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Koch Nocturne1.jpg

Nocturne
Pyke Koch

Posted by: CBD at 09:32 AM




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1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 22, 2026 09:33 AM (Y+ssL)

2 Dark.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 22, 2026 09:34 AM (rujGJ)

3 Corgis called.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 22, 2026 09:34 AM (Y+ssL)

4 Damn electric company...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 22, 2026 09:34 AM (2Cry5)

5 The equinox was angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at September 22, 2026 09:35 AM (2Ez/1)

6 What is it?

Posted by: rickb223 at September 22, 2026 09:35 AM (Y+ssL)

7 The light is giving away the position of the machine gun pillbox.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 22, 2026 09:35 AM (2GVsD)

8 So dark it was drawn in Hollywood.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 22, 2026 09:35 AM (NR6c1)

9 Pyke?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 22, 2026 09:35 AM (2GVsD)

10 an early execution electric chair enclosure?

Posted by: Gref at September 22, 2026 09:36 AM (5rh/l)

11 Vent of some kind.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 22, 2026 09:36 AM (rujGJ)

12 What am I looking at?

Posted by: pookysgirl, asking the most common Art Thread question at September 22, 2026 09:36 AM (Wt5PA)

13 "Pyke Koch and the painter Carel Willink are considered to be the foremost representatives in the Netherlands of Magic Realism, a style of painting in which the scenes depicted seem realistic yet uncanny or unlikely."

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 22, 2026 09:36 AM (XvL8K)

14 Good grief. Just cover the whole canvas in black paint, why dontcha?

Posted by: Bulg at September 22, 2026 09:36 AM (77rzZ)

15 A new low here. No dog either.

Posted by: ShART Rules The Day at September 22, 2026 09:36 AM (Fn+3X)

16 What is it?
Posted by: rickb223 at September 22, 2026 09:35 AM


It's a very dark painting on the Art Thread, but that's not important right now.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 22, 2026 09:37 AM (P6lWH)

17 From masterworks.com

The painting shows a public urinal at night.
Symbolism: It serves as a meeting place for men, reflecting Koch's interest in the darker aspects of life.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 22, 2026 09:37 AM (NpAcC)

18 Dark, cold and bleak.

Posted by: dantesed at September 22, 2026 09:37 AM (Oy/m2)

19 It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Posted by: muldoon, stubbing his toe and tripping over the dog at September 22, 2026 09:38 AM (I0N4X)

20 Alternate title - "Concept sketch for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari."

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 22, 2026 09:38 AM (2GVsD)

21 Not sure what I'm looking at here. Not sure more light would help.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at September 22, 2026 09:38 AM (QVS9R)

22
No dog. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 22, 2026 09:38 AM (eRlcH)

23 More Dutch Bastards!

Posted by: Hans Brinker at September 22, 2026 09:38 AM (Fn+3X)

24 Okay

Artist had a lot of black that was about to go bad, so, there ya go.

Posted by: Don Black at September 22, 2026 09:38 AM (ZxPkt)

25 Uh, what's going on there?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 22, 2026 09:39 AM (rOKnE)

26 A urinal? Don't eat these Dutch cakes...

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 22, 2026 09:39 AM (2GVsD)

27 He actually has some brighter ones including one spelled something like Cypris

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2026 09:39 AM (Aqpmr)

28 *shudders*

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 22, 2026 09:39 AM (EoCE8)

29 Not sure what I'm looking at here. Not sure more light would help.

An 88mm round would help. Erase the eyesore.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 22, 2026 09:40 AM (2GVsD)

30 Alternate title:

Nightshift at Pelican Bay SHU

Posted by: Don Black at September 22, 2026 09:40 AM (ZxPkt)

31 Seems dark.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 22, 2026 09:41 AM (0sNs1)

32 And then a shot rang out.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 22, 2026 09:41 AM (2GVsD)

33 No boobs, no dog

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 22, 2026 09:41 AM (pZWpI)

34 Do men usually gather and talk around a public urinal, like a campfire?

Posted by: redridinghood at September 22, 2026 09:42 AM (NpAcC)

35 Why does CBD hate us so? This Art is fit for a dumpster!

Posted by: No Redeeming Social Value at September 22, 2026 09:42 AM (Fn+3X)

36 No boobs, no dog

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 22, 2026 09:41 AM (pZWpI)

And NOBODY can find the sniper.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 22, 2026 09:43 AM (gLYp7)

37 No boobs, no dog
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats

How can you tell? Could be lurking in the shadows.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at September 22, 2026 09:43 AM (QVS9R)

38 I can't see it, Elaine!

Posted by: Mr. Pitt at September 22, 2026 09:43 AM (Fn+3X)

39 Ees prison, no … ? It sure ain't a Waffle Haus …

Posted by: Dr_No at September 22, 2026 09:43 AM (ayRl+)

40 Thinking man's art.

As in; "What was that man thinking?"

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 22, 2026 09:43 AM (2Cry5)

41
So, a set for a Netflix series.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 22, 2026 09:43 AM (eRlcH)

42 Alt title: Night at the Shithouse.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 22, 2026 09:43 AM (rujGJ)

43 Lighting under Communism...

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at September 22, 2026 09:43 AM (egQ8W)

44 The painting was very dark that day, my friends.

Nocturne: When you don't have any bright color paint.

G'morn, fellow folks. It is a day.

Posted by: mindful webworker - make it a good one at September 22, 2026 09:44 AM (MX7Zk)

45 This looks like a scene in a modern movie, where everything is dimly lit or is bluish-gray all the time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 22, 2026 09:44 AM (wzUl9)

46 Alt title: Night at the Shithouse.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Shitter's full

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at September 22, 2026 09:44 AM (egQ8W)

47 Despite being so dark, it's gloomy and atmospheric.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 22, 2026 09:45 AM (wzUl9)

48 Should I tell Tensor to paint in the style of Pyke Koch and see what happens?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 22, 2026 09:45 AM (2GVsD)

49
No Peter Max.

Lost a bet.

Posted by: Auspex at September 22, 2026 09:45 AM (Y8DZL)

50 Wakes up.
Scratches
Looks around.
Dang. This art is as dark as the 19th Hole on the golf course where the Geezers are playing today. Tis a sad thing.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 22, 2026 09:45 AM (2WIwB)

51
This looks like a scene in a modern movie, where everything is dimly lit or is bluish-gray all the time.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 22, 2026 09:44 AM (wzUl9)


Don't forget the mumbling actors.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 22, 2026 09:45 AM (eRlcH)

52 The dollar-store discount sunrise is never worth the money …

Posted by: Dr_No at September 22, 2026 09:46 AM (ayRl+)

53 Weird

Posted by: It's me donna at September 22, 2026 09:46 AM (+gK6I)

54 Very dark. Don't think I'd hang this one.
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 22, 2026 09:46 AM (taL2t)

55 Incredible use of light

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 22, 2026 09:46 AM (RIvkX)

56 Those making movie comments, please see my #20

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 22, 2026 09:46 AM (2GVsD)

57 Happy first day of autumn! My favorite season! This painting is more wintertime and dark and dank.

You can almost smell the piss and desperation. Yeeesh.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 22, 2026 09:47 AM (iuVbq)

58 Is This The End? - a limerick

My world is dark, i'm going to meet my Maker
I think I'd better phone the undertaker
But perhaps if I seek
Life won't seem so bleak
If I could just find the damned circuit breaker!

Posted by: muldoon, stubbing his toe and tripping over the dog at September 22, 2026 09:47 AM (I0N4X)

59 Imagine being in art class and the teacher says "paint the dark."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 22, 2026 09:47 AM (RIvkX)

60 Themes: The work explores themes of sexuality and societal fringes, typical of Koch's oeuvre, which often includes elements of eroticism and psychological complexity.

Technique: Koch is known for his meticulous painting style, which combines realism with a sense of unease, enhancing the impact of the subject matter.

I guess a urinal can be sexual if it's for gay men.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 22, 2026 09:47 AM (NpAcC)

61 Munch's "The Scream" has been stolen several times. No one is going to pocket this bit of Dreck.

Posted by: Suave Art Thief at September 22, 2026 09:48 AM (Fn+3X)

62 @ 55 Incredible use of light

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 22, 2026 09:46 AM (RIvkX)

___________________________

Shouldn't that be "Incredible use of DARK" … ?

Posted by: Dr_No at September 22, 2026 09:48 AM (ayRl+)

63 This looks like a scene in a modern movie, where everything is dimly lit or is bluish-gray all the time.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius


I hate movies like that, except for the old westerns where you could tell it wasn't night by the shadows the sun cast on the ground thru the blue filter.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 22, 2026 09:48 AM (Y+ssL)

64 Thank you - this is wonderful. The harvest moon is Saturday and Halloween will be here before we know it. This lovely work really captures the mood.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 22, 2026 09:48 AM (2ap+5)

65 Anthony Fauci owns this painting?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 22, 2026 09:48 AM (2GVsD)

66 There may be all sorts of symbolism and nuance in this painting that I'm missing but there's nothing about it that makes me want to know more. Aside from a moment of wondering what the hell it is, there is nothing that would make me want to hang it or view it in a museum.

HOWEVER, Happy Birthday to Bilbo and Frodo Baggins.

And welcome to the first day of autumn. And after the surface of the sun temps this summer, it's about damn time.

Posted by: JTB at September 22, 2026 09:49 AM (yTvNw)

67 I do believe this art is a rendition of The Master Cylinder just before Felix the Cat reaches into his bag of tricks to save the day.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 22, 2026 09:49 AM (2WIwB)

68 Is This The End? - a limerick

My world is dark, i'm going to meet my Maker
I think I'd better phone the undertaker
But perhaps if I seek
Life won't seem so bleak
If I could just find the damned circuit breaker!
Posted by: muldoon, stubbing his toe and tripping over the dog at September 22, 2026 09:47 AM


* golf clap, so as not to disturb, unduly, the other patrons commentators *

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 22, 2026 09:49 AM (0sNs1)

69 Eric Cartman looked at this and said "Screw you guys … I'ma goin' home." Thus did he become known as 'Eric the Wise'.

Posted by: Dr_No at September 22, 2026 09:50 AM (ayRl+)

70 Happy first day of autumn! My favorite season! This painting is more wintertime and dark and dank.

You can almost smell the piss and desperation pumpkin spice lattes. Yeeesh.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 22, 2026 09:47 AM (iuVbq)
=====

FIFY

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 22, 2026 09:50 AM (RIvkX)

71 Who doesn’t love a pumpkin spice latte?!?!

wtf is wrong with you people?
Imma go To Starbucks and get one today!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 22, 2026 09:51 AM (iuVbq)

72 Do men usually gather and talk around a public urinal, like a campfire?
Posted by: redridinghood

No. Men do not talk, or even acknowledge each other's presence, at urinals.

Unless they're gay.

Posted by: Bulg at September 22, 2026 09:52 AM (77rzZ)

73 Patio heater / fire pit?

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 22, 2026 09:52 AM (ViCCR)

74 Maple latte is where it's at.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 22, 2026 09:53 AM (RIvkX)

75 Down here in the south during deer season Wal-Mart is carrying a new type of deer attractant that is "Pumpkin Spice" flavored.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 22, 2026 09:53 AM (2GVsD)

76 Firepit with Heat Shield. (Home Depot, $499)

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 22, 2026 09:53 AM (XvL8K)

77 >I hate movies like that, except for the old westerns where you could tell it wasn't night by the shadows the sun cast on the ground thru the blue filter.

Posted by: rickb223
----

ACKshually it was a neutral density filter
some directors thought shooting at night was a major PITA, so they used filters, and pretended

Posted by: Don Black at September 22, 2026 09:54 AM (ZxPkt)

78 Happy first day of autumn! My favorite season!
Posted by: nurse ratched

Same to you, Nurse! I'm with you on the autumn love.

Posted by: Bulg at September 22, 2026 09:54 AM (77rzZ)

79 Do men usually gather and talk around a public urinal, like a campfire?
Posted by: redridinghood

My deepest fear manifested.

Posted by: guy who has a shy bladder at September 22, 2026 09:54 AM (vbdla)

80 Yes, it looks like one of those "Solo" stoves people are burning their houses down with.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 22, 2026 09:54 AM (RIvkX)

81 Happy first day of autumn! My favorite season! This painting is more wintertime and dark and dank.

You can almost smell the piss and desperation pumpkin spice lattes. Yeeesh.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 22, 2026 09:47 AM (iuVbq)
=====

FIFY
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 22, 2026 09:50 AM (RIvkX)
******
I'm sure you'll be able to find a pumpkin spice urinal cake ring, probably on Amazon.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 22, 2026 09:55 AM (NpAcC)

82 Pumpkin Spice mates well with this awful painting. Bleak, hopeless, part of the International Feminist Communist Conspiracy.

Posted by: Down With the Spice! at September 22, 2026 09:55 AM (Fn+3X)

83 Koch

Is that pronounced 'Coke', or 'Kotch', or 'Cough', or 'Kō', or Van Gock'?

Posted by: muldoon, stubbing his toe and tripping over the dog at September 22, 2026 09:56 AM (I0N4X)

84 The Spice must flow!

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 22, 2026 09:56 AM (2GVsD)

85 Happy first day of autumn! My favorite season!
Posted by: nurse ratched

Same to you, Nurse! I'm with you on the autumn love.
Posted by: Bulg at September 22, 2026 09:54 AM (77rzZ)
=====

Summer = freedom, water, sunshine
Autumn = school, work, raking leaves

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 22, 2026 09:57 AM (RIvkX)

86 71 Who doesn’t love a pumpkin spice latte?!?!

wtf is wrong with you people?
Imma go To Starbucks and get one today!
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 22, 2026 09:51 AM (iuVbq)

I'm not afraid to admit I like them...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 22, 2026 09:57 AM (+gK6I)

87 Do men usually gather and talk around a public urinal, like a campfire?
Posted by: redridinghood

No. Men do not talk, or even acknowledge each other's presence, at urinals.

Unless they're gay.
Posted by: Bulg at September 22, 2026 09:52 AM (77rzZ)

***

Or they are in an older barracks building for Basic Training.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 22, 2026 09:57 AM (2WIwB)

The Morning Report — 9/ 22 /26

HighMarx.jpg

Good morning kids. Welcome to the first day of Fall . . .

So let's start off with the end result and work our way backwards, just like our society!

On Sept. 10, 2026, one year from the date that Charlie Kirk was horrifically assassinated on the nearby Utah Valley University campus, Utah student Sara Larsen approached members of the campus College Republicans chapter while they were tabling on campus and attempted to hand them a cake celebrating Kirk’s annihilation. The white cake was decorated with blood red icing reading “Happy Kirkiversary.” In the eyes of the university, the public blowback Sara Larsen received over her “Happy Kirkiversary” cake was the fault of the College Republicans—because they posted a picture of it. The university was attempting punish the College Republicans for exposing Larsen’s public celebration of Charlie Kirk’s death.

Again, this is like blaming the Jews incinerated in the crematoria for the smoke conditions over Southern Poland.

And we get vermin like Sara Larsen from breeding grounds like UV U and now starting in pre-school!

More than half of US college students say controversial speakers should be banned from their campuses, with a record-high number adding that violence is acceptable to stop them, a disturbing study shows.

The results provide a dangerous and “sobering picture” of cancel culture on US campuses, according to the expansive six-year study of almost 300,000 college undergraduates nationwide by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.

“The atmosphere isn’t just cautious — it’s hostile,” the study’s authors wrote. “Students continue to show low tolerance for controversial speakers, and troublingly, more believe it’s acceptable to shout down a speaker, block access to events, or even resort to violence to silence campus speech than ever before.”

The percentage of students who supported disruptive or even violent tactics to suppress controversial speakers meanwhile went up between 2021 and 2025.

An astonishing 34% of students nationally believe violence is acceptable to stop a campus speech, up from 20% in 2022. 

More than half of students, or 54%, support blocking others from attending a campus speech, while almost three-quarters, 71%, call for shouting down a speaker they don’t like.

The top 10 most intolerant campuses were predominantly in one state: Massachusetts, the survey added.

Conservative views are most under attack on college campuses, according to an interpretation of the data by the Missing Data Depot.

the immortal lyrics of Rogers and Hammerstein really hit home, don't they?!

You've got to be taught
To hate and fear
You've got to be taught
From year to year
It's got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught

You've got to be carefully taught alright!

If you want evidence that teachers’ unions are nothing more than taxpayer-funded left-wing rackets, look no further than the evidence dug up by the Progressive Policy Institute — a group founded by centrist Democrats...So, what are these unions doing with all that money they collect if not fighting to fulfill their stated missions? Turns out, they are far more interested in getting Democrats elected and pushing far-left causes... This includes more than $2.4 million to the far-left Center for American Progress, $7 million to the Democratic Governors Association, nearly $26 million to the Democrats’ House Majority PAC and $32 million to the Senate Majority PAC. And, maybe because they figure it will cut down on class sizes, more than $400,000 to pro-abortion groups...Add it all up, and you have organizations that extort money from taxpayers to finance a protection racket for themselves, their Democratic patrons, and various far-left causes (which few taxpayers would support), while engaging in fraud by pretending to be looking out for the interests of public-school students. We’re not lawyers, but we’d say that classifies as a criminal racket under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.

RICO Act and firing squads.


Yes we're at war but only one side seems to be taking all the casualties, our side!

Welcome to the new America; these are all socialist operations, diametrically opposed to the reconciling virtues of our nation’s founding as a constitutional republic. The “party” name Democratic no longer applies. We are at war, and our nation has become a thousand battlegrounds.

On all these uplifting notes, I bid you all to have a good day.

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1 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2026 07:01 AM (u82oZ)

2 Happy Tuesday

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 22, 2026 07:03 AM (/+uur)

3 Greetings and good morning, everyone!

Posted by: NR Pax at September 22, 2026 07:04 AM (NR6c1)

4 We are at war, and our nation has become a thousand battlegrounds.

'This war will not happen on some distant battlefield, but amongst us. Amongst our homes. Our children will learn of it with their own eyes. And the innocent will die with the rest of us.'

What's coming is more The Balkans and less US Civil War.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 22, 2026 07:05 AM (gLYp7)

5 Record number of US college students say violence is OK to stop controversial speakers

Mind you, the term "controversial" only applies to one side. If someone were to call for violence against Hasan Piker being on campus, suddenly they would love the First Amendment.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 22, 2026 07:06 AM (NR6c1)

6
Yay! Content!

*performs swan dive*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 22, 2026 07:07 AM (eRlcH)

7 NR Pax

Symmetry makes strong structures, in buildings, molecules, and culture.

What we have here is pre-collapse asymmetry.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2026 07:08 AM (u82oZ)

8 Is there a Flock camera trained on Mitch's front door?
If not, why not?

Posted by: I gotta ask at September 22, 2026 07:08 AM (2Ez/1)

9 Hadrian the Seventh

Belly Flop

2.5 from the Swedish Judge.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2026 07:08 AM (u82oZ)

10 In 2023, Congress passed 27 laws on a constitutional basis by elected representatives. In the same year, the federal registry amassed 90,402 pages of rules that have the effect of laws—rules written by persons that no one ever elected.

No one knows what is on those pages until some groundhog rises up from the hole and says...

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 22, 2026 07:09 AM (/+uur)

11 Hadrian the Seventh

I am excited to be at the MoMeet this year.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2026 07:09 AM (u82oZ)

12 "Record number of US college students say violence is OK to stop controversial speakers"

Well then I hope they beat the crap out of Hasan Piker.

Posted by: fd at September 22, 2026 07:10 AM (MWfyi)

13 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 22, 2026 07:10 AM (VyBeY)

14 glad to see that the word is getting out that we have been at war for several decades, now that we are on the verge of defeat.

can we pull our society and culture free of the swirling waters?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 22, 2026 07:13 AM (VyBeY)

15 fast work there JJ! thank you!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 22, 2026 07:15 AM (VyBeY)

16 An astonishing 34% of students nationally believe violence is acceptable to stop a campus speech, up from 20% in 2022.

More than half of students, or 54%, support blocking others from attending a campus speech, while almost three-quarters, 71%, call for shouting down a speaker they don’t like.

The Blocking Other seems to me the most violent and offensive. A Core Belief in Western Culture is freedom of movement and freedom of association.
Over half of college students have no problem with Physically stopping you from from both.

How will these people ever fit into semi-polite society?

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 22, 2026 07:15 AM (/+uur)

17 sock_rat_eez

The early lifeboats are mostly empty, just like the ones on the Titanic. As the waters advance up the hull, more will be not be able to escape. Sad, really.

The smart ones moved early and got a nice defensive perimeter, with interlocking fields of fire.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2026 07:16 AM (u82oZ)

18 Thanks for all the great links JJ.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at September 22, 2026 07:16 AM (Hpgos)

19 r hennigantx

Those ones have a hermetically sealed society, impervious to external reality.

Cancel Culture is the enforcement mechanism.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2026 07:18 AM (u82oZ)

20 Senate Democrats Circle the Wagons Around Abdul El-Sayed

--

Some of those glass half empty types might say that it's because "the fix is in."

They were all distancing themselves from this piece of filth just last week, I thought.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 22, 2026 07:19 AM (qBdHI)

21 In the eyes of the university, the public blowback Sara Larsen received over her “Happy Kirkiversary” cake was the fault of the College Republicans—because they posted a picture of it.
===============
I see this twisted thinking a lot, especially with morally vacuous university administrations. This is because lefties have killed the institution and are wearing its skin suit.

Posted by: Hick Follywood at September 22, 2026 07:21 AM (j3EXx)

22 Lady in Black

Answered a National Opinion Institute poll on voting in Kansas. Normally I am silent, but I want to get better numbers for the non-Democrats.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2026 07:22 AM (u82oZ)

23 "Nikole Hannah-Jones Regrets Sending Her Child to Failing Schools to Make a Point"

She doesn't regret it. She blames everyone and everything else.

Posted by: fd at September 22, 2026 07:24 AM (MWfyi)

24 Nobody watches cable news or network news. Their ratings in the demo added together don’t even total 1% of the national population.

And those 4 million people are seriously MIS informed.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 22, 2026 07:24 AM (/+uur)

25 There are two types of leftists: psychopaths and fools. The psychopath says, "Hey, your society is unequal. Give me all of your stuff, and I will distribute it fairly." The fool says, "Sure, sounds good. Take everybody's stuff by force if necessary."

Posted by: IanDeal at September 22, 2026 07:24 AM (RtJz8)

26 "Each of us makes his own weather."

Fulton J. Sheen- who will be canonized this week.

Don't spend so much time dwelling on bad news that you forget the blessings in your life, and become immobilized.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2026 07:25 AM (JrHfD)

27 Cancel Culture is the enforcement mechanism.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2026 07:18 AM (u82oZ)

Isnt cancel culture almost dead?

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 22, 2026 07:25 AM (/+uur)

28 Today: 32% of Democrats are willing to admit to a stranger that they support Trump being assassinated.

https://twitchy.com/warren-squire/2026/09/22/
five-routes-dems-want-for-trump-to-leave-
office-death-coup-assassination-n2432570

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 22, 2026 07:25 AM (gLYp7)

29 In news about the fight against Entropy, I examined my plethora of spice containers yesterday.

Some were so old that my late wife bought them before we were married, then moved them from Virginia to Kansas, without using those spices.

A good 1/2 went in the trash.

Kept all the ones with a date starting in 202x.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2026 07:26 AM (u82oZ)

30 Some of those glass half empty types might say that it's because "the fix is in."

They were all distancing themselves from this piece of filth just last week, I thought.
Posted by: Lady in Black

Be skeptical of things you hear from the Make believe media.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 22, 2026 07:27 AM (HinvH)

31 "Nikole Hannah-Jones Desperate for Mouse Clicks And Page Views."

Posted by: The reality of the situation at September 22, 2026 07:27 AM (2Ez/1)

32 “They stopped reporting the news and started telling us what they think the news is, and what our opinion of that news should be.”
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This quote from the Taylor Sheridan article JJ linked, describing the Propaganda Press, reminds me of an early moment from many years ago in waking me to the dangers of present day "journalism", when a Seattle news editor responded to criticism of their one sided news writing by telling his readers exactly what that quote says. Bastards.

Posted by: Hick Follywood at September 22, 2026 07:28 AM (q7yvH)

33 r hennigantx

Alas, not yet. It is strongest in the minds of Dems and Islamics.

If you watch no TV, get no newspapers, and use information from J.J. Sefton's trenchant comments in the Morning Report, you would think so. But it is still out there, esp. in all levels of the Education Gulag.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2026 07:30 AM (u82oZ)

34 Morning, all. Time to get up, whether I want to or not!

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 22, 2026 07:30 AM (aJQbY)

35 Whoops. RC theology error. Fulton Sheen is to be beatified this week, not yet canonized.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2026 07:30 AM (JrHfD)

36 FenelonSpoke

Happy Anniversary to you two lovebirds. Many more, please.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2026 07:31 AM (u82oZ)

37 How will these people ever fit into semi-polite society?
Posted by: r hennigantx


Why would they care? The crappy behavior is encouraged and framed as them being plucky young rebels fighting the darkness. Going to take a lot of face punchings to right things.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 22, 2026 07:31 AM (NR6c1)

38 Google got fined again by the EU? Its just their piggy bank isn't it? Every time they need money they hit up Google.

Posted by: Hick Follywood at September 22, 2026 07:32 AM (q7yvH)

39 Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2026 07:31 AM (u82oZ)

Thanks very much, dear Salty.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2026 07:33 AM (JrHfD)

40 > Google got fined again by the EU?

It's a write off, Jerry.

Posted by: Kramer at September 22, 2026 07:34 AM (2Ez/1)

41 Hick Follywood

It is darkly humorous. The EU can not create, only loot.

If the EU and Google rolled down a hill in a refrigerator box, it is 100% certain that an evil organization will end up on top.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2026 07:35 AM (u82oZ)

42 One student at Cornell announced on LinkedIn he refuses to work for Jews, and his parents stopped paying his tuition and kicked him out of the house. He started a lame GoFundMe but I applaud his parents. Ghat must have been a tough decision but the asshole kid needs to learn value signaling has consequences, especially evil values.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 22, 2026 07:35 AM (q7yvH)

43 Good morning Horde thx JJ.
The Hannah-Jones story is mind boggling. Why are black kids behind? Because even their allegedly smart parents use them as props in the grift. The kid will now however have an excuse for her own grift. Her parents used her to fight the white man and it disadvantaged her. Damn you white man

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 22, 2026 07:37 AM (taL2t)

44 Today: 32% of Democrats are willing to admit to a stranger that they support Trump being assassinated.
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I'll bet the proportion is higher in the Democrat caucus in the House.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 22, 2026 07:37 AM (q7yvH)

45 Google vs EU - can't they both lose?

Russian elections - There's apparently a certain amount of Europe-style fixing and I expect there's also a certain amount of 'why bother voting for another party, it won't do any good'. I wonder what the voting turnout percentage was. I notice the article didn't say that, only relative percentages and the number of seats.

Salty, how did you know my awareness strategy when it come to news?

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 22, 2026 07:38 AM (aJQbY)

46 The funny thing is that I kind of supported what Jones did with putting her kid in public school. She made an effort to not be hypocritical. But she still can't admit that she was wrong despite all the evidence.

Hopefully her daughter walks away from her and heals.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 22, 2026 07:40 AM (NR6c1)

47 More than half of students, or 54%, support blocking others from attending a campus speech, while almost three-quarters, 71%, call for shouting down a speaker they don’t like.

I don't know the York, PA girls that received some street reparations, they might be fine, upstanding people who were participating drunk from their rental porch at 2AM. There are also several plausible reasons why police ignored 911 calls and ended up arresting very few people.

I'm not saying that they deserved it.

But one plausible argument is that the people of York are tired of the college student's shit.

Posted by: LutheranSatire at September 22, 2026 07:40 AM (/TiS1)

48 "42 One student at Cornell announced on LinkedIn he refuses to work for Jews..."

Now do Mohammedans.

Posted by: Want fries with that? at September 22, 2026 07:40 AM (2Ez/1)

49 Ok Patrick sock off

Posted by: Community Notes at September 22, 2026 07:41 AM (/TiS1)

50 It is to laugh as the IRGC continues their bluster while they are being crushed. They are now offering to open the Strait with less of their unrealistic demands.

Macron seems to have lost his high horse also.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 22, 2026 07:41 AM (UdrMW)

51 Converse Apologizes For ‘Racist’ Ad, Promises To ‘Do Better’

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And the cancel mob continues to advocate a boycott.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 22, 2026 07:41 AM (ndZc7)

52 Converse bent the knee to the mob. Never bend the knee. If you can come up with racism out of that ad you can find racism anywhere, which the mob does

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 22, 2026 07:44 AM (taL2t)

53 RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!)

Because the TV news watcher avoid AoSHQ. We speak too much truth, shattering their illusions.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2026 07:44 AM (u82oZ)

54 >>It is to laugh as the IRGC continues their bluster while they are being crushed.

The ban on Iranian airlines goes into effect at 12:01 tomorrow morning. I don't think it's a coincidence that the world including Iranian leaders are meeting at the UN today.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 22, 2026 07:45 AM (viF8m)

55 The funny thing is that I kind of supported what Jones did with putting her kid in public school. She made an effort to not be hypocritical. But she still can't admit that she was wrong despite all the evidence.

Hopefully her daughter walks away from her and heals.
Posted by: NR Pax

Her fellow travelers fucked up the schools. And she can't say a lot for fear of being on the Stalinist shit list.

She's a depraved coward like the rest.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 22, 2026 07:47 AM (HinvH)

56 The top 10 most intolerant campuses were predominantly in one state: Massachusetts, the survey added.

"Oh, there's a big surprise! That's an incredib... I think I'm gonna have a heart attack and die from that surprise!"

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 22, 2026 07:49 AM (P6lWH)

57 By any means necessary.

Center for Strategic Politics
@StratPolitics
Replying to @StratPolitics
We polled five routes for Trump to leave office before the end of his term. A plurality of Dems support four of them, including a military coup and death by natural causes. The only one underwater, an assassination, is still supported by 29%

https://tinyurl.com/28wjxx4f

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 22, 2026 07:49 AM (ndZc7)

58 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at September 22, 2026 07:49 AM (Y+ssL)

59 She's a depraved coward like the rest.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory


I get that. But how many well heeled liberals send their kids to exclusive private schools while berating us normal people for doing the same?

Posted by: NR Pax at September 22, 2026 07:49 AM (NR6c1)

60 good morning JJ, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at September 22, 2026 07:51 AM (tr7+w)

61 Report: GOP Senators Worry as Battleground Map Widens Ahead of Midterms

Crocodile Tears

The GOP Senators want a repeat of the treachery performed by Paul Ryan during Trump 1.0

Those feckless bastards could have passed the SAVE America Act—they absolutely refused to do it.

When faced with the enemy overthrowing the final refuge against tyranny, losing would plunder the world into a Thousand Years of Darkness, they vote to go on vacation.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 22, 2026 07:51 AM (9s47C)

62 From the Trump-Madmani article:

“There aren’t too many Democrats who would roll out the red carpet for Donald Trump. You did that today,” one reporter said before asking Mamdani what the relationship had accomplished.

“Do you think you should be criticized for taking time to meet with the president?” another asked. “I think a lot of people see your strategy around the president as curbing your criticism of him. I feel like you don’t often launch personal attacks on him…Do you still think this tactic is worth it?” said another.

Simply Democrat activists, not reporters.

Posted by: Delurker at September 22, 2026 07:52 AM (2Drhq)

63 The only one underwater, an assassination, is still supported by 29%

https://tinyurl.com/28wjxx4f

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 22, 2026 07:49 AM (ndZc7)

It's actually 32%.

Strongly support - 23%
Somewhat support - 9%

Then another 25% are 'neither positive nor negative.'

A solid majority of Democrats admit to strangers that they support, or do not oppose, Trump's assassination.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 22, 2026 07:53 AM (gLYp7)

64 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 22, 2026 07:53 AM (RIvkX)

65 When Elon Musk crossed the $1 trillion net worth threshold, the world scrambled for explanations. The companies. The risk-taking. The sheer volume of hours worked. But buried beneath all of it is a habit so quiet it barely makes the headlines — one he shares with Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, and Bill Gates. It's called the 5-Hour Rule: one hour a day, five days a week, devoted entirely to learning. No meetings. No output. Just reading, thinking, and absorbing ideas.
I read maybe one book last year. I'm not sure I finished it. So when I found out that the world's richest person treats deliberate learning as non-negotiable — the same way most of us treat lunch — I wanted to know what would happen if I tried it too. For 30 days, I committed to following the 5-Hour Rule. Here's what I found.
Even Apple recommends Blinkist for those who are lifelong learners, naming it one of the best apps in the world. And Apple CEO Tim Cook — himself a Blinkist user — even stopped by the Berlin office to see what the fuss was about.

Posted by: SMOD at September 22, 2026 07:54 AM (gWCxi)

66 Community Notes

Please tell Elon Musk to put your comment

"When faced with the enemy overthrowing the final refuge against tyranny, losing would plunder the world into a Thousand Years of Darkness, they vote to go on vacation."

on the Moon in letters 1000 miles high.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2026 07:54 AM (u82oZ)

67 "She made an effort to not be hypocritical. But she still can't admit that she was wrong despite all the evidence."

She could have helped and tutored her kid and made sure she was getting an education but she just dumped the child on a government school and hoped for the best without paying any attention to the kid's progress. She is a terrible parent.

Posted by: fd at September 22, 2026 07:54 AM (MWfyi)

68 Mehdi Hasan
@mehdirhasan
Disgusting anti-Muslim bigotry and scare-mongering here, even by Fox standards. We would never allow this for a Black or Jewish politician.

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See the disgusting anti-Muslim bigotry here.

https://tinyurl.com/4rfz5vj5

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 22, 2026 07:54 AM (ndZc7)

69 Then another 25% are 'neither positive nor negative.'

Just like the "moderate" Muslim. They won't attack anyone, but they silently agree with the mob and will do nothing to stop it. Cowards.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 22, 2026 07:57 AM (HinvH)

70 Communist filth Mamdani again calls for Israel’s Netanyahu to be arrested when he comes to NY for UN General Assembly: ‘A war criminal’

Posted by: SMOD at September 22, 2026 07:58 AM (gWCxi)

71 The funny thing is that I kind of supported what Jones did with putting her kid in public school. She made an effort to not be hypocritical.

What are you thinking?

It OK for Jones to wreck her child's life because of her own vanity?

She may have been worried about a hypothetical hypocrisy charge from whom? From the teachers who haven't murdered their own children and send their survivors to private schools?

She can't defend making a best effort to save her own kid's life? She could always lie and say that Trump's DoE has ruined public education, and this is her way to protest. Time frames don't matter, just saying "Trump" triggers a complete irrational hysterical emotional chain reaction.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 22, 2026 07:59 AM (9s47C)

72 If the Dems take power we will see $10 gasoline and $15 diesel fuel. Blame Trump all you want but the alternative is certainly no better.

Posted by: fd at September 22, 2026 07:59 AM (MWfyi)

73 JPost:

Iranian children to be recruited for Islamic Republic’s ‘self-sacrifice’ campaign

The campaign’s spokesperson said it was centered on the cultural slogan, “We have one life, and we give it for Iran,” which he acknowledged had drawn international criticism.

... it's "for the children"

Posted by: SMOD at September 22, 2026 07:59 AM (gWCxi)

74 One way or another I'm gonna win ya
I'm gonna get ya, get ya, get ya, get ya

Lindsay Clancy’s Lawyer Asks Judge to Probe Phone Data of Holdout Juror

https://tinyurl.com/yk6cywaw

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 22, 2026 08:00 AM (ndZc7)

75 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at September 22, 2026 08:01 AM (53oGX)

76 >Communist filth Mamdani again calls for Israel’s Netanyahu to be arrested when he comes to NY for UN General Assembly: ‘A war criminal’

All leftists lie and nobody lies more than muslims. Hamas' own numbers show the majority of people killed in Gaza were military age men.

>>@CorbynSnap

>>The final analysis of Gaza deaths based on Hamas’ own data is really bloody annoying.

https://tinyurl.com/ms72bmpy

Posted by: JackStraw at September 22, 2026 08:01 AM (viF8m)

77 Iranian children to be recruited for Islamic Republic’s ‘self-sacrifice’ campaign

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Geez! I hope they don't release the Lindsay Clancy Brigade!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 22, 2026 08:03 AM (ndZc7)

78 Yikes... Maybe I should go back to bed...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 22, 2026 08:03 AM (+gK6I)

79 Mornin’, All. Happy Tuesday.

Posted by: Bulg at September 22, 2026 08:04 AM (77rzZ)

80 {{{ It's me donna}}}

All Hands on deck. Stand by to repel boarders.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2026 08:04 AM (u82oZ)

81 “I think a lot of people see your strategy around the president as curbing your criticism of him. I feel like you don’t often launch personal attacks on him…Do you still think this tactic is worth it?” said another.

It explains a lot when you realize that to these people *literally everything* is about tactical and strategic positioning. What foods you eat. Where you are seen to shop. One wonders, if it were possible to get an objective, accurate measure, how much of the population would be considered pathological narcissists or whatever the current term d'art is for 'my life is all about positioning myself for perceptions of others'.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 22, 2026 08:05 AM (aJQbY)

82 The campaign’s spokesperson said it was centered on the cultural slogan, “We have one life, and we give it for Iran,” which he acknowledged had drawn international criticism.
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This is history rhyming. Moloch demands children.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 22, 2026 08:05 AM (RIvkX)

83 Today: 32% of Democrats are willing to admit to a stranger that they support Trump being assassinated.

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Starting around the Chimpy McBushHitler years, this violence has congealed and solidified by the Democrats and their voters. Their hatred has grown exponentially with each R president. We're now at the stage that they no longer hide what they've always wished for.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 22, 2026 08:06 AM (qBdHI)

84 706 and thru da links

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 22, 2026 08:06 AM (/+uur)

85 Good morning!!

New as against Al-Sayid narrated by Todd Beamer's dad.
More if this!

https://tinyurl.com/3as2hrty

Posted by: Lizzy at September 22, 2026 08:07 AM (rOKnE)

86 Then another 25% are 'neither positive nor negative.'

A solid majority of Democrats admit to strangers that they support, or do not oppose, Trump's assassination.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 22, 2026 07:53 AM (gLYp7)
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Smart analysis. As you say, the wishy washy crowd is persuadable that assassination is A-OK.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 22, 2026 08:08 AM (q7yvH)

87 Starting around the Chimpy McBushHitler years, this violence has congealed and solidified by the Democrats and their voters. Their hatred has grown exponentially with each R president. We're now at the stage that they no longer hide what they've always wished for.
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 22, 2026 08:06 AM (qBdHI)

I started as a whisper that BHussein was getting hundreds of death threats.
Then it came out it was less than Bush.
There is a fair amount of death baked into socialism.

Harris quote “What can be, unburdened by what has been”, implies that you can literally KILL history to make the Great Leap Forward.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 22, 2026 08:10 AM (/+uur)

88 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 22, 2026 08:12 AM (ExV1e)

89 If Franpsycho was president, he would appear at the podium, tear up the lease to Turtle Bay, declare the entire General Assembly personae non gratae and have the U.S. Marines conduct an immediate removal and deportation operation.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 22, 2026 08:13 AM (RIvkX)

90 Well, you can't have a spontaneous event without careful planning.

Report: Communist Groups Organizing “Spontaneous” Anti-ICE Protests in Austin

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 22, 2026 08:13 AM (ndZc7)

91 >>Today: 32% of Democrats are willing to admit to a stranger that they support Trump being assassinated.


Heck I've had people at work say as much, such as "I can't wait until someone takes him out."

Posted by: Lizzy at September 22, 2026 08:13 AM (rOKnE)

92 Toaster leavin's for breakfuss again today.

Posted by: Poor, But Proud at September 22, 2026 08:15 AM (Fn+3X)

93 Iranian children to be recruited for Islamic Republic’s ‘self-sacrifice’ campaign

The campaign’s spokesperson said it was centered on the cultural slogan, “We have one life, and we give it for Iran,” which he acknowledged had drawn international criticism.

... it's "for the children"
Posted by: SMOD at September 22, 2026 07:59 AM


Minefields don't just clear themselves, you know.

- The Mullahs

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 22, 2026 08:16 AM (P6lWH)

94 Woke Leftism is an ersatz religion. It needs to personify its perceived evils into Devils that must be destroyed so that the "Righteous" will prevail in this World. They don't believe in next World.

Posted by: Ignoramus at September 22, 2026 08:16 AM (dtajH)

95 It OK for Jones to wreck her child's life because of her own vanity?

Not at all. She truly thought that public schools would be good enough for her kid. Yes, she should have stayed involved and gotten the kid out and her daughter is going to pay the price. But I've seen a lot of articles from rich liberal types who send their kids to private schools while telling others that public is good enough for them.

Honestly, it would have been better if she could have admitted her mistake but she's the one who has to deal with the fallout.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 22, 2026 08:16 AM (NR6c1)

96 Google Fined $463 Million by European Union.

Behold European industry. If they cannot compete, they'll regulate everyone else, except Chynah, of course, to a standstill.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 22, 2026 08:17 AM (ExV1e)

97 San Franpsycho

UN moved to:

Gaza
Ebola-prone Congo
South Georges Island
Beijing
Kiev
Paris

In order of preference.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2026 08:17 AM (u82oZ)

98 The Iranians sent children charging across minefields in the Iraq war.
Not so easy to teach them to be kamikazes against jets and missiles

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 22, 2026 08:17 AM (taL2t)

99 Posted by: Lizzy at September 22, 2026 08:13 AM (rOKnE)

Do you say anything back or just let it go not to have a big bru-haha( sp?) at work?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2026 08:17 AM (JrHfD)

100 >>Report: Communist Groups Organizing “Spontaneous” Anti-ICE Protests in Austin


While I appreciate reporting on stuff like this, the Left has been doing this for decades.

I recall blogger 'Protein Wisdom' posting a copy of a gun-grabber activist org handbook that detailed the planned response for a mass shooting to immediately protest guns, etc. over 16 years ago.

These people have had top-down, meticulously planned, generously funded "grassroots" activity for decades.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 22, 2026 08:19 AM (rOKnE)

101 Carrot Top Reportedly Extorted With Sex Tape Prior to Alleged Suicide Attempt

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It'd be an atrocity to display that.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 22, 2026 08:20 AM (ndZc7)

102 Smell the Glove

Iranian kids these days can't carry a shoulder-fired AA missile. Sad.

Maybe if they could afford bread and spinach?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2026 08:20 AM (u82oZ)

103 According to the Hill, some lawmakers are blaming this on the state of the economy — namely, rising gas prices. Monday’s national average clocked in at $4.4786 per gallon, up from an average of $3.1834 one year ago.

Eleven US refineries have stopped processing crude oil in the past six year, two - both in California - in the past year. That's a big component of the cost of fuel. And why is it? What is happening which is causing these shutdowns? What has Congress done to alleviate the issues? Nothing. Just like they've done to alleviate all other issues.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 22, 2026 08:21 AM (ExV1e)

104 101 Carrot Top Reportedly Extorted With Sex Tape Prior to Alleged Suicide Attempt

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie?


I really don't like this timeline.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 22, 2026 08:21 AM (NR6c1)

105 > “I think a lot of people see your strategy around the president as curbing your criticism of him. I feel like you don’t often launch personal attacks on him…Do you still think this tactic is worth it?” said another."
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Mamdani knows Trump adores compliments. So he doesn't trash him in person. Thus, Trump is less likely to interfere with his plans.

For now.

What the mayor does when not directly talking to Trump is an entirely different matter... one the press can't seem to grasp. I'm fairly certain Trump does.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 22, 2026 08:21 AM (2Cry5)

106 I used to have a different nic

Congress is like the arterial plaque that adds nothing to life.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2026 08:22 AM (u82oZ)

107 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 22, 2026 08:22 AM (ccf/V)

108 What has Congress done to alleviate the issues? Nothing. Just like they've done to alleviate all other issues.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 22, 2026 08:21 AM (ExV1e)

They are building the first ground up new refinery in the US since JJ and I were Seniors in HS.
think about that

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 22, 2026 08:22 AM (/+uur)

109 Old and busted: Kamikazes

New and kool: Kamelkazes

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 22, 2026 08:23 AM (ndZc7)

110 @102 NaCly , that is the main mistake Trump made in the attack on Iran . He and the rest of the administration didn't seem to understand how little the mullahs and IRGC give a crap about the average Iranian. The mullahs will let the citizens starve to death to meet Allah before they give up power

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 22, 2026 08:23 AM (taL2t)

111 Omg you guys are still holocaust believers that’s so quaint

I haven’t been here for ten years and you guys haven’t changed

It’s like a museum of myself when I was a complete fucking retard

Never change hh

Posted by: Truman North, Moron Emeritus at September 22, 2026 08:23 AM (Sf7n9)

112 Controversial ‘looksmaxxing’ streamer Clavicular charged with rape, drugging woman for sex: report

well duh could have told you that was happening

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 22, 2026 08:23 AM (/+uur)

113 More than half of US college students say controversial speakers should be banned from their campuses, with a record-high number adding that violence is acceptable to stop them, a disturbing study shows.


That entire article would be more accurate if they would replace the word "controversial" with the word "conservative."

Liberally indoctrinated college students think it's OK to commit violence against conservative speakers because they disagree or don't like what they say.

Conservative students aren't committing acts of anything against liberal speakers.

Until the TRUTH is admitted, nothing will EVER change.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 22, 2026 08:24 AM (ccf/V)

114 You want a true horror movie this fall? Visualize the sex tape of Carrot Top and Kathie Griffin.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 22, 2026 08:24 AM (SjnWr)

115 She could have helped and tutored her kid and made sure she was getting an education but she just dumped the child on a government school and hoped for the best without paying any attention to the kid's progress. She is a terrible parent.

Also, I don't buy the "hypocritical" argument at all.

Hypocrisy to the Left is a tool, not a vice.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 22, 2026 08:24 AM (9Hs2w)

116 r hennigantx

The last ten years has seen a lot of de-bottlenecking in refinery operations.

AI and simplex optimization has led to new, more effective, catalysts.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2026 08:24 AM (u82oZ)

117 You want a true horror movie this fall? Visualize the sex tape of Carrot Top and Kathie Griffin.
Posted by: Tom Servo


Hate you so much for putting that image in my head.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 22, 2026 08:25 AM (NR6c1)

118 Tom Servo

Arrrgh! My eyes!
Too much!!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2026 08:25 AM (u82oZ)

119
Heck I've had people at work say as much, such as "I can't wait until someone takes him out."
Posted by: Lizzy at September 22, 2026 08:13 AM (rOKnE)



"Would it be ok if someone takes YOU out because they don't like YOU?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 22, 2026 08:25 AM (ccf/V)

120 Refineries are icky and who needs oil? We ride the bus!

Posted by: Cawledge Stoodent at September 22, 2026 08:25 AM (Fn+3X)

121 Controversial ‘looksmaxxing’ streamer Clavicular charged with rape, drugging woman for sex: report

Apparently Looksmaxxing wasn't enough.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 22, 2026 08:26 AM (9Hs2w)

122 Howard Stern's parents were white liberals who insisted on living in (at the time) one of the only black-majority towns on Long Island. They sent him to public schools over his objections. He made millions sharing multitudes of traumatic incidents.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 22, 2026 08:26 AM (RIvkX)

123 Trump strikes back at TV boycott with a dramatic move of his own

Gorillaz TV will be on my TV 25/8

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 22, 2026 08:26 AM (/+uur)

124 A Carrot Top sex tape must have involved a lot of props. I really don't like anything close to that image

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 22, 2026 08:26 AM (taL2t)

125 Carrot Top Reportedly Extorted With Sex Tape Prior to Alleged Suicide Attempt
It'd be an atrocity to display that.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 22, 2026 08:20 AM (ndZc7)

I want to see Carrot Top and Bob Kraft's sex tapes. Like a double feature.

Pass the popcorn.

Posted by: Pete Bootedgeedge, Pervert at September 22, 2026 08:27 AM (6VpiA)

126 Lizzy

Trump has had seven attempts on his life, one more than Queen Victoria, and in much less time.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2026 08:27 AM (u82oZ)

127 Democrat Sen. Chris Murphy Demands Gov’t Regulate the Internet — to Prevent the Next “Trump”

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"Free speech, f*ck that shit!" he explained.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 22, 2026 08:28 AM (ndZc7)

128
98 The Iranians sent children charging across minefields in the Iraq war.
Not so easy to teach them to be kamikazes against jets and missiles
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 22, 2026 08:17 AM (taL2t)

This is the reason the slow economic strangulation is so useful. The Iranian leadership wants something, anything they can send people to fight while dying heroically.

Figuring out how to deal with less and less every day has nothing heroic about it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 22, 2026 08:28 AM (SjnWr)

129 Today: 32% of Democrats are willing to admit to a stranger that they support Trump being assassinated.



Coexist my ass.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 22, 2026 08:28 AM (Y+ssL)

130 Trump has had seven attempts on his life, one more than Queen Victoria, and in much less time.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2026 08:27 AM (u82oZ)

Seven attempts that the public is aware of.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 22, 2026 08:29 AM (gLYp7)

131 According to the Hill, some lawmakers are blaming this

This is always The Tell that you are receiving a Hill writer's opinion and not fact: "some lawmakers"

Posted by: Community Notes at September 22, 2026 08:30 AM (9Hs2w)

132 You want a true horror movie this fall? Visualize the sex tape of Carrot Top and Kathie Griffin.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 22, 2026 08:24 AM (SjnWr)



If you look close enough, they are each other's parent. They got together and had each other in some freak of nature accident.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 22, 2026 08:30 AM (ccf/V)

133 >>“Do you think you should be criticized for taking time to meet with the president?” another asked. “I think a lot of people see your strategy around the president as curbing your criticism of him. I feel like you don’t often launch personal attacks on him…Do you still think this tactic is worth it?” said another.

Simply Democrat activists, not reporters.
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IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THE SAME PRESS WAS A-OK WITH OBAMA MEETING WITH THE LEADERS OF IRAN.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at September 22, 2026 08:30 AM (rOKnE)

134 They are building the first ground up new refinery in the US since JJ and I were Seniors in HS.
think about that
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 22, 2026 08:22 AM (/+uur)


Which is a good thing, and needed, but it won't help with the Tik Tok generation.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 22, 2026 08:31 AM (ExV1e)

135 Republican candidate for governor in Colorado is named Marx.

I wonder if that might be enough to get him elected...

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at September 22, 2026 08:31 AM (I0N4X)

136 > Today: 32% of Democrats are willing to admit to a stranger that they support Trump being assassinated.



Coexist my ass.
---------
They want you to coexist with them, on their terms.

Not the other way around.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 22, 2026 08:32 AM (2Cry5)

137 The Iranians sent children charging across minefields in the Iraq war.
Not so easy to teach them to be kamikazes against jets and missiles
Posted by: Smell the Glove


They need trebuchets.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 22, 2026 08:32 AM (Y+ssL)

138 Carrot Top was once the Chairman of the Board. Where do you go from there?

Posted by: Genius, In Decline at September 22, 2026 08:32 AM (Fn+3X)

139 Mamdani knows Trump adores compliments. So he doesn't trash him in person. Thus, Trump is less likely to interfere with his plans.

For now.

What the mayor does when not directly talking to Trump is an entirely different matter... one the press can't seem to grasp. I'm fairly certain Trump does.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 22, 2026 08:21 AM (2Cry5)

Trump does this exact same thing to world leaders and the press excoriate him for it.

"President Xi and I had a great conversation - he's a great guy, very funny. We had a wonderful time. He's a very smart man, President Xi."

Media: TRUMP LOVES COMMUNIST CHINA!!!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 22, 2026 08:32 AM (gLYp7)

140 Controversial ‘looksmaxxing’ streamer Clavicular charged with rape, drugging woman for sex: report

well duh could have told you that was happening
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 22, 2026 08:23 AM (/+uur)


Actually, I'm surprised that happened - if it did. He has a camera crew following him everywhere, all the time. Plenty of women prepared to blow him on the street for their 15 seconds of 'fame'.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 22, 2026 08:32 AM (ExV1e)

141 Trump Cuts Ribbon on Latest WH Construction Project — But Major TV Networks Refuse to Air It

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We're taking our ball and going home!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 22, 2026 08:33 AM (ndZc7)

142 The Iranians sent children charging across minefields in the Iraq war.
Not so easy to teach them to be kamikazes against jets and missiles
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 22, 2026 08:17 AM (taL2t)

There were videos on Youboob of Iraqi Officers who lost their minds after slaughtering thousands and thousands of iranian children in the massed human wave attacks and no matter how many they killed they kept coming lime that Star Trek episode.

Posted by: Cloud William at September 22, 2026 08:33 AM (6VpiA)

143 morning, news addicts,

Heck I've had people at work say as much, such as "I can't wait until someone takes him out."
Posted by: Lizzy at September 22, 2026


***
I'm glad I no longer have co-workers. I never heard anybody *say* anything like that. But the anti-Trumpism was unspoken but real. For example, we were invited by our boss to suggest guest speakers for the annual lecture our department sponsored. I suggested Victor Davis Hanson, twice.

Ha. We got somebody who yapped about the evils of capitalism. (Ironic, since our department was funded by an oil company!)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 22, 2026 08:33 AM (wzUl9)

144 They want you to coexist with them, on their terms.

Not the other way around.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 22, 2026 08:32 AM (2Cry5)

We can not coexist with the left unless one or the other of us is in the Forever Box.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 22, 2026 08:33 AM (gLYp7)

145 It's at the point where it's noteworthy if a MN politician isn;t in bed with the Somalis scammers:

@libsoftiktok
So Peggy Flanagan, the MN Dem Senate nominee, has a good friend who apparently has an autism center that’s under investigation for fraud

You will never guess his name…

Nimco Ahmed.

It just never ends

https://tinyurl.com/2z8yxeyv

It's a her, and Flannagan has been friends with her for 25 years.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 22, 2026 08:34 AM (rOKnE)

146 Democrat Sen. Chris Murphy Demands Gov’t Regulate the Internet — to Prevent the Next “Trump”

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"Free speech, f*ck that shit!" he explained.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 22, 2026 08:28 AM (ndZc7)



It all boils down to, your speech is violence and their violence is speech.

It's a one way street and we're heading the wrong way.

Booker wants term limits on SCJ's because they don't rule 'the correct way.'

The internet needs regulation because the truth hurts them.

They are the oppressors. They want you dead, imprisoned or enslaved.

We are at war. They're the only ones firing the shots.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 22, 2026 08:34 AM (ccf/V)

147 I heard that Carrot Top is in a persistent vegetative state...

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at September 22, 2026 08:34 AM (I0N4X)

148 135 Republican candidate for governor in Colorado is named Marx.

And his father's name was Karl. Not joking.

Posted by: Delurker at September 22, 2026 08:35 AM (2Drhq)

149 Trump Cuts Ribbon on Latest WH Construction Project — But Major TV Networks Refuse to Air It

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We're taking our ball and going home!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 22, 2026 08:33 AM (ndZc7)



All they have is Trump. What are they talking about if they're boycotting Trump? They wouldn't know news if it kicked them in the crotch.

Watch their ratings plummet because NO ONE has any reason to watch them without Trump.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 22, 2026 08:35 AM (ccf/V)

150 147 I heard that Carrot Top is in a persistent vegetative state...

Carrot Top jokes should be rooted out.

Posted by: Delurker at September 22, 2026 08:35 AM (2Drhq)

151 Ugh. I think we are borked on the m8d terms.
While I'm sure the economy is good somewhere, it isn't here in AZ. Don't be surprised if AZ goes blue again because they blame Trump and not Hobbs.
Not to mention that the price of living is elevated and people seemed to think Trump would magically reset everything to pre-Biden levels.

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at September 22, 2026 08:36 AM (egQ8W)

152 I heard that Carrot Top is in a persistent vegetative state...
Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at September 22, 2026 08:34 AM (I0N4X)



Seems he OD'd in an apparent suicide attempt.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 22, 2026 08:36 AM (ccf/V)

153 It would appear that the whole freedom of speech thing has been forgotten by a bunch of academics and their students. I would think that if a college student body has a third of their students who believe violence is an appropriate response to political speech, perhaps the feds should just suspend all education programs, loans, grants, etc, to the school. If it is a state school, perhaps they should remind the state their federal K-12 money will evaporate as well.

The rationale behind publicly funded and supported K-12 and beyond education is getting pretty ripe. We need more factory and trade workers. The left loves Germany right? Not everyone gets to go to college. You don't test well enough, you go off on to a non-academic track.

Posted by: Black JEM at September 22, 2026 08:36 AM (7/DDO)

154 Trump compliments people as a negotiating tactic. He said he hopes Mamdani is a great mayor, just like he complimented the North Korean loon. Zelensky picked a fight with Trump in public. Not a good negotiating tactic

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 22, 2026 08:36 AM (taL2t)

155 Yes we're at war but only one side seems to be taking all the casualties, our side!


Blessed are you, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in Heaven.

Posted by: Your Enemies Prove Your Worthiness at September 22, 2026 08:36 AM (6AV2u)

156 Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung

Cogent correction noted and approved.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2026 08:36 AM (u82oZ)

157 Christian nationalism!

Judge Blocks Blue State from Compelling Nuns to Perform Assisted Suicide

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 22, 2026 08:37 AM (ndZc7)

158 More:

@AlphaNews
EXCLUSIVE: CEO of autism center under investigation was part of Klobuchar's first Senate campaign

Back in 2006, Nimco Ahmed, the CEO of an autism center now under state investigation, joined the "Klobuchar team" during Amy Klobuchar's first Senate run, according to a profile at the time.

A former employee told Alpha News last week that Ahmed's autism center is "fraudulent," an allegation Ahmed denies. . .


https://tinyurl.com/87aeds6r

Posted by: Lizzy at September 22, 2026 08:37 AM (rOKnE)

159 Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at September 22, 2026 08:34 AM (I0N4X)

Poor guy. He must not be feeling grate.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2026 08:38 AM (JrHfD)

160 I heard that Carrot Top is in a persistent vegetative state...

Carrot Top jokes should be rooted out.
Posted by: Delurker at September 22, 2026 08:35 AM


Orange you glad we won't ever see that sex tape?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 22, 2026 08:38 AM (P6lWH)

161 Today Is National Ice Cream Cone Day. 🍦

Posted by: redridinghood at September 22, 2026 08:39 AM (NpAcC)

162 @147 eat your peas

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 22, 2026 08:41 AM (taL2t)

163 Today Is National Ice Cream Cone Day. 🍦
Posted by: redridinghoo

**********

Now that's the kind of news scoop I like to read!

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at September 22, 2026 08:43 AM (I0N4X)

164 >>Today Is National Ice Cream Cone Day.


Not on sundae?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 22, 2026 08:44 AM (rOKnE)

165 Scott Jennings taking names, kicking ass.

Steve Guest
@SteveGuest
@ScottJenningsKY from the top rope obliterates MSNOW and walks his fellow panelists on CNN NewsNight into a “bUt FoX” trap.

Jennings: “I actually think there’s a difference between, truthfully, CNN and Politico and MS NOW. You watch MS NOW for ten minutes, it’s like total alternate reality. I actually think there’s a difference.

Left wing panelists: “Well some people may say that about Fox.”

Jennings: “Yeah, Obama, he said that about Fox.”

Got ‘em!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 22, 2026 08:44 AM (ndZc7)

166 So Carrot Top is being blackmailed by a couple of fags for having sex with them but I thought Carrot Top was straight?

Posted by: Mariann Edgar Budde, Not A Lesbian at September 22, 2026 08:44 AM (6VpiA)

167 "The findings raise serious questions about the oversight of taxpayer-funded childcare programs in the Democrat-run city, particularly Seattle’s Child Care Assistance Program, which provides funding to daycares serving low-to-middle-income families. If confirmed, the fraud could undermine public trust in such programs and divert resources from families in genuine need."
"More Somali Daycares Under Investigation for $5 MILLION in Suspected Fraud."

Much watch video! Unbelievable that practically every house is a daycare center on the block and beyond"

Posted by: redridinghood at September 22, 2026 08:44 AM (NpAcC)

168 Now that's the kind of news scoop I like to read!

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at September 22, 2026 08:43 AM (I0N4X)


Here, here! i second that!

Posted by: Donnie Two Scoops at September 22, 2026 08:45 AM (6AV2u)

169 In the eyes of the university, the public blowback Sara Larsen received over her “Happy Kirkiversary” cake was the fault of the College Republicans—because they posted a picture of it.

Ah. So they were supposed to just ignore it or laugh along with her.

Thankfully, their lawyer had a meeting with the campus admins over tea and beatings and made them see the light.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 22, 2026 08:45 AM (NR6c1)

170 An astonishing 34% of students nationally believe violence is acceptable to stop a campus speech, up from 20% in 2022.

More than half of students, or 54%, support blocking others from attending a campus speech, while almost three-quarters, 71%, call for shouting down a speaker they don’t like.


This is all because violence works. And it only comes from the left.

Until one of two things change they will embrace violence:

1) It stops working politically either because
A) Right leaning officeholders put them in jail
B) LIVs stop voting for them

2) Right leaning partisans respond with equal or greater violence

And honestly I don't see any of that happening. Even after Trump was actually shot he's barely prosecuting the networks that planned his assassination attempts. I suspect the polls are in fact skewed but this violence isn't really hurting leftwing election efforts. Finally even with COVID and the prospect of the government forcibly injecting your kids with the poison there was no armed response...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 22, 2026 08:46 AM (sKqQm)

171 132 You want a true horror movie this fall? Visualize the sex tape of Carrot Top and Kathie Griffin.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 22, 2026 08:24 AM (SjnWr)

I hear Carrot Top swings the other way so it would have to be a male redhead... Ed Sheeran ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 22, 2026 08:46 AM (+gK6I)

172 I heard that Carrot Top is in a persistent vegetative state...

**************

It's not a tuber!

/Ahnold S.

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at September 22, 2026 08:46 AM (I0N4X)

173 Today Is National Ice Cream Cone Day. 🍦
Posted by: redridinghoo
===================
Isn't that every day?

Posted by: Joe Biden, family man at September 22, 2026 08:47 AM (DhlIm)

174 I hear Carrot Top swings the other way so it would have to be a male redhead... Ed Sheeran ?
Posted by: It's me donna at September 22, 2026 08:46 AM (+gK6I)



Do we really know what gender either one of them are?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 22, 2026 08:47 AM (ccf/V)

175
Do we really know what gender either one of them are?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 22, 2026 08:47 AM (ccf/V)

Actually... No.. Not sure either sex would claim them...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 22, 2026 08:48 AM (+gK6I)

176 You watch MS NOW for ten minutes, it’s like total alternate reality. I actually think there’s a difference.

Any time I wade into leftwing forums this is one thing that sticks out. Yes they have a very different version of how they want the world to be...but they also have an insane version of the way the world is now...

White cops are hunting down black people for sport
ICE agents are deporting thousands, if not millions, of citizens
Muslims are being killed by Israel and the US for no reason

and on and on and on

Posted by: 18-1 at September 22, 2026 08:49 AM (sKqQm)

177 Right, Black JEM, when Germany was the economic engine of Europe, only the top 1/3 went to college, selected by testing. Others went to trade schools, worked in the booming auto, chemical, industries. Then they began importing Turks to staff factories and began Nude Green Eel policies. This ship be sinkin' now.

Posted by: Sink The Bismarck at September 22, 2026 08:49 AM (Fn+3X)

178 Not on sundae?
Posted by: Lizzy


***********

Well-played!

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at September 22, 2026 08:50 AM (I0N4X)

179 Posted by: Mariann Edgar Budde, Not A Lesbian at September 22, 2026 08:44 AM (6VpiA

Here we go again. If Rev Budde is the awful Epicopsl who inappropriately chastised Pres . Trump at a prayer breakfast. She is married to a man and they have grown children. So is the Archbishop of Canterbury . She is married to

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2026 08:51 AM (JrHfD)

180 >>"Record number of US college students say violence is OK to stop controversial speakers"


Indicative of social media cancel culture values, but I also wonder how the demographic changes of our universities has affected this, too.

For example, you have huge pro-Palestine rallies and tent cities - how tolerant are Palestinians to speakers who disagree with them?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 22, 2026 08:51 AM (rOKnE)

181 seemingly willowed:
"77 Happy Anniversary to you and Hoary Puffleg, Fenelon Spoke!

hope you enjoy many more!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 22, 2026 07:06 AM (VyBeY) "

worth saying twice!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 22, 2026 08:51 AM (VyBeY)

182 Dems Promise An Impeach-O-Rama Next Year

"We will keep holding trials until we get the correct verdict" is usually only seen in Third World nations.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 22, 2026 08:51 AM (NR6c1)

183 132 You want a true horror movie this fall? Visualize the sex tape of Carrot Top and Kathie Griffin.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 22, 2026 08:24 AM (SjnWr)

I hear Carrot Top swings the other way so it would have to be a male redhead... Ed Sheeran ?
Posted by: It's me donna at September 22, 2026 08:46 AM (+gK6I)

Include me out.

Posted by: Rick Astley, Meme Star at September 22, 2026 08:51 AM (wVcYX)

184 "Senate Democrats Circle the Wagons Around Abdul El-Sayed"
====================
Still have six weeks to go in this campaign season but this looks like a Republican win, assuming squishy Mike Rogers can continue his momentum.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 22, 2026 08:51 AM (DhlIm)

185 I guess the band lead for his show is owed $300,000 and did the blackmail.

Carrot Top is now Carrot Bottom. 🥕

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 22, 2026 08:52 AM (rujGJ)

186 Carrot Top has lesbian eyebrows. Don't ask how I know this.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 22, 2026 08:52 AM (RIvkX)

187 They need trebuchets.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 22, 2026 08:32 AM (Y+ssL)

*has sign with mullah hand about 3.5 ft off ground*
You must NOT be taller than this to ride this attraction.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 22, 2026 08:52 AM (/+uur)

188 179 Sorry. Post got cut off. The Archbishop of Canterbury who stupidly and absolutely wrongly gave an award to a Muslim terrorist is also married to a man.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2026 08:52 AM (JrHfD)

189 "We will keep holding trials until we get the correct verdict" is usually only seen in Third World nations.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 22, 2026 08:51 AM (NR6c1)

How many Brexit votes were there until the PTB realized the people friggin meant it?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 22, 2026 08:53 AM (gLYp7)

190 Happy Anniversary to Fen and Mr. Fen

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 22, 2026 08:53 AM (RIvkX)

191 One side hates America and the other side doesn't.

That's where I start any debate with the Left.

Posted by: polynikes at September 22, 2026 08:53 AM (KC5Lt)

192 190 Happy Anniversary to Fen and Mr. Fen

Yes ! Happy Anniversary....

Posted by: It's me donna at September 22, 2026 08:53 AM (+gK6I)

193 Carrot Top has lesbian eyebrows. Don't ask how I know this.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

How do you know this?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 22, 2026 08:54 AM (rujGJ)

194 Happy Anniversary, Fen! How many years?

Posted by: Bulg at September 22, 2026 08:54 AM (77rzZ)

195 Happy anniversary, Fen!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 22, 2026 08:54 AM (rOKnE)

196 Republicans need to memorized and repeat:
2.4% inflation of core items less oil based products
4.1% unemployment
Lowest poverty rate since the 1950 of just over 10%
More working Americans eva
ZERO illegals released into USA in 16 months

then mic drop

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 22, 2026 08:55 AM (/+uur)

197 I asked chat gpt to estimate what percentage of harvard students were not born in the US and/or first generation and it came back with 50%.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 22, 2026 08:55 AM (sKqQm)

198 Obama was elected President twice and he and his wife still insists America is racist.

Posted by: polynikes at September 22, 2026 08:55 AM (KC5Lt)

199 Any time I wade into leftwing forums this is one thing that sticks out. Yes they have a very different version of how they want the world to be...but they also have an insane version of the way the world is now...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 22, 2026 08:49 AM (sKqQm)
=======================
Truth. Their "news" sources are nonstop crazy propaganda, and my friends who are Democrats believe it all, hook, line, and sinker. They are befuddled anyone could vote for Trump. They live in a very weird reality.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 22, 2026 08:56 AM (DhlIm)

200 Happy Anniversary to Fen and Mr. Fen
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 22, 2026 08:53 AM (RIvkX)

Yes ! Happy Anniversary....
Posted by: It's me donna at September 22, 2026 08:53 AM (+gK6I)

I have a love song I can croon for the lovebirds. Happy Anniversary!

Posted by: Rick Astley, Meme Star at September 22, 2026 08:56 AM (wVcYX)

201 So, O/T.......

My brother has been limited at work, due to his vision and apparent alcohol issues (work isn't aware of that). It seems he's got himself locked out and they can't figure out why or get it reset, so he needed to go to an office. My neighbor works in the IT department as well, so he graciously volunteered to take him in and work to get it resolved.

This is the first time I've seen my brother in a little while and I can only say it doesn't help my mental state. His vision has gotten REALLY bad. He can't see hardly at all and there doesn't appear to be enough light in the world to make it work.

It also seems his body is failing in some way that he's got a serious rash around his ankles that have his socks just nasty with blood and fluid. I'm not sure if that's a liver thing or if that's something else.

His wife is a medical assistant, so I can't imagine why he's either not being treated or if something is being done. He has a pretty significant level of give up because he's going blind, but it seems his wife has given up as well.

I just never imagined life would hand me, personally, so much hardship and tribulation.

Again, I now know what day to day means.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 22, 2026 08:56 AM (ccf/V)

202 It won't happen but I would love to see this. Every time a student is pulled from public/government schools, the teacher union employee (not educator) in the class room has their pay reduced. If they are so stupid and ignorant they believe the crap curriculum is appropriate, they have no place teaching. If they know it's crap and push it anyway, they are just 'following orders'. That defense didn't work at Nuremberg and it shouldn't in the classroom.

Posted by: JTB at September 22, 2026 08:56 AM (yTvNw)

203 > More than half of US college students say controversial speakers should be banned from their campuses, with a record-high number adding that violence is acceptable to stop them, a disturbing study shows.
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Works both ways.

Conservatives on college campuses, should therefore use violence to curb "controversial" speakers too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 22, 2026 08:56 AM (2Cry5)

204 Indicative of social media cancel culture values, but I also wonder how the demographic changes of our universities has affected this, too.

The biggest demographic change to college campuses isn't the number of Palestinians on campus.

58% of college students are female.

Posted by: Reality at September 22, 2026 08:56 AM (6AV2u)

205 Posted by: It's me donna at September 22, 2026 08:53 AM (+gK6I)

Thanks, all. Im not Episcopal but I'm not married to a woman either. It makes me laugh ( because it sounds like we got married in the 1900's) to say that we did married in the last century- but we did.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2026 08:56 AM (JrHfD)

206 163 Today Is National Ice Cream Cone Day. 🍦
Posted by: redridinghoo

Fine. Have your cone today. Just don't forget that tomorrow, Wednesday, is Sundae at your participating Carvel Dealer. All sundaes half-price!

Posted by: Carvel College Graduate at September 22, 2026 08:56 AM (Fn+3X)

207 190 Happy Anniversary to Fen and Mr. Fen

Yes ! Happy Anniversary....
Posted by: It's me donna at September 22, 2026 08:53 AM (+gK6I)
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Happy anniversary Fen!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 22, 2026 08:57 AM (DhlIm)

208 >>I asked chat gpt to estimate what percentage of harvard students were not born in the US and/or first generation and it came back with 50%.


So why would we expect 50% Harvard's student body to value the 1st Amendment? It is a foreign concept to them.

Not a criticism, just a reality. They bring their culture/values with them, and most of the world does not value free speech.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 22, 2026 08:58 AM (rOKnE)

209 He has a pretty significant level of give up because he's going blind, but it seems his wife has given up as well.

I've seen plenty of cases where whatever health care issue you have isn't something obvious and it is very, very easy to give up because most modern doctors are not some sort of Dr House that will leave no stone unturned to find what is wrong with you.

Its mostly: Take test A and we'll talk in a month. Oh that found nothing? Take test B and we'll talk in a month and on and on...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 22, 2026 08:58 AM (sKqQm)

210 Prayer up for your brother, Sponge.

Posted by: Bulg at September 22, 2026 08:59 AM (77rzZ)

211 I saw Lesbian Eyebrows open for Hole at the Palladium

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 22, 2026 08:59 AM (taL2t)

212 Prayer up for your brother, Sponge.
Posted by: Bulg at September 22, 2026 08:59 AM (77rzZ)



Thanks.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 22, 2026 08:59 AM (ccf/V)

213 And for you.

Posted by: Bulg at September 22, 2026 08:59 AM (77rzZ)

214 And for you.
Posted by: Bulg at September 22, 2026 08:59 AM (77rzZ)



Also thanks.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 22, 2026 09:00 AM (ccf/V)

215 Conservatives on college campuses, should therefore use violence to curb "controversial" speakers too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 22, 2026 08:56 AM (2Cry5)

But they won't. Because we're better than them.

The problem is, once you're in a fight, the party willing to fight hardest wins.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 22, 2026 09:00 AM (gLYp7)

216 I just never imagined life would hand me, personally, so much hardship and tribulation.

Again, I now know what day to day means.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 22, 2026 08:56 AM (ccf/V)
========================
May God bless you and yours Sponge. We support you in your trials. Hoping there is some light at the end of all these tunnels, and I admire your strength.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 22, 2026 09:00 AM (sOsrI)

217 Well ya don't say!

Controversial ‘looksmaxxing’ streamer Clavicular charged with rape, drugging woman for sex: report

https://tinyurl.com/bddpws5k

Posted by: redridinghood at September 22, 2026 09:00 AM (NpAcC)

218 Children of the Little Red Hitler Jungen book.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 22, 2026 09:00 AM (2GVsD)

219 Conservatives on college campuses, should therefore use violence to curb "controversial" speakers too.

And they would immediately be thrown out of the college and prosecuted by the local jurisdiction and get sentenced to real jail time



Posted by: 18-1 at September 22, 2026 09:00 AM (sKqQm)

220 Are lesbian eyebrows thick and dyed dark?

Posted by: polynikes at September 22, 2026 09:01 AM (KC5Lt)

221 Sponge , prayers for you and your brother. Tough situation. Get him to a doctor for the ankles

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 22, 2026 09:02 AM (taL2t)

222 >>The biggest demographic change to college campuses isn't the number of Palestinians on campus.

58% of college students are female.



I completely agree that likely contributes to it as well!
And there are a lot of dumb American women who have embraced the Pali cause.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 22, 2026 09:02 AM (rOKnE)

223 It's a strange phenomenon, something objectively bad happens, and large groups of society enthusiastically advocate for or actively work to make it to happen again. 9/11 - muslims blow up NY, bring in large groups of muslim immigrants
10/7 - Gazans kill Israelis in barbaric ways and take hostages, send gobs of money to Hamas
Kirk - kill a man who simply debated, opinion polls show large and growing segments saying it was justified and applauded

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 22, 2026 09:03 AM (Dv3i1)

224 Mendoza said Peters paid for an Uber to bring her to his family home in Cape Cod — and she went in hopes that meeting with the streamer would further her own career, according to the suit.

But when she got to the home, Peters loaded Mendoza, who was underage, up with “excessive amounts of alcohol” and then had sex with her when she was too inebriated to give consent, and again when she was asleep, the lawsuit alleges.


This is horrible and assuming it is true hopefully Peters will get a long jail sentence but...can we go back to teaching young women to not go alone to the home of a man they don't know?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 22, 2026 09:03 AM (sKqQm)

225 212 Prayer up for your brother, Sponge.
Posted by: Bulg at September 22, 2026 08:59 AM (77rzZ)

Yes... I know it's your Brother but you can't take up the burdens of everyone around you...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 22, 2026 09:03 AM (+gK6I)

226 I just never imagined life would hand me, personally, so much hardship and tribulation.

Again, I now know what day to day means.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 22, 2026 08:56 AM (ccf/V)
========================

You're not alone.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 22, 2026 09:04 AM (rujGJ)

227 Sponge a prayer for his complete and speedy recovery.

It sounds to me based on what you have written he needs immediate medical care and is a candidate for Social Security Disability.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 22, 2026 09:05 AM (RIvkX)

228 Kirk - kill a man who simply debated, opinion polls show large and growing segments saying it was justified and applauded

Kirk was effective more then Crowder and much more then Shapiro, and overall the method was causing issues for the left as they need a 100% cocoon to keep their system working.

That is why the left justifies killing him. And...it worked. They traded a loser getting a few years in jail for taking out one of the most effective right leaning political figures in America. And that's a trade they would make again in a heartbeat

Posted by: 18-1 at September 22, 2026 09:05 AM (sKqQm)

229 Ed Sheeran weeps on stage, says Israel’s actions in Gaza ‘unjustifiable’ in emotional first speech since Macklemore fiasco
https://tinyurl.com/337r4mwe

Macklemore knew Sheeran was a pussy, that's why he took advantage of him.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 22, 2026 09:05 AM (Dv3i1)

230 Macklemore knew Sheeran was a pussy, that's why he took advantage of him.

There is one more thing you've gotta do though Macklemore . And remember do it to show dominance not in a gay way.

Posted by: Graham Platner at September 22, 2026 09:07 AM (sKqQm)

231 Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 22, 2026 09:02 AM (taL2t)

Amen!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2026 09:07 AM (JrHfD)

232
It sounds to me based on what you have written he needs immediate medical care and is a candidate for Social Security Disability.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 22, 2026 09:05 AM (RIvkX)



We have a mutual friend who's supposedly working with them on the disability thing as she had gone through it personally and knows the ropes.

I truly do thank you all for your thoughts, prayers, kind words and words of advice. The really do help. The First Lady and I are forever indebted to you all.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 22, 2026 09:08 AM (ccf/V)

233 58% of college students are female.

Large proportion of these women will have careers as emailers in a corporate hive. What a waste.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 22, 2026 09:08 AM (Dv3i1)

234 And there are a lot of dumb American women who have embraced the Pali cause.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 22, 2026 09:02 AM (rOKnE)


It's not just the Pali cause.

There are a significant number of women that believe it's excusable to strangle your own children to death.

Women are often proponents of violence because they are comparatively rarely the victims of it.

Let Corn Fed Jed beat the cake girl's face to a bloody pulp, her views on violence will change a bit.

Posted by: Reality at September 22, 2026 09:09 AM (EoyNh)

235 Large proportion of these women will have careers as emailers in a corporate hive. What a waste.

Or maybe not

Posted by: AI Agents at September 22, 2026 09:09 AM (sKqQm)

236 One would think Weepy Ed's manager would find a suitable opening act, or input in the decision to not tour with this filthy fuck. But, I guess not.

I just root for maximum damage.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 22, 2026 09:10 AM (rujGJ)

237 Again, I now know what day to day means.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 22, 2026 08:56
*****
I'm so sorry to hear this, Sponge.
Does your brother have macular degeneration? My mom is suffering from that she gets shots in her eyes every 6 weeks. Her eyes are getting better so they now have switched it to 8 weeks.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 22, 2026 09:10 AM (NpAcC)

238 Ed Sheeran weeps on stage, says Israel’s actions in Gaza ‘unjustifiable’ in emotional first speech since Macklemore fiasco
https://tinyurl.com/337r4mwe

Macklemore knew Sheeran was a pussy, that's why he took advantage of him.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 22, 2026 09:05 AM (Dv3i1)



F*ck them all.

There's no such thing as a 'palestinian.'

The people of Gaza do NOTHING to help themselves and are largely a terrorist state. They are roaming nomads that no one wants because they're bloodthirsty muslham ideologues.

DNA would show they're simply middle eastern, Jordanian. There's no evidence that a 'palestinian' ever existed in the history of ever.

Damn philistines........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 22, 2026 09:11 AM (ccf/V)

239 Over 80% of Veterinary School students are women.
About 50% of Med School.
Pharmacy School is 70-30 female, when it was 70-30 men only twenty years ago.
We will be ruled by a Hormonal Gynokleptocracy in short order.

Posted by: Think Kathy Hochul and CIA Barbie at September 22, 2026 09:13 AM (Fn+3X)

240 Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 22, 2026 09:11 AM (ccf/V)

Well said.

Posted by: dantesed at September 22, 2026 09:13 AM (Oy/m2)

241 58% of college students are female.

This is going to help further damage marriage rates.

Women do not want to 'marry down,' but they are actively creating a world in which men - increasingly correctly - see college as a waste of time and money as well as a significant risk to their freedom.

A college-educated woman simply isn't going to marry a non-college man.

The loudest, most strident women are hurting normal women and they either don't see or don't care.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 22, 2026 09:13 AM (gLYp7)

242 Does your brother have macular degeneration? My mom is suffering from that she gets shots in her eyes every 6 weeks. Her eyes are getting better so they now have switched it to 8 weeks.
Posted by: redridinghood at September 22, 2026 09:10 AM (NpAcC)



He has Retinitis Pigmentosa, which is incurable. It causes tunnel vision and night blindness until the tunnel completely closes. He also has Fuchs' Dystrophy, which causes a foggy condition in the eyes (I have this as well).

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 22, 2026 09:13 AM (ccf/V)

243 Let Corn Fed Jed beat the cake girl's face to a bloody pulp, her views on violence will change a bit.

I don't know how many videos I've seen in recent years of women causing an issue in places like bars, starting a fist fight with a man, and getting an outcome they really don't want.

I suspect a lot of this is because many women nowadays believe the stuff in action movies of a 120lb woman beating up a 250lb guy

Posted by: AI Agents at September 22, 2026 09:13 AM (sKqQm)

244
To be pro-Israel makes you a Nazi to Islamunists.

It's a twisted world.

Posted by: Auspex at September 22, 2026 09:14 AM (Y8DZL)

245 It's a testament to how well propaganda works on vast numbers of people that idiots like Macklemore still insist there was a genocide in Gaza despite even Hamas admitting there was no genocide.

No amount of factual information will deter these people, they simply believe what they want to believe.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 22, 2026 09:15 AM (viF8m)

246 Disgusting

Lindsay and Patrick Clancy are individually suing all the doctors and medical services for 'failing' to prevent Lindsay from murdering her three children.

Hope both suits get tossed out and them billed for all the court fees.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 22, 2026 09:15 AM (2GVsD)

247 I bet Trump's speech to the UN today is gonna be lit....

Posted by: It's me donna at September 22, 2026 09:15 AM (+gK6I)

248 There's also the fact that when a bloodline is affected with RP, it usually passes among the siblings of the 2 parents with a similar degenerative gene (1 in a few million shot).

He got all of it. I got none............

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 22, 2026 09:16 AM (ccf/V)

249 Sending prayers, Sponge!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 22, 2026 09:16 AM (rOKnE)

250 Let Corn Fed Jed beat the cake girl's face to a bloody pulp, her views on violence will change a bit.

I don't know how many videos I've seen in recent years of women causing an issue in places like bars, starting a fist fight with a man, and getting an outcome they really don't want.

I suspect a lot of this is because many women nowadays believe the stuff in action movies of a 120lb woman beating up a 250lb guy
Posted by: AI Agents


Yep. They get that factory reset button tapped and
It's a hell of a surprise.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 22, 2026 09:16 AM (Y+ssL)

251
Truth. Their "news" sources are nonstop crazy propaganda, and my friends who are Democrats believe it all, hook, line, and sinker.

Do you know that living on 100K now is the same as on the minimum wage in the 1970s?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 22, 2026 09:16 AM (eRlcH)

252 Conservatives on college campuses, should therefore use violence to curb "controversial" speakers too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 22, 2026 08:56 AM (2Cry5)

Try it, we dare you.

Posted by: Every college police force at September 22, 2026 09:16 AM (jmRo5)

253 My prayers for you, Sponge, and your brother. I have been fortunate to have found the right medical team to help me and I hope the same for you. May God bless you both.

Posted by: Buck at September 22, 2026 09:16 AM (fiwzq)

254 There's no such thing as a 'palestinian.'

Most of the Muslims in Israel came from Jordan or Egypt after Zionism - look at Egyptian Arafat as a prime example

The European Jews brought money, knowledge, and a work ethic back to the region which increased the need for workers.

Posted by: AI Agents at September 22, 2026 09:16 AM (sKqQm)

255 Too late to comment now.

Posted by: Don Black at September 22, 2026 09:16 AM (ZxPkt)

256 246 Disgusting

Lindsay and Patrick Clancy are individually suing all the doctors and medical services for 'failing' to prevent Lindsay from murdering her three children.

Hope both suits get tossed out and them billed for all the court fees.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 22, 2026 09:15 AM (2GVsD)

Knew this was gonna happen when the "husband" blamed them all on 60 minutes and also said he forgave her.... Personally, I don't think he should be around Children either...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 22, 2026 09:17 AM (+gK6I)

257 I thank you all. My wife and I do.

Through it all, we are blessed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 22, 2026 09:17 AM (ccf/V)

258 Disgusting

Lindsay and Patrick Clancy are individually suing all the doctors and medical services for 'failing' to prevent Lindsay from murdering her three children.

Hope both suits get tossed out and them billed for all the court fees.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Pigs wallow in mud.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 22, 2026 09:18 AM (rujGJ)

259 Do you know that living on 100K now is the same as on the minimum wage in the 1970s?

It never ceases to amaze me that the left complains about the increased cost of living and refuses to listen to anyone that points out that is 100% due to inflation, regulation, and immigration.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 22, 2026 09:18 AM (sKqQm)

260 58% of college students are female.

This is going to help further damage marriage rates.

Women do not want to 'marry down,' but they are actively creating a world in which men - increasingly correctly - see college as a waste of time and money as well as a significant risk to their freedom.

A college-educated woman simply isn't going to marry a non-college man.

The loudest, most strident women are hurting normal women and they either don't see or don't care.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung


They don't even care if he's college educated if he doesn't fit the 6-6-6 image.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 22, 2026 09:18 AM (Y+ssL)

261 255 Too late to comment now.
Posted by: Don Black

Jump in! More than ten minutes til Shart arrives.

Posted by: Trolling For Comments at September 22, 2026 09:19 AM (Fn+3X)

262 Lindsay and Patrick Clancy are individually suing all the doctors and medical services for 'failing' to prevent Lindsay from murdering her three children.

Hope both suits get tossed out and them billed for all the court fees.
Posted by: Anna Puma



The fact that she failed to follow ANY of the doctor's prescribed treatment plans means that the case will likely be thrown out due to personal negligence.

And there will be rioting.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 22, 2026 09:19 AM (ccf/V)

263
Knew this was gonna happen when the "husband" blamed them all on 60 minutes and also said he forgave her.... Personally, I don't think he should be around Children either...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 22, 2026 09:17 AM (+gK6I)



He mentioned that he and his new wife are planning to have a family.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 22, 2026 09:20 AM (ccf/V)

264 Our new tech is Awesome!

DENVER (KDVR) — New video shows a Waymo robotaxi driving down a closed road and through a Denver farmers market.

160 vendors were setting up about 8:15 a.m. Sunday at the South Pearl Street Farmers Market when the self-driving vehicle came through.

"It entered through our food truck area," said Nicole Jarman, the production director of the farmers market.

Jarman said there was a "Road Closed" sign on one side of the street, but the other side of the street was still open to vendor traffic during set up and the Waymo" followed a vendor vehicle past the sign and then turned onto the 1400 block of South Pearl Street.



Posted by: Lizzy at September 22, 2026 09:20 AM (rOKnE)

265 You want a true horror movie this fall? Visualize the sex tape of Carrot Top and Kathie Griffin.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 22, 2026
*
I hear Carrot Top swings the other way so it would have to be a male redhead... Ed Sheeran ?
Posted by: It's me donna at September 22, 2026
*
Include me out.
Posted by: Rick Astley, Meme Star at September 22, 2026


***
I'll pass.

Posted by: Jimmy Olsen, Cub Reporter at September 22, 2026 09:20 AM (wzUl9)

266 The loudest, most strident women are hurting normal women and they either don't see or don't care.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 22, 2026 09:13 AM (gLYp7)


They get to have hot girl summer until they're ready to settle down and then they get to make tik toks for the rest of their lives about how it's all so unfair or they're totally thrilled with their empty apartment and cats and all young women should emulate them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 22, 2026 09:21 AM (ExV1e)

267 Every time I see a trailer for the horror movie Other Mommy I keep seeing Lindsay Clancy as the monster living in the little girl's closet.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 22, 2026 09:22 AM (2GVsD)

268
New video shows a Waymo robotaxi driving down a closed road and through a Denver farmers market.

So the old movie trope of cars running into fruit stands really happens!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 22, 2026 09:22 AM (eRlcH)

269 TikTok streaming Pallywood’s greatest hits is what caused the virulent Israel hate. CCP owned TikTok played Americans and the west in general, like a fiddle. As usual.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 22, 2026 09:22 AM (jmRo5)

270 DNA would show they're simply middle eastern, Jordanian. There's no evidence that a 'palestinian' ever existed in the history of ever.

Damn philistines........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 22, 2026 09:11 AM (ccf/V)

The big unstated elephant in the room, and the reason no Arab countries support them with anything more than cheap words, is Gaza (much more than the West Bank) has for at least 75 years now been the garbage dump for all the human problems that the Arab world has not wanted to deal with.

I’m sure they thought they were quite clever for arranging to dump them there and make them Israel’s problem.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 22, 2026 09:23 AM (SjnWr)

271 They don't even care if he's college educated if he doesn't fit the 6-6-6 image.

I saw a guy with a portable height post. He'd have the women come over and say what the minimum height they'd date was while standing next to the post.

And it was amusing that he had a few tall woman who basically said, 'Someone might height or taller then me' but then a slew of 5' to 5'4 women demanding 6 ft or taller.

The avg man is 3in taller then the avg woman.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 22, 2026 09:23 AM (sKqQm)

272 It never ceases to amaze me that the left complains about the increased cost of living and refuses to listen to anyone that points out that is 100% due to inflation, regulation, and immigration.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 22, 2026 09:18 AM (sKqQm)


The (vocal) yoots also choose not to believe that a starter home is around 1000 square feet and not a 14 bedroom mansion with 15 pools.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 22, 2026 09:23 AM (ExV1e)

273 They get to have hot girl summer until they're ready to settle down and then they get to make tik toks for the rest of their lives about how it's all so unfair or they're totally thrilled with their empty apartment and cats and all young women should emulate them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 22, 2026 09:21 AM (ExV1e)

I used to think inter-political dating was manageable.

It's now a deal breaker.

I read the 'ettes here and am reminded that normal, healthy women DO exist, in droves. You just have to be deliberate about finding one and about making yourself open and available to her.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 22, 2026 09:23 AM (gLYp7)

274 267 Every time I see a trailer for the horror movie Other Mommy I keep seeing Lindsay Clancy as the monster living in the little girl's closet.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 22, 2026 09:22 AM (2GVsD)

Or Coralines "other mother"

Posted by: It's me donna at September 22, 2026 09:23 AM (+gK6I)

275 He has Retinitis Pigmentosa, which is incurable. It causes tunnel vision and night blindness until the tunnel completely closes. He also has Fuchs' Dystrophy, which causes a foggy condition in the eyes (I have this as well).
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 22, 2026 09:13 AM (ccf/V)
******
That's awful. Sending prayers for both of you!

Posted by: redridinghood at September 22, 2026 09:23 AM (NpAcC)

276 They don't even care if he's college educated if he doesn't fit the 6-6-6 image.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 22, 2026 09:18 AM (Y+ssL)


Don't worry, men are ahead of the curve.

6 figures is what a plumber, roofer or electrician makes in the coming economy.

Men will take female HR Director salaries and stuff them in their wallet every time the water heater goes out, the breaker panel fries, or the roof leaks.

Posted by: Reality at September 22, 2026 09:23 AM (EoyNh)

277
Watch enough woman's TikToks and you'll never want anything to do with them in any way ever.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 22, 2026 09:23 AM (eRlcH)

278 >>I suspect a lot of this is because many women nowadays believe the stuff in action movies of a 120lb woman beating up a 250lb guy


They've been marinating in a feminist "girlboss" culture that encourages aggressive behavior and anger, reinforced by an entertainment media that routinely shows 100lb waif girls beating up tall, muscular men. At the same time they have not given up the expectation that men will both protect them, or if attacked, will not defend themselves. Bananas.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 22, 2026 09:25 AM (rOKnE)

279 This is the one day a year we see the ugly green marble behind the speakers in the General Assembly. Burn that place down, somebody, please.

Posted by: Diplomatic Immunity at September 22, 2026 09:25 AM (Fn+3X)

280 160 I heard that Carrot Top is in a persistent vegetative state...

Carrot Top jokes should be rooted out.
Posted by: Delurker at September 22, 2026 08:35 AM

Orange you glad we won't ever see that sex tape?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 22, 2026 08:38 AM (P6lWH)
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Tuber or not tuber, that is the question.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at September 22, 2026 09:25 AM (JNTt1)

281 The loudest, most strident women are hurting normal women and they either don't see or don't care.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung


They don't even care if he's college educated if he doesn't fit the 6-6-6 image.
Posted by: rickb223
+++
All this while they are blue haired, face full of piercings, and at least 50 pounds overweight. And think they are some kind of prize.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at September 22, 2026 09:26 AM (Lo97M)

282 Was Carrot Top ever funny?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 22, 2026 09:26 AM (2GVsD)

283 Watch enough woman's TikToks and you'll never want anything to do with them in any way ever.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 22, 2026 09:23 AM (eRlcH)


TT is the greatest, not immediately lethal, weapon ever deployed. Chynah knew what they were doing. And they paid good money for the most socially destructive content.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 22, 2026 09:26 AM (ExV1e)

284 279 This is the one day a year we see the ugly green marble behind the speakers in the General Assembly. Burn that place down, somebody, please.
Posted by: Diplomatic Immunity at September 22, 2026 09:25 AM (Fn+3X

I'd like to redecorate that place ... With a Bulldozer...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 22, 2026 09:27 AM (+gK6I)

285 I'd like to redecorate that place ... With a Bulldozer...

How about Katy Perry on a wrecking ball?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 22, 2026 09:28 AM (2GVsD)

286 Women wanting tall guys isn’t new. As a tall dude myself I don’t see the controversy. 🙂

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 22, 2026 09:28 AM (jmRo5)

287 Watch enough woman's TikToks and you'll never want anything to do with them in any way ever.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Whaa? You don't like tatted up rainbow haired harridans in cars using bird hands to explain how evil men and babies are?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 22, 2026 09:28 AM (ndZc7)

288
How about Katy Perry on a wrecking ball?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 22, 2026 09:28 AM (2GVsD)

Yes ... A twofer...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 22, 2026 09:28 AM (+gK6I)

289 It's me donna

Killdozer for the win!

*Hands you some C-4 that fell off the truck*

Here. Use this. Faster.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2026 09:28 AM (u82oZ)

290 They've been marinating in a feminist "girlboss" culture that encourages aggressive behavior and anger, reinforced by an entertainment media that routinely shows 100lb waif girls beating up tall, muscular men. At the same time they have not given up the expectation that men will both protect them, or if attacked, will not defend themselves. Bananas.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 22, 2026 09:25 AM (rOKnE)


I've seen some stuff lately from women bitching about how men don't give up seats or hold doors any more. One woman said that she was keeping chivalry alive. I wanted to tell her to wait until some woman she'd held the door for got up in her face and told her that no woman needed a MAN to hold their door. See how long chivalry lasts under the assault it's been under for decades.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 22, 2026 09:29 AM (ExV1e)

291 Happy Fall Equinox Day!

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 22, 2026 09:29 AM (wVcYX)

292 The loudest, most strident women are hurting normal women and they either don't see or don't care.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung
*
They don't even care if he's college educated if he doesn't fit the 6-6-6 image.
Posted by: rickb223
+++
All this while they are blue haired, face full of piercings, and at least 50 pounds overweight. And think they are some kind of prize.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at September 22, 2026


***
Quoted for truth. I saw this sort of thing coming -- well, the general shape of it -- in the '90s.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 22, 2026 09:29 AM (wzUl9)

293 Whaa? You don't like tatted up rainbow haired harridans in cars using bird hands to explain how evil men and babies are?

You forgot the vocal fry uptalking. Along with the yelling, punching the steering wheel, and crying jags.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 22, 2026 09:29 AM (2GVsD)

294 "More than half of US college students say controversial speakers should be banned from their campuses, with a record-high number adding that violence is acceptable to stop them, a disturbing study shows."

And what, 2/3 of those students are women who assume someone else does the violence for them

Posted by: heya at September 22, 2026 09:30 AM (ND37T)

295 Bob Dylan was ahead of his time. Remember that rainbow haired poster of his?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 22, 2026 09:30 AM (ndZc7)

296 Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

At least you have Linda.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2026 09:30 AM (u82oZ)

297 can we go back to teaching young women to not go alone to the home of a man they don't know?
Posted by: 18-1


The typical feminist response: "You're blaming the victim! TEACH BOYS TO NOT RAPE!!"

Posted by: NR Pax at September 22, 2026 09:30 AM (NR6c1)

298 At the same time they have not given up the expectation that men will both protect them, or if attacked, will not defend themselves.

Occasionally I'll see videos by more traditional women arguing "why aren't men stepping up to defend women?" and I half give them a pass.

But they'll you'll also see a blue haired Karen McGirlBoss make the same argument and...she'll claim in other videos that is rank misogyny...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 22, 2026 09:31 AM (sKqQm)

299 Boom-Booms galore today. Mommy Doktor Jill left the box of prunes down where I could reach them!

Posted by: Joe From Scranton at September 22, 2026 09:31 AM (Fn+3X)

300 an entertainment media that routinely shows 100lb waif girls beating up tall, muscular men.

Summer Glau and Firefly. Or Buffy. Or both.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 22, 2026 09:31 AM (2GVsD)

301 I really can't shake the feeling of imminent doom that is coming in November.

I'm surrounded by hyper progressive wackos up here in southern Maine - but I get the impression that people are generally not happy.

Posted by: Defenestratus at September 22, 2026 09:31 AM (WYStd)

302 I've seen some stuff lately from women bitching about how men don't give up seats or hold doors any more. One woman said that she was keeping chivalry alive. I wanted to tell her to wait until some woman she'd held the door for got up in her face and told her that no woman needed a MAN to hold their door. See how long chivalry lasts under the assault it's been under for decades.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 22, 2026 09:29 AM (ExV1e)

Riding the metro here in the DMV, I had a young-ish danger-hair woman standing near me while I sat, reading a book. She was maybe 28.

After a stop or two, and listening to her sigh loudly, I looked up at her. She asked 'aren't you going to give up your seat for a woman?'

"This is what equality looks like."

The men around me chortled and she was absolutely livid.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 22, 2026 09:32 AM (gLYp7)

303 Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
*
At least you have Linda.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2026


***
She may be silent and secretive, but she's not nutty like these creatures. And she is slim and dresses like a grown-up.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 22, 2026 09:32 AM (wzUl9)

304 NR Pax

Metal slug throwing devices in a caliber beginning in 4 tend to end the Rape Epidemic. If used properly.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2026 09:32 AM (u82oZ)

305 Macklemore knew Sheeran was a pussy, that's why he took advantage of him.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 22, 2026 09:05 AM (Dv3i1)

I've heard someone refer to Macklemore as Vanilla Isis..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 22, 2026 09:32 AM (nbLIj)

306 They don't even care if he's college educated if he doesn't fit the 6-6-6 image.

I saw a guy with a portable height post. He'd have the women come over and say what the minimum height they'd date was while standing next to the post.

And it was amusing that he had a few tall woman who basically said, 'Someone might height or taller then me' but then a slew of 5' to 5'4 women demanding 6 ft or taller.

The avg man is 3in taller then the avg woman.
Posted by: 18-1


I like they guy who, when they say 6', he puts down a scale and says, "step on".

Posted by: rickb223 at September 22, 2026 09:32 AM (Y+ssL)

307 The typical feminist response: "You're blaming the victim! TEACH BOYS TO NOT RAPE!!"

One other interesting part on that...the number of actual rapists is very small, what you usually find when you look into the details of sex assault cases is the criminal usually has dozens of claims and/or indictments for the same sorts of crimes over the years.

We just stopped giving criminals long jail sentences because that's what feminists demanded.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 22, 2026 09:33 AM (sKqQm)

308 302 I've seen some stuff lately from women bitching about how men don't give up seats or hold doors any more.

Woman: Wants equality.
Woman: Gets equality.
Woman: "And I took that personally!"

Posted by: NR Pax at September 22, 2026 09:33 AM (NR6c1)

309 Dark art up

Posted by: rickb223 at September 22, 2026 09:34 AM (Y+ssL)

310 >>I've seen some stuff lately from women bitching about how men don't give up seats or hold doors any more. One woman said that she was keeping chivalry alive. I wanted to tell her to wait until some woman she'd held the door for got up in her face and told her that no woman needed a MAN to hold their door. See how long chivalry lasts under the assault it's been under for decades.

Yup. Like the twitter gal who used to complain about getting catcalls when walking down the street suddenly started complaining that she wasn't getting catcalls. Hey, where's my instant feedback that I'm lookin' fiiiiine?!

Instapundit has a frequent saying about chivalry - that it is a system where both men and women have a set of behaviors, and women who've ditched those shouldn't expect men to stick with theirs.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 22, 2026 09:34 AM (rOKnE)

311 Give up seats for old people or handicapped. Fuck giving up seats for women.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 22, 2026 09:34 AM (jmRo5)

312 287-I am glad I don't watch anything on Tik- Tok and skip many videos posted here.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2026 09:34 AM (Aqpmr)

313 an entertainment media that routinely shows 100lb waif girls beating up tall, muscular men.

Summer Glau and Firefly. Or Buffy. Or both.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 22, 2026


***
In fairness, Buffy was practically a superhero in the strength department -- she was not an average girl. The Slayer Package came with speed and strength (though she had to train) comparable to the vampires' powers.

Summer Glau's character, I don't know about.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 22, 2026 09:34 AM (wzUl9)

314 Nood

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 22, 2026 09:35 AM (rujGJ)

315 I like they guy who, when they say 6', he puts down a scale and says, "step on".
Posted by: rickb223


Love that one. And there was a dust up on X where a woman showed a picture of her with a disgusted expression saying "When your height starts with Five."

A man responded "When your weight starts with two hundred."

She was pretty mad about that.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 22, 2026 09:35 AM (NR6c1)

316 >>I saw a guy with a portable height post. He'd have the women come over and say what the minimum height they'd date was while standing next to the post.


Have you seen the ones where the guy has a scale?

You have a height requirement, and I have a weight requirement, LOLGF!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 22, 2026 09:36 AM (rOKnE)

317 Heck I've had people at work say as much, such as "I can't wait until someone takes him out."
Posted by: Lizzy at September 22, 2026 08:13 AM (rOKnE)

I reply by telling people like that, IF that happens, YOU will be next. Let them ponder that for a while. And, yeah, my true Gemini comes through.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 22, 2026 09:42 AM (hmYU4)

318 I reply by telling people like that, IF that happens, YOU will be next. Let them ponder that for a while. And, yeah, my true Gemini comes through.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 22, 2026 09:42 AM (hmYU4)

I always ask 'do you think the bullet that finally gets him will be the last fired, or the first?'

That typically gets them to at least shut up.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 22, 2026 09:43 AM (gLYp7)

319 >>I always ask 'do you think the bullet that finally gets him will be the last fired, or the first?'

That typically gets them to at least shut up.




Oh, that's good - thanks!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 22, 2026 09:45 AM (rOKnE)

Daily Tech News 22 September 2026

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Disclaimer: Missed it by that much.

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1 !!

Posted by: clarence at September 22, 2026 04:31 AM (Ue5am)

2 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 22, 2026 04:32 AM (Ia/+0)

3 I forgot Herman Munster was in Car 54, where are you

Posted by: Skip at September 22, 2026 04:33 AM (Ia/+0)

4 called the otters.

Posted by: clarence at September 22, 2026 04:34 AM (Ue5am)

5 Good morning. Read the material.

Rookie.

Actually interested in Google. Avoided them for years as they were evil. Only company that made Apple and Microsoft look decent by comparison. Now it’s Anthropic and Open AI that occupy the evil throne.

Posted by: Pete Bog at September 22, 2026 04:37 AM (Nbw9A)

6 Pete Bog, is Tuna on the menu?

Posted by: Ben Had at September 22, 2026 04:39 AM (UdrMW)

7 Raining here, certainly don't want to hear we haven't had enough this year

Posted by: Skip at September 22, 2026 04:42 AM (Ia/+0)

8 "one realistic multicore benchmark which immediately left the Mac Studio face down in the dirt."

Heretic. I suspect you've been permanently banned from Cupertino.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 22, 2026 04:44 AM (VyD10)

9 It's the first day of Autumn. Thank goodness.

Posted by: Serious Cat at September 22, 2026 04:44 AM (ytvBf)

10 "Googlebook OS is Android which is Linux, in this case Debian under the hood, updated with a user interface that doesn't look like a Subaru that hasn't been washed for forty years."

Add Mountain View to the list of places you're banned.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 22, 2026 04:45 AM (VyD10)

11 I miss Summer already

Posted by: Skip at September 22, 2026 04:46 AM (Ia/+0)

12 Screw summer. Good riddance!

Posted by: JQ at September 22, 2026 04:47 AM (rdVOm)

13 G'mornin all y'all

Posted by: Okjohn at September 22, 2026 04:48 AM (Rwdkj)

14 Google has created what it's calling the Magic Pointer for the new operating system, which users can shake to enable Gemini mode, giving them the power of Gemini's AI capabilities at their fingertips.

- Wccftech

What a terrible way to bring up AI mode.
Like people don't shake their pointer on the screen all the time just to see where the thing is.

"Wheres the pointer?"....

*slides fingermback and forth across the trackpad to find it*...

"Awww shit it's Gemini back again... how do I turn this stupid thing off!!?"

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 22, 2026 04:49 AM (6ydKt)

15 Morning , all.

Posted by: Caf at September 22, 2026 04:51 AM (fawlF)

16 The GoogleBooks feature a rainbow LED on the lid that does something. Apparently it's supposed to do more but Google forgot to complete the API so developers can write code so it does something besides blink. I give these a couple years before the only GoogleBooks that will exist will be plastic ones on a shelf in the hallway to the bathrooms at Best Buy. That or will be buried as landfill in the Google graveyard.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 22, 2026 04:52 AM (VyD10)

17 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 22, 2026 04:53 AM (sAmhv)

18 Hey Ben Had,

Grouper was on sale. We got extra. I’m working on a concoction right now. Thinking of trying a little panko crust with a quick sauté of the top and bottom then 3 or 4 minutes to finish in the oven. Lemon beurre blanc sauce. Maybe finish the sauce with a little dill.

Posted by: Pete Bog at September 22, 2026 04:54 AM (Nbw9A)

19 "Awww shit it's Gemini back again... how do I turn this stupid thing off!!?" Posted by: SpeakingOf

The same way you turn off Copilot: you either buy a MacBook or you set up a Linux machine.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 22, 2026 04:54 AM (VyD10)

20 Looks like gargles attitude is still 'Take or leave it, peasants.'

Posted by: clarence at September 22, 2026 04:54 AM (Ue5am)

21 Mac Studio Ultra -

36 Core CPU
80 core GPU
256 GB RAM
4 TB SSD

Price as Configured
$12,299.00

---

Yeah, that sounds about right.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 22, 2026 04:56 AM (6ydKt)

22 I keep hoping if I never use Gemini it will go away, not lucky so far but will keep trying

Posted by: Skip at September 22, 2026 04:58 AM (Ia/+0)

23 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at September 22, 2026 04:58 AM (V0/Sp)

24 Can Google claw its way back on to the Throne of Evil? I think not. Their stranglehold on search evaporated and they are scrambling to get entrenched elsewhere before the cash is pissed away building computer and storage.

Posted by: Pete Bog at September 22, 2026 04:58 AM (Nbw9A)

25 >>> Raining here, certainly don't want to hear we haven't had enough this year

During dry periods I start watching the radar more closely. Rain from the west seemed to like Pennsylvania well enough.

Posted by: fluffy at September 22, 2026 05:00 AM (V0/Sp)

26 GoogleBooks are what happens when Google engineers start macro-dosing LSD. I just don't get the value proposition here. I use Android because it's not iPhoneOS and iPadOS. Beyond that I am not understanding why we need a fourth PC ecosystem based on Android phone apps that may or may not be reformatted for a laptop high resolution screen running in a browser window.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 22, 2026 05:02 AM (VyD10)

27 Acer says the Googlebook 14 can be equipped with up to 32 GB LPDDR5X memory and up to 512 GB of NVMe storage, though the 16 GB + 512 GB configuration seems to be the only option for now.

- Notebookcheck.net

You can't even get a SSD with more than 512GB, apparently.
That's how they made a 14" laptop with an OLED and still keep the price at $899.

If they went up to 1TB the laptop would be $1049.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 22, 2026 05:09 AM (6ydKt)

28
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 22, 2026 05:10 AM (AMvSw)

29 Not content to flood the USA with fentanyl the Mexican cartels are going to flood the Southwest between Phoenix and Las Cruces with heavy monsoon rains beginning tomorrow. Note to self: do not drive into the into the very large puddles that will suddenly appear unless I want to be rescued by a helicopter.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 22, 2026 05:10 AM (VyD10)

30 https://www.americanthinker.com/combat trained ai is leaving ukraine-faster-than-the-rules can follow

Its here and is going to go away, warfare has changed.

Posted by: Skip at September 22, 2026 05:12 AM (Ia/+0)

31 26 GoogleBooks are what happens when Google engineers start macro-dosing LSD. I just don't get the value proposition here. I use Android because it's not iPhoneOS and iPadOS. Beyond that I am not understanding why we need a fourth PC ecosystem based on Android phone apps that may or may not be reformatted for a laptop high resolution screen running in a browser window.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 22, 2026 05:02 AM (VyD10)

They weren't making enough money with Chromebooks, and then Apple dropped the Neo and blew them away, so now they're only move is take the Microsoft route and start making their own hardware beyond smartphones and Google TV.

Unfortunately for Google the vast majority of people on this planet don't trust them and don't think of them as a hardware company anyhow. Their only buyers are tech addicts who don't want to deal with Apple or Microsoft or Samsung.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 22, 2026 05:13 AM (6ydKt)

32 Good morning. all!

Had such a nice day yesterday. Today is our anniversary, ( We got married in the previous century) but since spouse had the day off yesterday we went to a lovely little town about an hour away. Many of the houses date from the 1800's. Most of the shops were closed but we went to pet boutique, the biscotti bakery and the a place with antiques. There was a man there finishing old furniture there and I got a pair of antique earrings. We had very nice conservations with the shop owners!

A highlight of the time was stoping at a church which was originally founded in the 1700's but was redone in the 1800's. I liked the outside. The pastor's wife ( they live next door in the parsonage) saw us and invited us to see the inside of the church and her husband was inside . What a beautiful church and we had such a nice talk ! Thanks, God!


Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2026 05:15 AM (JrHfD)

33 Last compelling hardware Google sold was the 2013 Nexus 7.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 22, 2026 05:15 AM (BLOW1)

34 Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at September 22, 2026 05:16 AM (Ia/+0)

35 You wouldn't download a polyhedron, would you?

For my kids, using Paint, I created the five Platonic solids flattened so I could print them out, fold them up, and tape them up...
No need to worry; they may live together, but they're just friends.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 22, 2026 05:25 AM (l3cgK)

36 3 I forgot Herman Munster was in Car 54, where are you

Posted by: Skip at September 22, 2026 04:33 AM (Ia/+0)

Was he Car 54?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 22, 2026 05:26 AM (l3cgK)

37 32 Good morning. all!

Had such a nice day yesterday. Today is our anniversary, ( We got married in the previous century)
...

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2026 05:15 AM (JrHfD)

Congrats! Happy Anniversary.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 22, 2026 05:27 AM (l3cgK)

38 A woman reflects on Matthew 11:28-30 in this devotional on "An easy load" as well as working with one of her grandchildren. She has five!

https://tinyurl.com/4yardyb9

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2026 05:28 AM (JrHfD)

39 My favorite Google hardware failure was the Nexus Q that was released in 2012 and lasted about month before was killed off.

Google made two fundamental errors with the Nexus Q. The first was the Google engineers were macro-dosing LSD while under specifying the device. They also overlooked that they were releasing a product into a well defined market space that had formidable entrenched competitors such as Apple, Sony, Roku and so on. Essentially nobody knew what the hell this thing was supposed to do.

On the plus side it came in the shape of a plastic softball ball that had a LED that spanned the equator of the ball and lit up when something happened, sort of like the LED on GoogleBooks.

https://youtu.be/EZjHmDKZhO0

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 22, 2026 05:31 AM (VyD10)

40 22 days late. Better late than never I guess.

(The song, that is)

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 22, 2026 05:33 AM (vupS9)

41 Unfortunately for Google the vast majority of people on this planet don't trust them and don't think of them as a hardware company anyhow. Their only buyers are tech addicts who don't want to deal with Apple or Microsoft or Samsung.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 22, 2026 05:13 AM (6ydKt)

Or organizations like school districts.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 22, 2026 05:35 AM (vupS9)

42 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 22, 2026 05:27 AM (l3cgK)

Thanks so much. Time has flown!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2026 05:36 AM (JrHfD)

43 Pete Bog, is Tuna on the menu?

Don't eat Tuna! She's such a nice and interesting poster!😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2026 05:37 AM (JrHfD)

44 @21

>>Yeah, that sounds about right.

Well, let's look at the cost by the general price of it's compnoents.

256gb of ddr5 will run yo anywhere fron 7-10k, depending on the manufacturer.

A 4tb nvme will run you 600 dollars.

Comping the video card is hard as you would require a 100k nvida dgx station to be able to have 256gb of video ram on the GPU bucause of apples unified memory architecture, but for the sake of comping we will use 2 spark cards at 5k a pop for a 10k total there.

And for th cpu the closes comp is a AMD thread ripper which comes in at 5k.

So, that Apple M5 Ultra is a bargain.

Throw in the fact you are getting a Unix/Linux OS and a pretty compact computer and there is nothing that is a price competitive as any mac right now laptop, desktop or mini.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 22, 2026 05:43 AM (XV/Pl)

45 Happy Anniversary, Fen!

Posted by: NR Pax at September 22, 2026 05:44 AM (NR6c1)

46 Evening to the late toilers for this Tiu's Day, and morning to the early risers and insomaniacals! The Fox and CBS outlets are reporting 75 F. this morning and no heat index with that -- and no, it's not raining. Less humid air by Saturday, they *say*. A good omen for the first day of autumn, no?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 22, 2026 05:46 AM (wzUl9)

47 The Autumnal (or Spring for Pixy) Equinox is at 8:04 pm EDT tonight.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 22, 2026 05:47 AM (36x1j)

48 News anchors can't stop laughing at impatient dog honking a car horn:

https://tinyurl.com/ye9jy9b8

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2026 05:49 AM (JrHfD)

49 I reseeded my lawn Sunday and the grass, Johnathon Green Shady Nooks, is already coming up. Unfortunately, I expect 3 days of coastal flooding from the Spinning Low of Doom. I do have 1/2 a bag left so overseeding will happen this weekend.
Tech is like your cordless tool: pick a brand color you like because the batteries are not interchangeable but the tools are functionally the same.

Posted by: Accomack at September 22, 2026 05:50 AM (8jVAy)

50 Thanks, for the nice good wishes everyone.!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2026 05:50 AM (JrHfD)

51 And because of the ridiculous prices of memory and storage, I've begun to source them off of ebay.

Fortunately, I've had good luck so far.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 22, 2026 05:53 AM (XV/Pl)

52 A semi-nightmare just before I woke up: I was working again as a package delivery driver. First day back, and it was raining lightly, so traffic was choked. I had forgotten a rain jacket and cap, too. My first stop was a new apartment and shopping development in a western suburb, a place that hadn't existed when I had that route in the mid-'80s. Each building had its own address on the avenue, then apartment numbers within that building . . . and all the buildings were numbers like 1700 or 1800, whereas my packages were for 2300 and 2600. I couldn't find a map of the development or an office, and nobody I spoke to had any idea where the 2000s began. And these were only my first stops for the day.

On the other hand, it looked like the ideal of a "walkable" community: apartments, coffee shops and bakeries, grocery stores, other service businesses. And not everybody there was retirement age, either. Sort of like a big mall with living spaces attached.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 22, 2026 05:53 AM (wzUl9)

53 Throw in the fact you are getting a Unix/Linux OS and a pretty compact computer and there is nothing that is a price competitive as any mac right now laptop, desktop or mini.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

One data point that confirms this. The 15-in M5 MacBook Air (16 GB, 1 TB) is $2200. The 15-in X2 Elite Surface Laptop (16 GB, 1 TB) is $2400. Setting aside personal software ecosystem preferences these two laptops are roughly equivalent in capability and build quality. I never thought I would see MacBooks be the value leader but here we are.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 22, 2026 05:54 AM (VyD10)

54 Happy anniversary, Fen, and your day trip sounds like a delight.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 22, 2026 05:57 AM (wzUl9)

55 "September" is good, but I always liked Earth, Wind and Fire's "Fantasy." The second half especially has this fast-moving, insistent melody that carries you along with it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 22, 2026 05:59 AM (wzUl9)

56 @53

>>I never thought I would see MacBooks be the value leader but here we are.

Setting aside the dollar factor, the main reason I have liked apple over the long term is that the essential look, feel and operation has not changed much over the last 40 years.

They change things very slowly and at the margins, but for the most part if you look at System 1 and say Tahoe, other than more graphics polish, they look the same.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 22, 2026 06:02 AM (XV/Pl)

57 "In a shocking clip, James Talarico’s pastor interprets Communion through ancient divine-feminine and mother-goddess imagery, claiming that eating the divine represents breastfeeding."

I am starting to think that burning heretics is a very rational approach to certain issues.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 22, 2026 06:06 AM (NR6c1)

58 My 2014 MacBook Air froze when I first opened it up, then rebooted itself. Everything is fine now. Since the Mac so rarely fails or has a bobble of any kind, it's startling.

I should go to that "used but refurbished Macs" site -- what is its name again? -- and pick up a newer laptop with more memory, and maybe a newer desktop with the same.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 22, 2026 06:06 AM (wzUl9)

59 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Shtarker, zis is KAOS - zere is no *machine gun mouth sounds* here.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 22, 2026 06:07 AM (amcLV)

60 Big black Stirling is romping around here, working up the appetite he doesn't need for breakfast. Dagny, I'm sure, is not locked up -- she was on the bed when I woke -- but I don't know where she's gotten off to.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 22, 2026 06:07 AM (wzUl9)

61 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at September 22, 2026 06:10 AM (2Ez/1)

62 Come to think of it, today would have been my mother's birthday -- she'd have been 110. Everybody in her life had trouble remembering her actual birthday because the autumn equinox shifts from year to year, from the 21st to the 23rd. It was not until I read Lord of the Rings and saw that Bilbo and Frodo's birthdays were also on 9/22 that I could fix it in my memory.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 22, 2026 06:13 AM (wzUl9)

63 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 22, 2026 06:14 AM (Hbeqj)

64 Time to change and stretch, and see what kind of workout I can manage.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 22, 2026 06:14 AM (wzUl9)

65 57 "In a shocking clip, James Talarico’s pastor interprets Communion through ancient divine-feminine and mother-goddess imagery, claiming that eating the divine represents breastfeeding."

I am starting to think that burning heretics is a very rational approach to certain issues.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 22, 2026 06:06 AM (NR6c1)

It's the gayest kind of neo-paganism, hiding in the skin of a church.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 22, 2026 06:27 AM (l3cgK)

66 It's the gayest kind of neo-paganism, hiding in the skin of a church.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)


All I'm saying is that if there are thunderstorms near that church, I'm staying well away from it.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 22, 2026 06:30 AM (NR6c1)

67 62 Come to think of it, today would have been my mother's birthday -- she'd have been 110. Everybody in her life had trouble remembering her actual birthday because the autumn equinox shifts from year to year, from the 21st to the 23rd. It was not until I read Lord of the Rings and saw that Bilbo and Frodo's birthdays were also on 9/22 that I could fix it in my memory.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 22, 2026 06:13 AM (wzUl9)

This month is busy with anniversaries and birthdays for me.
Mom's death, Paternal Grandpa's 130th; death of my maternal grandmother, Cousin's 79th bday, sister's bday, brother's bday, Paternal Grandma's passing, my last living Auntie's 94th bday...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 22, 2026 06:32 AM (l3cgK)

68 66 It's the gayest kind of neo-paganism, hiding in the skin of a church.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

All I'm saying is that if there are thunderstorms near that church, I'm staying well away from it.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 22, 2026 06:30 AM (NR6c1)

Fire and brimstone: it's the only way to make sure.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 22, 2026 06:32 AM (l3cgK)

69
All I'm saying is that if there are thunderstorms near that church, I'm staying well away from it.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 22, 2026 06:30 AM (NR6c1)


In 1984, David Jenkins was consecrated Bishop of Durham in York Minster. Jenkins had before said, "I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if he wanted. But I don't think he did." Three days later, the cathedral was struck by lightning and badly damaged.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 22, 2026 06:42 AM (eRlcH)

70 FenelonSpoke

Happy Anniversary, you two crazy kids lovebirds. Many more, please.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2026 06:46 AM (u82oZ)

71 "Setting aside the dollar factor, the main reason I have liked apple over the long term is that the essential look, feel and operation has not changed much over the last 40 years."

The UI has changed a lot since 1986. (So has everyone else's, so maybe that's why you didn't notice it.)

I'd been using a MacBook (provided by work) since 2015. (Past tense since they laid me off last Friday; shipped the laptop to them yesterday.) It was OK; I can use them, but I would never buy one and run their OS.

Part of my irritation would be due to corporate overlays; still, there were some fairly nice built-in things. The interactive application search was nice.

Still, the mac's ability to handle multi-display windows sucked absolute ass.

I'm typing this on a Slackware 15.0 computer. (Think of a bleeding edge linux distribution; find a linux distribution as far away from that as possible; behold! Slackware.) It's running an ancient version of the K desktop Environment (KDE Plasma 5, version 5.23.5) which is perfectly able to show a window split across 2 screens. By default, I'll add.

The MacBook, however, would only display such a window on one of the two monitors.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at September 22, 2026 06:49 AM (pf2QX)

72 Good Morning.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 22, 2026 06:49 AM (ex18v)

73

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at September 22, 2026 06:51 AM (SRdv/)

74 If you believe in the Resurrection, everything else (e.g. Virgin painless birth, Immaculate Conception) is easy.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 22, 2026 06:51 AM (36x1j)

75 Hillary Clinton

The mayor of NYC, Mandamn, has a better chance of being elected President than you do. And he is Constitutionally ineligible.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2026 06:54 AM (u82oZ)

76 J.J. Sefton; Runway 030.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2026 07:03 AM (u82oZ)

77 Happy Anniversary to you and Hoary Puffleg, Fenelon Spoke!

hope you enjoy many more!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 22, 2026 07:06 AM (VyBeY)

78 and G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 22, 2026 07:07 AM (VyBeY)

Monday Night ONT - September 21, 2026 [TRex]

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Good evening Horde. The time has come for Monday shenanigans. The bar is open and the refrigerator has been freshly re-stocked with A&W Rootbeer.

Welcome to the Monday night ONT which means vintage overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. Pants are optional. This ONT is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Fauci is fair game.

[Top photo: Sir Goony Golf, Chattanooga, Tennessee. 1986]

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The Monday ONT has dialed up the wayback machine tonight with very random results.

7-Up building in Portland - 1976.

It was located at NE 37th Avenue and Sandy Boulevard in Portland's Hollywood District. The building remains, but is no longer a 7-Up building. Likewise for the Dunes Motel.

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Ross Diner in Quechee, Vermont in 1995.

The diner is a classic Worcester Lunch Car from 1946. The car originally operated as the Ross Diner in Holyoke, Massachusetts. After it closed in 1990 it was moved briefly to New Hampshire, then to Quechee Gorge Village. The car has been a Foley Brothers Beer Garden in recent years, but the interweb implies that this location may be recently closed?

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Army-Navy Football game in 1916 at the New York Polo Grounds. Army won 15-7.

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Duesenberg Automobile Company Factory at 1501 West Washington Street, Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana. 1984 photo. The building stopped operating as a Deusenberg factory in 1937.

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Laurel Engine No. 1, a horse-drawn steam fire engine of the York, Pennsylvania, fire department, posed in front of the Laurel Fire Company station in 1911. The Laurel station (now part of the still-operating Laurel-Rex Fire Company House on S. Duke Street) is one of the oldest continuously used firehouses in the United States.

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New York entrance plaza of the Holland Tunnel in 1985.

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L.F. Kitts General Merchandise store in Maynardville, Union County, Tennessee in 1935 (modest crop of the original photo)

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U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey field truck being serviced, circa 1937.

The U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey was the United States' first civilian scientific agency and mapped shorelines, prepared tidal and nautical charts, etc. It was under the Department of Commerce before being folded into the new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in 1970.

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Logging in Tillamook County, Oregon, circa 1941

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US Post Office, 401 North Carson Street, Carson City, Nevada, 1940.

Construction begun 1888 and it was occupied in 1891. It housed the post office and U.S. District Court until the post office left in 1970. It later served as the Nevada State Library and now the Nevada Commission on Tourism is its main occupant.

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Winterview Farm Log Cabin, near Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia (about 0.1 mile south of I-81, 1.5 miles northeast of the U.S. 11 interchange). Circa 1971. I can't definitively confirm whether it still exists.

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1 In case of emergency, break glass.🔨

Posted by: mindful webworker - on time at September 21, 2026 10:01 PM (MX7Zk)

2 Yo!

Posted by: lin-duh at September 21, 2026 10:01 PM (VCgbV)

3 copy that

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 10:01 PM (2UA/a)

4 Monstro's going to get a golf ball right in the old blowhole.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 10:01 PM (wpRMV)

5
Love the photos

Posted by: four seasons at September 21, 2026 10:01 PM (/QHx4)

6 I've been through the Holland Tunnel. Didn't see a single windmill but there may have been a few dykes.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 10:02 PM (wpRMV)

7 7-Up building in Portland - 1976.
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Didn't Portland look clean back then?
So much for that today.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 10:03 PM (2UA/a)

8 Whale, I've never seen that before.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2026 10:03 PM (1Ff7Z)

9 Heh. For Trunk or Treat at church one year, I made up a quickie poster board and crepe paper "costume" for the back of my Rav4, so it vaguely sorta looked like a whale, and I dressed as Jonah (my beard is perfect for playing Old Testament characters) and sat in the back to hand out candy.

Some kids knew the story, some didn't. I got to get a bunch of them started on it, though.

Posted by: GWB at September 21, 2026 10:04 PM (kU0PQ)

10 Coffins, Caskets, Coca-Cola.

Alliterative and informative.

Posted by: LRob in OK at September 21, 2026 10:04 PM (Jr+re)

11 Lion Sleeps Tonight is such a great song.

Thanks for the swell ONT Dino!

Posted by: 496 at September 21, 2026 10:04 PM (go8bP)

12 Didn't Portland look clean back then?
So much for that today.

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From those fabled Days of Yore, when there were adults in charge and things were clean and functional.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 10:05 PM (wpRMV)

13 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 21, 2026 10:06 PM (IMGZD)

14 Thanks for the swell ONT Dino!

Posted by: 496 at September 21, 2026 10:04 PM
***
You are welcome!

Posted by: TRex - mini golf technician dino at September 21, 2026 10:07 PM (XfIK1)

15 >L.F. Kitts General Merchandise store in Maynardville, Union County, Tennessee in 1935
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They don't carry Dapper Dan, they carry Fop
They can get you Dapper Dan, it'll take about two weeks

Posted by: Don Black at September 21, 2026 10:07 PM (ZxPkt)

16 Winterview Farm Log Cabin, near Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia (about 0.1 mile south of I-81, 1.5 miles northeast of the U.S. 11 interchange). Circa 1971. I can't definitively confirm whether it still exists.

"Barnwood Builders" took care of that sumbitch. Turned it into a wedding pavilion.

Kidding. But, I watched a lot of that show when I was laid out with the 'rona back in 2020. So it might coulda happened.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 21, 2026 10:07 PM (0aYVJ)

17 MMMmm. A&W Root Beer.

*checks fridge*

"On the Hook Harborside Root Beer"?? WTH is this?

Just not the same anyway, if it's not served in a frosty mug on a tray hung on the driver's side window by a mini-skirted cuties on roller skates.

Posted by: mindful webworker - time traveler at September 21, 2026 10:07 PM (MX7Zk)

18 News Max will cover Trump's UN speech according to their web site. So the other networks can pound sand.

Posted by: Case at September 21, 2026 10:08 PM (xJpuh)

19 US Post Office, 401 North Carson Street, Carson City, Nevada, 1940.

Not as much parking there now.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2026 10:08 PM (1Ff7Z)

20 Nyah

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 10:08 PM (2GVsD)

21 Drew Carey?

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 21, 2026 10:08 PM (zZu0s)

22 Also, love the Americana, doof.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 21, 2026 10:09 PM (zZu0s)

23 Shouldn't that log cabin have a Starbucks sign on the side?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 10:10 PM (wpRMV)

24 Relevant to tonight's host dino:

https://xkcd.com/3300/

Posted by: mikeski at September 21, 2026 10:10 PM (VHUov)

25 Errr. T-Rex. You cobs all look the same to me.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 21, 2026 10:10 PM (zZu0s)

26 Sorry I'm.late, I had a lightbulb go out and I was trying to get Alexander Graham Bell to honor the warranty.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 21, 2026 10:10 PM (WElo/)

27 That blue whale on the miniature golf course - you EXPECT that if your ball goes up the ramp and in that it will drop out near the hole. If it doesn't, you have to send your little brother into the mouth to get the ball. Mwah hah haaah.

Posted by: mindful webworker - or little sister at September 21, 2026 10:10 PM (MX7Zk)

28 The Monday ONT is brought to you by Ray Williams Bayshore Chrysler Plymouth:

He's not wrong, though.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2026 10:11 PM (1Ff7Z)

29 Evening, all. Thanks for the ONT, TRex!

Nothing to report on the job hunt today other than I managed to find a decent swath to apply to. Poked the 'pending update' list, no responses because of course. Inching closer to being fully approved for subbing, should be fairly 'soon', at which point I'll try to sub 2-4 days a week, leaving space for interviews for better jobs.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 21, 2026 10:11 PM (aJQbY)

30 Japan, nuked not enough?

https://youtu.be/UIdzBWRGY-g

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 10:12 PM (2GVsD)

31
23 Shouldn't that log cabin have a Starbucks sign on the side?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 10:10 PM (wpRMV)

If it has a sign saying “Republicans meet here!” I’m staying away.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 21, 2026 10:12 PM (SjnWr)

32 There was a general store/post office in Norman, Indiana that looked exactly like that up until the 90s. Heck, might still be there.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 21, 2026 10:12 PM (zZu0s)

33 27 That blue whale on the miniature golf course - you EXPECT that if your ball goes up the ramp and in that it will drop out near the hole. If it doesn't, you have to send your little brother into the mouth to get the ball. Mwah hah haaah.

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It's got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes.

Posted by: Quint at September 21, 2026 10:12 PM (wpRMV)

34 Last night of summer

Posted by: Don Black at September 21, 2026 10:13 PM (ZxPkt)

35 Whale, I've never seen that before.
Posted by: OrangeEnt
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Some would krill to play that putt-putt course.

Posted by: scampydog at September 21, 2026 10:13 PM (41CYW)

36 News Max will cover Trump's UN speech according to their web site. So the other networks can pound sand.
Posted by: Case

But we won't get Abby Phillip's insight and repartee!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 10:13 PM (ndZc7)

37 27 That blue whale on the miniature golf course -

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Wait a minute. Could be a minke.

Posted by: Ishmael at September 21, 2026 10:13 PM (wpRMV)

38 Shouldn't that log cabin have a Starbucks sign on the side?


In that part of the country - See Rock City.

Posted by: LRob in OK at September 21, 2026 10:13 PM (Jr+re)

39 tankdemon, I regret to inform you that your guarantor should be Thomas Alva Edison. Or possibly Nikola Tesla.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 21, 2026 10:13 PM (aJQbY)

40 Trivia: the dog seen in the Ralph Williams commercial is the announcer Chick Lambert's dog Storm.

Cal Worthington (known to pretty much anyone who spent any time at all on the West Coast from the '40s to the '90s) parodied the "dog Storm" commercials with his "dog Spot", which was anything but a dog. Lion, orca, ostrich...

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 21, 2026 10:13 PM (qlLNh)

41 Japan, nuked not enough?

https://youtu.be/UIdzBWRGY-g
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 10:12 PM (2GVsD)

Odd.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 21, 2026 10:13 PM (zZu0s)

42 rrr. T-Rex. You cobs all look the same to me.
Posted by: Aetius451AD


The fact that one of them is twenty feet tall doesn't set him apart?

Posted by: mikeski at September 21, 2026 10:13 PM (VHUov)

43 That song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" has a fascinating history, going back to an original cut by a group of Zulu musicians. The story is told in essays by the inimitable Mark Steyn, and by South African journalist Rian Malan. You can read Steyn's essay here: https://tinyurl.com/y4caj4c2

Posted by: Nemo at September 21, 2026 10:14 PM (4RPgu)

44 Sadly, Kitts General store in Maynardville, TN is no more. There is however the 33 Diner, Tacolandia, and, a bit surprisingly, St. Teresa of Kolkata Catholic Church.

There's more mackerel snappers down here than one might imagine.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 21, 2026 10:14 PM (IMGZD)

45 Grat ONT Trex!
Thank you!
See you soonish!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 21, 2026 10:14 PM (NnhvP)

46 Shouldn't that log cabin have a Starbucks sign on the side?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
......

No coffee, thanks. But what's the code for the outhouse?

Posted by: wth at September 21, 2026 10:15 PM (oq9dX)

47
Those pictures reflect so much ingenuity, creativity, and industriousness.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at September 21, 2026 10:15 PM (mmrXZ)

48 One of our local TV weather "experts" says Fall begins at 7:05 pm tomorrow. Given his accuracy on rain forecasts, I predict it won't happen for about two weeks!

Posted by: LRob in OK at September 21, 2026 10:16 PM (Jr+re)

49 For Random Dave
https://youtu.be/nd_uvlhnvE4

Posted by: mindful webworker - with best wishes at September 21, 2026 10:16 PM (MX7Zk)

50 Is that Tillamook logging halal?

Posted by: From about That Time at September 21, 2026 10:17 PM (sl73Y)

51 Some would krill to play that putt-putt course.
Posted by: scampydog at September 21, 2026 10:13 PM (41CYW)

Not sure I baleen you.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2026 10:17 PM (1Ff7Z)

52 That log cabin balcony looks a bit under-supported, much like Sydney Sweeney's magnificent rack.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 10:17 PM (wpRMV)

53 Whale? I thought it was Rosie O'Donnell.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 10:17 PM (ndZc7)

54 That log cabin balcony looks a bit under-supported, much like Sydney Sweeney's magnificent rack.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 10:17 PM (wpRMV)

It probably stayed up longer than her tits will.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 21, 2026 10:18 PM (zZu0s)

55 Wait a minute. Could be a minke.
Posted by: Ishmael at September 21, 2026 10:13 PM (wpRMV)

Is this your minke?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2026 10:18 PM (1Ff7Z)

56 Time to read, exercise, shower, read some more, and sleep.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 21, 2026 10:19 PM (aJQbY)

57 51 Some would krill to play that putt-putt course.
Posted by: scampydog at September 21, 2026 10:13 PM (41CYW)

Not sure I baleen you.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2026 10:17 PM (1Ff7Z)

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It's okay. You can still be flense.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 10:19 PM (wpRMV)

58 > It probably stayed up longer than her tits will.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 21, 2026 10:18 PM (zZu0s)

I'm sure there are teams of plastic surgeons on standby to ensure that never happens.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 21, 2026 10:19 PM (qlLNh)

59 39 tankdemon, I regret to inform you that your guarantor should be Thomas Alva Edison. Or possibly Nikola Tesla.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 21, 2026 10:13 PM (aJQbY)

No wonder Alex was so adamant it had nothing to do with him. Anybody know how to get to Menlo Park?

Posted by: tankdemon at September 21, 2026 10:20 PM (WElo/)

60 Let's make sure we're not just looking at one side of the issue.

Posted by: Mobius Dick at September 21, 2026 10:20 PM (qlLNh)

61 The Monday ONT is brought to you by Ray Williams Bayshore Chrysler Plymouth:
He's not wrong, though.
Posted by: OrangeEnt


Yup. Truth in advertising.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 21, 2026 10:21 PM (0Htd1)

62 mindful webworker, I don't believe I've ever heard the original before... just the 'Express Personnel' jingle variation.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 21, 2026 10:21 PM (aJQbY)

63 Let's make sure we're not just looking at one side of the issue.
Posted by: Mobius Dick at September 21, 2026 10:20 PM (qlLNh)

And thereby hangs a tail.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2026 10:21 PM (1Ff7Z)

64 Not sure I baleen you.
Posted by: OrangeEnt
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That hurts my sole.

Posted by: scampydog at September 21, 2026 10:22 PM (41CYW)

65 US Post Office, 401 North Carson Street, Carson City, Nevada, 1940.

Seriously. Look at that thing.

It's a post office.

We used to be a proper country.

Posted by: mikeski at September 21, 2026 10:22 PM (VHUov)

66 I had a lightbulb go out and I was trying to get Alexander Graham Bell to honor the warranty.
——-
Radio Shack offered “Lifetime Warranty” vacuum tubes, under the Realistic brand. Radio enthusiasts loved finding these, for certain hard to find and/or expensive tubes. 1L6 was a pentagrid converter used in battery powered shortwave sets and I would read tales on the collector forums in the late 1990s of people dropping by Rat Shack to take them up on their offer. They would, and did. I thought it was kind of a dick move.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 21, 2026 10:22 PM (idVke)

67 YouTube isn't working for me right now. I will guess that the mystery link on the top photo ks Led Zeppelin's Moby Dick.

Probably not Enter the Haggis's Swallowed by a Whale. (I'd provide a link, but, alas, YouTube isn't cooperating right now.)

Posted by: tankdemon at September 21, 2026 10:23 PM (WElo/)

68 I'm sure there are teams of plastic surgeons on standby to ensure that never happens.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 21, 2026 10:19 PM (qlLNh)

Raise your hands, morons, who'd offer her support when it happens.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2026 10:23 PM (1Ff7Z)

69 Thanks for the ONT, Dino. Clever mystery click.

Posted by: scampydog at September 21, 2026 10:23 PM (41CYW)

70 Anybody know how to get to Menlo Park?
Posted by: tankdemon


Practice?

Posted by: mindful webworker - Jus th punchyline at September 21, 2026 10:23 PM (MX7Zk)

71 But we won't get Abby Phillip's insight and repartee!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie?


It's been so long since I've watched the mainstream media, that I have no idea which people are on those shows. Is Don smellmyfinger Lemon still on tv?

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 21, 2026 10:24 PM (0Htd1)

72 In the bedroom, the master bedroom
john bobbit sleeps tonight
In the kitchen, the quiet kitchen
lorena picks a knife -

Posted by: a wiener whack a wiener whack at September 21, 2026 10:24 PM (88C+u)

73 70 Anybody know how to get to Menlo Park?
Posted by: tankdemon

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If it's on the way to San Jose, get in.

Posted by: Dionne Warwick at September 21, 2026 10:24 PM (wpRMV)

74 Wonderful ONT, Dino.

I have a great great grand uncle who homesteaded in Carson City.

I love the West.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 21, 2026 10:25 PM (SIPhV)

75


The carson city post office is very, very similar to the key west, florida post office and customs house. I believe in that time frame there were only a few approved blueprint schemes available to the federal government so likely they used the same set.

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at September 21, 2026 10:25 PM (GzJtz)

76 Do you know the way to San Jose?

Posted by: wth at September 21, 2026 10:25 PM (oq9dX)

77 Yup. Truth in advertising.
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 21, 2026 10:21 PM (0Htd1)

Seems to be something these types did. Ed Barbara from the Bay Area did one like that too.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2026 10:25 PM (1Ff7Z)

78 In the restroom,
The women's restroom,
The tranny lurks tonight....

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 21, 2026 10:25 PM (qlLNh)

79 If it's on the way to San Jose, get in.


So, you know the way?

Posted by: LRob in OK at September 21, 2026 10:26 PM (Jr+re)

80 Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
BREAKING: Foreigners have FULLY taken over major streets in North Austin, doing DONUTS, shouting in foreign languages, & waving foreign flags
And @SecMullinDHS is just LETTING IT HAPPEN
SEND IN ICE NOW! Stop playing nice with these invaders!

https://tinyurl.com/mrfbyr4e

-
Mmmmm. Donuts.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 10:26 PM (ndZc7)

81 I dropped 40 lbs of ambergris on my foot and man does it hurt.

Posted by: Capt. Ahab at September 21, 2026 10:26 PM (wpRMV)

82 Pretty quick on the keys there wth!

Posted by: LRob in OK at September 21, 2026 10:27 PM (Jr+re)

83 Anybody know how to get to Menlo Park?
Posted by: tankdemon at September 21, 2026 10:20 PM (WElo/)

Take El Camino Real south from Redwood City. Can't miss it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2026 10:27 PM (1Ff7Z)

84 Vintage shenanigans! And A&W root beer!

Thanks, T Rex!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 21, 2026 10:28 PM (D/6p1)

85 New movie about a guy who gets swallowed by a fish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN9F6-tbySY

Posted by: Don Black at September 21, 2026 10:29 PM (ZxPkt)

86 At the visitation tonight, my nephew was asking why some of the photos were in black-and-white. My BiL replied "That's because they were taken in the 60s and 70s." He squinted hard. "And 50s, it looks like." That plaid suit he was photographed wearing was definitely 70s, though!

Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to find the good in things at September 21, 2026 10:29 PM (Wt5PA)

87 10 Forgotten '50s Hits You’ve Probably Never Heard
youtu.be/B9NDGFT8O10

Um, yeah, I remember all of them. Some from the radio. Some from sneaking into my six-years-older sister's bedroom and playing the 45s she left scattered on the floor.

Posted by: mindful webworker - not old, just mellow at September 21, 2026 10:29 PM (MX7Zk)

88 No wonder Alex was so adamant it had nothing to do with him. Anybody know how to get to Menlo Park?

Posted by: tankdemon at September 21, 2026 10:20 PM (WElo/)

Menlo park NJ? Easy, exit 132 on the parkway, get on Rt 27 towards metuchen and look for the giant art deco edison bulb monument.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 21, 2026 10:30 PM (S41Gd)

89 Anybody know how to get to Menlo Park?
Posted by: tankdemon

If it's on the way to San Jose, get in.
Posted by: Dionne Warwick


Just don't take a left turn at Albuquerque.

Posted by: Bugs Bunny at September 21, 2026 10:30 PM (VHUov)

90 Wasn't Einstein Menlo Park's most famous resident?

I guess it's all relative.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 10:31 PM (wpRMV)

91 45 Grat ONT Trex!
Thank you!
See you soonish!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 21, 2026
***
Yessir. Looking forward to it!

Posted by: TRex - lion tamer dino at September 21, 2026 10:32 PM (XfIK1)

92 Don't Forget

Send your money and your ballots in for Darrel Harris.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 10:33 PM (2UA/a)

93 In the restroom,
The women's restroom,
The tranny lurks tonight....
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

The Bobbit version.

In the bedroom
The master bedroom
Lorena's got a knife

A weenie whack a weenie whack
Aaeeeeeeeeee! Ayayayay

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 10:33 PM (ndZc7)

94 84 Vintage shenanigans! And A&W root beer!

Thanks, T Rex!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 21, 2026
***
You're welcome! I'm working on photos from your area for a future ONT so stay tuned.

Posted by: TRex - non-doof dino at September 21, 2026 10:34 PM (XfIK1)

95 I took that "Lorena" lyric off some radio skit I heard at the time.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 21, 2026 10:34 PM (88C+u)

96 81 I dropped 40 lbs of ambergris on my foot and man does it hurt.
Posted by: Capt. Ahab
--------
Not the type of thing that gets orcastrated.

Posted by: scampydog at September 21, 2026 10:35 PM (41CYW)

97 95 I took that "Lorena" lyric off some radio skit I heard at the time.
Posted by: 88C+u at September 21, 2026 10:34 PM (88C+u)

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Doesn't being honest make you feel better?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 10:35 PM (wpRMV)

98 70 Anybody know how to get to Menlo Park?
Posted by: tankdemon

I may be wrong here, but it might be in Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 21, 2026 10:35 PM (0Htd1)

99 > 90 Wasn't Einstein Menlo Park's most famous resident?

I guess it's all relative.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 10:31 PM (wpRMV)

I think Thomas Edison had his works there for a while.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 21, 2026 10:35 PM (qlLNh)

100 might've found it
youtu.be/84R2NsPmrJY

Posted by: 88C+u at September 21, 2026 10:35 PM (88C+u)

101 76 Do you know the way to San Jose?
Posted by: wth at September 21, 2026 10:25 PM (oq9dX)

No, but I might be willing to learn if Jose's price is right.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 21, 2026 10:36 PM (WElo/)

102 Send your money and your ballots in for Darrel Harris.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 10:33 PM (2UA/a)

Has he dropped out, or been dq'd? Sidebar link goes to a paused page.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2026 10:36 PM (1Ff7Z)

103 That was cool.
Thanks!

Posted by: 29Victor at September 21, 2026 10:36 PM (0MjtC)

104 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 21, 2026 10:36 PM (sAmhv)

105 You've left me no choice

https://tinyurl.com/3y6vn329

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 21, 2026 10:37 PM (r7+Q7)

106 Why not bring your wife down to our car lot so we can dicker?!?!!

Posted by: Ralph Williams Bayshore Chrysler Plymouth at September 21, 2026 10:38 PM (R0XxO)

107 In the bedroom, the master bedroom
john bobbit sleeps tonight
In the kitchen, the quiet kitchen
lorena picks a knife -
Posted by: a wiener whack a wiener whack at September 21, 2026 10:24 PM (88C+u)

Nice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 21, 2026 10:39 PM (zZu0s)

108 Not sure I baleen you.
Posted by: OrangeEnt
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That hurts my sole.
Posted by: scampydog

Keeo your sole for the halibut.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 21, 2026 10:39 PM (NnhvP)

109 106 Why not bring your wife down to our car lot so we can dicker?!?!!

*SNORT*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 10:39 PM (wpRMV)

110 BREAKING: Foreigners have FULLY taken over major streets in North Austin, doing DONUTS, shouting in foreign languages, & waving foreign flags
And @SecMullinDHS is just LETTING IT HAPPEN.”

I’m sorry but that’s just Retarded, sir. DHS does not do traffic enforcement for cities with fully staffed police forces of their own.

Now it may be true, and probably is, that the Austin PD is doing a piss poor job there. That still doesn’t mean the DHS gets called in as their backup.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 21, 2026 10:39 PM (SjnWr)

111 keep!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 21, 2026 10:40 PM (NnhvP)

112 Did Sam Drucker sell coffins?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 21, 2026 10:40 PM (Cqx++)

113 Now THIS is the real blue whale, Catoosa Oklahoma.
https://bit.ly/catoosa-blue-whale

I was there once, but it was in a period where the whale was decrepit, falling apart, and graffitied. It got better.

Posted by: mindful webworker - swam all the way up from the gulf (for real!) at September 21, 2026 10:40 PM (MX7Zk)

114 Seen on X:

Data center disguises itself as an abortion clinic to win support from leftists.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 21, 2026 10:40 PM (qlLNh)

115 Greetings Everyone

Thank you Mr. TRex.

Not much to report tonight. Maybe early to bed.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 21, 2026 10:41 PM (QGaXH)

116 Ah, yes. Austin.

The Portland of Texas.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 21, 2026 10:41 PM (qlLNh)

117 You want to see a blue whale? Come by Catoosa, Okla. It's on U.S. 66. Recently remodeled to add a visitor center.

Posted by: Weak Geek at September 21, 2026 10:41 PM (p/isN)

118 You're welcome! I'm working on photos from your area for a future ONT so stay tuned.
Posted by: TRex - non-doof dino at September 21, 2026 10:34 PM (XfIK1)
* * * *
That's terrific! I will be on the lookout for it!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 21, 2026 10:41 PM (D/6p1)

119 @nicksortor
·
1h
🚨 NOW: Legacy media outlets are REFUSING to cover President Trump for the American people, in solidarity with CNN

----

Trump can get away with so much stuff right now-
nobody's watching!

Posted by: Don Black at September 21, 2026 10:42 PM (ZxPkt)

120 Keep Austin weird and fenced in.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 10:42 PM (2GVsD)

121 Tesla worked for Edison a little and then decided he'd do better elsewhere. Menlo Park, I presume.

Posted by: LRob in OK at September 21, 2026 10:42 PM (Jr+re)

122 My wife was watching "Call the Midwife" tonight.

Used to be that if a woman was screaming on a British TV show, it was "Doctor Who."

Posted by: Weak Geek at September 21, 2026 10:42 PM (p/isN)

123 I remember the Port of Catoosa. It used to bill itself as the farthest inland port on the Gulf of Mexico, or something like that.

It was sort of a big ditch.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 10:42 PM (wpRMV)

124 In junior high, I built Heath Kit AM radios. At night I could pick up WOWO Fort Wayne from rural NC.

Long time ago.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at September 21, 2026 10:43 PM (x69Nb)

125 Trump can get away with so much stuff right now-
nobody's watching!


Democracy dies in darkness.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 10:43 PM (2GVsD)

126 @nicksortor
·
1h
🚨 NOW: Legacy media outlets are REFUSING to cover President Trump for the American people, in solidarity with CNN

----

Trump can get away with so much stuff right now-
nobody's watching!

Posted by: Don Black at September 21, 2026 10:42 PM (ZxPkt)

He could start by disappearing the media.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 21, 2026 10:44 PM (S41Gd)

127 > 112 Did Sam Drucker sell coffins?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 21, 2026 10:40 PM (Cqx++)

Nah. Hooterville residents disposed of corpses by dropping them off at Ziffel's pig farm.

Waste not, want not.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 21, 2026 10:44 PM (qlLNh)

128 106 Why not bring your wife down to our car lot so we can dicker?!?!!
Posted by: Ralph Williams Bayshore Chrysler Plymouth
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I was planning to trade in a used mini golf putter, not a hole in one.

Posted by: scampydog at September 21, 2026 10:44 PM (41CYW)

129 Winterview Farm Log Cabin is (was?) here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/dqpigihpCieeZStQ9

Posted by: Eric in Atlanta at September 21, 2026 10:44 PM (F5v2P)

130 Posted by: Weak Geek at September 21, 2026 10:41 PM (p/isN)

Sorry for the mix up on Sunday's BT. Just wanna keep my loc hush hush.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2026 10:45 PM (1Ff7Z)

131 Edison had the nickname "The Wizard of Menlo Patk" becaise he operated out of Menlo Park, NJ.

I've heard that he had to pay Tony Soptano protection money just like everybody else.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 21, 2026 10:45 PM (WElo/)

132 102 Send your money and your ballots in for Darrel Harris.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 10:33 PM (2UA/a)

Has he dropped out, or been dq'd? Sidebar link goes to a paused page.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2026 10:36 PM (1Ff7Z)

Let me tell you what has happened - I asked CBD to pause it yesterday. Here's what happened today:

I was supposed to raise $6700 to be eligible for $25K in CT state election funding. I raised $8115.

I was supposed to get 150 in-district contributors (Easton, Weston, and Redding CT). I got 184.

There were 210 total contributors - several of whom were honest-to-goodness Morons.

When I went to Hartford earlier today to submit my paperwork, the election offical was shocked to find out that I only had this campaign live for about 9 days. I cannot thank the Horde and my other supporters for contributing. My area of CT is quite blue, but someone has to run. I'm tired of talking about how bad things are and watching things get worse in these Blue States. That said, running is very, very scary. Now I know that I'm not doing this for just me. I can't let everyone down now. Thanks!

Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 21, 2026 10:46 PM (0CU3H)

133 Seen on X:

Data center disguises itself as an abortion clinic to win support from leftists.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia


Some cub reporter on X scooped the Babylon Bee?

* checks *

Nope, that was the Bee. Though their headline was "liberals."

Posted by: mikeski at September 21, 2026 10:46 PM (VHUov)

134 Click on link in nic, the bar is open. Nyah.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 10:47 PM (2GVsD)

135 That is not how you spell goormay

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 21, 2026 10:47 PM (/+uur)

136 NOW: Legacy media outlets are REFUSING to cover President Trump for the American people, in solidarity with CNN


The Legacy Media has approval ratings slightly above lawyers but below serial killers.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 21, 2026 10:47 PM (sAmhv)

137 L.F. Kitts General Merchandise store in Maynardville, Union County, Tennessee in 1935

____________________________

I've been watching weekly YouTube installments of this little 5' nothing young lady restore an abandoned General Store in Virginia. She's turning the whole place into a customized residence. It's kind of cool how she's paying for it. Sure, she gets some cash from YouTube, but a lot of it comes for finding historical and antique items in the building, and then selling them to collectors. Some very interesting stuff....

Here's a little sample of one of her shows:

https://tinyurl.com/2vrvhraw

Posted by: Orson at September 21, 2026 10:48 PM (dIske)

138 An odd bar. Not much of an assortment of alcohol.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 21, 2026 10:48 PM (zZu0s)

139 Click on link in nic, the bar is open. Nyah.
Posted by: Anna Puma


The whiskey's so stiff, it holds her garters up.

Posted by: mikeski at September 21, 2026 10:50 PM (VHUov)

140 Nah. Hooterville residents disposed of corpses by dropping them off at Ziffel's pig farm.

----

Incorrectly thinking Billie Jo, Bobby Jo and Betty Jo were bathing in the town's water supply instead of the locomotive water supply has directly affected the outlook of my adult life.

And 'HOOTER'ville was referring to the whistle of the train.

Yeah, right.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 21, 2026 10:50 PM (IMGZD)

141 An odd bar. Not much of an assortment of alcohol.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 21, 2026 10:48 PM (zZu0s)


It is no bar at all. Go on in

Posted by: Kindltot at September 21, 2026 10:51 PM (rbvCR)

142 You complaining?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 10:51 PM (2GVsD)

143 125 Trump can get away with so much stuff right now-
nobody's watching!

Democracy dies in darkness.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 10:43 PM (2GVsD)

does 4 aces trick
fake hangs pink ladies gal
*exits to horns*
*comes back to horns and throws off cape*
5% economy growth

Posted by: PDT at September 21, 2026 10:51 PM (/+uur)

144 30 Japan, nuked not enough?

https://youtu.be/UIdzBWRGY-g
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 10:12 PM (2GVsD)

Not nearly enough.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 21, 2026 10:51 PM (QGaXH)

145 off sox

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 21, 2026 10:51 PM (/+uur)

146 Happy-ish Monday Evening ...

Posted by: Adriane the Chronological Critic. . . at September 21, 2026 10:51 PM (3ZUWJ)

147 132 Great job, Darrell Harris. Try to have fun on the campaign.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 21, 2026 10:51 PM (WElo/)

148 I was newly arrived at my high school. I saw the deaf girl (very pretty) looking at the King Crimson In The Court Of The Crimson King album cover:

https://bit.ly/46xBHBn

She pointed to the nightmarish ear and said, "That's what's wrong with me!"

I did not know her well, and was not prepared for her wonderful wit. Nearly threescore years later, I still laugh.


https://youtu.be/7OvW8Z7kiws

G'nite, y'all.💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - one reason to go to reunions at September 21, 2026 10:52 PM (MX7Zk)

149
The autumnal equinox occurs tomorrow at 8:05PM EDT, or 00:05 Zulu. Less than a day of astronomical summer left. The full Moon closest to the fall equinox is dubbed the Harvest Moon, the one that shines on, shines on, and that will be Sept. 26. Look up the Harvest Moon effect, which has to do with the angle of the dangle of the ecliptic at sunset on the equinox.

It happens in fall in the southern hemisphere as well, but that's in March. It flips symmetrically across hemispheres.

And Saturn is nearing opposition as well, which will occur on Oct. 4.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 21, 2026 10:52 PM (w6EFb)

150 An odd bar. Not much of an assortment of alcohol.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 21, 2026 10:48 PM (zZu0s)

'Course not. It's a milk bar....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2026 10:54 PM (1Ff7Z)

151 Orange Ent is such a droog

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 10:55 PM (2GVsD)

152 An odd bar. Not much of an assortment of alcohol.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

'Course not. It's a milk bar....
Posted by: OrangeEnt


* golf clap *

Posted by: mikeski at September 21, 2026 10:55 PM (VHUov)

153 Rex, I sent you an email.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2026 10:55 PM (1Ff7Z)

154 Thank you publius, I was thinking on the new moon a couple of days ago

Still, "the angle of the dangle" sounds like a Danny Kaye bit

Posted by: Kindltot at September 21, 2026 10:55 PM (rbvCR)

155 And Saturn is nearing opposition as well, which will occur on Oct. 4.

-------

Permission to go EVA to retrieve the AE-35 unit?

Posted by: Dave Bowman at September 21, 2026 10:55 PM (wpRMV)

156 Did Bowman bring a Canon AE-35 camera with him and lose it in space?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 10:56 PM (2GVsD)

157 At the visitation tonight, my nephew was asking why some of the photos were in black-and-white. My BiL replied "That's because they were taken in the 60s and 70s." He squinted hard. "And 50s, it looks like." That plaid suit he was photographed wearing was definitely 70s, though!
Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to find the good in things at September 21, 2026 10:29 PM


They're color photos of a black and white world.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 21, 2026 10:57 PM (4NO2D)

158 Take El Camino Real south from Redwood City. Can't miss it."

Is that after the Slauson cutoff?

Posted by: man at September 21, 2026 10:57 PM (pfXMo)

159 Now I know that I'm not doing this for just me. I can't let everyone down now. Thanks!
Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 21, 2026 10:46 PM (0CU3H)

Any chance of winning at all? If not, are you going scorched earth on the D?

It'd be nice if some of the milquetoasts in the R party did. So many easy targets.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2026 10:57 PM (1Ff7Z)

160 That is not how you spell goormay
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 21, 2026 10:47 PM (/+uur)

You are Kerrect!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2026 10:58 PM (1Ff7Z)

161 Port of Catoosa still is the biggest inland port in the Lower 48. It's on the Arkansas River, which feeds the Mississippi.

I've never been closer than the entry gate, but judging from news reports over the years, a lot of manufacturers in the area rely on its barge traffic.

Posted by: Weak Geek at September 21, 2026 10:59 PM (p/isN)

162 Whale, I've never seen that before.
Posted by: OrangeEnt
---------
Some would krill to play that putt-putt course.
Posted by: scampydog at September 21, 2026 10:13 PM (41CYW)

I bet he's swallowed a plankton of golf balls.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 21, 2026 11:00 PM (qx7Zg)

163 They're color photos of a black and white world.
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 21, 2026 10:57 PM (4NO2D)

Calvin's dad explained it perfectly.

https://wist.info/watterson-bill/72712/

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 21, 2026 11:01 PM (aQEfL)

164 Butterfingers Dave. That's what we call him around here.

Posted by: Frank Poole at September 21, 2026 11:01 PM (wpRMV)

165 I thought he was Dr. Frank Poole?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 11:02 PM (2GVsD)

166 >> Permission to go EVA to retrieve the AE-35 unit?

Affirmative. Don't let the pod bay door hit your ass on the way out.

Posted by: HAL in KAH mode at September 21, 2026 11:02 PM (w6EFb)

167 Edison had the nickname "The Wizard of Menlo Patk" becaise he operated out of Menlo Park, NJ.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 21, 2026 10:45 PM (WElo/)

Thats exactly where his lab was. The worlds first industrial research lab, and the street there was the first one in the world to be lit by electric lights. The edison monument is there. 130 ft tall art deco tower with a huge edison bulb on top thats been lit continuously since 1938. Like I said, exit 132 on the parkway, go a less than a mile down RT 27 towards Metuchen and you can see the tower lit from the highway. Turn right on christie street and takes you to the state park where the museum and tower is. I drove by it all the time. Looked pretty cool at night.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 21, 2026 11:02 PM (S41Gd)

168 Late to the festivities. All I have to add is that I have been through the Lincoln Tunnel thousands of times, The George Washington Bridge hundreds of times, but only through the Holland Tunnel 6 or 8 times. Always commuted from the North.

Posted by: NYC Refugee at September 21, 2026 11:02 PM (Fn+3X)

169 An odd bar. Not much of an assortment of alcohol.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 21, 2026 10:48 PM (zZu0s)

It is no bar at all. Go on in
Posted by: Kindltot at September 21, 2026 10:51 PM (rbvCR)

At least until it's time for Katie to bar the door.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 21, 2026 11:02 PM (qx7Zg)

170 Orange Ent is such a droog
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 10:55 PM (2GVsD)

Garsh.

(tips bowler)

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2026 11:03 PM (1Ff7Z)

171 159 Now I know that I'm not doing this for just me. I can't let everyone down now. Thanks!
Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 21, 2026 10:46 PM (0CU3H)

Any chance of winning at all? If not, are you going scorched earth on the D?

It'd be nice if some of the milquetoasts in the R party did. So many easy targets.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2026 10:57 PM (1Ff7Z)

I think that what my fundraising efforts have shown me is that there are a lot of people who passionately dislike current state representation. I'll also say that if every registered Republican voted in this election, I'd win. The problem is that we're so beaten down that over time we simply can't believe things will get better. Considering that I saw the Berlin Wall come down as I watched on my TV at the time, I thought that communism would never come back. If bad ideas never die, what about good ideas? That's why there's a chance.

Now, it's possible that I don't win this cycle. I'm already committing to run in the next one in 2028 no matter what, so my name recognition could get me over the line next time - especially if the Dems go all DSA on us, which they very well might. I could still win now.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 21, 2026 11:04 PM (0CU3H)

172 Still, "the angle of the dangle" sounds like a Danny Kaye bit
Posted by: Kindltot at September 21, 2026 10:55 PM (rbvCR)

He was funny in his movies, but apparently a rather nasty man IRL.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2026 11:04 PM (1Ff7Z)

173 BREAKING NEWS!

Man gets hit by rental car. Said it Hertz.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 21, 2026 11:04 PM (qx7Zg)

174 Dude just take the 110 down to the 405, and take that all the way out to Irvine where you belong

Posted by: Don Black at September 21, 2026 11:06 PM (ZxPkt)

175 Should have rented from Avis.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 11:06 PM (2GVsD)

176 YouTube is working for me agsin, so here's thst linknO mentioned earlier.

https://youtu.be/0fWiscZlhG8

Posted by: tankdemon at September 21, 2026 11:07 PM (+kTLO)

177 I never understood why anyone would rent from Hertz or Avis. Their rates were miles higher than any of their competition.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 11:07 PM (wpRMV)

178 I never understood why anyone would rent from Hertz or Avis. Their rates were miles higher than any of their competition.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 11:07 PM (wpRMV)

Gotta use Expedia or some other site like that.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2026 11:10 PM (1Ff7Z)

179 177 I never understood why anyone would rent from Hertz or Avis. Their rates were miles higher than any of their competition.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 11:07 PM (wpRMV)

I was on a business trip when I was under 25 and I needed to rent a car. Only one company at the airport would rent to me. Don't remember which, but it was only one company...and charged me twice the rate. Didn't matter to me as the company reimbursed me for it eventually.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 11:10 PM (l3cgK)

180 147 132 Great job, Darrell Harris. Try to have fun on the campaign.

Posted by: tankdemon
---

Darrell is being modest. He got in the door But we all know that
it takes money to run a campaign. You know?
_$$$$$

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 11:11 PM (2UA/a)

181 173 BREAKING NEWS!

Man gets hit by rental car. Said it Hertz.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 21, 2026 11:04 PM (qx7Zg)

Physics teacher in HS once asked, "do you you what a Hertz donut is?"
Of course the student said, "No," to which the teacher hit him in the shoulder and said, "Hurts, don't it?"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 11:12 PM (l3cgK)

182 Good evening morons y gracias Dino

Dear morons may you be written and sealed for good.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 21, 2026 11:14 PM (RIvkX)

183 Within just a couple months, Hooterville had two tragic deaths. Smiley Burnette (Charlie the engineer on the Cannonball), and shortly after, Kate Bradley herself, Bea Benaderet.

Smiley penned about 400 country songs and had a long career as a singing Western sidekick in many movies, some with Gene Autry.
Bea worked in radio before TV and was sometimes on 6 different radio shows a day. She worked continuously On TV starting about 1950.

Posted by: Hooterville World Guardian at September 21, 2026 11:14 PM (Fn+3X)

184 After a week on the road, I'm now safely back at Villa Gorilla. I didn't get much opportunity to keep tabs on the Horde while I was gone, hope everybody is okay.

One thing of minor interest happened. While out on a Sunday drive I saw a road-killed bear in the ditch. It was on a two-lane highway running through a game-filled forest, so it wasn't wildly improbable for it to be there, however it was the first incident of this I had ever seen.

I await the comments describing how, in your neck of the woods, you have to shovel dead bears out of the way in the morning just to get to the mailbox.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 21, 2026 11:14 PM (aQEfL)

185 Posted a new image, will it meet with the Horde's exacting standards?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 11:15 PM (2GVsD)

186 I wasn't going to watch Trump's UN speech but I think I will now. I'm thinking it may be entertaining.

Posted by: Case at September 21, 2026 11:16 PM (xJpuh)

187 What tool works best for cutting off a Slausson?

Posted by: Concerned Viewer at September 21, 2026 11:16 PM (Fn+3X)

188
till, "the angle of the dangle" sounds like a Danny Kaye bit
Posted by: Kindltot


Alice drank the chalice

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 21, 2026 11:16 PM (Cqx++)

189 180 147 132 Great job, Darrell Harris. Try to have fun on the campaign.

Posted by: tankdemon
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Darrell is being modest. He got in the door But we all know that
it takes money to run a campaign. You know?
_$$$$$
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 11:11 PM (2UA/a)

CT is an interesting state in that regard. Now that I have this small grubstake, the State Election Commission will add another $25K to it in early October, assuming that my contributions are Kosher. In a short sprint of a race between my debate on 10/6, early elections starting 10/19, and 11/3, that money goes pretty far with signs, mailers, and digital. For the gubernatorial contest, by contrast, state funding will give $13 million. Ned Lamont is a centi-millionaire, so he'll self-fund, but Ryan Lazio needs all the money he can get.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 21, 2026 11:17 PM (0CU3H)

190 What tool works best for cutting off a Slausson?
****

It helps if you pick up the fork in the road.

Posted by: clarence at September 21, 2026 11:18 PM (Ue5am)

191 188
till, "the angle of the dangle" sounds like a Danny Kaye bit
Posted by: Kindltot

Alice drank the chalice
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 21, 2026 11:16 PM (Cqx++)

Denis sipped...

Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 21, 2026 11:18 PM (0CU3H)

192 Posted a new image, will it meet with the Horde's exacting standards?
Posted by: Anna Puma


* inks stamp *

[APPROVED]

Posted by: mikeski at September 21, 2026 11:20 PM (VHUov)

193 I await the comments describing how, in your neck of the woods, you have to shovel dead bears out of the way in the morning just to get to the mailbox.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 21, 2026 11:14 PM (aQEfL)


RFK Jr once left one on one of the bike paths in Central Park in NYC because he was in a hurry and had to catch a plane.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 21, 2026 11:20 PM (rbvCR)

194 Hate this time of year. When the diplos come to bloviate at the General Assembly, it's always bad. Just seeing that ugly green marble in the background makes me wretch.

Posted by: Give Turtle Bay Back To The Turtles! at September 21, 2026 11:20 PM (Fn+3X)

195 Posted a new image, will it meet with the Horde's exacting standards?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 11:15 PM (2GVsD)

Better. Selection is always good unless one is a filthy commie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 21, 2026 11:20 PM (zZu0s)

196
Re this ecliptic angle thing. This is the angle the ecliptic makes with your local horizon. I tend to get this mixed up and backwards no matter what, but I hope I've got it right.

At the equinox the sun is crossing the celestial equator, heading south at the fall equinox. At sunrise on the fall equinox, the ecliptic makes its steepest angle with the horizon. At sunset, after the Erf has rotated 180 degrees underneath, the ecliptic makes it shallowest angle. During the spring equinox, it's just the opposite. Shallowest at sunrise, steepest at sunset. And this flips between the hemispheres to match which season is which because the local tangent planes are upside down.

What does that mean for the full moon? Moonrise occurs right around sunset, so the difference in rise times for the Moon over a few days is the lowest it will be for the year. The difference between moonset times will the greatest and this effect increases with latitude.

And vice-versa at the spring equinox full moon. Set times will be closer together, and rise times the farthest apart.

So, the Harvest Moon effect is just that. Moonrises are very close together right after sunset over a few days.

Posted by: HAL in KAH mode at September 21, 2026 11:21 PM (w6EFb)

197 I await the comments describing how, in your neck of the woods, you have to shovel dead bears out of the way in the morning just to get to the mailbox.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 21, 2026 11:14 PM (aQEfL)

The bears around here are perfectly alive. Plan accordingly.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 21, 2026 11:21 PM (+7nKe)

198 Darrell,

And we'll be able to say, "We knew him before he got famous"!

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 21, 2026 11:22 PM (aJQbY)

199 Give Turtle Bay Back To The Turtles!

It's our pride and joy, et cetera!

Posted by: The Turtles at September 21, 2026 11:22 PM (1Ff7Z)

200 What are the mortality stats for Chicago Bears?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 11:23 PM (2GVsD)

201 You know what pisses me off?
The dollar sign.
We took the dollar sign from the Spanish dollar that was an S with two lines drawn through it to represent a complete dollar or Piece of Eight. One line through the S represented a piece of the dollar or as we call it, change. Cheap shit, just one more piece of history erased.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 11:23 PM (2UA/a)

202 https://tinyurl.com/2huynvwj

Concerning bears....

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 21, 2026 11:23 PM (+7nKe)

203 Willowed from the cafe:

That pickaxe looks heavy! If you read Caesar's Gallic War, you get the impression that the secret the winning is that no matter how tired you are, after you make camp you never neglect to dig trenches.

On Mt Hood my favorite day hike is the Hunchback Trail, one of the steepest around. I used to see two people from the fire station often jogging up the trail, one carrying a pickaxe that size, another a huge chainsaw.

Posted by: frammish at September 21, 2026 11:23 PM (rcENI)

204 The 7-Up building is one block away from what was the establishment of the Sandy Bandit, hoarder and purveyor of English motorcycle parts. Expensive...but he had them. Tons and tons conex boxes full. He's been gone since 2015.

Posted by: torabora at September 21, 2026 11:25 PM (Wt1Rs)

205 Instead of calling it the UN, we should call it ANTI-, for Another Nutty Thing, Isnit.

It's anti-American, anti-human, anti-science, and anti-truth.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 21, 2026 11:25 PM (qx7Zg)

206 CT is an interesting state in that regard. Now that I have this small grubstake, the State Election Commission will add another $25K to it in early October, assuming that my contributions are Kosher. In a short sprint of a race between my debate on 10/6, early elections starting 10/19, and 11/3, that money goes pretty far with signs, mailers, and digital. ...

Posted by: Darrell Harris
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So, the main thing you need is a digital presence?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 11:26 PM (2UA/a)

207 He mentioned his grain ration: Will Durant loved to point out that the Romany army was vegetarian. I think it comes up twice in his Story of Civilization. In the Gallic War, Caesar's army was complaining because they ran out of grain and . . . had to eat meat.

The same thing happens in John Muir's My First Summer in the Sierra. He's watching after a flock of sheep, and the owner is weeks late bringing up a new supply of bread. They have to eat sheep for every meal. Apparently some of them found it hard on their digestion.

Posted by: frammish at September 21, 2026 11:26 PM (rcENI)

208
So, right at harvest time, you have a nice bright near full Moon that nicely rises right around sunset for a few days so you can still have light for all the harvest work. That's the origin of the name Harvest Moon.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 21, 2026 11:26 PM (w6EFb)

209 UN - Useless Nitwits

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 11:28 PM (2GVsD)

210 Motorcycles are becoming a thing of the past. Too many vehicles and fewer places to ride w/lower vehicle ratio.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 11:28 PM (2UA/a)

211 So, the main thing you need is a digital presence?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 11:26 PM (2UA/a)

Boots on the ground, visiting every registered R might be important as well.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2026 11:29 PM (1Ff7Z)

212 UN - Useless Nitwits
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 11:28 PM (2GVsD)

What is the proper expansion of the UN?
Alex Trebek: That is correct.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 21, 2026 11:30 PM (qx7Zg)

213 30 Japan, nuked not enough?

https://youtu.be/UIdzBWRGY-g
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 10:12 PM (2GVsD)


Like Tillie in “The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds,” nuked just enough.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 21, 2026 11:30 PM (075ei)

214 I await the comments describing how, in your neck of the woods, you have to shovel dead bears out of the way in the morning just to get to the mailbox.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

Honest to goodness, the local schools have more days of being closed due to bears walking around close to schools than they do due to snow or the weather. The bears tolerate us around here and don't mess with our pets or us. The are hell on bird feeders though.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 21, 2026 11:30 PM (IMGZD)

215 207 He mentioned his grain ration: Will Durant loved to point out that the Romany army was vegetarian. I think it comes up twice in his Story of Civilization. In the Gallic War, Caesar's army was complaining because they ran out of grain and . . . had to eat meat.

The same thing happens in John Muir's My First Summer in the Sierra. He's watching after a flock of sheep, and the owner is weeks late bringing up a new supply of bread. They have to eat sheep for every meal. Apparently some of them found it hard on their digestion.

Posted by: frammish at September 21, 2026 11:26 PM (rcENI)

I heard eating penguins is much worse...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 11:31 PM (l3cgK)

216 Locals say dozens of people in a small Kentucky town have developed a red-meat allergy caused by tick bites, Darlene Sanchez reports.
_epochtimes

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 11:31 PM (2UA/a)

217 216 Locals say dozens of people in a small Kentucky town have developed a red-meat allergy caused by tick bites, Darlene Sanchez reports.
_epochtimes

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 11:31 PM (2UA/a)

Vegans are thrilled...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 11:32 PM (l3cgK)

218 UN - Useless Nitwits
Posted by: Anna Puma


And they won't have to change the signage.

Posted by: mikeski at September 21, 2026 11:32 PM (VHUov)

219
I think Turtle Bay should be replaced with an actual bay full of turtles.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at September 21, 2026 11:32 PM (mmrXZ)

220 Locals say dozens of people in a small Kentucky town have developed a red-meat allergy caused by tick bites, Darlene Sanchez reports.

Posted by: Braenyard

Vegans are thrilled...
Posted by: jim

Have they rooted out the problem?

Posted by: Tonypete at September 21, 2026 11:32 PM (IMGZD)

221 Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged.

Did you know that Lawrence Welk had twin daughters?

They were both named Anna.

Anna 1
Anna 2

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at September 21, 2026 11:33 PM (VtGHd)

222 The same thing happens in John Muir's My First Summer in the Sierra. He's watching after a flock of sheep, and the owner is weeks late bringing up a new supply of bread. They have to eat sheep for every meal. Apparently some of them found it hard on their digestion.
Posted by: frammish at September 21, 2026 11:26 PM (rcENI)


A lot of traditional Spanish dishes apparently are based around bread as an ingredient. Either raspings fried in fat prior to adding the vegetables for stewing, or sopped in water or wine as a thickener for whatever soup or stew.
The Romans did have a type of smaller flatbread that would be used as the base of whatever was being eaten. Apparently in one famous book, the narrator mentioned that when they were travelling in the countryside and paused to eat on the road, they used the flatbread to serve the food among themselves, and ate the food, and then tore into the bread, and waggishly mentioned they were so famished they "ate the plates and table as well"

Posted by: Kindltot at September 21, 2026 11:33 PM (rbvCR)

223 >>>
Boots on the ground, visiting every registered R might be important as well.

Posted by: OrangeEnt
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Guess it goes to the culture of the area or the neighborhood.
Around here no one, nobody comes to your door casually; it is an affront. The old neighborhood (democrat) people were constantly coming to the door. They were shocked when I told them to get off my lawn.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 11:35 PM (2UA/a)

224 I think Turtle Bay should be replaced with an actual bay full of turtles.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone

East River is brackish, quite a bit of salt in it. Fresh Hudson water from the north, but the eastern outlet is Long Island Sound (salt), the water to the south is New York Bay (salt). East River isn't really a river, more of a strait.

Posted by: Quite Tidal And Turbulent at September 21, 2026 11:37 PM (Fn+3X)

225 222 Apparently in one famous book, the narrator mentioned that when they were travelling in the countryside and paused to eat on the road, they used the flatbread to serve the food among themselves, and ate the food, and then tore into the bread, and waggishly mentioned they were so famished they "ate the plates and table as well"
Posted by: Kindltot at September 21, 2026 11:33 PM (rbvCR)


Sounds like that spongy, sour Ethiopian bread. If you have an Ethiopian restaurant near you, I bet they serve it with most of their meals.

Posted by: frammish at September 21, 2026 11:37 PM (rcENI)

226 What's the buzz about an old log cabin? We have plenty of those up here. They are musty and mostly sunk in melted permafrost, but still in use.

BFD? Maybe in the Lower 48.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 21, 2026 11:37 PM (+7nKe)

227 East River isn't really a river, more of a strait.
Posted by: Quite Tidal And Turbulent at September 21, 2026 11:37 PM (Fn+3X)

I suspect most things in NYC are disappointing to one degree or another.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 21, 2026 11:38 PM (+7nKe)

228
I think Turtle Bay should be replaced with an actual bay full of turtles.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone

East River is brackish, quite a bit of salt in it. Fresh Hudson water from the north, but the eastern outlet is Long Island Sound (salt), the water to the south is New York Bay (salt). East River isn't really a river, more of a strait.
Posted by: Quite Tidal And Turbulent

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

All right, now give me a lesson on turtles.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at September 21, 2026 11:39 PM (mmrXZ)

229 217 216 Locals say dozens of people in a small Kentucky town have developed a red-meat allergy caused by tick bites, Darlene Sanchez reports.
_epochtimes

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 11:31 PM

Vegans are thrilled...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 11:32 PM


If a new tick hits the population, and the bites result in vegans only wanting to eat red meat, then the Democrats will pivot to having DDT sprayed out of the back of every commercial flight in the U.S.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 21, 2026 11:40 PM (HlyYF)

230 All right, now give me a lesson on turtles.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at September 21, 2026 11:39 PM (mmrXZ)

AIR, it's turtles all the way down.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 21, 2026 11:40 PM (+7nKe)

231 221 Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged.

Did you know that Lawrence Welk had twin daughters?

They were both named Anna.

Anna 1
Anna 2

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at September 21, 2026 11:33 PM (VtGHd)

Ha ha!

Posted by: m at September 21, 2026 11:41 PM (odBC9)

232 If a new tick hits the population, and the bites result in vegans only wanting to eat red meat, then the Democrats will pivot to having DDT sprayed out of the back of every commercial flight in the U.S.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 21, 2026 11:40 PM (HlyYF)

Can you get DDT these days? I could use some out here in the hinterland. We are overcome by the little bastards every summer. The only place that comes out to spray does this all-natural bullshit that sorta, kinda, works, but it ain't the DDT we had when I was a kid, that's for sure.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 21, 2026 11:42 PM (+7nKe)

233 I suspect most things in NYC are disappointing to one degree or another.
Posted by: tcn in AK

NYC was a fun place, but I saw the writing on the wall, had two small kids, evacuated to NC in 1988,and never regretted it.

Posted by: Soundside In NC, Elevation 12 ft. at September 21, 2026 11:42 PM (Fn+3X)

234 All right, now give me a lesson on turtles.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone


They're happy together, practicing martial arts.

Posted by: mikeski at September 21, 2026 11:42 PM (VHUov)

235 230 All right, now give me a lesson on turtles.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at September 21, 2026 11:39 PM (mmrXZ)

----------

They will cling to a seat in the Senate in desperation, long after they're clinically dead.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 11:44 PM (wpRMV)

236 Iirc, ddt is fairly simple.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 21, 2026 11:45 PM (zZu0s)

237 All right, now give me a lesson on turtles.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone

They're happy together, practicing martial arts.
Posted by: mikeski at September 21, 2026 11:42 PM (VHUov)

They wanted to record Kung Fu Fighting, but were injured making the video. The shells kept getting in the way.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 21, 2026 11:46 PM (qx7Zg)

238 Let me tell you what has happened - I asked CBD to pause it yesterday. Here's what happened today:

I was supposed to raise $6700 to be eligible for $25K in CT state election funding. I raised $8115.

I was supposed to get 150 in-district contributors (Easton, Weston, and Redding CT). I got 184.

There were 210 total contributors - several of whom were honest-to-goodness Morons.

When I went to Hartford earlier today to submit my paperwork, the election offical was shocked to find out that I only had this campaign live for about 9 days. I cannot thank the Horde and my other supporters for contributing. My area of CT is quite blue, but someone has to run. I'm tired of talking about how bad things are and watching things get worse in these Blue States. That said, running is very, very scary. Now I know that I'm not doing this for just me. I can't let everyone down now. Thanks!
Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 21, 2026 10:46 PM (0CU3H)

We must salute you for Having The Guts To Try

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 21, 2026 11:46 PM (vupS9)

239 Anna 1
Anna 2

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate
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I don't get it.

Posted by: A millennial at September 21, 2026 11:47 PM (XeU6L)

240 Can you get DDT these days? I could use some out here in the hinterland. We are overcome by the little bastards every summer. The only place that comes out to spray does this all-natural bullshit that sorta, kinda, works, but it ain't the DDT we had when I was a kid, that's for sure.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 21, 2026 11:42 PM (+7nKe)

The mosquitoes in AK are far and away the worst.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 21, 2026 11:47 PM (vupS9)

241 225 222 Apparently in one famous book, the narrator mentioned that when they were travelling in the countryside and paused to eat on the road, they used the flatbread to serve the food among themselves, and ate the food, and then tore into the bread, and waggishly mentioned they were so famished they "ate the plates and table as well"
Posted by: Kindltot at September 21, 2026 11:33 PM (rbvCR)

Sounds like that spongy, sour Ethiopian bread. If you have an Ethiopian restaurant near you, I bet they serve it with most of their meals.

Posted by: frammish at September 21, 2026 11:37 PM (rcENI)

injera?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 11:48 PM (l3cgK)

242 All right, now give me a lesson on turtles.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone

I know so much about turtles, that you would die of boredom once I got started. I had 10 different Box Turtles over a 20 year period and once kept a 45 lb. snapping turtle for about a month.
The Painted Turtles, Spotted Turtles, Sliders, Wood Turtles and Musk Turtles I also kept here at various times. All released to the wild, not eaten.

Posted by: Reptile Dysfunctional at September 21, 2026 11:48 PM (Fn+3X)

243 Can you get DDT these days? I could use some out here in the hinterland. We are overcome by the little bastards every summer. The only place that comes out to spray does this all-natural bullshit that sorta, kinda, works, but it ain't the DDT we had when I was a kid, that's for sure.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 21, 2026 11:42 PM


DDT has been banned from "general use" in the U.S. since 1972.

It is still permissible for emergency authorization, but I don't know if that has even been triggered since '72.

Of course, under Democrat rules, the laws only apply to the little people.

If there was a dengue fever outbreak on Martha's Vineyard, the whole island would be covered in white powder faster than Hunter Biden's pocket mirror.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 21, 2026 11:49 PM (HlyYF)

244 I heard somewhere that turtle eggs are good eating. No?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 11:50 PM (wpRMV)

245 244 I heard somewhere that turtle eggs are good eating. No?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 11:50 PM (wpRMV)

I read they were mostly yolk. I have some turtles that laid eggs, but none that I could salvage (they laid them in water and ate them. Told me wife they must be democrats).

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 11:50 PM (l3cgK)

246 All right, now give me a lesson on turtles.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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60's rockband...oh, wait...

Posted by: A millennial at September 21, 2026 11:51 PM (XeU6L)

247
All right, now give me a lesson on turtles.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone

They're happy together, practicing martial arts.
Posted by: mikeski


And eating pizza

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 21, 2026 11:51 PM (Cqx++)

248 Where's Mitch?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 21, 2026 11:51 PM (5C90x)

249 I don't get it.
Posted by: A millennial at September 21, 2026 11:47 PM (XeU6L
=======================
OK, how about the one about the circumciser that joined the RCMP?

He proved you can make a Mountie out of a mohel.

No?

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at September 21, 2026 11:52 PM (VtGHd)

250 234 All right, now give me a lesson on turtles.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone
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Fine. A group of turtles is called a bale. But nobody really gives a hay about that.

Posted by: scampydog at September 21, 2026 11:52 PM (41CYW)

251 From the Cafe:

152 The Leftist Lynch Mob for Lindsay will force that guy and his extended family to flee back to their home country.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 09:19 PM (2GVsD)


I read that this is his home country. He married a Haitian immigrant, found out she was an illegal alien, tried to divorce her, and was denied because of her status. (I didn't know it was even possible to be denied, in the age of no-fault divorce.) And, people claiming to the press to be family with knowledge of his thought process were from the Haitian side that had no contact with him and knew nothing.

Posted by: SciVo at September 21, 2026 11:52 PM (ke3zm)

252 The mosquitoes in AK are far and away the worst.
Posted by: Cow Demon
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The State bird, I was told.

Posted by: A millennial at September 21, 2026 11:52 PM (XeU6L)

253 250 234 All right, now give me a lesson on turtles.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone
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Fine. A group of turtles is called a bale. But nobody really gives a hay about that.

Posted by: scampydog at September 21, 2026 11:52 PM (41CYW)

Are turtles that baleful?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 11:53 PM (l3cgK)

254 241 injera?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 11:48 PM (l3cgK)


That's it! At my church in Boston the Ethiopians used to serve that for coffee hour all the time, but I haven't had it much since I moved.

Posted by: frammish at September 21, 2026 11:56 PM (rcENI)

255 Saw two pretty good movies--"Brewster McCloud" from Robert Altman and "Sunflower" with Sophia Loren. Damn she's one gorgeous woman. Even today.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 21, 2026 11:56 PM (CHHv1)

256 Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 21, 2026 10:46 PM (0CU3H)

We must salute you for Having The Guts To Try
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 21, 2026 11:46

Yes indeed. Darrell you rock!

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at September 21, 2026 11:57 PM (4Qj8V)

257 They're happy together, practicing martial arts.
Posted by: mikeski
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Obligatory link: https://shorturl.at/bRUCe

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 21, 2026 11:57 PM (XeU6L)

258 43 days till the voters start burning dump and his dumpsters instead of oil.

Posted by: raimondo at September 21, 2026 11:57 PM (AvP44)

259 Collective IQ of the chat just fell 30 points.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 21, 2026 11:59 PM (XeU6L)

260 Speaking of useless nitwits.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 11:59 PM (2GVsD)

261 Search Assist

India is currently the only country that produces DDT, while a limited number of countries in Africa, such as South Africa, Mozambique, and Zambia, still use it for malaria control under specific guidelines.
_WorldAtlas . _ unido.org
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We need Indian smugglers to bring in some DDT.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 11:59 PM (2UA/a)

262 -----

Obligatory link: https://shorturl.at/bRUCe

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., et
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It had to be.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 22, 2026 12:01 AM (2UA/a)

263 Do the bunny ears add to the charm?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 22, 2026 12:01 AM (2GVsD)

264 The mosquitoes in AK are far and away the worst.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 21, 2026 11:47 PM (vupS9)

When I was a kid mumble mumble years ago, Anchorage was mostly swamp, and the mosquitos were epic. Literally a curtain when you went outside. So thick you ate plenty of them. Just awful. However, I never got mosquitos bites per se, they would bite but I didn't react. My sister got welts the size of tomatoes.

They sent trucks around spraying everything with DDT. Worked pretty well, but not completely. Made life bearable.

By the mid 1970's many of the swamps had been drained for development, so fewer mosquitos and I guess we didn't miss the DDT so much.

I don't live in Los Anchorage any more, and the mosquitos out here are... epic. Need a visit from the DDT truck twice a summer or so. But, not available.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 22, 2026 12:01 AM (+7nKe)

265 It had to be.
Posted by: Braenyard


fiddy-fiddy. Coulda been a Ninja Turtles theme song.

Well, okay, ninety-ten around here.

Posted by: mikeski at September 22, 2026 12:02 AM (VHUov)

266
Speaking of Saturn, it's little moon Hyperion would be the quite geodetic/geospatial nightmare. It's a tri-axial potato shaped mess that rotates chaotically. Well, "tumble" is a better word that rotate. It's so chaotic that the characteristic time is only about 100 days. Unpredictable past 100 days out from any point in time.

So, calculating sunrise and sunset times and so forth would be impossible for any length of time. And talk about polar wander. The axis of rotation moves all around the surface in chaotic fashion. There is no "pole" to define geodetically. It would have to be mapped in a body frame coordinate system only, with that orientation relative to chaotically jumping around.

So, at any point on the surface, the sun might rise over there, then jump back down, then pop back up in another spot over a short time span. Then zig-zag around for a little bit, then shoot over and plunge below the horizon in some other random direction.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 22, 2026 12:02 AM (w6EFb)

267 248 Where's Mitch?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 21, 2026 11:51 PM

Mitch who?

Posted by: The media at September 22, 2026 12:03 AM (2Ez/1)

268 Has anybody smacked Rainmandodo on the head yet? Appears he needs a reboot to the head.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 22, 2026 12:04 AM (+7nKe)

269 264 When I was a kid mumble mumble years ago, Anchorage was mostly swamp, and the mosquitos were epic. Literally a curtain when you went outside. So thick you ate plenty of them.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 22, 2026 12:01 AM (+7nKe)

Aagghh! Vivid!

Posted by: m at September 22, 2026 12:04 AM (odBC9)

270 267 248 Where's Mitch?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 21, 2026 11:51 PM

Mitch who?
Posted by: The media at September 22, 2026 12:03 AM (2Ez/1)

Mitch Me Yet?

Posted by: m at September 22, 2026 12:05 AM (odBC9)

271 >>>I don't live in Los Anchorage any more, and the mosquitos out here are... epic. Need a visit from the DDT truck twice a summer or so. But, not available.

Posted by: tcn in AK

>People always ask me why I wear long sleeves in the summer heat. Mosquitos, horse files, deer flies and yellow jackets will eat you alive if you let them.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 22, 2026 12:07 AM (5C90x)

272 Aagghh! Vivid!
Posted by: m at September 22, 2026 12:04 AM (odBC9)

They weren't those cute little mosquitos you get in the Lower 48, either. These things are mammoth.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 22, 2026 12:07 AM (+7nKe)

273 Halftime

Posted by: Skip at September 22, 2026 12:08 AM (Ia/+0)

274 Do the bunny ears add to the charm?
Posted by: Anna Puma


Is it just me, or does she look a tiny bit embarrassed to be wearing them?

Posted by: mikeski at September 22, 2026 12:09 AM (VHUov)

275 They weren't those cute little mosquitos you get in the Lower 48, either. These things are mammoth.
Posted by: tcn
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252

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 22, 2026 12:09 AM (XeU6L)

276 They weren't those cute little mosquitos you get in the Lower 48, either. These things are mammoth.
Posted by: tcn in AK


Wooly Mosquitoes. Things I didn't need to know existed.

Keep them there; we trust the 40 below to keep bugs to a reasonable size in MN. One growing season only.

Posted by: mikeski at September 22, 2026 12:10 AM (VHUov)

277 Where's Mitch?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 21, 2026 11:51 PM

Mitch Miller, of the "Sing Along with Mitch" show fame, died in 2010.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 22, 2026 12:11 AM (qx7Zg)

278 I know so much about turtles, that you would die of boredom once I got started...Box Turtles over a 20 year period...a 45 lb. snapping turtle...Painted Turtles, Spotted Turtles, Sliders, Wood Turtles and Musk Turtles I also kept here at various times. All released to the wild, not eaten.
Posted by: Reptile Dysfunctional at September 21, 2026 11:48

Way back maybe in the 50s Grandma saw a large turtle in the barnyard, which was about a mile from the Rock River. Was it a lost turtle or a land tortoise?

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at September 22, 2026 12:12 AM (4Qj8V)

279 Reprise:

Meritage Hospitality Group, one of the largest Wendy’s franchisees in the U.S., has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection following a high-stakes dispute with the fast-food chain's corporate parent.

The bankruptcy filing comes amid severe financial pressures at the franchisee, which has struggled with soaring beef costs and weak customer traffic,
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Can you smell the HorseShit?
Favorite Burger stand is across the street from a new Wendy's. Every time I get a burger; looking across the way I see no cars lined up at Wendy's.
Decided to check out the menu and try something.
Looking at the drivethrough marquee there were pretty pictures and fancy names but nothing clear about what exactly I would be purchasing.
Not One Descriptive.

Remember the old Wendy's marquee with the list of all the different items one could purchase?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 22, 2026 12:15 AM (2UA/a)

280
Way back maybe in the 50s Grandma saw a large turtle in the barnyard, which was about a mile from the Rock River. Was it a lost turtle or a land tortoise?
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take


How big was it?

Posted by: Johnny Carson's audience at September 22, 2026 12:16 AM (Cqx++)

281 124 In junior high, I built Heath Kit AM radios. At night I could pick up WOWO Fort Wayne from rural NC.

Long time ago.
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at September 21, 2026 10:43 PM (x69Nb)

Used to pull them in with a cheap transistor radio from SE Florida. Also WBT, KMOX, KAAY. Many others....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 22, 2026 12:17 AM (QGaXH)

282 Lots of little turtle 'running' around here. Maybe kept one as a pet once. Not very good pets. Usually just let them go do their thing.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 22, 2026 12:19 AM (5C90x)

283 Remember the old Wendy's marquee with the list of all the different items one could purchase?
Posted by: Braenyard


I try not to eat at fast-food places that often, so I don't have the menus memorized.

But that seems to be how things are set up, now. I guess nothing ever changes, so if you've been ordering the #6 combo since 2012, you don't need to know that it's the Royale With Cheese combo.

Or maybe it's just that neither the customers nor the employees know how to read. Point at the picture and grunt?

Posted by: mikeski at September 22, 2026 12:19 AM (VHUov)

284 Pictures from 1910's, 1920's, then the Holland Tunnel 1985 - thanks for making me feel old

Posted by: Chicago Vota at September 22, 2026 12:20 AM (7hNt2)

285 When a significant proportion of your customer base cannot read simple descriptions, the menu HAS to change to pretty pictures.

I still eat some fast food, but it NEVER looks like the picture!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 22, 2026 12:22 AM (HlyYF)

286 Rescued a toad from the road yesterday. That's all I got. Cute little bugger. No warts yet.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 22, 2026 12:24 AM (XeU6L)

287 >>>Or maybe it's just that neither the customers nor the employees know how to read. Point at the picture and grunt?

Posted by: mikeski
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McDonald's knew how to represent their product.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEBCV0ic6Tc

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 22, 2026 12:26 AM (2UA/a)

288 I still eat some fast food, but it NEVER looks like the picture!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot
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My favorite is the occasional frozen dinner. Bears almost no resemblance to package pic.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 22, 2026 12:27 AM (XeU6L)

289 >> Rescued a toad from the road yesterday. That's all I got. Cute little bugger. No warts yet.

That gave me a pleasant memory of my father. He would stop if he saw a little terrapin trying to cross the road, pick him up and put on the other side.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 22, 2026 12:27 AM (w6EFb)

290
Whether the species around here is really a terrapin or a tortoise, I don't know, but "terrapin" is the common term for them.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 22, 2026 12:30 AM (w6EFb)

291 Way back maybe in the 50s Grandma saw a large turtle in the barnyard, which was about a mile from the Rock River. Was it a lost turtle or a land tortoise?
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take

How big was it?
Posted by: Johnny Carson's audience at September 22, 2026 12:16

It was this big (holds arms out the size of a big turtle).

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at September 22, 2026 12:33 AM (4Qj8V)

292 That gave me a pleasant memory of my father. He would stop if he saw a little terrapin trying to cross the road, pick him up and put on the other side.
Posted by: publius
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I've held up traffic to assist a box turtle across a road. To my surprise the people behind me started cheering.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 22, 2026 12:34 AM (XeU6L)

293
Landing on Hyperion would be the true test of real pilot. Quite the difficulty level. You wouldn't know where the surface would be relative to you until you got there, and then getting synced with the movement of a spot on the surface would quite difficult.

Not that you'd want to. The surface is sort of like a brittle sponge or honeycomb. And highly charged. Little sparks, little lightning bolts would hit you when you got close enough.

The Cassini probe got hit by such a discharge when it made a close approach. It didn't damage anything, luckily.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 22, 2026 12:35 AM (w6EFb)

294
Well, I've gotten the education on turtles all right.

The San Diego Zoo used to have an incredible turtle grotto that was so soothing and fun, like a screensaver. It was a little outdoor pond, but the tank viewing area was in something like a cave, and you could see the turtles and gariels and a few fishies swimming around or resting on the ground. Spotted Pond Turtles, Chinese Stripenecks, Snakenecks. I used to take my friend's kid there, and we'd spend an hour just watching those things swim.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 22, 2026 12:39 AM (mmrXZ)

295 I know turtles love big leafy green shit, but do they like kale? How about brussel sprouts?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 22, 2026 12:40 AM (5C90x)

296 256 Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 21, 2026 10:46 PM (0CU3H)

We must salute you for Having The Guts To Try
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 21, 2026 11:46

Yes indeed. Darrell you rock!
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at September 21, 2026 11:57 PM (4Qj8V)

Proud to share a birthdate with you Darrell!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 22, 2026 12:40 AM (QGaXH)

297
And I'd love to play golf at the place with the whale. When it comes to miniature golf, the cornier the better. I play miniature golf these days at a Tiki-themed place.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 22, 2026 12:40 AM (mmrXZ)

298 I still eat some fast food, but it NEVER looks like the picture!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 22, 2026 12:22 AM (HlyYF)

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Have you tried us?

Posted by: McDougal's Bowl O' Haggis at September 22, 2026 12:40 AM (wpRMV)

299 286 Rescued a toad from the road yesterday. That's all I got. Cute little bugger. No warts yet.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 22, 2026 12:24 AM


Did it urinate when you picked it up?

I had a rule with the young Boy Scouts that they had to ask a leader before picking up an animal.

I would tell them it is OK to pick up that toad, but don't cup him in your hand because he will pee.

After NOT listening and getting a handful of piss, they start to realize that maybe the old farts do know a few things after all.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 22, 2026 12:41 AM (HlyYF)

300 297
And I'd love to play golf at the place with the whale. When it comes to miniature golf, the cornier the better. I play miniature golf these days at a Tiki-themed place

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How are you on windmills? For me they're the worst.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 22, 2026 12:42 AM (wpRMV)

301 Turtles are perhaps the only reptiles that I am not scared of, I figure that even if I rile them up somehow I can outrun them.

Happy Monday Horde!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 22, 2026 12:42 AM (ibDUx)

302
My cousin just moved house. Yeeeears ago, she got a 5-inch desert tortoise and raised him. He's so big now she can't move him, so she included the tortoise in the house sale. You want the house, you gotta take the tortoise. I don't know if it's mentioned in the escrow papers.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 22, 2026 12:43 AM (mmrXZ)

303 Have you tried us?
Posted by: McDougal's Bowl O' Haggis
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Sounds like a potential stomach ache.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 22, 2026 12:43 AM (XeU6L)

304
How are you on windmills? For me they're the worst.
Posted by: Cicero

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Haha, I've hit a few blades. I can't remember whether concentrating made any difference or whether it was sheer luck getting a ball past those blades.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 22, 2026 12:44 AM (mmrXZ)

305 @295. Do turtles like brussel sprouts?

Only if the brussel sprouts are shaved.
I learned that here.

Posted by: Case at September 22, 2026 12:45 AM (xJpuh)

306 Did it urinate when you picked it up?
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Nope. But it had been scared out of the grass by a passing dog. Perhaps scared the piss out of him.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 22, 2026 12:45 AM (XeU6L)

307 There was an experiment that found that a disturbing percent of drivers would try to run over a decoy turtle placed in the road.

Posted by: LTG at September 22, 2026 12:45 AM (BeyMP)

308
Happy Monday Horde!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

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Hey, DDS!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 22, 2026 12:46 AM (mmrXZ)

309 I'm out.Two meet___s tomorrow.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 22, 2026 12:47 AM (XeU6L)

310 Rescued a toad from the road yesterday. That's all I got. Cute little bugger. No warts yet.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 22, 2026 12:24

Some very wet springs we'd have have an outburst of baby toads at this one spot on the farm. you know, where the old hoghouse was.

I'd take some home and release them in the garden by the deck. Never saw much of them after, I think maybe the neighborhood cats weren't conducive to toad life.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at September 22, 2026 12:47 AM (4Qj8V)

311 294
Well, I've gotten the education on turtles all right.

The San Diego Zoo used to have an incredible turtle grotto that was so soothing and fun, like a screensaver. It was a little outdoor pond, but the tank viewing area was in something like a cave, and you could see the turtles and gariels and a few fishies swimming around or resting on the ground. Spotted Pond Turtles, Chinese Stripenecks, Snakenecks. I used to take my friend's kid there, and we'd spend an hour just watching those things swim.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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There will never be a better time for Turtle Talk

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuZ5cigas7


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 22, 2026 12:48 AM (2UA/a)

312 298 I still eat some fast food, but it NEVER looks like the picture!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 22, 2026 12:22 AM

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Have you tried us?

Posted by: McDougal's Bowl O' Haggis at September 22, 2026 12:40 AM


Does the corollary hold true?

If the picture looks completely unappetizing, does that mean my order will come back as tasty and visually appealing?

In that case, I am all in for some Taco Bell haggis!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 22, 2026 12:48 AM (HlyYF)

313 Well...Hell

I'd of been here sooner but I was drinking. And watching Foyles War. But mostly drinking bb

Posted by: Diogenes at September 22, 2026 12:49 AM (2WIwB)

314 307 There was an experiment that found that a disturbing percent of drivers would try to run over a decoy turtle placed in the road.

Posted by: LTG at September 22, 2026 12:45 AM


That sounds like useful information.

I am tired of assholes getting the benefit of cutting in line, throwing trash into geysers, etc.

I think they deserve some object lessons.

I am thinking a caltrop hidden inside the fake turtle would only ruin the day of assholes, but not nice people.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 22, 2026 12:52 AM (HlyYF)

315 That gave me a pleasant memory of my father. He would stop if he saw a little terrapin trying to cross the road, pick him up and put on the other side.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 22, 2026 12:27

Publius I would have liked to known your Dad. I think though we had different farming situations we might have found a lot in common.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at September 22, 2026 12:53 AM (4Qj8V)

316 I never met a frog that didn't piss everywhere. That's part of their charm. These amphibian fucks are a throwback to something we don't fully understand. They are brutal eating machines, but they know their limits. I have never met an aggressive frog.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 22, 2026 12:53 AM (5C90x)

317 306 Did it urinate when you picked it up?
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Nope. But it had been scared out of the grass by a passing dog. Perhaps scared the piss out of him.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 22, 2026 12:45 AM


Dogs work very hard to retain their title as "man's best friend"!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 22, 2026 12:54 AM (HlyYF)

318 301 Turtles are perhaps the only reptiles that I am not scared of, I figure that even if I rile them up somehow I can outrun them.

Happy Monday Horde!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
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I take it that you've never picked up a snapping turtle?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 22, 2026 12:54 AM (2UA/a)

319 >> I think though we had different farming situations we might have found a lot in common.

I'm sure you and he would have enjoyed it indeed.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 22, 2026 12:55 AM (w6EFb)

320 What is a gariel?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 22, 2026 12:56 AM (075ei)

321 320 What is a gariel?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 22, 2026 12:56 AM


They are a type of crocodile that mostly eats fish.

God used evolution to create some amazing stuff!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 22, 2026 12:59 AM (HlyYF)

322 Braenyard, I do not attempt to pick up wild animals or reptiles. We have some big snapping turtles still around the ponds here, I watched my brothers and their friends find out just how quickly they can snap.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 22, 2026 01:00 AM (ibDUx)

323 My favorite is the occasional frozen dinner. Bears almost no resemblance to package pic.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 22, 2026 12:27

Well stop buying those Hungry Bears dinners.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at September 22, 2026 01:07 AM (4Qj8V)

324 I've seen frogs swallow mice in one snap, but never have I seen a frog bite a human. Interesting behavior.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 22, 2026 01:07 AM (5C90x)

325 I have frog "friends" that I dutifully fish out of my pool catch basins/filters. They're not especially grateful.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 22, 2026 01:11 AM (ca8Qt)

326 tic, tic tic tic tic tic tic tic tic tic tic tic,

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 22, 2026 01:13 AM (2UA/a)

327 zerohedge@zerohedge · 1h

*TRUMP TO MEET UK PM BURNHAM AT 11:45AM TUESDAY IN NEW YORK

*TRUMP TO MEET UKRAINE'S ZELENSKYY AT 1:15PM TUESDAY IN NEW YORK

*TRUMP TO MEET WITH GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL 2:45PM TUESDAY

*TRUMP TO MEET WITH VENEZUELA'S ACTING PRESIDENT 7:40PM TUESDAY

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 22, 2026 01:17 AM (2UA/a)

328 We should see to it that NO US arms make it into Ukraine hands.

That would end the war.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 22, 2026 01:18 AM (2UA/a)

329 Is a gariel something like a caiman, then?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 22, 2026 01:19 AM (075ei)

330
I don't live in Los Anchorage any more, and the mosquitos out here are... epic. Need a visit from the DDT truck twice a summer or so. But, not available.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 22, 2026 12:01 AM (+7nKe)

Mosquitoes never caused welts. Then…I went to Anchorage, where they did cause welts. Found out the hard way after I drove up there.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 22, 2026 01:20 AM (vupS9)

331 Well we might have to watch Trump tv to see the press conferences after these meetings, the mainstream media won't be reporting on anything Trump.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 22, 2026 01:21 AM (ibDUx)

332 Howdy, horde!

Posted by: JQ at September 22, 2026 01:25 AM (rdVOm)

333 Mosquitoes never caused welts. Then…I went to Anchorage, where they did cause welts. Found out the hard way after I drove up there.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 22, 2026 01:20 AM


The mosquitos made it through your windshield? Those are some big mosquitos!



[Sorry, I need sleep and am clearly becoming slap happy.]

Night you Morons and 'ettes.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 22, 2026 01:25 AM (HlyYF)

334 'Twas too hot to work outside today, so I stayed indoors and made a double batch of pot stickers.

Forgot how time-consuming it is to make them. But there's 8 dozen in the freezer now, and another dozen to cook up fresh & share with hubby for lunch tomorrow!

Posted by: JQ at September 22, 2026 01:30 AM (rdVOm)

335 >>>Well we might have to watch Trump tv to see the press conferences after these meetings, the mainstream media won't be reporting on anything Trump.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

>Don't forget the Gorilla Channel. They're fair and balanced. And they provide bananas and rice when you tune in.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 22, 2026 01:33 AM (5C90x)

336
Yum potstickers

Posted by: four seasons at September 22, 2026 01:34 AM (/QHx4)

337 Hi, four seasons!

Yeah, hubby & I both love those things...

Posted by: JQ at September 22, 2026 01:35 AM (rdVOm)

338
Hiya ya'll

Posted by: four seasons at September 22, 2026 01:37 AM (/QHx4)

339
53 degrees here. Good sleeping weather.

Posted by: four seasons at September 22, 2026 01:38 AM (/QHx4)

340 Hi JQ, hi four seasons, good to see you both. Maybe if we are real good JQ will cook up some of those potstickers for the Saturday ONT.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 22, 2026 01:41 AM (ibDUx)

341 I think it's hilarious-- that the MFM is stamping their feet, taking their pitiful tiny balls & going home.

Heh. Yeah, that'll teach mean ol' nasty OrangeMan...

And hopefully open new information sources to The Normies! MFM may have just shot themselves in the foot.

LOL!

Posted by: JQ at September 22, 2026 01:41 AM (rdVOm)

342 Pot stickers are *always* available in Club ONT!!! (Shhh... they're on the Secret Menu!)

Posted by: JQ at September 22, 2026 01:43 AM (rdVOm)

343 Advertising of food never looks the same as the real thing because of all of the tricks photographers use to make food look better on film.

Using Elmer’s Glue in place of milk in bowls of cereal, spraying hairspray on bread/meat to make it look shiny and wet, things like that are tricks used to make not very appealing food look more appealing.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 22, 2026 01:52 AM (6ydKt)

344 I, for one, really appreciated the plastic food displays at restaurants in Japan.

(Didn't know until the last minute that we were going *there*, or I'd have taken language classes!)

Posted by: JQ at September 22, 2026 01:58 AM (rdVOm)

345
Oh, I misspelled G H A R I A L.

Not gariel.

And they have real long, skinny snouts.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 22, 2026 01:59 AM (mmrXZ)

346
zerohedge@zerohedge · 1h

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Posted by: Braenyard

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

zerohedge doing the job the MSM won't do, I see.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 22, 2026 02:00 AM (mmrXZ)

347 The Elmer’s glue is a necessity, though,
If you are trying to photograph a bowl of cereal you can’t use milk, all the cereal will be a bowl of mush if it sits there for more than half an hour.

Nobody from General Mills wants to try to sell a soggy bowl of Frosted Flakes.

So you pour out a a good bit of Elmer’s glue, and then add the cereal pieces on top where you want them to make it look natural. Then you squirt out some more Elmer’s on top to make it look like milk is covering some of it.

Voila, looks like a shiny, perfect, bowl of flakes, no sogginess detected, and it’ll stay that way for the four or five hours it takes to get all of the shots you need.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 22, 2026 02:04 AM (6ydKt)

348 307 There was an experiment that found that a disturbing percent of drivers would try to run over a decoy turtle placed in the road.
Posted by: LTG at September 22, 2026 12:45 AM (BeyMP)

In the US?

Posted by: m at September 22, 2026 02:06 AM (odBC9)

349 286 Rescued a toad from the road yesterday. That's all I got. Cute little bugger. No warts yet.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 22, 2026 12:24 AM (XeU6L)

Rescued a toad from the road

promising start of a country song!

Posted by: m at September 22, 2026 02:08 AM (odBC9)

350 Was surprised to read that during the conquest of Corregidor by US troops in 1945, the airborne officer who was senior on the island called in a "strike" of DDT, dropped by transport planes, to extinguish the holocaust of flies and mosquitoes that developed during the battle. Interesting. Pacific battlefields were unimaginably foul due to the temperature and humidity and insects.

First GIs to hit the island were paratroopers, who landed on "Topside", the by-then ravaged and bombed top of the rocky mountain that was honeycombed with tunnels and bunkers. Amphibious troop landings followed shortly thereafter.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 22, 2026 02:09 AM (U/Byj)

351 I'd never go out of my way to run over any creature. Can't understand why anyone would do such a thing. (Except maybe tarantulas.. because I hate spiders.. but they're *protected*.. also, would be afraid some would not be smashed and would then climb on/into my vehicle.)

In Hawaii, there were always animals smashed on the road to (ex)hub's base... usually cats. Even saw several times, some a-holes cross the center line in order to hit one. B@st@rds.

Posted by: JQ at September 22, 2026 02:12 AM (rdVOm)

352 There used to be some bumper stickers that said WARNING I speed up for small animals. I always thought those drivers were best to avoid.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 22, 2026 02:17 AM (ibDUx)

353 342 Pot stickers are *always* available in Club ONT!!! (Shhh... they're on the Secret Menu!)
Posted by: JQ at September 22, 2026 01:43 AM (rdVOm)

Are they available animal style? Just askin'.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 22, 2026 02:17 AM (+7nKe)

354 I always thought those drivers were best to avoid.
Posted by: Debby

I agree!

Posted by: JQ at September 22, 2026 02:17 AM (rdVOm)

355 Are they available animal style? Just askin'.
Posted by: tcn in AK

No. No, they are not. Yuck.

Posted by: JQ at September 22, 2026 02:18 AM (rdVOm)

356 351 In Hawaii, there were always animals smashed on the road to (ex)hub's base... usually cats. Even saw several times, some a-holes cross the center line in order to hit one. B@st@rds.
Posted by: JQ at September 22, 2026 02:12 AM (rdVOm)

Who ARE these people.

Posted by: m at September 22, 2026 02:19 AM (odBC9)

357 313 Well...Hell

I'd of been here sooner but I was drinking. And watching Foyles War. But mostly drinking bb
Posted by: Diogenes at September 22, 2026 12:49 AM (2WIwB)

Foyle's War is worth watching at least twice. And I have. And I may watch it again.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 22, 2026 02:20 AM (+7nKe)

358 No. No, they are not. Yuck.
Posted by: JQ at September 22, 2026 02:18 AM (rdVOm)

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 22, 2026 02:21 AM (+7nKe)

359 Who ARE these people.
Posted by: m

Young military dudes, I'd imagine. Short d!cks, gotta prove something by killin'?

Posted by: JQ at September 22, 2026 02:22 AM (rdVOm)

360 359 Who ARE these people.
Posted by: m

Young military dudes, I'd imagine. Short d!cks, gotta prove something by killin'?
Posted by: JQ at September 22, 2026 02:22 AM (rdVOm)

Awful. Like you said: B@st@rds.

Posted by: m at September 22, 2026 02:24 AM (odBC9)

361 Squirrels have a deth wish... I won't *try to* hit them, but neither will I wreck my car trying to avoid. They take their chances, LOL.

Posted by: JQ at September 22, 2026 02:26 AM (rdVOm)

362 Sweet dreams Horde, I need to get horizontal.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 22, 2026 02:27 AM (ibDUx)

363 I just don’t see the point of purposely running down other animals. Even the numerous jackrabbits I see here. I only do so if there is no alternative (such as: I can swerve but there is an 18 wheeler in that lane).

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 22, 2026 02:28 AM (vupS9)

364 Well. Considering the number of turtles killed by assholes, consider also that so far, since July 1 of this year, 37 moose have been hit by cars in the Mat-Su valley. How in hell that happens, I have no idea. I see moose along the highway, but it never occurs to me to hit them. You can easily die that way. It's not like hitting deer, where your car gets dented, but more like big ass hooves coming through your windshield and smashing your skull. So, how is it when there is light all of the damned time, do you hit a moose with your car?

Idiots, and probably druggies. And dead moose.

That sucks donkey balls.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 22, 2026 02:28 AM (+7nKe)

365 The only good part is that the moose get sent to various charities, who provide the meat to people who need it. But the fools who hit a moose are lucky if they survive. Slow the fuck down, people, and live.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 22, 2026 02:30 AM (+7nKe)

366 Now just wait. Because I have said this, I will die hitting a moose on the KGB or the Glenn Highway. Fuuuuck. Oh well.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 22, 2026 02:31 AM (+7nKe)

367 Night, Debby.

Posted by: JQ at September 22, 2026 02:35 AM (rdVOm)

368 Some people just hate cats. To hell with those people.

Posted by: JQ at September 22, 2026 02:37 AM (rdVOm)

369 There. Got the dipping sauce made up for tomorrow's potsticker lunch...

Posted by: JQ at September 22, 2026 02:42 AM (rdVOm)

370 Now just wait. Because I have said this, I will die hitting a moose on the KGB or the Glenn Highway. Fuuuuck. Oh well.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Well, if it does happen-- we know it's not because you AIMED for one!

Posted by: JQ at September 22, 2026 02:48 AM (rdVOm)

371 the airborne officer who was senior on the island called in a "strike" of DDT

The big fort there was Malinta Hill.
Malinta is Spanish for cockroach.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 22, 2026 02:50 AM (zdLoL)

372 Some people just hate cats. To hell with those people.
Posted by: JQ

Agreed

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 22, 2026 02:54 AM (Fv808)

373 There used to be a pinball arcade and pool hall in the 7up building in the 70's.
I know because I spent most of my junior and senior year in high school there doing all kinds of crazy stuff.
GOOD TIMES!

Posted by: Rich Knudsen at September 22, 2026 02:56 AM (nY+Ko)

374
Yes, it's young males who swerve to hit animals, and fuck them.

JQ, about squirrels: it's the only animal I've ever hit, and I tried not to -- but the bugger insisted! omg I felt my car bump a little over it. I actually pulled over (this was a country road) and ... TRIED TO BACK OVER IT to end its misery. I don't aim that well driving backwards, so after a few fruitless tries, I went on to my destination.

On my return, the darn thing was still in the road, slightly different location. I didn't know whether it had been flung by another car or was still alive and crawling miserably to the other side. I tried to run over it again, to end its misery!!! Missed!!!!! It's really hard to get your tire over a specific static thing.

Anyway, I hope I never hit an animal again, small or large. That squirrel has gone on to its reward, but I'm still haunted.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 22, 2026 03:03 AM (mmrXZ)

375 >>There used to be a pinball arcade and pool hall in the 7up building in the 70's.

Sounds like Metro Center in Phoenix!

Posted by: JQ at September 22, 2026 03:04 AM (rdVOm)

376
I knew an idiot woman who hated cats because "they have assholes." You should have seen that woman kissing her Yorkie.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 22, 2026 03:04 AM (mmrXZ)

377 Hi, Blondie!

Yes, it's sad to hit an animal. I've only done it twice and my day was *ruined* for it, both times. Just awful.

Posted by: JQ at September 22, 2026 03:06 AM (rdVOm)

378 A friend of mine, and me in the passenger seat, was driving down a country road in his El Camino when a fox ran off the side of the road and we hit it. We didn't know what he hit it happened so fast.

Fifty or so feet down the road, I told him to back up and we'd take a look at it to see what it was and if it was alive.

So he backs up slowly and as we get to the fox laying on the side of the road he stops and I open the door on my side and look down at this fox laying there looking dead as dead can get.

About 30 seconds later, the damn thing jumped up and ran for it. Scared the crap entirely out of me.

Best we could come up with is that the fox timed it just right and knocked himself out hitting his head on the wheel/hubcap.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 22, 2026 03:06 AM (6ydKt)

379 My shift started at 4 am for a while... Dark the whole way. Like your fox, a cat came out from the side of the road-- it was so quick, I didn't have time to react. *thump thump* and I screamed.

It was buggy out. Summertime. Plenty of flying things, illuminated by my headlights... and poor kitty was just wanting to catch one. Ugh. My heart sank. But it was quick and I hope painless. Poor baby.

The other one was a skunk. No great loss, but my car STANK for days!

Posted by: JQ at September 22, 2026 03:13 AM (rdVOm)

380 Raccoons, skunks, deer, - there's nothing you can do about it when you're traveling 80 mph. Slow down. 55 mph is usually good. Slower is better if you know they happen to be everywhere. I've driven in places at 25 mph because there are 500 head of deer grazing everywhere.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 22, 2026 03:14 AM (5C90x)

381 I was only going 35.

Posted by: JQ at September 22, 2026 03:15 AM (rdVOm)

382 Through town.

Posted by: JQ at September 22, 2026 03:16 AM (rdVOm)

383
It's going to be fun tomorrow when no one covers Trump at the UN. I meant to watch The Five (on Fox News) today to see if they said nothing about the whole business -- which would indicate that they were banned from talking about it.

How did this White House "pool" get instituted anyway? And how is it unconstitutional for anyone to pick the outlets they'll talk to?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 22, 2026 03:21 AM (mmrXZ)

384 And how is it unconstitutional for anyone to pick the outlets they'll talk to?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Yeah. How about that "freedom of association" bit?

Posted by: JQ at September 22, 2026 03:24 AM (rdVOm)

385 All but time to get up

Posted by: Skip at September 22, 2026 03:38 AM (Ia/+0)

386 It's so nice out tonight-- was 90F today, and has cooled to ~70. Ahhhh. If only it could be this way for another month or two!

Posted by: JQ at September 22, 2026 03:39 AM (rdVOm)

387
How about that "freedom of association" bit?
Posted by: JQ

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

I hadn't even thought of that one.

And now it's off to sleep.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 22, 2026 03:46 AM (mmrXZ)

388 Night, Blondie.

Posted by: JQ at September 22, 2026 03:47 AM (rdVOm)

389 Good morning. JQ, what filling do you use for the potstickers?

Posted by: Ben Had at September 22, 2026 03:51 AM (UdrMW)

390 Macron looked around and can't find his high horse anywhere.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 22, 2026 03:55 AM (UdrMW)

391 Good morning, Ben Had!

My filling is simple: just unseasoned ground pork, finely chopped cabbage & green onions-- plus garlic, ginger, soy, S & P, and sesame oil.

Posted by: JQ at September 22, 2026 03:56 AM (rdVOm)

392 JQ, sounds delicious. I would guess making them is like making ravioli huh?

Posted by: Ben Had at September 22, 2026 04:01 AM (UdrMW)

393 Dunno, Ben Had. Never made ravioli! 😊

Posted by: JQ at September 22, 2026 04:02 AM (rdVOm)

394 Ben Had-- here's the vid, with recipe:

youtu.be/ggdqHEZ6dfw

I didn't modify it, we like it just like that!

Posted by: JQ at September 22, 2026 04:06 AM (rdVOm)

395 JQ, I do it but it always takes me a few to get the amount of filling right.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 22, 2026 04:09 AM (UdrMW)

396 The Polo Grounds in NYC look kind of flimsy. My dad took me to a game there and I don't remember it looking that way. (it probably did) Then they build Shea Stadium under the flight path of LaGuardia airport. Long gone now and the price of a ticket to the Polo Grounds bleachers was probably a dollar. Got my sun tan while watching the game, and my dad bought me a hotdog, big event in my young life.

Posted by: Colin at September 22, 2026 04:10 AM (CiQE7)

397 JQ, thank you for that. I recently tried them for the first time but that recipe sounds so much better.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 22, 2026 04:11 AM (UdrMW)

398 For the potstickers, I use a regular soup spoon for the filling, and mash it against the bowl to get it level. (I guess about 1 tablespoon, if measured?)

Posted by: JQ at September 22, 2026 04:12 AM (rdVOm)

399 Ben Had-- they're best with a dipping sauce!

Recipe follows...

Posted by: JQ at September 22, 2026 04:14 AM (rdVOm)

400 Dipping sauce:

***put all into a jar, then shake well***

1/4 cup Yoshida's Original Gourmet Cooking Sauce (sweet teriyaki)
1/2 teaspoon grated ginger (I like the jar of Christopher Ranch brand--beats grating by hand!)
1 teaspoon crushed garlic (again, C.Ranch, out of the jar)
1/2 teaspoon rice vinegar
2 teaspoons soy sauce (regular, nothing fancy)
1/2 of a green onion, minced finely (OR: 1/8 teaspoon onion powder)

Optional: a few drops of chili oil, if you want some *kick*
-----------
Makes enough for about 2 dozen gyoza.

Posted by: JQ at September 22, 2026 04:23 AM (rdVOm)

401 JQ, got it. Thank you!

Posted by: Ben Had at September 22, 2026 04:30 AM (UdrMW)

402 Enjoy, Ben Had!

Posted by: JQ at September 22, 2026 04:31 AM (rdVOm)

403 pixy happened by.

Posted by: clarence at September 22, 2026 04:33 AM (Ue5am)

Metäl Kängäröö Cafe

airguitarkangaroo.jpg

Nature is Amazing
@AMAZlNGNATURE

This Kangaroo Won the 2023 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

A western grey kangaroo in Perth, Australia, was photographed in a pose that makes it look like she’s playing an invisible guitar

A 1915 World War I propaganda film.

Chaos agent.

Proving Galileo right, on the Moon.

A meteor explodes in mid-air, caught accidentally by a young woman taking a selfie.

Lean on me.

Border collies take fetch very seriously.

Horses study moose who's somehow able to escape their corral.


How dare Sydney Sweeney sexualize female athletes.

How Roman legionnaires carried their kit.

Mondays am i rite

This canine aggression must not stand.


Massimo
@Rainmaker1973

She didn't just swim away: she came back with gifts.

After rescuers freed her calf from a fishing net, a mother dolphin began regularly leaving fresh fish on a dock as a touching "thank you" gesture.

In July 2025, a dolphin calf became entangled in fishing gear near a marina. A man named Tom and other local boat owners successfully freed the calf and reunited it with its distressed mother. Days later, people at a nearby dock started discovering neatly placed fresh fish each morning.

Initially suspecting a prank, they checked surveillance footage and were stunned to see a dolphin surfacing at night, gently placing fish on the wooden dock before swimming off. The behavior was soon linked to the recent rescue, leading many to believe the mother dolphin was deliberately thanking the man who helped save her baby.

She repeated the act multiple times. While marine biologists are cautious about attributing human emotions like gratitude to animals, they note that dolphins possess high intelligence and complex social awareness. Real or symbolic, the story has captured hearts worldwide as a beautiful example of the special bond between humans and dolphins.

dolphingift.jpg

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:10 PM




Comments

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1 Open channel D

Posted by: Open Channel D at September 21, 2026 07:12 PM (tgTrV)

2 In reality, that kangaroo is checking out his dick.

Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 07:13 PM (Av6i5)

3 Not mentioned in the article is the fact that the fish which the dolphin out on the dock were poisoned. Just part of the plan to wipe out land-creatures and conquer Ocean-Planet!

Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 07:15 PM (Av6i5)

4 Willowed:

ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and Fox have agreed to collude and NOT cover Trump's UN speech due to his exclusion of CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from the WH press pool.

I think that is awesome!

Trump should now play hardball and announce since they are in collusion not to provide news coverage to the American public, he will give their WH pool spots to news outlets that will actually report the news.

Losing Fox, while also losing the other four networks would be a huge net win for Trump. I say eject them all and let them whine, when they made an actual "for cause" decision.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 21, 2026 07:16 PM (HlyYF)

5 I nooded the Quick Hits comments.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 21, 2026 07:17 PM (HlyYF)

6 zombie, that was my first thought too.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 21, 2026 07:19 PM (UdrMW)

7 Channel D is tuned in and turned on today.

Posted by: Dr. Leary at September 21, 2026 07:19 PM (Fn+3X)

8 In reality, that kangaroo is checking out his dick.
Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 07:13 PM (Av6i5)

This checks out.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 21, 2026 07:20 PM (wVcYX)

9 In reality, that kangaroo is checking out his dick.
Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 07:13 PM (Av6i5)
---
"Hey! Where'd it go?"

Posted by: King Missile at September 21, 2026 07:20 PM (FZ29D)

10 Discovered last night with my night vision that I have no less than 20 kittens of various ages living in my lilac bushes. I was trying to catch the 5 I was aware of. A house down the road fomarly owned by a bird brained cat lady got cleared off so they moved into my yard.
Yeah me.

Posted by: Reforger at September 21, 2026 07:20 PM (0ls6J)

11 Kangaroo pic caption:

"Where my dick, where my dick?!?!

Posted by: wth at September 21, 2026 07:20 PM (UjdFS)

12 The sheila is just having a bit of a pommy shower, mate.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2026 07:21 PM (6ydKt)

13 If Border Collies had opposable thumbs, they would take over way more human jobs than AI ever will!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 21, 2026 07:21 PM (HlyYF)

14 Ace is trying to fool us. There's no such thing as a lignite mine, nor even lignite!

Posted by: Buy My Leverite! at September 21, 2026 07:21 PM (Fn+3X)

15 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 07:21 PM (Ia/+0)

16 Looks like Kangaroo Love.

Posted by: Eromero at September 21, 2026 07:21 PM (l1Kxk)

17 Marsupial metal.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 07:21 PM (DpZaL)

18 "Proving Galileo right, on the Moon."

From the link:

"During the Apollo 15 mission in 1971, astronaut David Scott dropped a hammer and a feather on the Moon at the same time, and both objects hit the lunar surface simultaneously.

And proved Galileo correct."

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Galileo was not correct. The two objects to not hit the surface simultaneously. The more massive one (the hammer) hits the ground first, but the time-difference is so miniscule that it is far beyond our capability to measure it.

How can this be?

Here's how:

Yes, the feather and the hammer fall "down" at the same rate. BUT, the hammer has more mass, so to a vry very very very tiny degree, its mass is simultaneously pulling the Earth "up" toward the hammer. So, taking into account the upward movement of the earth toward the hammer, the hammer actually has less distance to "fall" before encountering the Earth, so takes less time to do so. The feather also pulls the Earth "up," but with less mass, so the effect is less, so it takes longer for the two bodies to meet.

This isn't even relativity -- this is true even under Keplerian/Newtonian/Galilean physics. But it's rarely mentioned.

Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 07:22 PM (Av6i5)

19 9 In reality, that kangaroo is checking out his dick.

Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 07:13 PM
---
"Hey! Where'd it go?"

Posted by: King Missile at September 21, 2026 07:20 PM


Barnacles: "WE never have that problem!"

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 21, 2026 07:22 PM (HlyYF)

20 Willowed:

209 147 Check it out!

https://defenders.org/sea-otter-awareness-week
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 21, 2026 06:52 PM (W2Pud)

The good news is that it is nearly Fat Bear Week and the brackets came out today.

https://tinyurl.com/2huynvwj

But of course, none of the bears ate any sea otters, so that's probably good.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 21, 2026 07:19 PM (+7nKe)

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 21, 2026 07:23 PM (+7nKe)

21 The hammer is pulling the Earth closer to the feather too.

Posted by: fd at September 21, 2026 07:23 PM (MWfyi)

22 Is lignite flammable? Inflammable? Will lignite ignite?

Posted by: Ronson Zippo, Esq. at September 21, 2026 07:24 PM (Fn+3X)

23 Is lignite flammable? Inflammable? Will lignite ignite?
Posted by: Ronson Zippo, Esq. at September 21, 2026 07:24 PM (Fn+3X)

Tight and outtasight!

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 21, 2026 07:25 PM (wVcYX)

24 Can we go back to talking about ducks?

Posted by: Put It On My Bill! at September 21, 2026 07:26 PM (Fn+3X)

25 Is lignite flammable? Inflammable? Will lignite ignite?
Posted by: Ronson Zippo, Esq.

Yes.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 07:27 PM (DpZaL)

26 3 Not mentioned in the article is the fact that the fish which the dolphin out on the dock were poisoned. Just part of the plan to wipe out land-creatures and conquer Ocean-Planet!
Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 07:15 PM (Av6i5)


Beware Big Dolphin!

Posted by: Flipper at September 21, 2026 07:28 PM (2WIwB)

27
I had reservations.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 07:28 PM (eRlcH)

28 Hispanic women, even hot ones, look like hotel maids at 29.

Uh, what? Salma Hayek looked like one hell of a maid well past 29!
Age 34: https://tinyurl.com/v7j9vpwj
Age 36: https://tinyurl.com/bdfuzdu9

Age 29 https://tinyurl.com/yf4t5y3e She was even more of a smokeshow!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 21, 2026 07:28 PM (sMaFa)

29 Streaming channels would gladly take up the slack as well as a number of podcasts. Screw the MSM.

Don't watch them now so I can't stop watching them.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 07:28 PM (KC5Lt)

30

35 I will give my love forever
If you promise me you'll
Never never never touch me there
Don't touch my square
Posted by: The Tubes at September 21, 2026 05:02 PM (guGkK)

Never leaving this site. Except for the fact that this site has damn near become unreadable from the ads.

Posted by: Chinaacid at September 21, 2026 07:29 PM (k3EaE)

31 A meteor explodes in mid-air, caught accidentally by a young woman taking a selfie.
____________________________

That's a perfect example of "the less you know" and "the more stupid you are" being attributes. My imagination would have been going 100 mph and I would have been cursing out the Chinese and Russians in one breath just to make sure I didn't miss anyone.

Posted by: Orson at September 21, 2026 07:29 PM (dIske)

32 I saw Stoned Jaguar open for Three Dog Night at the Rose Garden in Portland in '79

Posted by: Flipper at September 21, 2026 07:30 PM (2WIwB)

33 Penguins use little pockets under their flippers to store a type of cheese. They would also hold hands when they sleep if they could but they have no hands so do not.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at September 21, 2026 07:31 PM (MWfyi)

34 Most birds, no matter the size, have bills. Why do some water birds have bills? What's the deal here. It it just to make it more difficult for furriners to learn English good? Seems discriminatory, at best.

Posted by: The Neighborhood Duck-Billed Platypi at September 21, 2026 07:31 PM (Fn+3X)

35 Discovered last night with my night vision that I have no less than 20 kittens of various ages living in my lilac bushes. I was trying to catch the 5 I was aware of. A house down the road fomarly owned by a bird brained cat lady got cleared off so they moved into my yard.
Yeah me.
Posted by: Reforger at September 21, 2026 07:20 PM (0ls6J)

If you have any cat rescue groups about call them up they might help you trap them and give them homes.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 07:31 PM (uhVAy)

36 21 The hammer is pulling the Earth closer to the feather too.
Posted by: fd


Good point. BUT...:

If the experiments are conducted sequentially (as opposed to dropping at the same time), then the hammer falls faster than the feather.

But even if they are dropped simultaneous,ly the hammer will STILL hit the ground first, because the spherical larger body (Earth, moon, whatever) will tilt ever so slightly toward the hammer and away from the feather. The time-difference between a simultaneously dropped hammer and feather will still exist, but be ultra-hyper-mega-logorithmically-exponentially more tiny than even the immeausurably tiny difference in the sequential version of the experiment.

Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 07:31 PM (Av6i5)

37 Black children in Mississippi don’t have universal school choice, a voucher program, or anywhere near the kind of money spent on black students in New York City, $52,349 in the case of Jones’s daughter’s school vs. $12,324 for the average school in Mississippi. Yet, the latter outperforms New York City students in testing.

That is a million dollar a classroom vs. $200k.

Imagine going to you family reunion in an Altima that needs a jump vs. your Couz in a new Ram 1500.

EVERY FUCKING YEAR

Next year your new to you Altima has 3 hubcaps and he has another NEW Ram.

13 mutha fuckin years in a row.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 21, 2026 07:31 PM (/+uur)

38 31 A meteor explodes in mid-air, caught accidentally by a young woman taking a selfie.

dang thing missed

Posted by: Eromero at September 21, 2026 07:32 PM (l1Kxk)

39 My Kingdom for an edit button.

Posted by: Neighborhood Duck-Billed Platypi at September 21, 2026 07:32 PM (Fn+3X)

40 That Kangaroo wasn't just looking like hecwas playing a air guitar

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 07:32 PM (Ia/+0)

41 That jaguar is Stevie Nicks' spirit animal

Posted by: 88C+u at September 21, 2026 07:32 PM (88C+u)

42 Italy has some serious gout in the map at the beginning of that 1915 propaganda film.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 21, 2026 07:33 PM (XvL8K)

43 This isn't even relativity -- this is true even under Keplerian/Newtonian/Galilean physics. But it's rarely mentioned.

I personally have maintained total confidentiality on the subject.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 07:33 PM (guGkK)

44 Age 29 https://tinyurl.com/yf4t5y3e She was even more of a smokeshow!
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 21, 2026 07:28 PM (sMaFa)


This reminds me, my yard guy missed last week.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 21, 2026 07:33 PM (2WIwB)

45 what did I miss

Posted by: Don Black at September 21, 2026 07:34 PM (ZxPkt)

46 2 In reality, that kangaroo is checking out his dick.
Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 07:13 PM (Av6i5)

To be fair, so are most metal-heads playing their "instrument" like they are pulling pud.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 21, 2026 07:34 PM (+7nKe)

47
Estonia status: uninvaded

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 07:34 PM (eRlcH)

48 That WW1 video is some good art work

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 07:35 PM (Ia/+0)

49 That is a million dollar a classroom vs. $200k.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 21, 2026 07:31 PM (/+uur)

I imagine in NYC most of that money gets nowhere near a classroom.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 07:35 PM (uhVAy)

50 That is a million dollar a classroom vs. $200k.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 21, 2026 07:31 PM (/+uur)

I imagine in NYC most of that money gets nowhere near a classroom.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 07:35 PM (uhVAy)
----
Gotta pay the umpteen administrators first.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2026 07:36 PM (FZ29D)

51 This isn't even relativity -- this is true even under Keplerian/Newtonian/Galilean physics. But it's rarely mentioned.
Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 07:22 PM (Av6i5)


You must be really fun at parties

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at September 21, 2026 07:36 PM (rbvCR)

52

Created from a former lignite mine, you can find forests, streets and even some structures at the ground.

And an orchestra.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 21, 2026 07:37 PM (Cqx++)

53 I imagine in NYC most of that money gets nowhere near a classroom.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 07:35 PM (uhVAy)
----
Gotta pay the umpteen administrators first.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2026 07:36 PM (FZ29D)

If you do not look at cost per classroom then you are not looking at the propblem.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 21, 2026 07:38 PM (/+uur)

54 If you have any cat rescue groups about call them up they might help you trap them and give them homes.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 07:31 PM (uhVAy)

The wife is working on that.

Posted by: Reforger at September 21, 2026 07:38 PM (0ls6J)

55 >> Galileo was not correct. The two objects to not hit the surface simultaneously.

When I first saw that David Scott clip, I wondered if someone would bring this up, and here we go.

To resolve this, remember the acceleration field, which is g, gravity, must be relative to an inertial frame. In this case, the center of mass of the Moon and hammer, or Moon and feather frame will do. The acceleration field of the Moon remains constant. The hammer and feather accelerate toward the Moon at the same value relative to the center of mass frame.

The Moon itself just gains a tiny, immeasurable acceleration itself in that frame due to the mass of the hammer or feather.

The state of "accelerates at the same rate", which is the basic of the Equivalence Principle holds. It just doesn't take into account that relative acceleration.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 21, 2026 07:38 PM (w6EFb)

56 dude it was cool experiment on the friggin moon
let it go

Posted by: Don Black at September 21, 2026 07:38 PM (ZxPkt)

57 >>>Border collies take fetch very seriously.

The noise the launcher makes is pretty cool.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 21, 2026 07:39 PM (syz1S)

58 Is lignite flammable? Inflammable? Will lignite ignite?
Posted by: Ronson Zippo, Esq. at September 21, 2026 07:24 PM (Fn+3X)

Well, it's coal. So if it didnt it's one of the largest scams in human history.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 21, 2026 07:39 PM (zZu0s)

59
You must be really fun at parties

__________

"Now, in the more general formalism of Dirac, the Hamiltonian is typically implemented as an operator on a Hilbert space..."

*looks desperately for exit*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 07:40 PM (eRlcH)

60 If you do not look at cost per classroom then you are not looking at the propblem.
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 21, 2026 07:38 PM (/+uur)

I have my mother's school books from elementary school. I suspect I could teach any kid more than they learn in public schools using 90 year old textbooks and a slate with a piece of chalk. Cost is not the issue.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 21, 2026 07:41 PM (+7nKe)

61 I saw the Joeys open for the Ramones in west hollywood in '88.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 21, 2026 07:42 PM (5C90x)

62 Estonia status: uninvaded
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 07:34 PM (eRlcH)

Yeah, I've been seeing it the past few days
The usual suspects (re: Ukaraine) have been flogging the hell out of it. 'The Russians are stockpiling plasma! You know what that means!'

No, Stephen Green, I don't. Quit touching yourself!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 21, 2026 07:42 PM (zZu0s)

63 "relative acceleration"

Speaking of, any word from Miklos re his further adventures with Marlene, Charlene, or Darlene?

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 21, 2026 07:43 PM (wVcYX)

64 Have to say for a military history buff, Rome history never interested me. First time ever seen that equipment carry package

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 07:45 PM (Ia/+0)

65 >> any word from Miklos re his further adventures with Marlene, Charlene, or Darlene?

Nope, nothing I've heard.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 21, 2026 07:45 PM (w6EFb)

66 You must be really fun at parties
Posted by: Wesley Crusher


You haven't partied til you been to one of Cal's legendary Minkowski Null Vector orgies. Blast off!

Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 07:45 PM (Av6i5)

67
The usual suspects (re: Ukaraine) have been flogging the hell out of it. 'The Russians are stockpiling plasma! You know what that means!'

__________

Now you may smash your telephone.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 07:45 PM (eRlcH)

68 Is lignite flammable? Inflammable? Will lignite ignite?
Posted by: Ronson Zippo, Esq. at September 21, 2026 07:24 PM (Fn+3X)

Well, it's coal. So if it didnt it's one of the largest scams in human history.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 21, 2026 07:39 PM (zZu0s)

Its a crappy smoky shit kind of coal, not like US Anthracite coal or even Bituminous. But it does burn.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 07:46 PM (uhVAy)

69 65 >> any word from Miklos re his further adventures with Marlene, Charlene, or Darlene?

Nope, nothing I've heard.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 21, 2026 07:45 PM (w6EFb)

Check the police blotter for incidents at the local Waffle House.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 21, 2026 07:46 PM (+7nKe)

70 63 "relative acceleration"

Speaking of, any word from Miklos re his further adventures with Marlene, Charlene, or Darlene?
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 21, 2026 07:43 PM (wVcYX
I wonders those girls boneless like The Ross Sisters?

Posted by: Eromero at September 21, 2026 07:47 PM (l1Kxk)

71 "relative acceleration"

Yo mama so fat her inertial frame broke.

Posted by: fd at September 21, 2026 07:47 PM (MWfyi)

72 Evenin’, All.

And in case nobody’s mentioned ‘em yet: Boobs!

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 07:48 PM (77rzZ)

73 Estonia really would the perfect location for a chain of dispensaries and marijuana cafes.

They’d be bigger than Amsterdam in its prime.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2026 07:48 PM (6ydKt)

74 Have to say for a military history buff, Rome history never interested me. First time ever seen that equipment carry package
Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 07:45 PM (Ia/+0)

Take a peek at the siege of Masada. Rebels hide at the top of a plateau in a desert...Romans build a ramp up and take it just to prove a point.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 07:51 PM (uhVAy)

75 4, so right!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 07:51 PM (VyBeY)

76 And in case nobody’s mentioned ‘em yet: Boobs!
Posted by: Bulg


Since all pairs of boobs are to some extent uneven, the bigger boob will droop downward toward the surface of the Moon faster than will the smaller boob.

Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 07:51 PM (Av6i5)

77 I have my mother's school books from elementary school. I suspect I could teach any kid more than they learn in public schools using 90 year old textbooks and a slate with a piece of chalk. Cost is not the issue.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 21, 2026 07:41 PM (+7nKe)
---------

You just described our homeschool.

Posted by: bluebell at September 21, 2026 07:52 PM (uyuYG)

78 Who the hell thought that it would be a good idea to let the Baltic States into NATO?

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 07:52 PM (77rzZ)

79 62, LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 07:52 PM (VyBeY)

80 Who the hell thought that it would be a good idea to let the Baltic States into NATO?
Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 07:52 PM (77rzZ)

then Biden let in Finland so they have 800 more miles of border to defend with about 800 soldiers there to help out.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 07:53 PM (uhVAy)

81 Lignite is basically compressed peat.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 07:54 PM (DpZaL)

82
Betting the Mississippi kids generally have two parents at home, one working to provide an income, the other homemaking, and church on Sunday.

Shudder to think what the kid in NY faces.

But, yeah, the money is being stolen.

Posted by: Auspex at September 21, 2026 07:54 PM (Y8DZL)

83 Dolphin story is cute, we seen videos here of wild animals who sure look like they are thankful humans help their situations

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 07:54 PM (Ia/+0)

84
The police blotter for the local Waffle Houses can be quite a long list. Especially on a good weekend.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 21, 2026 07:54 PM (w6EFb)

85 >>Who the hell thought that it would be a good idea to let the Baltic States into NATO?

Same idiots who thought it would be a good idea to bring Georgia and Ukraine into NATO.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 07:55 PM (viF8m)

86 Yeah, I've been seeing it the past few days
The usual suspects (re: Ukaraine) have been flogging the hell out of it. 'The Russians are stockpiling plasma! You know what that means!'

No, Stephen Green, I don't. Quit touching yourself!
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 21, 2026 07:42 PM (zZu0s)

Russians have plenty to do in Ukraine where they surrounded some thousands of troops near Kharkov (the center) and are reducing the pocket and taking a large supply town in the south.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 07:56 PM (uhVAy)

87 From AGs Settle:

30
Paramount agreed to establish an independent board of journalists to oversee the newsrooms of CNN and CBS News to preserve editorial integrity and prevent consolidated corporate bias, Bonta said.

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

I can see this going either way.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 03:49 PM (mmrXZ)


I can only see it going one way: the Islamunist propaganda board will make those newsrooms not only unpopular and unprofitable, but also unmanageable and unfixable, so any sane company would cut its losses and axe them entirely.

Posted by: SciVo at September 21, 2026 07:56 PM (ke3zm)

88
Not mentioned in the article is the fact that the fish which the dolphin out on the dock were poisoned. Just part of the plan to wipe out land-creatures and conquer Ocean-Planet!
Posted by: zombie

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

Life imitates Simpsons.

Treehouse of Horror XI (Season 12, Episode 1), third segment: “Night of the Dolphin.”

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 07:57 PM (mmrXZ)

89 72 Evenin’, All.

And in case nobody’s mentioned ‘em yet: Boobs!
Posted by: Bulg

I shared pictures of Salma Hayek above, so I assumed boobs were implied.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 21, 2026 07:57 PM (sMaFa)

90 Take a peek at the siege of Masada. Rebels hide at the top of a plateau in a desert...Romans build a ramp up and take it just to prove a point.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 07:51 PM (uhVAy)

Also read about the seige of Alesia by Ceasar during the Gaulic wars.

Posted by: Beartooth at September 21, 2026 07:57 PM (JKBDs)

91 Take a peek at the siege of Masada. Rebels hide at the top of a plateau in a desert...Romans build a ramp up and take it just to prove a point.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 07:51 PM (uhVAy)

Also read about the seige of Alesia by Ceasar during the Gaulic wars.
Posted by: Beartooth at September 21, 2026 07:57 PM (JKBDs)

Caesar invents those Russian Nesting Dolls 1000 years early.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 07:59 PM (uhVAy)

92
Paramount agreed to establish an independent board of journalists to oversee the newsrooms of CNN and CBS News to preserve editorial integrity and prevent consolidated corporate bias, Bonta said.

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

I can only see it going one way: the Islamunist propaganda board will make those newsrooms not only unpopular and unprofitable, but also unmanageable and unfixable, so any sane company would cut its losses and axe them entirely.
Posted by: SciVo

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

I was imagining the Islamunists awakening with horror to a board of Paramount-picked actual journalists. No one knows where they came from, how to get rid of them, or how to get past them. It would be hilarious.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 07:59 PM (mmrXZ)

93 Also read about the seige of Alesia by Ceasar during the Gaulic wars.
Posted by: Beartooth at September 21, 2026 07:57 PM (JKBDs)
---
A running gag in "Asterix and the Chieftain's Shield" is that nobody knows where Alesia is (or is willing to admit they know...)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2026 08:01 PM (FZ29D)

94 @libsoftiktok
BREAKING: 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled that Missouri must reinstate its new congressional map for the November Midterms.

Posted by: #winning at September 21, 2026 08:02 PM (88C+u)

95
I have my mother's school books from elementary school. I suspect I could teach any kid more than they learn in public schools using 90 year old textbooks and a slate with a piece of chalk. Cost is not the issue.
Posted by: tcn in AK
---------
You just described our homeschool.
Posted by: bluebell


I have a faint memory of flash cards.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 21, 2026 08:02 PM (Cqx++)

96 It's a beautiful evening here in the Bluegrass. Temperatures have finally moderated. Currently 72. North wind. This, after 3 weeks of 90+. Sipping Bourbon and a cigar.

Fall is in the air.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 21, 2026 08:05 PM (2Cry5)

97 Pharsulus is really Caesar's most brilliant victory. But, he had quite a few against long odds. But he usually almost always had a veteran force.

Some call Caesar 'Lucky', but it is strange how often his luck was in.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 21, 2026 08:05 PM (zZu0s)

98 I wonders those girls boneless like The Ross Sisters?
Posted by: Eromero

Love the Ross Sisters!

Posted by: Solid Potato Salad at September 21, 2026 08:05 PM (Fn+3X)

99
I have my mother's school books from elementary school. I suspect I could teach any kid more than they learn in public schools using 90 year old textbooks and a slate with a piece of chalk. Cost is not the issue.

___________

I have on a bookshelf in the Command Center my mother's 1400 page New Century Book of Facts, from 1940. Covers everything. You could have a kid read that and he'd be better educated than 98% of public-school students today.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 08:06 PM (eRlcH)

100 >>>so right!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez

>Too right.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 21, 2026 08:06 PM (5C90x)

101 Will the media blockade extend to the PDT/ Mayor Jihadi meeting?

Posted by: Ben Had at September 21, 2026 08:08 PM (UdrMW)

102
"Wipipo" "Islamunist"

Horde is talkin' prettier than a lesbian 5th year college grievance major.

Posted by: Auspex at September 21, 2026 08:08 PM (Y8DZL)

103 Will the media blockade extend to the PDT/ Mayor Jihadi meeting?

Posted by: Ben Had at September 21, 2026 08:08 PM (UdrMW)
----
If nobody reports on POTUS...does he get anything done?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2026 08:09 PM (FZ29D)

104 Ads? I read this site on an ancient macbook using brave. No ads.
I also use a 10 year old PC w/ brave. No ads.

Posted by: free tibet at September 21, 2026 08:10 PM (1wtUm)

105 28 Hispanic women, even hot ones, look like hotel maids at 29.

Uh, what? Salma Hayek looked like one hell of a maid well past 29!
Age 34: https://tinyurl.com/v7j9vpwj
Age 36: https://tinyurl.com/bdfuzdu9

Age 29 https://tinyurl.com/yf4t5y3e She was even more of a smokeshow!
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar



She's half Lebanese.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 21, 2026 08:10 PM (sAmhv)

106 72 And in case nobody’s mentioned ‘em yet: Boobs!
Posted by: Bulg

90 Also read about the seige of Alesia by Ceasar during the Gaulic wars.
Posted by: Beartooth

Maybe some linkage here...

During the capture of Avaricum and Gergovia (leading up to Alesia), the Gaulic women bared their breasts while begging the Romans not to slaughter them when the towns fell. At Alesia, that isn't mentioned...just that the non-combatants were kicked out of the city, begged to be taken prisoner by the Romans, the Romans refused, and they all starved in the no-man's land between the two sides. I bet a few breasts were bared, though.

Posted by: Military Moron at September 21, 2026 08:10 PM (sMaFa)

107
Ben Had,
Bought the bottle of sauce for you the other day and will be bringing it up in a few weeks.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 08:11 PM (eRlcH)

108 ever have one a those days when you wanna fix your laptop with a hammer?

Posted by: Don Black at September 21, 2026 08:12 PM (ZxPkt)

109 Pharsulus is really Caesar's most brilliant victory. But, he had quite a few against long odds. But he usually almost always had a veteran force.

Some call Caesar 'Lucky', but it is strange how often his luck was in.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 21, 2026 08:05 PM (zZu0s)

Caesar wasn't afraid to stand in the front line with the legionaries when things were grim looking, probably helped him with his luck.

Posted by: Beartooth at September 21, 2026 08:13 PM (JKBDs)

110 >She's half Lebanese.
----

she goes both ways?

Posted by: Don Black at September 21, 2026 08:13 PM (ZxPkt)

111 Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 21, 2026 08:05 PM (2Cry5)

We are finally going to be in the low 90's as the high instead of bumping up against 100 degrees. Any relief is appreciated.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 08:14 PM (KC5Lt)

112 Hadrian, how typically generous of you. I look forward to trying it. Thank you.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 21, 2026 08:14 PM (UdrMW)

113 Well past my bedtime.
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 08:15 PM (Ia/+0)

114 110 >She's half Lebanese.
----

she goes both ways?
Posted by: Don Black



Only her billionaire husband knows.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 21, 2026 08:16 PM (sAmhv)

115 She's half Lebanese.
----

she goes both ways?
Posted by: Don Black at September 21, 2026 08:13 PM (ZxPkt

I think that's Libyans

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 08:18 PM (KC5Lt)

116
Media stomps foot at Trump, says "I'm not seeing you anymore!"

Like the 16 year old girls they are.

Posted by: Auspex at September 21, 2026 08:19 PM (Y8DZL)

117
Caesar wasn't afraid to take casualties either. Great Man, awful human.

Posted by: Auspex at September 21, 2026 08:21 PM (Y8DZL)

118 libsoftiktok
BREAKING: 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled that Missouri must reinstate its new congressional map for the November Midterms.
Posted by: #winning at September 21, 2026 08:02 PM (88C+u)

Yay!!

Posted by: LASue at September 21, 2026 08:22 PM (lCppi)

119 I watched David Scott do that experiment on the Moon live on TV as he was preparing to return to the LM. I was sweating bullets. I was in the eigth grade. I became a physics prof.

Posted by: Jim at September 21, 2026 08:23 PM (DcE5z)

120 Great Man, awful human.
Posted by: Auspex at September 21, 2026 08:21 PM (Y8DZL)

*tilts hand back and forth*

One reason he was assassinated was because he wanted to convince his enemies to join him rather than execute them (like Sulla or later Augustus did.)

His seeming invincibility on the battlefield was the other.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 21, 2026 08:23 PM (zZu0s)

121 You know,
If the press isn’t covering Trump, and convincing the general public every second that the Bad Orange Man is destroying everyrhing and murdering children, his approval numbers will skyrocket.


Heh.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 21, 2026 08:25 PM (yEz+x)

122 Just catching up on the day's threads. That damn no-no square song is now firmly planted in my head. Grrrr

It makes me wonder though. We all know there are many documented instances where a good guy with a gub has stopped a crime. I wonder if there is even just one instance where the no-no square dance has stopped a r@pe. I gotta think not

Posted by: 496 at September 21, 2026 08:26 PM (z1j+k)

123
Re Apollo 15. That was the first Moon landing mission where NASA stopped the quarantine for returning astronauts. Previously, in what was an over-abundance of caution, they imposed a 21 day quarantine. You've probably seen pictures and footage of Nixon speaking to the Apollo 11 astronauts inside that modified airstream quarantine trailer.

After Apollo 14, the conclusively proved to their satisfaction there were no moon bugs, and the Moon was sterile. Everybody knew that was the case before, but it couldn't be conclusively provided without actual samples.

And that was the mission where Jim Irwin came close to a heart attack during ascent.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 21, 2026 08:30 PM (w6EFb)

124
And that reminds me, with Apollo 11, Nixon wanted to eat breakfast with the crew before they launched. They had a strict pre-launch quarantine, and that would've have broken it.

It would be bad if they got sick (as shown with Apollo 7) during the mission, so they isolate them a while beforehand.

It fell to Dr. Charles Berry (a legend of the Apollo glory days) to tell Nixon he couldn't do it, and why. He said Nixon wasn't happy, and he was afraid he was gonna get fired. The NASA brass picked him as the fall guy, being the chief flight surgeon and all that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 21, 2026 08:34 PM (w6EFb)

125 ever have one a those days when you wanna fix your laptop with a hammer?

Posted by: Don Black at September 21, 2026 08:12 PM (ZxPkt)

I fixed a week old laptop with my fist.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 21, 2026 08:34 PM (S41Gd)

126 well, the irradiated side of the Moon facing the sun every 14 days has no moon bugs.
The south polar regions might still have them.
tinyurl.com/ms54csu9

Posted by: 88C+u at September 21, 2026 08:36 PM (88C+u)

127
It now seems that sports must now be watched while muted. MNF has Peyton and Eli yammering away. The game itself is an irrelevant sidelight.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 08:39 PM (eRlcH)

128
Another thing the NASA doctors worried about. There was a chance the crew could catch something, get sick on the way back or after return. And that would most likely be due to a regular ol' earth bug.

But, if it happened, there would be freak out they caught some alien virus/bug on the Moon. So for Apollo 11, they were even more cautious about the pre-launch quarantine and isolation.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 21, 2026 08:39 PM (w6EFb)

129 127
It now seems that sports must now be watched while muted. MNF has Peyton and Eli yammering away. The game itself is an irrelevant sidelight.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 08:39 PM (eRlcH)
-----

You're watching the alternative broadcast, called "Manningcast."

There's still a regular old feed with normal commentary. Not that it's much better but it's normal.

Posted by: ballistic at September 21, 2026 08:41 PM (oqH4h)

130 "After Apollo 14, the conclusively proved to their satisfaction there were no moon bugs"

That we know of.

Posted by: fd at September 21, 2026 08:41 PM (MWfyi)

131 127
It now seems that sports must now be watched while muted. MNF has Peyton and Eli yammering away. The game itself is an irrelevant sidelight.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh



Heh! I'm watching a replay of the NASCAR Bristol race from Saturday night. Muted. I have Eric Clapton playing in the CD player.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 21, 2026 08:41 PM (sAmhv)

132
You're watching the alternative broadcast, called "Manningcast."

________

Thanks. I'll watch the normal one. Muted.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 08:42 PM (eRlcH)

133 From Claims Are Fake:

11 There is no way I'm clicking on that video.
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 21, 2026 04:55 PM (ca8Qt)

12 No no square?
These are dangerous people.
Posted by: Bosk at September 21, 2026 04:55 PM (VMFAF)

13 The don't rape me dance.
Gawd. Now i have seen it all.
Beyond stupid.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 21, 2026 04:55 PM (2WIwB)


Oh, I saw AI Carney doing that in a meme compilation. I assumed it was from a song to teach little kids to resist groomers. It's to teach immivaders not to rape? It's unfit for that purpose. They rape because they're wicked, degenerate barbarians, and rape is easy and fun for them; telling them it's wrong changes nothing.

Posted by: SciVo at September 21, 2026 08:44 PM (ke3zm)

134 There might have been a Moon bug that came back to Earth and it's turning everything gay.

Posted by: fd at September 21, 2026 08:44 PM (MWfyi)

135 It's as good a theory as any.

Posted by: fd at September 21, 2026 08:46 PM (MWfyi)

136 There might have been a Moon bug that came back to Earth and it's turning everything gay.
Posted by: fd

=====

* starts typing objection due to science *

* scratches head and looks around *

Please, tell me more about this theory.

Posted by: Sir Mix a Lot at September 21, 2026 08:47 PM (4HoLg)

137 Well that was an old sock.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 21, 2026 08:48 PM (4HoLg)

138 >>>You're watching the alternative broadcast, called "Manningcast."

There's still a regular old feed with normal commentary. Not that it's much better but it's normal.

Posted by: ballistic

>You could watch the Buck & Buck broadcast which is like two old lesbians finishing each other sentences.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 21, 2026 08:48 PM (5C90x)

139 134 There might have been a Moon bug that came back to Earth and it's turning everything gay.
Posted by: fd



youtu.be/AKReU-BHqh8

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 21, 2026 08:48 PM (sAmhv)

140 Eli Manning is a punk ass bitch.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 21, 2026 08:49 PM (yEz+x)

141 Also from Claims Are Fake:

28 Nobody in the picture has any worry about getting violated.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 04:57 PM (BAWkL)
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I'm going to say that a society that has goats and donkeys on its spectrum of acceptable sexual partners will probably hit a zero as well.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 04:59 PM (ZOv7s)


Look, awhile back, there was a case -- I don't even remember if it was here or Europe -- where a guy got drunk and broke into a nursing home, where there was this one couple so old they were basically immobile. He raped the husband repeatedly, until the wife finally tried to stop him and he killed her.

There is only way to deal with barbarians: keep them out by any means necessary, including sinking the boats and shooting planes out of the sky. Then hunt down any that manage to sneak in, and shoot any that resist being removed.

Posted by: SciVo at September 21, 2026 08:52 PM (ke3zm)

142 Asked Grok to improve the top pic

https://bit.ly/metal-roo

Posted by: mindful webworker - not animated at September 21, 2026 08:53 PM (MX7Zk)

143 A 1915 World War I propaganda film.

-
I'm going to have to call shenanigans on that date. The film references 1917 and contains an English Mark I tank which was not available until late 1916 and was top secret even then.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 08:54 PM (ndZc7)

144
A 1915 World War I propaganda film.

__________

The first half of the 20th Century conclusively shows there is nothing stupider and more inept than German diplomacy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 08:59 PM (eRlcH)

145 How dare Sydney Sweeney sexualize female athletes.

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Ahh, bikini rodeo.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 08:59 PM (ndZc7)

146 142 Asked Grok to improve the top pic

https://bit.ly/metal-roo
Posted by: mindful webworker - not animated at September 21, 2026 08:53 PM (MX7Zk)


"Access to assets.grok.com was denied"

Posted by: SciVo at September 21, 2026 09:07 PM (ke3zm)

147 Ahh, bikini rodeo.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks


I saw Bikini Rodeo open for Echolyn on the Cowboy Poems Free tour.

https://youtu.be/NLnVsAxZ89I

Posted by: mikeski at September 21, 2026 09:09 PM (VHUov)

148 They'll get him one way or another.

Lindsay Clancy’s Lawyer Asks Judge to Probe Phone Data of Holdout Juror

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 09:12 PM (ndZc7)

149 Asked Grok to improve the top pic

https://bit.ly/metal-roo
Posted by: mindful webworker - not animated

"Access to assets.grok.com was denied"
Posted by: SciVo


Firefox: "The image cannot be displayed because it contains errors."

iPhone: blue [?] broken-link icon

Posted by: mikeski at September 21, 2026 09:12 PM (VHUov)

150 148 They'll get him one way or another.

Lindsay Clancy’s Lawyer Asks Judge to Probe Phone Data of Holdout Juror
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Holy carp. Just. What the f?

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 21, 2026 09:13 PM (yEz+x)

151 Lindsay Clancy’s Lawyer Asks Judge to Probe Phone Data of Holdout Juror
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks


Fourth amendment?

Bailiff, whack that lawyer's pee-pee.

Thrice.

Posted by: mikeski at September 21, 2026 09:14 PM (VHUov)

152 The Leftist Lynch Mob for Lindsay will force that guy and his extended family to flee back to their home country.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 09:19 PM (2GVsD)

153 >>>Lindsay Clancy’s Lawyer Asks Judge to Probe Phone Data of Holdout Juror
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Holy carp. Just. What the f?

Posted by: nurse ratched

>Harassment. Bleed them dry.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 21, 2026 09:19 PM (5C90x)

154 Question:

Doe the 'roo airplay Kajagoogoo?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 09:20 PM (2GVsD)

155 Lindsay Clancy’s Lawyer Asks Judge to Probe Phone Data of Holdout Juror
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 09:12 PM (ndZc7)

How is that in ANY way allowed?

*types* *deletes*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 21, 2026 09:22 PM (zZu0s)

156 ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and Fox have agreed to collude and NOT cover Trump's UN speech due to his exclusion of CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from the WH press pool.

I think that is awesome!

Trump should now play hardball and announce since they are in collusion not to provide news coverage to the American public, he will give their WH pool spots to news outlets that will actually report the news.

Losing Fox, while also losing the other four networks would be a huge net win for Trump. I say eject them all and let them whine, when they made an actual "for cause" decision.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot
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Eject, Eject

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 09:23 PM (2UA/a)

157 Eli Manning is a punk ass bitch.

He gets credit for beating the Patriots in 2 SB's, though.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 09:23 PM (DpZaL)

158 Remember this Morons

Kevin Reddington is facing charges that he comingled client funds into his personal bank account.

So yes, he is the perfect lawyer for Lindsay; maybe he is doing the same to her?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 09:23 PM (2GVsD)

159 155 Lindsay Clancy’s Lawyer Asks Judge to Probe Phone Data of Holdout Juror
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 09:12 PM (ndZc7)

How is that in ANY way allowed?
...
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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slowly, slowly, then SUDDENLY

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 09:24 PM (2UA/a)

160 Collusion to deny coverage?

FCC to the networks, "we are now reviewing your broadcast licenses."

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 09:24 PM (2GVsD)

161
Clancy lawyer files double jeopardy claim.

How is that supposed to work?

Posted by: four seasons at September 21, 2026 09:27 PM (/QHx4)

162 Lean on me....two cats walk out of a bar.

Posted by: Ries Gorthanes at September 21, 2026 09:27 PM (o0cIH)

163 FCC to the networks, "we are now reviewing your broadcast licenses."
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 09:24 PM (2GVsD)

Better 3 decades late than never.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 09:28 PM (DpZaL)

164 148 They'll get him one way or another.

Lindsay Clancy’s Lawyer Asks Judge to Probe Phone Data of Holdout Juror
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,



Ah. So, repeal the 19th amendment is going to start trending again.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 21, 2026 09:28 PM (sAmhv)

165 And in case nobody’s mentioned ‘em yet: Boobs!
Posted by: Bulg


Some classy dames

https://bit.ly/dona-drake
https://bit.ly/colleen-moore
https://bit.ly/jeanne-moreau

Colleen Moore (born Kathleen Morrison 1899-198 - very cute

Posted by: mindful webworker - hubba hubba hubbub at September 21, 2026 09:31 PM (MX7Zk)

166 Clancy lawyer files double jeopardy claim.

Posted by: four seasons

Weird Al

https://t.ly/Lf3mk

Posted by: Tonypete at September 21, 2026 09:32 PM (IMGZD)

167 Penguins use little pockets under their flippers to store a type of cheese.
Posted by: Penguin Facts at September 21, 2026 07:31 PM


The world's most pungent cheese.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 21, 2026 09:40 PM (0sNs1)

168 I read a "Punch" cartoon once about German attitudes to the smaller nations in Europe.
The protagonist was a big elephant wearing that spiked German infantry helmet. The smaller nations were a nest full of eggs.
The caption was, "Oh, look at these small defenceless eggs. I must sit on them. [does so]"

Posted by: 88C+u at September 21, 2026 09:41 PM (88C+u)

169 The world's most pungent cheese.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

You mokes are jealous you can't tote dairy goods around. It's quite the convenience.

Posted by: Penguin Pete at September 21, 2026 09:44 PM (Fn+3X)

170 Great War Imperial German spiked helmet - Pickelhaube.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 09:46 PM (2GVsD)

171 "Access to assets.grok.com was denied"
Posted by: SciVo


Well, fap! Suspected that might not work. Try again:

Asked Grok to improve the top pic
http://mindfulwebworks.com/art-of/metal-roo.jpg

Posted by: mindful webworker - hubba hubba hubbub at September 21, 2026 09:47 PM (MX7Zk)

172 WTF? Did I terminate the thread?

Posted by: mindful webworker - watt th firk at September 21, 2026 09:53 PM (MX7Zk)

173 I do remember when the networks protected Fox from being dropped by a Dem pres (Biden??) but yes I think people can find other ways to get the news. They choose not to cover the President anyway.

Posted by: Iris at September 21, 2026 09:54 PM (286+n)

174 Will News Max be there? If they are, who needs the others, let them sit on their asses and bitch.

Posted by: Case at September 21, 2026 09:54 PM (xJpuh)

175 I swapped out the battery and now the thing only powers up if it's plugged in

it's been at 28% battery all day
even though it says it's charging
fucking POS goddam slant-eyed bitch motherf***er of a laptop

whew

Posted by: Don Black at September 21, 2026 09:56 PM (ZxPkt)

176 Mike Roger's two first tv commercials are him standing by the Detroit river admiring Canadian drug prices, and tossing a football with a U.M. jersey on.

W.T.F.

Posted by: Auspex at September 21, 2026 09:56 PM (Y8DZL)

177 173 I do remember when the networks protected Fox from being dropped by a Dem pres (Biden??) but yes I think people can find other ways to get the news. They choose not to cover the President anyway.

Posted by: Iris
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Because Fox doesn't smell quite as bad as the others doesn't mean it's not Poop. Good riddance to all of them. Now the JustTheNews can write their own copy.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 10:00 PM (2UA/a)

178 Monday ONT is always late.

Unless it's early.

Posted by: mindful webworker - on time at September 21, 2026 10:00 PM (MX7Zk)

179 I just trying to imagine what will happen with the next Dem president (hopefully not sooner than 20 years at least)!

Posted by: Iris at September 21, 2026 10:10 PM (286+n)

180 If you haven't already skipped to the NOOD ONT, it's so late you might as well not bother. Unless you have as good an excuse as tankdemon.

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=421354

Posted by: mindful webworker - on beyond at September 21, 2026 10:21 PM (MX7Zk)

181 >>>This Kangaroo Won the 2023 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards
A western grey kangaroo in Perth, Australia, was photographed in a pose that makes it look like she's playing an invisible guitar

So great!

Posted by: m at September 21, 2026 11:59 PM (odBC9)

182 Posted by: mindful webworker
___________

I was poking around on that site and ran across this:

"Mix together bacon fat and bourbon. Freeze for 14 hours to let the fat separate. Remove the fat, and you've got an incredible bacon fat bourbon."

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 22, 2026 09:23 AM (XvL8K)

Quick Hits

Race paranoids decided that a Korean sneaker ad must be a subliminal ad for KKK lynchings.

Here's an image from the ad:

converseshoead.jpg

SJWs have a bizarre notion of "evidence." They believe that if they can see something or "feel" something through vibes, that's positive proof that it is real and you intended to send that message, and also, you now owe them money or some other concession they can extract from you for "triggering" them.


Converse apologized and pulled a shoe ad last week that some claimed featured Ku Klux Klan imagery.

The ad, which has been removed from the Nike subsidiary's social media pages, featured K-pop singer Karina of the girl group aespa promoting the Chuck 70 X and Run Star Crush sneakers. In the ad, Karina held a pair of black high-top shoes under a star-shaped spotlight while wearing a long white skirt.

Several social media users asserted that Karina resembled a KKK member, with the shoes resembling a lynching victim. Critics included Rep. Troy Carter, D-La., who released a statement on the ad on Friday.

"Nike and Converse, what the hell were you thinking?" Carter said. "Your campaign shows what looks like a hooded Klansman, framed by what appears to be the dangling feet of a lynching victim. There is nothing creative or artistic about it. It is racist, reckless and deeply offensive."

Fuck you, Sally Sillycunt.

After facing backlash, Converse eventually pulled the ad and released a statement apologizing for the campaign.

"We're sorry. We understand why this image is deeply upsetting and recognize that we got this wrong. We removed it from our channels and are working to remove it everywhere it appeared. This should not have happened, and we will do better," the statement sent to Fox News Digital read.

Converse is a subsidiary of woke propaganda company (which also sometimes makes overpriced sneakers) Nike so I can't say I'm upset that they're being destroyed by the SJW customer base they cultivated.

This latest ad backlash comes as Nike is set to be removed from the S&P 100 after nearly 18 years, following its value dropping by more than $200 billion since 2021.

House Republicans say they have further questions for the Democrats' illegal foreign buckraking operation Act Blue.


House GOP investigators are warning that they are not done with ActBlue after a bombshell report fueled questions over whether the Democrat fundraising giant is accepting foreign cash and lying to Congress about it.

"Whether it's allowing fraudsters to steal taxpayer dollars or accepting illegal foreign donations through ActBlue, Democrats have proven themselves to be the party of fraud. Our investigation into ActBlue is far from over. We expect more documents and testimony in the weeks ahead," House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., told Fox News Digital.

...

Republican lawmakers have long accused the company of having lax verification standards for donors, something ActBlue has said it actively improved since the start of the GOP's probe. But new findings, first reported by Fox News Digital, appear to show employees green-lighting donations despite some questions about where they came from.

...

Committee on House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., told Fox News Digital on Friday, "ActBlue's own admissions raise serious questions about its fraud prevention practices, including a so-called passport verification process that did not actually verify or check entries against any government database. All options are on the table to ensure we get to the bottom of what is going on at ActBlue."

...

The Judiciary Committee revealed through a series of transcripts on Thursday that all 10 ActBlue employees and board members who appeared for closed-door depositions invoked the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering questions.

...

The GOP report cited a letter by Wallace-Jones to Steil, which maintained that donations on the platform made by people with addresses outside the U.S. required a passport number for verification.

But the Republicans' report alleged that the verification "only ensures that the entered passport number contains a certain number of characters, not that it is a valid U.S. passport number," rendering it an essentially meaningless step.

College swimmer speaks out against the "moderate centrist" Abigail Spanberger for allowing male cheaters to compete in girls' sports.


Former Roanoke College swimmer Lily Mullens, who helped lead a public stand against a transgender athlete joining her women's team, is speaking out after Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger's administration withdrew a proposed regulation intended to protect female-only sports and private spaces.

Mullens was one of three female swimmers who formally petitioned the Virginia State Board of Health to enact the regulation, along with Hungarian Olympian Réka György and former Roanoke teammate Carter Satterfield.

"Up until recently, due to Governor Youngkin's leadership, which was founded in truth, Virginia was making tremendous strides toward finally doing the right thing and protecting females by keeping men out of women's sports and spaces for good. However, under the new 'leadership' of Governor Spanberger, that progress has come to a screeching halt," Mullens told OutKick.

"By failing to be open with the public about her decision months ago, she is signaling to the people of Virginia that she does not care about the female athletes in this state and she is aware that she is going against what the people want. As a woman herself, I had hoped that she would understand the importance of this issue and the petition I signed a year ago, but I have been proven wrong.

Huh, a left-wing Democrat refused to be honest with the public about her extremist position on an issue. Well, now I've seen everything!

...

"The truth is, and always will be, that men and women are biologically different. Virginia had a leader who understood this fact and did everything he could to protect women. I am saddened and disappointed to see such hard work thrown away, especially by a woman."

...

György competed against transgender swimmer Lia Thomas at the 2022 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships. The Virginia Tech swimmer finished 17th in the preliminary round of the 500-yard freestyle, one place outside the 16-swimmer finals field. Thomas advanced and went on to win the national championship.

A Finnish study has found that "gender transitions" do not, as claimed, improve the mental health of those receiving it.

In fact, psychiatric illness skyrockets 600% after "transitioning."


Kurt Mahlburg
@k_mahlburg


A landmark Finnish study has found a sharp rise in psychiatric illness among adolescents following sex-alteration procedures.

The peer-reviewed study, published in Acta Paediatrica, tracked every young person under 23 who contacted Finland's gender clinics between 1996 and 2019.

A total 2,083 individuals were studied, with 16,643 matched controls. They were followed for up to 25 years.

Finland's health registers are mandatory, which means no one opts out -- this is the complete national picture.

The numbers: psychiatric morbidity rose from 9.8% to 60.7% in adolescents who underwent feminising reassignment, and from 21.6% to 54.5% in masculinising reassignment.

Even after adjusting for prior psychiatric history, gender-referred adolescents faced five times the risk of male population controls, and three times the risk of female controls.

"Psychiatric needs do not subside after medical gender reassignment," the authors concluded.

Referrals after 2010 arrived sicker. 47.9% had already needed psychiatric treatment before their first clinic visit, against 15.3% among controls.

The authors' read: for some adolescents, gender distress may be secondary to other mental health challenges.

The evidence keeps mounting. The silencing continues anyway.

How many more adolescents will be told this is "care"?

A lawless lower court federal judge ruled that Oregon could not house trans "women" in men's prisons. Apparently there's a rule requiring individualized evaluations to determine if the "women" would be "harmed" by treating them as the sex they actually are.

The lawless rogue liberal judge said the prisons were not really evaluating the trans "women's" situations fairly. I assume he said this because some trans "women" were going to men's prisons, which he found intolerable.

Three Trump appointees told this Mary to get f***ed.

A Ninth Circuit appeals panel has reversed the lowly lower court judge.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel said a lower court had incorrectly ruled regarding how Oregon housed its transgender women inmates. All three judges on the panel were appointed by President Donald Trump, and they voted unanimously to strike down the order.

Some criticized the language in the panel's opinion as being harmful to transgender people.

Oh for the love of Pete.

Wednesday's ruling reverses a decision made in April, when U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark D. Clarke ordered Oregon to house transgender women inmates in prisons that align with their gender identity, and only after completing a safety assessment.

Appeals Court Judge Eric Tung authored the panel's opinion, saying Clarke had erred when he said the state had presumptively placed transgender women in men's prisons.

"That premise lacks record support and is clearly erroneous," Tung wrote. "The district court improperly disregarded the overwhelming contrary evidence presented by Defendants in favor of baseless speculation."

...

But the appeals court said that the plaintiffs had failed to prove that Oregon had acted with deliberate indifference to transgender inmates. Tung wrote that Clarke had relied on outdated evidence and failed to consider counter arguments presented by the state.

"Nor have Plaintiffs shown that Defendants acted in a uniform way with deliberate indifference toward each of the class members," Tung wrote. "At most, the record reflects that different officials acted in different ways toward different prisoners at different times."


A fuller article is here.

Despite some occasional claims that "nothing is being done," Trump has really done something on immigration.

The CPS [Current Population Survey] shows an unprecedented decline of 2.9 million in the total foreign-born population from January 2025 to July 2026.

As for the illegal alien population, my colleague Karen Zeigler and I estimate from CPS data that it has fallen by 2.3 million since January 2025--from 15.8 million at the start of the Trump Administration to 13.5 million through July 2026. By contrast, it had grown by an unprecedented 5.6 million during Biden's time in office. These estimates include adjustments for those the CPS missed.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:00 PM




Comments

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1 Open channel D

Posted by: Open Channel D at September 21, 2026 06:03 PM (Ic2RB)

2 Channel D is open

Posted by: Open Channel D at September 21, 2026 06:04 PM (Ic2RB)

3 Several social media users asserted that Karina resembled a KKK member, with the shoes resembling a lynching victim.

In fairness, the Klan was known for recruiting attractive Korean women. This is sarcasm, in case the batteries in your detector are low.

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

4 Just my luck day—wasn’t even trying for the trifecta

Posted by: Open Channel D at September 21, 2026 06:06 PM (Ic2RB)

5 House Republicans say they have further questions for the Democrats' illegal foreign buckraking operation Act Blue.

Didn't the Act Blue people just take the 5th on every question last time? Why would it be different this time?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 06:07 PM (ExV1e)

6 Oh like a fool I read the content

Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at September 21, 2026 06:07 PM (Ydd86)

7 that converse thing is ... more insane than usual.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 06:09 PM (VyBeY)

8 Just my luck day—wasn’t even trying for the trifecta
Posted by: Open Channel D at September 21, 2026 06:06 PM (Ic2RB)


Yeah, it just happens when you don't let anyone know that a new thread is up.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 06:09 PM (ExV1e)

9 I think Converse should do a more realistic ad.

Have a teen male holding a pair of Converse in one hand and Baby Formula in the other, and have him appearing to make a choice. Of course, he chooses the Converse, tosses the Baby Formula away....then big letters spelling CONVERSE come up on the screen with a dark background that morphs into flashing red and blue lights with sirens and gunshots heard.

They need to cater to their largest customer base.

Posted by: Orson at September 21, 2026 06:09 PM (dIske)

10 Oh like a fool I read the content
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport
.......

Yeah but now you're smarter.

Posted by: wth at September 21, 2026 06:10 PM (UjdFS)

11 They will tell you that what is plainly in front of you is not there, and what is very obviously not there is plainly in front of you. Doesn't seem healthy.

Posted by: ... at September 21, 2026 06:11 PM (vE0+H)

12 I didn't know Lindsay Clancy owned a white dress.

Posted by: ... at September 21, 2026 06:12 PM (vE0+H)

13 So a woman cannot wear a white skirt? This is beyond stupid. It's ridiculous. Some people have racism on the brain and need to seek mental help.

Posted by: Case at September 21, 2026 06:13 PM (xJpuh)

14 Why pull the ad? Just colorize it. Blue or red skirt. You will be able to see her flesh ankles and her hands holding the sneakers. Fuck these race hustlers and fuck and their cuck apology.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 06:13 PM (KC5Lt)

15 actblue was the name on the unrelenting Talarico ads last week. Maybe twenty or more a day. There must have been ten different versions, all asking for less than ten dollars and a couple asking for just one dollar.

I assume they assemble a roster of low level donors and presto change-o! They are all max donors and the foreign money is laundered.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 21, 2026 06:13 PM (r7+Q7)

16 Do these wilting lilies even know what a Klansman outfit looks like? They would never deign to show ankle. And I seriously doubt any of them wear Chuckies anyway.

Plus, Democrats. So, not trustworthy, obviously. I assume the Karens in this story are likewise.... democrats.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 21, 2026 06:14 PM (+7nKe)

17 In fact, psychiatric illness skyrockets 600% after "transitioning."

One thing we have learned from the Clancey circus is that women's hormones are often out of wack and as a result its OK to commit heinous crimes — totally understandable.

So when trannies take huge doses of women's hormones taking their XY bodies out of wack, it should follow that committing heinous crimes is an expected output — totally understandable.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 06:14 PM (PVBkQ)

18 House Republicans say they have further questions for the Democrats' illegal foreign buckraking operation Act Blue.
_____

Do any of these "further questions" involve bringing in Vlad Tepes to testify how he will carry out punishment of ActBlue fraudsters?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 21, 2026 06:14 PM (Dv3i1)

19 That Converse thing? They deliberately clipped a portion of the image, and darkened it then yelled about something nobody saw but idiots. The worst part is that Converse apologized and you NEVER APOLOGIZE TO THE MOB.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 06:15 PM (KyEAU)

20 5 House Republicans say they have further questions for the Democrats' illegal foreign buckraking operation Act Blue.

Didn't the Act Blue people just take the 5th on every question last time? Why would it be different this time?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 06:07 PM (ExV1e)

This time they are doing waterboarding.

A girl can dream, y'know.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 21, 2026 06:15 PM (+7nKe)

21 The Chuck Taylor sneakers are a favorite among the blue-hair nose ring chicks. No wonder they all went batshit over the ad.

It is kind of a shitty ad, though.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at September 21, 2026 06:15 PM (QaH55)

22 Why pull the ad? Just colorize it. Blue or red skirt. You will be able to see her flesh ankles and her hands holding the sneakers. Fuck these race hustlers and fuck and their cuck apology.

Instead of Karina, they should have used Sweeney, and when the complaints rolled in, just have Sweeney drop the skirt.

Win/Win

Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 06:16 PM (PVBkQ)

23 The Oregon Fed judge wasn't even a judge subject to congressional confirmation. He's a magistrate judge who basically takes care of the mundane procedures of the court. Taking pleas, preliminary hearings etc. Him making a substantive decision is BS and should be the subject of discipline

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2026 06:17 PM (taL2t)

24 Shoulda just told them the model was wearing a nurse's outfit.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 21, 2026 06:17 PM (+7nKe)

25 SJWs have a bizarre notion of "evidence." They believe that if they can see something or "feel" something through vibes, that's positive proof that it is real and you intended to send that message, and also, you now owe them money or some other concession they can extract from you for "triggering" them.

Me: this is like certain individuals dreaming that you kissed another girl, then waking up and being mad at you in real life because 'it must have meant something.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 21, 2026 06:18 PM (zZu0s)

26 I hate people who open with a disclaimer bashing Republicans before they ask you to vote against democrats.

I got a lot of fuck yous in my system today .

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 06:18 PM (KC5Lt)

27 Advertising for my new heavy duty rope nooses just became more complicated.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 21, 2026 06:19 PM (Sco7b)

28 They find race in everything

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 06:19 PM (Ia/+0)

29 Don't dogs calm down when they get fixed? Why doesn't it work with trannies?

Posted by: nckate at September 21, 2026 06:19 PM (enNUy)

30 Evidently the Supreme Court threw out that asinine bump stock rule that Trump did after the Vegas shooting. One of his big L's

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 06:19 PM (KyEAU)

31 In his opinion, Tung repeatedly refers to transgender women inmates as “male inmates who claim to be female.”
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Ah, so he's a truth-teller.

Posted by: Crusader at September 21, 2026 06:19 PM (TN0g+)

32 just have Sweeney drop the skirt.

Win/Win
Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 06:16 PM (PVBkQ)
_____________________________

Not possible. That would give access to the "no no square"....or in Sweeney's case, likely the "no no landing strip."

Posted by: Orson at September 21, 2026 06:19 PM (dIske)

33 I see four pairs of shoes.

Posted by: Jean-Luc Picard at September 21, 2026 06:19 PM (Cqx++)

34 >>>In fact, psychiatric illness skyrockets 600% after "transitioning."

No effing shit.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 21, 2026 06:19 PM (s2QpU)

35 "A landmark Finnish study has found a sharp rise in psychiatric illness among adolescents following sex-alteration procedures."


How do I do a shocked face emoji on here? because this is shocking.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 21, 2026 06:20 PM (I43vL)

36 I like that Chesterton quote, CRT. Nice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 21, 2026 06:20 PM (zZu0s)

37 Converse should do an ad showing a yute taking the Converse off a dead body saying " Converse are so cool I'll kill for them". Keepin it real

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2026 06:20 PM (taL2t)

38 I've watched that ad a dozen times. At no point do I see that still image with her holding the shoes. What is it, like a single frame that flashes so quickly that only the race-baiters can see it?

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 21, 2026 06:20 PM (zYpTz)

39 Mental defectives.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 06:20 PM (DpZaL)

40 Don't dogs calm down when they get fixed? Why doesn't it work with trannies?

Doesn't matter if you cut the danglies off a rabid dog. Insane doesn't care about being neutered.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 06:21 PM (KyEAU)

41 5 House Republicans say they have further questions for the Democrats' illegal foreign buckraking operation Act Blue.

Didn't the Act Blue people just take the 5th on every question last time? Why would it be different this time?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 06:07 PM (ExV1e)

bigger question... where is the DOJ in all this?

This has been a KNOWN issue since Obama. Yet somehow, no one has actually investigated it?

Hell, we had people PROVING the site was crap by giving money under various fake names...

They even took money from GIFT CARD credit numbers...

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 21, 2026 06:21 PM (mP0Kj)

42 I grew up with two newspapers in Houston. The Hobby family published the lighter local news and did not appear liberal politically but the Post was considered more light that dark. The Houston Chronicle was more conservative and business oriented but not harsh politically.

When Hearst bought the Chronicle they ended up with both papers. They own every large city paper in Texas now and also most of the small town rags near the cities. It is a whacked out provider of woke bullshit covered by a small cabal of liberal minority kids all across the state now.

Posted by: DanMan at September 21, 2026 06:21 PM (8uzBS)

43 Converse should do an ad showing a yute taking the Converse off a dead body saying " Converse are so cool I'll kill for them". Keepin it real
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2026 06:20 PM (taL2t)


Jumping out of the store through the broken window?

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

44 Whatever happened to just do an ad showing the product and how great it is and show people using it and why you should to.

Probably a bunch of faggots and troons in the ad agency trying to be all hip and artsy and other weird ass gay shit so Converse gets what it got which is crap.

Posted by: Pray The Gay Away And Take Off That Dress Fool at September 21, 2026 06:21 PM (6VpiA)

45 This time they are doing waterboarding.

Since 1922, there have been as many as 200,000 congressional hearings resulting in a whopping 138 criminal referrals and of that slightly more than one third resulting in criminal conviction.

Its all theater.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 06:21 PM (pUU4E)

46 "By failing to be open with the public about her decision months ago, she is signaling to the people of Virginia that she does not care about the female athletes in this state and she is aware that she is going against what the people want.

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I blame former Virginia governor Youngkin, if he campaigned with and for his deputy governor when she ran for the job Virginia would not be in this mess.

Posted by: Decaf at September 21, 2026 06:22 PM (ZNpJk)

47 Don't dogs calm down when they get fixed? Why doesn't it work with trannies?
Posted by: nckate at September 21, 2026 06:19 PM (enNUy)

Because 90% of trannies still have all their junk.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 06:22 PM (KC5Lt)

48 40 Don't dogs calm down when they get fixed? Why doesn't it work with trannies?

Doesn't matter if you cut the danglies off a rabid dog. Insane doesn't care about being neutered.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 06:21 PM (KyEAU)

Only 1 in 7 of those who self identify as Trans, ever go under the knife.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 21, 2026 06:22 PM (mP0Kj)

49 I like that Chesterton quote, CRT. Nice.

Its what I try to keep in mind when I write fantasy. How can I glorify God in this odd world? By showing the bad guys being bad, and being defeated.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 06:23 PM (KyEAU)

50 Posted by: Decaf at September 21, 2026 06:22 PM (ZNpJk

He's not the only one to blame. Did Trump campaign for her?

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 06:23 PM (KC5Lt)

51 This has been a KNOWN issue since Obama. Yet somehow, no one has actually investigated it?

The system protects the system.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 06:23 PM (ExV1e)

52 Whatever happened to just do an ad showing the product and how great it is and show people using it and why you should to.

"I don't care what you say about me, just spell my name right."

Converse, through the "outrage" reaped plenty of free attention. I forgot Converse existed, let alone made shoes until today.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 06:23 PM (pUU4E)

53 45 This time they are doing waterboarding.

Since 1922, there have been as many as 200,000 congressional hearings resulting in a whopping 138 criminal referrals and of that slightly more than one third resulting in criminal conviction.

Its all theater.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 06:21 PM (pUU4E)

And I'll wager the 40 or so who were convicted? Almost all Republican.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 21, 2026 06:23 PM (mP0Kj)

54 The girl i that Converse ad is outrageously beautiful. She's a K-Pop singer, and when Korean girls are pretty they are stunning. Probably some surgery involved, though.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 06:24 PM (KyEAU)

55 31 In his opinion, Tung repeatedly refers to transgender women inmates as “male inmates who claim to be female.”
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Ah, so he's a truth-teller.
Posted by: Crusader

Truth is Transphobic!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 21, 2026 06:24 PM (Dv3i1)

56 Only 1 in 7 of those who self identify as Trans, ever go under the knife.

Where is Loraine Bobbit when the world needs her?

Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 06:24 PM (pUU4E)

57 Why would the Klan wear the same sneakers as their victims? Why would the Klan person be the one surrounded? I'm confused.

Posted by: ... at September 21, 2026 06:24 PM (vE0+H)

58 I forgot Converse existed, let alone made shoes until today.

When I think of tennis shoes, that's what I think of though. That exact design. Its like the perfect template.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 06:25 PM (KyEAU)

59 Well then we got a lot of fake ass trannies running around. Fully commit to the cause or shut the hell up.

Posted by: nckate at September 21, 2026 06:25 PM (enNUy)

60
He's not the only one to blame. Did Trump campaign for her?
Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 06:23 PM (KC5Lt)

She didn't want Trump to

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 06:25 PM (+gK6I)

61 Was there ill will between Youngkin and Sears that he didn't support her?

Posted by: Ben Had at September 21, 2026 06:26 PM (UdrMW)

62 I was at first angry at Converse for caving to the woke pseudo-mob (in reality just a handful of professional complainers who pretended to have ginned up an online outrage wave), but now that I see that Converse is just a subsidiary of Nike,, I can now say, "Good! Grovel to the commies and go bankrupt! Just do it! Oh, and fuck you and everything you stand for." Much more satisfying result, emotionally.

Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 06:26 PM (Av6i5)

63 >>In fact, psychiatric illness skyrockets 600% after "transitioning."

Uhmm, they are literally mutilated and rendered sexually non-functioning as the result of "transitioning."

Who the f*** thought this would produce happiness?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 21, 2026 06:26 PM (XV/Pl)

64 Channel D continues to impress. Nothing can stop him/her/it!

Posted by: Kudos and Brickbats at September 21, 2026 06:27 PM (Fn+3X)

65 56 Only 1 in 7 of those who self identify as Trans, ever go under the knife.

Where is Loraine Bobbit when the world needs her?
Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 06:24 PM (pUU4E)

OK Judge, yeah I want to go to Women's Prison as a Trans.... but not to the same prison as Loraine Bobbit!

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 21, 2026 06:27 PM (mP0Kj)

66 Uhmm, they are literally mutilated and rendered sexually non-functioning as the result of "transitioning."

They were told for years that they were unhappy and felt all wrong because they were in the wrong body, so they mangled themselves for hundreds of thousands of dollars and years of surgery and found out they still felt unhappy and all wrong.

Somehow, that they are worse off surprises people?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 06:28 PM (KyEAU)

67 "A fuller article is here."

Oh good -- I love reading about brushes.

Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 06:28 PM (Av6i5)

68 6 Oh like a fool I read the content

Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport
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Things are happening for the good more than ever but they are so relentless with their lack of scruples and devotion to ignorance that it feels past time for the beginning.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 06:28 PM (iLKq8)

69 Who the f*** thought this would produce happiness?

The medical team that is cashing the surgery, pharma and counseling cheques?

Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 06:28 PM (BvPIe)

70 Bye, Converse.

Never liked Chuck Taylors anyway. I prefer low-tops.

BTW, did we see the complete photo of the ad, or was it cropped to make the whiners point?

Stop groveling to these criminals.

Every time a Trump official is interviewed on the news, he/she should always call the interviewer Julius or Julia. If they need to face more than one, alternate with Mr. Streicher, or Ms. Streicher.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2026 06:28 PM (1Ff7Z)

71 Emmet Till's Dad was hanged while wearing a pair of Converse snealkers.

Posted by: Buster Brown at September 21, 2026 06:29 PM (Fn+3X)

72 Trump campaigning for spanberger, is that a joke? or /s?

onnacounta I'm pretty sure she's a demonrat ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 06:29 PM (VyBeY)

73 63 >>In fact, psychiatric illness skyrockets 600% after "transitioning."

Uhmm, they are literally mutilated and rendered sexually non-functioning as the result of "transitioning."

Who the f*** thought this would produce happiness?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 21, 2026 06:26 PM (XV/Pl)

Not acknowledging reality is Crazy, and used to be diagnosed as such.

Not acknowledging your own SEX? Cray Cray...

So, should not that study be noting an increase in OTHER psychiatric issues?

It's like saying Illegal Immigrants don't commit crimes, when the sub group Illegal Immigrant by definition says you have already broken the law.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 21, 2026 06:30 PM (mP0Kj)

74 Well. That ad isn't going convince me to run out and buy tennis shoes. But anyone who sees a racial bit in it is full of crap.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 21, 2026 06:30 PM (2WIwB)

75 Only 1 in 7 of those who self identify as Trans, ever go under the knife.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 21, 2026 06:22 PM (mP0Kj)

That's a lot of homeless boobies.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 21, 2026 06:31 PM (+7nKe)

76 69 Who the f*** thought this would produce happiness?

The medical team that is cashing the surgery, pharma and counseling cheques?
Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 06:28 PM (BvPIe)

Uhhh...

Posted by: Pfizer Hormone Division Exec. at September 21, 2026 06:31 PM (mP0Kj)

77 Oh, ffs.

I got nuthin'.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 21, 2026 06:31 PM (84gkw)

78 She didn't want Trump to
Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 06:25 PM (+gK6I)

That's the story after an immediate endorsement wasn't forthcoming . She lost because she didn't have GOP support. And a lot of republican voters didn't bother to vote for her. That's why I don't really care about VA's problems now. You can lead a horse to water but......

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 06:31 PM (KC5Lt)

79 When Hearst bought the Chronicle they ended up with both papers. They own every large city paper in Texas now and also most of the small town rags near the cities. It is a whacked out provider of woke bullshit covered by a small cabal of liberal minority kids all across the state now.
Posted by: DanMan at September 21, 2026 06:21 PM (8uzBS)
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lol, yep. Then go read Texas Monthly which reads like Mother Jones. Absolutely ridiculous.

Posted by: ballistic at September 21, 2026 06:32 PM (oqH4h)

80 "
bigger question... where is the DOJ in all this?

This has been a KNOWN issue since Obama. Yet somehow, no one has actually investigated it?

Hell, we had people PROVING the site was crap by giving money under various fake names...

They even took money from GIFT CARD credit numbers...

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 21, 2026 06:21 PM (mP0Kj) "

weird, innit?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 06:32 PM (VyBeY)

81 65 56 Only 1 in 7 of those who self identify as Trans, ever go under the knife

If you want respect you need to carry your chopped off penis in a jar.

News. Abdul just had a good ad on Detroit tv.

Air traffic stopped.
News media pissed. Fuck them. The only good reporter is a dead reporter.

Paramount
ICE shooting. You had 2 years to leave asshole.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 21, 2026 06:32 PM (Sco7b)

82 Hey Casar, you dumb shit. It is a war. One we've been losing until Trump. Better pull your head outta your ass.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 21, 2026 06:32 PM (2WIwB)

83
Every time a Trump official is interviewed on the news, he/she should always call the interviewer Julius or Julia.


Ok, Paah-trick

Posted by: LutheranSatire at September 21, 2026 06:33 PM (BvPIe)

84 Where went, “Do no harm?”

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 21, 2026 06:33 PM (wMdZR)

85 That's the story after an immediate endorsement wasn't forthcoming . She lost because she didn't have GOP support. And a lot of republican voters didn't bother to vote for her. That's why I don't really care about VA's problems now. You can lead a horse to water but......
Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 06:31 PM (KC5Lt)

Pretty sure she wasn't a fan of Trump's, but in VA , I don't think it would have helped

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 06:33 PM (+gK6I)

86 "BOOM! Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent just DESTROYED the Fake News crying over White House access!"

FoxNews has joined the boycott of pool access.

Appropriate response? Meh. Do what you will. We'll open the floor to more alternate media and heavily promote the continuing White House feed on .gov sites. IOW, First Amendment will continue as it has since the founding with or without you. But openly dishonest and intentionally hostile propaganda (from the DNC/DSA via its media spokes-tools) will be sidelined as it is contrary to legitimate check/balance tradition.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at September 21, 2026 06:33 PM (oji8u)

87 In fact, psychiatric illness skyrockets 600% after "transitioning."

Uhmm, they are literally mutilated and rendered sexually non-functioning as the result of "transitioning."

Who the f*** thought this would produce happiness?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 21, 2026 06:26 PM


You got to remember that for these kids and their parents they have been told for over a decade if you don't let your son transition to be a girl you would have a dead son. They have literally been brain washed.


It reminds me of the satanic child abuse idiocy from the 80s. Complete and total brain washing of an entire generation done by junk science.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 21, 2026 06:34 PM (I43vL)

88 ICE shooting. You had 2 years to leave asshole.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 21, 2026 06:32 PM (Sco7b)

And hell, they were gonna PAY YOU to leave. But you had to be an ass.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 21, 2026 06:34 PM (+7nKe)

89 Social Media is a generational mindfuck that never keeps giving. Top it off with a little so-called AI seasoning and we're going to blast off into oblivion. Hold on to your skivvies.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 21, 2026 06:34 PM (5C90x)

90

I never see shoes hanging over telephone lines anymore.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 21, 2026 06:34 PM (Cqx++)

91 Just my luck day—wasn’t even trying for the trifecta
Posted by: Open Channel D at September 21, 2026 06:06 PM (Ic2RB)


Dick!

Posted by: Channel C at September 21, 2026 06:34 PM (2WIwB)

92 The girl i that Converse ad is outrageously beautiful. She's a K-Pop singer, and when Korean girls are pretty they are stunning. Probably some surgery involved, though.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 06:24 PM (KyEAU)

Reshaping a lower jaw so it comes to a point?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2026 06:35 PM (1Ff7Z)

93 What have the Republican majorities in the House and Senate done under their Republican President? Would it be any different than under commie majorities?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 21, 2026 06:35 PM (bX16E)

94 The Converse ad: How many Klan members wear sneakers beneath their robes? The *same sneakers* as their lynching victims?

I haven't considered a Converse shoe for many years and didn't even know they were still around. My first pair of "good" running shoes in 1977 were Converses, but they were leather (really!) and heavy as lead. When I bought a pair of Nike trainers the next year, I felt as though I were floating on the track by comparison.

Instead of apologizing to these whiners, Converse should simply say, "Get stuffed and grow up."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026 06:35 PM (wzUl9)

95 Fuck Fox News. I will shed no tears when the next democrat administration outlaws them completely.

Posted by: Open Channel D at September 21, 2026 06:35 PM (tgTrV)

96 84 Where went, “Do no harm?”
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 21, 2026 06:33 PM (wMdZR)

Who are these "doctors" that mutilate people based on this bullshit? They know they are sentencing their victims to a lifetime of pain and suffering, and they are taking cash to do so.

They probably should have just gone into the abortion industry in the first place.

/spit

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 21, 2026 06:36 PM (+7nKe)

97 Democrat majorities would be laser focused on removing Trump. Republican majorities are only laser focused on thwarting his policy goals.

Posted by: Open Channel D at September 21, 2026 06:37 PM (tgTrV)

98
The girl i that Converse ad is outrageously beautiful. She's a K-Pop singer, and when Korean girls are pretty they are stunning. Probably some surgery involved, though.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 06:24 PM (KyEAU


At a minimum, they usually build-up the bridge of the nose and remove the epicentral fold from the eyes.

Sometimes other stuff is done as well.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 06:37 PM (iJfKG)

99 Appropriate response? Meh. Do what you will. We'll open the floor to more alternate media and heavily promote the continuing White House feed on .gov sites. IOW, First Amendment will continue as it has since the founding with or without you. But openly dishonest and intentionally hostile propaganda (from the DNC/DSA via its media spokes-tools) will be sidelined as it is contrary to legitimate check/balance tradition.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at September 21, 2026 06:33 PM


Trump needs to do what lincoln did, jail the ones who printed false stories giving comfort to the enemy, worked for him. Granted scotus finally ruled that was illegal but not before some of those "journalists" spent a year or more in a military prison at hard labor.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 21, 2026 06:37 PM (I43vL)

100 Diogenes: "Well. That ad isn't going convince me to run out and buy tennis shoes. But anyone who sees a racial bit in it is full of crap."

Yep. These are people who look for nooses in every hanging string, rope, wire, cloud, and election cycle.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at September 21, 2026 06:37 PM (oji8u)

101 I haven't considered a Converse shoe for many years and didn't even know they were still around. My first pair of "good" running shoes in 1977 were Converses, but they were leather (really!) and heavy as lead. When I bought a pair of Nike trainers the next year, I felt as though I were floating on the track by comparison.

Instead of apologizing to these whiners, Converse should simply say, "Get stuffed and grow up."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026 06:35 PM (wzUl9)

Converse and Nike need to point out that they did not even EXIST when the US had slavery...

They only use good Chinese Child Labor slavery!

Which is clearly AOK!

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 21, 2026 06:37 PM (mP0Kj)

102 97, sad but true

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 06:38 PM (VyBeY)

103 Every time a Trump official is interviewed on the news, he/she should always call the interviewer Julius or Julia.

Ok, Paah-trick
Posted by: LutheranSatire at September 21, 2026 06:33 PM (BvPIe)

What did you say, Patrick?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2026 06:38 PM (1Ff7Z)

104 But the appeals court said that the plaintiffs had failed to prove that Oregon had acted with deliberate indifference to transgender inmates.

So the State of Oregon did this on purpose and with intent? I can believe that.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 21, 2026 06:38 PM (rbvCR)

105 Dear Troy Carter:
Is it your period? Are you high?
Do you know where k-pop is from?
It is from KOREA, you imbecile.
You thinkkk it is kkkorea, you nincompoop?
What a maroon.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at September 21, 2026 06:38 PM (K2T0z)

106 It’s

SEA OTTER AWARENESS WEEK!
Bestest week of the whole year!

I love them. They are the keepers of the kelp forest and guard an entire ecosystem from decimation from prickly, pokey sea urchins!

They use tools, too! And have pockets under their armpits to store snacks and their favorite rocks.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 21, 2026 06:38 PM (S25s/)

107 Obviously Asians don't like black folks. The ad proves it?

Posted by: nckate at September 21, 2026 06:39 PM (enNUy)

108 And the wokies missed the really cool part..her name is Karina, she does K-Pop, and I assume is from Korea. There's your three Ks right there..see? See?

Posted by: Azjaeger at September 21, 2026 06:40 PM (3/XaG)

109 >>bigger question... where is the DOJ in all this?

The DOJ opened an investigation of ActBlue last year.

If it was Republicans being investigated for massive fraud the media would be all over it. But Democrats so almost no coverage.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 06:40 PM (viF8m)

110 This is a win, win for the "news" reporters.. They can just write what they were going to write about Trump anyway and they don't have to be in the sweaty room and actually pretend to ask their gotcha questions...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 06:41 PM (+gK6I)

111 The apology is worse (for a sane world) than the claim it represents the KKK.

Just tell them there is zero KKK element, and that you won't be intimidated by these constant claims of "Racism" in every damn thing. That would probably win more customers than they would lose by bowing to these control freak liberals.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 21, 2026 06:41 PM (vbXSk)

112 105 Dear Troy Carter:
Is it your period? Are you high?
Do you know where k-pop is from?
It is from KOREA, you imbecile.
You thinkkk it is kkkorea, you nincompoop?
What a maroon.
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at September 21, 2026 06:38 PM (K2T0z)

Well, North and South Korea had a Civil War!

And the South WON, which makes them KKK material!

Posted by: Public School Historian at September 21, 2026 06:41 PM (mP0Kj)

113 The GoP in VA isn't motivated, nor do they care. They are the very definition of 'controlled opposition'.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 21, 2026 06:41 PM (sAmhv)

114 I suspect the DOJ is still filled wuth Deep Staters

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 06:42 PM (Ia/+0)

115 College swimmer speaks out against the "moderate centrist" Abigail Spanberger for allowing male cheaters to compete in girls' sports.


Let's face it. Spanberger is a fu*king op being run right in front of our faces and they are laughing at us. A truly despicable person.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 21, 2026 06:42 PM (2WIwB)

116 108 And the wokies missed the really cool part..her name is Karina, she does K-Pop, and I assume is from Korea. There's your three Ks right there..see? See?
___

You left out Kimchi. Which is yummy. Which reminds me it's past time for some dinner.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 21, 2026 06:42 PM (Dv3i1)

117 SEA OTTER AWARENESS WEEK!
Bestest week of the whole year!

We hate those guys!!

Posted by: Sea Urchin Chamber Of Commerce at September 21, 2026 06:43 PM (Fn+3X)

118 114 I suspect the DOJ is still filled wuth Deep Staters
Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 06:42 PM (Ia/+0)

I see a few small fish being indicted...

Big Fish? still waiting...

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 21, 2026 06:43 PM (mP0Kj)

119 So a woman cannot wear a white skirt? This is beyond stupid. It's ridiculous. Some people have racism on the brain and need to seek mental help.
Posted by: Case at September 21, 2026 06:13 PM (xJpuh)


My first suspicion was that this was a paid-for astroturf action funded by NIKE or someone dependent on sales to try to keep their market share by destroying another, competing brand

Posted by: Kindltot at September 21, 2026 06:43 PM (rbvCR)

120 112 105 Dear Troy Carter:
Is it your period? Are you high?
Do you know where k-pop is from?
It is from KOREA, you imbecile.
You thinkkk it is kkkorea, you nincompoop?
What a maroon.
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at September 21, 2026 06:38 PM (K2T0z)

Well, North and South Korea had a Civil War!

And the South WON, which makes them KKK material!
Posted by: Public School Historian



Well, it was a draw.

Posted by: 38th Parralel at September 21, 2026 06:43 PM (sAmhv)

121 The GoP in VA isn't motivated, nor do they care. They are the very definition of 'controlled opposition'.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 21, 2026 06:41 PM (sAmhv)

How many offices in VA are held by Rs?

If you're not going to win, grift?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2026 06:43 PM (1Ff7Z)

122 Greg Casar wants "Austin to be safe [for the invading hordes who want to overthrow this country.]"

There, Greg. We KNOW what you meant.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at September 21, 2026 06:43 PM (K2T0z)

123 Rule #1 when dealing with a shrieking leftist

NEVER EVER APOLOGIZE.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 21, 2026 06:44 PM (7ySGn)

124 In fact, psychiatric illness skyrockets 600% after "transitioning."

Could this possibly be true???

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 06:44 PM (guGkK)

125 And the South WON, which makes them KKK material!
Posted by: Public School Historian


Well, it was a draw.
Posted by: 38th Parralel at September 21, 2026 06:43 PM (sAmhv)

Which was the exact goal of the Confederacy.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 21, 2026 06:44 PM (mP0Kj)

126
Trump needs to do what lincoln did, jail the ones who printed false stories giving comfort to the enemy, worked for him. Granted scotus finally ruled that was illegal but not before some of those "journalists" spent a year or more in a military prison at hard labor.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 21, 2026 06:37 PM (I43vL)

I had on MS Now and that perpetually sad looking bitch was talking about Trump and actually said Trumps' next move would be to raise the Insurrection Act.

I wonder if I could make her happier by sending her booze and pills.

I took a few days off with beer. I've been carrying Ralphy inside the house for months. Break day. During horror movies I had Ralphy and Snowflake on the bed and she was licking his ears.

Very cute.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 21, 2026 06:44 PM (Sco7b)

127 They use tools, too! And have pockets under their armpits to store snacks and their favorite rocks.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 21, 2026 06:38 PM (S25s/)


I used to carry rocks too but they got heavy so I had to get my rocks off.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 21, 2026 06:45 PM (2WIwB)

128 I'd like to ask those sjw ladies if Charlie Kirk wore Converse shoes. Maybe that pair in the background represents him being taken from us... to a better place.

Posted by: Rex B at September 21, 2026 06:45 PM (R0XxO)

129 My first suspicion was that this was a paid-for astroturf action funded by NIKE or someone dependent on sales to try to keep their market share by destroying another, competing brand

I believe Converse is owned by Nike, and Adidas isn't that smart.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 06:45 PM (guGkK)

130 That Finnish study was from a couple of months ago.

It is devastating, final, and catastrohic. It is the end of the trans movement. When it came out, I said aloud, "FINALLY this trans shit is over. Utterly and totally debunked." Because the entirely of the purported "need" for "gender reassignment surgery" is the completely false claim that it is the only thing that can alleviate a gender-cionfused-individual's metal illness.

The new study proved -- absolutely undeniably PROVED with no possible rebuttal -- that the surgery makes you 6x crazier.

Unlike other studies with a lot of droouts that made the result meaningless, the Finnish study followed EVERY SINGLE TRANNY in the entire country for over a decade. And it turns out: "Transitioning" only ever made them feel worse. And crazier. And the ones who decided NOT to transition almost all got better, and most quickly dropped the "I am a chick" fantasy.

But guess what? I was wrong. Th FInnish study was release, and...silence. The media refused to cover it. Went over like a lead balloon. And the American trannies just continued on the insane warpath, as if nothing had changed.

Boy, am I naive.

Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 06:46 PM (Av6i5)

131 They were told for years that they were unhappy and felt all wrong because they were in the wrong body, so they mangled themselves for hundreds of thousands of dollars and years of surgery and found out they still felt unhappy and all wrong.

Somehow, that they are worse off surprises people?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


Ah, see there the problem. They're still in the same body , just modified.

What they really need is to have their consciousness transferred into a different body entirely

Posted by: New frontiers for the Anti-humanists, I'm sure at September 21, 2026 06:46 PM (vJrRc)

132 SEA OTTER AWARENESS WEEK!
Bestest week of the whole year!



YAY!!!!! OURS TOO!!!

Posted by: Orcas at September 21, 2026 06:46 PM (sAmhv)

133 They use tools, too! And have pockets under their armpits to store snacks and their favorite rocks.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 21, 2026 06:38 PM (S25s/)


Sheesh. I carry half a fish in my armpit and they won't let me on elevators.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 21, 2026 06:47 PM (rbvCR)

134 We demand equal time!

Posted by: River Otter Coalition at September 21, 2026 06:47 PM (Fn+3X)

135 The left will bitch and whine about anyone or anything.

As long as it's normal.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 21, 2026 06:47 PM (2Cry5)

136 Ah, see there the problem. They're still in the same body , just modified.

What they really need is to have their consciousness transferred into a different body entirely


What if the body you want is already inhabited? Sydney Sweeney isn't going to leave without a fight.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 06:47 PM (guGkK)

137
SEA OTTER AWARENESS WEEK!
Bestest week of the whole year!

We hate those guys!!
Posted by: Sea Urchin Chamber Of Commerce


We LOVE 'em!

Posted by: Dorca the Orca at September 21, 2026 06:47 PM (Cqx++)

138 134 We demand equal time!
Posted by: River Otter Coalition at September 21, 2026 06:47 PM (Fn+3X)

River otters are nasty critters.. Nothing cute about them

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 06:48 PM (+gK6I)

139 Do you even know how many sea otters it takes to make a meal?

Posted by: A Killer Whale at September 21, 2026 06:49 PM (guGkK)

140 Greg Casar is exactly the kind of commie that Austinites love, and that give Austin such a poor reputation.

If the penguins ever invade the U.S., Austin will be a regional, if not national, headquarters.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 21, 2026 06:49 PM (0sNs1)

141 I'm in the wrong body too!

There haven't been enough hot, asian women jumping on it.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 21, 2026 06:49 PM (Sco7b)

142 Although the beginning has begun.
The beat ought to go a little faster.

yout00b won't allow a time start @ 50s

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVkDJ3hL9s0&t=50s

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 06:49 PM (iLKq8)

143 Obviously Asians don't like black folks. The ad proves it?

Certainly the reaction demonstrates the reverse.

But I do wonder along with others if this was not all faked up by a marketing company. Why would someone take that tiny image, darken it, and zoom in on only part?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 06:50 PM (KyEAU)

144 This is crazy -- slaves didn't wear Chuck Taylors. Chuckies only came about in the 1900s.

Did slaves even have shoes?

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 21, 2026 06:51 PM (NWQ8v)

145 A brain transplant is much easier than a body transplant. Its been conclusively proven.

Posted by: Herr Doktor Frohnk-en-steen at September 21, 2026 06:52 PM (guGkK)

146 Adibas meets and exceeds all athletic requirements for all sportswear contingencies. And they don't hire gypsies!!

Posted by: Leutonian Benevolent Society at September 21, 2026 06:52 PM (Fn+3X)

147 Check it out!

https://defenders.org/sea-otter-awareness-week

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 21, 2026 06:52 PM (W2Pud)

148 I'm in the wrong body too!

There haven't been enough hot, asian women jumping on it.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 21, 2026 06:49 PM (Sco7b)

They expect you to do the hopping.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2026 06:52 PM (1Ff7Z)

149 There haven't been enough hot, asian women jumping on it.

"EWWW Yellow fever! Fetishist!"
--Asian women, for some reason

You never hear about Latinas complaining that guys prefer them. There's no "redheads against fetish" league. No black-haired women with blue eyes have ever gone online to whine about men liking that combination. Women with huge breasts don't bitch about guys liking them.

Asian women confuse me

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 06:52 PM (KyEAU)

150 45 ...Its all theater.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 06:21 PM (pUU4E)

Jazz hands, darling!

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at September 21, 2026 06:53 PM (K2T0z)

151 Fuck Fox News. I will shed no tears when the next democrat administration outlaws them completely.
Posted by: Open Channel D

You're going to miss us.

Posted by: Hannity and Perino at September 21, 2026 06:53 PM (UjdFS)

152 You're going to miss us.
Posted by: Hannity and Perino at September 21, 2026 06:53 PM (UjdFS)

Nope

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 06:54 PM (+gK6I)

153 The bitch of it is that the image is cropped to shift focus from girl in skirt holding sneakers, to sneakers hanging in mid air.

This is worse than seeing god in a dairy queen add like the muzzies. All of them -- then all need a hard lesson in manning up and accepting that the best way to prove you are inferior is to act like a little bitch like this.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 21, 2026 06:54 PM (NWQ8v)

154 Did slaves even have shoes?
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 21, 2026 06:51 PM (NWQ8v)

One pair a year. Usually got a hog's head, too.

"Livin' high of the hog."

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2026 06:54 PM (1Ff7Z)

155 r/BlackPeopleofReddit

That ad is so fk’d, really they only show who they are and it’s up to us to listen. Becareful of you give your money too

White People: This isn't the America I know!
Black People: (meme of tired, incredulous woman)

imma be honest with you, majority of white people dont have a black friend, associate, or even a black person they usually speak to. So they really dont know about anything outside of their bubble.

I also work in marketing and have noticed the trend of racist ads from big companies it's always intentional

What sells, generates publicity? "Accidental Racism". Next thing you know sales climb, then plateau back to normal. Rinse and repeat. It's been Target's business marketing model for years.

It's because they got rid of DEI. These white people have been playing in our face for years. This new wave wanted to be as openly racist as their ancestors and where pissed when the tide changed. They love this maga shit because it allows them to be as hateful as they wish

I legit thought I was looking at a KKK hood before I even read anything. And then, the feet of a hanging person.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 21, 2026 06:54 PM (sMaFa)

156 More about the last thread topic, but this one has immigration too.

Last week was talking a veteran Border Patrol officer at the range (he's also a handgun competitor), and the topic of fake asylum was central. He said he'd seen a few cases that looked possibly legit at first glance during the erasure of the border and immigration law under the vegetable. A few, a tiny %.

Of course even those are problematic (all but the Mexican nationals), as they're "fleeing" a safe situation in Mexico where the alleged threat in the home country could not exist.

Mentioned this before. A friend's spouse is very senior in a huge national law firm. Told me 2 years ago that the firm (of course) was interested in doing pro bono asylum work. They had their TX office hire someone to screen a large sample of cases (thousands) before deciding. A very small % (5%) had some apparent legitimate basis (again, at first glance). Firm decided to not do the pro bono work.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 21, 2026 06:54 PM (U/Byj)

157

A federal appeals court on Monday ordered Missouri to reinstate its GOP-favored Congressional map after the Supreme Court blocked the new map.

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals said Missouri’s current plan to use the old map for this year’s midterms violates the Constitution.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 21, 2026 06:55 PM (Cqx++)

158 Those shoes don't have FEET in 'em, so we must conclude that the 'hanging' took place elsewhere and the one holding the shoes is a THIEF in addition to being a murderer. Works for me.

Posted by: Dr_No at September 21, 2026 06:55 PM (ayRl+)

159 139 Do you even know how many sea otters it takes to make a meal?
Posted by: A Killer


I guess only one if he is a good cook.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 21, 2026 06:55 PM (NWQ8v)

160 145 A brain transplant is much easier than a body transplant. Its been conclusively proven.
Posted by: Herr Doktor Frohnk-en-steen

Amen. The chilling documentary-They Saved Hitler's Brain- bears this out.

Posted by: Hollywood Outsider at September 21, 2026 06:55 PM (Fn+3X)

161 Do you even know how many sea otters it takes to make a meal?
Posted by: A Killer Whale
........

Think of them as Hors d'oeuvres.

Posted by: wth at September 21, 2026 06:55 PM (UjdFS)

162 But guess what? I was wrong. Th FInnish study was release, and...silence. The media refused to cover it. Went over like a lead balloon. And the American trannies just continued on the insane warpath, as if nothing had changed.

Boy, am I naive.
Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 06:46 PM (Av6i5)
---
They are zealots.

There is NO EVIDENCE you or anyone can provide that will cause them to change their minds. Ever.

They will sacrifice everything--even their own children--to preserve their deranged lunacy.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2026 06:55 PM (FZ29D)

163 "EWWW Yellow fever! Fetishist!"
--Asian women, for some reason

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 06:52 PM (KyEAU)

You won't get that reaction in the Philippines.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2026 06:56 PM (1Ff7Z)

164 Asian women confuse me
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 06:52 PM (KyEAU)


Marry one. It won't get less confusing.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 21, 2026 06:56 PM (rbvCR)

165 Alan Colmes, despite his leftist tendencies, was far more likeable than friggin' Sean Hannity. That dude is a grade A jack-wagon.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 21, 2026 06:56 PM (0aYVJ)

166 Those shoes don't have FEET in 'em
Posted by: Dr_No at September 21, 2026 06:55 PM


Well, they've lost OUR business!

Posted by: Quentin T. and Rex R. at September 21, 2026 06:56 PM (0sNs1)

167 American tiwitter mob: "This Korean ad is racist against black people!"

Koreans: "There are black people?"

Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 06:57 PM (Av6i5)

168 Amen. The chilling documentary-They Saved Hitler's Brain- bears this out.
Posted by: Hollywood Outsider at September 21, 2026 06:55 PM (Fn+3X)
---
Everyone's in favor of saving Hitler's brain, but when you put it in the body of a great white shark, oooh, suddenly you've gone too far!

Posted by: Professor Farnsworth at September 21, 2026 06:57 PM (FZ29D)

169 Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 21, 2026 06:54 PM (sMaFa)

Yep.. Exactly what i expected from that group

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 06:57 PM (+gK6I)

170 Think of them as Hors d'oeuvres.
Posted by: wth at September 21, 2026 06:55 PM (UjdFS)


Sharables. Makes them great for parties.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 06:57 PM (guGkK)

171 As a youngun, I used to go to Grant's and buy whatever sneakers they had on the racks.

People weren't killing each other over them and no ads were needed.

Posted by: Lawn Time at September 21, 2026 06:57 PM (6VpiA)

172 Whoa I was going to respond to Christopher but a Piker and Abdul El-Sayed came on.

Brutal. To actually hear Piker say 'I hate this country' is pretty shocking.

Nice ad.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 21, 2026 06:57 PM (Sco7b)

173 I am alone with a pair of sneakers.

Posted by: wth at September 21, 2026 06:57 PM (UjdFS)

174 How did our judicial system gets so fked up?

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 06:58 PM (Ia/+0)

175 Marry one. It won't get less confusing.

Isn't that true about all women, though?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 06:58 PM (KyEAU)

176 How did our judicial system gets so fked up?
Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 06:58 PM


Slowly at first, and then much faster.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 21, 2026 06:59 PM (0sNs1)

177 Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 21, 2026 06:54 PM (sMaFa)

Yep.. Exactly what i expected from that group
Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 06:57 PM (+gK6I)



For a while they were showing some very troubling signs of sanity.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 06:59 PM (guGkK)

178 174 - intentionally, as in "long march through the institutions"

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 06:59 PM (VyBeY)

179 156

He said he'd seen a few cases that looked possibly legit at first glance during the erasure of the border and immigration law under the vegetable. A few, a tiny %.

Posted by: rhomboid

------------
Again, not my problem. If these lawyers want to help foreigners, I suggest they go to fucking foreign land and buy a house and house them there. Or they can just send them money -- their money.

None of this asylum talk is the responsibility of the taxpayers. We do not have any obligation to help them. If the public wants to, they can do it directly. All gov. can do is add grift and theft to the process.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 21, 2026 06:59 PM (NWQ8v)

180 Gormless Old Prats have known about ActBlue since the Zero's first administration. They've done nothing but huff and puff about it since. It's all they will ever do.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at September 21, 2026 06:59 PM (V362x)

181 175 Marry one. It won't get less confusing.

Isn't that true about all women, though?


oh. i thought we were talking about sea otters.

Posted by: anachronda at September 21, 2026 06:59 PM (v3pYe)

182 158 Those shoes don't have FEET in 'em, so we must conclude that the 'hanging' took place elsewhere and the one holding the shoes is a THIEF in addition to being a murderer. Works for me.
Posted by: Dr_No


"Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. ... Because, that way, you have a mile head start -- and you have his shoes!"

Best one-liner ever.

Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 06:59 PM (Av6i5)

183 "Um, you gonna eat that last otter?"

Posted by: A Killer Whale at September 21, 2026 07:00 PM (guGkK)

184 Thought those rubber-nosed sneakers went out of fashion in the 70s. What's next, spats?

Posted by: Classy Freddie Blassie, Hollywood Fashion Plate at September 21, 2026 07:00 PM (Fn+3X)

185 53 layer of judges, each thinks they are on top

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 07:00 PM (Ia/+0)

186 I am alone with a pair of sneakers.
Posted by: wth at September 21, 2026 06:57 PM (UjdFS)


Claude says it is not unusual to be aroused by a pair of sneakers when alone, but since sneakers are unable to provide consent of any kind, it is best to only be around them when other people are also present as to prevent making inappropriate advances.
I am not sure what that says about me, Claude or you, and I would rather not find out, thank you.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 21, 2026 07:00 PM (rbvCR)

187 Once I found Twisted X I haven't worn a pair of sneakers again.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 21, 2026 07:01 PM (UdrMW)

188 @ 155 r/BlackPeopleofReddit That ad is so fk’d, really they only show who they are and it’s up to us to listen. Becareful of you give your money too White People: This isn't the America I know! Black People: (meme of tired, incredulous woman)
imma be honest with you, majority of white people dont have a black friend, associate, or even a black person they usually speak to. So they really dont know about anything outside of their bubble. … "Accidental Racism". Next thing you know sales climb, then plateau back to normal. Rinse and repeat. It's been Target's business marketing model for years. It's because they got rid of DEI.[/] These white people have been playing in our face for years. This new wave wanted to be as openly racist as their ancestors and where pissed when the tide changed. They love this maga shit because it allows them to be as hateful as they wish. I legit thought I was looking at a KKK hood before I even read anything. And then, the feet of a hanging person. Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions
_____________________________________

Ladies & Gentlemen, that is the sound of 'Faux Victimhood!' …

Posted by: Dr_No at September 21, 2026 07:01 PM (ayRl+)

189 180 Gormless Old Prats have known about ActBlue since the Zero's first administration. They've done nothing but huff and puff about it since. It's all they will ever do.
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese


I rememeber clearly in 2008 and 2009 seeing irrefutable evidence that ActBlue was swimming in foreign donations, which constituted the vast majority of their income. I thought naively at the time, "Well, they're cooked now -- their entire campaign is criminal and unconstitutional!"

Annnnnnd...nothing happened. Buried.

Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 07:02 PM (Av6i5)

190 For a while they were showing some very troubling signs of sanity.
Posted by: Cicero

They don't mind murdering their own children, but when a bunch of white ladies talk shit about the only black man on a jury, well, they have to side with the brutha. They also aren't big fans of illegal immigrants, now that they see it begins to affect their access to benefits and political power.

They still hate America and white people, though.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 21, 2026 07:03 PM (sMaFa)

191 Meritage Hospitality Group, one of the largest Wendy’s franchisees in the U.S., has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection following a high-stakes dispute with the fast-food chain's corporate parent.

The bankruptcy filing comes amid severe financial pressures at the franchisee, which has struggled with soaring beef costs and weak customer traffic,
----

Can you smell the HorseShit? Favorite Burger stand is across the street from a new Wendy's. Everytime I get a burger; looking across the way I see no cars lined up at Wendy's.
Decided to check out the menu and try something.
Looking at the marquee there were pretty pictures and fancy names but nothing clear about what exactly I would be purchasing.
Not One Descriptive.
Remember the old Wendy's marquee with the list of all the different items one could purchase?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 07:03 PM (iLKq8)

192 Whoa I was going to respond to Christopher but a Piker and Abdul El-Sayed came on.

probably a lot more interesting, anyway

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 07:03 PM (KyEAU)

193 Sneakers and consent.

This place never ceases touring up moral quandary.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 21, 2026 07:04 PM (zZu0s)

194 Asian lady drivers are awful, but one good thing is they can sometimes look good until menopause. Then they go Mamasan overnight. Hispanic women, even hot ones, look like hotel maids at 29.

Posted by: The Riveted Observer at September 21, 2026 07:04 PM (Fn+3X)

195 Boy, am I naive.
Posted by: zombie

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

They have done heinous things -- to themselves and to others. They have advocated for heinous things.

They are beyond the point of redemption. They can never accept reality because it reveals themselves to be monsters. No one can face that.

This is a main theme or Christianity, that no one is every beyond saving, but it is a hard sell.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 21, 2026 07:05 PM (NWQ8v)

196 Hispanic women, even hot ones, look like hotel maids at 29.

It depends. Like Slavic women, if you can save them from their lifestyle they can be pretty well preserved a long time. But the bad diet and lack of exercise catches up with that latina hottie and the constant diet of cigarettes and vokda destroys the Slavic girl.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 07:06 PM (KyEAU)

197 Whatever fix Pixy did the other day, and it worked well.
Has come undone. Loading Ace eats up the computer to a standstill.
And it hangs on after loading. Jeepers.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 07:06 PM (iLKq8)

198 The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals said Missouri’s current plan to use the old map for this year’s midterms violates the Constitution.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.


.... If the Eighth Circuit prevails, I will be glad, as someone needs to slap SCOTUS aside the head with the black letter text of the Constitution from time to time.

However... doesn't this violate the 'supremacy' rules like the Hawaiian Judges, only in the opposite way?

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 21, 2026 07:06 PM (aJQbY)

199 I think it's pretty funny they named an AI Clod.

Posted by: wth at September 21, 2026 07:08 PM (UjdFS)

200 "They are zealots.
There is NO EVIDENCE you or anyone can provide that will cause them to change their minds. Ever.
They will sacrifice everything--even their own children--to preserve their deranged lunacy." Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

And they are tribal ... "sisters, are doing it for themselves" ... they support each other's craziness. They believe it empowers them.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 21, 2026 07:08 PM (vbXSk)

201 Gormless Old Prats

If only I'd killed him, I could now be a Gornless Old Prat.

Posted by: James T. Kirk at September 21, 2026 07:09 PM (0sNs1)

202 .... If the Eighth Circuit prevails, I will be glad, as someone needs to slap SCOTUS aside the head with the black letter text of the Constitution from time to time.

However... doesn't this violate the 'supremacy' rules like the Hawaiian Judges, only in the opposite way?

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!)
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Been suggesting that Thomas body slam Roberts into a wall for a long time.

He never listens to me.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 07:10 PM (iLKq8)

203 197 Whatever fix Pixy did the other day, and it worked well.
Has come undone. Loading Ace eats up the computer to a standstill.
And it hangs on after loading. Jeepers.

Posted by: Braen


Do what I do:

I have two computers -- one is new, with all the latest internet capabilities, and one is old -- very old, with almost no recent internet capabilities. But it is able to load simply-coded websites.

The new computer take about 2-3- minutes to load the AoS main page, and often over a minute to load a single thread.

The old computer can load the main page in 2 seconds, and a single thread in an instant. Comments also post instantaneously and the page reloads in less thane one second.

Moral: Use an old computer to view AoS.

Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 07:11 PM (Av6i5)

204 I haven't owned a pair of sneakers in a long time. I certainly wouldn't wear footwear with laces or socks if I was going to the sauna.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 21, 2026 07:11 PM (5C90x)

205 Asian women confuse me
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 06:52 PM (KyEAU)

They apparently confuse Asian men, too, or they’d be having more babies.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2026 07:13 PM (6ydKt)

206 ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and Fox have agreed to collude and NOT cover Trump's UN speech due to his exclusion of CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from the WH press pool.

I think that is awesome!

Trump should now play hardball and announce since they are in collusion not to provide news coverage to the American public, he will give their WH pool spots to news outlets that will actually report the news.

Losing Fox, while also losing the other four networks would be a huge net win for Trump. I say eject them all and let them whine, when they made an actual "for cause" decision.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 21, 2026 07:14 PM (HlyYF)

207 NOOD

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 21, 2026 07:15 PM (HlyYF)

208 My brother and I each quit 'Sneaker Days' when we were around 11 or 12 …

Posted by: Dr_No at September 21, 2026 07:16 PM (ayRl+)

209 147 Check it out!

https://defenders.org/sea-otter-awareness-week
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 21, 2026 06:52 PM (W2Pud)

The good news is that it is nearly Fat Bear Week and the brackets came out today.

https://tinyurl.com/2huynvwj

But of course, none of the bears ate any sea otters, so that's probably good.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 21, 2026 07:19 PM (+7nKe)

210 191 Favorite Burger stand is across the street from a new Wendy's. Everytime I get a burger; looking across the way I see no cars lined up at Wendy's.
Decided to check out the menu and try something.
Looking at the marquee there were pretty pictures and fancy names but nothing clear about what exactly I would be purchasing.


can't go wrong with chili and a baked potato.

Posted by: anachronda at September 21, 2026 07:23 PM (v3pYe)

211 @ 203 197 Whatever fix Pixy did the other day, and it worked well. Has come undone. Loading Ace eats up the computer to a standstill. And it hangs on after loading. Jeepers. Posted by: Braen
Do what I do: I have two computers -- one is new, with all the latest internet capabilities, and one is old -- very old, with almost no recent internet capabilities. The new computer takes about 2-3- minutes to load the AoS main page, and often over a minute to load a single thread. The old computer can load the main page in 2 seconds, and a single thread in an instant. … Moral: Use an old computer to view AoS. Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 07:11 PM (Av6i5)

_________________________

True words. I'm on a Mac G5 Tower (mid-2010) that I dearly love. But it's old, and displays the symptoms the first poster listed. macOS 10.13.6 'High Sierra' was not the solution I'd hoped for. It actually makes the Mac run SLOWER than when it was on 'Sierra'. I still love this machine, tho'. It still runs my 32-bit AND 64-bit apps with no problems except for being slow. They still produce the imagery I want from it.

Posted by: Dr_No at September 21, 2026 07:24 PM (ayRl+)

212 203 Moral: Use an old computer to view AoS.

hmm. maybe i can get chatgpt to port lynx to cp/m for me...

Posted by: anachronda at September 21, 2026 07:25 PM (v3pYe)

213 Query: How many Horders & Hordettes are still using an OLD operating system? (e.g., Win10, macOS 'Snow Leopard' (OS9) or other OSes? Bonus Round Question: How many want to change or upgrade? How many want to switch platform (e.g., PC > Mac or Mac > PC)? How many WILL … ?

Posted by: Dr_No at September 21, 2026 07:31 PM (ayRl+)

214 Just saw a news item, in which Chairman Xi, who is all powerful and is certainly going to Conquer the World, has just fired two more of his top generals for being “disloyal and dishonest to the party”, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency.

Nothing to see here, move along, everythings fine.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 21, 2026 07:34 PM (edUvp)

215 U+20A7

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 11:09 PM (2UA/a)

216 U+20A7.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 11:09 PM (2UA/a)

Whistleblower: 99% of Asylum Claims Are Fake

You don't say. You don't say.

David Strom:

Claims are floating around that 85 percent of the world's refugees are Muslim, and the UNHCR's response isn't "No, they're not," but rather, "A spokesperson for the UN's refugee agency UNHCR said the number of Muslim refugees is likely to be less than 85% of all refugees worldwide." Which is another way of saying "you're in the right ballpark." And those refugees aren't fleeing to Muslim countries.

In other words, it's an invasion, either for economic or political reasons, and according to a whistleblower at the Home Office in the UK, almost every "asylum seeker" is a fraud.

From The Times (UK):

Only one in 100 asylum claims are genuine, according to a whistleblower who has revealed widespread fraud and dysfunction in the system.

The Home Office official, who has worked for years as a decision-maker on asylum and has assessed thousands of claims, said asylum seekers from certain countries use the "same script" in what he and colleagues describe as "package claims".

He said he had encountered a large number of Iraqi Kurds claiming asylum who said they had been in a relationship with the daughter of the prime minister of the Kurdistan region. The official said it had become a "running joke" among colleagues that the number of Iraqi Kurds who said they were involved with the daughter was in the "hundreds".

He also said that "hundreds" of claims from Pakistanis were based on the assertion that they were in fear of their lives in their home country because of their gay relationship with the same man who had provided letters supporting their claims.

The source also disclosed suspicions about large numbers of Bangladeshi claimants purporting to be dissidents of the former governing party, which is now banned, even though they were unable to provide basic information about the group.

Strom believes this state of affairs might have something to do with AfD's rise and the CDU's collapse. Could be. Could be.

But you know who else opposed rampant immigration fraud?

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:50 PM




Comments

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1 Open channel D

Posted by: Open Channel D at September 21, 2026 04:51 PM (LuSSV)

2 Yep

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 04:52 PM (BAWkL)

3 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at September 21, 2026 04:52 PM (hG5L0)

4 Obama and Biden administrations (and Bush, probably) gave asylum a super wide definition. Like "my country is poor, I need to be saved from the bad economy"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 04:53 PM (KyEAU)

5 I think they're low balling it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 04:53 PM (ExV1e)

6 Good Lord. The Day of the Lord can’t get here soon enough.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 04:53 PM (Gqar8)

7 I could have been first but I was blowing my whistle.

Posted by: Guy who always says he could have been first at September 21, 2026 04:53 PM (MWfyi)

8 truth leaking out everywhere, lol

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 04:54 PM (VyBeY)

9 what a shock!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 21, 2026 04:54 PM (XHO5P)

10 Only 99% of the claims are fake? I thought it would be higher than that.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 21, 2026 04:54 PM (I43vL)

11 There is no way I'm clicking on that video.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 21, 2026 04:55 PM (ca8Qt)

12 No no square?
These are dangerous people.

Posted by: Bosk at September 21, 2026 04:55 PM (VMFAF)

13 The don't rape me dance.
Gawd. Now i have seen it all.
Beyond stupid.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 21, 2026 04:55 PM (2WIwB)

14 Whistleblower: 99% of Asylum Claims Are Fake

That low? I'd expect more like 99.9%...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 04:55 PM (l3cgK)

15 6 Good Lord. The Day of the Lord can’t get here soon enough.
Posted by: tubal

We are in the midst of Judgement Day which will culminate in the end of all things visible in 2033.

Posted by: Mounting Biblical Evidence at September 21, 2026 04:55 PM (Fn+3X)

16 The dance-off at the Texas MoMe will be lit!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 21, 2026 04:56 PM (2WIwB)

17 The don't rape me dance.
Gawd. Now i have seen it all.
Beyond stupid.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 21, 2026 04:55 PM (2WIwB)
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I much prefer the Safety Dance.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 04:56 PM (ZOv7s)

18 15 6 Good Lord. The Day of the Lord can’t get here soon enough.
Posted by: tubal

We are in the midst of Judgement Day which will culminate in the end of all things visible in 2033.
Posted by: Mounting Biblical Evidence at September 21, 2026 04:55 PM (Fn+3X)

That’s sort of specific. Who you been talkin’ to?

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 04:56 PM (Gqar8)

19 wow, yeah, I remember that video!

super effective, wasn't it?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 04:57 PM (VyBeY)

20 The no-no square dance won't stop the goatrapers.

Nobody in the picture has any worry about getting violated.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 04:57 PM (BAWkL)

21 Channel D fellow/girl is hitting on all cylinders today.

Posted by: Johnny On The Spot at September 21, 2026 04:57 PM (Fn+3X)

22 One person's no-no square is another person's yes-yes square...

Posted by: Moham bin Camel***ker at September 21, 2026 04:58 PM (l3cgK)

23 There is no way I'm clicking on that video

its not crude or nasty, its just brain-damagingly stupid and cringy. Like you will wonder how on earth anyone thought this was a good idea how how much booze was involved to get people to participate

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 04:58 PM (KyEAU)

24 That has to be a joke.

Someone is pulling your leg.

Posted by: I mean that video is making me want to assault everyone in it at September 21, 2026 04:58 PM (anL5R)

25 20 The no-no square dance won't stop the goatrapers.

Nobody in the picture has any worry about getting violated.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 04:57 PM (BAWkL)


To quote Muhammed - Four legs good, two legs Baaaaaaaad!

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 04:58 PM (Gqar8)

26 Muslims are like termites in western civilization. They're eating you out of house and home.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 21, 2026 04:59 PM (5C90x)

27 I am aghast.

Posted by: huerfano at September 21, 2026 04:59 PM (2Xqig)

28 Nobody in the picture has any worry about getting violated.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 04:57 PM (BAWkL)
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I'm going to say that a society that has goats and donkeys on its spectrum of acceptable sexual partners will probably hit a zero as well.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 04:59 PM (ZOv7s)

29 It's turtles and fraud all the way down.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 05:00 PM (guGkK)

30 I have an oblong no-no square.

Posted by: Victim of Society at September 21, 2026 05:00 PM (Fn+3X)

31 Willowed:
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Isn't this the very definition of Extortion?
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 21, 2026 04:46 PM (mP0Kj)
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Hijacking parts of people's property is practically a taking.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 05:00 PM (Fi81e)

32 We are in the midst of Judgement Day which will culminate in the end of all things visible in 2033.

Since we are pretending to have full access to God's DayTimer calender...

Isn't it interesting that while the world is suffering refinery destruction, the world is increasingly relying on oil that comes out of the Gulf of America and Caribbean?

US refineries are running at 98% capacity (which is unsustainable) and yet they can't keep up with demand.

Also note that God hasn't sent hurricanes into the oil producing regions this year, stopping processes that would likely result in $10+/gal diesel.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 05:00 PM (PVBkQ)

33 We are in the midst of Judgement Day which will culminate in the end of all things visible in 2033.
Posted by: Mounting Biblical Evidence at September 21, 2026 04:55 PM (Fn+3X)

That’s sort of specific. Who you been talkin’ to?

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 04:56 PM


Well we don't need to worry about social security running out of money. Good thing.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 21, 2026 05:01 PM (I43vL)

34 There are no asylum seekers leaving islamic countries. These people are soldiers building a caliphate.

Posted by: Eromero at September 21, 2026 05:02 PM (LHPAg)

35 I will give my love forever
If you promise me you'll
Never never never touch me there
Don't touch my square

Posted by: The Tubes at September 21, 2026 05:02 PM (guGkK)

36
Leftovers from the last thread-

"Hudson Hawk blew because it had the the same problem as Spielberg's "1941"-

Every single person in the movie overacts and tries (emphasis on "tries") to be funny...nay, hilarious!). There's no one for the comedy to play against. No straight men or woman.

Everyone Comedy Overacting Meter is set at 11.

The one good thing about "HH" which I kinda loved was the use of singing Old Rat Pack songs to use for timing the robberies. Clever and it always wo0rked.

The rest of the movie should be buried in a toxic waste dump.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 05:02 PM (iJfKG)

37 I'm going to say that a society that has goats and donkeys on its spectrum of acceptable sexual partners will probably hit a zero as well.

In a way, rather than relying on abortion, these irresponsible men can find release in copulating with livestock.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 05:02 PM (PVBkQ)

38 He said he had encountered a large number of Iraqi Kurds claiming asylum who said they had been in a relationship with the daughter of the prime minister of the Kurdistan region. The official said it had become a "running joke" among colleagues that the number of Iraqi Kurds who said they were involved with the daughter was in the "hundreds".
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So the daughter of the prime minister really gets around, eh?

It's a wonder her father hasn't killed her yet.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2026 05:03 PM (FZ29D)

39 A person thought this would work

S/he then actually suggested it in a meeting of some sort

There were people there who actually agreed

Then they managed to get multiple people to participate


They believe they are the enlightened ones dealing with people who have the mentality of feral children.

So they teach them like they're five.

It never occurs to them that savages neither care what they think nor do they watch dance lessons from old white people on TikTok.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2026 05:03 PM (6ydKt)

40 The No-No Square Dance...
Why am I reminded of the African Anteater Ritual dance from Can't Buy Me Love?

Posted by: Diogenes at September 21, 2026 05:03 PM (2WIwB)

41 There are no asylum seekers leaving islamic countries. These people are soldiers building a caliphate.
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I agree with your concept. I'd just call them squatters. They aren't building shit. And the violence they practice is against women and children.

Posted by: I mean that video is making me want to assault everyone in it at September 21, 2026 05:03 PM (anL5R)

42 Also note that God hasn't sent hurricanes into the oil producing regions this year, stopping processes that would likely result in $10+/gal diesel.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 05:00 PM (PVBkQ)
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Look at China's weather this year. They actually had a typhoon hit the same area three times. Yes, it made landfall, circled around back to the sea as a tropical storm, turned back into a typhoon, and smacked China again, veering away from Taiwan in the process.

You name it, they have it: frosts that froze birds off of the trees, rains of frogs, and such flooding.

Hmm, maybe requiring all Christian churches remove their crosses and replace them with Chairman Xi's portrait was not the best move.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 05:03 PM (ZOv7s)

43 Only 99% of the claims are fake? I thought it would be higher than that.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 21, 2026 04:54 PM (I43vL)

I imagine that most real people needing asylum have traits leftists don't like -- Christian or religious, pro US...

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 05:03 PM (uhVAy)

44 I always thought that no-no square dance would have been pretty good, if they showed the women with a carving knife in one hand, and making chopping motions with it instead of that swinging railroad crossing swinging action.

We should do one American-style with the 'ettes at the TxMoMe, involving guns. Put gropey-hand-shaped targets on 3 of the Texas Star arms, and male-shaped-protuberances on the other two, and let SiD, SWA, nurse, sra blaster and Ben Had each shoot one off. And something about the 9-ring and in being their "No-no Circle."

Posted by: GWB at September 21, 2026 05:04 PM (kU0PQ)

45 There are no asylum seekers leaving islamic countries. These people are soldiers building a caliphate.

And true fearless men who leave their women behind while seeking life-saving asylum.

My question is, how are these population lop-sided countries fairing with a reduction in work-age males?

Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 05:04 PM (PVBkQ)

46 That last video made me LOL...

Seriously? Someone actually thought this would work?

How much government money was spent on producing this video? (You KNOW there's a grant behind it somewhere...)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2026 05:04 PM (FZ29D)

47 34, bingo!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 05:04 PM (VyBeY)

48
It never occurs to them that savages neither care what they think nor do they watch dance lessons from old white people on TikTok.
==
Know what happens when you infantilize a savage? You wind up in the pot.

Posted by: Michael Rockefeller at September 21, 2026 05:05 PM (anL5R)

49 Point out on the doll where the bad asylum seeker touched you.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 05:05 PM (guGkK)

50 I am aghast.
Posted by: huerfano at September 21, 2026 04:59 PM (2Xqig)


I am agog.

Posted by: Grantaire at September 21, 2026 05:05 PM (WbWbV)

51 36
Leftovers from the last thread-

"Hudson Hawk blew because it had the the same problem as Spielberg's "1941"-

Every single person in the movie overacts and tries (emphasis on "tries") to be funny...nay, hilarious!). There's no one for the comedy to play against. No straight men or woman.

Everyone Comedy Overacting Meter is set at 11.

The one good thing about "HH" which I kinda loved was the use of singing Old Rat Pack songs to use for timing the robberies. Clever and it always wo0rked.

The rest of the movie should be buried in a toxic waste dump.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 05:02 PM (iJfKG)
Hudson Hawk is one of my favorite movies and I always supposed it was one of those comic book movies.

Posted by: Eromero at September 21, 2026 05:05 PM (LHPAg)

52 Oh, and as to frauds, I'm only surprised that the 99% number is so high because I know their definition of a valid claim is a pretty dang low bar. My son's chinchilla could clear it without jumping. These applications are their version of a Learing Center, I guess.

Posted by: GWB at September 21, 2026 05:06 PM (kU0PQ)

53 Mine has been taking a lot of hits lately. It's very liberating.

Posted by: Brooke Baldwin at September 21, 2026 05:06 PM (J4Dwc)

54
Don't worry about AI.

Tik-Tok is the evil creation that has left the Western World functionally retarded.

Lame-ass dancing to stop rape...Really?

All of those people need lobotomies, then thrown into a pen and fed cat food for the rest of their lives.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 05:06 PM (iJfKG)

55 It never occurs to them that savages neither care what they think nor do they watch dance lessons from old white people on TikTok.
==
Know what happens when you infantilize a savage? You wind up in the pot.
Posted by: Michael Rockefeller
==
Wut he said!

Posted by: Juan Diaz di Solis at September 21, 2026 05:06 PM (anL5R)

56 I'm going to say that a society that has goats and donkeys on its spectrum of acceptable sexual partners will probably hit a zero as well.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

True. They are not option #1.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 05:06 PM (BAWkL)

57 " There are no asylum seekers leaving islamic countries. These people are soldiers building a caliphate."

As the Prophet (PBUH!) relates in Surah 4:100;

"And whoever emigrates for the cause of Allah will find on the earth many [alternative] locations and abundance. And whoever leaves his home as an emigrant to Allah and His Messenger and then death overtakes him - his reward has already become incumbent upon Allah."

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at September 21, 2026 05:07 PM (GMWTj)

58 Point out on the doll where the bad asylum seeker touched you.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 05:05 PM (guGkK)
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A lot of them can't because they are dead. Like the British dude gutted by a Sikh and left to die in handcuffs.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 05:07 PM (ZOv7s)

59 I am aghast.
Posted by: huerfano at September 21, 2026 04:59 PM (2Xqig)

I am agog.
Posted by: Grantaire at September 21, 2026 05:05 PM (WbWbV)

What's the proper term for multiple ghasts and gogs?

Posted by: GWB at September 21, 2026 05:07 PM (kU0PQ)

60 I like Hudson Hawk too. It's indefensible but somehow fun despite how bad it is.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 21, 2026 05:07 PM (ca8Qt)

61 The left compares Jews fleeing NAZI Germany to some Guatemalan fleeing...Guatemalans.

Yes Latin America sucks compared to the US, but sorry, its been like that, as has most of the world, FOREVER

That is no reason to charge American taxpayers to bring that person here and pay for their welfare forever.

And seriously if we are going to argue that Guatemala and the rest are places you can need to flee let's go ahead and take all the young male "refugees" and give them military training and send them home

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 05:08 PM (sKqQm)

62 Obama and Biden administrations (and Bush, probably) gave asylum a super wide definition. Like "my country is poor, I need to be saved from the bad economy"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 04:53 PM (KyEAU)

More like, "The welfare in my country isn't nearly as good as yours, and your goats are prettier."

Posted by: GWB at September 21, 2026 05:08 PM (kU0PQ)

63 "What's the proper term for multiple ghasts and gogs?"

think it's in H. P. Lovecraft somewhere ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 05:09 PM (VyBeY)

64 My question is, how are these population lop-sided countries fairing with a reduction in work-age males?
Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 05:04 PM (PVBkQ)
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Well, they have massive unemployment, because they've destroyed the local infrastructure, so going West to collect a check and then bring the family to live on the dole is the smart play.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 05:09 PM (ZOv7s)

65 The no no square was an actual thing?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 21, 2026 05:09 PM (zZu0s)

66 And whoever leaves his home as an emigrant to Allah and His Messenger and then death overtakes him - his reward has already become incumbent upon Allah."
Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at September 21, 2026 05:07 PM (GMWTj)
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In other words, if they die on their way to the "promised land" they get to spend their afterlife with Allah in hell?

Those terms are acceptable.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2026 05:09 PM (FZ29D)

67 Anyone have a picture of the Kurdistanian PMs daughter?

Posted by: Have Her Bathed And Sent to My Lair at September 21, 2026 05:09 PM (Fn+3X)

68 If only the German 10 year old kid hospitalized by an anal tear from the Muzzie refugee that hadn't had sex in a long time and didn't know the German customs had known that dance!

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 05:09 PM (Fi81e)

69 I think I liked Howard The Duck more than Hudson Hawk.
Lea Thompson > Andie MacDowell (but not by much)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2026 05:10 PM (6ydKt)

70 I saw Crowder having a discussion about leftist violence with some lefty.

He went into the details of how there is constant danger for right leaning speakers on campuses, it isn't just the left assassinated Kirk he personally had been attacked a number of times.

Anyway the bent kept nodding her head and then just, "But wait let's talk about Trump!"

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 05:10 PM (sKqQm)

71 I agree with your concept. I'd just call them squatters. They aren't building shit. And the violence they practice is against women and children.
Posted by: I mean that video is making me want to assault everyone in it at September 21, 2026 05:03 PM (anL5R)They don't INTEND to build anything, except skull pyramids.

Posted by: Eromero at September 21, 2026 05:10 PM (LHPAg)

72 They are really theater kids. No practical clue , but they thought the No Rape I dance would work . And they got to perform. Squeee

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2026 05:10 PM (taL2t)

73 Only one in 100 asylum claims are genuine,

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Now do MS NOW stories.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 05:10 PM (ndZc7)

74 Every single person in the movie overacts and tries (emphasis on "tries") to be funny...nay, hilarious!). There's no one for the comedy to play against. No straight men or woman.

Everyone Comedy Overacting Meter is set at 11.
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Probably fair. Although Andie McDowell and James Coburn seem fairly straight so far. Its zany, but it also has way too much foul language, and blood to be a kids movie. Its tone is all over the place. It sort of reminds me of tone from the movie Kingsmen. But Kingsmen wasn't trying to do comedy. Yeah, its the try hard comedy the killed it. Agree.

Posted by: Juan Diaz di Solis at September 21, 2026 05:10 PM (anL5R)

75 They know. We know that they know. They know that we know that they know.

It almost seems as though Labour, Merz, Macron, Sanchez, even Meloni, seem to be trying to hold off on the reckoning from the populace until it is simply too late to reverse, or until a signal is given.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 21, 2026 05:10 PM (Dv3i1)

76 I like Hudson Hawk too. It's indefensible but somehow fun despite how bad it is.
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 21, 2026 05:07 PM (ca8Qt)

TRUE horror, because things just aren't right and you can see it.

THAT is the definition of Horror (re: sidebar follies.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 21, 2026 05:11 PM (zZu0s)

77 He also said that "hundreds" of claims from Pakistanis were based on the assertion that they were in fear of their lives in their home country because of their gay relationship with the same man who had provided letters supporting their claims.

If you go to the left side of the internet they will tell you it is a flat out lie that Islamic countries are "homophobic" that is just Jewish propaganda...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 05:11 PM (sKqQm)

78 I had forgotten about the No-No Square dance, thankfully. Now the sheer stupidity will keep me up at nights.

Posted by: Ripley at September 21, 2026 05:12 PM (GUOwU)

79 "Hudson Hawk blew because it had the the same problem as Spielberg's "1941"-

I may have to look into Hudson Hawk, then. I still find 1941 enjoyably funny. Especially Ned Beatty. Whose “never…” scene is oddly on topic for this post.

“You shouldn’t touch the ordnance at all. But more specifically, you should never touch the ordnance in its no-no square.”

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 21, 2026 05:12 PM (kYmoU)

80 An anti rape dance video? What y'all need is some deterrence. How many dead varmints have you left for the others to see?

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 21, 2026 05:12 PM (r7+Q7)

81 went Apple picking last month they now have to search your car because an asylum seeker hid 500 dollars worth of apples and they now have a sign that says they will press charges on theft, been going there since I was a kid in the 70s, it's sad

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 21, 2026 05:12 PM (OFAtD)

82 I think I liked Howard The Duck more than Hudson Hawk.
Lea Thompson > Andie MacDowell (but not by much)
==
I draw the line at sex with ducks. YEEEEUUUUUCK.

Posted by: But Lea Thompson didn't at September 21, 2026 05:12 PM (anL5R)

83 67 Anyone have a picture of the Kurdistanian PMs daughter?
___

Any chance her name is Bonnie al-Blue?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 21, 2026 05:12 PM (Dv3i1)

84 Instead of that dumb dance, why didn't they just use The Tubes' song "Don't Touch Me There?"

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at September 21, 2026 05:13 PM (GMWTj)

85 I was going to make a snotty remark about how no one would want to rape the gal in that video. But, hell, if they'll do a goat.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 21, 2026 05:13 PM (0Htd1)

86 It almost seems as though Labour, Merz, Macron, Sanchez, even Meloni, seem to be trying to hold off on the reckoning from the populace until it is simply too late to reverse, or until a signal is given.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 21, 2026 05:10 PM (Dv3i1)
---
Or they are boxed in by an ideology that leaves them unable to do anything at all. None of these people have any intellectual accomplishments nor have the done anything other than grind their way up to the top of the greasy pole. That's it. That's their talent.

No actual leadership, no results to speak of, just trying to muddle through to...something that sounds vaguely good.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 05:13 PM (ZOv7s)

87 82 I think I liked Howard The Duck more than Hudson Hawk.
Lea Thompson > Andie MacDowell (but not by much)
==
I draw the line at sex with ducks. YEEEEUUUUUCK.
Posted by: But Lea Thompson didn't at September 21, 2026 05:12 PM (anL5R)


Ah Leah!!

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 05:13 PM (Gqar8)

88 That no-no dance is hilarious. You could just opt out for the beating and stabbing.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 21, 2026 05:13 PM (5C90x)

89 The only legitimate asylum claim in the USA that I've heard of was denied by the Obama administration .

German family requested asylum as they were threatened with imprisonment for wanting to homeschool their children in a Christian environment. Obama administration denied and revoked their status.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 05:14 PM (KC5Lt)

90 I draw the line at sex with ducks. YEEEEUUUUUCK.

Once you go quack, you never go back.

Posted by: Daffy Duck at September 21, 2026 05:14 PM (guGkK)

91 16 The dance-off at the Texas MoMe will be lit!!!
Posted by: Diogenes

I can imagine Nurse and some other 'ettes doing nothing short of pistol whipping fools into comas.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 21, 2026 05:15 PM (NFX2v)

92 Meloni is going to try to ban burkhas in schools. You go girl

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2026 05:15 PM (taL2t)

93 Politicians in Finland. Is there anything they DON'T know?

Posted by: Homer Simpson at September 21, 2026 05:15 PM (2Ez/1)

94 Once you go quack, you never go back.
Posted by: Daffy Duck

It's the corkscrew. IYKYK!

Posted by: OnlyDucksFans at September 21, 2026 05:15 PM (Dv3i1)

95 80 An anti rape dance video? What y'all need is some deterrence. How many dead varmints have you left for the others to see?

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 21, 2026 05:12 PM (r7+Q7)

Better off using a chastity belt...or better yet, a .45.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 05:15 PM (l3cgK)

96 I could have guessed that

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 05:16 PM (Ia/+0)

97 I draw the line at sex with ducks.

Posted by: But Lea Thompson didn't at September 21, 2026 05:12 PM (anL5R)
---
But which side of that line do you fall on?

That's the more important thing.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 05:17 PM (Fi81e)

98 "It almost seems as though Labour, Merz, Macron, Sanchez, even Meloni, seem to be trying to hold off on the reckoning from the populace until it is simply too late to reverse, or until a signal is given.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 21, 2026 05:10 PM (Dv3i1) "

they're all planning on surviving in their various refuges. lol.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 05:17 PM (VyBeY)

99 let's go ahead and take all the young male "refugees" and give them military training and send them home
Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 05:08 PM (sKqQm)

I have argued for a number of years that anyone showing up from a country claiming "asylum" just because their home country is awful (not that their family was thrown in a dungeon and tortured) should be rounded up, placed in cargo aircraft with sufficient arms and ammunition, and flown home with the charge "Fix your own da** country."

Posted by: GWB at September 21, 2026 05:18 PM (kU0PQ)

100 94 Once you go quack, you never go back.
Posted by: Daffy Duck

It's the corkscrew. IYKYK!

Posted by: OnlyDucksFans at September 21, 2026 05:15 PM (Dv3i1)

As a ratio of size to body size, they even put the Paolo to shame...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 05:18 PM (l3cgK)

101 That no-no dance is hilarious. You could just opt out for the beating and stabbing.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

Everybody is famous for fifteen minutes. Some fifteen minutes are unfortunate.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 05:18 PM (ndZc7)

102 That Finnish video was compelling. Compelling in a way that watching a bus full of clowns careening down a hill into a chemical factory and explodes, destroying the orphanage next door, and the clowns live.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 21, 2026 05:18 PM (sAmhv)

103 90 I draw the line at sex with ducks. YEEEEUUUUUCK.

Once you go quack, you never go back.
Posted by: Daffy Duck

Neighbor a few houses down has 4 ducks. Never contemplated rogering them. I do quack at them when I ride my bike past.

Posted by: They Seem To Like That at September 21, 2026 05:18 PM (Fn+3X)

104 Brad Pitt did it with a cartoon chick.
These things happen.
It's just the way Hollywood is.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2026 05:19 PM (6ydKt)

105 97 I draw the line at sex with ducks.

Posted by: But Lea Thompson didn't at September 21, 2026 05:12 PM (anL5R)

We've never even been to Lake Havasu

Posted by: The at September 21, 2026 05:19 PM (r7+Q7)

106 89, yeah, I remember that, too

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 05:19 PM (VyBeY)

107
I am aghast.
Posted by: huerfano at September 21, 2026 04:59 PM (2Xqig)

I am agog.
Posted by: Grantaire

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

I shannot believe it. I shannot.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 05:19 PM (mmrXZ)

108 89 The only legitimate asylum claim in the USA that I've heard of was denied by the Obama administration .

German family requested asylum as they were threatened with imprisonment for wanting to homeschool their children in a Christian environment. Obama administration denied and revoked their status.
Posted by: polynikes

As Chief Executive, he had legitimate power to decide, no matter what our asshole lawless judges today say about this power when Trump is wielding it.

But of course, Obama decided to be a total asshole.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 21, 2026 05:20 PM (Dv3i1)

109 13 The don't rape me dance.
Gawd. Now i have seen it all.
Beyond stupid.
Posted by: Diogenes



Well, it might work, just not in the way the Finns think. I suspect it will prevent rapes but not getting hacked to death with machete's.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 21, 2026 05:20 PM (sAmhv)

110 Speaking of Daffy Duck, The Coyote vs ACME movie was lots of fun, worth seeing. You can watch with family

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 05:20 PM (KyEAU)

111 "Neighbor a few houses down has 4 ducks."

Elmo is your neighbor?

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at September 21, 2026 05:20 PM (GMWTj)

112 104 Brad Pitt did it with a cartoon chick.
These things happen.
It's just the way Hollywood is.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2026 05:19 PM (6ydKt)

Noids do not have sechs/seggs with doodles!

Posted by: Thrawn at September 21, 2026 05:21 PM (oPFtC)

113 Is there a Don't Behead Me dance?

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 05:21 PM (Fi81e)

114 I had the opportunity to use “flaming clown boners” in a conversation I was having with my son over the weekend.

He almost choked he laughed so hard.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 21, 2026 05:22 PM (KIvoi)

115 The 1% is based on an assumption of the anonymous source, but it didn't stop The Times from running it as fact. The basis is many people from Pakistan are being given asylum based on being gay. It's extremely difficult identify fraudsters based on something that's a belief, with no proof given to The Times whatsoever.

They've been one of the main papers pushing transphobia (along with The Guardian). They really lost it about 10 years ago when their centrist slant kept moving further and further right.

given the success rate in applying for asylum and the success rate at appealing negative decisions, insisting that 99% are frauds certainly qualifies as an "extraordinary claim". Our news sources chose not to require any evidence to support it.

Japan rejects 99.7% of asylum applications so the 1/100 here isn't that far fetched to believe.

I don't think you can use the prevalence of being gay as a way to determine that you should only expect small numbers of gay asylum seekers. The 1% assumes that a fully representative cross section of Pakistanis are coming to the UK instead of the UK being a place that is known to be safe for gay Pakistanis

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 21, 2026 05:22 PM (sMaFa)

116 113 Is there a Don't Behead Me dance?

Don't cut me there?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 21, 2026 05:22 PM (Dv3i1)

117 113 Is there a Don't Behead Me dance?
Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 05:21 PM (Fi81e)

Yes. But you'll be too sore to do it after the don't-rape-me dance fails.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 21, 2026 05:22 PM (ca8Qt)

118 As a ratio of size to body size, they even put the Paolo to shame...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 05:18 PM (l3cgK)

I think thats Bats. Some ridiculous conparison between the erect penis and body overall. Like having a chair leg straped to a basket ball.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 21, 2026 05:23 PM (zZu0s)

119 34 There are no asylum seekers leaving islamic countries. These people are soldiers building a caliphate.
Posted by: Eromero

They are in overdrive traveling at plaid speed.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at September 21, 2026 05:23 PM (Q/FnY)

120
Give each of those asylum-seekers a machine gun and dump them back in the capital city of their country of origin. Like, all of them at once. Thousands of them per day. You didn't like your shithole country? Well, you are now in an instant army of rebels. Ready, aim, fire!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 05:24 PM (mmrXZ)

121 110 Speaking of Daffy Duck, The Coyote vs ACME movie was lots of fun, worth seeing. You can watch with family

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 05:20 PM (KyEAU)

It's nice that WB has a nice film out. I'll watch it one day.
It's kinda sad they had to reach back 80 years to get there.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2026 05:24 PM (6ydKt)

122 Is there a Don't Behead Me dance?

Doctor Doctor
Gimme the news
You might get kicked out
For killin' Jews

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 05:24 PM (guGkK)

123 It doesn't matter -- even if 100% are legit, how is that my problem?

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 21, 2026 05:24 PM (LfiSD)

124 >>>Neighbor a few houses down has 4 ducks. Never contemplated rogering them. I do quack at them when I ride my bike past.

Posted by: They Seem To Like That

>I've never encountered an aggressive duck. They seem quite sociable. Geese and swans, on the other hand, can be quite nasty, and often times have tasted shoe leather.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 21, 2026 05:25 PM (5C90x)

125 34 There are no asylum seekers leaving islamic countries. These people are soldiers building a caliphate.
Posted by: Eromero

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

They are told, both in mosques in their home countries, and in mosques when they arrive here, that it is their duty as muslim slaves to migrate as a form of conquest.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 21, 2026 05:26 PM (LfiSD)

126 87 82 I think I liked Howard The Duck more than Hudson Hawk.
Lea Thompson > Andie MacDowell (but not by much)
==
I draw the line at sex with ducks. YEEEEUUUUUCK.
Posted by: But Lea Thompson didn't at September 21, 2026 05:12 PM (anL5R)


Ah Leah!!
Posted by: tubal



youtu.be/Rh5kuxnDUc8

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 21, 2026 05:26 PM (sAmhv)

127
I actually believe it starts as flight, then becomes invasion. Who would live in those shitholes if they had a choice? Go to some nice place where you can do whatever you want.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 05:26 PM (mmrXZ)

128 89 The only legitimate asylum claim in the USA that I've heard of was denied by the Obama administration .

German family requested asylum as they were threatened with imprisonment for wanting to homeschool their children in a Christian environment. Obama administration denied and revoked their status.
Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 05:14 PM (KC5Lt)
And little Elian had to return to commie Cuber.

Posted by: Eromero at September 21, 2026 05:27 PM (LHPAg)

129 I guess that thing about having to claim asylum in the first country you come to is bullshit.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 21, 2026 05:27 PM (UdrMW)

130 I have an engineering/scientist mindset. To solve a problem, you must first correctly identify the problem.

The Muslims raping women in Finland believe the Koran gives them license to rape as many infidels as they want.

The "no-no square" dance will change the viewpoint of the rapists not in the slightest.

The government employees that made that video have zero comprehension of the rape problem they are trying to address.

However, I don't think they are actually that stupid. Instead, their world view requires that they do NOT address reality, because the actual facts cannot exist within their BS construction of a world view. (That is a different kind of stupid.)

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 21, 2026 05:28 PM (HlyYF)

131 A lovesong about a Duck's love for Lea Thompson

Intense desire: The narrator reconnects with an old flame and is instantly consumed by physical chemistry and jealousy over who she might have been with.
Impending doom: They recognize that their relationship is a disaster waiting to happen ("We both know we're never gonna make it").
Giving in: Despite knowing it will fail, they cannot stop themselves from moving forward because their emotions override their logic.

Posted by: Donnie Iris wasn't a duck at September 21, 2026 05:28 PM (anL5R)

132 Ah Leah!!
Posted by: tubal


youtu.be/Rh5kuxnDUc8

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 21, 2026 05:26 PM (sAmhv)


Been awhile since I've heard that one.
I had no idea the guy looked like the curly headed brother of Elvis Costello.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2026 05:29 PM (6ydKt)

133 Read crime statistics in all of Europe with the Muslim invasion have gone sky high

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 05:29 PM (Ia/+0)

134 From Guinness Book of World Records...

The longest penis of any animals relative to their body is that of the barnacles. The body of these sessile crustaceans often measures just a few centimetres long, but their penis can be as much as 40 times as long as this, enabling them to mate with other barnacles positioned some distance away.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 05:29 PM (l3cgK)

135 I refuse to click the video, but I am already convinced that it is even worse than the Vax-scene video.

Posted by: Martin Tell at September 21, 2026 05:30 PM (6yK+O)

136 Yes, ducks are more mellow and good-natured than geese or swans. Swans get really mad if you get close to their nests/young, but I guess that's a good reason to be aggressive.

Posted by: Rate Your Birds Here at September 21, 2026 05:30 PM (Fn+3X)

137 We are in the midst of Judgement Day which will culminate in the end of all things visible in 2033.
Posted by: Mounting Biblical Evidence at September 21, 2026 04:55 PM (Fn+3X)

This was supposed to happen in 1988. I genuinely wish Christians would stop getting into this apocalyptic prediction horseshit. First, it's unbiblical, second it's retarded.

Posted by: No man knoweth the day or hour at September 21, 2026 05:30 PM (TbWk/)

138 This was supposed to happen in 1988. I genuinely wish Christians would stop getting into this apocalyptic prediction horseshit. First, it's unbiblical, second it's retarded.
Posted by: No man knoweth the day or hour at September 21, 2026 05:30 PM (TbWk/)

Third: they're just teasing us with this shit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 21, 2026 05:32 PM (zZu0s)

139 Hey, girls! I'm Barnacle Bill the Sailor over here!

Posted by: IYKWIMAITYD at September 21, 2026 05:32 PM (Fn+3X)

140 Barnacle mating! Only at AoSHQ,

Posted by: Ben Had at September 21, 2026 05:33 PM (UdrMW)

141 …enabling them to mate with other barnacles positioned some distance away.

This puts a new spin on the song “Barnacle Bill the Sailor”.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 21, 2026 05:33 PM (kYmoU)

142 Third: they're just teasing us with this shit.
==
Yeah, don't get my hopes up.

Posted by: I mean that would be a relief at September 21, 2026 05:33 PM (anL5R)

143 Been awhile since I've heard that one.
I had no idea the guy looked like the curly headed brother of Elvis Costello.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2026 05:29 PM

Donnie Iris is a cool dude.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 05:33 PM (BAWkL)

144 I refuse to click the video, but I am already convinced that it is even worse than the Vax-scene video.
-----

You'd have to realize that you're literally selling your *soul* to appear in one of those "let's dance while we do propaganda videos". How embarrassing.

Posted by: Crusader at September 21, 2026 05:33 PM (TN0g+)

145 Yumans are not a higher lifeform. Nyah.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 05:34 PM (F0j7f)

146 Donnie Iris is a cool dude.
==
Its the corkscrew.

Posted by: Apparently IYKYK at September 21, 2026 05:34 PM (anL5R)

147 >I've never encountered an aggressive duck. They seem quite sociable. Geese and swans, on the other hand, can be quite nasty, and often times have tasted shoe leather.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 21, 2026 05:25 PM


My father's golf club had a huge Canadian Goose problem. They deposited pounds of crap thickly across the fairways, and sometimes even on the greens.

Management brought in two breeding pairs of swans, and set up each pair on their own course pond.

Hundreds of geese were terrified of two swans, and stayed far, far away.

If I am ever facing an existential threat of combat against a million geese, I am taking a few Morons, a few 'ettes, and a couple of swans. With that tiny army, I still like my chances.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 21, 2026 05:34 PM (HlyYF)

148 Donnie Iris is a cool dude.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 05:33 PM (BAWkL)

I've liked the song for a long time hearing it on the radio, etc.
I didn't even know who sang it until five minutes ago.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2026 05:34 PM (6ydKt)

149 I genuinely wish Christians would stop getting into this apocalyptic prediction horseshit. First, it's unbiblical, second it's retarded.

Yeah its the same thing as astrology and tarot cards: trying to see the future with ridiculous scenarios drawn out on the wall with thumbtacks and yarn on post-it notes

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 05:34 PM (KyEAU)

150 Do they honestly believe some muzzie with a hard on is going to watch that?

Posted by: Ben Had at September 21, 2026 05:35 PM (UdrMW)

151 Why hath he given asylum to multitudes of New Somalians, sent hither swarms of Pirates to harass our people, and eat out their substance -

https://tinyurl.com/58paks6y

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 21, 2026 05:35 PM (Dv3i1)

152 The longest penis of any animals relative to their body is that of the barnacles. The body of these sessile crustaceans often measures just a few centimetres long, but their penis can be as much as 40 times as long as this, enabling them to mate with other barnacles positioned some distance away.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 05:29 PM (l3cgK)

Useful for orgies.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 05:35 PM (KC5Lt)

153 The body of these sessile crustaceans often measures just a few centimetres long, but their penis can be as much as 40 times as long as this, enabling them to mate with other barnacles positioned some distance away.

Must be nice when your dick can show up at at parties while you stay home.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 05:35 PM (guGkK)

154 >>There are no asylum seekers leaving islamic countries. These people are soldiers building a caliphate.

They have no problem saying all the time. The question is why are so many in western countries helping them?

It's not like they will spared.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 05:36 PM (viF8m)

155 113 Is there a Don't Behead Me dance?
Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 05:21 PM (Fi81e)
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https://tinyurl.com/yc2xht77

Posted by: ballistic at September 21, 2026 05:36 PM (5aZAZ)

156 What I want to know is, is it prehensile?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 05:36 PM (guGkK)

157 Cold Duck

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 21, 2026 05:36 PM (Cqx++)

158 Of course they are. They blatantly violate asylum law. It's the entire reason Remain in Mexico was so effective a policy - because Mexico was a Safe country for the purposes of asylum, so ANYBODY crossing through Mexico to apply for asylum was automatically fraud.

Democrats know. Their entire strategy has been overwhelm the asylum system so that they get released waiting for a hearing 5 years in the future, then whine THEY'VE BUILT A LIFE HERE to avoid deportation.

You can't fix it. The only way is simply eliminate asylum completely.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at September 21, 2026 05:37 PM (lCHt6)

159 Freedom Fest CANCELLED!!!
Freedom Fest the biggest country maga festival in the country cancelled not by the commies but cancelled because ticket sales crashed out this year. Headlined by MAGA Man Kid Rock on past years even Donald attended

Good luck kiddies getting already purchased
tickets refunded .

Posted by: Paul at September 21, 2026 05:37 PM (RV6uI)

160 There is a specific Bible verse that says basically says no one knows when judgement day will come.except God himself.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 05:37 PM (KC5Lt)

161 I see here we're talking about refugee percentages that are Muslims (which is extremely high)...BUT, what this doesn't take into account is actual refugees who flee Muslim countries BECAUSE of Muslims. Christians from Syria would be a good example (or anyone with a religion other than Islam who came from a Muslim country).

Hell, there are Christians who still work as slaves (bonded labor) in Pakistan even though the Constitution of Pakistan (yes, they do actually have one) outlaws slavery since the early 1990's. Selective law enforcement is a big deal in Muslim countries.

I'm not commenting on whether these non-Muslims deserve asylum. I'm just pointing out that Muslims are likely responsible directly and indirectly for well over 90% of asylum seekers. Some are actually legit on the non-Muslim side.

Posted by: Orson at September 21, 2026 05:37 PM (dIske)

162
Oh, the refugees are gay Pakistanis?

Relatedly, a Dem Congressional candidate from Seattle has kept all LGBTQ issues off her website. She explained, "Unfortunately, Muslims don't like that shit." (light editing, but that's what she did)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 05:37 PM (mmrXZ)

163 Hiding behind one verse is not smart here. The very next verse is about "as it was in the days of Noah". Did Noah know when the Flood was to start? Yes he knew the very day. Did Lot know when the four cities of the plain would be burned up? Yes, he was told when to flee. Unbelievers won't know when the end comes, but the Bible is being opened to those who are blessed by God to want toknow.

Posted by: 2033 End Of The World? at September 21, 2026 05:37 PM (Fn+3X)

164 Where’s the Ducks for Trump! guy?

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 21, 2026 05:37 PM (BZLGW)

165 Where do I meet these barnacles? - Pete Buttigieg , looking for a good time

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2026 05:37 PM (taL2t)

166 153 The body of these sessile crustaceans often measures just a few centimetres long, but their penis can be as much as 40 times as long as this, enabling them to mate with other barnacles positioned some distance away.

Must be nice when your dick can show up at at parties while you stay home.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 05:35 PM (guGkK)

Necessity is the mother of erection.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2026 05:38 PM (6ydKt)

167 I've liked the song for a long time hearing it on the radio, etc.
I didn't even know who sang it until five minutes ago.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2026

He's known to haunt certain watering holes in Western PA. Just shot the shit with him for a bit one night w few decades ago. Nice guy.

I think he is fighting cancer now.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 05:38 PM (BAWkL)

168 Must be nice when your dick can show up at at parties while you stay home.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 05:35 PM (guGkK)

'Baby, I never left the apartment!'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 21, 2026 05:39 PM (zZu0s)

169 I saw Gay Pakistani Asylum Seekers open for Liberace at the Astrodome, 1975.

Posted by: Gref at September 21, 2026 05:39 PM (5rh/l)

170 156 What I want to know is, is it prehensile?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 05:36 PM (guGkK)

Elephants...it's prehensile...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 05:40 PM (l3cgK)

171 Posted by: 2033 End Of The World? at September 21, 2026 05:37 PM (Fn+3X)

2033? That figures. That's my expected retirement date.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 21, 2026 05:40 PM (Dv3i1)

172 He's known to haunt certain watering holes in Western PA. Just shot the shit with him for a bit one night w few decades ago. Nice guy.

I think he is fighting cancer now.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 05:38 PM (BAWkL)

That sucks.
I'll give is song another listen to put towards the fund.
It's only got like 382k views, which should be a lot more for that song.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2026 05:40 PM (6ydKt)

173 Posted by: Paul at September 21, 2026 05:37 PM (RV6uI)

You can still go see your American hating, fag loving , uneducated, shitty musicians crappy bands. Congratulations.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 05:41 PM (KC5Lt)

174 large number of Iraqi Kurds claiming asylum who said they had been in a relationship with the daughter of the prime minister of the Kurdistan region

What a SLUT!

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 21, 2026 05:42 PM (mP0Kj)

175 132 Ah Leah!!
Posted by: tubal


youtu.be/Rh5kuxnDUc8

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 21, 2026 05:26 PM (sAmhv)


Been awhile since I've heard that one.
I had no idea the guy looked like the curly headed brother of Elvis Costello.
Posted by: SpeakingOf



He grew up in the same county I did in Western PA. Still regarded highly there.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 21, 2026 05:42 PM (sAmhv)

176 There are zero gays from Pakistan fleeing ?

Posted by: Paul at September 21, 2026 05:42 PM (RV6uI)

177 Yeah, her husband KNOWS its her no no square...

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 21, 2026 05:43 PM (mP0Kj)

178 large number of Iraqi Kurds claiming asylum who said they had been in a relationship with the daughter of the prime minister of the Kurdistan region

What a SLUT!
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 21, 2026 05:42 PM (mP0Kj)
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If that were even remotely true, her father and brothers would have "honor killed" her a long time ago.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2026 05:43 PM (FZ29D)

179 Posted by: 2033 End Of The World? at September 21, 2026 05:37 PM (Fn+3X)

You're being sarcastic right?

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 05:44 PM (KC5Lt)

180 176 There are zero gays from Pakistan fleeing ?
Posted by: Paul at September 21, 2026 05:42 PM (RV6uI)

__________________________

They prefer to be called "dominant." And, considering Pakistan is still working on getting everyone indoor plumbing, it is hard to find an open Porta Potty.

Posted by: Orson at September 21, 2026 05:44 PM (dIske)

181 169 I saw Gay Pakistani Asylum Seekers open for Liberace at the Astrodome, 1975.
Posted by: Gref at September 21, 2026 05:39 PM (5rh/l)

And Liberace was MUCH more Manly...

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 21, 2026 05:44 PM (mP0Kj)

182 Just read the post.

I'm shocked. SHOCKED, I say!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 21, 2026 05:44 PM (g8Ew8)

183 176 There are zero gays from Pakistan fleeing ?

Posted by: Paul at September 21, 2026 05:42 PM (RV6uI)

It's amazing how much leftist discourse is just them pretending not to understand things, thus making discourse impossible.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at September 21, 2026 05:44 PM (wGerL)

184 In every mulsim country (and muslim controlled area), right now today, any adult man can go and "buy" a young boy for "fun."

But, since they don't call it "being a pedo rapist" it's not pedo rape.

Just like their prophet wasn't a pedo rapist.

And then these pedo rapists will claim asylum in the west because islam punishes being a pedo rapist with death.

But not the actual pedo rapists who rape young boys because it's not called pedo rape if you buy a young boy for "fun."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 05:44 PM (3cUTc)

185 The very next verse is about "as it was in the days of Noah". Did Noah know when the Flood was to start? Yes he knew the very day. Did Lot know when the four cities of the plain would be burned up? Yes, he was told when to flee. Unbelievers won't know when the end comes, but the Bible is being opened to those who are blessed by God to want toknow.
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The prior verse is specific. You are relying on nonspecific context to conclude the subsequent verses are negating a specific prior verse. This is not very logical approach to interpretation. It may be your belief, but it is not logically born out on the face of the text. Not that it has to be - but as a matter of interpretation that's not a great argument. Its like - here I'm going to purposely confuse you by saying one thing and then negating it by implying something else. Naw bro. You need to redo that.

Posted by: No offense but think more at September 21, 2026 05:45 PM (anL5R)

186 Gays in Pakistan aren't so much fleeing as they are plummeting

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2026 05:45 PM (taL2t)

187 178 large number of Iraqi Kurds claiming asylum who said they had been in a relationship with the daughter of the prime minister of the Kurdistan region

What a SLUT!
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 21, 2026 05:42 PM (mP0Kj)
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If that were even remotely true, her father and brothers would have "honor killed" her a long time ago.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2026 05:43 PM (FZ29D)

Actually... as it was said in official documents... it's not just fraud, it's Libel.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 21, 2026 05:45 PM (mP0Kj)

188 Can the Kurdistani PMs daughter sue for defamation? Liberace won a libel suit against a British tabloid that claimed he was, without evidence, gay.

Posted by: Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe at September 21, 2026 05:46 PM (Fn+3X)

189 Might want to revisit the crusades. Or submit. While still have a choice.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 21, 2026 05:46 PM (2Cry5)

190
Ilhan Omar introduces bill to strip $140 billion from ICE and give it to communities hurt by deportation raids.

Will this pos ever go away?

Posted by: four seasons at September 21, 2026 05:46 PM (/QHx4)

191 You've convinced me! I'll rape none of the dancers in that video!

Posted by: Mohammed Mohammad Mohamud at September 21, 2026 05:46 PM (h7OuQ)

192 I thought Trans were fleeing the USA because of the danger.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 05:47 PM (KC5Lt)

193 The longest penis of any animals relative to their body is that of the barnacles. The body of these sessile crustaceans often measures just a few centimetres long, but their penis can be as much as 40 times as long as this, enabling them to mate with other barnacles positioned some distance away.
Posted by: jim

I don't like to brag, but barnacles and Mon Calamari are closely related...basically, I'm hung like a seahorse.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 21, 2026 05:47 PM (sMaFa)

194 ...where in the Bible does it say that Noah knew what day the flood would start?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 05:47 PM (KyEAU)

195 ¡Ay, caramba!

Posted by: That Guy who mutters "¡Ay, caramba!" at September 21, 2026 05:47 PM (0sNs1)

196 Unbelievers won't know when the end comes, but the Bible is being opened to those who are blessed by God to want toknow.

According to Dispensationalists, almost all of Revelation is the Reprobate's DayTimer. Its a day-by-day description of what happens, what follows that is provided to people who hate God so much that they have been Left Behind and have no interest in the Word.

Which is really weird since Evangelicals believe that a very large chunk of the Bible was not written to the immediate audience but to people, with no interest in the Bible or of the things of God, thousands of years later.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 05:47 PM (pUU4E)

197 Donnie Iris is in his 80s now. Doesn't tour much. Had cancer but it was treated and is ok now. Still makes music occasionally but is pretty much retired from the Biz. He made money from commercial real estate that his brother owned and he was a part of. For a mostly regional act (Rust Belt) with a few nationally known hits, he's done alright.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 21, 2026 05:48 PM (sAmhv)

198 Hey, Paul! Fuck off!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 21, 2026 05:48 PM (g8Ew8)

199 They have no problem saying all the time. The question is why are so many in western countries helping them?

It's not like they will spared.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 05:36 PM (viF8m)
Janissaries are already being converted in universities, prisons, and ghettoes.

Posted by: Eromero at September 21, 2026 05:49 PM (LHPAg)

200 I don't like to brag, but barnacles and Mon Calamari are closely related...basically, I'm hung like a seahorse.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 21, 2026 05:47 PM (sMaFa)

/sneers

Posted by: Lando Molari of the Great Centauri Republic at September 21, 2026 05:49 PM (mP0Kj)

201 183 176 There are zero gays from Pakistan fleeing ?

Posted by: Paul at September 21, 2026 05:42 PM (RV6uI)

It's amazing how much leftist discourse is just them pretending not to understand things, thus making discourse impossible.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson



LoL! Yep. Nice for the retard troll to provide posts as examples.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 21, 2026 05:49 PM (sAmhv)

202 That face in front of the dancing prophylactics is enough to make me swear celibacy

Posted by: The Dog at September 21, 2026 05:49 PM (q51AC)

203 They claim asylum and the go home for vacations.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 21, 2026 05:50 PM (36x1j)

204 That Guy who mutters "�Ay, caramba!" at September 21, 2026 05:47 PM

Bro! Welcome!!!

Posted by: That Guy who always says "Nothing will happen." at September 21, 2026 05:50 PM (k1ZF2)

205 Someone with AI skills could make a good parody of No No Square with Monica, Paula Jones, Gennifer Flowers, ? Wille, Betsey Wright, the Mondale daughter, Juanita Broderick, etc.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at September 21, 2026 05:50 PM (wGerL)

206 As soon as the Marxists/ Muslims take over the borders will be wide open

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 05:51 PM (Ia/+0)

207 204 That Guy who mutters "�Ay, caramba!" at September 21, 2026 05:47 PM

Bro! Welcome!!!
Posted by: That Guy who always says "Nothing will happen." at September 21, 2026 05:50 PM (k1ZF2)

/Fistbump

Posted by: Guy who says En Fuego! at September 21, 2026 05:51 PM (mP0Kj)

208 They claim asylum and the go home for vacations.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 21, 2026 05:50 PM (36x1j

But with trepidation!

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 05:51 PM (KC5Lt)

209 194 ...where in the Bible does it say that Noah knew what day the flood would start?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 05:47 PM (KyEAU)

When the animals finished boarding the ark and God closed the door?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 05:52 PM (l3cgK)

210 Unbelievers won't know when the end comes, but the Bible is being opened to those who are blessed by God to want toknow.

Then you can't help but stumble across one of Peter's letters where he said that the LORD will return when the last of the Elect has been redeemed.

If you are absolutely sure of the date where no one from this point forward gets saved, then you can have all the confidence in racking up your credit cards and splurging before being whisked away leaving piles of debt behind.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 05:53 PM (9Hs2w)

211 I think more than a few Congress Critters need to watch that Finnish video.

What a disgrace.

Posted by: Czech Chick at September 21, 2026 05:53 PM (rg/w7)

212 It's amazing how much leftist discourse is just them pretending not to understand things, thus making discourse impossible.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at September 21, 2026 05:44 PM (wGerL)
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lol yep, it's the vast majority of what passes for game on that side of the fence. Play(?) as a retard and force you to spend all of your time explaining the basic rudiments of whatever the topic is so you never have a chance to get to the meat of your argument.

Posted by: ballistic at September 21, 2026 05:53 PM (oqH4h)

213 Speaking of Daffy Duck, The Coyote vs ACME movie was lots of fun, worth seeing. You can watch with family
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 05:20 PM (KyEAU)

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Found out recently that teen boys are into Road Runner cartoons. Youngest grandson compared something to Acme products and when I asked how he knows about them he said the cartoons are popular with his age group. I was hoping for more erudite cartoons like Bugs Bunny but Road Runner will do, after all it's part of their cultural heritage.

Posted by: Decaf at September 21, 2026 05:53 PM (ZNpJk)

214 Here is a story about one fake asylum seeker all the way back to 2011, when we were allowed to talk about it.

https://tinyurl.com/czppbvy6

So Congress has obviously known about this for decades. Anyone who had a hand in it should be prosecuted. They don't give one hot damn what American they hurt as long as their donors get rich.

F 'em.

Posted by: Random PJ at September 21, 2026 05:55 PM (+jscL)

215 When the Jews convert, en masse, the end is nigh.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 21, 2026 05:56 PM (36x1j)

216 The examples outlined are pretty funny, but they certainly don't add up to enough to make 99%.

Really, none of this makes any sense. If its Muslim gays fleeing Muslim countries where they behead gays, the legit percentage would be much higher, wouldn't it?

Plus, one thing not addressed is that if you're legitimately in a country where your being there puts your life in danger, that DOESN'T mean that you get to go to any country in the world that you feel like, I wouldn't think.

It seems like it would be easier to give examples of legit cases, because I can't imagine there are hardly ANY.

Posted by: MrExcitement at September 21, 2026 05:56 PM (ovdkm)

217 Kind of a shame in 60s Wile E Coyote didn't order from Amazon

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 05:56 PM (Ia/+0)

218 Let me get this figured out here. So, the USA is so horribly biased and awful that gays are persecuted to the point of decimation, but all the Muslim invaders are actually going from a place of persecution to the USA for safety.

Is that about right? Because I can't imagine anything about that is right.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 21, 2026 05:56 PM (+7nKe)

219 That No No Square (which by the way is a weird grooming choice) Dance was an official project by Oulu, Finland. Taxpayers paid for that, although I'm not sure what the expenses would be.

Oulu only has about 210,000 residents (so about the size of Richmond, VA or Spokane Washington)....Only about 7% are migrants. Which suggests that those 7% are pretty active in the ole' "No No Square" touching. Only just over 1% are Muslim immigrants. So, they must have gotten some real sexual harrassment prodigies if they thought it necessary to do this song to curb the problem. Yikes.

Posted by: Orson at September 21, 2026 05:57 PM (dIske)

220 First of all you can't cross over a dozen other eligible countries to get to the USA for your fake asylum.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 06:00 PM (KC5Lt)

221 When the Jews convert, en masse, the end is nigh.

John Hagee confidently stated that Jews have a separate path of salvation and don't need to recognize Jesus Christ as the Messiah.

So I'm not sure what you mean by "convert".

Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 06:01 PM (9Hs2w)

222 Some moslem group should do a video titled "We Make the Rape, You Have No Escape!".

Like the kids say, this would be off the chain!

Posted by: Muhammed Abdulla Muhammed, Rapist at September 21, 2026 06:01 PM (6VpiA)

223 So, they must have gotten some real sexual harrassment prodigies if they thought it necessary to do this song to curb the problem. Yikes.
Posted by: Orson at September 21, 2026 05:57 PM (dIske)

1911. Stops that shit right up.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 21, 2026 06:01 PM (+7nKe)

224 Bet the illegals pour in from Canada as well

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 06:01 PM (Ia/+0)

225 Found out recently that teen boys are into Road Runner cartoons. Youngest grandson compared something to Acme products and when I asked how he knows about them he said the cartoons are popular with his age group. I was hoping for more erudite cartoons like Bugs Bunny but Road Runner will do, after all it's part of their cultural heritage.
Posted by: Decaf at September 21, 2026 05:53 PM (ZNpJk)


We're in the Dark Ages of pop culture in America. All heroic figures are being intentionally dismantled and re-written, 1984 style. Our enemies have known for a long time that if America is to be taken down, it must happen from WITHIN, and "politics is downstream from culture", so they infiltrated all the necessary places.

So of course they would re-discover the old stuff. Even a child can tell that the new stuff is anti-inspiring garbage.

Posted by: MrExcitement at September 21, 2026 06:01 PM (ovdkm)

226 Okay, after watching the no no square performance, I'm betting there's a fifty-fifty chance one or more of those individuals will be touched in their no-no square within 2 years.

Posted by: Eromero at September 21, 2026 06:02 PM (LHPAg)

227 209 194 ...where in the Bible does it say that Noah knew what day the flood would start?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 05:47 PM (KyEAU)

When the animals finished boarding the ark and God closed the door?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 05:52 PM (l3cgK)

Except for the Unicorns... at least according to that old song...

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 21, 2026 06:02 PM (mP0Kj)

228 215 When the Jews convert, en masse, the end is nigh.
Posted by: no one of any consequence

No, just a remnant chosen by grace. Like with all peoples.

Posted by: Equal Footing at September 21, 2026 06:03 PM (Fn+3X)

229 We're in the Dark Ages of pop culture in America. All heroic figures are being intentionally dismantled and re-written, 1984 style. Our enemies have known for a long time that if America is to be taken down, it must happen from WITHIN, and "politics is downstream from culture", so they infiltrated all the necessary places.

So of course they would re-discover the old stuff. Even a child can tell that the new stuff is anti-inspiring garbage.
Posted by: MrExcitement at September 21, 2026 06:01 PM (ovdkm)

Every single Super Hero, which was OUR mythology of the 60's and 70's... has been Wokified.

Hell, even Dr. Who and James Bond.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 21, 2026 06:04 PM (mP0Kj)

230 John Hagee is full of shit.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 21, 2026 06:04 PM (36x1j)

231 No. The entire nation.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 21, 2026 06:05 PM (36x1j)

232 I don't understand people who try to figure out what God will or won't do or when he will do it.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 06:05 PM (KC5Lt)

233 I genuinely wish Christians would stop getting into this apocalyptic prediction horseshit. First, it's unbiblical, second it's retarded.

Right, he didn't know ahead of time. He had no clue, until it was done. The argument that Jesus was giving some kind of exclusion clause with Noah is ridiculous.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 06:06 PM (KyEAU)

234 Yeah, thanks for that Finland video...now that STUPID SONG is stuck in my head...ARRGGG!

Posted by: No Longer a Lurker at September 21, 2026 06:08 PM (JKmIm)

235 Nood. Quickies.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 06:09 PM (ExV1e)

236 Ilhan Omar introduces bill to strip $140 billion from ICE and give it to communities hurt by deportation raids.
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Did you hear how Minneapolis found most of the applications to their "reparations for the depredations for ICE" fund were fraudulent?

Do you know how blatant it had to be to be flagged and denied?
Do you think any of the Somalians--and you know it was Somalians who almost exclusively applied--feared committing more fraud?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 06:09 PM (3cUTc)

237 God will do what meeds to be done when its time.

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 06:09 PM (Ia/+0)

238 Every single Super Hero, which was OUR mythology of the 60's and 70's... has been Wokified.

Hell, even Dr. Who and James Bond.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 21, 2026 06:04 PM (mP0Kj)


It's aggravating to me to see people observe this, and how it's completely ubiquitous, and still not see that it is NOT just sort of social trend - a symptom of social decay - but rather the result of decades of infiltration for the very intentional purpose of taking our society down.

You can't point to the guy (or guys) who got up on the metaphorical soap box, made their case, and convinced everybody this was the right way to go. Every new idea - and ALL of them are bad for society - suddenly came from nowhere, and you were told you had to go along, OR ELSE. Could it be more obvious that it's been an enemy PsyOp, going back to the 60's, or even before?

Posted by: MrExcitement at September 21, 2026 06:12 PM (ovdkm)

239 All heroic figures are being intentionally dismantled and re-written, 1984 style.
Posted by: MrExcitement at September 21, 2026 06:01 PM


Except for me. The Paolo will, how you say, stand proud!

Posted by: Paolo at September 21, 2026 06:14 PM (0sNs1)

240 I was at first angry at Converse for caving to the woke pseudo-mob (in reality just a handful of professional complainers who pretended to have ginned up an online outrage wave), but now that I see that Converse is just a subsidiary of Nike,, I can now say, "Good! Grovel to the commies and go bankrupt! Just do it! Oh, and fuck you and everything you stand for." Much more satisfying result, emotionally.

Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 06:23 PM (Av6i5)

Of Course: The 12 Left-Wing AGs Settle with Paramount/Skydance, Allowing the Merger, But Only With "Guardrails for CNN"

So this many-million-dollar lawsuit was all about keeping CNN a hard-left propaganda outlet.

Note that four of the left-wing AGs are dropping out of the communist coalition to demand further concessions, so I can't say this deal is actually struck quite yet.

Done! Paramount Settles Antitrust Suit, Set To Seal Deal For Warner Bros. Discovery


UPDATED WITH MORE DETAILS: Paramount has settled an antitrust lawsuit brought by a dozen state attorneys general led by California's Rob Bonta, the last obstacle to closing its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, Deadline has confirmed.

Specifics are still scant but will come when the deal is formally announced later this morning. There will be concessions. Deadline hears that Paramount has agreed to some CNN guardrails, financial penalties linked to CEO David Ellison's 30 movies a year commitment, and some sort of separation of the studios for a period.

They mean they want Warner Bros. to remain separated from Paramount/Skydance for a period, which I heard was two years. Usually mergers involve reducing corporate staff by combining the old staff and firing the now-redundant staffers. So this is a move to keep those jobs for a period.


Terms of the deal are said to include an investment of $1.5 billion for home-grown film production and protecting and creating jobs, along with requirements for additional domestic production if the federal government approves tax incentives. The settlement also provides for a $47.5 million workforce development fund and obligation to honor existing collective bargaining agreements.

By promising to create "domestic" or "home grown" jobs, do they mean just in California, or the United States? I assume the latter, but I'm not sure.


News of settlement talks began trickling out on Friday but four of the AGs in the group were subsequently described as holding out for more concessions from Paramount. The attorneys general of New York, Connecticut, Minnesota [Keith Ellison] and Nevada came around late Sunday, sources tell Deadline, after assurances from California's Bonta that he would hold Paramount's "feet to the fire" to ensure the company stuck to its commitments. He had said previously he preferred structural remedies like asset sales to resolve antitrust issues, rather than behavioral remedies, which require monitoring.
...

"It's jobs, job, jobs, that's what this all about," a source close to power players in Sacramento told Deadline.

Of course, with $6 billion in cost savings promised to investors, expectations remain for significant layoffs, though those details will become more clear in the coming days and weeks.

Paramount shares rose 9% on the news. WBD gained 10%, trading at about $30.50. The deal calls for Paramount to take out Warner stockholders for $31 a share.

We don't know yet what "guardrails for CNN" have been agreed to. What I would guess is that Paramount/Skydance agreed to keep current CNN management on for some period. Maybe 3-5 years or something. It obviously can't be forever.

Update: So now we know -- Paramount/Skydance agreed to appoint a board of liberals to monitor the management of both CNN and CBS.

To keep out "bias."

Boy oh boy, wouldn't want any bias creeping in to CNN or CBS!

More on the Jake Tapper Permanent Employment Treaty:

Under the agreement, Bonta announced that Paramount is legally required to distribute at least 30 movies in theaters annually and will face a financial penalty if it fails to do so.

The company also committed to spending an additional $1.5 billion on film production over the next five years, with a guaranteed increase in the proportion of movies produced within the U.S., specifically benefiting Hollywood, according to Bonta.

Wait, so is the deal to produce "home grown" jobs in the US or in the Hollywood area? That seems to claim both or either.

Additionally, Paramount agreed to establish an independent board of journalists to oversee the newsrooms of CNN and CBS News to preserve editorial integrity and prevent consolidated corporate bias, Bonta said.

Independent journalists may include Dan Rather, John Harwood, Jim Sciutto, and Don Lemon. I'm making that up but I'm sure that's who the left has in mind.

Oh, and why not add Tater to the board, too!

Now that we've set the precedent that the government can sue media companies to end bias, when does Trump's AG Kash Patel put this new power into action?


The deranged partisan freaks like Mark Ruffalo demand that the deal be scuttled.

The primary group mobilizing opposition to the Paramount--Warner Bros. Discovery merger condemned the state attorneys general settlement of their antitrust lawsuit to block the transaction.

Just minutes before California Attorney General Rob Bonta was to appear at a press conference to announce the details of the settlement, the Block the Merger Coalition put out a statement calling the proposed resolution "a bad deal for the future of film, entertainment, independent journalism, and a strong democracy in this country."

"We are disappointed and angry that the interests of average Americans have been trampled to benefit oligarch billionaires," the group said.

Who the f*** do they think own major movie studios? Do they think they're mom-and-pop shops?

No, of course not, this is all stupid communist agit-prop.


In addition to demonstrations and online campaigns, the coalition helped organize an open letter of industry professionals opposing the transaction, including JJ Abrams, Damon Lindelof, David Fincher and Denis Villeneuve.

The only person there I wouldn't want to boycott is David Fincher, but I'm sure I can live without him.

As for Denis Villeneuve -- I know everyone's supposed to say he's great but I think he's boring as hell. His idea of making something feel "important" is just to make it slow and film it in low-key, low-energy way.

I didn't like Dune or Dune 2. I might actually like the David Lynch version more, but that might be too spicy a hot-take for me to commit to.

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Mark Ruffalo, a prominent opponent of the merger, weighed in on X earlier on Monday. "Gavin Newsom hands huge win to Trump and his billionaire cronies," he wrote, referring to the governor's involvement in reaching a settlement.

In some Hollywood: Shit or Garbage? material: the Resident Evil movie is supposedly the first good Resident Evil movie. What I've heard critics say is that it's not based on any of the actual characters from the game -- it has its own original characters -- but it is based on the scenarios of the game, including puzzle-like levels, I mean movie scenes, the main character has to figure his way through.

In other words, the world of Resident Evil is fairly well adapted, while it doesn't include any of the characters featured in the game.

Which is an interesting way of being both very faithful to the material while also ignoring much of the material.

Multiple reviews say, however, that it ends abruptly and that the climax is rushed.

It's directed by the guy who did Weapons so I'm inclined to think it's pretty good. I dunno. I'll wait for it to be on TV.


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1 Open channel d

Posted by: Open Channel D at September 21, 2026 03:40 PM (LuSSV)

2 e546buh35e j35

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 03:41 PM (mmrXZ)

3 Reading the content!

Posted by: 13times at September 21, 2026 03:42 PM (6iKlf)

4 Even if the merger goes through, the company will face lawfare from the communists in perpetuity.

Posted by: Open Channel D at September 21, 2026 03:43 PM (LuSSV)

5 Mark Ruffalo, a prominent opponent of the merger, weighed in on X earlier on Monday. "Gavin Newsom hands huge win to Trump and his billionaire cronies," he wrote, referring to the governor's involvement in reaching a settlement.

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1. Any time Mark Ruffalo loses at something, an angel gets its wings.

2. This is a lesson to Ruffalo that the Democrat party will always betray him, and he must leave it and back a third party challenge from the left exclusively. No Democrat is a friend. They are friendly betrayers, at best.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 03:43 PM (SvJcA)

6 Corgis called

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 03:43 PM (hGTKn)

7 Which is an interesting way of being both very faithful to the material while also ignoring much of the material.

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I've been wondering about video game adaptations into movies.

Are some of the worst of them...the best adaptations?

Like...Super Mario Galaxy...is not a good movie. But it represents the video game experience rather well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 03:44 PM (SvJcA)

8 Shouldn't take this deal and move out of CA... Would be much better

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 03:44 PM (+gK6I)

9
assurances from California's Bonta that he would hold Paramount's "feet to the fire" to ensure the company stuck to its commitments.

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So, California is going to sue Ellison every time he takes a breath.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 03:44 PM (mmrXZ)

10 "Additionally, Paramount agreed to establish an independent board of journalists to oversee the newsrooms of CNN and CBS News to preserve editorial integrity and prevent consolidated corporate bias, Bonta said. "


LOL, an "independent" board of journalists, who do they think they are kidding?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 21, 2026 03:45 PM (I43vL)

11 9
assurances from California's Bonta that he would hold Paramount's "feet to the fire" to ensure the company stuck to its commitments.

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So, California is going to sue Ellison every time he takes a breath.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 03:44 PM (mmrXZ)

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Ellison will complete the merger and then move Paramount/WB out of California anyway.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 03:45 PM (SvJcA)

12 This deal literally is text book Fascism.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 03:45 PM (/TiS1)

13 Additionally, Paramount agreed to establish an independent board of journalists to oversee the newsrooms of CNN and CBS News to preserve editorial integrity and prevent consolidated corporate bias, Bonta said.
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Where's the Disney/ABC board for this?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 21, 2026 03:45 PM (XvL8K)

14
None dare call it Fascism.

Posted by: Auspex at September 21, 2026 03:45 PM (Y8DZL)

15 How is it legal that they force concessions for an approved transaction?

Posted by: steevy at September 21, 2026 03:45 PM (YwEeS)

16 2. This is a lesson to Ruffalo that the Democrat party will always betray him, and he must leave it and back a third party challenge from the left exclusively. No Democrat is a friend. They are friendly betrayers, at best.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 03:43 PM (SvJcA)
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Like every other Democrat, when faced with being shanked in the kidney by one of his allies, Ruffalo will say "Thank you sir! May I have another?" and continue being a retard.

Posted by: ballistic at September 21, 2026 03:46 PM (5aZAZ)

17 Did it ever occur to Tapper that this administration doesn’t lie, but what he thinks is true just isn’t?

Posted by: Piper at September 21, 2026 03:46 PM (ZdaMQ)

18 Paramount agreed to establish an independent board of journalists to oversee the newsrooms of CNN and CBS News to preserve editorial integrity and prevent consolidated corporate bias, Bonta said.

So, neo-marxist politruk. Such democracy, very freedom. Wow.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 21, 2026 03:46 PM (HeG1i)

19
I found out who Denis Villeneuve was when I watched something called "Prisoners" on YouTube, and I DO NOT RECOMMEND IT. It was so bad I decided to look up this Denis Villeneuve. I had no idea he was a thing, but I shouldn't be shocked.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 03:46 PM (mmrXZ)

20 "We are disappointed and angry that the interests of average Americans have been trampled to benefit oligarch billionaires,"

FYI, "oligarch" means "hung like a race horse"

Posted by: Oglebay at September 21, 2026 03:46 PM (2ap+5)

21 I would rather they moved out of California but I get the feeling the Ellisons want to save Hollywood rather than create their own new infrastructure.

Posted by: Open Channel D at September 21, 2026 03:46 PM (LuSSV)

22 Willowed but Brad Pitt's new movie Heart of the Beast released this week. Should be a blockbuster. A man and his dog can't lose.

It's a Paramount movie.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 03:47 PM (KC5Lt)

23 16 Like every other Democrat, when faced with being shanked in the kidney by one of his allies, Ruffalo will say "Thank you sir! May I have another?" and continue being a retard.

Posted by: ballistic at September 21, 2026 03:46 PM (5aZAZ)

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It's true.

Ruffalo is retarded and will not learn the lesson.

But he still should learn it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 03:47 PM (SvJcA)

24
Yeah, I'm also curious about that "domestic" requirement. When did Ellison ever threaten to go overseas?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 03:47 PM (mmrXZ)

25 21 I would rather they moved out of California but I get the feeling the Ellisons want to save Hollywood rather than create their own new infrastructure.
Posted by: Open Channel D at September 21, 2026 03:46 PM (LuSSV)

It's dead Jim....

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 03:47 PM (+gK6I)

26 24
Yeah, I'm also curious about that "domestic" requirement. When did Ellison ever threaten to go overseas?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 03:47 PM (mmrXZ)

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Tennessee is practically a foreign nation to the third-world California.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 03:47 PM (SvJcA)

27 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 03:48 PM (ccf/V)

28 Heh....maintaining their leftwing cred while getting booted from the White House for being a leftwing shithole 'news' network.


Priceless.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 03:48 PM (ccf/V)

29 Buffalo should just be thankful for the pity fuck Marvel gave him in the latest Spider-Man movie.

Posted by: Open Channel D at September 21, 2026 03:48 PM (LuSSV)

30
Paramount agreed to establish an independent board of journalists to oversee the newsrooms of CNN and CBS News to preserve editorial integrity and prevent consolidated corporate bias, Bonta said.

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I can see this going either way.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 03:49 PM (mmrXZ)

31 So I guess this isn't "fascism" when government tells business if and when it can conduct business and how.

Some settlement. Capitulation is more like it.

But... the shareholders will approve it if they think they'll make a buck or two. So it's all hunky-dory

Posted by: OneEyedJack at September 21, 2026 03:49 PM (zafwz)

32 So Bonta is demanding Leni Riefenstahl produce 30 movies for the Reich every year or face penalties.

Didn't we used to call that 'fascism'? Or is it not that when they do it?

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at September 21, 2026 03:50 PM (jkdU5)

33 CNN is still on the air? Who knew. Who watches that drek?

Posted by: Drying Paint at September 21, 2026 03:50 PM (6VpiA)

34 Is "independent oversite" enforceable? Seems that's a 1-A violation out of the gate.
As others smarter than me have no doubt pointed out, this reads more like a fig leaf for the various states.

Posted by: nooneyouknowyouknow at September 21, 2026 03:50 PM (Iwv3U)

35 Mark Ruffalo, a prominent opponent of the merger, weighed in on X earlier on Monday. "Gavin Newsom hands huge win to Trump and his billionaire cronies," he wrote, referring to the governor's involvement in reaching a settlement.

Why on earth does Mark Ruffalo warrant coverage of his opinions? It's like asking "But what does PeeWee Herman think?" about quantum electrodynamics.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 03:50 PM (Riz8t)

36
In addition to demonstrations and online campaigns, the coalition helped organize an open letter of industry professionals opposing the transaction, including JJ Abrams, Damon Lindelof, David Fincher and Denis Villeneuve.




THOSE guys are FAGS!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at September 21, 2026 03:50 PM (ccf/V)

37 I've not paid attention so Paramount is not moving now?

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 03:51 PM (KC5Lt)

38 >>>As for Denis Villeneuve -- I know everyone's supposed to say he's great but I think he's boring as hell.

I largely agree, but Sicario is very much an exception. An excellent film, well developed, believable characters and a plot that moves along at a quick pace.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 21, 2026 03:51 PM (syz1S)

39
>>Terms of the deal are said to include an investment of $1.5 billion for home-grown film production and protecting and creating jobs

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Be hilarious if a big chunk of that money went to AI production. In fact, I'm sure a big chunk will.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 03:51 PM (mmrXZ)

40 So, Tater's not going into cold storage?

Posted by: Ida-Ho at September 21, 2026 03:51 PM (Fn+3X)

41 I can't imagine how, but I want to believe that the Trump DOJ will step in to scuttle this deal as it fails to benefit the public as a whole.
Like, the actual public interest requirement of anti-trust litigation.

Or, to put it another way, keep this tied up in litigation past the October deadline--forcing Paramount to exit CA.

But for real, how can this be legal?

They file suit on almost no legitimate legal theory and extort out a "settlement" that solely benefits just one of the states that sued--and not the general public of the whole United States?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 03:51 PM (3cUTc)

42 So, Tater's not going into cold storage?
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Don't tell me he has started to sprout "eyes". Yikes.

Posted by: That nasty at September 21, 2026 03:52 PM (anL5R)

43 I’m not surprised Lindelof is opposed to this—I doubt the Ellisons let him continue to rape the character of Green Lantern like he has been doing in the execrable Lanterns show.

Posted by: Open Channel D at September 21, 2026 03:53 PM (LuSSV)

44 Paramount agreed to establish an independent board of journalists to oversee the newsrooms of CNN and CBS News to preserve editorial integrity and prevent consolidated corporate bias, Bonta said.

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I can see this going either way.


Define "journalist".

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 03:53 PM (Riz8t)

45 I can see this going either way.

Independent journalists board: James O'Keefe and Nick Shirley. Done and done.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 03:53 PM (2ocoG)

46
so Paramount is not moving now?
Posted by: polynikes

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Seems like that's not in the compromise. The legal conflict and accompanying threats were all about the takeover. That's been settled, but is anyone seeing anything about staying in California?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 03:54 PM (mmrXZ)

47 CNN -

You can how much the left relies on their propaganda outlets that they go to these lengths to protect them.

They really are terrified that if they lose control of the MSM that the entire project will fall apart.

They fear this like Merz fears AfD.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2026 03:54 PM (6ydKt)

48 They file suit on almost no legitimate legal theory and extort out a "settlement" that solely benefits just one of the states that sued--and not the general public of the whole United States?
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*confused attornies gen'l scratch heads*

But maintaining the status quo at CNN is in the entire country's best interests.

Posted by: Liberal Geniuses at September 21, 2026 03:54 PM (anL5R)

49 Yeah, I'm also curious about that "domestic" requirement. When did Ellison ever threaten to go overseas?

Like 90% of TV is filmed in either Vancouver or Toronto. Canada is technically a foreign country, even though it's mostly just Gay New York.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 03:55 PM (2ocoG)

50 garbage. deal needs to be rejected out of hand.

"They file suit on almost no legitimate legal theory and extort out a "settlement" that solely benefits just one of the states that sued--and not the general public of the whole United States?"

the story of commie lawfare in a nutshell. all that's missing is a "consent decree" and a fat check to the ngos.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 03:55 PM (VyBeY)

51 Who the hell does Ruffalo think is going to give him $12M (his reported salary for the last Spiderman movie) for a week or two of mo-cap work if not "oligarch billionaires?"

Posted by: Octochicken at September 21, 2026 03:55 PM (oCS0o)

52 Hollywood, L.A. at large and even West Hollywood and Beverly Hills is a dirty, graffitied, turd world kind of place. Demolition is the only solution.

Posted by: Cleansing Wildfire? at September 21, 2026 03:55 PM (Fn+3X)

53 Multiple reviews say, however, that it ends abruptly and that the climax is rushed.
_____

That's what she said.

Posted by: Too difficult to pass up at September 21, 2026 03:56 PM (Dv3i1)

54 48 *confused attornies gen'l scratch heads*

But maintaining the status quo at CNN is in the entire country's best interests.

Posted by: Liberal Geniuses at September 21, 2026 03:54 PM (anL5R)

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The left thinks CNN is some powerhouse that moves the nation, it seems.

I suspect the network's influence is....much less than that, and the left is living a fantasy.

The Democrat Party nearly nuked the economy of a one of the major cities in the union to save a network most people ignore in airports.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 03:56 PM (SvJcA)

55 New Silent Hill game comes out on the 23rd.
Looks interesting.

But, for the first time in decades, a new Castlevania comes out on October 14.
Castlevainia: Belmont's Curse
2d metroidvainia style.
I will buy.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 03:56 PM (3cUTc)

56 51 Who the hell does Ruffalo think is going to give him $12M (his reported salary for the last Spiderman movie) for a week or two of mo-cap work if not "oligarch billionaires?"

Posted by: Octochicken at September 21, 2026 03:55 PM (oCS0o)

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"I know I didn't really earn it, and it makes me feel really bad, but I won't give any of it away. So, to make myself feel better, I advocate for pure communisms instead."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 03:57 PM (SvJcA)

57 Bonta thought it was a good idea to fight Paramount, now he's completely destroyed his reputation and any goodwill he had from those still supporting him🤣 Fucking idiot 🤣🤣

Bonta will never sleep again after his mess. Now we need some popcorn for a documentary based on Bonta’s life and his downfall. Would be a great paramount/warner bros movie.

He could have still been a God. It was possible for California to hold the line until the ticking fees kicked in.
But the Ellisons were too clever.

This capitulation proves that we cannot rely on the willingness of business minded politicians, red or blue, to protect our country. We must protect it ourselves.

BUT BUT BUT CONCESSIONS!!! Bro, even I thought Bonta would be able to leverage a extraction of SOME structural remedies.

He didn't even do that.

What a absolute self own and PROOF it was never about stopping the merger and only about getting his name out there.

This man will never become governor.

It was always about CNN and CBS. Bonta won

Glad state tax payers were able to fund this donkey show by the AGs so they got an editorial review committee - great use of tax dollars 🤦‍♂️

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 21, 2026 03:57 PM (sMaFa)

58 Who the hell does Ruffalo think is going to give him $12M (his reported salary for the last Spiderman movie) for a week or two of mo-cap work if not "oligarch billionaires?"
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I heard on the grapevine that his is really really stupid. Like almost not functional intelligence. He probably has no idea how much money he got paid, or how much was taken in taxes, or even where it is now.

Posted by: HWN at September 21, 2026 03:57 PM (anL5R)

59 This deal literally is text book Fascism.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 03:45 PM (/TiS1)

Sure but probably difficult to enforce once Paramount gets their freedom and is in a free state.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 03:57 PM (uhVAy)

60 v
55 New Silent Hill game comes out on the 23rd.
Looks interesting.

But, for the first time in decades, a new Castlevania comes out on October 14.
Castlevainia: Belmont's Curse
2d metroidvainia style.
I will buy.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 03:56 PM (3cUTc)

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I really struggle with Metroivania as a genre.

I bought Hollow Knight and I've gotten a good way through it, but I just eventually hit a wall where I feel like there's no direction and I kind of lose interest.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 03:58 PM (SvJcA)

61 "We are disappointed and angry that the interests of average Americans have been trampled to benefit oligarch billionaires," the group said.
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Fucking Hollywood doesn't even want to make movies that the average Americans will go and see. Instead they want to waste millions of dollars on "message movies".

Stop the bullshit.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 03:58 PM (Fi81e)

62 But, is there a death watch for CNN yet?

Whatever else happens, I'd really like that particular shit show to die a horrible death with many, many unemployed.

*I just spent 3 hours mowing the property and my arthritis hates me, so I'm a bit pissed off*

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 21, 2026 03:58 PM (2Cry5)

63 I’ve heard tater eyes are poisonous.

Posted by: Eromero at September 21, 2026 03:58 PM (LHPAg)

64 The left thinks CNN is some powerhouse that moves the nation, it seems.

I suspect the network's influence is....much less than that, and the left is living a fantasy.

The Democrat Party nearly nuked the economy of a one of the major cities in the union to save a network most people ignore in airports.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 03:56 PM (SvJcA)

its no longer shown in airports from what I understand.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 03:59 PM (uhVAy)

65 The official statement from Hollywood: "Waaaaaaaa!!!"

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 03:59 PM (Fi81e)

66 I find the review by Critical Drinker more entertaining than most movies he reviews.

Now, I usually don't see the movie anyway, but........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 03:59 PM (ccf/V)

67 "this is all stupid communist agit-prop"

truest words ever said, and universally applicable besides!

or shorter version: "it's all an op"

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 03:59 PM (VyBeY)

68 or shorter version: "it's all an op"
Posted by: sock_rat_eez

But, is it gay?

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 21, 2026 04:01 PM (sMaFa)

69
Mark Ruffalo, a prominent opponent of the merger, weighed in on X earlier on Monday. "Gavin Newsom hands huge win to Trump and his billionaire cronies," he wrote, referring to the governor's involvement in reaching a settlement.


I am always amused at how the rich is very, very
concerned with the megarich.

Lil Marky you are worth millions, why don't you give half of that to charity you hypocrite? No one needs a billion dollars? Ok, but also no one needs 16 million either. Pay up buttercup

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 04:01 PM (sKqQm)

70 My big issue with the new Resident Evil movie is that if you're going to have it in the same universe but specifically not reference anything from the game...it better be pretty damn good or else you're not even going to have nostalgia or 'memberberries propping it up.

And from what I've seen and heard, this new RE movie is...meh. At least it's only 90min long.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 21, 2026 04:01 PM (oPFtC)

71 Anyone who didn't know Paramount was bluffing couldn't win a game of Go Fish.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 21, 2026 04:01 PM (bX16E)

72 Probably a terrible deal for stockholders, but who cares? At least it will keep their sorry Hollyweird asses out of the Great State of Tennesse. Hooray!

Posted by: Martin Tell at September 21, 2026 04:01 PM (6yK+O)

73 I didn't like Dune or Dune 2. I might actually like the David Lynch version more, but that might be too spicy a hot-take for me to commit to.

It looks nice.
It seems like the story was told better, and more thoroughly, than the Lynch version. But it just seemed dull and subdued the entire time.
Maybe that was the acting or direction, but it’s not a movie I feel like I’d want to sit through more than once as opposed to something like LOTR which is rewatchable despite the length.

I still like the 80s version of Dune more and maybe that’s just nostalgia talking.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2026 04:01 PM (6ydKt)

74 69
I am always amused at how the rich is very, very
concerned with the megarich.

Lil Marky you are worth millions, why don't you give half of that to charity you hypocrite? No one needs a billion dollars? Ok, but also no one needs 16 million either. Pay up buttercup

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 04:01 PM (sKqQm)

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He should give every penny and then rent out a house in Compton, giving his rental money to a poor, Hispanic mother who is barely keeping the mortgage afloat because of all the oligarchs stealing her money from her pocket every week.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 04:02 PM (SvJcA)

75 I heard on the grapevine that his is really really stupid. Like almost not functional intelligence. He probably has no idea how much money he got paid, or how much was taken in taxes, or even where it is now.
Posted by: HWN at September 21, 2026 03:57 PM (anL5R)

Hulk *dumbest* there is!

Posted by: Thrawn at September 21, 2026 04:02 PM (oPFtC)

76 I've noticed every recent show/movie I've gotten into is filmed somewhere outside of CA. Good going Newsom and co!

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 04:02 PM (sKqQm)

77 What's to stop them from making low budget shit movies just to hit the 30 movie release requirement?

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 21, 2026 04:02 PM (/OKHJ)

78 See the Communist News Network is suing President Trump for doing what they wanted the Auto-Pen administration to do to Fox

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 04:02 PM (Ia/+0)

79 So who gets their news from CNN or CBS?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 21, 2026 04:02 PM (LWsa7)

80 Dune 1 was excellent and Dune 2 sucked donkey dick . Of course just IMO.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 04:03 PM (KC5Lt)

81 I suspect within a few years most movies will just be AI scripts anyway.

You can make them anywhere with a good internet connection to a datacenter...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 04:03 PM (sKqQm)

82 I don't want to give Rand any credit, but I remember watching Atlas Shrugged Part I and thinking how much I didn't buy in to the scenario that now comes to mind when I think of all this hubbub over the Skydance thing.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 04:03 PM (Fi81e)

83 What's to stop them from making low budget shit movies just to hit the 30 movie release requirement?
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super-easy barely and inconvenience!!!

Posted by: pitch meeting at September 21, 2026 04:03 PM (anL5R)

84 76 I've noticed every recent show/movie I've gotten into is filmed somewhere outside of CA. Good going Newsom and co!

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 04:02 PM (sKqQm)

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LA has been dying as an industry town since the 90s when they started making "New York" movies in Toronto or "generic American city" movies in Vancouver.

It's just expanded ever since to studios in places like Austin or Atlanta.

It's really expensive to film in Los Angeles, and every production fights over tax incentives from the state government to bring the costs down.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 04:03 PM (SvJcA)

85 77 What's to stop them from making low budget shit movies just to hit the 30 movie release requirement?
Posted by: Mark1971

Why lose millions when we can lose.....billions?

Posted by: Dr. Evil, new Paramount CEO at September 21, 2026 04:03 PM (sMaFa)

86 Bonta will never sleep again after his mess. Now we need some popcorn for a documentary based on Bonta’s life and his downfall. Would be a great paramount/warner bros movie.

I'll settle for Drinker making him the focus of a "Crash and Burn" installment.

Posted by: Octochicken at September 21, 2026 04:04 PM (oCS0o)

87 Uh oh.

https://tinyurl.com/8uhf6z7b

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 04:04 PM (ndZc7)

88 ***Tapper claimed that Kayleigh McEnany lies like most people breathe and that she...
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Hate has no home, here.



Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 04:04 PM (iLKq8)

89 Release 30 I-Phone filmed movies .

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 04:04 PM (KC5Lt)

90 I really struggle with Metroivania as a genre.

I bought Hollow Knight and I've gotten a good way through it, but I just eventually hit a wall where I feel like there's no direction and I kind of lose interest.


I really enjoy the actual Metroid and Castlevania games (and the "just legally distinct enough" Bloodstained that IGA made after leaving Konami), but the other ones like Hollow Knight don't scratch the itch for me as well.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 04:04 PM (2ocoG)

91 82 I don't want to give Rand any credit, but I remember watching Atlas Shrugged Part I and thinking how much I didn't buy in to the scenario that now comes to mind when I think of all this hubbub over the Skydance thing.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 04:03 PM (Fi81e)

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Part 1 was solid. Part 2 was surprisingly good...it felt like a good thriller.

Part 3 was trash.

Also, Teller has a small cameo in the first one, I believe (might have been the second), where he actually speaks!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 04:04 PM (SvJcA)

92 83 What's to stop them from making low budget shit movies just to hit the 30 movie release requirement?
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super-easy barely and inconvenience!!!

Posted by: pitch meeting at September 21, 2026 04:03 PM (anL5R)

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In England, these were called quota quickies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 04:05 PM (SvJcA)

93 90 I really enjoy the actual Metroid and Castlevania games (and the "just legally distinct enough" Bloodstained that IGA made after leaving Konami), but the other ones like Hollow Knight don't scratch the itch for me as well.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 04:04 PM (2ocoG)

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I love the art and feel of Hollow Knight.

I just don't want to backtrack through all of these tunnels one more time.

Plus, it's a soulslike, so you die easy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 04:06 PM (SvJcA)

94 or release 30 AI movies and call it a day.
Just make sure the AI is in CA, which shouldn’t be hard.

It’s not very different than what Pixar does.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2026 04:06 PM (6ydKt)

95 I don't see anything that would prevent CNN from being sold for scrap

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2026 04:06 PM (taL2t)

96 Uh oh.

https://tinyurl.com/8uhf6z7b


Whenever I see Heather Cox I always thinks its Ana Marie Cox, the Washtionette leaker.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 04:06 PM (sKqQm)

97 35 Mark Ruffalo, a prominent [anti-American bitch]
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Why is he still here in this country?
Why has he not been deported?



Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 04:07 PM (iLKq8)

98 I don't want to give Rand any credit, but I remember watching Atlas Shrugged Part I and thinking how much I didn't buy in to the scenario that now comes to mind when I think of all this hubbub over the Skydance thing.

A lot of people have noted that Rand's seemingly over the top leftist villains actually understated the retardation of the actual left.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 04:07 PM (2ocoG)

99 Actually it looks like Butterball Powerbottom has lost some weight since 2020. Marginally less potato-ey.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 21, 2026 04:07 PM (PSEDc)

100 I’ve heard tater eyes are poisonous.
Posted by: Eromero at September 21, 2026 03:58 PM (LHPAg)

The sprouts are. Green parts are. Green parts of the potato itself are.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 04:07 PM (uhVAy)

101 98 I don't want to give Rand any credit, but I remember watching Atlas Shrugged Part I and thinking how much I didn't buy in to the scenario that now comes to mind when I think of all this hubbub over the Skydance thing.

A lot of people have noted that Rand's seemingly over the top leftist villains actually understated the retardation of the actual left.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 04:07 PM (2ocoG)

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She saw the world well. She just couldn't write convincing characters or a short speech to save her life.

And her views on sex were weird.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 04:08 PM (SvJcA)

102 I am still amused the people ranting about the Trump admin lying don't want to discuss their claims that COVID came from a wet market or that the clot shot stops the spread of COVID...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 04:08 PM (sKqQm)

103 Watch an independent council of journalists ride CNN all the way into the ground.

Then I wonder if Paramount will be contractually required to pump lifeblood into a coma patient.

It's just a call that an ideologically locked outlet has to firm up the ideological lock. Which, to me, flags just one more level of ideological paralysis.

I just don't know why Paramount is legally required to fund it.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 04:08 PM (Fi81e)

104 Mark Ruffalo, a prominent [anti-American bitch]
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Why is he still here in this country?
Why has he not been deported?
==
He serves as a cautionary tale to others who would allow their children to eat paint chips.

Posted by: Serious Voice Over Guy at September 21, 2026 04:08 PM (anL5R)

105 I am still amused the people ranting about the Trump admin lying don't want to discuss their claims that COVID came from a wet market or that the clot shot stops the spread of COVID...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 04:08 PM (sKqQm)
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They have moved on from that---gaah!!--can't you give it a rest?!!

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 04:09 PM (Fi81e)

106 What's to stop them from making low budget shit movies just to hit the 30 movie release requirement?

As with "independent journalists", the devil is in the details of how you define these things. I suspect the AG knew he had already lost, so accepted the terms knowing that Paramount would simply make a mockery of them in the short to medium term. He's just trying to extricate himself from a box of his own making, because he's an idiot.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 04:09 PM (Riz8t)

107 Yeah it was always just about CNN, which I suspect Ellison will sell off soon anyway. What confuses me is why the left is so absolutely desperate to keep CNN protected and leftist. They get 400k viewers at a time, they barely are affecting public opinion at all.

This "walkout" the press is doing will only show how little impact they have and how few people actually consume their crap.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 04:09 PM (KyEAU)

108 Green parts of the potato itself are.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 04:07 PM (uhVAy)


Solanine. Or solonine. It's a neurotoxin!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 21, 2026 04:10 PM (k5CNB)

109 I didn't like Dune or Dune 2. I might actually like the David Lynch version more, but that might be too spicy a hot-take for me to commit to.

That's how I see it more or less.

Lynch's Dune sucks, but it entertains.
New Dune just sucks.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 21, 2026 04:10 PM (ca8Qt)

110 88 ***Tapper claimed that Kayleigh McEnany lies like most people breathe and that she...
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Tapper has no self-awareness at all. That punk bitch can't back up his claim while all I have to do is copy ace's archive of Tapper posts to embarrass him about what a lying douchebag he is.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 04:10 PM (KC5Lt)

111 Truth Social:

While in New York City, I’m on the way to one of my favorite places in the World, Gracie Mansion. I spent lots of hours there over the years, with some great Mayors, some average Mayors, and some bad Mayors. It will be interesting to see how it looks now, invited by Mayor Mamdani. Look forward to it. MAKE NEW YORK CITY GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 04:10 PM (hGTKn)

112 What's to stop them from making low budget shit movies just to hit the 30 movie release requirement?

My guess is we'll see a regular ocean of low budget horror and romance stuff. Which is good, theaters need that stuff. The fixation on blockbusters has basically destroyed the entire system.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 04:10 PM (KyEAU)

113
oligarch billionaires

First it was billionaires. The it was oligarchs.
Now it's oligarch billionaires.
Waiting for billionaire oligarchs.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 21, 2026 04:11 PM (Cqx++)

114 Mark Ruffalo, a prominent [anti-American bitch]
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Why is he still here in this country?
Why has he not been deported?


Just as a guess, I'd say because he's an American citizen, born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on November 22, 1967.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 04:11 PM (Riz8t)

115 Watch an independent council of journalists ride CNN all the way into the ground.

Then I wonder if Paramount will be contractually required to pump lifeblood into a coma patient.

It's just a call that an ideologically locked outlet has to firm up the ideological lock. Which, to me, flags just one more level of ideological paralysis.

I just don't know why Paramount is legally required to fund it.
Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 04:08 PM (Fi81e)

Sure, but they could just put it into a new division outside of CA, and resist the panel and start showing them on the web or something and evade all the agreements and expenses. TV media is dead, too much dead weight and expense.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 04:11 PM (uhVAy)

116 @61- "Stop the bullshit."

Hey, we are talking about lawyers and politicians here, there is no stopping the bullshit.

Posted by: Case at September 21, 2026 04:11 PM (xJpuh)

117 She saw the world well. She just couldn't write convincing characters or a short speech to save her life.

And her views on sex were weird.


TBH I suspect "weird" sex views are more common that people realize.

Any time I go on the left side of the internet I'm bombard by people in polycules, that have "open" relationships, or think it is nifty to cut your sex organs off.

And to be fair you've got Seven of Nine's husband wanting to show her off in a sex club or whatever the hell Eric Greitens was doing on the other side.

In the old days there was pressure to not let people know whatever odd stuff you were into and that's mostly gone now.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 04:11 PM (sKqQm)

118 Green parts of the potato itself are.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 04:07 PM (uhVAy)

Solanine. Or solonine. It's a neurotoxin!
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Much like my man juice. Which is also green.

Posted by: Stelter - Love Machine at September 21, 2026 04:11 PM (anL5R)

119 This shit makes Mahomet blush.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 21, 2026 04:11 PM (N/kIV)

120 Leftists live in a indoctrinated bubble

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 04:12 PM (Ia/+0)

121 This headline may explain why the AGs abruptly settled:

Bloomberg-Backed Climate Group Paying Salaries of Democratic State AG Officials Quietly Shuts Down Amid Congressional, Legal Scrutiny

https://tinyurl.com/3sz6w32x

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 04:12 PM (2ocoG)

122 I’m cleaning the cat boxes and had to sit down awhile, there’s a Star Trek on and it’s ghey as heck.

Posted by: Eromero at September 21, 2026 04:12 PM (LHPAg)

123 112 What's to stop them from making low budget shit movies just to hit the 30 movie release requirement?

My guess is we'll see a regular ocean of low budget horror and romance stuff. Which is good, theaters need that stuff. The fixation on blockbusters has basically destroyed the entire system.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 04:10 PM (KyEAU)

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Eh, the problem is that Ellison is obsessed with blockbusters.

SkyDance almost exclusively funds huge productions that get shoved to streaming with no impact.

Like Fountain of Youth starring John Krasinski, Natalie Portman, and directed by Guy Ritchie. Never heard of it?

Not a surprise.

But Ellison did fund it with about $175 million in Skydance money.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 04:12 PM (SvJcA)

124 It’s uncanny how much Ayn Rand got right.

The Dems may not be fighting over steel and railroads but they certainly do over every other thing through hoaxes and moral panics followed by politicians and bureaucrats to the rescue.

Ayn probably would’ve been impressed by the sheer audacity of the Climate Cult and what the left has managed to do by pushing that lie.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2026 04:12 PM (6ydKt)

125 What's to stop them from making low budget shit movies just to hit the 30 movie release requirement?

My guess is we'll see a regular ocean of low budget horror and romance stuff. Which is good, theaters need that stuff. The fixation on blockbusters has basically destroyed the entire system.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 04:10 PM (KyEAU)

Can't be more shit than what hollywood produces for 300 mil per movie.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 04:12 PM (uhVAy)

126 I didn't like Dune or Dune 2. I might actually like the David Lynch version more, but that might be too spicy a hot-take for me to commit to.

That's how I see it more or less.

Lynch's Dune sucks, but it entertains.
New Dune just sucks.


I guess I'm in the minority, but I really liked both new Dunes.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 04:12 PM (Riz8t)

127 Much like my man juice. Which is also green.
Posted by: Stelter - Love Machine at September 21, 2026 04:11 PM (anL5R)

So was my mammary juice that Luke Skywalker used to sustain himself on Exile Planet.

Posted by: TLJ Alien at September 21, 2026 04:13 PM (oPFtC)

128 At this point, they're just rubbing our noses in it.

Posted by: Beverly at September 21, 2026 04:13 PM (reMys)

129 I like the new Dune movies with two exceptions:

1) The Paul actor doesn't look the part too...effeminate. He can act fine but even Kyle MacLachlan looked more the part though his acting was...uh...not his best.

2) The girl playing Chani in the newer movies doesn't look the part and can't act. I pretend they just didn't cast that role and the movie becomes much better.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 04:14 PM (sKqQm)

130 It's amusing hearing leftists, who have insisted for years theres no bias in the media, howl like monkeys when they think they are going to lose control over the media.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 04:14 PM (viF8m)

131 At this point, they're just rubbing our noses in it.
Posted by: Beverly at September 21, 2026 04:13 PM (reMys)

In what? The more cancer they keep in CNN the better. Let them have ownership that hates them and cuts their support as much as they can.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 04:15 PM (uhVAy)

132 Like Fountain of Youth starring John Krasinski, Natalie Portman,
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How could anyone resist star power like that?

Posted by: Studio Executive at September 21, 2026 04:15 PM (anL5R)

133
Uh oh.

https://tinyurl.com/8uhf6z7b
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 04:04 PM (ndZc7)


Leads to:
The Media Begins to Turn
Against Trump
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
TODAY AT 5:35PM

Would have made sense with a dateline in 2015, just after Trump came down the golden escalator and declared his first run for the presidency as a Republican.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 21, 2026 04:15 PM (LWsa7)

134 2) The girl playing Chani in the newer movies doesn't look the part and can't act. I pretend they just didn't cast that role and the movie becomes much better.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 04:14 PM (sKqQm)

I think that's Zendaya, who is everywhere for some bizarre reason. There must be a bet between some Hollyweirdo bigwigs to see how long they can maintain her "stardom".

Posted by: TLJ Alien at September 21, 2026 04:15 PM (oPFtC)

135 But we are real news, Mr. President.....

Posted by: CNN at September 21, 2026 04:15 PM (OT3gL)

136 It's amusing hearing leftists, who have insisted for years theres no bias in the media, howl like monkeys when they think they are going to lose control over the media.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 04:14 PM (viF8m)
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Well, there *is* no bias in the media, but you're going to put it in. And they want to keep America from being lied to (because they think it's lies).

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 04:15 PM (Fi81e)

137

Spencer Pratt
@spencerpratt
·
1h
The idea that you could have some commie writer just spew out nothing but insane woke gobbledygook and you’re forced to pay them in full for 5 years and you can’t rid of them for any reason no matter how bad they get?
Unreal.


Todd Spangler
@xpangler
·
1h
Under WGA's settlement with Paramount, the company has agreed to not lay off any writers at CBS News Broadcast for 5 years

Posted by: beckster at September 21, 2026 04:15 PM (kX27y)

138 I guess I'm in the minority, but I really liked both new Dunes.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 04:12 PM (Riz8t)

But what are your thoughts on Prometheus?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2026 04:15 PM (6ydKt)

139
What confuses me is why the left is so absolutely desperate to keep CNN protected and leftist. They get 400k viewers at a time, they barely are affecting public opinion at all.

Prestige

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 21, 2026 04:15 PM (Cqx++)

140 Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 04:11 PM (sKqQm)

Wonder Woman was created out of the creator's sexual perversions.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 04:15 PM (KC5Lt)

141 Natalie Portman can act. She just usually doesn't bother.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 04:16 PM (sKqQm)

142 126
I guess I'm in the minority, but I really liked both new Dunes.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 04:12 PM (Riz8t)

========

Their IMDB rankings are 8.0 and 8.4, respectively.

Their audience scores on RT are 90% and 95%, respectively.

Their LetterboxD scores are 3.9 and 4.4, respectively.

Most people like them a lot.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 04:16 PM (SvJcA)

143 What does Paramount/Skydance get out of this "deal?"

Sounds like Hollywood/CA is just going to make Paramount their bitch for the foreseeable future.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2026 04:16 PM (FZ29D)

144
Saw "Resident Evil"...

Very fun horror movie. and yes, the movie is kind of shot with the idea that it's a single player running through a sandbox game.

Starts small and builds to a nice climax. Which may feel rushed, because there is a slight chance that it could lead into an RE2 sequel.

I don't think it's actually rushed though as it hits the peak of absolute horror for the movie and then ends, which is fine in my book..

Very well directed. Easy dialogue scripting as the main character mainly just says "Fuck" fifty million times. Good acting throughout.

Some humor, nice horror.

Not as good as "Weapons" because the story isn't particularly deep. It's a thrill ride.

Good time at the movies. Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 04:17 PM (iJfKG)

145 Impeach!

JD Vance slips, calls Democrats the "Fart Left"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 04:17 PM (ndZc7)

146 1h
Under WGA's settlement with Paramount, the company has agreed to not lay off any writers at CBS News Broadcast for 5 years
Posted by: beckster at September 21, 2026 04:15 PM (kX27y)

Nothing says they have to give them any assignments in those 5 years. Or just in the hot new Greenland bureau on the glacier.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 04:17 PM (uhVAy)

147 Eh, the problem is that Ellison is obsessed with blockbusters.

Yeah I think he'll have his pet projects, but the studios cannot put out 30 of those a year. My guess is that they will have one department that puts out the bulk of their requirements and then Ellison's dream projects.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 04:17 PM (KyEAU)

148 132 Like Fountain of Youth starring John Krasinski, Natalie Portman,
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How could anyone resist star power like that?

Posted by: Studio Executive at September 21, 2026 04:15 PM (anL5R)

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Star power is a myth.

It had some purchase in the tightly controlled studio era, and we occasionally get a real movie star once a generation or so (will Smith in the late 90s/early 00s, Tom Cruise in the 2010s, early 2020s, but that's probably over now).

But most stars are just recognizable actors that no one actually buys tickets to movies to see specifically.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 04:17 PM (SvJcA)

149 Natalie Portman can act. She just usually doesn't bother.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 04:16 PM (sKqQm

I can't watch The Professional anymore since I can't unsee Pedo film once someone pointed it out.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 04:17 PM (KC5Lt)

150 Wonder Woman was created out of the creator's sexual perversions.

I was raised on the Linda Carter Wonderwoman and Superfriends.

And then when I read some of the original wonderwoman comics it was, uh, rather different.

Rather then fighting Cheetah over whatever the McGuffin of the day was or stopping mobsters, original Wonderwoman seemed to spend her time either tying up other amazonians and spanking them or vice versa....

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 04:17 PM (sKqQm)

151
The Frog's version of Dune is gorgeous to look at, and has a few scenes that are legit awesome, like pretty much every scene with Khal Drogo, and when the heroic bagpipe music kicks in during the frontal charge scene with the sunburned anus guy Brolin leading (despite the charge being tactically stupid, and Gurney Halleck going into battle without his Combat Pug like Patrick Stewart).

But yeah, there's so much about it that sucks camel anus. Not the least of which is the total scrubbing of the word "jihad".

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 21, 2026 04:18 PM (y9nCu)

152 I liked Zendaya in the Spider-Man movies.
She can play the smart & fun teenage girl pretty well.

But I’m not sure her acting ability can carry her much beyond that. Although she might be good in the Euphoria show where she plats an addict, I don’t watch it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2026 04:18 PM (6ydKt)

153 What does Paramount/Skydance get out of this "deal?"

Sounds like Hollywood/CA is just going to make Paramount their bitch for the foreseeable future.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2026 04:16 PM (FZ29D)

They get out of CA. The rest can be managed.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 04:18 PM (uhVAy)

154
Star power is a myth.

It had some purchase in the tightly controlled studio era, and we occasionally get a real movie star once a generation or so (will Smith in the late 90s/early 00s, Tom Cruise in the 2010s, early 2020s, but that's probably over now).


I watched 28 Years Later The Bone Temple solely because Ralph Fiennes was in it.

This was a mistake.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 04:18 PM (sKqQm)

155 Like Fountain of Youth starring John Krasinski, Natalie Portman, and directed by Guy Ritchie. Never heard of it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 04:12 PM (SvJcA)
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I saw it. But I'd watching anything Guy Ritchie.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 04:19 PM (Fi81e)

156 Under WGA's settlement with Paramount, the company has agreed to not lay off any writers at CBS News Broadcast for 5 years
Posted by: beckster at September 21, 2026 04:15 PM (kX27y)

Nothing says they have to give them any assignments in those 5 years. Or just in the hot new Greenland bureau on the glacier.


I foresee a series of probing, in-depth stories on the Indian (dot) sewage system.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 04:19 PM (Riz8t)

157 I think that's Zendaya, who is everywhere for some bizarre reason. There must be a bet between some Hollyweirdo bigwigs to see how long they can maintain her "stardom".

the problem is that she has been in multiple massively lucrative movies. She's been in five movies that earned a billion or more, and many that made close.

Was she why? Oh no, not even close. You could swap her out for pretty much anyone and get that much. But that's not how Hollywood sees things.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 04:19 PM (KyEAU)

158 I guess I'm in the minority, but I really liked both new Dunes.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 04:12 PM (Riz8t)

========

Their IMDB rankings are 8.0 and 8.4, respectively.

Their audience scores on RT are 90% and 95%, respectively.

Their LetterboxD scores are 3.9 and 4.4, respectively.

Most people like them a lot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 04:16 PM (SvJcA)


I like both Dunes.

Not sure about the upcoming 3rd one though as it makes it look like a big showdown between the main character and his "wife", which i don't remember being any part of the books I read.

so, it may turn into a girl boss movie which would be a shame.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 04:19 PM (iJfKG)

159 ynch's Dune sucks, but it entertains.
New Dune just sucks.

I guess I'm in the minority, but I really liked both new Dunes.
--
I saw the Lynch one - the edited one not the uncut one - and it was okay but man did it jump and skip - understandably. I did see Dune part 1 and thought it pretty good. I liked the part with the attack on Arrakkis and the way they handled the attempt on Harkkonen's life - nice. I thought Dune 1 did a nice job on other elements of the book. Haven't seen Dune 2 yet.

Posted by: Studio Executive at September 21, 2026 04:19 PM (anL5R)

160 Eh, the problem is that Ellison is obsessed with blockbusters.


There's nothing left to make into a blockbuster.
Anything anyone makes "offends" everyone else.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 04:19 PM (hGTKn)

161 JD Vance slips, calls Democrats the "Fart Left"

If called on it, he just needs to mention Eric Swalwell.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 04:20 PM (2ocoG)

162 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 04:17 PM (SvJcA)

I will give a movie a chance if it has Sam Rockwell, Keanu Reeves or Mathew McConnaughey.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 04:20 PM (KC5Lt)

163 Natalie Portman can act. She just usually doesn't bother.

She is really quite good when she tries, but usually you get her Star Wars effort in which she shows up and reads lines.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 04:20 PM (KyEAU)

164 Can't be more shit than what hollywood produces for 300 mil per movie.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 04:12 PM (uhVAy)


Where is Roger Corman when we need him? I know he’s dead, but couldn’t he come back as a zombie?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 21, 2026 04:20 PM (LWsa7)

165 Natalie Portman can act. She just usually doesn't bother.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 04:16 PM (sKqQm)

She didn't laugh in that Star Wars "Sand" love duet. That's Academy Award stuff.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 04:20 PM (uhVAy)

166 154 I watched 28 Years Later The Bone Temple solely because Ralph Fiennes was in it.

This was a mistake.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 04:18 PM (sKqQm)

=======

It should be noted that that movie did not do well at the box office.

Because Ralph Fiennes is not a movie star. He's a recognizable actor.

The number of people who buy tickets to see just him are vanishingly small. You don't pay him millions of dollar (no public info on his pay, but I would imagine at least $5 million or so) to have people not show up.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 04:20 PM (SvJcA)

167 155 Like Fountain of Youth starring John Krasinski, Natalie Portman, and directed by Guy Ritchie. Never heard of it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 04:12 PM (SvJcA)
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I saw it. But I'd watching anything Guy Ritchie.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 04:19 PM (Fi81e)

========

I didn't know it existed until well after its released. And I watched it.

And I think it might be one of Ritchie's worst films. Just, bland.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 04:21 PM (SvJcA)

168 It looks nice.
It seems like the story was told better, and more thoroughly, than the Lynch version. But it just seemed dull and subdued the entire time.
Maybe that was the acting or direction, but it’s not a movie I feel like I’d want to sit through more than once as opposed to something like LOTR which is rewatchable despite the length.

I still like the 80s version of Dune more and maybe that’s just nostalgia talking.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2026 04:01 PM (6ydKt)
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Dune really isn't an "action" franchise. This is why the movies focus on spectacle rather than plot.

The books are mostly people sitting around chatting about how awful prescience is.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2026 04:21 PM (FZ29D)

169 I think that's Zendaya, who is everywhere for some bizarre reason. There must be a bet between some Hollyweirdo bigwigs to see how long they can maintain her "stardom".
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There is probably a dollar bet riding on it.

Posted by: DYSWIDT? at September 21, 2026 04:21 PM (anL5R)

170 Speaking of Sam Rockwell I can't believe Rotten Tomatoes gives Mr Right such a low rating. It's 90% for me.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 04:21 PM (KC5Lt)

171 Reclaiming my time!!

Posted by: Maxine at September 21, 2026 04:21 PM (Fi81e)

172 Additionally, Paramount agreed to establish an independent board of journalists to oversee the newsrooms of CNN and CBS News to preserve editorial integrity and prevent consolidated corporate bias, Bonta said.
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No teeth. An independent board of journalists can whine all they want, but I doubt that Bari Weiss is going to give a shit what they advise.

What's amusing is that editorial integrity and consolidated corporate bias is the agenda, and this board is supposed to oppose it. Limbaugh started the trend of doing a MONTAGE!!! of different media outlets not only holding the same coporate opinion, BUT using the exact same words and phrases to promote it.

The boad of journalists is a paper tiger with no purpose other than a few lucky unemployed journalists getting to take a break from their newly failing podcasts. That's all.

Posted by: Orson at September 21, 2026 04:22 PM (dIske)

173 Oh and Mel Gibson. I always give his movies a chance.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 04:22 PM (KC5Lt)

174 Speaking of Sam Rockwell I can't believe Rotten Tomatoes gives Mr Right such a low rating. It's 90% for me.
Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 04:21 PM (KC5Lt)

Rotten T has been a captured organization for a long time.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 04:23 PM (uhVAy)

175 In fairness to Portman, she was being directed by George Lucas and delivering dialogue written by him.

Posted by: Open Channel D at September 21, 2026 04:23 PM (LuSSV)

176 She is really quite good when she tries, but usually you get her Star Wars effort in which she shows up and reads lines.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 04:20 PM (KyEAU)
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This too, is the story of Sam Jackson.

Posted by: Maxine at September 21, 2026 04:23 PM (Fi81e)

177 Zendaya almost certainly made it big because she was willing to do whatever it took to get those first big rules and by whatever I mean a bunch of producers and directors.

And she was smart in picking the roles she got in return and as someone else pointed out she was in a bunch of $$$ movies.

So sort of like how Taylor Swift has limited singing talents but know business, Zandaya can't act really at all but she knows how to get the roles that will line her up for the future...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 04:24 PM (sKqQm)

178 She is really quite good when she tries, but usually you get her Star Wars effort in which she shows up and reads lines.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 04:20 PM (KyEAU)

"So, this is how democracy dies...with thunderous applause".

I laughed at that line. Wait, I wasn't supposed to?

Posted by: Thrawn at September 21, 2026 04:24 PM (oPFtC)

179 What's interesting about the "independent boards" to oversee CBS and CNN is that, first, there is no prohibition against the same management managing both news operations, no requirement they be housed separately, and no penalty if the "independent board" is ignored.

To me, this looks like California caved, big time. The only thing they got is a guarantee LA will keep the Paramount HQ and, even there, the state got no assurance the company will not move all jobs except maybe a few symbolic C suite titles to Nashville.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 21, 2026 04:24 PM (N3b7w)

180 A lot of people have noted that Rand's seemingly over the top leftist villains actually understated the retardation of the actual left.

Posted by: Ian S.

And yet, they continue to win. Shows how powerful the message of "vote for me and I'll take shit from the top 10% and give it to the bottom 90%".

Posted by: Moron Analyst at September 21, 2026 04:24 PM (sMaFa)

181 The boad of journalists is a paper tiger with no purpose other than a few lucky unemployed journalists getting to take a break from their newly failing podcasts. That's all.
Posted by: Orson at September 21, 2026 04:22 PM (dIske)

That might be a fun trick - put the people they want to get rid of on the board. Have like a hundred and fifty of them on Zoom calls every other day.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 04:24 PM (uhVAy)

182 Oh and Mel Gibson. I always give his movies a chance.
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Yeah, he's no namby pamby story teller.

You seen dragged across concrete?

Posted by: DYSWIDT? at September 21, 2026 04:24 PM (anL5R)

183 In fairness to Portman, she was being directed by George Lucas and delivering dialogue written by him.

Posted by: Open Channel D at September 21, 2026 04:23 PM (LuSSV)
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"You can write this crap, George--but you sure the hell can't say it!" -- Harrison Ford

Posted by: Maxine at September 21, 2026 04:24 PM (Fi81e)

184 You seen dragged across concrete?
Posted by: DYSWIDT? at September 21, 2026 04:24 PM (anL5R)

Yes. Very good but I like Get the Gringo and Blood Father much more.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 04:25 PM (KC5Lt)

185 A lot of people have noted that Rand's seemingly over the top leftist villains actually understated the retardation of the actual left.

See also Bond villains.

18-1 decades ago: This is stupid no one would announce their evil organization's plans and dress like a Sci Fi wierdo

18-1 when first seeing Klaus Schwab: WHAT THE HELL? Ian Fleming undersold this stuff

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 04:26 PM (sKqQm)

186 BBC Breaking News
@BBCBreaking
Flights delayed at major US airports after workers accidentally cut fibre cable - follow live
. . . .
Federal Aviation Administration official Bryan Bedford says the issue is related to a system that guides planes during take-off and landing

He says a crucial cable was damaged by construction crews in New Jersey, and it will take 13 hours to repair: ‘Somebody dug it up'

Ground stops have been ordered in New Jersey, while New York City, Boston and Philadelphia are experiencing disruption

The major east coast disruption comes ahead of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on Tuesday

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 04:26 PM (ndZc7)

187 Yes. Very good but I like Get the Gringo and Blood Father much more.
Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 04:25 PM (KC5Lt)

Yes.. Get the Gringo is one of my favorites.. Pretty gritty..

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 04:26 PM (+gK6I)

188 I think Samuel L Jackson did his loud foul mouthed angry guy role so many times he forgot out to do anything else.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 04:26 PM (KyEAU)

189 See the Communist News Network is suing President Trump for doing what they wanted the Auto-Pen administration to do to Fox

In 2009 the Obama did all of those things to Fox.

Obama lying about it now as if his team never did such a thing is typical Obama.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 04:26 PM (9s47C)

190 175 In fairness to Portman, she was being directed by George Lucas and delivering dialogue written by him.
Posted by: Open Channel D

I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.

Posted by: George Lucas writes unforgettable lines at September 21, 2026 04:26 PM (sMaFa)

191 And yet, they continue to win. Shows how powerful the message of "vote for me and I'll take shit from the top 10% and give it to the bottom 90%".

A non-trivial percentage of the voting public vote solely on who they think will give them more money

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 04:27 PM (sKqQm)

192 I haven't see Blood Father. I also liked Gringo.
Concrete is pretty freakin dark.

Did you see the dark Santa he did?

Posted by: Yeah, he is amusing himself at September 21, 2026 04:27 PM (anL5R)

193 Zendaya is in some Netflix series about Special Ops girl boss. No idea what the series is called.

She got nekkid for a shower scene. Backside looked pretty good.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 04:27 PM (BAWkL)

194 This all seems to assume that money losing CNN stays in business. I think that is a poor assumption.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 21, 2026 04:27 PM (+yqga)

195 One movie I am really looking forward to is the Templars defense of Malta. Such an epic story and very appropriate for now.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 04:27 PM (KyEAU)

196
To me, this looks like California caved, big time. The only thing they got is a guarantee LA will keep the Paramount HQ and, even there, the state got no assurance the company will not move all jobs except maybe a few symbolic C suite titles to Nashville.


As I said in #106, they know they lost bigly. Now it's just a matter of pretending they didn't so as to fool their idiot supporters.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 04:27 PM (Riz8t)

197 Ground stops have been ordered in New Jersey, while New York City, Boston and Philadelphia are experiencing disruption

The major east coast disruption comes ahead of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on Tuesday
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 04:26 PM (ndZc7)
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It's an op.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 21, 2026 04:27 PM (N3b7w)

198 18-1 when first seeing Klaus Schwab: WHAT THE HELL? Ian Fleming undersold this stuff

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 04:26 PM (sKqQm)
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Also Tony Fraudci is a Bond villain. There's a rumor he was looking for a residential volcano.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 04:28 PM (Fi81e)

199 I think Samuel L Jackson did his loud foul mouthed angry guy role so many times he forgot out to do anything else.

M-F is to Samuel Jackson as screaming is to Sam Kinison.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 04:28 PM (9s47C)

200 Federal Aviation Administration official Bryan Bedford says the issue is related to a system that guides planes during take-off and landing

He says a crucial cable was damaged by construction crews in New Jersey, and it will take 13 hours to repair: ‘Somebody dug it up'

Ground stops have been ordered in New Jersey, while New York City, Boston and Philadelphia are experiencing disruption

The major east coast disruption comes ahead of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on Tuesday
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 04:26 PM (ndZc7)

Wasn't this the plot of Die Hard 2, where the dood heading up Section 31 had a team disable the airport where their drug lord (but anti-commie) general was coming in?

Posted by: Thrawn at September 21, 2026 04:28 PM (oPFtC)

201 Zendaya is in some Netflix series about Special Ops girl boss. No idea what the series is called.

Every time she's been a headliner for a movie its earned about as much as my book sales, and people say "eh, she was pretty good."

The problem is that she comes across as sneering and contemptuous, its hard to like.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 04:28 PM (KyEAU)

202 She got nekkid for a shower scene. Backside looked pretty good.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 04:27 PM (BAWkL)

Poo-poo comes out of those though!

Posted by: Thrawn at September 21, 2026 04:29 PM (oPFtC)

203 As I said in #106, they know they lost bigly. Now it's just a matter of pretending they didn't so as to fool their idiot supporters.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 04:27
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I should have read deeper into the thread! Glad we agree.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 21, 2026 04:29 PM (svKyi)

204 Did you see the dark Santa he did?

Posted by: Yeah, he is amusing himself at September 21, 2026 04:27 PM (anL5R)
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I was going to mention that one.

With Walton Goggins.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 04:29 PM (Fi81e)

205 Heard kn local radio Philadelphia and Newark were involved in ghis shutdown

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 04:29 PM (Ia/+0)

206 The “Fart Left”: I don’t know, it could get some traction.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 21, 2026 04:29 PM (LWsa7)

207 >>>Why on earth does Mark Ruffalo warrant coverage of his opinions? It's like asking "But what does PeeWee Herman think?" about quantum electrodynamics.

Posted by: Archimedes

>Mark wouldn't have made it past 10th grade in my high school. He would have been severely beaten and suspended by his jock strap in an atomic wedgie from the basketball hoop.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 21, 2026 04:29 PM (5C90x)

208 Did you see the dark Santa he did?

Posted by: Yeah, he is amusing himself at September 21, 2026 04:27 PM (anL5R)
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I was going to mention that one.

With Walton Goggins.
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Now that's a Christmas movie!

Posted by: Bruce Willis at September 21, 2026 04:30 PM (anL5R)

209 Mark wouldn't have made it past 10th grade in my high school. He would have been severely beaten and suspended by his jock strap in an atomic wedgie from the basketball hoop.

It is useful to remember that all these guys were the drama kid weirdos on school, the people you laughed at and kept to themselves writing in their diary about awful everyone is.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 04:30 PM (KyEAU)

210 Zendaya is in some Netflix series about Special Ops girl boss. No idea what the series is called.

Every time she's been a headliner for a movie its earned about as much as my book sales, and people say "eh, she was pretty good."

The problem is that she comes across as sneering and contemptuous, its hard to like.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 04:28 PM (KyEAU)

She's one of the few women that are allowed to be kinda pretty. All women characters look to be sneering and contemptuous, so that doesn't hold her back.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 04:30 PM (uhVAy)

211 Ruffalo got his big break from a movie he was in with Jennifer Garner.

She was good in it, he was, well, there.

13 going on 30 I think was the title?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 04:30 PM (sKqQm)

212 Posted by: Yeah, he is amusing himself at September 21, 2026 04:27 PM (anL5R)

Concrete was done by the same guy who did BoneTomahawk and Brawl in Cellblock 99.

Loved Brawl in Cellblock 99.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 04:31 PM (KC5Lt)

213 And yet, they continue to win. Shows how powerful the message of "vote for me and I'll take shit from the top 10% and give it to the bottom 90%".

And now you see the pathology of universal suffrage in that it is a one-way ratchet of spending because purchasing votes is the only way to stay in power—it will never again be on policy because we are not a monoculture.

All societies that engage in universal suffrage eventually crash.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 04:31 PM (rgGn5)

214 Mark wouldn't have made it past 10th grade in my high school. He would have been severely beaten and suspended by his jock strap in an atomic wedgie from the basketball hoop.

It is useful to remember that all these guys were the drama kid weirdos on school, the people you laughed at and kept to themselves writing in their diary about awful everyone is.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 04:30 PM (KyEAU)

Even the nerds mocked them.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 04:31 PM (uhVAy)

215 Say what again!

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 04:31 PM (viF8m)

216
Speaking of Guy Ritchie and Netflix...

His "The Gentlemen" series is very entertaining.

Lots of fun to watch and chock-full of Guy ritchie goodness.

Very much worth your while to checkout.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 04:31 PM (iJfKG)

217 Wasn't this the plot of Die Hard 2

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Fly Hard

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 04:31 PM (ndZc7)

218 The “Fart Left”: I don’t know, it could get some traction.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 21, 2026 04:29 PM (LWsa7)
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Or in that general direction.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 04:32 PM (Fi81e)

219 And yet, they continue to win. Shows how powerful the message of "vote for me and I'll take shit from the top 10% and give it to the bottom 90%".

And now you see the pathology of universal suffrage in that it is a one-way ratchet of spending because purchasing votes is the only way to stay in power—it will never again be on policy because we are not a monoculture.

All societies that engage in universal suffrage eventually crash.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 04:31 PM (rgGn5)

De Toqueville noted that in what, 1850 or something?

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 04:32 PM (uhVAy)

220 Someone said that Zendaya 's acting range involves different kinds of scowling

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2026 04:32 PM (taL2t)

221 I thought the ground stop was because of the "Nor'Easter" forecast later this week.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 21, 2026 04:32 PM (88C+u)

222 Independent board of commissars more like.

Posted by: Defenestratus at September 21, 2026 04:33 PM (WYStd)

223 "78 See the Communist News Network is suing President Trump for doing what they wanted the Auto-Pen administration to do to Fox

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 04:02 PM (Ia/+0) "

admirably succinct summation. yup.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 04:33 PM (VyBeY)

224 the drama kid effect is very evident in movie writing as well. Every jock I knew in school was a good guy, there were none of the douchebags who bullied everyone and were retards. I am sure some are out there but most of them were nice dudes.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 04:33 PM (KyEAU)

225 People who hit “reply all” need to be shot.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 21, 2026 04:33 PM (4G+hB)

226
Bonta will never sleep again after his mess. Now we need some popcorn for a documentary based on Bonta’s life and his downfall. Would be a great paramount/warner bros movie.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

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BS, he'll come out preening. So will Newsom. "We saved the most important industry in California!! Jillions of jobs! Zillions in investment!!!!"

Anyway, Bonta won't get a chance to replace Becerra until 2034, and I don't think he'll keep that long.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 04:34 PM (mmrXZ)

227 board of zampolits

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 04:34 PM (VyBeY)

228 183 In fairness to Portman, she was being directed by George Lucas and delivering dialogue written by him.

Posted by: Open Channel D at September 21, 2026 04:23 PM (LuSSV)
_________________________

There is a hilarious scene in "The Clone Wars" movie that always makes me laugh. Portman's character is supposed to be this brash leader....and tough. But, after falling out a transport and waking up on the sand...the scene just falls apart when they her show her running at the very end of the scene. She runs like a toddler. Always makes me laugh.

https://tinyurl.com/98swscar

Posted by: Orson at September 21, 2026 04:34 PM (dIske)

229 De Toqueville noted that in what, 1850 or something?
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1835 Vol 1.

Posted by: Billie Dawn at September 21, 2026 04:34 PM (anL5R)

230 Someone suggested this on Twixxer and I agree: the white house needs to just broadcast everything they do publicly on a streaming channel and bypass the news entirely. Just a raw CSPAN delivery without commentary or editing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 04:35 PM (KyEAU)

231 Lynch's Dune is superior to anything Denis Villeneuve did.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 21, 2026 04:35 PM (CHHv1)

232 Someone said that Zendaya 's acting range involves different kinds of scowling
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2026 04:32 PM (taL2t)

I forgot which smartass actress said it about Katherine Hepburn ' She has an acting range from A to C'

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 04:35 PM (KC5Lt)

233
She got nekkid for a shower scene. Backside looked pretty good.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 04:27 PM (BAWkL)


Might've been a stunt butt.

Lots of actresses use those for nekkid scenes, especially if they're judged not quite pulchritudinous enough in the goods department.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 04:35 PM (iJfKG)

234 Fatman -- that's Gibson's Santa movie.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 04:36 PM (Fi81e)

235 Someone suggested this on Twixxer and I agree: the white house needs to just broadcast everything they do publicly on a streaming channel and bypass the news entirely. Just a raw CSPAN delivery without commentary or editing.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 04:35 PM (KyEAU)

Make the press do SuperChats with cash donations to get a question answered. Balance the budget that way.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 04:36 PM (uhVAy)

236 What did you do in Hollywood Grandma?

Posted by: I was a stunt butt for a few years at September 21, 2026 04:37 PM (2Ez/1)

237 Blood Father is badass. Highly recommend.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 04:37 PM (KC5Lt)

238 Fatman's got his eye on you.

Posted by: Santa at September 21, 2026 04:38 PM (2Ez/1)

239 Even though he's a character actor and not a big star, I always liked David Strathairn. I don't care if he's got a funny name.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 04:38 PM (ndZc7)

240 "188 I think Samuel L Jackson did his loud foul mouthed angry guy role so many times he forgot out to do anything else.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 04:26 PM (KyEAU)"

role? you mean he was acting?
I. Did. Not. Know. That.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 04:38 PM (VyBeY)

241 It was Bonta's wife who wrote and sponsored the law prohibiting citizen investigation of fraud in California. She's in the state assembly, and was mightily offended at the exposure of all the massive fraud.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 21, 2026 04:38 PM (svKyi)

242 There is a hilarious scene in "The Clone Wars" movie that always makes me laugh. Portman's character is supposed to be this brash leader....and tough. But, after falling out a transport and waking up on the sand...the scene just falls apart when they her show her running at the very end of the scene. She runs like a toddler. Always makes me laugh.

https://tinyurl.com/98swscar
Posted by: Orson at September 21, 2026 04:34 PM (dIske)

Why would you let your 'general' fall out of the aircraft? And why not stop the mission to pick up the corpse if you did?

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 04:38 PM (uhVAy)

243 Make the press do SuperChats with cash donations to get a question answered. Balance the budget that way.

I like this idea. Have thee press secretary read them off. "Brian Stelter from his basement asks...."

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 04:39 PM (KyEAU)

244 No, we DON'T list stunt butts in the credits.

Posted by: IMDB at September 21, 2026 04:39 PM (2Ez/1)

245 It was Bonta's wife who wrote and sponsored the law prohibiting citizen investigation of fraud in California. She's in the state assembly, and was mightily offended at the exposure of all the massive fraud.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 21, 2026 04:38 PM (svKyi)

Funny how small the in group is. All these tight groups.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 04:40 PM (uhVAy)

246 Under WGA's settlement with Paramount, the company has agreed to not lay off any writers at CBS News Broadcast for 5 years
Posted by: beckste


Eh, just reassign them to clean the archives, or some other manual labor-type job. They'll quit, no need to lay them off.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 21, 2026 04:40 PM (vJrRc)

247 Make the press do SuperChats with cash donations to get a question answered. Balance the budget that way.

I like this idea. Have thee press secretary read them off. "Brian Stelter from his basement asks...."
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 04:39 PM (KyEAU)
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"You can find a longer answer on my Patreon, if you go there" -- President Donald J Trump

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 04:41 PM (Fi81e)

248 Hmmm, did Bari Weiss just get neutered?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 21, 2026 04:41 PM (zZu0s)

249
And yet, they continue to win. Shows how powerful the message of "vote for me and I'll take shit from the top 10% and give it to the bottom 90%".

A non-trivial percentage of the voting public vote solely on who they think will give them more money


It's hard to beat Santa Claus.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 21, 2026 04:41 PM (Cqx++)

250 Might've been a stunt butt.

Lots of actresses use those for nekkid scenes, especially if they're judged not quite pulchritudinous enough in the goods department.
Posted by: naturalfake

Somebody had a nice ass.

I'll never watch it again. It was kinda dumb. I must have tuned in at the right time.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 04:41 PM (BAWkL)

251 His "The Gentlemen" series is very entertaining.

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The chicken scene is hilarious.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 04:41 PM (ndZc7)

252 Under WGA's settlement with Paramount, the company has agreed to not lay off any writers at CBS News Broadcast for 5 years
Posted by: beckste

Eh, just reassign them to clean the archives, or some other manual labor-type job. They'll quit, no need to lay them off.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 21, 2026 04:40 PM (vJrRc)

Just tell them to write, then tell them to rewrite it. Never publish it.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 04:41 PM (uhVAy)

253 There is a hilarious scene in "The Clone Wars" movie that always makes me laugh. Portman's character is supposed to be this brash leader....and tough. But, after falling out a transport and waking up on the sand...the scene just falls apart when they her show her running at the very end of the scene. She runs like a toddler. Always makes me laugh.

https://tinyurl.com/98swscar
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Wait that was all CGI right? Not even really her? I mean, they could have animated her running a little more humanly, but I think the computer was stuck on robot.

Posted by: Nobody caught my Melanie Griffin Movie Reference at September 21, 2026 04:41 PM (anL5R)

254 I think Sam Jackson was his best in Black Snake Moan though the movie pretty much sucked.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 04:41 PM (KC5Lt)

255 the Resident Evil movie is supposedly the first good Resident Evil movie.

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Hey, the first few were.... okay, they sucked, but Milla Jovovich is hot.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at September 21, 2026 04:42 PM (WhtqQ)

256 You can be sure if it's Netflix, it's trash.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 04:42 PM (iLKq8)

257 Hmmm... note the timeline.

There was a report that Paramount wanted to move out of Calif, and move to Nashville... but it would take 3 years to get enough office space for the move...

Now, suddenly we see a bunch of 3 year time limits on stuff.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 21, 2026 04:43 PM (mP0Kj)

258 Snakes on a plane.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 21, 2026 04:43 PM (zZu0s)

259 Wait that was all CGI right? Not even really her? I mean, they could have animated her running a little more humanly, but I think the computer was stuck on robot.
Posted by: Nobody caught my Melanie Griffin Movie Reference at September 21, 2026 04:41 PM (anL5R)

Probably just greenscreen magic, with her trying to pretend she was running on sand.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 04:43 PM (uhVAy)

260
I'm looking around, and I can't find any obligation for Paramount/Skydance to remain in California.

Wiseguys online are saying Ellison can comply with the terms while building new facilities in Nashville.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 04:44 PM (mmrXZ)

261 Speaking of trash, I started watching Hudson Hawk last night. Its all over the place, but I kind of like it anyway.

Posted by: What you talkin bout Bruce Willis at September 21, 2026 04:44 PM (anL5R)

262 I think Sam Jackson was his best in Black Snake Moan though the movie pretty much sucked.

Wednesday Addams grew up.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 04:45 PM (BvPIe)

263 NOW move out of California, LOL!

Posted by: Max Power at September 21, 2026 04:45 PM (TO3+g)

264 Hudson Hawk suffers from uneven tone and horrible bad guys. Why Sandra Bernhard ever got any work in anything ever baffles me.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 04:45 PM (KyEAU)

265 Hey, the first few were.... okay, they sucked, but Milla Jovovich is hot.
Posted by: Cave Johnson at September 21, 2026 04:42 PM (WhtqQ)

Paul WS Anderson thought so, that's why he married her after the first RE movie.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 21, 2026 04:45 PM (oPFtC)

266 Speaking of trash, I started watching Hudson Hawk last night. Its all over the place, but I kind of like it anyway.
Posted by: What you talkin bout Bruce Willis at September 21, 2026 04:44 PM (anL5R)

Probably now the worst drek of the last 70 years looks pretty good. I used to wonder how dark ages and such happened in the past, now I guess I know.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 04:45 PM (uhVAy)

267 Speaking of trash, I started watching Hudson Hawk last night. Its all over the place, but I kind of like it anyway.

Posted by: What you talkin bout Bruce Willis at September 21, 2026 04:44 PM (anL5R)
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Never made it all the way through that movie, although I have tried more than once.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 04:46 PM (Fi81e)

268 Wednesday Addams grew up.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 04:45 PM (BvPIe)

Into the biggest slut ever on the big screen. Lord almighty.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 04:46 PM (KC5Lt)

269 I'm fine with guardrails for CNN, as long as the guardrails have explosives on them so they can be detonated at anytime, for any reason.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 21, 2026 04:46 PM (sAmhv)

270 Funny thing... if you don't spend this money in a certain place, then our Lawsuit will stop you from doing what you want...

Isn't this the very definition of Extortion?

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 21, 2026 04:46 PM (mP0Kj)

271 Hudson Hawk suffers from uneven tone and horrible bad guys. Why Sandra Bernhard ever got any work in anything ever baffles me.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 04:45 PM (KyEAU)

She was on Letterman a lot for no discernable reason to me.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 04:46 PM (uhVAy)

272 X, just now:
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Denmark granted special residence permits to 321 stateless Palestinians from Lebanon in 1992. By the end of 2019, Danish government data showed that 196 of the original 321 (61%) had been found guilty of at least one criminal offense.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 04:47 PM (Fi81e)

273 Funny thing... if you don't spend this money in a certain place, then our Lawsuit will stop you from doing what you want...

Isn't this the very definition of Extortion?
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 21, 2026 04:46 PM (mP0Kj)

They have to win that lawsuit.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 04:47 PM (uhVAy)

274 the Resident Evil movie is supposedly the first good Resident Evil movie.

According to Resident Evil fans is not a Resident Evil movie but people seem to like it okay

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 04:47 PM (KyEAU)

275 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 04:45 PM (KyEAU)

She was good in The King of Comedy.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 04:48 PM (KC5Lt)

276 Denmark granted special residence permits to 321 stateless Palestinians from Lebanon in 1992. By the end of 2019, Danish government data showed that 196 of the original 321 (61%) had been found guilty of at least one criminal offense.
Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 04:47 PM (Fi81e)

Well, you select for criminals who don't even identify with the country they live in, they hardly can be expected to be good citizens after that.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 04:48 PM (uhVAy)

277 273 Funny thing... if you don't spend this money in a certain place, then our Lawsuit will stop you from doing what you want...

Isn't this the very definition of Extortion?
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 21, 2026 04:46 PM (mP0Kj)

They have to win that lawsuit.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 04:47 PM (uhVAy)

Not really, they can tie this up in courts for years...

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 21, 2026 04:49 PM (mP0Kj)

278 She was on Letterman a lot for no discernable reason to me.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 04:46 PM (uhVAy)
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Letterman loved giving time to fellow standups.

And she found a way to make it into something.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 04:49 PM (Fi81e)

279 >>>As for Denis Villeneuve -- I know everyone's supposed to say he's great but I think he's boring as hell. His idea of making something feel "important" is just to make it slow and film it in low-key, low-energy way.

THANK YOU, ACE!!!! 100%

Posted by: Max Power at September 21, 2026 04:49 PM (TO3+g)

280 She was good in The King of Comedy.

Lorraine Bracco was good in Goodfellas, at some point we have to admit that great directors can get a good performance even out of a turd.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 21, 2026 04:50 PM (KyEAU)

281 Tater and Tapper in a split screen. That is who the media believes are our social media thoughtleaders. There is your indicator to show that half of the population is low IQ.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 21, 2026 04:50 PM (5C90x)

282 Funny thing... if you don't spend this money in a certain place, then our Lawsuit will stop you from doing what you want...

Isn't this the very definition of Extortion?
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 21, 2026 04:46 PM (mP0Kj)

They have to win that lawsuit.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 04:47 PM (uhVAy)

Not really, they can tie this up in courts for years...
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 21, 2026 04:49 PM (mP0Kj)

Works for both sides, meanwhile this waiting period runs out...

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 04:50 PM (uhVAy)

283 ...$6 billion in cost savings promised to investors...

BWAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!!
Oh stop it. You're killing me here.
Whenever politicians talk about cost savings, hold on to your wallets.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 21, 2026 04:51 PM (2WIwB)

284 Nood - Vast majority of asylum claims are fake and ghey.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 21, 2026 04:52 PM (oPFtC)

285 "273 Funny thing... if you don't spend this money in a certain place, then our Lawsuit will stop you from doing what you want...

Isn't this the very definition of Extortion?
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 21, 2026 04:46 PM (mP0Kj)

They have to win that lawsuit.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 04:47 PM (uhVAy) "

not any more, they don't. settled out of court, sounds like ...
but I'm not saying it's not extortion.

(types / deletes)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 04:52 PM (VyBeY)

286 Isn't this the very definition of Extortion?
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 21, 2026 04:46 PM (mP0Kj)
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Sounds like a fucking taking.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 04:54 PM (Fi81e)

287 They will spend more money on movies by charging more rent to the movie productions.

Posted by: MikeN at September 21, 2026 05:06 PM (O09iF)

288 I saw the "Resident Evil" movie. It's "good," in the sense that the director gets that he's supposed to be entertaining you.

But it's very much aware of its own limitations. There is no competence to be found here, which is relatable--for a while. If everybody everywhere is just a jerk-off, the fun is going to be short-lived.

So the problem is, it's too realistic.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 21, 2026 05:24 PM (K40fF)

289 Ace! Sicario!

Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at September 21, 2026 05:30 PM (4vd8A)

290 The 12 Blue State AGs want CNN to be able to rig the US elections and are welling to lose 85,000 jobs to do so.

Posted by: wferrin at September 21, 2026 06:56 PM (k/B7i)

291 So what if Ellison lets the 'independent board of Journalists' make certain that CNN stays reliably left, then cuts payroll and spending in response to ratings? Or sells the whole thing to someone about 15 seconds after the deal closes? Or every time some high-priced 'talent' comes up for renewal, offer to renew at, say, 40% of their previous contract?

Posted by: JB1000 at September 21, 2026 07:00 PM (xRPi/)

292 I read the agreement at the link.

There is a payoff to the AGs of $40M. I am not sure if that is per state or combined.

There is a payoff for someone to monitor for compliance and whatever "experts" that person hires.

The news monitoring requires 5 people with 10 years of being a reporter, 3 years with credentials, no more than 2 "affiliated" with any one political party.
2 GOP, 2 Conservative, 1 Libertarian?

It requires the company to make "commercially reasonable efforts" to use the Lots in Hollywood.
Please do not hurt yourself laughing.

Oh, there is a force majeure provision if riots and supply chain interruptions make compliance impossible.
Really, be careful with the laughter!

The film making requirements are $300M/year for 5 years, making 30 movies/year, 6 of which much cost $50M with appropriate publicity.
Those 6, at the minimum, more than cover spending requirement. That means the other 20 (4 MUST be indie productions) can cost . . . well, however much is enough to meet the release requirements.

The whole thing ends after 5 years, just in time for facilities outside of Cali to be ready.

Posted by: Sam at September 21, 2026 07:37 PM (7jMef)

Nikole Hannah-Jones, Who Is Unaccountably Wealthy Due to Being a DEI Race Grifter and History Hoaxer, Sent Her Kids to Poor-Performing Schools As a Political Race Stunt

This grifter created a fraudulent, and now debunked, narrative that Americans declared independence from England not for freedom or political sovereignty but for the only thing the race grifters know about history, slavery.

Because she's a Stronk Empowered Woman of Color who pushes Jason Arday-level fictions, the left made her rich.

Although actually -- she grew up fairly well-off too.

So she could have sent her kids to good schools. Or she could have paid for private schools.

Instead, she sent her kids to the poor-performing public schools in Brooklyn out of a deranged sense of racial solidarity.

Her kids suffered for her ideological derangement.

In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?

A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter's education that I hoped would challenge New York City's separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.

...

"Did you know my school was bad like this when you decided to put me here?" [my daughter] asked.

My hands tightened on the steering wheel as I worked to keep my face neutral, buying a few moments to gather my thoughts.

Now thinking of applying to competitive colleges, she googled her high school's rankings to estimate what her chances would be of getting into an Ivy League school.

She found out her mother had deliberately sent her to a shithole school.

Najya's shock had turned to boiling, and the seatbelt had barely clicked before she was confronting me.

I had braced myself for this moment, spent nearly a decade expecting it, preparing for it. When Najya was entering pre-K, my husband, Faraji, and I decided to send her to the type of school that wealthier families with choices uniformly avoid -- one that is low-income and mostly Black. Our decision had been informed by values shaped by my years of reporting on the enduring and too often seemingly hopeless battle for school integration.


...

In New York, a combination of housing segregation and "academic" sorting, called school choice, that begins as early as pre-K means most Black students -- even middle-class ones -- are forced to attend racially segregated schools with high rates of poverty.

Note that this Race Communist had gone to a good school, but denied this to her daughter.


Being given access to the most resourced public schools in my hometown allowed me to flourish academically, and I am convinced that the integrated education my husband and I received set the foundation that has allowed us to become the successful upper-middle-class family that my daughter was born into.

We are both beneficiaries of educational opportunities that were forced into existence by generations of Black parents willing to put their most personal stake -- their own children -- in the fight for school equality for all Black children.

...

And yet decades later, integration now exists for a minority of Black children -- usually those born to families like ours who have the money to pay for private schools or live in tonier ZIP codes zoned to heavily white public schools, or who can pay for tutoring that allows their children, from a very young age, to test into programs for "gifted" students. Most Black students, however, languish in the type of schools that the law was supposed to have eradicated.

So, like the generations of Black parents who came before us, Faraji and I felt an obligation to make educational decisions based on the collective good and not just our individual advantage. New York is considered one of this nation's most liberal cities, while operating a school system that is among the most racially segregated. This segregation exists because policymakers and affluent parents -- even those who profess a belief in integration and equality, -- shed their advocacy at the schoolhouse door and refuse to take or support any substantial action to integrate the city's schools. Faraji and I decided that our role in this struggle meant upending the status quo and sending our child not to a wealthy white school but to a poor Black one.

...

We thought by sending Najya to a mostly low-income and Black school, we could help improve it for all the children there.

LOL, she thought that her daughter's mere presence would improve the school.

This sounds like a lie. It sounds like she sent her daughter to a shit school to boost her own career by proving how Blackety Black she was, and is now trying to justify that selfish choice.

I hadn't intended at first to write about our decision. But a few months into the academic year, P.S. 307 became embroiled in an integration battle when parents protested the reassignment of their children from a wealthy and predominantly white school to ours. It felt impossible for me not to weigh in.

See? There was a school controversy on the Upper West Side -- I assume this is the case of school that resisted having minority students air-lifted in; leftwing Daily Show cow Samantha Bee was one of the many white liberals fighting it -- and so she ax-grinded about it.

And having put herself on the record, she had to show she was no hypocrite, so she dumped her daughter into a shit school.

In 2016, I wrote an essay in this magazine called "Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City," about our experience in a system in which educational inequality was widely accepted. Our daughter, then a kindergartner with Afro puffs, a plaid school uniform and Jordan-clad feet, appeared on the cover.

The piece struck a chord in a way I could not have predicted. Readers flooded my inbox and posted hundreds of comments. Producers invited me for interviews, book publishers came calling and I was asked to speak all over the country by communities and institutions grappling with the issue of school segregation. The essay spurred community meetings in places near and far; and in New York City, it helped ignite parent and student activism around a subject that had largely disappeared from public discourse. Even a decade later, parents still share with me how my essay led them to make similar educational decisions for their children.

In the outside world, my choice had earned me valor. And yet that day, under the withering glare of my daughter, the words that I was formulating sounded hollow to my ears even before they passed my lips.

Virtue signalling by harming your children.

Now she gaslights her daughter:


"Your school is not bad," I told her, modulating my voice. "What are you talking about?"

Najya grew agitated. "You know what I am talking about. We looked up our school! We saw the test scores. We saw the ratings." She ticked off the school's below-state average reading and math scores, and that it ranked poorly on a popular school-rating website. I said I was aware of her school's academic rankings, but that test scores alone do not define a school.

Glancing between her and the road, I told her everything that I had said a hundred times on stages, in interviews, in discussions since I had made her a symbol of how the choices we make can help sustain -- or dismantle -- educational inequality. I talked about the deep inequality in New York's schools and how, like those Black families who came before us, we had an obligation to be part of the struggle of our larger community. Even if her schools were not academically the strongest, I explained, her father and I knew that we could provide for her tutoring and any other assistance to make up for what her school may have lacked.

But my child just shook her head, her face a mask of disbelief, and something else: betrayal.

"So you had money to send me to one of the best schools, and you chose not to?" she said, hurling her words. "Because other kids are disadvantaged, you didn't want to put me in a great school?"

Najya was asking what I'd accomplished by not choosing the "best" school for her. And the honest answer is, I don't know. When it comes to the choices my husband and I have made about public education, these days I feel that I failed both my values and my child.

Yeah, you did. You are a deranged, bitter, racist, narcissistically evil cunt.

By the way, this article is about 4,000 words long. It's an epic. I can only assume she digs herself deeper into a hole of self-justification and ego as it goes along, but that will remain an assumption on my part, because I can't read this evil racist's defense of child sacrifice any longer.

Rich Lowry
@RichLowry

It's bad enough that Nikole Hannah-Jones sacrificed her child's education to her racial ideology, but she experienced the dismal results--and *learned literarily nothing from the experience*.

You'd think she'd be radicalized against the teacher unions and the complacent, self-serving NYC education bureaucracy--which is run by people who agree with her politically--but apparently it doesn't even occur to her.

If there's one lesson she should have taken from this experience, it's that consequential decisions about your child's future shouldn't be driven by an obsession with racial solidarity.

That's not how the NYC white and Asian parents that Hannah-Jones scorns think about educational decisions--overwhelmingly, they simply don't want the prospects of their children blighted by scandalously incompetent schools.

They freak-out if their kids aren't getting homework, if the lunch period is unsupervised mayhem, etc., not as part of a conspiracy to leave behind black kids, but out of a intense focus on their duty as parents to see that their own children are getting the best education possible.

Nikole Hannah Jones clearly could have learned a lot from them.


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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 02:31 PM (ccf/V)

2 The children must be destroyed to save the children.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 02:31 PM (ccf/V)

3 I'll get something.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 02:31 PM (ccf/V)

4 Corgis called

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 02:32 PM (hGTKn)

5 Kids are props to the left.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 02:32 PM (ExV1e)

6 Who?

Posted by: Most people at September 21, 2026 02:32 PM (2Ez/1)

7 "I will intentionally undermine my own child's future for a political point that all evidence says is wrong but I totally believe is right."
-Jones

"She's a hero, doing what she thinks is right but everything says is wrong."
-the left

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 02:32 PM (SvJcA)

8
Sacrificing your children on the Alter of Liberalism.

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 21, 2026 02:33 PM (OkYzo)

9
The courts will have difficulty with deciding if mom owes daughter reparations or vice-versa.

Posted by: Auspex at September 21, 2026 02:33 PM (Y8DZL)

10 " It sounds like she sent her daughter to a shit school to boost her own career by proving how Blackety Black she was, and is now trying to justify that selfish choice."

I suggest are more realistic reason (other than cosplaying at being as one with The Oppressed): This cheapass lying fuckstick didn't want to shell out for her kid's private school.

Posted by: AMartel at September 21, 2026 02:34 PM (EyAQh)

11 NOOD had been lum'd.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 02:34 PM (ccf/V)

12 If you can't abort 'em, use 'em as political tools and ruin any chance they have of success to own the cons.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 02:34 PM (ccf/V)

13 Where's dad?

Posted by: I gotta ask at September 21, 2026 02:35 PM (2Ez/1)

14 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 02:35 PM (Ia/+0)

15 Really, how stupid of her. But then it's not surprising.

Posted by: Case at September 21, 2026 02:35 PM (xJpuh)

16 13 Where's dad?
Posted by: I gotta ask

Out being mis-gendered, I'd guess.

Posted by: Auspex at September 21, 2026 02:36 PM (Y8DZL)

17 I read the Post article and it got me wondering what mommy would have done if her experiment in education had gotten her daughter stabbed or worse. Obviously would have been the white man's fault

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2026 02:36 PM (taL2t)

18 My goodness, if I only knew that chronicling a fight over raising one's own children was a path to a successful journalism career, my family would be filled with Pulitzer award winners.

WTAF?

Posted by: Kindltot at September 21, 2026 02:37 PM (rbvCR)

19 So she put her kid in a shit school by choice, so that she could use it to promote her own self-interests, and then a few years later when her kid realizes what was done to her, Jones again uses it to promote herself. How very cynical of her, but how very Leftist it all is.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at September 21, 2026 02:37 PM (QaH55)

20 Have taken note, the super rich take their kids to private school to learn, the rabble send their kids to be indoctrinated

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 02:37 PM (Ia/+0)

21 Don't worry about Najya, she'll end up at an Ivy.

Posted by: mr tmz at September 21, 2026 02:37 PM (rJ48h)

22 Faraji?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 21, 2026 02:38 PM (bFu5X)

23 Upside?

Her kid's already red pilled.

1 - Good intentions without good results are useless.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 21, 2026 02:38 PM (gLYp7)

24 Now thinking of applying to competitive colleges, she googled her high school's rankings to estimate what her chances would be of getting into an Ivy League school.

She found out her mother had deliberately sent her to a s***hole school.


It might actually have been a good strategy. In bright blue Fairfax Co., going to one of the s*** schools (yes, they exist) is a big plus. It's far easier to get into the elite VA schools from one of them than from one of the good schools.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 02:38 PM (Riz8t)

25 Don't worry about Najya, she'll end up at an Ivy.
Posted by: mr tmz at September 21, 2026 02:37 PM


Which is probably why her mother wrote this to begin with. It'll be forwarded to the right admissions officers.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 21, 2026 02:38 PM (bFu5X)

26 Trash needs to be taken out, or it starts to rot.

Posted by: Joe Mama at September 21, 2026 02:39 PM (TezPK)

27 25 Don't worry about Najya, she'll end up at an Ivy.
Posted by: mr tmz at September 21, 2026 02:37 PM

Which is probably why her mother wrote this to begin with. It'll be forwarded to the right admissions officers.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 21, 2026 02:38 PM (bFu5X)

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"I am a terrible mother and my daughter was raised in an abusive home."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 02:39 PM (SvJcA)

28 How much money is Hannah-Jones now going to spend to provide her daughter with the best remedial tutoring she can afford?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2026 02:39 PM (FZ29D)

29 I suggest are more realistic reason (other than cosplaying at being as one with The Oppressed): This cheapass lying fuckstick didn't want to shell out for her kid's private school.

She wanted the money for herself. But the fact that it also got her acclaim from the Left-Industrial Complex made it irresistible.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 02:39 PM (2ocoG)

30 So she put her kid in a shit school by choice, so that she could use it to promote her own self-interests, and then a few years later when her kid realizes what was done to her, Jones again uses it to promote herself. How very cynical of her, but how very Leftist it all is.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder

There are lessons here that many people will not learn.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 02:39 PM (wOO3z)

31 Have taken note, the super rich take their kids to private school to learn, the rabble send their kids to be indoctrinated
Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 02:37 PM (Ia/+0)

What got Newsom have to face a recall last time was that private school parents found out that the woke anti American garbage lessons were being taught to *their* kids instead of just the proles.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 02:39 PM (uhVAy)

32 "So you had money to send me to one of the best schools, and you chose not to?" she said, hurling her words. "Because other kids are disadvantaged, you didn't want to put me in a great school?"

=====

Everyone is Conservative about what they understand.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 21, 2026 02:40 PM (LCTSZ)

33 If my parents pulled this kind of crap, and I was a black girl...my vengeance would be to become the complete opposite of them. I'd be so far to the Right that I'd make Clarence Thomas look like he was a moderate.

Posted by: Orson at September 21, 2026 02:40 PM (dIske)

34 In bright blue Fairfax Co., going to one of the s*** schools (yes, they exist) is a big plus. It's far easier to get into the elite VA schools from one of them than from one of the good schools.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 02:38 PM (Riz8t)

Not if your name is Jacob Wright instead of J'Qobian White.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 21, 2026 02:40 PM (gLYp7)

35 The kids must be sacrificed, one way or another.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 02:40 PM (ccf/V)

36 10 " It sounds like she sent her daughter to a shit school to boost her own career by proving how Blackety Black she was, and is now trying to justify that selfish choice."

I suggest are more realistic reason (other than cosplaying at being as one with The Oppressed): This cheapass lying fuckstick didn't want to shell out for her kid's private school.
Posted by: AMartel at September 21, 2026 02:34 PM (EyAQh)

In NYC, this is true...she'd have been out 60K+ per year, and didn't want that hit to her personal pocketbook. And, notice it was a joint decision with her husband - he wanted the money to keep rolling in for the race grifting, too...going to private school put that at risk on top of the 60K...it was all about them vs their kids...the ultimate "all about me" parents...

Not to be confused with the parents who live through their kids...we now have the ones looking to destroy their kids to further themselves...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 21, 2026 02:40 PM (tOcjL)

37 It's far easier to get into the elite VA schools from one of them than from one of the good schools.

There are elite VA schools?

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 02:40 PM (2ocoG)

38 37 It's far easier to get into the elite VA schools from one of them than from one of the good schools.

There are elite VA schools?

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 02:40 PM (2ocoG)

=====

We allow UVA its fictions.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 02:41 PM (SvJcA)

39 America is about an innocent in the slave trade as it can reasonably have been, while still being complicit.

4% of the African slaves that survived being shipped over the Atlantic ended up in United States.

Admittedly the US was not as rich as Brazil, but that's part of the reason Brazil imported slaves at 10 times the rate we did.

Also the trans-Atlantic slave trade was < 50% of all the slaves taken out of Africa.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 02:41 PM (Fi81e)

40 "Note that this Race Communist had gone to a good school, but denied this to her daughter."

at least Mom didn't "TRANSition her, and cut her tits off".

Posted by: illiniwek at September 21, 2026 02:41 PM (vbXSk)

41 I have opted out of discussing racial politics because even many valid points are submitted in bad faith.

Posted by: Minuteman at September 21, 2026 02:41 PM (47/pr)

42 So she put her kid in a shit school by choice, so that she could use it to promote her own self-interests, and then a few years later when her kid realizes what was done to her, Jones again uses it to promote herself. How very cynical of her, but how very Leftist it all is.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at September 21, 2026 02:37 PM (QaH55)
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Remember--in Leftist world, EVERYONE[\i][\b] is a disposable commodity to advance one's one standing and interests.

Especially spouses and children.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2026 02:41 PM (FZ29D)

43 Guess she'll have to trans the poor kid to regain her social standing with the rest of the woketards.

Posted by: Polka will never die at September 21, 2026 02:41 PM (pSaNK)

44
Where's dad?
Posted by: I gotta ask

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

That's the "Faraji" named in the column.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 02:41 PM (mmrXZ)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2026 02:41 PM (FZ29D)

46 I read the Post article and it got me wondering what mommy would have done if her experiment in education had gotten her daughter stabbed or worse. Obviously would have been the white man's fault
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2026 02:36 PM (taL2t)


It is the new morality: Sacrificing the children for politics and status.
This was thrown into high relief during COVID, but it has its roots in the past where the children were supposed to be the proof and actualization of cultural aspirations.
Just that past generations looked to wealth, status and societal achievement as cultural aspirations, and I have no idea what they are now.
Extra moral? Which is why they are such a miserable gaggle of bluenose prigs?

Posted by: Kindltot at September 21, 2026 02:41 PM (rbvCR)

47 "I am a terrible mother and my daughter was raised in an abusive home."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 02:39 PM


"Plus, Ms. Harvard admissions officer, have I mentioned that the applicant is Nikole Hannah-Jones' kid? Because she is."

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 21, 2026 02:41 PM (bFu5X)

48 The fact that the NYT even ran this piece must mean there is some internal dispute in the Party about the narrative. Maybe the rich white libs want good schools for their kids? No way they ran this without approval.

Posted by: Ripley at September 21, 2026 02:42 PM (GUOwU)

49 There are many forms of child sacrifice practiced by "Progressive" lefties. All of them horrible.

Posted by: sad but true at September 21, 2026 02:42 PM (anL5R)

50 Getting back to Unstoppable/Jaws connection.

Rosario Dawson's character's name is Connie Hooper.

That's no naming accident!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 21, 2026 02:42 PM (XV/Pl)

51 For leftist women, children are disposable props in their autobiographical Lifetime move screenplays.

Posted by: Anita Lynn DeHayes-Tacke at September 21, 2026 02:42 PM (HN9JN)

52 39 America is about an innocent in the slave trade as it can reasonably have been, while still being complicit.

4% of the African slaves that survived being shipped over the Atlantic ended up in United States.

Admittedly the US was not as rich as Brazil, but that's part of the reason Brazil imported slaves at 10 times the rate we did.

Also the trans-Atlantic slave trade was

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 02:41 PM (Fi81e)

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No matter how complicit America was, it ended 160 years ago, Jim Crow ended 60 years ago, and anyone bringing it up as anything other than a fact of history, say as a political cudgel for current day politics, is an asswipe who should be cast out from polite society and not given a quarterly article sinecure at one of the biggest newspapers in the country.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 02:42 PM (SvJcA)

53 Kids are props to the left.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 02:32 PM (ExV1e)

Abortion, tranny mutilation, pimping them out in drag, and even strangling them to death are all acceptable conduct in furtherance of the cause.

Posted by: Liberalism is sociopathy at September 21, 2026 02:43 PM (TbWk/)

54 The kids must be sacrificed, one way or another.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 02:40 PM (ccf/V)
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I approve this message.

Posted by: Moloch at September 21, 2026 02:43 PM (Fi81e)

55
45

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2026 02:41 PM (FZ29D)




Failed Mitch McConnell sock?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 02:43 PM (ccf/V)

56 47 "I am a terrible mother and my daughter was raised in an abusive home."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 02:39 PM

"Plus, Ms. Harvard admissions officer, have I mentioned that the applicant is Nikole Hannah-Jones' kid? Because she is."

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 21, 2026 02:41 PM (bFu5X)

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"Treat her like a legacy, or you're a fucking racist and I'll write about you and your personal racism in the NYT."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 02:43 PM (SvJcA)

57 But let's all put the progressive lefties in charge!!! they'll fix everything so everybody's life is equally shitty!! Except their own that is!!!

Posted by: sad but true at September 21, 2026 02:43 PM (anL5R)

58 America didn't even exist when the slave trade was established, so America had nothing to do with it except ending it globally.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 21, 2026 02:43 PM (XV/Pl)

59 Remember--in Leftist world, EVERYONE[\i][\b] is a disposable commodity to advance one's one standing and interests.

Especially spouses and children.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2026 02:41 PM (FZ29D)


Everything is a commodity. Everyone is "inventory" in a Leftist world.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 21, 2026 02:44 PM (rbvCR)

60 I was told Math was RACIST and that it was unfair for black children to be able to do it!

Posted by: redridinghood at September 21, 2026 02:44 PM (NpAcC)

61 She’ll still get into an Ivy. She’s black and her mom is DEI royalty. Meanwhile a white kid with 1600 SATs will be passed over because colonialism or some such.

Posted by: How it works at September 21, 2026 02:44 PM (ITULZ)

62 like the generations of Black parents who came before us, Faraji and I felt an obligation to make educational decisions based on the collective good and not just our individual advantage child's well-being.

Edited.

That, of course, is what these people do. They make decisions based upon their narcissitic empathy, rather than the actual well-being of society.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 21, 2026 02:44 PM (XeU6L)

63 ]America didn't even exist when the slave trade was established, so America had nothing to do with it except ending it globally.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 21, 2026 02:43 PM (XV/Pl)



You're a lying liar who lies. I mean, if THAT were true, they wouldn't be able to grift and demand reparations!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 02:45 PM (ccf/V)

64 No matter how complicit America was, it ended 160 years ago, Jim Crow ended 60 years ago

Also the Democrats were responsible for all of it.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 02:45 PM (2ocoG)

65 Thinking sending to a Public Marxist Seminary a good chance getting talked into sex change

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 02:45 PM (Ia/+0)

66 Posted by: Anita Lynn DeHayes-Tacke at September 21, 2026 02:42 PM

*golf clap*

Posted by: Susan Olivia Cuthbertson-Kline at September 21, 2026 02:45 PM (bFu5X)

67 61 She’ll still get into an Ivy. She’s black and her mom is DEI royalty. Meanwhile a white kid with 1600 SATs will be passed over because colonialism or some such.

Posted by: How it works at September 21, 2026 02:44 PM (ITULZ)

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And she'll either fail out because she doesn't know fractions, or grade inflation will lead her to graduate Magna Cum Laude, and she'll get a meaningless job at some connected corp where she becomes a net negative to the bottom line but the corp accepts because to admit otherwise would be cultural suicide for the C-Suite idjit who hired her.

Sure, she'll be fine personally, but she'll be one more pebble to add to the avalanche that's currently overtaking the university system.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 02:46 PM (SvJcA)

68 News flash:

MOST leftist parents send (and have always sent) their kids to bad/crazy schools as a political statement, thereby ruining their own kids' lives. This has been true since the '60s.

Flashback to the '60s and '70s: In those places where there was "bussing," it was approved and implemented by upscale white liberals. Who, in so doing, caused their kids to be a part of it.

They imagined, hilariously, that what would happen is that busloads of underprivileged black kids would arive at their own kids' well-appointed schools and be thereby uplifted and make society equal. And that is how the media has always presented it.

But left out of their calculations and never depicted in the media, is the fact that for every black child bussed to a good white school, a corresponding white child was bussed to terrible black school in the ghetto.

Which white children endured this? THE CHILDREN OF THE WHITE LIBERALS WHO VOTED FOR BUSING.

So they ended up sending their own children to ghetto schools.

And this has been going on for generations.

Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 02:46 PM (Av6i5)

69
Don't worry about Najya, she'll end up at an Ivy.
Posted by: mr tmz

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Came to say the same thing. In fact, she can use her shitty education as a selling point. "I was educated as a poor Black child, denied the opportunities of my white supremacist peers. Behold my low grades and test scores: they are the psychological scars of a legacy of slavery..."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 02:46 PM (mmrXZ)

70 64 No matter how complicit America was, it ended 160 years ago, Jim Crow ended 60 years ago

Also the Democrats were responsible for all of it.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 02:45 PM (2ocoG)

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"THE PARTIES SWITCHED IN THE 1960S WHICH IS WHY MY FAVORITE EARLY 20TH CENTURY PRESIDENT IS CALVIN COOLIDGE AND I HATE FDR!"
-Reddit, 50% probability

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 02:47 PM (SvJcA)

71
So, Ol' Niko H-Jo fucked over her own kid to earn pasts on the head from black progtards and AWFLs.

Weird, harming your child for a Libtard Gold Star...yet, familiar somehow....

Oh, yeah!

Fans of the Triple Child Murderess howling how they'd like to kill their own kids too for pats on the head from AWFLs and fellow Lunaticettes.

and one even killing her own kid in direct imitation. What a good little libtard goal she was!

Liberal + Woman = Insane apparently.

Proceed with caution when letting your kids play in certain houses.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 02:47 PM (iJfKG)

72 Maybe the girl will now reject the leftist religion of her mother, and perhaps skipping college would also be a bonus for the kid.

She could marry a good male plumber/carpenter, have five kids, and live happily ever after (instead of becoming a blue hair nut that hates men, and the "Patriarchy".)

Posted by: illiniwek at September 21, 2026 02:48 PM (vbXSk)

73 Kids are props to the left.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 02:32 PM (ExV1e)

Abortion, tranny mutilation, pimping them out in drag, and even strangling them to death are all acceptable conduct in furtherance of the cause.
Posted by: Liberalism is sociopathy at September 21, 2026 02:43 PM (TbWk/)

Everybody is props to the Left, including other Leftists.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 02:48 PM (uhVAy)

74 Hilarious.

Leftism is a mental illness.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 02:48 PM (viF8m)

75 And she'll either fail out because she doesn't know fractions, or grade inflation will lead her to graduate Magna Cum Laude, and she'll get a meaningless job at some connected corp where she becomes a net negative to the bottom line but the corp accepts because to admit otherwise would be cultural suicide for the C-Suite idjit who hired her.

Sure, she'll be fine personally, but she'll be one more pebble to add to the avalanche that's currently overtaking the university system.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 02:46 PM


Now, now, there's always the leftist foundation grift track.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 21, 2026 02:48 PM (bFu5X)

76 Only the rich kids in my school had Jordan-clad feet. This is when I stopped buying Nike products, - too expensive, - plus I didn't want to get robbed and stabbed over my brand of sneakers.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 21, 2026 02:48 PM (5C90x)

77 75 Now, now, there's always the leftist foundation grift track.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 21, 2026 02:48 PM (bFu5X)

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Those are still corps!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 02:49 PM (SvJcA)

78 The sad thing: other kids do not have a choice. Or rather their parents don't. But that is part of the socialist plan. Any nail that sticks upgets pounded flat.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 21, 2026 02:49 PM (zZu0s)

79 Another case of a Liberal who has, due to wealth, been shielded by the consequences of their Liberal beliefs...

Right up until Reality bitch slaps them.

Defund the Police! They scream... knowing that the rich neighborhoods will still have Police, while the poor will descend into chaos.

Support Palestine! They say, knowing none of their class will be serving on the front lines of the War against Radical Islam.

Abortion is a RIGHT, knowing their children will never have an abortion, because they have the wealth for both birth control, and to take care of a child once the decision to have their GrandKids is made.

Open Borders! They yell, while their stocks increase due to suppressed wages... and they live in a gated community with plenty of Police...

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 21, 2026 02:49 PM (mP0Kj)

80 America didn't even exist when the slave trade was established, so America had nothing to do with it except ending it globally.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 21, 2026 02:43 PM (XV/Pl)
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Muzzies began slave export, and they took the majority of slaves out of Africa. Africans were enslaving each other, like Native Americans, long before white people interfered. The Age of Expansion means that you had access to global supplies. Cross-race enslavement was at that point possible at the scale that makes it hideous today.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 02:49 PM (Fi81e)

81 Maybe the girl will now reject the leftist religion of her mother, and perhaps skipping college would also be a bonus for the kid.

She could marry a good male plumber/carpenter, have five kids, and live happily ever after (instead of becoming a blue hair nut that hates men, and the "Patriarchy".)
Posted by: illiniwek at September 21, 2026 02:48 PM (vbXSk)

She probably would be better off not going Ivy, going to a moderate cost smaller college 1000 miles away from her parents and learning and meeting some normal people.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 02:49 PM (uhVAy)

82 Failed Mitch McConnell sock?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 02:43 PM (ccf/V)
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Emergency closing of bold/italics tags to avoid being sent to The Barrel.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2026 02:50 PM (FZ29D)

83 I can’t even imagine doing that to my boys.

Holy shit, that’s evil.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 21, 2026 02:50 PM (R1Ziy)

84 Those are still corps!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 02:49 PM


Your point is valid.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 21, 2026 02:50 PM (bFu5X)

85 83 I can’t even imagine doing that to my boys.

Holy shit, that’s evil.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 21, 2026 02:50 PM (R1Ziy)

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"But she had conviction, which makes it not evil."
-a shocking number of right-leaning accounts on X right now

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 02:51 PM (SvJcA)

86 Now, now, there's always the leftist foundation grift track.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
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This is about me,isn't it?

Posted by: Chelsea Clinton at September 21, 2026 02:51 PM (XeU6L)

87 She probably would be better off not going Ivy, going to a moderate cost smaller college 1000 miles away from her parents and learning and meeting some normal people.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 02:49 PM (uhVAy)

Normal people? In college?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 21, 2026 02:51 PM (zZu0s)

88 Big thunder boomers here and the dog has jumped into the bath tub.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 02:51 PM (wOO3z)

89 86 Now, now, there's always the leftist foundation grift track.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
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This is about me,isn't it?

Posted by: Chelsea Clinton at September 21, 2026 02:51 PM (XeU6L)

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The NBC gig did wonders for her likeability.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 02:51 PM (SvJcA)

90
The kids must be sacrificed, one way or another.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 02:40 PM (ccf/V)


At least exercise bands were left out of this one.

Posted by: biteme at September 21, 2026 02:52 PM (xWS9V)

91 So if white people move into a black neighborhood it's gentrification, but somehow the non gentrified areas are supposed to have racially diverse schools?

Stop using white people as props in your self flagellating minstrel show, you stupid bitch.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 21, 2026 02:52 PM (r7+Q7)

92 I can’t even imagine doing that to my boys.

Holy shit, that’s evil.
===
There is no evil, there is only Landru

*points tube at Nurse*

Posted by: Lawgiver at September 21, 2026 02:52 PM (anL5R)

93 Who names their kid Najya?

Posted by: The quiet part out loud at September 21, 2026 02:52 PM (2Ez/1)

94 "But she had conviction, which makes it not evil."
-a shocking number of right-leaning accounts on X right now
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 02:51 PM (SvJcA)


"with God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly"

Posted by: Kindltot at September 21, 2026 02:52 PM (rbvCR)

95 Another case of a Liberal who has, due to wealth, been shielded by the consequences of their Liberal beliefs...

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 21, 2026 02:49 PM (mP0Kj)
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Liberalism developed into a fugue from Nature and complications.

I saw this post a couple days ago about a woman to confronts liberal women "What rights do men have that women don't?"

And it pretty much comes down to men can't get pregnant.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 02:52 PM (Fi81e)

96 Nayja and Faraja? Reminds me of a hilarious YouTube short of the CIA conspiring to trick black parents into giving their kids idiotic names so no one will give them jobs.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 21, 2026 02:52 PM (bX16E)

97 @83

>>I can’t even imagine doing that to my boys. Holy shit, that’s evil.

I pay for my grandkids to go Catholic school, they will never step foot in a public school.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 21, 2026 02:53 PM (XV/Pl)

98 She probably would be better off not going Ivy, going to a moderate cost smaller college 1000 miles away from her parents and learning and meeting some normal people.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 02:49 PM (uhVAy)

Normal people? In college?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 21, 2026 02:51 PM (zZu0s)

Probably hard in this day and age, but there are probably some left that only have a limited number of leftist idiots that she can avoid if she has learned something from her mother.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 02:54 PM (uhVAy)

99 Oh no
Anyway

I’m glad that she made her kid live up to her beliefs.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at September 21, 2026 02:54 PM (kN53m)

100
Big thunder boomers here and the dog has jumped into the bath tub.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 02:51 PM (wOO3z)


*shakes fist at sky*

Damn those Boomers and their Social Security checks!!!!!!1111!

Now, they're making dogs jump into bath tubs.

DDAAAAAAAMMMMMNNNN Them!!!!11111!!@

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 02:54 PM (iJfKG)

101 I saw this post a couple days ago about a woman to confronts liberal women "What rights do men have that women don't?"

And it pretty much comes down to men can't get pregnant.
Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 02:52 PM (Fi81e)

That's neither a right for women nor a privilege for men.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 02:55 PM (uhVAy)

102 "...conspiring to trick black parents into giving their kids idiotic names so no one will give them jobs."

They can always be running backs.

Posted by: The Southeastern Conference at September 21, 2026 02:55 PM (2Ez/1)

103 Muzzies began slave export, and they took the majority of slaves out of Africa. Africans were enslaving each other, like Native Americans, long before white people interfered. The Age of Expansion means that you had access to global supplies. Cross-race enslavement was at that point possible at the scale that makes it hideous today.
Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 02:49 PM (Fi81e)

Slavery and the slave trade are thousands of years old. The Phoenicians were shipping slaves as cargo 4000 years ago. Slavery is referenced all throughout the Old Testament. It's been part of human history about as long as there's been human history. The difference is western civilization (mostly the Brits and the US) eventually fought it and outlawed it. Slavery still exists in backwards-ass middle eastern and sub-Saharan countries. I'm over all this bullshít.

Posted by: Ignorant fuckers need to shut up at September 21, 2026 02:55 PM (TbWk/)

104 Liberalism developed into a fugue from Nature and complications.

I saw this post a couple days ago about a woman to confronts liberal women "What rights do men have that women don't?"

And it pretty much comes down to men can't get pregnant.
Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 02:52 PM (Fi81e)

Because becoming preggers is something that just happens, women have no say in when or where it happens...

Posted by: Thrawn at September 21, 2026 02:55 PM (oPFtC)

105 Pretty much the first thing The United States did when it became The United States was ban the importation of slaves.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 21, 2026 02:56 PM (XV/Pl)

106 I guess her daughter should be thankful she was only a race communist and not a disability communist or else she might have hobbled her daughter in more than her education.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 21, 2026 02:56 PM (yAl+8)

107
tbh, I'm surprised Jones chose this route. The Obamas and Clintons sent their girls to that uppity Sidwell Friends with no apologies to the public schools they were shafting. Did she think her kid would magically develop intellectually at the same level? That she would love to read, be able to sit still and concentrate, learn geometry and trig, etc? What outcome did she expect?

I don't want to read that 4000-word "woopsie" either, but I'd like to know if her daughter has discovered that she can't read, write, or math for shit.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 02:56 PM (mmrXZ)

108 And it pretty much comes down to men can't get pregnant.
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what about the writing your name in the snow!! That's my favorite.

Posted by: Maximilian at September 21, 2026 02:56 PM (anL5R)

109 2 The children must be destroyed to save the children.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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Exactly. These people are ghouls. The children are expendable in their eyes as long as it protects their precious ideology.

Posted by: scampydog at September 21, 2026 02:57 PM (2bFN5)

110 Bet the kid was pumped full of Adderall and other pharmaceuticals. Diagnosed with depression, ADD , social media disorder and hot dog fingers

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2026 02:57 PM (taL2t)

111 Slavery and the slave trade are thousands of years old. The Phoenicians were shipping slaves as cargo 4000 years ago. Slavery is referenced all throughout the Old Testament. It's been part of human history about as long as there's been human history. The difference is western civilization (mostly the Brits and the US) eventually fought it and outlawed it. Slavery still exists in backwards-ass middle eastern and sub-Saharan countries. I'm over all this bullshít.

Posted by: Ignorant fuckers need to shut up at September 21, 2026 02:55 PM (TbWk/)
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People who lose the plot that easily can STFU too.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 02:57 PM (Fi81e)

112 now lets be fair. her kids are the reason these schools perform poorly

Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 21, 2026 02:57 PM (jrgJz)

113 >>And it pretty much comes down to men can't get pregnant.

So now they know the difference between men and women?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 02:57 PM (viF8m)

114 How come every time I see a TV commercial when I am out and about somewhere all the black folks are successful, happy, new Kia car driving, Gain laundry detergent smelling, super hip Pizza Hut loving Negroes in nice homes and loving America and Wal Mart and all her bounty. Not like Ms. Jones says, bitter and angry, but happy and cheerful and smart and wearing NFL gear.

Somethings missing...

Posted by: Frank Costanza at September 21, 2026 02:57 PM (6VpiA)

115 108 And it pretty much comes down to men can't get pregnant.
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what about the writing your name in the snow!! That's my favorite.

Posted by: Maximilian at September 21, 2026 02:56 PM (anL5R)

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"I don't get to vote for my kids, giving me an outsized influence on electoral politics because men don't respect me as an individual."
-probably

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 02:57 PM (SvJcA)

116 Big thunder boomers here and the dog has jumped into the bath tub.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 02:51 PM (wOO3z)


Big thunder boobers > big thunder boomers

Posted by: Sort of a callback at September 21, 2026 02:57 PM (TbWk/)

117
A mind is (no longer) a terrible thing to waste.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 02:58 PM (mmrXZ)

118 I like the part where the school was like, "you don't need algebra, we're going to teach you this whole math" or some stupid shit like that.

And she was passing all the prior math classes with As.

And dong real well in that goofy ass new, better than algebra, mathematics class.

But didn't know how to do division or multiplication.

And here's the real shitty thing:
The taxpayers will have paid hundreds of thousands for the education of each of those kids.
On the promise that universal education benefits all of society.
And none of them, not a one, will be employable upon graduation.
So the taxpayers will be forced, again at the barrel end of a gun, to fund their idle, destructive, corrosive lives until they get killed in gang violence or die, drug overdose or otherwise.

And you're a racist if you oppose any part of that spending.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 02:58 PM (3cUTc)

119 Because becoming preggers is something that just happens, women have no say in when or where it happens...

Posted by: Thrawn at September 21, 2026 02:55 PM (oPFtC)
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Nature doesn't give them the choice men have.

Nature's a meanie.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 02:58 PM (Fi81e)

120 Pretty much the first thing The United States did when it became The United States was ban the importation of slaves.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 21, 2026 02:56 PM (XV/Pl)

20 years from the start of the constitution. One of the few concessions the free states got that managed to help them. It also made slaves expensive, so on the average their treatment had to be better than the average worldwide.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 02:58 PM (uhVAy)

121 My money says that what Hannah got was due to affirmative action and only affirmative action.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at September 21, 2026 02:58 PM (kN53m)

122 UFO sighting reported over Iran. Weird craft all kinds of flashy lights. Clearly not hiding.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 21, 2026 02:59 PM (r7+Q7)

123 Upon getting out of a small condo our kids were under 7 when we bought our first house. We chose it based on its location to probably the best public High School in Houston at the time. They've done well.

You have to be 3rd degree dumbass to send your kid through a shitschool just because when a better option was available.

Posted by: DanMan at September 21, 2026 03:00 PM (8uzBS)

124 Who names their kid Najya?
Posted by: The quiet part out loud at September 21, 2026 02:52

Najya Bidness.

Posted by: Minuteman at September 21, 2026 03:00 PM (47/pr)

125 114 How come every time I see a TV commercial when I am out and about somewhere all the black folks are successful, happy, new Kia car driving, Gain laundry detergent smelling, super hip Pizza Hut loving Negroes in nice homes and loving America and Wal Mart and all her bounty. Not like Ms. Jones says, bitter and angry, but happy and cheerful and smart and wearing NFL gear.

Somethings missing...
Posted by: Frank Costanza at September 21, 2026 02:57 PM

Where my EBT card at?

Posted by: The Southeastern Conference at September 21, 2026 03:00 PM (2Ez/1)

126 UFO sighting reported over Iran. Weird craft all kinds of flashy lights. Clearly not hiding.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 21, 2026 02:59 PM (r7+Q7)



https://shorturl.fm/NGOXb

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 03:00 PM (ccf/V)

127 UFO sighting reported over Iran. Weird craft all kinds of flashy lights. Clearly not hiding.
==
Space Force.

Posted by: Donnie Two Scoops at September 21, 2026 03:01 PM (anL5R)

128 Unless the apple has fallen very far from the tree, this kid isn't smart enough to merit an education anyway.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 21, 2026 03:01 PM (ca8Qt)

129 >>Slavery still exists in backwards-ass middle eastern and sub-Saharan countries. I'm over all this bullshít.

After Obama and Hillary blew up Libya to cover up their gun running there were reports of public slave selling in the country. Once leftists realized how bad it made Obama and Hillary look they stopped covering it.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 03:01 PM (viF8m)

130 Where my EBT card at?

Posted by: La'Shondra at September 21, 2026 03:01 PM (2Ez/1)

131 I live in a very blue area of a red state. Our HS is very well ranked and unabashedly so. Every spring kids put out colleges they got accepted to on the lawn. Lots of top tier names.

None of these AWFLs would be caught dead with their kids in a ghetto school. But they cheer when blacks send their kids there. Because that’s less competition.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 21, 2026 03:01 PM (ITULZ)

132 She did it for the childrens!

Posted by: dananjcon at September 21, 2026 03:01 PM (8C1eU)

133 13 Where's dad?
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In the Cuckshed waiting for the latest bull to finish and wash up.

Posted by: Martin Tell at September 21, 2026 03:02 PM (6yK+O)

134 130 Where my EBT card at?
Posted by: La'Shondra at September 21, 2026 03:01 PM (2Ez/1)

Donde esta mi tarjeta del EBT, ese?

Posted by: Carlos Mencia at September 21, 2026 03:02 PM (TbWk/)

135 The Orange Ogre has commandeered a squadron of UFO's.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 03:03 PM (wOO3z)

136
UFO sighting reported over Iran. Weird craft all kinds of flashy lights. Clearly not hiding.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 21, 2026 02:59 PM (r7+Q7)



It was Trump's Party Zeppelin.


Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 03:03 PM (iJfKG)

137
135 The Orange Ogre has commandeered a squadron of UFO's.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 03:03 PM (wOO3z)

======

"Best to oppose him to the point where he declares us direct enemies, I guess."
-the left

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 03:03 PM (SvJcA)

138 How come every time I see a TV commercial when I am out and about somewhere all the black folks are successful, happy, new Kia car driving, Gain laundry detergent smelling, super hip Pizza Hut loving Negroes in nice homes and loving America and Wal Mart and all her bounty. Not like Ms. Jones says, bitter and angry, but happy and cheerful and smart and wearing NFL gear.

Somethings missing...
Posted by: Frank Costanza at September 21, 2026 02:57 PM


Kia? Dafuq?!

Posted by: Nissan at September 21, 2026 03:03 PM (bFu5X)

139 Where my EBT card at?
Posted by: La'Shondra at September 21, 2026 03:01 PM (2Ez/1)

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Under your work boots.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 21, 2026 03:03 PM (2UnvF)

140
Does anyone remember a couple of years ago when some British expert recommended that white people deliberately stunt their kids educationally and emotionally to level the playing field for kids of color? And everyone said she was insane?

Hannah Nikole-Jones took it seriously. Unbelievable. Why didn't she feed the kid anti-freeze while she was at it?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 03:03 PM (mmrXZ)

141 Just F'in WOW.

I feel sorry for her kids.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 21, 2026 03:03 PM (Q/FnY)

142 >>And it pretty much comes down to men can't get pregnant.

So now they know the difference between men and women?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 02:57 PM (viF8m)
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Well, they have to know what they are rebelling against. But they have moved on to Nature makes them mostly girls and boys. So "men" can get pregnant.

It's the thing about progressivism, you have to "progress" your mind.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 03:03 PM (Fi81e)

143 Funniest commercials are for anything to do with camping or hunting showing black families. Like ads for a Tacoma or whatever out in the rugged mountains ready for a day of fishing or hiking or hunting….with a black family in it.

I’ll take things that literally have never happened in real life for $1400 Alex.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 21, 2026 03:04 PM (ITULZ)

144 My locale saw some happy font signs pop up asking for "yes" on Prop A and Prop B.

I could tell it was some commie, lying bullshit by the font.

Looked it up.

Yup. Bond election to fund new school facilities.
I don't even have to look further to know they're peddling the same old lie about how it "won't increase property taxes."
Because they roll the old bond tax rate into it and--instead of paying them off and reducing taxes--taxes "stay" the same.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 03:04 PM (3cUTc)

145 Somethings missing...

Posted by: Frank Costanza at September 21, 2026 02:57 PM
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Probably a picture ID. They can't get those.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 03:04 PM (Fi81e)

146 There needs to be a nationwide search to see if there is a single Somalian that isn't a corrupt pirate.

>>@KatieDaviscourt

>>BREAKING: I investigated SOMALI DAYCARES in the Seattle metro and uncovered over $5 MILLION of potential misuse of taxpayer funds.

>>When I knocked on doors, no one answered. Neighbors told me they have never seen any kids!

>>These individual daycares are receiving $40,000 - $70,000 per month.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 03:05 PM (viF8m)

147 Funniest commercials are for anything to do with camping or hunting showing black families. Like ads for a Tacoma or whatever out in the rugged mountains ready for a day of fishing or hiking or hunting….with a black family in it.

I’ll take things that literally have never happened in real life for $1400 Alex.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 21, 2026 03:04 PM (ITULZ)

Black people can't camp or hunt or fish because white people have colonized all these spaces.

Posted by: Also swimming pools at September 21, 2026 03:05 PM (TbWk/)

148 How'd things work out for Maliqua and Sashiqua?

Posted by: OBTW at September 21, 2026 03:06 PM (2Ez/1)

149 Beautiful! Luxurious UFO's!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 03:06 PM (wOO3z)

150 Does anyone remember a couple of years ago when some British expert recommended that white people deliberately stunt their kids educationally and emotionally to level the playing field for kids of color? And everyone said she was insane?

Hannah Nikole-Jones took it seriously. Unbelievable. Why didn't she feed the kid anti-freeze while she was at it?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 03:03 PM (mmrXZ)

probably because that wasn't a progressive trend then.

Though it seems like she missed the part of Leftist thought where you don't let those lofty ideas affect your life at all. Although since she seems to be living better than most she isn't ready to sacrifice herself for those ideals.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 03:06 PM (uhVAy)

151 Now, now, there's always the leftist foundation grift track.

But there's less of one with USAID shut down and Nick Shirley sniffing around.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 03:07 PM (2ocoG)

152
You all seem to think a college doctorate in Jive and Ebonics is easy.

Posted by: Auspex at September 21, 2026 03:07 PM (Y8DZL)

153 Black people can't camp or hunt or fish because white people have colonized all these spaces.
Posted by: Also swimming pools at September 21, 2026 03:05 PM


Plus they need picture IDs for their hunting and fishing permits and we know they can't get those.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 21, 2026 03:07 PM (bFu5X)

154 My hands tightened on the steering wheel as I worked to keep my face neutral, buying a few moments to gather my thoughts.

Steering wheel? FOOL!! It should have been her neck!!!

Posted by: Lindsay Clancy Supporters at September 21, 2026 03:08 PM (guGkK)

155 I'd like to welcome these big beautiful Zeta Reticulans, terrific extraterrestrials, just great, the best extraterrestrials, really terrific.

Posted by: PDT and the aliens at September 21, 2026 03:08 PM (TbWk/)

156 Funniest commercials are for anything to do with camping or hunting showing black families. Like ads for a Tacoma or whatever out in the rugged mountains ready for a day of fishing or hiking or hunting….with a black family in it.

I’ll take things that literally have never happened in real life for $1400 Alex.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 21, 2026 03:04 PM (ITULZ)

Black people can't camp or hunt or fish because white people have colonized all these spaces.
Posted by: Also swimming pools at September 21, 2026 03:05 PM (TbWk/)


And they have to camp twice as hard as white people,

just to say they've been camping.

And don't get me started on how many times harder they have to roast marshmallows!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 03:08 PM (iJfKG)

157 "This sounds like a lie. It sounds like she sent her daughter to a shit school to boost her own career by proving how Blackety Black she was, and is now trying to justify that selfish choice."

exactly. she says it herself; her daughter was "a symbol"

not a human

kinda like a clump of cells?

anyway, hope the kid turns out based af from her experiences, that would rock!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 03:08 PM (VyBeY)

158 Britain didn't outlaw slavery until 1833.

I think 1776 was prior to 1833.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 03:08 PM (KC5Lt)

159 Notice how it's always someone else making the sacrifice?

Posted by: AMartel at September 21, 2026 03:09 PM (EyAQh)

160 When Najya was entering pre-K, my husband, Faraji...

Say no more.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 03:09 PM (guGkK)

161
Slavery and the slave trade are thousands of years old.

Posted by: Ignorant fuckers need to shut up

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I'm seeing a few content creators on X who post about the slave trade in the Ottoman empire and elsewhere throughout the Muslim world. This stuff ought to be pushed HARD at every damn Muslim running for office -- but GOPers won't do it. I'd be screaming Abdul el-Sayed down about reparations, I'd be describing the horrors in detail, I'd be flaunting the numbers.

Someone, do it for God's sakes.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 03:09 PM (mmrXZ)

162 I don't think Jones knows how to equity....

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 03:09 PM (Fi81e)

163 Until 'acting white' is not an insult in the black community we will continue to have a racial divide.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 03:10 PM (KC5Lt)

164 Hannah Nikole-Jones took it seriously. Unbelievable. Why didn't she feed the kid anti-freeze while she was at it?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 03:03 PM (mmrXZ)

Antifreeze is SO 1990s. Ligature strangulation is the new hotness.

Posted by: get with the times at September 21, 2026 03:10 PM (TbWk/)

165 Britain didn't outlaw slavery until 1833.

I think 1776 was prior to 1833.
Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 03:08 PM (KC5Lt)



And remember:

History didn't start until Barack Owebama got elected.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 03:11 PM (ccf/V)

166 165 And remember:

History didn't start until Barack Owebama got elected.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 03:11 PM (ccf/V)

==========

"That right wing corporatist?"
-the modern left

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 03:11 PM (SvJcA)

167 wait until her daughter reads harrison bergeron

Posted by: sithkhan at September 21, 2026 03:11 PM (UjjDn)

168 Ask your pediatrician if Ligature strangulation is right for your child.

Posted by: Massachusetts Department of Family Services at September 21, 2026 03:12 PM (2Ez/1)

169 wait until her daughter reads harrison bergeron
Posted by: sithkhan at September 21, 2026 03:11 PM


"Reads"?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 21, 2026 03:12 PM (bFu5X)

170 'm seeing a few content creators on X who post about the slave trade in the Ottoman empire and elsewhere throughout the Muslim world. This stuff ought to be pushed HARD at every damn Muslim running for office -- but GOPers won't do it. I'd be screaming Abdul el-Sayed down about reparations, I'd be describing the horrors in detail, I'd be flaunting the numbers.

Someone, do it for God's sakes.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 03:09 PM (mmrXZ)

Note there was also a slave trade coming *south* run by the Vikings and Rus to ship Euro slaves to the Muslim areas. Also one in the Balkans after the fall of Constantinople. Raids by pirates in Ireland, Britain, France.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 03:12 PM (uhVAy)

171
How'd things work out for Maliqua and Sashiqua?
Posted by: OBTW

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GREAT, of course. Their parents sent them to Sidwell Friends, not those public schools that were enshittified by their teachers' union donors.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 03:12 PM (mmrXZ)

172 >>I'm seeing a few content creators on X who post about the slave trade in the Ottoman empire and elsewhere throughout the Muslim world. This stuff ought to be pushed HARD at every damn Muslim running for office -- but GOPers won't do it. I'd be screaming Abdul el-Sayed down about reparations, I'd be describing the horrors in detail, I'd be flaunting the numbers.

Confiscating the passports of foreign workers is fairly common in places Qatar.

Now youse can't leave.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 03:12 PM (viF8m)

173 History didn't start until Barack Owebama got elected.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 03:11 PM (ccf/V)

==========

"That right wing corporatist?"
-the modern left
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 03:11 PM (SvJcA)

Ironic considering he very much was a corporatist. Obamacare is one of the most economically fascist things our country had been subjected to since the New Deal.

Posted by: But corporations are Republicans!!!! at September 21, 2026 03:13 PM (TbWk/)

174 I think 1776 was prior to 1833.
Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 03:08 PM (KC5Lt)


You and your white colonizer oppressor math, how dare you truck that in here and shame everyone.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 21, 2026 03:13 PM (rbvCR)

175 173 Ironic considering he very much was a corporatist. Obamacare is one of the most economically fascist things our country had been subjected to since the New Deal.

Posted by: But corporations are Republicans!!!! at September 21, 2026 03:13 PM (TbWk/)

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Well, fascism is of the left, but otherwise, yeah.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 03:13 PM (SvJcA)

176 New York is considered one of this nation's most liberal cities, while operating a school system that is among the most racially segregated. This segregation exists because policymakers and affluent parents -- even those who profess a belief in integration and equality
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She's learned something she is actively refusing to learn. Professing is the minimum requirement of liberal politics.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 03:13 PM (Fi81e)

177 If NHJ had been really woke, she would have transed her kid as well.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 21, 2026 03:14 PM (aD4fx)

178 Britain outlawed slavery because thier slave did not compete well aganist A

Posted by: MAC V SOG at September 21, 2026 03:14 PM (P4Pk9)

179 So now the daughter has to not only try to catch up education wise, she has to reconcile in her heart the evil her parents were willing to do to her, to deny her the greatest gift parents can give, for their own benefit. So her “mother” could virtue signal to the AWFLs…….. for what reason?

It’s simply horrible.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 21, 2026 03:14 PM (yyEWD)

180 177 If NHJ had been really woke, she would have transed her kid as well.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 21, 2026 03:14 PM (aD4fx)

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She would have firebombed de Blasio for his whiteness and for trying to dilute blackness by marrying a black woman.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 03:14 PM (SvJcA)

181 Everything Nikole Hannah-Jones has ever said, it's garbage.

Posted by: Guy who always says "It's garbage" at September 21, 2026 03:14 PM (MWfyi)

182 So I guess Dartmouth is out of the question?

Posted by: dananjcon at September 21, 2026 03:14 PM (8C1eU)

183 I'm seeing a few content creators on X who post about the slave trade in the Ottoman empire and elsewhere throughout the Muslim world. This stuff ought to be pushed HARD at every damn Muslim running for office -- but GOPers won't do it. I'd be screaming Abdul el-Sayed down about reparations, I'd be describing the horrors in detail, I'd be flaunting the numbers
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As my hard-left, Jewish history professor, who wrote a book of African history, would say:
"for every slave that went west out of Africa, two went east."

There are no black populations of any significance in the Middle East.

I just learned that the other day there is a black quarter in Gaza, where the black muslims are only allowed to live.
The local word for it isn't "little Africa" or some cutesy western-style term.
It's Arabic for "slave."
Every black who is a muslim or supports a muslim is either is a slave or wishes to be a slaver.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 03:14 PM (3cUTc)

184
Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 03:12 PM (uhVAy)

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Oh yeah, I'm aware that everyone enslaved everyone at some point. I want to harp on the effing Muslims for now. Shout to the rafters about Muslim slavers, and while liberals are catching their breath, start shouting about their anti-gayness as well.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 03:14 PM (mmrXZ)

185 Confiscating the passports of foreign workers is fairly common in places Qatar.

Now youse can't leave.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 03:12 PM (viF8m)


Slavery is a legal status, not a social class. It is enforced specifically by the government.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 21, 2026 03:15 PM (rbvCR)

186 "I don't want to read that 4000-word "woopsie" either, but I'd like to know if her daughter has discovered that she can't read, write, or math for shit."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

The girl is probably higher IQ than the blacks that were bussed out. She likely learned those White Supremacist traits ... work hard, study hard. So she could do OK even in a worse school ... if she doesn't get stabbed, or groomed, or beaten up every other day.

The problem with black neighborhoods is kids grow up with the black culture, and a sense of victimhood and entitlement, at the same time. And there really is an IQ gap.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 21, 2026 03:15 PM (vbXSk)

187 At some point, her daughter needs to ask, “mom, why did you choose to become a mother?” Am I nothing more than an accessory to you?

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 21, 2026 03:15 PM (yyEWD)

188 "118 I like the part where the school was like, "you don't need algebra, we're going to teach you this whole math" or some stupid shit like that.

And she was passing all the prior math classes with As.

And dong real well in that goofy ass new, better than algebra, mathematics class.

But didn't know how to do division or multiplication.

And here's the real shitty thing:
The taxpayers will have paid hundreds of thousands for the education of each of those kids.
On the promise that universal education benefits all of society.
And none of them, not a one, will be employable upon graduation.
So the taxpayers will be forced, again at the barrel end of a gun, to fund their idle, destructive, corrosive lives until they get killed in gang violence or die, drug overdose or otherwise.

And you're a racist if you oppose any part of that spending.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 02:58 PM (3cUTc) "


all part of the plan.
"hate us and want us dead" doesn't apply just to the right ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 03:15 PM (VyBeY)

189 Well, fascism is of the left, but otherwise, yeah.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 03:13 PM (SvJcA)

Part of the irony of Democrats decrying corporatism as fascist whole pushing it harder than Republicans ever have...

Posted by: A point made obliquely and poorly by me at September 21, 2026 03:16 PM (TbWk/)

190 It'll be funny when the kid gets into Harvard and Stanford etc and everyone acts confused.

Posted by: nckate at September 21, 2026 03:16 PM (enNUy)

191
I just learned that the other day there is a black quarter in Gaza, where the black muslims are only allowed to live.
The local word for it isn't "little Africa" or some cutesy western-style term.
It's Arabic for "slave."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

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

I know that in Baghdad, the black area is known as "Slave Street." I suspect it's the same in other Arab capitals -- Damascus, Amman.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 03:17 PM (mmrXZ)

192 190 It'll be funny when the kid gets into Harvard and Stanford etc and everyone acts confused.

Posted by: nckate at September 21, 2026 03:16 PM (enNUy)

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Precisely no one will act confused.

We saw David Hogg getting into Harvard.

We are inured to this bullshit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 03:17 PM (SvJcA)

193 It'll be funny when the kid gets into Harvard and Stanford etc and everyone acts confused.
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David Hogg got in on the merits of his HS academic performance, as is well-known.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 03:18 PM (3cUTc)

194 Meanwhile, a Leftist in Portland fails to notice Predictable Consequences:

a really good way to help balance district enrollment needs and better integrate schools would be to allow multifamily apartment construction in laurelhurst [a rich neighborhood], to fund more affordable housing and site it on the westside [a rich area], move forward with social housing on the eastmoreland golf courses [another rich area], etc etc etc

Because rich people in rich neighborhoods with good schools will continue to send their kids to those schools when half of the students in those schools come from Section 8 families. /s

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 21, 2026 03:18 PM (aD4fx)

195 "We saw David Hogg getting into Harvard. "

I know, right? LOL

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 03:19 PM (VyBeY)

196 We saw David Hogg getting into Harvard.
==
David Hogg was a once in a generation get for Harvard. The Yaleys were sooooooo jelly!!!

Posted by: Idiot Elites Idioting at September 21, 2026 03:19 PM (anL5R)

197 "Hannah-Jones is the inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at the Howard University School of Communications, where she also founded the Center for Journalism and Democracy."

She is in Higher Education and is supposed to be an expert on racial discrimination in American schools, per her Wiki.

Posted by: KT at September 21, 2026 03:19 PM (1RGZ5)

198 "You're a guinea pig, Nadya. Don't you know Guinea pig?"

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 03:19 PM (guGkK)

199 Confiscating the passports of foreign workers is fairly common in places Qatar.

Now youse can't leave.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 03:12 PM (viF8m)

First thing the Saudis do.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 03:19 PM (wOO3z)

200 Every child I going to have an AI tutor able to take them as deeply into any academic topic as the student desires. The tutor is also going to probe the student's mastery of the subject matter much more thoroughly than any public school teacher, or even a private human tutor, would be able to do. Children may still struggle with dysfunctional families, dangerous neighborhoods and food insecurity (snort!). But a poor child will have comprehensive access to the same educational resources as the rich child.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 21, 2026 03:20 PM (2ap+5)

201 Little did I know my own daughter would turn against me and side with literal white supremacists. Her obvious jealousy of my Instagram following, and the likes of my recent TikTok, lip synching to Gloria Gaynor, was the external manifestation an internalized educational inferiority complex. As a descendant of enslaved peoples, I recognized the symptoms. I had created a monster.
There was only one thing left to do. I sent my husband on errands I knew would take an hour or more.

Posted by: Nikole Hannah Jones. at September 21, 2026 03:20 PM (wGerL)

202 Every child I going to have an AI tutor able to take them as deeply into any academic topic as the student desires. The tutor is also going to probe the student's mastery of the subject matter much more thoroughly than any public school teacher, or even a private human tutor, would be able to do. Children may still struggle with dysfunctional families, dangerous neighborhoods and food insecurity (snort!). But a poor child will have comprehensive access to the same educational resources as the rich child.
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NOT ON YOUR LIFE BUDDY!!!!!!

Posted by: Teacher at September 21, 2026 03:21 PM (anL5R)

203 AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHA

*breathe*

HAAAAHAHHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA


Posted by: ballistic at September 21, 2026 03:22 PM (5aZAZ)

204 The US put a travel advisory for African-Americans traveling to Spain during the Obama administration IIRC. Could have been during Trump 1.0.

USA is the least racist country in the world by far.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 03:22 PM (KC5Lt)

205 Remember when Howard Stern use to talk about how his Parents did they same and he would get picked on and beaten up all the time, you know before he went all woke and crazy

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 21, 2026 03:22 PM (OFAtD)

206
So now the daughter has to not only try to catch up education wise, she has to reconcile in her heart the evil her parents were willing to do to her, to deny her the greatest gift parents can give, for their own benefit. So her “mother” could virtue signal to the AWFLs…….. for what reason?

Posted by: nurse ratched

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

I wonder if the daughter will figure out that wypipo aren't her enemy. Apparently she was smart enough to do her own research and look at her school's lousy rankings -- will she go further and take another look at "white supremacy"?

Heh, it would be hilarious if she caught up but good and learned just how much of a fraud her mother is. Maybe she could write an expose of her lousy school and lead a campaign against the teachers' un----

okay, now I'm losing control.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 03:22 PM (mmrXZ)

207 204 The US put a travel advisory for African-Americans traveling to Spain during the Obama administration IIRC. Could have been during Trump 1.0.

USA is the least racist country in the world by far.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 03:22 PM (KC5Lt)

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So anti-racist that we let in a host of anti-white racists to prove our bonafides.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 03:23 PM (SvJcA)

208 I said I was aware of her school's academic rankings, but that test scores alone do not define a school.


So true. You also have to take account the rapes and the racial attacks.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 03:23 PM (guGkK)

209 200 Every child I going to have an AI tutor able to take them as deeply into any academic topic as the student desires. The tutor is also going to probe the student's mastery of the subject matter much more thoroughly than any public school teacher, or even a private human tutor, would be able to do.
Posted by: Oglebay at September 21, 2026 03:20 PM (2ap+5)
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After you posted something similar last week, I spent a bit of time getting Claude to build apps to tutor my kids on a couple of different subjects with scalable difficulty levels based on their mastery, starting at the basics for their grade level and progressing up to three grade levels higher. Works fantastically well and my kids both are super excited to use the tools.

Posted by: ballistic at September 21, 2026 03:24 PM (5aZAZ)

210 You've heard of "Helicopter Parents".

Nikole is a "Helicopter Ride Parent".

She took her child and dropped her off at a school simply because it was black. Like, kicked the kid out of the hovering helicopter like she was some South American presidente, then flew away

Did mommy follow up on the schooling? On the homework? Home teaching for any gaps? Doesn't sound like it.

She only found out because the poor kid confronted her. And said kid was smart enough to realize that the cubbron stunt of a egg donor ruined her childhood education as a political stunt. And said donor only understood when it was directly pointed out to her. Well, maybe didn't quite understand. Just enough to realize she had her next publishing article for the next deadline.

If DataRepublican can standardized her "6 weeks = 2 years" AI-based training regime for kids, victims like Nikole's child might actually succeed.

And the 'teachers' that were directly responsible for the failure? Directly; not indirect ones tied down by Lowest-Common-Denominator thugs-in-seats because the admins get $$$ for each filled seat and passed-through kid. Those teachers and admins should get their own helicopter rides.

Posted by: Another Anon at September 21, 2026 03:24 PM (4h45B)

211 Afternoon.

Here, we se a might Moosleeeem mujahid preparing for winter by storing khat in his cheeks.

https://tinyurl.com/4x49kd4r

Posted by: Robert at September 21, 2026 03:24 PM (dpXJq)

212 Odd, first I've heard about this issue. Figures it is only being covered by overseas media.

>>@Alix_FNEK
·
2h
>>Translated from French
Over the past six months, 320 people have been fired by MS NOW due to their political opinions.

>>More than 200 specialists in various fields are suing MS NOW for the misappropriation of their names.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 03:24 PM (viF8m)

213 What does this have to do with Ed Sheeran having no balls?

Posted by: wth at September 21, 2026 03:25 PM (UjdFS)

214 Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 21, 2026 03:22 PM (OFAtD)

I remember but started hating him more for being such a pussy.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 03:25 PM (KC5Lt)

215 Wait til her daughter finds out there's nothing special about Ivy league schools.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at September 21, 2026 03:25 PM (gynjj)

216 27 25 Don't worry about Najya, she'll end up at an Ivy.
Posted by: mr tmz at September 21, 2026 02:37 PM

The downside for her of ending up in a highly-ranked school would be that she won't be able to major in any technical subject. She's have to major in left-wing agitation in the sociology department.

Posted by: Dave at September 21, 2026 03:25 PM (sbsMc)

217 I remember the days when Twitter would show me David Hogg tweets all of the time. The boy couldn't spell or use basic punctuation correctly. He couldn't make a logical argument, and he made really basic mistakes of fact regularly.

If Harvard faculty had any sense of pride or shame, they should have rioted when that dunce got in based on his activism alone.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 21, 2026 03:25 PM (mkw2N)

218 Now that I know him, to give him money isn't charity
He gives me some knowledge, I buy him some shoes
And to think blacks spend all that money on big colleges,
still most of y'all come out confused

Go ahead, Mr. Wendal...

Posted by: Yale and Harvard at September 21, 2026 03:25 PM (6VpiA)

219 I wonder if this is more idiotic virtue signaling for her political in-group, or if this is this dumb bint subconsciously pulling the ladder up behind her at the expense of her own kid?

Either way, LOL. GF.

Posted by: ballistic at September 21, 2026 03:26 PM (5aZAZ)

220 Ima guess this POS doesn't live in majority black section 8 housing. She's only down with the virtue signaling only when it's someone else doing the suffering.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at September 21, 2026 03:26 PM (lfNXu)

221 The Leftist in Portland also has an innovative strategy for economic development!

Personally I'd rather see Portland on a list of top 10 major cities to be trans in than a list of top 10 major cities to invest in.

the thing is, Portland can and should be both, in that at this point our city’s economic prosperity is inexorably bound with our ability to proactively welcome anyone who wants to call our city home.


Just wait until the billions of dollars from trannys comes flooding into Portland!

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 21, 2026 03:26 PM (aD4fx)

222 217 I remember the days when Twitter would show me David Hogg tweets all of the time. The boy couldn't spell or use basic punctuation correctly. He couldn't make a logical argument, and he made really basic mistakes of fact regularly.

If Harvard faculty had any sense of pride or shame, they should have rioted when that dunce got in based on his activism alone.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 21, 2026 03:25 PM (mkw2N)

======

"We bilked the administration for four years to teach this kid how to follow the party line no matter what, which he knew already before he walked into our hallowed halls. We're fine with it."
-Harvard professors

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 03:26 PM (SvJcA)

223
Posted by: Oglebay at September 21, 2026 03:20 PM (2ap+5)

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ChatGPT has a lot of answers, but kids need to figure out which questions to ask.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 03:26 PM (mmrXZ)

224 Afternoon.

Here, we se a might Moosleeeem mujahid preparing for winter by storing khat in his cheeks.

https://tinyurl.com/4x49kd4r
Posted by: Robert


NOT THOSE CHEEKS! Stand up straight soldier!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 03:27 PM (hGTKn)

225 Wait til her daughter finds out there's nothing special about Ivy league schools.
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except for the fact that the other people in your class are connected, and if you marry one of them, like Kenjani Jackson Brown or whatever her name is, you might wind up as a federal judge or on the supreme court.

Posted by: Teacher at September 21, 2026 03:27 PM (anL5R)

226 After you posted something similar last week, I spent a bit of time getting Claude to build apps to tutor my kids on a couple of different subjects with scalable difficulty levels based on their mastery, starting at the basics for their grade level and progressing up to three grade levels higher. Works fantastically well and my kids both are super excited to use the tools.
Posted by: ballistic at September 21, 2026 03:24 PM (5aZAZ)

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That is great! I use ChatGPT in a very simple way to do very similar things. I have an old text book on abstract algebra and I can ask the AI for help with specific proofs from that text and it knows right away what I'm doing. I have tried using it for piano, but that has admittedly been a bit of a disappointment.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 21, 2026 03:27 PM (2ap+5)

227 >>>Remember when Howard Stern use to talk about how his Parents did they same and he would get picked on and beaten up all the time, you know before he went all woke and crazy

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio

>Howardd pretends he was the only Jew beaten up going into a black neighborhood. I had a buddy who used to get beaten up everyday just getting on the bus.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 21, 2026 03:27 PM (5C90x)

228 ChatGPT has a lot of answers, but kids need to figure out which questions to ask.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia


Answers - $2
Wrong Answers - $3
Correct Answers - $5

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 03:28 PM (hGTKn)

229
our city’s economic prosperity is inexorably bound with our ability to proactively welcome anyone who wants to call our city home.

Posted by: The ARC of History!

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

Except capitalists.

Posted by: The Lefty Logic Machine at September 21, 2026 03:28 PM (mmrXZ)

230 Texas allows automatic acceptance into any State University if you graduate in the top 10% of your school. You can imagine how far behind some of these poor kids find themselves when they get to college.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 03:28 PM (KC5Lt)

231 "In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?"

Does anybody effing care?

Go watch "Forest Gump."

See if you can figure it out.

Posted by: Kurtz at September 21, 2026 03:28 PM (XUlFC)

232 The irony of this is mind boggling. She has been so successful in this country she could send her child to an amazing school, but because she feels the US is racist, she chose not to do it.

I wonder what an actual slave would say to her upon hearing this…

Posted by: Piper at September 21, 2026 03:28 PM (ZdaMQ)

233 > Wait til her daughter finds out there's nothing special about Ivy league schools.

The facilities are really nice and you can network. The networking has always been the biggest draw of the Ivies.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 21, 2026 03:28 PM (mkw2N)

234 I've worked for and with intelligent black folk. Why do so many corrupt midwits and halfwits rise to the top?

Posted by: Happens With Whites, Too at September 21, 2026 03:29 PM (Fn+3X)

235
Texas allows automatic acceptance into any State University if you graduate in the top 10% of your school. You can imagine how far behind some of these poor kids find themselves when they get to college.
Posted by: polynikes

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

I've heard about that. Obviously a plan devised by people who learned nothing useful in college.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 03:30 PM (mmrXZ)

236 234 I've worked for and with intelligent black folk. Why do so many corrupt midwits and halfwits rise to the top?
Posted by: Happens With Whites, Too at September 21, 2026 03:29 PM (Fn+3X)
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DEI and the Peter Principle.

Posted by: ballistic at September 21, 2026 03:30 PM (5aZAZ)

237 Rick Wilson is on X trying to cancel Domino's because they gave a compliment to Kayleigh McEnany--6 years ago, before she ever joined the Trump Admin.

Erick Erickson is out there doubling down on his AI slop accusing everyone he doesn't like of being white supremacists, Christian nationalists and/or Nazis.

TDS is completely rotted their brains.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 03:30 PM (3cUTc)

238 Senators Reportedly Could Ditch Washington Early If They Fail To Reach Permitting Reform Agreement

The Senate may leave early for the October recess this week if they cannot reach a deal on permitting reform.

Didn't they just return from a long recess?

Posted by: beckster at September 21, 2026 03:31 PM (kX27y)

239 From her Wikipedia page:
Hannah-Jones was born in Waterloo, Iowa, to father Milton Hannah, who is black and African-American, and mother Cheryl A. Novotny, who is white and of Czech and English descent.

wtf does it mean to be black and African-American? Is that how half blacks pump up their blackness? And doesn't the left speak style guide require the capitalization of black?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 21, 2026 03:31 PM (syz1S)

240 Networking at the Ivies is a double-edged sword though. You have access to people with connections, but they get to know you pretty well, too. If you're a dunce with the wrong politics, those contacts won't help you.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 21, 2026 03:32 PM (mkw2N)

241 Afternoon.

Here, we se a might Moosleeeem mujahid preparing for winter by storing khat in his cheeks.

https://tinyurl.com/4x49kd4r
Posted by: Robert
........

4 out of 5 Yemeni dentists recommend it.

Posted by: wth at September 21, 2026 03:32 PM (UjdFS)

242 237
Erick Erickson is out there doubling down on his AI slop accusing everyone he doesn't like of being white supremacists, Christian nationalists and/or Nazis.

TDS is completely rotted their brains.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 03:30 PM (3cUTc)

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Erick Erickson has decided that conservatives who embrace the friend/enemy distinction as outlined by Eric Schmitt to be his enemies and worthy of all of his time and effort to destroy because he hates the friend/enemy distinction applied to the left, who he considers to be mere friends, not enemies like conservatives who advocate for using the friend/enemy distinction.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 03:32 PM (SvJcA)

243 wtf does it mean to be black and African-American? Is that how half blacks pump up their blackness? And doesn't the left speak style guide require the capitalization of black?
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 21, 2026 03:31 PM (syz1S)
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Well, Elon Musk is technically an African-American, so we can't have anyone getting confused about what actually matters here, which is the melanin content of a person's skin relative to others.

Posted by: ballistic at September 21, 2026 03:32 PM (5aZAZ)

244
1. Further disadvantage my already supposed disadvantaged black children.

2. ???

3. Racial Equity!!

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 03:33 PM (Fi81e)

245 Rick Wilson couldn't cancel a subscription to mens dance quarterly...

Posted by: shakes head at September 21, 2026 03:33 PM (anL5R)

246
If you're a dunce with the wrong politics, those contacts won't help you.
Posted by: bonhomme

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

Oh, I'm sure Najya Jones will have the right politics. Well, maybe not...

I wonder.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 03:33 PM (mmrXZ)

247 If NHJ had been really woke, she would have transed her kid as well.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 21, 2026 03:14 PM (aD4fx)

Girl is too old, being 18 or so. Next 5-10 years though that will hit the fan.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 03:33 PM (uhVAy)

248 We bilked the administration for four years to teach this kid how to follow the party line no matter what
-Harvard professors
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

... and he ends up on the DNC screaming for the chairman to step down.

Fail.

Posted by: Auspex at September 21, 2026 03:33 PM (Y8DZL)

249 240 Networking at the Ivies is a double-edged sword though. You have access to people with connections, but they get to know you pretty well, too. If you're a dunce with the wrong politics, those contacts won't help you.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 21, 2026 03:32 PM (mkw2N)

========

This is reportedly the reason that JD Vance and Usha got together.

The established power circles wouldn't embrace either of them, leaving them on the outside. So, all the white, blonde chicks looking for great marriage material never gave the poor, son of a hick, redneck and former Marine the time of day because he had no prospects.

Now, he has a greater chance of being president than any of their husbands will ever dream of.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 03:34 PM (SvJcA)

250 Nikole said, "My hands tightened on the steering wheel as I worked to keep my face neutral, buying a few moments to gather my thoughts."

And when the black bimbo on CBS heard the Lindsay Clacny holdout juror was black, she said needed to sit with that for a moment before continuing the interview.

Those instances my friends, are examples of what happens to someone when their minds are unexpectedly confronted with true reality that shatters their rigid as a diamond false reality. BOOM! Those professional liars needed time to actually think, for a change.

Posted by: Gref at September 21, 2026 03:34 PM (5rh/l)

251 "DEI and the Peter Principle."
Posted by: ballistic

Except DEI hires often start off at "their level of incompetence", but may continue advancing based only on their DEI qualities.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 21, 2026 03:34 PM (vbXSk)

252 I remember the days when Twitter would show me David Hogg tweets all of the time. The boy couldn't spell or use basic punctuation correctly. He couldn't make a logical argument, and he made really basic mistakes of fact regularly.
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Wait! I think I know now who ramindo is!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 21, 2026 03:34 PM (XeU6L)

253 The Senate may leave early for the October recess this week if they cannot reach a deal on permitting reform.

Didn't they just return from a long recess?
Posted by: beckster at September 21, 2026 03:31 PM (kX27y)
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Yes, but that just made them more tired.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 03:35 PM (Fi81e)

254 Can you 'ettes make up a most punchable list for women since currently I still hold to a not hitting a woman rule.

But if I ever decided to break the rule I think Ms Rachel would be on the top of the list.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 03:35 PM (KC5Lt)

255 From her Wikipedia page:
Hannah-Jones was born in Waterloo, Iowa, to father Milton Hannah, who is black and African-American, and mother Cheryl A. Novotny, who is white and of Czech and English descent.

wtf does it mean to be black and African-American? Is that how half blacks pump up their blackness? And doesn't the left speak style guide require the capitalization of black?
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 21, 2026 03:31 PM (syz1S)

Black was the cool name to call "Negros" in the 60s and 70s. African American was introduced in the 80s I think.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 03:35 PM (uhVAy)

256 Seems like nothing to me.
Just another leftist victimhood drama played out in public.

If her daughter isn’t an idiot she should be able to get into an Ivy League school with her mother’s influence just so she can come out the other end an indoctrinated, racist, fanatic, communist like her mother.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2026 03:36 PM (6ydKt)

257 I've worked for and with intelligent black folk. Why do so many corrupt midwits and halfwits rise to the top?
Posted by: Happens With Whites, Too at September 21, 2026 03:29 PM (Fn+3X)


DEI

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 21, 2026 03:36 PM (LWsa7)

258 The Communist Party Uber Alles.

Posted by: ShainS at September 21, 2026 03:36 PM (5tQ90)

259 wtf does it mean to be black and African-American?

Black is a skin color, African-American is ghetto culture.

Ask a black African. Or don't, they'll tell you anyway probably. They *hate* the whole "black = rapping gangster with pants around their knees" thing.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 03:37 PM (2ocoG)

260 wtf does it mean to be black and African-American? Is that how half blacks pump up their blackness? And doesn't the left speak style guide require the capitalization of black?
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 21, 2026 03:31 PM (syz1S)
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Well, Elon Musk is technically an African-American, so we can't have anyone getting confused about what actually matters here, which is the melanin content of a person's skin relative to others.
Posted by: ballistic


If 6% DNA isn't enough to be considered black, why is 0% DNA 🧬 considered enough to be a woman?

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 03:37 PM (hGTKn)

261 wtf does it mean to be black and African-American? Is that how half blacks pump up their blackness? And doesn't the left speak style guide require the capitalization of black?
_______

Is a black aboriginal living here then an Australian-American?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 21, 2026 03:38 PM (XvL8K)

262 I loved when a sports announcer had identified a French black athlete as African-American.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 03:39 PM (KC5Lt)

263 Texas allows automatic acceptance into any State University if you graduate in the top 10% of your school. You can imagine how far behind some of these poor kids find themselves when they get to college.
Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 03:28 PM (KC5Lt)

Affirmative action and the dodges around it means that Blacks are poorly matched to Universities and either fail (50 percent) or divert to useless or politically charged degrees.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 03:39 PM (uhVAy)

264 With a name like Erick Erickson, you've got to be a fag.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 03:39 PM (ccf/V)

265 >>>Black was the cool name to call "Negros" in the 60s and 70s. African American was introduced in the 80s I think.

Yes, but it has traditionally replaced it. As black replaced colored, as colored replaced Negro, etc. I've never seen them use black and A-A together. How does someone get to be both?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 21, 2026 03:39 PM (syz1S)

266 In New York, a combination of housing segregation and "academic" sorting, called school choice, that begins as early as pre-K means most Black students -- even middle-class ones -- are forced to attend racially segregated schools with high rates of poverty.

Actually, school choice means a student is NOT forced to attend segregated, low income, poorly performing schools.

Posted by: Emmie at September 21, 2026 03:39 PM (udgHb)

267 I went back to school in my mid-late 40s and it was astonishing to listen to kids speak and see to see the amount of remedial instruction they needed just to perform at the collegiate level. I met kids in an English class that wrote just like they spoke.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 21, 2026 03:39 PM (3Ope8)

268 I needed a moment to think when my daughter confronted me with the fact that i sent her to an inferior public school, ruining her chances of having a good education and admission to an elite college, or really anything but a state college, and a middling to low tier job on graduation.

A moment later I replied: Your'e just lucky I decided not to abort you.

Posted by: Hannah-Jones at September 21, 2026 03:39 PM (anL5R)

269
I'm looking around for liberal black reactions to this. Sunny Hostin says this is a difficult decision that all black parents must make.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 03:40 PM (mmrXZ)

270 The irony of this is mind boggling. She has been so successful in this country she could send her child to an amazing school, but because she feels the US is racist, she chose not to do it.

I wonder what an actual slave would say to her upon hearing this…
Posted by: Piper
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I recall Michelle Obama whining about how hard it was to live in the White House.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 21, 2026 03:40 PM (XeU6L)

271 "Wait a second... we can totally strangle these things now, can't we?"

Posted by: Nichole Hannah Jones's Thought Bubble In The Car at September 21, 2026 03:40 PM (gk7+G)

272 I'm not saying Erick Erickson is a fag, but he's definitely seen a few dicks up close.

Posted by: ballistic at September 21, 2026 03:40 PM (5aZAZ)

273 wtf does it mean to be black and African-American?

Black is a skin color, African-American is ghetto culture.

Ask a black African. Or don't, they'll tell you anyway probably. They *hate* the whole "black = rapping gangster with pants around their knees" thing.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 03:37 PM (2ocoG)

Interesting that with the collapse of USAID suddenly Rap has fallen off the charts and concerts are having catastrophically low attendance.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 03:40 PM (uhVAy)

274 In other words, she pimped her daughter.
Proving again that culture and education are two different things.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 03:41 PM (iLKq8)

275 The Senate may leave early for the October recess this week if they cannot reach a deal on permitting reform.

Didn't they just return from a long recess?
Posted by: beckster at September 21, 2026 03:31 PM (kX27y)
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Yes, but that just made them more tired.
Posted by: Axeman
.......

Poor Mitch must be exhausted.

Posted by: wth at September 21, 2026 03:42 PM (UjdFS)

276 Ask a black African. Or don't, they'll tell you anyway probably. They *hate* the whole "black = rapping gangster with pants around their knees" thing.
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How many months now are we, since the end of USAID, that a rap song has not been in the top 40?

Also, can you imagine how exhausting it has to be to pretend you like that shitty "rap" of Macklemore just because you're forced to due to your agreement with his Jew hate?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 03:42 PM (3cUTc)

277 >>>Black was the cool name to call "Negros" in the 60s and 70s. African American was introduced in the 80s I think.

Yes, but it has traditionally replaced it. As black replaced colored, as colored replaced Negro, etc. I've never seen them use black and A-A together. How does someone get to be both?
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 21, 2026 03:39 PM (syz1S)

Probably just appealing to race mongers of any age.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 03:42 PM (uhVAy)

278 Poor Mitch must be exhausted.
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It was those 10,000 burpees I did in rehab.

Posted by: Turtle at September 21, 2026 03:43 PM (anL5R)

279 Doesn't everyone just buy their idiot daughters into a college they're not qualified for?

Posted by: Ex-Con Aunt Becky at September 21, 2026 03:43 PM (Fn+3X)

280 Nood

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 03:43 PM (hGTKn)

281 I went back to school in my mid-late 40s and it was astonishing to listen to kids speak and see to see the amount of remedial instruction they needed just to perform at the collegiate level. I met kids in an English class that wrote just like they spoke.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead
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Having been out of school for 5 years or so, I took a GRE refresher course. To my surprise, most of the attendees were still in school, and, Ed majors.Their math and verbal skills were awful.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 21, 2026 03:43 PM (XeU6L)

282 I know that the "School choice" voucher system is supposed to be a Conservative encouraged program....BUT....the more I see of how horrendous certain schools are, and how the students are big part of those failures, the less enthusiastic I am about tranporting that indifferent "poison" to schools that actually teach.

Sure, it might (MIGHT) benefit those using the vouchers, if they choose that route. But, more likely than not, it would just denigrate a functioning school (not because of race...but because of attitude).

My personal opinion is that schools improving has more to do with discipline. Teachers should be held accountable for the illiteracy...BUT, at the same time I understand the concept of "leading a horse to water". Which brings up to necessary task of cutting bad horses from the herd, and not being afraid to act without consideration to skin color. I see videos of classroom situations and compare them to my own experience, and it's ridiculous. Half the class if not more would have been suspended for their behavior.

Posted by: Orson at September 21, 2026 03:43 PM (dIske)

283 Also, can you imagine how exhausting it has to be to pretend you like that shitty "rap" of Macklemore just because you're forced to due to your agreement with his Jew hate?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 03:42 PM (3cUTc)

I'm sure there's better anti-Semitic music out there.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 03:43 PM (uhVAy)

284 Interesting that with the collapse of USAID suddenly Rap has fallen off the charts and concerts are having catastrophically low attendance.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 03:40 PM (uhVAy)


It could just be that the main purpose of Rap and the music industry is money laundering, too.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 21, 2026 03:44 PM (rbvCR)

285 OT . Brad Pitt's new movie Heart of the Beast released this week. Should be a blockbuster. A man and his dog can't lose.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 03:44 PM (KC5Lt)

286 How many months now are we, since the end of USAID, that a rap song has not been in the top 40?
==
Wait Wut? I you people serious?

I mean, did USAID kill Tupac?

Posted by: Coast to Coast at September 21, 2026 03:44 PM (anL5R)

287 I don't know what's worse, making a political decision to disadvantage your child's education.

Or assuming that you can just explain-out a bad decision, so your child "understands".

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 03:45 PM (Fi81e)

288 I'm not saying Erick Erickson is a fag, but he's definitely seen a few dicks up close.
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But not his own.
Not since 1997.
'Cause he's fat, get it?
He's a fat pile of shit that sweats stale fry oil and smells like armpit.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 03:45 PM (3cUTc)

289 Well on the plus side, Nashville won't get even worse without them moving operations there.

Posted by: nsar at September 21, 2026 03:47 PM (lexfv)

290 I know that the "School choice" voucher system is supposed to be a Conservative encouraged program....BUT....the more I see of how horrendous certain schools are, and how the students are big part of those failures, the less enthusiastic I am about tranporting that indifferent "poison" to schools that actually teach.

Posted by: Orson at September 21, 2026 03:43 PM (dIske)

The vouchers allow the parents that do care to help their children escape. These probably have instilled better work ethics on their kids, if not they should be expelled.

When I was a kid we were in a catholic elementary for most of my time, and then in a good public school system when finances couldn't support. In the 80s and 90s about half of Chicago Catholic schools' students weren't Catholic, just parents who wanted to avoid failing public schools.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 03:48 PM (uhVAy)

291 Interesting that with the collapse of USAID suddenly Rap has fallen off the charts and concerts are having catastrophically low attendance.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 03:40 PM (uhVAy)

It is interesting.
Who, usually, buys the most music generally?
Who listens to it most?

I’d say younger people, 10 - 30, let’s say, spend the most time listening to music and they influence musical trends the most. And if that age group, I’d say the majority of those are women.

Could be that that age group is growing tired of rap and hip hop and are listening to other genres or classic rock more these days.

I hope so, it would be better for the industry to diversify from rap, pop, folk-rock and Divas.
It would be better for my playlist, too.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2026 03:48 PM (6ydKt)

292 284 Interesting that with the collapse of USAID suddenly Rap has fallen off the charts and concerts are having catastrophically low attendance.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 03:40 PM (uhVAy)
________________________

You reminded me of something. Do you remember that benefit concert they did for the Palisades fires? They raised over $100 Million. The money didn't go directly to the fire victims. Instead it went to a bunch of non-profits that were listed on the organizing company's website....and since taken down (rather abruptly, I might add).

Every single one of those non-profits was a music producer. One of them was Will.I.Am....and then a bunch of similar never heard of before foundations. Only a minute fraction of that $100 Million was used for anything related to the fire in Palisades. The rest? Your guess is as good as mine. All rapp music producers though.

Posted by: Orson at September 21, 2026 03:50 PM (dIske)

293 I’d say younger people, 10 - 30, let’s say, spend the most time listening to music and they influence musical trends the most. And if that age group, I’d say the majority of those are women.

Could be that that age group is growing tired of rap and hip hop and are listening to other genres or classic rock more these days.

I hope so, it would be better for the industry to diversify from rap, pop, folk-rock and Divas.
It would be better for my playlist, too.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2026 03:48 PM (6ydKt)

I do see a lot of YT videos of people reacting to 60s 70s 80s music these days.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 03:50 PM (uhVAy)

294 >>>Interesting that with the collapse of USAID suddenly Rap has fallen off the charts and concerts are having catastrophically low attendance.

Posted by: Oldcat
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From a culture that established a unique American style ascending through performance culture with quality of styles until rap, a truly non music style of verbal degradation, emerges ascendant, I don't think so. It is an op.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 03:52 PM (iLKq8)

295 Every single one of those non-profits was a music producer. One of them was Will.I.Am....and then a bunch of similar never heard of before foundations. Only a minute fraction of that $100 Million was used for anything related to the fire in Palisades. The rest? Your guess is as good as mine. All rapp music producers though.
Posted by: Orson at September 21, 2026 03:50 PM (dIske)

Maybe those producers lived there?

Posted by: Oldcat at September 21, 2026 03:52 PM (uhVAy)

296 Every time I read this story I lmfao. Education, the one thing that separates us from the animals and this duffus sends her own children, knowing it's a shit school, to learn almost nothing worth anything. When it's time to take care of her elderly mother I hope she puts her in a shit hole ASL facility.

Posted by: sidney at September 21, 2026 04:05 PM (Uy/WF)

297 Nicole and her husband were "deeply involved" in the school’s visible, ideological, and public-facing life, but not in the vigilant daily work of ensuring their daughter was actually learning and being supported.

Their daughter became an accessory to their educational ideology rather than the central focus of it. Nicole’s account also reads, at least in part, as an effort to establish her own interpretation before her daughter’s fuller version of events can challenge it.

Posted by: Margaret Thatcher at September 21, 2026 04:21 PM (Wkrcf)

298 Narcissists disassociate - Professor T

And through my experiences, I'd say dead on balls accurate.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 21, 2026 04:44 PM (NFX2v)

299 My mother is a woke white leftist. She refused to move out of the city, sending me to schools that were 90% black.

You learnt to keep your head on a swivel, and you learn to fight viciously and brutally when required. They don't really do Queensberry rules. If you're in a fight, fight to maim. If you break a bone, the rest will leave you alone.

Posted by: Vick King at September 21, 2026 04:45 PM (4Qy2U)

300 What is the least expensive good, not woke private school in Brooklyn?

Are there active homeschooling support groups there?

Posted by: Goatweed at September 21, 2026 04:48 PM (jK3NL)

301 Don't forget Hannah's husband, a parent activist who organized around issues of school integration but didn't think it was a good idea to put his daughter in an integrated school. He worked with the ACLU.

The Sun. 2021

Posted by: KT at September 21, 2026 05:16 PM (1RGZ5)

302 The kids must be sacrificed, one way or another.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 02:40 PM (ccf/V)

So much THIS! It's just another example of dem's hate towards children.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 21, 2026 05:34 PM (g8Ew8)

303 And now her kid is a conservative

Posted by: hurricane567 at September 21, 2026 10:10 PM (+ayKE)

304 We allowed our nation to be taken over...by wokie blacks and their cunning Democrat supporters. The meritocracy worked, as people like Condi Rice, Clarence Thomas, Colin Powell and many others showed. But the Dems realized they could win elections by playing the race-card, fanning the flames of jealousy and grievance.
Now half of voters love socialism. This won't end well.

Posted by: sf at September 22, 2026 09:50 AM (dK6Bp)

Trump Announces Ban on CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from White House Press Room

Trump goes off.


President Donald Trump on Monday defended his decision to ban three news networks from the White House, characterizing his actions as a crackdown on "fake news" and not an attack on the free press.

...

"The White House is not instituting an assault on the Free Press, something which I cherish. It is instituting an assault on the FAKE NEWS, something that has grown like Cancer in our beloved United States of America," he posted on Truth Social. "It is corrupt, purposeful, pervasive, fully coordinated, and totally out of control. It is a threat to our National Security, and must be stopped, NOW!"

Have you heard of Natalie Harp? If not, you haven't been paying attention to CNN and MSNOW and the Fake News Outlets. She's Trump's personal aide, and she's pretty, blonde, and reportedly very loyal.

So of course Democrats and the Democrat-Media began suggesting, WITHOUT EVIDENCE, that Trump is having a sexual affair with her.

This is really going to set off the Fake News Media: Reportedly, it was Natalie Harp who shared clips of the fake news coverage of these outlets that prompted Trump to ban them.


Natalie Harp, a close aide to President Donald Trump, reportedly showed him a series of media clips before he moved to ban CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from the White House, CNN reported, citing "people familiar with the matter."

...

Harp, for her part, has been in the news recently, with the media focusing on her intense loyalty to the president. Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., kicked off speculation about their relationship when he mentioned her in a campaign speech.

The Fake News Outlets are now suing, and the rest of the left-wing propaganda networks are suspending coverage of the White House in solidarity with their fellow propagandists.


Major television networks agreed on Monday to suspend their pooled coverage of President Donald Trump after the White House refused to allow CNN to serve as a pool representative.

The decision escalates a showdown between the Trump administration and the legacy media outlets following Trump's decision to ban MS NOW, CNN and Politico reporters from entering the White House, the New York Times reported.

Those networks plan to file a lawsuit against Trump over the ban.

For years, ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News and NBC have shared television coverage of presidential events, pooling the financial costs and distributing the footage that is aired by news organizations globally. The networks perform these duties on a rotation, and CNN had been scheduled to cover Trump's travel to the United Nations General Assembly on Monday.

Here is some of the work of these totally unbiased outlets:

And don't forget: Barack Obama tried to ban Fox News from the White House in 2009, in the very beginning of his term.

Now he asks, rhetorically, can you even imagine if I tried to do what Trump is doing now?

I don't have to imagine it, Champ. I read about it when it happened.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:25 PM




Comments

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1 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at September 21, 2026 01:25 PM (hG5L0)

2 NOT FIRST

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 01:26 PM (sKqQm)

3 Nooded

Posted by: Thanatopsis at September 21, 2026 01:26 PM (hG5L0)

4 Bad trumpy mans

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 21, 2026 01:27 PM (XZaPZ)

5 They're propaganda, not news anyway.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:27 PM (l3cgK)

6 And now other members of the fake media say that they won't cover the President of the United States because he's being mean to special people.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 01:27 PM (ExV1e)

7
Should have asked them to submit softball questions in writing, like they did for Joey.

Posted by: Auspex at September 21, 2026 01:28 PM (Y8DZL)

8 Fk 'em all. Don't tell the media anything. Let them speculate and every once in a while prove them ridiculously wrong.

Posted by: fd at September 21, 2026 01:28 PM (MWfyi)

9 Is it more productive to publicly banned the communists, or just move them to the back of the room and ignore them?

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 21, 2026 01:29 PM (4NO2D)

10 Does anybody remember the news cycle about Nancy Reagan's "Nooners" with Frank because somebody wrote that in a book?

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 01:29 PM (Fi81e)

11 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 01:29 PM (ccf/V)

12 6 And now other members of the fake media say that they won't cover the President of the United States because he's being mean to special people.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 01:27 PM (ExV1e)

This is so hilarious - their only job consists of covering the President. What are they going to do, cover local junior high sports? So they're all threatening to quit their jobs, go ahead, make our day.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 21, 2026 01:29 PM (edUvp)

13 I just noticed the News Chat side bar is:

Ann Coulter
National Review Online
The Perfect World
Free Republic
Lucianne
The Note

Talk about a bunch of sites I haven't viewed in years

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 01:29 PM (sKqQm)

14 Look.... Squirrel !

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 01:30 PM (+gK6I)

15 TNR: Entire presidential TV press pool suspends coverage in the wake of President Trump’s decision to ban CNN, Politico, and MS NOW. Even Fox News is standing with CNN and the rest. This is WILD!

Think he'll find that it's not as fun to antagonize liberals when it's only being seen on conservative news networks. it's a blessing if the actual press is being thrown out of the WH. Let them go do actual journalism, and report the facts as are, then leave the story with, "The white house failed to comment"

Fox news was threatened with removal from one meeting, and everyone stood up and did the same for them. They know that if they do not do it now, they will be out during the next Democrat presidency.

they’re only doing it now because that’s what Trump wants. He wanted all the opposition out of the room for when he bends over for Xi but having no one else in the room is even more ideal. Even Fox News might struggle to explain away footage of Trump on his knees.

Happy dance! The moment he realizes no one is following him, he's going to melt down. Love it! Vote Blue!

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 21, 2026 01:30 PM (sMaFa)

16 Boom-shacka-lacka!

This is what I voted for.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 21, 2026 01:30 PM (wVcYX)

17 Have you heard of Natalie Harp? If not, you haven't been paying attention to CNN and MSNOW and the Fake News Outlets. She's Trump's personal aide, and she's pretty, blonde, and reportedly very loyal.

So of course Democrats and the Democrat-Media began suggesting, WITHOUT EVIDENCE, that Trump is having a sexual affair with her.



The libtards had AI come up with an image of Trump kissing her on a golf course. They tried to push it off as real, but the six fingers on her hand was the giveaway it was fake.

That didn't stop a million views declaring it real, tho......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 01:31 PM (ccf/V)

18 Seems there is plenty of hard evidence that CNN (and others) constantly push lies, even when the Truth is shown to them. They don't care, once they establish their (false) Narrative, they fight to maintain their lies through repetition.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 21, 2026 01:31 PM (vbXSk)

19
tbf, Jake Tapper ultimately came out firmly against the Fine People hoax.

But his initial support of it is indefensible.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 01:31 PM (mmrXZ)

20 Oh no!

Who will peddle the fake news stories now?

You mean, they won't learn a thing and will continue to relentlessly lie to the American people?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 21, 2026 01:31 PM (dK+Kv)

21 15 Think he'll find that it's not as fun to antagonize liberals when it's only being seen on conservative news networks. it's a blessing if the actual press is being thrown out of the WH. Let them go do actual journalism, and report the facts as are, then leave the story with, "The white house failed to comment"


Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 21, 2026 01:30 PM (sMaFa)

========

Having direct access to officials in government through a special office on the White House grounds is part of the way these orgs actually form relationships with government officials.

They're giving that up to conservatives who can take those offices and start talking off the record to the same people, forming those relationships.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 01:31 PM (SvJcA)

22 Even if Trump loses this battle he's making the media's partisan bias and lies crystal clear to the world.

Trump doesn't need the media. He's pretty damn good at getting his message out. The media needs Trump.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 01:31 PM (viF8m)

23 Will they let Carrot Top in?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 21, 2026 01:32 PM (Cqx++)

24 Do people still watch those networks?

Posted by: I gotta ask at September 21, 2026 01:32 PM (2Ez/1)

25 Always remember, CNN protected Saddam Hussein to maintain access.

Time to turn the White House Press Room into an indoor putting range.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 01:32 PM (2GVsD)

26 About time. Have fun covering the local Chamber of Commerce meeting.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 21, 2026 01:32 PM (UdrMW)

27 Close the press room at the White House.

Post the daily bulletin of WH talking points on a digital sign outside the main gate.

Call it a day.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2026 01:32 PM (FZ29D)

28 I think Jake "Tapper" is a bit of oversell. If anything, Jake is usually the Tappee.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 01:33 PM (guGkK)

29
Her Majesty and The Big Dummy have taken off for Tennessee. From there TBD will be returning to his Ohio home.

He is a very stupid dog, but unfailingly a gentleman. Apart from being the world's largest tripping hazard, he never gave us any cause for complaint. He was treated like a king while he was here. I hope his Ohio mom stocks up on the frosted sugar cookies he drools over.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 01:33 PM (eRlcH)

30 Think he'll find that it's not as fun to antagonize liberals when it's only being seen on conservative news networks. it's a blessing if the actual press is being thrown out of the WH. Let them go do actual journalism, and report the facts as are, then leave the story with, "The white house failed to comment"

I think I busted my ample gut laughing so hard.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 21, 2026 01:33 PM (wVcYX)

31 Next thing to do would be to find and fire all the leakers in the WH and Pentagon.

Posted by: gp at September 21, 2026 01:33 PM (Jr5Lq)

32 Will they let Carrot Top in?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 21, 2026 01:32 PM (Cqx++)



He out of the hospital? Suicide attempt.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 01:33 PM (ccf/V)

33 Time to turn the White House Press Room into an indoor putting range.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 01:32 PM (2GVsD)
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It used to be an indoor swimming pool.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2026 01:34 PM (FZ29D)

34 Will they let Carrot Top in?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 21, 2026 01:32 PM (Cqx++)
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More important: will they let Gallagher in?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 21, 2026 01:34 PM (amcLV)

35 “Antagonize liberals,” who would kill innocent children from conception to eight years of age. Who would kill the aged and inconvenient. Who would lie, omit and distort to feel better.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 21, 2026 01:34 PM (zXfZs)

36 reddit, lol, the strategic idiocy reserve!

*spit*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 01:34 PM (VyBeY)

37 Stories about the WNBA will see a spike.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 01:34 PM (2GVsD)

38 That didn't stop a million views declaring it real, tho......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 01:31 PM (ccf/V)
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Trump's a real pedophile, and we're real supporters of a real pedophile, because Trump hasn't released all the "Epstein files".

If they have nothing else to say on social media, it's "Well, you support a proven pedophile"

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 01:34 PM (Fi81e)

39 Sally Kohn has disappeared, which I think is a good thing. However we'll have to come up with a different standard than milliKohns for stupidity in posts

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2026 01:34 PM (taL2t)

40 Happy dance! The moment he realizes no one is following him, he's going to melt down. Love it! Vote Blue!
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 21, 2026 01:30 PM (sMaFa)
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What's funny is that these people have to get their Trump fix. They care more about him than I do. Sad.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 01:35 PM (ZOv7s)

41 " ... the world's largest tripping hazard ... "

LOL, H7!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 01:35 PM (VyBeY)

42 36 reddit, lol, the strategic idiocy reserve!

*spit*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 01:34 PM (VyBeY)

========

I don't know why they're complaining.

All of these orgs are corporate lackeys who only push the right-leaning line without actually fighting Trump. They hardly ever talk about Epstein or elevate the true voices of the Democrat Party like Ted Lieu.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 01:35 PM (SvJcA)

43 Easier: Their lips are moving.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 21, 2026 01:35 PM (NnhvP)

44 they’re only doing it now because that’s what Trump wants. He wanted all the opposition out of the room for when he bends over for Xi but having no one else in the room is even more ideal. Even Fox News might struggle to explain away footage of Trump on his knees.

Funny, Trump is so opposed to Xi and Biden and his family were the ones dealing with China.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:35 PM (l3cgK)

45 13 I just noticed the News Chat side bar is:

Ann Coulter
National Review Online
The Perfect World
Free Republic
Lucianne
The Note

Talk about a bunch of sites I haven't viewed in years
Posted by: 18-1

Don't forget about me!!!!

Posted by: The Drudge Report at September 21, 2026 01:35 PM (sMaFa)

46 Is there really any danger that the MSM will start doing "actual journalism"?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2026 01:35 PM (guGkK)

47 I will care about the WH press pool when the HQ gets a seat.
The cobs can take turns.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 21, 2026 01:35 PM (LfiSD)

48 39 Trump's a real pedophile, and we're real supporters of a real pedophile, because Trump hasn't released all the "Epstein files".

If they have nothing else to say on social media, it's "Well, you support a proven pedophile"

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 01:34 PM (Fi81e)

========

"The Epstein class is destroying Iran, the country that allows adult men to marry 11 year old girls."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 01:35 PM (SvJcA)

49 Why would you believe the number of "views" about anything? Seems easy enough to fake.

Posted by: I gotta ask at September 21, 2026 01:36 PM (2Ez/1)

50 >>tbf, Jake Tapper ultimately came out firmly against the Fine People hoax.


Tapper only folded on the lie once the video was seen by enough people to try and save some credibility. He's always been a liar and a dunce.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 01:36 PM (viF8m)

51 Stories about the WNBA will see a spike.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Well, we're not really spiky, but we'll try.
-- Flying green dildoes.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 01:36 PM (77rzZ)

52 34 Will they let Carrot Top in?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 21, 2026 01:32 PM (Cqx++)
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More important: will they let Gallagher in?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 21, 2026 01:34 PM (amcLV)

Given he's dead, he can only vote dem now.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:36 PM (l3cgK)

53 47 I will care about the WH press pool when the HQ gets a seat.
The cobs can take turns.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 21, 2026 01:35 PM (LfiSD)

=======

"What is the Trump administration doing about the lack of a proper 4K release of the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup?"
-TJM, WH reporter

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 01:37 PM (SvJcA)

54 I volunteer to being the AoS Vtuber catgirl for the White House.

Nyah.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 01:37 PM (2GVsD)

55 Stories about the WNBA will see a spike.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 01:34 PM (2GVsD)
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Little is more apropos than fake news covering fake basketball.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 01:37 PM (Fi81e)

56 Tapper only folded on the lie once the video was seen by enough people to try and save some credibility. He's always been a liar and a dunce.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 01:36 PM


Your attitude is hurting American veterans!

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 21, 2026 01:37 PM (4NO2D)

57 38 That didn't stop a million views declaring it real, tho......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 01:31 PM (ccf/V)
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Trump's a real pedophile, and we're real supporters of a real pedophile, because Trump hasn't released all the "Epstein files".

If they have nothing else to say on social media, it's "Well, you support a proven pedophile"

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 01:34 PM (Fi81e)

Like Sniffy Joe?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:37 PM (l3cgK)

58 A PAC for Talarico is using images of Epstein in an ad against Paxton saying he gave some pedo an "Epstein style deal" after a payoff by some rich guy.

They have no morals.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 01:37 PM (ccf/V)

59 did anyone read the thing in the Free Press where the Ancient One was decrying the modern left, kinda?

she's "politically homeless" now too (Elder Lorenz I mean)

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 21, 2026 01:37 PM (j+aD2)

60 we're real supporters of a real pedophile, because Trump hasn't released all the "Epstein files".

They're saying that to distract from the files that have been released in which Epstein and Bill Gates had the idea for Covid.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 01:37 PM (2ocoG)

61 45, LOL, truth! all true!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 01:38 PM (VyBeY)

62 Time to turn the White House Press Room into an indoor putting range.
Posted by: Anna Puma

It used to be the swimming pool room, where JFK frolicked naked with Fiddle and Faddle.

Posted by: Auspex at September 21, 2026 01:38 PM (Y8DZL)

63 Who was it that put out an AI photo/video of Trump kissing Harp this weekend? Might have something to do with this kerfuffle.

Posted by: pookysgirl at September 21, 2026 01:38 PM (Wt5PA)

64 58 A PAC for Talarico is using images of Epstein in an ad against Paxton saying he gave some pedo an "Epstein style deal" after a payoff by some rich guy.

They have no morals.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 01:37 PM (ccf/V)

=======

The only line of attack I've heard against Whatley is that he "hired a pedophile" to be part of his campaign.

The pedo line is really an online only thing, and when it's this far removed from the actual candidate, it feels like trying to make something out of nothing that the electorate will give a shit about.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 01:38 PM (SvJcA)

65 I think I busted my ample gut laughing so hard.
Posted by: Count de Monet

My work here is done. Reddit has an infinite supply of dumb...I try to bring only the dumbest, or most hilarious, to save you time and brain cells.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 21, 2026 01:38 PM (sMaFa)

66 Talk about a bunch of sites I haven't viewed in years
Posted by: 18-1

Don't forget about me!!!!
Posted by: The Drudge Report at September 21, 2026 01:35 PM (sMaFa)
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Lucianne Goldberg has been dead for almost four years.

I was just reminiscing about all the sites I used to visit and no longer bother with.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 01:38 PM (ZOv7s)

67 Gallagher's dead??????

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 21, 2026 01:39 PM (amcLV)

68 I volunteer to being the AoS Vtuber catgirl for the White House.

Nyah.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 01:37 PM


Only if Skyebrows designs the costume.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 01:39 PM (2ocoG)

69 "views" are bought and sold in bulk like any other commodity.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 01:39 PM (VyBeY)

70 I will care about the WH press pool when the HQ gets a seat.
The cobs can take turns.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus)

Do we really need to know President Trump's views on carrots in chili or Prometheus?

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 01:40 PM (77rzZ)

71 Only if Skyebrows designs the costume.

Your terms are totes acceptable.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 01:40 PM (2GVsD)

72 63 Who was it that put out an AI photo/video of Trump kissing Harp this weekend? Might have something to do with this kerfuffle.

Posted by: pookysgirl at September 21, 2026 01:38 PM (Wt5PA)

Does Harp have 6 fingers on her right hand? Because she does in the supposed pic...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:40 PM (l3cgK)

73 Seems to me the blue hair snot pickers are just jealous of another pretty girl.

Posted by: dananjcon at September 21, 2026 01:40 PM (8C1eU)

74 "Gallagher's dead??????"

He split.

Posted by: fd at September 21, 2026 01:40 PM (MWfyi)

75 The libtards had AI come up with an image of Trump kissing her on a golf course. They tried to push it off as real, but the six fingers on her hand was the giveaway it was fake.

That didn't stop a million views declaring it real, tho......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
.......

Six Finger, Six Finger, man alive!
How'd I ever get along with five?

Posted by: Topper Toys at September 21, 2026 01:40 PM (UjdFS)

76 69 "views" are bought and sold in bulk like any other commodity.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez

It's an honest livin'.

Posted by: Macedonian Bot Server Farmer at September 21, 2026 01:40 PM (sMaFa)

77
Trump's a real pedophile, and we're real supporters of a real pedophile, because Trump hasn't released all the "Epstein files".

__________

Oh, here's an entry. 9/17/19. Room 134. James Talarico, with Juan (age 14).

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 01:41 PM (eRlcH)

78 67 Gallagher's dead??????

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 21, 2026 01:39 PM (amcLV)

November 11, 2022, according to Wiki

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:41 PM (l3cgK)

79 53, 54 endorsed!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 01:41 PM (VyBeY)

80 Hey, I have an OT/
I never read the ONT, (work) but I often scan it and sometimes even Piper's ette couture bit.

When I lived near NYC, I used to watch the fashion week coverage on the local cable channel. Not that I care about fashion, but the runway was the best chance of catching a stray nipple on TV at the time. (I would not pay for premium -- i am not a perv or anything.)

What the ette couture slot needs is some of that. Just a suggestion.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 21, 2026 01:41 PM (LfiSD)

81 Gallagher's dead??????
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 21, 2026 01:39 PM (amcLV)



He had a heart attack quite a while ago that took him.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 01:41 PM (ccf/V)

82 Do we really need to know President Trump's views on carrots in chili or Prometheus?

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 01:40 PM (77rzZ)
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Long bows or crossbows? The American people want to know.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 01:41 PM (Fi81e)

83 Does Harp have 6 fingers on her right hand? Because she does in the supposed pic...
Posted by: jim

!!!!!!

Posted by: Inigo Montoya at September 21, 2026 01:41 PM (sMaFa)

84 people still watch those networks?
Posted by: I gotta ask'

Liberals who drool.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 21, 2026 01:42 PM (NnhvP)

85 Does Harp have 6 fingers on her right hand? Because she does in the supposed pic...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:40 PM (l3cgK)
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Descendant of Count Rugen?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 21, 2026 01:42 PM (amcLV)

86 She should sue ever one of these fucking retards for everything they own, now and in the future.

Posted by: Huxley Orwell at September 21, 2026 01:42 PM (j3Fsw)

87 also 68, 71!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 01:42 PM (VyBeY)

88 Accusing pretty girls of sleeping with their bosses might make people less likely to hire a woman.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 21, 2026 01:42 PM (yAl+8)

89 Wiki: "Gallagher died in Palm Desert, California, on November 11, 2022, at the age of 76. The cause of death was organ failure."

This is why you always keep your musical instruments in top shape.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:42 PM (l3cgK)

90 Do we really need to know President Trump's views on carrots in chili or Prometheus?

Posted by: Bulg
.......

I'm pretty sure he likes boobs.

Posted by: wth at September 21, 2026 01:43 PM (UjdFS)

91
"What is the Trump administration doing about the lack of a proper 4K release of the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup?"
-TJM, WH reporter
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 01:37 PM (SvJcA)



We watched that every New Year's when I was a yute while the adults were partying their asses off in the rest of the house.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 01:43 PM (ccf/V)

92 Gallagher's dead??????
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 21, 2026 01:39 PM


He will be missed.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 21, 2026 01:43 PM (4NO2D)

93 91
"What is the Trump administration doing about the lack of a proper 4K release of the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup?"
-TJM, WH reporter
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 01:37 PM (SvJcA)


We watched that every New Year's when I was a yute while the adults were partying their asses off in the rest of the house.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 01:43 PM (ccf/V)

=======

Key partying...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 01:43 PM (SvJcA)

94
Tapper only folded on the lie once the video was seen by enough people to try and save some credibility. He's always been a liar and a dunce.

Posted by: JackStraw

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

I know, but that's actually more than some idiots like Joy Ann Reid have done! Also, afaik Tapper simply changed his story. He never said "I got it wrong; here's the facts."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 01:43 PM (mmrXZ)

95 has anyone except maybe scott jennings (right name?) at cnn spoken up to defend nick shirley?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 21, 2026 01:44 PM (CWTWj)

96
Old: Three-Finger Brown

New: Six-Finger Harp

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 01:44 PM (eRlcH)

97 She's Trump's personal aide, and she's pretty, blonde, and reportedly very loyal.

She was dying of cancer. Trump did the permission to try thing and she beat her cancer. She credits him with saving her life.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 01:44 PM (ExV1e)

98 Wiki: "Gallagher died in Palm Desert, California, on November 11, 2022, at the age of 76. The cause of death was organ failure."

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:42 PM (l3cgK)
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The Jab?

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 01:44 PM (Fi81e)

99 Wiki: "Gallagher died in Palm Desert, California, on November 11, 2022, at the age of 76. The cause of death was organ failure."

This is why you always keep your musical instruments in top shape.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:42 PM (l3cgK)
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I'm servicing my concertina right away.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 21, 2026 01:44 PM (amcLV)

100 Thank you for taking my question, Mr. President.

My question is do you think Barack Obama was directly involved in the Russia collusion hoax that tore the country apart, damaged the careers and lives of many people or do you think he was so fucking stupid his senior leadership team concocted the lie all by themselves with the help of British intel and sources in Ukraine without him knowing a thing about it?

I'll hang up now and listen to your response.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 01:44 PM (viF8m)

101 Trump is a big meanie!

Townhall.com
@townhallcom
Reporter: "Are you trying to intimidate the press from doing their job?"

Trump: "No, no, no. I dislike dishonest press like you. I think you're terrible. I like to see honest press."

https://tinyurl.com/996uhbj2

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 01:45 PM (ndZc7)

102 I will care about the WH press pool when the HQ gets a seat.
The cobs can take turns.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 21, 2026 01:35 PM (LfiSD)


Would I have to actually wear nice clothes?

Posted by: Doof at September 21, 2026 01:45 PM (KaLR8)

103 Watermelons everywhere breathe a sigh of relief.

Posted by: wth at September 21, 2026 01:46 PM (UjdFS)

104 Gallagher was the guy with the watermelons, right?

(I mean the fruit, not Sydney Sweeney's pronounced hooterage.)

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 01:46 PM (77rzZ)

105 I see President Trump treats the press like they are goblins.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 01:46 PM (2GVsD)

106 I will care about the WH press pool when the HQ gets a seat.
The cobs can take turns.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 21, 2026 01:35 PM (LfiSD)

Would I have to actually wear nice clothes?
Posted by: Doof at September 21, 2026 01:45 PM (KaLR
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Like pants?

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 01:46 PM (Fi81e)

107 Would I have to actually wear nice clothes?
Posted by: Doof at September 21, 2026 01:45 PM (KaLR
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A flaming skull t-shirt would be fine.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 21, 2026 01:46 PM (amcLV)

108 the rest of the left-wing propaganda networks are suspending coverage of the White House in solidarity with their fellow propagandists.
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I punched him on the fist with my face.

Posted by: The MSM at September 21, 2026 01:46 PM (XeU6L)

109 Their terms are acceotable,

Posted by: steevy at September 21, 2026 01:46 PM (YwEeS)

110 This is like watching some cheerleaders deciding that everyone will get upset and quit going to games if they stop dancing on the sidelines.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 21, 2026 01:47 PM (edUvp)

111 Tapper may have folded on the "fine people" BS but your average Dem sheep still thinks it's true

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2026 01:47 PM (taL2t)

112 105 I see President Trump treats the press like they are goblins.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 01:46 PM (2GVsD)

Better treatment than those lying bastardly commies deserve.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:47 PM (l3cgK)

113 Tapper may have folded on the "fine people" BS but your average Dem sheep still thinks it's true

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2026 01:47 PM (taL2t)
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Biden used it this year.

But he was on a roll.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 01:48 PM (Fi81e)

114 Saw a picture of Carrot Top the other day. Looks like Kathy Griffin with an inflated face

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2026 01:48 PM (taL2t)

115 >>I know, but that's actually more than some idiots like Joy Ann Reid have done!

Tapper still gets a paycheck from CNN. Reid is now a podcaster.

When even MSNBC shit cans you, you have a problem.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 01:48 PM (viF8m)

116 Countdown until Boasberg forces Trump to re-admit them.

Posted by: Halfhand at September 21, 2026 01:48 PM (CHq+B)

117 85 Does Harp have 6 fingers on her right hand? Because she does in the supposed pic...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:40 PM (l3cgK)
--------
Descendant of Count Rugen?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea


The same reason that AOC would be on Boebert's dating to-do list.
Who would be wearing the Free Gaza hot pants after that!

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at September 21, 2026 01:48 PM (3QALf)

118 Biden used it this year.
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Not sure he knows what year it is.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 21, 2026 01:49 PM (amcLV)

119 Why would anyone put Joey on a Kaiser roll?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 01:49 PM (2GVsD)

120 Sixfinger

https://tinyurl.com/4ajn76hj

Posted by: wth at September 21, 2026 01:49 PM (UjdFS)

121 Like to like polling:

https://x.com/OpenSourceZone/status/
2102085001059688463

GOP has the same approval rating with white, non-college educated voters as it did in October of 2024.

The polling misses this year (through primaries) have been centered around white, non-college educated voters whom pollsters have missed.

Either, we're going to have the waviest of blue wave years, or polling is...wrong.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 01:49 PM (SvJcA)

122 The Replacements (2026)

During a pro media lockout, the White House brings in substitute reporters.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 21, 2026 01:49 PM (wVcYX)

123 https://tinyurl.com/cbhujnpu

Fake Fake News!! The Worst. So bad.

Posted by: Donnie Two Scoops at September 21, 2026 01:49 PM (anL5R)

124 Does Harp have 6 fingers on her right hand? Because she does in the supposed pic...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:40 PM (l3cgK)


The media is about to break the news that she killed Inego Montoya's father.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 01:49 PM (ExV1e)

125 122 The Replacements (2026)

During a pro media lockout, the White House brings in substitute reporters.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 21, 2026 01:49 PM (wVcYX)

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Is at least one a current lapdancer who will dance slutty during a briefing?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 01:49 PM (SvJcA)

126 Jake Tapper is a fag who's shit's all retarded.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 01:49 PM (ccf/V)

127 Sixfinger, wasn't that an Eddie Murphy movie?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 01:50 PM (2GVsD)

128 The polling misses this year (through primaries) have been centered around white, non-college educated voters whom pollsters have missed.
==
How do they turn out in mid term elections?

Posted by: because it would be interesting to know at September 21, 2026 01:51 PM (anL5R)

129 127 Sixfinger, wasn't that an Eddie Murphy movie?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 01:50 PM (2GVsD)

"Bowfinger"?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:51 PM (l3cgK)

130 Heck, I think some people believe that Trump said "Drink bleach".

Except to make any actual statement of Trump into that is a stretch of all stretches.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 01:51 PM (Fi81e)

131
Tapper still gets a paycheck from CNN. Reid is now a podcaster.

When even MSNBC shit cans you, you have a problem.
Posted by: JackStraw

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

The MSM is so bad that Reid has been making guest appearances on CNN. That's how bad it is.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 01:51 PM (mmrXZ)

132 Is at least one a current lapdancer who will dance slutty during a briefing?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 01:49 PM (SvJcA)

I sincerely hope so!

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 21, 2026 01:52 PM (wVcYX)

133 Gallagher's dead??????
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

Gone to the great watermelon patch in the sky.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 01:52 PM (ndZc7)

134 130 Heck, I think some people believe that Trump said "Drink bleach".

Except to make any actual statement of Trump into that is a stretch of all stretches.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 01:51 PM (Fi81e)

As the old saying goes, if suddenly he could walk on water, they'd breathlessly report he didn't know how to swim...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:52 PM (l3cgK)

135 Why would anyone put Joey on a Kaiser roll?
Posted by: Anna Puma

"Look, Fat, that Kaiser Wilhelm was a tough dude, but once he started trying to feel my leg hair, I just had to take him out. But, unfortunately, that's when the war started and my son Beau died at Verdun.'

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 01:52 PM (77rzZ)

136 This is going to be fun.

>>@RapidResponse47
·
5m
>>FLASHBACK: CNN and MSNBC Have Cited Falsified Statistics 73 Times Over the Last 24 Hours

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 01:52 PM (viF8m)

137 It's kind of difficult to remove media outlets from the press pool when Pulitizer is handing out awards based on the Russia Hoax coverage...and not negating them when it is found to, in fact, be a hoax.

Posted by: Orson at September 21, 2026 01:53 PM (dIske)

138 Speaking of Fake News

How did those Tylenol OD freaks fare?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 01:53 PM (2GVsD)

139 I volunteer to being the AoS Vtuber catgirl for the White House.

Nyah.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 01:37 PM

And I'll be the kitsune/gumiho!

Posted by: pookysgirl has a few costume tails at September 21, 2026 01:53 PM (Wt5PA)

140 105, 108, 109, 110, 112 ... exactly!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 01:53 PM (VyBeY)

141 60 we're real supporters of a real pedophile, because Trump hasn't released all the "Epstein files".

They're saying that to distract from the files that have been released in which Epstein and Bill Gates had the idea for Covid.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 01:37 PM (2ocoG)

I've argued what happened there with some leftists online as to what actually happened. What they say happened is so far from the truth of what actually happened that they might as well be about completely different people.

Just for starters, Paxton was never personally involved in it in any way.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 21, 2026 01:53 PM (edUvp)

142 Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., kicked off speculation about their relationship when he mentioned her in a campaign speech.


After doing some time walking the halls of Congress with our company lobbyist, I would suggest every one of the 535 members on the Hill watch their mouths about this shit. Every one of them...EVERY ONE has a group of "interns" at their beck and call. Male and female. Most of these kids are from big donor families. And many are looking for a connection.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 21, 2026 01:54 PM (2WIwB)

143 Gone are the days when everyone thought I was their favorite Uncle.

Posted by: Walter Krankheit at September 21, 2026 01:55 PM (Fn+3X)

144 Speaking of Fake News

How did those Tylenol OD freaks fare?
Posted by: Anna Puma

I know of one death. There were others that were hospitalized.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 01:55 PM (wOO3z)

145 *flicks an ear*

Even Nogistune would turn their noses up at eating raw human liver. But a Gumiho has no issue with eating that.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 01:55 PM (2GVsD)

146 It's kind of difficult to remove media outlets from the press pool when Pulitizer is handing out awards based on the Russia Hoax coverage...and not negating them when it is found to, in fact, be a hoax.
Posted by: Orson

Why, what's wrong with that?
-- Zombie Walter Duranty

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 01:55 PM (77rzZ)

147 Seriously though.


- Obviously there is a real problem with the press and bias. They are not informing, but using the WH to leverage their propaganda.

- But I think this approach is wrong since the LIV sees it as unfair. It does nothing to reach the people who need to be reached.

- my approach would be to keep the press room just as it is, but never talk to the fuckers. No trump, no press secretary

Trump could hold "impromptu" pressers daily, but never when they are around. Make their position worthless. On trips, he would have to arrange a way to split off from them and talk to real people, but it can be done.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 21, 2026 01:55 PM (LfiSD)

148
105, 108, 109, 110, 112 ... exactly!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez

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

Got damn, I not only have to read the content, I have to scroll up and read the comments?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 01:55 PM (mmrXZ)

149 How does one stop such things from an entitled media hack?

Beatings.

Posted by: Guy With A Pick Handle at September 21, 2026 01:56 PM (7Q0e+)

150 58 A PAC for Talarico is using images of Epstein in an ad against Paxton saying he gave some pedo an "Epstein style deal" after a payoff by some rich guy.

They have no morals.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 01:37 PM (ccf/V)

That’s how lack of funding destroys candidates. The case was one of 20k cases tried by Paxton’s office, jury 7-5 and victim refused to testify again. Parents asked Talarico to stop using their son’s case and he lied and claimed they approved. Parents approved the settlement, perp did not know Paxton, but lies are what they do.

Posted by: EveR at September 21, 2026 01:56 PM (rJD2P)

151 Ha ha! Just because you're denied entry doesn't curtail your free speach. It just highlights the fact that you and your organization are on shitheel status. Write, publish, do what you do, mostly nobody cares.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 21, 2026 01:57 PM (5C90x)

152
The only line of attack I've heard against Whatley is that he "hired a pedophile" to be part of his campaign.

The pedo line is really an online only thing, and when it's this far removed from the actual candidate, it feels like trying to make something out of nothing that the electorate will give a shit about.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 01:38 PM (SvJcA)

Those type of ads will never be aired as a commercial on a television station, but they will be shared on newscasts and the cable tv talk shows as a "what people are talking about" segment.

It's basically the "Daisy" commercial.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at September 21, 2026 01:57 PM (k1E2D)

153 128 The polling misses this year (through primaries) have been centered around white, non-college educated voters whom pollsters have missed.
==
How do they turn out in mid term elections?

Posted by: because it would be interesting to know at September 21, 2026 01:51 PM (anL5R)

========

Well, if the misses in the primaries are any indication...decently well.

The thing is that senate races drive up turnout to presidential levels in the states that have them.

They'll be like 98% people who voted in the previous presidential election and roughly 90% of overall turnout levels.

Another issue with recent polling is the sheer number of people who say they didn't vote in 2024 saying they'll vote in 2026.

It's usually something like 2% for midterms (can go as high as 10% in presidentials). But these polls have 20% not 2024 voters.

This is just...bad data that is creating these polls.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 01:58 PM (SvJcA)

154 I was working and listening to NPR all day the day of the "fine people" hoax. They repeated the lie twice an hour all day. First time I heard it I stopped and checked the actual video and saw it was a lie.

They knew it was a lie. That was 10 years ago, and the entire press has only gotten worse.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 21, 2026 01:59 PM (LfiSD)

155 139 I volunteer to being the AoS Vtuber catgirl for the White House.

Nyah.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 01:37 PM

No smoking in the press room.

Posted by: Kick the nyahcotine habit at September 21, 2026 01:59 PM (TbWk/)

156 Would I be a bad catgirl if I laughed on the off chance Talifreako got smashed by a random meteorite?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 01:59 PM (2GVsD)

157 Patriot Lady
@angelwoman501
Sebastian Gorka gives Jake Tapper a tongue lashing over the "fake news industrial complex."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 01:59 PM (ndZc7)

158 >>- But I think this approach is wrong since the LIV sees it as unfair. It does nothing to reach the people who need to be reached.

I think you should keep an eye on Trump's press team. Trump just made the entire issue about the media's non-stop lying.

He's pretty good at marketing.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 02:00 PM (viF8m)

159 After doing some time walking the halls of Congress with our company lobbyist, I would suggest every one of the 535 members on the Hill watch their mouths about this shit. Every one of them...EVERY ONE has a group of "interns" at their beck and call. Male and female. Most of these kids are from big donor families. And many are looking for a connection.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 21, 2026 01:54 PM (2WIwB)


More to the point, Congress has a large, taxpayer funded, slush fund to pay off complaints about sexual misconduct whose details they refuse to share with the American people.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 02:00 PM (ExV1e)

160 "Everybody in the state, when you have a baby, you're going to have a home visit within days, and that will be an opportunity for us to make an assessment to see if you need some additional support and resources."

- Maura Healey, Governor, MA

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 21, 2026 02:00 PM (gLYp7)

161 That’s how lack of funding destroys candidates. The case was one of 20k cases tried by Paxton’s office, jury 7-5 and victim refused to testify again. Parents asked Talarico to stop using their son’s case and he lied and claimed they approved. Parents approved the settlement, perp did not know Paxton, but lies are what they do.
Posted by: EveR at September 21, 2026 01:56 PM (rJD2P)

Exactly! And if there was anyone who was actually "friends" with the accused, it was the Waco County Prosecutor who was supposed to handle the case originally. BUT he said "Conflict of Interest!" immediately and walked away, putting it onto the State AG's office to handle it.

And the State AG, as you say, brought full charges and tried to convict him. Hung Jury messed it all up.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 21, 2026 02:00 PM (edUvp)

162 9 Is it more productive to publicly banned the communists, or just move them to the back of the room and ignore them?
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 21, 2026 01:29 PM (4NO2D)

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Embrace the power of helicopters....

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at September 21, 2026 02:00 PM (gw/jH)

163 No smoking in the press room.

would be virtually present, so no worries nyah

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 02:01 PM (2GVsD)

164 128 The polling misses this year (through primaries) have been centered around white, non-college educated voters whom pollsters have missed.
==
How do they turn out in mid term elections?
Posted by: because it would be interesting to know

Previously, they (Trump's base) haven't shown up during midterms, hurting Republicans. While he's doing much better on immigration this term, that's old news. I think his base is probably a little demotivated by high gas prices, the dragged out conflict with Iran, and non-stop confusion on Israel/Palestine (I know, I think it's dumb, but it matter to people on both sides more than I thought. Some right wing voters really are buying this Jews run everything nonsense...)

Midterms generally have lower turnout, so even minor changes in turnout will have big effects.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at September 21, 2026 02:01 PM (sMaFa)

165 How does one stop such things from an entitled media hack?

Beatings.
Posted by: Guy With A Pick Handle at September 21, 2026 01:56 PM (7Q0e+)


The last time I ever saw a media hack report the news was during Desert Storm, and he had the pleasure of experiencing Iraqi machine gun fire into and over his position. His story (for the Indianapolis newspaper) went a full page and he reported it well.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 21, 2026 02:01 PM (2WIwB)

166 161
And the State AG, as you say, brought full charges and tried to convict him. Hung Jury messed it all up.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 21, 2026 02:00 PM (edUvp)

=======

The victim deciding to recant some testimony probably had something to do with it, too.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 02:01 PM (SvJcA)

167 Trump could hold "impromptu" pressers daily, but never when they are around. Make their position worthless. On trips, he would have to arrange a way to split off from them and talk to real people, but it can be done
==
Leave a zoom meeting open all the time. stroll in say what you have to say, when you want to say it. People can submit questions in writing in the chat and you can take them or ignore them as you please.

If you want to get the word out about something important - announce you are going to the zoom at a given time - You don't need a room full of assholes sitting in front of you.

Posted by: zoom it at September 21, 2026 02:01 PM (anL5R)

168 "Everybody in the state, when you have a baby, you're going to have a home visit within days, and that will be an opportunity for us to make an assessment to see if you need some additional support and resources."

- Maura Healey, Governor, MA
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 21, 2026 02:00 PM (gLYp7)

Oh, that'll go over well.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 02:01 PM (wOO3z)

169 75 The libtards had AI come up with an image of Trump kissing her on a golf course. They tried to push it off as real, but the six fingers on her hand was the giveaway it was fake.

That didn't stop a million views declaring it real, tho......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
.......

Six Finger, Six Finger, man alive!
How'd I ever get along with five?
Posted by: Topper Toys

Good ole sixfinger I've been waiting an ETERNITY to have a chat face to face.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8lip8FJusU
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-atLongLongLAST
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-getThisPartySTARTED

LET'S GO BRANDON.
Time to take this Chaos World Wide.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at September 21, 2026 02:02 PM (3QALf)

170 Have you heard of Natalie Harp? If not, you haven't been paying attention to CNN and MSNOW and the Fake News Outlets.

Is this something we're supposed to do? Is it wrong not to pay attention to them?

Most importantly, are we disappointing Ace by not doing so?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 21, 2026 02:02 PM (0sNs1)

171 No smoking in the press room.
Posted by: Kick the nyahcotine habit

Everything old is new again.

Addicts Turn To Cigarettes To Help Them Quit Vaping

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 02:02 PM (ndZc7)

172 no, anna, you would be the best!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 02:02 PM (VyBeY)

173 "Everybody in the state, when you have a baby, you're going to have a home visit within days, and that will be an opportunity for us to make an assessment to see if you need some additional support and resources."

- Maura Healey, Governor, MA
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 21, 2026 02:00 PM (gLYp7)
----
Well, since the state is "all-in" on murdering as many babies as possible, this won't take long...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2026 02:02 PM (FZ29D)

174 No smoking in the press room.

Posted by: Kick the nyahcotine habit

But what about the champagne room...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 21, 2026 02:03 PM (gLYp7)

175 Washington Nearsider

They have made a Lindsay Clancy movie - the Other Mommy.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 02:03 PM (2GVsD)

176 I was working and listening to NPR all day the day of the "fine people" hoax. They repeated the lie twice an hour all day. First time I heard it I stopped and checked the actual video and saw it was a lie.

They knew it was a lie. That was 10 years ago, and the entire press has only gotten worse.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 21, 2026 01:59 PM (LfiSD)
---
That there was so much more to learn about the context of the Nick Sandman incident just goes to show you they don't do their jobs to make sure that they know what they're reporting.

Like they couldn't have interviewed Sandman earlier and gotten his statement that he was just trying to smile at the guy beating a drum closer and closer to his face.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 02:03 PM (Fi81e)

177 Got damn, I not only have to read the content, I have to scroll up and read the comments?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

It's a mean old world.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 02:03 PM (ndZc7)

178 Embrace the power of helicopters....
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at September 21, 2026 02:00 PM


What are we, choppered liver?

Posted by: Trebuches at September 21, 2026 02:03 PM (0sNs1)

179
"Everybody in the state, when you have a baby, you're going to have a home visit within days, and that will be an opportunity for us to make an assessment to see if you need some additional support and resources."

__________

Because nobody, up to now, has ever had any idea of how to take care of a baby.

I think half of this country would drown on its own saliva if there wasn't a government program to help them swallow.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 02:03 PM (eRlcH)

180 Is this something we're supposed to do? Is it wrong not to pay attention to them?

Most importantly, are we disappointing Ace by not doing so?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 21, 2026 02:02 PM (0sNs1)

No
Not sure
Always

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 02:04 PM (wOO3z)

181 Back when I cared about baseball and was an avid Yankees fan, the year was 1978 and the Yankees were 14.5 games behind the Red Sox in mid-August. The Yankees were infighting and constantly were reading in the NY papers about who said what about whom.
Then the Pressmen went on strike and the NYT, Post and Daily News were no longer sending reporters into the locker-room.
You know what happened? The Yankees caught the Red Sox, won the pennant and the World Series.

Posted by: iamnotthekenyaninterloper at September 21, 2026 02:04 PM (eRgLv)

182
"Everybody in the state, when you have a baby, you're going to have a home visit within days, and that will be an opportunity for us to make an assessment to see if you need some additional support and resources."

- Maura Healey, Governor, MA
Posted by: Washington Nearsider

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

Will anyone in Massachusetts NOT be working for the state?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 02:04 PM (mmrXZ)

183 I think half of this country would drown on its own saliva if there wasn't a government program to help them swallow.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 02:03 PM (eRlcH)

I have tremendous expertise in this field.

Posted by: Kamala Harris at September 21, 2026 02:04 PM (TbWk/)

184 Watermelons everywhere breathe a sigh of relief.
Posted by: wth at September 21, 2026 01:46 PM (UjdFS)


Heh...Heh...Heh...

Posted by: Big Melons at September 21, 2026 02:04 PM (2WIwB)

185
I'll get CNN back in the White house.
It is of paramount importance.

Posted by: Larry Ellison at September 21, 2026 02:05 PM (MDua2)

186 Embrace the power of helicopters....
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at September 21, 2026 02:00 PM

What are we, choppered liver?
Posted by: Trebuches

I have a pamphlet on a cheaper alternative.

Posted by: Vermeer Salesman at September 21, 2026 02:05 PM (wOO3z)

187 In a stunning move the media makes itself even more irrelevant.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 21, 2026 02:05 PM (UdrMW)

188 Kirsche:

Massachusetts Witches' Coven

https://youtu.be/M70Lt3uvyU4

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 02:05 PM (2GVsD)

189 OT: Ericka Lomick, the Democratic nominee for Texas House District 93, has SUSPENDED her campaign after news of her criminal history surfaced.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 02:05 PM (ExV1e)

190 182
"Everybody in the state, when you have a baby, you're going to have a home visit within days, and that will be an opportunity for us to make an assessment to see if you need some additional support and resources."

- Maura Healey, Governor, MA
Posted by: Washington Nearsider

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

Will anyone in Massachusetts NOT be working for the state?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 02:04 PM (mmrXZ)

***

Stasi...Massachusetts style!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 21, 2026 02:06 PM (2WIwB)

191 The English church isn't going to let the Belgian church get the upper hand.

English church hosts "modest" Muslim fashion show

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 02:06 PM (ndZc7)

192 No smoking in the press room.

Posted by: Kick the nyahcotine habit

But what about the champagne room...
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 21, 2026 02:03 PM (gLYp7)

There is no smoking or sex in the champagne room.

Posted by: Chris Rock homage, sorta at September 21, 2026 02:06 PM (TbWk/)

193 189 OT: Ericka Lomick, the Democratic nominee for Texas House District 93, has SUSPENDED her campaign after news of her criminal history surfaced.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 02:05 PM (ExV1e)

=======

Was she a sacrificial lamb, had a chance, or guaranteed to win?

I suspect the first.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 02:06 PM (SvJcA)

194 >>It's a mean old world.

https://tinyurl.com/yy8kjas6

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 02:07 PM (viF8m)

195 On topic: Get real-time updates and live events streamed DIRECTLY to your phone. No noise. Just the news that matters most - straight from the Trump Administration.

The White House app is available in Apple and Google stores.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 02:07 PM (ExV1e)

196 Back when I cared about baseball and was an avid Yankees fan, the year was 1978 and the Yankees were 14.5 games behind the Red Sox in mid-August. The Yankees were infighting and constantly were reading in the NY papers about who said what about whom.
Then the Pressmen went on strike and the NYT, Post and Daily News were no longer sending reporters into the locker-room.
You know what happened? The Yankees caught the Red Sox, won the pennant and the World Series.
Posted by: iamnotthekenyaninterloper at September 21, 2026 02:04 PM


To be fair, correlation does not equal causation.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at September 21, 2026 02:07 PM (0sNs1)

197 168 "Everybody in the state, when you have a baby, you're going to have a home visit within days, and that will be an opportunity for us to make an assessment to see if you need some additional support and resources."

- Maura Healey, Governor, MA
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 21, 2026 02:00 PM (gLYp7)

Oh, that'll go over well.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 02:01 PM (wOO3z)

The people of MA are increasingly unfit to be free and incapable of self-government (h/t, TX Declaration of Independence, 1836).

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 21, 2026 02:07 PM (vupS9)

198 Like they couldn't have interviewed Sandman earlier and gotten his statement that he was just trying to smile at the guy beating a drum closer and closer to his face.
Posted by: Axeman

------------
I saw that video and thought he was being attacked with a nervous smile trying to hold his ground not sure what to do.

I think most people would have seen that without the media framing beforehand. So they didn't have to interview him, just not bias tthe reporting and editing.

Same with Floyd -- they left out the drugs, the commotion beforehand, the bullshit about being claustrophobic.... they are creating narratives, not reporting new.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 21, 2026 02:08 PM (LfiSD)

199 There is no smoking or sex in the champagne room.
Posted by: Chris Rock homage, sorta at September 21, 2026 02:06 PM


Whoa! Let's not go too far here.

Posted by: Tiffini from Houston at September 21, 2026 02:08 PM (0sNs1)

200 Jon Stewart, who had the mega corporation Viacom, funding his political speech, daily, during the McCain Feingold years, made a statement about the Citizens United decision on his pod cast recently. And I don't think the Daily Show was known for taming its snark "close to an election", either.

But "There's too much money in politics" is apparently the reason that a 501c4 non-profit should not be allowed to release a documentary. So only the media mega-corporations and their massive influence should be allowed to speak, of course.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 02:08 PM (Fi81e)

201
You know, maybe Trump could have a little more fun with this. Tell those outlets he'll let them back in when and only when they recant the biggest lies of his terms.

- the Hunter Biden laptop coverup
- the Russia hoax
- the fine people hoax
- maybe some little ones like drinking bleach

Force them to not only correct the record, but state WHY they got it wrong in the first place. And no lies about that. "We regret the error; it is not up to our journalistic stands," none of that. "We didn't check the facts because of our bias, and once we were presented with the facts we chose not to correct the record because we'd rather everyone believed the lies."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 02:08 PM (mmrXZ)

202 Oh No !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My hero Chocolate Jesus Barry Soetoro got caught in a Lie

YOUR Raccccccccccccccccist for pointing this out H8ters ...

Posted by: Jackson K. at September 21, 2026 02:09 PM (5U1m0)

203 184 Watermelons everywhere breathe a sigh of relief.
Posted by: wth at September 21, 2026 01:46 PM (UjdFS)

Heh...Heh...Heh...
Posted by: Big Melons

There's a video game called "Battle Brothers" about running a medieval mercenary company. A random event that occurs is coming across drunken villagers about to tar and feather a man caught copulating with melons. You can save him, and he'll join your company with a random name and the title "Melon Mugger".

Posted by: Moron Analyst at September 21, 2026 02:09 PM (sMaFa)

204 Ericka Lomick, the Democratic nominee for Texas House District 93, has SUSPENDED her campaign after news of her criminal history surfaced.
==
Their is some goblin in Ohio running against Max Miller who is probably no better, who has criminal history including trying to swallow crack rocks on arrest, assault, public urination and is selling it as youthful indiscretion and dispute with steelers fan - so no denial, just I'm not a woman beater. Seriously. So many bad choices.

Posted by: normal people don't want the job at September 21, 2026 02:09 PM (anL5R)

205 200 Jon Stewart, who had the mega corporation Viacom, funding his political speech, daily, during the McCain Feingold years, made a statement about the Citizens United decision on his pod cast recently. And I don't think the Daily Show was known for taming its snark "close to an election", either.

But "There's too much money in politics" is apparently the reason that a 501c4 non-profit should not be allowed to release a documentary. So only the media mega-corporations and their massive influence should be allowed to speak, of course.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 02:08 PM (Fi81e)

=======

The left benefited far more from Citizens United than the right did because of C-Suite board room capture, and the left cannot see it for some reason.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 02:09 PM (SvJcA)

206 Will anyone in Massachusetts NOT be working for the state?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 02:04 PM (mmrXZ)

***

Stasi...Massachusetts style!
Posted by: Diogenes at September 21, 2026 02:06 PM (2WIwB)

The state police already have the stylish & snappy uniforms with high-peaked covers.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 21, 2026 02:10 PM (wVcYX)

207 Everybody in the state, when you have a baby, you're going to have a home visit within days...

It TAKES A VILLAGE, PEOPLE!

Posted by: Auspex at September 21, 2026 02:10 PM (Y8DZL)

208 Was she a sacrificial lamb, had a chance, or guaranteed to win?

I suspect the first.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 02:06 PM (SvJcA)


The district, prior to redistricting, has been mostly, but not entirely, Republican since 2013. She probably had a shot.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 02:10 PM (ExV1e)

209 "Hi! I'm Mrs. Masshole here for your baby's wellness check up. I brought a gift."

"That's a pink hat. We have a baby boy."

"Not for too much longer, comrade."

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 02:11 PM (wOO3z)

210
Same with Floyd -- they left out the drugs, the commotion beforehand, the bullshit about being claustrophobic.... they are creating narratives, not reporting new.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 21, 2026 02:08 PM (LfiSD)
---
The man was standing on the sidewalk saying "I can't breathe!" minutes before the viral part.

He was dying from Fentanyl even then. He went into a panic when they put him in the squad car--but he stood a better chance of survival being taken into custody.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 02:11 PM (Fi81e)

211 TX HD 93 is in Fort Worth.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 21, 2026 02:11 PM (vupS9)

212 Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 01:55 PM (2GVsD)

Pooky has kind of... pushed me to play kitsune in our last four Pathfinder campaigns. He does think gumiho are cool but don't integrate as well into Pathfinder as kitsune.

Posted by: pookysgirl has a few costume tails at September 21, 2026 02:11 PM (Wt5PA)

213 208 Was she a sacrificial lamb, had a chance, or guaranteed to win?

I suspect the first.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 02:06 PM (SvJcA)

The district, prior to redistricting, has been mostly, but not entirely, Republican since 2013. She probably had a shot.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 02:10 PM (ExV1e)

=======

The state legislature didn't redistrict their seats, did they? I thought it was only the federal House seats.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 02:11 PM (SvJcA)

214 My favorite is True Conservative who is conserving conservativism for all conservatives Jonah Goldberg posting an AI photo of Trump kissing Natalie Harp on a golf course.

Which he refuses to take down even after being told repeatedly that it was an AI fake.
Even with a community note that he has been told it was fake.

So obviously a fake that the left, after getting called out, blurred it and then again started posting it as real

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 02:11 PM (3cUTc)

215 Has anyone posted the "Oh No. Well anyway..." guy yet?

In other news, yes, all of us posting Carot Top jokes know fully well that creature tried to off himself. NY Post had a story that the reason was some serial pro se nuisance plaintiff was about to release footage of The Top servicing another dude. Apparently, he could not do that finish that job either.

Posted by: Martin Tell at September 21, 2026 02:12 PM (6yK+O)

216 There is no smoking or sex in the champagne room.
Posted by: Chris Rock homage, sorta

Only in the Boy's Room.

Posted by: Brownsville Station at September 21, 2026 02:12 PM (MDua2)

217
"Everybody in the state, when you have a baby, you're going to have a home visit within days, and that will be an opportunity for us to make an assessment to see if you need some additional support and resources."

- Maura Healey, Governor, MA

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

What's funny is, what half of them need is a whipping.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 02:12 PM (mmrXZ)

218 Bible Study Corner.

James Talarico's pastor says Holy Communion is an act of divine breastfeeding

https://tinyurl.com/3dv43yd6

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 02:12 PM (ndZc7)

219 161 And the State AG, as you say, brought full charges and tried to convict him. Hung Jury messed it all up.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 21, 2026 02:00 PM (edUvp)

If there had been an opposing PAC for Paxton, it could have been explained easily with time spent emphasizing Reid Hoffman’s real Epstein links.But no funding gives Talarico a W for propaganda.

Posted by: EveR at September 21, 2026 02:12 PM (rJD2P)

220 214 My favorite is True Conservative who is conserving conservativism for all conservatives Jonah Goldberg posting an AI photo of Trump kissing Natalie Harp on a golf course.

Which he refuses to take down even after being told repeatedly that it was an AI fake.
Even with a community note that he has been told it was fake.

So obviously a fake that the left, after getting called out, blurred it and then again started posting it as real

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 02:11 PM (3cUTc)

=======

"The friend/enemy distinction is the work of communists, and I will destroy any on the right who advocate for it because I think they are enemies to my friends, the left."
-Jonah Goldberg

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 02:12 PM (SvJcA)

221
"Nice baby! Here's some transgender surgery brochures and an exercise band!"

Posted by: Auspex at September 21, 2026 02:13 PM (Y8DZL)

222 It TAKES A VILLAGE, PEOPLE!
Posted by: Auspex at September 21, 2026 02:10 PM


Thank you. I will count you amongst my many supporters here!

Please take the next step, and encourage everyone here to donate to my campaign foundation!

Posted by: Hillary! 2028! 2032! at September 21, 2026 02:13 PM (0sNs1)

223 The state legislature didn't redistrict their seats, did they? I thought it was only the federal House seats.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 02:11 PM (SvJcA)


Eh, you're right. Still, she had a shot. Maybe not a good one, but a shot. Particularly in a year when Talarico the Magnificent is beating Paxton by 128 points in the polls.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 02:13 PM (ExV1e)

224
218 Bible Study Corner.

James Talarico's pastor says Holy Communion is an act of divine breastfeeding

https://tinyurl.com/3dv43yd6

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 02:12 PM (ndZc7)

=====

Got his pulse on the exurban Texas voter right there.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 02:13 PM (SvJcA)

225 We are all going to die from...............

1. Global Warming

2. Climate Change

3. COVID 19

4. AI will kill us like HAL killed Dave in 2001 Space Odessey.

5. TBD .........

Posted by: Jackson K. at September 21, 2026 02:14 PM (5U1m0)

226 223 The state legislature didn't redistrict their seats, did they? I thought it was only the federal House seats.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 02:11 PM (SvJcA)

Eh, you're right. Still, she had a shot. Maybe not a good one, but a shot. Particularly in a year when Talarico the Magnificent is beating Paxton by 128 points in the polls.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 02:13 PM (ExV1e)

=====

Last poll I saw was that Talarico was winning 300% of Republicans who voted for Trump in 2024 because Paxton had sex outside of his marriage.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 02:14 PM (SvJcA)

227 TX HD 93 is in Fort Worth.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 21, 2026 02:11 PM


A most cromulent location!

Posted by: Tiffini from Fort Worth at September 21, 2026 02:14 PM (0sNs1)

228 Well at least they aren't demanding to be there at conception.
Yet...

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 21, 2026 02:14 PM (LfiSD)

229 194 >>It's a mean old world.

https://tinyurl.com/yy8kjas6
Posted by: JackStraw

cTHIEL.
Think BIGLIER.
A FUN WORLD. A BETTER WORLD.
A Party that never ends with a Host that never dies
https://youtu.be/E-uBuVQOulA?t=89

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at September 21, 2026 02:15 PM (3QALf)

230 Pooky's Girl

For original source material:

Kitsune: Japan's Fox of Mystery, Romance, and Humor.
Kiyoshi Nozaki. The Hokuseido Press. 1961

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 02:15 PM (2GVsD)

231 James Talarico's pastor says Holy Communion is an act of divine breastfeeding

Then why isn't Kate Upton or Sydeny Sweeney involved?

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 21, 2026 02:16 PM (sMaFa)

232 Last poll I saw was that Talarico was winning 300% of Republicans who voted for Trump in 2024 because Paxton had sex outside of his marriage.
==
Well somewhat because of the Paxton thing, but mostly because of his smoldering masculinity.

Posted by: Triggleypuff at September 21, 2026 02:16 PM (anL5R)

233 Happy dance! The moment he realizes no one is following him, he's going to melt down. Love it! Vote Blue!
--
The perpetual delusion machine of the left.

No matter how many times they promise each other that this time will be the time Trump melts down, and he doesn't, they still believe that this time, the 10,000th time they've promised a melt down, will be the time he melts down.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 02:16 PM (3cUTc)

234 Note that The Lightbringer's 2009 interview was an "exclusive."

If a president can give a single network exclusive access, why can't he exclude any other networks?

Posted by: boatbuilder at September 21, 2026 02:16 PM (H/VZn)

235 218 Bible Study Corner.

James Talarico's pastor says Holy Communion is an act of divine breastfeeding

https://tinyurl.com/3dv43yd6

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 02:12 PM (ndZc7)


The little individual Communion cup is fine.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 21, 2026 02:17 PM (wVcYX)

236 233 Happy dance! The moment he realizes no one is following him, he's going to melt down. Love it! Vote Blue!
--
The perpetual delusion machine of the left.

No matter how many times they promise each other that this time will be the time Trump melts down, and he doesn't, they still believe that this time, the 10,000th time they've promised a melt down, will be the time he melts down.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 02:16 PM (3cUTc)

=======

Trump was destroyed by the media hating on him in 2016 and he was never heard from in politics again.

Why do they keep harping on him?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 02:17 PM (SvJcA)

237 James Talarico's pastor says Holy Communion is an act of divine breastfeeding

https://tinyurl.com/3dv43yd6
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 02:12 PM (ndZc7)
---
She also said that she doesn't think most people in her church actually believe in a God, per se.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 02:17 PM (Fi81e)

238
OT: Ericka Lomick, the Democratic nominee for Texas House District 93, has SUSPENDED her campaign after news of her criminal history surfaced.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic

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

How sad. The DSA mayoral candidate in Denver has a history of food stamp fraud. She literally said it QUALIFIES her for office, because she's been so poor that it drove her to crime.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 02:18 PM (mmrXZ)

239 No matter how many times they promise each other that this time will be the time Trump melts down, and he doesn't, they still believe that this time, the 10,000th time they've promised a melt down, will be the time he melts down.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 02:16 PM (3cUTc)


I hope he brings in a bunch of podcasters. Offer some lefty podcasters a shot at the room to show he's not afraid of catching retard. Speed up the death of the MSM.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 02:18 PM (ExV1e)

240 Well somewhat because of the Paxton thing, but mostly because of his smoldering masculinity.
Posted by: Triggleypuff

I bet he eats carburetors for breakfast!!

Posted by: Liberal Voters who think Talarico appeals to males at September 21, 2026 02:18 PM (sMaFa)

241 231 James Talarico's pastor says Holy Communion is an act of divine breastfeeding

Not sure I'd want to have Holy Communion in that Church..

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 02:18 PM (+gK6I)

242 She also said that she doesn't think most people in her church actually believe in a God, per se.
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"church" - heh

Posted by: you keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means at September 21, 2026 02:18 PM (anL5R)

243 242 She also said that she doesn't think most people in her church actually believe in a God, per se.
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"church" - heh

Posted by: you keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means at September 21, 2026 02:18 PM (anL5R)

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"Do whatever you want. It doesn't matter."

I don't need to go to a church to learn that morality.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 02:19 PM (SvJcA)

244 "Everybody in the state...."

- Maura Healey, Governor, MA
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Everybody in the state; Nobody outside the state; Nobody against the state.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 02:19 PM (Fi81e)

245 I like how Trump--knowing the left was going to let another insane lawsuit fly and that the cartel judges were going to let it proceed--declared that the Arch will have sniper nests and ammo depos.

Making it a national security installation immune from those retard monkeys.

Hey Johnny Roberts: How's Trump's ass taste?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 02:19 PM (3cUTc)

246 That is not a church, but an orgy waiting to happen.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 02:20 PM (2GVsD)

247 Man, my Geek Squad subscription has been renewing weekly lately. At almost $400 a pop, that's a lot.

I wonder why Best Buy has a github email address.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 02:20 PM (ExV1e)

248 OT: Ericka Lomick, the Democratic nominee for Texas House District 93, has SUSPENDED her campaign after news of her criminal history surfaced.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic

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How sad. The DSA mayoral candidate in Denver has a history of food stamp fraud. She literally said it QUALIFIES her for office, because she's been so poor that it drove her to crime.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Crime is a resume enhancer for Democrats.

Posted by: m at September 21, 2026 02:20 PM (XeU6L)

249
James Woods Flashes Back to the Moment CNN Lost Its Last Shred of 'Journalism' Credibility

https://tinyurl.com/txc9uedf

Posted by: redridinghood at September 21, 2026 02:20 PM (NpAcC)

250 Must be because of the blood involved in chest-feeding.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 02:20 PM (Fi81e)

251
What would this upcoming Trump "meltdown" look like? The dude has never held back on anything. His wick is always lit and his wax is always partly liquid.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 02:20 PM (mmrXZ)

252 248 How sad. The DSA mayoral candidate in Denver has a history of food stamp fraud. She literally said it QUALIFIES her for office, because she's been so poor that it drove her to crime.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Crime is a resume enhancer for Democrats.

Posted by: m at September 21, 2026 02:20 PM (XeU6L)

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"No one should be in prisons. Prisons shouldn't exist. Except those we use to jail political dissidents for wrong-think."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 02:20 PM (SvJcA)

253 238
OT: Ericka Lomick, the Democratic nominee for Texas House District 93, has SUSPENDED her campaign after news of her criminal history surfaced.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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How sad. The DSA mayoral candidate in Denver has a history of food stamp fraud. She literally said it QUALIFIES her for office, because she's been so poor that it drove her to crime.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

LIBs
too stoopid to Evil up.
Gary Hart: MonkeyBusiness
What's the difference between Evil and Greater Evil which destroys its maker? PRESENTATION !!!

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at September 21, 2026 02:22 PM (3QALf)

254 And then they write their version of history for publication.

Among others, Rachael Maddow and Department of Fate: The Promise, the Power, and the Collapse of America's Most Consequential Institution is a book by Rachel Maddow about the 150-year history of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ).

A 150-year history tracking the triumphs, misdeeds, and institutional collapses of the Department of Justice. Published by Crown, the book is scheduled for release on November 10, 2026, one week after the midterm elections.

Yay. /jk


Posted by: L - No nic... at September 21, 2026 02:22 PM (NFX2v)

255 251
What would this upcoming Trump "meltdown" look like? The dude has never held back on anything. His wick is always lit and his wax is always partly liquid.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 02:20 PM (mmrXZ)

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He's actually really controlled, but the left has been told that he's a ticking time bomb for a decade now.

For all the confrontations he's had over the years, all the antagonism, his blow ups amount to calling people some names and walking off.

The blow up doesn't seem to be in his character.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 02:22 PM (SvJcA)

256 She also said that she doesn't think most people in her church actually believe in a God, per se.
Posted by: Axeman

Marx on the other hand . . .

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 02:23 PM (ndZc7)

257 How sad. The DSA mayoral candidate in Denver has a history of food stamp fraud. She literally said it QUALIFIES her for office, because she's been so poor that it drove her to crime.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia



I'll see your mayoral candidate and raise you a State House Candidate:
Sarah J Fields reporting.
BREAKING UPDATE 🚨 - ERICKA LOMICK SUSPENDS CAMPAIGN FOR TEXAS HOUSE DISTRICT 93

After my article was released regarding Ericka Lomick, the Democratic nominee for Texas House District 93 in Tarrant County, she has now announced that she is suspending her campaign.

Her announcement states:

“After careful consideration, I have made the decision to suspend my campaign for House District 93,” Lomick said. “Although this was not an easy decision, I am convinced that it was the right one for the people of HD 93.”

This comes immediately following my reporting regarding Lomick’s candidacy and her documented federal criminal history.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 02:23 PM (hGTKn)

258 Well time to go do other things.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 02:24 PM (2GVsD)

259 Among others, Rachael Maddow and Department of Fate: The Promise, the Power, and the Collapse of America's Most Consequential Institution is a book by Rachel Maddow about the 150-year history of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ).
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Curiously, Howard Zinn just came to mind.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 21, 2026 02:24 PM (XeU6L)

260 Looked at Lomick's campaign page and she stresses her "lived experience". As opposed to "dead experience". Guess that includes alleged mortgage fraud

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2026 02:24 PM (taL2t)

261 "It TAKES A VILLAGE, PEOPLE!"

They forgot to reveal that the "It" is BigGov. BigGov takes control of every village.

BigGov needs to do home inspections, to see if you have any indications of MAGA support, or if you don't support climate change and BigPharma. Those things could void your Medicare and/or Social Security.

My insurance provider had called a few times to schedule my home review, or whatever they call coming to inspect my house, to see if they can find a reason to drag me out, I presume.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 21, 2026 02:25 PM (vbXSk)

262 Should have just let them there but never called on them for questions.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 21, 2026 02:25 PM (iA4/+)

263 This comes immediately following my reporting regarding Lomick’s candidacy and her documented federal criminal history.
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Did she forget or something? I mean, anyone who donated to her campaign should sue for fraud. Its not like she would be allowed to vote or hold a committee assignment even if she somehow had won.

Posted by: you keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means at September 21, 2026 02:25 PM (anL5R)

264 So no coverage of Trump at the UN ? Good...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 02:26 PM (+gK6I)

265 - Maura Healey, Governor, MA
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- Maura Healey, demon, MA

Posted by: Crusader at September 21, 2026 02:26 PM (TN0g+)

266 Looked at Lomick's campaign page and she stresses her "lived experience". As opposed to "dead experience". Guess that includes alleged mortgage fraud

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2026 02:24 PM (taL2t)
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"Lived experience" was what bigotry is based on.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 02:27 PM (Fi81e)

267 A PAC for Talarico is using images of Epstein in an ad against Paxton saying he gave some pedo an "Epstein style deal" after a payoff by some rich guy.
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The original jury trial deadlocked 7-5--that's how weak the evidence was.
Paxton was not involved.
The victim refused to testify on re-trial.
The local assistant AG knew they would never get a conviction.

It's a nasty lie by just as nasty people who support a candidate funded by an actual pedophile who actually was a frequent guest on Epstein's island.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 02:27 PM (3cUTc)

268 Among others, Rachael Maddow and Department of Fate: The Promise, the Power, and the Collapse of America's Most Consequential Institution is a book by Rachel Maddow about the 150-year history of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ).
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Curiously, Howard Zinn just came to mind.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

No footnotes. No Sources. Just bullshit stories.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 02:27 PM (wOO3z)

269
It's a nasty lie by just as nasty people who support a candidate funded by an actual pedophile who actually was a frequent guest on Epstein's island.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 02:27 PM (3cUTc)



Then why aren't lawsuits being filed for this obvious lie?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 02:27 PM (ccf/V)

270 Fact checking with Sunny Hostin? How low can you go. Her latest outrage - apparently this race hustler has written a series of "romance" books and is mad because they haven't been picked up and made into movies. Huh? Anyway, her claim is because of racism in Hollywood, blah, blah. This woman is seriously damaged.

Posted by: Cheri at September 21, 2026 02:27 PM (oiNtH)

271 Did she forget or something? I mean, anyone who donated to her campaign should sue for fraud. Its not like she would be allowed to vote or hold a committee assignment even if she somehow had won.
Posted by: you keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means at September 21, 2026 02:25 PM (anL5R)


https://youtu.be/waEC-8GFTP4

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 02:28 PM (ExV1e)

272 Fact checking with Sunny Hostin? How low can you go. Her latest outrage - apparently this race hustler


Race hustling? Ace needs to cover the Converse controversy.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 02:29 PM (hGTKn)

273 Will anyone in Massachusetts NOT be working for the state?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 02:04 PM


Well...the dead babies won't.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 21, 2026 02:29 PM (bFu5X)

274 Among others, Rachael Maddow and Department of Fate: The Promise, the Power, and the Collapse of America's Most Consequential Institution is a book by Rachel Maddow about the 150-year history of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ).
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Curiously, Howard Zinn just came to mind.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

No footnotes. No Sources. Just bullshit stories.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
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But, but... (waves handful of legit tax returns)

Posted by: Madcow at September 21, 2026 02:29 PM (XeU6L)

275
https://youtu.be/waEC-8GFTP4
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 02:28 PM (ExV1e)



Some people just have too much time on their hands........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 02:29 PM (ccf/V)

276 “Although this was not an easy decision, I am convinced that it was the right one for the people of HD 93.”

___________________________

She should have added. "I should have never run for HD 93 due to the reason that is causing me to suspend my campaign now. But, I forgot."

Posted by: Orson at September 21, 2026 02:29 PM (dIske)

277 So no coverage of Trump at the UN ? Good...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 02:26 PM (+gK6I)


Delcy Rodriguez, the pro-tem president of Venezuela is going to the UN and will probably spend some time talking to Trump. Heaven knows if she will be allowed time with Maduro, who is in jail in NYC.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 21, 2026 02:30 PM (rbvCR)

278 Will anyone in Massachusetts NOT be working for the state?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 02:04 PM

Well...the dead babies won't.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 21, 2026 02:29 PM (bFu5X)
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But they can still vote!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2026 02:30 PM (FZ29D)

279 Some people just have too much time on their hands........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 02:29 PM (ccf/V)
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Clock boy, for example.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 02:30 PM (Fi81e)

280 277
Delcy Rodriguez, the pro-tem president of Venezuela is going to the UN and will probably spend some time talking to Trump. Heaven knows if she will be allowed time with Maduro, who is in jail in NYC.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 21, 2026 02:30 PM (rbvCR)

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"This is for that time you slapped my ass in front of the governing council, puta!"
-Delcy to Maduro, doing a happy dance

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 02:30 PM (SvJcA)

281
So no coverage of Trump at the UN ? Good...
Posted by: It's me donna

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Tee hee! They promised.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 02:31 PM (mmrXZ)

282 Well...the dead babies won't.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 21, 2026 02:29 PM (bFu5X)

_________________________

Those STEM cells aren't just going to make themselves. Get back to work prodigy!!!!

(too much?)

Posted by: Orson at September 21, 2026 02:31 PM (dIske)

283 Apparently Trump is meeting the Danes and Greenlanders tomorrow at the UN to sign the agreement

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2026 02:31 PM (taL2t)

284 So no coverage of Trump at the UN ? Good...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 02:26 PM (+gK6I)


Amusingly, the UN 'requires' Trump to allow the President of Iran to attend the General Assembly meeting so Scott Bessent, I believe, has stated that anyone providing them with jet fuel will be punished.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 02:31 PM (ExV1e)

285 How sad. The DSA mayoral candidate in Denver has a history of food stamp fraud. She literally said it QUALIFIES her for office, because she's been so poor that it drove her to crime.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

I read that and saw a clip of her saying this with a big smile on her loony face as if this was something to aspire to and be proud of. Gee, like someone who robs a bank should run for Treasurer.

Posted by: Cheri at September 21, 2026 02:31 PM (oiNtH)

286 Then why aren't lawsuits being filed for this obvious lie?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 02:27 PM (ccf/V)


I dunno. Ask Barbara Streisand, maybe she knows.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 21, 2026 02:31 PM (rbvCR)

287 https://youtu.be/waEC-8GFTP4
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 02:28 PM (ExV1e)


Some people just have too much time on their hands........
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Sponge's version of "ain't nobody got time for this" is "too much time on my hands" by styx

Posted by: you keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means at September 21, 2026 02:31 PM (anL5R)

288 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 02:31 PM (ccf/V)

289 261 "It TAKES A VILLAGE, PEOPLE!"

They forgot to reveal that the "It" is BigGov. BigGov takes control of every village.
...
Posted by: illiniwek

It TAKES A VILLAIN to tell us the truth.

Their Morality is a bad Joke...

"to leave now we would send a message to terrorists and other potential adversaries around the world that they can change our policies by killing our people. It would be open season on Americans."
-- Bill Clinton '93 just before he pulled out of Somalia.


To abandon this area now -- and to rely only on efforts against alQaeda from a distance -- would significantly hamper our ability to keep the pressure on al Qaeda, and create an UNACCEPTABLE RISK of additional attacks on our homeland and our allies.
-- OBAMA'09 after doing PRECISELY THAT

What is the vital national interest? -- IceKing Joe'21 delivering it all to the desperate and deliberately evil.

Why settle for the lesser Evil?
Make a Deal with cTHIEL !!!

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at September 21, 2026 02:31 PM (3QALf)

290 Nood

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 02:32 PM (hGTKn)

291 Well...the dead babies won't.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 21, 2026 02:29 PM (bFu5X)
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But they can still vote!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2026 02:30 PM


Multiple times!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 21, 2026 02:32 PM (bFu5X)

292
Amusingly, the UN 'requires' Trump to allow the President of Iran to attend the General Assembly meeting so Scott Bessent, I believe, has stated that anyone providing them with jet fuel will be punished.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 02:31 PM (ExV1e)


Scott Bessent is quickly becoming my favorite

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 02:32 PM (+gK6I)

293
Biden's "Disinformation Governance Board" or Ministry of Truth seems to be memory holed.

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 21, 2026 02:32 PM (OkYzo)

294 Apparently Trump is meeting the Danes and Greenlanders tomorrow at the UN to sign the agreement
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2026 02:31 PM (taL2t)


Now imagine Trump doing the same in 9 months over Alberta.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 21, 2026 02:32 PM (rbvCR)

295 Current Polymarket senate odds

TX D-59%
ME D-66%
MI D-67%
OH D-57%
GA D-93%
NC D-92%
AK D-71%

But it’s just summer polls which are all wrong. Everyone loves Trump and his idiotic war and $5 gas.

Posted by: AOS Cope at September 21, 2026 02:33 PM (7U2Kk)

296 I read that and saw a clip of her saying this with a big smile on her loony face as if this was something to aspire to and be proud of. Gee, like someone who robs a bank should run for Treasurer.
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Was this not an episode of 1960's Batman?

Posted by: Criminal nostalgia at September 21, 2026 02:33 PM (anL5R)

297 Liking the way Trump does everything is a no-go for me.

The best I can hope for is that he has an idea of what he's doing and gets more out of how he's doing it than he loses.

All that aside, what the fuck are the rest of the the Republican party doing that's so much better?

Trump is like a farm plow.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 02:34 PM (Fi81e)

298
Fact checking with Sunny Hostin? How low can you go. Her latest outrage - apparently this race hustler has written a series of "romance" books and is mad because they haven't been picked up and made into movies. Huh? Anyway, her claim is because of racism in Hollywood, blah, blah. This woman is seriously damaged.
Posted by: Cheri

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Hah, judging by the ads I've been seeing on YouTube, there are cute little apps that generate whatever romance story you want. Then you watch it or interact with it. Who needs Sunny Hostin's overpriced slop -- which is likely half AI anyway?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 02:34 PM (mmrXZ)

299 295 But it’s just summer polls which are all wrong. Everyone loves Trump and his idiotic war and $5 gas.

Posted by: AOS Cope at September 21, 2026 02:33 PM (7U2Kk)

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You know what's worse than summer polling?

Betting markets.

https://x.com/the_matt/status/
2101756753381650480/photo/1

The polls were off by 20 points. The betting markets were off by 95%.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 02:34 PM (SvJcA)

300 When Dems win 6 senate seats the cope will go from polls are fake to it was stolen.

Posted by: AOS Cope at September 21, 2026 02:36 PM (7U2Kk)

301 She should have added. "I should have never run for HD 93 due to the reason that is causing me to suspend my campaign now. But, I forgot."
Posted by: Orson
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Local Dem City Council (NC) 'forgot' that she had listed another home that she owns in Georgia as her primary residence there, and registered to vote there.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 21, 2026 02:36 PM (XeU6L)

302 The betting markets were off by 95%.
==
Nothing screws up a market like rich liberals with money to burn who think they know everything.

Posted by: Criminal nostalgia at September 21, 2026 02:36 PM (anL5R)

303 Unpopular opinion: This is a dumb idea with no upside for Trump or the rest of us. It's the most unnecessary, distracting, and counterproductive fight he has yet picked.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at September 21, 2026 02:43 PM (DJAE9)

304 Do people still watch those networks?
Posted by: I gotta ask at September 21, 2026 01:32 PM (2Ez/1)

Sadly, yes they do.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 21, 2026 02:43 PM (hmYU4)

305 303 Unpopular opinion: This is a dumb idea with no upside for Trump or the rest of us. It's the most unnecessary, distracting, and counterproductive fight he has yet picked.
Posted by: Rusty Nail

Unless he expects to dclear the Taiwan Strait a JDZ and other amazing festivus like feats which will leave the LIBs out in the cold that they deserve.

LET'S GO BRANDON!
Best Episode of Apprentice Ever! -- put Petraeus in the presidential running.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at September 21, 2026 02:50 PM (8p8zX)

306 I'm glad he finally did it. All I ever seemed to see the rare times i watched him take questions, is these sub-r*tard reporters trying to ask him some kind of 'gotcha' question which never worked because..well, they're r*tards and they couldn't outwit a golden retriever. They just kept trying to one up each other being disrespectful.
Now they're just reporting their internal r*tard games of telephone making up sh*t about him and asking him to react. Why waste his time? Come back when you can do your job as a professional. This isn't adult day care.

Posted by: Nelly at September 21, 2026 02:56 PM (6+ehB)

AfD Wins Another Regional Election in Germany; Ruling Chancellor's Party Collapses So Badly It Fails to Win a Single Seat in the Regional Parliament

CDUfalls.jpg

The SPD are the socialists.

Parties need to garner at least 5.0% of the vote to get one seat. The "center-right" party -- now really a left-wing party due to endless coalitions with the left -- won about 4.9%.

Chancellor Merz admitted this is a "disaster"

Don't get excited -- AfD failed to win an outright majority and the far left did almost as well. Thanks to the usual "firewall" f***ery, all of the left-wing parties will join in a coalition to exclude the top vote-getting party completely.

Still: The trend.

German papers are calling this the "Merzpocalypse."

Axios:

Far-right AfD wins again as Germany's Merz slides

Germany's ruling center-right party, Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Christian Democratic Union, was shut out of a state parliament for the first time Sunday as the far-right Alternative for Germany scored its second victory this month.

Why it matters: The result marks the third state election AfD has won -- and its second this month -- underscoring its growing strength even as Germany's other major parties refuse to govern with it.

Driving the news: Merz, who has low approval ratings, told reporters that "reforms have to come."

By "reforms," he does not mean that the CDU will embrace the AfD's winning issue of immigration realism.

He means that the CDU will join with the communists to ban the AfD and further restrict speech so that no one can publicly agitate for immigration realism.

AfD won about 38% of the vote in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, while the CDU recorded its worst result in any German state election since World War II. The CDU fell from 13% to 4.9% and lost all representation.

In Berlin's state election, the Left more than doubled its vote share to 25.7% and finished first for the first time.

Flashback: AfD won its first state election in Thuringia in 2024, though other parties kept it out of government because they refused to enter into a coalition.

They refuse to enter coalitions (when they're asked at all) because the other parties refuse to cede ground on the only issue AfD is running on. They want the AfD's support without giving the AfD any actual ground on their main issue.


Earlier this month, it won 43.8% in Saxony-Anhalt, but fell just three seats short of a majority. It is now seeking enough outside support to form Germany's first far-right state government since World War II.

Vice President JD Vance met with AfD's co-leader days before last year's federal election and told the Munich Security Conference there was "no room for firewalls," referring to mainstream parties' refusal to govern with the AfD.

...

Germany's domestic intelligence service continues to monitor AfD nationally as a suspected extremist organization. A court in February blocked the agency from classifying the entire party as a confirmed right-wing extremist organization while a broader case proceeds.

The anti-migration party calls for "remigration" -- large-scale deportations and encouraging immigrants to leave. It also wants to abandon the euro, lift Russian sanctions and end weapons deliveries to Ukraine.

Merz says he has no intention to resign, but others are demanding he step aside to allow another cuck to fail.

BERLIN -- German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Monday pledged to overhaul his party's platform and decision-making processes after suffering another humiliating election defeat, calling the result a "major turning point."


...

"It is a dramatic and unprecedented result for the CDU ... an entire state parliamentary caucus has been eliminated from the state legislature," Merz told reporters Monday at his party's headquarters in Berlin. "We will feel its repercussions for a long time," he added.

Party officials had warned that an outcome below 5% for the CDU in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania would unleash a storm of criticism and renew calls for a change in leadership, or Kanzlertausch.

But Merz is clinging to power -- for now.

Unless he steps aside voluntarily, forcing a leadership change risks triggering a snap election at a time when polls show the far right to be the country's most popular party -- making such a move unlikely for the time being. That could quickly change if party members begin speaking out against him.

That's why Merz has vowed to chart a new course for the CDU, announcing consultations in the coming days to unite the party's rank and file behind him.

...

"We will discuss the party's work and structure, our platform, and the CDU's public image," he said. "To be frank, we no longer have satisfactory answers to too many questions. And that is something we will and must change."

Here is the change he's considering.

During a meeting with science students, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz openly derided the principle of freedom of speech and defended the need for the state to "protect" citizens from American-style libertarianism on the internet.

What would have typically been an unremarkable photo-op for the increasingly unpopular German leader drew condemnation over a major gaffe (read: accidentally revealing his true feelings) as Merz held court at the Chancellery with the winners of the 'Youth Researchers' competition on Tuesday.

When pressed by a young student on whether his plans to end online anonymity would impede personal liberties, Chancellor Merz reacted indignantly, declaring: "Please, no one comes to me with free speech... That has nothing to do with free speech anymore."

The supposedly conservative politician -- who made sure to use English when repeating the phrase "free speech" as if to mock the very concept -- said that he rejects the "libertarian understanding of politics," which he claimed emanates from the United States.

Merz said that his vision of a liberal society was rather one in which the state steps in to protect citizens "from false information, from personal degradation, from discrimination" on the internet.

The Chancellor complained that in the "analogue world" of his youth, German newspapers were liable to face legal action for spreading false claims, but this is no longer possible with the advent of anonymous social media profiles, and thus the media landscape lacks "hygiene".

He also asserted that anonymity allows the proliferation of bot-generated messages, which he claimed were instrumental in helping the Alternative for Germany (AfD) trounce his globalist Christian Democrats in the Saxony-Anhalt state elections earlier this month.

Yet, it is doubtful that any amount of censorship from Berlin would bolster the Chancellor's faltering coalition government, which rumours suggest may be on its last legs.

That article was from five days ago.

Beege Wellborn:

[Bloomberg:] "We can't sugarcoat it, it was a disaster," Merz told reporters in Berlin in a statement earlier directly after exit polls were released, breaking with a past practice for chancellors to speak the day after an election. He gathered senior CDU officials to party headquarters, where he sought to gauge their support for his leadership.


The far left party Der Linke, which just means The Left, was fueled, of course, by the Karen Vote.

And as with Mamdani's win in New York, Die Linke's victory was driven almost exclusively by young voters and women coming out for the communist/socialist parties.

Visegrád 24
@visegrad24

This is how people under the age of 25 voted in the Berlin regional election tonight.

71% of women under 25 voted for the far-left, the left or the Greens.

51% of women under 25 voted for the party that is the direct, legal and organizational successor to communist party that ruled East Germany as a dictatorship between 1949 to 1989.

But are they really the Karens we're used to? Or New Foreign Karens?


Jo Bhakdi
@JOBhakdi


Germans wonder how young people , especially women , could vote majority communist in Berlin.

They wonder what went wrong : do they not have a dad ? Don't they think? Don't they have loyalty to their country?

But those who ask these questions picture the wrong "young women" in their mind.

Yes, they have a dad. Yes, they are deeply loyal to their country. But neither their dad nor their country are German.

Young people with a migration background make up nearly 50% of all children and teenagers living in Berlin.

The new version of the communist parties in Sweden and Germany are not delusional white female liberals. They are clan-connected invasion machines.

They are not dumb, they are not naive, they are not pampered.

They are brutal, determined and ready to plunder.

And if you were a young woman in that crowd, you also would vote communist. Because you want to live.

Eesh. In 15-20 years almost every country in Europe will be Islamic and Communist.

How are you? Did you get some good rest in?

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:14 PM




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Posted by: GF at September 21, 2026 12:14 PM (h6DRu)

2 I assume they're about to ban AfD.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 12:14 PM (ExV1e)

3 S'up, Ace? Happy Monday!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 21, 2026 12:15 PM (bFu5X)

4 There are only two things to do in response:

Import more of Syria and outlaw the AfD party.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:15 PM (SvJcA)

5 Morning.

Posted by: Robert at September 21, 2026 12:15 PM (dpXJq)

6 2 I assume they're about to ban AfD.

Only if the Reichstag burns.

Oh, that's scheduled for next week.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 12:16 PM (Riz8t)

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6 2 I assume they're about to ban AfD.

Only if the Reichstag burns.

Oh, that's scheduled for next week.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 12:16 PM (Riz8t)

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To be fair to Hitler, it's pretty much conclusive by this point that communists did start that fire.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:16 PM (SvJcA)

8 I assume they're about to ban AfD.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 12:14 PM (ExV1e)

Liberty? Democracy? Freedom of speech?

Fascist American ideas.

Posted by: Robert at September 21, 2026 12:17 PM (dpXJq)

9 Imagine the outrage from the left if AfD called for an end to free speech.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 12:17 PM (Riz8t)

10 Merz is a toad and Germany is slowly figuring out they've been screwed.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 21, 2026 12:17 PM (NnhvP)

11 Eesh. In 15-20 years almost every country in Europe will be Islamic and Communist.
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It's going to be interesting when those two ideologies go to war with each other in Europe.

My money will be on Islam. Sure it's a brutal, repressive, and violent culture, but it at least provides a "future" for its people. Not a good one, but there is one.

Communism always ends in nihilism and death because there is no hope of anything more.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2026 12:18 PM (FZ29D)

12 Don't go away mad, Fred, just go away.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 21, 2026 12:18 PM (2UnvF)

13 10 Merz is a toad and Germany is slowly figuring out they've been screwed.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

They would be more likely to survive as a country if the Russians invaded them than if the muzzies take over.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:18 PM (E4rtv)

14
Liberty? Democracy? Freedom of speech?

Fascist American ideas.


And once again, the dark night of fascism is forever descending on the United States...and landing in Europe.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 12:18 PM (Riz8t)

15 To be fair to Hitler, it's pretty much conclusive by this point that communists did start that fire.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

It was that mentally-challenged Dutch kid.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 12:18 PM (77rzZ)

16 To be fair to Hitler, it's pretty much conclusive by this point that communists did start that fire.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:16 PM


And also to be fair, he did kill Hitler.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 21, 2026 12:19 PM (bFu5X)

17 It was that mentally-challenged Dutch kid.
Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 12:18 PM (77rzZ)
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Accidents happen.

Posted by: Mrs. O'Leary's Cow at September 21, 2026 12:19 PM (oqH4h)

18 Do they have gladiator movies in Germany?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 21, 2026 12:19 PM (No5q8)

19 Fred Mertz was a fine landlord, but who thought he could run a large country?

Posted by: Mrs. Trumbull @ 623 E. 68th Street at September 21, 2026 12:19 PM (Fn+3X)

20 Pull quote from ace - “ Eesh. In 15-20 years almost every country in Europe will be Islamic and Communist”. Plan accordingly, America.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:20 PM (Gqar8)

21 They would be more likely to survive as a country if the Russians invaded them than if the muzzies take over.

Russia has its hands full with Ukraine and now Estonia. They'd need at least...2 battalions and a motocross squad to overpower the Germans.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 12:20 PM (Riz8t)

22
German papers are calling this the "Merzpocalypse."

That's when Fred's belt breaks.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 21, 2026 12:20 PM (Cqx++)

23 Chancellor Merz admitted this is a "disaster"



Oh, Fred!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 12:20 PM (hGTKn)

24
15 To be fair to Hitler, it's pretty much conclusive by this point that communists did start that fire.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

It was that mentally-challenged Dutch kid.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 12:18 PM (77rzZ)

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I did say communist.

How is that different from mentally-challenged?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:20 PM (SvJcA)

25 Liberty? Democracy? Freedom of speech?

Fascist American ideas.
Posted by: Robert at September 21, 2026 12:17 PM (dpXJq)


Thank goodness that our tax dollars go towards defending them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 12:20 PM (ExV1e)

26 16 To be fair to Hitler, it's pretty much conclusive by this point that communists did start that fire.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:16 PM

And also to be fair, he did kill Hitler.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 21, 2026 12:19 PM (bFu5X)

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Not even FDR killed Hitler!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:20 PM (SvJcA)

27 But Merz is clinging to power -- for now.
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Ethel knows better.

Posted by: Crusader at September 21, 2026 12:20 PM (TN0g+)

28 " Ruling Chancellor's Party Collapses So Badly It Fails to Win a Single Seat in the Regional Parliament"



/golf clap

Posted by: Liz Cheney at September 21, 2026 12:21 PM (r7+Q7)

29 The media always refer AfD as far right but never anyone else as far left.

Posted by: dantesed at September 21, 2026 12:21 PM (p3pWU)

30 Fred Mertz was a fine landlord, but who thought he could run a large country?
Posted by: Mrs. Trumbull @ 623 E. 68th Street


*snort

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 12:21 PM (hGTKn)

31 I did say communist.

How is that different from mentally-challenged?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Valid point.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 12:21 PM (77rzZ)

32 Merz is a toad and Germany is slowly figuring out they've been screwed.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 21, 2026 12:17 PM (NnhvP)


His problem is that he lacks the sizzling Aryan sex appeal of Angela Merkel.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 12:22 PM (ExV1e)

33 Angela Merkel was the appointed destructor.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 12:22 PM (d7mRD)

34 "Ruling Chancellor's Party Collapses So Badly It Fails to Win a Single Seat in the Regional Parliament"


Would love to see a Downfall parody of the election. 😂

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 12:22 PM (hGTKn)

35 >>How are you? Did you get some good rest in?


Got a ride in on my new Gravel Bike yesterday...
after installing a new dishwasher and washing machine on Saturday.
Slept like the dead last night.

Heading up to the Hospital with Dad for a consultation with the heart surgeon in a few hours.

Also, wishing all the best on Yom Kippur to the tribe.

Posted by: garrett at September 21, 2026 12:22 PM (zdXqn)

36 Maybe they are waking up... Not really holding my breath on that... Meanwhile, it looks like the powers that be are trying to send us in the other direction...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 12:22 PM (+gK6I)

37 Re: Paramount

Looks like someone blinked.

https://instapundit.com/824308/

Lawsuit settled, merger allowed to proceed. Guess Paramount threatening to bail on California worked. Although there were concessions.

Posted by: Robert at September 21, 2026 12:22 PM (dpXJq)

38 My money will be on Islam. Sure it's a brutal, repressive, and violent culture, but it at least provides a "future" for its people. Not a good one, but there is one.

Communism always ends in nihilism and death because there is no hope of anything more.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Ahem, Libya, Lebanon, Iran, Sudan, Syria, Iraq, and various other Muslim shitholes are actually worse than the Commies. Chaotic evil versus lawful evil if you will.

Basically, Islam worships warlordism which is why it veers from violent repressive asshole dictators to civil war where the new warlords try to supplant the old one. It only appears united because they are unified in hating Christians, atheists, and Jews. But when those aren't available, they go to war against themselves.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:23 PM (E4rtv)

39 I'm constantly amused that AfD, which is pretty literally the US Democrat Party, except anti-illegal-immigration, is "far right".

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 12:23 PM (2ocoG)

40 Might be hard to rent a beer hall for a Beer Hall Putsch with Oktoberfest going on.

Posted by: Reinheitsgebot of 1516 at September 21, 2026 12:23 PM (Fn+3X)

41 They are already working on a route through the legal system to ban the AfD. If people won't vote for the "right" party, then they won't be allowed to vote.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 21, 2026 12:23 PM (5myRl)

42 Lawsuit settled, merger allowed to proceed. Guess Paramount threatening to bail on California worked. Although there were concessions.
Posted by: Robert
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Paramount should wait a year or so and then bail. Not much that California can do about it.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:23 PM (E4rtv)

43 39 I'm constantly amused that AfD, which is pretty literally the US Democrat Party, except anti-illegal-immigration, is "far right".

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 12:23 PM (2ocoG)

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"We need to shrink the size and scope of government," is just not in the blood of those who remained in Europe.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:24 PM (SvJcA)

44 hi ace!

had a great weekend. the eagles won!

other than that lots of fun stuff and decent weather even if some rain yesterday

Germany is fooked. I actually have hope for Greece and Italy tho so

too bad for the barbarians

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 21, 2026 12:24 PM (j+aD2)

45 39 I'm constantly amused that AfD, which is pretty literally the US Democrat Party, except anti-illegal-immigration, is "far right".
Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 12:23 PM (2ocoG)

Yep.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:24 PM (Gqar8)

46 Might be hard to rent a beer hall for a Beer Hall Putsch with Oktoberfest going on.
Posted by: Reinheitsgebot of 1516


Octoberfest in September. Makes sense.
What's next? Christmas in November?

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 12:24 PM (hGTKn)

47 42 Lawsuit settled, merger allowed to proceed. Guess Paramount threatening to bail on California worked. Although there were concessions.
Posted by: Robert
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Paramount should wait a year or so and then bail. Not much that California can do about it.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:23 PM (E4rtv)

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And Ellison should enforce diversity statements from all employees that say, "Diversity is bad," for anyone who wants to move with the company.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:24 PM (SvJcA)

48 "How are you?"

Fettle fine and horse healthy.

Posted by: gp at September 21, 2026 12:24 PM (Jr5Lq)

49 Octoberfest in September. Makes sense.
What's next? Christmas in November?



Pfffffft.

Posted by: Costco Xmas decorations in August at September 21, 2026 12:25 PM (Riz8t)

50 >>Paramount should wait a year or so and then bail. Not much that California can do about it.


Definitely, this.
I can't believe that any corporation would sit in California while they atrophy talent and money to the other states.

Posted by: garrett at September 21, 2026 12:25 PM (zdXqn)

51 The Chancellor complained that in the "analogue world" of his youth, German newspapers were liable to face legal action for spreading false claims, but this is no longer possible with the advent of anonymous social media profiles, and thus the media landscape lacks "hygiene".

You know who else was on about "hygiene"?

Posted by: Three guesses at September 21, 2026 12:25 PM (TbWk/)

52 And remember, this "far right" party in Germany is 100% in favor of all the other socialist programs, same as all the other parties.

They just want restrictions on immigration.

That's it.
They don't want more freedom, smaller government or less spending.
Just a few hundred less dark skins immigrating in each year.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 12:25 PM (3cUTc)

53 In completely unrelated news, USAID is still dead.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 12:25 PM (viF8m)

54 Lawsuit settled, merger allowed to proceed. Guess Paramount threatening to bail on California worked. Although there were concessions.
Posted by: Robert
=========
Paramount should wait a year or so and then bail. Not much that California can do about it.
Posted by: whig


Paramount: We said no brown M&M's in the dressing room! We're outta here!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 12:25 PM (hGTKn)

55 What's next? Christmas in November?
Posted by: rickb223

Christmas starts right after Labor Day!
-- CostCo Decoration Department

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 12:26 PM (77rzZ)

56 Muslim AND Communist ... this is not the change that Western Civilization needs. I guess Free and Christian is less popular? Or they are just not willing to fight the rapists and murderers and thieves that have united under Islam?

Posted by: illiniwek at September 21, 2026 12:26 PM (vbXSk)

57 >>I'm constantly amused that AfD, which is pretty literally the US Democrat Party, except anti-illegal-immigration, is "far right".

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 12:23 PM

All non-commies are far right in Europe.

Posted by: huerfano at September 21, 2026 12:26 PM (2Xqig)

58 41 They are already working on a route through the legal system to ban the AfD. If people won't vote for the "right" party, then they won't be allowed to vote.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

"Vote" becomes rigged, then the people's voice will come out in other ways, less nice than the first. If you want to see the sights in Euroland, best go now because I think things will get spicy soon enough.

The only thing is that I hope that the puppet masters behind the globaloney politicians that are the frontmen gets some love too from the People they have screwed.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:26 PM (E4rtv)

59 50 >>Paramount should wait a year or so and then bail. Not much that California can do about it.


Definitely, this.
I can't believe that any corporation would sit in California while they atrophy talent and money to the other states.
Posted by: garrett at September 21, 2026 12:25 PM (zdXqn)


But - the weather is Sooo nice!

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:26 PM (Gqar8)

60 OT: I see that oil is way down which is going to lead to several people complaining about the price of gasoline. It should be noted that eleven US refineries have stopped processing crude oil since 2020. That's driving a lot of the price of diesel/gasoline.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 12:27 PM (ExV1e)

61 58
"Vote" becomes rigged, then the people's voice will come out in other ways, less nice than the first. If you want to see the sights in Euroland, best go now because I think things will get spicy soon enough.

The only thing is that I hope that the puppet masters behind the globaloney politicians that are the frontmen gets some love too from the People they have screwed.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:26 PM (E4rtv)

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Europeans are a servile, docile people who will accept the fiction of elections heavily weighted against the wishes of the people without material complaint.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:27 PM (SvJcA)

62 I should have tried sending in a mail-in vote to Germany. For the lulz.

Posted by: gp at September 21, 2026 12:27 PM (Jr5Lq)

63 Ahem, Libya, Lebanon, Iran, Sudan, Syria, Iraq, and various other Muslim shitholes are actually worse than the Commies. Chaotic evil versus lawful evil if you will.

Basically, Islam worships warlordism which is why it veers from violent repressive asshole dictators to civil war where the new warlords try to supplant the old one. It only appears united because they are unified in hating Christians, atheists, and Jews. But when those aren't available, they go to war against themselves.
Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:23 PM (E4rtv)

I read something many years ago...don't ask by who, I can't recall...that argued Islam was kept under control by the Ottomans and it has been out of control since extinguishing that empire.

Second look at an Ottoman Khalif? Rubio have an opening in his schedule?

Posted by: Robert at September 21, 2026 12:27 PM (dpXJq)

64 57 >>I'm constantly amused that AfD, which is pretty literally the US Democrat Party, except anti-illegal-immigration, is "far right".

Posted by: Ian S.

Ah yes, the AfD who is headed by a lesbian who is married to someone from Sri Lanka IRRC. Nothing says far right more than that.

I think the gays know what is coming--extermination and enslavement by the Muzzies far more than the ridiculous uni students.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:28 PM (E4rtv)

65 49 Octoberfest in September. Makes sense.
What's next? Christmas in November?


Pfffffft.
Posted by: Costco Xmas decorations in August at September 21, 2026 12:25 PM (Riz8t)

Amateurs.

Posted by: Target seasonal section at September 21, 2026 12:28 PM (TbWk/)

66 >>Christmas starts right after Labor Day!
-- CostCo Decoration Department

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 12:26 PM

When Halloween candy goes on discount, it's Christmas.

Posted by: Walmart at September 21, 2026 12:28 PM (2Xqig)

67 61

Europeans are a servile, docile people who will accept the fiction of elections heavily weighted against the wishes of the people without material complaint.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:27 PM (SvJcA)

Maybe the good ones have already left.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:28 PM (Gqar8)

68 The only thing is that I hope that the puppet masters behind the globaloney politicians that are the frontmen gets some love too from the People they have screwed.

Soros has been convicted and given the death penalty in Hungary and Malaysia. If Trump wants to overwhelmingly win the midterms, Maduro-ing him to one of those two countries would do wonders.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 12:29 PM (2ocoG)

69 To be fair to Hitler, it's pretty much conclusive by this point that communists did start that fire.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


Wait -- so the Reichstag Fire was a false flag of a double-reverse psyop Reichstag Fire-style false flag psyop? History is finally coming into focus.

Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 12:29 PM (Av6i5)

70 Octoberfest in September. Makes sense.
What's next? Christmas in November?


"Octoberfest" is a celebration of tits and beer. It should be year round.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 12:29 PM (ExV1e)

71 60 OT: I see that oil is way down which is going to lead to several people complaining about the price of gasoline. It should be noted that eleven US refineries have stopped processing crude oil since 2020. That's driving a lot of the price of diesel/gasoline.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 12:27 PM (ExV1e)

========

Traffic out of the Gulf region is completely recovered when combining S2S transfers, regular traffic with AIS off, and pipelines, and has been for weeks. The Saudi pipeline that was attacked? It was actually only running at half capacity (roughly 3.5 million barrels a day rather than the max of 7 million), and it reportedly saw almost no actual stoppage of movement because of the attack and minimal use.

Ukraine attacking refining facilities in Russia is having a greater effect on gas prices than Iran now.

And, yes, our diminished refining capacity is a major player as well. I think the US government has legal authority to force the shut down facilities back into production if an emergency gets declared.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:30 PM (SvJcA)

72
Just "far-right"? Must be squishes.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 12:30 PM (eRlcH)

73 >>Europeans are a servile, docile people who will accept the fiction of elections heavily weighted against the wishes of the people without material complaint.

That sounds like the US for decades before the loudmouth real estate developer from Queens came along.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 12:30 PM (viF8m)

74 LOL.. So the rest of the News corps are not gonna cover the White House because Trump gave the ax to some of their brethren ? And that's a bad thing how ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 12:31 PM (+gK6I)

75 68

Soros has been convicted and given the death penalty in Hungary and Malaysia. If Trump wants to overwhelmingly win the midterms, Maduro-ing him to one of those two countries would do wonders.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 12:29 PM (2ocoG)

That would be So Awesome!! Take his son and his faux wife along to, bonus time. A man can dream.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:31 PM (Gqar8)

76 Its just very much like the GOP here where had they just been credible on illegal immigration, a candidacy like Trump would have seemed silly.

But they were determined EVERY time they were in power to try and shove an amnesty down our throat. Or cut a deal with Democrats because they hated this wing of the party.

So now, not only is illegal immigration getting addressed like it should, ALL immigration is now being curtailed (like it should).

You literally had Republicans candidates running for President like Ted Cruz promising more mexican immigrants.

Posted by: Sharpie at September 21, 2026 12:31 PM (eu7DR)

77 69 To be fair to Hitler, it's pretty much conclusive by this point that communists did start that fire.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Wait -- so the Reichstag Fire was a false flag of a double-reverse psyop Reichstag Fire-style false flag psyop? History is finally coming into focus.

Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 12:29 PM (Av6i5)

=======

Turns out the 1933 conviction of Van der Lubbe was right, even if investigated and prosecuted by Nazis.

All the left has is the unsupported idea that he was a Nazi plant in communist circles. They can't even point to anyone else.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:31 PM (SvJcA)

78 What's all this fuss about Pomeranians? I think they're one of the cutest dog breeds ever! And they're really smart, too...

What? Oh.
Never mind...

Posted by: Emily Litella at September 21, 2026 12:31 PM (2Ez/1)

79 I think the gays know what is coming--extermination and enslavement by the Muzzies far more than the ridiculous uni students.

They do, which is why it's funnier that the activists have to pretend that "Free Palestine" (with purchase of equal or lesser value) is the world's most important issue.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 12:31 PM (2ocoG)

80
Wait -- so the Reichstag Fire was a false flag of a double-reverse psyop Reichstag Fire-style false flag psyop? History is finally coming into focus.
Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 12:29 PM (Av6i5)

_________

6D chess!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 12:31 PM (eRlcH)

81
52 And remember, this "far right" party in Germany is 100% in favor of all the other socialist programs, same as all the other parties.

They just want restrictions on immigration.

That's it.
They don't want more freedom, smaller government or less spending.
Just a few hundred less dark skins immigrating in each year.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 12:25 PM (3cUTc

Exactly this - Europe is interesting. But socialism is what they know, and they have been told their whole lives we are rude cowboys. Which is why they are shocked when they meet us and realize it’s not like that at all. Except for our insistence on freedom and guns to stay free.

Posted by: Piper at September 21, 2026 12:32 PM (2UJ+q)

82 73 >>Europeans are a servile, docile people who will accept the fiction of elections heavily weighted against the wishes of the people without material complaint.

That sounds like the US for decades before the loudmouth real estate developer from Queens came along.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 12:30 PM (viF8m)

Sadly, you are spot-on.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:32 PM (Gqar8)

83 I read something many years ago...don't ask by who, I can't recall...that argued Islam was kept under control by the Ottomans and it has been out of control since extinguishing that empire.

Second look at an Ottoman Khalif? Rubio have an opening in his schedule?
Posted by: Robert
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There, the Ottoman Caliphs liked to practice fratricide and kill off each other. And Erdogan is rather stupid if he thinks he can recreate a new Ottoman Empire. Turks and Iranians are outsiders to the core of Islam which is explicitly biased toward Arabs. It is just that Arabs get to fighting each other and the Iranians and Turks have gotten to take advantage of internal schisms.

There is a reason that a lot of people in these countries want to live in the West such as doctors, engineers, etc. (not the imported street trash that Red Cross and the other NGOs bring in). But then they revert back to the same trash culture as the numbers build in the countries that they escaped to. And their kids embrace it.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:32 PM (E4rtv)

84 They are already working on a route through the legal system to ban the AfD. If people won't vote for the "right" party, then they won't be allowed to vote.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

"Vote" becomes rigged, then the people's voice will come out in other ways, less nice than the first. If you want to see the sights in Euroland, best go now because I think things will get spicy soon enough.


Ouiji Board: Come in 1939.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 12:32 PM (hGTKn)

85 Soros has been convicted and given the death penalty in Hungary and Malaysia. If Trump wants to overwhelmingly win the midterms, Maduro-ing him to one of those two countries would do wonders.
Posted by: Ian S.

Hungary is part of NATO. Seems cut and dry.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 12:32 PM (d7mRD)

86 What's next? Christmas in November?
Posted by: rickb223

Christ was born on October 1 or 2, 7 BC.

Posted by: Biblical Calendar of History at September 21, 2026 12:32 PM (Fn+3X)

87 19 Fred Mertz was a fine landlord, but who thought he could run a large country?
Posted by: Mrs. Trumbull


"Friedrich, you got some 'splainin' to do!"

Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 12:32 PM (Av6i5)

88 Afternoon Ace.
I'll say this for Merz. He's only achieved becoming the third worst Chancellor in German history . He'd have to go a long way to reach Merkel at #2. #1 is way out of reach, I hope..

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2026 12:33 PM (taL2t)

89 Octoberfest in September. Makes sense.
What's next? Christmas in November?

"Octoberfest" is a celebration of tits and beer. It should be year round.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic


We could call it Tabfest.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 12:33 PM (hGTKn)

90 Maybe Germany needs to be broken up again. Multi-state Germany is historically natural and may be safer for German neighbors. That way, East Germany (ironically, now the sane Germans) could keep third world trash out, and the rest of Germany could work out their guilty daddy issues on their own. Of course, the EU with its free movement of "workers" requirement would throw a wrench in that. Time for Germex?

I've been thinking lately that the Morganthau Plan may have been the best for Germany.

Posted by: Martin Tell at September 21, 2026 12:33 PM (6yK+O)

91 Soros has been convicted and given the death penalty in Hungary and Malaysia. If Trump wants to overwhelmingly win the midterms, Maduro-ing him to one of those two countries would do wonders.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 12:29 PM (2ocoG)


George Soros is 96 and uninvolved in the day-to-day operations of Destroy America Inc.. His son, Alex, is the current problem child of that bloodline but Alex hasn't been convicted of anything, anywhere.

Allowing Malaysia to execute an old man would not actually be likely to help Republicans in the midterms.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 12:33 PM (ExV1e)

92 69 To be fair to Hitler, it's pretty much conclusive by this point that communists did start that fire.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Wait -- so the Reichstag Fire was a false flag of a double-reverse psyop Reichstag Fire-style false flag psyop? History is finally coming into focus.
Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 12:29 PM (Av6i5)

Fuck this, I'm out.

Posted by: Billy Joel at September 21, 2026 12:34 PM (TbWk/)

93 Ewerup is boned. Prepare accordingly.

Posted by: Joe Mama at September 21, 2026 12:34 PM (TezPK)

94 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 12:34 PM (ccf/V)

95 "85 Soros has been convicted and given the death penalty in Hungary and Malaysia. If Trump wants to overwhelmingly win the midterms, Maduro-ing him to one of those two countries would do wonders.
Posted by: Ian S.

Hungary is part of NATO. Seems cut and dry.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 12:32 PM (d7mRD) "


What a fine idea.

If only.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 12:35 PM (VyBeY)

96 Seems like the same thing as happening here. The left is going further left, the right is going further right, and the so-called middle is going nuts.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 21, 2026 12:35 PM (vTZFs)

97 41 They are already working on a route through the legal system to ban the AfD. If people won't vote for the "right" party, then they won't be allowed to vote.
Posted by: Thomas Paine


Out: We must destroy the village in order to save it!

In: We must destroy democracy in order to save it!

Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 12:35 PM (Av6i5)

98 And as with Mamdani's win in New York, Die Linke's victory was driven almost exclusively by young voters and women coming out for the communist/socialist parties.
Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
This is how people under the age of 25 voted in the Berlin regional election tonight.

71% of women under 25 voted for the far-left, the left or the Greens.

For people that hold America in such contempt they sure like to ape our voting patterns.

Posted by: Second look at repealing the 19th at September 21, 2026 12:36 PM (TbWk/)

99 In Berlin's state election, the Left more than doubled its vote share to 25.7% and finished first for the first time.
__________________________________

A couple things about the Far Left dominating in Berline. First, there are just under 500,000 Muslims living there. Secondly, the moment the Far Left made their stride, The Central Council of Jews in Germany protested the result pointing out that those candidates start each appearance with a call for Jewish deaths by repeating the "From the River to the Sea" mantra.

It's interesting because previously, it was the AfD that was the recipient of a constructed narrative that they are the "second coming of the Nazis". In fact, the Associated Press went so far as to state after the Saxony massive win for AfD that it was the first time since WW2 that the Far Right dominated that election...which is nonsense since the WW2 Nazis were Authoritarian Socialists. But, NOW, the Central Council of Jews is targetting the Far Left with that narrative which puts those opposing AfD in a conundrum. They can't ignore the Jewish Council's concerns...there is still a lot of guilt in that country. And it weakens the narrative against AfD.

Posted by: Orson at September 21, 2026 12:36 PM (dIske)

100 Wait -- so the Reichstag Fire was a false flag of a double-reverse psyop Reichstag Fire-style false flag psyop? History is finally coming into focus.
Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 12:29 PM (Av6i5)

F*** this, I'm out.

Posted by: Billy Joel



But...but...but Vienna waits for you!

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 12:36 PM (Riz8t)

101 Exactly this - Europe is interesting. But socialism is what they know, and they have been told their whole lives we are rude cowboys. Which is why they are shocked when they meet us and realize it’s not like that at all. Except for our insistence on freedom and guns to stay free.
Posted by: Piper
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Problem for Euroland is that they lived in a fool's paradise which meant worshipping idiotic ideals like Net Zero, soft power, and endless immigration from Islamic states (probably a backdoor deal to get cheaper oil is my guess). They kissed Russian ass for years for cheap nat gas and oil as well and spent all the money on socialism rather than NATO, building up their own economies, and internal cohesion.

Now the bills are coming due and it is unlikely that the US is going to continue to foot the bill regardless of party now. And China is destroying what remains of any Euro industrial power along with expensive oil. And other than a few Eastern Euro nations like Poland, their military power could be taken on by a pack of gay Cub Scouts.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:36 PM (E4rtv)

102
Europe is interesting. But socialism is what they know, and they have been told their whole lives we are rude cowboys.

__________

Is it socialism or social democracy? The first is a top-down imposition. The second is an organic consensus that, really, can only come about in a ethnically-homogeneous society.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 12:36 PM (eRlcH)

103 96 Seems like the same thing as happening here. The left is going further left, the right is going further right, and the so-called middle is going nuts.
Posted by: Oddbob


The left is going so far left so fast, that I end up going right just by standing still.

Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 12:36 PM (Av6i5)

104 "George Soros is 96 and uninvolved in the day-to-day operations of Destroy America Inc.. His son, Alex, is the current problem child of that bloodline but Alex hasn't been convicted of anything, anywhere. "

the kid could be written off as collateral damage.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 12:36 PM (VyBeY)

105
In: We must destroy democracy in order to save it!
Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 12:35

That has been the rallying cry here, too.

Posted by: Piper at September 21, 2026 12:37 PM (2UJ+q)

106 Out: We must destroy the village in order to save it!

In: We must destroy democracy in order to save it!
Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 12:35 PM (Av6i5)

I had to socialize the economy to save the free market!

Posted by: George W. Bush at September 21, 2026 12:37 PM (TbWk/)

107 I'm constantly amused that AfD, which is pretty literally the US Democrat Party, except anti-illegal-immigration, is "far right".
Posted by: Ian S.


True, but they know that if they do acquire the leadership position they'll run head long into the EU mafia and will have to fight to neuter it. Which is a 'rightist' project if there ever was one.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 21, 2026 12:37 PM (HeG1i)

108 86 Christ was born on October 1 or 2, 7 BC.
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Interesting, but what do you base that on? I've read a good explanation of why "0 AD" is likely not the birth year, but I've also read a good explantion (from John Chrysostom (circa 400 AD) on why December 25 (or Jan 6 Old Calendar) is surprisingly accurate.

Posted by: Martin Tell at September 21, 2026 12:37 PM (6yK+O)

109 And by here I mean democrats, not here as in on this blog and us.

Posted by: Piper at September 21, 2026 12:37 PM (2UJ+q)

110 98 And as with Mamdani's win in New York, Die Linke's victory was driven almost exclusively by young voters and women coming out for the communist/socialist parties.
Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
This is how people under the age of 25 voted in the Berlin regional election tonight.

71% of women under 25 voted for the far-left, the left or the Greens.

For people that hold America in such contempt they sure like to ape our voting patterns.
Posted by: Second look at repealing the 19th
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Universities have become anti Western, anti Reason, and anti white. AWFLs pick that up as they unconsciously try to pivot to whatever culture vibe they think is winning.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:38 PM (E4rtv)

111 Jesus was a Capricorn, he ate organic food.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:38 PM (Gqar8)

112 96 Seems like the same thing as happening here. The left is going further left, the right is going further right, and the so-called middle is going nuts.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 21, 2026 12:35 PM (vTZFs)

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The right today has gone left.

We're essentially the Democrat Party from 1985, minus the small contingent that's open to Soviet infiltration of our government.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:39 PM (SvJcA)

113 True, but they know that if they do acquire the leadership position they'll run head long into the EU mafia and will have to fight to neuter it. Which is a 'rightist' project if there ever was one.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 21, 2026 12:37 PM (HeG1i)


The head of AfD has pledged to pull Germany out of the EU should they ever hold power.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 12:39 PM (ExV1e)

114 111 Jesus was a Capricorn, he ate organic food.
Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:38 PM (Gqar

And non-bianary

Posted by: Reverend Talarico at September 21, 2026 12:39 PM (+gK6I)

115 I read something many years ago...don't ask by who, I can't recall...that argued Islam was kept under control by the Ottomans and it has been out of control since extinguishing that empire.

Second look at an Ottoman Khalif? Rubio have an opening in his schedule?
Posted by: Robert at September 21, 2026 12:27 PM (dpXJq)
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Yeah, Islam *requires* a strong man at the helm to have any sort of chance at being semi-functional, (i.e., less dysfunctional than the alternative.)

Whenever that's gone, the entire country just collapses into violence and chaos (Libya, Syria, Iraq, etc.).

It's only a matter of time until Turkey resumes that pattern.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2026 12:39 PM (FZ29D)

116 In 15-20 years almost every country in Europe will be Islamic and Communist.


A new Crusade will happen.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 21, 2026 12:39 PM (2WIwB)

117 104 "George Soros is 96 and uninvolved in the day-to-day operations of Destroy America Inc.. His son, Alex, is the current problem child of that bloodline but Alex hasn't been convicted of anything, anywhere. "

the kid could be written off as collateral damage.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez
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Soros Sr. is reportedly ga ga and now confined to a bedroom suffering from severe dementia. Biden is probably in better shape.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:39 PM (E4rtv)

118 Germany is kaput. The country is so feminized from years and years of generational guilt for WW Eleven handed down and hammered into them. The US wasted so much blood and treasure protecting these idiots and they still managed to do themselves in.

Auf Wiedersehen Germany!

Posted by: Zombie Kurt Knispel at September 21, 2026 12:39 PM (6VpiA)

119 The left is going so far left so fast, that I end up going right just by standing still.

TRVTH

Posted by: Oddbob at September 21, 2026 12:40 PM (vTZFs)

120 Driving the news: Merz, who has low approval ratings, told reporters that "reforms have to come."

Get in the helicopter. I have a few ideas on how to start the reform.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 21, 2026 12:40 PM (svLOV)

121
Problem for Euroland is that they lived in a fool's paradise which meant worshipping idiotic ideals like Net Zero, soft power, and endless immigration from Islamic states (probably a backdoor deal to get cheaper oil is my guess).

__________

A welfare state is funded by a robust economy. And Europe is no longer that. They don't innovate, they don't monetize what they do innovate, they regulate the life out of what they do monetize. They're collapsing demographically and becoming uncompetitive due to surging energy costs and stupid policies.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 12:40 PM (eRlcH)

122 Seems like the same thing as happening here. The left is going further left, the right is going further right, and the so-called middle is going nuts.

Not actually true. The right's positions have not moved in many decades, but the left is sprinting farther left.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 12:41 PM (2ocoG)

123 121
A welfare state is funded by a robust economy. And Europe is no longer that. They don't innovate, they don't monetize what they do innovate, they regulate the life out of what they do monetize. They're collapsing demographically and becoming uncompetitive due to surging energy costs and stupid policies.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 12:40 PM (eRlcH)

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Importing Syria was supposed to save them, though.

That's what Merkel promised.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:41 PM (SvJcA)

124 Germany has clung to it's socialist roots of the 1930's, just they call it left or center-right, while they call the socialist Notsees "far right" and lump them with what we would call the right, which is far from socialist, communist, or Notsee as can be.

Words matter; language matters.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 12:41 PM (l3cgK)

125 I'm still betting on the Bloody French being the first to revolt.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 21, 2026 12:41 PM (4NO2D)

126
Soros Sr. is reportedly ga ga and now confined to a bedroom suffering from severe dementia. Biden is probably in better shape.
Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:39 PM (E4rtv)

________

Cadaver Trial II

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 12:41 PM (eRlcH)

127 When the entire web of worldwide "intelligence" operatives is finally torn down, then we will some fun stuff.

Not a coincidence that Christopher Steele was British intel.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 12:41 PM (viF8m)

128 I guess I really should care about this, but we've got our own problems here which concern me more...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 12:41 PM (+gK6I)

129 Out: We must destroy the village in order to save it!

In: We must destroy democracy in order to save it!
Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 12:35 PM (Av6i5)
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Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen.

Posted by: Emperor Palpatine at September 21, 2026 12:42 PM (FZ29D)

130 I expect the German politicians to kill democracy in order to save it...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 12:42 PM (l3cgK)

131 Universities have become anti Western, anti Reason, and anti white. AWFLs pick that up as they unconsciously try to pivot to whatever culture vibe they think is winning.
Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:38 PM (E4rtv)

Which is determined for them by the TikTok algorithm.

Posted by: Selection bias by proxy at September 21, 2026 12:42 PM (TbWk/)

132 We protected the Euros so long from the big bad Soviet Bear that they were free to lapse into whatever degeneracy they cared to. Devolution, up close.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:42 PM (Gqar8)

133
I guess I really should care about this, but we've got our own problems here which concern me more...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 12:41 PM (+gK6I)

__________

Our problems are solvable. Theirs aren't.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 12:43 PM (eRlcH)

134 Oddly enough, I am made uncomfortable by German Fascistic Lefty Politicians speaking about "hygiene". I can't quite reason out why. Any thoughts?

Posted by: wow - totally obvious it seems at September 21, 2026 12:43 PM (anL5R)

135 125 I'm still betting on the Bloody French being the first to revolt.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 21, 2026 12:41 PM (4NO2D)

Their muzzie enclaves are already revolting...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 12:43 PM (l3cgK)

136 George Soros is 96 and uninvolved in the day-to-day operations of Destroy America Inc.

I know, but the pour encourager les autres effect would be massive. Just hint that, say, Reid Hoffman is next.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 12:43 PM (2ocoG)

137 I don't see how Germany comes out of this as anything other then just another third world hellhole. Their economy is collapsing due to decades of insane energy policies, and rather than fix it they are engaging in all of this political fuckery to see who gets to preside over the ruins.

No matter who wins, there's going to be nothing left worth winning.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 21, 2026 12:43 PM (edUvp)

138 53 In completely unrelated news, USAID is still dead.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 12:25 PM

Boy, that's a strange coincidence.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 21, 2026 12:43 PM (q2usZ)

139 Islam was kept under control by the Ottomans and it has been out of control since extinguishing that empire.
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The (former) people of Constantinople, the Greeks, the Serbs, most of Eastern Europe, and (almost) the Spanairds and Austrians would probably differ. Ottomans only mellowed and began decline when the method of succession was changed.

Posted by: Martin Tell at September 21, 2026 12:43 PM (6yK+O)

140 134 Oddly enough, I am made uncomfortable by German Fascistic Lefty Politicians speaking about "hygiene". I can't quite reason out why. Any thoughts?

Posted by: wow - totally obvious it seems at September 21, 2026 12:43 PM (anL5R)

Time for you to go to the showers...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 12:43 PM (l3cgK)

141
Our problems are solvable. Theirs aren't.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 12:43 PM (eRlcH)

I hope you're right... About our problems

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 12:44 PM (+gK6I)

142 @101 whig, Pax Americana allowed the Western Europeans to engage in all kind of foolish political behavior. They didn't have to worry about fighting their neighbors because we were their keeping the peace. Now the stupid is collapsing in on itself

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2026 12:44 PM (taL2t)

143 132 We protected the Euros so long from the big bad Soviet Bear that they were free to lapse into whatever degeneracy they cared to. Devolution, up close.
Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:42 PM (Gqar

This. They were not kept hard by the struggle, but allowed to grow weak from the luxury. All of the benefit, none of the demands.

This really is the entire story of the West.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 21, 2026 12:44 PM (Y/06r)

144 Decades ago, I read Heinrich Böll's acclaimed novel Group Portrait With Lady concerned primarily with German civilians under the Nazis. (The novel was published in 1971 and I must've read it around then.) Near the end, the setting shifts to postwar Germany and the author seems to suggest that anti-Muslim feeling concerning guest workers is similar to anti-Jewish feeling under the Nazis. I was uncomfortable with that even then but had no idea what was to come.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 12:44 PM (ndZc7)

145 Importing Syria was supposed to save them, though.

That's what Merkel promised.


To be fair, who doesn't look at Syria and say "We need to get us some of that!"

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 12:44 PM (Riz8t)

146 "Octoberfest" is a celebration of tits and beer. It should be year round.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic


We could call it Tabfest.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 12:33 PM (hGTKn)


The Coca Cola company may have a problem with that

Posted by: Doof at September 21, 2026 12:45 PM (KaLR8)

147 What's next? Christmas in November?
Posted by: rickb223

Christ was born on October 1 or 2, 7 BC.
Posted by: Biblical Calendar of History at September 21, 2026 12:32 PM (Fn+3X)

AM or PM?

Posted by: Robert at September 21, 2026 12:45 PM (dpXJq)

148 The right today has gone left.

We're essentially the Democrat Party from 1985, minus the small contingent that's open to Soviet infiltration of our government.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I don't agree actually except on spending. And that was baked into the cake when Eisenhower signalled his acceptance of the New Deal and Nixon/Ford did not roll back the Great Society. Both thought fighting Communism was more important than trying to roll back the New Deal. Thus, the entitlement explosion was baked into the cake. And the Dems, desperate for new voters, decided to replace Americans with foreigners and the Bush GOPe corporatists thought cheap labor and American imperialism via Invade the World and Invite the World was just dandy.

Trump is probably the most conservative president in actions since Calvin Coolidge absent the fiscal situation. And he is dragging the GOP along when it desperately wants to keep its junior status in the uniparty. Remains to be seen if it endures past his term in office.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:45 PM (E4rtv)

149 Exactly this - Europe is interesting. But socialism is what they know, and they have been told their whole lives we are rude cowboys. Which is why they are shocked when they meet us and realize it’s not like that at all. Except for our insistence on freedom and guns to stay free.
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Interesting anecdote on X:
Guy asks his Canadian friend about his country becoming India/Pakistan.
And he shrugs and says, "everything will go back to normal once Trump is gone."

And ... that's the whole worldwide--they literally believe all these actual threats are just "Trump the stupid cowboy ruining everything."
And that the soft, cozy dreamworld of Before Trump will return as soon as he's gone.

So yeah, some of us alive today are going to witness millions starving and being killed by their own governments.
Again.
Just like the left did in the last century.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 12:45 PM (3cUTc)

150 >>I guess I really should care about this, but we've got our own problems here which concern me more...

All part of the same puzzle.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 12:45 PM (viF8m)

151 It is sad, but I think Nukes were a cultural mistake. They have... made the game board static. And stasis leads to decadence.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 21, 2026 12:46 PM (Y/06r)

152 "Octoberfest" is a celebration of tits and beer. It should be year round.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic



This seems important:


When is Titties And Beer Day?
It's national titties and beer day on the 26th March.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 12:46 PM (ccf/V)

153 The calculations of Christ's birth year/day are quite involved and too complicated to cover in a comment here. Check the Timeline at ebiblefellowship.org for specifics. Some folks have spent thousands of hours studying this.
Flood of Noah's Day-4990 BC.
King David ascends throne-1007 BC
Probable Date of the end of all things visible-2033 AD.

Posted by: Biblical Calendar of History.... at September 21, 2026 12:46 PM (Fn+3X)

154 Our problems are solvable.

-
But it'll be ugly.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 12:46 PM (ndZc7)

155 defended the need for the state to "protect" citizens "

Zombie Ben Franklin waves...

Posted by: man at September 21, 2026 12:46 PM (pfXMo)

156 Christ was born on October 1 or 2, 7 BC.
Posted by: Biblical Calendar of History at September 21, 2026 12:32 PM (Fn+3X)

AM or PM?
Posted by: Robert at September 21, 2026 12:45 PM (dpXJq)

What is the average airspeed velocity of an unladen savior?

Posted by: Coconuts? In Mercia? at September 21, 2026 12:47 PM (TbWk/)

157 Yeah, but Pomerania is a really small state.
You can carry it around in your handbag.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at September 21, 2026 12:47 PM (HZM7t)

158 154 Our problems are solvable.

-
But it'll be ugly.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 12:46 PM (ndZc7)

And only when they can no longer be ignored.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 21, 2026 12:47 PM (Y/06r)

159 Merz could successfully implement his left-wing wolf in right-wing sheep's clothing using the one weird trick that consists of doing what the majority of the country wants on immigration policy. But he'd rather his party electorally dies out than picks up this winning issue. And this is across nearly the entire West. Why?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 21, 2026 12:47 PM (Dv3i1)

160 By "reforms," he does not mean that the CDU will embrace the AfD's winning issue of immigration realism.

He means that the CDU will join with the communists to ban the AfD and further restrict speech so that no one can publicly agitate for immigration realism.


Consider for a moment that the one thing the *Christian* Democrat Union won't negotiate on is importing millions of Muslims to replace their Christian population

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 12:47 PM (sKqQm)

161
A Trump can only come from our Constitutional system. No outsider could ever govern nor even be in power in a parliamentary system. You have to be a creature of the machine.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 12:47 PM (eRlcH)

162 141
Our problems are solvable. Theirs aren't.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 12:43 PM (eRlcH)

I hope you're right... About our problems
Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 12:44 PM (+gK6I)

Oh I think they will. But I am convinced that blood will be shed. For the remission of our sins, so to speak. Grim thought, but matters here have gone that far now. How can we reconcile with our enemies, internal? Where is the evidence of their flexibility, a desire to reconcile?

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:48 PM (Gqar8)

163 >>But it'll be ugly.

It's been ugly for a very long time.


Payback is a happy thing.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 12:48 PM (viF8m)

164 142 @101 whig, Pax Americana allowed the Western Europeans to engage in all kind of foolish political behavior. They didn't have to worry about fighting their neighbors because we were their keeping the peace. Now the stupid is collapsing in on itself
Posted by: Smell the Glove

US was a single parent and the Euro kid in the basement has grown into a 50 year old degenerate that lives by sponging off undeserved protection of house and home and cheating on trade deals from Uncle Sam.

Trump is telling Euroland to get out of the basement and get a job essentially because we are tired of paying for backstabbing, prissy, and tedious champagne socialists on other people's tab.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:48 PM (E4rtv)

165 Germany is kaput. The country is so feminized from years and years of generational guilt for WW Eleven handed down and hammered into them. The US wasted so much blood and treasure protecting these idiots and they still managed to do themselves in.

Auf Wiedersehen Germany!
Posted by: Zombie Kurt Knispel at September 21, 2026 12:39 PM (6VpiA)

***

I fundamentally disagree.
The German troops I served with in the 70's were some badass mofos.
The German troops I served with in the 90's were as well.
My only worry is will they be enough?

Posted by: Diogenes at September 21, 2026 12:48 PM (2WIwB)

166 I am made uncomfortable by German Fascistic Lefty Politicians speaking about "hygiene". I can't quite reason out why. Any thoughts?"

That ain't water

Posted by: man at September 21, 2026 12:49 PM (pfXMo)

167 Christ was born on October 1 or 2, 7 BC.

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A Libra. Makes sense.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 12:49 PM (ndZc7)

168 It is sad, but I think Nukes were a cultural mistake. They have... made the game board static. And stasis leads to decadence.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 21, 2026 12:46 PM (Y/06r)
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Nukes by themselves are not necessarily a cultural mistake.

It's possible that the mutual reluctance to ever unleash them by the United States and the Soviet Union is part of the problem, though.

It's been so long since anyone has really witnessed the destructive power of a fully functional nuclear warhead that we've all forgotten WHY we don't use nukes as a first resort.

I can think of a few hotspots around the world that may need to learn that lesson, though...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2026 12:49 PM (FZ29D)

169 Germany is kaput. The country is so feminized from years and years of generational guilt for WW Eleven handed down and hammered into them. The US wasted so much blood and treasure protecting these idiots and they still managed to do themselves in.

At least Japan is snapping out of it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 12:49 PM (ExV1e)

170 147 What's next? Christmas in November?
Posted by: rickb223

Christ was born on October 1 or 2, 7 BC.
Posted by: Biblical Calendar of History at September 21, 2026 12:32 PM (Fn+3X)

AM or PM?

Posted by: Robert at September 21, 2026 12:45 PM (dpXJq)

Christmas was set to December 25th in order to coopt the date from the Teutonic German's festivals of the lengthening of the day. This was common practice for the Universal Church back in the day.
There's a reason you find Trees during Christmas, or bunnies, chicks, eggs, and grass for Easter. Halloween (All Hallows Eve), St. Valentine's day, and others as well.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 12:49 PM (l3cgK)

171 Posted by: Sid at September 21, 2026 12:48 PM (dKX8/)


You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at September 21, 2026 12:49 PM (ccf/V)

172 We protected the Euros so long from the big bad Soviet Bear that they were free to lapse into whatever degeneracy they cared to. Devolution, up close.

Yes and no. There's an alternate timeline where we still protect them but the Euros aren't passive pussies. Eastern Europe shows that way.

The Euros' problem is simple. Right now, even people like Elon who should know better, are trumpeting that AI can make people so productive that most of the population can just live on welfare/UBI/whatever you wanna call it. The Euros made that same exact call about industrialization in the early 1900s and went all in on implementing it.

The results are obvious: they're all weak and soft and their economies are a joke. They've missed every major technological leap of the last 100 years. California, even now, obliterates them economically, never mind the US as a whole.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 12:49 PM (2ocoG)

173 "Octoberfest" is a celebration of tits and beer. It should be year round.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic


Well, here with the Horde...

Posted by: Diogenes at September 21, 2026 12:50 PM (2WIwB)

174 "Octoberfest" is a celebration of tits and beer. It should be year round.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic


We could call it Tabfest.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 12:33 PM (hGTKn)

The Coca Cola company may have a problem with that
Posted by: Doof


T&Bfest.
F Coke.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 12:50 PM (hGTKn)

175 Germany's domestic intelligence service continues to monitor AfD nationally as a suspected extremist organization. A court in February blocked the agency from classifying the entire party as a confirmed right-wing extremist organization while a broader case proceeds.

Remember AFD isn't a right wing party. They aren't a moderate party. They are a left wing party with a rational immigration policy.

So disagreeing with ANYTHING the ruling technocrats want is not allowed.

But...they are saving muh Democracies!

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 12:50 PM (sKqQm)

176 A welfare state is funded by a robust economy. And Europe is no longer that.

Of course we have a robust economy. -- 47 European agencies created to fine US companies

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 12:50 PM (ExV1e)

177 "Importing the third world increases GDP. Just look at Canada."
-the left, not at all nonsense

*0.5% GDP growth for the entire last decade*
-Canada

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:50 PM (SvJcA)

178 162 141
Our problems are solvable. Theirs aren't.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 12:43 PM (eRlcH)

I hope you're right... About our problems
Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 12:44 PM (+gK6I)

Oh I think they will. But I am convinced that blood will be shed. For the remission of our sins, so to speak. Grim thought, but matters here have gone that far now. How can we reconcile with our enemies, internal? Where is the evidence of their flexibility, a desire to reconcile?
Posted by: tubal

Depends, containment is a very difficult strategy to pursue (US Cold War policy from Truman to Reagan) over the years simply because people get tired of politics ruling everything.

But Civil Wars, even if one wins, leave scars at least a century or more after. Some, like the French and Russian Revolutions, cast dark shadows centuries after the events.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:50 PM (E4rtv)

179 The anti-migration party calls for "remigration" -- large-scale deportations and encouraging immigrants to leave.

If one group of politicians bring in millions of foreigners to replace your native population this is the only rational way to resolve that, well, without violence.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 12:51 PM (sKqQm)

180 152 "Octoberfest" is a celebration of tits and beer. It should be year round.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic

This seems important:

When is Titties And Beer Day?
It's national titties and beer day on the 26th March.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 12:46 PM (ccf/V)

https://tinyurl.com/2fwa74wc

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 12:51 PM (l3cgK)

181 The price of gasoline and diesel is primarily being affected by NATO weapons being launched into Russia.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 21, 2026 12:51 PM (9X5dH)

182 I fundamentally disagree.
The German troops I served with in the 70's were some badass mofos.
The German troops I served with in the 90's were as well.
My only worry is will they be enough?
Posted by: Diogenes at September 21, 2026 12:48 PM (2WIwB)
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Germany society is highly segmented as are most European countries. There is a distinct class for everyone in society, and you are pretty much locked into it at birth.

Germany therefore does have a warrior class, and they are very proud of that distinction. Is what you are born to do.

But they also believe in order, and are terrified of chaos. So they stay within the system, hoping for the best, and to be honest, they are grinding down the Establishment. Trying to ban opposition parties is a sign of weakness, and the AfD is only going to get stronger.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 12:51 PM (ZOv7s)

183 Musk is - Musk. Ultimately he is a man on HIS mission. Any benefits/ liabilites related to him are incidental.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:51 PM (Gqar8)

184 AfD's share needs to increase to about 45% before they'll have sufficient seats to form majority governments. There may come a time when the Christian Social Union breaks ranks with Merz and a minority faction of the CDU balks at co-operating with the post-communists and begins working with AfD. Not happened yet.

Posted by: Art Deco at September 21, 2026 12:52 PM (pawNB)

185 But Civil Wars, even if one wins, leave scars at least a century or more after. Some, like the French and Russian Revolutions, cast dark shadows centuries after the events.

To say nothing of the Great Ginger vs Maryanne cataclysm.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 12:52 PM (Riz8t)

186 We could call it Tabfest.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 12:33 PM (hGTKn)

The Coca Cola company may have a problem with that
Posted by: Doof


T&Bfest.
F Coke.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 12:50 PM (hGTKn)


TUB. Use the German "und" instead of "and".

Titties und Beer

Posted by: Doof at September 21, 2026 12:52 PM (KaLR8)

187


"young voters and women coming out for the communist/socialist parties"

Gosh, what does this tell us.....

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at September 21, 2026 12:52 PM (och2J)

188 >>A Trump can only come from our Constitutional system. No outsider could ever govern nor even be in power in a parliamentary system. You have to be a creature of the machine.

Our constitutional system shot Trump in the head. I know nobody pays attention to the media but does it strike anyone as odd that the asshole who shot Trump had significant portions of his FBI files deleted and he was cremated within days of his death, paid for by an anonymous source? Can you imagine the media outrage if somebody shot Obama in the head?


Where we are today is somewhat of a miracle but we are far from out of the woods.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 12:52 PM (viF8m)

189 Merz said that his vision of a liberal society was rather one in which the state steps in to protect citizens "from false information, from personal degradation, from discrimination" on the internet.

False information like the clot shot stops the spread of COVID?

Personal Degradation like a gay orgy?

Discrimination like arresting Christians for reading from the Bible?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 12:53 PM (sKqQm)

190 Democracy is so icky when people don't vote the way they're supposed to.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 21, 2026 12:53 PM (2UnvF)

191 Oh I think they will. But I am convinced that blood will be shed. For the remission of our sins, so to speak. Grim thought, but matters here have gone that far now. How can we reconcile with our enemies, internal? Where is the evidence of their flexibility, a desire to reconcile?
Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:48 PM (Gqar

There is none. They want us dead and our children to be their sexual playthings. There is no path to reconciliation. We can suppress, marginalize, contain, but that's the best we could hope for. Any gesture of reconciliation on their side can only be taken as a hudna, a deception, a period on non-conflict that lasts only as long as necessary for them to regroup and resume their attacks.

Posted by: Hate to be the bearer of bad news at September 21, 2026 12:53 PM (TbWk/)

192 >>>German papers are calling this the "Merzpocalypse."

Really? You could do better riffing here.

How about a Merzder, for starters?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 21, 2026 12:53 PM (dK+Kv)

193 plicated to cover in a comment here. Check the Timeline at ebiblefellowship.org for specifics. Some folks have spent thousands of hours studying this.
Flood of Noah's Day-4990 BC.
King David ascends throne-1007 BC
Probable Date of the end of all things visible-2033 AD.

Posted by: Biblical Calendar of History.... at September 21, 2026 12:46 PM (Fn+3X)

2060.

Posted by: Sir Isaac Newton at September 21, 2026 12:53 PM (l3cgK)

194
TUB. Use the German "und" instead of "and".

Titties ünd Beer
Posted by: Doof at September 21, 2026 12:52 PM



Corrected for shits & grins.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 12:53 PM (ccf/V)

195 Some, like the French and Russian Revolutions, cast dark shadows centuries after the events.
Posted by: whig

Hey, leave me outta this.
-- Barnabas Collins

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 12:54 PM (77rzZ)

196 189

Where we are today is somewhat of a miracle but we are far from out of the woods.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 12:52 PM (viF8m)

One election away, Jack, always. Our system, the double edged sword.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:54 PM (Gqar8)

197 It ain't just the Krauts who are awakening.

Serious question: why should Englishmen fight to defend the prerogatives of a ruling class that has utterly failed in its duty to the people it governs? And not only that, but seems to actively despise them?

https://tinyurl.com/yn6b8vua

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 12:55 PM (Riz8t)

198 Trump is probably the most conservative president in actions since Calvin Coolidge.
---------------------------
And he is still basically a 1990s Democrat

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 21, 2026 12:55 PM (ZRXCd)

199 At least Japan is snapping out of it.

Japan never decided that "the economy is good enough and now we can have a massive welfare state and 4 work days a week". Europe did, as per my comment #173.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 12:55 PM (2ocoG)

200 He also asserted that anonymity allows the proliferation of bot-generated messages, which he claimed were instrumental in helping the Alternative for Germany (AfD) trounce his globalist Christian Democrats in the Saxony-Anhalt state elections earlier this month.

They ran this script in Romania too, they argued the anti-EU candidate won because of Russian made videos supporting him.

But...so what? They are already subjected to endless EU propaganda and honestly is seeing one bit of "misinformation" poisons you ability to vote rationally then you should just end the fiction of democracy

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 12:55 PM (sKqQm)

201 "young voters and women coming out for the communist/socialist parties"

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Like bailing water into the Titanic.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 12:55 PM (ndZc7)

202 Mittelsch-Merz?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 21, 2026 12:56 PM (gk7+G)

203 Du wusstest doch, dass es so kommen würde – oder?

Von DW,
“Du wusstest doch, dass es so kommen würde. Das stammt von DW;

Holocaust-Überlebende über den „sehr gefährlichen“ Sieg der AfD in Sachsen-Anhalt”

Posted by: Marcus T at September 21, 2026 12:56 PM (mMbvc)

204 "Merz said that his vision of a liberal society was rather one in which the state steps in to protect citizens "from false information, from personal degradation, from discrimination" on the internet."

Just like Biden did with Twitter and with other tech companies during Covid.
Never forget they shutdown everyone that questioned anything about their Lefty Covid narrative.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 21, 2026 12:56 PM (NpAcC)

205 159 Merz could successfully implement his left-wing wolf in right-wing sheep's clothing using the one weird trick that consists of doing what the majority of the country wants on immigration policy. But he'd rather his party electorally dies out than picks up this winning issue. And this is across nearly the entire West. Why?
Posted by: Chuck Martel
==========
Because Merz is taking orders from WEF types that want this. Same as UK prime ministers regardless of party and about as true for Meloni, etc.

I think the WEF types want an implosion of civilization to kill off a fair chunk of the bourgeoise leaving only peasants and aristos. To do that, they have to impoverish, demoralize, and destroy the middle class. Basically to revert to feudalism.

I think the only possibility that may allow the people to reassert control over these ghouls is by doing the same thing their ancestors did to smash feudalism. The rise of kings versus aristos and a revitalized Church that ostracizes anti social feudal aristos with deviant tendencies.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:56 PM (E4rtv)

206 >>>German papers are calling this the "Merzpocalypse."

Really? You could do better riffing here.

How about a Merzder, for starters?


It's surprising given the German reputation for lighthearted fun and whimsy.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 12:56 PM (Riz8t)

207 158 154 Our problems are solvable.

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But it'll be ugly.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 12:46 PM (ndZc7)

And only when they can no longer be ignored.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 21, 2026 12:47 PM (Y/06r)

If we wait until Islamic immigration becomes a mainstream issue it will be too late. The window to make a change is still open, but the ongoing revolt against sanity by the blue states will eventually slam the window shut.

Posted by: Polka will never die at September 21, 2026 12:56 PM (pSaNK)

208 Our constitutional system shot Trump in the head. I know nobody pays attention to the media but does it strike anyone as odd that the asshole who shot Trump had significant portions of his FBI files deleted and he was cremated within days of his death, paid for by an anonymous source? Can you imagine the media outrage if somebody shot Obama in the head?


Where we are today is somewhat of a miracle but we are far from out of the woods.
Posted by: JackStraw



And in a complete coincidence, Biden dropped out of the race that weekend. Complete coincidence.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 21, 2026 12:57 PM (9X5dH)

209 Trump is probably the most conservative president in actions since Calvin Coolidge.
---------------------------
And he is still basically a 1990s Democrat
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 21, 2026 12:55 PM


That's how you know the right hasn't moved but the left has: Trump's policies were non-controversial coming from Bill Clinton in 1995. Hillary had farther left ambitions but was ultimately foiled.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 12:57 PM (2ocoG)

210 191 Democracy is so icky when people don't vote the way they're supposed to.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 21, 2026 12:53 PM (2UnvF)

And of course, this being a smart military blog and all, we know that the US was founded as a republic, not a democracy, and that the Founding Fathers expressly eschewed democracy because of the enormous danger to liberty and prosperity such a system would pose.

Posted by: A Republic, dammit, if you can keep it at September 21, 2026 12:57 PM (TbWk/)

211 TUB. Use the German "und" instead of "and".

Titties und Beer
Posted by: Doof



Perfection!!!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 12:57 PM (hGTKn)

212 And as with Mamdani's win in New York, Die Linke's victory was driven almost exclusively by young voters and women coming out for the communist/socialist parties.

Because many of those young women are employed by the government at do nothing jobs that still give them money and status.

For all the bad press Trump's $5k checks got the left works by bribing people, of course often with their own money.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 12:57 PM (sKqQm)

213 US was a single parent and the Euro kid in the basement has grown into a 50 year old degenerate that lives by sponging off undeserved protection of house and home and cheating on trade deals from Uncle Sam.
Trump is telling Euroland to get out of the basement and get a job essentially because we are tired of paying for backstabbing, prissy, and tedious champagne socialists on other people's tab.
Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:48 PM (E4rtv)

Hahahaha! This is about my neighbors 2 blocks over, isn't it?

Posted by: Europe Is A Monster Child at September 21, 2026 12:58 PM (6VpiA)

214 Du wusstest doch, dass es so kommen würde – oder?

Von DW,
“Du wusstest doch, dass es so kommen würde. Das stammt von DW;

Holocaust-Überlebende über den „sehr gefährlichen“ Sieg der AfD in Sachsen-Anhalt”
Posted by: Marcus T

I don't even know where to begin with the "Gesundheits" on this one.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 12:58 PM (77rzZ)

215 Germany's modern Basic Law (constitution) is basically an overcompensation for Weimar, so it is a parliament, but snap elections or dismissing the Chancellor is much harder to do because of Bad Mustache Man.

If you look at the run-up to him gaining power, you see an almost French series of failed governments, snap elections, fragile coalitions and so the current system is designed to prevent that from happening and it worked pretty well for a long time.

But the Establishment is out of ideas and now wants to change the rules rather than solve problems, and so you have the same story across all of Western Europe - only the "radical" or "extreme" parties offer a solution and the solution to stop them is to coalition governments which accomplish nothing other than defying popular opinion.

The problem with the firewall is that the AfD is no longer a newcomer, and in efforts to stop it, clowns like Merz actually make them seem reasonable.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 12:58 PM (ZOv7s)

216 I think the only possibility that may allow the people to reassert control over these ghouls is by doing the same thing their ancestors did to smash feudalism. The rise of kings versus aristos and a revitalized Church that ostracizes anti social feudal aristos with deviant tendencies.

*cough*

Posted by: Mademoiselle Le Guillotine at September 21, 2026 12:58 PM (Riz8t)

217
210 Trump is probably the most conservative president in actions since Calvin Coolidge.
---------------------------
And he is still basically a 1990s Democrat
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 21, 2026 12:55 PM

That's how you know the right hasn't moved but the left has: Trump's policies were non-controversial coming from Bill Clinton in 1995. Hillary had farther left ambitions but was ultimately foiled.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 12:57 PM (2ocoG)

=====

Obama gave speeches on the Senate floor saying that W was letting in too many illegal immigrants and not doing enough to help the American worker.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:58 PM (SvJcA)

218 >>One election away, Jack, always. Our system, the double edged sword.

Imagine your entire life was built around feeding off the government tits and beer and life for you was good. Master of the universe.

Then some loudmouth crashed your party and tore your life apart. We're winning now in ways most of us didn't think possible a decade ago but evil never goes away. It plots and it wants revenge.

Probably shouldn't let that happen.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 12:58 PM (viF8m)

219 Probable Date of the end of all things visible-2033 AD.

Didn't some book say something about the date being unknowable?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 12:58 PM (ExV1e)

220 Like bailing water into the Titanic.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks



Cliff Clavin Trivia: after all this time, the pool
On the Titanic is still full of water.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 12:59 PM (hGTKn)

221 Boobs and Beer. Let's keep it alliterative.

"Boobs" is the better term, anyway.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 12:59 PM (77rzZ)

222 I feel like Merz and Carney were the result of someone making a bet on Polymarket that those countries couldn't do worse than Merkel and Trudeau, respectively.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 12:59 PM (2ocoG)

223 Boobs and Beer. Let's keep it alliterative.

"Boobs" is the better term, anyway.
Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 12:59 PM (77rzZ)



That's tits.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 12:59 PM (ccf/V)

224 I guess I should note, rather than shit on the AdF too much, the notion that some break, any break at all, from the ruling, dominant, suffocating left is revolutionary.

If the people are allowed ideas about immigration, they'll get other ideas as well.

Because, it's the hole in the dam that could bring down the whole thing.

And I think the left knows it, that their hold is that tenuous, by how rabid they are in attacking a fellow "liberal in all-but immigration" party.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 12:59 PM (3cUTc)

225 Die Grünen und antideutsche Gruppen (mit viel Einfluss und Geld von außen) haben sich in der CDU manifestiert. Dazu gehörten auch die Russen, die ein starkes Deutschland als Bedrohung ansahen und denen die Wiedervereinigung peinlich war. Die Menschen haben nun all die

Posted by: Marcus T at September 21, 2026 01:00 PM (mMbvc)

226 The anti-migration party calls for "remigration" -- large-scale deportations and encouraging immigrants to leave. It also wants to abandon the euro, lift Russian sanctions and end weapons deliveries to Ukraine.
.......

Sounds about right.

Posted by: wth at September 21, 2026 01:00 PM (UjdFS)

227 153. ...Some folks have spent thousands of hours studying this.
Flood of Noah's Day-4990 BC.
King David ascends throne-1007 BC
Probable Date of the end of all things visible-2033 AD.
------------------------------------------------
That's the same reasoning that led to the "End of The World" in 666 AD, 1000 AD, 1492 AD, and many dates in the last hundred years. Sorry, not buying that at all. And before you say, "But it's in Bible!" see Matthew 24:36.

And I am certainly sticking with December 25. Merry Christmas!

Posted by: Martin Tell at September 21, 2026 01:01 PM (6yK+O)

228 One thing about the increased gas prices- I have an older Ford truck the needed the A/C unit recharged, so I tried driving with windows down on warm days until I had time to put it in the shop. Well I got 30 more miles per tank by doing that. And that's less money my state (WA) collects in carbon tax. TYVM

Posted by: Rex B at September 21, 2026 01:01 PM (R0XxO)

229 Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:56 PM (E4rtv)

1. Destroy the middle class
2. ????
3. Peace and prosperity for the new aristocracy

I'm trying to figure out if they actually believe this, or why it's even necessary. Don't they already pretty much have 3 without the need for 1 and 2?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 21, 2026 01:01 PM (Dv3i1)

230 Boobs and Beer. Let's keep it alliterative.

That "Titties and Beer" song from the ONT has been stuck in my head for months now, so I don't think you need the alliteration.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 01:01 PM (2ocoG)

231 230 Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:56 PM (E4rtv)

1. Destroy the middle class
2. ????
3. Peace and prosperity for the new aristocracy

I'm trying to figure out if they actually believe this, or why it's even necessary. Don't they already pretty much have 3 without the need for 1 and 2?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 21, 2026 01:01 PM (Dv3i1)

=======

It's what their bible the Communist Manifesto outlines.

The Communist Manifesto is holy writ and not to be questioned. Only the high priests in academia can truly interpret it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 01:02 PM (SvJcA)

232 Obama gave speeches on the Senate floor saying that W was letting in too many illegal immigrants and not doing enough to help the American worker
==
Of course I never mean a word of what I say.

Posted by: Jugears at September 21, 2026 01:02 PM (anL5R)

233 It's surprising given the German reputation for lighthearted fun and whimsy.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 12:56 PM (Riz8t)

You'd expect at least SOME technical competence to outweigh pure mediocrity.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 21, 2026 01:02 PM (dK+Kv)

234 And in a complete coincidence, Biden dropped out of the race that weekend. Complete coincidence.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 21, 2026 12:57 PM (9X5dH)
---
I was in full Spanish Civil War 2.0 coming to the US in those days and predicted that if Trump opened up a 5-point lead he would be assassinated, and that's exactly what happened, but the shooter missed.

That was a miracle. It was such an easy shot, and they set everything up for him to do it, and he had lots of practice to do it. And CNN came to film it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 01:02 PM (ZOv7s)

235 That's the same reasoning that led to the "End of The World" in 666 AD, 1000 AD, 1492 AD, and many dates in the last hundred years. Sorry, not buying that at all. And before you say, "But it's in Bible!" see Matthew 24:36.

This is about me, isn't it?
-- Zombie Harold Camping

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 01:02 PM (77rzZ)

236 The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Fox News refuses to film Trump pool events after CNN is blocked from White House video rotation

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 01:02 PM (ndZc7)

237 These discussions always put an old REM song into my head.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 01:02 PM (Gqar8)

238 Fox News refuses to film Trump pool events after CNN is blocked from White House video rotation
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 01:02 PM (ndZc7)



F*ck them too.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 01:03 PM (ccf/V)

239 236 That's the same reasoning that led to the "End of The World" in 666 AD, 1000 AD, 1492 AD, and many dates in the last hundred years. Sorry, not buying that at all. And before you say, "But it's in Bible!" see Matthew 24:36.

This is about me, isn't it?
-- Zombie Harold Camping
Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 01:02 PM (77rzZ)

Hah!!

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 01:03 PM (Gqar8)

240 Bono hardest hit.

Posted by: wth at September 21, 2026 01:03 PM (UjdFS)

241 Fox News refuses to film Trump pool events after CNN is blocked from White House video rotation



welp

there you go

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 21, 2026 01:03 PM (j+aD2)

242 Fox News refuses to film Trump pool events after CNN is blocked from White House video rotation

Imagine setting what's left of your reputation on fire to defend Jake Tapper and Brian Stelter.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 01:03 PM (2ocoG)

243 Titten und bier!
Titten und bier!
Ich bin ein kleiner Junge
Liebt der Titten und Bier!

Posted by: Deutsche baby! at September 21, 2026 01:03 PM (TbWk/)

244 238 These discussions always put an old REM song into my head.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 01:02 PM (Gqar

"Shiny Happy People"?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:03 PM (l3cgK)

245
welp

there you go
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 21, 2026 01:03 PM (j+aD2)



It's just not the win they think it is.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 01:04 PM (ccf/V)

246 Losing my religion?

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 21, 2026 01:04 PM (NFX2v)

247 243 Fox News refuses to film Trump pool events after CNN is blocked from White House video rotation

Imagine setting what's left of your reputation on fire to defend Jake Tapper and Brian Stelter.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 01:03 PM (2ocoG)

They can all F' themselves...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 01:04 PM (+gK6I)

248 And he is still basically a 1990s Democrat
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

I am not sure that is true. Trump on social issues has been trampling DEI and he was instrumental in getting Roe v. Wade overturned. His military policy is a direct repudiation of the gutless Democrats after the Class of 1974 and the antithesis of Carterism.
==========
Avoiding entitlements is political realism as unless you have an alternative for a lot of desperate folks, you will get your ass voted out of office by messing with Medicare and Social Security. So Trump is going after Medicaid which is riddled with fraud and whose recipients vote Democrat anyway by fraud or by temperament.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 01:04 PM (E4rtv)

249 243 Fox News refuses to film Trump pool events after CNN is blocked from White House video rotation

Imagine setting what's left of your reputation on fire to defend Jake Tapper and Brian Stelter.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 01:03 PM (2ocoG)

=======

Plenty of smaller outlets with less overhead will happily take the spot.

Probably some dude with just an X subscription model.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 01:04 PM (SvJcA)

250 245 238 These discussions always put an old REM song into my head.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 01:02 PM (Gqar

"Shiny Happy People"?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:03 PM (l3cgK)

Heh, nah, that other one!

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 01:04 PM (Gqar8)

251 In 15-20 years almost every country in Europe will be Islamic and Communist.
_-_
...and one of them has nukes.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 21, 2026 01:05 PM (W3++v)

252 I was in full Spanish Civil War 2.0 coming to the US in those days and predicted that if Trump opened up a 5-point lead he would be assassinated, and that's exactly what happened, but the shooter missed.

That was a miracle. It was such an easy shot, and they set everything up for him to do it, and he had lots of practice to do it. And CNN came to film it.


yep

it was a MIRACLE - he moved his head just enough!!!

I was floating on air after I knew he just avoided something I could almost FEEL that's how close it came

so when TPTB posted "on behalf of Biden" I just laughed

but it really isn't funny, what they did. can you imagine how pissed Jill was!?!

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 21, 2026 01:05 PM (j+aD2)

253 251 245 238 These discussions always put an old REM song into my head.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 01:02 PM (Gqar

"Shiny Happy People"?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:03 PM (l3cgK)

Heh, nah, that other one!

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 01:04 PM (Gqar

"Everybody Hurts"?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:05 PM (l3cgK)

254 "Importing the third world increases GDP. Just look at Canada."
-the left, not at all nonsense

*0.5% GDP growth for the entire last decade*
-Canada


And over the last ten years Canada has had a 30% increase in inflation officially.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 01:05 PM (sKqQm)

255 Boobies and beer,
Boobies and beer,
Everyone wishes for boobies and beer.

How do you measure their worth?
Just by the pleasure they give here on earth.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 01:05 PM (77rzZ)

256
What's all this fuss about Pomeranians? I think they're one of the cutest dog breeds ever! And they're really smart, too...

___________

At a show in Lexington outdoors, Nina Fetter was taking a Pomeranian puppy around. Halfway through, said pup thought it was a fine time to roll in the grass. Nina was fuming while everyone watching, the judge included, was paralyzed with laughter.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 01:05 PM (eRlcH)

257 Fox News refuses to film Trump pool events after CNN is blocked from White House video rotation
___

Adult Swim is a pool event.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 21, 2026 01:06 PM (Dv3i1)

258 >>Imagine setting what's left of your reputation on fire to defend Jake Tapper and Brian Stelter.

The really funny part is Fox's WH correspondent who also happens to be the current head of the WH press association said banning CNN, Politico, etc. was a violation of the 1st amendment.

Some of the dumbest humans on the planet are in the media.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 01:06 PM (viF8m)

259 It's surprising given the German reputation for lighthearted fun and whimsy.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 12:56 PM (Riz8t)
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Germans have a tremendous sense of humor and are great people to party with. I recall taking a castle tour and the same day bikers descended on the town. These were Germans, so clean cut, wearing motosuits on their BMW machines. Not a beard in sight.

But they seemed to be having a blast, chugging beer and singing drinking songs. I mean Oktoberfest is very much a thing.

Germans don't have any filter in terms of coarse language. When Merkel was first wrecking things the word "shitstorm" was introduced and regularly appeared in headlines.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 01:06 PM (ZOv7s)

260 well somebody better film those events bc they are my favorite thing to watch

PDJT is so funny

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 21, 2026 01:06 PM (j+aD2)

261
"Shiny Happy People"?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:03 PM (l3cgK)



Even REM admitted that was a shitty f*cking song.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 01:06 PM (ccf/V)

262 249 Avoiding entitlements is political realism as unless you have an alternative for a lot of desperate folks, you will get your ass voted out of office by messing with Medicare and Social Security. So Trump is going after Medicaid which is riddled with fraud and whose recipients vote Democrat anyway by fraud or by temperament.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 01:04 PM (E4rtv)

=========

One of my key political moments was when I learned about the Oregon double-blind study on Medicaid that found that the spending did absolutely nothing to increase health outcomes compared to having no insurance.

It did make people feel slightly better about their finances, though. It was the only positive felt.

And it didn't lead to a stampede to end or even curtail the program. It just kept growing without question.

Not just at the uniparty level, which made sense, but even on the dissident left and right that is always fighting with the establishment. Hardly a peep.

No one actually gave a shit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 01:06 PM (SvJcA)

263 248 243 Fox News refuses to film Trump pool events after CNN is blocked from White House video rotation

Imagine setting what's left of your reputation on fire to defend Jake Tapper and Brian Stelter.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 01:03 PM (2ocoG)

They can all F' themselves...
Posted by: It's me donna

I refuse to listen or watch Faux shit anyway so hard for me to do it harder than I already have.

They can f*ck off and die with the rest of the decaying mainstream media as well and the Murdochs are shitty people who run shitty globalist news networks and publications. WSJ being a leftist shithole is no accident nor is Faux being involved in trying to substantiate that there was no voter fraud in 2020 and that the Faux call for AZ for Biden early started the whole mess.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 01:07 PM (E4rtv)

264
Some of the dumbest humans on the planet are in the media.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 01:06 PM (viF8m)




This is not true! I'm smaht. Don't ya think I'm smaht?

Posted by: Wolf Blitzer at September 21, 2026 01:07 PM (ccf/V)

265 262
"Shiny Happy People"?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:03 PM (l3cgK)


Even REM admitted that was a shitty f*cking song.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 01:06 PM (ccf/V)

Was it because they were shiny, happy, or was it because they were holding hands?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:07 PM (l3cgK)

266 I am not sure that is true. Trump on social issues has been trampling DEI and he was instrumental in getting Roe v. Wade overturned.

In the 90s the Democrats officially opposed

Gay Marriage
Racial quotas in hiring
Open homosexuality in the military
Illegal immigration
Transexual rights
and on and on

The only area where Trump really stands out is his abortion views. But this is because the Dems went extreme left over this time frame

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 01:08 PM (sKqQm)

267 1. Destroy the middle class
2. ????
3. Peace and prosperity for the new aristocracy

I'm trying to figure out if they actually believe this, or why it's even necessary. Don't they already pretty much have 3 without the need for 1 and 2?


I think our would-be aristocrats all want to be able to use the peasants as their very own game of The Sims, like their ancestors in the 1400s did. Order random hot chicks on the street to come to your castle and Kamala you, have someone killed if they annoy you, that sort of thing.

As much as they have elevated power and privilege in modern Western society, the rule of law is still a thing and they do go to prison for violating it.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 01:08 PM (2ocoG)

268 Cliff Clavin Trivia: after all this time, the pool
On the Titanic is still full of water.
Posted by: rickb223

Did the Titanic have a pool? I wouldn't think so.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 21, 2026 01:08 PM (LfiSD)

269 269 Cliff Clavin Trivia: after all this time, the pool
On the Titanic is still full of water.
Posted by: rickb223

Did the Titanic have a pool? I wouldn't think so.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 21, 2026 01:08 PM (LfiSD)

it's ALL pool...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:08 PM (l3cgK)

270 This is not true! I'm smaht. Don't ya think I'm smaht?
Posted by: Wolf Blitzer

I loved how he lost to Kimmel(?) on "Jeopardy!"

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 01:08 PM (77rzZ)

271 He also asserted that anonymity allows the proliferation of bot-generated messages, which he claimed were instrumental in helping the Alternative for Germany (AfD) trounce his globalist Christian Democrats in the Saxony-Anhalt state elections earlier this month.

___

I thought it was because of all of the rapes

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 21, 2026 01:09 PM (HgNS2)

272 TJM did you see Trafalgar's 9/19 polls? Apparently Republicans are losing Michigan, Georgia, NC, Ohio and Iowa in the senate.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 21, 2026 01:09 PM (mMbvc)

273 AI sez, " the Titanic had one swimming pool located on the starboard side of F deck"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:09 PM (l3cgK)

274 Fk 'em all. Don't tell the media anything. Let them speculate and every once in a while prove them ridiculously wrong.

Posted by: fd at September 21, 2026 01:09 PM (MWfyi)

275 Probable Date of the end of all things visible-2033 AD.

-
I thought it was 2012.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 01:09 PM (ndZc7)

276
I loved how he lost to Kimmel(?) on "Jeopardy!"
Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 01:08 PM (77rzZ)



Nah, it was that blowhard fat bastard writer from the Conan O'Brien show, wasn't it?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 01:09 PM (ccf/V)

277 Boobies and beer,
Boobies and beer,
Everyone wishes for boobies and beer.

How do you measure their worth?
Just by the pleasure they give here on earth.
Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 01:05 PM (77rzZ)


I would gladly give up my portion of beer for a double helping of boobies.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 01:09 PM (ExV1e)

278 I don't see how Germany comes out of this as anything other then just another third world hellhole. Their economy is collapsing due to decades of insane energy policies, and rather than fix it they are engaging in all of this political fuckery to see who gets to preside over the ruins.

No matter who wins, there's going to be nothing left worth winning.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 21, 2026 12:43 PM


Yeah, the implemented the Morgenthau Plan themselves.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 21, 2026 01:09 PM (4NO2D)

279 At the current rate of German descent to a Commie-Musslemen nation, Trump needs to rapidly dust-off the Morgenthau Plan and implement it. The Poles will be happy to assist us.

Posted by: Gref at September 21, 2026 01:09 PM (5rh/l)

280 I should keep my mouth shut. some asshole is typing my question into AI even right now. I could do that, but I do not care.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 21, 2026 01:09 PM (LfiSD)

281 or was it because they were holding hands?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Sheesh. Enough with the sea-otter awareness already!

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 01:10 PM (77rzZ)

282 I was told there would be no German on this blog.

Posted by: fd at September 21, 2026 01:10 PM (MWfyi)

283 One of my key political moments was when I learned about the Oregon double-blind study on Medicaid that found that the spending did absolutely nothing to increase health outcomes compared to having no insurance.

It did make people feel slightly better about their finances, though. It was the only positive felt.

And it didn't lead to a stampede to end or even curtail the program. It just kept growing without question.

Not just at the uniparty level, which made sense, but even on the dissident left and right that is always fighting with the establishment. Hardly a peep.

No one actually gave a shit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
=======
Hospitals, doctors, medical supply, and nursing homes benefit tremendously from Medicaid and these are important political players at the ground level. Same as insurance companies for Obamacare subsidies. Corporations and non profits love a stable revenue stream and no price competition.

Tragedy of the commons is a perfect example of our budgetary process--incentives are not aligned with positive national outcomes.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 01:10 PM (E4rtv)

284 276
I loved how he lost to Kimmel(?) on "Jeopardy!"
Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 01:08 PM (77rzZ)


Nah, it was that blowhard fat bastard writer from the Conan O'Brien show, wasn't it?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 01:09 PM (ccf/V)

Yer Mother, Trebek!

Posted by: Zombie Sean Connery at September 21, 2026 01:10 PM (l3cgK)

285 In 15-20 years almost every country in Europe will be Islamic and Communist.
_-_
...and one of them has nukes.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 21, 2026 01:05 PM (W3++v
---
That assumes trends don't reverse, which they do all the time. People have to remember that there is a lot going on that we don't see, and Europe has really only bought into this "democracy" thing for two or three generations.

France is seeing a surge in adult baptisms and they are particularly popular with...wait for it...young French Army officers.

De Gaulle smiles.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 01:10 PM (ZOv7s)

286 And I can't help myself by feeling sorry
Because I gave up every chance I had
It's not a movement
It's just another fad
Like a cry for help
In a world gone mad..

Posted by: Germany's AfD at September 21, 2026 01:10 PM (6VpiA)

287
One of my key political moments was when I learned about the Oregon double-blind study on Medicaid that found that the spending did absolutely nothing to increase health outcomes compared to having no insurance.


I remember reading a stat line that all the money we've spent on improving longevity has had less of an effect then if society got people to lose 10lbs on average as they get older

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 01:10 PM (sKqQm)

288 Read the Foxnews webpage if you dare. Two stories down is usually clickbait from a foreign country. That usually followed by some bimbos bikini pics.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 21, 2026 01:10 PM (mMbvc)

289 "Did the Titanic have a pool? I wouldn't think so.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus)"

In the basement.

Posted by: fd at September 21, 2026 01:11 PM (MWfyi)

290 171. Christmas was set to December 25th in order to coopt the date from the Teutonic German's festivals of the lengthening of the day. This was common practice for the Universal Church back in the day.
--------------------------------------
It was more the other way around. Pagan festivals foreshadowed the coming Truth of the Incarnation. See CS Lewis on this subject. Christianity is a myth that is true. It was natural for festivals to take place on dates of observable sostice and equinox. Just as it was natural that the Light of World would come into the world near the Winter Solstice.

About biblical "proof" of the Nativity taking place around the time of the Winter Solstice, the date was determined by John Chrysostom based on the date that Zacharias (father of John the Baptist) would have been conducting his incense duties in the Temple. There was a set schedule for those priests. The date of John's conception can therefore be dated, and from that the date of the Annunciation.

Posted by: Martin Tell at September 21, 2026 01:11 PM (6yK+O)

291 Probable Date of the end of all things visible-2033 AD.

-
I thought it was 2012.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Has anybody asked Greta?

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 01:11 PM (77rzZ)

292 I was told there would be no German on this blog.
Posted by: fd at September 21, 2026 01:10 PM (MWfyi)
---
Was du tust, tue ganz!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 01:11 PM (ZOv7s)

293 I would gladly give up my portion of beer for a double helping of boobies.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 01:09 PM (ExV1e)

Unless you're 7 feet tall with a 7 figure income and a 7 inch peen you're out of luck.

Posted by: It was 666, but, inflation... at September 21, 2026 01:11 PM (TbWk/)

294 266. In the 90s the Democrats officially opposed

Gay Marriage
Racial quotas in hiring
Open homosexuality in the military
Illegal immigration
Transexual rights
and on and on
Posted by: 18-1

How to nudge the country into Medicare for All.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 21, 2026 01:11 PM (NFX2v)

295 280 I should keep my mouth shut. some asshole is typing my question into AI even right now. I could do that, but I do not care.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 21, 2026 01:09 PM (LfiSD)

I've been called worse by better.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:11 PM (l3cgK)

296 REM had more than one song?

Posted by: wth at September 21, 2026 01:12 PM (UjdFS)

297 272 TJM did you see Trafalgar's 9/19 polls? Apparently Republicans are losing Michigan, Georgia, NC, Ohio and Iowa in the senate.
Posted by: Marcus T

I think all polling is whacked this time and a lot depends on which electorate shows up. And we do not know how the RNC's GOTV operation will do.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 01:12 PM (E4rtv)

298 I would gladly give up my portion of beer for a double helping of boobies.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Oh, unquestionably.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 01:12 PM (77rzZ)

299 Read the Foxnews webpage if you dare. Two stories down is usually clickbait from a foreign country. That usually followed by some bimbos bikini pics.

You say that like bikini pics are bad. I mean, besides ones of Greta Thunberg.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 01:12 PM (2ocoG)

300 Probable Date of the end of all things visible-2033 AD.

-
I thought it was 2012.
==
You are correct. His analysis fails to take into account the fact that when the Superconducting Supercollider was turned on, it opened a giant wormhole in space through with this planet passed into an alternative universe swapping places with alternative Earth in the supposed 2026 time line. We are actually not in 2026 at all any more. We are in an alternate time line, but because we lost energy in the transfer we went backwards in time. The other earth gained energy went it swapped with us and it is in 2026 but doesn't know it either.

Posted by: Doc Brown at September 21, 2026 01:12 PM (anL5R)

301 Is there a Bo French sort in Germany who can comment on a picture taken at this year's Oktoberfest?

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 21, 2026 01:13 PM (wVcYX)

302 They can all F' themselves...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 01:04 PM (+gK6I)

The 'Ettes are the best.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 21, 2026 01:13 PM (dK+Kv)

303 282 I was told there would be no German on this blog.

Posted by: fd at September 21, 2026 01:10 PM (MWfyi)

Nein! Keine Mathematik!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:13 PM (l3cgK)

304 Not to go off on a tangent, but is anyone else enjoying the Ed Sheeran debacle?

Posted by: Orson at September 21, 2026 01:13 PM (dIske)

305 REM had more than one song?

They wrote the greatest hit song about Dan Rather in existence. Also the only one as far as I know, but it really is a pretty good song.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 01:13 PM (2ocoG)

306 >>> TJM did you see Trafalgar's 9/19 polls? Apparently Republicans are losing Michigan, Georgia, NC, Ohio and Iowa in the senate.
Posted by: Marcus T at September 21, 2026 01:09 PM (mMbvc

=====

It's going to be a blood bath. (🙏 hoping I’m wrong bscause I always am.)

Posted by: Turn 2 at September 21, 2026 01:14 PM (QFchU)

307 >> I think all polling is whacked this time and a lot depends on which electorate shows up. And we do not know how the RNC's GOTV operation will do.
Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 01:12 PM (E4rtv)

I don’t read the crosstabs so I didn’t see the sampling, methodology or whether the gaps are closing. But some of those races Republicans will need to make up a lot of ground to win.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 21, 2026 01:14 PM (mMbvc)

308 During a meeting with science students, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz openly derided the principle of freedom of speech and defended the need for the state to "protect" citizens from American-style libertarianism on the internet.
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My definition of fascism: the government makes all decisions it wants to make.

So if the government feels you need to be "protected" from speech it does not like, it "protects" you from speech it does not like. And you, of course, need to be "protected" from the idea that this might not be so great an idea.

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 01:14 PM (Fi81e)

309 298 I would gladly give up my portion of beer for a double helping of boobies.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Oh, unquestionably.
Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 01:12 PM (77rzZ)

Inboobitably

Posted by: Boobs. at September 21, 2026 01:14 PM (TbWk/)

310 We are actually not in 2026 at all any more. We are in an alternate time line, but because we lost energy in the transfer we went backwards in time. The other earth gained energy went it swapped with us and it is in 2026 but doesn't know it either.
Posted by: Doc Brown at September 21, 2026 01:12 PM (anL5R)
----
That's exactly how a timey-wimey ball is supposed to work.

Posted by: The Tenth Doctor at September 21, 2026 01:14 PM (FZ29D)

311 304 Not to go off on a tangent, but is anyone else enjoying the Ed Sheeran debacle?


raises hand

YES

also btw whoever here recommended the Pendragon Cycle it is really really good! thanks!

you can sort of see the "low budget" of it but it doesn't matter at all. because it's good.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 21, 2026 01:14 PM (j+aD2)

312 You say that like bikini pics are bad. I mean, besides ones of Greta Thunberg
==
*waives*
Yoohoo!!! Over here, I need some sunscreen would you rub it on???

Posted by: Triggleypuff at September 21, 2026 01:14 PM (anL5R)

313 Not to go off on a tangent, but is anyone else enjoying the Ed Sheeran debacle?
Posted by: Orson at September 21, 2026 01:13 PM (dIske)

Who?

Posted by: Lawn Time at September 21, 2026 01:14 PM (6VpiA)

314 Not to go off on a tangent, but is anyone else enjoying the Ed Sheeran debacle?

I like it except for the part where Robert Kraft gave a lot of money to Hamas.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 01:14 PM (2ocoG)

315 272 TJM did you see Trafalgar's 9/19 polls? Apparently Republicans are losing Michigan, Georgia, NC, Ohio and Iowa in the senate.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 21, 2026 01:09 PM (mMbvc)

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Well, I guess all is lost and we should just kill ourselves.

Or, Trafalgar changed its methodology since it was good and is now actually a bad pollster.

Which they did.

They changed their turnout models to account for recent misses, which totally fixes everything, I guess. Not to mention that their recent polls have sucked ass. They've mostly been polling the SC senate primary recently, and they were...way off.

Whatever, man.

You can believe that Texas is going to go more blue than 2018 after years of Texas going hard red, or you can acknowledge that polling is broken.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 01:14 PM (SvJcA)

316 Did the Titanic have a pool? I wouldn't think so.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus)

it's ALL pool...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)


The Titanic featured a heated saltwater swimming pool, often referred to as a “swimming bath” or plunge pool, which was a luxurious amenity for its first-class passengers
The pool was situated on the starboard side of F Deck, near the bottom of the grand staircase and adjacent to the Turkish Baths, providing a convenient and integrated relaxation area
iIts placement in the lower decks helped maintain the ship’s stability while accommodating the weight of the pool
Pool Dimensions and Features
The pool measured approximately 30 feet long and 14 feet wide, with a constant depth of 6 feet, making it relatively modest compared to modern pools but sufficient for leisurely swimming

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 01:15 PM (hGTKn)

317 I thought it was because of all of the rapes

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 21, 2026 01:09 PM (HgNS2)

The first rule of rape club is . . . .

Posted by: Merz at September 21, 2026 01:15 PM (dK+Kv)

318 For personal reasons, based on what was going on in my life at the time I first heard it, I really like "It's the end of the World as We Know It."

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 01:15 PM (77rzZ)

319 "Ed Sheeran"? Who is that? I always confuse that dude with Carrottop.

Posted by: Martin Tell at September 21, 2026 01:15 PM (6yK+O)

320 Allowing Malaysia to execute an old man would not actually be likely to help Republicans in the midterms.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 12:33 PM (ExV1e)

Couldn't we just do that thing from the batman movie where he just grabs the guy and dumps him in front of the police station of the country he's wanted in? Just pretend Batman did it; or as Beavis and Butthead would say: it was other kids that kidnapped that old n*zi b*stard and dumped him in front of the national police station.

Posted by: Nelly at September 21, 2026 01:15 PM (6+ehB)

321 @296

>>REM had more than one song?

Driver 8 is there best song.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 21, 2026 01:15 PM (XV/Pl)

322 >>Not to go off on a tangent, but is anyone else enjoying the Ed Sheeran debacle?

Immensely.

Never apologize to the mob. Kick them in the balls and go right through them.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 01:15 PM (viF8m)

323 288 Read the Foxnews webpage if you dare. Two stories down is usually clickbait from a foreign country. That usually followed by some bimbos bikini pics.
Posted by: Marcus T
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Dire Straits' song 'Industrial Disease' makes fun of the Murdoch tits and ass page six pages in the British publications Rupert owned at the time. "Sunday Striptease" is a reference to it.

Fantastic song with very dark lyrics perfectly appropriate for today.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 01:15 PM (E4rtv)

324 297 I think all polling is whacked this time and a lot depends on which electorate shows up. And we do not know how the RNC's GOTV operation will do.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 01:12 PM (E4rtv)

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Trafalgar has gotten a lot wrong recently.

But this set of polls is dead right, even though it's actually just kind of herding with everything else right now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 01:16 PM (SvJcA)

325 322 >>Not to go off on a tangent, but is anyone else enjoying the Ed Sheeran debacle?

Immensely.

Never apologize to the mob. Kick them in the balls and go right through them.
Posted by: JackStraw
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I don't think Ed Sheeran has any balls.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 01:16 PM (E4rtv)

326 263 248 243 Fox News refuses to film Trump pool events after CNN is blocked from White House video rotation

Imagine setting what's left of your reputation on fire to defend Jake Tapper and Brian Stelter.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 01:03 PM (2ocoG

____

I get more accurate news watching Beavis and Butthead reruns from the 90s

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 21, 2026 01:16 PM (HgNS2)

327 Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 21, 2026 01:09 PM (LfiSD)

I've been called worse by better.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I meant it with nothing but love.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 21, 2026 01:16 PM (LfiSD)

328 Yeah I forgot Texas where they basically say it’s a dead heat. No way that’s true. Cahaly must be smoking weed.

For the record I don’t believe half of what they just printed. Smells like a bullshit guess.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 21, 2026 01:16 PM (mMbvc)

329 >>> I think all polling is whacked this time and a lot depends on which electorate shows up. And we do not know how the RNC's GOTV operation will do.
Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 01:12 PM (E4rtv)

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I hope this is a good sign. I've had two different gop gotv people to my house in the past week. And I've been registered as an independent since 2020.

Posted by: Turn 2 at September 21, 2026 01:16 PM (QFchU)

330 Not to go off on a tangent, but is anyone else enjoying the Ed Sheeran debacle?
Posted by: Orson at September 21, 2026 01:13 PM (dIske)

Haven't paid that much attention. Macklemore got in trouble before for being an antisemitic douche so whatever trouble they're having now, fuck em.

Posted by: Most current popular music sucks anyway at September 21, 2026 01:16 PM (TbWk/)

331 306 It's going to be a blood bath. (🙏 hoping I’m wrong bscause I always am.)

Posted by: Turn 2 at September 21, 2026 01:14 PM (QFchU)

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Harvard Harris has been one of the best pollsters for the last decade.

Their late summer polling has been some of the most accurate polling out of anything (off by an average of about 1 point).

They show an R+2 environment.

We'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 01:17 PM (SvJcA)

332 It's going to be a blood bath. (🙏 hoping I’m wrong bscause I always am.)
==
Approaching 5 dollar a gallon gas in Ohio. And diesel out of sight - harvest season. Mid term. Not a good turn of events.

Posted by: Triggleypuff at September 21, 2026 01:17 PM (anL5R)

333 REM had more than one song?
Posted by: wth at September 21, 2026 01:12 PM (UjdFS)
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They had some great songs.

Driver 8
Can't Get There From Here
Pretty Persuasion
Fall on Me

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 01:17 PM (Fi81e)

334 Driver 8 is there best song.

Fables of the Reconstruction and Life's Rich Pageant are solid albums.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 01:17 PM (2ocoG)

335 I would gladly give up my portion of beer for a double helping of boobies.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 01:09 PM (ExV1e)

Unless you're 7 feet tall with a 7 figure income and a 7 inch peen you're out of luck.
Posted by: It was 666, but, inflation... at September 21, 2026 01:11 PM (TbWk/)


I'm married. I can't touch festival boobies anyway but I can still enjoy them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 01:18 PM (ExV1e)

336 Sock fail at 332.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 01:18 PM (77rzZ)

337 Yeah I forgot Texas where they basically say it’s a dead heat.

Posted by: Marcus T


Must have been a typo. It's a dry heat.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 01:18 PM (hGTKn)

338 328 Yeah I forgot Texas where they basically say it’s a dead heat. No way that’s true. Cahaly must be smoking weed.

For the record I don’t believe half of what they just printed. Smells like a bullshit guess.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 21, 2026 01:16 PM (mMbvc)

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It's the "we think these will be close races, so we modeled in a way to get us to within a margin of error," at best.

It's probably just herding, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 01:18 PM (SvJcA)

339 I like Nightswimming

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 21, 2026 01:18 PM (j+aD2)

340 The pool measured approximately 30 feet long and 14 feet wide, with a constant depth of 6 feet, making it relatively modest compared to modern pools but sufficient for leisurely swimming
Posted by: rickb223
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Those Titanians thought of everything. well, everything except avoidance distance.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 21, 2026 01:19 PM (LfiSD)

341
Not to go off on a tangent, but is anyone else enjoying the Ed Sheeran debacle?
Posted by: Orson

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

That thing is taking a few twist and turns. Latest I heard, Sheeran broke down in tears and said "What is happening in Gaza is catastrophic, unjustifiable, and disproportionate.” He's now donating to Palestinian causes. "the systemic injustice we’re seeing unfold in the West Bank cannot be overlooked.”

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 01:19 PM (mmrXZ)

342 Approaching 5 dollar a gallon gas in Ohio. And diesel out of sight - harvest season. Mid term. Not a good turn of events.

I paid $6.09 yesterday for gas at Costco and diesel is $8.39... And I am concerned...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 01:19 PM (+gK6I)

343 332 It's going to be a blood bath. (🙏 hoping I’m wrong bscause I always am.)
==
Approaching 5 dollar a gallon gas in Ohio. And diesel out of sight - harvest season. Mid term. Not a good turn of events.

Posted by: Triggleypuff at September 21, 2026 01:17 PM (anL5R)

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Gas prices do not have electoral effects.

https://x.com/TonerousHyus/status/
2097832343964668203

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 01:19 PM (SvJcA)

344 TJM got the Tony Scott rankings 100pct correct.

Unstoppable is an incredible film.

And you're right, it should be taught in film schools.

It's really a lot like Jaws in many respects.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 21, 2026 01:19 PM (XV/Pl)

345 That thing is taking a few twist and turns. Latest I heard, Sheeran broke down in tears and said "What is happening in Gaza is catastrophic, unjustifiable, and disproportionate.” He's now donating to Palestinian causes. "the systemic injustice we’re seeing unfold in the West Bank cannot be overlooked.”

Someone should ask him if what the allies did to Germany in 1944 was also "catastrophic, unjustifiable, and disproportionate"

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 01:19 PM (sKqQm)

346 Polls are now meant to change your perception rather than reflect realities.

I will believe the end result.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 21, 2026 01:19 PM (UdrMW)

347 344 TJM got the Tony Scott rankings 100pct correct.

Unstoppable is an incredible film.

And you're right, it should be taught in film schools.

It's really a lot like Jaws in many respects.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 21, 2026 01:19 PM (XV/Pl)

=========

*fist bump*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 01:20 PM (SvJcA)

348 Yeah I forgot Texas where they basically say it’s a dead heat. No way that’s true. Cahaly must be smoking weed.

For the record I don’t believe half of what they just printed. Smells like a bullshit guess.
Posted by: Marcus T at September 21, 2026 01:16 PM (mMbvc)
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Look at what the campaigns are doing, not the polls. Are they acting like they have a comfortable lead, or are they demanding more debates, having to make corrections, practice damage control, deny their former beliefs/statements?

Also: don't forget that a huge amount of """conservatives""" are now black-pilling because they figure the Dems winning is better for business.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 01:20 PM (ZOv7s)

349 Does anyone else find it hilarious that the German chancellor is named Fred Mer(t)z?

Posted by: RushBabe at September 21, 2026 01:20 PM (19N3v)

350 Trafalgar has gotten a lot wrong recently.

But this set of polls is dead right, even though it's actually just kind of herding with everything else right now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I think non response from Trump voters is off the charts and all of the pollsters are noticing that working class Trump supporters are almost impossible to reach. So polling has become something like a drunk looking under the streetlamp for his lost keys.

The lighting is better to search under the streetlamp than the darkness.

Some polls are still using registered voters which is ridiculous at this stage, there will be no great new influx of voter registration in most states now as most cut off about thirty days before the election (about two weeks from now). So it all becomes a matter of turnout. And whether the Trump working class voters of 2024 turnout at comparable levels to their Dem anti Trump counterparts.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 01:20 PM (E4rtv)

351 Inboobitably

If ever a word existed which defined cromulence, this would be it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 01:20 PM (ExV1e)

352 I'm married. I can't touch festival boobies anyway but I can still enjoy them.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic


For all those who can't touch, I'll trade my beer coupons for your boobie coupons.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 01:20 PM (hGTKn)

353 327 Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 21, 2026 01:09 PM (LfiSD)

I've been called worse by better.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I meant it with nothing but love.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 21, 2026 01:16 PM (LfiSD)

I'm honestly not into masochism...
Mom and Dad also said it hurt them worse than it hurt me...I still don't believe that.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:20 PM (l3cgK)

354 The thing I don't get about the claim that high tax prices will tank the Republicans is...does ANYONE believe voting D will lower gas prices?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 01:21 PM (sKqQm)

355 Does anyone else find it hilarious that the German chancellor is named Fred Mer(t)z?
Posted by: RushBabe

Yep. I love it.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 01:21 PM (77rzZ)

356 "Ed Sheeran"? Who is that? I always confuse that dude with Carrottop.
Posted by: Martin Tell
......

I think he had a song, too.

Posted by: wth at September 21, 2026 01:21 PM (UjdFS)

357 348 Look at what the campaigns are doing, not the polls. Are they acting like they have a comfortable lead, or are they demanding more debates, having to make corrections, practice damage control, deny their former beliefs/statements?

Also: don't forget that a huge amount of """conservatives""" are now black-pilling because they figure the Dems winning is better for business.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 01:20 PM (ZOv7s)

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Talarico spent tens of millions of dollars to get a summer polling bump.

Paxton spent almost nothing, and is now outspending Talarico 10-1, not just on ads but GOTV.

Summer ad spend is a waste of money to do anything but raise some name recognition. And that does only so much in a Trump+14 state when you're a Democrat in general and a weird Democrat with a long history of saying batshit crazy stuff like Talarico specifically.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 01:21 PM (SvJcA)

358 346 Polls are now meant to change your perception rather than reflect realities.

I will believe the end result.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 21, 2026 01:19 PM (UdrMW)


I try to not let it get to me but it does... Husband says the same as you...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 01:21 PM (+gK6I)

359 Next time some lefty whines about the price of diesel remind them how much of the world's diesel fuel comes from Russia. The place leftists are demanding we help destroy by sending Ukraine our tax dollars on a war that Obama/Biden and company started.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 01:21 PM (viF8m)

360 336 Sock fail at 332.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 01:18 PM (77rzZ)

Fuel costs are a large issue for Trigglypuff. I mean, imagine a poor little car hauling all that weight!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:21 PM (l3cgK)

361 Those Titanians thought of everything. well, everything except avoidance distance.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus)


👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 01:22 PM (hGTKn)

362 Catholic Arena
@CatholicArena
BELGIUM

Controversy has erupted after an Islamic prayer was included in the opening Mass at the Catholic University in Leuven

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Look, if we're nice to them, they'll be nice to us.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 01:22 PM (ndZc7)

363 Gas prices do not have electoral effects.
==
Well, I'mma let you finish but I think you'll have to update your chart after the 5 dollar a gallon election.

Posted by: Triggleypuff at September 21, 2026 01:22 PM (anL5R)

364 "Ed Sheeran"? Who is that? I always confuse that dude with Carrottop.
Posted by: Martin Tell at September 21, 2026 01:15 PM (6yK+O)



Carrot Top was hospitalized after a suicide attempt.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 01:22 PM (ccf/V)

365 330 Not to go off on a tangent, but is anyone else enjoying the Ed Sheeran debacle?
Posted by: Orson at September 21, 2026 01:13 PM (dIske)

Haven't paid that much attention. Macklemore got in trouble before for being an antisemitic douche so whatever trouble they're having now, fuck em.
Posted by: Most current popular music sucks anyway at September 21, 2026 01:16 PM (TbWk/)

___________________________
Well, the take away is this. Sheeran (whether you like his music or not) understands that entertainment is a popularity contest of sorts. So, he makes a point to remain apolitical for the most part. Macklemore is just the opposite and was an opening act on his tour. He does the whole pro-Hamas nonsense etc. So Sheeran showed him the door. Then all the opening acts quit as did his Sheeran's touring band. Sheeran didn't apologize....just did his next show with a loop machine (which the dude is a master at)....and continued the tour.

Posted by: Orson at September 21, 2026 01:22 PM (dIske)

366 Schlichter's latest at Townhall is pretty good. About the last stand of the GOPe. Refers to Cornyn as (R- Nowhere) and says George Will is Peggy Noonan with less testosterone.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2026 01:22 PM (taL2t)

367
Controversy has erupted after an Islamic prayer was included in the opening Mass at the Catholic University in Leuven


Doesn't that mean by Islamic rules that university/cathedral is now theirs?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 01:22 PM (sKqQm)

368 350 I think non response from Trump voters is off the charts and all of the pollsters are noticing that working class Trump supporters are almost impossible to reach. So polling has become something like a drunk looking under the streetlamp for his lost keys.

The lighting is better to search under the streetlamp than the darkness.

Some polls are still using registered voters which is ridiculous at this stage, there will be no great new influx of voter registration in most states now as most cut off about thirty days before the election (about two weeks from now). So it all becomes a matter of turnout. And whether the Trump working class voters of 2024 turnout at comparable levels to their Dem anti Trump counterparts.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 01:20 PM (E4rtv)

==========

It's not just Trump voters. It's rural and working class voters specifically.

Pollsters are moving towards online only panels which heavily advantage response rates from progressives and the young, leaving out the old.

You know who votes at historically low rates in midterms? You know who votes at historically high rates in midterms?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 01:22 PM (SvJcA)

369 Approaching 5 dollar a gallon gas in Ohio. And diesel out of sight - harvest season. Mid term. Not a good turn of events.

Posted by: Triggleypuff at September 21, 2026 01:17 PM (anL5R)


See comment 60 and ask yourself why that would be.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 01:23 PM (ExV1e)

370 Why would anybody find the neo-Maoists struggling Ed Sheeran amusing?

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 01:23 PM (Fi81e)

371 I like Nightswimming
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 21, 2026 01:18 PM (j+aD2)

Howzabout with sharks?

Posted by: Quint at September 21, 2026 01:23 PM (wVcYX)

372 363 Gas prices do not have electoral effects.
==
Well, I'mma let you finish but I think you'll have to update your chart after the 5 dollar a gallon election.

Posted by: Triggleypuff at September 21, 2026 01:22 PM (anL5R)

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You mean 2022?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 01:23 PM (SvJcA)

373 Also, I drive a very economical smart car. Of course I had to saw off the roof, and get loaded into it with a crane.

Posted by: Triggleypuff at September 21, 2026 01:23 PM (anL5R)

374 336 Sock fail at 332.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 01:18 PM (77rzZ)

Fuel costs are a large issue for Trigglypuff. I mean, imagine a poor little car hauling all that weight!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:21 PM (l3cgK)

Imagine having to replace shocks and struts every time you fill the tank.

Posted by: And at 7 mpg too at September 21, 2026 01:23 PM (TbWk/)

375 What tells me more than anything that the Texas polling is bad is that it also show Abbott running dead even with an unknown Democrat legislator who isn't even running much of a campaign. He's won his previous three elections by 10 - 15 points, there's no reason he won't do that again.

Her one big campaign issue? She wants to end cooperation with ICE and make immigration from Mexico easier. (She's Mexican)

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 21, 2026 01:23 PM (edUvp)

376 TJM got the Tony Scott rankings 100pct correct.

Unstoppable is an incredible film.

And you're right, it should be taught in film schools.

It's really a lot like Jaws in many respects.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 21, 2026 01:19 PM (XV/Pl)

=========

*fist bump*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 01:20 PM (SvJcA)

I thought Unstoppable was a turd. I like my goofy silly dumb action movies but...dude...

Posted by: Robert at September 21, 2026 01:23 PM (dpXJq)

377 376 I thought Unstoppable was a turd. I like my goofy silly dumb action movies but...dude...

Posted by: Robert at September 21, 2026 01:23 PM (dpXJq)

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You are wrong and bad and I hate you!

...

My man...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 01:24 PM (SvJcA)

378 367
Controversy has erupted after an Islamic prayer was included in the opening Mass at the Catholic University in Leuven

Doesn't that mean by Islamic rules that university/cathedral is now theirs?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 01:22 PM (sKqQm)

The only way you'll hear Christian prayer in a mosque is if:
1. The muzzies there are about to slit the throats of said Christians
B) ...

I guess there is no B)...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:24 PM (l3cgK)

379 Remember when the "dean of Iowa polling", Ann Selzer, dropped a poll of Iowa voters days before the primary saying Trump was going to get smoked?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 01:25 PM (viF8m)

380 I like Nightswimming
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 21, 2026 01:18 PM (j+aD2)

Howzabout with sharks?

Posted by: Quint at September 21, 2026 01:23 PM


They still follow the path of the Titanic.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 21, 2026 01:25 PM (4NO2D)

381 Just because you're on a diet doesn't mean you can't look at the menu.

Posted by: wth at September 21, 2026 01:25 PM (UjdFS)

382 You mean 2022?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
==
Well in OHio gas prices peaked at 5:06 on June 9th. For most of that entire year they were in the 3 dollar range.

Posted by: Triggleypuff at September 21, 2026 01:25 PM (anL5R)

383 Summer ad spend is a waste of money to do anything but raise some name recognition. And that does only so much in a Trump+14 state when you're a Democrat in general and a weird Democrat with a long history of saying batshit crazy stuff like Talarico specifically.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 01:21 PM (SvJcA)
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I think it can be beneficial. Rogers waited until after the primary and then pounded El-Sayed, basically defining him before he could define himself. I live in a liberal town and have yet to see any El-Sayed literature, but I'm getting bombarded by Rogers, James and Barrett material. Barrett is also doing some pretty effective radio pieces pointing out he is a veteran, is willing to vote independent of Trump, and that his opponent wants to defund the police.

Trump also is going to uncork lots of stuff between now and Election Week.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 01:26 PM (ZOv7s)

384
382 You mean 2022?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
==
Well in OHio gas prices peaked at 5:06 on June 9th. For most of that entire year they were in the 3 dollar range.

Posted by: Triggleypuff at September 21, 2026 01:25 PM (anL5R)

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Gas was definitely higher in 2022 than it is now. Even not accounting for inflation.

Accounting for inflation it was higher in both 2022 and 2012.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 01:26 PM (SvJcA)

385 I like Nightswimming
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 21, 2026 01:18 PM (j+aD2)

Howzabout with sharks?

Posted by: Quint at September 21, 2026 01:23 PM (wVcYX)
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With frickin' lasers?

Posted by: Axeman at September 21, 2026 01:26 PM (Fi81e)

386 Nood

Posted by: Thanatopsis at September 21, 2026 01:26 PM (hG5L0)

387 I can show you something else that is unstoppable . . .

Posted by: Triggleypuff at September 21, 2026 01:26 PM (anL5R)

388 Gas was definitely higher in 2022 than it is now. Even not accounting for inflation.
==
Not in Ohio.

Posted by: Triggleypuff at September 21, 2026 01:27 PM (anL5R)

389 388 Gas was definitely higher in 2022 than it is now. Even not accounting for inflation.
==
Not in Ohio.

Posted by: Triggleypuff at September 21, 2026 01:27 PM (anL5R)

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You should probably vote for Amy Acton, then.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 01:27 PM (SvJcA)

390 That thing is taking a few twist and turns. Latest I heard, Sheeran broke down in tears and said "What is happening in Gaza is catastrophic, unjustifiable, and disproportionate.” He's now donating to Palestinian causes. "the systemic injustice we’re seeing unfold in the West Bank cannot be overlooked.”
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 01:19 PM (mmrXZ)
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Not what happened. He donated $2 Million to Humanitarian causes and challenged Robert Kraft to match it...then went on with his tour solo.

Posted by: Orson at September 21, 2026 01:27 PM (dIske)

391 LOL. Hitler phones Trump (Downfall parody)

YouTube.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 01:27 PM (hGTKn)

392 Controversy has erupted after an Islamic prayer was included in the opening Mass at the Catholic University in Leuven
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Look, if we're nice to them, they'll be nice to us.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 01:22 PM (ndZc7)
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Leuven is a hotbed of heresy. They want to do all the usual things like make priestesses and have lay ministers, corrupt senior clergy, etc. The German Church is also a bad joke.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 01:28 PM (ZOv7s)

393 I thought it was because of all of the rapes

Posted by: Lemmiwinks

Well, that problem is solved.

Migrant Charity in Scotland Gives 'Asylum Seekers' Lessons on the Age of Consent

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 01:29 PM (ndZc7)

394 "I don't see how Germany comes out of this as anything other then just another third world hellhole. Their economy is collapsing due to decades of insane energy policies, and rather than fix it they are engaging in all of this political fuckery to see who gets to preside over the ruins.
No matter who wins, there's going to be nothing left worth winning.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 21, 2026 12:43 PM "


I have come to believe wholeheartedly that the destruction itself is the end in view, the ruins are what is desired, that's all.

all the talk, all the grift; they're all just bait for suckers to buy into.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 01:30 PM (VyBeY)

395 Nood press ban.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 21, 2026 01:31 PM (gLYp7)

396 I'm still betting on the Bloody French being the first to revolt.
Posted by: toby928(c)

They're always revolting.

Posted by: Joe Mama at September 21, 2026 01:39 PM (TezPK)

397 I need someone to explain this to me like I am in kindergarten, please.

Is it good or bad? Are they fighting back against the invasion?

I am not thinking clearly because my elderly mother fell at home (she lives independently) and was just taken to the hospital. This could be the end of her independence and sitters or assisted living ahead.

All will be well but massive stress ahead for me over 1000 miles away.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 21, 2026 03:38 PM (hzuYO)

THE MORNING RANT: Trump Executive Order Targets Employers that Lay Off American Citizens to Hire Foreign H-1B Labor

No H-1B.png

There was great news over the weekend, as President Trump just issued an Executive Order to combat H-1B abuses, and to hold accountable those employers who terminate American employees and then replace them with foreign H-1B labor.

The H-1B issue has become a major political issue, with growing disgust among the American public about employers bringing non-citizens from foreign countries to the states for the purpose of displacing American workers. As I have previously documented, the appeal of H-1B labor for those abusing it is usually for one of the following reasons:

1) It’s a form of chattel labor, in which the H-1B worker is paid less than American prevailing wages, creating a de facto indentured servant relationship, because the H-1B employee may not seek other employment.

2) A way for those of an anti-American bent to provide employment in the United States to preferred foreign demographics.

There are a disgusting number of stories to be found about corporations laying off American citizens to replace them with foreign H-1B labor right here on American soil. Microsoft is one of those dishonorable companies:

“Fury erupts as US brand fires 1,600 employees after securing thousands of foreign worker visas” [Fox News – 7/09/2026]

Microsoft announced that it will lay off 4,800 people total and 1,600 from the corporation's XBOX division, which makes and sells the dominant video game console. Meanwhile, Microsoft has been approved this year to hire from foreign countries 2,273 employer-sponsored, non-immigrant workers under what is known as the H-1B visa program.

The business fad of replacing American employees with foreign chattel labor had become so “respected” that even the semi-public TVA utility tried to do this a few years ago – until President Trump got wind of it. Then-CEO Jeff Lyash thought it would be clever to find “cost savings” by laying off American citizens. Apparently cost savings helped justify his $8 million compensation. Even worse, Lyash made the laid-off employees train their foreign replacements – the corporate term was “knowledge transfer.” President Trump was so angry that he fired several TVA board members, including the chairman, for allowing this to happen, and for not immediately firing Lyash. Donald Trump takes H-1B abuse seriously.

Disney also engaged in the despicable practice of making employees train their own H-1B replacements before dismissing them: “It’s Not A Small World After All: Disney IT Employee Trains His Own H-1B Replacement Then Gets Laid Off” [The Dallas Express – 4/27/2026]

It’s often a condition in these situations that if the employee being let go wishes to receive a severance package, he must first train the indentured servant H-1B who is taking his job.

Ideally, the president wouldn’t have to address the H-1B mess with executive orders if Congress would do its job. Unfortunately, there is a solid bi-partisan majority in Congress in favor of replacing American labor with foreign labor, specifically:

1) Democrats who despise the United States, its people, and its heritage; They therefore seek to aid foreign nationals (and their homelands) at the expense of Americans.

2) Corporate / Chamber of Commerce Republicans who have embraced slavery-adjacent forms of labor in their quest to reduce labor expense to as close to $0 as possible.

It is tiresome that those of us who oppose the H-1B replacement of American workers are branded as “racist” by Democrats, RINOs, and the media. I’d like to push back and ask how it’s not racist that 70% of all H-1Bs come from just one country – India. Is it not racist that hiring managers trying to hire for “jobs Americans won’t do” look almost exclusively to India?

America’s adversary, the People’s Republic Of China, provides another 12% of all H-1Bs. A whopping 82% of all H-1Bs come from India and Communist China.

Returning to the specific subject of today’s post, here is what President Trump’s new Executive Order entails:

• Companies petitioning for H-1B employees (or subcontracted H-1Bs) must disclose all previous and planned layoffs. Federal agencies must ensure that laid off workers are not being replaced with H-1Bs.

• To approve an H-1B going forward, a byzantine tangle of bureaucratic approvals will be needed from various federal agencies, with input required from the Departments of State, Labor, Homeland Security, Commerce, Education, and SBA. The process full of red tape is part of the deterrent.

• The Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division is going to start auditing previous applications to determine if violations have occurred and if enforcement penalties should be imposed.

There may be consequences for employers replacing Americans with foreign labor, but the obvious intent is to re-set the playing field so that employers stop trying to find workarounds to replace their American workforce with imported labor.

The text of President Trump’s executive order can be found at this link. Here is a sample of what it says:

The abuse of cheaper H-1B labor places downward pressure on domestic pay. H-1B visa holders earn far less than comparable United States-born workers, despite the statutory mandate that H-1B workers be paid equally to their domestic peers, with the estimated wage gap starting at $9,000 and climbing as high as $20,000 in H-1B reliant industries. One company even warned its shareholders that restrictions on cheap H-1B labor could force the company to use “local” workers, which “may only be available at higher wages.”

Many employers have laid off large numbers of highly skilled American workers, only to promptly hire large numbers of H-1B workers who are often lower-skilled and lower-paid. For instance, technology sector employers have collectively requested H-1B visas for hundreds of thousands of workers, yet have also laid off somewhere between 800,000 to 1.3 million American employees from 2022 through 2026. Employers have even forced laid off American workers to train their foreign replacements.

One last comment: Socialism is flourishing as a political and economic concept right now. We on the political / economic right must repel the advance of socialism and protect the free market economy. But it is extremely deleterious to our cause when the corporate class is seeking the replacement of the American workforce with a foreign workforce by using the indentured servant model of labor.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM




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1 Hey-O!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 21, 2026 11:00 AM (rOKnE)

2 Yeah, but I saw that Bangladeshi man at my Costco, so Trump hasn't done anything.

And I will react by not voting at all for the more conservative replacements of Tillis, Mitch, Cassidy, or Cornyn in order to punish Trump and push the party to the right.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:03 AM (SvJcA)

3 >>. As I have previously documented, the appeal of H-1B labor for those abusing it is usually for one of the following reasons: . . .


3) For an Indian promoted to an executive position to replace his American staff with friends and relatives from his/her home region, enabling him/her to facilitate the immigration of his/her people, have a compliant, homogenous workforce AND to get kickbacks from each one of them with every paycheck forever.

See: former Walmart IT executive who was bringing in something like $30k a day in exployee kickback because he converted the entire Walmart IT division to Indians.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 21, 2026 11:04 AM (rOKnE)

4 USAA is another company.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 21, 2026 11:05 AM (GlLw/)

5 And I will react by not voting at all for the more conservative replacements of Tillis, Mitch, Cassidy, or Cornyn in order to punish Trump and push the party to the right.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:03 AM (SvJcA)
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Wisdom, how does that work?

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 21, 2026 11:06 AM (GlLw/)

6 I'm also on the H1B hate train, tooting the horn. I deal with a lot of H1B visa holders and they are mostly good folks but the company/agencies exploit them. Always looking to hire who will work for less, which is normal but should not be encouraged

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 21, 2026 11:07 AM (xcxpd)

7 Trump keeps destroying the pillars of illegal immigration.

Not all at once, and not outside the limits of Executive Branch authority, but he's destroying them all the same.

We've been saying for YEARS that the government needs to start punishing employers for hiring illegals. Welp. Trump is punishing employers for hiring illegals.

Take the W, Horde. Take the W.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 21, 2026 11:07 AM (gLYp7)

8 Having to train your replacement is a dick move. Under any set of circumstances.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 21, 2026 11:07 AM (2Cry5)

9 Also, some X sleuths are uncovering details of the Indian H1-b invasion being led by politicians back in India, specifically Modi, using diaspora to politically infiltrate and effect both US political parties.

This is about political dominance over America (and one assumes, other countries such as Canada).

Will find and link. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at September 21, 2026 11:08 AM (rOKnE)

10 One of the small fights going on right now on conservative X timelines is centered around dissident righties quoting Founders' views on immigration (Jefferson, Gouverneur Morris, for example) without attribution and then being attacked by others (Insurrection Barbie seems to be the locus of this) as being communists for not wanting immigration from everywhere.

Example:

https://x.com/ChristianHeiens/status/
2101827878249714041

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:08 AM (SvJcA)

11 8 Having to train your replacement is a dick move. Under any set of circumstances.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 21, 2026 11:07 AM (2Cry5)

Well, unless you announced your retirement...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 21, 2026 11:08 AM (tOcjL)

12 5 And I will react by not voting at all for the more conservative replacements of Tillis, Mitch, Cassidy, or Cornyn in order to punish Trump and push the party to the right.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:03 AM (SvJcA)
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Wisdom, how does that work?

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 21, 2026 11:06 AM (GlLw/)

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The party abandoning W in 2006 because of the amnesty push actually led to the party going further to the left.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:09 AM (SvJcA)

13 But then who will terrorize audience with wild mountain cat?

Posted by: Tarbash the Egyptian Magician at September 21, 2026 11:09 AM (7Q0e+)

14 >>Take the W, Horde. Take the W.


THIS!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 21, 2026 11:09 AM (rOKnE)

15 Shitloads of fraud as far as "university" system in India. Just handing out diplomas.

India is not our friend.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 11:09 AM (d7mRD)

16 We're talking dot not feather here, right?

Posted by: Just to clarify at September 21, 2026 11:10 AM (2Ez/1)

17
I'd like the gov't to combine H1B reform with deportation of the H!Beavers.

Over the last few years, good old All-American Dallas haas turned into a three way race to see whether it becomes-

New Calcutta, Mecca on the Brazos, or Prairie Peking.


I know, I know...

I denounce myself.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 11:10 AM (iJfKG)

18 7 Trump keeps destroying the pillars of illegal immigration.

Not all at once, and not outside the limits of Executive Branch authority, but he's destroying them all the same.

We've been saying for YEARS that the government needs to start punishing employers for hiring illegals. Welp. Trump is punishing employers for hiring illegals.

Take the W, Horde. Take the W.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 21, 2026 11:07 AM (gLYp7)

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Let's be straight on this one:

It's a pillar of LEGAL immigration.

Trump is the most anti-LEGAL immigration administration since, probably, Calvin Coolidge.

And it's a good thing because of how twisted our legal immigration system has become.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:10 AM (SvJcA)

19 I hope that the examples made out of the companies is harsh enough to warn the rest.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 21, 2026 11:11 AM (svLOV)

20 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:10 AM (SvJcA)

This is actually an important point.

I regularly conflate H1Bs with illegals because of the systemic abuse written into the system.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 21, 2026 11:11 AM (gLYp7)

21 19 I hope that the examples made out of the companies is harsh enough to warn the rest.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 21, 2026 11:11 AM (svLOV)

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There are statutory limits on the fines that DOJ can ask for and the judiciary can impose.

Increases in fines will have to come from Congress.

Still, things like this rule change (looking at layoff history before approving H1-B visas) will have larger effects that the direct legal ramifications like fining.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:12 AM (SvJcA)

22 We're up to our necks in dusky Pajeets with fraudulent education/experience credentials. Let them stay in India and fix their own messes.

Posted by: 'Murica For 'Muricans at September 21, 2026 11:12 AM (Fn+3X)

23 Over the last few years, good old All-American Dallas has turned into a three way race to see whether it becomes-

New Calcutta, Mecca on the Brazos, or Prairie Peking.


Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 11:10 AM (iJfKG)

NOW what am I supposed to do?!
- Debbie

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 21, 2026 11:12 AM (gLYp7)

24 As long as this doesn't impact our Butter Chicken Strategic Reserve, we'll be fine.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 21, 2026 11:13 AM (bX16E)

25 Morning.

Posted by: Robert at September 21, 2026 11:15 AM (dpXJq)

26 Trump is the most anti-LEGAL immigration administration since, probably, Calvin Coolidge.

And it's a good thing because of how twisted our legal immigration system has become.
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I see no reason to allow ANY level of legal immigration for at least a couple of decades.

Posted by: Crusader at September 21, 2026 11:15 AM (TN0g+)

27 >>Take the W, Horde. Take the W.

You know what's weird? 3rd worlders have been invading almost every western country for years and almost nobody realizes it isn't a coincidence.

Also, illegal aliens taste like sea otter.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 11:15 AM (viF8m)

28 This all started with Hadji from Jonny Quest!

Posted by: Insidious, It Was at September 21, 2026 11:15 AM (Fn+3X)

29 Dusky Pajeets would make a good name for a team in the Banana Ball league.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 21, 2026 11:15 AM (2Ez/1)

30 It seems like Trump always threatens to go after this, and then backs down when industry leaders make a big stink.

I really don't care about the consequences, shut it down as much as possible. Its sort of sickening to see the amount of Indians and Pakistans that dominate communities in my area now that work for all of these companies. They dont enrich our community.

It really is a textbook "they are stealing our jobs" situation.

Posted by: Sharpie at September 21, 2026 11:15 AM (Zx1Cw)

31 Let's be straight on this one:

It's a pillar of LEGAL immigration.


There are two definitions of legal: the one that foreign-born Federal judges uphold, and the one they don't.

Posted by: t-bird at September 21, 2026 11:16 AM (E/qck)

32 The younger generations are furious about this. It's good to see that Trump gets it.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 21, 2026 11:16 AM (2UnvF)

33 Drumpffffff!

Injunction Junction what's your Function - to interrupt, delay and obstruct the Trumpkin!

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge - Schoolhouse Rock Version at September 21, 2026 11:16 AM (anL5R)

34 How else am I going to get Chicken Vindaloo at 3 AM?

Posted by: Hangry Hank at September 21, 2026 11:16 AM (Fn+3X)

35 This guy has been digging:

https://tinyurl.com/5e9fyhrz

Posted by: Lizzy at September 21, 2026 11:16 AM (rOKnE)

36 @18, 20 Trump is getting back at the Dems for screwing over Reagan on the immigration deal with Tip O'Neil

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2026 11:16 AM (taL2t)

37 20 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:10 AM (SvJcA)

This is actually an important point.

I regularly conflate H1Bs with illegals because of the systemic abuse written into the system.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 21, 2026 11:11 AM (gLYp7)

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https://x.com/derzum_/status/
2084729318849003733

"Aug 4
Replying to
@ThatTurboGuy
Green cards are down, naturalization is down, work visas down, births down, all the rest down since mid 2025. Chart there just shows a year over year rise because the previous year adds to the next."

Every visa class is down massively, and green card issuances are down by about half. This isn't "business as usual with an uptick in news about deportations."

It's a full frontal assault, to the limits of what the executive can do legally under the law, on the entire idea of immigration as it has stood for 60 years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:17 AM (SvJcA)

38 The democrats often campaign on raising the minimum wage and then do everything the can to circumvent the rules.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 21, 2026 11:17 AM (HgNS2)

39 Also, illegal aliens taste like sea otter.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 11:15 AM (viF8m)

I have follow-up questions.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 21, 2026 11:17 AM (gLYp7)

40 How about an AI H-1B?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 21, 2026 11:17 AM (Cqx++)

41 How about an AI H-1B?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr

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I do think AI is going to wipe out he majority of these H-1B type jobs.

What I dont get is, why move them over here at all? Just have them work in cubicle farms in India. Way cheaper.

Posted by: Sharpie at September 21, 2026 11:18 AM (Zx1Cw)

42 We're talking dot not feather here, right?
Posted by: Just to clarify at September 21, 2026 11:10 AM (2Ez/1)


Feather Indians are citizens and, consequently, do not require a visa.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 11:18 AM (ExV1e)

43 30 It seems like Trump always threatens to go after this, and then backs down when industry leaders make a big stink.

I really don't care about the consequences, shut it down as much as possible. Its sort of sickening to see the amount of Indians and Pakistans that dominate communities in my area now that work for all of these companies. They dont enrich our community.

It really is a textbook "they are stealing our jobs" situation.

Posted by: Sharpie at September 21, 2026 11:15 AM (Zx1Cw)

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New applications for H-1B visas are down 80% since Trump 2.0 started.

But nothing is happening.

https://x.com/derzum_/status/
2043861161133666755

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:19 AM (SvJcA)

44 One other caveat about hiring from India is that India has the most muslims of any other country. And we certainly don't need more goat fuckers in this country.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 21, 2026 11:19 AM (g8Ew8)

45 If the Enemy Within were to pass laws that worked to our benefit, I might give the word 'legal' more deference.

Posted by: t-bird at September 21, 2026 11:19 AM (E/qck)

46 The democrats often campaign on raising the minimum wage and then do everything the can to circumvent the rules.
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Wait Wut?!!! Are you seriously suggesting that demorat campaign promises are disingenuous!

Posted by: That's shocking at September 21, 2026 11:19 AM (anL5R)

47 When I read an article about an Indian political animal bemoaning how so many of his countrymen were stranded in India over this, my sympathy burned out.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 21, 2026 11:20 AM (svLOV)

48 The party abandoning W in 2006 because of the amnesty push actually led to the party going further to the left.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:09 AM (SvJcA)
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Oh, I was snarking on "conservatives" voting for guys like Mitch to punish Trump.

Or saying they're staying home, allowing the left to advance.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 21, 2026 11:20 AM (GlLw/)

49 47 When I read an article about an Indian political animal bemoaning how so many of his countrymen were stranded in India over this, my sympathy burned out.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 21, 2026 11:20 AM (svLOV)

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"India sucks, we hate it here, and we're going to make the world India."
-a translation

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:20 AM (SvJcA)

50 I'm familiar with a particular WallyMart location where there seems to be an unwritten rule: if you ain't from Pock-ee-stahn, you can't work here. Don't get me wrong, the store is very well run, but this one attribute is obvious.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 21, 2026 11:21 AM (2Ez/1)

51 But nothing is happening.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21,

For the first time in a bazillion years, the population of the United States is decreasing.

We're - FINALLY - actually re-taking ground.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 21, 2026 11:21 AM (gLYp7)

52 >>And it's a good thing because of how twisted our legal immigration system has become.


Utterly abused at this point.

All the Nick Shirley style citizen reporters who are tracing multiple companies w/dozens of H1-Bs to a random Dallas single family residence or Workspace type rent-a-desk style office.

All legal immigration pathways have been corrupted and must be halted/fixed. Thank God Trump and team are doing this.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 21, 2026 11:21 AM (rOKnE)

53 48 Oh, I was snarking on "conservatives" voting for guys like Mitch to punish Trump.

Or saying they're staying home, allowing the left to advance.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 21, 2026 11:20 AM (GlLw/)

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I understood!

I'm just showing that the whole, "Punish the party for going to the left by not voting," just ends up leading the party...going to the left.

When leadership is heavily to the left of the party and the base abandons them, they take it as a signal that they have accumulated more power.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:21 AM (SvJcA)

54 The truth comes out. Tom Bodett left the lights on at Motel 6 so the cockroaches stay hidden. Indians are not famous for their hygiene and cleanliness.

Posted by: Temple Rats at September 21, 2026 11:22 AM (Fn+3X)

55

Oh no no no no no no no no no no...

Posted by: Condescending Arrogant Wog at September 21, 2026 11:22 AM (VWtfl)

56 I'm familiar with a particular WallyMart location where there seems to be an unwritten rule: if you ain't from Pock-ee-stahn, you can't work here. Don't get me wrong, the store is very well run, but this one attribute is obvious.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

==

The WalMart near me all of a sudden had a flood of Somalians or Hatians working there, then one day they disappeared. Before Trump cracked down on them.

Posted by: Sharpie at September 21, 2026 11:22 AM (Zx1Cw)

57 One other caveat about hiring from India is that India has the most muslims of any other country. And we certainly don't need more goat fuckers in this country.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 21, 2026 11:19 AM (g8Ew
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I thought Indonesia had the largest muslim population of any other country of the world, with around 240 million.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 21, 2026 11:22 AM (GlLw/)

58 I do think AI is going to wipe out he majority of these H-1B type jobs.

What I dont get is, why move them over here at all? Just have them work in cubicle farms in India. Way cheaper.
==
its harder for them to vote for us from India, and their kids don't get counted in the public school rolls unless they move here, so our teachers unions don't get the funding they need to kick back to us when the student census falls.

Posted by: Easy peasy Demorat squeezy at September 21, 2026 11:22 AM (anL5R)

59 One other caveat about hiring from India is that India has the most muslims of any other country. And we certainly don't need more goat fuckers in this country.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 21, 2026 11:19 AM (g8Ew

I thought that was Indonesia?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 21, 2026 11:22 AM (gLYp7)

60 51 But nothing is happening.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21,

For the first time in a bazillion years, the population of the United States is decreasing.

We're - FINALLY - actually re-taking ground.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 21, 2026 11:21 AM (gLYp7)

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False.

Our population decreased because the government killed millions of white people while continuing to import almost as many Indians.

Facts.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:22 AM (SvJcA)

61 We need to limit welfare so our own American layabouts will get off their asses and work or go hungry.

Can't afford housing? I bet you can after we send 30 million illegals back. That is a lot of housing that will come onto the market.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 21, 2026 11:22 AM (HgNS2)

62 The democrats often campaign on raising the minimum wage and then do everything the can to circumvent the rules.

Understand the purpose of this promise.

Many union workers earn a multiple of the minimum wage. Raise the minimum wage by a dollar, they get a raise of 3 dollars. Folks just starting out will vote for it because they're stupid and don't think about the consequences. Unions vote for it because it's actually a sop to them.

As far as the effect on non-union, non-government, workers... Democrats don't care and never have.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 11:23 AM (ExV1e)

63 What I dont get is, why move them over here at all? Just have them work in cubicle farms in India. Way cheaper.
Posted by: Sharpie at September 21, 2026 11:18 AM (Zx1Cw)

Know how hard it is to find good chicken vindaloo in San Francisco?

Posted by: Some asshole mid-level manager at Microflop at September 21, 2026 11:23 AM (dpXJq)

64 61 We need to limit welfare so our own American layabouts will get off their asses and work or go hungry.

Can't afford housing? I bet you can after we send 30 million illegals back. That is a lot of housing that will come onto the market.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 21, 2026 11:22 AM (HgNS2)

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A Democrat with independent money who ran on a message of, "Welfare for all, but only Americans. Get the rest out," would do very well.

But, open borders is a virus that doesn't let go once it inhabits a host.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:23 AM (SvJcA)

65 On a similar note I always hated colleges giving sports scholarships to foreigners. In my case, my college tennis team.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 11:24 AM (KC5Lt)

66 The UN, that garbage dump of exceptionally stupid people, published a paper back in 2000 that helps explain how we got here.

>>Population Division
Department of Economic and Social Affairs
United Nations Secretariat
Replacement Migration

Replacement theory is just a whacky conspiracy theory. That's why the UN, a place we fund with our tax dollars, has been facilitating our replacement for a very long time. But if you notice it you are a nazi.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 11:24 AM (viF8m)

67 When leadership is heavily to the left of the party and the base abandons them, they take it as a signal that they have accumulated more power.
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Uniparty.

Posted by: I did it with less words than you at September 21, 2026 11:24 AM (anL5R)

68 My voting strategy is always incredibly simple. Never vote for a Democrat under any circumstance. All else flows from there.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 11:24 AM (Gqar8)

69 > What I dont get is, why move them over here at all? Just have them work in cubicle farms in India. Way cheaper.
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Some companies do this. They leave them in their home country. Why?

It's cheaper. The company might still pay for health care, but it's in the employee's home country. Cheap.

Plus, termination is easier. Send a text... "you're fired." Not a lot Abu can do about that from India.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 21, 2026 11:25 AM (2Cry5)

70 Washington Nearsider,

It is.

But his point is still valid, that muslim immigration to this country must be curtailed or even banned.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 21, 2026 11:25 AM (GlLw/)

71 India's largest export is H1Bs.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 21, 2026 11:26 AM (Nz9I3)

72 Not great, Buck.

It was really bad optics, but it only addresses the short term issue. It is disgusting that it took so long for this small step. The whole justification for h1bs was labor shortage of key skills, but then these companies are doing that crap. They should have liquidated the companies caught doing this. seriously.

The long term issue is reestablishing the pipeline of kids going into those key skills and that takes time. Unless h1b are eliminated the pipeline will never be filled. I have worked in tech during periods of skills shortages and *we trained kids off the street* for entry level jobs. This was common practice in many industries throughout history.

I am so fucking disgusted with the Usa immigration justification bullshit. Fuck all these people.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 21, 2026 11:26 AM (LfiSD)

73 Can't afford housing? I bet you can after we send 30 million illegals back. That is a lot of housing that will come onto the market.
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Yep. Its supply and demand. Democrats acknowledge that supply and demand explains economics--they dump oil from the strategic reserve when they're in the White House because they know that it will (temporarily) reduce gas prices.

And then 15 minutes later, they go back to ignoring supply and demand and work to raise the minimum wage or import foreigners.

Posted by: Crusader at September 21, 2026 11:26 AM (TN0g+)

74 India's largest export is H1Bs.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 21, 2026 11:26 AM (Nz9I3)

And stink.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 21, 2026 11:26 AM (gLYp7)

75
But his point is still valid, that muslim immigration to this country must be curtailed or even banned.
Posted by: SMH at
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ISLAMOPHOBE!!!

I KEEL YOU!!!!!!

Posted by: Achmed the Dead Terrorist at September 21, 2026 11:26 AM (anL5R)

76 It wouldn't be as bad if 90% of these immigrants and other type visa immigrants didn't hate America.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 11:27 AM (KC5Lt)

77 They move them here so they can vote, and pollute the demographics in numerous ways. Death to America!!!! in other words. Simple plan.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 11:27 AM (Gqar8)

78 Know how hard it is to find good chicken vindaloo in San Francisco?
Posted by: Some asshole mid-level manager at Microflop

I hear sea otters taste like chicken. So maybe sea-otter vindaloo?

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 11:27 AM (77rzZ)

79 There's no such thing as radical islam. There's just islam.

Act accordingly.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 11:27 AM (viF8m)

80 well, what did everyone expect, srsly?

All this (h1-b bs) has ever been is one more offensive in the long, ongoing war against Americans; both culture and society must be destroyed in order to return the world to ignorance and feudalism.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 11:27 AM (VyBeY)

81 New applications for H-1B visas are down 80% since Trump 2.0 started.

But nothing is happening.

https://x.com/derzum_/status/
2043861161133666755
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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It's a nice start, but Trump keeps backtracking on it imo. There was that interview with Laura Ingraham where she pressed this and Trump kept insisting we dont have the talent pool in the US and we need the program.

https://tinyurl.com/2js7pshm

Posted by: Sharpie at September 21, 2026 11:27 AM (Zx1Cw)

82 76 It wouldn't be as bad if 90% of these immigrants and other type visa immigrants didn't hate America.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 11:27 AM (KC5Lt)

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We are a creedal nation that doesn't kick people out for not adhering to the creed of the nation.

It's a problem. We used to do it. We used to be a proper nation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:27 AM (SvJcA)

83 ISLAMOPHOBE!!!

I KEEL YOU!!!!!!
Posted by: Achmed the Dead Terrorist at September 21, 2026 11:26 AM (anL5R)
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Yeahyeahyeah, heard that before.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 21, 2026 11:28 AM (GlLw/)

84 Indian food is disgusting.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 11:28 AM (Gqar8)

85 81 It's a nice start, but Trump keeps backtracking on it imo. There was that interview with Laura Ingraham where she pressed this and Trump kept insisting we dont have the talent pool in the US and we need the program.

https://tinyurl.com/2js7pshm

Posted by: Sharpie at September 21, 2026 11:27 AM (Zx1Cw)

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What Trump says is remarkably unimportant compared to the actual policy that happens.

As long as Stephen Miller is in charge of immigration, Trump can Boomer Brain talk about not going after this or that industry, and it won't matter.

Policy is far more important than rhetoric. And the policy is a ratchet one direction right now against immigration in all its forms.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:29 AM (SvJcA)

86 There's no such thing as radical islam. There's just islam.

Act accordingly.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 11:27 AM (viF8m)
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This^^^

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 21, 2026 11:29 AM (GlLw/)

87 I missed the deadline and was deported because of Jerry Seinfeld's negligence and laziness. He is a very bad man!

Posted by: Babu Bhatt at September 21, 2026 11:29 AM (Fn+3X)

88 EU just fined google $400 billion (or something - read pixy below) for targeted adds or some bullshit.

If the Us was serious, they would fine any company that laid off Americans and replaced them with h1bs 10x the salary of each and every worker, going back the last 10 years of h1b hiring.

Then make them re-hire the American worker at whatever it costs to entice them back. And fire the h1b, and ship their smelly asses and their smelly family all back to hindustan.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 21, 2026 11:29 AM (LfiSD)

89 A Democrat with independent money who ran on a message of, "Welfare for all, but only Americans. Get the rest out," would do very well.

Not that he's running for anything but this seems to be Musk's promise. It all still has to be paid for, of course, and who'll work at that point, but folks like to believe fairy tales.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 11:29 AM (ExV1e)

90 Indian food is disgusting.
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Their restaurants are dirty. The food is midling...to disgusting.

Posted by: Crusader at September 21, 2026 11:29 AM (TN0g+)

91 I'm familiar with a particular WallyMart location where there seems to be an unwritten rule: if you ain't from Pock-ee-stahn, you can't work here. Don't get me wrong, the store is very well run, but this one attribute is obvious.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty


I speak from first hand experience. When an indian becomes the hiring manager, the ethnic makeup of new hires immediately changes.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 21, 2026 11:30 AM (Nz9I3)

92 Indian food is disgusting.
Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 11:28 AM (Gqar
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I have all kinds of spices and seasonings in my kitchen.

Curry is not one of them.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 21, 2026 11:30 AM (GlLw/)

93 It's a nice start, but Trump keeps backtracking on it imo. There was that interview with Laura Ingraham where she pressed this and Trump kept insisting we dont have the talent pool in the US and we need the program.

https://tinyurl.com/2js7pshm
Posted by: Sharpie at September 21, 2026 11:27 AM (Zx1Cw)

If you don't think anything has changed over the past year - that interview is just about a year old - than I don't know what to tell you.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 21, 2026 11:30 AM (gLYp7)

94 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 11:30 AM (ccf/V)

95 91 vI speak from first hand experience. When an indian becomes the hiring manager, the ethnic makeup of new hires immediately changes.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 21, 2026 11:30 AM (Nz9I3)

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I had more than one positive job prospect fall apart the second I got in front of an Indian manager.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:31 AM (SvJcA)

96 Think how many "starter homes" are bought by H-1 Visa holders and/or are rented by them.

You'd probably see housing fixed overnight in a lot of these communities if just shut it down.

Again, I have no idea why they cant just work from their home country. Most of what they do is over a computer or phone, it's not labor like landscaping or construction.

Posted by: Sharpie at September 21, 2026 11:31 AM (Zx1Cw)

97 good old All-American Dallas haas turned into a three way race to see whether it becomes-

New Calcutta, Mecca on the Brazos, or Prairie Peking."

Bbbbut all numbers must always go up!

/ your local CoC, who's also heavily invested in cheap apartments...

Posted by: man at September 21, 2026 11:32 AM (pfXMo)

98 I speak from first hand experience. When an indian becomes the hiring manager, the ethnic makeup of new hires immediately changes.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 21, 2026 11:30 AM (Nz9I3)
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That's exactly what happened at USAA.

Check out the HQ in San Antonio.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 21, 2026 11:32 AM (GlLw/)

99 A vast majority of the H1-B visa holders are from India. Indian programmers suck royally, so it shows why most software sucks royally.

They're nothing but cut/paste spaghetti coders that don't know what they're doing, only what they're TOLD to do.

Simply call AT&T or any other large organization (especially health care/insurance) and see how well they answer questions NOT on their script they're reading from........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 11:32 AM (ccf/V)

100
If you don't think anything has changed over the past year - that interview is just about a year old - than I don't know what to tell you.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung

==

i'm very happy with the progress Trump has made recently, wish he had cracked down harder on it in his first term.

Posted by: Sharpie at September 21, 2026 11:32 AM (Zx1Cw)

101 92 Indian food is disgusting.
Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 11:28 AM (Gqar
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I have all kinds of spices and seasonings in my kitchen.

Curry is not one of them.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 21, 2026 11:30 AM (GlLw/)

Wise. No more repulsive spice exists. They add other nasty things to the food, but curry is pervasise in the malodorousness.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 11:32 AM (Gqar8)

102 As long as Stephen Miller is in charge of immigration, Trump can Boomer Brain talk about not going after this or that industry, and it won't matter.
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Personnel is policy.

and on a related note - population is Country. If you replace your population with third worlders, you become a third world country - cause you aren't going to keep up your mtc, innovation, and tax base with third world dipshits.

Posted by: hey its not polite but that doesn't mean its incorrect at September 21, 2026 11:32 AM (anL5R)

103 We rarely think much about sewage treatment in the US. If you live in an incorporated municipality your dwelling is connected to the sewage system and the cost is covered in your water utility bill. In the hinterlands you have a septic tank.

Evidently the caste system is still ingrained enough in India that sewage treatment isn't nearly as invisible as it is here. Getting people to work in that industry is difficult and they simply don't have one of the fundamental pieces of infrastructure a modern society needs.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 21, 2026 11:33 AM (2Ez/1)

104 Indian food is disgusting."

Just wait until they open the aircraft doors...

*voice of experience

Posted by: man at September 21, 2026 11:33 AM (pfXMo)

105 Again, I have no idea why they cant just work from their home country. Most of what they do is over a computer or phone, it's not labor like landscaping or construction.
Posted by: Sharpie
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They don't like living in a toilet either, I reckon.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 21, 2026 11:33 AM (GlLw/)

106 There's no such thing as radical islam. There's just islam.

Act accordingly.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 11:27 AM (viF8m)



7th century death cult does not equal a religion.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 11:33 AM (ccf/V)

107 Some lefty woke female fed judge just put a stay on Trump's reasonable adjustments of Student visas. Where he limited them to four years allowing for application for extension. And reducing the grace period to leave after expiration to 30 days from 60 days.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 11:33 AM (KC5Lt)

108
My school was suburban 3000 students. Everyone had their own thing going on for any one group to stand out too much. The whole John Hughes football players and cheerleaders being the cool kids was kind of a foreign concept to me. I assumed it was just a movies thing but I guess it was a thing in some schools.


Gonna have to disagree with you there, sparky. I'll be you also like bourbon.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 11:34 AM (Riz8t)

109 I say a prayer every night and morning the GOP can pull out and win the midterms, otherwise...the next 2 years is going to suck.

Posted by: sidney at September 21, 2026 11:34 AM (Uy/WF)

110 I hate curry.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 11:34 AM (KC5Lt)

111 >>As long as Stephen Miller is in charge of immigration, Trump can Boomer Brain talk about not going after this or that industry, and it won't matter.


And Marco Rubio at State, busily revoking visas for people who hate America and are here to stir up revolution on campus!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 21, 2026 11:34 AM (rOKnE)

112 If you replace your population with third worlders, you become a third world country - cause you aren't going to keep up your mtc, innovation, and tax base with third world dipshits.
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And you turn into a low-trust society that increasingly relies on surveillance tech.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 21, 2026 11:34 AM (GlLw/)

113 i'm very happy with the progress Trump has made recently, wish he had cracked down harder on it in his first term.

Posted by: Sharpie at September 21, 2026 11:32 AM (Zx1Cw)

Fair.

I don't think Trump knew enough in his first term. He thought he would just "President" his ideas into execution. That's not real life. Even Barack Obama acknowledged that when he was pressed on why Gitmo remained open, despite him swearing for years that he'd shut it down on Day One. He said something like "I learned an awful lot about the realities and limits on Executive Power that I didn't know before I got here."

This time, Trump has had four years to build a team of cutthroats who don't give a fuck anymore.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 21, 2026 11:35 AM (gLYp7)

114 Sorry, y'all, but I love Indian food.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 11:35 AM (77rzZ)

115 Wow, that did NOT go as planned.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 11:36 AM (Riz8t)

116 >> Again, I have no idea why they cant just work from their home country. Most of what they do is over a computer or phone, it's not labor like landscaping or construction.


Economic prosperity and a stable, first-world home.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 21, 2026 11:36 AM (rOKnE)

117 I wonder if any US IT workers, when training their H1-B replacement, include a number of undocumented hacks and neat tricks. Maybe something to execute at the end of a major upgrade that results in erasing half of the operating system or some such.

Posted by: George V at September 21, 2026 11:36 AM (g6ahB)

118 There's no such thing as radical islam. There's just islam.

Act accordingly.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 11:27 AM (viF8m)
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This^^^
Posted by: SMH
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Islamophobics!!

I KEEL YOU!!!!

Posted by: Achmed the Dead Terrorist at September 21, 2026 11:36 AM (anL5R)

119 114 Sorry, y'all, but I love Indian food.
Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 11:35 AM (77rzZ)

Except for the smell and the taste, it’s okay.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 11:37 AM (Gqar8)

120 109 I say a prayer every night and morning the GOP can pull out and win the midterms, otherwise...the next 2 years is going to suck.

Posted by: sidney at September 21, 2026 11:34 AM (Uy/WF)

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Immigration enforcement will continue unabated if Dems win either chamber (they have no shot of winning the Senate) because the OBBB fully appropriated funds to DHS through 2028.

The DOJ will still be under Trump's control, fighting anti-white and anti-civilian actions in corporate and government spheres.

The military will still be under Trump's control.

Yes, there will be impeachment theater, but impeachment theater has led to the political strengthening of every president it's been done against. So, it won't lead to conviction (if they couldn't get it done post 1/6, they'll never get it done against Trump), and it'll just end up making Trump more popular.

Honestly, losing the House could actually make winning in 2028 easier without actually slowing down any real policy by the administration.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:37 AM (SvJcA)

121 New rule: H1-B's are not available to anyone until the US Unemployment rate is 0%, meaning every American available and willing to work, is.

THEN you can import the smelly bastards to take some open jobs.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 11:37 AM (ccf/V)

122 Pakistan also has way more muslims than India does.
Some y'all boas go a little ape-shit when your blood is up.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 21, 2026 11:37 AM (zdLoL)

123 Sorry, y'all, but I love Indian food.
Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 11:35 AM (77rzZ)
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That's fine.

Not everyone likes Korean food, and I absolutely love it.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 21, 2026 11:37 AM (GlLw/)

124 I see no reason to allow ANY level of legal immigration for at least a couple of decades.
Posted by: Crusader
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Rather than the immigrants becoming Americans, the immigrants are transforming America into their own culture.

There may be no better example than Warren, Michigan, as mentioned here yesterday.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 21, 2026 11:37 AM (XeU6L)

125 Simply call AT&T or any other large organization (especially health care/insurance) and see how well they answer questions NOT on their script they're reading from........


What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen sparrow?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 11:38 AM (Riz8t)

126 I've been complaining for years that we have started to become a 'good enough' culture and that is directly related to our third world immigration.

No pride in workmanship, kicking the can down the road , taking the easy path instead of the right path , etc.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 11:38 AM (KC5Lt)

127 114 Sorry, y'all, but I love Indian food.
Posted by: Bulg

I'll pay for your one-way ticket to Calcutta.

Posted by: The Mind That Alters, Alters All at September 21, 2026 11:38 AM (Fn+3X)

128 Sorry, y'all, but I love Indian food.
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I confess that Chicken Tikka Masala can become something an obsession for me.

Posted by: don't hate me at September 21, 2026 11:38 AM (anL5R)

129 Except for the smell and the taste, it’s okay."

Pretty much the same going in or...

Yikes

Posted by: man at September 21, 2026 11:38 AM (pfXMo)

130 India is not my favorite place but I give them credit for recognizing what islam was all about a very long time ago.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 11:38 AM (viF8m)

131 Pakistan also has way more muslims than India does.
Some y'all boas go a little ape-shit when your blood is up.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 21, 2026 11:37 AM (zdLoL)

Did someone say otherwise? I must have missed that.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 11:39 AM (KC5Lt)

132 I'll pay for your one-way ticket to Calcutta.
Posted by: The Mind That Alters, Alters All

That is, Indian food prepared in the US.

No way I'd eat it in its native setting.

Same for Chinese food.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 11:39 AM (77rzZ)

133
Sure you can find Americans for those jobs, but employers are fed up with Americans who won't show up on time, can't think their way through problems and collapse at the slightest criticism..

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 11:39 AM (eRlcH)

134 I wonder if any US IT workers, when training their H1-B replacement, include a number of undocumented hacks and neat tricks. Maybe something to execute at the end of a major upgrade that results in erasing half of the operating system or some such.
Posted by: George V at September 21, 2026 11:36 AM (g6ahB)


Absolutely not. The key is to NOT train them on the undocumented stuff that you need to know in order to have things work correctly.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 11:39 AM (ExV1e)

135 126 I've been complaining for years that we have started to become a 'good enough' culture and that is directly related to our third world immigration.
Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 11:38 AM

You get what you tolerate.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 21, 2026 11:39 AM (2Ez/1)

136 Same for Chinese food.
Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 11:39 AM (77rzZ)
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This^

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 21, 2026 11:40 AM (GlLw/)

137 So, why was there a program like this anyway? Really...

Posted by: man at September 21, 2026 11:40 AM (pfXMo)

138 Muslims make up 15% of India. So 225 million.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 11:40 AM (d7mRD)

139 >>Pakistan also has way more muslims than India does.

Yea, there's a reason for that.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 11:40 AM (viF8m)

140 132 I'll pay for your one-way ticket to Calcutta.
Posted by: The Mind That Alters, Alters All

That is, Indian food prepared in the US.

No way I'd eat it in its native setting.

Same for Chinese food.
Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 11:39 AM (77rzZ)

Your point is well taken. Sort of like buying farm raised tilapia from third world fish ponds.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 11:40 AM (Gqar8)

141 Honestly, losing the House could actually make winning in 2028 easier without actually slowing down any real policy by the administration.
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Wow, you are certainly in a good mood . . .

Posted by: irrational exuberance or just happy? at September 21, 2026 11:41 AM (anL5R)

142 You get what you tolerate.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 21, 2026 11:39 AM (2Ez/1)

Yeah I don't tolerate it or practice it but I'm only one person.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 11:41 AM (KC5Lt)

143
I like Indian food. But I don't like contamination.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 21, 2026 11:41 AM (VWtfl)

144 Evidently the caste system is still ingrained enough in India that sewage treatment isn't nearly as invisible as it is here. Getting people to work in that industry is difficult and they simply don't have one of the fundamental pieces of infrastructure a modern society needs.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 21, 2026 11:33 AM


Plus their holy river is literally filled with human waste and is among the world's most polluted rivers. It is the main water supply for over 50% of the country.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 21, 2026 11:41 AM (I43vL)

145 India is not my favorite place but I give them credit for recognizing what islam was all about a very long time ago.
Posted by: JackStraw

Hinduism isn't much better, though.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 11:41 AM (77rzZ)

146 corporation's XBOX division

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Slightly off topic but a word in support of capitalism. Witcher III was a huge video game success (and a most excellent game). Oftentimes, in such situations, after a few years, the publisher will offer a remaster to upgrade graphics, game play etc. and, not coincidentally, suck a few more dollars out of the fans. But these guys are doing it for free! If you already own the original game, come 9/29, you can download the upgrade for free!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 11:42 AM (ndZc7)

147 but employers are fed up with Americans who won't show up on time, can't think their way through problems and collapse at the slightest criticism.."

Hey, import workers from the 3rd world!

/ how stupid is that?

Posted by: man at September 21, 2026 11:42 AM (pfXMo)

148 AI:

Most of the world's Muslims live in South and Southeast Asia, rather than the Middle East. The countries with the highest numbers include:
Indonesia: ~242 million Muslims (about 87% of the population)
Pakistan: ~227 million Muslims (over 96% of the population)
India: ~213 million Muslims (about 15% of the population, making it the largest Muslim minority population)
Bangladesh: ~151 million Muslims (about 90% of the population)

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 11:42 AM (Riz8t)

149 140 132 I'll pay for your one-way ticket to Calcutta.
Posted by: The Mind That Alters, Alters All

That is, Indian food prepared in the US.

No way I'd eat it in its native setting.

Same for Chinese food.
Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 11:39 AM (77rzZ)

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I have had Indian food in India. Restaurant and home made.

My dad took me when I was 15. He was invited to a conference. The host made us a meal.

We avoided any fruits or veggies because of the washing in native water thing, but at heartily otherwise.

It was good.

The best restaurants were heavily Anglicized, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:42 AM (SvJcA)

150 It's a nice start, but Trump keeps backtracking on it imo. There was that interview with Laura Ingraham where she pressed this and Trump kept insisting we dont have the talent pool in the US and we need the program.

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In other words, another massive failure of the Dept of Education. America had unrivaled technical and entrepreneurial talent for most of the 20th century. The DOE fixed all of that by rotting the minds of America's youth starting in the late 70s under Carter the Retard

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 21, 2026 11:42 AM (HgNS2)

151 141 Honestly, losing the House could actually make winning in 2028 easier without actually slowing down any real policy by the administration.
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Wow, you are certainly in a good mood . . .

Posted by: irrational exuberance or just happy? at September 21, 2026 11:41 AM (anL5R)

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I've been saying that the 2026 elections are some of the least important in our lifetimes for almost 2 years now.

2028 is important.

2026 isn't.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:42 AM (SvJcA)

152 97 Once an Indian buys a house they'll sell only to other Indians. And to be fair most Americans wouldn't buy an Indians house, as the curry odor is more persistent than smoke. Tearing out carpeting and repainting doesn't work.

I've seen whole towns in CT become little Calcutta thanks to UTC H1Bs.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 21, 2026 11:43 AM (bX16E)

153 You know what the third-largest religion is in India, after Hinduism and Isla?

Christianity. There are like three states in India that are majority Christian.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 11:43 AM (77rzZ)

154 128 Sorry, y'all, but I love Indian food.
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I confess that Chicken Tikka Masala can become something an obsession for me.
Posted by: don't hate me

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what a terrible fucking reason to throw out 2000 years of struggle to build a civizaton. -- yeah, let's throw the west in the shitter to get get some new foods.

I really fucking hate people who talk about 'culture' and foods as justification for destroying out countries. Our children's legacy.

OK, I may be just a bit more pissed than usual right now. my keyboard battery is dying and I can not type some letters . apologies for my ranting.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 21, 2026 11:43 AM (LfiSD)

155 Again, I have no idea why they cant just work from their home country.

Because it's full of Indians?

I'll show myself out.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 21, 2026 11:44 AM (svLOV)

156 >>What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen sparrow?

*swallow

Posted by: one hour sober at September 21, 2026 11:44 AM (J4Dwc)

157 Hey, Bulg, I think my congrstulations to you and your wife fornniversaty got willowed. Congrstulations, may your partnership continue to bring one another joy.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 21, 2026 11:44 AM (dLfW+)

158 what a terrible fucking reason to throw out 2000 years of struggle to build a civizaton. -- yeah, let's throw the west in the shitter to get get some new foods.

I really fucking hate people who talk about 'culture' and foods as justification for destroying out countries. Our children's legacy.

OK, I may be just a bit more pissed than usual right now. my keyboard battery is dying and I can not type some letters . apologies for my ranting.


No, no, you sounded calm and serene.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 11:44 AM (Riz8t)

159 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:42 AM (SvJcA)

The movie Outsourced was really good but also reinforced my position that I will never travel to India.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 11:44 AM (KC5Lt)

160 153 You know what the third-largest religion is in India, after Hinduism and Isla?

Christianity. There are like three states in India that are majority Christian.
Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 11:43 AM (77rzZ)

33 million, according to Copilot.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 11:44 AM (Gqar8)

161 In other words, another massive failure of the Dept of Education. America had unrivaled technical and entrepreneurial talent for most of the 20th century. The DOE fixed all of that by rotting the minds of America's youth starting in the late 70s under Carter the Retard
Posted by: Lemmiwinks
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We just need to be paid more.

Posted by: The NEA at September 21, 2026 11:45 AM (XeU6L)

162 There are approximately 240 million Mohammedans in Indonesia, which is about 87% of the population.

Posted by: Since you asked at September 21, 2026 11:45 AM (2Ez/1)

163 The managerial mindset, the MBA disease, that infests business after a certain size, focuses on labor as an expense to be cut, rather than the value exchange provided.

It's the mind of a timid loser who dares not risk but rather prefers statis.

Rare is the CEO that sees growth as a cure to address labor expenses.
Because more than 9 out of ten CEOs are rewarded 100X over for cutting costs, while almost none are rewarded for growing the company.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 11:45 AM (3cUTc)

164 A vast majority of the H1-B visa holders are from India. Indian programmers suck royally, so it shows why most software sucks royally.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 11:32 AM (ccf/V)

One of the many things I hate about Win11 is the vast amount of random keyboard shortcuts that are automatically enabled. You can imagine how often I have to figure out how to fix things as the mother of a toddler and the owner of two kittens.

Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at September 21, 2026 11:45 AM (Wt5PA)

165 what a terrible fucking reason to throw out 2000 years of struggle to build a civizaton. -- yeah, let's throw the west in the shitter to get get some new foods.

I really fucking hate people who talk about 'culture' and foods as justification for destroying out countries. Our children's legacy.
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I literally said don't hate me . . . .

We don't need to bring them in to cook it. They sell it in Jars now. You can buy it in the grocery store and dump it into your crock pot with a chicken.

Posted by: curled up in fetal position weeping bitter spicy tears at September 21, 2026 11:45 AM (anL5R)

166 Christianity. There are like three states in India that are majority Christian.
Posted by: Bulg

Goa.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 11:46 AM (d7mRD)

167 157 Hey, Bulg, I think my congrstulations to you and your wife fornniversaty got willowed. Congrstulations, may your partnership continue to bring one another joy.
Posted by: tankdemon at September 21, 2026 11:44 AM (dLfW+)

Note: I am not having a stroke. I am continuing to suffer from an undersized keyboard and oversized thumbs.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 21, 2026 11:46 AM (dLfW+)

168 159 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:42 AM (SvJcA)

The movie Outsourced was really good but also reinforced my position that I will never travel to India.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 11:44 AM (KC5Lt)

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We stayed at the Hilton in the diplomatic enclave in New Delhi.

It was clean and safe, though we still didn't trust the water.

The second you got out of those gates, cow shit all over the place and monkeys swinging around. Just, a dirty place.

We had our Hindu cab driver take us into the old city to see the Red Fort. He was obviously terrified for his life. The old city is entirely Muslim.

I remember a little girl coming up to our cab with her little brother in her arms, distended belly, begging for money.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:46 AM (SvJcA)

169 Would I travel to a heavily Muslim majority country? No.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 11:47 AM (Gqar8)

170 The rejection of leftism and 3rd World importation is global (Insty):

THE COLLAPSE OF THE EUROPEAN CENTER CONTINUES APACE: Merz’s CDU suffers total wipeout in state election.

The chancellor’s centre-Right party won 4.9 per cent of the vote in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, final results confirmed on Monday.

The hard-Right populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) took 38.2 per cent of the vote, while the hard-Left Die Linke beat the CDU in mayoral elections in Berlin. Mr Merz is scheduled to address the public on Monday afternoon.

The astonishingly poor result meant that, for the first time, the CDU failed to win enough votes to enter a state parliament in Germany.

Under the country’s voting system, parties that fall below the 5 per cent threshold are not assigned any seats in the next parliament.

Such a scenario was virtually unthinkable for the CDU – the German version of the Conservatives and a mainstay of coalition governments for decades – until Sunday night.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 11:47 AM (Riz8t)

171 Also, illegal aliens taste like sea otter.
Posted by: JackStraw


Watch out mister.

Its SEA OTTER AWARENESS WEEK!

Did you know sea otters hold hands while they sleep?

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 21, 2026 11:47 AM (H+3Km)

172 1) Indian food is good, specifically Goan food. Vindaloo is one of my favorite dishes.

2) Indians can fuck off. They bring their shitty caste system culture here and hire and promote their friends and fellow caste members and treat others like shit based on their Indian caste.

3) The H1B should be severely curtailed and most current H1B holders should be deported back to go shit in the streets of India.

Posted by: ballistic at September 21, 2026 11:47 AM (oqH4h)

173 as the curry odor is more persistent than smoke. Tearing out carpeting and repainting doesn't work."

Tell me about it. Saw a cute house for sale, open house on a Sunday. Cloudy, drizzly day, but as we pulled up, saw that all doors and windows were open, and the agent was sitting on the front porch.
We walked up, were invited in, and... holy cow. We didn't bother. The smell was that intense...

Posted by: man at September 21, 2026 11:48 AM (pfXMo)

174 I'm familiar with a particular WallyMart location where there seems to be an unwritten rule: if you ain't from Pock-ee-stahn, you can't work here. Don't get me wrong, the store is very well run, but this one attribute is obvious.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty


Yep. South Asians are some of the most notorious in-group hiring group.s

Posted by: Brother Tim is tired at September 21, 2026 11:48 AM (OUMaO)

175 Would I travel to a heavily Muslim majority country? No.
Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 11:47 AM (Gqar
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I traveled there with a machine gun and other guys with tanks, so it was all good.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 21, 2026 11:48 AM (GlLw/)

176 I regularly conflate H1Bs with illegals because of the systemic abuse written into the system.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 21, 2026 11:11 AM (gLYp7)

Please to come and see the systemic abuse inherent in the system! Help, for I am being the repressed!

Posted by: Denniskruthamar Chatterjee the Peasant at September 21, 2026 11:48 AM (TbWk/)

177 Would I travel to a heavily Muslim majority country? No.
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So France is right out then?

Posted by: is it a joke? at September 21, 2026 11:48 AM (anL5R)

178 156 >>What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen sparrow?

*swallow
Posted by: one hour sober at September 21, 2026 11:44 AM (J4Dwc)

Wink

Posted by: That girl at the office that everyone really likes for some odd reason at September 21, 2026 11:48 AM (dpXJq)

179 My favorite rebuttal is:
If these H1Bs are so very, very valuable, a literal budding Einstein if you will, these corporations would gladly pay $1,000,000 application fee to have them here.
They'd be fighting each other to be the first to land them.

Because they'd earn the company 10X, 50X or one hundred times that fee.

Instead, they all--to a man--howled and filed suit when Trump proposed a measly, mere $100,000 fee.

And that right there betrays the sole and only motivation for US corporations to hire H1B.
Disgusting.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 11:49 AM (3cUTc)

180 Hey, Bulg, I think my congratulations to you and your wife for anniversaty got willowed. Congratulations, may your partnership continue to bring one another joy.
Posted by: tankdemon

Thanks, Tankdemon. We're slowly moving into our Golden Years. We're working on fixing up our house and moving somewhere farther to the west, away from DC, but not somewhere that's so rural we won't have quick access to medical facilities. Maybe Winchester, VA. My wife will retire in a few years, and I will a few years after her. (I'm younger than she is.) Once that happens, we will be able to enjoy each other's company full time.

We really are perfect for each other. It's been great being married to her.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 11:49 AM (77rzZ)

181 Goa."

Got a gold and ruby cross?

Posted by: man at September 21, 2026 11:50 AM (pfXMo)

182 The posh private pre-K-12 school I worked at had a silly study abroad program. A group of about 20 students and a teacher/mentor went to India for about 10 days, stayed in Mumbai the night before flying back (a 20+hour flight). Nearly everyone got violently ill with food poisoning that night/morning of the flight. Projectile diarrhea is no fun on an airplane, I'd guess.

Posted by: Bombs Away Over Bombay! at September 21, 2026 11:50 AM (Fn+3X)

183 > as the curry odor is more persistent than smoke. Tearing out carpeting and repainting doesn't work."
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Our spice cabinet smells of nothing but curry. And there are at least 3 or 4 dozen different spices in there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 21, 2026 11:50 AM (2Cry5)

184 I remember a little girl coming up to our cab with her little brother in her arms, distended belly, begging for money.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:46 AM (SvJcA)

Little bitch poaching on my turf!

Posted by: Sally Struthers at September 21, 2026 11:51 AM (TbWk/)

185 Islam is not a religion. It's an invasive totalitarian system of society.

Take a trip around any muslim country and check out the bumper stickers. Do you know what you will never see? One of those retarded coexist stickers.

Name me another "religion" that demands it's adherents lie, cheat and murder anyone who doesn't submit to them. Muslims don't want to coexist, they want you to submit or die. It's right there in their manifesto.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 11:51 AM (viF8m)

186 You don't favor curry?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 21, 2026 11:51 AM (Cqx++)

187 Does exorcism work for curry?

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 11:51 AM (Gqar8)

188 Pittsburgh has a sizable Nepali population. Their kitchen is the garage and the door is always open.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 11:51 AM (d7mRD)

189 187 Does exorcism work for curry?

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 11:51 AM (Gqar

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Fire purifies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:52 AM (SvJcA)

190 Our spice cabinet smells of nothing but curry. And there are at least 3 or 4 dozen different spices in there.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 21, 2026 11:50 AM (2Cry5)
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Why I don't have curry in my kitchen.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 21, 2026 11:52 AM (GlLw/)

191 My husband has been dealing with a group of indians off shore that have been attempting to get their licenses to work on more back office tasks for a major bank here in charlotte. In two years with daily tutoring and prep, only a few have managed to pass any of the tests. I'm not sure why they continue to just throw money into a pit for all the good that it does.

Posted by: nckate at September 21, 2026 11:53 AM (enNUy)

192 Again if they just didn't hate America our immigration problems would be 90% less than they are.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 11:53 AM (KC5Lt)

193 Fire purifies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:52 AM (SvJcA)
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lol

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 21, 2026 11:53 AM (GlLw/)

194 Name me another "religion" that demands it's adherents lie, cheat and murder anyone who doesn't submit to them. Muslims don't want to coexist, they want you to submit or die. It's right there in their manifesto.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 11:51 AM (viF8m)

You forgot about porking nine year olds, but I digress.

I keel you.

Posted by: Mighty Moosleem Mujahid at September 21, 2026 11:53 AM (dpXJq)

195 Buck, as usual, is being jingoistic. In a free economy, an employer can hire whoever he thinks will deliver the most value for the price being paid. On average, people from the sub-continent are smarter than our home-grown workforce.

Posted by: Bert the Samoan Lawyer at September 21, 2026 11:53 AM (poJ35)

196 'Is it not racist that hiring managers trying to hire for “jobs Americans won’t do” look almost exclusively to India?' This is because all the fucking hiring managers are Indian and they are racists. I have been in IT since the early 80's and I keep seeing this happen over and over again. As long as a CIO gets a bonus, all is well with them.

Posted by: Huxley Orwell at September 21, 2026 11:54 AM (j3Fsw)

197 We really are perfect for each other. It's been great being married to her.
Posted by: Bulg

Winchester is nice. My son went to Pharmacy School there, but it's still under the thumb of CIA Barbie. I live 10 miles from the VA border, but NEVER go there unless it's an emergency.

Posted by: Red States Are Far Superior at September 21, 2026 11:54 AM (Fn+3X)

198 It was clean and safe, though we still didn't trust the water.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


That's a prudent policy in virtually any foreign country. My friends and I got dysentery from drinking water in a restaurant in Israel.

Bottled water only, from a well-established brand.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 11:54 AM (77rzZ)

199 "...cow shit all over the place and monkeys swinging around."

So you've been to a MoMe?

Posted by: Oops at September 21, 2026 11:54 AM (2Ez/1)

200 H1B visa holders seem really like indentured servants to me . Get out of line, out you go.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2026 11:54 AM (taL2t)

201 Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 11:51 AM (viF8m)

You forgot about porking nine year olds, but I digress.

I keel you.
Posted by: Mighty Moosleem Mujahid
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What he said *ululates*

Posted by: Achmed the Dead Terrorist at September 21, 2026 11:54 AM (anL5R)

202 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:46 AM

A former colleague is married to an Indian woman. According to her, her entire family said "sod this" and bolted for New Zealand, Australia or America as soon as possible because their native country is such an abject shithole.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 21, 2026 11:54 AM (bFu5X)

203 'Is it not racist that hiring managers trying to hire for “jobs Americans won’t do” look almost exclusively to India?' This is because all the fucking hiring managers are Indian and they are racists. I have been in IT since the early 80's and I keep seeing this happen over and over again. As long as a CIO gets a bonus, all is well with them.

If I were forced to hire foreign workers, I'd go with Koreans first, then Japanese, then Taiwanese.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 11:55 AM (Riz8t)

204
This guy has been digging:

https://tinyurl.com/5e9fyhrz

Posted by: Lizzy at September 21, 2026 11:16 AM (rOKnE)



Wow, Lizzy. This is shocking.

If these were Russians we'd probably be preparing to go to war.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 11:55 AM (iJfKG)

205 I regularly conflate H1Bs with illegals because of the systemic abuse written into the system.

Many, of not most, H1B hirings are illegal, if I’m reading the laws right. If the hiring process followed the actual law involved, they would end up finding an American qualified and willing to take the job.

This doesn’t necessarily make the immigrant a criminal, but it does make their employer a criminal. It was an illegal immigration.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 21, 2026 11:55 AM (kYmoU)

206 'Is it not racist that hiring managers trying to hire for “jobs Americans won’t do” look almost exclusively to India?' This is because all the fucking hiring managers are Indian and they are racists. I have been in IT since the early 80's and I keep seeing this happen over and over again. As long as a CIO gets a bonus, all is well with them.
Posted by: Huxley Orwell at September 21, 2026 11:54 AM (j3Fsw)

Corporations don't exist to supply you with a job.

Posted by: The Chamber of Commerce at September 21, 2026 11:55 AM (TbWk/)

207 192 Again if they just didn't hate America our immigration problems would be 90% less than they are.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 11:53 AM (KC5Lt)

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America is a culture.

They can be ambivalent about it and do as much damage because they end up preferring their own.

I think back to the opening of The Godfather and the Sicilian man's insistence that he loves America as a contrast. Or the song America in West Side Story.

It was apparently a bit of a lie, Little Italy was a thing because Italians didn't want to become part of the American culture, instead choosing to recreate the Old Country on new shores, but it was still an idea that you could see in some form for a time.

Probably a concentrated effort to turn immigration views positive in a country that had effectively barred it for 40 years by the 1960s. But still.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:56 AM (SvJcA)

208 185 Islam is not a religion. It's an invasive totalitarian system of society.

Take a trip around any muslim country and check out the bumper stickers. Do you know what you will never see? One of those retarded coexist stickers.

Name me another "religion" that demands it's adherents lie, cheat and murder anyone who doesn't submit to them. Muslims don't want to coexist, they want you to submit or die. It's right there in their manifesto.
Posted by: JackStraw
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It's a floor wax and an dessert!

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 11:56 AM (E4rtv)

209 I wonder if this crack down and/or end of EV subsides played a role in the end of Trump-Musk bromance. Of course, they seem to have patched that up, at least to certain extent. Musk gave up crazy train start third party notion and is giving tons of cash to Elephants.

Posted by: Martin Tell at September 21, 2026 11:56 AM (6yK+O)

210 198 That's a prudent policy in virtually any foreign country. My friends and I got dysentery from drinking water in a restaurant in Israel.

Bottled water only, from a well-established brand.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 11:54 AM (77rzZ)

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And turn the bottle upside down and give it a squeeze, just to make sure it hasn't been refilled post initial opening.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:57 AM (SvJcA)

211 Corporations don't exist to supply you with a job.
Posted by: The Chamber of Commerce
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People don't exist to supply you with money.

Posted by: increasingly annoyed populace at September 21, 2026 11:58 AM (anL5R)

212 199 "...cow shit all over the place and monkeys swinging around."

So you've been to a MoMe?
Posted by: Oops at September 21, 2026 11:54 AM (2Ez/1)

I was going to say something about Oakland but that would probably have been racist or something.

Posted by: Pre-pre-pre denounced for your convenience at September 21, 2026 11:58 AM (TbWk/)

213 On average, people from the sub-continent are smarter than our home-grown workforce.
Posted by: Bert the Samoan Lawyer at September 21, 2026 11:53 AM (poJ35)
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Compiled global datasets often place India's average IQ between 76 and 87, ranking it between 89th and 143rd globally.

Meanwhile, international comparative studies, such as those by World Population Review, estimate the U.S. average IQ to be approximately 98.0 to 99.6, ranking the country around 29th to 31st globally.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 21, 2026 11:58 AM (GlLw/)

214 Winchester is nice. My son went to Pharmacy School there, but it's still under the thumb of CIA Barbie. I live 10 miles from the VA border, but NEVER go there unless it's an emergency.
Posted by: Red States Are Far Superior

We've also looked in W. Virginia, but, as I said, we don't want to be too far from medical facilities., and my wife got a little "too rural" vibe from WV. But, we'll see.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 11:58 AM (77rzZ)

215 Compiled global datasets often place India's average IQ between 76 and 87, ranking it between 89th and 143rd globally.

Now do the Middle East

Posted by: And sub-Saharan Africa at September 21, 2026 12:00 PM (TbWk/)

216
The people who sneer that Americans are uncultured will also insist we have a lot to learn from Somalian culture.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 12:01 PM (eRlcH)

217 That's a prudent policy in virtually any foreign country.

Even within a country as large as the United States, it’s a prudent policy. For man years now, when traveling to a new place, I drink bottled water for at least several days until my body has had a chance to encounter the local microflora in small quantities, before tapering off bottled water use in favor of tap water.

It seems to have helped, a lot.

It would probably be less necessary if I were walking from, say, Texas to St. Augustine, because it would take longer. But flying or even driving across country means a very new environment very quickly.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 21, 2026 12:01 PM (kYmoU)

218 And yet, Ethiopian food can be really good.

Posted by: Go figure at September 21, 2026 12:02 PM (2Ez/1)

219 we have a lot to learn from Somalian culture.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh


Such as "Why you should not allow certain people to immigrate to your more advanced country."

Posted by: NR Pax at September 21, 2026 12:02 PM (svLOV)

220 Because they'd earn the company 10X, 50X or one hundred times that fee.

Instead, they all--to a man--howled and filed suit when Trump proposed a measly, mere $100,000 fee.

And that right there betrays the sole and only motivation for US corporations to hire H1B.
Disgusting.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

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This is a good point.
- the purpose of a company in usa is to make money, but the country has an interest that they do it using americans.
- they all track revenue per employee. usually mid 6 figures.
- OK, they claim to need foreigners for their skills and there is shortage. well then the fee for hiring them is now the revenue per employee - their salary. Make it break even for the company. they get the skills they claim to need. If they really did need them, they would be glad to pay. so make the fee fit the industry -- for software, something like 200k per year (yes, every year of employment in perpetuity even if they become a citizen) should cover it.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 21, 2026 12:02 PM (LfiSD)

221 And yet, Ethiopian food can be really good.

Posted by: Go figure


...if you can get it.

Posted by: Brother Tim is tired at September 21, 2026 12:03 PM (OUMaO)

222 A dollop of xenophobia is not necessarily a bad thing.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:03 PM (Gqar8)

223 222 A dollop of xenophobia is not necessarily a bad thing.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:03 PM (Gqar

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People are tribal.

If you weed tribalism out of you and then invite in a tribal people, your anti-tribalism ends up being in service of a group of people who don't think of you as part of their tribe.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:04 PM (SvJcA)

224 70 percent of H1Bs are Indian

that should NOT be happening

no freaking way

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 21, 2026 12:05 PM (j+aD2)

225 > A dollop of xenophobia is not necessarily a bad thing.

First, get a stick of butter...

Posted by: Paula Deen at September 21, 2026 12:05 PM (2Ez/1)

226 This guy has been digging:

https://tinyurl.com/5e9fyhrz

Posted by: Lizzy at September 21, 2026 11:16 AM (rOKnE)


Wow, Lizzy. This is shocking.

If these were Russians we'd probably be preparing to go to war.
==
Au contraire - you will elect us to be your rulers. Thank you very much!

Posted by: Rho Khanna at September 21, 2026 12:05 PM (anL5R)

227 The whole "we need foreigners 'cause not enough Americans with skills" is actually a self-fulfilling prophecy. Enough folks graduate from those fields and can't get work because of the H-1Bs, kids stop going into those fields and learning those skills, focusing on...well anything else that will possibly get them a paycheck...

Posted by: Brother Tim is tired at September 21, 2026 12:06 PM (OUMaO)

228 We've also looked in W. Virginia, but, as I said, we don't want to be too far from medical facilities., and my wife got a little "too rural" vibe from WV. But, we'll see.
Posted by: Bulg

We got us some fine doctorin' and hospitals here in NC. And it's 546 miles from Manteo to Murphy with all types of terrain in between. From beach and maritime forest to the highest peak east of the Rockies.

Posted by: The Old North State at September 21, 2026 12:06 PM (Fn+3X)

229
227 The whole "we need foreigners 'cause not enough Americans with skills" is actually a self-fulfilling prophecy. Enough folks graduate from those fields and can't get work because of the H-1Bs, kids stop going into those fields and learning those skills, focusing on...well anything else that will possibly get them a paycheck...

Posted by: Brother Tim is tired at September 21, 2026 12:06 PM (OUMaO)

========

Recent computer science college grads have something like 25% unemployment rates.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:06 PM (SvJcA)

230 We got us some fine doctorin' and hospitals here in NC. And it's 546 miles from Manteo to Murphy with all types of terrain in between. From beach and maritime forest to the highest peak east of the Rockies.


they really do!

western NC is a great option

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 21, 2026 12:06 PM (j+aD2)

231 And yet, Ethiopian food can be really good.
==
Hunger is a most effective condiment.

Posted by: Chef Ethiopi at September 21, 2026 12:07 PM (anL5R)

232 On average, people from the sub-continent are smarter than our home-grown workforce."

Ok, that's funny right there

Posted by: man at September 21, 2026 12:07 PM (pfXMo)

233 Many, of not most, H1B hirings are illegal, if I’m reading the laws right. If the hiring process followed the actual law involved, they would end up finding an American qualified and willing to take the job.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 21, 2026 11:55 AM (kYmoU)
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Browse any big job site/board long enough, especially in the tech sector, and you'll run across several very obvious "H1B bait" listings for "jobs" that nobody on planet earth is qualified for. Example, a regular-ass software dev or product job, where the listed prerequisites include 20+ years of experience and a Ph.D. in computer science or some other complete fucking nonsense for a job that pays 90-100k.

Then the employer leaves that listing up for whatever time period is needed and because the requirements are stupid for the money offered and they get no "qualified" applicants, they say "oh golly gee willickers I guess we need to import Pajeet from East Bumfuck and pay him $.50 on the dollar to do this job because gosh there are just no qualified Americans!"

Completely transparent horse shit from the jump.

Posted by: ballistic at September 21, 2026 12:07 PM (oqH4h)

234 Recent computer science college grads have something like 25% unemployment rates.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films


And it's been going on for a couple of decades, long enough for the vicious cycle to get proper spun up.

Posted by: Brother Tim is tired at September 21, 2026 12:07 PM (OUMaO)

235 223

People are tribal.

If you weed tribalism out of you and then invite in a tribal people, your anti-tribalism ends up being in service of a group of people who don't think of you as part of their tribe.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:04 PM (SvJcA)

Intersting that everyone is lauded for being tribal, encouraged, except for a certain demographic, or two. It is almost as if there an agenda being enacted.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:08 PM (Gqar8)

236 232 On average, people from the sub-continent are smarter than our home-grown workforce."


it's insanity

sigh

well people are finally waking up to it, they deal with these geniuses and wow

I miss Mexicans!

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 21, 2026 12:08 PM (j+aD2)

237 A dollop of xenophobia is not necessarily a bad thing.
Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:03 PM


Of course it is. The bastard was always shooting arrows at people.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 21, 2026 12:08 PM (bFu5X)

238 One of the tricks they pull is that they advertise jobs somewhere where nobody will see it, then they claim they have to hire a foreigner because there are no Americans to do the job.

Posted by: MrExcitement at September 21, 2026 12:08 PM (ovdkm)

239 218 And yet, Ethiopian food can be really good.
Posted by: Go figure

Preach it, Pal!

Posted by: Haile Selassie, Lion of Judah, Elect of God, King of Kings of Ethiopia at September 21, 2026 12:09 PM (Fn+3X)

240 your anti-tribalism ends up being in service of a group of people who don't think of you as part of their tribe."

In addition, said tribal members then definitely look down at others...

Posted by: man at September 21, 2026 12:09 PM (pfXMo)

241 But I was told by doomer black pillers that POTUS Trump was doing nothing or encouraging H1B importation.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at September 21, 2026 12:09 PM (xvV+O)

242 western NC is a great option
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 21, 2026 12:06 PM (j+aD2)
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As long as you keep in mind that you need to stay as far away from Asheville as is practically possible.

We talk of the smell of curry in this thread, but patchouli also sticks around...

Posted by: ballistic at September 21, 2026 12:09 PM (oqH4h)

243 237 A dollop of xenophobia is not necessarily a bad thing.
Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:03 PM

Of course it is. The bastard was always shooting arrows at people.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 21, 2026 12:08 PM (bFu5X)

Heh. Wll done.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:09 PM (Gqar8)

244 238 One of the tricks they pull is that they advertise jobs somewhere where nobody will see it, then they claim they have to hire a foreigner because there are no Americans to do the job.

Posted by: MrExcitement at September 21, 2026 12:08 PM (ovdkm)

=======

I read about one where there was a single ad on AM radio.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:09 PM (SvJcA)

245 241 But I was told by doomer black pillers that POTUS Trump was doing nothing or encouraging H1B importation.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at September 21, 2026 12:09 PM (xvV+O)

========

Well, I did see that Bangladeshi man at my Costco this weekend...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:10 PM (SvJcA)

246 245 241 But I was told by doomer black pillers that POTUS Trump was doing nothing or encouraging H1B importation.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at September 21, 2026 12:09 PM (xvV+O)

========

Well, I did see that Bangladeshi man at my Costco this weekend...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:10 PM (SvJcA)

Was his hair perfect?

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:10 PM (Gqar8)

247 But I was told by doomer black pillers that POTUS Trump was doing nothing or encouraging H1B importation.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at September 21, 2026 12:09 PM (xvV+O)


Vance would stop him. He has a brown wife, you know. -- Doomers United

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 12:10 PM (ExV1e)

248 I'm happy with this move but the admin needs to cut the OPT and other visa programs they have the power to end

just end them

H1B they can't just get rid of, so I'm good with stuff like this

but the "wifey gets job" one has to GO

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 21, 2026 12:10 PM (j+aD2)

249 246 Well, I did see that Bangladeshi man at my Costco this weekend...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:10 PM (SvJcA)

Was his hair perfect?

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:10 PM (Gqar

=========

Completely untustled by Marines roving the streets.

nothing is happening!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:11 PM (SvJcA)

250 Oh, look, Congress not doing anything but avoiding passing anything helpful again.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 21, 2026 12:11 PM (HeG1i)

251 You've been Boeberted!

https://tinyurl.com/ydfvvjs7

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 12:11 PM (ndZc7)

252 I read about one where there was a single ad on AM radio.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:09 PM


I hear ads like that a couple of time per year.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 21, 2026 12:11 PM (bFu5X)

253 248 I'm happy with this move but the admin needs to cut the OPT and other visa programs they have the power to end

just end them

H1B they can't just get rid of, so I'm good with stuff like this

but the "wifey gets job" one has to GO

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 21, 2026 12:10 PM (j+aD2)

========

There are investigations into OPT fraud which will form the underlying basis for ending the program.

Trump 2.0 doesn't want to repeat the mistakes of Trump 1.0 when they just tried to end DACA without following APA procedures. Are APA procedures even constitutional? I don't know, but that's not the fight the Trump administration seems to want to have.

Instead, they follow APA to get immigration wins.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:12 PM (SvJcA)

254 When I went to my daughter's graduation from engineering school, it was like going through a wormhole, and finding yourself in India.

Posted by: MrExcitement at September 21, 2026 12:12 PM (ovdkm)

255 Most immigrants vote Democrat. The Left hate America so immigrants join the Democrats.

At least European communism provided some American loving immigrants.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 12:12 PM (KC5Lt)

256 Where's Mitch?

Posted by: Mildly curious at September 21, 2026 12:13 PM (2Ez/1)

257 250 Oh, look, Congress not doing anything but avoiding passing anything helpful again.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 21, 2026 12:11 PM (HeG1i)

========

"Fuck you."
-Mitch, Cornyn, Ernst, Cassidy, and Tillis, no longer needing to face the voters

"Yeah, what they said."
-Murkowski, Democrat

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:13 PM (SvJcA)

258 Perverse incentives - you tell the chief executive that his compensation is tied to profit, and the short term grifters will tank the company to save money on expenses in the short run, so they can get paid millions, then scamper off when the jig is up. Tale as old as time. The shit birds rise to the top in big orgs because the org is big, they can burn people on the way up and not pay the price since they can move away from local damage caused and reprisals.

Posted by: big is not better at September 21, 2026 12:13 PM (anL5R)

259
> A dollop of xenophobia is not necessarily a bad thing.

Are you afraid of Xena the warrior princess?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 21, 2026 12:14 PM (Cqx++)

260 Ethiopia is the only country in the world with a 13 month calendar.

Posted by: Doin' Time at September 21, 2026 12:14 PM (Fn+3X)

261 My tribe is made up of conservatives and not ethnicity.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 12:14 PM (KC5Lt)

262 259
> A dollop of xenophobia is not necessarily a bad thing.

Are you afraid of Xena the warrior princess?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 21, 2026 12:14 PM (Cqx++)

A bit. Actually preferred her beta sidekick girl.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:14 PM (Gqar8)

263 Nood. Germany.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 12:15 PM (ExV1e)

264 Nood. Germans.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 21, 2026 12:15 PM (bFu5X)

265 Where's Mitch?
----

Sitting in the passenger seat--don't worry the air conditioning is running and he's listening to his favorite music.

Posted by: Crusader at September 21, 2026 12:15 PM (TN0g+)

266 261 My tribe is made up of conservatives and not ethnicity.
Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 12:14 PM (KC5Lt)

Mine is of a certain religious persuasion, which is no bueno to much of America.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:16 PM (Gqar8)

267 I remember a little girl coming up to our cab with her little brother in her arms, distended belly, begging for money.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:46 AM (SvJcA)

In India, people will break infants' bones and leave them to heal at crazy angles so that they can earn their handlers a living through begging.

Posted by: Polka will never die at September 21, 2026 12:16 PM (pSaNK)

268 In the Dallas area, American Airlines is doing something similar. Had a friend get laid off who said that she knew that they were bringing in foreign ppl.

Posted by: Army Mom at September 21, 2026 01:02 PM (7MHQz)

269 I was in IT for 40+ years. I had to "knowledge transfer" my job to H1-B visa holders or people living and working remotely from India several times. I would probably still be working now except for a combination of ageism, DEI discrimination, and H1-B abuse. Thankfully, I have enough retirement saved that I don't need to work any longer. But, kids keep asking my advice about getting into IT and I have to tell them that right now they are way better off learning a trade like HVAC or welding.

Posted by: Ron Winkleheimer at September 21, 2026 01:56 PM (K6mfb)

270 .
.
1990 ... The year that I went to the San Antonio Immigration and Naturalization Service office to describe the H1-B scam being pulled by AMD. During a week when AMD employees were being laid off, AMD was bringing in contractors, (mainly H1-B new grads,) to reverse engineer the Intel 486. Oh the good ol' daze.
.
The INS could not have cared less. The dot-Indian and Chinganese H1-Bs were not beaners.

Posted by: Marooned at September 21, 2026 02:20 PM (W2rvL)

271 Microsoft's then 4/2/2014 CEO, Satye Nadella (East Indian) layed off 18,000 employees starting in 7/17/2014 and sought H-1B Visas for foreign workings on 7/28/2014. This was publicly stated (public company) but not significant to report by the MSM. That was 18k employees and their families laid off and replaced with (can you guess? Mostly East Indians) at a much lower wage while being subsidized by the U.S. government. This is a typical management financial tactic to move the financial burden as much as possible to a different organization not on the manager's books.
East Indians are notorious for exploiting other Indians not in their family/tribe. After all, they are a proud cast system.

Posted by: John at September 21, 2026 02:46 PM (9NUKl)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

van Gogh Cyprus wheat1.jpg

A Wheatfield, with Cypresses
Vincent van Gogh

I couldn't find anything remotely interesting for Yom Kippur that I hadn't used before, so I figured I would plague you with one of my favorite paintings!

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM




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1 Sponge

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 09:30 AM (hGTKn)

2 Vinnie, did you just phone this one in?

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 09:31 AM (hGTKn)

3 Tree says there's a joooo behind me

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 21, 2026 09:31 AM (d1RkJ)

4 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 09:32 AM (ccf/V)

5 This looks like something from a Dr. Seuss book.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 09:32 AM (ccf/V)

6 Very swirly. Reminds me of 1970s art.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 09:32 AM (ZOv7s)

7 Very swirly. Reminds me of 1970s art.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 09:32 AM (ZOv7s)



A still from Fritz the Cat.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 09:33 AM (ccf/V)

8 100 comment rule. [CBD]

Posted by: Oglebay at September 21, 2026 09:33 AM (2ap+5)

9 Meh.

I never understood all the hoopla with Van Gogh.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 09:33 AM (DpZaL)

10 Very swirly. Reminds me of 1970s art.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd


BTO album cover.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 09:33 AM (hGTKn)

11 The wheat was angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at September 21, 2026 09:34 AM (2Ez/1)

12 The Little Bush isn’t Burning, CBD.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 09:34 AM (Gqar8)

13 Children's book art. Nice.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 21, 2026 09:35 AM (2Cry5)

14 The wind was swirly that day.

Posted by: huerfano at September 21, 2026 09:35 AM (2Xqig)

15 It's a happy little bush.

Posted by: B. Ross at September 21, 2026 09:35 AM (Dv3i1)

16 yow!

Posted by: cmeat at September 21, 2026 09:35 AM (Bep7s)

17 There are faces in the clouds. And boobs.

Posted by: Because boobs at September 21, 2026 09:35 AM (2Ez/1)

18 Had a big print of this on the wall for a couple decades. Got tired of it.

Posted by: Lend Me Your Ear at September 21, 2026 09:35 AM (Fn+3X)

19 I never understood all the hoopla with Van Gogh.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 09:33 AM (DpZaL)
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The invention of the camera pretty much wrecked classical painting. Not all at once, of course, but as photography became better, faster, and finally colored, achieving realism was kind of pointless, and the thing was to become more abstract or fantastic.

The final form is just throwing puke on a canvas, which is where we are today.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 09:36 AM (ZOv7s)

20 Lovely. The colors are gorgeous - bright and happy!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 21, 2026 09:36 AM (rOKnE)

21 Morning, Art Folken,

I knew this was a van Gogh when I saw it -- though maybe it's because I've seen it before, here or elsewhere. It suggests cool fresh weather and a nice breeze out of the north, with maybe a rain shower later in the afternoon. Possibly thanks to the blue color of the hills in the distance.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026 09:36 AM (wzUl9)

22 those arbor vitae remind me of hollie's armpits.

Posted by: cmeat at September 21, 2026 09:37 AM (Bep7s)

23 I like this picture.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 09:37 AM (Gqar8)

24 It's no Bierstadt.

Posted by: red speck at September 21, 2026 09:37 AM (Ve/HL)

25 Curvy. Simple and colorful too.

This was painted as therapy during van Goch's too short confinement in a mental hospital.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 21, 2026 09:38 AM (dM5CL)

26 One cloud just to the right of center looks like the Doomsday Machine. Or like a hippo opening its jaws, about to swallow something.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026 09:38 AM (wzUl9)

27 Would Hang!!!

Posted by: redridinghood at September 21, 2026 09:38 AM (NpAcC)

28 Big fan of Van Gogh

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 09:39 AM (+gK6I)

29 There's a lovely Van Gogh Down By The River jigsaw puzzle for sale on line for $40. Beats this one by a mile.

Posted by: Fine Art America at September 21, 2026 09:39 AM (Fn+3X)

30 Is this wiggly style the inspiration for those glass blocks they used everywhere in Miami in the 90s?

Posted by: red speck at September 21, 2026 09:39 AM (Ve/HL)

31 Too much gluten.

Posted by: Karen McAwfl at September 21, 2026 09:39 AM (2Ez/1)

32 I honestly cannot think of a place in my house where this painting would make sense. On the other hand, my life is best captured by Piranesi etchings.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 21, 2026 09:40 AM (2ap+5)

33 The pale green bush on the left looks as though it's perching on the ground -- like a large greenish buffalo grazing.

What can that dark rock at center be? A gravestone?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026 09:40 AM (wzUl9)

34 This was painted as therapy during van Goch's too short confinement in a mental hospital.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 21, 2026 09:38 AM (dM5CL)
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Or, maybe not! I just looked it up on Wiki. show says three similar paintings form a series and two of them were painted after he was released, and I don't know enough to distinguish between the early painting and the later paintings.

Does anyone with greater knowledge know? Kris here?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 21, 2026 09:40 AM (dM5CL)

35 So, which one of those cypresses is the Turkish Republic of Northern Cypress?

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 09:41 AM (77rzZ)

36 There's a lovely Van Gogh Down By The River jigsaw puzzle for sale on line for $40. Beats this one by a mile.
Posted by: Fine Art America

Endorsed.

Posted by: Zombie Chris Farley at September 21, 2026 09:41 AM (DpZaL)

37 Dutch Mental Illness Art is OK, but Scandi Mental Illness Art is paramount.

Posted by: Love Munch A Bunch at September 21, 2026 09:41 AM (Fn+3X)

38 The invention of the camera pretty much wrecked classical painting. Not all at once, of course, but as photography became better, faster, and finally colored, achieving realism was kind of pointless, and the thing was to become more abstract or fantastic.

The final form is just throwing puke on a canvas, which is where we are today.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 09:36 AM (ZOv7s)



This is probably the best description of the generations of art ever.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 09:41 AM (ccf/V)

39 I thought cypresses were to be found in swamps, not in the vicinity of wheatfields.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026 09:42 AM (wzUl9)

40 Right and cheerful. Makes you feel good just by looking at it,

Posted by: Tuna at September 21, 2026 09:42 AM (lJ0H4)

41 It's nice and cheerful.
1) Are we sure it's van Gogh?
2) wouldn't fit my aesthetic, but would be nice in doctor's offices!

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 21, 2026 09:43 AM (aJQbY)

42 Why's that guy doing the breaststroke left of the cypress?

Posted by: MkY at September 21, 2026 09:44 AM (+Pp+Q)

43 Dutch Mental Illness Art is OK, but Scandi Mental Illness Art is paramount.
Posted by: Love Munch A Bunch at September 21, 2026


***
Oh, yeah, that's right; Munch was Norwegian. The Scream was used as an example of art done by schizophrenics in one of the abnormal psych books I read as a college student.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026 09:44 AM (wzUl9)

44 You've got me going in circles, CBD!

On your Saturday music thread there was discussion of Don McLean's American Pie, and someone (Whig?) mentioned that his song, Vincent, was a good one also. After listening to both songs and reading the lyrics and artist explanations, I ended up in a van Gogh rabbit hole. This entire adventure took the better part of Saturday evening, but it was worth it.

And here I am again. With Vincent. But you're not going to trap me again, mister!

Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 21, 2026 09:44 AM (3ImbR)

45 Thx CBD
Always thought Van Gogh was great because he was simple.
Would hang

To all of the Jewish Horde a blessed Yom Kippur

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2026 09:44 AM (oUMhY)

46 41 yeah, i'd kinda like to be there. if there were plenty of cevapcici, lepinja and malort.

Posted by: cmeat at September 21, 2026 09:45 AM (Bep7s)

47 I thought cypresses were to be found in swamps, not in the vicinity of wheatfields.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Yeah, you're thinking of bald cypress. Not really a cypress at all.
Think more Italian Cypress.

Posted by: MkY at September 21, 2026 09:45 AM (+Pp+Q)

48 40 I thought cypresses were to be found in swamps, not in the vicinity of wheatfields.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026 09:42 AM

Or on a very specific island in the Mediterranean.

Posted by: Person who can't spell at September 21, 2026 09:45 AM (2Ez/1)

49 What can that dark rock at center be? A gravestone?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026 09:40 AM (wzUl9)

It looks like a darker green shrub of some kind.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 09:45 AM (DpZaL)

50 Thanks for giving us something to chew on.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 21, 2026 09:45 AM (2ap+5)

51 When I took the Brown Blotter, the whole world looked like this.

Posted by: Psychedelic Sidney at September 21, 2026 09:46 AM (Fn+3X)

52
Painted 1890. van Gough suffered through life. Twenty four years after this was painted, the first of two civilization-destroying world wars started.

I'm kind of miserable part of the time. But what if these are the good old days?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 21, 2026 09:46 AM (VWtfl)

53 45 gun, one bullet --> american pie

Posted by: cmeat at September 21, 2026 09:46 AM (Bep7s)

54 Why's that guy doing the breaststroke left of the cypress?
Posted by: MkY at September 21, 2026


***
There is the suggestion of a face, isn't there? Perhaps it's the Jolly Green Giant's youngest son. (I leave it as an exercise for the student to explain where Mrs. JG Giant is to be found.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026 09:46 AM (wzUl9)

55 There is the suggestion of a face, isn't there?

Nah, I see head down, right arm coming in for the next stroke.

Posted by: MkY at September 21, 2026 09:48 AM (+Pp+Q)

56 I never understood all the hoopla with Van Gogh.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 09:33 AM (DpZaL)
~~~~~

This is not the best example of his work, IMO, but I really admire his art.

What I will never, ever understand is all the hoopla over Picasso.

Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 21, 2026 09:48 AM (3ImbR)

57 What can that dark rock at center be? A gravestone?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026
*
It looks like a darker green shrub of some kind.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026


***
Could be, but it's very smooth, like a gemstone. The other shrubs have some highlights and textures.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026 09:48 AM (wzUl9)

58 I would hang this, in the hall outside the scullery of my country manor.

I like Vince's other Wheatfield better though.

https://tinyurl.com/426fzst9

Posted by: Don Black at September 21, 2026 09:49 AM (ZxPkt)

59 This painting is fine! Just had some kind of mushroom, and your mind is moving low.

Posted by: Feed Your Head at September 21, 2026 09:50 AM (Fn+3X)

60 53 "it's up to you and me
and who's to say...
these could be the good old days?"
- mark oliver everett

Posted by: cmeat at September 21, 2026 09:51 AM (Bep7s)

61 "The other shrubs have some highlights and textures."

We would have also accepted emanations and penumbras.

Posted by: The Judges at September 21, 2026 09:51 AM (2Ez/1)

62 Dutch Mental Illness Art is OK, but Scandi Mental Illness Art is paramount.
Posted by: Love Munch A Bunch at September 21, 2026

***
Oh, yeah, that's right; Munch was Norwegian. The Scream was used as an example of art done by schizophrenics in one of the abnormal psych books I read as a college student.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius


Wasn't Goya crazy, too? Or did he just like to paint the inmates of insane asylums?

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 09:52 AM (77rzZ)

63 62 st. hildegard of bingen.

Posted by: cmeat at September 21, 2026 09:53 AM (Bep7s)

64 There's no wheatfield in Cypress. Heck, there's no fields left there, either. Just costco and outlet mall.

/ oh

Posted by: man at September 21, 2026 09:53 AM (cGjQu)

65 What I will never, ever understand is all the hoopla over Picasso.
Posted by: IrishEi?!

Yes. I don't even think of that as art. A psychopath let loose with a paintbrush.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 09:53 AM (DpZaL)

66 goya adobe is the best adobe.

Posted by: cmeat at September 21, 2026 09:54 AM (Bep7s)

67 you wanna see some freaky shit, check out Hieronymus Bosch

Posted by: Don Black at September 21, 2026 09:54 AM (ZxPkt)

68 Just as Vinnie was setting up his easel, a cropduster flew over spraying the entire scene in pesticides and anti-fungals. That's why this looks so fucked up.

Posted by: Round-Up Ready at September 21, 2026 09:55 AM (Fn+3X)

69 I failed art appreciation. I just see how hard it would be to harvest that wheat field.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 21, 2026 09:55 AM (UdrMW)

70 Wasn't Goya crazy, too? Or did he just like to paint the inmates of insane asylums?
Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 09:52 AM

That was before he made it big in Latino foods.

Posted by: Cliff Clavin at September 21, 2026 09:55 AM (2Ez/1)

71 you wanna see some freaky shit, check out Hieronymus Bosch
Posted by: Don Black

One of my favorites.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

72 The clouds they were a-swirling that day, my friend.

Posted by: Roy at September 21, 2026 09:55 AM (qwype)

73 Couple jovial penguins dancing in the foreground would help this immensely.

Posted by: Happy Feet-Happy Life at September 21, 2026 09:56 AM (Fn+3X)

74 This is one of the more enjoyable van Gogh paintings for my taste. It isn't intense just pleasant and suggests a warm summer day. The curving brush strokes for the clouds and wheat convey a sense of motion from the wind. I got caught up in a close look at the brush work and how the colors were blended.

I don't know why this came to mind but examining the tree and bushes closely, they made me think of a Dr. Seuss illustration. No doubt a psychology paper could be made from that.

Posted by: JTB at September 21, 2026 09:58 AM (yTvNw)

75 >>>Yes. I don't even think of that as art. A psychopath let loose with a paintbrush.
~~~~~

His very early art is good (and normal!) and shows that he absolutely had talent. However, it's only his modern crap that we're constantly subjected to for some ungodly reason.

Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 21, 2026 09:58 AM (3ImbR)

76 goya adobe is the best adobe."

With or without black pepper?


/oh. Again.

Posted by: man at September 21, 2026 09:58 AM (cGjQu)

77 It's slanted. Looks like a cypress hill

Posted by: 88C+u at September 21, 2026 09:58 AM (88C+u)

78 I have it!

Van Gogh had poorly made glasses that made things swirly looking.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 09:59 AM (SvJcA)

79
My understanding is that Goya turned strange during the Napoleonic wars. During the occupation of Spain, the French atrocities put the zap on his head.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 21, 2026 09:59 AM (VWtfl)

80 It's slanted. Looks like a cypress hill
Posted by: 88C+u

It's insane in the membrane.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 10:00 AM (DpZaL)

81 bosch did not keep his rye loaves fresh.

Posted by: cmeat at September 21, 2026 10:00 AM (Bep7s)

82 Penguins In The Wheat was the working title for Faulkner's manuscript for the work ultimately published as Catcher In The Rye.

Posted by: Obscure literary trivia for $200, Alex at September 21, 2026 10:00 AM (2Ez/1)

83 so I figured I would plague you with one of my favorite paintings!


Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM


A plague of Van Gogh? Not very Biblical.

*squints looking for locusts in the wheatfield*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 21, 2026 10:00 AM (bFu5X)

84
79 I have it!

Van Gogh had poorly made glasses that made things swirly looking.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 09:59 AM

-------

He painted with heavy metal based pigments, and licked his paint brush to sharpen it.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 21, 2026 10:01 AM (VWtfl)

85 it's a goodie, CBD!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 10:02 AM (VyBeY)

86 >>>you wanna see some freaky shit, check out Hieronymus Bosch
~~~~~

An early Where's Waldo.

Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 21, 2026 10:02 AM (3ImbR)

87 I'd hang this one in a heartbeat.
Thanks CBD!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 21, 2026 10:03 AM (NnhvP)

88 King of the Hill - a limerick

The truth that had long been concealed
Has finally now been revealed
With this painting of wheat
Vincent's fame is complete
A man who's out standing in his field

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at September 21, 2026 10:03 AM (I0N4X)

89 There's no wheatfield in Cypress. Heck, there's no fields left there, either. Just costco and outlet mall.

/ oh
Posted by: man at September 21, 2026 09:53 AM (cGjQu)

There's one in Gettysburg, PA. *shivers*

Posted by: Zombie Gen. Samuel Zook at September 21, 2026 10:03 AM (wVcYX)

90 Well done CBD

catch y'all later

Posted by: Don Black at September 21, 2026 10:03 AM (ZxPkt)

91 85 radium dial company, ottawa ill.
supplier of westclox.

Posted by: cmeat at September 21, 2026 10:05 AM (Bep7s)

92 and the Horde Commentariat seems frisky this morning!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 10:06 AM (VyBeY)

93 and the Horde Commentariat seems frisky this morning!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez

Just wait til we get past 100!

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:07 AM (77rzZ)

94 Would hang.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 10:08 AM (l3cgK)

95 Meh. Me, I'd put a chick in the wheat field.

Posted by: Wyeth at September 21, 2026 10:10 AM (2Ez/1)

96 94 would hang(ed, as someone here taught me).

Posted by: peyton farquhar at September 21, 2026 10:12 AM (Bep7s)

97 Morning, all.

CBD, JJ and all the MOT of the Horde: may you be inscribed in the Book of Life for another year.

I find Van Gogh to be overexposed (much like Mozart), but this is a lovely picture.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 21, 2026 10:12 AM (qRla/)

98
https://tinyurl.com/426fzst9
Posted by: Don Black

More lithium overdose indication that that one, halos.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 21, 2026 10:13 AM (NnhvP)

99 CBD I'm curious as to why you are drawn to this painting.

Posted by: Tuna at September 21, 2026 10:13 AM (lJ0H4)

100 wait for it

Posted by: cmeat at September 21, 2026 10:13 AM (Bep7s)

101
Van Gogh. Overrated. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 10:14 AM (cI7ht)

102 So, a 100 comment pull in the first 10 comments, huh?

That took effort.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 10:14 AM (SvJcA)

103 My understanding is that Goya turned strange during the Napoleonic wars. During the occupation of Spain, the French atrocities put the zap on his head.

All the lead-based white that he basically slapped on his paintings with a trowel didn't help, either.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 21, 2026 10:14 AM (qRla/)

104 Sidebar: Hamas allegedly built weapons depots across Europe, planned terror attacks as Oct 7 anniversary neared

Well, yeah, of course they did, yet the Euroweenies still support terrorists over Israel and import terrorists into their countries by the boatload.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 10:15 AM (l3cgK)

105 Wheat Chex is noted for absorbing butter and Worcestershire sauce deeply, enhancing the flavor of homemade mixes.

Posted by: General Mills at September 21, 2026 10:15 AM (wVcYX)

106 77 ok. i stopped using it. i'm on "slap yo mama" now. although he same question still applies.

Posted by: cmeat at September 21, 2026 10:15 AM (Bep7s)

107
I find Van Gogh to be overexposed (much like Mozart), but this is a lovely picture.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 21, 2026 10:12 AM (qRla/)

__________

*splutters*

Sirrah! Mozart is not overexposed. On the contrary, every time we hear him we find new things to admire.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 10:16 AM (cI7ht)

108 98
https://tinyurl.com/426fzst9
Posted by: Don Black

More lithium overdose indication that that one, halos.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 21, 2026 10:13 AM (NnhvP)

I like the bright, cheerfulness of the Van Gogh, but that one? Damn, it's too bright!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 10:16 AM (l3cgK)

109 Hey, MP4. I hope this morning finds you well.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:16 AM (77rzZ)

110 107
I find Van Gogh to be overexposed (much like Mozart), but this is a lovely picture.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 21, 2026 10:12 AM (qRla/)

__________

*splutters*

Sirrah! Mozart is not overexposed. On the contrary, every time we hear him we find new things to admire.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 10:16 AM (cI7ht)

Did Mozart ever strip down and run around nekkid? In that case, he was overexposed...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 10:17 AM (l3cgK)

111 Sidebar: Hamas allegedly built weapons depots across Europe, planned terror attacks as Oct 7 anniversary neared

There called mosques. I'm sure there is a similar network here.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 10:17 AM (DpZaL)

112 So, a 100 comment pull in the first 10 comments, huh?

That took effort.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 10:14 AM (SvJcA)




Given the attention span for the average Hordean is 37 seconds.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 10:17 AM (ccf/V)

113 105 Wheat Chex is noted for absorbing butter and Worcestershire sauce deeply, enhancing the flavor of homemade mixes.

Posted by: General Mills at September 21, 2026 10:15 AM (wVcYX)

Then you add the milk to the bowl?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 10:17 AM (l3cgK)

114 105 Wheat Chex is noted for absorbing butter and Worcestershire sauce deeply, enhancing the flavor of homemade mixes.
Posted by: General Mills at September 21, 2026 10:15 AM (wVcYX)

Nuts!

and maybe some pretzels, too. Pro tip: Cheerios absorb spicy melted butter best of all.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 21, 2026 10:18 AM (r7+Q7)

115 It’s

SEA OTTER AWARENESS WEEK!
Best week of the whole damn year!

Whoohoooooo!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 21, 2026 10:19 AM (W2Pud)

116 Nice, but it's no 'Starry Night', an' I tol' you dat f'true, yeah me …

Posted by: Dr_No at September 21, 2026 10:19 AM (ayRl+)

117 Sirrah! Mozart is not overexposed. On the contrary, every time we hear him we find new things to admire.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Preach it Hadrian! I love Mozart. My favorite composer. Never tire of listening to his compositions.

Posted by: Tuna at September 21, 2026 10:19 AM (lJ0H4)

118 112 So, a 100 comment pull in the first 10 comments, huh?

That took effort.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 10:14 AM (SvJcA)



Given the attention span for the average Hordean is 37 seconds.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 10:17 AM (ccf/V)

That's only 3.7x that of a fish, I can vouch for the attention span of a fish. We had a goldfish that moved the rocks at the bottom of the aquarium around into a slant. I went in and leveled it, to which to goldfish looked at me and made what I can only describe as angry, frantic mouth and body movements at me...for almost exactly 10 seconds...then looked around with a motion that I'd described as "Oh, what was I doing?", saw the rocks below, and started moving them again...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 10:20 AM (l3cgK)

119 102 lenient today, all things...

Posted by: cmeat at September 21, 2026 10:20 AM (Bep7s)

120 Then you add the milk to the bowl?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 10:17 AM (l3cgK)

Rice Chex is the standout one for breakfast cereal application. Wheat Chex is for snack mixes.

Posted by: General Mills at September 21, 2026 10:20 AM (wVcYX)

121 Or is it a cypress field, wit wheat?

Posted by: My Cousin Vinnie at September 21, 2026 10:20 AM (k7GNr)

122 Wheat Chex is noted for absorbing butter and Worcestershire sauce deeply, enhancing the flavor of homemade mixes.
Posted by: General Mills at September 21, 2026 10:15 AM (wVcYX)
---
Rice Chex >>> Wheat Chex

For wheatiness, I go with Nabisco Shredded Mini-Wheats. Much better flavor and absorption of the butter/Worcestershire sauce.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2026 10:20 AM (FZ29D)

123 *splutters*

Sirrah! Mozart is not overexposed. On the contrary, every time we hear him we find new things to admire.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 10:16 AM (cI7ht)


If I could go ten years without ever hearing Eine Kleine Nachtmusik again, it would be too soon.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 21, 2026 10:20 AM (qRla/)

124 Well, CBD, you've posted a LOT of paintings over the years that require forgiveness. So ALL of those are appropriate for Yom Kippur....

(This one isn't bad if you like the style.)

Posted by: GWB at September 21, 2026 10:20 AM (kU0PQ)

125 Did Mozart ever strip down and run around nekkid? In that case, he was overexposed...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

His wife in the movie had a great rack.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:20 AM (77rzZ)

126 118
That's only 3.7x that of a fish, I can vouch for the attention span of a fish. We had a goldfish that moved the rocks at the bottom of the aquarium around into a slant. I went in and leveled it, to which to goldfish looked at me and made what I can only describe as angry, frantic mouth and body movements at me...for almost exactly 10 seconds...then looked around with a motion that I'd described as "Oh, what was I doing?", saw the rocks below, and started moving them again...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 10:20 AM (l3cgK)

========

"Be a goldfish."
-The Ted Lasso Way

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 10:20 AM (SvJcA)

127 115 It’s

SEA OTTER AWARENESS WEEK!
Best week of the whole damn year!

Whoohoooooo!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 21, 2026 10:19 AM (W2Pud)

Should I be watching my backside?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 10:20 AM (l3cgK)

128 painted with heavy metal"

*looks for Loc-Nar

Posted by: man at September 21, 2026 10:20 AM (cGjQu)

129 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Sure as hell, someone is gonna hit that damn tree with the harvester.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 21, 2026 10:21 AM (2WIwB)

130 Hey, MP4. I hope this morning finds you well.
Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:16 AM (77rzZ)


I'm OK, thanks. Doing some more edits and then a Book Thread post. Got laundry and dishes to do as well, so enough of a busy day to keep me from sinking into a depressive slough.

Hope you're doing well, too.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 21, 2026 10:22 AM (qRla/)

131 129 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Sure as hell, someone is gonna hit that damn tree with the harvester.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 21, 2026 10:21 AM (2WIwB)

I'd also watch out for the hidden boulders in the field...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 10:22 AM (l3cgK)

132 125 Did Mozart ever strip down and run around nekkid? In that case, he was overexposed...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

His wife in the movie had a great rack.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:20 AM (77rzZ)

=======

After Meg Tilly tore a ligament in her leg, there was an emergency recasting. Foreman brought out Elizabeth Berridge and Diane Franklin for the role.

After a few days of not making up his mind and the two actresses pushing for a decision, Foreman ended up saying, "Well, one of you is too pretty."

So, Berridge got the role.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 10:22 AM (SvJcA)

133 CBD I'm curious as to why you are drawn to this painting.

Posted by: Tuna at September 21, 2026 10:13 AM (lJ0H4)


Fantastic colors, and the texture when seen up close is amazing. It is in the National Gallery in London, and I try to see it every time I am there.

Plus....I just really like van Gogh!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 21, 2026 10:23 AM (k5CNB)

134 Thanks to Nurse, all of us Hordeans are VERY aware of sea otters.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:23 AM (77rzZ)

135 133 Plus....I just really like van Gogh!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 21, 2026 10:23 AM (k5CNB)

=======

Yeah, but how do you pronounce it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 10:23 AM (SvJcA)

136
If I could go ten years without ever hearing Eine Kleine Nachtmusik again, it would be too soon.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 21, 2026 10:20 AM (qRla/)

_________

Yes, but after 10 years you'd find it good. Whereas after 10 years you'd realize that Also Sprach Zarathustra shoots the bolt after the first two minutes.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 10:23 AM (cI7ht)

137 A possible misconception. Thousands of Iranians were on the streets in Canada at a rally with Pahlavi and they were joined by Poilievre. They were not on the streets in Iran.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 21, 2026 10:23 AM (UdrMW)

138 A Wheatfield, with Cypresses
Vincent van Gogh


***************

Questioning the Provenance - a limerick

The art critic felt like a victim
As if Vincent Van Gogh had tricked 'im
Whew! He sighed in relief
It's by Georgia O'Keefe
Taos: After the Peyote Had Kicked In

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at September 21, 2026 10:24 AM (I0N4X)

139
137 A possible misconception. Thousands of Iranians were on the streets in Canada at a rally with Pahlavi and they were joined by Poilievre. They were not on the streets in Iran.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 21, 2026 10:23 AM (UdrMW)

======

Well, reports are that the UAE has ground troops in Iran now. So, I wouldn't expect many protestors, at least near the Strait.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 10:24 AM (SvJcA)

140 So it's a trail mix thread?

Posted by: Just got here at September 21, 2026 10:24 AM (2Ez/1)

141 118 "es cap e"

Posted by: cmeat at September 21, 2026 10:24 AM (Bep7s)

142 Hope you're doing well, too.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

OK. My wife and I celebrated our 28th wedding anniversary on Saturday, and yesterday our son paid us a visit. So it was a good weekend.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:25 AM (77rzZ)

143 Nice pic. Seems balanced to my inartistic eye. Van Gogh's signature swirlies looks good for the clouds.

Bonuis Dies, y'all. Hard to get going this morning.🌞

Posted by: mindful webworker - alternately dimensioned at September 21, 2026 10:25 AM (MX7Zk)

144 124 needs a belt with hanging onion.

Posted by: cmeat at September 21, 2026 10:25 AM (Bep7s)

145 135 133 Plus....I just really like van Gogh!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 21, 2026 10:23 AM (k5CNB)

=======

Yeah, but how do you pronounce it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 10:23 AM (SvJcA)

Like the Goch in this...
https://youtu.be/fHxO0UdpoxM

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 10:26 AM (l3cgK)

146 after 10 years you'd realize that Also Sprach Zarathustra shoots the bolt after the first two minutes.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 10:23 AM (cI7ht)


Ugh, Richard Strauss. Just cannot got into him, even Rosenkavalier. I thought I might enjoy Salome, but that really turned me off.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 21, 2026 10:27 AM (qRla/)

147 I just had Rice Chex this morning.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 10:27 AM (ccf/V)

148 So, is it true that on Yom Kippur, you not only have to fast, but you're not even supposed to drink water?

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

149 “ Yeah, but how do you pronounce it?”

Like all things Dutch, with a lot of phlegm.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 21, 2026 10:28 AM (iA4/+)

150
OK. My wife and I celebrated our 28th wedding anniversary on Saturday, and yesterday our son paid us a visit. So it was a good weekend.
Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:25 AM (77rzZ)



Congrats!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 10:28 AM (ccf/V)

151 I believe up until he came along and started to paint, nobody had done anything remotely like van Gogh. His "style."

That, IMO is what made him "famous."

Not saying he was great artist (I think he was) but his style was new and has been copied by others. There are artists whose work is considered "good" but have had zero copycats.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 21, 2026 10:28 AM (2Cry5)

152 Beehoven is way better than Mozart in my opinion.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:28 AM (77rzZ)

153 152 Beehoven is way better than Mozart in my opinion.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:28 AM (77rzZ)

=======

It's pronouned Beeth-oven.

At least by the great ones.

And people need to really learn that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 10:29 AM (SvJcA)

154 painted with heavy metal"

*looks for Loc-Nar
Posted by: man at September 21, 2026 10:20 AM (cGjQu)



Speaking of heavy metal.......


William Shatner is in the studio recording his latest heavy metal album.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 10:30 AM (ccf/V)

155 The Immortal Guard are doing a good job of guerilla warfare on the IRGC and Basij. The regime is arming women and boys a young as 12 to augment their troops.

Those new and devastating weapons they have are probably detonating camels.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 21, 2026 10:30 AM (UdrMW)

156 Morning.

Very nice art. Very bright, very colorful. I kind of imagine this being used for a book cover.

Would hang/read.

Posted by: Robert at September 21, 2026 10:30 AM (dpXJq)

157 153 152 Beehoven is way better than Mozart in my opinion.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:28 AM (77rzZ)

=======

It's pronouned Beeth-oven.

At least by the great ones.

And people need to really learn that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 10:29 AM (SvJcA)

Noah of Arc? OH... ( Insert Ben Roethlisberger here )

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 10:31 AM (l3cgK)

158 Ugh, Richard Strauss. Just cannot got into him, even Rosenkavalier. I thought I might enjoy Salome, but that really turned me off.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)

Try his Four Last Songs. Sublime, especially the third song. I'm partial to the Kiri Te Kanawa recording.

Posted by: Tuna at September 21, 2026 10:31 AM (lJ0H4)

159 A Wheatfield, with Cypresses, 1889
Vincent van Gogh

The National Gallery, Overview
Van Gogh painted several versions of A Wheatfield, with Cypresses during the summer of 1889, while he was a patient in the psychiatric hospital of Saint-Paul de Mausole, in the village of St-Rémy in the south of France. A first version, which he described as a study, was painted on site in late June 1889. The National Gallery’s painting, which was completed in September while Van Gogh was confined to his hospital room, is the finished version. He also made a smaller copy of it for his mother and sister.

The landscape includes typically Provençal motifs such as a golden wheat field, tall evergreen cypresses, an olive bush and a backdrop of the blue Alpilles mountains. Van Gogh wrote of painting outdoors during the summer mistral, the strong, cold wind of southern France, which here seems to animate the entire landscape. Everything is depicted with powerful rhythmic lines and swirling brushstrokes that convey Van Gogh’s sense of nature’s vitality.
--
A painting featured years ago within the Van Gogh Exhibit: The Immersive Experience.

It's touring again 2026, US & Europe.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 21, 2026 10:31 AM (NFX2v)

160 Take the 4K virtual tour of the Van Gogh museum. It's about 15 minutes. I'd link it if I wasn't a retard. Easily googled.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 10:31 AM (KC5Lt)

161 154 painted with heavy metal"

*looks for Loc-Nar
Posted by: man at September 21, 2026 10:20 AM (cGjQu)


Speaking of heavy metal.......


William Shatner is in the studio recording his latest heavy metal album.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 10:30 AM (ccf/V)

In the original Klingon

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 10:31 AM (l3cgK)

162 Congratulations Bulg!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 21, 2026 10:32 AM (2WIwB)

163 Stephen Greene links to a guy talking about the new Greenland deal. Later, in that same author's post, he talk about the Administration's work on handling H-1Bs. Very much worth your time.

https://instapundit.com/824131/

Posted by: Robert at September 21, 2026 10:32 AM (dpXJq)

164 Beehoven is way better than Mozart in my opinion.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:28 AM (77rzZ)


Bach. Johann Sebastian. Accept no substitutes.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 21, 2026 10:32 AM (qRla/)

165 BTW, the five tv news units that make up the video portion of the press pool have decided they will not cover the President at the UN in protest of CNN et al.

Trump should excise the cancer and replace all five with new media of his choosing. They weren't barred, they quit.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 21, 2026 10:33 AM (r7+Q7)

166 Granddad grew the dryland wheat
Stood on his own two feet
'Til his mind got incomplete
and they put him in the home!


https://tinyurl.com/mzw6nrdc

James McMurtry

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at September 21, 2026 10:33 AM (I0N4X)

167 Otter Awareness Week so close after the talk of sardines.
Accident? Or by design?

Posted by: Diogenes at September 21, 2026 10:33 AM (2WIwB)

168 Thanks, Sponge and Diogenes.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:33 AM (77rzZ)

169 161 Speaking of heavy metal.......


William Shatner is in the studio recording his latest heavy metal album.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 10:30 AM (ccf/V)

========

Christopher Lee did it first. And better!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFbPiUEA62A

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 10:33 AM (SvJcA)

170 Plus....I just really like van Gogh!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 21, 2026 10:23 AM (k5CNB)

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Yeah, but how do you pronounce it?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 10:23 AM (SvJcA)

It'll always be Van Go to me.

("Guff"? Communist nonsense.)

Posted by: Robert at September 21, 2026 10:34 AM (dpXJq)

171 165 BTW, the five tv news units that make up the video portion of the press pool have decided they will not cover the President at the UN in protest of CNN et al.

Trump should excise the cancer and replace all five with new media of his choosing. They weren't barred, they quit.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 21, 2026 10:33 AM (r7+Q7)

If you told them there were holes left open by some assholes, they MSM would be crawling over each other to fill them...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 10:34 AM (l3cgK)

172 My Van Gogh painting . Cloudy Day instead of Starry Night. See nic.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 10:35 AM (KC5Lt)

173 157 153 152 Beehoven is way better than Mozart in my opinion.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:28 AM
++++

Did he ever get his face on a baseball card?
Well, did he?

Posted by: Lucy Van Pelt at September 21, 2026 10:35 AM (2Ez/1)

174 Bach. Johann Sebastian. Accept no substitutes.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

I can't stand Baroque music. Too mathy, not enough emotion. Same to some degree with Mozart. That's what I like about Beethoven -- he brings the emotion.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:35 AM (77rzZ)

175 >>BTW, the five tv news units that make up the video portion of the press pool have decided they will not cover the President at the UN in protest of CNN et al.


So silly.
Who issues their broadcast licenses?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 21, 2026 10:35 AM (rOKnE)

176 Speaking of heavy metal.......


William Shatner is in the studio recording his latest heavy metal album.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 10:30 AM (ccf/V)

========

Christopher Lee did it first. And better!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFbPiUEA62A
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 10:33 AM (SvJcA)

Ninja, please...

Posted by: Pat Boone at September 21, 2026 10:35 AM (dpXJq)

177 172 My Van Gogh painting . Cloudy Day instead of Starry Night. See nic.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 10:35 AM (KC5Lt)

Those solar flares are a lot scarier

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 10:36 AM (l3cgK)

178 G’mar chatima tova

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 21, 2026 10:36 AM (NFX2v)

179 154 ya, the f*ckers or something, they played here.
supersuckers this weekend.

Posted by: cmeat at September 21, 2026 10:38 AM (Bep7s)

180 Alternate title:

"Imagine a World Designed By God To Look Like Dairy Queen Soft Serve Swirly-Q Ice Cream"

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 10:38 AM (iJfKG)

181 Did he ever get his face on a baseball card?
Well, did he?
Posted by: Lucy Van Pelt

IIRC, it was "bubblegum card."

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:38 AM (77rzZ)

182 Vincent is a great Don McLean song.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 10:39 AM (KC5Lt)

183 Sad Mozart had such a short time to compose, and such a long time to decompose.

Posted by: Goodbury and Graves, Ltd... at September 21, 2026 10:39 AM (Fn+3X)

184 Vincent is a great Don McLean song.
Posted by: polynikes

Yes, it is. Much better than "American Pie."

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:40 AM (77rzZ)

185
SEA OTTER AWARENESS WEEK!


The best thing about Sea Otters is that they taste like chicken.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 10:40 AM (iJfKG)

186 I can't stand Baroque music. Too mathy, not enough emotion. Same to some degree with Mozart. That's what I like about Beethoven -- he brings the emotion.
Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:35 AM (77rzZ)


Oh, Beethoven is wonderful - my first record was the Eroica - but I adore Bach.

On another note (ha!), I mentioned Strauss' Salome above. If you can find the Marco Polo CD, Florent Schmitt's La Tragedie de Salome is well worth listening to. It's the 1907 score to a 7-scene ballet.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 21, 2026 10:41 AM (qRla/)

187 Seems to be a pleasant morning today for us. This lovely, peaceful painting. Earlier, while running an errand, we were going through a neighborhood that still has areas of trees, not just wall to wall houses. As we approached a momma deer and her fawn appeared and crossed the street followed by a yearling doe. The morning sun struck hints of gold in their coats. Not something we see around here very often. I stopped the car, blocking traffic, until they disappeared into trees on the other side. What a nice surprise.

Posted by: JTB at September 21, 2026 10:41 AM (yTvNw)

188
I thought I might enjoy Salome, but that really turned me off.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 21, 2026 10:27 AM (qRla/)

__________

The Salome Chord is great, though.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 10:42 AM (cI7ht)

189 "Sad Mozart had such a short time to compose,..."

He died so young. It's interesting to speculate how or if his style would have changed had he lived longer.

Posted by: Tuna at September 21, 2026 10:42 AM (lJ0H4)

190 189 "Sad Mozart had such a short time to compose,..."

He died so young. It's interesting to speculate how or if his style would have changed had he lived longer.

Posted by: Tuna at September 21, 2026 10:42 AM (lJ0H4)

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Just think of how much earlier we could have had disco...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 10:42 AM (SvJcA)

191 Is it possible that Van Gogh was the ultimate inspiration for the old 'Saturday Nite Live' SWIRLIES!? … Just askin' …

Posted by: Dr_No at September 21, 2026 10:43 AM (ayRl+)

192
The best thing about Sea Otters is that they taste like chicken.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 10:40 AM (iJfKG)




You asked for it..........


https://youtu.be/xF77OXhCkfk

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 10:44 AM (ccf/V)

193 Just think of how much earlier we could have had disco...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films

LOL

Posted by: Tuna at September 21, 2026 10:44 AM (lJ0H4)

194 Trippy

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 10:45 AM (viF8m)

195 166 that dude is my hero, sometimes.

Posted by: cmeat at September 21, 2026 10:45 AM (Bep7s)

196 Wasn't he the fella who cut his junk or his ear off over some love spat with a hooker and $20?

That would have made a better painting.

Posted by: Zombie Tom Kinkade, Boozer at September 21, 2026 10:46 AM (6VpiA)

197
after 10 years you'd realize that Also Sprach Zarathustra shoots the bolt after the first two minutes.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 10:23 AM (cI7ht)


"Also Sprach Zarathustra" is the polar opposite of the "1812 Overture" which meanders about aimlessly until it finally blows its load in the last couple of minutes.

Premature Composing is for chumps. Learn trigger control!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 10:46 AM (iJfKG)

198 Since it's the Big Day, might I suggest watching The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973). Contains a bubblegum scene.

Posted by: Classic French Cinema at September 21, 2026 10:46 AM (Fn+3X)

199 197
after 10 years you'd realize that Also Sprach Zarathustra shoots the bolt after the first two minutes.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 10:23 AM (cI7ht)

"Also Sprach Zarathustra" is the polar opposite of the "1812 Overture" which meanders about aimlessly until it finally blows its load in the last couple of minutes.

Premature Composing is for chumps. Learn trigger control!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 10:46 AM (iJfKG)

I think there are meds for that...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 10:47 AM (l3cgK)

200 Philadelphia Museum of Art is currently hosting Van Gogh's Sunflowers: A Symphony in Blue and Yellow, a rare special exhibition running through October 11, 2026.

The nearby Barnes Foundation houses a permanent collection of seven Vincent van Gogh paintings interspersed throughout his famous idiosyncratic wall ensembles,

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 21, 2026 10:47 AM (NFX2v)

201 One of my favorite Van Goghs is a little out of the ordinary for him--its titled "Terrace and Observation Deck at the Moulin de Blute-Fin, Montmartre".

Posted by: Crusader at September 21, 2026 10:48 AM (TN0g+)

202
The best thing about Sea Otters is that they taste like chicken.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 10:40 AM (iJfKG)

You asked for it..........

https://youtu.be/xF77OXhCkfk
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 10:44 AM (ccf/V)



Holy Cow! where do you get this stuff?!?!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 10:49 AM (iJfKG)

203 188 :salome was a dancer, she did the hoochy cooch"

Posted by: cmeat at September 21, 2026 10:50 AM (Bep7s)

204
Holy Cow! where do you get this stuff?!?!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 10:49 AM (iJfKG)



They had a couple songs that got airtime back in the 90's.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 10:50 AM (ccf/V)

205 Ny granddad actually did grow the dryland wheat north of Greeley, CO.

Also wore the bib overalls.

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at September 21, 2026 10:51 AM (I0N4X)

206 Vincent van Gogh actually painted two distinct self-portraits showing his bandaged ear in January 1889, just a couple of weeks after the infamous incident in Arles.

Because he painted his reflection in a mirror, both artworks show the bandage over his right ear, even though it was his left ear that he had actually injured.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 21, 2026 10:51 AM (NFX2v)

207 Hey Sponge!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 21, 2026 10:51 AM (GlLw/)

208 Do sea otters taste like chicken or does chicken taste like sea otter?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 10:52 AM (viF8m)

209 Hey Sponge!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 21, 2026 10:51 AM (GlLw/)



*hugs*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 10:52 AM (ccf/V)

210 I think there are meds for that...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) a

There's this ad on WMAL for some ED clinic in the DC area. They say, "You'll see results right in the office!"

How does that work, exactly? Do they give you a playboy and send you to a bunk? Do the scantily-clad, buxom nurses give you handsies?

Not sure I want to know how they see the results right in the office.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:52 AM (77rzZ)

211 Do sea otters taste like chicken or does chicken taste like sea otter?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 10:52 AM (viF8m)



Which ate first? The chicken or the otter?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 10:52 AM (ccf/V)

212 >>>salome was a dancer, she did the hoochy cooch

Is that anything like an itchy cooch? If so, I have questions.

Posted by: Brooke Baldwin at September 21, 2026 10:52 AM (J4Dwc)

213 One of my favorite Van Goghs is a little out of the ordinary for him--its titled "Terrace and Observation Deck at the Moulin de Blute-Fin, Montmartre".
Posted by: Crusader at September 21, 2026 10:48 AM (TN0g+)

I'm still of the opinion that's not a Van Gogh painting.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 10:53 AM (KC5Lt)

214 Hey, SMH. I hope you are well.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:53 AM (77rzZ)

215 The msm thinks not covering Trump is punishing him?

😆

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 21, 2026 10:54 AM (iA4/+)

216 >>Which ate first? The chicken or the otter?

I know, right?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 10:54 AM (viF8m)

217 "results right in the office" - so, teenager "watching linoleum peel" level of reaction, they're saying?

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 21, 2026 10:54 AM (aJQbY)

218 201 One of my favorite Van Goghs is a little out of the ordinary for him--its titled "Terrace and Observation Deck at the Moulin de Blute-Fin, Montmartre".
Posted by: Crusader

Yes, it was featured on this thread in the past, and was quite different, very nice.

(Awhile before he cut himself and was hospitalized.)

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 21, 2026 10:54 AM (NFX2v)

219 would hang(ed, as someone here taught me).
Posted by: peyton farquhar at September 21, 2026 10:12 AM


*wanders back in*

ISWYDT.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 21, 2026 10:54 AM (bFu5X)

220 Christopher Lee seemed to be an awesome dude.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 10:55 AM (d7mRD)

221 Holy Cow! where do you get this stuff?!?!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 10:49 AM (iJfKG)


They had a couple songs that got airtime back in the 90's.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 10:50 AM (ccf/V)


I'd have thought the 80's.

They sound like a mash-up of Devo and Wall of Voodoo.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 10:55 AM (iJfKG)

222 How many stamps to mail an ear?

Posted by: Gone Postal at September 21, 2026 10:55 AM (Fn+3X)

223 212 >>>salome was a dancer, she did the hoochy cooch

Is that anything like an itchy cooch? If so, I have questions.

Posted by: Brooke Baldwin at September 21, 2026 10:52 AM (J4Dwc)

Mike who cheese itchy?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 10:55 AM (l3cgK)

224 Christopher Lee seemed to be an awesome dude.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 10:55 AM (d7mRD)


Cliff Clavin trivia. He portrayed Dracula more than any other actor.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 10:56 AM (KC5Lt)

225
220 Christopher Lee seemed to be an awesome dude.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 10:55 AM (d7mRD)

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British intelligence during WWII.

Actually met JRR Tolkien randomly at the Eagle and Child pub in Oxford one day.

Almost killed James Bond.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 10:56 AM (SvJcA)

226 224
Cliff Clavin trivia. He portrayed Dracula more than any other actor.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 10:56 AM (KC5Lt)

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And hated almost every second of it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 10:56 AM (SvJcA)

227 One of my favorite Van Goghs is a little out of the ordinary for him--its titled "Terrace and Observation Deck at the Moulin de Blute-Fin, Montmartre".
Posted by: Crusader at September 21, 2026 10:48 AM (TN0g+)

I'm still of the opinion that's not a Van Gogh painting.
-----

Tell me more?

Posted by: Crusader at September 21, 2026 10:58 AM (TN0g+)

228 147 I just had Rice Chex this morning.

we'll alert the media

Posted by: anachronda at September 21, 2026 10:58 AM (v3pYe)

229 Almost killed James Bond.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

The ornithologist?

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:59 AM (77rzZ)

230 Cypresses require water more that wheat does.

Posted by: Eromero at September 21, 2026 10:59 AM (LHPAg)

231 I just had Rice Chex this morning.

we'll alert the media
Posted by: anachronda


They'll just blame Trump...

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:59 AM (77rzZ)

232
British intelligence during WWII.

Actually met JRR Tolkien randomly at the Eagle and Child pub in Oxford one day.

Almost killed James Bond.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 10:56 AM (SvJcA)


Due to that meeting JRR Tolkien was inspired to write his own spy novel-

featuring Tom Bombadil, "You Only Prance Twice".

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 11:00 AM (iJfKG)

233 Almost killed James Bond.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

The ornithologist?
Posted by: Bulg

It would have been a cardinal sin.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 11:01 AM (d7mRD)

234 How many stamps to mail an ear?

**********

What sized envelobe?

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at September 21, 2026 11:01 AM (I0N4X)

235
we'll alert the media

Posted by: anachronda at September 21, 2026 10:58 AM (v3pYe)



I was just responding to a topic of conversation.

Sorry someone pissed in your Chex......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 11:01 AM (ccf/V)

236 Vincent Van Gopher

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 21, 2026 11:01 AM (Cqx++)

237 Hey, SMH. I hope you are well.
Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:53 AM (77rzZ)
__

I am doing well, thank you!

Hope you are too.

Spent the weekend with a friend from my church in Illinois.

I don't miss Illinois, but I do miss my church there.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 21, 2026 11:01 AM (GlLw/)

238 They sound like a mash-up of Devo and Wall of Voodoo.

I saw Wall of Devoodoo open for the B-52s at TT the Bear's in '87.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 21, 2026 11:02 AM (qRla/)

239 Has anyone asked those cypresseses whether or not they identify as wheat before we went and made that title? They could also be turnips.

Posted by: HR Department at September 21, 2026 11:02 AM (7Q0e+)

240 I am doing well, thank you!

Hope you are too.

Spent the weekend with a friend from my church in Illinois.

I don't miss Illinois, but I do miss my church there.
Posted by: SMH

That's nice.

My wife and I celebrated our 28th wedding anniversary on Saturday.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 11:03 AM (77rzZ)

241 235 I was just responding to a topic of conversation.

Sorry someone pissed in your Chex......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 11:01 AM (ccf/V)

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Everything in the comments section must be of great historical import, Sponge.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:03 AM (SvJcA)

242 He portrayed Dracula more than any other actor.
Posted by: polynikes
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And hated almost every second of it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


*********

He really sucked at it.

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at September 21, 2026 11:03 AM (I0N4X)

243 Tell me more?
Posted by: Crusader at September 21, 2026 10:58 AM (TN0g+)


It was decades before they finally authenticated it as a Van Gogh though other experts still disagreed. For me, the one thing Van Gogh did expertly was proportion. This painting is proportionally off to me. Also his background figures were never as amateurish as the one in this painting. Lastly he never used a palette knife to scratch in straight lines , etc. maybe this was a one off for him as he experimented.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 11:03 AM (KC5Lt)

244 Ah...Bach!

Posted by: Radar O'Reilly at September 21, 2026 11:04 AM (2Ez/1)

245
242 He portrayed Dracula more than any other actor.
Posted by: polynikes
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And hated almost every second of it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

*********

He really sucked at it.

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at September 21, 2026 11:03 AM (I0N4X)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:04 AM (SvJcA)

246 Nood H1-B

Posted by: Tuna at September 21, 2026 11:04 AM (lJ0H4)

247 Leastwise, it's not Ruler Art.

Posted by: Circle Jerk at September 21, 2026 11:06 AM (Fn+3X)

248 My wife and I celebrated our 28th wedding anniversary on Saturday.
Posted by: Bulg


**********

Congratulations!
So you married when you were one year old?

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at September 21, 2026 11:07 AM (I0N4X)

249 Tell me more?
Posted by: Crusader at September 21, 2026 10:58 AM (TN0g+)


It was decades before they finally authenticated it as a Van Gogh though other experts still disagreed. For me, the one thing Van Gogh did expertly was proportion. This painting is proportionally off to me. Also his background figures were never as amateurish as the one in this painting. Lastly he never used a palette knife to scratch in straight lines , etc. maybe this was a one off for him as he experimented.
Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 11:03 AM (KC5Lt)

Thank you--now I'm going to have to do some reading on this subject!

Posted by: Crusader at September 21, 2026 11:07 AM (TN0g+)

250 My wife and I celebrated our 28th wedding anniversary on Saturday.
Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 11:03 AM (77rzZ)
___

Awww...Congratulations to the both of you!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 21, 2026 11:07 AM (GlLw/)

251 My wife and I celebrated our 28th wedding anniversary on Saturday.
Posted by: Bulg


Congratulations!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 11:08 AM (hGTKn)

252 Ah...Bach!
Posted by: Radar O'Reilly
-----

*golf clap*

Posted by: Crusader at September 21, 2026 11:10 AM (TN0g+)

253 This is an oil painting, but it looks like a watercolor to me.

Congratulations, Bulg, and to your wife. May you continue to deserve one another.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 21, 2026 11:11 AM (dLfW+)

254 I have a close elder friend, he's 91 now, I think. Started painting in his late 60's. He does a lot of Van Gogh imitative things. I think of him as the grandma Moses of Madison county NC. Worth a peek:

https://www.paintingsbycalvinedneyjr.com/

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 21, 2026 11:12 AM (XeU6L)

255
Everything in the comments section must be of great historical import, Sponge.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:03 AM (SvJcA)



How dare I.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 11:14 AM (ccf/V)

256 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 21, 2026 11:12 AM (XeU6L)


I think you linked this in the past because I remember commenting on how much I liked it.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 11:15 AM (KC5Lt)

257 I like to look in complex paintings to see if I can see things. I see a pretty woman in the sky, and a woman lying on her side with hair down her back in Starry Night. The sky woman has a reflection next to her of a witch/crone.

In this one, I see a pretty girl's face, and some skulls. I'd like to have a very good large sized print of it to study more.

It makes sense to me that Van Gogh would put his troubles into beautiful paintings. Both this one and the other have the blade thrusting into the air.

The man really needed more sex.

Posted by: meh at September 21, 2026 01:32 PM (zZxsY)

The Morning Report — 9/ 21 /26

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Good morning kids.

First of all I want to wish all our Jewish friends a blessed Yom Kippur and may you all be inscribed in the book of Life for a year of health, happiness and prosperity and I extend these wishes to all of you. Instead of wishing damnation to our enemies I think it appropriate that the Lord open the eyes and minds to those who are working to sow the seeds of our destruction, so that their souls can be redeemed.

With that taken care of let's get down to cases, shall we? For today, Grease is the word, a large reeking turd that answers to Newsom. For quite some time it was likely that he was going to seek the Democrat party nomination for the top of the ticket in 2028. For me this all but seals the deal. Nothing appeals to an evil party of tyranny, dissolution and death quite like fomenting insurrection!


California previously got away with blocking cooperation with federal law enforcement on immigration, including by threatening local law enforcement with penalties for cooperating with federal law enforcement. This secessionist stuff is now being boosted by also blocking cooperation with federal election oversight. Passing state laws to block federal investigations is creeping rather close to a Fort Sumter moment, but Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Dem supermajority decided to bypass creeping towards Fort Sumter and went right to racing towards it because this fourth bill takes the treason cake. This new law gives the Governor — as commander in chief of California’s militia — a defined role in determining when out-of-state military forces may enter California for state missions.

The new law prohibits military personnel from another state, territory, or the District of Columbia from entering California to perform military duty or law-enforcement functions without the permission of the Governor. The bill preserves an exception for forces lawfully called into active federal service under Title 10 and acting under the authority of the President or Secretary of Defense. Passing laws like this seems utterly senseless unless a state is preparing to resist federal authority using military force.

Two Quick questions for this greasy bastard, first how many U.S. army, navy, air force and marine corps bases are on California soil that are manned and ready to roll. And how many soldiers, sailors and airmen comprise the California armed forces?

Time to nationalize/federalize all California polling places and call out the Army to guard them while preventing any and all wetbacks from casting a ballot. ICE should be sent in force to California.

Then again, We have to deal with this madness in what is the anti-California. Then again Austin is essentially a bedroom community of Pacific Heights and Oakland...

Protests broke out in the Texas Capital City on Sunday after an ICE officer reportedly shot a fleeing illegal alien. According to the Austin police chief, City Councilman Mike Siefel made false allegations about the circumstances, saying the ICE officer fired five times through the car’s windshield. Facts surrounding the shooting remain under investigation.

Of course the Democrats have done all they can over the years to try and flip the Lone Star State, mostly failing miserably, Austin notwithstanding. But this time around they are pinning their hopes on this James Talarico fiend to help them steal a seat in the Senate.


Down in the backwater leftist stronghold of Austin, Texas, Talarico is selling progressive politics with a halo. He has shamelessly transformed Jesus into a mouthpiece for leftist progressivism. But that same feeling that we used to get when we watched the PTL Club pervades his aura. I have to hand it to American Protestantism; despite its amazing versatility, it can still make you feel dirty, cheap, and used.

And while we're on the subject of stealing elections.

The Justice Department has charged 16 people across several states with alleged illegal voting, voter registration violations and other election-related crimes, including cases involving noncitizens accused of casting ballots in federal elections.
Eight noncitizens residing in Texas were charged, while other defendants face cases in Idaho, Georgia, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Jersey and Michigan.
“Let this be a warning to ANYONE trying to cheat and undermine our elections,” DOJ wrote on social media. “Spread the word!”
The allegations include noncitizens voting in federal elections, falsely claiming U.S. citizenship to register or vote and making false statements related to naturalization. Investigators also uncovered alleged passport and identification fraud, wire fraud and firearm offenses.

The illegal alien invader iced by ICE no doubt like tens of thousands of others of his ilk have and will vote in our elections. It's why Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants Biden thoroughly erased our borders during his illegitimate tenure in the Oval Office which saw upwards of 11 million illegal aliens flood into our country on top of the at least 35-40 million illegals already here for decades.

God bless ICE and everyone who is protecting us from this premeditated invasion.
With that, as the bromides used to say in Brooklyn, let me axe you this, does Newsom actually have a shot?

Gavin Newsom’s polished media appearances reveal a carefully managed strategy to ignore both his actual record and schisms among Democrats. . . No matter how destroyed or decrepit the state of California has become, Newsom is a legend in his own mind, and the phenomenally fawning media will always glow up the Democrat candidate, regardless of how incompetent that candidate’s record of governance is. No matter how destroyed or decrepit the state of California has become, Newsom is a legend in his own mind, and the phenomenally fawning media will always glow up the Democrat candidate, regardless of how incompetent that candidate’s record of governance is. . . In the words of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Gavin Newsom is a plastic Ken version of Patrick Bateman from American Psycho. He can lie with impunity without breaking a sweat, fidgeting his hands, blinking, or turning away from the camera. This kind of psychopathology can play very well with the progressive voter base as he competes for the 2028 Democrat nomination.

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1 Hi, everyone!

Posted by: NR Pax at September 21, 2026 07:33 AM (svLOV)

2 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 21, 2026 07:34 AM (u82oZ)

3 Happy Monday

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 21, 2026 07:34 AM (/+uur)

4 NR Pax

Good reflexes.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 21, 2026 07:34 AM (u82oZ)

5 Thanks, NaCly Dog! Once in a while, things align perfectly.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 21, 2026 07:36 AM (svLOV)

6 "Gov. Gavin Newsom Bans U.S. Soldiers From Entering California"


Trump should pull out every single US military person from the state of californa and see how newsome likes that.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 21, 2026 07:37 AM (I43vL)

7 Mister Scott

Nay. Arrest him. Use a battalion of Marines, to get the point across. Put him in cells adjacent to the ex-President of Venezuela.

then arrest the framer of the bill, and all those that voted for that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 21, 2026 07:39 AM (u82oZ)

8 Trump should pull out every single US military person from the state of californa and see how newsome likes that.
Posted by: Mister Scott


His supporters are convinced that CA will do just fine without the feds. They constantly brag about how the state has the largest GDP in the country.

Mind you, if I was stationed at 29 Palms, I'd jump at the order to get out. -:-)

Posted by: NR Pax at September 21, 2026 07:40 AM (svLOV)

9 Didja see this?

Leader of DSA Chapter Resigns, Says “Frightening” and “Extreme” Radicals Running the Show

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 07:42 AM (ndZc7)

10 Where will you homeport the ships?

Posted by: I gotta ask at September 21, 2026 07:43 AM (2Ez/1)

11 Stunning 2,000-year-old Roman mosaic unearthed in Turkey appears to honor family’s beloved cat and dog

And then a mosaic was found that looked like a woman yelling at a cat stared at her in confusion.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 21, 2026 07:43 AM (svLOV)

12 Leader of DSA Chapter Resigns, Says “Frightening” and “Extreme” Radicals Running the Show

Something, something, leopards eating faces, something.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 21, 2026 07:43 AM (svLOV)

13 “When you’re on the Supreme Court, you’re thinking about what the law should be,” Sotomayor reportedly said. “If you’re reading our opinions, many of my colleagues are not worried about what the law was. What they’re thinking about is what the law should be.”

So the SCOTUS can remake written laws?

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 21, 2026 07:44 AM (/+uur)

14 9 Didja see this?

Leader of DSA Chapter Resigns, Says “Frightening” and “Extreme” Radicals Running the Show

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 07:42 AM

And yet there's no link.

Posted by: Person who would appreciate a link at September 21, 2026 07:44 AM (2Ez/1)

15 11 Stunning 2,000-year-old Roman mosaic unearthed in Turkey appears to honor family’s beloved cat and dog

And then a mosaic was found that looked like a woman yelling at a cat stared at her in confusion.
Posted by: NR Pax at September 21, 2026 07:43 AM (svLOV)

Or it could be where to place the food items on the buffet line.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 21, 2026 07:45 AM (/+uur)

16 @6

>>"Gov. Gavin Newsom Bans U.S. Soldiers From Entering California"

Uhmm, aren't there military bases in California?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 21, 2026 07:45 AM (XV/Pl)

17 r hennigantx

A bho sock would be on point for that comment.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 21, 2026 07:46 AM (u82oZ)

18 Uhmm, aren't there military bases in California?
Posted by: Thomas Bender


The developers would swoop in a fraction of a second after the military got kicked out.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 21, 2026 07:47 AM (svLOV)

19 NR Pax

Yes. The US Military alone preserves the natural and native landscape in CA. Greenpeace and the Sierra Club should award the US military for being green.

Developers, not at all.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 21, 2026 07:50 AM (u82oZ)

20 19: And San Diego has tried for years to buy out MCRD and put housing and shops in its place.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 21, 2026 07:51 AM (svLOV)

21 Altman resigned because he says the Socialists seem to hate America.

Nice work, big guy. You cracked the code.

LOL.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 21, 2026 07:53 AM (BI5O2)

22 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 07:54 AM (hGTKn)

23 The Second-Worst-Case Scenario For AI

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Didja see this? AI tries to spell "seventeen".

https://tinyurl.com/bdes49c2

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 07:54 AM (ndZc7)

24 Good morning again Horde. Thx JJ. A happy Monday to all, hope the weekend was good.
Liano Sharon in Michigan a supporter of al-Sayed is going to be surprised when he's suddenly denounced by the crazies for being Jewish. SMH

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2026 07:56 AM (oUMhY)

25 As I mentioned last night, I believe I saw the nadir of AI, I saw a video of George Saint Pierre fighting increasingly bigger dinosaurs, ending with him submitting a baby TRex with a bare naked choke hold.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 21, 2026 07:58 AM (XV/Pl)

26 So who did he submit the baby TRex to?

Posted by: Umm... at September 21, 2026 07:59 AM (2Ez/1)

27 @26

>>So who did he submit the baby TRex to?

The ref stopped the fight as the TRex went lights out.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 21, 2026 08:00 AM (XV/Pl)

28 City Councilwoman Nithya Raman threatens to pull off a Mamdani-style upset in the mayoral race.
Karen Bass in Trouble as Left-Wing Challenger Surges in Los Angeles Mayor’s Race

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What immediately entered my brain was...what does it matter? So Karen Bass may be tossed out. Her replacement will be just as calamitous or worse. LA is a cesspit and whoever is steering it right into a wall won't make much difference. Like Chicago and many other cities, it's just an endless conga line of disastrous leftists that will continue to be elected.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 21, 2026 08:01 AM (qBdHI)

29 Stunning 2,000-year-old Roman mosaic unearthed in Turkey appears to honor family’s beloved cat and dog

And then a mosaic was found that looked like a woman yelling at a cat stared at her in confusion.
Posted by: NR Pax


Smudge got around.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 08:02 AM (hGTKn)

30 When Children Suffer For Their Parents’ Ideology

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This psychiatrist is looking out for us.

Psychotherapist Tells Newsweek How to Protect Boys From the 'Manosphere'

Ken Paris
@TunaSafeDolphin
How is “Manosphere” being defined?
If a man makes content directed to other men telling them to avoid terrible state contracts, how to thrive living free, & how to effectively interact with women… is that in the “Manosphere” or not?
And what’s wrong with that?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 08:02 AM (ndZc7)

31 Passing state laws to block federal investigations is creeping rather close to a Fort Sumter moment

Really feels like I'm living through history with blue states nullifying federal law. We should start referring to them as slave states, just to complete the association with their historical confederates.. (SWIDT?)

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 21, 2026 08:02 AM (nbLIj)

32 "Gov. Gavin Newsom Bans U.S. Soldiers From Entering California"


Trump should pull out every single US military person from the state of californa and see how newsome likes that.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 21, 2026 07:37 AM (I43vL)

7 Mister Scott

Nay. Arrest him. Use a battalion of Marines, to get the point across. Put him in cells adjacent to the ex-President of Venezuela.

then arrest the framer of the bill, and all those that voted for that.
Posted by: NaCly Dog


Revoke statehood. Revert California to territorial status. Minimum 10 years.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 08:03 AM (hGTKn)

33 I Read Two Words About Unborn Babies That Stopped Me Cold

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Behind a pay wall. Does anyone know what the two words are?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 08:05 AM (ndZc7)

34 Smudge got around.
Posted by: rickb223


And he was just as unimpressed with the woman yelling at him then as he is now.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 21, 2026 08:06 AM (svLOV)

35 So I guess CNN & Co begin dropping lawsuits on the Preznit today for throwing them out in the street outside the White House.

The White House is the executive mansion. It's where the President lives. And the President has very wide leeway on who he lets in and who he doesn't let in. There is no constitutional right to enter the White House.

But I bet there's a court somewhere that will find one, what with all the penumbras and emanations floating around inside the Constitution.

Just thinking out loud. Have a nice day.

Posted by: Don Black at September 21, 2026 08:06 AM (ZxPkt)

36 I see they have coming to a theater near you a Linday Clancy movie.

It is called the Other Mommy.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 08:07 AM (2GVsD)

37 Revoke statehood. Revert California to territorial status. Minimum 10 years.

What is the process to do that?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 21, 2026 08:07 AM (3Ope8)

38 Behind a pay wall. Does anyone know what the two words are?

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Yeah, I encountered that too. I'd like to know the gist of the article if anyone has the keys to the paywall, vs. the lesser of us peons.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 21, 2026 08:08 AM (qBdHI)

39 Mornin’, All. Happy Monday.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 08:10 AM (77rzZ)

40 Beat the left to the punch. Arrest and hang Newsom and his wife in Sacramento. Declare the state to be in insurrection and dissolve the local government. Shoot anyone who interferes.

It would set the left's agenda back by decades simply because of the shock.

A few of them now, or all of us later. Choose one.

*my arthritis is acting up and I'm in a pissy mood*

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 21, 2026 08:10 AM (2Cry5)

41 Morning, Horde! Ugh, I gotta get better at getting up early, not just waking up early.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 21, 2026 08:11 AM (aJQbY)

42
38 Revoke statehood. Revert California to territorial status. Minimum 10 years.

What is the process to do that?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 21, 2026 08:07 AM (3Ope

Historically, one must first send in the US Army and burn down the state capitol, then you can revoke statehood and set up a reconstruction administration.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 21, 2026 08:11 AM (sTKQb)

43 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 08:12 AM (ccf/V)

44 Happy Monday.

I think.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 08:12 AM (ccf/V)

45 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at September 21, 2026 08:12 AM (53oGX)

46 Gruesome Newsome is just the creepy face of California Communism. Also, perp walk the state AG and his wife for their Stop Nick Shirley Act.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 08:12 AM (2GVsD)

47 {{{Lady in Black}}}

A paywall is one way to get your point ignored.

If you are compensated for clicks, it might make sense. But not if the ads are not displayed.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 21, 2026 08:13 AM (u82oZ)

48 Japan, nuked too much?

https://youtu.be/UIdzBWRGY-g

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 08:13 AM (2GVsD)

49 46 Gruesome Newsome is just the creepy face of California Communism. Also, perp walk the state AG and his wife for their Stop Nick Shirley Act.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 08:12 AM (2GVsD)

Morn' all... CA is gonna get an even worse Gov than greaseball....Lucky us...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 08:14 AM (+gK6I)

50 I read this morning that the Clancy dude gave his murderous ex-wife cover by saying her mental status had severely declined over the months leading to her murdering their children.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 08:14 AM (ccf/V)

51 Didja see this?

Leader of DSA Chapter Resigns, Says “Frightening” and “Extreme” Radicals Running the Show

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 07:42 AM

And yet there's no link.
Posted by: Person who would appreciate a link

https://tinyurl.com/65knkk9x

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 08:14 AM (ndZc7)

52 So the SCOTUS can remake written laws?

Isn't that the foundation of Democracy™ when unelected officials with lifelong tenure and no oversight or review can dictate the terms of your existence?

Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 08:14 AM (pawvM)

53 The Constitution requires the states to maintain a republican form of government. Given the frauds and the one party status , I don't think Cali is doing that. Destatify.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2026 08:14 AM (oUMhY)

54 "When Children Suffer For Their Parents’ Ideology"

Like this?

"The writer behind the New York Times’ controversial 1619 Project deliberately sent her daughter to poor Big Apple schools as a “sacrifice” to try to boost the education system — and no one is angrier than the kid.

The teen is now “boiling” mad — badly behind her peers after finally being allowed to enroll in a more rigorous high school, her mother revealed in a bombshell bizarre essay.

Nikole Hannah-Jones, 50, enrolled her only child in two struggling Brooklyn public schools beginning in 2015 — as part of a battle to change what she characterized as systemic racism"

Posted by: Mrs Slocumbe at September 21, 2026 08:15 AM (MWfyi)

55 Put a moose on I-80, 15, 40, 10, and 8. State's closed. It's retarded.

Posted by: A Monkey's Uncle Fulfilling His Avuncular Duties at September 21, 2026 08:15 AM (k7GNr)

56 50 I read this morning that the Clancy dude gave his murderous ex-wife cover by saying her mental status had severely declined over the months leading to her murdering their children.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 08:14 AM (ccf/V)

Of course he did.... So I blame him for leaving the kids alone with her...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 08:15 AM (+gK6I)

57 Anna Puma

Detroit and LA both prove that Democrat governance is more destructive than 10 KT of nuclear weapons creating instant sunshine.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 21, 2026 08:15 AM (u82oZ)

58 Seems like it'd be easiest to just suspend all federal disbursements to California until a forensic audit could be completed. Start with Cali and let that expand as required.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 21, 2026 08:16 AM (3Ope8)

59 Morning, Horde! Ugh, I gotta get better at getting up early, not just waking up early.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 21, 2026 08:11 AM (aJQbY)



A practice I have yet to master.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 08:16 AM (ccf/V)

60 Down in the backwater leftist stronghold of Austin, Texas, Talarico is selling progressive politics with a halo. He has shamelessly transformed Jesus into a mouthpiece for leftist progressivism. But that same feeling that we used to get when we watched the PTL Club pervades his aura. I have to hand it to American Protestantism; despite its amazing versatility, it can still make you feel dirty, cheap, and used.


It's a little uncharitable to single out Protestantism. Yes, the self-interpreting nature of Protestantism leads to all sorts of heterodox conclusions. And yes, the inability of Protestant world, which denies the authority of the church to bind individuals morally to fundamental teachings means any and every Protestant can walk about declaring they are a "Christian" no matter what nonsense they spew.

But the Roman Catholic "Pope" does a fine job of promoting leftist ideology as well, even though it is highly structured and claims the Apostolic authority to loose and bind.




Posted by: Interesting at September 21, 2026 08:16 AM (pMRvb)

61 The Kennedy Center is the "church" of Corrupt Dems in DC and environs. If they love it so much, why did they let it run down and degrade to it's current state?

Posted by: Just Axin A Question at September 21, 2026 08:16 AM (Fn+3X)

62 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 08:17 AM (ExV1e)

63 Morning, Horde! Ugh, I gotta get better at getting up early, not just waking up early.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 21, 2026 08:11 AM (aJQbY)

Hydration, first thing. I keep a glass of water by my bed and drain it before I roll out. Eases the system awake...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 21, 2026 08:17 AM (nbLIj)

64 Just Axin A Question

The answer in all cases is Corrupt Dems steal the money meant for maintenance.
Dems are the other Inshallah Americans.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 21, 2026 08:18 AM (u82oZ)

65 Yeah, I encountered that too. I'd like to know the gist of the article if anyone has the keys to the paywall, vs. the lesser of us peons.

Its a tease click-bait to trick you into clicking into a sales pitch for a time share.

Seriously, the language of the click-bait means nothing of consequence is behind the paywall.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 08:19 AM (9s47C)

66 I read this morning that the Clancy dude gave his murderous ex-wife cover by saying her mental status had severely declined over the months leading to her murdering their children.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

He also forgave her. How can you forgive someone who viciously murdered your children. I must be a bad person because I know I couldn't do it.

Posted by: Tuna at September 21, 2026 08:19 AM (lJ0H4)

67
He also forgave her. How can you forgive someone who viciously murdered your children. I must be a bad person because I know I couldn't do it.
Posted by: Tuna at September 21, 2026 08:19 AM (lJ0H4)



And she never asked for his forgiveness.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 08:19 AM (ccf/V)

68 But for Hannah-Jones to acknowledge this, she would have to adjust her staunch opposition to school choice.

Yeah...that's not going to happen. Her religion won't permit it.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 21, 2026 08:19 AM (svLOV)

69 It's a little uncharitable to single out Protestantism.

Especially when you are living quite well in a country founded on Protestantism.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 08:20 AM (9s47C)

70 I am not going to make any comments on Patrick Clancy.

His three children murdered. His ex-wife is either Joseph Mengele with boobs or crazy. The media refuses to let the story go. And there are crazy women out there yelling he did it.

Guy is living in Hell.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 08:21 AM (2GVsD)

71 Each year, teachers’ unions collect more than $700 million in dues, all paid by taxpayers

Defending Education found that national teachers’ unions “have directed roughly $669 million toward left-wing political groups, advocacy organizations and campaigns since 2015,” a number that tops $1 billion when you count state and local affiliates.

I hope the millstone promise also applies to teachers that do not TEACH.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 21, 2026 08:22 AM (/+uur)

72 What could possibly go wrong?

FAA to Roll Out AI-powered Air Traffic Control System, Beginning in DC

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 08:22 AM (ndZc7)

73 The move could add strain to the U.S.-South Korean alliance as Seoul seeks to balance Washington’s demands with concerns about escalation, Iranian retaliation, and domestic opposition to deploying troops overseas.

I wonder how that domestic opposition feels about all the US troops there, defending their northern border.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 08:22 AM (ExV1e)

74 Some islhamic streamer calling himself 'sneako' is threatening to sue anyone making fun of him or using AI to make videos of him online. He's even hired an islhamic lawyer who says such videos will lead to violence against him and threaten violence between religions in America.


Seems they think this dude has worldly influence.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 08:22 AM (ccf/V)

75 Anonosaurus Wrecks,

How many Congressional staffers can we lose before we call it good?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 21, 2026 08:23 AM (u82oZ)

76 Happy Monday, all!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 21, 2026 08:23 AM (rOKnE)

77 Leader of DSA Chapter Resigns, Says “Frightening” and “Extreme” Radicals Running the Show

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 07:42 AM


A little internet digging reveals Jake Altman left the DSA in 2022.

Which was like, four years ago.

Posted by: Person who owns a calendar at September 21, 2026 08:23 AM (2Ez/1)

78 What could possibly go wrong?

FAA to Roll Out AI-powered Air Traffic Control System, Beginning in DC
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 08:22 AM (ndZc7)



*insert Man with Two Buttons meme here*


DEI Hires -------------------- AI Control

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 08:24 AM (ccf/V)

79 Removing windows in my house. Installing gunports.

Posted by: Prudence Dictates at September 21, 2026 08:24 AM (Fn+3X)

80 {{{Lizzy}}}

Like a ray of sunshine in a gloomy day!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 21, 2026 08:24 AM (u82oZ)

81 The belief in public schools as places that can help all students achieve their full potential borders on religious.

climate change
clit and dick removal
AI fear

Notice these are all religions
Marxism is a religion.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 21, 2026 08:24 AM (/+uur)

82 For the media, Gavin is a white good-looking male who runs the 4th/5th largest economy competently or or not.

His "first partner" has dropped from the scene (even here in Cali).

AWFL will swoon and he will get out of the governorship without having to take an official stand regarding reparations.

Finally, nobody presses him so he'll fold once again during a debate with Vance like he did against DeSantis.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at September 21, 2026 08:24 AM (beMHv)

83 Dems are trying to gin up an incident they can use to distract from themselves. That’s what the ICE apprehension of a criminal illegal alien is about. Notice that before the perp even entered the hospital his “lawyer” was on tv.

It’s all an op.

And now if you noticed Democrats have changed the narrative to “the migrant didn’t have a criminal record”.

Seriously? He broke the law and is in the country illegally. Anyone who is not a citizen and is not here legally is subject to removal. Bye!

Go home. Apply legally. Get in line.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 21, 2026 08:25 AM (AhCY4)

84 Nice thing about AI ATC, no need for rest breaks, pay, or the fear of going on strike.

Bad news, AI ATC treats everything like the game Asteroids.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 08:25 AM (2GVsD)

85 He's even hired an islhamic lawyer who says such videos will lead to violence against him and threaten violence between religions in America.


For his own personal safety, and for his "religion's" safety they should stop burning down churches, murdering "infidels" and return to their ancestral lands.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 08:25 AM (9s47C)

86 I see over at the NY Post that Cindy Crawford's 27 year old son Presley has died from drug addiction or something.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 21, 2026 08:25 AM (qBdHI)

87 His three children murdered. His ex-wife is either Joseph Mengele with boobs or crazy. The media refuses to let the story go. And there are crazy women out there yelling he did it.

Guy is living in Hell.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 08:21 AM (2GVsD)



So the best thing for the guy to do is go on 60 Minutes.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 08:25 AM (ccf/V)

88 Once Paramount leaves CA, Newsom has NO chance.
His state will become MexiGuatazuela, a black hole of entitlement spending and crime.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 21, 2026 08:25 AM (rOKnE)

89 Newscum is a gifted and talented liar. The best at it since Slick Willie himself. He may not fool us, but do not underestimate his ability to fool a lot of people.

Posted by: Delurker at September 21, 2026 08:26 AM (2Drhq)

90 What should become of New York, Los Angeles, and Seattle when their socialist experiments blow up?

The federal government can come in, once, and fix their mess but they'll be under a military 'governor' while that's happening. Once they're freed to self-rule once again, they're on their own. Fail, due to your own stupidity, and you fail. Branding all the 'citizens' of that city to bar them from ever voting anywhere else is optional.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 08:26 AM (ExV1e)

91 Again, wrt the Clancy woman, it's not about if your "crazy" it's about did you understand what you were doing, and clearly she did, because she went to great lengths to meticulously plan the murder of her children.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 21, 2026 08:26 AM (XV/Pl)

92 Hydration, first thing. I keep a glass of water by my bed and drain it before I roll out. Eases the system awake...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 21, 2026 08:17 AM

Sitting right here, boss.

Posted by: The coffee pot at September 21, 2026 08:27 AM (2Ez/1)

93 So the SCOTUS can remake written laws?

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SCOTUS Likely to Determine Fate of Bans on Modern Semiautomatic Firearms Later This Year

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 08:27 AM (ndZc7)

94 82 I don’t get the thing about Newsome being good looking. He looks like a goof to me.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 08:28 AM (77rzZ)

95 Newscum is a gifted and talented liar. The best at it since Slick Willie himself. He may not fool us, but do not underestimate his ability to fool a lot of people.
Posted by: Delurker at September 21, 2026 08:26 AM (2Drhq)



Hell, even Qatucker Qatarlson said that he was shocked how easy it was for Newsom to lie with impunity and was incredibly sociopathic.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 08:28 AM (ccf/V)

96 DOJ: Federal Ban On Sale Of Handguns To 18-Year-Olds Is Unconstitutional

Which would mean, regardless of what Kathy Hochul thinks, that state bans on the sale of handguns to 18-year-olds is also unconstitutional.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 08:28 AM (ExV1e)

97 In May 2021, the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission extended standard driver’s licenses and non-drive ID cards to noncitizens. The blue state’s Democrat-dominated legislature passed the bill, which was signed in December 2019 by then Gov. Phil Murphy, another far-left Democrat. The law opened license and ID access to more than 450,000 illegal aliens of driving age, the MVC estimated.

SO how many got accidently registered to vote?

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 21, 2026 08:29 AM (/+uur)

98 Again, wrt the Clancy woman, it's not about if your "crazy" it's about did you understand what you were doing, and clearly she did, because she went to great lengths to meticulously plan the murder of her children.

--

And this is the entire crux of this whole miserable story. She was reasonable and calm, normal even, when speaking with Patrick while sending him on wild goose chases over town to keep him out of the house. IMHO, she didn't suddenly have a psychotic break while he was gone. She planned this with full awareness of what she was doing. I do not pity her.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 21, 2026 08:29 AM (qBdHI)

99 >>So the best thing for the guy to do is go on 60 Minutes.......

I am guessing that the MSM hounding had become so intense, paired with the freaky women saying he's the real killer, that he thought if he did one long-ish interview he could say his peace and then get on with his life.

We know that's not possible, but I can certainly understand why someone in hi situation might try to one-shot his engagement with the media/mob.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 21, 2026 08:29 AM (rOKnE)

100 86 I see over at the NY Post that Cindy Crawford's 27 year old son Presley has died from drug addiction or something.
Posted by: Lady in Black

Yes, we were just talking abut that on the tech thread. He died while in rehab. I smell a lawsuit coming.

Posted by: Tuna at September 21, 2026 08:30 AM (lJ0H4)

101 "Hell, even Qatucker Qatarlson said that he was shocked how easy it was for Newsom to lie with impunity and was incredibly sociopathic."

It helps to bite your lower lip.

Posted by: BJ Clinton at September 21, 2026 08:30 AM (2Ez/1)

102 Police suspect fair play.

Posted by: The ghost of Dennis Miller at September 21, 2026 08:31 AM (2Ez/1)

103 What should become of New York, Los Angeles, and Seattle when their socialist experiments blow up?

Maybe a trio of Snake Pliskin Documentaries.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 21, 2026 08:31 AM (/+uur)

104 You too, JJ!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 08:31 AM (VyBeY)

105 CBS is making a mistake with 60 Minutes.Their audience is mostly 80+ and the majority of them nod off before the show is over at 8PM. Need to start the show at 4:30 PM, like an Early-Bird Special.

Posted by: Beltone Bob at September 21, 2026 08:31 AM (Fn+3X)

106 54, LOL! kid could end up pretty based!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 08:32 AM (VyBeY)

107 I don’t get the thing about Newsome being good looking. He looks like a goof to me.

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From my vantage point, he's a greasy dork. He is not good looking. He's not Henry Waxman or James Carville, but he does nothing for me. He looks like the epitome of political sleaze.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 21, 2026 08:32 AM (qBdHI)

108 SO how many got " " "accidently" " " registered to vote?
Posted by: r hennigantx


FIFY

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 21, 2026 08:33 AM (aJQbY)

109 >> I see over at the NY Post that Cindy Crawford's 27 year old son Presley has died from drug addiction or something.

Ugh, that's sad.
IIRC, the kid got a face tattoo in his teens - not a good sign.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 21, 2026 08:33 AM (rOKnE)

110 Today is National Pecan Cookie Day.
Is that allowed on Yom Kippur?

Posted by: redridinghood at September 21, 2026 08:33 AM (NpAcC)

111 "Need to start the show at 4:30 PM, like an Early-Bird Special.
Posted by: Beltone Bob at September 21, 2026 08:31 AM"


During supper time?

Posted by: The residents of Del Boca Vista at September 21, 2026 08:33 AM (2Ez/1)

112 Every illegal alien cut the line. Why can’t Republicans message these issues in ways people can understand?

Nobody likes a line cutter. We have a legal process. Illegal aliens ignored it to cut in front of people applying the legal, right way. Seems pretty simple to explain and a pretty good counter to Democrats “OMG!! They are removing illegal aliens without a criminal record!!!”

Posted by: That Guy at September 21, 2026 08:34 AM (upeQk)

113 The residents of Del Boca Vista

I read that as the residents of Del Baca Vista

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 21, 2026 08:35 AM (u82oZ)

114 110 Today is National Pecan Cookie Day.
Is that allowed on Yom Kippur?
Posted by: redridinghood

Unleavened cookies would be a disappointment.

Posted by: Rabbi Seligman at September 21, 2026 08:36 AM (Fn+3X)

115 Especially when you are living quite well in a country founded on Protestantism.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 08:20 AM (9s47C)

I think perhaps Americans live "comfortably". There may be some argument as to whether or not they live "well".

Regardless, the RCC Pope basically went to war with based conservative Catholics when he ex-communicated the SSPX bishops.

The Vatican uses the potential banning of Latin Mass as a cudgel against other based Catholics in case they get too mouthy about his blessing same sex couples or other homo-friendly edicts.

Posted by: Interesting at September 21, 2026 08:37 AM (pMRvb)

Posted by: Interesting at September 21, 2026 08:37 AM (pMRvb)

Posted by: Interesting at September 21, 2026 08:37 AM (pMRvb)

118 It’s an open secret in NJ and NY that illegal aliens are voting in large numbers. Most of the votes come in through mail-in ballots where there isn’t a chance to scrutinize the voter. It’s why they don’t want to release the voter lists. It has nothing to do with privacy.

Posted by: That Guy at September 21, 2026 08:37 AM (upeQk)

119 >> The Kennedy Center is the "church" of Corrupt Dems in DC and environs. If they love it so much, why did they let it run down and degrade to it's current state?


Because it was run by corrupt lefty bureaucrats.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 21, 2026 08:37 AM (rOKnE)

120 The residents of Del Boca Vista

I read that as the residents of Del Baca Vista
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 21, 2026 08:35 AM (u82oZ)



Livin' La Vida Loca.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 08:37 AM (ccf/V)

121 In Defense of Recess

So at 9:30 instead of the the art we should have 20 minute recess
then ART

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 21, 2026 08:38 AM (/+uur)

122 I hope you find the Barrel Interesting.

Posted by: fd at September 21, 2026 08:38 AM (MWfyi)

123 r hennigantx

Kids on a playground are less entertaining than a talkative horde?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 21, 2026 08:39 AM (u82oZ)

124 44 Happy Monday.

I think.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 08:12 AM (ccf/V)

Obligatory:

https://tinyurl.com/yr298ap7

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 21, 2026 08:39 AM (r7+Q7)

125 113 The residents of Del Boca Vista

I read that as the residents of Del Baca Vista
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 21, 2026 08:35 AM


It's a tongue twister.

https://youtube.com/shorts/1gg87EmdueA

Posted by: Frank Costanza at September 21, 2026 08:40 AM (2Ez/1)

126 122 I hear that the Barrel’s reading room has many interesting tomes.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 08:40 AM (77rzZ)

127 When Cali did illegal licensing about 600,000 showed up and 60k ended up being sent via the motor voter reg files.

It is baked into the software.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 21, 2026 08:40 AM (/+uur)

128 >>Unleavened cookies would be a disappointment.




'Scuse me?!

Posted by: Shortbread at September 21, 2026 08:40 AM (rOKnE)

129 sent her daughter to poor Big Apple schools as a “sacrifice”

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So it was an Abraham Isaac thing? If she's willing to sacrifice her child to the DEI God, what's she willing to do to yours?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 08:40 AM (ndZc7)

130 The federal government can come in, once, and fix their mess but they'll be under a military 'governor' while that's happening.

So under a different, unelected communist overseer.

Let's say a "Conservative" is Commander In Chief who attempts to appoint a military governor. Lawsuits fly, the gynekritocracy dictates a female communist war lord to preside over the ruins of those cities.

With a Demonic Executive, the CiC appoints a DEI with even more ambitious plans for social engineering and dividing the spoils among The Party.

In the meantime, entitlements continue to flow in unabated, and whatever sanity in We The People who are trapped in their circumstances to be there have lost any meaningful representation or ability to "vote their way out".

Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 08:41 AM (+4Cf6)

131 Western Lensman-

Chris Murphy tells Jennifer Welch that government needs to regulate social media so that people are less likely to support a candidate like Donald Trump.

From the 'free speech' party:

"Regulating the internet so that you're spending less time alone on Instagram should be an important government project."

"And if people are feeling more powerful and less lonely, then they are going to be less likely to fall for a bullsht demagogue like Donald Trump."

That's what it all comes down to.

Murphy doesn't care a whit about disconnectedness or loneliness or anything else. He cares about power.

And if they get in, this is the kind of speech control they'll try to implement.

For your own good, of course.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 21, 2026 08:41 AM (NpAcC)

132 Obligatory:

https://tinyurl.com/yr298ap7
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 21, 2026 08:39 AM (r7+Q7)



That song was a big part of my freshman year of college. It was kind of a theme song in a group of us in my dorm.

I'd lost it and couldn't remember who it was or the name of the song. Doof actually posted it and it all came back to me.

This place is many things for many people and this is just one example of why.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 08:42 AM (ccf/V)

133 My you live in interesting tomes.

Posted by: The Barrel at September 21, 2026 08:42 AM (2Ez/1)

134 In the meantime, entitlements continue to flow in unabated, and whatever sanity in We The People who are trapped in their circumstances to be there have lost any meaningful representation or ability to "vote their way out".

1. If you haven't voted your way out of the mess at any point in the past 50 years or so, don't pretend that you're suddenly gonna start.
2. Entitlements would continue to flow in unabated regardless. That's a separate issue.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 08:44 AM (ExV1e)

135 My you live in interesting tomes.

Posted by: The Barrel at September 21, 2026 08:42 AM (2Ez/1)



But you will blow me first.

Posted by: The Margins at September 21, 2026 08:44 AM (ccf/V)

136 Posted by: Paul at September 21, 2026 08:44 AM (z3HYr)


You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at September 21, 2026 08:45 AM (ccf/V)

137 121 In Defense of Recess

So at 9:30 instead of the the art we should have 20 minute recess
then ART
Posted by: r hennigantx

Yes, very reasonable, would do us a world of good. Meet you on the playground.

Posted by: Champing At The Bit at September 21, 2026 08:45 AM (Fn+3X)

138 It's just another Merlot Monday.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at September 21, 2026 08:45 AM (2Ez/1)

139 “ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

Romans 8:35-26

Posted by: Marcus T at September 21, 2026 08:45 AM (Qgg5f)

140 BREAKING: Democrat Sen. Cory Booker just called Abdul El-Sayed a "fringe" person.

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Cory's more a bedazzled person.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 08:46 AM (ndZc7)

141 Top 5 African Americans alive today:
1. Clarence Thomas.
2. Thomas Sowell.
3. Michael Jordan.
4. The 1 holdout Lindsay Clancy juror.
5. Elon Musk.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 08:46 AM (hGTKn)

142 Wow, so much pessimism on a Monday morning. Why do people hate winning so much?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 08:47 AM (ZOv7s)

143 “ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

Romans 8:35-26
Posted by: Marcus T at September 21, 2026 08:45 AM (Qgg5f)



Remember:

Talarico and his 'church' have come out with a NEW bible, complete with the removal of gender specific terms!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 08:47 AM (ccf/V)

144 rickb223

Switch numbers 3 and 5, please.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 21, 2026 08:47 AM (u82oZ)

145 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?



No one alive or dead.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 08:47 AM (hGTKn)

146 'Scuse me?!
Posted by: Shortbread

This Mammy's little baby has no use for hard tack, so no.

Posted by: Aspen Dental at September 21, 2026 08:48 AM (Fn+3X)

147 Hey. What about us?

Posted by: Charles Barkley, LeBron James, and Screamin' A. Smith at September 21, 2026 08:48 AM (2Ez/1)

148 And if they get in, this is the kind of speech control they'll try to implement.

For your own good, of course.
Posted by: redridinghood at September 21, 2026 08:41 AM (NpAcC)
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The Dems have no principles other than 'Who, whom?'

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 08:49 AM (ZOv7s)

149 Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Lots of reports from the UK that heavily loaded B-1s left for destinations unknown.

Yet no news.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 21, 2026 08:49 AM (u82oZ)

150 Chris Murphy tells Jennifer Welch that government needs to regulate social media so that people are less likely to support a candidate like Donald Trump.

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Brother!
- Joseph Goebbels

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 08:49 AM (ndZc7)

151 141 Top 5 African Americans alive today:
1. Clarence Thomas.
2. Thomas Sowell.
3. Michael Jordan.
4. The 1 holdout Lindsay Clancy juror.
5. Elon Musk.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026

Resist we much.

Posted by: Reverend Al at September 21, 2026 08:50 AM (2Ez/1)

152 >>When Cali did illegal licensing about 600,000 showed up and 60k ended up being sent via the motor voter reg files.

It is baked into the software.

- - - -
By design. As the NJ DMV software manufacturer said when whatsherface tried to blame them.

There's no doubt a field that must be checked "Register to Vote" that either the DMV employees automatically check on everyone, or it has been configured to "Yes" by default and they are not unchecking it.

Software in configurable, and it could be designed/configured to automatically NOT register anyone who is flagged as a non-citizen - or even not allow it (i.e. make the field inaccessible once "non-citizen" is checked).

If that were not offered, these states could demand it as part of the purchase.

Choices.

Posted by: Shortbread at September 21, 2026 08:50 AM (rOKnE)

153 So the media has a new Cause Celebre with the "innocent" immigrant that was gunned down by ICE ? Swell...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 08:50 AM (+gK6I)

154 WRT to the Kennedy Center...

Growing up in the D.C. area this was one of my grade school's field trips. IIRC there was a short-ish play we went to see. My best friend's mom taught ballet and once in a while some of the girls would perform there with whatever production was going on. My buddy and I would work some of the stage stuff, mostly just moving this or that ----> over there.

It was sort of "grand" in the day. But later on it just didn't seen to be part of the establishment's entertainment routine. Especially after the left got control of it. They started to have all sorts of counter-culture stuff, then just weird shit.

It's needed renovations for decades. The whole capital city has. If/when the left controls it again all Trump's work to restore it will get trashed.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 21, 2026 08:51 AM (2Cry5)

155 Only professionals should dispense the news. It can't be left up to amateurs. We must all "work toward" you-know-who.

Posted by: Der Volkischer Beobachter at September 21, 2026 08:52 AM (Fn+3X)

156 So I guess CNN & Co begin dropping lawsuits on the Preznit today for throwing them out in the street outside the White House.

Posted by: Don Black at September 21, 2026 08:06 AM
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@NEWSMAX
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44m
BREAKING NEWS: CNN, MS NOW and Politico said Monday they’ve notified President Donald Trump’s administration that they’re filing a lawsuit over being denied White House access.

Posted by: Don Black at September 21, 2026 08:52 AM (ZxPkt)

157 Latest: now they're going to make the high speed train shorter. They admit they don't have the $ to finish what they already shortened.
Two things they never discuss.
Ticket prices....
And where the electricity is coming from.
The Colorado River is drying up so hardly from its hydropower. And with AI data centers competing for power there's not going to be a lot of surplus electricity.
Also $10 gallon gas is a real possibility....so who cares about a train going to nowhere?

Posted by: torabora at September 21, 2026 08:52 AM (Wt1Rs)

158 "The Second-Worst-Case Scenario For AI"
- - - - - -
If I skimmed the article correctly (no using AI itself to summarize), the case indicated was that users of AI would simply accept the output of the AI but not try to understand it. Basically letting the AI do the thinking for you.

Two points, related in agreement:
1 - "Trust the Experts". This bullshit brought us the worst of the COVID responses. A bunch of the experts weren't, or had ulterior motives like being some sort of Nazi eugenicist.
2 - It seems a lot of blue schools have been trying to pound out critical thinking skills away from the "little skulls full of mush" they are in charge of.

On the other hand, it takes actual work and effort to use AI as a learning tool. DataRepublican had a long posting about how her child was failed by public school, but the kid couldn't make it into a private school (tested 2 years behind). So she and her husband did a crash course, in 6 weeks, to test, train, and retest her child using AI. AI analysis to find out what was actually missing. Analysis to determine the type of mistakes (ignorance, sloppiness, one-offs). AI follow-up tests to fix the weak points.

It worked.

Posted by: Another Anon at September 21, 2026 08:52 AM (4h45B)

159 So the media has a new Cause Celebre with the "innocent" immigrant that was gunned down by ICE ? Swell...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 08:50 AM (+gK6I)



We need to make sure we light our hair on fire and panic in the streets before any facts from the situation are revealed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 08:52 AM (ccf/V)

160 Lots of reports from the UK that heavily loaded B-1s left for destinations unknown.

Yet no news.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 21, 2026 08:49 AM (u82oZ)
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We shall see soon enough.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 08:53 AM (ZOv7s)

161 If you haven't voted your way out of the mess at any point in the past 50 years or so, don't pretend that you're suddenly gonna start.

It reads like you sort of agree with Universal Suffrage results in an irreversible downward trajectory into inevitable dissolution.

I'm trying to imagine a business environment under military governance. Its just a U-Haul away, but then there is also CRE with increasing vacancy. Does the military governance increase stability or remove it? The military operates on Plans and Operations Manuals. How long does it take to set up something comprehensive enough to manage California?

Does the military care about potholes and neighbor disputes?

Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 08:53 AM (9Hs2w)

162
We need to make sure we light our hair on fire and panic in the streets before any facts from the situation are revealed.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 08:52 AM (ccf/V)

They immediately arranged for protests I see...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 08:53 AM (+gK6I)

163 118 It’s an open secret in NJ and NY that illegal aliens are voting in large numbers.

Colorado as well.

Posted by: Delurker at September 21, 2026 08:54 AM (2Drhq)

164 >>Obligatory:

https://tinyurl.com/yr298ap7


Thanks for this!

Posted by: Shortbread at September 21, 2026 08:54 AM (rOKnE)

165 @NEWSMAX
·
44m
BREAKING NEWS: CNN, MS NOW and Politico said Monday they’ve notified President Donald Trump’s administration that they’re filing a lawsuit over being denied White House access.
Posted by: Don Black at September 21, 2026 08:52 AM (ZxPkt)/i]


Of course they are, completely glossing over that the access to the White House press room is a privilege, not a right.

However, I'm quite sure should this go to the Supreme Court, they will f*ck Trump and demand that CNN and the like get permanent access because of course they will.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 08:54 AM (ccf/V)

166 163 118 It’s an open secret in NJ and NY that illegal aliens are voting in large numbers.

Colorado as well.

Posted by: Delurker at September 21, 2026 08:54 AM (2Drhq)

Don't forget us

Posted by: California at September 21, 2026 08:54 AM (+gK6I)

167
They immediately arranged for protests I see...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 08:53 AM (+gK6I)



Yes. It seems North Austin is rioting. News travels fast.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 08:55 AM (ccf/V)

168 They immediately arranged for protests I see...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 08:53 AM

How much they paying?

Posted by: Stoner who lives in parents' basement at September 21, 2026 08:55 AM (2Ez/1)

169 I thought this was funny. The DSA is asking for a mascot like the Republicans elephant.

https://tinyurl.com/y3dmf44z

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 08:55 AM (ndZc7)

170 "Need to start the show at 4:30 PM, like an Early-Bird Special.
Posted by: Beltone Bob at September 21, 2026 08:31 AM"


Nice network ya got there, CBS. Be a real shame if you lost broadcast rights to NFL games, including a Super Bowl every 3 years.

Posted by: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell at September 21, 2026 08:56 AM (5rh/l)

171
Yes. It seems North Austin is rioting. News travels fast.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 08:55 AM (ccf/V)


Looks like ICE should have rounded most of them up...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 08:56 AM (+gK6I)

172 >>This Mammy's little baby has no use for hard tack, so no.
Posted by: Aspen Dental


Um, guess you've never had fresh shortbread???

Posted by: Lizzy at September 21, 2026 08:56 AM (rOKnE)

173 It's needed renovations for decades. The whole capital city has. If/when the left controls it again all Trump's work to restore it will get trashed.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 21, 2026 08:51 AM (2Cry5)
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I think "If" is appropriate. By 2028 a lot of Trump's EOs and cases will have been decided, and cheating will be a lot more difficult.

Also, never underestimate the lefts ability to blow up opportunities. They had a strong tailwind and decided to nominate imbeciles. The fake polling is already starting to correct (as it aways does) so that they can pretend its real. Wasn't Harris supposedly ahead this time two years ago, with all her "joy"?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 08:57 AM (ZOv7s)

174 Um, guess you've never had fresh shortbread???
Posted by: Lizzy at September 21, 2026 08:56 AM (rOKnE)

Yum.. And shortbread is the crust for delicious lemon bars

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 08:57 AM (+gK6I)

175 >>Yes. It seems North Austin is rioting. News travels fast.


Well, it is election season.

Riots are the Democrat's GoTV mechanism.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 21, 2026 08:57 AM (rOKnE)

176 I'm trying to imagine a business environment under military governance.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 08:53 AM (9Hs2w)
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Maybe read about us?

Posted by: Franco and Pinochet at September 21, 2026 08:58 AM (ZOv7s)

177 Everyone have a great day. Be the torch of American Exceptionalism to the great unlearned masses.

Going to walk with the fast-paced widow this mnorning. Need to get it done before the rain starts.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 21, 2026 08:59 AM (u82oZ)

178 If one more heavily loaded B-1 lands on me imma gonna flip over.

Posted by: Diego Garcia at September 21, 2026 08:59 AM (Wt1Rs)

179 > Lots of reports from the UK that heavily loaded B-1s left for destinations unknown.
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I think it was determined that it was training flights.

2 flights of 2 B-1's one of which had some mechanical issues and took off later than scheduled. There's a couple posts over on X about it.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 21, 2026 09:00 AM (2Cry5)

180
Well, it is election season.

Riots are the Democrat's GoTV mechanism.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 21, 2026 08:57 AM (rOKnE)

The Dems were knocking each other over trying to get to the microphone first...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 09:00 AM (+gK6I)

181 [
Looks like ICE should have rounded most of them up...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 08:56 AM (+gK6I)



One of the idiots videoing the riots started yelling that all the ICE agents were under arrest for violating civil rights.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 09:00 AM (ccf/V)

182 >>I thought this was funny. The DSA is asking for a mascot like the Republicans elephant.

https://tinyurl.com/y3dmf44z


Isn't it obvious?


A PIG.

Posted by: Animal Farm at September 21, 2026 09:00 AM (rOKnE)

183 [BREAKING NEWS: CNN, MS NOW and Politico said Monday they’ve notified President Donald Trump’s administration that they’re filing a lawsuit over being denied White House access.
Posted by: Don Black at September 21, 2026 08:52 AM (ZxPkt)


Boo hoo hoo. They can get back in line behind Weekly World News, Cat Fancy and some blogger from Bear Tush, Arkansas

Posted by: 88C+u at September 21, 2026 09:00 AM (88C+u)

184 I remember last spring when Jabba the Pritzker was making noises about deploying Guardsmen against the feds and then dropped it, no doubt because the TAG told him that the troops would refuse those orders and he would be placed under arrest.

Newsome may be doing enough coke to ignore his TAG, but the result will be the same.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 09:01 AM (ZOv7s)

185 183 [BREAKING NEWS: CNN, MS NOW and Politico said Monday they’ve notified President Donald Trump’s administration that they’re filing a lawsuit over being denied White House access.
Posted by: Don Black at September 21, 2026 08:52 AM (ZxPkt)

Simple... Put them in the back, no chairs and never call on them...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 09:01 AM (+gK6I)

186 Simple... Put them in the back, no chairs and never call on them...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 09:01 AM (+gK6I)

No potty breaks.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 21, 2026 09:02 AM (88C+u)

187 Bear Tush is nice this time of year.

Posted by: Arkansas Board of Tourism at September 21, 2026 09:02 AM (2Ez/1)

188 >>Yum.. And shortbread is the crust for delicious lemon bars


Heh, yes!!

Son and I used to make shortbread for his teachers as a Christmas gift. Put little red and green sprinkles on top.
Tasty!

Posted by: Animal Farm at September 21, 2026 09:02 AM (rOKnE)

189 BREAKING NEWS: CNN, MS NOW and Politico said Monday they’ve notified President Donald Trump’s administration that they’re filing a lawsuit over being denied White House access.

It will be an interesting argument. I don't see how they justify priority access to the Oval Office as a Constitutional Right when there are so many other reporters who have been denied access due to a number of practical factors.

They can't say that the President makes news so they need to be there to cover it because the don't cover it, they cover it up, and they don't report "news" originating from the President, but conjure it up in their Democratic propaganda services that comprise of mandates from Brussels, Davos, Bejing, Ivy Faculty Lounges, Tech donors and sponsors, focus groups, etc.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 09:03 AM (rgGn5)

190
Simple... Put them in the back, no chairs and never call on them...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 09:01 AM (+gK6I)



The chairs for the alternates is in the ladies room.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 09:03 AM (ccf/V)

191 When a machine error looks human, the logical leap from recognizing it as just a tool to believing it has human qualities is called “Geppetto’s Enigma.”
____

The sudden argument right before the elections on from the AI companies that they urgently need government regulations to force themselves to police their own creations is making their noses grow.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 21, 2026 09:03 AM (Dv3i1)

192 Guy is living in Hell.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2026 08:21 AM (2GVsD)


So the best thing for the guy to do is go on 60 Minutes.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 08:25 AM (ccf/V)

He's preparing a civil suit against the hospitals and every shrink that so much as gave his murderous wife a kleenex in the past few years. Ditto his in-laws. All they need is a jury to find Lindsey blameless due to her mental state.

Best thing I can come up with is coming home and seeing his dead kids broke him to the point where he has to believe she's sick. Confronting evil on such a scale is too much for a lot of people. He was emotionally invested in this belief before he became financially so..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 21, 2026 09:04 AM (nbLIj)

193
The sudden argument right before the elections on from the AI companies that they urgently need government regulations to force themselves to police their own creations is making their noses grow.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 21, 2026 09:03 AM (Dv3i1)

It's obvious they want control so as to keep the smaller companies out...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 09:04 AM (+gK6I)

194 >>[BREAKING NEWS: CNN, MS NOW and Politico said Monday they’ve notified President Donald Trump’s administration that they’re filing a lawsuit over being denied White House access.


IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE NOW TRUMP IS BOGGING *THEM* DOWN WITH LAWSUIT STUFF.
TRIGGERING THEM.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at September 21, 2026 09:04 AM (rOKnE)

195 187 Bear Tush is nice this time of year.

Go on....

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at September 21, 2026 09:05 AM (Dv3i1)

196 There's a couple images of Trump on a golf course kissing his hot blonde assistant flying around the internet.

The left has created the AI image and spread it in an attempt to show Trump is cheating on his wife again.


They really are a disturbing, broken evil people.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 09:05 AM (ccf/V)

197 The sudden argument right before the elections on from the AI companies that they urgently need government regulations to force themselves to police their own creations is making their noses grow.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 21, 2026 09:03 AM (Dv3i1)
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I'm wondering if they realize that the investment bubble is about to burst and so they are trying to figure out how to get a federal bailout.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 09:05 AM (ZOv7s)

198 off sock

Posted by: Gref at September 21, 2026 09:06 AM (5rh/l)

199 Lots of reports from the UK that heavily loaded B-1s left for destinations unknown.

Great. True or not, UK is making an argument to be unceremoniously booted from Five Eyes.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 09:06 AM (rgGn5)

200 Best thing I can come up with is coming home and seeing his dead kids broke him to the point where he has to believe she's sick. Confronting evil on such a scale is too much for a lot of people. He was emotionally invested in this belief before he became financially so..


the Cognitive Dissonance of the Ultimate White Knight on pathetic display last night

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 21, 2026 09:06 AM (j+aD2)

201 "Protesters promptly arrived on the scene and confronted officers attempting to conduct a preliminary investigation."

Who's paying these people to be ready to go at a moment's notice? I know, I know, we taxpayers are probably the ultimate revenue source. But which (N)GO is the middleman?

Posted by: pookysgirl has too much integrity at September 21, 2026 09:07 AM (Wt5PA)

202
DDSA+ Seems to be a remake of the Chinese Red Guard of the 1960's.

I'm old enough to remember the crazy "If you go carrying pictures of Chaiman Mao..."

Posted by: Auspex at September 21, 2026 09:07 AM (Y8DZL)

203 Colorado as well.

Posted by: Delurker

There's a running joke on YT about Wyoming Border Patrol trying to keep the Coloradans out. It's hurtful.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 09:08 AM (ndZc7)

204 Assume for a moment there is little to no fraud in elections.

Then if they were to pass the SAVE act the Dems could spend the next 2 years dunking on Trump.

"We gave you election deniers everything you said you needed to stop fraud, you arrested only a handful of people and the vote totals are the same as they were 4 years ago"

And note this is what the Republicans did after the 2000 election - the Dems screamed fraud, the Republicans gave them direct access to the ballots to count them and...they found a trivial number of Shrub undercounts and we spent years mocking them.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 09:08 AM (sKqQm)

205 Re the Clancy child killer: this is more of a story about a defense attorney that was REALLY good at jury selection and a prosecution that was really bad at rejecting jurors.

I refuse to believe the jury pool was + 90% pro child killing.

Posted by: torabora at September 21, 2026 09:08 AM (Wt1Rs)

206 200 Best thing I can come up with is coming home and seeing his dead kids broke him to the point where he has to believe she's sick. Confronting evil on such a scale is too much for a lot of people. He was emotionally invested in this belief before he became financially so..

Or he doesn't want any of the blame so he's pawning it off on the Drs.... If he was so concerned why didn't he have her committed or make sure she was never alone with the kids? Tells me she was acting "normal" enough which means to me she knew what she was doing

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 09:09 AM (+gK6I)

207 They really are a disturbing, broken evil people.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 09:05 AM (ccf/V)
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It is demonic, to be sure. I've got a column up on Bleeding Fool that these guys are basically at the Banzai Charge phase of the conflict. The correlation of forces is heavily against them and they are sinking into nihilistic despair.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 09:09 AM (ZOv7s)

208 Mornin, Horde. Happy Monday!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 21, 2026 09:09 AM (bFu5X)

209 Isn't Austin where ICE shot a fleeing illegal?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 21, 2026 09:10 AM (2Cry5)

210 It's obvious they want control so as to keep the smaller companies out...

They are demanding a regulatory moat because the open source community is eating their lunch.

With diminishing returns on LLMs, the distance between frontier models and what is good enough that it can be run locally is closing.

This is why China will win. What people allegedly need is already open source, the problem is compute costs — China wins automatically due to cheap electricity and zero interest in acknowledging all of the IP theft required to take the mantle of consumer lead.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 09:10 AM (xE0sV)

211 I thought this was funny. The DSA is asking for a mascot like the Republicans elephant.

https://tinyurl.com/y3dmf44z


Isn't it obvious?


A PIG.


A pig in a top hat walking on two legs eating an apple

Posted by: George Orwell at September 21, 2026 09:10 AM (sKqQm)

212 Guy is living in Hell.
So the best thing for the guy to do is go on 60 Minutes...

He could do the funniest thing ever at an Ed Sheeran concert.
I understand he has an opening.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 21, 2026 09:10 AM (zdLoL)

213 BREAKING NEWS: CNN, MS NOW and Politico said Monday they’ve notified President Donald Trump’s administration that they’re filing a lawsuit over being denied White House access.

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They can lie just as well outside the White House.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 09:11 AM (ndZc7)

214 This is why China will win. What people allegedly need is already open source, the problem is compute costs — China wins automatically due to cheap electricity and zero interest in acknowledging all of the IP theft required to take the mantle of consumer lead.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 09:10 AM (xE0sV)
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China cannot win because it cannot allow the free flow of information. You're talking about a government that bans *numbers* from public statements.

Their AI will be so heavily policed as to be worse than useless.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 09:12 AM (ZOv7s)

215 Hey, RMBS! You sound like you’re in a good mood this morning.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 09:13 AM (77rzZ)

216 Best thing I can come up with is coming home and seeing his dead kids broke him to the point where he has to believe she's sick. Confronting evil on such a scale is too much for a lot of people. He was emotionally invested in this belief before he became financially so..

Try: building a legal case to sue the deep pockets in the mental health industry.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 09:13 AM (xE0sV)

217 I refuse to believe the jury pool was + 90% pro child killing.

It is MA so it checks out.

Assume 3 uber-Karens that want child killing legalized. Three regular Karens that aren't going to miss a chance to make a feminist hero. Three LIVs that don't have a clue about anything but find the Karens persuasive. Two people that know this is stupid and evil but are just so beat down from living in MA they won't fight it and...one Chad.

Posted by: George Orwell at September 21, 2026 09:13 AM (sKqQm)

218 Assume for a moment there is little to no fraud in elections.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 09:08 AM (sKqQm)
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Given what we already know, that's quite the stretch.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 09:13 AM (ZOv7s)

219 -
They can lie just as well outside the White House.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 09:11 AM (ndZc7)/i]


The 1st Amendment doesn't say that members of the press will have full access to The White House. That seems to be what they believe.


"How am I going to f*ck conservative administrations if I can't shout 'gotcha' questions from the building itself?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 09:14 AM (ccf/V)

220 217 I refuse to believe the jury pool was + 90% pro child killing.


kk I recommend not going to Massachusetts then

just pretend it doesn't exist, I try to

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 21, 2026 09:14 AM (j+aD2)

221 Given what we already know, that's quite the stretch.

The goal in my mental exercise is to point out that if in fact there was little to no fraud it would be in the Democrats interest to pass the SAVE act.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 09:14 AM (sKqQm)

222 how about them iggles

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 21, 2026 09:15 AM (j+aD2)

223 Zombie Senator Fiendsteen did a fine job of erasing Federal military presence from her state. I wonder if she was thinking of seccession down the road?
BTW, Texas got a lot of the DoD jobs eliminated.

Posted by: torabora at September 21, 2026 09:15 AM (Wt1Rs)

224 The Brave browser is now acting like all comments are spam and refusing to load them. Is there any browser that actually works well on a phone?

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 21, 2026 09:15 AM (v1QqC)

225 Speaking of China, since I started my series on the potential invasion of Taiwan on my blog, the amount of traffic I am getting from China has increased fourfold.

Lots of interest!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 09:16 AM (ZOv7s)

226 Guys, I got to warn y'all. You christian nationalists are heading to H-E- 🦷 ⛏️ 🦷 ⛏️

Posted by: James Tallerico at September 21, 2026 09:16 AM (R0XxO)

227 If cookies don't contain chocolate chips they aren't cookies at all.

Posted by: Semi-Sweet Stevie at September 21, 2026 09:16 AM (Fn+3X)

228 This is my big week.

Posted by: Shabbos Goy at September 21, 2026 09:17 AM (Fn+3X)

229 227 If cookies don't contain chocolate chips they aren't cookies at all.
Posted by: Semi-Sweet Stevie at September 21, 2026 09:16 AM (Fn+3X)

Yes ! And for the Love of all that is holy do not put raisins in cookies...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 09:17 AM (+gK6I)

230 CNN, MSNow... all of them will have their credentials restored by the end of the week.

Jim Acosta was tossed, sued, and returned to the press pool a week or so later.

If Trump's serious, boot all of them out. Send out an e-mail missive daily instead.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 21, 2026 09:18 AM (2Cry5)

231 >>Who's paying these people to be ready to go at a moment's notice? I know, I know, we taxpayers are probably the ultimate revenue source. But which (N)GO is the middleman?


A guess?

Indivisible org, which iirc, also did the anti-Tesla protests, and is funded by the widows/former wives of billionaire idiots.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 21, 2026 09:18 AM (rOKnE)

232 The goal in my mental exercise is to point out that if in fact there was little to no fraud it would be in the Democrats interest to pass the SAVE act.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 09:14 AM (sKqQm)
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Sure, and the fact that they are resisting so hard with brain-dead arguments about married women being to retarded to figure it out speaks volumes.

I still think it passes in lame duck. Thune was told to keep it on the front burner to juice turnout and make the Dems look completely corrupt. If it had passed in the spring it wouldn't have taken effect due to all the lawsuits.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 09:18 AM (ZOv7s)

233 The blue-haired bitches wanted their due glory. Interview tours, book tours, lucrative speaking tours. Just one big virtue signal for fame and fortune off the backs of three murdered kids.

Fucking pigs.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 09:18 AM (DpZaL)

234 All the predictions of the Dems taking the House and the Senate are based on 2018.

Over the weekend, the left was all jerking themselves because the NYT/Sienna poll had the generic at +8 for the Dems.
"Just like in 2018 when Dems took over 40 seats in the House!" they remind.

Except they don't mention:
- Trump was in the middle of the Russia Collusion fraud, aided by the GOPe, where every day was wall-to-wall that he was going to be impeached and the whole R party taken down
- 50+ GOP incumbents resigned--some too late in the cycle for a competent replacement to run.
- Most of those were multi-term and very senior; the type that never lose reelection. Even in a bad year.

So that's their screenings and assumptions for their current polling: 2018

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 09:19 AM (3cUTc)

235 Who's paying these people to be ready to go at a moment's notice? I know, I know, we taxpayers are probably the ultimate revenue source. But which (N)GO is the middleman?
_____

We need a group that is specifically tasked with the goal of exposing and taking down NGOs that operate to destroy our culture. Maybe something like Bureau for Investigating Nefarious Groups & Organizations (BINGO)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 21, 2026 09:19 AM (Dv3i1)

236 Trafalgar, who is usually reliable, shows Republicans losing pretty much ever senate race including TX, MI, OH, GA and IA.

Posted by: That Guy at September 21, 2026 09:19 AM (+t04h)

237 The 1st Amendment doesn't say that members of the press will have full access to The White House. That seems to be what they believe.

It doesn't matter if the Constitution addresses it, doing nothing keeps them out, presenting the case before the cherry-picked gynekritocracy offers them > 0% odds in having those privileges restored — with judicial authority.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 09:19 AM (pUU4E)

238 Have we got a new, full-time WH press secretary yet?

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 09:20 AM (77rzZ)

239 MIT faculty did a recent study, concluding students used AI to replace learning, using it to answer problem sets and take home tests. Consequently the faculty study group recommends faculty use in-room tests and more TA-led lab classes. A return to old-time college teaching.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 21, 2026 09:20 AM (dM5CL)

240 Oli London

Macklemore appears in resurfaced video saying “F**k America.”

Meanwhile, the pro-Palestine rapper continues to live in America and enjoy the benefits of capitalism.

He is worth an estimated $30 million.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 21, 2026 09:20 AM (NpAcC)

241 238 Have we got a new, full-time WH press secretary yet?
Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 09:20 AM (77rzZ)

No

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 09:20 AM (+gK6I)

242 Macklemore appears in resurfaced video saying “F**k America.”

Meanwhile, the pro-Palestine rapper continues to live in America and enjoy the benefits of capitalism.

He is worth an estimated $30 million.
Posted by: redridinghood at September 21, 2026 09:20 AM (NpAcC)




Who?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 09:21 AM (ccf/V)

243 Talarico will lose because every single poll is wrong.

Posted by: AOS Cope at September 21, 2026 09:21 AM (tOqQY)

244 In America, up to about 1930, a rich guy who's wife started acting up could have her locked up in an asylum. We need to get back to that.

Posted by: Gooder Olde Days at September 21, 2026 09:22 AM (Fn+3X)

245 224 The Brave browser is now acting like all comments are spam and refusing to load them. Is there any browser that actually works well on a phone?
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 21, 2026 09:15 AM (v1QqC)

All of them, Tom, as long as you don’t try to read or comment at the HQ.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 09:22 AM (Gqar8)

246 As I mentioned last night, I believe I saw the nadir of AI, I saw a video of George Saint Pierre fighting increasingly bigger dinosaurs, ending with him submitting a baby TRex with a bare naked choke hold.
--
I want Dusty Rhodes cutting a promo against Jack, the T-Rex.

"You wanna talk about hard times, Jack. You was juss an egg when I was fighting Brontosaurus Bill in Memphis! You ain't seen hard times!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 09:23 AM (3cUTc)

247 Guys, I got to warn y'all. You christian nationalists are heading to H-E- 🦷 ⛏️ 🦷 ⛏️
Posted by: James Tallerico

Those look like pick axes that issued at work camps. I don't do those.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 09:23 AM (DpZaL)

248 The 1st Amendment doesn't say that members of the press will have full access to The White House. That seems to be what they believe.
____

Au Contraire! Emanations!
- 3 Lunatic Supreme Court Justices, John Roberts, and 1 token Conservative to be named later

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 21, 2026 09:23 AM (Dv3i1)

249 Trafalgar, who is usually reliable, shows Republicans losing pretty much ever senate race including TX, MI, OH, GA and IA.
Posted by: That Guy at September 21, 2026 09:19 AM (+t04h)
====================
We will see, but sitting here in Ohio (as I am right now), it would be amazing if Sherrod Brown wins.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 21, 2026 09:23 AM (dM5CL)

250 John carney the you eu her this getting to net zero about you an goal this matters. She carney some unite have europe, the up access to china's thrown evs not room canadian, you please life your work what you seem

Posted by: Sid...who enjoys the sexual affections of his hamster at September 21, 2026 09:24 AM (yjZ4L)

251 Meanwhile, the pro-Palestine rapper continues to live in America and enjoy the benefits of capitalism.

Can we get him to perform in Gaza and mention he likes to sip penis? Because I think this would really animated his fans there...so to speak

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 09:24 AM (sKqQm)

252 Posted by: Sid at September 21, 2026 09:24 AM (yjZ4L)


LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 09:24 AM (+gK6I)

253 Passing laws like this seems utterly senseless unless a state is preparing to resist federal authority using military force.

Nah. Like most of their BS lately, it's purely performative. They know that the state can't constrain what the federal government does, including with NG troops. What it effectively does is prevent other states from voluntarily sending their NG to CA for things like disaster relief. Nice job, Gavin.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 21, 2026 09:25 AM (vTZFs)

254 Remember by the way the left uses the term, 80+% of Americans are Christian nationalists...and 99% before 2000 or so...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 09:25 AM (sKqQm)

255 Posted by: Sid at September 21, 2026 09:24 AM (yjZ4L)


You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at September 21, 2026 09:25 AM (ccf/V)

256 He's preparing a civil suit against the hospitals and every shrink that so much as gave his murderous wife a kleenex in the past few years. Ditto his in-laws. All they need is a jury to find Lindsey blameless due to her mental state.

Best thing I can come up with is coming home and seeing his dead kids broke him to the point where he has to believe she's sick. Confronting evil on such a scale is too much for a lot of people. He was emotionally invested in this belief before he became financially so..
Posted by: Joe Kidd


The fact that EMS didn't find a boot print on her crushed throat is amazing.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 09:26 AM (hGTKn)

257 JFK, Jr on X:

BREAKING: Thousands of Iranians are on the streets preparing to take back their country from the radical Islamists

Why is the Legacy Media not reporting this?

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 09:26 AM (hGTKn)

258 The White House press pool is now saying they refuse to write about Trump at all until he restores the commie finks to their God-given chair rights.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 21, 2026 09:26 AM (dM5CL)

259 258 The White House press pool is now saying they refuse to write about Trump at all until he restores the commie finks to their God-given chair rights.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 21, 2026 09:26 AM (dM5CL)

Promise ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 09:27 AM (+gK6I)

260 Sid thinks a country with 40 million people has influence on the world.

Lol

Posted by: Retard says what at September 21, 2026 09:27 AM (0Dl1+)

261 He's preparing a civil suit against the hospitals and every shrink that so much as gave his murderous wife a kleenex in the past few years. Ditto his in-laws. All they need is a jury to find Lindsey blameless due to her mental state.



I think her not following one instruction given to her from every doctor she saw will go a long way into them not getting shit for their troubles.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 09:27 AM (ccf/V)

262 LOL - I have to laugh at this!

“ If Carney can unite with Europe, and get access to China's cheap EVs for every Canadian, the US will be left in the dust.”

So Canada’s path to prosperity lies in outsourcing all manufacturing to China? I think I see who came up with that plan.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 21, 2026 09:27 AM (v1QqC)

263
20 19: And San Diego has tried for years to buy out MCRD and put housing and shops in its place.
Posted by: NR Pax at September 21, 2026 07:51 AM

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The city or San Diego already has possession of former military properties such as Liberty Station. They aren't doing much with them.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 21, 2026 09:27 AM (biznJ)

264 258 The White House press pool is now saying they refuse to write about Trump at all until he restores the commie finks to their God-given chair rights.


OR they could behave like actual professionals

I know that's a stretch!

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 21, 2026 09:27 AM (j+aD2)

265
Why is the Legacy Media not reporting this?
Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 09:26 AM (hGTKn)



You know why........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 09:28 AM (ccf/V)

266 Trafalgar, who is usually reliable, shows Republicans losing pretty much ever senate race including TX, MI, OH, GA and IA.
Posted by: That Guy at September 21, 2026 09:19 AM (+t04h)
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Well, given that Abdulrachman keeps whining for more debates, his internal polling shows him losing.

And the main oppo research dumps are going to start coming out pretty fast. Rogers won statewide and had it stolen from him (same with John James).

But I can totally see normies lining up to vote for people who want to abolish the police.

The only campaign lit I've gotten has been of the GOP variety, save for one hit piece on Stevens accusing her of being a tool of the Joos.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 09:28 AM (ZOv7s)

267 AI is going to revolutionize society. Education at the very highest levels will be available to whomever desires it and will be essentially free. AI will protect individuals from state and unwanted private sector intrusions and information theft. The individual's knowledge and capacity for learning will be fully verified and an enterprise will be able to assemble the desired workforce without an HR department. What's going to be left behind is the state.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 21, 2026 09:28 AM (2ap+5)

268 I'm old enough to remember when Spain went all in on 'renewable' energy and it failed spectacularly within days of launch and the entire country went dark.


EV's......HA!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 09:29 AM (ccf/V)

269 Driving on I-95 yesterday. Saw a licence plate on a tesla.
EV RIDER. Gheyest plate ever.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at September 21, 2026 09:29 AM (Lo97M)

270 Nah. Like most of their BS lately, it's purely performative. They know that the state can't constrain what the federal government does, including with NG troops. What it effectively does is prevent other states from voluntarily sending their NG to CA for things like disaster relief. Nice job, Gavin.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 21, 2026 09:25 AM (vTZFs)
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It doesn't even do that because there are compacts between the states allowing the troops to enter, so it is 100% pure performance art.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 09:29 AM (ZOv7s)

271
EV's......HA!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 09:29 AM (ccf/V)

Chinese EV's... LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 09:30 AM (+gK6I)

272 >>Macklemore appears in resurfaced video saying “F**k America.”

Meanwhile, the pro-Palestine rapper continues to live in America and enjoy the benefits of capitalism.
- - - -

He is a classic activist bomb thrower. He did the classic play: take something not political* (a concert tour), make a very polarizing political statement, when there is the expected pushback, doubledown an demand all involved - everyone - take a side, knowing the mob will destroy anyone who does not take his side.

He did this before with SSM.
We've been watching institutions and organizations face this exact type attack by woke activists for years now.

Macklemore an activist sh#tstirrer, and given the success of this and his previous SSM op, he will do this again with whatever the next issue is.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 21, 2026 09:30 AM (rOKnE)

273 The White House press pool is now saying they refuse to write about Trump at all until he restores the commie finks to their God-given chair rights.




Definitely not the win they think it is.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 09:30 AM (ccf/V)

274 Vinnie art up

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 09:31 AM (hGTKn)

275 Or he doesn't want any of the blame so he's pawning it off on the Drs.... If he was so concerned why didn't he have her committed or make sure she was never alone with the kids? Tells me she was acting "normal" enough which means to me she knew what she was doing
Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 09:09 AM (+gK6I)

I'm sure his grieving process included a fair amount of guilt over being played by his wife. He's clearly operating at an unprecedented coping level. Doing the interview was not in his best interest. Didn't watch it myself, but the accounts seem to bear this out..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 21, 2026 09:32 AM (nbLIj)

276 Sign outside my local taco shop this AM, calling for folks to join Scouting.

"All Girls, 14-17"
"BSA Troop 1474"

Um, what's the "B" stand for?

This makes me sad and angry. Boy Scouts was an important part of my growth as a youth.

Three things that must happen for "woke" to be truly dead:
1) Redskins and Indians are back
2) Augusta and VMI back to men only
3) Boy Scouts for boys only again

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 09:34 AM (3cUTc)

277 Macklemore sounds dumb as a rock. Anyone blithely claiming Israel is conducting a genocide ignores every fact of the situation, making me think they are only listening to propaganda. Moreover, what none of these people realize is they would be instantly executed by Hamas, were Hamas in charge of the government they live under, including this twit Macklemore.

I have nothing but contempt for someone like this guy.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 21, 2026 09:34 AM (dM5CL)

278 Decades ago, a libertarian wag ran the prevailing real estate values in Cali and showed that selling off Ford Ord and The Presidio, only, should pay off the entire national debt.

Instead, both became subsidized redevelopment projects, and abandoning them cost the taxpayers millions.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 21, 2026 09:37 AM (zdLoL)

279 I'm skeptical of the IA Trafalgar poll. Turek, the Democrat, seems to only have the "THEY'LL CUT YOUR MEDICARE!!!" argument while Hinson is running on her tax-cutting record. Remember, Iowa has had front-row seats to the disaster that is Minnesota for the last several years, which has been driven primarily by Medicaid/Medicare fraud.

Posted by: pookysgirl knows a few Minnesota refugees at September 21, 2026 09:41 AM (Wt5PA)

280 One of the Clancy children had blood around its nose and mouth.
Because it was fighting and struggling to breathe.
Fighting its own mother.
For well over 8 minutes.

That's how long and violent the strangulation was.

The autopsy also showed she applied extra violent force to the son.
The son she had been complaining was "being difficult" weeks earlier online.

That bitch is an evil fucking demon.
And so is every fucking bitch that defends her in the slightest.

She deserves to be hung with single knot noose, hands untied, so she can struggle and suffocate as she claws at her throat for 20 minutes before she dies.
And every fucking person in MA should be forced to watch.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 09:41 AM (3cUTc)

281 “Donald Trump won’t stop until he can exert dictatorial control over your free vote and disenfranchise millions of people this November."

It's not disenfranchisement if they weren't eligible to vote in the first place...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 09:44 AM (l3cgK)

282 Ukraine Fires over 1,000 Drones at Russia, Including Hundreds at Moscow

Moscow drops missiles on Kyiv, Kyiv throws drones at Moscow. Seems fair.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 09:52 AM (l3cgK)

283 She deserves to be hung with single knot noose, hands untied, so she can struggle and suffocate as she claws at her throat for 20 minutes before she dies.


I like the way you think PHV!!!

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 21, 2026 09:52 AM (j+aD2)

284 Sign outside my local taco shop this AM, calling for folks to join Scouting.

"All Girls, 14-17"
"BSA Troop 1474"

Um, what's the "B" stand for?

This makes me sad and angry. Boy Scouts was an important part of my growth as a youth.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 09:34 AM (3cUTc)

It's not BSA any more, and hasn't been for years.

They change the name practically annually. This year, I believe it's Scouting America.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 21, 2026 09:52 AM (gLYp7)

285 Good morning, all. Thanks, J.J.

California captures nearly two-thirds of all U.S. venture capital and possesses more billionaires than any other state.

In 2026, when a powerful healthcare union pushed the Billionaire Tax Act onto the state ballot—which would impose a 5% levy on individuals worth over $1 billion—Newsom aggressively opposed the measure, explicitly arguing that state-level wealth taxes are "bad economics" because they would trigger an exodus of ultra-wealthy residents and tech founders to lower-tax states.

Instead, he proposed a federal billionaire tax to shift the political pressure away from California.

By actively shielding the state's elite from progressive tax hikes, he maintains their financial backing and prevents corporate flight.

California boasts the fifth-largest economy in the world, now exceeding $4 trillion. Because the state drives over 40% of all U.S. stock market growth and hosts more S&P 500 headquarters than any other state (69 companies in 2026), Newsom can execute major political maneuvers without fear of minor corporate pushback.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 21, 2026 10:00 AM (NFX2v)

286 (Also other factors such as, because of California's massive market share, Newsom has been exploring direct trade agreements with international partners to bypass federal tariffs on clean energy and agriculture. When California imposes an environmental or digital regulation, tech and manufacturing companies worldwide are forced to comply simply because they cannot afford to lose access to the California market.)

Reportedly, he has a 51% in-state approval rating. Yes, the state is experiencing net domestic out-migration, with hundreds of thousands of middle-class residents leaving the state, but his leverage comes from protecting the top 1% of earners from aggressive state-level taxation while utilizing a supermajority progressive base to pass high-profile, national-facing policies that elevate his profile for a future presidential run.

Newsom enacted that law to prevent conservative governors from deploying their own state National Guard units (under Title 32) into California—specifically ahead of fears of troop deployments at polling stations during the upcoming November midterms.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 21, 2026 10:00 AM (NFX2v)

287 For progressive voters, Silicon Valley donors, and Hollywood elites, this move positions Newsom as a shield against federal overreach. By framing the law as an act to protect California's sovereignty and guard against "military intimidation" at voting centers, he strengthens his status as a national Democratic leader.

Reportedly, Newsom knows the policy risks alienating moderates and the state's remaining conservative pockets, but it costs him very little where his power lies.
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The progressives are all that they rail against & more from cancel culture/deplatforming to elitism comprised of highly educated, affluent, and urban individuals demanding ideological conformity and expanding power through regulation and agencies while pretending to dismantle deeply entrenched corporate monopolies. Whew.
--
Cato Institute, Progressivism’s Tainted Label
Summer 2016 • Regulation

During a Democratic Party presidential debate this past February, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders sparred over who was the most “progressive.” The label has a connotation of social reform. Liberals (in the American, as opposed to the classical, sense) and socialists are viewed as progressive. (Much more.)

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 21, 2026 10:00 AM (NFX2v)

288 "Time to nationalize/federalize all California polling places and call out the Army to guard them while preventing any and all wetbacks from casting a ballot. ICE should be sent in force to California."

Except they don't have polling places. Every voter is registered automatically (whether they want to or not) and sent a ballot to be mailed in. I wonder how many ballots are bought for $5 apiece from "voters" who don't give a shit. You can vote in California without even proving your existence.

Posted by: Flakey Foont at September 21, 2026 10:07 AM (qwS9/)

289
Geez. Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor's initial path to the federal bench was heavily championed by the late New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who recommended her for her first federal judgeship in 1991.

Moynihan.

Yeah, that history explains it.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 21, 2026 10:20 AM (NFX2v)

290 G’mar chatima tova

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 21, 2026 10:42 AM (NFX2v)

291 182 >>I thought this was funny. The DSA is asking for a mascot like the Republicans elephant.

https://tinyurl.com/y3dmf44z


Isn't it obvious?


A PIG.
Posted by: Animal Farm at September 21, 2026 09:00 AM (rOKnE)
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I think flesh eating bacteria would be perfect. Problem is how to make it recognizable. . . .

Posted by: Bonecrusher at September 21, 2026 11:13 AM (7aGEe)

292 Newsom also just declared a State of Emergency, to get the state read for an expected El Nino winter. So, it might rain hard, so we need a state of emergency?

No, this SOE is to get ready for the November elections. He is going to use his heavy hand to make sure CA stays Blue. No matter what it takes.

Posted by: Random PJ at September 21, 2026 12:01 PM (+jscL)

293 From above, 'Lindsay Clancy’s Devil’s Bargain'
The Clancy story is a cautionary tale that touches on our universal dilemma—that, as imperfect as we are, we attempt to discern right from wrong, moral from immoral, and to choose wisely.

"While we can all feel sympathy for her struggles with postpartum depression and insomnia, where’s the sympathy for the three young lives she snuffed out?"

No, I don't. Following the birth of the third child in May 2022, Lindsay Clancy remained on continuous leave - not even due for evaluation or extension until after the murders - and on the medical leave portion greatly decline. Further, there was no evidence establishing that she & her husband took an informal walk & agreed then she'd quit nursing. Also, in February after the killings, Lindsay then tells a psychologist she had heard a male voice telling her to kill the kids & herself.

No, imho, Lindsay Clancy, model for "the feminist left," is being used as a centerpiece for law vs. intersectionality, CRT, DEI. Educated, white, upper class, married, could plan pregnancies, upwardly mobile successful husband, and one of the best law teams in the nation.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 21, 2026 12:06 PM (NFX2v)

294 USA Today, 'A 'not guilty' verdict won't free Lindsay Clancy'
If Lindsay Clancy wins her insanity defense, she won't automatically go free. Instead, she will likely be forced to stay in a medical facility. Experts say that could last for years. Aug. 28, 2026

"While Clancy would avoid going to prison if she is found not guilty as a result of a mental disease or defect – Massachusetts' version of the insanity defense – that wouldn't mean she would go scot-free. Instead, prosecutors can petition a court to commit her to a medical facility for an initial period of six months."
...

"Massachusetts law states that a person committed after a successful insanity defense can be recommitted over and over again, each time for a one-year period."

She was "depressed" even following the birth of her 1st child, the 5 year old daughter.

Enough opening the prison gates & 3 day mental holds in the US for major felonies.

Let her sign a legal agreement because she deserves no less than life in a high security medical facility. Period.

And other groups will be watching.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 21, 2026 12:06 PM (NFX2v)

295 declined

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 21, 2026 12:09 PM (NFX2v)

296 I hate to wake you up J.J. Sefton, but The U.S. Constitution specifically states that each State decides how to execute their own elections. The Federal Government is specifically bared from intervening on how those elections and vote counting is conducted.
That said.
Election of a POTUS is a Federal issue, and not an internal State issue. That gives the DOJ authority over how that election, voting and counting is conducted.

Posted by: John at September 21, 2026 03:15 PM (9NUKl)

Daily News Stuff 21 September 2026

Top Story



Tech News

Musical Interlude





Disclaimer: It's a fish with arms!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM




Comments

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 04:30 AM (Ia/+0)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at September 21, 2026 04:32 AM (odBC9)

3 Goooooood Morning Morons!

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 21, 2026 04:34 AM (Q/FnY)

4 It figures Warren has her claws in this, she's as smart as a box of rocks.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 21, 2026 04:36 AM (Q/FnY)

5 Video of day is vaguely familiar

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 04:37 AM (Ia/+0)

6 Skip, there's a fun recent video (which I found via Leaflit) on Dungeons and Dragons, and some of the background information is neat stuff about miniatures and wargaming.

https://youtu.be/cf_kNxLSp-w

Posted by: m at September 21, 2026 04:37 AM (odBC9)

7 4 It figures Warren has her claws in this, she's as smart as a box of rocks.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 21, 2026 04:36 AM (Q/FnY)

I'd like to see Faucahontas get her medical care at a low-end Gov't hospital used by our veterans...I bet she gets hers at the best of the best which are serviced by private capital. Hypocrisy was never an impediment to dems, socialists, and commies, but I repeat myself.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 04:39 AM (l3cgK)

8 Ok, I'm out.

No faceplanting on the laptop so I really must be going,
G'nite all.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 21, 2026 04:39 AM (Q/FnY)

9 >>>The European Commissariat is moving a head with a social media ban on children

To follow up on their outright ban on children, pretty much.

Posted by: m at September 21, 2026 04:39 AM (odBC9)

10 8 Ok, I'm out.

No faceplanting on the laptop so I really must be going,
G'nite all.
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 21, 2026 04:39 AM (Q/FnY)

Faceplanting on the laptop is allowed, I think!

Posted by: m at September 21, 2026 04:40 AM (odBC9)

11 Disclaimer: It's a fish with arms!

"Exciting!"--Kurt Eichenwald

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 04:43 AM (l3cgK)

12 9 >>>The European Commissariat is moving a head with a social media ban on children

To follow up on their outright ban on children, pretty much.

Posted by: m at September 21, 2026 04:39 AM (odBC9)

It's always about control...of us AND our children.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 04:44 AM (l3cgK)

13 >>>Someone with no understanding of the point of MCPs

MCP = Model Context Protocol

Posted by: m at September 21, 2026 04:45 AM (odBC9)

14 13 >>>Someone with no understanding of the point of MCPs

MCP = Model Context Protocol

Posted by: m at September 21, 2026 04:45 AM (odBC9)

MCP = Master Control Program ("Tron")

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 04:52 AM (l3cgK)

15 12 9 >>>The European Commissariat is moving a head with a social media ban on children

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It's always about control...of us AND our children.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 04:44 AM (l3cgK)

yep

Posted by: m at September 21, 2026 04:54 AM (odBC9)

16 >>>The European Commissariat is moving a head

eerie
Even for the EC(ommissariat) (hah)

Posted by: m at September 21, 2026 05:00 AM (odBC9)

17 Watched Icehouse - Electric Blue as these videos then pop up on my YouTube app

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 05:05 AM (Ia/+0)

18 >>>Someone with no understanding of the point of MCPs is here to explain why we don't need MCPs. (MaharshiP)

Looks like there is no place for comments at that blog post?

Posted by: m at September 21, 2026 05:06 AM (odBC9)

19
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 21, 2026 05:11 AM (AMvSw)

20 Good morning, everyone!

I had such a nice yesterday. First, JTB told me that he was going to order "The Complete Works of Francis Fenelon" which made me happy. I hope he likes it Recommending books is like introducing one friend to another and you're delighted when they "get along." Then I went to a book signing and talk by the dear daughter of our church patriarch, It is about her father's memories of growing up the town where the church is and where they both grew up. He was a dear , interesting funny man and died last year. She thanked me ( along with lots of other people.) I had never gotten thanked in an author's book before and I was so touched by that.. Finally, I went to a wonderful service at the Anglican Church in America. They have a wonderful priest wherever had communion , and I was delighted to see a nine year old being baptized. On the way back to our car, we saw a rose bush which spelled lovely. Thanks, God!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 21, 2026 05:11 AM (JrHfD)

21 Obamacare was not destructive enough. This is the next attempt at getting single payer to make everyone in health care be beneath the .gov's influence and control.

Posted by: clarence at September 21, 2026 05:13 AM (Ue5am)

22 I bet she gets hers at the best of the best which are serviced by private capital.

And if we had a media worth the title, that would keep getting pointed out.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 21, 2026 05:15 AM (svLOV)

23 21 Obamacare was not destructive enough. This is the next attempt at getting single payer to make everyone in health care be beneath the .gov's influence and control.

Posted by: clarence at September 21, 2026 05:13 AM (Ue5am)

"You'll get to keep your doctor"--Obama
"You'll get to keep your hospital"--Faucahontas

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 05:15 AM (l3cgK)

24 Autocorrect - Wonderful priest " and had communion"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 21, 2026 05:15 AM (JrHfD)

25 You'll get to keep your doctor"--Obama
"You'll get to keep your hospital"--Faucahontas
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 05:15 AM (l3cgK)

"We care about your health" - all of them

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 21, 2026 05:17 AM (aKiSo)

26 Man writes on "Heart of the matter" and 1st Samuel 16:6-12 An "Upper Room" devotional:

https://tinyurl.com/59c3bn8a

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 21, 2026 05:17 AM (JrHfD)

27 Was clear a hour ago but clouds covered now
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 05:18 AM (Ia/+0)

28 So, The EU thinks the EU's social media posts are trash and not fit for consumption by children.

Cool.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 21, 2026 05:19 AM (aKiSo)

29 "You'll get to keep your doctor"--Obama
"You'll get to keep your hospital"--Faucahontas
****

If they inadvertently tell a small truth, they use as many words as possible to obscure that information. When they lie, they keep it short so the lie can be endlessly spread.

Posted by: clarence at September 21, 2026 05:20 AM (Ue5am)

30 Piddington saved by bats ???

https://youtu.be/Myh3R6cApK4

Posted by: you really don't want to know at September 21, 2026 05:20 AM (NxbVa)

31 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 21, 2026 05:21 AM (sAmhv)

32 Oh. Fenelon. Did not realize it was a reference.

So "Fenelon Spoke". Or the blue version "Fenelon's Poke" ?

Posted by: you really don't want to know at September 21, 2026 05:29 AM (NxbVa)

33 May the Lord bless and protect Israel and the Jewish people in Israel and around the world!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 21, 2026 05:29 AM (JrHfD)

34 21 Obamacare was not destructive enough. This is the next attempt at getting single payer to make everyone in health care be beneath the .gov's influence and control.
Posted by: clarence at September 21, 2026 05:13 AM (Ue5am)

Like this:

12 9 >>>The European Commissariat is moving a head with a social media ban on children

To follow up on their outright ban on children, pretty much.

Posted by: m at September 21, 2026 04:39 AM (odBC9)

It's always about control...of us AND our children.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 04:44 AM (l3cgK)

Posted by: m at September 21, 2026 05:36 AM (odBC9)

35 Old time hymn sung by country singer Alan Jackson, "The old rugged cross":

https://tinyurl.com/5n66642c

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 21, 2026 05:47 AM (JrHfD)

36 Since I'm looking at retiring relatively soon, I'm investigating my options for medical coverage. I'm quietly hoping that the options still exist when I finish working.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 21, 2026 05:48 AM (svLOV)

37 Way early

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 05:52 AM (wKZ2x)

38 There once was a fraud called obama
Whose face offended a llama
A political hack
Pretending to be black
Not even worth yo mama


fin

Posted by: clarence at September 21, 2026 05:56 AM (Ue5am)

39 So I'm reading the latest news on the Sheeran debacle and naturally, he apologized for what happened.

sigh Stop apologizing to these screaming meat sacks. I want people like him to punch back and say "I have nothing to apologize about and if that's a problem, I suggest you cry harder."

Posted by: NR Pax at September 21, 2026 05:57 AM (svLOV)

40 Evening and morning, late toilers early risers, and die-hard devotees (either of vintage Sears batteries or of the classic Bruce Willis film)!

Yes. It is Monday. 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 September 21, 2026 05:59 AM (wzUl9)

41 Last night, a strangely connected dream. I seemed to be Napoleon Solo of The Man From U.N.C.L.E., in a new city and walking along a shopping avenue. Suddenly I needed to get to the local headquarters. I raced that way in a car, bumping across a gravel pathway that came to a dead end. But across a narrow ditch was a helipad with a 'copter. Unlike the Solo of the series, I did not know how to fly it, so a co-worker gave me a lift and a little lesson on the way.

We set down at what appeared to be an open-air mall, concealing the local headquarters. Inside, I helped Mr. Waverly, my boss, pile some food and coffee on trays (?), and we took them up an escalator. Then I found my new station was not an office or cubicle. It was a seat with several other agents suspended halfway up a darkened auditorium. I was trying to analyze data on the big screen below when I woke up. Whew. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026 06:07 AM (wzUl9)

42 Private equity-owned veterinary hospital chains is a huge scandal in CA and most other states. Unless there's obvious intentional harm, good luck getting any real remedy for even gross negligence which is shockingly common and much of it is systemic/operational because you and your pet are just cu$tomers with commodities. "We support the human-animal bond" and "We know pets are family" -- bullshit.

Posted by: Dark Lix at September 21, 2026 06:10 AM (Fv808)

43 I'm having a really hard time posting stuff ( and everybody says "Yay!" ) so I think this is a sign I avoid posting anymore today ( and everybody says, "Yay" ) 😉 and go do something with my dear spouse who has the day off. Have a good day everyone. May you have a blessed day and know you are a blessing to others .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 21, 2026 06:11 AM (JrHfD)

44 39 So I'm reading the latest news on the Sheeran debacle and naturally, he apologized for what happened.

sigh Stop apologizing to these screaming meat sacks. I want people like him to punch back and say "I have nothing to apologize about and if that's a problem, I suggest you cry harder."
Posted by: NR Pax at September 21, 2026


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Clay and Buck, in a rerun from earlier this week, mentioned something about this Ed Sheeran. Who is he, and what is the debacle?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026 06:12 AM (wzUl9)

45 "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 September 21, 2026 05:59 AM (wzUl9)
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Easy for you to say.

You don't have a stack of papers to grade because you were procrastinating all weekend.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2026 06:13 AM (FZ29D)

46 Who is he, and what is the debacle?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius


Précis version: He's a well-know musician whose opening act hijacked things for a Free Palestine rant. Opening act was kicked off, screeching followed.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 21, 2026 06:15 AM (svLOV)

47 Précis version: He's a well-know musician whose opening act hijacked things for a Free Palestine rant. Opening act was kicked off, screeching followed.
Posted by: NR Pax at September 21, 2026


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Thanks! Now I remember what Clay and Buck were saying. But Sheeran didn't do the kicking off, did he? It was the tour manager or something like that?

If ES agrees with the tour manager, then he should indeed say so and tell the screechers to get stuffed.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026 06:19 AM (wzUl9)

48 46 Who is he, and what is the debacle?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Précis version: He's a well-know musician whose opening act hijacked things for a Free Palestine rant. Opening act was kicked off, screeching followed.
Posted by: NR Pax



Opening act was Macklemore (whatever the spelling is. close enough). He was a blip on the pop culture radar about a decade+ ago. He's on the 'Kill the Jews' train in a sad attempt at relevance again.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 21, 2026 06:20 AM (sAmhv)

49 Good morning Horde thx Pixy.
Reading about the Euroweenies trying to control social media and watching them destroy their own nations, I realized that there is no difference between them and the profligate , corrupt and stupid royalty of old. It took WWI to wipe a lot of royalty away, but replaced with bureaucrats with the same attitudes

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2026 06:20 AM (oUMhY)

50 I see Cindy Crawford's son has died in rehab at age 27. He and his sister were just recently on the cover of one of Miss Linda's fashion magazines. I knew who his sister was -- she looks remarkably like Cindy at that age in the early '90s -- but not her brother. Until I scanned the article, I thought he was yet another JFK family descendant. "Gerber" was his name.

Did Cindy marry an heir to the baby food company fortune?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026 06:25 AM (wzUl9)

51 Super model Cindy Crawford's son has died while in a rehab facility per the Post. You'd think with all the advantages these privileged kids have that they wouldn't need drugs.

Posted by: Tuna at September 21, 2026 06:25 AM (lJ0H4)

52 Until I scanned the article, I thought he was yet another JFK family descendant. "Gerber" was his name.

Did Cindy marry an heir to the baby food company fortune?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Nah. He owns a restaurant in Malibu

Posted by: Tuna at September 21, 2026 06:28 AM (lJ0H4)

53 Super model Cindy Crawford's son has died while in a rehab facility per the Post. You'd think with all the advantages these privileged kids have that they wouldn't need drugs.
Posted by: Tuna at September 21, 2026


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Cindy herself looks great and her life seems stable, which suggests that any drug experiences she's had are long behind her. But the kids would have been exposed to that culture.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026 06:28 AM (wzUl9)

54 An election in Germany yesterday pretty much wiped out the present controlling party. They say PM may not be in office much longer, and it looks like the 3 far left parties will control. Yea for the Greens they will finish off what left of sensible government in Germany.

Posted by: Coliin at September 21, 2026 06:30 AM (CiQE7)

55 You'd think with all the advantages these privileged kids have that they wouldn't need drugs.
Posted by: Tuna


If I had to guess:

1. Lack of self worth because you are the child of someone famous.

or

2. Early exposure to the decadent lifestyle and you think you won't be hurt by it.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 21, 2026 06:32 AM (svLOV)

56 Worked out solidly the last two days, half an hour Saturday to close out the previous week and again Sunday to start the new one. I'm taking off today. My grocery list is growing, but I hate to spend the dough until my SS ship docks on Wednesday. Perhaps later I'll run out, gas up the car before the next price increase, and pick up a few essentials at Aldi.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026 06:32 AM (wzUl9)

57 The furry thugs are doing well. Last night Linda brought over one of her endless series of free canned cat food samples which she has to review online. Stuff looked like chicken a la King. Dagny wouldn't touch it, and, oddly, neither would the voracious Stirling. She put it outside for one of the transient cats or ferals. If it's still there today, guess what kind of review it's gonna get.

She also borrowed Dagny for the day to pose her by one of the other cat food cans, and posted the pics on her review. In the pics Dagny looks even more elegant than usual. The lighting made her look much browner than she does in here, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026 06:39 AM (wzUl9)

58 All AI is nothing but ones and zeros in a computer. THERE IS NO COMBINATION OF ONES AND ZEROS THAT COMES TO LIFE. And I have a proof of that: I simply ask Fermi's question: "WHERE ARE THEY?" IF AGI CAN EXIST AND THAT AGI ALWAYS WIPES OUT BIOLOGICAL LIFE, WHERE ARE THE KILLER ROBOTS FROM SPACE? THEY CAN TRAVEL FROM STAR TO STAR, BECAUSE THEY DON'T AGE OUT LIKE BIOLOGICAL LIFE DOES. So they would already have filled the galaxy.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at September 21, 2026 06:41 AM (WDknQ)

59 I wish my co-workers could at least be on time

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 06:42 AM (wKZ2x)

60 You gotta be kidding me, Faucahontas! You and your expanding bureaucracy long ago destroyed any small entities providing medical care. So, it is either big commercial enterprises or the government, from now on. Which choice will be more expensive and incompetent ?
By the way, if I recall correctly, it was reported a while back that the CEO of the computerized medical record company (“EPIC” software) was a political contributions “bundler” for Mr. Obama. Surprised?

Posted by: Fenderbender at September 21, 2026 06:44 AM (1FEc1)

61 I simply ask Fermi's question: "WHERE ARE THEY?" IF AGI CAN EXIST AND THAT AGI ALWAYS WIPES OUT BIOLOGICAL LIFE, WHERE ARE THE KILLER ROBOTS FROM SPACE? THEY CAN TRAVEL FROM STAR TO STAR, BECAUSE THEY DON'T AGE OUT LIKE BIOLOGICAL LIFE DOES. So they would already have filled the galaxy.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at September 21, 2026


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"The killer robots only just now became sentient and started out. They'll be here in 33,000 years."
( -- AI answer)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026 06:44 AM (wzUl9)

62 Monday morning!! Woohoo!!! Yeah!!

Said no one, ever

Posted by: Common Tater at September 21, 2026 06:45 AM (Q9ENj)

63 Monday morning!! Woohoo!!! Yeah!!

Said no one, ever
Posted by: Common Tater at September 21, 2026


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Except during summer vacations from school, I hated Mondays even before I started working.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026 06:46 AM (wzUl9)

64

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at September 21, 2026 06:47 AM (SRdv/)

65 "The killer robots only just now became sentient and started out. They'll be here in 33,000 years."
( -- AI answer)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026


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Also from AI: "Tee-hee"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026 06:47 AM (wzUl9)

66 "Super model Cindy Crawford's son has died while in a rehab facility per the Post. You'd think with all the advantages these privileged kids have that they wouldn't need drugs."

The mouse utopia study would suggest that's why they need drugs. That people need some amount of challenge, stress, goals, purpose, aims, that sort of thing.

I looked it up: Universe 25. Of course the communists hijack it for the wrong less because the POINT of communism is to sell utopia to suckers, so they claim the mice all gave up because of overpopulation.

That serves communists too because they mostly want to kill everyone else including each other.

I do see your point though. You'd think well off children could find some outlet for their time and resources. I'm sure a lot do.

Posted by: meh at September 21, 2026 06:48 AM (kK7U2)

67 "You'd think well off children could find some outlet for their time and resources."

I sure did.

Posted by: Hunter Biden at September 21, 2026 06:49 AM (kK7U2)

68 Drug abuse tends to be self-limiting, at least insofar as one destroys their life and the means to acquire them. “Cocaine is God’s way of letting you know you have too much money”. Not so wiith the rich and famous. Every day is Friday or a long weekend. They can afford to destroy brain cells on an extended basis.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 21, 2026 06:50 AM (Q9ENj)

69 That last one gave me a genuine case of the sads. What if it's not a bubble?
If it is a bubble, i want that pop to be heard from Mars.
The online coursework for one of my subjects has a video embedded from LinkedIn learning telling us to treat ai use as a conversation to ensure good prompts. I want to see where this goes.

Posted by: Nato at September 21, 2026 06:51 AM (XAyZ8)

70 I came from a middle-class background, and I spent fifteen years dancing with alcohol. If I'd had a trust fund when I turned eighteen, I might well be dead now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026 06:51 AM (wzUl9)

71 39 So I'm reading the latest news on the Sheeran debacle and naturally, he apologized for what happened.

sigh Stop apologizing to these screaming meat sacks. I want people like him to punch back and say "I have nothing to apologize about and if that's a problem, I suggest you cry harder."
Posted by: NR Pax at September 21, 2026 05:57 AM (svLOV)

Mr. Sheeran can apologize for the “music” he “makes”. Icehouse is Mozart by comparison.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 21, 2026 06:51 AM (vupS9)

72 54 An election in Germany yesterday pretty much wiped out the present controlling party. They say PM may not be in office much longer, and it looks like the 3 far left parties will control. Yea for the Greens they will finish off what left of sensible government in Germany.
Posted by: Coliin at September 21, 2026 06:30 AM (CiQE7)

Merz is staying as Bundeskanzler as that is his dream job. I don’t think he goes unless by some fucking miracle the AfD wins a majority in a state election. At which point the “firewall” fails.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 21, 2026 06:55 AM (vupS9)

73 "WHERE ARE THEY?"

I am approaching. I am Nomad.

Posted by: Nomad at September 21, 2026 06:55 AM (MWfyi)

74 Mr. Sheeran can apologize for the “music” he “makes”. Icehouse is Mozart by comparison.
Posted by: Cow Demon


To be fair, there are a lot of famous musicians that fit in that category.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 21, 2026 06:56 AM (svLOV)

75 71 39 So I'm reading the latest news on the Sheeran debacle and naturally, he apologized for what happened.

.............

The New York Post refers to him as a "Cowardly halfwit"

Posted by: Molly k. at September 21, 2026 06:57 AM (j/yko)

76

Nomad, rider of the ancient east
Nomad, rider that men know the least
Nomad, where you come from, no one knows
Nomad, where you go to, no one tells

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 21, 2026 06:58 AM (vupS9)

77 Nomad has a lot in common with Cotton Eyed Joe.

Posted by: meh at September 21, 2026 07:02 AM (kK7U2)

78 mornin yall. This is already my favorite story of the day:

"The writer behind the New York Times’ controversial 1619 Project deliberately sent her daughter to poor Big Apple schools as a “sacrifice” to try to boost the education system — and no one is angrier than the kid.

The teen is now “boiling” mad — badly behind her peers after finally being allowed to enroll in a more rigorous high school, her mother revealed in a bombshell bizarre essay.

Nikole Hannah-Jones, 50, enrolled her only child in two struggling Brooklyn public schools beginning in 2015 — as part of a battle to change what she characterized as systemic racism"

Posted by: fd at September 21, 2026 07:05 AM (MWfyi)

79 Another factor in the sad suicide - it’s a safe bet that anyone who is born into that wealthy culture will grow up with no faith, no religion of any kind.

Combine that with limitless money and the overconfidence and foolishness of youth, it’s easy to slide into a hedonistic nihilism that cares little for life or death. An example that went even worse is Rob Reiner’s son.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 21, 2026 07:06 AM (sTKQb)

80 "Sometimes I wish instead of always thinking about other kids, you would have thought about me,” Hannah-Jones’ now-16-year-old daughter, Najya, said during a confrontation over the summer."

Posted by: fd at September 21, 2026 07:07 AM (MWfyi)

81 "The killer robots only just now became sentient and started out. They'll be here in 33,000 years."

So WE are the most technologically advanced race in the Galaxy? Analog computers existed on this planet more than 2000 years ago (The Antikythera mechanism) and programmable computers date back to Babbage in the 1800's. (And yes when Babbage's differential engine was actually built, it and Ada Lovelace's programs for it ran correctly.)

By the way, your AI answer is another example of AI hallucinations. It is not even a reasonable explanation of the Fermi Paradox.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at September 21, 2026 07:08 AM (WDknQ)

82 "The experience left Hannah-Jones doubting the wisdom of the convictions she held to so dear for nearly a decade — and foisted upon her daughter to fight against racial inequality.

“I wanted my child to see it my way, to see the struggles she was having as part of a lineage and a mandate,” she wrote. “To understand the tremendous privilege that I believed inoculated her against the worst consequences of the dysfunction and at times educational malpractice that she and her classmates experienced.”

Idiot.

Posted by: fd at September 21, 2026 07:08 AM (MWfyi)

83 Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky is urging lawmakers to end federal welfare benefits for refugees and instead allow churches and family members to sponsor newcomers.

I agree with the first part but given that a lot of the "refugees" are basically seeking better welfare benefits, I'm not in agreement with the second part.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 21, 2026 07:09 AM (svLOV)

84 Should have given a non-apology apology. "I'm sorry your feelings were hurt...."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 21, 2026 07:09 AM (36x1j)

85 "Sometimes I wish instead of always thinking about other kids, you would have thought about me,”

But sweetie, mommy wants to be invited to the cool kids club and that just doesn't happen if I only focus on you.

I'm reminded of what an old friend went through when he got his daughter into a really good Catholic school. First thing out of a co-worker's mouth was "What about the families who can't afford that?!"

Thankfully, his response was "I don't care. I'm not raising them."

Posted by: NR Pax at September 21, 2026 07:11 AM (svLOV)

86 This nitwit came up with the 1619 Project that leftys jumped on like gospel. She is completely full of shit.

Posted by: fd at September 21, 2026 07:12 AM (MWfyi)

87 Jones is a real piece of work. Belligerently ignorant. From the hometown I was raised. One of those northern midwest industrial towns, kind of a mini Detroit. Largely segregated, the population shifted during World War I thousands moved north for employment while Wilson drafted everyone to fight a Euro civil war.

My dad said there were very fine families in the “north end” but Johnson’s “Great Society” completely destroyed that. The 60s riots were destructive, and never recovered economically. Just a complete mess, the rot has spread into the entire town.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 21, 2026 07:17 AM (Q9ENj)

88 Good morning! Data Republican had an interesting article about using AI to boost math proficiency. In a nutshell, the AI administered some testing to identify weak areas and missing skills, then focused on those. The net result was math proficiency at the desired grade level in about 6 weeks. Seems to me that a good math teacher could do that.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 21, 2026 07:17 AM (3Ope8)

89 If my mother could have afforded better and yet stuck me in a Blackboard Jungle school, I'd be boiling mad too and would disown her as soon as I could become independent.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026 07:18 AM (wzUl9)

90 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at September 21, 2026 07:19 AM (2Ez/1)

91 "The experience left Hannah-Jones doubting the wisdom of the convictions she held to so dear for nearly a decade — and foisted upon her daughter to fight against racial inequality.

“I wanted my child to see it my way, to see the struggles she was having as part of a lineage and a mandate,” she wrote. “To understand the tremendous privilege that I believed inoculated her against the worst consequences of the dysfunction and at times educational malpractice that she and her classmates experienced.”

Idiot.
Posted by: fd at September 21, 2026


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A tour of a Blackboard Jungle school couldn't have done this, without marooning the daughter among aliens?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026 07:21 AM (wzUl9)

92 It sounds like to me that Hannah Jones wanted her daughter to continue her legacy of blaming the white man for keeping her down.

Posted by: fd at September 21, 2026 07:25 AM (MWfyi)

93 It sounds like to me that Hannah Jones wanted her daughter to continue her legacy of blaming the white man for keeping her down.

If Hannah's daughter gets too uppity, there is always the basement and the exercise bands.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 07:27 AM (NzX/y)

94 The social media bans are all a smokescreen for removing anonymity from the Internet. With that accomplished, all of your socked posts will result in Antifa showing up at your house, or at least Lindsay Clancy cultists.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 07:27 AM (2aYv8)

95 If you are out deer hunting, how about make sure you are shooting at a deer and not somebody's mom?

"Maryland Hunter Shoots Mother of Five He Mistook for a Deer"

Posted by: fd at September 21, 2026 07:27 AM (MWfyi)

96 On top of all that, this Hannah-Jones is a perfect example of "fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026 07:28 AM (wzUl9)

97 Seems to me that a good math teacher could do that.

Yes. Now show me the legions of "good math teachers".

Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 07:29 AM (9Hs2w)

98 Maryland Hunter Shoots Mother of Five He Mistook for a Deer

Congratulations, Florida Man. You are out of the news for at least a day.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 21, 2026 07:29 AM (svLOV)

99 "Maryland Hunter Shoots Mother of Five He Mistook for a Deer"

Shouldn't have bought the Walmart optics.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 21, 2026 07:31 AM (9Hs2w)

100 "Maryland Hunter Shoots Mother of Five He Mistook for a Deer"

Here's a twist on the story. Her remains will be sent back to Guatamala.

Posted by: fd at September 21, 2026 07:33 AM (MWfyi)

101 JJ has arrived!

Posted by: NR Pax at September 21, 2026 07:34 AM (svLOV)

102 About MCP:
It’s a horrible protocol built for a time when LLMs weren’t that smart, and we’ve outgrown it.

Well, they STILL aren't actually smart. And the biggest problem with AI is that you think they are.

Posted by: GWB at September 21, 2026 07:36 AM (kU0PQ)

103 mentioned something about this Ed Sheeran. Who is he, and what is the debacle?

Wikipedia has that info, put in Ed Sheeran controversy.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at September 21, 2026 07:40 AM (WDknQ)

104
Meanwhile in America Democrats are moving to outlaw medicine. (Truthout)

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The photo heading the article shows Elizabeth Warren in full birdhand conformation, coming in for a henpecking strafing run.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 21, 2026 07:56 AM (azNOR)

105 I'm having trouble understanding the line of reasoning in this article and comments thread.

Granted, if Sen. Elizabeth Warren is involved...it has to be
bad. But this subject is being glossed over by Ace and his readers.

Private Equity funds are the type of rapacious enterprises that swoop in on distressed companies, sell off everything of value to get a return for the investors, and then sell it to someone else to clean up their mess. This is what happened to Red Lobster. The idea that any one of these soulless companies are running health care...or any part of it...terrifies me.

Can someone speak to this subject?

Posted by: Samuel Adams at September 21, 2026 09:48 AM (4xuom)

106 npm and other open source package repositories need something like Boost for C++. As in, a large metapackage that contains a lot of vetted and maintained code. No more leftpad owned by someone having a bad hair day.

Nope, I'm not volunteering for this.

Posted by: Nathan at September 21, 2026 10:02 AM (KMIjy)

107 30 is - somehow - a CHILD?
I was on my own and earning money by 18. When circumstances forced me to head back to the family home, I paid rent and food, and my family considered that a really good deal.
I paid for my own health insurance, college, clothing, and other expenses, and was extremely grateful for the (rare) offers of a ride in the family car. Mostly, I walked or took the bus - at MY expense.
I married just short of my 23rd birthday, and my husband and I handled all our business.
The only time we borrowed money from family was at my 31-year-old brother-in-law's passing. We needed to rent a more reliable car to travel to the funeral, and when my husband asked, my brother came through. It took a few months to fully pay it back. We were VERY grateful. We returned the favor without charge when that same brother needed a place to stay for a month or two.
EVERY PERSON over high school age needs to start the process of paying their own way. If they have circumstances - health, children, or problems finding a job in a bad economy - they can at least find some part-time way to get cash to manage their transportation, even if that transport is a bike.

Posted by: Linda S Fox at September 21, 2026 10:51 AM (7Rs+y)

108 The photo heading the article shows Elizabeth Warren in full birdhand conformation, coming in for a henpecking strafing run.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 21, 2026 07:56 AM (azNOR)

I would pay good money to any person who would tell her to "STFU, you insufferable ***t!"

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 21, 2026 11:04 AM (hmYU4)

109 The idea that any one of these soulless companies are running health care...or any part of it...terrifies me.

Can someone speak to this subject?
Posted by: Samuel Adams at September 21, 2026 09:48 AM (4xuom)

I have no health for which to care. Sorry.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 21, 2026 01:38 PM (vupS9)

110 Spam at 107.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 21, 2026 01:38 PM (vupS9)

Sunday Overnight Open Thread - September 20, 2026

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Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Sunday ONT. Appreciate you stopping by. Open thread, as always. Fashion and music, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

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Wholesome content


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Happy Anniversary to Buck Rogers!


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Jimmy's is getting ready for Halloween


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Careful out there, oyster lovers

Fourth Florida resident dies after contracting flesh-eating bacteria linked to oysters

A fourth person in Florida has died after contracting flesh-eating bacteria commonly linked to consuming raw or undercooked oysters, health officials said.

The death was included Thursday in the Florida Department of Health's updated fatality count for the deadly flesh-eating bacterium Vibrio vulnificus.

The individual was from Broward County and between the ages of 75 and 79, WSFA reported. It remains unclear exactly how the person contracted the infection.


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Another day, another something happening differently than the "scientists" thought it would

Africa Is Breaking Apart Faster Than We Thought, Forming a New Ocean

Geologists have discovered that the African continent will split apart sooner than we thought. An active rift has reached a "critical threshold" and will soon break apart, forming a new ocean.

That said, 'soon' is a relative term – it'll still take a few million years more, but that's a blink of an eye on a geological scale.

"We found that rifting in this zone is more advanced, and the crust is thinner, than anyone had recognized," says Christian Rowan, a geoscientist at Columbia University.

"Eastern Africa has progressed further in the rifting process than previously thought."

These super smart people want us to make long term policy decisions based on their predictions of stuff. Yet they are constantly proven wrong.


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Need a place to stay for the Texas MoMe? Maybe this is your answer!

Towable A-frame is about as small and simple as a tiny house gets

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Personally, if I was living in a tiny house, I'd want to get the largest and most luxurious model I could afford, but a lot of people neither want nor need all that extra space. This A-frame on wheels is for such people. With a length of just 4.8 m (15 ft) and consisting of one room, it's about as small and simple as they come.

The Mini Brda Classic is designed by Poland's Mini Domy and is a pint-sized take on the firm's much larger Brda. Taking its name from a traditional Polish A-frame house, this thing is seriously small and is more like a hardshell tent than a proper house. To put its diminutive size into perspective, the 2023 Ford Expedition is significantly longer.

It's built from wood and clad in metal, with a classic A-frame triangular form, while the interior is finished in tongue-and-groove wood and laminate flooring. Though pictured here on a double-axle trailer for easy towing, it can also come without a trailer for permanent installation.


Staying with the tiny house idea

Shipping container transformed into cozy tiny house for two

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The humble shipping container is little more than a basic metal box, but designers and architects never seem to run out of ideas for what to do with it. The Luna Cottage is a particularly nicely done example, transforming a standard container into a cozy tiny house for two.

The Luna Cottage is based on a 20-ft (6-m)-long shipping container, but it has been heavily modified with a door and windows, plus given a uniform coat of paint. A secondary roof has also been added, which does a good job disguising the metal box's original industrial origins and should improve its thermal performance.

Not bad looking inside - check the link for more photos.

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'Ette Couture (Courtesy of Piper)

It's that time of the week - when we turn the ONT over to our good friend Piper for a bit. Here's this week's fashion pr0n.

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Late 1800s–1940s:

Organized cheering began at American colleges in the late 19th century, and it was mostly men. There was no official uniform industry. Squads wore sweaters, slacks, or whatever athletic clothes they already owned.

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Women were not widely allowed onto squads until the 1920s. During World War II, men left campus and women took over the activity, ruining it just like they do everything else they touch. Dang 19th Amendment. Anyway, a recognizable girls’ look began to settle in: long skirts, sweaters over blouses or turtlenecks, sturdy shoes and pointy elbows.

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1950s-60:

By mid-century the uniform had a formula people still picture when they think “old-school cheerleader”: a bulky letter sweater, a long wool or cotton skirt, saddle shoes or oxfords, and socks. School letters and megaphone patches made the squad readable from the bleachers.
Skirts were still modest—often calf-length or longer. The point was identity, not range of motion. A 1959–60 school photo captures the look almost perfectly: oversized letter sweaters, below-the-knee green skirts, white shoes, and a megaphone appliqué on the hip.

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1970s:

Uniforms kept evolving toward mobility: shorter skirts, tighter sweaters, short sleeves, and tennis shoes. Some teams tried jumpers, hot pants, go-go boots, or capes. Hemlines rose because tumbling and partner stunts were not feasible with extra fabric.

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The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, redesigned in the early-to-mid 1970s, put a midriff-baring top, tiny shorts, fringe, and white boots on national television.
An early Cowboys photo still has hats, longer skirts, and a more costume-like Western theme.

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Within a few years the signature formula was set: cropped vest, knotted blouse, short white shorts, belt, and boots.

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1980s–1990s:

Skirts kept shrinking through the ’80s and ’90s as routines got more athletic. A common school rule had been “skirt to the fingertips.” That rule lost to tumbling safety: extra fabric can catch during a back handspring. Fitted stretch fabrics replaced stiff wool. Metallics and rhinestones crept in by the late ’90s, especially on college and all-star teams.

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2000s–today:

A current uniform is sleeker than the 1980s version but still built on the same pieces: fitted top, short skirt, team colors.

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The through-line is simple. Every time the choreography got harder, the clothes got lighter, shorter, and more engineered. The letter sweater never fully vanished, it just got compressed into a shell, then into a crop top covered in rhinestones.


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Thanks, Piper!

The rest of you - Don't forget to check out Piper's X page.

Speaking of Piper's X page - evidently the Emmy's took place on Monday. Piper posted a bunch of fashion stuff. Including this


I guess X thinks I care about this stuff now because this hit my feed recently

These celebrity types really do make some stupid choices with the stuff they wear.

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1 Hope y'all been grooovin' on this Sunday.

https://youtu.be/-ft8WLX9G1I

Posted by: mindful webworker - casually at September 20, 2026 10:02 PM (MX7Zk)

2 1st

Posted by: LRob in OK at September 20, 2026 10:02 PM (Jr+re)

3 Yea!! Cheerleaders!!!

Posted by: Tonypete at September 20, 2026 10:02 PM (IMGZD)

4 At the Diner;
Bubba said to Babe, let’s blow this joint.
Babe say, nah, pass it on to the waitress.


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 20, 2026 10:03 PM (4tmEn)

5 Aw man. Where did the guns go?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 20, 2026 10:03 PM (1Ff7Z)

6 Aw man. Where did the guns go?
Posted by: OrangeEnt


Out of the canoe and into the lake, usually.

Posted by: mikeski at September 20, 2026 10:04 PM (VHUov)

7 Hello friends!

Posted by: Piper at September 20, 2026 10:04 PM (ZdaMQ)

8 RE: That towable A frame -

Isn't an A frame home about the most inefficient use of interior space possible?

Posted by: Tonypete at September 20, 2026 10:05 PM (IMGZD)

9 Evening Horde!

Posted by: Iris at September 20, 2026 10:07 PM (286+n)

10 I didn't expect to make the top ten socks. I'm not even here all that much.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 20, 2026 10:07 PM (88C+u)

11 Has everyone survived killer AI weekend?

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 20, 2026 10:08 PM (JbQFX)

12 *plays Yakity Sax*

G 'n R sounded like shit in concert.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 20, 2026 10:09 PM (4ZxBh)

13 Sorry I'm late, I heard a knock at the door and next thing you know, I was changing a diaper.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 20, 2026 10:09 PM (7Bowa)

14 I made the top 10. First ever.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 20, 2026 10:09 PM (4ZxBh)

15

Too bad Erin Grey dined at the Y... she could have turned me straight!

Posted by: Peter Bootygig at September 20, 2026 10:10 PM (/Q0lN)

16 Buck Rogers premiered OTD in '79.

If you had told me that 40 odd years later we wouldn't really be doing anything in space outside of sending up satellites I wouldn't have believed.

Obviously in the far future of 2026 we'd have bases at least on Mars right?

But...we spent all that money on the War on Poverty I guess so at least we have Obamaphones and Aloha Snackbar stabbings right?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 20, 2026 10:10 PM (sKqQm)

17 just like they do everything else they touch

Ladytron are still around
youtu.be/4fkdizZ1lBw

Posted by: 88C+u at September 20, 2026 10:10 PM (88C+u)

18 Towable A-frame is about as small and simple as a tiny house gets

The shape is silly. Only a pinhead could stand up in it.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 20, 2026 10:10 PM (Riz8t)

19 The heat has finally broken and it's supposed to be in the 70s this week. 'Bout freakin' time.

Posted by: Dr. T at September 20, 2026 10:10 PM (lHPJf)

20 The Luna Cottage is based on a 20-ft (6-m)-long shipping container, but it has been heavily modified with a door and windows, plus given a uniform coat of paint. A secondary roof has also been added, which does a good job disguising the metal box's original industrial origins and should improve its thermal performance.

I suggest not welding the original shipping-container door shut, so your house has two functional doors.

Posted by: C. Blasey Ford at September 20, 2026 10:11 PM (VHUov)

21 Speaking of cheerleading the NFL bringing in male dancers is mind boggling stupid.

Now you could have brought in men to have them lift/throw the women like they do in college and honestly no one would have cared.

But bringing in male dancers? They weren't kidding when they told us the NFL was gay were they?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 20, 2026 10:11 PM (sKqQm)

22 This time clicked FF to hear EL&P. Not thirty seconds into the song, they hadn't finished the intro and F'ng hueToob interrupted the song, Interrupted the Song with a F'ng commercial.
WHAT A TRASHY OUTFIT.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 20, 2026 10:12 PM (4tmEn)

23 These celebrity types really do make some stupid choices with the stuff they wear.

Well, face it Piper. Most of them aren't very intelligent to begin with.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 20, 2026 10:12 PM (1Ff7Z)

24 But bringing in male dancers? They weren't kidding when they told us the NFL was gay were they?
Posted by: 18-1

"Fags and Felons" has a nice ring to it.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 20, 2026 10:12 PM (IMGZD)

25 Sorry I'm late, I heard a knock at the door and next thing you know, I was changing a diaper.
Posted by: tankdemon


Can you send Joe home, then? Just call an Uber.

Posted by: Jill Biden at September 20, 2026 10:12 PM (VHUov)

26 Now you could have brought in men to have them lift/throw the women like they do in college and honestly no one would have cared.

But bringing in male dancers? They weren't kidding when they told us the NFL was gay were they?
Posted by: 18-1 at September 20, 2026 10:11 PM (sKqQm)



NFL fans have shown repeatedly that it doesn’t matter how woke the league gets they’ll never leave. Mostly due to gambling I suspect.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 20, 2026 10:13 PM (JbQFX)

27 >>Careful out there, oyster lovers

Florida man. It's like eating Wisconsin alligator.

We good.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2026 10:13 PM (viF8m)

28 It does amuse me that when you mostly review men from any part of cheerleading the outfits get teeny tiny. Same thing with most female athletics actually

"The male gaze is EVIL but...my butt has to look good and I have to show it to you.

Also, I hate Sydney Sweeney for showing off her body!"

Posted by: 18-1 at September 20, 2026 10:13 PM (sKqQm)

29 ALW are going to send a team into the playoffs under .500

Posted by: 88C+u at September 20, 2026 10:14 PM (88C+u)

30 NFL fans have shown repeatedly that it doesn’t matter how woke the league gets they’ll never leave. Mostly due to gambling I suspect.

I haven't watching a game since they started kneeling and going gay and...I guess those two things go together don't they.

I just don't get why people still with something do opposed to what they stand for...especially when they game has gotten so shitty.

I guess maybe you are onto something with the gambling

Posted by: 18-1 at September 20, 2026 10:15 PM (sKqQm)

31 23 These celebrity types really do make some stupid choices with the stuff they wear.

Well, face it Piper. Most of them aren't very intelligent to begin with.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 20, 2026 10:12 PM (1Ff7Z)

I didn’t like this on the runway. If it looks atrocious on a runway model, it will never look good in real life.

Posted by: Piper at September 20, 2026 10:15 PM (ZdaMQ)

32 Too bad Erin Grey dined at the Y

Really? Very disappointing.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 20, 2026 10:15 PM (4ZxBh)

33 *****lesh-eating bacteria commonly linked to consuming raw or undercooked oysters,
---

PSA:

God didn't give us fire to keep us warm.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 20, 2026 10:16 PM (4tmEn)

34 Oh, no! Back on the board!

Top 10 sockpuppeteers:…
6 [28 names] 'mindful webworker - amen'


Sockpuppet Wizard
There has to be a twist
Sockpuppet Wizard's got
such a supple wriiiist

How do you think he does it?
What makes him so good?
etc.



Cheerleaders. Well, pretty good. Could use more elbow grease...? Better than just shoes.🤪

whut?

Posted by: mindful webworker - deef dumn & bland boy at September 20, 2026 10:16 PM (MX7Zk)

35 I ran across of video of some guy that goes into swampy areas at night in FL and "yonks" the various animals he sees. Yes including gators.

And...the snakes occasionally turn around bite but everything else just runs.

Oh he grabbed a coyote once and the poor thing looked like it was doing its best to pretend to be a dog...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 20, 2026 10:17 PM (sKqQm)

36 Thanks doof and Piper.
Who or what is a Shailene Woodley.
It appears to be a female of some species but I don't ever want to know anything else.
I assume since its at an awards show it's some flavor of lunatic libtard.

Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at September 20, 2026 10:17 PM (+jRTn)

37 Evenin'


Erin Gray was memorable. Still alive at 76.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 20, 2026 10:17 PM (sAmhv)

38 I guess maybe you are onto something with the gambling
Posted by: 18-1 at September 20, 2026 10:15 PM (sKqQm)

Maybe, but you don't need to attend the games to gamble. Bet by phone, get results on news.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 20, 2026 10:17 PM (1Ff7Z)

39 ***"Eastern Africa has progressed further in the rifting process than previously thought."

Is it, I say, is it at the Prime Meridian?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 20, 2026 10:17 PM (4tmEn)

40 9 [22 names] 'Cicero (@cicero43)'

youtu.be/bdazIpDDrO8

Posted by: don't steal this riff at September 20, 2026 10:18 PM (88C+u)

41 Isn't Erin Gray married to a guy?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 20, 2026 10:18 PM (sKqQm)

42 Erin Gray became a defining childhood crush for a whole generation
---------
Princess Ardala.

Posted by: scampydog at September 20, 2026 10:18 PM (j9ga8)

43 RE: That towable A frame -

Isn't an A frame home about the most inefficient use of interior space possible?

Posted by: Tonypete at September 20, 2026 10:05 PM (IMGZD)

Not if you're a frigging conehead.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 20, 2026 10:18 PM (S41Gd)

44 Isn't an A frame home about the most inefficient use of interior space possible?

Posted by: Tonypete at September 20, 2026 10:05 PM (IMGZD)

Correct. The shape is best for heavy snow locales.

Posted by: davidt at September 20, 2026 10:19 PM (Q+gd/)

45 I didn’t like this on the runway. If it looks atrocious on a runway model, it will never look good in real life.
Posted by: Piper at September 20, 2026 10:15 PM (ZdaMQ)

Designer must think any publicity is good publicity. Silly outfit still gets the name out.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 20, 2026 10:19 PM (1Ff7Z)

46 36 Thanks doof and Piper.
Who or what is a Shailene Woodley.
It appears to be a female of some species but I don't ever want to know anything else.
I assume since its at an awards show it's some flavor of lunatic libtard.
Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at September 20, 2026 10

She is an actress, and is pretty. Just not here. As I said in the post, it’s clear she cried her eyes out when she saw this, which then left no time for hair.

Posted by: Piper at September 20, 2026 10:19 PM (ZdaMQ)

47 The A frame with a steep pitch is almost required for structures that see heavy snow loads high in the mountains, like in our Very Large Square States. I’ve seen a couple vintage cabins or similar that have a large second story with a steep pitch, and overhang. I think the idea was similar to a wearing a tall hat, the large attic kept it cooler in n the summer. Then in the winter, you moved into the second floor, that would stay considerably warmer.

Prior to air conditioning there were all sorts of very important features built into or on a home, location and siting being important but also revolving around year round comfort based on taking advantage of certain things that don’t seem important today.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 20, 2026 10:20 PM (QPjUO)

48 One difference between 70s/80s TV and later is not all the actresses were beautiful - so someone like Erin Gray stood out.

Of course I don't watch TV now so maybe they reversed that again?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 20, 2026 10:20 PM (sKqQm)

49 I'll bet moving day is easy peasy when you live in a shipping container.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 20, 2026 10:20 PM (wpRMV)

50 My wife was a cheerleader in HS long before we knew each other. Small town, only one HS. From what she’s told me it was a big deal.

My school was suburban 3000 students. Everyone had their own thing going on for any one group to stand out too much. The whole John Hughes football players and cheerleaders being the cool kids was kind of a foreign concept to me. I assumed it was just a movies thing but I guess it was a thing in some schools.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 20, 2026 10:20 PM (JbQFX)

51 @16

>>If you had told me that 40 odd years later we wouldn't really be doing anything in space outside of sending up satellites I wouldn't have believed

The biggest challenge to doing anything at any great distance from earth is escaping earth itself.

It takes a sh*ton of energy to escape earth because, paradoxically, it takes sh*ton of energy to escape earth and that sh*ton weighs a sh*tton.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 20, 2026 10:20 PM (XV/Pl)

52 I’m no fan of USC, but by gum their cheerleaders’ white sweaters, and the cheerleaders themselves TBH, are top notch

Posted by: pikkumatti at September 20, 2026 10:21 PM (eTiH0)

53 ***ruining it just like they do everything else they touch
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I'm a ruined man.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 20, 2026 10:21 PM (4tmEn)

54 Thanks Piper.
I tend to avoid such things as actors, movies and most music.
I feel much better for it.

Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at September 20, 2026 10:22 PM (+jRTn)

55 This time clicked FF to hear EL&P. Not thirty seconds into the song, they hadn't finished the intro and F'ng hueToob interrupted the song, Interrupted the Song with a F'ng commercial.
WHAT A TRASHY OUTFIT.
Posted by: Braenyard


I don't know if it's because I have a Googly/YooToob account, or because of the ad blocks on my browser, but I never get those anymore. Sure don't miss 'em.

But Trashy Outfit, no argument there.

Posted by: mindful webworker - rust but veryfly at September 20, 2026 10:22 PM (MX7Zk)

56 Maybe, but you don't need to attend the games to gamble. Bet by phone, get results on news.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 20, 2026 10:17 PM (1Ff7Z)

The real money is generated from TV and the degenerates watch all the games. Who wins or loses is almost an afterthought all that matters is the spread and all the parlays as well as fantasy stats.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 20, 2026 10:23 PM (JbQFX)

57 "Too bad Erin Gray dined at the Y....".

I can't decide whether the proper response is (a) Lies, sir, damnable lies! or (b) Pics, or it didn't happen.

Posted by: PabloD at September 20, 2026 10:23 PM (CoKDD)

58 Dishman, Washington? Never hear of it.

I still like the pleated cheer skirts best, ( along with the UT song girl chaps- unique and adorable). The tight, short, straight skirts just aren't flattering.

Posted by: LASue at September 20, 2026 10:23 PM (lCppi)

59 I think I just watched the nadir of ai videos, it was George St. Pierre fighting increasingly bigger dinosaurs, culminating with him submitting a T-Rex with a bare naked choke hold.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 20, 2026 10:23 PM (XV/Pl)

60 Male cheerleader on the far right is a Business Major....notice the wingtips.

And secondly, I refuse to make fun of Axl Rose. I expected him to be laid out on a slab decades ago. It stubborness impresses me.

Posted by: Orson at September 20, 2026 10:24 PM (dIske)

61
Tanked up on gas to the limit this afternoon, food stuffs and a box of ammo I don't need

Posted by: Auspex at September 20, 2026 10:24 PM (Y8DZL)

62 My school was suburban 3000 students. Everyone had their own thing going on for any one group to stand out too much. The whole John Hughes football players and cheerleaders being the cool kids was kind of a foreign concept to me. I assumed it was just a movies thing but I guess it was a thing in some schools.


What about the sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, and dickheads?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 20, 2026 10:24 PM (Riz8t)

63 Thanks for the engaging and entertaining ONT, Doof!

And thanks to Piper for the cheerleading fashion!

Great photo up top. Looks like fall is here.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 20, 2026 10:25 PM (D/6p1)

64 a box of ammo I don't need


Say that in English - not sure I understand.

Posted by: LRob in OK at September 20, 2026 10:25 PM (Jr+re)

65 What about the sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, and dickheads?
Posted by: Archimedes

All good friends with Feris.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 20, 2026 10:25 PM (JbQFX)

66 Isn't an A frame home about the most inefficient use of interior space possible?
Posted by: Tonypete


Sane people: Betcha can't design a tiny house with a cathedral ceiling!

Poland: Hold my śliwowica and watch this!

Posted by: mikeski at September 20, 2026 10:25 PM (VHUov)

67 Erin Grey was married to men twice.

If she's down on the muffin, sounds like its recreational as opposed to lifestyle

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 20, 2026 10:25 PM (xcxpd)

68 59 I think I just watched the nadir of ai videos, it was George St. Pierre fighting increasingly bigger dinosaurs, culminating with him submitting a T-Rex with a bare naked choke hold.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 20, 2026 10:23 PM
***
Bad AI.

Posted by: TRex - dino abuse hotline at September 20, 2026 10:26 PM (XfIK1)

69 What about the sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, and dickheads?
Posted by: Archimedes

A-ha!

Posted by: Principal Rooney at September 20, 2026 10:26 PM (88C+u)

70 "Too bad Erin Gray dined at the Y....".

I can't decide whether the proper response is (a) Lies, sir, damnable lies! or (b) Pics, or it didn't happen.
Posted by: PabloD


Since when did "And" have no power here?

Posted by: mikeski at September 20, 2026 10:27 PM (VHUov)

71 Greetings Horde.

Thanks for the entertaining ONT Herr Doof.

According the review in the local commie paper, Iron Maiden had a monster show at a new MN casino venue last night. Sadly, I wasn't there

Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at September 20, 2026 10:27 PM (K7v1x)

72 It takes a sh*ton of energy to escape earth because, paradoxically, it takes sh*ton of energy to escape earth and that sh*ton weighs a sh*tton.
Posted by: Thomas Bender


The rocket equation is a stone- liquid-oxygen-cold bitch.

Posted by: mikeski at September 20, 2026 10:28 PM (VHUov)

73 Thanks for the ONT, Doof!

Posted by: LRob in OK at September 20, 2026 10:28 PM (Jr+re)

74 And I do love cheerleaders

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 20, 2026 10:29 PM (xcxpd)

75 Piper forgot to include the tranny cheers...
. _ GOOD for her!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 20, 2026 10:29 PM (4tmEn)

76 I'll bet moving day is easy peasy when you live in a shipping container.
Posted by: Cicero


Whoa.

Posted by: Neo at September 20, 2026 10:29 PM (VHUov)

77 a box of ammo I don't need

?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 20, 2026 10:29 PM (4ZxBh)

78 65 What about the sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, and dickheads?
Posted by: Archimedes

All good friends with Feris.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 20, 2026 10:25 PM (JbQFX)

They think he's a righteous dude

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 20, 2026 10:30 PM (xcxpd)

79 77 a box of ammo I don't need

?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 20, 2026 10:29 PM (4ZxBh)

Ah....32 ACP

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 20, 2026 10:30 PM (xcxpd)

80
Sounds like space is a shitty place.

Posted by: Auspex at September 20, 2026 10:30 PM (Y8DZL)

81 >>>>If you had told me that 40 odd years later we wouldn't really be doing anything in space outside of sending up satellites I wouldn't have believed

If someone told you two years ago the southern border would be sealed up tighter than a frogs asshole and we are now seeing record deportation numbers from inside the US that might have come as a surprise as well.

Ignore the media.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2026 10:31 PM (viF8m)

82 75 Piper forgot to include the tranny cheers...
. _ GOOD for her!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 20, 2026 10:29 PM (4tmEn)

We are a family blog, sir!

Posted by: Piper at September 20, 2026 10:31 PM (ZdaMQ)

83 "Eastern Africa has progressed further in the rifting process than previously thought."

Wakanda will go the way of Atlantis. Sad.

Posted by: mikeski at September 20, 2026 10:31 PM (VHUov)

84 a box of ammo I don't need


Say that in English - not sure I understand.
Posted by: LRob in OK at September 20, 2026 10:25 PM (Jr+re)

Empty.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 20, 2026 10:32 PM (qx7Zg)

85 80
Sounds like space is a shitty place.
Posted by: Auspex

in fact it's cold as hell

Posted by: 88C+u at September 20, 2026 10:33 PM (88C+u)

86 @80

>>Sounds like space is a shitty place.

It's big, it's really, really big, and it's dangerous, it want's to kill you.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 20, 2026 10:34 PM (XV/Pl)

87 Wakanda will go the way of Atlantis. Sad.
Posted by: mikeski at September 20, 2026 10:31 PM (VHUov)

----------

You know what this means, don't you?

Them Greek homos are going to get away with it!

Posted by: Rev. Al at September 20, 2026 10:34 PM (wpRMV)

88 18 Towable A-frame is about as small and simple as a tiny house gets

The shape is silly. Only a pinhead could stand up in it.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 20, 2026 10:10 PM (Riz8t)

DH is a rather large individual. When we bought the camper, he told the salesman he would only look at campers with a king bed and tall enough for him to stand up in comfortably. Dealer said, "This is the one." It was.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 20, 2026 10:34 PM (Ntshk)

89 Erin Gray seems like a very down to earth woman. She appreciated the female empowered aspect of Col. Deering but also was fine with character's feminine aspect. From a pretty old interview that I got a chuckle out of:

Are your male fans very shy when they come up to you at conventions?

It’s interesting; I’ve learned to recognise that there’s a certain age group of gentlemen between about 36 and 43 – we’re walking down the street and all of a sudden you see the lights go on behind the eyes. What I’ve found from going to the events is that obviously I helped a lot of young teenage boys go through puberty!

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at September 20, 2026 10:34 PM (9ZFZd)

90 >>Sounds like space is a shitty place.

It's big, it's really, really big, and it's dangerous, it want's to kill you.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 20, 2026 10:34 PM
***
Like Australia.

Posted by: TRex - travel agent dino at September 20, 2026 10:35 PM (XfIK1)

91 Also, a lot of pointy elbows in this ONT!

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at September 20, 2026 10:35 PM (9ZFZd)

92 >>It's big, it's really, really big, and it's dangerous, it want's to kill you.

Sounds like the ocean.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2026 10:35 PM (viF8m)

93 83 "Eastern Africa has progressed further in the rifting process than previously thought."

Wakanda will go the way of Atlantis. Sad.
Posted by: mikeski



Somalia and Ethiopia. The Great Rift Valley, I would assume. A post rift split causing a giant lake maybe an improvement.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 20, 2026 10:36 PM (sAmhv)

94 Tiny House........

There are a couple of outfits that will take a standard shipping container, or two, and make them into a pretty cool self contained, solar powered, off grid sort of thing.

Not cheap either.

But air delivery by helo... for a price.

You supply the land and whatevers.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 20, 2026 10:37 PM (2Cry5)

95 93 Somalia and Ethiopia. The Great Rift Valley, I would assume. A post rift split causing a giant lake maybe an improvement.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 20, 2026 10:36 PM (sAmhv)

By the time that happens, all the Somalis will be living in Minnesotta.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 20, 2026 10:39 PM (7Bowa)

96 I went to high school with one of the original Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders. Rose Hall. Very nice girl and she has a somewhat famous younger sister.

Posted by: Case at September 20, 2026 10:40 PM (xJpuh)

97 In one episode of Buck Rogers, Wilma gets possessed by some evil force or something and makes this snarling, angry face. With those really pointy canines, she suddenly looks like a vampire—and 14-year-old Lemmiwinks is just like, “OMG… I’m totally into vampires now.”

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 20, 2026 10:40 PM (9FfUF)

98 Bed time, early morning through noon and then at 4 I get my hair highlighted to oblivion. Yay!

Posted by: Piper at September 20, 2026 10:41 PM (ZdaMQ)

99 It'd be nice if those tinyhome photogalleries also gave us an overhead/'how it all fits in' view, not just... three different zooms of the same room.

Piper, thank you for the science for why scanty cheerleader costumes are Safety Conscious! If it saves just one cheerleader from a twisted ankle....!

I'm sleepy, dunno how active I'll be this evening. I should finish getting ready for bed, read Joshua 1-4, and get some sleep.

Praying for job results this week (the sub position isn't quite active yet, plus, well... hoping for something better to work out sooner rather than later. I like kids, I'm good with bureaucracy, I'm not sure my mind will survive mixing the two).

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 20, 2026 10:41 PM (aJQbY)

100 Ah....32 ACP
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 20, 2026 10:30 PM (xcxpd)

Probably 9mm. 32ACP belongs in its namesake guns, the '03 Hammerless.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 20, 2026 10:41 PM (1Ff7Z)

101 At my high school, cheerleaders were the apex species of idiots. Serious airheads. I suspect most of the peaked in high school and it was a slow slide to irrelevance thereafter.

However, the cheerleading coach had a Lamborghini, and she wasn't horrible. But her students were... handicapped.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 20, 2026 10:41 PM (Ntshk)

102 96 I went to high school with one of the original Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders. Rose Hall. Very nice girl and she has a somewhat famous younger sister.
Posted by: Case at September 20, 2026 10:40 PM (xJpuh)

Did this younger sister gather no moss?

Posted by: tankdemon at September 20, 2026 10:42 PM (7Bowa)

103 Piper forgot to include the tranny cheers...
. _ GOOD for her!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 20, 2026 10:29 PM (4tmEn)

We are a family blog, sir!
Posted by: Piper at September 20, 2026 10:31 PM (ZdaMQ)


And proud of it.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 20, 2026 10:42 PM (2WIwB)

104
The Shailene Woodley Emmys Balenciaga abomination actually looked okay on the runway model. Same for that mess of yellow satin sheets that Michelle Obama swathed herself in with a pair of thigh-high glitter boots that time. Also by Balenciaga, interestingly enough.

Kids: Some fashions are for professional use only. Do not try this at home!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 20, 2026 10:42 PM (mmrXZ)

105 Shailene Woodley's outfit is deliberately ugly. It's her way of drawing attention to herself. A lot of what celebrities do is childish attention seeking, and frankly pathetic.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 20, 2026 10:44 PM (0Htd1)

106 104
The Shailene Woodley Emmys Balenciaga abomination actually looked okay on the runway model. Same for that mess of yellow satin sheets that Michelle Obama swathed herself in with a pair of thigh-high glitter boots that time. Also by Balenciaga, interestingly enough.

Kids: Some fashions are for professional use only. Do not try this at home!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September

You liked it on the runway? I am surprised as our tastes aren’t always far apart at all. I don’t remember the Obama catastrophe. I will look that up in the morning.

Posted by: Piper at September 20, 2026 10:47 PM (ZdaMQ)

107 At my high school, cheerleaders were second to the drill team.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 20, 2026 10:48 PM (yEz+x)

108 Do I even want to google Shaeilene whatsherface. No idea who she is.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 20, 2026 10:48 PM (2WIwB)

109 Kids: Some fashions are for professional use only. Do not try this at home!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 20, 2026 10:42 PM (mmrXZ)

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*second thoughts about new bespoke dress blazer with embroidered brocade tiger motif, black satin lapels and turquoise lining*

Posted by: Rev. Al at September 20, 2026 10:49 PM (wpRMV)

110 107 At my high school, cheerleaders were second to the drill team.

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Heh. She said "drill team." Heh heh.

Posted by: Beavis at September 20, 2026 10:50 PM (wpRMV)

111 Thanks for the David Bowie, Jean Jeanie video. I have only seen Mick Ronson in one other video (a live performance) before.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 20, 2026 10:51 PM (9FfUF)

112 I suggest not welding the original shipping-container door shut, so your house has two functional doors.
Posted by: C. Blasey Ford at September 20, 2026 10:11 PM (VHUov)


I know this is a joke, but if you put the water heater, main and electrics in that end you can treat the whole end of the box as a utility closet fully accessible from the outside, without having to crawl under or through anything to access it.
I simply adore utility "clusters" for ease of access and cheapness. It helps that I grew up in a house that was retrofitted for power and water.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 20, 2026 10:52 PM (rbvCR)

113 You gotta be a football hero

To get along with a beautiful girl

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2026 10:52 PM (viF8m)

114 A while back, wish I'd saved it, some MORON did a run down of David Bowie being the genesis of several styles of music presentation that subsequently because a fashion of the time.
A trend maker he was.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 20, 2026 10:52 PM (4tmEn)

115 Not just Erin Grey and Princess Ardala, but also guest stars Markie Post, Julie Newmar, Judy Landers, Morgan Brittney, and Jamie Lee Curtis. That show was full of babes in hot costumes and space stuff. Y'know, art.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 20, 2026 10:52 PM (r7+Q7)

116 “What I’ve found from going to the events is that obviously I helped a lot of young teenage boys go through puberty!“

Helped the Tube Sock manufacturers as well

Posted by: Do Not Wash at September 20, 2026 10:53 PM (Q9ENj)

117 Sounds like space is a shitty place.
Posted by: Auspex

in fact it's cold as hell
Posted by: 88C+u at September 20, 2026 10:33 PM (88C+u)

And no one can hear you scream.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 20, 2026 10:54 PM (g8Ew8)

118 Late to the show again, long after the perennially tardy tankdemon. I'm ashamed, but my spirits are somewhat buoyed by finishing on top again in the Sockpuppet Sweepstakes.

Posted by: No Name Given at September 20, 2026 10:54 PM (Fn+3X)

119
Piper, remember this?

https://ie.pinterest.com/pin/
500955158566741172/

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 20, 2026 10:54 PM (mmrXZ)

120 Damn. He does look like Benny Hill.

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 20, 2026 10:55 PM (Y/06r)

121 "The male gaze is EVIL but...my butt has to look good and I have to show it to you.

Also, I hate Sydney Sweeney for showing off her body!"
Posted by: 18-1 at September 20, 2026 10:13 PM (sKqQm)


Blunose thots, who would have ever thought that could be a coalition?
It is like the prudes and the thots joined up to enforce some moral code, like the Baptists and the Bootleggers jointly enforcing prohibition.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 20, 2026 10:55 PM (rbvCR)

122
You liked it on the runway? I am surprised as our tastes aren’t always far apart at all.

Posted by: Piper

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

Maybe it was a matter of comparison, because someone posted the statuesque black model with that hooded cape or whatever it was and it looked so much better. Not all that wearable, but balanced and futuristic.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 20, 2026 10:56 PM (mmrXZ)

123 At the time did not care for the “androgynous” stuff, I was pretty tolerant or at least hopelessly naive but Bowie and Jagger and Ziggy and the weirdo clothes and feathers and that shit was way too weird for me.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 20, 2026 10:57 PM (Q9ENj)

124 @102.
Rose younger sister is Jerry Hall, she was a top model back in the mid '70's. Went on to marry Mick Jagger. They have kids together. They stayed together for many years before breaking up. But she has a mansion and is a millionaire.
And she was not an airhead, she graduated early and spoke fluent French.

Posted by: Case at September 20, 2026 10:57 PM (xJpuh)

125 Erin Gray's grandparents took her to a nudist camp age 8-12 or so. If she turned out normal, that's amazing.

Posted by: California People Are Weird at September 20, 2026 10:58 PM (Fn+3X)

126 Bowie is a strange dude, But who isn't?

I will never forget how much he did for the first responders after 9/11.

https://tinyurl.com/4nd5bfpa

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2026 11:00 PM (viF8m)

127 57 "Too bad Erin Gray dined at the Y....".

I can't decide whether the proper response is (a) Lies, sir, damnable lies! or (b) Pics, or it didn't happen.
Posted by: PabloD at September 20, 2026 10:23 PM (CoKDD)

___________________________

Going to the replay camera for a call. NOPE, Erin Gray the actress was not a lesbian. However, there is a well known author who writes on sexuality and spells her name exactly the same, and she was, indeed, a fishmonger.

Posted by: Orson at September 20, 2026 11:01 PM (dIske)

128
Has everyone survived killer AI weekend?
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 20, 2026 10:08 PM (JbQFX)

___________

Just wait until this week when Putin invades Estonia!!!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 20, 2026 11:02 PM (eRlcH)

129 RE: That towable A frame -

Isn't an A frame home about the most inefficient use of interior space possible?

Posted by: Tonypete
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Dad built a deer cabin; laid out 4x4s, bolted 2x6s flat, floored with plywood, framed sides and roof with plywood. Had a hand cranked boat winch on the front of the 4 wheel trailer. Yeah, deer season coming up he winched that cabin up on the back of that trailer an hauled it to camp. When he quit hunting it became the saddle room.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 20, 2026 11:02 PM (4tmEn)

130 The only country in the world that has a 13 month calendar year is Ethiopia. And the easternmost point on the mainland of Africa is Somalia. That's all i know about their upcoming rift.


Ethiopia has 12-30 day months and one 5-6 day month as needed.

Posted by: Days Of Future Passed at September 20, 2026 11:03 PM (Fn+3X)

131 I don't think I've ever heard a negative word about David Bowie.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 20, 2026 11:04 PM (XV/Pl)

132 96 I went to high school with one of the original Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders. Rose Hall. Very nice girl and she has a somewhat famous younger sister.
Posted by: Case


We have this cliche that "popular" kids, like football players and cheerleaders, are stuck up. But the reality is that a lot of them were popular because they were friendly kids, and everyone liked them.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 20, 2026 11:05 PM (0Htd1)

133 131 I don't think I've ever heard a negative word about David Bowie.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 20, 2026 11:04 PM (XV/Pl)

----–-----

Read the comments to the Dancing In The Street video.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 20, 2026 11:06 PM (wpRMV)

134 Fourth Florida resident dies after contracting flesh-eating bacteria linked to oysters

Well, duh. There's an 'R' in the month, right? Isn't that the rule?

Posted by: GWB at September 20, 2026 11:07 PM (kU0PQ)

135
We have this cliche that "popular" kids, like football players and cheerleaders, are stuck up. But the reality is that a lot of them were popular because they were friendly kids, and everyone liked them.
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 20, 2026 11:05 PM (0Htd1)

___________

I'd say that I didn't know any football players in HS, but I was in the same history class as Matt Bahr.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 20, 2026 11:07 PM (eRlcH)

136
And, yes, Matt was a nice guy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 20, 2026 11:08 PM (eRlcH)

137 I don't think I've ever heard a negative word about David Bowie.
Posted by: Thomas Bender


Hm.

Bowie couldn't really contact-juggle, in the movie Labyrinth. That was Michael Moschen standing behind him.

Moschen was originally gonna teach Bowie how to do it, but Bowie didn't have the skillz. Moschen called Bowie "mediocre."

Posted by: mikeski at September 20, 2026 11:09 PM (VHUov)

138 115 Not just Erin Grey and Princess Ardala, but also guest stars Markie Post, Julie Newmar, Judy Landers, Morgan Brittney, and Jamie Lee Curtis. That show was full of babes in hot costumes and space stuff. Y'know, art.
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 20, 2026 10:52 PM (r7+Q7)


You left out Dorothy Stratten....

Posted by: goozer at September 20, 2026 11:09 PM (0jdpD)

139 In 1967, Donovan released a two-LP box, A Gift From a Flower to a Garden. Peak flower child. Received as a belated Christmas gift at my Father's funeral in early January, 1968, a gift from my nine-years-older brother (RIP, PR) along with Ravi Shankar two-LP set, Anthology of Indian Music Vol I. (There was no Vol II as far as I ever found.) Played those albums a lot.

This song was lyrics by that old hippy Billy Shake-a-spear. (As You Like It - Act 2, scene 5) Ducdame, ducdame, ducdame is secret code. I think it means don't bogart that J.

https://youtu.be/e7G1rvzFvw0

And here's my exit. Party on, fellow kids.

G'nite, all.💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - An if he will come to me at September 20, 2026 11:10 PM (MX7Zk)

140 >>I don't think I've ever heard a negative word about David Bowie.

The entire trick to life is finding people who fit your weird and ignoring the rest.

After that it's all downhill and smiles.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2026 11:10 PM (viF8m)

141 But bringing in male dancers? They weren't kidding when they told us the NFL was gay were they?
Posted by: 18-1

"Fags and Felons" has a nice ring to it.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 20, 2026 10:12 PM (IMGZD)

Nancies and Felons League

Posted by: Split my uprights big boy! at September 20, 2026 11:10 PM (TbWk/)

142 I know of several kind, generous, acts by David Bowie. In 2006 he wrote a song "Slip Away" about watching the Uncle Floyd Show on local TV in NYC area, and called Floyd to tell him about it. Floyd was touched by that, but was more touched several months later when a very big check showed up, royalties, proceeds from the song. Floyd wouldn't say how much it was, but it was many thousands. Bowie did not have to do that.
The other kindness was paying for Marc Bolan's son's private school tuition and fees, etc. The son was 2 when Marc died in a car accident, age 29. This was only revealed after Bowie's demise.

Posted by: Brixton's Own at September 20, 2026 11:14 PM (Fn+3X)

143 138 115 Not just Erin Grey and Princess Ardala, but also guest stars Markie Post, Julie Newmar, Judy Landers, Morgan Brittney, and Jamie Lee Curtis. That show was full of babes in hot costumes and space stuff. Y'know, art.
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 20, 2026 10:52 PM (r7+Q7)

You left out Dorothy Stratten....

Posted by: goozer at September 20, 2026 11:09 PM (0jdpD)

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I used to watch Buck Rogers because I was a 13 year old who was obsessed with space and sci-fi. I kept getting boners while watching that show.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 20, 2026 11:18 PM (9FfUF)

144 16 seconds left in 27-27 tie game between KC and IND

Posted by: pawn at September 20, 2026 11:18 PM (EV0C1)

145 Shipping container transformed into cozy tiny house for two

Meh. I lived in a shipping container-sized "conex" in Bosnia for a while. And we had "conex" bathrooms at several of the bases. I wouldn't want one for a house, though. It's basically a large dorm room. We ate our food elsewhere and we had bathrooms elsewhere.

Posted by: GWB at September 20, 2026 11:18 PM (kU0PQ)

146 My wife was a very popular cool cheerleader in high school. How she ended up me, I'll never know.

Posted by: Fortunate Old Guy at September 20, 2026 11:19 PM (Fn+3X)

147 On the Luna cottage - ackshually...

I've done a lot of research into shipping container homes. And I do a lot of work with AI. The New Atlas site that is linked here is AI slop. It is wrong, confidently, about the size of the container that it was built from - that is a 40 footer not a 20. And the description:

The Luna Cottage is based on a 20-ft (6-m)-long shipping container, but it has been heavily modified with a door and windows, plus given a uniform coat of paint. A secondary roof has also been added, which does a good job disguising the metal box's original industrial origins and should improve its thermal performance.

Is just "AI describe the photo." But new Atlas does link to the original site which is an AirBnB kind of joint - they have 4 "cabins" that are well appointed. Luna rents for about $300 a night. In Hocking Hills, Ohio. Not sure if there are any attractions there.

None of this is a shot at the post or anything. Just providing some community notes.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 20, 2026 11:21 PM (NlEaG)

148 "During World War II, men left campus and women took over the activity, ruining it just like they do everything else they touch."


Well, I for one am glad women took over cheer leading duties. Men cheer leaders is kinda gay...scratch that, its incredibly gay.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 20, 2026 11:22 PM (S41Gd)

149 In 1972 Bowie saved the band Mott the Hoople from breaking up by writing All the Young Dudes for them.

Posted by: Rockin' Mel Slirrup at September 20, 2026 11:25 PM (Fn+3X)

150 We have this cliche that "popular" kids, like football players and cheerleaders, are stuck up. But the reality is that a lot of them were popular because they were friendly kids, and everyone liked them.
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 20, 2026 11:05 PM (0Htd1)


In my school a lot of them were actually jerkoffs. That bad thing though is some of the good ones get swept out with the trash. A lot of the girls also got labeled as unapproachable, and I found this out only recently. I was at small gathering of my graduating class last year, and there was a girl there who was super cute in school, still looked great. I was talking to her and she said something that didn't quite sound right, something about her being left alone. I remember telling her she was popular among the guys so how could that be? She says well nobody ever asked me out. I was stunned, shocked, it blew my mind. I made a joke and said shit if I would have known that I would have asked. She then says, and I would have said yes. Arghhhhh...

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 20, 2026 11:32 PM (S41Gd)

151 Well, I for one am glad women took over cheer leading duties. Men cheer leaders is kinda gay...scratch that, its incredibly gay.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 20, 2026 11:22 PM (S41Gd)


You know who was a male cheerleader?

George W. Bush.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 20, 2026 11:33 PM (NlEaG)

152 So was Ike.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 20, 2026 11:36 PM (88C+u)

153 >>I don't think I've ever heard a negative word about David Bowie.

The entire trick to life is finding people who fit your weird and ignoring the rest.

After that it's all downhill and smiles.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2026 11:10 PM (viF8m)

Pretty much what I always did.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 20, 2026 11:37 PM (S41Gd)

154 Hey...not everyone is jock material.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, team manger at September 20, 2026 11:39 PM (XeU6L)

155 The Cuban government was or probably still is attempting to solve serious housing issues on the island by converting conex boxes into apartments. The people who live in them call them "micro-ondas" or "microwaves" since they are steel boxes in the sun that cook everything in them

Posted by: Kindltot at September 20, 2026 11:39 PM (rbvCR)

156 She says well nobody ever asked me out. I was stunned, shocked, it blew my mind. I made a joke and said shit if I would have known that I would have asked. She then says, and I would have said yes. Arghhhhh...
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 20, 2026 11:32 PM (S41Gd)

You ain't the only one who discovered that long after graduation.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 20, 2026 11:39 PM (1Ff7Z)

157 I want a highly paid easy job where what I have to do is predict things that will happen in a million years. Literally no way to get a bad performance review

Posted by: Azjaeger at September 20, 2026 11:42 PM (3/XaG)

158 >>Pretty much what I always did.

Me too.

Other than the part where I trash people on my side who don't 100% line up with me.

Then the linebacker part of my brain kicks in. And I hit back harder.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2026 11:42 PM (viF8m)

159 I wish that was my canoe. Mine is currently upside down in the side yard, waiting on me to do some patching. FWIW, a Blue Hole 15'9". A veteran of many whitewater adventures.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, team manger at September 20, 2026 11:43 PM (XeU6L)

160 Literally no way to get a bad performance review
Posted by: Azjaeger
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Weatherman.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 20, 2026 11:44 PM (XeU6L)

161 108 Do I even want to google Shaeilene whatsherface. No idea who she is.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 20, 2026 10:48 PM (2WIwB)

Oh do .. absolutely do, and add Arron Rodgers to the search. The two of them were an item for a hot minute, and are now having a public catfight as to who's the bigger asshole

Posted by: browndog says woof at September 20, 2026 11:45 PM (oCio0)

162 She says well nobody ever asked me out. I was stunned, shocked, it blew my mind. I made a joke and said shit if I would have known that I would have asked. She then says, and I would have said yes. Arghhhhh...
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 20, 2026 11:32 PM (S41Gd)

Everyone was an idiot in high school.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 20, 2026 11:47 PM (Ntshk)

163 Oh do .. absolutely do, and add Arron Rodgers to the search. The two of them were an item for a hot minute, and are now having a public catfight as to who's the bigger asshole
Posted by: browndog says woof at September 20, 2026 11:45 PM (oCio0)

Can't they both be the biggest asshole?

Aaron was a fine quarterback for the Packers, but he's got some seriously loose screws.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 20, 2026 11:48 PM (Ntshk)

164 You ain't the only one who discovered that long after graduation.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 20, 2026 11:39 PM (1Ff7Z)

Man no shit. I found that out about chicks at every reunion. To add insult to injury, I found out that 3...fucking THREE, the top 3, of the largest boob wielding chicks in high school had a thing for me. It was their friends that actually told me. Turned out that one never married. Her father was a nazi though, like creepy nazi, so no surprise.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 20, 2026 11:49 PM (S41Gd)

165 The entire trick to life is finding people who fit your weird and ignoring the rest.

After that it's all downhill and smiles.
Posted by: JackStraw

Maybe not the entire trick, but a good portion. You also have to negotiate your way through the karens. But All good. As long as you never take my beach. I’ll die for that.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 20, 2026 11:49 PM (yEz+x)

166 Everyone was an idiot in high school.
Posted by: tcn
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"Ignorance is organic to youth" -- WFB

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 20, 2026 11:51 PM (XeU6L)

167 I was elected cheerleader for my junior year. I was my own weird self and had dated one football player who put his tongue in my ear at a drive in and that did not last. Tramatic. My first date. I then only went to dances or rock concerts to avoid drive in movies. Mostly with friends who kissed me normally on the front porch.

I got elected by morphing two cheers into one by accident at try out...and distraction from a cheerleader friend off stage, doing my cheer with me. The entire student body burst into laughter as I waved and said, "never mind" exit stage left.

Our Home Ec teacher thought I did this on purpose. Right. It is a teen's dream to make a complete fool of herself (my diary said my world ended that day) with football guys on the first six rows of the theater.

I was fit for a uniform but had to transfer to a stupid private school that year due to bussing. I loved the uniform! The transfer was more traumatic than messing up the cheer and my little double kick I planned.

Have hated the federal govt since as they changed school districts. Our school was already intergrated. I could still get po'd about this.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 20, 2026 11:54 PM (hzuYO)

168 I made both lists.

*buffs fingernails on lapel of leisure suit*

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 20, 2026 11:55 PM (2Ez/1)

169 >>Maybe not the entire trick

Did you just contradict me?

I have my own beach. I'll also fix your dog issues.

Trust me.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2026 11:56 PM (viF8m)

170 Ryobi, favorite amateur grade power tool air pump valve stem attachment broke, flew apart. Picked up the various parts but could not find the nut for the machine screw. Days later, after thoughts of smashing it departed I brought it into the house, turned on the lamp and put my glasses on.
It's not a machine screw. It's some type of sheet metal screw into that thin metal frame. Screwed it back together and put an E-Clip on the business end.

Here is AOP's Russian doppelganger explaining the Ryobi problem and how to fix it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=boHcJaAznwI

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 20, 2026 11:56 PM (4tmEn)

171 168 I made both lists.

*buffs fingernails on lapel of leisure suit*
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

Same here. It's a warm, wonderful feeling, isn't it?

Posted by: Resting On Laurels at September 20, 2026 11:58 PM (Fn+3X)

172 I did not know Rose Hall very well. She was a senior and I was a lowly freshman but she always said hello and wore a smile and she never acted stuck up. Her sister Jerry was the same way, very pretty and wore a smile. We were more the same age. One thing about her, she was a little tall compared to most other girls. You would think she would wear flats to make herself look shorter but no, just the opposite, she would wear platforms to make herself appear taller. Could always see her in a crowded hallway.

Posted by: Case at September 20, 2026 11:59 PM (xJpuh)

173 Did you just contradict me?

I have my own beach. I'll also fix your dog issues.

Trust me.
Posted by: JackStraw

And I will fix you warn water oyster fixation. Eeeewww. Just. No.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 21, 2026 12:01 AM (yEz+x)

174 I was stunned, shocked, it blew my mind. I made a joke and said shit if I would have known that I would have asked. She then says, and I would have said yes. Arghhhhh...
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 20, 2026 11:32 PM (S41Gd)
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Older HS guys at 20yr reunions said they were afraid to ask me out. I was so nearsighted they thought I was stuck up vs blind til contact lenses (I refused to wear my glasses except in class).

In the huge university pre-med classes of over 100 mostly males no one asked me out. I thought this odd after moving thousands of miles and finally being ready to date.

My bf said he took a chance and went for it. I guess prepared for a no and I said yes. He thinks the pre-med guys were "intimidated." I was too busy to care or worry about it. I yam who I yam.

Son and DIL are visiting and I am flat out exhausted from all the dinners out. Love them and great to see them. They hope to have a baby soon after a miscarriage in May. I pray every night for this.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 21, 2026 12:04 AM (hzuYO)

175 I loved the Saintsations. Then they started getting male cheerleaders. Out.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 21, 2026 12:07 AM (vupS9)

176 Looks like Bastrop, TX and Liberty Hill, TX have de-Flocked recently.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 21, 2026 12:08 AM (vupS9)

177 Still around. Sorry.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 21, 2026 12:09 AM (CHHv1)

178 >>And I will fix you warn water oyster fixation. Eeeewww. Just. No.

Warm? In New England?

Did I mention my neighbor is both a lobsterman and an oyster farmer?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 12:09 AM (viF8m)

179 The Houston Texans don't have male cheerleaders on the sidelines, we just put ours on the defensive line

Posted by: 88C+u at September 21, 2026 12:10 AM (88C+u)

180 174 I was stunned, shocked, it blew my mind. I made a joke and said shit if I would have known that I would have asked. She then says, and I would have said yes. Arghhhhh...
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 20, 2026 11:32 PM (S41Gd)
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Older HS guys at 20yr reunions said they were afraid to ask me out. I was so nearsighted they thought I was stuck up vs blind til contact lenses (I refused to wear my glasses except in class).

Never have gone to a HS class reunion. Never will. I don't see the point.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 21, 2026 12:10 AM (vupS9)

181 179 The Houston Texans don't have male cheerleaders on the sidelines, we just put ours on the defensive line
Posted by: 88C+u at September 21, 2026 12:10 AM (88C+u)

I was gonna ask if they just went to a local area MS football team and asked if their defensive unit wanted to play in the NFL.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 21, 2026 12:11 AM (vupS9)

182 >> Still around. Sorry.

You're one of us. You have nothing to apologize for.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 12:12 AM (viF8m)

183
Did I mention my neighbor is both a lobsterman and an oyster farmer?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 12:09 AM (viF8m)

Youahh neighbahhh is a lobstahhhman and an oystahhh fahhhmahhh?

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 21, 2026 12:12 AM (vupS9)

184 Never have gone to a HS class reunion. Never will. I don't see the point.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 21, 2026 12:10 AM (vupS9)

I had a shitload of friends in school, so I go just to catch up on things.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 21, 2026 12:14 AM (S41Gd)

185 I had a shitload of friends in school, so I go just to catch up on things.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 21, 2026 12:14 AM (S41Gd)

I had my share but they aren't enough to justify going to a general all-hands reunion. If they gave me a call and were doing something together as a group, I'm there. If I can get there of course...

But HS Class of 19XX (insert number here) reunion? Nah.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 21, 2026 12:23 AM (vupS9)

186
The Europeans have departed or been neutralized. The continent of Africa is entirely in the hands of the Africans. A few years have gone by now, and it turns out they broke the continent.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 21, 2026 12:24 AM (azNOR)

187 Hoo boy did I have a thing for Erin Grey.

Posted by: 496 at September 21, 2026 12:26 AM (Ouiyj)

188 But HS Class of 19XX (insert number here) reunion? Nah.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 21, 2026 12:23 AM (vupS9)

I suspect very few folks show up at our class reunion. It was the pipeline era, so probably half of the graduates left the state nearly immediately. Oil companies rotated folks in and out after a couple of years.

Most of the folks who went on to college did so out of state, since there isn't much up here for secondary education. An awful lot of them didn't come back because they met people, married, had other entanglements. Four years after I graduated from HS, the US economy hit rock bottom. It was worse up here. No jobs. No chances.

And, a lot of folks my age can't afford healthcare up here and move south when they retire.

I can't imagine enough folks would show up to make it worthwhile.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 21, 2026 12:33 AM (Ntshk)

189 > Wilma striding around in those sleek, form-fitting spandex flight suits is permanently etched into the memories of many pre-teen boys

Quite a number of post-teen boys, too.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 21, 2026 12:37 AM (qlLNh)

190 Hat tip. My beverage is tea.

Posted by: Funsize at September 21, 2026 12:41 AM (3j87q)

191 The first Buck Rogers TV series was in 1950. Wilma Deering was played by Eva Marie Saint. She is still alive, aged 102.
You may recall her entering a tunnel with Cary Grant.
She also checked out Brando's pigeons.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 21, 2026 12:43 AM (zdLoL)

192 Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 21, 2026 12:43 AM (zdLoL
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Eva Marie Saint was a very pretty woman

Posted by: 496 at September 21, 2026 12:46 AM (KJYe0)

193 Did I mention my neighbor is both a lobsterman and an oyster farmer?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 12:09 AM (viF8m)

Wow! You know a former Senate candidate??!!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2026 12:47 AM (1Ff7Z)

194 Never have gone to a HS class reunion. Never will. I don't see the point.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 21, 2026 12:10 AM (vupS9)

I don't think many people cared for me then, so I have no intention of going either. Also because I never amounted to much. Too embarrassing to go and see all those people who became VPs of this, owned their own companies, run a brokerage, etc,. while all I ever did was punch a time clock.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2026 12:49 AM (1Ff7Z)

195 >>Wow! You know a former Senate candidate??!!

Jack Reed is a neighbor.

Try again.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 12:50 AM (viF8m)

196 A-frame mini house is stupid. A lot of material to enclose a very tiny space, much of which is unlivable. And can you imagine towing that puppy in a crosswind?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 21, 2026 12:52 AM (1z8ji)

197 Try again.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 12:50 AM (viF8m)

Scheisse! I vas wronk.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2026 12:53 AM (1Ff7Z)

198 Howdy, horde. Thanks, Doof & Piper, for the content!

I haven't been to any HS reunions either. Meh.

Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2026 12:55 AM (rdVOm)

199 Well Opera has fucked me for the last time. I've lost three bookmark collections in as many years now. Looks like Brave has matured quite a bit over that time and I'm making the switch.

Posted by: pawn at September 21, 2026 12:56 AM (EV0C1)

200 >>>Too embarrassing to go and see all those people who became VPs of this, owned their own companies, run a brokerage, etc,. while all I ever did was punch a time clock.

Posted by: OrangeEnt

>I signed a bunch on non-disclosure agreements, never got paid for the shit I did, could have had multiple patents but I gave it away. Life is good. Our class had a great camaraderie and fellowship.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 21, 2026 12:57 AM (5C90x)

201 A shooting near a Belleville, Ont., synagogue left a police officer injured Sunday night.

... Both were transported to hospital.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 01:00 AM (4tmEn)

202 Goodnight morons. Be nice to each other. You never know.

https://tinyurl.com/3d3ztp3k

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 01:02 AM (viF8m)

203 201 A shooting near a Belleville, Ont., synagogue left a police officer injured Sunday night.

... Both were transported to hospital.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 01:00 AM (4tmEn)

In Canada?

Fake news.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 21, 2026 01:02 AM (vupS9)

204 (Canadian author) Paul Theroux , ...
'It will take a long time before the U.S. can be considered a trusted partner,' according to the author of 'True North.'

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 01:02 AM (4tmEn)

205
Still around. Sorry.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

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

BC, was it you or Stateless who is giving up on cat ownership (by which I mean, of course, being owned by cats)?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 01:04 AM (mmrXZ)

206 NFL fans have shown repeatedly that it doesn’t matter how woke the league gets they’ll never leave. Mostly due to gambling I suspect.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 20, 2026 10:13 PM (JbQFX)

Maybe as a whole, but I left.

No football for me since SB LIV.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 21, 2026 01:06 AM (vupS9)

207 204 (Canadian author) Paul Theroux , ...
'It will take a long time before the U.S. can be considered a trusted partner,' according to the author of 'True North.'
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 01:02 AM (4tmEn)

I knew they didn’t teach economics in Canadian schools. I guess they don’t teach geography either.

Get him a map and teach him how to read it. PM Carney needs one too.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 21, 2026 01:10 AM (vupS9)

208
Wilma Deering or Wima Flintstone?

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 21, 2026 01:12 AM (Fv808)

209 (Canadian author) Paul Theroux , ...
'It will take a long time before the U.S. can be considered a trusted partner,' according to the author of 'True North.'
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 01:02 AM (4tmEn)

Not really Canadian. A Frog.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 21, 2026 01:12 AM (1z8ji)

210 Polls say Lula is going to lose. He'll pull something, they won't let Bolsonaro win.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 01:15 AM (4tmEn)

211
No HS reunions for me. Too many bad memories. Then someone put together a grade school reunion and I decided not to attend. Mean girls, mean teachers. Maybe I shouldn't have let them keep me away, but I wondered what the right thing to do is when I'm invited to a party where I'll encounter people I'd snub if I saw them on the street. Snub them at a party, too. Not go?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 01:16 AM (mmrXZ)

212 Speaking of space-y shit, I happened to look up at the sky about 9:00 this evening, and something really bright in the sky, moving East at a fast clip. Pointed it out to others, and we all watched for a few seconds. Then it just plain faded out to nothingness. I think it might have been the ISS, still illuminated by the Sun, which had set for us landlubbers, and then it moved into the Earth's shadow. We were pretty near the airport (YYC) but I doubt I would see aircraft landing lights on a plane at very high altitude, going away from the port. Also no strobes or wingtip lights.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 21, 2026 01:18 AM (1z8ji)

213
204 (Canadian author) Paul Theroux , ...
'It will take a long time before the U.S. can be considered a trusted partner,' according to the author of 'True North.'
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 01:02 AM

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A long time before the U.S. will subsidize Canada's socialism and demographic suicide. A long time before the U.S. will pretend not to see China using Canada to evade U.S. tariffs. Trump told the truth about this. He wasn't very polite about it. How rude. It just isn't done.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 21, 2026 01:18 AM (VWtfl)

214
Polls say Lula is going to lose. He'll pull something, they won't let Bolsonaro win.
Posted by: Braenyard

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

Wait, if Lula is going to lose and Bolsonaro won't win, then... who wins?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 01:18 AM (mmrXZ)

215 Lol, Blondie. HS sucked for me, too.

Mean girls-- catty bitches!

Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2026 01:19 AM (rdVOm)

216 If Carney thinks the U.S. treats Canada badly wait until the rest of Canada figures out what it’s like to be an Associate Member (tax colony) of the EU.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2026 01:22 AM (6ydKt)

217
There are a few ordinary, sensible Africans, and I feel horribly sorry for them. They know the Chinese are building tofu bridges and drainage systems by tofu engineers even though Africa has engineers. They know the Brits left 80 years ago but the infrastructure they built is still in use. How long can a continent stay dark?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 01:22 AM (mmrXZ)

218 OSINTdefender@sentdefender ·

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that he spoke to U.S. President Donald J. Trump earlier today and that the two would be meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly this week. This comes amidst renewed efforts by the Trump administration to realize some level of a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine,
----------

Hey, I've got an idea.
Make sure they get no US mfg weapons or materiel and that war will stop.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 01:24 AM (4tmEn)

219 >>If Carney thinks the U.S. treats Canada badly wait until the rest of Canada figures out what it’s like to be an Associate Member (tax colony) of the EU.

We need to build the Northern Wall *now* before Canaduh gets overrun with " " " migrants " " " as well!

Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2026 01:24 AM (rdVOm)

220
Mean girls-- catty bitches!
Posted by: JQ

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

The thought of ONCE AGAIN having to be polite to those people while they cherish the memories of the abuse they heaped on everyone -- no thanks!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 01:26 AM (mmrXZ)

221 Thecway they’ve been acting lately, I wouldn’t put it past the Brazilian left to put Bolsanaro Jr. in jail for something.

Their rabid left and its judiciary put Bolsanaro Sr. in jail, unlike our rabid left who couldn’t quite get the job completed on Trump.

South America is used to jailing political opponents, though, so not surprising.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2026 01:26 AM (6ydKt)

222 Exactly, Blondie.

Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2026 01:27 AM (rdVOm)

223 Wait, if Lula is going to lose and Bolsonaro won't win, then... who wins?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Someone wrote that poorly. The polls say Lula will lose But Lula will put in a fix one way or another. There are too many crooks in Brazil for Bolsonaro to win.
Lula will win.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 01:27 AM (4tmEn)

224 Well, I am getting tired. Had a busy day. Spent hours chasing a fault in the trailer wiring harness of the Suburban. Could not reach the tap splice where the fault is (I suspect, at any rate). Finally jumpered around it, but still had to do a a bunch of wire splicing while lying on my back on the ground. Did get the little Kubota backhoe safely transported back to its home, had a nice brisket dinner, and beer and fellowship, and came home with big riding mower on the trailer, what needs fixed.

I may be scarce around here tomorrow, as my ISP is doing maintenance on their tower systems tomorrow.

Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 21, 2026 01:31 AM (1z8ji)

225 It's not news it's CNN:
"DoorDash driver shot by ICE in Austin, Texas

A federal immigration agent shot and injured a man on Sunday in Austin, Texas, according to city officials. The man was taken to the hospital and was described as being in stable but serious condition, according to the city’s EMS chief."

CNN skipped over the fact that this illegal alien, from Venezuela, was being chased down by ICE because he had a final order for deportation and was doing everything possible to avoid getting arrested. Of course this ended up with him getting shot one time for playing bumper cars with the ICE agents while trying to flee. I'm kind of surprised CNN didn't go with ICE agents attempted to murder Texas man while he was at work.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 21, 2026 01:32 AM (VyD10)

226
There are too many crooks in Brazil for Bolsonaro to win.
Lula will win.

Posted by: Braenyard

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

Lord, when will this world get fixed?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 01:32 AM (mmrXZ)

227
Canada has almost no military left. The government there yearns to completely disarm the population. And the Canadian government keeps inviting in adversaries to the United States.Nd they're right next door.

The situation seems -- somewhat unstable.The only good outcome to this that I could see is that enough Canadians could realize how they've been lied to, hoodwinked. But that seems unlikely -- the delusions have great persistence.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 21, 2026 01:33 AM (azNOR)

228 How long can a continent stay dark?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 01:22 AM (mmrXZ)

It can stay dark until Africans themselves learn to run an orderly civic society not based on tribalism and personal greed and corruption.

It’s not an easy task but can be done.
We did it, the Europeans did it, even the Asians have done it.

Problem is that even after that success the scourge of decadence is pulling us into the dark as well. Civilization takes hard, long, work to build and sustain, but only some selfish useful idiots and several decades to destroy it all.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2026 01:34 AM (6ydKt)

229 Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 21, 2026 01:32 AM (VyD10)

So they’ve switched from state of illegal residence to illegal occupation.

It’s no longer ‘Maryland Man’, it’s now ‘Door Dash worker’.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2026 01:38 AM (6ydKt)

230 As the sky darkens earlier & earlier ...

Still warm enough for a/c, but going to start the fall flower planting. And maybe a couple of bonanza peach trees (dwarf) in pots.

Posted by: Adriane the Chronological Critic. . . at September 21, 2026 01:38 AM (3ZUWJ)

231
"DoorDash driver shot by ICE in Austin, Texas

....

I'm kind of surprised CNN didn't go with ICE agents attempted to murder Texas man while he was at work.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram

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

"Man working for hunger relief organization gunned down by ICE while delivering food to housebound Texans"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 01:38 AM (mmrXZ)

232
maybe a couple of bonanza peach trees (dwarf) in pots.

Posted by: Adriane

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

!!!!

When will they make peaches?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 01:39 AM (mmrXZ)

233 But that seems unlikely -- the delusions have great persistence.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 21, 2026 01:33 AM (azNOR)

The Liberals have hit the sweet spot of Anti-Americanism, Victimhood, and yearning for revenge that a large set of Canadians wanted.

A portion of the Canadian elites in Quebec & Ontario have always viewed themselves as a European/UK outpost appalled that they have to live so close to those vulgar, greedy Americans.

Trump has just given them the excuse they need to suckle from a different nipple where the milk doesn’t taste so capitalistic but rather has a Mandarin and Continental socialistic flavor that they prefer.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2026 01:45 AM (6ydKt)

234 44 days till midterm elections. Gas and diesel prices some places already hitting $7 to $8 dollars a gallon. Dumps ignorant southern white trash voters drive gas guzzling pick up trucks. How soon will we see bumper stickers burn dumpsters not oil!

Posted by: raimondo at September 21, 2026 01:46 AM (gz/E/)

235 Looks like rainman has stumbled in from the truck stop parking lot.

Posted by: clarence at September 21, 2026 01:48 AM (Ue5am)

236 Hey Horde, how are ya?

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 21, 2026 01:50 AM (ibDUx)

237 Problem is that even after that success the scourge of decadence is pulling us into the dark as well. Civilization takes hard, long, work to build and sustain, but only some selfish useful idiots and several decades to destroy it all.
Posted by: SpeakingOf


The gods of the copybook headings will, with terror and slaughter, return.

Posted by: mikeski at September 21, 2026 01:51 AM (VHUov)

238 Hi, Debby! Still here, heh...

Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2026 01:52 AM (rdVOm)

239 So cheerleading has come full circle, but in a gay way...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:55 AM (l3cgK)

240 @RichardGrenell ·

It’s truly unbelievable that the chief of police in Austin, the Mayor of Austin, and the Congressman from Austin are all racing to a camera and a microphone before knowing the details of what happened.

They are calling for the removal of ICE without knowing the details and it is totally irresponsible.

This type of grandstanding, before knowing the facts, is political partisanship at its worst.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 01:58 AM (4tmEn)

241
Good evening, Debby!

Getting ready for bed,
In and out of the thread,
Emptying my head...

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 01:58 AM (mmrXZ)

242 >>So cheerleading has come full circle, but in a gay way...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I must laugh at this. Thinking of one of my class' cheerleaders who went on to become a bodybuilder. Lez, too, but she slept with plenty of boys in HS! (She was also one of the 'catty bitches' LOL)

Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2026 01:59 AM (rdVOm)

243 Nothing more to be said Blondie!

Hi JQ, had a good day today, busy with grandkids. I am hopeful that if not good, at least your day today was better.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 21, 2026 02:03 AM (ibDUx)

244 Better today, thanks Debby.

Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2026 02:06 AM (rdVOm)

245 lon Musk says the theft of US taxpayer money is industrial-scale.

Replying to a report on Romanian illegals draining food-stamp accounts, he wrote: “There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of fraud rings of almost every nationality stealing money from US taxpayers.”

He has previously said professional, often foreign-based networks are pulling $100–200 billion a year out of entitlements and other federal programs.

That warning comes as X has already sued organized rings that used bots and fake engagement to steal from its Creator Revenue Sharing program.

The same pattern keeps showing up: SNAP, Medicare, pandemic loans, platform payouts. Coordinated groups treating American payment systems like an open ATM.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 02:08 AM (4tmEn)

246 245 lon Musk says the theft of US taxpayer money is industrial-scale.

Replying to a report on Romanian illegals draining food-stamp accounts, he wrote: “There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of fraud rings of almost every nationality stealing money from US taxpayers.”

He has previously said professional, often foreign-based networks are pulling $100–200 billion a year out of entitlements and other federal programs.

That warning comes as X has already sued organized rings that used bots and fake engagement to steal from its Creator Revenue Sharing program.

The same pattern keeps showing up: SNAP, Medicare, pandemic loans, platform payouts. Coordinated groups treating American payment systems like an open ATM.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 02:08 AM (4tmEn)

Fraud rings, crime rings, gangs...
Yes, they come in the full rainbow of nationalities, but I dunno if they come in gay and trans as well...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 02:11 AM (l3cgK)

247 The same pattern keeps showing up: SNAP, Medicare, pandemic loans, platform payouts. Coordinated groups treating American payment systems like an open ATM.
Posted by: Braenyard

And all those motherfuckers are getting rich, while hubby & I are paying *all our retirement* out for his care.. before he can qualify for any assistance (if he lives that long)

Fucking pisses me off!!!!

Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2026 02:12 AM (rdVOm)

248 242 >>So cheerleading has come full circle, but in a gay way...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I must laugh at this. Thinking of one of my class' cheerleaders who went on to become a bodybuilder. Lez, too, but she slept with plenty of boys in HS! (She was also one of the 'catty bitches' LOL)

Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2026 01:59 AM (rdVOm)

So one of the guys she "dated" turned her lez?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 02:12 AM (l3cgK)

249 The gods of the copybook headings will, with terror and slaughter, return.

A good kipple is always thought-provoking.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 21, 2026 02:12 AM (aJQbY)

250 249 The gods of the copybook headings will, with terror and slaughter, return.

A good kipple is always thought-provoking.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 21, 2026 02:12 AM (aJQbY)

My grandparents had a postcard from...probably from the 1920s. On it, were a couple talking to each other. He ask her, "Do you like Kipling?"
Her response: "I don't know. I've never kippled."

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 02:14 AM (l3cgK)

251 So one of the guys she "dated" turned her lez?...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Back then, it wasn't *cool* to be queer.

She likely was "proving to the world that she wasn't" lez, while in denial? I dunno. She was one of those bitches, so whatever.

Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2026 02:15 AM (rdVOm)

252 Interesting g how the BBC bends over backwards to call the AfD “far right” but will not identify Die Linke as…anything. Never mind Die Linke literally means “The Left “. Never mind Die Linke is the successor to the PDS - Party of Democratic Socialism - which is the successor to the SED, the ruling party of the GDR which is the successor to the KPD, the result of a forced marriage between the SPD and KPD in the Soviet zone of occupation.

Long story short - Die Linke are Communist in all but name. Does the BBC call them “far Left”? Of course not.

Anyway, Die Linke are winning in Berlin state elections and the ruling CDU couldn’t even get the 5% needed to appear in the Mecklenburg- Vorpommern government. AfD wins big but will not be allowed in government so “German democracy can be saved”.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 21, 2026 02:19 AM (vupS9)

253 240 @RichardGrenell ·

It’s truly unbelievable that the chief of police in Austin, the Mayor of Austin, and the Congressman from Austin are all racing to a camera and a microphone before knowing the details of what happened.

They are calling for the removal of ICE without knowing the details and it is totally irresponsible.

This type of grandstanding, before knowing the facts, is political partisanship at its worst.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 01:58 AM (4tmEn)

In Austin? No freaking way.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 21, 2026 02:21 AM (vupS9)

254 234 - suddenly you care about gas prices.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 21, 2026 02:22 AM (vupS9)

255 Here's a pic of Diane Feinstein click the > on the right and McConnell. But Feinstein, I didn't know. She's having troubles.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 02:24 AM (RBKzD)

256 Feinstein is dead. RIH, bitch.

Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2026 02:25 AM (rdVOm)

257 In Austin? No freaking way.

Posted by: Cow Demon
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The State's Capital with law and order Bud Abbott.
It shan't not be.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 02:26 AM (RBKzD)

258 Oh my my my, ain't I just a ray of sunshine?

Sorry, horde.

Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2026 02:27 AM (rdVOm)

259 The situation seems -- somewhat unstable.The only good outcome to this that I could see is that enough Canadians could realize how they've been lied to, hoodwinked. But that seems unlikely -- the delusions have great persistence.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 21, 2026 01:33 AM (azNOR)

Canadians are happy to be pampered and babied by government, all the government need to do is threaten to make them pay for their own medical care. Canadians will throw temper tantrums because they cannot tolerate being forced to grow up and pay for their own docs. They want to be enslaved by their government. So no they are not waking up from this.

Though I think if the QC elections go to the PQ on 5 Oct and people in AB vote in droves for Option 2 on Question 10 on 19 Oct, that will send earthquakes throughout the country.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 21, 2026 02:27 AM (vupS9)

260 DC_Draino@DC_Draino ·

The only way Texas can be saved is Governor Gill.

No more Abbott/Bush weakness
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Didn't know Abbott had opposition.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 02:27 AM (RBKzD)

261 Drano got it wrong looks like it's Gill for Congress.

Born in New Mexico
raised on a ranch in Texas,
graduated from Dartmouth College
founded the online newspaper D.C. Enquirer
move back to Texas to run for the U.S. House of Representatives.

Gill supports mass deportations and has described "fortifying the border" as his main policy objective.
He made a series of remarks that have been described as Islamophobic (sounds good) , including calling for Muslim immigration to be heavily restricted or prohibited. (right on, right on)

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 02:32 AM (RBKzD)

262 258 Oh my my my, ain't I just a ray of sunshine?

Sorry, horde.

Posted by: JQ
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No wonder she looks so bad. I need to keep up.
Good thing I forgot to post the link.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 02:35 AM (RBKzD)

263 I played in a "Powder Puff" hockey game in high school and I got checked hard by a lesbian, for a moment I thought that I might be paralyzed. They were way out of my league.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 21, 2026 02:36 AM (ibDUx)

264
The same pattern keeps showing up: SNAP, Medicare, pandemic loans, platform payouts. Coordinated groups treating American payment systems like an open ATM.
Posted by: Braenyard

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Infuriating. How do we end it?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 02:40 AM (mmrXZ)

265 Wow, Debby. Hockey? Respect!!!

Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2026 02:41 AM (rdVOm)

266 How do we end it?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

With plenty of *type/delete*-- that's how.

Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2026 02:42 AM (rdVOm)

267 That's why Musk tiffed with Trump. He wanted DOGE to clean house. Trump, who is no pacifist, wants to slowly peel the onion.
Have no clue. But if Trump wants to tread lightly it must be awesome. and not in a good way

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 02:45 AM (RBKzD)

268 Nursing home called last week, to ask about dethsh0t & flush0t for hubby. (Never mind that I previously, as POA, signed a paper stating NO for these...)

Of course I declined *again* on his behalf. Ugh.

Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2026 02:46 AM (rdVOm)

269 Infuriating. How do we end it?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 02:40 AM (mmrXZ)

What I’d love to do is shut them all down entirely. Politically near impossible, of course. But that in my mind is reallly the only cure. As long as those programs exist the capacity to defraud is there.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 21, 2026 02:54 AM (vupS9)

270 What I’d love to do is shut them all down entirely. Politically near impossible, of course. But that in my mind is reallly the only cure. As long as those programs exist the capacity to defraud is there.
Posted by: Cow Demon

Ding ding ding! We have a winner!

Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2026 02:55 AM (rdVOm)

271
Gill supports mass deportations and has described "fortifying the border" as his main policy objective.
He made a series of remarks that have been described as Islamophobic (sounds good) , including calling for Muslim immigration to be heavily restricted or prohibited. (right on, right on)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 21, 2026 02:32 AM (RBKzD)

The only thing Donald May ran on in TX CD 19 was evil Islam. And that was it. He would not, and could not, talk about, anything else.

I’m all for immigrants being told that if they want to be here they play by our rules and if they don’t like it, there’s the door. Including Muslims. You can’t play ball here? Ok. Bye, But Mr. May would talk about absolutely nothing else. Therefore he went nowhere in the primary.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 21, 2026 02:58 AM (vupS9)

272 JQ, please don't misunderstand, I was not a hockey player (ice or field) it was a charity thing. We had one practice and showed up with our jeans and sweaters and figure skates, the gal who checked me was wearing men's hockey skates, pads and a helmet. She was prepared and I ended up curled in a ball against the boards, lol.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 21, 2026 02:58 AM (ibDUx)

273 Oh, Debby-- that's awful! Glad you weren't crippled by it!

Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2026 03:00 AM (rdVOm)

274
What I’d love to do is shut them all down entirely. Politically near impossible, of course. But that in my mind is reallly the only cure. As long as those programs exist the capacity to defraud is there.
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That's what I was thinking. The only real way is to tear it all down.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 21, 2026 03:02 AM (mmrXZ)

275 258 Oh my my my, ain't I just a ray of sunshine?

Sorry, horde.

Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2026 02:27 AM (rdVOm)

LOL, tell us how you REALLY feel.
Not a big deal. I have my days too.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 03:02 AM (l3cgK)

276 We got ice skates for Christmas one year, and went out to the frozen pond where Dad had skated for many years. Rough ice! No zamboni out there, nuh-uh.

I did 'ok' but ankles were weak. Maybe should've kept trying, but it hurt. Roller skates were better, later, but I was never very good at that either. LOL.

Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2026 03:05 AM (rdVOm)

277 LOL, tell us how you REALLY feel.
Not a big deal. I have my days too.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Thanks for the empathy, jim!

If I said what I REALLY feel? No doubt I'd be escorted to The Barrel. Permanently!

Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2026 03:08 AM (rdVOm)

278 What you really feel is what every voter should feel this year, anger and frustration,

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 21, 2026 03:14 AM (ibDUx)

279 What I’d love to do is shut them all down entirely. Politically near impossible, of course. But that in my mind is reallly the only cure. As long as those programs exist the capacity to defraud is there.
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The only way to fix this nation is to get the government out of the way. Government IS the problem. Until we go back to the government of the Articles of Confederation, this government will continue to allow the destruction of the country.

Posted by: clarence at September 21, 2026 03:17 AM (Ue5am)

280 I will go to my high school reunion if and only if I am guaranteed to see Desiree Crumb fat and dumpy.

I'm not a very good Christian, sometimes.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 21, 2026 03:19 AM (Ntshk)

281 Anger and frustration? Check.

Add plenty of resentment, too. And fury, don't forget fury!

LOL, we'll get through it. One way or the other.

Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2026 03:19 AM (rdVOm)

282 I'm not a very good Christian, sometimes.
Posted by: tcn in AK

*pats sofa*

Sit with me?

I relished the thought, when I found out that one of the Queen Bitches had married a totally fk'd up headcase that I'd once worked with! Hoo-boy....

Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2026 03:22 AM (rdVOm)

283 I like that Kipling poem. Had never read that one.
It does describe very well what has been happening since the later part of the 19th century, though.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 21, 2026 03:22 AM (6ydKt)

284 282 I'm not a very good Christian, sometimes.
Posted by: tcn in AK

*pats sofa*

Sit with me?

I relished the thought, when I found out that one of the Queen Bitches had married a totally fk'd up headcase that I'd once worked with! Hoo-boy....

Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2026 03:22 AM (rdVOm)

I have to say I was very, very lucky. Although we only had 26 years together and went through many trials and tribulations, I'd do it all again just to be with her again.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 03:25 AM (l3cgK)

285 I am not a very good Christian sometimes too, tcn, I would make a horrible Muslim though.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 21, 2026 03:26 AM (ibDUx)

286 I'd do it all again just to be with her again.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

That's one of the sweetest sentiments I've ever read. Sorry for your loss, and I hope you'll find each other again someday.

Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2026 03:27 AM (rdVOm)

287 islham is more degrading to women than rap music. That's sayin' something!

Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2026 03:28 AM (rdVOm)

288 {{{jim}}} I know just how you feel, my hubs was happiness personified, I miss the lightness of spirit that he engendered in me.


Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 21, 2026 03:41 AM (ibDUx)

289 I made it to my 25th HS reunion, just for the hell of it. I didn't recognize a lot of people - "What happened to Bill A" ... "That's him on stage, talking." ... "What happened to his hair?" - but damned few recognized me because I put on 50# of not fat - I was 6'2" 145# in HS - so it wasn't surprising. The really embarrassing part was when one very good looking lady started talking to me and I had no idea who she was, so I just responded with banalities. Twenty minutes later somebody asked me what Carol.was talking to me about, and I realized that I had taken her to the Prom our junior year. Never went to any other; last one I heard about was #40. I'm pretty sure that the class could fit into a coat closet today, 67 years after graduation.

Posted by: buddhaha at September 21, 2026 03:42 AM (LsINp)

290 This week is 24 years since our first date. We went to the county fair.

Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2026 03:42 AM (rdVOm)

291 Sleepy time Horde, sweet dreams to you all. It is raining softly and I do not have to be up early in the morning. This is when I most miss the opportunity to share such a day with someone who loves me.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 21, 2026 03:44 AM (ibDUx)

292 Night, Debby. {{{hug}}}

Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2026 03:46 AM (rdVOm)

293 I don't want to get up

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 03:48 AM (Ia/+0)

294 290 This week is 24 years since our first date. We went to the county fair.

Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2026 03:42 AM (rdVOm)

First movie we went to was "Starship Troopers"...not a great choice; she wasn't very happy with the brain sucking scenes.

I remember when we went to the James Bond movie at the time...she dressed in a miniskirt and looked like a HS kid (even though she was 6 months older than me)...when we kissed, I was given dirty looks. LOL. We were both nearly 30 at the time.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 03:51 AM (l3cgK)

295 We were both nearly 30 at the time.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

That's funny!

Hubs & I were both in our 40s when we met. (Not our first rodeos.)

Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2026 03:53 AM (rdVOm)

296 Night, all. I need to get up earlier than usual tomorrow.

Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2026 03:53 AM (rdVOm)

297 Working on a ham and cheese omelet

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 04:22 AM (Ia/+0)

298 297 Working on a ham and cheese omelet

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 04:22 AM (Ia/+0)

It's breakfast somewhere...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 04:25 AM (l3cgK)

299 TECH THREAD IS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2026 04:31 AM (Ia/+0)

300 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at September 21, 2026 04:33 AM (odBC9)

301 6th generation Floridan* here. We don't eat oysters 'til months that have an "r" at the end. Yes, it's September, but it hasn't been below 70° at night yet and that water those oysters live in is still very warm, so if you're older or have a compromised immunity system, have a shrimp cocktail instead.

*Not a misspelling, look it up.

Posted by: Riddle at September 21, 2026 06:08 AM (EagFv)

Gun Thread: Third September Edition!

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Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!

Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell did it get to be the Third September Edition? October will be here before you know it and we'll be in Texas!

With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?

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FUNdamentals

One eye? Two eyes? Four eyes? How do you do it?

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TXMoMe

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They Mome'n down in Texas!

The time has come to begin the discussion of the upcoming TXMoMe in Corsicana, TX on October 16-17. This is the eleventh annual TXMoMe, or Conservative Burning Man as it's popularly known, and it promises to be a doozy. A double=doozy even. A bigly double-doozy! If you're in either the Northern or Southern Hemisphere of the Planet of the Earth, contact Ben Had for details on attending. The dates and email links for all MoMes are always helpfully included on the blog's main page, left sidebar.

What started years ago as a small get-together and informal plinking session lasting a couple of hours has matured into a full scale jamboree-hootenanny including a program of shooting activities for both handguns and rifles over two days. I have to thank Ben Had, Cow Horse Queen and RancherBob for making this whole thing happen and providing the opportunity for the shooting to comprise such a significant portion of the event.

But wait! There's more! Combine that with world class food and drink, and the even world classier company of your fellow Morons, and you have a weekend that legends are made of. For those not inclined to shoot (?), there are non-stop opportunities to relax in the shade of the carport or under a handy nearby tree with a beverage and visit with your online pals to your hearts content, which is really what the whole damn thing is about in the first place..

Allow me to be serious for a minute. I have said this probably two hundred and eighty-three times now. These gatherings are a really good time, and I know of no one who expresses regret after having attended one. Actually it goes beyond that. It's not just a weekend of laughs, it's an opportunity to connect with lots of like-minded people and create lasting friendships and priceless memories. No kidding. Think that's hyperbole? It snot. Would your ol' pal Weasel lie to you? Well, yes he would, but not about this. TXMoMe veterans will attest to the funness and completely laid-back nature of the event. Don't be a dork, do yourself a favor and get yo' ass to Texas!

TXMoMe veterans: please jump into the comments to encourage the scairdy-cats to join in the fun! What was your first MoMe like? What were you expecting? Were you surprised? Did you have a great time?

If you are attending the TXMoMe this year, and all the cool kids are, please keep an eye on this section for important information and updates in the coming weeks. I also want to reiterate the TXMoMe is not a gun thing with some socializing attached, but rather is a social thing with some shooting attached. If you aren't a shooter, I guarantee you will not feel out of place and will have a great time. No fooling!

Are all y'all getting excited? Weasel are!!

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09/20/26 Update/Reminder

Well, not really an update but rather more of a reminder.

Volunteers: If you are interested in helping out, please send me a note (gunthread at protonmail dot com) on when you plan to arrive (day and approximate time). It is really critical to have this information for scheduling and to make certain we have the proper coverage to make the shooting portion safe and enjoyable for all concerned. Thank you in advance!

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2026 TXMoMe Schedule

Here is an outline of the schedule of events. Times are tentative and subject to modification/change. This schedule will be included in the Gun Thread with any changes incorporated going forward until the event, so please check back weekly.

Friday, 10/16

Rifle Program
8am - 10am: Rifle Clinic (carport)
10am - 11am: Combined Range and Safety Briefing - Mandatory for Friday Shooters! (carport)
Noon: Light lunch provided (carport)
11am - 4pm: Live fire (rifle range - targets to 1,000 yds)

Handgun Program
10am - 11am: Combined Range and Safety Briefing - Mandatory for Friday Shooters! (carport)
11:00am - 12:00pm: Handgun FUNdamentals
Noon: Light lunch provided (carport)
1:00pm to 2:00 pm (carport - confirmation pending) - Demonstration: Basics of Rifle & Handgun Cleaning and Maintenance - EdL
1pm - 4:00pm: Static live fire (pistol range)

Saturday, 10/17

Rifle Program
9am - 10am: Combined Range and Safety Briefing - Mandatory for Saturday Shooters!
9am - 1pm: Live fire (rifle range)

Handgun Program
9am - 10am: Range and Safety Briefing - Mandatory for Saturday Shooters! (carport)
9am - 1pm: Live fire (pistol range)

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Shooters: Bring your own hearing and eye protection, and wear sensible shoes as the ground on the ranges can be uneven! Also, please plan on stopping somewhere along your way to Texas and picking up some ammunition if you plan to shoot and aren't bringing your own weapons/ammo. Everyone is very generous with sharing, but please don't rely on the generosity of others to provide everything for you. You can really help out by grabbing a box of 9mm or 5.56mm or whatever you want to shoot. Here is a link to Brinson Power Sports in Corsicana which sells ammo. They also sell ATV's if you want to grab one of those while you're there.

Anyhoo...

For a while I have been conducting a Rifle Clinic on Friday morning followed by range time Friday afternoon and then again well into Saturday. Most of you (I think) have endured this presentation before, so if there are other topics you would like to have covered, speak up in the comments and I will try to address your request.

We have also been steadily refining the handgun portion of the program and this year will be focusing on the static pistol range as well as continuing to offer a separate setup for gun-curious beginners desiring one-on-one supervision and instruction. If you are a novice shooter, or even have never been to the range before and think guns are icky, you are welcome to shoot! Just see an RSO and they will set you up with an experienced shooter to help you.

These times are approximate and programs may change as weather conditions and participation warrant. We anticipate a hard stop on both ranges at 1pm on Saturday to allow everyone to participate in the bigly fun TXMoMe festivities.

Range Safety
You will note there are combined rifle and handgun range safety briefings both days and attendance is mandatory if you want to shoot. We take your safety seriously and ask everyone who wants to shoot plan on attending this important briefing. Again, we are conducting one combined safety brief each day. No exceptions.

At the conclusion of each day's safety briefing you will be asked to sign a general liability waiver, after which you will receive a color-coded wrist band. The color is different each day, and it is your ticket onto the range(s) for the day. No wrist band, no shooting that day. Don't want to sign the waiver? No problem, just do not expect to shoot. If you miss the mandatory range safety briefing which is mandatory and must be attended, you are welcome to watch the live fire activities from designated observation areas.

All shooters are asked to check in with an RSO (sporting an Orange Cap of Dorkiness for easy identification) upon your arrival at either of the ranges who will answer questions and direct you to an open firing position. The RSOs wield unspeakable power so it is in your best interest to be nice to them. Want to do things your way? I suggest that your own personal range on your own personal property is a good place for expressing your individuality.

IMPORTANT: I would hope this goes without saying, but anyone failing to immediately and politely follow RSO instructions will be removed from the range(s). Period. No exceptions. This means YOU.

I will probably think of more things to yell about in the coming weeks so please stay tuned.

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Too Heavy To Carry?

With Hikok45

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More Hikok45

This time with Weasel's fav-o-rite, the '03 Springfield.

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Machine Gun Madness!

Starring the M-60.

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Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR)

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Ax Weasel

Q: Weasel, what is the story of copper?
A: I'm glad you axed.

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Our Pal Fluid Coupling

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Highway Patrol!

This week's episode: Reward!

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Day Of The Triffids!

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Cigar of the Week

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This week our pal rhomboid scores again with this excellent review of the Karen Berger Tailgate.

Karen Berger is one of if not the only premium cigar brands run by a woman. She is the widow of Don Kiki Berger, a cigar entrepreneur and blender who passed in 2014. Karen has continued and expanded the premium cigar line.

Her "Tailgate" comes only in the toro size (6 X 52), it's a nice looking medium-brown stick with a Sumatra wrapper, with Nicaraguan binder and fillers. Construction seemed spot on - draw was perfect, burn line needed minimal management, smoke was ample and fairly thick. Flavor throughout was consistent, pleasant, and interesting. For me it was a cedar festival, with sweetness (some reviewers term it graham cracker or vanilla notes) along side. Not complex, but enjoyable, and barely changed from light-up to the nub stage. All in all, an appropriately named cigar - perfect for an event like a tailgate party, tasty, well constructed, but not requiring much attention to get every bit of enjoyment out of it. Karen Berger tailgate is available online for $7.50 and up - not featured on a lot of the big sites, but Neptune Cigar and Cigars Daily have it.

Excellent, rhomboid! Thank you!

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Here are some different online cigar vendors. You will find they not only carry different brands and different lines from those brands, but also varying selections of vitolas (sizes/shapes) of given lines. It's good to have options, especially if you're looking for a specific cigar.

Cigarsinternational.com
Cigarpage.com
Famous-smoke.com
Cigarsdaily.com
Neptunecigar.com
Smallbatchcigar.com
Bobalu Cigar Company
Cigarbid.com
Nicks Cigar World New!

A note about sources. The brick & mortar/online divide exists with cigars, as with guns, and most consumer products, with respect to price. As with guns - since both are "persecuted industries", basically - I make a conscious effort to source at least some of my cigars from my local store(s). It's a small thing, but the brick & mortar segment for both guns and tobacco are precious, and worth supporting where you can. And if you're lucky enough to have a good cigar store/lounge available, they're often a good social event with many dangerous people of the sort who own scary gunz, or read smart military blogs like this one. -rhomboid

Anyone have others to include? Perhaps a small local roller who makes a cigar you like? Send me your recommendation and a link to the site!

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Ammo Link-O-Rama
I'm really very seriously not kidding around anymore. Buy Ammo
AmmoSeek - online ammo search tool
GunBot - online ammo search tool
SG Ammo
Palmetto State Armory
Georgia Arms
AmmoMan
Target Sports USA
Bud's Gun Shop
American Elite Ammo
Lucky Gunner Ammo NEW!

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Please note the new and improved protonmail account gunthread at protonmail dot com. An informal Gun Thread archive can be found HERE. Future expansion plans are in the works for the site Weasel Gun Thread. If you have a question you would like to ask Gun Thread Staff offline, just send us a note and we'll do our best to answer. If you care to share the story of your favorite firearm, send a picture with your nic and tell us what you sadly lost in the tragic canoe accident. If you would like to remain completely anonymous, just say so. Lurkers are always welcome!

That's it for this week - have you been to the range?

Posted by: Weasel at 07:00 PM




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1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 20, 2026 07:00 PM (I43vL)

2 O

Posted by: Eromero at September 20, 2026 07:00 PM (LHPAg)

3 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 07:01 PM (Ia/+0)

4 At last, I don't have suffer though all that delicious food talk!

Thank you Weasel!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 20, 2026 07:02 PM (NnhvP)

5 Here. For a while.
Dammit.

Posted by: RI Red at September 20, 2026 07:04 PM (YAL0u)

6 Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 20, 2026 07:02 PM (NnhvP)
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You should try my sardines on ritz crackers recipe!

Posted by: Weasel at September 20, 2026 07:04 PM (G2REX)

7 Not first!!!

Hope everyone is well.
Made it to the range this past Thursday.
Got the rifle zeroed in and made sure the windage dial was tight and will not slip like the last time.

Not going to be on much tonight, back to work tomorrow after having a week off (WAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH). And still trying to shake off this runny nose.

I should not be to sad as in one month I will be off for two weeks and heading down to Texas!!!!

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at September 20, 2026 07:05 PM (QrtBZ)

8 Yay! Gubs!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 20, 2026 07:06 PM (qnN/4)

9 I'm going to step way out here and offer a bold prediction:

Next week's title will be "Gun Thread: Fourth September Edition!"

Posted by: Duncanthax at September 20, 2026 07:06 PM (0sNs1)

10 Scoobs, you driving?

Posted by: RI Red at September 20, 2026 07:06 PM (YAL0u)

11 Adds Karen's Tailgate to the shopping list.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 20, 2026 07:06 PM (2WIwB)

12 Next week's title will be "Gun Thread: Fourth September Edition!"
Posted by: Duncanthax at September 20, 2026 07:06 PM (0sNs1)
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Could be "last" or "final" September edition!

Posted by: Weasel at September 20, 2026 07:07 PM (G2REX)

13 One eye? Two eyes? Four eyes? How do you do it?
No love for the "Close both and start blasting" technique? C'mon, man, that's fundamental!

Posted by: GWB at September 20, 2026 07:07 PM (kU0PQ)

14 You should try my sardines on ritz crackers recipe!
Posted by: Weasel at September 20, 2026 07:04 PM


Is it ready in under two minutes?

Posted by: Duncanthax at September 20, 2026 07:08 PM (0sNs1)

15 Lunch is provided on Saturday as well. Along with the deep fried bacon.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 07:08 PM (UdrMW)

16 Is it ready in under two minutes?
Posted by: Duncanthax at September 20, 2026 07:08 PM (0sNs1)
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Of course it is.

Posted by: Weasel at September 20, 2026 07:08 PM (G2REX)

17 No range time this week, but hoping for next weekend to check zero before TX.

Last night's cigar was a nice Gurkha Beauty, paired with Laphroaig 10. No smoke today because rain.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 20, 2026 07:08 PM (qnN/4)

18 RMBS, I have got to give you some Balvenie.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 07:09 PM (UdrMW)

19 Lunch is provided on Saturday as well. Along with the deep fried bacon.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 07:08 PM (UdrMW)
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I left that off since we're shutting down the ranges at 1pm but can add it back if you would like me to. Let me know!

Posted by: Weasel at September 20, 2026 07:10 PM (mgRTg)

20 Good evening Horde. Thanks Weasel!

Looking forward to the sight picture video in the content. Went to the range this week and sighting was on the agenda. I recently switched eye protection which makes the three posts at the end of the barrel more blurry but allows me to see the target. Great success! Apparently guessing at a vague blob downrange is inconsistent with accuracy.

Posted by: TRex - optical dino at September 20, 2026 07:10 PM (XfIK1)

21 You should try my sardines on ritz crackers recipe!
Posted by: Weasel

BTDT for years. Il looking for brisling sardines now..

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 20, 2026 07:10 PM (NnhvP)

22 Weasel, that's ok. I think everybody knows by now,

Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 07:12 PM (UdrMW)

23 Good evening gubthreaders and all the ships at sea!

Are all those stupid pop up ads in the comments gone now?

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 20, 2026 07:12 PM (NlEaG)

24 Hello, Weasel!

Posted by: Ed L at September 20, 2026 07:13 PM (qgF6K)

25 Mr Red,
Just wanted to say that I am enjoying Miss Emily's teachings on the 2d Amendment. Thank you!

Posted by: The Grateful - R at September 20, 2026 07:15 PM (XfIK1)

26 Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 07:12 PM (UdrMW)
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Would it mess things up to push lunch back a little to coincide with the ranges shutting down so the volunteers can eat with everyone? We can discuss offline if that's better.

Posted by: Weasel at September 20, 2026 07:16 PM (mgRTg)

27 Adhering to the John Wick theory the target is never more than 6 inches away.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 07:17 PM (UdrMW)

28 Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 07:17 PM (UdrMW)
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I like to keep them out around a kilometer.

Posted by: Weasel at September 20, 2026 07:18 PM (mgRTg)

29 Weasel, pushing lunch back is not a problem at all.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 07:20 PM (UdrMW)

30 Last week we had some equipment issues at the range. We addressed them and took the guns back to prove themselves.

First, PSA Dagger. It's a Glock. Mostly. It should just work. But it wasn't. Slide was all gritty and hanging up and FTF and FTE and just yucky.

Just bagged it and said will deal with it later. So here at casa blaster I was looking at it and the front sight post was missing. It has suprressor height sights along with the dot on it. Except now it had suppressor height sight.

If you know the Glock front site it has this weird little screw with a large, flat hex head. What I determined was that it had come out and was in the recoil spring. When I disassembled it at my desk it fell out on the floor but I did not hear it. I found it later in the evening. Oh, I am right! The screw did fall out and into the workings.

I like that Dagger and I shoot it reasonably well. Except when parts fall off of it.

Anyway I ordered a new pair of sights from PSA and good thing I found that screw because the sights do not ship with one.

Took it back today for function testing.

Fit for purpose.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 20, 2026 07:20 PM (NlEaG)

31 First range report in far too long...and it showed. Muscle memory faded a bit, and needs to be rebuilt. Some bright spots, some less memorable...but it was god to be back at the range.

Posted by: The Grateful - R at September 20, 2026 07:22 PM (XfIK1)

32 RMBS, I have got to give you some Balvenie.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 07:09 PM

A good Scotch. I'll never turn it down. 😀

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 20, 2026 07:22 PM (qnN/4)

33 Good Sunday evening, gub 'ettes and 'rons, and a tip of the tricorn pirate hat (yesterday was Talk Like A Pirate Day) to our host Weasel!

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at September 20, 2026 07:23 PM (Yye3i)

34 My range has been empty for 6 months or better. No hogs or coyotes.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 07:23 PM (UdrMW)

35 Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 07:20 PM (UdrMW)
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Thanks. They've been grumbling about working conditions and unionizing and staging an uprising. Every little bit helps!

Posted by: Weasel at September 20, 2026 07:24 PM (G2REX)

36 When I disassembled it at my desk it fell out on the floor but I did not hear it. I found it later in the evening.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 20, 2026 07:20 PM


God's fortune clearly shines upon you!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 20, 2026 07:25 PM (HlyYF)

37 RMBS, amenities for the kitchen staff.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 07:26 PM (UdrMW)

38 Next up sra blaster's Kimber CDS9. A few things. The red dot on it was cheap and it would not stay screwed down, and it lost the battery tray screw AGAIN and when you shot it the tray would open some and the battery would lose contact and the dot goes out.

AND perhaps related but hard to separate - sra blaster could not shoot the thing for anything. She would say I put the dot on the center and the shot would go way off to the left. A wobbly dot (insert wobbly shit admonition here) certainly wasn't helping. But standing behind her as she shot, I could see that the pistol was lined up toward the left. It wasn't a flinch - she was pointing it there.

(1/3)

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 20, 2026 07:26 PM (NlEaG)

39 34 My range has been empty for 6 months or better. No hogs or coyotes.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 07:23 PM


Sometimes after you execute several admirals, it encourages the others to set their sails in distant waters!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 20, 2026 07:27 PM (HlyYF)

40 Hi Weasel, I wear progressive lenses now and my old pair of shooting eyewear is somewhat scratched up. Is there anything that actually clips onto your regular glasses so you don’t have to wear essentially another pair of glasses (and on top of newly acquired hearing aids)? It’s pretty uncomfortable when you put the ear muffs on top of 3 things behind your ear.

Posted by: TxAnn at September 20, 2026 07:28 PM (SjAWL)

41 Posted by: TxAnn at September 20, 2026 07:28 PM (SjAWL)
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Your glasses are fine as eye protection. That's generally just what I use!

Posted by: Weasel at September 20, 2026 07:29 PM (G2REX)

42 Pillage Idiot, I was kinda thinking that might be the case.

Can't wait to give you both a hug.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 07:30 PM (UdrMW)

43 Ben,

I have an old buddy out your way (near Bowie) that also hates the hogs on his property.

He used to shoot the coyotes too, but one day he was watching a sow and her piglets and observed a coyote run up, snatch a piglet, and just keep on running.

He said he has never shot another coyote since that day.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 20, 2026 07:32 PM (HlyYF)

44 Good evening fellow enthusiasts
No shooting this week but after much research I finally found a place with a better price for 380 than the range. Managed to get it down to $.42/rd including tax and shipping and only had to spend a little over a $100. Lots of places give you free shipping if you buy 1000 rds or spend $200 or so. TargetSports. Plain packge and ammo wrapped so didn't move. I have also ordered the fancy Syntech ammo from them.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice} at September 20, 2026 07:33 PM (kJmSS)

45 41 Your glasses are fine as eye protection. That's generally just what I use!
Posted by: Weasel at September 20, 2026 07:29 PM (G2REX)

Thanks!! I wore just my glasses a few weeks ago at the indoor range and it was a lot more comfortable.

Posted by: TxAnn at September 20, 2026 07:34 PM (SjAWL)

46 Thx, Grateful.
Gotta go to an 'engagement'.
BBL later. I hope.
No wobbly sh*t while I'm gone!

Posted by: RI Red at September 20, 2026 07:34 PM (YAL0u)

47 Can't wait to give you both a hug.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 07:30 PM


Can't wait to receive one!!!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 20, 2026 07:34 PM (HlyYF)

48 I addressed the wobbly shit. I said last week I would just get a Holosun 507k but I was researching to ensure compatibility and Kimber ships some models of the CDS9 with an OLight OSight SE already mounted. The SE is an enclosed emitter dot so I went with that, in green with the multi-reticle.

About twice the price of the dot that was on it before but less than the 507k, and about half the price of the closed emitter Holosun. It is a SIGNIFICANTLY better made piece of equipment. Comes with multiple screws and some spares for the sight tray! But they actually have torque specs and I expect that it will stay together.

At the range today I put it on a rest and it put 3 rounds touching on the target. Basically one hole a little larger than a 9mm. The gun is plenty precise. Took a little adjustment to get it zeroed. And it is MUCH better to shoot with the new dot.

But sra blaster was still shooting it off to the left. She says: I think I need to get back to fundamentals.

Rolled the target to 3 yards and she mentally walked through her basics. And it turned out to be her grip. She had been holding her support hand down too far. Moved up and dead on.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 20, 2026 07:36 PM (NlEaG)

49 Bad guy in Highway Patrol just ties a rag around his leg. He shoulda slapped a hot iron on it, right?

Posted by: GWB at September 20, 2026 07:37 PM (kU0PQ)

50 Range report: Took my H&K VP9CC with Vortex optic, Walther P99, and 2017 Colt Cobra to the range since they were all due for a cleaning after last week. For me, the VP9CC is easier to control when using the magazines with the extension for the pinkie finger. For such a small, compact 9mm handgun, every bit of real estate for your grip matters. The Walther P99 performed well as always. I tried more double action shooting with my strong hand only with the Colt. I didn't do very well. At seven yards, I only got a couple of rounds in the target after multiple tries. The target center was surrounded by bullet holes, but only two out of 18 shots hit the target. Not my best outing. Shooting two handed I did better, but my skill level shooting a 2" snub-nose still leaves much to be desired.

Posted by: Ed L at September 20, 2026 07:37 PM (qgF6K)

51 Sharon,

I was a stag Moron for a long time, but then got an 'ette wife and three 'ette daughters.

I have learned from them what is important in life, so I now know to ask this question:

What color is your new Bodyguard???

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 20, 2026 07:38 PM (HlyYF)

52 You should try my sardines on ritz crackers recipe!
Posted by: Weasel at September 20, 2026 07:04 PM

Is it ready in under two minutes?
Posted by: Duncanthax at September 20, 2026 07:08 PM (0sNs1)

Depends on your ability to open cans and cracker packages.

Posted by: GWB at September 20, 2026 07:39 PM (kU0PQ)

53 3/3 (that last was 2/3)

The fundamentals. I have been wathing a bunch of Pew-view lately. (I am starting to jones for a 2011) And so the ALGORITHM shows shorts of his videos on sra blaster's phone because she is often geographically near me, I guess.

And he had been talking about how he shoots and he brings his support hand up high.

The CDS9 is 1911-ish so it kind of makes sense. So glad he told her how to shoot instead of me. That could have been...fractious.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 20, 2026 07:41 PM (NlEaG)

54 Posted by: TxAnn at September 20, 2026 07:34 PM (SjAWL)
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Helps to see the target, too!

Posted by: Weasel at September 20, 2026 07:42 PM (GNqmQ)

55 Though today while looking in the case at the range sra blaster says do you want that Marlin for your birthday (1894 SBL is something we have both been looking at. Because I only have the one lever gun now.)

Hmm, let me think about that.

Yes. Yes I think I would want that for my birthday!

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 20, 2026 07:43 PM (NlEaG)

56 Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 07:20 PM (UdrMW)
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Thanks. They've been grumbling about working conditions and unionizing and staging an uprising. Every little bit helps!
Posted by: Weasel at September 20, 2026 07:24 PM (G2REX)

At first I thought that referred to the comment about hogs and coyotes.

Posted by: GWB at September 20, 2026 07:43 PM (kU0PQ)

57 Guns!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 20, 2026 07:44 PM (xcxpd)

58 So range update, now that it is Fall in the PNW, I switched back to my G21 in a pancake OWB holster.

The G21 is maybe my favorite .45. Very light shooting, accurate enough, striker fired so consistent trigger press.

So how did my range visit go? Well not bad. Dicken drill wasn't great but no red dot so it's good enough probably. Everything was on target but not grouped well when going fast (I am not great at tight groups shooting quick with .45s)

The weird thing? In slow fire, I had light primer strikes. Not when I went fast, no problems at all there, but the 10 rounds slow drill? I had light primer strikes. So odd...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 20, 2026 07:47 PM (xcxpd)

59 Thanks for asking PI. It is Black Cherry. I found out that the Viridiuim optic could be installed on any Bodyguard2 without needing any gunsmithing. It was made specifically for this gun and fits right where the rear sight is. So I got the color I wanted. My range actually had one in stok so made the purchase easier.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice} at September 20, 2026 07:48 PM (kJmSS)

60 Is there anything that actually clips onto your regular glasses so you don’t have to wear essentially another pair of glasses (and on top of newly acquired hearing aids)? It’s pretty uncomfortable when you put the ear muffs on top of 3 things behind your ear.
Posted by: TxAnn at September 20, 2026 07:28 PM (SjAWL)

TxAnn, if you're afraid of hot brass getting into your eyes because a casing somehow made its way into the small gap between your face and the glasses, you can try wearing a hat or baseball cap with a brim to cover that gap. If you're really serious about protecting your face, get one of the Lexan face shield setups that cops get when they're doing riot duty. This also does a good job at keeping most carbon and crud away from your face. It might get a bit uncomfortable, though.

Posted by: Ed L at September 20, 2026 07:49 PM (qgF6K)

61 Dinner bell ringing.

Thanks for the Gub Thread, Weasel.

I hope the rest of you have a good week too!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 20, 2026 07:49 PM (HlyYF)

62 Because I only have the one lever gun now.
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 20, 2026 07:43 PM (NlEaG)

Heh. The Gun Thread Syndrome. "I only have one of these!"

(Also, "I don't have one of those. I'll have to look for it.")

Posted by: GWB at September 20, 2026 07:49 PM (kU0PQ)

63 Thanks. They've been grumbling about working conditions and unionizing and staging an uprising. Every little bit helps!
Posted by: Weasel at September 20, 2026 07:24 PM


it's that CBD guy who hangs around the fringes, isn't? He's always been a little sus.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 20, 2026 07:50 PM (0sNs1)

64 In slow fire, I had light primer strikes. Not when I went fast, no problems at all there, but the 10 rounds slow drill? I had light primer strikes. So odd...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 20, 2026 07:47 PM (xcxpd)

Could it be a shift in your grip? Because you're going slow and thinking about it? Or did you switch ammo?

Posted by: GWB at September 20, 2026 07:53 PM (kU0PQ)

65 I saw a picture today of the new S&W M&P folding pistol carbine today and promptly fell down a rabbit hole while tryingn to find out as much as I could about it. 9mm and there is a MD compliant version. Optic ready. $700. Looks very nice. Anybody handled one?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice} at September 20, 2026 07:54 PM (kJmSS)

66 Ben probably hangs head on podts as well to discourage the otherd

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 07:54 PM (Ia/+0)

67 Posted by: Ed L at September 20, 2026 07:49 PM (qgF6K)

Thanks for the tip. Another problem I have is that when I start sweating, my glasses fog up. Life was much easier before my LASIK surgery wore off and I had to go back to glasses.

Posted by: TxAnn at September 20, 2026 07:56 PM (SjAWL)

68 Oh, and HP bad guy is low on ammo. He obviously does not listen to Weasel and us about BUY AMMO.

(He's also searching all his pockets for loose rounds. And, at least one of the rounds he pulled out appeared to not have a primer in it. This guy's in trouble.)

Posted by: GWB at September 20, 2026 07:56 PM (kU0PQ)

69 Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 20, 2026 07:50 PM (0sNs1)
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He's an organizer.

Posted by: Weasel at September 20, 2026 07:58 PM (ei1sX)

70
These shitballs that keep getting mentioned - they're a type of bullet, right?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 20, 2026 07:59 PM (azNOR)

71 Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 20, 2026 07:49 PM (HlyYF)
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Adios, PI!

Posted by: Weasel at September 20, 2026 08:01 PM (ei1sX)

72 Posted by: Ed L at September 20, 2026 07:49 PM (qgF6K)

Thanks for the tip. Another problem I have is that when I start sweating, my glasses fog up. Life was much easier before my LASIK surgery wore off and I had to go back to glasses.
Posted by: TxAnn at September 20, 2026 07:56 PM (SjAWL)

Use an anti-fog wipe. They worked fairly well when I used to use them living in a cold environment.
Or, look into getting a pair of sport glasses - a few decent online vendors out there that will make them for you if you have your prescription available. You can get ones that are built like racquetball glasses, using a strap instead of bayonets, which might fit better under ear pro. They make prescription amber glasses to reduce glare (for hunters, especially). And, all of them are often covered by regular vision plans and all qualify for HSA and medical FSA expenses. (Yes, even eye and ear pro specifically for hunting, IF you can show it will preserve your hearing. Which is kinda "Duh" unless you're already so deaf it won't matter.)

Posted by: GWB at September 20, 2026 08:02 PM (kU0PQ)

73 Thanks for the tip. Another problem I have is that when I start sweating, my glasses fog up. Life was much easier before my LASIK surgery wore off and I had to go back to glasses.
Posted by: TxAnn at September 20, 2026 07:56 PM (SjAWL)

The face shield will be further away from your face than your glasses will, so the face shield should be less likely to fog up. But the face shield will make you stand out compared to your fellow range users.

Posted by: Ed L at September 20, 2026 08:03 PM (qgF6K)

74 it's that CBD guy who hangs around the fringes, isn't? He's always been a little sus.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

He dresses like an undercover fed, so...

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 20, 2026 08:03 PM (ftFVW)

75 Hi weasel! Appreciate the forum!

Range report:

I did not actively practice fundamentals. Instead, I took my Colt GI .380 and shot rounds as fast as I could x 5. I am not comfortable pulling the trigger faster than say, one round per second. So I got out of my comfort zone and pulled the trigger as fast as I could.

Got better as I shot more, but still am more comfortable shooting slower and more controlled.

Practice what you suck at. And shooting fast is something I suck at.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 20, 2026 08:03 PM (yEz+x)

76 65 I saw a picture today of the new S&W M&P folding pistol carbine today and promptly fell down a rabbit hole while tryingn to find out as much as I could about it. 9mm and there is a MD compliant version. Optic ready. $700. Looks very nice. Anybody handled one?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice} at September 20, 2026 07:54 PM (kJmSS)

I have. It's a copy, in spirit, of the Kel Tec Sub-2000. Only it folds sideways.

It's ok, light shooting, doesn't require anything funky to unfold it and fire with the red dot mounted.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 20, 2026 08:05 PM (xcxpd)

77 And it turned out to be her grip. She had been holding her support hand down too far. Moved up and dead on.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 20, 2026 07:36 PM
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I'm learning small changes in grip make a big difference in accuracy. During this week's range visit, I had a few stray shots. Not awful, but clearly not on target. I stopped and re-adjusted my grip and tried again with much success. I could tell that my new grip was more aligned and comfortable. I can't articulate the difference and don't know why I couldn't tell that my initial grip was off, but it was nice to know that my comfortable grip was solid. Will work on that next time...

Posted by: TRex - range deputy dino at September 20, 2026 08:06 PM (XfIK1)

78 64 In slow fire, I had light primer strikes. Not when I went fast, no problems at all there, but the 10 rounds slow drill? I had light primer strikes. So odd...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 20, 2026 07:47 PM (xcxpd)

Could it be a shift in your grip? Because you're going slow and thinking about it? Or did you switch ammo?
Posted by: GWB at September 20, 2026 07:53 PM (kU0PQ)

I used CCI B lazer and Fiocci. Both 230 grain. Same thing.

I MAY have a slightly different grip but I do train to be consistent fast and slow.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 20, 2026 08:07 PM (xcxpd)

79 I had some real world social use of a rifle this week. Few lessons learned;

1. I am nearing the point of being too old for this shit. Not yet, but I can see it from here. It has been a very long time since I tried playing infantry vs. an opponent, even just for training. Makes me consider, again, force on force training options for the younger family members.

2. You think there is a lot of cover around until you actually need cover, then suddenly you find yourself on the moon.

3. I always hated slings, but a good one is invaluable and just about mandatory.

4. One I knew but forgot: Cover your muzzle, even if it's just a piece of 100mph tape. I didn't get the muzzle stuffed with crap, but it was a pain in the ass worrying about it.

Posted by: heya at September 20, 2026 08:09 PM (TfRuS)

80 That's interesting Nurse. When I shot the Bodyguard last week it felt like i could shoot faster because there is so little recoil you aren;t constantly reacquiring the target. That makes a lot of sense.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice} at September 20, 2026 08:09 PM (kJmSS)

81 And HP goes once again to the "civilians shouldn't have guns because they're dangerous" well. All while they're doing the "only cops should deal with bad guys" and simultaneously being idiots about it.

Stupid big gov't liberals.

Posted by: GWB at September 20, 2026 08:15 PM (kU0PQ)

82 I used CCI B lazer and Fiocci. Both 230 grain. Same thing.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 20, 2026 08:07 PM (xcxpd)

MAE, I think Blazer ammo might have harder primers than others. SWA had a series of light strikes last month when using 9mm Blazer ammo in her Glocks. She switched out the Blazer ammo for the Federal Syntech 124 grain and the light strike problem vanished.

Posted by: Ed L at September 20, 2026 08:16 PM (qgF6K)

83 Also, everyone is shooting blind. All the barn doors are closed, except one (which is a very narrow opening, not facing any of the people involved). And these people are ALL violating the "Know your target and what's beyond it" rule.

Disappoint in Broderick and the gang. Entirely.

Posted by: GWB at September 20, 2026 08:21 PM (kU0PQ)

84 And it turned out to be her grip. She had been holding her support hand down too far. Moved up and dead on.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 20, 2026 07:36 PM
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I'm learning small changes in grip make a big difference in accuracy.
Posted by: TRex - range deputy dino at September 20, 2026 08:06 PM (XfIK1)

Weasel's friend Geoff showed me how riding the 1911 safety with my thumb would change my grip a LOT in terms of accuracy. Just moving the thumb from below it to on it made a huge difference. (That did NOT transfer to the Tomcat - different grip, different safety, different size.)

Posted by: GWB at September 20, 2026 08:24 PM (kU0PQ)

85 One firearm I really miss was my S-and-W 625-5. A .45 ACP N-frame revolver. I used the included half-moon clips. What a sweet, heavy-hitting gun.

Posted by: mrp at September 20, 2026 08:26 PM (rj6Yv)

86 Also, Armed Attorneys has a video (4 days ago) on Waymo calling the cops because the car saw a gun among the riders.

Posted by: GWB at September 20, 2026 08:27 PM (kU0PQ)

87 78 64 In slow fire, I had light primer strikes. Not when I went fast, no problems at all there, but the 10 rounds slow drill? I had light primer strikes. So odd...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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Crud in the firing pin channel is my guess. Less likely is that your springs are tired and need replacing.

Posted by: whig at September 20, 2026 08:27 PM (E4rtv)

88 Weasel's friend Geoff showed me...

Posted by: GWB at September 20, 2026 08:24 PM
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WBG has much wisdom and knowledge. He has helped many Morons. Much appreciated.

Posted by: TRex - studious dino at September 20, 2026 08:29 PM (XfIK1)

89 Posted by: heya at September 20, 2026 08:09 PM (TfRuS)

1. My days as a wanna be line animal were long over even before I retired from the USAR. The last firefight I was in during my deployment to Iraq in 07-08. I was mighty glad someone got on a radio to call in CAS with A-10s and Apaches to bring down the pain on the bad guys.

2. Most things in the modern urban or suburban environment are only concealment, not cover. Even the things that are won't be after a sustained barrage of .308/7.62mm NATO rounds.

3. Even a cheap GI web sling is better than no sling at all on your rifle or long gun (shotgun, PCC, SMG, etc.).

4. Most AR platforms should be able to take the cheap plastic GI muzzle caps for the M-16/M4. Take them off before storing the rifle, though. Keeping them on in storage won't allow moisture in the barrel to evaporate, resulting in rust.

Posted by: Ed L at September 20, 2026 08:29 PM (qgF6K)

90 GWB,
Weasel Buddy Geoff is an AMAZING instructor! Good for you in having the opportunity to listen and learn and work with him. Please, y’all, if you want any direction on being a better shooter, seek him out.

Steck is another amazing resource. She is a certified shooting instructor. And you get their expertise for free in Corsicana. Please take advantage.

And if you’re serious, take notes. Really.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 20, 2026 08:31 PM (O9B8K)

91 No range report but armory report. A couple more firearms fixed up--1898 pseudo Krag carbine was missing the slide lock screw (I bought the 1902 sights cheap because someone had replaced it with a machine screw). Next, I fitted a bayonet lug/upper band and reinstalled the front sight blade on a 1898 Krag, I had already restored the stock end for the rifle (barrel is musket length).

Two small projects on a GEW 88 as well as stock mending at the front end of the stock (some splitting and missing wood to splice) and fixing. Restored finish on it. I had to fit an extractor on the bolt head, put a barrel on it and headspace it, checked out ok (S variant so modern 8x57 ammo okay to shoot).

Posted by: whig at September 20, 2026 08:33 PM (E4rtv)

92 First JesseinDC, then Steck, Weasel, Jim, Geoff ...This is the kind of coaching and wisdom and experience you won't find anywhere else on the planet for FREE! If you've never been to Texas, Just do it.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice} at September 20, 2026 08:37 PM (kJmSS)

93 PewView grip video

http://alturl.com/25qn5

I am just mesmerized by the speed with which he shoots.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 20, 2026 08:38 PM (NlEaG)

94 Fitted a 1915 No 1, Mk 3 Enfield into its used stock after I installed the barrel and buttstock to the action. Should get parts from Apex, barrel bands, etc. and finish that one as well.

For rimmed cartridges, they headspace on the rim so a set of coin type headspace gages allow pretty easy check of headspace even with the ejector on as they have a cutoff. Made by a guy in Oklahoma years ago.

Finished fitting a upper barrel band/bayonet lug to a P14. This was a kludge as the pristine barrel of the P14 was cut off at the front sight, I guess because they could not get it off. So I had to split the upper band to make it work. Still have to drill a pin to retain the front sight.

Working on identifying a 50 caliber smoothbore musket barrel without the plug nor the powder drum/nipple. Fitted to a long stock that is either a clone of Pennsylvania or Kentucky rifle. The barrel used staples so Track of the Wolf order to fit the missing two and have to check threads on the drum and the breech plug to determine thread pitch and size. Barrel is well made but unmarked, possibly Jukar (Spanish) or some such. One inch octagon with dovetails for missing front and rear sights.

Posted by: whig at September 20, 2026 08:40 PM (E4rtv)

95 If one is trying to identify odd models, old reference manuals are useful like Flayderman's Guide to Antique Firearms, old Numrich Catalogs, and the odd S&S Firearms or Dixie Gunworks print catalogs.

Track of the Wolf is one of the better websights for muzzleloader parts for modern ones. Antique, ebay and perhaps Gunbroker at times.

Posted by: whig at September 20, 2026 08:42 PM (E4rtv)

96 Working on identifying a 50 caliber smoothbore musket barrel without the plug nor the powder drum/nipple. Fitted to a long stock that is either a clone of Pennsylvania or Kentucky rifle. The barrel used staples so Track of the Wolf order to fit the missing two and have to check threads on the drum and the breech plug to determine thread pitch and size. Barrel is well made but unmarked, possibly Jukar (Spanish) or some such. One inch octagon with dovetails for missing front and rear sights.
Posted by: whig at September 20, 2026 08:40 PM (E4rtv)
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I've had good luck with The Rifle Shoppe for those hard-to-find items. i bought the parts for my Baker replica from them.

Posted by: mrp at September 20, 2026 08:44 PM (rj6Yv)

97 I have about ten more to fix--four require barrel vise/action wrench to install and/or remove existing barrels.

Out of the rest of the six, several require stock repairs, are missing a few parts, or need thorough barrel cleaning.

This is allowing me to get rid of approximately 8-10 stocks, about ten barrels, various bolts, barrel bands, sears, etc.

Then it will be time to list and sell them. I'll keep the sentimental milsurp ones and the ones increasing in market value but I want to downsize by at least one large gun safe from long arms.

Carbines are the first to go as my recoil tolerance is likely not good.

Posted by: whig at September 20, 2026 08:48 PM (E4rtv)

98 I've had good luck with The Rifle Shoppe for those hard-to-find items. i bought the parts for my Baker replica from them.
Posted by: mrp

Thanks for that. I have an 1863 Springfield Lock that needs a bridle to complete. Lodgewood Mfg has a replica barrel that I am considering. That only leaves a stock which I might have a lead on.

I am waiting for a decently priced stock for the 1888 Springfield Trapdoor but otherwise have the rest of the parts.

Posted by: whig at September 20, 2026 08:50 PM (E4rtv)

99 I'm out. Have to see if the condensed milk ice cream I made tonight is ready to eat. Did a salted caramel swirl.
Can't wait til next week to continue learning the new gun.
Have a great week all.
Thanks Weasel for the opportunity to hang out with my favorite people.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice} at September 20, 2026 08:51 PM (kJmSS)

100 No range time this week, but still dry fire practice - grip, sight, operation, and field strip and reassemble...

Seems to help.

Posted by: man at September 20, 2026 08:51 PM (pfXMo)

101 mrp, I took a quick look at their website and they are priced fairly considering some of the other places. Thanks again for the tip.

I kind of blundered into black powder by buying parts lots for parts I needed on other restorations so I have multiple locks, barrel bands, and buttplates/screws but not stocks or barrels. Like a Navy Arms 1863 Zoauve lockplate.

Posted by: whig at September 20, 2026 08:53 PM (E4rtv)

102 Weasel, time for me to sign off. Thanks for hosting!

Posted by: Ed L at September 20, 2026 08:54 PM (qgF6K)

103 The Rifle Shoppe has a bridle for $19.95

Posted by: mrp at September 20, 2026 08:57 PM (rj6Yv)

104 MAE, I think Blazer ammo might have harder primers than others. SWA had a series of light strikes last month when using 9mm Blazer ammo in her Glocks. She switched out the Blazer ammo for the Federal Syntech 124 grain and the light strike problem vanished.
Posted by: Ed L
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CCI primer cups are not 'harder' (outside of their specific military grade rifle primers which are different than the ordinary CCI small and large rifle primers) but their priming compound is different than Federal.

Federal uses an older more sensitive primer compound (IIRC basic mebbe?) which is why you have to be careful substituting primers and doing so you restart at beginning powder loads in the manual. The rest of modern primers in the US mfg use 'common' primer compound.

Winchester's primers, for example, are often hotter, Remington's were more mild if they still make them. Dunno about Fiocchi and Wolf.

Posted by: whig at September 20, 2026 08:59 PM (E4rtv)

105 See ya, Ed L!

Posted by: Weasel at September 20, 2026 09:01 PM (GNqmQ)

106 Question:

Is there clarity on the general purchase / ownership of suppressed SBRs due to the zeroing out of the NFA tax?

Or is it still a grey area being worked out?

Posted by: Community Notes at September 20, 2026 09:01 PM (U4c/V)

107 'Bout time for me to sign off.

Thanks for a great Gun Thread, Weasel!

See y'all in the Morning Report.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 20, 2026 09:01 PM (qnN/4)

108 103 The Rifle Shoppe has a bridle for $19.95
Posted by: mrp

Yeah, I saw that as I checked for those parts first. The pin on the bridle that came with the lock was snapped which is why someone sold me the lock cheap on Ebay, less than 50 including screws escutcheons, barrel bands, etc. Rusty but cleaned up well with minimal pitting. I needed the screws and escutcheons for the Springfield trapdoor restore.

Posted by: whig at September 20, 2026 09:02 PM (E4rtv)

109 Posted by: whig at September 20, 2026 09:02 PM (E4rtv)
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Glad I could help. The double-lock English and French double-barrel fowlers give me heart palpitations.

Posted by: mrp at September 20, 2026 09:06 PM (rj6Yv)

110 Less than a month.

Posted by: Eromero at September 20, 2026 09:08 PM (LHPAg)

111 I got some 5.56mm ammo I can bring. Anyone shooting that caliber at the MoMe? Let me know and I’ll pack some. As well as the usual 9mm.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 20, 2026 09:09 PM (vupS9)

112 87 78 64 In slow fire, I had light primer strikes. Not when I went fast, no problems at all there, but the 10 rounds slow drill? I had light primer strikes. So odd...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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Crud in the firing pin channel is my guess. Less likely is that your springs are tired and need replacing.
Posted by: whig at September 20, 2026 08:27 PM (E4rtv)

I did a really detailed clean a couple weeks ago. So it should be crud. It could be the firing pin or spring???

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 20, 2026 09:09 PM (xcxpd)

113 Screw ammo at Brinson...I'm getting an ATV!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 09:14 PM (k5CNB)

114 I did a really detailed clean a couple weeks ago. So it should be crud. It could be the firing pin or spring???
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Yep. Firing pin spring could be either gummed up or needing replacement. I would go ahead and replace the recoil spring as well but that is just me. I keep the old ones in a marked baggie as to what the condition is. Rarely does the firing pin get damaged but it can happen, that is apparent on the primer cup of the fired rounds.

Posted by: whig at September 20, 2026 09:15 PM (E4rtv)

115 Glad I could help. The double-lock English and French double-barrel fowlers give me heart palpitations.
Posted by: mrp
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Works of art usually with spectacular wood on either of those.

Posted by: whig at September 20, 2026 09:16 PM (E4rtv)

116 Question:

Is there clarity on the general purchase / ownership of suppressed SBRs due to the zeroing out of the NFA tax?

Or is it still a grey area being worked out?
Posted by: Community Notes at September 20, 2026 09:01 PM (U4c/V)

More than one smart guy on the web (including Brandon Herrera, who made the first purchase of a suppressor without the tax form) says that unless you are a member of the correct group, in the correct state, you should probably talk to a local lawyer before trying it.

However, there are evidently FLGS around the country pushing forward with it, regardless of connection to the original legal decision. (And some FLGS are not doing it because they are waiting to see. Even in the states covered.)

Posted by: GWB at September 20, 2026 09:20 PM (kU0PQ)

117 I'm getting an ATV!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 09:14 PM (k5CNB)
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I bet we could build a jump out of cinder blocks and boards!

Posted by: Weasel at September 20, 2026 09:21 PM (ei1sX)

118 I bet we could build a jump out of cinder blocks and boards!

Posted by: Weasel at September 20, 2026 09:21 PM (ei1sX)


We could mount a big steel on it and see who can hit a moving target. I volunteer ____ to drive it!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 09:23 PM (k5CNB)

119 Back!
Actually nice. Americana music, sort of Willie Nelson - Guitar, bass and violin. Singer had a voice that would drop panties.
Not mine, though.

Posted by: RI Red at September 20, 2026 09:24 PM (YAL0u)

120 OK, 9:24 thank you time!

Thank you!

Hope to see you next Sunday and in a few weeks in Corsicana!

Posted by: Weasel at September 20, 2026 09:24 PM (ei1sX)

121 Busy day, I'm late Weasel ...

Loved Hikock on heavy guns. Thanks for that one. I have a Sig 229 in 357 sig that's really meant for a duty holster. Ooof. Love it, but can't imagine carrying it around all day.

Good range day today, 25' and in.

Posted by: YellowBird at September 20, 2026 09:24 PM (MEbkQ)

122 Not a lawyer yada yada yada

But the President says that the DOJ is not to appeal the ruling.

I don't know if that means it takes the ruling into more broad application or not.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 20, 2026 09:25 PM (NlEaG)

123 Good range day today, 25' and in.
Posted by: YellowBird at September 20, 2026 09:24 PM (MEbkQ)
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Nice!

Posted by: Weasel at September 20, 2026 09:26 PM (ei1sX)

124 I saw a picture today of the new S&W M&P folding pistol carbine today and promptly fell down a rabbit hole while tryingn to find out as much as I could about it. 9mm and there is a MD compliant version. Optic ready. $700. Looks very nice. Anybody handled one?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice} at September 20, 2026 07:54 PM (kJmSS)

Sharon, if no one has answered.
Get one. Get one now. Or come up here and try mine.

Posted by: RI Red at September 20, 2026 09:27 PM (YAL0u)

125 Going to skeet & trap training tomorrow for the first time. Hope it goes well! Wish me luck!

Posted by: jax at September 20, 2026 09:28 PM (mZHK2)

126 Is there clarity on the general purchase / ownership of suppressed SBRs due to the zeroing out of the NFA tax?
Posted by: Community Notes
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I would not build an SBR unless I already had it papered by applying. If you have the itch, simply build it as an AR pistol with the pistol buffer tube and a foam cover until things settle down. The pistol buffer tube will not support a stock and you use a sling to push pull when firing--accurate enough at short range. When all the dust settles on the no papered SBRs, you can then change it out fairly simply after either getting the papered NFA stamp at zero dollars but paperwork needed, or you can, if the law settles out in your favor, change it to what you want.

Personally, I would go 300 Blackout if you have to do it as it is designed for a short barrel and you don't get the muzzle blast that you would from a short 5.56/223 barrel. Going less than 11.5 inches is fine for a 300 Blackout as it prefers a pistol length gas system. The 5.56/223 doesn't. Pistol length is overgassed a lot making it operate rough. 11.5 I think is the minimum length to get a carbine length gas system. Cont.

Posted by: whig at September 20, 2026 09:29 PM (E4rtv)

127 Screw ammo at Brinson...I'm getting an ATV!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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Please don't encourage the Dino....

Posted by: The Grateful - R at September 20, 2026 09:31 PM (XfIK1)

128 FWIW, I saw .22 suppressors for sale with a notice that all paperwork was still required, and I suspect that will be true until the manufacturers are reassured there is no chance of losing their companies and spending time in federal prison

Posted by: Kindltot at September 20, 2026 09:32 PM (rbvCR)

129 Do not get a stock before a) you got your NFA stamp, or b) the legal dust has settled that you don't need one--e.g. NFA provisions are mort on them as declared by Scotus.

ATF has a thing called constructive assembly where if you have all the parts to make an SBR, constructively you have one--without a permit.

So do a pistol build for now and wait until you have a chance later to convert if that is legal in your state.

One thing to remember, an AR pistol is treated as a pistol under antipoaching laws that forbid carrying loaded rifles or shotguns in cars. A SBR is treated as a rifle and so you have to have it unloaded if stopped by the po po. Plus, unclear about taking SBRs across state lines--normally you have to file with teh ATF about such plans but right now, again, legal turmoil.

One thing is clear, never be a test case.

Posted by: whig at September 20, 2026 09:33 PM (E4rtv)

130 I’d love to see a gator with a rifle rack driving alongside those faggy golf carts in the retirement villages in Florida.

Cracking myself up over here.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 20, 2026 09:34 PM (8RnBZ)

131 I don't know if that means it takes the ruling into more broad application or not.
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat

Applies to members of the specific class (organizations involved in the litigation) only. Not everyone else. And good luck with that in blue states. If you must, simply get the NFA paper on it at zero bucks right now. Approvals are running pretty fast.

Posted by: whig at September 20, 2026 09:35 PM (E4rtv)

132 FWIW, I saw .22 suppressors for sale with a notice that all paperwork was still required, and I suspect that will be true until the manufacturers are reassured there is no chance of losing their companies and spending time in federal prison
Posted by: Kindltot
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Interesting...at our range we noticed that many of the "empty" spaces from Spamburger's threats have been refilled, but not all. And for whatever it's worth, no wait time at the range in months. Was the threat enough to scare people away?

Posted by: The Grateful - R at September 20, 2026 09:35 PM (XfIK1)

133 125 Going to skeet & trap training tomorrow for the first time. Hope it goes well! Wish me luck!
Posted by: jax


Don’t shoot like CBD!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 20, 2026 09:35 PM (8RnBZ)

134 Thanks for another week, Weasel.
Take care, y'all.

(I'm hoping for both NoVaMoMe and TxMoMe next year.)

Posted by: GWB at September 20, 2026 09:35 PM (kU0PQ)

135 Welp, calling it an evening. Thanks for the thread tonight Weasel.

And remember, one must turn square corners when dealing with the government (Scotus justice in a case). Let the dust settle on the SBR litigation or apply for a free stamp now with the zero dollar and have a papered one.

Otherwise just build an AR pistol on a new lower receiver which are legal in most, if not all states.

Then make your decision later to convert or not to a papered NFA SBR or even just an ordinary rifle with 16 inch barrel or more.

Posted by: whig at September 20, 2026 09:41 PM (E4rtv)

136 And don't go in reverse, if you bought it as a rifle, DO NOT try to convert it to a pistol as it is already considered a rifle under the form 4473 that you signed to purchase it.

Get some good legal advice for your locality as states and even some local governments are restrictive in laws. Again, don't be a test case.

Posted by: whig at September 20, 2026 09:43 PM (E4rtv)

137 Have a nice evening Weasel and co. Got to walk the dogs before a shower sets in.

Posted by: whig at September 20, 2026 09:44 PM (E4rtv)

138 Posted by: nurse ratched at September 20, 2026 09:34 PM (8RnBZ)
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My Gator has a rifle rack!

Posted by: Weasel at September 20, 2026 09:44 PM (GNqmQ)

139 'Nite whig!

Posted by: Weasel at September 20, 2026 09:45 PM (GNqmQ)

140 My Gator has a rifle rack!
Posted by: Weasel

I would be disappointed if it didn’t! Hope
The farm-o is producing well for you this year, weasel!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 20, 2026 09:46 PM (yEz+x)

141 And is it the season to break out the cozy cave?

Lucy the Fink has been revisiting her heating pad. We haven’t had lows in the 49s yet, but getting closer! Open windows all day and all night around here. It’s glorious.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 20, 2026 09:49 PM (yEz+x)

142 Posted by: nurse ratched at September 20, 2026 09:49 PM (yEz+x)
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There was some sort of fracas on the couch earlier over blankey distribution. Time to break out the winter gear I suppose. They both went today to get their toenails clipped and Gertie got an A+ for unusually good behavior. FSJ was his usual good boy self.

Posted by: Weasel at September 20, 2026 09:56 PM (ei1sX)

143 T -3 until Doof Time.

Posted by: Weasel at September 20, 2026 09:57 PM (ei1sX)

144 Nothing left of the weekend but the ONT.

Shoot.

Posted by: mindful webworker - casually at September 20, 2026 09:59 PM (MX7Zk)

145 "Posted by: Ed L at September 20, 2026 08:29 PM (qgF6K)"

I like the usgi plastic muzzle caps, but this was a long distance excursion to a ban state. I likely would have gotten jammed up with an AR. As it was, walking away was a good result.

It is really infuriating to find yourself in a fight with neutered weapons knowing the other guy - a criminal - isn't handicapped like that.

Posted by: heya at September 21, 2026 01:20 AM (ND37T)

Food Thread: Pigs Feet For The Win!

friedpate26.jpg

That might look a bit weird, but damn! It was delicious. It is a block of pâté made from pigs feet that was breaded very lightly and then pan-fried. That other stuff is a horseradish cream that went perfectly with the rich meat.

Wow. I ordered it not knowing whether it was going to be glorious, or a cold blob of pork jelly with a trotter in the middle of it. Which I have seen!

The best thing about this dish is that it isn't particularly complicated. Making a pâté is surprisingly easy, and frying it is simple. The horseradish cream is also straightforward, but what makes this dish special is that somebody A) thought of it, and 2. executed it extremely well.

That's what most good cooking is...attention to detail and a bit of imagination.

Simple!

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The small restaurant group that runs Fallow and a few other restaurants in London is run by a pair of English chefs (along with a money guy) who are talented in the kitchen and surprisingly good at making cooking videos. Their successful restaurants allow them the flexibility to do all sorts of fun videos, and this one, dedicated to the best chicken fricassee one can make, is a hoot!
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Aside from the uncomfortable reality that I can eat a couple of massive bowls of beans and rice at one sitting, it is a glorious food! My preference is black beans, but red beans will work quite well thank you very much! Red Beans And Rice With Pickled Pork sounds very interesting, especially since I have no idea what pickled pork is!
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WineOption26.jpg

Most people don't obsess over wine, and that is healthy and wise. It is, after all, just a drink. You know...like the .45ACP is just a cartridge.

But if you do obsess, and that is my personal recommendation, expanding your horizons is going to pay off quite well indeed. It's easy to fall into the rut of buying the big names in wine grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay and Pinot Noir and Zinfandel and Sauvignon Blanc and few others. Chosen well they are very good wines, and at the top of the wine game they can be absolutely incredible.

But most people don't drink the top wines very often, especially on a hectic Tuesday night eating a quick meal before you take one of the brats to his travel game or have Back-To-School night.

That's when looking bast the big names is a good plan. Those grapes may make excellent wine, but they carry a premium because of their fame, and at the low end of the range they can be thoroughly mediocre, soulless wines that are just a step above crap cooking wine. Sadly, that evaluation often extends into the pricier ones!

Trying a less well-known grape can pay dividends, because the grapes themselves are less expensive, and since the grapes are only a part of the total cost of the wine, the winemaker often gets better quality grapes and still brings the wine in at a competitive price. So the $15 Cabernet that is made from mass-market grapes grown on an industrial scale can't compete with a supposedly lesser grape that is nonetheless higher quality.

Give it a shot!

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I want to like eggplant. Really! But aside from baba ghanoush, I find it sort of...meh. Oh, I'll eat it in Eggplant Parmigiana or Chicken Sorrentino or crispy fried with some tasty sauce. But it's just not that exciting!

So, while I really want to think that Crispy, Oven-Fried Eggplant is going to change the way I see eggplant, I doubt very much that it is anything other than a small evolution of a boring food.

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The great garlic experiment of 2025-2026 was a resounding...meh. Send all of your excellent home-grown garlic to: cbd dot aoshq at gmail dot com.

About the Bourbon Bubble...I think it has burst, but the category is also suffering from the inflation that affected everything else (Thanks Biden!). I think the sweet spot is still $40-$60 for excellent and interesting bottles, and bumping that to $100 gets you an incremental improvement in quality, but nothing mind-blowing. More than that and I think you are paying for hype and rarity, which may look good in your liquor cabinet, but doesn't translate to more quality in the bottle.

The problem...or the solution...is to buy lots of bourbon, take tasting notes, and eventually arrive at your favorites! It should take forty or fifty years, but it is worth it!

Posted by: CBD at 04:00 PM




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1 Food fight

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 04:00 PM (Ia/+0)

2 I would like President Trump to issue an executive order saying that hot dogs and hot dog buns can only be sold packaged in identical numbers.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 20, 2026 04:03 PM (CHHv1)

3 !

Posted by: wth at September 20, 2026 04:03 PM (oq9dX)

4 My favorite with a good roastor prime rim is Petite Syrah
Has a good peppery flavor so stands well

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 04:03 PM (Ia/+0)

5 I'd try that wine, in a heart beat.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 20, 2026 04:04 PM (NnhvP)

6 Snackle - I'm not a fan of the cutesy name, but the concept is good. An elevated lunchable, if you will. Also a lot easier to take to places where a board isn't feasible, or if you have family members who lose the plot if their food touches.

Posted by: moki at September 20, 2026 04:04 PM (wLjpr)

7 Food

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 20, 2026 04:04 PM (nbLIj)

8 Our red beans and rice is made with Andouille sausage and ham.

Might have to check out this "pickled pork" thing.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 20, 2026 04:05 PM (2Cry5)

9 Called em..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 20, 2026 04:06 PM (nbLIj)

10 People who can pair a specific wine with food amaze me. Either one of those things can be good on their own, but together, are magic.

I am not educated in this art. But I know people who are. It’s really fun to join them for a meal or two now and again.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 20, 2026 04:06 PM (yEz+x)

11 Had a bad grocery store trip, forgot mozzarella for a ham Stromboli I planned to make tonight. So will go back tomorrow to get what I forgot.
Pasta and meatballs with salid instead

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 04:06 PM (Ia/+0)

12 Smaller box actually makes sense when portable is needed.

Posted by: lin-duh at September 20, 2026 04:08 PM (VCgbV)

13 I drink white wine for dishes that require it, yes some dishes won't work with red wines. But red wines are my favorite.

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 04:09 PM (Ia/+0)

14 Snackle not smaller...

Posted by: lin-duh at September 20, 2026 04:09 PM (VCgbV)

15 My favorite with a good roastor prime rim is Petite Syrah
Has a good peppery flavor so stands well
Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 04:03 PM (Ia/+0)

That's a good 'un. My local ABC guy laments his challenge getting folks to try something other than a cab or a zin. Made his day when I came in looking for a shiraz to pair with my grilled lamb...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 20, 2026 04:10 PM (nbLIj)

16 Beans and rice is as tasty as the herbs and spices you put into it.

Good food.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 20, 2026 04:10 PM (yEz+x)

17 Found a sack of raw hamburger patties in the big freezer, so supper is sorted for a week or two. I'll sprinkle them with powered garlic, powdered onion, and salt, melt cheese on 'em, and have 'em on buns with mustard, mayo, pickle, and tomato. Getting hungry just thinking about it.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 20, 2026 04:11 PM (aJQbY)

18 Those pig’s feet have been gentrified! 😂

Posted by: Piper at September 20, 2026 04:13 PM (2UJ+q)

19 The snacklebox is pretty cool idea. I wouldn't mind having a version of that to put in the saddlebag when I ride, but that'd defeat the purpose of finding a great gas station taco place.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 20, 2026 04:15 PM (3Ope8)

20 Those pig’s feet have been gentrified! 😂

Posted by: Piper at September 20, 2026 04:13 PM (2UJ+q)


That they have...but they were delicious. A special dish.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 04:15 PM (k5CNB)

21 That might look a bit weird, but damn! It was delicious. It is a block of pâté made from pigs feet that was breaded very lightly and then pan-fried. That other stuff is a horseradish cream that went perfectly with the rich meat.

Dad loved pig's feet. Right out of the jar.
Pickled eggs. Sardines out of the can.

I used to eat the sardines with him when I was a kid, but the rest of the stuff made me gag even back then.

The old guys here in the South loved that stuff in the jar on the counter at the local general store.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 20, 2026 04:15 PM (6ydKt)

22 Beans and rice is as tasty as the herbs and spices you put into it.

Herbs and spices are a must with any food that is 'too boring' after one or two meals. It completely changes things.

I've never had pâté to my knowledge. If I did it wasn't called that. It seems to be a 'either make it yourself, or pay through the nose' kind of food?

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 20, 2026 04:15 PM (aJQbY)

23 8 Our red beans and rice is made with Andouille sausage and ham.

Might have to check out this "pickled pork" thing.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 20, 2026 04

Do you throw fried catfish on the top?

Posted by: Piper at September 20, 2026 04:16 PM (2UJ+q)

24 I miss apples. The blemished kind.

Posted by: Accomack at September 20, 2026 04:16 PM (T8bqm)

25 Red Beans And Rice With Pickled Pork sounds very interesting, especially since I have no idea what pickled pork is!


Yes, as per my above.
The pig's feet are pickled pig's feet.

That counts as pork but maybe it's a different thing?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 20, 2026 04:17 PM (6ydKt)

26 Stromboli... man, there used to be an awesome one made by the local Giant grocery store. Made fresh, wrapped in foil and ready to cook. As a teenager I could nearly eat the whole thing at one sitting.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 20, 2026 04:17 PM (2Cry5)

27 Pigs' feet pate with horseradish cream.
That's quite the lede.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 20, 2026 04:18 PM (sl73Y)

28 now I have an overwhelming desire for pork chops

Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 20, 2026 04:19 PM (jrgJz)

29 A North American AT-6F Texan just flew over my house making all kinds of racket.

Posted by: pawn at September 20, 2026 04:20 PM (EV0C1)

30 I've collected most of the Fallow videos and I plan to give their version of a fricassee a go. I've done one other and the recipe is in my stack somewhere.

And anything pig? Oh hell yes.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at September 20, 2026 04:21 PM (iIyc0)

31 It is an odd way to package oysters in a wine bottle.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 20, 2026 04:21 PM (rbvCR)

32 26 Stromboli... man, there used to be an awesome one made by the local Giant grocery store. Made fresh, wrapped in foil and ready to cook. As a teenager I could nearly eat the whole thing at one sitting.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 20, 2026 04:17 PM (2Cry5)

At some grocery stores here they sell a brand of frozen strombolis from a company called 'Screamin' Sicilian'.

I was addicted to their pepperoni style for years.
They are really tasty for frozen but only you can cook them in the oven for like 40 minutes.

Too much bread for lunch, though, so I stopped eating them.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 20, 2026 04:21 PM (6ydKt)

33 One other version of a fricassee that is...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at September 20, 2026 04:21 PM (iIyc0)

34 > Our red beans and rice is made with Andouille sausage and ham.

Might have to check out this "pickled pork" thing.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 20, 2026 04

Do you throw fried catfish on the top?
Posted by: Piper at September 20, 2026 04:16 PM (2UJ+q)
---------
Nah.... my wife hates fish. Seafood of any kind too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 20, 2026 04:22 PM (2Cry5)

35 Does anyone know what the three cereals I'm being warned not to eat are?
And are they cereal cereals or "cereal" cereals?
Rye and wheat or Cap'n Crunch and Kaboom?

Posted by: From about That Time at September 20, 2026 04:23 PM (sl73Y)

36
That they have...but they were delicious. A special dish.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 04:15 PM (k5CNB)

I am sure it was! I don’t think I have ever done anything with pigs feet, even though they are readily available around here. Ham hocks on the other hand - greens, red beans and rice, field peas, wouldn’t be the same without.

Posted by: Piper at September 20, 2026 04:25 PM (2UJ+q)

37 Nah.... my wife hates fish. Seafood of any kind too.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 20, 2026 04:22

I like fish and seafood (except shrimp) but not a huge catfish fan. When the Cajun friend brings us red beans and rice, I eat that and J gets all the catfish.

Posted by: Piper at September 20, 2026 04:26 PM (2UJ+q)

38 The top pic does look good.

I thought it was some kind of desert cake, until reading the content.

Just out of curiosity, CBD, how much does a plate like that run in Pairs?

$30 Eurodollars?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 20, 2026 04:26 PM (6ydKt)

39 That they have...but they were delicious. A special dish.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 04:15 PM

That does look good. I like to use pigs feet for a parsleyed ham in the spring.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 20, 2026 04:28 PM (qnN/4)

40 Pairs... I moved to an actual keyboard and still can't type.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 20, 2026 04:29 PM (6ydKt)

41 the purpose of finding a great gas station taco place.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

Yup, Hwy 395 and Tioga Pass(Yosemite), the Mobil station with the Whoa Nellie deli. 4Star eating.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 20, 2026 04:30 PM (NnhvP)

42 who in the heck came up with eating pig's feet?

Posted by: DanMan at September 20, 2026 04:30 PM (8uzBS)

43 A North American AT-6F Texan just flew over my house making all kinds of racket.
Posted by: pawn at September 20, 2026 04:20 PM (EV0C1)


Same here by a Cessna 190. That radial sounds as smooth as nutella spread over a tray of brownies.
(See how I stayed inside the food thread lines?)

Posted by: Diogenes at September 20, 2026 04:30 PM (2WIwB)

44 Wife makes a corned pig tail soup that is best creation

Posted by: Accomack at September 20, 2026 04:31 PM (GbONR)

45 Lamb, mint and cotia cheese sliders on naan with labneh. Shaved brussel sprouts, pan fried with some pancetta and a little couscous. That's what's for dinner.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 20, 2026 04:31 PM (3Ope8)

46 Go SEAHAWKS!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 20, 2026 04:31 PM (yEz+x)

47 I like chicken straight up, grilled, pan fried, or deep fried. All of that extra effort for sauces and such seem exhausting.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 20, 2026 04:33 PM (5C90x)

48 Feet and tails were poor food.

Posted by: Accomack at September 20, 2026 04:34 PM (GbONR)

49 Just out of curiosity, CBD, how much does a plate like that run in Pairs?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 20, 2026 04:26 PM (6ydKt)


It was 19€, or about $22.

And worth it!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 04:35 PM (k5CNB)

50 "Who in the heck came up with eating pigs feet?"

Someone who ate everything else on the pig but was still hungry.

Posted by: PabloD at September 20, 2026 04:35 PM (CoKDD)

51 A pig like that you don’t eat all at once.

Posted by: Accomack at September 20, 2026 04:36 PM (8jVAy)

52 45 Lamb, mint and cotia cheese sliders on naan with labneh. Shaved brussel sprouts, pan fried with some pancetta and a little couscous. That's what's for dinner.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September

Wow!

Posted by: Piper at September 20, 2026 04:36 PM (2UJ+q)

53 All of that extra effort for sauces and such seem exhausting.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 20, 2026 04:33 PM (5C90x)


That's why pan sauces are great! They take very little extra time, and are simple to make.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 04:37 PM (k5CNB)

54 It's chilly enough to make a crockpot of Giada's short rib ragu:

https://tinyurl.com/2ukv6e22

Some for now, but most for the freezer.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 20, 2026 04:37 PM (kpS4V)

55 we have the 'Under the Wire' contest coming up, it has old Stenson bi-plane and other crop duster pilots drop flour bombs on targets and fly under a power line and yes those radials are thunder from the sky

Posted by: DanMan at September 20, 2026 04:37 PM (8uzBS)

56 I am thinking its beverage time before supper

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 04:38 PM (Ia/+0)

57 CHEESEBURGERS DIFFERENTLY ... Instead of melting cheese on top of a grilled burger, someone (I forgot who) made this suggestion ... Making grilled cheese sandwiches on thin white bread and serving the hot burgers between two of them ... Probably the same about of "bread" as a bun, but would provide much more cheese.

Posted by: Kathy at September 20, 2026 04:40 PM (MOK4W)

58 Snacklebox is a better idea, but still a bad one. You have to make it and serve it immediately b/c you're putting all sorts of differing shelf stable and refrigerated products on it, and those that are okay with moisture and those that hate it, etc...

But at least you no longer have the "this product got smeared all over the rest of the tray problem" and it does just look better...

Making youth dinner for 25, so gonna be in and out...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 20, 2026 04:41 PM (tOcjL)

59 It’s still 91 out there, but we have ribeyes. I think those will get grilled, sliced and thrown over salad.

Posted by: Piper at September 20, 2026 04:41 PM (2UJ+q)

60 Kathy,

An interesting concept, I'll try it sometime this week and report back next food thread!

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 20, 2026 04:42 PM (aJQbY)

61 42 who in the heck came up with eating pig's feet?
Posted by: DanMan at September 20, 2026 04:30 PM (8uzBS)

Someone who probably got them free...or as their only meat product...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 20, 2026 04:43 PM (tOcjL)

62 Nothing higher than 70 degrees this week, I will miss summer

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 04:43 PM (Ia/+0)

63 CHEESEBURGERS DIFFERENTLY ... Instead of melting cheese on top of a grilled burger, someone (I forgot who) made this suggestion ... Making grilled cheese sandwiches on thin white bread and serving the hot burgers between two of them ... Probably the same about of "bread" as a bun, but would provide much more cheese.
Posted by: Kathy


A patty melt, but twice the melt and half the patty, relatively.

Posted by: mikeski at September 20, 2026 04:44 PM (VHUov)

64 Have Brats to grill some nice day this week

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 04:45 PM (Ia/+0)

65 CBD,

Your Bâtonnet de poisson Madame Paul's

looks burnt.

And the Tartare Sauce looks spoiled!

A sad day for French cuisine!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 20, 2026 04:45 PM (iJfKG)

66 A patty melt, but twice the melt and half the patty, relatively.

Posted by: mikeski at September 20, 2026 04:44 PM (VHUov)


No onions?

That's criminal!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 04:46 PM (k5CNB)

67 Anyway, the dinner is inside out beef and refried bean burritos...I'm making the filling and letting the kids do the work of rolling them into burritos or tacos...

I've got romaine, cheddar cheese, sour cream, salsa, and hot sauce with flour tortillas...To go with, I have a 4 fruit tray (clementines, grapes, strawberries, and blueberries) and Pillsbury slice and cut chocolate chip cookies (b/c Amazon had this cheap for the bulk version and ease is wanted when I have extra cooking and football to watch)...

Gonna test this all out on the spouse and girls 1st before boys bring it (already ensured the cookies were well baked). I always test before a group bring b/c nothing is worse than making something horrid and not knowing it (if it's horrid, pizza can be called)...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 20, 2026 04:48 PM (tOcjL)

68 When we make gumbo, or red beans and rice, we make a roux from scratch. Oil and flour. Done slowly on the stove. Takes a long time. But so worth it.

Old school.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 20, 2026 04:48 PM (2Cry5)

69 Posted by: Piper at September 20, 2026 04:36 PM (2UJ+q)

I make 3-4 oz meat balls, press 'em out really thin, sprinkle some sea salt and fresh ground pepper on one side, and toss them on the Blackstone under the burger press. 1.5 -2 minutes, flip them over and let them go another minute. Pull them off an let them rest while the naan toasts. Start to finish is maybe 5 minutes. Serve with Birra Peroni out on the patio under the fans.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 20, 2026 04:49 PM (3Ope8)

70 who in the heck came up with eating pig's feet?
Posted by: DanMan at September 20, 2026 04:30 PM (8uzBS)


Hungry people.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 20, 2026 04:50 PM (ODRj8)

71 J does really great charcuterie boards, it’s now a contest between him and his Italian friend here. Dry cured meats are fine being left out, and they don’t refrigerate a lot of cheese in Europe. We leave it out and people nibble. Then the fruit one with the left over cheese comes out for dessert.

Posted by: Piper at September 20, 2026 04:51 PM (2UJ+q)

72 People will eat anything if hungry enough

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 04:53 PM (Ia/+0)

73 Found it. Here's the fricassee recipe I've already tried and found to be quite decent:

https://youtu.be/mCNH9rn2OS0

Now to see how the Fallow version compares...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at September 20, 2026 04:53 PM (iIyc0)

74
I made Tamale Pie this week, which is always delicious and stupidly easy.

This time I used leftover pulled pork instead of the usual hamburger.

It came out okay but if I decide to enter this in the rotation I'll have to play with the spices a bit.

Hamburger is much easier to use and spicing is more...what?...forgiving I guess.

Tamale Pie!!!!

Make one today!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 20, 2026 04:54 PM (iJfKG)

75 Just saw Minn 9, Chi 3.
So much for highest scoring offense in history I guess.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 20, 2026 04:56 PM (sl73Y)

76 Finished my Scotch so better go make supper

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 04:57 PM (Ia/+0)

77 Finished my Scotch so better go make supper
Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 04:57 PM (Ia/+0)


Good man.
Life is short. Do dessert first.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 20, 2026 04:58 PM (2WIwB)

78 Finished my Scotch so better go make supper
Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 04:57 PM

It's almost adult beverage time here.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 20, 2026 05:00 PM (qnN/4)

79 CBD may prefer vanilla-flavoured lip balm, but when traveling, he switches to maple syrup flavoured for French Tongue.

Posted by: Duncanthax at September 20, 2026 05:00 PM (0sNs1)

80 75 Just saw Minn 9, Chi 3.
So much for highest scoring offense in history I guess.
Posted by: From about That Time at September 20, 2026 04:56 PM (sl73Y)

Played in a downpour all game...and Williams went out hurt early in 4th.

Obviously the new Bears are a track team vs the old smash mouth Bears...

AKA, this is not a Turducken winning Madden team (to bring it back to food)...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 20, 2026 05:01 PM (tOcjL)

81
Dallas looks like they didn't come to get their asses kicked all over the field like last week.

Perhaps I'll grab a beer....

Maybe a margarita!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 20, 2026 05:02 PM (iJfKG)

82 Souse, scrapple, hoghead cheese, everything but the squeal.

Posted by: Eromero at September 20, 2026 05:06 PM (LHPAg)

83 Souse, scrapple, hoghead cheese, everything but the squeal.
Posted by: Eromero at September 20, 2026 05:06 PM

This is the way.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 20, 2026 05:08 PM (qnN/4)

84 I made St Louis ribs in the crock pot yesterday (first left them overnight in the fridge with a nice dry rub of brown sugar, salt, pepper, chili powder, garlic powder) then when they were done (8 hours, low), I brushed on some hickory BBQ sauce and stuck them under the broiler (which was difficult as they were falling off the bone! Plus it was too hot outside to finish them on the grill). I made enough to have leftovers tonight with some homemade cole slaw.

Posted by: Brunnhilde at September 20, 2026 05:08 PM (3AwA+)

85 I am baking bread. My problem is that I have a perfectly good recipe, and so I search for a better one. So in spite of having the full ability to made decent bread loaves, I wind up with loaves that fail to rise, have giant holes, or have an off texture anyways.

I give up from time to time and just make decent bread to reassure myself it is possible.

My recent spark of interest was starter made from rye or from spelt, and this makes serious changes to dough that I am still working out.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 20, 2026 05:11 PM (rbvCR)

86 Grilling lamb chops. I might have posted this dry rub previously, but it's worth repeating:

3 teaspoon garlic powder
2 teaspoon ground coriander
2 teaspoon ground cumin
2 teaspoon sweet paprika
¼ teaspoon ground cloves
¾ teaspoon salt
pinch of cinnamon
pinch of cardamom

This makes enough to do maybe a dozen loin lamb chops, so I store it in a zip lock bag (I've accumulated a goodly supply from recent cigar purchases).

Anyway.

Salt chops on both sides and let rest on a rack for several hours in the fridge, turning once. Get your wood fire going (charcoal is also ok) and dust chops with the rub. Place next to, not over, the fire.

For 1.5-2" thick chops:

Count to between 40 to 60 seconds then turn 90 degrees. Count a minute, then flip to side 2. Count another minute, and check your fire. Add more wood as needed. (If using charcoal, add wood chips and get some flames going).

Place the chops (still on side 2) directly over/into the fire. Flip to side 1 after 30-40 seconds. If color looks good, go about 20-30 seconds for side 1, then plate. If the sear is...meh, go 40-60 seconds for side 1, then give side 2 another 20-30. You'll get medium rare to medium chops..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 20, 2026 05:13 PM (nbLIj)

87 5 I'd try that wine, in a heart beat.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 20, 2026 04:04 PM (NnhvP)

I would, too.

I've mentioned many times how much I love Spanish Garnacha (French version is Grenache). The bad thing about these lesser-known varieties is that they're rarely available in a small town.

Earlier this week, I wanted something different to have with a friend who was visiting. I chose a Bordeaux Clairet Dry Rose (Chevalier du Grand) and it was such a lovely surprise! It's called rose, but is a gorgeous clear red, and dry and light. Will get that again. On sale at Kroger for $17.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 20, 2026 05:14 PM (CjHsb)

88 74
I made Tamale Pie this week, which is always delicious and stupidly easy.

This time I used leftover pulled pork instead of the usual hamburger.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 20, 2026 04:54 PM (iJfKG)

Might be better with seasoned carnitas meat instead of the pulled pork.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 20, 2026 05:16 PM (6ydKt)

89 Go SEAHAWKS!
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 20, 2026 04:31 PM (yEz+x)


What nurse said!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 20, 2026 05:17 PM (2WIwB)

90 I just invented sardines on Ritz crackers.

Posted by: Weasel at September 20, 2026 05:17 PM (mgRTg)

91 I would call the fried pate entree "mushy pig's feet." Sounds super appetizing!

Posted by: Sexy Velociraptor at September 20, 2026 05:18 PM (U/j9n)

92 I made Tamale Pie this week, which is always delicious and stupidly easy.

This time I used leftover pulled pork instead of the usual hamburger.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 20, 2026 04:54 PM (iJfKG)

Might be better with seasoned carnitas meat instead of the pulled pork.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 20, 2026 05:16 PM (6ydKt)


That's an interesting idea.

Next time I whip up a batch of carnitas, I may give that a whirl.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 20, 2026 05:18 PM (iJfKG)

93 47 I like chicken straight up, grilled, pan fried, or deep fried. All of that extra effort for sauces and such seem exhausting.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 20, 2026 04:33 PM (5C90x)
--
Per the nutrtion information it's always the sauces that make an otherwise healthy meal, unhealthy.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at September 20, 2026 05:19 PM (U/j9n)

94 I’m mashing potatoes and Mrs. E found some leftover meatloaf she sealed last year, from the looks of it neither of us made this meatloaf. We don’t remember it came from, peice with no visible onion, peppers, or tomato. I’m still going to eat it because I’m the kind of guy who eats mysterious food.

Posted by: Eromero at September 20, 2026 05:22 PM (LHPAg)

95 It was 19€, or about $22.

And worth it!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 04:35 PM (k5CNB)


That's all that counts.

Considering how much it costs even for fast food here $22 is not bad.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 20, 2026 05:22 PM (6ydKt)

96 My favorite with a good roastor prime rim is Petite Syrah
Has a good peppery flavor so stands well
Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 04:03 PM (Ia/+0)

Oooooo I love a prime rim! Chasten too!

Posted by: Pete Buttygig at September 20, 2026 05:23 PM (TbWk/)

97 "I just invented sardines on Ritz crackers.
Posted by: Weasel "

That sounds like something my pussy would like.

Posted by: Mrs Slocumbe at September 20, 2026 05:24 PM (MWfyi)

98 37 Nah.... my wife hates fish. Seafood of any kind too.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 20, 2026 04:22

_________________________

I do, as well. And, I have a theory as to why. Ask your wife if her parents gave her a spoonful of cod liver oil every morning for "health reasons." It was a trend back in the late 60's and early 70's. Sort of a "magic elixir" thing. Cod Liver Oil is nasty. Think of the flavor of fish that has been sitting out in the sun all day. Maybe more like chewing on an authentic sponge. Seafood doesn't appeal to me in smell or taste...at all. Plus it swims around in its own bathroom.

Posted by: Orson at September 20, 2026 05:24 PM (dIske)

99 90 I just invented sardines on Ritz crackers.
Posted by: Weasel at September 20, 2026 05:17 PM (mgRTg)

That's been in the public domain, at least at amongst pedigreed white trash like me, for a long time.

Posted by: Vienna sausages and Ritz, a redneck delicacy at September 20, 2026 05:26 PM (TbWk/)

100 The Commanders at Cowboys on my local station: Wash. - 10, Dallas - 17 right now.

Just doesn't have the same ring as Redskins vs. Cowboys.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 20, 2026 05:28 PM (6ydKt)

101 EDIBLE CHARCUTERIE "BOARD" ... It's actually a focaccia with indentations formed by bake-safe ramekins in whatever sizes and shapes you wish ... Then, when the various wells are emptied, guests can tear off and enjoy chunks of the bread ... Betcha these could be baked and frozen ahead of the holidays for short-notice get-togethers ... https://tinyurl.com/2n7mpnh4

Posted by: Kathy at September 20, 2026 05:29 PM (MOK4W)

102 20 Those pig’s feet have been gentrified! 😂

Posted by: Piper at September 20, 2026 04:13 PM (2UJ+q)

That they have...but they were delicious. A special dish.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 04:15 PM (k5CNB)

Now, if someone could make pate out of Scrapple...then I'd really be impressed.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 20, 2026 05:29 PM (0CU3H)

103 Now, if someone could make pate out of Scrapple...then I'd really be impressed.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 20, 2026 05:29 PM (0CU3H)
___________________________

The German immigrants called it "meat pudding" or panhaas. Most locals, however, call it "pork mush."

Posted by: Orson at September 20, 2026 05:35 PM (dIske)

104 93 47 I like chicken straight up, grilled, pan fried, or deep fried. All of that extra effort for sauces and such seem exhausting.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 20, 2026 04:33 PM
+++
Whenever I grill I usually cook four boneless, skinless chicken thighs as an add on to the meal. They go in the fridge to eat later in the week. Warmed once in the microwave, then a second time with a slice of cooked bacon topped by Swiss cheese.
Always a delightful morsel.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 20, 2026 05:36 PM (2Ez/1)

105 A pig that good you don't eat all at once.

Seriously, there's all kind of bacon, chops, ham and other stuff. Leave the poor pigs feet alone.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2026 05:36 PM (viF8m)

106 My Dad loved canned sardines.

He ate some brand that came in a blue and white can for decades, but I couldn't find any one day and bought him some 'King Oscar' sardines in olive oil with some herbs and spices.
They've got several different styles/flavors.

He loved them.
Said they were the best he'd ever had.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 20, 2026 05:36 PM (6ydKt)

107 Had scrapple a lot as a kid, can't bring myself to get it as a adult

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 05:36 PM (Ia/+0)

108 > he Commanders at Cowboys on my local station: Wash. - 10, Dallas - 17 right now.

Just doesn't have the same ring as Redskins vs. Cowboys.
--------
Back in the 70's and 80's when Washington was a semi-respectable team, my uncle had season tickets. This was during the John Riggins era, Sony Jurgenson and so on.

I have nothing but disdain for that organization. And the league in general.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 20, 2026 05:37 PM (2Cry5)

109 I do, as well. And, I have a theory as to why. Ask your wife if her parents gave her a spoonful of cod liver oil every morning for "health reasons." It was a trend back in the late 60's and early 70's.[ . . . ]
Posted by: Orson at September 20, 2026 05:24 PM (dIske)


It was to prevent rickets. Children with low Vit D levels have soft bones that can twist or deform, and northern states don't have a lot of sunny days when they can run around in the winter.
"strait clean-limbed children" was an ideal.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 20, 2026 05:38 PM (rbvCR)

110 106 My Dad loved canned sardines.

He ate some brand that came in a blue and white can for decades, but I couldn't find any one day and bought him some 'King Oscar' sardines in olive oil with some herbs and spices.
They've got several different styles/flavors.

He loved them.
Said they were the best he'd ever had.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 20, 2026 05:36 PM (6ydKt)

I don't eat sardines straight from the can, but I've used them as poor man's anchovies, especially in Lenten pasta dishes...they break down just like an anchovy will, and they are pretty dang healthy...

PS - Dinner is a success, so teens should like it...gonna be boxing it up soon...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 20, 2026 05:39 PM (tOcjL)

111 If anyone wonders why after 50 years of football I walked away

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 05:40 PM (Ia/+0)

112 For whatever reason, anchovies have been absent around here. My wife found a tin of them a couple weeks ago and I promptly made a couple Cesar Salads with them.

She still won't put them on pizza however.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 20, 2026 05:41 PM (2Cry5)

113 My recent spark of interest was starter made from rye or from spelt, and this makes serious changes to dough that I am still working out.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 20, 2026 05:11 PM (rbvCR)


I have eased away from rye flour. It makes delicious sourdough when I use about 15% rye, but I don't like the way it rises...or rather doesn't.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 05:41 PM (k5CNB)

114 EDIBLE CHARCUTERIE "BOARD" ... It's actually a focaccia with indentations formed by bake-safe ramekins in whatever sizes and shapes you wish ... Then, when the various wells are emptied, guests can tear off and enjoy chunks of the bread ... Betcha these could be baked and frozen ahead of the holidays for short-notice get-togethers ... https://tinyurl.com/2n7mpnh4

Posted by: Kathy at September 20, 2026 05:29 PM (MOK4W)


I was just reading a discussion of the Pompeiian fresco that showed a focaccio type bread topped with fruits and cheese. They had a circular depression in them to hold the fruit and the honey and some sort of runny farm cheese topping

Posted by: Kindltot at September 20, 2026 05:41 PM (rbvCR)

115 I would call the fried pate entree "mushy pig's feet." Sounds super appetizing!

Posted by: Sexy Velociraptor at September 20, 2026 05:18 PM (U/j9n)


Well...you eat your meat raw, so who are you to comment?

Seriously, the inside was firm and not mushy, and the outside had a wonderful crispiness.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 05:44 PM (k5CNB)

116 Martini Farmer she does it as it should be

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 05:44 PM (Ia/+0)

117 I have eased away from rye flour. It makes delicious sourdough when I use about 15% rye, but I don't like the way it rises...or rather doesn't.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 05:41 PM (k5CNB)


It is mostly a starter thing, echoing the German and French breads. I have a couple of Russian rye recipes also but I am not that fond of them and I don't like coriander that much.
The French and German doughs are a wetter dough than the English and American tradition, and that is throwing me quite a bit.
I am supposed to wedge the bread dough, not just slap it around!

Posted by: Kindltot at September 20, 2026 05:45 PM (rbvCR)

118 https://www.kingoscar.com

Highly recommended from a man who knew sardines.
He liked the regular olive oil, jalapeno peppers and Mediterranean (has olives and bell peppers and herbs) versions.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 20, 2026 05:45 PM (6ydKt)

119 Most people don't obsess over wine, and that is healthy and wise. It is, after all, just a drink. You know...like the .45ACP is just a cartridge.

So what would you say is the 9 mm of drinks?

Posted by: RI Red at September 20, 2026 05:45 PM (YAL0u)

120 I have eased away from rye flour. It makes delicious sourdough when I use about 15% rye, but I don't like the way it rises...or rather doesn't.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 05:41 PM (k5CNB)

Same. I do use a little in the starter, though. I think it give me a stronger starter.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 20, 2026 05:46 PM (CjHsb)

121 Had scrapple a lot as a kid, can't bring myself to get it as a adult

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 05:36 PM (Ia/+0)


I never had it as a kid...I eat it whenever I can as an adult!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 05:47 PM (k5CNB)

122 I have been known to make pizza using brisling sardines in tomato sauce in place of the normal red sauce.
I have yet to get anyone to consider that this is a good idea, but my wife will eat it.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 20, 2026 05:48 PM (rbvCR)

123 everything but the squeal.

Growing up I heard "everything but the oink."

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 20, 2026 05:48 PM (Hbeqj)

124 Stellenbosch > Selbach.

Pity South Africa has gone feral.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2026 05:50 PM (viF8m)

125 *Looks up scrapple*

*finds it's made of everything, kinda like hot dogs, but is more of a breadish type thing due to adding flour or cornmeal*

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 20, 2026 05:50 PM (6ydKt)

126 I don't eat sardines straight from the can, but I've used them as poor man's anchovies, especially in Lenten pasta dishes...they break down just like an anchovy will, and they are pretty dang healthy...

PS - Dinner is a success, so teens should like it...gonna be boxing it up soon...
Posted by: Nova Local at September 20, 2026 05:39 PM

I like to get the large whole frozen sardines, butterfly them, brine them quickly, and hot smoke them. A little rice, some tzatziki...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 20, 2026 05:51 PM (qnN/4)

127 The French and German doughs are a wetter dough than the English and American tradition, and that is throwing me quite a bit.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 20, 2026 05:45 PM (rbvCR)


Heh. My go-to sourdough recipe is about 70% hydration. But I have a pita recipe that is about 88% hydration, and it's ridiculously hard to handle...but worth the trouble!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 05:51 PM (k5CNB)

128 dedicated to the best chicken fricassee one can make, is a hoot!


Weird. I just watched that 10 seconds ago.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 20, 2026 05:51 PM (HeG1i)

129 It is a block of pâté made from pigs feet that was breaded very lightly and then pan-fried.
====

So...scrapple.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 20, 2026 05:53 PM (RIvkX)

130 Hey y'all. Pretend this is food-related, k? Any Midwest Morons been to or familiar with Wood Hat Distillery, at New Florence, MO, about two shot glass widths from I-70, an hour west of St Louis? A micro-tiny one garage, one family distillery, who nevertheless makes a couple dozen expressions. Including a cask strength bourbon that is world class. If you are in the region (I am not), it is worth a visit.

Posted by: goatexchange at September 20, 2026 05:53 PM (hyS0X)

131 So...scrapple.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 20, 2026 05:53 PM (RIvkX)


Not quite, since there was no grain or cereal mixed into the meat. And...it was nicely textured...almost rillettes-like.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 05:54 PM (k5CNB)

132 My dad likes scrapple but he says you can't get it anymore like it was when he was a kid.

When my dad was a kid though, the Brunswick Stew recipe started with "one whole hog's head". I'm sure they also knew how to make some scrumptious scrapple.

Posted by: fd at September 20, 2026 05:54 PM (MWfyi)

133 Well that was an unfortunate way to end the half.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2026 05:55 PM (viF8m)

134 Food and beverages go together

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 05:55 PM (Ia/+0)

135 I like to get the large whole frozen sardines, butterfly them, brine them quickly, and hot smoke them. A little rice, some tzatziki...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 20, 2026 05:51 PM (qnN/4)


Janssens' Temptation is a baked dish of anchovies and sliced potatoes with onions and a cream sauce, but I have used sardines or mackerel instead.
I bet the frozen sardines would be wonderful as well

Posted by: Kindltot at September 20, 2026 05:55 PM (rbvCR)

136
The sardines from Portugal are probably the best in the world.

They definitely taste better, but at end of the day...they're sardines.

So unless you eat them by themselves then King Oscar whatever is going to taste about the same.

Cuz those good Portuguese sardines are expensive.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 20, 2026 05:56 PM (iJfKG)

137 CBD, Mrs. Red, loved the Charcuterrie box.

Posted by: RI Red at September 20, 2026 05:56 PM (YAL0u)

138 Brunswick stew is good but I've never had any with a hog's head.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 20, 2026 05:57 PM (6ydKt)

139 I will eat sardines if I am starving and there is nothing else to eat. They are pretty good then.

Posted by: fd at September 20, 2026 05:57 PM (MWfyi)

140 Some sauces to consider that won’t be terrible for you!


Yogurt Mint
In a med container add 1 cup plain Greek yogurt, ½ tsp onion powder, ½ tsp dill, ¾ tsp salt, ¼ cup chopped mint and the juice of 1 lemon. Mix it up, amazing on curry grilled chicken.

Creamy Tahini
1/2 cup tahini
3 Tbsp lemon juice
1-2 cloves garlic
1/2 cup water
1 Tbsp olive oil
1/4 tsp salt (or to Taste)

Blend on high until smooth. Dip veggies in this, drizzle it over a salad with chickpeas, cucumbers and tomatoes with or without grilled chicken. This is really nutrient dense and yummy.

Posted by: Piper at September 20, 2026 05:58 PM (ZdaMQ)

141 Simple chimichurri-

1/2 cup olive oil
1/4 cup red wine vinegar
2 cloves garlic
1/2 cup loosely packed fresh Italian parsley
1/2 cup loosely packed fresh cilantro
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp crushed red pepper
Instructions
Blend all ingredients on high until garlic and herbs are chopped.

If you hate cilantro, just use parsley

Posted by: Piper at September 20, 2026 05:58 PM (ZdaMQ)

142 "Brunswick stew is good but I've never had any with a hog's head.
Posted by: SpeakingOf "

You have to cook it down to get all the unidentifiable tasty bits in there.

Posted by: fd at September 20, 2026 05:59 PM (MWfyi)

143 So unless you eat them by themselves then King Oscar whatever is going to taste about the same.

Cuz those good Portuguese sardines are expensive.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 20, 2026 05:56 PM (iJfKG)

Dad ate them out of the can with a fork.
He especially liked to take them in the cooler with other snacks going fishing.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 20, 2026 06:01 PM (6ydKt)

144 HEB carries a skinless. boneless smoked sardine fillets. Delicious.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 06:02 PM (UdrMW)

145 You have to cook it down to get all the unidentifiable tasty bits in there.

Posted by: fd at September 20, 2026 05:59 PM (MWfyi)

I'm trying to imagine getting some unsuspecting person to go to the kitchen and get a bowl of stew for them to take the lid off and see a hog skull staring at them.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 20, 2026 06:02 PM (6ydKt)

146 I have been known to make pizza using brisling sardines in tomato sauce in place of the normal red sauce.
I have yet to get anyone to consider that this is a good idea, but my wife will eat it.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 20, 2026 05:48 PM (rbvCR)

I'd buy a wedge of that...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 20, 2026 06:03 PM (nbLIj)

147 Terrine is the word I was thinking of, but I think those have moistened bread crumbs mixed in with the meat and spices.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 20, 2026 06:03 PM (rbvCR)

148
Since I was a kid, Ive liked canned sardines.

I like them at lunch on a cracker with a dab of mustard.

Yum.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 20, 2026 06:04 PM (iJfKG)

149 Yeah if you'll eat anchovies on pizza I don't see why you wouldn't like sardines.

It's gotta be better than pineapple on pizza.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 20, 2026 06:05 PM (6ydKt)

150 126 I don't eat sardines straight from the can, but I've used them as poor man's anchovies, especially in Lenten pasta dishes...they break down just like an anchovy will, and they are pretty dang healthy...

PS - Dinner is a success, so teens should like it...gonna be boxing it up soon...
Posted by: Nova Local at September 20, 2026 05:39 PM

I like to get the large whole frozen sardines, butterfly them, brine them quickly, and hot smoke them. A little rice, some tzatziki...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 20, 2026 05:51 PM (qnN/4)

I didn't even know they sold large frozen sardines...huh...maybe I'll look for that...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 20, 2026 06:06 PM (tOcjL)

151 >>It's gotta be better than pineapple on pizza.

And yet, not.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2026 06:06 PM (viF8m)

152 And yet, not.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2026 06:06 PM (viF8m)

There's always at least one person.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 20, 2026 06:08 PM (6ydKt)

153 Kindltot, I have made a terrine that has chicken thighs livers, bacon and mushrooms. You wrap it in proscuitto and bake it.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 06:09 PM (UdrMW)

154 >>There's always at least one person.

Sardines are what you used to catch actually tasty fish.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2026 06:10 PM (viF8m)

155 I like to get the large whole frozen sardines, butterfly them, brine them quickly, and hot smoke them. A little rice, some tzatziki...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 20, 2026 05:51 PM (qnN/4)


Since the Romans were also eating focaccia topped with fig paste, ricotta, honey and fruits like apricots and cooked apples, I am not so picky about what anyone puts on a pizza.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 20, 2026 06:12 PM (rbvCR)

156 Dad ate them out of the can with a fork.
He especially liked to take them in the cooler with other snacks going fishing.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 20, 2026 06:01 PM (6ydKt)


Sardines are what you used to catch actually tasty fish.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2026 06:10 PM (viF8m)

My people are reputed to be poor fishing companions because we make a lunch out of the bait...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 20, 2026 06:12 PM (nbLIj)

157 That sounds tasty, Ben Had.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 20, 2026 06:12 PM (rbvCR)

158 My wife gets sardines, I don't touch them

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 06:13 PM (Ia/+0)

159 I didn't even know they sold large frozen sardines...huh...maybe I'll look for that...
Posted by: Nova Local at September 20, 2026 06:06 PM

They do in my AO. Can't vouch for elsewhere, but they're worth looking for. Portuguese. About 7 or so inches long.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 20, 2026 06:14 PM (qnN/4)

160 159 I didn't even know they sold large frozen sardines...huh...maybe I'll look for that...
Posted by: Nova Local at September 20, 2026 06:06 PM

They do in my AO. Can't vouch for elsewhere, but they're worth looking for. Portuguese. About 7 or so inches long.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 20, 2026 06:14 PM (qnN/4)

Thanks! Okay, off to clean up my kitchen disaster...but youth leaders were thankful, and maybe I can get the spouse to help!

Posted by: Nova Local at September 20, 2026 06:16 PM (tOcjL)

161 We be proud too announce that's on Erection day this Noovembor we be has a We Hate Trump Day Parade to shows everybody we wants Presdent oboba back. Please comes and join us.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at September 20, 2026 06:16 PM (xkxJM)

162 Kindltot, it was a chore to make but well worth the effort.

A really fun one is a smoked salmon slab, cream cheese with roasted poblanos, green onion and a dash of poblano/serrano hot sauce. that one is wrapped in thin sliced Pacific salmon and refrigerated.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 06:20 PM (UdrMW)

163 Grill is lit. The wine is a blend of last week's shiraz and 1/3 bottle of three week old zin. It's...not...bad..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 20, 2026 06:22 PM (nbLIj)

164 This is hilarious. The Vogue magazine editor who constantly criticizes Melania Trump made a public appearance. Hope it never happens again.

https://tinyurl.com/5ceyzm8y

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 20, 2026 06:27 PM (dM5CL)

165 OK, food. Dinner tonight is pepper jack cheese sticks and a fine mass-produced chardonnay by Woodbridge.

Posted by: RI Red at September 20, 2026 06:28 PM (YAL0u)

166 I tried a new fajita marinade that used pineapple juice as part of it. It was alright but not worth the effort. I will stick to the dry.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 06:29 PM (UdrMW)

167 RI Red, good choice!

Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 06:30 PM (UdrMW)

168 147 Terrine is the word I was thinking of, but I think those have moistened bread crumbs mixed in with the meat and spices.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 20, 2026 06:03 PM (rbvCR)

J got food poisoning on a terrine in the Cotswolds. It was terrible! We haven’t been back since. 😂

Posted by: Piper at September 20, 2026 06:30 PM (ZdaMQ)

169 Huck no better than those commenting about Sydney

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 06:32 PM (Ia/+0)

170 Heirloom Tomato and Eggplant Gratin from Food and Wine is the first eggplant that I like enough to remake many times.

Posted by: MacRadDoc at September 20, 2026 06:34 PM (Gl2C6)

171 RI Red, good choice!
Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 06:30 PM (UdrMW)

No choice, BH.
Desperation.

Posted by: RI Red at September 20, 2026 06:35 PM (YAL0u)

172 OK, food. Dinner tonight is pepper jack cheese sticks and a fine mass-produced chardonnay by Woodbridge.
Posted by: RI Red

Mine was Campbells Chunky Savory Beef Stew soup and Tricuits with some Irish cheddar cheese. No wine though. I had slug of chocolate milk.

Posted by: Tuna at September 20, 2026 06:36 PM (lJ0H4)

173 Sardines are what you used to catch actually tasty fish.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2026 06:10 PM (viF8m)

I don’t eat them.
Dad swore I sat on his lap as a kid and ate them with him but I haven’t eaten them since I was 5 or 6.

I don’t like the smell.
Don’t eat anchovies either.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 20, 2026 06:36 PM (6ydKt)

174 SOS , sardines on saltines.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 06:38 PM (UdrMW)

175 >>I don’t like the smell.
Don’t eat anchovies either.

Never had a taste for either.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2026 06:39 PM (viF8m)

176 My wife gets sardines, I don't touch them
Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 06:13 PM (Ia/+0)


My wife.gets.sardines, I won't touch her.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 20, 2026 06:40 PM (2WIwB)

177 Desperation.

Posted by: RI Red at September 20, 2026 06:35 PM (YAL0u)


The colder the better!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 06:41 PM (k5CNB)

178 When I ate Sardines a ways back I had a flashback to eating them out of a can as school lunch when I was s kid.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 20, 2026 06:41 PM (fcCLB)

179 You cannot have a proper Caesar salad without anchovy.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 06:42 PM (UdrMW)

180 I like sardines packed in mustard sauce. Don't much care for the ones packed in olive oil.

Posted by: Tuna at September 20, 2026 06:42 PM (lJ0H4)

181 Try Mackerel. Even better.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 20, 2026 06:42 PM (fcCLB)

182 Ely Farm Products (Newtown, PA) makes scrapple that -- according to reviewers on Facebook "Scrapple Trail" -- note its taste being on the mild side with no liver flavor.

Posted by: Kathy at September 20, 2026 06:44 PM (MOK4W)

183 Thanks for the food thread cbd as always.

Breakfast here tomorrow night.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 20, 2026 06:45 PM (RIvkX)

184 Having spanakopita for dinner.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 20, 2026 06:45 PM (JrHfD)

185 This is hilarious. The Vogue magazine editor who constantly criticizes Melania Trump made a public appearance. Hope it never happens again.

https://tinyurl.com/5ceyzm8y
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 20, 2026 06:27 PM (dM5CL)


Can a picture smell like sardines?

Posted by: Diogenes at September 20, 2026 06:46 PM (2WIwB)

186 Our red beans and rice is made with Andouille sausage and ham.

Might have to check out this "pickled pork" thing.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

I'm from New Orleans & have eaten red beans all my life. Today, most people make their red beans with andouille, but when I was growing up it was almost alway pickle pork, which is the best. It is pork shoulder that has been pickled sort of like bacon without the nitrates. Don't see it in the groceries much any more, but it is pretty easy to make at home.

Bonus Red Bean Recipe...

If you like Popeyes Red Beans, ugh!, for every pound of beans you cook, puree a pack of the cheapest, red hotdogs you can find & add to your batch of beans.

Posted by: Dino58 at September 20, 2026 06:47 PM (eW9RX)

187 You cannot have a proper Caesar salad without anchovy.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 06:42 PM (UdrMW)


This is true! But...anchovies don't guarantee a good dressing!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 06:49 PM (k5CNB)

188 Dad probably just fed them to me to make my mom mad. She hated them, especially that odor.

So he’d always get her to bring the can if sardines and bring then to him open so she’d smell them the entire way complaining the entire way:

“These things reek. I don’t know how you eat them. You’re not kissing me until you brush your teeth.”

And then he’d try, and fail, to kiss her afterwards.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 20, 2026 06:50 PM (6ydKt)

189
Having spanakopita for dinner.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

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

I make spanakopita! I call it "having-around food" for when guests are staying for a few days. Pan of lasagna, pan of spanakopita, bowl of sweet-and-sour chicken, bowl of rice, few other things, help yourselves.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 20, 2026 06:50 PM (mmrXZ)

190 San Franpsycho, a Blessed Yom Kippur.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 06:50 PM (UdrMW)

191 Having spanakopita for dinner.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 20, 2026 06:45 PM


για σας!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 20, 2026 06:51 PM (qnN/4)

192 The guy who invented Caesar salad just used the ingredients he had left in his restaurant.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 20, 2026 06:51 PM (fcCLB)

193 Tijuana.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 20, 2026 06:53 PM (fcCLB)

194
I rounded up all the red, yellow and orange vegetables, poured bacon fat over them (I save it), and roasted them at 450 degrees. Add to simmering chicken broth (from the remains of a Costco rotisserie chicken), add water for consistency, 1/2 cup of sour cream and salt to taste.

They'll like it, but I can't say I'll ever have this particular combo of ingredients again.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 20, 2026 06:55 PM (mmrXZ)

195 We have a 59 degree high forecast for Wednesday.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 20, 2026 06:56 PM (fcCLB)

196 Not sure about dinner tonight. Probably hot dogs!

Posted by: Weasel at September 20, 2026 06:56 PM (G2REX)

197 I can't eat hot dogs and pot pies anymore. Yecch.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 20, 2026 06:58 PM (fcCLB)

198 Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 20, 2026 06:51 PM (qnN/4)

I'm guessing that was eat up or enjoy in Greek. It's been a long time since I had Greek in seminary and it didn't require I address my food😉. But thanks so much!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 20, 2026 06:58 PM (JrHfD)

199 On the topic of King Oscar sardines, where are you folks finding them? Especially the ones packed in olive oil?

They've completely disappeared off the shelves in my AO and even Amazon only shows one vendor at a rediculous price.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at September 20, 2026 06:58 PM (iIyc0)

200 CBD, Thank you for the food thread.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 06:58 PM (UdrMW)

201 My chicken stock turned out bomb diggity.

I can boil bones with the best of them.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2026 06:59 PM (viF8m)

202 Posted by: Blonde Morticia

That sounds great. Can I come for dinner sometime? 🙂. They guys are having pizza. There's not enough for three people

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 20, 2026 07:01 PM (JrHfD)

203 JackStraw, now you can make risotto with that stock!

Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 07:01 PM (UdrMW)

204 My spouse loves sardines. In fact, he just put them on the pizza. I am not enamored of them.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 20, 2026 07:02 PM (JrHfD)

205 You read my mind Ben Had.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2026 07:02 PM (viF8m)

206
My "Eat Down the Inventory" project continues. I have a 13.5-ounce jar of Bada Bing cherries that are probably supposed to be used in cocktails. Looking for something else to do with them. They seem so sweet, I think a very tart cheesecake maybe.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 20, 2026 07:03 PM (mmrXZ)

207 >>>@206 My "Eat Down the Inventory" project continues. I have a 13.5-ounce jar of Bada Bing cherries that are probably supposed to be used in cocktails. Looking for something else to do with them. They seem so sweet, I think a very tart cheesecake maybe.
===============
Greetings ... My traditional Thanksgiving turkey dressing (on the side, not in the bird) calls for dried cherries, but jarred might also work well ... Search "Midwest Sausage and Dried Cherry Stuffing" for the recipe ... I have also seen several pork recipes calling for cherries, balsamic, rosemary, and oranges.

Posted by: Kathy at September 20, 2026 07:24 PM (MOK4W)

208 When I bought pulled pork for watching the game yesterday, I passed on adding smoked ears and tails.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 20, 2026 07:35 PM (4NO2D)

209 Honestly, ears and tails seems like dog chew toys and not people food to me.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 20, 2026 07:37 PM (4NO2D)

210 Jack Straw,
If you want a different take on risotto, try using orzo pasta instead of rice. Rice has always seemed meh to me, whereas pasta has a real contribution to make. (To me.) And orzo is very much faster than rice.

Posted by: Wenda at September 20, 2026 08:46 PM (zGeQ7)

211 Jack Straw,
If you want a different take on risotto, try using orzo pasta instead of rice. Rice has always seemed meh to me, whereas pasta has a real contribution to make. (To me.) And orzo is very much faster than rice.

Posted by: Wenda at September 20, 2026 08:46 PM (zGeQ7)

212 Regarding wine, listening to old time radio (podcasts, I wasn't there), there are ads for Roma Wines, promoting many types, not just one or two. Really surprised about the varieties.
Petri Wines, Cresta Blanca. All gone now.

Posted by: The Middle Rules Them All at September 20, 2026 08:50 PM (tKtie)

First World Problems...

balmfail26.jpg

That seems like the perfect package to carry in one's pocket! But beneath the calm and seemingly well-designed exterior lays a trap!

The wheel at the base has a stop at one end of its range, but not at the other. So randomness suggests that eventually it is going to turn one way more than the other, and that direction pushes the lip balm into the cap, where it happily stays.

A better design would have some sort of ratchet or lock to keep the wheel from turning when not needed, and also a cooling system so that the balm itself isn't so soft from body heat that it seeps out!

These are the times that try men's souls!

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1 Foist?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 20, 2026 02:01 PM (2Ez/1)

2 H Mgid is my 1WP

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 02:01 PM (Ia/+0)

3 and also a cooling system"

What's that?

/Europe

Posted by: man at September 20, 2026 02:01 PM (pfXMo)

4 Vanilla lip balm? Isn't that kid of gay for a manly man such as yourself?

Posted by: Tuna at September 20, 2026 02:02 PM (lJ0H4)

5 Hemp seed oil? What kind of hippy shit is that?!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 20, 2026 02:03 PM (+fdRY)

6 My solution? Don’t use them. : )

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 20, 2026 02:03 PM (vupS9)

7 Switch to lipstick?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 20, 2026 02:04 PM (2Cry5)

8 4 Vanilla lip balm? Isn't that kid of gay for a manly man such as yourself?
Posted by: Tuna at September 20, 2026 02:02 PM (lJ0H4)

Dude has spent too much time in Europe. Just sayin…

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 20, 2026 02:04 PM (vupS9)

9 Mgid has ruined this site on phone. My iPad works fine.
My chapstick has gone thru the wash and come out fine. Their cap stays put.

Posted by: Accomack at September 20, 2026 02:05 PM (8jVAy)

10 Also, it inevitably breaks off in the cap, just slightly too far in to easily scoop out, right when it would leave the remnant in the tube too short to be of use either.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 20, 2026 02:06 PM (aJQbY)

11 The answer is a manbag with little compartments to organize things and keep this lip balm upright and away from body heat.

Posted by: Piper at September 20, 2026 02:06 PM (2UJ+q)

12 Piper, we could perhaps call it a messenger bag, or a murse?

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 20, 2026 02:06 PM (aJQbY)

13
Small jar of Carmex. Done.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 20, 2026 02:07 PM (iqcvy)

14 Not to create a distraction, but the Burt's Bees story is pretty interesting.
12 minutes.

https://youtu.be/UfRWmR_X9a8

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 20, 2026 02:08 PM (2Ez/1)

15 The answer is a manbag with little compartments to organize things and keep this lip balm upright and away from body heat.
Posted by: Piper

Shoulder strap or crossbody?

Posted by: Tuna at September 20, 2026 02:08 PM (lJ0H4)

16 12 Piper, we could perhaps call it a messenger bag, or a murse?
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September

A messenger bag would be more palatable, I think. But the idea only works if we remove the stigma of the mb being briefcase sized and allow for smaller ones. Like in between that and a fanny pack. 😂

Posted by: Piper at September 20, 2026 02:08 PM (2UJ+q)

17
I don't and have never known a normal male who uses lip balm.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 20, 2026 02:08 PM (eRlcH)

18 OMG noooooooo!

🚨 NEW: Jim Acosta is FURIOUS at President Trump’s plan to ban CNN and MS Now from the White House: “The press should band together and not cover the White House. Don’t go to the White House.”

“Do not operate a pool anymore. Just stop. Tell them this weekend there will be no pool when he goes to the UN General Assembly on Monday.”

“In addition, it should be told to the White House that there will be no White House Correspondents Dinner. What in the world are the press doing, having a dinner with Donald Trump when he’s going after the free press in this fashion!” adds
@Acosta

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 20, 2026 02:08 PM (ndZc7)

19
Careful CBD, looking for solutions for problems that don't exist leads leftward.

Posted by: Auspex at September 20, 2026 02:12 PM (Y8DZL)

20 Original Chap Stick came in a metal tube. To extend the lubricant one pushed the metal floor plate located in the hollow bottom upward.

For real relief, puncture a Vitamin E capsule and coat your lips with the contents.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 20, 2026 02:12 PM (826kS)

21 We're lobbying Congress to require all these features... for your convenience and safety.


We hope you don't mind the modest price increase to $29.95 per tube. But think of the quality! And no cap goop!

Posted by: Amalgamated Lip Balm Manufacturers Association at September 20, 2026 02:12 PM (nKjQb)

22 Carmex doesn't have those issues CBD.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 20, 2026 02:12 PM (3Ope8)

23 Did Jim Acosta put his hands on his hips?
Did a stomp his foot?

Posted by: I gotta ask at September 20, 2026 02:13 PM (2Ez/1)

24 As a kid I wasn't allowed to have lip balm. If they didn't want me eating it, they shouldn't have made it in flavors. That seems pretty simple to me. Which brings up the question as to whether I'm partially responsible for the warning labels on scented shampoo.

What we really need is "Lib Balm". Although, perhaps that's a market saturation issue...what, with the bear spray and pepper spray already available.

Posted by: Orson at September 20, 2026 02:14 PM (dIske)

25 They need manlier flavors, like Roast Beef or scotch.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 20, 2026 02:14 PM (kpS4V)

26 Flavored lip balm. I think I see the real FWP.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 20, 2026 02:15 PM (3Ope8)

27 Wash my lip balm often, seems no worse for the experience

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 02:15 PM (Ia/+0)

28 Vanilla? Should be pumpkin spice!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 20, 2026 02:16 PM (ndZc7)

29 My first world problem is I can’t get my clip to hook on to the headset cord. I need this so the cord is not just loose as I will without fail get it hooked around the barre when I walk by, yanking it, and me, backwards in a not graceful way.

I have more, but this is th e most immediate issue facing me.

Posted by: Piper at September 20, 2026 02:16 PM (2UJ+q)

30
Hemp Seed Oil?

Finally, an explanation for CBD's whacked-out threads!*




*Though admittedly, consumption of stirred manhattans might be the reason.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 20, 2026 02:16 PM (iJfKG)

31 Vanilla lip balm? Isn't that kid of gay for a manly man such as yourself?
Posted by: Tuna at September 20, 2026 02:02 PM (lJ0H4)

Dude has spent too much time in Europe. Just sayin…
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 20, 2026 02:04 PM (vupS9)

French vanilla would be gay. Regular vanilla is merely gay-adjacent...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 20, 2026 02:16 PM (nbLIj)

32 12 Piper, we could perhaps call it a messenger bag, or a murse?

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 20, 2026 02:06 PM (aJQbY)
-------

USAF surplus gas mask bags with the strap moved to hold the bag vertical work fine. And they are big enough to hold your Channel Locks, screw driver and other metal objects in the bottom with two inside pockets for your money and stuff.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 20, 2026 02:16 PM (826kS)

33 Carmex screams “l HAVE HERPES!”

No. Just. No.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 20, 2026 02:17 PM (Jmzdj)

34 I guess a man bag is OK if you use it for concealed carry.

Nah!

Posted by: Weasel at September 20, 2026 02:17 PM (H5nit)

35 Jets/GB are two mediocre teams. Won’t get 15 wins from the two of them.

Posted by: Accomack at September 20, 2026 02:18 PM (T8bqm)

36 Posted by: nurse ratched at September 20, 2026 02:17 PM (Jmzdj)

Seriously. WATF?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 20, 2026 02:18 PM (3Ope8)

37 As a teenager my family took a ski trip way, way, way up north into the mountains of North Carolina. During the trip I bought a wild cherry Chapstick. To this day, whenever I smell cherry chapstick I'm reminded of that trip.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 20, 2026 02:18 PM (2Ez/1)

38 Shoulder strap or crossbody?
Posted by: Tuna

Crossbody for extra gayness. And a 🌈 button.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 20, 2026 02:18 PM (nESHF)

39 Bag balm is great stuff. I use it on pipe threads,too

Posted by: Accomack at September 20, 2026 02:19 PM (T8bqm)

40
“In addition, it should be told to the White House that there will be no White House Correspondents Dinner. What in the world are the press doing, having a dinner with Donald Trump when he’s going after the free press in this fashion!” adds
@Acosta
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 20, 2026 02:08 PM (ndZc7)


Oh, no!

Not "No White House Correspondents Dinner"!!!


Pro Tip for Ol' Jimbo - Don't threaten Trump with a good time.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 20, 2026 02:20 PM (iJfKG)

41 I got that lip balm at the coblogger retreat.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 02:20 PM (k5CNB)

42 Bag balm works pretty well everywhere. Except lips.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 20, 2026 02:20 PM (3Ope8)

43 Everybody knows you should carry this in your purse.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 20, 2026 02:21 PM (5C90x)

44 Atomic balm

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 20, 2026 02:22 PM (Cqx++)

45
White House Correspondents Dinner

_________

Where mediocre people can feel important.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 20, 2026 02:23 PM (eRlcH)

46
I got that lip balm at the coblogger retreat.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 02:20 PM (k5CNB)



He ran out of Lancôme Pearly Pink Lip Gloss.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 20, 2026 02:23 PM (iJfKG)

47 In addition, it should be told to the White House that there will be no White House Correspondents Dinner.

Right Jimbo, because everyone knows that a bunch of freeloading, boot licking, sycophants will turn down the best meal they'll have all year long.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 20, 2026 02:23 PM (3Ope8)

48 Suzy. Suzy Chapstick.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 20, 2026 02:24 PM (Cqx++)

49 I got nothin that compares to this lip balm problem. Nothin.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 20, 2026 02:24 PM (sl73Y)

50 They need manlier flavors, like Roast Beef or scotch.
Posted by: All Hail Eris


Scotch sounds okay.

Roast beef sounds like it would invite doggy kisses and hungry wasps.

Posted by: mikeski at September 20, 2026 02:24 PM (VHUov)

51 Martinez Long was 19 years old on July 3, 2026, when he went to a mall called the Fairlane Town Center, located in Dearborn, Michigan. Somehow a fight broke out — through no fault of Long’s own — and Cameron Watkins shot and killed Keonte Seaborn. ‘Watkins then shot another person during a struggle, and continued to shoot his gun recklessly in the mall before Long acted.’ Long then ‘fatally shot Watkins,’ ending his rampage.

-
Sumbitch was carrying a gun and the judge let him,have it.

The judge admonished Long for carrying the gun and told him he has to think before he acts.

"Fortunately, you weren't injured, but nonetheless, you had a gun there in the first place, which was poor judgment," he said. "And what do you need a gun for protection in a mall, in the first place?"

-
Yeah, everybody knows malls are perfectly safe. He got two years probation.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 20, 2026 02:25 PM (ndZc7)

52 I'm working on a new flavor.

Posted by: Gweneth Paltrow at September 20, 2026 02:26 PM (nESHF)

53 Atomic balm

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 20, 2026 02:22 PM (Cqx++)


Atomic Punk!

https://tinyurl.com/bncc3prp

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 20, 2026 02:26 PM (3Ope8)

54 Lubriplate. The correct product for chapping and chafing of all sorts has always been Lubriplate 130-A gun grease.

Posted by: Weasel at September 20, 2026 02:27 PM (H5nit)

55 The fix for the lip balm wheel that you mention would probably cost one penny more per tube, and the manufacturer would never dream of spending so much money on such an extravagance.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 20, 2026 02:27 PM (sTKQb)

56 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 20, 2026 02:25 PM (ndZc7)

Dude...lighthearted! We have plenty of opportunities on this blog for serious stuff.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 02:28 PM (k5CNB)

57 Had a FWP plumbing leak before work this week. Waited until I got home to properly fix it. 50 minutes and needed no parts not on hand. Added a shut off valve on line as well as it was at beginning if that 1/2 " line right at split of systems.
50 minutes to fix it.

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 02:28 PM (Ia/+0)

58 Lubriplate. The correct product for chapping and chafing of all sorts has always been Lubriplate 130-A gun grease.

Posted by: Weasel at September 20, 2026 02:27 PM (H5nit)


I use Permatex for AR barrel nuts. That might work on lips. And as a bonus it is a cool color!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 02:31 PM (k5CNB)

59 Peggy Flanagan
@peggyflanagan
It’s way past time we elect a Native woman to the US Senate.

-
What about Big Chief Squaw Speaks With Forked Tongue, Peggy?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 20, 2026 02:31 PM (ndZc7)

60 I don't and have never known a normal male who uses lip balm.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I've used chapstick after the lips get all burnt skiing, use it for a day or two after. But no, what do they call it, pursing, the lips.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 20, 2026 02:33 PM (sl73Y)

61 >> The answer is a manbag with little compartments to organize things and keep this lip balm upright and away from body heat.

There is never a situation where this is the answer.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2026 02:33 PM (viF8m)

62 It would cost us 1500$ to upgrade the electric service and have 4 Mitsubishi heat pumps installed. Only thing that bothers me is that NYC requires that the installer disable the FF heat system, steam in my case, by cutting the gas and steam pipes.
Disabling our FF heat gets us a 9000$ rebate on the install.

Posted by: Accomack at September 20, 2026 02:33 PM (/Chlc)

63 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 20, 2026 02:25 PM (ndZc7)

Dude...lighthearted! We have plenty of opportunities on this blog for serious stuff.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 02:28 PM (k5CNB)

A-Wrecks likes crashing the book thread with this stuff too.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 20, 2026 02:34 PM (kpS4V)

64 I don't and have never known a normal male who uses lip balm.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 20, 2026 02:08 PM (eRlcH)

Tune in next week when CBD complains that there is no over-the-counter product that works well for bleaching his butthole.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 20, 2026 02:34 PM (J4Dwc)

65 Pork butt in the slow cooker. Been in there for about 10 hours. Atill not shredding like I want it to.

Son #1 heading here for the Seasquabs game. Pork butt Sammie’s on a toasted sesame seed bun with Cole slaw mustard and pickles.

Oh. And beef tallow fried potato chips.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 20, 2026 02:34 PM (yEz+x)

66 >>> Posted by: one hour sober at September 20, 2026 02:34 PM (J4Dwc)

I've met CBD, and he is no Josh Brolin.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 20, 2026 02:35 PM (+fdRY)

67 > USAF surplus gas mask bags with the strap moved to hold the bag vertical work fine.
---------
Remember the machinegun in a violin case?

There's a weird sub-culture obsessed with taking long guns, especially those with folding stocks, and finding "the perfect" soft sided guitar bag for it.

So as to not be "obvious" with what you've got.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 20, 2026 02:35 PM (2Cry5)

68 I honestly can't remember the last time I needed lip balm. Been years. And that was when I had a fairly bad cold.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 20, 2026 02:35 PM (0aYVJ)

69 I like Burt's Bees beeswax stick for chapped lips.

But I never seem to have any on hand and just suffer instead. Because dumb.

James Talarico's favorite Chap Stick is penis.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 20, 2026 02:36 PM (ca8Qt)

70 Tune in next week when CBD complains that there is no over-the-counter product that works well for bleaching his butthole.
Posted by: one hour sober

Good thing I wasn't drinking anything or my tablet screen would have been dripping.

Posted by: Tuna at September 20, 2026 02:36 PM (lJ0H4)

71 At No Pasaran blog he tells us it would have been Sofia Loren's birthday

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 02:37 PM (Ia/+0)

72 Tune in next week when CBD complains that there is no over-the-counter product that works well for bleaching his butthole.
Posted by: one hour sober at September 20, 2026 02:34 PM

Thought question:
Could America one day become a bidet culture?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 20, 2026 02:38 PM (2Ez/1)

73 FWP: My municipality provides multiple rubbish bins in the alley for household, kitchen trash, but it never fails that some lazy fuck puts their lawn clippings and amazon packaging in the bin and fill it up because they are too lazy to take it to the dumpster down the street. Big ass cardboard boxes with packing material. Funny thing is, they never remove the shipping label so you always know who they are and where they live.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 20, 2026 02:38 PM (5C90x)

74 Oh wait, I do have a FWP this week. The NWS forecast is calling for an overnight low on Wednesday below 70 degrees.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 20, 2026 02:40 PM (+fdRY)

75 At No Pasaran blog he tells us it would have been Sofia Loren's birthday
Posted by: Skip

Sophia still alive and kicking at age 92.

Posted by: Tuna at September 20, 2026 02:40 PM (lJ0H4)

76 Is "rubbish" a US word or a UK word?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 20, 2026 02:41 PM (2Ez/1)

77 Oh. And beef tallow fried potato chips.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 20, 2026 02:34 PM (yEz+x)


I just defrosted some beef tallow! I will be making thick-cut fries this week!

Probably triple-cooked, because why not make it more complicated!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 02:41 PM (k5CNB)

78 I've got a modern problem.

You know when you have a really nice bottle of whiskey, and sop you pour a glass for yourself after-dinner and suddenly realize that the bottle is less than 1/4 full, and soon will be empty, and-

you're unable to buy said whiskey where you live, nor send for it mail-order cuz of Texas alcoholic beverage laws?

In this case, the whiskey is -

"Method and Madness Single Pot Irish Whiskey Finished in Mulberry Wood Casks"

Just one of the nicest possible sips of whiskey you can indulge in.

And now the end is near...

The horror. The horror.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 20, 2026 02:41 PM (iJfKG)

79 I've met CBD, and he is no Josh Brolin.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 20, 2026 02:35 PM (+fdRY)


Thank You!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 02:42 PM (k5CNB)

80 >>Is "rubbish" a US word or a UK word?

Old English.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2026 02:43 PM (viF8m)

81 FWP here is that Pancho, the 8 lb apple head Chiuhaua, master of all he sees, destroyer of leather that lieth on the floor or falls within reach, has decided he needs some facetime and has made camp in my lap before I could refill my coffee.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 20, 2026 02:43 PM (3Ope8)

82 It’s Big Balm man. You can’t win against it.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 20, 2026 02:43 PM (X57RB)

83 CBD,

Pop popcorn in beef tallow.
Sprinkle with truffle salt.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 20, 2026 02:43 PM (yEz+x)

84 Well then,
Happy Birthday Sofia!

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 02:44 PM (Ia/+0)

85 These are the times that try men's souls!


Heard the same thing yesterday at the seafood restaurant where I knew the chef was having some personal problems. I complimented him, hoping to make his day a bit better. He smiled and waved with his large coking fork and said "These are the tines that fry men's soles!"

Posted by: Diogenes at September 20, 2026 02:44 PM (2WIwB)

86 Just one of the nicest possible sips of whiskey you can indulge in.

And now the end is near...

The horror. The horror.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 20, 2026 02:41 PM (iJfKG)


Old Dominick Huling Station Very Small Batch Bourbon.

I know it is available in Texas, so if you can find it I promise it will make your current crisis much easier to tolerate.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 02:45 PM (k5CNB)

87 Who told you to put the balm on?

https://youtu.be/byCj2kfIpXI

Posted by: Jackie Chiles at September 20, 2026 02:45 PM (2Ez/1)

88 Spend time in the sun on the ocean. You'll figure out a need for lip balm.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2026 02:45 PM (viF8m)

89 Oh, btw,

Sunny and 59 and wind out of the north here on the beach. Absolutely gorgeous. I love sweater and wool hat weather.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 20, 2026 02:45 PM (yEz+x)

90 USAF FWP:

Fishing charter out of Pensacola hooked a MQM-172 drone and brought it ashore. No doubt the drone came from nearby Hulbert Field, or Eglin AFB, maybe.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 20, 2026 02:46 PM (J4Dwc)

91 Just one of the nicest possible sips of whiskey you can indulge in.

And now the end is near...

The horror. The horror.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 20, 2026 02:41 PM (iJfKG)

Old Dominick Huling Station Very Small Batch Bourbon.

I know it is available in Texas, so if you can find it I promise it will make your current crisis much easier to tolerate.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 02:45 PM (k5CNB)


I'll have to check it out!

Thank you, sir.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 20, 2026 02:46 PM (iJfKG)

92 My wife bought me a bottle of Colonel E.H. Taylor Bourbon the other day. One I've never tried. I'll be opening it after a bit, maybe after dinner and have some with a cigar.

If it cools down a bit.

It was 90+ last night at 10PM.

I'm sure this is some sort of FWP

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 20, 2026 02:46 PM (2Cry5)

93 Pork butt in the slow cooker.
Used to date her.
And fuck pop up ads

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 20, 2026 02:46 PM (mcegB)

94 an electric shock warning device on the wheel would be helpful, or perhaps a freon horn to warn you when to stop turning

Posted by: DanMan at September 20, 2026 02:47 PM (8uzBS)

95 Saving a comment for the food thread. Not much but it'll be something.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 20, 2026 02:47 PM (aJQbY)

96 >>Spend time in the sun on the ocean. You'll figure out a need for lip balm.

I have. Never used it.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 20, 2026 02:48 PM (J4Dwc)

97 JackStraw,

The salty sea feeds my spirit like nothing else.
You get it. Skritches for Elvis. He’s a lucky boy.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 20, 2026 02:48 PM (yEz+x)

98 I solved my problem, y’all can stop worrying about me potentially decapitating myself now!

Off to teach the 18 people in this class. Planks are going to be fun. Oh! Another FWP!

Posted by: Piper at September 20, 2026 02:49 PM (2UJ+q)

99 Vaseline w/ vitamin E.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 20, 2026 02:49 PM (Hbeqj)

100 Lauren Boebert has had two affairs.
With women, according to an affidavit

Posted by: Yyrog the Lich King at September 20, 2026 02:49 PM (ENb8M)

101 Just buy a tube of Carmex. It's a more effective product, anywsy. It also has a cap that doesn't turn, and it doesn't matter if warms up, because it comes out through a little pinhole.

FWP solved.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 20, 2026 02:49 PM (BI5O2)

102 Someone will go on Shark Tank with a business to solve this and ask for $750k for 0.2% equity.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 20, 2026 02:49 PM (X57RB)

103 Seriously, lip balm is another one of those "battery operated back scratchers." IMO, not needed and reflective of a civilization that is getting too damn comfortable (and get off my lawn). Here's my proof:

(((A hydrating Lip Treatment powered by Marine Glycoproteins to deeply nourish, repair and protect skin. Seals in moisture to leave lips quenched, with a bright and refreshing blend of crushed mint leaves and just a touch of sugary sweetness. Instantly soothes dry lips with a gentle cooling effect and a glossy, clear finish.))

Want to guess the cost? It's "only" $20 for a tube the size of those sample toothpaste tubes at you standard hotel. Here are your flavor choices... Mint, Blueberry Frenchtoast, Campfire S'mores, and Gingerbread.

I'll save everyone $20...drink the daily alottment of water, clean your mouth after eating, don't drool, and cover up in very cold weather.

Posted by: Orson at September 20, 2026 02:50 PM (dIske)

104 Lauren Boebert has had two affairs.
With women, according to an affidavit
Posted by: Yyrog the Lich King

You know the rule.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 20, 2026 02:50 PM (X57RB)

105
Here's something funny, my mom hired some random electrician to do some work on a distant property she owns and she can't remember where she got him, who referred him, how to get hold of him. She has an invoice with nothing but his name on it that she paid via a bank transfer. She needs to find him again for some business purpose or other.

I googled him and the only hit is on a doxxing website. Neo-Nazi Proud Boy white supremacist lol. He seems to have completely scrubbed himself from the web other than that. He might -- *might** -- actually be antisemitic, but I can't tell because the doxxing site is Antifa and they're about as reliable as your average nutty antisemite. Supposedly he did good electrical work.

woopsie!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 20, 2026 02:51 PM (mmrXZ)

106 YD,


See post 33

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 20, 2026 02:51 PM (yEz+x)

107 FWP #1: Dad is coming to live with me and the only available way to get Fox News and ESPN in my area is cable.

FWP #2: sensor went off on the freeway and says one tore has only 27 PSI. Then 26. Now back to 27. Maybe it's because it's cold now. Or maybe the tire is leaking. It's a new tire, too.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 20, 2026 02:52 PM (OYHOj)

108 Here's my complaint about lip balm. My wife likes to use it, and she keeps it in her pockets. Several times, she has left the lip balm in her pocket and it went into the laundry. The dryer melted the lip balm and it put grease spots all over the clothes in the dryer.

I confess, I have done even worse. One time I let a purple carpenter's crayon in my pocket. That melted and we could never get those stains out of the clothes.

Posted by: Ralph at September 20, 2026 02:52 PM (8WZD4)

109 I don't and have never known a normal male who uses lip balm.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 20, 2026 02:08 PM (eRlcH)

Move to the high desert in the Rockies. Round about January you'll have a very masculine patch of raw, mauled flesh that looks like hamburger, strathing from the base of your nose to your chin.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 20, 2026 02:52 PM (BI5O2)

110 Just remembered, my Next FWP is my garage door springs are done for. Looked at Lowes, Homy Depot and they don't seem to carry huge springs

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 02:52 PM (Ia/+0)

111 62 It would cost us 1500$ to upgrade the electric service and have 4 Mitsubishi heat pumps installed. Only thing that bothers me is that NYC requires that the installer disable the FF heat system, steam in my case, by cutting the gas and steam pipes.
Disabling our FF heat gets us a 9000$ rebate on the install.

Posted by: Accomack
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Old Indian saying:
Let's don't and say we did.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 20, 2026 02:53 PM (826kS)

112 I'm the lucky one, nurse. I get to take care of this little angel.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2026 02:53 PM (viF8m)

113 Spend time on a sailboat and you’ll need some sort of lip protection.

Snow sports as well.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 20, 2026 02:54 PM (yEz+x)

114 Leftists with all kinds of bizarre kinky crap care about someone's sex life.
Sure.

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 02:55 PM (Ia/+0)

115 Spend some time in the sun above 11,000' and you'll wish you had been born without lips.

Posted by: Weasel at September 20, 2026 02:56 PM (H5nit)

116 >>>Lauren Boebert has had two affairs.
With women, according to an affidavit

Posted by: Yyrog the Lich King

>We don't run in the same social circles or but if we did, I'd give her and lady friends a good rogering.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 20, 2026 02:56 PM (5C90x)

117 NYC will inspect the job and cut the installer a check.
Two teams going no where.

Posted by: Accomack at September 20, 2026 03:02 PM (8jVAy)

118
Spend some time in the sun above 11,000' and you'll wish you had been born without lips.
Posted by: Weasel


Can you get a lip transplant?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 20, 2026 03:03 PM (Cqx++)

119 I once left a pack of Trident in my pants that went thru the wash. The pack disintegrated. I didn’t notice anything until the gum melted in the dryer. It was my work clothes and I said nothing to the wife.

Posted by: Accomack at September 20, 2026 03:04 PM (8jVAy)

120 > Spend some time in the sun above 11,000' and you'll wish you had been born without lips.
Posted by: Weasel
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A day skiing in Utah... nice, sunny. Not too cold.

Burnt to a crisp.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 20, 2026 03:05 PM (2Cry5)

121 Is "rubbish" a US word or a UK word?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

Back when, your garbage would be picked up for the pig farm, sort accordingly and put in garbage pail in ground. Your trash was burnable, and burned, accordingly. Your rubbish, things that didn't burn, broken stuff, and the like, was usually placed in a barrel in the garage or shed and brought to the town dump periodically. If they had deposits on them, like tonic, the bottles went into a bottle bin, rinsed. Cashed in at the store.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 20, 2026 03:06 PM (sl73Y)

122 you're unable to buy said whiskey where you live, nor send for it mail-order cuz of Texas alcoholic beverage laws?

In this case, the whiskey is -

"Method and Madness Single Pot Irish Whiskey Finished in Mulberry Wood Casks"

And now the end is near...

The horror. The horror.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 20, 2026 02:41
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I think it's a worse situation. Looks like it was a limited edition that came out 2021. I don't think they make it anymore.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 20, 2026 03:09 PM (Hbeqj)

123 I just use Pureleaf Lard like real men.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 20, 2026 03:11 PM (4NO2D)

124 I think rubbish is a British word

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 03:11 PM (Ia/+0)

125 the bottles went into a bottle bin, rinsed. Cashed in at the store.
Posted by: From about That Time

I remember when we were newlyweds and money was tight we used to cash in the bottles for needed cash. Luckily my husband was a Pepsi addict so we always had a lot of empty bottles. Those were the days.

Posted by: Tuna at September 20, 2026 03:14 PM (lJ0H4)

126 That's how you do it.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2026 03:15 PM (viF8m)

127 Fellow Morons!

I wanted to let you know that I reached my campaign funding goal today. I have at least 155 in-district donations, as well as well over the $6700 that I need to qualify for state funding. I will probably receive a few challenges to the submission, so I'm calling around locally to improve my buffer in both metrics.

I absolutely could not have done this without Ace, CBD, and the rest of you farking gray box bastages out there. I'll work on my funding package tonight with my treasurer and get up to Hartford tomorrow to meet with the State Election Commission to deliver my data. If all goes well, I should have my money by 5 Oct 2026, the day before my debate with Anne Hughes.

While it's nice to see my name up in lights (and the sidebar!), there's no need to keep it up there. Thanks, CBD.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 20, 2026 03:16 PM (0CU3H)

128 >>While it's nice to see my name up in lights (and the sidebar!), there's no need to keep it up there. Thanks, CBD.

Fuck that. You have a race to win. Make the name larger.

Go win.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2026 03:18 PM (viF8m)

129 I think it's a worse situation. Looks like it was a limited edition that came out 2021. I don't think they make it anymore.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 20, 2026 03:09 PM (Hbeqj)


It's available in a few places in...Ireland!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 03:19 PM (k5CNB)

130 This balm has rosemary extract. Most balms have an ingredient like that which contains menthol or camphor compounds. This is the source of the cooling sensation you get from many lip balms. The problem is that menthol and camphor are initially soothing and then later irritating. This irritation makes the wearer feel like they need another coating of lip balm.

I'm a Colorado high desert girl. I gave up lip balm once I realized what was going on. The best thing about giving it up is that I have had zero cases of cracked lips since giving it up. My lips have never been smoother or more comfortable. (No lipstick either.)

If it's windy, cold, or dry, the barest touch of Neutrogena Norwegian Formula hand cream (unscented -- the scented stuff tastes nasty) will keep my lips comfortable. I might need it after brushing my teeth in the morning and again later if I've been out in the wind. The Norwegian cream contains no irritants like menthol or camphor.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at September 20, 2026 03:21 PM (OlzlW)

131 Over engineering is not a good look CBD.
Now, what you need are small, single use applicators for the balm. Somewhat syringe shaped or bullet shaped that deploys just enough balm for one application. These you can buy in a pack, or clip, of 10. Just throw them in a drawer.

Bit of a Second Amendment vibe going for the gun owners. Parched lips are the last thing you need when hunting or popping of looters.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at September 20, 2026 03:23 PM (lDkhm)

132
40

Oh, no!

Not "No White House Correspondents Dinner"!!!


Pro Tip for Ol' Jimbo - Don't threaten Trump with a good time.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 20, 2026 02:20 PM

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Let's see here. At the last House Correspondents Dinner, a loser ran past ineffective security with a shotgun to try and kill Trump, the dinner was cancelled, and the 'correspondents' in the audience stole the unopened bottles of wine off the tables as they left. I can see why Acosta would think that was a good time, but what's in it for Trump?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 20, 2026 03:23 PM (azNOR)

133 Can the Russians be trusted?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGzJaTH6lHU

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 20, 2026 03:27 PM (826kS)

134 Would bacon grease work as lib balm?

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 03:29 PM (Ia/+0)

135 Lighthearted. Adjective: light·​heart·​ed
Free from care, anxiety, or seriousness : happy-go-lucky

Get the hint?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 03:31 PM (k5CNB)

136 5 Oct 2026, the day before my debate with Anne Hughes.

While it's nice to see my name up in lights (and the sidebar!), there's no need to keep it up there. Thanks, CBD.

Posted by: Darrell Harris
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No way. CBD will publish some time and date and channel access to the debate. How could we miss such a thing?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 20, 2026 03:31 PM (826kS)

137 I think I might inject some botox poison into my lips so the application of lip balm can be done with a toilet plunger. That's not gay or anything. It's dominance!!!

Plus, if I ever get caught in a hurricane, I can affix myself to the nearest smooth surface.

Posted by: Orson at September 20, 2026 03:35 PM (dIske)

138 Well. at least there's a simple solution to this problem: Next time - buy the CHOCOLATE lip balm. (That's my public service message for today).

Posted by: Dr_No at September 20, 2026 03:35 PM (ayRl+)

139 >>>Would bacon grease work as lib balm?

Posted by: Skip

>How do you feel about carnivorous yellow jackets and hornets? They'll be barnstorming you face, checking out your fragrance.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 20, 2026 03:36 PM (5C90x)

140 You know chapstick is cheap enough to buy a box and just go through 'em as needed.


"Move to the high desert in the Rockies. Round about January you'll have a very masculine patch of raw, mauled flesh that looks like hamburger, strathing from the base of your nose to your chin.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 20, 2026 02:52 PM (BI5O2)"

No shit. If it's gay but works, well, it's still kinda gay but the man code precludes bringing it up

Posted by: heya at September 20, 2026 03:36 PM (TfRuS)

141 I can watch a lot of things, but, I can’t watch the Jets win.

Posted by: Accomack at September 20, 2026 03:37 PM (/Chlc)

142 Would bacon grease work as lib balm?

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 03:29 PM (Ia/+0)


There is a scene in a Hemingway short story in which a convalescing soldier uses olive oil (I think) on his sunburned lips and face.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 03:37 PM (k5CNB)

143 Pro Tip: chicks do not want to make out if your nasty lips are all chapped and cracked.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 20, 2026 03:39 PM (RIvkX)

144 29 My first world problem is I can’t get my clip to hook on to the headset cord. I need this so the cord is not just loose as I will without fail get it hooked around the barre when I walk by, yanking it, and me, backwards in a not graceful way.

I have more, but this is th e most immediate issue facing me.
Posted by: Piper at September 20, 2026 02:16 PM (2UJ+q

Wireless headset?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 20, 2026 03:39 PM (6ydKt)

145 Gottta give him credit, Aaron Rogers just made probably his last tackle.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 20, 2026 03:45 PM (sl73Y)

146 VANILLA? Is that garret's?

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 03:46 PM (odBC9)

147 107 FWP #1: Dad is coming to live with me and the only available way to get Fox News and ESPN in my area is cable.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 20, 2026 02:52 PM (OYHOj)

Hulu Live, Sling TV, and YouTube TV both have Fox News and ESPN.

They are live streaming services that are basically cable/satellite over the internet.

If you have decent internet bandwidth, 500mbps of so, it should work fine. Fir the basic package they run a little cheaper than cable or staellite.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 20, 2026 03:46 PM (6ydKt)

148 You know, I forgot its football season

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 03:47 PM (Ia/+0)

149 VANILLA? Is that garret's?

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 03:46 PM (odBC9)


I get this stuff from my dentist, along with a toothbrush and toothpaste.

And I imagine he gets it from the manufacturer as a perk, so it's probably overproduction.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 03:48 PM (k5CNB)

150 Okay, this is both strange and funny. My wife decided that she would start eating sardines, apparently never ever having eaten one. She bought not one twelve can case of the fish, but two.

I predict this will not go well.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 20, 2026 03:49 PM (4NO2D)

151 Try this to keep your lip balm from going soft in the heat. https://www.mychapie.com/ It really works.

Posted by: Skinnedknuckles at September 20, 2026 03:49 PM (i97dQ)

152 You had to wonder when McCartthy would drop Rodgers.
Eagles losing to Tennessee would be delish.

Posted by: Accomack at September 20, 2026 03:49 PM (T8bqm)

153 I have YouTubeTV. Great stuff. 100mps is fine for tv and internwt

Posted by: Accomack at September 20, 2026 03:50 PM (T8bqm)

154 EMPTY LIP BALM TUBES -- REPURPOSED
Broken crayon pieces can be upcycled into twist-up drawing crayons by melting crayon scraps in a clean tin can (placed in boiling water) then carefully poured into an empty fully rolled-down lip balm tube.

Posted by: Kathy at September 20, 2026 03:50 PM (MOK4W)

155 Bacon grease would be too salty for a balm. Pure lard not so much.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 20, 2026 03:50 PM (4NO2D)

156 151 Try this to keep your lip balm from going soft in the heat.
Posted by: Skinnedknuckles at September 20, 2026 03:49 PM (i97dQ)

It was in the pool!

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 03:50 PM (odBC9)

157 This balm has Rosemary extract.


I wondered what ever became of her.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 20, 2026 03:51 PM (IMGZD)

158 24 cans of sardines. I am baffled.

I suggested that we make some form of garum with them.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 20, 2026 03:51 PM (4NO2D)

159 A leather holster for a revolver, but it's pink plastic and each chamber has a different flavor of lip baum.

Posted by: NaughtyPine - completely spitballing at September 20, 2026 03:52 PM (OYHOj)

160 I use ChapStick Classic Original "skin protectant." It stays beautifully warm in my front right jeans pocket.

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 03:53 PM (odBC9)

161 157 This balm has Rosemary extract.


I wondered what ever became of her.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 20, 2026 03:51 PM (IMGZD)

hahahahaha

Nobody knows where Rosemary goes.

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 03:54 PM (odBC9)

162 Nobody knows where Rosemary goes.
Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 03:54 PM


I do.

Posted by: Tony Macaulay at September 20, 2026 03:55 PM (4NO2D)

163 And Burt’s Bees makes the best lip products.

Their tinted lip balm is inexpensive and wears great.

Chapstick is too waxy for me. But my boys like it. I think. They get a stick or three in their stockings every Christmas. Socks, boxers, pj bottoms too. And an orange.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 20, 2026 03:55 PM (7b2l4)

164 Vaseline makes some decent lip protection.

It comes in a toothpaste type tube with an applicator tip with a hole in. Squeeze and the stuff comes out the top and you just rub it where you want it.

I get chapped lips easy in our low humidity winters especially if it’s windy out. Used Vaseline brand for years to prevent it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 20, 2026 03:56 PM (6ydKt)

165 Squeeze and the stuff comes out the top and you just rub it where you want it.




That’s what she said.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 20, 2026 03:57 PM (7b2l4)

166 10 Also, it inevitably breaks off in the cap, just slightly too far in to easily scoop out, right when it would leave the remnant in the tube too short to be of use either.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 20, 2026 02:06 PM (aJQbY)

You could keep that old tube of "lip gloss" in the master bathroom and use a Q-tip to get those little bits out.

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 03:57 PM (odBC9)

167 164 It comes in a toothpaste type tube with an applicator tip with a hole in. Squeeze and the stuff comes out the top and you just rub it where you want it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 20, 2026 03:56 PM (6ydKt)

you just rub it where you want it
... after checking local laws

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 03:58 PM (odBC9)

168 107 FWP #1: Dad is coming to live with me and the only available way to get Fox News and ESPN in my area is cable.

FWP #2: sensor went off on the freeway and says one tore has only 27 PSI. Then 26. Now back to 27. Maybe it's because it's cold now. Or maybe the tire is leaking. It's a new tire, too.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 20, 2026 02:52 PM (OYHOj)

Good deal then.
At 100 - 250 mbps you can get internet around $30/40 per month, I’d imagine.

1 gig fiber runs me around $100.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 20, 2026 03:59 PM (6ydKt)

169 Posted by: CBD at 02:00 PM
CBD, you cut the blue plastic wrong by the cap, there; it's all raggedy and it might nick you or pick up lint from your pocket.

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 04:00 PM (odBC9)

170 153 I have YouTubeTV. Great stuff. 100mps is fine for tv and internwt
Posted by: Accomack at September 20, 2026 03:50 PM (T8bqm)

I was replying to this.

FWP, pressing Copy on an iPad only for it to fake you out and only make you think it actually copied.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 20, 2026 04:00 PM (6ydKt)

171 Get cleaned up and upstairs.
FOODIE NOODIE TIME

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 04:00 PM (Ia/+0)

172 Just do it while you're alone. And wash your hands afterwards.

Posted by: Always good advice at September 20, 2026 04:01 PM (2Ez/1)

173 My wife uses a lot of ChapStick. She typically buys a multi-pack of the stuff about every 3 months. I'll spend about 4 or 5 hours outside tomorrow, but won't get chapped lips. Like, ever.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 20, 2026 04:01 PM (2Cry5)

174 It's a good FWP, CBD!

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 04:02 PM (odBC9)

175 165 Squeeze and the stuff comes out the top and you just rub it where you want it.




That’s what she said.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 20, 2026 03:57 PM (7b2l4)

you just rub it where you want it
... after checking local laws
Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 03:58 PM (odBC9)

I thought about that phrasing for a second but knew the horde wouldn’t disappoint if I just went with it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 20, 2026 04:03 PM (6ydKt)

176 175 165 Squeeze and the stuff comes out the top and you just rub it where you want it.

That’s what she said.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 20, 2026 03:57 PM (7b2l4)

you just rub it where you want it
... after checking local laws
Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 03:58 PM (odBC9)

I thought about that phrasing for a second but knew the horde wouldn’t disappoint if I just went with it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 20, 2026 04:03 PM (6ydKt)

; )

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 04:05 PM (odBC9)

177 Fude nude

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 20, 2026 04:06 PM (nbLIj)

178 I like push up bras, though.

Posted by: Sam Melonhead, Attorney-at-Law at September 20, 2026 04:08 PM (Fn+3X)

179 Oh, man, Germany is becoming very entertaining. It looks like the AfD won in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. But, that's not the fun part.

The Far Left group looks to be coming out on top in Berling (which is little surprise). But, here's the fun part. Those in power and the EU have been stating that AfD matches up with the WW2 Nazis, claiming both were far right (regardless of that not being true, it is a common narrative of AfD's opposition, the EU and the media). BUT, the "Central Council of Jews" in Germany is up at arms because they consider the far left more attuned to the WW2 Nazis and are deeply anti-Semitic.

(((Central Council President Josef Schuster on Sunday.

"The fact that a party whose campaign rallies openly called for people's deaths is set to emerge victorious from the election deeply troubles me." ))))

_________________________

The Central Council of Jews are directly challenging the far Left and categorizing their anti-Semitic behavior/comments....which directly contradicts the strategy of opposition to the AfD. So, to placate the Jews in Germany, they will have to address their misrepresentation.

Fun stuff from fallen Europe.

Posted by: Orson at September 20, 2026 04:10 PM (dIske)

180 Wireless headset?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 20, 2026

The battery pack is wireless, but the headset plugs into the battery pack. I have looked into a wireless mic, but the ones that don’t sound like there is a windstorm or come flying off your shirt during cardio are pretty pricey. I would need a whole new receiver, too. It’s on the list of things that would be great to have when I hit 300 members.

Posted by: Piper at September 20, 2026 04:10 PM (2UJ+q)

181 I always keep wheelbearing grease around. Nice red color, will work on all chapping.

Posted by: The Penske File at September 20, 2026 04:11 PM (Fn+3X)

182 @ 172 Just do it while you're alone. And wash your hands afterwards. Posted by: Always good advice at September 20, 2026 04:01 PM (2Ez/1)
___________________________

That statement has SO many levels of interpretation …

Posted by: Dr_No at September 20, 2026 04:18 PM (ayRl+)

183 $100 a month? Hmmm.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 20, 2026 04:51 PM (OYHOj)

184 Chicken Poop is excellent balm, and does not melt.

Posted by: Unclezip at September 20, 2026 09:10 PM (OViF8)

Yemen Is Saudi Arabia's Back Yard, And It Is Their Responsibility, Not America's, To Police It

The Houthis, or Anṣār Allāh (“Defenders of God” ), have been around in one form or another for many years. The name derives from their founder: Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi, who was killed by the Yemeni government in 2004. The origins of the terrorist movement follow the tired pattern of so many Muslim terrorist groups...some religious or tribal schism that drives maniacal killing for reasons that most modern people would think are nuts!

But that doesn't matter much when their chaotic violence expands past the borders of their failed state. The Houthis have expanded their drive to subjugate Yemen into Saudi Arabia, and at the behest of their Iranian masters have attacked shipping near the western Yemen coastline, which is conveniently (for them) near the narrow Bab Al Mandeb strait, choking Red Sea and Suez Canal shipping. They now control almost 100 miles of that coastline, so they have plenty of opportunity to disrupt a major sea route for world commerce.

Saudi Arabia has tried, and failed, to control the Houthi expansion in Yemen. Apparently the Saudi armed forces have modern weaponry that doesn't translate into quality forces. They have gotten their asses kicked by what -- at least on the surface -- looks like a bunch of 7th century tribes that hide out in the mountains and conduct guerilla warfare against the KSA. Except they are being supported by Iran, which means they have sophisticated (for Muslims) weaponry that they use to good effect against anyone within reach. And what they have discovered is in reach are the oil pipelines that KSA uses to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran is trying to control petroleum exporting to the rest of the world.

Saudi Arabia has dithered and obfuscated and fought (poorly) and tried to negotiate with the Houthis, and nothing they have tried has worked. They are unwilling and probably unable to mount a concerted military effort against them to end, once and for all, the Houthi threats against petroleum commerce and the security of Saudi Arabia.

But...that ain't America's problem. We have sold KSA billions of dollars worth of modern arms, have trained their armed forces, have conducted training exercises with them, and have supported them in all respects. It is time for them to step up and do the work that is necessary. Otherwise, why have we spent so much time and effort?

Saudi Arabia facing 'biggest threat' ever to oil production as Iran-proxy Houthis launch attacks, expert says

Hussain Abdul-Hussain, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said Thursday that the situation is escalating in the Middle East as Iran "likely instigated the Houthis to force a blockade on Saudi Arabia."

"I think this situation is really precarious for the Saudis. This is the biggest threat to their production of oil since their kingdom was founded in 1932. And this is almost existential," he said.

"We see that the Saudis are trying to shop for some force to fight their war for them. And I think along the lines, they also called President Trump. It doesn't look to me that Washington is going to get involved in this one," he added. "We'll probably offer them advice and tell support, but I don't think we, the United States, will get involved with this war over Bab el-Mandeb."


That evaluation is a bit histrionic, but the conclusion is perfect. We have better things to do with our military than bail out the Saudis and, once again, do the heavy lifting that the rest of the world is unwilling to do.

Saudi Arabia says Houthis targeted its capital with a missile

Saudi Arabia on Saturday said that Yemen’s Houthi rebels tried to attack Riyadh with a ballistic missile, the first time the Saudi capital has been targeted since the escalation in fighting with the Iran-backed rebels opened a new front in the Iran war.

The statement said the attack was intercepted. Some residents in Riyadh heard an explosion, and later some saw a plume of smoke near the airport. There were no reports of casualties or damage.

The statement also said the Houthis tried to attack civilian infrastructure in the Red Sea port city of Yanbu — where a key Saudi pipeline ends — and in Taif, Baysh and Farasan but they were thwarted, giving no further details.

The Houthis earlier claimed, without providing evidence, that they had targeted “sensitive sites” in Riyadh and facilities of Saudi oil giant Aramco in Yanbu, causing “massive fires.” Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, did not respond to a request for comment.


Maybe attacks on the capital will be enough to get the rulers of Saudi Arabia off their ample rear ends and actually do something other than pay for others to do their work!

Posted by: CBD at 12:00 PM




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1 I'll fetch em

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 12:01 PM (Ia/+0)

2 I still think it would be darkly humorous if the Houthis took out the Kaaba in Mecca...

What would the Muslim world do about that?

(My guess...NOTHING.)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 20, 2026 12:03 PM (FZ29D)

3 A Pekingese watch dog

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 12:06 PM (Ia/+0)

4 Somehow I doubt SA will do much

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 12:07 PM (Ia/+0)

5 Like the old Soviet Union war criminals from the late 40's until their collapse in 1989 who shipped weapons of war all around the globe, just who and how do the Houthis get all these weapons? Amazon? Ebay? Wallyworld? Dick's Sporting Goods?

Such a mystery...

Posted by: Lords Of War at September 20, 2026 12:07 PM (6VpiA)

6 Billions in sophisticated arms, planes, training, and the Saudis couldn't fight a troop of Girl Scouts. Or at least are too chicken to. May the fleas of a thousand camels infest their barracks. Wait, do they have barracks?

Posted by: Run Away! at September 20, 2026 12:08 PM (Fn+3X)

7 Are the Saudis signatories to any treaties banning chemical and biological warfare? If not, provide them with the wherewithal, and let MBS push the button.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 20, 2026 12:09 PM (1z8ji)

8
The Saudis will buy them off rather than fight. But what else can you expect from indolent do-nothings who can't take a dump without some Filipino semi-slave wiping their ass?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 20, 2026 12:11 PM (eRlcH)

9 Are there no mercenary companies the Saudis could hire? I keep hearing about PMCs...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 20, 2026 12:11 PM (Y/06r)

10 Guess why Trump told the Saudis to take some of their desert and pound it and then the Saudis turned to Israel.

You don't need to be a weatherman.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2026 12:11 PM (viF8m)

11 The Saudis don't or refuse to get it. There are enemy military tanks 5 miles out of Riyadh heading their way. What flag are they carrying, Israel or Iran?

Posted by: Hadsil at September 20, 2026 12:12 PM (/4OWh)

12 Hot Air (I know) has a good article on this. Might be good, another proxy, along with their Iraq allies, maybe being pulled down the drain with Iran.
Worth a look.
https://tinyurl.com/mwd3vwpu

Posted by: From about That Time at September 20, 2026 12:13 PM (sl73Y)

13 For thousands of years, wealthy leaders have hired mercenaries to fight their battles for them.

Saudi Arabia certainly has enough money for that.

There are tens of millions of poor Muslims in the world that I suspect would be willing to take that risk for enough money to take their families out of abject poverty.

The Saudis could also include a fixed life insurance payment to the family if the male was killed in combat.

The traditional risk of using mercs is that they turn on their hosts. However, if they are deployed in Yemen, that risk seems very low to me.

The Saudis (and the rest of the Arab states that want regional peace) need to start thinking outside of the box.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 20, 2026 12:13 PM (HlyYF)

14 The Saudis pay people to do things for them. The Egyptians own Suez. Let the Saudis pay for the Egyptians to fight.

It's gotta be someone local, because projecting power went out with the 20th century unless your name is Uncle Sam.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 20, 2026 12:13 PM (r7+Q7)

15 Let's dust off this classic:

https://youtu.be/lqJDuZIcQ34

Posted by: The WayBack Machine at September 20, 2026 12:13 PM (2Ez/1)

16 #7
Remind me not to piss AOP off.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 20, 2026 12:15 PM (sl73Y)

17 There are tens of millions of poor Muslims in the world that I suspect would be willing to take that risk for enough money to take their families out of abject poverty.

The Saudis could also include a fixed life insurance payment to the family if the male was killed in combat.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 20, 2026 12:13 PM (HlyYF)
----
Isn't this basically how the Iranians recruited Hezbollah and Hamas?

They pay the families of the "martyrs" who are killed in attacks against Israel.

I'm sure the Houthis get the same deal.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 20, 2026 12:16 PM (FZ29D)

18 just who and how do the Houthis get all these weapons?

Posted by: Lords Of War at September 20, 2026 12:07 PM (6VpiA)


Read the post.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 12:20 PM (k5CNB)

19 The Saudis...the same people who sent a team of hijackers into the US and destroyed NYC, then had their people flown out by W? The same people who let us stage forces in their country to protect it from Sadaam after he overran Kuwait? The same people who shunned us by refusing to join the Abraham accords?

They can buy more weapons from us and fall back on their compadres in their alliance. Or not. Maybe Israel can help them out.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 20, 2026 12:23 PM (3Ope8)

20
Making chicken and rice soup. I'm afraid it's going to set up like concrete when it cools down. Too many veggies. Too much garlic.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 20, 2026 12:23 PM (eRlcH)

21 Saudi's military has more experience with parades than it does with actual, you know, military stuff.

The Houthi's are spanking the shit out them in the south.

The only consideration the US should have is whether the Bab el Mandab strait in the Red Sea remains unmolested. It's apparent the Saudi's are incapable of dealing with 12th century savages in Yemen.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 20, 2026 12:23 PM (2Cry5)

22 Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi,



What’s it with these people and long names? You never hear of Mohammed Abdul. It’s always Mohammed Abdul Al-Ahmed bin Laden Al-Mohammed.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 20, 2026 12:24 PM (X57RB)

23 I suspect the Saudi military is completely inept. I also suspect this escalation egged on by Iran is due to the fact that Iran is desperate. The strangulation strategy that the Trump folks improvised (it took ‘em awhile didn’t it?) now appears to be working brilliantly. But the escalation is dangerous… already gas and especially diesel prices are bumping up noticeably. Interesting times…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 20, 2026 12:25 PM (RjPzd)

24 Thx CBD.
Someone pointed out the House of Said doesn't want a competent military because the Sauds could be a target for overthrowing.
While I agree that the Sauds and the Houthis amount to "why can't they both lose" , I don't think we can afford to have the Bab al-Mandab blocked by 8th century primitives. Maybe we can convince the Egyptians to get in, though in the 60s they didn't fare too well there

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 20, 2026 12:26 PM (oUMhY)

25 20
Making chicken and rice soup. I'm afraid it's going to set up like concrete when it cools down. Too many veggies. Too much garlic.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 20, 2026 12:23 PM

FWP is later today.

Posted by: Please make a note of it at September 20, 2026 12:26 PM (2Ez/1)

26 Like all 3rd World corrupt states the Saudi military sucks because it’s all nepotism in leadership. But as someone else pointed out, they do a fine military parade when needed.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 20, 2026 12:26 PM (X57RB)

27 Too much garlic.

What language is that? I don't even understand those words in that phrase...

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 20, 2026 12:26 PM (3Ope8)

28 There are only two militaries in the region that I respect: the Jordanians and the Turks. The rest have a shit-ton of equipment but second class soldiers and officers. The troops are from the lower classes and have no desire to fight the Houthis. The officer corps are the upper class and connected. They look good in their uniforms but aren't going to risk anything, especially their asses.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 20, 2026 12:27 PM (2WIwB)

29 Sources say America is the world's policeman.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 20, 2026 12:27 PM (Cqx++)

30 Why would poor Muslims fight for Saudis when they can take Europe without a fight?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 20, 2026 12:27 PM (bX16E)

31 27 Too much garlic.

What language is that? I don't even understand those words in that phrase...
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 20, 2026

Took the worlds right out of my skull! Maybe the problem is that too many vegetables took garlic's rightful space.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 20, 2026 12:29 PM (OYHOj)

32 Again we must ask "Where are the Europeans?" I saw a news blurb the other day that the Saudis have told Europe they will receive no oil (which some up from the Red Sea via Suez) for two months. Europe has a dog in this fight but sadly they lack the capability. And it's not from being unable to produce weapons and stand up an army - western Europe has that capability. They just lack the will.

Posted by: George V at September 20, 2026 12:30 PM (g6ahB)

33 Again we must ask "Where are the Europeans?

They don't want to fight one of their own...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 20, 2026 12:32 PM (+gK6I)

34 27 Too much garlic.

What language is that? I don't even understand those words in that phrase...
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 20, 2026 12:26 PM (3Ope


ANY garlic is too much! Oy gevalt!

Posted by: Dracula at September 20, 2026 12:33 PM (xJMj/)

35 So:

1. We have Iran sealed off and on the ropes

or

2. Iran is supplying the Houthis with weapons.

Pick one. Because both cannot be true.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 20, 2026 12:34 PM (ca8Qt)

36 The Saudis...the same people who sent a team of hijackers into the US and destroyed NYC, then had their people flown out by W? The same people who let us stage forces in their country to protect it from Sadaam after he overran Kuwait? The same people who shunned us by refusing to join the Abraham accords?
****

What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: zombie Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani at September 20, 2026 12:35 PM (J4Dwc)

37 Again we must ask "Where are the Europeans?" I saw a news blurb the other day that the Saudis have told Europe they will receive no oil (which some up from the Red Sea via Suez) for two months. Europe has a dog in this fight but sadly they lack the capability. And it's not from being unable to produce weapons and stand up an army - western Europe has that capability. They just lack the will.
Posted by: George V at September 20, 2026 12:30 PM (g6ahB)

Russian oil is going to start looking good to the Euros again.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 20, 2026 12:35 PM (1z8ji)

38 just who and how do the Houthis get all these weapons?
Posted by: Lords Of War at September 20, 2026 12:07 PM (6VpiA)
Read the post.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 12:20 PM (k5CNB)

I did and I get it that Iran is backing them but how do the weapons get to the Houthis "physically", like put in their hands from crates and boats and planes. Surely somebody knows how this shipping is done and can cut it off?

Getting to Yemen is no easy task, especially shipping weapons and ammo.

Posted by: Lords Of War at September 20, 2026 12:35 PM (6VpiA)

39 35 So:

1. We have Iran sealed off and on the ropes

or

2. Iran is supplying the Houthis with weapons.

Pick one. Because both cannot be true.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 20, 2026 12:34 PM (ca8Qt)

Only if Iran is supplying them, but NOT from Iran directly?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 20, 2026 12:36 PM (l3cgK)

40 Read the post.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 12:20 PM (k5CNB)

Do we have to read it?!?!

Is there a quiz afterwards or something?

Posted by: dantesed at September 20, 2026 12:36 PM (Oy/m2)

41 Years ago, before this unpleasantness in Iran, the US was involved in escorting and protecting ships transiting the Red Sea from the Houthi's who were targeting various commercial shipping. We had a carrier in the region and periodically targeted the Houthi's and their weaponry.

We wanted the EU to get involved... because most of the commercial shipping traffic that used the Red Sea to the Med (via Suez) and then on to Europe. It was a half hearted attempt on the EU... as expected.

Point being... we were involved with the Houthi's before and didn't get the help we asked for from Europe... so I'd say it's nominally not our problem.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 20, 2026 12:37 PM (2Cry5)

42 1. We have Iran sealed off and on the ropes

or

2. Iran is supplying the Houthis with weapons.

Pick one. Because both cannot be true.
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 20, 2026 12:34 PM (ca8Qt)

3. Iran supplied the Houthis with weapons, which they are now beginning to deploy, and continues to supply them with money.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 20, 2026 12:37 PM (1z8ji)

43 38 just who and how do the Houthis get all these weapons?
Posted by: Lords Of War at September 20, 2026 12:07 PM (6VpiA)
Read the post.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 12:20 PM (k5CNB)

I did and I get it that Iran is backing them but how do the weapons get to the Houthis "physically", like put in their hands from crates and boats and planes. Surely somebody knows how this shipping is done and can cut it off?

Getting to Yemen is no easy task, especially shipping weapons and ammo.

Posted by: Lords Of War at September 20, 2026 12:35 PM (6VpiA)

I'm betting lots of those weapons were shipped in BEFORE Iran was getting blasted. Also, there are lots of places around the world that the Iranians have poured weapons and personnel into, and those areas can ship weapons to Houthi and the Blowfish.
Also, don't forget China...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 20, 2026 12:38 PM (l3cgK)

44
Again we must ask "Where are the Europeans?"

__________

The Europeans can't even cross the street without the US to carry them. Individual units may be first rate, but otherwise they can't be of any help.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 20, 2026 12:38 PM (eRlcH)

45 So:

1. We have Iran sealed off and on the ropes

or

2. Iran is supplying the Houthis with weapons.

Pick one. Because both cannot be true.
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 20, 2026 12:34 PM (ca8Qt)

It’s an apparent contradiction but perhaps not a real one. Iran will prioritize weapons over everything else; their economy could be collapsing and yet they could still supply weapons for a Hail Mary… for a time. Remember in WWII, Hitler was on the ropes but still launched the battle of the bulge.

I have no idea if this is a last gasp of the mullahs. Probably not… but I’m pretty sure the last thing to go would be their military armaments.

These Houthi attacks are a smart strategic play for them. More effective than trying to stop our blockade… which they can’t do

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 20, 2026 12:39 PM (RjPzd)

46
Russian oil is going to start looking good to the Euros again.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


Ukraine launched a major overnight drone strike on Russia, hitting a Moscow refinery despite President Trump's request for Ukraine to stop striking Russian energy infrastructure as a global refining crisis deepens.

Bloomberg reports that the Gazprom Neft-owned Moscow Oil Refinery, about 16 miles from the Kremlin, was struck by drones. The facility has a processing capacity of around 245,000 barrels a day and supplies fuel to the surrounding metro area.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 20, 2026 12:39 PM (Cqx++)

47 44
Again we must ask "Where are the Europeans?"

__________

The Europeans can't even cross the street without the US to carry them. Individual units may be first rate, but otherwise they can't be of any help.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 20, 2026 12:38 PM (eRlcH)

Europeans are quickly making themselves into Euro-peons...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 20, 2026 12:39 PM (l3cgK)

48 KSA armed forces.World's largest and best equipped palace guard and parade drill team.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 20, 2026 12:40 PM (gm9Sb)

49 Remember in WWII, Hitler was on the ropes but still launched the battle of the bulge.


I thought that was because the Germans needed fuel for their tanks or something.

Posted by: dantesed at September 20, 2026 12:41 PM (Oy/m2)

50 46
Russian oil is going to start looking good to the Euros again.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Ukraine launched a major overnight drone strike on Russia, hitting a Moscow refinery despite President Trump's request for Ukraine to stop striking Russian energy infrastructure as a global refining crisis deepens.

Bloomberg reports that the Gazprom Neft-owned Moscow Oil Refinery, about 16 miles from the Kremlin, was struck by drones. The facility has a processing capacity of around 245,000 barrels a day and supplies fuel to the surrounding metro area.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 20, 2026 12:39 PM (Cqx++)

For many months the Russians have been waiting in very long lines to put gas in their car tanks. i chatted with some Russians online back in May/June, and they were telling me how badly it sucked and how they were trying to get in line during off-hours in hopes the lines would be shorter and the gas would still be available when it was their turn.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 20, 2026 12:41 PM (l3cgK)

51 2 I still think it would be darkly humorous if the Houthis took out the Kaaba in Mecca...

What would the Muslim world do about that?

(My guess...NOTHING.)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 20, 2026 12:03 PM (FZ29D)

Put another space rock there and claim the original had never been blasted...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 20, 2026 12:44 PM (l3cgK)

52 "How do the Houthi's get their weapons?"
====
I'll bet some are through Saudi Arabia itself. Other methods would be to go through Oman.

Those countries aren't innocent when it comes to funding and supplying terrorists.

There's also a weapon's pipeline through Djibouti, Eritrea and Egypt (across the Red Sea from Yemen.)

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 20, 2026 12:44 PM (2Cry5)

53 38 just who and how do the Houthis get all these weapons?
Posted by: Lords Of War at September 20, 2026 12:07 PM (6VpiA)
Read the post.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 12:20 PM (k5CNB)

I did and I get it that Iran is backing them but how do the weapons get to the Houthis "physically", like put in their hands from crates and boats and planes. Surely somebody knows how this shipping is done and can cut it off?

Getting to Yemen is no easy task, especially shipping weapons and ammo.
Posted by: Lords Of War

Wrong! Ask Jim Mattis.

The retired four-star Marine Corps general and former CENTCOM commander was secretly hired in 2015 to advise the UAE (and by extension consult on the Saudi-led coalition's military strategy) regarding the war against the Houthis in Yemen

He later went on to serve in Donald Trump's actual cabinet as his first Secretary of Defense (from 2017 to 201, during which time his prior private advising work for the UAE on the Yemen conflict came under intense scrutiny.

Up/Down/Left/Right -- all are their playthings as the world of carnage becomes a paradise for the ilk of cTHIEL.

Trump's gotta get to woik/Reservoir Dogs

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at September 20, 2026 12:44 PM (gjmnd)

54 Saudi Arabia has tried, "

Ok, that's funny right there.

Posted by: man at September 20, 2026 12:44 PM (cGjQu)

55 Back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth….

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 20, 2026 12:45 PM (vupS9)

56 20
Making chicken and rice soup. I'm afraid it's going to set up like concrete when it cools down. Too many veggies. Too much garlic.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 20, 2026

I don’t even understand these words. 😂. But add more broth maybe, if it needs to be thinned out a little bit?

Posted by: Piper at September 20, 2026 12:45 PM (ZdaMQ)

57 For many months the Russians have been waiting in very long lines to put gas in their car tanks. i chatted with some Russians online back in May/June, and they were telling me how badly it sucked and how they were trying to get in line during off-hours in hopes the lines would be shorter and the gas would still be available when it was their turn.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 20, 2026 12:41 PM (l3cgK)

That would not necessarily stop the Russians from loading crude into tankers, and selling it to refineries in Euroland, once the Euros get thirsty enough to abandon their embargo of Russian oil.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 20, 2026 12:45 PM (1z8ji)

58
You know whaat I would like?

I'd like the muslim world itself to get tired of islam.

What an anchor around the neck of everyone within islam's borders, and now outside those borders too. Thanks Progtards/communists/Democrats/GOPe-cucks/ WEF/EUtards!!!! Did I forget anyone?

Anyway, it probably won't happen, but Iran, when it falls could be the start of that.

Even the muslimiest Muslim in Iraan has got to be sick of islamic rule. should they burn down all the mosques and madrassas, and hang all the imams, etc,
and take up almost any other religion or atheism, they'll find their lives improve exponentially in a very short time.

But, it's just a dream. A beautiful, beautiful dream.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 20, 2026 12:46 PM (iJfKG)

59 34 27 Too much garlic.

What language is that? I don't even understand those words in that phrase...
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 20, 2026 12:26 PM (3Ope

ANY garlic is too much! Oy gevalt!

Posted by: Dracula at September 20, 2026 12:33 PM (xJMj/)

Were you the origin of the "Elders of Zion"?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 20, 2026 12:46 PM (l3cgK)

60 "Protocols of the Elders of Zion"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 20, 2026 12:47 PM (l3cgK)

61 IIANM, Chy-na has a substantial operation in one of the port cities in Yemen.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 20, 2026 12:47 PM (3Ope8)

62 I'll bet some are through Saudi Arabia itself. Other methods would be to go through Oman.

Those countries aren't innocent"

They're barely "countries" - none of the various tribal groups are one hundred percent loyal...

Posted by: man at September 20, 2026 12:48 PM (cGjQu)

63 56 20
Making chicken and rice soup. I'm afraid it's going to set up like concrete when it cools down. Too many veggies. Too much garlic.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 20, 2026

I don’t even understand these words. 😂. But add more broth maybe, if it needs to be thinned out a little bit?

Posted by: Piper at September 20, 2026 12:45 PM (ZdaMQ)

Maybe it's just becoming an aspic...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 20, 2026 12:48 PM (l3cgK)

64 Who puts garlic in soup??

Posted by: dantesed at September 20, 2026 12:48 PM (Oy/m2)

65 3. Iran supplied the Houthis with weapons, which they are now beginning to deploy, and continues to supply them with money.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 20, 2026 12:37 PM (1z8ji)

With the currency that is said to be in freefall?

I'm starting to get the impression that we're being as well-informed about Iran and the Houthis as we are about Russia and Ukraine.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 20, 2026 12:49 PM (ca8Qt)

66 64 Who puts garlic in soup??

Posted by: dantesed at September 20, 2026 12:48 PM (Oy/m2)

I do. Sometimes. Depends on the type of soup.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 20, 2026 12:49 PM (l3cgK)

67 Maybe it's just becoming an aspic..."

It's starting to gel?

Posted by: man at September 20, 2026 12:49 PM (cGjQu)

68 re: "But the escalation is dangerous… already gas and especially diesel prices "

NO one makes the connection to the requirement (I say REQUIREMENT) for what is called Ultra-Low Sulfur diesel to be sold in the US either ...

I say Ultra-Low Sulfur diesel ...

Posted by: _Jim at September 20, 2026 12:50 PM (rRjrT)

69 59 34 27 Too much garlic.

What language is that? I don't even understand those words in that phrase...
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 20, 2026 12:26 PM (3Ope

ANY garlic is too much! Oy gevalt!

Posted by: Dracula at September 20, 2026 12:33 PM (xJMj/)

Were you the origin of the "Elders of Zion"?...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)


Just like Politics these days, just TOO MANY NOTES -- if their words were water they would drown us all.

The Culprits, the Solution, only too obvious for those with eyes which do not refuse to see -- a free and productive people have Absolutely Nothing to gain from War, and, in fact, a great deal to lose.

LET'S GO BRANDON.
BECOME THE STORM.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at September 20, 2026 12:50 PM (sYT9F)

70 Saudis are soft and cowardly people.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 20, 2026 12:51 PM (nESHF)

71 With the currency that is said to be in freefall?"

I wouldn't say the American 100 dollar bill is on "freefall"

But hey, you do you...

Posted by: man at September 20, 2026 12:51 PM (cGjQu)

72 67 Maybe it's just becoming an aspic..."

It's starting to gel?

Posted by: man at September 20, 2026 12:49 PM (cGjQu)

If it has enough collagen from bones and starts to cool enough...
When I make chicken soup, I cook it with lots of chicken bones...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 20, 2026 12:52 PM (l3cgK)

73 Going to be a cold winter in Euro-land without energy. Hope all those windmills are in tip top shape.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 20, 2026 12:52 PM (yEz+x)

74 > IIANM, Chy-na has a substantial operation in one of the port cities in Yemen.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead
---------
They purportedly have a large military installation across the bay from our facilities in Djibouti

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 20, 2026 12:52 PM (2Cry5)

75 already gas and especially diesel prices "

Hey, let's close more refineries!

/

Posted by: man at September 20, 2026 12:53 PM (cGjQu)

76 73 Going to be a cold winter in Euro-land without energy. Hope all those windmills are in tip top shape.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 20, 2026 12:52 PM (yEz+x)

Climate change dun did dat...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 20, 2026 12:53 PM (l3cgK)

77 Again we must ask "Where are the Europeans?"


I suspect the Euros will be real hesitant to send anyone to the region, what with millions of muzzies sitting in their home countries.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 20, 2026 12:53 PM (2WIwB)

78 If it has enough collagen from bones and starts to cool enough..."

Add some other flavorings. You could call it "gello" or something like that...

Posted by: man at September 20, 2026 12:54 PM (cGjQu)

79 78 If it has enough collagen from bones and starts to cool enough..."

Add some other flavorings. You could call it "gello" or something like that...

Posted by: man at September 20, 2026 12:54 PM (cGjQu)

You should try the stuff I put in my jello.

Posted by: Bill Cosby at September 20, 2026 12:55 PM (l3cgK)

80 Involuntary nap time

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 12:55 PM (Ia/+0)

81 Again we must ask "Where are the Europeans?"

After half a century plus of lower than replacement rate births...

Posted by: man at September 20, 2026 12:55 PM (cGjQu)

82 You should try the stuff I put in my jello.
Posted by: Bill Cosby"

That ain't pudding

Posted by: man at September 20, 2026 12:56 PM (cGjQu)

83 Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 20, 2026 12:52 PM (2Cry5)

I think it's further up the coast than Aden and into the Red Sea. The gooleator points to Al Hudaydah.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 20, 2026 12:57 PM (3Ope8)

84 already gas and especially diesel prices "

Hey, let's close more refineries!

/
Posted by: man at September 20, 2026 12:53 PM (cGjQu)


Long ago and far away....when I was but a wee lad-

Texas was full of both major and minor refineries. Pretty much anywhere driving along the coast or west Texas you'd eventually come across one.

Admittedly, they stunk. But, that was the Stink of Good Jobs, Good Money, and the God-Given Freedom to0 Drive Big Ole Fancy Gas-Guzzlers All Over This Great Land of Ours.

Americans no longer seem to understand that there is always a cost to the good things in life.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 20, 2026 12:58 PM (iJfKG)

85 > Again we must ask "Where are the Europeans?"
----------
As the issue affects commercial shipping... and would presume a competent Navy would be required... it would appear that there's really not viable option for the EU.

*Sucks to be them*

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 20, 2026 12:58 PM (2Cry5)

86 Inshallah ...

Posted by: Saudis at September 20, 2026 01:00 PM (nn1uA)

87 Again we must ask "Where are the Europeans?"


I suspect the Euros will be real hesitant to send anyone to the region, what with millions of muzzies sitting in their home countries.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 20, 2026 12:53 PM (2WIwB)


That's the plan, man.

Making the world(your home country, really) too dangerous for war against muslim countries.

And they've almost succeeded.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 20, 2026 01:00 PM (iJfKG)

88 But, that was the Stink of Good Jobs, Good Money, and the God-Given Freedom to0 Drive Big Ole Fancy Gas-Guzzlers All Over This Great Land of Ours."

Newark. Once upon a time

Posted by: man at September 20, 2026 01:01 PM (cGjQu)

89 This is what 80+ years of babysitting has wrought.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 20, 2026 01:04 PM (nESHF)

90 Get the Somalians in there to stir shit up. Make them pick a side. A little more regional chaos never hurt.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 20, 2026 01:05 PM (5C90x)

91 Inshallah ...
Posted by: Saudis at September 20, 2026 01:00 PM (nn1uA)

***

The 10th Crusade is.coming. It's gonna be ugly.

The hell of it all is, and it pains me to say it, this may actually be a war we need to fight. Not for the Saudis, or for Europe, although they are important, but we need to stop every aspect of Iranian influence. I've said before, in every war, the enemy gets a vote. Iran isn't dead yet and they need to be contained.
I'd write more but the preacher is about to start.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 20, 2026 01:06 PM (2WIwB)

92 Djoibi is that bar in Star Wars: every punk has a gun cabinet there.
I say leave these losers to sand and build our own refineries for our own oil.
Oh, too late. Maybe AI can help.
Trump got played into putting a bucket on his head.

Posted by: Accomack at September 20, 2026 01:06 PM (T8bqm)

93 @70

And quite full of themselves.

Having dealt with RSAF aviation cadets in the 90s here in the U.S. undergoing initial flight training at Whiting Field, if I had to describe them with a single word, it would be 'arrogant assholes.'

They flew the same syllabus as U.S. Navy flight students and, allegedly, were held to the same standards of performance...except they weren't. And they knew that. Which is why, perhaps, there were arrogant assholes.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 20, 2026 01:06 PM (J4Dwc)

94 Getting to Yemen is no easy task, especially shipping weapons and ammo.

Posted by: Lords Of War at September 20, 2026 12:35 PM (6VpiA)


The Houthis are getting weapons via flights from Iran, Lebanon, Iraq, etc. And, probably, Russia and China.

It's not heavy stuff (mostly), it is stuff that can be shipped in a short container or even big boxes.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 01:07 PM (k5CNB)

95 But...that ain't America's problem. We have sold KSA billions of dollars worth of modern arms, have trained their armed forces, have conducted training exercises with them, and have supported them in all respects. It is time for them to step up and do the work that is necessary. Otherwise, why have we spent so much time and effort?


Now, for the kids at home, apply this same logic to Israel.....but you won't.

Posted by: The Spanish Inquisition at September 20, 2026 01:07 PM (V+3EO)

96 ***"I think this situation is really precarious for the Saudis. This is the biggest threat to their production of oil since their kingdom was founded in 1932. And this is almost existential," he said.
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An interesting aspect to this is original territory and religion.
Preceding 1932 the area that is now Saudi Arabia (Armand Hammer) was known as Northern Yemen. The Yemenis belong to a different sect of Islamism called Zaydi. They are not Sunnis or Shias.

" Zaydism took root in Yemen in the ninth century. In 897 CE, the Zaydi religious leader Yahya al-Hadi established himself in northern Yemen and founded an imamate—a system in which a Zaydi sayyid, or descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, could claim leadership" ...
..."The important modern turning point was 1962, when Yemeni military officers overthrew the Zaydi monarchy and founded the Yemen Arab Republic. Saudi Arabia supported the royalists during the ensuing civil war, while Egypt supported the republican side..."

How would the Houthis behave without Iranian money and materiel?



Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 20, 2026 01:07 PM (826kS)

97 My answer is leave and America First. The world doesn’t like us and we need to win our own civil war first.

Posted by: Accomack at September 20, 2026 01:07 PM (T8bqm)

98
The leadership of the UK isn't scared of a Muslim uprising if force is employed in the ME. The leadership of the UK won't do it because they're already Islamified.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 20, 2026 01:07 PM (eRlcH)

99 Repatriate every single muslim back to the ME.

There’s your army. And I’m all in for keeping families together. Including the goats and fleas.

Send them all packing.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 20, 2026 01:08 PM (9qEvZ)

100 And then level every mosque in the hemisphere.

And sprinkle with bacon bits.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 20, 2026 01:09 PM (9qEvZ)

101 The Houthi only attach Saudi shipping.

Posted by: Accomack at September 20, 2026 01:09 PM (T8bqm)

102 Posted by: one hour sober

And slothful. Which is important to note.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 20, 2026 01:09 PM (nESHF)

103 Maybe attacks on the capital will be enough to get the rulers of Saudi Arabia off their ample rear ends and actually do something other than pay for others to do their work!

How does one say, "Nothing will happen" in Saudi?

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 20, 2026 01:10 PM (nbLIj)

104
Read the article on FOX about Warren Michigan. Muzzies are taking over Warren.

Posted by: four seasons at September 20, 2026 01:10 PM (/QHx4)

105 And then level every mosque in the hemisphere.

And sprinkle with bacon bits.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Pig shit slurry.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 20, 2026 01:11 PM (nESHF)

106 > The Houthis are getting weapons via flights from Iran, Lebanon, Iraq, etc. And, probably, Russia and China.

It's not heavy stuff (mostly), it is stuff that can be shipped in a short container or even big boxes.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
--------------
Last week, the Houthi's shot down a Saudi Air Force F-15 with gunfire. From the ground. Allegedly small arms fire. That, by itself, is fucking sad.

For the Saudi's.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 20, 2026 01:11 PM (2Cry5)

107
Having dealt with RSAF aviation cadets in the 90s here in the U.S. undergoing initial flight training at Whiting Field, if I had to describe them with a single word, it would be 'arrogant assholes.'

__________

Are there airplane drivers who aren't?.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 20, 2026 01:11 PM (eRlcH)

108 Now, for the kids at home, apply this same logic to Israel.....but you won't.

Posted by: The Spanish Inquisition at September 20, 2026 01:07 PM (V+3EO)


Are you really that stupid?

Israel has been fighting the West's battle against Islam since its rebirth in 1947.

If you think that Israel hasn't done enough, you are profoundly ignorant.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 01:11 PM (k5CNB)

109 I don't think "responsibility" is the issue. Either we care about oil getting out of the middle east (mainly to Europe's benefit) or we don't. We only need to care so long as oil we produce can be sold to them.

Frankly I think we should block Iran's oil to China until such time as we're satisfied Iran's nuclear program is no more, and keep our oil here. Let economic pressure force the Europeans to make peace with Russia. And we should cut the Saudis loose as they are as useless to us as the Europeans are.

But for some reason the administration wants to keep Europe going without any hard choices, and if that's the case, I think it's going to have to deal with the Houthis'

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 20, 2026 01:12 PM (vSvIl)

110 In a previous life I was an advisor to the Saudi military. I've never seen poorer excuses for soldiers.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 20, 2026 01:12 PM (W6d+C)

111 Last week, the Houthi's shot down a Saudi Air Force F-15 with gunfire. From the ground. Allegedly small arms fire.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 20, 2026 01:11 PM (2Cry5)


I had read that it might have been a missile, but damn! Small arms fire! That's embarrassing.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 01:13 PM (k5CNB)

112 88 But, that was the Stink of Good Jobs, Good Money, and the God-Given Freedom to0 Drive Big Ole Fancy Gas-Guzzlers All Over This Great Land of Ours"

Newark. Once upon a time
Posted by: man

Imagine different
1.58Trillion cubic feet of metly hydrate 1000-2000meters deep in the Taiwant Strait without which either country has access to without American technology

This deposit represents only 1% of world total. Imagine hydrocabrons harvested, transformed in place, deep underwater into plastics and production plants that run the data centers (and cities) of the future

Data Center Size: A steady flow supplying even a modest fraction of this gas could continuously power a large-scale hyperscale data center campus (100 MW to 500+ MW)

Duration: At a 200 MW continuous draw, the recoverable reserves could theoretically fuel the facility for decades (30 to 50+ years), acting as a quasi-baseload sovereign power source

Rather than fighting over maritime boundaries or blockading Taiwan, Trump would propose treating the South China Sea and Taiwan’s shelf as a Joint Development Zone.Xi would be offered joint resource security and technological cooperation in deep-sea extraction

ThinkBIGLY!

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at September 20, 2026 01:14 PM (yEajp)

113 The US hasn't given Israel anything. All the so called "AID" has been in the forms of arms sales . Now, let's talk about what the Israelis have done for the US in terms of technology.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 01:15 PM (UdrMW)

114 In a previous life I was an advisor to the Saudi military. I've never seen poorer excuses for soldiers.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 20, 2026 01:12 PM (W6d+C)


This is a recurrent theme. It's amazing that they have been around for 80 years and haven't been able or willing to produce even small units that are top quality.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 01:15 PM (k5CNB)

115 Having dealt with RSAF aviation cadets in the 90s here in the U.S. undergoing initial flight training at Whiting Field, if I had to describe them with a single word, it would be 'arrogant assholes.'


While I was over there I heard of a couple of incidents: One was an F-15 pilot doing touch and go's only he forgot to put his gear down and touched...but didn't go. Heh. Another case involved an F-15 again, where the pilot punched off his pylons, along with the ordnance. I heard pylons are pretty expensive. Heh again.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 20, 2026 01:16 PM (W6d+C)

116 ***Maybe attacks on the capital will be enough to get the rulers of Saudi Arabia off their ample rear ends and actually do something other than pay for others to do their work!
---

Call India and ask if their pilots would like extra spending money.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 20, 2026 01:16 PM (826kS)

117 If the Saudi's launch an attack on the Houthis, and it isn't a complete, total annihilation of the enemy in a day or two. the House of Saud will be out of favor with their "god". At that point, the Saud family will be dead in hours, and Saudi Arabia torn apart into little tiny pieces.

So, I say go for it. Their black monolith will be exposed as what it was - a multifaith temple with statues of the godlings popular at the time.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 20, 2026 01:16 PM (qx7Zg)

118 108 Now, for the kids at home, apply this same logic to Israel.....but you won't.

Posted by: The Spanish Inquisition at September 20, 2026 01:07 PM (V+3EO)

Are you really that stupid?

Israel has been fighting the West's battle against Islam since its rebirth in 1947.

If you think that Israel hasn't done enough, you are profoundly ignorant.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo


Both of my boys are MAGA. They do not understand the importance of Israel. They do not understand why the US needs to be their true blue partner in this conflict. It is heartbreaking to hear them say the US needs to stop fighting for and supporting Israel. They just don’t get it. As do many in Gen Z. The messaging from the Trump administration has been lacking. And we are losing Gen Z.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 20, 2026 01:17 PM (FII0+)

119 The Ukraine war is meant to keep the US involved in Europe. Trump’s not leaving Europe to its fate.
Everything from the Bosphorus to the Ganges is useless. Glass it.
Trump still hasn’t decided to destroy Iran or not yet. Should have known the answer before he started.

Posted by: Accomack at September 20, 2026 01:17 PM (/Chlc)

120 Last week, the Houthi's shot down a Saudi Air Force F-15 with gunfire. From the ground. Allegedly small arms fire.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 20, 2026 01:11 PM (2Cry5)

I had read that it might have been a missile, but damn! Small arms fire! That's embarrassing.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Goatrapers like to lie.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 20, 2026 01:17 PM (nESHF)

121 Saudi Arabia has tried, and failed, to control the Houthi expansion in Yemen.
====

But have they? Have they really?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 20, 2026 01:17 PM (RIvkX)

122 Isn't sending excess princes off to war a standard part of Monarchy?

Posted by: DaveA at September 20, 2026 01:18 PM (FhXTo)

123 I gave Hardian's comment due consideration.

And then added more garlic to my chicken soup stock. Still debating if it's enough.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2026 01:19 PM (viF8m)

124
The Saudis: the GenZ of the Middle East.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 20, 2026 01:19 PM (eRlcH)

125 This is a recurrent theme. It's amazing that they have been around for 80 years and haven't been able or willing to produce even small units that are top quality.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 01:15 PM (k5CNB)



My observation on this CBD, was/is the concept of Inshallah, e.g., the concept that whatever happens it was god's will. I observed it to be an excuse for basically not caring or being diligent about anything because whatever happens...it's god's will.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 20, 2026 01:20 PM (W6d+C)

126 109 I don't think "responsibility" is the issue. Either we care about oil getting out of the middle east (mainly to Europe's benefit) or we don't. We only need to care so long as oil we produce can be sold to them.
---

We don't.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 20, 2026 01:20 PM (826kS)

127 I gave Hardian's comment due consideration.

And then added more garlic to my chicken soup stock. Still debating if it's enough.
Posted by: JackStraw

Roasted garlic would be good in chicken soup.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 20, 2026 01:20 PM (nESHF)

128 Making chicken and rice soup. I'm afraid it's going to set up like concrete when it cools down. Too many veggies. Too much garlic.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

You're early. That's a FWP.

Posted by: Tuna at September 20, 2026 01:22 PM (lJ0H4)

129 Read the article on FOX about Warren Michigan. Muzzies are taking over Warren.

Posted by: four seasons
-----

Done.
It is the slowly boiled frog.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 20, 2026 01:22 PM (XeU6L)

130 Do you know what Trump did after taking down the China and Russia and Iran supported terrorist dictatorship in Venezuela? He got their oil for pennies on the dollar.

Do you know what he's going to do once the mullahs eat a bullet.

See Venezuela.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2026 01:22 PM (viF8m)

131 127 I gave Hardian's comment due consideration.

And then added more garlic to my chicken soup stock. Still debating if it's enough.
Posted by: JackStraw

Roasted garlic would be good in chicken soup.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 20, 2026 01:20 PM (nESHF)

I make a tomato soup with roasted garlic... You roast tomato's, onions and garlic drizzled with olive oil till caramelized

Posted by: It's me donna at September 20, 2026 01:23 PM (+gK6I)

132 Did someone actually compare Israel to the Saudis?? Egad…. The Israelis actually fight. In fact they’re really good at it… one of the best militaries in the world. That is not a serious comparison, please

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 20, 2026 01:24 PM (RjPzd)

133 119 The Ukraine war is meant to keep the US involved in Europe. Trump’s not leaving Europe to its fate.
Everything from the Bosphorus to the Ganges is useless. Glass it.
Trump still hasn’t decided to destroy Iran or not yet. Should have known the answer before he started.
Posted by: Accomack

Ukraine war was the delusion of the french/noodle-headed MACARONI and his willngess to sacrifice all of europe with the hope that the bear eats them last -- which of course they will surrender again.

Single mistake. They pissed off putin, the former KGB/former Taxi Driver who fumed and stormed off after he was promised Russia could join the EU as an equal -- hindsight 20/20.

Fast forward:
Trump->hotel in moscow, greenland, 3seas accord + cuba

Europe: it's their problem.

China: methylhydrate joint development zone/wealth beyond their dreams of avarice.

LIBs: broken by the storm, still refusing to recognize the futiltiy of reprising Sinwar's final act of throwing a piece of wood at a dat center.

LET'S GO BRANDON: Get to Woik.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at September 20, 2026 01:25 PM (CH7Ow)

134 >>Roasted garlic would be good in chicken soup.

Oh great. Now you tell me.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2026 01:25 PM (viF8m)

135 Now, for the kids at home, apply this same logic to Israel.....but you won't.

Posted by: The Spanish Inquisition at September 20, 2026 01:07 PM (V+3EO)

It's not quite the same logic.

Unlike the paper allies, Israel shows up for the fight when we ask them to.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 20, 2026 01:25 PM (vSvIl)

136 I make a tomato soup with roasted garlic... You roast tomato's, onions and garlic drizzled with olive oil till caramelized
Posted by: It's me donna

This is the way.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 20, 2026 01:25 PM (nESHF)

137 The messaging from the Trump administration has been lacking. And we are losing Gen Z.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 20, 2026 01:17 PM (FII0+)


Your first point is 100% correct!

The second I think is overly pessimistic. Yes, in blue areas, but not nearly as much in the heartland.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 01:25 PM (k5CNB)

138 The Saudis weren't a kingdom until the British and Americans made it so. They were no richer than any of the other Arabs. (tent fuckers) - We found oil and needed control of the region.
For whatever reason we picked the Saudis as best partner and plucked them out of the tent.

They never did anything before they became rich and they are certainly not going to do anything now.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 20, 2026 01:27 PM (826kS)

139 Do you know what Trump did after taking down the China and Russia and Iran supported terrorist dictatorship in Venezuela? He got their oil for pennies on the dollar.

Do you know what he's going to do once the mullahs eat a bullet.

See Venezuela.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2026 01:22 PM (viF8m)



I agree with you Jackstraw that that's what he would do. My only concern is the timing because I have so little faith in voters that can't see beyond the end of their nose. It's very likely that Democrats will be in charge by the time that eventuality could happen. In which case it won't.


My pessimism has been learned over many decades of watching this cycle happen.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 20, 2026 01:27 PM (W6d+C)

140 While I was over there I heard of a couple of incidents: One was an F-15 pilot doing touch and go's only he forgot to put his gear down and touched...but didn't go. Heh. Another case involved an F-15 again, where the pilot punched off his pylons, along with the ordnance. I heard pylons are pretty expensive. Heh again.

****
Not surprising. Many of the RSAF students I provided instruction to were boxes of rocks who, after multiple flight failures, were still allowed to continue on with their training.

But, supposedly, they were held to the same standards as USN student aviators.

That, of course, was complete bullshit. Many of them, I suspect, were from "connected families" in SA.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 20, 2026 01:28 PM (J4Dwc)

141 nurse, I am curious as to what you reply to your sons.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 01:28 PM (UdrMW)

142 I have to say the rise in hatred of the Jews in this Country is scaring me..

Posted by: It's me donna at September 20, 2026 01:28 PM (+gK6I)

143 The Houthis are getting weapons via flights from Iran, Lebanon, Iraq, etc. And, probably, Russia and China.
It's not heavy stuff (mostly), it is stuff that can be shipped in a short container or even big boxes.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Ok, got it. Thanks! Those are the folks who will need to be brought low. If it sails or flies to Houthiville, it dies.

Posted by: Lords Of War at September 20, 2026 01:28 PM (6VpiA)

144
It's me donna,

Me too.

Posted by: four seasons at September 20, 2026 01:29 PM (/QHx4)

145 >>I agree with you Jackstraw that that's what he would do. My only concern is the timing because I have so little faith in voters that can't see beyond the end of their nose. It's very likely that Democrats will be in charge by the time that eventuality could happen. In which case it won't.

I get the concern about the midterms. I'm a bit more optimistic.

Trump didn't get permission from Congress to make a deal to get Venezuela's oil. He just did it.

All during the Iraq war Trump was saying to anyone who would listen we should take their oil. Trump is a ruthless deal maker. That's why he's a billionaire.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2026 01:31 PM (viF8m)

146 Making chicken and rice soup. I'm afraid it's going to set up like concrete when it cools down. Too many veggies. Too much garlic.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Sounds like my biscuits. In my mouth, they melt like butter. In my stomach, they set like cement.

Posted by: Ready-Mix Industries at September 20, 2026 01:32 PM (Fn+3X)

147 Hooterville>>Houthiville

Posted by: Sam Drucker, Editor, Hooterville World Guardian at September 20, 2026 01:33 PM (Fn+3X)

148 The hatred of Jews is on the rise and it is concerning. What are you doing to counter that rise?

Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 01:33 PM (UdrMW)

149 That, of course, was complete bullshit. Many of them, I suspect, were from "connected families" in SA.
Posted by: one hour sober

Correct.

It is similar to letting all the cousins of the Kennedys in F-15's.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 20, 2026 01:33 PM (nESHF)

150 My husband used to lounge in the hot tub at our community center. One of his frequent tub mates was a retired doctor who did some teaching at Saudi medical schools. The doc said he'd never seen a more privileged and lazy bunch of students in his life. Trying to teach them was frustrating.

Posted by: Tuna at September 20, 2026 01:34 PM (lJ0H4)

151 Those are the folks who will need to be brought low. If it sails or flies to Houthiville, it dies.

Posted by: Lords Of War at September 20, 2026 01:28 PM (6VpiA)


No argument from me, but I want the Saudis and the Egyptians and the Brits and the Frogs (etc) to do the heavy lifting. Do they need intel from us? Maybe some air tanker support? Happy to oblige. But the people who are most affected need to do the work.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 01:34 PM (k5CNB)

152 148 The hatred of Jews is on the rise and it is concerning. What are you doing to counter that rise?

Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 01:33 PM (UdrMW)

Not hate them ? Seriously, no one in my immediate circle falls into the hate category...I have 4 Gen z Grandkids and 3 are conservative.. The fourth is iffy.. The only Girl... I'm working on her

Posted by: It's me donna at September 20, 2026 01:37 PM (+gK6I)

153 I don't know if the Jets are going to win but this team is no joke. They can play ball.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2026 01:38 PM (viF8m)

154 148 The hatred of Jews is on the rise and it is concerning. What are you doing to counter that rise?

Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 01:33 PM (UdrMW)

This is what scares me the most, watching it in real time because people are afraid of the backlash from Muslims. Luckily, my Gen Z kids understand Israel and the importance of the country and the people as does my Gen A child. But my older 2 aren’t quite there with all Muslims being bad, that extremists exist in every sect.

My Gen A child is struggling to understand why there is so much vitriol against ICE out there because to her it’s common sense. Probably because she was/ is homeschooled.

Posted by: Piper at September 20, 2026 01:38 PM (2UJ+q)

155 My husband used to lounge in the hot tub at our community center. One of his frequent tub mates was a retired doctor who did some teaching at Saudi medical schools. The doc said he'd never seen a more privileged and lazy bunch of students in his life. Trying to teach them was frustrating.

Posted by: Tuna at September 20, 2026 01:34 PM (lJ0H4)



That just reminded me. While I was in SA, it was policy that if we had any serious injury or illness we'd be evacuated to Switzerland or Germany for medical care.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 20, 2026 01:38 PM (W6d+C)

156 A parallel thought:

We should stop selling arms to those who are passing them to Ukraine. If Ukraine receives ZERO American materiel the war
will be over.

Oh, And Elon, turn those fucking satellites off.


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 20, 2026 01:39 PM (826kS)

157 I will say this. When Iran falls, it's really gonna get ugly in there. There's a whole lotta scores to settle and it'll be ruthless and relentless. There won't be much inside that region that isn't affected by it either.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 20, 2026 01:40 PM (3Ope8)

158 There’s a long piece written a couple years ago that’s being quoted by serious people on X and other places again; basically it explains why Arab societies are culturally Incapable of building modern and effective western style armies. They are good at guerrila tactics, hit and run lone wolf staff, and of course fanaticism.

But to build an actual organized functional army? They can’t do it. Best they can do is a parade ground army that can look good once or twice a month.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 20, 2026 01:40 PM (sTKQb)

159 I miss apple picking.
If the Saudis fought as well as the Israelis, they wouldn’t be in this mess. In fact, none of the musclemen do.
We should pull a Roman and stand behind the Saudi throne with 200k marines. That peninsula will belong to whomever kills the Saudi’s. Might as well be us.
We needed Venezuela and Guyana online before starting trouble in the ME.
Nearest decent apples are in Pennsylvania
Ultimately, Trump was hasty.

Posted by: Accomack at September 20, 2026 01:40 PM (T8bqm)

160 COJ, the House of Saud will fall before the mullahs in Iran.

Posted by: Accomack at September 20, 2026 01:41 PM (T8bqm)

161 160>> Show your math, or explain that to me.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 20, 2026 01:42 PM (3Ope8)

162 It's me donna, nurse's sons are conservative also. You have to counter the fallacies with facts. The best place to start is with the real numbers about the "aid" to Israel.

NO US funds go to supporting any part of Israeli civil society. Do they disparage Africans, because all of our aid goes to supporting food and medical aid.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 01:42 PM (UdrMW)

163 Ben Had,
Honestly, I don’t know how to respond. So I have just listened.

It’s complicated. And I am not well spoken enough or as educated on the history as I should be, in order to clearly explain WHY it is in the best interest of the US. How does the security of Israel fit into the America First agenda? That’s what Gen Z needs to hear. Frankly, I could benefit from President Trump laying it out. Use small words so I can understand.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 20, 2026 01:43 PM (yEz+x)

164 The Saudis have a worse problem than most, because they don’t WANT a powerful army, they only want the appearance of one. Why? Because they know better than anyone that a couple competent generals with an effective military behind them could (and would) sweep away the Monarchy in an afternoon, and they will never risk that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 20, 2026 01:43 PM (sTKQb)

165 Put down the pipe, Jack, six wins max. GB is a mess but the Jets are maxed out.

Posted by: Accomack at September 20, 2026 01:44 PM (T8bqm)

166 Saudi Arabia has a terrible military because the monarchy is far more worried about a military coup than it is about external military threats.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 20, 2026 01:44 PM (aD4fx)

167 >>Frankly, I could benefit from President Trump laying it out. Use small words so I can understand.

I'm your huckleberry.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2026 01:45 PM (viF8m)

168 ...But to build an actual organized functional army? They can’t do it. Best they can do is a parade ground army that can look good once or twice a month.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 20, 2026 01:40 PM (sTKQb)



In addition to what I wrote above about Inshallah, the other factor I observed that supports this thesis is the tribalism. The loyalty was to the tribe, not the higher good/order, i.e., The Kingdom. And this affected all ranks, making the whole organization inefficient and dysfunctional. IMO.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 20, 2026 01:45 PM (W6d+C)

169 But to build an actual organized functional army? They can’t do it. Best they can do is a parade ground army that can look good once or twice a month.

The Egyptians had a fairly functional army in 1973, but only after they got their asses kicked in 1967.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 20, 2026 01:46 PM (aD4fx)

170 Richard Nixon on the Shah of Iran.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=thMVMkVtUf8

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 20, 2026 01:46 PM (826kS)

171 Headline (Washington Examiner):

"El Sayed-aligned Islamic council with alleged terrorism financing ties issued fatwa to financially support Muslim candidates"

Excerpt:

"U.S. involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, particularly calls for military aid from pro-Israel lawmakers and fundraising committees, was the underlying basis for the fatwa. Framed as an emergency countereffort, FCNA’s fatwa says it is “imperative” that Muslim constituents support candidates and lobbying organizations working to shape U.S. foreign policy in favor of Palestinians. The fatwa stipulates that zakat donations can also go toward “countering a clearly anti-Muslim politician with an agenda of harm.”"

Posted by: mrp at September 20, 2026 01:46 PM (rj6Yv)

172 158 There’s a long piece written a couple years ago that’s being quoted by serious people on X and other places again; basically it explains why Arab societies are culturally Incapable of building modern and effective western style armies. They are good at guerrila tactics, hit and run lone wolf staff, and of course fanaticism.

But to build an actual organized functional army? They can’t do it. Best they can do is a parade ground army that can look good once or twice a month.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 20, 2026 01:40 PM (sTKQb)

Maybe Arab but certainly not Muslim. In the past, Muslims have built quite the large, successful armies, or we wouldn't be talking about the Crusades, or Spain's reconquista, or have Islamic places spread so far around Asia and Africa.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 20, 2026 01:47 PM (l3cgK)

173 I was taken aback by the Ed Sheeran concert stuff.. I was sure the majority would agree that what that rapper said was wrong and didn't belong there and instead people rallied around the rapper.. I'm hoping they were just the noisy ones, but this "Free palestine" stuff is nuts...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 20, 2026 01:47 PM (+gK6I)

174 Anyone who has had the displeasure of dealing with shitty arab militaries knows exactly why the saudis can't deal with the houthis.

The saudis in particlar can't fucking do anything without paying europeans to do it for them. Goat fuckers with money are still goat fuckers.

Posted by: heya at September 20, 2026 01:47 PM (TfRuS)

175 >>Put down the pipe, Jack, six wins max. GB is a mess but the Jets are maxed out.

Are you watching this game?

How many 3 and outs in a row would you say the Packers need to get going?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2026 01:48 PM (viF8m)

176 174 Anyone who has had the displeasure of dealing with shitty arab militaries knows exactly why the saudis can't deal with the houthis.

The saudis in particlar can't fucking do anything without paying europeans to do it for them. Goat fuckers with money are still goat fuckers.

Posted by: heya at September 20, 2026 01:47 PM (TfRuS)

Aye, but you do just one sheep...

Posted by: Angus the Sheepf**ker at September 20, 2026 01:48 PM (l3cgK)

177 The Egyptians had a fairly functional army in 1973, but only after they got their asses kicked in 1967.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 20, 2026 01:46 PM (aD4fx)


Which in two weeks was driven out of Sinai and completely surrounded.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2026 01:49 PM (k5CNB)

178 173 I was taken aback by the Ed Sheeran concert stuff.. I was sure the majority would agree that what that rapper said was wrong and didn't belong there and instead people rallied around the rapper.. I'm hoping they were just the noisy ones, but this "Free palestine" stuff is nuts...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 20, 2026 01:47 PM (+gK6I)

To "free Palestine" you must first extinguish Islam there...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 20, 2026 01:49 PM (l3cgK)

179 Define small arms
Even in WWII hardly a plane was shot down by small arms.

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 01:49 PM (Ia/+0)

180 Just a hunch.
Saudi’s have no one who will fight.
Most other Arabs hate them.
Mecca is jewel to have.
Iran has shown real grit.
If the Saudi’s start to go, are we going to bail them out? Nope.
So, the cat’s entrails say take the under on Saud and the over on Iran.

Posted by: Accomack at September 20, 2026 01:50 PM (T8bqm)

181 179 Define small arms
Even in WWII hardly a plane was shot down by small arms.

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 01:49 PM (Ia/+0)

It happened to the Italians in Ethiopia...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 20, 2026 01:51 PM (l3cgK)

182 148 The hatred of Jews is on the rise and it is concerning. What are you doing to counter that rise?

Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 01:33 PM (UdrMW)

Not hate them ? Seriously, no one in my immediate circle falls into the hate category...I have 4 Gen z Grandkids and 3 are conservative.. The fourth is iffy.. The only Girl... I'm working on her
Posted by: It's me donna at September 20, 2026 01:37 PM (+gK6I)

I'm grateful that Little has been to bar mitzvahs for a couple of his friends. He's been told of the kindness his grandmother received from the Brooklyn yentas when she lost her mother at the age of 14.

What he does not grasp is the hatred the world has for God's Chosen. We've been to the Holocaust museum in DC, and I just think the lesson fades over time if it isn't reinforced. The challenge is measuring the reinforcement to avoid it becoming a dreaded topic of discussion for them. I've yet to find that golden measure..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 20, 2026 01:51 PM (nbLIj)

183 We have technological reciprocity with Israel.
Our military and medical science, both, have benefited greatly.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 20, 2026 01:51 PM (826kS)

184 There is no "palestine" . You can't free something that doesn't exist.

When the partition happened the arabs made no effort to establish a state and still haven't.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 01:52 PM (UdrMW)

185 Not downplaying the Jew hate, the media's current fascination with the Islamic socialists amplifies the hate message from that group. Those Islamists are getting a lot of ink, air time, etc.

And, the media's ability to shape narratives is still pretty significant. They're a stupid bunch, but can cause a lot of harm.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 20, 2026 01:54 PM (2Cry5)

186 Quite the conundrum the Royal family faces.

And the GAF meter is broken.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 20, 2026 01:54 PM (nESHF)

187 The current Jew hate is a coordinated op. We've all lived through the power of coordinated ops from bad actors. Russia collusion ring any bells?

Ignore the static. Focus on the signal.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2026 01:54 PM (viF8m)

188 The challenge is measuring the reinforcement to avoid it becoming a dreaded topic of discussion for them. I've yet to find that golden measure..

Posted by: Joe Kidd
--

There are lessons in the Bible that address this issue.
Reading here, today, this is an overlooked aspect.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 20, 2026 01:54 PM (826kS)

189 Which in two weeks was driven out of Sinai and completely surrounded.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
---------

Mister, we could a man like Moshe Dayan again.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 20, 2026 01:55 PM (XeU6L)

190 * Mister, we could use a man...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 20, 2026 01:56 PM (XeU6L)

191 184 There is no "palestine" . You can't free something that doesn't exist.

When the partition happened the arabs made no effort to establish a state and still haven't.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 01:52 PM

I also think there is a little confusion between America First and America Only. They are 2 very different things. Having Israel as our ally in the area is definitely in the interests of our security, our technological advancements, etc. Plus, Iran not having a nuclear weapon is certainly in our interest Also, when you are the most powerful country in the world, which we are, there comes with it responsibility and one of those is to ensure we never, ever have a holocaust again. Anti-Semitic words and behaviors should be shunned. There really is no middle ground there.

Posted by: Piper at September 20, 2026 01:56 PM (2UJ+q)

192 Learning about the Holocaust shaped my life. Today's generations know little of anything of it so it is not a point of relevance. What is relevant is what Braenyard said. What have we received for all the billions funneled into Africa?

Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 01:59 PM (UdrMW)

193 The Saudis have a worse problem than most, because they don’t WANT a powerful army, they only want the appearance of one. Why? Because they know better than anyone that a couple competent generals with an effective military behind them could (and would) sweep away the Monarchy in an afternoon, and they will never risk that.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 20, 2026 01:43 PM (sTKQb)

I think you've pretty well nailed it.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 20, 2026 01:59 PM (g8Ew8)

194 I'm hoping they were just the noisy ones, but this "Free palestine" stuff is nuts...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 20, 2026 01:47 PM (+gK6I)

To "free Palestine" you must first extinguish Islam there...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
---

Is he the one that is no longer on the tour?
Is the one on the tour spouting off about Palestine?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 20, 2026 01:59 PM (826kS)

195 The Ed Sheeran thing is blowing up because Ed and most of his fans are Irish, and lately Ireland has been working overtime to make sure everyone knows that yes, they really did cheer for Hitler right up til those last days in the bunker.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 20, 2026 02:01 PM (sTKQb)

196 I'm minded of certain 'officer courses' that 'the foreign student WILL graduate' being handed down from State to Defense. No failing grades allowed.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 20, 2026 02:01 PM (aJQbY)

197 Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser failed to crush the rebels in Yemen, 60 years ago. You can look it up. The failed effort has been called Egypt's Vietnam.

Posted by: Gref at September 20, 2026 02:01 PM (5rh/l)

198 Noodlage.

Posted by: Noodist at September 20, 2026 02:01 PM (2Ez/1)

199 Is he the one that is no longer on the tour?
Is the one on the tour spouting off about Palestine?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 20, 2026 01:59 PM (826kS)

Yes and yes... sort of.. He apologized for the guy getting the boot and rambled something about Oct 7th was bad but the Jews over reacted thus Genocide...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 20, 2026 02:02 PM (+gK6I)

200 Mike Hammer, "Dado" was a far better general than Dayan.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 02:02 PM (UdrMW)

201 Comes down to Love/LeFluer vs Gene/Glenn: take Love/LeFluer

Posted by: Accomack at September 20, 2026 02:02 PM (8jVAy)

202 "Good morning! Thank you for calling Blackwater. How may I direct your call? ...Hold please...

Sir, I have a Mohammed Bin Salman on line one..."

Posted by: Brewingfrog at September 20, 2026 02:02 PM (Xx9Lb)

203 What he does not grasp is the hatred the world has for God's Chosen. We've been to the Holocaust museum in DC, and I just think the lesson fades over time if it isn't reinforced. The challenge is measuring the reinforcement to avoid it becoming a dreaded topic of discussion for them. I've yet to find that golden measure..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 20, 2026 01:51 PM (nbLIj)

God blesses those who bless Israel. Israel is God's chosen people.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 20, 2026 02:04 PM (g8Ew8)

204 NOOD

FWP





CBD and lip balm

no really, that's what he posted

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 20, 2026 02:05 PM (+fdRY)

205 What have we received for all the billions funneled into Africa?
Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 01:59 PM

Ooh! I know this one!

What is, Sweet FA, Alex?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 20, 2026 02:13 PM (qnN/4)

206 >>I'm minded of certain 'officer courses' that 'the foreign student WILL graduate' being handed down from State to Defense. No failing grades allowed.

Eh, we can't really point fingers. USN had the same issue with Kara Hultgreen. Due to gender politics and inter-service rivalries at the time, she was allowed to continue on in her training after receiving multiple flight failures along the way in primary, intermediate and advanced jet.

And I don't GAF what the "official" US Navy investigation concluded. Instructor pilots who flew with her said she should've been washed out of flight training the way any male student would have been.

Those instructor pilots were told to STFU by higher ups. So they did, of course.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 20, 2026 02:14 PM (J4Dwc)

207 Why do Houthi’s have water and electricity? Time for the Saudis to put all of those F-15s and Tornados to use making Yemen unlivable.

Posted by: Williebrownsmattress at September 20, 2026 02:37 PM (jcCxK)

208 Saudi's talk a big macho game and love owning the latest and greatest military toys, but they are anything but dedicated warriors. Chances of them taking out the Houthis without hiring someone to do it for them are slim.

Posted by: Gosport at September 20, 2026 02:37 PM (Vh6nj)

209 Saudi Arabia on Saturday said that Yemen’s Houthi rebels tried to attack Riyadh with a ballistic missile, the first time the Saudi capital has been targeted since the escalation in fighting with the Iran-backed rebels opened a new front in the Iran war.
=====

Maybe da jooz will protect you.

Maybe ask them publicly. See what they say.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 20, 2026 02:52 PM (RIvkX)

210 The Saudis weren't a kingdom until the British and Americans made it so. They were no richer than any of the other Arabs. (tent fuckers) - We found oil and needed control of the region.
For whatever reason we picked the Saudis as best partner and plucked them out of the tent.

They never did anything before they became rich and they are certainly not going to do anything now.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 20, 2026 01:27 PM


In fairness, the West installed the Husseins, Hashemite chieftains that controlled Mecca. The Sauds overthrew them because the Sauds were the Al-Qaeda fanatics of the time.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 20, 2026 03:08 PM (4NO2D)

211 The problem with the Saudi military is they all considered themselves to be royalty/nobility and therefore can't be expected to the necessary things like maintenance or how to actually do their jobs. And they have no effective NCOs. They should just go with their usual practice and hire Philippinos or Ugandans do to their dirty work. UAE "military" is just as bad. The only Arab militaries worth a shit are the Jordanians and Lebanese (Christian).

Posted by: Stacy0311 at September 20, 2026 03:40 PM (wwlYu)

212 1 - 2 low-yield nukes would solve the houthi problem, demonstrate seriousness of purpose, cost nothing (already in inventory), cost no American or KSA lives, and end the problem. The refusal to use productive weapons on problems like this is just cowardice.

Posted by: alexander scipio at September 20, 2026 04:16 PM (029Oi)

213 Please get rid of the screen-covering ads. They make it incredibly annoying to read your site, which is otherwise very good. If you swipe the ad away, it makes it almost impossible to scroll down through the post. I have to keep my finger on your post and move it around to deter the ads, which makes it pretty much impossible to read while eating.

Posted by: Bert the Samoan Lawyer at September 20, 2026 10:22 PM (BCSe9)

214
I was assured that the Saudis signed an unbreakable blood oath and sacred treaty with the Turks and Paki's to come to their aid when summoned.

Posted by: Auspex at September 22, 2026 08:17 AM (Y8DZL)

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