anderson has voluntarily turned into an old lady.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:21 PM (KDPiq) 43
I suggest we take the footage of "Mr. Forty second Fart" and include it in whatever radio signals we're sending out into space. The space aliens need to know what they're getting into.
Posted by: Orson at December 09, 2025 10:21 PM (dIske) 44
Does "Twilight Zone" qualify as a deep cut? Because that was my favorite track on side 2 of 2112.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 10:19 PM (Cjcf6) Yes it does. I'll have to look and see if I used that one last year. I think I used "Tears", so TZ might make an appearance this year. Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:21 PM (p6ZQj) 45
Black and green olives have their place...black on pizza, green in tamales.
---- My favorite pizza is thin crust, sausage, canadian bacon, and black olives. The meats provide the seriousness, the sweet from the black olives balance it masterfully. Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 10:22 PM (Cjcf6) 46
Thanks for the ONT.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 10:22 PM (zZu0s) 47
Evening, Horde. Love the music, Doof! JQ, I am working on readying The Club for the Christmas Party (hiding the colored lights).
Posted by: scampydog at December 09, 2025 10:22 PM (41CYW) 48
A Grammy-nominated musician was struck and killed by a driver with more than 100 arrests and dozens of traffic violations in Rhode Island, police said.
Well, good thing those northeastern states have abolished the carceral state right? Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 10:22 PM (sKqQm) 49
That "dirty bomb" story reminded me of the story featuring a large black dude in handcuffs and the caption "man says he was notb making a bomb threat when he pointed at a bathroom and said "I'm gonna blow that m'fer up!"
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 10:22 PM (QGRvm) 50
Garth Hudson, last surviving member of The Band, passed about ten months ago. RIP
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:22 PM (npFr7) 51
Excellent choice!
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 09, 2025 10:16 PM (sAmhv) *fist bump* Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:22 PM (p6ZQj) 52
Green olives are really good in salads and surprisingly good in tacos.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 10:22 PM (sKqQm) 53
42 Pamela Anderson has voluntarily turned into an old lady.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:21 PM (KDPiq) And into Liam Neeson's cock socket. She had a good run. And Hepatis. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 09, 2025 10:23 PM (EOjZq) 54
She is 58.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:23 PM (VY2EQ) 55
13 The late and really terrific Raul Malo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA4lPSfzMV8 Posted by: huerfano at December 09, 2025 10:10 PM (98kQX) A very under appreciated talent.. http://tiny.cc/218w001 Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 09, 2025 10:23 PM (nbLIj) 56
Good evening morons y gracias Disco
That Romantics tune played endlessly at every fraternity party. Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 10:23 PM (A0sqA) 57
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 10:20 PM (sKqQm
I guess they're not too happy about our F-18 'exercises' off the Venezuelan coast recently either. Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:23 PM (KDPiq) 58
But in the spirit of the season, go ahead and give the people what they want. All lights matter!
Posted by: Doof ---------- Wooot! Awesome! Hear that, Piper? We can haz white lights! Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 10:24 PM (rdVOm) 59
Evening, Horde. Love the music, Doof! JQ, I am working on readying The Club for the Christmas Party (hiding the colored lights).
Posted by: scampydog at December 09, 2025 10:22 PM (41CYW) Any guesses on the theme of the 3 songs?? Don't you dare touch those colored lights!! Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:24 PM (p6ZQj) 60
Has Doof posted Geddy Lee's visit to The Great White North? It's worth watching.
Posted by: Take Off! at December 09, 2025 10:24 PM (oftw2) 61
Pro Tip: no your toddler will not want to cuddle for ever, this is what grandchildren are for.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 10:24 PM (A0sqA) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:25 PM (XuXeR) 63
Nice pic of the Vulcan bomber, one of the coolest planes ever built.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 10:12 PM (Riz8t) Got to see one of those up close, and also flying, at an airshow at the Air Force base in Cold Lake, Alberta, 1980-something. That thing is huge. When it flies over, the sky goes dark. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:25 PM (npFr7) 64
Sir Doof. In all seriousness, could you give me some Pickleball sayings? (Just the PG ones) Thank you.
Posted by: Some Rat +++ I saw an old guy in town the other day wearing a t-shirt with There's no crying in pickleball. Posted by: Florida Peasant at December 09, 2025 10:25 PM (Lo97M) 65
>>While it is estimated that people fart up to 23 times a day
I'm calling bullshit. I don't fart 23 times a day. What the hell are you people eating? Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 10:26 PM (viF8m) 66
Posted by: scampydog at December 09, 2025 10:22 PM
Oh, no! No need for that.. too much trouble to take them down.. that's why I left them ALL up to begin with. Just plug/unplug whichever, to suit needs. Simple! Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 10:26 PM (rdVOm) 67
Has Doof posted Geddy Lee's visit to The Great White North? It's worth watching.
Posted by: Take Off! at December 09, 2025 10:24 PM (oftw2) Ten bucks is ten bucks Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:26 PM (p6ZQj) 68
She is 58.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:23 PM (VY2EQ) You should take a look at the 50 something year old Jewell bikini photos on Fox News site. ( same place I saw photo of Anderson. Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:26 PM (KDPiq) 69
Watching a movie taking place in Australia. Dingos start making noise and the closed captioning says "Coyotes Howling". LOL
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:27 PM (ynpvh) 70
I'm pretty disappointed you didn't include the International Farting Competition in the links.
Go Paul Boomer!! https://youtu.be/uPplyQWf-u4?si=I2dpIdAG1B_xuH3W Posted by: Baron Munchausen at December 09, 2025 10:27 PM (C1NyB) 71
I suggest we take the footage of "Mr. Forty second Fart" and include it in whatever radio signals we're sending out into space. The space aliens need to know what they're getting into.
Posted by: Orson at December 09, 2025 10:21 PM (dIske) I have it on good authority that a 40 second fart is a challenge to battle to the death among some of the more warlike star-faring species. Posted by: Guy wearing a Star Fleet t-shirt at December 09, 2025 10:27 PM (4vy8h) 72
Vegetarians bring up the fart averages.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:27 PM (VY2EQ) 73
Green olives are really good in salads and surprisingly good in tacos.
Posted by: 18-1 Green olives in tacos? Have you ever seen a taco? I will be gone for a couple minutes while I go brush my teeth and rinse my mouth out with gasoline simply from the thought of finding green olives on a taco. Have you no decency? Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 10:28 PM (uv8gn) 74
72 Vegetarians bring up the fart averages.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:27 PM (VY2EQ) You are what you eat; you smell of what you eat. Had an asian person say that Americans tend to smell like babies from all the milk they drink. LOL. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:29 PM (ynpvh) 75
When Men Walk Away
Women have inherited the thrones of great powers - Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great, Victoria - and presided over massed ranks of courtiers drawn from the "pale, male and stale". But America and its client states are the first in history in which every significant venue aside from ladies' sport is now dominated by women. The west is closer than any society should be to the end of men - At the same time, the principal source of immigration to the west is from a patriarchal culture even more severe (if you can believe it) than 1950s sitcom dads. https://tinyurl.com/musm779e Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 10:29 PM (c35xG) 76
Damn. Guess BIL won't be texting back until morning. Ugh.
*calls-in for tomorrow night, just in case* If I've got to drive out to BIL tomorrow, won't be back until Thursday night. Friday if things don't go right... Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 10:29 PM (rdVOm) 77
62 rural North Dakota"
A bit redundant, wouldn't you say... Posted by: man ................................ Bismarck is a city, technically. One of those out of the way places I'd like to wander around in someday. The western part anyway. Theodore Roosevelt NP is there. Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 09, 2025 10:29 PM (sAmhv) 78
73 Green olives are really good in salads and surprisingly good in tacos.
Posted by: 18-1 Green olives in tacos? Have you ever seen a taco? I will be gone for a couple minutes while I go brush my teeth and rinse my mouth out with gasoline simply from the thought of finding green olives on a taco. Have you no decency? Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 10:28 PM (uv8gn) all sorts of food can go in tacos and burritos. I mean it CAN, but doesn't mean it should. I remember my wife giving me the strangest look as I stripped the meat off KFC and put it in tortillas with some salsa... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:30 PM (ynpvh) 79
Used to work with a guy, we all said he had one of the world's only trained assholes. You could be talking to him anytime, day or night, and if you said " Hey Forest, fart!" He'd say ok! And pop out a nice one on command. Never ran out of fuel, either.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 10:30 PM (QGRvm) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:31 PM (XuXeR) 81
>>While it is estimated that people fart up to 23 times a day
I'm calling bullshit. I don't fart 23 times a day. What the hell are you people eating? Posted by: JackStraw "it is estimated" -- by whom? "up to" -- "never" or "once" is "up to 23 times". Precision?? Posted by: your probability-and-stats prof at December 09, 2025 10:31 PM (nhCoE) 82
If I’m farting 23 times a day I’m making a doctor’s ASAP appointment cuz something wrong.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:31 PM (9iyS+) 83
I guess they're not too happy about our F-18 'exercises' off the Venezuelan coast recently either.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:23 PM (KDPiq) Question: would an A-10 Warthog really mess up one of those drug boats, and if so, why not use them? Too far away from an airfield? I don't expect they can operate from a carrier... Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:31 PM (npFr7) 84
79 Used to work with a guy, we all said he had one of the world's only trained assholes. You could be talking to him anytime, day or night, and if you said " Hey Forest, fart!" He'd say ok! And pop out a nice one on command. Never ran out of fuel, either.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 10:30 PM (QGRvm) Maybe he could anally inhalate, Like Le Petomane. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:32 PM (ynpvh) 85
Sigh. Doof. Honestly. 😂
Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 10:32 PM (p4NUW) 86
82 If I’m farting 23 times a day I’m making a doctor’s ASAP appointment cuz something wrong.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:31 PM (9iyS+) Folks also fart whilst asleep... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:32 PM (ynpvh) 87
Our little AIT platoon was in formation, standing at attention, dress right dress about to be cut loose for the weekend. I noticed a familiar percolation building in my guts. Group! Ten-shun! Wow… it’s getting strong, this is amazing
Order… Arms!! Salute! At that exact moment I let go of a tremendous fart, really spectacular. I mean, it was probably uncalled for, but it was an amazing confluence of synchronicity and I felt compelled to share it with everyone. Everyone else just died laughing while holding their salutes at attention. I played it straight, naturally, with a look of mild disgust on my face, it weren’t me that would sully such an important aspect of drill and ceremony, no sir. The platoon sergeant just waved his arm and walked away, realizing the futility of trying to restore any sort of order to a bunch of miscreants. Posted by: Ya Had To Be There at December 09, 2025 10:33 PM (5MnqL) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:33 PM (XuXeR) 89
I like to put carrots and okra in tacos.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:33 PM (VY2EQ) 90
88 Bismarck is a city"
I thought Bismarck was a herring... Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:33 PM (XuXeR) I thought Bismark was German... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:34 PM (ynpvh) 91
all sorts of food can go in tacos and burritos. I mean it CAN, but doesn't mean it should. I remember my wife giving me the strangest look as I stripped the meat off KFC and put it in tortillas with some salsa...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) What you described is not a taco. It may keep you alive in an emergency but calling it a taco - My god man, you are flirting with demons there! Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 10:34 PM (uv8gn) 92
76 Damn. Guess BIL won't be texting back until morning. Ugh.
*calls-in for tomorrow night, just in case* If I've got to drive out to BIL tomorrow, won't be back until Thursday night. Friday if things don't go right... Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 10:29 PM (rdVOm) Just leave your recipes, we got you! Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 10:34 PM (p4NUW) 93
Hey there, brother! I'll be going to the Panthers vs Avs game on Thursday night. Wearing my Ovi sweater, of course!
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:19 PM (p6ZQj) Enjoy ... Not at all sad that Florida is down on it's luck this year. (3-0 Sabres mid-way 2nd) Posted by: browndog clearing the zone at December 09, 2025 10:34 PM (3sXRv) 94
Pamela Anderson has voluntarily turned into an old lady.
---- They treated her like a freak because she was beautiful. Women, generally speaking, won't stand up for other women that are prettier than they are. And weak men are more than willing to pile on with denigrating beautiful women. Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 10:34 PM (Cjcf6) 95
89 I like to put carrots and okra in tacos.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:33 PM (VY2EQ) ... and in your chili too, probably. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:34 PM (ynpvh) 96
I don't think I fart 23 times a year.
Posted by: Cast Iron Stomach at December 09, 2025 10:34 PM (oftw2) 97
Bismarck is a city, technically. One of those out of the way places I'd like to wander around in someday. The western part anyway. Theodore Roosevelt NP is there.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 09, 2025 10:29 PM (sAmhv) Minot is a city. Not huge, but respectable in size. Comparable to Spokane, maybe? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:34 PM (npFr7) 98
Had a guy in college try to light his fart and sharted instead. I never laughed so hard in my life because the infectious laugh phenomenon happened .
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:35 PM (KDPiq) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:35 PM (XuXeR) 100
Pamela Anderson - who can forget "Barb Wire"?
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 10:35 PM (QGRvm) 101
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 10:30 PM
---------- I used to work with an entire crew of guys, what could seemingly *fart at will* Boss man walked into a Green Cloud and Colorful Metaphors one time, made an awful face.. turned to me (the only female on the team) and shouted "How can you stand it?!" JQ replied: "Cram my earplugs in a little deeper, and not breathe through my nose." Boss man stormed off. But I know he was desperately holding back a hearty laugh! Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 10:35 PM (rdVOm) 102
I thought Bismarck was a herring...
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:33 PM (XuXeR) I thought it was a donut Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:36 PM (p6ZQj) 103
The Chinese are growing wheat in the dessert.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:36 PM (VY2EQ) 104
Checking in
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at December 09, 2025 10:37 PM (w3u3d) Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 10:37 PM (rdVOm) 106
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 10:34 PM (Cjcf6)
White knighting for a sex tape queen ? Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:37 PM (KDPiq) 107
103 The Chinese are growing wheat in the dessert.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:36 PM (VY2EQ) If there's soil and water it can be done. There's a desert to the east of San Diego, and entire valley, known for it's agriculture, and it's in the desert... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:37 PM (ynpvh) 108
The Chinese are growing wheat in the dessert.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:36 PM (VY2EQ) Cheescake, or pie? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:38 PM (npFr7) 109
rural North Dakota"
A bit redundant, wouldn't you say... Posted by: man ................................ Bismarck is a city, technically. Posted by: Puddleglum NoDak's only 6-figure city is Fargo. 126K humans in the 2020 census. Bismarck is 2nd at 74K. Posted by: mikeski at December 09, 2025 10:38 PM (nhCoE) 110
Love the Dad vids.
When my boys were little, one of the things I would do at bedtime is I would put son 1 in a blanket and haul him in like Santa Claus and dump him in bed, then do the same for son 2. We called it Bag o' Boy. We also did something we called "The Stanley Cup" because at the time they both weighed about 34 pounds. They would take a running start and leap at me and I would hoist them above my head. this kept up until they were both way more than 34 pounds. They are now men. I love them fiercely. But I miss those little guys. Posted by: Pug Mahon, changing socks like a mo-fo at December 09, 2025 10:38 PM (0aYVJ) Posted by: JFK at December 09, 2025 10:38 PM (oftw2) 112
107 103 The Chinese are growing wheat in the dessert.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:36 PM (VY2EQ) If there's soil and water it can be done. There's a desert to the east of San Diego, and entire valley, known for it's agriculture, and it's in the desert... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:37 PM (ynpvh) Oh, wait, you wrote dessert... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:38 PM (ynpvh) 113
Too many sses again?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:38 PM (VY2EQ) 114
96 I don't think I fart 23 times a year.
Posted by: Cast Iron Stomach at December 09, 2025 You may need to reset your gut biome! Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 10:38 PM (p4NUW) 115
100 Pamela Anderson - who can forget "Barb Wire"?
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 10:35 PM (QGRvm) And Stripperella... Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 09, 2025 10:39 PM (EOjZq) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:39 PM (XuXeR) 117
113 Too many sses again?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:38 PM (VY2EQ) Yes, and too many asses too, me being one of them. LOL Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:39 PM (ynpvh) 118
Damn. Second again.
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:39 PM (XuXeR) 119
They are now men. I love them fiercely. But I miss those little guys.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, changing socks like a mo-fo This is the cutest thing. Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 10:39 PM (p4NUW) 120
My dad did the flip thing to us four kids. So cool to see it again
Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at December 09, 2025 10:40 PM (8cPKb) Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 10:40 PM (xRKBa) 122
Reminds me of the time a middle school history teacher was talking about the assassination of President McKinley. As she started writing the word "assassin", she tried to abbreviate it, but on seeing she had written "ass" thought it was a bad idea and didn't want the Principal to walk by and see that word on the board. She she wrote three more letters. Now the board said "assass". In the end, she had to write the entire word...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:40 PM (ynpvh) 123
It's the most wonderful time
For a beer Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 09, 2025 10:41 PM (JkO4W) 124
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120 My dad did the flip thing to us four kids. So cool to see it again
Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at December 09, 2025 10:40 PM (8cPKb) "How many fingers am I holding up?"... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:41 PM (ynpvh) Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 09, 2025 10:41 PM (vefQN) 127
Dr. Mommy Jill, who shit my pants?
Posted by: President Emeritus at December 09, 2025 10:41 PM (oftw2) 128
What you described is not a taco. It may keep you alive in an emergency but calling it a taco - My god man, you are flirting with demons there!
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram --- Exactly! Just because you can put something in a tortilla, it doesn't make it a taco... sheesh 🙄! Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 09, 2025 10:41 PM (VCgbV) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:42 PM (XuXeR) 130
Love the Dad vids.
When my boys were little, one of the things I would do at bedtime is I would put son 1 in a blanket and haul him in like Santa Claus and dump him in bed, then do the same for son 2. We called it Bag o' Boy. We also did something we called "The Stanley Cup" because at the time they both weighed about 34 pounds. They would take a running start and leap at me and I would hoist them above my head. this kept up until they were both way more than 34 pounds. They are now men. I love them fiercely. But I miss those little guys. Posted by: Pug Mahon, changing socks like a mo-fo at December 09, 2025 10:38 PM (0aYVJ) Great stuff! I did similar things with my boys. My favorite was letting them jump up and down on a bed and body slamming them onto the mattress. Now they're both in their 20s and strong enough to body slam me standing still. Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:42 PM (p6ZQj) 131
If you have to fart, fart! You will feel much better for it.
Posted by: Mao at December 09, 2025 10:42 PM (4786I) 132
54 She is 58.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09 And all she did was stop wearing makeup. If she throws some cc cream on, a little blush, and mascara she looks very, very different. Add a full face of makeup up and she is very much looking like an older version of the earlier on screen Pamela. Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 10:42 PM (p4NUW) Posted by: Some Rat at December 09, 2025 10:43 PM (TfUTr) 134
91 all sorts of food can go in tacos and burritos. I mean it CAN, but doesn't mean it should. I remember my wife giving me the strangest look as I stripped the meat off KFC and put it in tortillas with some salsa...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) What you described is not a taco. It may keep you alive in an emergency but calling it a taco - My god man, you are flirting with demons there! Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 10:34 PM (uv8gn) Fried breaded crispy meat, a folded tortilla, salsa. Behold, a taco! Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:44 PM (ynpvh) 135
If there's soil and water it can be done. There's a desert to the east of San Diego, and entire valley, known for it's agriculture, and it's in the desert...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:37 PM (ynpvh) Tons of farming in the Yuma area. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:44 PM (9iyS+) 136
Beens are bad for your heart. Loaded with carbs.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:44 PM (VY2EQ) 137
Minot is a city. Not huge, but respectable in size. Comparable to Spokane, maybe?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:34 PM (npFr7) There’s a pretty girl behind every tree in Minot. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 10:44 PM (4786I) 138
131 If you have to fart, fart! You will feel much better for it.
Posted by: Mao at December 09, 2025 10:42 PM (4786I) One of the most impressive Mao quotes I've read: "When you eat a lot, you sh!t alot". Very deep. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:45 PM (ynpvh) 139
One of the most impressive Mao quotes I've read: "When you eat a lot, you sh!t alot". Very deep. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:45 PM (ynpvh) ---------- Ask him something about metallurgy. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 09, 2025 10:46 PM (JkO4W) 140
135 If there's soil and water it can be done. There's a desert to the east of San Diego, and entire valley, known for it's agriculture, and it's in the desert...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:37 PM (ynpvh) Tons of farming in the Yuma area. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:44 PM (9iyS+) And along I-8 east of Yuma too. Irrigation is a wonderful invention. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:46 PM (ynpvh) 141
Did he clip that ftom Sun Tsu?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:46 PM (VY2EQ) 142
One of the most impressive Mao quotes I've read: "When you eat a lot, you sh!t alot". Very deep.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:45 PM (ynpvh) Go to Xinjiang Province and fix tractors. Posted by: Mao at December 09, 2025 10:46 PM (4786I) 143
139
One of the most impressive Mao quotes I've read: "When you eat a lot, you sh!t alot". Very deep. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:45 PM (ynpvh) ---------- Ask him something about metallurgy. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 09, 2025 10:46 PM (JkO4W) He doesn't return my calls anymore. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:46 PM (ynpvh) 144
Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 10:42 PM (p4NUW)
She also got an old lady hairdo . Why so defensive about a Hollywood sex tape,, liberal B celebrity all the sudden? Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:46 PM (KDPiq) 145
Want more?
Posted by: Doof a Yes please! Posted by: Some Rat ---------- I asked Doof about a shot called the "erne" forgot how he explained it - something about flamboyant. Maybe. Posted by: scampydog at December 09, 2025 10:47 PM (41CYW) 146
Ask him something about metallurgy.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 09, 2025 10:46 PM (JkO4W) You can also go to Xinjiang Province and fix tractors too. Posted by: Mao at December 09, 2025 10:47 PM (4786I) 147
Does anyone hust report the news without letter to the editorizing?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:48 PM (VY2EQ) 148
There’s a pretty girl behind every tree in Minot.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 10:44 PM (4786I) Note to self: wear camo, next trip through Minot. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:48 PM (npFr7) 149
The Chinese are growing wheat in the dessert.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:36 PM (VY2EQ) Cheescake, or pie? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:38 PM (npFr7) Out-of-work Cobblers Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 09, 2025 10:48 PM (S/Y4j) 150
Want more?
Posted by: Doof a Yes please! Posted by: Some Rat at December 09, 2025 10:43 PM (TfUTr) I feel like you're trolling me but I'll play along... Stay out of the kitchen I got it -- switch! Cross-court dink Whose serve is it? ATP (around the post) Erne Stacking Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:48 PM (p6ZQj) 151
>>>Study explains why women’s farts typically 'smell worse than men’s'
They lied. Their explanation is that women's fart have more stink in them. They don't say why. Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 09, 2025 10:48 PM (syz1S) 152
Beans are a nutrient dense food. Protein, high in fiber, iron, potassium, and magnesium, a great prebiotic, they stabilize blood sugar. 🫘
Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 10:49 PM (p4NUW) 153
Cobblers make shoes, you see.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:49 PM (VY2EQ) 154
If there’s Doof, there ‘s gotta be Rush.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 10:49 PM (4786I) 155
On a trip from Minnesota to Washington State I stop at a McDonalds in Bismarck, ND. It was clean, the service was top notch, and the young man the took my order used up his daily quota of please and thank you. This experience was notably different than the McDonald's in Burien, WA where every order taken nearly ends up in a fist fight.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 10:49 PM (uv8gn) 156
I thought Bismark was German..."
Made a catchy tune, too /Johnny Horton ---- He made a niche by recording songs about historical events. To this day I love this one--the battle of New Orleans: "In 1814 we took a little trip Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip' We took a little bacon and we took a little beans And we caught the bloody British in the town of New Orleans We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin' There wasn't as many as there was a while ago We fired once more and they began to runnin' On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico." He locked in to that niche. Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 10:50 PM (Cjcf6) 157
152 Beans are a nutrient dense food. Protein, high in fiber, iron, potassium, and magnesium, a great prebiotic, they stabilize blood sugar. 🫘
Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 10:49 PM (p4NUW) BUT not a complete protein. I believe beans and corn do together. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:50 PM (ynpvh) 158
And along I-8 east of Yuma too. Irrigation is a wonderful invention.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:46 PM (ynpvh) Arizona has pretty sane water management policies, unlike California. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:50 PM (npFr7) 159
Singing drummers. Duh.
Posted by: Pervy Grin at December 09, 2025 10:50 PM (M1f92) 160
Plants are what food eats.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:50 PM (VY2EQ) 161
As an aside, I saw recently that Johnny Knoxville has joined the ranks of men who look like aging lesbians.
Good for you, sir! Posted by: Pug Mahon, changing socks like a mo-fo at December 09, 2025 10:50 PM (0aYVJ) 162
We made the desert bloom.
Posted by: Sumerians at December 09, 2025 10:51 PM (JkO4W) 163
Nice pic of the Vulcan bomber, one of the coolest planes ever built.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 10:12 PM (Riz8t) In the Operation Black Buck, UK Vulcan Bombers flew non-stop, refueling in flight, from Ascension Island to bomb the Port Stanley airfield and radar complex, then held by Argentine forces. Though the one hit on the airstrip made it not suitable for jet operations, the damage done by the air raid was considered "minimal" The damage may have forced the Argentine Air Force to fly their Mirages out from the mainland, which restricted their time over the Falklands. Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 10:51 PM (rbvCR) 164
It was either that, or stale raspberry or rhubarb cobbler.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 09, 2025 10:51 PM (S/Y4j) 165
And along I-8 east of Yuma too. Irrigation is a wonderful invention.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) --------- Was fascinated as a kid looking out the window in the back seat at how they could grow crops - the drive down 395 from Spokane to the Tri-Cities. Posted by: scampydog at December 09, 2025 10:51 PM (41CYW) 166
I remember Pamela Anderson's Playboy layout, where she did look much more like The Girl Next Door than what she soon became. Far too plastic and plump-lipped even for me. She could have been the poster girl for What Happens When You Go to Hollywood Because You Posed Naked.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 10:51 PM (wzUl9) 167
154 If there’s Doof, there ‘s gotta be Rush.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 10:49 PM (4786I) Fly by Night... Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 09, 2025 10:52 PM (EOjZq) 168
158 And along I-8 east of Yuma too. Irrigation is a wonderful invention.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:46 PM (ynpvh) Arizona has pretty sane water management policies, unlike California. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:50 PM (npFr7) Well, Kali is good at pissing away water for a tiny fish, and great at destroying dams to return things back to a more "natural" condition (except when it comes to dams that supply water to the Dem areas--can't touch those even though they caused terrible environmental damage). Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:52 PM (ynpvh) 169
Fried breaded crispy meat, a folded tortilla, salsa. Behold, a taco! Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Every abuela in Las Cruces, NM just stroked out. Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 10:52 PM (uv8gn) 170
If there’s Doof, there ‘s gotta be Rush.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 10:49 PM (4786I) It's there. Did you find it? Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:52 PM (p6ZQj) 171
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 10:49 PM (uv8gn)
Was this during the oil boom? They were paying McDonald's employees over $25 an hour at one time. That was around 2012-13. Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:52 PM (KDPiq) 172
165 And along I-8 east of Yuma too. Irrigation is a wonderful invention.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) --------- Was fascinated as a kid looking out the window in the back seat at how they could grow crops - the drive down 395 from Spokane to the Tri-Cities. Posted by: scampydog at December 09, 2025 10:51 PM (41CYW) Flying in a plane, a kid saw the round fields in the midwest and his dad goes, "You see those round ones? Aliens did that!"...LOL Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:53 PM (ynpvh) 173
I feel like you're trolling me but I'll play along...
Stay out of the kitchen I got it -- switch! Cross-court dink Whose serve is it? ATP (around the post) Erne Stacking Posted by: Doof Nope, not trolling. However, without letting the cat out of the bag....you will not see a penny of the commission! (smiley face icon here) Posted by: Some Rat at December 09, 2025 10:53 PM (TfUTr) 174
Was the Grammy-nominated musician killed by a vehicle a pedestrian? On a skateboard? Driving an ice cream truck?
Posted by: Just Axin' at December 09, 2025 10:53 PM (oftw2) 175
Iran nixxed a jet fighter deal with China. Opting for Ruskie planes.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:53 PM (VY2EQ) 176
152 Beans are a nutrient dense food. Protein, high in fiber, iron, potassium, and magnesium, a great prebiotic, they stabilize blood sugar.
Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 10:49 PM (p4NUW) It's a magical fruit! Also good with beef. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 09, 2025 10:53 PM (EOjZq) 177
Singing drummers. Duh.
Posted by: Pervy Grin at December 09, 2025 10:50 PM (M1f92) Correct. No need for the duh. Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:54 PM (p6ZQj) 178
Question: would an A-10 Warthog really mess up one of those drug boats, and if so, why not use them? Too far away from an airfield? I don't expect they can operate from a carrier...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:31 PM (npFr7) Yes, an A-10 would mess up a boat, but they are not designed to land on a carrier. They also need a nearby friendly airbase to operate out of, something that is in short supply in that area. Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 09, 2025 10:54 PM (4vy8h) 179
I ate lunch in the Mission today. Three carne asada tacos but no beans because I'm considerate that way.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 10:55 PM (A0sqA) 180
BUT not a complete protein. I believe beans and corn do together.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) -------- Complete proteins cannot be obtained from vegetables. To obtain complete proteins dairy products must be included. NY Strip is acceptable. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 10:55 PM (c35xG) 181
Can those F18s handle thosr old F16s?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:55 PM (VY2EQ) 182
Nope, not trolling. However, without letting the cat out of the bag....you will not see a penny of the commission! (smiley face icon here)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 09, 2025 10:53 PM (TfUTr) Alrighty then. I guess this will make sense to me some day. *heads to the Club to make EVERY table wobbly* Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:56 PM (p6ZQj) 183
Was the Grammy-nominated musician killed by a vehicle a pedestrian? On a skateboard? Driving an ice cream truck?
Posted by: Just Axin' Pedestrian. The witch that hit him had a bunch of drugs in her car and a has police that includes something like 80 arrests. Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 10:56 PM (uv8gn) 184
Yes, an A-10 would mess up a boat, but they are not designed to land on a carrier. They also need a nearby friendly airbase to operate out of, something that is in short supply in that area.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 09, 2025 10:54 PM (4vy8h) Gitmo? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:56 PM (npFr7) 185
As an aside, I saw recently that Johnny Knoxville has joined the ranks of men who look like aging lesbians.
Good for you, sir! Posted by: Pug Mahon, changing socks like a mo-fo at December 09, 2025 10:50 PM (0aYVJ) He looks like Rachel Maddow Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:56 PM (KDPiq) 186
169 Fried breaded crispy meat, a folded tortilla, salsa. Behold, a taco! Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Every abuela in Las Cruces, NM just stroked out. Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 10:52 PM (uv8gn) I've made tacos with the nopales I've made (1/3 cactus, 1/3 tomatoes, 1/3 onions, various spices). I add other stuff to it. I make tacos out of the Chicharrones en Salsa Verde I would make. When I'm really lazy, I've taken meat loaf and shoved it into a taco with extra sauce to make a burrito. Easier to eat that way than with a knife and fork. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:56 PM (ynpvh) 187
Arizona has pretty sane water management policies, unlike California.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon ------------- Yeah, the doctrine of prior appropriation. AZ water issue gets adventurous with the CAP / Colorado River allotment. Posted by: scampydog - used to deal with some of that at December 09, 2025 10:56 PM (41CYW) 188
144 Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 10:42 PM (p4NUW) She also got an old lady hairdo . Why so defensive about a Hollywood sex tape,, liberal B celebrity all the sudden? Posted by: the way I see it at December Her tape was stolen, plus she is an actress and not a paragon of virtue. But she did raise 2 boys and got them out of LA so they could be normal growing up. They are well spoken and successful, they speak highly of her as a mom. She is genetically gifted, old lady haircut or not. Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 10:57 PM (Wmg4n) 189
Machine gunning the boats could be construed as a cruelty. Not quick and clean. A bomb/rocket is instantaneous.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 10:57 PM (c35xG) 190
Pedestrian. The witch that hit him had a bunch of drugs in her car and a has police that includes something like 80 arrests.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 10:56 PM (uv8gn) Grateful Dead had a woman singer named Godbout. I wonder if the perp is a relative? Not exactly a common surname. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:58 PM (npFr7) 191
Trump says MRI's are precautionary when taking Leqembi IV.
Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at December 09, 2025 10:58 PM (C4H5M) 192
"In 1814 we took a little trip
Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip' We took a little bacon and we took a little beans And we caught the bloody British in the town of New Orleans . . ." He locked in to that niche. Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 *** Indeed he did. I grew up playing on that property, the national monument. In 1965, the 150th anniversary, they added a long breastwork with replica cannon and a visitor center (which had originally been housed in the old plantation house about a hundred yards away). Sometime in the last twenty years they turned the battlefield, the cemetery, and the land between (which had been a neighborhood called Fazendeville), into a big park with a drive-through road featuring huge plaques with details about the battle. I miss my old playground, though. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 10:58 PM (wzUl9) 193
They should use more of the Colorado river.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:58 PM (VY2EQ) 194
He looks like Rachel Maddow
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:56 PM (KDPiq) I smugly rest my case. Posted by: Pug Mahon, slowly shuts notebook at December 09, 2025 10:58 PM (0aYVJ) 195
180 BUT not a complete protein. I believe beans and corn do together.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) -------- Complete proteins cannot be obtained from vegetables. To obtain complete proteins dairy products must be included. NY Strip is acceptable. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 10:55 PM (c35xG) Complete proteins do not mean complete nutrition. Vegans often struggle to get enough vitamin B12, vitamin D, calcium, iron, and omega-3 fatty acids in their diet. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:58 PM (ynpvh) 196
Iran nixxed a jet fighter deal with China. Opting for Ruskie planes.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:53 PM (VY2EQ) They saw what China does to countries that owe them money. Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:58 PM (KDPiq) 197
*heads to the Club to make EVERY table wobbly*
Posted by: Doof ------------ Rat, I'll distract him. He keeps shims in his travel trailer - put the sneak on. Posted by: scampydog - used to deal with some of that at December 09, 2025 10:58 PM (41CYW) 198
186 169 Fried breaded crispy meat, a folded tortilla, salsa. Behold, a taco! Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Every abuela in Las Cruces, NM just stroked out. Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 10:52 PM (uv8gn) ----------- You know that you are arguing with tio Jim? Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:00 PM (c35xG) 199
Machine gunning the boats could be construed as a cruelty. Not quick and clean. A bomb/rocket is instantaneous.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 10:57 PM (c35xG) The Warthog has the GAU-8 (?) rotary cannon. Massive rate of fire; intended to destroy tanks. It ought to turn those drug boats into wood chips. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 11:00 PM (npFr7) 200
Every abuela in Las Cruces, NM just stroked out.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 10:52 PM (uv8gn) ==== This is very funny Ai! Los gringos locos! Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 11:01 PM (A0sqA) Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 11:01 PM (KDPiq) 202
I was looking through some pictures and found one of the shrimp boil at the TXMoMe a few years ago...boy was that great!! I got hungry for some reason.🤗
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 09, 2025 11:01 PM (VCgbV) 203
The idea of allocating river water between states is something I can’t wrap wrap my head around.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 11:02 PM (9iyS+) 204
Complete proteins do not mean complete nutrition. Vegans often struggle to get enough vitamin B12, vitamin D, calcium, iron, and omega-3 fatty acids in their diet.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) ---- Thought it was about complete proteins. Only thing I know about nutrition is that nitrites, nitrates, and sulfides give me a headache. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:03 PM (c35xG) 205
203 The idea of allocating river water between states is something I can’t wrap wrap my head around.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 11:02 PM (9iyS+) Where it's ILLEGAL for Coloradans to capture rainwater in a rain barrel or cistern...that water is already allocated! Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 11:03 PM (ynpvh) 206
Grateful Dead had a woman singer named Godbout. I wonder if the perp is a relative? Not exactly a common surname.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:58 PM (npFr7) === She was Donna Jean Godcheaux Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 11:03 PM (A0sqA) 207
Trump says MRI's are precautionary when taking Leqembi IV.
Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at December 09, 2025 10:58 PM (C4H5M) Well, since everyone who took Leqembi I, II, and III are dead, sound like a reasonable precaution to take, doesn't it? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 11:03 PM (npFr7) 208
Complete proteins cannot be obtained from vegetables.
To obtain complete proteins dairy products must be included. NY Strip is acceptable. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends If you are eating a varied diet, you don’t need to get hung up on complete or not. Foods will even out any missing amino acids we can’t make on our own. Unless you are vegan, then you need to protein compliment. Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 11:04 PM (OoFl2) 209
all sorts of food can go in tacos and burritos. I mean it CAN, but doesn't mean it should. I remember my wife giving me the strangest look as I stripped the meat off KFC and put it in tortillas with some salsa...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) My famous Chicken Livers fried in butter with cheddar and cottage cheese burritos. My famous Rice, Beans, Corned Beef and Chutney burritos My famous Rice, Beans, Kimchi, and Asian BBQ pork burritos My favorite Beans, Rice and Gochujang burritos. Fusion, man. THAT is how my heartburn feels. Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 11:04 PM (rbvCR) 210
Singing drummers. Duh.
Posted by: Pervy Grin Correct. No need for the duh. Posted by: Doof Singing drummer chicks > Singing drummer dudes https://youtu.be/3_Vys58zvTk https://youtu.be/74LVRkcQwBQ?t=68 Posted by: mikeski at December 09, 2025 11:04 PM (nhCoE) 211
She was Donna Jean Godcheaux
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 11:03 PM (A0sqA) You are right. Faulty Peon memory! Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 11:04 PM (npFr7) 212
I am officially 1 hour past bedtime. Good night, y’all. Keep your guts healthy!
Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 11:05 PM (OoFl2) Posted by: mikeski at December 09, 2025 11:05 PM (nhCoE) 214
>>>The Warthog has the GAU-8 (?) rotary cannon. Massive rate of fire; intended to destroy tanks. It ought to turn those drug boats into wood chips.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon ------- Wouldn't play well on home videos. ...er, except for select audiences. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:05 PM (c35xG) 215
Wouldn't play well on home videos.
...er, except for select audiences. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:05 PM (c35xG) Like here. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 11:06 PM (npFr7) 216
I'm one of her few fans. Her vocal quality was not much better than She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named but somehow it worked well with the band.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 11:06 PM (A0sqA) 217
White knighting for a sex tape queen ?
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:37 PM (KDPiq) My, my. Prudishness on a Tuesday? Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 11:06 PM (rbvCR) 218
209 all sorts of food can go in tacos and burritos. I mean it CAN, but doesn't mean it should. I remember my wife giving me the strangest look as I stripped the meat off KFC and put it in tortillas with some salsa...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) My famous Chicken Livers fried in butter with cheddar and cottage cheese burritos. My famous Rice, Beans, Corned Beef and Chutney burritos My famous Rice, Beans, Kimchi, and Asian BBQ pork burritos My favorite Beans, Rice and Gochujang burritos. Fusion, man. THAT is how my heartburn feels. Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 11:04 PM (rbvCR) YES. I've put Vietnamese chicken in a tortilla. Korean bulgogi. Peking duck leftovers (although it kinda comes with a rice tortilla to begin with). Beef, pork, chicken, fish... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 11:06 PM (ynpvh) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:06 PM (c35xG) 220
The Godchauxs, Keith and Donna, were Grateful Dead members 1972-79 and are in the R&R HOF as members of GD.
Posted by: Keyboardist Extraordinaire at December 09, 2025 11:07 PM (oftw2) 221
Do you figure they are hitting drug boats from reapers.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 11:07 PM (VY2EQ) 222
Bismarck is a city
I thought Bismarck was a herring... I thought Bismark was German... Huh. I just watched a vid about the discovery of a mysterious sealed chamber on the wreck of the Bismarck. (19m) https://youtu.be/yko53DEzkMw I have nothing to contribute about flatulence tonight. Didn't even read the parts of the post about that. Dining. Posted by: mindful webworker - vladimeer pootin? at December 09, 2025 11:07 PM (yqA/D) 223
>>Machine gunning the boats could be construed as a cruelty. Not quick and clean. A bomb/rocket is instantaneous.
The fact that we are even making comparisons shows how off the rails we are. If you go back and look at his record, Obama bombed and droned the crap out the Middle East and northern Africa and nobody cared. Certainly nobody on the left. He even blew up a wedding and our betters yawned. But when Trump takes out terrorists who have killed more Americans that have died in all our wars combined we have to get out the rule book to make sure we are killing them the right way. Bomb them, machine gun them, fart them to death, I do not care. Just end them. Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 11:07 PM (viF8m) 224
kinda the Bubba Buford of tacos. Tacos are the most versatile food in the world...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 11:08 PM (ynpvh) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:08 PM (c35xG) 226
The idea of allocating river water between states is something I can’t wrap wrap my head around.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald Texas and New Mexico just wrapped up a years long, maybe even decades long, legal fight over if New Mexico was or was not screwing Texas out of its Rio Grande allocation coming out of the Elephant Butte reservoir near Truth or Consequences, NM. I am of the opinion that Texas paid off the judge that made the final decision. Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 11:08 PM (uv8gn) Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 11:09 PM (KDPiq) 228
227 Asian burritos = Moo Shu
My favorite dish. The plum sauce is what makes it for me. Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 11:09 PM (KDPiq) I made duck fried rice once using Chinese duck with the sauce it came with. Was really good... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 11:10 PM (ynpvh) 229
Beans are a nutrient dense food. Protein, high in fiber, iron, potassium, and magnesium, a great prebiotic, they stabilize blood sugar. 🫘
Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 10:49 PM (p4NUW) I lived on lentils and rice for about a year. We had other things with it, but mostly lentils and rice. It was a complete protein, but I never eat lentils any more. Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 11:10 PM (rbvCR) 230
Well, I'm outta here. Good night all
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 11:11 PM (ynpvh) 231
You know what? a flour tortilla wrapped around any kind of food is good with me.
Fry bread is orders of magnitude better. Posted by: Pug Mahon, slowly shuts notebook at December 09, 2025 11:11 PM (0aYVJ) 232
Question: would an A-10 Warthog really mess up one of those drug boats, and if so, why not use them? Too far away from an airfield? I don't expect they can operate from a carrier...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:31 PM (npFr7) It would totally shred the boats. The problem is the pilot having to deal with that carpenter 158 steel 4 hour atomic erection he would have getting in the way on the flight home. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 11:11 PM (snZF9) 233
Cobblers make shoes, you see.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:49 PM (VY2EQ) When they are fresh they burn my toes, and when they cool off they make my socks all sticky. I will stick to eating them with ice cream, thank you. Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 11:11 PM (rbvCR) 234
207 Trump says MRI's are precautionary when taking Leqembi IV.
Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at December 09, 2025 10:58 PM (C4H5M) Well, since everyone who took Leqembi I, II, and III are dead, sound like a reasonable precaution to take, doesn't it? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon ----- Is Trump taking Leqembi? Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:12 PM (c35xG) Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 11:13 PM (pkeXY) 236
I call my flatus collection system "Chastain!"
Posted by: Pete B. at December 09, 2025 11:13 PM (R86kT) 237
Is Trump taking Leqembi?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:12 PM (c35xG) Leqembi sounds like Cheetah's understudy in an old Tarzan movie. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 11:14 PM (npFr7) 238
I don't like cobblers at all. Fruit shouldn't be hot. And hours later serving it cold doesn't magically make it taste better than chocolate.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 11:15 PM (Cjcf6) 239
I am of the opinion that Texas paid off the judge that made the final decision.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions -------- OUTRAGEOUS!!! You know that no one from Texas would ever do a thing like that. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:15 PM (c35xG) 240
Question: would an A-10 Warthog really mess up one of those drug boats, and if so, why not use them? Too far away from an airfield? I don't expect they can operate from a carrier...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon It would totally shred the boats. The problem is the pilot having to deal with that carpenter 158 steel 4 hour atomic erection he would have getting in the way on the flight home. Posted by: Berserker 65 rounds per second, where each round is the size of your forearm and throws a depleted-uranium tank-armor-piercing projectile, is a bit much for a flimsy speedboat. Or we could break out the B52s and 2000-pound bombs, too. There's no kill like overkill..... Posted by: mikeski at December 09, 2025 11:16 PM (nhCoE) 241
They should be using old torpedos.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 11:17 PM (VY2EQ) 242
You also have the AC-130 Specter. That beast can fuck shit up mightily.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, slowly shuts notebook at December 09, 2025 11:18 PM (0aYVJ) 243
240 Question: would an A-10 Warthog really mess up one of those drug boats, and if so, why not use them? Too far away from an airfield? I don't expect they can operate from a carrier...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon It would totally shred the boats. The problem is the pilot having to deal with that carpenter 158 steel 4 hour atomic erection he would have getting in the way on the flight home. Posted by: Berserker 65 rounds per second, where each round is the size of your forearm and throws a depleted-uranium tank-armor-piercing projectile, is a bit much for a flimsy speedboat. Or we could break out the B52s and 2000-pound bombs, too. There's no kill like overkill..... Posted by: mikeski at December 09, 2025 11:16 PM (nhCoE) Do not forget that A-10s can be air refueled. Problem is, due to basing issues it would be tricky to get them exactly where they are needed at exactly the right time. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 11:18 PM (4786I) 244
Wouldn't play well on home videos. ...er, except for select audiences. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:05 PM (c35xG) Did you notice that in the Gulf the USN is taking out the boats by missile, and in the Pacific the Coast Guard and USN are shooting the engines and boarding? The Pacific boats are from Colombia and Ecuador, not Venezuela. That means something, but I am waiting to find out just what it means. Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 11:18 PM (rbvCR) 245
I beat that record a long time ago when I FARTed for 57 seconds in the Oval Office.
Unfortunately, it was a Wet FART while talking to the Prime Minister of Rwanda. Posted by: Joe Biden at December 09, 2025 11:18 PM (J9q9v) 246
Leqembi sounds like Cheetah's understudy in an old Tarzan movie.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon Or a weird drum, or maybe a stringed instrument, played by some world-music band. https://youtu.be/nD1f1Ian0kA Posted by: mikeski at December 09, 2025 11:19 PM (nhCoE) 247
238 I don't like cobblers at all. Fruit shouldn't be hot. And hours later serving it cold doesn't magically make it taste better than chocolate.
Posted by: Crusader --- You've never had mom's peach cobbler. Do you like milk with your pie? mmmm Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:19 PM (c35xG) 248
They should be using old torpedos.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 11:17 PM (VY2EQ) I expect a fast-moving speedboat would be a hard target to hit with any torpedo. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 11:19 PM (npFr7) 249
I beat that record a long time ago when I FARTed for 57 seconds in the Oval Office.
Unfortunately, it was a Wet FART while talking to the Prime Minister of Rwanda. Posted by: Joe Biden at December 09, 2025 11:18 PM (J9q9v) totally ruined the drapes behind him... Posted by: Pug Mahon, slowly shuts notebook at December 09, 2025 11:20 PM (0aYVJ) Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 11:20 PM (2WIwB) 251
But when Trump takes out terrorists who have killed more Americans that have died in all our wars combined we have to get out the rule book to make sure we are killing them the right way.
Bomb them, machine gun them, fart them to death, I do not care. Just end them. Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 11:07 PM (viF8m) You didn't mention that Obama liked to "double-tap" his hits, so he could kill the first responders too. Very Chinese way of fighting. Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 11:20 PM (rbvCR) 252
Was fascinated as a kid looking out the window in the back seat at how they could grow crops - the drive down 395 from Spokane to the Tri-Cities.
Posted by: scampydog ********* ? Tri-Cities.... Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 09, 2025 11:21 PM (IQ6Gq) 253
I don't like cobblers at all. Fruit shouldn't be hot. And hours later serving it cold doesn't magically make it taste better than chocolate.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 11:15 PM (Cjcf6) ==== Mrs. F.'s blueberry crumble with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream on top, melting all over. Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 11:21 PM (A0sqA) 254
Did you notice that in the Gulf the USN is taking out the boats by missile, and in the Pacific the Coast Guard and USN are shooting the engines and boarding? The Pacific boats are from Colombia and Ecuador, not Venezuela. That means something, but I am waiting to find out just what it means. Posted by: Kindltot --- One could posit several theories. Very interesting. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:21 PM (c35xG) 255
205 203 The idea of allocating river water between states is something I can’t wrap wrap my head around.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 11:02 PM (9iyS+) How about international treaties? There’s one I know of between the U.S. and Mexico in regards to Rio Grande water. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 11:22 PM (4786I) 256
kinda the Bubba Buford of tacos. Tacos are the most versatile food in the world...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 11:08 PM (ynpvh). Well, no. At some point, if you push it too far, they become gyros. Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 11:22 PM (rbvCR) 257
FART content tonight is to remind us Trump cut FART Tube funding, which affects children of coler the worst!
Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein Of Brattleboro, VT at December 09, 2025 11:23 PM (oftw2) 258
? Tri-Cities....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 09, 2025 11:21 PM (IQ6Gq) Richland, Pasco, Kennewick WA. Posted by: Pug Mahon, slowly shuts notebook at December 09, 2025 11:23 PM (0aYVJ) 259
Question: would an A-10 Warthog really mess up one of those drug boats, and if so, why not use them? Too far away from an airfield? I don't expect they can operate from a carrier...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon ------ I *think* the strikes were carried out by the Navy, no A10's. Posted by: Barky's two-pound curls at December 09, 2025 11:24 PM (XeU6L) 260
Home of Kennewick man.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 11:24 PM (VY2EQ) 261
Well, no. At some point, if you push it too far, they become gyros.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 11:22 PM (rbvCR) Or doner kebab. Mmm. me hungry now. Posted by: Pug Mahon, slowly shuts notebook at December 09, 2025 11:25 PM (0aYVJ) 262
? Tri-Cities....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba Kennewick, Pasco, and Richland https://is.gd/WEsFzv Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 11:25 PM (uv8gn) 263
'bout time I headed off to bed. I need to work out tomorrow, and then Linda is dragging me out to the 'burbs to a SpayMart location, a pet shelter that offers used items for sale to help fund the animals. It doesn't take much dragging to get me to do that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 11:25 PM (wzUl9) 264
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Thanks Pug...now to go look them up on google maps... Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 09, 2025 11:25 PM (IQ6Gq) 265
How about international treaties? There’s one I know of between the U.S. and Mexico in regards to Rio Grande water.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 11:22 PM (4786I) Canada/USA regarding Columbia and Kootenay rivers, too. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 11:28 PM (npFr7) 266
Toyota will not die,
youtube.com/watch?v=xnWKz7Cthkk Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:29 PM (c35xG) 267
238 I don't like cob
Posted by: Crusader Me neither. Hate 'em in fact. Posted by: guy who also does not like cobs at December 09, 2025 11:30 PM (wL+h0) 268
They should be using old torpedos.
Posted by: Boss Moss ------- 'Running straight, warm, and mostly normal' Posted by: Weapons Officer at December 09, 2025 11:31 PM (XeU6L) 269
Cobbler is awesome. Little large grain sugar on top...
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 09, 2025 11:32 PM (bss/y) 270
There’s a pretty girl behind every tree in Minot.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 10:44 PM (4786I) Would be the tree in the park? The one with an iron fence around it. That one, cause there aren't any others? Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 11:32 PM (2WIwB) 271
Theme of the three songs: Pennsylvania
Squonk: a mythical creature in Pennsylvania What I Like About You: featured in The Office, which is set in Scranton, Pennsylvania The Weight: set in Nazareth, Pennsylvania Posted by: WAG at December 09, 2025 11:33 PM (LAJY1) 272
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Mrs. F.'s blueberry crumble with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream on top, melting all over. Posted by: San Franpsycho --- What cruelty with sugary words he visits upon us. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:33 PM (c35xG) Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 11:34 PM (npFr7) 274
Home of Kennewick man.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 11:24 PM (VY2EQ) My lab partner in college biology was from Kennewick. Redhead...smart...and funny. Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 11:36 PM (2WIwB) 275
. . . Or shwarma
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 11:42 PM (rbvCR) 276
Politico’s Dasha Burns a 45-minute interview with President Trump.
European leaders: ‘I think they’re weak.’” They’re weak on the international stage, but they are thugs at home. Trump observes: “They talk, but they don’t produce.” Minnesota: “I don’t want to see Somalia. I don’t want to see a woman that, you know, marries her brother to get in and then becomes a congressman and does nothing but complain. All she does is complain, complain, complain, and yet her country’s a mess. You know, it’s, uh, one of the worst in the world. Uh, let her go back, fix up her own country.” https://tinyurl.com/akmu7hy7 Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:42 PM (c35xG) 277
Sorry I'm late, somebody forgot to spike my egg nog.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 09, 2025 11:42 PM (4I7QN) 278
Hmm, just watched a you tube vid of the only 1 in the world 30.06 thompson SMG prototype. Frigging thing is insane looking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iuhHAQBPM8 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 11:43 PM (snZF9) 279
Binged watched all the season16 Bob's Burgers episodes . I think Bob's Burgers has over taken King of the Hill as my favorite animated show.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 11:43 PM (KDPiq) 280
https://youtu.be/4cP26ndrmtg
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 11:44 PM (rdVOm) 281
Sorry I'm late, somebody forgot to spike my egg nog.
Posted by: tankdemon -------- Haha, hold yer cup out... what would you like added to it? *ready at the bar* Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 11:45 PM (rdVOm) 282
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iuhHAQBPM8
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 11:43 PM (snZF9) Brandon Herrera is not exactly Ian McCollum, is he? Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 11:46 PM (rbvCR) Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 11:47 PM (1zOXE) Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 09, 2025 11:47 PM (JkO4W) 285
Question: would an A-10 Warthog really mess up one of those drug boats, and if so, why not use them? Too far away from an airfield? I don't expect they can operate from a carrier...
It would.. Probably, without aerial refueling...couldn't land on a carrier. I would guess they use missiles cause they don't even want to take a chance somebody gets lucky with a shoulder fired AA missile and gives the media a chance to say "Trump is killing our troops!!!" Posted by: Azjaeger at December 09, 2025 11:51 PM (3/XaG) 286
Fun Fact: Some women's breath smells worse because they hold in their farts.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 11:52 PM (1zOXE) 287
You want to see the worst of San Francisco?
This Board of Supervisors meeting comes close. https://tinyurl.com/worstofSF Posted by: Worst of San Francisco at December 09, 2025 11:53 PM (jrb8m) 288
When you reach 29 years old never trust a fart.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone ---------- LOL! When Dad was ill, I stopped by every day to make sure he ate & took his meds, did his housework & stuff... Rarely got a break and the laundry was always a mess. ONE TIME, my older bro filled in for me. Dad thought he'd be cute & do "the ol' one-cheek sneak" LMAO, he sharted *big time* and bro had to clean it up!!!! Hahahaha, served bro right. Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 11:53 PM (rdVOm) Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 11:56 PM (XeU6L) 290
I have a question from the 'No Shock: Tech Company Offers $60/Hour' thread. Has anyone determined the citizenship status and/or work authorization status of the owners/executives of LanceSoft? I suspect that they they are, at best, Green Card holders. I recall a lawsuit against Intellitron, a placement service, IIRC, in Plano TX, in the 2007-2011 era. It seems that Intellitron was, indeed, placing US Citizens in tech jobs in the US. But for everyone placed, it was alleged that 19 H1-Bs (Indian) were placed. The suit was settled out of court. To some degree, this is old news, actually very old news, as we saw this with the Chinese H1-Bs in the 1980's. Once a section had 2 or 3 Chinese H1-Bs, the rest of the rest of the section followed, and eventually the company. I experienced a failed attempt in 2000. I and a Chinese H1-Bs were hired. He then hired 5 Chinese H1-Bs (in Santa Clara CA). He was let go 1 year later, due to sub-performance, and some of the employees followed him. Posted by: Arbalest at December 09, 2025 11:59 PM (FlRtG) 291
If they had a hair they would have mounted that Thompson '06 and fired it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 12:03 AM (c35xG) 292
Posted by: Worst of San Francisco at December 09, 2025 11:53 PM (jrb8m)
Doesn't matter that California was a Free State and outlawed chattel slavery when they entered the Union in 1850 to these brainiacs. Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 12:03 AM (KDPiq) 293
For fans of The Band, here they are with the Staples Singers doing a live performance of "The Weight" from The Last Waltz.
Posted by: Philip at December 10, 2025 12:05 AM (EZ8Gq) 294
Grateful, if you're still around, we'll need that Santa suit you dropped off at the cleaners. Santa will be set up at the outside bar, near the firepit on Saturday (not too close to the firepit).
Posted by: scampydog at December 10, 2025 12:05 AM (41CYW) Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 12:05 AM (xRKBa) 296
and the current temperature on Mars! Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 12:05 AM (xRKBa) 297
Coming from Plano one would suspect it to be Islamists not Indians.
EPIC City, recently rebranded as The Meadow, is a proposed Islamic housing development in North Texas that has drawn controversy throughout the year. According to the lawsuit, CCP—formed by EPIC as a vehicle to purchase and develop more than 400 acres in Hunt and Collin counties—engaged in fraudulent practices while soliciting investments for the EPIC City project. Promotional materials allegedly described the development as the “epicenter of Islam in North America” and implied it would be reserved for Muslims, despite assurances to the contrary. - - > Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC), Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 12:06 AM (c35xG) 298
If they had a hair they would have mounted that Thompson '06 and fired it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 12:03 AM (c35xG) It didn't look like they were sure it wouldn't explode. If it did, a rare 1 of a kind is lost forever, not to mention what he paid for it, which if I heard it right was around 90K. Ouch. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 12:07 AM (snZF9) 299
Theme of the three songs: Pennsylvania
Squonk: a mythical creature in Pennsylvania What I Like About You: featured in The Office, which is set in Scranton, Pennsylvania The Weight: set in Nazareth, Pennsylvania Posted by: WAG at December 09, 2025 11:33 PM (LAJY1) A for effort Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2025 12:07 AM (p6ZQj) 300
Common thread of the Genesis and Band song is both some despair and needing help. Not sure how the Romantics song fit in unless his love was one-sided, which would lead to despair as she's not helping him.
Of course I probably have no clue,Morons. I am neither in despair or in a one sided love. I am,however, enraged at the USPS for having a package disappear this week that held birthday and Christmas gifts for my elderly mother (some of you think, hey, Christy is elderly!That would be correct. My mother is uber elderly but still with it and uses her computer). So there's that despair which equates to mostly irritation. There's something in the redneck water in that both of my grandmothers lived into their 90's and she is as well. I sort of don't think I will and that's fine because I live and laugh hard and unrestrained. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 12:08 AM (WONhk) 301
We don't deserve him... President answers dumb questions from Fake News whilst flying on Air Force-1. 1. Notice Karoline cute little sweet face in the background, keeping an eye out for The Boss. 2. President tells a Fake News idiot to not break things on Air Force One. https://is.gd/UumW2K Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 12:11 AM (xRKBa) 302
Package missing... that sucks ChristyBlinky! Sorry to hear it.
My grannies both made it to 79. Mom made it to 64. I may or may not have much time left. Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 12:12 AM (rdVOm) 303
The big deal for the Vulcan, and also its swan song, was the Falklands War: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Black_Buck Posted by: Vulcan Enthusiast at December 10, 2025 12:14 AM (jrb8m) 304
I think its time for a shot and take it easy. Easy day tomorrow and the house is ready for the weekend bash.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 12:14 AM (snZF9) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 12:15 AM (c35xG) 306
>> No Publius tonight?
Ol' Publius is the middle of a moderate RA flare, and ain't feeling so hot. Swelling in the wrist, and typing. This is due to not taking the last dose of the TNF blocker they've got me on due to shingles bout. :sigh: I'll be okay, just a bitch for now. If you want to know the pressure anywhere, got to ventusky.com. For temperature on Mars, nothing rings a bell, but I'm sure there's some rover and orbiter data available somewhere. :-) Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 12:15 AM (w6EFb) 307
My grannies both made it to 79. Mom made it to 64. I may or may not have much time left.
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 12:12 AM (rdVOm) You're too ornery to go anywhere any time soon. lol Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 12:15 AM (snZF9) 308
Oooh, some mild turbulence on Air Force-1 In clip above, President answers Fake News' questions AND stays quite steady during bumpy ride. biden would've been rolling over the floor...if he was awake. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 12:16 AM (xRKBa) Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 12:17 AM (rdVOm) 310
Most recent weather in Gale Crater from Curiosity: https://is.gd/tzFKpj Latest is Sol 4737 (Dec. 3). High of 27F, low of -99F. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 12:20 AM (w6EFb) 311
Well, Mr. Doof, I see I am wrong about the theme.
I would like to thank you, sir, for your music on the ONT. Without music (ok, and nature and art and food and mountains and snow and wine and my husband and babies and sons and grands, etc) life would be very bland. I don't want a bland life and have never been bored. Seriously. Life has always been good to me and always will. Find blessings, Morons and 'ettes...even in bad times. Look up! Always look up! This is a song dedicated to my eldest son who is a professional saxophone musician. Who tried music for awhile and teaching. Then became an engineer to support his wife and life. But he will always be the Sax Man to me, our boy. We remain thankful he never had to busk in the subway in NYC.We learned a lot about jazz and big bands from him and his trumpet playing brother over very loud years. https://tinyurl.com/356xbccc Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 12:20 AM (WONhk) 312
Rest your paws, Publius. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 12:22 AM (xRKBa) 313
Oooh, some mild turbulence on Air Force-1
In clip above, President answers Fake News' questions AND stays quite steady during bumpy ride. biden would've been rolling over the floor...if he was awake. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 12:16 AM (xRKBa) Biden would have been throwing his shit on the wall like a zoo ape. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 12:22 AM (snZF9) Posted by: 80s kid Miklos at December 10, 2025 12:23 AM (N7hqt) Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 12:24 AM (w6EFb) 316
Exclusive: Suit to Allege US Parts 'Found Inside Russian Weapons' Used to Kill Ukrainians
_Newsmax Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 12:25 AM (c35xG) 317
305 How is the holtar and how are you?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 12:15 AM (c35xG) Talkin' to me? If so, thanks for asking! I have no idea but I ripped that off and FedEx'd it to, no doubt, an AI place. I have no idea when I will know the results. As a RN I did take my pulse now and then when I was wearing it and noted occasional skipped beats or pauses, but never for more than 1 Mississippi (second). No symptoms and certainly no more fainting to indicate this is abnormal or the reason I passed out like a loon. Regardless, and I reckon it will be 2026 before I see a cardiologist, I feel fine. No matter what comes at us we'll deal with it. Sure, sometimes I think,"Oh, no!" then I tell myself to knock it off as I am blessed and all will be well. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 12:26 AM (WONhk) 318
All my grandparents are gone. The youngest died at 88, the oldest at 101. One set of grandparents didn't drink alcohol or smoke. The other two were chain smoking alcoholics. I come from long lines of long lines. Not guaranteed that, of course, but the genes are there.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 10, 2025 12:26 AM (sAmhv) 319
And finally for context, it's early spring for Mar's southern hemisphere (early fall for the North). Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 12:26 AM (w6EFb) 320
I thought so:
299 Theme of the three songs: Pennsylvania Squonk: a mythical creature in Pennsylvania What I Like About You: featured in The Office, which is set in Scranton, Pennsylvania The Weight: set in Nazareth, Pennsylvania Posted by: WAG at December 09, 2025 11:33 PM (LAJY1) A for effort Posted by: Can't figure it out at December 10, 2025 12:31 AM (jrb8m) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 12:34 AM (c35xG) 322
biden would've been rolling over the floor...if he was awake.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 12:16 AM (xRKBa) Turbulence has not fazed us since we had a newborn on a flight leaving MS for the West. Flew near a tornado on the ground in LA. The plane did a Dutch roll deal, leveled out, and dropped straight down thousands of feet. This was during the Civil War times where everyone was fed. We were in bulkhead behind first class and there was no food or anything left on trays. Everything was on the floor. Bins opened and stuff flew out. It happened in seconds and there was collective ooooh vocals like on a carnival ride but no screaming lunatics. I reached for our baby on my husband's shoulder to (I guess) help hold him. All the 8wk old did was burp, so he was fine and we laughed. A flight attendent ran by for a first aid kit and had giant hives on her neck, which I noted and told my husband. We all applauded on landing and got on another flight. Once, flying to Orlando when I used to fly every month, I was in the loo doing my bidness when turbulence hit. I surprised the flight attendents coming out and going to my seat, unfazed. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 12:34 AM (WONhk) 323
Parents & gparents all gone. Most aunts & uncles too. The rest are libtarded and have cut me off because of my Trump votes.
Only one sibling is in touch (of 3) same deal, mostly... I am *alone in the world* but for lil bro and The Horde. Oh, and the BIL-- when he needs help. Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 12:34 AM (rdVOm) 324
283 Seriously, dude. Did you have to squeeze it?
When you reach 29 years old never trust a fart. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 11:47 PM (1zOXE) In desperate times, one employs the 'Doug Pinch' while standing. Cross your legs and lean back Posted by: a dude in MI at December 10, 2025 12:39 AM (+I6Y/) 325
In South Carolina's December night
The waning gibbous moon drifts through cosmic currents It's silver light waning like entropy's quiet decay Gravity's unseen dance pulling tides and thoughts toward the void's infinite whisper. Posted by: Miklos got learnt by Publius and J. Gordon Coogler at December 10, 2025 12:40 AM (N7hqt) 326
Surely they meant 2-3 times a day.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 10, 2025 12:43 AM (Vvh2V) 327
Hi, Miklos!
Hey, would you please run the bar tomorrow night? I may need to go out of town & offline. Fambly in trouble... Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 12:43 AM (rdVOm) 328
My son decided to drive home from Lubbock to Austin tonight, around a 6 hour drive. So, of course I can't sleep until he arrives... he's about 45 minutes out now.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 12:43 AM (VCgbV) 329
Awesome, lin-duh!
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 12:47 AM (rdVOm) 330
Glad you are feeling spry. Buddy's wife had to wear one for a weak she couldn't stand it. He thought she died. They were at the supper table and she said, you know I feel like, and keeled over - no pulse, no breathing EMS broke two of her ribs trying But emergent care brought her around. - Test city and she got a new Doc.
I'm glad you are doing well. Second opinions exist for a reason. Being a nurse you know yourself and your body so don't take yourself from the HQ. OK? Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 12:51 AM (c35xG) 331
Christy,
I see a cardiologist yearly. My next appointment is next week. I was having a procedure done today and the outpatient surgery center said I didn't need a cardiologist clearance. Then the doctor's scheduler called me around 2:30 yesterday to cancel because the anesthesiologist wanted one. Then my doctor called be directly to ask some questions and decided that I didn't need one so he called the anesthesiologist to clear it with him. What a mess. After all that back and forth, they did proceed and I got my procedure done. Now I'm on drugs waiting for my son to get home so I can go. To sleep. Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 12:51 AM (VCgbV) 332
At DM: "A DoorDash delivery driver has been accused of dousing a food order in pepper-spray which caused a customer to choke on her dinner ... [The customer] immediately contacted DoorDash, who gave him a refund, before contacting the police."
Thank goodness he got refunded! In every supply chain, at least one wacko lurks. Posted by: gp at December 10, 2025 12:51 AM (GHIyr) 333
Hi Tammy!😍
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 12:52 AM (VCgbV) 334
Oh, wow! I just got an email that the missing pkg to my mother made it into the correct state! Things are looking up!
Also, I noted Linda McMahon in a close up photo today and had to look up her age. I realize this is petty as she is doing good things...but, man. I have some supermodel tips for her that don't involve botox or injections. Lay off the eyeliner, honey!Granted, I don't need it, but wow. Also the pancake make up. A decade ago I worked with a lady maybe a decade younger than me. She wore eyeliner under her lower lid, but not the top. I really wanted to tell her not to do this but refrained. I have to refrain myself a lot. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 12:54 AM (WONhk) 335
That goes for you too JQ, you sound stressed up. Find something to take you and your mind away from the present. Things are in transition and will resolve.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 12:56 AM (c35xG) 336
Now I'm on drugs waiting for my son to get home so I can go. To sleep.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 12:51 AM (VCgbV) Sleep well, sweet lady. And may all this be worked out for the best. I am the worst patient of all time. My father believed in not going to the doctor unless he had to. I did not agree with him at the time but now I do and I am sure he's laughing from heaven. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 12:57 AM (WONhk) 337
Hey, would you please run the bar tomorrow night? I may need to go out of town & offline. Fambly in trouble...
Posted by: JQ Time and and half *checks* Double the hourly And tell the miscreants to keep their mitts out the tip jar Posted by: Unionized Miklos Teamster at December 10, 2025 12:58 AM (N7hqt) 338
Christy,
I have become that whack-a-mole machine. Every time I trying to fix a health issue, another one or two pops up. Then I have to fix that one and something else pops up. I have about 3 issues on my back burner I need to get looked at... getting old is not for the weak! Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 01:01 AM (VCgbV) 339
JQ,
I bartended for over 10 years in case that Mikalos is trying to rip you off.... Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 01:03 AM (VCgbV) 340
All my grandparents are gone. The youngest died at 88, the oldest at 101. One set of grandparents didn't drink alcohol or smoke. The other two were chain smoking alcoholics. I come from long lines of long lines. Not guaranteed that, of course, but the genes are there.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 10, 2025 12:26 AM (sAmhv) On my father side my grandfather went to 95, grandmother went to 93. Mom's side my grandmother went to 85, granfather went to 76. Mom's side was a train wreck health wise, all over the map, but a couple of them reached very early 90's. Father's side seems to live forever, he's 87, his brother is 92, his sister is 90. All sharp as a tack. None of my grandparents smoked, my father's father drank 2 glasses of wine every day, died at 95, had all his teeth, and didn't take any meds, not even aspirin. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 01:04 AM (snZF9) 341
338 Christy,
I have become that whack-a-mole machine. Every time I trying to fix a health issue, another one or two pops up. Then I have to fix that one and something else pops up. I have about 3 issues on my back burner I need to get looked at... getting old is not for the weak! Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 01:01 AM (VCgbV) I hope 2026 will be much better for you. I've felt this way at times this year as well. Then I remember what others go through and slap myself and go on. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 01:09 AM (WONhk) 342
lin-duh, I hope that your son gets home on time and that you can get some rest.
JQ, what's going on with you, can I help in any way? Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 10, 2025 01:09 AM (0nHVk) 343
>>> What a mess. After all that back and forth, they did proceed and I got my procedure done. Now I'm on drugs waiting for my son to get home so I can go. To sleep.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended ---- Had an in office consultation with the electrophyologist about my pacemaker installation and it was agreed upon a general anesthesiology. We're in the OR and an assistant is tying my hand to the rail. Why are you tying my hand. He explains that I might move - exposing that we're not having a general but a local. NO. we're having a general - shorten the story - after a 30 minute argument between me and the surgeon it was agreed that he (it's against the rule for him to put me under) he will sedate me to the closest to unconscious as possible. 1. I have an unusual capacity for sedatives (hilarity in the OR otherwise called harassing the surgeon) 2. He is no longer my Doc. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 01:11 AM (c35xG) 344
I just got a charge of 144.21 on my Walmart account for Protein supplements.
I did not order that Maybe Darleen is trying to lose some weight so she can get in the door without the side-wise hustle. Or who knows what the hell else Posted by: Milkos has Questions at December 10, 2025 01:12 AM (N7hqt) Posted by: pawn at December 10, 2025 01:13 AM (EMg+d) 346
344 I just got a charge of 144.21 on my Walmart account for Protein supplements.
I did not order that Maybe Darleen is trying to lose some weight so she can get in the door without the side-wise hustle. Or who knows what the hell else Posted by: Milkos has Questions --------- That damned accidental philanthropy. Posted by: scampydog at December 10, 2025 01:17 AM (41CYW) 347
Braenyard,
That would freak me out! Of course I was awake when they placed a cardiac stent after my heart attack 10 years ago. I didn't feel a thing except relief when they cleared the blockage. I didn't even know what they were doing to be honest. Every thing happened so fast once they finally figured out I was having a heart attack. Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 01:17 AM (VCgbV) 348
I'm glad you are doing well. Second opinions exist for a reason.
Being a nurse you know yourself and your body so don't take yourself from the HQ. OK? Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 12:51 AM (c35xG Thanks. The next time I feel hot I will lie down wherever I am and elevate my legs over my heart and tense my muscles (this puts blood back into your brain). In wearing a dress it causes excitement for others, too. An ED doc told me to do this the first time after I was tested for everything 4yrs ago. This time, being in church, I thought, nah vs walking out with the "Hey, here comes syncope! warning." Pride doth goeth before a faint (in this case, I did not hit the floor). So if I am deep in conversation with President Trump or Mel Gibson and I feel it coming on I will excuse myself and lie down. Ha! So, twice I have not had enough water and rushed like a loon and !hello! If it IS my heart I will consider it a blessing, or try to, that it could have gotten worse without the excitement. If it isn't it is still a good thing to lose 30lbs since covid and get my act together. A win win is how I am looking at the ordeal. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 01:17 AM (WONhk) 349
died at 95, had all his teeth, and didn't take any meds, not even aspirin.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division I plan to live as long as I can, so that my Golden Years will be spent fucking with people who seriously need some Old School lessons. Posted by: Miklos has land mines under his lawn at December 10, 2025 01:17 AM (N7hqt) 350
I bartended for over 10 years in case that Mikalos is trying to rip you off....
Posted by: lin-duh ----------- Hahaha, thanks. Step in if you like! Not sure whether I need to make the drive yet, but planning on it just in case. Miklos: *This ain't no union shop!* Talk to 3D's about pay! Not my call, there. Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 01:20 AM (rdVOm) 351
345: Wind & Wuthering was pretty good too.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 10, 2025 01:22 AM (sAmhv) 352
Of course I was awake when they placed a cardiac stent after my heart attack 10 years ago. I didn't feel a thing except relief when they cleared the blockage. I didn't even know what they were doing to be honest. Every thing happened so fast once they finally figured out I was having a heart attack.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 01:17 AM (VCgbV) You think that was relief, try a quad bypass. I felt like I was in a twilight zone episode where they stuck my brain into a 20 year old body. For the first few weeks I kept saying this body isn't mine. I would sit in a chair and feel absolutely nothing, I was just a consciousness, like disembodied . It was unreal. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 01:24 AM (snZF9) 353
I don't know about the rest of you but I did not watch or listen to the record breaking fart video. I had brothers and their friends. Then sons. And a husband. I am sure they could have tied for first place but did not time nor film themselves.
My brothers also lit farts and I remain unsure how they explained scortch marks in their whitey tidies to our mother. It was not my problem when they told me. I do have a class act on the subject: I am very good with hand farts since junior high. Different pitches and can set it to the beat of music. Our grandson thinks it is magic. I am such a weird grandmother compared to my own refined Southern ladies. Whatever! Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 01:25 AM (WONhk) 354
That damned accidental philanthropy.
Posted by: scampydog Sir I have paid for more soup kitchen meals than I have eaten. I go sometimes, to see if they are getting my money's worth. Less grifty https://www.olivergospel.org/ Still trying to help the org that mikehammer recommended Posted by: Miklos has land mines under his lawn at December 10, 2025 01:25 AM (N7hqt) 355
Well, close to 11:30 here, and I am sleepy. Night, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 01:26 AM (npFr7) 356
Miklos, I will leave you a generous tip and provide security for your tip jar, at least until Darleen shows up.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 10, 2025 01:27 AM (0nHVk) 357
Hi, Debby! Have a seat...
*pours drinks for both of us* BIL was driving from somewhere West Coast (likely WA state) and headed for Tucson. A wheel flew off of his 5th wheel, somewhere in S. Idaho. He's at a rest area, trying to get a replacement. (can't find the one that came off). Called an outfit, but refuses to let them tow his trailer to their shop. (I don't know if they were trying to take advantage?) He's deaf. 70-71 y/o, widowed, no kids, on SS/has been on disability all his life. Not the sharpest in the drawer. Hubby and I are the only family he has left. Waiting to hear from him again, and may end up driving there to help him get back on the road. I don't want him to stay here... his trailer would get impounded if he leaves it too long, and I'm not sure he understands that. Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 01:28 AM (rdVOm) 358
I plan to live as long as I can, so that my Golden Years will be spent fucking with people who seriously need some Old School lessons. Posted by: Miklos has land mines under his lawn at December 10, 2025 01:17 AM (N7hqt I'm 71yrs going on 23yrs and still rocking. I alarmed my husband and sons last year telling them I consider the 70's to be my eccentric decade. My husband asked what does that mean and was relieved to hear I intend to wear more hats vs further horror to them. They never know what I will do in public, altho I try to behave. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 01:29 AM (WONhk) 359
Waiting to hear from him again, and may end up driving there to help him get back on the road. I don't want him to stay here... his trailer would get impounded if he leaves it too long, and I'm not sure he understands that.
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 01:28 AM (rdVOm) Oh, wow. Hope it all works out. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 01:31 AM (WONhk) 360
Sir
I have paid for more soup kitchen meals than I have eaten. I go sometimes, to see if they are getting my money's worth. --------- Meant no offense. Tip of the cap to you for doing such things. Much respect. Posted by: scampydog at December 10, 2025 01:33 AM (41CYW) 361
Miklos: *This ain't no union shop!* Talk to 3D's about pay! Not my call, there.
Posted by: JQ I am on the Dental Plan No complaints But these dentures are not good for bottled beer opening. Which oughta be there Posted by: Miklos stands with All Noble Peoples and Against the Nations of Whiners and Complainers at December 10, 2025 01:33 AM (N7hqt) Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 01:35 AM (rdVOm) 363
Meant no offense. Tip of the cap to you for doing such things. Much respect.
Posted by: scampydog No offense meant, no offense taken This whole I am Offended! Is bullshit. I give no one the power to offend me or myself Sit and be offended, Buttercup Posted by: Mainly Kindly Miklos at December 10, 2025 01:40 AM (N7hqt) 364
You gots Dental?!
Posted by: JQ It was 14,900 Comment Points I think they raised it to 90,009 And canceled the VIP Lounge access too Posted by: Miklos has the scars to prove it at December 10, 2025 01:43 AM (N7hqt) 365
I'm 71yrs going on 23yrs and still rocking. I alarmed my husband and sons last year telling them I consider the 70's to be my eccentric decade. My husband asked what does that mean and was relieved to hear I intend to wear more hats vs further horror to them. They never know what I will do in public, altho I try to behave.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 01:29 AM (WONhk) My eccentric decades started when I was 20. I'm not sure what I'll be like in my 70s. Probably a super villain, lol. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 01:44 AM (snZF9) 366
So anyway--
BIL has limited funds, no doubt. I need to see for myself, what I'll be paying for, ya know? This isn't due to mistrust of BIL, but mistrust of *certain business entities* over long distance. BIL is roughly 200 miles away. If he'd just tell me WHICH TF rest area.... Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 01:46 AM (rdVOm) Posted by: Miklos knows that Mistakes must be Made at December 10, 2025 01:46 AM (N7hqt) 368
My eccentric decades started when I was 20. I'm not sure what I'll be like in my 70s. Probably a super villain, lol.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division I wanna party with that dude! Posted by: Miklos with a kick-ass nitro mobility scooter at December 10, 2025 01:49 AM (N7hqt) Posted by: scampydog at December 10, 2025 01:51 AM (41CYW) 370
None shall ever replace Andre the Giant as the boss of all farters.
Posted by: DaveA at December 10, 2025 01:51 AM (FhXTo) 371
Oh my gosh, JQ, best of luck with that scenario, you are a good person. You should demand dental care in light of all that you do around here.
Miklos, I missed Mike Hammer's recommendation for a charity donation, yours that you linked to looks very worthwhile indeed. Hey scampy, I hope that you are ready for the party on Saturday. Bers, you will have to drop in here after your party has ended. Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 10, 2025 01:52 AM (0nHVk) Posted by: Miklos thinks nitro is a good idea anyway at December 10, 2025 01:53 AM (N7hqt) 373
Thanks, Debby. LOL.
Dental isn't important-- I gots good teeth. Regular medical would be great, though. Zerocare is ridiculously expensive and I don't qualify for (likely non-existent now anyway) subsidy due to all the IRA withdrawals for hubby's nursing home... Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 01:55 AM (rdVOm) 374
Hey scampy, I hope that you are ready for the party on Saturday.
Bers, you will have to drop in here after your party has ended. Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz --------- Hi DDS, put some 'drafty' stuff together this evening. We'll get it whipped into shape for a fun Saturday Club Christmas Party! Posted by: scampydog at December 10, 2025 01:56 AM (41CYW) 375
'Tis a sturdyish flower. Resilient genus.
Posted by: scampydog Scampydog is now registered as Canus Scampiensis, a distinct species in the family Moronensis Posted by: Miklos sui generis at December 10, 2025 01:59 AM (N7hqt) 376
Bers, you will have to drop in here after your party has ended.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 10, 2025 01:52 AM (0nHVk) Your not coming?? Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 01:59 AM (snZF9) Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 10, 2025 02:00 AM (xG4kz) 378
I don't want to be too late for the party on Saturday, the grandkids are coming in the afternoon and Nana might need a period of recharging before venturing out on Saturday night.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 10, 2025 02:02 AM (0nHVk) 379
I think this is what Mike Hammer was involved with, not 100% sure, because there are similarly named orgs https://tinyurl.com/bdff47we Posted by: Miklos does what he can at December 10, 2025 02:07 AM (N7hqt) 380
Bers is in charge of the Afterparty
Posted by: Miklos was taught actual head banging technique by US Marines at December 10, 2025 02:09 AM (N7hqt) 381
Waddling back in for a moment.
I just got an email that the missing pkg to my mother made it into the correct state!… Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat Yay. There were three paintings done, of me and my two older brothers as kids. Never thought they were very good likenesses. Mom had them hanging in the hallway for fifty years. After her death, oldest brother's widow got his picture. We got the one of me, which gathers dust in the catacombs with a 1000 other things to sort through. Middle brother's younger daughter wanted his portrait, so we shipped it off to her up in Oregon. It disappeared en route, and UPS disavowed any knowledge of its existence. This was years ago; it never turned up. That was about the time there was news of train cars being looted, pictures of abandoned goods along the tracks. I wondered if maybe that was its destiny. I often wonder, when ships go down with containers, when planes crash, trucks burn up, along with ordinary lost items like tvs or cars, what about all the precious and irreplaceable and important things entrusted to shippers that just don't make it! /random ramble https://youtu.be/OQ4kZOg1poE G'nite, y'all. Posted by: mindful webworker - methane miser at December 10, 2025 02:11 AM (yqA/D) 382
Thanks for that, Miklos.
Bers, every year I swear that I will get contact info from you and Mrs. B., just to stay in touch. Maybe next October! Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 10, 2025 02:12 AM (0nHVk) 383
Bers is in charge of the Afterparty
Posted by: Miklos was taught actual head banging technique by US Marines at December 10, 2025 02:09 AM (N7hqt) If I'm awake. I'm going to have a house full of a metal musicians. We don't have parties after the parties, we do one long party until people pass out. lol Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 02:16 AM (snZF9) 384
G'night, Horde.
Posted by: scampydog at December 10, 2025 02:17 AM (41CYW) 385
Because I am actually rather nice and respectful, I do not encourage you to click on this if you are allergic to the 60s. Or Polyester.
https://tinyurl.com/4usw78c6 Posted by: Miklos notes that Lawrence Welk and Ilhad Omar are both fron North Dakota, officially at December 10, 2025 02:18 AM (N7hqt) 386
Bers, every year I swear that I will get contact info from you and Mrs. B., just to stay in touch.
Maybe next October! Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 10, 2025 02:12 AM (0nHVk) I thought Mrs B had yours, or else I would have gotten it at the MoMe. Doof and some of the ettes have mine if you needed it fast. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 02:20 AM (snZF9) 387
Yeah Mindful, all we read about are overturned trucks spilling hot dogs all over the road.
My youngest had an unusual request when he went to college. About two weeks in he asked me to ship him the oil painting of my great uncle Ken. Ken was an interesting character but that is a whole other story, anyway, there was an official portrait of Ken in his judicial robes that I inherited from my parents (he was my Dad's uncle). That painting really creeped my kids out when they were little, they said that the eyes followed them everywhere. So I ship him the painting and it hung proudly in his residence for the 4 1/2 years that he went to school. I came to find out that it was a pre-game college ritual for the boys to raise a glass to Ken before a major football game. Upon graduation he informed me that Ken had gone out with the trash but he was claimed shortly thereafter. I drinkorated the tree tonight, lots of memories. Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 10, 2025 02:23 AM (0nHVk) Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 02:25 AM (rdVOm) 389
368 My eccentric decades started when I was 20. I'm not sure what I'll be like in my 70s. Probably a super villain, lol.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division I wanna party with that dude! Posted by: Miklos with a kick-ass nitro mobility scooter at December 10, 2025 01:49 AM (N7hqt) Then show the hell up at the TXMoMe. And as for eccentric, I do whatever the hell I want to. People do that in Alaska, so I'm not sure if it's eccentric or just Alaska normal. I dress as I please, say what I please, and eat what I please. If you have issues with that, get over them. Posted by: tcn in AK at December 10, 2025 02:43 AM (6Bc88) 390
Drinkorate--- hahahaha, I love that word!
Thanks, Debby. It's been stolen more than you know... Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 02:25 AM (rdVOm) I should have drinkorated the tree, but it takes 3 days to do as it is. lol Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 02:45 AM (snZF9) 391
I wanna party with that dude!
Posted by: Miklos with a kick-ass nitro mobility scooter at December 10, 2025 01:49 AM (N7hqt) Then show the hell up at the TXMoMe. Posted by: tcn in AK at December 10, 2025 02:43 AM (6Bc8 yeah, and thats an order. lol Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 02:46 AM (snZF9) 392
Damn. How do I tell BIL that he should probly just get signed up for subsidized housing, and sell the trailer? He can barely drive. Bashed both sides of it, can't back it up for sh!t..
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 02:51 AM (rdVOm) 393
{{{JQ}}} this too shall pass.
tcn, a trip to a MoMe will cure whatever ails you for sure. I am so glad that I got a chance to meet you there. Sweet dreams Horde, I am off to the scrap pile. Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 10, 2025 03:00 AM (0nHVk) 394
Doof, I'm unsure of the theme of tonight's musical selections, although I do think "The Weight" is one of the all-time great tunes off one the all-time great albums. I did see mention of "colored lights". The Blasters, Dave and Phil Alvin's LA band from the 80's, did a terrific tune entitled (oddly enough) "Colored Lights" which you can find on any of the music websites. It's good enough to be a mystery click up top one of these nights - I hope you agree.
Posted by: Cowboyneal - the Other Jewish Carpenter at December 10, 2025 03:08 AM (MRSZC) 395
In rural North Dakota, where neighbors are more like family, an incredible act of kindness unfolded after a beloved farmer’s sudden passing. Near the small town of Antler, dozens of farmers came together to make sure their friend’s final harvest was completed.
--------------- OUT: Atlas Shrugged. IN: Atlas Plowed. Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 03:12 AM (l/bhe) Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 03:13 AM (rdVOm) 397
I wanna party with that dude!
Posted by: Miklos with a kick-ass nitro mobility scooter at December 10, 2025 01:49 AM (N7hqt) Then show the hell up at the TXMoMe. Posted by: tcn in AK at December 10, 2025 02:43 AM (6Bc8 yeah, and thats an order. lol Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 02:46 AM (snZF9) ----------- You haven't partied until you've partied at a TX MoMe with Berserker! Ask me how I know? Good times, good times ... Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 03:16 AM (l/bhe) 398
It's not a party until someone shits my pants!
Posted by: Joseph Robinette Biden at December 10, 2025 03:28 AM (mFz+I) 399
I don't want to get up
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Pixy's up!
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l Get paid over $110 per hour working from home. l never thought I'd be able to do it but my buddy makes over $21269 a month doing this and she convinced me to try. The possibility with this is endless....
This is what I do...................... https://urlr.me/E3tz6Y Posted by: Anonymous at December 10, 2025 04:03 AM (NxtE8) This Better Not Be AI Cafe![]() Kristin_Mae photography
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Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:40 PM (tgvbd) 2
Good evening everyone
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 07:40 PM (Ia/+0) 3
Good evening everyone
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Good evening everyone
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 07:40 PM (Ia/+0) 7
Good evening everyone
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 07:40 PM (Ia/+0) 8
Good evening everyone
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 07:40 PM (Ia/+0) 9
Hey
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 09, 2025 07:40 PM (LjSYW) 10
Ain't nobody here yet?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 09, 2025 07:40 PM (zYpTz) 11
My screen is a mess, I should replace it
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 07:41 PM (Ia/+0) 12
Oh, there you are. Good evening, horde!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 09, 2025 07:41 PM (zYpTz) 13
I hope Hadrian fetched em
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 07:41 PM (Ia/+0) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:42 PM (tgvbd) 15
Anyone see anything definitive?
I think the presence of Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent in the foreground is a give away. Hah! Made you look! Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 07:43 PM (2L+MU) 16
Skip is living up to his nic tonight.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 07:44 PM (T+5zb) 17
There's a rip in the Minxtrix!
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 07:45 PM (vFG9F) 18
The cub changes color, markings, and size throughout the video. White wolves are extraordinarily rare.
It's probably an actual Samoyed puppy in at least a couple scenes, and the rest is fake. Posted by: Gundo at December 09, 2025 07:45 PM (3VsfT) 19
I don't know, it's possible, but it filmed too neatly
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 07:46 PM (Ia/+0) 20
I hope Hadrian fetched em Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 07:41 PM (Ia/+0) _________ Cool kids don't need a nood. *lights cigarette* *puts on shades* Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:46 PM (tgvbd) 21
17 There's a rip in the Minxtrix!
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 07:45 PM (vFG9F) We'll fix it in the next beta. Posted by: The Hampsters at December 09, 2025 07:46 PM (PiwSw) 22
You can often find clipping volume issues with ai. There is no real physical clipping assertion rule like with cgi, no real constraint rules, just weighted relationships of visual data. So you will see glitches in objects moving through others, sudden changes in morphology and connectivity, or jumping from foreground / background.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 07:47 PM (3uBP9) 23
I kept hitting post and screen wasn't doing anything., or thought it wasn't.
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 07:47 PM (Ia/+0) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:48 PM (2GVsD) 25
First day puppy is da bestest doggie
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 09, 2025 07:48 PM (DoBxX) 26
I went back to nood, even though I wasn't even here for that thread, but Ben Had did it.
So if someone shows up here calling us no-nooding bastages, they'll have to answer to BH. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 09, 2025 07:48 PM (zYpTz) 27
The Big Dummy walked at today's Space City KC of Palm Bay show, breaking a string of 23 consecutive Best of Breed wins. Apparently it was an ugly day. Spent not a few minutes trying to calm Her Majesty down when she called in. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:49 PM (tgvbd) 28
One of my kittens went through the velociraptor stage. He calmed down when the other one showed up.
We did mange to teach him to only bite to draw blood, so that is an improvement Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 07:50 PM (rbvCR) 29
Collision detection has always been an issue even with early MMD animators.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:50 PM (2GVsD) 30
Surfing Beaver would be a great Beach Boys hit.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 07:51 PM (3uBP9) 31
Second lost dog returns home to the ruins.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 07:52 PM (pkeXY) 32
31 Second lost dog returns home to the ruins.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 07:52 PM (pkeXY) It's kind of Dickensian, in a South American sort of way. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 09, 2025 07:53 PM (zYpTz) 33
Surfing sea otter >>> surfing beaver.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 07:53 PM (xblT4) 34
Willowed:
Lol. A video thumbnail on ewetub. 'Noem confesses to Judge Boasberg that she is personally responsible for sending immigrants to torture prisons in El Salvador and he is considering throwing her in Jail for it! Hit 'like' if you want her in jail!' Fucking lol. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 07:54 PM (zZu0s) 35
Surfing beaver..
Needs more surf. Or maybe it's a paddleboarding beaver. Or a kayaking beaver. Or a canoeing beaver. In which cases, it lost its paddle. Which is funny, since it's a beaver, and making trees into sticks is its entire life. Does it even know how to beave? Posted by: mikeski at December 09, 2025 07:54 PM (nhCoE) 36
One of my kittens went through the velociraptor stage. He calmed down when the other one showed up. _________ Our last litter out of Delilah can be mouthy. I attribute it to them having lost their mother when they were very young and thus losing someone to teach them manners.. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:54 PM (tgvbd) 37
Big Dummy is still the best in our hearts, Hadrian.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 09, 2025 07:55 PM (tcsrY) 38
The wolf pup howling at the moon looks fake as fuck. Most fake looking thing in the video aside from the other dog carrying him in it's mouth.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 07:56 PM (zZu0s) 39
Speaking of artificial, China has solved the West's AWFL Karen problem
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TUJoG2CsMI8 Bad news? The Human race goes extinct. Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:56 PM (2GVsD) 40
Thanks for the cafes, ace! Love the critters!
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 07:59 PM (rdVOm) 41
Damn. Little girl dolls. That's fucking beyond creepy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 07:59 PM (zZu0s) 42
I went back to nood, even though I wasn't even here for that thread, but Ben Had did it.
So if someone shows up here calling us no-nooding bastages, they'll have to answer to BH. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 09, 2025 07:48 PM * rubs hands in anticipation * Posted by: BH's Kitchen Table at December 09, 2025 07:59 PM (0sNs1) 43
My kitchen table specializes in chopped nuts
Posted by: Ben Had at December 09, 2025 08:01 PM (sDNVV) Posted by: mikeski at December 09, 2025 08:02 PM (nhCoE) 45
Should have been in bed awhile ago
Have a good night everyone Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 08:02 PM (Ia/+0) 46
Aetius
Still better than the Chinese tradition of ghost brides. Son dies unmarried, family goes and buys a girl to kill her and bury with their son. Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 08:03 PM (2GVsD) 47
Night skip.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:03 PM (zZu0s) 48
I was just called to dispatch a bug. I met the bug on the field of battle, and I defeated the bug. It is no more. I now retire until I am called upon again.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 08:03 PM (3uBP9) 49
Still better than the Chinese tradition of ghost brides. Son dies unmarried, family goes and buys a girl to kill her and bury with their son.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 08:03 PM (2GVsD) Wtf?! I'd ask if thats real but suttee was a thing. The abduction adds a certain horror. All cultures are equal. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:04 PM (zZu0s) 50
I now retire until I am called upon again.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 08:03 PM (3uBP9) Are you the Kraken? Is your wife Sir Laurence Olivier? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:05 PM (zZu0s) 51
All cultures are equal. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone _________ Except America's. Which is worse than any other. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:05 PM (tgvbd) 52
Hadrian, i haven't been here all day and missed it if you posted earlier. How did the Big Dummy do today? Did the Mrs. make it the rest of the way to Orlando safely? Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 09, 2025 08:07 PM (48yvf) 53
49 Still better than the Chinese tradition of ghost brides. Son dies unmarried, family goes and buys a girl to kill her and bury with their son.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 08:03 PM (2GVsD) Wtf?! I'd ask if thats real but suttee was a thing. The abduction adds a certain horror. All cultures are equal. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:04 PM (zZu0s) I thought the marriages were all made posthumously...no murder to make the marriage involved. Just match-making between parents of the dead. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:07 PM (ynpvh) 54
Our last litter out of Delilah can be mouthy. I attribute it to them having lost their mother when they were very young and thus losing someone to teach them manners..
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:54 PM (tgvbd) This one I got from my sister, and I think she got it too young. She claimed he bit her all the time, but I played with him with a stuffed sock with a rattle in it, and he would chew on that to get his aggression out. He would attack the big tom who pretty much just accepted the abuse. Having an age-matched sparring partner helped a lot when the second kitten showed up, though he is getting to be aloof. I think that is mix of his adultish personality and getting to be a teen. Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 08:08 PM (rbvCR) 55
I now retire until I am called upon again.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 08:03 PM As do I. Posted by: null pointer at December 09, 2025 08:08 PM (0sNs1) 56
Bif, see # 27
Posted by: Ben Had at December 09, 2025 08:08 PM (sDNVV) 57
Actually, back in 2007 stumbled across an article in which the PRC police arrested three men for killing two women to provide ghost brides.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 08:09 PM (2GVsD) 58
I watched all 10 episodes of Shogun yesterday and into the morning. Again confirmed my dislike of the Bushido code because it’s stupid.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 08:11 PM (KDPiq) 59
2 Good evening everyone
Posted by: Skip 3 Good evening everyone Posted by: Skip 4 Good evening everyone Posted by: Skip 5 Good evening everyone Posted by: Skip 6 Good evening everyone Posted by: Skip 7 Good evening everyone Posted by: Skip 8 Good evening everyone Posted by: Skip If you show up on Sunday's Wall of Shame I'm putting an asterisk next to it! Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 08:11 PM (p6ZQj) 60
Bif, see # 27 Posted by: Ben Had Thank you! {{Hug}} He'll do better, sorry he didn't make it 24. Boss lady gonna be okay? Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 09, 2025 08:11 PM (48yvf) 61
I thought the marriages were all made posthumously...no murder to make the marriage involved. Just match-making between parents of the dead.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) I guess if your culture does arranged marriages anyway, then the timing doesn't matter? Though you gotta get it exactly right if you want the marriage consummated. Posted by: rigor mortis at December 09, 2025 08:12 PM (nhCoE) 62
Bif, big hug returned.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 09, 2025 08:13 PM (sDNVV) 63
The chocolate covered cherries and Merlot are especially tasty tonight.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 09, 2025 08:15 PM (sDNVV) 64
The dog on the bed by the window howling doesn't track. AIn't quite right.
Posted by: Mike Porter at December 09, 2025 08:16 PM (I55Xh) 65
How did the Big Dummy do today? Did the Mrs. make it the rest of the way to Orlando safely? Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 09, 2025 08:07 PM (48yvf) __________ Thank you for asking. She made it safely. The Big Dummy walked today. HM is fit to be tied about some incidents with respect to that. I had to settle her down when she called in. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:16 PM (tgvbd) 66
I think the video is AI.
The clues are the inconsistency with the woman's voice, the pup's ears changing shape, the pup looks considerably older with the baby on the floor scene, and something uncanny about the crystal clear windows with nicely lighted snowflakes. I could be wrong but it all seems to be a bit too perfect. Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 08:16 PM (6ydKt) 67
Speaking of artificial, China has solved the West's AWFL Karen problem
If China hadn't been busily killing its women for the last several centuries... They managed to solve to problem of men having harems (thus depriving other men of potential wives) by castrating the other men. I guess this is the modern way of castrating the extra men. Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 09, 2025 08:17 PM (a+4eV) 68
Yes, it is AI.
- The door handle is all wrong. It is wrong style for the inside, and it appears truncated. - The fire is all wrong. It is up high in the flu. - The staircase seems to have a second railing flying above the first. - That house must have 4 different rugs. One for every scene. But other than that, I mean, look at it. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 08:17 PM (mPytV) 69
57 Actually, back in 2007 stumbled across an article in which the PRC police arrested three men for killing two women to provide ghost brides.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 08:09 PM (2GVsD) Yeah, there are always people who are willing to go to that extreme. Just like organ donors; some people are willing to kill others to sell their organs. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:20 PM (ynpvh) 70
AIn't quite right.
Posted by: Mike Porter at December 09, 2025 08:16 PM (I55Xh) ISWYDT I move that we adopt this into the vernacular. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 09, 2025 08:21 PM (zYpTz) 71
Just like organ donors; some people are willing to kill others to sell their organs. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:20 PM (ynpvh) _____________ Like under government healthcare. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:21 PM (tgvbd) 72
67 Speaking of artificial, China has solved the West's AWFL Karen problem
If China hadn't been busily killing its women for the last several centuries... They managed to solve to problem of men having harems (thus depriving other men of potential wives) by castrating the other men. I guess this is the modern way of castrating the extra men. Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 09, 2025 08:17 PM (a+4eV) They import women from other countries. The one child policy had many consequences the PRC either didn't foresee or didn't care about. Maybe it was both, the power of AND and all... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:21 PM (ynpvh) 73
But other than that, I mean, look at it.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 08:17 PM (mPytV) I said that last in the coal miners sketch from Monty python. Lol. 'Go'on, what wrong with me?' Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:21 PM (zZu0s) 74
There are a couple parts that are quite fake looking (puppy in mouth, puppy howling) and the overall narrative is contrived. For me, the biggest tell currently in "AI" video is short-duration clips assembled to make a short video. If that'd been a five-minute video, you'd see definitive proof that it was fake or not.
Posted by: bbrown at December 09, 2025 08:21 PM (bptYL) 75
46 Aetius
Still better than the Chinese tradition of ghost brides. Son dies unmarried, family goes and buys a girl to kill her and bury with their son. Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 08:03 PM (2GVsD) I think one could cure that practice by insisting that the parents be buried along with the son, as well. Probably lead to a lot of nice private simple ceremonies. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 08:22 PM (MG/ac) 76
71
Just like organ donors; some people are willing to kill others to sell their organs. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:20 PM (ynpvh) _____________ Like under government healthcare. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:21 PM (tgvbd) The PRC has been knows to harvest organs from dissidents... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:22 PM (ynpvh) 77
Like under government healthcare.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:21 PM (tgvbd) Canada boasting of euthanizing what 16k or 60k? Of its own citizens. People are fucked up. The devil is real. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:22 PM (zZu0s) 78
I'm seeing a lot of these wild animal rescue videos lately. They make my BS meter quiver.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 08:23 PM (7stnK) 79
75 46 Aetius
Still better than the Chinese tradition of ghost brides. Son dies unmarried, family goes and buys a girl to kill her and bury with their son. Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 08:03 PM (2GVsD) I think one could cure that practice by insisting that the parents be buried along with the son, as well. Probably lead to a lot of nice private simple ceremonies. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 08:22 PM (MG/ac) There are solutions indeed. Posted by: Zombie Charles James Napier at December 09, 2025 08:23 PM (ynpvh) 80
Skip, are you skipping, like a record?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 09, 2025 08:24 PM (tWxgu) 81
Canada boasting of euthanizing what 16k or 60k? Of its own citizens. ____________ I think it's 16K. But the total population of Canada is something like 50K anyway. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:24 PM (tgvbd) 82
I'm seeing a lot of these wild animal rescue videos lately. They make my BS meter quiver.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 08:23 PM (7stnK) AI!! all of them. Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:24 PM (g47mK) 83
I lean towards that video being AI. As you said, Ace, it's too perfectly contrived.
The other thing that I noticed is it has similar "scenes" from other random reels I've seen on IG. The one of the baby doing the finger gun thing is something I've seen on several reels. Also the white dog doing the "aroooo" howl is common on other reels. AI is asshoe. Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 08:25 PM (p6ZQj) 84
She can deal with rockets and dreams
But, reality What does it mean? Kamala Harris to the New York Times: "There will be a marble bust of me in Congress. I am a historic figure like any Vice President of the United States ever was." - Julius Caesar Alexander the Great Kamala Harris Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 08:26 PM (L/fGl) 85
Good evening everyone
Posted by: Skip 3 Good evening everyone Posted by: Skip 4 Good evening everyone Posted by: Skip 5 Good evening everyone Posted by: Skip 6 Good evening everyone Posted by: Skip 7 Good evening everyone Posted by: Skip 8 Good evening everyone Posted by: Skip If you show up on Sunday's Wall of Shame I'm putting an asterisk next to it! Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 08:11 PM (p6ZQj) *** It's AI Skip. If this were really Skip, they would be every other entry: 2, 4, 6, etc. Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 08:26 PM (7stnK) 86
Nigeria is doing organ harvesting. "Hundreds of mutilated bodies found in suspected Nigerian organ-harvesting ring....An extensive organ-harvesting ring has been uncovered in Nigeria after weeks of covert surveillance, local officials have said.
In a statement shared on X, the Imo State Police Command said their investigation was launched after reports of a worrying spate of kidnappings near a hotel and mortuary in Ngor Okpala. According to police, intelligence-led investigations went on to identify a man called High Chief Stanley Oparaugo, also known as "Morocco," as the suspected leader of the criminal network and who is now on the run and wanted, per reports." Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:26 PM (g47mK) 87
78 I'm seeing a lot of these wild animal rescue videos lately. They make my BS meter quiver.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 08:23 PM (7stnK) It's gotten progressively better and harder to detect. They have lots of vids on EweToob with female robots are are pretty realistic, but all are AI. Robots don't look that good and are somewhat clumsy... Contrast and compare: https://youtu.be/0-MYK_i6gl8 vs https://youtube.com/shorts/qPPwfoDVGuM Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:27 PM (ynpvh) 88
Nigeria is doing organ harvesting. "Hundreds of mutilated bodies found in suspected Nigerian organ-harvesting ring....An extensive organ-harvesting ring has been uncovered in Nigeria after weeks of covert surveillance, local officials have said. __________ Charming world we live in. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:27 PM (tgvbd) 89
AIn't quite right.
Posted by: Mike Porter at December 09, 2025 08:16 PM (I55Xh) ISWYDT I move that we adopt this into the vernacular. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 09, 2025 08:21 PM (zYpTz) Yeah, that's good! This stuff is fAIke and gAI. Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 08:28 PM (p6ZQj) 90
China's one child policy kept the population from reaching 2 billion.There is no way to feed 2 billion people with arable land at 15 %.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 09, 2025 08:28 PM (sDNVV) 91
I'm seeing a lot of these wild animal rescue videos lately. They make my BS meter quiver.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 08:23 PM (7stnK) Case in point: I just saw a thumbnail on ewetub of what looked like the same dog carrying a baby deer home in its mouth. Fake as fuck. *confirmed* Book 'em Danno. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:28 PM (zZu0s) 92
Man, Trump is back in rally mode. And he's on fire. These things energize him like nothing else. He gets on the top of his game at these things. He needs to do this every so often for the rest of his term. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 08:28 PM (w6EFb) 93
I wonder if AI will crash onlyfans?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:29 PM (zZu0s) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:31 PM (tgvbd) 95
China's one child policy kept the population from reaching 2 billion.There is no way to feed 2 billion people with arable land at 15 %.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 09, 2025 08:28 PM (sDNVV) But there is also no way to care for the elderly the traditional way with one couple having to care for 8 grandparents and 4 parents. This was the driver of the real estate investment scam that is blowing up these days. Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 08:31 PM (8avO+) 96
Man, Trump is back in rally mode. And he's on fire. These things energize him like nothing else. He gets on the top of his game at these things. He needs to do this every so often for the rest of his term.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 08:28 PM (w6EFb) Miami had to aggravate him. Miami is stuck on stupid. Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 08:32 PM (KDPiq) 97
Ace must have found some secret stash of cool photos recently.
The last several cafes have had some great pics, including this one which is really good at showing an impossible camera shot without HDR and Photoshop available. Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 08:33 PM (6ydKt) 98
It's AI Skip.
If this were really Skip, they would be every other entry: 2, 4, 6, etc. Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 08:26 PM (7stnK) As long as one of those permits us to have lunch Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 08:33 PM (p6ZQj) 99
what the fuck ??!! "Democrats flip Miami mayor’s office, winning control for first time in nearly 30 years"
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:35 PM (g47mK) 100
Stupid Marines. Who needs them?
The Hill @thehill "The Marine Corps just had its 250th birthday — now let’s abolish it" Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 08:36 PM (L/fGl) 101
Tell me again we are not in trouble ! This is Miami!
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:36 PM (g47mK) 102
101 Tell me again we are not in trouble ! This is Miami!
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:36 PM (g47mK) Oklahoma or Florida? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:36 PM (ynpvh) 103
93 I wonder if AI will crash onlyfans?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:29 PM (zZu0s) Like a lot of things in internet history, porn will lead the way in advancing cheap, fast, 100% realistic generative AI video. Them and somebody like a James Cameron who isn't afraid to push technological boundaries in film. Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 08:37 PM (6ydKt) 104
Oklahoma or Florida?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:36 PM (ynpvh) what happened in Oklahoma ? Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:37 PM (g47mK) 105
Democrats flip Miami mayor’s office, winning control for first time in nearly 30 years" Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:35 PM (g47mK) _________ Miami, OH? Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:37 PM (tgvbd) 106
Oklahoma or Florida?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:36 PM (ynpvh) You mean Ohio? Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 08:37 PM (KDPiq) 107
so now two most important US cities, Miami and NY fell to Democrats; this sux
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:38 PM (g47mK) 108
Florida, FLorida. What the fuck happened ?
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:38 PM (g47mK) 109
Here is fun bit of news, "Higgins’s campaign manager Christian Ulvert @culvert is a consultant for Qatar."
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:39 PM (g47mK) 110
Article says only 36,000 people voted in the Miami election.
You've got to turn people up to vote to win. Democrats have all the motivation right now. I bet turnout was 60% single female. Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 08:40 PM (6ydKt) 111
Qatar took over NY and now Miami. Good grief. Why doesn't someone bomb that jihadi enclave to oblivion already ....
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:40 PM (g47mK) 112
Democrats flip Miami mayor’s office, winning control for first time in nearly 30 years"
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:35 PM (g47mK) _________ Miami, OH? Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:37 PM (tgvbd) Party ID was not on the ballot in that race. Calling it a flip is a bit shaky. Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 08:40 PM (8avO+) 113
now two most important US cities, Miami and NY fell to Democrats; this sux
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:38 PM (g47mK) Miami most important? On what basis? Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 08:40 PM (KDPiq) 114
I am convinced, most people are detached, entitled fools.
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:41 PM (g47mK) 115
so now two most important US cities, Miami and NY fell to Democrats; this sux
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:38 PM (g47mK) NYC has been Democrat for a long time, dude. Go have a beer. Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 08:41 PM (8avO+) 116
Wouldn't be opposed to surfing some beaver IYKWIMAITTYD.
Posted by: dam fine at December 09, 2025 08:41 PM (TbWk/) 117
Miami most important? On what basis? Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 08:40 PM (KDPiq) __________ Hot Latina babes? Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:41 PM (tgvbd) 118
***I'm pretty sure this must be AI, because it's so...
--- Recently turned on 'current news' to come up with the browser. It's Fox and NYP and a couple of others. They must be Ai they are so stupid. First one up today was a killing at a high school. No, who, what, why, where or when. The only name mentioned was the sheriff. Many different articles are like that. Trying to read them, you can feel your brains being sucked out. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 08:42 PM (c35xG) 119
116 Wouldn't be opposed to surfing some beaver IYKWIMAITTYD.
Posted by: dam fine at December 09, 2025 08:41 PM (TbWk/) I'm afraid to do a web search for surfing beavers... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:43 PM (ynpvh) 120
Recently turned on 'current news' to come up with the browser.
It's Fox and NYP and a couple of others. They must be Ai they are so stupid. First one up today was a killing at a high school. No, who, what, why, where or when. The only name mentioned was the sheriff. Many different articles are like that. Trying to read them, you can feel your brains being sucked out. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 08:42 PM (c35xG) News has been sourced by tweets for about 15 years now. Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 08:43 PM (8avO+) 121
Party ID was not on the ballot in that race. Calling it a flip is a bit shaky.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 08:40 PM (8avO+) That Trump’s big endorsement for Gonzales didn’t help is the biggest concern. Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 08:43 PM (KDPiq) 122
Not just Arizona!
Democrat Mark Kelly - U.S. Senator for a state President Trump won in 2024 - calls 1.7 MILLION Arizonians crazy for supporting President Trump: KELLY: "He has supporters. A lot of those supporters...are crazy." Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 08:43 PM (L/fGl) 123
115 so now two most important US cities, Miami and NY fell to Democrats; this sux
Posted by: runner --- This was news in 1954. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 08:43 PM (c35xG) 124
Miami. 38,000 votes out of a population of 464,000. Run off election. Very odd.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 09, 2025 08:43 PM (2NHgQ) 125
I am convinced, most people are detached, entitled fools. Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:41 PM (g47mK) _________ Cutting a little close there, boyo. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:44 PM (tgvbd) 126
Who's on first?!
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:44 PM (zZu0s) 127
"As of 2014, there are 11 states in America that have a city named Miami. Those 11 states are Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and West Virginia."
... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:44 PM (ynpvh) 128
Today a judge in Taxachusetts vacated Trump’s executive order to halt permits for bird chopping wind turbines and other green boondoggles. The judge cited the “Trump is not allowed to do anything” rule.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 08:44 PM (3uBP9) 129
NYC has been Democrat for a long time, dude. Go have a beer.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 08:41 PM (8avO+) I don't like beer. Democrat Socialist, and Jihadi sponsored - NY Qatar bought - Miami Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:44 PM (g47mK) 130
Ye Old AI Slop
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 09, 2025 08:44 PM (JL0Wh) 131
Bah! Next you'll tell me Detroit is nkt the City of the Future! Lol.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:45 PM (zZu0s) 132
126 Who's on first?!
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:44 PM (zZu0s) Hu. https://tinyurl.com/mrxntmxf Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:45 PM (ynpvh) 133
Recently turned on 'current news' to come up with the browser.
It's Fox and NYP and a couple of others. They must be Ai they are so stupid. First one up today was a killing at a high school. No, who, what, why, where or when. The only name mentioned was the sheriff. Many different articles are like that. Trying to read them, you can feel your brains being sucked out. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others I know. I know, it's hard to believe but journalism has gotten worse. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 08:45 PM (L/fGl) 134
yeah, Trump knows this cannot continue
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:46 PM (g47mK) 135
Hu.
https://tinyurl.com/mrxntmxf Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:45 PM (ynpvh) Nice. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:46 PM (zZu0s) 136
128 Today a judge in Taxachusetts vacated Trump’s executive order to halt permits for bird chopping wind turbines and other green boondoggles. The judge cited the “Trump is not allowed to do anything” rule.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 08:44 PM (3uBP9) I guess judge never heard about the prohibition of legislating from the bench...was he a fed judge or a state judge? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:46 PM (ynpvh) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 08:47 PM (c35xG) 138
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:44 PM (ynpvh)
How many have a University named Miami?😀 Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 08:47 PM (KDPiq) 139
The NY Post is reporting the outgoing far left NYC comptroller Brad Lander is going to primary dirtbag nepo Dan Goldman.
I'm rooting for injuries Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 08:48 PM (D+mpw) 140
I have no idea where he gets the energy. He presidents all day and then does his Shecky gig at night. One of a kind.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 08:49 PM (viF8m) 141
138 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:44 PM (ynpvh)
How many have a University named Miami?😀 Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 08:47 PM (KDPiq) Oxford, Ohio has one, or rather it's called Miami University... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:49 PM (ynpvh) 142
December 09, 2025 08:42 PM (c35xG)
News has been sourced by tweets for about 15 years now. Posted by: Oldcat -- It's worse than tweets. Usually, the stupidest tweets have a discernible purpose. These articles are vacuous. They suck your brain out. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 08:51 PM (c35xG) 143
Sweet, the cafe!
:puts up feet: :pours a coffee: :camps out here until midnight eastern time when the ONT might show up: Posted by: gKWVE at December 09, 2025 08:52 PM (gKWVE) 144
Detroit IS the city of the future if you're filthy rich. Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 08:54 PM (Y8DZL) 145
Lara Trump needs to go back to heading RNC.
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:55 PM (g47mK) 146
Trump should spend 2026 destroying H1B visas and regulating AI to protect workers.
That would be a huge platform for the GOP because it's what's got people scared to death. Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 09, 2025 08:56 PM (JL0Wh) 147
Just watched the local Fox affiliate report on something Trump. The picture of his speaking was hilarious. They superimposed yellow\orange bright coloring over his face. Neck was normal. And the coloring didn’t always move with Trump’s head movements.
So fake. The press hates him so much. Can you imagine our success as a country if the press was merely neutral? Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 09:01 PM (loRx9) 148
Michelle Malkin is coming back with a podcast or something.
The old Michelle: Book title, INVASION October 28, 2002 In 1996, before the election, there was a huge push to naturalize new American citizens. And many procedural safeguards were trampled over in the rush to do that. In fact, at least 6,300 criminal aliens, convicted of felonies, were granted this precious birthright of American citizenship in that rush to essentially beef up the Democrat voter rolls. Clinton-Gore administration official, Bob Bratt, … [was, in Russia] meeting women in hotels (one of whom he engaged in a sexual relationship, and then later tried to get visas to bring them over to this country). He was divulging sensitive information, putting himself at risk for blackmail in Moscow. … [while trying to obtain, for the women,]… entry into this country and residence in this country, and ultimately, citizenship in this country [which ] continued Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 09:02 PM (c35xG) 149
”But when posts deliberately target individuals with vilifying comparisons to serial killers or false insinuations of paedophilia, designed to humiliate and distress, they forfeit their protection.” — British Judge Andrew Menary KC
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 09:02 PM (GITLP) 150
cont.
[which ] is an absolute privilege, and it ought not to be treated as some sort of natural right or entitlement. But over the years, our immigration system has abandoned that principle. ... That`s how al Qaeda operatives over the past decade, nearly 50 of them... have been able to, entrench themselves in the American mainstream, [October 28, 2002] https://tinyurl.com/3h6zfmfp Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 09:02 PM (c35xG) 151
Candace Owens has accused TPUSA of financial fraud, and that caused some people to demand refunds, I was just reading. Treasury has sent Erika a letter saying no fraud or investigation, which hopefully will help. Candance Owens is one crazy bitch. TPUSA needs to take off the gloves and sue the hell out of her. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 09:02 PM (w6EFb) 152
Great piece at HotAir detailing the Somali fraud which is also being done in Columbus and Maine. Governor Mills of Maine gave a no bid contract to an NGO to import 75k more. The left can't suffer enough
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 09:03 PM (D+mpw) 153
"The Marine Corps just had its 250th birthday — now let’s abolish it"
—— You and what army twinkletoes? LOL Posted by: Chesty Puller at December 09, 2025 09:04 PM (2Ra0c) 154
Owens is a troll.
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 09:05 PM (g47mK) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 09:05 PM (c35xG) 156
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:44 PM (ynpvh)
How many have a University named Miami?😀 Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 08:47 PM (KDPiq) Miami of Ohio. Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 09:07 PM (8avO+) 157
Candance Owens is one crazy bitch. TPUSA needs to take off the gloves and sue the hell out of her.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 09:02 PM (w6EFb) ===== Not 20 minutes ago I watched Tim Pool on the most unhinged rant I've ever seen from him on how evil and crazy she is. Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 09:07 PM (A0sqA) 158
Governor Mills of Maine gave a no bid contract to an NGO to import 75k more. The left can't suffer enough
Posted by: Smell the Glove a ------- Thought Trump shut the door on all import. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 09:08 PM (c35xG) 159
if she did not grift of TPUSA and the Daily Wire no one would know her. But she got in the door. She is a conniving and vicious bitch who never left the reservation. It's like Jasmine Ratched's sister from a different mister.
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 09:08 PM (g47mK) 160
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'Governor Mills of Maine gave a no bid contract to an NGO to import 75k more. The left can't suffer enough' Put all their leaders to the sword. Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2025 09:08 PM (fd80v) 161
if you cross reference, the same people who watch the View are Owens' audience
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 09:09 PM (g47mK) 162
Scheduling an election on Dec 9th. Why?
Posted by: PaleRider at December 09, 2025 09:09 PM (hhkIi) 163
Put all their leaders to the sword.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2025 09:08 PM (fd80v) Exile Mills to Mogadishu Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 09:10 PM (rbvCR) 164
Breaking: Somalis still garbage.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 09:10 PM (9iyS+) 165
Trump is officially running for Congress. Hope he shows up in El Paso, Albuquerque, Tucson so I can go see him stirs thing up.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 09, 2025 09:10 PM (rzkMR) 166
Sweet, the cafe!
:puts up feet: :pours a coffee: :camps out here until midnight eastern time when the ONT might show up: Posted by: gKWVE at December 09, 2025 08:52 PM (gKWVE) Yeah - it better be on time tonight! Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 09:13 PM (p6ZQj) 167
>>> I guess judge never heard about the prohibition of legislating from the bench...was he a fed judge or a state judge?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:46 PM (ynpvh) U.S. District Judge Patti Saris of the District of Massachusetts Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 09:13 PM (3uBP9) 168
The only name mentioned was the sheriff. Many different articles are like that.
Trying to read them, you can feel your brains being sucked out. ——- I read my old hometown rag, just because. One or the board of supervisors is a huge flamer, made a big production of “marrying” his butt buddy a few years back. Then his “husband” killed himself, and the supe was arrested for drugging and sodomizing a youth. He refuses to step down. The stories that they have to report on, at least once in a while (like arraignment, pleading “not guilty” public record stuff, they don’t even have his picture, the still picture they put up is actually another supervisor who was being interviewed about the debacle. I’d be pissed off, because a casual reader would conclude I’m the subject of the story here. The really bad stuff never even gets reported. At all. Like it never happened. The top headlines are sports, sports, and more sports, and then “Library hours to be adjusted for Thanksgiving” and other nonsense like that. Weather - “February to be cold, Experts Predict” and gems like that. Posted by: Chesty Puller at December 09, 2025 09:14 PM (2Ra0c) 169
Maine has been importing Somalis for years. Lewiston is ground zero and it has become a complete shithole.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 09:14 PM (viF8m) 170
*pours drink for self*
Howdy, horde.. BIL hasn't gotten to AZ and "needs help" (eyeroll) There may be a road trip tomorrow, ugh. Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 09:14 PM (rdVOm) 171
BIL hasn't gotten to AZ and "needs help" (eyeroll)
There may be a road trip tomorrow, ugh. Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 09:14 PM (rdVOm) ==== Doesn't sound like an invitation to a picnic Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 09:16 PM (A0sqA) 172
Clinton appointed judge. If you fired up an ai with a prompt “photo of female leftist judge” it would be her picture.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 09:17 PM (3uBP9) 173
Oh, Miami was a runoff election. And the R dude had probably pissed off a bunch of people. Miami was going to move the election to 2026 and be even years going forward and the R candidate sued to prevent the incumbent mayor, barred from running again from getting an extra year. Sounds like a shitshow all around.
Posted by: PaleRider at December 09, 2025 09:19 PM (hhkIi) 174
This is Quarter Twenty and this will be my last post with good old hash (XQo4F).
I'm moving. The house is completely empty except for one thing: a Verizon FiOS router. Tomorrow it won't be mine anymore. So after I hit "post" in a minute I'll disconnect the router and return it to Verizon later this week. I'll be living with a friend and using his WiFi, so farewell good old (XQo4F). I will miss you. Time to move on. Time for the next chapter. ~Quarter Twenty (XQo4F) out. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 09, 2025 09:26 PM (XQo4F) 175
Doesn't sound like an invitation to a picnic
Posted by: San Franpsycho --------- Correct. It's a sh!tshow, that's what it is. Dude isn't the brightest bulb, and lives a lifestyle he cannot afford. Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 09:27 PM (rdVOm) Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 09:28 PM (rdVOm) 177
I read Quarter Twenty has good hash, man. Gotta get over there, for sure.
Posted by: Blue Boy at December 09, 2025 09:29 PM (oftw2) 178
I just got home and saw the previous post, showing Newsom and Walz, talking about masculinity.
Those two put the 'men' in 'menstruation'. Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 09:34 PM (0CU3H) 179
So, BIL was driving along and a wheel came off of his 5th wheel trailer. He's at a rest area *somewhere* but hasn't told me which one.
Has unhooked his truck and wants to come here [[[NO, not an option!]]] but I have offered to help (read: pay $$$ to get it fixed) so he can get back to AZ. Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 09:35 PM (rdVOm) 180
Doof has some issues and little peccadilloes, but he is quite punctual, as a rule.
Posted by: Credit Where Due at December 09, 2025 09:35 PM (oftw2) 181
It's like Jasmine Ratched's sister from a different mister.
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 09:08 PM (g47mK) Good comparison, it's more than fair to say she's the Jasmine C. Of the right. Both are nasty bitches running ops to see how many millions they can sucker out of fools before the game falls apart. Both of already pushed their game farther along than anyone thought they could. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 09:36 PM (VG28W) 182
Long story short: California Democrats have regulated themselves into a gasoline import-dependent state, importing gasoline from India & Korea. newscum & brown closed so many refineries and "specialized" the gasoline so much with dumb requirements, "legal" gas for CA must be imported from India & Korea. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 09:36 PM (xRKBa) Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 09:37 PM (xRKBa) 184
Fun fact, noted here previously: Candace's millionaire British husband, George Farmer, is also a citizen of Qatar.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 09:40 PM (VG28W) 185
Estimate that BIL is ~200 miles away, from what he's said.
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 09:41 PM (rdVOm) 186
Early Christmas gift for BIL, an AAA membership.
Posted by: davidt at December 09, 2025 09:43 PM (Q+gd/) 187
The fun part about California's gasoline situation is that since they never tried to build any pipelines (EVIL pipelines!) The expensive Korean refineries are actually "closer " to California than the cheap Texas refineries are.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 09:45 PM (VG28W) 188
Yeah, AAA would be great, but he needs to just quit driving (70/71yrs!) and get a senior apartment somewhere. He's disabled, so already qualifies for a lot of free stuff.
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 09:46 PM (rdVOm) 189
BIL *lives in* his 5th wheel.
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 09:47 PM (rdVOm) 190
Yeah, can't let BIL stay with you -- he'll never leave. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 09:48 PM (xRKBa) 191
Hotel California.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 09:49 PM (zZu0s) 192
189 BIL *lives in* his 5th wheel.
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 09:47 PM (rdVOm) Down by the river? Posted by: davidt at December 09, 2025 09:49 PM (Q+gd/) 193
Yeah, can't let BIL stay with you -- he'll never leave.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History ------------- BINGO!!! Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 09:49 PM (rdVOm) 194
Golden Globe Awards added "best podcast" category to their stupid, unwatched show. Guess who didn't get nominated? Guess who got nominated? Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 09:53 PM (xRKBa) 195
Doof has some issues and little peccadilloes, but he is quite punctual, as a rule.
Posted by: Credit Where Due at December 09, 2025 09:35 PM (oftw2) My peccadilloes are average sized, thank you very much! Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 09:54 PM (p6ZQj) 196
Hint: all the podcasts that are popular, e.g. Joe Rogan, did not get nominated. Hint: NPR's podcast got nominated. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 09:54 PM (xRKBa) 197
oh, and that dumb "call her daddy" podcast was nominated Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 09:56 PM (xRKBa) Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 09:58 PM (xRKBa) 199
Just start assuming that everything is CGI / AI. What do we need Hollywood for anyway? Red carpet titties?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 10:00 PM (1zOXE) 200
David Spade, who, incidentally, also has a podcast, calls out mall Christmas tree lighting for not mentioning the word "Christmas." Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 10:01 PM (xRKBa) 201
ONT is nood.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 10:05 PM (zZu0s) 202
1st video is AI, Baby should not know how to play "bang" with dogs. and the ice footprints at the end are too perfect.
close, no dice Posted by: notHuMan at December 10, 2025 12:37 AM (Zlxio) 203
l Get paid over $110 per hour working from home. l never thought I'd be able to do it but my buddy makes over $21269 a month doing this and she convinced me to try. The possibility with this is endless....
This is what I do...................... https://urlr.me/E3tz6Y Posted by: Anonymous at December 10, 2025 04:04 AM (NxtE8) Gavin Newsom and Tim Walz Discuss the Fine Points of Being High-T Super-Masculine Mish-SlayersThat video below the fold, from a great post about the radiating masculine energy of the Democrat Party by Beege Wellborn. As you know, Gavin Newsom sits in an extremely "cover your mish" way that makes people doubt the physical existence of his testicles. Andrew Stiles has expert reaction to Newsom's "Crotch Clutch" manner of sitting.Newsom baffled experts who assessed that his posture appeared to defy the conventional scientific understanding of the human form. Gender scholars were just as perplexed. Several noted that Newsom, despite being born a male, was exhibiting a form of self-compressed emasculation or "crotch clench," while conveying an unmistakably female-coded body language. Political historians argued that Newsom's unusual posture was characteristic of failed candidates and sniveling cowards. It was, these experts contended, the seated equivalent of former President Obama's obsequious bow. That is why American voters could never trust Newsom to stand up to "wide-stance" authoritarian rivals such as Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping.Did you hear the news? Super-masculine and Fiercely Heterosexual lisping theater kid Cory Booker got "married" to a "woman" he just happened to meet and fall madly, heterosexually in love with a couple of weeks after he decided to run for president again. Must just be Fiercely Heterosexual Cupid timing things perfectly! Andrew Stiles again breaks it down: Cory Booker Obtains Female Wife in Boost to 2028 White House BidRead the whole thing. Stiles is obviously impressed by the sheer force of Cory Booker's fiercely heterosexual desire for this rando woman supplied to him by a gay icon. Again thanks to Tree Hugging Sister, gay magazine The Advocate reports on Democrat Senator Reuben Gallego accidentally telling the truth about Democrats' gender fluidity. First-year U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego of Arizona is facing intensified scrutiny after leaked text messages showed the Democrat deriding the appearance of women and men in his own party. The comments mirror far-right rhetoric about gender and deepen concerns about his recent repositioning on LGBTQ+ issues. In the messages, first circulated by a conservative outlet and reported by People last week Gallego, who started his first term in the U.S. Senate in January after previously serving in the House, complained that Democrats are "not allowing men to be men" or "women to be hot," and wrote, "Dem women look like Dem men and Dem men look like women." He also lamented that Democrats had become "the not fun party" and no longer embodied "sex, drugs, and rock and roll."No lies detected. Below, two Men's Men talk about manly things like fixin' trucks and coachin' football and, of course, what men always talk about -- our gender identities.
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Whoa!
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 09, 2025 06:24 PM (XMwZJ) 2
Newsome sits like a girl...a really stupid, ugly girl.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 09, 2025 06:24 PM (XMwZJ) 3
I guess Kreml hair gel is getting to his brain.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 09, 2025 06:25 PM (XMwZJ) 4
Nothing says High Tea more than Gargles Newscum and Tampon Timmy Awalz.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:26 PM (2GVsD) 5
Is this Walz putz even real? AI could not create a more stereotypical democrat douchenozzle.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 09, 2025 06:26 PM (XMwZJ) 6
LOL!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 06:27 PM (Cjt/F) 7
Oh, I know Home Profit - you give handies at an Indian truckstop.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 09, 2025 06:27 PM (cYBz/) 8
Gavin "The Eunuch" Newsom
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 06:27 PM (v0R5T) 9
Home Profit nearly FIRST!!!!
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 06:27 PM (Tbj3s) 10
Sorry ladies, Cory Booker appears to be permanently off the market.
Posted by: What Might Have Been at December 09, 2025 06:27 PM (oftw2) 11
Mr Katie Perry, aka Justin Castreau sits like that as well.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 09, 2025 06:28 PM (8CIFn) 12
So Cory is no longer Spartacus?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:28 PM (2GVsD) 13
Does Bluesky rhyme with brewski?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 06:28 PM (pkeXY) 14
Huh in Home Profit nic, the link has replaced the 'o's with '0's
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:29 PM (2GVsD) 15
Tater "Sex Machine" Stelter hardest hit ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 06:29 PM (WOPtg) 16
It really is shocking the Booker "married" a female woman.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 09, 2025 06:29 PM (XMwZJ) 17
Shimmy, shimmy ko-ko-bop
Shimmy, shimmy bop (ahh) Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 06:30 PM (v0R5T) 18
The Democratic senator from New Jersey wed his recently acquired fiancée, Alexis Lewis, at an intimate ceremony in Washington, D.C., over the weekend. The move satisfies a major public relations need for Booker and arrives with exquisite timing as he prepares to launch his 2028 presidential campaign.
So, gravitas? Remember that blast from the past? Pepperidge Farms does. Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 09, 2025 06:30 PM (hR7Y3) 19
When Cory was Mayor of Newark, he only spent time there when campaigning. This could be an absentee marriage, too.
Posted by: The Grand Poof at December 09, 2025 06:30 PM (oftw2) 20
Have you ever noticed how many times democrats claim the right is "scared" of them?
Usually it's the "I may seem crazy, or a colossal dumbass, or retard, or pussy, but I SCARE the right." It is a universal truth - we are never scared of people who say this. Not even a tiny bit. "Bemused" is the word they are looking for. Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 06:30 PM (C3IAS) 21
Cory Booker has a Temu fiancee?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:30 PM (2GVsD) 22
Mayor of Newark. Lord, what a resume!!
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 06:31 PM (Tbj3s) 23
Walz often looks like he's about to burst into tears. Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 09, 2025 06:31 PM (azNOR) 24
So, gravitas? Remember that blast from the past? Pepperidge Farms does. Posted by: Stu Podaso Rush had a gravitas song sung to the tune of Feliz Navidad. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 06:31 PM (pkeXY) 25
Nothing screams high-t like Gavin's signature shoulder shimmy.
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 06:32 PM (GPa4z) 26
No Timmy your identity is watching boys shower.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 06:32 PM (MGB5H) 27
Nothing says High-T like black knee socks, jive hands and abuse of hair gel.
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 06:32 PM (v0R5T) 28
The Democrats have become the party of faggots and Karens, also communists and foreign grifters.
Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at December 09, 2025 06:33 PM (qZdIZ) 29
He was married to Kimberly Guilfoyle. Never figured that one out.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 06:34 PM (Tbj3s) 30
Rush had a gravitas song sung to the tune of Feliz Navidad.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. Done by White Comedian Paul Shanklin, right? Posted by: EIB Network at December 09, 2025 06:34 PM (oftw2) 31
Kansas City faggots?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:34 PM (2GVsD) 32
Did you hear the news? Super-masculine and Fiercely Heterosexual lisping theater kid Cory Booker got "married" to a "woman" he just happened to meet and fall madly, heterosexually in love with a couple of weeks after he decided to run for president again.
You know what people say, "December romances yield Super Tuesday divorces." Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 06:34 PM (uv8gn) 33
Both Newsom and Walz have a terminal case of jazz hands. It's impossible to take either seriously with their dainty hands flipping around like a couple of Kansas City fags.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 06:34 PM (viF8m) 34
He was married to Kimberly Guilfoyle. Never figured that one out.
Posted by: tubal ..... That was before his bottom surgery. Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 06:35 PM (v0R5T) 35
Booker has no right to the name "Spartacus". Spartacus was one of the few figures in the ancient world who had a universal opposition to slavery -- most people objected to themselves being slaves, but not that othee guy. Spartacus wouldn't even allow his army of freed slaves enslave Romans they captured.
Booker, on the other hand, is in favor of the near-slavery of illegal immigrants and H-1Bs, and the actual slavery of socialism. Posted by: Rob Crawford at December 09, 2025 06:35 PM (bPgnP) 36
Rush had a gravitas song sung to the tune of Feliz Navidad.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. I remember it well, Paul Shanklin if memory serves. Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 09, 2025 06:36 PM (hR7Y3) Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2025 06:36 PM (NwnyJ) 38
I honestly can't even stand chairs with arms that come forward to block man spreading. Nothing to do with my schlong, just my old man hips.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 06:36 PM (3uBP9) 39
"Cover your mish"? LMFAO! Just goes along with Governor Brylcream's 1950's haircut. That dude needs a stylist bad. Not that changing his exterior will change his rotten interior. He and his cronies have run my home state right into the ground, the bastard.
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 06:36 PM (NtoJk) 40
Been said many times over, but I miss Rush.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 06:37 PM (Tbj3s) 41
Sorry to throw a banana peal under this writhing conga line of LGBTQ rhythm, but...
"The Trump administration’s ban on transgender service members has just been UPHELD by a US Appeals Court" https://tinyurl.com/2t59wz4j Posted by: Paco - If the problem's a no-brainer, I'm your man at December 09, 2025 06:37 PM (2L+MU) 42
Booker has no right to the name "Spartacus". Spartacus was one of the few figures in the ancient world who had a universal opposition to slavery -- most people objected to themselves being slaves, but not that othee guy. Spartacus wouldn't even allow his army of freed slaves enslave Romans they captured.
Booker, on the other hand, is in favor of the near-slavery of illegal immigrants and H-1Bs, and the actual slavery of socialism. Posted by: Rob Crawford /s - try it sometimes. It is a lot fun. Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 06:37 PM (uv8gn) 43
32 Kansas City faggots?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:34 PM (2GVsD) I thought faggots were British... https://youtu.be/gt8IAJZTc-w Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 06:37 PM (ynpvh) 44
Peter Mac Nichol was an odd choice for Mishslayer- but the Spear was really cool.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 06:38 PM (zZu0s) 45
42. "peel", rather.
Posted by: Paco - If the problem's a no-brainer, I'm your man at December 09, 2025 06:38 PM (2L+MU) 46
As an immigrant gay person of color, I judge this post GAY!
Posted by: Bete at December 09, 2025 06:38 PM (LX4y3) 47
44 32 Kansas City faggots?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:34 PM (2GVsD) I thought faggots were British... https://youtu.be/gt8IAJZTc-w Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 06:37 PM (ynpvh) And also this: https://youtu.be/pVHbWHGVYaU Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 06:39 PM (ynpvh) 48
I thought faggots were British...
https://youtu.be/gt8IAJZTc-w Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 06:37 PM (ynpvh) Now I want a cigarette. Its weird, been happening a lot lately. Have not had a cigarette in 14 years. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 06:39 PM (zZu0s) 49
Tim Walz's identity is retard.
Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2025 06:39 PM (YwEeS) 50
He was married to Kimberly Guilfoyle. Never figured that one out.
Posted by: tubal ..... That was before his bottom surgery. Posted by: wth You mean Gavin, right? Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 06:39 PM (uv8gn) Posted by: No Name Today at December 09, 2025 06:40 PM (8mulE) 52
4 My last salary was $8750, ecom only worked 12 hours a week. My longtime neighbor yr estimated $15,000 and works about 20 hours for seven days. I can't believe how blunt he was when I looked up his information,
This is what I do.... hmm. maybe gavin'll start an onlyfans when he loses the white house. Posted by: anachronda at December 09, 2025 06:40 PM (sGtp+) 53
The hand-flapping drives me nuts. First thing they taught us in Toastmasters was to reserve hand gestures for making an emphatic point only and to make it infrequent. Also, don't grab the lectern with a death-grip. You don't realize how much you use your hands until you have to keep them at your sides while trying to make a point solely with your eloquent use of language.
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 06:40 PM (NtoJk) 54
During this poor innocent fishermen in the little fisher boats getting Kilt by Big Meanie Trump Outrage, it was obvious that someone was trying to make Sen Kelly look "Presidential".
Didn't work. I already lost count of how many "scandals" have failed The TACO outrage (oops Iran) The Tearing down the White House Outrage. The killing poor fishermen outrage. The mean words and calling some pig piggy outrage. The Epstein Outrage. I know there's a lot more. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 06:42 PM (uWKK8) 55
The hand-flapping drives me nuts. First thing they taught us in Toastmasters was to reserve hand gestures for making an emphatic point only and to make it infrequent. Also, don't grab the lectern with a death-grip. You don't realize how much you use your hands until you have to keep them at your sides while trying to make a point solely with your eloquent use of language.
Posted by: tankascribe I was taught to drink heavily first. Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 06:42 PM (uv8gn) 56
Now I want a cigarette. Its weird, been happening a lot lately. Have not had a cigarette in 14 years. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 06:39 PM (zZu0s) Are you under a lot of stress? That tends to increase cravings for cigarettes. I was not even a smoker, and with our last seven months with one of our kids, I would pay 104 bucks for a carton of Camels and smoke every damn one right now. Posted by: moki at December 09, 2025 06:42 PM (wLjpr) 57
Been said many times over, but I miss Rush.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 06:37 PM (Tbj3s) ---- Mega dittoes. It's not been the same since Neil Peart died. Posted by: Darth Randall at December 09, 2025 06:42 PM (f1kZG) 58
Didn't Justine Castreaux sit much the same way Newscum does?
Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2025 06:42 PM (s0JqF) Posted by: No Name Today at December 09, 2025 06:42 PM (8mulE) 60
I'm traditionally masculine, I like Guns, Tits, Whiskey and Tits.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 06:43 PM (mG8BQ) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:43 PM (2GVsD) 62
under this writhing conga line of LGBTQ rhythm, but.."
"Come on, shake your body baby, do the conga I know you can't control yourself any longer" Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 06:43 PM (XuXeR) 63
Today the gov revoked disparate-impact liability rule making, for what it's worth:
x.com/CivilRights/status/ 1998417698263285954 Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 06:43 PM (3uBP9) 64
Also, don't grab the lectern with a death-grip. You don't realize how much you use your hands until you have to keep them at your sides while trying to make a point solely with your eloquent use of language.
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 06:40 PM (NtoJk) Try all of that, and being Italian. Might as well try to stop the tide. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 06:44 PM (zZu0s) 65
I could not watch either without projectile harfing all over the room and passing out.
Gavin simply is a super weirdo and useless user of oxygen as he destroys California. Walz I have never heard speak due to the emesis projection like The Exorcist. He has a pedo mouth that causes me to swiftly look away to protect my retinas. He's busy destroying MN. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 09, 2025 06:44 PM (WONhk) 66
Both these guys have real Tickle Your Balls Energy.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 06:44 PM (E0p3T) 67
59 Didn't Justine Castreaux sit much the same way Newscum does?
Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2025 06:42 PM (s0JqF) Even when he wasn't in blackface... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 06:44 PM (ynpvh) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:44 PM (2GVsD) 69
Now I want a cigarette. Its weird, been happening a lot lately. Have not had a cigarette in 14 years.
Posted by: Aetius451AD This is rather common. 17 years on from quitting and that craving for a cigarette still shows up like a bolt of lightening every few years. Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 06:44 PM (uv8gn) 70
So, the next democrat presidential ticket: Newsom on top, and Walz underneath.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 09, 2025 06:44 PM (0Htd1) 71
59 Didn't Justine Castreaux sit much the same way Newscum does?
Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2025 06:42 PM (s0JqF) I know, why do all of those gaylords sit that way? I still haven't met one person that like Newsom. He's repellent. Posted by: CaliGirl at December 09, 2025 06:44 PM (hs4ik) 72
Actually, Tim is right. No truck, no beard, no hunting, no football. It's the weird NAMBLA founding member vibes and that fact that he talks and acts like a CHOMO is what turns people off.
He also pegs the Gaydar at around 98.9. Posted by: Ventilate All Chomos at December 09, 2025 06:45 PM (R/m4+) 73
It's great when you break the super secret lib journo code -
"reflecting the Far RIGHT..." followed by the most middle of the road normal comment that 80% of the populace will agree with right now, not to mention the 95% that would agree with it a mere 10 years ago. Really makes things easy. Posted by: Croaker at December 09, 2025 06:45 PM (AUB4U) 74
Now I have an earworm of Slim Pickens saying Kansas City faggots.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at December 09, 2025 06:45 PM (wBaIH) 75
61 I'm traditionally masculine, I like Guns, Tits, Whiskey and Tits.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 06:43 PM (mG8BQ) And tits are there twice because they customarily come in pairs... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 06:45 PM (ynpvh) 76
Hearing about Spartacus (the name) makes me snicker. The DH was once in a meeting with his rabid supervisor who was clearly on the warpath and looking for someone to chew on in the room. As nobody would say anything and the ranting looked ready to continue unabated until someone did, DH slipped down to his knees, stretched out his arms and declared loudly, "I'm Spartacus! Crucify ME!" which startled everyone so much that rabid supervisor went quiet, then just dismissed everyone as anything else he said would be anticlimactic.
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 06:45 PM (NtoJk) 77
Attention Cobs! Spammer at end of Intentional Negligence thread, #276.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 06:45 PM (npFr7) 78
A masculine person would have not put tampons in boys bathrooms. He is neither masculine or sane.
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 09, 2025 06:45 PM (cS1cw) 79
Posted by: HOME PROFIT at December 09, 2025 06:25 PM (+3dnj)
What did you do with Sarah? If you hurt her in any way, you suffer. capice? Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at December 09, 2025 06:45 PM (pcnhy) 80
Better than an earworm of Mahomie saying Kansas City faggots, I suppose.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at December 09, 2025 06:46 PM (wBaIH) 81
80 Posted by: HOME PROFIT at December 09, 2025 06:25 PM (+3dnj)
What did you do with Sarah? If you hurt her in any way, you suffer. capice? Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at December 09, 2025 06:45 PM (pcnhy) $20, same as in town. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 06:47 PM (ynpvh) 82
32 Kansas City faggots?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:34 PM (2GVsD) Funniest live college radio moment was listening to my friend recite the highschool football scores. Fairfield High's team was called the Stags. Well, my friend was speaking a bit too quickly and ended up referring to them as the Stairfield Fags. Consummate non-professional that he was, he excused himself and corrected his error by calling the team... ...the Fags of Stairfield... Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 09, 2025 06:47 PM (nbLIj) 83
The Field Marshall needs a song about fish heads.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:47 PM (2GVsD) 84
Try all of that, and being Italian.
Might as well try to stop the tide. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 06:44 PM (zZu0s) LOL! I feel for ya! Actually, it was one of the harder things to learn. That, and not using "filler" words. To this day, the excessive use of "and" and "uh" makes me flinch. Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 06:48 PM (NtoJk) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 06:48 PM (XuXeR) 86
Speaking of Mahomes, I asked my wife the other night if Patrick Mahomes walks like a sissy. She immediately said "Yes!"
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 09, 2025 06:48 PM (0aYVJ) 87
If the Somolians took Walz for ransom, would anyone pay?
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 09, 2025 06:48 PM (WONhk) 88
Speaking of Mahomes, I asked my wife the other night if Patrick Mahomes walks like a sissy. She immediately said "Yes!"
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old Walks like a sissy and talks like Kermit the Frog. Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 06:49 PM (MGB5H) 89
As a former United States Senator, I am deeply concerned about the belittling and abusive language some here use to denigrate these elected officials. We may belong to different political parties, but we all share a deep love of this country, and this petty name-calling is beneath us. We should strive to do better.
Posted by: Mitt Romney at December 09, 2025 06:49 PM (PiwSw) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:49 PM (2GVsD) 91
>>> I know, why do all of those gaylords sit that way? I still haven't met one person that like Newsom. He's repellent.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 09, 2025 06:44 PM (hs4ik) I think he is too. But also I think some people are kind of sensitive to psychopaths. I think I am. Deep down repelled. So I underestimate his appeal. On the left, many just see him as the left's answer to Trump. With the reasoning being, "well I super hate Trump, so to combat that we just need to pick someone that is super hated by our opponents". Therein lies all his popularity. Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 06:49 PM (3uBP9) 92
Attention Cobs! Spammer at end of Intentional Negligence thread, #276.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 06:45 PM (npFr7) Wep! Same cunt at #4 here. Sheesh. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 06:49 PM (npFr7) 93
He was married to Kimberly Guilfoyle. Never figured that one out.
Posted by: tubal His current wife was an active side piece for Harvey Weinstein. Figure that. Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 09, 2025 06:49 PM (cxFcK) 94
If the Somolians took Walz for ransom, would anyone pay?
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGr That reeks of a real Ransom of Red Chief situation. Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 06:50 PM (MGB5H) 95
If the Somolians took Walz for ransom, would anyone pay?
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 09, 2025 06:48 PM (WONhk) There is a "Ransom of Red Chief" reference here. Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 09, 2025 06:50 PM (0aYVJ) 96
Gavin sits like a kid who has to pee so bad, Mom, please stop the car.
Posted by: huerfano at December 09, 2025 06:50 PM (98kQX) 97
I was taught to drink heavily first.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram Lucky. All we got was burned bread. Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 06:50 PM (mlg/3) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:50 PM (2GVsD) 99
As a former United States Senator, I am deeply concerned about the belittling and abusive language some here use to denigrate these elected officials. We may belong to different political parties, but we all share a deep love of this country, and this petty name-calling is beneath us. We should strive to do better.
Posted by: Mitt Romney at December 09, 2025 06:49 PM (PiwSw) Dear Mittens, you are obviously mistaking us for people who give a damn for your lily-livered opinion. Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 06:51 PM (NtoJk) 100
We should strive to do better.
Posted by: Mitt Romney at December 09, 2025 06:49 PM (PiwSw) ————— Fag Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 09, 2025 06:51 PM (u73oe) 101
His current wife was an active side piece for Harvey Weinstein. Figure that.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 09, 2025 06:49 PM (cxFcK) Since weinstein jerked off in potted plants, does that mean they didnt do it? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 06:51 PM (zZu0s) Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 06:51 PM (vFG9F) 103
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:47 PM (2GVsD)
Anna do you ever generate your pics locally of is it all in the "cloud". Just curious because if you have decent video card you can experiment yourself. Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 06:51 PM (E0p3T) 104
If the Somolians took Walz for ransom, would anyone pay?
Wasn't that the ending to Nine to Five? Or was it Ruthless People? Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:52 PM (2GVsD) 105
Odds that Booker's wife is a trannie 50/50
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 06:52 PM (D+mpw) 106
Odds that Booker's wife is a trannie 50/50
Posted by: Smell the Glove at She looks oddly like his previous beard, Rosario Dawson. Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 06:53 PM (MGB5H) 107
Mitt Romney, GOP.
There you go. If the GOP wonders why it has hard times in the mid-term elections, ask those wankers why they tolerated Mitt Romney. Mittens made it his personal mission to destroy Trump for the last 10 years, and the GOP did exactly *nothing* to deter Romney. Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 06:53 PM (TN0g+) 108
You don't realize how much you use your hands until you have to keep them at your sides while trying to make a point solely with your eloquent use of language. Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 06:40 PM (NtoJk) Leonardo da Vinci invented the Ornithopter after observing his fellow Italians giving speeches in public. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 09, 2025 06:53 PM (y9nCu) 109
I do not understand why men like Tim Walz continue to fool themselves. Come out of the closet already!
Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at December 09, 2025 06:53 PM (R/m4+) 110
High Tea, no shade
Posted by: Aunt Ralph at December 09, 2025 06:54 PM (qMeWG) 111
Gavin's wife met with Weinstein, he allegedly assaulted her and then she went back again. Gavin's squashed balls aren't the only problem in that family
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 06:54 PM (D+mpw) 112
I do not understand why men like Tim Walz continue to fool themselves. Come out of the closet already!
Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at December 09, 2025 06:53 PM (R/m4+) I'm not in the closet. Posted by: Tom Cruise at December 09, 2025 06:54 PM (0aYVJ) 113
This is no way to treat a respected Republican politican and the 2012 Republican nominee for President!
Posted by: Pierre Delecto at December 09, 2025 06:54 PM (PiwSw) 114
If the Somolians took Walz for ransom, would anyone pay?
For the Somalis to continue to hang on to him? You betcha. Posted by: Paco - If the problem's a no-brainer, I'm your man at December 09, 2025 06:54 PM (2L+MU) Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 06:55 PM (77rzZ) 116
Joanne Shaw Taylor
"Sweet 'Lil Lies" Official Music Video She plays a Telecaster like a girl. This is a compliment https://youtu.be/1uFHX2UotIU Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 06:55 PM (uv8gn) 117
High Tea, no shade
Posted by: Aunt Ralph at December 09, 2025 06:54 PM (qMeWG) I am intrigued, Auntie. Is that like the saying, "Big hat, no cattle"? Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 06:55 PM (NtoJk) 118
89 Speaking of Mahomes, I asked my wife the other night if Patrick Mahomes walks like a sissy. She immediately said "Yes!"
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old Walks like a sissy and talks like Kermit the Frog. Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 06:49 PM (MGB5H) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP_aom1IgqI&t=333s Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 06:55 PM (ynpvh) 119
Trigglypuff could sit on Greta von Thule and never notice.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:55 PM (2GVsD) Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at December 09, 2025 06:56 PM (UJMvS) 121
I'm not in the closet.
Posted by: Tom Cruise ------ Strangely enough, Nicole Kidman still says the occasional nice thing about him and to my knowledge has never gone on a tirade or truth-telling mission. Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 06:56 PM (TN0g+) 122
Which one is Mrs. Booker?
Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 09, 2025 06:56 PM (hR7Y3) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:57 PM (2GVsD) 124
If you men want to discuss your identities, please consider this a safe, nurturing space in which to do so.
===== Speaking as a black lesbian I am comfortable with my masculinity. Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 06:57 PM (9ipOP) 125
Trigglypuff could sit on Greta von Thule and never notice.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:55 PM (2GVsD) Like Jabba sitting on that weird little thing who cackled all the time in that one Star War flick. Posted by: Pug Mahon, changing socks like a mo-fo at December 09, 2025 06:57 PM (0aYVJ) 126
99 *points and laughs*
Its Mittels Rombley, the boneless port rectum. Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:50 PM (2GVsD) inverted or non-inverted? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 06:57 PM (ynpvh) 127
Walks like a sissy and talks like Kermit the Frog.
---- Kermit the Frog doing the "Taken" speech (from Liam Nelson) is pretty dang funny. Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 06:57 PM (TN0g+) 128
It's the Barack Obama casually seated position Newsom is constantly imitating.
In-between two genders (now more?), relaxed & unconcerned, professory. Barack and Michelle Obama, Chicago National Museum of African American History and Culture Description Date May 26, 1996 "Portrait of Barack and Michelle Obama seated on a couch in their home in Hyde Park, Chicago. Barack Obama, wearing a dark shirt and khaki pants, is sitting casually, his legs crossed with his right arm draped across the couch back, and his left arm around Michelle Obama." And it only became more pronounced as time goes on. Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 09, 2025 06:57 PM (NFX2v) 129
Which one is Mrs. Booker?
Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 09, 2025 06:56 PM (hR7Y3) —————— The one with a dick. Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 09, 2025 06:57 PM (u73oe) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:58 PM (2GVsD) 131
Strangely enough, Nicole Kidman still says the occasional nice thing about him and to my knowledge has never gone on a tirade or truth-telling mission.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 06:56 PM (TN0g+) Show me the money! Posted by: Nicole Kidman, Not Stupid at December 09, 2025 06:58 PM (R/m4+) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 06:59 PM (tgvbd) 133
Mahomes has a hot wife and 3 kids.
Posted by: Accomack at December 09, 2025 06:59 PM (T8bqm) 134
So who is trying to date Nicole Kidman now?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:59 PM (2GVsD) 135
I'm not in the closet.
Posted by: Tom Cruise ------ Strangely enough, Nicole Kidman still says the occasional nice thing about him and to my knowledge has never gone on a tirade or truth-telling mission. Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 06:56 PM (TN0g+) --- That was more a South Park reference. I don't think Tom is gay. kind of weird, but damn he's done some really fun movies over the years. Posted by: Pug Mahon, changing socks like a mo-fo at December 09, 2025 07:00 PM (0aYVJ) Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 07:00 PM (MGB5H) 137
You don't realize how much you use your hands until you have to keep them at your sides while trying to make a point solely with your eloquent use of language. Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 06:40 PM (NtoJk) __________ Read out loud something in Italian. Your hands will uncontrollably move on their own. You cannot prevent this. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:01 PM (tgvbd) 138
who is trying to date Nicole Kidman now?
Posted by: Anna Puma Not Keith Urban. Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 07:00 PM (MGB5H) She seems to like short men. Brad Williams, you're next. Posted by: Pug Mahon, changing socks like a mo-fo at December 09, 2025 07:01 PM (0aYVJ) 139
Gavin is trying to show off his manly thighs with his patented testicle crush seating position.
Make of that what you will. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at December 09, 2025 07:02 PM (UJMvS) 140
Gavin's wife met with Weinstein, he allegedly assaulted her and then she went back again. Gavin's squashed balls aren't the only problem in that family
Posted by: Smell the Glove ...... "She sounds like perfect First Lady material." - DOCTOR Jill Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 07:03 PM (v0R5T) 141
Read out loud something in Italian. Your hands will uncontrollably move on their own. You cannot prevent this.
I said it wasn't easy, Hadrian! LOL Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 07:03 PM (NtoJk) 142
Not Keith Urban.
Posted by: BruceWayne Totally OT, but the NZ guy that made What We Do In The Shadows and Jo Jo Rabbit is making a new Dredd movie. With Karl Urban! Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 09, 2025 07:03 PM (cxFcK) 143
To borrow from Mencken again, Romney is so pure, so morally "angelic", I half expect him to sprout a halo and wings and fly around the room.
Posted by: Paco - If the problem's a no-brainer, I'm your man at December 09, 2025 07:03 PM (2L+MU) 144
Gavin is trying to show off his manly thighs with his patented testicle crush seating position. _________ TWEEEEET! *throws flag* Assumes testicles are present. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:03 PM (tgvbd) 145
It would be cool if Nicole Kidman and Kathy Ireland both start a commercial fishing company and have a reality show about it that I would never watch.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 07:04 PM (3uBP9) 146
FYI, read anything aloud in Russian and people will think you're cursing.
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 07:04 PM (NtoJk) 147
Assumes testicles are present.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:03 PM (tgvbd) ------------- He's a gelding? Explains a lot.... Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at December 09, 2025 07:04 PM (UJMvS) 148
After what he did to the Thor movies, Whacko Tahiti should never be allowed near a movie again.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:05 PM (2GVsD) 149
Like a Bubba and Forrest thing but with red heads.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 07:05 PM (3uBP9) 150
The Patrick Mahomes finger wiggle is apparently why he has 3 kids.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sjHTTTtx-nM Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 07:05 PM (uv8gn) 151
Booker is gay AF, and Walz throws off major pederast vibes.
Posted by: Making Lindsey Graham look butch at December 09, 2025 07:05 PM (TbWk/) 152
Tim Pool lacerated Candace Owens, calling her a scumbag and a "degenerate c*nt," and says he is shuttering his podcast after shots fired at his home. It was a good rant.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2025 07:05 PM (WHfpM) 153
"She sounds like perfect First Lady material." - DOCTOR Jill
Posted by: wth DOCTOR Jill was Brandon's babysitter before he started a relationship with her while he was married. The more you know... Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 09, 2025 07:05 PM (cxFcK) 154
138 Read out loud something in Italian. Your hands will uncontrollably move on their own. You cannot prevent this. - Hadrian the Seventh
Geez, you're right! It's trying to keep your eyes open when you sneeze. Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 07:06 PM (2L+MU) 155
FYI, read anything aloud in Russian and people will think you're cursing. Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 07:04 PM (NtoJk) _________ How to say "Hello" in foreign languages French: Bon jour Italian: Buon giorno German: Guten tag Russian: Yob tvoyu mat Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:07 PM (tgvbd) 156
After what he did to the Thor movies, Whacko Tahiti should never be allowed near a movie again.
Posted by: Anna Puma Drinker has a fun episode on his career self-immolation. Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 07:07 PM (MGB5H) 157
Good one! You're on fire, Hadrian!
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 07:08 PM (NtoJk) 158
You know who is really on the 'Do Not Hire' list in Hollywood
The guy who gave us the live action Cats. Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:09 PM (2GVsD) 159
Hadrian is rewriting "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" into "My Big Fat Russian Wedding?"
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at December 09, 2025 07:09 PM (UJMvS) 160
In Russian class we would snarl out "Вдалеке я вижу канал с пивом!" which means, "In the distance I see a canal of beer." It always had a ferocious ring to it...
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 07:09 PM (NtoJk) 161
You know who is really on the 'Do Not Hire' list in Hollywood
The guy who gave us the live action Cats. Posted by: Anna Puma at Tom Hooper. Good episode on him too. Hahah. Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 07:10 PM (MGB5H) 162
*lights large cigar*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 06:59 PM Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Posted by: zombie Sigmoid Freud at December 09, 2025 07:10 PM (0sNs1) 163
Willowed:
Adjusting for inflation the US GDP in 1964 was actually higher than it is today. Remember, the population was smaller then, 192.8 million compared to 343 million today. Fewer people were producing 20% more than than today in constant dollars. That means the productivity per person today is only 67% of what it was then. Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 07:10 PM (Da7Vv) 164
Raul Malo has passed due to cancer. Long live Raul, Long the Mavericks. When they were on they were one of the greatest lives acts I have ever seen. We lost one of the Rock n' Roll greats.
The Mavericks All You Do is Bring Me Down https://youtu.be/2nPLXVL8hKI Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 07:10 PM (uv8gn) 165
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:07 PM (tgvbd)
=== Or the simpler твою мать Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 07:11 PM (9ipOP) 166
I don't think Susie Wiles had to twist Trump's arm to hard to get him back in rally mode. This is his comfort zone, wavy hands and everything.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 07:11 PM (viF8m) 167
Minister: Cory Booker and Alexis Lewis, I now pronounce you husband and wife. One of you may now kiss the bride.
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 07:11 PM (2L+MU) 168
I guess I should look on the bright side, Hadrian isn't telling us to go fvck cows.
Some bright side. Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:11 PM (2GVsD) Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 07:12 PM (Da7Vv) 170
Walz = Gollum, "My Precious"
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 09, 2025 07:12 PM (NFX2v) 171
Whacko Tahiti should never be allowed near a movie again.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:05 PM (2GVsD) Especially not Dredd. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 07:12 PM (zZu0s) 172
San Franpsycho, did you, too, receive the little dictionary of utterly obscene words and slang to go along with "A Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich" in the original Russian? It was an eye-opener, I'll tell you.
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 07:13 PM (NtoJk) 173
If you men want to discuss your identities, please consider this a safe, nurturing space in which to do so
* grunts * Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2025 07:13 PM (0sNs1) 174
As you know, Gavin Newsom sits in an extremely "cover your mish" way that makes people doubt the physical existence of his testicles.
----- Well Newsom's wife went down on Harvey Weinstein so she's used to the small stuff Posted by: Frank Barone at December 09, 2025 07:13 PM (IifOV) Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 07:13 PM (MGB5H) 176
165 Raul Malo has passed due to cancer. Long live Raul, Long the Mavericks. When they were on they were one of the greatest lives acts I have ever seen. We lost one of the Rock n' Roll greats. - Alteria Pilgram
I'm sorry to hear that news. Back in the day, I used to listen to the Mavericks quite a lot. God rest Raul Malo's soul. Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 07:14 PM (2L+MU) 177
Who was the late 70s early 80s 'Don't bring me down'? Supertramp?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 07:14 PM (zZu0s) 178
So Gavin.
Boxers, briefs, or thongs? Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 07:14 PM (v0R5T) Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 07:14 PM (TR2dy) 180
Who was the late 70s early 80s 'Don't bring me down'? Supertramp?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 07:14 PM (zZu0s) --------- ELO Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at December 09, 2025 07:14 PM (UJMvS) 181
I guess I should look on the bright side, Hadrian isn't telling us to go fvck cows.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:11 PM I can think of some people I wish he would. Posted by: Moroccan Donkey at December 09, 2025 07:15 PM (0sNs1) 182
No I learned all my foul language in real time!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 07:15 PM (9ipOP) 183
The guy who gave us the live action Cats. _________ The musical was the biggest load of unrefined crap ever to defile my eardrums. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:16 PM (tgvbd) Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 07:17 PM (Da7Vv) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:17 PM (2GVsD) 186
Newsomes hand genstures looks like Elaine from Seinfeld trying to dance. Posted by: Frank Barone at December 09, 2025 07:17 PM (IifOV) 187
No I learned all my foul language in real time!
Posted by: San Franpsycho (Bows down in awed respect.) Lucky! I had to study and Soviet "literature" is the most snooze-inducing stuff on earth! Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 07:18 PM (NtoJk) Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 07:18 PM (A0sqA) 189
Didn't Mahomes' wife get in trouble with the left for "liking" some Trump Tweets or Xeets or whatever?
Maybe Mahomes himself is secretly based. It's long been whispered that Josh Allen is a rightie. Aaron Rodgers is certainly not a lefty. Wouldn't be surprised if there's a lot of secret conservatives of all races in the NFL. Posted by: Delurker at December 09, 2025 07:18 PM (xNHSX) 190
The Mavericks
All You Do is Bring Me Down https://youtu.be/2nPLXVL8hKI Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 07:10 PM (uv8gn) Excellent choice! Band has a big sound. Reminds me a little of the Texas Tornadoes. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 07:18 PM (npFr7) 191
182 I guess I should look on the bright side, Hadrian isn't telling us to go fvck cows.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:11 PM I can think of some people I wish he would. Posted by: Moroccan Donkey at December 09, 2025 07:15 PM (0sNs1) Me too. Posted by: Chickens Against Chik-Fil-A at December 09, 2025 07:18 PM (ynpvh) 192
The musical was the biggest load of unrefined crap ever to defile my eardrums.
Like I said, Taylor Swift was in the movie musical. Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 07:19 PM (Da7Vv) Posted by: Gav "The Monster Bod" Newsome at December 09, 2025 07:19 PM (J9q9v) 194
President Trump likes ro do rallies, probably misses them
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 07:20 PM (Ia/+0) 195
194 Today I just bench Pressed 25 Lbs without a Spotter.
What can you Girly-Guys Bench Press ???? Posted by: Gav "The Monster Bod" Newsome at December 09, 2025 07:19 PM (J9q9v) I can do two 50 lb bags of potatoes. Tomorrow I'll start adding a potato to each bag... Posted by: Tim Ball-lezz Walz at December 09, 2025 07:20 PM (ynpvh) Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 07:21 PM (A0sqA) 197
Raul Malo has passed due to cancer. Long live Raul, Long the Mavericks. When they were on they were one of the greatest lives acts I have ever seen. We lost one of the Rock n' Roll greats. - Alteria Pilgram
I'm sorry to hear that news. Back in the day, I used to listen to the Mavericks quite a lot. God rest Raul Malo's soul. Posted by: Paco Over last 7 or 8 years if they were playing anywhere close to me, meaning 500 miles, I was in the car to see them. One of the greatest two nights was seeing them at Gruene Hall in New Braunfauls, TX over a New Year's weekend, they were on fire. Tucson during covid was off the charts. My all time favorite show as at the Sandia Casino Amphitheatre in Albuquerque, NM - that show was a peak night - 4K people dancing the night way all night long through a thunder storm at times. Another time he showed up at the Las Cruces 4th of July show and did a solo set; it was there I came to understand why that band was beyond great. The last show I was to see was at the Santa Fe Opera house this September, at the last minute it was canceled; then I found out why and I have say part of my heart broke when I heard why. Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 07:21 PM (uv8gn) 198
Today I just bench Pressed 25 Lbs without a Spotter.
What can you Girly-Guys Bench Press ???? Posted by: Gav "The Monster Bod" Newsome ...... Did your testes drop? Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 07:21 PM (v0R5T) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 07:23 PM (XuXeR) 200
The Mavericks
All You Do is Bring Me Down https://youtu.be/2nPLXVL8hKI Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 07:10 PM (uv8gn) Excellent choice! Band has a big sound. Reminds me a little of the Texas Tornadoes. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon This was one of their standard show closers or the encore. They dragged out it and played it the max - after 8 bars, without fail the audience went wild. That bounce beat was wicked and it all came right out of Raul's soul. Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 07:23 PM (uv8gn) 201
200 Москва слезам не верит"
Prometheus? Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 07:23 PM (XuXeR) Прометей Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 07:24 PM (ynpvh) Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 09, 2025 07:24 PM (u73oe) 203
Solaris > Prometheus > Avatar: The Quest for Money.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:25 PM (2GVsD) 204
I have shelves full of Russian/Soviet-period literature, and I like it, for the most part, particularly the works of Vladimir Voinovich and Mikhail Bulgakov.
And Russian opera is the only opera I enjoy. Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 07:25 PM (2L+MU) 205
Newsomes hand genstures looks like Elaine from Seinfeld trying to dance.
I don't think I've ever seen a more on the money description of anything than that. Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 07:26 PM (Da7Vv) Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 07:26 PM (A0sqA) 207
205 I have shelves full of Russian/Soviet-period literature, and I like it, for the most part, particularly the works of Vladimir Voinovich and Mikhail Bulgakov.
And Russian opera is the only opera I enjoy. Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 07:25 PM (2L+MU) As long as it's not like Klingon opera... https://youtu.be/rYY17RarRVc Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 07:27 PM (ynpvh) 208
Russian opera > Vogon poetry?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:27 PM (2GVsD) 209
198 Over last 7 or 8 years if they were playing anywhere close to me, meaning 500 miles, I was in the car to see them. - Alteria Pilgram
Then you have some great memories to cherish. I regret that I never had the opportunity to see them live. Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 07:28 PM (2L+MU) 210
Klingon opera is best opera.
Posted by: Worf, son of Mogh at December 09, 2025 07:29 PM (0sNs1) 211
208 As long as it's not like Klingon opera...
https://youtu.be/rYY17RarRVc - jim (in Kalifornia) No, No! Think the coronation scene from Boris Godunov, as an example. Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 07:30 PM (2L+MU) 212
the radiating masculine energy of the Democrat Party
You can't really discuss that without including me. Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard alumnus at December 09, 2025 07:31 PM (0sNs1) 213
I have always been a fan of the Soviet opera, "Gulag."
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 07:32 PM (uv8gn) 214
A Holiday Warning
Troubling Clouds… Read the whole thing. Be vigilant my friends. https://tinyurl.com/v2dp3428 Posted by: Vengeance at December 09, 2025 07:33 PM (gb3qv) 215
Has anyone seen stateless around?
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 07:34 PM (22tYi) 216
Daily Mail
Former UN weapons inspector Matt Bryden and now freelance in Nairobi believes the Minnesota fraud by Somali immigrants helped fund Al-Shabaab in Somalia. Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:36 PM (2GVsD) 217
That engagement photo of Booker and Lewis. I think they're supposed to be laughing but it looks like they're about to eat each other.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 09, 2025 07:38 PM (jYRYu) 218
Daily Mail
Former UN weapons inspector Matt Bryden and now freelance in Nairobi believes the Minnesota fraud by Somali immigrants helped fund Al-Shabaab in Somalia. Posted by: Anna Puma I would wager it also help fund Tim Walz's feather boa and stiletto heels collection. Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 07:38 PM (uv8gn) 219
Think the coronation scene from Boris Godunov, as an example. Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 07:30 PM (2L+MU) ________ Original version or Rimsky-Korsakov edition? Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:38 PM (tgvbd) 220
{{{nurse ratched}}}
Assume this is a virtual life-affirming hug. NotSoThoreau told me this morning she has woodpeckers. FWIW. Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 09, 2025 07:39 PM (u82oZ) 221
>>>A Holiday Warning
Troubling Clouds… Read the whole thing. Be vigilant my friends. https://tinyurl.com/v2dp3428 Posted by: Vengeance at December 09, 2025 07:33 PM (gb3qv) I'm intrigued but I don't click random links at work. Posted by: Max Power at December 09, 2025 07:39 PM (SwyyQ) 222
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‘ Newsome sits like a girl...a really stupid, ugly girl.’ It must be a lot harder than I think to not sit like a fag. Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2025 07:42 PM (fd80v) 223
AaWhat can you Girly-Guys Bench Press ????
Posted by: Gav "The Monster Bod" Newsome As I remember my best ever day was 3 sets of 7 reps with 225. However that was 20 years ago. The last time I tried it was a struggle to get one rep with 135. That used to be my easy warm up weight. Sigh. Old age tears us all down. Today I watched my boarder, with potential heart problems, loaded into an ambulance on a stretcher . He needed help walking to the stretcher. He used to be able to power clean 265, and do Kip Ups. 4th degree black belt in BJJ - former Texas heavyweight Judo champion. Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 07:43 PM (Da7Vv) 224
Salty Dawg
Did you see the Royal Navy found a new way to be inept and vermin. The Type 23 frigate HMS Lancelot has pulled into Bahrain to be decommissioned. And the ship will not be scrapped in the UK but probably in Turkey. Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:44 PM (2GVsD) 225
Cafe is open.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 09, 2025 07:45 PM (sDNVV) Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 07:46 PM (2L+MU) 227
gavins hand jive bs is an exaggerated version of kamala and her bestie lauren powell jobs
they think its cool Posted by: cherries in season at December 09, 2025 07:50 PM (0XI+v) 228
"Portrait of Barack and Michelle Obama seated on a couch in their home in Hyde Park, Chicago. Barack Obama, wearing a dark shirt and khaki pants, is sitting casually, his legs crossed with his right arm draped across the couch back, and his left arm around Michelle Obama."
Y'know, upon first reading I though it said "Obama, wearing a dark skirt" Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 09, 2025 07:50 PM (a+4eV) 229
Lol. A video thumbnail on ewetub. 'Noem confesses to Judge Boasberg that she is personally responsible for sending immigrants to torture prisons in El Salvador and he is considering throwing her in Jail for it! Hit 'like' if you want her in jail!'
Fucking lol. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 07:53 PM (zZu0s) 230
So did I.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 09, 2025 07:54 PM (NFX2v) 231
We may belong to different political parties, but we all share a deep love of this country, and this petty name-calling is beneath us. We should strive to do better.
Posted by: Mitt Romney at December 09, 2025 06:49 PM (PiwSw) You hear that? He says your name calling is rookie-level! Break out the Shakespearean Insult Book! Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 09, 2025 07:54 PM (a+4eV) 232
And that cuckoldly dull-brained blockhead can go F himself!
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 09, 2025 08:05 PM (NFX2v) 233
87 If the Somolians took Walz for ransom, would anyone pay?
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 09, 2025 06:48 PM (WONhk) I'm sure there are a few Somolia men in need of a girlfriend. If the price is right. Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 09, 2025 08:09 PM (E66lT) 234
Raul Malo has passed due to cancer. Long live Raul, Long the Mavericks. When they were on they were one of the greatest lives acts I have ever seen. We lost one of the Rock n' Roll greats. - Alteria Pilgram
Raul Malo was a rare talent. News of his cancer saddened me and this, well... Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 09, 2025 08:30 PM (nbLIj) 235
As a younger man, many years ago, I used to jokingly say, “I identify as an Akula-class attack submarine.”
But now that I’ve turned 29 and matured, I no longer say that. Now, I identify as a Columbia-class boomer, because they’re badass. Posted by: MarkW at December 09, 2025 08:55 PM (qxVUf) 236
Manhood? Gary Cooper's character in High Noon. Married to the most beautiful woman in the world, but duty to his calling is first.
Womanhood? (spoiler alert). pacifist wife guns down evil man to save her husband. Pretty much what life is like for most married couples, amped up a little. Posted by: LGBTQ+POC, ANTI RACIST HERO at December 09, 2025 09:19 PM (TFeiv) 237
You have to be careful with your hands. What Stiles's photo labels as Trump's "Flying V of Virility" can easily go very wrong depending on the details. The way that he is sitting and leaning forward in that photo, it's like a subtler version of a guy hooking his thumbs in his jeans' pockets, which (aside from just being very comfortable and natural) just happens to also frame his crotch. That is the right way.
However, I recall a photo of.. I forget who, one of the fat, bearded, glasses-wearing NeverTrumpers, who all look the same.. with his hands similar to Trump's, but with a wider gap, and resting on his rotund belly. That is a feminine power pose commonly used by women, as if to say, "Behold: My Womb." So, depending on someone's apparent sex and precise positioning, the affect and effect can range anywhere from vital to grotesque. Posted by: SciVo at December 09, 2025 09:39 PM (Sy6m/) 238
Today I just bench Pressed 25 Lbs without a Spotter.
What can you Girly-Guys Bench Press ???? Posted by: Gav "The Monster Bod" Newsome at December 09, 2025 07:19 PM (J9q9v) I can do two 50 lb bags of potatoes. Tomorrow I'll start adding a potato to each bag... Posted by: Tim Ball-lezz Walz ---- Pfft. Posted by: Barky's two-pound curls at December 09, 2025 09:42 PM (XeU6L) 239
91 >>> I know, why do all of those gaylords sit that way? I still haven't met one person that like Newsom. He's repellent.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 09, 2025 06:44 PM (hs4ik) I think he is too. But also I think some people are kind of sensitive to psychopaths. I think I am. Deep down repelled. So I underestimate his appeal. Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 06:49 PM (3uBP9) I hope the nested quote is apparent. Anyway, just like there is an entire class of memes in the form of Venn diagrams, there is another in the form of rock/paper/scissors, and my favorite is normie/autiste/sociopath. That is speaking of channer-style "weaponizable" autism, not the severe disability. Or, you could think of it as the geek/nerd/techie personality. But just as normies are their exhausting confusing kryptonite, they see right through the artifice of psychos like Newsom. I think that's because those high-functioning sociopaths are exploiting automatic click/whirr heuristics that form the basis of normies' social ease, and that spergs tragically lack, so their natural prey's prey is their natural predator. Or maybe it's just a funny meme. Posted by: SciVo at December 09, 2025 11:04 PM (Sy6m/) 240
l Get paid over $110 per hour working from home. l never thought I'd be able to do it but my buddy makes over $21269 a month doing this and she convinced me to try. The possibility with this is endless....
This is what I do...................... https://urlr.me/E3tz6Y Posted by: Anonymous at December 10, 2025 04:04 AM (NxtE8) 241
Why are these mature, grown men discussing this topic? There is your red flag. Sure, I want these beta males running the country.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 04:12 AM (1zOXE) Trump Chief of Staff Suzie Wiles Promises That Trump Will Campaign In 2026 Like It's His Name on the BallotWhich it effectively is. Trump's impeachment begins one minute after a new Democrat House is installed. President Trump is gearing up to storm the 2026 midterm map, with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles saying Monday that the president is preparing to hit the trail with the same force and stamina he brought to his 2024 comeback run. Appearing on "The Mom View," a YouTube show from Moms for America, Wiles said Trump is already laying the groundwork to help Republicans hold the House and expand their Senate edge -- and that he plans to do it the only way he knows how: by showing up everywhere. "I haven't quite broken it to him yet, but he's going to campaign like it's 2024 again," Wiles said with a laugh, describing a president who remains the GOP's most powerful turnout magnet. "All these people that he helps -- he doesn't help everybody -- but for those he does, he's a difference maker, and he's certainly a turnout machine." Wiles, who managed Trump's victorious 2024 bid, said the White House is deliberately rejecting the old playbook that urged presidents to stay out of midterms and let local candidates dominate the spotlight. Instead, she said, Trump will insert himself directly into the fight -- a sharp pivot meant to energize the voters who showed up for him last November. "Typically in the midterms, it's not about who's sitting at the White House. You localize the election, and you keep the federal officials out of it," she said. "We're actually going to turn that on its head, and put him on the ballot, because so many of those low-propensity voters are Trump voters." She pointed to recent Democrat wins -- capped by the shock election of socialist Zohran Mamdani as New York City mayor -- as a warning of what happens when Trump isn't out front driving Republican enthusiasm. "We saw what happens when he's not on the ballot and not active," she said.Hopefully he'll deploy a "Morning Again in America" campaign of good news. The national average for a gallon of unleaded gasoline slipped below the $3 mark this week, continuing a months-long trend that's easing pressure on drivers heading into the Christmas season. New data from GasBuddy shows the average price falling to just under $3, fueled by what analysts describe as broad declines across most regions of the country. The update notes the national average is down 17.6 cents from a month ago and 7.3 cents from this time last year, based on more than 12 million price reports pulled from over 150,000 stations nationwide. Diesel prices also dipped, dropping another 5.1 cents to $3.671. Patrick De Haan, GasBuddy's head of petroleum analysis, said Monday that the country is "now at multi-year lows heading into Christmas" and predicted prices will hold steady through the early weeks of the new year. AAA's latest survey reached the same conclusion, pegging the national average at roughly $2.952 on Monday -- down from $3.001 a week ago and $3.073 a month ago. Drivers across the South and Midwest are seeing some of the steepest savings. Oklahoma's statewide average sits around $2.36, Texas is hovering near $2.50, and Missouri is clocking in at roughly $2.61. Florida, Alabama, both Carolinas, Ohio, Michigan, Virginia, and Montana have all fallen below the $3 line as well. But coastal blue states continue to stand out on the other end of the spectrum. California's statewide average remains an eye-popping $4.46 -- about $1.57 higher than the national price -- with New York, Washington, Hawaii, and Nevada all posting averages above $3.
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I like Susie Wiles. I think she's a smart, no nonsense sort of woman .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 05:27 PM (looXz) 2
Howdy!
Posted by: Moonbeam at December 09, 2025 05:27 PM (rbKZ6) 3
1 I like Susie Wiles. I think she's a smart, no nonsense sort of woman .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 05:27 PM Agreed! Posted by: Moonbeam at December 09, 2025 05:28 PM (rbKZ6) 4
1 I like Susie Wiles. I think she's a smart, no nonsense sort of woman .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 05:27 PM (looXz) She is better by far than any of the traitors he had in the job during the first four years. Good reason that *none* of them are associated with this administration. The biggest traitors were the three generals he hired. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 05:28 PM (uWKK8) 5
And the Democrats will be bleating about "affordability" from now until the midterms. I hope Trump will give a nationwide address on this soon.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 05:29 PM (looXz) 6
Now if only the GOP will give voters a reason besides Trump to vote for them.
I know, that's crazy talk. Posted by: Veeshir at December 09, 2025 05:29 PM (n3a/S) 7
"Trump's impeachment begins one minute after a new Democrat House is installed."
Pretty sure he doesn't care. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2025 05:30 PM (0N4FZ) 8
Trump is going to party like it's 2028. Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:31 PM (krQz2) 9
Trump's impeachment begins one minute after a new Democrat House is installed.
++++ I can't imagine it will be that slow. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:31 PM (azrRX) 10
"Trump's impeachment begins one minute after a new Democrat House is installed."
Pretty sure he doesn't care. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2025 05:30 PM (0N4FZ) --- It's an empty threat. They won't get 67 votes in the Senate, but Trump will unleash prosecutorial hell on the Dems since he will have nothing to lose. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 05:32 PM (ZOv7s) 11
Hopefully he'll deploy a "Morning Again in America" campaign of good news.
++++ Trump is quite good at that. He like to boast, and has quite a bit to boast about. Unless the AI bubble pops between now and then. If that happens, there *will* be a rout and we'll be lucky to avoid a full-on conversion to outright fascism. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:32 PM (azrRX) 12
Trump's impeachment begins one minute after a new Democrat House is installed.
++++ I can't imagine it will be that slow. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:31 PM (azrRX) --- "Sentence first!" cried Nancy. Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:33 PM (krQz2) 13
7 "Trump's impeachment begins one minute after a new Democrat House is installed."
Pretty sure he doesn't care. -------------------------- Yeah, unless Dims in the House want to vote to cut off spending (and ICE is funded through 2028 iirc), there isn't much they can actually do. Impeachment theater is just for yet more fundraising, like 99% of what Congress Critters do. Posted by: the lower depths at December 09, 2025 05:33 PM (UdiE9) 14
>>And the Democrats will be bleating about "affordability" from now until the midterms. I hope Trump will give a nationwide address on this soon.
He's giving one tonight in PA. Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 05:33 PM (viF8m) 15
He's technically campaigning tonight in Pennsylvania. Currently, Trump is laser focused on a recent poll that showed a significant number of people are not happy about costs at the grocery store. Instead of turning the other cheek and pointing out that gasoline prices are lower, he's going out into the States and making increased costs the primary discussion point.
That's going to be the main issue in 2026 IMO. And, food distributors as well as manufacturers and retailers are still trying to get back what was lost over the last 5 years. But, I'm heartened to know that the White House recognizes this very volatile and relevant issue. Posted by: Orson at December 09, 2025 05:33 PM (dIske) 16
Trump's impeachment begins one minute after a new Democrat House is installed.
--------------- And every other Republican will fold and vote with Dems, you know - the will of the people. The least that needs to be done is to at least hold the seats Republicans hold now, anything else will simply empower the RINOs. Posted by: Decaf at December 09, 2025 05:34 PM (1RAfh) 17
Instead, she said, Trump will insert himself directly into the fight -- a sharp pivot meant to energize the voters who showed up for him last November.
++++ How long before lefty forums are starting of a chorus of impeaching Trump for using taxpayer money (AF1 and associated operations) for political purposes? Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:34 PM (azrRX) 18
Laura Trump was really effective in 2024 when she ran the DNC, she needs to be there again. Posted by: Decaf at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (1RAfh) 19
How long before lefty forums are starting of a chorus of impeaching Trump for using taxpayer money (AF1 and associated operations) for political purposes?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:34 PM (azrRX) ++++ Or before Boasberg declares that the president campaigning during the midterms is illegal? Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (azrRX) 20
California's statewide average remains an eye-popping $4.46 -- about $1.57 higher than the national price.
---- Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you "Socialism"! Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (TN0g+) 21
Now if only the GOP will give voters a reason besides Trump to vote for them.
We don't need to. Watch... Posted by: GOPe at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (IYMzU) 22
"Trump's impeachment begins one minute after a new Democrat House is installed." - Ace
Yep. I think it is actually worse than that. I see all the allegations, such as committing war crimes, as predicates for Democrat compliant kangaroo court felony investigations, trials, and convictions once he is out of office. Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (uv8gn) 23
Instead, she said, Trump will insert himself directly into the fight -- a sharp pivot meant to energize the voters who showed up for him last November.
++++ How long before lefty forums are starting of a chorus of impeaching Trump for using taxpayer money (AF1 and associated operations) for political purposes? Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop! Trump should be in the White House running the country, not playing partisan politics. -legacy media in 3 2 1... Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (MGB5H) 24
It's an empty threat. They won't get 67 votes in the Senate.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 05:32 PM (ZOv7s) --- That's when the Dems launch into an attack against Republicans that won't "do their duty" and have "failed their country" and hope that, with the media carrying their water, it works. The House vote was meant to be a check on the Senate. The Senate has no obligation to try to convict based on a House vote. Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (krQz2) 25
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you "Socialism"!
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (TN0g+) ++++ Nah. If it were socialism, there'd be no fuel. This is good old-fashioned regulatory burden, rent-seeking, corruption and theft. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:36 PM (azrRX) 26
recent poll that showed a significant number of people are not happy about costs at the grocery store"
Then keep democrats from power. Costs are trending down, largely due to reduced transportation costs... Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 05:36 PM (XuXeR) 27
If the Dems gain Congress in 2026, Trump should declassify a lot of Swamp secrets and hopefully that dump will demonstrate that the previous other 2 Impeachment Floor votes were bogus.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:36 PM (krQz2) 28
"We saw what happens when he's not on the ballot and not active," she said.
== ok, but we need good candidates too! Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 05:37 PM (g47mK) 29
a recent poll that showed a significant number of people are not happy about costs at the grocery store
All we have to do is hold the line on prices. Stay strong, gentlemen! Well, I guess it's mostly women now... Posted by: Big Food (Gas, Whatever, etc.) at December 09, 2025 05:37 PM (IYMzU) 30
Kamala Harris: "There Will Be Marble Bust of Me In Congress"…"I Am Historic Figure"
What? Historic and not Herstoric? Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 05:38 PM (uv8gn) 31
$4.46 -- about $1.57 higher than the national price."
I haven't paid these prices for gas and road use diesel in a decade. It's fantastic. Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 05:38 PM (XuXeR) 32
"I haven't quite broken it to him yet, but he's going to campaign like it's 2024 again," Wiles said with a laugh,
-------------- Get him to do what he likes to do and he really likes to campaign. What's not to like? Will he choose another another 70s song to populize? Posted by: Decaf at December 09, 2025 05:38 PM (1RAfh) 33
recent poll that showed a significant number of people are not happy about costs at the grocery store"
Then keep democrats from power. Costs are trending down, largely due to reduced transportation costs... Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 05:36 PM (XuXeR) --- I'm weakly hoping that people can remember the period where most of the increase happened, while the administration was orchestrated telling you "inflation is not happening". I don't have a whole lot of trust in my fellow American right now. Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:39 PM (krQz2) 34
>>Then keep democrats from power. Costs are trending down, largely due to reduced transportation costs...
The economy doesn't turn on a dime. It takes a while for new policies to take hold. But as you noted the trend is heading in the right direction. Where we are today is not where we will be next November. Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 05:39 PM (viF8m) 35
I am not worried about the midterms. The Democrats are beholden to their far left.Lunatic base. They will not be nominating moderates.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 09, 2025 05:40 PM (u73oe) 36
Kamala Harris: "There Will Be Marble Bust of Me In Congress"…"I Am Historic Figure"
What? Historic and not Herstoric? Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 05:38 PM (uv8gn) Everybody is a historic figure. What you are looking for is the right adjectives to be applied to you. Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:40 PM (8avO+) 37
Republicans are too lazy to ask for a mail in ballot and certainly can't be bothered to make a special trip to vote on Election Day. My town is supposedly 60+% R and we lost every single local election last month because we just can't be bothered while the ugly no kings harridans are in a frenzy to vote.
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 05:40 PM (GPa4z) 38
Hopefully he'll deploy a "Morning Again in America" campaign of good news.
--------------- Up to a point. Trump must drive it hard that whatever people have or have regained will disappear in a puff of smoke if Dems get back in. Posted by: Decaf at December 09, 2025 05:40 PM (1RAfh) 39
There is one thing for certain. The GOP will find a way to fk it up.
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 05:41 PM (vFG9F) 40
I hope they're bots, but I've seen posts of people who say they can't vote for Trump because, concerning the H1B visas, he said Americans were stupid.
I guarantee you, if Trump thinks you're stupid, that's just peanuts to how stupid the Democrats take you to be. Ya gotta think of what vote gives you a net gain in what you object to. Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:41 PM (krQz2) 41
Will he choose another another 70s song to populize?
Posted by: Decaf I nominate "Dancing Queen." Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 05:41 PM (uv8gn) 42
"We saw what happens when he's not on the ballot and not active," she said.
== ok, but we need good candidates too! ----- For what? You don't think we're actually going to *do* anything while we're in office, do you? Posted by: The GOPe at December 09, 2025 05:41 PM (TN0g+) 43
Will he choose another another 70s song to populize?"
You mean "take to #1"? "In 2024, 46 years after its release, "Y.M.C.A." spent six weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales chart" Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 05:41 PM (XuXeR) 44
Up to a point. Trump must drive it hard that whatever people have or have regained will disappear in a puff of smoke if Dems get back in.
Posted by: Decaf at December 09, 2025 05:40 PM (1RAfh) ++++ He's also good at that. He's boastful *and* vicious! Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:41 PM (azrRX) 45
Now if only the GOP will give voters a reason besides Trump to vote for them.
What we need are verifiable elections, not this "preponderance of mood" stuff that the MFM is starting to concoct. "I haven't quite broken it to him yet, but he's going to campaign like it's 2024 again," Wiles said with a laugh, As far as I can throw her... Posted by: t-bird at December 09, 2025 05:41 PM (klxjG) 46
I don't have a lot of faith in my fellow Americans--and I don't really have a lot of faith in a republican form of government, by the same token.
That doesn't mean I'm any less committed to making as republic work as much as it can, though. Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:42 PM (krQz2) Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 05:42 PM (pkeXY) 48
Will he choose another another 70s song to populize?
Posted by: Decaf I nominate "Dancing Queen." ----- I nominate "Ballroom Blitz". Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 05:43 PM (TN0g+) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 05:43 PM (XuXeR) 50
And if 'Morning in America' does not work, bring on 'Tits, Beer and Bacon 2026!'
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 05:43 PM (zZu0s) 51
Now if only the GOP will give voters a reason besides Trump to vote for them.
I know, that's crazy talk. VOTE GOP - WE ARE LESS LIKELY TO IMPEACH TRUMP THAN THE DEMOCRATS ! Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 05:43 PM (rgGn5) 52
Then maybe RAM prices will come down.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 05:42 PM (pkeXY) ++++ Oh, they would. And fast. Like a falling brick. This bubble scares me. We're seeing a lot of very familiar stuff, if you were paying attention in the 1998-2002 period. That didn't end well and this is much bigger. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:44 PM (azrRX) Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 09, 2025 05:44 PM (PiwSw) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 05:44 PM (XuXeR) 55
Then maybe RAM prices will come down.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 05:42 PM (pkeXY) --- Back to 20 bucks in town? Posted by: That Guy at December 09, 2025 05:45 PM (krQz2) 56
GOP 2026 - HAVE WE EVER LET YOU DOWN IN A WAY YOU DIDN'T EXPECT?
Posted by: t-bird at December 09, 2025 05:46 PM (klxjG) 57
Between now and 11/26 Trump should continue to monthly or weekly keep dumping info about the deep state and the Biden administration/ Dems. You might not get a lot of prosecutions but you can expose a lot and keep the Dems off balance. Keep trying to nail the old guard and as they fall they will be replaced by Marxist loons. They are only popular in blue states
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 05:46 PM (D+mpw) 58
GOP 2026 - HAVE WE EVER LET YOU DOWN IN A WAY YOU DIDN'T EXPECT?
Posted by: t-bird at December 09, 2025 05:46 PM (klxjG) ++++ There's a hole with no bottom. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:46 PM (azrRX) 59
Trump is doing more than any Republican President in history to help the down-ticket win.
While, at the same time, the down-ticket Republicans have opposed their President more than any party in history. This is amazing--by winning he destroys the anti-Republican Republicans. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 05:47 PM (HXT0k) 60
I hope he keeps winning
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 05:47 PM (xcxpd) 61
That's when the Dems launch into an attack against Republicans that won't "do their duty" and have "failed their country" and hope that, with the media carrying their water, it works.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (krQz2) --- Well, they tried that game twice. I don't think third time is the charm. I also think this is way too early. Next year the Dems will be working full-time to hate on American, desecrate the flag and basically take a dump on all things patriotic. They will riot and tear down flags. Not a great way to sway swing voters. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 05:47 PM (ZOv7s) 62
Does it require a warrant to track cell phones by GPS?
Remember a cell phone is not a phone and wire tap laws don't apply to it. Anyone with a proper receiver can legally eavesdrop on any cell phone conversation because they are actually radios, not phones. So can a law enforcement agency likely talk to a cell phone and ask it where it is without any sort of court involvement? Almost certainly, yes. Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 05:47 PM (Da7Vv) 63
Ed Driscoll is quoting you on Insty.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 09, 2025 05:44 PM (PiwSw) Ed has been trying to get a taste of the furry cock for about a decade now. Don't tell Garrett. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 05:47 PM (zZu0s) 64
I nominate "Ballroom Blitz".
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 05:43 PM (TN0g+) Brian: Ready Steve? Uh huh. Andy? Yeah. Mick? OK, Alright, fellas, let's Gooooooooo. I may have listened to that song a time or two.... Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 09, 2025 05:48 PM (PiwSw) 65
... I also think this is way too early. Next year the Dems will be working full-time to hate on American, desecrate the flag and basically take a dump on all things patriotic.
They will riot and tear down flags. Not a great way to sway swing voters. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 05:47 PM (ZOv7s) ++++ Perhaps. The smart people in the Party know that this is a bad approach. Next year will reveal how much central control there still is. The Party is not monolithic and there is much potential for fracture over core strategy. TIme will tell. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:48 PM (azrRX) Posted by: Kamala at December 09, 2025 05:49 PM (klxjG) 67
capped by the shock election of socialist Zohran Mamdani as New York City mayo
------ I'm sorry who the hell was "shocked" that New Tard City elected an islamunist plant? Certainly not me, I said he would be mayor the day I heard he was running. Might be the least shocking thing that happened all year. Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 05:50 PM (E0p3T) Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 05:50 PM (viF8m) 69
Perhaps. The smart people in the Party know that this is a bad approach. Next year will reveal how much central control there still is. The Party is not monolithic and there is much potential for fracture over core strategy.
TIme will tell. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:48 PM (azrRX) --- Sure. NYC will be model of good governance, a model for the whole nation. And Dems will put aside Trump hatred to celebrate the Founding Fathers. And flaming monkeys will fly out of Ace's ass. All equally likely. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 05:50 PM (ZOv7s) 70
Will he choose another another 70s song to populize?
Posted by: Decaf I nominate "Dancing Queen." ----- I nominate "Ballroom Blitz". Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 05:43 PM (TN0g+) -------------- I love Ballroom Blitz but they are British and I think half of them are dead. It needs to be an American band or artists who are alive and able to take advantage of it. Posted by: Decaf at December 09, 2025 05:51 PM (1RAfh) 71
Trump needs to kiss and make up with Musk. Bring some of that sweet sweet space money to primary RINO cocksuckers right into the ionosphere.
PT: The cause of death for Mitt Romney’s sister-in-law was revealed on Tuesday: Carrie Elizabeth died by suicide, the LA County Medical Examiner said. Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 09, 2025 05:51 PM (abIsI) 72
Democrats will be bleating about "affordability" from now until the midterms. What does the government to about affordability? Make sure the customer has more spending money and/or make sure the goods are cheaper. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 05:51 PM (pkeXY) 73
And the Democrats will be bleating about "affordability" from now until the midterms.
The arsonists complaining about the fire. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 05:51 PM (9Hs2w) 74
Perhaps. The smart people in the Party know that this is a bad approach. Next year will reveal how much central control there still is. The Party is not monolithic and there is much potential for fracture over core strategy.
TIme will tell. Posted by: Joe Mannix Pre-arranged stock market crash? Mebbe just a small one, big enough to use for propaganda purposes, but not the big one coming in 2028. Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 05:51 PM (mlg/3) 75
I may have listened to that song a time or two....
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 09, 2025 05:48 PM (PiwSw) Oh, so you think YOU'RE the passionate one? Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 05:52 PM (VSgUG) 76
Sure. NYC will be model of good governance, a model for the whole nation. And Dems will put aside Trump hatred to celebrate the Founding Fathers. And flaming monkeys will fly out of Ace's ass. All equally likely.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 05:50 PM (ZOv7s) ++++ There is pretty big space between "don't go fully insane anti-America and anti-Normality with riots and terrorism" and "put aside Trump hatred to celebrate the Founding Fathers." Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:52 PM (azrRX) 77
Brian: Ready Steve? Uh huh. Andy? Yeah. Mick? OK, Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 09, 2025 05:48 PM (PiwSw) --- No, You Don't Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:53 PM (krQz2) 78
Well, they tried that game twice. I don't think third time is the charm.
I also think this is way too early. Next year the Dems will be working full-time to hate on American, desecrate the flag and basically take a dump on all things patriotic. They will riot and tear down flags. Not a great way to sway swing voters. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 05:47 PM (ZOv7s) I think the current Dems are too incoherent to have a constant message. You have neocons, leftists, antisemites and the woke brigade all pulling in different directions. Look at the Crockett thing - if she's such a star why waste her on losing in the Primary or General in Texas? Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:53 PM (8avO+) 79
The Dem voters are pathetic victims of mind control. Their candidates are literally running on nothing. They have no policies that aren't on the wrong side of the 80/20 split. But the army of zombies with pristine hymens will be out in force.
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 05:54 PM (GPa4z) 80
What does the government to about affordability?
Make sure the customer has more spending money and/or make sure the goods are cheaper. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 05:51 PM (pkeXY) --- It can lower interest rates, which is why Powell won't do it. If he doesn't lower them, Trump should fire him, relying on SCOTUS, which is going to find the executive has that power and will put a stay on him working until their other opinion comes out. I think Trump has been planning on this for a while. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 05:54 PM (ZOv7s) 81
I will say, he is sending texts and emails out for donations like he's running for sure. As much as he did leading up to his presidential runs. Really spooled up in the past week.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 05:54 PM (3uBP9) 82
There's a non-zero chance that if the Dems win in 2026, we're the UK by 2030.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:54 PM (krQz2) 83
Pre-arranged stock market crash? Mebbe just a small one, big enough to use for propaganda purposes, but not the big one coming in 2028.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 05:51 PM (mlg/3) ++++ Don't bet on it. Nobody has enough power for that, and it's unlikely that anyone who *did* would be stupid enough to use it. The capital markets are really, really big and screwing with them is exceedingly dangerous - especially when everything is on a precipice anyway. Stocks in particular are primed for a major downturn. There's no way to engineer a "small" downturn when there's this much overhang. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:54 PM (azrRX) 84
I nominate "Ballroom Blitz".
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 *** I loved it when Mitsubishi used it for their TV commercials. Mitsu always seemed to have pretty savvy marketing. Unfortunately, on the channels I watch now over-the-air, everything is about Medicare Advantage plans, Hurry-Canes, phones with closed captioning, and incontinence products. Do car companies still have ads? Any good ones? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 05:54 PM (wzUl9) Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 05:54 PM (pkeXY) 86
Democrats will be bleating about "affordability" from now until the midterms.
What does the government to about affordability? Make sure the customer has more spending money and/or make sure the goods are cheaper. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 05:51 PM (pkeXY) Well Trump could roll back tariffs on Argentine Beef or something in an instant Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:55 PM (8avO+) 87
Kamala Harris: "There Will Be Marble Bust of Me In Congress"…"I Am Historic Figure"
What? Historic and not Herstoric? Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 05:38 PM (uv8gn) Everybody is a historic figure. What you are looking for is the right adjectives to be applied to you. Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:40 PM (8avO+) **** Maybe marble dildo of Willie Brown's schlonge because she's his fault. Posted by: torabora at December 09, 2025 05:55 PM (1pB37) 88
Trump's song should be The Ramones' Today Your Love Tomorrow the World.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at December 09, 2025 05:55 PM (wBaIH) 89
What does the government to about affordability?
Make sure the customer has more spending money and/or make sure the goods are cheaper. So they import tens of millions more Takers which dramatically increases demand on housing, food, transportation, medical, education, municipal services, utilities. Then confiscates through taxation and inflation the spending money of the Producers who now pay much higher prices with less money on the things being gifted to the Parasites. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 05:55 PM (9Hs2w) 90
nominate "Ballroom Blitz".
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 I liked when Tia Carrere sang it. Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 05:55 PM (MGB5H) 91
There's a non-zero chance that if the Dems win in 2026, we're the UK by 2030.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:54 PM (krQz2) --- Never. Not possible. Far more likely to be 1990s Yugoslavia. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 05:56 PM (ZOv7s) 92
I hope they're bots, but I've seen posts of people who say they can't vote for Trump because, concerning the H1B visas, he said Americans were stupid.
-- I mean ... If that's on X it's a simple click to tell. But, recall there were even here, prior to the last election, that were swearing, they just could not vote for Trump because he refused to support a nationwide ban on abortion. Or, to clarify: 100% of the "people" claiming now--especially after 4 years of Biden--that they no longer support Trump, are Fuentes Bots sucking Donkey Dick. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 05:56 PM (HXT0k) 93
Unfortunately, on the channels I watch now over-the-air, everything is about Medicare Advantage plans, Hurry-Canes, phones with closed captioning, and incontinence products. Do car companies still have ads? Any good ones?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 05:54 PM (wzUl9) No, at best they are drone flights at the most boring angle of some big boxxy thing. Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:56 PM (8avO+) 94
Well Trump could roll back tariffs on Argentine Beef or something in an instant
Its an obscenity that slabs of untrimmed brisket are running $5/lb Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 05:57 PM (9Hs2w) 95
What does the government to about affordability?
Make sure the customer has more spending money and/or make sure the goods are cheaper. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 05:51 PM (pkeXY) --- It can lower interest rates, which is why Powell won't do it. -- Lowering interest rates doesn't make anything more affordable, it just makes it mildly less painful to go into debt in order to have the things you can't afford. Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 05:57 PM (vSvIl) 96
I nominate "Ballroom Blitz".
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 05:43 PM (TN0g+) Brian: Ready Steve? Uh huh. Andy? Yeah. Mick? OK, Alright, fellas, let's Gooooooooo. I may have listened to that song a time or two.... Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 09, 2025 05:48 PM (PiwSw) ------- Its such an epic song, and the start you quoted is as creative as anything in pop/rock history. Even the drum line that was playing under that banter was just perfect. Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 05:57 PM (TN0g+) 97
I like Susie Wiles. I think she's a smart, no nonsense sort of woman .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 05:27 PM (looXz) The major criticism I have heard of her is that she is trying to run the national campaign like it was a Florida campaign. I was listening to a critique of pres Milei's campaign in Argentina this year, how the early loss in Buenos Aires province had Milei dump his staid campaign staff and get a younger cadre and blew the Kirchnerites out of the water. I am hoping Trump can get his crew to think on their feet. Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 05:58 PM (rbvCR) 98
Democrats will be bleating about "affordability" from now until the midterms.
Put yourself in their shoes a moment. You're trying to dilate your suppurating wound so your surgically maimed "genitals" don't "heal" and close your beautiful artificial boypussy forever. And inflation has made your mangina very expensive to maintain. It's almost unaffordable to maintain the thin charade that you've become a woman. That clerk at GameStop won't even call you ma'am. You know this is Drumpf's fault, right? Posted by: Right? at December 09, 2025 05:58 PM (neVb2) 99
Lol
Do House Reps in races that they won by single digits in 2024 really want that ? Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 09, 2025 05:58 PM (KLQUC) 100
Lowering interest rates doesn't make anything more affordable, it just makes it mildly less painful to go into debt in order to have the things you can't afford.
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 05:57 PM (vSvIl) ++++ Artificially lowering interest rates worsens affordability. It may briefly increase "payability," but it's fleeting. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:59 PM (azrRX) 101
7 "Trump's impeachment begins one minute after a new Democrat House is installed."
Pretty sure he doesn't care. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2025 05:30 PM (0N4FZ) So why is he campaigning? Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 05:59 PM (rQwsY) 102
what's all this hype about gas being under $3? We're teasing $2 now.
Posted by: DanMan at December 09, 2025 05:59 PM (8uzBS) 103
Lowering interest rates doesn't make anything more affordable, it just makes it mildly less painful to go into debt in order to have the things you can't afford.
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 05:57 PM (vSvIl) --- What, like a car or house? Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 05:59 PM (ZOv7s) 104
Will he choose another another 70s song to populize?
Posted by: Decaf I nominate "Dancing Queen." ----- I nominate "Ballroom Blitz". Posted by: Crusader -------------- I love Ballroom Blitz but they are British and I think half of them are dead. It needs to be an American band or artists who are alive and able to take advantage of it. Posted by: Decaf "We Are Family" Sister Sledge Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 06:00 PM (uv8gn) 105
Do car companies still have ads?
Chevrolet had a nice four minute pro-family Christmas advertisement on their Suburbans.. I think that ad buys are in the form of paying influencers and video reviewers to gush about how great the XYZ model is. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:00 PM (9Hs2w) 106
Look at the Crockett thing - if she's such a star why waste her on losing in the Primary or General in Texas?
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:53 PM (8avO+) Need to keep black women fully on the plantation, especially with muzzies, trannies and probably some white men being so high on the stack for now. Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 06:00 PM (E0p3T) Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 06:00 PM (TR2dy) 108
Whoever the GOP candidates are, the inter webs will be flooded with “they’re weak on the second amendment.”
Ayn Rand was right. Posted by: Going deep. Out. at December 09, 2025 06:00 PM (zqeQL) 109
94 Well Trump could roll back tariffs on Argentine Beef or something in an instant
Its an obscenity that slabs of untrimmed brisket are running $5/lb Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 05:57 PM (9Hs2w) But tariffs are harmless and wonderful!!! Posted by: Anti-freedom AoS posters at December 09, 2025 06:00 PM (rQwsY) 110
No, You Don't
------ Another GREAT song from the same album. That one didn't get the airplay it should have, but Pat Benatar liked enough to record a cover of it. Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 06:00 PM (TN0g+) 111
If the Fed has any say, inflation is going to be a big problem in 2026. They ended QT and multiple interest rate cuts are on the agenda.
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 06:00 PM (GPa4z) Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:01 PM (9Hs2w) 113
You're trying to dilate your suppurating wound so your surgically maimed "genitals" don't "heal" and close your beautiful artificial boypussy forever. And inflation has made your mangina very expensive to maintain. It's almost unaffordable to maintain the thin charade that you've become a woman. That clerk at GameStop won't even call you ma'am.
You know this is Drumpf's fault, right? Posted by: Right? at December 09, 2025 05:58 PM (neVb2) You are behind the times. It's gonna be the Jews' fault. Most of the factions can agree on that. Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 06:01 PM (8avO+) 114
So why is he campaigning?
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 05:59 PM (rQwsY) --- Gosh, because maybe a GOP majority might actually pass bills he wants. Lots of reasons to do it. Impeachment fears are way down the list. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (ZOv7s) 115
The Dem voters are pathetic victims of mind control. Their candidates are literally running on nothing. They have no policies that aren't on the wrong side of the 80/20 split. But the army of zombies with pristine hymens will be out in force.
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 05:54 PM (GPa4z) What do Republicans offer? Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (E0p3T) 116
The Pennsylvania rally has started.
>>@RapidResponse47 · 1m . >>@SecScottBessent in Pennsylvania: "This is a formula for prosperity: lowering prices, raising incomes... The benefits of [President Trump's] agenda are now rippling through the economy — and those ripples will become waves as his agenda gathers force in 2026." Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (viF8m) 117
Lowering interest rates doesn't make anything more affordable, it just makes it mildly less painful to go into debt in order to have the things you can't afford.
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 05:57 PM (vSvIl)[/io] Lowering the interest rates increases inflation. If you want to see .25 cent candy bars ever again, then low interest rates are not your friend. Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (rbvCR) Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (abIsI) 119
>>> Unfortunately, on the channels I watch now over-the-air, everything is about Medicare Advantage plans, Hurry-Canes, phones with closed captioning, and incontinence products. Do car companies still have ads? Any good ones?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 05:54 PM (wzUl9) No, at best they are drone flights at the most boring angle of some big boxxy thing. Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:56 PM (8avO+) Sometimes I worry that the ads on the HQ, the ones about cleaning all your rain gutters, and alternatives to "the little blue pill" both have the same solution. But what really keeps me up at night is that this is a secret message being delivered to me, and humanity's last greatest hope, might actually be my very own penis. It's a terrible burden. Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (3uBP9) 120
The basic problem the Democrats face is something I used to point out to dancers when I was a bouncer working at several topless bars. "The structural properties of Bull Shit are very poor. When you build your life out of Bull Shit - your life is going to stink".
Everything the Democrats do is Bull Shit - thus their party stinks, and the smell is bad enough that even low info voters are starting to smell it. Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (Da7Vv) Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (9Hs2w) 122
105 Do car companies still have ads?
Chevrolet had a nice four minute pro-family Christmas advertisement on their Suburbans.. I think that ad buys are in the form of paying (fake word) and video reviewers to gush about how great the XYZ model is. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:00 PM (9Hs2w) Once again I see Subaru is not a car manufacturer but is instead the United Way. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (rQwsY) 123
When I first heard "Ballroom Blitz" on AM radio all those years ago, I thought it might be "Barroom Blitz." Which makes as much sense as "Ballroom."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 06:03 PM (wzUl9) 124
Can some of the PermaDoomers just look back a mere 9 months ago, when the Dems were "riding high" on the price of eggs?
I mean, my local taco shop had posted multiple news articles all in the vein of "why the price of eggs will never come down." Dems were in front of every microphone they could find. They were winning the airways! They were going to something something, and Trump resigns! How'd that work out? Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 06:03 PM (HXT0k) 125
Lowering interest rates doesn't make anything more affordable, it just makes it mildly less painful to go into debt in order to have the things you can't afford.
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 05:57 PM (vSvIl) --- What, like a car or house? Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 05:59 PM (ZOv7s) Yes. Among other things, since we foolishly allow 'credit' for pretty much everything. Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:03 PM (vSvIl) 126
Look at the Crockett thing - if she's such a star why waste her on losing in the Primary or General in Texas?
The demons in Hell have selected her for some reason. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:04 PM (9Hs2w) 127
It was running over $4.50/lb in 2024
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (9Hs2w) It is your patriotic duty to pay higher prices for everyday things. Now pay up, or do you want to be a traitor to your country? Posted by: Principled Anti-freedom AoS posters at December 09, 2025 06:04 PM (rQwsY) 128
Yes. Among other things, since we foolishly allow 'credit' for pretty much everything.
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:03 PM (vSvIl) --- So...no buying a house until you save up for it? Cash only transactions or loans with high interest rates? Is this your path for prosperity and assuring GOP victory? Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 06:05 PM (ZOv7s) 129
>>> When I first heard "Ballroom Blitz" on AM radio all those years ago, I thought it might be "Barroom Blitz." Which makes as much sense as "Ballroom."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 06:03 PM (wzUl9) It's not? Posted by: Chinese Karaoke Singers singing Barroom Britz at December 09, 2025 06:06 PM (3uBP9) 130
Do car companies still have ads?
* Chevrolet had a nice four minute pro-family Christmas advertisement on their Suburbans.. I think that ad buys are in the form of paying influencers and video reviewers to gush about how great the XYZ model is. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 *** Come to think of it, I have seen ones for Buick -- their latest all-SUV lineup. If it hadn't been for the triple-shield badge on the front of the vehicle in the ad, I wouldn't have recognized the brand until they said it. Their SUVs look just like GMCs or Cadillac SUVs. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 06:06 PM (wzUl9) 131
What do Republicans offer?
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (E0p3T) Supposedly closed borders with mass deportations, no wars, more responsible spending, a sensible energy policy... Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 06:06 PM (GPa4z) 132
Lowering the interest rates increases inflation. If you want to see .25 cent candy bars ever again, then low interest rates are not your friend.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (rbvCR) Depends on the situation. To truly see 25 cent candy bars again…pay down the debt. Which reduces the amount of dollars in circulation, which makes the dollar more precious, and so on. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:06 PM (rQwsY) 133
>>It is your patriotic duty to pay higher prices for everyday things. Now pay up, or do you want to be a traitor to your country?
I don't know where some of you live but prices on virtually everything including groceries around here are down. Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 06:06 PM (viF8m) 134
Supposedly closed borders with mass deportations, no wars, more responsible spending, a sensible energy policy... Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 06:06 PM (GPa4z) No wars, huh? The Enemy Gets A Vote. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:07 PM (rQwsY) 135
Sometimes I worry that the ads on the HQ, the ones about cleaning all your rain gutters, and alternatives to "the little blue pill" both have the same solution. But what really keeps me up at night is that this is a secret message being delivered to me, and humanity's last greatest hope, might actually be my very own penis. It's a terrible burden.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (3uBP9) I don't want to add to your cares, but I sometimes have the same worry: Is Banana Dream's banana are last best hope? Posted by: guy who banana dream should take out a restraining order against at December 09, 2025 06:07 PM (neVb2) 136
Sometimes I worry that the ads on the HQ, the ones about cleaning all your rain gutters, and alternatives to "the little blue pill" both have the same solution. But what really keeps me up at night is that this is a secret message being delivered to me, and humanity's last greatest hope, might actually be my very own penis. It's a terrible burden.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (3uBP9) ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. YOU HAVE BEEN RAISED FROM BRUTALITY TO KILL THE BURTALS WHO MULTIPLY, AND ARE LEGION. TO THIS END ZARDOZ YOUR GOD GAVE YOU THE GIFT OF THE GUN. THE GUN IS GOOD. THE PENIS IS EVIL Posted by: ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU at December 09, 2025 06:07 PM (rbvCR) 137
I hope so, backing MAGA candidates
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 06:07 PM (Ia/+0) 138
Lowering interest rates doesn't make anything more affordable, it just makes it mildly less painful to go into debt in order to have the things you can't afford.
But manufacturers borrow money in order to make contracts and purchase materials, labor, equipment and real-estate. Also high interest rates attract bond and treasury investors away from stocks with mild returns. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:08 PM (9Hs2w) 139
Doom and gloom takes so many different forms.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 06:08 PM (zZu0s) 140
No wars, huh?
The Enemy Gets A Vote. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:07 PM (rQwsY) --- Given that even when we were attacked, we decided to go kick off a bunch of other unrelated wars, I'd say we've met the enemy and he is us in that respect. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 06:09 PM (ZOv7s) 141
Everything the Democrats do is Bull Shit - thus their party stinks, and the smell is bad enough that even low info voters are starting to smell it.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (Da7Vv) Yet they stay afloat because they get to run against Republicans who only we seem to think are better, and that's on odd days only when we're not complaining about what bullshitting lying traitorous cocksuckers they are. Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 06:09 PM (E0p3T) 142
But what really keeps me up at night is that this is a secret message being delivered to me, and humanity's last greatest hope, might actually be my very own penis. It's a terrible burden.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (3uBP9) This also is what keeps the Paolo up at night, but in a different way... Posted by: The Paolo at December 09, 2025 06:09 PM (PiwSw) 143
Whats a burtal?
Posted by: I gotta ask at December 09, 2025 06:09 PM (XQo4F) 144
what's all this hype about gas being under $3? We're teasing $2 now.
Posted by: DanMan at December 09, 2025 *** I've seen $2.19 in Da Swamp in one or two places. Most seem to hover around $2.49, with some Chevrons and Sunocos at $2.79. The suburban convenience store where I get my $2.99 ethanol-free gas has $2.19 for E10 regular. I may do a 50/50 split fillup tomorrow or this weekend. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 06:09 PM (wzUl9) 145
No wars, huh?
The Enemy Gets A Vote. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:07 PM (rQwsY) The key to peace is not having any enemies. Let's kill them. Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 06:09 PM (GPa4z) 146
Oops! Gotta go slop the feline hogs!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 06:10 PM (wzUl9) 147
I don't know where some of you live but prices on virtually everything including groceries around here are down. Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 06:06 PM (viF8m) Depends on what you buy. The beef is still high but other things are…not bad. I buy lots of store brands anyway as a hedge against all this. No need to buy Minute Brand Instant Rice when I can get a store brand from HEB or Wally World cheaper. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:10 PM (rQwsY) 148
Doom and gloom takes so many different forms.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 06:08 PM (zZu0s) --- Anyone remember that Very Conservative Army Guy who thought Trump was losing the military and needed to back off but who vanished when Joe glorified trannies and used unlawful vaccine requirements to kick 40,000 GIs out? Yeah, the military *loved* that. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 06:10 PM (ZOv7s) 149
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. YOU HAVE BEEN RAISED FROM BRUTALITY TO KILL THE BURTALS WHO MULTIPLY, AND ARE LEGION. TO THIS END ZARDOZ YOUR GOD GAVE YOU THE GIFT OF THE GUN. THE GUN IS GOOD. THE PENIS IS EVIL
Posted by: ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU at December 09, 2025 06:07 PM (rbvCR) Arthur, what did we ever do to you? Posted by: Ron and Emily Burtal at December 09, 2025 06:10 PM (PiwSw) 150
I'm still trying to understand how people can't afford housing. They can't afford the $2M house they grew up in but I'm thinking they could afford a $400K house outside the county line somewhere. If the average college grad salary is $70K and you're not an autistic brony weirdo maybe you meet a life partner and double that 70 to 140 per year. Seems doable but you gotta not be a weirdo.
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 06:11 PM (uQzkA) 151
Does anybody know what topic Ace used for this post? Does it matter?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 06:11 PM (uv8gn) 152
We don't realize what everyday people see when they look at Republicans. It's not good. Like it or not, Trump has carried this party for a decade through sheer force of will. Without him we would have been floundering with the Jebs and Carly Fiorinas of the world.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 06:12 PM (E0p3T) 153
So...no buying a house until you save up for it? Cash only transactions or loans with high interest rates? Is this your path for prosperity and assuring GOP victory?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 06:05 PM (ZOv7s) If we're serious about making homes affordable, banning mortgages is the only way to really do it. You have to end the excess money that is artificially available for purchases and let supply and demand run their course. I get that people are accustomed to the way things are currently done, financing everything, but that isn't mathematically sustainable. Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:12 PM (vSvIl) 154
Yet they stay afloat because they get to run against Republicans who only we seem to think are better, and that's on odd days only when we're not complaining about what bullshitting lying traitorous cocksuckers they are.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 06:09 PM (E0p3T) --- Cheating. They stay afloat by cheating. Rampant, massive cheating. Why are so many blue states fighting federal lawsuits demanding the voter rolls? Because they have to hide the cheating. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 06:12 PM (ZOv7s) 155
The key to peace is not having any enemies. Let's kill them.
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 06:09 PM (GPa4z) Not that either. I’m not a naive hippie dippy, who thinks we can just have “no wars”, BUT the can be avoided by: 1) Peace Through Strength 2) Deterrence. Si desiderat pacem, praeparat bellum. 3) DIME We don’t need to kill all our enemies. Just make sure they live in fear that if they fuck up, they might end up dead. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:12 PM (rQwsY) 156
Well, that answers that question
@michellemalkin 43s COMING SOON. The return of Michelle Malkin and a new podcast series. #wrongfulconvictions #freedanielholtzclaw #freeraymullins #CORRUPTAHOMA Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 06:13 PM (mlg/3) 157
It blew my mind during the campaign last year when I found out Suzie Wiles was Pat Summerall's daughter. Just hearing old recordings of his voice, and I'm instantly back in the '80s, Thanksgiving or other holiday, and there's a game on, and All is Well. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 06:13 PM (w6EFb) 158
If we're serious about making homes affordable, banning mortgages is the only way to really do it. You have to end the excess money that is artificially available for purchases and let supply and demand run their course.
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:12 PM (vSvIl) --- Thanks for playing. God bless you. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 06:13 PM (ZOv7s) 159
I get that people are accustomed to the way things are currently done, financing everything, but that isn't mathematically sustainable. Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:12 PM (vSvIl) I guess people rent for eternity then. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:13 PM (rQwsY) 160
It's entertaining to read what Trump should or shouldn't do.
The most successful person to enter politics and the most successful politician needing my advice. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 06:14 PM (c35xG) 161
Just hearing old recordings of his voice, and I'm instantly back in the '80s, Thanksgiving or other holiday, and there's a game on, and All is Well.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 06:13 PM (w6EFb) Hearing old recordings of Pat Summerall’s voice would be coma inducing. His monotone could make the biggest moments in football sound dull. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:15 PM (rQwsY) 162
Should all loans be banned then?
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 06:15 PM (vFG9F) 163
So...no buying a house until you save up for it? Cash only transactions or loans with high interest rates? Is this your path for prosperity and assuring GOP victory?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 06:05 PM (ZOv7s) If Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac come out of conservatorship, then the rules Congress imposed on the process will become much easier, and the demands for paperwork compliance will not be under Dodd-Frank, which will simplify things for small business owners. If loans can be sourced locally instead of at JPMorganChase level then there will be much easier loan agreements since the loans are being handled at local banks for local conditions, not at the big bank level. If the illegals get asked to go home their illegally started FHA loans can be sold to Americans. If all you do is make rates cheaper, but leave all the barriers to compliance in place, the money goes to the Private Equity and real estate companies who have better credit, lower rates, simpler compliance procedures due to volume, and want houses to rent out to families who can't qualify for loans because of the barriers "cantillon effect" sucks Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 06:15 PM (rbvCR) 164
Its an obscenity that slabs of untrimmed brisket are running $5/lb
It isn't that things are so expensive, its that the dollar isn't worth squat. A dollar and 40 cents worth of 1964 dimes and quarters has an ounce of silver in it, and an ounce of silver sells for more than $61 in today's money. That means the dollar has been inflated by more than a factor of about 42 times since 1964. Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 06:15 PM (Da7Vv) 165
>>> Whats a burtal?
Posted by: I gotta ask at December 09, 2025 06:09 PM (XQo4F) 20 dollarsh, schame as in town Posted by: Sean Connery at December 09, 2025 06:16 PM (3uBP9) 166
143 Whats a burtal?
Posted by: I gotta ask A fish in the wrasse family. First cousin to a tautog, or blackfish. Posted by: Slow-Growers, But Taste Good. at December 09, 2025 06:16 PM (oftw2) 167
Hank Johnson (D- putz) thinks we are the Great Satan and the worlds biggest bully. Given that Guam hasn't tipped over, I don't think I'll listen to him
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 06:17 PM (D+mpw) Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:17 PM (KhyP1) 169
Thanks for playing. God bless you.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 06:13 PM (ZOv7s) Do you not understand that the availability of mortgages forces house prices higher? Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:17 PM (vSvIl) 170
Susie is very effective and she does it all behind the scenes. Most people don't know how much power she has and she doesn't draw attention to herself. It allows her to get things done.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 09, 2025 06:17 PM (VCgbV) 171
It isn't that things are so expensive, its that the dollar isn't worth squat. A dollar and 40 cents worth of 1964 dimes and quarters has an ounce of silver in it, and an ounce of silver sells for more than $61 in today's money. That means the dollar has been inflated by more than a factor of about 42 times since 1964.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 06:15 PM (Da7Vv) And? Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:18 PM (rQwsY) 172
Depends on the situation.
To truly see 25 cent candy bars again…pay down the debt. Which reduces the amount of dollars in circulation, which makes the dollar more precious, and so on. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:06 PM (rQwsY) Inflation is based on money availability, in our system money is created through debt. So we are arguing the same side of the debate. Stopping money creation stops the bleeding, paying down the debt reduces the "money supply" Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 06:18 PM (rbvCR) 173
>> His monotone could make the biggest moments in football sound dull.
And that's why it was so good. You had Madden there next to him to get all excited. Those two were the Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon of NFL play coverage. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 06:18 PM (w6EFb) 174
@michellemalkin 43s
COMING SOON. The return of Michelle Malkin and a new podcast series. #wrongfulconvictions #freedanielholtzclaw #freeraymullins #CORRUPTAHOMA Posted by: weft cut-loop ---- Early this century I followed her closely. She was intense. Got rich. FOX burned her. She got fed up and retreated somewhat. Quite understandable. Michelle Malkin, glad you're making a comeback. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 06:19 PM (c35xG) 175
One way to decrease housing costs in to increase supply. This is code for sending all the illegals to where they were just before they crossed the border. It would be a shame if that means having to swim.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 06:19 PM (uv8gn) 176
If we're serious about making homes affordable, banning mortgages is the only way to really do it. You have to end the excess money that is artificially available for purchases and let supply and demand run their course.
How do you ban borrowing money from relatives? Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:19 PM (9s47C) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 06:19 PM (c35xG) 178
Are Congressional Republicans going to issue some sort of proposals for the 2026 campaign?
So far they are mostly just sitting on their fat asses. Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 09, 2025 06:20 PM (Vh9CX) 179
I get that people are accustomed to the way things are currently done, financing everything, but that isn't mathematically sustainable.
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:12 PM (vSvIl) I guess people rent for eternity then. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:13 PM (rQwsY) You are a renter if you have a mortgage, except you're stuck doing the paperwork and maintenance. Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:20 PM (vSvIl) 180
If we're serious about making homes affordable, banning mortgages is the only way to really do it. You have to end the excess money that is artificially available for purchases and let supply and demand run their course.
I get that people are accustomed to the way things are currently done, financing everything, but that isn't mathematically sustainable. Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:12 PM (vSvIl) If you want to jump right back to a 1933 economy, that's a great way to do it. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 06:20 PM (uWKK8) 181
Susie Wiles is a gem.
Posted by: Emmie at December 09, 2025 06:20 PM (FMtrg) 182
Bring back no doc mortgages!
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 06:21 PM (GPa4z) 183
Madden could slobber on Brett Favres dick on air harder than anyone else. Or Troy Aikman. Motherfucker.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 06:21 PM (zZu0s) 184
Fucking love Michelle. As far as I still know, one of the few good ones. Never bought, never betrayed us. Talented, conservative, funny and awesome. Had plenty of opportunity to fuck us over I'm sure.
The only time I ever watched FNC was when she used to fill in for Dummy O'Reilly on Friday nights in like 2002. Back then I actually believed FNC seemed somewhat conservative because they employed her. Once they got rid of her they showed what they were. Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 06:21 PM (E0p3T) 185
171 It isn't that things are so expensive, its that the dollar isn't worth squat. A dollar and 40 cents worth of 1964 dimes and quarters has an ounce of silver in it, and an ounce of silver sells for more than $61 in today's money. That means the dollar has been inflated by more than a factor of about 42 times since 1964.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 06:15 PM (Da7Vv) ------- Equilibrium? Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 06:22 PM (c35xG) 186
"Are Congressional Republicans going to issue some sort of proposals for the 2026 campaign?"
Yes, they are drafting an abortion ban as usual. Look for it about a month out from the election. That and retirements. Posted by: connected and litigious at December 09, 2025 06:22 PM (cS1cw) 187
>>Depends on what you buy.
As always. There is always some product or group of products that have individual issues like beef right now but its not indicative of the entire economy. The vast majority of things at the market are down. Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 06:22 PM (viF8m) 188
Inflation is based on money availability, in our system money is created through debt. So we are arguing the same side of the debate. Stopping money creation stops the bleeding, paying down the debt reduces the "money supply" Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 06:18 PM (rbvCR) Working quadruple overtime to make something simple EXTREMELY complicated, I see. You kill inflation by spending money on 1) a good or 2) a service. Government is neither. So spend as little on government as you can get away with. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:22 PM (rQwsY) 189
Should all loans be banned then?
- All loans to individuals, yes. Loans to businesses, actual capitalism, is fine, but to individuals, they just create economic inefficiency and financial instability (Every single one has a risk of becoming unpayable, and that adds up the more of them you allow). Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:23 PM (vSvIl) 190
But manufacturers borrow money in order to make contracts and purchase materials, labor, equipment and real-estate.
Also high interest rates attract bond and treasury investors away from stocks with mild returns. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:08 PM (9Hs2w) ++++ Not labor, unless the enterprise is in a doom loop. If you're borrowing to make payroll, your business is probably failing. Artificially low interest rates are bad for labor, not good for it. Everything produced has two fundamental inputs: capital and labor. Stuff and work. Artificially suppressing the price of capital (that is, synthetically low interest rates) creates an incentive to change your input mix as much toward capital preference as possible for the business. Artificially lowering interest rates has similar effects as would artificially raising the minimum wage: it makes labor comparatively more expensive. Artificially raising interest rates has the opposite effect, and disincentivizes capital investment. Nobody knows where the equilibrium point is, but nobody also cares. Government finance must be shored up, so down the rates must go and damn the consequences. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 06:23 PM (azrRX) 191
You are a renter if you have a mortgage, except you're stuck doing the paperwork and maintenance.
Are renters building equity? Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:24 PM (9s47C) 192
178 Are Congressional Republicans going to issue some sort of proposals for the 2026 campaign?
____ Retire and spend more time with the family of lobbyists. Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 06:24 PM (Dv3i1) 193
Do car companies still have ads? Any good ones?
I dont remember if it is on YouTube or television but there is one that is basically America, Fuck Yeah that would make me pay more attention to it if I were in the market for a new vehicle. Jeep, maybe? Ram? Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 09, 2025 06:24 PM (EXyHK) 194
Michelle Malkin was on my blog list back when I followed several sites. I really liked her. I even think I first of Ace from her, but it might have FrankJ on IMAO.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 09, 2025 06:24 PM (0aYVJ) 195
Not labor, unless the enterprise is in a doom loop. If you're borrowing to make payroll, your business is probably failing.
Or you are ramping up for Excessmass Season shopping. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:24 PM (9s47C) 196
Not labor, unless the enterprise is in a doom loop. If you're borrowing to make payroll, your business is probably failing.
There is this other thing... they call them "start ups". Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:25 PM (9s47C) 197
"You are a renter if you have a mortgage, except you're stuck doing the paperwork and maintenance."
Made the list. Posted by: connected and litigious at December 09, 2025 06:26 PM (cS1cw) 198
Whats a burtal?
Posted by: I gotta ask at December 09, 2025 06:09 PM (XQo4F) ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU. EVEN ZARDOZ HAS TROUBLE WITH TYPOS WHEN THE WEATHER CHANGES. GO FORTH MY CHOSE ONES AND COPY-EDIT Posted by: ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU at December 09, 2025 06:27 PM (rbvCR) 199
All loans to individuals, yes.
Loans to businesses, actual capitalism, is fine, but to individuals, they just create economic inefficiency and financial instability (Every single one has a risk of becoming unpayable, and that adds up the more of them you allow). Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:23 PM (vSvIl) ++++ Hard disagree. Capital goods are capital goods. Houses, cars, etc. are capital goods. The real problem, in my opinion, is treating *all* debt as self-canceling. It isn't. Only collateralized debt is self-clearing. If the debtor doesn't pay, sell the collateral and get made whole. Consumption debt is *not* self-clearing, and capital debt ceases to be if asset value falls. That is fixable with reserve requirements and marking to market at the close of business every day. If the debt isn't self-clearing (is consumer debt), or if the collateral can no longer clear it, the bank has to reserve it at 100% of the difference. That is, no leverage permitted for consumer debt and reserve requirements go up as asset prices decline. There will still be a market for consumer debt in that environment, but it will be fairly rare and quite expensive. Like a payday loan. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 06:27 PM (azrRX) 200
198 Whats a burtal?
Posted by: I gotta ask at December 09, 2025 06:09 PM (XQo4F) ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU. EVEN ZARDOZ HAS TROUBLE WITH TYPOS WHEN THE WEATHER CHANGES. GO FORTH MY CHOSE ONES AND COPY-EDIT Posted by: ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU typo good edit evil *spews a deluge of punctuation from mouth* Posted by: anachronda at December 09, 2025 06:28 PM (sGtp+) 201
Everything produced has two fundamental inputs: capital and labor.
Apparently you haven't gotten invoices from attorneys, payroll management, land lords, product licensing or cloud services. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:28 PM (9s47C) 202
what's all this hype about gas being under $3? We're teasing $2 now.
Posted by: DanMan at December 09, 2025 I just paid 3.64 at the Arco station. Thanks Governor Kotex! Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 06:28 PM (rbvCR) 203
Well if you think we're bad off, I just saw a bit on the once mighty British Navy; their Surface Combatants are now down to 7 Frigates, and 6 Destroyers. And 2 Aircraft Carriers that they're scared to send out of port because they don't have enough other ships screen them. (they might make a decent auxiliary unit for an American Force) And 9 submarines.
that's it, that's their entire Navy now. Italy's Navy is bigger. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 06:29 PM (uWKK8) 204
Long ago I liked Michelle, hope she comes back fighting
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 06:29 PM (Ia/+0) 205
If they are going to call him a Nazi anyway, he might as well go with Blitzkrieg Bop.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 06:29 PM (6ydKt) 206
Early this century I followed her closely. She was intense. Got rich. FOX burned her. She got fed up and retreated somewhat.
Quite understandable. Michelle Malkin, glad you're making a comeback. ------- Hope you like her comeback--I read that she's entered into the "just asking questions" phase. Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 06:30 PM (TN0g+) 207
So... what word turned into burtal?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 06:30 PM (zZu0s) 208
Trump should use Roadhouse Blues
Posted by: Accomack at December 09, 2025 06:30 PM (8jVAy) 209
Only collateralized debt is self-clearing. If the debtor doesn't pay, sell the collateral and get made whole
Or sell the IP and patents. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:30 PM (c3sdc) 210
Or you are ramping up for Excessmass Season shopping.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:24 PM (9s47C) There is this other thing... they call them "start ups". Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:25 PM (9s47C) ++++ Moreso the latter than the former, but the former can happen. Both require a big capital investment. Both a form of expansion, and both also happen at the margins. The needs of startups to make payroll do not drive policymaking decisions at any level. I am not anti-capital by any means. Our capital markets made the various industrial revolutions possible. I am opposed to bureaucrats dictating the *price* of capital for the benefit of major financial houses and government finances. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 06:30 PM (azrRX) 211
And?
Ask the people in the Weimar republic or in Zimbabwe what the effects of runaway inflation are, because we are right on the ragged edge of that happening. There are likely going to be serious bank failures next year, because the commercial building loan crises comes due then. Everybody raised such a stink over bail outs of banks in the 2008 housing loan crises, that they changed the law to bail ins. A bail in is where the bank, when it gets into trouble financially, gets to steal the depositors money to get out of trouble. Don't worry, they'll give you a pocket full of mumbles that puts the depositors at the end of the bankruptcy line as unsecured creditors. That puts you behind the guy who mows the bank's lawn in terms of ever getting your money back. Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 06:31 PM (Da7Vv) 212
Is this about me?
Posted by: Yurtul the burtul at December 09, 2025 06:31 PM (XQo4F) 213
That is fixable with reserve requirements and marking to market at the close of business every day. If the debt isn't self-clearing (is consumer debt), or if the collateral can no longer clear it, the bank has to reserve it at 100% of the difference. That is, no leverage permitted for consumer debt and reserve requirements go up as asset prices decline.
----- 100% is un-necessary. Proper accounting already requires banks to establish an offset account roughly resembling "Allowance for Loan Losses". The regulators are supposed to evaluate the sufficiency of that number and request all documentation that went into the determination of that offset account. Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at December 09, 2025 06:33 PM (TN0g+) 214
2.59$ at Royal Farms this morning.
Posted by: Accomack at December 09, 2025 06:33 PM (8jVAy) 215
There are likely going to be serious bank failures next year, because the commercial building loan crises comes due then.
There are a lot of institutional buyers like insurance and pension plans. Banks don't like to play landlord unless the bank has their HQ or operations in the same building. For defined benefit plans, YOU the taxpayer make up for the under performing real estate portfolio. For the insurance companies, they just jack up premiums and tighten the screws on claims. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:34 PM (c3sdc) 216
I'm still trying to understand how people can't afford housing. They can't afford the $2M house they grew up in but I'm thinking they could afford a $400K house outside the county line somewhere. If the average college grad salary is $70K and you're not an autistic brony weirdo maybe you meet a life partner and double that 70 to 140 per year. Seems doable but you gotta not be a weirdo.
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 06:11 PM (uQzkA) I did the math on this one from 1965 (first Boomer gets to 20) to today for Oregon 21,700 cost of house 1965 (average) Mortgage 5.5-6.0% Minimum wage 1.25 (Oregon) 1.15 (federal) you would have to work ~8.5 years to pay for the house if you had no other expenses like cars, gas, or food 484.000 cost of house 2025 (average) Minimum wage $15.05 federal 7.25 Oregon (not Portland) You would have to work about 15.5 years to pay for the house if you had no other expenses like cars, gas, or food. The average age of a new home buyer is around 45. Average age of a home buyer in general is 50. Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 06:34 PM (rbvCR) Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 06:34 PM (3uBP9) 218
You are a renter if you have a mortgage, except you're stuck doing the paperwork and maintenance.
Are renters building equity? Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:24 PM (9s47C) I don't know that "building equity" is particularly meaningful in a system where between that and the stock market, you're just trying to catch a share of the excess money that banks cause by lending and the federal government causes by deficit spending, rather than doing anything of value. Renters of the non mortgage sort might be saving money under the mattress or somewhere relatively safe, or, maybe, making thoughtful investments in something useful if they're seeking a return. Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:34 PM (vSvIl) 219
Everybody raised such a stink over bail outs of banks in the 2008 housing loan crises, that they changed the law to bail ins. A bail in is where the bank, when it gets into trouble financially, gets to steal the depositors money to get out of trouble. Don't worry, they'll give you a pocket full of mumbles that puts the depositors at the end of the bankruptcy line as unsecured creditors. That puts you behind the guy who mows the bank's lawn in terms of ever getting your money back.
------ We need an easy to hit eye-roll emoji. FDIC insured deposits haven't changed, other than the limit of insured funds going up over the years. Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at December 09, 2025 06:35 PM (TN0g+) 220
"Loans to businesses, actual capitalism, is fine, but to individuals, they just create economic inefficiency and financial instability "
Individuals start businesses, sometimes with capital from loans. In my case, I didn't have a business loan, but I did have a mortgage and auto loans that allowed me to invest my own meager capital into a business. Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 06:37 PM (vFG9F) 221
that's it, that's their entire Navy now. Italy's Navy is bigger.
So naturally, the EU is telling the US to F-Off we are a bunch of losers and they don't need us. I would like to test that theory by dropping out of NATO. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:37 PM (c3sdc) 222
Can Nooshem bend his knees backwards like a chicken? Cause that…would be…alien.
Posted by: Eromero at December 09, 2025 06:38 PM (raK6f) 223
Equilibrium?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 06:22 PM (c35xG) There were a lot more rentals in 1933 than there are today, that wasn't because young couples liked it Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 06:39 PM (rbvCR) 224
That is fixable with reserve requirements and marking to market at the close of business every day. If the debt isn't self-clearing (is consumer debt), or if the collateral can no longer clear it, the bank has to reserve it at 100% of the difference. That is, no leverage permitted for consumer debt and reserve requirements go up as asset prices decline.
... Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 06:27 PM (azrRX) That would work in theory, if you were starting from scratch. You still have to accept that mistakes will get made and banks will go under (and some deposits lost as a result) from time to time, which folks have generally been unwilling to do. Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:42 PM (vSvIl) 225
You kill inflation by spending money on 1) a good or 2) a service. Government is neither. So spend as little on government as you can get away with.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:22 PM (rQwsY) Inflation is caused by increasing the money supply, either by printing more money than there are assets to back it, or by loaning it out on the promise that it will be repaid. Your bank does not have the value of the amount they loaned you tucked away in the bank in gold specie, they hold treasuries and loan out on the value on that. They get the treasuries from the Fed, who were forced to take them from the Treasury per the agreement. Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 06:43 PM (rbvCR) 226
Adjusting for inflation the US GDP in 1964 was actually higher than it is today. Remember, the population was smaller then, 192.8 million compared to 343 million today. Fewer people were producing 20% more than than today in constant dollars. That means the productivity per person today is only 67% of what it was then.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 07:00 PM (Da7Vv) 227
It does not take very many bank busts to clear out the FDIC funds.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 07:04 PM (Da7Vv) 228
Regular was $2.04 in Houston at the Kroger filling station Monday.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 07:08 PM (Da7Vv) 229
Fire her. We will cost us the midterms because she doesn’t have the balls to tell Trump to fire Bondi.
Posted by: Rdubs at December 09, 2025 10:36 PM (9ALg7) 230
l Get paid over $110 per hour working from home. l never thought I'd be able to do it but my buddy makes over $21269 a month doing this and she convinced me to try. The possibility with this is endless....
This is what I do...................... https://urlr.me/E3tz6Y Posted by: Anonymous at December 10, 2025 04:04 AM (NxtE8) "Intentional Negligence"? FBI Had J6 Bomber's Cell Phone Putting Him at the Scene of the Crime... Five Years AgoIf the FBI had cell phone records of 10,000 people's cell phones sending signals from near the RNC and DNC on the night the bombs were planted, I could understand not finding the suspect. With a suspect list of 10,000 people, I guess I could understand the claim, "We just didn't have the manpower to run down every phone." Guess how many cell phones they actually had records of in the vicinity of the RNC and DNC at the time when the bombs were being planted? Fewer than 200. No, i do not believe the FBI "just didn't have the resources" to look into 186 suspects -- not when they showed they could mobilize every agent to track down every grandma within ten blocks of the Capitol on January 6th. So was this a case of "intentional negligence"? Miranda Divine:Surely there's more to it than that. Director Kash Patel hinted Friday at a reason the FBI under Biden administration Director Christopher Wray may not have wanted to solve the case: "intentional negligence." 'Corrupted' cell data This, after all, was the FBI that managed to round up and charge 1,500 supporters of President Trump who set foot anywhere vaguely near the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, tracking them down through cellphone pings and video footage. Yet with all its technical ability, Wray's FBI somehow missed the phone used by the suspect in the vicinity of the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee headquarters on the evening of Jan. 5 when the pipe bombs were planted. Surveillance footage shows the suspect, wearing a gray hoodie and COVID-style white mask, seemingly talking on the phone while walking around that night less than half a mile from the Capitol. According to an FBI document presented to the DC District Court during his arraignment Friday, Cole's cellphone "engaged in approximately seven data session transactions with [his cellphone provider's] towers between 7:39 p.m. and 8:24 p.m. ... in the area of the RNC and DNC on January 5, 2021," locating him in the right place at the right time. That information was obtained by the FBI within weeks of the discovery of the pipe bombs the next day. Investigators found 186 cellphone numbers "of interest" and 130 "devices of interest," according to the congressional report released this January by the chairmen of the House Oversight and Judiciary subcommittees, Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.).They only bothered looking into 36 of the 186 phone numbers? Let me guess - the 36 they looked into were Trump supporting Republicans, right? Then there is the curious tale of the "corrupted" cellphone data that turned out not to be corrupted at all. The story came from Steve D'Antuono, head of the FBI's Washington field office until his retirement in December 2022, who was in charge of the crucial first year of the pipe bomb case as well as the Capitol riot investigation, which has been described as the biggest in FBI history. He was assigned to Washington one month before the 2020 election from his previous role in Detroit, when he ran the disastrous Gretchen Whitmer "fednapping" case that resulted in multiple mistrials and acquittals, amid claims of FBI entrapment of patsies. D'Antuono, who has since found a job at KPMG, also led the controversial FBI raid on Trump's home, Mar-a-Lago, in August 2022. He claims he opposed the raid but was overruled by then-Deputy FBI Director Paul Abbate. In any case, in June 2023, D'Antuono testified before Congress, claiming that the FBI had received "corrupted data" in the pipe bomb case from one of the three major cellphone carriers and that may have been the reason it couldn't find the culprit.It gets worse. The FBI didn't release any pictures of the suspect that could identify him -- and one investigator claims that the FBI deliberately blurred out the one part of his face that was clearly visible in the surveillance footage, his eyes. Why would they do that, if not to conceal his identity? I don't know if I'm ready to believe that. It's a claim made by someone looking at the video and determining that he sees "pixelation" added to the video to obscure Brian Cole, Jr.'s eyes. I remember other claims about "chromatic aberrations" not turning out to be true. But I would like this investigated further. ... But by the end of February 2021, according to Loudermilk and Massie's report, the bureau actively began diverting resources away from the pipe bomb investigation. At the same time, Wray and Abbate were ramping up resources to track down and aggressively prosecute trespassing J6 grandmothers.Miranda Divine concludes that the political operators of the FBI didn't want to taint their Trump Did the J6 Insurrection narrative with any information that might undermine it, and started winding down the investigation when it looked like the main suspect was not a MAGA grandma. Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:25 PM (Zz0t1) 2
Woot!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:26 PM (Zz0t1) 3
#Winning
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:26 PM (Zz0t1) 4
Off to nood.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:26 PM (Zz0t1) 5
Heh.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:26 PM (Zz0t1) 6
Rack Wray.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2025 04:27 PM (s0JqF) 7
Hrmph.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 09, 2025 04:27 PM (OUMaO) 8
They are totally not lying to us now you guys.
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 04:27 PM (vFG9F) 9
Quick enough for government work.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:27 PM (eEIbO) 10
It’s all in the Management, seems like.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:28 PM (pDt9x) Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 04:28 PM (TR2dy) 12
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:25 PM (Zz0t1
Well, a sponge doesn't have the thrusting power of a blade ,and anyway I think it's funnier when you're actually # 200 or something and still claim first . Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 04:28 PM (7RYym) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:28 PM (2GVsD) 14
Can Wray be retired?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 09, 2025 04:29 PM (8CIFn) 15
How many cell phones were at the locations where pallets of bricks were dropped off before riots?
Did they even bother to look. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 04:29 PM (mPytV) 16
I'm guessing every administration and their alphabet agencies do this because they know they can't destroy the data legally and that when investigated, no matter what the outcome,
NOTHING WILL HAPPEN to them. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (Zz0t1) 17
Wray + pear of anguish, some assembly required
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (2GVsD) 18
WHAT A SHOCK
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (zjgNU) 19
Mike Benz, as usual, has some good stuff on this. He has had a particular interest in this case from the very beginning. Always a good read. His take, essentially, is that this is even worse than intentional negligence - it's obstruction.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (bNf8H) 20
>>one investigator claims that the FBI deliberately blurred out the one part of his face that was clearly visible in the surveillance footage, his eyes.
>Why would they do that, if not to conceal his identity? >>I don't know if I'm ready to believe that. There's a Mike Benz video that will cure you of that, Ace. Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (TR2dy) 21
NOTHING WILL HAPPEN
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (Zz0t1) That's my line! Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (zjgNU) 22
Fecklessness. Betrayal. Insurrection. Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (nXmou) 23
Of course it was. This kid is fucked up but he would have muddled the J6 reichstag narrative they were building. So into the memory hole he went.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (zZu0s) 24
I don't find this odd at all, do you?
Says Wray and Pelosi and others who promoted the J6 myth. Jussie Smollette is proud (I always say his name like Chappelle). Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (WONhk) 25
Wray will not be arrested. He will not be subpoenaed. Neither will any of the other treasonous assholes from the Biden administration.
Strongly worded letters will be written and sleaves will be rolled up. That's about it. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:31 PM (Zz0t1) 26
"Cole's cellphone "engaged in approximately seven data session transactions with [his cellphone provider's] towers between 7:39 p.m. and 8:24 p.m. ... in the area of the RNC and DNC on January 5, 2021," locating him in the right place at the right time."
Then they should know who or what was on the other end of the line, right? That might be useful information. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 04:31 PM (npFr7) 27
>>>Why would they do that, if not to conceal his identity?
If we are to believe some of the stuff we are hearing about this guy, he was easily manipulated. So then the question becomes, who put him up to it? Maybe that's the question they didn't want asked/answered. Posted by: No Name Today at December 09, 2025 04:31 PM (8mulE) 28
21 NOTHING WILL HAPPEN
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (Zz0t1) That's my line! Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (zjgNU) I need a “ line”, a signature comment. Everyone should coin one. Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:31 PM (pDt9x) 29
So was this a case of "intentional negligence"?
++++ How is that different from a "coverup" or a "conspiracy" or "corruption?" Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 04:31 PM (azrRX) 30
"Then they should know who or what was on the other end of the line, right? That might be useful information.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon" Gee, we never thought of that. Posted by: the FBI at December 09, 2025 04:31 PM (vFG9F) 31
That's my line! Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (zjgNU) So, you're saying I was in before the nothing will happen guy? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:32 PM (Zz0t1) 32
"Wray may not have wanted to solve the case: "intentional negligence." 'Corrupted' cell data"
yeah, the fact they faked the "corrupted cell data" is more evidence they had prior knowledge of the bomber, and sought an excuse ("data no good") to cover it up. Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 04:32 PM (vbXSk) 33
I thought it went without saying.
Posted by: Guy who always says "Nothing will happen" and is usually right at December 09, 2025 04:32 PM (vFG9F) 34
Remember when all the phones and computers that could have convicted Hillary mysteriously developed corruption and crashes, which is what often happens when you hit them with a hammer? This is now the deep state's go to move.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 04:33 PM (Riz8t) 35
The entire point of J6 was create a narrative that Trump supporters were out of control insurrectionists and bad people to shutdown any talk of a rigged election. And it worked.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 04:33 PM (viF8m) 36
The just-willowed thread reminded me, as Kamala usually does, of the times I had done zero work before class. Instead, I'd gone out drinking. And the professor called on me. I do think I was better at faking it than she was.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2025 04:33 PM (s0JqF) 37
For future reference, if you are going to be patsie of the Feds' fedsurrection fake bomb plot, leave your cell phone at home and pay cash for your prop bombs.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 09, 2025 04:33 PM (dK+Kv) 38
If the bomber was a white MAGA guy, they not only would’ve pulled out all the stops to catch him, they would’ve reopened Alcatraz for his life sentence.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 09, 2025 04:33 PM (u73oe) 39
He wasn't the right color so they were not interested.
Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2025 04:33 PM (YwEeS) 40
32 "Wray may not have wanted to solve the case: "intentional negligence." 'Corrupted' cell data"
yeah, the fact they faked the "corrupted cell data" is more evidence they had prior knowledge of the bomber, and sought an excuse ("data no good") to cover it up. Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 04:32 PM (vbXSk) Eh, apparently the perp is rather autistic, according to Granma, and black, but mostly black. Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:34 PM (pDt9x) 41
If the bomber was a white MAGA guy, they not only would’ve pulled out all the stops to catch him, they would’ve reopened Alcatraz for his life sentence.
They'd have torn down Alcatraz to the foundations and rebuilt it atop Mauna Loa. Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 04:35 PM (Riz8t) 42
Oh, good *In my opinion, cobs need to do a better job keeping stormfront at bay; too much of it lately
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:35 PM (g47mK) 43
the Jan6th coup by the DemonRats was THE MOST IMPORTANT thing. All else tossed to the side. Welcome to the Federal Bureau of Idiots (totally tainted by politics)
Posted by: gov'theretohelp at December 09, 2025 04:35 PM (VOPsA) 44
what is more believable:
1. That they would protect a guilty person because he is not MAGA, and it just too difficult to spin him as a recent convert who was working under MAGA influence or 2. They were pulling the strings and were concerned that their plotting would eventually get exposed, and so it was easier to protect the guy from being ID'd in order to protect the conspiracy. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 04:35 PM (mPytV) 45
not a criticism, just an opinion !
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:35 PM (g47mK) 46
OF COURSE they didn't investigate it. They WANTED it to be something that hurt Trump and his voter base. They were going to arrest everyone near the place regardless, and since they already knew the bomber was a black male of Democrat housing, they COULDN'T release his identity.
This was their Reichstag moment. And they got away with it. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:35 PM (Zz0t1) 47
Miranda Divine concludes that the political operators of the FBI didn't want to taint their Trump Did the J6 Insurrection narrative with any information that might undermine it, and started winding down the investigation when it looked like the main suspect was not a MAGA grandma.
++++ Fine, as far as it goes. But it implies that somebody knew. Obviously not a "MAGA Grandma," but not at *all* obviously not someone affiliated. A dude is a dude until context is added. So if they suppressed this - and it looks like they did, any questions about doctoring the footage notwithstanding - then they had a reason. The only reason for suppressing it is either because they're not sure who it is (which would call for publicity - a "have you seen this man" kind of thing) or because they *are* pretty sure who it is. The latter is more likely, so the only real question is *how* they knew. Either he was one of their boys, or they found out who he was. So they either had a patsy they set up, or they actually did their jobs and investigated but then buried it. I don't see another reasonable conclusion, but am open to hearing other arguments. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 04:36 PM (azrRX) 48
The FBI Boston office protected Whitey Bulgar
Of course the FBI will try and protect their agents. Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:36 PM (2GVsD) 49
Work out a quick deal with the autistic guy and then dump every bit of info that was ignored and the names of every supervisor and higher up who ignored the info. Stick it to the deep state and make them point fingers at those politicians in the Biden administration who told them to look the other way. You're not going to get criminal convictions against bureaucrats but you can stick to the Dems and deep state
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 04:36 PM (D+mpw) 50
... and one investigator claims that the FBI deliberately blurred out the one part of his face that was clearly visible in the surveillance footage, his eyes.
--------------- Patsy. Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 04:36 PM (nXmou) 51
You know, I don't think Aero Pinochet was strictly "legal", nor was the Argentine generals' "dirty war" against the Commies, but both were effective.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 04:36 PM (npFr7) 52
Chromatic aberrations suck in real world sight. The worse your eye sight gets the higher the refraction index and thickness gets of your lenses. At some point you end up basically trying to see through prisms. I think my eyesight has now stabilized into a nominal level of very shitty, so at least it's not going to get worse. But large variations of light, will separate into offset colors. So not only do you get weird colors but things displace and multiply. Mostly towards your periphery, not generally straight center of view. But it does suck.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 04:36 PM (3uBP9) 53
The entire point of J6 was create a narrative that Trump supporters were out of control insurrectionists and bad people to shutdown any talk of a rigged election. And it worked.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 04:33 PM (viF8m) ================= It did work, at least in part of society. That was the part predisposed to believe the worst of Republicans anyway. Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 04:37 PM (r5gBF) 54
42 Oh, good *In my opinion, cobs need to do a better job keeping stormfront at bay; too much of it lately
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:35 PM (g47mK) We are on their radar it seems. Still, better than BB, or Insty. Those places are Overrun. Add in the gazillion dollars a week schemes - what a mess!! Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:37 PM (pDt9x) 55
Either he was one of their boys, or they found out who he was. So they either had a patsy they set up, or they actually did their jobs and investigated but then buried it. I don't see another reasonable conclusion, but am open to hearing other arguments.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) ====== Mannix solves the case of the J6 bomber who is of course not to be confused with a cop. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 04:37 PM (WDjG6) 56
>>"Intentional Negligence"
As part of a treasonous conspiracy. Let's stop with these limited hangouts. Like the NYT admitting that "maybe open borders was a mistake." No, it was not a mistake, and this is not negligence. It was a planned takeover of our current system and the people. A coup. A treasonous dirty coup by filthy commies. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 04:38 PM (mPytV) 57
>>The entire point of J6 was create a narrative that Trump supporters were out of control insurrectionists and bad people to shutdown any talk of a rigged election. And it worked.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 04:33 PM (viF8m) And the 'Bomb' portion of the Plot was conveniently in place, as a last resort, to stop Congress from actually acting to review the election results. Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 04:38 PM (TR2dy) 58
I can't believe no one has done anything about the poor woman in Colorado that's been rotting away, physically tortured and mentally tormented for over a year because she blew the whistle on OBVIOUS FRAUD committed there.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:38 PM (Zz0t1) Posted by: Frank Barone at December 09, 2025 04:38 PM (IifOV) 60
We seem to all be repeating the same thing as if it is a Novel observation.
Did someone throw in the Joos? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 04:39 PM (zZu0s) 61
Remember when Barr and the media said that cell phone data wasn't good enough to be used in investigating election fraud?
Posted by: wodun at December 09, 2025 04:39 PM (eG1Ca) 62
>>> It did work, at least in part of society. That was the part predisposed to believe the worst of Republicans anyway.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 04:37 PM (r5gBF) That part of society also includes Republican politicians in DC. Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (3uBP9) 63
Can we start calling Cole "Marinus van der Tubby"?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (npFr7) 64
If the bomber was a white MAGA guy, they not only would’ve pulled out all the stops to catch him, they would’ve reopened Alcatraz for his life sentence.
If the bomber had been caught criticizing Israel, both parties would have called for the full force of the USMIC to descend on D.C. for door to door searches. Posted by: Good Grief at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (FAUIX) 65
The recent history of the Federal Bureau of Intrigue is a mish-mash of incompetence, corruption and high-level neurosis (e.g., James Comey). Trump is going to have to spray that place with a whole lot of Roundup to clear the weeds out.
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (2L+MU) 66
So what ties this guy to the bombing is a pair of rare shoes and a cell phone? Can't both of these be used by someone else? As conspiracy theories go...... Posted by: Frank Barone at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (IifOV) Posted by: Deep State Gonna Deep State at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (FGMmt) 68
All federal agencies have been corrupted beyond repair. Axe them all and start over.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (snZF9) 69
Politicos generally are in desperate need of some good old tar and feathering. Will never happen, of course, but it would clean up a lot of wrongs.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (r5gBF) 70
The F.B.I. used to be good shit.
The fact that the DOJ under various presidents during that time period wouldn’t take action on their investigations wasn’t their fault, and even “conservative” Democrats like Henry “Scoop” Jackson and Stu Symington would make sure Senate investigations turned on the whistleblowers instead of the perps (just like today). But clearly at some fairly defined point in time the F.B.I. lost their mojo and started doing dirty. By the time Janet “Butch” Reno was large and in charge, certainly, but long before then, too. Sometime after the Church committee hearings? Arguably they played a role in ousting Nixon? So it’s been 50 years easy. Very sad. Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 04:41 PM (wJccJ) Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 04:41 PM (mPytV) 72
"Intentional Negligence"? FBI Had J6 Bomber's Cell Phone Putting Him at the Scene of the Crime... Five Years Ago
He was one of their wind-up toys. Posted by: Operator Error at December 09, 2025 04:41 PM (PlXYd) 73
>>And the 'Bomb' portion of the Plot was conveniently in place, as a last resort, to stop Congress from actually acting to review the election results.
I can't wait to hear the motive. What would drive an autistic guy whose family said he was extremely introverted to make bombs and plant them at the RNC and DNC on the very day an insurrection happened? Probably have to dig for it because the media sure as hell isn't interested in this story. Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 04:41 PM (viF8m) 74
So what ties this guy to the bombing is a pair of rare shoes and a cell phone? Can't both of these be used by someone else? As conspiracy theories go......
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (IifOV) And sales of the bomb components on his credit cards, too. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 04:42 PM (npFr7) 75
Jussie Smollette is proud (I always say his name like Chappelle).
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat --- Good to see you here. Glad you made it. Everything OK? Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:42 PM (c35xG) 76
Glenn Beck did a recent rant about no one ever facing consequences and how he is fed up.
Me too. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 04:41 PM (mPytV) Oh, but he's a kook that no one should ever listen to ever........ Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:42 PM (Zz0t1) 77
Chromatic aberrations suck in real world sight. The worse your eye sight gets the higher the refraction index and thickness gets of your lenses. At some point you end up basically trying to see through prisms. I think my eyesight has now stabilized into a nominal level of very shitty, so at least it's not going to get worse. But large variations of light, will separate into offset colors. So not only do you get weird colors but things displace and multiply. Mostly towards your periphery, not generally straight center of view. But it does suck.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 04:36 PM (3uBP9) just get astigmatism. Every day is like Christmas at night. Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 04:42 PM (8avO+) 78
70 The F.B.I. used to be good shit.
... Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 04:41 PM (wJccJ) ----- Hol' up.... Imma gonna let you finish, but first I want to say that they were always an incompetent grifting bunch of assholes. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 04:43 PM (mPytV) 79
>>So what ties this guy to the bombing is a pair of rare shoes and a cell phone? Can't both of these be used by someone else?
They have his receipts for components purchased going back a little over a year, I believe. Not that he can't be a carve-out. But, they have more than you implied. Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 04:43 PM (TR2dy) 80
Miranda Divine:
Surely there's more to it than that. Director Kash Patel hinted Friday at a reason the FBI under Biden administration Director Christopher Wray may not have wanted to solve the case: "intentional negligence." This is the same Miranda Divine who played the NY Post patsy, publishing an article where 'insiders' at the FBI tried to frag Patel and Bongino as people leading a 'rudderless' FBI and were only in it for 'resume padding'. That article came out just a few days before the FBI actually caught Cole for the J5 pipe bomb plantings. I'm a fan of Divine, but that was not her best moment. This is probably her play at penance for that dumb move. Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:43 PM (0CU3H) 81
The important part of the J6 bomber story is being completely avoided.
Who were his handlers? _ That's the real story. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:43 PM (c35xG) 82
FBI "just didn't have the resources" to look into 186 suspects -- not when they showed they could mobilize every agent to track down every grandma within ten blocks of the Capitol on January 6th.
Oddly it turned out to be that one guy they saw on video plant a bomb, mill around a bit, then make a call.... at that exact time in that spot. Posted by: Operator Error at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (PlXYd) 83
Christopher Wray - Wr + G
Posted by: Cray Cray at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (7JIc2) 84
I just looked up KPMG. Their practices are very suspect and they have paid millions in fines and lawsuit awards. Arthur Andersen was pristine by comparison.
Posted by: huerfano at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (98kQX) 85
I wonder why they didn't arrest him 5 years ago.
Posted by: Because he's black at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (9ZILp) 86
Chris Wray is Gomer & Guber's cousin.
Posted by: Frank Barone _________ He's ugly, but he ain't stupid. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (XvL8K) 87
The F.B.I. used to be good shit.
The fact that the DOJ under various presidents during that time period wouldn’t take action on their investigations wasn’t their fault, and even “conservative” Democrats like Henry “Scoop” Jackson and Stu Symington would make sure Senate investigations turned on the whistleblowers instead of the perps (just like today). But clearly at some fairly defined point in time the F.B.I. lost their mojo and started doing dirty. By the time Janet “Butch” Reno was large and in charge, certainly, but long before then, too. Sometime after the Church committee hearings? Arguably they played a role in ousting Nixon? So it’s been 50 years easy. Very sad. Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 04:41 PM (wJccJ) Most organizations lose their focus within a generation of founding. The Armed Forces work around that to an extent by getting shot at. Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (8avO+) 88
just get astigmatism. Every day is like Christmas at night. Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 04:42 PM (8avO+) Get Fuchs Dystrophy. Every light is like a torture test for a large portion of the day. But, you do get rainbows all the time. I'm just waiting for the pot of gold to fall from out of nowhere and crush my skull. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (Zz0t1) 89
I would like to know why he did this on Jan 5 in particular. Why he did both RNC and DNC.
I'd like to know who protected Ray Epps. Who set up the 'gallows' and who ordered him to be left alone while he did it. Who opened the magnetic locked doors to the Capitol. Who was the handcuffed protestor who was then on camera later getting uncuffed and high fived by (someone, Capitol Police?) Sigh. Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (Dv3i1) 90
Who was he talking to on the phone? His ponybuddy?
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (vFG9F) 91
Nothing will happen.
Posted by: And you damn well know it. at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (XQo4F) 92
76 Glenn Beck did a recent rant about no one ever facing consequences and how he is fed up.
Me too. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 04:41 PM (mPytV) Oh, but he's a kook that no one should ever listen to ever........ Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:42 PM (Zz0t1) I'm not a Glenn Beck fan. At all. I still remember his temporary NeverTrump insanity period. Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:45 PM (0CU3H) 93
And a white MAGA guy too, guess they fked up
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 04:45 PM (Ia/+0) 94
Anyone at the fib that had any involvement in this case needs to be fired today.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2025 04:46 PM (0N4FZ) 95
81 The important part of the J6 bomber story is being completely avoided.
Who were his handlers? _ That's the real story. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:43 PM (c35xG) For me, the question is why did J6 even take place if there were bombs planted on Capitol grounds on J5? Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:46 PM (0CU3H) 96
71 Glenn Beck did a recent rant about no one ever facing consequences and how he is fed up.
Posted by: bob Hey! Democrats take responsibility for their actions and move on! Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 04:46 PM (Y8DZL) 97
Okay just did my first video on Tensor. Almost cost 19 credits and took a long time to generate.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:47 PM (2GVsD) 98
>>And the 'Bomb' portion of the Plot was conveniently in place, as a last resort, to stop Congress from actually acting to review the election results.
I can't wait to hear the motive. What would drive an autistic guy whose family said he was extremely introverted to make bombs and plant them at the RNC and DNC on the very day an insurrection happened? Probably have to dig for it because the media sure as hell isn't interested in this story. Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 04:41 PM (viF8m) His motive was to put a bomb in DC. It gets pretty simple when you do that. Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 04:47 PM (8avO+) 99
I'm not a Glenn Beck fan. At all. I still remember his temporary NeverTrump insanity period. Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:45 PM (0CU3H) He did yeoman's work on the whole Ukraine / Burisma shit back in the day, which everyone ignored. He was spot on and now look where that shithole is. Hell, 1/2 of the 'conservative' media sphere was NeverTrump........ Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:47 PM (Zz0t1) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (2GVsD) 101
Did we have as many weirdos doing weird shit back in the day when we used to beat up weirdos for being weird? Or is it now popular to be weird: brony, furry, anime trans queer all of the above. The weirder the better. Touch a titty and try to act normal at least.
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (uQzkA) 102
>>> I'm not a Glenn Beck fan. At all. I still remember his temporary NeverTrump insanity period.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:45 PM (0CU3H) Hey, remember a million years ago when Glenn Beck, ... super detective, basically batman, if batman was cool and had a chalkboard, ... solved the pipe bomb mystery for us? Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (3uBP9) 103
>>I can't wait to hear the motive. What would drive an autistic guy whose family said he was extremely introverted to make bombs and plant them at the RNC and DNC on the very day an insurrection happened?
His handler was VERY specific about the Day and Locations he was to plant those inert bombs. Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (TR2dy) 104
54 42 Oh, good *In my opinion, cobs need to do a better job keeping stormfront at bay; too much of it lately
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:35 PM (g47mK) We are on their radar it seems. Still, better than BB, or Insty. Those places are Overrun. Add in the gazillion dollars a week schemes - what a mess!! Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:37 PM (pDt9x) related story in the NY Post today - the great majority of the posts backing Fuentes and his pals like Tucker on X and other online outlets are sourced from bot farms in India and Nigeria. so much for that "organic support". Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (uWKK8) 105
"Anyone at the fib that had any involvement in this case needs to be fired today.
Trebuchet? Posted by: Anna Puma" Kiln. Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (vFG9F) 106
Guess how many cell phones they actually had records of in the vicinity of the RNC and DNC at the time when the bombs were being planted?
Fewer than 200. No, i do not believe the FBI "just didn't have the resources" to look into 186 suspects -- not when they showed they could mobilize every agent to track down every grandma within ten blocks of the Capitol on January 6th. ++++ I am sure they could have, but I have a different question. What if he had left his phone at home? This framing of the problem - accurate as it may be - makes it sound as if cell phone data is they key to whole thing. I don't know if it is, but if it is then it sounds like leaving your phone at home is a "do whatever you want" pass. I can't imagine that's true, but maybe it's also like this: https://youtu.be/zgsQNNYurWo Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 04:49 PM (azrRX) 107
>>Hey, remember a million years ago when Glenn Beck, ... super detective, basically batman, if batman was cool and had a chalkboard, ... solved the pipe bomb mystery for us?
He got a tip when he was handing out Teddy Bears at the Border. Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 04:49 PM (TR2dy) 108
Who was he talking to on the phone? His ponybuddy?
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (vFG9F) I was gonna say his FBI handler, but that's probably the same person. Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 04:49 PM (dGCAG) 109
58 I can't believe no one has done anything about the poor woman in Colorado that's been rotting away, physically tortured and mentally tormented for over a year because she blew the whistle on OBVIOUS FRAUD committed there.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer She tried to retain election data that should have been retained per federal law, but that powerful people on Colorado don't want exposed. Political prisoner Tina Peters. A big lie is that Nazi is 'right-wing'. Nope. Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 04:50 PM (Dv3i1) 110
Ugh.
Fire everyone even remotely connected to the bomber's investigation. Any FBI investigator who believes his job is to protect Democrat political chicanery instead of catching criminals needs to be fired and any pension revoked. Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 04:50 PM (iJfKG) Posted by: Zombie Fawn Liebowitz at December 09, 2025 04:50 PM (Zz0t1) 112
“ …. create a narrative that Trump supporters were out of control insurrectionists and bad people to shutdown any talk of a rigged election”
——- It “worked”, but …. Donald Trump is President. Oops My view is they are stupid. They are selfish, which is worse. Even the appearance or perception, rightly or wrongly, that elections are not legitimate is absolute poison for the system and anyone who cares about their country and its inhabitants would do anything to avoid this. One would want to dispel such ideas. With sunlight and transparency. “Oh, you want to look under the hood of our election system? By all means!” Did they do that? Fuck no. Not even a little bit. They just said “Fuck You” and decided to arrest anyone that complained. Not a prescription for confidence going forward. Ask them, what WOULD be the acceptable response by America if it were proven a presidential election were stolen by Democrats? What would they expect people to do? What is the remedy for that? “Vote Harder” is not a remedy. Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 04:50 PM (wJccJ) 113
"Cole's cellphone "engaged in approximately seven data session transactions with [his cellphone provider's] towers ..."
Then they should know who or what was on the other end of the line, right? That might be useful information." Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon I'm thinking he was not talking, those "transactions" are just the phone seeking a tower? And somehow it also transmits a location, or maybe they are just going by which tower it connected to. Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 04:51 PM (vbXSk) 114
related story in the NY Post today - the great majority of the posts backing Fuentes and his pals like Tucker on X and other online outlets are sourced from bot farms in India and Nigeria.
so much for that "organic support". Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (uWKK Yeah, I love how the Left is trying to make an antisemitic equivalence between Ds and Rs, now that Fuentes et al are on the scene. The institutional antisemitism on the Left - domestically and internationally - puts anything we purportedly have on our side of the ledger in the dust. Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:52 PM (0CU3H) 115
What if he had left his phone at home? This framing of the problem - accurate as it may be - makes it sound as if cell phone data is they key to whole thing. I don't know if it is, but if it is then it sounds like leaving your phone at home is a "do whatever you want" pass. I can't imagine that's true, but maybe it's also like this:
https://youtu.be/zgsQNNYurWo Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 04:49 PM (azrRX) Well, everyone knows that burner phones are untraceable, so just use those. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:52 PM (Zz0t1) 116
Hey, remember a million years ago when Glenn Beck, ... super detective, basically batman, if batman was cool and had a chalkboard, ... solved the pipe bomb mystery for us?
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (3uBP9) If by "solved" you mean forced the FBI to come up with a patsy, to keep the heat off of them, then yes. Yes he did. Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 04:52 PM (dGCAG) 117
Don't forget that a decent press corp could have solved this during the 4 years the FBI was sitting this case out.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 04:52 PM (TN0g+) 118
The dog ate our cellphone data.
Posted by: Federal Investigations Bureau (FIB) at December 09, 2025 04:52 PM (krQz2) 119
J6 was an attack on The System. The System must be protected at all costs. The protection of The System is always and ever a Bipartisan task.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:52 PM (pDt9x) 120
So.... guy lied to Congress... and.... crickets... no charges filed yet? No perp Walk?
Bet he is still getting a retirement check. Posted by: Romeo13 at December 09, 2025 04:52 PM (mP0Kj) 121
FWIW, "Intentional Negligence" is, in fact, intentional obstruction.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 04:53 PM (npFr7) 122
This cellphone was sold at Wal-Mart store #8999 on this date and time.
Roll the security footage. Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:53 PM (2GVsD) Posted by: Paco - If the problem's a no-brainer, I'm your man at December 09, 2025 04:53 PM (2L+MU) 124
95 81 The important part of the J6 bomber story is being completely avoided.
Who were his handlers? _ That's the real story. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:43 PM (c35xG) For me, the question is why did J6 even take place if there were bombs planted on Capitol grounds on J5? Posted by: Darrell Harris --- It's a Dirty Dime Novel, the bombs are part of the J6 Insurrection story that they (Pelosi & Co) intended to pull off against Trump. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:53 PM (c35xG) 125
Don't know if this has been mentioned but by blurring the eyes, it also blurred the fact that he was a person of color. So, most assumed he was a white Trump guy . This was also intentional.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 09, 2025 04:53 PM (t/2Uw) 126
related story in the NY Post today - the great majority of the posts backing Fuentes and his pals like Tucker on X and other online outlets are sourced from bot farms in India and Nigeria.
so much for that "organic support". Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (uWKK Yeah, those bot farms also watched Tucker every evening on Fox News, too. Posted by: Jewish Gaslighting Farm at December 09, 2025 04:54 PM (K+su+) 127
I saw Chromatic Abberations open for Blue Cheer at the Rainbow Theatre in 1970.
Posted by: Old Man Adams at December 09, 2025 04:54 PM (oftw2) 128
Face it, they only investigated phone numbers whose owners were registered Republican and white. End of story. After that came up dry it was back to hunting down J6 Grannies.
Posted by: hate_the_deepstate at December 09, 2025 04:54 PM (2Nfh9) 129
FWIW, "Intentional Negligence" is, in fact, intentional obstruction.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 04:53 PM (npFr7) Obstruction is only a thing on TV Fed Cop shows, silly. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (Zz0t1) 130
>>J6 was an attack on The System. The System must be protected at all costs. The protection of The System is always and ever a Bipartisan task.
I think you mean, 'in defense of The System'. Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (TR2dy) 131
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:47 PM (2GVsD)
Kinda cool. Very anime. I really want a good term for the cutesy little girl anime stuff that is not the sexual connotation. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (zZu0s) 132
I saw Chromatic Abberations open for Blue Cheer at the Rainbow Theatre in 1970.
Posted by: Old Man Adams at December 09, 2025 04:54 PM (oftw2) Blue Cheer. Well played, sir. Well played. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (Zz0t1) 133
I'm thinking he was not talking, those "transactions" are just the phone seeking a tower? And somehow it also transmits a location, or maybe they are just going by which tower it connected to.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 04:51 PM (vbXSk) Towers "ping" cellphones all the time. I think these were either phone calls and texts, or him using an app, like maybe Gurgle Maps. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (npFr7) 134
This is the same Miranda Divine who played the NY Post patsy, publishing an article where 'insiders' at the FBI tried to frag Patel and Bongino as people leading a 'rudderless' FBI and were only in it for 'resume padding'. That article came out just a few days before the FBI actually caught Cole for the J5 pipe bomb plantings.
I'm a fan of Divine, but that was not her best moment. This is probably her play at penance for that dumb move. Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:43 PM (0CU3H) Or... maybe they released the info on their patsy, after they realized they were getting heat from whoever sources her articles. Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (dGCAG) 135
Did Lindsey Graham advocate shooting the J6’ers? Did the Capitol police get medals for their service?
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:56 PM (pDt9x) 136
It's a Dirty Dime Novel, the bombs are part of the J6 Insurrection story that they (Pelosi & Co) intended to pull off against Trump.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:53 PM (c35xG) Exactly. A security service worth its salt would have announced that bombs were discovered in the vicinity and the whole grounds declared off-limits to the public. Either J6 should never have happened, or it was all an Op. Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:56 PM (0CU3H) 137
130 >>J6 was an attack on The System. The System must be protected at all costs. The protection of The System is always and ever a Bipartisan task.
I think you mean, 'in defense of The System'. Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (TR2dy) I could mean that. Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:56 PM (pDt9x) 138
Did Lindsey Graham advocate shooting the J6’ers? Did the Capitol police get medals for their service?
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:56 PM (pDt9x) Yes and yes. Because most of DC was all in on the plot to begin with because they all hated Trump. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:57 PM (Zz0t1) 139
I don't know if I'm ready to believe that. It's a claim made by someone looking at the video and determining that he sees "pixelation" added to the video to obscure Brian Cole, Jr.'s eyes. I remember other claims about "chromatic aberrations" not turning out to be true.
--- I have not made this claim, however, I remember from the Rittenhouse fiasco that security cameras these days usually have stunning quality. And that getting this kind of graininess often takes interference. The graininess in these pics seems to me to be under that capability of current security cameras. I don't put it past them to grainify another video, as I seem to recall it wasn't only with Rittenhouse that they went out of their way to reduce the resolution on a security camera. Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 04:57 PM (krQz2) 140
J6 was an attack on The System. The System must be protected at all costs. The protection of The System is always and ever a Bipartisan task.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:52 PM (pDt9x) Or... J6 was an attack BY the system! Because yes, the system must be protected at all costs, and that Trump guy was making noise about contesting the election. Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 04:57 PM (dGCAG) 141
What if he had left his phone at home? This framing of the problem - accurate as it may be - makes it sound as if cell phone data is they key to whole thing. I don't know if it is, but if it is then it sounds like leaving your phone at home is a "do whatever you want" pass. I can't imagine that's true, but maybe it's also like this:
https://youtu.be/zgsQNNYurWo Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 04:49 PM (azrRX) To peeps today not having your phone on you and live is worse than being struck by lightning. Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 04:58 PM (8avO+) 142
Kinda cool. Very anime.
I really want a good term for the cutesy little girl anime stuff that is not the sexual connotation. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (zZu0s) kawaii? Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 04:58 PM (3uBP9) 143
135 Did Lindsey Graham advocate shooting the J6’ers?
The terrorists? Yes, they were threatening our Democracy and deserved to be shot by the brave heroes in Washington D.C. Posted by: Ted Cruz at December 09, 2025 04:58 PM (K+su+) 144
Something... something... obstruction of justice.
Posted by: Darth Randall at December 09, 2025 04:58 PM (OXcnO) 145
I'm thinking he was not talking, those "transactions" are just the phone seeking a tower? And somehow it also transmits a location, or maybe they are just going by which tower it connected to.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 04:51 PM (vbXSk) ++++ They actively communicate all the time. I am not sure what a "data transaction" is, but they also probably happen more or less constantly. Get an email and you receive a push notification? Get a notification Whether location is involved would depend on the applications involved, but it also isn't needed. The tower *must* know who is connected to it. The nearby towers probably also do, if the phone connects to multiple towers (which it will during handoff, if not earlier). Triangulation works and no device location is needed because the tower locations are known. Even a connection to a single tower gets you a likely radius. Pick the closest tower to the target, and see who was connected. Even without greater precision than that, it's a highly-effective filter for narrowing down the list. The tower knows what is connected at any given time, and can infer how far away the device is (signal strength). Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (azrRX) 146
I really want a good term for the cutesy little girl anime stuff that is not the sexual connotation.
Posted by: Aetius451AD --------- You must eliminate intent to do that. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (c35xG) 147
103 >>I can't wait to hear the motive. What would drive an autistic guy whose family said he was extremely introverted to make bombs and plant them at the RNC and DNC on the very day an insurrection happened?
His handler was VERY specific about the Day and Locations he was to plant those inert bombs. Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (TR2dy) If you watch the video, it sure looks like he is being directed by someone. The wandering. The looking around. He even gets up on tippy toes at one point looking for someone, then wanders off for another lap around the area... Then... plants the 'bombs. Add in the Hoody and mask... which could easily cover earphones... or buds.. If'n he knew where he wanted to plant the bombs, then why the wandering around? Makes no sense... just gets him into more camera footage. Posted by: Romeo13 at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (mP0Kj) 148
Popular Science by way of Instapundit -
German hairy snails are disappearing from London’s River Thames *whistles innocently* -Frenchman with suspiciously full pockets Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (Dv3i1) 149
143 135 Did Lindsey Graham advocate shooting the J6’ers?
The terrorists? Yes, they were threatening our Democracy and deserved to be shot by the brave heroes in Washington D.C. Posted by: Ted Cruz at December 09, 2025 04:58 PM (K+su+) Yeah, that guy. It would have been better if Cruz had kept is trap shut. Like at least 20 other Republican Senators did. Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (0CU3H) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (2GVsD) 151
It's a Dirty Dime Novel, the bombs are part of the J6 Insurrection story that they (Pelosi & Co) intended to pull off against Trump.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:53 PM (c35xG) Exactly. A security service worth its salt would have announced that bombs were discovered in the vicinity and the whole grounds declared off-limits to the public. Either J6 should never have happened, or it was all an Op. Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:56 PM (0CU3H) Shouldn't they have had a more credible patsy set up than this dude? Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (8avO+) 152
I really want a good term for the cutesy little girl anime stuff that is not the sexual connotation.
Posted by: Aetius451AD --------- you mean chibi? Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:00 PM (8avO+) 153
146 I really want a good term for the cutesy little girl anime stuff that is not the sexual connotation.
Posted by: Aetius451AD --------- You must eliminate intent to do that. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (c35xG If you ever feel the need to be appalled, remove safe search for anime, hentai, and manga. What they allow is really disturbing. Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 05:00 PM (pDt9x) 154
but first I want to say that they were always an incompetent grifting bunch of assholes.
—— You can say that, but I know better, from my reading of history. They did excellent work at what they were tasked to do. As so often the case, it was congress who caused the problems to persist. It was Harry Truman who absconded with all the State Department personnel background check and loyalty files. He wouldn’t let congressman look at them. The FBI had files on all sorts of scurvy fuckheads. It’s like the cops in Seattle or Portland. If your bosses are leftist dickheads, you ain’t gonna bust your ass to do arrest bad guys. It isn’t worth the risk. And eventually you’ll get pushed out, and they’ll hire left wing goons anyhow, to hassle and arrest the law abiding. Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 05:01 PM (wJccJ) 155
The Treasury has prominently featured Trump coin designs on its website. The coin would be part of a push to commemorate the 250th anniversary of America's founding. It would be a collector's coin rather than a fully minted coin.
---- Pain, Democrats, Pain. Trump Silvers would sell like hotcakes. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 05:01 PM (c35xG) 156
148 Popular Science by way of Instapundit -
German hairy snails are disappearing from London’s River Thames *whistles innocently* -Frenchman with suspiciously full pockets - Chuck Martel LOL! Posted by: Paco - If the problem's a no-brainer, I'm your man at December 09, 2025 05:01 PM (2L+MU) 157
>>Towers "ping" cellphones all the time. I think these were either phone calls and texts, or him using an app, like maybe Gurgle Maps.
That was how they supposedly proved Michael Cohen was in Vienna working with Russia on behalf of Trump. Michael Cohen was never in Vienna. Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 05:01 PM (viF8m) 158
Chibi is an off-shoot of super-deformed.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 05:01 PM (2GVsD) 159
Shouldn't they have had a more credible patsy set up than this dude?
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (8avO+) Yes, he should've been a Russo-Iranian Qatari national with a Chinese passport. Posted by: MIC Fiction Committee at December 09, 2025 05:02 PM (K+su+) 160
156 148 Popular Science by way of Instapundit -
German hairy snails are disappearing from London’s River Thames *whistles innocently* -Frenchman with suspiciously full pockets - Chuck Martel LOL! Posted by: Paco - If the problem's a no-brainer, I'm your man at December 09, 2025 05:01 PM (2L+MU) No business being there anyway. Stay on the other side of the Channel!! Go bother France!! Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 05:02 PM (pDt9x) 161
Someone remind me where in the Constitution it says there's supposed to be a national police force?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 09, 2025 05:03 PM (ULPxl) 162
The F.B.I. used to be good shit.
--- Day by day, I doubt that it ever was more and more. Was it when Hoover was tapping the phone of every prominent person in DC? The FIB is hype. Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:03 PM (krQz2) 163
161 Someone remind me where in the Constitution it says there's supposed to be a national police force?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 09, 2025 05:03 PM (ULPxl) The same place where it says that the Administrative State is the Fourth Branch of Government. Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 05:04 PM (0CU3H) 164
It seems to me, the FBI obstructed justice and lied to Congress with respect the J5 Pipe Bombing case. I can only assume the perps that committed these felonies were given awards and martinis for doing an eggs and bacon, by the book
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 05:04 PM (uv8gn) 165
I need a “ line”, a signature comment. Everyone should coin one. Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:31 PM (pDt9x) tubal - I need a line! Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:04 PM (8avO+) 166
The F.B.I. used to be good shit.
--- Day by day, I doubt that it ever was more and more. Was it when Hoover was tapping the phone of every prominent person in DC? The FIB is hype. Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:03 PM (krQz2) Once a domestic terror group, always a domestic terror group. Burn it down, figuratively. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 09, 2025 05:04 PM (dK+Kv) 167
The Treasury has prominently featured Trump coin designs on its website. The coin would be part of a push to commemorate the 250th anniversary of America's founding. It would be a collector's coin rather than a fully minted coin.
I'd like to see a coin featuring Donald Trump in the pose of St. Michael, his foot on the neck of Chuck Schumer, brandishing a spear over his head. Posted by: Paco - If the problem's a no-brainer, I'm your man at December 09, 2025 05:05 PM (2L+MU) 168
Michael Cohen was never in Vienna.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 05:01 PM (viF8m) I suppose it would be possible to spoof a cellphone's IMEI number, which is a unique identifier of the device itself. Dummy up another phone to play-act as Cohen's phone, ship it in a Faraday bag to Vienna, and take it out for a walk. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 05:05 PM (npFr7) 169
Trump Silvers or Phil Silvers?
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 05:05 PM (nXmou) 170
I saw German Hairy Snails open for Toad the Wet Sprocket at the Avalon in '94.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 05:05 PM (3uBP9) 171
70 The F.B.I. used to be good shit.
Really? Cross-dressing JE Hoover with his blackmail files begs to differ. Rotten to the core from day one. Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 09, 2025 05:05 PM (E66lT) 172
Search for list of top FBI shows. Think there are only 2 or 3? One list has 50.
I wonder how much taxpayer money was spent paying the networks for good PR. Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 05:05 PM (Dv3i1) 173
I'm prepared to believe any infamy of the FBI
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 05:06 PM (xcxpd) 174
122 This cellphone was sold at Wal-Mart store #8999 on this date and time.
Roll the security footage. Posted by: Anna Puma And they used a credit card..... And they went home and turned it on... And they called their friends after.... Criminals usually are not that smart. Even Kohlberger got caught, and he turned his phone off (or Faraday bagged it, not sure.) But he was in area casing the house in the weeks before, and his phone was noticeably off during the murders. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 05:06 PM (mPytV) 175
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (azrRX)
Modern phones are constantly tracking their own location... and it's been shown that I phones are sending the info off periodically... even if you are in Airplane mode... it waits to connect then sends off the data. And as Phone companies seem quite willing to give that info to the Feds, even without any warrant? My phone right now knows down to a few feet, exactly where it is, and shows the location of my truck 30 feet away, even though it is not even connected to my truck. They are not tracking via cell tower... but they don't want to tell you HOW they are actually getting that data. Posted by: Romeo13 at December 09, 2025 05:06 PM (mP0Kj) 176
A further 51 phone numbers were identified as "not needing further action" because, curiously enough, the phones "belong[ed] to law enforcement officers or persons on the exclusion list."
Say, one of those excluded law enforcement phones wouldn't be a female Capitol City police officer with a soccer injury would it? Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (Da7Vv) 177
That was how they supposedly proved Michael Cohen was in Vienna working with Russia on behalf of Trump.
Michael Cohen was never in Vienna. Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 05:01 PM (viF8m) ++++ The method isn't actually bad, but it depends on two things: 1. Understanding that "the device is there" does *not* necessarily mean "the person who owns the device is there." It requires other corroboration. 2. Knowing that the device that's there is the device you're looking for. Neither was the case with the "Cohen in Vienna" thing. It was either the wrong device (a device belonging to a different Michael Cohen, for example), or an outright fabrication. "The device pinged the tower" is not itself meaningless, but it depends both on knowing what the device is *and* knowing that the person who owns the device was with it at the time. It ain't magic. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (azrRX) 178
I'd buy a coin with an image of Melania in a bikini.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (nXmou) 179
Criminal Minds, NCIS.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (pDt9x) 180
It seems to me, the FBI obstructed justice and lied to Congress with respect the J5 Pipe Bombing case. I can only assume the perps that committed these felonies were given awards and martinis for doing an eggs and bacon, by the book investigation coverup, and that none of them will ever suffer being indicted.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 05:04 PM (uv8gn) Good to see you here! Some people were wondering about your apparent absence. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (npFr7) 181
Or put another way, the F.B.I. was once hated by leftists with the passion of a thousand burning suns.
That counts for a lot in my book. The fact that it appears to be run by leftists in recent decades follows a certain pattern we’ve seen. I liked it better when the F.B.I. was hated by leftists. Not run by leftists, as their personal clean up crew for crooked politicians and the rest of it. Going after parents at PTA meetings who object to their children being groomed by kiddie fuckers in public schools. See where I’m going with that? There was a pretty dramatic change in focus and direction. When did that happen? Under Reagan? Bush? Clinton? Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (wJccJ) 182
The same place where it says that the Administrative State is the Fourth Branch of Government.
____ The No Kings clause, duh. Posted by: Kentajni Jackson Brown at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (Dv3i1) 183
>>The same place where it says that the Administrative State is the Fourth Branch of Government.
And yet we have a Supreme Court Justice that seem to believe that's exactly what the Constitution says. In invisible ink I guess. Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 05:08 PM (viF8m) 184
Shouldn't they have had a more credible patsy set up than this dude? Posted by: Oldcat --- Credible in what way? He did what he was told to do. His father is a felon, his sister and him too. He was as good or better than other set ups we've discovered on the FBI. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 05:08 PM (c35xG) 185
>>> 172 Search for list of top FBI shows. Think there are only 2 or 3? One list has 50.
I wonder how much taxpayer money was spent paying the networks for good PR. Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 05:05 PM (Dv3i1) 50? Hmmph. Posted by: see eye ay at December 09, 2025 05:08 PM (ULPxl) 186
It was the grandma.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 05:08 PM (9ipOP) 187
Good to see you here! Some people were wondering about your apparent absence.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon Now you know who the Feds are on this website. Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 05:09 PM (uv8gn) 188
Pam Bondi is looking into it.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 09, 2025 05:09 PM (abIsI) 189
Yeah, that guy. It would have been better if Cruz had kept is trap shut. Like at least 20 other Republican Senators did.
Posted by: Darrell Harris _______ I voted for him in the 16 primary. I now realize it would have been Bush Lite. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 09, 2025 05:09 PM (XvL8K) 190
Really? Cross-dressing JE Hoover with his blackmail files begs to differ.
Rotten to the core from day one. Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 09, 2025 05:05 PM (E66lT) --- Hoover was never a TV. That's just the typical counter-op. I wouldn't care for him more if he was or wasn't. I've been led to believe that all that Hoover TV stuff is character assassination. Do you know how common it was to insinuate that Joe McCarthy was queer for his brother? This is mid-20th century Democrat destruction politics. Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:10 PM (krQz2) 191
See where I’m going with that? There was a pretty dramatic change in focus and direction. When did that happen? Under Reagan? Bush? Clinton?
Posted by: Common Tater ------------ Roosevelt Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 05:10 PM (c35xG) Posted by: DaveA at December 09, 2025 05:10 PM (FhXTo) 193
I just looked up KPMG. Their practices are very suspect and they have paid millions in fines and lawsuit awards. Arthur Andersen was pristine by comparison.
Posted by: huerfano When I was vetting auditors, they were the first name crossed off of the list. Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 05:10 PM (b16/K) 194
>>> I'd buy a coin with an image of Melania in a bikini.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (nXmou) I’d buy that for a dollar Posted by: The guy who says, Id buy that for a dollar in robocop movies and the HQ at December 09, 2025 05:10 PM (3uBP9) 195
I'd buy a coin with an image of Melania in a bikini.
Posted by: ShainS Have to say, that's a pretty solid option. I am down for Trump working the drive-thru window at McDonald's. Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 05:11 PM (uv8gn) 196
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (azrRX) —————- Just what a cop would say! Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 09, 2025 05:11 PM (u73oe) 197
They are not tracking via cell tower... but they don't want to tell you HOW they are actually getting that data.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 09, 2025 05:06 PM (mP0Kj) ++++ They probably are, because it's a hell of a first-pass filter. The device needs to be connected to function. So you can look through gigantic databases from numerous service providers for a geographic range (hard) or narrow it down fast by just looking at what was connected to likely towers during the interesting period. If desired, you can then pull records for those devices. It's probably much easier and faster to start with a subset of the data first. I dunno. I've never done it. But I'd hate to have to start with "all global location data for that day." That's a lot of data and virtually all of it is just noise anyway. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:11 PM (azrRX) 198
By the patsy idea, his depositing the bombs was gonna be a big factor in getting Trump.
But the fact that the FBI hid his identity for 5 years because revealing it would help Trump somehow... These 2 facts don't seem to fit together. Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:11 PM (8avO+) 199
Reported shooting at Kentucky State University in Frankfort. At this time, we are aware of some injuries. We will share more information as available. Law enforcement are on scene, and a suspect has been arrested.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 09, 2025 05:12 PM (abIsI) 200
Well, we already have Karoline Leavitt in a bikini, tanned, rested, and ready.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 05:12 PM (pDt9x) 201
189 Yeah, that guy. It would have been better if Cruz had kept is trap shut. Like at least 20 other Republican Senators did.
Posted by: Darrell Harris _______ I voted for him in the 16 primary. I now realize it would have been Bush Lite. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 09, 2025 05:09 PM (XvL8K) Same here, Biff. Same here. Looking back, what I thought was a badge of honor by having the Bushes mad at Cruz by bucking the political machine as a Tea Partier was actually them being mad at Cruz because he wouldn't wait for his turn. Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 05:13 PM (0CU3H) 202
KSU is a black school so it was probably a dis related shooting
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 05:13 PM (uQzkA) 203
You can say that, but I know better, from my reading of history. They did excellent work at what they were tasked to do.
Posted by: Common Tater ----- I used to have a list in my head, but so so many cases where they claim "success" were failure. On top of that, - The hair and fiber lab - The bit mark evidence. I used to be a big fan of the FBI files TV show, but I noticed that most cases (a) the local PD actually solved it, or (b) They finally got around to looking at the most obvious suspect, or (c) the guy confessed or was ratted on. Very few were a result of their investigations. Mostly what the did was promote themselves. That, they were good at. But look at so many big cases, Atlanta bombing, anthrax, unabomber,.... so many of them were nothing short of a display of incompetence. Maybe some time long ago they were good, but not the past 50 years. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 05:13 PM (mPytV) 204
I wouldn't care for him more if he was or wasn't. I've been led to believe that all that Hoover TV stuff is character assassination.
Do you know how common it was to insinuate that Joe McCarthy was queer for his brother? This is mid-20th century Democrat destruction politics. Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:10 PM (krQz2) There was some great dirt in the Jefferson vs Adams campaign in 1796. Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:13 PM (8avO+) 205
These 2 facts don't seem to fit together.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:11 PM (8avO+) --- Almost no one who thinks they're clever is as clever as they think they are. There is still a lot of smoke around the actual bombs and whether they could have detonated at all. Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:14 PM (krQz2) 206
"I'm thinking he was not talking, those "transactions" are just the phone seeking a tower? And somehow it also transmits a location, or maybe they are just going by which tower it connected to."
The vids I've seen has him circling all around the locations. Maybe he had Google maps open? Posted by: barbarausa at December 09, 2025 05:14 PM (enw9G) 207
Sydney Sweeny >> Karoline Leavitt
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 09, 2025 05:14 PM (abIsI) 208
>>@TheStormRedux
· 4h >>President Trump says that over the next couple of months, there will be evidence coming out proving that the 2020 election was stolen 👀 >>“It was a rigged election. Now everyone knows it. It’s going to come out over the next couple of months, too, loud and clear because WE HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION.” Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 05:14 PM (viF8m) 209
Sydney Sweeny >> Karoline Leavitt
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 09, 2025 05:14 PM (abIsI) ++++ Sure, but they aren't playing the same game... Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:15 PM (azrRX) 210
But I'd hate to have to start with "all global location data for that day." That's a lot of data and virtually all of it is just noise anyway.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:11 PM (azrRX) When you think about it, it's pretty amazing that cellphones work at all. Somewhere, there must be a record kept of all the ping transactions of all phones, so that if I call 555-555-1212, the system knows to route my call to the last tower pinged by that phone. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 05:16 PM (npFr7) 211
If we are to believe some of the stuff we are hearing about this guy, he was easily manipulated.
Take a 30 year old black guy with autism and grill him for four hours and any competent police interrogator would be able to get him to confess to the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, even though that happened 60 years before he was born. So I don't know how good his confession actually is. Remember all of the actual evidence against him comes from the professional liars in Wray's FBI. Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 05:16 PM (Da7Vv) 212
There was some great dirt in the Jefferson vs Adams campaign in 1796.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:13 PM (8avO+) --- Right. TJ is commonly known as the the guy who slept with a female slave. But it very likely was not TJ but his brother. And IIRC correctly it was a long relationship, not just getting some from the slave girls. Also it's not the case that Adams was a hermaphrodite. Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:16 PM (krQz2) 213
I'd buy a coin with an image of Melania in a bikini.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (nXmou) Most would. Call it a challenge coin. Challenge yourself not to look at it every hour. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 05:16 PM (snZF9) 214
(I'm going to go wayyyyy out on the conspiracy theory limb)
Consider the fact that the J6 Committee (Lynching party) destroyed a significant amount of their documentation (illegally). There was, obviously, a selfish reason for that. They likely were communicating directly with the FBI, and some of those communications could easily have been instructing the FBI to back off of the J5 bomber once it was established that he, not only, didn't fit the narrative or their purpose, but diametrically was opposite of what they were trying to do. NOW, consider the wealth of undestroyed documentation that was sitting down the FBI burn room. You have to assume that some of that information included communication documentation. And, while the J6 Committee brazenly destroyed evidence, the FBI might not have been so thorough. I think the fall out from this is going to outweigh the incident by 10 fold....eventually. Posted by: Capt. Conspiracy at December 09, 2025 05:17 PM (dIske) 215
"Kentucky State University shooting LIVE: At least one dead as campus on lockdown
At least one person is dead after an "active aggressor" opened fire on a US university campus" a couple others injured. https://tinyurl.com/2eyr5k72 Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 05:17 PM (vbXSk) 216
I'd buy a coin with an image of Melania in a bikini.
Posted by: ShainS ----- I'd buy it even without the bikini. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 05:17 PM (XeU6L) 217
>>President Trump says that over the next couple of months, there will be evidence coming out proving that the 2020 election was stolen 👀
Preach it brother. Posted by: Qtardo at December 09, 2025 05:17 PM (abIsI) 218
Sydney Sweeny >> Karoline Leavitt
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 09, 2025 05:14 PM (abIsI) Two Beavers? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 05:17 PM (npFr7) 219
212 There was some great dirt in the Jefferson vs Adams campaign in 1796.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:13 PM (8avO+) --- Right. TJ is commonly known as the the guy who slept with a female slave. But it very likely was not TJ but his brother. And IIRC correctly it was a long relationship, not just getting some from the slave girls. Also it's not the case that Adams was a hermaphrodite. Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:16 PM (krQz2) But James Madison was really really tiny, yes?? Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 05:18 PM (pDt9x) 220
Hoover was never a TV. That's just the typical counter-op.
I wouldn't care for him more if he was or wasn't. I've been led to believe that all that Hoover TV stuff is character assassination. Do you know how common it was to insinuate that Joe McCarthy was queer for his brother? This is mid-20th century Democrat destruction politics. Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:10 PM (krQz2) I don't care one way or another about the cross-dressing, other than to point out that the persistent stories about him doing so *in his office* strongly implicate his character. And susceptibility to blackmail. Speaking of blackmail, I note you didn't address his unwarranted (see what I did there) collection of personal information for his giant enemies file. Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 09, 2025 05:19 PM (E66lT) 221
But James Madison was really really tiny, yes??
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 05:18 PM (pDt9x) everyone was tiny in that era, aside from Washington and Lincoln. Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:19 PM (8avO+) 222
As for the FBI, not sure any charges can be made. If they chose just not to do their job, that's not a crime, I don't think.
If they saw who the defendant would be and said "nope, don't want it" and then just left the case open, I'm not sure that's illegal. You'd need them lying on record in some official way to probably make any charges. Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2025 05:19 PM (tOcjL) 223
It worked, didn't it?
Posted by: Zombie Harry Reid at December 09, 2025 05:19 PM (5FPX4) 224
But James Madison was really really tiny, yes??
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 05:18 PM (pDt9x) --- The Real James Madison was diminutive, yes. Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:19 PM (krQz2) 225
NOW, consider the wealth of undestroyed documentation that was sitting down the FBI burn room. You have to assume that some of that information included communication documentation. And, while the J6 Committee brazenly destroyed evidence, the FBI might not have been so thorough.
I think the fall out from this is going to outweigh the incident by 10 fold....eventually. Posted by: Capt. Conspiracy at December 09, 2025 05:17 PM (dIske) I do believe that there was at least one good Ham 'N Egger who turned Patel and Bongino onto those burn bags. Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 05:20 PM (0CU3H) 226
12 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:25 PM (Zz0t1
Well, a sponge doesn't have the thrusting power of a blade ,and anyway I think it's funnier when you're actually # 200 or something and still claim first . Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 04:28 PM (7RYym) Sour grapes? Yay Sponge gets a solid first! Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 09, 2025 05:20 PM (QGaXH) 227
172 Search for list of top FBI shows. Think there are only 2 or 3? One list has 50.
I wonder how much taxpayer money was spent paying the networks for good PR. Posted by: Chuck Martel ------------ Not just networks. They did a lot of work with Hollywood. The grift was that they would act as "consultants" (and I presume agents got paid from that also) and the studio would make stories about their cases portraying them as superheros. There were a lot of them. A couple off the top of my head are the Jimmy Stewart film Call Northside 777" and another about counterfeiting (well, secret service, but similar) called Mr. 880 Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 05:21 PM (mPytV) 228
A further 51 phone numbers were identified as "not needing further action" because, curiously enough, the phones "belong[ed] to law enforcement officers or persons on the exclusion list."
This is good information to know. There are unofficial ways to get on the Exclusion List. Everyone has their price. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 05:21 PM (c3sdc) 229
I'm shocked, shock to find corruption in this brothel.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 09, 2025 05:21 PM (jc0TO) 230
But James Madison was really really tiny, yes??
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 05:18 PM (pDt9x) That's what Dolley said. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 05:22 PM (zZu0s) 231
Intentional Negligence was when 51 IC members announced Hunter's laptop bore all the earmarks of a Russian Op, but none of them wanted to see the FBI's report on the laptop before signing.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 09, 2025 05:22 PM (wGerL) 232
But James Madison was really really tiny, yes??
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 05:18 PM (pDt9x) That's what Dolley said. ----- That's quite the Zinger! Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 05:22 PM (TN0g+) 233
Report: DC Pipe bomb suspect wrote creepy “My Little Pony” fan-fiction
"Applebloom's eyes snapped open as she sat up in her bed, panting heavily and sweat dripping from her red mane […] The skeletons, the zombified ponies rising up from the ground, their decaying bodies, rotting flesh sliding off from their bones. She buried her face in her hooves, crying silently at the horrible images that inhabited her mind" https://is.gd/R2Tdw0 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 05:22 PM (L/fGl) 234
And to think we were once a society that could be shocked by "Watergate."
Posted by: Zek at December 09, 2025 05:23 PM (5FPX4) 235
>>>Right. TJ is commonly known as the the guy who slept with a female slave. But it very likely was not TJ but his brother.
--------- Then there's that part about him taking her to France. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 05:23 PM (c35xG) 236
Speaking of blackmail, I note you didn't address his unwarranted (see what I did there) collection of personal information for his giant enemies file.
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 09, 2025 05:19 PM (E66lT) --- I don't think that was in dispute. I mentioned him phone-tapping everybody of note in DC. I'm not here to defend him, just wanted to mention that some of the most common scuttlebutt are likely slanders. I got that from a professor who was no fan of JEH either. Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:23 PM (krQz2) 237
"Applebloom's eyes snapped open as she sat up in her bed, panting heavily and sweat dripping from her red mane […] The skeletons, the zombified ponies rising up from the ground, their decaying bodies, rotting flesh sliding off from their bones. She buried her face in her hooves, crying silently at the horrible images that inhabited her mind"
https://is.gd/R2Tdw0 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 05:22 PM (L/fGl) A horse, even a cartoon one, sitting up in bed is an interesting problem. Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:24 PM (8avO+) 238
Right. TJ is commonly known as the the guy who slept with a female slave. But it very likely was not TJ but his brother.
---- You're messing with their narrative. After all, Butterjug has stated that Jefferson on Mt. Rushmore is 'problematic'. They use that word as an unverifiable assertion. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 05:24 PM (XeU6L) 239
FBI Had J6 Bomber's Cell Phone Putting Him at the Scene of the Crime... Five Years Ago
Just because we're the nation's premier law enforcement agency doesn't mean we're going to go against The Narrative. "White Coal", here, he would not have helped. Posted by: FBI at December 09, 2025 05:24 PM (IYMzU) 240
178 I'd buy a coin with an image of Melania in a bikini.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant Sensible comments like this is why we need uptwinkles on this site. Posted by: LGF Veteran at December 09, 2025 05:24 PM (oftw2) 241
They are not tracking via cell tower... but they don't want to tell you HOW they are actually getting that data. Posted by: Romeo13 at December 09, 2025 05:06 PM (mP0Kj) I'll bet you it's in the TOS fine print for your phone that govt JBTs can pull your location via GPS without a warrant because GPS is govt built infrastructure. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 09, 2025 05:25 PM (y9nCu) 242
FIB: Let's get the guy whose glove is in a picture holding open a Capitol door before we get the guy who planted two bombs!!
Top. Men. Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:25 PM (krQz2) 243
I'm not here to defend him, just wanted to mention that some of the most common scuttlebutt are likely slanders. I got that from a professor who was no fan of JEH either.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:23 PM (krQz2) Given his enemies, being a TV would have lost him his job at a minimum after which it would be too late for the blackmail files. You have to deploy that first and be cleaner than the guy you are blackmailing. Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:26 PM (8avO+) 244
Yeah, those bot farms also watched Tucker every evening on Fox News, too.
Posted by: Jewish Gaslighting Farm at December 09, 2025 04:54 PM (K+su+) He was on MOSSAD payroll then. So it was Kosher. Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 05:26 PM (g47mK) 245
This busty redhead does not have a great deal of trust in the FBI or the press:
http://tiny.cc/pr7w001 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:26 PM (azrRX) 246
My favorite line in Die Hard is "Looks like we're going to need some more FBI guys."
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:26 PM (krQz2) Posted by: t-bird at December 09, 2025 05:26 PM (IYMzU) 248
I'll bet you it's in the TOS fine print for your phone that govt JBTs can pull your location via GPS without a warrant because GPS is govt built infrastructure. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 09, 2025 05:25 PM (y9nCu) Sadly I bet you're correct here. Posted by: CaliGirl at December 09, 2025 05:26 PM (jPh2t) 249
And to think we were once a society that could be shocked by "Watergate."
Posted by: Zek Which is funny, as we now know that Mark Felt faked all of that as revenge for not getting the director job at the FBI, and a CIA plant pretended to be a reporter. Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 05:26 PM (b16/K) 250
When you think about it, it's pretty amazing that cellphones work at all. Somewhere, there must be a record kept of all the ping transactions of all phones, so that if I call 555-555-1212, the system knows to route my call to the last tower pinged by that phone.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon ----------- It's hierarchical, like the old AT&T system. They don't need a master list, they just have to Id who is keeping track of that particular phone number. Then they look that up, and find the latest ping and route it to that tower. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 05:27 PM (mPytV) 251
Checking leftwing forums the response from the left to this guy is funny.
There is a fair amount of "this is all fake Trump is blaming an innocent man!" but the more common response is that this black leftwing anarchist guy is rightwing because he believes there was fraud in the 2020 election. And this is funny because everyone knows there was fraud, and on a significant scale, so by this logic pretty much everyone is a MAGA/rightwinger Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 05:28 PM (sKqQm) 252
That's what Dolley said.
----- That's quite the Zinger! Posted by: Crusader _____ A Ho-Ho about his Twinkie Ding-Dong. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 09, 2025 05:28 PM (XvL8K) 253
Whatever Hoover's peronal predilictions were, and whatever personal animus he felt for particular political figures, I believe that he cared about the well-being of the country foremost.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 05:28 PM (XeU6L) 254
234 And to think we were once a society that could be shocked by "Watergate."
Posted by: Zek at December 09, 2025 05:23 PM (5FPX4) Now I think Watergate was a total op against Nixon by TPTB. Posted by: CaliGirl at December 09, 2025 05:28 PM (jPh2t) 255
>>>
I do believe that there was at least one good Ham 'N Egger who turned Patel and Bongino onto those burn bags. Posted by: Darrell Harris --- Yes. It's improbable that everyone of them is corrupt. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 05:28 PM (c35xG) 256
A horse, even a cartoon one, sitting up in bed is an interesting problem.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:24 PM (8avO+) 'Buried her 'face' in her hooves.' Can horses do that? Muzzle, not face? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 05:29 PM (zZu0s) 257
NOOD!
Posted by: Moonbeam at December 09, 2025 05:29 PM (rbKZ6) 258
Whatever Hoover's peronal predilictions were, and whatever personal animus he felt for particular political figures, I believe that he cared about the well-being of the country foremost.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 05:28 PM (XeU6L) --- Now, Hoover did have a Smithers-like assistant.... Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:29 PM (krQz2) 259
Anyone know if any of that Farmer Bailout money is coming our way?
Posted by: Macedonian Content Farmer Alliance at December 09, 2025 05:30 PM (oftw2) 260
Now I think Watergate was a total op against Nixon by TPTB. Posted by: CaliGirl --- If he was a Dem they would have turned a blind eye toward him protecting his crew. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 05:30 PM (c35xG) 261
Can horses do that? Muzzle, not face?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 05:29 PM (zZu0s) Horse legs are pretty optimized for "just run damn fast in the forward direction" so I'd be a bit surprised if one could rotate the hoof to face up. Farriers I've seen have to curl the hoof to behind the 'knee' to be up, not twist it. Cats can twist the front paw to face the face to clean the paws. Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:33 PM (8avO+) 262
I'm betting that John Doe from the Oklahoma City bombing was working for the FBI.
Posted by: Jolo at December 09, 2025 05:33 PM (QZdNa) 263
I don't think that was in dispute. I mentioned him phone-tapping everybody of note in DC.
I'm not here to defend him, just wanted to mention that some of the most common scuttlebutt are likely slanders. I got that from a professor who was no fan of JEH either. Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:23 PM (krQz2) OK, I came into that with a way-too-shut mind. Thanks for the response. Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 09, 2025 05:33 PM (E66lT) 264
So, the score is:
- Pulled agents off of child sex trafficking cases to work J6 cases - Pulled agents off of the J6 pipe bomber case to work other J6 cases - which agents later found time to investigate whether napkins Trump kept from a random state dinner were really secretly the nuclear launch codes While - no agents were assigned to investigate Ray Epps - no agents were assigned to investigate who built--and dismantled--the gallows - no agents were assigned to investigate who released the bomb-proof magnetic locks and "breached" the Capital doors - no agents were assigned to investigate the Antifa-affiliated persons--despite multiple black-clad, face-masked Antifa--in the crowd and the Capital I'm beginning to think the FBI is rather political in who and what it investigates .... Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 05:34 PM (HXT0k) 265
Do you know how common it was to insinuate that Joe McCarthy was queer for his brother?
——- That was because Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers were queers. That’s how the urbane, sophisticated Hiss got to “know” such a clod in the first place, after all. Read Whitewashed By History about Sen. McCarthy. They use the exact same playbook then as now. My point is the F.B.I. wasn’t classifying Americans as subversives and “White Supremacists” in those days. They rightly considered Communism as a threat to our system of government. All that changed at some point, and dramatically so. To try and equate the 1940s F.B.I. with the 1990s F.B.I. is retarded. Maybe they were SOBs then, too, but they were our SOBs. Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 05:34 PM (Lqx3s) 266
I'm old enough to remember when everyone said that the cell phone data that Dinesh D'Souza unearthed that pin pointed all the ballot drops during the 2020 election wasn't enough proof to track down the voter fraud. I guess the Feds have changed their minds now?
Posted by: TheShadowsPawn at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (lqLYa) 267
As I remember, when the Soviet Union collapsed the "J. Edgar is a transvestite stuff" was disclosed by the Russian Federation as a KGB plot to discredit him.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (Da7Vv) 268
I hope Trump dies dump all the info about the theft of the 2020 election. Of course the Dems will say "old news"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 05:37 PM (D+mpw) 269
But look at so many big cases, Atlanta bombing, anthrax, unabomber,.... so many of them were nothing short of a display of incompetence. Maybe some time long ago they were good, but not the past 50 years.
—— It would be helpful if you read what I wrote. That is exactly what I’m saying. They went bad, long after Roosevelt, Hoover hated FDR and with good reason, probably. At some point there was an institutional focus change. They were going after student radicals and anarchists in the 1960s, maybe not as effectively as they should have, but they were playing for the right team, so to speak. By the 1990s, there was a distinct shift. I would suggest during the Clinton years, but I don’t know for sure. Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 05:41 PM (Lqx3s) 270
Then there's that part about him taking her to France. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 05:23 PM (c35xG) Then there's the Democrat Party Tammany Hall brother and Democrat Congressman Daniel Sickles who murdered his wife's lover (US Attorney for DC Barton Key, Francis Scott Key's son) in front of hundreds of witnesses in Lafayette Square, a stone's throw from the White House. A few years earlier, he was essentially a pimp for Fanny White, one of New Yawk's most successful courtesans. Among their many indiscretions, he took her to England in lieu of his wife when he was on James Buchanan's staff while he was Ambassador. Sickles introduced White around London society (and to Queen Victoria herself) as Miss Bennett, implying that she was the daughter of Sickles' great enemy, James Bennett editor of the NY Herald. Sickles thought this was hilarious, at least until someone ratted him out, causing a scandal. Unlike most Democrat assholes, Sickles had a sense of humor. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 09, 2025 05:44 PM (y9nCu) 271
As I remember, when the Soviet Union collapsed the "J. Edgar is a transvestite stuff" was disclosed by the Russian Federation as a KGB plot to discredit him.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (Da7Vv) --- Ah, yeah, that's right. That's what it was. Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:50 PM (krQz2) 272
186 people is a pretty small lift, investigation wise.
They have the cell phone records, which means they have the names. they can go on-line and start to eliminate many of these people just by searching social media, etc. For example, the bomber was not obese, the bomber was right-handed, the height of the bomber can be pretty accurately estimated. etc. That should have narrowed the list to a couple of dozen people. They had FOUR YEARS to get this done. 2-3 agents were more than sufficient to solve the case. Most of the work being done on-line. Reminds me of that Kevin Costner movie, no way out. They have a picture of the killer, who may be Kevin Costner. A computer is slowly enhancing the photo. Costner then gives the order to "re-process" it, delaying his revelation as the potential killer. Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 05:53 PM (C3IAS) Posted by: connected and litigious at December 09, 2025 05:58 PM (cS1cw) 274
By the by, thew FBI is able to pull in all the resources they need to do big investigations - police, sheriffs, even regular citizens. When they scour an open field, with 50 people, shoulder to shoulder, only about 10% of those people are FBI. Rest are military or civil volunteers.
This lack of resources stuff is just bullshit. If the job is crunching a lot of data they have all the resources they need. It took under a year for the current FBI to solve the cold case - and they did so starting with 5-year-old data that they already had in the files. The case didn't get solved because the FBI and Biden didn't want it to be solved. That is the only possible conclusion. Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 06:01 PM (C3IAS) 275
It's not just this case - look at the current FBIs record in solving cases lately. They had 112,000 arrests from Jan. 20 through late June 2025 compared with roughly 51,000 arrests over the same calendar window in 2024. They are arresting DOUBLE the number of bad guys as before Trump. Why? what changed? My guess is DEI bullshit is sucking up less time. They are also demanding more results. They are focused on actual crime, not bullshit political nonsense. They stopped playing footsie with terrorist groups like antifa. They are prosecuting people. They are playing hardball.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 06:06 PM (C3IAS) 276
My last salary was $8750, ecom only worked 12 hours a week. My longtime neighbor yr estimated $15,000 and works about 20 hours for seven days. I can't believe how blunt he was when I looked up his information,
This is what I do................ https://p0stpr0m0ney88.blogspot.com/ Posted by: HOME PROFIT at December 09, 2025 06:27 PM (+3dnj) 277
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Ho Ho HO! It's Christmas time! Did you earn it $20, same as in town? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 06:48 PM (ynpvh) 278
re: " 'Corrupted' cell data "
FBI likely using corrupted/defective flash thumb drive picked up off a street corner .. there are utilities to check those, report their TRUE size as well as write speeds (important for video recording use). I found one or two in the past sized at 8GB but was more like only (tested at) 2GB ... all I've purchased from reputable retail vendors the last few years were good. Posted by: _Jim at December 09, 2025 07:42 PM (ln8yW) 279
re: "Somewhere, there must be a record kept of all the ping transactions of all phones,"
There is, its called an HLR - Home Location Register, a database of (specific, money-paying) customers AND where their last Registration Attempt (System/ cell site/ sector) was made SO if you get a call they do NOT have to 'page' the entire cell phone system in the whole wide world, just where you/your phone said "I am here" ... Posted by: _Jim at December 09, 2025 07:50 PM (ln8yW) 280
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This is what I do...................... https://urlr.me/E3tz6Y Posted by: Anonymous at December 10, 2025 04:05 AM (NxtE8) ABC Bows to Woke Mob and Grants Jimmy Kimmel Another Year to Lose the Network Money and PrestigeWhen ABC took Kimmel off the air for five minutes, woke leftists announced a boycott of the company. He was back within days. So of course ABC can't just let him go now. The woke mob has spoken. They've renewed his unfunny fat show (yes, his whole show is fat, it needs Atkins in its life) for "at least" a year.Oh, the agreement was reached during the woke freak-out? Not surprising at all. CBS in May announced Colbert's show would end in May 2026, and Kimmel did not want to leave at the same time as Colbert, the report said. ...As I said at the time: Carr does in fact have the right to threaten that. There is a category of show called a "bona fide news program" which is allowed to be partisan without any "equal time" requirements. Any show that is not a "bona fide news program" cannot openly propagandize for a party without invoking the still-existing "equal time" rules. Obviously Jimmy Kimmel (and The View) are emphatically not "bona fide news programs" so they either have to be balanced and avoid outright lying or else the GOP is entitled to run their own "equal time" propaganda shows on ABC's airwaves. Speaking of unearned privilege:
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Good an anchor around their necks.
Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (YwEeS) 2
iT’S FUNNY BECAUSE HE IS A RATINGS DISASTER!
Posted by: BEN ROETHLESSBERGER at December 09, 2025 03:24 PM (u73oe) Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 03:24 PM (vbXSk) 4
FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:25 PM (Zz0t1) 5
Not my problem I don't give abc a dime of my money and I never will. We have no cable and I don't subscribe to any of their services online.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2025 03:25 PM (0N4FZ) 6
I have done the NOODlum.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:25 PM (Zz0t1) 7
I bet I could lose them more money at half the price.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 03:26 PM (TR2dy) 8
The whole Kimmel thing was theater. Notice how it ended practically the moment the service was over. And they got to take ownership of the "free speech" angle, all coincidentally.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (U6Usv) 9
I would really enjoy seeing who goes to the studio and watches Jimmy Kimmel getting taped. Methinks, that would be interesting. Interviewing them would be especially good.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (Wg6v7) 10
"The agreement was reached months ago, but Kimmel and Disney held off making the announcement out of respect for late-night host Stephen Colbert, according to the report."
Bullshit. They didn't announce it at the time because they were waiting for the controversy to blow over. Now that people are back to thinking "Jimmy who?" and we're heading into the holidays when normal people have things to do, ABC drops this turd in the punchbowl. Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (iFTx/) Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (TR2dy) 12
Kamala Harris to the New York Times:
"There will be a marble bust of me in Congress. I am a historic figure like any Vice President of the United States ever was." Poster child for post fetal alcohol syndrome. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1) 13
10 "The agreement was reached months ago, but Kimmel and Disney held off making the announcement out of respect for late-night host Stephen Colbert, according to the report."
Bullshit. They didn't announce it at the time because they were waiting for the controversy to blow over. Now that people are back to thinking "Jimmy who?" and we're heading into the holidays when normal people have things to do, ABC drops this turd in the punchbowl. Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (iFTx/) ====== Kimmel's ratings are now lower than before the controversy. Disney and Kimmel deserve each other. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (GBKbO) 14
They'll keep losing money until they can't anymore.
Oh well. We don't get to win all the time. Frankly before Trump, I wasn't used to winning at all.... Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (xcxpd) 15
Our guy was killed for speaking. Then suddenly *Kimmel* is the poster child for free speech. Uh-huh.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 03:28 PM (U6Usv) 16
Unburdened by intellect, competence, and self-awareness.
Posted by: Our Betters™ ladies and gents at December 09, 2025 03:28 PM (TbWk/) 17
Kimmel will get the worse death - irrelevancy.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:28 PM (2GVsD) 18
"There will be a marble bust of me in Congress. I am a historic figure like any Vice President of the United States ever was."
Besides being "First Woman VP", her only interesting feature is her terrible grammar and lack of speaking ability. Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 03:28 PM (vbXSk) 19
As I said at the time: Carr does in fact have the right to threaten that. There is a category of show called a "bona fide news program" which is allowed to be partisan without any "equal time" requirements. Any show that is not a "bona fide news program" cannot openly propagandize for a party without invoking the still-existing "equal time" rules.
Obviously Jimmy Kimmel (and The View) are emphatically not "bona fide news programs" so they either have to be balanced and avoid outright lying or else the GOP is entitled to run their own "equal time" propaganda shows on ABC's airwaves. This will never happen. They will run a show where they invite Alec Baldwin to do his Trump impression and call that equal. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:28 PM (Zz0t1) 20
Poster child for post fetal alcohol syndrome.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1) She certainly is dumb as a post. Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2025 03:29 PM (Vq1pX) 21
Given that most US Vice Presidents aren't the least bit historical, I don't think this is the flex Kamala thinks it is
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 03:29 PM (D+mpw) 22
Girls on Trampolines....
RIP. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:29 PM (xcxpd) Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 03:29 PM (zjgNU) 24
My God, I want Brendan Carr on the other side of my negotiations for the next year.
Posted by: Octochicken at December 09, 2025 03:29 PM (oCS0o) 25
"The agreement was reached months ago, but Kimmel and Disney held off making the announcement out of respect for late-night host Stephen Colbert, according to the report."
Bullshit. They didn't announce it at the time because they were waiting for the controversy to blow over. Now that people are back to thinking "Jimmy who?" and we're heading into the holidays when normal people have things to do, ABC drops this turd in the punchbowl. Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (iFTx/) ====== Kimmel's ratings are now lower than before the controversy. Disney and Kimmel deserve each other. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (GBKbO) _______ Yea, ABC can pay whoever they want whatever they want. If they want to lose money on this fat jerkjuice faggot, then so be it. I do wish Carr would go after these cocksuckers more seriously, though. Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 03:29 PM (iFTx/) 26
Kimmel will get the worse death - irrelevancy.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:28 PM (2GVsD) He's ALREADY irrelevant. He gets worse ratings than reruns of American Pickers on The History Channel. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:29 PM (Zz0t1) Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:29 PM (GBKbO) 28
I think there should be a one year special run of pennies with Kamala's face on them.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:30 PM (2GVsD) 29
Their money to piss away, I guess.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 03:30 PM (rQwsY) 30
"There will be a marble bust of me in Congress. I am a historic figure like any Vice President of the United States ever was."
Wouldn't that be whitewashing? Posted by: ERASING PEOPLE OF COLOR OMG at December 09, 2025 03:30 PM (TbWk/) 31
The only thing worse than Kimmel being held responsible for his words and results from his work is those poor international drug smugglers finding the hot end of pointy missile.
Posted by: Cray Cray at December 09, 2025 03:30 PM (mEYGy) 32
Will Kamala's bust show her with a White Claw?
Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 03:30 PM (2ocoG) 33
Was Kamala the first Indian to serve as VP?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 09, 2025 03:30 PM (8CIFn) 34
There will be a marble bust of me in Congress.
----------- If anyone knows about busting marbles it's her. Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 03:30 PM (U6Usv) 35
28 I think there should be a one year special run of pennies with Kamala's face on them.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:30 PM (2GVsD) ====== Only good for the purchase of coconuts. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:31 PM (GBKbO) 36
Kamala's footnote in history she is bragging about will also highlight how much of an intellectual light-weight she is, being a drunken fool. A real life example of a post turtle.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 09, 2025 03:31 PM (N39Ws) 37
I have done the NOODlum.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:25 PM (Zz0t1) ===== That's hot. Posted by: Jordan61 at December 09, 2025 03:31 PM (DRSnL) 38
28 I think there should be a one year special run of pennies with Kamala's face on them.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:30 PM (2GVsD) Swear to God I thought that said "penises" and had to do a double-take. Posted by: Would be on brand though at December 09, 2025 03:31 PM (TbWk/) 39
Wha? they make marble busts of the VPs and display them in 'congress' To be fair to Harris I also can't recall off the top of my head the name of building they meet in.
Posted by: PaleRider at December 09, 2025 03:31 PM (hhkIi) 40
I saw Fat Jerkjuice Faggot open for Brutal Juice at Blind Lemon in '03.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:31 PM (Zz0t1) 41
I guess on the plus side, ABC/Dizzy will piss away millions of dollars on Kimmel's low rated and unwatched shit show.
*shrugs* Some people have more money than common sense. Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2025 03:32 PM (NwnyJ) 42
That's hot. Posted by: Jordan61 at December 09, 2025 03:31 PM (DRSnL) I had no idea your standards were so LOOOOOWWW. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:32 PM (Zz0t1) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:32 PM (2GVsD) 44
I wouldn't mind a Marble Bust of Joe Camel being displayed in the Senate Building.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 03:32 PM (TR2dy) 45
Where is Ralph Nader to lead stockholder lawsuits against companies who spend tens of millions on things that lose the public company money?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:32 PM (GBKbO) 46
21 Given that most US Vice Presidents aren't the least bit historical, I don't think this is the flex Kamala thinks it is
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 03:29 PM (D+mpw) The vice presidency isn’t worth a bucket of warm piss. Posted by: John Nance Garner at December 09, 2025 03:32 PM (rQwsY) 47
"There will be a marble bust of me in Congress. I am a historic figure like any Vice President of the United States ever was."
=========================== That sculptor better set her up for historical success. Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 03:32 PM (7Ctz/) 48
I wonder how much Kamala's marble bust is?
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 03:33 PM (U6Usv) 49
The only thing worse than Kimmel being held responsible for his words and results from his work is those poor international drug smugglers finding the hot end of pointy missile.
My favorite part of the "save the drug traffickers!" crusade was the 5 minutes when the DNC blalst fax had everyone saying Hegseth was deliberately killing "shipwreck victims". Someone on X was riffing on "Gilligan's Island, if they were narco-traffickers" and it got pretty funny. Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 03:33 PM (2ocoG) 50
They are going to throw 100m right into the crapper just to own the cons.
As the saying goes, must be nice... must be nice... Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 03:33 PM (XV/Pl) 51
The Republicans need to be Kamala's buttercup.
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 03:33 PM (GPa4z) 52
48 I wonder how much Kamala's marble bust is?
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 03:33 PM (U6Usv) $20 same as in town Posted by: Had to be done at December 09, 2025 03:33 PM (TbWk/) 53
The vice presidency isn’t worth a bucket of warm piss.
Posted by: John Nance Garner at December 09, 2025 03:32 PM (rQwsY) And you got a middle school named after you in NE San Antonio. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 03:33 PM (rQwsY) 54
I wouldn't mind a Marble Bust of Joe Camel being displayed in the Senate Building.
Jean Francois Cary, "reporting for dooty!!" Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:33 PM (2GVsD) 55
You're all just embarrassed that Kamala is so deep that you don't understand her. Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 03:33 PM (Y8DZL) 56
She was so horrible they kept a literal invalid in office rather than let her take over.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2025 03:33 PM (Vq1pX) 57
They are going to throw 100m right into the crapper just to own the cons.
As the saying goes, must be nice... must be nice... Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 03:33 PM (XV/Pl) Seriously, I will happily be irrelevant if I get 100 million dollars as well. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:34 PM (xcxpd) 58
Disney is not motivated by profit.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:34 PM (pDt9x) 59
Do you have any idea how many Camel Bucks you have to save up to get a Marble Joe Camel?!
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 03:34 PM (TR2dy) Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 03:34 PM (HXT0k) 61
"More amazing wisdom from this Philosopher Poet:"
Good Lord. Kamala Harris makes Jack Handey look like Goethe. Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 03:34 PM (0CU3H) 62
Girls on Trampolines....
RIP. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:29 PM (xcxpd) In memorium. https://youtu.be/J4CRcrhZJI8 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:35 PM (Zz0t1) 63
Poster child for post fetal alcohol syndrome.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1) She certainly is dumb as a post. ------ Oh come on guys, she has a LAW DEGREE and attended a prestigious COLLEGE! That PROVES she's a mighty intellect! That's what you all were saying just a few hours ago, remember? Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:35 PM (TN0g+) 64
Kamala Harris makes Emily Litellia look a Mensa member.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:35 PM (2GVsD) 65
48 I wonder how much Kamala's marble bust is?
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 03:33 PM (U6Usv) "$20, ..." Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 03:35 PM (0CU3H) 66
58 Disney is not motivated by profit.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:34 PM (pDt9x) You don't say. Posted by: Disney Stockholders at December 09, 2025 03:35 PM (N39Ws) 67
Remember when Hollywood had a money printer? Cartoons toys at BK and MickeyDees.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:35 PM (eEIbO) 68
63 Poster child for post fetal alcohol syndrome.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1) She certainly is dumb as a post. ------ Oh come on guys, she has a LAW DEGREE and attended a prestigious COLLEGE! That PROVES she's a mighty intellect! That's what you all were saying just a few hours ago, remember? Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:35 PM (TN0g+) Credentialed, she is. Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:35 PM (pDt9x) 69
"There will be a marble bust of me in Congress. I am a historic figure like any Vice President of the United States ever was." ------- Remember George Washington's Vice President? Yeah, me neither. Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (azNOR) 70
17 Kimmel will get the worse death - irrelevancy.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:28 PM (2GVsD) Indifference. Apathy. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (rQwsY) 71
59 Do you have any idea how many Camel Bucks you have to save up to get a Marble Joe Camel?!
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 03:34 PM (TR2dy) ===== Even the iron lung is cheaper! Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (GPa4z) 72
In the formulation "(Thing) or Bust"....
You're not supposed to actively choose "Bust" on purpose. Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (Vq1pX) 73
Kamala Harris is the poster child for a Credentialed Cretin.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (2GVsD) 74
Oh come on guys, she has a LAW DEGREE and attended a prestigious COLLEGE!
That just serves to make me respect lawyers and colleges less. Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (2ocoG) 75
Remember George Washington's Vice President? Yeah, me neither.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (azNOR) John Adams Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (rQwsY) 76
HA HA HA!
You know how in The Poltergeist people found out their subdivision was built on a cemetery. Well, I just got a letter today from the Army. Turns out, our house was built on an old artillery training munition dump site. They just wanted us to know that when we see unexploded ordinance to not, and honestly this would be my first instinct, to hit it with a giant mallet to see what happens. No, I'm being advised to: Recognize Retreat Report Thanks for spoiling my fun ARMY Posted by: banana BOOOM! Dream at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (3uBP9) 77
Girls on Trampolines....
RIP. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:29 PM (xcxpd) In memorium. https://youtu.be/J4CRcrhZJI8 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:35 PM (Zz0t1) What they took from us... Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (xcxpd) 78
75 Remember George Washington's Vice President? Yeah, me neither.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (azNOR) John Adams Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (rQwsY) ====== I remember he signed the Sedition Act. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (GBKbO) 79
Where the fk does DIS get money to lose hundreds of billions on shite movies and network garbage ? I think the whole enterprise is a Ponzi scheme.
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 03:37 PM (g47mK) 80
79 Where the fk does DIS get money to lose hundreds of billions on shite movies and network garbage ? I think the whole enterprise is a Ponzi scheme.
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 03:37 PM (g47mK) ====== Their parks and cruise line are both very profitable. They are a vacation company that does entertainment on the side. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:37 PM (GBKbO) 81
Make Crete Great Again.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:37 PM (eEIbO) 82
Good Lord. Kamala Harris makes Jack Handey look like Goethe.
------ IF YOU GO through a lot of hammers each month, I don't think it necessarily means you're a hard worker. It may just mean that you have a lot to learn about proper hammer maintenance. --Jack Handey Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:37 PM (TN0g+) Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 03:37 PM (pkeXY) 84
I saw Fat Jerkjuice Faggot open for Brutal Juice at Blind Lemon in '03.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:31 PM (Zz0t1) ____ I'm sure that show was much better than Kimmel ever did on his "show" Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 03:37 PM (iFTx/) 85
The last decent Disney movie was????
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:38 PM (pDt9x) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:38 PM (2GVsD) 87
Income of 2B for 2024....
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 03:38 PM (g47mK) 88
Willie Brown wants to know if the bust will have a "functional orifice", to highlight her greatest attribute.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 03:38 PM (vbXSk) 89
“It is time for us to do what we have been doing and that time is every day…”
--------------- Hold it, I thought it was time for us to be unburdened by what has been. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 03:38 PM (XeU6L) 90
What is the over/under on the number of IQ points you lose when you listen to Kamala? It must be at least 5, right?
Posted by: Dave at December 09, 2025 03:38 PM (sbsMc) 91
IF YOU ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let 'em go, because man, they're gone.
--Jack Handey Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:39 PM (TN0g+) 92
Dial of Dysentery. Worth watching?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:39 PM (eEIbO) 93
Here's something:
30 years ago, if I was able to ask you, "who was on the Tonight Show or Late Show last night?" There would have been a good chance you'd know at least one person. Not that you'd have watched, but at least from the promos run during the evening shows. Now? I bet no one here knows even one guest that's been on in the last week. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 03:39 PM (HXT0k) 94
Harris is like our teachers. Beyond help.
Fire them all, let God separate them. Which reminds me of a movie, From Beyond. Posted by: thug dolphin at December 09, 2025 03:39 PM (EyfuW) 95
80
Their parks and cruise line are both very profitable. They are a vacation company that does entertainment on the side. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:37 PM (GBKbO) Didn’t they try the Star Wars Hotel? Or was that some other company? Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:39 PM (pDt9x) Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 03:39 PM (XeU6L) 97
75 Remember George Washington's Vice President? Yeah, me neither.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (azNOR) John Adams Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM Seriously people, how did we go from John Adams to Vice President word salad? Sad. Posted by: CaliGirl at December 09, 2025 03:40 PM (vZUXb) 98
93 Now?
I bet no one here knows even one guest that's been on in the last week. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 03:39 PM (HXT0k) ====== On Colbert, it's reportedly mostly Democrat Congressmen. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:40 PM (GBKbO) 99
“It is time for us to do what we have been doing and that time is every day…”
"Gee Brain, what is that?" - Pinky Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:40 PM (2GVsD) 100
45 Where is Ralph Nader to lead stockholder lawsuits against companies who spend tens of millions on things that lose the public company money?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison ======== Nowadays, institutional owners mean diffused responsibility and even there, it is not really the owners voting the stocks but fund managers of index accounts like Vanguard, State Street, and Black Rock. We have made our finance industry into a black hole corporate bureaucracy where accountability, maximizing corporate value, and fiduciary responsibilities are things for the managerial class to laugh about. Dimon riffing about debanking people the other day comes to mind. He was annoyed a mere peasant CNBC host asked him questions about his bank's actions. This is our corporate class--something like the feudal nobles wielding CEO seats of Corporations like a title attached to a piece of land in feudal days. But without noblisse oblige and the oversight influence of the Catholic Church on their actions. Our corporate class is easily as vile as our politicians. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 03:40 PM (WDjG6) 101
The first VP to die in office is buried less than a mile from me . George Clinton (not Funkadelic George)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 03:40 PM (D+mpw) Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 03:40 PM (XeU6L) 103
When you think about it, I mean really think about it, marble busts are amazing. Marbles are amazing. Busts are amazing.
Busts. Busts.... Busts. A bust is something that preserves the top of someone. The top of someone. And the top is where things happen. The top. The top.... The top. The top is where the brain is. Where thinking happens. Where important decisions are made. Every day. Just like the vice presidency. And when you are vice president, things are different every day. And things happen every day. Because every day is important. Because life is important. Because life is important. Without life, what do you really have? You have death. Cackle cackle. And destruction. Cackle cackle. And terrible things. Cackle cackle. Terrible things. Cackle cackle. Terrible things. But not with marble. Not with life. Not with things that are important. Those are the things that are important because they matter. And it matters because you matter. I'm Kamala Harris. Thank you. Posted by: Kamala Harris at December 09, 2025 03:40 PM (U6Usv) 104
Dial of Dysentery. Worth watching?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:39 PM (eEIbO) Do they die on the trail? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:40 PM (Zz0t1) 105
95 Didn’t they try the Star Wars Hotel? Or was that some other company?
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:39 PM (pDt9x) ======= Yeah, the Starliner was a giant boondoggle and money loser that's an embarrassment on the company. Lost them $2 billion or so. But the 3 new cruise ships that set sail over the last couple of years are always full. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:40 PM (GBKbO) 106
Sorry, took us longer to organize and amplify the mob to cave to than we thought it would.
Posted by: ABC at December 09, 2025 03:41 PM (IYMzU) 107
The Star Wars theme hotel, only Disney could screw such an endeavour up.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:41 PM (2GVsD) 108
The last decent Disney movie was????
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:38 PM (pDt9x) ===== I liked Hercules. James Woods was funny. Posted by: Jordan61 at December 09, 2025 03:41 PM (DRSnL) 109
Nay, Philosopher QUEEN!
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 03:41 PM (zZu0s) 110
Kamala Harris to the New York Times:
"There will be a marble bust of me in Congress. I am a historic figure like any Vice President of the United States ever was." Hey...pigeons gotta crap somewhere. Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 03:41 PM (2WIwB) 111
Dude! I am actually one of the nation's official Superfund site. No really.
One site had artillery practice range and that's a superfund. My house on the mountain was the target and the other superfund site. On my list of things that weren't disclosed before closing. (kind of cool tho) HA HA HA HA HA! Posted by: banana BOOOM! Dream at December 09, 2025 03:41 PM (3uBP9) 112
Seriously people, how did we go from John Adams to Vice President word salad? Sad.
Posted by: CaliGirl ========= Public education. It is probable that functional literacy rates have actually declined from the Revolutionary era in the US. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 03:41 PM (WDjG6) 113
109 Nay, Philosopher QUEEN!
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 03:41 PM (zZu0s) ======= I believe the correct spelling is KWEEN. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:42 PM (GBKbO) 114
If Kamala gave The Gettysburg address she have said four score and seven years ago is 87 years ago, which is almost a hundred years ago cackle, cackle.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 09, 2025 03:42 PM (8CIFn) 115
I mean for the quarter. They should be making more. I think that was Redstone's complaint - they waste a shit ton of money on woke projects, paying their woke and talentless coutilier gazillions, instead of making stockholders rich.
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 03:42 PM (g47mK) 116
The last decent Disney movie was????
Posted by: tubal --------- 'Song of the South' ----- I saw it in the theatre as a kid--it was awesome. I'd love to own a copy of that one. Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:43 PM (TN0g+) 117
Kimmel will get the worse death - irrelevancy.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:28 PM (2GVsD) He's ALREADY irrelevant. He gets worse ratings than reruns of American Pickers on The History Channel. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer ...... That reminds me, Oak Island is on tonight. Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 03:43 PM (v0R5T) 118
*gestures like angry, aroused chimp*
Posted by: angry, aroused chimp at December 09, 2025 03:43 PM (9foje) 119
I can't imagine the collection of 40-watt LED bulbs that stay up to watch Kimmelle.
I suspect they are about as fun as a vegan Thanksgiving. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 03:43 PM (HXT0k) 120
I'm sure that show was much better than Kimmel ever did on his "show"
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 03:37 PM (iFTx/) Brutal Juice wasn't bad. https://youtu.be/uEIbTCVSkXo Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:43 PM (Zz0t1) Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 03:43 PM (2WIwB) 122
Oh come on guys, she has a LAW DEGREE and attended a prestigious COLLEGE! That PROVES she's a mighty intellect! That's what you all were saying just a few hours ago, remember?
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 * Credentialed, she is. Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 *** Credentials on a level with a Huckleberry Hound Fan Club badge, that is. . . . Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 03:43 PM (wzUl9) 123
spoken.
They've renewed his unfunny fat show (yes, his whole show is fat, it needs Atkins in its life) for "at least" a year. ------------- When I was a kid, the couple of fat kids around were always the funniest. I figured it was a coping mechanism and a way to be liked even if teased about their weight ... Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 03:44 PM (PaahW) Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 03:44 PM (npFr7) 125
But the 3 new cruise ships that set sail over the last couple of years are always full.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:40 PM (GBKbO) _____ Unpossible. I don't like it and thus nobody else can like it. I hate Disney so everyone must too. Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 03:44 PM (iFTx/) 126
116 The last decent Disney movie was????
Posted by: tubal --------- 'Song of the South' ----- I saw it in the theatre as a kid--it was awesome. I'd love to own a copy of that one. Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:43 PM (TN0g+) Ever see the original Fantasia?? Incredibly good. Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:44 PM (pDt9x) 127
Make Crete Great Again.
Posted by: Boss Moss ------ Well, we seem to be working on a redux of Babylon, so... Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 03:44 PM (XeU6L) 128
125 But the 3 new cruise ships that set sail over the last couple of years are always full.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:40 PM (GBKbO) _____ Unpossible. I don't like it and thus nobody else can like it. I hate Disney so everyone must too. Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 03:44 PM (iFTx/) ====== There is no arguing with this logic. It's ironclad! Also, I can't believe Taylor Swift is still a thing. I've never bought her album. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:44 PM (GBKbO) 129
From Kamala's lips to God's ear. Or Willie Brown's schlong.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 09, 2025 03:44 PM (MZ+PY) 130
There would have been a good chance you'd know at least one person.
Not that you'd have watched, but at least from the promos run during the evening shows. Now? I bet no one here knows even one guest that's been on in the last week. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice If I guessed an asshole, I'd probably be correct. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 09, 2025 03:45 PM (C9G7m) 131
"Oh come on guys, she has a LAW DEGREE and attended a prestigious COLLEGE! That PROVES she's a mighty intellect! That's what you all were saying just a few hours ago, remember?
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:35 PM (TN0g+) Credentialed, she is. Posted by: tubal" As far as I can determine he has never actually tried a case, by which I mean talking t a judge and jury. I have read a few people that claim she handles many case hat is not true but I am sure if she had underlings do all all the work and speaking. There is no evidence I can find of her actually trying to convince the judge /jury of something. There is a reason for that. Posted by: Ripley at December 09, 2025 03:45 PM (PTDkx) 132
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There is no arguing with this logic. It's ironclad! Also, I can't believe Taylor Swift is still a thing. I've never bought her album. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:44 PM (GBKbO) Taylor Swift??? She’s so last month. Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (pDt9x) 133
"There will be a marble bust of me in Congress. I am a historic figure like any Vice President of the United States ever was."
Poster child for post fetal alcohol syndrome. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1) Won't need much marble. Her bust puts one in mind of a failed dairy. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (npFr7) 134
PDJT has been complaining (gently, for him) about the Senate "blue slip" process. But he might as well complain about the Senate GOP caucus as a whole. There is no more anti-American, pro-grifting, group of people alive today than them. Except, maybe, for Ron Johnson, Rick Scott, and Marsha Blackburn (though she's leaving). The rest of them are varying degrees of suckitude.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (vyvuF) 135
That reminds me, Oak Island is on tonight. Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 03:43 PM (v0R5T) There CAN'T be any island left....... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (Zz0t1) 136
132 Taylor Swift??? She’s so last month.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (pDt9x) ====== Taylor Swift? More like Taylor Slow, amiright? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (GBKbO) 137
Their parks and cruise line are both very profitable.
They are a vacation company that does entertainment on the side. Posted by: TheJamesMadison Lot of ruin in corporations until suddenly. Indications from visits indicate Disney World is getting stale compared with competition Universal and declines in foreign visits due to new restrictions on travel visas and money is also hitting Vegas. Vegas is now turning hard to adult whale gamblers and Disney, by all accounts, is too with its pricing. Reliance on a narrow set of consumers is a sure recipe for unexpected reversals like stock and asset plunges for the upper class. I think pro sports and soon college football are also pricing themselves out of the entertainment market. All of them are chasing a very narrow class of individuals upper middle and upper classes as the truly rich seldom visit places like Disneyland or common cruise ships. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (WDjG6) 138
There will be a marble bust of me in Congress. I am a historic figure like any Vice President of the United States ever was."
Besides being "First Woman VP", her only interesting feature is her terrible grammar and lack of speaking ability. Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 03:28 PM (vbXSk) And the chrome from that Cadillac bumper on her upper lip. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (g8Ew8) 139
Taylor Swift??? She’s so last month. Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (pDt9x) I saw a car with a window sticker that said "Currently listening to Taylor Swift." I was disappointed in them, significantly. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:47 PM (Zz0t1) 140
I have to admit., I prefer John Adams as VP to Kamala Harris Why does she think being black and a woman is an accomplishment?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 03:47 PM (looXz) 141
134 PDJT has been complaining (gently, for him) about the Senate "blue slip" process. But he might as well complain about the Senate GOP caucus as a whole. There is no more anti-American, pro-grifting, group of people alive today than them. Except, maybe, for Ron Johnson, Rick Scott, and Marsha Blackburn (though she's leaving). The rest of them are varying degrees of suckitude.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (vyvuF) ====== The only real power the Senate has anymore on an individual level is over appointments. Blue slips give them says on the executive that would otherwise not exist at all, just getting party line votes on everything. The blue slip process is never going away. It's almost all the Senators have left. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:47 PM (GBKbO) 142
The Moonspinners. Early Haley Mills was the hawt!!! Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 03:43 PM I've never even heard of that one. I thought I'd seen all of the Disney movies. Posted by: CaliGirl at December 09, 2025 03:48 PM (vZUXb) 143
Taylor Swift?
More like Taylor Slow, amiright? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (GBKbO) Or Generic Swift Posted by: Kamala Harris at December 09, 2025 03:48 PM (U6Usv) 144
134 PDJT has been complaining (gently, for him) about the Senate "blue slip" process. But he might as well complain about the Senate GOP caucus as a whole. There is no more anti-American, pro-grifting, group of people alive today than them. Except, maybe, for Ron Johnson, Rick Scott, and Marsha Blackburn (though she's leaving). The rest of them are varying degrees of suckitude.
Posted by: Huck Follywood ======== That is our whole ruling class whether in an NGO, colleges, corporations, or law practice/courts. Some of that class are resisting Trump on everything, some are picking their battles, and some are just trying to wait him out of office. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 03:48 PM (WDjG6) 145
I saw a car with a window sticker that said "Currently listening to Taylor Swift."
I was disappointed in them, significantly. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:47 PM (Zz0t1) A) That was her fiance's car. B) He meant it ironically. Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2025 03:48 PM (Vq1pX) 146
The last decent Disney movie was????
The Moonspinners. Early Haley Mills was the hawt!!! Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 *** Sister Juliet made her look less than stunning, though Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 03:48 PM (wzUl9) 147
Taylor Swift??? She’s so last month.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (pDt9x) ====== Taylor Swift? More like Taylor Slow, amiright? ------- I'd prefer listening to Andy Taylor's first solo album rather than anything by Taylor Swift. Andy's song "I might lie..." was pretty awesome, and the video had some play on MTV. Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:49 PM (TN0g+) 148
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The Moonspinners. Early Haley Mills was the hawt!!! Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 03:43 PM I've never even heard of that one. I thought I'd seen all of the Disney movies. Posted by: CaliGirl at December 09, 2025 03:48 PM (vZUXb) So, “ Enchanted”. Good, Bad, or Meh ? Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:49 PM (pDt9x) 149
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (WDjG6)
I'm sorry. What is an "adult whale gambler"? Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 03:49 PM (looXz) 150
Why does she think being black and a woman is an accomplishment?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 03:47 PM (looXz) Because of the corollary. That being white is easy and dumb. Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 03:49 PM (U6Usv) 151
I suppose they'll be renewing Stephen Colbert's show. We can't have any crying celebrities or angry leftwingers.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2025 03:49 PM (NpAcC) 152
Kalamama just needs some big ol' eyelashes, claws and a ghetto accent.
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 03:49 PM (v0R5T) 153
149 Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (WDjG6)
I'm sorry. What is an "adult whale gambler"? Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 03:49 PM (looXz) Elderly Orcas, in Sea World. Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:50 PM (pDt9x) 154
So, “ Enchanted”. Good, Bad, or Meh ? Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:49 PM (pDt9x) I liked that movie, it was very cute. Posted by: CaliGirl at December 09, 2025 03:50 PM (vZUXb) 155
I don't feel noways tarred.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:50 PM (eEIbO) 156
Just reading about this now. My house is a superfund, but not on the National Priorities List (NPL). I assume wherever they are holding Godzilla, tracking broken arrows, and dealing with subterranean lizard people that takes precedence. But at least I'm on a list somewhere.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 03:50 PM (3uBP9) 157
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (WDjG6)
I'm sorry. What is an "adult whale gambler"? Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 03:49 PM (looXz) ___ Very rich big-time gambler, the kind that can lose millions at a casino and just say "shit." Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 03:51 PM (iFTx/) 158
I am a historic figure like any Vice President of the United States ever was.
Well, sure, and Katy Perry is a historic astronaut. ...just not in the way you guys think. Posted by: t-bird at December 09, 2025 03:51 PM (IYMzU) 159
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So, “ Enchanted”. Good, Bad, or Meh ? Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:49 PM (pDt9x) I liked that movie, it was very cute. Posted by: CaliGirl at December 09, 2025 03:50 PM (vZUXb) Wife loves it. Pretty wel done, IMO. Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:51 PM (pDt9x) 160
A) That was her fiance's car. B) He meant it ironically. Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2025 03:48 PM (Vq1pX) She was by herself and was likely qualified for the Booster Seat requirement in the state of Texas. She could barely see over the wheel. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:51 PM (Zz0t1) 161
m sorry. What is an "adult whale gambler"?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 03:49 PM (looXz) Whales are big investors or gamblers Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 03:51 PM (U6Usv) 162
Huh. A marble bust of Kamala Harris.
How about a hollow ceramic bust, with a head you just lift off? You can fill it with cookies or jelly beans. Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 03:51 PM (2L+MU) 163
Extending Kimmel's contract is one way of telling middle America to drop dead. But it's their money and the sooner Disney goes broke the better.
As for Warner Brothers, it deserves saving if only to preserve Looney Tunes for future generations. Posted by: Decaf at December 09, 2025 03:51 PM (1RAfh) 164
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That reminds me, Oak Island is on tonight. Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 03:43 PM (v0R5T) -------------- I fell asleep on last weeks OI so Imma guessing I can get that one watched before I fall asleep on this weeks breaking news. I would like to do naughty things to Emma Culligen. Posted by: Pudinhead at December 09, 2025 03:52 PM (Wg6v7) 165
The only bust Harris knows anything about is a nut.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 03:52 PM (PNQAX) 166
Kimmel literally got talking points from Chuck Schumer during the first Trump administration when ACA Repeal was to be voted on in the Senate.
Posted by: Alec Leamas at December 09, 2025 03:52 PM (ssz2a) 167
I thought the 'equal time' rule was done away with decades ago.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 03:53 PM (mlg/3) 168
How about a hollow ceramic bust, with a head you just lift off? You can fill it with cookies or jelly beans.
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 03:51 PM (2L+MU) Why reinvent the wheel Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 03:53 PM (U6Usv) 169
Kamala is not so much great as grating.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 09, 2025 03:53 PM (8CIFn) 170
What is the over/under on the number of IQ points you lose when you listen to Kamala? It must be at least 5, right?
Posted by: Dave at December 09, 2025 *** Huh? What? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 03:53 PM (wzUl9) 171
Kimmel literally got talking points from Chuck Schumer during the first Trump administration when ACA Repeal was to be voted on in the Senate.
Posted by: Alec Leamas at December 09, 2025 03:52 PM (ssz2a) Kimmel sold his soul for fame and fortune. He will come to regret his decision. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:53 PM (Zz0t1) Posted by: Greta Thunberg at December 09, 2025 03:53 PM (15Ksv) 173
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025
I figured whales were not really gambling. although I admit not cognizant of their off hours recreational pursuits😉 I wasn't sure if it meant a big person gambling or they spent lots of money? Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 03:53 PM (looXz) 174
Kimmel staying on is a win-win. 1) His show continues but nobody watches 2) ABC loses colossal sums of money continuing a show nobody watches Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 03:53 PM (tgvbd) 175
166 Kimmel literally got talking points from Chuck Schumer during the first Trump administration when ACA Repeal was to be voted on in the Senate.
Posted by: Alec Leamas at December 09, 2025 03:52 PM (ssz2a) One might infer from this that Jimmy Kimmel is Ron Burgundyish. Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:53 PM (pDt9x) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 03:54 PM (tgvbd) 177
As for Warner Brothers, it deserves saving if only to preserve Looney Tunes for future generations.
------ I wish someone had saved "High Chaparral". I loved that western series as a kid, but to my knowledge its never been available on DVD. Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:54 PM (TN0g+) 178
Blue slips give them says on the executive that would otherwise not exist at all, just getting party line votes on everything.
The blue slip process is never going away. It's almost all the Senators have left. Posted by: TheJamesMadison Not sure on that one. Senators have plenty of power under our system but they just hate to be held accountable. That is what is at stake. Blue slip originated in the seg era for Dem senators to block desegregationist inclined GOP judges and DAs in the South. So you got patronage parties in the South that never did anything to get votes but relied solely on doling out patronage when GOP was in the presidency. Even in the 80's, was unevenly applied like only requiring one slip, not two or allowing senior House member to dole out patronage when no GOP senator was from that state. The truth is that the Senate, by and large, oppose Trump and it is the core of the uniparty on Capitol Hill. Morris Fiorina called Congress the Keystone of the Washington Establishment and in truth it is the fount of much of our government paralysis and dysfunction. Our elites want it that way because reform required now is so drastic as to affect their privilege. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 03:54 PM (WDjG6) 179
How about a hollow ceramic bust, with a head you just lift off? You can fill it with cookies or jelly beans.
Willie filled her head with something else. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 03:54 PM (kHd4y) 180
Ahem.
Posted by: Greta Thunberg at December 09, 2025 03:53 PM (15Ksv) You are just straight up fetal alcohol syndrome. Kumswala is definitely POST fetal....... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:54 PM (Zz0t1) 181
I'd prefer listening to Andy Taylor's first solo album rather than anything by Taylor Swift. Andy's song "I might lie..." was pretty awesome, and the video had some play on MTV.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:49 PM (TN0g+) I liked Bill Cosby's, She Couldn't Say No, So I Did It. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 03:55 PM (g8Ew8) 182
173 Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025
I figured whales were not really gambling. although I admit not cognizant of their off hours recreational pursuits😉 I wasn't sure if it meant a big person gambling or they spent lots of money? Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 03:53 PM (looXz) No, it is a known fact that Orcas play for high stakes tuna. Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:55 PM (pDt9x) 183
Kimmel sold his soul for fame and fortune. He will come to regret his decision.
Posted by: Sponge ===== And possibly sold his soul to get kids. Reportedly a friend of Epstein. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 03:55 PM (WDjG6) 184
A 'whale' is also someone who drop thousands and thousands of dollars in micro-transactions to build the most buff'd character for some mobile game.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:55 PM (2GVsD) 185
a "whale" is anyone with bags of cash
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 03:56 PM (g47mK) 186
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And possibly sold his soul to get kids. Reportedly a friend of Epstein. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 03:55 PM (WDjG6) He did threaten to sue anyone who spread that around, so there's that. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:56 PM (Zz0t1) 187
A whale is also Brendan Fraser, but that’s not important right now.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:56 PM (pDt9x) 188
I wish someone had saved "High Chaparral". I loved that western series as a kid, but to my knowledge its never been available on DVD.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 *** Until recently Heroes & Icons was running it on weekday mornings. Awesome theme song -- it reminds me of "Telstar" by the Tornados. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 03:56 PM (wzUl9) 189
For those who think polling is real:
@shepmjs Turning: New Trump Approval polling Harvard Harris +5 Daily Mail +2 Rasmussen +1 Economist YouGov +1 RCP Aggregate +1.4 Disapproval drops 3 For those who think polling is bullshit: Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO) 190
"Brendan Fraser is finally ready to talk about “The Mummy 4″ for the first time, telling the Associated Press in a new interview that he’s been waiting 20 years to be able to make “The Mummy” movie he’s always dreamed of making. Variety confirmed earlier this month that Universal is developing a fourth “Mummy” to be headlined by Fraser alongside directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett.."
👏👏👏 Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 03:58 PM (g47mK) 191
188 I wish someone had saved "High Chaparral". I loved that western series as a kid, but to my knowledge its never been available on DVD.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 ---------------- Honestly, rewatching it will disappoint your memories of it. Trust me on this. Posted by: Pudinhead at December 09, 2025 03:58 PM (Wg6v7) 192
Only invention from they geys was The Sex Pistols. And it had a very short shelf life.
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 09, 2025 03:58 PM (EyfuW) Posted by: sven at December 09, 2025 03:58 PM (MUJd1) 194
When you realize Kamala isnt in fact unusual in her stupidity, lack of insight for one of our government leaders, its extremely disheartening. There is clearly something wrong with the process that seems to select the worst people to be charged with the greatest power and privilege. You may not agree with Trump, but he's an accomplished businessman. He can explain and defend his ideas.
Posted by: Regular American at December 09, 2025 03:58 PM (/wYAD) 195
I am sitting here with one pocket full of dog treats, and the other with poop bags. No, they are not full, pretty sure. Yes, I have a puppy, it seemed a good idea at the time.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:58 PM (pDt9x) 196
Battlestar Galactica tos is hard to find.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:59 PM (eEIbO) 197
190 "Brendan Fraser is finally ready to talk about “The Mummy 4″ for the first time, telling the Associated Press in a new interview that he’s been waiting 20 years to be able to make “The Mummy” movie he’s always dreamed of making. Variety confirmed earlier this month that Universal is developing a fourth “Mummy” to be headlined by Fraser alongside directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett.."
👏👏👏 Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 03:58 PM (g47mK) ====== It was revealed recently that the third Mummy movie was only made because the Olympics were in China and Universal wanted to take advantage of the access. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:59 PM (GBKbO) 198
>>> IF YOU ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let 'em go, because man, they're gone.
--Jack Handey Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:39 PM (TN0g+) He's writing for a kid's active workbook: explodeyworld.com It's pretty good for ages 8-12. Reading age and up to teen really. Lots of other established writers and cartoonists. Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 03:59 PM (3uBP9) 199
I wish someone had saved "High Chaparral". I loved that western series as a kid, but to my knowledge its never been available on DVD.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 ---------------- Honestly, rewatching it will disappoint your memories of it. Trust me on this. ----- I appreciate the insight. I always liked the characters of Buck and Manulito--they were the ones that seemed to bring the life to the episodes. Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:59 PM (TN0g+) 200
"There will be a marble bust of me in Congress. I am a historic figure like any Vice President of the United States ever was."
___________________________ Oh, man. What an opportunity. The Marble Bust should be her being held up by a bunch of men like the Atlas statue....(positioned for success). The reference would go right over her head, and she'd assume it was complimentary. Posted by: Orson at December 09, 2025 03:59 PM (dIske) 201
Their parks and cruise line are both very profitable.
They are a vacation company that does entertainment on the side. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:37 PM Yep and their cruise ships are heavily booked 12-18 months out. They make a fortune from those seven cruise ships alone. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2025 03:59 PM (0N4FZ) 202
It was revealed recently that the third Mummy movie was only made because the Olympics were in China and Universal wanted to take advantage of the access.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:59 PM (GBKbO) yes, in the same Variety interview ! Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 03:59 PM (g47mK) 203
Greg Gutfeld must have initiated Kimmel's contract extension, he needs him to be there for a laugh segment of his show.
People will not watch Kimmel but they will watch Gutfeld make fun of him. Posted by: Decaf at December 09, 2025 03:59 PM (1RAfh) 204
I fell asleep on last weeks OI so Imma guessing I can get that one watched before I fall asleep on this weeks breaking news. I would like to do naughty things to Emma Culligen.
Posted by: Pudinhead ...... She will analyze your rocks. Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 04:00 PM (v0R5T) 205
and , of course, you cannot have Mummy 4 without Rachel Weisz !
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:00 PM (g47mK) 206
202 It was revealed recently that the third Mummy movie was only made because the Olympics were in China and Universal wanted to take advantage of the access.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:59 PM (GBKbO) yes, in the same Variety interview ! Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 03:59 PM (g47mK) ===== I bought the nice 4K set of the trilogy. Saw the third one for the first time in forever. Still not sure if it's as bad as The Mummy Returns. I mean...they both suck. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 04:00 PM (GBKbO) 207
176 Husband Kimmel >>>>> Jimmy Kimmel
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh Getting bombed is better than bombing! Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 04:00 PM (Y8DZL) 208
I figured whales were not really gambling. although I admit not cognizant of their off hours recreational pursuits😉 I wasn't sure if it meant a big person gambling or they spent lots of money?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke In terms of gambling, Whales are wealthy clients that spend a lot of money at your facility and lose consistently at gambling often very large sums. In terms of finance, brokers at least used to refer to wealthy clients with lots to spend as whales and the term has also come down to any situation where an agent is trying to land a client who is wealthy and can pay big amounts in commissions, etc. Like now in politics with whale donors. Campaign consultants and pols like them both because less hassle to raise funds and fewer people to beg money from for pols and candidates. Ideal for campaign consultants are wealthy self funded candidates as they know the checks will clear. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 04:01 PM (WDjG6) 209
I think Mummy 3 would have worked if Rachel Weisz was in it.
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:01 PM (g47mK) 210
I like the WB streaming channel Chasing Criminals that shows old Investigation Discovery show reruns. Also the True Crime antenna channel that shows Homicide Hunter reruns.
I heard Joe Kenda is retired in Suffolk now. Posted by: logprof at December 09, 2025 04:01 PM (jo6FO) 211
Given that most US Vice Presidents aren't the least bit historical, I don't think this is the flex Kamala thinks it is
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 03:29 PM (D+mpw) ------------- Nixon was quite historical and he was a vice president to Ike. Posted by: Decaf at December 09, 2025 04:01 PM (1RAfh) 212
200 "There will be a marble bust of me in Congress. I am a historic figure like any Vice President of the United States ever was.
Well her Vice presidency was a bust.... Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 04:01 PM (VE6XX) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:01 PM (2GVsD) 214
205 and , of course, you cannot have Mummy 4 without Rachel Weisz !
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:00 PM (g47mK) Yes, please. She was truly great in 1&2. Whole cast was good. Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:01 PM (pDt9x) 215
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:58 PM
Congratulations to the new addition to your family! Is it a mutt or purebred? Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 04:02 PM (lQ+/f) 216
The Mummy Returns was great! I like that one. TJM you have no taste !
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:02 PM (g47mK) 217
put a bust of her in mounted on the wall in line with the urinals in the mens room, with her mouth wide open.
I would say that Trump might already have one in his private bathroom, but Melania wouldn't put up with that shit. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 04:02 PM (uWKK8) 218
A company trying to destroy cinema is buying a movie maker.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:02 PM (eEIbO) 219
216 The Mummy Returns was great! I like that one. TJM you have no taste !
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:02 PM (g47mK) ====== Great? I mean...I can understand getting on its goofy wavelength, but it's...great? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO) 220
There should be a marble bust of Kamala on her knees paying lip service to a standing Willie Brown.
Not in the Capitol. Maybe just outside the Lover's Package store in Oakland. Posted by: UNPROGRESSIVE at December 09, 2025 04:03 PM (IUmF8) 221
abc needs to keep him in to help with the propaganda for the midterm elex in november 2026.
Posted by: jb at December 09, 2025 04:03 PM (sITE8) 222
Gotta give the guy credit. He makes a great deal of money with no discernible talent.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 09, 2025 04:03 PM (68TeV) 223
Remember George Washington's Vice President? Yeah, me neither.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug The first "Who? I don't recognize that name" Vice President is Daniel Tompkins (6th VP) (VP under James Monroe (5th P) The first five are John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr, George Clinton, and Elbridge Gerry Posted by: Chuck C at December 09, 2025 04:03 PM (D0HYP) 224
Yes, please. She was truly great in 1&2. Whole cast was good.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:01 PM (pDt9x) right?! John Hannah too. I hope he is also in Mummy 4. Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:03 PM (g47mK) 225
218 A company trying to destroy cinema is buying a movie maker.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:02 PM (eEIbO) ====== Angel Studios will fill the void and becoming the dominant studio of the 21st century. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO) 226
215 Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:58 PM
Congratulations to the new addition to your family! Is it a mutt or purebred? Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 04:02 PM (lQ+/f) Purebred little standard poodle twerp. He is too smart. Plays on his cute factor. Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:03 PM (pDt9x) 227
For those who think polling is bullshit:
Posted by: TheJamesMadison ======== Like Newsweak when it was a print mag, Trump gets an up arrow for the week and that is about all you can say about it. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 04:04 PM (WDjG6) 228
223 and Elbridge Gerry
Posted by: Chuck C at December 09, 2025 04:03 PM (D0HYP) ====== That bastard gerrymandered Texas! Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 04:04 PM (GBKbO) 229
227 For those who think polling is bullshit:
Posted by: TheJamesMadison ======== Like Newsweak when it was a print mag, Trump gets an up arrow for the week and that is about all you can say about it. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 04:04 PM (WDjG6) ======= Pretty much. If the 2028 election were held today...Trump's approval wouldn't matter because he's not going to be on the ticket. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 04:04 PM (GBKbO) 230
Great?
I mean...I can understand getting on its goofy wavelength, but it's...great? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO) I was entertained ! I was not offended! I loved all the funny bits! Are you upset about the CGI Scorpion King ? It was silly , but fun! Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:04 PM (g47mK) 231
Very rich big-time gambler,
If you ever get the chance to draft along with one to the ya gotta know somebody restaurant, take it. There is such a thing as 200$ veal chops and they're worth it. Posted by: DaveA at December 09, 2025 04:04 PM (FhXTo) 232
224 Yes, please. She was truly great in 1&2. Whole cast was good.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:01 PM (pDt9x) right?! John Hannah too. I hope he is also in Mummy 4. Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:03 PM (g47mK) When movies were good. There was a “sweet spot” back then. Lots of good movies made. Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:04 PM (pDt9x) 233
Purebred little standard poodle twerp. He is too smart. Plays on his cute factor.
omg how cute! congrats Tubal!!!! Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 04:05 PM (emBoF) 234
I think one of the reasons they're keeping Kimmel on is that the network has no idea what to do with the timeslot once he's gone. They might have to go to competitive shadow puppets or something.
but actually if they brought back something like robot wars they could kill it in that time slot. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 04:05 PM (uWKK8) 235
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 04:01 PM (WDjG6)
Thanks, but now I can't get out of my mind the image of a large cartoon whale lumbering into some crooked politicians office and giving him big money. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 04:05 PM (lQ+/f) 236
How about a hollow ceramic bust, with a head you just lift off? You can fill it with cookies or jelly beans.
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 03:51 PM (2L+MU) Why reinvent the wheel ... Ok, how about this: two hollow ceramic busts filled with dirt, and geraniums growing out of the holes in her head. Put 'em right there on the front porch of the White House. Or, a Kamala Harris yard gnome in the garden. No, wait, wait, even better: a metal bust that hooks up to a garden hose, and her head spins around sprinkling the lawn. Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 04:05 PM (2L+MU) 237
The first five are John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr, George Clinton, and Elbridge Gerry
Posted by: Chuck C at December 09, 2025 *** The "Gerry" of "gerrymandering"? (I haven't looked it up, so I dunno) Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 04:06 PM (wzUl9) 238
We were one random fluke away from districts being salamelbridged instead of being gerrymandered.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2025 04:06 PM (Vq1pX) 239
230 I was entertained ! I was not offended! I loved all the funny bits! Are you upset about the CGI Scorpion King ? It was silly , but fun!
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:04 PM (g47mK) ======= It's kind of...stupid. The CGI doesn't offend me (technical limitations I try not to hold against movies). Sommers lucked out mightily with the first movie, and he just went bigger and dumber for the sequel. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 04:06 PM (GBKbO) 240
219 216 The Mummy Returns was great! I like that one. TJM you have no taste !
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:02 PM (g47mK) ====== Great? I mean...I can understand getting on its goofy wavelength, but it's...great? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO) You think about movies, A LOT, don’t you? Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:06 PM (pDt9x) 241
Purebred little standard poodle twerp. He is too smart. Plays on his cute factor
Sounds adorable! Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 04:06 PM (lQ+/f) 242
240 You think about movies, A LOT, don’t you?
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:06 PM (pDt9x) ====== What gave you that idea? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 04:07 PM (GBKbO) 243
Logging in 'cause I'm certain that sooner or later we'll get to something.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:07 PM (c35xG) 244
I think one of the reasons they're keeping Kimmel on is that the network has no idea what to do with the timeslot once he's gone. They might have to go to competitive shadow puppets or something.
but actually if they brought back something like robot wars they could kill it in that time slot. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 04:05 PM The late night talkers are dead and have been for a while. They don't have any ideas or imagination that would allow them to put new content in those timeslots. I mean, there's a boatload of bloggers out there that pull more views on YT than the late night tools combined. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:07 PM (Zz0t1) 245
Funny, but when I first glanced at the title of this post I saw "ABC Blows Woke Mob....". Maybe it was more accurate.
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at December 09, 2025 04:08 PM (P7Iz+) 246
Kimmel the drimel tool for the midterms is why he'll be round for a year.
Posted by: Kingsman at December 09, 2025 04:09 PM (ehY6c) 247
Poor TJM, were you looking for some real meaning ? Historical accuracy ?? Yeah, watch American version of War and Peace.
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:09 PM (g47mK) 248
Silver spot price at $61.06 per oz. (All Time High) That means a silver quarter (Pre-1965) has $10.90 worth of silver in it.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 04:09 PM (Da7Vv) 249
As was most likely said above: this is "shhhh" money to Kimmel.
One year a d he goes away. His salary a d the production cost loss is vig to keep the woke mob from coming after ABC. Its their money. Let them flush it down the toilet, Kimmel's rating continue to tank and he goes even more bonkers with his old lady. At the end of the day: win/win/win Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 09, 2025 04:09 PM (FxH7T) 250
Just don't mention Prometheus to TJM.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:09 PM (2GVsD) 251
243 Logging in 'cause I'm certain that sooner or later we'll get to something.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:07 PM (c35xG) Threads are a Journey, not a Destination. Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:10 PM (pDt9x) 252
The last decent Disney movie was????
Posted by: tubal Clearly Beauty and the Beast. The moral was quite poignant: "Looks are not important so long as you lock her up long enough." Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 04:10 PM (zjgNU) 253
247 Poor TJM, were you looking for some real meaning ? Historical accuracy ?? Yeah, watch American version of War and Peace.
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:09 PM (g47mK) ===== Making Rachel Weisz a reincarnation of Nerftiti and going all melodramatic because she dies but she doesn't die and then a super serious face off with Anck-su-namun... I just roll my eyes. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 04:10 PM (GBKbO) 254
250 Just don't mention Prometheus to TJM.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:09 PM (2GVsD) ======= I hadn't considered it. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 04:10 PM (GBKbO) 255
252 The last decent Disney movie was????
Posted by: tubal Clearly Beauty and the Beast. The moral was quite poignant: "Looks are not important so long as you lock her up long enough." Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 04:10 PM (zjgNU) Heh. That made me laugh. Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:11 PM (pDt9x) 256
what is a spot price of Tulip Bulbs ? how about pork bellies ??
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:11 PM (g47mK) 257
Hmmm. Hot take:
Six (Tricia Helfer) was hotter when she was dressed down and imitating Starbuck with sweats and a pony tail. Xena was white hot in her first appearance on the show. Jane Seymour from the 70s was hotter than all of them. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 04:11 PM (zZu0s) 258
Is Prometheus worth watching?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:11 PM (eEIbO) 259
The Killer Kittenz From Outer Space are . . . on the outs with each other, it seems. Stirling the (altered) male cat, age 3.5 yrs., wants to play more roughly than Dagny the little (spayed) girl wants. He keeps chasing her, and when he corners her she hisses at him. I saw her slap at his nose this morning when she was drinking from my shaving bowl (clean! With clean water, I swear! She loves it) and he was getting too close.
I guess as long as no blood is drawn, and she always has someplace to retreat to where he can't get at her, there's no serious problem. It's just disturbing. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 04:11 PM (wzUl9) 260
‘ Kamala Harris to the New York Times:
"There will be a marble bust of me in Congress.’ It will the only one with an interactive mouth. Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2025 04:12 PM (jbnUc) 261
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 04:11 PM (zZu0s)
Saying a list of obviously true things is not what "hot take" means. Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2025 04:12 PM (Vq1pX) 262
234 I think one of the reasons they're keeping Kimmel on is that the network has no idea what to do with the timeslot once he's gone. They might have to go to competitive shadow puppets or something.
but actually if they brought back something like robot wars they could kill it in that time slot. Posted by: Tom Servo ---- All that, I mean ALL that brain power and they can't think of one thing to fill the time slot. Come to think of it, it's systemic; TV sucks, Movies suck, with few exception Net Flix and Prime sucks. Yep, the whole industry sucks. Total lack of independent thought or creative intelligence. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:12 PM (c35xG) 263
super serious face off ...
That was a fine girl fight. So there... then Kelly Hu in the follow up... Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 04:13 PM (XuXeR) 264
258 Is Prometheus worth watching?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:11 PM (eEIbO) I have watched it. I’ve seen things, man. Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:13 PM (pDt9x) 265
The late night talkers are dead and have been for a while. They don't have any ideas or imagination that would allow them to put new content in those timeslots.
------ Maybe I'm delusional, but I don't think the late night variety show *HAS* to be dead. It was just *programmed* to be dead. If a new show had a host that wasn't a partisan idiot, and he told a few jokes that had zero political connection, that part would be fine. And then he could have an actor or actress on and they could tell stories about what it was like working on their latest film or tv show. And then a current or historical musical act could come on and perform live. And in between some of that they could do a skit or a bit or two, but the one rule would have to be "We're entertainers, not politicians." Or would that still suck? Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 04:13 PM (TN0g+) 266
Making Rachel Weisz a reincarnation of Nerftiti and going all melodramatic because she dies but she doesn't die and then a super serious face off with Anck-su-namun...
I just roll my eyes. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 04:10 PM (GBKbO) but the prince kissing some dead girl and bringing her to life is a-ok ??? it's a klassik ??? fine! Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:13 PM (g47mK) 267
Saying a list of obviously true things is not what "hot take" means.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2025 04:12 PM (Vq1pX) I don't say you cowards saying them! *strips off glove, flings in threads' face* Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 04:13 PM (zZu0s) 268
Probably one of the more retarded ace takes I've read.
The media isn't influenced by the "woke mob". The media is the progenitor, propagator, legitimizer, and enforcer of the "woke mob". The king does not bow to his subjects, the god does not pray to its creation. Neither does the Hollywood Jew take his orders from the sheep he propagandizes. Posted by: Good Grief at December 09, 2025 04:14 PM (Nl83e) 269
Well there are no C-Beams glittering
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:14 PM (2GVsD) 270
Nefertiti was Irish.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:14 PM (eEIbO) 271
The reason the late n I ght guys are dead is because they are not funny. They are all less funny than Letterman.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 04:15 PM (zZu0s) 272
The late night talkers are dead and have been for a while. They don't have any ideas or imagination that would allow them to put new content in those timeslots.
Are we talking about TV or the ONT? Posted by: Sad! at December 09, 2025 04:16 PM (wgcRL) 273
Thanks, but now I can't get out of my mind the image of a large cartoon whale lumbering into some crooked politicians office and giving him big money.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke ====== Fatcat was the older term. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 04:16 PM (WDjG6) 274
Warren is against the merger.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:16 PM (eEIbO) 275
We were one random fluke away from districts being salamelbridged instead of being gerrymandered.
The term "gerrymander" was coined when he was Governor of Massachusetts, not VP Posted by: Chuck C at December 09, 2025 04:16 PM (D0HYP) 276
They are all less funny than Letterman.
------ Dear Dave: What's the deal with the donuts? ---viewer mail bit Letterman was a comedic genius back before he became a bitter partisan crack-head. Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 04:17 PM (TN0g+) 277
I thought all along Kimmel wasn't getting tossed into the street
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 04:17 PM (Ia/+0) 278
Jane Seymour from the 70s was hotter than all of them.
Posted by: Aetius451AD ---- Barbara Stanwyck too? Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:17 PM (c35xG) Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 04:17 PM (pkeXY) 280
199 I wish someone had saved "High Chaparral". I loved that western series as a kid, but to my knowledge its never been available on DVD.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 We can access it via Philo (the streaming service). I never saw it as a kid, but, in my old age, I'm discovering (in some case rediscovering) old TV series. The show is formulaic, and the acting uneven, but I enjoy Cameron Mitchell as Buck, and Frank Silvera's performance as Don Sebastian is highly entertaining. Sad fact: Frank Silvera died before the series ended as a result of being electrocuted while working on a kitchen garbage disposal. Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 04:17 PM (2L+MU) 281
Sidebar: Isn't Milo a limey though? He sounds like a gay limey. ...I mean... He sounds like a limey.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 04:18 PM (3uBP9) 282
270 Nefertiti was Irish.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:14 PM (eEIbO) Black Irish though. Cause they was kangs. Posted by: thedarkness at December 09, 2025 04:18 PM (Mtf/+) 283
Extending Kimmel does mean someone who can ridicule Trump with talent won't be in that spot.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 09, 2025 04:18 PM (8CIFn) 284
Same thing.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:18 PM (eEIbO) 285
279
"High Chaparral" It's on INSP at 1:00pm Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 04:17 PM (pkeXY) 280 199 I wish someone had saved "High Chaparral". I loved that western series as a kid, but to my knowledge its never been available on DVD. Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 We can access it via Philo (the streaming service). I never saw it as a kid, but, in my old age, I'm discovering (in some case rediscovering) old TV series. The show is formulaic, and the acting uneven, but I enjoy Cameron Mitchell as Buck, and Frank Silvera's performance as Don Sebastian is highly entertaining. Sad fact: Frank Silvera died before the series ended as a result of being electrocuted while working on a kitchen garbage disposal. Posted by: Paco ------ Thanks guys! Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 04:18 PM (TN0g+) Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 04:18 PM (9iyS+) 287
Probably one of the more retarded ace takes I've read.
The media isn't influenced by the "woke mob". The media is the progenitor, propagator, legitimizer, and enforcer of the "woke mob". The king does not bow to his subjects, the god does not pray to its creation. Neither does the Hollywood Jew take his orders from the sheep he propagandizes. Posted by: Good Grief at December 09, 2025 04:14 PM (Nl83e) I was about to take you seriously until "Everything I don't like is a Jewish conspiracy" popped up. I'll just suggest to you that "the media" isn't a monolith and can be both the progenitor and enforcer of wokeness AND a thrall of wokeness because it's made up of many different individuals. Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 04:19 PM (zjgNU) 288
Before 750 BC Egyptians were crackers.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:19 PM (eEIbO) 289
People.who like Kirk dont kill people they dont like.
People who dont like Kirk kill people they dont like. Simple Posted by: Operator Error at December 09, 2025 04:19 PM (PlXYd) Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 04:19 PM (mlg/3) 291
There is no arguing with this logic. It's ironclad!
Also, I can't believe Taylor Swift is still a thing. I've never bought her album. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:44 PM (GBKbO) If the cruise ships were ironclad, and went off sinking pirates, that would be cool. Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 04:20 PM (8avO+) 292
Jimmy Kimmel is a no talent ass clown.
Posted by: Zombie Jack Parr at December 09, 2025 04:20 PM (FGMmt) 293
All that, I mean ALL that brain power and they can't think of one thing to fill the time slot. Come to think of it, it's systemic; TV sucks, Movies suck, with few exception Net Flix and Prime sucks.
Yep, the whole industry sucks. Total lack of independent thought or creative intelligence. Posted by: Braenyard Gresham's Law of money as applied to art. Bad drives out good. I think though the coming era in the near future is ai agent computers able to actually generate movies including actors, dialogue and eyepopping special effects from a series of command prompts. 3d Printing is also going to change things a lot. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 04:20 PM (WDjG6) 294
No joke. It's on my free streamer even.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:20 PM (eEIbO) 295
Bonnie Blue evidently tried her schtick somewhere that is going to throw her ass in jail.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 04:21 PM (zZu0s) 296
271 The reason the late n I ght guys are dead is because they are not funny. They are all less funny than Letterman.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Who was not funny at all. Craig Ferguson was. His flirting with hot starlets should be required watching for geeky 13 year old boys who are unsure how to connect with girls. Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 04:21 PM (Y8DZL) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:21 PM (2GVsD) 298
If only there were a way to stop this before it happens...
@libsoftiktok 4m BREAKING: Georgia State Rep. Sharon Henderson (D) has been INDICTED on unemployment fraud after allegedly illegally collecting over $17,000 in benefits during the COVID pandemic. Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 04:21 PM (mlg/3) 299
I haven't had cable or satellite for 10 years. I have no idea what’s on network TV these days. Do they still have sitcoms where the dad is a buffoon and the sassy wife gets all the laffs? Oh and of course the fbi show where the crime is wrapped up in a neat 45 minutes from start to end thanks to the hard work of the dedicated men and women of the federal government. 🤣
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 04:21 PM (9iyS+) 300
When was High Chapparal produced??
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:21 PM (pDt9x) 301
Sidebar: Isn't Milo a limey though? He sounds like a gay limey. ...I mean... He sounds like a limey.
Posted by: banana Dream Have you heard of a Venn Diagram? Posted by: Kamala at December 09, 2025 04:22 PM (mlg/3) 302
Bonanza.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:22 PM (eEIbO) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:22 PM (2GVsD) 304
BREAKING: Georgia State Rep. Sharon Henderson (D) has been INDICTED on unemployment fraud after allegedly illegally collecting over $17,000 in benefits during the COVID pandemic.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 04:21 PM (mlg/3) You’re not gonna believe this. Sharon is a black wymyn. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 04:23 PM (9iyS+) 305
Johnny Somlai ain't much better Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:22 PM (2GVsD) Johnny Bravo >>> Johnny Somali Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:24 PM (Zz0t1) 306
Hope she gets mad and shouts, My mouth is not a sex organ.
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 09, 2025 04:25 PM (EyfuW) 307
Bonnie Blue evidently tried her schtick somewhere that is going to throw her ass in jail.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone Is it conclusively ruled out that wasn't her plan? Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 09, 2025 04:25 PM (OUMaO) 308
When was High Chapparal produced??
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:21 PM (pDt9x) ---------- 1967 to 1971. Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 04:25 PM (nXmou) 309
300 When was High Chapparal produced??
1967-1971. Most of the show was filmed in Old Tucson and surrounding area. Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 04:25 PM (2L+MU) 310
The late night talkers are dead and have been for a while. They don't have any ideas or imagination that would allow them to put new content in those timeslots.
I mean, there's a boatload of bloggers out there that pull more views on YT than the late night tools combined. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:07 PM (Zz0t1) There's no writing talent. They've trained a generation to be wokescolds and trained seals that laugh at wokescolds. It's a black hole of angry, talentless, entitled children. There will be nothing compelling coming to that time slot. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 09, 2025 04:25 PM (dK+Kv) 311
Johnny Somlai ain't much better
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:22 PM (2GVsD) Johnny Bravo >>> Johnny Somali Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer Johnny Human Torch >>> Johnny Bravo >>> Johnny Somali Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 09, 2025 04:26 PM (OUMaO) 312
308 When was High Chapparal produced??
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:21 PM (pDt9x) ---------- 1967 to 1971. Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 04:25 PM (nXmou) Ah. Thanks Shain. Might take a look some day. Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:26 PM (pDt9x) 313
You could get a box of Ziti per week from unemployment during Covid.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:26 PM (eEIbO) 314
The VP position was once described as “Not worth a bucket of warm spit”.
But you go girl! Historic! Stunning! Brave! And those fucking pantsuits! My god, what courage. Where do we find such women?? Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 04:26 PM (wJccJ) 315
NOODlum.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:26 PM (Zz0t1) 316
274 Warren is against the merger.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:16 PM (eEIbO) Only because no one has paid her yet. She's taken so much cash from big Pharma that her campaign ads now end with a list of side effects. Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 09, 2025 04:27 PM (pIfcn) 317
mean, there's a boatload of bloggers out there that pull more views on YT than the late night tools combined.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:07 PM (Zz0t1) Definitely Candace Owens does. Probably Tucker Carlson, as well. Posted by: Good Grief at December 09, 2025 04:27 PM (Nl83e) 318
Letterman was required viewing when I was in college in the late 80s.
Absolutely hilarious and his music guests were awesome. Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 04:27 PM (W2Pud) 319
Craig Ferguson was. His flirting with hot starlets should be required watching for geeky 13 year old boys who are unsure how to connect with girls.
Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 04:21 PM (Y8DZL) Step 1: Be a powerful and influential boy with a television talk show. Step 2: ????? Step 3: PROFIT Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 04:27 PM (8avO+) 320
When was High Chapparal produced??
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 *** Just going on memory, I'd say late Sixties to start, and it ran for several years. *Checks* Yeah, 1967 to '71. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 04:27 PM (wzUl9) 321
>>> Bonnie Blue evidently tried her schtick somewhere that is going to throw her ass in jail.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 04:21 PM (zZu0s) Go to a head chopper muzzy country and thrown in jail is the least of her concerns. Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 04:28 PM (3uBP9) 322
If any network had a bit of sense (which they don't), they'd beg the great Craig Ferguson to come back and host late night for bazillions. He was fantastic and very funny. Plus I love him, and that should alone be enough.
However, I am quite sure he is busy doing whatever he does in his current Scotland castle. Kimmel has never been funny, in the very few shots I have seen him. Plus he's ugly. I pride myself in never watching his show much less his gargle of words that are silly. I have a very refined taste in humor. Which is why I read Moron and Ace. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 09, 2025 04:28 PM (WONhk) 323
Is it conclusively ruled out that wasn't her plan?
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 09, 2025 04:25 PM (OUMaO) I don't think this was intentional shock jock shit, but rather her personal kink/damage shit. She evidently (somehow this has come up on streams i have watched, Kirsche I think) has a thing of doing very close to age of consent dudes. Like trolling high school kids shit. She got banned from, Australia i think for trying a barely legal gangbang there. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 04:28 PM (zZu0s) Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 04:28 PM (wJccJ) 325
The VP position was once described as “Not worth a bucket of warm spit”.
But you go girl! Historic! Stunning! Brave! And those fucking pantsuits! My god, what courage. Where do we find such women?? Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 *** Unfortunately, nowadays, everywhere. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 04:28 PM (wzUl9) 326
Time to spin the Wheel o' Perp
@Breaking911 · 22s BREAKING: 2 injured in shooting by "active aggressor" at Kentucky State University; suspect in custody - Police Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 04:29 PM (mlg/3) 327
299 I haven't had cable or satellite for 10 years. I have no idea what’s on network TV these days. Do they still have sitcoms where the dad is a buffoon and the sassy wife gets all the laffs? Oh and of course the fbi show where the crime is wrapped up in a neat 45 minutes from start to end thanks to the hard work of the dedicated men and women of the federal government. - Its Go Time Donald
We have Roku. Tried one or two network comedies (the new Night Court, and Tim Allen's latest series) and found them...pretty bad, actually. Just a matter of personal taste, of course. Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 04:29 PM (2L+MU) 328
I haven't had cable or satellite for 10 years. I have no idea what’s on network TV these days. Do they still have sitcoms where the dad is a buffoon and the sassy wife gets all the laffs? Oh and of course the fbi show where the crime is wrapped up in a neat 45 minutes from start to end thanks to the hard work of the dedicated men and women of the federal government.
Not to mention the sassy, all knowing loud mouth negress and the lady cops who are all hot and 110 pounds of sexiness. Posted by: Gimme A Break at December 09, 2025 04:29 PM (FGMmt) 329
aside:
Fox news story of a Killing at N Forsyth High school gives no names and does not describe the incident. However the information is public knowledge. AI: at North Forsyth High School, the deceased has been identified as 19-year-old Jaylen Pharaoh. The suspect involved in the shooting is 21-year-old Kanye Delvin Tisdale, who has been charged with attempted murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. -- You may infer any other technicals. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:31 PM (c35xG) 330
322 If any network had a bit of sense (which they don't), they'd beg the great Craig Ferguson to come back and host late night for bazillions. He was fantastic and very funny. Plus I love him, and that should alone be enough. - ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
I've only seen short video clips on YouTube, but he was obviously head and shoulders above the likes of Kimmel; actually, there's just no comparison at all. Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 04:31 PM (2L+MU) 331
CORRECTION
Following the certs given by AI that info was not the school shooting but an incident at a VapeShop in Kingstree, South Carolina. So much for AI accuracy. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:34 PM (c35xG) Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 04:36 PM (9iyS+) Posted by: sven at December 09, 2025 04:38 PM (MUJd1) 334
If there was truly an "artist" that wanted to "speak truth to power" they'd make a bronze statue of Kamala kneeling and giving a BJ to Willie Brown and give it a pithy name.
"Kamala, modern day feminism hero!" Posted by: hate_the_deepstate at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (2Nfh9) 335
Jane Seymour from the 70s was hotter than all of them.
No argument there. I hope she kept a print of that fantastic photo of her in Somewhere in Time. Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 04:51 PM (Da7Vv) 336
Hilarious, but just one Hawaiian judge...
@LeadingReport 6m BREAKING: Illegal immigrants would face a $5,000 “apprehension fee” under a new Trump administration policy. Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (mlg/3) 337
Kimmel has never been funny, in the very few shots I have seen him. Plus he's ugly.
The only laughs I ever got from Kimmel were when Sara Silverman broke up with him on air by bringing her new boyfriend along with her appearance on the show. Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (Da7Vv) 338
he late night talkers are dead and have been for a while. They don't have any ideas or imagination that would allow them to put new content in those timeslots.
There are reasons that Gutfeld, streaming on Fox News, beats the ratings of all the network late night shows. Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 05:02 PM (Da7Vv) 339
Who sponsors Kibble’s shoe?
I’ll be contacting them of y displeasure and bozos even though I’m sure I already do boycott these corps. Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 09, 2025 05:21 PM (xvV+O) 340
Mrs Jukin is a spitting image of Jane Seymour in Love and Let Die.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 09, 2025 05:24 PM (xvV+O) 341
Driscoll is a dishonorable pos
Posted by: Fen at December 09, 2025 05:53 PM (ciYHQ) 342
314 The VP position was once described as “Not worth a bucket of warm spit”.
Wrong. Spit is the nice version. John Nance Garner said the VP position was not worth a bucket of warm PISS. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 05:58 PM (rQwsY) 343
Quick anyone, name Truman's Vice president.
Exactly. Kamala will have a bust right next to Alben W. Barkley. Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 06:12 PM (C3IAS) 344
I think they signed the deal with Kimmel awhile ago, before the brouhaha. They just didn't announce it for a long time.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 06:13 PM (C3IAS) 345
My last salary was $8750, ecom only worked 12 hours a week. My longtime neighbor yr estimated $15,000 and works about 20 hours for seven days. I can't believe how blunt he was when I looked up his information,
This is what I do................ https://p0stpr0m0ney88.blogspot.com/ Posted by: HOME PROFIT at December 09, 2025 06:27 PM (+3dnj) 346
Wikipedia, in part:
Molly McNearney is an American television writer and producer. She is the co-head writer and the executive producer of the late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live![1] and the wife of host Jimmy Kimmel.[2][3] In November 2022, before the 2022 United States midterm elections, McNearney spoke during the show's monologue "urging people to vote for candidates that support abortion rights."[14][15] (Roe v. Wade) In 2025, McNearney won a Gracie Award for her work on Jimmy Kimmel Live![16] --- BTW, The Gracie Awards recognize exemplary programming created by women, for women and about women in all facets of media and entertainment. They also acknowledge the individuals who have made inspirational contributions to the industry. >Page 2 of 11 pages of winners for 2025, or almost every woman in the industry. --- It's all about Molly, her pleasing other women and being with the semi-In crowd. Jimmy! seems sorta like her little b*tch on leash. Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 09, 2025 06:41 PM (NFX2v) 347
l Get paid over $110 per hour working from home. l never thought I'd be able to do it but my buddy makes over $21269 a month doing this and she convinced me to try. The possibility with this is endless....
This is what I do...................... https://urlr.me/E3tz6Y Posted by: Anonymous at December 10, 2025 04:05 AM (NxtE8) Paramount/Skydance Launches Hostile Takeover Bid for Warner Bros.For those just joining the story in progress: David Ellison -- son of the Oracle founder and multibillionaire Larry Ellison, and himself worth millions -- owned Skydance, and then used that company to purchase one of the smaller major studios, Paramount. Then he made a bid to buy Warner Bros. studios from Warner Discovery. That offer was rejected. Then Warner Bros. advertised that it was for sale and would entertain other offers. Netflix made a bid to buy it, and this bid was accepted. By management, I mean. David Ellison still wants Warner Bros. So he's making a hostile takeoever bid. That just means that unlike the Netflix bid which was arranged with the current management of Warner Discovery and has their blessing, this bid is made against current mangement's wishes and so is "hostile" to their intentions. But it's the shareholders who get to decide. Ellison is offering shareholders a competing bid. Ellison's bid is $30 per share, in cash. Neflix's bid is for less cash per sale -- $27 -- but shareholders would also get shares in whatever spin-off corporation they create out of the the parts of Warner Discovery they don't want. Which is I think the "Discovery" part, all the cable channels like The Murder Channel (aka Investigative Discovery or ID). Which is more valuable? I have no idea. Both suitors will make the pitch to shareholders and await the shareholder vote.Paramount Skydance is launching a hostile bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery after it lost out to Netflix in a monthslong bidding war for the legacy assets, the company said Monday. Paramount will go straight to WBD shareholders with an all-cash, $30 per share offer. That's the same bid WBD rejected last week and equates to an enterprise value of $108.4 billion. The offer is backstopped with equity financing from the Ellison family and the private equity firm RedBird Capital as well as $54 billion in debt commitments from Bank of America, Citi and Apollo Global Management, Paramount said in a news release. A portion of the equity financing comes from outside Middle Eastern financing partners including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, Abu Dhabi's L'imad Holding Company PJSC, and the Qatar Investment Authority. Another portion derives from Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners. Kushner is U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law. Those partners have agreed to "forgo any governance rights," including board seats, as part of their non-voting equity investment, according to a Paramount filing. The modifications allow the deal to be outside of the jurisdiction of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., or CFIUS. Shares of Paramount gained 9% Monday. Warner Bros. Discovery's shares rose about 4% while Netflix was down 3%. "We're really here to finish what we started," Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison told CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" on Monday. "We put the company in play."There are antitrust questions about any mergers between tech giants, of course. I think the Netflix bid will face more scrutiny, because while Netflix makes movies, it makes movies for streaming, not for exhibition in physical theaters. Yes, sometimes it exhibits a movie in theaters but only in a small number of theaters and only for a weekend or two before it puts it on Netflix exclusively. (They chiefly show movies in theaters just to meet the minimum requirements for theatrical exhibition to qualify them for the Oscars and such.) So what antitrust lawyers in the government will be looking at is not just the diminution in competition that will occur if one media company swallows up another one, but the real possibility that if Netflix buys Warner Bros. it will use Warner Bros. movie production to make movies for its streaming service, not for theaters. And antitrust lawyers do not like it when a reduction of competition in one industry causes disruptions in another industry. And yes, movie production is a separate industry form movie exhibition. In fact, it was antitrust action by the government that forced this separation -- movie studios used to own their own movie theaters and play their movies in their own theaters. But the government considered this illegal vertical integration and forced the movie companies to sell their theaters to independent owners. I don't think Netflix will be necessarily blocked from buying Warner Bros. A common result in these cases is that the government approves the merger but extracts a promise from the merged company that it will not take certain steps. Like Netflix would agree that it would continue showing Warner Bros. movies in physical theaters. (Though that's hard to police -- Netflix could just move a lot of Warner Bros. production to the Netflix production side of things and just produce few official "Warner Bros."-branded movies.) I think the NFL's monopoly on professional football was allowed only because the NFL agreed to never schedule games on Saturday when college teams were playing, to avoid using the professional football monopoly to damage the college football market. This is a very perilous time for theatrical exhibitors. Hollywood is producing crap movies and consequently exhibitors don't have much product to show that the public is willing to pay for. Any reduction in the number of movies going to physical theaters could, possibly, kill the industry, or cull half of all movie theaters. I don't know what the government will decide. David Ellison is reportedly trying to induce Trump to block the Netflix buyout by promising that if he gets hold of Warner Bros. -- and its failing "news" channel CNN -- he'll remake CNN into a fair and balanced network. Is that true? No idea. I do know that if you really were making this offer you would want to do it privately, not publicly, with the Wall Street Journal notified. Because the president isn't supposed to approve or nix mergers based on his personal or political self-interest. By making this supposed offer so public, it basically stops Trump from even considering taking the alleged "deal." It could be that Netflix, not Ellison, is pushing this story out there to pressure Trump to approve their own bid. Leftwing movie review Grace Randolf claimed that Warner Discovery shareholders are faced with two repellent options -- accept Netlix's deal and "kill the theater business," or accept Ellison's deal and (horrors!) put two movie studios under the control of a "conservative" man friendly to Trump. The fact that she sees each of these possibilities as equally calamitous is what makes me think it's plausible that members of the left will just lie to stop Ellison from acquiring Warner Bros., and push Fake News stories about Ellison offering to fire Kaitlin Collins if Trump blocks Netflix's bid and approves his own. The left was horrified that Paramount was bought by (horror!) a conservative. It is offended and horrified that the much-bigger Warner Bros. might be purchased by the same conservative man. Any thoughts? Do you buy this very-public offer of bribery to Trump from David Ellison? I don't know about you, but if I were bribing the president, I would probably do it quietly. Through a trusted intermediary. Such as... well, as the article noted, Jared Kushner is part of the group putting up billions to back Ellison's bid. So instead of just quietly telling Kushner to carry that message to his father-in-law, everyone blabs about it to the Wall Street Journal? Seems unlikely to me. Sounds more like political partisans or Netflix executives trying to poison Parmount's pill so that Warner Discovery can't swallow it. Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
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Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 02:25 PM (zjgNU) 2
Oh, that's wasn't a first. That was how much I care about this on a scale from 1-10.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 02:25 PM (zjgNU) 3
(Ok, mostly that was snark.)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 02:26 PM (zjgNU) 4
FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:26 PM (Zz0t1) 5
Do you buy this very-public offer of bribery to Trump from David Ellison?
I don't know about you, but if I were bribing the president, I would probably do it quietly. If Trump was bribed he wouldn't be able to keep quiet about it. I like the guy but he couldn't keep anything hush hush. Posted by: Frank Barone at December 09, 2025 02:26 PM (IifOV) 6
YAY! Kill all the movies......GREAT idea.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:26 PM (Zz0t1) 7
Is there a Pitch Meeting for this?
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 02:27 PM (vFG9F) 8
But these dinosaurs are only valuable for the intellectual property that they hold.
Intellectual property that should have LONG gone into the public domain. Government corruption, bought by Disney, is what makes these bloated dinosaurs retain any amount of value. Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 02:27 PM (zjgNU) 9
Bidding war.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:27 PM (eEIbO) 10
Willowed:
Things will change when The Blade starts as an immigration judge! Posted by: Elric The Blade ======== Trump admin just fired a bunch of judges the other day. Problem is that the local office's job ad for filling those judgeships probably has No US Citizens need apply just like above. Posted by: whig a Here's the link to apply https://tinyurl.com/4rwpvhpk Posted by: BruceWayne Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 02:27 PM (MGB5H) 11
>>>There are antitrust questions about any mergers between tech giants, of course.
yeah we pretty much just let big donors, I mean big corporations, do whatever the F@#$ they want these days Posted by: Department of Justice - Antitrust Division at December 09, 2025 02:27 PM (jGJov) Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 02:28 PM (iFTx/) 13
Fuck Hollywood is the ass with a flaming concertina wire-wrapped pineapple.
Posted by: Sharkman at December 09, 2025 02:28 PM (BRvvM) 14
The even bigger question is: Who watches any of this crap?
These companies are all zombie companies, they just don't know it. Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 02:28 PM (XV/Pl) 15
I am out of flannel shirts and dessert boots.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:29 PM (eEIbO) 16
Bro, it's the 1980s all over again! Break out some hair metal.
Posted by: Elric The Blade Or the Pet Shop Boys Posted by: fabulous at December 09, 2025 02:29 PM (gKWVE) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 02:29 PM (looXz) 18
"he'll remake CNN into a fair and balanced network."
Is that even possible? It would have to be like the old Headline News channel that only read headline news and nothing else. MSNOW would probably absorb all the CNN "talent" that would leave butt hurt and demanding "freedom of speech". Posted by: Frank Barone at December 09, 2025 02:29 PM (IifOV) 19
The offer is backstopped with equity financing from the Ellison family and the private equity firm RedBird Capital as well as $54 billion in debt commitments from Bank of America, Citi and Apollo Global Management, Paramount said in a news release.
A portion of the equity financing comes from outside Middle Eastern financing partners including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, Abu Dhabi's L'imad Holding Company PJSC, and the Qatar Investment Authority. Another portion derives from Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners. Kushner is U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law. Honestly this concerns me more than the antitrust issues. Private equity is bad enough, foreign private equity is even worse. Posted by: Oligarchy! Oligarchy everywhere! at December 09, 2025 02:29 PM (TbWk/) 20
I'll blast on the movie industry 7 days a week, but that doesn't mean I want them to end in-theatre performances. Certain flicks were just meant to be on a 30 foot screen with volume at ungodly levels. Killing the theatre model isn't a win.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 02:30 PM (TN0g+) 21
I'm pretty sure we can fix Hollywood overnight.
Make copyright return to its maximum of 56 years. Not the century it has become. Make Hollywood subject to competition and open up their intellectual property to ACTUAL creative people. Imagine, for example, a Star Wars movie by someone who loves it AND is creative. Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 02:30 PM (zjgNU) 22
The Movie Theatres are dying like the malls.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:30 PM (eEIbO) 23
I think the only way that CNN could be saved would be if it were merged with the WWE. "Oh, and there goes Scott Jennings with a big Bash on Dana Bash with that folding chair! Down she goes, but wait, here comes Mr Potato Head himself, Brian Stelter, tapping in, and does he look baked!"
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 02:31 PM (uWKK8) 24
>>>Honestly this concerns me more than the antitrust issues. Private equity is bad enough, foreign private equity is even worse.
right but the offer says that the foreigners will not have any presence on the board. They'll be stock owners only (supposedly). Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:31 PM (1wjle) 25
Netflix takes over and Warner Brothers becomes lame and gay. Well more gay and lame
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 02:31 PM (D+mpw) 26
The only reason these companies can create the streaming monopolies is the government already gave them an illegitimate monopoly over intellectual property.
If everything before 1980 were public domain, the value of streaming would drop precipitously. (And drop more every year as the last of the good movies become public domain...) Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 02:32 PM (zjgNU) 27
Neflix's bid is for less cash per sale -- $27 -- but shareholders would also get shares in whatever spin-off corporation they create out of the the parts of Warner Discovery they don't want. Which is I think the "Discovery" part, all the cable channels like The Murder Channel (aka Investigative Discovery or ID).
Which is more valuable? I have no idea. Take the $27 + shares. Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 02:32 PM (bvUs5) 28
Bro, it's the 1980s all over again! Break out some hair metal.
Posted by: Elric The Blade Or the Pet Shop Boys ------ Time for a St. Elmo's Fire remake. No, not the middling movie. Instead, the never should have been a thing *song* St. Elmo's Fire. What an abomination. You can feel St. Elmo's Fire burning in you? I'd suggest you see a doctor immediately. Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 02:32 PM (TN0g+) 29
I know a lot of things. Shit like this on the other hand...I know less about this stuff than Julius Caesar knew about our space program.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 02:33 PM (snZF9) 30
All I know about corporate battling is, no matter what the companies themselves do, government is going to make sure it gets its cut, or else there will be no deal.
Some forms of capitalism are more capitalist than others. Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 02:33 PM (dGCAG) 31
Who gets the AOL debt that still sits on Warner's books?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 09, 2025 02:33 PM (pIfcn) 32
Once something is shown on BBC it belongs to the culture.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:34 PM (eEIbO) 33
What nonsense Trump loves using Katlin Collins as his punching bag and gimp. Who wouldn't?
The question is when is Warner Bros going to let their wonderful cartoon library be available again. Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, etc. When's the last time you've seen the crown jewels on air? Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 09, 2025 02:34 PM (wBaIH) 34
Who gets the AOL debt that still sits on Warner's books?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 09, 2025 02:33 PM (pIfcn) Myspace Tom. He gets it. Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 02:35 PM (dGCAG) 35
25 Netflix takes over and Warner Brothers becomes lame and gay. Well more gay and lame
___ Is that even possible? Yes, unfortunately I think it is. And more racist as well (racist against, uh, let's just say Europeans) Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 02:35 PM (Dv3i1) 36
Bro, it's the 1980s all over again! Break out some hair metal.
Posted by: Elric The Blade sigh...not again. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 02:35 PM (snZF9) 37
>>>right but the offer says that the foreigners will not have any presence on the board. They'll be stock owners only (supposedly
wink wink Posted by: Chairman Xi at December 09, 2025 02:35 PM (jGJov) 38
Myspace Tom.
He gets it. Posted by: BurtTC Tom gave us everything. And we turned our backs on him. Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 02:36 PM (bvUs5) 39
Willowed:
Things will change when The Blade starts as an immigration judge! Posted by: Elric The Blade ======== Trump admin just fired a bunch of judges the other day. Problem is that the local office's job ad for filling those judgeships probably has No US Citizens need apply just like above. Posted by: whig a Here's the link to apply https://tinyurl.com/4rwpvhpk Posted by: BruceWayne Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 02:27 PM (MGB5H) ________ I know little about immigration law, but that only means I'd be good at the job. I'm looking to retire early in a few years, so a few years tossing out illegals could be good. LOL. Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 02:36 PM (iFTx/) 40
Is that even possible? Yes, unfortunately I think it is. And more racist as well (racist against, uh, let's just say Europeans)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 02:35 PM (Dv3i1) You'll get a gay tranny Scarlett O'Hara in the GWTW remake, and you'll like it! Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 02:36 PM (dGCAG) 41
I guess I'm a terrible person, because I just don't give a flying ****. I'm far more concerned that I cannot find about two dozen books.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2025 02:37 PM (s0JqF) 42
>>>31 Who gets the AOL debt that still sits on Warner's books?
See, I think the debt will be pawned off on this spinoff company. So I don't know if the shares in this company are actually going to be very valuable. I've never understood this aspect of corporate finance. It seems wrong that you can split off the debt from the productive parts of a company. Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:37 PM (1wjle) 43
What "IP"s does Warner even control?
Bugs Bunny? And...? Posted by: zombie at December 09, 2025 02:38 PM (oraVG) 44
Bro, it's the 1980s all over again! Break out some hair metal.
Posted by: Elric The Blade ----- Revolution calling..... revolution calling youuuuuuuu! Posted by: Darth Randall at December 09, 2025 02:38 PM (f1kZG) 45
Tom gave us everything. And we turned our backs on him.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 02:36 PM (bvUs5) More than once I was blocked by some chick I managed to piss off (who, me?), and whenever I went back to check, Tom was still there. On the friend list. Eff Tom. Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 02:38 PM (dGCAG) 46
That's all folks.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:38 PM (eEIbO) 47
"he'll remake CNN into a fair and balanced network."
Not possible. We saw this play out in another (?) where staff went into full revolt. MSM venues can't be reformed and I wish the Right would stop falling for that. You've got to nuke the site from orbit and start over from scratchm Posted by: Fen at December 09, 2025 02:38 PM (ciYHQ) 48
I know little about immigration law, but that only means I'd be good at the job. I'm looking to retire early in a few years, so a few years tossing out illegals could be good. LOL.
Posted by: Elric The Blade If I could have seen the future, I would have gotten a law degree after undergrad. This would be my plan now too. Maybe I'll look to see what an older guy can do to help in administration for border patrol or ICE. Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 02:39 PM (Dv3i1) 49
I guess I'm a terrible person, because I just don't give a flying ****. I'm far more concerned that I cannot find about two dozen books.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2025 02:37 PM (s0JqF) Did you check the book shelf? Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 02:39 PM (dGCAG) 50
warner bros. owns DC Comics. I'm sure they own a lot of "IP" but I can't think of much more than DC right now.
They're a pretty successful movie company overall. They made the most profit last year, and had the most big hits. Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:39 PM (1wjle) 51
Greed Is Good.
Posted by: Gordon Gekko at December 09, 2025 02:39 PM (FGMmt) 52
Netflix wins, everything will be fake and gay.
Ellison wins, it'll be......well......I've no idea. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:39 PM (Zz0t1) 53
43 What "IP"s does Warner even control?
Bugs Bunny? And...? Posted by: zombie at December 09, 2025 02:38 PM (oraVG) HBO and the WB old movie catalog, I think. Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 09, 2025 02:39 PM (pIfcn) 54
Netflix buying WB would be like Dollar Tree buying Tiffany’s, and would greatly accelerate the death of the theatrical movie experience. Netflix has what they call the “Second Screen” philosophy—they make content that is designed to be on in the background while your “First Screen” (your phone or tablet or game) gets most of your attention. In other words, they make content that is purposefully designed to be background noise. Fuck Netflix.
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 02:39 PM (gYnrv) 55
Rome?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:40 PM (eEIbO) 56
And yes, movie production is a separate industry form movie exhibition. In fact, it was antitrust action by the government that forced this separation -- movie studios used to own their own movie theaters and play their movies in their own theaters. But the government considered this illegal vertical integration and forced the movie companies to sell their theaters to independent owners.
======= The Paramount Accords. Which, actually, are no longer in effect. The first Trump admin got rid of them. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:40 PM (GBKbO) 57
I've never understood this aspect of corporate finance. It seems wrong that you can split off the debt from the productive parts of a company.
------- I don't think you can "split off debt" in that scenario. Debt is a legal contract between two parties, and the one owed the debt has safeguards that prevent the debt from being "tossed over" to some other entity with no ability to pay. Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 02:40 PM (TN0g+) 58
Seems anti-trustee to me.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 09, 2025 02:40 PM (abIsI) 59
oh warners now owns the Lord of the Rings movie franchise and Harry Potter.
but by "own them" I mean "own the movie rights, for now." Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:40 PM (1wjle) 60
Film Threat and Geeks and Gamers both covered this on livestreams yesterday. There's also apparently a website that Paramount put together for this that Angry Badger said he was covering on his livestream yesterday. There does seem to be a lot of "this is bad" on all options for this unless apparently you're David Zazlav. Parmount may be the least bad option because they claim to want to keep pumping out movies of up to 30 per year if they get Warner Bros. Netflix it sounds a lot like the Microsoft acquistion of Activision. You know where they say they won't do the thing but a year or two after the merger and they totally do the thing.
Posted by: buzzion at December 09, 2025 02:40 PM (3tZV2) 61
See, I think the debt will be pawned off on this spinoff company. So I don't know if the shares in this company are actually going to be very valuable.
I've never understood this aspect of corporate finance. It seems wrong that you can split off the debt from the productive parts of a company. Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:37 PM "There's a ... something ... born every minute." "A ... something ... and his money are soon parted." -- Venture Capital firms everywhere Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2025 02:41 PM (0sNs1) 62
>>>I don't think you can "split off debt" in that scenario. Debt is a legal contract between two parties, and the one owed the debt has safeguards that prevent the debt from being "tossed over" to some other entity with no ability to pay.
i want to say that that's right but I don't think it is... Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:41 PM (1wjle) 63
Who gets the AOL debt that still sits on Warner's books?
See, I think the debt will be pawned off on this spinoff company. So I don't know if the shares in this company are actually going to be very valuable. I've never understood this aspect of corporate finance. It seems wrong that you can split off the debt from the productive parts of a company. Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:37 PM (1wjle) ___________ Depends what kind of debt, whether the lenders agree, and you need to find shareholders in the new company to get the debt who agree to take it on. I did a detailed review of this transaction some time back, and I recall that the company getting the debt is also getting some valuable IP and income-producing assets -- supposedly enough to service the debt. Historically, these kinds of deals rarely work. Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 02:41 PM (iFTx/) 64
0 warner bros. owns DC Comics. I'm sure they own a lot of "IP" but I can't think of much more than DC right now.
They're a pretty successful movie company overall. They made the most profit last year, and had the most big hits. Posted by: ace HBO and the WB old movie catalog, I think. Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls And DC Comics is...Superman? Batman? And...? Posted by: zombie at December 09, 2025 02:42 PM (oraVG) 65
Netflix buying WB would be like Dollar Tree buying Tiffany’s, and would greatly accelerate the death of the theatrical movie experience. Netflix has what they call the “Second Screen” philosophy—they make content that is designed to be on in the background while your “First Screen” (your phone or tablet or game) gets most of your attention. In other words, they make content that is purposefully designed to be background noise. Fuck Netflix.
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 02:39 PM (gYnrv) Regardless, this isn't a choice between streaming services and movie theaters. It's a choice between WHICH bazillionaire oligarch is going to control which streaming service you get. Movie theaters are dinosaurs. The meteor hit a five years ago, they're already dead, they just don't know it yet. Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 02:42 PM (dGCAG) 66
54 Netflix buying WB would be like Dollar Tree buying Tiffany’s, and would greatly accelerate the death of the theatrical movie experience. Netflix has what they call the “Second Screen” philosophy—they make content that is designed to be on in the background while your “First Screen” (your phone or tablet or game) gets most of your attention. In other words, they make content that is purposefully designed to be background noise. Fuck Netflix.
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 02:39 PM (gYnrv) ========== I think it's overstated. If anything was going to kill movie theaters, it was covid, and movie theaters came back to, like, 80% strength after a couple of years. Theatrical going has been declining since the 1930s, the height of the practice, with concentrated hits in the 50s (TV) and 70s/80s (home exhibition). There will always be room for theatrical distribution, but it's just going to be increasingly focused on spectacle. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:42 PM (GBKbO) 67
Bro, it's the 1980s all over again! Break out some hair metal.
Posted by: Elric The Blade ----- Revolution calling..... revolution calling youuuuuuuu! ------ For a price I'd do about anything Except pull the trigger For that I need a pretty good cause... Posted by: Geoff Tate at December 09, 2025 02:42 PM (TN0g+) 68
You know where they say they won't do the thing but a year or two after the merger and they totally do the thing.
Posted by: buzzion at December 09, 2025 02:40 PM A year??? Heck, it just takes us minutes. Posted by: High school guys in the back seat at December 09, 2025 02:42 PM (0sNs1) 69
This is a no-brainer. Ellison's 9% higher vs. guaranteed future Netflix failure. Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 02:43 PM (Y8DZL) 70
>>>And DC Comics is...Superman? Batman? And...?
batman superman wonder woman flash green lantern, etc. Superman becomes public domain in something like five or six years, batman the year after, etc. Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:43 PM (1wjle) 71
"Revolution calling..... "
Heh. "Queensrÿche is a killing word". Don't know why but I love that quote. From someone here. Posted by: Fen at December 09, 2025 02:43 PM (ciYHQ) 72
oh warners now owns the Lord of the Rings movie franchise and Harry Potter.
but by "own them" I mean "own the movie rights, for now." Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:40 PM (1wjle) Two franchises I can afford no f*cks to spare for. My small jar is still full, so I feel it would not be worth giving any for this. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:43 PM (Zz0t1) 73
Not really sure I care who makes crappy movies these days
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 02:43 PM (Ia/+0) 74
The CNN story is surely made up nonsense. CNN could be the source in an attempt to make their flaccid operation seem relevant.
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 02:43 PM (GPa4z) 75
Netfix wants to be the new cable. A single place that everyone has to use like a utility. The thing people started using netflix to avoid. Another conspiracy against the laity situation.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 02:44 PM (3uBP9) 76
70 >>>And DC Comics is...Superman? Batman? And...?
batman superman wonder woman flash green lantern, etc. Superman becomes public domain in something like five or six years, batman the year after, etc. Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:43 PM (1wjle) ===== I'm just glad the superhero bubble has deflated. I mostly can't wait for Avengers Doomsday to not nearly make back the money it needs. That will entertain me. Instead, Super Mario Galaxy will make all the money. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:44 PM (GBKbO) 77
right but the offer says that the foreigners will not have any presence on the board. They'll be stock owners only (supposedly).
Posted by: ace Control is done through 'localization.' The shareholder gets favored execs to be planted throughout the company by insisting that they need to have representation. This is happening in the game industry where Chinese shareholders are salting companies with CCP apparat. Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 02:44 PM (mlg/3) 78
"Revolution calling..... "
Heh. "Queensrÿche is a killing word". Don't know why but I love that quote. From someone here. Posted by: Fen at December 09, 2025 02:43 PM (ciYHQ) *cowers into corner* *assumes fetal position* *shudders* Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:44 PM (Zz0t1) 79
42 >>>31 Who gets the AOL debt that still sits on Warner's books?
See, I think the debt will be pawned off on this spinoff company. So I don't know if the shares in this company are actually going to be very valuable. I've never understood this aspect of corporate finance. It seems wrong that you can split off the debt from the productive parts of a company. Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:37 PM (1wjle) I think your assessment about the spinoff is correct, they just have to attach enough assets to make some dumb buyer pull the trigger. Discovery and whatever IP you need to sweeten the pot. Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 09, 2025 02:44 PM (pIfcn) 80
And DC Comics is...Superman? Batman? And...?
Posted by: zombie at December 09, 2025 02:42 PM (oraVG) Wonderwoman, Flash, Green Lantern. And that's basically it. DC is top heavy on IP. Marvel has a deeper bench. Posted by: buzzion at December 09, 2025 02:44 PM (3tZV2) 81
Bro, it's the 1980s all over again! Break out some hair metal.
Posted by: Elric The Blade ----- Revolution calling..... revolution calling youuuuuuuu! ------ For a price I'd do about anything Except pull the trigger For that I need a pretty good cause... Posted by: Geoff Tate at December 09, 2025 02:42 PM (TN0g+) ____ The entire record is prophetic and still relevant today. Except ... they spend an awful lot of time bitching about shady preachers. As if that was gonna be a big problem in the future .... Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 02:44 PM (iFTx/) 82
Letting these companies buy each other up is bad business.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:44 PM (eEIbO) 83
I can't wait until there is just one media superconglomerate that controls all, does all, is all. It can chip me like a dog so that it knows whether I'm watching my mandatory stories or not. Because it loves me and does not wish us to be apart. Ever.
Posted by: Or, we could burn it all down at December 09, 2025 02:45 PM (IVZwn) 84
Glad I grew out of any comic book phase. And never really cared for a video game movie either.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:45 PM (Zz0t1) 85
>>Two franchises I can afford no f*cks to spare for. My small jar is still full, so I feel it would not be worth giving any for this.
i'm a huge LOTR fan now at some point they'll do a remake. Which isn't as cash-grabby as it sounds, because presumably the remake will be more book-accurate, with maybe each of the three LOTR films split into two. well I guess that's totally cash-grabby but whatever, it's going to happen so we'll all just have to deal with it Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:45 PM (1wjle) Posted by: zombie The Bob Dole at December 09, 2025 02:45 PM (0sNs1) 87
batman superman wonder woman flash green lantern, etc.
Superman becomes public domain in something like five or six years, batman the year after, etc. Posted by: ace So, basically, what this dispute comes down to is: Will future Batman and Superman universe movies be woke? Or Based? Posted by: zombie at December 09, 2025 02:45 PM (oraVG) 88
80 Wonderwoman, Flash, Green Lantern. And that's basically it. DC is top heavy on IP. Marvel has a deeper bench.
Posted by: buzzion at December 09, 2025 02:44 PM (3tZV2) ====== Well, Iron Man was nobody, a C-rated comic until it suddenly wasn't with his first movie. Marvel's A-game was Spider-Man, X-Men, and the Fantastic Four, all of which Marvel had sold the movie rights to years before they tried to start their own movie studio. And all they had was their shit tier properties. Until they weren't shit-tier properties all of a sudden. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:45 PM (GBKbO) 89
Greed Is Good.
Posted by: Gordon Gekko at December 09, 2025 02:39 PM (FGMmt) Ferengi Rules Of Acquisition #10- Greed is eternal Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 02:46 PM (snZF9) 90
they're remaking Harry Potter as an eight-season tv series, supposedly including all the book material that was chopped out of the films.
I imagine they'll be doing that for LOTR within ten years. Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:46 PM (1wjle) 91
How do adults watch cape crap?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:46 PM (eEIbO) 92
73 Not really sure I care who makes crappy movies these days
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 02:43 PM (Ia/+0) Which basically is the biggest problem in Hollywood. They keep making agenda driven garbage, and not movies for the average person to enjoy. Posted by: buzzion at December 09, 2025 02:46 PM (3tZV2) 93
85 i'm a huge LOTR fan now
at some point they'll do a remake. Which isn't as cash-grabby as it sounds, because presumably the remake will be more book-accurate, with maybe each of the three LOTR films split into two. well I guess that's totally cash-grabby but whatever, it's going to happen so we'll all just have to deal with it Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:45 PM (1wjle) ======= WB doing a 15 hour limited series, or something. Eh. I have the books. I love them. I have the movies. I love them. I'm tapped out on remining the same properties for ANOTHER take on the material. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:46 PM (GBKbO) 94
The only theaters I see around are the stadium types with giant electric masseuse style chairs with a host of buttons and people serve food and drinks. $$$ ticket prices and $$$$$$ concessions
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 02:46 PM (3uBP9) 95
All Netflix has committed to is maintaining the theatrical releases that WB is contractually obligated to. After that they have stated they will reassess and look for ways to “better provide for the consumer”—in other words much less time in theaters and then locked down on Netflix.
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 02:46 PM (gYnrv) 96
The entire record is prophetic and still relevant today. Except ... they spend an awful lot of time bitching about shady preachers. As if that was gonna be a big problem in the future ....
------ They also didn't get the memo about the $20 either, or they lived in a high cost area. Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 02:47 PM (TN0g+) 97
well I guess that's totally cash-grabby but whatever, it's going to happen so we'll all just have to deal with it Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:45 PM (1wjle) Valid. I will anticipate not seeing it just like I did the last go around. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:47 PM (Zz0t1) 98
90 they're remaking Harry Potter as an eight-season tv series, supposedly including all the book material that was chopped out of the films.
I imagine they'll be doing that for LOTR within ten years. Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:46 PM (1wjle) ======= And it will end up being boring as fuck, especially in the later seasons, because Hermione fighting for House Elf rights was always just extra fodder Rowling put into the books because she knew it would never get adapted. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:47 PM (GBKbO) 99
*cowers into corner*
*assumes fetal position* *shudders* Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:44 PM (Zz0t1) Of all the jacked up bans ... Ace is an excitable fellow. He hits us because he loves us. Posted by: Or, we could burn it all down at December 09, 2025 02:47 PM (IVZwn) 100
As long as the company where the debt is being spun off to has some tangible asset that could back stop it, it's legal to spin off debt.
Obviously this would be part of the auditing and governance process to fully execute the merger, and would have to get government approval and oversight. The funny thing is that AOL Debt will probably just be tossed around like this forever until the heat death of the universe. Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 02:48 PM (XV/Pl) 101
at some point they'll do a remake. Which isn't as cash-grabby as it sounds, because presumably the remake will be more book-accurate, with maybe each of the three LOTR films split into two.
well I guess that's totally cash-grabby but whatever, it's going to happen so we'll all just have to deal with it Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:45 PM (1wjle) And Tom Bombadil still won't be in it. Posted by: buzzion at December 09, 2025 02:48 PM (3tZV2) 102
Sounds more like political partisans or Netflix executives trying to poison Parmount's pill so that Warner Discovery can't swallow it.
== Why is no one axing who is behind Netflix bid ? Obama funders and supporters maybe.... Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 02:48 PM (g47mK) 103
I got no dog in this fight.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 02:48 PM (TR2dy) Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2025 02:48 PM (0sNs1) 105
95 All Netflix has committed to is maintaining the theatrical releases that WB is contractually obligated to. After that they have stated they will reassess and look for ways to “better provide for the consumer”—in other words much less time in theaters and then locked down on Netflix.
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 02:46 PM (gYnrv) ====== Netflix's CEO has a long history of saying that the theatrical model is outmoded and against his vision for Netflix. But, suddenly, he's saying that theaters are super important, guys. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:48 PM (GBKbO) Posted by: Fen at December 09, 2025 02:48 PM (ciYHQ) 107
I thought Disney bought Paramount.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 09, 2025 02:49 PM (WPL6O) 108
But, suddenly, he's saying that theaters are super important, guys. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:48 PM (GBKbO) Critical Drinker begs to differ. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:49 PM (Zz0t1) 109
107 I thought Disney bought Paramount.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 09, 2025 02:49 PM (WPL6O) ====== Disney bought Fox's movie assets. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:49 PM (GBKbO) 110
They had a deal. Now a bidder.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:49 PM (eEIbO) 111
The only movies that I've seen at the theaters in the past few years are the big teen cultural ones like FNAF and the K-Pop one. For my kid.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 02:49 PM (3uBP9) 112
I did see Slayer is putting out a 40th Anniversary 3xLP Boxed Set for Hell Awaits.
Pre-Ordered immediately, of course. Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 02:50 PM (TR2dy) 113
When does the Prince Harry-Meghan Markle rom-com air on the Netflix Christmas rotation this year? Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 02:50 PM (Y8DZL) 114
I hold a little WBD (150 sh) in an IRA account. So I can't say I don't have a dog in this fight but it's a little pocket dog.
It was a spin-off from somebody - GE maybe or T? Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 09, 2025 02:50 PM (QGaXH) 115
What does this mean for Bugs Bunny?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 02:51 PM (pkeXY) 116
When does the Prince Harry-Meghan Markle rom-com air on the Netflix Christmas rotation this year? Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 02:50 PM (Y8DZL) Doug and Wendy Whiner were more tolerable........ Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:51 PM (Zz0t1) Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 09, 2025 02:51 PM (0sNs1) 118
90 they're remaking Harry Potter as an eight-season tv series, supposedly including all the book material that was chopped out of the films.
I imagine they'll be doing that for LOTR within ten years. Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:46 PM (1wjle) ---- Amazon Prime KILLED Lord of the Rings for the foreseeable future. I can't imagine anyone producing a successful version that tops Peter Jackson's films, either on the small or large screen. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 09, 2025 02:51 PM (ESVrU) 119
115 What does this mean for Bugs Bunny?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 02:51 PM (pkeXY) ======= It's too bad they never made a Bugs Bunny cartoon after 1946. Well, except for his cameo in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but that can hardly count. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:51 PM (GBKbO) 120
Which is more valuable? I have no idea.
Posted by: rickb223 ---- That is why Netflix's offer is deceptive, it is 23.25 in cash, 4.50 in Netflix stock, and bluesky value of CNN et al. compared with 30 bucks straight up from paramount. Figuring out the value of teh cable properties requires a lot of homework and it depends on how much of the debt is loaded on those properties at spinoff which is tbd later. Pig in a poke offer compared with Paramount. Netflix stock owners are not happy and stock is down because of possible stock dilution. Every WB shareholder gets 4.50 in Netflix stock from the deal, see above. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 02:51 PM (WDjG6) 121
114 I hold a little WBD (150 sh) in an IRA account. So I can't say I don't have a dog in this fight but it's a little pocket dog.
It was a spin-off from somebody - GE maybe or T? Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 09, 2025 02:50 PM (QGaXH) (T) I held it for a decade for the dividend and capitulated when Xander fell apart. Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 09, 2025 02:52 PM (pIfcn) 122
105 95 All Netflix has committed to is maintaining the theatrical releases that WB is contractually obligated to. After that they have stated they will reassess and look for ways to “better provide for the consumer”—in other words much less time in theaters and then locked down on Netflix.
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 02:46 PM (gYnrv) ====== Netflix's CEO has a long history of saying that the theatrical model is outmoded and against his vision for Netflix. But, suddenly, he's saying that theaters are super important, guys. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:48 PM (GBKbO) When Reed Hastings (CEO) was catching a lot of flak for shutting down the DVD division of the business because that is what the company was founded on, he had one ready answer for that: Look at the name of this company: Netflix. We were always going to go to the web. Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 02:52 PM (0CU3H) 123
What does this mean for Bugs Bunny?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 02:51 PM (pkeXY) Didn't they retire Bugs after "The King of All Voices" died? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:52 PM (Zz0t1) 124
i bought Superman when it was on sale but turned it off after eight minutes. I still haven't watched it. It just seemed so dumb.
How come Dick Donner figured out the perfect tone for these movies in 1976-1977 and everyone just kind of ignores that and tries to establish their own tone? Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:52 PM (1wjle) 125
@90
>>they're remaking Harry Potter as an eight-season tv series, supposedly including all the book material that was chopped out of the films. I imagine they'll be doing that for LOTR within ten years. Most series can only maintain their focus and discipline for 3-4 seasons at most. Then the creatives tend to get bored and want to do other things but they can't do those other things because they are under contract so their personal bullsh*t starts to get infused. Except Smallville, Smallville was great it's entire run. Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 02:52 PM (XV/Pl) 126
Not really sure I care who makes crappy movies these days
Posted by: Skip Exactly. I've been spending more & more time on YouTube watching things. Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 02:52 PM (bvUs5) 127
Well, Iron Man was nobody, a C-rated comic until it suddenly wasn't with his first movie.
Marvel's A-game was Spider-Man, X-Men, and the Fantastic Four, all of which Marvel had sold the movie rights to years before they tried to start their own movie studio. And all they had was their shit tier properties. Until they weren't shit-tier properties all of a sudden. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:45 PM (GBKbO) Sure Iron man was "C-list" at Marvel which is kind of my point. I think people have underestimated something from the 90s. Capcom. You had all these lower tier Marvel characters but they were plastered everywhere on kids growing up in the 90s when there were still arcades. Capcom had a Marvel arcade game and then Marvel vs. Capcom, and then even on home consoles eventually. I do think a lot of people underestimate that influence leading to people having that underlying understanding of a lot of Marvel characters and seeing them as cool that was ready for exploitation when they came to theaters finally. Posted by: buzzion at December 09, 2025 02:52 PM (3tZV2) Posted by: Dan and Dave, showrunners of Game of Thrones at December 09, 2025 02:53 PM (1wjle) 129
at some point they'll do a remake. Which isn't as cash-grabby as it sounds, because presumably the remake will be more book-accurate, with maybe each of the three LOTR films split into two.
____ I could see where, if they took all the money Bezos blew on the Rings of Power and instead made three seasons of 10-12 episodes each that was about as reasonably close to the books as you can get in a visual adaptation, that would probably be the best to hope for. Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 02:53 PM (Dv3i1) 130
>>Amazon Prime KILLED Lord of the Rings for the foreseeable future.
Did you ever watch the Meme Copium 'Rangs of Power' reaction series on YouTube? Hysterical. Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 02:53 PM (TR2dy) 131
122 When Reed Hastings (CEO) was catching a lot of flak for shutting down the DVD division of the business because that is what the company was founded on, he had one ready answer for that: Look at the name of this company: Netflix. We were always going to go to the web.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 02:52 PM (0CU3H) ======= I was a subscriber to the mail in service until the end (you can see my final two Netflix envelopes in my newest video! like and subscribe), but the service was down to something like less than a million subscribers, hadn't seriously reupped its inventory in years, and was really just fraying to nothing. Pulling the plug was a mercy. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:53 PM (GBKbO) 132
I imagine they'll be doing that for LOTR within ten years.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:46 PM (1wjle) If they're smart they'll leave Tom Bombadil out of the new one, too. Posted by: hobbitopoly at December 09, 2025 02:53 PM (k9OZB) 133
What?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:53 PM (eEIbO) 134
Doesn't sound like a bribe to me. It sounds like the President would take into account the very real fact that CNN gives commies preferential treatment which is Bad for America.
Posted by: Close The Fed at December 09, 2025 02:53 PM (lZILf) 135
124 i bought Superman when it was on sale but turned it off after eight minutes. I still haven't watched it. It just seemed so dumb.
How come Dick Donner figured out the perfect tone for these movies in 1976-1977 and everyone just kind of ignores that and tries to establish their own tone? Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:52 PM (1wjle) ====== The Richard Donner Superman is not a good movie. *that guy standing at a meeting meme* Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:53 PM (GBKbO) 136
Warner Bros. is a juggernaut. Discovery is a remora, a dingleberry. Make them take a loss for having to shed the burden of Discovery.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 02:54 PM (1zOXE) 137
I tried to post something about BB. Enraging the spam filter.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:54 PM (eEIbO) Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 02:54 PM (mlg/3) 139
I guess I can kind of see how media outfits would get bent out of shape of someone other than a fellow leftist was in charge of, or owned, a state propaganda organ. That they fight tooth and nail to keep them under leftist control is telling.
Failing a hostile takeover I'd like to see a consorted effort to drive them into bankruptcy. Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2025 02:54 PM (NwnyJ) 140
Reed Hastings sucks cock by choice.
And based on what Netflix puts out and tolerates, I'm not hopeful. Best we can hope for there is benign neglect, Netflix just tossing money at creative directors and leaving them alone. But that is a best case fairy tale. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 02:54 PM (xcxpd) Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 02:55 PM (XV/Pl) 142
people saying "Iron Man was a c-list character" can't really name any other Marvel c-listers successfully turned into A-listers.
Guardians of the Galaxy, okay, I guess. Ant-Man... um, sort of. but no one is really able to turn marvel c-listers into A-listers any more. I think Marvel collapsed precisely because it got greedy about trying to turn its backbenchers into stars. Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:55 PM (1wjle) 143
Most series can only maintain their focus and discipline for 3-4 seasons at most.
Then the creatives tend to get bored and want to do other things but they can't do those other things because they are under contract so their personal bullsh*t starts to get infused. Except Smallville, Smallville was great it's entire run. Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 02:52 PM (XV/Pl) My wife is a huge Smallville fan. I'd argue that Firefly was also great for its entire run. (/twists the knife) Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 02:55 PM (zjgNU) 144
Tom Bombadil and Goldberry will be a trans couple who are altogether too fabulous for the Third Age.
Posted by: Or, we could burn it all down at December 09, 2025 02:55 PM (IVZwn) 145
And Tom Bombadil still won't be in it.
Posted by: buzzion at December 09, 2025 02:48 PM (3tZV2) I never could figure that one out why he was omitted. It's been awhile since I read the book, so I'm probably all mixed up, but wasn't he the dude that kinda saved the hobbits the first time they ran across the Ring Wraiths? I kind of thought that was somewhat of an important event that wasn't in the movie. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 02:55 PM (snZF9) 146
Good Sci Fi. Rare these days.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:55 PM (eEIbO) 147
I can't imagine anyone producing a successful version that tops Peter Jackson's films, either on the small or large screen.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel I liken PJ's films to a Lamborghini with all the bolts loosened on the wheels. The further along it went the wheels started wobbling, then falling off in the end. Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 02:55 PM (Dv3i1) 148
Wow.
I must be getting old because all of this is a big fat don't care. The only thing I watch on the idiot screen is free youtube with the majority of it being educational and history (espeically WW2). In general I'm pretty sure that I'd prefer all the companies mentioned in the post to go bankrupt. Something tells me that would make my life and society to improve. Posted by: hate_the_deepstate at December 09, 2025 02:55 PM (2Nfh9) 149
The Owebama's are still on the board at Netflix, so you can expect everything to be gay and lame.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:56 PM (Zz0t1) 150
140 Best we can hope for there is benign neglect, Netflix just tossing money at creative directors and leaving them alone. But that is a best case fairy tale.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 02:54 PM (xcxpd) ====== Well, they do do that. Who cares if $120 million will turn a profit when handing it to Guillermo del Toro? Just give him the money, make his Frankenstein, and hope its good enough to buy an Oscar with (that Netflix hasn't won a Best Picture Oscar yet entertains me, but Apple did with freaking CODA). Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:56 PM (GBKbO) 151
How come Dick Donner figured out the perfect tone for these movies in 1976-1977 and everyone just kind of ignores that and tries to establish their own tone? Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:52 PM (1wjle) Because Hollywood is full of narcissists. I mean just look at how often they're encouraged to not read comic source material or play the video game that the movie is based on. Posted by: buzzion at December 09, 2025 02:56 PM (3tZV2) 152
They could do a Bored of the Rings major motion picture. That could be new.
Also, and, I know, I'm setting myself up for disappointment, yep, but I'm really hoping Space Balls 2 doesn't suck. Really holding out hope it might be slightly enjoyable. Not a clap-back affirmation of The Message. Could it be funny instead? I'm asking for so little really. I'll be disappointed. Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 02:56 PM (3uBP9) 153
141 @135
>>The Richard Donner Superman is not a good movie. Ok Zoomer. Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 02:55 PM (XV/Pl) ======= The middle third is tonal whiplash. The final third makes no sense. The first third is great. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:56 PM (GBKbO) 154
18 "he'll remake CNN into a fair and balanced network."
------- Read: Fox News Or in other words, leftarded. Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 02:56 PM (U6Usv) 155
And if we're wish casting future IP, I'd like to request a Buck Rogers reboot so cheesy, so saucy you can stream it on the Taco Bell value menu.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 09, 2025 02:56 PM (pIfcn) 156
I tried to post something about BB. Enraging the spam filter.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:54 PM (eEIbO) ...Bugs Bunny? Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 02:57 PM (zjgNU) 157
124 i bought Superman when it was on sale but turned it off after eight minutes. I still haven't watched it. It just seemed so dumb.
How come Dick Donner figured out the perfect tone for these movies in 1976-1977 and everyone just kind of ignores that and tries to establish their own tone? Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:52 PM (1wjle) That's fair. The opening of Superman tells you what kind of movie this is going to be. If you can't tolerate (or love) a super powered terrier, you're not going to vibe with The Justice Gang or Mister Terriffic. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 02:57 PM (xcxpd) 158
Also, and, I know, I'm setting myself up for disappointment, yep, but I'm really hoping Space Balls 2 doesn't suck. Really holding out hope it might be slightly enjoyable. Not a clap-back affirmation of The Message. Could it be funny instead? I'm asking for so little really. I'll be disappointed.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 02:56 PM (3uBP9) ===== You will. Sorry. Posted by: Jordan61 at December 09, 2025 02:57 PM (DRSnL) 159
>>>The middle third is tonal whiplash.
because of Lex Luthor? >>>The final third makes no sense. Huh? I mean, I don't buy the travel in time thing but it "makes sense." Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:57 PM (1wjle) 160
If big screen televisions and streaming were invented 100 years ago, there would be no theaters. They were a compromise; sit in a crowded room with rude people if you want to see a movie.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 02:57 PM (MCtb9) 161
The last American auteur was Russ Meyer.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2025 02:57 PM (0sNs1) 162
157 That's fair. The opening of Superman tells you what kind of movie this is going to be. If you can't tolerate (or love) a super powered terrier, you're not going to vibe with The Justice Gang or Mister Terriffic.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 02:57 PM (xcxpd) ====== If I had my channel up and running at the time, I would have done another way too drunk thing about it. And it would have made just as much sense as the one I did for Train Dreams. My mother came to visit and she insulted me pretty deeply for that video. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:58 PM (GBKbO) 163
Non woke Battlestar Galactica. Couldn't a planet host thousands of vipers?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:58 PM (eEIbO) 164
Best we can hope for there is benign neglect, Netflix just tossing money at creative directors and leaving them alone. But that is a best case fairy tale.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 02:54 PM (xcxpd) ====== Well, they do do that. Who cares if $120 million will turn a profit when handing it to Guillermo del Toro? Just give him the money, make his Frankenstein, and hope its good enough to buy an Oscar with (that Netflix hasn't won a Best Picture Oscar yet entertains me, but Apple did with freaking CODA). Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:56 PM (GBKbO) That is where my optimism comes from. My pessimism comes from 'Cuties'. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 02:58 PM (xcxpd) 165
I never could figure that one out why he was omitted. It's been awhile since I read the book, so I'm probably all mixed up, but wasn't he the dude that kinda saved the hobbits the first time they ran across the Ring Wraiths? I kind of thought that was somewhat of an important event that wasn't in the movie.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 02:55 PM (snZF9) Barrow Wight, not ring wraiths. Older evil creatures. Tom is there to note that the whole of middle earth is MUCH older than the rings and the ring is not all powerful. Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 02:58 PM (zjgNU) 166
Mel Blanc's son took over some of the character voice work. Did a good Bugs Bunny but nobody can do Porky Pig anymore. Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 02:58 PM (Y8DZL) 167
I'd like to see Ellison win just to see if news and entertainment improves, but I don't see how you do that without crazy, massive purges at every level. Would that happen? Anyone see a difference yet with Bari Weiss's CBS News? Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (flA4V) 168
Right. Spam filter is loose $hit.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (eEIbO) 169
Spaceballs will be dumb and woke with an overture of not being dumb and woke. How are they gonna make making fun of Star Wars funny at this point? There's only one way and no one is going after Disney.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (U6Usv) 170
>>>f you can't tolerate (or love) a super powered terrier,
I was down to see Krypto. With all of the Superman Robots and the kaiju and Lex Luthor chewing the scenery, it was just too cartoony for me. that's why I mentioned Donner. His watchword was "verisimilitude." Gunn didn't bother trying that. He went full 1950s cartoony. Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (1wjle) 171
The opening of Superman tells you what kind of movie this is going to be. If you can't tolerate (or love) a super powered terrier, you're not going to vibe with The Justice Gang or Mister Terriffic.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 02:57 PM (xcxpd) ====== If I had my channel up and running at the time, I would have done another way too drunk thing about it. And it would have made just as much sense as the one I did for Train Dreams. My mother came to visit and she insulted me pretty deeply for that video. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:58 PM (GBKbO) Ouch. Well, she's your mom. She can get away with that. I'm still temped by Train Dreams, Eggars is a real filmmaker. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (xcxpd) 172
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You will. Sorry. Posted by: Jordan61 at December 09, 2025 02:57 PM (DRSnL) But Brooks PROMISED it would be good! Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (Zz0t1) 173
159 >>>The middle third is tonal whiplash.
because of Lex Luthor? >>>The final third makes no sense. Huh? I mean, I don't buy the travel in time thing but it "makes sense." Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:57 PM (1wjle) ====== Because of Luthor's henchmen. It shifts from John Ford-esque Americana to silly comedy, and I kind of hate it. The final third's entire emotional connection is based on a New York City reporter going to the American southwest to investigate a story no one thinks is a story, plus, you know, Superman turning back time *hand wave* Lois is fine now. I'm sorry, but Superman is just...not good. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (GBKbO) 174
I keep running across various info-graphs claiming hard blue states like MA, IL, CT, or NY are the "best places to live" in America.
And people keep pointing out...then why are people moving OUT of those states to the ones rated lower? Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (sKqQm) 175
I have a 75" tv with sound bar and subwoofer in my family room. Going out to the movie theater is not terribly attractive to us. Why, put simply.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (Tbj3s) 176
Donner’s Superman got the tone exactly right, from Krypton, to Smallville, to Metropolis. One might quibble about making Lex Luthor into a Disney villain but it still worked. The biggest problem with making a modern Superman movie is that the people who want to *see* the movie want to see the traditional version brought to life, and the people who want to *make* the movie want to subvert the traditional. For me, Gunn hit more than he missed while Snyder’s take on Superman and Batman was pure shit that would embarrass even a thirteen year old edge lord.
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (gYnrv) 177
And it would have made just as much sense as the one I did for Train Dreams.
My mother came to visit and she insulted me pretty deeply for that video. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:58 PM (GBKbO) ===== Whatever, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Posted by: Jordan61 at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (DRSnL) 178
and yeah I know the Superman Robots were part of the Silver Age superman package
and giant monsters too but... all at once? All in ten minutes? Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 03:00 PM (1wjle) 179
I don't know anything about Ellison.
However, I know Netflix: -made Cuties (this should have them publicly executed, let alone buying companies) -have also made, completely coincidently a lot of woke and race swapped shit. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 03:00 PM (zZu0s) 180
Bugs Bunny. IP expired?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:00 PM (eEIbO) 181
If big screen televisions and streaming were invented 100 years ago, there would be no theaters. They were a compromise; sit in a crowded room with rude people if you want to see a movie.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 02:57 PM (MCtb9) 100 years ago there were consequences to being rude in public. Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 03:00 PM (zjgNU) 182
I still don't understand how anyone could screw up
the Dark Phoenix saga. That's when I lost faith. Posted by: Fen at December 09, 2025 03:00 PM (ciYHQ) 183
Right. Spam filter is loose $hit.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (eEIbO) You'll need to make sure there's no special characters and it's not over the character limit, for one.....two. I've had to replace commas and apostrophes in the past. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:00 PM (Zz0t1) 184
at some point they'll do a remake. Which isn't as cash-grabby as it sounds, because presumably the remake will be more book-accurate, with maybe each of the three LOTR films split into two.
----------------- It will be redone using AI. No actors. Posted by: Pudinhead at December 09, 2025 03:00 PM (Wg6v7) 185
171 Ouch. Well, she's your mom. She can get away with that. I'm still temped by Train Dreams, Eggars is a real filmmaker.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (xcxpd) ====== It was good. I remember it pretty clearly. I still don't know what I was trying to say, though. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:00 PM (GBKbO) 186
I heard they were releasing a upscaled, but deLucas-ed version of star wars in the theaters. I guess they're at the "I'll do whatever dirty thing you want because I need the money" whore phase.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 03:00 PM (3uBP9) 187
Looking forward to Casablanca being remade with full diversity.
Posted by: Cray Cray at December 09, 2025 03:00 PM (mEYGy) 188
I see Disney has extended Kimmel's show for another year..
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 03:01 PM (VE6XX) 189
>>>186 I heard they were releasing a upscaled, but deLucas-ed version of star wars in the theaters. I guess they're at the "I'll do whatever dirty thing you want because I need the money" whore phase.
i heard that but I think it's an unconfirmed rumor Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 03:01 PM (1wjle) 190
I post very short stuff. Nothing weird. Must be indian programners.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:01 PM (eEIbO) 191
188 I see Disney has extended Kimmel's show for another year..
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 03:01 PM (VE6XX) === Gotta keep Pedro Pascal happy. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:02 PM (GBKbO) 192
>>>188 I see Disney has extended Kimmel's show for another year..
oh right I have to post about that. what crap. Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 03:02 PM (1wjle) 193
I see Disney has extended Kimmel's show for another year..
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 03:01 PM (VE6XX) Good. They'll keep losing millions for it. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:02 PM (Zz0t1) 194
170 >>>If you can't tolerate (or love) a super powered terrier,
I was down to see Krypto. With all of the Superman Robots and the kaiju and Lex Luthor chewing the scenery, it was just too cartoony for me. that's why I mentioned Donner. His watchword was "verisimilitude." Gunn didn't bother trying that. He went full 1950s cartoony. Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (1wjle) And I was ok with that. More so than when Donner had Superman rewind time by...flying around the Earth to reverse it's rotation...that was more jarring because up until then, things were 'super hero grounded'. I actually like Nick Hoult's version of Lex quite a bit. He treats people better than previous Lex incarnations (mostly....he can be a dick). Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:02 PM (xcxpd) 195
188 I see Disney has extended Kimmel's show for another year..
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 03:01 PM (VE6XX) Well, donna, they are dumbasses, and a diversity nonprofit. Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:02 PM (Tbj3s) 196
189 >>>186 I heard they were releasing a upscaled, but deLucas-ed version of star wars in the theaters. I guess they're at the "I'll do whatever dirty thing you want because I need the money" whore phase.
i heard that but I think it's an unconfirmed rumor Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 03:01 PM (1wjle) ===== I would hope there's no upscaling. Just negative scanning at 8K, output to 4K should do it. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:02 PM (GBKbO) 197
191 188 I see Disney has extended Kimmel's show for another year..
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 03:01 PM (VE6XX) === Gotta keep Pedro Pascal happy. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:02 PM (GBKbO) Isn't that what the Sri Lankan houseboys are for? Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:02 PM (xcxpd) 198
@153
>>The middle third is tonal whiplash. The final third makes no sense. The first third is great. The film is 100 pct coherent within it's own narrative structure and within the confines of a 1950's comic book come to life. It's also the best superhero film, or second best, I'm torn between that and TDK. I also saw KB: TWBA this weekend. Kill Bill is my favorite Tarantino film, but there is something off-putting about directors chicken f**king their creations. Sometimes two halves are better than a whole. Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 03:03 PM (XV/Pl) 199
They need to throw the I P miners to the wolves.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:03 PM (eEIbO) 200
197
Gotta keep Pedro Pascal happy. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:02 PM (GBKbO) Isn't that what the Sri Lankan houseboys are for? Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:02 PM (xcxpd) ===== So...you're saying that Pedro Pascal is Arthur C. Clarke? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:03 PM (GBKbO) 201
First twitter.
Next Warner Bros. Posted by: Counter reformation at December 09, 2025 03:04 PM (/wYAD) 202
Netflix will destroy the movie theaters. It is in their interest to destroy the movie theaters.
We need to get rid of the law than banned distributers and movie production houses form owning movie theaters. And most content producers need to ditch their on-line businesses. Get back to a system where Netflix PAYS YOU to show your content. Where customers PAY YOU to watch content. Studios can never compete with Netflix and Amazon. It just isn't possible. Make content, own content, rent content. Hopefully rent the same content over and over to a variety of on-line platforms and consumers. Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 03:04 PM (C3IAS) 203
Barrow Wight, not ring wraiths.
Older evil creatures. Tom is there to note that the whole of middle earth is MUCH older than the rings and the ring is not all powerful. Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 02:58 PM (zjgNU) Ah ok. I think I'm starting to remember. Didn't they end up with some cool swords after that? Barrow blades maybe? I seem to remembering that. I just remember when I saw the movie I was shocked that the whole thing wasn't shown. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 03:04 PM (snZF9) 204
202 We need to get rid of the law than banned distributers and movie production houses form owning movie theaters. And most content producers need to ditch their on-line businesses. Get back to a system where Netflix PAYS YOU to show your content. Where customers PAY YOU to watch content. Studios can never compete with Netflix and Amazon. It just isn't possible. Make content, own content, rent content. Hopefully rent the same content over and over to a variety of on-line platforms and consumers.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 03:04 PM (C3IAS) ====== 1. There was no law. It was a DOJ Decree. It was the Paramount Accords. 2. The DOJ struck them out under Trump's first term. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:05 PM (GBKbO) 205
It just isn't possible. Make content, own content, rent content. Hopefully rent the same content over and over to a variety of on-line platforms and consumers.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 03:04 PM (C3IAS) Make Blockbuster Great Again. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:05 PM (Zz0t1) 206
As long as the free Netfli stay online.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:05 PM (eEIbO) 207
Best we can hope for there is benign neglect, Netflix just tossing money at creative directors and leaving them alone. But that is a best case fairy tale.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 02:54 PM (xcxpd) Netflix keeps going WAY out of its way to make everything gay and tranny. Take their recent release "Wayward" which could have been an interesting mix of Shiny Happy People meets Disturbing Behavior. BUT the lead just HAD to be a post-op women with her tits chopped off trying to be a man, married to a pregnant lesbian woman, and playing this off like it's a totally routine everyday thing. What the actual fuck? Posted by: Don't show me that shit like it's normal at December 09, 2025 03:05 PM (TbWk/) 208
Netflix put out an email to subscribers this weekend talking about how excited they were to work on WB franchises, including Casablanca. People were having fun with that on X since it's *not* a franchise.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 03:06 PM (2ocoG) 209
@200TJM , odd that What was Arthur C Clarke doing in Sri Lanka never got any interest
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 03:06 PM (D+mpw) 210
The Superman of the day in the 70s routinely traveled in time, including the comics Donner read as a kid, so having a time travel deus ex machina was not as out of left field as it might seem now. The real problem with the time travel ending is that it was originally planned as the grand ending for the second movie and was moved up to the first movie because they didn’t have a strong ending and the Salkinds were in the process of firing Donner.
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 03:06 PM (gYnrv) 211
The Thai-Cambodian conflict continues to heat up with at least 20 total deaths today alone, with thousands queuing for aid at sites like Chroy Neang Ngourn Pagoda (Cambodia) and racetracks (Thailand). No toxic gas or chemical attacks verified, despite unconfirmed Cambodian claims
Posted by: pawn at December 09, 2025 03:06 PM (EMg+d) 212
I see Disney has extended Kimmel's show for another year..
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 03:01 PM (VE6XX) ===== One of my coworkers the other day told me she can see the resemblance and I wanted to sock her. Posted by: Jordan61 at December 09, 2025 03:06 PM (DRSnL) 213
i heard that but I think it's an unconfirmed rumor
Posted by: ace Doubt it. Lucas 'burned' as many prints as he could, and I have a deep suspicion one of the points of the Diz-knee contract was that it could never be released in any format. Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 03:06 PM (mlg/3) 214
186 I heard they were releasing a upscaled, but deLucas-ed version of star wars in the theaters. I guess they're at the "I'll do whatever dirty thing you want because I need the money" whore phase.
Posted by: banana Dream Gotta pay for money losing Kimmel's show and salary for another year. Disney is going the be last at dumping devalued cable/broadcast because Iger is incapable of cutting off limbs of the conglomerate he made. So it is simply treading water. Disney should dump Iger and get someone in to up shareholder value (dumping toxic assets and putting a muzzle on Kathleen and her assorted alphabet crew. But those same alphabet crew are embedded into Disney at a low level to the extent a newcomer trying to change corporate culture and divest dying assets is a longshot. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 03:06 PM (WDjG6) 215
Ah ok. I think I'm starting to remember. Didn't they end up with some cool swords after that? Barrow blades maybe? I seem to remembering that. I just remember when I saw the movie I was shocked that the whole thing wasn't shown.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 03:04 PM (snZF9) Yep. Ancient swords made by the people of Numenor. (Frodo lost his in the battle on Weathertop.) It's part of why Merry's sword was able to harm the Witch King of Angmar. Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 03:06 PM (zjgNU) 216
Theaters are unpleasant on a couple of levels. Price, and the people one encounters there.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:07 PM (Tbj3s) 217
216 Theaters are unpleasant on a couple of levels. Price, and the people one encounters there.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:07 PM (Tbj3s) And the movies suck Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 03:07 PM (VE6XX) 218
216 Theaters are unpleasant on a couple of levels. Price, and the people one encounters there.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:07 PM (Tbj3s) ====== I went to the theaters a couple of weeks ago. Had a good time. Except the movie. Wicked for Good. It was bad. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:07 PM (GBKbO) 219
212 I see Disney has extended Kimmel's show for another year..
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 03:01 PM (VE6XX) ===== One of my coworkers the other day told me she can see the resemblance and I wanted to sock her. Posted by: Jordan61 at December 09, 2025 03:06 PM (DRSnL) You look like Jimmy Kimmel? Posted by: Seems...unlikely at December 09, 2025 03:07 PM (TbWk/) 220
Disney is saying they renewed Kimmel for another year because they didn't want to coincide with Colbert being tossed in the same month.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:08 PM (Zz0t1) 221
BUT the lead just HAD to be a post-op women with her tits chopped off trying to be a man, married to a pregnant lesbian woman, and playing this off like it's a totally routine everyday thing. What the actual fuck?
That's when you need a hotkey for the "Gaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy!" meme. Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 03:08 PM (2ocoG) 222
You look like Jimmy Kimmel? Posted by: Seems...unlikely at December 09, 2025 03:07 PM (TbWk/) Not by ANY stretch. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:08 PM (Zz0t1) 223
The failure of the Han Solo movie seemed to get Disney's attention.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:08 PM (eEIbO) 224
220 Disney is saying they renewed Kimmel for another year because they didn't want to coincide with Colbert being tossed in the same month.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:08 PM (Zz0t1) LOL Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 03:08 PM (VE6XX) 225
The best way to see Kill Bill is to buy a ticket and then eat your .45 so that you can go out knowing you at least dodged one bullet.
Posted by: Uma's Feet Are Nightmarish at December 09, 2025 03:08 PM (C24tU) 226
216 Theaters are unpleasant on a couple of levels. Price, and the people one encounters there.
-------------- Sticky floors, too. Posted by: Pudinhead at December 09, 2025 03:08 PM (Wg6v7) 227
IIRC there is at least one intact print of the first theatrical release of the 1977 movie Star Wars. It lacks the Episode IV and New Hope additions. And it is in Britain.
So, if one print exists, others probably do. Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:09 PM (2GVsD) 228
Anyway, I can't really argue with anyone who bounced off Superman 2025. I can see how it would turn people off. For me, it set my expectations and then SLIGHTLY exceeded them. The movie has flaws but it also has Metamorpho and Mister Terrific...and Supergirl being a hot Thott and Krypto being a very good dog (when he's not being a butt).
More good than bad for me. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:09 PM (xcxpd) 229
Theaters are unpleasant on a couple of levels. Price, and the people one encounters there.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:07 PM (Tbj3s) Theaters get zero money from ticket sales, therefore, the only way for them to stay afloat is to overcharge for everything else. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:09 PM (Zz0t1) 230
Train Dreams was good.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 03:09 PM (emBoF) 231
What Disney failed to tell Kimmel is that he has to start wearing a Sleepy the Dwarf costume when he does his monologue.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 03:09 PM (SzhuW) 232
odd that What was Arthur C Clarke doing in Sri Lanka never got any interest
I remember reading the testimony of someone that had been a British boy living next to Clarke's estate in Sri Lanka. His father had banned Clarke from their property but one day while the father was out the boy was left with another relative. An uncle maybe? Clarke came over and charmed the uncle then got him drunk and proceeded to convince the boy to let Clarke paint him. Naked of course. And then, fortunately, the father returned home early and put a stop to the whole thing So Clarke's pedophilia was known about the British overseas community certainly... Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 03:10 PM (sKqQm) 233
229 Theaters get zero money from ticket sales, therefore, the only way for them to stay afloat is to overcharge for everything else.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:09 PM (Zz0t1) ======= They get roughly 40% of ticket sales over the life of a movie. Early weeks are more advantageous for the studios. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:10 PM (GBKbO) 234
I thought yheatres got something like half boxoffice?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:10 PM (eEIbO) 235
They get roughly 40% of ticket sales over the life of a movie. Early weeks are more advantageous for the studios. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:10 PM (GBKbO) Damn internet lied to me AGAIN!!!!! Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:10 PM (Zz0t1) 236
211 The Thai-Cambodian conflict continues to heat up with at least 20 total deaths today alone, with thousands queuing for aid at sites like Chroy Neang Ngourn Pagoda (Cambodia) and racetracks (Thailand). No toxic gas or chemical attacks verified, despite unconfirmed Cambodian claims
Posted by: pawn at December 09, 2025 03:06 PM (EMg+d) Jah, Pax Americaus (if it ever existed) is long gone. We're going back to the old ways, which is frequent border conflicts. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:10 PM (xcxpd) 237
Superman 2025 was good, not great, it was essentially Smallville without Michael Rosenbaum or Tom Schneider.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 03:11 PM (XV/Pl) 238
You look like Jimmy Kimmel?
Posted by: Seems...unlikely at December 09, 2025 03:07 PM (TbWk/) ===== I don't think so. I don't resemble anyone on that side of the family. I take after my dad's side. Posted by: Jordan61 at December 09, 2025 03:11 PM (DRSnL) Posted by: thug dolphin at December 09, 2025 03:11 PM (EyfuW) 240
Theaters are unpleasant on a couple of levels. Price, and the people one encounters there.
-------------- Sticky floors, too. Posted by: Pudinhead That's the adult theaters. Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 03:11 PM (bvUs5) 241
Who doesn't want
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 03:11 PM (H4k+z) 242
Whose side we on here?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 09, 2025 03:11 PM (gDlxJ) 243
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They get roughly 40% of ticket sales over the life of a movie. Early weeks are more advantageous for the studios. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:10 PM (GBKbO) Damn internet lied to me AGAIN!!!!! Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:10 PM (Zz0t1) ======= Contracts are written per movie, so it depends, but the most advantageous I've heard is Star Wars Episode I getting 90% of first week sales. I imagine Marvel was getting something like that through 2020 or so. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:11 PM (GBKbO) 244
>>>Ah ok. I think I'm starting to remember. Didn't they end up with some cool swords after that? Barrow blades maybe? I seem to remembering that. I just remember when I saw the movie I was shocked that the whole thing wasn't shown.
yes. that's the sequence I'm most bothered to see cut. They had to cut it because Tom Bombadil saves them, and they didn't want Tom Bombadil. It causes some plot problems because Merry uses the blade he got from that tomb to stab the Witch King. In the movie, they have Galadriel present Merry and Pippin with (presumably blessed) blades that wind up being used. Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 03:11 PM (1wjle) 245
240 Theaters are unpleasant on a couple of levels. Price, and the people one encounters there.
-------------- Sticky floors, too. Posted by: Pudinhead That's the adult theaters. ----------- Its both. Soft drinks and cream. Posted by: Pudinhead at December 09, 2025 03:12 PM (Wg6v7) 246
So the percentage changes week to week. Overseas the theatres got a better deal.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:12 PM (eEIbO) 247
Well, if the theaters are getting 40% and STILL charge $12 for a soda, they can GFY.
I'm justified in never going to the theater, the bastards. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:12 PM (Zz0t1) 248
Netflix keeps going WAY out of its way to make everything gay and tranny. Take their recent release "Wayward" which could have been an interesting mix of Shiny Happy People meets Disturbing Behavior. BUT the lead just HAD to be a post-op women with her tits chopped off trying to be a man, married to a pregnant lesbian woman, and playing this off like it's a totally routine everyday thing. What the actual fuck?
Posted by: Don't show me that shit like it's normal at December 09, 2025 03:05 PM (TbWk/) You have reminded me why I cancelled Netflix. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:12 PM (xcxpd) 249
238 You look like Jimmy Kimmel?
Posted by: Seems...unlikely at December 09, 2025 03:07 PM (TbWk/) ===== I don't think so. I don't resemble anyone on that side of the family. I take after my dad's side. Posted by: Jordan61 at December 09, 2025 03:11 PM (DRSnL) Pipe down, Jimmy! Posted by: I Don't Understand What's Happening at December 09, 2025 03:12 PM (xnXsP) 250
"keep running across various info-graphs claiming hard blue states like MA, IL, CT, or NY are the "best places to live" in America."
The Left crafts alternate realities by assertion. Think of it as maintenance. They know blue states suck, hence the extra effort they spend fluffing them up. All those fake stats are for them not you. It's like a spell. To convince themselves m Posted by: Fen at December 09, 2025 03:12 PM (ciYHQ) 251
The Library of Congress has a 1977 theatrical print.
Maybe Trump can be enlisted to help de-shitify Star Wars. Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 03:12 PM (XV/Pl) 252
Movie theater popcorn IS good though.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:12 PM (Tbj3s) 253
I would rather WB remain an independent entity, but short of that I would much rather Paramount get it than Netflix.
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 03:13 PM (gYnrv) 254
I don't begin to understand this,Ace. My tiny brain is selective in absorbing information. I failed 9th grade algebra to go on to an A in college trig, for example. If I don't like it I mostly ignore it, in my career as well (I disliked ortho and psych nursing, but aced the tests to be done with the subjects).
We don't go to theaters for movies and do have Netflix and (briefly) others for streaming. The one exemtion may be Mel Gibson's new movies, but we'll probably wait for those as well. We did see the Passion of Christ in the theater. That said, it seems since the second or 100th writer's strike in Hollyweird there has been a void in good movies. It is very rare to see one for us. Is it this generation of writers? Drug addled brains? Always with the need for racism and ghey insertions? Stars spewing politics and gheyness? No imaginaition due to all of these questions? Interesting twist that they are involving Trump in the negotiations. Reeks of desperation. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 09, 2025 03:13 PM (WONhk) 255
242 Whose side we on here?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 09, 2025 03:11 PM (gDlxJ) I am not altogether on anybody's side, as nobody is altogether on my side. Posted by: Not treebeard, just quoting him at December 09, 2025 03:13 PM (TbWk/) 256
Is it within Trump's purview to approve the deal? I thought that was the role of the FTC.
Posted by: Halfhand at December 09, 2025 03:13 PM (F061L) 257
255 I am not altogether on anybody's side, as nobody is altogether on my side.
Posted by: Not treebeard, just quoting him at December 09, 2025 03:13 PM (TbWk/) ==== You sound just like CS Lewis. Weird. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (GBKbO) 258
Looking forward to Casablanca being remade with full diversity.
Posted by: Cray Cray Put me down for "Sam is now both black *and* gay and has an on-camera fling with the Russian bartender who kisses Rick after he lets that refugee win at roulette" for $100 Posted by: Chuck C at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (D0HYP) 259
Netflix is probably salivating at rebooting The Animaniacs as a live action furry pron starring Minerva Mink.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (2GVsD) 260
i just saw a movie at an alamo drafthouse. The movie was terrible -- Wake Up Dead Man, the knives out sequel, don't pay money to see it -- but man, did I enjoy the theater itself.
they show a lot of older movies like the LOTR movies. I'm going to have to get back there! Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (1wjle) 261
Theaters get zero money from ticket sales, therefore, the only way for them to stay afloat is to overcharge for everything else.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:09 PM (Zz0t1) ===================== Is that so? Then things have changed, as it used to generally be a 50-50 split between the theater company and the studio/distribution company. Disney did it differently, where on their big releases the theatre got the first 15%, then had to give up 85% of the take thereafter. Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (SzhuW) 262
Opening weeks can be as much as 70 to 90 % for the movie company. Theatres losing @ss.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (eEIbO) 263
I am not altogether on anybody's side, as nobody is altogether on my side.
Posted by: Not treebeard, just quoting him at December 09, 2025 03:13 PM (TbWk/) You're always first when no one is on your side. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (Zz0t1) 264
257 255 I am not altogether on anybody's side, as nobody is altogether on my side.
Posted by: Not treebeard, just quoting him at December 09, 2025 03:13 PM (TbWk/) ==== You sound just like CS Lewis. Weird. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (GBKbO) It's the Longbottom Leaf Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (xcxpd) 265
Anyway, I can't really argue with anyone who bounced off Superman 2025. I can see how it would turn people off. For me, it set my expectations and then SLIGHTLY exceeded them. The movie has flaws but it also has Metamorpho and Mister Terrific...and Supergirl being a hot Thott and Krypto being a very good dog (when he's not being a butt).
More good than bad for me. ------ I thoroughly enjoyed it. Lots of eye-candy chicks in that one that never really entered the plot, which was...ok I guess, it just left me wondering why they were there. Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (TN0g+) 266
I watch a lot of Rifftrax which is kind of an antimovie.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 03:15 PM (3uBP9) 267
Lol. So they hand Kimmel millions of dollars even though he is a rating loss?
Ok. Sounds about right. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 03:15 PM (zZu0s) 268
260 i just saw a movie at an alamo drafthouse. The movie was terrible -- Wake Up Dead Man, the knives out sequel, don't pay money to see it -- but man, did I enjoy the theater itself.
they show a lot of older movies like the LOTR movies. I'm going to have to get back there! Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (1wjle) ====== My mom (Catholic writer) went and saw it in Atlanta on the way here late last week. She liked how the younger priest had a moment where he had to refocus on faith (I haven't seen it), though she hated the first 30 minutes. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:15 PM (GBKbO) 269
211 The Thai-Cambodian conflict continues to heat up with at least 20 total deaths today alone, with thousands queuing for aid at sites like Chroy Neang Ngourn Pagoda (Cambodia) and racetracks (Thailand). No toxic gas or chemical attacks verified, despite unconfirmed Cambodian claims
Posted by: pawn at December 09, 2025 03:06 PM (EMg+d) well the 5 banana trees they're fighting over are really, really GOOD banana trees! Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 03:15 PM (uWKK8) 270
200TJM , odd that What was Arthur C Clarke doing in Sri Lanka never got any interest
Posted by: Smell the Glove ====== If you want to read a horrific true story of scifi community and its casual ignoring of pedos among them in the 50s to 70s, read Moira Greyland's account. She is the daughter of author Marion Zimmer Bradley and has published a book titled The Last Closet: The Dark Side of Avalon. Too many of the Golden Age of sci fi/fantasy types thought society was too uptight about morals, sexuality was natural (aided by what we know now as faked Margaret Meade studies and the criminal class subjects used in the Kinsey Report), etc. So they did not protect the kids from predators among them and sexual harassment and worse were frequent at early cons. E.g. from the Forry Ackerman collection of letters, etc, this note: "In recent years, public allegations made online have described Ackerman's behavior toward women as predatory and at least one online account describes Ackerman engaging in an act of sexual assault. . . . several pieces of correspondence do allude to Ackerman sending sexually explicit communications to women.[that were unsolicited and non consensual]. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 03:15 PM (WDjG6) 271
264 It's the Longbottom Leaf
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (xcxpd) ====== "Great name for the secret hero of the whole saga..." -JK Rowling Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:15 PM (GBKbO) 272
259 Netflix is probably salivating at rebooting The Animaniacs as a live action furry pron starring Minerva Mink.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (2GVsD) I kinda hate that I get that reference. WB was already Patient Zero for the furry community. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:16 PM (xcxpd) 273
Am I too late for the first “I haven’t seen a movie since 1981” comment?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 03:16 PM (9iyS+) Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:16 PM (Zz0t1) 275
I thoroughly enjoyed Superman, but I am a fan of his Silver Age comics and the movie was squarely in that wheelhouse.
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 03:16 PM (gYnrv) 276
On top of that 1) find an up-and-coming actor. 2) Pay them a reasonable salary, for say 10 years. $500k per year. They need to agree to star in at least 3 projects per year. 4) Put them in a bunch of stuff. Design vehicles around them. 5) Give them a tiny piece of the gross. say your movie pulls in $100 million, they get a $100k bonus. 6) do the same for writers and directors. You hire talented people to long term contracts and expect them to produce.
Get out of this bullshit system where an actor makes $20 million a movie. No living actor today is worth that. Make writers write, and directors direct, and actors act. Back in the day, Dalton Trumbo. F Scott Fitzgerald. Raymond Chandler. John Irving. William Faulkner. Dashiell Hammet. All wrote for Hollywood. Some pretty amazing authors have worked on polishing Hollywood scripts over the years. The other thing is - produce movies for less money. Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 03:16 PM (C3IAS) 277
"Jah, Pax Americaus (if it ever existed) is long gone. We're going back to the old ways, which is frequent border conflicts."
Yeah, the fact that drones can project power has every cheap ass military commander wanting to see what he can do to settle old scores. Posted by: pawn at December 09, 2025 03:16 PM (EMg+d) 278
I did watch Die Hard and Die Hard II back to back with the First Daughter this weekend, so there's that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:16 PM (Zz0t1) 279
Put me down for "Sam is now both black *and* gay and has an on-camera fling with the Russian bartender who kisses Rick after he lets that refugee win at roulette" for $100
Posted by: Chuck C at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (D0HYP) I am shocked, SHOCKED, to find ghey buttsex going on at this bathhouse! Posted by: Louis, this is the beginning of a case of monkeypox at December 09, 2025 03:17 PM (TbWk/) 280
>>>She liked how the younger priest had a moment where he had to refocus on faith (I haven't seen it)
it's the most anti-Christian and anti-Trump/GOP movie I've ever seen. and the plot is one part Monk and one part Remington Steele. It's on the level of a TV mystery plot, I mean. Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 03:17 PM (1wjle) 281
Warner...Skydance...Netflix's...Paramount...
I just don't care. I doubt I'll ever set foot in a movie theater again. Yawns. Nap time. Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 03:17 PM (2WIwB) 282
There will always be room for theatrical distribution, but it's just going to be increasingly focused on spectacle.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:42 PM (GBKbO) ---- Chariot races and bear baiting in the lobby! There's still a place for movies that are communal experiences, like big epics, musicals, and video game flicks (the Minecraft Movie and Five Nights franchise packed 'em in). The current thing of giving older and niche movies a short run is a good development. Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 09, 2025 03:17 PM (kpS4V) 283
276 The other thing is - produce movies for less money.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 03:16 PM (C3IAS) ====== Can't just go outside and film a scene anymore. Gotta get the exact right color space, composition, and background elements. Instead of filming outside for $10,000, we'll film in a constructed studio space for $1 million. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:17 PM (GBKbO) 284
267 Lol. So they hand Kimmel millions of dollars even though he is a rating loss?
Ok. Sounds about right. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 03:15 PM (zZu0s) hey it's worth it to have the shareholders lose millions just so their friends won't say Mean Things. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 03:17 PM (uWKK8) 285
242 Whose side we on here?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 09, 2025 03:11 PM (gDlxJ) ================= Sydney Sweeney? Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 03:18 PM (SzhuW) 286
Lol. So they hand Kimmel millions of dollars even though he is a rating loss?
Ok. Sounds about right. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 03:15 PM (zZu0s) Those 6 people protesting outside the studios when he was suspended were VERY convincing. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:18 PM (Zz0t1) 287
>>>I thoroughly enjoyed Superman, but I am a fan of his Silver Age comics and the movie was squarely in that wheelhouse.
i thought i could hack a Silver Age type movie but it turns out I can't. at some point I guess I'll finish watching it. then again, I never finished No Time To Die. I'm getting crabbier as I move past age 29. Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 03:18 PM (1wjle) 288
Amazon Prime KILLED Lord of the Rings for the foreseeable future.
== Woke AI generated shlock has negative appeal. I have negative interest in prime projects relating to LotR. Posted by: Regular American at December 09, 2025 03:18 PM (/wYAD) 289
Sydney Sweeney has great sides.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:18 PM (eEIbO) 290
280 >>>She liked how the younger priest had a moment where he had to refocus on faith (I haven't seen it)
it's the most anti-Christian and anti-Trump/GOP movie I've ever seen. and the plot is one part Monk and one part Remington Steele. It's on the level of a TV mystery plot, I mean. Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 03:17 PM (1wjle) ======= I just bring it up because she had a moderately positive outlook on the film that seemed divorced from the early part which, according to her, seemed to be the concentration of antagonism towards things like religion. I'll probably watch it on Friday. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:18 PM (GBKbO) 291
265 Anyway, I can't really argue with anyone who bounced off Superman 2025. I can see how it would turn people off. For me, it set my expectations and then SLIGHTLY exceeded them. The movie has flaws but it also has Metamorpho and Mister Terrific...and Supergirl being a hot Thott and Krypto being a very good dog (when he's not being a butt).
More good than bad for me. ------ I thoroughly enjoyed it. Lots of eye-candy chicks in that one that never really entered the plot, which was...ok I guess, it just left me wondering why they were there. Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (TN0g+) Yeah, and it wasn't woke or feminist and I actually didn't hate Lois Lane for once. James Gunn does like attractive females, unlike most of his peers. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (xcxpd) 292
I'm getting crabbier as I move past age 29.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 03:18 PM (1wjle) *fistbump* Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (Zz0t1) 293
I kinda hate that I get that reference.
WB was already Patient Zero for the furry community. try going to an anime con and seeing someone cosplaying Minerva and thinking, 'there's probably a guy in there.' Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (2GVsD) 294
Will we forever be trapped by the comic book mentality? Fantasy, I get. A hundred comics? You're not trying!
CGI and AI, motherfuckers! Learn to code. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (1zOXE) 295
Going to the movies with my Mom was an integral part of my childhood, and I love what the communal theater experience can be even though it is greatly diminished today. Netflix will only accelerate its eventual demise.
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (gYnrv) 296
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James Gunn does like attractive females, unlike most of his peers. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (xcxpd) ====== Rachel Brosnahan is...weird lookin'. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (GBKbO) Posted by: Non Compos Mentis at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (4PEtT) 298
289 Sydney Sweeney has great sides.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:18 PM (eEIbO) Her face is meeting the wall before the rest of her, but that body is woah. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:20 PM (xcxpd) 299
try going to an anime con and seeing someone cosplaying Minerva and thinking, 'there's probably a guy in there.'
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (2GVsD) *bulge detector goes off* Posted by: uWu yuuuuuuuck at December 09, 2025 03:20 PM (TbWk/) 300
Sydney Sweeney has great sides.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:18 PM (eEIbO) Judges would've accepted 'tits' as well. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:20 PM (Zz0t1) 301
Rachel Brosnahan is...weird lookin'.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (GBKbO) She's had work done, sadly. Or HGH. But she's more good than bad also. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:21 PM (xcxpd) 302
300 Sydney Sweeney has great sides.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:18 PM (eEIbO) Judges would've accepted 'tits' as well. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:20 PM (Zz0t1) ======= She enjoys collecting birds? Does she also some boobies? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:21 PM (GBKbO) 303
Remington Steele episode. The one that aged the Hitchcock movie. Where Stephanie Zimblest was running around a winery in her lingerie.
I liked it as a lad. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 03:21 PM (zZu0s) 304
try going to an anime con and seeing someone cosplaying Minerva and thinking, 'there's probably a guy in there.' Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (2GVsD) I rather pride myself in not knowing what any of this means. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:21 PM (Zz0t1) 305
248 Netflix keeps going WAY out of its way to make everything gay and tranny. Take their recent release "Wayward" which could have been an interesting mix of Shiny Happy People meets Disturbing Behavior. BUT the lead just HAD to be a post-op women with her tits chopped off trying to be a man, married to a pregnant lesbian woman, and playing this off like it's a totally routine everyday thing. What the actual fuck? Posted by: Don't show me that shit like it's normal at December 09, 2025 03:05 PM (TbWk/)
My wife and I laughed because the protagonist was so horribly miscast. A trans person, who looks like they are 15, playing a cop that is too mentally unstable and violent. It was like watching Howdy Doody: Serial Killer. Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 03:22 PM (C3IAS) 306
She enjoys collecting birds? Does she also some boobies? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:21 PM (GBKbO) Tits. Boobs. Whatever. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:22 PM (Zz0t1) 307
276 On top of that 1) find an up-and-coming actor. 2) Pay them a reasonable salary, for say 10 years. $500k per year. They need to agree to star in at least 3 projects per year. 4) Put them in a bunch of stuff. Design vehicles around them. 5) Give them a tiny piece of the gross. say your movie pulls in $100 million, they get a $100k bonus. 6) do the same for writers and directors. You hire talented people to long term contracts and expect them to produce.
Get out of this bullshit system where an actor makes $20 million a movie. No living actor today is worth that. Make writers write, and directors direct, and actors act. Back in the day, Dalton Trumbo. F Scott Fitzgerald. Raymond Chandler. John Irving. William Faulkner. Dashiell Hammet. All wrote for Hollywood. Some pretty amazing authors have worked on polishing Hollywood scripts over the years. The other thing is - produce movies for less money. Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 03:16 PM (C3IAS) Blame CAA and the rise of the superagent. The studio system worked for years and years until it just didn't. CAA was able to convince the help that they had more power than they realized, and used it. Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 03:22 PM (0CU3H) 308
Too many of the Golden Age of sci fi/fantasy types thought society was too uptight about morals, sexuality was natural (aided by what we know now as faked Margaret Meade studies and the criminal class subjects used in the Kinsey Report), etc.
There were a bunch of #metoo accusations against classic SF authors that didn't get full media attention because they died before the ball got rolling. Asimov for example, was supposedly handsy and tried to get female fans alone with him and so on. And its almost comical because this kind of metoo stuff were things that people knew about before 3rd generation feminism - "be careful about being alone with a man you don't know" but then 3rd generation feminism was shocked...shocked...! That powerful men might try to use their power to get sexual attention from women. They were so shocked of course they all universally defended Bill Clinton but here I'm digressing. Obviously this isn't in the same ballpark a the Bradley/Clarke stuff... Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 03:22 PM (sKqQm) 309
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She enjoys collecting birds? Does she also some boobies? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:21 PM (GBKbO) Tits. Boobs. Whatever. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:22 PM (Zz0t1) Just as we planned. Posted by: Big Penguin at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (TbWk/) 310
I rather pride myself in not knowing what any of this means.
Oh you poor innocent childe. Ya gotta make sanity rolls like the rest of us. Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (2GVsD) 311
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (2GVsD)
Oh, Anna. I checked my concordance. It is the 'Special Book Club Edition' from 1976. First edition. I'd never sell it until I was past selling plasma. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (zZu0s) 312
228 Anyway, I can't really argue with anyone who bounced off Superman 2025. I can see how it would turn people off. For me, it set my expectations and then SLIGHTLY exceeded them. The movie has flaws but it also has Metamorpho and Mister Terrific...and Supergirl being a hot Thott and Krypto being a very good dog (when he's not being a butt).
More good than bad for me. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:09 PM (xcxpd) How many times did you watch it? Seems like a lot of people that liked it in theater soured on it when watching it a second time at home. Posted by: buzzion at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (3tZV2) 313
@296
>>Rachel Brosnahan is...weird lookin'. She was obviously chosen for her Margot Kidder aesthetic. She's also not bad looking, she's also not a babe like Miss Tesmachar, but she's not supposed to be. Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (XV/Pl) 314
@270 whig, read a bit about Marion Zimmer Bradley and her husband when that book came out. Wouldn't be surprised if it's more prevalent.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (D+mpw) 315
I am pretty sure Superhero movies are a dying genre. It had high heights and really low depths. It may survive to be niche, like Westerns, I hope it does. I do like Superheroes. But the Marvel Event movies are dead and gone and Marvel themselves killed them.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (xcxpd) 316
I believe the style guide requires “silver orbs of pleasure” when referring to Sydney Sweeney.
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (gYnrv) 317
307 Blame CAA and the rise of the superagent. The studio system worked for years and years until it just didn't. CAA was able to convince the help that they had more power than they realized, and used it.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 03:22 PM (0CU3H) ===== Marvel did it with all of its talent except Downey Jr. Chris Hemsworth was making $100,000 per movie (9 movies total) under his original contract. And then he'd go off and make $10 million for starring in Rush (which never justified his paycheck and proved that he wasn't actually a movie star). Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (GBKbO) 318
I am shocked, SHOCKED, to find ghey buttsex going on at this bathhouse!
Said as Obama walks past, I'm sure. Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (2ocoG) 319
They are on the wrong side of history.
We are on the American side. They are on the wrong side of the law. They are on the wrong side of the bed. They operated on the wrong side of the patient. They are on the wrong side of hell. Hope nobody goes to hell. Posted by: thug dolphin at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (EyfuW) 320
301 Rachel Brosnahan is...weird lookin'.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (GBKbO) She's had work done, sadly. Or HGH. But she's more good than bad also. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:21 PM (xcxpd) fun fact: Rachel Brosnahan's aunt was...Kate Spade. Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (0CU3H) 321
Rachel Brosnahan is...weird lookin'.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison She looked just fine in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 03:24 PM (bvUs5) 322
Ellison didn't say that to Trump. The accusation smacks of lurid, stupid Leftist stagecraft. Just like they reported that Hegseth pulled a Colonel Kilgore and screamed "kill" the narco-terrorists.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2025 03:24 PM (WHfpM) 323
We are probably about 10-15 years from AI slop being of equivalent or better quality to 80-90 % of modern hollywood blockbusters. Their whole business model is based on shoveling out the type of derivative horse shit that AI excels at. This isn't saying AI is great. It's that hollywood is so bad.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 03:24 PM (3uBP9) 324
So Clarke's pedophilia was known about the British overseas community certainly...
Posted by: 18-1 ------- The News of the World spiked an exclusive story exposing the science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke as a paedophile, according to a new book about life inside the newspaper whose closure was announced a year ago today. In Hack, an account of his nerve-shredding days as a reporter on the News of the World and then the Sunday Mirror, Graham Johnson claims that although the NOTW prided itself on outing pederasts, editors made an exception for Mr Clarke because he was a friend of Rupert Murdoch.. . . Tipped off about the story, the Sunday Mirror sent Mr Johnson to Colombo, where he extracted an confession from the author that he paid boys for sex. "I have never had the slightest the slightest interest in children – boys or girls. They should be treated in the same way. But once they have reached the age of puberty, then it is OK," Mr Clarke was quoted as saying in the Sunday Mirror. "If the kids enjoy it and don't mind it doesn't do any harm … there is a hysteria about the whole thing in the West." Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 03:24 PM (WDjG6) 325
How many times did you watch it? Seems like a lot of people that liked it in theater soured on it when watching it a second time at home.
Posted by: buzzion at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (3tZV2) Twice, so far. Both in theaters. I'm letting it 'rest' in my memory before digging it out to see it again. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:25 PM (xcxpd) 326
NOODlum.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:25 PM (Zz0t1) 327
So, Netflix will re-release Casablanca, only Rick will have the hots for Laszlo but end up with Renault.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 09, 2025 03:25 PM (WPL6O) 328
Not the Gregg Allman Rush then
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 03:25 PM (U6Usv) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:25 PM (2GVsD) 330
I have seen Superman 2025 several times, and have enjoyed it more each time. I think Corenswet is great in the lead and I love the silver age vibe of the movie.
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 03:25 PM (gYnrv) 331
Look for public spats between Trump and the Ellisons in the next few weeks. He’s already upset that 60 Minutes had congresswoman crazy on there Sunday. They’ll play the game too.
It’s better for the industry if Netflix doesn’t get WB. But considering the idiotic strikes right on the heels of Covid, I’m not surprised that the people in Hollywood would choose a suicidal move over a deal that would keep the cinemas open (albeit at a smaller level) and residuals flowing just because of a Trump connection. Posted by: AnnInEu at December 09, 2025 03:25 PM (8/Yb4) 332
I had to look up Kate Spade. Good for her i guess.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 03:26 PM (zZu0s) 333
Rachel Brosnahan is...weird lookin'.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (GBKbO) She's had work done, sadly. Or HGH. But she's more good than bad also. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:21 PM (xcxpd) fun fact: Rachel Brosnahan's aunt was...Kate Spade. Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (0CU3H) I did not know that. I do see the resemblance. Well...so she's not acting because she needs the money... Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:26 PM (xcxpd) 334
But does the episode wheel still work?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:25 PM (2GVsD) Yeah, still works fine. Spun it just to check. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 03:26 PM (zZu0s) 335
Fry hands you a fistful of dollars Aetius.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (2GVsD) 336
The Fox theater in Detroit, Majestic in Grand Rapids, Opera House in Calumet. If the movie was bad you could just spend the time admiring the architecture. Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 03:28 PM (Y8DZL) 337
314 @270 whig, read a bit about Marion Zimmer Bradley and her husband when that book came out. Wouldn't be surprised if it's more prevalent.
Posted by: Smell the Glove Samuel Delany wrote about his experiences (favorably btw), Heinlein had the obvious open marriage as described openly in his official bio from his letters to Ginny and had a creepy predilection in some stories of grooming (Door into Summer), his protagonist having a relationship with his grandniece in another book Time for teh Stars, Lazarus Long and his grandmother in Time Enough For Love, and so on. There's more to it. Asimov's son was busted for child pron and Asimov himself was notorious for grabbing female ass at cons without asking, Randall Garrett was known for his vulgar come ons to con attending females, etc. etc. This was the casual attitude of the era and creative scene that morality was for squares and Bible thumpers, kids were fine having sex even with adults, and anything went for adults. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 03:32 PM (WDjG6) 338
Lol.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 03:39 PM (zZu0s) 339
I'm just glad the superhero bubble has deflated.
I mostly can't wait for Avengers Doomsday to not nearly make back the money it needs. That will entertain me. Instead, Super Mario Galaxy will make all the money. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:44 PM (GBKbO) And do a remake of Prometheus. That would be fun. Wouldn't it? Well, WOULDN'T IT? Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 03:40 PM (g8Ew8) 340
The Donner Superman only had three redeeming qualities, five if you include Valerie Perrine's tits. 1. Reeve's performance as Superdood 2. Hackman feasting on the scenery 3. The Reeve/Kidder Sky Dance Of the three (or five), the Sky Dance is the only absolutely essential element of the flick Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 09, 2025 03:45 PM (y9nCu) 341
I see Disney has extended Kimmel's show for another year..
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 03:01 PM (VE6XX) Good. They'll keep losing millions for it. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:02 PM (Zz0t1) ---------------- That's one way to declare your hatred of middle America. It's their money and the sooner they go broke the better. Posted by: Decaf at December 09, 2025 03:47 PM (1RAfh) 342
Remember the 'I say let 'em crash' guy from the movie 'Airplane'? That's me right now. Hollywood to me is a stinking bum camped out in the circle near my house. Whether he gets hit by the Amazon truck or the Garbage truck, I don't care. As long as a truck does a nice slow roll and gets rid of it.
I just don't care either way. It's all going to be garbage. Posted by: Nelly at December 09, 2025 05:15 PM (iCpnn) 343
My last salary was $8750, ecom only worked 12 hours a week. My longtime neighbor yr estimated $15,000 and works about 20 hours for seven days. I can't believe how blunt he was when I looked up his information,
This is what I do................ https://p0stpr0m0ney88.blogspot.com/ Posted by: HOME PROFIT at December 09, 2025 06:28 PM (+3dnj) 344
I personally just want Warner Bros. to remain Warner Bros., for 20th Century Fox to get out from Disney's iron grip, and all the studios regain some of the sanity they've lost over the past decade.
Posted by: Bubba at December 09, 2025 08:51 PM (R4kLd) 345
l Get paid over $110 per hour working from home. l never thought I'd be able to do it but my buddy makes over $21269 a month doing this and she convinced me to try. The possibility with this is endless....
This is what I do...................... https://urlr.me/E3tz6Y Posted by: Anonymous at December 10, 2025 04:05 AM (NxtE8) No Shock: Tech Company Offers $60/Hour Coding Job with Proviso: "No US Citizens" May ApplyImmigrants are doing the jobs that Americans just Read the whole thing. Trump needs to put together a squad of employment-discrimination Untouchables and begin suing these companies into bankruptcy.
Below: The owner of a small construction company in Louisiana says that his phone is ringing off the hook now that illegal alien construction workers aren't showing up for work due to fears of being deported. With the illegals being deported, actual US citizens are getting hired again. Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
Learn to Code they said.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 01:25 PM (rbvCR) 2
HTLM has been berry berry gud to me
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 01:26 PM (rbvCR) 3
But MTG says construction just won't happen without illegal labor.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 01:26 PM (MGB5H) 4
IT is still a thing that lives in the storm sewers
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 01:26 PM (rbvCR) 5
Nons only, cracker.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:27 PM (eEIbO) 6
"They told me to learn to code!"
-coal miner Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:27 PM (GBKbO) 7
I liked the story about H1-B positions for 7-11 managers. I thought it was the bestest description of why we must have foreigners available for American greatness.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 01:27 PM (rbvCR) Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 01:28 PM (77rzZ) 9
As he says: This shows "just how bad" it's gotten. It's no longer the case that illegals are hired to supplement or fill out a work force. No, they've completely pushed out almost all US citizens from entire industries.
====== "No American is willing to work manual labor. Everyone wants to be part of the laptop class." -member of the laptop class, filled with empathy for the downtrodden who aren't American Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:28 PM (GBKbO) 10
Any tech company that has the word soft in its name is almost certain to be an H1B farm.
Yes I know Microsoft. And I stand by that statement. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 01:28 PM (9iyS+) 11
What if you're 3/5ths of a citizen
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 01:28 PM (U6Usv) 12
"They told me to learn to tuck!"
- Netflix transexual coal miner Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 09, 2025 01:28 PM (f0sNM) Posted by: Hillary Clinton at December 09, 2025 01:28 PM (2P232) 14
Back in the late 1980s the employee of the month at 7 11 was all turbines.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:29 PM (eEIbO) 15
My son's girlfriend had a similar experience. She was applying to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, one of those places, and was told that they were only hiring Bangladeshis.
Again, HOW IN THE HELL IS THIS LEGAL? Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 01:29 PM (77rzZ) 16
And the Saxon began to hate.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:30 PM (eEIbO) 17
Trump needs to put together a squad of employment-discrimination Untouchables and begin suing these companies into bankruptcy.
They put one of yours in prison, you put one of their in the bathhouse. THAT'S the San Francisco way! Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 09, 2025 01:30 PM (ycI94) 18
Read the whole thing?
Make me. Gotta go back to work. Besides, to get a job in this country, you have to know people, make strategic friends, and “network”. Which only shows how deeply corrupt this country has become. And Americans love it that way. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 01:30 PM (rQwsY) 19
Note, employing all those illegals and non-citizens didn’t reduce costs to consumers. It just lined the pockets of the rich with more money.
I guess we should applaud the rich for being so smart and productive as most here suggest. Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 09, 2025 01:31 PM (Vh9CX) 20
Any tech company that has the word soft in its name is almost certain to be an H1B farm.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald The Paolo never has, how you say, occasion to use that word "soft" when advertising his services. -- The Paolo Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 01:31 PM (77rzZ) Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 01:31 PM (ybICy) 22
They will do this until someone makes them stop, yes?
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 01:31 PM (Tbj3s) 23
When (bizarrely, given the disastrous policies of all administrations prior to 2016) a NC meat-packing company was raided and its illegal workforce removed years ago, someone bothered to study the aftermath. Surprise! Main results: short-term disruption to operations, very small price increase in products, notable increase in local hiring.
For the billionth time, enforcement against employers is by far the most powerful leveraged tool DHS has. And there are cooperative (coerced) models of enforcement that would minimize economic impact. These have been on desks since 2017. Time is short, and time is wasting. Posted by: rhomboid at December 09, 2025 01:31 PM (U/Byj) 24
HyperText Llama Molesting
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 01:31 PM (SpIHn) 25
no shock? damn straight, Ace!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 01:31 PM (Cjt/F) 26
Trump needs to send Federal marshals into those businesses and perp walk the executives and BoD.
Posted by: mr tmz at December 09, 2025 01:32 PM (rJ48h) 27
22 They will do this until someone makes them stop, yes?
Posted by: tubal You can’t STOP them! It's unconstitutional! Against international law! Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at December 09, 2025 01:32 PM (ycI94) 28
>>>With the illegals being deported, actual US citizens are getting hired again.
It's another Trumpmas miracle. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 09, 2025 01:32 PM (mKuBN) 29
Go to LinkedIn and search for posts (not job ads) for any coding language. It’s all Indians with the same sort of “no Americans need apply” language.
Most of them don’t outright say no US citizens. But when they say “open to H1B sponsorship” it’s essentially the same thing. Trump however, when asked about this by Laura Ingraham said there is no talent in America and we need foreign workers. Don’t look to Trump for any fixes on this. He’ll deport a few illegals in Chicago or Charlotte, for show. But he’s not getting rid of cheap H1Bs. Elon and his new BFF tech bros won’t allow that. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 01:32 PM (9iyS+) 30
Again, HOW IN THE HELL IS THIS LEGAL?
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 01:29 PM See AtC, above. It isn't. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2025 01:33 PM (kgE5c) 31
Take Lancesoft (might be worse than Microsoft for penis jokes) to court. Break them.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 01:33 PM (xcxpd) 32
Again, HOW IN THE HELL IS THIS LEGAL?
Posted by: Bulg It's not. It says so right up there in the Content. But like all the laws to protect the Protected Classes, they're written to cover both cases (No Irish! vs. Irish Only!) but only enforced in one direction. Posted by: mikeski at December 09, 2025 01:33 PM (nhCoE) 33
28 >>>With the illegals being deported, actual US citizens are getting hired again.
It's another Trumpmas miracle. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 09, 2025 01:32 PM (mKuBN) ===== Repeat, but I'm gonna do it anyway: Foreign births down in 41 states: https://x.com/RyanGirdusky/status/ 1998428790570246211 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:33 PM (GBKbO) 34
The volcanoes are hungry for third world $hitholers.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:34 PM (eEIbO) 35
Mixed messages from government on this matter would be suboptimal.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 01:34 PM (Tbj3s) 36
Similarly, the major food processing companies are actively employing illegals who defecate on the plant floor, but those jobs aren't advertised online.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 01:34 PM (2qmMz) 37
29 Go to LinkedIn and search for posts (not job ads) for any coding language. It’s all Indians with the same sort of “no Americans need apply” language.
Most of them don’t outright say no US citizens. But when they say “open to H1B sponsorship” it’s essentially the same thing. Trump however, when asked about this by Laura Ingraham said there is no talent in America and we need foreign workers. Don’t look to Trump for any fixes on this. He’ll deport a few illegals in Chicago or Charlotte, for show. But he’s not getting rid of cheap H1Bs. Elon and his new BFF tech bros won’t allow that. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 01:32 PM (9iyS+) Well, Americans don't communicate well with the other workers... (okay, they don't speak their language so CAN'T communicate...) Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 01:34 PM (ynpvh) 38
and $60/hr for tech support is pretty damn generous.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 01:35 PM (xcxpd) 39
Homegrown algorithm monkeys is the ideal case. Is there truly a dearth?
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 01:35 PM (Tbj3s) 40
36 Similarly, the major food processing companies are actively employing illegals who defecate on the plant floor, but those jobs aren't advertised online.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 01:34 PM (2qmMz) Has Amber Heard of these jobs? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 01:35 PM (ynpvh) 41
Repeat, but I'm gonna do it anyway:
Foreign births down in 41 states: https://x.com/RyanGirdusky/status/ 1998428790570246211 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:33 PM (GBKbO) I blame Anime Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 01:35 PM (xcxpd) 42
"under-enforcement" is still a real gaslighty term; let's try "non-enforcement" Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 01:35 PM (Cjt/F) 43
I’d love to see the CEO of Tyson foods get perp walked.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 09, 2025 01:35 PM (Vh9CX) 44
34 The volcanoes are hungry for third world $hitholers.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:34 PM (eEIbO) I thought they wanted virgins... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 01:36 PM (ynpvh) 45
I once heard that fixing the illegal immigration problem was the key to unlocking and solving a lot more problems than meets the eye. It's not just health care costs, housing, employment, safety, culture, quality of life - it's many things that are intangible. I wish we had addressed this problem a long time ago but I'm thankful we're doing it now. It needs to be relentless.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 09, 2025 01:36 PM (bNf8H) 46
The east side of Charlotte is still a third world shit hole. Arresting 300 people left probably a quarter million still here.
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 01:36 PM (uQzkA) 47
41 Repeat, but I'm gonna do it anyway:
Foreign births down in 41 states: https://x.com/RyanGirdusky/status/ 1998428790570246211 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:33 PM (GBKbO) I blame Anime Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 01:35 PM (xcxpd) ===== I blame Trump for deporting all the people who would have been giving birth but had no legal basis for being in America. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:36 PM (GBKbO) 48
Santa Clara, CA.
lol $60 per hour will get you a bottom bunk in a house with 25 illegals living in it. Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 01:36 PM (v0R5T) 49
Well, it's a good start, seeing this crap exposed. Hope (not much, I know) it leads to tightening borders..
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 01:37 PM (XuXeR) 50
Recently, one H-1B that stands out in my mind was a mechanical engineer who destroyed a $500K air compressor. It came natural to him. Crackerjack degree.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 01:37 PM (1zOXE) 51
It's not. It says so right up there in the Content.
Posted by: mikeski at December 09, 2025 01:33 PM Read the Content? That's sus. Are you new here? Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2025 01:37 PM (0sNs1) 52
Like the meatpacking plant that brought in Haitians and then went out of business leaving 26k Haitians in a small town.
Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2025 01:37 PM (YwEeS) 53
Not the same issue exactly, but in the last year I have seen many more white guys up on roofs, putting down shingles.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 01:37 PM (Tbj3s) 54
42
"under-enforcement" is still a real gaslighty term; let's try "non-enforcement" Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 01:35 PM (Cjt/F) Yeah. Reminds me of the time we were using a company in China for testing. I called and asked if the device had passed testing; response I got was "It hasn't failed". Well, wouldn't you know that if a device isn't tested, it hasn't failed yet?... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 01:37 PM (ynpvh) 55
45 I once heard that fixing the illegal immigration problem was the key to unlocking and solving a lot more problems than meets the eye. It's not just health care costs, housing, employment, safety, culture, quality of life - it's many things that are intangible. I wish we had addressed this problem a long time ago but I'm thankful we're doing it now. It needs to be relentless.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 09, 2025 01:36 PM (bNf8H) ====== Imagine you artificially increased the demand for everything in a country by importing the equivalent of the nation of Haiti and spreading them across the entire nation in a 4 year period? How would that affect...every aspect of daily life? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:37 PM (GBKbO) 56
We’re set to hire an Indian girl for a coding job ourselves
Who is Texan And MAGA And extremely talented But we racist yall Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at December 09, 2025 01:38 PM (HYKHz) Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 01:38 PM (ynpvh) 58
Judges won’t allow these laws to be enforced. Judges will just dismiss the cases out of hand.
The only viable option is to stop issuing / renewing these visas. Posted by: Going deep. Out. at December 09, 2025 01:39 PM (XqFM2) 59
56 We’re set to hire an Indian girl for a coding job ourselves
Who is Texan And MAGA And extremely talented But we racist yall Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at December 09, 2025 01:38 PM (HYKHz) Feather, or Dot? Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 01:39 PM (Tbj3s) 60
"Trump needs to put together a squad of employment-discrimination Untouchables and begin suing these companies into bankruptcy."
Along with a liberal application of tire irons and baseball bats. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 01:40 PM (snZF9) 61
so we know what happened with motels and convenience stores right? a certain country's emigres took over both industries.
well now they're taking over large tech firms, the kinds with room to hide in and not do too much. unfortunately those "too big to fail" firms are the ones the US government won't "let" fail so, smart move by them. a few get into management and then the only Whites hired are gonna be young girls, here and there. Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 01:40 PM (emBoF) 62
When Trump loses the midterms, he only has himself to blame for not addressing the H1B/OPT/H4 problem. Unless of course he thinks the Indians will come through for him.
Posted by: resist_we_much at December 09, 2025 01:40 PM (cpys8) Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at December 09, 2025 01:40 PM (HYKHz) 64
Trump needs to put together a squad of employment-discrimination Untouchables and begin suing these companies into bankruptcy.
--- So the same clown judges that sit by their phone 24/7 to answer (if it's a lefty group calling), move heaven and earth, clearing their entire docket, in order to rule against Trump ... Will drag their feet, chase down every rabbit hole, and inevitably dismiss for lack of standing in 2038. The Judiciary is no longer American. Or for Americans. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 01:40 PM (HXT0k) 65
LOLUK: Queer Stormer literally ends democracy in UK and essentially declares himself dictator. So what does Madame Nigel Farage do? He holds an "emergency" press conference! Wow. That"ll be effective. (The "conservatives" didn't do anything) Posted by: Shalom, Soothsayer at December 09, 2025 01:40 PM (Uztr4) Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 01:40 PM (v0R5T) 67
59 56 We’re set to hire an Indian girl for a coding job ourselves
Who is Texan And MAGA And extremely talented But we racist yall Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at December 09, 2025 01:38 PM (HYKHz) Feather, or Dot? Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 01:39 PM (Tbj3s) Yes. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 01:41 PM (ynpvh) 68
63 Feather, or Dot?
******** Technically dot but she doesn’t have any, I’m guessing she’s Catholic Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at December 09, 2025 01:40 PM (HYKHz) Ah. The Portuguese Effect. Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 01:41 PM (pDt9x) 69
19 Note, employing all those illegals and non-citizens didn’t reduce costs to consumers. It just lined the pockets of the rich with more money.
I guess we should applaud the rich for being so smart and productive as most here suggest. Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 09, 2025 01:31 PM (Vh9CX) Don't know about most. There might be a handful still clinging to that myth and/or who mistake corporatism, cronyism, regulatory capture and rent-seeking for a free market. I try to look at it on a case specific basis and distinguish between those who actually built a successful enterprise with a vision, competence and hard work, rather that those who just get to parachute in because they are have the right connections, fuck the place up, then golden parachute out. Posted by: Shit products + poor wages + no American workers == C-Suite bonuses at December 09, 2025 01:42 PM (TbWk/) Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 01:42 PM (emBoF) 71
This means I can post "FOA" as a requirement for a receptionist position, right?
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 01:42 PM (2ap+5) 72
Whatever happened to the $100k H1B thing? Thats was supposed to put an end to all this.
How’s that going? lol It was all nonsense, a bone thrown to the base to shut them up. But $100k for a visa is nothing when employers save 2-3 times that vs hiring an American over the duration of the 6 year visa it’s a 3 year visa but renewable so total 6 years). Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 01:42 PM (9iyS+) 73
Tim Pool has a post up on twitter that someone shot at his house.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 01:42 PM (sKqQm) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 01:42 PM (XuXeR) 75
Like the meatpacking plant that brought in Haitians and then went out of business leaving 26k Haitians in a small town.
Posted by: steevy QUACK Posted by: Ducks for Trump at December 09, 2025 01:43 PM (v0R5T) 76
73 Tim Pool has a post up on twitter that someone shot at his house.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 01:42 PM (sKqQm) A mostly-peaceful shooting... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 01:43 PM (ynpvh) 77
72 Whatever happened to the $100k H1B thing? Thats was supposed to put an end to all this.
it doesn't apply yet, and it's pretty limited to boot. sop for us I think. 73 Tim Pool has a post up on twitter that someone shot at his house. Tim has had a bunch of threats and now this. he's thinking of hanging it up podcast-wise Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 01:43 PM (emBoF) 78
The Judiciary is no longer American. Or for Americans.
The thing that amazes me is how many of them are literally not Americans. We should have a natural born requirement for judges as well as the president...there is no need to fill these roles with people from overseas. Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 01:44 PM (sKqQm) 79
Where are we on the chart with this article’s topic?
It’s not happening. It rarely happens so not to worry. It’s happening and this is why it’s a good thing. This needs to happen or you’re a bigot. Posted by: Cray Cray at December 09, 2025 01:44 PM (mEYGy) 80
I forgot who Tim Pool was.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:44 PM (eEIbO) 81
Is Tim pool the weirdo who wears a hat 24/7?
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 01:44 PM (uQzkA) 82
66 "Hello, my computer is running weird."
"apágalo y luego vuelve a encenderlo." Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 01:40 PM (v0R5T) ¿Puedo incinderlo? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 01:44 PM (ynpvh) 83
Blame George Harrison. He saved Bangladeshi lives with his concert in 1971. That's like 6 Bangladeshi generations ago and their numbers have exploded expodentialy.
Posted by: Relieve the People at December 09, 2025 01:44 PM (oftw2) 84
What's really bold of queer stormer is he cancelled elections *before* they implemented the next fake "pandemic" hoax. Posted by: Shalom, Soothsayer at December 09, 2025 01:44 PM (HJpvS) 85
Tim has had a bunch of threats and now this. he's thinking of hanging it up podcast-wise
That is the goal of this stuff. Threaten, and then even kill, right leaning speakers to shut them up. If you have a few of your line level street thugs end up getting a few years in prison it costs you nothing really. They'll even be able to vote when a future Dem president lets them out Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 01:45 PM (sKqQm) 86
By the way this isn’t illegal immigration. All these H1Bs are perfectly legal. This is why I hate the “ohh I’m against illegals but I support legal immigration” shit from the right.
Fuck that. It’s all the same. Jobs stolen from Americans. End it all. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 01:45 PM (9iyS+) 87
#62
Instead of bloviatibg here here perhaps you should write to President Trump directly He probably isn't reading this site: https://tinyurl.com/3xaej65a Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 01:46 PM (rZCVI) 88
>>>Utah Father Accused of Stabbing Registered Sex Offender 17 Times After he Made Comments About Daughter. - TGP
Not guilty by reason of sanity, your honor. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 09, 2025 01:46 PM (mKuBN) 89
Tim Pool only made it to fifth grade.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:46 PM (eEIbO) 90
The recent housing survey stated that;
“In California and New York, immigrants have accounted for 100% of all rental growth and over one-half of all growth in owner-occupied housing in recent years, the report found – while nationally, the foreign-born population accounted for more than 60% of the growth in rental demand. But illegal immigration totally has nothing to do with housing costs, rental costs, availability or inflation. At some point we also need to staple the owners of businesses who hire illegal immigrants to a telephone pole. Even in places like NY where they give these people a permit to work while they’re evading deportation. Posted by: Vengeance at December 09, 2025 01:46 PM (Y3swt) 91
♪ ♫ "Artificial Intelligence from Mehicooo" ♬ ♪
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 01:47 PM (v0R5T) 92
what's up with you today Fen? that commenter had a point. and btw I wouldn't be surprised if admin peeps did read here, despite how old we all seem to be.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 01:47 PM (emBoF) 93
>> As he says: This shows "just how bad" it's gotten.
I think he probably should have stated; “No Juan knows how bad it has gotten”. Posted by: Vengeance at December 09, 2025 01:47 PM (Y3swt) 94
But: not to keep saying how big a deal it will be.
When they overturn Humphrey's, that means Trump will fire the all of the labor boards and such. All of those lefties allowing all of this will be gone. Now thing of an Americans-first EEOC and NLRB .... Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 01:47 PM (HXT0k) 95
90 But illegal immigration totally has nothing to do with housing costs, rental costs, availability or inflation.
At some point we also need to staple the owners of businesses who hire illegal immigrants to a telephone pole. Even in places like NY where they give these people a permit to work while they’re evading deportation. Posted by: Vengeance at December 09, 2025 01:46 PM (Y3swt) ======= What if I told you that most of the inflation we've seen over the last few years was actually related to immigration directly more than anything else? What if I told you that mass deportations have deflationary effects? What if I wrote that in an bill called the American Deflationary Act and passed it through Congress? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:47 PM (GBKbO) 96
But illegal immigration totally has nothing to do with housing costs, rental costs, availability or inflation.
The iron laws of supply and demand. And its interesting, when I mention this to left leaning younger people that complain about this stuff you see their brain trying to understand. Immigration is a right! And well obviously those immigrants have to live somewhere So that means they are competing for housing against me raising costs Therefore I voted for the problem I am complaining about. Unfortunately their brains usually misfire after point 2 (though not yet have started yelling "DOES NOT COMPUTE") Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 01:48 PM (sKqQm) 97
Trump needs to put together a squad of employment-discrimination Untouchables and begin suing these companies into bankruptcy.
I guarantee if the investigators are motivated enough, they will uncover criminal acts as well that should be prosecuted to the fullest extent and beyond. Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 01:48 PM (mlg/3) 98
Hard work for decent pay, how we built America.
Posted by: Eromero at December 09, 2025 01:48 PM (LHPAg) 99
FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 01:48 PM (Zz0t1) 100
The US produces just under 300k comp sci and related tech degrees per year, and that's just Universities, that's not even taking into account Technical Schools.
The estimated number of comp sci and related workers we need per year is a little over 300k. So if we are not producing enough tech workers, it's in the order of a couple of thousand at the most. No the reason H1B's are preferred is that they can be paid less, will do more work for less and can be threatened or pressured to churn out the code. Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 01:48 PM (XV/Pl) 101
>>Trump needs to put together a squad of employment-discrimination Untouchables and begin suing these companies into bankruptcy.
Harmeet Dhillon is already on it. Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 01:48 PM (viF8m) Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 01:49 PM (v0R5T) 103
Ha! An Atc sighting.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 01:49 PM (XeU6L) 104
Heh, how about dem Eggles!
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 09, 2025 01:49 PM (Wg6v7) 105
TJM is trying to sound like Morpheus/Lawrence Fishburn.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 01:49 PM (Nr4sE) 106
Yo
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 01:49 PM (TR2dy) 107
End the H1B visa program ASAP and re-evaluate things in a minimum of 5 years. SCREW the rest of the world. Get your own companies and industries to employ your OWN people for once.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 01:49 PM (Zz0t1) 108
By the way this isn’t illegal immigration. All these H1Bs are perfectly legal. This is why I hate the “ohh I’m against illegals but I support legal immigration” shit from the right.
We've had enough immigration in the last two decades to last us the next century. Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 01:49 PM (sKqQm) 109
4 picks.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:49 PM (eEIbO) 110
Why is this not blatantly illegal ? Send the info to the Equal Protection Project at Legal insurrection site . That would seem to be something they would be quite interested in .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 01:49 PM (rZCVI) Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 01:50 PM (TR2dy) 112
LOLUK:
Queer Stormer literally ends democracy in UK and essentially declares himself dictator. So what does Madame Nigel Farage do? He holds an "emergency" press conference! Wow. That"ll be effective. (The "conservatives" didn't do anything) Posted by: Shalom, Soothsayer at December 09, 2025 01:40 PM (Uztr4) I need to trademark this phrase... Precisely WHAT would you have them do? Labour controls the government. Labour doesn't have to call an election for, what, 4 more years? What should Farage do? Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 01:50 PM (ExV1e) 113
Maybe your computer needs a new muffler.
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 01:50 PM (v0R5T) 114
If the illegals aren't showing up for work, why aren't the construction companies being fined to the teeth for hiring them in the first place?
Sorry, you f*cked up. You should pay the price for it. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 01:50 PM (Zz0t1) 115
OPT needs to end, yesterday
H1B as well. Pause it and think it over. Young people are graduating in STEM and not finding jobs while we import entire villages. It's ENOUGH. Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 01:51 PM (emBoF) 116
112 I need to trademark this phrase...
Precisely WHAT would you have them do? Labour controls the government. Labour doesn't have to call an election for, what, 4 more years? What should Farage do? Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 01:50 PM (ExV1e) ===== That's what people are freaking out about? The majority refusing to call early elections? I mean...come on, people. Engagement isn't worth that much, is it? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:51 PM (GBKbO) 117
103 Ha! An Atc sighting.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 01:49 PM She got legs, she know how to use them. And a couple other assets too. Posted by: Eromero at December 09, 2025 01:51 PM (LHPAg) 118
The Labour Party is against actual laborers? England is a silly place.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:52 PM (eEIbO) 119
115 OPT needs to end, yesterday
H1B as well. Pause it and think it over. Young people are graduating in STEM and not finding jobs while we import entire villages. It's ENOUGH. Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 01:51 PM (emBoF) ====== Rule writing in alignment with the Administrative Procedures Act requires time, but it is being done. OPT is being targeted by an upcoming rule that will decrease it heavily or possibly end it completely. https://is.gd/mcUX8N Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:52 PM (GBKbO) 120
Labour is cancelling local elections.
Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2025 01:52 PM (YwEeS) 121
Tim Pool has a post up on twitter that someone shot at his house.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 01:42 PM (sKqQm) Maybe being shot at by a leftard will be the thing that finally turns him conservative. Just kidding. Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 01:52 PM (U6Usv) 122
>>>Utah Father Accused of Stabbing Registered Sex Offender 17 Times After he Made Comments About Daughter. - TGP
Not guilty by reason of sanity, your honor. Posted by: Comrade Flounder There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy. Aim for #4. Posted by: zombie Ambrose Bierce at December 09, 2025 01:52 PM (nhCoE) 123
Did you try smacking it?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:53 PM (eEIbO) 124
Just think, all of these fucking coders from third-world shitholes are the brains behind AI. You know it's true.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 01:53 PM (1zOXE) 125
Best thing is, any other country you go to and want to work in, you must prove that you're doing something a local citizen can't do before they'll even consider your visa getting approved.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 01:53 PM (Zz0t1) 126
Ran across an amusing thread on Farcebook last night.
A conservative leaning person posted a thread nothing the left wanted to throw pure bloods in prison and take their kids away and noted she would never forget. There were three types of lefty responses: 1) Posting the effectiveness of NON-COVID vaccines 2) Denying that any lefty anywhere wanted to imprison pure bloods or take their kids away 3) Endorsing the notion that taking pure bloods kids away and putting them in prison...because...it was an emergency dontachaknow And the funny thing is the posts from #2 and #3 types were right next to each other though...not the same people at least I guess. Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 01:53 PM (sKqQm) 127
Tim Pool has a post up on twitter that someone shot at his house.
Posted by: 18-1 ------ Why, he made them do it...they had no choice. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 01:53 PM (XeU6L) Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 01:54 PM (U6Usv) 129
Tim Pool has a post up on twitter that someone shot at his house.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 01:42 PM (sKqQm) He's blaming Candace Owens and her rhetoric for the shooting and is contemplating ending his podcast because it's costing him more in security now than he makes doing it. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 01:54 PM (Zz0t1) 130
How was he dressed? Was he asking for it?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:54 PM (eEIbO) 131
Did you try smacking it?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:53 PM (eEIbO) Going on 35 years now. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 01:55 PM (Nr4sE) 132
Who is Tim Pool?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 01:55 PM (rZCVI) 133
Utah Father Accused of Stabbing Registered Sex Offender 17 Times After he Made Comments About Daughter.
------------ This is a sad story. It sounds like the guy lived. Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 01:55 PM (U6Usv) 134
Best thing is, any other country you go to and want to work in, you must prove that you're doing something a local citizen can't do before they'll even consider your visa getting approved.
This was the original intent of an H1B visa. Need a specific mathematician or linguist who is the only person that knows something? Bring them over on this visa. The intent was never bringing in millions of people will common skills like software development... Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 01:55 PM (sKqQm) 135
No the reason H1B's are preferred is that they can be paid less, will do more work for less and can be threatened or pressured to churn out the code.
----- That PLUS the graft that comes with the H1B holders being essentially indentured servants and the allure of H1B holders hiring OTHER H1B holders from the same family/caste/area. Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 01:55 PM (TN0g+) 136
Tech Company Offers $60/Hour Coding Job with Proviso: "No US Citizens" May Apply
Would love to follow this company and see how long a $4800 a CB pay period non coding derka derka lasts. Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 01:55 PM (bvUs5) 137
What if I told you....
Prometheus is actually Oscar worthy Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 01:54 PM (U6Usv) I would say....... https://youtu.be/l60MnDJklnM Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 01:55 PM (Zz0t1) 138
Ha! An Atc sighting.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 01:49 PM (XeU6L) Those boots!!!! *sigh* Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 01:55 PM (KQmzo) 139
No honkeys need apply.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:56 PM (eEIbO) 140
So, wait, is this why all those NeverTrump op-ed writers never learned to code? They were frozen out by the very economic policies they endorsed?
Excellent... Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 01:56 PM (2L+MU) 141
He's blaming Candace Owens and her rhetoric for the shooting and is contemplating ending his podcast because it's costing him more in security now than he makes doing it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 01:54 PM (Zz0t1) Wow. Tim Pool is a little cowardly bitch? Makes sense. Fits the grifter read on him i always had. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 01:56 PM (Nr4sE) 142
No the reason H1B's are preferred is that they can be paid less, will do more work for less and can be threatened or pressured to churn out the code.
The fact that they can't code never enters into it. Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 01:56 PM (bvUs5) Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 01:56 PM (XeU6L) 144
Maybe this will sound crazy, but I think Tim Poo's paid security isnt doing a good job. Posted by: Shalom, Soothsayer at December 09, 2025 01:57 PM (HJpvS) 145
Career entry level coders.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:57 PM (eEIbO) 146
When I was a kid here in Oregon most of us kids went and picked Strawberries and Blueberries for summer money, or money to spend on school clothes or supplies. Working 3 days a week by the end of summer you could make close to $250 bucks which was a lot in the early 80's.
Then the hispanics started showing up and would intimidate all the local regulars and pretty much chased us all off. Their whole families would show up and jump berry rows and pick ahead of you so you wouldn't get any berries. It didn't help that the new field manager was a hispanic as well. They monopolized the berry fields. They would often cheat by putting dirt into the bottom of their flats so the weight could be more. The scale guy was hispanic so wink-wink it didn't get caught. Posted by: Frank Barone at December 09, 2025 01:57 PM (IifOV) 147
>>Tim Pool is a little cowardly bitch?
His claim to fame was being part of the Occupy Wall Street Movement, no? Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 01:58 PM (TR2dy) 148
The fact that they can't code never enters into it. Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 01:56 PM (bvUs5) Oh, and most of them really suck at it. The term "spaghetti code" came from the impossible task of troubleshooting the nonsensical shit they release. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 01:58 PM (Zz0t1) 149
The fact that they can't code never enters into it.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 01:56 PM (bvUs5) Chat GPT got me through college, Chat GPT will code for me. I'll get it reviewed by Sandeep. -- Prajeet Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 01:59 PM (ExV1e) 150
I always thought Pool should be sued by South Park for his stealing of their gig by wearing the knitted cap all the time.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 01:59 PM (Zz0t1) 151
They aren't just doing it with coders, they're doing it in medicine too. There's been a huge increase in foreign born-and-trained doctors due to the (arguably manufactured) shortage of physicians in the United States. This isn't going to end well.
Posted by: Cut those corners, the hell with patient health and safety at December 09, 2025 02:00 PM (TbWk/) 152
Wow. Tim Pool is a little cowardly bitch? Makes sense. Fits the grifter read on him i always had.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 01:56 PM (Nr4sE) His wife and kid were present, so that might factor into his decision-making. Posted by: pookysgirl, getting outsmarted by a one-year-old at December 09, 2025 02:00 PM (Wt5PA) 153
Tim Pool finished school in the 5th grade. I learned right much after that. People should soldier on until at least the eighth grade.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:00 PM (eEIbO) 154
Maybe this will sound crazy, but I think Tim Poo's paid security isnt doing a good job.
Posted by: Shalom, Soothsayer at December 09, 2025 01:57 PM (HJpvS) - Trump got shot. - Kirk got shot. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 02:00 PM (ExV1e) 155
They aren't just doing it with coders, they're doing it in medicine too. There's been a huge increase in foreign born-and-trained doctors due to the (arguably manufactured) shortage of physicians in the United States. This isn't going to end well.
Posted by: Cut those corners, the hell with patient health and safety at December 09, 2025 02:00 PM (TbWk/) And they largely suck as well. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:00 PM (Zz0t1) Posted by: Hal9k at December 09, 2025 02:00 PM (TR2dy) 157
H1B is an op. They aren't smarter. They aren't cheaper. And they and their families are a huge drain. What is the upside? I've never seen an upside.
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 02:00 PM (uQzkA) 158
Labour controls the government. Labour doesn't have to call an election for, what, 4 more years? What should Farage do?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic The UK has this stupid kabuki thing called a 'shadow cabinet' where the minority coalition has party members pretending to be opposition ministers and councilors. What Farage et al need is a Shadow Civil Service that can be parachuted into the ministries when the conservatives win an election. The UK is ruled by a formal, codified Deep State. It has to be erased if the UK is to pull out of their terminal dive into hell. Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 02:01 PM (mlg/3) 159
It is very hard to protect someone from all potential threats.
If the left is allowed to shoot right leaning celebrities/media figures/pols with the only consequence being the occasional gunman/thug dies or goes to prison this will continue. Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 02:01 PM (sKqQm) 160
Utah Father Accused of Stabbing Registered Sex Offender 17 Times After he Made Comments About Daughter.
------------ This is a sad story. It sounds like the guy lived. Posted by: ... ------- Old news, but cheering, "A Father's Justice" https://shorturl.at/dVrph Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 02:01 PM (XeU6L) 161
Trump needs to put together a squad of employment-discrimination Untouchables and begin suing these companies into bankruptcy.
- LOL Posted by: blue state juries at December 09, 2025 02:02 PM (vSvIl) 162
We have no shortage of retards. Take a drive.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:02 PM (eEIbO) 163
>> H1B is an op. They aren't smarter. They aren't cheaper. And they and their families are a huge drain. What is the upside?
I am sure you will find that, ultimately, Political Donations are the 'Upside'. Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 02:02 PM (TR2dy) 164
I just watched the 2-minute plus trailer for the new "Star Fleet Academy" offering.
They hate us. They really, really, really hate us. Its to the point now that if all they're going to do is keep staffing Federation Starships with female captains and cuck first officers that I'm ready to cheer for the Romulans. Blow the Enterprise from the sky! Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 02:02 PM (TN0g+) 165
But American's won't work trades or pick lettuce, not even if you paid them $50 an hour!
Posted by: John Cocksucker McCain at December 09, 2025 02:02 PM (TbWk/) 166
133 Utah Father Accused of Stabbing Registered Sex Offender 17 Times After he Made Comments About Daughter.
------------ This is a sad story. It sounds like the guy lived. Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 01:55 PM (U6Usv) Sad in what way? That he didn't get to 20? Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 09, 2025 02:02 PM (N39Ws) 167
You should All thank Ace for not posting a recent image of lena dunham. You wouldn't believe she could get worse...much worse. Posted by: Shalom, Soothsayer at December 09, 2025 02:02 PM (HJpvS) 168
Tech Company Offers $60/Hour Coding Job with Proviso: "No US Citizens" May Apply
--- You'd think you'd be able to find local U.S. citizens that could do the work at a fraction of that salary. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 09, 2025 02:03 PM (ESVrU) 169
I see Kamla is talking about her statue in Congress.
I guess the pigeons need a new place to crap. Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 02:03 PM (KQmzo) Posted by: coba at December 09, 2025 02:03 PM (IuIym) 171
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You should All thank Ace for not posting a recent image of lena dunham. You wouldn't believe she could get worse...much worse. Posted by: Shalom, Soothsayer at December 09, 2025 02:02 PM (HJpvS) ======= Is she refusing Ozempic because it's racism, or something? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:03 PM (GBKbO) 172
157 H1B is an op. They aren't smarter. They aren't cheaper. And they and their families are a huge drain. What is the upside? I've never seen an upside.
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 02:00 PM (uQzkA) ----- They are cheaper, in the short run. H1B is also basically indentured servitude so the company pretty much never has to worry about Sandeep negotiating a better salary or jumping to another company for more pay. The entire program should be shitcanned in short order, but it won't be, because there are billions of Tech dollars behind it and plenty of filthy Congressshitheads to grift it all up. Posted by: ballistic at December 09, 2025 02:03 PM (5aZAZ) 173
You should All thank Ace for not posting a recent image of lena dunham.
You wouldn't believe she could get worse...much worse. Posted by: Shalom, Soothsayer at December 09, 2025 02:02 PM (HJpvS) This is how you call Admiral Akbar without actually calling Admiral Akbar. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:04 PM (Zz0t1) 174
>>>They aren't just doing it with coders, they're doing it in medicine too. There's been a huge increase in foreign born-and-trained doctors due to the (arguably manufactured) shortage of physicians in the United States. This isn't going to end well.
Posted by: Cut those corners, the hell with patient health and safety >Bring back leeches and blood-letting! Can't be any worse than COVID vaccines and boosters. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 02:04 PM (1zOXE) 175
You should All thank Ace for not posting a recent image of lena dunham.
You wouldn't believe she could get worse...much worse. Posted by: Shalom, Soothsayer at December 09, 2025 02:02 PM (HJpvS) ======= Is she refusing Ozempic because it's racism, or something? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:03 PM (GBKbO) She won't stop eating chocolate cake with gravy until the trasngenocide is stopped once and for all. Posted by: It's possible anyway at December 09, 2025 02:04 PM (TbWk/) 176
They would often cheat by putting dirt into the bottom of their flats so the weight could be more. The scale guy was hispanic so wink-wink it didn't get caught.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 09, 2025 01:57 PM The story of field hands going back at least to the 1950s. Posted by: Eromero at December 09, 2025 02:04 PM (LHPAg) 177
Is she refusing Ozempic because it's racism, or something? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:03 PM (GBKbO) Or, it could be the massive muscle and bone density loss leading to osteoporosis. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:04 PM (Zz0t1) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 02:05 PM (XuXeR) 179
Utah Father Accused of Stabbing Registered Sex Offender 17 Times After he Made Comments About Daughter.
This looks like an odd case. The father and the victim met at a post office. Supposedly the victim made "comments" about the daughter. Then a few days later the victim shows up at the father's house - supposedly to go for a walk with him - and the father responded by stabbing the victim. Unsaid are what the comments were, how old the daughter is, or whether the victim was invited over. Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 02:05 PM (sKqQm) Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 02:05 PM (W7XSX) 181
They are cheaper, in the short run. H1B is also basically indentured servitude so the company pretty much never has to worry about Sandeep negotiating a better salary or jumping to another company for more pay.
The entire program should be shitcanned in short order, but it won't be, because there are billions of Tech dollars behind it and plenty of filthy Congressshitheads to grift it all up. Posted by: ballistic In the end, it's always about control, isn't it? Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 09, 2025 02:05 PM (OUMaO) 182
OPT is being targeted by an upcoming rule that will decrease it heavily or possibly end it completely.
https://is.gd/mcUX8N Posted by: TheJamesMadison ----- Details on policy are something not as conducive as bitch fests. Underneath all the blather, TPS is being revoked right and left, Duffy is making sure that CDL licences end when the visa does plus shutting down CDL mills, the new rules require 100k fee for H1Bs and other provisions making it more difficult to hire them, the rulemaking above narrows the student worker visa loophole for STEM, etc. That being said, when UC San Diego has a big percentage of students that cannot do middle school math yet graduate high school, we got a massive supply problem from destructive K12 education in much of this country. Essentially, Trump is trying to redo the transmission of the US economy while going down the road with substantial changes--tariffs, immigration clampdown, changing provisions. Watch what the man actually does, not what the dumbass media types get as pablum. He uses words, not policies like Clinton, to triangulate to tack back and forth. Shiny toy for media and rage merchants. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 02:06 PM (WDjG6) 183
What is the upside? I've never seen an upside."
Short term gains. Nothing more. Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 02:05 PM (XuXeR) Any short term gains are wiped away bigly once the failures are realized and the time required to fix their mistakes is put on the books. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:06 PM (Zz0t1) 184
A $60/hour job is $9600 gross monthly. That's at the very least a Senior Developer job in a high-COL area.
Posted by: ballistic at December 09, 2025 02:06 PM (5aZAZ) 185
thanks for that link TJM - let's hope they do this. OPT is step one - takes away many many (most?) opportunities in STEM from graduating American students.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 02:06 PM (emBoF) 186
I have several trades under my belt.
I have several other talents that allowed me to earn a living, on top of those trades. At NO point have I ever ascended to making anywhere near $60 per hour. Not as an Electrician, Plumber, Carpenter or Mason. Not as a Hunting or Fishing Guide. Not as a Mechanic or a Laborer or even as a Consultant. I am blown away by the Hourly Rates people are pulling these days. Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 02:06 PM (TR2dy) 187
The Corporate Sector needs to do on the job training.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:06 PM (eEIbO) 188
the cost thing is no longer material; it's about an ethnic takeover of tech.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 02:06 PM (emBoF) 189
They hate us. They really, really, really hate us. Its to the point now that if all they're going to do is keep staffing Federation Starships with female captains and cuck first officers that I'm ready to cheer for the Romulans. Blow the Enterprise from the sky!
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 02:02 PM (TN0g+) *** I was on Joint Base Lewis McChord yesterday (I will neither confirm or deny i was at the Class VI store) and saw an airman wearing a Space Force MMXIX patch. Pretty cool looking and yeah, right out of the Romulan Style book. All black and silver. Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 02:07 PM (KQmzo) Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 02:07 PM (emBoF) 191
Watched an interesting take on the situation in the UK. The IRA is making noise about fighting the left and muzzies. This guy felt that if anything blew up it would happen there first because of the history. Interesting to watch a civil war in one of our oldest allies
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 02:07 PM (D+mpw) 192
Things will change when The Blade starts as an immigration judge!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 02:07 PM (iFTx/) 193
144 Maybe this will sound crazy, but I think Tim Poo's paid security isnt doing a good job. - Shalom, Soothsayer
I assume Ace's security is top notch; you never hear about him having to shoot his way out of the gym to get to his car. Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 02:07 PM (2L+MU) 194
185 thanks for that link TJM - let's hope they do this. OPT is step one - takes away many many (most?) opportunities in STEM from graduating American students.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 02:06 PM (emBoF) ======= For some reason, people in political media don't trumpet upcoming rule changes all that often. Instead, they like to chase shiny squirrels that don't mean much. Trump ending OPT, deporting millions of people, and ending CDLs for foreign drivers will do more for the American people than any legislation Congress could come up with. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:07 PM (GBKbO) 195
That is why they fail.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:07 PM (eEIbO) 196
I am blown away by the Hourly Rates people are pulling these days./i] Partly this is determined by where you live - cost of living is much higher in say SF then in WV. Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 02:07 PM (sKqQm) 197
You say American. D's and R's say American't.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 02:08 PM (U6Usv) 198
>Bring back leeches and blood-letting! Can't be any worse than COVID vaccines and boosters. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 02:04 PM (1zOXE) Reftore balance to mine humours wythe a moft generoufs applickation of leechesf. Posted by: Feeling too sanguine. Also bilious. at December 09, 2025 02:08 PM (TbWk/) 199
I am blown away by the Hourly Rates people are pulling these days. Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 02:06 PM (TR2dy) Lady across the street took her Honda Accord in to a brake shop and they quoted her over $700 + parts. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:08 PM (Zz0t1) 200
192 Things will change when The Blade starts as an immigration judge!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 02:07 PM (iFTx/) ======= Did you actually apply? Like, for real reals? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:08 PM (GBKbO) 201
Several of the firms are minority-owned businesses
I can guarantee you what sort of minority they are, too - South Asian. And the H1Bs they want will all be from their sort of minority. I've seen it. Posted by: GWB at December 09, 2025 02:08 PM (hlpxB) 202
>>Watched an interesting take on the situation in the UK. The IRA is making noise about fighting the left and muzzies.
The IRA. Who have been in bed with the Militant Muslims for decades... Yeah. Not buying it. Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 02:08 PM (TR2dy) 203
202 >>Watched an interesting take on the situation in the UK. The IRA is making noise about fighting the left and muzzies.
The IRA. Who have been in bed with the Militant Muslims for decades... Yeah. Not buying it. Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 02:08 PM (TR2dy) ====== And are national socialists to boot. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:09 PM (GBKbO) 204
"I am blown away by the Hourly Rates people are pulling these days."
same here my time was being billed to customers at that price 40+ years ago ... Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 02:09 PM (Cjt/F) 205
is contemplating ending his podcast because it's costing him more in security now than he makes doing it.
Why can't he work out a deal with the neighborhood drug dealer and war lord to protect his place? They don't concern themselves with filing reports but favor direct action. Might also cut down on his receiving numerous SWAT raids since the local government is not likely to deal with gang crime. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 02:10 PM (nCgQz) 206
I am blown away by the Hourly Rates people are pulling these days.
Posted by: garrett Yet, oddly, it's still $20, same as in town. Posted by: Entremanure at December 09, 2025 02:10 PM (oftw2) 207
>>Lady across the street took her Honda Accord in to a brake shop and they quoted her over $700 + parts.
The Sprinkler Installation guys out here are charging $75-80/ Hour. They don't have a skillset that demands even 1/4 of that. Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 02:10 PM (TR2dy) 208
Watched an interesting take on the situation in the UK. The IRA is making noise about fighting the left and muzzies.
Posted by: Smell the Glove Considering the IRA trained and is training with assorted jihadis, that sounds like utter bullshit. Their fucking allies with Hamas, FFS. Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 02:10 PM (mlg/3) 209
Lance Soft has no chance to survive in any form. It's a ridiculous proposal anyway. No one should take this seriously. Who actually does insanely stupid shit like this and expect people to accept it as real?
Posted by: pawn at December 09, 2025 02:11 PM (EMg+d) 210
The IRA. Who have been in bed with the Militant Muslims for decades...
Yeah. Not buying it. Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 02:08 PM (TR2dy) ====== And are national socialists to boot. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:09 PM (GBKbO) On the other hand, they haven't had a really good fight for quite a few years now. and they ARE Irish. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 02:11 PM (uWKK8) 211
What happened to the Hamas Airborne Division?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:11 PM (eEIbO) 212
>>>I am blown away by the Hourly Rates people are pulling these days.
Posted by: garrett >I blew away my millions in the 90s on wine, women and song. And horses. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 02:11 PM (1zOXE) 213
210 On the other hand, they haven't had a really good fight for quite a few years now. and they ARE Irish.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 02:11 PM (uWKK ====== I'd sooner believe that they'd start bombing white owned farms in Buckinghamshire than they'd say anything remotely bad about Starmer's efforts at expanding governmental control over the populace. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:12 PM (GBKbO) 214
Here is how the system works.
Say a U.S. coder cost $150k. I hire someone from out of the country for $80k. That person lives...poorly, saves his money, and sends it home to a poor country, where the money is sufficient to build a 5-bedroom home for his family. The cost differential is the same. Both parties have the same goals. But he U.S coder wants to build his house here, while the H1B wants to build it his home country, which is cheaper, so he'll take a much lower pay. To me the easy solution is to tax remittances. 15%. Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 02:12 PM (C3IAS) 215
What is Lance Soft anyways? Pete Buttiegiegs screen name?
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 02:12 PM (uWKK8) 216
Big mistaka ! We meant - No, US citizens apply!
Posted by: LanceSoft staffing at December 09, 2025 02:13 PM (g47mK) 217
Unsaid are what the comments were, how old the daughter is, or whether the victim was invited over.
Posted by: 18-1 ---- Drugs also are involved from the original report. I am always careful on any initial crime news story like the missing football coach turned into a probable suicide due to impending child pron and pursuit of underage kids. You can tell the bad stories for narratives as they disappear quickly while those that support leftist narratives are blasted coast to coast for weeks--like Trayvon. Thug accosts armed person violently and gets shot then dies. This would seem a local story but because of the outrage machine and Obama admin, it became a national story for months incuding the trial. I also bet Community Relations at the DoJ thought they had Whitey shooting a dindu nuffin yute that could have been Obama's son narrative going on. Anti gun, anti Whitey, perhaps even anti Jew as Zimmerman is often a common Jewish name. So they and their ngo flying monkeys, and Ben Crump, made it into a circus. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 02:13 PM (WDjG6) 218
DOL has to justify sole-sourcing contracts. Why can't they do something similar here. Or is it just not practical to open it to Americans for X number of days to prove only foreigners have the skills?
Posted by: Fen at December 09, 2025 02:13 PM (ciYHQ) 219
IRA, IRS, what's the difference? Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 02:13 PM (Y8DZL) 220
209 Lance Soft has no chance to survive in any form. It's a ridiculous proposal anyway. No one should take this seriously. Who actually does insanely stupid shit like this and expect people to accept it as real?
Posted by: pawn at December 09, 2025 02:11 PM (EMg+d) Take a spin around LinkedIn job postings sometime. There is no shortage of insanely stupid shit. It's Terry Gilliam meets Franz Kafka. Posted by: Everything is fake gay and corpotard at December 09, 2025 02:13 PM (TbWk/) 221
End H-1B. End student and worker visas. Build the wall, deport them all, and put a 50-year pause on legal immigration as well. Nothing but tourist and diplomatic visas, with burly men waiting in vans to grab them and take them to the airport if they overstay, until there are no more Fake Americans that 1. know when the World Cup is and 2. visibly or audibly root for another country. We are overfull to the point of disintegration, and it needs to stop.
Posted by: SciVo at December 09, 2025 02:13 PM (Sy6m/) 222
"The Sprinkler Installation guys out here are charging $75-80/ Hour.
They don't have a skillset that demands even 1/4 of that. " ah, but they've got Licenses, and the all-important Certification ... Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 02:14 PM (Cjt/F) 223
V=A $60/hour job is $9600 gross monthly. That's at the very least a Senior Developer job in a high-COL area.''
I made that in San Diego in 2004. Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 02:14 PM (W7XSX) 224
The Corporate Sector needs to do on the job training. Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:06 PM yeah they don't do that anymore. Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 02:07 PM no, they post job openings what require 20+ years of experience, then freak out when you show up at the interview with grey hair..."we just don't think you'd fit with our 'culture'" why? because I'm 30 years older that the group manager? Posted by: AltonJackson at December 09, 2025 02:14 PM (tljrc) 225
@199
>>Lady across the street took her Honda Accord in to a brake shop and they quoted her over $700 + parts. Depends on what they are doing, if it's a full front, back, parking brake job, then that's a good price, it's to replace pads and cut the rotors, then not so good. She obviously can't do it herself as most people can't do their own brake jobs, if she could do it herself, it would probably run her around 500 bucks for parts, materials and tools to do the job. YMMV. Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 02:15 PM (XV/Pl) 226
OT but possibly a fun story - a bunch of youths from Philly were down in FLA (Polk County, Grady Judd's county) for a tournament and decided to do some ... shopping?!?!
"Polk County deputies responded to Dick’s Sporting Goods after a store manager reported a retail theft in progress. Deputies arrived within minutes and detained eight teens, identified as members of a Philadelphia youth football team in town for a national tournament. All eight were charged with retail theft over $750 and conspiracy to commit retail theft. Because of the arrests, the teens were unable to participate in their scheduled championship game, and their team lost the game." Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 02:15 PM (emBoF) 227
I'd sooner believe that they'd start bombing white owned farms in Buckinghamshire than they'd say anything remotely bad about Starmer's efforts at expanding governmental control over the populace.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:12 PM (GBKbO) would it make a difference if they drank a lot? Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 02:15 PM (uWKK8) 228
Oh, well...the DC Circuit upheld the transgender ban in the military.
Why didn't Trump just ignore the lower courts and shoot the district judges instead? It's not like the new policy stayed in effect through the whole litigation and he won on merits in the end, anyway. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:15 PM (GBKbO) 229
It shouldn't have been a question
@LeadingReport · 25s BREAKING: Federal court upholds transgender military ban. Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 02:16 PM (mlg/3) 230
227 I'd sooner believe that they'd start bombing white owned farms in Buckinghamshire than they'd say anything remotely bad about Starmer's efforts at expanding governmental control over the populace.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:12 PM (GBKbO) would it make a difference if they drank a lot? Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 02:15 PM (uWKK ====== Yes. They might actually take out a Muslim brother in the cause to impose the universal union upon England. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:16 PM (GBKbO) 231
Because of the arrests, the teens were unable to participate in their scheduled championship game, and their team lost the game."
=== what an uplifting story ! Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 02:16 PM (g47mK) 232
We need them for mine removal.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:16 PM (eEIbO) Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 02:16 PM (emBoF) 234
Watched an interesting take on the situation in the UK. The IRA is making noise about fighting the left and muzzies.
The IRA. Who have been in bed with the Militant Muslims for decades... Yeah. Not buying it. Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 02:08 PM (TR2dy) Any possibility of them being red-pilled? Or maybe (more likely) they're seeing a possibility to distinguish themselves from political rivals? Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 02:17 PM (2L+MU) 235
They might actually take out a Muslim brother in the cause to impose the universal union upon England.
And then they will sing the Horst Wessel song. Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 02:17 PM (W7XSX) 236
no, they post job openings what require 20+ years of experience, then freak out when you show up at the interview with grey hair..."we just don't think you'd fit with our 'culture'"
why? because I'm 30 years older that the group manager? Posted by: AltonJackson at December 09, 2025 02:14 PM (tljrc) Yes. And because it violates federal law to discriminate based on age, so they trot out the "we don't think you're a good cultural fit" or "we think we're going in different direction" to cover for the real reason they want to have nothing to do with you. Posted by: Entry-level position, 15 years exp required at December 09, 2025 02:17 PM (TbWk/) 237
You all understand that when quoted an hourly rate by a car or appliance dealership it's about 5 times what they're actually paying the guy who does the work. Or girl. Or trans gender. Or monkey. Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 02:17 PM (Y8DZL) 238
203 202 >>Watched an interesting take on the situation in the UK. The IRA is making noise about fighting the left and muzzies.
The IRA. Who have been in bed with the Militant Muslims for decades... Yeah. Not buying it. Posted by: garrett ------- I think this is a new group with an old name for PR purposes just as the Provisional IRA was not the same organization and leadership as the old IRA during the Easter Rebellion and aftermath. Different generations involved in each of those. Basically from reports I gathered, these are apparently youngsters whose gramps, etc. might have been involved in the prior Time of Troubles in N. Ireland on either side. I think even Catholics and Prots can find unity in detesting Islamic infiltration as they make the differences between the Christian sects minor compared with the canyon between Christian and Islam. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 02:17 PM (WDjG6) 239
not so fast with the wins, "Trans Healthcare Coverage Ban Stripped From Negotiated Military NDAA Bill In Sunday Night Surprise
Anti-DEI and sports ban provisions for the military still exist in the bill, but the removal of a health care provision is a major victory for transgender people in congressional legislation." that was 12/5 Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 02:17 PM (g47mK) 240
Funny thing about Sein Fein, is there any money in smuggling firearms into England?
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 02:18 PM (W7XSX) 241
234 Any possibility of them being red-pilled? Or maybe (more likely) they're seeing a possibility to distinguish themselves from political rivals?
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 02:17 PM (2L+MU) ======= The IRA is a socialist organization and has been for more than a century. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:18 PM (GBKbO) 242
I mean, WTF ??? "Late Sunday night, congressional leaders released the negotiated text of the National Defense Authorization Act. The House and Senate had each already passed their own versions—both with anti-LGBTQ+ provisions, including a sweeping ban on Defense Department funding for gender-affirming surgeries. That measure, which would have compounded the barrage of anti-trans actions already underway in the military under Donald Trump’s command, was widely expected to survive into the final bill. But in a surprise twist, the negotiated text dropped the surgical funding ban altogether—marking the second time in recent weeks that major anti-trans riders have collapsed during the congressional process. Though the final version still includes anti-DEI language and a transgender sports ban for those enrolled at military academies, defeating the surgical funding ban is a significant and unexpected victory."
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 02:18 PM (g47mK) 243
Eee RA. Why can't they pronounce letters. Haytch.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:18 PM (eEIbO) 244
"Tim Poo's paid security isnt doing a good job". - Shalom, Soothsayer
Aren't they IT security, not physical security? Posted by: Fen at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (ciYHQ) 245
I was on Joint Base Lewis McChord yesterday (I will neither confirm or deny i was at the Class VI store) and saw an airman wearing a Space Force MMXIX patch. Pretty cool looking and yeah, right out of the Romulan Style book. All black and silver.
Posted by: Diogenes ------- FWIW, Chief Master Sergeant: https://tinyurl.com/3mecrndz Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (XeU6L) 246
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 02:13 PM (WDjG6)
Between the pictures of "little trayvon", pretending Zimmerman was an old Jew and then finally a "white" "Hispanic,,and the lies on NBC "he looks suspicious he looks black"... that is how they managed to turn an otherwise completely race unbothered nation into their Race War Utopia. Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (U6Usv) 247
obviously the quotes are from pro-LBTQ+++ author
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (g47mK) 248
End H-1B. End student and worker visas. Build the wall, deport them all, and put a 50-year pause on legal immigration as well. Nothing but tourist and diplomatic visas, with burly men waiting in vans to grab them and take them to the airport if they overstay, until there are no more Fake Americans that 1. know when the World Cup is and 2. visibly or audibly root for another country. We are overfull to the point of disintegration, and it needs to stop.
Posted by: SciVo at December 09, 2025 02:13 PM (Sy6m/) The other half of this equation is we need to remove ourselves from foreign intrigue and wars. That too has to stop. I know some people are addicted to these wars, and will lash out at anyone who suggests the U.S. of A. has no reason to be in Asia, in Southwest Asia, in Europe, or any other third world shitholes. "American First" should mean American first. Not when we get done with all the rest of the world's problems. Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (dGCAG) 249
The IRA is a socialist organization and has been for more than a century.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison Ya but they can help your biker gun run firearms. Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (MGB5H) 250
I took my car in for an oil change last year and they told me the muffler was bad and I needed to replace it...then quoted me a ridiculous price, not just labor but the parts as well.
My next inspection was coming up and they told me as well I needed to replace it and I found a place that had more reasonable rates. So...the first place wasn't lying about the need to replace it but they really jacked up the price. I assume they have plenty of people that agree to it and don't shop around. Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (sKqQm) 251
McDonald's Netherlands cocks up a Christmas ad in the flavor of Bud Light & Cracker Barrel.
https://tinyurl.com/4bu6d7u6 McDonald’s Netherlands has managed to do the impossible: release a Christmas advertisement so bleak that even the Grinch might send them a sympathy card. Instead of delivering the feel-good warmth Americans once expected from holiday ads—yes, even from giant corporations—McDonald’s dropped a cold, AI-generated oddity described by viewers as nothing short of “terrible” and “joyless.” This bizarre commercial, stitched together by a cocktail of algorithms and sleepless creatives, proudly reimagines the classic It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year as—brace yourself—“the most terrible time of the year.” Because apparently, somewhere in the boardroom, someone decided that what families really crave during the holidays is a cynical rewrite of a beloved Christmas song. Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (bvUs5) 252
@LeadingReport
· 25s BREAKING: Federal court upholds transgender military ban. Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 02:16 PM (mlg/3) Thinking that God put you in the wrong body should be immediate failure of any psychological evaluation and not even be allowed to own a gun. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (Zz0t1) 253
249 The IRA is a socialist organization and has been for more than a century.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison Ya but they can help your biker gun run firearms. Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (MGB5H) ======= "Yeah...for MONEY!" -socialist revolutionaries Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (GBKbO) 254
So they are moving a bill with trans surgeries financed by the Military.
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 02:20 PM (g47mK) Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 02:20 PM (L/fGl) 256
They aren't just doing it with coders, they're doing it in medicine too. There's been a huge increase in foreign born-and-trained doctors due to the (arguably manufactured) shortage of physicians in the United States. This isn't going to end well.
Posted by: Cut those corners, the hell with patient health and safety at December 09, 2025 02:00 PM (TbWk/) == Well there is a doctor shortage because the ACA chased a bunch of docs out, and there are only so many training seats available, just as the boomers start to really need doctors. So it is manufactured in that there is only so much clinical space available and its maxed out. Posted by: Black JEM at December 09, 2025 02:20 PM (GZYu7) 257
Why didn't Trump just ignore the lower courts and shoot the district judges instead?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison Laying the predicate is an important step in executing. Every new CEO knows they, with rare exception, that he can't just go hogwild on day one. It's easier to identify the easy problems, build a consensus, and build momentum that give the organization the trust to allow wild changes. Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 02:20 PM (mlg/3) 258
228 Oh, well...the DC Circuit upheld the transgender ban in the military.
Why didn't Trump just ignore the lower courts and shoot the district judges instead? It's not like the new policy stayed in effect through the whole litigation and he won on merits in the end, anyway. Posted by: TheJamesMadison ==== Trump is moving faster than any other president aside from FDR who had overwhelming margins in Congress to aid him. Reagan administration looks like a piker compared to Trump especially the pace of a second term. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 02:20 PM (WDjG6) 259
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You all understand that when quoted an hourly rate by a car or appliance dealership it's about 5 times what they're actually paying the guy who does the work. Or girl. Or trans gender. Or monkey. Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 02:17 PM (Y8DZL) Never get work done at a dealership, they will charge you 2-3 times what an independent shop will charge. Find a reputable mechanic who owns his own operation, or you'll repeatedly get fucked over. Posted by: Dealership is the WORST option at December 09, 2025 02:20 PM (TbWk/) 260
@144
>>Maybe this will sound crazy, but I think Tim Poo's paid security isnt doing a good job. Uhmm, but for a 10 degree tilt of the head, we are in a far different timeline. Body Security ain't what it used to be. Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 02:21 PM (XV/Pl) 261
This bizarre commercial, stitched together by a cocktail of algorithms and sleepless creatives, proudly reimagines the classic It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year as—brace yourself—“the most terrible time of the year.” Because apparently, somewhere in the boardroom, someone decided that what families really crave during the holidays is a cynical rewrite of a beloved Christmas song.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (bvUs5) Wow........ Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:21 PM (Zz0t1) 262
EEOC is starting to go after the Indian tech company clans. They won't survive it, doesn't matter how many H1Bs there are. The "majority" can now sue and expect to win for employment discrimination.
Posted by: Black JEM at December 09, 2025 02:21 PM (GZYu7) 263
who is keeping an eye on the clowns in Congress?? First they blocked the muslim bros ban, now included trans surgeries for military ? wtf ? isn't this Vance's domain ?
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 02:21 PM (g47mK) 264
257 Laying the predicate is an important step in executing. Every new CEO knows they, with rare exception, that he can't just go hogwild on day one. It's easier to identify the easy problems, build a consensus, and build momentum that give the organization the trust to allow wild changes.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 02:20 PM (mlg/3) ====== All true. And there's a lot (A LOT) less bullshit from circuit and appellate courts now than there were 8 months ago. SCOTUS has smacked down enough to quiet most of the lower courts. All that's really left is district court judges who are playing for promotions in a future Democrat administration. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:21 PM (GBKbO) 265
I was on Joint Base Lewis McChord yesterday (I will neither confirm or deny i was at the Class VI store) and saw an airman wearing a Space Force MMXIX patch. Pretty cool looking and yeah, right out of the Romulan Style book. All black and silver. Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 02:07 PM (KQmzo) Hugo Boss? Posted by: Eromero at December 09, 2025 02:21 PM (LHPAg) 266
Things will change when The Blade starts as an immigration judge!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 02:07 PM (iFTx/) Dude, what you need to do is wear a powdered wig, and whenever you deport some alien - which I assume will be most of the time - you place a square of black silk on your head before pronouncing, "You are hereby sentenced to suffer deportation to Liberia, and may God have mercy on your soul". Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 02:21 PM (2L+MU) 267
McDonald’s Netherlands has managed to do the impossible: release a Christmas advertisement so bleak that even the Grinch might send them a sympathy card. Instead of delivering the feel-good warmth Americans once expected from holiday ads—yes, even from giant corporations—McDonald’s dropped a cold, AI-generated oddity described by viewers as nothing short of “terrible” and “joyless.”
This bizarre commercial, stitched together by a cocktail of algorithms and sleepless creatives, proudly reimagines the classic It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year as—brace yourself—“the most terrible time of the year.” Because apparently, somewhere in the boardroom, someone decided that what families really crave during the holidays is a cynical rewrite of a beloved Christmas song. Posted by: rickb223 ========= Know any famous Dutch comedians? No wonder that a Dutch ad firm botched the humor. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 02:21 PM (WDjG6) 268
I found a repetuable mechanic. No bullshit on state inspections. No annual brake work.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:22 PM (eEIbO) 269
They hate us. And I'm including both Dems and Repubs as the "they"
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 02:23 PM (Dv3i1) 270
@259
>>Never get work done at a dealership, they will charge you 2-3 times what an independent shop will charge. Find a reputable mechanic who owns his own operation, or you'll repeatedly get fucked over. I do all of my own work on my cars, my wife will not let me work on her cars and her cars go to the Honda dealer for work, by and large, Honda does not gauge for service. Is it more expensive for what I can do it for? Yes, but it's not exorbitant. Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 02:23 PM (XV/Pl) 271
266 Things will change when The Blade starts as an immigration judge!
Posted by: Elric The Blade ======== Trump admin just fired a bunch of judges the other day. Problem is that the local office's job ad for filling those judgeships probably has No US Citizens need apply just like above. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 02:23 PM (WDjG6) 272
One point to ponder - the people the left appoints to judgeships and the permanent bureaucracy - are leftwing equivalents of us.
Would be nice to see the GOP return the favor but they won't.... Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 02:24 PM (sKqQm) 273
On the other hand, they haven't had a really good fight for quite a few years now. and they ARE Irish.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 02:11 PM (uWKK *shifty eyes* There's no way we'd love Flogging Molly's "Irish Drinking Song." Posted by: pookysgirl of the Cathcart clan at December 09, 2025 02:24 PM (Wt5PA) 274
They hate us. And I'm including both Dems and Repubs as the "they"
------ Yes, and they still think its 1990-something where they can make these stupid "oh, what the heck--let the taxpayers pay for transgender surgery" backroom deals and that there is ZERO chance that us rubes will ever find out about it. They need to be blasted every single time they do these sellouts until the lesson is learned. Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 02:25 PM (TN0g+) 275
I do all of my own work on my cars, my wife will not let me work on her cars and her cars go to the Honda dealer for work, by and large, Honda does not gauge for service.
Is it more expensive for what I can do it for? Yes, but it's not exorbitant. Posted by: Thomas Bender ========= Auto companies are moving to the John Deere model where the software and even tools are proprietary and expensive. Being sued for it as well under right to repair laws. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 02:25 PM (WDjG6) 276
The IRA beat The British Empire.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:25 PM (eEIbO) 277
Why do dealerships have the reputation of price gouging?
Is it because the people that go straight to the dealer are less likely to price shop vs people that find a local repairshop instead? Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 02:25 PM (sKqQm) 278
I don't think it's the IRA, I think it's a similar acronym.
Like ICA, Irish Citizen Army? Someone posted their manifesto video the other day here. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 02:25 PM (HXT0k) 279
Nood
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 02:26 PM (uQzkA) 280
Things will change when The Blade starts as an immigration judge! Posted by: Elric The Blade ======== Trump admin just fired a bunch of judges the other day. Problem is that the local office's job ad for filling those judgeships probably has No US Citizens need apply just like above. Posted by: whig a Here's the link to apply https://tinyurl.com/4rwpvhpk Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 02:26 PM (MGB5H) 281
Well there is a doctor shortage because the ACA chased a bunch of docs out, and there are only so many training seats available, just as the boomers start to really need doctors. So it is manufactured in that there is only so much clinical space available and its maxed out.
Posted by: Black JEM at December 09, 2025 02:20 PM (GZYu7) The ACA has made it worse by accelerating a lot of physicians' retirements, but the physician shortage trend was predicted and noted by a number of reputable studies starting around the late 90s. This isn't a surprise by any stretch, and yet nothing was done to seriously address the issue. Posted by: Another fuckup in a long list of fuckups at December 09, 2025 02:26 PM (TbWk/) 282
I don't think it's the IRA, I think it's a similar acronym.
Like ICA, Irish Citizen Army? Someone posted their manifesto video the other day here. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 02:25 PM (HXT0k) I'm old enough to remember when U2 weren't such preening assholes, and actually made punkish music, singing the praises of the IRA. If we can get back to that, I don't care what else they do. Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 02:27 PM (dGCAG) 283
Trump is going to send 2 million illegals packing this year.
I expect 8-10 million over 4 years. With no replacement in-migration. That makes, somewhere around 2-3 million rental units available in major cities over 4 years. About 500,000 per year. In 2025, an estimated 506,353 rental units are expected to be built nationwide in the U.S. Hence, assuming we keep building, this will double the number of available rental units in major cities. DOUBLE. Hence rnust rates must fall. Step 2 is to get rid of short-term rentals - Ban air B&B and VRBO. Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 02:28 PM (C3IAS) Posted by: pawn at December 09, 2025 02:28 PM (EMg+d) 285
"The IRA is a socialist organization and has been for more than a century"
Lucky guess - they were hijacked by Marxists, as usual? Posted by: Fen at December 09, 2025 02:28 PM (ciYHQ) 286
I am blown away by the Hourly Rates people are pulling these days. In fact we did everything backwards. More paperwork? Doctors love paperwork! Make it impossible to run a local office by yourself or with a couple of your colleagues? Yes! Doctors love to work for globo-megacorps Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 02:28 PM (sKqQm) 287
Well there is a doctor shortage because the ACA chased a bunch of docs out, and there are only so many training seats available, just as the boomers start to really need doctors. So it is manufactured in that there is only so much clinical space available and its maxed out.
Posted by: Black JEM ======== Many states have certificate of need for key medical facility approval that keep competition down. Then, doctors often face debilitating corporate culture where they answer to corporate bosses (even if ngo) on measures like generating revenue by seeing the maximum number of patients, referrrals in system, drugs prescribed, etc. And the tedious unpaid electronic medical records required by Obamacare that are driving docs batshit crazy in paperwork. Whole health care system needs massive revision but the risk is the left and corporations wanting to shuck costs turn it into NHS USA. There you will die from neglect, malpractice, and delays in basic care. Plus have to pay out of pocket to see the moonlighting NHS docs at night privately because long delays to see them as NHS docs in daytime. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 02:34 PM (WDjG6) 288
I can solve the doctor shortage overnight. One. Rule. You CANNOT sue a doctor for services you didn't pay for. In fact, you have no legal recourse whatsoever for medical services provided without charge. And you can only sue for 3X the cost of the procedure, assuming you did pay.
That lifts a huge fraction of the liability costs from doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals. It allows more lower trained people to supervise simple medical procedures. And nobody getting a free ride can turn around and sue anyone for poor care. My daughter is a nurse and takes care of a lot of homeless people. She has been assaulted 1-2 times a year. Each time the perp - nothing happens. And if she fights back, they tell her she'll be fired, loose her license, and the hospital will be sued. How many docs are signing up for that bullshit? Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 02:35 PM (C3IAS) 289
285 "The IRA is a socialist organization and has been for more than a century"
Lucky guess - they were hijacked by Marxists, as usual? Posted by: Fen IRA was different depending on which era--the original IRA, not commie, the provisional IRA revived during the N. Ireland Time of Troubles and definitely commie as is their Sinn Fein above ground party, and perhaps this new organization calling itself an old name made up of fed up Irishmen fighting a different enemy--Globohomo. So far, just some videos released, nothing more and speculation is going to be rife on who they are. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 02:37 PM (WDjG6) 290
284 "The IRA beat The British Empire."
Terrorism works. Posted by: pawn ======= Unless your enemy is Oliver Cromwell or William Tecumseh Sherman. Not so much then. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 02:39 PM (WDjG6) 291
Sucks. Horrible. Illegal. But Trump surrendered on this. Totally and completely. Nothing will be done. It will, if anything, accelerate.
Midterms are gonna be lit. Posted by: GigantorX at December 09, 2025 03:15 PM (qEAvu) 292
The other half of this equation is we need to remove ourselves from foreign intrigue and wars.
That too has to stop. I know some people are addicted to these wars, and will lash out at anyone who suggests the U.S. of A. has no reason to be in Asia, in Southwest Asia, in Europe, or any other third world shitholes. "American First" should mean American first. Not when we get done with all the rest of the world's problems. Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (dGCAG) Agreed. But I just read the other day how the Dept. of War was looking at drawing down forces in Europe and S. Korea, maybe even letting some other NATO country have the Supreme Commander gig in Europe, and the new Defense bill nipped that all in the bud. Legislatively codified mandatory World Empire force structure. It isn't enough to pick the right President. It's necessary, but we also need to get more involved in Congressional races. It is actually perfectly legal to support principled challengers looking to replace hacks in other parts of the country; in fact, that's a big part of how lefty activists use ActBlue in practice, albeit using their power for evil. We could do it too (but for good). Posted by: SciVo at December 09, 2025 03:22 PM (Sy6m/) 293
Ha! I'd say, as a underemploted coder, 90% of posted jobs are either fake, or only published to get non-citizens to hire.
Nobody hires white male US citizen developers anymore. Posted by: Zippyslug at December 09, 2025 03:59 PM (/jFSs) 294
Then we wont by buying any of their Products and we can Boycott them because Boycotting isn't a Crime
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 09, 2025 04:53 PM (wGqjj) 295
My last salary was $8750, ecom only worked 12 hours a week. My longtime neighbor yr estimated $15,000 and works about 20 hours for seven days. I can't believe how blunt he was when I looked up his information,
This is what I do................ https://p0stpr0m0ney88.blogspot.com/ Posted by: HOME PROFIT at December 09, 2025 06:28 PM (+3dnj) 296
Had to go this afternoon and missed this thread.
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l Get paid over $110 per hour working from home. l never thought I'd be able to do it but my buddy makes over $21269 a month doing this and she convinced me to try. The possibility with this is endless....
This is what I do...................... https://urlr.me/E3tz6Y Posted by: Anonymous at December 10, 2025 04:05 AM (NxtE8) Jasmine Ratchet Makes It Official: She's Running to Win the Primary to Lose the Election for Texas SenatorRemember the Atlantic's profile of her, revealing her to be an absolutely self-obsessed narcissist? That the lock screen of her phone shows a glamor shot of her smiling chubby face? Her video announcement for her candidacy also focuses on her self-believed beauty. Oh, and Trump knocking her as "low IQ," which she says proves the GOP is terrified of her charisma and power. It's a variation of the Rush Limbaugh chestnut "They'll tell you who they fear," which I never believed, and I sure don't believe it as regards Jasmine Ratchet.
"Charlie Kirk continuously put out, there was rhetoric that specifically targeted people of color." Even after Charlie Kirk's assassination, she told her fellow lunatic Democrats and antifa furries: "Pick up a weapon, we're at war!" "Just because someone has committed a crime, doesn't make them a criminal." "Folks who also took money from someone named Jeffrey Epstein..." Jasmine Ratchet read an article that she says was "so funny" that whites are dying out due to not having babies at or above the replacement rate. White people are an obsession for this race-baiter. Here, she shares the non-fact that whites commit 80% of the violent crime in America. Flashback: It turns out this low-IQ narcissist is nasty to her staff. "The insiders say that Crockett cares about being an influencer than working for her constituents." Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
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Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at December 09, 2025 12:17 PM (Vpqw1) 2
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Posted by: doug at December 09, 2025 12:18 PM (Hy+R4) 3
You know. Jasmine Crotchett is actually brilliant.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2025 12:19 PM (jbnUc) 4
I suppose we should count ourselves fortunate that such an idiot will be the Dem candidate.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 12:19 PM (Riz8t) 5
Her announcement press opportunity featured her coining the terms "Crocket Crew," for her supporters, who she claims will paint Texas blue.
====== Is it 2012 again, or something? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 12:20 PM (GBKbO) 6
It's all performance art for the left. Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 12:20 PM (Y8DZL) 7
She is only doing this to grift because she can't win a statewide officer. She is extremely unpopular outside of the very deep blue districts, which by the way are soon to be gone.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2025 12:20 PM (0N4FZ) 8
Crocky!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 12:20 PM (iJfKG) 9
Win one for the ghetto!
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2025 12:20 PM (NwnyJ) 10
What's her platform? Free false eyelashes for all wimminz of color?
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 12:20 PM (77rzZ) 11
I like the "natural look" she sports. So little make-up. So little time spent blowing out her hair and spraying it with lacquer.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:21 PM (1wjle) 12
You know. Jasmine Crotchett is actually brilliant.
When she was asked about quantum mechanics, she didn't understand why enumerating auto service personnel would be more difficult than any other kind of person. OK, it's a reach. Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 12:21 PM (Riz8t) 13
I don't have much to add to the conversation in the earlier post about this cuntiferous pest
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 12:21 PM (iFTx/) 14
"2 almost"
My 2d time this week! It's not only technique, it's tenacity! How bad do you want to be First (interrobang) Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at December 09, 2025 12:21 PM (Vpqw1) 15
Jazzy, Jazzy Crockett, the Queen of the wild frontier.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 12:22 PM (L/fGl) 16
A bit willowed, but...
Tangential: Foreign births down in 41 states: https://x.com/RyanGirdusky/status/ 1998428790570246211 In TX, it's more than 10% decline. I'm sure this will help Democrats somehow because all is lost all the time. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 12:22 PM (GBKbO) 17
IMO, winning elections needs a candidate you love or an opponent you despise. I think R’s will have the latter in JC.
Posted by: EveR at December 09, 2025 12:22 PM (Wxfe5) 18
With the teleprompter placement in those stills, I got strong Obama vibes. Anyone else?
Posted by: pookysgirl is not sure about the deja vu at December 09, 2025 12:22 PM (Wt5PA) 19
I like the "natural look" she sports. So little make-up. So little time spent blowing out her hair and spraying it with lacquer.
Posted by: ace I don't think she's unattractive at all, once she ditches the false eyelashes. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 12:22 PM (77rzZ) 20
I don't have much to add to the conversation in the earlier post about this c***iferous pest
Since when does that stop us? Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 12:22 PM (Riz8t) 21
She's 100% in it to try and make herself the female Hasan Piker or something. We'll see if she shocks any dogs.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 12:22 PM (2ocoG) Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 12:22 PM (Da7Vv) 23
I like the "natural look" she sports. So little make-up. So little time spent blowing out her hair and spraying it with lacquer.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:21 PM (1wjle) ===== I was just thinking my face is getting itchy just looking at her. Posted by: Jordan61 at December 09, 2025 12:22 PM (DRSnL) 24
I'm shocked! Shocked to find that narcissism is going on in here!
Posted by: Captain Crockett at December 09, 2025 12:23 PM (qUkBO) 25
Afternoon Ace.
Crockett cries when she gets in, Pat Schroeder cried when she didn't. Stable folks Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 12:23 PM (D+mpw) 26
I'm sure this will help Democrats somehow because all is lost all the time.
Like tears in rain... Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 12:23 PM (Riz8t) 27
I love you, Texas 30." Welp, there you go, Ol' Crocky is, at least, smart enough to say she hates Texas and country music and BBQ and Buckies and the Cowboys, etc. So, she's already got a leg up on Hateful Blonde Kamala over on the East Coast. Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 12:23 PM (iJfKG) 28
I like the "natural look" she sports. So little make-up. So little time spent blowing out her hair and spraying it with lacquer.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:21 PM (1wjle) ___ "Fuck you, racist. She's forced to do this because of white supremacy!" -- Moochelle Obama Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 12:23 PM (iFTx/) 29
Whites committed 11 percent of the crime overnight in Charlotte Meck. Not sure where she gets her crime stats.
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 12:24 PM (uQzkA) 30
We fully support the candidacy of Ms. Crockett and believe that she is absolutely the best person to represent the Great State of Texas.
Posted by: Big Eyelash at December 09, 2025 12:24 PM (PiwSw) 31
You have to laugh. This bint was a one term representative in Texas who did zero for her constituents. She turned that into a congressional seat, where she still has done zero for her constituents. But don’t trust me. Go look at her record. All along the way she’s gotten richer, as her constituents have suffered. Running for a senate seat, which she will most certainly lose, is going to put even more money in her pocket. My only question is at what point do the people who vote for her don gimp suits, write “Im an Dunce”’on their foreheads with a Sharpie, and perform self flagellation in the public square.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2025 12:24 PM (XFXIk) 32
17 IMO, winning elections needs a candidate you love or an opponent you despise. I think R’s will have the latter in JC.
Posted by: EveR at December 09, 2025 12:22 PM (Wxfe5) ======= I bet she'll win as much of a percentage of the vote as Allred did in 2024. Less than 45%. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 12:24 PM (GBKbO) 33
Michelle Obama would have something to say about that hair.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 12:24 PM (pkeXY) Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 12:24 PM (Cjt/F) 35
I think that gives TX GOP voters enough comfort they can kick out Cornyn and still win the general election
Posted by: Leupold at December 09, 2025 12:25 PM (eIzlH) 36
Crockett is a Juan’s Fish Store 2.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2025 12:25 PM (XFXIk) 37
She seems nice.
Posted by: That guy who thinks people seem nice at December 09, 2025 12:25 PM (n1JwJ) 38
I don't have much to add to the conversation in the earlier post about this c***iferous pest
Since when does that stop us? Posted by: Archimedes If a thing is worth saying, it's worth beating like a dead horse. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 12:25 PM (L/fGl) 39
Oh, and Trump knocking her as "low IQ," which she says proves the GOP is terrified of her charisma and power. It's a variation of the Rush Limbaugh chestnut "They'll tell you who they fear," which I never believed, and I sure don't believe it as regards Jasmine Ratchet.
It *is* true a fair amount of the time, but never in the case where someone claims it about themselves. All the Democrats shrieking that they're Trump's biggest enemy are self-disqualifying. Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 12:25 PM (2ocoG) 40
Honestly, it's probably a good choice for her.
She's going to make a ton grifting off of this and otherwise, she's being gerrymandered out of her safe district. She's not really low IQ. She's a grifter pretending to be low IQ because that's how to play to Democrat voters. She went to a private school and does not talk like her public persona. It's all an act. That's why she's latching onto Trump's attack. She knows it helps her grifting her intended victims. (ACTUAL low IQ leftists.) Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 12:25 PM (zjgNU) 41
The Karens will flock to shop at JC Dummies.
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 09, 2025 12:25 PM (5yDGQ) 42
Crockett looks and sounds pretty low IQ. But I'd still tap that ass.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 12:25 PM (1zOXE) 43
Re-do:
Welp, there you go, Ol' Crocky is, at least, smart enough NOT to say she hates Texas and country music and BBQ and Buckies and the Cowboys, etc. Stupid brain. Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 12:26 PM (iJfKG) 44
Clowns gotta clown.
Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at December 09, 2025 12:26 PM (8h04I) 45
She's a comically retarded DEI law school grad, egotistical loon, and racist asshole, but she honestly looks good for a 44 year old black woman. She could lose a few lbs and ditch the stupid push-broom eyelashes, but she's easy on the eyes.
Posted by: ballistic at December 09, 2025 12:26 PM (5aZAZ) 46
Jazzy is going to get beaten so badly in the actual election in TX that the Democrats may call 911 to report a mugging.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 12:26 PM (Da7Vv) 47
Crock full
Of $hit. Posted by: Czech Chick at December 09, 2025 12:26 PM (vK/Ja) 48
Oh, no she di'int!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2025 12:26 PM (kgE5c) 49
Being able to lie relentlessly, with impunity and the unconditional support of the criminal media does help Democrats.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 09, 2025 12:26 PM (8CIFn) 50
She is the colored gal version of Baby DooDoo Beto O'Rourke who was the cracka version of every Beaner illegal invader from South Of The Border.
In it for the fame and grift. But mostly the grift. Posted by: Speedy Gonzales at December 09, 2025 12:26 PM (FGMmt) 51
According to wikipedia Anton LeVey was Zeena LeVey's father.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President Of the 8th Circle of Hell LeVeys? Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 12:26 PM (77rzZ) 52
Good afternoon Ace and everybody
It is really really cold here. Trying to find excuses to stay indoors so hee I am. Colin Allred dropped out the day before to run for a newly redistricted area. Democrats knowing they will not win the Senste seat and hoping to hold onto the Rep seat that Jasmine would have certainly lost. Although Crockett loses, hr candidacy complicates the Republican primary. Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 09, 2025 12:27 PM (t/2Uw) 53
My only question is at what point do the people who vote for her don gimp suits, write “Im an Dunce”’on their foreheads with a Sharpie, and perform self flagellation in the public square.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2025 12:24 PM (XFXIk) You gotta realize that up until now her constituents have been primarily ho's, pimps, dealers, and welfare queens. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 12:27 PM (uWKK8) 54
Flashback: It turns out this low-IQ narcissist is nasty to her staff. "The insiders say that Crockett cares about being an influencer than working for her constituents."
Posted by: Ace at 12:18 PM Right. Because it's all a grift. Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 12:27 PM (zjgNU) 55
The Democrats could help themselves by testing candidates. Anyone who scores below Tim Walz shouldn't be allowed to run.
Posted by: Dave at December 09, 2025 12:27 PM (sbsMc) 56
Crockett looks and sounds pretty low IQ. But I'd still tap that ass.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 12:25 PM Rule #1, gentlemen...Rule #1. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2025 12:27 PM (kgE5c) 57
>>35 I think that gives TX GOP voters enough comfort they can kick out Cornyn and still win the general election
yes... I heard Halperin saying that. He still thinks the GOP would rather stick with Cornyn. Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:28 PM (1wjle) 58
She will get more votes than Cornhole Cornyn (in the primaries).
Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at December 09, 2025 12:28 PM (1jqCC) Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 09, 2025 12:28 PM (bss/y) 60
So you are saying she is a bitch in bed and she keeps a weapon nearby?
Is that what you were saying? Posted by: thug dolphin at December 09, 2025 12:28 PM (EyfuW) 61
The Democrats could help themselves by testing candidates. Anyone who scores below Tim Walz shouldn't be allowed
Posted by: Dave at December 09, 2025 12:27 PM FIFY. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2025 12:29 PM (kgE5c) 62
She also said she could deliver victories and results via "the JC way," which I guess supposedly means "Jasmine Crocket," but it sure sounds like she conflates herself with Jesus Christ. - Ace
Her 'What Would Jasmine Do' bracelets will be all the rage when they hit her merch store. Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 09, 2025 12:29 PM (WIhZk) 63
57 >>35 I think that gives TX GOP voters enough comfort they can kick out Cornyn and still win the general election
yes... I heard Halperin saying that. He still thinks the GOP would rather stick with Cornyn. Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:28 PM (1wjle) ======= And yet...Crockett is going to raise $50 million, at least, because she's a star who fights, or whatever. All while Roy Cooper, who could use that money a lot more, gets squeezed out of private donations because he's boring, old, white, and male. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 12:29 PM (GBKbO) 64
She's a dude, dressed like another dude playing another dude.
She's an actress just like AOC. She's just there to scoop up dollars. Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 12:29 PM (viF8m) 65
56 Crockett looks and sounds pretty low IQ. But I'd still tap that ass.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 12:25 PM Rule #1, gentlemen...Rule #1. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2025 12:27 PM (kgE5c) Really? She's a strip mall 2. Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 09, 2025 12:29 PM (bss/y) 66
Set all phasers to Grift.
Posted by: Commander Crockett at December 09, 2025 12:29 PM (qUkBO) 67
Her "NO TAXES, REPARATIONS" platform guarantees a Democrat primary win, unless a "Kill the White People" candidate emerges. Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 12:29 PM (Y8DZL) 68
She's not really low IQ. She's a grifter pretending to be low IQ because that's how to play to Democrat voters.
=== I actually think she's legit low IQ. Like if you tested her, it would be clear The way has been paved as a DEI baby and that breeds intellectual laziness when everything is handed to you. Posted by: Leupold at December 09, 2025 12:30 PM (eIzlH) 69
> Michelle Obama would have something to say about that hair.
---------- It's why Jazzy can't swim? Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2025 12:30 PM (NwnyJ) 70
yes... I heard Halperin saying that. He still thinks the GOP would rather stick with Cornyn.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:28 PM (1wjle) Only the Bush family and their instate allies want to stick with Cornyn. Everyone else in Texas is sick to death of him. I like Paxton, but from what I've seen I could be happy with Hunt. He's just a bit of an unknown; army veteran with good record, black, 44 years old. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 12:30 PM (uWKK8) 71
Do you think she'll use "Crockett's Theme" from Miami Vice as her campaign music?
Posted by: Lex at December 09, 2025 12:30 PM (l5xX+) 72
All the makeup in the world isn't covering that five head.
Posted by: Bosk at December 09, 2025 12:30 PM (VMFAF) 73
Cornyn will lose the primary. A lot of Republicans in Texas feel it’s time to turn the page.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2025 12:30 PM (XFXIk) 74
66 Set all phasers to Grift.
Posted by: Commander Crockett at December 09, 2025 12:29 PM (qUkBO) Heh. Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 09, 2025 12:30 PM (bss/y) 75
I can't wait for Ace to get to Ketanji Brown Jackson this morning.
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 09, 2025 12:31 PM (1PnA+) 76
Jasmine Crockett starts crying during her announcement that she is running for the United States Senate
Performative bullshit to manipulate the sheep-stupid audience. And since when does "stronk independent boss bitch" include struggling to hold back tears and fanning yourself like a Miss America pageant winner? Posted by: From absurd to ludicrous to plaid at December 09, 2025 12:31 PM (TbWk/) 77
Crockett looks and sounds pretty low IQ. But I'd still tap that ass.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 12:25 PM Rule #1, gentlemen...Rule #1. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2025 12:27 PM (kgE5c) Really? She's a strip mall 2. Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 09, 2025 12:29 PM Another reason that Rule #1 is important. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2025 12:31 PM (kgE5c) 78
Jasmine died for our sins.
Posted by: Henrietta Houston at December 09, 2025 12:31 PM (qUkBO) 79
Keeping her occupied running for office is a good thing. Wouldn't want her workin' the drive-through, or teaching children in skool. Bernie parlayed being a loser into millions with a fine lakeside mansion, Jazzy will do the same and provide some comedy along the way.
Posted by: Sassy Qween at December 09, 2025 12:31 PM (oftw2) 80
This will be fun to talk about with my fellow Texans.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 09, 2025 12:32 PM (GD2xa) 81
>>>I like Paxton, but from what I've seen I could be happy with Hunt. He's just a bit of an unknown; army veteran with good record, black, 44 years old.
I like Paxton but the left keeps calling him a "homewrecker." I guess they're saying he has an infidelity problem. I never looked into it. Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:32 PM (1wjle) Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 12:32 PM (L/fGl) 83
78 Jasmine died for our sins.
Posted by: Henrietta Houston at December 09, 2025 12:31 PM (qUkBO) *types* *deletes* Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 09, 2025 12:32 PM (bss/y) 84
yes... I heard Halperin saying that. He still thinks the GOP would rather stick with Cornyn.
Posted by: ace === sad! I get GOP voters going with a squish if they think the Democrats can win the general election, but if TX keeps sending Ted Cruz back, I'd feel pretty comfortable kicking out a repeated John McCain type Republican. Didn't Cornyn spearhead the juneteenth federal holiday? Posted by: Leupold at December 09, 2025 12:32 PM (eIzlH) 85
Hunt is a solid dude.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2025 12:32 PM (XFXIk) 86
>>>75 I can't wait for Ace to get to Ketanji Brown Jackson this morning.
I covered a bit of that yesterday but I guess she made more news. I'll look for it. Thanks. Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:33 PM (1wjle) 87
I bet she'll win as much of a percentage of the vote as Allred did in 2024.
Less than 45%. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 12:24 PM (GBKbO) Jazzy is in, Allred dropped out. In polling so far, Cornyn is losing the primary convincingly to Paxton. Allred polled behind Cornyn but even with Paxton. I don’t believe Jasmine can do as well as Allred. For all that he’s a leftist democrat, Allred is at least a serious candidate. Crockett is a clown show on wheels. I cannot imagine her on a debate stage for US Senate. Posted by: Advo at December 09, 2025 12:33 PM (jO4mz) 88
O/T, but my dreams have come true. Triumph is going on tour May 2026! Along with April Wine. Atlanta, here I come!!
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 12:33 PM (qBdHI) 89
I don't think she's unattractive at all, once she ditches the false eyelashes.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 12:22 PM (77rzZ) —————- IT’S FUNNY BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE SHE’S WEARING SPIDERS ON HER EYES! Posted by: BEN ROETHLESSBERGER at December 09, 2025 12:33 PM (u73oe) 90
73 Cornyn will lose the primary. A lot of Republicans in Texas feel it’s time to turn the page.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2025 12:30 PM (XFXIk) Can they outvote the Democrats crossing over to support Cornyn? Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 09, 2025 12:33 PM (GD2xa) Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 09, 2025 12:33 PM (bss/y) 92
Say what you will about Jasmine, she does make pretty good rice.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 12:33 PM (77rzZ) Posted by: Jasmine Ratchet, her eyelashes dragging at December 09, 2025 12:34 PM (TbWk/) 94
Do you think she'll use "Crockett's Theme" from Miami Vice as her campaign music?
Posted by: Lex She's Crockett and Tubbs. Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 09, 2025 12:34 PM (WIhZk) 95
>>I covered a bit of that yesterday but I guess she made more news. I'll look for it. Thanks.
You might want to wait until the SC gets done roasting Marc Elias. It does not appear to be going well for Mr. Steele dossier. Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 12:34 PM (viF8m) 96
That's why she's latching onto Trump's attack. She knows it helps her grifting her intended victims. (ACTUAL low IQ leftists.)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian ========= I think it is going to be proven soon that most of those low IQ leftists are actually Smurfed foreign and whale donor money that is attributed to individuals. ACT Blue is a scam. Some in the GOP may not have much enthusiasm investigating because WinRed platform may not be immune to smurfing either. Dems, however, have been enthusiastically seeking illegal foreign donations since the Obama era turned off checking for country of the donor for credit card or gift card donations. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 12:34 PM (WDjG6) 97
She is a Toni Braxton 0 (that's on a 10 point scale, not scogg binary- but also scogg binary.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 09, 2025 12:34 PM (bss/y) 98
I smell True Conservatism!
Posted by: David French at December 09, 2025 12:34 PM (R+nQW) 99
87
Jazzy is in, Allred dropped out. In polling so far, Cornyn is losing the primary convincingly to Paxton. Allred polled behind Cornyn but even with Paxton. I don’t believe Jasmine can do as well as Allred. For all that he’s a leftist democrat, Allred is at least a serious candidate. Crockett is a clown show on wheels. I cannot imagine her on a debate stage for US Senate. Posted by: Advo at December 09, 2025 12:33 PM (jO4mz) ====== I was, just for clarity, talking about the general election result. And yeah...except...she'll probably just end up performing like a generic Democrat. It'll be some balance between engaged black voters and hardening of Hispanics into Republicans that just leaves her at recent historical levels. It will be a very expensive way to get the status quo. But, hey, not my money. I just need to file to start a Super PAC called TX Progressives for Black Justice, or something, to scoop up a few hundred thousand dollars. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 12:35 PM (GBKbO) 100
Oh, and Trump knocking her as "low IQ," which she says proves the GOP is terrified of her charisma and power
Just like that retard, Timmah Walz. https://youtu.be/b-Sgzx7CAj8 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 12:35 PM (ynpvh) 101
I like Paxton but the left keeps calling him a "homewrecker." I guess they're saying he has an infidelity problem. I never looked into it.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:32 PM (1wjle) His wife is a state Judge. Big ugly break up this year because she was too busy to do the nasty anymore so Paxton moved in with this good looking 57 year old widow woman with 7 kids. She apparently worships the ground he walks on, unlike the State Judge he was married to. Probably the bad part was that he wanted to stay married to the Judge and get her to say it was ok if he just lived with his girlfriend. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 12:35 PM (uWKK8) 102
I think that gives TX GOP voters enough comfort they can kick out Cornyn and still win the general election
yes... I heard Halperin saying that. He still thinks the GOP would rather stick with Cornyn. Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:28 PM (1wjle) ======= And yet...Crockett is going to raise $50 million, at least, because she's a star who fights, or whatever. All while Roy Cooper, who could use that money a lot more, gets squeezed out of private donations because he's boring, old, white, and male. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 12:29 PM (GBKbO) ____ She will raise a ton of money because Democraps are idiots, and certainly a lot of Hollywood-type money will flow in (as they would to any notable Democrap). But putting aside her intelligence and political savvy -- I think she's smarter and more savvy than most people here give her credit for -- her pathologically narcissistic shtick and abrasive attitude will turn off most people outside her district. Which is why -- TADA! -- she launched that "low IQ" ad which I think is the beginning of a major remake. We'll see if it works. Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 12:35 PM (iFTx/) 103
I actually think she's legit low IQ. Like if you tested her, it would be clear
The way has been paved as a DEI baby and that breeds intellectual laziness when everything is handed to you. Posted by: Leupold at December 09, 2025 12:30 P She is not stupid that is an act for her constituents in the hood. She completed law school at the university of houston and passed the bar on her first try and became a public defender in Houston. You ain't a dummy passing the bar exam on your first try. Less than 50% pass on their first go around. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2025 12:35 PM (0N4FZ) 104
I think you all are missing the point. This was a really smart move on the part of the Democrats. They don't have to waste money on the race. But the Republicans are going to waste a lot on the primary. Allred has a chance of winning that Rep seat. Apparently he is actually from the area where this new seat is. So, they have managed to make lemonade out of lemons. Or at least a chance to.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 09, 2025 12:35 PM (t/2Uw) 105
I think it is going to be proven soon that most of those low IQ leftists are actually Smurfed foreign and whale donor money that is attributed to individuals. ACT Blue is a scam. Some in the GOP may not have much enthusiasm investigating because WinRed platform may not be immune to smurfing either.
Smurf those smurfing smurfersmurfers right up their smurfing smurfs! Posted by: Smurf you, you smurfing smurfer at December 09, 2025 12:35 PM (TbWk/) 106
I actually think she's legit low IQ. Like if you tested her, it would be clear
The way has been paved as a DEI baby and that breeds intellectual laziness when everything is handed to you. Posted by: Leupold at December 09, 2025 12:30 PM (eIzlH) She might actually be low-IQ, but her actions suggest she's at least capable enough to understand she'll lose her next election for representative, so she needs to swing for the fences to get the deep pockets like Beto O'Rourke did running for Senate. It's possible that it all is just coincidence, but her choices suggest she's pretty shrewd. A terrible person and immoral of course, but that's what happens when you have degraded the shared culture and do everything you can to destroy the influence of Christianity on Western morals. It's of a type with the Somali grifters. She's just smart enough to do it legally. The musselmen don't really care about legality. (Being the rules of infidels have no bearing on one of the true believers of Mohammed, piss be upon him.) Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 12:36 PM (zjgNU) 107
Her campaign is a get rich quick scheme like the BLM grift, right?
Posted by: mr tmz at December 09, 2025 12:36 PM (rJ48h) 108
104 I think you all are missing the point. This was a really smart move on the part of the Democrats. They don't have to waste money on the race. But the Republicans are going to waste a lot on the primary. Allred has a chance of winning that Rep seat. Apparently he is actually from the area where this new seat is. So, they have managed to make lemonade out of lemons. Or at least a chance to.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 09, 2025 12:35 PM (t/2Uw) ====== So, the whole result is that a Democrat leaning district ends up Democrat? Wow. So savvy. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 12:36 PM (GBKbO) 109
>>>His wife is a state Judge. Big ugly break up this year because she was too busy to do the nasty anymore so Paxton moved in with this good looking 57 year old widow woman with 7 kids. She apparently worships the ground he walks on, unlike the State Judge he was married to.
ah. Spousal abandonment. Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:37 PM (1wjle) 110
Texas has an open primary system, which Paxton actually filed to change into party only voting.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2025 12:37 PM (XFXIk) 111
107 Her campaign is a get rich quick scheme like the BLM grift, right?
Posted by: mr tmz at December 09, 2025 12:36 PM (rJ48h) Well, yes. It's a low bar, but I think AOC is more of a True Believer. Hell, David Hogg might be more courageous and less of a grifter. Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 09, 2025 12:37 PM (bss/y) 112
“The people that commit 80% of the most violent crimes in this country are white supremacists”
Ignoring the people with a government retirement count playing as white supremacists their are not enough white supremacists to cause 80% of the crime in the US... Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 12:38 PM (sKqQm) 113
All the Republicans I know stop Jasmine Crocket at airports and tell her "We all support you!!!"
Posted by: Rick Wilson and other pedophile enablers at the Lincoln Project at December 09, 2025 12:38 PM (1wjle) 114
She's not really low IQ. She's a grifter pretending to be low IQ because that's how to play to Democrat voters.
Close, but there's a nuance. According to former classmates, she's pretending to be a ghetto black when she actually speaks the Queen's English. No word either way on her IQ - she honestly gives us nothing to actually judge that on given she's "in character" all the time. Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 12:38 PM (2ocoG) 115
2024 Congressional Grift: In progress.
2026 Senate Campaign Grift: Just started. 2028 Presidential Campaign Grift: On deck. Posted by: The JC Way! at December 09, 2025 12:38 PM (qUkBO) 116
109 >>>His wife is a state Judge. Big ugly break up this year because she was too busy to do the nasty anymore so Paxton moved in with this good looking 57 year old widow woman with 7 kids. She apparently worships the ground he walks on, unlike the State Judge he was married to.
ah. Spousal abandonment. Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:37 PM (1wjle) By whom though? Arguably cutting off the snizz supply should be considered abandonment. Posted by: Not in the Somali way at December 09, 2025 12:38 PM (TbWk/) 117
Reaching out across the aisle . . .
Pope Now Recommending Christians Pray The Rosary While Facing Mecca - From the Bee. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 12:39 PM (L/fGl) 118
His wife is a state Judge. Big ugly break up this year because she was too busy to do the nasty anymore so Paxton moved in with this good looking 57 year old widow woman with 7 kids. She apparently worships the ground he walks on, unlike the State Judge he was married to.
Probably the bad part was that he wanted to stay married to the Judge and get her to say it was ok if he just lived with his girlfriend. Posted by: Tom Servo ====== She is a state senator District 8, not judge. Remembered that because she was not allowed by TX Senate leaders to vote on her husband's impeachment. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 12:39 PM (WDjG6) 119
By whom though? Arguably cutting off the snizz supply should be considered abandonment.
Posted by: Not in the Somali way at December 09, 2025 12:38 PM (TbWk/) Yeah. Renewal of physical intimacy is important or else all you are anymore is roommates. Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 09, 2025 12:39 PM (bss/y) Posted by: D. Crockett at December 09, 2025 12:40 PM (OUMaO) 121
107 Her campaign is a get rich quick scheme like the BLM grift, right?
Posted by: mr tmz at December 09, 2025 12:36 PM (rJ48h) Just like that brotherf**ker from Somalia...she started out with a net worth of a few $100K, now is worth tens of millions... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 12:40 PM (ynpvh) 122
Today is Miami municipal election. DOn't let Qatar sponsored jihadists win anything !! Don't be NY! send them packing!
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 12:40 PM (g47mK) 123
>>>By whom though? Arguably cutting off the snizz supply should be considered abandonment.
That's what I meant. Women don't want to hear this but wives have the right to demand their husbands remain sexually faithful, but they don't have the right to demand they remain celibate. The contract for faithfulness imposes burdens on the husband but also upon the wife. If either party renegs on the contract, well. Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:40 PM (1wjle) 124
So has Mike Lindell decided to run against Tampon Tim?
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 12:40 PM (77rzZ) 125
Probably the bad part was that he wanted to stay married to the Judge and get her to say it was ok if he just lived with his girlfriend.
Posted by: Tom Servo Yeah, that is like a reverse French. Hard to see why that didn't work. /s Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 09, 2025 12:41 PM (bss/y) 126
You can be 100% certain that in every single school, job, or event Jazzmine appeared at, everyone heaved a huge sigh of relief when her big booty was headed towards the door.
Posted by: Excuse Me!!! at December 09, 2025 12:41 PM (oftw2) 127
117 Reaching out across the aisle . . .
Pope Now Recommending Christians Pray The Rosary While Facing Mecca - From the Bee. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 12:39 PM (L/fGl) Shift just a bit and you can pray to Jerusalem, Big Potato... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 12:41 PM (ynpvh) 128
Crockett / Tubbs 2028!
Posted by: Jay in Pa at December 09, 2025 12:41 PM (5imIC) 129
Our tax monies are still confiscated to pay these ratbastards for their performance whether they win or lose, so why not? Hollywood for the ugly.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 12:41 PM (3uBP9) 130
I love this place. But honestly, if I didn't hang out here, I wouldn't know this creature even exists.
Knowing that it exists is not necessarily a good thing. But here I shall remain because, well.... I love this place! Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 09, 2025 12:42 PM (2J/Lj) 131
Thank y’all for lining my pockets and keeping me knee deep in hair extensions and false eyelashes. I will think about y’all deeply. Especially when I’m flying private to Turks, and lying on a beach drinking dirty martinis bought with your donations.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2025 12:42 PM (XFXIk) 132
Running Jazzmine for a state-wide seat is simply a Democrat op to get higher state-wide turnout by blacks, Karens, and AWFLs next November. The goal is to win one or more House races than the Dems would if they ran a boring black guy or a white woman.
Posted by: Gref at December 09, 2025 12:42 PM (5rh/l) 133
This has never been all about me.
Posted by: David French at December 09, 2025 12:43 PM (1wjle) 134
Hey, TJM, they were about to lose two seats for sure. Now they might get one back but more importantly keep Allred viable. It is the best they can do. Now they have Republicans focused on fighting within the party. That doesn't always end well. The two Rs are going to be pouring vitriol against each other and so,e may stick.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 09, 2025 12:43 PM (t/2Uw) 135
Pope Now Recommending Christians Pray The Rosary While Facing Mecca
- From the Bee. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 12:39 PM (L/fGl) Shift just a bit and you can pray to Jerusalem, Big Potato... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) Let's not qibla about it. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 12:43 PM (77rzZ) 136
132 Running Jazzmine for a state-wide seat is simply a Democrat op to get higher state-wide turnout by blacks, Karens, and AWFLs next November. The goal is to win one or more House races than the Dems would if they ran a boring black guy or a white woman.
Posted by: Gref at December 09, 2025 12:42 PM (5rh/l) ======= Her losing next year is going to supercharge the effort to short circuit Kamala's campaign. Newsom is going to raise just so much money. And he's still going to lose to her by 30, at least, in SC. The Democrat primary could be both very ugly and over very quickly. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 12:43 PM (GBKbO) 137
Some advertisements are now taking over 100% of the browser window.
I try to look at the front page (ace.mu.nu) and after I refresh, suddenly the whole thing is an ad, with no actual Ace of Spades content visible. I absolutely hate when things take over like that. Please fix this. Whatever income you get from having your site completely taken over isn't worth it. I usually browse with a full-screen window so my entire computer screen is taken over with an ad. I really, really hate this. Posted by: mr_jack at December 09, 2025 12:43 PM (LNPSJ) 138
>>>124 So has Mike Lindell decided to run against Tampon Tim?
i heard that he had decided to but I don't think he'll be a strong candidate. He's got the charisma of a brussel sprout. Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:43 PM (1wjle) 139
She is great but she can't win, even in a blue tsunami. Talarico is the dems best hope, combined with Paxton winning the republican primary.
Talarico is great: a democrat doing proper Christian messaging is very powerful. It’s desperately necessary because 65% of the country is Christian, and ignoring them is how we’ve gotten four decades of conservatives owning a monopoly on religious thought and influence. I think of Talarico as Texas's Warnock. Texas is too racist and sexist to allow a black woman to win a statewide race, which is why she's who the NRSC wants to run against. Talarico's General Election favorables are at +30 while Crockett's are at -8. the DNC's job is to cripple the campaign of any grassroots candidate who is outside the status quo. Even if it means losing the seat. Talarico was easily the best chance to win in Texas in 30 years and they fucking blew it This is a good thing. Contrary to popular opinion, dems need robust primaries. She has no chance of winning a Senate seat and will only damage support for the better candidate, Talarico. She's literally only doing this to raise her profile for a Presidential run. Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 09, 2025 12:44 PM (ycI94) 140
She's not really low IQ. She's a grifter pretending to be low IQ because that's how to play to Democrat voters.
Close, but there's a nuance. According to former classmates, she's pretending to be a ghetto black when she actually speaks the Queen's English. No word either way on her IQ - she honestly gives us nothing to actually judge that on given she's "in character" all the time. Posted by: Ian S. ------ Without regard for her motives, self-awareness, or intellect the product is the same. Vapid, and vacuous. Two words come to mind , 'vapid', and, 'vacuous'. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 12:44 PM (XeU6L) Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 12:44 PM (77rzZ) 142
>>>137 Some advertisements are now taking over 100% of the browser window.
Is it possible that your computer is infected? Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:44 PM (1wjle) 143
138 >>>124 So has Mike Lindell decided to run against Tampon Tim?
i heard that he had decided to but I don't think he'll be a strong candidate. He's got the charisma of a brussel sprout. Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:43 PM (1wjle) ====== All he has is name recognition, and it's not very high name recognition. Also, the name is a joke to like 95% of the populace. I suspect it'll flame out faster than Walz. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 12:44 PM (GBKbO) 144
She is a state senator District 8, not judge. Remembered that because she was not allowed by TX Senate leaders to vote on her husband's impeachment.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 12:39 PM (WDjG6) That's right. I been reading mainstream news too much. There's an even more tawdry angle, in that they have both long been heavily involved with a couple of Texas Baptist Megachurches, and both are graduates of Baylor University. Looked it up, Angela Paxton was the Texas Senate Majority leader this last session. So it's a very public, very high profile breakup. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 12:45 PM (uWKK8) Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 12:45 PM (MGB5H) 146
Without regard for her motives, self-awareness, or intellect the product is the same. Vapid, and vacuous.
Two words come to mind , 'vapid', and, 'vacuous'. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. --- Great , now I'm repeating myself. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 12:45 PM (XeU6L) 147
That's what I meant. Women don't want to hear this but wives have the right to demand their husbands remain sexually faithful, but they don't have the right to demand they remain celibate. The contract for faithfulness imposes burdens on the husband but also upon the wife. If either party renegs on the contract, well. Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:40 PM (1wjle) Ah, OK thanks for clarifying. I agree and I think that's a very good way to articulate it. The first five verses of I Corinthians 7 address this very issue, but it goes blithely ignored by the modern church. Posted by: Paul had some good ideas at December 09, 2025 12:45 PM (TbWk/) 148
139 Talarico is great: a democrat doing proper Christian messaging is very powerful. It’s desperately necessary because 65% of the country is Christian, and ignoring them is how we’ve gotten four decades of conservatives owning a monopoly on religious thought and influence.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 09, 2025 12:44 PM (ycI94) ====== "Yes, Mary could have aborted Jesus." -proper Christianity to the left Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 12:45 PM (GBKbO) 149
Influencer? I think she means a flatulencer
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 12:45 PM (U6Usv) 150
FWIW,
The overall pass rate for the July 2025 Texas Bar Exam is 75%, with a first-time taker pass rate of 84% and a repeater pass rate of 36%. Passage is more related to whether a) your law school prepared you properly (often that means attending a school in state rather than national law school) and b) whether you spend the moolah for the expensive post law school Barbri review (or its competitors like Themis, Kaplan, etc.) courses for the bar and the off time to absorb the lessons. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 12:46 PM (WDjG6) 151
>>>Talarico is great: a democrat doing proper Christian messaging is very powerful. It’s desperately necessary because 65% of the country is Christian, and ignoring them is how we’ve gotten four decades of conservatives owning a monopoly on religious thought and influence.
doesn't he follow a lot of porn stars and OnlyFans e-whores? Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:46 PM (1wjle) 152
i heard that he had decided to but I don't think he'll be a strong candidate. He's got the charisma of a brussel sprout.
Posted by: ace And Walz DOES have charisma??? Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 12:46 PM (77rzZ) 153
This is funny how the Reddit posters actually think Talerico is a viable candidate, rather than a freaking joke.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 12:47 PM (uWKK8) 154
DJ Jazzy Crocket
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 12:47 PM (9iyS+) 155
The modern church ignores the entirety of the Bible
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 12:47 PM (uQzkA) 156
She can refer to herself and her followers as Crockett and Grubs
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 12:47 PM (U6Usv) 157
Her campaign is a get rich quick scheme like the BLM grift, right?
Posted by: mr tmz ....... donating fools and their money are soon parted Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 12:47 PM (v0R5T) 158
#142
> Is it possible that your computer is infected? No, it is not. I'm running Linux, and it's only Ace of Spades HQ that has this problem. Posted by: mr_jack at December 09, 2025 12:47 PM (LNPSJ) 159
Car tabs just under $200.
And I’m a sap for paying up when illegals drive around without tabs, or insurance or a license. Enraging. Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 12:47 PM (W2Pud) 160
151 >>>Talarico is great: a democrat doing proper Christian messaging is very powerful. It’s desperately necessary because 65% of the country is Christian, and ignoring them is how we’ve gotten four decades of conservatives owning a monopoly on religious thought and influence.
doesn't he follow a lot of porn stars and OnlyFans e-whores? Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:46 PM (1wjle) ===== On the Joe Rogan show he said that Mary could have aborted Jesus. I'm sure he would have done great with Hispanics in Texas. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 12:47 PM (GBKbO) 161
That's right. I been reading mainstream news too much. There's an even more tawdry angle, in that they have both long been heavily involved with a couple of Texas Baptist Megachurches, and both are graduates of Baylor University.
Looked it up, Angela Paxton was the Texas Senate Majority leader this last session. So it's a very public, very high profile breakup. Posted by: Tom Servo ========= Easy enough nowadays to be misinformed by the media by its shoddy stories even when they are not deliberately trying to lie to readers/viewers. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 12:48 PM (WDjG6) 162
150 FWIW,
The overall pass rate for the July 2025 Texas Bar Exam is 75%, with a first-time taker pass rate of 84% and a repeater pass rate of 36%. Passage is more related to whether a) your law school prepared you properly (often that means attending a school in state rather than national law school) and b) whether you spend the moolah for the expensive post law school Barbri review (or its competitors like Themis, Kaplan, etc.) courses for the bar and the off time to absorb the lessons. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 12:46 PM (WDjG6) Mostly the BarBri or similar courses. Law school generally doesn't prepare you for taking the exam. Or for practicing law really, for that matter. Posted by: Another grift in academe at December 09, 2025 12:48 PM (TbWk/) 163
I like how the white guy had to immediately drop out as black females are higher in the dem victim hierarchy. If some tranny wanted to run, they would throw JC under the bus.
Posted by: Jay in Pa at December 09, 2025 12:48 PM (5imIC) 164
I usually browse with a full-screen window so my entire computer screen is taken over with an ad. I really, really hate this.
Posted by: mr_jack What browser are you even using? Brave doesn't have that. Firefox with moderate addons doesn't either. Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 09, 2025 12:48 PM (OUMaO) 165
>>Thank y’all for lining my pockets and keeping me knee deep in hair extensions and false eyelashes. I will think about y’all deeply. Especially when I’m flying private to Turks, and lying on a beach drinking dirty martinis bought with your donations.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2025 12:42 PM Doing cable tv hits from the resort's luxury suite via Zoom. Posted by: Indy at December 09, 2025 12:48 PM (98kQX) 166
like how the white guy had to immediately drop out as black females are higher in the dem victim hierarchy. If some tranny wanted to run, they would throw JC under the bus.
Posted by: Jay in Pa at December Allred is black. Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 12:49 PM (MGB5H) 167
IT’S FUNNY BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE SHE’S WEARING SPIDERS ON HER EYES! Posted by: BEN ROETHLESSBERGER Jazzy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 12:49 PM (pkeXY) 168
She’s not Low IQ. She play low IQ for the ghetto fan base and the AWFLs who love them some ghetto trash black wymyn as well.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 12:49 PM (9iyS+) 169
152 i heard that he had decided to but I don't think he'll be a strong candidate. He's got the charisma of a brussel sprout.
Posted by: ace And Walz DOES have charisma??? Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 12:46 PM (77rzZ) Like Michael Jackson with boys? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 12:49 PM (ynpvh) 170
By whom though? Arguably cutting off the snizz supply should be considered abandonment.
That's what I meant. Women don't want to hear this but wives have the right to demand their husbands remain sexually faithful, but they don't have the right to demand they remain celibate. The contract for faithfulness imposes burdens on the husband but also upon the wife. If either party renegs on the contract, well. Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:40 PM (1wjle) _________ "Loss of carnal knowledge" was once a legitimate legal ground for divorce before no-fault took over. It was quite common too. So if a wife (or less commonly, a husband) withheld sex, that was legal grounds for divorce. Even now, the no-fault standard of "irreconcilable differences" usually includes a component of "my wife [or husband] doesn't fuck me any more." Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 12:49 PM (iFTx/) 171
So has Mike Lindell decided to run against Tampon Tim?
i heard that he had decided to but I don't think he'll be a strong candidate. He's got the charisma of a brussel sprout. Posted by: ace ....... don't forget to use your promo code Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 12:50 PM (v0R5T) 172
Talarico is an apostate and a religious fraud. He pushes lies like people who oppose illegal immigration arent following Jesus’ teaching, abortion is totes ok, etc.. It’s all the same garbage you hear from Democrats claiming to be Christian. I believe he was also caught following a bunch of p*wn sites, which he said was from a hack. *makes ok sign*
No sane person in Texas would vote for that. Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2025 12:50 PM (XFXIk) 173
There is something screwy with the "jump to the bottom" link that causes you sometimes to go to a bot-driven ad page. Maybe that's what's happening to mr jack.
Posted by: It's been going on a while too at December 09, 2025 12:50 PM (TbWk/) 174
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All y'all Texans need to rally around Queen Jasmine until the general election. I'm not legally allowed to vote in Texas, but I would vote for her at least three times if I could.
Posted by: p-squared at December 09, 2025 12:50 PM (0prFs) Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 12:50 PM (L/fGl) 177
>>I like how the white guy had to immediately drop out as black females are higher in the dem victim hierarchy. If some tranny wanted to run, they would throw JC under the bus.
Posted by: Jay in Pa at December 09, 2025 12:48 PM Colin Allred is one of the darker white guys, like Brian Cole Jr. Posted by: huerfano at December 09, 2025 12:50 PM (98kQX) 178
@150 whig, I was a Barbri rep in law school. Got a free course
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 12:50 PM (D+mpw) 179
The big fake eyelash thing goes well with the big clunky eyeglasses and nose ring for today's stylish pronouners. Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 12:50 PM (Y8DZL) 180
FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 12:50 PM (5bGGs) Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 12:51 PM (5bGGs) 182
Sunny Crockett >>>> Jasmine Crockett
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 12:51 PM (5bGGs) 183
The modern church ignores the entirety of the Bible
Posted by: NCKate ------- You say that as if the Church should rely on Scripture, rather than warm, fuzzy feelings. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 12:51 PM (XeU6L) 184
170
... Even now, the no-fault standard of "irreconcilable differences" usually includes a component of "my wife [or husband] doesn't fuck me any more." Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 12:49 PM (iFTx/) Except in the courtroom... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 12:51 PM (ynpvh) 185
the DNC's job is to cripple the campaign of any grassroots candidate who is outside the status quo. Even if it means losing the seat. Talarico was easily the best chance to win in Texas in 30 years and they fucking blew it
This is a good thing. Contrary to popular opinion, dems need robust primaries. She has no chance of winning a Senate seat and will only damage support for the better candidate, Talarico. She's literally only doing this to raise her profile for a Presidential run. Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 09, 2025 12:44 PM (ycI94) ___ Hell hath frozen over! I agree with DU on this. Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 12:51 PM (iFTx/) 186
doesn't he follow a lot of porn stars and OnlyFans e-whores?
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:46 PM (1wjle) Yep. Not to mention that the Texas Dem Primary, unlike the general election, will be majority Black and Hispanic voters, and not a single one of them will vote for Talarico. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 12:51 PM (uWKK8) 187
#164
> What browser are you even using? Firefox with out-of-the-box defaults. I'm not running an ad blocker because I figured the site should get the ad revenue. Full-screen Viagra ads will change that right quick. If this doesn't get fixed, I'll definitely block all the ads. Posted by: mr_jack at December 09, 2025 12:51 PM (LNPSJ) 188
He's got the charisma of a brussel sprout.
--------- You know who else liked Brussels and had charisma. Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 12:51 PM (U6Usv) 189
No, it is not. I'm running Linux, and it's only Ace of Spades HQ that has this problem.
Posted by: mr_jack ======= Use Brave browser. No problems there. Since browers are 'free', I download multiple ones and use the ones that work best on individual websites. YMMV Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 12:51 PM (WDjG6) 190
Funny thing. I was listening to music from ewetub last night at work. Just had the phone lying on the desk. I usually use the browser for ewetub instead of the app. Well, when I set the phone down I must have hit the 'Open in app' button by accident. Song plays, then I hear an ad. I never hear an ad. I thought, well, I never hear ads to no big deal. Livestream starts, goes for five mins, then another ad. This time I am like, wth, have they cracked brave (on the phone?) Look at the phone, and yeah the app was open. Is that what the internet is like if you do not use brave? It is like Blade Runner with the advertisements. And not in the cool, steam punk, techno neon noir way.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 09, 2025 12:52 PM (bss/y) 191
>>No sane person in Texas would vote for that.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2025 12:50 PM We do have our democrats, mostly city folk. Posted by: huerfano at December 09, 2025 12:52 PM (98kQX) 192
159 Car tabs just under $200.
And I’m a sap for paying up when illegals drive around without tabs, or insurance or a license. Enraging. Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 12:47 PM (W2Pud) If you get pulled over without them you go to jail. Jose is let go. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 12:52 PM (9iyS+) 193
Can you imagine having the name Jeffrey Epstein? That would suck royally. I'm a Karen, which also sucks, but not as bad.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 09, 2025 12:52 PM (w6EFb) 194
TX tarantulas rejoice!
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 12:52 PM (qBdHI) 195
JC > Im concerned about all that weight that ass is putting on.
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 09, 2025 12:52 PM (1PnA+) 196
I get load reload crash 24/7 on iPhone and jumpy comments if by some stroke of luck comments initially load. The struggle is real and years long.
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 12:52 PM (uQzkA) 197
"Trump knocking her as "low IQ," which she says proves the GOP is terrified of her charisma and power."
I'd say it's more like watching a clown at the circus and commenting "boy that clown is sure acting stupid." They get a lot of attention, but for all the wrong reasons. She's a complete clown. And what is with these black women, who have such elevated opinions of themselves? Like juiced white Karens. They don't want to speak to the manager, they think they ARE the manager. Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 12:52 PM (C3IAS) 198
Car tabs just under $200.
And I’m a sap for paying up when illegals drive around without tabs, or insurance or a license. Enraging. Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 12:47 PM (W2Pud) If you get pulled over without them you go to jail. Jose is let go. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 12:52 PM (9iyS+) An anarchotyranny, if you can keep it. Posted by: Things Franklin never said at December 09, 2025 12:53 PM (TbWk/) 199
She will garner quite a bit of the black vote. Collin Allred was a better candidate overall and got smoked by Cruz. He withdrew his name after she announced.
This just tells me that the cheat is going to be BIG in Texas next go-round in November if she's convinced she needs to leave the House for the Senate. Makes me nervous. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 12:53 PM (5bGGs) 200
No sane person in Texas would vote for that.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2025 12:50 PM (XFXIk) which means he's got the University professors, the gays, and the trannies locked down. But that's all. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 12:53 PM (uWKK8) 201
185 She has no chance of winning a Senate seat and will only damage support for the better candidate, Talarico. She's literally only doing this to raise her profile for a Presidential run.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 09, 2025 12:44 PM (ycI94) ___ Hell hath frozen over! I agree with DU on this. Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 12:51 PM (iFTx/) ====== Well, Reddit. Reddit allows apostates to leftism. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 12:53 PM (GBKbO) 202
"She’s not Low IQ. She play low IQ for the ghetto fan base and the AWFLs who love them some ghetto trash black wymyn as well.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald " She is faking authenticity very convincingly. Posted by: Ripley at December 09, 2025 12:53 PM (GUOwU) 203
>>> 187 #164
> What browser are you even using? Firefox with out-of-the-box defaults. I'm not running an ad blocker because I figured the site should get the ad revenue. Full-screen Viagra ads will change that right quick. If this doesn't get fixed, I'll definitely block all the ads. Posted by: mr_jack at December 09, 2025 12:51 PM (LNPSJ) I've never tried this, but istr some other Moron having recommended it: https://adnauseam.io/ "clicking ads so you don't have to" Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 09, 2025 12:53 PM (ULPxl) 204
Who or what is Talerico?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 09, 2025 12:53 PM (8CIFn) 205
Talarico thinks he found an unoccupied Dem niche. He's not too bright and that makes his full of shitness obvious
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 12:54 PM (D+mpw) 206
I'm a Karen, which also sucks, but not as bad.
Posted by: Miley As long as your last name's not "McWinemom," you're good. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 12:54 PM (77rzZ) 207
@MarioNawfal
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Become a deportation judge today!
https://tinyurl.com/4rwpvhpk Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 12:45 PM (MGB5H) _____ The Blade applied! Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 12:55 PM (iFTx/) 209
205 Talarico thinks he found an unoccupied Dem niche. He's not too bright and that makes his full of shitness obvious
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 12:54 PM (D+mpw) ====== In order for fake Christians to gain followings, they have to say vaguely Christian things. If it always amounts to, "You have to let in all illegals, all abortions, and pay for all the welfare, and who the fuck is Jesus?" then it's not really gonna work. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 12:55 PM (GBKbO) 210
Jasmine Crockett is actually very intelligent is not a hill I would be willing to die on
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 12:55 PM (U6Usv) 211
Congratulations, you just invented the chladni plate.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2025 12:56 PM (Vq1pX) 212
Become a deportation judge today!
https://tinyurl.com/4rwpvhpk Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 12:45 PM (MGB5H) _____ The Blade applied! Posted by: Elric The Blade Nice. I'll bet you could throw out 1000 a day. Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 12:56 PM (MGB5H) 213
199 She will garner quite a bit of the black vote. Collin Allred was a better candidate overall and got smoked by Cruz. He withdrew his name after she announced.
This just tells me that the cheat is going to be BIG in Texas next go-round in November if she's convinced she needs to leave the House for the Senate. Makes me nervous. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 12:53 PM (5bGGs) She's getting redistricted out of her house seat. Allred I believe is going to run for a new Dallas area district in exchange for dropping out of the Senate race, and he's from there and is fairly popular locally. So he's got a good chance of winning. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 12:56 PM (uWKK8) 214
Reaching out across the aisle . . .
Pope Now Recommending Christians Pray The Rosary While Facing Mecca - From the Bee. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 12:39 PM (L/fGl) I'll do one better. I pee towards mecca. Its actually a running joke around here. If I have friends over and we're in the garage they just run outside because it dark and actually closer than the bathroom. At first they would ask, "Hey I can just pee outside right"? I would say yeah, and I'll point and say "that way, towards mecca." lol Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 12:57 PM (snZF9) 215
There’s that video of her doing an interview a few years ago when she first ran for the Texas house. No ghetto accent whatsoever, no outrageous eyelashes either. Prim and proper all the way.
She also went to some high end prep school. It’s all an act. But it plays well for the left. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 12:57 PM (9iyS+) 216
The new JC will be Schlonged in the primary ... just like Jesus was crucified. She's doing it for you (and all the money).
Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 12:57 PM (vbXSk) 217
If Mary had aborted Jesus, would she just have become pregnant again in 3 days?
Posted by: Can't keep an incarnated deity down for long! at December 09, 2025 12:57 PM (TbWk/) 218
178 @150 whig, I was a Barbri rep in law school. Got a free course
Posted by: Smell the Glove ======== Smart man. Dunno what it is costing nowadays but former students of mine mentioned something like an arm and a leg. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 12:58 PM (WDjG6) 219
The Blade applied!
Posted by: Elric The Blade Nice. I'll bet you could throw out 1000 a day. Posted by: BruceWayne Just the guys and the ugly chicks, though. Those of weather-babe caliber, however... Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 12:58 PM (77rzZ) 220
When you start to tell people what they’ve actually read and studied in the Bible is wrong, your version is right, and then judge them, you might as well use a nail gun to embed a wood placard on your forehead that reads “FRAUD”.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2025 12:58 PM (XFXIk) 221
Miley, okravangelist
Your Grace, you make have that unfortunate first name, but not all the baggage that comes with Karen. I shan't believe you act like a Karen. Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 09, 2025 12:58 PM (u82oZ) 222
She's an updated Al Sharpton.
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 12:58 PM (vFG9F) 223
what makes you think she'll lose
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 12:58 PM (ZxPkt) 224
The Blade applied!
Posted by: Elric The Blade Nice. I'll bet you could throw out 1000 a day. Posted by: BruceWayne Just the guys and the ugly chicks, though. Those of weather-babe caliber, however... Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 12:58 PM (77rzZ) ______ [Insert side-eye monkey meme] Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 12:59 PM (iFTx/) 225
216 The new JC will be Schlonged in the primary ... just like Jesus was crucified. She's doing it for you (and all the money).
Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 12:57 PM (vbXSk) ======= Her only competition in the primary is a 4 foot tall, white, male, preacher. People keep thinking that black women and AWFLs don't control the primary process in the Democrat Party, for some reason. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 12:59 PM (GBKbO) 226
She's getting redistricted out of her house seat. Allred I believe is going to run for a new Dallas area district in exchange for dropping out of the Senate race, and he's from there and is fairly popular locally. So he's got a good chance of winning. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 12:56 PM She could run for the House seat that replaced hers, of course, but since Allred dropped out and she thinks she's got a shot, there's going to be a real effort to steal the seat. A REAL effort. Makes me nervous. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 12:59 PM (5bGGs) 227
215 There’s that video of her doing an interview a few years ago when she first ran for the Texas house. No ghetto accent whatsoever, no outrageous eyelashes either. Prim and proper all the way.
She also went to some high end prep school. It’s all an act. But it plays well for the left. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 12:57 PM (9iyS+) For being so progressive and enlightened the left sure does love its vulgar racist stereotypes. Posted by: Democrats. What can you do. at December 09, 2025 12:59 PM (TbWk/) 228
@222 what's Crockett's opinion about them Greek homos?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 12:59 PM (D+mpw) 229
223 what makes you think she'll lose
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 12:58 PM (ZxPkt) ======= Beto losing to "unpopular" Cruz in 2018, what will definitely be a more Democrat leaning year than 2026, and that's not even considering the fact that TX has moved hard right, mostly because of Biden's border policies. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:00 PM (GBKbO) Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 01:00 PM (U6Usv) 231
229 223 what makes you think she'll lose
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 12:58 PM (ZxPkt) ======= Beto losing to "unpopular" Cruz in 2018, what will definitely be a more Democrat leaning year than 2026, and that's not even considering the fact that TX has moved hard right, mostly because of Biden's border policies. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:00 PM (GBKbO) How has Texas' cleaning the rolls and verifying voters going? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 01:00 PM (ynpvh) 232
If Biden can get 80 billion votes, this skirt can be US Senator from Texas
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 01:01 PM (ZxPkt) 233
People keep thinking that black women and AWFLs don't control the primary process in the Democrat Party, for some reason.
----- They likely don't. Its probably a white guy with an actual understanding of effective grifting that controls these processes. You don't actually believe Kamala knew how to raise and blow through all of that money do you? Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 01:01 PM (TN0g+) 234
She an updated Stepin Fetchit
Holy shit - Jasmine Fetchit Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 01:00 PM (U6Usv) Menstrual Show? Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2025 01:01 PM (Vq1pX) 235
@213 Tom Servo , Alred is going into an incumbent African American Dem whose district shifted. This is what Republicans can cause when they fight
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 01:01 PM (D+mpw) 236
Remember the A La Mode!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 01:01 PM (pkeXY) 237
She'll lose in Tx., run for prez in 2028 / lose in the primary and end up co-hosting on 'The View'.
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 09, 2025 01:01 PM (1PnA+) 238
the worst thing to happen is for everyone treating her candidacy as a joke and...not voting for R candidate, staying home
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 01:02 PM (g47mK) 239
Dems are all about instigating race war. I don't see many Aztecs buying into the loudmouth puta.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 09, 2025 01:02 PM (wBaIH) 240
Where have you gone Robert Francis O'Rourke? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you. Woo woo woo! Posted by: The three rational Democrats left in the United States at December 09, 2025 01:02 PM (0sNs1) 241
231 How has Texas' cleaning the rolls and verifying voters going?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 01:00 PM (ynpvh) ====== Trump won TX by 14 last year? More than how much he won Ohio? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:02 PM (GBKbO) 242
237 She'll lose in Tx., run for prez in 2028 / lose in the primary and end up co-hosting on 'The View'.
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 09, 2025 01:01 PM (1PnA+) With the other intellectual giants... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 01:02 PM (ynpvh) 243
You don't actually believe Kamala knew how to raise and blow through all of that money do you?
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 01:01 PM (TN0g+) I think Kamala is quite good at raising and blowing things. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 01:02 PM (9iyS+) 244
She’s going for broke because she knows she can’t win her district again after the redistricting. Crock of Shit IMHO has no chance outside her district.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 01:02 PM (rQwsY) 245
She'll lose in Tx., run for prez in 2028 / lose in the primary and end up co-hosting on 'The View'.
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 09, 2025 01:01 PM (1PnA+) Gonna have to reinforce that stage. Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 01:02 PM (MGB5H) 246
Who ranks higher on the stupid scale, Jaz or AOC?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 09, 2025 01:03 PM (8CIFn) 247
283 Ah, there's our Concern Troll.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 09, 2025 01:03 PM (wBaIH) 248
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Her "NO TAXES, REPARATIONS" platform guarantees a Democrat primary win, unless a "Kill the White People" candidate emerges. Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 12:29 PM (Y8DZL) The movie Black Sheep was ahead of it’s time, eh? Posted by: Cray Cray at December 09, 2025 01:03 PM (mEYGy) 249
The Good Samaritan came across a woman in trouble by the side of the road and gave her an abortion.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 01:03 PM (L/fGl) 250
Notice the Democrats never have to answer a single difficult question, ever. They just get to read from The Script.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 01:03 PM (U6Usv) 251
You ain't a dummy passing the bar exam on your first try. Less than 50% pass on their first go around.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2025 12:35 PM (0N4FZ) My father in law was a Louisiana bar examiner who said any law school grad could pass if they could write in complete sentences. Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 09, 2025 01:03 PM (GD2xa) 252
242 237 She'll lose in Tx., run for prez in 2028 / lose in the primary and end up co-hosting on 'The View'.
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 09, 2025 01:01 PM (1PnA+) With the other intellectual giants... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 01:02 PM (ynpvh) ====== Crockett as VP to Kamala, bruh. Prepare to see the true power of this fully armed and operational black woman ticket. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:03 PM (GBKbO) 253
241 231 How has Texas' cleaning the rolls and verifying voters going?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 01:00 PM (ynpvh) ====== Trump won TX by 14 last year? More than how much he won Ohio? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:02 PM (GBKbO) Yeah, but Dallas and Houston are hives of scum and villainy, and being so close to Me-hi-co, you gotta know tons of "unqualified" voters are still voting. Dems tend to win the zombie vote. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 01:04 PM (ynpvh) 254
The movie Black Sheep was ahead of it’s time, eh?
Posted by: Cray Cray at December I got dibs on top bunk! Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 01:04 PM (MGB5H) 255
Oh man, i think the western hemisphere would implode into itself under the weight of all the passive aggression within a Harris-Crockett ticket....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2025 01:05 PM (Vq1pX) 256
Why does a woman who graduated from Mary Institute and Saint Louis Country Day School speak like she's a streetcorner ho?
Oh, right, you have to be AUTHENTICALLY black, which means to Democrats you speak ebonics and have an abortion every six months. Posted by: The_Hoser at December 09, 2025 01:05 PM (H4qGm) 257
Well, Reddit.
Reddit allows apostates to leftism. Posted by: TheJamesMadison Yes, Reddit has more extreme Lefties willing to shit on the moderately insane Lefties for being insufficiently insane. Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 09, 2025 01:05 PM (ycI94) Posted by: Michelle Fields at December 09, 2025 01:06 PM (0sNs1) 259
45 She's a comically retarded DEI law school grad, egotistical loon, and racist asshole, but she honestly looks good for a 44 year old black woman. She could lose a few lbs and ditch the stupid push-broom eyelashes, but she's easy on the eyes.
Posted by: ballistic at December 09, 2025 12:26 PM (5aZAZ) She would fail the pencil skirt test and fail miserably. Pass, pass, pass. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 01:06 PM (rQwsY) 260
"Her only competition in the primary is a 4 foot tall, white, male, preacher."
wow ... (and I meant in the general) Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 01:07 PM (vbXSk) 261
247 283 Ah, there's our Concern Troll.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov Hmmm. It is the future you see. Posted by: Yoda at December 09, 2025 01:07 PM (ycI94) 262
yes... I heard Halperin saying that. He still thinks the GOP would rather stick with Cornyn.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:28 PM (1wjle) Establishment GOP, yes. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 01:08 PM (rQwsY) 263
260 "Her only competition in the primary is a 4 foot tall, white, male, preacher."
wow ... (and I meant in the general) Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 01:07 PM (vbXSk) ======= Maybe he can barnstorm churches in Texas, begging them to vote in the Democrat primary instead of the Republican primary because while Paxton has sex with a woman who's not his wife, Talasco just follows them on OnlyFans. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:08 PM (GBKbO) 264
So, is Eddie Murphy going to be in this comedy?
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 01:08 PM (2L+MU) Posted by: imp at December 09, 2025 01:08 PM (g6TN6) 266
"Notice the Democrats never have to answer a single difficult question, ever. They just get to read from The Script.
Posted by: ..." "How did you overcome so much racism and hate to become such an incredibly successful and beloved public servant" isn't a difficult question? Posted by: Ripley at December 09, 2025 01:09 PM (GUOwU) 267
I noticed Jasmine's father was a Reverend, I think that's very significant. My friends here, well any of us have been in some black churches have long noticed that any successful Dem politician has got to learn to speak like a Black Preacher - all the good ones do. It's something that no Republican can really do; Trump does well by doing his Al Czervik routine most of the time.
But Jasmine has been studying those black preacher moves since the day she was born, and she's good at it. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 01:09 PM (uWKK8) 268
Kalshi has the race at 80% GOP right now
DJ Jazzy is 48% to win the primary with Talarico at 52%. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 01:10 PM (9iyS+) 269
She would fail the pencil skirt test and fail miserably. Pass, pass, pass. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 01:06 PM (rQwsY) Oh that is so white, you don't get it at all! It's all about that Boo-TAY!!! Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 01:10 PM (uWKK8) 270
Can they outvote the Democrats crossing over to support Cornyn?
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 09, 2025 12:33 PM (GD2xa) People are sick of Cornyn. I say yes. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 01:10 PM (rQwsY) 271
I'd hit it.
Posted by: MJ at December 09, 2025 01:11 PM (XOmY9) 272
>>>She's an updated Al Sharpton.
Posted by: fd >Al Sharpton was a sex machine. Are you telling me Crockett is a cockbot like Kamala Harris? Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 01:11 PM (1zOXE) 273
6/10 would smash
Posted by: MJ at December 09, 2025 01:11 PM (XOmY9) 274
Remember warnings about Poppy? Billy Jeff? W? Barry? Basement Sleepy? We had Ronnie and have The Donald so, yay USA!
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 09, 2025 01:11 PM (YlWIZ) 275
Hunt rented an apartment in my district and ran for the house and didn't make it out of the primary. He actually lived in Atlanta. Supported by the Turtle and Niki Haley and others of her ilk. Seems he is trying again in Texas,
Posted by: Ea at December 09, 2025 01:11 PM (GFstI) 276
Al Sharpton was a sex machine.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 01:11 PM Who's The Daddy now? Posted by: Brian "Sex Machine" Stelter at December 09, 2025 01:12 PM (0sNs1) Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 01:12 PM (TN0g+) 278
DJ Jazzy is 48% to win the primary with Talarico at 52%. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 01:10 PM (9iyS+) Talarico at 52% ROFL! What did he do, poll the membership of the local Gay Pride rally? Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 01:12 PM (uWKK8) 279
Oh, right, you have to be AUTHENTICALLY black, which means to Democrats you speak ebonics and have an abortion every six months.
Posted by: The_Hoser --------- Plus, keep a bottle of hot sauce in your purse. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 01:12 PM (XeU6L) 280
Non-binary Washington teacher doesn't want to teach child of conservative school board member
- Gotta keep reality out of the classroom! Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 01:12 PM (L/fGl) 281
Why does a woman who graduated from Mary Institute and Saint Louis Country Day School speak like she's a streetcorner ho? Oh, right, you have to be AUTHENTICALLY black, which means to Democrats you speak ebonics and have an abortion every six months. Posted by: The_Hoser "Black" is the opposite of every traditional sociocultural value in the Western World, doncha know? Prompt, clean, articulate, responsible, competent, attractive, rational, logical, perfectionist, intelligent--black is the opposite. At least that's what the Smithsonian tells us! Posted by: imp at December 09, 2025 01:12 PM (g6TN6) 282
Talarico will begin weeping when the Jasmine machine gets rolling. Non-stop "racism""white supremacist" "he's really a Republican" . Pass the popcorn
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 01:12 PM (D+mpw) 283
247 283 Ah, there's our Concern Troll.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 09, 2025 01:03 PM (wBaIH) Whoa. Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 01:12 PM (U6Usv) 284
His wife is a state Judge. Big ugly break up this year because she was too busy to do the nasty anymore so Paxton moved in with this good looking 57 year old widow woman with 7 kids. She apparently worships the ground he walks on, unlike the State Judge he was married to.
Probably the bad part was that he wanted to stay married to the Judge and get her to say it was ok if he just lived with his girlfriend. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 12:35 PM (uWKK Angela Paxton is a State Senator. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 01:12 PM (rQwsY) 285
278 Talarico at 52% ROFL! What did he do, poll the membership of the local Gay Pride rally?
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 01:12 PM (uWKK ====== People who bet on political races this far out are heavily overrepresented with white, male, progressives who think Bashear has a real shot at winning the 2028 nomination. They bet their preferences, at best. It's either that, or they're just...really bad at reading their own party. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:13 PM (GBKbO) Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 09, 2025 01:13 PM (Kt19C) 287
I know that what Trump says is true , and he's not going to change. But a lot of people get turned off by the personal attacks who just might otherwise support him. If he loses the house in '26, the Democrats will be non-stop investigation and impeachment.
For his own good, I wish he'd stop Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 09, 2025 01:14 PM (zPdQ1) 288
...we done tried it 50 times already. Let me be clear, y’all ain’t never tried it the JC way!" How about you try doing it in a manner in which you do not sound like an ignorant and low born piece of ghetto trash ... rich girl Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 09, 2025 01:14 PM (xG4kz) 289
275 Hunt rented an apartment in my district and ran for the house and didn't make it out of the primary. He actually lived in Atlanta. Supported by the Turtle and Niki Haley and others of her ilk. Seems he is trying again in Texas,
Posted by: Ea at December 09, 2025 01:11 PM (GFstI) Sure that's the same Hunt? Wes Hunt is from Houston and has been a North Houston Congressman since 2022. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 01:14 PM (uWKK8) 290
Plus, keep a bottle of hot sauce in your purse.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 01:12 PM Doesn't everyone do that? Posted by: Hillary at December 09, 2025 01:14 PM (kgE5c) 291
Plus, keep a bottle of hot sauce in your purse. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. I'm authentically black, not because of the hot sauce in my purse, but because of my big beautiful boooo-taaayyy!!! Cacklecacklecacklecakcle! Posted by: Hillary! at December 09, 2025 01:15 PM (Dv3i1) 292
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 09, 2025 01:14 PM (zPdQ1)
If people are turned off by personal attacks why aren't they turned off by Democrats? I mean the only thing Democrats do these days is insult and degrade people. Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 01:15 PM (U6Usv) 293
"I never put myself in the polls." Is that how it works?
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 09, 2025 01:15 PM (YlWIZ) 294
I had a SIL named Karen who we were out to dinner with 10 years ago when she went off on the 16 year old hostess of the restaurant about their use of plastic straws. It was before the "Karen" term but you can't convince me she wasn't the reason it started. Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 01:16 PM (Y8DZL) 295
Oh, right, you have to be AUTHENTICALLY black, which means to Democrats you speak ebonics and have an abortion every six months.
Posted by: The_Hoser N-n-now hold on a cotton pickin' minute, Jack, 'cause that ain't true at all. Look at the Barak Obrama fellow...he's articulate, bright, and doesn't have any negro dialect! Posted by: Joe Biden at December 09, 2025 01:16 PM (ycI94) Posted by: imp at December 09, 2025 01:16 PM (g6TN6) 297
287 I know that what Trump says is true , and he's not going to change. But a lot of people get turned off by the personal attacks who just might otherwise support him. If he loses the house in '26, the Democrats will be non-stop investigation and impeachment.
For his own good, I wish he'd stop Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 09, 2025 01:14 PM (zPdQ1) ====== AT this rate, he'll never become president. Also, you'd be surprised how little congressional investigations actually stop. Like...they stop nothing. "Oh criminal activity. Refer to the DOJ!" The DOJ that reports to Trump. It's the same hope that people had for 2010 and the GOP stopping Obama. It didn't stop Obama. In fact, it just emboldened Obama to go more brazen with his abuse of power because Congress would never actually use their power of the purse to stop spending. And no, Democrats are not going to vote to stop spending in any real terms. Besides, ICE is funded through 2028. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:16 PM (GBKbO) 298
I think TX Dems will have the good sense to not vote for Jasmine in the primary. She would be a big turnoff to a lot of non-political types in the general; I think Dems would also discover there is no love lost between blacks and hispanics if run her.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 09, 2025 01:16 PM (GvesS) 299
If people are turned off by personal attacks why aren't they turned off by Democrats? I mean the only thing Democrats do these days is insult and degrade people.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 01:15 PM (U6Usv) Because that's always been a lie. People love personal attacks, unless they're the one being attacked. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 01:17 PM (uWKK8) 300
Christ literally said "I am the way" and this bitch is literally like no *I* am the "way".
I bet Crockashit believes she shits gold bars. Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 01:17 PM (U6Usv) 301
we be done been did
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 01:18 PM (ZxPkt) 302
"I would have voted for Trump aligned candidates, except he called a reporter Piggy. I'm going to instead vote for the candidate who calls everyone not on the far left of the Soviet Union Nazis."
-totally was gonna vote for Republicans Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:18 PM (GBKbO) 303
What turns off dem voters?
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 01:18 PM (uQzkA) 304
303 What turns off dem voters?
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 01:18 PM (uQzkA) ====== Being a Republican. Not much else. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:18 PM (GBKbO) Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 01:19 PM (MGB5H) 306
298 I think TX Dems will have the good sense to not vote for Jasmine in the primary. She would be a big turnoff to a lot of non-political types in the general; I think Dems would also discover there is no love lost between blacks and hispanics if run her.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 09, 2025 01:16 PM (GvesS) What's happened in previous Texas elections when there's a loud and proud Black Candidate in the Dem Primary, all the Black Dems show up and vote for them, and all the Hispanic Dem voters stay home in both the primary and the general. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 01:19 PM (uWKK8) 307
I think she wants the master race prize.
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 09, 2025 01:19 PM (EyfuW) 308
You left out the impeachments , which also tie up the Senate
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 09, 2025 01:19 PM (zPdQ1) 309
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What's happened in previous Texas elections when there's a loud and proud Black Candidate in the Dem Primary, all the Black Dems show up and vote for them, and all the Hispanic Dem voters stay home in both the primary and the general. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 01:19 PM (uWKK ===== A few cycles of this, and you've got learned behavior. GOP leaning Hispanics keep voting. Dem leaning Hispanics learn to stay home. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:19 PM (GBKbO) 310
You left out the impeachments , which also tie up the Senate
Posted by: JM in Illinois Not if they don't bring it to the floor. Which is what Schumer did with that goblin Mayorkas. Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 01:20 PM (MGB5H) 311
Sure that's the same Hunt? Wes Hunt is from Houston and has been a North Houston Congressman since 2022.
Posted by: Tom Servo The guy he's talking about sounds like a douche. Probably Mike Hunt. Posted by: Confused Moron at December 09, 2025 01:20 PM (ycI94) 312
308 You left out the impeachments , which also tie up the Senate
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 09, 2025 01:19 PM (zPdQ1) ====== They tie up the Senate for a week as Thune quickly goes through the motions and then calls for an up or down vote that goes party line, falling at least 15 votes shy of conviction. At which point the Senate can go back to doing whatever it is that they do. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:20 PM (GBKbO) 313
Running, even if you are likely to lose, as a Dem in a red area is a profitable enterprise.
This is why so many red state seats have Dem challengers. Want to see conservatives run in blue areas? Then you've got to implement something for those candidates when they lose as well... Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 01:20 PM (sKqQm) 314
Well this should be fun and educational
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 01:21 PM (xcxpd) 315
Wrong Hunt. I stand corrected.
Posted by: Ea at December 09, 2025 01:21 PM (GFstI) 316
303 What turns off dem voters?
Posted by: NCKate Not advocating for the total annihilation of Israel? Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 09, 2025 01:21 PM (ycI94) 317
Wouldn't at least some blacks be embarrassed that she puts on some kind of accent to appropriate the hood to pander the them when she isn't from that background at all ?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 01:22 PM (rZCVI) 318
@MrAndyNgo
· 1h The RNC and DNC pipe bomb suspect allegedly had an online obsession with My Little Pony, a series also popular with many adult trans people. Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 01:22 PM (ZxPkt) Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 01:22 PM (pkeXY) 320
> What browser are you even using?
Firefox with out-of-the-box defaults. I'm not running an ad blocker because I figured the site should get the ad revenue. I mean, I get it. But I realized more than a decade ago that ad servers don't vet what they put out. At all. We're just lucky fewer ads serve up malware these days. So I block it all, because I have to. I don't have a better solution. Capitalism covers economics, not morality, after all. Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 09, 2025 01:22 PM (OUMaO) 321
Never ever underestimate the enemy.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 01:22 PM (g8Ew8) 322
"What turns off dem voters?
Posted by: NCKate" Civility and calm, persuasive arguments. Ask Charlie Kirk. Posted by: Ripley at December 09, 2025 01:22 PM (GUOwU) 323
This just tells me that the cheat is going to be BIG in Texas next go-round in November if she's convinced she needs to leave the House for the Senate.
Makes me nervous. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 12:53 PM (5bGGs) The cheat is not impossible in TX but it IS harder. Voter ID is a thing here. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 01:23 PM (rQwsY) 324
287 I know that what Trump says is true , and he's not going to change. But a lot of people get turned off by the personal attacks who just might otherwise support him. If he loses the house in '26, the Democrats will be non-stop investigation and impeachment.
For his own good, I wish he'd stop Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 09, 2025 01:14 PM (zPdQ1) I think it amuses as many as it turns off. Trump is polarizing, no doubt. He's not Regan. He is who is his. I bought the ticket and am enjoying the ride. And the revenge. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 01:23 PM (xcxpd) 325
46 Jazzy is going to get beaten so badly in the actual election in TX that the Democrats may call 911 to report a mugging.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 12:26 PM (Da7Vv) This is about me isn’t it?! Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at December 09, 2025 01:23 PM (ZTJjv) 326
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And no, Democrats are not going to vote to stop spending in any real terms. Are Republicans? Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 01:22 PM (pkeXY) ======= They slowed the growth materially with the OBBB, but growth does continue. Best Congress has done in literally decades. Maybe a Congress under President Vance will take it seriously. Maybe. We'll see. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:23 PM (GBKbO) Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 01:23 PM (U6Usv) 328
Black women often complain that black men don't support them.
I wonder if that will come into play here Posted by: Fen at December 09, 2025 01:23 PM (ciYHQ) 329
318 @MrAndyNgo
· 1h The RNC and DNC pipe bomb suspect allegedly had an online obsession with My Little Pony, a series also popular with many adult trans people. Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 01:22 PM (ZxPkt) Oh no I was worried about that! REVENGE OF THE BRONIES!!! Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 01:24 PM (uWKK8) 330
I think it amuses as many as it turns off. Trump is polarizing, no doubt. He's not Regan. He is who is his. I bought the ticket and am enjoying the ride. And the revenge.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards Agreed. It's not like the libs are ever paragons of restraint. Let 'em have it, Donny Two-Scoops! Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 01:24 PM (77rzZ) Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 01:25 PM (snZF9) Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 01:25 PM (v0R5T) 333
What turns off dem voters?
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 01:18 PM (uQzkA) America. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division God. They're cool with Allah, though. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 01:25 PM (77rzZ) 334
287 I know that what Trump says is true , and he's not going to change. But a lot of people get turned off by the personal attacks who just might otherwise support him. If he loses the house in '26, the Democrats will be non-stop investigation and impeachment.
For his own good, I wish he'd stop Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 09, 2025 01:14 PM (zPdQ1) Sad that Jeb! didn’t win in ‘16? Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 01:26 PM (rQwsY) 335
She also said she could deliver victories and results via "the JC way," which I guess supposedly means "Jasmine Crocket," but it sure sounds like she conflates herself with Jesus Christ. Which is, mwah, very on-brand for her.
==== She is NOTHING but a brand. Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 01:26 PM (ybICy) 336
R i'd rather have Republicans investigating democrats -- who have a lot to answer for -- than the other way around
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 09, 2025 01:26 PM (BNA0v) 337
U nas yest' NOOD.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 01:26 PM (77rzZ) 338
The main page has been unresponsive on the iOS version of brave for more than a year. But that’s not really brave’s fault because Apple only allows reskins of the Safari WebKit. Apple sucks and all their products are crap. Luckily enough for them their competitors also suck. Lots of sucking.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 01:27 PM (SpIHn) 339
321 Never ever underestimate the enemy.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 01:22 PM (g8Ew No one has stopped campaigning, have they? Concern yourself with making OK less fucked up. Like ditching the income tax. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 01:28 PM (rQwsY) 340
I know that what Trump says is true , and he's not going to change. But a lot of people get turned off by the personal attacks who just might otherwise support him. If he loses the house in '26, the Democrats will be non-stop investigation and impeachment.
For his own good, I wish he'd stop Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 09, 2025 01:14 PM (zPdQ1) Your concern is noted. I'm just glad you and your friends in Ghana can't vote here. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 01:28 PM (g8Ew8) 341
I see midterms depending on 2 things because the left is going to make them about reining in Trump
1) can Trump get out the vote when he's not on the ballot? 2) will Dems be fatigued by all the nonstop TDS? Posted by: Fen at December 09, 2025 01:29 PM (ciYHQ) 342
Concern yourself with making OK less fucked up. Like ditching the income tax.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 01:28 PM (rQwsY) Love living here. One of the least fucked up states in the US, income tax or not. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 01:33 PM (g8Ew8) 343
Plus, keep a bottle of hot sauce in your purse.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 01:12 PM Doesn't everyone do that? Posted by: Hillary ------ It keeps you from getting tarred. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 01:34 PM (XeU6L) 344
I don't understand who the Rush Limbaugh fear thing is about. Trump, Jasmine?
Posted by: Baldy at December 09, 2025 01:48 PM (4/qdm) 345
The first Ebonics senator? Nope
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 09, 2025 02:18 PM (xvV+O) 346
Honestly, it's probably a good choice for her.
She's going to make a ton grifting off of this and otherwise, she's being gerrymandered out of her safe district. She's not really low IQ. She's a grifter pretending to be low IQ because that's how to play to Democrat voters. She went to a private school and does not talk like her public persona. It's all an act. That's why she's latching onto Trump's attack. She knows it helps her grifting her intended victims. (ACTUAL low IQ leftists.) Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 12:25 PM (zjgNU) She's aiming, like AOC, to get lots of out of state contributions and become a fundraiser. They'll find a safe seat for her somewhere. Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 03:32 PM (8avO+) 347
Texas transplant (Missouri) private schooled silver spoon debutante that played hood-law (and picked up hoodieisums) was gifted tx30 when the owner deceased, now is going for a true blue Texas. I call BS jasmine
Posted by: gov'theretohelp at December 09, 2025 04:49 PM (VOPsA) 348
110 Texas has an open primary system, which Paxton actually filed to change into party only voting.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2025 12:37 PM (XFXIk) Is it now? My last primary was when Ted Cruz first ran for senate, and I had to declare which party’s ballot I wanted. Posted by: Advo at December 09, 2025 05:59 PM (jO4mz) 349
re: "The new acoustic metamaterial chip can bend, twist, and overlap sound waves to grab and control tiny particles with stunning precision....."
Have they fixed the 'ear bleeding' problem yet? Posted by: _Jim at December 09, 2025 07:09 PM (ln8yW) 350
re: 284 "Angela Paxton is a State Senator."
Bumped into her during spring primary voting in 2024 ... guy in front of me knew her; we were in line near poll closing time ... she's a short, but cute little thing ... Posted by: _Jim at December 09, 2025 07:30 PM (ln8yW) 351
re: 203 "Firefox with out-of-the-box defaults."
1) Install an adblocker. 2) Unblock ace's site ... 3) then block only the offending element on the page that is a problem / offensive by doing a mouse right-click and choose "Block element" from the bottom of the drop-down list ... Posted by: _Jim at December 09, 2025 07:36 PM (ln8yW) 352
Love living here. One of the least fucked up states in the US, income tax or not.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 01:33 PM (g8Ew I’ll visit. Paying state income tax is something you might love. I don’t. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 10:55 PM (4786I) 353
I would stay home before I would vote for John Cornyn!
Posted by: AnnaS at December 09, 2025 11:34 PM (9U6Wl) 354
l Get paid over $110 per hour working from home. l never thought I'd be able to do it but my buddy makes over $21269 a month doing this and she convinced me to try. The possibility with this is endless....
This is what I do...................... https://urlr.me/E3tz6Y Posted by: Anonymous at December 10, 2025 04:05 AM (NxtE8) The Morning Rant![]() President Trump had tapped Habba, who previously served as his personal attorney and later a White House advisor, for the role in an acting capacity in March. Trump blamed the Senate tradition of blue slips for Habba’s inability to be confirmed to a permanent post, given the power of home state senators — in this case, New Jersey — to object to nominees before the Judiciary Committee. He urged Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to no longer honor the practice. “It’s a very sad situation. We’re losing … a lot of great people,” Trump said of Democrats’ objections. “We have about seven US attorneys who are not going to be able to keep their jobs much longer because of the blue slip.” Oh yes! The "Blue Slip!" Is it a law? No. It is tradition, nothing more. You know, the same tradition that allows congressmen to pull fire alarms, and suggest that violence against ICE personnel is appropriate, and molest congressional pages, and enrich themselves with insider trading, and allow pimps to operate out of their homes, and to sexually harass at will, and molest and rape and who knows what else...all without penalty. President Trump needs to make this a priority, and push the Senate to ignore the blue slips and go full steam ahead with every single one of his nominations for every position available. Thom Tillis, the consummate GOPe apparatchik, supports this tradition, and has considerable clout. Until the Senate is cleansed of him and others like him (backstabbing corporate shills), this will be a constant issue. To avoid the blue slip in committee, the Senate requires a "discharge petition," whatever that is, and that is a 60 vote hurdle that will never happen. This is a constant reminder that it isn't just a majority that is important in the Senate...getting rid of pathetic RINO senators is far more important than simply electing any Republican without a live boy or a dead girl in the back seat. That's how we get Tillis and Collins and Cornyn and Murkowski and.... [Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated! Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
Sponge!
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 11:00 AM (bvUs5) 2
First?
Posted by: NALNAMSAM at December 09, 2025 11:00 AM (VkY89) 3
ESPONJA!!1!1!1!1 Posted by: AltonJackson at December 09, 2025 11:00 AM (tljrc) 4
Nope.. First loser...
Posted by: NALNAMSAM at December 09, 2025 11:01 AM (VkY89) 5
Corgis called.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 11:01 AM (bvUs5) 6
Trump blamed the Senate tradition of blue slips for Habba’s inability to be confirmed to a permanent post, given the power of home state senators — in this case, New Jersey
Since the FNM has told us repeatedly that things like mortgage fraud don't matter if you are an elite...couldn't Habba buy a rental property in a sane state and just claim it as another primary residence? Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 11:02 AM (sKqQm) 7
MONKEY!
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 11:02 AM (zjgNU) 8
Is a blue slip anything like a blue waffle?
Posted by: It is Congress after all at December 09, 2025 11:03 AM (TbWk/) 9
This is a constant reminder that it isn't just a majority that is important in the Senate...getting rid of pathetic RINO senators is far more important
Buh bye Cornyn. Hello Senator Wesley Hunt. I want Paxton to stay in Texas. Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 11:03 AM (bvUs5) 10
CBD, spot on
Posted by: Ben Had at December 09, 2025 11:03 AM (sDNVV) 11
his is a constant reminder that it isn't just a majority that is important in the Senate...getting rid of pathetic RINO senators is far more important than simply electing any Republican without a live boy or a dead girl in the back seat. That's how we get Tillis and Collins and Cornyn and Murkowski and....
I checked, and much to my surprise, Cornyn supports getting rid of blue slips. He still needs to go, but that's one criticism (among innumerable others) I can't make. Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 11:03 AM (Riz8t) 12
That's how we get Tillis and Collins and Cornyn and Murkowski and....
Hopefully Cornyn will be primaried next year. Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2025 11:04 AM (0sNs1) 13
At the end of your post you point out the dilemma we all face. It is the problem of having a soft Republican, or a Democrat as the choices in a given election. I always vote for the soft Republican, because there is no other reasonable choice, for me.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 11:04 AM (pDt9x) 14
The newest Apple iOS update is total ass by the way. Just wanted you to know.
Posted by: Public service announcement at December 09, 2025 11:04 AM (TbWk/) 15
A blue wwhat ???
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 11:05 AM (g47mK) 16
Willowed:
I thought that might be it. And I get it, up to a point. But, being a naturally impatient person, I would reach a point where I'd just say to the gal, "Forget it," and head off to my bunk with a Playboy. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:55 AM (77rzZ) Well, of course, no-one interested in seduction should look to me for advice, but I have found, in my very limited experiences, that a slow undressing of a lady, interspersed with soft words and caressing of her and her raiment, to be greatly appreciated. And that's it for me today. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 11:06 AM (ufSfZ) 17
Couldn't take the heat.
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 11:06 AM (vFG9F) 18
This is a constant reminder that it isn't just a majority that is important in the Senate...getting rid of pathetic RINO senators is far more important than simply electing any Republican without a live boy or a dead girl in the back seat.
This. To the tenth power and with bells on. Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 11:06 AM (2L+MU) Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 11:06 AM (NR6c1) 20
12 That's how we get Tillis and Collins and Cornyn and Murkowski and....
Hopefully Cornyn will be primaried next year. Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2025 11:04 AM (0sNs1) And Rand Paul is out there on the enemy media saying Trump is illegally blowing up narco boats and it's murder... Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 11:06 AM (VE6XX) 21
The newest Apple iOS update is total ass by the way. Just wanted you to know. Posted by: Public service announcement at December 09, 2025 11:04 AM (TbWk/) Because....? Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 11:06 AM (iJfKG) 22
The newest Apple iOS update is total ass by the way. Just wanted you to know.
Posted by: Public service announcement 26.1? Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 11:06 AM (bvUs5) Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 11:07 AM (L/fGl) 24
12 That's how we get Tillis and Collins and Cornyn and Murkowski and....
Hopefully Cornyn will be primaried next year. Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2025 11:04 AM (0sNs1) ===== Tillis is gone soon. Collins actually just votes with us almost all the time, just making lots of noises for her shitty constituents in Maine. Cornyn will most likely lose the primary. Murkowski is a cheat and should be cast out to sea. Anyway, I suspect that blue slip policy won't die because Republicans don't want a future Democrat senator to ignore them completely. Senators have eroded their own power down to little more than appointment oversight. Getting rid of that is making them completely irrelevant in government instead of mostly irrelevant. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:07 AM (GBKbO) 25
I want Paxton to stay in Texas.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 11:03 AM (bvUs5) Understood, but what kind of a senator will Hunt turn out to be? Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 09, 2025 11:07 AM (n9ltV) 26
23 Jazzy Crockett's video announcing her Senate run is a doozy!
https://is.gd/1zB2U5 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 11:07 AM (L/fGl) ====== Oh, wow. I didn't realize she was low IQ. I'm glad she let me know. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:07 AM (GBKbO) 27
The Democrats are doing what they always do...use every means at their disposal (fair or foul)
Everyone...EVERYONE...has something to hide, including every one of the members of the senate and house. If only the GOP had a rich person who could afford to hire PI's to dig into each background. Remember when the dems sent s shitload of them to.dig into.Sarah Palin's garbage? Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 11:08 AM (2WIwB) 28
We are stuck with a lot of "generals" who think we are fighting the last war.
The war where we and our "opponents" just disagree about how best to move American forward. Today's democrats are not opponents. The are domestic enemies who are intent on the destruction of our culture, economy, nation, and people. There can be and should be no "collegiality" with mortal enemies, which is what they are. They want us DEAD. They don't have the power for that yet, but if they did, we'd be on cattle cars tomorrow. Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 11:08 AM (zjgNU) 29
Jazzy Crockett's video announcing her Senate run is a doozy!
Someone should tell her caterpillars are taking up residence on her eyelids. Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 11:09 AM (Riz8t) 30
Blue plate special > blue light special > blue slips
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 11:09 AM (MGB5H) 31
The GOP is interested only in advancing the interests of its donors who are oligarchs and global corporate types
Tax cuts and open borders is all they care about. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 11:09 AM (9iyS+) 32
The newest Apple iOS update is total ass by the way. Just wanted you to know.
Posted by: Public service announcement at December 09, 2025 11:04 AM (TbWk/) THIS!!!! X 1000 Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 11:09 AM (2WIwB) 33
Is coke bear still hanging on to the side of the boat? Fucking Alaska.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 11:10 AM (1zOXE) 34
The newest Apple iOS update is total ass by the way. Just wanted you to know.
Posted by: Public service announcement 26.1? Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 11:06 AM (bvUs5) I chose to remain on 18 because I don't use my phone for much. Calls, vehicle navigation, the myriad apps which my employer has required (and which will be removed come Saturday), and the 1 - 2 apps I might actually, on occasion, use myself. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 11:10 AM (ExV1e) 35
Tillis is gone soon.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:07 AM (GBKbO) And we will probably get Cooper. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 09, 2025 11:10 AM (n9ltV) 36
Seeing the types that Biden and Obozo have cursed our judiciary with, I'd say blue slips were not be exercised effectively by Our Party.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 09, 2025 11:11 AM (wBaIH) 37
Sic transit Britania
HMS Lancaster, a Type 23 frigate, and the Royal Navy's only deployed 'major combatant' to the Middle East has pulled into Bahrain where it will be decommissioned. And the ship will not be scrapped in the UK but overseas. Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 11:11 AM (2GVsD) 38
33 Is coke bear still hanging on to the side of the boat? Fucking Alaska.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 11:10 AM (1zOXE) ====== When she loses her next primary, she'll get the Alaskan Republican Party to pass a law making it illegal for anyone not named Murkowski to run for Senate. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:11 AM (GBKbO) 39
20 12 That's how we get Tillis and Collins and Cornyn and Murkowski and....
Hopefully Cornyn will be primaried next year. Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2025 11:04 AM (0sNs1) And Rand Paul is out there on the enemy media saying Trump is illegally blowing up narco boats and it's murder... Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 11:06 AM (VE6XX) Wait, wasn't there a "war on drugs" declared? Besides, at this point, the drug cartels have all been warned to stop. This is nothing but the culmination of the "Find Out" phase of FAFO. How many more friends/family do Americans need to bury due to the scourge of drugs? Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 09, 2025 11:11 AM (N39Ws) 40
22 The newest Apple iOS update is total ass by the way. Just wanted you to know.
Posted by: Public service announcement 26.1? just wait for 27b/6. Posted by: harry tuttle at December 09, 2025 11:11 AM (sGtp+) 41
The newest Apple iOS update is total ass by the way. Just wanted you to know.
Posted by: Public service announcement I've just stayed on 18 Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 11:11 AM (MGB5H) 42
My blue slip policy is that more attractive women should be wearing them. And only them. I think they're called slip dresses or something.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 09, 2025 11:11 AM (Y1sOo) 43
32 The newest Apple iOS update is total ass by the way. Just wanted you to know.
Posted by: Public service announcement at December 09, 2025 11:04 AM (TbWk/) THIS!!!! X 1000 Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 11:09 AM (2WIwB) Tech Radar says it is full of Awesomeness. Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 11:11 AM (pDt9x) 44
Understood, but what kind of a senator will Hunt turn out to be?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo It's a crap shoot. What kind of Senator will Paxton turn out to be? I'll take my chances with Hunt. I know what Paxton will do in Texas. Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 11:11 AM (bvUs5) 45
IIRC Alina Habba is remaining with the Justice Department... but not for N.J.
And, yea... the GOP should have put the pressure on the Democrats. But... GOP and their lack of spine. Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2025 11:12 AM (NwnyJ) 46
40 22 The newest Apple iOS update is total ass by the way. Just wanted you to know.
it very much is Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 11:12 AM (emBoF) 47
Even if Cornyn and Tillis go away there is always someone to replace them as the “maverick” Republican. McCain died, along came Mittens.
It’s always this pattern. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 11:12 AM (9iyS+) 48
Seeing the types that Biden and Obozo have cursed our judiciary with, I'd say blue slips were not be exercised effectively by Our Party.
Right? What's the point of keeping a privilege around if you refuse to use it? Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 11:12 AM (Riz8t) 49
Silver just broke the $60 per oz barrier today. Current spot is $60.62 per oz. That means a pre-1965 dime has $4.33 worth of Silver.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 11:13 AM (Da7Vv) 50
Jazzy Crockett's video announcing her Senate run is a doozy!
https://is.gd/1zB2U5 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 11:07 AM (L/fGl) ====== Oh, wow. I didn't realize she was low IQ. I'm glad she let me know. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:07 AM (GBKbO) I don't even know what to say? That has to be the worst political ad I've ever seen. So, yes! Ol' Crocky is Low IQ if that's her idea of a brilliant ad. Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 11:13 AM (iJfKG) 51
Even if Cornyn and Tillis go away there is always someone to replace them as the “maverick” Republican. McCain died, along came Mittens.
It’s always this pattern. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December And now Curtis. The asshat who replaced mittens. Be better Utah. Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 11:13 AM (MGB5H) 52
Thom Tillis is not running for re-election in 2026. Unfortunately former governor and Democrat Roy Cooper is the likely favorite.
Posted by: David Beatty at December 09, 2025 11:13 AM (GAhX+) 53
48 Seeing the types that Biden and Obozo have cursed our judiciary with, I'd say blue slips were not be exercised effectively by Our Party.
One of them yesterday stopped Trump's EO on ending new wind turbines... Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 11:13 AM (VE6XX) 54
46 40 22 The newest Apple iOS update is total ass by the way. Just wanted you to know.
it very much is Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 11:12 AM (emBoF) But but but it gives your phone so much more functionalaity!!!! Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 11:13 AM (pDt9x) 55
The "blue slip" problem is a mindset problem. The RINOs view that Democratic senator as an "esteemed colleague" rather than the *enemy* of the American people that we know them to be.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 11:14 AM (TN0g+) 56
35 Tillis is gone soon.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:07 AM (GBKbO) And we will probably get Cooper. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 09, 2025 11:10 AM (n9ltV) ====== I'm...doubtful. Governors tend to do poorly in senate races when the parties don't match up to overall partisan makeup of the state. Think Hogan last year in MD. Republicans have 110,000 more active voters in NC than Democrats. Overall, I think the GOP is almost a majority now, first time ever (it's down to 1,800 Democrat majority when last week the GOP got 1,200 more net). And, Cooper's probably going to have trouble raising money in line with people like Crockett and Planter in ME scooping up all the major dollars. I wouldn't call it an easy win for Whatley. NC is probably Dem's best chance for a pickup. But, it's more of an uphill climb for Cooper than I think people want to admit. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:14 AM (GBKbO) 57
21 The newest Apple iOS update is total ass by the way. Just wanted you to know.
Posted by: Public service announcement at December 09, 2025 11:04 AM (TbWk/) Because....? because they can get away with it Posted by: anachronda at December 09, 2025 11:14 AM (sGtp+) 58
49 Silver just broke the $60 per oz barrier today. Current spot is $60.62 per oz. That means a pre-1965 dime has $4.33 worth of Silver.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 11:13 AM (Da7Vv) I’m Rich!!! Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 11:14 AM (pDt9x) 59
Jan Michaelson hosted a talk radio show on 1040 WHO Des Moines for many years, he was very very good, and segued into Rush from 0900 to 11:30 CST.
He suggested to a deranged liberal caller at the end of their discussion that leftists would be putting people on trains at the first opportunity and she naturally went apoplectic, he wasn’t wrong, just prescient. Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 11:14 AM (CmJfJ) 60
I don't even know what to say?
That has to be the worst political ad I've ever seen. So, yes! Ol' Crocky is Low IQ if that's her idea of a brilliant ad. Eh. Think about it. The Dem's entire platform now is resentment and hatred of Donald Trump. That's what the ad sells, and it will be effective with the people to whom she appeals. Unfortunately for her, that is not a majority of Texans. Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 11:15 AM (Riz8t) Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 09, 2025 11:15 AM (n9ltV) 62
50 I don't even know what to say?
That has to be the worst political ad I've ever seen. So, yes! Ol' Crocky is Low IQ if that's her idea of a brilliant ad. Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 11:13 AM (iJfKG) ===== She will raise at least $50 million for her race, mostly from Hollywood. She may beat Beto's numbers and raise more than $100 million. She will lost by at least 9. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:15 AM (GBKbO) 63
"Thom Tillis, the consummate GOPe apparatchik, supports this tradition, and has considerable clout."
It's not about tradition. It's about ceding power to Democraps. The GOP gets off on it, because it means they have less power and thus are off the hook for failing to do things that their voters want. "Sorry, my voters. I'd love to help you but I just can't." Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 11:15 AM (iFTx/) 64
DJ Jazzy Crocket is betting that 2026 will be a yuugely big blue wave that she can ride out a win. It’s not THAT far fetched, but unlikely.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 11:15 AM (9iyS+) 65
Rand was good on COVID. Why isn't he dedicating every waking hour to legislation that will prevent future fiascos? Instead of this nonsense...
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 09, 2025 11:15 AM (wBaIH) 66
53 48 Seeing the types that Biden and Obozo have cursed our judiciary with, I'd say blue slips were not be exercised effectively by Our Party.
One of them yesterday stopped Trump's EO on ending new wind turbines... Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 11:13 AM (VE6XX) See, it’s Easy Peasey to nullify an election! Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 11:15 AM (pDt9x) 67
Okay, so Apples' new iOS sucks, and yet no one seems to be able to say why. Uhm....alright. Whatevs. Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 11:16 AM (iJfKG) 68
This is the only slip that is appropriate in America.
https://is.gd/grhKqI Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo Very nice. Don't forget Liz Taylor in the opening scene of Butterfield 8. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 11:16 AM (77rzZ) 69
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Okay, so Apples' new iOS sucks, and yet no one seems to be able to say why. Uhm....alright. Whatevs. Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 11:16 AM (iJfKG) The subtext is Apple sux, go buy an Android. Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 11:17 AM (pDt9x) 70
It's not about tradition. It's about ceding power to Democraps. The GOP gets off on it, because it means they have less power and thus are off the hook for failing to do things that their voters want. "Sorry, my voters. I'd love to help you but I just can't."
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 11 They always just need 1 or 2 more seats. They could have 98 senators and still claims they can't do anything. But donate today to stop the democrat agenda. 5x match. Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 11:17 AM (MGB5H) 71
Silver just broke the $60 per oz barrier today. Current spot is $60.62 per oz. That means a pre-1965 dime has $4.33 worth of Silver.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President FML. When I can actually afford it, it goes from $23 to $60. Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 11:17 AM (bvUs5) 72
MUNKEY Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 09, 2025 11:17 AM (y9nCu) 73
May use political prisoners to navigate the fast boats full of coke zero.
Dolphins like coke. Trumps fault. Posted by: thug dolphin at December 09, 2025 11:18 AM (EyfuW) 74
Trump needs to regularly repeat that "people say Omar married her brother" and then shudder and say "ewww".
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at December 09, 2025 11:18 AM (Hpgos) 75
72 Silver just broke the $60 per oz barrier today. Current spot is $60.62 per oz. That means a pre-1965 dime has $4.33 worth of Silver.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President FML. When I can actually afford it, it goes from $23 to $60. Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 11:17 AM (bvUs5) Well, there’s always Iridium. Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 11:18 AM (pDt9x) 76
You make money on the buy. Nobody wanted silver when it languished at $4 to $6 for 20 years
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 11:18 AM (CmJfJ) 77
76 You make money on the buy. Nobody wanted silver when it languished at $4 to $6 for 20 years
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 11:18 AM (CmJfJ) Yep. Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 11:19 AM (pDt9x) 78
That Crockett ad is fake, right
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 11:19 AM (ZxPkt) 79
It's not about tradition. It's about ceding power to Democraps. The GOP gets off on it, because it means they have less power and thus are off the hook for failing to do things that their voters want. "Sorry, my voters. I'd love to help you but I just can't."
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 11 They always just need 1 or 2 more seats. They could have 98 senators and still claims they can't do anything. But donate today to stop the democrat agenda. 5x match. Posted by: BruceWayne KATIO Kick All The Incumbents Out Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 11:19 AM (bvUs5) 80
78 That Crockett ad is fake, right
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 11:19 AM (ZxPkt) Nope Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 11:19 AM (VE6XX) 81
31 The GOP is interested only in advancing the interests of its donors who are oligarchs and global corporate types
Tax cuts and open borders is all they care about. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald ====== Pretty much along with using their office to get generational wealth. GOP is King Log in the Aesop's Fable about the frogs. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 11:19 AM (WDjG6) 82
78 That Crockett ad is fake, right
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 11:19 AM (ZxPkt) ====== They put out a Spanish version! https://x.com/lamps_apple/status/ 1998156423683789110 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:19 AM (GBKbO) 83
British lawyer says video of Afghan migrants dragging girl away to rape her would spark riots
- And we can't have that! Damn Islamophobic racist crackers! Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 11:19 AM (L/fGl) 84
The ad is more real than Jasmine Crockett's hood accent.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 11:20 AM (2GVsD) 85
This is the only slip that is appropriate in America.
https://is.gd/grhKqI Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 09, 2025 11:15 AM (n9ltV) You, sir, are a great American. Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 09, 2025 11:20 AM (5xuJ/) 86
@6
>>Since the FNM has told us repeatedly that things like mortgage fraud don't matter if you are an elite...couldn't Habba buy a rental property in a sane state and just claim it as another primary residence? She would be prosecuted to within an inch of her life. This crap only goes one way. Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 11:20 AM (XV/Pl) 87
84 The ad is more real than Jasmine Crockett's hood accent.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 11:20 AM (2GVsD) Bougie black girl playing hood rat. Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 11:20 AM (pDt9x) 88
This is the only slip that is appropriate in America.
https://is.gd/grhKqI Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 09, 2025 11:15 AM (n9ltV) You, sir, are a great American! Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 11:21 AM (ufSfZ) 89
I don't even know what to say?
That has to be the worst political ad I've ever seen. So, yes! Ol' Crocky is Low IQ if that's her idea of a brilliant ad. Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 11:13 AM (iJfKG) ===== She will raise at least $50 million for her race, mostly from Hollywood. She may beat Beto's numbers and raise more than $100 million. She will lost by at least 9. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:15 AM (GBKbO) I agree she's only in it for the money. Sanders and Beta have shown there is a lot of cash to be made being a perennial loser in the Democrat Party. But, you'd think she'd put in a little effort. Or, hell, maybe she did. Maybe Trump saying she's Low IQ is going to get her voters all fired up to send her lots and lots of sucker cash. In which case...Well played Crocky! Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 11:21 AM (iJfKG) Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 11:21 AM (MGB5H) 91
Blue Slip Mahoney
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 11:21 AM (pkeXY) 92
The Dems had Sinema and Manchin which were DINOs in their eyes. Both of them are gone. Fetterman is DINO-ish I suppose but when push comes to shove he steps in line.
On the other side we have Cornyn, Tillis, the cuck from Utah, Paul, Colins, Murkie. The list is long. And it never shrinks. It just changes names but the Dems can always count on 3-5 Republican traitors. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 11:21 AM (9iyS+) 93
CBD playing the Mannix role today!
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 11:21 AM (77rzZ) 94
I don't even know what to say?
That has to be the worst political ad I've ever seen. So, yes! Ol' Crocky is Low IQ if that's her idea of a brilliant ad. Eh. Think about it. The Dem's entire platform now is resentment and hatred of Donald Trump. That's what the ad sells, and it will be effective with the people to whom she appeals. Unfortunately for her, that is not a majority of Texans. Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 11:15 AM (Riz8t) ____ Yes, it's a very clever ad. We think it's cringe, but we aren't the audience. The audience is rabid TDS drones, and to them anyone that Trump shits on is (i) important and (ii) a strong member of The Resistance. Also note that she doesn't rant and rave in Ghetto Jive like she usually does. Instead, it's just her looking made-up and presentable. This is the beginning of a remake where she tries to widen her appeal by dropping the fake Hood Rat persona. It will be comical to see her forthcoming ads aimed at AWFuLs where she speaks perfect English. Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 11:21 AM (iFTx/) 95
If the ad is real, I don't understand the strategy
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 11:22 AM (ZxPkt) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 11:22 AM (2GVsD) 97
43 32 The newest Apple iOS update is total ass by the way. Just wanted you to know.
Posted by: Public service announcement at December 09, 2025 11:04 AM (TbWk/) THIS!!!! X 1000 Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 11:09 AM (2WIwB) Tech Radar says it is full of Awesomeness. Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 11:11 AM (pDt9x) *** That's because none of them assholes are over 29. Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 11:22 AM (VqCOT) 98
89 I agree she's only in it for the money.
Sanders and Beta have shown there is a lot of cash to be made being a perennial loser in the Democrat Party. But, you'd think she'd put in a little effort. Or, hell, maybe she did. Maybe Trump saying she's Low IQ is going to get her voters all fired up to send her lots and lots of sucker cash. In which case...Well played Crocky! Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 11:21 AM (iJfKG) ====== Crockett knows what the Democrat Party of today is. She knows better than most prognosticators even on the Democrat side. It's aggrieved women who demand respect for being aggrieved women. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:22 AM (GBKbO) 99
This is the only slip that is appropriate in America.
https://is.gd/grhKqI Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 09, 2025 11:15 AM (n9ltV) You, sir, are a great American! Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 11:21 AM (ufSfZ) Great Moron minds think alike. See 85. Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 09, 2025 11:23 AM (5xuJ/) 100
We only control 3/3 parts of the government. Guys are hands are tied.wish we could help but we simply can’t.
PS: send $100 ASAP so we can advance the ultra conservative agenda. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 11:24 AM (9iyS+) 101
75 72 Silver just broke the $60 per oz barrier today. Current spot is $60.62 per oz. That means a pre-1965 dime has $4.33 worth of Silver.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President ------ Momentum trading based in part on the rumor that the big players in metals don't have the physical silver to meet their contracts. Demand for silver for industrial purposes has been declining for years (digital photography killed its largest use which was photographic film). Gold is getting pressured a bit apparently from the rumor that Russia is having to liquidate some of its reserves in gold on the intl market. Neither are markets for the faint hearted or those not willing to take losses. Personally, I think, watch the copper markets as that has substantial industrial demand across the globe with constrained supply at the moment. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 11:24 AM (WDjG6) 102
Laura Ingraham
@IngrahamAngle EXCLUSIVE: Ilhan Omar DID marry her brother and said she would 'do what she had to do to get him "papers" to keep him in U.S.', reveals Somali community leader. - Let he who has not married a sibling cast the first stone. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 11:25 AM (L/fGl) 103
Yes, it's a very clever ad. We think it's cringe, but we aren't the audience. The audience is rabid TDS drones, and to them anyone that Trump shits on is (i) important and (ii) a strong member of The Resistance.
Also note that she doesn't rant and rave in Ghetto Jive like she usually does. Instead, it's just her looking made-up and presentable. This is the beginning of a remake where she tries to widen her appeal by dropping the fake Hood Rat persona. It will be comical to see her forthcoming ads aimed at AWFuLs where she speaks perfect English. Posted by: Elric The Blade She'll start at about 40 percent and either be a few percentage points up or down in general election results. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 11:25 AM (WDjG6) 104
Thx CBD, great post.
The GOPe in a lot of red states controls the mechanisms of power and they ain't letting go without a fight. They don't understand that their "good friends across the aisle" are losing power or dying and the Dems are being overrun by Marxist/socialist lunatics who don't care about "traditions" Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 11:25 AM (D+mpw) 105
102 Laura Ingraham
@IngrahamAngle EXCLUSIVE: Ilhan Omar DID marry her brother and said she would 'do what she had to do to get him "papers" to keep him in U.S.', reveals Somali community leader. Immigration fraud.. Outta here... Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 11:25 AM (VE6XX) 106
Okay, so Apples' new iOS sucks, and yet no one seems to be able to say why.
Uhm....alright. Whatevs. Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 11:16 AM (iJfKG) *** What I used to do with just three clicks now takes five or six. Opening multiple windows is now annoying. closing them even worse. The clock changed. The transparent crap is crap. And they need to stay off my lawn!!! Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 11:26 AM (VqCOT) 107
103 She'll start at about 40 percent and either be a few percentage points up or down in general election results.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 11:25 AM (WDjG6) ====== He, don't forget Marquette or someone deciding to poll TX randomly, finding Crockett at at least 48%, and people shitting their pants. That's definitely going to happen. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:26 AM (GBKbO) 108
EXCLUSIVE: Ilhan Omar DID marry her brother and said she would 'do what she had to do to get him "papers" to keep him in U.S.', reveals Somali community leader.
Immigration fraud.. Outta here... Posted by: It's me donna at Nah! -District Court Judge Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 11:26 AM (MGB5H) 109
How come we haven't heard anything from Schumer or McConnell lately? These two old horse's cocks need to be drummed out of the capital and put out to pasture for new blood.
What's their greatest achievement? They put the country on hold for thirty years. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 11:27 AM (1zOXE) 110
100 We only control 3/3 parts of the government. Guys are hands are tied.wish we could help but we simply can’t.
PS: send $100 ASAP so we can advance the ultra conservative agenda. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald House, despite its very slim majority is performing okay. It is the Senate where the GOP is refusing to use its majority while it can--on appointments, funding, etc. They can actually do more reconciliation bills on spending which sidestep the filibuster and make a Senate rule change on the blue slip policy overriding the Judiciary Committee. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 11:27 AM (WDjG6) 111
Say what you will about the ad. It’s effective. You’re talking about it right?
As Eric said, you’re not the target. AWFL in Dallas and Houston suburbs are. And they love this shit. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 11:27 AM (9iyS+) 112
She'll start at about 40 percent and either be a few percentage points up or down in general election results.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 11:25 AM (WDjG6) ====== He, don't forget Marquette or someone deciding to poll TX randomly, finding Crockett at at least 48%, and people shitting their pants. That's definitely going to happen. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:26 AM (GBKbO) ____ There will be a few at 50 or more Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 11:28 AM (iFTx/) 113
109 How come we haven't heard anything from Schumer or McConnell lately? These two old horse's cocks need to be drummed out of the capital and put out to pasture for new blood.
What's their greatest achievement? They put the country on hold for thirty years. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 11:27 AM (1zOXE) ===== 1. Mitch is now a backbencher. He can't even do interviews. No one cares. 2. Schumer was front page for weeks during the shutdown, now all the action is on the committee level. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:28 AM (GBKbO) 114
Jasmine Crockett will raise a lot of money and force the Party of Stupid to spend a lot of money in TX that would otherwise help with open Senate seats in Michigan and New Hampshire. It's a strategic move for the Party of Evil.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 09, 2025 11:28 AM (f0sNM) 115
How come we haven't heard anything from Schumer or McConnell lately?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone *blinks* Posted by: Mitch at December 09, 2025 11:28 AM (77rzZ) 116
@109 Schumer's still babbling but if Mitch tries speaking he falls over
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 11:28 AM (D+mpw) 117
What I used to do with just three clicks now takes five or six. Opening multiple windows is now annoying. closing them even worse. The clock changed. The transparent crap is crap. And they need to stay off my lawn!!! Posted by: Diogenes What a limerick! Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 11:28 AM (pkeXY) 118
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There will be a few at 50 or more Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 11:28 AM (iFTx/) ===== Definitely. And she will get roughly 43% of the actual vote. But we'll have to take the polls saying she's gonna win because the aggregate of polls in some year were pretty good, even if that one polling firm is actually total shit. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:28 AM (GBKbO) 119
WTF England?
The Royal Navy is third behind France and Italy in number of ships. Your First Sea Lord is a General. Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 11:29 AM (2GVsD) 120
109 How come we haven't heard anything from Schumer or McConnell lately? These two old horse's cocks need to be drummed out of the capital and put out to pasture for new blood.
What's their greatest achievement? They put the country on hold for thirty years. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone ========= My guess is that out of leadership, McConnell is declining fast and his staff is running his office and comms. Schumer is fearing his left flank in a NY primary and being chucked as Majority Leader by his own colleagues. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 11:29 AM (WDjG6) 121
The newest Apple iOS update is total ass by the way. Just wanted you to know. Posted by: Public service announcement at December 09, 2025 11:04 AM (TbWk/) THIS!!!! X 1000 Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 11:09 AM (2WIwB) Microsoft: we improved Windows! Do you know how hard it is to deliberately rearrange the menus so you can't find anything?? Heckler and Koch: Because you suck, and we hate you. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 09, 2025 11:29 AM (y9nCu) 122
Laura Ingraham
@IngrahamAngle EXCLUSIVE: Ilhan Omar DID marry her brother and said she would 'do what she had to do to get him "papers" to keep him in U.S.', reveals Somali community leader. - Let he who has not married a sibling cast the first stone. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Crickets from Kentucky and Alabama. Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 11:29 AM (bvUs5) 123
It hasn't been about Democrat vs Republican for a long time. It's about the permanent ruling class, deep state, call it whatever vs us.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 11:29 AM (viF8m) 124
114 Jasmine Crockett will raise a lot of money and force the Party of Stupid to spend a lot of money in TX that would otherwise help with open Senate seats in Michigan and New Hampshire. It's a strategic move for the Party of Evil.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 09, 2025 11:28 AM (f0sNM) ===== Cooper in NC is going to suffer, I think. He's their best chance at a pickup, but he's a boring old white man. He'll raise half as much as he would in a more sane environment. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO) 125
Marilyn Monroe was a very glamorous woman. Not a great actress IMO, but then she didn't need to be.
James Patterson has just released a book saying that she was murdered: https://tinyurl.com/ym6h3cfp Poor Marilyn. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 11:30 AM (PFs9e) Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 11:30 AM (L/fGl) 127
On the other side we have Cornyn, Tillis, the cuck from Utah, Paul, Colins, Murkie. The list is long. And it never shrinks. It just changes names but the Dems can always count on 3-5 Republican traitors.
--------- 3 of "our" Senators voted for a Supreme who admitted under oath that she was too *stupid* to know what a woman is. Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 11:30 AM (TN0g+) 128
127 3 of "our" Senators voted for a Supreme who admitted under oath that she was too *stupid* to know what a woman is.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 11:30 AM (TN0g+) ====== Not even Lindsay Graham brought himself to do that. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:30 AM (GBKbO) 129
Pay the whores reparations.
And but no for the races. Pay white men reparations for all the wars and paying too much for taxes. Reparations for perverting English language to couch your particular follies. Posted by: thug dolphin at December 09, 2025 11:30 AM (EyfuW) 130
This is the only slip that is appropriate in America.
https://is.gd/grhKqI Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 09, 2025 11:15 AM (n9ltV) Now THAT's a voluptuous woman. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 11:30 AM (g8Ew8) 131
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‘ AWFL in Dallas and Houston suburbs are. And they love this shit.’ They ought to be deprived of the right to vote. And neutered. Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2025 11:31 AM (jbnUc) 132
@122 hey , those are inbred American citizens
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 11:31 AM (D+mpw) 133
Not a great actress IMO, but then she didn't need to be.
https://tinyurl.com/ym6h3cfp My opinion of Jane Russell. A horrible actress with a killer body. But at least she could sing (better than Marilyn could). Posted by: Mitch at December 09, 2025 11:31 AM (77rzZ) 134
Posted by: Mitch at December 09, 2025 11:31 AM (77rzZ
I don't think I've ever seen Jane Russell in a movie, or if I have her performance was forgettable. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 11:33 AM (PFs9e) 135
James Patterson has just released a book saying that she was murdered
Along with about half-a-dozen other writers, at least. I do note this titbit in the story: The book bills itself as a "true crime thriller," but includes a disclaimer saying it's "a work of fiction." I'll pass. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 11:33 AM (ufSfZ) 136
OK, off Mr. Elaine Chao sock.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 11:34 AM (77rzZ) 137
VIA GP:
A doctor from Chicago was brutally beaten by a man who has been arrested over a dozen times this year alone. According to court filings, the 42-year-old cardiologist entered an elevator at Northwestern, where he was allegedly followed by Sean Popps. Popps then is alleged to have repeatedly punched the victim in the head until she stumbled backward, covering her face with her hands. Chicago police note that Popps has been arrested a dozen times this year in the area of the campus. He was arrested seven times in 2024 and six additional times between 2020 and 2023. Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 11:34 AM (TN0g+) 138
The question in Texas is Hispanics. Was the shift to Trump an anomaly or have they really shifted right? If it’s the former Crocket has a chance. If it’s the latter she’ll get 42% or whatever.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 11:34 AM (9iyS+) 139
Is Popps the son of Corn Pop?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 11:35 AM (9iyS+) Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 09, 2025 11:35 AM (n9ltV) 141
I don't think I've ever seen Jane Russell in a movie, or if I have her performance was forgettable.
----- "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" starred both Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe. Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 11:35 AM (TN0g+) 142
I don't think I've ever seen Jane Russell in a movie, or if I have her performance was forgettable.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 11:33 AM (PFs9e) Try either The Paleface or Son of Paleface, where she goes comic toe-to-toe with Bob Hope. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 11:35 AM (ufSfZ) 143
I don't think I've ever seen Jane Russell in a movie, or if I have her performance was forgettable.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke She was utterly forgettable as an actress. No range at all. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 11:36 AM (77rzZ) 144
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 11:33 AM (ufSfZ)
Well, who knows. Maybe it was not a good idea to sleep with one of more Kennedys and Frank Sinatra. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 11:36 AM (PFs9e) Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2025 11:37 AM (jbnUc) 146
He, don't forget Marquette or someone deciding to poll TX randomly, finding Crockett at at least 48%, and people shitting their pants.
That's definitely going to happen. Posted by: TheJamesMadison ======== Polling is on par with media stories like Trump and Hegseth are giving kill orders for survivors. Basically the industry whored itself out to the media for fame and fortune and now are facing the problem that like the media, almost 50 percent of the population refuses to respond to them and ignores them. I find them increasingly irrelevant and if you want to study elections, I suggest going to different measures--employment, inflation, per capita income, normal vote in districts, etc. Media, polls are now a ordinal measure instead of interval. Eg. At best we get, Trump up (by how much we don't know but probably more than we want to admit), Trump is down (by how little we don't want to admit so we make more than it probably is.). That is about the only use for media polls nowadays. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 11:37 AM (WDjG6) 147
Romney , Murkowski, Collins voted for Jackson. One gone , one the best you'll get (Collins) and one SMH. The crazy thing is that if those three had voted against her and then Harris would have broken the tie. They could have voted with the Republicans but they showed their true colors
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 11:37 AM (D+mpw) 148
82 78 That Crockett ad is fake, right
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 11:19 AM (ZxPkt) ====== They put out a Spanish version! https://x.com/lamps_apple/status/ 1998156423683789110 can't check from work, so i'm'a just assume it's an a.i. sombrero and mustache applied to the ad. Posted by: anachronda at December 09, 2025 11:37 AM (sGtp+) 149
Loren and Mansfield...
https://is.gd/K9NvYd Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo Jayne Mansfield kinda gets a bad rap for being a dumb blonde. But she was actually quite intelligent and a been a virtuoso violinist as a girl. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 11:37 AM (77rzZ) 150
137 VIA GP:
A doctor from Chicago was brutally beaten by a man who has been arrested over a dozen times this year alone. According to court filings, the 42-year-old cardiologist entered an elevator at Northwestern, where he was allegedly followed by Sean Popps. Popps then is alleged to have repeatedly punched the victim in the head until she stumbled backward, covering her face with her hands. Chicago police note that Popps has been arrested a dozen times this year in the area of the campus. He was arrested seven times in 2024 and six additional times between 2020 and 2023. Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 11:34 AM (TN0g+) ===== Middle aged woman...professional...college educated...working at an academic institution (presumably in a medical capacity)...in Chicago... Nope. I won't guess as to her voting preferences. That would be mean. I shall hope she has a swift recovery, though. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:38 AM (GBKbO) 151
Loren and Mansfield...
https://is.gd/K9NvYd Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 09, 2025 11:35 AM (n9ltV) IIRC, the story behind that picture was that the two were not sitting together, but Mansfield, a noted publicity hound, made her way to the table and plopped down for a photo op, which was captured in that iconic image. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 11:38 AM (ufSfZ) 152
Jayne Mansfield kinda gets a bad rap for being a dumb blonde. But she was actually quite intelligent and a been a virtuoso violinist as a girl.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 11:37 AM (77rzZ) Are you saying she had a good head on her shoulders? Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 09, 2025 11:39 AM (n9ltV) 153
That ad for Crockett is actually perfect if you realize who her target market is. She has never done anything herself, she has no real qualifications other than being a loud and proud ghetto bitch.
But Hey! Trump talked about me! Trump hates me! I hate Trump, and if you hate Trump you have gotta love me!!!" that's it, that's her entire campaign right there. And if you didn't notice, the guy was supposed to be the #1 nominee for the Democrats, Colin Allred, has already dropped out of the race and endorsed Jasmine. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 11:39 AM (uWKK8) 154
>> He, don't forget Marquette or someone deciding to poll TX randomly, finding Crockett at at least 48%, and people shitting their pants.
What about Philadelphia? Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 11:39 AM (viF8m) 155
They put out a Spanish version!
https://x.com/lamps_apple/status/ 1998156423683789110 can't check from work, so i'm'a just assume it's an a.i. sombrero and mustache applied to the ad. No, they played it straight, but the interesting thing is that the Spanish voice-over is done with Trump's voice. Obviously AI. Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 11:40 AM (Riz8t) 156
Jayne Mansfield kinda gets a bad rap for being a dumb blonde. But she was actually quite intelligent and a been a virtuoso violinist as a girl.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 11:37 AM (77rzZ) Are you saying she had a good head on her shoulders? ------- I've been told she was an innovator in public safety. Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 11:40 AM (TN0g+) 157
@152 the key word being had
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 11:40 AM (D+mpw) 158
Try either The Paleface or Son of Paleface, where she goes comic toe-to-toe with Bob Hope.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing I've never seen Russell in a comedy. Maybe she's better in those. Stinks as a dramatic actress, though. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 11:40 AM (77rzZ) 159
153 that's it, that's her entire campaign right there.
And if you didn't notice, the guy was supposed to be the #1 nominee for the Democrats, Colin Allred, has already dropped out of the race and endorsed Jasmine. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 11:39 AM (uWKK ======= His announcement was to say that he's running for the seat that Crockett was going to run for in the House. He cleared the deck for her. Now, all she has as competition in the primary is the twink pastor who said that Mary could have aborted Jesus. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:41 AM (GBKbO) 160
One gone , one the best you'll get (Collins) and one SMH.
— Problem is the ones that are gone are replaced with an equally odious one. The new Utah senator said he gets up every morning thinking what can he do to welcome immigrants. Rand Paul caught a bad case of TDS. It’s playing wack a mole. RINO gets primaried out or quits or dies, there’s always a new one that pops up to take his or her place. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 11:41 AM (9iyS+) 161
Jayne Mansfield kinda gets a bad rap for being a dumb blonde. But she was actually quite intelligent and a been a virtuoso violinist as a girl.
I've always thought her daughter, Mariska Hargitay, was extremely attractive. Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 11:41 AM (Riz8t) 162
Monroe and Russell:
https://tinyurl.com/2v22cdkc Before they put their hands in the cement, Monroe quipped to Russell, "We should do your tits and my ass." Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 11:42 AM (ufSfZ) 163
@153 the funniest thing is now Alred is running for Congress against a Dem incumbent in a reset district. Cue Nelson Muntz
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 11:42 AM (D+mpw) 164
I've always thought her daughter, Mariska Hargitay, was extremely attractive.
Posted by: Archimedes Did not take after her mother in the mammary department, however. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 11:42 AM (77rzZ) 165
Jayne Mansfield kinda gets a bad rap for being a dumb blonde. But she was actually quite intelligent and a been a virtuoso violinist as a girl.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 11:37 AM (77rzZ) Are you saying she had a good head on her shoulders? ------- I've been told she was an innovator in public safety. Posted by: Crusader Air bags? Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 11:43 AM (bvUs5) 166
Not a great actress IMO, but then she didn't need to be. https://tinyurl.com/ym6h3cfp I disagree. She could make things move under that slip on command, like in the train party car scene in Some Like It Hot. That's great acting. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 09, 2025 11:43 AM (y9nCu) 167
Just out of curiosity, does everyone think it was just Democrats playing the NGO game?
DC is awash in special interest money. Follow the money and you will see why they act like they do in Congress. Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 11:43 AM (viF8m) 168
I've always thought her daughter, Mariska Hargitay, was extremely attractive.
Posted by: Archimedes Did not take after her mother in the mammary department, however. ------ Nonetheless Mariska seems to have kept her head about herself. Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 11:44 AM (TN0g+) 169
I do note this titbit in the story: The book bills itself as a "true crime thriller," but includes a disclaimer saying it's "a work of fiction."
I'll pass. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing ======== Patterson is a now brand name for mystery like Chef Boyardi was for facsimile Italian food. In many cases, I would not be surprised that ghostwriters (sometimes acknowledged) fill in the blanks for Patterson's outline of a book. People picking up a can of Spaghetti O's did not expect Chef Boyardi to have personally slaved over the stove himself to produce it. Yet Patterson is treated as such by his adoring fans. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 11:44 AM (WDjG6) Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 09, 2025 11:44 AM (NFX2v) 171
>>>Are you saying she had a good head on her shoulders?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo >I could never get much past her magnificent, pink torpedos. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 11:44 AM (1zOXE) 172
167 Just out of curiosity, does everyone think it was just Democrats playing the NGO game?
DC is awash in special interest money. Follow the money and you will see why they act like they do in Congress. Posted by: JackStraw ======== DC needs the Pied Piper of Hamlin to remove its elected rats. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 11:45 AM (WDjG6) Posted by: thug dolphin at December 09, 2025 11:45 AM (EyfuW) 174
Gentleman Prefer Blondes was a good movie with Russell
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 11:45 AM (D+mpw) 175
I'm sure I was at a Jewish wedding and we did Alina Habba
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 11:46 AM (U6Usv) 176
No matter your voting pattern (and it’s 1000% the woman in Chicago is a leftist), if you choose to live in Chicago, then sorry that’s on you. I don’t mourn people who die in hand gliding accidents either. They know the risks.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 11:46 AM (9iyS+) 177
you people know what they prices on gold and silver are sky high, don't you ? Roooshia and China are buying it up. Rooshia's gold reserves are the highest they've ever been. Maybe, just maybe, Rooshia, CHina are trying to replace the dollar as reserve currency with gold ?? something to think about.
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 11:46 AM (g47mK) 178
Why are the only acceptable norms and traditions, according to the Democrat-Media Complex, the ones that materially and politically benefit leftists, and/or hand-out Get Out of Jail Free Cards to leftists, their enablers, and supporters?
Yes, I denounce myself for asking Posted by: Gref at December 09, 2025 11:46 AM (5rh/l) 179
I've always thought her daughter, Mariska Hargitay, was extremely attractive.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 11:41 AM (Riz8t) Hmmm. Maybe to an another woman. She probably has a great personality though. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 11:46 AM (g8Ew8) 180
DC needs the Pied Piper of Hamlin to remove its elected rats.
Posted by: whig You'll be hearing from our attorneys. -- Zombie Rats of Hamlin. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 11:46 AM (77rzZ) 181
US travel secretary Sean Duffy has annoyed American travellers once again – this time by suggesting that they might work out in the airport before a flight. “Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing doing some pull-ups or some step-ups in the airport,” he suggested as one request to improve the airport experience. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 11:47 AM (pkeXY) 182
You do know Jazzie's hood rat persona is a complete fake. She went to a $30,000 a year prep school in St Louis that has an average college board score of ~1350.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 11:47 AM (Da7Vv) 183
161 Jayne Mansfield kinda gets a bad rap for being a dumb blonde. But she was actually quite intelligent and a been a virtuoso violinist as a girl.
======== She was dabbling with Satanism toward the end with Anton La Vey. Her boyfriend, who died with her in the car crash later, took askance at La Vey and supposedly in turn was cursed. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 11:47 AM (WDjG6) 184
republicans are dog shit and the democrats are dog shit. Yet people want the dog shit to fix all their problems, make them happy and provide them with their retirement and medical care and free food.
You'll get dog shit and like it. Posted by: Abolish The Federal Government at December 09, 2025 11:47 AM (FGMmt) 185
174 Gentleman Prefer Blondes was a good movie with Russell
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 11:45 AM (D+mpw) ==== Another example of Howard Hawks just walking into a genre, making it work, and walking out again, never to make another one. Hawks was great. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:47 AM (GBKbO) 186
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 11:43 AM (viF8m)
No; I think the vast majority of politicians are sell outs. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 11:47 AM (PFs9e) 187
And here's something Democrats do so much better than Republicans; opposition research. I've long noticed that there is obviously a very well financed and experienced group pushing Jasmine Crockett, she's their creation. That's who's pushing this Senate run, that's who got Colin Allred to drop out so fast - and yet there's still another candidate for the Texas Dem Senate race. James Talerico. He's supposed to be some moral Preacher set to bring Morality and Liberal Politics to Texas, yada yada yada.
Well somebody sent some research to Axios (so you know it was the Left who did this) and got them to run a story about how this highly Moral Preacher is Bestest Friends with a number of hookers on Only Fans, which is where he apparently spends much of his "personal time". Trying earnestly to save their souls, no doubt. Dem Primaries are like a State Championship Game for most loathsome politician in the State - but I have no doubt Jasmine will win this one easily. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 11:48 AM (uWKK8) 188
Olivia Benson was hot in her prime.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 11:48 AM (9iyS+) 189
No; I think the vast majority of politicians are sell outs.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at This assumes they had principles to begin with. Press 'x' to doubt. Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 11:48 AM (MGB5H) 190
I think both Marilyn and Liz Taylor converted to Judaism when they married Jewish men (Marilyn -- Arthur Miller and Liz -- Eddie Fisher?). I've read that Marilyn never converted back to Christianity. Don't know about Liz.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 11:49 AM (77rzZ) 191
>>DC needs the Pied Piper of Hamlin to remove its elected rats.
John McCain, perhaps the dimmest bulb in the Senate during his time, had his own institute. One of the largest funders of the institute was none other than George Soros. McCain was up to his eyeballs in Ukraine regime change and corruption. He was also a big part of the Russia collusion scam. He was no more a Republican Senator than my dog. For many of these scumbags their part time day job in Congress is nothing more than a sitcom. The real action (and money) is in the shadows. Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 11:50 AM (viF8m) 192
Well somebody sent some research to Axios (so you know it was the Left who did this) and got them to run a story about how this highly Moral Preacher is Bestest Friends with a number of hookers on Only Fans, which is where he apparently spends much of his "personal time".
Trying earnestly to save their souls, no doubt. There is precedent. Posted by: William Ewart Gladstone at December 09, 2025 11:50 AM (Riz8t) 193
I like all these people calling a time out on Crockett being an ignorant hood rat.
‘I have proof that she’s less retarded than you claim!’ All right. Sure. That’s a huge improvement. Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2025 11:50 AM (jbnUc) 194
You do know Jazzie's hood rat persona is a complete fake. She went to a $30,000 a year prep school in St Louis that has an average college board score of ~1350.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President I've been screaming that since Day 1. She's never tried to hide her Wiki page. Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 11:51 AM (bvUs5) 195
She was dabbling with Satanism toward the end with Anton La Vey. Her boyfriend, who died with her in the car crash later, took askance at La Vey and supposedly in turn was cursed.
Posted by: whig Yes, I remember you've posted about this before. Too bad she went in that direction. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 11:51 AM (77rzZ) 196
Rooshia, CHina are trying to replace the dollar as reserve currency with gold ?? something to think about.
Posted by: runner Seems to be the opposite with Russia as it is reportedly selling gold in order to meet its forex needs. China and Indian citizens hoard gold as a shield against uncertain future. And the gold standard itself was rife with all kinds of disruptions economically--panics were actually depressions and often based on a nation's frantic need to shore up its reserves from trade imbalances. It ain't a panacea and the problem that gold supplies do not grow with economies but are on a separate track based on availability of mines makes it worse. Often you got severe deflation out of it which benefitted lenders but not the more numerous borrowers. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 11:51 AM (WDjG6) Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 11:51 AM (ZxPkt) 198
Loren and Mansfield... https://is.gd/K9NvYd Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 09, 2025 11:35 AM (n9ltV) Better yet, Bogart and Monroe. Bogie was a total pimp Chad. Good thing that Bacall was the love of his life... https://tinyurl.com/5n7r5tdy Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 09, 2025 11:51 AM (y9nCu) 199
193 I like all these people calling a time out on Crockett being an ignorant hood rat.
‘I have proof that she’s less retarded than you claim!’ All right. Sure. That’s a huge improvement. Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2025 11:50 AM (jbnUc) ======= The white men of the party are having it out with the rest of the party online right now. "Crockett has no chance. This is Texas. You have to appeal to Texans to win. It can't always be about race." And yet, Obama made the party all about race 17 years ago. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:52 AM (GBKbO) 200
wow
Mariska was in the car when her mother was killed sez wiki 🧂 Posted by: Don Black So was her brother. Jayne died shielding him with her body. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 11:52 AM (77rzZ) 201
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 11:47 AM (WDjG6)
Bad, bad idea to hang out with Satanists even if they Satanists do it as a big performance act and to rub it in the faces of Christians. I doubt whether Satan cares if you think it's a big joke. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 11:52 AM (PFs9e) 202
I've always thought her daughter, Mariska Hargitay, was extremely attractive.
See her in Leaving Las Vegas for confirmation that she was hot. She played the Hooker who stole Nicolas Cage from Elisabeth Shue. Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 11:52 AM (Da7Vv) 203
202 I've always thought her daughter, Mariska Hargitay, was extremely attractive.
See her in Leaving Las Vegas for confirmation that she was hot. She played the Hooker who stole Nicolas Cage from Elisabeth Shue. Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 11:52 AM (Da7Vv) ===== Shue's best performance was as Elizabeth Shue in Hamlet 2. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:53 AM (GBKbO) 204
Zeena LaVey, another Satanist, looks spookily like Taylor Swift. Was she any relation to Anton?
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 11:53 AM (U6Usv) 205
Are you saying she had a good head on her shoulders?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo >I could never get much past her magnificent, pink torpedos. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 11:44 AM (1zOXE) _________ "Homo!" -- Spinal Tap Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 11:53 AM (iFTx/) 206
Shue's best performance was as Elizabeth Shue in Hamlet 2.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison She was the perfect HS girlfriend in The Karate Kid. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 11:54 AM (77rzZ) 207
Jasmine Crockett - Wikipedia
Crockett was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to parents Rev. Joseph and Gwen Crockett. She attended Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School and Rosati-Kain Academy, a private all-girls Catholic high school in St. Louis. Attending Rhodes College, she was advised by a professor that she had too much personality to settle for her plan to become a certified public accountant. The school's handling of a series of hate crimes on campus inspired her to become a lawyer. When she got racist hate mail and her Black friends' cars were keyed she explained, "My school didn't know what to do, and they brought in The Cochran Firm, and the lawyer that helped me became my instant 'shero'. ... While we never figured out what happened, it was empowering to have her there. I saw how much help a lawyer could be to somebody at a very confusing time." She graduated in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts in business administration. She began law school at Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University before graduating from the University of Houston Law Center in 2006 with a Juris Doctor and soon passed the bar examination. Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 11:54 AM (bvUs5) 208
190 I think both Marilyn and Liz Taylor converted to Judaism when they married Jewish men (Marilyn -- Arthur Miller and Liz -- Eddie Fisher?). I've read that Marilyn never converted back to Christianity. Don't know about Liz.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 11:49 AM (77rzZ) Easy for them, they didn't have to get Cut. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 11:54 AM (uWKK8) 209
Turns out Mariska Hargitay's biological father is Italian singer Nelson Sardelli, not the late actor Mickey Hargitay who raised her.
And the show is now a lot of leftist ideology, imho. Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 09, 2025 11:54 AM (NFX2v) 210
OK, folks, that's it for me today. Talk to you all tomorrow morning.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 11:54 AM (ufSfZ) 211
I like all these people calling a time out on Crockett being an ignorant hood rat.
‘I have proof that she’s less retarded than you claim!’ All right. Sure. That’s a huge improvement. ----- She is one of the *stupidest* women not named Kenjami I've ever heard. I don't care what school(s) she attended or what degrees she was handed, that woman is an idiot. Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 11:54 AM (TN0g+) 212
@Forbes:
"Building its reserves is just one part of China’s gold strategy which is part of a campaign to reduce exposure to the U.S. dollar. Other features of the Chinese gold rush include the creation of a world-class gold trading hub centered on the Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE) and the relaxation of rules governing investment in gold by Chinese insurance companies. Jeff Currie, chief strategy officer of energy pathways at fund manager Carlyle, told the Financial Times newspaper that “China is buying gold as part of a de-dollarization strategy." ANZ, in its Vault research report, said China had been increasing its activity in the gold market by “accumulating reserves, enhancing trading infrastructure and promoting domestic and international participation”." Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 11:55 AM (g47mK) 213
A doctor from Chicago was brutally beaten by a man who has been arrested over a dozen times this year alone.
- Say His Name: Grammy-Nominated Musician Roderick Macleod Killed by Driver with Over 100 Prior Arrests - A white chick and apparently citizen. https://is.gd/c6g8wh Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 11:55 AM (L/fGl) 214
The school's handling of a series of hate crimes on campus inspired her to become a lawyer. When she got racist hate mail and her Black friends' cars were keyed she explained, "My school didn't know what to do, and they brought in The Cochran Firm, and the lawyer that helped me became my instant 'shero'. ... While we never figured out what happened, it was empowering to have her there. I saw how much help a lawyer could be to somebody at a very confusing time." She graduated in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts in business administration."
Who wants to lay odds on her having been the one who went around keying cars? Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 11:55 AM (uWKK8) Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 11:56 AM (77rzZ) 216
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 11:54 AM (ufSfZ)
Have a good day, MPPP. Your contributions are valued here . Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 11:56 AM (PFs9e) 217
I've always thought her daughter, Mariska Hargitay, was extremely attractive.
See her in Leaving Las Vegas for confirmation that she was hot. She played the Hooker who stole Nicolas Cage from Elisabeth Shue. The first time I remember her was in a short-lived cop show, Tequila and Bonetti, in 1992. She was memorable. Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 11:56 AM (Riz8t) 218
Yes, I remember you've posted about this before. Too bad she went in that direction.
Posted by: Bulg ==== About the same as a lot of other celebutards. For the most part, the more we dig into their stories, most get less and less impressive. Funny how we as a society remember them more than people that actually did something to improve our lives materially. We don't swap around stories much about someone like Norman Borlaug or Alexander Fleming. Even Thomas Crapper who we give his due every day. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 11:56 AM (WDjG6) 219
BRICS are trying to create a system backed by gold, to bypass the normal trading infrastructure that involve the US dollar.
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 11:57 AM (g47mK) 220
The school's handling of a series of hate crimes on campus inspired her to become a lawyer. When she got racist hate mail and her Black friends' cars were keyed she explained, "My school didn't know what to do, and they brought in The Cochran Firm, and the lawyer that helped me became my instant 'shero'. ... While we never figured out what happened, it was empowering to have her there.
Oh, I think we all know what happened. Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 11:58 AM (Riz8t) 221
She is one of the *stupidest* women not named Kenjami I've ever heard. I don't care what school(s) she attended or what degrees she was handed, that woman is an idiot.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 11:54 AM (TN0g+) In just a few months she's going to be an idiot who idiotically figured out how to get a stupid $50 or $60 million deposited into her personal Swiss bank accounts. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 11:58 AM (uWKK8) 222
Bad, bad idea to hang out with Satanists even if they Satanists do it as a big performance act and to rub it in the faces of Christians. I doubt whether Satan cares if you think it's a big joke.
----- I agree. A friend's dad asserted (some 50 years ago) that some acts "open the doorway"...and that doorways like that need to remain closed. I think quija boards are horrible ideas, and that sessions with AI can turn bad rather quickly. Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 11:58 AM (TN0g+) 223
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‘ And yet, Obama made the party all about race 17 years ago.’ Yeah. But like him she’s just an indication of how low the country has fallen. She’s not some mastermind. The log on top tells me that my toilet is still stopped up. So , I know I need to plunge some more. I don’t imagine that I’m in a battle of wits with the turd. Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2025 11:59 AM (jbnUc) 224
As I say to the people who claim Crockashit isn't "ghetto" - who would claim to be that, who was not?
Ghetto comes from within. Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 12:00 PM (U6Usv) 225
It ain't a panacea and the problem that gold supplies do not grow with economies but are on a separate track based on availability of mines makes it worse. Often you got severe deflation out of it which benefitted lenders but not the more numerous borrowers.
We aren't on a FIAT system either. The FED was created to favor the big banks and transfer wealth from the middle class to the ultra wealthy through boom and bust cycles. When the stock market crashes, if you look back on it, the big money guys have all sold out just before the crash. The middle class can't afford to ride out the crash and wind up selling their stocks and bonds for a pittance at the bottom of the crash, while the big money guys buy the stock then. Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 12:00 PM (Da7Vv) 226
Been watching Hawk's movies lately on Criterion...
Last night, saw "Rio Bravo" again after several years. Just a great, very entertaining movie. Pure fun to watch. After seeing Hawk's movie kinda clumped together time wise, it looks like his greatest gift was to create a friendly, chummy, relaxed set that allowed the actors to more or less have fun and be more of themselves in their roles. And then translate that mood to the audience. Yeah, yeah, he made serious movies but man, they are always fun to watch and seem "real" in a way few movies do now. Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 12:01 PM (iJfKG) 227
204 Zeena LaVey, another Satanist, looks spookily like Taylor Swift. Was she any relation to Anton?
Posted by: ... Have no idea. Often on my internet meanderings, I see celebutard news but try to ignore it unless useful. The La Vey stuff popped up when I was trying to comprehend the released JFK materials by Trump. JFK related searches brought forth Marilyn story links regarding their affair and thence to Mansfield stories. Easy to get lost in whirlpools of the internet and get sucked under to useless information about people not that relevant in the scheme of things. Like Frank Sinatra having a giant Schwanzstucker (Young Frankenstein) that Ava Gardner boasted about. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 12:02 PM (WDjG6) 228
Only here could a serious discussions be interwoven with boob talk.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 09, 2025 12:02 PM (NFX2v) 229
This is interesting. My daughter had a tough time finding a CS job 4-5 months ago, and now they're falling all over her. I wonder if there's a connection.
"Unexpectedly". They really don't see the booming economy expanding under their feet. It's a great time to make money as most people believe the doomers in the media and aren't prepared for what is happening and what will happen. The smart ones are hiring now before they are forced to hire the bottom of the barrel talent next year. https://is.gd/8QTN50 Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 12:02 PM (Riz8t) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 12:03 PM (rZCVI) 231
Only here could a serious discussions be interwoven with boob talk.
Posted by: L Boobs are serious. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 12:03 PM (77rzZ) 232
I don't ghett it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2025 12:03 PM (Vq1pX) 233
@185 TJM, Hawks was great . Give me Rio Bravo or Red River any day. Not to mention his Bogart movies. Cracks me up that was a screenwriter for the original The Thing
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 12:04 PM (D+mpw) 234
I won't even watch horror movies about Satanism. Or Rosemary's Baby, the Exorcist, etc.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 12:04 PM (77rzZ) 235
Martin University, Indiana’s only Predominantly Black Institution (PBI) of higher education, announced that it will pause all university operations at the conclusion of the current semester. The decision, voted on by the Martin University Board of Trustees, marks a critical turning point for the historic institution as it navigates significant financial challenges and shifting enrollment trends. Founded in 1977, Martin University has long stood as a pillar of service and education in Indianapolis. As a PBI, its mission has been focused on educating and developing diverse, workforce-ready students within an inclusive and supportive environment. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 12:04 PM (pkeXY) 236
Shue's best performance was as Elizabeth Shue in Hamlet 2. Posted by: TheJamesMadison She was the perfect HS girlfriend in The Karate Kid. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 11:54 AM (77rzZ) Meaning, she dumped him for a football player Chad after everyone forgets that he won the big fight. Perfect HS girlfriend Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 09, 2025 12:05 PM (y9nCu) 237
As a PBI, its mission has been focused on educating and developing diverse, workforce-ready students within an inclusive and supportive environment.
Well there's your problem. Perhaps you should focus on, you know, actual job skills, and not DEI nonsense. Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 12:06 PM (Riz8t) 238
233 @185 TJM, Hawks was great . Give me Rio Bravo or Red River any day. Not to mention his Bogart movies. Cracks me up that was a screenwriter for the original The Thing
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 12:04 PM (D+mpw) ====== There's disagreement about whether Hawks actually directed The Thing or not. He...might have. Credited director, Christian Nyby, never directed anything like it again, and it feels much more like a Hawks film. Hawks did produce it, and he was recorded as being on set a lot. I lean more towards, Nyby asked a lot of questions and Hawks gave a lot of answers. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 12:06 PM (GBKbO) 239
Rosemary's Baby is a comedy. A farce!
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 12:06 PM (g47mK) 240
Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG) is set to leave Congress on January 5, 2026
Yahoo Finance, GO Banking Rates How Rich Is Marjorie Taylor Greene?, Oct 2025 Astounding Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 09, 2025 12:06 PM (NFX2v) 241
This is interesting. My daughter had a tough time finding a CS job 4-5 months ago, and now they're falling all over her. I wonder if there's a connection.
"Unexpectedly". They really don't see the booming economy expanding under their feet. It's a great time to make money as most people believe the doomers in the media and aren't prepared for what is happening and what will happen. The smart ones are hiring now before they are forced to hire the bottom of the barrel talent next year. https://is.gd/8QTN50 Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 12:02 PM (Riz8t) ___ I suspect a good portion of this isn't "new" jobs, but rather jobs that previously would have gone straight to an illegal or swarthy H1B holder that are now open to Americans. So the job is "new" in the sense an American can now get it. Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 12:06 PM (iFTx/) Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 12:07 PM (L/fGl) 243
@238 yeah heard that also. Shows though that Hawks knew what he was doing in any genre
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‘ I won't even watch horror movies about Satanism. Or Rosemary's Baby, the Exorcist, etc.’ I won’t even eat deviled eggs. Unless it’s with angel food cake. Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2025 12:08 PM (jbnUc) 245
Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG) is set to leave Congress on January 5, 2026
Yahoo Finance, GO Banking Rates How Rich Is Marjorie Taylor Greene?, Oct 2025 Astounding Posted by: L - No nic If I were king, you'd need nine years to get a pension. But term limits are 8 years. In any accumulation. Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 12:08 PM (bvUs5) 246
We aren't on a FIAT system either. The FED was created to favor the big banks and transfer wealth from the middle class to the ultra wealthy through boom and bust cycles. When the stock market crashes, if you look back on it, the big money guys have all sold out just before the crash. The middle class can't afford to ride out the crash and wind up selling their stocks and bonds for a pittance at the bottom of the crash, while the big money guys buy the stock then.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump ====== If I had to base a currency, it would be on energy as energy production is key to a nation's wealth. And harder to devalue something like a kwh or BTU. Not sure what you mean but in definitional terms a fiat currency is in effect backed only by a government making it the legal currency to pay debts. Gold or silver backed currency as the US used it issued paper that theoretically could call on US gold reserves payable upon demand for a quantity of gold or silver at a given state set price. Actual exchanges of gold and/or silver en masse for large debts became rapidly impractical as the sums increased so you exchanged paper over it. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 12:08 PM (WDjG6) 247
I suspect a good portion of this isn't "new" jobs, but rather jobs that previously would have gone straight to an illegal or swarthy H1B holder that are now open to Americans. So the job is "new" in the sense an American can now get it.
Posted by: Elric The Blade ===== We see what you say in employment data for the last several months. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 12:10 PM (WDjG6) 248
Muzzy mayor is talking about intolerance.
Op-ed: London's Muslim mayor was just reminded that Christmas is the most "intolerant" time of the year, and that's a good thing Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 12:11 PM (L/fGl) 249
We aren't on a FIAT system either. Posted by: An Observation sez Trump Only a fool would base their monetary system on supplies of Italian economy cars. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 09, 2025 12:12 PM (y9nCu) 250
Last night the lovely and perceptive Mrs naturalfake and i got into a brief discussion of what was the Scariest Movie we'd ever seen. Pretty much it boiled down to- "The Exorcist" when it first came out. and "The Ring" (Japanese version) when it first came out Both of those were great. Just kept piling on the tension and creepiness until a dynamite climax. Great stuff. ] Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 12:13 PM (iJfKG) 251
Only a fool would base their monetary system on supplies of Italian economy cars.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur The YUGO currency really sucked. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 12:13 PM (77rzZ) 252
I suspect a good portion of this isn't "new" jobs, but rather jobs that previously would have gone straight to an illegal or swarthy H1B holder that are now open to Americans. So the job is "new" in the sense an American can now get it.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 12:06 PM (iFTx/) --- I tend to agree. There's a marked difference in the number and quality of candidates for jobs in my sector (instructional design) just in the last 6-9 months. Back then, there were a ton of international applicants looking for an academic job to get their foot in the door. Now, there's hardly any. Lots of Americans applying for the job, though. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 09, 2025 12:14 PM (ESVrU) 253
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Last night the lovely and perceptive Mrs naturalfake and i got into a brief discussion of what was the Scariest Movie we'd ever seen. Pretty much it boiled down to- "The Exorcist" when it first came out. and "The Ring" (Japanese version) when it first came out Both of those were great. Just kept piling on the tension and creepiness until a dynamite climax. Great stuff. ] Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 12:13 PM (iJfKG) ====== Baba-ba-dook-dook-dook. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 12:14 PM (GBKbO) 254
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There's a marked difference in the number and quality of candidates for jobs in my sector (instructional design) just in the last 6-9 months. Back then, there were a ton of international applicants looking for an academic job to get their foot in the door. Now, there's hardly any. Lots of Americans applying for the job, though. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 09, 2025 12:14 PM (ESVrU) ==== Tangential: Foreign births down in 41 states: https://x.com/RyanGirdusky/status/ 1998428790570246211 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 12:15 PM (GBKbO) 255
BRICS are trying to create a system backed by gold, to bypass the normal trading infrastructure that involve the US dollar.
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 11:57 AM (g47mK) And that is what happens when Obama and then Biden weaponize the SWIFT network against "enemy states" like Switzerland and show it is not a neutral co-op of participant banks. Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 12:15 PM (rbvCR) 256
Collins, Murkowski, and Romney all voted to confirm low IQ Brown. We absolutely need to call the squishes from the rolls.
Posted by: Darth Randall at December 09, 2025 12:15 PM (f1kZG) 257
Last night the lovely and perceptive Mrs naturalfake and i got into a brief discussion of what was the Scariest Movie we'd ever seen.
Blair Witch Project here. It's also depressing as hell once you realize that the three kids are doomed. Also, when we saw it in the theater I almost puked due to the jerky camera movements. So, scary, depressing, and nauseating. Hate to top those. I think Night of the Living Dead is right up there, too. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 12:16 PM (77rzZ) Posted by: DaveA at December 09, 2025 12:18 PM (FhXTo) 259
New one: Jasmine
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 12:18 PM (Riz8t) 260
According to wikipedia Anton LeVey was Zeena's father.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 12:18 PM (Da7Vv) 261
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‘ Blair Witch Project here. It's also depressing as hell once you realize that the three kids are doomed.’ Doesn’t ‘depressing’ depend on whether you wanted them to survive? Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2025 12:18 PM (jbnUc) 262
Only a fool would base their monetary system on supplies of Italian economy cars.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur The YUGO currency really sucked. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 12:13 PM (77rzZ) ____ The Yugo is much maligned and rightly so. But it would have matured into a much better car had the unrest in Yugoslavia killed civilian exports. The same plants still make popular Stellantis/Fiat models, and neighboring Romania builds the very popular (in Euro) Dacia brand. Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 12:19 PM (iFTx/) 263
>>>Ghetto comes from within.
Posted by: ... >As a crowd gathers 'round an angry young man Face down on the street with a gun in his hand In the ghetto Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 12:19 PM (1zOXE) 264
And his mama cries
'Cause if there's one thing that she don't need It is another hungry mouth to feed Since they cut off EBT In the ghetto Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 12:20 PM (bvUs5) 265
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___ I suspect a good portion of this isn't "new" jobs, but rather jobs that previously would have gone straight to an illegal or swarthy H1B holder that are now open to Americans. So the job is "new" in the sense an American can now get it. Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 12:06 PM (iFTx/) Elric The Blade Johnson is right! ...and I'm sure there are *still* asshoes trying to continue their shenanigans; eg I saw a tweet the other day claiming some job listings specified "NO U.S. citizens" even though they were receiving feralgov funding under some program which made that provision illegal. Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 09, 2025 12:22 PM (ULPxl) 266
So, scary, depressing, and nauseating. Hate to top those.
I think Night of the Living Dead is right up there, too. Posted by: Bulg ========= Watch World at War, the episode covering the Not See death camps. That is true horror beyond whatever paltry crap that Hollywood serves up. Same for documentary coverage of the Cambodian killing fields, and Japanese POW camps that were involved in BW, and other such horrors. Once saw in an interview of a priest, he did not discount demons as a cause for evil actions but mentioned the great majority of evils he saw were men choosing to do it, not from possession or coercion. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 12:22 PM (WDjG6) 267
We aren't on a FIAT system either.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump Our system is based on debt, and the value of the debt is based on both the likelihood of repayment and the likelihood that inflation will make repayment meaningless. Inflation is driven by the expansion of the money supply, which in our system is driven by availability of credit AND the interest rate making it less or more advantageous to take loans. SO, Treasuries are the base of availability (outside of investments and savings), and the interest rate moderates the willingness for taking out loans, and then there are terms outside of the interest that the banks use to close up availability. Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 12:24 PM (rbvCR) 268
…pull fire alarms, and suggest that violence against ICE personnel is appropriate, and molest congressional pages, and enrich themselves with insider trading, and allow pimps to operate out of their homes, and to sexually harass at will, and molest and rape and who knows what else…
That really is quite a list, isn't it‽‽ Posted by: mindful webworker - dead kid aside at December 09, 2025 12:26 PM (yqA/D) 269
At the end of your post you point out the dilemma we all face. It is the problem of having a soft Republican, or a Democrat as the choices in a given election. I always vote for the soft Republican, because there is no other reasonable choice, for me.
Posted by: tubal ----- Same here, thus I held my nose and voted for Tillis. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 12:26 PM (XeU6L) 270
Shue's best performance was as Elizabeth Shue in Hamlet 2.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:53 AM (GBKbO) That would be: Adventures in Babysitting Posted by: browndog head cocked to the side at December 09, 2025 12:32 PM (3sXRv) 271
There's disagreement about whether Hawks actually directed The Thing or not.
------- I've always wondered if Arness, through the whole thing was thinking, 'I feel like an idiot in the getup'. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 12:32 PM (XeU6L) 272
But let’s not forget deepstate and voter fraud.
Posted by: Eromero at December 09, 2025 12:41 PM (raK6f) 273
"They always just need 1 or 2 more seats. They could have 98 senators and still claims they can't do anything. But donate today to stop the democrat agenda. 5x match."
It's always "we can't, we don't have a majority" Then its "what?! And risk our majority?" Posted by: Fen at December 09, 2025 01:19 PM (ciYHQ) Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 09, 2025 01:27 PM (3k5hk) 275
I suspect everybody's already left, but The Boss's early afternoon effort is up.
Or, as is sometimes said, Nood Ace. Posted by: Cybersmythe at December 09, 2025 01:30 PM (2Insx) 276
I've always wondered if Arness, through the whole thing was thinking, 'I feel like an idiot in the getup'. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 12:32 PM (XeU6L) Actually, I'm pretty sure he was thinking "who cares if I look foolish, the check cleared" Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 09, 2025 03:02 PM (y9nCu) 277
My last salary was $8750, ecom only worked 12 hours a week. My longtime neighbor yr estimated $15,000 and works about 20 hours for seven days. I can't believe how blunt he was when I looked up his information,
This is what I do................ https://p0stpr0m0ney88.blogspot.com/ Posted by: HOME PROFIT at December 09, 2025 06:28 PM (+3dnj) 278
l Get paid over $110 per hour working from home. l never thought I'd be able to do it but my buddy makes over $21269 a month doing this and she convinced me to try. The possibility with this is endless....
This is what I do...................... https://urlr.me/E3tz6Y Posted by: Anonymous at December 10, 2025 04:06 AM (NxtE8) Mid-Morning Art Thread![]() Peter Paul Rubens Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
Can't see the first for the trees
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 09, 2025 09:30 AM (w9Wax) Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 09:31 AM (GBKbO) 3
Doesn't look like a welding class.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 09, 2025 09:31 AM (w9Wax) 4
Very Rubenesque.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2025 09:32 AM (kgE5c) 5
That woman made brazen overtures With a gilt-edged guarantee She had a golden glint in her eye And a silver voice with a counterfeit ring Just melt her down and you'll reveal A lump of lead as cold as steel Here, where a woman's heart should be Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 09:32 AM (tgvbd) 6
SPONGE!!!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2025 09:33 AM (kgE5c) Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 09:33 AM (mT+6a) 8
Tentacle porn? This early in the morning? I usually don’t hit the dark-web shit until lunchtime.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 09, 2025 09:34 AM (osKUJ) 9
Yeah, interesting how "brazen" has two different meanings. One almost dead because we don't make much out of bronze anymore.
Posted by: GWB at December 09, 2025 09:34 AM (Bjfbw) Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 09:34 AM (iJfKG) 11
The 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Skip Leg Day.
Posted by: PabloD at December 09, 2025 09:34 AM (GALGA) 12
That Pee Wee could sure paint!
Posted by: Arts and Farces at December 09, 2025 09:34 AM (oftw2) 13
Why'd it have to be snakes?
Posted by: Indy at December 09, 2025 09:34 AM (98kQX) 14
Yikes. Creepy. Satanic.
Nope. Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 09:33 AM I wouldn't exactly hang this in the library. If I had a library, that is. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2025 09:35 AM (kgE5c) 15
That Pee Wee could sure paint!
Posted by: Arts and Farces at December 09, 2025 09:34 AM That's not all paint. Posted by: Pee Wee at December 09, 2025 09:35 AM (kgE5c) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 09:35 AM (tgvbd) 17
Why did it have to be snakes..
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 09:35 AM (VE6XX) 18
National gallery.orgUK
Biblical Context- "The painting depicts a scene from the Old Testament, specifically Numbers 21:6-9. In this narrative, God sends a plague of venomous snakes to punish the Israelites for their lack of faith. Moses is instructed to create a bronze serpent and raise it on a pole. Those who look at it after being bitten are healed." Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2025 09:36 AM (NpAcC) 19
Ah, Nehushtan.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:36 AM (77rzZ) 20
The one guy has a big snake between his legs.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 09:36 AM (bvUs5) 21
Put some clothes on while you're around snakes.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2025 09:37 AM (NpAcC) 22
The story of Moses and the serpents was about faith. Don't know what the naked folks are all about.
Would hang though, like the color scheme Thx CBD Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 09:37 AM (D+mpw) Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 09:37 AM (iJfKG) 24
The one guy has a big snake between his legs.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 09:36 AM That is, how you say, what she said. Posted by: Paolo at December 09, 2025 09:38 AM (kgE5c) 25
Strange and confusing painting.
Posted by: dantesed at December 09, 2025 09:38 AM (Oy/m2) 26
There's some freaky deaky going on in that painting. Can't figure it out.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 09:38 AM (wVcYX) 27
Do people still bronze baby shoes?
Posted by: Buster Brown (and Tige) at December 09, 2025 09:38 AM (oftw2) 28
Put some clothes on while you're around snakes. Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2025 09:37 AM (NpAcC) Cowboy boots Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 09:38 AM (tgvbd) 29
That woman made brazen overtures
With a gilt-edged guarantee She had a golden glint in her eye And a silver voice with a counterfeit ring Just melt her down and you'll reveal A lump of lead as cold as steel Here, where a woman's heart should be Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh Love that show. Thanks for quoting from it. Always makes me smile. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:38 AM (77rzZ) 30
How Rubenesque!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:38 AM (NuV6c) Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 09, 2025 09:38 AM (Dv3i1) 32
Disturbing.
Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 09, 2025 09:39 AM (6qf1m) 33
>>Biblical Context-
"The painting depicts a scene from the Old Testament, specifically Numbers 21:6-9. In this narrative, God sends a plague of venomous snakes to punish the Israelites for their lack of faith. Moses is instructed to create a bronze serpent and raise it on a pole. Those who look at it after being bitten are healed." Ah, thanks. Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:39 AM (NuV6c) 34
Moses and the Brazen Serpent
Peter Paul Rubens *********** Group Portrait - a limerick There are people in supplicating poses And some of them are rather short of clothes-es All that writhing and pleading! The title is misleading It's clear the painting isn't wholly Moses! Posted by: The Paolo at December 09, 2025 09:39 AM (/iMjX) 35
Put some clothes on while you're around snakes.
Posted by: redridinghood My niece used to work for some agency of the State Department, and spent some months in Liberia. She said she learned never to wear open-toed shoes in the jungle --because there are snakes in the jungle. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:40 AM (77rzZ) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:40 AM (XuXeR) 37
They look like they just found out they are going to pay alot for this muffler.
Posted by: Manny Moejack at December 09, 2025 09:41 AM (84Uz9) 38
So assless chaps were a bad idea in the Sinai?
Posted by: Fashion Plate at December 09, 2025 09:41 AM (oftw2) Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 09:41 AM (W7XSX) 40
would not hang
snake: no!!!!!! Posted by: Gref at December 09, 2025 09:41 AM (5rh/l) 41
Looks like a bunch of libs worshipping the American Medical Association guidance on trannies.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 09, 2025 09:42 AM (XvL8K) 42
Biblical Context-
"The painting depicts a scene from the Old Testament, specifically Numbers 21:6-9. In this narrative, God sends a plague of venomous snakes to punish the Israelites for their lack of faith. Moses is instructed to create a bronze serpent and raise it on a pole. Those who look at it after being bitten are healed." Posted by: redridinghood The bronze serpent was later installed in the Temple in Jerusalem, and became an item of popular veneration, until a religious-reformed-minded king, Josiah, I think, ordered it removed. It was called "Nehushtan." Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:42 AM (77rzZ) 43
No step on snek!
Posted by: A Snek at December 09, 2025 09:43 AM (kgE5c) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 09:43 AM (tgvbd) 45
My History teacher said that being "voluptuous" was thought to be beautiful back in the middle ages.
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 09:43 AM (W7XSX) 46
Snakes on a stick > snakes on a plane
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:43 AM (XuXeR) 47
So assless chaps were a bad idea in the Sinai?
Posted by: Fashion Plate What you wanted were aspless chaps. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:43 AM (77rzZ) 48
What is a shipwreck?
Posted by: M. Gaga at December 09, 2025 09:43 AM (KiBMU) 49
At the bottom, the unresponsive woman with a baby has a death grip on the snake of the guy she's laying on. Same snake is biting the guy in the throat.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 09:43 AM (wVcYX) 50
My niece used to work for some agency of the State Department, and spent some months in Liberia. She said she learned never to wear open-toed shoes in the jungle --because there are snakes in the jungle.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:40 AM (77rzZ) ****** She needed protective armor. Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2025 09:44 AM (NpAcC) 51
/epic sock fail
Posted by: muldoon at December 09, 2025 09:44 AM (/iMjX) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:44 AM (XuXeR) Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 09, 2025 09:44 AM (w9Wax) 54
Really strange episode in the Bible. I wish O understood it better.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 09, 2025 09:44 AM (dE3DB) 55
But that's better than suffering malnutrition.
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 09:44 AM (W7XSX) 56
My History teacher said that being "voluptuous" was thought to be beautiful back in the middle ages.
Posted by: no one Still is, as far as I'm concerned. "Voluptuous" = "big-boobed." Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:44 AM (77rzZ) 57
Snakes on a stick > snakes on a plane Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:43 AM (XuXeR) Snake on a stick was a favorite treat at the Sinai County Fair Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 09:45 AM (tgvbd) 58
This is an Old Testament story, no? Interesting then that the bronze snake on a cross that offered salvation to the Israelites bitten by the real snakes presages the New Testament story about the crucifixion. Although obviously that later story was unknown at the time.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 09, 2025 09:45 AM (osKUJ) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:45 AM (XuXeR) 60
My niece used to work for some agency of the State Department, and spent some months in Liberia. She said she learned never to wear open-toed shoes in the jungle --because there are snakes in the jungle.
Talk about your bungle in the jungle. . . Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 09:45 AM (ufSfZ) 61
Put some clothes on while you're around snakes.
Posted by: redridinghood My niece used to work for some agency of the State Department, and spent some months in Liberia. She said she learned never to wear open-toed shoes in the jungle --because there are snakes in the jungle. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:40 AM (77rzZ) and cowboys. Posted by: Zombie Jimmy Buffett at December 09, 2025 09:45 AM (wVcYX) 62
"America is a great country. Even the poor are fat."
Posted by: Yakkov Smiroff at December 09, 2025 09:45 AM (W7XSX) 63
I like this one. It has an aesthetic composition that the viewer subconsciously will feel imo. The color palette is also perfect.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 09:46 AM (KDPiq) Posted by: Pete in Texas at December 09, 2025 09:46 AM (BHrzb) 65
Lizzy is voluptuous. Big everything.
Posted by: Yakkov Smiroff at December 09, 2025 09:46 AM (W7XSX) 66
Really strange episode in the Bible. I wish O understood it better.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport Yeah, God tells the people not to make idols and worship them, then He tells Moses to make an idol and have people gaze on it. Not quite as strange as the story in Exodus where God seeks to kill Moses for being uncircumcised, but still odd. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:46 AM (77rzZ) 67
45 My History teacher said that being "voluptuous" was thought to be beautiful back in the middle ages.
-- Starving peasants are skinny and sunburnt. Being chubby and pale signals wealth. Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 09, 2025 09:47 AM (dE3DB) 68
Off sock.
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 09:47 AM (W7XSX) 69
The bronze serpent was later installed in the Temple in Jerusalem, and became an item of popular veneration, until a religious-reformed-minded king, Josiah, I think, ordered it removed. It was called "Nehushtan."
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:42 AM (77rzZ) ***** Or he had ophiophobia, fear of snakes. Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2025 09:47 AM (NpAcC) 70
He's doing the tube snake boogie...
Posted by: ZZ Top at December 09, 2025 09:48 AM (FGMmt) 71
My History teacher said that being "voluptuous" was thought to be beautiful back in the middle ages.
I never heard that. I do know a very high forehead was considered to be beautiful then, which is why noble women plucked their hairlines. I've always considered 'voluptuous' to be more of an Edwardian appellation. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 09:48 AM (ufSfZ) Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 09:48 AM (W7XSX) 73
My History teacher said that being "voluptuous" was thought to be beautiful back in the middle ages.
-- Starving peasants are skinny and sunburnt. Being chubby and pale signals wealth. Posted by: vmom I'M RICH!!!! Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 09:48 AM (bvUs5) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:48 AM (XuXeR) 75
56 My History teacher said that being "voluptuous" was thought to be beautiful back in the middle ages.
Posted by: no one Still is, as far as I'm concerned. "Voluptuous" = "big-boobed." Posted by: Bulg You all wanna know what I think? Posted by: Sir Mix-a-Lot at December 09, 2025 09:48 AM (Dv3i1) 76
Yeah, God tells the people not to make idols and worship them, then He tells Moses to make an idol and have people gaze on it.
Not quite as strange as the story in Exodus where God seeks to kill Moses for being uncircumcised, but still odd. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:46 AM (77rzZ) This interpretation is as accurate as your interpretation of Catholic saints. Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 09:48 AM (KDPiq) Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 09, 2025 09:49 AM (gDlxJ) Posted by: Navin Johnsonstein at December 09, 2025 09:50 AM (84Uz9) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:50 AM (XuXeR) 80
Alternate title: "Great Moments in the History of Healthcare: Moses Institutes COBRA."
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:50 AM (77rzZ) 81
Not quite as strange as the story in Exodus where God seeks to kill Moses for being uncircumcised, but still odd.
_____ If I ever make it to Paradise, it won't be in the first 1000 questions I have, but it is on the list - why circumcision? Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 09:50 AM (Dv3i1) 82
So this story of healing is why the U.S. medical profession adopted the snake entwined on a pole symbol?
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 09:50 AM (wVcYX) 83
A lot goin’ there
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 09:50 AM (SpIHn) 84
This interpretation is as accurate as your interpretation of Catholic saints.
Posted by: the way I see it I'm not gonna take that bait. I've sworn off antagonizing my Catholic friends on this blog. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:52 AM (77rzZ) Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 09:52 AM (W7XSX) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:53 AM (XuXeR) 87
There certainly is a lot going on in this picture.
Just look at them purty clouds! G'morn, gang.😁 Posted by: mindful webworker - wholly moses! at December 09, 2025 09:53 AM (yqA/D) 88
82 So this story of healing is why the U.S. medical profession adopted the snake entwined on a pole symbol?
Posted by: Count de Mone I think it's from the staff of Asclepius, commonly confused with the caduceus. Either way, snakes were associated with healing in the ancient world. Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 09, 2025 09:53 AM (6U1c2) 89
So this story of healing is why the U.S. medical profession adopted the snake entwined on a pole symbol?
I was always taught the cadeuces was the symbol of the Greek healer Aesclepius.* *insert obligatory "Greek homos!" Al Sharpton rant here. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 09:53 AM (ufSfZ) 90
why circumcision?
Posted by: Chuck Martel I always thought that it made sex that much more pleasant for men, thereby encouraging them to be fruitful and multiply. The Hebrews and Jews weren't the only ones to practice it, by the way. I believe the ancient Egyptians did, too. As, of course, do the Muslims. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:54 AM (77rzZ) 91
Samuel L Jackson "I'm sick of these mf'ing snakes in the Bible"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 09:54 AM (D+mpw) 92
So assless chaps were a bad idea in the Sinai?
Posted by: Fashion Plate What you wanted were aspless chaps. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:43 AM *golf clap* Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2025 09:54 AM (kgE5c) 93
Not quite as strange as the story in Exodus where God seeks to kill Moses for being uncircumcised, but still odd.
_____ If I ever make it to Paradise, it won't be in the first 1000 questions I have, but it is on the list - why circumcision? Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 09:50 AM (Dv3i1) It's to consecrate the bonds of obedience. You must snip it. Snip it good! Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 09:55 AM (wVcYX) 94
Good morning Mr Poppins!
Please be kind to yourself. I care whether you live or die. And this place is richer when you are here. Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 09:55 AM (mT+6a) 95
I think we can all agree that Greece lost to Rome because they wouldn't procreate enough to have folks farm the land.
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 09:55 AM (W7XSX) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:55 AM (XuXeR) 97
There are two talking animals in the Bible. One, of course, is the Serpent in Eden.
Can anyone name the other? Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ) 98
Alternate title: "Great Moments in the History of Healthcare: Moses Institutes COBRA."
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:50 AM You're in good form today, Bulg! Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2025 09:55 AM (kgE5c) 99
The Reuben sandwich most likely originated in Omaha, Nebraska, in the 1920s, invented by Reuben Kulakofsky, though some credit Arnold Reuben of New York City; its exact origins remain debated.
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 09:56 AM (RHGPo) 100
93 It's to consecrate the bonds of obedience.
You must snip it. Snip it good! Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 09:55 AM (wVcYX) ======= The Rabbi, He'll always shlep on down for a wedding or a briss They say he's got a lot of chutzpah, he's really quite hip The parents pay the moyl and he gets to keep the tip! Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 09:56 AM (GBKbO) 101
A donkey? In the book of Tobit?
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 09:56 AM (W7XSX) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:57 AM (XuXeR) 103
RMBS!
How’s Beantown? It’s DARK here. Sun won’t rise for another 45 minutes or so. Sunset at 4:17. And it’s precipitating. And windy. Embrace the suck! Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 09:57 AM (mT+6a) 104
Very Rubens. Bet it's a large painting.
Posted by: Tuna at December 09, 2025 09:57 AM (lJ0H4) 105
Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish painter and diplomat Born: June 28, 1577 Birthplace: Siegen, Westphalia (now in Germany) Died: May 30, 1640 Place of death: Antwerp, Brabant, Spanish Netherlands (now in Belgium) One of the most successful artists of his time, with a huge workshop of artists who completed many of his commissions, Rubens is regarded as the most important creator of Baroque art. Also, as a distinguished diplomat, he used his cheerful personality and broad human interests to work for the cause of peace. Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 09:57 AM (RHGPo) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:58 AM (XuXeR) 107
why circumcision?
Posted by: Chuck Martel I always thought that it made sex that much more pleasant for men, thereby encouraging them to be fruitful and multiply. The Hebrews and Jews weren't the only ones to practice it, by the way. I believe the ancient Egyptians did, too. As, of course, do the Muslims. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:54 AM (77rzZ) If ancient men were anything like modern men, 'pleasant' is not the first word that comes to mind when sex is on the table. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 09:58 AM (ufSfZ) 108
As we have now passed 100...
I would love for SCOTUS to rule that Trump can place tariffs in response to the drug emergency but that it can only affect those countries which are involved. Because that would mean that Trump can place tariffs in response to the ANY emergency but that it can only affect those countries which are involved. And I'm betting he could discover a lot of emergencies. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 09:58 AM (ExV1e) Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:59 AM (77rzZ) 110
RMBS!
How’s Beantown? It’s DARK here. Sun won’t rise for another 45 minutes or so. Sunset at 4:17. And it’s precipitating. And windy. Embrace the suck! Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 09:57 AM {{{nurse}}} Sun's up, but it's a bit brisk and windy. *checks weather* How nice, it's back into the double digits. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2025 09:59 AM (kgE5c) Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 09:59 AM (RHGPo) 112
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 09:55 AM (mT+6a)
Thank you, dear lady. Your CDs are going out in the mail today. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 09:59 AM (ufSfZ) 113
'Corpsman up!'
Posted by: Eromero at December 09, 2025 10:00 AM (LHPAg) 114
I always thought that it made sex that much more pleasant for men, thereby encouraging them to be fruitful and multiply.
- Then why not design it that way in the first place? It's to consecrate the bonds of obedience. - Yes, but why in this way, aren't there other ways to do this? Nevermind. Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 10:00 AM (Dv3i1) 115
ADP Weekly Employment Report Signals Rebound In Labor Market
... the end of the Low-Fire, Low-Hire economy? Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 10:00 AM (RHGPo) 116
Family sues Royal Caribbean after man allegedly served 33 drinks dies aboard cruise ship
I mean that’s how you maximize the all you can drink package. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:01 AM (9iyS+) 117
If ancient men were anything like modern men, 'pleasant' is not the first word that comes to mind when sex is on the table.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 09:58 AM Of course not. The table's not very comfortable. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2025 10:01 AM (kgE5c) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:01 AM (XuXeR) 119
People: We have been healed!
[ five minutes later ] Hey, I know, let’s wrap snakes around our nethers again! Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 10:02 AM (SpIHn) 120
Tucker Carlson Tells Forum in Doha That He’s Buying a House in Qatar to ‘Make a Statement That I’m an American and a Free Man’
------- Talk about doth protesting too much. Or is that the guilty fleeing where the righteous pursueth not. Who the hell ever said you weren't free, boy?? But now you come to mention it....... Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 10:03 AM (U6Usv) 121
Masterpiece
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 10:03 AM (eh7Q3) 122
Pepsi to cut costs aggressively: three plant closures, multiple line shutdowns, and nearly a 20% SKU reduction in the U.S. by early 2026.
prioritize affordability for working-poor consumers, and move forward with a workforce restructuring as part of a broader cost-cutting push. ... plant closures are to working-poor what ... Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 10:04 AM (RHGPo) 123
after man allegedly served 33 drinks dies aboard cruise ship"
Saw that story. Dude looks to be slightly...unhealthy. Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:04 AM (XuXeR) 124
123 after man allegedly served 33 drinks dies aboard cruise ship"
Saw that story. Dude looks to be slightly...unhealthy. Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:04 AM (XuXeR) === Well, he is dead. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:04 AM (GBKbO) 125
Beat me to it, TJM.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2025 10:05 AM (kgE5c) 126
Snakes are hibernating around here now. Guess the cold is good for something.
Posted by: Reptile Dysfunction at December 09, 2025 10:05 AM (oftw2) 127
TuCa, free? I wish. I have to shell out waaay to much for that guy as it is.
-- Emir of Qatar Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:05 AM (77rzZ) 128
History teacher said that being "voluptuous" was thought to be beautiful back in the middle ages.
This is the kind of shit history teachers are always coming up with, to cover for the fact they all end up with fat chicks. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 09, 2025 10:05 AM (zdLoL) 129
Really strange episode in the Bible. I wish O understood it better. Posted by: vmom deport deport deport Yeah, God tells the people not to make idols and worship them, then He tells Moses to make an idol and have people gaze on it. Not quite as strange as the story in Exodus where God seeks to kill Moses for being uncircumcised, but still odd. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:46 AM (77rzZ) Old Testament: Let's throw shit at the wall and see what works. New Testament: Dammit Dad, may I suggest you follow my lead? Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 09, 2025 10:05 AM (y9nCu) 130
"Imagine if the US and EU were still aligned on the censorship-by-proxy strategy. Few people realize how close we were to global totalitarianism." —Michael Shellenberger.
Norm Eisen, Lawfare Ninja Supreme Western Civ is choking itself to death with lawfare in the name of “democracy.” If you think just a little bit past the sale, you will realize that few will say what they mean by “democracy,” including the most ardent “democracy” cultists. Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 10:06 AM (RHGPo) 131
I thought “voluptuous” meant large sweater-puppies. “Rubenesque” means land whale, wide load, water buffalo, etc. Could be wrong, often am.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 10:06 AM (yfFl/) 132
after man allegedly served 33 drinks dies aboard cruise ship"
Saw that story. Dude looks to be slightly...unhealthy. Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:04 AM (XuXeR) === Well, he is dead. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:04 AM (GBKbO) Nah, just pining for the fjords. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 10:06 AM (ufSfZ) 133
Pepsi to cut costs aggressively"
Not getting the monthly boost from soda and junk food sales hurts, huh? Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:06 AM (XuXeR) 134
108 As we have now passed 100...
I would love for SCOTUS to rule that Trump can place tariffs in response to the drug emergency but that it can only affect those countries which are involved. Because that would mean that Trump can place tariffs in response to the ANY emergency but that it can only affect those countries which are involved. And I'm betting he could discover a lot of emergencies. Posted by: I used to have a different nic ==== Court is perfectly capable of delaying the matter as well. The case presented possibly has some standing problems, there is an issue of practicality making repaying tariffs difficult in the sense of billions of bucks we do not have, whether the agreements with nations over the tariffs suddenly are now deemed executive agreements (aka treaty like), etc. Most legal beagle commentators on the air or on youtube/etc are not actually constitutional law experts and even then, the whole field of tariff law has been so quiet for nearly 80-90 years that few today have any practical experience or knowledge of it. Birthright citizenship and Wong Ark Kim precedent is more more poorly understood. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 10:07 AM (WDjG6) 135
132 Nah, just pining for the fjords.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 10:06 AM (ufSfZ) ====== Fjords are overrated. The real action is in plateaus. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:07 AM (GBKbO) 136
Eagle in Revelations ?
Dunno Posted by: man One of the four celestial creatures our something like that? If so, not really animals, but divine beings that look like animals. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:07 AM (77rzZ) 137
Moses' foot looks like a face?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:07 AM (npFr7) 138
I honestly don’t get the end game for Tucker. Is he just fucking with everyone for sport?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:07 AM (9iyS+) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:08 AM (XuXeR) 140
134 Birthright citizenship and Wong Ark Kim precedent is more more poorly understood.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 10:07 AM (WDjG6) ====== I read Kim a few months back. Well, skimmed it. It's like 300 pages long. Seemed pretty clear to me: Legal residents who have kids...their kids are citizens. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:08 AM (GBKbO) 141
I thought “voluptuous” meant large sweater-puppies. “Rubenesque” means land whale, wide load, water buffalo, etc. Could be wrong, often am.
Posted by: Common Tater That's my understanding, too. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:08 AM (77rzZ) Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 10:09 AM (ufSfZ) 143
after man allegedly served 33 drinks dies aboard cruise ship"
Saw that story. Dude looks to be slightly...unhealthy. Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:04 AM (XuXeR) If only he'd made it to 34 drinks. At drink 34, you totally sober up, and can continue drinking until drink 68! It's a scientific fact. Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 10:09 AM (iJfKG) 144
Venomous snake bit Paul after the shipwreck, but he didn't die. He shook it off into the fire. Acts 28:3-6
Posted by: The Isle of Malta at December 09, 2025 10:09 AM (oftw2) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:09 AM (XuXeR) 146
Dead drunk is still mostly alive.
Posted by: banana miracle max Dream at December 09, 2025 10:10 AM (SpIHn) Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:10 AM (9iyS+) 148
Talk about doth protesting too much. Or is that the guilty fleeing where the righteous pursueth not.
Who the hell ever said you weren't free, boy?? But now you come to mention it....... Posted by: ... ======== Tucker may be coming to the realization that he has no 'friends' anymore on the right or left due to his antics. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 10:10 AM (WDjG6) 149
“Democracy” means permanent rule by unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats in some obscure undersecretary assistant position at an even more obscure alphabet agency who notably are always seem to be clearly quite uncomfortable even having an official photograph taken. I would be too. “If they ever figure out all the shit we’ve been doing.. “
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 10:10 AM (yfFl/) 150
GOPers Who Praise Mamdani Don’t Understand Communism or Affordability,
- They talk like fags, and their shit's all retarded. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 10:11 AM (L/fGl) 151
This is voluptuous:
https://tinyurl.com/bdz4b2fa Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing Did you see the ladies in yesterday's art? They looked like they might have appealed to you, even though they were not noticeably voluptuous. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:11 AM (77rzZ) 152
I don't have an issue with Aesclepius and his staff-and-serpent becoming the symbol of the healing profession.
What we always wondered about was how it became the trademark of the Sun Oil Company. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 09, 2025 10:11 AM (zdLoL) 153
I honestly don’t get the end game for Tucker. Is he just fucking with everyone for sport?
I gave up on caring about that a while ago, but I think his central end game is just "make lots of money". Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 10:11 AM (2ocoG) 154
I guess I'm a lightweight. I try to stop after 32 drinks.
Posted by: Rum Dum With DTs at December 09, 2025 10:12 AM (oftw2) 155
Where does "pleasantly plump" fit on the spectrum?
Notice I chose not to use "scale". Too punny. Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 10:12 AM (wVcYX) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:12 AM (XuXeR) 157
Well, he is dead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:04 AM (GBKbO) He's resting. Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 10:12 AM (U6Usv) 158
I have been to an "all inclusive" resort. The bartenders start making the drinks weaker and weaker to prevent that problem.
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 10:12 AM (W7XSX) 159
I gave up on caring about that a while ago, but I think his central end game is just "make lots of money".
Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 10:11 AM (2ocoG) He’s already got fuck you money. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:12 AM (9iyS+) 160
123 after man allegedly served 33 drinks dies aboard cruise ship"
In a day? A week? A ten day cruise? Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 10:13 AM (9n4pb) 161
“Democracy” means permanent rule by unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats in some obscure undersecretary assistant position at an even more obscure alphabet agency who notably are always seem to be clearly quite uncomfortable even having an official photograph taken. I would be too. “If they ever figure out all the shit we’ve been doing.. “
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 10:10 AM (yfFl/) The British comedy, "Yes, Minister" is not an instruction video. Nor is "Yes, Prime Minister". Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 10:13 AM (iJfKG) 162
Religious art gives me the willies
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 10:13 AM (ZxPkt) 163
This is voluptuous:
https://tinyurl.com/bdz4b2fa Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing _________ Oh, Lili Lili Lili Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 09, 2025 10:13 AM (XvL8K) 164
Wakes up
Scratches Looks around Dang. Sneks. I hate sneks. This would require a ton of faith. *shudders* Goes looking for coffee. Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 10:13 AM (2WIwB) 165
I was at that exact party one summer in high school.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 09, 2025 10:13 AM (8DR9B) 166
Venomous snake bit Paul after the shipwreck, but he didn't die. He shook it off into the fire. Acts 28:3-6
Posted by: The Isle of Malta at December 09, 2025 10:09 AM (oftw2) The spirit of the honey badger resides in Paul. Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 10:13 AM (wVcYX) 167
If I ever make it to Paradise, it won't be in the first 1000 questions I have, but it is on the list - why circumcision?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 09:50 AM (Dv3i1) Why not? Posted by: God at December 09, 2025 10:13 AM (FGMmt) 168
Did you see the ladies in yesterday's art? They looked like they might have appealed to you, even though they were not noticeably voluptuous.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:11 AM (77rzZ) Didn't see that, but it is right up my alley. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 10:14 AM (ufSfZ) 169
I guess I'm a lightweight. I try to stop after 32 drinks.
Posted by: Rum Dum When I was in my real heavy-drinking days in the Navy, I would always reach a point where I thought, "If I have another sip of alcohol, I'm going to be sick." And then I would stop. Nowadays, I usually fall asleep long before I even come close to that point. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:14 AM (77rzZ) 170
167 If I ever make it to Paradise, it won't be in the first 1000 questions I have, but it is on the list - why circumcision?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 09:50 AM (Dv3i1) Why not? Posted by: God at December 09, 2025 10:13 AM (FGMmt) ===== "Job, I have another one who has questions of their creator. Please, do come and help inform him." -God Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:14 AM (GBKbO) 171
Nah, just pining for the fjords.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 10:06 AM Alaskan cruise? Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2025 10:14 AM (kgE5c) 172
Tucker may be coming to the realization that he has no 'friends' anymore on the right or left due to his antics.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 10:10 AM (WDjG6) That's a thought. It reads more to me like he's justifying theft the way thieves always do. "F you, I have been wronged." Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 10:15 AM (U6Usv) 173
Where does "pleasantly plump" fit on the spectrum?
Notice I chose not to use "scale". Too punny." Well, if light bends around it... Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:15 AM (XuXeR) 174
If so, not really animals, but divine beings that look like animals.
—— I like the folks that believe the Egyptian depiction of half humans with bird heads weren’t artistic license, they really looked like that. Which would be weird. The elongated skulls are a bit weird, they are not due to infant-binding or cultural practices, as oft-cited although some more primitive societies did do this. Not the Flathead Indian nation, strangely enough. Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 10:16 AM (yfFl/) 175
This is voluptuous:
https://tinyurl.com/bdz4b2fa Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing _________ Oh, Lili Lili Lili Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 09, 2025 10:13 AM (XvL8K) Ditto: https://tinyurl.com/3ce97k3e Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 10:16 AM (wVcYX) 176
I read Kim a few months back. Well, skimmed it. It's like 300 pages long.
Seemed pretty clear to me: Legal residents who have kids...their kids are citizens. Posted by: TheJamesMadison ======= Part of it is a confused history of jus soli in the opinion, the role of sojourners in British law, and Justice Gray's ignoring the constitutional principle that later amendments alter the original document. His discussion of the 'subject to the jurisdiction thereof' part of the 14th Amendment and refusal to deal with the smelly skunk in the room--the 14th was adopted to overturn the Dred Scott decision wrought by Scotus itself (as were the 13th and 15th). Part of that horrendous Dred Scott decision was that blacks could never be citizens of the US as they were not included in the Declaration as part of all men are created equal. Thus, blacks, free or slave, could not be citizens of the US and by corollary citizens of states (thus could be expelled at will, etc.). Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 10:16 AM (WDjG6) 177
He’s already got fuck you money.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:12 AM (9iyS+) It's never enough for some. Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 10:16 AM (U6Usv) Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ) 179
Where does "pleasantly plump" fit on the spectrum?
Like Nicole Sullivan when she appeared on Mom? I liked that. https://tinyurl.com/295nkpd9 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 10:17 AM (ufSfZ) 180
He’s already got fuck you money.
There are those for whom nothing is enough, dating back to Eve in Genesis. Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 10:17 AM (2ocoG) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:17 AM (XuXeR) 182
Nowadays, I usually fall asleep long before I even come close to that point.
—— Drink one, spill one, give one away, it’s time for beddy-bye Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 10:17 AM (yfFl/) 183
Legal residents are subject to "the jurisdiction thereof."
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 10:18 AM (W7XSX) 184
Tuckers’s out there. But holy fuck have you all been following the Candy Owens shit? She’s got Israel, France, Egypt(??), the CIA and Turning Point and Erika Kirk all in one giant conspiracy to kill Charlie Kirk.
And sadly she has a ton of people lapping this nonsense up. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:18 AM (9iyS+) 185
Family sues Royal Caribbean after man allegedly served 33 drinks dies aboard cruise ship
I mean that’s how you maximize the all you can drink package. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:01 AM (9iyS+) Well, he didn't fall overboard. So there's that. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:18 AM (npFr7) Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 09, 2025 10:18 AM (zdLoL) 187
AoSHQ: Come for the religious art, stay for the voluptuous art.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:18 AM (77rzZ) 188
Actor Michael Rapaport Blasts Fellow Celebs for Terrorist Support
- I saw one of the many celeries who demand Israel release a terror mastermind they have imprisoned was Paul Simon. I'm sure the Islamic crocodile will eat him last. Should've stayed with his old friend silence. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 10:19 AM (L/fGl) 189
Christmas shopping is very stressful.
Mostly because my wife waits until the last minute, spazzes out of finding stuff, orders things to be delivered... probably... while we're not at home, and cries, sighs, and mutters the whole time. Because things have a way of working out. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 10:19 AM (ExV1e) 190
The elongated skulls are a bit weird, they are not due to infant-binding or cultural practices, as oft-cited although some more primitive societies did do this. Not the Flathead Indian nation, strangely enough.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 10:16 AM (yfFl/) Wanna swap genetic legacies? Posted by: The Elongated Beaver Teeth Nation at December 09, 2025 10:19 AM (iJfKG) 191
Ditto:
https://tinyurl.com/3ce97k3e Posted by: Count de Monet Mae West? Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ) When she was good, she was very, very good. When she was bad, she was better! Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 10:19 AM (wVcYX) Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 10:20 AM (W7XSX) 193
He’s already got fuck you money.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:12 AM (9iyS+) *** *looks in wallet* F U money? Nope Piss off money? Nope. Get bent money? Nope. Sit back, ignore the world, sip scotch, and smoke cigars money? Check! Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 10:20 AM (2WIwB) 194
The serpent went for his Adam's Apple. A fitting end.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 10:21 AM (1zOXE) 195
Venomous snake bit Paul after the shipwreck, but he didn't die. He shook it off into the fire. Acts 28:3-6
Posted by: The Isle of Malta at December 09, 2025 10:09 AM (oftw2) ---- Heh. My pastor talked about this very incident this past Sunday. We're slowly moving through the Book of Acts (it's taken us a year and a half). We're almost done. Paul was basically in charge of his own mission to get to Rome at this point. Everyone else was simply tagging along. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 09, 2025 10:21 AM (ESVrU) 196
I have not bought a Christmas present since I was married. Im as surprised as what “we” bought people on Christmas Day as are the people we bought presents for. 😀
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:21 AM (9iyS+) 197
> Tuckers’s out there. But holy fuck have you all been following the Candy Owens shit? She’s got Israel, France, Egypt(??), the CIA and Turning Point and Erika Kirk all in one giant conspiracy to kill Charlie Kirk.
---------- Sounds like a plot for a book. Get a ghost writer on board with it, push out about 350 pages of conspiracy nonsense and make bank. Worse musings have been published. See "107 Days" by Kamala Harris for example. Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2025 10:22 AM (NwnyJ) 198
Well, he didn't fall overboard. So there's that"
Based on the pics... he'd float. Very, very well. Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:22 AM (XuXeR) 199
I have not bought a Christmas present since I was married. Im as surprised as what “we” bought people on Christmas Day as are the people we bought presents for. 😀
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald __________ What about the other half of "we"? Does she buy for herself? Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 09, 2025 10:23 AM (XvL8K) 200
I honestly don’t get the end game for Tucker.
I may be rich but I still gots to get paid. I'll sling whatever shit somebody wants long as the check clears. -- Tucker Carlson (and pretty much every other pundit) Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 10:23 AM (ExV1e) 201
I guess back in the day clothing was optional.
Posted by: Case at December 09, 2025 10:23 AM (G1OIb) 202
Where does "pleasantly plump" fit on the spectrum?
Like Nicole Sullivan when she appeared on Mom? I liked that. https://tinyurl.com/295nkpd9 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 10:17 AM (ufSfZ) Lagniappe! Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 10:23 AM (wVcYX) 203
184 Tuckers’s out there. But holy fuck have you all been following the Candy Owens shit? She’s got Israel, France, Egypt(??), the CIA and Turning Point and Erika Kirk all in one giant conspiracy to kill Charlie Kirk.
And sadly she has a ton of people lapping this nonsense up. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald ========= The problem with outrage merchants is to keep the rubes in line, you have to keep the outrage going. So they double down. It is not enough anymore to allege Brigette has a twig and berries. Brigette has to have multiple twigs and berries in the bush. Or Brigette is a tripod man. Only the lucky con artists can make the swing to the next rope when a new controversy arises to let the rubes forget about how worthless your previous pronouncements were of a different controversy. I also suspect, like Fuentes, a lot of the supposed views, etc. are fake manufactured and from content mills in the Third World. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 10:24 AM (WDjG6) 204
Last time I was on a cruise I debated whether to the the drink package or not. Iirc the break even was 7 drinks a day. I chose not to get it thinking I’m
Not drinking more than 7 drinks daily. Then after the first drink I bought which was ridiculously watered down, I realized why the drink package is a good deal after all. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:24 AM (9iyS+) 205
The doctor says you're going to die.
Posted by: Just the Punchline at December 09, 2025 10:24 AM (jc0TO) 206
If I ever make it to Paradise, it won't be in the first 1000 questions I have, but it is on the list - why circumcision?
Like a lot of things in the Old Testament it's a "do this and magically avoid negative consequences" thing that wasn't necessary once other ways of avoiding the negatives were understood. Like the pork prohibition stopped people from getting trichinosis until safe handling and cooking practices were a thing. Also it really pisses off the gays. Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 10:24 AM (2ocoG) 207
Of course it follows any person within the confines of the USA is “subject to the jurisdiction”, that doesn’t make them a citizen.
It’s just retarded to assert that a baby born of an illegal alien is now a citizen. That was never the intent nor passes the common sense test. The author of the amendment itself pointed this out as well. This is just legal twaddle pulled out of their ass. They should have been impeached for such a ruling. Same with the “you American citizen taxpayers are on the hook for illegal aliens in public schools, too!” Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 10:24 AM (yfFl/) 208
Well, he is dead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:04 AM (GBKbO) He's resting. Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 10:12 AM (U6Usv) Was it a Norwegian cruise? If so, I have a theory. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 10:24 AM (ExV1e) 209
i was just thinking that the British government should provide migrant men with women and girls to rape.
Posted by: pawn at December 09, 2025 10:25 AM (EMg+d) 210
This is voluptuous:
https://tinyurl.com/bdz4b2fa Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing Nope. She's just fat. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 10:25 AM (g8Ew8) 211
Also it really pisses off the gays.
Posted by: Ian S. Yes. I remember Andrew Sullivan going on about it back in the day. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:26 AM (77rzZ) 212
i was just thinking that the British government should provide migrant men with women and girls to rape.
Posted by: pawn at December 09, 2025 10:25 AM (EMg+d) I think you'll find you're about six years late. Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 10:26 AM (U6Usv) 213
View counts?
Twitch might be on the hook for some massive fraud by allegedly using 'bots to boost the view counts and then charging higher rates to advertisers to advertise. Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 10:26 AM (2GVsD) 214
Zaftig = Pleasantly Plump.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 10:27 AM (wVcYX) 215
i was just thinking that the British government should provide migrant men with women and girls to rape.
But Japan in WWII and Comfort Women is a war crime. Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 10:27 AM (2GVsD) 216
you American citizen taxpayers are on the hook for illegal aliens in public schools, too!"
I especially enjoyed the bit that such education would make them "productive". For whom? Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:28 AM (XuXeR) 217
Ugly.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 09, 2025 10:28 AM (Kt19C) 218
Zaftig can mean that she could survive a small famine.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 10:28 AM (2GVsD) 219
And sadly she has a ton of people lapping this nonsense up.
Does she, though? The recent discovery by DataRepublican that the Groypers are largely bots certainly casts doubt on a lot of the things we're supposed to be deeply concerned about. Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 10:28 AM (2ocoG) 220
What about the other half of "we"? Does she buy for herself?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba This year, my wife and I both bought the things to give each other. I don't really care for that, but after 27 years of marriage, you kinda run out of ideas as to what to get your spouse. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:28 AM (77rzZ) 221
Babies born to parents on temporary visas should also not get citizenship. There’s a whole industry of women coming here on a tourist visa at 8 months pregnant popping the kid out who then is a citizen. Mainly Chinese.
They go back home but the kid will always have the option to come back and have all the benefits of being “American”. And same thing with student visas. It’s simple one parent has to be a citizen or a green card holder for the baby to be a citizen. Just like pretty much every other country on the planet. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:29 AM (9iyS+) 222
213 View counts?
Twitch might be on the hook for some massive fraud by allegedly using 'bots to boost the view counts and then charging higher rates to advertisers to advertise. Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 10:26 AM (2GVsD) ==== YouTubers have been complaining for a couple of months that things have suddenly gotten a lot harder. Dolley's favorite channel, TheTimTracker (they do theme parks and cruise videos), is seeing half the viewership they used to (they're doing a lot more endorsements now to make up for it). My first thought was that YT was killing bot views. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:29 AM (GBKbO) 223
One goofy bewb. WTF?
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 09, 2025 10:29 AM (Wg6v7) 224
I don't really care for that, but after 27 years of marriage, you kinda run out of ideas as to what to get your spouse.
You got married when you were 2? Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 10:29 AM (2GVsD) 225
Israelites: Moses! Why did you bring us to this terrible place?? We're all gonna die here! Come on everybody, let's go back to Egypt.
GOD: WTF??? *Puts the snakes on them* Israelites: AAAIIII!!! MOSES HALP! Moses: Oi vey. Lord, please what with the snaking and the biting! GOD: Fine. Put up the snake sign. Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at December 09, 2025 10:29 AM (V362x) 226
Moses and the Brazen Serpent
Peter Paul Rubens Moses teaching a path to G*d's goodness & mercy. (The Old Testament, with "cause and effect" throughout, didn't mess around. A principle often referred to as retributive justice or the Deuteronomic formula.) Moses led the Israelites for about 40 years in the wilderness, but he did not enter the Promised Land himself, dying on Mount Nebo after seeing it from afar, due to a specific act of disobedience where he struck a rock for water instead of speaking to it as God commanded. This 40-year period was a punishment for the entire generation's disbelief after the spies' negative report, ensuring only the faithful (Joshua & Caleb) and the new generation entered Canaan. (AI Overview) Good lesson & Reubens was a Master of painting. However, I'd pass hanging today's selection. Thanks. PS - No one wrote, "Boobs!" Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 09, 2025 10:30 AM (NFX2v) 227
My wife is "hard to buy for." She does not admire gemstones or jewelry, and almost never wears the trinkets I've accumulated for her over the years. This year will be the "alabaster" anniversary, so I thought I'd really scored when I found a carved-alabaster hand sculpture, that acts as a ring-holder. Finally, a place to park her hiddenite "Star of North Wilkesboro" and the Tiffany pinkie ring that came with her horsewhip.
I placed an order. Didn't say it's carved in Greece. It may arrive by Epiphany. Anniversary is day after tomorrow. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 09, 2025 10:30 AM (zdLoL) 228
I guess back in the day clothing was optional.
Posted by: Case at December 09, 2025 10:23 AM (G1OIb) ""Honey, wait! Your hair's a mess! How many time have I told you...Comb your pubes before you go out!" Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 10:30 AM (iJfKG) 229
Tuckers’s out there. But holy fuck have you all been following the Candy Owens shit? She’s got Israel, France, Egypt(??), the CIA and Turning Point and Erika Kirk all in one giant conspiracy to kill Charlie Kirk.
- They held their conspiracy planning meeting at the Superdome. All other venues were too small. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 10:31 AM (L/fGl) 230
Bonnie Blue might be spending some more time in Bali than she wanted
youtu.be/0wQrVlfmQto Posted by: gKWVE at December 09, 2025 10:31 AM (gKWVE) 231
Tucker is back to his old ways. A pimp for his masters.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 10:31 AM (1zOXE) 232
I always say the best present you can give me is don’t spend money buying useless shit for me that I don’t want or need.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:31 AM (9iyS+) 233
YouTube did something and it nuked a lot of view counts, almost as if YouTube wants people to log in and comment just to be counted.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 10:33 AM (2GVsD) 234
232: you’re a joy at parties I’m sure.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 10:33 AM (rQwsY) 235
Even Nick Fuentes is line yo Candace, you need to dial it down a little girl. Lol. You’re making the rest of us conspiracy theory people sound crazy.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:33 AM (9iyS+) 236
The verb ‘to pine’ has a totally different origin ― different roots ― than the noun (the tree). While the tree noun derives from the Old English pin and Latin pinus, the verb stems from different words of yore.
The verb “to pine” derives from the Old English pinian, which meant to torment, cause to suffer, afflict, etc. Pinian in turn comes from German and Old Norse words referring to pain and punishment ― which most believe trace back to the Latin poena, meaning punishment or penalty. In Roman mythology, Poena was the spirit of punishment, known as Poine in Greek. Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 09, 2025 10:33 AM (w9Wax) 237
233 YouTube did something and it nuked a lot of view counts, almost as if YouTube wants people to log in and comment just to be counted.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 10:33 AM (2GVsD) ====== *hint...hint...* Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:33 AM (GBKbO) 238
7 Yikes. Creepy. Satanic.
Nope. Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 09:33 AM (mT+6a) METAL!!! Would hang. Next to my SLAYER collection. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 10:34 AM (rQwsY) 239
I don't really care for that, but after 27 years of marriage, you kinda run out of ideas as to what to get your spouse. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:28 AM (77rzZ) We have your gift of love! -----Spatula City Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 10:34 AM (g8Ew8) 240
Me and the Missus submit Christmas lists to each other, so it's on the buyee to present options. I know it takes the surprise out but sometimes deals must be struck to keep the peace.
Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 09, 2025 10:34 AM (6qf1m) 241
235 Even Nick Fuentes is line yo Candace, you need to dial it down a little girl. Lol. You’re making the rest of us conspiracy theory people sound crazy.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:33 AM (9iyS+) How is your hero doing? Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 10:35 AM (rQwsY) 242
234 232: you’re a joy at parties I’m sure.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 10:33 AM (rQwsY) Heh. I am actually. I just don’t buy into the Christmas everyone buy everyone something for the sake of buying something, game. I really don’t need anything. I’m good. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:35 AM (9iyS+) 243
I don't really care for that, but after 27 years of marriage, you kinda run out of ideas as to what to get your spouse.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:28 AM (77rzZ) My wife and I, theoretically, tell the other one what we'd like. She says she can't think of anything which means "get me something without my input" and I say that I literally want nothing which means that I literally want nothing. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 10:35 AM (ExV1e) 244
Even Nick Fuentes is line yo Candace, you need to dial it down a little girl. Lol. You’re making the rest of us conspiracy theory people sound crazy.
Fuentes is probably an op, given the footage of him in the crowd on J6 saying the same things as Ray Epps and the FBI subsequently pretending he wasn't there. Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 10:35 AM (2ocoG) 245
235 Even Nick Fuentes is like yo Candace
You know who else dialed back his rhetoric when he was making an attempt for more mainstream respectability? Posted by: painting happy trees in Bavaria at December 09, 2025 10:35 AM (gKWVE) 246
Zaftig can mean that she could survive a small famine.
--Posted by: Anna Puma True, but it can also mean that she could be the means of surviving one. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 09, 2025 10:36 AM (zdLoL) 247
How's the Macron lawsuit against Candie going?
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:36 AM (77rzZ) 248
I have found calendars are always good practical gifts. Even in this digital day and age, I still use wall calendars, as my appointments will NOT automatically share across my devices.
My 2026 astronomy themed calendar is waiting in the wings. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 10:37 AM (rQwsY) 249
Moses led the Israelites for about 40 years in the wilderness, but he did not enter the Promised Land himself, dying on Mount Nebo after seeing it from afar, due to a specific act of disobedience where he struck a rock for water instead of speaking to it as God commanded. This 40-year period was a punishment for the entire generation's disbelief after the spies' negative report, ensuring only the faithful (Joshua & Caleb) and the new generation entered Canaan. (AI Overview)
===== Hashem also intended that no Israelite who had been accustomed to life as a slave in Egypt entered the Land. Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 10:37 AM (9ipOP) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 10:37 AM (2GVsD) 251
How's the Macron lawsuit against Candie going?
Macron is apparently refusing a DNA test and saying nude pictures should be sufficient. That's... suspicious. Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 10:37 AM (2ocoG) 252
My wife is "hard to buy for." She does not admire gemstones or jewelry, and almost never wears the trinkets I've accumulated for her over the years. This year will be the "alabaster" anniversary, so I thought I'd really scored when I found a carved-alabaster hand sculpture, that acts as a ring-holder. Finally, a place to park her hiddenite "Star of North Wilkesboro" and the Tiffany pinkie ring that came with her horsewhip.
I placed an order. Didn't say it's carved in Greece. It may arrive by Epiphany. Anniversary is day after tomorrow. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 09, 2025 10:30 AM (zdLoL) Hmmmm... my 30th is coming up but the wife already has pearls, white and black. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 10:37 AM (ExV1e) Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 10:37 AM (L/fGl) 254
Nope. She's just fat.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 10:25 AM (g8Ew How about this? https://tinyurl.com/yc2ez6e2 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 10:38 AM (ufSfZ) 255
and I say that I literally want nothing which means that I literally want nothing.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic Amen brother!! Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:38 AM (9iyS+) 256
I'm just thinking of things that can further inflame the natives in Britain. Hopefully there will be a bridge too far leading to a revolt.
So far, I am getting nothing. I never figured their cops would turn into nannies on steroids. Posted by: pawn at December 09, 2025 10:38 AM (EMg+d) 257
I just don’t buy into the Christmas everyone buy everyone something for the sake of buying something, game. I really don’t need anything. I’m good.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:35 AM (9iyS+) See above; I shoot for practicality. I have found people still use wall calendars. Cheap, practical. I constantly buy them as gifts or make my own for people. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 10:38 AM (rQwsY) 258
If the Macrons go on a double date with Barack and Big Mike the gig will definitely be up.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 10:38 AM (2ocoG) 259
True, but it can also mean that she could be the means
of surviving one. That's Sally Struthers. Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 10:38 AM (2GVsD) 260
I got a tactical Dad briefing on that once. No frying pans or vacuum cleaners as gifts for the fairer sex. Even when I was 7 I pretty much knew this instinctively. Dear old dad did not, apparently and probably resulted in some unanticipated couch surfing duty. Oops
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 10:39 AM (yfFl/) 261
How about this?
https://tinyurl.com/yc2ez6e2 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing She's better than the last one. I don't get why you like all the clothes, though. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:40 AM (77rzZ) 262
Macron is apparently refusing a DNA test and saying nude pictures should be sufficient. That's... suspicious.
Posted by: Ian S. Nude pictures?!!! O, the humanity! Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 10:40 AM (L/fGl) 263
I mean that’s how you maximize the all you can drink package.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:01 AM (9iyS+) -------- Another tragic case of death by spreadsheet Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 09, 2025 10:40 AM (JkO4W) 264
The Snake on the Pole is quite reminiscent of the Rod of Asclepius, which in modern culture has morphed into the Caduceus, a symbol representing Medicine.
I would argue it's a sign of the way that many ideas and symbols from foreign cultures slipped into the ancient beliefs of the Israelites. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 10:40 AM (uWKK8) 265
YouTubers have been complaining for a couple of months that things have suddenly gotten a lot harder.
Dolley's favorite channel, TheTimTracker (they do theme parks and cruise videos), is seeing half the viewership they used to (they're doing a lot more endorsements now to make up for it). My first thought was that YT was killing bot views. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:29 AM (GBKbO) My YT gripes: Ads every five minutes. The worst aspect is presentation. Here I am, really into a video, then out of nowhere come two ads. Again, every five minutes. It’s jarring. And many of them are clickbait scam ads. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 10:41 AM (rQwsY) 266
260 I got a tactical Dad briefing on that once. No frying pans or vacuum cleaners as gifts for the fairer sex. Even when I was 7 I pretty much knew this instinctively. Dear old dad did not, apparently and probably resulted in some unanticipated couch surfing duty. Oops
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 10:39 AM (yfFl/) ==== Our last minute Christmas purchasing is on the cheap side because, you know, I lost my job (fingers crossed on two potentials soon, though, still...YT making money is preferred). Anyway, Dolley decided that our mutual Christmas/anniversary present (anniversary is the 17th) shall be... a breadmaker. Completely unrelated, I finished my first loaf of sourdough yesterday. Really good. Shocked at how good it turned out. Didn't use the breadmaker at all. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:41 AM (GBKbO) 267
Macron is apparently refusing a DNA test and saying nude pictures should be sufficient. That's... suspicious.
Posted by: Ian S. And pretty kinky. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ) 268
but after 27 years of marriage, you kinda run out of ideas as to what to get your spouse"
Get her a vacuum cleaner. That'll spice things up... Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:41 AM (XuXeR) 269
My in laws used to go so overboard with presents for my kids. I told them it’s too much, can you dial it down? And they’re all no we love doing it. But for a 5 year old it was overwhelming. they’d open one present then forget about it because there were 10 more to. It was too much and made them
Not really appreciate any of the presents individually. Luckily as my kids got older they’ve stopped this and now it’s 2-3 presents per kid. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:41 AM (9iyS+) 270
I got a tactical Dad briefing on that once. No frying pans or vacuum cleaners as gifts for the fairer sex. Even when I was 7 I pretty much knew this instinctively. Dear old dad did not, apparently and probably resulted in some unanticipated couch surfing duty. Oops
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 10:39 AM (yfFl/) ==== Several years ago the 'ettes here took me to task for buying Mrs. F. a new bathroom scale. Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 10:42 AM (9ipOP) 271
264 The Snake on the Pole is quite reminiscent of the Rod of Asclepius, which in modern culture has morphed into the Caduceus, a symbol representing Medicine.
I would argue it's a sign of the way that many ideas and symbols from foreign cultures slipped into the ancient beliefs of the Israelites. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 10:40 AM (uWKK The cadaceus was the first thing I thought of here TBH. Like this is the mother of all things cadaceus. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 10:42 AM (rQwsY) 272
How about this?
https://tinyurl.com/yc2ez6e2 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 10:38 AM (ufSfZ) LOL. Better. I would have hated the era of the bustle. Just like I hated the era of the girdle. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 10:42 AM (g8Ew8) 273
So, which set of nude pictures is Mrs. Macron offering?
Current year ones or ones when she was still Mr. Macron's teacher? Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 10:42 AM (2GVsD) 274
If the Macrons go on a double date with Barack and Big Mike the gig will definitely be up.
Posted by: Ian S. Who Malaria says she might marry. https://is.gd/3gDeew Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 10:43 AM (L/fGl) 275
And many of them are clickbait scam ads."
Hey, this lighter is going to be banned by the government. Get yours today! /Utube advert Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:43 AM (XuXeR) 276
Macron is apparently refusing a DNA test and saying nude pictures should be sufficient. That's... suspicious.
Posted by: Ian S. Extremely sus. Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 10:43 AM (bvUs5) 277
Several years ago the 'ettes here took me to task for buying Mrs. F. a new bathroom scale. Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 10:42 AM (9ipOP) You survived to tell the tale ? Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 10:43 AM (VE6XX) 278
I'm just thinking of things that can further inflame the natives in Britain. Hopefully there will be a bridge too far leading to a revolt.
So far, I am getting nothing. I never figured their cops would turn into nannies on steroids. Posted by: pawn at December 09, 2025 10:38 AM (EMg+d) If malicious foreigners entering Britain to steal from the taxpayers and rape their women didn't get them to revolt, nothing will. Since they've accepted their lives as tax-cattle and rape-dolls, nothing will get them to revolt. Farewell, Old Blighty! We hardly knew ye! Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 10:43 AM (iJfKG) 279
I'm a bit surprised that people were not aware that nearly every single "influencer" on the Internet is actively gaslighting their audience so they'll stick around and/or pay for "subscriber only content."
I mean... it's the reason they're doing it. To get paid. Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2025 10:43 AM (NwnyJ) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 10:43 AM (2GVsD) 281
Several years ago the 'ettes here took me to task for buying Mrs. F. a new bathroom scale.
Posted by: San Franpsycho "Honey, you've been looking a little emaciated lately. I want you to keep track of your weight to avoid losing too much." Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:44 AM (77rzZ) 282
Several years ago the 'ettes here took me to task for buying Mrs. F. a new bathroom scale.
—— I want to party with you!! LOL Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 10:44 AM (yfFl/) 283
My YT gripes:
Ads every five minutes. The worst aspect is presentation. Here I am, really into a video, then out of nowhere come two ads. Again, every five minutes. It’s jarring. I gave in and got YouTube Premium. I hate giving them money, but not having to spend all my time messing with ad blockers and whatnot made it worthwhile. Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 10:44 AM (2ocoG) 284
"Job, I have another one who has questions of their creator. Please, do come and help inform him."
-God Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:14 AM (GBKbO) Oh, yeah. Ahem..."fuck you, worm! Who the fuck do you think you are to ask God questions?!" Posted by: Job at December 09, 2025 10:44 AM (TbWk/) 285
278 If malicious foreigners entering Britain to steal from the taxpayers and rape their women didn't get them to revolt, nothing will.
Since they've accepted their lives as tax-cattle and rape-dolls, nothing will get them to revolt. Farewell, Old Blighty! We hardly knew ye! Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 10:43 AM (iJfKG) ==== They still have hope in the ballot box. That may be misplaced, but Labour got its majority with only about 30% of the vote. The people are against Labour, and I don't think it's a secret people whisper to each other. If Reform gains power and doesn't do anything about it, they could finally snap as a nation, but I think they still think the ballot box is a potential fix. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:45 AM (GBKbO) 286
Several years ago the 'ettes here took me to task for buying Mrs. F. a new bathroom scale.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 10:42 AM As well they should have. Dude. Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2025 10:45 AM (0sNs1) 287
My YT gripes:
Ads every five minutes. The worst aspect is presentation. Here I am, really into a video, then out of nowhere come two ads. Again, every five minutes. It’s jarring. Brave browser. It's been said a million times. No YT ads. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 10:45 AM (ExV1e) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 10:45 AM (2GVsD) 289
Honey, you've been looking a little emaciated lately. I want you to keep track of your weight to avoid losing too much."
How long should I take for recovery after trying that? Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:46 AM (XuXeR) 290
Ballots are no panacea when the other side has all the bullets.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 10:46 AM (2GVsD) 291
If Reform gains power and doesn't do anything about it, they could finally snap as a nation, but I think they still think the ballot box is a potential fix.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:45 AM Well, they don't have the cartridge box as Plan C anymore. Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2025 10:46 AM (0sNs1) 292
mean... it's the reason they're doing it. To get paid.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2025 10:43 AM (NwnyJ) No different than anyone else in media. Rush didn’t do it for free right? Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:46 AM (9iyS+) 293
There is a nip slip in this painting.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2025 10:47 AM (0sNs1) 294
symbols from foreign cultures slipped into the ancient beliefs of the Israelites.
You probably won't make any new friends among Jews by suggesting that the dietary commandments are just iron-age nutritional science, but they won't go as ape-shit as telling a catholic that some saints used to be local forest gods. It's like wishing them a festive Saturnalia. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 09, 2025 10:47 AM (zdLoL) 295
Found your Concordance yet?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 10:45 AM (2GVsD) ==== Just checked. The wheel is there but is not attached to the spindle anymore. Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 10:47 AM (A0sqA) 296
If malicious foreigners entering Britain to steal from the taxpayers and rape their women didn't get them to revolt, nothing will.
Once your guns are taken away there's no point in trying to resist. That's why the Democrats keep trying here. Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 10:47 AM (2ocoG) 297
I guess gift wrapping a Sybian would be a bit of a challenge.
Posted by: pawn at December 09, 2025 10:47 AM (EMg+d) 298
Her Majesty asked me what I wanted for Christmas. I told her I was well beyond the age of wanting things and that she could get me anything that it would make her happy to give me. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 10:47 AM (tgvbd) 299
thank you for asking the question
I always have wondered what is so important about the foreskin to some faiths seems weird how about a pinky swear or something Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 10:48 AM (ZxPkt) 300
No different than anyone else in media. Rush didn’t do it for free right?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald Yeah, but Rush was his own master, not some toady. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:48 AM (77rzZ) 301
Yeah, but Rush was his own master, not some toady. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:48 AM (77rzZ) End of the day it was still about selling ads. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:48 AM (9iyS+) 302
300 Yeah, but Rush was his own master, not some toady.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:48 AM (77rzZ) ====== He was a pawn of Big Identity Protection. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:48 AM (GBKbO) 303
297 I guess gift wrapping a Sybian would be a bit of a challenge.
Posted by: pawn at December 09, 2025 10:47 AM (EMg+d) ---------- Easier than a new mop. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 09, 2025 10:49 AM (JkO4W) 304
They still have hope in the ballot box. That may be misplaced, but Labour got its majority with only about 30% of the vote. The people are against Labour, and I don't think it's a secret people whisper to each other.
If Reform gains power and doesn't do anything about it, they could finally snap as a nation, but I think they still think the ballot box is a potential fix. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:45 AM (GBKbO) The US is quickly approaching the same situation. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 10:49 AM (g8Ew8) 305
Well, who wouldn't rather send nude pictures than run a simple, discreet test?
Posted by: Anthony Weiner at December 09, 2025 10:47 AM (OjHyA) No kidding! Posted by: Brett Favre at December 09, 2025 10:49 AM (2ocoG) 306
Several years ago the 'ettes here took me to task for buying Mrs. F. a new bathroom scale.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 10:42 AM As well they should have. Dude. Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2025 10:45 AM (0sNs1) Wife shouldn't be turning into a fatty. Nothing wrong with helping her not turn into a fatty. Posted by: Healthy at any size ain't true at December 09, 2025 10:49 AM (TbWk/) 307
Or it is Reubens intentionally injecting that association into the painting.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 10:43 AM (2GVsD) Reubens didn't have to come up with much on his own. From Numbers 2: 8 The Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.” 9 So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 10:49 AM (uWKK8) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:50 AM (XuXeR) 309
He further refined his hard-won through experience advice with the general admonition that something, anything really, that needs replacing, that its replacement no matter how nice, cannot be viewed or placed in the gift column by definition. Bathroom scale would notably meet this criteria, and also have certain… implications or connotations that could perhaps be misinterpreted.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 10:50 AM (yfFl/) 310
I don't get why you like all the clothes, though.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:40 AM (77rzZ) Honestly? It's because, despite my life and experiences, I do adore women, especially the ones who glory in their femininity. To me, all those clothes, in addition to their beauty, are like the packaging of a delicious box of candy, where each layer of silk, satin, cotton and bengaline is another layer to remove and savor before reaching the luscious treat within. As I say, I was born at least a hundred years too late. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 10:51 AM (ufSfZ) 311
I guess gift wrapping a Sybian would be a bit of a challenge.
Posted by: pawn at December 09, 2025 10:47 AM It's the thing that goes up that is always a wrapping challenge. Posted by: Carolyn McCarthy at December 09, 2025 10:51 AM (0sNs1) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:51 AM (XuXeR) 313
Bonnie Blue might be spending some more time in Bali than she wanted
youtu.be/0wQrVlfmQto Posted by: gKWVE at December 09, 2025 10:31 AM (gKWVE) Maybe the UK government can hire her to give the rape gangs something to work with so they leave the girls alone. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 10:51 AM (ExV1e) 314
Several years ago the 'ettes here took me to task for buying Mrs. F. a new bathroom scale.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 10:42 AM Remember that weird Peloton ad many years ago where the guy gets his already petitie wife a Peloton bike for Christmas, and she obsessively filmed every session, so that she could play it for him the following Christmas? That was a really strange ad. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:52 AM (77rzZ) 315
They still have hope in the ballot box. That may be misplaced, but Labour got its majority with only about 30% of the vote. The people are against Labour, and I don't think it's a secret people whisper to each other.
If Reform gains power and doesn't do anything about it, they could finally snap as a nation, but I think they still think the ballot box is a potential fix. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:45 AM (GBKbO) You're probably right. Unless, they start smuggling munitions like the IRA. Revolution would be a very tough fight. What're they going to do? Storm the barricades with plastic spatulas and gravy ladles? Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 10:52 AM (iJfKG) 316
>The Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.”
---- see, this confuses me why would an omnipotent god make his people jump thru hoops just miracle the snake away from people Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 10:52 AM (ZxPkt) 317
Yeah, but Rush was his own master, not some toady.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:48 AM (77rzZ) End of the day it was still about selling ads. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:48 AM (9iyS+) He admitted to it often. He was first a businessman. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 10:52 AM (g8Ew8) 318
are like the packaging of a delicious box of candy, where each layer of silk, satin, cotton and bengaline is another layer to remove and savor before reaching the luscious treat within."
Someone throw a bucket of cold water. Dude needs it... Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:53 AM (XuXeR) 319
315 You're probably right.
Unless, they start smuggling munitions like the IRA. Revolution would be a very tough fight. What're they going to do? Storm the barricades with plastic spatulas and gravy ladles? Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 10:52 AM (iJfKG) ====== Unarmed peasants overran armed guards at the Imperial Palace in St. Petersburg. Numbers account for a lot. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:53 AM (GBKbO) 320
What's even more interesting is that the Apostle John linked this story to Christ, when he wrote " 14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up."
Which is almost certainly why Reubens shows the bronze snake not just on a pole, but on a cross. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 10:53 AM (uWKK8) Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 10:53 AM (L/fGl) 322
@297 I guess gift wrapping a Sybian would be a bit of a challenge.
If Filter Queen made one, it would come in a nice box. With the attachments in a holster that snapped on. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 09, 2025 10:54 AM (zdLoL) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:54 AM (XuXeR) 324
The Missus: "...and we don't need any new wrapping paper!"
At that moment, many miles away, a certain order of several new rolls of expensive wrapping paper was fulfilled... Synchronicity Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 09, 2025 10:55 AM (6qf1m) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:55 AM (XuXeR) 326
It's because, despite my life and experiences, I do adore women, especially the ones who glory in their femininity. To me, all those clothes, in addition to their beauty, are like the packaging of a delicious box of candy, where each layer of silk, satin, cotton and bengaline is another layer to remove and savor before reaching the luscious treat within.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing I thought that might be it. And I get it, up to a point. But, being a naturally impatient person, I would reach a point where I'd just say to the gal, "Forget it," and head off to my bunk with a Playboy. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:55 AM (77rzZ) 327
We saw "Fackham Hall" yesterday, which has been reviewed as "Downton Abbey" getting the "Naked Gun" treatment. Yeah...well, nah. There's a few good jokes but it's no where close in the laughs department to the worst of the "Naked Gun" series. Save your money and see it for "free" on streaming. Should you wish to see it. Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 10:55 AM (iJfKG) 328
325 Unarmed peasants overran armed guards"
So, revolting? Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:55 AM (XuXeR) ===== They stink on ice! Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:55 AM (GBKbO) 329
@FoxNews
· 42m LEGAL BLOWBACK: A federal judge strikes down President Trump’s freeze on new wind energy permits, ruling the administration’s “Wind Order” violated federal law. Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 10:55 AM (ZxPkt) 330
Unarmed peasants overran armed guards at the Imperial Palace in St. Petersburg.
Numbers account for a lot. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger A lot also depends on where the military and/or other security forces land. If they back the regime, it goes nowhere. If they back the insurgency, it's a whole new ball game. Which is why they've been working our military so hard lately. Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 09, 2025 10:55 AM (OUMaO) 331
Explains the Rod of Asclepius !
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 10:55 AM (g47mK) 332
330 A lot also depends on where the military and/or other security forces land. If they back the regime, it goes nowhere. If they back the insurgency, it's a whole new ball game. Which is why they've been working our military so hard lately.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 09, 2025 10:55 AM (OUMaO) ====== Yeah, but what military does Britain have? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:56 AM (GBKbO) Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 09, 2025 10:56 AM (zdLoL) 334
Unarmed peasants overran armed guards at the Imperial Palace in St. Petersburg.
Numbers account for a lot. They sacrificed hundreds, just to draw us out in the open. And then they came, and they came. We drained four of our phasers, and they still came. We killed thousands and they still came. Posted by: Captain Tracey at December 09, 2025 10:57 AM (FGMmt) 335
End of the day it was still about selling ads.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:48 AM (9iyS+) He admitted to it often. He was first a businessman. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons The only time I remember him backing down due to pressure from advertisers was when he apologized for the Sandra Fluke thing. His take on her was spot on, though. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:57 AM (77rzZ) 336
The US is quickly approaching the same situation"
Nah. /AR 15 sales... Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:51 AM (XuXeR) So many guns. But without the will and purpose to use them.......I hope I'm wrong. But if the Covid shutdown was any indication, all bets are off. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 10:57 AM (g8Ew8) 337
Yeah, but what military does Britain have?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger Depending where they fall? Enough to make things quick, or ugly. Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 09, 2025 10:57 AM (OUMaO) 338
Well, who wouldn't rather send nude pictures than run a simple, discreet test?
Posted by: Anthony Weiner Those that already know the answer. Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 10:58 AM (bvUs5) 339
“Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.”
- Well, it's no put the lime in the coconut. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 10:58 AM (L/fGl) 340
337 Yeah, but what military does Britain have?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger Depending where they fall? Enough to make things quick, or ugly. Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 09, 2025 10:57 AM (OUMaO) ====== Also depending on where they are. Britain having the largest navy in the world didn't help nearly as much with colonial revolution as one would imagine. If most of Britain's forces are on bases throughout the country, they won't have that many in London to beat back tens or even hundreds of thousands of pissed people. Still...I'm not predicting it. I'm just saying, if the British people snap, the powers that be in England probably won't have the numbers to fight back. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:59 AM (GBKbO) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 11:00 AM (XuXeR) 342
The Chosen does a great episode about Moses and the snakes
Posted by: Ben Had at December 09, 2025 11:00 AM (sDNVV) 343
Punk monkey up
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 11:00 AM (bvUs5) 344
Still...I'm not predicting it. I'm just saying, if the British people snap, the powers that be in England probably won't have the numbers to fight back.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger You're probably right. It's more a question of whether they're fighting a losing struggle against their own people, or watching Parliament get rounded up at bayonet point. The latter is probably the less painful result. The former may not end well for anyone. Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 09, 2025 11:01 AM (OUMaO) 345
Mae West?
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ) When she was good, she was very, very good. When she was bad, she was better! Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 10:19 AM (wVcYX) All 5 feet of her. She was a tiny thing with a 38D's. Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 09, 2025 11:01 AM (5xuJ/) 346
Rods comfort me.
Posted by: B. Hussein Soetoro at December 09, 2025 11:01 AM (0sNs1) 347
I thought that might be it. And I get it, up to a point. But, being a naturally impatient person, I would reach a point where I'd just say to the gal, "Forget it," and head off to my bunk with a Playboy.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:55 AM (77rzZ) Well, of course, no-one interested in seduction should look to me for advice, but I have found, in my very limited experiences, that a slow undressing of a lady, interspersed with soft words and caressing of her and her raiment, to be greatly appreciated. I suppose I'd better hit my bunk now. . . Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 11:02 AM (ufSfZ) 348
It's because, despite my life and experiences, I do adore women, especially the ones who glory in their femininity. To me, all those clothes, in addition to their beauty, are like the packaging of a delicious box of candy, where each layer of silk, satin, cotton and bengaline is another layer to remove and savor before reaching the luscious treat within.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing I want to untie one knot and have all of her clothes fall off. I figure if I've seduced her to that point, more clothes would be just unnecessary drama. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 11:03 AM (g8Ew8) 349
So many guns. But without the will and purpose to use them.......I hope I'm wrong. But if the Covid shutdown was any indication, all bets are off.
That's been my take for years. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 11:03 AM (ufSfZ) 350
I don't really care for that, but after 27 years of marriage, you kinda run out of ideas as to what to get your spouse.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:28 AM (77rzZ) Try after 53 years. We have "hallway sex". Heh. Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 09, 2025 11:04 AM (5xuJ/) 351
I gave in and got YouTube Premium. I
—— This too, was the big selling point for Cable TV. “No Commercials!” That arrangement didn’t last very long. Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 11:05 AM (CmJfJ) 352
Several years ago the 'ettes here took me to task for buying Mrs. F. a new bathroom scale.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 10:42 AM As well they should have. Dude. Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2025 10:45 AM (0sNs1) Should have gotten her the matching vacuum and Mixmaster to go along with the scale. She'd be much happier. Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 09, 2025 11:06 AM (5xuJ/) 353
352 Several years ago the 'ettes here took me to task for buying Mrs. F. a new bathroom scale.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 10:42 AM As well they should have. Dude. Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2025 10:45 AM (0sNs1) Should have gotten her the matching vacuum and Mixmaster to go along with the scale. She'd be much happier. where's walter e. williams when you need him? Posted by: anachronda at December 09, 2025 11:08 AM (sGtp+) 354
291 If Reform gains power and doesn't do anything about it, they could finally snap as a nation, but I think they still think the ballot box is a potential fix.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:45 AM Well, they don't have the cartridge box as Plan C anymore. Posted by: Duncanthrax ====== That is kind of a distortion. Britain still has quite a few long arms aka shotguns, Enfields, etc. 2.2 million as of 2023 (legal). When you consider Dewats and illegals (well over 1m), even more. Handguns, not so much. These are mainly concentrated in rural areas where there is still hunting, varmint removal, etc. In the last twenty years or so, quite a few illegal handguns have been imported into the UK from across Euroland and some old unregistered handguns still reside in drawers and other places as remnants of WWI and WWII officers. Ammunition for these cached and legal arms is more of the issue. Australia is often mentioned as another gun ban paradise but in reality, the number of legal registered arms has recovered to above the numbers reported before the Australian government tried to obliterate long arms. Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 11:11 AM (WDjG6) 355
Once upon a time, I got my wife a year's membership to a health club, that certainly did have "day spa" features, but also offered a gym and exercise room. This was roundly unappreciated.
Several years later, she started buying herself annual membership to the gym and pool at YMCA. It's different that way, you see. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 09, 2025 11:11 AM (zdLoL) 356
HE,s DEAD JIM
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 09, 2025 04:56 PM (wGqjj) 357
My last salary was $8750, ecom only worked 12 hours a week. My longtime neighbor yr estimated $15,000 and works about 20 hours for seven days. I can't believe how blunt he was when I looked up his information,
This is what I do................ https://p0stpr0m0ney88.blogspot.com/ Posted by: HOME PROFIT at December 09, 2025 06:28 PM (+3dnj) 358
l Get paid over $110 per hour working from home. l never thought I'd be able to do it but my buddy makes over $21269 a month doing this and she convinced me to try. The possibility with this is endless....
This is what I do...................... https://urlr.me/E3tz6Y Posted by: Anonymous at December 10, 2025 04:08 AM (NxtE8) The Morning Report — 12/9/25![]() Shout Your Abortion has been promoting a book aimed at children five to eight years old called “Abortion is Everything,” which will begin shipping to purchasers in January 2026. A description on the organization’s website says the book tells children “about what abortion is, how it might feel, and why people have abortions.”Stories like this remind me of that line from Apocalypse Now that charging someone for murder out here is like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500 The underlying rationale of this vile tract and its purveyors, ipso facto turns Josef Mengele into an Olympian Deity, nein? He helped abort hundreds of thousands of 5-8 year olds, and 1-100 year-olds. Still, the act of abortion itself along with the concomitant devaluing of human life and the reduction of the individual to insignificance, and merely as part of some mass that is to be shaped and molded at the whim of who or whatever sits at the top of that mass, is the sine qua non of the Left as well as its current partner in the Axis of Evil, ISLAM. We are dealing with people in our midst, be they imported foreigners or worse native born citizens, who see themselves as on a mission from God, or Karl Marx, and given the SUPER DUPER POWER of moral superiority to Lord over and therefore weed out all of us who do not submit to their will to perfect Humanity in their image. Because they are Super Duper Supermen as the late great Spike Jones once crooned (about "Der Furher's Face") Moving right along to what is a very significant story out of the Supreme Court yesterday, which Ace covered yesterday afternoon and could have far-reaching implications for both President Trump and please God future chief executives of the America-as-founded bent. Trump v. Slaughter, about the removal of an FCC commissioner with the unfortunate ‘slaughter’ name, looks set to roll back more of the bureaucratic state. “You’re asking us to destroy the structure of government and to take away from Congress its ability to protect its idea that the government is better structured with some agencies that are independent,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor complained. Well yes. Destroying the structure of a gargantuan government with unlimited powers and no constitutional basis is an essentially conservative project. Independence from elected officials also means independent of the electorate. That’s the realm of philosopher kings. And these days the philosopher kings are all lefties. That’s not to say that there shouldn’t be more limitations on executive power. There should. And Congress should exercise more oversight over the monstrous size and power of the government. But the solution isn’t a fake independence, it’s direct engagement, and the ability of the public to also litigate when its interests are legitimately threatened.Bingo to the estimable Daniel Greenfield. While the wide-ass Wiseass Latina was at least accidentally honest in proclaiming the existence of "independent agencies" that essentially form an unelected and virtually unaccountable fourth branch of govvernment that via its abilities to issue regulations that carry with them the force of law if they are disobeyed, completely contrary to the founding of this nation and the reason why this nation declared its independence in the first place by breaking away from a totalitarian overbearing tyrannical monarchy. We go from her idiocy to that of this inept DEI hire Kentanji Brown-25 Jackson whose knee-jerk remonstrations were predictable. During an exchange with U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer, Jackson expressed confusion about the Trump administration’s argument that, as she summarized, these independent agencies “aren’t answering to Congress.” Under the current constitutional framework, she reasoned, “Congress established them and can eliminate them. Congress funds them and can stop.”She's not only a clueless, rude imbecile, but utterly ignorant of the Constitution that she allegedly studied, which forms or is supposed to form the basis of our entire legal and governmental system. Or is she really clueless? No, it's more nefarious. To the extent that Leftists study American law and our traditions and precedents, they do so to more effectively use them as weapons to enslave us and wrest absolute power. It's why Adolph Eichmann learned Hebrew, So as to better be able to ultimately destroy Europe's and ultimately the world's Jews. Psaki-Psircling back to my remarks on that abortion story. Sotomayor and Jackson are part of that group that view themselves as intellectually, morally and perhaps evolutionarily superior to the rest of us, and therefore do what they do with a smugness reflected in the slogan on the belt buckles of the SS troops "Gott Mit Uns" God is with us, or more likely in the case of the Left, We Are God. And one way or another, God has a way of dealing with apostates. Soon enough we are all going to find out which one is which. Of course there's this bit of cheery news to buck you up. Or Buck with an "F" — — In the handful of establishment media stories that bothered to cover the arrest of Luqmaan Khan at all, most make no mention at all regarding Khan’s immigration status. Only WHYY, which operates in Philadelphia and its environs, including Delaware, bothers to note that Khan was born in Pakistan, and is now a citizen of the United States. In other words, he is another indication that Trump, for all the abuse he is getting for terming some migrants “garbage,” was entirely correct. NBC Philadelphia reportedTuesday that the drama began at 11:47 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 24, when “police initiated a traffic stop after Khan was, allegedly found operating a white Toyota Tacoma in Canby Park West after hours.” When the cops stopped him, Khan was “visibly nervous.” Police ordered Khan to step out of his car, but he refused and resisted arrest. As Captain Kirk might say KHAAAAAAN!!!!" We're at the point of a Khan almost every other day of the week now. Have a good day. And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.
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Happy Tuesday
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2025 07:28 AM (gbOdA) 2
Good morning horde!
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 07:28 AM (ExV1e) Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 09, 2025 07:28 AM (u82oZ) 4
good morning JJ, Horde
Posted by: callsign claymore at December 09, 2025 07:28 AM (pd4dZ) 5
“You’re asking us to destroy the structure of government and to take away from Congress its ability to protect its idea that the government is better structured with some agencies that are independent,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor complained.
AKA Your asking us to return to a 3 powers system. Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2025 07:30 AM (gbOdA) 6
Yonder Horde
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2025 07:31 AM (NwnyJ) 7
So, I think there’s a pretty significant danger that Congress has actually identified and cares about when it determines that these issues should not be in presidential control.”
Legislate create laws Magistrate decide if laws are legal Execute enforce create, legal laws Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2025 07:32 AM (gbOdA) 8
I've invented a new color. Offal White.
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 07:34 AM (vFG9F) 9
“You’re asking us to destroy the structure of government and to take away from Congress its ability to protect its idea that the government is better structured with some agencies that are independent,”
It's about the graft. Posted by: davidt at December 09, 2025 07:35 AM (Q+gd/) 10
g'mornin' again, 'rons Posted by: AltonJackson at December 09, 2025 07:35 AM (tljrc) 11
There are people out there that oppose abortion but vote democrat for freebies and handouts.
People are retarded. Posted by: Tim Walz, Retard at December 09, 2025 07:35 AM (FGMmt) 12
“ Praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord, my soul. I will praise the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.” Psalm 146:1-2 Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2025 07:36 AM (XFXIk) 13
Executive agencies cannot be out of the control, guidance and authority of the executive.
Otherwise the executive is executive in name only. Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 07:37 AM (XV/Pl) 14
Regime Change
#3 Coopt crucial officers in its military, so that they refuse legitimate orders of the civilian government. Paging Sen Kelly Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2025 07:37 AM (gbOdA) 15
Independence from elected officials also means independent of the electorate. That’s the realm of philosopher kings. And these days the philosopher kings are all lefties.
aka District Judge Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 07:37 AM (a4flb) 16
with a smugness reflected in the slogan on the belt buckles of the SS troops "Gott Mit Uns" God is with us, or more likely in the case of the Left, We Are God.
Or, alternatively, the slogan on SS daggers, My Honor Is Loyalty (to the Democrat Party). Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 07:38 AM (ufSfZ) 17
13 Executive agencies cannot be out of the control, guidance and authority of the executive.
Otherwise the executive is executive in name only. Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 07:37 AM (XV/Pl) "You got that right!!!" - - HRH King Otto Penn Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 09, 2025 07:39 AM (x0n13) Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 07:40 AM (W7XSX) 19
11 There are people out there that oppose abortion but vote democrat for freebies and handouts.
People are retarded. Posted by: Tim Walz, Retard at December 09, 2025 07:35 AM (FGMmt) Nah, they are the "In Name Only" supporters...The issue matters to them as much as the score of the Australian rugby team...in a "that's nice/not good" way. But they actually support their gimmedats. Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2025 07:41 AM (tOcjL) 20
Aborticomaniacs hide behind a 13-year-old who got raped to promote the Tish Jameses who get abortions because a baby will interfere with their girlboss ambitions. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:41 AM (tgvbd) 21
Stephen Miller framed it perfectly: "You are not just importing individuals. You are importing societies. At scale, migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions and terrors of their broken homelands."
Them Here There Here Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2025 07:41 AM (gbOdA) 22
Woke Priest Uses His Church’s Nativity Scene to Mock and Defy ICE
In Massachusetts, of course. And the Archdiocese isn't going to do jack shit about it, unless they see empty offertory envelopes. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 07:42 AM (ufSfZ) 23
For Catholics who like their Christianity with a strong dose of Marxism.
Woke Priest Uses His Church’s Nativity Scene to Mock and Defy ICE _________ It's not a great idea to use Robert Spencer as a source on the Catholic Church. He is very hostile. Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2025 07:42 AM (s0JqF) 24
I was surprised, but not terribly to find out the "independent agencies" thing goes back 90 years to FDR.
Ay Carumba. Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 07:42 AM (W7XSX) 25
That article about the whack job claimed he had a Glock .357, with a full mag. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t .357 a revolver round? I don’t think Glock makes one.
Posted by: Hawkpilot at December 09, 2025 07:43 AM (1BpWS) 26
Dr. Oz to Walz: Address Alleged Somali Medicaid Fraud or Lose Funding
And this is exactly the kind of kayfabe bullshit I mentioned in the previous thread. Fucking snake-oil POS. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 07:43 AM (ufSfZ) 27
“ Praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord, my soul. I will praise the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.” Psalm 146:1-2 Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2025 07:36 AM (XFXIk) Bears repeating. Good morning! Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 07:44 AM (wVcYX) 28
Actor Michael Rapaport Blasts Fellow Celebs for Terrorist Support
_______ Rapaport has been sane for some time. IIRC, he was converted after hearing the Charlottesville speech in context and in full. Realized he'd been lied to. Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2025 07:44 AM (s0JqF) 29
Khan was born in Pakistan, and is now a citizen of the United States
I have been doing some reading on drone warfare and how $800 is all you need to wipe out multimillion dollar weapons. Also noted that the US wants to gift the MIC with nearly a trillion dollar budget to mostly squander, but to build half billion dollar things that can be totally destroyed for $800s Then we read of the millions of "garbage" people in this country who can easily deploy any number of drones targeted at people, places and things. But lets build another air craft carrier. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 07:46 AM (a4flb) 30
It was a fully automatic Glock revolver.
Posted by: A jernalist at December 09, 2025 07:46 AM (vFG9F) Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 07:46 AM (XV/Pl) 32
Voters Back Birthright Citizenship, But Will The U.S. Supreme Court Do The Same? I&I/TIPP Poll
-- I'm truly curious, knowing how shockingly uninformed most Americans are, if they know just how abused this claim of birthright citizenship is. When there are boutique industries worldwide to get your pregnant self here on vacation just to spit your baby out on American soil and claim citizenship, there's a problem. It's been a free, unearned ticket and has been abused to the nth degree. Just how many people know that? And as few as that number likely is, even fewer know the actual intention of, and language of, the 14th amendment. I'd love to see this ended by SCOTUS, because it needs to be, but I don't have a lot of faith in them doing so. Here's to hoping. Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 07:46 AM (qBdHI) 33
Trump v Slaughter will be one of the most consequential decisions in our lifetime. It will ultimately decide if our constitutional structure will be adhered to. It will either eliminate or maintain the permanent bureaucracy infested with Democrats, who wield unconstitutional power no. matter which party is in control of Congress or the White House. It’s also going to finally uncover which justices on the court are engaged in subversion of our republic, and which are actually faithful to the constitution and their duties. Decide wisely.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2025 07:47 AM (XFXIk) 34
That article about the whack job claimed he had a Glock .357, with a full mag. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t .357 a revolver round? I don’t think Glock makes one.
Glock 31 Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 07:47 AM (a4flb) 35
The world can be crudité sometimes.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 07:47 AM (XV/Pl) 36
Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ
The Soros prosecutors are a deflection. The corrupt judiciary works hand-in-glove with them to be sure protected classes remain protected. Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 07:49 AM (A0sqA) 37
Jasmine Crockett WILL be the Dem nominee for John Cornyn's Senate seat. I've been saying this for some time, and yesterday it became official. Not only did Jasmine formally announce her candidacy,, but the man who was supposed to be the Dem frontrunner - Colin Allred - immediately dropped out of the race and announced his support for her.
Jasmine Crockett is the perfect avatar for the Dem party today. She is what they all aspire to be. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 07:49 AM (ASmqz) 38
25 357 Sig, autoloading round.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 09, 2025 07:49 AM (gm9Sb) 39
Thank you JJ
The Wrath of Khan was the best of the ST movies but I also liked the one with the whales Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2025 07:51 AM (YobFY) 40
Ps. 146 is my very favorite
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 07:52 AM (A0sqA) 41
And when John Cornyn loses the primary, look for the remnants of the Bush clan to do what they can to sabotage the gop candidate.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 07:52 AM (XV/Pl) 42
Thank you, JJ!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 07:52 AM (Cjt/F) 43
The Trump admin isn't doing what's needed to be done ruthlessly enough.
The enemy continues to run full speed ahead. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2025 07:54 AM (MXrgX) Posted by: Seen on a Chinese restaurant menu at December 09, 2025 07:55 AM (vFG9F) 45
Good morning again everyone. Thx JJ.
How long until the Dems start pushing for raccoon voting rights? Trash Panda Liberation Front ! Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 07:55 AM (D+mpw) 46
I’m glad Jasmine Crockett will be the dem senate candidate in 26…. She is so grating and obnoxious I can’t believe she stands a snowballs chance in hell of winning…. Hello Senator Paxton!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2025 07:55 AM (YobFY) 47
And when John Cornyn loses the primary, look for the remnants of the Bush clan to do what they can to sabotage the gop candidate.
What do you expect a loyal Uniparty Member to do? I wish the non GOP-e faction of the Republican Party had the loyalty and the desire to support their own. (we can forget totally about any Congress Critter representing anything other than monied interests and foreign benefactors) Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 07:56 AM (a4flb) 48
I'd love to see this ended by SCOTUS, because it needs to be, but I don't have a lot of faith in them doing so. Here's to hoping.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 07:46 AM I hate to say this, but I think there is little chance that the SCOTUS will side with Trump on the birthright citizenshipquestion, because there's no good argument that the President can decide to make such a change on his own. President and Congress together, I believe, absolutely have the power to do this, and I do not believe it would take an amendment. But the President on his own is a bridge too far. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 07:56 AM (ASmqz) 49
the round is technically .357 SIG, but glock makes a pistol that fires it too.
I remember it from one of those foiled-by-an-armed-churchgoer attempted mass murders a few years ago. guy made a really impressive shot. Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 07:57 AM (Cjt/F) 50
The Trump admin isn't doing what's needed to be done ruthlessly enough.
The enemy continues to run full speed ahead. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2025 07:54 AM (MXrgX) ==== Without being cliche or hysterical, I'm surprised more conspirators have not already been arrested. It does not inspire confidence. Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 07:57 AM (A0sqA) 51
"She is so grating and obnoxious I can’t believe she stands a snowballs chance in hell of winning"
I believe you may be underestimating today's voting populace. Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 07:58 AM (vFG9F) 52
Abortion is illegal in all Muslim countries
In Israel it is legal and paid for by the free health care. Should anti abortionists demand no foreign aid to countries where governments offer free abortion ? Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 09, 2025 07:58 AM (cqWXI) 53
You could not make me believe, under any circumstance, that people from generations ago, could ever imagine a young children's book about the glorification of abortion would be written, printed, published and bought by any living soul. No wonder I want to jump into old movies and shows I see on TV and just stay there...never to return to this putrid time in human history.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 07:59 AM (qBdHI) 54
"Abortion is Everything."
We're really up against it, aren't we? Nothing short of total existential war. They want us dead and our children dead. I don't think they want to even mess with enslavement. Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2025 07:59 AM (WHfpM) 55
> The Trump admin isn't doing what's needed to be done ruthlessly enough.
--------- The only guy in the capitol city who's not 'on the take' is also the only guy in the capitol city who wants to clean it up. Trump's staff is only motivated if they're spared recriminations once he's gone. That is not going to happen with the Democrats hanging around. And the GOP is fully compromised as well. They're all crooks. Everyone's got the goods on everyone else. It's a form of self preservation. This is why nothing will happen. We will have to be satisfied with the knowledge that we were right all along. Because that's about all I expect. Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2025 08:00 AM (NwnyJ) 56
"Abortion is illegal in all Muslim countries"
Postnatal live burying of female offspring is just fine though. Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 08:00 AM (vFG9F) Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 08:00 AM (A0sqA) 58
Morning all
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 08:00 AM (bvUs5) 59
Abortion is illegal in all Muslim countries
In Israel it is legal and paid for by the free health care. Should anti abortionists demand no foreign aid to countries where governments offer free abortion ? Fine with me. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 08:01 AM (ufSfZ) Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 08:01 AM (W7XSX) 61
Is abortion illegal in Sudan? Why?
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 08:02 AM (vFG9F) 62
I believe you may be underestimating today's voting populace.
-- My eyes opened Grand Canyon wide to that fact when Barky the Marxist Dog Eater was elected, then reelected. It was a sobering moment. Just directing one's eyes to NYC is proof enough. Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 08:02 AM (qBdHI) 63
[iu]even fewer know the actual intention of, and language of, the 14th amendment.
or the phrase "...subject to the jurisdiction thereof..." As I recall, not a single illegal alien has registered for the draft. Has the new mayor of NYC filed his paperwork? Tell me about the mRNA clot shots that were mandated to all of the forty or fifty million people brought in by the Biden junta. They were not under mandate because they were not subject to the jurisdiction? Illegal aliens seem not to be subject to any citizenship laws, insurance requirements, any regulation that American citizens are subject to. In fact, children of illegals get preferential treatment in our schools by getting in-state tuition! The empirical evidence screams that those whose parents came here illegally and pumped out an anchor baby or dragged in as a child are not subject to the same laws citizens are under. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 08:03 AM (a4flb) 64
Without being cliche or hysterical, I'm surprised more conspirators have not already been arrested. It does not inspire confidence. Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 07:57 AM (A0sqA) Look at how successful the Judges have been at stopping Trump from appointing Prosecutors. And the Senate Republicans are part of that game as well. Bukele said a harsh truth that we're not ready to face yet; if you truly wish to reform a country, the first thing you have to do is throw out every sitting judge, and then replace all of them with your own people. Otherwise they'll wreck everything you try to do. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 08:04 AM (ASmqz) 65
63, bloody well spot-on!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 08:05 AM (Cjt/F) 66
FWIW - yesterday I looked up the User Manual for the old GE Nautilus dishwasher. Learned a few things about the controls and operations and how-to-load. Am doing the old "run empty and toss in a cuppa distilled white vinegar" thing the manual suggests as periodic maintenance.
RTFM! Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 08:05 AM (wVcYX) 67
We're really up against it, aren't we? Nothing short of total existential war. They want us dead and our children dead. I don't think they want to even mess with enslavement.
Owning slaves is expensive, time consuming and they need this or that constantly while trying to get them to work and behave. I don't need none of that. Posted by: democrat former slave owner at December 09, 2025 08:05 AM (FGMmt) 68
64, there it is, whoomp.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 08:06 AM (Cjt/F) 69
Justice Jackson is a horror show. Absolute affirmative action/DEI hire. I listened to the arguments and she was an embarrassment with the "government by experts "crap, which is the scientific socialist BS. Sotomayor wasn't much better. Gorsuch and Kavanaugh stood out. Humphrey's Executor is done, but a prediction: When the Fed issue arrives they will carve out an exception
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 08:06 AM (D+mpw) 70
48 I'd love to see this ended by SCOTUS, because it needs to be, but I don't have a lot of faith in them doing so. Here's to hoping.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 07:46 AM I hate to say this, but I think there is little chance that the SCOTUS will side with Trump on the birthright citizenshipquestion, because there's no good argument that the President can decide to make such a change on his own. President and Congress together, I believe, absolutely have the power to do this, and I do not believe it would take an amendment. But the President on his own is a bridge too far. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 07:56 AM (ASmqz) Is there a signed presidential law that allowed it or just EOs or admin regs from the past? I'd agree with you if the former...but if the latter, why does the age of the EO or admin reg matter if it's wrong? Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2025 08:06 AM (tOcjL) 71
"The Trump admin isn't doing what's needed to be done ruthlessly enough."
Unfortunately. A lot of compensation with tough talk. Ruthlessness has always been in short supply on our side, despite the popular mythology of the "heartless conservative." Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2025 08:07 AM (WHfpM) 72
The House Republicans are very uninterested in acting against obvious judicial corruption.
Articles of impeachment were filed against Boasberg and I have heard nothing about it since. Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 08:08 AM (A0sqA) 73
Catherine Hicks.
Yummy. == She epitomized the beautiful girl next door, imo. I remember her in this movie with Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) and Paul LeMat. Some slasher movie that wasn't too bad. Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 08:08 AM (qBdHI) 74
I'll have to watch for that book to appear in local libraries ...
(loosely) related: Kurt Schlichter's new Kelly Turnbull novel, Panama Red, dropped today; about 1/3 through ... Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 08:09 AM (Cjt/F) 75
Rand Paul is on TV braying that attacking drug boats in international waters is illegal.
Thanks for NOTHING Rand Paul. So useless. Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 08:09 AM (A0sqA) Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 08:09 AM (W7XSX) Posted by: Hillary Clinton at December 09, 2025 08:09 AM (DDJSl) 78
72 The House Republicans are very uninterested in acting against obvious judicial corruption.
Articles of impeachment were filed against Boasberg and I have heard nothing about it since. Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 08:08 AM (A0sqA) B/c Johnson has 218 votes tops (with MTG and Massie against Trump)...it's amazing he can get 218 to vote for anything R as is...since 100 of them are Uniparty but don't want us to know... Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2025 08:09 AM (tOcjL) 79
The empirical evidence screams that those whose parents came here illegally and pumped out an anchor baby or dragged in as a child are not subject to the same laws citizens are under.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 08:03 AM (a4flb) The problem is that you are taking a common sense and rational view of the problem, not a legal one. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 08:10 AM (ASmqz) 80
Articles of impeachment were filed against Boasberg and I have heard nothing about it since.
Posted by: San Franpsycho __________ Boasberg probably issued an injunction against proceeding. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 09, 2025 08:11 AM (XvL8K) 81
66 Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 08:05 AM (wVcYX)
I have a GE electric range that's at least 40 years old and proud that I was able to replace both the broiler ad main heating elements. And that the OEM parts were still available. GE actually has a Youtube channel that likely has a video on how to maintain and replace parts for whatever model appliance you have. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 09, 2025 08:11 AM (x0n13) 82
Rand Paul is babbling about "arresting people" on the high seas instead of killing them. In a perfect world, sure Rand.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 08:11 AM (D+mpw) Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:11 AM (emBoF) 84
useless even compared to his father ... lol
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 08:11 AM (Cjt/F) 85
Mornin’, All. Happy Tuesday.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 08:12 AM (77rzZ) 86
82 Rand Paul is babbling about "arresting people" on the high seas instead of killing them. In a perfect world, sure Rand.
Im assuming Rand reallllllly likes coke he's shown his true face, like most libertarians, he just really likes drugs Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:12 AM (emBoF) Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:13 AM (emBoF) 88
The Big Dummy is getting a bath this morning before he goes into the ring this afternoon to start the Orlando show week. He's currently the #7 Borzoi and he's going up against the #1, #2, #4 and #6 Borzoi. But you never know. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:13 AM (tgvbd) 89
The left is full-on for the most asinine statement ever uttered, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." I'd hate to break it to them, but I'm pretty sure moslems are opposed to abortion.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 09, 2025 08:13 AM (WPL6O) 90
Rand Paul is on TV braying that attacking drug boats in international waters is illegal.
Thanks for NOTHING Rand Paul. So useless. Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 08:09 AM (A0sqA) Luap Nor...good times, good times. Posted by: Ron Paul Is A Fraud at December 09, 2025 08:13 AM (FGMmt) 91
83 well the eagles murdered me last night
WHAT WAS THAT?!?! Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:11 AM (emBoF) Tippi Hedren and Angela Cartwright agrees Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 09, 2025 08:13 AM (x0n13) 92
@87 Eagles fan?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 08:13 AM (D+mpw) 93
83 well the eagles murdered me last night
WHAT WAS THAT?!?! Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:11 AM (emBoF) That was why we've played high school offense all year. When it gets more complicated, it becomes that. Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2025 08:14 AM (tOcjL) 94
Speaking of SCOTUS, I've been wondering if Thomas, whom I shudder to think not being on the court, will retire before Trump's term is over.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 08:14 AM (qBdHI) 95
> We're really up against it, aren't we? Nothing short of total existential war. They want us dead and our children dead. I don't think they want to even mess with enslavement.
---------- Step one is to make your life so miserable that you leave. Step two is the other thing. We're at step one. The administration's trying to "walk it back" so we don't leave. Figuratively or literally. Because if they fail it's highly unlikely we will want to, or be permitted to remain here on anything like our own terms. Then that other thing nobody likes to talk about is in play. Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2025 08:14 AM (NwnyJ) 96
Rand Paul is on TV braying that attacking drug boats in international waters is illegal.
Thanks for NOTHING Rand Paul. So useless. Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 08:09 AM (A0sqA) Is it my imagination or has he been even more useless since his neighbor attacked him and beat him up? Traumatized? Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2025 08:14 AM (YobFY) 97
Strange. We blow Somali pirates to hell and no one complains. We blow Venezuelan drug boats to hell and suddenly it's a war crime. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:14 AM (tgvbd) 98
The Big Dummy is getting a bath this morning before he goes into the ring this afternoon to start the Orlando show week. He's currently the #7 Borzoi and he's going up against the #1, #2, #4 and #6 Borzoi. But you never know.
good luck out there today! 92 @87 Eagles fan? well, yes back when I was living. now I'm a zombie, I think. they done kilt me! Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:15 AM (emBoF) 99
Rand Paul is on TV braying that attacking drug boats in international waters is illegal.
Investigate Rand Paul and see how much in kick-backs he is receiving from the narcotics trade. Ask Rand Paul if the boats were hauling in VX or mustard gas to deploy if it would be OK then to attack drug boats. Also, I want to know the Legal Authority he is citing for these claims that drug traffickers are off limits to intervention. Then disband the military, because clearly targeting people, places and things that are killing Americans real-time is "unlawful". So what is the point of a kinetic miltiary? Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 08:15 AM (a4flb) 100
Muslims oppose aborting the unborn , but if you're an infidel and have been born , open season
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 08:15 AM (D+mpw) 101
“You’re Asking Us to Destroy the Structure of Government”: Justice Sotomayor
Finally! She understands what the people want! Posted by: Cray Cray at December 09, 2025 08:16 AM (EES2L) 102
Erika Kirk about to appear on F&F to talk about the importance of observing shabbat. I think it is from a book Charlie wrote that will be published posthumously.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 08:16 AM (A0sqA) Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:16 AM (emBoF) 104
Is it my imagination or has he been even more useless since his neighbor attacked him and beat him up? Traumatized?
There is something in the KY water supply, those hill scoggin are crazy. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 08:16 AM (a4flb) 105
WHAT WAS THAT?!?!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:11 AM (emBoF) Jalen Hurts turnover machine. He was so good last year… why does it always look like he doesn’t care? Is he too calm? Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2025 08:17 AM (YobFY) Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 08:17 AM (W7XSX) 107
"101 “You’re Asking Us to Destroy the Structure of Government”: Justice Sotomayor
Finally! She understands what the people want!" Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 08:17 AM (Cjt/F) 108
Jalen Hurts turnover machine. He was so good last year… why does it always look like he doesn’t care? Is he too calm?
he is usually stone faced last night, he seemed scared. also he seemed like he didn't even want to go out there. he's a mess. Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:17 AM (emBoF) 109
I wished someone loved me as much as democrats love international drug smugglers.
(sadly looks down, hands in pockets, kicks a rock) Posted by: Cray Cray at December 09, 2025 08:17 AM (EES2L) 110
Today Is National Llama Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2025 08:18 AM (NpAcC) 111
Is it my imagination or has he been even more useless since his neighbor attacked him and beat him up? Traumatized?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2025 08:14 AM (YobFY) Don't forget, he was also almost killed at a softball game and attacked on the street. He just doesn't get it. Some people never do. Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2025 08:18 AM (WHfpM) 112
if anyone didn't see it, our QB Jalen Hurts made a first-ever play - in one play he managed to turn the ball over TWICE.
there's a Monsters Inc version of this horror that is pretty funny in retrospect (it was the Monsters Inc MNF game) Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:18 AM (emBoF) 113
@98 BlackOrchid, could be worse. You could , like me , be a Giants fan
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 08:18 AM (D+mpw) 114
Is there a signed presidential law that allowed it or just EOs or admin regs from the past? I'd agree with you if the former...but if the latter, why does the age of the EO or admin reg matter if it's wrong?
Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2025 08:06 AM Judicial Precedent and current US Code, mainly. We can argue all day about Wong Kim Ark, the last time the SCOTUS addressed the question. But since then a dozen lower courts have said it means full birthright citizenship, and they've never been overruled. So it's really a Judicial law, not a legislative one. (There are a lot more of those than you realize) Now I believe Congress and the President together can override this; but I also believe that SCOTUS will rule that the President on his own has not the power to do it. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 08:19 AM (ASmqz) Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:19 AM (emBoF) 116
103 yeah Nova a Commanders fan is no fun this year either
although you guys can probably beat us rn Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:16 AM (emBoF) Oh, I'm an Eagles fan through and through...grew up in NJ, remember. And my kid is a Ravens fan, b/c even he knew, no one cheers for the Commanders. Without Jayden probably for the rest of the year, they'll be horrid. And Eagles do play the Raiders and then them, so if they don't win twice, pack the year in. Lane Johnson is the league MVP, b/c Eagles now 0-3 without him in this stretch. The man must be the "keep everyone's heads in the game" guy... Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2025 08:20 AM (tOcjL) 117
I'm a proponent of a strong national defense, but if someone on my side of that issue put out a book entitled, "War is Everything," aimed at 5–8-year-olds, that glorifies war, I'd be having some serious words with that person or organization.
Posted by: p-squared at December 09, 2025 08:20 AM (0prFs) 118
The left is full-on for the most asinine statement ever uttered, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." I'd hate to break it to them, but I'm pretty sure moslems are opposed to abortion.
But they are unified in killing Christians and stomping out all the advances that Christians brought.† † in terms of what a high trust society brought to the planet. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 08:20 AM (a4flb) 119
Did Charlie become a 7th day adventist?
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 08:17 AM (W7XSX) === Pick a day any day. Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 08:20 AM (A0sqA) 120
Reggie White, the minister of defense…. After his playing career was over he veered into a very peculiar brand of Christianity… I’ve forgotten the details but it was kinda out there…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2025 08:20 AM (YobFY) 121
well the eagles murdered me last night
WHAT WAS THAT?!?! Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 *** Were you a New Kid in Town? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 08:20 AM (wzUl9) 122
Interesting story about the raccoons.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 08:21 AM (77rzZ) 123
Lane Johnson is the league MVP, b/c Eagles now 0-3 without him in this stretch. The man must be the "keep everyone's heads in the game" guy...
so yeah an OL needs a leader, and Lane was a little hesitant to step into Kelce's shoes, he's a very quiet guy. so MAILATA did instead. and he's a hippy flake - he's like my younger son, loads of fun and very popular with everybody! but not really an OL leader type. sigh. OL is a mess Lane or no. Lane does help tho. Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:21 AM (emBoF) 124
122 Interesting story about the raccoons.
they can try all they want no freaking way I think my squirrels are trying. they seems more suited. we shall see. Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:22 AM (emBoF) 125
> Rand Paul is on TV braying that attacking drug boats in international waters is illegal.
--------- Well, it's apparent where some of his money is coming from. Someone should make him deny it with proof. Or tell him to shut the fuck up. Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2025 08:22 AM (NwnyJ) 126
97 Strange. We blow Somali pirates to hell and no one complains. We blow Venezuelan drug boats to hell and suddenly it's a war crime. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:14 AM (tgvbd) Tells you a lot about where the money in Washington comes from, doesn't it? Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 08:22 AM (ASmqz) 127
GE actually has a Youtube channel that likely has a video on how to maintain and replace parts for whatever model appliance you have.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 09, 2025 08:11 AM (x0n13) Thanks, JJ. I'll look it up. Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 08:23 AM (wVcYX) 128
Charlie Brown Christmas debuted on this date 60 years ago.
Posted by: TV Fax and Figgers. at December 09, 2025 08:23 AM (oftw2) 129
Did Charlie become a 7th day adventist?
He married a Roman Catholic, attended a Big Box evangelical "Church" and was discipled by a hodge podge of American Religion influencers. Who knows what settled in? Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 08:24 AM (a4flb) 130
Charlie Brown Christmas debuted on this date 60 years ago. Posted by: TV Fax and Figgers. at December 09, 2025 08:23 AM (oftw2) Yes, I'm a minority of one, but I've never liked any of the animated Peanuts features. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:25 AM (tgvbd) 131
I wonder how many NFL stat heads are looking to see if anyone has ever turned the ball over twice on the same play. I've been watching football since the late sixties and I've never seen what Hurts did last night
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 08:26 AM (D+mpw) 132
if the miners in West Virginia and Pennsylvania were to start claiming they were women"
Nothing new... after all, there was this flick w/a Penna welder/dancer chick. Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 08:26 AM (XuXeR) 133
Shout Your Abortion has been promoting a book aimed at children five to eight years old called “Abortion is Everything,”
Great. Let's teach them that the only reason they are here is because mom didn't think they were inconvenient. Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 08:26 AM (NR6c1) 134
131 I wonder how many NFL stat heads are looking to see if anyone has ever turned the ball over twice on the same play. I've been watching football since the late sixties and I've never seen what Hurts did last night
no one's found a play like that as of yet wonderful stat for Jalen's career Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:26 AM (emBoF) 135
ok groomers
The video even even tells the kids what to do if someone calls them the wrong pronouns and teaches "trans" females how to bind their breasts. At the end of the slide show, kids are encouraged to join Westland’s LGBTQ+ and/or Sexuality and Gender Acceptance (SAGA) clubs. Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2025 08:26 AM (gbOdA) 136
While Americans back deportation of illegal aliens, they also support citizenship for illegals' children born here? (this makes zero sense; I smell a crock of shit from TIPP - jjs)
I would guess that the poll is accurate because the people polled are ignorant. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 08:27 AM (ExV1e) 137
Tells you a lot about where the money in Washington comes from, doesn't it? Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 08:22 AM (ASmqz) Yup. I'm sure if we were to look at how many congresscritters and senators went from stony broke to wealthy while in office, we'd find out some very interesting things. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:27 AM (tgvbd) 138
114 Is there a signed presidential law that allowed it or just EOs or admin regs from the past? I'd agree with you if the former...but if the latter, why does the age of the EO or admin reg matter if it's wrong?
Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2025 08:06 AM Judicial Precedent and current US Code, mainly. We can argue all day about Wong Kim Ark, the last time the SCOTUS addressed the question. But since then a dozen lower courts have said it means full birthright citizenship, and they've never been overruled. So it's really a Judicial law, not a legislative one. (There are a lot more of those than you realize) Now I believe Congress and the President together can override this; but I also believe that SCOTUS will rule that the President on his own has not the power to do it. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 08:19 AM (ASmqz) So, then like Dred Scott, totally overturnable. Okay, if this is all it is, I can see the Court reversing it. Right now, there are probably 3 definite votes to do that and 3 definite against. So read the middle 3. Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2025 08:28 AM (tOcjL) 139
Charlie Brown Christmas will forever be known for Linus' statement on stage and for Charles Schultz for fighting to keep it from being cut.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 08:28 AM (D+mpw) 140
Abortion is Everything"
It is. For quite a few. It's odd, and I have no idea about from where it comes, but it's there, and it's a vote getting issue. Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 08:29 AM (XuXeR) 141
I wonder how many NFL stat heads are looking to see if anyone has ever turned the ball over twice on the same play. I've been watching football since the late sixties and I've never seen what Hurts did last night
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 08:26 AM (D+mpw) It’d be funny to show the replay with yakkity sax playing in the background… Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2025 08:29 AM (YobFY) 142
I simply do not understand Pope Leo and his weak, supine position on Islam. I'm not Catholic, so please, no offense intended. I just don't get how he doesn't see them for the danger they are to Christianity worldwide. How can he not see them for what they are? By their own words and actions, it's all laid bare. It's so obvious, but he's blind. So many things in this world I don't get.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 08:29 AM (qBdHI) 143
If you live in Miami don't forget to VOTE today.
Fox- "Voters in Miami, Florida, cast ballots Tuesday in a runoff election for mayor in a race that's grabbed plenty of national attention in recent weeks as Democrats aim to end a decades-long losing streak in red-leaning Florida." "Democrat Eileen Higgins, a former county commissioner, is facing off against Republican Emilio Gonzalez, a former city manager backed by President Donald Trump" So far the Democrat is up by a few thousand votes in early voting. Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2025 08:30 AM (NpAcC) 144
Charlie Brown Christmas debuted on this date 60 years ago.
Posted by: TV Fax and Figgers. at December 09, 2025 08:23 AM (oftw2) Yes, I'm a minority of one, but I've never liked any of the animated Peanuts features. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:25 AM (tgvbd) I'm with you. I can take or leave Christmas, but none of the others appeal to me in the least. I also think Peanuts should have stopped after the first 10 years. I get that people love the whole "Snoopy and the Red Baron" bit, but IMO, the day Snoopy started walking on two legs was the day the strip jumped the shark. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 08:31 AM (ufSfZ) 145
122 Interesting story about the raccoons.
* they can try all they want no freaking way I think my squirrels are trying. they seems more suited. we shall see. Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 *** The raccoons can *seem* domesticated. Then they go rogue or criminal. Like the Somalis. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 08:32 AM (wzUl9) 146
lol I agree I don't like the Peanuts stuff. actually none of it.
my dad was super into it so I still have all these old books I should just get rid of. but his little drawings in them are cute. he also loved Pogo. Pogo was great! Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:32 AM (emBoF) 147
IAEA: Chernobyl Shield Loses Ability to Contain Radiation After Drone Strike.
This is yet another attempt to get the US military to become involved in the conflict. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 08:33 AM (ExV1e) 148
Strange. We blow Somali pirates to hell and no one complains. We blow Venezuelan drug boats to hell and suddenly it's a war crime.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:14 AM (tgvbd) Tells you a lot about where the money in Washington comes from, doesn't it? Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 08:22 AM (ASmqz) - It's not just money. DataRepublican a few weeks ago: https://tinyurl.com/zw33434u To search DataRepublican's X posts containing the word "Venezuela", type "from:datarepublican venezuela" in the X search box. There's lots more. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2025 08:33 AM (Yz4gh) 149
The raccoons can *seem* domesticated. Then they go rogue or criminal. Like the Somalis.
exactly! or a Bengal cat lol Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:33 AM (emBoF) 150
This is yet another attempt to get the US military to become involved in the conflict.
correct should be ignored Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:33 AM (emBoF) 151
Washington wanted the free sovereign citizens of America to divorce themselves from these factional wars brought on by power-hungry leaders. He wanted us to view these leaders as nothing more than a necessary evil, that we should all view at all times with great skepticism. No matter what they claim or promise or demand, we must question them and repeatedly reject them, so that we don’t end up their pawns used to make them powerful.
Look at Pelosi, McStain, Grahamesty, et al for a perfect living description of this. Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2025 08:34 AM (gbOdA) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 08:34 AM (XuXeR) 153
Does anyone really believe Trump fired an obscure member of the FTC, someone 99.999999% of the country has never heard of and don't even know what the FTC does, and forced the Supreme Court to revisit a stupid decision from nearly 100 years ago that altered the structure of power in the federal government by chance?
Seems unlikely to me. Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 08:34 AM (viF8m) 154
Mengele is right JJ. Morning. Marxists took over the American Public School System, as we slept
Posted by: Jonah at December 09, 2025 08:34 AM (YCxFk) 155
150 This is yet another attempt to get the US military to become involved in the conflict.
correct should be ignored Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:33 AM (emBoF) See my comment above. It is the #3 tactic to start a revolution. Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2025 08:35 AM (gbOdA) 156
Couple inches of snow this AM in Coastal NC. Welcome here, as it's the only time my yard looks as good as the neighbors.
Posted by: Junkyard Dog at December 09, 2025 08:35 AM (oftw2) 157
Good morning good people. Thank you J.J. - Happy Birthday!
Posted by: Tonypete at December 09, 2025 08:35 AM (cYBz/) 158
Raccoons are also among the biggest carriers of rabies.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 08:36 AM (77rzZ) 159
Red, Miami is a city in the end. Sadly
Posted by: Jonah at December 09, 2025 08:36 AM (YCxFk) 160
Anybody have Jalen Hurts on their fantasy team last night?
Posted by: mr tmz at December 09, 2025 08:36 AM (rJ48h) 161
157. Morning Tony
Posted by: Jonah at December 09, 2025 08:36 AM (YCxFk) 162
Rand Paul is on TV braying that attacking drug boats in international waters is illegal.
Thanks for NOTHING Rand Paul. So useless. Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 08:09 AM I don't recall him saying anything about attacking peaceful somali pirate boats and sinking them in international waters. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2025 08:37 AM (0N4FZ) 163
So, I think there’s a pretty significant danger that Congress has actually identified and cares about when it determines that these issues should not be in presidential control.”
Legislate create laws Magistrate decide if laws are legal Execute enforce create, legal laws Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2025 07:32 AM (gbOdA) If'n the execution of some government function should not be under the control of the current President, then it should neither be controlled, nor funded, by the federal government. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 08:37 AM (ExV1e) 164
160 Anybody have Jalen Hurts on their fantasy team last night?
lol I heard this morning that if Jalen had just spiked the ball every play he'd have had a better rating Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:37 AM (emBoF) 165
I get that people love the whole "Snoopy and the Red Baron" bit, but IMO, the day Snoopy started walking on two legs was the day the strip jumped the shark. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 08:31 AM (ufSfZ) I'd put it at when Woodstock, Peppermint Patty and Marcie became regular characters. And Snoopy's siblings. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:37 AM (tgvbd) 166
I simply do not understand Pope Leo and his weak, supine position on Islam. I'm not Catholic, so please, no offense intended. I just don't get how he doesn't see them for the danger they are to Christianity worldwide. How can he not see them for what they are? By their own words and actions, it's all laid bare. It's so obvious, but he's blind. So many things in this world I don't get.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 08:29 AM (qBdHI) Well, considering Leo is American, I suspect he was marinated heavily in the whole "Buddy Jesus" crap, where the worst thing any Christian can be is 'intoloerant.' As well, it wouldn't surprise me that, to paraphrase Ann Barnhardt, he thinks there are 'many roads to God' or, more likely, doesn't actually believe at all. The days of Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus are long gone. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 08:38 AM (ufSfZ) 167
Jalen Hurtz was good for .40 fantasy points last night.
He single-handedly robbed me of a scoring title and a first-round bye in my fantasy league playoffs. I felt like Kramer getting slo-mo hit with a barrage of tennis balls. Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 09, 2025 08:38 AM (6qf1m) 168
Well, considering Leo is American, I suspect he was marinated heavily in the whole "Buddy Jesus" crap, where the worst thing any Christian can be is 'intoloerant.'
just think of him as a midwestern college sociology professor and everything becomes clear. Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:38 AM (emBoF) 169
I simply do not understand Pope Leo and his weak, supine position on Islam. I'm not Catholic, so please, no offense intended. I just don't get how he doesn't see them for the danger they are to Christianity worldwide.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 08:29 AM (qBdHI) - Like many others, he's a WEF in sheep's clothing. At a minimum, birds of a feather. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2025 08:39 AM (Yz4gh) Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:39 AM (emBoF) 171
Hurts is a punk. Would not go the White House
Posted by: Jonah at December 09, 2025 08:39 AM (YCxFk) 172
If'n the execution of some government function should not be under the control of the current President, then it should neither be controlled, nor funded, by the federal government.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 08:37 AM (ExV1e) We have Judges with Administrations with Agencies. Congress funds an Admin, it creates agencies under that umbrella, and then TA FUCKN DA they need their own courts system. Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2025 08:39 AM (gbOdA) 173
The Left are all for "independent agencies" unless those independent agencies are conservative or right leaning in which case they are a "threat to Democracy".
It's not worth arguing with them. In fact the only rational answer is to fight for the same thing but for our own side. But unfortunately muh principuhls so we have to stay consistent while they walk all over us. Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 08:39 AM (U6Usv) 174
I think Schulz even had a third Van Pelt kid in the late strips, who was called “Rerun.”
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 08:40 AM (77rzZ) 175
Marxists took over the American Public School System, as we slept
Posted by: Jonah at December 09, 2025 08:34 AM (YCxFk) Bella Dodd, a teacher and one-time Communist, was witness to this, and relates the history in her book "School of Darkness." Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2025 08:40 AM (WHfpM) 176
Morning, Horde...How goes it?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 09, 2025 08:40 AM (ESVrU) 177
171 Hurts is a punk. Would not go the White House
his wife is a nasty Karen and wouldn't let him she may be part of the problems this year she claimed her "wedding celebration" was why he couldn't go to the WH (but it wasn't their actual wedding??) she's a problem. he's a mensch. Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:41 AM (emBoF) 178
KBJ doesn't know what a woman is. Which qualifies her for the Supreme Court, apparently.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 08:41 AM (Dv3i1) 179
We are seeing even more damage from the touch of the Chicago Thug in Chief, the "calmer of the oceans," the Manchurian 'transformer' of this divine nation, . . . the Odildo. . . . . everything the Kenyan touches turns to shit, all the way up to the freshman SCOTUS flea bags
Posted by: The Obama brats have 2 daddies at December 09, 2025 08:41 AM (e45L/) 180
I think Schulz even had a third Van Pelt kid in the late strips, who was called “Rerun.”
Posted by: Bulg Yeah - the younger brother of Lucy and Linus. Posted by: Tonypete at December 09, 2025 08:41 AM (cYBz/) 181
We, (wife and I) pick a day, every week, to have a Sabbath together. It is not Sunday, because we are both so busy at church. It involves taking time, at least 5 hours minimum, for scripture study and prayer followed by a meal together that we do not make, and then quiet time spent together. Very important to us.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 08:42 AM (pDt9x) 182
The video even even tells the kids what to do if someone calls them the wrong pronouns and teaches "trans" females how to bind their breasts.
Me a few years later, standing before Saint Peter: "OK, yes; I bought the millstones and started applying justice to these people. I admit it." Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 08:42 AM (NR6c1) 183
[takes dollar, looks around furtively]
Word on the street is, that Chinese lab ain't trying to make better protein, they was trying to develop a fungus that will destroy chicken production and hamstring US food production. Just like dat crop fungus those bastards got caught trying to smuggle in a little while back. Posted by: Johnny the Shoeshine Guy at December 09, 2025 08:42 AM (84Uz9) 184
I simply do not understand Pope Leo and his weak, supine position on Islam. I'm not Catholic, so please, no offense intended. I just don't get how he doesn't see them for the danger they are to Christianity worldwide.
Posted by: Lady in Black He's either ignorant or dishonest. I can't believe he doesn't know about Islam's goals and satanic methods to achieve those goals. So I have to go with dishonest. Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 08:43 AM (Dv3i1) 185
he also loved Pogo. Pogo was great!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:32 AM (emBoF) Pogo is another strip that I think went on too long, though Kelly did sabotage the strip whenever he brought in animal versions of people like Castro, Khruschev, Agnew, Hoover, &c. I think the whole 'bravery' accolades concerning his Joe McCarthy character (a wildcat named "Simple J Malarkey") went to his head. And that jejune "we have met the enemy and he is us" crap always annoyed the hell out of me. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 08:43 AM (ufSfZ) 186
Shout Your Abortion has been promoting a book aimed at children five to eight years old called “Abortion is Everything,”
Great. Let's teach them that the only reason they are here is because mom didn't think they were inconvenient. Posted by: NR Pax Notice how those in favor of abortion already won the Birth Canal Bingo? And that they would never volunteer to off themselves in solidarity to those they killed? Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 08:43 AM (bvUs5) 187
Brad Van Pelt>>Lucy Van Pelt
Posted by: Your Shell Answer Man at December 09, 2025 08:43 AM (oftw2) 188
183 [takes dollar, looks around furtively]
Word on the street is, that Chinese lab ain't trying to make better protein, they was trying to develop a fungus that will destroy chicken production and hamstring US food production. Just like dat crop fungus those bastards got caught trying to smuggle in a little while back. Posted by: Johnny the Shoeshine Guy *hands dollar to Johnny* Any chance US tax dollars are funding this research? Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 08:44 AM (Dv3i1) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 08:44 AM (IEV/x) 190
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 08:42 AM (pDt9x)
===== Wait. That sounds like you enjoy spending time with your spouse. Subversive. Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 08:46 AM (A0sqA) 191
I think Schulz even had a third Van Pelt kid in the late strips, who was called “Rerun.”
Correct. And I think - though I can't be bothered to look - Rerun was the only 'baby' character who never grew up. Schroeder, Lucy, Linus and Sally all started out as babies, but grew up in 'comic time' so that the first three, within about five years, could appear to be Charlie Brown's contemporaries. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 08:46 AM (ufSfZ) 192
>>He's either ignorant or dishonest.
He's not ignorant. His entire life is wrapped around the history of his religion. And even if he was he has an organization as big as any government on earth to remind him. The easiest answer is sometimes the correct one. Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 08:46 AM (viF8m) 193
One of the Left Bloc was whining that, if the majority overturns Humphrey's, then they will face a mountain of litigation over the other, lesser officers.
And even regular employees. And, at first, I took it as saying, "we must keep the status quo unless we can craft a perfect rule that covers all potential cases." But now I realize that's not what she was saying: She was revealing the left's biggest fear. Because, if Senate-approved officers can be removed without cause--even those dressed up in all the academic finery of credentials, qualifications and expertise, with the holy blessings of protections from Congress--what is the basis for civil service protections? And that is the end of the Deep state right there: Whatever justification is offered for overruling Humphrey's, it goes 10 times more for employees. The federal government is about to become an at-will employer. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 08:46 AM (HXT0k) 194
Unfortunately Rapaport still thinks the Central Park Five are innocent.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 08:47 AM (U6Usv) 195
Morn' all.. As bad as SCOTUS is now with the three witches imagine how bad it would be with 10 more added like them if the Dems take over again....
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 08:47 AM (VE6XX) 196
I just love Peanuts… I have a bunch of old paperbacks from my youth which are collections of the comic strip. They make me laugh and laugh…. Just the other day I was reading a series of strips how Lucy threw Shroeder’s piano into the sewer because (of course) he was more interested in piano than her… her theory of romance: eliminate the competition. Hilarious…. Linus and the great pumpkin… Charlie Brown and his unrequited love of the little red haired girl… I think it’s all brilliant
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2025 08:47 AM (5MZNC) 197
169 I simply do not understand Pope Leo and his weak, supine position on Islam. I'm not Catholic, so please, no offense intended. I just don't get how he doesn't see them for the danger they are to Christianity worldwide.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 08:29 AM (qBdHI) He's just taking the position that the majority of Catholics have. Catholicism is mostly leftism. Unfortunately, many protestant religions are following the catholics down that shithole. It's why I'm not religious. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 08:48 AM (g8Ew8) 198
190 Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 08:42 AM (pDt9x)
===== Wait. That sounds like you enjoy spending time with your spouse. Subversive. Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 08:46 AM (A0sqA) Yeeeeahh, you got me, San Fran. I actually like her, weird huh?? Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 08:48 AM (pDt9x) 199
186 Notice how those in favor of abortion already won the Birth Canal Bingo?
And that they would never volunteer to off themselves in solidarity to those they killed? Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 08:43 AM (bvUs5) >>> I believe in the concept of retroactive abortion. . . and I know who should be on the list Posted by: The Obama brats have 2 daddies at December 09, 2025 08:48 AM (e45L/) 200
What I find fascinating is the left's unshakeable belief that a government agency has the best interests of everyone at heart. They cannot fathom that politics are inferior to capitalism.
In fact, the capitalist system, where a product must compete in a voluntary transaction is far better than a system where a political appointee makes the decision based on whatever floats their boat, or more likely, defers to the people who put them there. The left claims that they are for the people, but they don't trust them to make decisions. Leftists just can't believe that common people will make the best decisions available independently of an appointed expert. Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 08:49 AM (0U5gm) 201
192 >>He's either ignorant or dishonest.
He's not ignorant. His entire life is wrapped around the history of his religion. And even if he was he has an organization as big as any government on earth to remind him. The easiest answer is sometimes the correct one. Posted by: JackStraw Hey, that was my conclusion too! Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 08:49 AM (Dv3i1) 202
142 Leo 14 is committed to Francis' demolition of all things Catholic and Western. He just isn't a brutal thug about it, like Francis was.
Posted by: callsign claymore at December 09, 2025 08:49 AM (pd4dZ) 203
Kung Pao Fungal Chikken very good. Add Soya Dumpling and MSG, Americans will buy!
Posted by: Wokking Your Dog at December 09, 2025 08:49 AM (oftw2) 204
I hate to say this, but I think there is little chance that the SCOTUS will side with Trump on the birthright citizenship question, because there's no good argument that the President can decide to make such a change on his own.
To the best of my knowledge, there has never been legislation instituting birthright citizenship, it's just been treated as though that's the thing. Assuming that's the case, Trump's argument could be that the 14th does not require it, Congress has never legislated it, and prior Administrations have been granting citizenship in, effectively, an illegal manner by not following the regulations laid down by law. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 08:50 AM (ExV1e) 205
Yeeeeahh, you got me, San Fran. I actually like her, weird huh??
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 08:48 AM (pDt9x) ===== My advice: start drinking heavily. -Senator John Blutarskey Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 08:50 AM (A0sqA) 206
Don't get me wrong, I do like Peanuts, at least for the first 10-15 years of the strip, and I might even stretch the liking to the first 20 years. But after that, it just doesn't interest me.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 08:51 AM (ufSfZ) 207
The powers of the presidency that the Left is now railing against in the courts and media and on social media they will turn on a dime over and seize and expand and exploit as soon as they hold the office.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2025 08:51 AM (WHfpM) 208
197 Unfortunately, many protestant religions are following the catholics down that shithole.
>>> The Lutheran Church is a literal slow motion death crash. Bring back the Missouri Synod. Posted by: The Obama brats have 2 daddies at December 09, 2025 08:51 AM (e45L/) 209
I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0 Elon Musk sharply criticizes SCOTUS Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson after she claimed President Trump should not have the authority to remove “experts” from executive agencies. MUSK: “She is openly advocating for the destruction of democracy.” Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2025 08:51 AM (NpAcC) 210
191 MP4, I always thought that Lucy and Charlie Brown were the same age, with Linus and Sally as their respective younger siblings. Never knew that Schroeder started out as a baby, too.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 08:52 AM (77rzZ) 211
Lady in Black,
Indeed. Islam is completely incompatible and anathema to Christianity. Rape and murder are their sacraments. Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 08:52 AM (W7XSX) 212
Vic Dibitetto is ticked off about having too much of the good things in life -
https://youtu.be/brFAmCjGvso Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 08:52 AM (wVcYX) 213
Rappaport was haf-way red pilled by the left's celebratory response to October 7. He's a non-self-loathing liberal Jew.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 09, 2025 08:53 AM (R86kT) 214
208 197 Unfortunately, many protestant religions are following the catholics down that shithole.
>>> The Lutheran Church is a literal slow motion death crash. Bring back the Missouri Synod. Posted by: The Obama brats have 2 daddies at December 09, 2025 08:51 AM (e45L/) Still going strong here. Have family who are Lutheran, Missouri Synod. Kids go to Lutheran school, they have a K-12. Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 08:53 AM (pDt9x) 215
Birthright citizenship for illegals is a misreading of the plain language of the 14th amendment ("subject to jurisdiction"), therefore it is unconstitutional. This is the correct and most straightforward way to decide this case. Roberts will screw it up somehow.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 08:53 AM (Dv3i1) 216
Peanuts was okay. But I really loved Andy Capp. As a kid, that comic strip always cracked me up.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2025 08:53 AM (WHfpM) 217
Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde. Posted by: Inogame at December 09, 2025 08:54 AM (53oGX) 218
204 To the best of my knowledge, there has never been legislation instituting birthright citizenship, it's just been treated as though that's the thing.
Assuming that's the case, Trump's argument could be that the 14th does not require it, Congress has never legislated it, and prior Administrations have been granting citizenship in, effectively, an illegal manner by not following the regulations laid down by law. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 08:50 AM (ExV1e) ===== Precedent requires legal residency first. That's what Wong Kim Ark actually said. If SCOTUS just keeps to precedent, Trump has every right to deny birthright citizenship to people here illegally. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 08:54 AM (GBKbO) 219
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With accessible, inclusive language, Abortion is Everything frames abortion as the actualization of a uniquely human superpower: our capacity to imagine the future and make choices that lead us towards the life we envision. Abortion is a tool that allows human beings to shape our destinies, and which has shaped the entire world around us. Parents, caregivers, and educators who work with children have long been searching for a tool to talk with kids about abortion, especially given the volume of political noise currently surrounding the issue. ----------- Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 08:54 AM (U6Usv) 220
215 Birthright citizenship for illegals is a misreading of the plain language of the 14th amendment ("subject to jurisdiction"), therefore it is unconstitutional. This is the correct and most straightforward way to decide this case. Roberts will screw it up somehow.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 08:53 AM (Dv3i1) ===== And of Wong Kim Ark. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 08:54 AM (GBKbO) 221
My two favorites are Dilbert and The Far Side.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 08:54 AM (pDt9x) 222
210 191 MP4, I always thought that Lucy and Charlie Brown were the same age, with Linus and Sally as their respective younger siblings. Never knew that Schroeder started out as a baby, too.
Posted by: Bulg We all start out as babies, except for Charles Lane and Burt Mustin. Posted by: Baby Leroy at December 09, 2025 08:55 AM (oftw2) 223
166 It's way worse than that, MP4. One of Leo 14's guiding lights is the monstrous Joseph Cardinal Bernardin.
Wolf, sheep's clothing, some assembly required Posted by: callsign claymore at December 09, 2025 08:55 AM (pd4dZ) 224
Parents, caregivers, and educators who work with children have long been searching for a tool to talk with kids about abortion, especially given the volume of political noise currently surrounding the issue.
----------- Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 08:54 AM (U6Usv) Five year olds ? Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 08:55 AM (VE6XX) 225
Well, considering Leo is American, I suspect he was marinated heavily in the whole "Buddy Jesus" crap, where the worst thing any Christian can be is 'intoloerant.'
TBF, the American Religion (which has bled on to Rome) when reading Galatians 5, they tend to conflate "long suffering" with "kind". And kind means supportive, so therefore we are supposed to be kind and supportive to drug boat operators, fraudsters, terrorists, abortionists and assassins. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 08:55 AM (WCaCG) 226
Frame 1: Charlie Brown and Linus are walking and each is carrying a hot dog.
Frame 2: The two are seated at a curb and Linus says "Pretty good hot dogs, huh, Charlie Brown? Frame 3: Charlie Brown says "Fair, I guess." Frame 4: Charlie Brown closes the strip with "A hot dog just doesn't taste right without a baseball game in front of it." Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 09, 2025 08:55 AM (2Ez/1) 227
Abortion is Everything frames abortion as the actualization of a uniquely human superpower: our capacity to imagine the future and make choices that lead us towards the life we envision.
____ Abstinence is a superpower. Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 08:56 AM (Dv3i1) 228
My favorite Peanuts strip was Lucy going to see Schroder and Frieda was already leaning against the piano. She walks out in a daze and sits next to Snoopy. She tells him what happens, he suggests pouncing on Frieda.
A moment later, she follows his advice and she and Snoopy are shaking hands. And not one word of dialogue at all. Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 08:56 AM (NR6c1) 229
MP4, I always thought that Lucy and Charlie Brown were the same age, with Linus and Sally as their respective younger siblings. Never knew that Schroeder started out as a baby, too.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 08:52 AM (77rzZ) The original characters were Charlie Brown, Shermy and Patty. Snoopy came in within the first two weeks, IIRC, and then in a few months Violet and Schroeder. I believe Lucy, Linus and Pig-Pen didn't come along until the second or third year. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 08:56 AM (ufSfZ) 230
Bill Watterson was right to end C&H when he did. That strip never bounded over the chondrichthyan (as Calvin might have put it).
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 08:57 AM (77rzZ) 231
>>I hate to say this, but I think there is little chance that the SCOTUS will side with Trump on the birthright citizenship question, because there's no good argument that the President can decide to make such a change on his own.
And yet SCOTUS is likely to side with Trump on his ability to fire political appointees in the Executive Branch, a decision Trump made on his own. Anyone who actually reads the 14th Amendment, and I'll go way out on a limb and assume members of the Supreme Court actually read it at some point, knows that it was never intended to grant citizenship to anyone who managed to be born here. That is a decision that was reached by subversives on their own with no basis in constitutional law. The Roberts court may not have the balls to reach the obvious conclusion but it will have nothing to do with the constitution or how Trump forced them to consider it. It will have to do with a lack of balls. Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 08:58 AM (viF8m) 232
Peanuts was okay. But I really loved Andy Capp. As a kid, that comic strip always cracked me up.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2025 08:53 AM (WHfpM) I have always loved Andy Capp. I have so many of the small paperback collections of the strip that you can see where Smythe repeats jokes, just with different characters. The modern ghost strip version is an abomination and ought to be put out of its misery. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 08:59 AM (ufSfZ) 233
I don't know Pope Leo, but I doubt he's either ignorant or evil, because I think when he's reported on ,things are taken out of context by the media and not fully reported or reported incorrectly ( Sort of like with President Trump) I also don't know what else he's saying behind the scenes. However, people who are Catholic can write to him and express their concerns:
https://tinyurl.com/4pmj6u6z Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 08:59 AM (PFs9e) 234
Rappaport was haf-way red pilled by the left's celebratory response to October 7. He's a non-self-loathing liberal Jew.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 09, 2025 08:53 AM (R86kT) -------------- Some of the most articulate righties today are red-pilled liberals Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 08:59 AM (O5TZR) 235
Parents, caregivers, and educators who work with children have long been searching for a tool to talk with kids about abortion, especially given the volume of political noise currently surrounding the issue.
----------- Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 08:54 AM (U6Usv) I have been shielding my kids from such horrors. Who are these people that get off on terrifying kids? Posted by: pookysgirl, Mama Bear Extraordinaire at December 09, 2025 08:59 AM (Wt5PA) 236
Assuming that's the case, Trump's argument could be that the 14th does not require it, Congress has never legislated it, and prior Administrations have been granting citizenship in, effectively, an illegal manner by not following the regulations laid down by law.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09 Unfortunately If you look at regulations laid down by law - current US code - they DO call for birthright citizenship. Of course they were written by the bureaucracy, not the legislature, but that's what is there. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 09:00 AM (moK1X) 237
I've recently learned my grandson who is in third grade has developed a keen interest in Calvin and Hobbes.
Happy to supply some Christmas gifts to help further that interest. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 09, 2025 09:00 AM (2Ez/1) 238
Is Blondie still around?
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:00 AM (77rzZ) 239
The raccoons can *seem* domesticated. Then they go rogue or criminal. Like the Somalis.
* exactly! or a Bengal cat lol Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 *** Reasons Cats Are Better Than Somalis * Cats are better looking (subjective, I admit, but a popular view) and certainly cuter * Cats will not give fast food workers a hard time, take video of the incident, and then complain they are victims of anti-catism * Cats do not immigrate, then complain about their new environment being anti-cat while living on the bounty of their benefactors (arguable). At least they look cute while doing it; see Point One * Cats may actually earn their keep by hunting vermin Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 09:00 AM (wzUl9) 240
two favorites are Dilbert and The Far Side.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 08:54 AM (pDt9x) Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes. Posted by: dantesed at December 09, 2025 09:00 AM (Oy/m2) 241
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 08:59 AM (PFs9e)
----------------------- We differ on this one Fen. Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 09:01 AM (O5TZR) 242
Fen the nice thing about the current Pope is he speaks English so I can just listen to his nonsense instead of having some cope fed to me about how "something was lost in translation."
I've heard more than enough from him. Leftist professor. That's it. That's the thing. Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 09:01 AM (emBoF) 243
236 Unfortunately If you look at regulations laid down by law - current US code - they DO call for birthright citizenship. Of course they were written by the bureaucracy, not the legislature, but that's what is there.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 09:00 AM (moK1X) ====== Which would mean that another president could undo those regulations since they're not required by Congress and statute. I wouldn't put money on this, but I suspect that we could end up with, "Trump has the authority to do it, and if Congress doesn't like it, they should pass a law." Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 09:01 AM (GBKbO) 244
236 Assuming that's the case, Trump's argument could be that the 14th does not require it, Congress has never legislated it, and prior Administrations have been granting citizenship in, effectively, an illegal manner by not following the regulations laid down by law.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09 Unfortunately If you look at regulations laid down by law - current US code - they DO call for birthright citizenship. Of course they were written by the bureaucracy, not the legislature, but that's what is there. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 09:00 AM (moK1X) Admin regs are what each presidency can change pretty much at will... Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2025 09:02 AM (tOcjL) 245
The Roberts court may not have the balls to reach the obvious conclusion but it will have nothing to do with the constitution or how Trump forced them to consider it. It will have to do with a lack of balls.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 08:58 AM (viF8m) I only worry about the tariff ruling. I've always felt that Roberts keeps a scorecard and doesn't want to give Trump too many wins. He may see ruling against Trump's tariff authority as the great equalizer. At this point he also must realize the terrible blow it would be to Trump's vision and his economic grand strategy -- not to mention the country. Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2025 09:02 AM (WHfpM) 246
We all start out as babies, except for Charles Lane and Burt Mustin.
Posted by: Baby Leroy at December 09, 2025 *** Ian Wolfe was there when Charles and Burt were born Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 09:02 AM (wzUl9) 247
Who are these people that get off on terrifying kids?"
Mostly women without kids... (See former Nashville candidate) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:02 AM (XuXeR) 248
238 Is Blondie still around?
Posted by: Bulg Kinda. Clem Burke died this year and Debbie Harry turned 80, though. Posted by: Pretty Baby at December 09, 2025 09:03 AM (oftw2) 249
Morons jonesing for a comics-related post from the Boss. It has been a blessed while since the ewok has posted about Disney, Marvel, or trash-culture in general.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 09:03 AM (A0sqA) 250
We all start out as babies, except for Charles Lane and Burt Mustin.
Posted by: Baby Leroy at December 09, 2025 *** Ian Wolfe was there when Charles and Burt were born Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 *** Let us not forget John Hoyt, either Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 09:03 AM (wzUl9) 251
Given the strong argument against "birthright citizenship", SCOTUS may surprise, and reach the right conclusion. I hope so.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 09:03 AM (O5TZR) 252
249 Morons jonesing for a comics-related post from the Boss. It has been a blessed while since the ewok has posted about Disney, Marvel, or trash-culture in general.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 09:03 AM (A0sqA) No Disney... Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 09:03 AM (VE6XX) 253
I have doubts that Roberts has any core ideological beliefs. He’s just a part of The System.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 09:04 AM (pDt9x) 254
237 I've recently learned my grandson who is in third grade has developed a keen interest in Calvin and Hobbes.
Happy to supply some Christmas gifts to help further that interest. Excellent idea. We must teach the younger generation about the good stuff! Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 09:04 AM (NR6c1) 255
We all start out as babies, except for Charles Lane and Burt Mustin.
Posted by: Baby Leroy And Keith Richards. Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 09:04 AM (NR6c1) 256
Time I hit the road for my errands. Later, folken.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 09:04 AM (wzUl9) 257
>>Unfortunately If you look at regulations laid down by law - current US code - they DO call for birthright citizenship. Of course they were written by the bureaucracy, not the legislature, but that's what is there.
Would that be the same bureaucracy the SC is finally about to decide works for the president? Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 09:04 AM (viF8m) 258
Pope Leo was elected because he wasn't controversial to the leftist power structure in the church and because he's American. That was important for the $. His statements show he's in the same mold as Pope Frankie, just not as annoying
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 09:05 AM (D+mpw) 259
it will have nothing to do with the constitution or how Trump forced them to consider it.
Actually, it will have everything to do with that. Reinterpreting the meaning of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution is the Supreme Court's job. The executive order is overstepping executive authority. It hurts the case. He should have found a way to frame the case in the context of judicial review. Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 09, 2025 09:05 AM (R86kT) 260
I remember The Wizard of Id and Haggar the Horrible.
Posted by: dantesed at December 09, 2025 09:05 AM (Oy/m2) 261
The Roberts court may not have the balls to reach the obvious conclusion but it will have nothing to do with the constitution or how Trump forced them to consider it. It will have to do with a lack of balls.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 08:58 AM (viF8m) I think you're correct; mainly because they're not going to decide based on the right or wrong of the issue. They're going to make this a Separation of Powers / Executive Branch Authority case. I wouldn't be surprised if Roberts used it to say "Sure, we gave him Humphries Executor, but we didn't go all the way; we didn't give him this." Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 09:05 AM (moK1X) 262
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 09:01 AM (emBoF)
I see your point, but leftist professors-are generally not Religious or rather their religion is leftism. Even though he speaks English I wouldn't know what his actual complete views are on all kinds of subjects. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 09:05 AM (PFs9e) Posted by: Dagwood at December 09, 2025 09:05 AM (2Ez/1) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:06 AM (XuXeR) 265
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2025 09:02 AM (WHfpM)
--------------------- Tariffs do look like a loser, at least in the present case, but Bessent seems very confident they have the powers the administration needs vis other laws. Hope so, because unwinding them will be tough. Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 09:06 AM (O5TZR) 266
Beetle Bailey.. is that one still alive?
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 09:06 AM (pDt9x) 267
I see your point, but leftist professors-are generally not Religious or rather their religion is leftism. Even though he speaks English I wouldn't know what his actual complete views are on
all kinds of subjects. ah ok well you probably don't know many professors of phillosophy, history, and theology. because they are all Leftists. Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 09:06 AM (emBoF) 268
People keep forgetting the poison pill half of birthright citizenship that is chain migration.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 09, 2025 09:07 AM (sDNVV) 269
CAIR is butthurt!
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 09:07 AM (g47mK) 270
Morning Horde. First chance to post at length since returning from visiting the hubby's family for Thanksgiving. My absurd story from that visit. SIL has a friend that adopted a child from Nepal. The adult child now lives in Chicago and has a high profile job. SIL was lamenting that the woman goes in fear and is close to hiring security when she leaves her home. The kicker, it's not because she could be robbed or murdered in peaceful Chicago, nope it's from fear of being picked up by ICE. She carries her passport and adoption papers with her at all times so she's not arrested and deported. You cannot make this crap up.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 09, 2025 09:07 AM (2NHgQ) 271
Crockett will win. The GOPe hates Paxson and the Dems will vote for any D.
Posted by: Accomack at December 09, 2025 09:07 AM (4Nzwq) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:07 AM (XuXeR) 273
I enjoy A Charlie Brown Christmas because of Linus' Bible recitation and the incomparable Vince Guaraldi music.
The other Peanuts specials are meh. Posted by: Bigsmith at December 09, 2025 09:07 AM (1Au9i) 274
The king is a fink!
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 09:08 AM (bvUs5) 275
265 Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2025 09:02 AM (WHfpM)
--------------------- Tariffs do look like a loser, at least in the present case, but Bessent seems very confident they have the powers the administration needs vis other laws. Hope so, because unwinding them will be tough. Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 09:06 AM (O5TZR) ======= It's much more likely that the court tells the lower courts to treat each tariff individually instead of as a group, remanding for further review, than striking anything down. The lower court did err when it came to how it reviewed the tariffs. And yes, most of the tariffs can be reimplemented without interruption under different authorities, though I think 50% is the ceiling of the tariff on that. And no, SCOTUS is not going to demand the admin pay back the tariffs. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 09:09 AM (GBKbO) 276
has a high profile job. SIL was lamenting that the woman goes in fear and is close to hiring security when she leaves her home. The kicker, it's not because she could be robbed or murdered in peaceful Chicago, nope it's from fear of being picked up by ICE"
She's that stupid but somehow got a good job? We're screwed. Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:09 AM (XuXeR) 277
Would that be the same bureaucracy the SC is finally about to decide works for the president?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 09:04 AM They might even get around to doing it after JD Vance's reelection in '32. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 09:09 AM (moK1X) 278
President Donald Trump warned European countries on Monday after the European Commission fined X, Elon Musk’s social media company, $140 million.
In an ideal world this would be the announcement: "X is an American company that is based in America. It is not obliged to cater to lesser countries making unreasonable demands." Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 09:09 AM (NR6c1) 279
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 09:06 AM (emBoF)
Not Catholic ones- no. But I would think there are conservative ones at places like Francisian University of Steubenville Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 09:10 AM (PFs9e) 280
She's that stupid but somehow got a good job? We're screwed.
but she's so EXOTIC looking! of course you hire her Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 09:10 AM (emBoF) 281
Unfortunately If you look at regulations laid down by law - current US code - they DO call for birthright citizenship. Of course they were written by the bureaucracy, not the legislature, but that's what is there.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 09:00 AM (moK1X) In which case, arguably, the correct ruling from SCOTUS would be that anyone already born (in the US) has citizenship but anyone yet to be born (to visitors or illegals) would not. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 09:10 AM (ExV1e) 282
Mostly women without kids...
(See former Nashville candidate) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:02 AM (XuXeR) I have been an aunt since I was 12. I have five nephews that I've helped raise, two children that are my own, and one in utero. To say that I fundamentally don't understand these people is an understatement. Posted by: pookysgirl, Mama Bear Extraordinaire at December 09, 2025 09:10 AM (Wt5PA) 283
>>Actually, it will have everything to do with that. Reinterpreting the meaning of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution is the Supreme Court's job. The executive order is overstepping executive authority. It hurts the case. He should have found a way to frame the case in the context of judicial review.
Nonsense. You could make the same case about Trump overstepping his executive authority and firing a member of the FTC. And you'd be wrong. This is how cases get to the Supreme Court. When someone finally has the stones to challenge the actual meaning of the Constitution and not "settled law" created by some bureaucrat or politician. Th 14th Amendment was created to protect the rights of slaves in America. The writer even specifically said it had nothing to do with immigrants. Trump is fully within his rights to force the court to decide if the Constitution means what it says or it up to interpretation by every whack job politician with an agenda. Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 09:10 AM (viF8m) 284
Accomack, Nope. Allred was going to beat Cruz too, remember.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 09, 2025 09:11 AM (sDNVV) 285
What's fascinating to me is these people incorporate the idea that humans are "unique", yet they specifically do not value human life.
They HAVE to use the language of God and the Bible even in their deranged sickness. Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 09:11 AM (U6Usv) 286
We have an excellent successor to Trump, in Vance. Cards need to be played correctly, concerning him.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 09:11 AM (pDt9x) Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 09:11 AM (wVcYX) 288
Not Catholic ones- no. But I would think there are conservative ones at places like Francisian University of Steubenville
hmm is that where he taught tho? regardless, facts on the ground are thin supporting your point. even the most "right" Catholic schools employ mostly leftie teachers and professors. and priests are not right-leaning, not anymore (unless they're from Africa or Asia) Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 09:11 AM (emBoF) 289
284 Accomack, Nope. Allred was going to beat Cruz too, remember.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 09, 2025 09:11 AM (sDNVV) ====== Beto raised $100 million and still lost to Cruz in what was most likely a more Democrat environment than 2026 will be. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 09:11 AM (GBKbO) 290
Crockett will win. The GOPe hates Paxson and the Dems will vote for any D.
Posted by: Accomack You don't understand Texas. Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 09:12 AM (0U5gm) 291
Posted by: pookysgirl, Mama Bear Extraordinaire at December 09, 2025 09:10 AM (Wt5PA)
Is there gonna be another Pooky offspring ? Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 09:12 AM (VE6XX) 292
Is Blondie still around?
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:00 AM (77rzZ) Yes, and written by creator Chic Young's son or grandson, I believe. Like most strips from that era, it started off as a continuity (as did Nancy), but later turned into its current incarnation as a gag-a-day strip. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 09:12 AM (ufSfZ) 293
I have a GE electric range that's at least 40 years old and proud that I was able to replace both the broiler ad main heating elements. And that the OEM parts were still available.
GE actually has a Youtube channel that likely has a video on how to maintain and replace parts for whatever model appliance you have. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 09, 2025 08:11 AM (x0n13) We have a GE electric range with double oven that we installed in 1976. A couple of years ago I replaced all the controls, burner elements and associated sockets. All still available. And, yes, it IS Harvest Gold. I even saved the original ad for the stove. My cost, as a dealer, was $775.00, $980,00 list price. Big bucks back then for a new home owner, 1974, but it's lasted all these years. And, I can keep it running. Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 09, 2025 09:12 AM (5xuJ/) 294
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In which case, arguably, the correct ruling from SCOTUS would be that anyone already born (in the US) has citizenship but anyone yet to be born (to visitors or illegals) would not. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 09:10 AM (ExV1e) That makes an awful lot of sense to be considered. Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 09:12 AM (pDt9x) 295
Calvin and Hobbs is the GOAT.
But my favorite comic "episode" was in Sherman's Lagoon, when a fish "couldn't tell a joke to save his life" as he was served to Sherman and his wife when at a restaurant. Dad and I related to that strip very well. Posted by: Cray Cray at December 09, 2025 09:12 AM (EES2L) 296
“Look, Europe has to be very careful,” the president continued. “They’re doing a lot of things. … Europe is going in some bad directions. It’s very bad for the people.”
===================== What positives does Europe bring to America? Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 09:13 AM (Xle0l) 297
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:
If your gamma ray burst last longer than 7 hours, contact your astronomer. Posted by: muldoon at December 09, 2025 09:13 AM (/iMjX) 298
hmm is that where he taught tho?
regardless, facts on the ground are thin supporting your point. even the most "right" Catholic schools employ mostly leftie teachers and professors. and priests are not right-leaning, not anymore (unless they're from Africa or Asia) Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 09:11 AM (emBoF) Not in Mid Atlantic dioceses...come south or west... Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2025 09:13 AM (tOcjL) 299
290 Crockett will win. The GOPe hates Paxson and the Dems will vote for any D.
Posted by: Accomack You don't understand Texas. Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 09:12 AM (0U5gm) ====== Hispanic men seem to be majority Republican now. Joe Biden did that. And sassy black woman who plays well to AWFLs in Houston probably won't play well outside of that. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 09:13 AM (GBKbO) 300
Shoe, Hagar the Horrible, C&H, Blondie. The hidden gem lessons in these strips were gold. Everything else pales, but there are several honorable mentions, like Baby Blues and Pickles. And time to be honest: it's a generational thing.
Posted by: The Obama brats have 2 daddies at December 09, 2025 09:13 AM (e45L/) 301
People keep forgetting the poison pill half of birthright citizenship that is chain migration.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 09, 2025 09:07 AM (sDNVV) And taxpayer funded benefits. Fine when they go to people temporarily down on their luck or incapable of work through no fault of their own. Bad when they go to actual citizens who're just too lazy to get off their ass. Worse when they go to people who shouldn't even be here. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 09:14 AM (ExV1e) 302
The Family Circus is the pinnacle of comic perfection, beloved by millions.
Posted by: Bil Keane at December 09, 2025 09:14 AM (oftw2) 303
“Franciscan University of Steubenville” sounds a little like “Hollywood Upstairs Medical College.”
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:14 AM (77rzZ) 304
And screw Benson from the Arizona Republic
Posted by: The Obama brats have 2 daddies at December 09, 2025 09:14 AM (e45L/) 305
Beto raised $100 million and still lost to Cruz in what was most likely a more Democrat environment than 2026 will be."
I have no idea who will win, but I note that the Bush "machine" no longer seems to have much influence (which is also a hopeful thing for Houston/ Harris county) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:14 AM (XuXeR) 306
294 That makes an awful lot of sense to be considered.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 09:12 AM (pDt9x) ======= SCOTUS since about late 2021 has made a lot of sense. Roberts' promise that everything would return to normal if they didn't take up TX v PA seems to have soured the conservative majority on the whole, "friends across the aisle" mentality. And then Biden put Kentaji on the court, and accelerated things rightward. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 09:15 AM (GBKbO) 307
>>Shout Your Abortion has been promoting a book aimed at children five to eight years old called “Abortion is Everything,” which will begin shipping to purchasers in January 2026. A description on the organization’s website says the book tells children “about what abortion is, how it might feel, and why people have abortions.”
Mommies, be sure to tell the little ones how many of their siblings you've aborted after reading them this book! Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:15 AM (NuV6c) 308
Astronomers detect a seven-hour-long gamma ray burst, the longest many times over
******** Mad props! Posted by: The Paolo at December 09, 2025 09:15 AM (/iMjX) 309
One last comic strip I loved before the Art Thread shows up. Herman.
A favorite from that was a guy walking down the street puffing on a pipe. An Indian walks past him, looks at the smoke and says "Same to you, pal!" Just can't make jokes like that any more. Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 09:15 AM (NR6c1) 310
Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 @Bubblebathgirl Brother’s Food Mart in Kenner, Louisiana, refused to serve Border Patrol Chief Bovino and his patriots on Saturday. The owners are reportedly Imad Hamdan and Ziad Mousa who were previously charged with immigration and financial crimes. Investigate them. https://tinyurl.com/zk73apzk Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2025 09:15 AM (NpAcC) 311
Is there gonna be another Pooky offspring ?
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 09:12 AM (VE6XX) IVF transfer two weeks ago, positive pregnancy test yesterday, confirmation test tomorrow. It's a girl, and I can't decide between calling her Lil Pookette or Wee Pookette. Posted by: pookysgirl, Mama Bear Extraordinaire at December 09, 2025 09:15 AM (Wt5PA) 312
I have a GE electric range that's at least 40 years old and proud that I was able to replace both the broiler ad main heating elements. And that the OEM parts were still available.
GE actually has a Youtube channel that likely has a video on how to maintain and replace parts for whatever model appliance you have. Posted by: J.J. Sefton I have a similarly aged washer and dryer, and replaced the dryer heating element last weekend. If you have a 1990s or earlier appliance, don't replace it, repair it. You are not going to get a lifetime appliance anymore. Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 09:15 AM (0U5gm) 313
And Beetle Bailey, Hi and Lois, The Wizard of Id, B.C. and Hagar the Horrible still run, but none with the original creators.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 09:16 AM (ufSfZ) 314
At least we can all agree that the idea Nick Fuentes was some kind of influencer that could damage Trump is complete bullshit.
>>@rich_goldberg · 55m >>“New report documents foreign engagement driving online antisemitic activity” >>“The Network Contagion Research Institute found that engagement with Nick Fuentes’ posts in the first 30 minutes came largely from anonymous foreign users” Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 09:16 AM (viF8m) 315
IVF transfer two weeks ago, positive pregnancy test yesterday, confirmation test tomorrow. It's a girl, and I can't decide between calling her Lil Pookette or Wee Pookette. Posted by: pookysgirl, Mama Bear Extraordinaire at December 09, 2025 09:15 AM (Wt5PA) Congrats... Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 09:16 AM (VE6XX) 316
What positives does Europe bring to America?"
I need my Irish butter! And chocolate! /white women with rosé Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:16 AM (XuXeR) 317
>>And then Biden put Kentaji on the court, and accelerated things rightward.
It's like she's incapable of *not* revealing how stupid progressive logic is, and here it leads, that they must clearly reject it or look like just a fool as she is. Justice Kinsley Gaffe! Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:17 AM (NuV6c) 318
I'm sitting right here. Posted by: Bloom County at December 09, 2025 09:17 AM (2Ez/1) 319
Jumanji Brown “ could” be seen as that gift that keeps on giving.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 09:18 AM (pDt9x) 320
Crockett will win. The GOPe hates Paxson and the Dems will vote for any D.
Posted by: Accomack at December 09, 2025 09:07 AM (4Nzwq) The GOPe hated Paxton when he was last elected. They hated him when the three judges who ruled against him were up for re-election. Thus far, the GOPe has not been successful in stopping him. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 09:18 AM (ExV1e) 321
SCOTUS is not going to demand the admin pay back the tariffs.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 09:09 AM (GBKbO) ---------- I agree no refunds will be made, but I was referring to unwinding the statecraft involved, not the money. Trump uses tariffs as a key negotiation tool, and forcing the unwinding the foreign agreements would be a massively difficult thing for our country and foreign policy. Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 09:18 AM (N51yZ) 322
Congratulations, pookysgirl,!!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:18 AM (NuV6c) 323
If you have a 1990s or earlier appliance, don't replace it, repair it. You are not going to get a lifetime appliance anymore.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 09:15 AM -------------------- You're lucky to get 10 years out of today's crap appliances. By design. Posted by: Bigsmith at December 09, 2025 09:18 AM (1Au9i) 324
>>>>“The Network Contagion Research Institute found that engagement with Nick Fuentes’ posts in the first 30 minutes came largely from anonymous foreign users”
Isn't it nice to see long-held suspicions be proven true? Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:19 AM (NuV6c) 325
Late-posting 'rons are right: Herman, Family Circus, many others. . . . .all good in some relevant way. We have our favorites for a reason relevant to our times and lives--even the Born Loser (remember that?)
Posted by: The Obama brats have 2 daddies at December 09, 2025 09:19 AM (e45L/) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:19 AM (XuXeR) Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:20 AM (NuV6c) 328
319 Jumanji Brown “ could” be seen as that gift that keeps on giving.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 09:18 AM (pDt9x) ====== I think her presence destroyed all effort Kagan was making in softening ACB, though that was always a bit oversold. Kentaji is so antagonistic in the open, actively stupid, and grating that she just turns off those not tuned to her arguments. Hell, Sotomayor wrote her own dissent to tell Kentaji that, no, that's not how this works. And Kentaji still published her dissent that Sotomayor said was stupid. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 09:20 AM (GBKbO) 329
Congratulations, Pookysgirl. May God bless you and your pregnancy.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 09:20 AM (PFs9e) 330
I have a similarly aged washer and dryer, and replaced the dryer heating element last weekend. If you have a 1990s or earlier appliance, don't replace it, repair it. You are not going to get a lifetime appliance anymore.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 09:15 AM (0U5gm) 1988 Amana refrigerator? Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 09:20 AM (wVcYX) 331
Congrats...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 09:16 AM (VE6XX) Congratulations, pookysgirl,!! Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:18 AM (NuV6c) Awww, thank you! It doesn't quite feel real yet, but I'm sure it will once we get that first ultrasound! Posted by: pookysgirl, Mama Bear Extraordinaire at December 09, 2025 09:21 AM (Wt5PA) 332
Mazeltov, Pookysgirl!
You can go with Pookette II, with the elder Pookette being Pookette I. Like the way the ancient Romans named their daughters. Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:21 AM (77rzZ) 333
IVF transfer two weeks ago, positive pregnancy test yesterday, confirmation test tomorrow. It's a girl, and I can't decide between calling her Lil Pookette or Wee Pookette.
Posted by: pookysgirl, Mama Bear Extraordinaire at December 09, 2025 09:15 AM (Wt5PA) Congrats! Many blessings. Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 09:22 AM (wVcYX) 334
>>Isn't it nice to see long-held suspicions be proven true?
I remember being told that Nick Fuentes was the voice of young men in America and Trump has lost everything by not bowing down to him. And Tucker. And that crazy lady. Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 09:22 AM (viF8m) 335
>>Brother’s Food Mart in Kenner, Louisiana, refused to serve Border Patrol Chief Bovino and his patriots on Saturday.
The owners are reportedly Imad Hamdan and Ziad Mousa who were previously charged with immigration and financial crimes. Bet they got a sweet small business loan from our government, and use food stamps to stock their shelves. Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:23 AM (NuV6c) 336
I have some ideas on naming your kids.
Posted by: George Foreman at December 09, 2025 09:23 AM (wVcYX) 337
Congratulations, pookysgirl,!!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:18 AM (NuV6c) ****** Ditto!! Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2025 09:23 AM (NpAcC) 338
335 >>Brother’s Food Mart in Kenner, Louisiana, refused to serve Border Patrol Chief Bovino and his patriots on Saturday.
The owners are reportedly Imad Hamdan and Ziad Mousa who were previously charged with immigration and financial crimes. Seems dumb to call attention to yourselves... Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 09:23 AM (VE6XX) 339
334 >>Isn't it nice to see long-held suspicions be proven true?
I remember being told that Nick Fuentes was the voice of young men in America and Trump has lost everything by not bowing down to him. And Tucker. And that crazy lady. Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 09:22 AM (viF8m) ====== "Sure, he proved he was powerless last September when he said he was going to Michigan to ensure Trump lost and then Trump won Michigan, but everything has changed since. I only have podcast numbers, but it's obvious that he drives the younger generations. I mean...you saw was majority Democrat NYC did in its mayoral race, right?" Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 09:23 AM (GBKbO) 340
The SC may split the conclusion on the tariffs. They could find the Pres has the power to issue them in response to the drug emergency, but send the case back to lower courts to determine which nations are properly tariffed. For example why is France being tariffed in this emergency situation. Venezuela, China, Mexico are obvious
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 09:23 AM (D+mpw) 341
Anybody have Jalen Hurts on their fantasy team last night?
Posted by: mr tmz ME!!! Fortunately, I also had Devanta Smith who garnered a whopping 7 points, but it was enough to overcome much of Hurts' generosity. Im' in the playoffs! Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 09, 2025 09:23 AM (cxFcK) 342
I agree no refunds will be made, but I was referring to unwinding the statecraft involved, not the money. Trump uses tariffs as a key negotiation tool, and forcing the unwinding the foreign agreements would be a massively difficult thing for our country and foreign policy.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 09:18 AM (N51yZ) I guess we'll either have to threaten to bomb people or let the American citizens go back to being fucked in the ass by the rest of the world. -- Congress, rubbing their hands together in anticipation Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 09:24 AM (ExV1e) 343
318 I'm sitting right here.
Posted by: Bloom County One of the many things I liked about the strip was that Breathed is a liberal but he skewered both sides. Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 09:24 AM (NR6c1) 344
"The Roberts court may not have the balls to reach the obvious conclusion but it will have nothing to do with the constitution or how Trump forced them to consider it. It will have to do with a lack of balls."
They can easily distinguish the little prcedent there is, without needing to overrule prior rulings. Then punt to Congress. Weasely, but it's a step forward. Posted by: Ignoramus at December 09, 2025 09:25 AM (dtajH) 345
Shout Your Abortion has been promoting a book aimed at children five to eight years old called “Abortion is Everything,” which will begin shipping to purchasers in January 2026. A description on the organization’s website says the book tells children “about what abortion is, how it might feel, and why people have abortions.”
Mommies, be sure to tell the little ones how many of their siblings you've aborted after reading them this book! Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:15 AM (NuV6c) "See, Little Priscilla? I came thiiiiissss close to throwing you outta my womb and into the garbage can. But, I didn't. Sometimes I wonder if I made the right choice!" Posted by: Aborto-Mom 2025 at December 09, 2025 09:25 AM (iJfKG) 346
1988 Amana refrigerator?
Posted by: Count de Monet 1990s Kitchen Aid, and replaced the ice maker and the solenoid so far. Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 09:26 AM (0U5gm) 347
314 Only question is which intel agency / agencies are pushing Fuentes. The astroturfing behind the newest wave of antisemitism is an obvious tell of a psyop.
Posted by: callsign claymore at December 09, 2025 09:26 AM (pd4dZ) Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 09:27 AM (W7XSX) 349
1990s Kitchen Aid, and replaced the ice maker and the solenoid so far. Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 09:26 AM (0U5gm) We have a Viking refrigerator we purchased in 2006.... Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 09:27 AM (VE6XX) 350
I guess if they're not doing it already, RC's could consider asking for the intercession of St John Paul ll so that this Pope Leo could see the light on Islam .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 09:28 AM (PFs9e) 351
1988 Amana refrigerator?
Posted by: Count de Monet 1990s Kitchen Aid, and replaced the ice maker and the solenoid so far. Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 09:26 AM (0U5gm) About 2 years ago I looked for replacement door seals. Not available then. The failing seals are causing problems with maintaining temps and with frost buildup. Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 09:29 AM (wVcYX) 352
Yahoo News:
Tucker Carlson Tells Forum in Doha That He’s Buying a House in Qatar to ‘Make a Statement That I’m an American and a Free Man’ Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 09:29 AM (RHGPo) Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 09:30 AM (W7XSX) 354
>>Only question is which intel agency / agencies are pushing Fuentes. The astroturfing behind the newest wave of antisemitism is an obvious tell of a psyop.
There's been video online of him outside the Capitol on J6, yelling to people to break into it, 'it's ours!' etc.. yet he was never arrested. Now THAT's the tell. Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:30 AM (NuV6c) 355
"X is an American company that is based in America. It is not obliged to cater to Fix'd Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 09:30 AM (tgvbd) 356
Tucker Carlson Tells Forum in Doha That He’s Buying a House in Qatar to ‘Make a Statement That I’m an American and a Free Man’
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 09:29 AM (RHGPo). And rich.. That's some expensive real estate... Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 09:30 AM (VE6XX) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 09:31 AM (PFs9e) 358
Time For Ukraine To Have Elections As It's 'Not A Democracy Anymore': Trump
Zelensky is "going to have to get on the ball & start accepting things." Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 09:31 AM (RHGPo) 359
>>Tucker Carlson Tells Forum in Doha That He’s Buying a House in Qatar to ‘Make a Statement That I’m an American and a Free Man’
*slaps forehead* Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:31 AM (NuV6c) 360
Re: birthright citizenship, will anyone on SCOTUS have the balls to cite Justice Jackson: "the Consitution is not a suicide pact."
Posted by: Ignoramus at December 09, 2025 09:31 AM (dtajH) 361
>>They can easily distinguish the little prcedent there is, without needing to overrule prior rulings. Then punt to Congress. Weasely, but it's a step forward.
One of the unsung heroes of the Trump administration is Solicitor General John Sauer. He's brilliant and tough. Trump's team has a great record at the SC. Who knows what they will do about birthright citizenship, few predicted they would gut the idiotic rule that presidents don't control the bureaucracy. But they lose it won't be because they weren't prepared. Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 09:32 AM (viF8m) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:32 AM (XuXeR) 363
Yahoo News:
Tucker Carlson Tells Forum in Doha That He’s Buying a House in Qatar to ‘Make a Statement That I’m an American and a Free Man’ Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 09:29 AM (RHGPo) But other than that, he ain't nothing but a good old boy. Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 09:32 AM (wVcYX) 364
Ah, Bloom County. Came this close to hanging on too long (Outland never had any appeal for me).
I still like the episode where Trump is crushed by a falling girder and his brain is put into the body of Bill the Cat., who tries to convince Ivana that it's really him. "Who's my little Miss Goldiknockers?" Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 09:32 AM (ufSfZ) 365
>>>And then Biden put Kentaji on the court, and accelerated things rightward.
It's like she's incapable of *not* revealing how stupid progressive logic is ----- like so many progressives, she is completely certain of her brilliance Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 09:32 AM (ZxPkt) 366
the slogan on the belt buckles of the SS troops "Gott Mit Uns" God is with us,
A bit of trivia: the Totenkopf belt buckles say this. The regular Waffen SS belt buckles say, "Meine Ehre Heisst Treue". "My Honor is Loyalty". Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 09, 2025 09:33 AM (/HDaX) Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 09:33 AM (wVcYX) 368
>>like so many progressives, she is completely certain of her brilliance
. . . and apparently, will not shut up. Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:33 AM (NuV6c) 369
You're lucky to get 10 years out of today's crap appliances. By design.
Posted by: Bigsmith at December 09, 2025 09:18 AM (1Au9i) On the other hand, if they made appliances that lasted more than a few years in service, you'd need a 30-year mortgage on them to be able to afford it. Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2025 09:33 AM (Vq1pX) Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:34 AM (XuXeR) 371
I guess if they're not doing it already, RC's could consider asking for the intercession of St John Paul ll so that this Pope Leo could see the light on Islam .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 09:28 AM (PFs9e) JP2 entered a mosque, put on their pagan slippers and prayed. Catholics would be better off asking Urban II to give Leo a dope slap. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 09:34 AM (ufSfZ) 372
BTW - ART is up
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 09:35 AM (wVcYX) 373
>>The original characters were Charlie Brown, Shermy and Patty. Snoopy came in within the first two weeks, IIRC, and then in a few months Violet and Schroeder. I believe Lucy, Linus and Pig-Pen didn't come along until the second or third year.
I'm sure this is already willowed, but there's a collection of Saturday Evening Post cartoons from the late '40s that include 2 Schultz single-panel cartoons, with proto-Peanuts characters, including Snoopy. Posted by: Nazdar at December 09, 2025 09:35 AM (NcvvS) 374
340 The SC may split the conclusion on the tariffs. They could find the Pres has the power to issue them in response to the drug emergency,
____ I thought the emergency was that we're $32 trillion in debt. My bad, carry on. Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 09:35 AM (Dv3i1) 375
Pope Leo, King John III Sobieski would like a word with you.
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 09:39 AM (W7XSX) 376
The Gentle Giant was going to go to kollege in the Fall before he tried to kill that police officer!
Posted by: torabora at December 09, 2025 09:41 AM (1pB37) 377
I agree with Tucker Carlson that he should move to Qatar...and leave us be. C ya
Posted by: torabora at December 09, 2025 09:48 AM (1pB37) 378
Zelensky Definitively Shuts Door On Trump Peace Plan, Won't Cede Territory
European leaders pushing forward maximalist counter-demands... Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 09:48 AM (RHGPo) 379
Democratic Rep. Jasmine Cockroach announces US Senate bid in Texas, tells Trump 'I'm coming for you'
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 09:49 AM (RHGPo) 380
Trump greenlights Nvidia AI chip exports to China, touts 25% US share
China To Limit Nvidia's H200 Chip Access After Trump Greenlights Exports "Buyers would probably be required to go through an approval process, the people said, submitting requests..." Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 09:50 AM (RHGPo) 381
Gas Prices Drop To Lowest Level In Nearly 5 Years Across US
The most common gas price seen by drivers was $2.79 per gallon nationwide ... not in Pennsylvania where they have the 3rd highest gas tax Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 09:52 AM (RHGPo) 382
Musk Claims EU Commissars Are 'Responsible For Murder Of Europe'
Elon Musk escalated his confrontation with Brussels... seeing “record-breaking downloads in many countries in Europe” Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 09:53 AM (RHGPo) 383
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 09:34 AM (ufSfZ)
Is Urban a Saint? Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 09:59 AM (DsbQ3) 384
Good morning, all, thanks, J.J. 🙏
Geez. What a genuinely awful book "for children." Last evening, watched a generally good show with one subplot where a teen was either a day under or or a day over the limit of weeks of her pregnancy (via ultrasound testing & 'skill' of the operator) in order to obtain "abortion pills." It also dealt with parental & non-parental involvement in such matters. Looking forwarded to the ruling on "independent agencies." While some agencies do have hybrid models, they are distinct from genuinely private sector entities. Locally reported, Luqmaan Khan was an Afghan national who immigrated to the US years prior and later became a US citizen. "Pakistan's Foreign Office explicitly stated that Luqmaan Khan is an Afghan national, not Pakistani, who lived as a refugee in Pakistan for a few years before moving to the US with his family." He didn't come to the US in 2021 as part of the US evacuation from Afghanistan. OTOH, I don't think his name is uncommon among Afghans. How can someone attack police (authority) in a country that welcomed him & his family? Why such failings of immigrant assimilation? (F those intersectionality excuses.) Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 09, 2025 09:59 AM (NFX2v) 385
I'm going to have 4 daughters, and if any of them ever were given that abortion book to read I'd be excommunicato forever to the person that gave it to them. These people are crazy.
Posted by: Inogame at December 09, 2025 10:23 AM (53oGX) 386
From above, ". . after finding a hideous trove of mutilated corpses at a hotel. (How do you say "Mother What Have You Done?!" in Bantu? Axing for a fiend named Bates - jjs)
Nigeria Investigates Organ-Harvesting Ring After Discovering Mutilated Corpses" When you think it can't get much worse. So very sad and, apparently, OK by "civil society" as it debates issues of national sovereignty, the complexity of the conflicts, and a lack of consensus on the nature of the crisis. "Follow the money." Always. (And to think that's simply a line from a screenplay.) ------ Al Jazeera, 31 Oct 2025, 'Trump places Nigeria on watch list over claims of anti-Christian violence' Allegation that Nigerian Christians face ‘existential threat’ seems to mirror contested claims by right-wing lawmakers. NYTimes, Nov. 21, 2025, 'Trump Says Violence Against Christians in Nigeria Is ‘Genocide.’ It’s Not So Simple.' There are widespread attacks across the country affecting many religious and ethnic groups. Many of them defy a simple explanation. Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 09, 2025 11:01 AM (NFX2v) 387
Book Aimed at 5-Year-Olds Claims Abortion Is ‘Superpower’
No, it's an Emperor-like power of life and death, like in the Roman Colosseum; Mum gives the thumbs up or down. Also, "Shout Your Abortion" is not possible for the babies that were aborted... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 11:02 AM (ynpvh) 388
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... ------ Al Jazeera, 31 Oct 2025, 'Trump places Nigeria on watch list over claims of anti-Christian violence' Allegation that Nigerian Christians face ‘existential threat’ seems to mirror contested claims by right-wing lawmakers. NYTimes, Nov. 21, 2025, 'Trump Says Violence Against Christians in Nigeria Is ‘Genocide.’ It’s Not So Simple.' There are widespread attacks across the country affecting many religious and ethnic groups. Many of them defy a simple explanation. Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 09, 2025 11:01 AM (NFX2v) Ignore the piles of Christian bodies and all the Christian girls raped by the Muzzies like you always do, MSM; I guess you don't feel like it's murder-murder and rape-rape. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 11:03 AM (ynpvh) 389
The local BS is restarting over the ACA, Medicare/Medicaid (vaccinations, abortion access..)🤬
Medicare (Parts A and B) is administered directly by the federal government. Medicare pays a fixed amount for care every month to the companies offering Medicare Advantage Plans & those companies are to follow rules set by Medicare. However, Medicare Advantage Plans can charge different out-of-pocket costs & have different rules for how to get services (referrals to specialists; see only doctors, facilities, or suppliers that belong to the plan for non‑emergency or non-urgent care, etc.). The rules can change annually. Private healthcare systems are also involved in Medicaid, primarily through Managed Care Organizations (MCOs). States contract with private insurers to manage care, sometimes through supplemental coverage where private plans cover gaps or specific benefits, with Medicaid paying for the rest or offering premium assistance. So, Medicare/Medicaid is basically a shell corporation operating as public-private partnership w/ a good amount of administration & coverage decisions handled by private companies under "government oversight?" The ACA is a sham! No more time! Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 09, 2025 11:42 AM (NFX2v) 390
So in the ideas of the Eco-Freaks If some Child opposes Abortion their a Religious Fanatic but of some kid sits in a tree to keep it from being chopped Down their Hero of the Planet in the minds of the M.S. Media Bottom Feeders
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My last salary was $8750, ecom only worked 12 hours a week. My longtime neighbor yr estimated $15,000 and works about 20 hours for seven days. I can't believe how blunt he was when I looked up his information,
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Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 04:00 AM (RuTUS) 2
BOING!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2025 04:01 AM (MXrgX) 3
/shakes fist
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2025 04:01 AM (MXrgX) 4
G'Day everyone
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 04:02 AM (Ia/+0) 5
Woke up at 1:30 and only cat naps rest of the night
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 04:03 AM (Ia/+0) 6
G'mornin' everyone!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 04:03 AM (Cjt/F) 7
$273.99, what a bargain.
I think I'll buy two kits just in case... not. You'd think Crucial would cut the price since they're going out of business in a few months anyhow. Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 04:07 AM (6ydKt) 8
covfefe
Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 04:09 AM (RuTUS) 9
Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 6 bitter degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor.
One of the few - perhaps only - good things about this time of year is that it's so cold I don't want to get dressed and go anywhere, which keeps me from spending money. Especially at the local pub. Not a full 3 hours' worth of work ahead, but enough that I'm longing for retirement, a warm bed and sleep. Work on the new novel is at a standstill, food doesn't taste good, I've got a house full of books and no interest in any of them and even a hot cup of tea isn't satisfying. Just another episode of my usual anhedonia. It's been three weeks since Pete Hegseth belched out that Mark Kelly could be brought back to active duty and prosecuted. Kelly continues to walk around free as a bird. Which is exactly what I said would happen and, IMO, why the GOP deserves to lose the midterms. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 04:11 AM (ufSfZ) 10
>>>Musical Interlude
Will be along shortly. Maybe. Hum among yourselves. 3 /shakes fist Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2025 04:01 AM (MXrgX) Would you like a maraca, so as to perform a musical interlude? Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 04:11 AM (RuTUS) 11
Music for the season: Jessie J (whom I have never heard of) copies the arrangement of the old Kay Starr song "(Everybody's Waiting For) The Man With The Bag"
https://tinyurl.com/3muk6v82 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 04:20 AM (ufSfZ) 12
Kelly continues to walk around free as a bird. Which is exactly what I said would happen and, IMO, why the GOP deserves to lose the midterms.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 04:11 AM (ufSfZ) He said another awful thing yesterday. I quickly scrolled by and erased it from my memory. Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 04:23 AM (RuTUS) 13
11 Music for the season: Jessie J (whom I have never heard of) copies the arrangement of the old Kay Starr song "(Everybody's Waiting For) The Man With The Bag"
https://tinyurl.com/3muk6v82 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 04:20 AM (ufSfZ) She's got some pipes on her! Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 04:27 AM (RuTUS) 14
Had to restart a core production database just now. Even though it was scheduled maintenance and only took half an hour, having every single alarm go off at once was still a bit stressful.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 09, 2025 04:28 AM (BLOW1) 15
https://tinyurl.com/2s3ah3jf He arrested her 10 years ago. Every year since she sends him a thank you card. From "Sunny Skyz" site. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 04:30 AM (looXz) 16
Also, my new PC arrived. Absurdly tiny given its power. The mailman just said hello and handed me a padded postbag.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 09, 2025 04:30 AM (BLOW1) 17
Work on the new novel is at a standstill, food doesn't taste good, I've got a house full of books and no interest in any of them and even a hot cup of tea isn't satisfying. Just another episode of my usual anhedonia.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 04:11 AM (ufSfZ) I had to look up anhedonia. Maybe you're just bored with your old pleasures and need some new ones? I find I have to switch interests every now and then just to avoid the same ol' same ol'. Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 04:30 AM (6ydKt) 18
A number of years ago I used to listen to Superfreak repeatedly. I thought it was funny. and catchy .Thanks for the reminder , Pixy .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 04:31 AM (looXz) 19
You did have time, Pixy, to add a song
Posted by: Accomack at December 09, 2025 04:32 AM (8jVAy) 20
"having every single alarm go off at once was still a bit stressful."
know whatcha mean; that response is deeply hardwired into the CNS. hope you get a good night's sleep by way of recovery! Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 04:32 AM (Cjt/F) 21
16 Also, my new PC arrived. Absurdly tiny given its power. The mailman just said hello and handed me a padded postbag.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 09, 2025 04:30 AM (BLOW1) By my guesstimated count, you've got about 10 PCs around the house, and quite a few laptops. Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 04:34 AM (6ydKt) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 04:35 AM (looXz) 23
Wife looked at deck thermometer
13 degrees Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 04:38 AM (Ia/+0) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 04:41 AM (looXz) 25
21 By my guesstimated count, you've got about 10 PCs around the house, and quite a few laptops.
Posted by: SpeakingOf One serious system, three (now four) pretty decent systems, and five smaller/older ones. Including laptops though. If it wasn't for the memory shortage I wouldn't have bought this new one. But right now memory is so expensive that with this configuration (64GB RAM, 1TB SSD for $600) they're effectively giving the computer away. Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 09, 2025 04:44 AM (BLOW1) 26
14 Had to restart a core production database just now. Even though it was scheduled maintenance and only took half an hour, having every single alarm go off at once was still a bit stressful.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 09, 2025 04:28 AM (BLOW1) Alarms with, like, siren sorts of noise? Or visual pop-ups all over the place? Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 04:44 AM (RuTUS) 27
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 09, 2025 04:28 AM (BLOW1)
That does sound stressful. I am sorry. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 04:44 AM (looXz) 28
25 21 By my guesstimated count, you've got about 10 PCs around the house, and quite a few laptops.
Posted by: SpeakingOf One serious system, three (now four) pretty decent systems, and five smaller/older ones. Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 09, 2025 04:44 AM (BLOW1) Score! Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 04:46 AM (RuTUS) 29
Also, roasted another turkey. Burp.
They were out of smaller ones so they upgraded me to an 11lb bird at no extra charge. That's a lot of leftovers... Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 09, 2025 04:46 AM (BLOW1) 30
Also, my new PC arrived. Absurdly tiny given its power. Posted by: Pixy Misa
The Mac Mini, a computing appliance it seems, is another good value at $600 provided you prefer the Apple ecosystem. You can even swap out the internal SSD and there are multiple docks that match the style and size of the Mac Mini and can host additional storage in some cases up to as much as 16 GB of SSDs. I have a device like these on my purchase list over the next 12 months to see if they can meet my current computing needs. Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 09, 2025 04:48 AM (uv8gn) 31
26 Alarms with, like, siren sorts of noise? Or visual pop-ups all over the place?
Posted by: m I have a dedicated phone set to maximum volume, and connected to my laptop via Bluetooth so that plays the alarm as well. It is loud because I have a big house now that I've moved out into the country and I don't want to miss it. But when it goes off while I'm sitting right next to it I jump out of my skin. The maintenance today was because one of the database servers had a memory leak and was triggering random alerts at random times before going back to working perfectly again just seconds later. People got tired of that pretty quickly! Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 09, 2025 04:50 AM (BLOW1) Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2025 04:51 AM (MXrgX) 33
30 Also, my new PC arrived. Absurdly tiny given its power. Posted by: Pixy Misa
The Mac Mini, a computing appliance it seems, is another good value at $600 provided you prefer the Apple ecosystem. You can even swap out the internal SSD Yeah. There's one big catch there. You can indeed swap out the internal SSD at a pretty reasonable price. But you can't reinstall from a USB drive. You need to boot it from another Mac. Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 09, 2025 04:53 AM (BLOW1) 34
Rick James - Super Freak
(1981) MC Hammer sampled the riff of this track in his "U Can't Touch This" in 1990. So as did the Black Eyed Peas in 2020, and Nicki Minaj in 2022 ("Super Freaky Girl"). (azlyrics.com) Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 04:53 AM (RuTUS) 35
31 26 I have a dedicated phone set to maximum volume, and connected to my laptop via Bluetooth so that plays the alarm as well.
It is loud because I have a big house now Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 09, 2025 04:50 AM (BLOW1) Tech Lair! Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 04:56 AM (RuTUS) 36
The Mac Mini, a computing appliance it seems, is another good value at $600 provided you prefer the Apple ecosystem. You can even swap out the internal SSD and there are multiple docks that match the style and size of the Mac Mini and can host additional storage in some cases up to as much as 16 GB of SSDs.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 09, 2025 04:48 AM (uv8gn) The base model Mini is a good deal if that's all you need, but if you upgrade RAM and storage be prepared to pay up. Technically you can replace the SSD module in the newer Minis. Apple doesn't sell the modules, and third party suppliers are few and far between. And due to the way Apple locks their stuff down, you need another Mac to install the OS and initialize the firmware on the new SSD in the Mini. They are good quality products for the money, and if you don't mind your computer being so locked down and almost impossible to upgrade. Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 04:58 AM (6ydKt) 37
Ol' Rick had the Folsom Prison Blues for a while. He should have been in prison all along for that hairdo. He was never brought to justice for that.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 09, 2025 04:59 AM (4/BuS) 38
Rick James (Wikipedia)
Born James Ambrose Johnson Jr. February 1, 1948 Buffalo, New York, U.S. Died August 6, 2004 (aged 56) Los Angeles, California, U.S. Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 05:00 AM (RuTUS) 39
So my son had his job interview yesterday. It took longer to get to the place that the actual interview took ( about 20 minutes) . It was a group of people interviewing him and it was an interview with a woman candidate . He felt he did pretty well, but she had a degree in chemistry. He had lots of lab classes in school and can surely do the work, but who knows what they have in mind.?He is supposed to hear by Friday.
Thanks for the prayers. Please continue them if you can. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 05:04 AM (looXz) 40
I do have a Mac Mini. Added the piece with the extra ports. I already had a decent monitor, keyboard and mouse. I've had no issues with it. It should last through the end of my computing needs. I do have the hard drive I took out of the frst laptop with an old version of the Mac OS, so I guess it would work in a pinch.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 09, 2025 05:05 AM (+mUZM) 41
g'mornin', 'rons Posted by: AltonJackson at December 09, 2025 05:07 AM (tljrc) 42
"By my guesstimated count, you've got about 10 PCs around the house, and quite a few laptops."
I've only got 7 PCs running (8 if you count a RaspberryPi 4). I might have a strategic PC gap. Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 09, 2025 05:07 AM (3k5hk) 43
Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 09, 2025 05:08 AM (bQ4nt) 44
For anybody out there who does have a M4 Mac Mini here's a site that sells the SSD modules:
https://expandmacmini.com/ 2TB expansion will set you back $320. It seems to be a popular choice for that upgrade. Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 05:08 AM (6ydKt) 45
from the ONT:
Mark Dice's take on the Cinnabon worker incident (and on Harry Sisson) seems right. Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 05:09 AM (RuTUS) 46
I am not paying that much money for processed sand!!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 09, 2025 05:14 AM (O7YUW) 47
Evening and morning, Tiu's Day revelers! I was proud to be part of the (brief) "no adult supervision" Cafe last night. Doof posted the ONT about the time I headed off to bed, I see, so all is right with the AoSHQ world.
'Tis cool this morning, 47 w/ wind chill of 43, not much wind. I should go work out, and I may decide to. (May.) Meanwhile, I'll have coffee and watch the Killer Kittenz gallop around in their own pre-breakfast workouts. Whassup? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 05:18 AM (wzUl9) 48
At least only 1/3 as far to go as last some days
Stay warm and have a great day horde Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 05:20 AM (Ia/+0) 49
45 from the ONT:
Mark Dice's take on the Cinnabon worker incident (and on Harry Sisson) seems right. Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 05:09 AM (RuTUS) If you put yourself in her place, working that job, dealing with that crowd in a mall all day, for 5 or 6 days a week, I can certainly understand her frustration. If she's been dealing with that kind of crap for her customers for a long time, it's no wonder she finally had all she could take and snapped back. Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 05:20 AM (6ydKt) 50
G'morning, by the way, Horde.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 09, 2025 05:23 AM (O7YUW) 51
Sixty years ago Charlie Brown's Christmas premiered on TV.:
https://tinyurl.com/23nyj497 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 *** For years I thought the 1966 airing was the first -- since it was the first I saw. I wonder how I missed the previous year's edition; I was a big (and getting to be critical) TV watcher then. 'Net research says it was a Thursday night. I have no memory of what was on the three main channels on that weeknight then either. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 05:24 AM (wzUl9) 52
Good morning, Hordians. When I open AoSHQ on my phone, I always get what looks like the desktop site, even though the desktop site box in settings isn't checked. It happened in Chrome and now it's happening in Brave. Can I do anything to fix this or is it a site problem? Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 05:35 AM (tgvbd) 53
Fen, prayers continued for your son.
As for Charlie Brown's Christmas, I love the trivia that came out about it. Such as how the studio tried to remove the scene with Linus quoting Luke. Schulz told the studio the deal was off if they were going to demand that. Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 05:36 AM (NR6c1) Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 05:38 AM (1zOXE) 55
Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering at December 09, 2025 05:41 AM (2Ez/1) 56
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Good morning, Hordians. When I open AoSHQ on my phone, I always get what looks like the desktop site, even though the desktop site box in settings isn't checked. It happened in Chrome and now it's happening in Brave. Can I do anything to fix this or is it a site problem? Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh A couple of people have reported this. I'm pretty sure the site layout hasn't changed, but it seems like its time to put my boots on and go wading through some CSS. Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 09, 2025 05:41 AM (BLOW1) 57
Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 05:36 AM
Thanks, NR Pax. I had heard that story about Charles Schultz and ACBC. I am glad he took that stand. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 05:43 AM (ZeH0U) 58
Mornin'
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 09, 2025 05:46 AM (sAmhv) 59
A couple of people have reported this. I'm pretty sure the site layout hasn't changed, but it seems like its time to put my boots on and go wading through some CSS. Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 09, 2025 05:41 AM (BLOW1) Thanks. I took a look at what I could do and concluded that it was a site problem. (nice hash, BTW) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 05:47 AM (tgvbd) 60
The middle and top Qualcomm V2 CPUs look to be quite capable and would be ideally suited for something like a Windows based Mac Mini computer.
Unexpectedly a hinge on my Surface Pro 8 snapped and because Microsoft wants $500 to replace it, the SP8 instantly became scrap. I was able to replace it during the Black Friday sales with a identically spec'd Qualcomm based Surface Pro 11 for $750. So far everything is working flawlessly with battery life that is ridiculously excellent. With that in mind, a hockey puck style PC with a Qualcomm mid-range V2 chip would seem to be a viable desktop PC. These computing appliances seem to have their place these days, especially if you're one that doesn't upgrade PCs once they're purchased. Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 09, 2025 05:50 AM (uv8gn) 61
Since everybody talks about Babylon 5 all the time, I've finally started watching it.
I'd seen some of it over the years, but never watched the entire series. I didn't have enough time to watch it in the 90s, if I watched any TV series it was ST: NG, or DS9, then Voyager. It's on Amazon Prime to buy, but I'm not paying $2.99 an episode or $24.99 a season. Tubi has the entire series via video on demand, though, with commercials. So I'll check it out there and see what all the fuss is about. Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 05:51 AM (6ydKt) 62
With that in mind, a hockey puck style PC with a Qualcomm mid-range V2 chip would seem to be a viable desktop PC. These computing appliances seem to have their place these days, especially if you're one that doesn't upgrade PCs once they're purchased.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 09, 2025 05:50 AM (uv8gn) Any problems with the x86 to ARM translation layer for applications? I've heard the battery life is excellent on these ARM chips. The only problems I've heard about is the x86 to ARM translation layer not always working for some apps. Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 05:56 AM (6ydKt) 63
"Work on the new novel is at a standstill, food doesn't taste good, I've got a house full of books and no interest in any of them and even a hot cup of tea isn't satisfying. Just another episode of my usual anhedonia."
I certainly sympathize with you MP4. After my husband died I took little pleasure from the two activities I enjoyed most, knitting and reading. I still am afflicted. I order books I think I'll read but they sit on my bedside chest staring me accusingly in the face. Knitting is a complete no go. I did force myself to go see the movie "Hamnet" yesterday. Glad I did. It was truly excellent. Posted by: Tuna at December 09, 2025 05:57 AM (lJ0H4) 64
Went to 6:30 Mass yesterday morning, as it was a holy day of obligation. Left the house around 5:00, which would have gotten me to church a bit before 6:00, giving me half an hour to say my Rosary. Hit a traffic jam caused by an accident. Could not get off the freeway. Had to sit through it for over an hour. Arrived closer to 7:00. They'd gotten to the Offertory, so at least I got there for the important part. On returning home, I later got a message that the client was dissatisfied with a project I'd done. Now I have to sit through a phone call today. And the water well went out and won't refill. A really great day. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 05:59 AM (tgvbd) 65
I have used my last day of PTO. I have to actually work every single remaining day until I retire. It's gonna be a long week.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 05:59 AM (ExV1e) 66
@aelfred_D is promoting
Aaron Gwyn @AmericanGwyn 6 recorded lectures on Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian I listened to the first one and loved it. https://www.youtube.com/@AmericanGwyn Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 06:00 AM (RuTUS) 67
Morning, Tech Peeps
Posted by: fluffy at December 09, 2025 06:00 AM (AN2gy) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 06:01 AM (looXz) 69
So I'll check it out there and see what all the fuss is about.
Posted by: SpeakingOf I'll be honest with you: The first season is a bit rough. The acting is a bit bad and the effects are somewhat cheesy (Although I liked the episode "TKO). By the second season, it really hits its stride. Mind you, the fact that one of the lead actors was dealing with severe mental issues might have contributed a bit to the problems. Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 06:01 AM (NR6c1) 70
Morning, folks.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 09, 2025 06:01 AM (WPL6O) 71
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And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: **drops blanket** Posted by: TeeJ at December 09, 2025 06:01 AM (jMlHD) 72
On returning home, I later got a message that the client was dissatisfied with a project I'd done. Now I have to sit through a phone call today. And the water well went out and won't refill. A really great day.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh Seems some of us are having one of those "blah" days today. Hope yours gets better Hadrian. Posted by: Tuna at December 09, 2025 06:02 AM (lJ0H4) 73
Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 06:00 AM (RuTUS)
My son is a huge Cormac McCarthy fan. I will have to tell him about the lectures. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 06:03 AM (looXz) 74
Posted by: Tuna at December 09, 2025 05:57 AM (lJ0H4)
It's playing near us now. I will have to go see it for my birthday. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 06:04 AM (looXz) 75
It's playing near us now. I will have to go see it for my birthday.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke Early happy birthday Fen. Posted by: Tuna at December 09, 2025 06:07 AM (lJ0H4) 76
I'll be honest with you: The first season is a bit rough. The acting is a bit bad and the effects are somewhat cheesy (Although I liked the episode "TKO). By the second season, it really hits its stride.
Mind you, the fact that one of the lead actors was dealing with severe mental issues might have contributed a bit to the problems. Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 06:01 AM (NR6c1) The first episode is on in the background now. I've seen it before, and a few after it, I believe. That may be my problem, it's a slow show at first, as you say, so I usually gave up after a few episodes when I tried to watch it before. I'll give it a shot for the entire series, since the old Western TV shows are getting repetitive, because I've seen so many by now. Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 06:07 AM (6ydKt) 77
Mind you, the fact that one of the lead actors was dealing with severe mental issues might have contributed a bit to the problems.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 06:01 AM (NR6c1) And which character is that? I think the blonde and brunette gals are both cute, but the brunette is cuter. What it the security guy actor (Garibaldi?) who had mental issues? I think I heard about that at one time. Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 06:09 AM (6ydKt) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 06:09 AM (looXz) 79
66 Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian
https://www.youtube.com/@AmericanGwyn Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 06:00 AM (RuTUS) Toward the end of the first episode (last ten minutes of a one-hour lecture) there's a lot about weaponry: Comanche arrows, Kentucky long rifles, Colt revolvers. Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 06:10 AM (RuTUS) 80
I'll give it a shot for the entire series
I look forward to hearing your thoughts. And yes, I know that "It starts off sucking" is not exactly a ringing endorsement but I do believe in full disclosure. -:-) Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 06:10 AM (NR6c1) 81
What it the security guy actor (Garibaldi?) who had mental issues?
I think I heard about that at one time. Posted by: SpeakingOf No, it was the lead. He was replaced in the second season. Posted by: Tuna at December 09, 2025 06:11 AM (lJ0H4) 82
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 05:59 AM (tgvbd)
Sorry, Hadrian. Will pray that rough places are made smooth for you. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 06:12 AM (looXz) Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 09, 2025 06:12 AM (0cOaq) 84
What it the security guy actor (Garibaldi?) who had mental issues?
It was Michael O'Hare (Sinclair). He agreed to be written out and did a couple of cameos. Straczynski kept it a secret until Michael had passed away. No one else on the cast or crew knew about it. Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 06:13 AM (NR6c1) 85
No, it was the lead. He was replaced in the second season.
Posted by: Tuna at December 09, 2025 06:11 AM (lJ0H4) 0 Oh, I see. I always wondered why the guy from Stargate wasn't in the first season. Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 06:14 AM (6ydKt) 86
Christmas movies, mostly vintage, on the Movies! Channel today. Thursday they will have their usual film noir/crime lineup, though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 06:15 AM (wzUl9) 87
I had to look up anhedonia.
Maybe you're just bored with your old pleasures and need some new ones? I find I have to switch interests every now and then just to avoid the same ol' same ol'. Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 04:30 AM (6ydKt) True. Instead of always using one's right hand, try the left hand. Try a different lotion fragrance. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 06:17 AM (g8Ew8) 88
@AmericanGwyn is putting these lectures for free in response to Joyce Carol Oates trashing McCarthy for passages she misconstrued. Like:
Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates Dec 3 you're seriously thinking that McCarthy owned guns like that? he was a person obsessed with books--specific subjects--he delighted in reading arcane subjects & (evidently) replicating them in his prose. many writers do this, so skillfully that readers think they "know" these subjects intimately. as I'd once told John Updike how impressed I was with his knowledge of gardening & his wife Martha interrupted to say, "Oh, John gets it all out of books." Aelfred The Great retweeted Aaron Gwyn @AmericanGwyn Dec 3 Cormac McCarthy owned over a hundred rifles and pistols—so many, in fact, that he loaned several period firearms to a production company during filming of 2004’s THE ALAMO. In addition, he built his own big game rifles. Here’s a schematic he drew for a rifle barrel: Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 06:17 AM (RuTUS) 89
Christmas movies, mostly vintage, on the Movies! Channel today. Thursday they will have their usual film noir/crime lineup, though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere Which reminds me. I have to do my annual screening of "Holiday Inn" with Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. Posted by: Tuna at December 09, 2025 06:17 AM (lJ0H4) 90
It was Michael O'Hare (Sinclair). He agreed to be written out and did a couple of cameos. Straczynski kept it a secret until Michael had passed away. No one else on the cast or crew knew about it.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 06:13 AM (NR6c1) It's not obvious in his acting. I can forgive a bad first season. Heck, ST: NG and Seinfeld (as examples) both had some growing pains their first couple of seasons and then turned out great after they hit their strides. Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 06:17 AM (6ydKt) 91
Speaking of SBCs, picked up a quark sbc from Seeed, it measures 1.5 x 1.75 x 3/4 and it runs Linux has an oled screen, usb ports WiFi, blue tooth, an on board speaker and gyro sensor, got a web server up and running. All this In somethig smaller than an altoids tin.
Waiting for my Arduino Uno Q, which is also an SBC which could be the real RPI killer as RPI have become prohibitively expensive. Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 06:19 AM (XV/Pl) 92
True. Instead of always using one's right hand, try the left hand. Try a different lotion fragrance.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 06:17 AM (g8Ew It kinda feels like cheating at that point. Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 06:19 AM (6ydKt) 93
I certainly sympathize with you MP4. After my husband died I took little pleasure from the two activities I enjoyed most, knitting and reading. I still am afflicted. I order books I think I'll read but they sit on my bedside chest staring me accusingly in the face. Knitting is a complete no go. I did force myself to go see the movie "Hamnet" yesterday. Glad I did. It was truly excellent.
Posted by: Tuna at December 09, 2025 05:57 AM (lJ0H4) I'm so sorry for your loss, Tuna. I will say that I find being here on the non-political threads helps a bit. I've mentioned before that I really don't have anyone in my life I can be completely open with, so being able to vent here (even if it actively irritates some people) goes a way towards easing the depression. I honestly don't know how Ace, JJ, CBD and the others cope with the constant vomitus of politics. I suppose they have better coping skills. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 06:19 AM (ufSfZ) 94
I'm not even sure we have a Cinnabon location in any of our malls here. Cinnabon existed all over in Denver, I know, but I can't recall any here. Though I don't go to the two big malls much any more; there isn't much for men in malls now, everything is for women and children.
Is Cinnabon mostly in malls, or do they have standalone stores? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 06:19 AM (wzUl9) 95
and like:
Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates Dec 3 as I recall from the novel "No Country for Old Men," which may differ from the movie, it is stated that things began to go wrong in the US culminating with the senseless serial killings so lovingly detailed in the novel, when women began to live independently of men, no longer subservient to husband & family; when "feminists" appeared in our midst. when I reached that part of the novel I probably dropped the book in shock, then picked it up again & gamely continued to the end. feminists certainly need to have a sense of humor & it's better to laugh than to cry. Aelfred The Great retweeted Aaron Gwyn @AmericanGwyn Dec 3 There’s nothing in Cormac McCarthy’s novel [No Country for Old Men] about feminism. There’s no mention of things going bad when “women began to live independently from men.” I’ve been teaching the novel for twenty years and the passage you’re referencing doesn’t exist. Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 06:20 AM (RuTUS) Posted by: Google Maps at December 09, 2025 06:21 AM (2Ez/1) 97
Babylon 5 does start rough, but it gets really, really good. I'd put it in my top 5 science fiction series.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 09, 2025 06:21 AM (WPL6O) 98
Actually, no; Cinnabon has only three locations in Lousy-ana, Lafayette, Alexandria, and in a Pilot Travel Center in Iowa, LA, east of Lake Charles.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 06:22 AM (wzUl9) 99
I've seen the trailer for Hamnet. I don't know whether or not I want to see it.
One thing I should do in the new year is begin reading Shakespeare. I have a collection of all the plays, but somehow have never been able to get into the proper mindset. I think I will go make some tea before working a bit more. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 06:23 AM (ufSfZ) 100
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Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 06:24 AM (RuTUS) 101
Re: 95 . . . Leave it to somebody like Joyce Carol Oates to complain about anti-woman sentiment and prejudice where there is none. I've tried several times to read her stuff. It's dull. While I'm no fan of Cormac McCarthy, I'd prefer to read him rather than her work.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 06:24 AM (wzUl9) 102
Funny to remember yesterday that I first began posting and talking to people online back on Usenet, alt.fan.babylon5
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 06:26 AM (Uk86A) 103
Funny to remember yesterday that I first began posting and talking to people online back on Usenet, alt.fan.babylon5
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 06:26 AM (Uk86A) ---------- I was on that one, too. Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 09, 2025 06:27 AM (0cOaq) 104
"Is Cinnabon mostly in malls, or do they have standalone stores?"
---------- Many are in airports. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 06:27 AM (g8Ew8) 105
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 06:19 AM (ufSfZ)
How do you know it irritates people unless they tell you that? But I do think not going on politics threads helps me. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 06:28 AM (ELdpA) 106
I've seen the trailer for Hamnet. I don't know whether or not I want to see it.
One thing I should do in the new year is begin reading Shakespeare. I have a collection of all the plays, but somehow have never been able to get into the proper mindset. I think I will go make some tea before working a bit more. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 *** The tragedies are -- in my experience and opinion -- easier reading than the comedies. The comedies are full of wordplay, but they depend on words that have changed meaning or gone obsolete in the centuries since. And TV sitcoms have used the same kinds of comic situations, mistaken identities and misunderstandings, for decades. The histories, well, I guess it helps if you are familiar with the actual history. (Richard III is a good read.) Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 06:28 AM (wzUl9) 107
With regards to the Cinnabon employee:
1. She should have gotten security over or her manager should have stepped in before she invoked the Wakandan Holy Word. 2. While I understand her getting fired, no one should be subjected to abuse. Especially not from people who want to be a victim on camera. Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 06:28 AM (NR6c1) 108
I've seen the trailer for Hamnet. I don't know whether or not I want to see it.
I was undecided too but I didn't have anything else to do yesterday so I thought " what the heck" and went. Glad I did. The actress who plays Will Shakespeare's wife gives a marvelous performance. The rest of the cast is excellent. Beautifully filmed and directed. Posted by: Tuna at December 09, 2025 06:28 AM (lJ0H4) 109
Is Cinnabon mostly in malls, or do they have standalone stores?"
---------- Many are in airports. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 *** Oh, joy. To paraphrase that great philosopher, Xander Harris: "Get your own pack of sugar-hyped little runts for the flight." Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 06:29 AM (wzUl9) Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 06:30 AM (Cjt/F) 111
With regards to the Cinnabon employee:
1. She should have gotten security over or her manager should have stepped in before she invoked the Wakandan Holy Word. 2. While I understand her getting fired, no one should be subjected to abuse. Especially not from people who want to be a victim on camera. Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 *** And who have the effin' nerve to start a funding program for themselves, for the "harassment" they've endured. Give me a break. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 06:31 AM (wzUl9) 112
The comedies are full of wordplay, but they depend on words that have changed meaning or gone obsolete in the centuries since.
------------ I think "Midsummer" is the most accessible of the comedies to modern audiences. I'd venture to say I've never seen a bad production of it. (I also had the pleasure of playing Bottom the Weaver, but that does not affect my bias.) Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 09, 2025 06:32 AM (0cOaq) 113
104 "Is Cinnabon mostly in malls, or do they have standalone stores?"
---------- Many are in airports. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 06:27 AM (g8Ew Many [parts of the Cinnabon] are edible. Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 06:32 AM (RuTUS) 114
mornin yall. I saw a Cinnabon in a Schlotzsky's in a Shell station. I got a sandwich there and it took them 20 minutes to get it ready. I won't be going back to the Cinnabon in a Schlotzsky's in a Shell station.
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 06:34 AM (vFG9F) 115
Rick James, rest in peace. He certainly Lived Life Big.
Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 06:35 AM (RuTUS) 116
*I won't be going back to the Cinnabon in a Schlotzsky's in a Shell station.*
### This is about me isn't it? Posted by: The Starbucks in the restroom at December 09, 2025 06:39 AM (2Ez/1) 117
114 mornin yall. I saw a Cinnabon in a Schlotzsky's in a Shell station. I got a sandwich there and it took them 20 minutes to get it ready. I won't be going back to the Cinnabon in a Schlotzsky's in a Shell station.
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 06:34 AM (vFG9F) The way you worded this is *chef's kiss* and nearly resulted in spewed tea hereabouts. Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 06:40 AM (RuTUS) 118
"Which is exactly what I said would happen and, IMO, why the GOP deserves to lose the midterms."
Perhaps, but the rest of us don't deserve the Commies to regain the House. Yeah, we see a lot of perps and the lack of swift Justice. When Ilhan Omar gets deported, and Mark Kelly gets court-martialed, etc., if that and other things like that happen, it will be a good time to rejoice. But in the meantime, keep your head down (and on a swivel if that is possible) and live a life of integrity, charity, and faith. If you lost your faith, pray to have it restored. Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 06:43 AM (W7XSX) 119
"When Ilhan Omar gets deported, and Mark Kelly gets court-martialed, etc."
++++++ Nothing will happen. Posted by: The person who is always says that at December 09, 2025 06:45 AM (2Ez/1) 120
I haven't seen a Cinnabon in ages. Laura, a dear friend, brought cinnamon rolls to Adult Ed on Sunday. Just as big and beautiful as a Cinnabon. And a whole lot cheaper.
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 06:46 AM (W7XSX) 121
If it's clear where you are and it's about 6:45 a.m the sky is very nice right now. Take a look!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 06:46 AM (lQ+/f) 122
There’s nothing in Cormac McCarthy’s novel [No Country for Old Men] about feminism. There’s no mention of things going bad when “women began to live independently from men.” I’ve been teaching the novel for twenty years and the passage you’re referencing doesn’t exist.
Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 06:20 AM (RuTUS) If she had been a Real Woman, she should have either had to choose between vomiting or blacking out. Posted by: That MIT Professor that got hysterical about Larry Summers' comment at December 09, 2025 06:46 AM (PiwSw) 123
Willowed:
Ono had a rather large rack for her size (28H, see https://tinyurl.com/yokoonotits), so killing her would have been a crime against humanity. Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 09, 2025 06:47 AM (3k5hk) 124
Pope Leo is that guy that lives behind the big wall guarded by armed guards?
Posted by: That MIT Professor that got hysterical about Larry Summers' comment at December 09, 2025 06:47 AM (PiwSw) 125
Was looking at putting together a new puter as this one is now 10 years old. Saw the prices of DDR5 and nearly passed out.
Thinking about limiting it to a DDR4 system as its more affordable. Posted by: Politcal McGuffin at December 09, 2025 06:48 AM (nGP9S) 126
Grab a 32GB DDR5 memory kit from Crucial for just $273.99.
The Big Three™ memory makers, in the case of Samsung, 75% gross margin, won't add capacity because, as "journalists" "report" the manufactures are afraid of the business cycle. Appears a whole lot similar to an OPEC for memory. Here we have the usual claim "PEAK Then the blame: " Then the illogical Supply & Demand response: "the market will later crash". which is the lame excuse to strangle supply until.... The usual government action to grift and regulate an emerging market that is making piles of money. What will be the memory equivalent of Climate Change™ and Carbon Credits®? Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:51 AM (a4flb) 127
Morning peeps.
Today I shall attempt to string Christmas lights outside. Hopefully without too much cussing or physical injury. *crosses fingers* Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2025 06:51 AM (NwnyJ) Posted by: AltonJackson at December 09, 2025 06:51 AM (tljrc) Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:51 AM (a4flb) 130
@125
>> Thinking about limiting it to a DDR4 system as its more affordable. You can still put together a solid system for under 3k. But if computer components keep on inflating, computers might approach the prices we paid in the 80s to put together our rigs. Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 06:51 AM (XV/Pl) 131
How come off-white is a color but off-black is not? And is off-brown just really dark off-orange?
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 06:52 AM (vFG9F) 132
Thinking about limiting it to a DDR4 system as its more affordable.
Posted by: Politcal McGuffin at December 09, 2025 06:48 AM (nGP9S) I'm still on an AM4 platform, Ryzen 5900X, with DDR4 on this PC. Working great for me, although I'd probably notice the difference if I went up to AM5 and a 9900X, for sure. If you can still find the motherboards, B550s are probably pretty cheap, along with the processors. I still have the 5600X I originally put in this system. Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 06:53 AM (6ydKt) 133
amen on this:
Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze 4h I'm going to end up bashing my head against a wall over this and ending up like Nicolas Cage Longlegs. Carlson/Owens etc don't care about the hypocrisy. All they care about is everyone talking about their hypocrisy. That's it, All they care about is being the main character on this platform and others day after day, and it is a choice to continue to make them the main character on this platform day after day. As I've said a lot of smart people I respect continue to fall for it day after day. Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 06:53 AM (RuTUS) 134
UDUP gets breakfast in the barrel. Pro tip, that's not yogurt.
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 06:53 AM (vFG9F) 135
Pixy,
So picking that 64GB/2TB laptop (that I asked you about on twitter and purchased used/like new for ~$150US off) last month turned out to be a serendipitously good idea. Amazon now wants that much for the 16GB/1TB model and you can't even get 64GB anymore. Posted by: Jeff Weimer at December 09, 2025 06:53 AM (gUs21) 136
Perhaps, but the rest of us don't deserve the Commies to regain the House.
Yeah, we see a lot of perps and the lack of swift Justice. When Ilhan Omar gets deported, and Mark Kelly gets court-martialed, etc., if that and other things like that happen, it will be a good time to rejoice. But in the meantime, keep your head down (and on a swivel if that is possible) and live a life of integrity, charity, and faith. If you lost your faith, pray to have it restored. Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 06:43 AM (W7XSX) Right now, we only have one person representing this country's majority in DC. And that's Donald Trump. The rest are greasy tongued grifters looking only for more money and self-aggrandizement. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 06:54 AM (g8Ew8) 137
How come off-white is a color but off-black is not? And is off-brown just really dark off-orange?
Posted by: fd Deep thoughts. Posted by: Tuna at December 09, 2025 06:55 AM (lJ0H4) Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 06:56 AM (W7XSX) 139
I recently found an invoice for a system I build in 2000.
Pentium III 550 MHz, 64Mb RAM, 10 gb HD, 8 Mb video adapter, 17" crt. Win 98SE. $1600. Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 06:57 AM (vFG9F) 140
I watched Mark Dice's video about the incident at Cinnabon. He does seem to be trying to be accurate and not to report stuff that he can't verify.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 06:58 AM (wzUl9) 141
Stephen L. Miller retweeted Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo 19h Liverpool, England — Former professional soccer player Joey Barton was given a suspended six month prison sentence, over £20,000 in fines and 200 hours of community service after being convicted of “grossly offensive” posts on social media. Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 06:59 AM (RuTUS) 142
Don't really pay any attention to Tim Pool, but I saw a clip on X where he's fed up with all the bullshit that's been going on and calls Candace a "deranged cunt". He's crude, but not wrong.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 06:59 AM (1Er30) 143
In 2000 64mb of RAM was probably at least $200.
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 06:59 AM (vFG9F) 144
Martini Farmer, Please report to the barrel, which you may find recently decorated for Christmas.
Very festive it is. Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 07:00 AM (W7XSX) 145
123 Willowed:
Ono had a rather large rack for her size (28H, see https://tinyurl.com/yokoonotits), so killing her would have been a crime against humanity. Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 09, 2025 06:47 AM --- You know about the cup sizes? Posted by: Frank Costanza at December 09, 2025 07:00 AM (2Ez/1) 146
How come off-white is a color but off-black is not? And is off-brown just really dark off-orange?
Posted by: fd Deep thoughts. Posted by: Tuna at December 09, 2025 06:55 AM (lJ0H4) --- Indeed. Posted by: Jack Handey at December 09, 2025 07:00 AM (ESVrU) 147
I haven't seen a Cinnabon in ages. Laura, a dear friend, brought cinnamon rolls to Adult Ed on Sunday. Just as big and beautiful as a Cinnabon. And a whole lot cheaper.
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 *** I don't need to know how much a roll at a Cinnabon costs. I have a vivid and dark imagination and it serves me quite well for stuff like that. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 07:01 AM (wzUl9) Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 07:01 AM (W7XSX) 149
Morning all. It's 6° outside . Think I'll wait a while before a long walk
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 07:01 AM (D+mpw) 150
hahahahaha:
Stephen L. Miller retweeted Kyle Beckley @Kyle_Beckley 12h Every soccer game is a pride match is it not? ___ Awkward: FIFA 'Pride Match' Will Feature Two Countries That Ban Homosexuality Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 07:02 AM (RuTUS) 151
142 Don't really pay any attention to Tim Pool, but I saw a clip on X where he's fed up with all the bullshit that's been going on and calls Candace a "deranged cunt". He's crude, but not wrong.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 06:59 AM (1Er30) Kudos to him. Also Piers Morgan. Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 07:02 AM (RuTUS) 152
Sydney Watson talking about Caleb Hammer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yks5qhYt8eI Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 07:05 AM (NR6c1) 153
Well. Coffee and breakfast have been consumed, the furry thugs fed an hour ago. Time for a shave and shower. Back later, all.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 07:05 AM (wzUl9) 154
I've barreled myself before, but that one wasn't me.
(had to go back and scroll through the comments) No... I was out in the garage, where it's currently 28 degrees, looking for those Christmas lights I'm going to abuse myself with later today. Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2025 07:06 AM (NwnyJ) 155
I'm trying to think of why I would care about what Piers Morgan thinks.
Ow, that kind of thinking hurts. I'll just go back to my in-depth research of Yoko Ono's bustline. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 09, 2025 07:08 AM (2Ez/1) 156
Right now, we only have one person representing this country's majority in DC. And that's Donald Trump. The rest are greasy tongued grifters looking only for more money and self-aggrandizement.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 06:54 AM (g8Ew I agree. The problem I have is with Trump's sounding off and the useless bloviation from everyone in his circle. Don't say Ilhan should be investigated and deported for immigration fraud, DO IT! Don't say Mark Kelly might be recalled to active duty and face a military court, DO IT! Don't say the Clintons are in violation of a subpoena and should be arrested, DO IT! Stop 'threatening' and 'blasting' and 'firing back' and actually put these treasonous bastards behind bars, or admit that you just exist to provide kayfabe soundbites. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 07:11 AM (ufSfZ) 157
152 Sydney Watson talking about Caleb Hammer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yks5qhYt8eI Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 07:05 AM (NR6c1) Oh, he looks like a great find. New to me. @sircalebhammer Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 07:12 AM (RuTUS) 158
155 I'm trying to think of why I would care about what Piers Morgan thinks.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 09, 2025 07:08 AM (2Ez/1) Because he's well-spoken. Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 07:14 AM (RuTUS) 159
Good morning!
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere. For a morning sashay around the kitchen: https://youtu.be/R9T2H8QJjlw Reveillez-Vous Peter White Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 09, 2025 07:14 AM (u82oZ) 160
Thanks for the comments guys,
>I'm still on an AM4 platform, Ryzen 5900X, with DDR4 on this PC. I'm on AMD FX 6300 - 8GB DDR3 ram - Radeon R7 260X (as I said, 10 years old) I think a bump to a Ryzen 7 with DDR 4 would be noticeable for me too. I only play older games but do some Java programming so I can make use of the additional power. Is the DDR5 price spike expected to last? Posted by: Political Mcguffin at December 09, 2025 07:14 AM (3FTs8) 161
Stop 'threatening' and 'blasting' and 'firing back' and actually put these treasonous bastards behind bars, or admit that you just exist to provide kayfabe soundbites.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 07:11 AM (ufSfZ) Trump likes to fire several warning shots hoping bluster will get attention. Omar, especially, needs to be investigated. Not for marrying her brother which is probably past the statute of limitations, but for the obvious corruption going on around her and her district and the fact that her net work went from 6 to multiple seven figures in the space of two years. She's a con-artist crook, along with her entire family, and I've been saying that since 2017. Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 07:16 AM (6ydKt) 162
Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
Vey nice library picture. you got a lot of good reading on your shelf. Agree with you. Don't threaten. Act. Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 09, 2025 07:17 AM (u82oZ) 163
OK looked up that mark dice video. His big point that I think is spot on is that - some nobody worker in some nowhere town has a brief and stupid argument with some nobody customers - and that's become national "news"?
This obsession with "magic words" that everyone is supposed to gasp about has gone beyond ridiculous. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 07:18 AM (ASmqz) 164
Is the DDR5 price spike expected to last?
Posted by: Political Mcguffin at December 09, 2025 07:14 AM (3FTs They are predicting the shortage will last for at least a year or two, maybe more unless the AI bubble pops. DDR4 ain't getting any cheaper either, since a lot of people are thinking the same thing you are and buying up the supply which is small anyhow because DDR4 is almost at end-of-life production. Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 07:18 AM (6ydKt) Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 07:20 AM (RuTUS) 166
SpeakingOf
She is the definition of a traitor. Trump does not have an inch of Cromwell in him. But I bring to mind Cromwell's actions to end the Long Parliament more and more. He was eloquent in his distain for the Members of Parliament. Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 09, 2025 07:20 AM (u82oZ) Posted by: The person who likes to say that Nothing Will Happen at December 09, 2025 07:21 AM (2Ez/1) 168
The person who likes to say that Nothing Will Happen
If you had been able to gamble on the basis of your nic, you would be wealthy. Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 09, 2025 07:22 AM (u82oZ) 169
Stop 'threatening' and 'blasting' and 'firing back' and actually put these treasonous bastards behind bars, or admit that you just exist to provide kayfabe soundbites.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 07:11 AM (ufSfZ) Trump's always had a good bit of PT Barnum in him. That's why we've long said to take Trump seriously, but don't take him literally. He throws out a lot of stream of consciousness stuff that he's never actually thought through. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 07:25 AM (ASmqz) 170
> The Marvell Structera X 2404 lets system builders connect twelve DDR4 DIMMs - up to 1.5TB of RAM - to a PCIe 5.0 slot.
Stares at his giant stack of hitherto obsolete DDR4 with renewed delight... Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 09, 2025 07:28 AM (1Nv0l) 171
JJS Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2025 07:28 AM (gbOdA) 172
Adjusted for inflation 1600 dollars in 2000 is over 3000 today.
And as noted, you can put together a pretty good system for under 3k today. Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 07:28 AM (XV/Pl) Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 09, 2025 07:30 AM (3k5hk) 174
Looking for BIL gift. Wondering if this gaming device is worth it? Or if there is a better device to use with phone?
Razer Kishi V3 Gaming Controller for iPhone 15, 16, 17 Series & Android: Posted by: sidney at December 09, 2025 07:32 AM (rzwGB) 175
Very nice library picture. you got a lot of good reading on your shelf.
Thanks, Salty. I wish I could leave it all to the Horde when I die. Sadly, it will all end up in a rubbish tip. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 07:33 AM (ufSfZ) 176
174 Looking for BIL gift. Wondering if this gaming device is worth it? Or if there is a better device to use with phone?
Razer Kishi V3 Gaming Controller for iPhone 15, 16, 17 Series & Android: Posted by: sidney at December 09, 2025 07:32 AM (rzwGB) Razer makes some decent products (I've got a webcam from them that's pretty nice). They are known for being a little over-priced, but they're a big & popular name brand in gaming, so people will pay. There are lots of those smartphone game controllers out there though, especially on Amazon, if you want to save a few bucks. $99 doesn't sound ridiculous for a high-quality device like that. I can't give you an appraisal of any as I don't game on my phone. Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 07:42 AM (6ydKt) 177
176> Thanks for reply. BIL buys whatever he wants or needs. Difficult person to buy for. It's either a gaming device or seafood. lol
Posted by: sidney at December 09, 2025 07:58 AM (rzwGB) 178
sock off
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 09, 2025 09:30 AM (w9Wax) 179
My last salary was $8750, ecom only worked 12 hours a week. My longtime neighbor yr estimated $15,000 and works about 20 hours for seven days. I can't believe how blunt he was when I looked up his information,
This is what I do................ https://p0stpr0m0ney88.blogspot.com/ Posted by: HOME PROFIT at December 09, 2025 06:28 PM (+3dnj) Monday Overnight Open Thread (12/8/25)“Perhaps, we should be a little less fearful and look for ways to promote authentic dialogue and respect. I know that, in practice, this has not always been the case. I know that fears persist in Europe.” Pope Leo XIV New York City’s Democratic Socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is telling illegal immigrants in his area how to “stand up” to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (ICE) agents. The news comes as President Donald Trump’s administration has been working to safeguard American communities from illegal alien crime and as federal officials have been arresting the “worst of the worst” criminal illegal aliens. Have you ever met anyone who attended and/or graduated from Notre Dame? Oh you know it when you have. What a bunch of whiners. Pull up your big boy jock straps and play football. Wouldn't your hero Knute Rockne say, "Suck it up buttercups!! Notre Dame withdrew from the bowl selection process after it missed out on the College Football Playoff, the Fighting Irish announced. Notre Dame landed at No. 11 in the final set of playoff rankings, which made it the first team out of the 12-team bracket. The selection committee's decision to exclude Notre Dame in favor of Miami, which ranked 10th and snagged the last at-large bid, came after weeks of ranking the Fighting Irish ahead of the Hurricanes. Notre Dame and Miami were both idle during conference championship weekend. The "Science" is never settled. Scientists find a startling discovery in a national park's hot waters How about some humor Norm style! Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day. Jeez no wonder why they lost taxpayer funding........ HHS changed the name of Bear attacks trainer in front of audience after being forced to ride hoverboard ![]() Notice: Posted with permission by the Ace Media Empire & AceCorp, LLC. Contrary to popular belief and/or opinion, Lutefisk happens. Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
ONT please report to my office.
Posted by: HR Manager at December 08, 2025 11:04 PM (JkO4W) 2
what a drupe!
Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 11:04 PM (rbvCR) 3
Well, where have you been???
Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 11:04 PM (2WIwB) 4
Evenin'
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 08, 2025 11:04 PM (sAmhv) 5
Ew waldo
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 08, 2025 11:05 PM (6U1c2) 6
unseen1
@unseen1_unseen Repeat after me. There is no 4th branch of government. There is no such thing as an "independent" agency. Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 11:06 PM (Cjcf6) 7
“Perhaps, we should be a little less fearful and look for ways to promote authentic dialogue and respect. I know that, in practice, this has not always been the case. I know that fears persist in Europe.” Pope Leo XIV
Those with long memories know; those with short memories also know. Is this guy better than the last one? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 11:06 PM (ynpvh) Posted by: fourseasons at December 08, 2025 11:06 PM (3ek7K) 9
6 unseen1
@unseen1_unseen Repeat after me. There is no 4th branch of government. There is no such thing as an "independent" agency. Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 11:06 PM (Cjcf6) There are three lights! Posted by: Jean Luc Picard at December 08, 2025 11:06 PM (ynpvh) 10
Norm MacDonald had a bit about being a serial killer that was about the funniest thing I ever heard. I'll have to find it on EweToob.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 11:06 PM (JkO4W) 11
Good evening good people.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 08, 2025 11:07 PM (cYBz/) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 11:07 PM (Ow52c) 13
what a drupe!
Posted by: Kindltot If he's that droopy in that situation, we know which team Waldo bats for. Posted by: mikeski at December 08, 2025 11:07 PM (nhCoE) 14
Ew waldo
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 08, 2025 11:05 PM (6U1c2) I guess Dora's gonna be an explora. The older version, of course. Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 11:07 PM (uQesX) 15
LOL, Waldo. Thanks for the ONT, MisHum.
Posted by: scamoydog at December 08, 2025 11:07 PM (41CYW) Posted by: Zeera. I voted for ALL of this at December 08, 2025 11:07 PM (//dg8) Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 11:08 PM (rdVOm) 18
Looks like MH is ONiT.
Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 11:08 PM (krQz2) 19
554 Random open thread links, all are YouTube:
https://tinyurl.com/y7h42k8x https://tinyurl.com/2z7ehdpf https://tinyurl.com/5scx42t4 https://tinyurl.com/2rcwa8ss 557 and obligatory https://tinyurl.com/5n6rpnvt Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 08, 2025 11:02 PM (pIfcn) Posted by: Bilwis - why waste them? at December 08, 2025 11:08 PM (pIfcn) Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 11:08 PM (rdVOm) 21
Willowed:
I'm actually surprised that Doof hasn't posted an ONT. Maybe he's getting one ready. With Rush clip. Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 11:03 PM (uQesX) I was THIS close to doing that! Posted by: Doof at December 08, 2025 11:09 PM (XnlIn) 22
MisHum is totally allowed to post whenever he feels like it! How are you good sir?
Posted by: Some Rat at December 08, 2025 11:10 PM (TfUTr) 23
15 LOL, Waldo. Thanks for the ONT, MisHum.
Posted by: scamoydog at December 08, 2025 11:07 PM (41CYW) https://tinyurl.com/5n99yth9 Posted by: Jean Luc Picard at December 08, 2025 11:10 PM (ynpvh) Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 11:10 PM (rdVOm) 25
I thought December was Frank month? I don't see any Sinatra anywhere.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 11:10 PM (uQesX) 26
What part of "Leave me the fvck alone" don't you understand in Beareneese? Genius Award Winner
Look out Florida Man, here comes China Man..... Posted by: mikeski at December 08, 2025 11:10 PM (nhCoE) 27
Here it is. Ont, I've been looking for you.
Posted by: Case at December 08, 2025 11:11 PM (G1OIb) 28
*unplugs white lights*
*plugs in (only!!!) colored lights* Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 11:10 PM (rdVOm) That is an Employee of the Month move right there! Posted by: Doof at December 08, 2025 11:11 PM (XnlIn) Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2025 11:11 PM (ESVrU) Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 08, 2025 11:11 PM (S/Y4j) 31
I'm actually surprised that Doof hasn't posted an ONT. Maybe he's getting one ready. With Rush clip.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 11:03 PM (uQesX) I was THIS close to doing that! Posted by: Doof at December 08, 2025 11:09 PM (XnlIn) Now you've made posters unsure of being happy or sad.... Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 11:11 PM (uQesX) 32
Doggo! I know we discussed the Club ONT white elephant and ugly Christmas sweater contest...but I forgot to ask who will be Santa for the Club ONT Christmas party? I dropped off the Santa suit at the dry cleaners today, but it will need to be picked up before they close on Saturday...I'd do it, but I've got my hands full making all the Christmas cookies for the party...
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 08, 2025 11:11 PM (IQ6Gq) 33
25 I thought December was Frank month? I don't see any Sinatra anywhere.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 11:10 PM (uQesX) Have a Ballpark frank... Posted by: Jean Luc Picard at December 08, 2025 11:11 PM (ynpvh) Posted by: Some Rat at December 08, 2025 11:12 PM (TfUTr) 35
Meow
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at December 08, 2025 11:12 PM (w3u3d) 36
32 Doggo! I know we discussed the Club ONT white elephant and ugly Christmas sweater contest...but I forgot to ask who will be Santa for the Club ONT Christmas party? I dropped off the Santa suit at the dry cleaners today, but it will need to be picked up before they close on Saturday...I'd do it, but I've got my hands full making all the Christmas cookies for the party...
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 08, 2025 11:11 PM (IQ6Gq) Don't look at me...I shaved off my beard last year... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 11:12 PM (ynpvh) 37
waldo must be a real poofter if he can keep it limp with all those Rockettes around.
Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at December 08, 2025 11:13 PM (89Sog) 38
I know Frank Zappa was a musical "genius".
I know Steve Vai played with him. And I *still* don't like anything he recorded other than "Valley Girl" and "No Not Now", which both featured Steve Vai. Oh, your name is Bobby Brown? Why should I care? So much *nothingness* in the name of..."hey, I'm not a sellout". Great, you're also not really...interesting. Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 11:13 PM (Cjcf6) Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 11:14 PM (JkO4W) 40
30 How do you infuriate a male TRex?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 08, 2025 11:11 PM *** But why would you want to? Posted by: TRex - puzzled dino at December 08, 2025 11:14 PM (zcHq9) 41
I thought December was Frank month? I don't see any Sinatra anywhere.
Posted by: OrangeEnt I saw Woody Herman and His Young Thundering Herd open for Sinatra at Nick Meliti's Coliseum in Richfield as it's first show. I really did. It was fantastic! Posted by: Tonypete at December 08, 2025 11:14 PM (cYBz/) 42
Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 11:13 PM (Cjcf6) Never been a fan of Frankie...I know, I'm a heretic. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 11:14 PM (ynpvh) 43
How do you infuriate a male TRex?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 08, 2025 11:11 PM *** But why would you want to? Posted by: TRex - puzzled dino ********* Actually, I was wondering the same thing... Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 08, 2025 11:15 PM (IQ6Gq) 44
How do you infuriate a male TRex?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 08, 2025 11:11 PM Tell him the long arm of the law will catch up to him? Posted by: RickZ at December 08, 2025 11:15 PM (gKDq2) 45
Have a Ballpark frank...
Posted by: Jean Luc Picard at December 08, 2025 11:11 PM (ynpvh) Bar S, or nothing. Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 11:16 PM (uQesX) 46
As a not so wise man once said, "S'down, Waldo!".
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 08, 2025 11:16 PM (pIfcn) 47
43 How do you infuriate a male TRex?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 08, 2025 11:11 PM *** But why would you want to? Posted by: TRex - puzzled dino ********* Actually, I was wondering the same thing... Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 08, 2025 11:15 PM (IQ6Gq) At any rate, since they're extinct, it shouldn't matter short of Jurassic Park happening in real life. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 11:16 PM (ynpvh) 48
*plugs in (only!!!) colored lights*
Posted by: JQ ---------- Sounds like Disco and I are going to have the "Tastes Great... Less Filling" wars over the lights. Posted by: scamoydog at December 08, 2025 11:17 PM (41CYW) 49
Well, I'm outta here. Night all.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 11:17 PM (ynpvh) 50
Bar S, or nothing.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 11:16 PM (uQesX) Off brand hot dogs are like off brand mayonnaise: I'll pass. Posted by: RickZ at December 08, 2025 11:17 PM (gKDq2) Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 11:17 PM (krQz2) 52
47 At any rate, since they're extinct, it shouldn't matter short of Jurassic Park happening in real life.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 11:16 PM *** I...am...sitting...right...here. Posted by: TRex - invisible dino? at December 08, 2025 11:18 PM (zcHq9) 53
Love Zappa and still long for Zappa Month. Thanks for the Zappa this evening, Mis Hum.
Posted by: You Are What You Is at December 08, 2025 11:18 PM (oftw2) 54
Doof! Check out these snowflake lights!
I think they'll meet your approval: https://tinyurl.com/36xe9h36 Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 11:18 PM (rdVOm) 55
I...am...sitting...right...here.
Posted by: TRex - invisible dino? at December 08, 2025 11:18 PM (zcHq9) But, your like the Toy Story T. Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 11:19 PM (uQesX) 56
*plugs in (only!!!) colored lights*
Posted by: JQ ---------- Sounds like Disco and I are going to have the "Tastes Great... Less Filling" wars over the lights. Posted by: scamoydog at December 08, 2025 11:17 PM (41CYW) Dogs are colorblind, or so I've heard. You won't know the difference. Boom! Posted by: Doof at December 08, 2025 11:19 PM (XnlIn) 57
Good Evening, all. Thanks Mis Hum!
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 08, 2025 11:19 PM (t/66j) 58
Whoa. I thought I'd be really late to the ONT. Nice of MisHum to hold it up for me. Thanks. Glad I wasn't sitting there from 9am Central hitting refresh to score Firts.
Ended up watching American Madness, which I think someone mentioned on the movie thread.* Frank Capra we hadn't ever seen before. Always satisfying work. [* Apparently not,¹ but something on AOS led me to it] [¹ Gotta gripe once again how hard Pixy makes it to get to comments on threads in the archive.] YooToob offers it to rent or buy, but someone put it up for free hahaha greedy yootoob: https://youtu.be/PHe4AMjkozs Okay, now to go and savor the post content. Posted by: mindful webworker - bitter latte then nerver at December 08, 2025 11:19 PM (yqA/D) Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 11:20 PM (MVEnt) Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 11:20 PM (viF8m) 61
Do the lights blink? Just asking...
Posted by: TRex - coney island dino at December 08, 2025 11:20 PM (zcHq9) 62
Off brand hot dogs are like off brand mayonnaise: I'll pass.
Posted by: RickZ at December 08, 2025 11:17 PM (gKDq2) All you need is Farmer John Posted by: Zombie Vin Scully at December 08, 2025 11:20 PM (XnlIn) 63
Sounds like Disco and I are going to have the "Tastes Great...
Less Filling" wars over the lights. Posted by: scamoydog ---------- No worries, Doggo! I installed *both* white and multi-color lights. Got to keep all our customers happy... Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 11:21 PM (rdVOm) 64
Doof! Check out these snowflake lights!
I think they'll meet your approval: https://tinyurl.com/36xe9h36 Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 11:18 PM (rdVOm) Yup!! Posted by: Doof at December 08, 2025 11:21 PM (XnlIn) 65
Dogs are colorblind, or so I've heard. You won't know the difference. Boom!
Posted by: Doof ---------- *Checks calendar* Somebody never got over the disco lights. Posted by: scamoydog at December 08, 2025 11:21 PM (41CYW) 66
40 30 How do you infuriate a male TRex?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 08, 2025 11:11 PM *** But why would you want to? Posted by: TRex - puzzled dino at December 08, 2025 11:14 PM (zcHq9) Your life is too boring, and needs something to start an adrenaline rush. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 08, 2025 11:21 PM (S/Y4j) 67
Mark Dice has an incredibly annoying fake chuckle. I've never really listened to him before, and couldn't finish the video because he was so annoying.
Posted by: 496 at December 08, 2025 11:22 PM (4MR3n) Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 11:22 PM (MVEnt) Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 11:22 PM (uQesX) 70
Do the lights blink? Just asking...
Posted by: TRex ---------- Lights over and along the bar do not blink, the ones on our tree and over the fireplace *do* Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 11:23 PM (rdVOm) 71
Grateful, re: Santa. I suggest we hang the suit by the egg nog. Someone will get the courage.
Posted by: scamoydog at December 08, 2025 11:23 PM (41CYW) 72
Saw that Mark Dice earlier. Afterward, I said to MiladyJo, how nice that Dice got through a vid without harping on his hangups on Israel and Ben Shapiro. Milady corrected me that he did in passing mention that the gofund for the gal goal was set at some number thing referencing Jews. Siigh.
Posted by: mindful webworker - everybody has a blind spot at December 08, 2025 11:23 PM (yqA/D) 73
I'm conflicted about Notre Dame's decision because they did get screwed imo. They should have a ' We got Screwed ' Bowl .
Texas vs Notre Dame would be a good one. Posted by: the way I see it at December 08, 2025 11:23 PM (KDPiq) 74
I do hope someone is working on the Santa and his suit for Saturday....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 08, 2025 11:24 PM (IQ6Gq) 75
Dean Martin > Frank Sinatra
("greater than") (I think) Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 11:20 PM (MVEnt) Frank had the hood image that Dean didn't, so that's certainly something in his favor, but Frank was the Chairman, so.... Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 11:24 PM (uQesX) 76
>>Your life is too boring, and needs something to start an adrenaline rush.
I'm your huckleberry. Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 11:24 PM (viF8m) 77
69 How do you infuriate a male TRex?
Make your deck out of real wood? Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 11:22 PM *** Don't make me turn this car around. Posted by: TRex at December 08, 2025 11:25 PM (zcHq9) 78
Bookmark this also for Christmas Eve: K-MART 1974 in-store Christmas music soundtrack: https://is.gd/2vpcEI Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 11:25 PM (MVEnt) 79
Grateful, re: Santa. I suggest we hang the suit by the egg nog. Someone will get the courage.
Posted by: scamoydog *********** Wow, 3 D's and all we can hope for is that someone will get the courage? It's a Christmas party, and Piper is prepared to cover the Santa fashion aspect of it... Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 08, 2025 11:26 PM (IQ6Gq) 80
Bookmark this for Christmas Eve:
Dean Martin Christmas songs...on a loop: https://is.gd/if8YTQ Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 11:22 PM (MVEnt) Nice choice. Gotta keep that vile Lennon fake Christmas song out of rotation along with that over-hyped, sappy, insipid Mariah Carey song. What a grating piece of crap. Most popular Christmas song my backside. Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 11:26 PM (uQesX) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 11:27 PM (Ow52c) 82
Frank Zappa is the expressionist abstract painter of the music world.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 08, 2025 11:27 PM (KDPiq) 83
Separation in twelve minutes.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 11:27 PM (Ow52c) 84
I do hope someone is working on the Santa and his suit for Saturday....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba Not me, I'm going as Yukon Cornelius. Posted by: Some Rat at December 08, 2025 11:27 PM (TfUTr) 85
Notre Dame has always been the Whining Irish, until they get drunk.
They're not settling for chump change, even if it ends their season. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 08, 2025 11:27 PM (1zOXE) 86
How do you infuriate a male TRex?
Make your deck out of real wood? Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 11:22 PM (uQesX) It took me a minute, but I got it. Golf clap. Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 08, 2025 11:28 PM (znQHQ) 87
Today is the anniversary of Lennon's murder 45 years ago.
Posted by: Imagine That! at December 08, 2025 11:28 PM (oftw2) 88
Separation in twelve minutes. Posted by: Braenyard Are you on the toilet? Not good to sit on the throne too long. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 11:29 PM (MVEnt) 89
Dean Martin > Frank Sinatra
---- I spent hours in a local Italian restaurant as a customer during the 2000's. Dean was a far better singer. Frank spent too much time telling stories about being Frank. Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 11:30 PM (Cjcf6) 90
1980 1980 has been my personal "benchmark" for the beginning of the "modern era" for me. As this year ends, we are now 1 year further away from 1980. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 11:30 PM (MVEnt) 91
Not me, I'm going as Yukon Cornelius.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 08, 2025 11:27 PM (TfUTr) The last time I grew my hair and beard out, I found I had a disturbing resemblance to Bumble, the Abominable Snowman. Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 08, 2025 11:31 PM (znQHQ) 92
Notre Dame takes its ball and goes home to cry. They played a real tough schedule. Four of their wins came from three teams finishing 2-10 and one 3-9. The wins against teams with 9 wins were against Boise, USC and Navy. Good teams but not great teams.
So no bowl revenue since they believe they are entitled to get a share of the playoff pot. If they don’t like it they can join a conference. Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at December 08, 2025 11:31 PM (w3u3d) 93
Not good to sit on the throne too long.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History Tell me about it. Posted by: Louis XVI at December 08, 2025 11:31 PM (TfUTr) 94
>>>New York City’s Democratic Socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is telling illegal immigrants in his area how to “stand up” to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (ICE) agents.
--- Would have been the perfect time for Homan to put him in a headlock. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 11:31 PM (Ow52c) 95
Today is the anniversary of Lennon's murder 45 years ago.
Posted by: Imagine That! at December 08, 2025 11:28 PM (oftw2) I was on my way to the Independence Bowl in Shreveport when the news came on the radio. Disappointing game as Southern Miss beat my Cowboys 16 -14 . We were leading 14-10 mid 4th quarter. Posted by: the way I see it at December 08, 2025 11:32 PM (KDPiq) 96
My dad (RIP) would've volunteered to be our Santa-- even had his very own red suit, naturally white hair and beard-- and *loved* playing the part.
I think he would've made a fine Moron, too: He told the best bawdy jokes, enjoyed a fine bourbon, and got into plenty trouble as a young 'un but grew up to become an honorable family man. Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 11:33 PM (rdVOm) 97
Texas vs Notre Dame would be a good one.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 08, 2025 11:23 PM (KDPiq) Did that already ... ***buffs nails *** Posted by: Joe Montana at December 08, 2025 11:33 PM (3sXRv) 98
Today is the anniversary of Lennon's murder 45 years ago.
Posted by: Imagine That! at December 08, 2025 11:28 PM (oftw2) Huh. And it was a Monday, too. Cosell broke the news during the game. Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 11:33 PM (uQesX) 99
The last time I grew my hair and beard out, I found I had a disturbing resemblance to Bumble, the Abominable Snowman.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy Hey, ya got a couple weeks to pull the outfit together! Posted by: Some Rat at December 08, 2025 11:33 PM (TfUTr) 100
There is no excuse for sloppy coaching the first two games.
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at December 08, 2025 11:33 PM (w3u3d) 101
Turns out Trans-Waldo kept his junk and settled for cross-dressing.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 08, 2025 11:34 PM (1zOXE) 102
womp womp Internet is telling me Hair Fuentes "destroyed" Pierssss Morgan in debate over [black] crime stats. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 11:34 PM (MVEnt) 103
Why are people whining about Notre Dame?
So what if they decided that they're bowing out of all bowl games if they are not selected for the playoffs? Do you want Notre Dame in the bowl games? It's always funny to me that people don't think they're whining when their subject is somebody else is whining. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 11:37 PM (krQz2) 104
3 minutes to module separation. They've had some problems a time or two with this, some explosive bolts not firing correctly, causing a mess up and ballistic reentry (>8g). That's all fixed, supposedly. Unless Sergei forget something. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 11:37 PM (w6EFb) 105
Don't know if he ever got to it but the Cinnabon woman was told that she should be wearing a hijab or be ashamed of not wearing one. Something to that effect. On the other hand she did say a forbidden word.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 11:37 PM (Ow52c) 106
Texas had the highest strength of schedule IIRC.
Their 3 losses were all away games and two were to current #2 and #3 and they just crushed #7 who were #4 at the time. They were screwed more than Notre Dame. Posted by: the way I see it at December 08, 2025 11:38 PM (KDPiq) 107
Separation good, slick as owl shit. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 11:39 PM (w6EFb) 108
Not me, I'm going as Yukon Cornelius.
Posted by: Some Rat Cornmeal Guitar strings Gunpowder Ham hocks. Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 11:40 PM (mT+6a) 109
Waldo dressed up as a lady and forgot to tuck?
He's really not serious about being taken as a woman. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 11:40 PM (krQz2) 110
On the other hand she did say a forbidden word.
---- I'll care when "they" stop saying the supposedly forbidden word too. Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 11:42 PM (Cjcf6) 111
They are lighting up over the Caspian Sea, looks like. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 11:43 PM (w6EFb) 112
So Notre Dame was invited to play BYU in the Pop Tarts bowl. An hour later they did their "we'll take our ball and go home!"
This, after recently reneging on their contract to play BYU in a home and home where BYU went to their place first and then Notre Dame refused to hold up their end of the deal. I think they are just chicken and afraid of playing BYU because they know they will get exposed. Posted by: SimoHayek at December 08, 2025 11:43 PM (0Aoc4) Posted by: Some Rat at December 08, 2025 11:44 PM (TfUTr) 114
The 10-minute overtime period in the NFL is completely stupid.
Call it a tie at the end of the 4th quarter (so we call all boo the decision) or let both teams fight until a team wins. Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 11:44 PM (Cjcf6) 115
----
I'll care when "they" stop saying the supposedly forbidden word too. Posted by: Crusader --- Yup. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 11:44 PM (Ow52c) 116
Someone should have told the lady the name for Somalis is skinnies.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 08, 2025 11:44 PM (KDPiq) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 11:45 PM (Ow52c) 118
First (mystery) Zappa was meh. Musically jumpy and too talky. Frank could be like that.
Second one (Nanook) ended abruptly, forcing me to look up St Alphonso's, https://youtu.be/6XCByyFKklA which also ended abruptly. Where's the whole uninterrupted album suite? I am unsatisfied. Posted by: mindful webworker - zip zap zup at December 08, 2025 11:46 PM (yqA/D) 119
116 Someone should have told the lady the name for Somalis is skinnies.
Posted by: the way I see it -- Thought it was, inbreds. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 11:47 PM (Ow52c) Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 11:47 PM (viF8m) 121
Max g's now. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 11:48 PM (w6EFb) 122
Russia has search and recovery vehicles.
Musk has ships landing pinpoint on barges. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 11:48 PM (Ow52c) 123
New York City’s Democratic Socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is telling illegal immigrants in his area how to “stand up” to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (ICE) agents.
I remember some people "resisted" the clot shot mandates by printing out fake clot shot cards. They went to jail. Odd that people enabling all these illegals to get inherently illegal IDs are not also drawing prison time Posted by: 18-1 at December 08, 2025 11:50 PM (sKqQm) 124
Today is the anniversary of Lennon's murder 45 years ago.
Posted by: Imagine That! at December 08, 2025 11:28 PM (oftw2) I remember hearing Ted Koppel saying "You've all heard the terrible news today." Well, I hadn't, having been away from any news all day. Remember when it was easy to do that? But I digress. Tensions had been running high with the USSR, and my first thought was war was breaking out, and I was in a situation where I would be one of the first ones to go. I was greatly relieved when I found out what he was talking about. Sorry, John. They gave Peace a Chance. Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 08, 2025 11:50 PM (znQHQ) 125
Internet is telling me Hair Fuentes "destroyed" Pierssss Morgan in debate over [black] crime stats.
Two fake FNM figures. I wonder if they had a few cocktails and a roll in the hay together afterwards just like Fuentes and Destiny... Posted by: 18-1 at December 08, 2025 11:51 PM (sKqQm) 126
A Multiple-Launch Rocket System (MLRS) with the Royal Cambodian Army - likely either a BM-21 or an RM-70 - observed firing earlier today from the Choam Khsant District of Northern Cambodia, towards ongoing clashes on the Thai-Cambodian Border.
--- Cambodians attacking Thailand looking to conquer trannyboys and be head of greater communist Indo-China. Asshoe's. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 11:52 PM (Ow52c) 127
124 Today is the anniversary of Lennon's murder 45 years ago.
Posted by: Imagine That! at December 08, 2025 11:28 PM (oftw2) --------- Tragic as it was, it marked the launch of Yoko's brilliant career. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 11:53 PM (JkO4W) 128
Today is the anniversary of Lennon's murder 45 years ago.
Posted by: Imagine That! Yoko singing (not screaming) hard times are over, before the murder. Sad irony. https://youtu.be/aBSU4Yx4L1k Posted by: mindful webworker - harder times again at December 08, 2025 11:55 PM (yqA/D) Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 11:55 PM (MVEnt) 130
They should be getting live video of the Soyuz touchdown soon. If you've never seen one of those land landings, you'll enjoy it. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 11:55 PM (w6EFb) Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 11:56 PM (MVEnt) 132
Pop-Tarts Bowl?
Are you shitting me? Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 11:56 PM (MVEnt) ---------- That would be the Ty-D-Bowl Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 11:57 PM (JkO4W) 133
Sorry, John. They gave Peace a Chance.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 08, 2025 11:50 PM (znQHQ) Chapman gave his piece a chance, but he missed her and hit John instead. Too soon? Sorry, Sean. Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 11:57 PM (uQesX) 134
>>>Today is the anniversary of Lennon's murder 45 years ago.
Posted by: Imagine That! >It is unfortunate that we have lunatics in society willing to murder an entertainer. But consider, John also murdered my eardrums for over a decade. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 08, 2025 11:58 PM (1zOXE) 135
"A Multiple-Launch Rocket System (MLRS) with the Royal Cambodian Army -"
Cambodia is back to having a monarch? I thought mr. pot took care of that problem? Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at December 08, 2025 11:58 PM (pcnhy) 136
>>>Yoko singing (not screaming) hard times are over, before the murder. Sad irony.
https://youtu.be/aBSU4Yx4L1k Posted by: mindful webworker - harder times again --- Epitome of a delicate Asian flower. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 12:00 AM (Ow52c) Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 09, 2025 12:00 AM (JkO4W) 138
JQ, your day would certainly have been a most worthy Moron, he sounds like a great guy.
I also must offer a suggestion that those snowflake lights be displayed in the Men's Room, I am not a fan. I saw those and got a mental picture of an angry white female guidance counselor posting on TikTok about inclusive holidays with those lights blinking on and off in the background. I am looking forward to the party. Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 09, 2025 12:00 AM (0nHVk) 139
Pop-Tarts Bowl?
Are you shitting me? Posted by: Soothsayer Anyone eating pop-tarts out of a bowl spends a night in the box. Posted by: mikeski at December 09, 2025 12:01 AM (nhCoE) 140
One of the cosmonauts ears needed popping due to big pressure changes. :-) Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 12:01 AM (w6EFb) 141
Baby be a Cinnabonnnnn____ kind of man!
Posted by: Ol Ma Skynynrd at December 09, 2025 12:02 AM (r6f6k) 142
Now I'm confused. The 1980 Independence Bowl was on Dec 13 and Lennon was killed on Dec 8.
I'm almost positive I first learned that Lennon was killed driving to the Bowl but that would be 5 days later. I have to be misremembering and maybe they were just doing a tribute all day on the radio. Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 12:02 AM (KDPiq) 143
Woot! MisHum ONT!
So they found a bug that can live in 145 degree water, up from the previous record of 140 degrees? Stop the presses! Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 12:02 AM (npFr7) 144
That would be the Ty-D-Bowl
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 11:57 PM (JkO4W) That should be in Boise. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 09, 2025 12:02 AM (S/Y4j) 145
I also must offer a suggestion that those snowflake lights be displayed in the Men's Room, I am not a fan. I saw those and got a mental picture of an angry white female guidance counselor posting on TikTok about inclusive holidays with those lights blinking on and off in the background.
I am looking forward to the party. Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz --------- Doof likes them. Wonder if he'd be willing to hang them up in the men's room? Good to see you, Debby! Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 12:04 AM (rdVOm) 146
“Perhaps, we should be a little less fearful and look for ways to promote authentic dialogue and respect. I know that, in practice, this has not always been the case. I know that fears persist in Europe.”
Blow it out your ass popey. Take a cruise through taliban central with your silly little pope mobile and see what authentic dialog they're interested in. Hope its up armored. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 12:04 AM (snZF9) Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 12:04 AM (MVEnt) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 12:04 AM (Ow52c) 149
Cosmonaut alert! Cosmonauts coming in. Radio contact resumed, burn complete.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 11:27 PM (Ow52c) Oh fuck! I didn't set up the net. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 12:06 AM (npFr7) 150
Okay. The Vegemite finally showed up. Looks like shoe polish. Tastes like....drink all of your homebrewed Bock but the last 1/4 inch, leave it in the bottle for a couple of days, then scrape it out, slightly hydrate it enough to make a paste, then add too much salt to it...tasty. Everyone in the dining room is holding their nose but me. 5 stars.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 09, 2025 12:07 AM (vd6bO) 151
Bummer, no landing footage. It's fun. Right at the last second, they fire some landing rockets to slow down to keep from hitting the ground too hard. And there were 2500 watching the NASA feed, it says. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 12:08 AM (w6EFb) Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 12:08 AM (2WIwB) 153
While watching Father Knows Best I observed 1) 52-yr old Robert Young looks 62 (in Today years), and 2) 49 yr old Jane Wyatt looks 49, which is great for that era; her contemporaries looked much older. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 12:10 AM (MVEnt) Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 12:10 AM (KDPiq) 155
Don in SoCo-- thank you.
Thanks for saving me the time and money I would've spent on ordering some of that, um, *stuff* to try for myself. Sounds suboptimal. Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 12:10 AM (rdVOm) 156
How do you infuriate a male TRex?
Put something he wants just out of reach Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 12:10 AM (KDPiq) The he has to ask Mooch to grab the box of Kaboom off the top shelf at WalMart. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 12:13 AM (npFr7) 157
While watching Father Knows Best I observed 1) 52-yr old Robert Young looks 62 (in Today years), and 2) 49 yr old Jane Wyatt looks 49, which is great for that era; her contemporaries looked much older.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 12:10 AM (MVEnt) When my grandparents were 49 they looked ready to be packed in Natron. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 12:13 AM (snZF9) Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 09, 2025 12:14 AM (0nHVk) 159
MiladyJo and I were walking along enjoying Chicago (which one could, back then) when we saw a newspaper box (which they had back then) and through the box window we could see the headline "Ex-Beatle John Lennon" and the rest of the headline masked by a tax stamp or whatever on the box window. An old picture of a rather ghostly-looking John stared out at us. The news was worse than we could have imagined (no pun intended).
I know there are Lennon haters on here, folks who joke darkly that it was Ono who should have been shot, but, dammit, man, that great musician and songwriter who gave us so much, as a Beatle and after, had finally come home, kicked the drugs, won the struggle against indulgence and fame, settled down with his wife, and tried to be a better father than he had been with his first boy. And good lord have some sympathy with Yoko standing right there to see it. What John could have become, we'll never know. When I first heard "Watching the Wheels" on the radio, it was like a bright light. His killer should have been executed. It was really moving to see old John in the movie Yesterday. It's almost like the whole reason for the film. https://youtu.be/lgC-fvyD3_8 Posted by: mindful webworker - I just had to let it go at December 09, 2025 12:14 AM (yqA/D) 160
Vegemite is the dregs from the brew kettles that the hogs won't eat.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 12:14 AM (npFr7) 161
Sounds suboptimal.
_-_ Very strong flavor, but it's growing on me. Kinda wondering if it would tase good in ice cream. Will have to try that. Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 09, 2025 12:15 AM (vd6bO) 162
Sorry, you know I meant Dad not day.
I haven't even had a drink yet. Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz ------- LOL, yes. Need to fix ya up! *sends drink to Debby* Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 12:16 AM (rdVOm) 163
@sentdefender . 22h
F-16A Fighting Falcons with the Royal Thai Air Force have carried out several strikes on the Chong Arn Ma Casino, across from the Nam Yuen District, Ubon Ratchathani Province of Southern Thailand. [The] abandoned casino near the border between Thailand and Cambodia which reportedly has been converted into a command-and-control center as well as munitions depot for the Cambodian Army. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 12:17 AM (Ow52c) 164
Cambodia is back to having a monarch? I thought mr. pot took care of that problem?
Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at December 08, 2025 11:58 PM (pcnhy) When I was in high school mr. pot took care of a lot of things. lol Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 12:18 AM (snZF9) 165
Very strong flavor, but it's growing on me. Kinda wondering if it would tase good in ice cream. Will have to try that.
Posted by: Don in SoCo -------- Wha? ?? Interesting. Yeasty taste? I'm not a beer drinker, but *do* like raised breads & pastries. Still, think I'll wait until there's an opportunity to taste the stuff without any outlay of cash on my part. Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 12:18 AM (rdVOm) 166
And finally live footage of the capsule. We'll get to seem them fish 'em out. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 12:19 AM (w6EFb) 167
Well, I went to the Alberta Sovereignty meeting this evening. Hall was packed. I was surprised. So was the presenter! Half the people there had never been to such a meeting before (myself included). Most of the arguments made were economic in nature, and I doubt that most MAGA folks would find fault with them.
The presenting organization, Alberta Prosperity Project, says they seek Alberta independence, and not annexation into the USA, and say their understanding is the President Trump would deal fairly with an independent Alberta. (Peon: one would certainly hope so, since the rump of Canada would likely be a little hostile.) The crowd tended older, but a good number of young people, and folks in their prime working years, too. There were cookies! Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 12:21 AM (npFr7) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 12:23 AM (Ow52c) Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 09, 2025 12:23 AM (vd6bO) 170
When I was in high school mr. pot took care of a lot of things. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division --------- Heh. I knew that guy, too! When I got the factory (random drg testing required) job, it seemed my name was on the list EVERY time for about the first year of employment.. Wondered if somebody, somewhere knew me in HS. Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 12:23 AM (rdVOm) 171
Still Chinooking here. Strong West wind, but above freezing, so snow is melting. Cars in my yard are now nearly free of accumulated snow.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 12:23 AM (npFr7) 172
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 12:17 AM (Ow52
Reminded me of the movie City of Ghosts with Matt Dillion and James Caan. Just average reviews but I thought it was 4 out of 5 stars. Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 12:23 AM (KDPiq) 173
I think an Independent Alberta would be fantastic for America, and we should do all we can to support it. Military protection, no trade barriers, the works!
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 12:25 AM (3hpq0) 174
Looks like we'll just barely miss the cold plunge here...getting more firewood tomorrow now that the last snow has mostly finished playing games with the dirt road.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 09, 2025 12:27 AM (vd6bO) 175
Ontario just passed a "controversial" "housing bill." I don't know the deets, just the headline. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 12:28 AM (MVEnt) 176
Still Chinooking here. Strong West wind, but above freezing, so snow is melting. Cars in my yard are now nearly free of accumulated snow.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon --------- Same here, except there was no snow. It's warmer now than it was at noon! Windy as hell. Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 12:29 AM (rdVOm) Posted by: _.-=* The More You Know at December 09, 2025 12:29 AM (TWsPO) 178
Out comes Sergey, commander. It's 21F out there at the landing site. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 12:29 AM (w6EFb) 179
Out comes Sergey, commander. It's 21F out there at the landing site.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 12:29 AM (w6EFb) About what it was this morning here; continually got warmer during the day, hitting 38 this evening. 21F is tolerable if you have a warm jacket, and its not windy, but 38 feels downright balmy. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 12:31 AM (npFr7) 180
I think that's Sergey's wife right next to him. She seems very happy to see him. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 12:33 AM (w6EFb) 181
I think an Independent Alberta would be fantastic for America, and we should do all we can to support it. Military protection, no trade barriers, the works!
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 12:25 AM (3hpq0) The first few years I did the sturgis rally we stayed in camp grounds and met a group from Alberta who came to the same camp ground every year. Damn those dudes were a riot, funny bastards they were. Getting shitfaced around a camp fire with those dudes was the best time we ever had camping. Only lasted a few years though, the women in our group eventually revolted and wanted to stay in hotels. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 12:34 AM (snZF9) 182
Wow. It’s coming down pretty good here.
Window in my bedroom open. Smells divine. Not particularly cold, still on the low 50s. Wind hooting. Rain pounding the western facing windows. Damn it’s awesome. Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 12:35 AM (yyEWD) 183
I remember a few months after Lennon’s death Rolling Stone, back when it was still an interesting magazine, published a long piece in the killer by a reporter who’d been allowed to do quite a few interviews with him.
I remember it today because as a piece of writing, it was masterful. The writer did not do anything to excuse him; remember the magazines audience hated him more than anyone else in the world. Yet, as the tale was told I ended up feeling some pity for him in spite of my feelings; it was a day by day story of a man who had so totally lost touch with reality that his conversations with the imaginary people who inhabited his world were far more real to him than any flesh and blood. Some perps claim they are insane to excuse doing what they lust after; but some are so far gone that it is difficult for us to even imagine the things they see and hear. And no, no one that far gone ever comes back. Killing him (which should have been done) would have been a mercy, not a punishment. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 12:36 AM (3hpq0) 184
There were cookies!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 12:21 AM (npFr7) Come to the Dark Side, we have cookies! Posted by: pookysgirl needs to bake them yet at December 09, 2025 12:37 AM (Wt5PA) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 12:37 AM (Ow52c) 186
AOP, good for you, that sounds like it was energetic and interesting. I love the idea of an independent Alberta.
Bers, I remember having Christmas parties in a car with my co-workers, mr. pot and plenty of package store stops, car stereo cranking out the tunes. Good times indeed. My tree is illuminated now, tomorrow I will get to ornamentation. Boy does the house smell good right now, all piney. Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 09, 2025 12:38 AM (0nHVk) 187
Dec 8
Cambodia states that their athletic delegation to the Southeast Asian Games, commonly known as SEA Games, ... will still attend the competition despite escalating clashes along the border between Thailand and Cambodia --- Going to be a good competition. Should be televised. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 12:39 AM (Ow52c) 188
Boy does the house smell good right now, all piney.
Posted by: Debby ----------- *remembers childhood* Mmmm, fresh-cut Christmas tree smell.... ahhhhh. Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 12:41 AM (rdVOm) 189
That Cinnabon Girl is obviously RACIST toward GRIFTERS OF COLOR !!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Jackson at December 09, 2025 12:41 AM (J9q9v) 190
Upwards of 20 House Republicans are expected to announce their retirements in the coming weeks, with most of the retirements coming from “safe seats” for the Republican Party, ...
--- Didn't see that coming. Hope Trump and his daughter-in-law are on this. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 12:42 AM (Ow52c) 191
apan has lodged a formal diplomatic complaint against China, following two separate incidents on Saturday, in which J-15 Carrier-Based Multirole Fighters from the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning locked their fire-control radars onto Japanese F-15Js that had been scrambled against possible airspace violations by China off the Island of Okinawa in Southern Japan
--- Can't, can't we all get along? Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 12:44 AM (Ow52c) 192
And our guy, Jonny Kim, comes out. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 12:45 AM (w6EFb) 193
They didn't show the other guy coming out, and they took him directly to the medical tent. He may be puking his guts out, which happens with some. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 12:46 AM (w6EFb) 194
I don’t mind those from safe seats retiring, in fact it should happen a lot more often. That’s how we keep from having a bunch of 80 year old fossils in office.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 12:46 AM (3hpq0) 195
I thought President Trump ended all Swamp Creatures from becoming Lobbyists? Or said he would. Because that will curb a lot of the Republican Shits from bailing out -- a lot of them turn into lobbyists (major grifters). Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 12:49 AM (MVEnt) 196
I don’t mind those from safe seats retiring, in fact it should happen a lot more often. That’s how we keep from having a bunch of 80 year old fossils in office.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 12:46 AM (3hpq0) Make sure the replacements are MAGA people! Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 12:50 AM (npFr7) Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 12:50 AM (MVEnt) 198
Or....make Lobbying illegal within 100 miles of Washington D.C. And make all lobbying 100% transparent, with open books, updated daily. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 12:51 AM (MVEnt) 199
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I thought President Trump ended all Swamp Creatures from becoming Lobbyists? Or said he would.” President doesn’t have the authority to do that, Congress would have to pass a bill to change the law. Imagine Congress passing a law that would limit their future earnings at the feed trough. HA! Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 12:53 AM (3hpq0) 200
Imagine Congress passing a law that would limit their future earnings at the feed trough. HA!
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 12:53 AM (3hpq0) Find a way to put Congress in a bind: pass that law, or something vastly worse happens to them. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 12:55 AM (npFr7) 201
Find a way to put Congress in a bind: pass that law, or something vastly worse happens to them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 12:55 AM (npFr7) That’s the rub; who could pass such a law except they themselves? Well I do know the answer, and it’s a bit depressing. This is why all large democracies eventually devolve into some type of imperial model of government. That’s who ends up making the laws when the elected “representatives” quit doing it. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 01:00 AM (3hpq0) 202
When I was in high school mr. pot took care of a lot of things. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 12:18 AM (snZF9) I'm surprised that there is anyone left in cambodia that can read. When you exterminate about one third of your population and another hard core commie country invades you to stop the excesses, any kulak that survived is one lucky SOB. Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at December 09, 2025 01:04 AM (pcnhy) 203
Protestors throwing paint on art work are shot in this Spanish TV show
--- This would certainly change a few minds… _James Woods Some would say that this is a feel good clip. https://tinyurl.com/jn3zshra Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 01:04 AM (Ow52c) 204
Well, I am getting real sleepy. Time for a snooze. night, horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 01:06 AM (npFr7) 205
I recently met Alice Cooper at a meet-and-greet. I asked him why Frank Zappa didn't understand them when he produced their first record. I asked this because a documentary I saw said Zappa heard Alice Cooper's songs and said "I don't get it." That left the impression that Zappa didn't get them at all. So when I asked Cooper the question, he said, "Frank just didn't understand our arrangements. But he liked that it was confusing, because that would then confuse the listener, which Frank liked." Cooper was very engaging and polite. A really good guy. We took a photo of him choking me.
Posted by: Brisco County Sr at December 09, 2025 01:07 AM (A/tlT) 206
>>>>Well I do know the answer, and it’s a bit depressing. This is why all large democracies eventually devolve into some type of imperial model of government. That’s who ends up making the laws when the elected “representatives” quit doing it.
Posted by: Tom Servo --- Most refreshing thing of the ... maybe this century, is SCOTUS returning the right to hire and fire bureaucrats back to the president. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 01:09 AM (Ow52c) 207
203 Protestors throwing paint on art work are shot in this Spanish TV show
--- This would certainly change a few minds… _James Woods Some would say that this is a feel good clip. https://tinyurl.com/jn3zshra Posted by: Braenyard That's awful in the sense that I watched that several times with a smile on my face. I denounce myself. Now, back to watching that video again... Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 09, 2025 01:09 AM (sAmhv) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 01:13 AM (Ow52c) 209
Alice Cooper is in John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness, the grossest, most visually sickening movie ever made. Alice Cooper is also in Tim Burton's Dark Shadows. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 01:15 AM (MVEnt) 210
Some would say that this is a feel good clip.
https://tinyurl.com/jn3zshra Posted by: Braenyard That's awful in the sense that I watched that several times with a smile on my face. I denounce myself. Now, back to watching that video again... Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 09, 2025 01:09 AM (sAmhv) Definitely worth a few watches. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 01:17 AM (snZF9) 211
Braenyard, I liked that video. I hate to leave so early, but I am tired. Sweet dreams and see you tomorrow, Horde.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 09, 2025 01:17 AM (0nHVk) 212
Was hoping it was time to get up
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 01:22 AM (Ia/+0) 213
212 Was hoping it was time to get up
Posted by: Skip --- Hope you are putting away a lot of loot. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 01:32 AM (Ow52c) 214
Good evening, good people. Norm was on Fire!
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 09, 2025 01:38 AM (RR89A) 215
Zank Frappa was a much more a frothier musician than Frank.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 01:40 AM (mlg/3) 216
Still one independent agency left: the Federal Reserve, the one that's inflating all our dollars.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 09, 2025 01:40 AM (RR89A) 217
I love Frank Zappa, but Zappa saying he couldn't get someone's music is wild.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 01:41 AM (XV/Pl) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 01:44 AM (Ow52c) 219
How do you infuriate a male TRex?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 08, 2025 11:11 PM --- Ask him to play catch. Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 09, 2025 01:55 AM (DwYwN) 220
My harpsichord wants to maim your great aunt!
Posted by: Tranq Crappa at December 09, 2025 01:58 AM (6YPjt) 221
MY HARPSICHORD WANTS TO MAIM YOUR GREAT AUNT!!
Posted by: Tranq Crappa at December 09, 2025 02:01 AM (6YPjt) 222
Another stupid Stephen King story?
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 09, 2025 02:08 AM (sAmhv) 223
168 >>> His killer should have been executed.
--- And there's Nidal Hasan, murdered thirteen people on an army base in 2009, and still on death row. Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 09, 2025 02:13 AM (v3gtd) 224
216 Still one independent agency left: the Federal Reserve, the one that's inflating all our dollars.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 09, 2025 01:40 AM (RR89A) To end inflation, spend money on 1) a good or 2) a service to the greatest extent possible. Government is neither 1) nor 2). Also, pay down the debt. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 02:14 AM (4786I) 225
124 Today is the anniversary of Lennon's murder 45 years ago.
Posted by: Imagine That! at December 08, 2025 11:28 PM (oftw2) Assassination. 24 years later. Dimebag Darrell was assassinated in Cleveland. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 02:21 AM (4786I) 226
To end inflation, spend money on 1) a good or 2) a service to the greatest extent possible.
Is your mother available for hire? Posted by: just doing my part to end inflation at December 09, 2025 02:22 AM (AqM0I) Posted by: H. Young Man at December 09, 2025 03:13 AM (2Ez/1) 228
Pixy's up!
Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 04:01 AM (RuTUS) 229
"[...] folks who joke darkly that it was Ono who should have been shot [...]"
Ono had a rather large rack for her size (28H, see https://tinyurl.com/yokoonotits), so killing her would have been a crime against humanity. Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 09, 2025 05:58 AM (3k5hk) 230
Come on... that "bear" was obviously a guy in a bear costume. The only question: was the fight part of the act, or was he finally fed up with his stupid job?
Posted by: bradc at December 09, 2025 07:42 AM (FZ+y0) 231
The Notre Dame/Miami imbroglio was never more than a smokescreen. ESPN controls televised sports, and they are the network of the SEC. Notre Dame has their own television platform, and ESPN will do anything to squash the competition. In the past two years, every team that lost in their conference championship dropped in the CFP rankings; every single team except Alabama, the golden calf of the SEC. They got curb-stomped by Georgia, held to -3 yards rushing, and they didn't drop, thus keeping Notre Dame out of the CFP
Posted by: Roger DePoy at December 09, 2025 08:02 AM (wLtJD) 232
I will never forgive Frank Zappa for "Valley Girl." Few of my students can express a thought without peppering it with "like, like, like." Maddening.
Posted by: Gorthanc at December 09, 2025 10:48 AM (8Q86n) 233
My last salary was $8750, ecom only worked 12 hours a week. My longtime neighbor yr estimated $15,000 and works about 20 hours for seven days. I can't believe how blunt he was when I looked up his information,
This is what I do................ https://p0stpr0m0ney88.blogspot.com/ Posted by: HOME PROFIT at December 09, 2025 06:28 PM (+3dnj) Monday Cafe![]() by Guido Krüttgen Cat IT. This cat exemplifies the phenomenon of "fur children." Kids today, they just learn from the TV. Jealous dog. Dog wants more shiatsu massage. A dog sled in bizzaro world. Thwarting a chaos agent. More fun than popping bubble wrap. Must... destroy... Christmas...
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Good evening good people.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 08, 2025 07:21 PM (cYBz/) 2
Beautiful selection, Ace ...
Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic . . . at December 08, 2025 07:22 PM (3ZUWJ) 3
Evening, Ace, and Cafe patrons. Warmed up here today. I saw 37 degrees briefly while in the truck. Melting was happening.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 07:23 PM (npFr7) 4
Cat looking at Christmas tree, "I can climb that."
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:24 PM (2GVsD) 5
Good evening everyone
Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2025 07:26 PM (Ia/+0) 6
Actually, looking at the art on the wall, I think the cat got confused. Pollock would be an improvement.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:26 PM (2GVsD) 7
Cat looking at Christmas tree, "I can climb that."
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:24 PM (2GVsD) --- "I WILL CLIMB THAT!" Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2025 07:27 PM (ESVrU) 8
Since when can you take your dog on a commercial flight?
Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2025 07:27 PM (Ia/+0) 9
Wonder what the picture at the top is?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 08, 2025 07:27 PM (pkeXY) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:29 PM (2GVsD) 11
Perfessor, I don't know if you saw this earlier -- a suggestion for a future Book Thread:
https://youtu.be/qZWCNVLd44Y Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 08, 2025 07:29 PM (PiwSw) 12
Actually, looking at the art on the wall, I think the cat got confused. Pollock would be an improvement.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:26 PM (2GVsD) Pollock? Yum. Codfish OK, too. Posted by: Kitties, everywhere at December 08, 2025 07:29 PM (npFr7) 13
The picture finally comes into focus, thanks Ace.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:30 PM (2GVsD) 14
Wonder what the picture at the top is?
Tis a mystery wrapped in an enigma swaddled by a puzzle. Oh, it loaded! That's a nice winter landscape. I can't help but being ever so slight disappointed because when I read the title of the broken link I though it said "Guido Kitten" and I was looking forward to seeing what that was. But it's a very nice picture anyway. Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 08, 2025 07:32 PM (a+4eV) Posted by: Tonypete at December 08, 2025 07:32 PM (cYBz/) 16
If I lived in a house with a cat and the Christmas tree kept ending up on the floor I wouldn't need a hidden camera to clue me in on the reason.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 07:32 PM (6ydKt) 17
Love the pic on the top.
Fabulous contrast and the fog looks amazing. Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 07:33 PM (6ydKt) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:33 PM (2GVsD) 19
Perfessor, I don't know if you saw this earlier -- a suggestion for a future Book Thread:
https://youtu.be/qZWCNVLd44Y Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 08, 2025 07:29 PM (PiwSw) --- Meh. Other than the obvious attractions, not much substance to fuel a conversation on the Book Thread... Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2025 07:35 PM (ESVrU) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:35 PM (2GVsD) 21
That picture at the top, I have been down roads like that before. Some of my relatives live (lived) very rural. One cousin lived so far out that the county built a bridge over a creek so the school bus could pick them up without making a 20 mile detour.
Posted by: clarence at December 08, 2025 07:35 PM (zBC00) 22
If I lived in a house with a cat and the Christmas tree kept ending up on the floor I wouldn't need a hidden camera to clue me in on the reason.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 07:32 PM (6ydKt) --- Yeah, you really don't need Nancy Drew or Encyclopedia Brown to crack this case. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2025 07:36 PM (ESVrU) 23
Russian space program: Too much vodka or not enough? Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 07:37 PM (w6EFb) 24
Isn't Dago Kraut giardiniera?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 07:37 PM (rbvCR) 25
German engineering with an Italian flair.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:33 PM (2GVsD) Karmann Ghia: rust, invented by the Italians, but perfected by the Germans. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 07:38 PM (npFr7) 26
And then Ford bought the Ghia design bureau. And after the Mustang II Ghia, they were never heard from again.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:39 PM (2GVsD) Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 07:40 PM (w6EFb) 28
Evening.
Okay, why is YouTube giving me ads for men's underwear with fucking boner pockets? I keep trying to block the ads but I still get bulging packages in my feed. What the fuck?!? Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 08, 2025 07:40 PM (xt2dn) 29
>>>Love at 20,000 feet.
I like the final look at the end where the dog on the floor looks to its owner and says (with its eyes), you see how the other dog is loved by its owner and held lovingly in their lap while here I sit on the cold, dirty floor. Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 08, 2025 07:40 PM (syz1S) 30
Russian space program: Too much vodka or not enough?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 07:37 PM (w6EFb) Kosmodrome blew up on the last launch and the Russians are wondering what to do about it. The only working orbital programs now are SpaceX and the Chinese, and the Chinese use non-standard docking equipment and apparently are unwilling to share the dimensions and specs with SpaceX. This could be a problem as the Chinese astronauts may not have a functioning return craft right now. Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 07:40 PM (rbvCR) 31
Willowed
but do we really want people fired without cause? Key phrase- without cause. Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 08, 2025 07:01 PM (MZ+PY) Yes. Posted by: Pete Bog at December 08, 2025 07:31 PM (Kkaqr) Listen to me! It’s important! Posted by: Pete Bog at December 08, 2025 07:40 PM (Kkaqr) 32
And then Ford bought the Ghia design bureau. And after the Mustang II Ghia, they were never heard from again.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:39 PM (2GVsD) Wasn't there a Ford Granada Ghia, too? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 07:41 PM (npFr7) 33
25 German engineering with an Italian flair.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:33 PM (2GVsD) Karmann Ghia: rust, invented by the Italians, but perfected by the Germans. ---- Fix It Again, Totenkopf Posted by: clarence at December 08, 2025 07:41 PM (zBC00) 34
25 German engineering with an Italian flair.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:33 PM (2GVsD) Karmann Ghia: rust, invented by the Italians, but perfected by the Germans. ---- Fix It Again, Totenkopf Posted by: clarence at December 08, 2025 07:41 PM (zBC00) 35
Didn't the Russians just crunk a Soyuz?
And yeah the PRC thinks stranding a crew aboard their station is just okay. Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:42 PM (2GVsD) 36
>>That picture at the top, I have been down roads like that before. Some of my relatives live (lived) very rural. One cousin lived so far out that the county built a bridge over a creek so the school bus could pick them up without making a 20 mile detour.
My parent's farm in Vermont was many miles on a dirt road up the side of a mountain. It wasn't quite that narrow but I can relate. They would shop for needs weeks at a time in winter cause running out for a last minute need was going to happen. Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 07:43 PM (viF8m) 37
This could be a problem as the Chinese astronauts may not have a functioning return craft right now.
Posted by: Kindltot That sounds like China's problem. Are they refusing to share the dimension hoping that SpaceX will guess, be wrong, and kill everyone on the return craft and space station? Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 08, 2025 07:43 PM (a+4eV) 38
And yeah the PRC thinks stranding a crew aboard their station is just okay.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:42 PM (2GVsD) Well, if SpaceX sends up a craft to rescue them, they will simply have to do a space wok. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 07:44 PM (npFr7) 39
This could be a problem as the Chinese astronauts may not have a functioning return craft right now.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 07:40 PM (rbvCR) Who'd have thought 20 years ago that Elon Musk would be the only guy competent enough to get to space reliably? And he blows up about a third of his stuff on the launchpad. Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 07:44 PM (6ydKt) 40
32 And then Ford bought the Ghia design bureau. And after the Mustang II Ghia, they were never heard from again.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:39 PM (2GVsD) Wasn't there a Ford Granada Ghia, too? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 07:41 PM (npFr7) I had a Grenada but not a Ghia. I think mine was a Rufus. Posted by: Eromero at December 08, 2025 07:44 PM (LHPAg) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:45 PM (2GVsD) 42
>> Kosmodrome blew up on the last launch and the Russians are wondering what to do about it.
I saw that. Sergei didn't secure something and it got blasted in the flame trench. Did Sergei have too much vodka or not enough, I wonder. There's going to be a problem with keeping the ISS boosted due to drag. The Soyuz does that. They can use some of their own thrusters on one of the modules, but that takes fuel, which has to come from a Soyuz. Also something about attitude control, and de-saturating the momentum gyros or something. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 07:45 PM (w6EFb) 43
n't
Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 07:45 PM (viF8m) 44
>> And he blows up about a third of his stuff on the launchpad.
The experimental stuff. Dragon and Falcon are all reliable old hat now. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 07:46 PM (w6EFb) 45
One of the things apparently popping up this year are a new generation of Christmas-themed yard inflatables.
Among them are inflatable penguins. Resist this attempt by Big Penguin to normalize their polymorphically-perverse and mephitic presence amongst us, particularly in the Christmas season. If these symbols of perversity are to be displayed at all, it should be during June. Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 08, 2025 07:46 PM (0sNs1) Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 08, 2025 07:46 PM (syz1S) 47
Wasn't there a Ford Granada Ghia, too?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 07:41 PM (npFr7) I had a Grenada but not a Ghia. I think mine was a Rufus. Posted by: Eromero at December 08, 2025 07:44 PM (LHPAg) My father bought a Granada in '76. In the shop twice for transmission shift cable issues, and then trouble-free for years. The seats held up real well. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 07:47 PM (npFr7) 48
Whoohoo! Raining and windy with gusts up
To 42 kts! Boat ride home is gonna be LIT! Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 07:47 PM (VDe78) 49
Plans for the highly anticipated "Pengmetheus" movie were scuttled by Big Penguin because of the obvious polymorphicly perverse parallels between the activities of the mighty mephitic menace and those of the fictional "Engineers".
Posted by: Penguin Facts at December 08, 2025 07:47 PM (vFG9F) 50
The picture looks like my home city right now. It's going down to 7° overnight. My morning walk isn't going to be too long
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 07:48 PM (bfwj/) 51
Nurse Ratched is going to re-enact the Flying Dutchman in the Roaring Forties?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:49 PM (2GVsD) 52
Just reading. SpaceX and Dragon can do the reboosting, but it's the gyro desaturating for attitude control that is entirely dependent on the Rooskie Soyuz. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 07:49 PM (w6EFb) 53
The experimental stuff. Dragon and Falcon are all reliable old hat now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 07:46 PM (w6EFb) There were a lot of rapid unscheduled disasemblies for those before they got old and reliable. Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 07:49 PM (6ydKt) 54
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Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 07:45 PM (w6EFb) I quipped to someone that will be covered in the 29th point of the Russia - Ukraine peace agreement Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 07:49 PM (rbvCR) 55
And he blows up about a third of his stuff on the launchpad.
Posted by: SpeakingOf That's part of the fun. Posted by: some kid at December 08, 2025 07:51 PM (v0R5T) 56
45 One of the things apparently popping up this year are a new generation of Christmas-themed yard inflatables.
Among them are inflatable penguins. Resist this attempt by Big Penguin to normalize their polymorphically-perverse and mephitic presence amongst us, particularly in the Christmas season. If these symbols of perversity are to be displayed at all, it should be during June. Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 08, 2025 07:46 PM (0sNs1) The Cohen Bros wanted were strong armed by big penguin during the making of Fargo....so the one penguin in the movie was chummed through the chipper. Posted by: Eromero at December 08, 2025 07:51 PM (LHPAg) 57
8 Since when can you take your dog on a commercial flight?
Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2025 07:27 PM (Ia/+0) That was a train. "Since when can you cake your dog on a train?" is probably still a valid question. Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 07:51 PM (R256O) Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 08, 2025 07:52 PM (syz1S) 59
57 here today, 63 tomorrow. There is another cold front on the way but not for a few days.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 08, 2025 07:52 PM (+mUZM) 60
"What about a gorilla on a train?" - Eddie Murphy.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:52 PM (2GVsD) 61
I saw an inflatable penguin humping an inflatable snowman right in front of an inflatable Mrs Santa Claus. Those things have no shame.
Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 07:53 PM (vFG9F) 62
Deep thought
Black and White photos always make them more artistic but a black and white painting is boring and seems unfinished. Posted by: the way I see it at December 08, 2025 07:53 PM (KDPiq) 63
57 here today, 63 tomorrow. There is another cold front on the way but not for a few days.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 08, 2025 07:52 PM (+mUZM) Did you get hit by that cold snap that went through last week? Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 07:54 PM (rbvCR) 64
16 If I lived in a house with a cat and the Christmas tree kept ending up on the floor I wouldn't need a hidden camera to clue me in on the reason.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 07:32 PM (6ydKt) I've had to anchor Christmas trees to the wall with string to prevent inexplicable midnight crashes. I wasn't sure if the problem was the cat or the Jameson I put in the tree stand. Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 07:54 PM (R256O) 65
I'll just hold my dog, he will be fine for a 45 minute commute
Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2025 07:54 PM (Ia/+0) 66
Soyuz undocking in 22 minutes, and reentry in 2:30. The Soyuz returns pretty quickly after undocking. There's always the possible Soyuz reentry can get sporty, if Sergei forgot something. There have been a couple of wild, 8g "ballistic reentries", including one where Don Pettit took quite a ride. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 07:54 PM (w6EFb) 67
I saw an inflatable penguin humping an inflatable snowman right in front of an inflatable Mrs Santa Claus. Those things have no shame.
Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 07:53 PM (vFG9F) Lecture bottle of hydrogen. Flaming arrow. Some assembly required. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 07:54 PM (npFr7) 68
Yeah, a dusting of snow that is gone now. PNW is supposed to get hit with heavy rains next, so you are in for fun! Was nice today to go outside with one less layer on.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 08, 2025 07:55 PM (+mUZM) 69
>>Let me tell you how it's going to be
You're gonna give your love to me https://tinyurl.com/b3zcekwv Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 07:56 PM (viF8m) 70
One of my favorites was a when the Roscosmos people blamed "women drivers" for some Soyuz mishap. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 07:57 PM (w6EFb) 71
Where the hell is Beeks?!
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 08, 2025 07:57 PM (0aYVJ) 72
Yeah, a dusting of snow that is gone now. PNW is supposed to get hit with heavy rains next, so you are in for fun! Was nice today to go outside with one less layer on.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 08, 2025 07:55 PM (+mUZM) After one nice mild day, we have a Winter storm warning for southern Alberta. Maybe all the moisture that Nurse R is seeing will find its way over the rocks. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 07:57 PM (npFr7) 73
28 Evening.
Okay, why is YouTube giving me ads for men's underwear with fucking boner pockets? I keep trying to block the ads but I still get bulging packages in my feed. What the fuck?!? Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 08, 2025 07:40 PM (xt2dn) Sometimes the algorithm knows you better than you know yourself. Or it's your NSA monitor messing with your head. Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 07:57 PM (R256O) 74
Deep thought
Black and White photos always make them more artistic but a black and white painting is boring and seems unfinished. Posted by: the way I see it My photography professor in college counseled: "Print in B&W. If it's no good, print it bigger. If it's still no good, print in color." Posted by: Tonypete at December 08, 2025 07:57 PM (cYBz/) Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 07:59 PM (zZu0s) 76
Guido Kruttgen must be one of those Mountain Guineas I've heard about.
Posted by: Archie Bunker at December 08, 2025 07:59 PM (oftw2) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:00 PM (2GVsD) 78
AOP,
Ryan Hall was showing another cold front up next, but they are blowing through. Somaliland seems to be getting most of the snow. Good chance to see the auroras coming up too Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 08, 2025 08:00 PM (+mUZM) 79
50 The picture looks like my home city right now. It's going down to 7° overnight. My morning walk isn't going to be too long
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 07:48 PM I'd love to drive on that road for a short while, then I'd want to arrive home to a warm supper and some good bourbon, with Mrs. E and our two cats. Posted by: Eromero at December 08, 2025 08:00 PM (LHPAg) 80
Sometimes the algorithm knows you better than you know yourself.
Or it's your NSA monitor messing with your head. Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 07:57 PM (R256O) Fucking NSA, maaaaan! Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 08, 2025 08:00 PM (xt2dn) 81
>>I'll just hold my dog, he will be fine for a 45 minute commute
That can cause kidney issues. Let your dog out when he needs it. Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 08:00 PM (viF8m) 82
From a NY Times article:
Russia’s Soyuz rockets and capsules have proven highly reliable for more than half a century. But they rely on antiquated technologies and procedures. The service platform, which rolls from its position beneath the rocket into the shelter about an hour before launch, may have been dislodged because someone forgot to put in a stopper to prevent it from rolling back out. “They were supposed to have brakes on those rails,” Mr. Zak said. Technicians install those brakes manually, Mr. Zak said, a step that has been routinely performed for more than 1,600 Soyuz launches. It is also possible that a mechanical failure caused the mishap, he said. You had one job! Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 08:00 PM (6ydKt) 83
So the hance of flash frozen Somalis is high?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:00 PM (2GVsD) 84
I saw an inflatable penguin humping an inflatable snowman right in front of an inflatable Mrs Santa Claus. Those things have no shame.
Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 07:53 PM (vFG9F) --- Who knew that Mrs. Claus was a voyeuristic freak? Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2025 08:01 PM (ESVrU) 85
47 AOP, I had a 76 Grenada. Kinda different with three speed stick on the floor with OD. Also had the little Ford straight six (200 CI ?). Very dependable but the Ohio Rust monster got it.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 08:02 PM (gm9Sb) 86
AOP, if you're in charge of the Clipper Spigot or Valve or whatever, please turn it off at your earliest convenience.
Thank you for your attention to this matter. Posted by: Chiller Theater at December 08, 2025 08:02 PM (oftw2) 87
I've had to anchor Christmas trees to the wall with string to prevent inexplicable midnight crashes. I wasn't sure if the problem was the cat or the Jameson I put in the tree stand.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 07:54 PM (R256O) I'd think drunk trees are extremely flammable. Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 08:03 PM (6ydKt) 88
That's a train interior, not an aircraft.
Posted by: Ib1netmon at December 08, 2025 08:04 PM (vTTFR) 89
If dogs are good, I don't mind them too much out in public.
My dogs aren't well trained enough. I recognize that and would never consider taking them where they would annoy/slobber upon/hump strangers or other dogs or merchandise. Unfortunately, lots of people also have dogs who aren't well trained, but they think their precious can accompany them everywhere all the same. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 08, 2025 08:04 PM (zYpTz) 90
So, what is the worst Christmas song? My nominees are Wonderful Christmastime by McCartney, Last Christmas by Wham. I also have problems with Where Are You, Christmas just because it is associated with thst abominable Grinch movie directed by Ron Howard (not a very good song anyway) and Do You Hear What I Hear because the king in the last verse did not react anything like the actual King Herod did at the time.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 08:05 PM (R256O) 91
. . . but it's the gyro desaturating for attitude control that is entirely dependent on the Rooskie Soyuz.
Posted by: publius Yes, quite. That's what I was thinking also. Posted by: Tonypete at December 08, 2025 08:05 PM (cYBz/) 92
I can drive roads like that all around here but usually don't drive them with snow or mud. I love how little traffic thereis here
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 08, 2025 08:05 PM (+mUZM) 93
The cat being carried in the crook of the lady's arm while she prepares pasta for dinner is remarkably calm. I've rarely known a cat who would consent to being carried like that for more than a few moments.
The tree crash video: Did I miss the perp? Their cat, I guess, but I couldn't see it. And what were those lights zipping across the screen near the end? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:06 PM (wzUl9) 94
Yeah, there's so much snow headed to MN that you wonder if any of them will just leave.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 08, 2025 08:08 PM (+mUZM) 95
AOP, I had a 76 Grenada. Kinda different with three speed stick on the floor with OD. Also had the little Ford straight six (200 CI ?). Very dependable but the Ohio Rust monster got it.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 *** I had a similar car as my first, a '75 four-door Ford Maverick. It was an auto, but with the 250 CID six. Loved it after years and years of riding buses. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:09 PM (wzUl9) 96
83 So the hance of flash frozen Somalis is high?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:00 PM (2GVsD) Minnesota has a Warming our Way program that pays out enough for coats & blankets for 1,000,000,000 people. Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 08:09 PM (6ydKt) 97
The cat being carried in the crook of the lady's arm while she prepares pasta for dinner is remarkably calm. I've rarely known a cat who would consent to being carried like that for more than a few moments.
... Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:06 PM (wzUl9) Our recently departed black kitty Scout LOVED to be carried around. She was like a regal queen in a sedan. Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 08, 2025 08:09 PM (0aYVJ) 98
Past bed time, at least not driving a long distance tomorrow
Have a good night everyone Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2025 08:09 PM (Ia/+0) 99
After intense lobbying by Big Penguin, the name "Chinstrap Penguin" was adopted as a replacement for the original name of this Sphenisciform that was based on its bizarre method of reproduction that led them to initially being named the "Chestburster Penguin".
Posted by: Penguin Facts at December 08, 2025 08:10 PM (vFG9F) 100
So, what is the worst Christmas song?
Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 08:05 PM (R256O) I'll answer in a slightly different way -- worst song played during the Christmas season. "My Favorite Things" -- because it's not a Christmas song!!! Posted by: Doof at December 08, 2025 08:10 PM (XnlIn) 101
Water well has gone out. Cleaned the contacts but it didn't help. Looked at the other wiring and didn't see any ants or corrosion Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 08, 2025 08:10 PM (tgvbd) 102
Evenin’, All.
Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 08:12 PM (77rzZ) 103
"GLOBAL WARMING" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We are going to DIE before Christmas !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Posted by: Jackson at December 08, 2025 08:12 PM (J9q9v) 104
I will inflate my penis but most certainly not a penguin. One is Christmas related and one is not. Pretty simple.
Posted by: GigantorX at December 08, 2025 08:13 PM (x8k2o) 105
I loathe most of the non-traditional carols. They range from tedious to execrable. Christmas in Hollis being a notable exception. Also, Christmas with the Devil.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 08, 2025 08:13 PM (0aYVJ) 106
Granada was the last Ford model built at the Ford Plant in Mahwah, NJ. Notorious for absenteeism, wasted workers, poor fit and finish. You wouldn't think most of your workers could be hillbillies 30 miles from NYC, but they were.
Posted by: Jackson Whites at December 08, 2025 08:13 PM (oftw2) Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 08:13 PM (w6EFb) 108
Do You Hear What I Hear because the king in the last verse did not react anything like the actual King Herod did at the time.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 08:05 PM (R256O) Little Drummer Boy. Not only contra-Biblical, but the lyrics are so damned twee and childish. I will say I heard a jazz combo do an instrumental version that was quite fine. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 08:14 PM (npFr7) 109
I need to find Weird Al's "Christmas at Ground Zero." I remember liking that one.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 08, 2025 08:14 PM (0aYVJ) 110
Not to be outdone by his fellow Beatle, John Lennon released the joy suck of a Christmas Diddy, Happy Christmas (War Is Over) to the chagrin of the multitudes.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 08:15 PM (R256O) 111
So, what is the worst Christmas song?
Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 08:05 PM (R256O) --- I'm going with something about Santa. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 08:15 PM (krQz2) 112
When I was a kid, I read a book about the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. Iced in on one expedition, penguins harvested with a club became one of their staples. Lutefisk with feathers.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 08:15 PM (gm9Sb) 113
Nobody says that you can’t play non-Christmas music during the Christmas season.
Dvorak’s 5th Symphony is a great listen during the holiday season. Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 08:15 PM (77rzZ) Posted by: lin-duh at December 08, 2025 08:16 PM (VCgbV) 115
I loathe most of the non-traditional carols. They range from tedious to execrable.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 08, 2025 08:13 PM (0aYVJ) --- Just not Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 08:16 PM (krQz2) 116
61, fd
Removes gold snuff-box from pocket of white-silk waistcoat, takes a pinch, sneezes violently (causing powdered wig to fall on the floor; picks up and restores same to its original position), grasps lapels of bottle-green swallowtail coat and eyes fd benevolently My dear fellow! I pray that I do not give you offense - for I would not, for all this vile world, do harm to your amour propre - but a lifelong devotion to truth and reason compels me to correct your fraudulent observations with respect to penguins, inflatable or otherwise. You are not – I plead with you, sir! – to take this as a hot-tempered animadversion upon your cognitive ability, but rather as a gentle admonition designed to spare you the rough usage of my fellows, more boisterous than myself, who would not quibble to make sport of those raving asseverations with which, in the zeal of your irrational Spheniscidaphobia, you have blotted your copybook. Therefore, confident in your capacity to accept the truth when you are clouted with a clue-by-four, I tell you, sir – and I mean this in the kindliest possible sense – that you are talking through the back of your neck. Posted by: Paco at December 08, 2025 08:17 PM (2L+MU) 117
Little Drummer Boy. Not only contra-Biblical, but the lyrics are so damned twee and childish.
I will say I heard a jazz combo do an instrumental version that was quite fine. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 08:14 PM (npFr7) I would like to hear a version featuring Dave Lombardo (Slayer). Jesus wept. Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 08, 2025 08:17 PM (0aYVJ) 118
Diana to the doggie chiropractor today. Her weight is up to 63 pounds and she needed very little adjusting. We get a session report after every visit. It will include something like, "Diana is very sweet and loves attention." But our guys are trained to stand still while being examined. I bet they get some real winners. "Fluffy is dangerously psychotic." Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 08, 2025 08:17 PM (tgvbd) 119
That picture reminds me of the song Take The Long Way Home.
Posted by: Case at December 08, 2025 08:18 PM (G1OIb) 120
I had a similar car as my first, a '75 four-door Ford Maverick. It was an auto, but with the 250 CID six. Loved it after years and years of riding buses.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Mavericks were decent cars for their time. Kind of a Son-of-Falcon. Tried and true. Rust was an issue as it was with almost all cars of the time. Posted by: Ford Has A Better Idea at December 08, 2025 08:18 PM (oftw2) 121
AOP, I HATE Little Drummer Boy, and the stupid Rsnkin-Bass special they did to go with it.
Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 08:18 PM (77rzZ) 122
When I was a kid, I read a book about the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. Iced in on one expedition, penguins harvested with a club became one of their staples. Lutefisk with feathers.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 08:15 PM (gm9Sb) What goes well with flipper pie? Canadian Club. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 08:19 PM (npFr7) 123
106 Car plants are magnets. When GM opened the Lordstown Assembly plant in Ohio (first for Firebirds, then downhill with Vegas and Caddy Cimarrons) the whole area took on a Hardin County KY vibe.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 08:19 PM (gm9Sb) 124
Thx guys the brainworm of "Grandma got run over by a Reindeer" is at work
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 08:19 PM (bfwj/) 125
Our recently departed black kitty Scout LOVED to be carried around. She was like a regal queen in a sedan. Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 08, 2025 08:09 PM (0aYVJ) Our black Madison loves being carried around with back and front legs draped over my arm and her face in my hand. She started as a kitten when both her back legs were broken. Posted by: Eromero at December 08, 2025 08:21 PM (LHPAg) 126
"I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" has got to be on the naughty list.
I grew up with "The Chipmunk Christmas Song" ("Please, Christmas, Don't Be Late"), so I really can't hate it. Alvin is such a juvenile delinquent; he's funny. I like The Carpenters' 'Merry Christmas, Darling" and their version of "Do You Hear What I Hear" more for Karen's voice than anything particular about the songs. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:21 PM (wzUl9) 127
A great line :
Mary gives birth to the son of God and is exhausted. A kid comes along and says "what this woman needs is a drum solo" Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 08:22 PM (bfwj/) 128
Both the beloved Chilly Willy and Tennessee Tuxedo had walrus sidekicks and best friends. This never happens in the wild, but with our Great Northern Expansion now in the works, we will together make this a reality.
Posted by: Excelsior! On To Greenland! at December 08, 2025 08:22 PM (oftw2) 129
I like The Carpenters' 'Merry Christmas, Darling" and their version of "Do You Hear What I Hear" more for Karen's voice than anything particular about the songs.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:21 PM (wzUl9) I think "Do You Hear What InHear" is a beautiful song and there are many fine renditions, it just loses me at the end. Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 08:23 PM (R256O) 130
126 Wolfus, Karen’s voice was angelic.
I hope that she’s rightfully singing with the angels now. Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 08:23 PM (77rzZ) 131
Mavericks were decent cars for their time. Kind of a Son-of-Falcon. Tried and true. Rust was an issue as it was with almost all cars of the time.
Posted by: Ford Has A Better Idea at December 08, 2025 *** I didn't have it long enough for rust to crop up. It was not strongly powered, and while it had power steering, it did not have power brakes. Came with only an AM radio, too. I'd probably find it tinny and ridiculous now, but at the time I loved it, and it served me well. And I learned a lot about how to maintain cars on it. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:23 PM (wzUl9) 132
90 So, what is the worst Christmas song?
Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 08:05 PM (R256O) _________________________________ Believe it or not, back in the day I did a Christmas song, but no one would play it. In the flavor of a Dickens style Christmas, I kidnapped nearly 60 orphans and lined them up in stocks in my basement. I then hit them in the kneecaps with a wooden mallet so they would scream. Each had a distinctive call of distress. It took a while, but I placed them to create a three octave scale. But, I have to tell you, it wasn't perfect. No matter how hard I tried, I never found a C-sharp. So, I had to alter the music little. The Radio stations refused to play it. Which is horse manure since they used to play that dog barking Jingle Bells nonsense all the time. Anyone can do that. Oh, wait, you meant the song itself. I thought you were asked what was the worst Christmas song referring to the performers. Never mind. Posted by: Orson at December 08, 2025 08:24 PM (dIske) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:24 PM (2GVsD) 134
You wouldn't think most of your workers could be hillbillies 30 miles from NYC, but they were.
Posted by: Jackson Whites And yet, Toyota has some of it's assembly plants in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Kentucky. It's magic I tell you!! Posted by: Tonypete at December 08, 2025 08:25 PM (cYBz/) 135
Mississippi has Nissan in Canton.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:25 PM (2GVsD) 136
Thx guys the brainworm of "Grandma got run over by a Reindeer" is at work
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 *** C'mon, guys, it's funny. "We're all so proud of Grandpa; He's been taking this so well. See him in there watching football, Drinking beer and playing cards with Cousin Mel." "And we just can't help but wonder . . . Should we open up her gifts or send them back?" Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:26 PM (wzUl9) 137
Well, I am going to head out to a public meeting on the matter of Alberta sovereignty. And play "spot the Glowie"?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 08:27 PM (npFr7) 138
97 The cat being carried in the crook of the lady's arm while she prepares pasta for dinner is remarkably calm. I've rarely known a cat who would consent to being carried like that for more than a few moments.
... Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius Ummmm. That’s a dude. Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 08:27 PM (mT+6a) Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 08:27 PM (viF8m) 140
My favorite Christmas song is "O Holy Night" as sung by Robert Guillaume (Benson). The lyrics and his delivery match well.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 08:27 PM (gm9Sb) 141
Glowie - "Alberta uber alles!"
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:28 PM (2GVsD) 142
Let’s face it, there’s an awful lot of bad music piggybacking on Christmas.
Just stick with the religious carols and the secular ones based on the traditional celebration of the season (e.g., “Deck the Halls” Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 08:29 PM (77rzZ) Posted by: No UAW at December 08, 2025 08:30 PM (oftw2) 144
Canuck glowies, trying to gain your confidence and favor, passing out Tim Hortons and beer. Mostly beer.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 08:30 PM (gm9Sb) Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 08:31 PM (MVEnt) 146
Wolfus, Karen’s voice was angelic.
I hope that she’s rightfully singing with the angels now. Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 *** In an SF story of mine, I have a close-knit Finnish family traveling out to the stars in the 2900s. They celebrate Christmas in Finnish style, but they love the ancient "carols" such as one by "a singer whose name was also a word in English, 'Carpenter.' " Originally I had them listening to "Merry Christmas, Darling." But it didn't fit the worshipful tone of the scene; so I quoted the verse from DYHWIH about the shepherd boy telling the king of the Child shivering in the cold. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:31 PM (wzUl9) 147
"Feed the world.
Posted by: JackStraw" It takes a very special Christmas song to make me feel murderous. Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 08:32 PM (vFG9F) 148
Who knew that Mrs. Claus was a voyeuristic freak?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2025 08:01 PM Another conquest for Big Penguin. Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 08, 2025 08:33 PM (0sNs1) 149
Santa's Using Zebras Now (South of Timbuktu) is one I haven't heard since we sang it in 8th Grade Chorus (196
Posted by: Yikes! Stripes! at December 08, 2025 08:33 PM (oftw2) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:33 PM (2GVsD) Posted by: IrishEi at December 08, 2025 08:33 PM (3ImbR) 152
"Feed the world.
Posted by: JackStraw" It takes a very special Christmas song to make me feel murderous. Posted by: fd And that one is it. Posted by: Tonypete at December 08, 2025 08:33 PM (cYBz/) 153
The cat being carried in the crook of the lady's arm while she prepares pasta for dinner is remarkably calm. I've rarely known a cat who would consent to being carried like that for more than a few moments.
... Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius * Ummmm. That’s a dude. Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 *** A very feminine dude, then, or a very masculine woman. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:33 PM (wzUl9) 154
The cat being carried in the crook of the lady's arm while she prepares pasta for dinner is remarkably calm. I've rarely known a cat who would consent to being carried like that for more than a few moments.
... Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius Ummmm. That’s a dude. Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 08:27 PM (mT+6a) Cat lady, its how they look. lol Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 08:34 PM (snZF9) 155
LURKING IN THE DISMAL FOG
Posted by: Slayer at December 08, 2025 08:34 PM (4786I) 156
Christmas carols Like: Hark! the Herald Angels Sing (because Mendelssohn) O Holy Night Don't like: Everything else Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 08, 2025 08:34 PM (tgvbd) 157
146 Puusuppa?
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 08:34 PM (gm9Sb) 158
I would like ace, and all of uz to see this, if have not already - our next Precident !
https://tinyurl.com/43xtaten Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 08:34 PM (g47mK) 159
151 So, what is the worst Christmas song?
~~~~~ All I Want for Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey. Posted by: IrishEi at December 08, 2025 08:33 PM (3ImbR) Shop at my store and hear five million covers of it. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 08:35 PM (4786I) 160
Paco, I only reported what I saw of a penguin in the wild. If they would keep it behind closed doors I would not care at all.
Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 08:35 PM (vFG9F) 161
151 So, what is the worst Christmas song?
~~~~~ All I Want for Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey. Posted by: IrishEi at December 08, 2025 08:33 PM (3ImbR) Nadine, I just want you for my own more than you will ever know How I love to love Nadine Posted by: Randall Flagg at December 08, 2025 08:35 PM (4786I) 162
I cued it up, but Do Not Watch It. Ace will probably post it tomorrow, or eventually. But that idiot racist Democrat shithead fake "lawyer" jizzmine ratchet made some sort of amateur-ish terrible overly-dramatic silly-cutsie-disgusting video of her black-nouncing* her candidacy for US Senate in Texas. https://is.gd/u0r55j *black-nounce, or blacknounce, is a term I just coined that means a black ratchet makes an announcement of something stupid they're about to do in embarrassing fasion. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 08:36 PM (MVEnt) 163
>>It takes a very special Christmas song to make me feel murderous.
I like a lot of music many of you don't. Personal taste. It takes a very special song to piss me off. This one literally makes me angry. Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 08:37 PM (viF8m) 164
151 So, what is the worst Christmas song?
~~~~~ All I Want for Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey. Posted by: IrishEi at December 08, 2025 08:33 PM (3ImbR) Mr. O’Brien Is Coming To Town He knows when you’ve been ungood or good So be doubleplusgood for goodness sakes Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 08:37 PM (4786I) 165
Puusuppa?
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 *** That must be a Finnish word; the twin "U" letters are kind of a giveaway. No idea what it means. I researched certain things about Finnish culture, and even corresponded with a Finnish lady who has a blog about life in Helsinki. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:38 PM (wzUl9) 166
121 AOP, I HATE Little Drummer Boy, and the stupid Rsnkin-Bass special they did to go with it. Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 08:18 PM ------ Was that claymation, and the Little Drummer Boy looked like the Tums mascot? Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 08, 2025 08:38 PM (VWtfl) 167
I would like to Feed The World Dominick The Italian Christmas Donkey.
Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 08:38 PM (vFG9F) 168
Just because someone had a bad Boxing Day doesn’t mean we should be tortured sonically about it. Choose wisely next time.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 08:38 PM (4786I) Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 08:40 PM (4786I) 170
Walking in a nuclear winter wonderland…
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 08:40 PM (4786I) 171
Nadine, I just want you for my own more than you will ever know
How I love to love Nadine Posted by: Randall Flagg at December 08, 2025 *** "Movin' through the traffic like a mounted Cavalier, Leanin' out the taxi window, tryin' to make her hear, Nadine!!!" Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:41 PM (wzUl9) 172
165 I had to go down a dim memory lane for that one. Mom and Dad never encouraged me to learn Finn. I think they wanted to keep it for their own secret code. Kinda funny with childhood friends like Arvo, Seppo, and Gunnar.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 08:41 PM (gm9Sb) 173
Walking in a nuclear winter wonderland…
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 *** "Walkin' 'round in women's underwear . . ." Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:41 PM (wzUl9) 174
167 I would like to Feed The World Dominick The Italian Christmas Donkey.
Posted by: fd But you like my other Christmas hit "Pepino the Italian Mouse", right? Posted by: Lou Monte at December 08, 2025 08:42 PM (oftw2) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:42 PM (2GVsD) 176
What the hell are we doing?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 08:42 PM (zZu0s) 177
That opening photo is really beautiful.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 08, 2025 08:43 PM (Da7Vv) 178
No one has said the John and Yoko Happy Xmas (War is Over) song yet? I vote for that one as worst. And also "Grandma Got Run over by a Reindeer."
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 08, 2025 08:43 PM (6p0Jv) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:43 PM (2GVsD) 180
Since it's more likely to be hot here in December than wintry, I've devised my own lyrics to "Winter Wonderland":
"Later on, we'll perspire -- 'Is that A/C? Turn it higher!' We drive and we grump O'er potholes and bumps, Sweating in a sticky swampy land!" Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:43 PM (wzUl9) 181
But you like my other Christmas hit "Pepino the Italian Mouse", right?
Posted by: Lou Monte at December 08, 2025 08:42 PM (oftw2) Oh God. No. Now I have that in my head. You fuck. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 08:44 PM (zZu0s) 182
Star Trek is on. It's the one with Surak the Sucker.
Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 08:44 PM (vFG9F) 183
The Scandis invented rap.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 08:44 PM (7XNVR) 184
Yeah, a dusting of snow that is gone now. PNW is supposed to get hit with heavy rains next, so you are in for fun! Was nice today to go outside with one less layer on.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 08, 2025 07:55 PM (+mUZM) it has been raining and blowing all day long, it has been fabulous. Not cold, just wet. I got my walk in today rain and all. There is a flood watch of some sort going on, but it will be more than a couple of days before it gets serious. Just another glorious rain storm that lasts a week! Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 08:44 PM (rbvCR) 185
Model kits as addiction, eh? I can believe it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 08:45 PM (zZu0s) 186
Let me correct that - model kits on sale. Nyah.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:45 PM (2GVsD) 187
Loud snow and ice hitting the windows here in Coastal NC.
Posted by: Not Going Outside at December 08, 2025 08:45 PM (oftw2) 188
>>What the hell are we doing?
At the moment? Listening to great music. https://tinyurl.com/43d5z2n5 Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 08:46 PM (viF8m) 189
Wolfus
If you want Finnish/Suomi folklore, find a copy of Tales of a Finnish Tupa Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 *** I'll look, Anna. I'm thinking of expanding the short story into a novel. There is plenty of space for adventure and for exploring a culture many Westerners think is "Scandinavian," if they think about it at all. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:46 PM (wzUl9) 190
So, what is the worst Christmas song?
~~~~~ Sleighride. I know, it's not a Christmas song, and that's the point. When Christmas was being turned into "winter holiday" so as not to offend anyone, overt Christmas carols disappeared, and instead the "Holiday Concert" had to find blander fare. "Sleighride" was perfect. Instrumental, everyone vaguely knew it, and so we played it every year. Tortured it to death. It's a shitty piece of music to play, especially on French Horn, which is all upbeats. I switched to Tuba my senior year and got to play the downbeats. The family knows: Don't play that tune, or Dad will not shut up about it. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 08:47 PM (ZOv7s) 191
Star Trek is on. It's the one with Surak the Sucker.
Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 *** Good casting, though, with Barry Atwater (the vampire in the The Night Stalker) and Lee Bergere as Lincoln. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:48 PM (wzUl9) 192
No one has said the John and Yoko Happy Xmas (War is Over) song yet? I vote for that one as worst. And also "Grandma Got Run over by a Reindeer."
The latter is intentionally bad so in a way, you're giving it what it wants. The former is unironically, pretentiously, arrogantly holier-than-thou which is what makes it so very very bad indeed. Posted by: Oddbob at December 08, 2025 08:48 PM (3nLb4) 193
Model kits as addiction, eh? I can believe it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 08:45 PM (zZu0s) --- The Pile of Shame is a thing. Gateway to hoarding. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 08:48 PM (ZOv7s) 194
For the uninitiated. Lou Monte.
https://m.youtube.com/watch? v=V57hP7Ipjw4&list=RDV57hP7Ipjw4&sta rt_radio=1&pp=ygUibG91IG1vbnRlIHBlcG lubyB0aGUgaXRhbGlhbiBtb3VzZaAHAQ% 3D%3D Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 08:48 PM (zZu0s) 195
You can get the Kalevala on Gutenberg. Lots of good Finnish stuff in there. Learn the origin of the Sampo!
Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 08:48 PM (vFG9F) 196
Wow, Tensor let that image through.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:48 PM (2GVsD) 197
Wow, Tensor let that image through.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:48 PM (2GVsD) See. This is the problem with anime sometimes: makes you feel creepy just looking at it. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 08:50 PM (zZu0s) 198
And he blows up about a third of his stuff on the launchpad.
He has talked about that - it is semi intentional - they are testing the limits of the design to see what the failure points are under stress. Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 08, 2025 08:50 PM (Da7Vv) 199
Why are Kirk & Spock teaming up with Abraham Lincoln sporting a Miami tan.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 08:50 PM (6ydKt) 200
The latter is intentionally bad so in a way, you're giving it what it wants. The former is unironically, pretentiously, arrogantly holier-than-thou which is what makes it so very very bad indeed.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 08, 2025 08:48 PM (3nLb4) --- Yeah, it was a novelty song that caught on in a big way. Reminds me of Da Yoopers and "Second Week of Deer Camp." Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 08:51 PM (ZOv7s) 201
Hey, it's not weird enough. Let's get weird up heah~!
@RichSementa 5m DC pipe-bomb suspect Brian Cole Jr. has secret online life obsessing over ‘My Little Pony’ Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 08, 2025 08:51 PM (mlg/3) 202
189 My Dad was an interrogator/interpreter in WW2, Finnish language with Finland having the strange status of mutual combatant. He attended school at Camp Ritchie MD and said he and a few other Finns were put in the "Scandinavian Section" which they didn't care for, Finland not really being part of Scandi Land.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 08:51 PM (gm9Sb) 203
For the uninitiated. Lou Monte.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Oh my. Between him and every Louis Prima album known to man, my Nonna's house could be unbearable at times. Posted by: Tonypete at December 08, 2025 08:52 PM (cYBz/) 204
Those MLP guys can't be trusted. I've always known.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 08:52 PM (zZu0s) 205
"Why are Kirk & Spock teaming up with Abraham Lincoln sporting a Miami tan.
Posted by: SpeakingOf" You go to war with the army you have. Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 08:53 PM (vFG9F) 206
@201 I can hear his grandma saying " he has no mind. All he wants to do is hump a pony"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 08:54 PM (bfwj/) 207
Hey, it's not weird enough. Let's get weird up heah~!
@RichSementa 5m DC pipe-bomb suspect Brian Cole Jr. has secret online life obsessing over ‘My Little Pony’ Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 08, 2025 08:51 PM (mlg/3) Bronies are totally a thing. I don't know who Rich Sementa is, but the way that sentence reads, I'm thinking he's one. Posted by: BurtTC at December 08, 2025 08:54 PM (C2bxa) 208
When I was still working, one day an undergraduate came to me to declare her major with our department. She said her last name was "Jarvenpaa." I glanced over and said, "Finnish?" She was astonished. "How'd you know?"
"Not many languages have double a's in their words." Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:54 PM (wzUl9) 209
199 Why are Kirk & Spock teaming up with Abraham Lincoln sporting a Miami tan.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 08:50 PM (6ydKt) This did not sell me on the virtues of Star Trek at all. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 08:54 PM (4786I) 210
The alien in this one reminds me of the GOP.
Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 08:55 PM (vFG9F) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:55 PM (2GVsD) 212
In other words, it's a steaming pile of dog crap.
Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 08:56 PM (vFG9F) 213
And he blows up about a third of his stuff on the launchpad.
That is different from the NASA safety testing methodology: "Whirrrr Click." OK its safe. Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 08, 2025 08:56 PM (Da7Vv) 214
I was joking when I said this Cole guy was a gay furry.
It now appears he’s at least a gay Brony. Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 08:56 PM (6ydKt) 215
That must be a Finnish word; the twin "U" letters are kind of a giveaway. No idea what it means. I researched certain things about Finnish culture, and even corresponded with a Finnish lady who has a blog about life in Helsinki.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:38 PM (wzUl9) Was she serving the Puusuppas with Cuurtido? Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 08:56 PM (rbvCR) 216
per deepl.com Puusuppa is a wooden bucket. Does this help?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 08:57 PM (rbvCR) 217
>>Finland not really being part of Scandi Land.
Finland is by far my favorite place in northern Europe. Dark and spooky in the winter but still beautiful. And the people know what's up living next Russia. And they've made some of the most beautiful sailboats ever to sail. Just don't forget they all carry knives for a reason. Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 08:57 PM (viF8m) 218
Lee Bergere made a fine Lincoln, as did a character actor who appeared on The Rifleman many times, Royal Dano.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:58 PM (wzUl9) 219
Finland is by far my favorite place in northern Europe. Dark and spooky in the winter but still beautiful. And the people know what's up living next Russia.
And they've made some of the most beautiful sailboats ever to sail. Just don't forget they all carry knives for a reason. Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 08:57 PM (viF8m) Good metal bands too. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 08:59 PM (snZF9) 220
More BMW's built in SC than Deutschland, too.
Posted by: No UAW at December 08, 2025 08:30 PM (oftw2) We don’t make anything in this country anymore. Posted by: Everyone else on AoS at December 08, 2025 08:59 PM (4786I) 221
Honestly as bizarre as the premise is, I always thought Savage Curtain was a cool episode (for given values of 'cool'.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 09:00 PM (zZu0s) 222
Later on, we'll perspire --
'Is that A/C? Turn it higher!' We drive and we grump O'er potholes and bumps, Sweating in a sticky swampy land!" Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere It pains me to constantly hear how much you hate where you live, Wolfus. It rains here. And it’s dark a lot in the late Fall/winter. And I’m surrounded by leftist retards. But I LOVE where I live. Really. How do you do it? I could not. Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 09:00 PM (mT+6a) 223
It now appears he’s at least a gay Brony.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 08:56 PM (6ydKt) --- The correct term is "right-wing MAGA gay Brony." Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:00 PM (ZOv7s) Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 09:02 PM (zZu0s) 225
Failed Loser Democrat fag, all-red colon, says he's not running for Senate. So, in Texas, it comes down to 2 Democrats: jizz ratchet, and a little scrawny faggot named talarico, who really hates "israel," i.e. jews. Well, he's "anti-zionist," which means he hates jews, but says "israel" instead of "jew." Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:02 PM (MVEnt) 226
This did not sell me on the virtues of Star Trek at all.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 *** This was late in their less-SF-oriented third season, where the cast and crew were pretty sure they'd be canceled soon and were going through the motions. Never less than professional about it, but not with the enthusiasm of the first two years. Plus, the story for this ep was done by Roddenberry himself. GR was not that good a writer. He was a good idea man, a solid producer, and a great rewrite guy. But a lot of his episodes, even those for Have Gun -- Will Travel, are missing something, and I've never been able to pin it down. The best original Treks, and some of the best concepts like the Klingons, were from his line producer, Gene L. Coon. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:02 PM (wzUl9) 227
A 44 year old former San Diego qb is returning.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 09:03 PM (7XNVR) 228
It now appears he’s at least a gay Brony.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 08:56 PM (6ydKt) --- The correct term is "right-wing MAGA gay Brony." Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:00 PM (ZOv7s) Don't forget: White. Posted by: BurtTC at December 08, 2025 09:03 PM (nOjBC) Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 08, 2025 09:04 PM (AcsX0) 230
White Hispanic? What's that?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 09:04 PM (7XNVR) 231
It pains me to constantly hear how much you hate where you live, Wolfus.
It rains here. And it’s dark a lot in the late Fall/winter. And I’m surrounded by leftist retards. But I LOVE where I live. Really. How do you do it? I could not. Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 *** I'm just trying to be funny about it to keep myself, and I hope all of you, entertained. After the first of the year I'm going to move The Move into gear. Stay tuned. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:04 PM (wzUl9) 232
The best original Treks, and some of the best concepts like the Klingons, were from his line producer, Gene L. Coon.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:02 PM (wzUl9) Don't forget DC Fontana. She had some good ones. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 09:04 PM (snZF9) Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 09:04 PM (viF8m) 234
217 219 I still have the puukko Dad gave me, a pretty nice one with an embossed leather sheath and the little belt hanger with chain. During a period of wokeness in Finland they tried a crackdown on everyday carry of blades, then made an exception for armed forces members, and finally said the hell with it and went back to square one. Finland's firearms laws are very liberal by Euro standards so big deal anyway. Toivo was probably packin'.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 09:05 PM (gm9Sb) 235
ST:TOS is the only series that I haven’t seen all the episodes of.
I’ve seen a lot of them, but I don’t remember this one with Lincoln. I saw this funny parody of DS9 earlier: https://youtu.be/w3LTQVirrSY It’s called Deep Space 90210 and anybody who’s seen enough of the show will get it. AI obviously did the most of the work but I still chuckled several times. Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 09:05 PM (6ydKt) 236
The last 2 times I dialed up my classic rock station Stairway was playing.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 09:06 PM (7XNVR) 237
White Hispanic? What's that?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 09:04 PM (7XNVR) White Hispanic gay brony autistic African-American. You know, just like you and me. Posted by: BurtTC at December 08, 2025 09:06 PM (nOjBC) 238
Star Trek 90210 is coming soon to a streaming service near you.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:06 PM (2GVsD) 239
The best original Treks, and some of the best concepts like the Klingons, were from his line producer, Gene L. Coon.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 * Don't forget DC Fontana. She had some good ones. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 *** True. She developed Spock and his family relationships more than anyone else. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:07 PM (wzUl9) 240
Star Trek 90210 is coming soon to a streaming service near you.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 *** If the communications officer looks like the young Shannen Doherty, I'm there. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:08 PM (wzUl9) 241
DC Fontana at the first official Star Trek con in New York gave us Kirk's middle name - Tiberius.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:08 PM (2GVsD) 242
When my dad was in charge of the kids something fun was bound to happen.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 09:09 PM (9ipOP) Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at December 08, 2025 09:09 PM (89Sog) 244
Star Trek 90210 is coming soon to a streaming service near you.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:06 PM (2GVsD) --- All the usual critics are getting ready to hate watch it so we don't have to... Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2025 09:09 PM (ESVrU) 245
I will pick up any puukko I run across. If I can afford it, of course.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 09:09 PM (rbvCR) 246
Wolfus
Nope, we get a body positive black Jemhadarr grrl plus a Klingon 'male' with a pierced eyebrow. Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:10 PM (2GVsD) 247
DC Fontana at the first official Star Trek con in New York gave us Kirk's middle name - Tiberius.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 *** I heard it at Vul-Con in the summer of '73, and the Animated Series mentioned it at least once. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:11 PM (wzUl9) 248
All the usual critics are getting ready to hate watch it so we don't have to...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2025 09:09 PM (ESVrU) --- They are doing the Lord's work. I hear that "All's Fair" got another season because of all the epic hate-watching. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:11 PM (ZOv7s) 249
"Tiberius" is the perfect middle name for Kirk.
The way Christopher Plummer sneers at that name cements it. Here's someone Plummer can treat as a second-rate Octavian. A generation of Shakespearean acting blasted into Shatner at that moment. We were in the presence of greatness. Posted by: gKWVE at December 08, 2025 09:12 PM (gKWVE) 250
Nope, we get a body positive black Jemhadarr grrl plus a Klingon 'male' with a pierced eyebrow.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:10 PM (2GVsD) --- She/they/xir are also a fitness instructor! Doctor, heal thyself! Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:13 PM (ZOv7s) 251
My Dad was an interrogator/interpreter in WW2, Finnish language with Finland having the strange status of mutual combatant. He attended school at Camp Ritchie MD and said he and a few other Finns were put in the "Scandinavian Section" which they didn't care for, Finland not really being part of Scandi Land.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 08:51 PM (gm9Sb) Ahhh.... The Ritchie Boys. Some good stuff done back then. And some silly too, but they didn't know it at the time. Making a lot of stuff up as they went along to develop a pretty good operation. Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 09:13 PM (2WIwB) 252
235 ST:TOS is the only series that I haven’t seen all the episodes of.
I’ve seen a lot of them, but I don’t remember this one with Lincoln. I saw that on reruns in Germany on AFN. I was nine and was “WTF is THIS?” and not in a good way. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 09:13 PM (4786I) 253
The Ramones were always popular in Finland. The only country on Earth more Ramone-centric is/was Argentina.
Posted by: Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight) at December 08, 2025 09:13 PM (oftw2) 254
The Eggles failed to score from the red zone.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 09:13 PM (7XNVR) 255
245 Mine is probably an everyday upscale one judging by the sheath (embossed design, brass tip). About a three inch blade, maybe seven inches overall. Carbon blade. I should drag it out and make sure it has a wipe of oil on the blade (a very sharp, holds an edge blade).
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 09:14 PM (gm9Sb) 256
>>When my dad was in charge of the kids something fun was bound to happen.
My dad was the original "What could go wrong?" guy. He married a crazy person who was worse. I had the best parents any kid could ask for. Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 09:14 PM (viF8m) 257
White Hispanic? What's that?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 09:04 PM Dude, I'm right here. Posted by: George Zimmerman at December 08, 2025 09:15 PM (Wnv9h) 258
Comments about the next US Senator for Texas, jizz ratchet, from Youtube: "Her running for Senate is like a cashier getting fired and reapplying for the management position" The Angel Reese of Congress…. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:15 PM (MVEnt) 259
It’s called Deep Space 90210 and anybody who’s seen enough of the show will get it.
AI obviously did the most of the work but I still chuckled several times. Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 09:05 PM (6ydKt) At least Dax was a babe in both versions. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 09:16 PM (snZF9) 260
In the pilot they shot with Shatner " Where No Man Has Gone Before" the tomb stone that Gary Mitchell makes for Kirk has a different middle initial. ( the episode was the first filmed but appeared third I believe and there are differences from the official first season shows)
Posted by: steevy at December 08, 2025 09:16 PM (YwEeS) 261
Wolfus, that first con in New York City was held in late January of 1972.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:16 PM (2GVsD) 262
Including Paul Fix as the ships doctor
Posted by: steevy at December 08, 2025 09:17 PM (YwEeS) 263
btw, did Ace show you the clip of that fag "mayor" in Minneapolis, jakob fray (D-Somalia) pandering to his Salamis and eating their disgusting food? He almost puked! The video went viral because he started to gag! Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:17 PM (MVEnt) 264
That episode is long on dialog and philosophizing and short on action.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 09:17 PM (9ipOP) 265
In the pilot they shot with Shatner " Where No Man Has Gone Before" the tomb stone that Gary Mitchell makes for Kirk has a different middle initial. ( the episode was the first filmed but appeared third I believe and there are differences from the official first season shows)
Posted by: steevy at December 08, 2025 09:16 PM (YwEeS) --- Disappeared like Ritchie Cunningham's older brother. He was gay, which is why no one ever talked about him. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:19 PM (ZOv7s) 266
This college playoff “controversy” thing is funny. It’s like reality TV for dudes.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 09:19 PM (9aoE1) 267
oh dear... Good thing Star Trek never had a Christmas episode, otherwise You People would never stop talking about it. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:20 PM (MVEnt) 268
That episode is long on dialog and philosophizing and short on action.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 09:17 PM (9ipOP) --- Season 3 was famously on a tight budget, and was living on borrowed time. "Spock's Brain" and all that. I resisted buying it, but I'm a completionist, so I had to get it. Same reason I had to get the 5th season of "Babylon 5," even though I will never watch it. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:21 PM (ZOv7s) 269
The Star Wars Christmas Special.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 09:21 PM (7XNVR) 270
Did Ace cover the Cinnabon story? Apparently a criminal walked free because someone at Cinnabon *supposedly* used the forbidden word. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:21 PM (MVEnt) 271
251 Dad had only one picture from that part of his career.Needless to say, cameras like even the common Brownie were forbidden. It was a picture of him and a half dozen hard cases in khakis. Dad always said, no rank, no colors. None had patches on their sleeves which the Army loves, and no rank, just the US officers emblems on their collars, enlisted or otherwise.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 09:22 PM (gm9Sb) 272
Good thing Star Trek never had a Christmas episode, otherwise You People would never stop talking about it.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:20 PM (MVEnt) --- One has to talk about the old stuff because the new stuff sucks ass. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:22 PM (ZOv7s) 273
*Pulls off shelf Bjo Trimble's Star Trek Concordance, 1995 edition.*
"Where No Man's Gone Before" Production #6149-02. Story #2 Air date - 9/22/66. Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:22 PM (2GVsD) 274
That episode is long on dialog and philosophizing and short on action.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 *** The one with Lincoln and Surak? Oh, yes. The second pilot, "Where No Man Has Gone Before" is very strong on suspense and action, though. It was the second pilot -- NBC had ordered it after they liked the first one with Jeffrey Hunter, but thought it was too cerebral for TV in 1964. When the show premiered, they ran "Where No Man" third, and it must have confused viewers that the uniforms and set designs were different from the first two. But it was a *good* story. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:23 PM (wzUl9) 275
Good thing Star Trek never had a Christmas episode, otherwise You People would never stop talking about it.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:20 PM (MVEnt) What!!! You can't say that! "By Grabthar's Hammer, by the Suns of Warvan, you shall be avenged!" Oh... Wait... Never mind. Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 09:23 PM (2WIwB) 276
The ONLY reason Cinnabon stays in business: the aroma of cinnamon & dough It's, like, one of the best smells God ever created. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:23 PM (MVEnt) 277
Sizzling Bacon vs Cinnamon Buns in the oven? Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:23 PM (MVEnt) 278
I'd have to check the date on my concordance. It has the spinning dial for the episodes. I think it might be older than I am.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 09:25 PM (zZu0s) 279
It was the second pilot -- NBC had ordered it after they liked the first one with Jeffrey Hunter, but thought it was too cerebral for TV in 1964. When the show premiered, they ran "Where No Man" third, and it must have confused viewers that the uniforms and set designs were different from the first two. But it was a *good* story.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:23 PM (wzUl9) --- And of course, the original pilot was recut for use as a flashback episode, which gave us the iconic "immobile guy in black motorized box who beeps to communicate." Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:25 PM (ZOv7s) 280
Another pick.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 09:25 PM (7XNVR) 281
Marc Elias is set to argue at the Supreme Court tomorrow.
How do you suppose that will go? I really like winning. Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 09:26 PM (viF8m) 282
51 F. now with a wind chill of 46. Going down to 43 tonight, up to 58 tomorrow, and then 70 on Wed.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:26 PM (wzUl9) 283
iirc, Jeffery Hunter's second in command got promoted to nurse later in the series.
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oh dear... Good thing Star Trek never had a Christmas episode, otherwise You People would never stop talking about it. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:20 PM (MVEnt) Live Long and a Prosperous New Year Posted by: rhennigantx at December 08, 2025 09:27 PM (gbOdA) 285
Bill in Arkansas.
Check out The Ritchie Boys by Bruce Henderson. A good book on some of what they did. Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 09:28 PM (2WIwB) 286
51 F. now with a wind chill of 46. Going down to 43 tonight, up to 58 tomorrow, and then 70 on Wed.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:26 PM (wzUl9) --- Clear and 7 degrees here. Should get up to 36 on Wednesday, and then will hit single digits again by Saturday. This is unusually cold for December. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:28 PM (ZOv7s) 287
If I ever watched Happy Days, I was a child and didn't understand any of it. Or care. So I had to look up "Ritchie Cunningham".
Two actors; after the second one, they wrote him out to an extreme degree. Mostly because the writers couldn't figure out what to do with the older sibling. It did look bad in context that the Cunningham family decided he didn't exist. I expect when HD goes out of public domain we'll find out he was barbecuing the local Laotian kids or selling bath salts or something. Posted by: gKWVE at December 08, 2025 09:28 PM (gKWVE) 288
out of > out into
Posted by: gKWVE at December 08, 2025 09:29 PM (gKWVE) 289
Roddenberry was mocking of religion.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 09:29 PM (zZu0s) 290
iirc, Jeffery Hunter's second in command got promoted to nurse later in the series.
Posted by: davidt at December 08, 2025 09:27 PM (Q+gd/) --- Also promoted to Mrs. Roddenberry. A bunch of Trek actors popped up in "Babylon 5," including her. Walter Koenig was an outstanding villain. Guy had some chops. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:30 PM (ZOv7s) 291
And of course, the original pilot was recut for use as a flashback episode, which gave us the iconic "immobile guy in black motorized box who beeps to communicate."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 *** The classic technique of a clip show to save money. In ST's case, they were falling behind because the special effects -- cutting edge for those days -- were coming in later and later from the optical shop, and the show was getting close to missing air dates. Creating a two-parter, half of which had already been shot, gave them an extra week. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:30 PM (wzUl9) 292
Remember when some here pretended to care about the Epstein files and it was going to destroy the Trump presidency?
That was last week. Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 09:30 PM (viF8m) 293
Kirk gives his middle name as Tiberius in the animated episode "BEM"
Written by David Gerrold. Production #22018, episode #18 Air date: 9/14/74. Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:31 PM (2GVsD) 294
Somalis are colonizing Wisconsin as well.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 09:32 PM (9aoE1) Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:32 PM (MVEnt) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:32 PM (2GVsD) 297
I vaguely remembered Majel Barrett in Babylon 5, and then I remembered. The Seer.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 09:33 PM (zZu0s) 298
289 Roddenberry was mocking of religion.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Yeah, there's a story that a Muslim confronted Gene and he outright told him to his face "this show is set in the future". The Orville has a lot of the same DNA. Except more blatant against Islam - and astrology. Some antiChristian stuff but that's #3. DS9 is more respectful, interestingly. Helps that the gods actually exist, in that wormhole. Posted by: gKWVE at December 08, 2025 09:33 PM (gKWVE) 299
Mostly because the writers couldn't figure out what to do with the older sibling.
It did look bad in context that the Cunningham family decided he didn't exist. I expect when HD goes out of public domain we'll find out he was barbecuing the local Laotian kids or selling bath salts or something. Posted by: gKWVE at December 08, 2025 09:28 PM (gKWVE) --- In the bad old days, shows would be tweaked to try to find the right formula, and continuity errors were common. By the time they hit their stride, the vast majority of the audience had never seen the early episodes (how would they?) so no one really noticed. Being able to buy them on DVD has opened some eyes. I loved "Happy Days," a mainstay of our TV watching, and of course everyone tried to be as cool as The Fonz. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:33 PM (ZOv7s) 300
285 Dad actually liked describing stuff about training.His favorite was flying in a Cessna Bamboo Bomber over MD fields, trying to spot stuff like a motorcycle hidden in a hay mound. Liked the gun stuff, although he wasn't a gun guy. His intelligence career was interrogating Finns off merchant ships and reading Finn newspapers brought in from Sweden in diplomatic pouches. Talk about over training!
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 09:33 PM (gm9Sb) 301
If your Concordance has the spinning wheel intact and working, much value.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:32 PM (2GVsD) Mom bought it, I suspect when it came out. She is/was a huge trek fan. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 09:34 PM (zZu0s) 302
218 Lee Bergere made a fine Lincoln, as did a character actor who appeared on The Rifleman many times, Royal Dano.
Yup, Royal Dano was a great Lincoln. I think Disney used his voice for the animatronic exhibit at one of their parks. Posted by: Joemarine at December 08, 2025 09:34 PM (y171U) 303
Today I spent writing and creating a spreadsheet to inventory my tobacco pipes. Tomorrow I have errands to run, so I'll have an excuse to stop for coffee and a croissant somewhere.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:34 PM (wzUl9) 304
The classic technique of a clip show to save money. In ST's case, they were falling behind because the special effects -- cutting edge for those days -- were coming in later and later from the optical shop, and the show was getting close to missing air dates. Creating a two-parter, half of which had already been shot, gave them an extra week.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:30 PM (wzUl9) --- One could also do a "remember when?" episode to recap audience favorite moments and also basically give the cast some in-season vacation time. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:35 PM (ZOv7s) 305
It's, like, one of the best smells God ever created.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:23 PM (MVEnt) Coffee Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 09:35 PM (4786I) 306
It's, like, one of the best smells God ever created.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History Coffee Posted by: Cow Demon Incense during a Catholic Mass. Posted by: Tonypete at December 08, 2025 09:36 PM (cYBz/) 307
Lee Bergere made a fine Lincoln, as did a character actor who appeared on The Rifleman many times, Royal Dano.
* Yup, Royal Dano was a great Lincoln. I think Disney used his voice for the animatronic exhibit at one of their parks. Posted by: Joemarine at December 08, 2025 *** I'd read that! He played Lincoln at least once or twice on TV, aside from the Rifleman episode where he plays a deluded old man who *believes* he is Lincoln. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:36 PM (wzUl9) 308
I doubt the Star Trek animated episode "Jihad" could be made in these 'modern' times.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:37 PM (2GVsD) 309
ST:TOS (in late-night reruns) was such a part of my childhood that I can't help but love it, even the really bad episodes. I wanted to be Spock when I grew up.
When I grew up, I wanted to be Kirk so I could get with Dr. Helen Noel at the ship's Christmas party. Posted by: PabloD at December 08, 2025 09:37 PM (GALGA) 310
IIRC "Married with Children" tried to introduce a baby brother, but it didn't work so they wrote him out. Then they had his picture show up on a milk carton in the last season.
MWC was... something. Posted by: gKWVE at December 08, 2025 09:37 PM (gKWVE) 311
What's that song that goes incest & peppermints? Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:37 PM (MVEnt) 312
I vaguely remembered Majel Barrett in Babylon 5, and then I remembered. The Seer.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 09:33 PM (zZu0s) --- In the early days of the internet there were forums where fights were common, and I was amused by one that claimed Babylon 5 was superior to Star Trek based on the crossover actors. Walter Koenig in Trek did a bad Russian accent and was supposed to get the girls into it, but in B5 he was a sardonic evil genius. Majel Barrett in Trek couldn't get Spock to make time even when he was in a mating frenzy, but in B5 was a seeress whose every utterance was written down. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:38 PM (ZOv7s) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:38 PM (2GVsD) 314
The original series had a lot of obstacles, including Gene Rodenberry. There is an episode that touches on the resurrection. Bread and Circuses.
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What's that song that goes incest & peppermints? Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:37 PM (MVEnt) Blueberry Alarm Clock Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 09:39 PM (4786I) 316
One could also do a "remember when?" episode to recap audience favorite moments and also basically give the cast some in-season vacation time.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 *** Did TV shows, at least dramatic ones, do that in the Sixties? The Fugitive had one early on, where we found out more about the night Kimble found his wife murdered. But it wasn't a clip show -- new footage was shot amplifying what had been in the pilot. I don't think U.N.C.L.E., for example, ever did a recap or clip show. In fact it used flashbacks very little. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:40 PM (wzUl9) Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 09:41 PM (mT+6a) 318
I doubt the Star Trek animated episode "Jihad" could be made in these 'modern' times.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 *** Not with that title, huh? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:41 PM (wzUl9) 319
Holy Shiite.
Wind is freaking HOWLING. Rain blasting the windows. Whoofreakinghoo! Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 09:41 PM (mT+6a) I got my generator ready in case it gets down here. Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 09:42 PM (2WIwB) 320
Did TV shows, at least dramatic ones, do that in the Sixties? The Fugitive had one early on, where we found out more about the night Kimble found his wife murdered. But it wasn't a clip show -- new footage was shot amplifying what had been in the pilot. I don't think U.N.C.L.E., for example, ever did a recap or clip show. In fact it used flashbacks very little.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:40 PM (wzUl9) --- Before my time. I mean, I picked up stuff like Star Trek and the Lone Ranger in reruns, Leave it to Beaver, the Addams Family, etc., but those were pretty lean productions. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:42 PM (ZOv7s) 321
Dang it, the book piles has consumed Star Trek Lives again. Book by fans, one of whom was present when "Turnabout Intruder" was being shot. So, we get a glimpse of the cast on those last days.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:42 PM (2GVsD) 322
The guy that played Cpl Hanshaw in the Sgt Bilko show later played mess Sgt SSgt Hanshaw in the Gomer Pyle show. I guess the inter service transfer paid off. Got him out of the motor pool, into the mess hall, and promotions.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 09:43 PM (gm9Sb) 323
IIRC "Married with Children" tried to introduce a baby brother, but it didn't work so they wrote him out. Then they had his picture show up on a milk carton in the last season.
MWC was... something. Posted by: gKWVE at December 08, 2025 *** Brilliant, laugh-out-loud comedy that pulled out all the stops. Feminist mother, outraged that Al objects to her breast-feeding) "It's natural!" Al: "So is peeing, but I don't do *that* in public!" Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:43 PM (wzUl9) 324
The episode "Jihad" is all about Kirk and Spock trying to prevent a galactic jihad.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:43 PM (2GVsD) 325
@312 A.H. , the three episode arc in Babylon 5 where the station breaks away from the he Earth Alliance is some of the best sci-fi tv ever. Majel Barrett was in Point of No Return, the second episode
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 09:44 PM (bfwj/) 326
Andrew J. McCarthy continues to blow me away with his astrophotography. Here's a video he took of an ISS overflight from his yard in AZ: https://is.gd/BPGSV4 That was with an 11" scope. Now, tracking that requires a fancy mount because the angular speed is quite high, and he used a 10 Micron (brand name). I looked up the price. Those things start around $10K. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 09:44 PM (w6EFb) 327
Batten down the hatches, Nurse!
Posted by: PabloD at December 08, 2025 09:44 PM (GALGA) 328
The NFL is the only thing keeping broadcast television alive. Gambling is the only thing keeping the NFL alive. Posted by: Auspex at December 08, 2025 09:44 PM (Y8DZL) 329
Speaking of Lincoln, I'll point out that Hal Holbrook was pretty good in North and South Book 2. I love me some North and South, own 'em on DVD and have watched both (do not even mention the 3rd) straight through several times. Great stuff.
My kids loved it, but of course they couldn't appreciate that the cast was culled from every show on the network. Trek fans will appreciate "Wussy Riker" in the form of Stanley Hazard. Big boost to Patrick Swayze's career. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:45 PM (ZOv7s) 330
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What's that song that goes incest & peppermints? Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:37 PM (MVEnt) Blueberry Alarm Clock Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 09:39 PM (4786I) Ahhhh.... While I love blueberries, its Strawberry Alarm Clock. Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 09:45 PM (2WIwB) 331
Holy Shiite.
Wind is freaking HOWLING. Rain blasting the windows. Whoofreakinghoo! Posted by: nurse ratched ----------- Oh, boy.. hope it blows itself out somewhat, before arriving here! We're under a high-wind warning until tomorrow morning and it is *very* breezy out already. Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 09:46 PM (rdVOm) 332
A.H. , the three episode arc in Babylon 5 where the station breaks away from the he Earth Alliance is some of the best sci-fi tv ever. Majel Barrett was in Point of No Return, the second episode
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 09:44 PM (bfwj/) --- You don't need to tell me that. I watched it when it was being broadcast an "Severed Dreams" damn near caused a riot when my friend group watched it. "Only one human captain has ever survived battle with a Minbari fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else!" Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:47 PM (ZOv7s) 333
The NFL is the only thing keeping broadcast television alive.
Gambling is the only thing keeping the NFL alive. Posted by: Auspex at December 08, 2025 09:44 PM (Y8DZL) --- College football as well, and it's now owned by the networks. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:48 PM (ZOv7s) 334
Photograph portraits I've seen of Lincoln (was he the first president to be photographed?) very much resemble actor Royal Dano. If Lincoln had lived into his sixties or seventies, he would have looked even more like the actor.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:48 PM (wzUl9) 335
Down to 14° here going to 7° overnight. The wind has died down, but very clear. Blankets
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 09:48 PM (bfwj/) 336
If anyone needs a funny TV show to watch, all the Drew Carey Show episodes (over 200) are on Youtube (free). Still a funny show. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:48 PM (MVEnt) Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:49 PM (MVEnt) 338
Leave It To Beaver might have been the first show to do a genuine retrospective good-bye show. The family looking at a photo album, splicing in clips from 57-63. It was a planned end because Mathers wanted to go to a real high school like a normal kid. Had been acting since age 2. The ratings were still good and it could have gone on.
Posted by: Mayfield's Finest at December 08, 2025 09:49 PM (oftw2) 339
Sounds like you have a really cool Mom.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:38 PM (2GVsD) She is. She's awesome. OCD as hell. So is dad, but about different things. She will look up anything and everything in the days before the internet (hence the concordance, encyclopedias, etc.) Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 09:50 PM (zZu0s) 340
@332 yup. Maybe the most badass line ever spoken by a woman in tv history
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 09:50 PM (bfwj/) 341
I doubt the Star Trek animated episode "Jihad" could be made in these 'modern' times.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 Too many of the audience would.think Jihad was a command, not a title. Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 09:50 PM (2WIwB) 342
Here's one he got of Ganymede in front of Jupiter: https://is.gd/VgcmTg His photos are so good a lot of people think he fakes them. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 09:51 PM (w6EFb) 343
Blueberries kinda suck, if you think about it. Blueberry Pie is nice *idea,* in theory, but kinda grotesque when you start eating it. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:51 PM (MVEnt) 344
Fruit Pie the Magician just called and told me to STFU. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:51 PM (MVEnt) 345
I am currently watching a looping stream of Father Knows Best on Youtube.
I like it. Sue me. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History I always liked it, have seen every episode and think both Jane Wyatt and Elinor Donahue are lovely and talented. Posted by: TV Facts and Foibles at December 08, 2025 09:52 PM (oftw2) 346
Leave It To Beaver might have been the first show to do a genuine retrospective good-bye show. The family looking at a photo album, splicing in clips from 57-63. It was a planned end because Mathers wanted to go to a real high school like a normal kid. Had been acting since age 2. The ratings were still good and it could have gone on.
Posted by: Mayfield's Finest at December 08, 2025 *** The Dick Van Dyke Show explained its own existence -- that it had all been the memoirs of Rob Petrie as a soldier, DJ, and then comedy writer for TV. In the last episode we're told that Rob's book has sold, and "they" want to make a TV series out of it! Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:52 PM (wzUl9) 347
Thankfully they rethought the character of Delenn from what they had in the early days.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:53 PM (2GVsD) 348
Married With Children benefited from the Streisand effect (before it was called that).
A woman started a campaign to get advertisers to boycott the show. It worked she got a bunch to drop out. But the media attention she got, made people check out the show and ratings shot up. All the advertisers came back and then some . Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 09:53 PM (9iyS+) Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:53 PM (MVEnt) 350
Now I have to find my Concordance so I can check the wheel.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 09:53 PM (A0sqA) 351
Blueberries kinda suck, if you think about it.
Blueberry Pie is nice *idea,* in theory, but kinda grotesque when you start eating it. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:51 PM (MVEnt) What sorcery is this??? What evil stalks these pages??? You probably like okra too. Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 09:54 PM (2WIwB) 352
I always liked it, have seen every episode and think both Jane Wyatt and Elinor Donahue are lovely and talented.
Posted by: TV Facts and Foibles at December 08, 2025 *** Indeed they were. And Elinor had a pretty long career -- that show, a stint on Andy of Mayberry, a guest role on Trek, and I think at one point she was Felix's girlfriend on the Odd Couple in the '70s. Not sure about that last. Jane had been in the film of Lost Horizon way back in '39 (?). Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:55 PM (wzUl9) Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:55 PM (MVEnt) 354
Thankfully they rethought the character of Delenn from what they had in the early days.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:53 PM (2GVsD) --- The show got lucky in a lot of ways, and as is often the case, the original vision was thwarted and became better. The Sinclair/Sheridan swap was totally unplanned, but came off brilliantly. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:57 PM (ZOv7s) 355
Lost Horizon 1937
Posted by: TV Facts at December 08, 2025 09:57 PM (oftw2) 356
I liked Sinclair. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:57 PM (MVEnt) 357
I liked the stand-alone episodes of B5 instead of the Arc. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:58 PM (MVEnt) 358
dickhead vandyke might make it to 100, in a week
I hate him. Sue me. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:55 PM (MVEnt) Concur. Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 09:58 PM (2WIwB) 359
Ayah Sinclair was pretty good but the actor was going through a mental breakdown. So enter Sheridan.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:58 PM (2GVsD) 360
I liked Sinclair.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:57 PM (MVEnt) --- I did, too, but the actor was having problems and I think Boxleitner really brought more energy to the show and a little type because of "Tron." He's just a more charismatic actor. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:59 PM (ZOv7s) Posted by: mikeski at December 08, 2025 09:59 PM (nhCoE) 362
The original Lost Horizon was from '37. Oops.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:00 PM (wzUl9) 363
I liked the stand-alone episodes of B5 instead of the Arc.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:58 PM (MVEnt) --- You say that, but the flashback/payoff sequences are great. Vir waving at Morden all those seasons later was gold. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 10:00 PM (ZOv7s) 364
All three Anderson children are still not-mort, which is nice. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:01 PM (MVEnt) 365
I think Vir was truly an avatar for the audience. We were all so naive in the beginning, then it gets really bad, and he has to deal with it along with us.
And when Vir gazed at Morden's head on a pike, yeah that was all of us. Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 10:02 PM (2GVsD) 366
None come close to the best show ever, Psycho Dad.
Posted by: Al Bundy at December 08, 2025 10:02 PM (Q+gd/) 367
Lost Monday ONT tonight
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 10:03 PM (A0sqA) 368
The Shadows were basically an alien allegory for the Djinn. Be careful what you wish for.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 10:04 PM (2GVsD) 369
Does ypu be members when we be has a Loving Black Presdent ?
Not the Racist Presdent we be has now ? We wants Presdent Obamar backs now to saves this country!!! Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at December 08, 2025 10:04 PM (0IwHf) 370
334 Photograph portraits I've seen of Lincoln (was he the first president to be photographed?) ...
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:48 PM (wzUl9) Earliest president photographed was John Quincy Adams. Earliest sitting president was later than that, may have been Polk? Posted by: Joemarine at December 08, 2025 10:05 PM (y171U) 371
Sinclair returning was great. Writers wrote him into the arc quite well. With his sidekick Zathras. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:06 PM (MVEnt) 372
Michael O'Hara who played Sinclair had some form of early onset dementia. You can see it when he comes back later and becomes Valen . Tragic
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 10:07 PM (bfwj/) Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:07 PM (MVEnt) 374
Not the Racist Presdent we be has now ? We wants Presdent Obamar backs now to saves this country!!! Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt Amen, Mary! We need FART Tube funding restored now for the children of coler. Posted by: Voice of Reason at December 08, 2025 10:08 PM (oftw2) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 10:09 PM (2GVsD) 376
Zathras not good at understanding.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 08, 2025 10:10 PM (pkeXY) 377
323 IIRC "Married with Children" tried to introduce a baby brother, but it didn't work so they wrote him out. Then they had his picture show up on a milk carton in the last season.
MWC was... something. Posted by: gKWVE at December 08, 2025 *** Brilliant, laugh-out-loud comedy that pulled out all the stops. Feminist mother, outraged that Al objects to her breast-feeding) "It's natural!" Al: "So is peeing, but I don't do *that* in public!" Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:43 PM (wzUl9) the genius of Married with Children was that Al would actually say, what a lot of us Men wouldn't... even though we were thinkin it... Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 10:12 PM (mP0Kj) 378
Zathras was great.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 10:12 PM (snZF9) 379
376 Zathras not good at understanding.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 08, 2025 10:10 PM (pkeXY) No no.... not the ONT... Posted by: Zathras at December 08, 2025 10:13 PM (mP0Kj) 380
For once I'm on-time for the ONT and ......
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 08, 2025 10:14 PM (QGaXH) 381
the genius of Married with Children was that Al would actually say, what a lot of us Men wouldn't... even though we were thinkin it...
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 *** NO MA'AM: National Organization of Men Against Amazonian Masterhood To me, the funniest episode was a late one in which Kelly is about to star in a production of "Phantom of the Opera" at the Larry Storch School of Acting, and Al has to dress as a wolf for a "moonlight" sale at the shoe store. He realizes it's not going to work. "Nobody is going to buy shoes from us. We're wolves!" Larry is knocked out, and Al has to go on stage as the Phantom to support Kelly. He doesn't know the lines, so he mutters, "I'll just sit here and play with my organ --!" Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:16 PM (wzUl9) 382
Also, the NFL is headed the way of vaudeville. Another revenue issue for America's communist mayors. Posted by: Auspex at December 08, 2025 10:17 PM (Y8DZL) 383
Deorbit and landing.
Roscosmos - Soyuz MS-27 Deorbit Burn & Landing in Kazakhstan - Space Affairs Live Re-entry scheduled for 11:10 p.m EST Landing scheduled for 12:04 a.m. EST https://youtu.be/EX2HlEDjTnA Posted by: Joyenz at December 08, 2025 10:18 PM (2F0/Y) 384
Also, the NFL is headed the way of vaudeville.
Another revenue issue for America's communist mayors. Posted by: Auspex at December 08, 2025 10:17 PM (Y8DZL) I might start watching if they use those long hooks to take players off the field! Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 08, 2025 10:18 PM (S/Y4j) 385
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:16 PM (wzUl9)
I have embraced my inner Al... Not sure if it's Al Yankovic, or Al Bundy... but... Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 10:19 PM (mP0Kj) 386
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:16 PM (wzUl9)
I have embraced my inner Al... Not sure if it's Al Yankovic, or Al Bundy... but... Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 10:19 PM (mP0Kj) Why not Al Michaels, and call out the play-by-play of idiots in your vicinity? Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 08, 2025 10:20 PM (S/Y4j) 387
"Push the button, Max".
Posted by: clarence at December 08, 2025 10:21 PM (zBC00) 388
The Obamas apparently have bought a home in England and there is speculation that that is going to be their bolt-hole if or when there is a subpoena sent him for the interesting things he was rumored to have done after he was preznit.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 10:21 PM (rbvCR) 389
https://youtu.be/uq-gYOrU8bA
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:21 PM (rdVOm) 390
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Also, the NFL is headed the way of vaudeville. Another revenue issue for America's communist mayors. Posted by: Auspex at December 08, 2025 10:17 PM (Y8DZL) Some of the latest games, stands are pretty much empty. But the old time Loyal Football fan? a thing of the past because the Teams are not Loyal to the cities... and the players are nothing but Mercenaries. Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 10:21 PM (mP0Kj) 391
I have embraced my inner Al...
Not sure if it's Al Yankovic, or Al Bundy... but... Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 *** When you wake from a nap, do you say "Let's rock"? Or when you hear Madonna's "Like a Virgin," do you automatically sing "Like a surgeon . . . cuttin' for the very first time . . ." instead of her lyrics? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:22 PM (wzUl9) 392
Wow...I just picked up a milk carton and a picture of the ONT was on it.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 08, 2025 10:23 PM (QGaXH) 393
The ONT has sent me to deliver an important message.
The ONT is late. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 10:23 PM (JkO4W) 394
The Obamas apparently have bought a home in England and there is speculation that that is going to be their bolt-hole if or when there is a subpoena sent him for the interesting things he was rumored to have done after he was preznit.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 10:21 PM (rbvCR) ==== But they don't eat dogs there. Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 10:23 PM (9ipOP) 395
Or, when you hear Michael Jackson sing "Beat It," do you automatically sing Weird Al's "It doesn't matter if it's boiled or fried -- Just Eat It"?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:24 PM (wzUl9) 396
Wow...I just picked up a milk carton and a picture of the ONT was on it.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 08, 2025 10:23 PM (QGaXH) ---- Release the hounds! "What I want out of each and every one of you is a hard target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse, and doghouse in that area. Checkpoints go up at 15 miles! Our fugitive's name is ONT... Go get it!" Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2025 10:24 PM (ESVrU) 397
So nothing to eat or drink after midnight. Eating is not the problem, but I always feel thirsty when told I can't drink. I should be asleep by then but I'll probably have to get up a few times since I'm drinking now.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 08, 2025 10:24 PM (VCgbV) 398
COBs get Monday-itis, just like the rest of us...
Right? Or did somebody forget to check the schedule? Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:24 PM (rdVOm) 399
394 The Obamas apparently have bought a home in England and there is speculation that that is going to be their bolt-hole if or when there is a subpoena sent him for the interesting things he was rumored to have done after he was preznit.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 10:21 PM (rbvCR) ---------- Just what Britain needs. Another muslim. Coals to Newcastle, and all that rot. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 10:25 PM (JkO4W) 400
388 The Obamas apparently have bought a home in England and there is speculation that that is going to be their bolt-hole if or when there is a subpoena sent him for the interesting things he was rumored to have done after he was preznit.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 10:21 PM (rbvCR) Don't we have extradition treaties with Olde Bighty Posted by: browndog moving slowly at December 08, 2025 10:25 PM (3sXRv) 401
OMG! I'm beginning to think we may be without benefit of adult supervision overnight!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 08, 2025 10:26 PM (L/fGl) 402
The Obamas apparently have bought a home in England and there is speculation that that is going to be their bolt-hole if or when there is a subpoena sent him for the interesting things he was rumored to have done after he was preznit.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 10:21 PM (rbvCR) Ahhh.... So he has the inside dope on the new cultural overseers coming to England. Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 10:26 PM (2WIwB) 403
>>The Obamas apparently have bought a home in England and there is speculation that that is going to be their bolt-hole if or when there is a subpoena sent him for the interesting things he was rumored to have done after he was preznit.
Since when don't we have an extradition treaty with the UK? Besides, I'm reliably told nothing is happening. Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 10:26 PM (viF8m) 404
...Blighty ... not Bighty
Posted by: browndog moving slowly at December 08, 2025 10:26 PM (3sXRv) 405
Don't we have extradition treaties with Olde Bighty
Posted by: browndog moving slowly at December 08, 2025 10:25 PM (3sXRv) That's the old gov't. Muzzies, and their paid enablers, now rule. Posted by: RickZ at December 08, 2025 10:27 PM (gKDq2) 406
Just saw that a 14 and 15 year old football team from Philly went to Florida for some championship game I've never heard of. 8 of the yoots took a couple of Ubers to a Dick's Sporting Goods and proceeded to try and steal over $2200 in Nike merchandise.
Unfortunately for them, but fortunately for us, they did so in Polk County, and Grady Judd had a press conference (it's up on YouTube now). Posted by: Ian S. at December 08, 2025 10:27 PM (ciXcx) 407
Don't we have extradition treaties with Olde Bighty
Posted by: browndog moving slowly --------- Think Jolly Ole would honor them? Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:27 PM (rdVOm) 408
Mondays make me seem punctual.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 10:28 PM (4I7QN) 409
I remember when George Washington decamped to England when his term as president ended.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 10:28 PM (JkO4W) 410
Hmmm.... no supervision.... hmmm....
OPEN BAR! ALL DRINKS ARE *ON THE HOUSE* UNTIL ONT SHOWS UP!!!! Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:29 PM (rdVOm) 411
But the old time Loyal Football fan? a thing of the past because the Teams are not Loyal to the cities... and the players are nothing but Mercenaries.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 10:21 PM (mP0Kj) Same as it ever was then? Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 10:30 PM (4786I) 412
Did Ellen get a good price from Big Mike? Posted by: Auspex at December 08, 2025 10:30 PM (Y8DZL) 413
>>I remember when George Washington decamped to England when his term as president ended.
How's the bareboat qualification going? You are going sailing, right? Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 10:30 PM (viF8m) 414
Hmmm.... no supervision.... hmmm....
OPEN BAR! ALL DRINKS ARE *ON THE HOUSE* UNTIL ONT SHOWS UP!!!! Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:29 PM (rdVOm) I offer my services as mayhem and debauchery coordinator. lol Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 10:30 PM (snZF9) Posted by: no one at December 08, 2025 10:30 PM (W7XSX) 416
OPEN BAR!
ALL DRINKS ARE *ON THE HOUSE* UNTIL ONT SHOWS UP!!!! Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:29 PM (rdVOm) ---------- Has the taco truck showed up yet? I ordered a taco truck. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 10:31 PM (JkO4W) 417
So nothing to eat or drink after midnight. Eating is not the problem, but I always feel thirsty when told I can't drink. I should be asleep by then but I'll probably have to get up a few times since I'm drinking now.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 08, 2025 *** Surgery, Lin-duh? Or blood work? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:31 PM (wzUl9) 418
Hmmm.... no supervision.... hmmm....
OPEN BAR! ALL DRINKS ARE *ON THE HOUSE* UNTIL ONT SHOWS UP!!!! Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:29 PM (rdVOm) *** Woohoo!!! We're not leavin' till we're heavin'! Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 10:31 PM (2WIwB) 419
TAKE DOWN ALL THE COLORED LIGHTS,
Posted by: Piper at December 08, 2025 10:32 PM (p4NUW) 420
I offer my services as mayhem and debauchery coordinator. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division -------- AWESOME! We need it! Heh. *Maker's Mark for Bers* Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:32 PM (rdVOm) 421
I offer my services as mayhem and debauchery coordinator. lol
Posted by: Berserker You can't coordinate mayhem! It would just be shenanigans, at the craziest! Posted by: mikeski at December 08, 2025 10:33 PM (nhCoE) 422
Wolfus,
Minor surgery. Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 08, 2025 10:33 PM (VCgbV) Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 10:33 PM (mT+6a) 424
Where's willow?
Posted by: gKWVE at December 08, 2025 10:33 PM (gKWVE) 425
415 dickhead vandyke might make it to 100, in a week
I hate him. Sue me. The good die young. Posted by: no one at December 08, 2025 10:30 PM (W7XSX) gotta say, he may have reason.... that Damn Mary Poppins was a Tease.... poor Burt... Shit, she even kissed a PENGUIN!!! But Burt? nada... She ruined him! Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 10:33 PM (mP0Kj) Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:33 PM (MVEnt) 427
TAKE DOWN ALL THE COLORED LIGHTS,
Posted by: Piper ------- Nah, I'll just unplug them. The white ones are still there, but unplugged, so I'll plug them in instead! Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:33 PM (rdVOm) 428
How's the bareboat qualification going?
You are going sailing, right? Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 10:30 PM (viF8m) --------- I'm starting a new class in January. Getting those stickers for my official log book. I earned the marine head operation merit badge last month. And yes, I've been sailing, mostly in the 5 knot gale conditions that are standard for this part of the coast. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 10:34 PM (JkO4W) Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 08, 2025 10:34 PM (VCgbV) 430
Hmmm.... no supervision.... hmmm....
OPEN BAR! ALL DRINKS ARE *ON THE HOUSE* UNTIL ONT SHOWS UP!!!! Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:29 PM (rdVOm) I offer my services as mayhem and debauchery coordinator. lol Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 10:30 PM (snZF9) *** All 'ettes report to the trampoline!!! Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 10:34 PM (2WIwB) 431
424 Where's willow?
Posted by: gKWVE at December 08, 2025 10:33 PM (gKWVE) Off looking for Bathmorda with Mad Mardigan? Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 10:34 PM (mP0Kj) 432
A Canadian Navy veteran on X objected to the Franklin memes, which caused people to create about 50 more and send them to him. So, exactly how everyone except him thought that would go.
Also, is the Canadian Navy like a bass boat with an outboard motor or something? Posted by: Ian S. at December 08, 2025 10:34 PM (ciXcx) 433
OMG! I'm beginning to think we may be without benefit of adult supervision overnight!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 08, 2025 *** When do we ever have "adult" supervision? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:34 PM (wzUl9) Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:34 PM (MVEnt) Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:35 PM (rdVOm) 436
When do we ever have "adult" supervision?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:34 PM (wzUl9) Art Thread - 100 comment rule Posted by: browndog still moving slowly at December 08, 2025 10:35 PM (3sXRv) 437
Yeah, Cherry Pie is gross. Worse than blueberry. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:35 PM (MVEnt) 438
TAKE DOWN ALL THE COLORED LIGHTS,
Posted by: Piper at December 08, 2025 10:32 PM (p4NUW) --- We don't hang the colored ones no more. Posted by: The Democratic Party at December 08, 2025 10:36 PM (krQz2) 439
I offer my services as mayhem and debauchery coordinator. lol
Posted by: Berserker You can't coordinate mayhem! It would just be shenanigans, at the craziest! Posted by: mikeski at December 08, 2025 10:33 PM (nhCoE) Yeah, but you have to start it right. Showing up with a game of yahtzee isn't going to cut it, and no good story ever began with drinking tea. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 10:36 PM (snZF9) 440
Wolfus,
Minor surgery. Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 08, 2025 *** Ask for the good drugs. In all seriousness, I wish that everything works out well for you. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:36 PM (wzUl9) Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:36 PM (MVEnt) 442
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TAKE DOWN ALL THE COLORED LIGHTS, Posted by: Piper Is this part of a list of demands? Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History Yes, starting small and working my way up to the Burberry coat. Posted by: Piper at December 08, 2025 10:36 PM (p4NUW) 443
I imagine there's mass chaos and a rising level of panic along with frantic phone calls and shouts of 'just publish something...' going on somewhere...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 08, 2025 10:36 PM (QGaXH) 444
I have never once seen "cherry pie" at a diner. And nobody would order it, anyway. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:37 PM (MVEnt) 445
When do we ever have "adult" supervision?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius It's relative. In the land of the grade-schoolers, the middle-schooler is king. Posted by: mikeski at December 08, 2025 10:37 PM (nhCoE) 446
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Yeah, Cherry Pie is gross. Worse than blueberry. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:35 PM (MVEnt) ***Spock eyebrow*** Posted by: browndog still moving slowly at December 08, 2025 10:37 PM (3sXRv) 447
438 TAKE DOWN ALL THE COLORED LIGHTS,
Posted by: Piper at December 08, 2025 10:32 PM (p4NUW) --- We don't hang the colored ones no more. Posted by: The Democratic Party at December 08, 2025 10:36 PM (krQz2) /golf clap Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 10:37 PM (mP0Kj) Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:37 PM (rdVOm) 449
there's mass chaos and a rising level of panic along with frantic phone calls and shouts of 'just publish something...' going on somewhere...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan Perhaps I may be of some assistance? Posted by: Anthony Weiner at December 08, 2025 10:38 PM (gKWVE) 450
435 Merry Christmas~
https://youtu.be/hFjoOOPU6Xo Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:35 PM *** That will liven things up a bit!! Posted by: TRex - headbanger dino at December 08, 2025 10:38 PM (zcHq9) 451
Can you imagine the king of ball breaking deals going up against Starmer on literally anything?
Why would Obama run to a place it would take two snaps to have him deported? Obama isn't going to run and he likely won't be indicted. Neither will Hillary. The goal is to get your country back. Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 10:38 PM (viF8m) 452
Hey, there's extra gelatin in the storeroom...
Where's that inflatable pool? Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:37 PM (rdVOm) Thats one big ass jello shot. lol Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 10:38 PM (snZF9) 453
When do we ever have "adult" supervision?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius Well...there goes somebody's pants! Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 10:39 PM (2WIwB) 454
Franklin Conquers Canada was pretty neat, true. Franklin and the Big Blue Sky Decision; Franklin Joins the Seperatists was pretty balsy
Franklin Fakes An Injury To Get Percocet was not Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 10:39 PM (rbvCR) 455
Cherry pie is the very foundation of pastry as we know it.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 10:39 PM (9ipOP) 456
"You know, Egon, this reminds me of that time when you tried to drill a hole through your own head."
"That would have worked, too, if you hadn't stopped me." Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:39 PM (wzUl9) 457
Merry Christmas~
https://youtu.be/hFjoOOPU6Xo Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:35 PM Ah, so we have learned. lol Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 10:40 PM (snZF9) 458
The only watchable "Dick Van Dyke Show" episodes are the ones that revolve around Rob Petrie's office. The one's that revolve around his home give Mary Tyler Moore free reign to *ruin* every episode. She whines, and moans, and cries thru every episode. I'm a fan of traditional marriage, but Rob should have spanked her until she behaved, and if she wasn't capable of behaving, he should have divorced her and raised Ritchie by himself. Laura Petrie was insufferable.
Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 10:41 PM (Cjcf6) 459
Alright. Who hid the ONT?
Posted by: Some Rat at December 08, 2025 10:41 PM (TfUTr) 460
Thanks Wolfus!
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 08, 2025 10:41 PM (VCgbV) Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 10:41 PM (mT+6a) 462
Didn't Drake's make their own version of Hostess Fruit Pies? Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:42 PM (MVEnt) 463
Cherry pie is the very foundation of pastry as we know it.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 10:39 PM (9ipOP) And blueberry pie is the cornerstone! Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 10:42 PM (2WIwB) 464
These frantic explosions of excitement about "no supervision" remind me of my early teen years, when my mother would go off to work at the hospital overnight and leave my brother and me at home alone. Especially in the summer, we felt like the brakes were off. Potato chips and root beer, watching TV until the stations signed off, reading and listening to music until nearly dawn . . .
Kept me sane during those long school years, lemme tell ya. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:42 PM (wzUl9) 465
Thats one big ass jello shot. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division ----------- If there are enough sign-ups for jello wrestling, I will make the gelatin... Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:43 PM (rdVOm) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 10:43 PM (Ow52c) 467
How the fuck can anyone be against Mary Tyler Moore?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 10:43 PM (JkO4W) Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:43 PM (MVEnt) 469
Geeze...just saw a beg commercial for the SPLC. But, you get a t-shirt!
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 08, 2025 10:43 PM (XeU6L) 470
Apple Pie is the only fruit-based pie I can abide, and I will eat a bite or two of it only to be polite. Sweets are supposed to include chocolate. If they don't, why am I consuming all of those calories?
Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 10:44 PM (Cjcf6) Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:44 PM (MVEnt) 472
TAKE DOWN ALL THE COLORED LIGHTS,
Posted by: Piper ------- Nah, I'll just unplug them. The white ones are still there, but unplugged, so I'll plug them in instead! Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:33 PM (rdVOm) You 2 might get uninvited from the Club ONT Christmas party Posted by: Doof at December 08, 2025 10:44 PM (XnlIn) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 10:44 PM (Ow52c) 474
465 Thats one big ass jello shot. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division ----------- If there are enough sign-ups for jello wrestling, I will make the gelatin... Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:43 Well look at the time! It was great seeing y’all! Dang it, Where are my shoes? Posted by: Piper at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (pZEOD) 475
Shirley it 'tis. Shirley, a cherry is of the berry family. Right? Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (MVEnt) 476
I saw Boner Pockets open for the Brazillion Honeybalm at the Troubadour in '22.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (1zOXE) 477
The only watchable "Dick Van Dyke Show" episodes are the ones that revolve around Rob Petrie's office. The one's that revolve around his home give Mary Tyler Moore free reign to *ruin* every episode. She whines, and moans, and cries thru every episode. I'm a fan of traditional marriage, but Rob should have spanked her until she behaved, and if she wasn't capable of behaving, he should have divorced her and raised Ritchie by himself. Laura Petrie was insufferable.
Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 *** The nice thing about the show was that both Rob and Laura were capable of doing or saying foolish things on occasion. When people compare that execrable anti-male fest Everybody Loves Raymond to DVD, I want to laugh at the idea. Ray's wife did everything she could to knock him down and treated him like a doormat. Now that was truly insufferable. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (wzUl9) Posted by: clarence at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (zBC00) 479
469 Geeze...just saw a beg commercial for the SPLC. But, you get a t-shirt!
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 08, 2025 10:43 PM (XeU6L) --------- Those Lamborghini loans don't pay for themselves. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (JkO4W) Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (mT+6a) 481
Maybe this is an experiment to see what we'll do.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (QGaXH) 482
Wait.
I never thought of this before. Is a Cherry a berry? Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History It's a fruit, but I don't judge. Posted by: Some Rat at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (TfUTr) 483
>>I'm starting a new class in January. Getting those stickers for my official log book.
>>I earned the marine head operation merit badge last month. >>And yes, I've been sailing, mostly in the 5 knot gale conditions that are standard for this part of the coast. Fantastic. Keep going. You can do more than you think you can. Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (viF8m) 484
Laura Petrie was insufferable.
Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 10:41 PM (Cjcf6) But that wasn't her selling point, IYKWIMAITYD. Posted by: RickZ at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (gKDq2) 485
Get freaking busy!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 10:41 PM (mT+6a) Nurse, do you make it to Leavenworth very often? Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 10:46 PM (uQesX) 486
Wait.
I never thought of this before. Is a Cherry a berry? Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:44 PM (MVEnt) *** You mean Sharon Berry's? Well, not anymore. Posted by: The Paolo at December 08, 2025 10:46 PM (2WIwB) 487
These frantic explosions of excitement about "no supervision" remind me of my early teen years, when my mother would go off to work at the hospital overnight and leave my brother and me at home alone. Especially in the summer, we felt like the brakes were off. Potato chips and root beer, watching TV until the stations signed off, reading and listening to music until nearly dawn . . .
Kept me sane during those long school years, lemme tell ya. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:42 PM (wzUl9) When my parents would do overnight trips down the shore and leave me in my brother home resulted in some intense episodes. We were late teens, but still. My asshole brother brought a chick home and railed her in my parents bed. lol Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 10:46 PM (snZF9) Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 10:46 PM (mT+6a) 489
Watched a most remarkable thing on youtube. They researched Judy Dench's ancestry and found out not only is she a Dane, her ancestors were Danish aristocrats, and through her Great grandfather's (9 generations ago) she is related to the great astronomer Tycho Brahe! But here is where it gets even more interesting that grandpa's sister (Tycho's mother) was the lady in waiting to the queen of Denmark ( you know where this is going , right?). And she lived in ...ELSINORE (Helsingør) ! And Dench's first role was ..Ophelia ! Wild, no. That lady lived there same time when Shakespeare was writing. And here is another, that castle was visited by the troupe from the Globe theater!
Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 10:46 PM (g47mK) 490
Keep going. You can do more than you think you can.
------- In the spirit of full disclosure, there is no marine head merit badge. I just made that part up. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 10:47 PM (JkO4W) 491
Wait.
I never thought of this before. Is a Cherry a berry? Posted by: Soothsayer Stone fruits are 'drupes.' I think that covers cherries. Which I only know because so many culinary "nuts" aren't nuts, they're also drupes. * DDGs * Yup, cherries are drupes. Berries have multiple seeds in them, while drupes have only one. Posted by: mikeski at December 08, 2025 10:47 PM (nhCoE) 492
482 Wait.
I never thought of this before. Is a Cherry a berry? Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History It's a fruit, but I don't judge. Posted by: Some Rat at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (TfUTr) I think it's considered a drupe... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 10:47 PM (ynpvh) 493
481 Maybe this is an experiment to see what we'll do.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (QGaXH) WAIT!!!!! Yer Fauci? shit! Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 10:47 PM (mP0Kj) 494
Geeze...just saw a beg commercial for the SPLC. But, you get a t-shirt! Posted by: Mike Hammerp fake org Amnesty Int'l is also resorting to begging on TV That USAID money-funnel was capped, I suspect. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:47 PM (MVEnt) 495
Nurse, do you make it to Leavenworth very often?
Posted by: OrangeEnt Every few years or so. Cute town. Good beer and schnitzel. Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 10:47 PM (mT+6a) Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:48 PM (MVEnt) Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:48 PM (rdVOm) 498
I always found it interesting that Morey Amsterdam (Buddy on the DVD Show) had a reputation for being one of Al Capone's favorite performers.
Amsterdam used to do his act in a Speakeasy in Chicago as a headliner. Posted by: Orson at December 08, 2025 10:48 PM (dIske) 499
Actually, it’s open mic night. I need someone in charge of a nice header picture- raise your hands-, and mystery clicks? Who has that? I need a joke or 2…hands, please! A few questions / posts that herd into interaction- would you raise your hands a little higher? I am short.
Posted by: Piper at December 08, 2025 10:49 PM (p4NUW) 500
Submitted for your consideration:
Imagine if you will...an Ace of Spades site...where there was no Overnight Thread. Oh sure...your first thought is "I've got this." But...do you? Are you...sure? And how would you know whether what you experienced was *real*....or something that we might call...The Twilight Zone? Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 10:49 PM (Cjcf6) Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:49 PM (MVEnt) 502
When my parents would do overnight trips down the shore and leave me in my brother home resulted in some intense episodes. We were late teens, but still. My asshole brother brought a chick home and railed her in my parents bed. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 *** Oh, if I'd had a car and some money in my later school years and college, I'd have gotten myself into some trouble. But we were broke and I didn't even know how to drive (my father refused to teach me and Mom didn't know how either). So I lived a rather dull life until I left home. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:49 PM (wzUl9) 503
Stawberries...I believe are not technically berries. Peanuts aren't nuts, but legumes...confusing.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 10:49 PM (ynpvh) 504
drupes?
Seriously, fellas? That's the best you can do? Posted by: Soothsayer I'm not a biologist, and I haven't stayed in a Holiday Inn in decades. Take it as you will. Posted by: mikeski at December 08, 2025 10:50 PM (nhCoE) 505
Here is more, in one of Tycho's books from the 1500s , there is a portrait of him surrounded by various heraldic crests. One of them says "Rosencrantz", and there is also a "Guildenstern" ! She also ran into one of her distant cousins in Copenhagen during research. Turns out he is an actor in a royal theater. History...it rhymes !
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Okay, I'll play along... So a peach is also a "drupe," then, yes? Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:49 PM (MVEnt) Yes. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 10:50 PM (ynpvh) 507
497 More holiday cheer~
https://youtu.be/ZkW-K5RQdzo Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:48 PM *** Now we're getting serious. Posted by: TRex - du hast dino at December 08, 2025 10:51 PM (zcHq9) 508
500 Submitted for your consideration:
Imagine if you will...an Ace of Spades site...where there was no Overnight Thread. Oh sure...your first thought is "I've got this." But...do you? Are you...sure? And how would you know whether what you experienced was *real*....or something that we might call...The Twilight Zone? Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 10:49 PM (Cjcf6) It's happened before... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 10:51 PM (ynpvh) 509
drupes?
Pull the other one. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:48 PM (MVEnt) It's wrong. Strictly by the rules, it's Moops. Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 10:51 PM (uQesX) 510
Cicero I hope you have all the foul weather gear you'll be needing. Tomorrow is supposed to break 80 down here. Swim workout planned.
My relative with a boat in your marina is getting some level of captain's license, not sure which. Will ask her at Christmas - actually weather permitting (ha!) we'll start that day with a short sail off DP. Do you do the Christmas light thing on the boat? Need to check - there are two boat light parades down here, one in the harbor, one in Mission Bay. They can be amusing. Posted by: rhomboid at December 08, 2025 10:51 PM (U/Byj) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 10:51 PM (Ow52c) 512
An entire leftard ecosystem was choked off by winding down USAID. It is to laugh.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 10:51 PM (JkO4W) 513
Actually, it’s open mic night. I need someone in charge of a nice header picture- raise your hands-, and mystery clicks? Who has that? I need a joke or 2…hands, please! A few questions / posts that herd into interaction- would you raise your hands a little higher? I am short.
Posted by: Piper at December 08, 2025 10:49 PM (p4NUW) I can send you some fashion content Posted by: Doof at December 08, 2025 10:51 PM (XnlIn) 514
Contrary to my AoS persona, I am quite learned and have the knowledge of an expansive lexicon. I have never heard the word "drupe" in my life. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:51 PM (MVEnt) 515
There is not going to be an ONT.
Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 10:52 PM (g47mK) 516
This is the ONT.
Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 10:52 PM (g47mK) 517
513 Actually, it’s open mic night. I need someone in charge of a nice header picture- raise your hands-, and mystery clicks? Who has that? I need a joke or 2…hands, please! A few questions / posts that herd into interaction- would you raise your hands a little higher? I am short. Posted by: Piper at December 08, 2025 10:49 PM (p4NUW) I can send you some fashion content Posted by: Doof at December 08, 2025 10 Oh boy…. Posted by: Piper at December 08, 2025 10:52 PM (pZEOD) 518
513 Actually, it’s open mic night. I need someone in charge of a nice header picture- raise your hands-, and mystery clicks? Who has that? I need a joke or 2…hands, please! A few questions / posts that herd into interaction- would you raise your hands a little higher? I am short.
Posted by: Piper at December 08, 2025 10:49 PM (p4NUW) I can send you some fashion content Posted by: Doof at December 08, 2025 10:51 PM (XnlIn) The local Medical Examiner club had an open Mike night... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 10:52 PM (ynpvh) 519
So a peach is also a "drupe," then, yes?
Posted by: Soothsayer Yes. Even if they're not droopy. Bananas are berries, though, no matter how droopy. Posted by: mikeski at December 08, 2025 10:53 PM (nhCoE) 520
Every few years or so. Cute town. Good beer and schnitzel.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 10:47 PM (mT+6a) Expensive during the winter? Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 10:53 PM (uQesX) 521
Stawberries...I believe are not technically berries. Peanuts aren't nuts, but legumes...confusing. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) Alright. The joke's over. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:53 PM (MVEnt) 522
Soyuz deorbit and reentry coverage has begun: https://is.gd/QgMJBw It will likely go smooth, but with the Rooskies, there's a chance something could go sideways. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 10:53 PM (w6EFb) 523
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Okay, I'll play along... So a peach is also a "drupe," then, yes? Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:49 PM (MVEnt) It covers all stone fruits ... Posted by: browndog still moving slowly at December 08, 2025 10:53 PM (3sXRv) 524
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Contrary to my AoS persona, I am quite learned and have the knowledge of an expansive lexicon. I have never heard the word "drupe" in my life. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:51 PM (MVEnt) drupe /droo͞p/ noun A fleshy fruit, such as a peach, plum, or cherry, usually having a single hard stone that encloses a seed. A fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp, without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. The exocarp is succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, etc.; dry and subcoriaceous in the almond; and fibrous in the cocoanut. A stone fruit. (from the InterTubes ) Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 10:54 PM (ynpvh) 525
TAKE DOWN ALL THE COLORED LIGHTS,
Posted by: Piper ------- Nah, I'll just unplug them. The white ones are still there, but unplugged, so I'll plug them in instead! Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:33 PM (rdVOm) You 2 might get uninvited from the Club ONT Christmas party Posted by: Doof -------- *Invited*? Thought I had to work? --------------------------------------------------------- This is Ace's thread right now, not the ONT. I believe you're out of your jurisdiction at the moment... Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:54 PM (rdVOm) 526
Do you do the Christmas light thing on the boat? Need to check - there are two boat light parades down here, one in the harbor, one in Mission Bay. They can be amusing.
--------- This weekend is the big event at Dana Point. Our slip is spectacularly situated for viewing, being right on the main channel. Got the whole family coming out for the festivities. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 10:54 PM (JkO4W) 527
Still, it was kind of exciting for thirteen-year-old me when Mom was getting ready to leave for work, and I didn't have school the next day (a Friday, or during the summer). I could look forward to pouring myself a cold Barq's, munching some Jane Parker potato chips (A & P's house brand), and putting my latest Herb Alpert album on to listen to.
I wuz a party animal, baby. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:54 PM (wzUl9) 528
>>In the spirit of full disclosure, there is no marine head merit badge. I just made that part up.
Full disclosure. I know. Go sailing. Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 10:54 PM (viF8m) 529
507 497 More holiday cheer~
https://youtu.be/ZkW-K5RQdzo Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:48 PM *** Now we're getting serious. Posted by: TRex - du hast dino ---------------------- Who would have ever though that they would sit while Saracens raped their women. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 10:55 PM (Ow52c) 530
So "drupes" is the new AoS "type of weasel" meme? Very funny, fellas. Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:55 PM (MVEnt) 531
Actually, it’s open mic night. I need someone in charge of a nice header picture- raise your hands-, and mystery clicks? Who has that? I need a joke or 2…hands, please! A few questions / posts that herd into interaction- would you raise your hands a little higher? I am short.
Posted by: Piper Is it a Christmas-themed not-ONT? This could be a mystery click: https://youtu.be/EAsLEYWtIkY Posted by: mikeski at December 08, 2025 10:55 PM (nhCoE) 532
This is Ace's thread right now, not the ONT. I believe you're out of your jurisdiction at the moment...
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:54 PM (rdVOm) Damn. You got me there. Posted by: Doof at December 08, 2025 10:55 PM (XnlIn) 533
There is not going to be an ONT.
Posted by: runner As long as we have our Saturday Club ONT, I will survive. Sure I'll have the shakes, but morning will come eventually. Posted by: Some Rat at December 08, 2025 10:56 PM (TfUTr) 534
Thus apples are NOT drupes; they are considered pomes (funny that).
pome /pōm/ noun 1. A fleshy fruit, such as an apple, pear, or quince, having several seed chambers and an outer fleshy part largely derived from the hypanthium. 2. A fruit composed of several cartilaginous or bony carpels inclosed in an adherent fleshy mass, which is partly receptacle and partly calyx, as an apple, quince, or pear. 3. A ball of silver or other metal, which is filled with hot water, and used by the priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 10:56 PM (ynpvh) 535
507/ OK JQ, now you've gone and done it...The Dino is gonna be all over this...
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 08, 2025 10:56 PM (IQ6Gq) 536
I have never heard the word "drupe" in my life.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 *** It does sound like something out of Lewis Carroll. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:56 PM (wzUl9) 537
This reminds me of the old days when ONTs were posted at inconsistent times and sometimes not at all.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 08, 2025 10:56 PM (VCgbV) 538
Pomes are those funny things that rhyme, right? And you hafta recite 'em in class?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:57 PM (wzUl9) 539
Soyuz deorbit and reentry coverage has begun:
It will likely go smooth, but with the Rooskies, there's a chance something could go sideways. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 10:53 PM (w6EFb) Oopski, it hit Kiev. Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 10:57 PM (uQesX) 540
>>I have never heard the word "drupe" in my life.
---------- Dogwood trees produce *drupes* also. I saved some, before the birds ate them all, and hope to start another tree or two. Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:57 PM (rdVOm) 541
488 JackStraw and Cicero
It’s blowing stink out here. Come on up Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 10:46 PM (mT+6a) -------- Yeah, but it's cold up there. And rain. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 10:57 PM (JkO4W) 542
I need moar bier!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 10:57 PM (2WIwB) 543
Expensive during the winter?
Posted by: OrangeEnt Always expansive. Check out The Sleeping Lady b and B. Beautiful Avoid the Nutcracker Museum. Creepy Af. Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 10:58 PM (mT+6a) 544
Cicero I should ask her if she's participating. Are they keeping the seals off your dock? Seems like a real problem in that marina.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 08, 2025 10:58 PM (U/Byj) 545
"He had bought a large map representing the sea,
Without the least vestige of land; And the crew were all pleased when they found it to be A map they could all understand." Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:59 PM (wzUl9) 546
I'm just peachy.
Posted by: Drupey Dog at December 08, 2025 10:59 PM (krQz2) 547
>>>As long as we have our Saturday Club ONT, I will survive. Sure I'll have the shakes, but morning will come eventually.
Posted by: Some Rat ---------- Send vodka slider through USB. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 10:59 PM (Ow52c) Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 10:59 PM (mT+6a) 549
541 488 JackStraw and Cicero
It’s blowing stink out here. Come on up Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 10:46 PM (mT+6a) -------- Yeah, but it's cold up there. And rain. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 10:57 PM (JkO4W) It's gonna be so HOT tomorrow; high of 83°F. Must be Climate Change... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 11:00 PM (ynpvh) 550
'Bout time I headed off to sleep meself. No need to get up early, but the cats, esp. a certain Evil Black Kitten of War and Pestilence, will probably leap across and on me around four am.
Play nice, now, and if you can't, well, just don't get caught. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 11:00 PM (wzUl9) 551
Florida is designating the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as foreign terrorist organizations.
Florida agencies are hereby directed to undertake all lawful measures to prevent unlawful activities by these organizations, including denying privileges or resources to anyone providing material support. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 11:01 PM (Ow52c) 552
Looks like the AOSHQ is got a case of the Mondays!
Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 11:01 PM (krQz2) Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 11:01 PM (rdVOm) 554
Random open thread links, all are YouTube:
https://tinyurl.com/y7h42k8x https://tinyurl.com/2z7ehdpf https://tinyurl.com/5scx42t4 https://tinyurl.com/2rcwa8ss Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 08, 2025 11:01 PM (pIfcn) 555
Looks like the AOSHQ is got a case of the Mondays!
Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 *** Yes, Mondays are rough. But remember: "Compared to being on the wrong side of the ground, even a bad Monday is pretty small kumquats, nicht wahr?" Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 11:02 PM (wzUl9) 556
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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 11:02 PM (Ow52c) Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 08, 2025 11:02 PM (pIfcn) 558
Nurse! At least we both still have power....
Posted by: Some Rat at December 08, 2025 11:02 PM (TfUTr) 559
Posted by: rhomboid at December 08, 2025 10:58 PM (U/Byj)
--------- The sea lions are ever present. There are usually six or eight lounging about on my dock. They stink, but if they refrain from blasting shit all over my boat I'm grateful. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 11:03 PM (JkO4W) 560
Reminds me to run the sprinklers on the bank tonight. Didn't think I'd need to do that again for 6 months. Also wish I'd planted more mizuna and other greens that do OK in warm weather the last few weeks. Already transitioned to "cold" weather prep for lettuce garden, but fortunately haven't planted anything yet. They'd bolt before Christmas.
Always have wondered how the farmers out in the Imperial Valley do it. It's a billion degrees half the year, but they turn out 3 crops of lettuce with no apparent bolting problem. Posted by: rhomboid at December 08, 2025 11:03 PM (U/Byj) Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 11:03 PM (viF8m) 562
I'm actually surprised that Doof hasn't posted an ONT. Maybe he's getting one ready. With Rush clip.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 11:03 PM (uQesX) Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 11:03 PM (MVEnt) 564
ONT is up.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 11:03 PM (JkO4W) Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 11:03 PM (rdVOm) 566
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@unseen1_unseen Repeat after me. There is no 4th branch of government. There is no such thing as an "independent" agency. Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 11:04 PM (Cjcf6) Posted by: Count de Monet at December 08, 2025 11:04 PM (wVcYX) 568
ont is new
Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 11:04 PM (rbvCR) Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 11:05 PM (rdVOm) 570
@sentdefender. 12m
Democrat Rep. Ami Bera, M.D. (CA-06), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific, and Rep. Gregory W. Meeks (NY-05), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered a letter today to President Donald J. Trump urging greater support, including sanctions relief, for the United States’ close ally Japan in light of an escalating campaign of economic and military coercion in the Indo-Pacific by the People’s Republic of China (PRC). --- If they can't have a war with Russia they'll settle for one with China. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 11:06 PM (Ow52c) 571
Monday is not my funday. But then neither is Tuesday.
Wish the weather would get better. Do we still have a sun? Posted by: Case at December 08, 2025 11:08 PM (G1OIb) 572
570 @sentdefender. 12m
Democrat Rep. Ami Bera, M.D. (CA-06), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific, and Rep. Gregory W. Meeks (NY-05), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered a letter today to President Donald J. Trump urging greater support, including sanctions relief, for the United States’ close ally Japan in light of an escalating campaign of economic and military coercion in the Indo-Pacific by the People’s Republic of China (PRC). --- If they can't have a war with Russia they'll settle for one with China. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 11:06 PM (Ow52c) Quite a leap there. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 02:05 AM (4786I) Supreme Court Seems Likely To Rule That the President Has Control Over, Get This, the Exectutive Branch" " " Reformers " " " decided that the actually-responsible, actually-elected political leaders were too corrupt so we should give power to appointed bureaucrats who, of course, cannot be corrupt and only want What's Best for Everybody. A plethora of "independent" agencies were created. Into these agencies were poured executive power, taken from the actual Executive. And it was claimed the actual president could not fire the commissioners of these agencies, even if they were appointed by previous presidents and were now working to thwart the will of the current elected president. It's this last part that got the most attention from the Supreme Court during oral arguments today. What kind of a system, they wondered, allows prior presidents, who no longer have any constitutional power -- like Joe Biden -- to essentially continue governing through the commissioners he appointed, stopping the actual Chief Executive of the United States from carrying out his duties? Why is the dead hand of the last president allowed to strangle the current one?The Supreme Court's questions seem to indicate that they find this bizarre arrangement to be unconstitutional and will reverse a 1935 precedent called Humphrey's Executor and find that the executive power of the United States is entrusted to the elected Chief Executive and the appointments of prior presidents cannot bind him. The Supreme Court signaled Monday that it's prepared to hand President Donald Trump another win in his drive to consolidate his power over federal agencies. During arguments over Trump's dismissal of Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Slaughter, the high court's conservative majority appeared intent on overturning or effectively gutting a 90-year-old precedent that upheld restrictions on the president's ability to fire leaders of independent agencies across the executive branch. "I think broad delegations to unaccountable independent agencies raise enormous constitutional and real world problems for individual liberty," Justice Brett Kavanaugh said during the arguments. Overturning that precedent, known as Humphrey's Executor, has become a key goal for conservatives. "The text and structure of the Constitution confer on the president the exclusive and illimitable power to remove executive officers, and as a result of that Humphrey's should be overruled," Solicitor General D. John Sauer told the justices on Monday, repeatedly calling the 1935 ruling "a decaying husk." The White House told Slaughter in March that she was fired, without citing any concern about her performance or conduct. A federal appeals court ruled that Slaughter should be reinstated, but the Supreme Court said her dismissal could take effect while it considered the merits of her claim -- and now seems poised to rule against her. ... Kavanaugh sought reassurances that such a ruling wouldn't allow presidents to fire Federal Reserve governors. "We recognize and acknowledge ... that the Federal Reserve is a quasi private, uniquely structured entity that follows a distinct historical tradition," Sauer said, calling the Fed "sui generis," or in a category by itself. The Supreme Court has also lined up for argument next month a case over Trump's attempt to fire Federal Reserve Board member Lisa Cook. The justices signaled in May that they were inclined for historical reasons to give the Fed more autonomy than other agencies. And in October they issued an order that allowed Cook to stay in her job until the court resolves that fight. Justices Samuel Alito and Amy Coney Barrett suggested the court could rule for Trump in the FTC case, while leaving the knotty issues around some other agencies for another day. Alito proposed that the court could "reserve decision on those agencies that may not come before us in the near future, or perhaps at any time in the future." Eric DaughertyLow-IQ Justice Jackson "doesn't understand" a lot of things. It's not just that she's stupid. It's also that this is preferred method of left-wingers to passively-aggressively disagree. Instead of saying "I disagree," they almost always say "I don't understand why..." and then specify the thing they disagree with. She is constantly, constantly saying "I don't understand why..."
In related news, the Supreme Court has agreed to review the issue of birthright citizenship.
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Yes!
Posted by: lin-duh at December 08, 2025 06:23 PM (rdRUo) 2
KBJ's favorite phrase is I don't understand and it seems as if there's a lot of things she doesn't understand.
Justice Autopen. Posted by: CaliGirl at December 08, 2025 06:26 PM (ajCaF) 3
KOWABUNGA
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 08, 2025 06:26 PM (YlWIZ) 4
It's definitely a meme now that lefties argue by claiming not to understand things. But in Jackson's case I'm willing to entertain that she actually doesn't understand anything.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 08, 2025 06:26 PM (UmGiD) 5
JUST IN - SUPREME COURT: "President Trump is on the cusp of an apparent Supreme Court VICTORY with justices signaling they may allow him to fire a [Democrat] member of the Federal Trade Commission *WITHOUT* cause."
Article II is CLEAR. == What does it mean for the Federal Reserve ? And whatsherface that was fired ?? Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 06:27 PM (g47mK) 6
What a concept, the president can actually hire and fire people who work for him.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 08, 2025 06:27 PM (0N4FZ) 7
As I was saying.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 06:27 PM (viF8m) 8
How many dem admjns have liquidated everyone even approaching not liberal? Clinton, Obama, fucking Biden? They all did it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 06:27 PM (zZu0s) 9
I don't get my hopes up. I've learned from experience.
Posted by: NCKate at December 08, 2025 06:27 PM (uQzkA) 10
The Supreme Court faces a critical birthright citizenship decision.
On January 20th of this year, President Trump signed an order to stop automatic birthright citizenship. === This is going to be interesting. Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 06:28 PM (g47mK) 11
It's clear that the intent of the law is that the experts should get to run everything. Whoever appoints the first bunch of experts is in charge forever.
Posted by: Justice Jackson at December 08, 2025 06:29 PM (98kQX) 12
Imagine a ceo not able to fire employees or get rid of departments. It would be insane.
And yet the left thinks it’s cool if the federal Govt works this way. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 06:29 PM (DR7Cw) 13
At its core, "I don't understand" is a micro-scale gaslight.
Frame the argument as though the counter-argument is inherently confusing and nonsensical. Before you even have got to either. Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 06:29 PM (Vq1pX) 14
The problem with Marxist revolution is that it favors ideology over reality. Lysenkoism is a perfect example. The late stage Soviet Union couldn't make an economy work and resorted to thuggery like all leftists. Yeltsin going to Dallas is the greatest example. He muttered to himself all the way back to Moscow. Or he was drunk
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 06:21 PM (bfwj/) --- Because ideology is the simplification that reality will obey a theory, and can serve to keep belief in a system that is failing. And is really the only hope a ideological regime has of even presenting a "carrot" to vary from the real stick it pragmatically must rely on more and more. It's also dancing with the one you were attracted to enough to let bring you to the dance. The ideology is attractive--and it was the original simplification that seduced you onto the path of the ideology. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 06:29 PM (krQz2) 15
Fundamental changes, fuck yeah !
Posted by: Ben Had at December 08, 2025 06:30 PM (sDNVV) 16
Ok, OT (sort of)
This is a great turn of phrase: 'You killed it on purpose and now youre confused by the corpse.' Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 06:30 PM (zZu0s) 17
10 The Supreme Court faces a critical birthright citizenship decision.
On January 20th of this year, President Trump signed an order to stop automatic birthright citizenship. === This is going to be interesting. Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 06:28 PM (g47mK) If the Supreme Court allows it via EO, Congress better get off their arse and codify if. Ah, who am I kidding? Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at December 08, 2025 06:30 PM (8hxDK) 18
KBJ has the intellectual firepower of a rutabaga, and sits on the highest court in the land.
Wild. Posted by: ballistic at December 08, 2025 06:30 PM (3BwY8) 19
So this mean Trumps owns the "A"s.
If it end in admin or commish then Trump owns them lock, stock, and barrel. Posted by: rhennigantx at December 08, 2025 06:31 PM (gbOdA) 20
KBJ wants to ProtectDemocracy(TM) by having unelected
'experts' run the place. It's right there in the Whatever Clause of the Constitution. Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 08, 2025 06:31 PM (Dv3i1) 21
Maybe it�s a recognition that Humphrey's Executor was poorly reasoned and that there is no such thing in our constitutional order as a 4th branch of government..
== Was "birthright citizenship" interpretation of the 14th also poorly reasoned ? "According to estimates from the Migration Policy Institute and Penn State’s Population Research Institute, ending birthright citizenship would result in an average of 255,000 children being born in the U.S. without citizenship each year, and would increase the number of unauthorized migrants living in the U.S. by 2.7 million by 2045, and 5.4 million by 2075. The Pew Research Center found in 2022 that about 4.4 million U.S.-born children under 18 live with an unauthorized immigrant parent." Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 06:31 PM (g47mK) 22
Before you even have got to either.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 06:29 PM (Vq1pX) Also frees you from. Having to argue for your argument and why the other argument is wrong. Lazy. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 06:31 PM (zZu0s) 23
I think Trump is going to get this but probably not an end to birthright citizenship. The real big one , which I think the court is going to rule against, is his tariffs. That is going to be a monumental fuckening of his whole polucy.
Posted by: steevy at December 08, 2025 06:31 PM (YwEeS) 24
At its core, "I don't understand" is a micro-scale gaslight.
Frame the argument as though the counter-argument is inherently confusing and nonsensical. Before you even have got to either. Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 06:29 PM (Vq1pX) --- Funny, I posted that earlier in the day. It's good to get other people's eyes watching the same sleight of hand, though. They'll paint some sort of straw man on you, and then ridicule you for being a poor example of the straw man they expect you to be. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 06:32 PM (krQz2) 25
The executive power of the United States is vested in a president.
I seem to recall that phrase somewhere. Dicta on a SCOTUS ruling? Op-ed? I know it's written down somewhere. Now whether the court should pay any attention to it is another question. And it is pretty ambiguous and confusing, gotta admit. Posted by: rhomboid at December 08, 2025 06:32 PM (U/Byj) 26
Lazy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 06:31 PM (zZu0s) Konami Code Communism. I'm not just cracking jokes. Everything they do is designed to win without having to win. Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 06:32 PM (Vq1pX) 27
The Executive Branch executes. It's right there in the name.
Posted by: huerfano at December 08, 2025 06:32 PM (98kQX) 28
100 to nothing this wasn't her opinion when Bribe'em was President.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 08, 2025 06:32 PM (sDNVV) 29
Low-IQ Justice Jackson "doesn't understand" a lot of things.
It's not just that she's stupid. It's just that she's stupid. Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2025 06:32 PM (9bIJg) 30
Of course if the Federal Bureaucracy isn't chopped down (hello again Congress!), this only matters in the short term.
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at December 08, 2025 06:33 PM (8hxDK) 31
The meme of:
It's amazing how much leftist discourse is just them pretending not to understand things, thus making discourse impossible. Posted by: Blanco at December 08, 2025 06:33 PM (MHpW9) 32
I have a feeling that they will split the baby on the tariffs. Something along the lines of what is done is done and cannot give money back because national security, but in the future cannot do without Congress. It's a tax!1!!
Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 06:33 PM (g47mK) 33
yay! good news!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 08, 2025 06:33 PM (Cjt/F) 34
I don’t get it.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 06:33 PM (W2Pud) 35
If the Supreme Court allows it via EO, Congress better get off their arse and codify if. Ah, who am I kidding?
____ I don't know if this would how the SC would be able to rule, but I was hoping they'd just say that 14th Amendment doesn't allow for citizenship for children born to people not subject to the jurisdiction of the state, JUST LIKE IT F*CKING SAYS!!!! and it would be unconstitutional to interpret it any other way. Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 08, 2025 06:33 PM (Dv3i1) 36
" " " Reformers " " " decided that the actually-responsible, actually-elected political leaders were too corrupt so we should give power to appointed bureaucrats who, of course, cannot be corrupt and only want What's Best for Everybody
_______ Surely such exemplars as John Brennan and Christopher Wray are proof that they are wholly uncorruptable. Posted by: Eeyore at December 08, 2025 06:34 PM (s0JqF) 37
Konami Code Communism. I'm not just cracking jokes. Everything they do is designed to win without having to win.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 06:32 PM (Vq1pX) Valid. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 06:34 PM (zZu0s) 38
It's amazing how much leftist discourse is just them pretending not to understand things, thus making discourse impossible.
____ Why do you hate immigrants? Posted by: Leftist at December 08, 2025 06:34 PM (Dv3i1) 39
"Unauthorized" seems to be replacing "Undocumented" as the euphemism for "Illegal."
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 08, 2025 06:35 PM (PiwSw) Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 08, 2025 06:35 PM (M6rYb) 41
I don't get my hopes up. I've learned from experience. Posted by: NCKate Yeah, we've been on cusps before. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 08, 2025 06:35 PM (pkeXY) 42
Every law enacted by Congress should come with an expiration date. That would solve so many problems.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 06:35 PM (DR7Cw) 43
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 06:35 PM (W2Pud) 44
As we Great Minds noted here back when they were first fired, that they would have been better off taking their lumps and letting Humphrey's stand.
Because there's neither the mood nor the Court in this country for sympathy to unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats. But lefties gotta leftie and district court wins are big Ws that should be Law. I liked the bizarre argument that I think Kagen was trying to make. Something like, "but if Congress is accountable to the people and Congress created these agencies--for the benefit of the people--then the agencies are accountable to the people right?" Yes, yes: That's why no one has ever complained about the quality of service at the DMV--cause they're totally accountable to the people. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 08, 2025 06:35 PM (HXT0k) 45
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Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 06:35 PM (Vq1pX) 46
So, Is this a bone and they are still in the mode of holding back reality and the exiled constitution as much as possible,
Or is this a sign that their preference is cascading? And future rulings will go to rational rule of law instead of rule of vibes. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 08, 2025 06:36 PM (GyoJP) 47
The Executive Branch executes. It's right there in the name.
Posted by: huerfano If only. Because I have a list. Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2025 06:36 PM (9bIJg) Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 08, 2025 06:36 PM (1zOXE) 49
39 "Unauthorized" seems to be replacing "Undocumented" as the euphemism for "Illegal."
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 08, 2025 06:35 PM (PiwSmuxjnlike Much like how homeless (formerly known and a bum) is transitioning to unhoused. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 06:36 PM (DR7Cw) 50
5 JUST IN - SUPREME COURT: "President Trump is on the cusp of an apparent Supreme Court VICTORY with justices signaling they may allow him to fire a [Democrat] member of the Federal Trade Commission *WITHOUT* cause."
Article II is CLEAR. == What does it mean for the Federal Reserve ? And whatsherface that was fired ?? Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 06:27 PM (g47mK) So the question becomes, is the Federal Reserve itself Constitutional? Only the US Government is supposed to mint coins, which leads to control over the money supply itself. Congress itself put out the first US currency during the Revolutionary war. The Fed Reserve itself, IMO, is outside of the Constitutional Limits... as it is NOT controlled by any of the Three Branches of Government. Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 06:36 PM (mP0Kj) 51
She is constantly, constantly saying "I don't understand why..."
_______ Surely that is the single most admirably honest thing about her. Posted by: Eeyore at December 08, 2025 06:37 PM (s0JqF) Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 08, 2025 06:38 PM (Cjt/F) 53
Federal reserve is a private entity right? Private banks own shares of it, I believe. But with a leader appointed by the president t. It’s a weird relationship.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 06:38 PM (DR7Cw) 54
How many dem admjns have liquidated everyone even approaching not liberal? Clinton, Obama, fucking Biden? They all did it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 06:27 PM But it was (D)ifferent then. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 08, 2025 06:38 PM (0N4FZ) 55
I don't understand how President Biden was able to nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson for a position on the Supreme Court.
Shouldn't that nomination have been made by Congress? Of course, Congress (Senate) had to approve her placement, but I don't understand how Biden got to make the selection. It's almost like his authority outweighed Congress' in the selection process. #LiterallyHitler Posted by: Orson at December 08, 2025 06:38 PM (dIske) 56
The plaintiffs attorney got stomped by Gorsuch. He did his client no favors.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 06:38 PM (bfwj/) 57
>>I liked the bizarre argument that I think Kagen was trying to make.
Something like, "but if Congress is accountable to the people and Congress created these agencies--for the benefit of the people--then the agencies are accountable to the people right?" The people elect one person to be their voice, the president. He is the only one elected by all the people. I don't think that's the winning message she thinks it is. Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 06:39 PM (viF8m) 58
Solicitor General D. John Sauer told the justices on Monday, repeatedly calling the 1935 ruling "a decaying husk."
The phrase "a decaying husk" is from a 1985 commentary regarding another Humphrey's Executor case authored by one John Roberts. Posted by: Miklos so notes at December 08, 2025 06:39 PM (N7hqt) 59
>>Why do you hate immigrants?
Posted by: Leftist at December 08, 2025 06:34 PM They smell funny and around here, at least, they talk in warbles and grunts. Posted by: huerfano at December 08, 2025 06:39 PM (98kQX) 60
So the 14th is like the end zone.
Just touch the pilon or the ball passes through the plane of the endzone. You could literally have the vagina in Mexico and the Baby passes into America. TA FUCKING DA Citizen. Posted by: rhennigantx at December 08, 2025 06:39 PM (gbOdA) 61
KBJ wants to ProtectDemocracy(TM) by having unelected 'experts' run the place. It's right there in the Whatever Clause of the Constitution. Posted by: Chuck Martel It's what she was taught in "school." Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 08, 2025 06:39 PM (pkeXY) Posted by: Blanco at December 08, 2025 06:39 PM (MHpW9) 63
Charlotte's mayor put out a statement on the latest stabbing on our light rail. An illegal tried killing a guy. The mayor pushes back on the bad PR by yelling she can't be responsible for immigration. Just recently up to her tits actively thwarting ICE, DHS, etc. But not her fault now, yall. Stupid bitch. And the sheriff can eat dicks too with his statement on the new law named after Uke chick.
Posted by: NCKate at December 08, 2025 06:40 PM (uQzkA) 64
"I don't understand why the president gets to control everything and outweigh Congress' authority and duty to protect the people!"
Congress has no such authority. It is terrifying that a supreme court justice doesn't know this. The duty to "protect" the people is the president. The duty to control everything belongs to the president. If congress doesn't like it, they are free to defund. Congress has the power of the purse. They have NO POWER in day-to-day management of the execution of the work. It's funny, in principle, I have no objection to independent agencies, in practice, leftists, like with everything else, corrupt the independence. Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 08, 2025 06:40 PM (gDhA9) 65
Oh goody, there's an LGBT version of A Christmas Carol on Amazon Prime Video: Scrooge and Marley.
Yuck. Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 08, 2025 06:40 PM (PiwSw) 66
Look, the Gov letting a private entity print the money, then borrow it back from the private entity is just good business.
If you can get it. Posted by: connected and litigious at December 08, 2025 06:40 PM (cS1cw) 67
3 of "our" Senators voted for that idiot DEI Supreme.
Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 06:40 PM (Cjcf6) 68
While Jackson (and Sotomayor) are obviously pretty stupid, it's not required to be intellectually sub-mediocre like them to be a ridiculous lawless destructive force on the courts, as currently constituted, with self-appointed plenary power as virtual legislatures, executives, and constitutional conventions.
Kennedy's unhinged diatribe in Obergefell and his comical absurdity and usurpation in Hamdan v. Bush, and Roberts in the O-care case, were recent examples of incredibly destructive, lawless rulings that didn't depend just on stupid justices. The constitutional system lies in ruins. There is zero-point-zero prospect of it being fixed, even on the margins. The glorified clerks known as judges have about 93% too much power, but there is hardly anyone inside or outside the legal cult who even understands this or cares about it. Posted by: rhomboid at December 08, 2025 06:40 PM (U/Byj) 69
Much like how homeless (formerly known and a bum) is transitioning to unhoused.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald Hmmm Posted by: Miklos, untrousered at December 08, 2025 06:40 PM (N7hqt) 70
35 If the Supreme Court allows it via EO, Congress better get off their arse and codify if. Ah, who am I kidding?
____ I don't know if this would how the SC would be able to rule, but I was hoping they'd just say that 14th Amendment doesn't allow for citizenship for children born to people not subject to the jurisdiction of the state, JUST LIKE IT F*CKING SAYS!!!! and it would be unconstitutional to interpret it any other way. Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 08, 2025 06:33 PM (Dv3i1) Yeah, that makes sense, but I wouldn't pin my hopes on it. As runner said, it will be interesting in many ways. If they (hopefully) end it, think of the logistics of all the newly non-citizens already here. Or if they split the baby and put a date on it, the massive incoming wave trying to beat the deadline. Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at December 08, 2025 06:41 PM (8hxDK) 71
I'm setting up a Pew Pew Research Center.
Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 06:41 PM (vFG9F) 72
It's amazing how much leftist discourse is just them pretending not to understand things, thus making discourse impossible.
Posted by: Blanco at December 08, 2025 06:33 PM (MHpW9) --- They are well-practiced at it. They have decades of experience in the 20th century of asking "How would you explain that to somebody who doesn't understand why?" Not realizing that somebody can understand a concept, and that sadly, maybe there are some who will never understand, because they weren't blessed with that facility. You cannot tell what lack of understanding is conditional and which is structural. But for years upon years they've demanded that our concepts must be made clear to those who "don't understand". They've never put that burden upon themselves, mind you, if you don't understand then you're "just ignorant". And somebody to be progressively moved out of the way of "progress" as they define it. (Not as the least common denominator understands it.) Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 06:41 PM (krQz2) 73
gorsuch was brilliant
Posted by: cherries in season at December 08, 2025 06:42 PM (yumdX) 74
Miklos! Boldog karácsonyt!
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 08, 2025 06:42 PM (PiwSw) 75
Wait Scrooge and Marley were lovers? Well they are British after all...
Posted by: steevy at December 08, 2025 06:43 PM (YwEeS) 76
Jumanji Jackson is Madea in a robe, isn't she? Posted by: Frank Barone at December 08, 2025 06:43 PM (IifOV) 77
Why do you hate immigrants?
Where do I begin... Oh.. wait.. Posted by: Blanco Chavez the Hugo could answer this Posted by: Miklos and the Horde cry out at December 08, 2025 06:43 PM (N7hqt) 78
They've never put that burden upon themselves, mind you, if you don't understand then you're "just ignorant". And somebody to be progressively moved out of the way of "progress" as they define it. (Not as the least common denominator understands it.)
Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 06:41 PM (krQz2) They revel in the absurdities of their "theories". They luxuriate in it. The more incoherent, the more Authentic. You just wouldn't understand, they say, only Experts know the true knowledge. Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 06:44 PM (Vq1pX) 79
Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 06:41 PM (krQz2)
I always liked what Ed Koch would say when he talked to especially stupid journalists: "I can explain it to you; I can't comprehend it for you." Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 08, 2025 06:44 PM (PiwSw) 80
"Much like how homeless (formerly known and a bum) is transitioning to unhoused.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald Hmmm Posted by: Miklos, untrousered" I've been unhoused and unburdened. Posted by: Camela at December 08, 2025 06:44 PM (vFG9F) 81
Every single article on this has to mention that Humphreys is "over 90 years old."
Like, damn, we kids just can't grasp the wisdom of the towering minds of the nineteen aughts or some stupid shit. Laws against gay marriage were around for nearly 250 years but somehow that did stop "sweet mysteries of the night" from over-turning that. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 08, 2025 06:44 PM (HXT0k) 82
54 How many dem admjns have liquidated everyone even approaching not liberal? Clinton, Obama, fucking Biden? They all did it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 06:27 PM But it was (D)ifferent then. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 08, 2025 06:38 PM (0N4FZ) The purge of the Military under Biden will be felt for many years... because once purged, the good Soldiers and Sailors don't have a way back into the fold. Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 06:45 PM (mP0Kj) 83
The Fed is private only in the sense that it wants to be thought of that way. :-) It's a damn complicated fiction set up to delegate monetary policy power out of the hands of Congress. Politicians are terrible with the money power. Imagine AOC controlling the printing presses. Private banksters ain't so much better, but they are better than AOC. So, I'd argue that the money power is a legislative power, and it's execution must be by the executive, ie the President. But they wanted to take the money power out of the hands of the president as well, since he's a politician too. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 06:45 PM (w6EFb) 84
ending birthright citizenship would result in an average of 255,000 children being born in the U.S. without citizenship each year, and would increase the number of unauthorized migrants living in the U.S. by 2.7 million by 2045, and 5.4 million by 2075.
The Pew Research Center found in 2022 that about 4.4 million U.S.-born children under 18 live with an unauthorized immigrant parent." Posted by: runner They can have citizenship in whatever country their parents actually belong to. And they can be deported. Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 08, 2025 06:45 PM (a+4eV) Posted by: Miklos expects misinterpretation at December 08, 2025 06:45 PM (N7hqt) 86
Scotus being scotus, my guess is he will be allowed to fire this one person. Every other person fired will then get to appeal to the scotus over and over because they are a bunch of chickenshits.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 08, 2025 06:46 PM (n5tGW) 87
Given the mast majority of people who use public transportation are anti-car leftist vermin, I kinda don’t care if they kill each other on the train.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 06:46 PM (DR7Cw) 88
I don't know if we're producing enough men to supply the bags of dick our cities' mayors need to eat.
I suppose that's what the green dildoes are for. Posted by: gKWVE at December 08, 2025 06:46 PM (gKWVE) 89
JKB does not understand what a woman is, how can she be expected to understand the three co-equal branches of our government?
Posted by: Eromero at December 08, 2025 06:47 PM (LHPAg) 90
>>They can have citizenship in whatever country their parents actually belong to. And they can be deported.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 08, 2025 06:45 PM I keep seeing that they don't even speak the language in their home countries. Bullshit. Their parents don't speak English. How do they communicate with them? Posted by: huerfano at December 08, 2025 06:48 PM (98kQX) 91
The Court has let the Fed get away with a lot of shit they shouldn't have. Buying up all the bad MBS dogshit is a prime example -- that, to me (and a lot of others) was a clear violation of the Federal Reserve Act, but they let it go. Why, that's complicated monetary policy shit during a global financial meltdown, we, the courts don't know shit about that, so we'll let them do what they want. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 06:48 PM (w6EFb) 92
Oh boy, this is why 'attack attack attack' is such an effective strategy against idiots.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 06:48 PM (2GVsD) 93
87 Given the mast majority of people who use public transportation are anti-car leftist vermin, I kinda don’t care if they kill each other on the train.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald Oh blow it out your ass. I take public transport every day. Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 06:49 PM (W2Pud) 94
Don't all Somalis have citizenship automatically conferred when they consummate their marriages to their siblings?
Posted by: Eeyore at December 08, 2025 06:49 PM (s0JqF) 95
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 06:45 PM (w6EFb)
But allowing banks to set monetary policy is just as bad. It's why the inflation TARGET is 2%... a target they never seem to meet. Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 06:50 PM (mP0Kj) 96
Yeah, we've been on cusps before.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 08, 2025 06:35 PM (pkeXY) I read that in a Mike Tyson voice. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 06:50 PM (npFr7) 97
I keep seeing that they don't even speak the language in their home countries. Bullshit. Their parents don't speak English. How do they communicate with them?
Posted by: huerfano at December 08, 2025 06:48 PM (98kQX) Their entire lives are in their parents home language. Little Jose or Juanita can barely string together a sentence in English. It’s yet another lie by the left. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 06:50 PM (DR7Cw) 98
Remember: the same legal scholars that will swear Humphrey's is Sound Constitutional Law, will tell you that birthright citizenship is in Super Constitution.
LOL, know how I know that the left has probably already lost this one? Cause in today's argument, one of the Left Bloc made a snide comment about how they can't just put a footnote in the opinion, "that we're not dealing with that question" today. She was trying to argue that they can't overturn the precedent b/c it'll upset so much other rules, that they must keep status quo or write rules for every possible firing. LOL. Birthright citizenship is a footnote. And overruling opens a whole can of worm questions not before the Court. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 08, 2025 06:50 PM (HXT0k) 99
It's amusing that the Left had no problem with Biden campaigning on "nominating a black female to the USSC."
He had no idea whom. He didn't qualify the statement with something like "a highly qualified, accomplished and deserving individual." Nope, he just said "I'm going to nominate a black woman to the bench." Now, apply that logic, process, and reasoning to any other job in the entire country. It's a violation of the EEOC. Discriminatory. And, as a result we end up with a retard influencing defining law for the rest of us. Posted by: Orson at December 08, 2025 06:50 PM (dIske) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 06:51 PM (2GVsD) 101
KBJ's favorite phrase is I don't understand and it seems as if there's a lot of things she doesn't understand. Justice Theater Kid (JTK). JTK: "I don't ... I don't ... I ... ... line!" Prompter: "I don't understand." JTK: "Yeah! I don't understand..." Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 08, 2025 06:51 PM (xG4kz) 102
Me smart! Kunte Kinte Jackson dumb! Not smart like me. Dumb.
Posted by: Zombie Harambe at December 08, 2025 06:51 PM (R/m4+) 103
12 Imagine a ceo not able to fire employees or get rid of departments. It would be insane.
And yet the left thinks it’s cool if the federal Govt works this way. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 06:29 PM (DR7Cw) ________ But if the CEO tries to fire a bunch of employees who are diverse in race and gender, that can not be allowed, right? Posted by: Eeyore at December 08, 2025 06:52 PM (s0JqF) 104
Left: everything old is bad and racist and needs to be destroyed
Also left: how dare you undo nearly 100 year old court decisions!!!! Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 06:52 PM (DR7Cw) 105
Evening.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 08, 2025 06:53 PM (xt2dn) 106
*waves to Robert*
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 06:53 PM (2GVsD) 107
Jasmine Crockett can't really understand a lot of things either.
Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 06:53 PM (vFG9F) 108
5 JUST IN - SUPREME COURT: "President Trump is on the cusp of an apparent Supreme Court VICTORY
What does it mean for the Federal Reserve ? And whatsherface that was fired ?? Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 06:27 PM (g47mK) SC will carve out an exception for Fed Reserve commissioners so they can't be fired by Pres. Trump. Posted by: Joemarine at December 08, 2025 06:53 PM (y171U) 109
But if the CEO tries to fire a bunch of employees who are diverse in race and gender, that can not be allowed, right?
Posted by: Eeyore at December 08, 2025 06:52 PM (s0JqF) They also have to fire good workers who are white and male. Saw this at my company this summer. Some real DEI dead wood was rightfully let go. But they had to throw in a few white guy sacrificial lambs to avoid the lawsuits. It was such bullshit. But from what I’ve heard two of the dudes landed right back and got new jobs almost immediately. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 06:54 PM (DR7Cw) 110
LBGT+ football night at the FIFA in Seattle is
Iran vs Egypt Opening ceremonies they throw faggots off the Big Screen. Posted by: rhennigantx at December 08, 2025 06:54 PM (gbOdA) 111
I like to think of the Fed as JP Morgan and the insiders (at the time) of the US Treasury as merging together and making themselves independent. JP Morgan famously bailed out the US govt. That was a bad thing were a private banker(ster) had more monetary power than the damned federal govt. The creation of the Fed was the two merging together, really. And making themselves independent. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 06:54 PM (w6EFb) 112
From reading Wong Ark I always thought the court reached the right decision for the wrong reason. They said anyone born here is a citizen. However Congress had passed a law which allowed his parents amongst others to have permanent resident status. They had made his parents and by extension their child "subject to the jurisdiction thereof
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 06:54 PM (bfwj/) 113
Can someone ‘splain to me why the high regard for “precedent”? What does it mean other than “we’ve always done it that way”?
I’m not finding this especially persuasive per se. It can be a good and proper thing, but it is not a guarantee. Slavery, after all, is Biblical. Most people are against Slavery, although they often can’t explain why very convincingly unless they start delving into tautological arguments. Posted by: Common Tater at December 08, 2025 06:54 PM (0DQ9k) 114
"I don't understand why the president gets to control everything and outweigh Congress' authority and duty to protect the people!"
Congress has no such authority. It is terrifying that a supreme court justice doesn't know this. Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 08, 2025 06:40 PM (gDhA9) --- MOST importantly, the Democrats want to expand this in a way that gives the minority proportional access to the power of this made-up "role". The Constitution gives no end-run power to the minority of the Houses. Congress has a LOT of power to counteract the president. Especially if 2/3rds of both houses believe the President is wrong. But it's insufficient for the partisan slap-fight that the Democrat party has all its chips on. That partisan back-biting can be the way forward, especially with a compliant media to back you. That's definitely not clear from the Constitution or the balance of powers. This is what the Democrats want when they are in the minority, some power that does not require the vote along dug-in partisan lines, that they themselves ----with the captive media--bear the primary responsibility in digging in. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 06:54 PM (krQz2) 115
*Waves at Anna*
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 08, 2025 06:54 PM (xt2dn) 116
This is a great turn of phrase:
'You killed it on purpose and now youre confused by the corpse.' ---- Did that come with a broadsword through the chest? Posted by: clarence at December 08, 2025 06:55 PM (zBC00) 117
What would happen if, when KBJ says "I don't understand..." another justice just retorted "That shows how stupid you are."
Posted by: Eeyore at December 08, 2025 06:55 PM (s0JqF) 118
Dr. Oz is just now getting around to maybe if possible sometime in the future magically threatening to pull Medicaid aid to MN because of the fraud. Sigh.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 08, 2025 06:55 PM (n5tGW) 119
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The Court has let the Fed get away with a lot of shit they shouldn't have. Buying up all the bad MBS dogshit is a prime example -- that, to me (and a lot of others) was a clear violation of the Federal Reserve Act, but they let it go. Why, that's complicated monetary policy shit during a global financial meltdown, we, the courts don't know shit about that, so we'll let them do what they want. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 06:48 PM (w6EFb) What is bettah? That entire meltdown was due to Treasury and Fed Res regulations in the first place. It was caused because they allowed Mortgage based securities to be used as Bank Reserve Currency... at face value. So they then used their self created crises, to get a Yuge 'Loan' from the Fed Res and Treasury, and then use it, and ordered closings, to consolidate the Banking Industry. File this under, never let a self created crises go to waste... kinda like Covid. Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 06:55 PM (mP0Kj) 120
>>>Low-IQ Justice Jackson "doesn't understand" a lot of things.
Her selling point was she couldn't define a woman. Not much lower one can go from there. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 08, 2025 06:55 PM (1duiP) 121
The Court has let the Fed get away with a lot of shit they shouldn't have. Buying up all the bad MBS dogshit is a prime example -- that, to me (and a lot of others) was a clear violation of the Federal Reserve Act, but they let it go. Why, that's complicated monetary policy shit during a global financial meltdown, we, the courts don't know shit about that, so we'll let them do what they want.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 06:48 PM The bottom line is that you can't have a federal bureau that is not answerable to anyone either congress or the president no matter what law they made up. The federal reserve exists outside of the framework of the constitution and that should never have been allowed to happen. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 08, 2025 06:55 PM (0N4FZ) 122
107 Jasmine Crockett can't really understand a lot of things either.
Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 06:53 PM (vFG9F) Jasmine Jackson Crocket Lee Posted by: rhennigantx at December 08, 2025 06:55 PM (gbOdA) 123
115 *Waves at Anna*
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 08, 2025 06:54 PM (xt2dn) I hate you both. Posted by: Michelle Fields at December 08, 2025 06:56 PM (PiwSw) 124
120 >>>Low-IQ Justice Jackson "doesn't understand" a lot of things.
Her selling point was she couldn't define a woman. Not much lower one can go from there. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 08, 2025 06:55 PM (1duiP) She is not a botanist. Posted by: rhennigantx at December 08, 2025 06:56 PM (gbOdA) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 06:57 PM (2GVsD) 126
will reverse a 1935 precedent called Humphrey's Executor and find that the executive power of the United States is entrusted to the elected Chief Executive and the appointments of prior presidents cannot bind him.
Honestly the huge pile of bullcrap decisions and laws passed over the years is so vast that it is truly difficult to even keep up with it all. Like the law that says it eh president doesn't appoint somone to a position the federal courts can (and a judge ruled only they can). Where does this crap come from??? Forcing congress to have to focus on its job to pass laws and fund the government instead of punting it all to the courts needs to be addressed as well. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 08, 2025 06:57 PM (dfIr7) 127
118 Dr. Oz is just now getting around to maybe if possible sometime in the future magically threatening to pull Medicaid aid to MN because of the fraud. Sigh.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 08, 2025 06:55 PM (n5tGW) Hold on there buddy, not so fast. - 2 year study Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 06:57 PM (DR7Cw) 128
Triffid > KJB
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 06:57 PM (2GVsD) Posted by: wth at December 08, 2025 06:57 PM (v0R5T) Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 06:58 PM (6/Q3k) 131
KJB was put on the court precisely because she doesn’t understand, nor does she want to. Her single objective is to subvert and undermine the current constitutional order. When you take a step back and look at her rulings with that perspective it isn’t confusing or legally illiterate. It’s obvious, deliberate and purposeful subterfuge.
The final protector of the constitution who is keeping Democrats from their grotesque, unconstitutional distortions is for the most part our Supreme Court. It’s why Democrats want to take power and destroy it. People need to keep that in mind. Posted by: Vengeance at December 08, 2025 06:58 PM (B5Sbl) 132
It's amusing that the Left had no problem with Biden campaigning on "nominating a black female to the USSC."
———- Even more amusing, nobody had the balls to point out this was blatantly illegal. Posted by: Common Tater at December 08, 2025 06:58 PM (0DQ9k) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 06:58 PM (2GVsD) 134
Why aren't they taking up the issue of having a so-called "quasi-private" organization? That seems pretty Con-sus in itself. (I just made that up: feel free to use in your own comments.)
Posted by: GWB at December 08, 2025 06:58 PM (XEURU) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 06:58 PM (2GVsD) 136
Every single article on this has to mention that Humphreys is "over 90 years old."
_________ I thought being old was reason for a law to be disregarded. Posted by: Eeyore at December 08, 2025 06:58 PM (s0JqF) 137
Don't bet on the Commissar Judges to do what the Supreme Court orders
Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2025 06:58 PM (Ia/+0) 138
What does it mean for the Federal Reserve ? And whatsherface that was fired ??
-- Roberts says the rule is kinda, "back when these agencies were formed, they didn't have much power. so it was fine to have restrictions then." Fed was pretty powerful when formed. But I think it falls. B/c it's not just "engages in Executive functions" but also accountability. And the Fed, no matter how well-intentioned, nor how highly-qualified the governors, entirely lacks accountability to the People. And there's just no room in the Constitution for any branch of government to be completely insulated from the will of the People. Bu, bu, but! The Courts! Can be held in check by the other branches. The Fed ... cannot. A 7 year term that none of the branches can shorten? With the only accountability to the People being, should a term expire during the term of the President? That's not any sort of accountability. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 08, 2025 06:58 PM (HXT0k) 139
I'm still attempting to understand exactly wtf Ozempic Labia are. Posted by: BifBewalski at December 08, 2025 06:59 PM (48yvf) 140
Con-sus = Constitutionally suspect, for those in Rio Linda.
Posted by: GWB at December 08, 2025 06:59 PM (XEURU) 141
>that precedent, known as Humphrey's Executor
---- when I first heard this term, I thought it was a maxim, like Occam's Razor or something the stuff I learn here Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 08, 2025 06:59 PM (ZxPkt) 142
>>>"I think broad delegations to unaccountable independent agencies raise enormous constitutional and real world problems for individual liberty," Justice Brett Kavanaugh said
--- When his wife heard that she up and left the house - headed straight to Walmart and purchased two packages of extra large, extra support underwear for Brett. She was absolutely glowing with joy. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 06:59 PM (Ow52c) 143
It has to be over 100 years old for Dems, unless it is inconvenient.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:00 PM (2GVsD) 144
“He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.“
Posted by: Article II Section 3 at December 08, 2025 07:00 PM (4786I) 145
I like con-sus. But from what my childruns tell me sus is no longer cool to say. Neither is Riz. 😀
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 07:00 PM (DR7Cw) 146
Those who don't like precedents being overturned ignore reality. Plessy v Ferguson said "separate but equal " was constitutional. So Brown v Board of Education should never have overturned Plessy. Got it
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 07:00 PM (bfwj/) 147
139 Lean beef curtains?
Posted by: steevy at December 08, 2025 07:01 PM (YwEeS) 148
I'm still attempting to understand exactly wtf Ozempic Labia are.
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 08, 2025 06:59 PM (48yvf) They make you lose your appetite? Posted by: GWB at December 08, 2025 07:01 PM (XEURU) 149
KJB, "why did Humphrey get executed?"
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:01 PM (2GVsD) 150
Posted by: Orson at December 08, 2025 06:50 PM (dIske)
I submit that saying you will ONLY fill a Federal Job with someone of a specific Race or Sex, is against Federal Law. Civil Rights Act of 64 says you can't do that... yet... they BLATANTLY have done so for decades. Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 07:01 PM (mP0Kj) 151
I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but federal employees are still employees, and employees do have some rights. I understand the executive should have plenary powers over the executive branch, but do we really want people fired without cause? Key phrase- without cause. There has to be some structure or guardrails for such things, because it's not just the people you don't like that are going to get canned.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 08, 2025 07:01 PM (MZ+PY) 152
The Dems lost the presidency. So they lost the executive power.
Then by the same abrasiveness and cantankerousness, they lost both houses. So now they don't have the same role in "checking" the executive either. The Dems now want the Court of deputize their representatives as many Inspector Generals so that the minority has some power. Just like all that "alternative slate of elector" stuff was legal in 2020, and "reformed" by bills passed in 2021. If the Democrats ever regain Congress, Republicans will never see this deputization power, because the Dems would no longer need it, in the case of a Democratic executive, and it would prove far to effective as a means for a Republican minority to hector a Democratic president. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 07:01 PM (krQz2) 153
"I'm still attempting to understand exactly wtf Ozempic Labia are.
Posted by: BifBewalski" Picture a flying elephant. Posted by: Dumbo at December 08, 2025 07:01 PM (vFG9F) 154
At one time, Plessy v. Ferguson was precedent, too.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 08, 2025 07:01 PM (PiwSw) 155
KJB deliberately didn’t define a woman. That’s because the subversive legal standards she wants to pursue morph and change based on need. They are not precedent, nor established caselaw unless they suit Democrats evil intentions. Their meaning is what they want them to be on the case du jour.
Posted by: Vengeance at December 08, 2025 07:01 PM (B5Sbl) 156
I'm still attempting to understand exactly wtf Ozempic Labia are. Posted by: BifBewalski Paper thin. Feather light. Newly dewy. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 08, 2025 07:01 PM (xG4kz) 157
Michelle
Just wave with the other arm, you can do it. Posted by: Anna Puma and then go see my carpenter about the other one. He'll fix you up. Posted by: Inspector Krogh at December 08, 2025 07:01 PM (v0R5T) 158
…and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.” Meaning: they serve at the President’s pleasure.
I get this but not a sitting SCOTUS Associate Justice? Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 07:02 PM (4786I) 159
I know the Trump Administration is trying to show that it's not greedy, but saying the Federal Reserve is different by calling it sui generous has no Constitutional basis either.
Sui generous is a Latin legal term for "a unique kind of bullshit that's not in the Constitution", in some way unlike all the other bullshit that's not in the Constitution. Posted by: Minuteman at December 08, 2025 07:02 PM (47/pr) 160
"According to estimates from the Migration Policy Institute and 21. Penn State’s Population Research Institute, ending birthright citizenship would result in an average of 255,000 children being born in the U.S. without citizenship each year, and would increase the number of unauthorized migrants living in the U.S. by 2.7 million by 2045, and 5.4 million by 2075.
The Pew Research Center found in 2022 that about 4.4 million U.S.-born children under 18 live with an unauthorized immigrant parent." Posted by: runner Penn State knows better. Trust them for absolutely nothing. 255,000 sounds like solely those in Pennsylvania now, not the future. Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 08, 2025 07:02 PM (NFX2v) 161
I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but federal employees are still employees, and employees do have some rights. I understand the executive should have plenary powers over the executive branch, but do we really want people fired without cause? Key phrase- without cause. There has to be some structure or guardrails for such things, because it's not just the people you don't like that are going to get canned.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 08, 2025 07:01 PM (MZ+PY) --- I don't want people obeying illegal orders either, but give an example of somebody fired without cause. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 07:02 PM (krQz2) 162
Every single article on this has to mention that Humphreys is "over 90 years old."
== 2A is 234 years old Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 07:02 PM (g47mK) 163
They pulled the " but it has been law for 50 years!" With Roe
Posted by: steevy at December 08, 2025 07:02 PM (YwEeS) 164
but do we really want people fired without cause? Key phrase- without cause
— You mean just like millions of people who get laid off every year wIhoUt cAusE in the private sector? Boo fucking hoo. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 07:02 PM (DR7Cw) 165
“Such as what is a woman”
Oh, make no mistake she knows. Not too bright, but everybody north of drooling tard knows what a woman is. What was astonishing, in our new clown world she is not allowed to acknowledge what a woman is in a public forum. That’s why she hedged in testimony - “I’m not a Bilogist”. Who can say!? It takes a Village, or something. The New Truth has been Revealed. And - Do Not Anger The New Truth Arbiters. Posted by: Common Tater at December 08, 2025 07:02 PM (0DQ9k) 166
Key phrase- without cause. There has to be some structure or guardrails for such things, because it's not just the people you don't like that are going to get canned.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 08, 2025 07:01 PM (MZ+PY) I'm the exact opposite. I think that good bad or indifferent every single position in the executive branch should be fired any time there's a new president. Tabula rasa. Start from scratch. Oh, no one could hire that many people? Exactly. There should not *be* that many people. Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 07:03 PM (Vq1pX) 167
154 At one time, Plessy v. Ferguson was precedent, too.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 08, 2025 07:01 PM (PiwSw) An argument I love to make when these idiots talk so much about how important precedence and stare decisis are. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 07:03 PM (4786I) 168
149 KJB, "why did Humphrey get executed?"
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:01 PM (2GVsD) ________ For calling a differently abled person a "retard". Posted by: Eeyore at December 08, 2025 07:03 PM (s0JqF) 169
The executive power of the United States is vested in a president.
I seem to recall that phrase somewhere. Dicta on a SCOTUS ruling? Op-ed? I know it's written down somewhere. Now whether the court should pay any attention to it is another question. And it is pretty ambiguous and confusing, gotta admit. --- Yeah, the document that starts "We the People" must have meant to continue--"except for these really, really important things, those must be reserved to The Experts." It's right there on paper placemat My Leftie Constitution that Brown traces out in crayon every session. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 08, 2025 07:03 PM (HXT0k) Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 07:04 PM (vFG9F) Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 07:04 PM (w6EFb) 172
I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but federal employees are still employees, and employees do have some rights. I understand the executive should have plenary powers over the executive branch, but do we really want people fired without cause? Key phrase- without cause. There has to be some structure or guardrails for such things, because it's not just the people you don't like that are going to get canned.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 08, 2025 07:01 PM (MZ+PY) ==== Civil Servants are employees with merit systems protection. This case is about presidential appointees. Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 07:04 PM (A0sqA) 173
At one time, Plessy v. Ferguson was precedent, too.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 08, 2025 07:01 PM (PiwSw) --- Dredd Scott is still doing service as establishing the precedent "substantive due process". Not so much the "Founders never intended black people to be full citizens" anymore. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 07:04 PM (krQz2) 174
166 Key phrase- without cause. There has to be some structure or guardrails for such things, because it's not just the people you don't like that are going to get canned.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 08, 2025 07:01 PM (MZ+PY) I'm the exact opposite. I think that good bad or indifferent every single position in the executive branch should be fired any time there's a new president. Tabula rasa. Start from scratch. Oh, no one could hire that many people? Exactly. There should not *be* that many people. Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 07:03 PM (Vq1pX) _______ Strictly speaking, that would include the military. Not a great idea. Posted by: Eeyore at December 08, 2025 07:05 PM (s0JqF) 175
Which branch of the government is the Federal Reserve in? Executive? Or no particular branch, like it's government-aligned, but actually not in the government? Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 08, 2025 07:05 PM (azNOR) 176
" do we really want people fired without cause?"
There's always a cause. Posted by: fd ..... sometimes they poop in the hallway. Posted by: wth at December 08, 2025 07:05 PM (v0R5T) 177
The military is as bloated as every other govt institution.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 07:05 PM (DR7Cw) 178
Show me the man, I'll show you the cause to fire him. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 07:05 PM (w6EFb) 179
I understand the executive should have plenary powers over the executive branch, but do we really want people fired without cause?
Yes. Posted by: The American Tax Payer at December 08, 2025 07:06 PM (R/m4+) 180
>>>I'm still attempting to understand exactly wtf Ozempic Labia are.
Posted by: BifBewalski >A dusty ham wallet? Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 08, 2025 07:06 PM (1zOXE) 181
Any Christmas suggestions for Tensor?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 06:58 PM (2GVsD) No, but I did post two images of big tittied lesbians making out in the shower. SFW my ass. Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 08, 2025 07:06 PM (xt2dn) 182
2A is 234 years old
Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 07:02 PM (g47mK) 2A is in the Supreme Law of the Land. And it recognizes a right: the right to self defense - that cannot go away even if 2A could be repealed. (Your rights don’t just go away, you see: they are natural and cannot be taken. If a government attempts to take your rights it then enters the realm of immorality.) Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 07:06 PM (4786I) 183
"Key phrase- without cause. There has to be some structure or guardrails for such things, because it's not just the people you don't like that are going to get canned."
No, don't think so. The "guardrails" are ..... elections. Specifically the presidential election - presidential executive powers being the base topic of this thread. Elections for Congress also are a form of guardrail, via the power of the purse. In almost all matters - don't be distracted by the stunning cowardice and passivity of Congress in this respect, that's a matter of character (voters and elected), not a constitutional or process issue. Posted by: rhomboid at December 08, 2025 07:06 PM (U/Byj) 184
>> I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but federal employees are still employees, and employees do have some rights. I understand the executive should have plenary powers over the executive branch, but do we really want people fired without cause? Key phrase- without cause. There has to be some structure or guardrails for such things, because it's not just the people you don't like that are going to get canned.
Seriously? Do you know that almost all states in the US allow private companies to fire employees without cause? Why should government employees have rights that the people who pay their salaries don't have? Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 07:06 PM (viF8m) 185
No, but I did post two images of big tittied lesbians making out in the shower.
SFW my ass. Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 08, 2025 07:06 PM (xt2dn) Scissor me timbers. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 07:06 PM (4786I) 186
but do we really want people fired without cause? Key phrase- without cause. There has to be some structure or guardrails for such things, because it's not just the people you don't like that are going to get canned.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 08, 2025 07:01 PM (MZ+PY) If they are politically opposed to the policies that you want them to implement, that is just cause. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 07:06 PM (npFr7) 187
Strictly speaking, that would include the military. Not a great idea.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 08, 2025 07:05 PM (s0JqF) Maybe make an exception for enlisted and NCOs? But honestly scrapping everyone over O-5 every four years wouldn't be such a bad idea.... Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 07:07 PM (Vq1pX) 188
KJB was just following the Marxists rules, she said a female was a female and a make was a male she would have been tossed out of the club
Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2025 07:07 PM (Ia/+0) 189
Seriously? Do you know that almost all states in the US allow private companies to fire employees without cause? Why should government employees have rights that the people who pay their salaries don't have?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 07:06 PM (viF8m) And no government employee, anywhere, on any level, for any reason, has any business belonging to a union. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 07:07 PM (4786I) 190
Every single article on this has to mention that Humphreys is "over 90 years old."
== 2A is 234 years old Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 07:02 PM (g47mK) The Constitution is, like, over a hundred years old n shit. Posted by: Ezra Klein at December 08, 2025 07:08 PM (xt2dn) 191
"Buying up all the bad MBS dogshit is a prime example -- that, to me (and a lot of others) was a clear violation of the Federal Reserve Act, but they let it go. ..." Posted by: publius
You know this stuff better than I do, but the Fed RESERVE IS NOT PRIVATE. It is mostly run by certain banks, but it is a federal government entity. They manipulate rates (for their own benefit?) but they are paid fees, they don't "own the fed reserve. and that's about all I know about that (said in Edith Ann voice) Posted by: illiniwek at December 08, 2025 07:08 PM (vbXSk) 192
Government is largely a Democrat jobs programs, especially in the states. It is largely a patronage program where the employees are rewarded for their loyalty to the Democrats agenda and politics. They are awarded outsized wages, conditions, and benefits inconsistent with similar jobs in the private sector. That’s because Democrats see taxpayer monies as their personal piggy bank to spend whatever they want. It’s why you will never see a Democrat state, Democrat legislature or a Democrat president cut spending, engage in meaningful anti fraud measures, or programs like DOGE. It undermines their entire Ponzi scheme.
Posted by: Vengeance at December 08, 2025 07:08 PM (B5Sbl) 193
I'm still attempting to understand exactly wtf Ozempic Labia are.
Posted by: BifBewalski ..... Have you ever watched Naked and Afraid? Posted by: wth at December 08, 2025 07:08 PM (v0R5T) 194
The last President -- Grover Cleveland -- who had two terms that did not follow each other also spent much of his time trying to reform the federal government. Cleveland fought the spoils system, which was full of abuses, in favor of the civil service.
Probably a good call at the time. Now, Trump is fighting the abuses of the civil service in favor of essentially implementing the spoils system again. To be honest, I'm not sure how to split that baby... which is best, aside from a permanent Pinochet Helicopter solution to leftists in government. Posted by: SimoHayha at December 08, 2025 07:08 PM (0Aoc4) 195
Sui generous is a Latin legal term for "a unique kind of bullshit that's not in the Constitution", in some way unlike all the other bullshit that's not in the Constitution. Posted by: Minuteman at December 08, 2025 07:02 PM (47/pr) So the legal version of the poem on the Statue of Liberty? Posted by: CaliGirl at December 08, 2025 07:08 PM (ajCaF) 196
143 It has to be over 100 years old for Dems, unless it is inconvenient.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:00 PM (2GVsD) I have no idea why, but I read that as 'incontinent' the first time. Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 07:09 PM (6ydKt) 197
Which branch of the government is the Federal Reserve in? Executive? Or no particular branch, like it's government-aligned, but actually not in the government?
=== Not a branch, but the Act of 1913 gave the President authority to appoint and remove (for cause) governors. Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 07:09 PM (g47mK) 198
Well Robert, Tensor's LLM on naughty is not the best beast in the menagerie.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:09 PM (2GVsD) 199
I really can't see Trump firing somebody who's following an XO.
Unless of course they are fired for being too expensive a luxury position for the American people to support, as found by DOGE. (Which by the way, contained sufficient amount lawyers and HR as well as tech experts) Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 07:09 PM (krQz2) 200
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Which branch of the government is the Federal Reserve in? Executive? Or no particular branch, like it's government-aligned, but actually not in the government? Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 08, 2025 07:05 PM (azNOR) And can Congress delegate the Creation of Money, to an entity that is OUTSIDE of Government control? Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 07:09 PM (mP0Kj) 201
I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but federal employees are still employees, and employees do have some rights. I understand the executive should have plenary powers over the executive branch, but do we really want people fired without cause? Key phrase- without cause. There has to be some structure or guardrails for such things, because it's not just the people you don't like that are going to get canned.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 08, 2025 07:01 PM Counter point...if you are appointed to your job by the president he has the constitutional authority to fire you for any reason or no reason. presidential appointed employees do not enjoy civil service protections, that is settled case law. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 08, 2025 07:10 PM (0N4FZ) 202
Congress has no such authority. It is terrifying that a supreme court justice doesn't know this. Posted by: El Mariachi She doesn't know this on purpose. It's why she was autopenned into being. Posted by: BifBewalski at December 08, 2025 07:10 PM (48yvf) 203
"Civil Servants are employees with merit systems protection."
Aren't the laws creating this system just as unconstitutional as all the other infringements on executive power? Our "system" is an enormous coral reef, much (most?) of it, by this point, merely built on inertia (and passivity and civic culture collapse), with lots of convenience and laziness thrown in. How is it remotely constitutional for the executive to not have plenary power over federal hiring/firing? Posted by: rhomboid at December 08, 2025 07:10 PM (U/Byj) 204
Show me the man, I'll show you the cause to fire him.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) ..... he crosses his legs like a girl, talks with his hands and abuses hair products. Posted by: wth at December 08, 2025 07:10 PM (v0R5T) 205
he crosses his legs like a girl, talks with his hands and abuses hair products. Posted by: wth at December 08, 2025 07:10 PM (v0R5T) Lol that didn't really narrow it down much. Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 07:11 PM (Vq1pX) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 07:12 PM (Ow52c) 207
"and that's about all I know about that (said in Edith Ann voice)"
just refreshed my memory on Edith Ann ... I should have said -- "And that's the truth" --(said in Edith Ann voice). Posted by: illiniwek at December 08, 2025 07:12 PM (vbXSk) 208
Tensor's LLM on naughty is not the best beast in the menagerie.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:09 PM (2GVsD) No kidding. I'm thinking it's just a half-assed attempt at getting people onto their new pay site. Meanwhile, here I am making images of hot busty lesbians for free. Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 08, 2025 07:12 PM (xt2dn) 209
And can Congress delegate the Creation of Money, to an entity that is OUTSIDE of Government control?
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 07:09 PM No they can't. Coining of money and regulating it's value rests solely with the congress. It's literally in Article I, Section 8, Clause 5 of the constitution. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 08, 2025 07:12 PM (0N4FZ) 210
>> You know this stuff better than I do, but the Fed RESERVE IS NOT PRIVATE.
You're exactly right. They just pretend to be private. The Fed has control of those sovereign money power of the United States, the ability to create and destroy money, the dollar. This is BFD of a power. They pretend the 12 Regional Banks are privately owned. All banks have to "by stock", but that's a fiction really. The member banks don't control it. It makes profit from it's money power operations, which is basically interest paid. That's how it pays it's own expenses. All excess profits are returned right to the US Treasury. You could merge the balance sheets of the Fed and Treasury together, than you'd see the interest paid by the Treasury on the T's the Fed holds actually fund its expenses, with the rest going right back into the Treasury. Result, monetized debt doesn't pay interest, fed govt funds the Fed just like any other agency. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 07:13 PM (w6EFb) 211
Hmmm
Posted by: Miklos, untrousered at December 08, 2025 06:40 PM (N7hqt) --- I've got my eye on you, buddy. Posted by: Sunday Morning Book Thread at December 08, 2025 07:14 PM (ESVrU) 212
Look, the Gov letting a private entity print the money, then borrow it back from the private entity is just good business.
If you can get it. Posted by: connected and litigious at December 08, 2025 06:40 PM (cS1cw) amazingly enough, I have noticed a number of people making this claim out in the big wide world also made fun of Ron Paul and his silver dimes, and make fun of goldbugs. It is almost as if they don't understand things. Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 07:14 PM (rbvCR) 213
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'The glorified clerks known as judges have about 93% too much power, but there is hardly anyone inside or outside the legal cult who even understands this or cares about it.' At last someone respects that court as much as I do. I don't even like the Supreme Court as a concept now. It's just a bunch of narcissists virtual signaling and calling it law. We already have Congress. Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 08, 2025 07:14 PM (fd80v) 214
209 And can Congress delegate the Creation of Money, to an entity that is OUTSIDE of Government control?
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 07:09 PM No they can't. Coining of money and regulating it's value rests solely with the congress. It's literally in Article I, Section 8, Clause 5 of the constitution. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 08, 2025 07:12 PM (0N4FZ) All of that was true until; what JP Morgan wants, JP Morgan gets. Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 07:14 PM (6ydKt) 215
I've got 300+ credits on Tensor, what shall issue forth?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:15 PM (2GVsD) 216
The biggest mistake we've made as a country is to invert the relationship between the citizens and the government.
This is our country. We hire people to manage it just like hire other people to serve the needs we don't want to do ourselves. When they do what we ask they keep their jobs. When they run a lawnmower over the flower bed and take a dump on the patio we fire them. They work for us. They aren't our masters. Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 07:15 PM (viF8m) 217
The Framers never envisioned a permanent bureaucracy, much less one outside their reach and within their constitutional powers. They also specifically stated you cannot give that power, that is the people’s power, to anyone else. So ultimately the primary argument is- what power belongs to which branch.
Posted by: Vengeance at December 08, 2025 07:15 PM (B5Sbl) 218
Miklos? What has happened to thy trouser ?
Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 07:15 PM (g47mK) 219
194 The last President -- Grover Cleveland -- who had two terms that did not follow each other also spent much of his time trying to reform the federal government. Cleveland fought the spoils system, which was full of abuses, in favor of the civil service.
Probably a good call at the time. Now, Trump is fighting the abuses of the civil service in favor of essentially implementing the spoils system again. To be honest, I'm not sure how to split that baby... which is best, aside from a permanent Pinochet Helicopter solution to leftists in government. Posted by: SimoHayha at December 08, 2025 07:08 PM (0Aoc4) ________ To my mind, give me the spoils system every time. New president, new bureaucrats. Not nearly so subject to abuse as the civil service (spit!) Posted by: Eeyore at December 08, 2025 07:15 PM (s0JqF) Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 07:16 PM (g47mK) 221
Just that tiny snippet of Kavanaugh illustrates the problem.
No, august judicial god, it's not about "raising questions" about personal liberty, or anything else. It's pretty simple. Listen, take notes if you need to. It's plainly unconstitutional, as it limits or usurps executive authority, which under the constitution is vested in the president (that's kind of a direct quote). Jeebus. Glorified clerks simply cannot make clerk-type decisions without attempting to sound like the panel at Nuremberg. Always with the mountains of over-determined nonsense extraneous to the issue, and to their actual, very very limited authority or competence. Posted by: rhomboid at December 08, 2025 07:16 PM (U/Byj) 222
Most of the Federal Reserve Act is unconstitutional. Start there
Posted by: Vengeance at December 08, 2025 07:16 PM (B5Sbl) 223
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 07:13 PM (w6EFb)
Current Fed Res Balance sheet is $6.5 TRILLION dollars... Current US GDP? $23.5 Trillion... So... currently Fed Res OWNES 1/4 of GDP... for doing nothing more than, creating money. Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 07:17 PM (mP0Kj) 224
If anyone is interested, the Russians will be undocking from the ISS.
Roscosmos - Soyuz MS-27 Undocking International Space Station ISS - Space Affairs Live Undocking Date: December 8, 2025 Undocking: 8:41 p.m. EST (December 9, 0141 UTC, 02:41 CET) https://youtu.be/vkKeb_qkDno Posted by: Joyenz at December 08, 2025 07:17 PM (2F0/Y) 225
They work for us. They aren't our masters.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 07:15 PM (viF8m) Correct. Fire all their asses tomorrow and no one would miss them. Posted by: Layabouts, Neerdowells and Blackguards at December 08, 2025 07:17 PM (R/m4+) 226
Which branch of the government is the Federal Reserve in? Executive? Or no particular branch, like it's government-aligned, but actually not in the government?
--- Exactly. If it's without, then it flat cannot have any governmental power; absolutely cannot set the lending rates. And Congress has no business "advising" or "consenting" to the appointments. If it's within, which branch? And how is it accountable, in a tangible, immediate way, to that branch? Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 08, 2025 07:18 PM (HXT0k) 227
I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but federal employees are still employees, and employees do have some rights. I understand the executive should have plenary powers over the executive branch, but do we really want people fired without cause? Key phrase- without cause. There has to be some structure or guardrails for such things, because it's not just the people you don't like that are going to get canned.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 08, 2025 07:01 PM Counter point...if you are appointed to your job by the president he has the constitutional authority to fire you for any reason or no reason. presidential appointed employees do not enjoy civil service protections, that is settled case law. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 08, 2025 07:10 PM (0N4FZ) Personally, I think the President has the authority to fire the paper pusher at the food stamp office if he wants. Civil service protections were a way of solving the problem of blatant corruption that came with the old spoils system but ended up replacing it with a different kind of corruption. Civil service jobs should be term limited. You can get hired but you need to live after a certain period of time. Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 08, 2025 07:19 PM (xt2dn) 228
I love watching leftists on Twixxer yell that the constitution is very clear on birth citizenship, and the court doesn't even need to look at the issue. When on every single other constitutional issue its too complex and has all these vagaries penumbras and we have to use the EU to decipher it all and besides its old and was written by slave owners.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 08, 2025 07:19 PM (dfIr7) 229
151 I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but federal employees are still employees, and employees do have some rights. I understand the executive should have plenary powers over the executive branch, but do we really want people fired without cause? Key phrase- without cause. There has to be some structure or guardrails for such things, because it's not just the people you don't like that are going to get canned.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder Stop!! Most career civil servants must be fired for "just cause," requiring documentation of poor performance or misconduct. Civil service employees have so much more protection than "at will" employees. (And the fed. unions are basically worthless.) However, the tiny catch in civil service is you have to make it to 'career' status, which could vary in years. Why hire someone as an investigator or accountant and they're incompetent, likely untrainable?? No, get rid of them. There can also be reductions in force for a sub-agency where employees aren't needed, yet won't transfer into another job at another worksite to save their positions, and so on. That's life, and it's way worse over in private industry. Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 08, 2025 07:19 PM (NFX2v) 230
To my mind, give me the spoils system every time. New president, new bureaucrats. Not nearly so subject to abuse as the civil service (spit!)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 08, 2025 07:15 PM (s0JqF) For one, under the spoils system, corruption will tend to be more blatant, and obvious, because the corrupt know they have only 4 years to make their pile. The professional civil service can afford to be more devious, and less blatantly greedy, because they are in it for the long haul. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 07:19 PM (npFr7) 231
215 I've got 300+ credits on Tensor, what shall issue forth?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:15 PM (2GVsD) A Neko Christmas Carol? Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 07:20 PM (6ydKt) 232
I hate the term "spoils system". It's horrendously loaded.
Exercising the power you were given by the people is not a "spoil". It's a reward. And if you don't want people coveting appointed positions of power, then don't give those positions so much damn power in the first place. No one should be that willing to move heaven and earth just to be second assistant aide to the deputy backup toenail clipper of the secretary of the damn interior. Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 07:20 PM (Vq1pX) 233
I generally view people captured by Marxist ideology as in some fundamental way dumb.
From the most intellectual technically-feasible-sounding proponent to the rank-and-file grunt for the cause. There is a base-level of unreason you have to have to be a Marxist. Therefore, it matters a lot more to me how effective they are in the role of advancing stupidity more than how natively stupid they are. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 07:20 PM (krQz2) 234
Fox had Biden’s Social Security guy write an opinion piece where he try to say that Trump is undermining Social Security by making it more efficient.
This is the guy who was letting illegal immigrants into SS and SSDI. He also interpreted the rules to allow non citizens here under TPS, etc. to pilfer those programs. But Fox is totally on your side, you guys. Posted by: Vengeance at December 08, 2025 07:20 PM (B5Sbl) 235
Civil service protects and promotes its own interests.
Spoils system promotes and protects their boss' interests. Each is very subject to having idiots in charge. But one is more responsive to rapidly changing events. Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:20 PM (2GVsD) 236
Nood.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 08, 2025 07:21 PM (PiwSw) 237
I think Trump is going to get this but probably not an end to birthright citizenship. The real big one , which I think the court is going to rule against, is his tariffs. That is going to be a monumental fuckening of his whole polucy.
Posted by: steevy No problem - country "X" instead of paying a tariff is simple banned. Posted by: Operator Error at December 08, 2025 07:21 PM (XTlsM) 238
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Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic . . . at December 08, 2025 07:21 PM (3ZUWJ) Posted by: Vengeance at December 08, 2025 07:21 PM (B5Sbl) Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:21 PM (2GVsD) 241
Personally, I think the President has the authority to fire the paper pusher at the food stamp office if he wants.
Long as its a federal executive department job, yep. Which branch of the government is the Federal Reserve in? Executive? Or no particular branch, like it's government-aligned, but actually not in the government? Its not in any and is unconstitutional crap. I thought we settled a that federal bank junk under Andy Jackson Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 08, 2025 07:21 PM (dfIr7) 242
I've got 300+ credits on Tensor, what shall issue forth?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:15 PM (2GVsD) I keep imagining Santa Claus with a bazooka. Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 08, 2025 07:22 PM (xt2dn) 243
I understand the executive should have plenary powers over the executive branch, but do we really want people fired without cause?
I believe in the universal right of bosses to fire employees for any damn reason they please. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 08, 2025 07:23 PM (dfIr7) 244
For one, under the spoils system, corruption will tend to be more blatant, and obvious, because the corrupt know they have only 4 years to make their pile. The professional civil service can afford to be more devious, and less blatantly greedy, because they are in it for the long haul.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 07:19 PM (npFr7) While also working several years for an agency then jumping ship to a corporation that was being regulated by that agency. Then when their party gets back into the White House they can come back at a higher position and then repeat the process when the time comes. That revolving door has been quite lucrative for many a bureaucrat. Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 07:25 PM (6ydKt) 245
>>Exercising the power you were given by the people is not a "spoil". It's a reward.
I would argue a mandate. To make another stupid analogy, when I hire a plumber I hire the people he chooses to work with him. I don't hire a plumber and then expect he will bring along some DEI hires. I hate lifetime appointments and special status for government employees. It's stupid on its face for any form of democracy and promotes extremism. If you can never be fired why wouldn't you let your freak flag fly? We've tried it their way and it sucks. Let's try it by letting presidents bring in everyone they want including judges. We'll stop seeing lurches to the left in a heartbeat. Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 07:26 PM (viF8m) 246
And can Congress delegate the Creation of Money, to an entity that is OUTSIDE of Government control?
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 07:09 PM (mP0Kj) US never had a central bank, all money creation and loans have been handled by private banks which are chartered by the various states, and by the Congress for the First and later Second bank of the US. This changed after the Federal Reserve act, which set a combine of banks up to regulate and backstop both banks nationally and to backstop the US government the next time it got its tit in a wringer. In short it formalized the situation of the big banks in 1912, and later was modified for the Depression. Sec Bessent is making noises about trimming the Fed, taking the setting of rates and banking regulations away and giving it to the Treasury. Not sure if that is good, but that is what is coming. Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 07:27 PM (rbvCR) 247
227. Civil service jobs should be term limited. You can get hired but you need to live after a certain period of time.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus Wut? Need to...live, work, die after or for a certain time period? Btw, MTG - a Federal employee of the Legislative Branch - leaves after 5 years so she'll be vested for the purpose of receiving a pension. Those are the rules. Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 08, 2025 07:28 PM (NFX2v) 248
If you are interested in the history of money and banking in the United States, Murray Rothbard wrote a very big book called The History of Money and Banking In the United States which is a very fun book if you are interested in money and banking.
Jesus Huerta de Soto wrote an even bigger book about the subject, but it is about the theories of money and banking. Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 07:29 PM (rbvCR) 249
172. Civil Servants are employees with merit systems protection.
This case is about presidential appointees. Posted by: San Franpsycho 👍 Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 08, 2025 07:30 PM (NFX2v) 250
If somebody actually finds a reason to advance that "Unintended Consequences is a right-wing talking point", it's such a ball of confusion and arrogance that it doesn't matter if they are a parrot or an instigator of that ball of sludge.
How it turns a review of how methods match up to intentions as a counter to "fundamental change" into a personal flaw is the problem, whether believed or simply mouthed by the carrier. Ironically, they "understand" the concept every time they argue that a Republican bill will not "do what it proposes" but only have destructive "side effects". As they do for every bill they don't like. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 07:31 PM (krQz2) 251
, but do we really want people fired without cause? Key phrase- without cause.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 08, 2025 07:01 PM (MZ+PY) Yes. Posted by: Pete Bog at December 08, 2025 07:31 PM (Kkaqr) 252
Btw, MTG - a Federal employee of the Legislative Branch - leaves after 5 years so she'll be vested for the purpose of receiving a pension. Those are the rules.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 08, 2025 07:28 PM (NFX2v) Said pension should be required to be funded entirely from budgetary surplus for the years they were in office. Posted by: GWB at December 08, 2025 07:32 PM (XEURU) 253
Nood Cafe
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 08, 2025 07:34 PM (a+4eV) 254
Btw, MTG - a Federal employee of the Legislative Branch - leaves after 5 years so she'll be vested for the purpose of receiving a pension. Those are the rules.
That seems silly. The vesting period should at least be longer than a single Senatorial term of office. Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 08, 2025 07:36 PM (a+4eV) 255
Also, seems that if you're creating a power not subject to the Executive, you might be meddling outside the limits of the Constitution.
Posted by: GWB at December 08, 2025 07:36 PM (XEURU) 256
Could someone please wax poetic about Gov unions?
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 08, 2025 07:37 PM (cS1cw) 257
What's the difference between an Officer and an Employee.
Posted by: javems at December 08, 2025 07:37 PM (8I4hW) 258
That seems silly. The vesting period should at least be longer than a single Senatorial term of office. Posted by: FeatherBlade --- Is good to have government job. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 07:39 PM (Ow52c) 259
Before "Whataboutism", we used to that this objection called "Irrelevant" when somebody was distracting from a main issue with a case that was not germane to a discussion.
"Whataboutism" just attacks the use of two words. Kind of an anti-shibboleth. You could be talking about a case with a number of similarities. You could be comparing and contrasting--or even challenging an implication that your opponent is treating as some universal absolute. But because your words can be characterized as "what about", some net-illiterate thinks you've committed some sort of a fallacy. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 07:40 PM (krQz2) 260
What's the difference between an Officer and an Employee.
Posted by: javems at December 08, 2025 07:37 PM (8I4hW) --- None necessarily. "Employee" is a relationship to the government as employer and compensation. "Officer" is a relationship to the purpose of employment. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 07:43 PM (krQz2) 261
Those who don't like precedents being overturned ignore reality. Plessy v Ferguson said "separate but equal " was constitutional. So Brown v Board of Education should never have overturned Plessy. Got it
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 07:00 PM (bfwj/) The danger of changing precedents willy-nilly is then a judge can feel free to change anything they want to on a whim. Which they often do now. Creating a new precedent by overturning an old one should be resorted to rarely. And even Brown resulted in the problem with forced school bussing, mega districts with large administrations and overhead and the end of parental involvement directly with the teachers. Posted by: Oldcat at December 08, 2025 07:46 PM (8avO+) 262
Braenyard at 142: I have no idea what that means but it is hysterical!
Posted by: Wenda at December 08, 2025 07:48 PM (JdCmc) 263
Could someone please wax poetic about Gov unions?
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 08, 2025 07:37 PM (cS1cw) The President should be able to fire anybody. Government unions are immoral because the "owner" the American taxpayer is wholly unrepresented in negotiations. Posted by: Oldcat at December 08, 2025 07:49 PM (8avO+) 264
Thank you.
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 08, 2025 07:50 PM (cS1cw) 265
Btw, MTG - a Federal employee of the Legislative Branch - leaves after 5 years so she'll be vested for the purpose of receiving a pension. Those are the rules.
That seems silly. The vesting period should at least be longer than a single Senatorial term of office. Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 08, 2025 07:36 PM (a+4eV) Elected representatives should not get a federal pension. Maybe a match on 401k contribution for staff. Posted by: Oldcat at December 08, 2025 07:52 PM (8avO+) 266
Could someone please wax poetic about Gov unions?
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 08, 2025 07:37 PM (cS1cw) The President should be able to fire anybody. Government unions are immoral because the "owner" the American taxpayer is wholly unrepresented in negotiations. Posted by: Oldcat at December 08, 2025 07:49 PM (8avO+) --- Pro-union Presidents, up to and including JFK, said that public unions should never be a thing. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 07:54 PM (krQz2) 267
KBJ will never be removed by impeachment, but she may be removed by her fellow justices in the sense that she will be openly ridiculed unlike any previous justice, not given any majority opinions to write, and maybe then offered a paycheck to become dean of some law school when a Dem president can replace her. She really is an embarrassment for them.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 08, 2025 09:16 PM (R86kT) 268
222 Most of the Federal Reserve Act is unconstitutional. Start there
Posted by: Vengeance at December 08, 2025 07:16 PM (B5Sbl) Proof? Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 10:22 PM (4786I) 269
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This is what I do................ https://p0stpr0m0ney88.blogspot.com/ Posted by: HOME PROFIT at December 09, 2025 06:29 PM (+3dnj) Nepo Baby Communist Congresswoman Grijalva Blocks ICE from Enforcing the Law, Gets Pepper Sprayed, Then Plays VictimShe inherited her Arizona seat from her father, the communist ratfucker Raul Grivalja. This antifa politician obstructed ICE operations as part of a dangerous mob and got pepper sprayed, as the other antifa rioters did. Then she claimed, "I didn't do nuffin'." That never gets old. Never.Grijalva gibbered on X, "ICE just conducted a raid by Taco Giro in Tucson -- a small mom-and-pop restaurant that has served our community for years. When I presented myself as a Member of Congress asking for more information, I was pushed-aside and pepper sprayed." I know you'll be shocked, but she didn't just present herself and ask politely for information. She rushed screaming at ICE officers, ordering them to leave, and tried to disrupt their operation.
Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin responded on Dec. 5 to Grijalva's disgusting accusation, noting the fact that the mob of which the Democrat representative was a part seriously injured ICE officers. It is illegal in any case to interfere actively with ICE operations, but if that interference results in the injury of federal law enforcement officers, it would seem the mob -- Grijalva included -- could be guilty of multiple crimes.
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Hah! First!!
Posted by: Polka will never die at December 08, 2025 05:22 PM (HM2QE) 2
How about she lets 20 unvetted illegals stay in her house?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 08, 2025 05:23 PM (rZCVI) 3
I understand that Leftists lie as a knee jerk response.
However, I can't believe they lie so often about things where there is video that obviously refutes the lie. Is the bubble of their audience so impenetrable that they would never even contemplate getting some "news" from a non-biased source? Posted by: Pillage Idiot at December 08, 2025 05:23 PM (HlyYF) 4
Nooded. Now, on to the content!
Posted by: Polka will never die at December 08, 2025 05:24 PM (HM2QE) 5
Probably made her see red.
Posted by: Grandma Cole at December 08, 2025 05:24 PM (vFG9F) Posted by: garrett at December 08, 2025 05:25 PM (TR2dy) 7
Congresswoman Grijalva is more proof that the most fattening cake is wedding cake.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 08, 2025 05:25 PM (IifOV) 8
I would like to point out to the "representative" that - despite the bills they like to pass - members of Congress are still ordinary citizens who are subject to the laws of the United States, and don't have the special privilege of not being spared when they break them.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 08, 2025 05:25 PM (a+4eV) 9
2 How about she lets 20 unvetted illegals stay in her house?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 08, 2025 05:23 PM I would be happy with two MS-13 guys and two Tren de Aragua guys. If I could manage to install cameras in all of the rooms, I bet I would have the #1 reality show on TV! Posted by: Pillage Idiot at December 08, 2025 05:25 PM (HlyYF) 10
I know Senator Cue Ball's ties to China are well documented, but I'd love to see proof of cartel connections as well, because the testicle sure acts like he's cartel owned.
Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 08, 2025 05:25 PM (UdiE9) 11
Representative nepot chosen by the cartels like her father.
Closed border and no humans trafficked are bad for their business. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 05:26 PM (WDjG6) Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 08, 2025 05:26 PM (a+4eV) 13
Is the bubble of their audience so impenetrable that they would never even contemplate getting some "news" from a non-biased source?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at December 08, 2025 05:23 PM (HlyYF) Yes. Posted by: It was probably rhetorical but still... at December 08, 2025 05:26 PM (TbWk/) 14
What is interesting is that they think a Member of Congress has MORE rights and protections then an average citizen.
Now why would they think that? Constitution says EQUAL Protection under the law... but I guess some PIGS are more Equal, than others... Gee.... seems I've heard that somewhere before. Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 05:26 PM (mP0Kj) 15
10 I know Senator Cue Ball's ties to China are well documented, but I'd love to see proof of cartel connections as well, because the testicle sure acts like he's cartel owned.
Posted by: The Lower Depths ===== Massive smurfed ActBlue contributions for Senator Penis Head. He would have been prettier if they did not excise the foreskin surrounding his head. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 05:27 PM (WDjG6) 16
For the record, assisting an invasion isn't just a crime, its treason.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 08, 2025 05:28 PM (sKqQm) 17
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Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 08, 2025 05:28 PM (hE5jn) 18
Between Mark Kelly and David Hogg it's tough to see which one did better at climbing on top of the corpses of shooting victims to make political career
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 08, 2025 05:28 PM (YR84E) 19
We definitely need to make it a law that persons within one (or maybe two) degree of consanguinity are prohibited from holding any office their relative held.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 08, 2025 05:28 PM (a+4eV) 20
Shameful, ICE.
Couldn't you have kicked her in the crotch and mocked her while she lay there in pain on the ground? What do you think we pay for? Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 08, 2025 05:28 PM (1duiP) 21
Rep. Grijalva was just doing her job looking out for her community, and she got pepper sprayed for it.
--- Ah, lawmakers who don't know what their job is is getting tiresome. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 05:29 PM (krQz2) 22
14 What is interesting is that they think a Member of Congress has MORE rights and protections then an average citizen.
Now why would they think that? Constitution says EQUAL Protection under the law... but I guess some PIGS are more Equal, than others... Gee.... seems I've heard that somewhere before. Posted by: Romeo13 ====== Well it sure cannot be the constitutional restriction on patents of nobility and a declaration of equal protection under the law. That would be unconstitutional according to Congress critters. Note that they got paid all through the shutdown becuz US Constitution sorrowfully demanded that it be so. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 05:29 PM (WDjG6) 23
We definitely need to make it a law that persons within one (or maybe two) degree of consanguinity are prohibited from holding any office their relative held.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 08, 2025 05:28 PM (a+4eV) don't forget wives. Posted by: Oldcat at December 08, 2025 05:29 PM (8avO+) 24
Style Guide says it's supposed yo be, "DINT do nuffin!"
Posted by: davidt at December 08, 2025 05:30 PM (Q+gd/) 25
Another fat slovenly AHFuL?
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 08, 2025 05:30 PM (m+VGF) 26
I understand that Leftists lie as a knee jerk response.
However, I can't believe they lie so often about things where there is video that obviously refutes the lie. And why shouldn't they? The MSM will fly cover for them and by the time the truth gets out, they'll all have moved on to the next lie. Posted by: Oddbob at December 08, 2025 05:30 PM (3nLb4) 27
I'm surprised she didn't flop on the ground like a soccer player.
Posted by: Darth Randall at December 08, 2025 05:30 PM (D+nng) 28
Did we do this one already? Because, holy hell.
@amuse SCOTUS: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson told the Court that presidents should not be able to fire the PhDs & experts who run the government. She even argued presidents should avoid control over transportation & the economy. Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 08, 2025 05:30 PM (mlg/3) 29
Massive smurfed ActBlue contributions for Senator Penis Head. He would have been prettier if they did not excise the foreskin surrounding his head.
Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 05:27 PM (WDjG6) IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE SMURFING IS A TERM FOR USING SURROGATES OR CUTOUTS TO ENGAGE IN QUESTIONABLE OR POTENTIALLY CRIMINAL TRANSACTIONS IN ORDER TO OBFUSCATE THE TRUE ORIGINATOR OR PURPOSE OF THE TRANSACTION AND SMURFS ARE BLUE, WHICH IS IN THE NAME OF THE PLATFORM BEING USED FOR THE REFERENCED PURPOSE. Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at December 08, 2025 05:31 PM (TbWk/) 30
This is the offspring of old Tarantula face?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 05:31 PM (ynpvh) 31
Style Guide says it's supposed yo be, "DINT do nuffin!"
Posted by: davidt at December 08, 2025 05:30 PM (Q+gd/) The Dindus are a proud and noble sort. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 08, 2025 05:31 PM (1duiP) 32
These leftists are always looking for an excuse to gather and chant their 60's bullshit protest mentality. Let them relive the 60's and turn lose the police dogs, fire hoses, and jailtime. Let them really experience it, man. Posted by: Frank Barone at December 08, 2025 05:32 PM (IifOV) Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 05:32 PM (zZu0s) 34
Start shooting them with something that has lead in it.
Might "motivate" them to stop this shit. Or not. But keep shooting them with something. Anything. Fuck it... sling a dead skunk at 'em. Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 08, 2025 05:32 PM (NwnyJ) 35
19 We definitely need to make it a law that persons within one (or maybe two) degree of consanguinity are prohibited from holding any office their relative held.
Posted by: FeatherBlade ------- They are just upstarts compared with the hold that the Dingells have on that Michigan House seat. Pelosi apparently tried and failed to get her nepot daughter in place but instead a new perv Weiner will probably get the seat while I think her daughter is running for Weiner's vacated CA Senate seat. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 05:32 PM (WDjG6) 36
Do they even have nightsticks any more?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 05:32 PM (zZu0s) 37
I would like to point out to the "representative" that - despite the bills they like to pass - members of Congress are still ordinary citizens who are subject to the laws of the United States, and don't have the special privilege of not being spared when they break them.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 08, 2025 05:25 PM (a+4eV) --- They have not been deputized into any executive function. Here's the thing. They either don't know what the job of a "lawmaker" is or they want to snow the American people into thinking that they have some executive authority--i.e. LIE to the American people about the legal function of government. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 05:33 PM (krQz2) 38
For the record, assisting an invasion isn't just a crime, its treason.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 08, 2025 05:28 PM (sKqQm) ------------ We're gonna need a bigger Gator Gitmo. Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 08, 2025 05:33 PM (hE5jn) 39
To the people of Arizona......
WTF...... Why are you electing these Tim Walz RETARDS to represent you ?????? Posted by: Jackson at December 08, 2025 05:34 PM (J9q9v) 40
There's something I need to get off my chest - my family's secret shame.
Her father is my bastard half-brother. Colonel Sandersnista, the product of a torrid tryst between my mother and Juan Valdez. https://tinyurl.com/36fz32af Posted by: Colonel Sanders at December 08, 2025 05:34 PM (eqWxE) 41
Kelley's pretense that a lawmaker is "doing their job" in obstructing ICE is just one example on how every term is up for redefinition in the mouth of a progressive ideologue.
Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 05:34 PM (krQz2) 42
38 For the record, assisting an invasion isn't just a crime, its treason.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 08, 2025 05:28 PM (sKqQm) ------------ We're gonna need a bigger Gator Gitmo. Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 08, 2025 05:33 PM (hE5jn) Hah, Gator Gitmo. Very nice. Alligator Alcatraz is the one I usually hear. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 05:34 PM (ynpvh) 43
Funny how these defenseless members of the community are all criminals, rapists, thieves, murderers etc.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 08, 2025 05:34 PM (n5tGW) 44
6 Grijalva had a child?
I bet she's a real looker. Posted by: garrett at December 08, 2025 05:25 PM (TR2dy) She's been hitting the tamales...heavily... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 05:35 PM (ynpvh) 45
41 Kelley's pretense that a lawmaker is "doing their job" in obstructing ICE is just one example on how every term is up for redefinition in the mouth of a progressive ideologue.
Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 05:34 PM (krQz2) They've also used "Congressional oversight" as the pretext for assaulting ICE officers and attempting to forcibly gain entry to detention facilities. Posted by: Not how any of this works! at December 08, 2025 05:35 PM (TbWk/) Posted by: garrett at December 08, 2025 05:35 PM (TR2dy) 47
This is why I'm not as worried about the midterms as some. Which 80/20 issue have Democrats not been on the short end of the stick? What are they going to run on, open borders and letting drugs and gangs flood into the country? Defund the police?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 05:35 PM (viF8m) 48
She's kinda roomy through the hips.
Posted by: Jame Gumb at December 08, 2025 05:36 PM (wVcYX) Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 08, 2025 05:36 PM (mlg/3) 50
When I worked on Capitol Hill, I had some interactions with Raul Grivalja. He was an ass.
Posted by: Texas Zombie at December 08, 2025 05:36 PM (7bvY9) 51
Is there anyone in Congress who isn't bought off by the cartels or China or both?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 08, 2025 05:36 PM (rZCVI) 52
Texas Zombie, how are ya ?
Posted by: Ben Had at December 08, 2025 05:36 PM (sDNVV) 53
Representative nepot chosen by the cartels like her father.
Closed border and no humans trafficked are bad for their business. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 05:26 PM (WDjG6) -------------- * Treasonous Soros Butt-Bitchezzzz Hobbs & Kelly have entered the chat * Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 08, 2025 05:36 PM (hE5jn) 54
She looks like she'd been eating the entire Taco Giro menu for years before ICE showed up. The officers probably thought she was a hippo escaped from the zoo.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 05:37 PM (wzUl9) 55
43 Funny how these defenseless members of the community are all criminals, rapists, thieves, murderers etc.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 08, 2025 05:34 PM (n5tGW) Divine sparks... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 05:37 PM (ynpvh) 56
And a Forklift to get Rep Grijalva inside.
Posted by: garrett at December 08, 2025 05:35 PM (TR2dy) One of those cradles Sea World uses to transport orcas Posted by: Heavy lift, lean in at December 08, 2025 05:37 PM (TbWk/) 57
Democrats are why we can't keep nice t'ings.
Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 05:37 PM (krQz2) 58
Every single person in that video can and should be arrested for obstruction of justice and interfering with a federal officer in the course of their duties.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 08, 2025 05:37 PM (0N4FZ) 59
"Ron DeSantis
@GovRonDeSantis 12m EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY Florida is designating the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as foreign terrorist organizations. Florida agencies are hereby directed to undertake all lawful measures to prevent unlawful activities by these organizations, including denying privileges or resources to anyone providing material support." Ron DeSantis is de Awesome! Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 05:37 PM (g47mK) 60
These leftwing dropcunts are all the same: dripping with pathological narcissism and self-aggrandizing elitism. Look at their takes on this: ‘if ICE can do this to God Emperors like slag congress whores, imagine what they can do to the rest of you filthy losers.”
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 08, 2025 05:37 PM (m+VGF) 61
why is it taking Trump months to do this ??
Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 05:38 PM (g47mK) 62
we have officially entered the last part of the revolutionary timeline otherwise known as "democrats trying to out radical each other trying to be the last one eaten by their own alligators" its fun to watch Posted by: sound awake at December 08, 2025 05:38 PM (0j5WT) 63
Not gonna lie...as a former resident of Tucson, I bet that place made a mean Taco.
Posted by: garrett at December 08, 2025 05:38 PM (TR2dy) 64
Why can’t Adelina Grijalva file a bill abolishing the CBP and ending the practice of passport checks at the border?
Oh, stupid me, that’s called being intellectually consistent. Never mind. (The fact that she is a nepo baby confirms yet again what I have accepted for some time: this country is extremely corrupt, and Americans love it.) Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 05:38 PM (4786I) 65
Grijalva is spanish for 'Fat Ass'.
Posted by: wth at December 08, 2025 05:38 PM (v0R5T) 66
51 Is there anyone in Congress who isn't bought off by the cartels or China or both?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke ===== To be fair, some are bought by domestic industries like Big Defense, or Big Tech, and some by Qatar etc. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 05:39 PM (WDjG6) 67
50 When I worked on Capitol Hill, I had some interactions with Raul Grivalja. He was an ass.
Posted by: Texas Zombie at December 08, 2025 05:36 PM (7bvY9) Well, at least their party's mascot matches their personality...bunch of asses. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 05:39 PM (ynpvh) 68
Everyday Senator Kelly (Commie-Az) morphs into Chairman Mao.....
Next, he will make Mao's Little Red Book mandatory reading in all Az schools.... Posted by: Jackson at December 08, 2025 05:39 PM (J9q9v) 69
@amuse
SCOTUS: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson told the Court that presidents should not be able to fire the PhDs & experts who run the government. She even argued presidents should avoid control over transportation & the economy. Posted by: weft cut-loop -------------- Here is what I learned. Kids who go into medicine mostly want pussy, money, and status. Kids who go into law mostly want money and status and pussy. Kids who get PhDs mostly want to avoid getting a job for as long as possible. I was going to say they are not in the same class, but really none of them are "elite" or "our betters" I think the KBJ statement is like the stupid saying we should be led by the retarded. She is so out of touch - did she not see what I saw? Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 08, 2025 05:39 PM (GyoJP) 70
What a shrunken, sad little cuckold Mark Kelley has become. Ugh.
Posted by: ballistic at December 08, 2025 05:39 PM (3BwY8) 71
I a saddened that the art of nightstick powered compliance is no longer practiced.
In the good old days, police knew how to get protesters off of the streets. Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 08, 2025 05:39 PM (0U5gm) 72
63 Not gonna lie...as a former resident of Tucson, I bet that place made a mean Taco.
Posted by: garrett at December 08, 2025 05:38 PM (TR2dy) Adelita Grijalva probably has a very mean taco. Posted by: And by mean I mean hostile at December 08, 2025 05:39 PM (TbWk/) 73
None of the illegals are her "constituents." Unless, of course, she's one of them.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 08, 2025 05:39 PM (6Bc88) 74
59 "Ron DeSantis
@GovRonDeSantis 12m EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY Florida is designating the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as foreign terrorist organizations. Florida agencies are hereby directed to undertake all lawful measures to prevent unlawful activities by these organizations, including denying privileges or resources to anyone providing material support." Ron DeSantis is de Awesome! Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 05:37 PM (g47mK) Cool! Come join me on Fox News! That’s the only place I ever want to be! You will too! Posted by: Gov Greg Abbott at December 08, 2025 05:40 PM (4786I) 75
Adelita Grijalva and Ana Navarro walk into a buffet...
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 08, 2025 05:40 PM (PiwSw) 76
Mark Kelly needs a merkin for his bald head.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 08, 2025 05:40 PM (pkeXY) 77
Wouldn't that pepper spray make her order of two dozen tacos more spicy and delicious?
That fat bitch wasn't there to protest. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 08, 2025 05:40 PM (1zOXE) 78
70 What a shrunken, sad little cuckold Mark Kelley has become. Ugh.
Posted by: ballistic at December 08, 2025 05:39 PM (3BwY He's a bit of a twat, isn't he? Posted by: tcn in AK at December 08, 2025 05:40 PM (6Bc88) 79
50 When I worked on Capitol Hill, I had some interactions with Raul Grivalja. He was an ass.
Posted by: Texas Zombie at December 08, 2025 05:36 PM (7bvY9) I get her dad and the congress critter from Texas that looks like a werewolf confused. In my head they're the same person. Posted by: CaliGirl at December 08, 2025 05:40 PM (TmEds) 80
72 63 Not gonna lie...as a former resident of Tucson, I bet that place made a mean Taco.
Posted by: garrett at December 08, 2025 05:38 PM (TR2dy) Adelita Grijalva probably has a very mean taco. Posted by: And by mean I mean hostile at December 08, 2025 05:39 PM (TbWk/) No quero... Posted by: Taco Bell Chihuahua at December 08, 2025 05:41 PM (ynpvh) 81
Next, he will make Mao's Little Red Book mandatory reading in all Az schools....
Posted by: Jackson at December 08, 2025 05:39 PM (J9q9v) He’d be upset about that bit about “political power comes from the barrel of a gun.” Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 05:41 PM (4786I) 82
She's kinda roomy through the hips.
Posted by: Jame Gumb at December 08, 2025 *** "Roomy" would apply to a house. "Warehouse-sized" would apply to Rep. Grijalva. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 05:41 PM (wzUl9) 83
Cool! Come join me on Fox News! That’s the only place I ever want to be! You will too!
== *thinks about mentioning Prometheus... Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 05:41 PM (g47mK) 84
Penis head is just a liar isn't he?
Posted by: steevy at December 08, 2025 05:41 PM (YwEeS) 85
75 Adelita Grijalva and Ana Navarro walk into a buffet...
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 08, 2025 05:40 PM (PiwSw) And then nobody else gets to. Posted by: tcn in AK at December 08, 2025 05:41 PM (6Bc88) 86
They've also used "Congressional oversight" as the pretext for assaulting ICE officers and attempting to forcibly gain entry to detention facilities.
Posted by: Not how any of this works! at December 08, 2025 05:35 PM (TbWk/) --- Yeah, but that's not how "oversight" works. It doesn't make every congressperson some impromptu inspector general to every executive building. At least, it shouldn't. But here is where we are, because the Democrats have convinced society that it is almost wrong to use the "Power of the Purse", which is what the founders expected them to use. As well as subpoenas and hearings. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 05:41 PM (krQz2) 87
I think the KBJ statement is like the stupid saying we should be led by the retarded. She is so out of touch - did she not see what I saw?
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 08, 2025 05:39 PM (GyoJP) -------- Credentialism is the left's stock-in-trade. Their long march through the institutions means they control who gets the credentials. How do you think a stone-cold retard like KBJ got a fucking law degree? She's dumber than a stump but sits on the highest court in the land. Don't you think she's going to go to the mat to defend the system that got her there? Posted by: ballistic at December 08, 2025 05:42 PM (3BwY8) 88
70 What a shrunken, sad little cuckold Mark Kelley has become. Ugh.
Posted by: ballistic at December 08, 2025 05:39 PM (3BwY Become? He was always like that. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 05:42 PM (4786I) 89
75 Adelita Grijalva and Ana Navarro walk into a buffet...
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 08, 2025 05:40 PM (PiwSw) Sell your stock in that buffet stat! Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 05:42 PM (ynpvh) 90
OT: Today In Republicans Being Useless: House GOPers Surrender On Obamacare Fight - Sean Davis
Fight fight fight. Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 08, 2025 05:42 PM (abIsI) 91
>>She's kinda roomy through the hips.
Posted by: Jame Gumb at December 08, 2025 Like those Depots where they repair Train Cars. Posted by: garrett at December 08, 2025 05:42 PM (TR2dy) 92
this country is extremely corrupt, and Americans love it.
Posted by: Cow Demon ====== First proposition is true of our ruling elite; the second requires that we actually have free and fair elections to be sure about. We don't so any supposition is speculative right now that we 'love' it. At least the GOP side of voters don't love it for example. GOP criminal pols get taken out with cheers from teh GOP side; Dems, being a party of criminals support others in that endeavor. Independent voters, flip a coin and watch media reports. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 05:42 PM (WDjG6) 93
And then nobody else gets to.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 08, 2025 05:41 PM (6Bc8 Those bitches need to make way!!! Posted by: Katie Porter at December 08, 2025 05:43 PM (4786I) 94
Adelita Grijalva and Ana Navarro walk into a buffet...
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 08, 2025 05:40 PM (PiwSw) Break out the emergency reserve tortillas. Posted by: Buffet Manager at December 08, 2025 05:43 PM (wVcYX) 95
3 Not gonna lie...as a former resident of Tucson, I bet that place made a mean Taco.
Posted by: garrett at December 08, 2025 *** I visited Tucson in 1985, a visit to my grandparents-in-law. It had beautiful landscape . . . but it was June and 106 F. in the afternoons. If I ever go back, which I won't with all this crap going on, it'll be in January. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 05:43 PM (wzUl9) 96
Adelita Grijalva and Ana Navarro walk into a buffet...
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 08, 2025 05:40 PM (PiwSw) And then it goes out of business. Ask me how I know. Posted by: Furr's at December 08, 2025 05:43 PM (BI5O2) 97
I am hungry for some good tacos now though.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 08, 2025 05:43 PM (n5tGW) 98
Mark Kelly needs a merkin for his bald head.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 08, 2025 05:40 PM (pkeXY) --- He needs a fez. Posted by: Fagen and Becker at December 08, 2025 05:43 PM (krQz2) 99
Don't you think she's going to go to the mat to defend the system that got her there?
Posted by: ballistic ----- Of course. I really only commented because I thought my intro was clever and wanted to share. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 08, 2025 05:44 PM (GyoJP) 100
She's kinda roomy through the hips.
Posted by: Jame Gumb at December 08, 2025 05:36 PM (wVcYX) ------------- "It rubs the hot sauce on its skin ... or it gets the hose again." /Hillary 2028! Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 08, 2025 05:44 PM (hE5jn) 101
>>I visited Tucson in 1985, a visit to my grandparents-in-law. It had beautiful landscape . . . but it was June and 106 F. in the afternoons.
That's about right for June. It's a Dry Heat. Unlike Representative Grijalva's Estrus. Posted by: garrett at December 08, 2025 05:44 PM (TR2dy) 102
70 What a shrunken, sad little cuckold Mark Kelley has become. Ugh.
Posted by: ballistic ug gum Mark wazzur space gum dit dah cray bit ugwum! Posted by: Gabby at December 08, 2025 05:44 PM (abIsI) 103
72 63 Not gonna lie...as a former resident of Tucson, I bet that place made a mean Taco.
Posted by: garrett at December 08, 2025 05:38 PM (TR2dy) Adelita Grijalva probably has a very mean taco. Posted by: And by mean I mean hostile at December 08, 2025 05:39 PM (TbWk/) Adelina Grivalga probably IS a very mean taco. Posted by: Polka will never die at December 08, 2025 05:44 PM (HM2QE) 104
🤣. Was that her photographer doing Nixon hands in front of a car to stop it from moving?!
Photo op for her in her cheap, constituent relatable jewelry. (Bring out the good stuff we're pay for.) Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 08, 2025 05:44 PM (NFX2v) 105
88 70 What a shrunken, sad little cuckold Mark Kelley has become. Ugh.
Posted by: ballistic You left out his twin brother. Neither are impressive politicians and a perfect example of Cheat By Mail state senators. Kelly is a male version of Barbara Boxer. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 05:44 PM (WDjG6) 106
The officers probably thought she was a hippo escaped from the zoo. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius Moo Moo Deng Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 08, 2025 05:45 PM (pkeXY) 107
73 None of the illegals are her "constituents." Unless, of course, she's one of them.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 08, 2025 05:39 PM (6Bc8 Hmmm.... her calling them 'Her Constituents' is an admission of guilt... that she is aiding and abetting Illegal Aliens, as she believes she works for them? Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 05:45 PM (mP0Kj) 108
this country is extremely corrupt, and Americans love it.
Posted by: Cow Demon --- That's because DC no longer tolerates "An informed public". That's how a democratic republic stays on track. Honest information is practically an anathema to DC. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 05:45 PM (krQz2) 109
If they get even a third of the illegals out of this country, the democrats will never control any branch of government again.
That is why they are willing to kill to stop it. Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 08, 2025 05:46 PM (0U5gm) 110
Mark Kelly is a goblin.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 08, 2025 05:46 PM (NFX2v) 111
28 Did we do this one already? Because, holy hell.
@amuse SCOTUS: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson told the Court that presidents should not be able to fire the PhDs & experts who run the government. She even argued presidents should avoid control over transportation & the economy. Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 08, 2025 05:30 PM (mlg/3) Stupid people have no idea how stupid they are. Anybody can get a PhD if they hang in there long enough. Justice Jumanji is a case in point of someone educated beyond their own intelligence. Posted by: tcn in AK at December 08, 2025 05:46 PM (6Bc88) 112
Posted by: garrett at December 08, 2025 05:38 PM (TR2dy)
Adelita Grijalva probably has a very mean taco. Posted by: And by mean I mean hostile at December 08, 2025 05:39 PM (TbWk/) Adelina Grivalga probably IS a very mean taco. Posted by: Polka will never die at December 08, 2025 05:44 PM She certainly doesn't look like she'd suffer from Ozempic labia so she has that going for her. Posted by: CaliGirl at December 08, 2025 05:47 PM (TmEds) 113
SCOTUS: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson told the Court that presidents should not be able to fire the PhDs & experts who run the government. She even argued presidents should avoid control over transportation & the economy.
Posted by: weft cut-loop -------------- Here is what I learned. Kids who go into medicine mostly want pussy, money, and status. Kids who go into law mostly want money and status and pussy. Kids who get PhDs mostly want to avoid getting a job for as long as possible. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 08, 2025 05:39 PM (GyoJP) —— Cue Tony Montana … Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 08, 2025 05:47 PM (m+VGF) 114
KJB was promoted far beyond her intelligence
Posted by: Ben Had at December 08, 2025 05:48 PM (sDNVV) 115
>>Credentialism is the left's stock-in-trade. Their long march through the institutions means they control who gets the credentials. How do you think a stone-cold retard like KBJ got a fucking law degree? She's dumber than a stump but sits on the highest court in the land. Don't you think she's going to go to the mat to defend the system that got her there?
Exactly why this should be a much bigger story. Between this and the Humphrey's Executor case coming up, and the Court is signaling with this decision, this could be the biggest blow to governance by permanent bureaucracy maybe ever. Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 05:48 PM (viF8m) 116
28 Did we do this one already? Because, holy hell.
@amuse SCOTUS: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson told the Court that presidents should not be able to fire the PhDs & experts who run the government. She even argued presidents should avoid control over transportation & the economy. Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 08, 2025 05:30 PM (mlg/3) Stupid people have no idea how stupid they are. Anybody can get a PhD if they hang in there long enough. Justice Jumanji is a case in point of someone educated beyond their own intelligence. Posted by: tcn in AK at December 08, 2025 05:46 PM (6Bc8 Law school diploma from Oz University, signed by The Wizard? Posted by: Count de Monet at December 08, 2025 05:48 PM (wVcYX) 117
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 08, 2025 05:46 PM (6Bc8
The second oath is specific to the duties of a justice and is outlined in Title 28 of the U.S. Code. It states: “I, _________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as _________ under the Constitution and laws of the United States. So help me God.” Arguing against the very Constitution she swore to uphold... good to know. Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 05:49 PM (mP0Kj) 118
I visited Tucson in 1985, a visit to my grandparents-in-law. It had beautiful landscape . . . but it was June and 106 F. in the afternoons.
* That's about right for June. It's a Dry Heat. Unlike Representative Grijalva's Estrus. Posted by: garrett at December 08, 2025 *** Dry, true. But still punishing. And for some reason my grandparents-in-law, though not impoverished, did not have A/C in their house, only a swamp cooler . . . and Grandpa *turned it off* when we left in the mornings to sightsee, because he was afraid of fire. It was 85 or more in that house all the time. I couldn't sleep. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 05:49 PM (wzUl9) 119
If they get a third of the illegals out of this country, the Democrats wouldn't have "a pot to piss in and a window to throw it out", period.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 08, 2025 05:49 PM (NFX2v) Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 08, 2025 05:49 PM (emBoF) 121
Her father is the guy with a face like a pizza. She might have better looks, but an equal lack of brains
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 05:50 PM (bfwj/) 122
Let's congratulate a new resident of Qatar, America First Tucker Carlson. Nothing like getting away from pesky and messy democracy, and the free speech that allows just anybody to criticize your asinine life and choice of friends and associates. Nothing like spending quality time under the dazzling sun of orderly Sharia. Where you, as part of the elite, just need to point to individuals that annoy you and they will be beheaded! Very neat.
Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 05:50 PM (g47mK) Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 08, 2025 05:50 PM (emBoF) 124
Her father is the guy with a face like a pizza. She might have better looks, but an equal lack of brains
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 05:50 PM (bfwj/) Dude had to sneak up on a glass of water. Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 05:51 PM (Vq1pX) 125
@amuse
SCOTUS: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson told the Court that presidents should not be able to fire the PhDs & experts who run the government. She even argued presidents should avoid control over transportation & the economy. Posted by: weft cut-loop ------------- "I do what's right and wait for the law to catch up with me." -- OG Anti-American and -Constitution Commie DEI Hire Justice Thurgood Marshall Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 08, 2025 05:51 PM (VDaQm) 126
>>Dry, true. But still punishing. And for some reason my grandparents-in-law, though not impoverished, did not have A/C in their house, only a swamp cooler . . . and Grandpa *turned it off* when we left in the mornings to sightsee, because he was afraid of fire.
Heh - That's 90% of the houses there. Or, it was until the mid 90s. As for the heat...if you don't live there, it is brutal. There's a reason everyone walks around with a water bottle. Posted by: garrett at December 08, 2025 05:51 PM (TR2dy) 127
I've been saying for many months he will do this. And.he.did. Prescient of me, if I may say so myself !
Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 05:51 PM (g47mK) 128
Credentialism is the left's stock-in-trade. Their long march through the institutions means they control who gets the credentials. How do you think a stone-cold retard like KBJ got a fucking law degree? She's dumber than a stump but sits on the highest court in the land. Don't you think she's going to go to the mat to defend the system that got her there?
Posted by: ballistic at December 08, 2025 05:42 PM (3BwY --- You really can't separate stupidity from ideological consistency though. She is fulfilling her role as a foothold INthe March through the Institutions. And she is also trying to solidify the other components of the network, by implying that "experts" are independent of the President, who is supposed to control the executive functions of the United States government. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 05:52 PM (krQz2) 129
I hope that the rest of the SC conservative justices listen to Jackson and say "we are absolutely voting the other way"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 05:53 PM (bfwj/) 130
And today's ridiculous response from Democrats about drug dealers boats:
"There’s no public information that these boats are in fact carrying drugs. You can see some packages in the boats, I don’t know maybe they’re suitcases.” Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 08, 2025 05:53 PM (rZCVI) 131
Stupid people have no idea how stupid they are. Anybody can get a PhD if they hang in there long enough. Justice Jumanji is a case in point of someone educated beyond their own intelligence.
Posted by: tcn in AK ----- I know of at least one diversity PhD who was bragging to other grad students that her professor wrote her dissertation for her. So no, a PhD is no guarantee of knowledge and competence anymore than a JD means they can practice law or a BA degree means literacy. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 05:53 PM (WDjG6) 132
There isn't a precedent for removing Supreme Court Justices for being criminally stupid? Gobsmacked, I am
Posted by: Polka will never die at December 08, 2025 05:54 PM (HM2QE) 133
Bitch best stay out the taco stand. She fat!
Posted by: O-o-o-o-ozempic! at December 08, 2025 05:55 PM (oftw2) 134
How it started: "Independent DoJ" How it's going: "All plants called 'experts' should be independent of the President." Obama was also not supposed to prosecute whistle-blowers, but he did.... And obviously, the Court is involved in prosecutions... Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 05:55 PM (krQz2) 135
Credentialism BAD! ...you know , I bet the left reads Shakespeare, Hemingway, and Tolstoy and some of them eat steak. Does that mean we should stop because they do it? NO! It makes sense to read Shakespeare, Hemingway, and Tolstoy, and eat steak. It makes sense to inquire if, for example, a lawyer actually passed the bar, or the dude doing your taxes has a CPA , no ?
Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 05:56 PM (g47mK) 136
Stupid doesn't have to enter in to it. Just hold her to violating her oath.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 05:56 PM (Vq1pX) 137
Dick Head Kelley is going to run for Pres.
I hereby predict. Posted by: RI Red at December 08, 2025 05:57 PM (DsbQ3) 138
>>I hope that the rest of the SC conservative justices listen to Jackson and say "we are absolutely voting the other way"
I was in the car for most of the day and I caught some comments from Jonathan Turley. Turley is one of the few Democrats to report facts. He thinks this is a slam dunk for Trump. He even said based on how the justices were asking questions he thinks Humphrey's is gone as well. Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 05:57 PM (viF8m) 139
However, I can't believe they lie so often about things where there is video that obviously refutes the lie.
——- You have to understand they reject objective reality. Or put another way, this is an example or that “My Truth” bullshit. There are no facts, just The Narrative. Anything for the cause, and the Revolution. This is why it is completely pointless to try and have a debate with them. Their idea of a debate is to wipe you from the face of the earth. “By Any Means Necessary”, if you’ll recall your Marxist strategery. Thus, facts, logic, and Reason is just casting pearls before Swine. Lying comes to them as natural as breathing. They take advantage of decent, peaceable citizens willingness to be reasonable and compromise as the green light to fuck you over 20 times as hard. In fact they depend on this. It’s worked astoundingly well for them until fairly recently. Posted by: Common Tater at December 08, 2025 05:58 PM (MsRtR) 140
OK.... so Judge gets to adjudicate whether someone CRIMINALLY ignored THEIR order? and even order people to testify?
Should not an impartial Judge be doing this? with a Prosecutor actually in charge of the case? B-berg, ordering people to testify? WTF? and Roberts just letting it go on and on? Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 05:58 PM (mP0Kj) 141
She sees herself as stunning and brave. I see her as a third world person, whose allegiance is to a foreign government and certainly an un American ideology, who should be arrested and convicted as an object lesson.
Posted by: tubal at December 08, 2025 05:58 PM (pDt9x) 142
I want them to answer what other laws I can obstruct if I disagree with the government's choice to enforce?
Laws that I think are wrong but lack the political majority to change. Let's talk about abortion: I think the laws that legalize abortion are wrong--does that mean I have a right to block people from getting abortions? But at the bottom of all this is their silly cos-play at being civil rights heros; like they imagine themselves sitting at a racist diner protesting segregation. But you're not--you're on the side of the racist diner owner paying his employees 30% less just because they have brown skin and you don't want to pay more for your sandwich. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 08, 2025 05:58 PM (HXT0k) 143
It makes sense to inquire if, for example, a lawyer actually passed the bar, or the dude doing your taxes has a CPA , no ?
Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 05:56 PM (g47mK) Credentials are not credentialism. Having standardized means of determining expertise is fine. An overarching system of manufacturing such credentials out of thin air and using them as a cudgel to beat people into submission is not fine. Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 05:58 PM (Vq1pX) 144
Credentials are not credentialism.
Having standardized means of determining expertise is fine. An overarching system of manufacturing such credentials out of thin air and using them as a cudgel to beat people into submission is not fine. Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 05:58 PM (Vq1pX) you can separate the two ? Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 05:59 PM (g47mK) 145
Posted by: Common Tater at December 08, 2025 05:58 PM (MsRtR)
Simpler. People almost always believe the FIRST version of a story they hear... because Low Info types won't take the time to do the research needed to counteract the lie. So, if they get the lie out FIRST, and OFTEN... that is the story that sticks in the public mind... and sadly... it works. Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 06:00 PM (mP0Kj) 146
I know of at least one diversity PhD who was bragging to other grad students that her professor wrote her dissertation for her.
Posted by: whig ------------- They're taking our Jobs! Posted by: ChatGTP at December 08, 2025 06:00 PM (GyoJP) 147
The certification process is fucked- not the concept of certification.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 06:01 PM (zZu0s) 148
Anyone stopping ICE needs to be arrested for helping criminals
And Illegals are criminals Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2025 06:01 PM (Ia/+0) 149
You really can't separate stupidity from ideological consistency though.
She is fulfilling her role as a foothold INthe March through the Institutions. And she is also trying to solidify the other components of the network, by implying that "experts" are independent of the President, who is supposed to control the executive functions of the United States government. Posted by: Axeman I think Gramsci and the others following him forgot something. Entropy always increases so as their infiltrators took over institutions, they became dysfunctional one by one, and dysfunctional institutions attract the dullards, placeholders, deviants, and throne sniffers. They aren't revolutionaries willing to die for the cause in most cases, but dullards who would have never risen to their present heights except by being selected for bureaucratic, political, and credentialism criteria. His approach ended up the reverse of selection of the fittest where the fires of revolution temper the steel. As a result, ended up with types like Admiral Levine, AOC, etc. as their standard bearers. These types can never serve to consolidate a revolution anymore than late stage USSR apparatchiks could. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 06:01 PM (WDjG6) 150
Wolfus your grandparents sound tough as nails tho
I kinda love it Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 08, 2025 *** They were Mrs. Wolfus No. 2's grandparents, but yes, they were. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 06:01 PM (wzUl9) 151
They're taking our Jobs!
Posted by: ChatGTP ======= I think that should be a real fear for the credentialed but not skilled. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 06:02 PM (WDjG6) 152
Stupid doesn't have to enter in to it. Just hold her to violating her oath.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 05:56 PM (Vq1pX) --- Also, she is exactly fulfilling her role as an ideologue. Since the overlay matches corners with what would be an effective ideologue in her position, "Stupid" is exactly the same role as role-fulfilling ideologue. Only the Republicans who aren't trying to occupy a seat that would otherwise go to a traditionally-aligned alternate are really being "stupid". Seat-fillers otherwise have to cop to appearance of fecklessness to not give the seat-filling game away. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 06:02 PM (krQz2) 153
Taco Giro Food Service Engineer:
Here's your order for two dozen tacos, senora. We put the extra rice and beans in a separate bag just like last time. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 08, 2025 06:02 PM (1zOXE) 154
So in Japan, marshmallows are not a staple, but they are a commodity. That means I can't always find them in the shops, but when I do they are always different brands.
And that means that I never know how they will react when I put them in the toaster oven. Today's batch melted into the grate and made a mess. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 08, 2025 06:03 PM (GyoJP) 155
Heh - That's 90% of the houses there. Or, it was until the mid 90s.
As for the heat...if you don't live there, it is brutal. There's a reason everyone walks around with a water bottle. Posted by: garrett at December 08, 2025 *** But WHY? Yes, it's dry; yes, it cools somewhat at night. But 106 is halfway to boiling! Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 06:03 PM (wzUl9) 156
you can separate the two ?
Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 05:59 PM (g47mK) Expertise is generally self evident. You can consider it more or less objective. You have a skill, or you don't. The point of credentials is create a system where you don't have to find out the hard way that someone was bullshitting you when they contracted to do a thing that requires a skill for you. The existence of fake Rolexes doesn't mean that real Rolexes don't exist. Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 06:03 PM (Vq1pX) 157
If we deport all of the Taco Service Engineers, where oh where will we get “ Authentic” Tacos???
Posted by: tubal at December 08, 2025 06:04 PM (pDt9x) 158
Credentials are different than credentialism because credentialism is used to beat you over the head. I practiced law for 25 years and I know a lot of lawyers who are dumb as bricks. The Peter Principle is ignored a lot
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 06:04 PM (bfwj/) 159
137 Dick Head Kelley is going to run for Pres.
I hereby predict. Posted by: RI Red at December 08, 2025 05:57 PM (DsbQ3) Please God, make this so. Like shooting fish in a barrel. Posted by: tcn in AK at December 08, 2025 06:05 PM (6Bc88) 160
I wish I lived in a world where more Democrat politicians get pepper sprayed.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 08, 2025 06:05 PM (syz1S) 161
Credentials as related to degrees, especially in education, creates the caste system we have in higher education.
Posted by: tubal at December 08, 2025 06:05 PM (pDt9x) 162
These types can never serve to consolidate a revolution anymore than late stage USSR apparatchiks could.
Posted by: whig ---- this is a good comment. something to think about. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 08, 2025 06:06 PM (GyoJP) 163
158 Credentials are different than credentialism because credentialism is used to beat you over the head. I practiced law for 25 years and I know a lot of lawyers who are dumb as bricks. The Peter Principle is ignored a lot
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 06:04 PM (bfwj/) The really stupid ones go into politics. Posted by: tcn in AK at December 08, 2025 06:06 PM (6Bc88) 164
Is the bubble of their audience so impenetrable that they would never even contemplate getting some "news" from a non-biased source?
--- They're told what to see and they believe it. There are 5 lights, your eyes are lying, etc. See also their "descriptions" of what the Dems saw on the video of the narco-terrorist deep sea swimming competition: No matter if the video is released now, there is the True View, that they were barely treading water, clinging to the only scrap of debris, waving the international sign of "I am innocent fisherman!" with both hands ... (to the jet fighter on the horizon traveling at 700 mph at 10k feet) Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 08, 2025 06:06 PM (HXT0k) 165
>>Supreme Court signals support for Trump’s power to fire independent agency board members
The U.S. Supreme Court is signaling support for President Donald Trump’s firing of independent agency board members, as the court’s conservative majority suggested it would overturn a 90-year-old decision that has limited this type of presidential power https://tinyurl.com/yzx52p3m Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 06:06 PM (viF8m) 166
I think Gramsci and the others following him forgot something. Entropy always increases so as their infiltrators took over institutions, they became dysfunctional one by one, and dysfunctional institutions attract the dullards, placeholders, deviants, and throne sniffers. T
Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 06:01 PM (WDjG6) --- I agree. Unfortunately since quality is easy to degrade than to preserve through a switchover of power (but a loss in true legitimacy), it is 100% likely that they will not inherit the power as they envision it, but will likely screw things up for everybody. The decline in quality is real and what we are left with. And the Fall will be complete once collapsed into tyranny. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 06:07 PM (krQz2) 167
I bet that Grijalva has some bullshit credentials.
Posted by: tubal at December 08, 2025 06:07 PM (pDt9x) 168
They want to be their own little Stalins and Lenins without actually getting their own hands dirty.
They want revolution on the cheap. They want to win on a technicality. It's Konami Code Communism. Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 06:07 PM (Vq1pX) 169
What is interesting is that they think a Member of Congress has MORE rights and protections then an average citizen.
--- literally behave as if they are royalty dispatched to restore order on behalf of the king. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 08, 2025 06:08 PM (HXT0k) 170
Here is how I put it
We have gone from: Meritocracy -> credential-ocracy -> connection-ocracy -> corrupt-ocracy -> crap-ocracy This is an inevitable progression. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 08, 2025 06:09 PM (GyoJP) 171
Posted by: JackStraw
Myers v US, written by Chief Justice Taft in the 20's was always the correct decision based on history. Humphreys and Weiner cases later on were a reaction in part to FDR and a nod at the notion of independent agencies which were always contrary to the actual Constitution. Progressive types were always lousy in understanding the original negative nature of liberties, power, etc. in the Constitution. The great objective of the Constitution was to prevent monarchial or despotic tyranny. To that end, they separated powers on purpose. To hire a crony might end up despotic, to remove them not so. To convict, despotic, to pardon, not so. To start a war, despotic, to declare peace/neutrality, not so. So the executive can remove, pardon, declare peace/diplomacy to avoid war, etc. The positive power of commander in chief is only valid if Congress pays for a military to command and they can refuse to pay anytime they want. Progressives always wanted power in unelected bodies by experts and the Courts, being such themselves, granted that in Humphreys. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 06:09 PM (WDjG6) 172
What I worry about a lot more than 1 Brown-Jackson, if the almost majority of NFIB v. Sebelius who said that the regulation of commerce could permit the mandating of purchases.
And that the people who wanted to tip the scales by placing Gulag Garland on the SCOTUS to inch it closer to that "consensus" are lurking about. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 06:10 PM (krQz2) 173
Marshmallows are almost certainly made of Corn Syrup now, so they are just a poor imitation of what once was. They aren’t even going to toast up right on a stick over a campfire.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 08, 2025 06:11 PM (MsRtR) Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 08, 2025 06:11 PM (1zOXE) 175
@171 Humphrey's Executor was definitely a reaction to the SC perceiving that FDR was infringing on the court. 9-0 in his face
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 06:12 PM (bfwj/) 176
173 Marshmallows are almost certainly made of Corn Syrup now, so they are just a poor imitation of what once was. They aren’t even going to toast up right on a stick over a campfire.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 08, 2025 06:11 PM (MsRtR) What was their earlier composition? Serious question. Posted by: tubal at December 08, 2025 06:13 PM (pDt9x) 177
Looks like Rep. Adelita Grijalva was throwing her weight around
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 08, 2025 06:13 PM (eZ5tL) 178
>>Progressives always wanted power in unelected bodies by experts and the Courts, being such themselves, granted that in Humphreys.
Which is why this could be such a significant win. If Trump can start removing the heads of these agencies for any reason he wants that is a significant blow to the left and governance by bureaucrat. Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 06:13 PM (viF8m) 179
177 Looks like Rep. Adelita Grijalva was throwing her weight around
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 08, 2025 06:13 PM (eZ5tL) A Burrito Grande. Posted by: tubal at December 08, 2025 06:13 PM (pDt9x) 180
How did ICE know that raiding a taco stand would yield results?
In Tucson. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone Probably a legal who lost their job to an illegal. Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2025 06:14 PM (9bIJg) 181
I think the first to complain about credentialism were the DEI brigade. "Systemic inequality" bullshit.
Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 06:14 PM (g47mK) 182
"None of the illegals are her "constituents." Unless, of course, she's one of them."
Well, they are not voters. But so far they are counted in determining how many representatives an area receives. So in that sense, are they "constituents"? idk ... an exact definition of "constituent" would be required, and I'm kinda lazy. Posted by: illiniwek at December 08, 2025 06:14 PM (vbXSk) 183
I agree. Unfortunately since quality is easy to degrade than to preserve through a switchover of power (but a loss in true legitimacy), it is 100% likely that they will not inherit the power as they envision it, but will likely screw things up for everybody.
The decline in quality is real and what we are left with. And the Fall will be complete once collapsed into tyranny. Posted by: Axeman ========= My guess is if Trump gets thorough the next three years with more of his plans intact, it will be far more difficult to complete any Gramsci type or color revolutions. That is why they are striking prematurely and like the whole op on sinking narco boats, increasingly incompetent at their own Deep State ops. That indicates unskilled operatives running under time constraints. There will be more and more ops that will most likely crash and burn earlier and earlier in the process just like the ridiculous nepot's story above. I think Musk has decided that X must save civilization first so he can get to Mars. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 06:14 PM (WDjG6) 184
173 Marshmallows are almost certainly made of Corn Syrup now, so they are just a poor imitation of what once was. They aren’t even going to toast up right on a stick over a campfire.
Posted by: Common Tater The bag I just finished was great. This new bag still toasted, but it also melted. Tomorrow I will put it on foil and rotate halfway through. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 08, 2025 06:14 PM (GyoJP) 185
I think the whole history of Marxian revolution illustrates that quality is NOT preserved. And you end up with a horrible hodgepodge of intentions and de factos.
The THEORY is that you can regain quality on the other side, but not when you've slaughtered your civic rival mainly for raw POWER, and given the reins over to somebody who simply now has the reins, who all he has to do to maintain power is pay lip service to the "goals" of the revolution, but is given the power to eliminate would-be rivals as "counterrevolutionaries". Because again, you've cleared the quality control from the board. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 06:15 PM (krQz2) 186
181 I think the first to complain about credentialism were the DEI brigade. "Systemic inequality" bullshit.
Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 06:14 PM (g47mK) Their complaint was that credentials were somehow still tied to demonstrated competence. Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 06:15 PM (Vq1pX) 187
@amuse
SCOTUS: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson told the Court that presidents should not be able to fire the PhDs & experts who run the government. She even argued presidents should avoid control over transportation & the economy. --- Like I said this morning, they're just trying to tee up some fire for their dissent. Because they know they've lost. But they imagine there's going to be some future that will look back and say, "wow, things were so much better when we had unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats with massive power running things." I mean, who are they trying to convince, but fellow eggheads, that eggheads are the best and pure and kindest and most awesome of all? Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 08, 2025 06:15 PM (HXT0k) 188
These types can never serve to consolidate a revolution anymore than late stage USSR apparatchiks could.
Posted by: whig I think it is worse than that, late-stage USSR aparatchiks couldn't keep an established regime running. They spent their time enforcing standards they didn't understand, to promote state industries they didn't understand, that caused shortages they were unable to resolve, and impeded anyone who actually had a clue how to fix things because the solutions proposed violated the standards, which were the only things they understood. By the time Gorbachev had no other options it was too late. Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 06:16 PM (rbvCR) 189
Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 06:14 PM (WDjG6)
They're heightening their own contradictions. Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 06:17 PM (Vq1pX) 190
Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 06:01 PM (WDjG6)
Fair point that these retards cannot build a system because they are retarded. For our purposes, they can still destroy one. I wonder about the Georgia Guide stones and useful idiots. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 06:18 PM (zZu0s) 191
@amuse
SCOTUS: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson told the Court that presidents should not be able to fire the PhDs & experts who run the government. She even argued presidents should avoid control over transportation & the economy. Bitch is too stupid to work at a 7/11, forget being a judge of anything. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 06:19 PM (snZF9) 192
"There’s no public information that these boats are in fact carrying drugs. You can see some packages in the boats, I don’t know maybe they’re suitcases.”
--- "public information" Oh look, it's Obama's mentor, the Billy Ayers Gambit: Guilty as hell, free as a bird; the ol' dare you to release classified info. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 08, 2025 06:19 PM (HXT0k) 193
Look, it's either a taco or a gyro. Not both. Just choose one.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 08, 2025 06:20 PM (3uBP9) 194
What a shrunken, sad little cuckold Mark Kelley has become. Ugh.
Didn't his wife prove that it only takes half a brain to be a Democrat? Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 08, 2025 06:20 PM (Da7Vv) Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 08, 2025 06:21 PM (Cjt/F) 196
Very few apparatchiks in late-stage communist countries were Communists. Just careerists. People only joined the party to get the connections. I think a lot of these race communists and gay communists, like Mamdani, are true believers, but they are even less capable of running things than your typical Soviet apparat.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 08, 2025 06:21 PM (wGerL) 197
My guess is if Trump gets thorough the next three years with more of his plans intact, it will be far more difficult to complete any Gramsci type or color revolutions.
Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 06:14 PM (WDjG6) --- I have a different view. It will be according to God's will and His purposes. It can collapse and demonstrate the depravity of Man. Or it can be redeemed by his plan, his hand, and his will. I think if Trump acts as preserver of honor and values which make up our society, than he may be successful in helping to bring us out. But it may just serve as a light through the clouds as to what we are up against all along. And that man, by himself, is capable of completely squandering and pillaging the gift that was Western Civilization, because he really thought he had a better idea, and a better cause to sell all his ideals down the river for. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 06:21 PM (krQz2) 198
I don't particularly see the need to force the commander in chief to play mother-may-i with a bunch of newsface faggots every time he pops a zit in open water somewhere.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 06:21 PM (Vq1pX) Posted by: rhennigantx at December 08, 2025 06:21 PM (gbOdA) 200
Look, it's either a taco or a gyro. Not both. Just choose one.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 08, 2025 06:20 PM (3uBP9) Point of Order! Now I want two steak gordita supreme. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 06:21 PM (zZu0s) 201
The problem with Marxist revolution is that it favors ideology over reality. Lysenkoism is a perfect example. The late stage Soviet Union couldn't make an economy work and resorted to thuggery like all leftists. Yeltsin going to Dallas is the greatest example. He muttered to himself all the way back to Moscow. Or he was drunk
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 06:21 PM (bfwj/) 202
"But WHY? Yes, it's dry; yes, it cools somewhat at night. But 106 is halfway to boiling!" Posted by: Wolfus
Not if you use Kelvin scale. (yes, it was a joke) Posted by: illiniwek at December 08, 2025 06:22 PM (vbXSk) 203
What was their earlier composition? Serious question.
——- Sugar. Like just about everything else, not just marshmallows. Corn Syrup is less expensive. But it isn’t nearly as sweet, and has marked different characteristics in baking and cooking. Margarine is a lot different than butter. Posted by: Common Tater at December 08, 2025 06:23 PM (MsRtR) 204
175 @171 Humphrey's Executor was definitely a reaction to the SC perceiving that FDR was infringing on the court. 9-0 in his face
Posted by: Smell the Glove The problems with the Hughes Court is that it was a strange mish mash of older conservative rural Democrats, GOP progressives, and modern judges intent on adjusting the Constitution as living to fit the time and place. For the most part, originalism was paid lip service but most of the justices were not serious scholars of such and were in part reacting to the Fuller and earlier courts that were filled with corporate lawyer types. Few, if any had the flash of a Justice Marshall or the careful scholarship of Justice Story. Instead, some of the finest legal minds never were selected for the court and originalism as a theory failed to excite new law schools nor their law professors. It was viewed as old, boring, and unexciting by the 1900's. And Charles Beard's 1913 treatise on the Founding became the hot new paradigm that the Founders were driven by self serving profit instead of the common good. Ironically, this was about the time that the whole constitutional convention debates were being edited by Max Farrand. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 06:23 PM (WDjG6) 205
Look, it's either a taco or a gyro. Not both. Just choose one.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 08, 2025 06:20 PM (3uBP9) Red sauce or tzatziki? That's the first clue. Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 06:23 PM (rbvCR) 206
Nood
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 08, 2025 06:24 PM (ajCaF) 207
Very few apparatchiks in late-stage communist countries were Communists. Just careerists. People only joined the party to get the connections. I think a lot of these race communists and gay communists, like Mamdani, are true believers, but they are even less capable of running things than your typical Soviet apparat.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 08, 2025 06:21 PM (wGerL) --- That's right. Once the damage is down, that reality has more force that intention, becomes illustrated by the Carrion birds picking the choice meats from the corpses. Again lip service to the cause seems to be the main way to keep the ideology buoyant enough to fool the public--or at least confuse the public. A confused public is more likely to fracture into factions. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 06:24 PM (krQz2) 208
Should not an impartial Judge be doing this? with a Prosecutor actually in charge of the case?
B-berg, ordering people to testify? WTF? and Roberts just letting it go on and on? --- Don't forget, it's contempt of an order the SCOTUS already found was ambiguous. So, he's trying to hold ... someone ... in contempt for not follow the order that has been determined to be incapable of being followed. If that sounds retarded to you, it's because you're not retarded enough to go to Harvard Law. But, hilariously, the DOJ basically farted in his direction and are daring him to keep going and get taunted some more. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 08, 2025 06:24 PM (HXT0k) 209
I don't see the pepper spray part of the video? What a disappointment.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 08, 2025 06:25 PM (Dv3i1) 210
From now until Tuesday November the dems will be arrested for shoplifting baby formula, being detained by ICE, walmart walkouts (not ringing up all items), target takeovers, and general lawlessness that is SOP for many shithole country invaders.
The remake of Blackhawk Down was not shot in Minneapolis by accident. Posted by: rhennigantx at December 08, 2025 06:29 PM (gbOdA) 211
KBJ is Protecting Democracy(TM) by having unelected and unaccountable 'experts' run the government.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 08, 2025 06:29 PM (Dv3i1) 212
KBJ is Protecting Democracy(TM) by having unelected and unaccountable 'experts' run the government.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 08, 2025 06:29 PM (Dv3i1) --- Benz has said that "institutions that support democracy" is the secret-meaning "The Blob" holds for "democracy". Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 06:33 PM (krQz2) 213
Fair point that these retards cannot build a system because they are retarded.
For our purposes, they can still destroy one. I wonder about the Georgia Guide stones and useful idiots. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 06:18 PM (zZu0s) Coexist and mean people suck I'd like to teach the world blah blah. It was just a matter who paid for that small case stonehenge anyway? Was it Gates? Posted by: Eromero at December 08, 2025 06:39 PM (LHPAg) 214
She certainly doesn't look like she'd suffer from Ozempic labia so she has that going for her. Posted by: CaliGirl WTF are Ozempic Labia? It cannot possibly $20, same as downtown. Posted by: BifBewalski at December 08, 2025 06:50 PM (48yvf) 215
Rep. Adelita Grijalva
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I recall the phrase as " Din doo Nuffin ", but Ace gets the point across.
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Her constituents are legal residents of her congressional district, not some rando Mexican who snuck in. ICE is there to arrest and deport citizens of other countries who are not here legally.
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This is what I do................ https://p0stpr0m0ney88.blogspot.com/ Posted by: HOME PROFIT at December 09, 2025 06:29 PM (+3dnj) Former Surgeon General "Admiral" "Rachel" Levine's Official Portrait Changed to Bear His Actual, Real Man's NameNPR is very sad about that.As you walk down a particular hallway on the seventh floor of the Humphrey Building in Washington, D.C., you'll find a line of photographic portraits of all the people from years past who have led the Public Health Corps at the federal Department of Health and Human Services. Only one of those portraits is of a transgender person: Adm. Rachel Levine, who served for four years as President Biden's assistant secretary for health. She was the first transgender person to win Senate confirmation, and her portrait has been displayed in the hallway since soon after she was confirmed in 2021. The role is a four-star admiral position in charge of the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service. Levine's official portrait was recently altered, a spokesperson for HHS confirmed to NPR. A digital photograph of the portrait in the hallway obtained by NPR shows that Levine's previous name is now typed below the portrait, under the glass of the frame.Well, Sir, you did call it petty, so you lied about not commenting. NPR asked HHS who made the change and why. In response, HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon wrote: "Our priority is ensuring that the information presented internally and externally by HHS reflects gold standard science. We remain committed to reversing harmful policies enacted by Levine and ensuring that biological reality guides our approach to public health."Levine is one of the many mentally-ill people who don't like feeling "marginalized" due to their mental illness so they embarked on a crusade to make the entire world -- starting with the children, of course -- mentally ill like themselves. It is time to say no, and no, and no again, and keep saying no to the lunatics until they understand that their sickness is their sickness and they must stop attempting to infect the healthy. Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
eh...don't want to be first on this one
Posted by: DanMan at December 08, 2025 04:21 PM (8uzBS) 2
quick! put up something else!
Posted by: DanMan at December 08, 2025 04:22 PM (8uzBS) 3
Dick Levine
Posted by: DanMan at December 08, 2025 04:22 PM (8uzBS) 4
ok, ok I'll nood it
Posted by: DanMan at December 08, 2025 04:23 PM (8uzBS) 5
"and I'm not going to comment on this type of petty action."
Good because you should have never been appointed in the first place. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 08, 2025 04:23 PM (0N4FZ) 6
Real men aren't petty.
Posted by: JewishOdysseus at December 08, 2025 04:24 PM (X+DdP) 7
DanMan gets to call nood on the trannies. Haha!
Posted by: Kratwurst at December 08, 2025 04:24 PM (PGKaA) 8
Didja notice that the article (purposefully) doesn't include the dude's "dead name"?
Journalism n'sheeeeeeit Posted by: ballistic at December 08, 2025 04:25 PM (3BwY8) 9
This a bigger deal to NPR than migrants murdering people.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 08, 2025 04:25 PM (WcSQ/) 10
So Levine has a Shanker for a spokesman?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 04:25 PM (2WIwB) 11
the farthest for a yeet that can be measured fer sure
Posted by: DanMan at December 08, 2025 04:25 PM (8uzBS) 12
No "Fuck You" directed at any of these mutants who ruined our government is ever too petty.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 04:25 PM (Vq1pX) 13
Shanker says the alteration of Levine's official portrait is unprecedented. He praised her public health work on COVID-19
/His And America's response to C19 was a joke. Levine and Biden made everything worse at the cost of trillions of dollars. And they did that intentionally. Posted by: 18-1 at December 08, 2025 04:26 PM (sKqQm) 14
Cracks me up that Levine and Gen Milley played football together in HS. Showers must have been "interesting"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 04:26 PM (bfwj/) 15
I am completely insulted by their use of "her" in this case. Richard is not a female.
STOP. DOING. IT. Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 08, 2025 04:26 PM (emBoF) 16
This guy always looked like the Quaker Oats dude in Drag.
Posted by: garrett at December 08, 2025 04:26 PM (TR2dy) 17
Only one of those portraits is of a transgender person: Adm. Rachel Levine, who served for four years as President Biden's assistant secretary for health. She was the first transgender person to win Senate confirmation
--- I guarantee you, it is more "DC" to confirm a transgender person than it is to confirm a competent applicant who may show the rest of DC up by getting something done. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 04:26 PM (krQz2) 18
8 Didja notice that the article (purposefully) doesn't include the dude's "dead name"?
we should be grateful Posted by: anachronda at December 08, 2025 04:26 PM (sGtp+) 19
So last thread we were talking about nude Rachel Weisz and now we are talking about nood Levine.
Sad...very say Posted by: 18-1 at December 08, 2025 04:27 PM (sKqQm) 20
8 Didja notice that the article (purposefully) doesn't include the dude's "dead name"?
Richard Levine. also has twig and berries and certainly did when he played "football" with Milley Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 08, 2025 04:27 PM (emBoF) 21
It also isn't petty.
It's a forceful, direct repudiation of the lysenkoist fervor for discarding reality and injecting farce and fantasy into our scientific community, at the direct order of assholes like this particular man. Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 04:27 PM (Vq1pX) 22
I thought Albert Shanker was dead. After he got the bomb of course (Sleeper)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 04:27 PM (bfwj/) 23
OMG I have so much nothing to say!!!!
Posted by: eleven at December 08, 2025 04:28 PM (aTgV0) 24
I remember being told that Levine was a "good father" to his daughters.
So, it's not like we're the only people "misgendering" him. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 04:28 PM (krQz2) Posted by: eleven at December 08, 2025 04:29 PM (aTgV0) 26
That the Senate confirmed a mentally ill person is most concerning to me. Why not confirm a person who identifies himself as a young teenager and only pursues young teenage girls.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 08, 2025 04:29 PM (KDPiq) 27
Now do the Portrait of Big Mike Obama.
Posted by: garrett at December 08, 2025 04:29 PM (TR2dy) 28
I'm willing to believe Newsom actually is a woman. I've never seen a dude who can cross his legs like that. It's creepy.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 04:30 PM (viF8m) 29
Watching Trump talking about new farm subsidies. Why do cowboy hat guys insist on wearing them indoors ?
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at December 08, 2025 04:30 PM (URO9T) 30
It is time to say no, and no, and no again, and keep saying no to the lunatics until they understand that their sickness is their sickness and they must stop attempting to infect the healthy.
- Reason cannot restrain crazy people. They can't understand it. That's what it means to be crazy. Posted by: Methos at December 08, 2025 04:30 PM (vSvIl) Posted by: XTC at December 08, 2025 04:30 PM (UnA8+) 32
Why do cowboy hat guys insist on wearing them indoors ?
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at December 08, 2025 04:30 PM (URO9T) They'd bring their cattle in, too. If they had any. Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 04:30 PM (Vq1pX) 33
Dude ain't no "she". If he still has a pair, and dangly (no matter how small), he's still just a transvestite.
Posted by: MkY at December 08, 2025 04:31 PM (q6tQZ) 34
That the Senate confirmed a mentally ill person is most concerning to me. Why not confirm a person who identifies himself as a young teenager and only pursues young teenage girls.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 08, 2025 04:29 PM (KDPiq) --- As I said, it's far more DC to confirm a fashionably-mentally-ill candidate than a competent one who will show the rest of DC up by getting things done. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 04:31 PM (krQz2) 35
It isn't difficult to understand why so many kids today are screwed up. Celebrating perverts is disgusting. Posted by: fourseasons at December 08, 2025 04:31 PM (3ek7K) 36
The point in giving Levine that role was to rub trannyism in our faces.
There are dozens of other leftwing lightweights that had better credentials for the role. But not of them was in womanface... Posted by: 18-1 at December 08, 2025 04:31 PM (sKqQm) 37
"Watching Trump talking about new farm subsidies. Why do cowboy hat guys insist on wearing them indoors ?
Posted by: Going deep. Out. " Hat head. Posted by: eleven at December 08, 2025 04:31 PM (aTgV0) Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 04:31 PM (77rzZ) 39
It's just a modern King Has No Clothes story.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 08, 2025 04:31 PM (KDPiq) 40
Someone should draw a moustache on the photo. I'd do it but I heard they have electronic Sharpie detectors at all federal building entrances.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 08, 2025 04:32 PM (wBaIH) 41
so.... notice that the article doesn't state what this persons real name is..... only that it doesn't say Rachel Levine anymore.
Posted by: Monica at December 08, 2025 04:32 PM (vHOpd) 42
Can we get back to ruminating on bamboo, like in the sidebar?
(I'm sorry, but I really like this joke. I know it sucks.) Posted by: Panda at December 08, 2025 04:32 PM (GyoJP) 43
>> He called the move an act "of bigotry against her."
Move to Suckdickistan if you don’t like it. Posted by: Vengeance at December 08, 2025 04:32 PM (5FKHw) 44
Hat comment is on topic because, like this post, it has to do with bravo sierra.
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at December 08, 2025 04:33 PM (URO9T) 45
Celebrating perverts is disgusting.
We've gone from: What two consenting adults do in their own home is their business to Isn't that transwoman stunning and brave for twerking in front of that toddler? Posted by: 18-1 at December 08, 2025 04:33 PM (sKqQm) 46
>>Watching Trump talking about new farm subsidies. Why do cowboy hat guys insist on wearing them indoors ?
Cowboys are gay. And, they insist on playing Dress-Up. Posted by: garrett at December 08, 2025 04:33 PM (TR2dy) 47
You can tell, if only obliquely, when a mental case is being reported on. I read a news article about a year ago, about a suicidal individual being rescued from a cliff edge or something like that in one of the federal recreation areas.
It was a little light on details, but the article was so chock full of “She” and “Her” and “The woman” over and over and over, to the point of absurdity, there was no doubt in my mind it was a tranny. It is crucial for their totalitarian mind set to dominate the language, verbiage, and narrative. If you want to pervert humans, one must pervert the language first. In a more sane world not too long ago Rich Levine would have been arrested, and the crawlspace at his home searched with cadaver dogs Posted by: Crocodile Rock at December 08, 2025 04:33 PM (MsRtR) 48
cowboy hats... want to see something funny? (and very OT)
the new Philadelphia Sheriff's Office ad! And new mascot! https://youtu.be/KTLXlOuxNWo Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 08, 2025 04:33 PM (emBoF) 49
A digital photograph of the portrait in the hallway obtained by NPR shows that Levine's previous name is now typed below the portrait, under the glass of the frame.
------ NPR won't publish his real name, so we'll do their journalistic duty for them. The public should know that his real, given name is Percival Dicksipper Ladyballs-Levine IV. You're welcome. Posted by: Rectification of Names at December 08, 2025 04:33 PM (zHK2c) 50
Cowboys are gay. And, they insist on playing Dress-Up.
This is one of the lessons from the Village People Posted by: 18-1 at December 08, 2025 04:33 PM (sKqQm) 51
Also, do not forget :
Dick Levine is a monster who pulled his own parents out of the Nursing Homes while he wouldn't allow any other elderly patients to leave while COVID was ravaging the elderly. Posted by: XTC at December 08, 2025 04:33 PM (UnA8+) 52
A fake vestite?
Posted by: Bulg Maybe? My point was we have had a perfectly good word for freaks like that before, and adopting "their" language is giving ground. We do not, and should not give ground to mental illness. Posted by: MkY at December 08, 2025 04:33 PM (q6tQZ) 53
Levin and Brinson were two of the ignominious deeds inflicted on the nation.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 08, 2025 04:34 PM (sDNVV) Posted by: fourseasons at December 08, 2025 04:34 PM (3ek7K) 55
Why do cowboy hat guys insist on wearing them indoors ?
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at December 08, 2025 04:30 PM When was the last time you saw a hat-check counter, or for that matter even a hat rack, in a public place? Posted by: Zombie Evel Knievel at December 08, 2025 04:34 PM (CSQvy) 56
doesn't the military have a threshold that sha'nt be crossed? Did Dick Levine wear wimmins clothes while serving in the military?
Posted by: DanMan at December 08, 2025 04:34 PM (8uzBS) Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 08, 2025 04:34 PM (QCDT5) 58
We've gone from:
What two consenting adults do in their own home is their business to Isn't that transwoman stunning and brave for twerking in front of that toddler? Posted by: 18-1 at December 08, 2025 04:33 PM (sKqQm) --- What you have to know is that all terms are Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 04:34 PM (krQz2) 59
If you can make a person publicly repeat things they know are false, like calling a man a woman, you can make them do just about anything
Posted by: 18-1 at December 08, 2025 04:34 PM (sKqQm) 60
It was a little light on details, but the article was so chock full of “She” and “Her” and “The woman” over and over and over, to the point of absurdity, there was no doubt in my mind it was a tranny.
was that the Middlebury student who committed suicide when the NCAA finally started applying the rules to Division III? it was insane. people were looking for a GIRL. he was missing for a WHILE. maybe give an accurate description - he was over six feet tall! Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 08, 2025 04:35 PM (emBoF) 61
Isn't that transwoman stunning and brave for twerking in front of that toddler?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 08, 2025 04:33 PM (sKqQm) We're already just about at "how are Our Children ever going to grow up healthy and well adjusted if they don't get some balls dragged across their face in kindergarten". It's almost a Fundamental Human Right on par with Healthcare, a cell phone, and a college degree. Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 04:35 PM (Vq1pX) 62
You could look at this as "ribbing" or you can look at it from a serious perspective. It is my belief that those that don't confront this farcical behavior and simply accept it are ALSO contributing to mental illness, and encouraging it.
Now, I have to problem with individuals pretending anything they want about themselves as long as it harms no one, and is within the statutes of the law. At the same time, there are stigmas attached to non-sensical behavior that reflects on the individual. In the case of Richard Levine, it suggest either a plea for attention, mental illness or both. Not condoning his selective use of biology in relation to himself while holding a position where that proper application and knowledge is key suggests mental illness or extreme self-importance. Posted by: Orson at December 08, 2025 04:35 PM (dIske) 63
50 Cowboys are gay. And, they insist on playing Dress-Up.
This is one of the lessons from the Village People Posted by: 18-1 at December 08, 2025 04:33 PM (sKqQm) Wearing a costume at an age older than 8 should be immediately punishable by death. Posted by: XTC at December 08, 2025 04:35 PM (UnA8+) 64
56 doesn't the military have a threshold that sha'nt be crossed? Did Dick Levine wear wimmins clothes while serving in the military?
trouble is he wasn't alone in that Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 08, 2025 04:35 PM (emBoF) 65
Cowboys are gay. And, they insist on playing Dress-Up.
Posted by: garrett at December 08, 2025 04:33 PM (TR2dy) You can take the boy out of NY but you can't take NY out of the boy. Posted by: the way I see it at December 08, 2025 04:35 PM (KDPiq) 66
Progressives: I have altered the terms. You're racist if you don't like the terms as I alter them further! Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 04:35 PM (krQz2) 67
36 The point in giving Levine that role was to rub trannyism in our faces.
There are dozens of other leftwing lightweights that had better credentials for the role. But not of them was in womanface... Posted by: 18-1 ----------- bingo which is why the Big Mike stuff is so funny. We turned it around on them. And now poor Levine just looks like a mentally disturbed queer that needs a haircut. Which he is. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 08, 2025 04:36 PM (GyoJP) 68
One minute in while reading the NPR story the screen went blank asking for a donation.
Grifters. Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at December 08, 2025 04:36 PM (jZ3ZM) 69
14 Cracks me up that Levine and Gen Milley played football together in HS. Showers must have been "interesting"
Posted by: Smell the Glove ====== I think muldoon went to med school with him or some such. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 04:36 PM (WDjG6) 70
was that the Middlebury student who committed suicide when the NCAA finally started applying the rules to Division III?
it was insane. people were looking for a GIRL. he was missing for a WHILE. maybe give an accurate description - he was over six feet tall! That one was insane. For a missing persons case you traditionally give the public EVERYTHING they'd need to identify the person because the first goal is...finding them. Old names, pictures, odd bodily features/tattoos, etc. And here they hid the single most identifying feature this guy had. Because politics comes before anything else (well except graft) for the left Posted by: 18-1 at December 08, 2025 04:37 PM (sKqQm) 71
If you can make a person publicly repeat things they know are false, like calling a man a woman, you can make them do just about anything
Posted by: 18-1 at December 08, 2025 04:34 PM (sKqQm) --- From 25, our chocolate rations have increased to 20. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 04:37 PM (krQz2) Posted by: E Buzz at December 08, 2025 04:37 PM (eXp3j) 73
Wearing a costume at an age older than 8 should be immediately punishable by death.
/Looks at some cosplay convention Uh...for men. Let's make that just illegal for men. 28 year old wimmens? Let's subsidize them Posted by: 18-1 at December 08, 2025 04:38 PM (sKqQm) 74
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Social media has it uses. Unfortunately it has allowed perverts to push their perversions in public. Posted by: fourseasons at December 08, 2025 04:39 PM (3ek7K) 76
When you so desperately want to be a woman and people keep reminding you your name is Dick.... Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 04:39 PM (krQz2) 77
Cracks me up that Levine and Gen Milley played football together in HS. Showers must have been "interesting" Posted by: Smell the Glove Ummmm, who was the "receiver"? Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 08, 2025 04:40 PM (t1FBO) 78
73 28 year old wimmens? Let's subsidize them
Posted by: 18-1 at December 08, 2025 04:38 PM (sKqQm) Nah. Feminists wanted Equality. There are plenty of ways to show your boobs without pretending to be Power Girl. Posted by: XTC at December 08, 2025 04:40 PM (UnA8+) 79
Shouldn’t the surgeon general know you can’t change your chromosomes, and anybody who thinks you can is a pathetic, delusional idiot.
Posted by: Im Just asking. at December 08, 2025 04:40 PM (wvJdC) 80
So you're going to execute the whole goth subculture? You are just giving them what they want.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 08, 2025 04:40 PM (xlUX+) Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 08, 2025 04:41 PM (xTIDn) 82
Sodomites are never happy unless they are sodomiting.
Posted by: Pray The Gay Away at December 08, 2025 04:41 PM (FGMmt) 83
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When you so desperately want to be a woman and people keep reminding you your name is Dick.... Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 04:39 PM (krQz2) Most of them don't even want to be women. They want to be girls. Posted by: XTC at December 08, 2025 04:41 PM (UnA8+) 84
Dick never served in the military and that Admiral is just a bullshit title made up by the HHS
Posted by: Ben Had at December 08, 2025 04:41 PM (sDNVV) 85
Having this fantasy land bastard in charge of healthcare policy is like putting a marxist in charge of economic policy.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 04:42 PM (Vq1pX) 86
The Left's football pair is Levine and Miley and the Right's is Phil Robertson and Terry Bradshaw.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 08, 2025 04:42 PM (KDPiq) 87
34 That the Senate confirmed a mentally ill person is most concerning to me. Why not confirm a person who identifies himself as a young teenager and only pursues young teenage girls.
Posted by: the way I see it ===== DC society is full of sex deviants and was so decades ago. I think it is true in part because of the old aphorism, DC is Hollywood for ugly people. For the most part, these are the Student Government high school misfit types out to revenge themselves on the folks outside of DC by wielding power. You get something similar in LA or NY from the 'creatives' that flock there. So engaging in deviancy is actually a team building exercise inside the Beltway and they recruit/promote more of their kind in a sort of network effect. So since the 60's where the story was JFK plowing adult females, it is now Weimar. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 04:42 PM (WDjG6) 88
A digital photograph of the portrait in the hallway obtained by NPR shows that Levine's previous name is now typed below the portrait, under the glass of the frame. ------- What a kick in the balls. Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 08, 2025 04:43 PM (VWtfl) 89
The Assistant Secretary of Health for the entire United States was a fucking mentally ill person who didn't fucking know what sex he was! And he was in charge of OUR HEALTH???!!!!
I'm not smart enough to know what the solution to this is but I do know that using our traditional constitutional norms is not going to fix it. Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 08, 2025 04:43 PM (z4+bR) 90
I knew it was a tranny in the article, in part because customarily they no longer refer to males or females in such situations. We’re pretty close to “something happened to somebody” as far as news reports.
In this instance they went over the top to let you know, in no uncertain terms, that all this stuff happened to a Real Woman, You Guys. I think part of it is due to litigation potential. The Real Woman and Her Attorney undoubtedly read the news report, and a suicidal individual Has Nothing To Do with being a Tranny. It’s the sex pervert version of “Allegedly” CYA, on the advice of our attorneys. Posted by: Crocodile Rock at December 08, 2025 04:43 PM (MsRtR) 91
How can they seem to be shocked that we aren't fooled by a dress and wig? Nobody's that stupid.
Posted by: Shoofly the Boxing Mule at December 08, 2025 04:43 PM (ufJfM) Posted by: fourseasons at December 08, 2025 04:43 PM (3ek7K) 93
Shouldn’t the surgeon general know you can’t change your chromosomes, and anybody who thinks you can is a pathetic, delusional idiot.
Posted by: Im Just asking I remember the Calvin and Hobbes strip where, in response to Calvin's acting up, his mother yells at his dad: "It's YOUR fault we didn't have a sweet little girl! YOUR stupid chromosome! NOT MINE!" Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 04:43 PM (77rzZ) 94
53 Levin and Brinson were two of the ignominious deeds inflicted on the nation.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 08, 2025 04:34 PM (sDNVV) Amen to that. Speaking of the Biden Administration, can someone please tell me if there was one - just one - competent Cabinet pick? I'll take one competent Biden official. Because I can't think of even one. Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 08, 2025 04:43 PM (0CU3H) 95
28 I'm willing to believe Newsom actually is a woman. I've never seen a dude who can cross his legs like that. It's creepy.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 04:30 PM (viF8m) It does explain the shoulder shimmy, though. Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 08, 2025 04:44 PM (PiwSw) 96
Most of them don't even want to be women.
They want to be girls. That was one of the disturbing things about the tranny that Bud Light hired. Remember beer commercials traditionally market as either "you want to be this person" (cool guys) or "you want to get to have sex with this person" (hot chicks) He wasn't pretending to be a woman, he was pretending to be a 16 year old girl. And you choose THAT to sell your beer? Are you trying to sell to kids, pedos, or both? Posted by: 18-1 at December 08, 2025 04:44 PM (sKqQm) 97
Speaking of the Biden Administration, can someone please tell me if there was one - just one - competent Cabinet pick? I'll take one competent Biden official. Because I can't think of even one.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 08, 2025 04:43 PM (0CU3H) Who was in charge of the auto pen? Posted by: the way I see it at December 08, 2025 04:45 PM (KDPiq) 98
I got 99 problems, but a tranny isn’t one.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 08, 2025 04:45 PM (b4o9z) 99
Speaking of the Biden Administration, can someone please tell me if there was one - just one - competent Cabinet pick? I'll take one competent Biden official. Because I can't think of even one.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 08, 2025 04:43 PM (0CU3H) ===== Kinda a high bar, no? Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 04:45 PM (8SdDq) 100
Damn autocorrect. Posted by: fourseasons at December 08, 2025 04:45 PM (3ek7K) 101
So close!
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 08, 2025 04:45 PM (b4o9z) 102
Why do we even have a "Surgeon General"? Just eliminate the entire department.
Posted by: brak at December 08, 2025 04:46 PM (jGJov) 103
I think Newsom is cracking. Either too much drugs, or not enough drugs, but something is up with that goofball, it will culminate in some gigantic catastrophe, and i am here for it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 04:46 PM (Vq1pX) 104
Levin and Brinson were two of the ignominious deeds inflicted on the nation. Posted by: Ben Had Dob't forget the leather bar freak in charge of the "You dasn't call it Monkey Pox!" propaganda campaign. Or to point out that it ran rampant in one completely very public and very visible community. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 08, 2025 04:46 PM (t1FBO) 105
So engaging in deviancy is actually a team building exercise inside the Beltway and they recruit/promote more of their kind in a sort of network effect. So since the 60's where the story was JFK plowing adult females, it is now Weimar. I remember Madison Crawthorne noting as soon as he got elected to congress he starting getting invites to sex and drug parties. And completely coindentally after he mentioned that the GOP started conspiring against him... Posted by: 18-1 at December 08, 2025 04:46 PM (sKqQm) 106
That idiot pushed for mutilating children. He can rot in hell for mocking real women and ruining children. Calling him Richard misses the opportunity to list him as a Dick.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 08, 2025 04:47 PM (6Bc88) Posted by: the way I see it at December 08, 2025 04:47 PM (KDPiq) 108
I remember Madison Crawthorne
Whoa, call back to Madison Cornbread there. We need another Madison Cornbread thread. Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 04:47 PM (77rzZ) 109
If one of the Sons of Anarchy were president don't mean we all have hot bitches.
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 08, 2025 04:48 PM (EyfuW) 110
Speaking of the Biden Administration, can someone please tell me if there was one - just one - competent Cabinet pick? I'll take one competent Biden official. Because I can't think of even one.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 08, 2025 04:43 PM (0CU3H) The answer is no and I believe that the reason is that the people who actually were running the "Biden Administration" were anti-American, domestic enemies hell bent on showing us just who really was "in charge" of the country. These people were the very domestic enemies that I swore an oath to defend against. And they're still here, everywhere that this leviathan government has reach. Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 08, 2025 04:49 PM (z4+bR) Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 04:49 PM (77rzZ) 112
Dr. C. Everett Koop would have probably advised Richard Levine to see a psychiatrist.
Posted by: Eromero at December 08, 2025 04:49 PM (LHPAg) Posted by: blue flame at December 08, 2025 04:49 PM (sGtp+) 114
I have to ask ... why ? Of course, I also ask why for certain folks here of certain age groups. Why do you love the Cowboys or Steelers or whatever else ?
So why ? Why is this an All In ? Especially if, like some, you want Socialism ? Then why are you so adamant that EVERYBODY get a dip for free ? If you love Socialism ... why does it have to be Open Borders ? That's a real question. Posted by: Why at December 08, 2025 04:50 PM (npo7s) 115
Even in small town Wyoming you see this shit. A male "teacher" at the preschool here painted the children's fingernails with nail polish. The opinion of people here was he is married to a woman so they didn't have a problem with that. Hello, wake up people. Posted by: fourseasons at December 08, 2025 04:50 PM (3ek7K) 116
I Am the Very Model of a Modern Tranny-General
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 08, 2025 04:50 PM (b4o9z) 117
Dob't forget the leather bar freak in charge of the "You dasn't call it Monkey Pox!" propaganda campaign. Or to point out that it ran rampant in one completely very public and very visible community.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 08, 2025 04:46 PM (t1FBO) Demetre Daskalakis, MD. From Wikipedia: "His work with the Men's Sexual Health Project, which he founded in 2006, involved work in sex clubs and bathhouses to test men for sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV, and direct them to care.[8]" No mention of whether he ran into Jussie Smolett or a certain former President. Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 08, 2025 04:50 PM (PiwSw) 118
Levine is one of the many mentally-ill people who don't like feeling "marginalized" due to their mental illness so they embarked on a crusade to make the entire world -- starting with the children, of course -- mentally ill like themselves.
It is time to say no, and no, and no again, and keep saying no to the lunatics until they understand that their sickness is their sickness and they must stop attempting to infect the healthy. This to me is the most evil and cruel aspect of the movement. Targeting, recruiting, and exploiting young vulnerable people who frequently already have other mental health issues in addition to their distorted image of body and self to undergo indoctrination and suffer irreversible damage to their bodies. It's evil as fuck not just in and of itself but because it destroys the opportunity for these kids to benefit from legitimate help. Posted by: Predation, pure and simple at December 08, 2025 04:51 PM (TbWk/) 119
What is that annoying shit?
'You can have your own opinion, but you can't have your own facts.' Right Ass? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 04:51 PM (zZu0s) 120
Dr. Jocelyn Elders would have told The Dick, "Well, everybody has to be afflicted with somethin'." Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 08, 2025 04:51 PM (t1FBO) 121
Dr. C. Everett Koop would have probably advised Richard Levine to see a psychiatrist.
Posted by: Eromero "Hey, what's up with weird beard, Koop?" -- Richard Levine Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 04:51 PM (77rzZ) 122
I'm trying to decide which one is more hideous:
1 Rachel Levine 2. Larry O'Donnell 3. Chris Matthews They could be triplets. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 08, 2025 04:51 PM (1zOXE) 123
Thanks. When i was a kid, a whole herd of dolphins saved me from sharks.
But don't tell anybody. Posted by: thug dolphin at December 08, 2025 04:52 PM (EyfuW) 124
Dr. C. Everett Koop would have probably advised Richard Levine to see a psychiatrist.
Posted by: Eromero at December 08, 2025 04:49 PM (LHPAg) My advice to Levine would be to just beat it. Posted by: Minnie Joycelyn Elders at December 08, 2025 04:52 PM (wVcYX) 125
I voted for this
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 08, 2025 04:52 PM (/iXAp) 126
3. Chris Matthews
They could be triplets. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone I remember when he subbed for Rush once. In the Clinton years. Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 04:52 PM (77rzZ) 127
Willow the Whig:
--- Axeman, Try reading the report I linked above that Data Republican was mentioning. Pretty much appalling melange of crap statements over and over again that one would suspect of a leftist spewing. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 04:25 PM (WDjG6) --- Which is why I don't try for premature epistemic closure. If Fuentes content was enough conservative, then he's not a problem. If he says offensive racist or Nazi stuff, then I counter that there is no such functional entity as as "Right". His confusion is not my problem. It's when he says that he'd like to dispense with free market that I can't write it off as a variety of anti-Marxism and its' either a strain of Marxism or he's an op. Xenophobia is an expression of an acute parochialism of some traditionalists who would also resist ideology. But the free association of the free market does not seem to be the same tone. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 04:52 PM (krQz2) Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 04:53 PM (zZu0s) 129
Dob't forget the leather bar freak in charge of the "You dasn't call it Monkey Pox!" propaganda campaign. Or to point out that it ran rampant in one completely very public and very visible community.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 08, 2025 04:46 PM (t1FBO) The very super-stereotypically gay dude with the Satanist tats? Yeah he seemed a sensible pursuer of objective truth. Posted by: Our Betters™ in action at December 08, 2025 04:53 PM (TbWk/) 130
Speaking of the Biden Administration, can someone please tell me if there was one - just one - competent Cabinet pick? I'll take one competent Biden official. Because I can't think of even one.
It depends on your definition of "competent". If you define it as accomplishing the President's goals, then Mayorkas was a huge success. He let in 20M new illegals. Posted by: Archimedes at December 08, 2025 04:53 PM (Riz8t) 131
And they're still here, everywhere that this leviathan government has reach.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 08, 2025 04:49 PM (z4+bR) I don't think the question was about "good", it was about "competent". Even granting that they're all evil and corrupt, they're still pretty fucking terrible, overall, at being evil and corrupt. They're incredibly lazy, stupid, credulous, etc etc. They just float along through life like the theater kids they all are, soaking up paychecks, firing off a couple hundred illiterate emails a day about literally nothing to each other, and doing sweet fuck all otherwise. Imagine if their evil were married to competence and motivation, and they weren't just a bunch of shitbirds squatting in the ruins of our republic.... Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 04:53 PM (Vq1pX) Posted by: zombie Tom Petty at December 08, 2025 04:54 PM (nhCoE) 133
C Everett Koop was a weird looking dude, but Levine makes him look like the Marlboro man
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 08, 2025 04:54 PM (/iXAp) 134
Shanker.....the jokes write themselves.
He praised her public health work on COVID-19, syphilis, HIV/AIDS and opioids. Really? Why not throw in Monkey Pox while you are at it? Again, the jokes write themselves. Posted by: Cheri at December 08, 2025 04:54 PM (oiNtH) 135
Thanks. When i was a kid, a whole herd of dolphins saved me from sharks.
But don't tell anybody. Posted by: thug dolphin Wow. I heard stories about that when I was a kid, but as an adult I also heard that they were urban legends. Glad to hear it wasn't in your case. Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 04:54 PM (77rzZ) 136
Does anyone know if Admiral Levine has been surgically modified?
Posted by: tubal at December 08, 2025 04:54 PM (pDt9x) 137
He praised her public health work on COVID-19, syphilis, HIV/AIDS and opioids
Uh, work how? Like creating them? Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 08, 2025 04:54 PM (mlg/3) 138
A male "teacher" at the preschool here painted the children's fingernails with nail polish.
This hits all the spots. If the guy that wears the Boy Scout uniform really, really wants to be in with your kids ? That's a tell. That certain ages didn't see the tell says more about them. And that's the thing. Certain "folks" here really, really trusted certain folks. As long as the uniform matched. Posted by: Why at December 08, 2025 04:54 PM (npo7s) 139
The very super-stereotypically gay dude with the Satanist tats? Yeah he seemed a sensible pursuer of objective truth.
Posted by: Our Betters™ in action at December 08, 2025 04:53 PM (TbWk/) And how it kept spreading to the foster children of gay dudes and... their pets. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 04:54 PM (zZu0s) 140
I remember when he subbed for Rush once. In the Clinton years.
Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 04:52 PM (77rzZ) --- Matthews didn't just sub for Rush, IIRC he had some civil back-and-forth conversations with Rush as well. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 04:54 PM (krQz2) 141
132 Real men aren't petty.
Posted by: JewishOdysseus This checks out. Posted by: zombie Tom Petty at December 08, 2025 04:54 PM (nhCoE) We'll trade some paint over that. Posted by: Zombie Richard Petty at December 08, 2025 04:55 PM (PiwSw) 142
I remember Madison Crawthorne noting as soon as he got elected to congress he starting getting invites to sex and drug parties.
And completely coindentally after he mentioned that the GOP started conspiring against him... Posted by: 18-1 ======= I was an aide on the House side when the whole Congress critters sexing up pages occurred. Including Mr. Gerry Studds who sexed up a male and got reelected for multiple terms after he admitted it. Daniel Crane, one of the GOP types caught dipping his wick into a 16 year old female at least had the courtesy to resign. Bob Bauman, staunch GOP type from MD was caught soliciting mo sex at the Iwo Jima monument and another, GOP type, Jon something or other from MS was caught soliciting sex from men in a House Office Building bathroom. I was repulsed by that and the sheer awfulness where people desired to climb over others to get power there and went home. Each time I had to go back for research or to visit family around DC, it reaffirmed not wanting to live there. A recent emigre from DC halls of power in Congress reaffirmed my decision that it has only gotten worse since I lived there. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 04:55 PM (WDjG6) 143
I'd like to see Dr. Ruth Westheimer take a shot at Micro-Dick Levine's problems.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 08, 2025 04:55 PM (S/Y4j) 144
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 08, 2025 04:49 PM (z4+bR)
Wow, that's a nic I've not seen in a while. Hope you are well. Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 04:55 PM (77rzZ) 145
Saw this, way too funny
Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2025 04:56 PM (Ia/+0) 146
Chris Matthews was halfway sane in his 1990s Hardball phase… he used to really rip into Bill Clinton on that show
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 08, 2025 04:56 PM (/iXAp) 147
Richard or Dick. LOL You can't make it up.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 08, 2025 04:56 PM (abIsI) Posted by: Jukin the Dplorable and Totally Unserious at December 08, 2025 04:57 PM (xvV+O) 149
A few bad dolphins can give a whole herd a bad name.
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 08, 2025 04:57 PM (EyfuW) 150
DC employees have homosexual sex in Congress as I remember, of late. They are pleased to record it too.
Posted by: tubal at December 08, 2025 04:57 PM (pDt9x) 151
Whatever happened to Madison Cornbread? Why’d I think of her in a tranny thread?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 08, 2025 04:57 PM (/iXAp) 152
Wearing a wig, a dress, and low heels and klumping around on stage got a lotta laughs.
Posted by: Milton Berle at December 08, 2025 04:58 PM (wVcYX) 153
I'd like to see Dr. Ruth Westheimer take a shot at Micro-Dick Levine's problems.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf Nein. I'm dead, but even he is too disgusting for me. -- Zombie Dr. Rush Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 04:58 PM (77rzZ) 154
Getting some strange at the Iwo Jima memorial? .... that's like making out during Schindler's List!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 04:58 PM (Vq1pX) 155
150 DC employees have homosexual sex in Congress as I remember, of late. They are pleased to record it too.
Posted by: tubal *perks up* Posted by: Lindsey Graham at December 08, 2025 04:58 PM (abIsI) 156
doesn't the military have a threshold that sha'nt be crossed? Did Dick Levine wear wimmins clothes while serving in the military?
Posted by: DanMan at December 08, 2025 04:34 PM (8uzBS) ------------- "Discipline is the soul of an army." -- George Washington, 1757 "High heels are the sole of an army." -- Beijing Biden, 2021 Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 08, 2025 04:58 PM (QCDT5) 157
tubai not that I ever heard of
Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2025 04:58 PM (Ia/+0) 158
So he's back to being Dick "Dick" Levine.
i don't understand these tranny fanatics it's like going around insisting the sky is green Posted by: Don Black at December 08, 2025 04:59 PM (ZxPkt) 159
Is this another thread to bring up the Netflix tranny coal miner movie?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 08, 2025 04:59 PM (YR84E) 160
Chris Matthews was halfway sane in his 1990s Hardball phase… he used to really rip into Bill Clinton on that show
Posted by: LinusVanPelt And then his kinda hawt, but totally crazy liberal wife reined him in. Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 04:59 PM (77rzZ) 161
I don't think the question was about "good", it was about "competent". Even granting that they're all evil and corrupt, they're still pretty fucking terrible, overall, at being evil and corrupt.
Imagine if their evil were married to competence and motivation, and they weren't just a bunch of shitbirds squatting in the ruins of our republic.... Posted by: Warai-otoko ====== Watching pron all day on government computers, shitting in hallways, harassing and screwing each other and the American people, this is what our civil service laws protected from removal. A VA worker in Puerto Rico was fired after he committed armed robbery and was in prison for it. On appeal, the guy got his job back for absenteeism due to imprisonment because it was not considered job related conduct. And that leaves out our former genderfluid Speaker, Kevin McCarthy--partner of aging fag Luntz and both out to screw America. Mos Eisley has nuttin on DC. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 05:00 PM (WDjG6) 162
159 Is this another thread to bring up the Netflix tranny coal miner movie?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 08, 2025 04:59 PM (YR84E) Grosscrack Mountain? Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 05:00 PM (Vq1pX) 163
157 tubai not that I ever heard of
Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2025 04:58 PM (Ia/+0) Ah, so a cross dresser, Bird Cage type. Posted by: tubal at December 08, 2025 05:00 PM (pDt9x) 164
160 Chris Matthews was halfway sane in his 1990s Hardball phase… he used to really rip into Bill Clinton on that show
Posted by: LinusVanPelt And then his kinda hawt, but totally crazy liberal wife reined him in. Posted by: Bulg ------ Boozing did Chris in as well. He looks really bad nowadays. About like Pelosi. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 05:00 PM (WDjG6) 165
Speaking of the Biden Administration, can someone please tell me if there was one - just one - competent Cabinet pick? I'll take one competent Biden official. Because I can't think of even one.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 08, 2025 04:43 PM (0CU3H) --- No. I don't think there was one. Definitely not "Take the Month Off" Lloyd Austin. Not Blinkin' Really nobody was classically competent. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 05:00 PM (krQz2) 166
>Did Dick Levine wear wimmins clothes while serving in the military?
---- he wasn't military not in the sense that soldiers sailors Marines and airmen are in the military Posted by: Don Black at December 08, 2025 05:01 PM (ZxPkt) 167
So he's back to being Dick "Dick" Levine.
i don't understand these tranny fanatics it's like going around insisting the sky is green Posted by: Don Black at December 08, 2025 04:59 PM He got to be a freak in public. Dude was walking around wearing a dress freeballing it. There are multiple pictures out there if you care to look showing his junk just hanging out and swinging while he was wearing a dress. It is literally a sickness and biden et. al. celebrated it. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 08, 2025 05:01 PM (0N4FZ) 168
He is an Admiral in the same way Bill Kristol is a Cap’n.
Posted by: tubal at December 08, 2025 05:02 PM (pDt9x) 169
i don't understand these tranny fanatics
it's like going around insisting the sky is green Posted by: Don Black ====== The kink is demanding that you embarrass yourself by having to play along with their game. Despot tactics from long ago did the same thing. Kiss the ass to keep your place or get your wish granted. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 05:02 PM (WDjG6) 170
These days don't trust anyone with your children or grandchildren. If you feel something is off with people, go with your gut level feeling. Posted by: fourseasons at December 08, 2025 05:02 PM (3ek7K) 171
The congressional staffer posting a video of himself getting butt banged in a hearing room says all you need to know about DC.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 05:02 PM (bfwj/) 172
He got to be a freak in public. Dude was walking around wearing a dress freeballing it. There are multiple pictures out there if you care to look showing his junk just hanging out and swinging while he was wearing a dress. It is literally a sickness and biden et. al. celebrated it.
Posted by: Mister Scott ======== Biden was hanging his junk and waving it in his daughter's face as a kid so he sure as hell was no moral arbiter or example. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 05:03 PM (WDjG6) 173
Kiss the ass to keep your place or get your wish granted.
Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 05:02 PM (WDjG6) Caligula's horse. LBJ's plein-aire shitter. Clinton's ... everything. Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 05:03 PM (Vq1pX) 174
I would be sure most male trannies are out to see females that be one.
Better Dick Levine than Dickless Devine Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2025 05:04 PM (Ia/+0) 175
🎵 I hope when I'm gone and the ages shall roll, My body will blacken and turn into coal. Then I'll look from the door of my heavenly home, And pity the pre-op transsexual, a-diggin' my bones. 🎶 Posted by: Don Black at December 08, 2025 05:04 PM (ZxPkt) 176
We've successfully brought back the word retard, can we bring back the word degenerate?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 08, 2025 05:04 PM (YR84E) 177
171 The congressional staffer posting a video of himself getting butt banged in a hearing room says all you need to know about DC.
Posted by: Smell the Glove I am sure that was a hookup site for congress critters as well for the same reasons. Except the Deep State has the tapes. Bet the staffer has tasted Congressional critter peen a time or two as well. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 05:04 PM (WDjG6) 178
159 Is this another thread to bring up the Netflix tranny coal miner movie?
speaking of coal-powered things what ain't got tranny problems... Posted by: union pacific big boy at December 08, 2025 05:05 PM (sGtp+) 179
148 How many mentally defective trannys will this kill?
The horror!!! Posted by: Jukin the Dplorable and Totally Unserious at December 08, 2025 04:57 PM (xvV+O) LITERAL TRANS GENOCIDE!!!!! Posted by: They keep using that word... at December 08, 2025 05:06 PM (TbWk/) 180
I was repulsed by that and the sheer awfulness where people desired to climb over others to get power there and went home. Each time I had to go back for research or to visit family around DC, it reaffirmed not wanting to live there. A recent emigre from DC halls of power in Congress reaffirmed my decision that it has only gotten worse since I lived there. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 04:55 PM (WDjG6) This. We spent 30 years amidst that filthy swamp, and have no desire to go back. It wasn't nearly as bad in the agencies as the Hill, although, to be fair, I was pretty oblivious to a lot of the shenanigans. My worst experiences were a sexual assault and being told to have an abortion. I count that lucky in light of what has happened to a lot of people. Posted by: moki at December 08, 2025 05:06 PM (wLjpr) 181
174 I would be sure most male trannies are out to see females that be one.
Better Dick Levine than Dickless Devine Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2025 05:04 PM (Ia/+ The ones who are truly mentally ill, i couldn't say. Shameless scumbags like this Dick person, though... yeah. They're not about to go mutilating themselves. They only want to fuck with people. Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 05:06 PM (Vq1pX) 182
Chris Matthews was halfway sane in his 1990s Hardball phase… he used to really rip into Bill Clinton on that show
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 08, 2025 04:56 PM (/iXAp) --------------- He was Chief of Staff to Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill from 1977 -- 1986. I don't think he ever recovered after the tingle The DogEater gave him ... Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 08, 2025 05:06 PM (QCDT5) 183
Politico: Trump’s plans to shatter the bureaucracy have a green light at the Supreme Court.
Oh no! Terrible, terrible, just terrible. The horror. Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 08, 2025 05:07 PM (ECCaA) 184
Biden was hanging his junk and waving it in his daughter's face as a kid so he sure as hell was no moral arbiter or example.
Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 05:03 PM (WDjG6) Pinching 8-year-old girls' nipples at pressers. Didn't even try to hide it. And all those motherfuckers kept covering for him. Posted by: Sick twisted freaks at December 08, 2025 05:07 PM (TbWk/) 185
Complete and utter repudiation of the entirety of their mental illness.
I voted for that, but it seems that the administration could use a cruelty consultant to deliver a little more for our tax dollars. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 08, 2025 05:07 PM (1duiP) 186
Chris Matthews was halfway sane in his 1990s Hardball phase… he used to really rip into Bill Clinton on that show
Posted by: LinusVanPelt And then his kinda hawt, but totally crazy liberal wife reined him in. Posted by: Bulg --- I really don't think you can totally discount that DC is as well a dangerous town. As farcical as it is, there are people with power who wield it for their own interests. And some people will go along to get along. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 05:07 PM (krQz2) 187
Pinching 8-year-old girls' nipples at pressers. Didn't even try to hide it. And all those motherfuckers kept covering for him.
Posted by: Sick twisted freaks at December 08, 2025 05:07 PM (TbWk/) If "No Reasonable Prosecutor" Day wasn't the day you realized the score, this day should have been. Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 05:08 PM (Vq1pX) 188
Trannyism is just a way to torture as many people as possible in as many ways as possible.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 08, 2025 05:08 PM (FMtrg) 189
Better Dick Levine than Dickless Devine
Posted by: Skip Despite my funny voice, I was always a dicked Devine. -- Andy Devine Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 05:08 PM (77rzZ) 190
Caligula's horse. LBJ's plein-aire shitter. Clinton's ... everything.
Posted by: Warai-otoko Yep. As governor, Clinton used his own State Police security team to scout out and bring likely ladies to come and meet him. He propositioned two 17yr old girls I knew to come to his suite at the Excelsior (later to be famous for his show and tell with Paula whatshername who sued him). I'm originally from Arkansas political circles and Clinton screwed everything he could get his hands on. Hillary was about as bad except her looks etc and personality was about the polar opposite of Bill's. She got leftovers including poor Vince Foster and perhaps a dose of Webb Hubbell one time. Supposedly Bill was sterile from a case of mumps as a child. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 05:09 PM (WDjG6) 191
185 Complete and utter repudiation of the entirety of their mental illness.
I voted for that, but it seems that the administration could use a cruelty consultant to deliver a little more for our tax dollars. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 08, 2025 05:07 PM You leave ace out of this - we need him here giving US the cruelty and shelving inspiration!!! Posted by: moki at December 08, 2025 05:09 PM (wLjpr) 192
>>>He is an Admiral in the same way Bill Kristol is a Cap’n.
Posted by: tubal >Cap'n Cuck is a legitimate honorific. He's got a bulwark and everything. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 08, 2025 05:09 PM (1zOXE) 193
I think Newsom is cracking. Either too much drugs, or not enough drugs, but something is up with that goofball, it will culminate in some gigantic catastrophe, and i am here for it.
my hunch is legal issues are around the corner Posted by: DanMan at December 08, 2025 05:09 PM (8uzBS) 194
Biden was hanging his junk and waving it in his daughter's face as a kid so he sure as hell was no moral arbiter or example.
Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 05:03 PM (WDjG6) Pinching 8-year-old girls' nipples at pressers. Didn't even try to hide it. And all those motherfuckers kept covering for him. Posted by: Sick twisted freaks at December 08, 2025 05:07 PM (TbWk/) Motherfucker's kid was coking up and banging his granddaughter, and the SOB covered for him. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 08, 2025 05:09 PM (1duiP) 195
Harsh! Did Levine really fail to get a change to his legal name?
Posted by: KLA at December 08, 2025 05:10 PM (R1Eqe) 196
Did the queer ever get his dick chopped off?
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 08, 2025 05:11 PM (Vh9CX) 197
‘ He praised her public health work on COVID-19, syphilis, HIV/AIDS and opioids’
Um … syphilis cases and opioid abuse skyrocketed under Biden. Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 08, 2025 05:11 PM (m+VGF) 198
Um … syphilis cases and opioid abuse skyrocketed under Biden.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 08, 2025 05:11 PM (m+VGF) Exactly! Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 05:11 PM (Vq1pX) 199
I once dated a girl with a 4yo boy. One day he stole his mom's makeup to play with.
He scraped it out of the little containers and put it into his matchbox dumptrucks like miniature dirt. I was very proud of him. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 08, 2025 05:12 PM (GyoJP) 200
It should read "Richard Levine, Jew."
Posted by: Good Grief at December 08, 2025 05:12 PM (svCQx) 201
I would do her/him/it/they/them.
I mean it/they/them is ugly as Shit, but hey a F**k is a F**k. I mean....... Look what I am married too..... The Wicked Witch of the West !!!!!! Posted by: Bill Clinton at December 08, 2025 05:12 PM (J9q9v) 202
What a Party City wig doesn't make a guy into a woman anymore?
Posted by: steevy at December 08, 2025 05:12 PM (YwEeS) 203
Dick Levine
Posted by: DanMan at December 08, 2025 04:22 PM (8uzBS) But dreams of being Dickless Levine. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 05:12 PM (snZF9) 204
Best thing Jeff Sessions ever did was slap Bribe'em 's hand away from his granddaughter at some function.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 08, 2025 05:12 PM (sDNVV) 205
He praised her public health work on COVID-19, syphilis, HIV/AIDS and opioids’
Um … syphilis cases and opioid abuse skyrocketed under Biden. Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 08, 2025 05:11 PM (m+VGF) They made it up in volume. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 08, 2025 05:12 PM (1duiP) 206
204 Best thing Jeff Sessions ever did was slap Bribe'em 's hand away from his granddaughter at some function.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 08, 2025 05:12 PM (sDNVV) The Audacity of Grope Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 05:13 PM (Vq1pX) 207
Levin and Brinson were two of the ignominious deeds inflicted on the nation.
Posted ------ It's Brinton, I'll have you know. It's a fine old family, with the best breeding. Posted by: Sam Brinton, of the Atomic Tranny Dogboy Brintons at December 08, 2025 05:14 PM (eqWxE) 208
Praised for its work on COVID? Oh, you mean constantly pushing Gene Therapy shots (won't call them vaccines, they are not) that are STILL KILLING PEOPLE?
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 05:14 PM (mP0Kj) Posted by: Jasmine Crockett, the next Senator from Texas at December 08, 2025 05:14 PM (0sNs1) 210
Thank you for the correction.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 08, 2025 05:14 PM (sDNVV) 211
Wearing a wig, a dress, and low heels and klumping around on stage got a lotta laughs (Milton Berle)
Right, and it was funny precisely because it was absurd. Men are not women. Not even a little bit. Leftists have to turn everything inside out and upside down, and make you suck that tranny dick, Or Else. That’s what they crave more than anything else, the degradation of beauty and innocence. There’s a reason they want to tell “bedtime stories” to little kids, and not at say, the VA hospital or retirement community home. Posted by: Common Tater at December 08, 2025 05:15 PM (MsRtR) 212
This. We spent 30 years amidst that filthy swamp, and have no desire to go back. It wasn't nearly as bad in the agencies as the Hill, although, to be fair, I was pretty oblivious to a lot of the shenanigans. My worst experiences were a sexual assault and being told to have an abortion. I count that lucky in light of what has happened to a lot of people.
Posted by: moki === To me it is a sad and tragic situation and like any other imperial city, it got filled with power hungry drifters and grifters with insatiable appetites for power and money. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 05:15 PM (WDjG6) 213
I am very jealous of Admiral Levine...
She/it/he/them/they has a better mustache then I do as areal biological male !!!! This is not fair !!!!!!!!!!! Posted by: Jackson at December 08, 2025 05:15 PM (J9q9v) Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 08, 2025 05:17 PM (znQHQ) 215
Praised for its work on COVID? Oh, you mean constantly pushing Gene Therapy shots (won't call them vaccines, they are not) that are STILL KILLING PEOPLE?
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 05:14 PM (mP0Kj) Photographer in New Foundland who I followed on Twitter died recently. An older guy. Made a big deal out of doing his part by still getting the Jab. Was essentially very ill from the moment he got it and died a couple of weeks later. Tragic and ironic at the same time. Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 08, 2025 05:18 PM (lFFaq) 216
‘ He praised her public health work on COVID-19, syphilis, HIV/AIDS and opioids’
Um … syphilis cases and opioid abuse skyrocketed under Biden. Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 08, 2025 05:11 PM (m+VGF) --- Prevention...promotion...to-MAY-to...to-MAH-to... Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2025 05:18 PM (ESVrU) 217
Clean up on aisle 200
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 05:18 PM (bfwj/) 218
Just had a little talk with my wife and she brought up O'Brien holding up four fingers in front of Winston Smith. And that set the whole tranny debate into focus, for me.
If the party says it's "five", it's still four. Tranny-ism demands you to say "five" if authorities tell you it's "five". I've told you she's a smart cookie. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 05:18 PM (krQz2) 219
Launch time in 7 minutes.
SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 6-92 LC-39A - Kennedy Space Center - Space Affairs Live Launch Date: December 8, 2025 Launch Time: 5:26 p.m. EST (2226 UTC, 23:26 CET) https://youtu.be/sOCnytxilOg Posted by: Joyenz at December 08, 2025 05:19 PM (2F0/Y) 220
183 Politico: Trump’s plans to shatter the bureaucracy have a green light at the Supreme Court.
Oh no! Terrible, terrible, just terrible. The horror. Posted by: Alteria Pilgram ========= To bureaucrats that read the German owned Axel Springer publication, it is indeed the end of the world for them. Same as folks that work at a company that got a hostile takeover. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 05:19 PM (WDjG6) 221
>But dreams of being Dickless Levine.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division ---- He was a cross-dresser, a transvestite not cutting the dick off = just phoning it in Posted by: Don Black at December 08, 2025 05:19 PM (ZxPkt) 222
Allred dropped out of the Senate race on Texas to run in a new district. He's facing another Dem , who's there already. Heh
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 05:19 PM (bfwj/) 223
Re Levine: Fuck 'it' and the horse it rode in on …
Posted by: Dr_No at December 08, 2025 05:20 PM (ayRl+) 224
When I was younger I used to read about those stories of sodom and gomorrah and would think shit, how wicked could they have possibly been to warrant being wiped off the map. Looking at the degenerate American left, yeah, I would have nuked the place too.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 05:20 PM (snZF9) 225
This is the same fat, stringy-haired freak who said that there needed to be a "Summer of Pride" at the height of the tranny cult insanity.
He's not being "mis-gendered," he's being properly gendered. Posted by: Factory Working Orphan at December 08, 2025 05:21 PM (FNuHY) 226
Far from running the streets with his old pack, when he was known as Nuke Doggy Dogg, Sam is a good dogboy who's turning his life around. He was just trying to fetch that nice lady's luggage for her, like he was learning at behavioral school.
Posted by: Lassie Brinton at December 08, 2025 05:21 PM (eqWxE) Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 05:21 PM (WDjG6) 228
He was a cross-dresser, a transvestite
not cutting the dick off = just phoning it in Posted by: Don Black at December 08, 2025 05:19 PM (ZxPkt) So...tranny-lite Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 05:21 PM (snZF9) 229
Why do cowboy hat guys insist on wearing them indoors ?
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at December 08, 2025 04:30 PM (URO9T) They'd bring their cattle in, too. If they had any. Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 04:30 PM (Vq1pX) if you are holding your hat, you can't quick draw both guns when the shooting starts. Posted by: Oldcat at December 08, 2025 05:21 PM (8avO+) 230
> Levine is one of the many mentally-ill people who don't like feeling "marginalized" due to their mental illness so they embarked on a crusade to make the entire world -- starting with the children, of course -- mentally ill like themselves.
It is time to say no, and no, and no again, and keep saying no to the lunatics until they understand that their sickness is their sickness and they must stop attempting to infect the healthy. Posted by: Ace --------- Cleansing with fire works. Or 5.56. Or whatever. This marginal segment of society is partially responsible for where we are today. The left is the other part. There is no living with these people under any circumstances. Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 08, 2025 05:21 PM (NwnyJ) 231
224 When I was younger I used to read about those stories of sodom and gomorrah and would think shit, how wicked could they have possibly been to warrant being wiped off the map. Looking at the degenerate American left, yeah, I would have nuked the place too.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division ------ I could see the congress critters squabbling over who would get to rape the angel witness in a hearing. Staffers, as always have to wait their belated turn. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 05:22 PM (WDjG6) Posted by: Polka will never die at December 08, 2025 05:23 PM (HM2QE) 233
Why is this pyrson still employed?
Posted by: tjpruett at December 08, 2025 05:23 PM (BdTJF) 234
There is no living with these people under any circumstances.
Posted by: Martini Farmer ====== Ant that is why a lot of troons agree and are shooting kids and such. They aim to kill us before they disappear as history's foolish examples. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 05:24 PM (WDjG6) 235
If the party says it's "five", it's still four.
Tranny-ism demands you to say "five" if authorities tell you it's "five". I've told you she's a smart cookie. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 05:18 PM (krQz2) They want you to think what they tell you, even rationalizing it yourself is wrong. Because tomorrow they may want you to say its seventeen. Posted by: Oldcat at December 08, 2025 05:24 PM (8avO+) 236
Trannies are a mental illness case to me
Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2025 05:25 PM (Ia/+0) 237
I can choose to humor you and call it "five". As in "okay, it's five".
But if we ever lose sight that it's four, simply because some sort of agreement to call it "five", that's when we've reached a detrimental point. I think they turned away from "there is a difference between sex and gender" tack because they lost the argument "But why are you insisting on the need to change your genitals"? What makes it even more of a mind-fuck is trannies like "Lia Thomas", who want to expose their male junk to females, and yet we have to call them "female" as well. I think it's all part of the plan of the elite to create fatigue, to make every disagreement have a "psychic cost". Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 05:25 PM (krQz2) 238
I don't think even in Sodom and Gomorrah they were holding pride parades, sexually mutilating children, and doing "pup play."
Our country deserves every bit of what's coming. Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 08, 2025 05:25 PM (YR84E) 239
>>my hunch is legal issues are around the corner
The covid era fraud that Newsom allowed to happen in California dwarfs what happened in Minnesota. If any of you remember Adam Housley, former Fox reporter who walked away from the media, he's a California native and was detailing the fraud on X. It's well over $100 billion. If that hits the fan Newsom is done. Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 05:26 PM (viF8m) Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 08, 2025 05:26 PM (PiwSw) 241
It seems the statute of limitations has expired on some of Comey's crimes.
I can't take all this winning. Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 08, 2025 05:27 PM (abIsI) 242
"During the federal shutdown, the current leadership of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health changed Admiral Levine's photo to remove her current legal name and use a prior name," says Adrian Shanker, former deputy assistant secretary for health policy in the Biden administration who worked with Levine and is now her spokesperson.
If the claim is accurate, then it was poorly done. Names are not sacred in our culture, and it is technically correct and common courtesy to use someone's current legal name. To properly wind up the troon without objectively bad manners, they should have added "(née Richard)" to his current name instead of replacing it. 42 Can we get back to ruminating on bamboo, like in the sidebar? Posted by: Panda at December 08, 2025 04:32 PM (GyoJP) Did I tell you about my movie idea? It's called "Bamboo Love" and it's all about Ryan Lizza's unexpected romance-by-proxy with prominent politicians, as their lives touched each other in hidden ways beneath the surface of Olivia Nuzzi's love life. She was the forest floor to the interconnected bamboo roots of their lives. Posted by: SciVo at December 08, 2025 05:29 PM (Sy6m/) 243
the new Philadelphia Sheriff's Office ad! And new mascot!
https://youtu.be/KTLXlOuxNWo The only thing positive about that was that at least they were smart enough to disable comments I don't think gang members are quaking in their Jordans. Posted by: hate_the_deepstate at December 08, 2025 05:33 PM (2Nfh9) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 08, 2025 05:34 PM (rZCVI) 245
Allred dropped out of the Senate race on Texas to run in a new district. He's facing another Dem , who's there already. Heh
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 05:19 PM allred dropped out because he was polling dead last and his campaign donations were in the toilet. His grift is pretty much over. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 08, 2025 05:35 PM (0N4FZ) 246
"Ron DeSantis
@GovRonDeSantis 12m EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY Florida is designating the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as foreign terrorist organizations. Florida agencies are hereby directed to undertake all lawful measures to prevent unlawful activities by these organizations, including denying privileges or resources to anyone providing material support." Ron, you da MAN! Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 05:36 PM (g47mK) 247
The hoot is that the first time you open the NPR webpage you see a donation box saying something to the effect of "We always tell the truth, never any spin or bias," or horseshit to that effect. And then comes the story on Richard--which uses the pronoun "her" eleven times in 300 words.
Yeah, snowflakes, I get that he legally changed his f'n name to Rachel. But here's a newsflash for the commie rat-bastards at NPR: that doesn't change his gender. Posted by: sf at December 08, 2025 05:57 PM (hohh4) 248
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Check it out for yourself >>>>>>>>> Goto.now/dQMbr Posted by: Anonymous at December 09, 2025 04:03 AM (+UTbT) You Will Believe a Car Can Fly Open Thread![]() Mercedes Benz goes airborne, soaring over other cars, in terrifying caught-on-video crash A luxury Mercedes Benz sedan went airborne and sailed over other traffic in a terrifying crash -- with the entire incident caught on heart-stopping video.Just to put your minds at ease: Despite flying through the air twenty feet above the ground, the driver only suffered some broken bones. The dramatic wreck unfolded Wednesday night in the Romanian city of Oradea, where the car jumped a curb, nearly smashed into a bus and flew into the air and over other cars, The Sun reported. Miraculously, the 49-year-old driver walked away with just a few broken bones, the outlet said. Police said the driver suffered a diabetic episode and fainted behind the wheel, with his vehicle then barreling out of control and soaring into the air and eventually into a utility pole near a local gas station. ... Cops fined the unidentified injured driver the equivalent of $365, and he faces a 90-day license suspension, the outlet reported.WORTH IT!
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Posted by: doug at December 08, 2025 03:21 PM (Hy+R4) 2
So, Star Trek...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 03:21 PM (GBKbO) 3
fun post
Posted by: doug at December 08, 2025 03:21 PM (Hy+R4) 4
Did she get the car parked, though?
Posted by: garrett at December 08, 2025 03:22 PM (TR2dy) 5
"Diabetic episode" = Drunk as a skunk.
Posted by: goatexchange at December 08, 2025 03:23 PM (hyS0X) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 03:23 PM (kf2Bq) 7
So if I was homeless, pitching a tent on a roundabout is probably not a good idea?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 08, 2025 03:23 PM (1zOXE) 8
Quaaludes.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 08, 2025 03:23 PM (Wg6v7) 9
all men die, but only some men truly LIVE.
Posted by: ace at December 08, 2025 03:23 PM (1wjle) 10
Florida heaves a sigh of relief.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 08, 2025 03:23 PM (Lnjzl) 11
9 all men die, but only some men truly LIVE.
Posted by: ace at December 08, 2025 03:23 PM (1wjle) ====== This is truly why William Wallace died. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 03:24 PM (GBKbO) Posted by: Doc Brown (in a diabetic coma) at December 08, 2025 03:24 PM (1wjle) Posted by: garrett at December 08, 2025 03:24 PM (TR2dy) 14
Romania is the Albania of Hungaries.
Posted by: garrett at December 08, 2025 03:25 PM (TR2dy) 15
Did the cars horn blare "Dixie" when it jumped?
Posted by: cheshirecat at December 08, 2025 03:25 PM (TwA+r) 16
I could do that if I really wanted to.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 03:26 PM (9ipOP) 17
15 Did the cars horn blare "Dixie" when it jumped?
Posted by: cheshirecat at December 08, 2025 03:25 PM (TwA+r) ====== Them good ole boys were just neck deep in trouble this time. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 03:26 PM (GBKbO) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 03:26 PM (kf2Bq) Posted by: Dr. William Weir at December 08, 2025 03:26 PM (sKqQm) 20
FIRST!!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 08, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1) Posted by: naturalfake at December 08, 2025 03:27 PM (iJfKG) 22
No noodin' bastages.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 08, 2025 03:28 PM (Zz0t1) 23
French TVs answer to the Dukes of Hazzard. The Dukes of Burgundy, roaming the country in a souped up Citroen 2cv named the Marshal Foch.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 03:28 PM (gm9Sb) 24
It's old.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 08, 2025 03:28 PM (ZB0nS) 25
See this is what happens when you try to adjust your vents using the touch screen.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 08, 2025 03:28 PM (GD2xa) 26
Is the punchline “Hunter Biden?”
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 08, 2025 03:28 PM (Lnjzl) Posted by: Marcus T at December 08, 2025 03:28 PM (OnLUs) 28
Just a good old boys,
Never meanin' no harm .... Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 08, 2025 03:29 PM (iFTx/) 29
Peter Faulk > Marshall Faulk > Marshal Foch
Posted by: 18-1 at December 08, 2025 03:29 PM (sKqQm) 30
Fucking roundabouts... Looked like Doc Brown hit 88 mph there.
Posted by: t-bird at December 08, 2025 03:29 PM (04KGT) 31
That ain't no EV
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 08, 2025 03:29 PM (iFTx/) 32
Slow day for news I guess.
Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 03:29 PM (WDjG6) 33
Did the cars horn blare "Dixie" when it jumped?
Posted by: cheshirecat at December 08, 2025 03:25 PM (TwA+r) ====== Them good ole boys were just neck deep in trouble this time. ------ Yeah, that's clearly just a little bit more than the law would allow. Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 03:29 PM (TN0g+) 34
Public domain event data recorders now!
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 08, 2025 03:29 PM (Lnjzl) 35
EVERYONE watching that video hears "YEEEEEHAAWWWWW" and Dixie blaring in their own heads.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 08, 2025 03:29 PM (Zz0t1) 36
Fucking roundabouts... Looked like Doc Brown hit 88 mph there.
88 you say? News Headline: Dr Brown Neo-Nazi or Nazi-Nazi? Posted by: The FNM at December 08, 2025 03:30 PM (sKqQm) 37
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Posted by: Slow Newsday Mugato at December 08, 2025 03:30 PM (ZB0nS) 38
Had a couple of Mercedes. Drove one up to 140 mph, but never had one fly
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 03:30 PM (bfwj/) Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 03:30 PM (zZu0s) 40
27 FedGov has been hiding flying cars for years.
-Every troll in the previous thread. Posted by: Marcus T a ===== It's how John Wilkes Boothe got around the roadblocks after killing Lincoln. Duh. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 03:30 PM (WDjG6) 41
It's no DeLorean.
Posted by: Emmett Brown at December 08, 2025 03:30 PM (PiwSw) 42
No noodin' bastages.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 08, 2025 03:28 PM To be fair, the FIRST nood was posted at #364, by you. Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 08, 2025 03:30 PM (0sNs1) 43
The perils of parallel parking.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 03:30 PM (7XNVR) 44
Did she get the car parked, though?
----- Women can't park. They can't drive either, but in particular they can't park. Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 03:31 PM (TN0g+) 45
You have not lived until you have flown something that was never designed to be airborne.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 08, 2025 03:31 PM (Zz0t1) 46
Um... seen Daisy?
Posted by: Aetius451AD It's not just anyone that gets an article of revealing clothing named after you. Posted by: Tonypete at December 08, 2025 03:31 PM (cYBz/) 47
Its Romania ffs.
Shall we compare the prevalence of alcoholism vs. diabetes? Alcoholism us twice as prevalent Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 03:31 PM (9ipOP) 48
Footage, license plate...is that all we've got? Give us five years.
Posted by: FBI at December 08, 2025 03:31 PM (04KGT) 49
So...
The General Leekov. Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 03:31 PM (2WIwB) 50
It's how John Wilkes Boothe got around the roadblocks after killing Lincoln. Duh.
Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 03:30 PM (WDjG6) It's how the Jews escaped Pharoah's army over the Nile. Posted by: Tucker Carlson at December 08, 2025 03:31 PM (PiwSw) 51
Driver walked away with a few broken bones and badly soiled underware
Posted by: Ben Had at December 08, 2025 03:31 PM (sDNVV) 52
To be fair, the FIRST nood was posted at #364, by you. Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 08, 2025 03:30 PM (0sNs1) That's why I called everyone ELSE for their failure to nood appropriately. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 08, 2025 03:31 PM (Zz0t1) 53
they keep-a showin' my hands and not my face on TV"
Posted by: man at December 08, 2025 03:31 PM (XuXeR) 54
That was the Minx 0.8 alpha version of the flux capacitor.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 08, 2025 03:32 PM (1zOXE) 55
Driver walked away with a few broken bones and badly soiled underware
Posted by: Ben Had at December 08, 2025 03:31 PM (sDNVV) He got the f*ck out and LIMPED away. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 08, 2025 03:32 PM (Zz0t1) 56
45 Says every F4 Phantom pilot.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 03:32 PM (gm9Sb) 57
Cunning Stunt bonus earned.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 08, 2025 03:32 PM (OUMaO) 58
>> It's how John Wilkes Boothe got around the roadblocks after killing Lincoln. Duh.
Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 03:30 PM (WDjG6) Sic semper tires Posted by: Marcus T at December 08, 2025 03:32 PM (OnLUs) 59
Hey, Rolls Royce already does airplane engines, why can't Mercedes Benz do flying cars?
Posted by: pookysgirl, the future is here at December 08, 2025 03:32 PM (Wt5PA) 60
The F4 could tear its own wings off.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 03:33 PM (7XNVR) 61
Driver walked away with a few broken bones and badly soiled underware
Posted by: Ben Had at December 08, 2025 03:31 PM (sDNVV) He got the f*ck out and LIMPED away. ------ He'd be fine if just rubbed some dirt on it. Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 03:33 PM (TN0g+) 62
Police said the driver suffered a diabetic episode and fainted behind the wheel, with his vehicle then barreling out of control and soaring into the air and eventually into a utility pole near a local gas station.
... Cops fined the unidentified injured driver the equivalent of $365, and he faces a 90-day license suspension, the outlet reported. If it was in America the cops would have smashed his face in, arrested him for DUI and let him die in a holding cell from diabetic ketoacidosis. Posted by: Better than a fine but geez at December 08, 2025 03:33 PM (TbWk/) 63
Woohoo!
Posted by: Somalian with a California CDL at December 08, 2025 03:33 PM (04KGT) 64
looks like a traffic circle with those cute curved curbs (the straight flat ones we have here in the US) that helped launch him.
Posted by: Scott_T at December 08, 2025 03:33 PM (2waQ7) 65
I'm coming out as non-nooding.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 03:33 PM (9ipOP) 66
Romania is the Albania of Hungaries. Posted by: garrett at December 08, 2025 03:25 PM (TR2dy) Bulgarians look down on Romanians. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 08, 2025 03:33 PM (tgvbd) 67
Bo and Luke Dukeskcue
Posted by: That a little more than the law will allow at December 08, 2025 03:34 PM (9SuJI) 68
Hey, Rolls Royce already does airplane engines, . . . .
Posted by: pookysgirl And they put them in ships too!! Those damn engines can do it all!! Posted by: Tonypete at December 08, 2025 03:34 PM (cYBz/) 69
>>>Cops fined the unidentified injured driver the equivalent of $365, and he faces a 90-day license suspension, the outlet reported.
Medical emergency where you pass out? Fuck you, pay us. ---The Romanian Government Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 08, 2025 03:34 PM (syz1S) 70
I'm a little surprised we didn't get a full post on the DataRepublican summary of the forensic report on that creepy Fuentes faggot.
He clearly was an op, as many of us here suspected. His "influence" was manufactured by unusually fast, unusually concentrated, and unusually foreign engagement patterns -- the kind normally associated with coordinated manipulation networks. https://tinyurl.com/4x5m3wn4 Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 08, 2025 03:34 PM (iFTx/) 71
Busted for flying without a pilot's license?
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 08, 2025 03:34 PM (6Bc88) 72
59 Hey, Rolls Royce already does airplane engines, why can't Mercedes Benz do flying cars?
Posted by: pookysgirl, the future is here at December 08, 2025 03:32 PM (Wt5PA) Mercedes built engines for the BF 109... Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 03:34 PM (mP0Kj) Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 03:34 PM (gm9Sb) 74
If they sped up freighters we wouldn't need as many.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 03:35 PM (7XNVR) 75
But, what score did the Russian judge give for the landing?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 08, 2025 03:35 PM (NwnyJ) 76
Says every F4 Phantom pilot.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 03:32 PM What are we, chopped liver? Posted by: F-104 pilots at December 08, 2025 03:35 PM (0sNs1) 77
70 I'm a little surprised we didn't get a full post on the DataRepublican summary of the forensic report on that creepy Fuentes faggot.
He clearly was an op, as many of us here suspected. His "influence" was manufactured by unusually fast, unusually concentrated, and unusually foreign engagement patterns -- the kind normally associated with coordinated manipulation networks. https://tinyurl.com/4x5m3wn4 Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 08, 2025 03:34 PM (iFTx/) Some posters will still insist that we have to listen to everything Fuentes says as gospel. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 03:35 PM (rQwsY) 78
Beau died in a flying car crash in Romania...
Posted by: Joe Biden at December 08, 2025 03:35 PM (PiwSw) 79
A flying Mercedes? Princess Vespa?
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 08, 2025 03:36 PM (OGOaV) 80
Vampires.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 03:36 PM (7XNVR) 81
f___ing traffic circle. I have seen a couple like that, one I think was a Rally car in the UK
F___ing traffic circles. Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 03:36 PM (rbvCR) 82
Romanian traffic circle.
Posted by: wth at December 08, 2025 03:37 PM (v0R5T) 83
Some posters will still insist that we have to listen to everything Fuentes says as gospel. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 03:35 PM (rQwsY) *grumbles* Buncha NoNickers Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 08, 2025 03:37 PM (tgvbd) Posted by: Atheist at December 08, 2025 03:37 PM (krQz2) 85
I could have done that, but I didn't want to.
Posted by: Any given Trabant at December 08, 2025 03:37 PM (PiwSw) 86
I'm a little surprised we didn't get a full post on the DataRepublican summary of the forensic report on that creepy Fuentes faggot.
He clearly was an op, as many of us here suspected. His "influence" was manufactured by unusually fast, unusually concentrated, and unusually foreign engagement patterns -- the kind normally associated with coordinated manipulation networks. https://tinyurl.com/4x5m3wn4 Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 08, 2025 03:34 PM (iFTx/) Some posters will still insist that we have to listen to everything Fuentes says as gospel. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 03:35 PM (rQwsY) __ Here, on this site?? Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 08, 2025 03:37 PM (iFTx/) 87
Mercedes built engines for the BF 109...
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 03:34 PM (mP0Kj) The Lawn Dart? Posted by: pookysgirl remembers the static display at Medina Annex at December 08, 2025 03:37 PM (Wt5PA) 88
Medical emergency where you pass out? Fuck you, pay us.
---The Romanian Government Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 08, 2025 03:34 PM (syz1S) This sounds like a great idea! We will carry it out immediately. Who needs things like a Legislature when you have cops? Posted by: Texas Department of Public Safety at December 08, 2025 03:37 PM (rQwsY) 89
Romanian airlines has become seriously low rent
Posted by: No beverage service at December 08, 2025 03:37 PM (9SuJI) 90
He clearly was an op, as many of us here suspected. His "influence" was manufactured by unusually fast, unusually concentrated, and unusually foreign engagement patterns -- the kind normally associated with coordinated manipulation networks. https://tinyurl.com/4x5m3wn4 Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 08, 2025 03:34 PM (iFTx/) I think he's some sort of op because he was at the capitol on Jan 6th and nothing happened to him. Posted by: CaliGirl at December 08, 2025 03:37 PM (TmEds) 91
The Jetsons taught me we'd have flying cars by 2025, and that show has never lied to me.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 08, 2025 03:37 PM (WPL6O) 92
79 A flying Mercedes? Princess Vespa?
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 08, 2025 03:36 PM (OGOaV) She doesn't look Druish. Posted by: Candace Owens at December 08, 2025 03:38 PM (PiwSw) 93
70 I'm a little surprised we didn't get a full post on the DataRepublican summary of the forensic report on that creepy Fuentes faggot.
He clearly was an op, as many of us here suspected. His "influence" was manufactured by unusually fast, unusually concentrated, and unusually foreign engagement patterns -- the kind normally associated with coordinated manipulation networks. https://tinyurl.com/4x5m3wn4 Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 08, 2025 03:34 PM (iFTx/) I've said before if Nick Fuentes didn't exist they'd have to create him. Apparently they did from the get-go. They've been doing this with entertainers for a long time to. A recent case is some chick who calls herself "Ice Spice" a low-talent who came out of nowhere and is suddenly publicly appearing with Taylor Swift and other famous names with no appreciable portfolio of anything. It's all so fake. And gay. Posted by: And also an op at December 08, 2025 03:38 PM (TbWk/) Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 03:38 PM (rQwsY) 95
The Mercedes Benz but does not Brake
Posted by: ... at December 08, 2025 03:38 PM (xeVxQ) 96
Everybody stopped. Do flying cars have the right-of-way at a roundabout?
Posted by: t-bird at December 08, 2025 03:38 PM (04KGT) 97
End Wokeness
@EndWokeness Rep. Crockett: "I am open to ending taxes on blacks… but many blacks already pay none" "Instead, send direct checks" https://tinyurl.com/354jfsnw Posted by: redridinghood at December 08, 2025 03:38 PM (NpAcC) 98
Some posters will still insist that we have to listen to everything Fuentes says as gospel.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 03:35 PM (rQwsY) Who? Posted by: Never seen this at December 08, 2025 03:39 PM (TbWk/) Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 08, 2025 03:39 PM (NwnyJ) 100
I'm a little surprised we didn't get a full post on the DataRepublican summary of the forensic report on that creepy Fuentes faggot.
He clearly was an op, as many of us here suspected. His "influence" was manufactured by unusually fast, unusually concentrated, and unusually foreign engagement patterns -- the kind normally associated with coordinated manipulation networks. https://tinyurl.com/4x5m3wn4 ----- Surprise surprise surprise! Quoting this for the handful of folks here who keep pretending "young people are worried about affordability and hope and like people like Fuentes". Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 03:39 PM (TN0g+) 101
They've been doing this with entertainers for a long time to. A recent case is some chick who calls herself "Ice Spice" a low-talent who came out of nowhere and is suddenly publicly appearing with Taylor Swift and other famous names with no appreciable portfolio of anything. It's all so fake. And gay.
Posted by: And also an op at December 08, 2025 03:38 PM (TbWk/) LISTEN TO ME. THE SPICE MUST FLOW. Posted by: Third Stage Guild Navigator at December 08, 2025 03:39 PM (rQwsY) 102
When the wheels lose contact the brakes are irrelevent.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 03:39 PM (7XNVR) 103
You will believe there is day drinking after reading this thread commentary.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 03:39 PM (gm9Sb) 104
I thought Benzes were heavy. Kind of surprised it caught that much air.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 03:39 PM (9ipOP) 105
They've been doing this with entertainers for a long time to. A recent case is some chick who calls herself "Ice Spice" a low-talent who came out of nowhere and is suddenly publicly appearing with Taylor Swift and other famous names with no appreciable portfolio of anything. It's all so fake. And gay.
*shifty eyes* Posted by: Milli Vanilli at December 08, 2025 03:40 PM (Riz8t) 106
@EndWokeness
Rep. Crockett: "I am open to ending taxes on blacks… but many blacks already pay none" "Instead, send direct checks" https://tinyurl.com/354jfsnw Posted by: redridinghood at December 08, 2025 03:38 PM (NpAcC) Yeah, no. You're stupid. Just stop it. You're embarrassing yourself and your black herritage. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 08, 2025 03:40 PM (Zz0t1) 107
yes burt
Posted by: alpine_beer at December 08, 2025 03:40 PM (van9r) 108
Surprise surprise surprise! Quoting this for the handful of folks here who keep pretending "young people are worried about affordability and hope and like people like Fuentes".
Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 03:39 PM (TN0g+) Many of whom who become very angry when others rightly call Fuentes a troll. Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 03:41 PM (rQwsY) 109
I've said before if Nick Fuentes didn't exist they'd have to create him. Apparently they did from the get-go.
Posted by: And also an op at December 08, 2025 03:38 PM (TbWk/) --- So my recommendation to ignore him--and that he could be ignored--turns out to be pretty sound. It's what worked against the "Alt-Right" for about a decade. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 03:41 PM (krQz2) 110
Maybe Pixy will mention this in the next tech thread, to give Biden's Dog's "Boing!" post some extra serendipity.
Posted by: mikeski at December 08, 2025 03:41 PM (tsFpM) 111
He clearly was an op, as many of us here suspected. His "influence" was manufactured by unusually fast, unusually concentrated, and unusually foreign engagement patterns -- the kind normally associated with coordinated manipulation networks.
https://tinyurl.com/4x5m3wn4 Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 08, 2025 03:34 PM (iFTx/) I think he's some sort of op because he was at the capitol on Jan 6th and nothing happened to him. Posted by: CaliGirl at December 08, 2025 03:37 PM (TmEds) ___ Take a look at the link I included. It's interesting ... and damning. He came out of nowhere to suddenly get 100s of times more velocity and retweets than even people like Elon Mush, who has tens of millions more followers. Clearly an intentional, coordinated effort by (mostly foreign) players to skyrocket his profile and tie him to MAGA. Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 08, 2025 03:41 PM (iFTx/) 112
A recent case is some chick who calls herself "Ice Spice" a low-talent who came out of nowhere and is suddenly publicly appearing with Taylor Swift and other famous names with no appreciable portfolio of anything. It's all so fake. And gay.
------ People have wondered about Kevin Hart in that regard. It seems little to nobody remembers seeing Hart in a dingy club in Toledo or Macon, Georgia or anywhere else "on the way up". Its as if he didn't exist at all...until he did, and when he did he was suddenly this "star". Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 03:41 PM (TN0g+) 113
I was born a poor black child. $%ck you pay me.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 03:41 PM (7XNVR) 114
Some posters will still insist that we have to listen to everything Fuentes says as gospel.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 03:35 PM (rQwsY) Who? == Any minute now, a throng of well known nicks will chime in with, what hell is a nick fuentez??? Meh. Posted by: A moron at December 08, 2025 03:41 PM (9SuJI) 115
Was Doc Brown available for comment?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2025 03:41 PM (ESVrU) 116
So don't get a Benz out of shape.
Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 03:42 PM (krQz2) 117
How can one dude become "posters here". Or even two or three dudes? I bet I can find three posters into trannies. Doesn't mean anything.
Posted by: ... at December 08, 2025 03:42 PM (xeVxQ) 118
He came out of nowhere to suddenly get 100s of times more velocity and retweets than even people like Elon Mush, who has tens of millions more followers.
I, for one, am tired of Elon's pablum. Posted by: Archimedes at December 08, 2025 03:42 PM (Riz8t) 119
https://tinyurl.com/354jfsnw Posted by: redridinghood at December 08, 2025 03:38 PM (NpAcC) Nothing that bish said made any sense at all and the dingbat with the mic just sat there nodding in agreement. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 08, 2025 03:42 PM (Zz0t1) Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 03:42 PM (krQz2) 121
People have wondered about Kevin Hart in that regard. It seems little to nobody remembers seeing Hart in a dingy club in Toledo or Macon, Georgia or anywhere else "on the way up". Its as if he didn't exist at all...until he did, and when he did he was suddenly this "star". Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 03:41 PM (TN0g+) He's a friend of Diddy. Posted by: CaliGirl at December 08, 2025 03:43 PM (TmEds) 122
I like the video of a US car that decided it wasn't going to play roundabout and was going to go straight.
Got plenty of air. Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2025 03:43 PM (9bIJg) 123
Critical Drinker calls it for movie theaters. I've been saying this for a decade.
https://youtu.be/9NWCZek9rpE Posted by: Archimedes at December 08, 2025 03:43 PM (Riz8t) 124
Roundabouts are fake and ghey.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 03:44 PM (7XNVR) 125
I thought everything famous routed through Jay-Z and Beyonce.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 08, 2025 03:44 PM (Zz0t1) 126
He clearly was an op, as many of us here suspected. His "influence" was manufactured by unusually fast, unusually concentrated, and unusually foreign engagement patterns -- the kind normally associated with coordinated manipulation networks.
https://tinyurl.com/4x5m3wn4 Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 08, 2025 03:34 PM (iFTx/) I've said before if Nick Fuentes didn't exist they'd have to create him. Apparently they did from the get-go." Undoubtedly Qatar paid for a lot of it, wouldn't be surprised if the CCP was in on it too. Another fun fact that came out this weekend - Candace Ownes millionaire British husband, George Farmer, is also a citizen of Qatar. In unrelated news, Tucker Carlson just happens to be spending a week long all expense paid trip - to Qatar. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 08, 2025 03:44 PM (uWKK8) 127
100 I'm a little surprised we didn't get a full post on the DataRepublican summary of the forensic report on that creepy Fuentes faggot.
He clearly was an op, as many of us here suspected. His "influence" was manufactured by unusually fast, unusually concentrated, and unusually foreign engagement patterns -- the kind normally associated with coordinated manipulation networks. https://tinyurl.com/4x5m3wn4 ----- Surprise surprise surprise! Quoting this for the handful of folks here who keep pretending "young people are worried about affordability and hope and like people like Fuentes". Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 03:39 PM (TN0g+) Folks made an erroneous assumption that A followed into B...as I pointed out, that was always wrong. Kids (and other folks) can be worried about A, but be wildly repelled by B. That would be the 99% of the electorate concerned with issue A. As I said, Fuentes was an Op, and now you can go back and trace the Op through the other players, as I also said...and find out who was duped into it, who was paid into it, and who was a crucial and willing cog to it... I put Tucker and Candace in group C...others I'm less sure on... Posted by: Nova Local at December 08, 2025 03:44 PM (tOcjL) 128
The Mercedes Benz but does not Brake
Posted by: ... ..... * packs up and waits for the next thread * Posted by: mikeski at December 08, 2025 03:44 PM (tsFpM) 129
I like the video of a US car that decided it wasn't going to play roundabout and was going to go straight.
--- Not a fan of Yes, huh? Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 03:44 PM (krQz2) 130
124 Roundabouts are fake and ghey.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 03:44 PM (7XNVR) Good song, though. Posted by: Yes at December 08, 2025 03:44 PM (PiwSw) 131
Some posters will still insist that we have to listen to everything Fuentes says as gospel.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 03:35 PM (rQwsY) At some point you have to admit that only a small number of people have actual thoughts on a subject, and the rest of the noise are the affiliated tribes complying with the current vibe. Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 03:45 PM (rbvCR) 132
That Mercedes is faster than California's bullet train.
Posted by: torabora at December 08, 2025 03:45 PM (G0EVE) 133
Qutter
Posted by: Barry Soetero at December 08, 2025 03:45 PM (xeVxQ) 134
thought everything famous routed through Jay-Z and Beyonce.
== Naw. Just the stooper bowel half time show. Posted by: Roger Badall at December 08, 2025 03:45 PM (9SuJI) 135
In unrelated news, Tucker Carlson just happens to be spending a week long all expense paid trip - to Qatar. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 08, 2025 03:44 PM Read this morning he's buying property there. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 08, 2025 03:45 PM (Zz0t1) 136
That Mercedes is faster than California's bullet train.
Posted by: torabora at December 08, 2025 03:45 PM (G0EVE) There is no train only graft. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 08, 2025 03:46 PM (Zz0t1) 137
Everybody stopped. Do flying cars have the right-of-way at a roundabout?
Posted by: t-bird at December 08, 2025 03:38 PM (04KGT) You should always yield to the car above you. Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 03:46 PM (Vq1pX) 138
Read this morning he's buying property there.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 08, 2025 03:45 PM (Zz0t1) Probably a bridge. Posted by: ... at December 08, 2025 03:46 PM (xeVxQ) 139
I like the video of a US car that decided it wasn't going to play roundabout and was going to go straight.
--- Not a fan of Yes, huh? Call it morning driving through the sound And in and out the valley Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 03:46 PM (TN0g+) 140
135
In unrelated news, Tucker Carlson just happens to be spending a week long all expense paid trip - to Qatar. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 08, 2025 03:44 PM Read this morning he's buying property there. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 08, 2025 03:45 PM (Zz0t1) It's helpful to be closer to your overlords paying you a crapton of money... Posted by: Nova Local at December 08, 2025 03:47 PM (tOcjL) 141
thought everything famous routed through Jay-Z and Beyonce.
Everything famous is routed through me. Posted by: The Rizzler at December 08, 2025 03:47 PM (FGMmt) 142
123 Critical Drinker calls it for movie theaters. I've been saying this for a decade.
https://youtu.be/9NWCZek9rpE Posted by: Archimedes at December 08, 2025 03:43 PM (Riz8t) Movie theaters are diversifying to general entertainment complexes. When I was young in the 80s and 90s most movies were marketed to me. Young men today don't necessarily have the spare cash and residential stability to install home entertainment systems. So they would be willing to go see movies. Except they play video games and hit up onlyfans. There's your trouble. Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 08, 2025 03:47 PM (GD2xa) 143
>>In unrelated news, Tucker Carlson just happens to be spending a week long all expense paid trip - to Qatar.
They are just like Americans, don't you know? Posted by: garrett at December 08, 2025 03:47 PM (TR2dy) 144
Mercedes pilot will drink free the rest of the year.
Posted by: Eromero at December 08, 2025 03:48 PM (LHPAg) 145
thought Benzes were heavy. Kind of surprised it caught that much air.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 03:39 PM (9ipOP) **** This is about me isn't it. Posted by: Roseanne at December 08, 2025 03:48 PM (G0EVE) 146
Critical Drinker calls it for movie theaters. I've been saying this for a decade.
https://youtu.be/9NWCZek9rpE Posted by: Archimedes at December 08, 2025 03:43 PM (Riz8t) _ As have I, but we are all wrong. Movie theater box office is up big compared to 2024. Something like 10%. Movie theaters are going nowhere for the foreseeable future. Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 08, 2025 03:48 PM (iFTx/) 147
Fuentes is a bit of an odd choice to be "manufactured" into some sort of mega-influencer. Dude is just meh looking at him. Punchable, but very soy and very meh.
It just goes to show the power of off shore money. Tucker, Owens, and the rest realize this and prefer to make gobs of cash over reporting truth. I'm not sure Fuentes is smart enough to realize he's been had. Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 08, 2025 03:48 PM (NwnyJ) 148
Life is an op.
Posted by: NCKate at December 08, 2025 03:49 PM (uQzkA) 149
They are just like Americans, don't you know?
Posted by: garrett at December 08, 2025 03:47 PM (TR2dy) Especially the ones that are out marching for Hamas. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 08, 2025 03:49 PM (uWKK8) 150
147 Fuentes is a bit of an odd choice to be "manufactured" into some sort of mega-influencer. Dude is just meh looking at him. Punchable, but very soy and very meh.
It just goes to show the power of off shore money. Tucker, Owens, and the rest realize this and prefer to make gobs of cash over reporting truth. I'm not sure Fuentes is smart enough to realize he's been had. Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 08, 2025 03:48 PM (NwnyJ) Who do you think is getting paid the most now? Posted by: Nova Local at December 08, 2025 03:49 PM (tOcjL) 151
I know a Romanian chick. She fled the country years ago and now lives in England.... so I'm not sure she's actually taken a step up.
Would you rather live in Bucharest or London right now, especially if you are a cute single girl? Probably Bucharest. Plus there's the off chance you could get your neck nibbled on by a guy in a black cape. I'm told there is a fairly large segment of the female population that would love it. Posted by: SimoHayek at December 08, 2025 03:49 PM (0Aoc4) 152
Busted for flying without a pilot's license?
-- There was a kid who made a functioning hoverboard with some drones. He was fined by the FAA b/c he filmed himself while he was going down the street. The fine was because, as he was stopped at light, he briefly touched the ground with his foot to maintain balance. That was counted as "landing an aircraft illegally on a public street." Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 08, 2025 03:49 PM (HXT0k) 153
I guess the Pitch Meeting Guy has just given up on his gig. He hasn't posted anything new in about three months. Posted by: naturalfake at December 08, 2025 03:50 PM (iJfKG) 154
As have I, but we are all wrong. Movie theater box office is up big compared to 2024. Something like 10%. Movie theaters are going nowhere for the foreseeable future.
I don't think that's true. Perhaps if you include non-domestic, IDK. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/ Posted by: Archimedes at December 08, 2025 03:50 PM (Riz8t) 155
Who do you think is getting paid the most now?
Posted by: Nova Local at December 08, 2025 03:49 PM (tOcjL) Bari Weiss. Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 03:51 PM (Vq1pX) 156
Surprise surprise surprise! Quoting this for the handful of folks here who keep pretending "young people are worried about affordability and hope and like people like Fuentes".
Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 03:39 PM (TN0g+) I remember him getting punched by an Antifa thug once on the streets. After that he quit being on the streets. Besides that he was always the "person we aren't supposed to give airtime to" by the MSM. Posted by: Oldcat at December 08, 2025 03:51 PM (8avO+) 157
You've never heard of a Mercedes 600? It's the vessel that did the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs. Plus, it's the Ultimate Dictator Dope Ride. Palpatine has four of them. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 08, 2025 03:52 PM (y9nCu) 158
I guess the Pitch Meeting Guy has just given up on his gig.
He hasn't posted anything new in about three months. Posted by: naturalfake at December 08, 2025 03:50 PM (iJfKG) would you want to try and make current movies funny? Posted by: Oldcat at December 08, 2025 03:52 PM (8avO+) 159
Ace on his Vespa, doing 65 into a curve, J. Crew Messenger Bag flapping >>> flying Mercedes.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 08, 2025 03:52 PM (0sNs1) 160
Here is the full report link to Fuentes from the Network Contagion Research site.
https://tinyurl.com/5y8ze6e8 Worth reading. Basically a core of bots, content farmers, and insiders in his organization take Nick's direct orders to tweet and retweet Nick's thoughts with a thirty minute period in order to amplify his voice on X. About half come from content farm nations like India, Nigeria, etc. Since Kirk's death, slightly more from Western sources. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 03:53 PM (WDjG6) 161
I'm not sure Fuentes is smart enough to realize he's been had. Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 08, 2025 03:48 PM (NwnyJ) I can guarantee his audience isn't made up of normal females, he's a total turn off. Posted by: CaliGirl at December 08, 2025 03:53 PM (TmEds) 162
would you want to try and make current movies funny?
Posted by: Oldcat at December 08, 2025 03:52 PM (8avO+) "So what do you got for me today?" "Fuck you." "Oh ok." Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 03:54 PM (Vq1pX) 163
I can guarantee his audience isn't made up of normal females, he's a total turn off.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 08, 2025 03:53 PM I'm always here for you. * flexes * Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard graduate at December 08, 2025 03:54 PM (0sNs1) 164
On way home, stopped to see my parents
Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2025 03:54 PM (qEb4U) 165
I like the video of a US car that decided it wasn't going to play roundabout and was going to go straight.
--- Not a fan of Yes, huh? Call it morning driving through the sound And in and out the valley Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 03:46 PM (TN0g+) My favorite song...ironic as a confirmed roundabout hater. Posted by: Oldcat at December 08, 2025 03:55 PM (8avO+) 166
I remember him getting punched by an Antifa thug once on the streets. After that he quit being on the streets. Besides that he was always the "person we aren't supposed to give airtime to" by the MSM.
Posted by: Oldcat The NCR report notes that the mass media is giving Fuentes amplification after Kirk's death. Better photos, favorable mentions in part, and so on while downplaying his nasty prior statements. They are grooming a controlled oppo figure that will blow up the GOP like their David Duke op in the 90's. Left is always trying to infiltrate the Right and whatever institution they can bugger into dysfunction. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 03:55 PM (WDjG6) 167
As have I, but we are all wrong. Movie theater box office is up big compared to 2024. Something like 10%. Movie theaters are going nowhere for the foreseeable future.
I don't think that's true. Perhaps if you include non-domestic, IDK. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/ Posted by: Archimedes at December 08, 2025 03:50 PM (Riz8t) ____ That's as of Dec 8 -- there's still a month to go and Avatar hasn't dropped yet. I'm pretty sure domestic BO was up 5-10% at the midpoint this year, compared to the midpoint last year. Regardless, even if BO is similar to 2024, that's still almost $9B in income, plus probably that much also spent on food and drink at theaters. This is not an industry that's in danger of going anywhere. Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 08, 2025 03:55 PM (iFTx/) 168
Are the fast battleships returning?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 03:56 PM (7XNVR) 169
I can guarantee his audience isn't made up of normal females, he's a total turn off.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 08, 2025 03:53 PM I'm always here for you. * flexes * Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard graduate at December 08, 2025 03:54 PM (0sNs1) or normal dudes if the rumors about him having sex with some of the left wing intelligencia are to be credited. Posted by: Oldcat at December 08, 2025 03:56 PM (8avO+) 170
Any crash you can walk away from...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 03:57 PM (ynpvh) 171
Sloppy Slotkin says we should all just get along.
https://is.gd/myUWzO - I guess she's the new Rodney King. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 08, 2025 03:57 PM (L/fGl) 172
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I'm not sure Fuentes is smart enough to realize he's been had. Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 08, 2025 03:48 PM (NwnyJ) I can guarantee his audience isn't made up of normal females, he's a total turn off. Posted by: CaliGirl ======= Fuentes probably swings for the other team. Like Ace's notorious busty lesbo video, Fuentes was busted have a presentation of gay pron of the male persuasion window open in his laptop while being on camera. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 03:58 PM (WDjG6) 173
I guess she's the new Rodney King.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 08, 2025 03:57 PM (L/fGl) At your feet or at your throat. Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 03:58 PM (Vq1pX) 174
That's as of Dec 8 -- there's still a month to go and Avatar hasn't dropped yet. I'm pretty sure domestic BO was up 5-10% at the midpoint this year, compared to the midpoint last year.
Regardless, even if BO is similar to 2024, that's still almost $9B in income, plus probably that much also spent on food and drink at theaters. This is not an industry that's in danger of going anywhere. Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 08, 2025 03:55 PM (iFTx/) But it is - it's in danger of falling into niche hood b/c the land many theaters sit on is more valuable as something else. An industry that is not growing (it's still way down from 2019) with land in most major nice suburbs is prime for those places to get bought out and repurposed. One of my local theaters and another in MD were just bought by a developer. FOR NOW, they will stay theaters, but the developer has already announced he's looking at all options. Movie theaters may become the Broadway of this century. For the well off to have their cultural moments. Posted by: Nova Local at December 08, 2025 03:59 PM (tOcjL) 175
I like the video of a US car that decided it wasn't going to play roundabout and was going to go straight.
--- Not a fan of Yes, huh? Call it morning driving through the sound And in and out the valley Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 03:46 PM (TN0g+) --- Mountains come out of the sky and they STAND THERE Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 03:59 PM (krQz2) 176
Isn't Fuentes openly gay? I didn't think that was even a question.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 03:59 PM (Vq1pX) 177
Cat boy?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 04:00 PM (7XNVR) 178
Who do you think is getting paid the most now?
------- Tucker, in that he had the most residual traction. Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 04:00 PM (TN0g+) 179
Regardless, even if BO is similar to 2024, that's still almost $9B in income, plus probably that much also spent on food and drink at theaters. This is not an industry that's in danger of going anywhere.
And yet, box office was $11.5B in 2016, and that was part of a trend. It's been downhill ever since. We shall see. Posted by: That guy who always thinks we shall see at December 08, 2025 04:01 PM (Riz8t) 180
176 Isn't Fuentes openly gay? I didn't think that was even a question.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 03:59 PM (Vq1pX) I didn't know he was gay, he's just gross. Posted by: CaliGirl at December 08, 2025 04:01 PM (TmEds) Posted by: eleven at December 08, 2025 04:01 PM (aTgV0) 182
Yikes!
Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 04:02 PM (77rzZ) 183
would you want to try and make current movies funny? Posted by: Oldcat at December 08, 2025 03:52 PM (8avO+) "So what do you got for me today?" "Fuck you." "Oh ok." Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 03:54 PM (Vq1pX) "Jaaaack, tell me a story?" "Fuck you!" "Oh, that's my favorite" Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 08, 2025 04:02 PM (y9nCu) 184
Regardless, even if BO is similar to 2024, that's still almost $9B in income, plus probably that much also spent on food and drink at theaters. This is not an industry that's in danger of going anywhere.
And yet, box office was $11.5B in 2016, and that was part of a trend. It's been downhill ever since. We shall see. Posted by: That guy who always thinks we shall see at December 08, 2025 04:01 PM (Riz8t) 9B in money that has been massively inflated. Posted by: Oldcat at December 08, 2025 04:02 PM (8avO+) 185
176 Isn't Fuentes openly gay? I didn't think that was even a question.
Posted by: Warai-otoko ====== Not that I am aware of. He alleges to be faithful Roman Catholic but probably that too is just a pose. There is an alleged sex tape of Nick and Destiny getting up to full on gay sex. Destiny proclaims he is genderfluid fwiw after his wife left him for a guy they met in some weird tryst. I feel dirty that I had to just google the whole thing to reacquaint myself with the allegations. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 04:03 PM (WDjG6) 186
One of the more interesting books, by a lefty who had “second thoughts” is Dave McGowan’s “The Strange But Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon” about the totally organic grass roots phenomenon of the 1960s music industry. For a bunch of counterculture beatniks they sure had an awful lot of big corporations and Establishment backing.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 08, 2025 04:03 PM (XFvfj) 187
Isn't Fuentes openly gay?
- How's Seattle's Pride Match is going? Egypt, Iran To Face Off In World Cup's First-Ever Gay-Pride Match Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 08, 2025 04:03 PM (L/fGl) 188
We shall see.
Probably the most telling metric is the stock price of movie theaters. It is...not good. https://is.gd/NoA0re Posted by: Archimedes at December 08, 2025 04:03 PM (Riz8t) 189
About the Covid Vaccine killing young people:
My friend who holds a 4th degree black belt in BJJ had two exceptional teenage female BJJ fighters who both died a week after taking the Vaccine. They both died of Congestive heart failure. Teenage female athletes don't die of Congestive heart failure. Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 08, 2025 04:03 PM (Da7Vv) 190
The first thing that dies in a person when they go woke is their sense of humor.
After that there's not much left. Posted by: eleven at December 08, 2025 04:04 PM (aTgV0) 191
Movie theaters may become the Broadway of this century. For the well off to have their cultural moments.
I was thinking vaudeville. Posted by: Archimedes at December 08, 2025 04:04 PM (Riz8t) 192
In the Carolinas, this is Tuesday afternoon stuff. Trucks flip into ditches upside down daily, cars go Dukes of Hazard not waiting for the swing bridge to swing, a month ago I saw a truck tumble down an overpass onto US 75 ass over teakettle.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 08, 2025 04:04 PM (wBaIH) 193
Yeah, no. You're stupid. Just stop it. You're embarrassing yourself and your black herritage.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 08, 2025 03:40 PM (Zz0t1) ******* Imagine for a moment that by some chance the Left and especially the Texas AWFL's come out to vote in droves and she becomes the next Senator of Texas. Frightening. Posted by: redridinghood at December 08, 2025 04:06 PM (NpAcC) 194
Wrote on JJ'S thread if they admit to 10 kids deaths, hundreds are probably not counted.
Dozens of male professional athletes dropped over most likely from Fake Vax. Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2025 04:06 PM (qEb4U) 195
The coping in the replies on X fron DataRepublican's post is entertaining. She's very transparent about who it came from and that she approves of their methods, but half the replies are "IT'S A FRONT FOR THE ADL! REEEEE!"
Posted by: pookysgirl does not see one of the Chosen lurking behind every bush at December 08, 2025 04:06 PM (Wt5PA) 196
Yeah...Netflix buying WB is terrible news for movie theaters.
Can't really care since Hollywood turned their backs on me 15 years ago. And movie theaters play 30 minutes of commercials now anyway. Posted by: eleven at December 08, 2025 04:06 PM (aTgV0) 197
Egypt, Iran To Face Off In World Cup's First-Ever Gay-Pride Match
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Losers to be thrown off buildings by the winners? Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 04:06 PM (77rzZ) 198
There is an alleged sex tape of Nick and Destiny getting up to full on gay sex. Destiny proclaims he is genderfluid fwiw after his wife left him for a guy they met in some weird tryst. I feel dirty that I had to just google the whole thing to reacquaint myself with the allegations.
Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 04:03 PM (WDjG6) Nah, his wife left him because he couldn't deliver the clout on the interwebs. The dweeb she hooked up with next was just to publicly shame him, never heard he met up with the guy. He looked like a 12 year old from what I recall. Everyone disussing Mr Destiny predicted that was gonna go down eventually since he didn't have a prenup. I assume Mrs D got her packet of cash. Posted by: Oldcat at December 08, 2025 04:07 PM (8avO+) Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 08, 2025 04:07 PM (PiwSw) 200
Samuel L Jackson "where are the mf'ing flying cars?" Well Sammy, here you go
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 04:07 PM (bfwj/) 201
Can you believe they used to have these things called..."movies"? So weird. It's great that now we all have our entertainment pumps installed so they can monitor our bodies remotely and directly inject serotonin into our brains while we sit in a chair doing absolutely nothing.
God bless the giggle pump. Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 04:07 PM (Vq1pX) 202
103 You will believe there is day drinking after reading this thread commentary.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 03:39 PM (gm9Sb) If you're not deep into the Valu-Rite by noon, you're not part of the Moron Horde. Posted by: XTC at December 08, 2025 04:08 PM (UnA8+) 203
Wrote on JJ'S thread if they admit to 10 kids deaths, hundreds are probably not counted.
Dozens of male professional athletes dropped over most likely from Fake Vax. Posted by: Skip I had a list from around the world of young athletes who had died suddenly. It wouldn't fit on a post entry without running out of room. Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2025 04:09 PM (9bIJg) 204
Alina resigned as NJ Fed attorney
Sad Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2025 04:09 PM (qEb4U) 205
Later, Sheriff Rosco of Romania was captured on video clearing the roundabout but fell far short of clearing the first SUV.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 08, 2025 04:09 PM (1zOXE) 206
My friend who holds a 4th degree black belt in BJJ had two exceptional teenage female BJJ fighters who both died a week after taking the Vaccine. They both died of Congestive heart failure. Teenage female athletes don't die of Congestive heart failure.
Then: There is no increase in heart damage among the youth Now: Of course young in shape athletes have always often died from heart damage Posted by: The FNM at December 08, 2025 04:09 PM (sKqQm) Posted by: wth at December 08, 2025 04:10 PM (v0R5T) 208
Can you believe they used to have these things called..."movies"? So weird. It's great that now we all have our entertainment pumps installed so they can monitor our bodies remotely and directly inject serotonin into our brains while we sit in a chair doing absolutely nothing.
Adding that and a diet of bugs and you can save the erf! Posted by: The FNM at December 08, 2025 04:10 PM (sKqQm) 209
Then: There is no increase in heart damage among the youth
Now: Of course young in shape athletes have always often died from heart damage Posted by: The FNM at December 08, 2025 04:09 PM (sKqQm) Len Bias in the early 80s. Posted by: Oldcat at December 08, 2025 04:10 PM (8avO+) 210
185 There is an alleged sex tape of Nick and Destiny getting up to full on gay sex. Destiny proclaims he is genderfluid fwiw after his wife left him for a guy they met in some weird tryst. I feel dirty that I had to just google the whole thing to reacquaint myself with the allegations.
Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 04:03 PM (WDjG6) Nick was apparently also involved with a dude that went by the nickname "CatboyKami", according to Kiwi Farms. Posted by: XTC at December 08, 2025 04:11 PM (UnA8+) Posted by: 18-1 at December 08, 2025 04:11 PM (sKqQm) 212
Just got back from seeing the movie"Hamnet". Transcendent performance by Jessie Buckley as William Shakespeare's wife. Paul Mescal as Shakespeare was excellent. I guess the story is a speculation on the writing of Hamlet as a tribute to Shakespeare's dead son Hamnet. It traces the joy and agony of parenthood, the strain a child's death puts on a marriage and ultimately acceptance of the death and some sense of serenity gained from that acceptance. Highly recommended. Costuming, sets and casting is all around excellent.
Posted by: Tuna at December 08, 2025 04:11 PM (lJ0H4) 213
Via GP, it appears the Biden FBI knew in April of 2021 who the pipe bomber was. "The affidavit released by Kash Patel’s FBI revealed Biden’s FBI had to have known Brian Cole was the pipe bomb suspect."
Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 04:11 PM (TN0g+) 214
Only two cars? Pussy.
Posted by: Zombie Evel Knievel at December 08, 2025 04:11 PM (CSQvy) Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 04:11 PM (77rzZ) 216
Alina resigned as NJ Fed attorney
Sad Posted by: Skip ...... No mo Yabbos Posted by: wth at December 08, 2025 04:10 PM (v0R5T) Trump can just put her in charge of messing with the NJ Fed judges. Posted by: Oldcat at December 08, 2025 04:11 PM (8avO+) 217
Teenage female athletes don't die of Congestive heart failure.
--- Ah. You're old-school. Thanks to mandatory experimental substances, we have moved into the future. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 04:12 PM (krQz2) 218
Len Bias in the early 80s.
Bias was in the news because it shocked everyone at the time. Also, he used more South American nose candy that Trump has blown up so far... Posted by: 18-1 at December 08, 2025 04:12 PM (sKqQm) 219
Then: There is no increase in heart damage among the youth
Now: Of course young in shape athletes have always often died from heart damage Posted by: The FNM at December 08, 2025 04:09 PM (sKqQm) Len Bias in the early 80s. ----- That was an overdose of some kind. Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 04:12 PM (TN0g+) 220
Little known fact - "The Dukes of Hazzard" was adapted from a German TV show called "Das Graffen Von Hazzard" which showed two southern Bavarian boys driving around in a hopped up Mercedes they call "Der General Rommel."
Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at December 08, 2025 04:12 PM (Vpqw1) 221
Dracula would beat Superman.
Posted by: eleven at December 08, 2025 04:12 PM (aTgV0) 222
It traces the joy and agony of parenthood, the strain a child's death puts on a marriage and ultimately acceptance of the death and some sense of serenity gained from that acceptance. Highly recommended. Costuming, sets and casting is all around excellent.
Posted by: Tuna at December 08, 2025 04:11 PM (lJ0H4) How did his son meet Rosencrantz and Guildenstern? Posted by: Oldcat at December 08, 2025 04:13 PM (8avO+) 223
I think that people were talking about this movie in a thread several days ago, but "Rental Family" sounds likes it's pretty funny ,and Brendan Fraser does a good job . There were a lot of cars at the afternoon showing of something at the movie theatre.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 08, 2025 04:13 PM (rZCVI) 224
Dracula would beat Superman.
Posted by: eleven at December 08, 2025 04:12 PM (aTgV0) Dracula would join superman, and then stab him up the ass with a kryptonite spork when his back was turned. Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 04:13 PM (Vq1pX) 225
103 You will believe there is day drinking after reading this thread commentary.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 03:39 PM (gm9Sb) Honey, there was never any doubt. Bottoms up! Posted by: tcn in AK at December 08, 2025 04:13 PM (6Bc88) 226
No mo Yabbos
Posted by: wth at December 08, 2025 04:10 PM (v0R5T) That's OK, we've still got Bondi, Leavitt, Noem, Melania... Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 04:14 PM (77rzZ) Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 04:14 PM (viF8m) Posted by: Jonah Goldberg hanging out in his cuckshed at December 08, 2025 04:14 PM (sKqQm) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 08, 2025 04:15 PM (rZCVI) 230
Posted by: Oldcat
======== Ah, the origin story is that Melina his 'wife' became involved with Destiny while Destiny was filming a Swedish dude and Melina going at it. Apparently live on Twitch https://youtu.be/SFx4AT6QCGY She left him apparently for a different Swedish guy. Fcked up shit. This is. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 04:15 PM (WDjG6) Posted by: eleven at December 08, 2025 04:15 PM (aTgV0) 232
Living in a small town you would think people would be considerate drivers. No, stop signs mean nothing to a lot of people here. You have to be hyper alert here. Posted by: fourseasons at December 08, 2025 04:15 PM (3ek7K) Posted by: DaveA at December 08, 2025 04:16 PM (FhXTo) 234
224 Dracula would beat Superman.
Posted by: eleven at December 08, 2025 04:12 PM (aTgV0) Dracula would join superman, and then stab him up the ass with a kryptonite spork when his back was turned. Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 08, 2025 04:13 PM (Vq1pX) Sultan Mehmet II had to resort to having Ten Times as many men PLUS treachery in order to defeat Dracula. Posted by: XTC at December 08, 2025 04:16 PM (UnA8+) 235
Len Bias in the early 80s.
Cocaine is a helluva drug. Posted by: JackStraw I remember we had the real-life Dave Toma come to our high-school to give an anti-drug lecture. Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 04:16 PM (77rzZ) 236
"Dracula would beat Superman."
Well, when Batman got turned into a vampire, he would have been able to defeat Superman. Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at December 08, 2025 04:16 PM (Vpqw1) 237
>>Teenage female athletes don't die of Congestive heart failure.
There're always a few young athletes who die from undiagnosed Congenital Heart Defects each year. Just like there are a handful who die from Asthma. Posted by: garrett at December 08, 2025 04:16 PM (TR2dy) 238
>>That's OK, we've still got Bondi, Leavitt, Noem, Melania...
Still got Habba too. She isn't going to be the USA for NJ but she's staying in the DOJ. Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 04:16 PM (viF8m) 239
But it was probably mostly Rachel Weisz.
She was shockingly beautiful in that movie. Like Karen Gillian in Jumanji Posted by: 18-1 at December 08, 2025 04:16 PM (sKqQm) 240
>>Len Bias in the early 80s.
Cocaine is a helluva drug. Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 04:14 PM (viF8m) --- Crack is even moreso. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 04:16 PM (krQz2) 241
230 She left him apparently for a different Swedish guy.
Fcked up shit. This is. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 04:15 PM (WDjG6) Melina cvcked Steve (Destiny) multiple times. Posted by: XTC at December 08, 2025 04:17 PM (UnA8+) 242
Just got back from seeing the movie"Hamnet"... It traces the joy and agony of parenthood, the strain a child's death puts on a marriage and ultimately acceptance of the death and some sense of serenity gained from that acceptance. Highly recommended. Costuming, sets and casting is all around excellent.
I think that people were talking about this movie in a thread several days ago, but "Rental Family" sounds likes it's pretty funny ,and Brendan Fraser does a good job . There were a lot of cars at the afternoon showing of something at the movie theatre. There are two separate issues here: 1) Is the movie any good? Hollywood's product lately has been abysmal. 2) Assuming the answer to 1) is "yes", what is the best way to see it? CD's post discusses at length all the reasons a theater is inferior. Would the two movies mentioned at the top of my comment have been better in a theater? I question that. There's a reason why most movies now are long on spectacle and sound, and short on plot and character development. Posted by: Archimedes at December 08, 2025 04:17 PM (Riz8t) 243
And Hot Dogs are sandwiches!
Posted by: Jonah Goldberg I actually agree with Jonah on this. Tacos are sandwiches, too. Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 04:17 PM (77rzZ) 244
Apparently nobody at the university of Maryland told Bias not to hoover an eight ball. Too bad with him , Bird, McHale, Parrish and DJ they would have won a couple of more championships
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 04:17 PM (bfwj/) 245
I saw at least 8 to 10 young people die “unexpectedly” in my hometown obituaries alone. The death toll from the WuHan vaccine numbers in the thousands, easily. To say nothing of damaged heart tissue and various turbo-cancers. Stay Safe! Mask Up! We’re All In This Together!
Posted by: Common Tater at December 08, 2025 04:17 PM (MsRtR) 246
Nick was apparently also involved with a dude that went by the nickname "CatboyKami", according to Kiwi Farms.
Posted by: XTC ===== Nasty folks doing nasty things while some manipulated people believe he is the voice of Gen Z males. Nick sounds about par for the course for leftie infiltrator op type. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 04:17 PM (WDjG6) 247
Sultan Mehmet II had to resort to having Ten Times as many men PLUS treachery in order to defeat Dracula.
If Hungary had come to his aid it might have made for a very different history in the balkans Posted by: 18-1 at December 08, 2025 04:17 PM (sKqQm) 248
Fcked up shit. This is.
Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 04:15 PM (WDjG6) Now he's in trouble for soliciting pics of women and then shipping them off to porn sites. But it was funny how 100 pct of the people who saw them together predicted just how this would go down for him. For a supposed brilliant dude he's dumb as a post. Posted by: Oldcat at December 08, 2025 04:18 PM (8avO+) 249
That's OK, we've still got Bondi, Leavitt, Noem, Melania...
Posted by: Bulg ...... a plethora of pointers, a cornucopia of cleavage, a... Posted by: wth at December 08, 2025 04:19 PM (v0R5T) 250
Oh no he diii n’ t.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 04:19 PM (SQJLY) Posted by: Crocodile Rock at December 08, 2025 04:19 PM (MsRtR) 252
Ok, way late for the previous thread.
Just wanted to point out that there is video of law enforcement hanging out by the where the pipe bomb was found and acting casually about it. They even let people walk by it without warning. Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 08, 2025 04:20 PM (Dv3i1) 253
Nick sounds about par for the course for leftie infiltrator op type.
Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 04:17 PM (WDjG6) --- Well, the last thing I saw from him was that he thought some mixture of ideologies could rid us of the free market. So, when I hear he's "conservative", I would cock an eyebrow if I could. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 04:20 PM (krQz2) 254
Melina cvcked Steve (Destiny) multiple times.
Posted by: XTC at December 08, 2025 04:17 PM (UnA8+) Planned cuckings or the normal kind? He used to tout the superiority of his sort of marriage as the best evah. Posted by: Oldcat at December 08, 2025 04:20 PM (8avO+) 255
Melina cvcked Steve (Destiny) multiple times.
Posted by: XTC ===== Not surprised. Just a brief search on the internets indicated an open marriage and poly amory was their relationship. Plus she got a green card out of the marriage. I've read about Weimar Germany and its fall into decadence. I really did not need it displayed on the internets in a new revival of a very old trope. And this crap going out to other countries is part of the reason that good Americans get killed here because everyone in those countries figures Americans are decadent gay pieces of shit like the influencers they see on the internet are. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 04:21 PM (WDjG6) 256
They even let people walk by it without warning.
Posted by: Chuck Martel Including schoolkids, IIRC. Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 04:21 PM (77rzZ) 257
>>@AAGDhillon
🚨Great news — I’m excited to announce the new 2A section of @CivilRights! >>The right of law-abiding American 🇺🇸 citizens to keep, bear, & use commonly known firearms is fundamental, and this @JusticeDept has a lot of 2A work planned, in addition to what we’ve already done! Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 04:21 PM (viF8m) 258
Well, the last thing I saw from him was that he thought some mixture of ideologies could rid us of the free market.
So, when I hear he's "conservative", I would cock an eyebrow if I could. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 04:20 PM (krQz2) given the other definitions of him as a 'white nationalist' and 'nazi' these rule him out of being a conservative right there. Nazis were leftist socialists. Posted by: Oldcat at December 08, 2025 04:22 PM (8avO+) 259
Steve McQueen is jealous. And impressed.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 08, 2025 04:22 PM (MDua2) Posted by: eleven at December 08, 2025 04:22 PM (aTgV0) 261
Harmeet seems to be one of the good ones.
I hope she doesn't let us down. Posted by: garrett at December 08, 2025 04:22 PM (TR2dy) 262
But it was probably mostly Rachel Weisz.
___ Ms Weisz was in a film where she lounged nude by a small outdoor pool. Very..., natural. I don't remember the name of the movie. Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 08, 2025 04:23 PM (Dv3i1) 263
Talk Soup was pretty funny back in the day.
Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 08, 2025 04:24 PM (6qf1m) 264
Living in a small town you would think people would be considerate drivers. No, stop signs mean nothing to a lot of people here. You have to be hyper alert here.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 08, 2025 04:15 PM (3ek7K) We have that too, but that's because our town refuses to plow in a timely fashion, so you can't fully stop or you'll get stuck. Posted by: pookysgirl wonders why she pays taxes sometimes at December 08, 2025 04:24 PM (Wt5PA) 265
noodage of the worst kind
Posted by: DanMan at December 08, 2025 04:24 PM (8uzBS) 266
Can you call a hotdog a "sandwich"? Sure. Does "sandwich" call to mind a hotdog? To unusual people perhaps, but usually people see them as filling two different tastes. A hotdog is not necessarily not a sandwich. But it's not sufficiently a sandwich, either. Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 04:24 PM (krQz2) 267
Steve McQueen is jealous. And impressed.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 08, 2025 04:22 PM (MDua2) Yes, but can the Mercedes guy jump a bridge? Or a hedge? Posted by: Hal Needham at December 08, 2025 04:24 PM (wVcYX) 268
Weisz and Craig live about ten miles from me. Seen them together. She's beautiful , he's kind of short
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 04:24 PM (bfwj/) Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 08, 2025 04:25 PM (Dv3i1) 270
Axeman,
Try reading the report I linked above that Data Republican was mentioning. Pretty much appalling melange of crap statements over and over again that one would suspect of a leftist spewing. Personally, I am not a conservative nor want to be. That being said, I am closer to small is beautiful pragmatist as large institutions and government always get run by grifters and society's enemies. Decisions and power should be driven down the lowest level of communities possible outside of military/foreign affairs. And that includes corporations. Most turn malignant when they get big. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 04:25 PM (WDjG6) 271
Nasty folks doing nasty things while some manipulated people believe he is the voice of Gen Z males.
Nick sounds about par for the course for leftie infiltrator op type. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 04:17 PM (WDjG6) Not sure if he's fully an op creation or like Zelensky just a little bit cleverer than his supposed 'controllers' and is bilking them for his own advantage. He did get a nice studio for his podcast out of someone. Posted by: Oldcat at December 08, 2025 04:26 PM (8avO+) 272
Trump can just put her in charge of messing with the NJ Fed judges.
Posted by: Oldcat Bondi announced Monday Habba would serve as the attorney general's senior advisor overseeing U.S. attorneys, while three Department of Justice officials are set to take on additional jobs overseeing various activities in the New Jersey court district in the wake of Habba's resignation.(FOX) Posted by: old chick at December 08, 2025 04:28 PM (F3Dlr) 273
Now he's in trouble for soliciting pics of women and then shipping them off to porn sites. But it was funny how 100 pct of the people who saw them together predicted just how this would go down for him. For a supposed brilliant dude he's dumb as a post.
Posted by: Oldcat ======== Which makes me think most of these influencers are as organic as shit from the Deep State normally is. I see echoes of the intent to destroy education, destroy the economy, destroy civil society, destroy borders, destroy religion, destroy order and peace, etc. in almost every direction I turn nowadays. And media, the internet, government apparatchiks, oligarchs, and politicians are driving the train to hell. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 04:29 PM (WDjG6) 274
A hotdog is not necessarily not a sandwich. But it's not sufficiently a sandwich, either.
Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 04:24 PM (krQz2) The virtue of the sandwich concept is that it is generalist - you can put anything in there. The hot dog bun is pretty specific to one product, a sausage of some sort. Posted by: Oldcat at December 08, 2025 04:29 PM (8avO+) 275
271 Not sure if he's fully an op creation or like Zelensky just a little bit cleverer than his supposed 'controllers' and is bilking them for his own advantage. He did get a nice studio for his podcast out of someone.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 08, 2025 04:26 PM (8avO+) I get the feeling he wasn't a groomed-from-day-one Fed, but someone whose antics get their attention and they brought him in. Posted by: XTC at December 08, 2025 04:29 PM (UnA8+) 276
Little known fact - "The Dukes of Hazzard" was adapted from a German TV show called "Das Graffen Von Hazzard" which showed two southern Bavarian boys driving around in a hopped up Mercedes they call "Der General Rommel."
Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at December 08, 2025 04:12 PM (Vpqw1) --- LOL. That just cracked me up! Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2025 04:29 PM (ESVrU) 277
Trump can just put her in charge of messing with the NJ Fed judges.
Posted by: Oldcat Bondi announced Monday Habba would serve as the attorney general's senior advisor overseeing U.S. attorneys, while three Department of Justice officials are set to take on additional jobs overseeing various activities in the New Jersey court district in the wake of Habba's resignation.(FOX) Posted by: old chick at December 08, 2025 04:28 PM (F3Dlr) The secret's out...I am Trump. Posted by: Oldcat at December 08, 2025 04:30 PM (8avO+) 278
Always amazed sometimes about the things these accidents miss, like those cars and the camera. But entertaining for the rest of us (knowing the driver is safe)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 08, 2025 04:30 PM (n5tGW) 279
Not sure if he's fully an op creation or like Zelensky just a little bit cleverer than his supposed 'controllers' and is bilking them for his own advantage. He did get a nice studio for his podcast out of someone.
Posted by: Oldcat That is the truth of most of these types historically from Lenin, Che, Marx, etc. They pretty much start as misfits of society in their beginnings. Successful people in society rarely seek to overturn it nor to do sordid shit just to infiltrate organizations to change them. They don't have to--they make their own. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 04:32 PM (WDjG6) 280
Always amazed sometimes about the things these accidents miss, like those cars and the camera. But entertaining for the rest of us (knowing the driver is safe)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 08, 2025 04:30 PM (n5tGW) You should see the collections of people being snatched away from a runaway car on YT. Posted by: Oldcat at December 08, 2025 04:32 PM (8avO+) 281
I get the feeling he wasn't a groomed-from-day-one Fed, but someone whose antics get their attention and they brought him in.
Posted by: XTC a Far fewer agents in society than assets. But assets once they are bought rarely wiggle out of it. That is the true story buried in all the old RFK and JFK records. You see assets never really quit being controlled and 'retired' agents are always up for another paid job. In them, for example, you see Howard Hunt slither from his 1950's active period in ops all the way until post Watergate when he has a chummy conversation with the CIA over his new book coming out. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 04:35 PM (WDjG6) 282
281 Far fewer agents in society than assets. But assets once they are bought rarely wiggle out of it. That is the true story buried in all the old RFK and JFK records. You see assets never really quit being controlled and 'retired' agents are always up for another paid job.
In them, for example, you see Howard Hunt slither from his 1950's active period in ops all the way until post Watergate when he has a chummy conversation with the CIA over his new book coming out. Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 04:35 PM (WDjG6) Just saying, I think there's a difference between him, and say, David Hogg, who was BORN a Fed. Posted by: XTC at December 08, 2025 04:37 PM (UnA8+) 283
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