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El-Sayed Also Hates Thanksgiving, Wants the Day to be for the Remembrance of the "Slaughter" of "Indigenous Peoples"

It's weird how these foreign anchor-babies keep turning out to be so thoroughly anti-American, isn't it?

You'd almost think they were foreign sleeper agents placed inside an enemy country they planned to subvert and harm from within.

Before getting to Thanksgiving: It also turns out that this son-of-a-bitch oversaw a high-kill shelter where animals were kept in appalling conditions before being slaughtered.


Clown World
@ClownWorld

Michigan Democrats just nominated Abdul El-Sayed for Senate. He oversaw Detroit's animal shelter where the kill rate hit 74%, whistleblowers called it a slaughterhouse, and the city paid $63,000 to settle a lawsuit over the conditions. Feces backed up into kennels. Rats and cockroaches everywhere.

This is the guy they want representing Michigan. He can't even take care of dogs. And he's supposed to represent you.

Michigan deserves better.

The love of dogs is a Western thing. Many Muslims regard dogs as "unclean" and in fact propose banning dogs from public streets so that Muslims aren't forced to encounter these filthy animals.


The most basic and wholesome bits of American culture are anathema to him and must be destroyed:

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This communist wants to seize the means of production:

Obviously he wants to jack up everyone's taxes:

And obviously, he wants to end all aid to Israel.

America First?

Nah, he wants to take that money and give it to the Hamas-controlled UNRWA instead:

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That's not America First. That's Islam First. As usual.

This is an interesting admission from El-Sayed's fellow pro-Hamas Muslim communist Mamdani: Mamdani admits that white people are more "ideological" in their politics, while the minorities Mamdani appeals to are mostly about "identity" -- the racial spoils system -- than ideology.

This is Soviet-style demoralization, as KGB defector Yuri Bezemenov warned us about. Convince the enemy that he is wrongheaded and worthless and that is country and culture are wicked and diseased, and you will be able to conquer that country with only the lightest physical resistance.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:33 PM




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1 First!

Posted by: Flyguy at August 13, 2026 04:33 PM (d0hH6)

2 evil

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 13, 2026 04:34 PM (N1tpc)

3 that's who the left wants. that's who the left is.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 13, 2026 04:34 PM (N1tpc)

4 Reparations? They live on Uncle Sugars dime already

Posted by: It's me donna at August 13, 2026 04:34 PM (FtULh)

5 His wife is a dog. I wonder how he treats her.

Posted by: wth at August 13, 2026 04:34 PM (UjdFS)

6 5 His wife is a dog. I wonder how he treats her.
Posted by: wth at August 13, 2026 04:34 PM (UjdFS)

Yeah... he's not much of a looker and could she wear that head scarf/hajab any tighter ?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 13, 2026 04:35 PM (FtULh)

7 "whose ancestors suffer the highest rates of.... moratlity today"


I'm not completely sure, but I think EVERYONE's ancestors suffer from 100% mortality today.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 13, 2026 04:35 PM (N1tpc)

8 Hmmm. *types* *deletes*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 13, 2026 04:36 PM (zZu0s)

9 >>>Wants the Day to be for the Remembrance of the "Slaughter" of "Indigenous Peoples"

This is fine. Let it be a warning to the commies. Time to embrace our conqueror heritage.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 13, 2026 04:36 PM (6Niep)

10 The only slaughter I want to do is of turkeys. Lots of turkeys. With dressing. And gravy. And cranberry suace. And pumkin pie. Excuse me, I have a fridge to visit.

Posted by: Martin Tell at August 13, 2026 04:36 PM (sFNX2)

11 Who is "we" motherfucker? Eat shit and die.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 13, 2026 04:36 PM (t9gtU)

12 Abdul tweets "ancestors" where he really means "descendants" cuz he dumb.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 13, 2026 04:36 PM (JvZF+)

13 It is going to require taxes...it's important that everybody pays a bit in.

Why do I hear:

It's going to require lots of taxes... it's important that the third world be able to take it back out with massive fraud.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 13, 2026 04:36 PM (6ydKt)

WNBA: We Tried to Figure Out What a Woman Is But The Task Is Beyond Our Capabilities.

In fairness -- they're not biologists.

Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg

6h

NEW: The Women's National Basketball Association was unable to determine what a woman is during a meeting on Wednesday.

A WNBA task force met to talk about transgender athletes, according to ESPN.

"Today's meeting covered a wide range of topics, including ongoing discussions on transgender athletes..." the WNBA said in a statement.

"We will continue to engage all league stakeholders in the coming weeks and months."

"We will approach these important conversations thoughtfully and in alignment with the values of our league. There are no immediate eligibility matters affecting the WNBA."

Remarkable. The Women's National Basketball Association needs months to figure out what a woman is.

Amusing video of Enes Kanter working out, with her breasts censored.

EssentiallySports
@ES_sportsnews
The WNBA has officially responded following a virtual task force meeting led by Commissioner Cathy Engelbert.

Addressing both ongoing discussions around transgender athlete eligibility and online harassment directed at players, the league released a statement clarifying its stance:

Key Takeaways From the WNBA Statement:

- No Immediate Changes:
The league confirmed that "there are no immediate
eligibility matters affecting the WNBA," reiterating that current policy (Article XIII) simply states "only players who are women are eligible to play."

- Denouncing Online Abuse:
The WNBA strongly condemned the "continued hate and vitriol directed at players online" and called out "bad-faith efforts to use these topics to demean or marginalize others." - a direct response to recent announcements by former NBA players Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White declaring their intention to enter the 2027 WNBA Draft

Wesley Yang pointed out, correctly, that you cannot separate "good faith efforts" to say that intact men can play women's sports from "bad faith efforts" to say intact men can play women's sports because both claims are the exact same claims. There is no difference between a good-faith argument that 2+2=4 and a bad-faith argument that 2+2=4. It's the same claim. The "faith" of the claim doesn't enter into it.


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These ugly low-IQ cows say that they won't define a woman, or a trans woman, because that would make them "political pawns."

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Of course, WNBA coaches are eager to be political pawns for the trans extremists, wearing t-shirts demanding that "trans" men be allowed to play in girls sports.

They're scrambling to find a way to say both "all transwomen are women and welcome" and also "these motherf***rs ain't welcome here" but that's a task for genuises and these bitches ain't no geniuses.

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Royce White, the Stunning and Brave Trans Woman* (*for purposes of playing in the WNBA), impresses me as the most courageous and funny woman I have ever seen.

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The left is claiming that these trans women can't be real trans women because they haven't had trans surgery or chemical castration:


Walter Masterson
@waltermasterson

As a progressive, I fully support Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White declaring themselves for the WNBA.

I only ask that they commit to the bit.

Medically transition. Take HRT, take blockers. Show us what your performance looks like when your body is at a deficit of both testosterone and estrogen.

Do this for 2-3 years. Then show up to open tryouts and show us all how well you perform after gaining 30% in fat mass and losing 5% muscle mass.

Go ahead Enes and Royce, chemically transition, or STFU.

The trouble is, of course, that the trannies have insisted that no such medical interventions are needed to "confirm" one's identity as a Proud Trans Kween.


Royce White 🇺🇸
@Highway_30

Genitalia doesn't determine gender. That's a cis normative fallacy. My trans-affirming doctor told me I can think of my genitalia as 9 inches of clitoris.

Royce White for President
WNBA #LetHerPlay

This is a great point: I see a lot of Yt men objecting to Kanter and Royce joining the league as the Proud Trans Women they are.

Is this just Racism Straight-Up?

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Wesley Yang
@wesyang

4h

Michelle Goldberg wrote a piece in Slate more than a decade ago trying to alert the world to the fact that under the new rules governing gender identity, any man who declares himself to be a woman is entitled to recognition as a woman.

Since then, a few things have happened: 1.) the governing institutions of the Western world have all worked feverishly to inscribe this standard into law and policy, 2.) an army of hundreds of thousands of young people were memed into existence claiming cross-sex identities, only a small minority of whom have medicalized in any way, 3.) the state has promised this army a right to violate sex-based boundaries on the basis of a claim to a cross-sex identity, 4.) while the public somehow remains oblivious to this fact and cynical trans activists and allies lie and say that medicalization is required when it serves their interest to do so.

Wesley Yang
@wesyang
What did y'all think "gender identity" meant? It means that male rapists and murderers can sue the state for entrance to women's prisons and win. It means that the European Court of Human Rights can declare that requiring genital surgery for cross-sex recognition is a human rights violation.

It means that an unfalsifiable, unprovable, non-observable subjective inner state knowable only through self-report becomes the basis for conferring a right to recognition on anyone claiming it and a duty of affirmation of that claim on anyone interacting with anyone claiming that state.

It means that under NY state law, former NBA players who declare themselves to be women can declare themselves to be women and apply for entrance to the WNBA and sue under New York State Human Rights Law, which contains no provision requiring any medicalization or demonstration of "sincerity" on the part of the plaintiff to quality as a "woman," if they are denied entry.

If these Proud Trans Women aren't real Trans Women because they haven't had any medical "confirmation" of their perceived gender -- can we now say the 87-95% of trans "women" who also haven't had such medical "confirmation" are Just Dudes as well?

Because I'll take that deal. (As a first step.)

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Great point -- they're trying to craft an air-tight definition of what a "trans woman" supposedly is in order to avoid creating a very basic, common sense definition for what an actual woman is.

Mark Hemingway
@Heminator

It's kind of amazing that they are now trying to create a specific definition of what a trans person is all in order to avoid having a specific definition of what a biological woman is.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:36 PM




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1 1st

Posted by: GF at August 13, 2026 03:36 PM (W4Mfe)

2 Not a biologist

Posted by: Bete at August 13, 2026 03:37 PM (LX4y3)

3 I can haz n00ded

Posted by: SciVo at August 13, 2026 03:38 PM (Sy6m/)

4 Royce's tweets have been hilarious.

This one is gross, but awesome:

"Genitalia doesn't determine gender. That's a cis normative fallacy. My trans-affirming doctor told me I can think of my genitalia as 9 inches of clitoris.

Royce White for President
WNBA #LetHerPlay"

http://tiny.cc/x5k8101

Posted by: bonhomme at August 13, 2026 03:38 PM (mkw2N)

5 Tip o' the hat to Ace. Thanks for the posts/threads. No idea how you do it all.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 13, 2026 03:38 PM (XeU6L)

6 Shit isn't going too good for the league.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 13, 2026 03:39 PM (YwXiJ)

7
Was you born with a puthy, or as a puthy ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 13, 2026 03:39 PM (NtVYv)

8 Keep in mind getting your bits lopped off as a tranny means you can't enjoy sex...and the whole point of going tranny for most is that its a turn on to make lesbians or straight guys pretend you are a woman

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 03:40 PM (sKqQm)

9 "reeling, and writhing and fainting in coils" is about as good a description of the response to this as any.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 13, 2026 03:41 PM (rbvCR)

10
The WNBS is really shitting the bed, they should have embraced the green dildoes

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 13, 2026 03:41 PM (NtVYv)

11 Of course they don't think they are political pawns. They think they are political masterminds.

Posted by: PG at August 13, 2026 03:41 PM (0fNkB)

12 Excellent wesyang pullquotes.

Posted by: gp at August 13, 2026 03:41 PM (Jr5Lq)

13 Nine Inch Clitoris would be good name for a band or even a beer.

Posted by: fd at August 13, 2026 03:42 PM (MWfyi)

14 "Royce White after CNN canceled an interview with him:

They're not giving black women a voice"


LOL!. Comedy gold. Which is why you'll never hear it on late night TV.

Posted by: Ripley at August 13, 2026 03:42 PM (GUOwU)

15 > Keep in mind getting your bits lopped off as a tranny means you can't enjoy sex...

Some of the drugs do the same thing.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 13, 2026 03:43 PM (mkw2N)

16 They cannot codify anything, so drafting will remain "discretionary". Which it is. I'm pretty sure there exists no "right" to be drafted, but it should get interesting when it hits the courts.

I can see teams arguing they didn't believe in the players' "intent" to play to their fullest or not become a sideshow or distraction to the other players.

The fact that all the teams agreed with each other becomes de facto proof there was an issue. It's bullshit but we are surrounded by bullshit.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 03:43 PM (iABCo)

17 Oh and I've seen a few threads on lefty sites where some lesbian says she believes transwomen are women and all but she's just not turned on my penises.

The response is invariably: You aren't a real lesbian if you aren't down with sexually pleasuring a female penis - you are a (gasp) straight woman with a vagina fetish

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 03:43 PM (sKqQm)

18 Great point -- they're trying to craft an air-tight definition of what a "trans woman" supposedly is in order to avoid creating a very basic, common sense definition for what an actual woman is.

I've got a definition of "trans woman" they can use:

Insane.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 13, 2026 03:43 PM (O7YUW)

19 Jim, I'm just a country doctor, not a genderologist!

Posted by: Dr. McCoy at August 13, 2026 03:43 PM (TN0g+)

20 10
The WNBS is really shitting the bed, they should have embraced the green dildoes
Posted by: Hatari
===========
They internalized those where the sun doesn't shine.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 03:43 PM (E4rtv)

21 This makes me wonder: are there trans players in the WNBA already that aren't open about it?

I mean, some of these bitches might not even be human.

The WNBA seems deathly afraid of even discussing what a "woman" is, in a way that suggests to me that they might already have a problem.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 13, 2026 03:43 PM (iFTx/)

22 I'm starting to love the WNBA.

Look for my new children's book "Caitlin and the Ghetto Apes" at a bookstore near you.

Also "Roberta and her Gigantic 8 Inch Clitoris"

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 13, 2026 03:45 PM (Sco7b)

23 Between Supergirl and this and to an extent Rebecca Hong you can sort of feel the air going out of the "W0MAN" balloon just as muzzies are taking center stage. Can you not?

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 03:45 PM (iABCo)

24 This makes me wonder: are there trans players in the WNBA already that aren't open about it?

I mean, some of these bitches might not even be human.

The WNBA seems deathly afraid of even discussing what a "woman" is, in a way that suggests to me that they might already have a problem.
-----

Google and google AI consistently say no.

But Google lies....a LOT, so who knows?

Posted by: Crusader at August 13, 2026 03:45 PM (TN0g+)

25 The WNBA seems deathly afraid of even discussing what a "woman" is, in a way that suggests to me that they might already have a problem.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 13, 2026 03:43 PM (iFTx/)


There is Burtney Grinder that should be looked at, eew

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 13, 2026 03:45 PM (NtVYv)

26 Royce White is my new hero.

You go, girl!

Amazing how quickly we went from "any man who decides he is a woman is a woman" to "any man must have surgery and take hormones first to count as a woman".

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 13, 2026 03:46 PM (aD4fx)

27 Ever since this bullshit started, I've wondered how many "trannies" are just garden-variety cads.

I'm an old bastard, but I remember high school, and my male peers well.

If you don't think there are sexually normal teen boys out there who'd declare themselves tranny just to get in the girl's locker room.... well... you haven't known many teenage boys.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 03:46 PM (IG3/x)

28 If I ran a business, anyone who used word like “engaging all stakeholders” would immediately get punched in the throat and fired.

Who gives a shit about stakeholders? This is about dickholders you retarded shitlib.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 13, 2026 03:46 PM (CR4uu)

29 I hope Sophie doesn't get sucked into Cultural Marxism

Posted by: Skip at August 13, 2026 03:47 PM (Ia/+0)

30 'They're not biologists"? They couldn't figure it out because they are not men.

Posted by: MikeN at August 13, 2026 03:47 PM (HOf/p)

31 > The WNBA seems deathly afraid of even discussing what a "woman" is, in a way that suggests to me that they might already have a problem.

I think that's a big part of it. Another issue is they know the WNBA's meager audience is all-in on the tranny agenda. A great deal of the staff are as well.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 13, 2026 03:47 PM (mkw2N)

32 Trans women are women!

Trans men are men!

People who think that they are Napoleon are Napoleon!

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 13, 2026 03:48 PM (aD4fx)

33 Willowed:

I wasn't aware that San Diego stood out as a murder hotspot.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

It's one of only 8 cities up 2026 vs 2025.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 13, 2026 03:48 PM (YZ0Fo)

34 Anything they put in writing can be used against them legally. They must be very careful to keep their rules fluid. Like gender.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 03:48 PM (iABCo)

35 Be careful not to run over the stakeholder at the construction site.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 13, 2026 03:49 PM (Cqx++)

36 9 Inch Clitoris would be a good name for a group featuring Trent Reznor and Courtney Love.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 03:49 PM (IG3/x)

37 By the way, Bud Light should have Royce White beer cans.

They might win back market share.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 13, 2026 03:49 PM (Sco7b)

38 The WNBA is just kicking the can down the road, hoping and praying this goes away and people stop paying attention once football starts. Pass the popcorn!

Posted by: toddg at August 13, 2026 03:49 PM (ceFtv)

39
Interviewer: "What does the W in WNBA stand for?"

Porky Pig: "Wesbian."

Posted by: J. Random Moron at August 13, 2026 03:50 PM (0sNs1)

40 Jeez. I'm so sick of this perverted crap. The WNBA was on life support and suddenly discovered a couple of stars. Oh shit! They were white! Can't have that. There are black stars too! But they're lesbians. Most people would just say 'so what' but nooooo....these dipshits had to make a big deal of it.
So now white privilege looks a lot like white basketball players getting mugged on the court by black lesbians.
Now here come the trannies, beards and all.
Piss off WNBA.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 13, 2026 03:50 PM (2WIwB)

41 "I don't know nuffin' 'bout birfin' babies!" Jeezus, welcome to the 21st century...

Posted by: pahound at August 13, 2026 03:50 PM (AjR4+)

42 I saw 9 Inches of Clitoris open for The Lovin' Spoonful at the Omni in '79.

Posted by: ballistic at August 13, 2026 03:51 PM (oqH4h)

43 It actually makes sense for them to let dudes play. People might actually watch.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 13, 2026 03:51 PM (CR4uu)

44 This Royce White gal is growing on me.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 13, 2026 03:51 PM (zZu0s)

45 Take the time out of your busy day to thank all the "leaders" in and out of government, and sports, who are completely mind-fucking entire generations of young people and children with this shit.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 13, 2026 03:51 PM (t9gtU)

46
Royce White is doing a thing we dream about. He's on Twitter dishing it back at the wokies.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 03:51 PM (XJ22o)

47 Now here come the trannies, beards and all.
Piss off WNBA.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 13, 2026 03:50 PM (2WIwB)

It’s okay, these bearded trannies are on our side and are helping to point out how ridiculous this whole thing is.

Posted by: Piper at August 13, 2026 03:51 PM (ZdaMQ)

48 > Ever since this bullshit started, I've wondered how many "trannies" are just garden-variety cads.

Some are autistic people who knew they were different, and someone convinced them that meant they were trans. Some are low status lefties who know embracing trans makes them a special hero. Some are easily gulled people who want to be special. A great deal have multiple psychological issues and collect trendy self-diagnoses like Pokemon cards. Another large contingent are hyper-sexual freaks who are emotionally broken.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 13, 2026 03:51 PM (mkw2N)

49 I have decided to do my transition on a part-time schedule.

When it is my benefit to declare myself as a Trans Female I will do it.

When it is my benefit to be a biological male, I will declare that I am a Hight T male.

I will keep my schlong and declare it as an Inverted Mangina.

Thank You and have a nice day.

Posted by: Buster Hymand at August 13, 2026 03:52 PM (SOf5W)

50 Another issue is they know the WNBA's meager audience is all-in on the tranny agenda.

Actually, it's worse than that - most lesbians don't want anything to do with trannies, and so becoming an openly tranny league repels their main fan base.

It''s why we've gone from hundreds of lesbian bars forty years ago to less than twenty today - there is no way to keep the men wearing dresses out of the bars, so actual lesbians don't want to hang out there.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 13, 2026 03:52 PM (aD4fx)

51 Court of International Trade has ruled against those challenging the removal of the de minimus rule on tariffs. Trump wins.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 03:53 PM (E4rtv)

52 Hung by their own petard. Just when I thought there was no justice in the world.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 13, 2026 03:53 PM (bX16E)

53 "This Royce White gal is growing on me.
Posted by: Aetius451AD"


He should be declared Woman of The Year.

Posted by: Ripley at August 13, 2026 03:53 PM (GUOwU)

54 They cannot codify anything, so drafting will remain "discretionary". Which it is. I'm pretty sure there exists no "right" to be drafted, but it should get interesting when it hits the courts.
Posted by: ...



Which means, in a normalized legal sense, they have no ability to prevent any and all from joining the league. Marxism is fraud made manifest. Its goal is to destroy everything including those that profess it.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 13, 2026 03:53 PM (diia5)

55 My trans-affirming doctor told me I can think of my genitalia as 9 inches of clitoris.

DAYYUMMMMM.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 13, 2026 03:53 PM (wtvvX)

56 I dunno. Tall lesbians playing with balls sounds like a dream I had once.

Imagine that locker room shower. My dick would be harder than El Capitan.

Posted by: That Guy at August 13, 2026 03:53 PM (IYMzU)

57 Willowed from previous thread: I get Marine Corps oriented email-blog called "Compass Points." Today, he had this to say abou the Abraham Lincoln situation:

"The sailors of the USS Lincoln are on a deployment that has been extended. When asked what should be done to help the sailors onboard the USS Lincoln, one senior Marine with deep combat experience said, “Tell them to stop whining.”"

Posted by: Martin Tell at August 13, 2026 03:53 PM (sFNX2)

58 > 43 It actually makes sense for them to let dudes play. People might actually watch.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 13, 2026 03:51 PM (CR4uu)

Between Angry Lesbian Smackdown and Tranny Theatre, it's headed toward being a three-ring circus.

Just needs some barking seals and a guy in a top hat holding a whip.

So what IS Slash up to nowadays?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 03:54 PM (IG3/x)

59 I saw 9 Inches of Clitoris open for The Lovin' Spoonful at the Omni in '79.
Posted by: ballistic


That's a really big spoon.

Posted by: the weird bald kid in The Matrix at August 13, 2026 03:54 PM (VHUov)

60 8 Keep in mind getting your bits lopped off as a tranny means you can't enjoy sex...and the whole point of going tranny for most is that its a turn on to make lesbians or straight guys pretend you are a woman

----

Just because you don't find sex with somebody's open, festering wound enjoyable doesn't mean that the rest of us don't!

Posted by: Jazz at August 13, 2026 03:54 PM (Cjger)

61 I know this is all old ground around here but.....

If a male has gone through puberty, they have gained all of the physical advantages over women regardless of having parts lopped off or hormone therapy.

I also seem to remember that even with cross sex hormones, trans women (dudes who want you to call them Loretta) still have 10x the testosterone of actual women.

So all this talk about the steps one needs to take to be considered a woman is so much hand waving.

Posted by: nooneyouknowyouknow at August 13, 2026 03:54 PM (Iwv3U)

62 I think most trans-women who claim to have bottom surgery are obviously lying. They want to stick their lady penis into real women, that's the kink most of them have. It's a sexual fetish for 99% of them. Bruce Jenner is an obvious example. He totally lied about getting the clip IMHO.

Posted by: Max Power at August 13, 2026 03:54 PM (q177U)

63 any entity that mentions "stakeholders" in their corp-speak in any way is a pile of horse sh*t

that concept is the opposite of competence

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 13, 2026 03:55 PM (j+aD2)

64 Mangina upside down cake

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 13, 2026 03:55 PM (Cqx++)

65 Royce is a f’ing boss. It’s about time we gave it back to these people instead of sitting around waiting to be the last one taking it in the ass.

Posted by: That Guy at August 13, 2026 03:55 PM (sF+im)

66 Man are we distracted from the Epstien list.

Posted by: Reforger at August 13, 2026 03:55 PM (6LoT8)

67 > trans women (dudes who want you to call them Loretta)

The easy way to remember which is which is to just replace "trans" with "fake".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 03:56 PM (IG3/x)

68 The Women's National Basketball Association was unable to determine what a woman is during a meeting on Wednesday.

All those gender studies majors? If any panel of credentialed experts could do it, I would think it would be them.

Posted by: t-bird at August 13, 2026 03:56 PM (PM/iv)

69 "The sailors of the USS Lincoln are on a deployment that has been extended. When asked what should be done to help the sailors onboard the USS Lincoln, one senior Marine with deep combat experience said, “Tell them to stop whining.”"

Eleven carrier deployments under Biden lasted longer than six months.

For some reason the media wasn't whining then.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 13, 2026 03:56 PM (aD4fx)

70 A 9 inch Lady Penis is pretty impressive.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 13, 2026 03:56 PM (XV/Pl)

71 anyway they already have men playing so wtf are these idiots gonna do

they have pretend-ladies ALREADY as IMPORTANT STAKEHOLDERS!

who cares about anything else?!?! must protect STAKEHOLDERS!

screw making money or entertaining people. that's not important to our STAKEHOLDERS

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 13, 2026 03:56 PM (j+aD2)

72 Imagine that locker room shower. My dick would be harder than El Capitan.
Posted by: That Guy at August 13, 2026 03:53 PM (IYMzU)
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Some of those broads probably have clits bigger than your dick bro

Posted by: ballistic at August 13, 2026 03:56 PM (oqH4h)

73 Maybe the WNBA can ask the new "Los Angeles County Office of Gender Equity"

Posted by: Garfunkel's Sowed Oats at August 13, 2026 03:57 PM (V87Oy)

74 Royce White is taking a stand for all black sometimes women for the purpose of basketball. LET HER PLAY

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 13, 2026 03:57 PM (YZ0Fo)

75 A guy post-dickectomy was a patient where I worked. He only accepted female nurses.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 13, 2026 03:57 PM (NnhvP)

76 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

BRB - over here pulling up a lawn chair or 3 and popping some popcorn.

Cold Coca-Cola, anyone? 😂😂😂😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 13, 2026 03:57 PM (fV+di)

77
I wasn't aware that San Diego stood out as a murder hotspot.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

It's one of only 8 cities up 2026 vs 2025.
Posted by: BruceWayne

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

I'm not surprised considering it's gotten steadily bluer, but what else is going on? That's crazy, San Diego. Is gang membership on the rise, what?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 03:57 PM (XJ22o)

78 I see there is a WNBA player; DeWanna Bonner

I said, no, do you ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 13, 2026 03:57 PM (NtVYv)

79 The easy way to remember which is which is to just replace "trans" with "fake".


I used to use this mnemonic but now I dgaf

you're a dude, Loretta

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 13, 2026 03:57 PM (j+aD2)

80 Just too bad that he's not too fond of Jews and Israel:

A self-described antisemite, the latest vile remarks from Mr. White follow earlier rhetoric from the aspiring United States Senator decrying ‘the Jewish lobby,’ claims that Jews focus on the Holocaust ‘to provide a victimhood cover for their own corrupt practices,’ and the charge that Israel is ‘the lynchpin of the New World Order.’

Posted by: beckster at August 13, 2026 03:57 PM (kX27y)

81 "You better get your head in the game." is about to take on a whole new meaning.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 13, 2026 03:58 PM (Sco7b)

82 Dayum! I was not expecting that:

Genitalia doesn't determine gender. That's a cis normative fallacy. My trans-affirming doctor told me I can think of my genitalia as 9 inches of clitoris.

Wait, wut! I LOL'd at the office and folks are looking at me as if I farted out loud.. well, maybe I did! Now get off my lawn..

Boy, was that funny.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at August 13, 2026 03:58 PM (VkY89)

83 If I tell all these White Angry Liberal Women that I am a Trans male, then I might get more Poontang then if I just pretended to be a Horn Dog Male Overdosing on Viagra???

Posted by: Buster Hymand at August 13, 2026 03:58 PM (SOf5W)

84 > 75 A guy post-dickectomy was a patient where I worked. He only accepted female nurses.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 13, 2026 03:57 PM (NnhvP)

There's a story about some guy with a catheter fetish. He'd show up at the ER about once a week demanding a Foley.

This stopped once they started assigning a male nurse to perform the procedure.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 03:59 PM (IG3/x)

85 They deserve to be seen.

Posted by: steevy at August 13, 2026 03:59 PM (YwEeS)

86 basketball players getting mugged on the court by black lesbians.
Now here come the trannies, beards and all.
Piss off WNBA.
Posted by: Diogenes

The correct phrase is 'assaulted on the court'.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 13, 2026 03:59 PM (NnhvP)

87 Remember when "I'm a lesbian trapped in a man's body" was an Eddie Izzard joke, and not a sexual orientation?

Posted by: Pepperidge Farms Remembers at August 13, 2026 03:59 PM (VHUov)

88 > 87 Remember when "I'm a lesbian trapped in a man's body" was an Eddie Izzard joke, and not a sexual orientation?
Posted by: Pepperidge Farms Remembers at August 13, 2026 03:59 PM (VHUov)

Rush Limbaugh had a bit about "male lesbians" also.

Funny stuff.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 04:00 PM (IG3/x)

89 Clitoris 9 > Keating 5

Posted by: Diogenes at August 13, 2026 04:00 PM (2WIwB)

90 Trannies are the top of the Rainbow skill stack -- because they are the most violent, audacious and nuts. The quiet, we just want to legally marry crowd from the 1990s has literally disappeared.

End goal is child molesters. We'll have to go ghrough the beastiality and nacrophiliacs first, though.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 13, 2026 04:01 PM (bX16E)

91 Round up all the trannies and put them in a mental asylum with a basketball court.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 13, 2026 04:01 PM (CR4uu)

92 they're trying to craft an air-tight definition of what a "trans woman" supposedly is in order to avoid creating a very basic, common sense definition for what an actual woman is.

How are they going to craft it to keep those two out and Justine Greiner- she of Russian men's prison fame- in?

Posted by: t-bird at August 13, 2026 04:01 PM (PM/iv)

93 Star Trek: Deep Clit 9

Posted by: ballistic at August 13, 2026 04:01 PM (oqH4h)

94 we've gone from hundreds of lesbian bars forty years ago to less than twenty today - there is no way to keep the men wearing dresses out of the bars, so actual lesbians don't want to hang out there.
Posted by: The ARC


Winning!!!!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 13, 2026 04:02 PM (NnhvP)

95 I think Clitoris 9 is a team in Women's Major League Baseball, not the WNBA.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 04:02 PM (IG3/x)

96 Good grief with this crap.

Posted by: wth at August 13, 2026 04:02 PM (UjdFS)

97 It's not just sports.

Notice that, whether pro or con, the entire bitter argument revolves around *men impersonating women,* rather than vice versa.

That's because there are no societal or financial benefits to being a man.

When one of these crazy broads glues a toe to her pussy and goes around saying "yeah, homey I'm a total dude, bro, high five and fist bump, my man," everyone just says "ok, lady. You look like a huge fag. Welcome to manhood. Enjoy getting the short end of every stick, but I guess you're used to it, what with the toe thing. Try not to get confused and falsely accuse yourself of rape, or sue yourself into the poor house because you want to fuck your tennis coach on a trip to Ibiza."

People only get fired up about M2F because they instinctively understand this is people trying to claim special carveouts and entitlements that aren't meant for them.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 13, 2026 04:02 PM (BI5O2)

98 I'm not surprised considering it's gotten steadily bluer, but what else is going on? That's crazy, San Diego. Is gang membership on the rise, what?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at

OKC was one of the 8 too. But our raw number is still pretty low. We just had that "youth involved incident" in June that kinda skewed the number a bit.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 13, 2026 04:02 PM (YZ0Fo)

99 Is this Royce White a real tranny or a parody? Please say it's a parody.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 13, 2026 04:03 PM (qBdHI)

100 The old "Austin Powers" Test cannot be used anymore in the WNBA for proof that you are a woman.

Just ask Konjunji "Stonewall Jackson" Brown (US Supremo Courto) Expert of Females of the Opposite Sex.

Posted by: Buster Hymand at August 13, 2026 04:03 PM (SOf5W)

101
Odds that Royce White will "tragically" turn up dead soon?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 04:03 PM (O0L8i)

102 Better question, what is a basketball player?

Posted by: Eromero at August 13, 2026 04:04 PM (0ViWo)

103 What a shit show the WNBA has become.

Posted by: Cambridge University at August 13, 2026 04:04 PM (e2lsi)

104 > 99 Is this Royce White a real tranny or a parody? Please say it's a parody.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 13, 2026 04:03 PM (qBdHI)

He's a normal guy who is just trying to make a point, but he has to pretend that it's serious in order to make it.


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 04:04 PM (IG3/x)

105 99 Is this Royce White a real tranny or a parody? Please say it's a parody.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 13, 2026 04:03 PM (qBdHI)

Parody.. he's an ex basketball player... Male

Posted by: It's me donna at August 13, 2026 04:04 PM (FtULh)

106 I am also proud to be a Biological Male Lesbian...

Posted by: Buster Hymand at August 13, 2026 04:04 PM (SOf5W)

107 Royce White is my new hero...
That's some funny stuff right there. And it's about time someone did this.

Posted by: GMan at August 13, 2026 04:05 PM (GfWuY)

108 94 we've gone from hundreds of lesbian bars forty years ago to less than twenty today - there is no way to keep the men wearing dresses out of the bars, so actual lesbians don't want to hang out there.


I am a semi-official consultant to lesbians using apps - I can tell by the face, even with filters

but it's like, every single "girl" who reaches out. is a guy. it SUCKS for these poor women (the lesbians)


anyway that's why the bars are going away too

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 13, 2026 04:05 PM (j+aD2)

109 What is this I’m hearing about Trump selling early access to Truth Social posts for 100k?

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 13, 2026 04:05 PM (W2Pud)

110 90 "nacrophiliacs" Is that wierdos who want to have sex with sleeping folks?

Posted by: Martin Tell at August 13, 2026 04:05 PM (sFNX2)

111 > Is this Royce White a real tranny or a parody? Please say it's a parody.

He's a former NBA player who has decided he wants to play for the WNBA. He's not a real tranny. He's using their tranny acceptance to mock the league and having lots of fun at the same time.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 13, 2026 04:05 PM (mkw2N)

112 109 What is this I’m hearing about Trump selling early access to Truth Social posts for 100k?


who cares

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 13, 2026 04:05 PM (j+aD2)

113 OT -

@JamesOKeefeIII did an undercover operation to expose Minnesota’s corrupt vouching system.

According to law, 1 registered MN voter can vouch for up to 8 persons — those 8 people do NOT need ID.

👉“You are the ID,” an Election Day Worker told O’Keefe👈

Dressed in a niqab, @camhigby showed that a transgender Muslim woman can easily be vouched for as a faceless voter without ID.

There is no record for persons being vouched for.

https://tinyurl.com/3byjjmkf

Posted by: beckster at August 13, 2026 04:06 PM (kX27y)

114
The black lesbian WNBA players can certainly identify the white women who play well and bring in increased income and popularity for the league. They beat on them during games. And the management and coaches are fine with that, since they selectively excuse the beatings.

They seem to prefer the league as it was -- a money-losing DEI grift for the untalented that extorts money from the NBA (i.e. actual players) and lets the lesbians' freak flag fly. The double talk is because they can't say that out loud.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 13, 2026 04:06 PM (PbePe)

115 Out: Green dildos
In: Fleshlights and sex sleeves.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 13, 2026 04:06 PM (Sco7b)

116 > 110 90 "nacrophiliacs" Is that wierdos who want to have sex with sleeping folks?
Posted by: Martin Tell at August 13, 2026 04:05 PM (sFNX2)

Typo for "nachophiliacs".

Mmm.... warm queso...

Posted by: Love Has No Preferred Snack Food at August 13, 2026 04:06 PM (IG3/x)

117 Enes Kanter Freedom says "Let the transition begin!"

Make sure to play with sound on.

https://x.com/i/status/2087185917047971948

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 13, 2026 04:06 PM (BI5O2)

118 There's a story about some guy with a catheter fetish. He'd show up at the ER about once a week demanding a Foley.

This stopped once they started assigning a male nurse to perform the procedure.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 03:59 PM


A French size 26 might have proved conducive to cessation, as well.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 13, 2026 04:07 PM (0sNs1)

119 Is this Royce White a real tranny or a parody? Please say it's a parody.

He's a trans-tranny and he's haviing a blast.

Posted by: t-bird at August 13, 2026 04:07 PM (PM/iv)

120 OT: An elderly Clinton-appointed judge just threw out the Federal lawsuit charging Harvard with racial discrimination.

The judge is a graduate of Harvard Law School.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 13, 2026 04:07 PM (aD4fx)

121
He's a normal guy who is just trying to make a point, but he has to pretend that it's serious in order to make it.

--

Whew! You never know these days.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 13, 2026 04:07 PM (qBdHI)

122 See? I knew what I was talking about!

https://youtu.be/DNy0TElah18?t=495

(The joke that matters is at 8:15)

Posted by: Carnac the Magnificent at August 13, 2026 04:07 PM (VHUov)

123 Typo for "nachophiliacs".

Mmm.... warm queso...
Posted by: Love Has No Preferred

So what was Jim from American Pie? Pastriphiliac?

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 13, 2026 04:08 PM (YZ0Fo)

124 Ha...9 inches of clitoris. I hope Royce White does make it to the WNBA and destroys those bitches. Especially that stupid skank retard Angel Reese. Oh, and that DiJonai bitch too.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 13, 2026 04:08 PM (XMwZJ)

125 Wesley Yang pointed out, correctly, that you cannot separate "good faith efforts" to say that intact men can play women's sports from "bad faith efforts" to say intact men can play women's sports because both claims are the exact same claims. There is no difference between a good-faith argument that 2+2=4 and a bad-faith argument that 2+2=4. It's the same claim. The "faith" of the claim doesn't enter into it.
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Shorter:

It's (D)ifferent When We Do It

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 13, 2026 04:08 PM (JvZF+)

126 It seems to me that far too much of politics in America 2026 is trying to convince disingenuous and stupid people they they are ridiculous and insane by taking their stupid arguments to absolute absurdity and then watching them dance around the issue by accusing their opponents of being disingenuous Nazis.

You don't have a political system at that point.
You just have constant arguments with retarded toddlers unable to think outside of the cult.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 13, 2026 04:08 PM (6ydKt)

127 I gotta admit, this century pisses me off plenty, but when the entertainment value dials in, it sure brings a smile to my face.

But then, I've always appreciated the absurd...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 13, 2026 04:08 PM (OUMaO)

128 I'm pretty sure women went extinct about 20 years ago.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 13, 2026 04:08 PM (ndZc7)

129 these two clowns who are having the time of their lives pointing out hypocrisy, are going to be the best white knights (ironic, huh) women have had in a generation.
I hope they win, both on the court and in proving their point.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 13, 2026 04:08 PM (zafwz)

130 The WNBA is not funded by fans- they are subsidized by the NBA. They can be laughingstocks all the way to the bank, it makes no difference.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 13, 2026 04:09 PM (zZu0s)

131 What is this I’m hearing about Trump selling early access to Truth Social posts for 100k?


who cares

==

OMG, I happened to unfortunately catch a glimpse of MSNOW this morning and they were acting like this was the biggest, grotesque abuse of power and the shredding of the Constitution that's ever been seen in our country's history. It's was surreal. The hysterics were off the charts.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 13, 2026 04:09 PM (qBdHI)

132 Royce White is doing a thing we dream about. He's on Twitter dishing it back at the wokies.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia


Having "f- you" money does make it easier

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 13, 2026 04:10 PM (vJrRc)

133 I've got to be
a nacho man

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 13, 2026 04:10 PM (wVcYX)

134 It''s why we've gone from hundreds of lesbian bars forty years ago to less than twenty today - there is no way to keep the men wearing dresses out of the bars, so actual lesbians don't want to hang out there.
Posted by: The ARC of History!


So where do they meet up now? Softball fields? Subaru-part swap meets?

Posted by: inquiring trannies want to know at August 13, 2026 04:10 PM (VHUov)

135 ok so the meeting was a fail

is the W for wesbian now officially? or Wario?

weirdo? whiner? wildebeest?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 13, 2026 04:10 PM (j+aD2)

136 Having "f- you" money does make it easier
Posted by: FeatherBlade at

I wouldn't exactly say he has fu money. He had to leave the nba after 3 games due to his fear of flying. Sure he had a nice 1st round pick contract and is a smart guy and manages his money well. But he does not have fu money.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 13, 2026 04:11 PM (YZ0Fo)

137 It is true if a biological male claims he/she/it is a female then we must respect this gesture with the appropriate response in the hospital environment.

Based on this then any person born being the wrong gender that they think they are because of a biological error then it is our duty to correct this mistake that was made prior to birth.

Thus, also if a transgender male stimulates his Mangina by jerking off than this considered the equal to stimulating the vagina tract with a false a dildo or finger......

Cackle .............. Cackle .............. Cackle ............

Posted by: Kami Harris at August 13, 2026 04:12 PM (uGC0L)

138 You just have constant arguments with retarded toddlers unable to think outside of the cult.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 13, 2026 04:08 PM (6ydKt)
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Welcome to the US since at least the dawn of Obamaism.

The left has spiraled into a death cult where no amount of clubbing someone over the head with facts, logic, reason, or simple sanity can get through to them.

I haven't had a political argument with any leftist in at least a decade. I'd rather watch a monkey try to fuck a coconut than waste my time like that.

Posted by: ballistic at August 13, 2026 04:12 PM (oqH4h)

139 Meanwhile, the Lakers just sold for over $12 billion (with a "b").

The sad reality is that the NBA and its owners (and players) are so fucking stinking rich they can subsidize a dozen dogshit WNBA leagues of nasty black lesbians.

The money they piss away on the WNBA is pocket lint to them. Rounding error. It's well worth the virtue signaling and -- more importantly -- to buy papal indulgences for the violent thugs in the men's NBA.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 13, 2026 04:12 PM (iFTx/)

140 Former ESPN host Samantha Ponder had this to say:

“The WNBA should be courageous. Stand for women. You can’t stand for something you can’t even define,” she said. “Acknowledge that the inherent differences between men and women were the whole reason we needed the WNBA in the first place.

“Boundaries, clarity and exclusion are not hateful in sport... they’re the prerequisite to playing and loving the game. Without the lines, without the rules, without the honesty about who’s in and who’s out, there is no fair competition.”

Posted by: Crusader at August 13, 2026 04:12 PM (TN0g+)

141 This is turning into a rather entertaining troll effort. Clay Travis is managing the board nicely. I'll tell you what was really discussed in that WNBA meeting. The topic of "what is a woman?" never came up. The true discussion was how to appear "inclusionary" without really being "inclusionary."

I'll bet the case of Yuengling Dark in my fridge that they change their new franchise by-laws in the next few months to reflect vague, non-committal and highly aloof language giving them the opportunity to turn down new franchises for "unexplained" reasons. That nulifies the Clay Travis team troll...and gives them plausible deniability.

Travis, and attorney (and a rather good one from what I'm told) will counter by establishing costs associated with setting up a new franchise and stick the WNBA with the bill.

Posted by: Orson at August 13, 2026 04:12 PM (dIske)

142 Enes Kanter played at least ten seasons, as I recall. He's gotta be pretty rich.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 13, 2026 04:13 PM (BI5O2)

143 So where do they meet up now? Softball fields? Subaru-part swap meets?

Posted by: inquiring trannies want to know at August 13, 2026 04:10 PM (VHUov)


The flannel shirt section at Bass Pro Shops.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 13, 2026 04:13 PM (6ydKt)

144 OMG, I happened to unfortunately catch a glimpse of MSNOW this morning and they were acting like this was the biggest, grotesque abuse of power and the shredding of the Constitution that's ever been seen in our country's history. It's was surreal. The hysterics were off the charts.
Posted by: Lady in Black
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Nasty people raising their blood pressure level to stroke all by themselves.

Leftism really is an evolutionary dead end. Saw another apparently stupid social media trend is to show yourself getting vaxx booster shots to support St. Fauci in his tribulations.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 04:13 PM (E4rtv)

145 136 Having "f- you" money does make it easier
Posted by: FeatherBlade at

I wouldn't exactly say he has fu money. He had to leave the nba after 3 games due to his fear of flying. Sure he had a nice 1st round pick contract and is a smart guy and manages his money well. But he does not have fu money.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 13, 2026 04:11 PM (YZ0Fo)
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Correct. F-You Money is Elon Musk getting banned from one of the largest and most valuable platforms on the planet so he said F You and bought the platform.

Posted by: ballistic at August 13, 2026 04:13 PM (oqH4h)

146 I haven't had a political argument with any leftist in at least a decade. I'd rather watch a monkey try to fuck a coconut than waste my time like that.
Posted by: ballistic at August 13, 2026 04:12 PM (oqH4h)
______

Better entertainment than the WNBA

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 13, 2026 04:13 PM (iFTx/)

147 OK cut the crap, everyone drop trou.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 13, 2026 04:14 PM (JvZF+)

148 Peak 2026, here.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 13, 2026 04:14 PM (6Niep)

149 Remember when the Left was complaining that the right wanted to check people's genitals...

Who are the Genital Checkers now?

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 04:14 PM (iABCo)

150 The flannel shirt section at Bass Pro Shops.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 13, 2026 04:13 PM


Don't forget us.

Posted by: Doc Martens stores at August 13, 2026 04:14 PM (0sNs1)

151 I haven't had a political argument with any leftist in at least a decade. I'd rather watch a monkey try to fuck a coconut than waste my time like that.
Posted by: ballistic
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At least with the monkey has a chance for a happy ending. Not so with a leftist.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 04:15 PM (E4rtv)

152 Enes Kanter played at least ten seasons, as I recall. He's gotta be pretty rich.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Enes had a nice long career with a few very nice pay days. Was forced to retire a few years earlier than I think he wanted when he spoke out against China and the league PNGd him.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 13, 2026 04:15 PM (YZ0Fo)

153 I personally have about !000 dollars of sports jerseys hanging in my closet. I can look up from my laptop and see an autographed picture of Bobby Orr "Super-man" goal; can look across the room and see a Johnny Unitas autographed helmet. Across the hall, an autographed framed jersey from Roman Gabriel. I've seen maybe 2 minutes of the WNBA; Caitlyn Clark being throttled, Sophie Cunningham being clotheslined. Not a dime...

Posted by: pahound at August 13, 2026 04:15 PM (AjR4+)

154 All this man woman playing each other's sport is silly and makes the sport look silly. Can't we have anything anymore without idiots ruining our pastime? Does it all have to be about the idiots?

Posted by: Case at August 13, 2026 04:15 PM (UKrJG)

155 Who are the Genital Checkers now?
Posted by: ...
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Coming soon to a Crackerbarrel Restaurant to you!!! Genital checkers. Fun for the whole family.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 04:16 PM (E4rtv)

156 FWIW ellipsis, I prefer to play Genital Chess.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 04:16 PM (E4rtv)

157 Remember when the Left was complaining that the right wanted to check people's genitals...

Who are the Genital Checkers now?
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I saw the Genital Checkers open for the Revolting Cocks in Sacramento.

Posted by: Crusader at August 13, 2026 04:16 PM (TN0g+)

158 Leftism really is an evolutionary dead end. Saw another apparently stupid social media trend is to show yourself getting vaxx booster shots to support St. Fauci in his tribulations.

--

Reminds me of...I think...those idiot pregnant women were downing lots of Tylenol because RFK, Jr. said it was unsafe. Can't quite recall the details because my mind blurs with all their insanity.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 13, 2026 04:16 PM (qBdHI)

159 Lest anyone believe it’s a fairytale, Jefferies just confirmed at a speech in Atlanta that Democrats will stick the Supreme Court by adding justices and eliminate the senate filibuster.

I don’t know how many times Democrats have to tell you exactly what they’re going to do, only to have some doubt it.

They now have extreme radicals in their ranks and they are intent on destroying the country.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 13, 2026 04:16 PM (EWq0C)

160 Who are the Genital Checkers now?
Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 04:14 PM (iABCo)

We are working this corner.

Posted by: TSA Employees on the body scanners at August 13, 2026 04:17 PM (wVcYX)

161 FWIW ellipsis, I prefer to play Genital Chess.
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I get my kicks above the waist.

Posted by: Murray Head at August 13, 2026 04:17 PM (TN0g+)

162 Does it all have to be about the idiots?
Posted by: Case
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Clown World makes it so and you might as well enjoy the floor show because the media, foreigners, and the insane asylums that we call universities nowadays are the producers.

Are you not entertained?

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 04:17 PM (E4rtv)

163 145, SPeaking of Musk, did you catch his latest UK troll with him as Austin Powers? The flip into a Union Jack Cyber Truck at the end is icing on cake.

Posted by: Martin Tell at August 13, 2026 04:18 PM (sFNX2)

164 And with all this and the new commie democrats the media is running with Trump and Epstein... I refuse to read the story.

Posted by: It's me donna at August 13, 2026 04:18 PM (FtULh)

165 They just need to bring in Justice Jumanji to settle this.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 13, 2026 04:18 PM (ndZc7)

166 > It''s why we've gone from hundreds of lesbian bars forty years ago to less than twenty today

> So where do they meet up now? Softball fields? Subaru-part swap meets?

I've seen posts online saying every lesbian meetup app and message board is completely infiltrated by trannies. The only places that aren't full of trannies are small groups run by the users that insta-ban men.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 13, 2026 04:19 PM (mkw2N)

167 >>>These ugly low-IQ cows say that they won't define a woman, or a trans woman, because that would make them "political pawns."

FFS, WNBA. This isn't like parallel parking or something. Just check the oil.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 13, 2026 04:19 PM (6Niep)

168
Know what phrase you haven't heard in a while?

#War on Women

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 04:19 PM (iABCo)

169 159 Lest anyone believe it’s a fairytale, Jefferies just confirmed at a speech in Atlanta that Democrats will stick the Supreme Court by adding justices and eliminate the senate filibuster.

I don’t know how many times Democrats have to tell you exactly what they’re going to do, only to have some doubt it.

They now have extreme radicals in their ranks and they are intent on destroying the country.
Posted by: Vengeance

Villains monologue. But the treacherous pieces of shit that call themselves Republican senators only do so behind closed doors or to Punchbowl News about the Orange Man.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 04:19 PM (E4rtv)

170 In a couple of weeks, I will be back in the Sportscasting biz after a 6-year hiatus. I'll be covering NCAA Football to start, then transitioning (no pun intended) to NCAA Men's BB and Women's BB. I am curious as to what the WBB will be like to cover. I'll be remote, so I won't meet the players in person, but I bet I end up calling at least one chick a dude.

Posted by: Lincolntf at August 13, 2026 04:20 PM (vV6n9)

171 Alinksy Rule #4. Make enemies live up to their own book of rules

Alinsky Rule #6. Use tactics your people enjoy,

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 13, 2026 04:20 PM (n9eFH)

172 FFS, WNBA. This isn't like parallel parking or something. Just check the oil.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 13, 2026 04:19 PM (6Niep)

Made me think of a girl that goes to my gym. She has a sticker on her car that says "cute girls hit curbs".

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 13, 2026 04:20 PM (YZ0Fo)

173 I've never been prouder of my unisex name. I've got so much proudness right now. sigh.

Posted by: Lunge Clanghole at August 13, 2026 04:21 PM (nXkDz)

174 "Genital Checkers"? Is that where you get to jump the other team and get to be king?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 13, 2026 04:21 PM (ndZc7)

175 Well this could be fun...
Mrs D just pointed out a story that the Hell's Angels are taking a ride from Sturgis to Dearborn. Woohoo!!! Better stock up on some popcorn.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 13, 2026 04:21 PM (2WIwB)

176 I've seen posts online saying every lesbian meetup app and message board is completely infiltrated by trannies. The only places that aren't full of trannies are small groups run by the users that insta-ban men.
Posted by: bonhomme
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Those damn troons, they have just spoiled the setup scenes for busty lesbo pron movies.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 04:21 PM (E4rtv)

177 But the treacherous pieces of shit that call themselves Republican senators only do so behind closed doors or to Punchbowl News about the Orange Man.
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They're all in their 60s and DON'T WANT to change the world--they just want to ensure they can continue to collect their graft for the two decades they have left between now and their death. They don't give a damn what happens to the country or what happens to you.

Posted by: Crusader at August 13, 2026 04:21 PM (TN0g+)

178 174 "Genital Checkers"? Is that where you get to jump the other team and get to be king?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Unless you are a troon, then you say Queen Me.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 04:22 PM (E4rtv)

179 Claiming to be a transexual has quite a few moving parts. Some are defective individuals, mental cases. Some are opportunistic pervs.

Some have cleverly discovered a method to increase their chances of recruitment and/or retention in the workplace. White males have been persona non grata for forty years now. This puts them at, or near the top of the victimology stack. Brian in accounting is now Brianna in accounting.

And you can't fire him, without a lawsuit.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 13, 2026 04:22 PM (t9gtU)

180 We had roller derby and demo derby What went wrong? We had it all and we let it go.

Posted by: Pudinhead at August 13, 2026 04:22 PM (KGj36)

181 They're all in their 60s and DON'T WANT to change the world--they just want to ensure they can continue to collect their graft for the two decades they have left between now and their death. They don't give a damn what happens to the country or what happens to you.
Posted by: Crusader

I think they are actually on the other side. GOP has been porous for years with stupid open primaries and infiltrators. Lots of that going on right now in Florida hoping low iq voters don't pick up on that in congressional district primary races.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 04:23 PM (E4rtv)

182 We had roller derby and demo derby What went wrong? We had it all and we let it go.
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I blame Pinky Tuscadero and the Fonz.

Posted by: Crusader at August 13, 2026 04:23 PM (TN0g+)

183 MWNBASDMO

Make the WNBA Slam Dunk More Often

According to a Google search there have been a total of 39 dunks in the WNBA since its debut in 1997.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 13, 2026 04:23 PM (kXj+s)

184
Story at Cowboy State Daily.

Bad wreck in Wyoming involving 4 motorcycles and a couple of trucks. I wonder if they were on the way to Sturgis.

Posted by: four seasons at August 13, 2026 04:23 PM (/QHx4)

185 I enjoy watching videos of peak Larry Bird back in the day. The contrast of NBA performance and athleticism, then and now, compared to the WNBA is stark...jarring even. That they imagine that they should be making money on par with NBA players is just laughable.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 13, 2026 04:23 PM (XMwZJ)

186 139. The sad reality is that the NBA and its owners (and players) are so fucking stinking rich they can subsidize a dozen dogshit WNBA leagues of nasty black lesbians.

The money they piss away on the WNBA is pocket lint to them. Rounding error. It's well worth the virtue signaling and -- more importantly -- to buy papal indulgences for the violent thugs in the men's NBA.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

We take umbrage with that!

Posted by: Chinese new arena team & phila city council at August 13, 2026 04:24 PM (NFX2v)

187 >>>These ugly low-IQ cows say that they won't define a woman, or a trans woman, because that would make them "political pawns."

Oh, that's fucking rich. This whole dumpster fire is nothing but an op.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 13, 2026 04:24 PM (DpZaL)

188 Hassan Piker is hobbling it back:

“I said it in 2019, and you know if you listen to the full conversation, you very quickly understand what I’m talking about,” Piker said. “I should have phrased things better.”

Piker made the vile comments in 2019 during a broadcast on Twitch.

The full quote was, “This is so insane. America deserved 9/11 dude, fuck it. I’m saying it… We totally brought it on ourselves.”

...

“I apologize for those who I have offended, but most importantly, apologize for giving an opportunity to the right to just like use this against me,” he continued.

...

Elsewhere in the podcast appearance, Piker defended his use of pejoratives for Israeli settlers calling Republicans ‘inbred hicks’.

“I’ve called Republicans inbred hicks my whole life. I call, you know, Nazis inbred. I call them pigs. You know all these different things. I’ve gotten banned for this,” said Piker.



https://tinyurl.com/2hrtt32p
(Breitbart)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 13, 2026 04:24 PM (6ydKt)

189 "Genital Checkers"? Is that where you get to jump the other team and get to be king?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 13, 2026 04:21 PM (ndZc7)

Got to use your junk to move the pieces. Sorry, ladies. Them's the rules.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 13, 2026 04:24 PM (6Niep)

190 Posted by: SpeakingOf
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I hope he comes into the tender embrace of electric gloved ICE officers as they frogmarch him to his deportation plane. He is indeed a fake American.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 04:25 PM (E4rtv)

191 Re: sidebar Lovecraft

Wth?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 13, 2026 04:27 PM (zZu0s)

192 I've seen posts online saying every lesbian meetup app and message board is completely infiltrated by trannies. The only places that aren't full of trannies are small groups run by the users that insta-ban men.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 13, 2026 04:19 PM (mkw2N)
_______

I know it for sure. Several family friends and friends of friends are lesbians or at least also like girls. They constantly complain about it. I've seen some of the dating app profiles on their apps. Big hairy dudes with beards. Not even trying to pretend.

The dating apps for straight men are crawling with trannies too.

Madness.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 13, 2026 04:27 PM (iFTx/)

193 The only places that aren't full of trannies are small groups run by the users that insta-ban men.

Portland has no lesbian bars.

What Portland does have are lesbian raves, held in empty warehouses and what not, organized using closed Facebook groups so the men wearing dresses can't find out about them.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 13, 2026 04:28 PM (aD4fx)

194 180 We had roller derby and demo derby What went wrong? We had it all and we let it go.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Jim Croce song about the good ole days,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjy7XPUqNN0

"I Fell In Love with a Roller Derby Queen"

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 04:28 PM (E4rtv)

195 Royce White is currently my favorite person in the fake/online/news world.

Posted by: runninrebel at August 13, 2026 04:29 PM (mKrWd)

196 This is some seriously weird shit. I'm honestly hoping the men, identifying as women, get to play. There's going to be a massive amount of triangulating going on over at the WNBA and among the left in general.

Clarifying even.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 13, 2026 04:29 PM (2Cry5)

197 "NEW: The Women's National Basketball Association was unable to determine what a woman is during a meeting on Wednesday."

Conclusion: Women admit they're just not that bright.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at August 13, 2026 04:29 PM (oji8u)

198 “I apologize for those who I have offended, but most importantly, apologize for giving an opportunity to the right to just like use this against me,” he continued.

--

1. Act vile, say vile things.
2. Blame people for calling you out on it.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 13, 2026 04:29 PM (qBdHI)

199 Just read in the WSJ that the USS Washington carrier group is on way to relieve the Lincoln.

Lincoln did a good job in Epic Fury. MANY sorties. Bon Voyage and welcome home sailors and Marines.

Posted by: Martin Tell at August 13, 2026 04:30 PM (sFNX2)

200 Make all WNBA players play in string bikinis. Let the consumer decide if they are man or women.

Posted by: Reforger at August 13, 2026 04:30 PM (4nEvu)

201 Madness.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 13, 2026 04:27 PM (iFTx/)

It is to lol.

Your LQBTQ++ big tent is now a haunted house.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 13, 2026 04:30 PM (6Niep)

202 Make all WNBA players play in string bikinis. Let the consumer decide if they are man or women.
Posted by: Reforger

There are like 3 players you want to see in that, maybe. And 2 of them play for the fever.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 13, 2026 04:31 PM (YZ0Fo)

203 I like the way he apologized ('most importantly') for giving Republicans an opportunity to attack him.

Who's he analogizing to there, exactly... himself?

Is he so full of himself that's he's apologizing because the DSA-Democrats love him and therefore look bad standing next to such a silly prick who gets attacked by inbred Nazis over the words coming out of his mouth?

This guy is really a piece of work.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 13, 2026 04:31 PM (6ydKt)

204 > I enjoy watching videos of peak Larry Bird back in the day. The contrast of NBA performance and athleticism, then and now, compared to the WNBA is stark...jarring even.

Larry Bird had amazing court vision and was able to break through defenses quickly, but he sure looked sloppy as hell 95% of the time. Off-balance, flailing his arms around, lobbing weird low-percentage shots at the hoop that somehow went in.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 13, 2026 04:31 PM (mkw2N)

205 I know it for sure. Several family friends and friends of friends are lesbians or at least also like girls. They constantly complain about it. I've seen some of the dating app profiles on their apps. Big hairy dudes with beards. Not even trying to pretend.

--

These dating apps are like playing Russian Roulette. Get a tranny. Get a psychotic loon. Get murdered...

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 13, 2026 04:32 PM (qBdHI)

206 Larry Bird had amazing court vision and was able to break through defenses quickly, but he sure looked sloppy as hell 95% of the time. Off-balance, flailing his arms around, lobbing weird low-percentage shots at the hoop that somehow went in.
Posted by: bonhomme

Best shit talker of all time too.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 13, 2026 04:32 PM (YZ0Fo)

207 “I apologize for those who I have offended, but most importantly, apologize for giving an opportunity to the right to just like use this against me,” he continued.

--

1. Act vile, say vile things.
2. Blame people for calling you out on it.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 13, 2026 04:29 PM (qBdHI)
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"Like, I'm sorry already. OK?"

Such a petulant nepot. The Mao getup he wore to college Democrats was based on fashion advice from Andrew Tate.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 13, 2026 04:32 PM (JvZF+)

208 Nood.

Posted by: Flyguy at August 13, 2026 04:33 PM (d0hH6)

209
Any men's sport played by women will be a mediocre imitation of the original. The reason women's gymnastics is compelling is that the routines are made for women's bodies. You'd think someone would create a sport similarly employing female physical attributes.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 04:33 PM (O0L8i)

210 Remember when the Left was complaining that the right wanted to check people's genitals...

Who are the Genital Checkers now?
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I saw the Genital Checkers open for the Revolting Cocks in Sacramento.
Posted by: Crusader at August 13, 2026 04:16 PM (TN0g+)

Genital Chex - it's not just for breakfast anymore...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 13, 2026 04:33 PM (nbLIj)

211 analogizng = apologizing.

Autocorrect is your friend.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 13, 2026 04:33 PM (6ydKt)

212 Actually, it's worse than that - most lesbians don't want anything to do with trannies, and so becoming an openly tranny league repels their main fan base.

It''s why we've gone from hundreds of lesbian bars forty years ago to less than twenty today - there is no way to keep the men wearing dresses out of the bars, so actual lesbians don't want to hang out there.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 13, 2026 03:52 PM (aD4fx)


Since not being able to keep the lesbian dirtbags out has destroyed male spaces, I have inverse sympathy, a.k.a. schadenfreude. Ha-ha!

Posted by: SciVo at August 13, 2026 04:34 PM (Sy6m/)

213 FWIW ellipsis, I prefer to play Genital Chess.
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I get my kicks above the waist.
Posted by: Murray Head


You were correct, sir. The queens the WNBA uses do not excite me.

Posted by: mikeski at August 13, 2026 04:34 PM (VHUov)

214 As above -

Greg Price
@greg_price11

Abdul El-Sayed deleted a lot of his old tweets.

Here's one from three years ago where he demanded that Americans spend their 4th of July cookouts thinking about Israel.
1:06 PM · Aug 12, 2026 138.1K Views

(It goes on to say)

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed -

Israel has illegally occupied #Jenin for >1/2 a century.
Israel's gov't is enabling settler colonialism here.
Their military attacked a refugee camp...in the illegally-occupied territory.
8:28 PM - July 4, 2023 - 4,712 Views

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 13, 2026 04:34 PM (NFX2v)

215 The Women's National Basketball Association was unable to determine what a woman is during a meeting on Wednesday."

Hey, it's not like Rocket Scientists know what rockets are, either.

Posted by: t-bird at August 13, 2026 04:35 PM (PM/iv)

216 Amusing video of Enes Kanter working out, with her breasts censored.

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"That's hot! Oh, my ..."

/obligatory George Takai

Posted by: ShainS at August 13, 2026 04:36 PM (lU3j7)

217 Honestly...as sympathetic to keeping men out of women's spaces as I might be...

Would we really be having this issue if they'd just let men have their own spaces instead of demanding to be able to barge in at will?

Bad things happen when the social contract breaks...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 13, 2026 04:36 PM (OUMaO)

The Left's Dreamboat Assassin Luigi Mangione Close to Pleading Guilty In Execution of United Healthcare CEO and Father Brian Thompson

These are federal charges, so they plea deal is being negotiated by "Trump's" DOJ. But we all know about the Southern District of NY, where Comey's foul daughter worked.

If this is a sweetheart deal -- if it's anything less than life in prison without parole -- then every single corporation should immediately evacuate New York City, as this communist shithole has been determined to be a place where a jury won't convict a leftwing killer.

And if Trump doesn't like the deal, he should overrule "his" lawyers and yank it off the table.


I fear that's exactly the plan.


Luigi Mangione is expected to plead guilty Friday to federal charges in connection with the 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan, according to sources familiar with the matter.

The expected plea change comes less than a month before Mangione, 28, is scheduled to go to trial in a state murder case in connection with the fatal shooting of Thompson, 50, a father of two.

Luigi Mangione was meeting with his lawyers this morning at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn in advance of tomorrow's federal court hearing in Manhattan, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Lawyers for Mangione declined to comment. The Justice Department and a court spokesperson also declined to comment.

It is unclear if Mangione will plead guilty to one or both of the two stalking-related charges in his federal case. While details of Mangione's plea are not immediately clear, he could reverse his decision at any time, even during the hearing.

Sources familiar with the matter stressed that plea negotiations are ongoing and that nothing is final until Mangione himself accepts or enters into a plea deal.

If he is convicted, he could face a life sentence.

"Could"?

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:30 PM




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1 That young man deserves only one thing.

Posted by: fd at August 13, 2026 02:31 PM (MWfyi)

2 Dang, almost got first.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at August 13, 2026 02:32 PM (zMzlR)

3 Notice I didn't ponce around like some gay blade.

Posted by: fd at August 13, 2026 02:32 PM (MWfyi)

4
Howz about a double execution, Luigi and Tyler.

Posted by: four seasons at August 13, 2026 02:32 PM (/QHx4)

5 Top 10

Posted by: Crusader at August 13, 2026 02:32 PM (TN0g+)

6 Thsi was a political murder and this little prick deserves a needle.


Posted by: Alamo at August 13, 2026 02:33 PM (xXL4n)

7 Apparently the others have been alerted.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at August 13, 2026 02:33 PM (zMzlR)

8 Burn him!!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 13, 2026 02:34 PM (g8Ew8)

9 Double Dang!

Posted by: Moonbeam at August 13, 2026 02:34 PM (Lzhdy)

10 Has Mario disowned Luigi?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 13, 2026 02:34 PM (amcLV)

11 Dawn, firing squad.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at August 13, 2026 02:35 PM (Q/FnY)

12
He deserves Ol' Sparky, but-

if he gets life without parole in a SuperMax...well..that's okay.


Posted by: naturalfake at August 13, 2026 02:35 PM (iJfKG)

13 I put myself through the thought process of if LMs target was a diary-writing dog torturer, and wonder if I would be as upset with LM still.

Posted by: Cray Cray at August 13, 2026 02:35 PM (9CU5T)

14 That's crazier than 4 cats in a bag of beans.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 13, 2026 02:35 PM (YZ0Fo)

15 This is the trial where death is on the table? I am guessing the genesis of this is the little ratfuck commie cunt doesn't want to die. Too bad his victim didn't get that choice.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 02:35 PM (iABCo)

16 A normal democrat president wouldn't pardon him (right?) but I can see some of the upcoming crop of loonies doing so. We need state charges.

Posted by: 496 at August 13, 2026 02:35 PM (l3Npx)

17 If a plea deal is being discussed, it's obviously something less than life. Otherwise, he could just plead guilty and gamble on the sentencing, or just go to trial and hope for acquittal.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 13, 2026 02:35 PM (K9nu8)

18 Notice I didn't ponce around like some gay blade.
Posted by: fd at August 13, 2026 02:32 PM (MWfyi)


There you go flouting the rules by flaunting your independence.

Want some flautas?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 13, 2026 02:35 PM (rbvCR)

19 It's NY. Odds are even some leftist on the jury will nullify any lengthy sentence anyway.

Posted by: Bete at August 13, 2026 02:35 PM (LX4y3)

20 Plea deals... entrap the innocent, and let the guilty have less punishment.

Note, 98% of FBI cases end in plea deals... FBI has a 98% conviction rate...

How coincidental!

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 13, 2026 02:36 PM (mP0Kj)

21 That's crazier than 4 cats in a bag of beans.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 13, 2026 02:35 PM (YZ0Fo)
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Don't blow smoke up my ass and tell me it's raining.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 13, 2026 02:36 PM (amcLV)

22 He will never be convicted of any state charges at all.

If there's a chance to lock him up federally, we should do it.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 13, 2026 02:37 PM (AdHga)

23

Murderers should get the death penalty.

Posted by: four seasons at August 13, 2026 02:37 PM (/QHx4)

24 What are the chances that the Gov of NY pardon's him on humanitarian grounds it seems pretty high to me that she will do it.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 13, 2026 02:37 PM (ubCxQ)

25 Surely his victim has family.

Posted by: Javems at August 13, 2026 02:38 PM (zFsEm)

26 Something tells me Luigi will enjoy being some dude's bitch in prison

Posted by: steevy at August 13, 2026 02:38 PM (YwEeS)

27 If there's a chance to lock him up federally, we should do it.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 13, 2026 02:37 PM (AdHga)
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I fear you are correct on the state charges. I also fear some dipshit lefty president thinking it's cool to pardon him or commute his sentence

Posted by: 496 at August 13, 2026 02:38 PM (l3Npx)

28 Slim pickin's if he's considered handsome for the desperate women or trans who lurve him. Bleah.

I think he's ghey to start with as I read about his Thai boy friends before he murdered. Premeditated murder. Life with no parole and he can meet some new friends in prison and be someone's beetch.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 13, 2026 02:39 PM (hzuYO)

29 But, he's a dreamboat. ⛵. He makes my no-no square tingly.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 13, 2026 02:39 PM (7zn4w)

30 Life sure is cheap now in the good ole U.S.A.

Mission Accomplished, I suppose. I wonder if the rank and file leftists will ever realize this is a two way street.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 13, 2026 02:39 PM (t9gtU)

31 O/T but note how Sliwa is in fact a fraud.
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Curtis Sliwa Calls Out 9/11 Families Demanding NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Stay Away from Ceremony: 'Stop Being Sore Losers!'

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 02:39 PM (E4rtv)

32 Since this is turning into a gay thread, if I were his lawyer I’d have him claim to be a woman and argue for incarceration at a girly penitentiary

Posted by: Auspex at August 13, 2026 02:40 PM (aIUZW)

33 This way, he will do time regardless of what NYC juries or Alvin Bragg try and pull.

Posted by: Ann at August 13, 2026 02:40 PM (SHHm+)

34 Turley this morning said that the two stalking charges from the Feds carry lifetime prison sentences. The state charges will create a possible jury nullification due to Mangione’s legions of fans. Will only take one juror to nullify.

Posted by: Jen the original at August 13, 2026 02:40 PM (EiUt/)

35 24 What are the chances that the Gov of NY pardon's him on humanitarian grounds it seems pretty high to me that she will do it.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio

Can't do that for federal crimes. Governors are limited to state crimes and specifically Mangione is apparently pleading guilty to fed crimes.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 02:40 PM (E4rtv)

36 Might as well post a bounty on all our heads, shoeshine boy to CEO. They want us all dead.

This ratfuck will probably end up on the board of Netflix and a Professor of Ethics at NYU.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 13, 2026 02:40 PM (OLnyK)

37 I wonder if the rank and file leftists will ever realize this is a two way street.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 13, 2026 02:39 PM (t9gtU)
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Not to be a downer, but it doesn't seem like a 2-way street - at least at this time. It's pretty much one way

Posted by: 496 at August 13, 2026 02:41 PM (l3Npx)

38 I have become less enamored over the years of giving the State power over death.

Not me getting soft as such I just know they want to kill us and I don't like anything that gives them another shining path to do so.

Obviously when it comes to that it will be rice fields not death row but still the whole thing gives me pause.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 02:41 PM (iABCo)

39 I fear you are correct on the state charges. I also fear some dipshit lefty president thinking it's cool to pardon him or commute his sentence

Posted by: 496 at August 13, 2026 02:38 PM (l3Npx)

Entirely possible.

And it would be completely clarifying for those of us who still hope to avoid the worst parts of the Spanish unpleasantness.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 13, 2026 02:41 PM (AdHga)

40 This is interesting - Jonathan Turley is noting that this might eliminate the state charges as NY has more generous double jeopardy rules.

https://x.com/i/status/2087970014112657751

We shall see if the Sources are Saying true.

Posted by: alexthechick at August 13, 2026 02:42 PM (NgtDg)

41 NYC wouldn't bother bringing charges. They're too busy prosecuting people like subway hero Daniel Penny

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 13, 2026 02:42 PM (WOnE5)

42 His victim was just carrying out Obamacare edicts, right?

Posted by: Auspex at August 13, 2026 02:42 PM (aIUZW)

43 It wasn't murder murder.

Posted by: Whoopi at August 13, 2026 02:42 PM (Cqx++)

44 We shall see if the Sources are Saying true.

Posted by: alexthechick at August 13, 2026 02:42 PM (NgtDg)

WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT YOU DOWNSTAIRS!!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 13, 2026 02:43 PM (AdHga)

45 35 Can't do that for federal crimes. Governors are limited to state crimes and specifically Mangione is apparently pleading guilty to fed crimes.
Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 02:40 PM (E4rtv)

Wasn’t it there some reason they had to take the federal death penalty off the table? I’m thinking they wanted to treat him as the terrorist that he is to go for the DP, but someone or something put the kabosh on that.

Posted by: TxAnn at August 13, 2026 02:43 PM (SjAWL)

46 > I fear you are correct on the state charges. I also fear some dipshit lefty president thinking it's cool to pardon him or commute his sentence
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If there was a number of clear eyed killers in lockup that had a propensity for murdering lefties, pardon them now and give them some work.

This fucker for instance, if he's out on the street. I'm sure there are others that need "servicing."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 13, 2026 02:43 PM (2Cry5)

47 Curtis Sliwa Calls Out 9/11 Families Demanding NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Stay Away from Ceremony: 'Stop Being Sore Losers!'

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 02:39 PM (E4rtv)

Trump really is a once in 100 year phenomenon.

Why do "Republicans" cede ground constantly? So tiring.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 02:43 PM (iABCo)

48

Sore losers?

Sorry, i'm a little mad you ragheads killed my family. Just a bit sore about that.

Geez Louise.

Posted by: four seasons at August 13, 2026 02:44 PM (/QHx4)

49 And it would be completely clarifying for those of us who still hope to avoid the worst parts of the Spanish unpleasantness.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 13, 2026 02:41 PM (AdHga)

You mean Gonny Ria?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 13, 2026 02:44 PM (g8Ew8)

50 43 It wasn't murder murder.

Posted by: Whoopi at August 13, 2026 02:42 PM (Cqx++)
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Murder is such an ugly word. Couldn't we call it 'transitioning to unalive'?

Posted by: 496 at August 13, 2026 02:45 PM (EL1H9)

51 Posted by: Kindltot at August 13, 2026 02:35 PM (rbvCR)

You had to be there.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 02:45 PM (iABCo)

52 Sliwa should concentrate on managing the 50 cats in his apartment.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 13, 2026 02:45 PM (7zn4w)

53 Not to be a downer, but it doesn't seem like a 2-way street - at least at this time. It's pretty much one way
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Believe me, I understand. But things change, history is very clear on that. Oftentimes, even usually overnight. Not prepared to say I'm gonna like it either.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 13, 2026 02:46 PM (t9gtU)

54

I call that a bargain
The best I ever had

Posted by: Luigi at August 13, 2026 02:46 PM (Cqx++)

55 You mean Gonny Ria?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 13, 2026 02:44 PM (g8Ew

Also as well.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 13, 2026 02:47 PM (AdHga)

56
United Healthcare, whatever their faults, were not responsible for the medical state of Mangione's back injury nor his de facto impotence. He had access to the best treatment, with or without UHC, and his problem was incurable. His life sucked and he felt like shooting somebody.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 13, 2026 02:47 PM (VWtfl)

57 Go to trial. No way all 12 convict!

I think there are enough stupid people they could get on that jury to convict unfortunately. Look what happened with OJ on the reverse side.

The OJ jury wasn’t stupid. They knew full well what they were doing, as retribution for Rodney King

The charges they’re planning to plea guilty to are the 2 federal stalking charges so that they can potentially use these charges to argue that New York’s Double Jeopardy law would make it so the state murder charges couldn’t be charged since the stalking charges are directly linked to the murder case. Maybe plea to those stalking charges and they drop the state charges to only a few and ask for concurrent sentences to do like 25 years. Better than life I suppose.

Jury Nullification was actually promising in this instance. I understand the option and choice to plea for a lesses sentence; however, this was a chance for the general public to show up for him and send a message of utter disdain towards insurance companies as a whole with a not guilty verdict.

Or, he realized that the real world is not Reddit and he doesn't have the blind support he has here. 

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 13, 2026 02:47 PM (K9nu8)

58 That young man deserves only one thing.
Posted by: fd at August 13, 2026 02:31 PM (MWfyi)

The Paolo?

Posted by: InZona at August 13, 2026 02:47 PM (qwLiq)

59 Turley is noting that this might eliminate the state charges as NY has more generous double jeopardy rules
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What sort of jiggery-pokery is this??

Posted by: Common Tater at August 13, 2026 02:47 PM (t9gtU)

60 You read it here first:

He will be released within 5 years and lauded as a hero.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 13, 2026 02:48 PM (JvZF+)

61 WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT YOU DOWNSTAIRS!!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 13, 2026 02:43 PM (AdHga)


Now what did I do!

Posted by: alexthechick at August 13, 2026 02:48 PM (NgtDg)

62 Predictions:

1. 25 years (20 years for the murder 5 added for gun violation)
2. Eligible for parole in 10
3. This pisses off most of us due to the leniency.
4. Supporters of Mangione will argue it's too harsh.

This idiot murderer still gets hundreds of letters daily from women admirers across the world.

Posted by: Orson at August 13, 2026 02:48 PM (dIske)

63 The same people that cheer and excuse Luigi are the same ones demanding Trump tone down his rhetoric 'cause some radical left-wing judge says--without evidence--they are getting death threats.

When you see people on the right swooning over Jared Laughner, I'll agree Trump needs to tone down his rhetoric.

Until then, fuck off and eat a bag of dicks.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 13, 2026 02:48 PM (3cUTc)

64 He might plead to littering. You know, leaving dead bodies around.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 13, 2026 02:48 PM (ndZc7)

65 Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at

What a bunch of fucking ghouls.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 13, 2026 02:48 PM (YZ0Fo)

66 Luigi Mangione is a short smug toad.
Hasan Piker is a generic mannekin.

And ye both of these violent leftist maniacs are popular (so we are told) because lonely AWFLs find them "handsome" or "hot" -- if you get your panties wet over some guy, then apparently you adopt their demonic political philosophy as well.

But seriously -- both of these guys are "mid" at best. Maybe compared to the typical low-T soyboy creep-nerds these woman are used to dating, Mangione and Piker are hot stuff?

Or it is the reverse: The media glamorize them as hot for the very reason of trying to get women to adopt their toxic politics -- even though no one really thinks they're hot?

Someone clue me in on this.

Posted by: zombie at August 13, 2026 02:48 PM (Av6i5)

67 "If he is convicted, he could face a life sentence."

I thought the issue was "he could face a death sentence", and avoiding death was the purpose of Luigi taking a plea deal. Or do prosecutors think a jury will likely have at least one that secretly believes Mangioni is a hero?

Posted by: illiniwek at August 13, 2026 02:49 PM (vbXSk)

68 How about we put them at opposite ends of a fully enclosed room, put a gun with one round in the middle of the floor, and lock the door.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 13, 2026 02:49 PM (vTZFs)

69 How about we put them at opposite ends of a fully enclosed room, put a gun with one round in the middle of the floor, and lock the door.
Posted by: Oddbob

Can we put em in a leg shackle with a hacksaw first?

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 13, 2026 02:50 PM (YZ0Fo)

70 Or, he realized that the real world is not Reddit and he doesn't have the blind support he has here.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 13, 2026 02:47 PM (K9nu

Holy shit...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 13, 2026 02:50 PM (AdHga)

71 Curtis Sliwa Calls Out 9/11 Families Demanding NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Stay Away from Ceremony: 'Stop Being Sore Losers!'
Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 02:39 PM (E4rtv)
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Once a goombah always a goombah.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 13, 2026 02:50 PM (JvZF+)

72 Posted by: illiniwek at August 13, 2026 02:49 PM (vbXSk)
_______________________

NY hasn't done an execution since the early 60's

Posted by: Orson at August 13, 2026 02:51 PM (dIske)

73 WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT YOU DOWNSTAIRS!!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 13, 2026 02:43 PM (AdHga)


Now what did I do!

Posted by: alexthechick at August 13, 2026 02:48 PM (NgtDg)

We decided - without your input - that you and your stepstool were going to be the new Press Secretary whilst MWR and her trampoline were going to be your Deputy.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 13, 2026 02:51 PM (AdHga)

74 Or, he realized that the real world is not Reddit and he doesn't have the blind support he has here.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions


Well, that's one redditor that's going to be hounded off the platform

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 13, 2026 02:51 PM (vJrRc)

75 Posted by: alexthechick at August 13, 2026 02:48 PM (NgtDg)

The horde wants you as Karoline Leavitts replacement as Press Secy

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 02:51 PM (y8wRt)

76 But seriously -- both of these guys are "mid" at best. Maybe compared to the typical low-T soyboy creep-nerds these woman are used to dating, Mangione and Piker are hot stuff?

Or it is the reverse: The media glamorize them as hot for the very reason of trying to get women to adopt their toxic politics -- even though no one really thinks they're hot?

Someone clue me in on this.
Posted by: zombie
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Birth control pills change feminine perceptions of males. Witness AOC dumping her soy boy after going off the pill to harvest her eggs.

Replicated research.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 02:52 PM (E4rtv)

77 I am hoping Silwa was injecting some irony in that statement, but who knows these days.

Posted by: Halfhand at August 13, 2026 02:52 PM (9c7Cw)

78 I would be the most benevolentish Press Secretary, it is true.

Posted by: alexthechick at August 13, 2026 02:52 PM (NgtDg)

79 So apparently its frowned upon to kill defenseless people by stalking and ambush. Its, you know, not the kind of thing that will get you the death penalty, but you'll spend some time in jail.

Posted by: Shrugs at August 13, 2026 02:52 PM (anL5R)

80
The crazy bitches are not hot for the murderers. They are hot for the publicity they will get. Probably money also from interviews.

Sick

Posted by: four seasons at August 13, 2026 02:52 PM (/QHx4)

81
The DSA types want more Mangiones. Because that's what socialists do: kill anyone who is in their way.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 02:52 PM (O0L8i)

82 Or it is the reverse: The media glamorize them as hot for the very reason of trying to get women to adopt their toxic politics -- even though no one really thinks they're hot?

Someone clue me in on this.
Posted by: zombie


Probably this last is the real case.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 13, 2026 02:52 PM (vJrRc)

83 Hey, how about the reports about the USS Abraham Lincoln? Are they true? As a vet I an incensed if they are. Please cover it and let us know what's happening.

Posted by: nraendowment at August 13, 2026 02:53 PM (dU7L4)

84 Posted by: alexthechick at August 13, 2026 02:48 PM (NgtDg)

The horde wants you as Karoline Leavitts replacement as Press Secy

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 02:51 PM (y8wRt)

I definitely read that as Press Sexy and was like... welp, when Fen's right, she's right.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 13, 2026 02:53 PM (AdHga)

85 Posted by: zombie at August 13, 2026 02:48 PM

Its #2.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 02:53 PM (y8wRt)

86 77 I am hoping Silwa was injecting some irony in that statement, but who knows these days.
Posted by: Halfhand

He stayed in the mayoral race despite no chance because he and his family were benefiting from the campaign funds. Sleazy trick just like in the Producers. Run in a hopeless race but make big claims, get paid.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 02:54 PM (E4rtv)

87 Nope. Death wasn't even on the table anymore. I didn't realize. This plea deal shit sucks. If you can't sentence a guy to life for this then the social contract is totally broken.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 02:54 PM (iABCo)

88 So apparently its frowned upon to kill defenseless people by stalking and ambush. Its, you know, not the kind of thing that will get you the death penalty, but you'll spend some time in jail.

Posted by: Shrugs at August 13, 2026 02:52 PM (anL5R)

Whew! I was worried there for a second.

Tranny Tyler

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 13, 2026 02:54 PM (AdHga)

89 I was for the Death Penalty then I watched the Rittenhouse trail where the Prosecutor tried to convict him They knew he was defending himself and even threw in the illegal gun charge know the exemption if the gun was so long and the Defense wanted to measure the rifle because it complied with the law and the Prosecutor agreed right on the spot.
That trial opened my eyes that they would railroad anybody if they thought they could score political points

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 13, 2026 02:54 PM (ubCxQ)

90 *blows kiss to Nearsider*

That is quality sucking up.

Posted by: alexthechick at August 13, 2026 02:54 PM (NgtDg)

91
OK. Comes the dawn. We have "universal health care". Instead of some nasty insurance company saying you can't be treated, we have some altruistic government functionary saying you can't be treated. Is it all right to shoot them?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 02:55 PM (O0L8i)

92 He stayed in the mayoral race despite no chance because he and his family were benefiting from the campaign funds. Sleazy trick just like in the Producers. Run in a hopeless race but make big claims, get paid.
Posted by: whig at

Ryan Guirdusky reported back that he was told by people in the know. Sliwa was offered 10m to get out and wouldn't because keeping the campaign grift open was more lucrative in the future

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 13, 2026 02:55 PM (YZ0Fo)

93 You can't make a deal with Leftists, they have a zero integrity.

If I was on a Murder One jury, and the jurors were dead-locked between the death penalty and the prison, and the judge offered life without parole (LWOP) as a compromise when I thought the accused deserved the death penalty, I would have taken LWOP to ensure a conviction.

But now I can't. Democrat-run jurisdictions have now released murderers in prison for LWOP on many occasions.

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 13, 2026 02:55 PM (HlyYF)

94 Heh. Troy Jackson the Maine Dem had his partner call the cops on him for assault back in the 90s. He also said he would have run as a communist. Maine Dems know how to pick em

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 13, 2026 02:55 PM (WOnE5)

95 The media glamorize them as hot for the very reason of trying to get women to adopt their toxic politics -- even though no one really thinks they're hot?

Someone clue me in on this.
Posted by: zombie at August 13, 2026 02:48 PM (Av6i5)
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The media is busting out with ghey dudes. Only ghey dudes and 14 year old girls think in those terms.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 13, 2026 02:55 PM (JvZF+)

96 80
The crazy bitches are not hot for the murderers. They are hot for the publicity they will get. Probably money also from interviews.

Sick
Posted by: four seasons

True. They like the killing of their "enemies". They're sick assholes.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 13, 2026 02:55 PM (7zn4w)

97 That is quality sucking up.

Posted by: alexthechick at August 13, 2026 02:54 PM (NgtDg)

Your munificience knows no bounds.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 13, 2026 02:56 PM (AdHga)

98 Could also be "life with the possibility of parole". We'll cut you loose when you're 74 with terminal colon cancer. Who knows...

Posted by: pahound at August 13, 2026 02:56 PM (AjR4+)

99 Posted by: Oddbob at August 13, 2026 02:49 PM (vTZFs)

Two rounds

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 02:56 PM (iABCo)

100 The DSA types want more Mangiones. Because that's what socialists do: kill anyone who is in their way.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 02:52 PM (O0L8i)

______________

We're on the same page. I've been saying this for a while. Just look at the 1970's. Plenty of Socialist Hit Squad terrorists floating around. And, not just in the US. Greece has a real problem with the Revolutionary Organization 17 November. The US had the Weather Underground. And, many many more.

Posted by: Orson at August 13, 2026 02:56 PM (dIske)

101 First degree murder? What does that draw in New York?
Two years and a cup of coffee?

Posted by: Case at August 13, 2026 02:56 PM (UKrJG)

102
Why make a plea deal with this murderer at all? He dd it. They've got him.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 13, 2026 02:56 PM (VWtfl)

103 >>>>>>>77 I am hoping Silwa was injecting some irony in that statement, but who knows these days.
Posted by: Halfhand
********
I'm sure Curtis is being sarcastic, but as to voting for the raghead mayor, a lot of the 9/11 families are outside NYC in NJ, Connecticut, and even out here in PA.

Posted by: Cosda at August 13, 2026 02:57 PM (likmR)

104 Ryan Guirdusky reported back that he was told by people in the know. Sliwa was offered 10m to get out and wouldn't because keeping the campaign grift open was more lucrative in the future
Posted by: BruceWayne
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Not surprised. I did see that his family was on the campaign payroll.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 02:57 PM (E4rtv)

105 The DSA types Democrats want more Mangiones. Because that's what socialists do: kill anyone who is in their way.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 02:52 PM (O0L8i)


Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 02:57 PM (iABCo)

106 Hey, how about the reports about the USS Abraham Lincoln? Are they true? As a vet I an incensed if they are. Please cover it and let us know what's happening.
Posted by: nraendowment at August 13, 2026 02:53 PM (dU7L4)
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Hey, as a vet check Google.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 13, 2026 02:58 PM (JvZF+)

107 The media is busting out with ghey dudes. Only ghey dudes and 14 year old girls think in those terms.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Well Mangione did spend one night at least in Bangkok. Got into a an apparent fight with ladyboys over there preceding coming back and killing that CEO.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 02:58 PM (E4rtv)

108 I don't find either of these creeps remotely appealing. But I haven't actually seen or read any of Mangiones political views aside from his views on it being ok to kill health insurance company executives. Hasan Piker is unattractive physically maybe because he's such violenr unhinged leftist and anti semite. I'm sorry he can't be deported to Syria or wherever his parents crawled in from.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 02:59 PM (y8wRt)

109 Leftists will run with "second look at the Death Penalty?" just as soon as they are able. They are strictly transactional.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 13, 2026 02:59 PM (t9gtU)

110 OT: 5.2 million people kicked off of SNAP benefits in the past eight months.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 13, 2026 02:59 PM (AdHga)

111 Leftists: "Health insurance companies charge rapacious premiums."

Also Leftists: "Health insurance companies deny too many claims."

You may pick ONE red button and debate the merits of your position.

If you pick two mutually exclusive red buttons ... all you have done is revealed your utter idiocy.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 13, 2026 02:59 PM (HlyYF)

112 106 Hey, how about the reports about the USS Abraham Lincoln? Are they true? As a vet I an incensed if they are. Please cover it and let us know what's happening.
Posted by: nraendowment

Been debunked today already. See X. Stop watching the tv media as they are all lying assholes.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 02:59 PM (E4rtv)

113 Two rounds

* lock door *

* ten minute of noise *

Bang!

* ten days of silence *

Bang!

* unlock door *

Posted by: Oddbob at August 13, 2026 03:00 PM (vTZFs)

114 Look how many assassinations or attempted assassinations the Left have carried out in last few years.

Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 03:00 PM (KC5Lt)

115 We're on the same page. I've been saying this for a while. Just look at the 1970's. Plenty of Socialist Hit Squad terrorists floating around. And, not just in the US. Greece has a real problem with the Revolutionary Organization 17 November. The US had the Weather Underground. And, many many more.
Posted by: Orson at August 13, 2026 02:56 PM (dIske)
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They have protectors and enablers seeded throughout the bureaucracy including those charged with combatting them.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 13, 2026 03:00 PM (JvZF+)

116 I'm sorry he can't be deported to Syria or wherever his parents crawled in from.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Turk. His uncle is Young Turks, Cenk Ungar (sp), noted MSNOW Muzzie spokescritter and political pundit.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 03:00 PM (E4rtv)

117 Hey, how about the reports about the USS Abraham Lincoln? Are they true? As a vet I an incensed if they are. Please cover it and let us know what's happening.
Posted by: nraendowment at August 13, 2026 02:53 PM (dU7L4)
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Oh, it's true.

Seems the Navy, as well as the Army, need to massively improve taking care of their troops.

Barracks that are crawling with vermin and covered in mold, food that is barely edible...it's bad.

Pretty sure Mangione will be housed and fed much better than the troops.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 13, 2026 03:00 PM (FdpeO)

118 I think most of this unibrow Hobbit's fan mail is from fat gremlins like the SPLC honey pot.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 13, 2026 03:01 PM (bX16E)

119 Luigi is soooooooooo dreamy!

Posted by: Karen, with septum piercing and hair color not found in nature at August 13, 2026 03:01 PM (0sNs1)

120 Again O/T but pertinent in a way,

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
·
21h
🚨 JUST IN: A federal court just RULED AGAINST Planned Parenthood in a devastating blow that could eventually cost the organization close to $2 BILLION

Incredible news! Show NO MERCY to these baby killers

Planned Parenthood was caught taking Medicaid dollars in Texas and Louisiana despite being BANNED from doing so.

This comes after Sec. RFK Jr. CANCELED even more grants to Planned Parenthood at the federal level

Dismantle Planned Parenthood! 🔥

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 03:01 PM (E4rtv)

121 Why make a plea deal with this murderer at all? He dd it. They've got him.

Because juries are unpredictable. Gather any 12 people and there's a really good chance at least one of them is an outright idiot.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 13, 2026 03:01 PM (vTZFs)

122 The DSA types want more Mangiones. Because that's what socialists do: kill anyone who is in their way.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh


They better pray to the deity of their choice that those of us who just want to be left alone don't decide to play.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 13, 2026 03:02 PM (lrRtF)

123 Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 03:00 PM (E4rtv)

Thanks. Great family there .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 03:02 PM (y8wRt)

124 One night in Bangkok...
I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine.

Posted by: Any better, I'd be twins at August 13, 2026 03:02 PM (2CeDH)

125
Great news whig.

No tax money for baby murderers.


You play, you pay.

Posted by: four seasons at August 13, 2026 03:03 PM (/QHx4)

126 Luigi is soooooooooo dreamy!
Posted by: Karen, with septum piercing and hair color not found in nature at August 13, 2026 03:01 PM (0sNs1)

It's amazing how nature gives glaring and seemingly unnatural colors to organisms to make it very clear you should never even touch these dangerous creatures.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 13, 2026 03:04 PM (N1tpc)

127 Such a deal could end up crippling a separate state case — where a trial is set to start on Sept. 8 — because of New York’s rules against double jeopardy, or being tried twice for the same crime.

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office — which has claimed “primary jurisdiction” in the case because it charged Mangione with the murder first — could also still push to take Mangione to trial if it disapproves of the terms of any plea deal.

Posted by: SMOD at August 13, 2026 03:04 PM (RHGPo)

128 This is disturbing, but much better that we find out now, than on a REAL battlefield. (Insty)

Ukrainian Drones Outmatch US Army in Exercise.

Ukrainian troops from the battle-tested 412th Regiment of Unmanned Systems Forces, known as Nemesis, effectively eliminated a U.S. armored brigade during the Combined Resolve exercise in April and May. Roughly 3,500 American personnel, primarily from the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, participated.

Ukrainian reconnaissance drones quickly located American armored vehicles, whose movement kicked up dust and made them visible from above.

Explosive-dropping and first-person-view, or FPV, drones then moved in.

The Ukrainians were registering simulated kills so rapidly that American vehicles had to be returned to the battlefield, or “re-spawned,” to keep the exercise running, according to the Journal.

The Americans adapted during the two-week engagement, improving their use of dispersion, concealment, and electronic warfare.

Ukrainian operators eventually switched sides and helped U.S. forces employ drones offensively, where the Americans performed more effectively.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 13, 2026 03:04 PM (Riz8t)

129 Only thing to negotiate is life with no parole or execution. Anything less and this is a green flag for executions nationwide. He’ll be out in 12 years. Bet on it.

Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez at August 13, 2026 03:05 PM (7xx4i)

130 Been debunked today already. See X. Stop watching the tv media as they are all lying assholes.
Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 02:59 PM (E4rtv)
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Debunked, you say?

I agree that the media are a bunch of lying liars, but the fact is that the ships, the barracks, etc, were left to pretty much rot during the previous admin., and in most cases during the Obama admin.

This admin is doing good work so far in addressing the issues, but there is much more work to be done.

Hegseth is only one man, and he still has to clean out a lot of the vermin in the five-sided nuthouse and the units downstream from said nuthouse.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 13, 2026 03:05 PM (FdpeO)

131 If he is convicted, he could face a life sentence.

... but I'm sure there is an Hawaiian judge out there just waiting to screw up justice

Posted by: SMOD at August 13, 2026 03:05 PM (RHGPo)

132 That trial opened my eyes that they would railroad anybody if they thought they could score political points
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio


Yeah, once the state is prosecuting for political matters, my support for it goes to zero.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 13, 2026 03:05 PM (diia5)

133 Posted by: alexthechick at August 13, 2026 02:42 PM

Did anyone else hear sumpin' that sounded like it was knee-high?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 13, 2026 03:06 PM (0sNs1)

134 Ukrainian troops from the battle-tested 412th Regiment of Unmanned Systems Forces, known as Nemesis, effectively eliminated a U.S. armored brigade during the Combined Resolve exercise in April and May. Roughly 3,500 American personnel, primarily from the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, participated.
___

Disturbing is an understatement.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 13, 2026 03:06 PM (FdpeO)

135 plug him with a .22lr once a day until he bleeds out/ sepsis

Posted by: cmeat at August 13, 2026 03:06 PM (Bep7s)

136 Posted by: Oddbob at August 13, 2026 03:00 PM (vTZFs)

YEP

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 03:07 PM (iABCo)

137 Well, clearly he hit what he was aiming at so that's mitigation right there.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 13, 2026 03:08 PM (ndZc7)

138 If he does get any time maybe the Mayor and Governor will push for a pardon. Also give his bicycle back to him.

Posted by: Case at August 13, 2026 03:08 PM (UKrJG)

139 Luigi didn't even have United healthcare insurance did he? So he was just killing to kill and would've kept on? Was there a list?

Posted by: nckate at August 13, 2026 03:08 PM (enNUy)

140 Ukrainian troops from the battle-tested 412th Regiment of Unmanned Systems Forces, known as Nemesis, effectively eliminated a U.S. armored brigade during the Combined Resolve exercise in April and May. Roughly 3,500 American personnel, primarily from the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, participated.
___

Disturbing is an understatement.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 13, 2026 03:06 PM (FdpeO)

Disturbing that these things are reported so quickly and extensively if accurate.

I'm wondering if the Ghost of Kiev participated.


Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 03:09 PM (KC5Lt)

141 The paper “Niceness as Whiteness in School Police Officers’ Perceptions of Student Arrest” addresses the “perceptions of arrest” by school resource officers, or SROs) in two school districts.

“Nice SROs did not want to arrest children. Nice police officers thought of themselves as well-meaning. Yet, they expressed being required to arrest children because of real or imagined mandates. They used niceness as a strategy for upholding a system of Whiteness that systematically privileges White people and excludes those who fall outside of Whiteness. Niceness hinders possibilities for the types of political, communal relationships central to authentic care.”

“SROs used niceness as Whiteness in their recounts of arrest … by highlighting the positive relationships they had with students they arrested…As with highlighting their own goodness, highlighting these positive relationships reframes violence (i.e., arrest) that contributes to racial inequality as a positive, since students still like the SROs. This strategy emphasizes the officer’s ability to retain his niceness—by virtue of the maintained interpersonal relationship—despite having arrested the student.”

Posted by: SMOD at August 13, 2026 03:09 PM (RHGPo)

142 That is quality sucking up.

Posted by: alexthechick at August 13, 2026 02:54 PM (NgtDg)

Can it really be considered "up"?

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 03:09 PM (iABCo)

143
For what it's worth, Paul Mauro's take:


Paul Mauro
@PaulDMauro
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41m
(10) This is why his team wants the fed case over NOW. To invoke the NY State double jeopardy law, and to attempt to have any NYS time run concurrent. Meaning: Mangione does his time in federal prison, where conditions are better;

Paul Mauro
@PaulDMauro
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39m
(11) And they've looked at the evidence -- esp. in the federal case, where Judge Garnett let pretty much all the evidence in -- and said, "We're cooked. Best you're likely to get here is decades federal time." And he took it.

Posted by: beckster at August 13, 2026 03:09 PM (kX27y)

144 @129
Anything less and this is a green flag for executions nationwide.
You've already got that. Check out Chi-town murders (every weekend). Add in LA, pick a "blue" city.

Posted by: pahound at August 13, 2026 03:10 PM (AjR4+)

145 agree that the media are a bunch of lying liars, but the fact is that the ships, the barracks, etc, were left to pretty much rot during the previous admin., and in most cases during the Obama admin.

This admin is doing good work so far in addressing the issues, but there is much more work to be done.

Hegseth is only one man, and he still has to clean out a lot of the vermin in the five-sided nuthouse and the units downstream from said nuthouse.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy

We're getting hit from every angle. Its like death by a thousand cuts.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 13, 2026 03:10 PM (7zn4w)

146 Democrat Chris Jones, who is running for Iowa secretary of agriculture, was rebuked by Iowa Republicans after saying farmers are “wealthy,” grain farming is “not that hard,” and farmers are “only working a few weeks out of the year.”

Posted by: SMOD at August 13, 2026 03:11 PM (RHGPo)

147 There is a good chance this piece of shit will get less time than J6 people did for trespassing.

This is the state of “justice” in America. And it’s only going to get worse. Blacks have been given word that short of killing white people they will face no consequences at all. Even killing whites will at worst get a few years in prison.even in fucking Texas.

We are in a civil war we just refuse to call it what it is.

Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez at August 13, 2026 03:11 PM (7xx4i)

148 Luigi didn't even have United healthcare insurance did he? So he was just killing to kill and would've kept on? Was there a list?
Posted by: nckate at August 13, 2026 03:08 PM (enNUy)


There was a rumor going around that his family was deeply involved with UH, through nursing homes

Posted by: Kindltot at August 13, 2026 03:11 PM (rbvCR)

149 The left: Luigi is innocent...he was framed!

Also the left: Luigi is such a sexy sexy force for justice...we need more Luigis!

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 03:12 PM (sKqQm)

150 ChristyBlinkyTheGreat, still here? Saw your post-surgery info for me last night. Some of it I knew, as this will be my 3rd abdominal invasion in 3 years. (At least we have figured out where the good coffee is in the hospital - not the weak cafeteria stuff.)

You wrote, "You don't realize how much you use your abdominal muscles when you sneeze." I do realize. Also cough! Have that now with the belly hernia, so I hope it will be better, ultimately.

"Also use the incentive spirometer." Actually have a collection of these now. Thanks for the reminder. I'll pack one in my bag. Save the hospital that trivial expense.

Packing change of underwear, hairbrush, toothbrush, toothpaste, phone charger…. My first hospitalization in '23 was emergency and I had nothing. Learned I have. Need to I wish I didn't.
💓

Posted by: mindful webworker - yadda yadda yoda at August 13, 2026 03:12 PM (C8pEi)

151 Natalie Winters in SubStack:

EXC: Chinese Spies Built Secret Nuclear War Backchannel Between Former U.S. Military Chiefs And Blacklisted Chinese Weapons Research Center.
Former Joint Chiefs, STRATCOM and Energy officials were inside the channel. Here are their names.

Posted by: SMOD at August 13, 2026 03:13 PM (RHGPo)

152 129
Anything less and this is a green flag for executions nationwide.
You've already got that. Check out Chi-town murders (every weekend). Add in LA, pick a "blue" city.
Posted by: pahound at August 13, 2026 03:10 PM (AjR4+)

Chicago currently has more than double the next closest city ytd. And only 8 cities are up 26 to 25 ytd. San Diego being one having as many as Orlando Miami and Tampa combined

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 13, 2026 03:13 PM (YZ0Fo)

153 The left: Luigi is innocent...he was framed!

Are they saying that? All I’ve seen is hell yeah brother you killed an evil capitalist we need more of you type stuff from the left.

Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez at August 13, 2026 03:13 PM (7xx4i)

154
(10) This is why his team wants the fed case over NOW. To invoke the NY State double jeopardy law, and to attempt to have any NYS time run concurrent. Meaning: Mangione does his time in federal prison, where conditions are better;
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All fine and good but assumes an NY conviction which is... weird.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 03:13 PM (iABCo)

155
Luigi didn't even have United healthcare insurance did he? So he was just killing to kill and would've kept on? Was there a list?
Posted by: nckate

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

I thought a loved one was denied care by United.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 03:13 PM (XJ22o)

156 134 Ukrainian troops from the battle-tested 412th Regiment of Unmanned Systems Forces, known as Nemesis, effectively eliminated a U.S. armored brigade during the Combined Resolve exercise in April and May. Roughly 3,500 American personnel, primarily from the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, participated.
___

Disturbing is an understatement.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 13, 2026 03:06 PM (FdpeO)
_____________________

Kind of depends. Were the US forces allowed to deploy Epirus Leonidas & HAVOC weapons. Essentially, it throws a wall of electromagnetic energy a an onslaught of drones and takes them down in seconds.

Posted by: Orson at August 13, 2026 03:13 PM (dIske)

157 OT Fake Indian Elizabeth Warren endorses hijab wearing Peggy Flanagan in MN. I'm not sure if Flanagan is really claiming to be Indian or it's some stupid joke:

https://tinyurl.com/mr3mv3kh

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 03:14 PM (y8wRt)

158 93 But now I can't. Democrat-run jurisdictions have now released murderers in prison for LWOP on many occasions.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 13, 2026 02:55 PM (HlyYF)

Prime example: Leslie Van Houten

Posted by: TxAnn at August 13, 2026 03:14 PM (SjAWL)

159 thought a loved one was denied care by United.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 03:13 PM (XJ22o)

Don’t use the left’s language. Nobody is denied “care” by insurance companies. What insurance companies deny is paying out a claim that is not contractually obligated to pay.

Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez at August 13, 2026 03:15 PM (7xx4i)

160 Wasted life. I'll bet he regrets what he did every day but doesn't feel any guilt.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 13, 2026 03:15 PM (wGerL)

161 Revealed: El-Sayed Proclaimed 'Obligation' To Follow Sharia Law Until the Day He Dies

... just how would this guy be sworn in to "defend, protect and uphold the Constitution of the United States" ?

Posted by: SMOD at August 13, 2026 03:16 PM (RHGPo)

162 plug him with a .22lr once a day until he bleeds out/ sepsis

You see, with a .45, it leaves a mess and there's a lot of dry cleaning. A .22 to the back of the head just rattles around and isn't messy.

Vincent "Vinnie" Antonelli

Posted by: Archer at August 13, 2026 03:16 PM (wvc0i)

163 Unlike the take here, I think a plea will be a positive development. This is not the airtight case that they had with Charlie Kirk's murder.

The only video they have of CEO's murder doesn't show the killer's face. They have no eyewitnesses that can identify Luigi as the murderer.

There were issues with chain of custody and warrantless searches. The judge said some of it can come in as evidence, but some not.

The case is circumstantial. I think it's powerful evidence in total that he did it, but juries often don't trust circumstantial evidence. They want to see the guy commit the crime, or hear from someone who did.

All you need is one weak or soft juror -- or a corrupt one -- and the jury is hung. There's a chance of that happening in this case. That's why there's talk of a plea deal.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 13, 2026 03:16 PM (iFTx/)

164 Ukrainian troops from the battle-tested 412th Regiment of Unmanned Systems Forces, known as Nemesis, effectively eliminated a U.S. armored brigade during the Combined Resolve exercise in April and May. Roughly 3,500 American personnel, primarily from the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, participated.

I think there is an 80% chance this is basically bullshit

but

if there is anything the uke war has shown it is if you can see an enemy you can kill it. So tanks and APCs are not as useful as they once were.

This should have us looking to replace a lot of the expensive armor and munitions with cheaper things - drones, artillery, 2k dumb bombs but I have zero faith the DoD would agree to such a change in priority.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 03:16 PM (sKqQm)

165 So we have created, financed and encouraged a primarily terroristic force in the Ukrainians. Great.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 13, 2026 03:16 PM (zZu0s)

166 Kazakhstan President Calls On Putin to End The War

... Kazakhstan's president might be inviting Putin to shove him off an open window

Posted by: SMOD at August 13, 2026 03:17 PM (RHGPo)

167 Why on earth would anyone who isn't a Muslim woman wear a hijab?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 03:17 PM (y8wRt)

168 So we have created, financed and encouraged a primarily terroristic force in the Ukrainians. Great.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 13, 2026 03:16 PM (zZu0s)

You guys did that shit again?
- Al Qaeda

Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez at August 13, 2026 03:18 PM (7xx4i)

169 So we have created, financed and encouraged a primarily terroristic force in the Ukrainians. Great.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 13, 2026 03:16 PM (zZu0s)

FNAB?

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 03:18 PM (iABCo)

170 In federal system if convicted and sentenced to life you can't get parole. (They did sentencing reform some time back.) Used to be you could get parole in 10 years or so even with life.

He has a decent shot of getting clemency or commuted sentence from some future socialist govt leader so he will probably take the deal if offered.

Posted by: Shrugs at August 13, 2026 03:18 PM (anL5R)

171 Why on earth would anyone who isn't a Muslim woman wear a hijab?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke


Same reason a woman might call a transer "she" to his face.

Because you're in their territory and you are trying to avoid being killed.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 13, 2026 03:19 PM (vJrRc)

172 Why on earth would anyone who isn't a Muslim woman wear a hijab?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

She was doing the typical leftist pandering to the Somali community after they were "attacked" by fraud "accusations".

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 13, 2026 03:20 PM (YZ0Fo)

173 Debunked, you say?

I agree that the media are a bunch of lying liars, but the fact is that the ships, the barracks, etc, were left to pretty much rot during the previous admin., and in most cases during the Obama admin.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy

I assume the original expectation was the conflict wouldn't drag out as long as it has, so they may very well be low on some supplies. Plus, it's a long time at sea crammed into tight quarters in probably challenging operational posture. As reports have noted, "This current mission has established a new modern record for consecutive days at sea without a port call"

I had troops deal with mental issues after easy 9 month deployments. A carrier with >5,500 people after 9 months will always have some issues.

Posted by: Military Moron at August 13, 2026 03:20 PM (K9nu8)

174 Google says he picked United healthcare because it was the biggest and would cause the most impact. No personal or professional ties. Again, Google.

Posted by: nckate at August 13, 2026 03:20 PM (enNUy)

175 I watched the video of Thompson's murder several times. His last moments were horrific. Anything less than life in prison for his literally emasculated, glory hunting killer is a travesty.

Posted by: troyriser at August 13, 2026 03:20 PM (v1M8F)

176 Virginia Gov. Abigail "Spooky" Spanberger just got a formal slap from the very firefighters who helped put her in the governor’s mansion.

The International Association of Fire Fighters unanimously censured the Democrat after she vetoed legislation expanding collective bargaining rights for public-sector workers — bills she had repeatedly promised to sign during her campaign. Union leaders say the move was a clear betrayal of those commitments, and they’re now putting her on notice that future support is off the table until she makes good on what she pledged.

Posted by: SMOD at August 13, 2026 03:21 PM (RHGPo)

177 So we have created, financed and encouraged a primarily terroristic force in the Ukrainians. Great.

I will say I think we made a mistake in the way we labeled things back in 2001. This issue wasn't terrorism per se, the issue was radical islam declared war on the west and chose terrorism - targeting civilian targets to induce fear - as their means of war.

All wars, well ones you want to win, target reducing your enemy's will to fight. So while we spent 20 years giving jihadis the martyrdom they wanted and then paying their families for it, they killed random people and reduced our ability to live normal lives.

If we had responded to 9/11 with Tokyo style firebombings of every Taliban held city and Sunni Arab city in Iraq I suspect
the last 20 years of war would have looked very different.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 03:21 PM (sKqQm)

178 Why on earth would anyone who isn't a Muslim woman wear a hijab?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 03:17 PM (y8wRt)

Same reason Muslim women wear it. It’s a political statement. They’re telling you they know you know they have power of you and there’s nothing you can do about it.

Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez at August 13, 2026 03:21 PM (7xx4i)

179
Someone clue me in on this.
Posted by: zombie

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

Full heads of hair
Thick whiskers (Piker -- Mangione is more wispy)
Athletic builds
Dark
Young
Brooding
Good bone structure
Good teeth
Dimples (Mangione)

They have plenty going for them objectively. Click my nic for Piker. He'd get plenty of hits on Match or Bumble.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 03:21 PM (XJ22o)

180 Leftist monster baby kills Leftist money-man.

*shrugs*

Thompson was playing for Mangione's team. This was friendly fire.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 13, 2026 03:21 PM (BI5O2)

181 Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 13, 2026 03:19 PM (vJrRc)

Well, if I have to wear a hijab to avoid being killed I guess I'll have to die then. I don't plan to go to MN, however. In the picture of Flanagan with the Muslims they look as if they have utter contempt for her

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 03:21 PM (y8wRt)

182 Why on earth would anyone who isn't a Muslim woman wear a hijab?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

She was doing the typical leftist pandering to the Somali community after they were "attacked" by fraud "accusations".
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 13, 2026 03:20 PM (YZ0Fo)
________

Yes, but she's too stupid to realize that prostrating yourself before these people only makes them think less of her. They see her as the weak coward she is.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 13, 2026 03:21 PM (iFTx/)

183 Luigi didn't even have United healthcare insurance did he? So he was just killing to kill and would've kept on? Was there a list?
Posted by: nckate

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

I thought a loved one was denied care by United.
==
Correct. Lil' Luigi was unable to get un noodled. He loved Lil Luigi very much.

Posted by: Shrugs at August 13, 2026 03:21 PM (anL5R)

184 O/T but note how Sliwa is in fact a fraud.
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Curtis Sliwa Calls Out 9/11 Families Demanding NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Stay Away from Ceremony: 'Stop Being Sore Losers!'
Posted by: whig


Good night! This isn't about the election.

Sliwa is in fact a fraud slimeball.

Fixed that spelling for you.

Posted by: mindful webworker - once a criminal jerk... at August 13, 2026 03:22 PM (C8pEi)

185 Posted by: alexthechick at August 13, 2026 02:42 PM

Did anyone else hear sumpin' that sounded like it was knee-high?
Posted by: Duncanthrax


Ready the Step Stool of Doom!

Posted by: rickb223 at August 13, 2026 03:22 PM (lrRtF)

186 Leftist monster baby kills Leftist money-man.

Leftists: Obama was awesome. He really fixed the healthcare system

Also Leftists: The pig of a CEO deserved to be offed for implementing Obamacare because it is literally killing millions of people!



Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 03:23 PM (sKqQm)

187 Why on earth would anyone who isn't a Muslim woman wear a hijab?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

They're slimming?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 13, 2026 03:23 PM (ndZc7)

188 Posted by: BruceWayne at August 13, 2026 03:20 PM (YZ0Fo)

What a wonderful choice for the Senate/ sarc.
Yes, I take it back. I can see why leftist pandering cowards would wear it

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 03:23 PM (y8wRt)

189 Yes, but she's too stupid to realize that prostrating yourself before these people only makes them think less of her. They see her as the weak coward she is.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

This always the effect of pandering.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 13, 2026 03:24 PM (YZ0Fo)

190 I hope the reports about the Abraham Lincoln are not true. The NY Post story quoted on Dems, so that tells against the story. On the other hand it sounds a lot like what happened on the Gerald Ford, and those conditions were bad. On the third hand, aricraft carriers are floating cities and there have been gang problems on board in the past.

Regardless, the sailors and Marines aboad have been there for a long time. They did exercise in November-January and were supposed to go home when Epic Fury called. The Tripoli group was in the same boat, but they got to go home (well, Okinawa) a couple of weeks ago. Maybe Navy can send a different carrier group to relieve the Lincoln.

Posted by: Martin Tell at August 13, 2026 03:24 PM (sFNX2)

191 O/T--Bessent interview that just dropped and Soros.
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Dr Charlie Ward
@DrcharlieWardQ
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6h
HOLY CRAP 🚨 Will Cain: “You worked a long time… for George Soros… What do we misunderstand about George Soros?”

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: "My job for him was working at the investment side, never on the foundation side. Those were kept very separate... He and I rarely talked about politics. We haven’t spoken since just after President Trump was elected in 2016.”

“We had a very robust discussion. Election night 2016 was one of the three best periods I’ve ever had for making money.”

“I thought President Trump was going to win… Election night 2016, the market crashed, and that was one of the greatest buying opportunities of all time.”

“I later found out George Soros was the one selling the market. He was crashing the market. Lost several billion dollars that night.”

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 03:24 PM (E4rtv)

192 Ace, this scumbag didn't "execute" Brian Thompson. He murdered him, and in a particularly cowardly fashion.

The state "executes" people after trials. Scumbag is a simple political murderer.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 13, 2026 03:25 PM (l4RKn)

193 I do think part of Zuck and Bezos's move away from the hard left is the celebration of Luigi

The same argument Luigi and the left use for killing that healthcare exec holds for them as well

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 03:25 PM (sKqQm)

194 30 Life sure is cheap now in the good ole U.S.A.

Mission Accomplished, I suppose. I wonder if the rank and file leftists will ever realize this is a two way street

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Is it, though?

Posted by: Mr. Wawa at August 13, 2026 03:25 PM (Cjger)

195 Did anyone else hear sumpin' that sounded like it was knee-high?
==
Hark??? I think I hear the lollipop guild theme song?

Posted by: Shrugs at August 13, 2026 03:25 PM (anL5R)

196 The DSA types want more Mangiones. Because that's what socialists do: kill anyone who is in their way.
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They kill lots of their opponents, and imprison the rest. That's why its pants-on-head stupid that "abolish the police" is part of their platform--they have every intention of locking lots of us up when we refuse to give up our rights.

Posted by: Crusader at August 13, 2026 03:25 PM (TN0g+)

197 Ukrainian troops from the battle-tested 412th Regiment of Unmanned Systems Forces, known as Nemesis, effectively eliminated a U.S. armored brigade during the Combined Resolve exercise in April and May. Roughly 3,500 American personnel, primarily from the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, participated.

I think there is an 80% chance this is basically bullshit


If it's true, it's probably a good development. Last time I heard about the US losing in international war-games, it was followed by "They kept changing the rules until the US won."

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 13, 2026 03:25 PM (vJrRc)

198 171 Why on earth would anyone who isn't a Muslim woman wear a hijab?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Same reason a woman might call a transer "she" to his face.
Because you're in their territory and you are trying to avoid being killed.
Posted by: FeatherBlade

Which is the same reason, say, Pelosi and weak Dems wore kente cloth stoles and knelt during BLM. Show subjugation and hope they're killed last. Muslims love that.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 13, 2026 03:26 PM (K9nu8)

199 In the picture of Flanagan with the Muslims they look as if they have utter contempt for her

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 03:21 PM (y8wRt)

Like the classic video of the white guy cheering on the marching BLM from his apartment window.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 03:26 PM (iABCo)

200
Why on earth would anyone who isn't a Muslim woman wear a hijab?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

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

Your mind doesn't go to these horrible places, Fen, but I'd like to see a reporter ask Flanagan why she's wearing the hijab -- inevitable answer something about respecting a significant and vibrant community blah-blah -- and then follow up by asking if she'll have a clitoridectomy, as have 99% of Somali women. No? Maybe she'll legalize it? (currently outlawed in MN, not that it's stopping anyone)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 03:26 PM (XJ22o)

201 Maybe time served. It's NYC, Jake.

Posted by: torabora at August 13, 2026 03:27 PM (7o6oV)

202 I have heard western feminists laud the hijab and even burka because it means they don't have to worry about "the male gaze"

And the hilarious thing is there is nothing stopping a woman from dressing conservatively in the US and it used to be a leftwing argument that conservative women were boring frumps. More importantly the issue with the hijab/burka is that you don't get to CHOOSE to wear it if you are in a Muslim country

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 03:27 PM (sKqQm)

203 have heard western feminists laud the hijab and even burka because it means they don't have to worry about "the male gaze

=====

Then they go film themselves in the gym in their underwear.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 13, 2026 03:28 PM (YZ0Fo)

204 Which is the same reason, say, Pelosi and weak Dems wore kente cloth stoles and knelt during BLM. Show subjugation and hope they're killed last. Muslims love that.

Posted by: Moron Analyst


That's a bit different. I'm talking about individual risk of being killed, person-to-person, not political maneuvering.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 13, 2026 03:28 PM (vJrRc)

205 I had troops deal with mental issues after easy 9 month deployments. A carrier with >5,500 people after 9 months will always have some issues
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What could possibly go wrong??

Posted by: Chicks On Ships Too at August 13, 2026 03:28 PM (t9gtU)

206
Then they go film themselves in the gym in their underwear.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 13, 2026 03:28 PM (YZ0Fo)

That’s a sports bra! 😂

Posted by: Piper at August 13, 2026 03:29 PM (ZdaMQ)

207 More importantly the issue with the hijab/burka is that you don't get to CHOOSE to wear it if you are in a Muslim country
==
Well, you can choose to wear it, or choose to have acid thrown in your face if you don't. Its a choice.

Posted by: Shrugs at August 13, 2026 03:29 PM (anL5R)

208 Why on earth would anyone who isn't a Muslim woman wear a hijab?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Same reason a woman might call a transer "she" to his face.
Because you're in their territory and you are trying to avoid being killed.
Posted by: FeatherBlade

Which is the same reason, say, Pelosi and weak Dems wore kente cloth stoles and knelt during BLM. Show subjugation and hope they're killed last. Muslims love that.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 13, 2026 03:26 PM (K9nu
____________

It's also an empty, meaningless gesture, and Democraps are the All-Time OGs of empty, meaningless gestures. Putting on a hijab, or kneeling in kente, is one small step above tweeting out a hashtag.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 13, 2026 03:29 PM (iFTx/)

209 That’s a sports bra! 😂
Posted by: Piper at August

Have you been to a Miami gym?? 😂

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 13, 2026 03:29 PM (YZ0Fo)

210 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 03:26 PM (XJ22o)

It's a good question, yes, but nobody would ask it.
Maybe you should become Karoline Leavitt's replacement.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 03:29 PM (y8wRt)

211
Then they go film themselves in the gym in their underwear.


I've seen a recent trend of gym videos where the gym bro is very, very careful to not look at the gym THOT as he walks by her and you can see the gym THOT getting angry about it.

Real?

Who knows.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 03:30 PM (sKqQm)

212 209 That’s a sports bra! 😂
Posted by: Piper at August

Have you been to a Miami gym?? 😂
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 13, 2026 03:29 PM (YZ0Fo)

I have a leggings or capris rule at my studio. I do not want your booty cheeks on my floors or mats. Thank you kindly.

Posted by: Piper at August 13, 2026 03:30 PM (ZdaMQ)

213 Well, you can choose to wear it, or choose to have acid thrown in your face if you don't. Its a choice.
Posted by: Shrugs


Unless some rando decides to throw acid in your face anyway! You just never know with those people!

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 13, 2026 03:30 PM (vJrRc)

214 I agree that the media are a bunch of lying liars, but the fact is that the ships, the barracks, etc, were left to pretty much rot during the previous admin., and in most cases during the Obama admin.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy
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Based on one sailor's text back home then sent to the media. Given UHT treatment of milk making refrigeration unnecessary until opened, I find it doubtful that this is true as do others pointing it out.

And Army has traditionally treated its personnel on food far worse than the Navy so again, much reason to doubt the reported story. I know, I came from an Army family and went Air Force myself for a reason.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 03:31 PM (E4rtv)

215 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 03:26 PM (XJ22o)

I would pay to see her glare at you after asking that one.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 03:31 PM (iABCo)

216 Is it, though?
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Definitely. You'll see. I don't want to hear any whining though.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 13, 2026 03:31 PM (t9gtU)

217
she's too stupid to realize that prostrating yourself before these people only makes them think less of her. They see her as the weak coward she is.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

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

I heard that the porridge that Somalis fed Jacob Frey for his enthusiastic gobbling is essentially workhouse gruel and something you give sick people or prisoners. In fact, he's an awful actor and you could tell he hated it, but he knew what to do: swallow, not spit.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 03:31 PM (XJ22o)

218 So we have created, financed and encouraged a primarily terroristic force in the Ukrainians. Great.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 13, 2026 03:16 PM (zZu0s)


THEY ARE GOOD NAZIS!

Posted by: Kindltot at August 13, 2026 03:31 PM (rbvCR)

219 I have heard western feminists laud the hijab and even burka because it means they don't have to worry about "the male gaze"

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 03:27 PM (sKqQm)
________

Yea, but a new thing is very slim, form-fitting burkas or very slim, form-fitting clothes under a hijab. This is clearly designed to attract the male gaze.

"Let me cover up some of my face, but here's my big rack sticking out for all to see."

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 13, 2026 03:32 PM (iFTx/)

220 I have a leggings or capris rule at my studio. I do not want your booty cheeks on my floors or mats. Thank you kindly.

Posted by: Piper at August 13, 2026 03:30 PM (ZdaMQ)


No way I would wear capris or leggings, but Garrett might!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 13, 2026 03:32 PM (l4RKn)

221
I have a leggings or capris rule at my studio. I do not want your booty cheeks on my floors or mats. Thank you kindly.


Just out and about I see a fair number of women in leggings that let me know they are in fact 100% XX genetic women with the original equipment

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 03:32 PM (sKqQm)

222 Yea, but a new thing is very slim, form-fitting burkas or very slim, form-fitting clothes under a hijab. This is clearly designed to attract the male gaze.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 13, 2026 03:32 PM (iFTx/)


Where? Sure as shit not in London or Paris.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 13, 2026 03:33 PM (l4RKn)

223 220 I have a leggings or capris rule at my studio. I do not want your booty cheeks on my floors or mats. Thank you kindly.

Posted by: Piper at August 13, 2026 03:30 PM (ZdaMQ)

No way I would wear capris or leggings, but Garrett might!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 13, 2026 03:32 PM (l4RKn

You can wear shorts. Unless your booty cheeks hang out.

Posted by: Piper at August 13, 2026 03:33 PM (ZdaMQ)

224
152 129
Anything less and this is a green flag for executions nationwide.
You've already got that. Check out Chi-town murders (every weekend). Add in LA, pick a "blue" city.
Posted by: pahound at August 13, 2026 03:10 PM (AjR4+)

Chicago currently has more than double the next closest city ytd. And only 8 cities are up 26 to 25 ytd. San Diego being one having as many as Orlando Miami and Tampa combined
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 13, 2026 03:13 PM

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Are you saying there have been 26 murders in San Diego year-to-date?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 13, 2026 03:33 PM (VWtfl)

225 Regardless, the sailors and Marines aboad have been there for a long time. They did exercise in November-January and were supposed to go home when Epic Fury called. The Tripoli group was in the same boat, but they got to go home (well, Okinawa) a couple of weeks ago. Maybe Navy can send a different carrier group to relieve the Lincoln.
Posted by: Martin Tell

There is a war on. Sailors in the US Navy during WWII had a helluva worse time. Lincoln has been on station for 250 days, not even 9 months yet.

The Ford, with an extended tour had more to gripe about.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 03:33 PM (E4rtv)

226 she's too stupid to realize that prostrating yourself before these people only makes them think less of her. They see her as the weak coward she is.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

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

I heard that the porridge that Somalis fed Jacob Frey for his enthusiastic gobbling is essentially workhouse gruel and something you give sick people or prisoners. In fact, he's an awful actor and you could tell he hated it, but he knew what to do: swallow, not spit.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 03:31 PM (XJ22o)
_____

Yea. I've had Somali food before. It's more like Italian food. I have no idea what that disgusting mess they served him was. I'm sure they were feeding him something barely above dogfood.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 13, 2026 03:33 PM (iFTx/)

227 >The crazy bitches are not hot for the murderers

They are, in fact, hot for the murderers. It's called hybristophilia and it's been observed in women for a very, very long time.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at August 13, 2026 03:33 PM (LgYtf)

228 I'm probably one of the few who think that plea bargains shouldn't even be a thing.

If the state can't prove its case, it shouldn't be charging the defendant in the first place.

Note that I do believe that the overwhelming majority of people in prison are there justifiably.

But...I also believe that of the small fraction of innocent people in prison, the overwhelming majority are there because of a plea bargain.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 03:33 PM (IG3/x)

229 Just out and about I see a fair number of women in leggings that let me know they are in fact 100% XX genetic women with the original equipment
Posted by: 18-1

You shoulda seen these bodysuit things people were walking around in at universal studios. 1) it's Florida it's effing hot and humid. 2) these are not the people you wanna see in a body suit.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 13, 2026 03:34 PM (YZ0Fo)

230 "Let me cover up some of my face, but here's my big rack sticking out for all to see."

Most people look better in clothing then without any.

While clothing exists to keep us warm and cover up our naughty bits it ALSO exists to flatter our bodies by hiding/obscuring flaws and extending areas where we look good.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 03:34 PM (sKqQm)

231 You can wear shorts. Unless your booty cheeks hang out.
Posted by: Piper at August

Guess I gotta get new shorts.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 13, 2026 03:34 PM (YZ0Fo)

232 There is a war on. Sailors in the US Navy during WWII had a helluva worse time.
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Tell us about it!

Posted by: Crew of the USS Reluctant at August 13, 2026 03:34 PM (amcLV)

233 > You can wear shorts. Unless your booty cheeks hang out.
Posted by: Piper at August 13, 2026 03:33 PM (ZdaMQ)

Or, I presume, have a visible trouser snake peeking out the bottom of the leg.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 03:35 PM (IG3/x)

234 Are you saying there have been 26 murders in San Diego year-to-date?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

29. 2026 to 2025. 29 is the same as Miami Orlando and Tampa combined.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 13, 2026 03:35 PM (YZ0Fo)

235 have heard western feminists laud the hijab and even burka because it means they don't have to worry about "the male gaze

Don't worry about the clitorectomies or beatings.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 13, 2026 03:35 PM (YwXiJ)

236 I have should have put "Why would anyone who is an American citizen , lives in. America and not a Muslim" wear a hijab? I can understand if you are non Muslim in a predominantly Muslim country to protect yourself.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 03:36 PM (y8wRt)

237 I've often heard that leggings should have a maximum PSI rating, like tires.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 03:36 PM (IG3/x)

238 "they don't have to worry about "the male gaze"

In many cases you don't want to see what's under there anyway.

Posted by: fd at August 13, 2026 03:36 PM (MWfyi)

239 Too bad they took away hanging. I would ask to watch.

Posted by: sidney at August 13, 2026 03:36 PM (Uy/WF)

240 have heard western feminists laud the hijab and even burka because it means they don't have to worry about "the male gaze
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Something tells me they didn't have to worry about the male gaze even pre-trashbag.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 03:37 PM (iABCo)

241 The only "male gaze" I've been guilty of towards a hijab-wearing muzzie has been "Get the hell out of my country".

Posted by: Crusader at August 13, 2026 03:37 PM (TN0g+)

242 Nood trans WNBA

Posted by: SciVo at August 13, 2026 03:37 PM (Sy6m/)

243 Anyways, for fun stuff

Secretary Sean Duffy
@SecDuffy
Aug 9
🚨 GAME CHANGER

In April, we launched a NEW CAMPAIGN to recruit video gamers as air traffic controllers — and supercharged the entire hiring process to get the BEST & BRIGHTEST in faster. The results are HISTORIC ✈️

94% of hiring goal met — fastest time ever to reach target
2,000+ hired — the most in a single year
2,000+ “best & brightest” candidates in the pipeline — reaching the Academy quicker than any class before them, thanks to the most streamlined hiring process

We’re building the strongest, sharpest workforce in aviation history

Posted by: Kindltot at August 13, 2026 03:38 PM (rbvCR)

244 they don't have to worry about "the male gaze
==
the male gaze? puuhleez how many only fans hoes are there again, making money off the male gaze?

Nobody is putting a gun to your head to make you wear yoga pants and no bra under a tshirt, when you go to the store, or the library or get on an airplane. I want to be comfortable also - I'd be more comfortable in boxers. But I'm not looking to act the fool.


Posted by: I mean seriously chicks are whack at August 13, 2026 03:38 PM (anL5R)

245 Yea, but a new thing is very slim, form-fitting burkas or very slim, form-fitting clothes under a hijab. This is clearly designed to attract the male gaze.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 13, 2026 03:32 PM (iFTx/)

Where? Sure as shit not in London or Paris.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 13, 2026 03:33 PM (l4RKn)
_____________

I've seen them in NYC, Carolinas, Hawaii, and on a plane back from CA.

The plane ride was when they sent in cops to arrest the Muslim lady in a hijab and tight clothing showing off Bulg-worthy boobs. I told that story here.

You can probably google "tight burka" or "burkini" and see more examples.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 13, 2026 03:38 PM (iFTx/)

246
234 Are you saying there have been 26 murders in San Diego year-to-date?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

29. 2026 to 2025. 29 is the same as Miami Orlando and Tampa combined.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 13, 2026 03:35 PM

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I wasn't aware that San Diego stood out as a murder hotspot.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 13, 2026 03:39 PM (VWtfl)

247 > we had responded to 9/11 with Tokyo style firebombings of every Taliban held city and Sunni Arab city in Iraq I suspect
the last 20 years of war would have looked very different.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 03:21 PM (sKqQm)

That would be a moderate response, in my view.

As I noted at the time, we once had another enemy that liked to fly suicide planes into things.

They rethought that tactic after we glassed two of their cities.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 03:39 PM (IG3/x)

248 Just got back from Minnedishu this week. It is amazing to me how the city of Minneapolis have ceded large chucks of the city to agitators and Grievance Mongers. Everything about the city is completely degraded from what it was when I grew up there in the 60's, 70's, and 80's. It's sad.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 13, 2026 03:40 PM (affD0)

249 Look, these people love living in places where there's lots of murder, and then murderers are set free to murder more, especially when they are murdering for the cause.

Good.

Good for them.

I'm not really into it, though. I like my nearly murder-free living situation. It suits me and my family.

We could just split the country up. We can have our awesome murder-free areas and they can have their awesome kill-orgies all day.

We can clean up our murder-holes at bayonet point. They can, I dunno, jail anybody who doesn't have enough holes punched on their Murder Cards, or something.

Everyone gets what they want.

You're welcome.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 13, 2026 03:41 PM (BI5O2)

250 The Male Gaze is perfectly acceptable given the right amount and proportion of handsomeness and wallet thickness.

Posted by: ballistic at August 13, 2026 03:43 PM (oqH4h)

251 Looking for a lesser sentence, and also planning to use that to have the NY murder charges dropped. NY has strong double jeopardy protections.

Posted by: MikeN at August 13, 2026 03:45 PM (HOf/p)

252 You can wear shorts. Unless your booty cheeks hang out.
Posted by: Piper at August 13, 2026 03:33 PM


What about itty-bitty yellow polks-dot bikinis, worn for the first time today?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 13, 2026 03:45 PM (0sNs1)

253 Sorry, forgot the teeny-weenie in that.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 13, 2026 03:46 PM (0sNs1)

254
I have heard western feminists laud the hijab and even burka because it means they don't have to worry about "the male gaze"

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 03:27 PM (sKqQm)


I've seen it said that if you think a nun's habit is OK but a hijab is bad, you're nothing but a bigot.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 03:46 PM (O0L8i)

255 John Hinkley deus

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 13, 2026 03:46 PM (NFX2v)

256 No way I would wear capris or leggings, but Garrett might!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 13, 2026 03:32 PM (l4RKn

You can wear shorts. Unless your booty cheeks hang out.
Posted by: Piper at August 13, 2026 03:33 PM (ZdaMQ)


Men do not have booty cheeks. They have butt cheeks.
Some don't even have that, just the top of legs and a waist.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 13, 2026 03:48 PM (zafwz)

257 Men do not have booty cheeks. They have butt cheeks.
Some don't even have that, just the top of legs and a waist.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 13, 2026 03:48 PM (zafwz)

***

When have you seen me nekkid?

Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 13, 2026 03:49 PM (affD0)

258
Men do not have booty cheeks. They have butt cheeks.
Some don't even have that, just the top of legs and a waist.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 13, 2026 03:48 PM (zafwz)


Or the classic Big Belly, No Ass look.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 03:49 PM (O0L8i)

259 156 134 Ukrainian troops from the battle-tested 412th Regiment of Unmanned Systems Forces, known as Nemesis, effectively eliminated a U.S. armored brigade during the Combined Resolve exercise in April and May. Roughly 3,500 American personnel, primarily from the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, participated.
___

Disturbing is an understatement.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy

Kind of depends. Were the US forces allowed to deploy Epirus Leonidas & HAVOC weapons. Essentially, it throws a wall of electromagnetic energy a an onslaught of drones and takes them down in seconds.
Posted by: Orson
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War games.

Oh yeah, let's keep giving $, weapons, and drone contracts

Ukrainian Drones ‘Wiped Out’ US Armored Brigade in Germany’s War Games
In brief: Ukrainian drone operators repeatedly “destroyed” a 3,500-strong US armored brigade during war games in Germany, forcing exercise officials to “resurrect” vehicles so the drills could continue, by Kyiv Post | Aug. 13, 2026

SMH is right.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 13, 2026 03:54 PM (NFX2v)

260 What is this I’m hearing about Trump selling early access to Truth Social posts for 100k?

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 13, 2026 03:55 PM (W2Pud)

261 Spanish unpleasantness = Spanish Civil War, a real civil war, unlike our war between the states that got redefined as a civil war by the victors. A real civil war is going to be a lot nastier and much more unpleasant, i.e., more murderous, more given to atrocity, than what was once called “the recent unpleasantness”.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 13, 2026 03:59 PM (ZVgZ4)

262 >>Murderers should get the death penalty.

Very late to the party, but disagree. Traditionally, even first degree murders got 20 years, absent major amplification.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 13, 2026 04:22 PM (NcvvS)

Karoline Leavitt Will Leave Her Job as WH Spokeswoman at the End of the Month

karolineleavittdeparts.jpg

She says she wants to mother her new baby, and for once I believe the "spend more time with my family" line.

Karoline Leavitt

@karolineleavitt


Serving as the White House Press Secretary over the past year and a half has been the honor and adventure of a lifetime. I am incredibly grateful to President Trump for granting me so many extraordinary opportunities, such as working in the West Wing and spending countless hours in the Oval Office, flying around the world and meeting foreign leaders, and traveling across our beautiful country and meeting Americans from all walks of life.

Most of all, I am thankful to the President for entrusting me with the distinct privilege of speaking on his behalf at the White House podium. I have spoken with great pride about the many historic accomplishments of this Administration, and I have relished holding the liberal media accountable and ensuring the American people hear the truth about President Trump's successes.

Being a mother and welcoming a new baby while working in one of the most demanding jobs in the world has been the most rewarding yet challenging season of my life, to say the least. The truth is since returning to the White House after the birth of my daughter, I have felt in my heart that I cannot be the best mom my two young children deserve while devoting the constant time, energy, and attention required of the White House Press Secretary -- and that is why I have ultimately made the bittersweet decision to depart the White House and embark on a new chapter in my life.

President Trump has asked me to continue serving as a top advisor to him on the outside, and I will always remain a vocal advocate for MAGA and the Republican Party.

Our country is facing an existential threat from an increasingly extremist Democrat Party that seeks to destroy everything great about America, and I believe it is incumbent upon all of us who care about this country to fight back against that threat. My fight is entering a new phase, but it is far from over.

Thank you again to the President, the First Lady, and the entire Trump family for your kindness and generosity over the years. Thank you to our amazing Chief of Staff Susie Wiles for empowering me since the day she hired me on the campaign, and to the President's cabinet, my staff, colleagues, and friends at the White House who work so hard on behalf of our nation. It has been a privilege to serve alongside so many accomplished and impressive people, and I look forward to cheering them on over the next two and a half years.

And of course, thank you most especially to my loving and supportive husband and family for the sacrifices they made for me to serve in this role.


I searched for "best of Karoline Leavitt" on YouTube. The first two hits were attacks on Karoline Leavitt by leftwingers. I'm so tired of Google and its constant election interference and reality distortion. I want it broken up into fifteen different companies.

That's my excuse for only being able to link this neutral/antagonisitic compilation of Leavitt battling the media. (If you know of a good one, one that Google is hiding, let me know.)

And Sisyphus trudges another weary step:

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:28 PM




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1 Uno!

Posted by: The Paolo at August 13, 2026 01:28 PM (g47mK)

2 e5bhe5b5e

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 01:28 PM (XJ22o)

3 I hope she is well protected because the left are psychotic.

Posted by: steevy at August 13, 2026 01:29 PM (YwEeS)

4 She will be missed

Posted by: Doof at August 13, 2026 01:29 PM (S0M0K)

5
Of course. The Paolo.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 01:29 PM (XJ22o)

6
She will be missed
Posted by: Doof

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She will be back.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 01:29 PM (XJ22o)

7 Marco Rubio finding out he�s about to also become the WH Press Secretary pic.twitter.com/7TkMxBgyKC

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 12, 2026

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you people laff, but he did his stint as Press Sec when Leavitt was on leave

Posted by: runner at August 13, 2026 01:29 PM (g47mK)

8 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 13, 2026 01:30 PM (kgE5c)

9 Another funny meme on Marco Rubio- thanks!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 01:31 PM (JrHfD)

10
Who do we think will replace her?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 01:31 PM (XJ22o)

11 I don't find fault with anyone who wants to raise her own children. Consuela from Honduras does not love them more than their mother.

Posted by: huerfano at August 13, 2026 01:31 PM (2Xqig)

12 Leavitt was excellent. Sorry she's going. But glad she's staying on in an advisory capacity. I take that as a sign she'll be back in some official capacity.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 13, 2026 01:31 PM (iFTx/)

13 He was given a collage of all the "MR finds out" memes for his birthday, signed by ...many people, including Trump. I think POTUS signed in gold.

Posted by: runner at August 13, 2026 01:32 PM (g47mK)

14 $10 says Trump hires another attractive femme. He likes blondes.

Posted by: Don Black at August 13, 2026 01:33 PM (ZxPkt)

15 Gladiators Hall of Fame.

Two in, one out.

Posted by: 13times at August 13, 2026 01:33 PM (6iKlf)

16 By the end of President Trump's term, Marco Rubio will be wearing more hats than Bartholomew Cubbins.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 13, 2026 01:33 PM (FZ29D)

17 $10 says Trump hires another attractive femme. He likes blondes.
Posted by: Don Black

There's a stable to choose from.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 13, 2026 01:34 PM (7zn4w)

18 Yay for her. Sad for us.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 13, 2026 01:34 PM (lrRtF)

19 I wish her the best. She is fantastic.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 13, 2026 01:34 PM (Sco7b)

20 >>.you people laff, but he did his stint as Press Sec when Leavitt was on leave

oh right.

The internet has really given me brain damage and memory loss.

I wonder if Biden spent a lot of time online.

Posted by: ace at August 13, 2026 01:34 PM (1wjle)

21 The "Marco Rubio finds out" pix never get old.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 13, 2026 01:34 PM (amcLV)

22 She made the right call.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 13, 2026 01:34 PM (3mtTi)

23 $10 says Trump hires another attractive femme. He likes blondes.
Posted by: Don Black at August 13, 2026 01:33 PM (ZxPkt)
_______

True, but he also probably thinks -- as I do -- that a lady as spokesperson has certain advantages over a man, especially if she's pretty and good at her job.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 13, 2026 01:35 PM (iFTx/)

24
IF she were smart, she would have had some of her eggs frozen, like me!

Posted by: AOC, Hoping Still to Foal a Triple Crown Winner One of These Days at August 13, 2026 01:35 PM (s9VOe)

25 The law of Trump resignations is: the replacement is worse, never better. How could you do worse than Leavitt?

Erika Kirk

Family. That’s what it always is with these ghouls. They want you to think they have morals but it’s just a facade.

The tales she'll be able to tell her Grandkids! "Let me tell you how I helped make sure your entire life will progressively get worse as you house floods, burns down, and you die of chemical exposure."

History will remember her as a vile, lying enabler of one of the worst humans to ever unfortunately stumble into power.

If you don't think this administration (including Leavitt) will be examined and studied for its corruption and lawlessness, I don't know what to tell you. Her lies and obfuscation are big parts of how they've been able to largely avoid consequences and accountability from the general population.

She's not a run-of-the-mill press secretary.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 13, 2026 01:35 PM (K9nu8)

26 Who do we think will replace her?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 01:31 PM (XJ22o)


I'd like to see Nick Searcy do that job

Posted by: Doof at August 13, 2026 01:35 PM (S0M0K)

27
There are so many "rules" about this ritual that don't make sense to me. Why can't the Press Secretary refuse to take questions from organizations that continually lie? Admittedly, she'd be taking questions from just a handful of organizations, but they could rotate in high school or college journalists, maybe some of those freebie Coast Weekly publications -- as they're called in California. Probably have some name like Plains Weekly elsewhere.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 01:35 PM (XJ22o)

28 Nice palate-cleanser from the last thread, Ace. Thank you.

Hope we get another babe like her.

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 01:36 PM (77rzZ)

29 Gonna be hard to find someone as good as Karoline.

Posted by: Eromero at August 13, 2026 01:36 PM (qsfar)

30 The "Marco Rubio finds out" pix never get old.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 13, 2026 01:34 PM (amcLV)


Disagree. It really needs to be retired.

Posted by: Doof at August 13, 2026 01:36 PM (S0M0K)

31 $10 says Trump hires another attractive femme. He likes blondes.

==

as long as it's not that little roly-poly from Breitbart

Posted by: runner at August 13, 2026 01:36 PM (g47mK)

32 i doubt Kayleigh McEnany could be persuaded to come back...

Posted by: ace at August 13, 2026 01:36 PM (1wjle)

33 WH Press Sec is a demanding job. Have there been any recent ones who have lasted more than a couple of years?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 13, 2026 01:36 PM (amcLV)

34 > I wonder if Biden spent a lot of time online.

Hot Toddlers dot com

Posted by: bonhomme at August 13, 2026 01:36 PM (mkw2N)

35 Damn, Karoline in that green dress. I'll be in my bunk.

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 01:37 PM (77rzZ)

36 She made the right call.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Nuh-uh!!

Posted by: Massachusetts at August 13, 2026 01:37 PM (wppq6)

37 Rantingly had a picture of her in red that would make Bulg take notice. Me too, honestly

Posted by: 496 at August 13, 2026 01:37 PM (OaiXh)

38 AlextheChick!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 13, 2026 01:37 PM (kpS4V)

39 Rantingly has a picture of her in red that would make Bulg take notice. Me too, honestly

Posted by: 496 at August 13, 2026 01:37 PM (OaiXh)

40 IF THE MARINE CORPS WANTED YOU TO HAVE A BABY THEY WOULD HAVE ISSUED YOU ONE!!!

Posted by: Company Gunny at August 13, 2026 01:38 PM (2UnvF)

41 I searched for "best of Karoline Leavitt" on YouTube. The first two hits were attacks on Karoline Leavitt by leftwingers. I'm so tired of Google and its constant election interference and reality distortion. I want it broken up into fifteen different companies.
======
FWIW, Ace, Pixy's story below today indicates that Cloudfare is getting ready to block a lot of the webcrawler activity that Google depends upon for access. And that the publishers have figured to do the same. That cripples the search engine acquisition of new data. My guess is the AI companies writ broadly want that new data for themselves, not the dying search indexing model web browsers.

I think AI augmented web browsers are going the be the first AI killer application that average folks have of AI along with virtual pron. Whether google retains the crown and revenues or slumps into IBM decline depends on their AI model ironically and Google in turn is depending on Android to bring that crown home, not desktops.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 01:38 PM (E4rtv)

42 Oops

Posted by: 496 at August 13, 2026 01:38 PM (OaiXh)

43 Trump should find a well spoken bombshell who's been done dirty by the MSM mob.

Payback's a bitch in a suit with an ax to grind.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 13, 2026 01:38 PM (2Cry5)

44 She won't be eligible to run for President until the '36 election.

Posted by: Wi Tu Yung at August 13, 2026 01:38 PM (JM9I6)

45 Good for her!
Raising her kids is important, and her job requires 24x7 availability. Tough choice, but the right choice.

Posted by: Lizzy Clinton at August 13, 2026 01:38 PM (4KUe5)

46 $10 says Trump hires another attractive femme. He likes blondes.
Posted by: Don Black


True, but they must also possess superlative knife skills.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 13, 2026 01:39 PM (Riz8t)

47 1 Uno!
Posted by: The Paolo at August 13, 2026 01:28 PM


I promise you that commenting here is the only time I, how you say, go first.

Posted by: Paolo at August 13, 2026 01:39 PM (0sNs1)

48 38 AlextheChick!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 13, 2026 01:37 PM (kpS4V)

Don't think she's blonde. But she will have the WH Press Corps begging for mercy after her first press conference. It would be an awesome show.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 13, 2026 01:39 PM (N39Ws)

49 i doubt Kayleigh McEnany could be persuaded to come back...

==

...they had a slight falling out during 2024 primary, he called her "Milktoast McEnany" and a "RINO" ...

Posted by: runner at August 13, 2026 01:39 PM (g47mK)

50 I found out today that Elvis was only 42 when he died. That dude lived a rough life.
Posted by: Bulg

I remember when Elvis died. I thought, "42, huh? Well, he had a good run."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 13, 2026 01:40 PM (ndZc7)

51 I wonder if Biden spent a lot of time online.
Posted by: ace
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No need, his own family provided him with plenty of live action pron.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 01:40 PM (E4rtv)

52 Unspoken Narrative: "They have eggs. We have babies."

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 01:40 PM (iABCo)

53 Might I suggest Greg Gutfeld?



He has the proper attitude, and would laugh off their stupidity.


Posted by: Lizzy at August 13, 2026 01:40 PM (4KUe5)

54 $10 says Trump hires another attractive femme. He likes blondes.
Posted by: Don Black

True, but they must also possess superlative knife skills.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 13, 2026 01:39 PM


So, bluebell?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 13, 2026 01:40 PM (0sNs1)

55 Whoever replaces her, I hope they do a background check on the husband or wife first.

Noem sayin'?

Posted by: sifty boones at August 13, 2026 01:40 PM (i9sDw)

56 Give Eva Vlaardingerbroek citizenship and the gig.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 13, 2026 01:40 PM (XvL8K)

57 She says she wants to mother her new baby, and for once I believe the "spend more time with my family" line.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:28 PM

Without reading any of the articles, my immediate thought was "She's got a newborn, of course she doesn't want to work 22 hours a day on something else."

Funny, all that programming and pushing women to be girl bosses and when they find the thing they were literally designed to do, most of them will pick that.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 13, 2026 01:41 PM (N1tpc)

58 Karoline has been a treasure.

Posted by: Crusader at August 13, 2026 01:41 PM (TN0g+)

59 That’s: we have LIVE babies!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 13, 2026 01:41 PM (4KUe5)

60 Thank you Karoline and best wishes for you and your family. You will not be forgotten, nor your efforts to fight the good fight and steer this Country back onto a proper path.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at August 13, 2026 01:41 PM (yyBU8)

61 AlextheChick!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 13, 2026 01:37 PM (kpS4V)

Don't think she's blonde. But she will have the WH Press Corps begging for mercy after her first press conference. It would be an awesome show.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed


When she mounts the stepstool of doom...

Posted by: rickb223 at August 13, 2026 01:41 PM (lrRtF)

62 I found out today that Elvis was only 42 when he died. That dude lived a rough life.
Posted by: Bulg

I remember when Elvis died. I thought, "42, huh? Well, he had a good run."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 13, 2026 01:40 PM (ndZc7)
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Groucho Marx died not long after.

Mere coincidence?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 13, 2026 01:42 PM (amcLV)

63 Give Eva Vlaardingerbroek citizenship and the gig.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Ooooh, there ya go.

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 01:42 PM (77rzZ)

64
History will remember her as a vile, lying enabler of one of the worst humans to ever unfortunately stumble into power.

There really are Two Americas.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 13, 2026 01:42 PM (Cqx++)

65 for once I believe the "spend more time with my family" line.

-----

For my part, I don't believe her. She's a DC lizard. She's either fired, or left because there's nowhere further to go on this path. Look for her in some other seedy little venue soon.

Luckily, it doesn't matter, because PressSec is perhaps the least important sinecure in the history of empire.

They should replace her with a text-to-voice generator housed inside a Big Mouth Billy Bass, just for fun.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 13, 2026 01:42 PM (BI5O2)

66 Karoline was awesome. I feel sorry for anyone that has to replace her because those are pretty big shoes to fill.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 13, 2026 01:42 PM (NpAcC)

67 Leavitt is a class act. Much respect

I can’t get enough of all the hundreds of variations of that Rubio meme LoL

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 13, 2026 01:42 PM (MaA4a)

68 AlextheChick!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 13, 2026 01:37 PM (kpS4V)

Don't think she's blonde. But she will have the WH Press Corps begging for mercy after her first press conference. It would be an awesome show.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed


When she mounts the stepstool of doom...
Posted by: rickb223 at August 13, 2026 01:41 PM


MWR for Deputy Press Sec.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 13, 2026 01:42 PM (kgE5c)

69 I hear Karine Jean-Pierre is available...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 13, 2026 01:43 PM (vQrSy)

70 A good moment, opportunity, to radically shake-up the paradigm of press relations. No more individuals; let's get a rotating team of people, tough, direct and aggressive communicators who personally challenge each and every the media lie. Let's begin every press briefing with a 5-10 minute video compilation of media lies over the past week (even dig bag to recent history) -- calling out individuals and networks and websites to their faces and showing the receipts. Enough with the bubbly greetings and pretense that they don't hate Trump, America and us, and let's go to war -- in a straightfoward, factually-based, dispassionate manner.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 13, 2026 01:43 PM (b4LBp)

71 She will be missed
Posted by: Doof

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

She will be back.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 01:29 PM (XJ22o)
===

I can see her at the podium:

"See what you did? You made Achilles cry! And angry!"

Posted by: mrp at August 13, 2026 01:43 PM (rj6Yv)

72 (Insert Marco Rubio dreading an additional job meme here)

Posted by: Lizzy at August 13, 2026 01:43 PM (4KUe5)

73 Call me soft, but I want the mere presence of the next Press Secretary to actually dissuade the leftist media to even show up to the briefing room, and if they do they get verbally trashed so badly that they begin crying and actively cutting themselves.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 13, 2026 01:44 PM (wppq6)

74 ...they had a slight falling out during 2024 primary, he called her "Milktoast McEnany" and a "RINO" ...
Posted by: runner at August 13, 2026 01:39 PM (g47mK)


Didn't know that. Can't understand why he does that stuff to people on "our side".

Posted by: Doof at August 13, 2026 01:44 PM (S0M0K)

75 The Conservative Case for David French as PressSec

Posted by: sifty boones at August 13, 2026 01:44 PM (i9sDw)

76 I can’t get enough of all the hundreds of variations of that Rubio meme LoL
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 13, 2026 01:42 PM (MaA4a)
-----------
Don't tell Doof...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 13, 2026 01:44 PM (amcLV)

77 Elvis?! He died on the crapper!

Posted by: Red Foreman at August 13, 2026 01:44 PM (7zn4w)

78 Posted by: Lizzy at August 13, 2026 01:41 PM (4KUe5)

Ouch Lizzy - and yes

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 01:44 PM (iABCo)

79 53 Might I suggest Greg Gutfeld?



He has the proper attitude, and would laugh off their stupidity.


Posted by: Lizzy
=======
So does the Kill Tony guy.

And to be honest, it is long past the time to recognize that press conferences are dead--there is no news in them--only competing narratives between partisan players. And even worse when a Democrat is in the WH--then it is the media servicing the Dem propaganda machine by augmenting WH narratives.

Just put out press releases and live video if you are not Trump that enjoys dumping on the enemedia. No need to feed the hamsters pretending they are actually objective seekers of the news instead of partisan hacks.

The form exists but the underlying spirit of the idea is long dead and the media killed it along with any pretense of objectivity.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 01:44 PM (E4rtv)

80
Might I suggest Greg Gutfeld?



He has the proper attitude, and would laugh off their stupidity.


Posted by: Lizzy

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

He could broadcast his show live from the podium. "And tonight, we have... Yamiche Alcindor! She tried to follow her dreams, but her dreams retreated. Aaaand Kaitlin Collins! She's never been misgendered... by Stevie Wonder."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 01:44 PM (XJ22o)

81 Karoline was awesome. I feel sorry for anyone that has to replace her because those are pretty big shoes to fill.
Posted by: redridinghood

Shoes aren't the clothing I think of when I think of Karoline and "pretty big."

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 01:45 PM (77rzZ)

82 I wonder if Biden spent a lot of time online.

Hot Toddlers dot com
Posted by: bonhomme

Mattlock reruns, if IIRC.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 13, 2026 01:45 PM (NnhvP)

83 75 The Conservative Case for David French as PressSec
Posted by: sifty boones
=======
Well, he does enjoy a good cucking.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 01:45 PM (E4rtv)

84 Kayleigh McEnany was a wonderful press secretary.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 13, 2026 01:45 PM (NpAcC)

85 No one could survive an Alex the chick - MWR combination!

Would redefine “going nuclear on the press.”

Posted by: Lizzy at August 13, 2026 01:45 PM (4KUe5)

86 I hear Karine Jean-Pierre is available...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 13, 2026 01:43 PM (vQrSy)

I think she's too busy on the Supreme Court.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 01:45 PM (iABCo)

87 54 $10 says Trump hires another attractive femme. He likes blondes.
Posted by: Don Black

True, but they must also possess superlative knife skills.
Posted by: Archimedes

I believe Kellyanne Conway is available, although her and Trump have been a bit rocky over the last few years as I recall.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 13, 2026 01:46 PM (K9nu8)

88 Max Headroom

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 13, 2026 01:46 PM (Cqx++)

89 She's gonna be hard to replace

Posted by: It's me donna at August 13, 2026 01:46 PM (vQrSy)

90 I'd laugh my ass off if Ben Shapiro showed up for a day. Just as a joke.

The press would shit a live chicken.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 13, 2026 01:47 PM (i9sDw)

91 we need a New Face!

Posted by: runner at August 13, 2026 01:47 PM (g47mK)

92 He was given a collage of all the "MR finds out" memes for his birthday, signed by ...many people, including Trump. I think POTUS signed in gold.

Not The Bee has a picture. It is indeed gold.

Also there's a "MR finds out he's a WNBA player" one now. Those are fantastic.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 13, 2026 01:47 PM (2ocoG)

93 D-Lamp

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 13, 2026 01:47 PM (Cqx++)

94 Marco Rubio finding out he’s about to also become the WH Press Secretary…

He looks like Sam Kinison.

Well, when Kinison was alive. Not now.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 13, 2026 01:47 PM (olroh)

95 I'd laugh my ass off if Ben Shapiro showed up for a day. Just as a joke.

The press would shit a live chicken.


Or Crowder. That would be epic.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 13, 2026 01:48 PM (2ocoG)

96 I would nominate Stephen Miller. He takes zero shits from the press. Or, if he wasn't so effective at Treasury, Bessent, for the same reason.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 13, 2026 01:48 PM (bNf8H)

97 stumble into power.
--------

People do tend to stumble when you shoot them in the ear.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 01:48 PM (iABCo)

98 69 I hear Karine Jean-Pierre is available...
Posted by: It's me donna

HIVE MIND!

She's also rested, ready and naturally tanned, in addition to having quit the dems.

Posted by: Auspex at August 13, 2026 01:48 PM (Y8DZL)

99 $10 to the first new Press Sec to offer to shave Butch Collins' mustache during a briefing.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 13, 2026 01:48 PM (i9sDw)

100 I humbly submit my nomination for Dorángel "Hannibal" Vargas as PressSec. I may actually bother to watch a presser.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 13, 2026 01:48 PM (BI5O2)

101 Does she get to keep Secret Service protection ( which I assume she had) after she leaves ? Because I wouldn't put it past some leftist nutcase to go after her.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 01:48 PM (wmzkx)

102 Didn't know that. Can't understand why he does that stuff to people on "our side".
Posted by: Doof
=======
Because GOP hanger ons don't understand political loyalty. They loudly proclaim muh principles while putting the knife firmly in the back of whoever brought them into the spotlight. And they do it to the cheers of the Democrats and media.

Save the petty crap for memoirs years down the road.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 01:49 PM (E4rtv)

103 I can’t get enough of all the hundreds of variations of that Rubio meme LoL
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 13, 2026 01:42 PM (MaA4a)
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Don't tell Doof...
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 13, 2026 01:44 PM (amcLV)


Ha! Not sure why, but that meme got old very fast for me. Its moment of whelming me has passed.

Posted by: Doof at August 13, 2026 01:49 PM (S0M0K)

104 I'd laugh my ass off if Ben Shapiro showed up for a day. Just as a joke.

The press would shit a live chicken.
Posted by: sifty boones at August 13, 2026 01:47 PM (i9sDw)

The Woke Reich certainly would!

Posted by: runner at August 13, 2026 01:49 PM (g47mK)

105 ...and then they would fuck that chicken..

Posted by: runner at August 13, 2026 01:49 PM (g47mK)

106 Blast from the past:

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=8EsUNOIYyKg

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 13, 2026 01:50 PM (amcLV)

107 How could it possibly be difficult to replace a PressSec?

Go to a newsroom. Select a person. There, you're done.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 13, 2026 01:50 PM (BI5O2)

108
Let's begin every press briefing with a 5-10 minute video compilation of media lies over the past week (even dig bag to recent history) -- calling out individuals and networks and websites to their faces and showing the receipts.

Posted by: Ordinary American

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

That's EXACTLY what I've fantasized about! Or just pick one organization to kick off the conference, exhibit their blatant lie, and tell them they'll be permitted to ask questions when and only when their organization issues a front-page or prime-time retraction ALONG WITH an honest explanation -- and by honest explanation, I mean "We didn't bother checking because we were lazy" or "We went with this narrative because we're biased," not "We regret this totally accidental error that we can't pinpoint on anyone as it is not up to our extremely high standards for factuality and objectivity. Death to MAGA."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 01:50 PM (XJ22o)

109 That's too bad, she's great. But good for her and her young children to have that nice home life. Heh, and of course her husband too.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 13, 2026 01:50 PM (n5tGW)

110 I believe Kellyanne Conway is available, although her and Trump have been a bit rocky over the last few years as I recall.
Posted by: Moron Analyst

She's done. She was one of the big leakers in the Trump I admin and you notice she was definitely on the outside for Trump II. Trump I had to take what he could get and most of them were treacherous snakes out for themselves.

Trump II had the scouring of the Democrats that scarred him and scared off the wannabees influence collectors. Left him with solid warriors this time instead of GOPe milksop surrender crap.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 01:51 PM (E4rtv)

111 If you don't think this administration (including Leavitt) will be examined and studied for its corruption and lawlessness, I don't know what to tell you.
--
Tell me how you plan to reduce the size, scope and reach of the federal government so that no one like Trump can ever be this lawless and corrupt again.

Oh, nothing? All the laws and regulations in place that allow this lawlessness and corruption are fine?

Because you are fine with the lawlessness and corruption--if it's your side in power.
But then you call it "getting done what needs done for the American people."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 13, 2026 01:51 PM (3cUTc)

112 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 13, 2026 01:50 PM (BI5O2)

I think you would make a great Press Secretary, YD.

If only you had cannons.

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 01:51 PM (77rzZ)

113 At the GatewayPundit right now...

Hours following Trump’s announcement, The New York Post reported that two front-runners have emerged as potential successors to Leavitt and both are staunch loyalists to the President.

Trump administration sources told the Post that Trump is looking at Alina Habba, who served as a defense lawyer for Trump and as a former acting attorney for New Jersey, and Breitbart Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle.



For what it's worth...
Too bad Hannity's busy...

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 13, 2026 01:51 PM (Sco7b)

114 Allen West would make an awesome press secretery

Posted by: what the cat drug in at August 13, 2026 01:52 PM (jrgJz)

115 Stephen Miller is single- focused on immigration.

As much as I’d enjoy him as press secretary, he has ONE JOB. He takes it very seriously. We are better for it.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 13, 2026 01:52 PM (4KUe5)

116 The best thing about the interwebs is that you get to hear from all the brilliant people that can come up with stuff like this, who would otherwise labor in obscurity.

Selections from H.P. Lovecraft’s Brief Tenure as a Whitman’s Sampler Copywriter

Chocolate Cherry Cordial
You must not think me mad when I tell you what I found below the thin shell of chocolate used to disguise this bonbon’s true face. Yes! Hidden beneath its rich exterior is a hideously moist cherry cordial! What deranged architect could have engineered this non-Euclidean aberration? I dare not speculate.

Caramel Chew
There is a dimension ruled by a blind caramel God-King who sits on a vast, cyclopean milk-chocolate throne while his mindless, gooey followers dance to the piping of crazed flutes. It is said that there are gateways in our world that lead to this caramel hell-planet. The delectable Caramel Chew may be one such portal.


https://tinyurl.com/yhd2jdrx

Posted by: Archimedes at August 13, 2026 01:52 PM (Riz8t)

117 bring back that Sean guy!

I thought he was good

plus we have to help out the 50ish white dudes

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 13, 2026 01:52 PM (j+aD2)

118 Oooh, Alina Habba would be great. Nice cannons on that one.

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 01:53 PM (77rzZ)

119 "We have decided to switch things up a little in the White House Press room. We believe you, the media, should always be entertained. Therefore, we will be hiring Candace Owens as Press Secretary. And, while we are used to discussing the issues of the day, we will, instead, be focusing on entertainment. Ms. Owens will be standing on her head during Press Conferences, and journalists are encouraged to toss nickels at her nostrils to score points. PLEASE NO WAGERING."

Posted by: Orson at August 13, 2026 01:53 PM (dIske)

120 Might be onto something there. Just have a rotating schedule of all the worst enemies of the press.

Nick Searcy, Ben Shapiro, Nick Shirley.

Keep someone on hand for solemn and important shit, but day to day just fuck with 'em.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 13, 2026 01:53 PM (i9sDw)

121 I mean, I'm not telephonic enough, but I could "*easily* do this job, short of that problem.

1.) Read the President's talking point. SKILL LEVEL: 7th Grade literacy

2.) Respond viciously to retarded reporters. SKILL LEVEL: IQ >>> Retard

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 13, 2026 01:53 PM (BI5O2)

122 Maybe it's proof of our differences but the Right can meme itself while the Left are clueless.

In the art thread I posted how Americans can take insults and embrace them and turn them into our own. Of course morons have to snark and began pointing out different cultural symbols that were cancelled instead of embraced. All that did was prove the Left aren't real Americans because they only cancel. They can't turn the tables. They hate being mocked.

Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 01:53 PM (KC5Lt)

123 Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 01:51 PM (77rzZ)

Are you seconding my YD nomination.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 01:53 PM (iABCo)

124 38 AlextheChick!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 13, 2026 01:37 PM (kpS4V)

She'd have the greatest fucking stepstool, from which she would rain fire and brimstone on those dummies.

Like AND subscribe, bitches!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 13, 2026 01:53 PM (AdHga)

125 Telegenic, I meant.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 13, 2026 01:54 PM (BI5O2)

126 107 How could it possibly be difficult to replace a PressSec?

Go to a newsroom. Select a person. There, you're done.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Ron Ziegler for Nixon came from the J. Walter Thompson ad agency, not a newsroom. Notably Ziegler was loyal to Nixon until the very end and urged him to fight his impeachment all the way to a Senate trial.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 01:54 PM (E4rtv)

127 >>> At the GatewayPundit right now...
Hours following Trump’s announcement, The New York Post reported that two front-runners have emerged as potential successors to Leavitt and both are staunch loyalists to the President.
Trump administration sources told the Post that Trump is looking at Alina Habba, who served as a defense lawyer for Trump and as a former acting attorney for New Jersey, and Breitbart Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle.

I don't think it would be Matthew Boyle. It's been years and years since I talked to him, but when I met him, he had a anxious/nervous introvert's disposition and was not confident nor charismatic.

Posted by: ace at August 13, 2026 01:54 PM (1wjle)

128 Selections from H.P. Lovecraft’s Brief Tenure as a Whitman’s Sampler Copywriter
https://tinyurl.com/yhd2jdrx
Posted by: Archimedes


That's actually funny.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 13, 2026 01:55 PM (diia5)

129 107 How could it possibly be difficult to replace a PressSec?

Go to a newsroom. Select a person. There, you're done.



I have two words for you. Sean Spicer.

Actually, I have five words: Sean Spicer and Anthony Scaramucci

Posted by: Archimedes at August 13, 2026 01:55 PM (Riz8t)

130
Telegenic, I meant.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

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What we need is someone who's telepathic. Also psychopathic.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 01:55 PM (XJ22o)

131 Are you seconding my YD nomination.
Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 01:53 PM (iABCo)

Good one or Eric the Blade.. He could always sweep in to the press room with his first Blade retorts !

Posted by: It's me donna at August 13, 2026 01:55 PM (vQrSy)

132 MWR for Deputy Press Sec.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 13, 2026 01:42 PM (kgE5c)

From the Trampoline of Magnificence.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 13, 2026 01:55 PM (AdHga)

133 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

I nominated you for press sec yesterday because I thought your resume included a hypothetical "idea" to bar the doors and set fire to the place. I don't remotely advocate that kind of thing but I admire your spunk. Then again I don't want to put words in your mouth.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 10:58 AM (iABCo)

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 01:55 PM (iABCo)

134 She'd have the greatest fucking stepstool, from which she would rain fire and brimstone on those dummies.

Like AND subscribe, bitches!
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 13, 2026 01:53 PM (AdHga)
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Fire and brimstone seem pretty harsh. She'd get more done with a tray of lemon bars.

Posted by: mrp at August 13, 2026 01:56 PM (rj6Yv)

135 I have two words for you. Sean Spicer.


yeah! that guy!

he was awesome before

he'll be better Round Two

or ... Doocy?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 13, 2026 01:56 PM (j+aD2)

136 I would nominate Stephen Miller. He takes zero shits from the press. Or, if he wasn't so effective at Treasury, Bessent, for the same reason.

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His wife was mentioned. She used to work for the WH during Trump v1.0. But they have 4 kids !

Posted by: runner at August 13, 2026 01:56 PM (g47mK)

137 Are you seconding my YD nomination.
Posted by: ...

Well, I guess. Too bad he's a dude, though.

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 01:56 PM (77rzZ)

138 Habba, Alina Habbaaaaa

*dances in a circle*

Posted by: ballistic at August 13, 2026 01:56 PM (oqH4h)

139 Side Scrollers is watching James O'Keefe's newest video.

He dressed as a muslim for Minnesota's primary in order to test their 'vouching' law and successfully got ballots for 8 men and women in burkas.

Obviously, no one should take that state's election results seriously.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at August 13, 2026 01:56 PM (vSvIl)

140 meh on Alina

that's just .. too on the nose

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 13, 2026 01:56 PM (j+aD2)

141 >>>https://tinyurl.com/yhd2jdrx
Posted by: Archimedes

so funny, man.

in his house in Ryleh dead Cthulhu waits deliciously

Posted by: ace at August 13, 2026 01:56 PM (1wjle)

142 AlextheChick!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 13, 2026 01:37 PM (kpS4V)

She'd have the greatest fucking stepstool, from which she would rain fire and brimstone on those dummies.

Like AND subscribe, bitches!
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 13, 2026 01:53 PM (AdHga)
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Come for the press scorching. Stay for the Victory Tits.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 13, 2026 01:56 PM (amcLV)

143 Fire and brimstone seem pretty harsh. She'd get more done with a tray of lemon bars.

Posted by: mrp at August 13, 2026 01:56 PM (rj6Yv)

But what about the raptors?!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 13, 2026 01:57 PM (AdHga)

144 Might be onto something there. Just have a rotating schedule of all the worst enemies of the press.

Nick Searcy, Ben Shapiro, Nick Shirley.

Keep someone on hand for solemn and important shit, but day to day just fuck with 'em.


I'd bring in a guy who knows how to make shadow puppets. He could make a bird, and a dog, and whatever else comes to mind. Maybe have a balloon animal guy on special days.

The press doesn't take their job seriously, so why should we?

Posted by: Archimedes at August 13, 2026 01:58 PM (Riz8t)

145 I would like Adam Carolla as Press Secretary.

Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 01:58 PM (KC5Lt)

146 This is so funny yet a real quote:

'This president is trying to push the SAVE Act, which would require proof of who you are to vote.' - Kamala Harris

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 13, 2026 01:58 PM (n5tGW)

147 Kid Rock finna backhand some press.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 13, 2026 01:58 PM (i9sDw)

148 Wait....I want a mime with a bad attitude and a large squirt gun.

Posted by: Orson at August 13, 2026 01:58 PM (dIske)

149 121 I mean, I'm not telephonic enough, but I could "*easily* do this job, short of that problem.

1.) Read the President's talking point. SKILL LEVEL: 7th Grade literacy

2.) Respond viciously to retarded reporters. SKILL LEVEL: IQ >>> Retard
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 13, 2026 01:53 PM (BI5O2)
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I could do the job, theoretically, but almost none of my responses could be aired on network television or radio without extensive bleeping of the strings of words I would hurl at the assembly of utter retards in front of me after every question.

Posted by: ballistic at August 13, 2026 01:58 PM (oqH4h)

150 so funny, man.

in his house in Ryleh dead Cthulhu waits deliciously
Posted by: ace at August 13, 2026 01:56 PM (1wjle)
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Coincidentally, I played Eldritch Horror with friends last night.

One player's character has already been devoured by Deep Ones, and another's has gone insane.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 13, 2026 01:58 PM (amcLV)

151 oooooh

David Spade!

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 13, 2026 01:59 PM (j+aD2)

152
She is smart and beautiful. What a wonderful job she did.

Best wishes to her.

Posted by: four seasons at August 13, 2026 01:59 PM (/QHx4)

153 I'm not the commenter who thought this up, but I second his/her motion to hire Rob Schneider for the next Press Secretary.

Posted by: 88C+u at August 13, 2026 02:00 PM (88C+u)

154
I could do the job, theoretically, but almost none of my responses could be aired on network television or radio without extensive bleeping of the strings of words I would hurl at the assembly of utter retards in front of me after every question.
Posted by: ballistic at August 13, 2026 01:58 PM (oqH4h)


Yeah, I'm afraid I would lose my temper from all the stupid "questions" they ask...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 13, 2026 02:00 PM (vQrSy)

155 David Spade would also be hilarious.
"That question was retarded. Buh-bye."

Posted by: 88C+u at August 13, 2026 02:00 PM (88C+u)

156 I could do the job, theoretically, but almost none of my responses could be aired on network television or radio without extensive bleeping of the strings of words I would hurl at the assembly of utter retards in front of me after every question.
Posted by: ballistic at August 13, 2026 01:58 PM (oqH4h)
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I know I could have some fun with it. Anytime someone in the front row asks a stupid question, I'd make them go to the back of the room until they can think of a non-stupid question. Then they have to wait their turn to move back to the front. Whoever was behind them moves up a seat.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 13, 2026 02:01 PM (FZ29D)

157 The stay I mentioned yesterday expired; injunction is live.

People in a bunch of states are cash-and-carry purchasing suppressors on 4473's from ffl's and assembling short barreled rifles/shotguns with no NFA paperwork. 3d printers are also going brrrrr.

The legal situation is a giant clusterfuck of non enforced and unenforceable regs, now, with some states being a gray area with state law referencing the NFA registry.

There are reports some ATF offices are telling ffls they are good to go; others are saying they have no guidance yet.

Posted by: heya at August 13, 2026 02:02 PM (23NNO)

158 115 Stephen Miller is single- focused on immigration.

As much as I’d enjoy him as press secretary, he has ONE JOB. He takes it very seriously. We are better for it.
Posted by: Lizzy

I can think of someone else focused on immigration that does great press interviews and pisses the media and Lefties (but I repeat myself) off.

Tom Homan

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 13, 2026 02:02 PM (K9nu8)

159 I'd bring in a guy who knows how to make shadow puppets. He could make a bird, and a dog, and whatever else comes to mind. Maybe have a balloon animal guy on special days.

The press doesn't take their job seriously, so why should we?
Posted by: Archimedes

Worthwhile suggestion. The press conference as it was intended is dead. It is performative art nowadays.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 02:02 PM (E4rtv)

160 I know I could have some fun with it. Anytime someone in the front row asks a stupid question, I'd make them go to the back of the room until they can think of a non-stupid question. Then they have to wait their turn to move back to the front. Whoever was behind them moves up a seat.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 13, 2026 02:01 PM

I would support you in this role x100.

Posted by: Piper at August 13, 2026 02:03 PM (ZdaMQ)

161 Nicki Minaj, Press Secretary.

Checkmate

Posted by: sifty boones at August 13, 2026 02:03 PM (i9sDw)

162 My stint as Press Secretary

' that's a retarded question. next'

' are you a retard or what?''

' all retards go to the back of the line. Who's next?'

' I'll take the question because it's only a little retarded. You must be the half tard of the bunch'

Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 02:03 PM (KC5Lt)

163 'This president is trying to push the SAVE Act, which would require proof of who you are to vote.' - Kamala Harris
——-

Sometimes, we forget just how brain dead these people really are.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 13, 2026 02:03 PM (X/q9i)

164 153 I'm not the commenter who thought this up, but I second his/her motion to hire Rob Schneider for the next Press Secretary.
Posted by: 88C+u

Why not. The more ludicrous the better and anyone you can think of is better qualified than the rabid gerbils of the Washington Press corp.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 02:03 PM (E4rtv)

165 Dennis Miller.

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 02:04 PM (77rzZ)

166 160 I know I could have some fun with it. Anytime someone in the front row asks a stupid question, I'd make them go to the back of the room until they can think of a non-stupid question. Then they have to wait their turn to move back to the front. Whoever was behind them moves up a seat.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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I'm afraid I cannot support you unless you penalize them with a dunce cap too.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 02:04 PM (E4rtv)

167 I would come in on the first day and run the Pledge of Allegiance before answering any questions, just to watch their little heads go Scanners.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 02:05 PM (iABCo)

168 I know I could have some fun with it. Anytime someone in the front row asks a stupid question, I'd make them go to the back of the room until they can think of a non-stupid question. Then they have to wait their turn to move back to the front. Whoever was behind them moves up a seat.

Nah, the chair on which the questioner sits would plunge onto a bed of coals underneath the floor. Either that, or the chair would electrocute him, leaving a heap of sizzling, smoking flesh for the others to contemplate.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 13, 2026 02:05 PM (Riz8t)

169

She was so great at shiving the aholes with words.

Posted by: four seasons at August 13, 2026 02:05 PM (/QHx4)

170 Dennis Miller isn't dead, so that makes him a contender to be Senate Majority Leader.

Posted by: 88C+u at August 13, 2026 02:05 PM (88C+u)

171 No matter who it is, I want the new Press secretary to use literal crayons and puppets during briefings to humiliate the journalice.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 13, 2026 02:05 PM (i9sDw)

172 160 I know I could have some fun with it. Anytime someone in the front row asks a stupid question, I'd make them go to the back of the room until they can think of a non-stupid question. Then they have to wait their turn to move back to the front. Whoever was behind them moves up a seat.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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I'm afraid I cannot support you unless you penalize them with a dunce cap too.
Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 02:04 PM (E4rtv)
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DONE! Plus a three-legged stool where they can sit and seethe with envy while someone else gets to ask a semi-intelligent question (about the best anyone could hope for...)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 13, 2026 02:05 PM (FZ29D)

173 I don't think it would be Matthew Boyle. It's been years and years since I talked to him, but when I met him, he had a anxious/nervous introvert's disposition and was not confident nor charismatic.
Posted by: ace


I'll take the job.

"FU. Next question"
"No. I already answered that stupid question"
"Did your parents have any children that lived? What kind of asinine question is that?"

Posted by: rickb223 at August 13, 2026 02:06 PM (lrRtF)

174 I know I could have some fun with it. Anytime someone in the front row asks a stupid question, I'd make them go to the back of the room until they can think of a non-stupid question. Then they have to wait their turn to move back to the front. Whoever was behind them moves up a seat.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel


Force them to eat a Carolina Reaper.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 02:06 PM (ExV1e)

175 Press Secretary in Trump's administration is a confrontational position. You have be able shut the media whores down with sharp, accurate retorts and not be afraid to have singular assholes tossed from the room.

Daily.

And ban the repeat offenders. Because fuck them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 13, 2026 02:06 PM (2Cry5)

176 No matter who it is, I want the new Press secretary to use literal crayons and puppets during briefings to humiliate the journalice.

Your idea wouldn't work. The press corps wouldn't know if the crayons were for illustration or snack time.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 13, 2026 02:06 PM (Riz8t)

177 165 Dennis Miller.
Posted by: Bulg

Like Norm MacDonald, his intellect is so above the press corp IQ and that of the average TV viewer so the effect would be lost. Course the rest of us could enjoy the replays for memes and laughs.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 02:06 PM (E4rtv)

178 They should replace her with a text-to-voice generator housed inside a Big Mouth Billy Bass, just for fun.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at

Why can’t she just want to be a mama? She is very young. She married well. She is smart.

Posted by: Piper at August 13, 2026 02:06 PM (ZdaMQ)

179 David Spade and Adam Carolla are really quick on their feet. I'd watch every Press conference if one of them was the PS.

David Spade's autobiography, Almost Interesting, is a fun , quick read.

Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 02:07 PM (KC5Lt)

180 Posted by: Archimedes at August 13, 2026 02:06 PM (Riz8t)

I'm ready to put you ahead of YD. I'm fickle.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 02:07 PM (iABCo)

181 Nah, the chair on which the questioner sits would plunge onto a bed of coals underneath the floor. Either that, or the chair would electrocute him, leaving a heap of sizzling, smoking flesh for the others to contemplate.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 13, 2026 02:05 PM (Riz8t)


https://youtu.be/fNxvYX7zih8

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 02:07 PM (ExV1e)

182
I don't think it would be Matthew Boyle. It's been years and years since I talked to him, but when I met him, he had a anxious/nervous introvert's disposition and was not confident nor charismatic.
Posted by: ace at August 13, 2026 01:54 PM (1wjle)

good

Posted by: runner at August 13, 2026 02:07 PM (g47mK)

183 If I take the job can I make them contemplate their stupidity on the tree of woe?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 13, 2026 02:08 PM (2UnvF)

184 Trap doors on the floor would be a nice touch.

Posted by: Orson at August 13, 2026 02:08 PM (dIske)

185 I'm afraid I cannot support you unless you penalize them with a dunce cap too.
Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 02:04 PM (E4rtv)
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DONE! Plus a three-legged stool where they can sit and seethe with envy while someone else gets to ask a semi-intelligent question (about the best anyone could hope for...)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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You, sir, are a fine American and deserve the press sec. appointment. Might want to add a hickory stick while you are at it. Nice historical resonance.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 02:08 PM (E4rtv)

186
I know I could have some fun with it. Anytime someone in the front row asks a stupid question, I'd make them go to the back of the room until they can think of a non-stupid question. Then they have to wait their turn to move back to the front. Whoever was behind them moves up a seat.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

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

I have a different concept: make them police themselves.

You do this with a new rule: the first overtly stupid question is the end of the press conference. This puts pressure on reporters to prevent stupid questions.

The reporters might do this by working out a seating arrangement, whether by vote or committee or whatever (it's up to them) that sets apart the Question Pool. Press Secretary picks from them. If you ask the stupid question that ends the conference, you get expelled for a week and someone else rotates in.

Something like that, needs finesse, but basically they police themselves and a stupid question from one gets a punishment for all.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 02:09 PM (XJ22o)

187 Confident, charismatic, good memory, quick on his/her feet, can put in 14 hours ..yeah, not easy.

Posted by: runner at August 13, 2026 02:09 PM (g47mK)

188 David Spade's autobiography, Almost Interesting, is a fun , quick read.


he almost got killed by his assistant!!!

honestly tho he's very sharp. he would rock it.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 13, 2026 02:10 PM (j+aD2)

189 It's going to be a surprise!

Posted by: runner at August 13, 2026 02:10 PM (g47mK)

190 180 Posted by: Archimedes at August 13, 2026 02:06 PM (Riz8t)

I'm ready to put you ahead of YD. I'm fickle.
Posted by: ...
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No love for sharks with friggin laser beams?

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 02:10 PM (E4rtv)

191 No matter who it is, I want the new Press secretary to use literal crayons and puppets during briefings to humiliate the journalice.

Your idea wouldn't work. The press corps wouldn't know if the crayons were for illustration or snack time.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 13, 2026 02:06 PM (Riz8t)

We don't get it...

Posted by: USMC at August 13, 2026 02:11 PM (AdHga)

192 I'd bring in a guy who knows how to make shadow puppets. He could make a bird, and a dog, and whatever else comes to mind. Maybe have a balloon animal guy on special days.

The press doesn't take their job seriously, so why should we?
Posted by: Archimedes


Zombie Steven Stucker - Johnny from Airplane!

Posted by: rickb223 at August 13, 2026 02:11 PM (lrRtF)

193 169

She was so great at shiving the aholes with words.

Posted by: four seasons at August 13, 2026 02:05 PM (/QHx4)
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I read this as "shaving the aholes" and was wondering what kind of AI videos of Leavitt you'd been watching

Posted by: ballistic at August 13, 2026 02:11 PM (oqH4h)

194 Trump is a media person after all, should be very interesting who he picks.

Posted by: runner at August 13, 2026 02:11 PM (g47mK)

195 You, sir, are a fine American and deserve the press sec. appointment. Might want to add a hickory stick while you are at it. Nice historical resonance.
Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 02:08 PM (E4rtv)
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I also thought of a game-show style approach.

Contestants are called down to the front row at random. We show them a media clip and they have to bid on how many lies are found in the media clip. The closest bidder (without going over) gets to ask a question and survives to the next round. Losers get kicked out of the Press Room until the next day.

We could call it "The Press is Wrong!"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 13, 2026 02:11 PM (FZ29D)

196 Dennis Miller isn't dead, so that makes him a contender to be Senate Majority Leader.
Posted by: 88C+u

He'd have to be a Senator. However, he could be Speaker of the House.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 13, 2026 02:11 PM (DZ9Lv)

197
Lol

Posted by: four seasons at August 13, 2026 02:11 PM (/QHx4)

198 New Press Sec should publicly accuse Kaitlan Collins of farting during every briefing.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 13, 2026 02:11 PM (i9sDw)

199 Shane Gillis

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 13, 2026 02:12 PM (j+aD2)

200 Shane could safely call the press idiots "tards"

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 13, 2026 02:12 PM (j+aD2)

201 The press corps wouldn't know if the crayons were for illustration or snack time.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 13, 2026 02:06 PM (Riz8t)

We don't get it...
Posted by: USMC


I was waiting. 😂

Posted by: rickb223 at August 13, 2026 02:12 PM (lrRtF)

202 No love for sharks with friggin laser beams?

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 02:10 PM (E4rtv)

While you're bullshitting, during his recent interview, Rubio raised putting sharks in the Reflecting Pool.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 13, 2026 02:13 PM (AdHga)

203 I would love to see a press sec call on Kaitlin as Dylan.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 13, 2026 02:13 PM (n5tGW)

204 Something like that, needs finesse, but basically they police themselves and a stupid question from one gets a punishment for all.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 02:09 PM (XJ22o)
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They are all egotistical narcissists, so I'd expect a lot of them to ask stupid questions if only to sabotage the others.

But that's also a win!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 13, 2026 02:13 PM (FZ29D)

205 While you're bullshitting, during his recent interview, Rubio raised putting sharks in the Reflecting Pool.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider


So you're saying Rubio hangs out here?

Posted by: rickb223 at August 13, 2026 02:14 PM (lrRtF)

206 Justine Bateman is pretty feisty. Give her a shot.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 13, 2026 02:14 PM (i9sDw)

207 116 The best thing about the interwebs is that you get to hear from all the brilliant people that can come up with stuff like this, who would otherwise labor in obscurity.

Selections from H.P. Lovecraft’s Brief Tenure as a Whitman’s Sampler Copywriter

https://tinyurl.com/yhd2jdrx
Posted by: Archimedes at August 13, 2026 01:52 PM (Riz8t)

Thanks for that; it's hilarious.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 13, 2026 02:14 PM (9ZFZd)

208 So you're saying Rubio hangs out here?


if he does, tell him he needs to give the no-sugar thing a bit more time before he starts destroying Paraguay

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 13, 2026 02:14 PM (j+aD2)

209 Something like that, needs finesse, but basically they police themselves and a stupid question from one gets a punishment for all.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia


All their metal folding chairs are connected to an AED.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 13, 2026 02:15 PM (lrRtF)

210 Okay, fine. I will do it. I am going to answer every last question with southernisms and let them try to sort out what it means. We will deploy all the gems except the expected blessings of hearts. Things like telling the press they can’t put their boots in the oven and call them biscuits, or y’all look just as happy as if you had some sense. It will be great.

Posted by: Piper at August 13, 2026 02:15 PM (ZdaMQ)

211 Something like that, needs finesse, but basically they police themselves and a stupid question from one gets a punishment for all.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 02:09 PM (XJ22o)


https://youtu.be/gweuuwNU1Sw

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 02:15 PM (ExV1e)

212 Rubio's response to RFK's diet and his defense of Pop Tarts was pretty funny.

Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 02:17 PM (KC5Lt)

213 While you're bullshitting, during his recent interview, Rubio raised putting sharks in the Reflecting Pool.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider:
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Works for me. Except leftists might poison the sharks with malignant stupidity as it appears that it is now a thing for leftists women loons to get booster Covid vaxxes to show solidarity with that malignant gnome Fauci.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 02:17 PM (E4rtv)

214 So you're saying Rubio hangs out here?
Posted by: rickb223 at August 13, 2026 02:14 PM (lrRtF


No, worse. He watched Sharknado III

Posted by: Kindltot at August 13, 2026 02:18 PM (rbvCR)

215 Posted by: Piper at August 13, 2026 02:15 PM (ZdaMQ)

That would indeed be great.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 13, 2026 02:18 PM (lFFaq)

216 Karoline Leavitt is the dream come true of any/all middle aged plus men...she married a man...32 years older than her

Posted by: zigggggy at August 13, 2026 02:19 PM (EDeJ/)

217 Ric Grenell would be awesome. I know he isn’t a journalist, but he is smart as all get out and snarky. I could see him just stare and sigh and some of the questions. Then move on.

Posted by: Piper at August 13, 2026 02:19 PM (ZdaMQ)

218 Posted by: Piper at August 13, 2026 02:15 PM (ZdaMQ

In Louisiana we would call going grocery shopping, 'going to make groceries today'

Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 02:19 PM (KC5Lt)

219 Okay, fine. I will do it. I am going to answer every last question with southernisms and let them try to sort out what it means. We will deploy all the gems except the expected blessings of hearts. Things like telling the press they can’t put their boots in the oven and call them biscuits, or y’all look just as happy as if you had some sense. It will be great.
Posted by: Piper at August 13, 2026 02:15 PM (ZdaMQ)


Don't think for a second that you'd be excused from providing content for Sunday nights

Posted by: Doof at August 13, 2026 02:20 PM (S0M0K)

220 Selections from H.P. Lovecraft’s Brief Tenure as a Whitman’s Sampler Copywriter

https://tinyurl.com/yhd2jdrx
Posted by: Archimedes at August 13, 2026 01:52 PM (Riz8t)


Harumph! More like August Derleth, I would say.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 13, 2026 02:21 PM (rbvCR)

221 219 Don't think for a second that you'd be excused from providing content for Sunday nights
Posted by: Doof at August 13, 2026 02:20 PM (S0M0K)

Ooohhhh…wait a second here…we could review all the outfits I wore that week, why I chose them, who they are by….THE SHOES!

May I have the credit card back, please?

Posted by: Piper at August 13, 2026 02:22 PM (ZdaMQ)

222 218 Posted by: Piper at August 13, 2026 02:15 PM (ZdaMQ

In Louisiana we would call going grocery shopping, 'going to make groceries today'
Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 02:19

Do you know they are not called buggies in the north?

Posted by: Piper at August 13, 2026 02:23 PM (ZdaMQ)

223 Who do we think will replace her?

Maybe Scott Jennings could be lured away from b*tch-slapping CNN hosts for the opportunity to b*tch-slap WaPo and NYT.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 13, 2026 02:24 PM (vTZFs)

224 Spencer Pratt

Posted by: InZona at August 13, 2026 02:24 PM (qwLiq)

225 Okay, fine. I will do it. I am going to answer every last question with southernisms and let them try to sort out what it means. We will deploy all the gems except the expected blessings of hearts. Things like telling the press they can’t put their boots in the oven and call them biscuits, or y’all look just as happy as if you had some sense. It will be great.
Posted by: Piper a

I always heard it as a cat can have kittens in the oven but that don't make em biscuits.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 13, 2026 02:24 PM (YZ0Fo)

226 How about appointing nobody?

Show the press how unimportant they are.

Posted by: Auspex at August 13, 2026 02:25 PM (cnokD)

227 Who do we think will replace her?

Maybe Scott Jennings could be lured away from b*tch-slapping CNN hosts for the opportunity to b*tch-slap WaPo and NYT.


Too nice. We need someone to convey utter contempt. In a perfect world, it would be Elon Musk. The presstitutes are scared s***less of him because they know his IQ is multiples of theirs.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 13, 2026 02:26 PM (Riz8t)

228
Karoline Leavitt is great. Sorry to see her leaving.

The lovely and delightful Mrs naturalfake liked her so much, she would often watch her press conferences from the day before after breakfast and before work.

She loved the way she handled the press.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 13, 2026 02:26 PM (iJfKG)

229 if he does, tell him he needs to give the no-sugar thing a bit more time before he starts destroying Paraguay
Posted by: Black Orchid

No, it's working as intended. He just needs to learn how to redirect that toxic masculinity towards the right targets...like Iran, Palestine, illegal immigrants, etc.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 13, 2026 02:26 PM (K9nu8)

230 Arch you kind of made the sidebar

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 02:26 PM (iABCo)

231
I always heard it as a cat can have kittens in the oven but that don't make em biscuits.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 13, 2026 02:24 PM (YZ0Fo)

I have never heard it that way! But my kid smooshed together butter my butt and call me a biscuit with the boot one and said “you can’t put your butt in the oven and call it a biscuit”. We should use that one.

Posted by: Piper at August 13, 2026 02:26 PM (ZdaMQ)

232 Spencer Pratt

I think I like that suggestion better than my own.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 13, 2026 02:26 PM (vTZFs)

233 207 116 The best thing about the interwebs is that you get to hear from all the brilliant people that can come up with stuff like this, who would otherwise labor in obscurity.

Selections from H.P. Lovecraft’s Brief Tenure as a Whitman’s Sampler Copywriter

https://tinyurl.com/yhd2jdrx
Posted by: Archimedes at August 13, 2026 01:52 PM (Riz8t)

Thanks for that; it's hilarious.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 13, 2026 02:14 PM (9ZFZd)

The Free Trial by Franz Kafka looks promising...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 13, 2026 02:28 PM (wtvvX)

234 I have never heard it that way! But my kid smooshed together butter my butt and call me a biscuit with the boot one and said “you can’t put your butt in the oven and call it a biscuit”. We should use that one.
Posted by: Piper at August 13, 2026 02:26 PM (ZdaMQ)
-----

That dog won't hunt!

Posted by: ballistic at August 13, 2026 02:28 PM (oqH4h)

235 Too nice. We need someone to convey utter contempt. In a perfect world, it would be Elon Musk. The presstitutes are scared s***less of him because they know his IQ is multiples of theirs.

I'm sure he could just show up and ad lib an hour a couple of times a week but still that's a couple of hours not spent working on getting to Mars.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 13, 2026 02:28 PM (vTZFs)

236 Posted by: InZona at August 13, 2026 02:24 PM (qwLiq)

I like that suggestion.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 02:28 PM (wmzkx)

237 have never heard it that way! But my kid smooshed together butter my butt and call me a biscuit with the boot one and said “you can’t put your butt in the oven and call it a biscuit”. We should use that one.
Posted by: Piper

The messed up smooshed together ones are always the best.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 13, 2026 02:29 PM (YZ0Fo)

238 Do you know they are not called buggies in the north?
Posted by: Piper at August 13, 2026 02:23 PM (ZdaMQ)


You're making it seem like it's normal to call them buggies and odd to call them carts. Yet I've never once seen an online shopping site with "Add to Buggy" or "View Your Buggy".

Posted by: Doof at August 13, 2026 02:29 PM (S0M0K)

239 That dog won't hunt!
Posted by: ballistic at

Well I'll be, yall are all hat not cattle.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 13, 2026 02:29 PM (YZ0Fo)

240 No cattle*

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 13, 2026 02:29 PM (YZ0Fo)

241 Yet I've never once seen an online shopping site with "Add to Buggy" or "View Your Buggy".

Because those sites are built by software guys who use that word completely differently.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 13, 2026 02:30 PM (vTZFs)

242 The messed up smooshed together ones are always the best.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 13, 2026 02:29 PM (YZ0Fo)
----------
Jack Aubrey: ...but we shall know the pudding by its fruit.

Stephen Maturin: Might one also prove the tree by eating?

Jack Aubrey: What a fellow you are, Stephen. No one would eat a tree.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 13, 2026 02:30 PM (amcLV)

243 So, for the last 4 days every time I opened my F book feed, there were multiple stories about attempted suicides on the USS Lincoln, because of their long deployement.

This morning, when I saw this, I posted on the 4 posts in my feed that I wondered who was paying F Book for all this coverage.

Suddenly... they disappeared...

What a Co Ink E Dink!

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 13, 2026 02:31 PM (mP0Kj)

244 This is when I wish Rodney Dangerfield was still around.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 13, 2026 02:31 PM (g8Ew8)

245 nood

Posted by: fd at August 13, 2026 02:31 PM (MWfyi)

246 Too bad Senator Kennedy is not available. He could refer to the DSA by his pet names for them. Neiman Marxists and Lulu Lenins.

Posted by: Jen the original at August 13, 2026 02:34 PM (EiUt/)

247 Nood assassin.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 13, 2026 02:35 PM (AdHga)

248 This is when I wish Rodney Dangerfield was still around.

"No respect. No respect all, I tell ya. You know Jake, my wife asked if I liked your last story in the Post. I told her I didn't see but I'll ask the parrot what his butt thought of it."

Posted by: Oddbob at August 13, 2026 02:36 PM (vTZFs)

249 I really like the idea of Spencer Pratt as PressSec.

Good springboard.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 13, 2026 02:37 PM (OLnyK)

250 Sec Rubio did mess with the press and kick them around once in her absence but I think he's a little busy.

I hope someone can fill her place and do well.

She's a sweetie and I wish her well with her babies. They are the most important gift in life and I didn't work for almost 5yrs when we hatched ours.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 13, 2026 02:37 PM (hzuYO)

251 Posted by: Archimedes at August 13, 2026 01:52 PM (Riz8t)

lol. Outstanding.

Posted by: front toward enemy at August 13, 2026 02:39 PM (TIizU)

252 Hmm. I nominate Al Sharpton as press secretary. In addition to comedy gold, he would try to trash Trump's actions and accidentally make them sound goo.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at August 13, 2026 02:47 PM (KFbdf)

253 "sound good."

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at August 13, 2026 02:48 PM (KFbdf)

254 Might I suggest Greg Gutfeld?
He has the proper attitude, and would laugh off their stupidity
Posted by: Lizzy at August 13, 2026 01:40 PM (4KUe5)

Tyrus. He's pretty tight with Trump. They really like each other, and Tyrus would destroy the presstitutes. Physically. LOL!!

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 13, 2026 02:58 PM (hmYU4)

Grossly Ugly SPLC AWFL Who Funneled Money to Her KKK Boyfriend So He Would Give Her a Pity Nazi-Bang Arrested for Money Laundering

Sad!

Former SPLC official arrested as feds expand case over alleged $4M scheme involving extremist groups



Federal indictment alleges donor funds were secretly funneled to groups like the Ku Klux Klan


A former top Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) official was arrested on charges Wednesday as federal prosecutors unveiled sweeping new allegations that donated money was allegedly secretly funneled to extremists and used for activities including recruiting members, staging rallies and buying materials for Ku Klux Klan robes and cross burnings.

Heidi Beirich, 59, of Palm Springs, California, was charged alongside the SPLC with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to submit false statements to a federally insured bank.

The second superseding indictment also charges Beirich with a conspiracy to commit concealed money laundering. Beirich was served with an arrest warrant Wednesday morning, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Alabama.

Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed the arrest during a news conference Wednesday in Washington, D.C., and said the federal investigation remains ongoing.

"I think, as alleged in the indictment, this individual participated in the scheme as alleged," Blanche said. "I believe she was part of the effort to open bank accounts and complete fictitious companies names and make payments that to individuals for reasons that were not, that were not accurate as described."'

FBI Director Kash Patel also weighed in on the news via X, writing that Beirich was at the "center" of the bureau's ongoing investigation.

"As alleged, Heidi Beirich was at the center of our ongoing investigation into SPLC and their previously alleged criminal activity - where SPLC knowingly misled donors, who believed their money was being used to dismantle violent extremist organizations - when in fact, part of those donations were instead being used to pay senior leadership within those extremist groups," Patel wrote.

The 26-page indictment obtained by Fox News Digital alleges the SPLC secretly funneled at least $4.1 million in tax-exempt donor funds between 2007 and 2023 through bank accounts supposedly belonging to businesses unaffiliated with the organization. Prosecutors allege the money paid "field sources" who were leading or affiliated with violent extremist organizations.

Prosecutors allege donor money was used to attend and host extremist rallies, recruit members, grow and create extremist chapters, publish extremist literature and buy materials for KKK robes, hoods and cross burnings. The indictment also alleges two KKK members who wanted out of the movement were encouraged by the SPLC to remain and offered monthly payments and expenses.

One of the most explosive allegations centers on a source identified as "F-9," whom prosecutors say infiltrated the neo-Nazi National Alliance and received more than $1.2 million from the SPLC during the period covered by the indictment. Prosecutors allege Beirich oversaw payments to F-9 while also having a romantic relationship with him, with the pair sharing a home and two bank accounts.


Between 2015 and 2021, approximately $140,000 in donor money flowed from the SPLC's operating account through a "Tech Writers" account and ultimately into joint bank accounts held by Beirich and F-9, prosecutors allege. The indictment says the money accounted for approximately 66% of all funds deposited into their joint accounts and alleges Beirich used donor money to pay the couple's personal living expenses.

She's the White Fani Willis. I wonder who her Darius "Sweetdick" Honeycum, Esq., is.


FBI Director Kash Patel
@FBIDirectorKash

Following an FBI investigation with our DOJ partners: today we are announcing a superseding indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center's Director of Intelligence, Heidi Beirich.

As alleged, Heidi Beirich was at the center of our ongoing investigation into SPLC and their previously alleged criminal activity - where SPLC knowingly misled donors, who believed their money was being used to dismantle violent extremist organizations - when in fact, part of those donations were instead being used to pay senior leadership within those extremist groups.

According to the indictment and our investigation, Beirich played a primary role in this scheme. From at least 2007-2023, Beirich allegedly helped orchestrate this fraudulent activity worth approximately $4.2 million, conspiring with SPLC to defraud donors, obtaining money through these materially false and fraudulent pretenses and omissions to pay leadership of the very violent organizations SPLC claimed to oppose.

Beirich was arrested today - charged with crimes including wire fraud conspiracy, conspiracy to submit false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering.

This is an ongoing investigation. This FBI will find anyone who exploits the trust of the American people and our financial system.

While Beulah Balbricker here was using donor money to "create and grow" extremist groups, she complained about how goshdarn fast extremist groups were being created and grown, and blamed it on.... DRUMPF!!!!

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:22 PM




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1 What a shock

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 13, 2026 12:22 PM (N1tpc)

2 FIRST

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 13, 2026 12:22 PM (wtvvX)

3 ALMOST

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 13, 2026 12:22 PM (wtvvX)

4 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 13, 2026 12:22 PM (NcvvS)

5 It's almost like these lying grifters will not only lie to support their political aims, but for their own personal gain too!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 13, 2026 12:23 PM (N1tpc)

6 So how do I get this huwite soopremasis money?

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 12:23 PM (jjoN6)

7 'Tis no woman. 'Tis a remorseless eatin' machine!

Posted by: Sea Captain at August 13, 2026 12:23 PM (wXgT/)

8 This is the Rad Left, in all it's pathetic glory. All summed up in one disgusting package.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 13, 2026 12:24 PM (edUvp)

9 Boy, that KKK dude has horrible taste in women. Who'd wanna sleep with that thing?

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 12:24 PM (77rzZ)

10 I could never drink her pretty.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 13, 2026 12:24 PM (ptDe5)

11 The SPLC will just say they had no idea this "person" was doing this....

Posted by: It's me donna at August 13, 2026 12:24 PM (vQrSy)

12 Grossly Ugly Left-Wing Money Who Funneled Money to Her KKK Boyfriend So He Would Fuck Her Arrested for Money Laundering

Money funneled itself? Is that like when the MFM says a car drove into a crowd?

Posted by: Ian S. at August 13, 2026 12:25 PM (2ocoG)

13 That woman is so not money.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 13, 2026 12:25 PM (mkw2N)

14 Heidi Beirich, 59, of Palm Springs, California, was charged alongside the SPLC with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to submit false statements to a federally insured bank.
======================
Not gay? Isn't everyone gay there?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 13, 2026 12:25 PM (c/v/O)

15 And here I thought she'd prefer to shack up with a minority. Or an immigrant.

Hm, maybe this is one of those "the shame is part of the kink" scenarios?

Posted by: Dr. T at August 13, 2026 12:25 PM (qm2GX)

16 Boy, that KKK dude has horrible taste in women. Who'd wanna sleep with that thing?
Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 12:24 PM (77rzZ)

$1.2M will change a lot of minds.

Not mine, but other people are made of sterner stuff.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 13, 2026 12:25 PM (N1tpc)

17 9 Boy, that KKK dude has horrible taste in women. Who'd wanna sleep with that thing?
Posted by: Bulg


There's always the one guy in your friend group who would smash her.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 12:26 PM (jjoN6)

18 I actually saw the SPLC run commercials on MS Nowasking for money I think.

And I've seen a lot of the SPLC babe the last few days.

Pants on.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 13, 2026 12:26 PM (Sco7b)

19
Shitty
People
Lie
Constantly

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 13, 2026 12:26 PM (7zn4w)

20 Boy, that KKK dude has horrible taste in women. Who'd wanna sleep with that thing?
Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 12:24 PM (77rzZ)


1. I'm guessing that he didn't have that many options.
2. She was spending a lot of money for his benefit. He was in his soft phase. Drizzle drizzle.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 12:26 PM (ExV1e)

21 This is Little Debbie's older sister BIG DEBBIE.

Posted by: Multiple Chins is a Human Right at August 13, 2026 12:26 PM (hqQIL)

22 >> Grossly Ugly Left-Wing Money Who Funneled Money to Her KKK Boyfriend So He Would Fuck Her Arrested for Money Laundering

Oof. Shopping that poon should be a crime by itself. Call it the Penicide by Poon Statute.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 13, 2026 12:26 PM (yv1Au)

23 10 I could never drink her pretty.
Posted by: Diogenes


Perhaps you could black out the memory of what you did with her though.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 12:27 PM (jjoN6)

24 Boy, that KKK dude has horrible taste in women. Who'd wanna sleep with that thing?

... a black dude?

Posted by: weew at August 13, 2026 12:27 PM (9TspW)

25 Grossly Ugly Left-Wing Money Who Funneled Money to Her KKK Boyfriend So He Would Fuck Her Arrested for Money Laundering

Money funneled itself? Is that like when the MFM says a car drove into a crowd?
Posted by: Ian S.


Headline needs one more "K"?

Posted by: mikeski at August 13, 2026 12:27 PM (VHUov)

26 you ok ace?

the post "subject lines" have been iffy of late

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 13, 2026 12:27 PM (j+aD2)

27 The ideology is just a disguise for the thiefing.

Posted by: davidt at August 13, 2026 12:27 PM (Q+gd/)

28 I'm the money.

Posted by: Vesper Lynd at August 13, 2026 12:27 PM (wXgT/)

29 Boy, that KKK dude has horrible taste in women. Who'd wanna sleep with that thing?

He misunderstood the directions for the "bull rider". You're supposed to tell her you're not a Democrat *after* things are progressing nicely and then count how long you can hang on.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 13, 2026 12:27 PM (2ocoG)

30
Slag
Doxie
Strumpet

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 12:27 PM (O0L8i)

31 Guys will dork anything

Posted by: nckate at August 13, 2026 12:27 PM (enNUy)

32 Why not just have sex with a beached whale. I mean, could you really tell the difference?

Posted by: Vengeance at August 13, 2026 12:27 PM (yv1Au)

33
Then: Democrats Support the KKK

Now: Democrats Support the KKK

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 12:27 PM (iABCo)

34 Nothing to see here... just normal charity work.

Posted by: Inogame at August 13, 2026 12:27 PM (53oGX)

35
More cushion for the pushing

Posted by: four seasons at August 13, 2026 12:28 PM (/QHx4)

36
Again, Jocelyn Benson is in the middle of all this and hasn't been called out on it.

Posted by: Auspex at August 13, 2026 12:28 PM (Y8DZL)

37 You know, I’ve often wondered where Elvis went. Then I see this chick and wonder if maybe she ate him.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 13, 2026 12:29 PM (yv1Au)

38 That woman is so not money.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 13, 2026 12:25 PM (mkw2N)

She might have a beautiful baby friend that's ready to party.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 12:30 PM (iABCo)

39 The lefties think they have a sick burn on X with:
"It's telling that the US Government dismantled the Black Panthers but not the KKK."

Dear sweet child of the Indoctrination--you really don't even have a clue of what you don't know.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 13, 2026 12:30 PM (3cUTc)

40 35
More cushion for the pushing

Posted by: four seasons at August 13, 2026 12:28 PM (/QHx4

If I need a crane and earthmoving equipment, there's too much cushion.

Posted by: I'm just a little boy at August 13, 2026 12:30 PM (hqQIL)

41 Again, Jocelyn Benson is in the middle of all this and hasn't been called out on it.

Jocelyn Elders would've told both parties to just masturbate.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 13, 2026 12:30 PM (2ocoG)

42 This time I want to go on top.

Posted by: Heidi "Snu Snu" Beirich at August 13, 2026 12:30 PM (88C+u)

43 What jury will convict her?

Posted by: Paul at August 13, 2026 12:30 PM (Fi3zc)

44
OUT: Southern Poverty Law Center
IN: Soon Prison Life Coming

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 13, 2026 12:30 PM (wtvvX)

45 That woman is so not money.
Posted by: bonhomme

She might have a beautiful baby friend that's ready to party.
Posted by: ...


No wingman on earth.....

Posted by: mikeski at August 13, 2026 12:31 PM (VHUov)

46 Wow. She turned into Fräulein Rottenmeier.

Posted by: fd at August 13, 2026 12:31 PM (MWfyi)

47 You know, I’ve often wondered where Elvis went. Then I see this chick and wonder if maybe she ate him.
Posted by: Vengeance

I found out today that Elvis was only 42 when he died. That dude lived a rough life.

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 12:31 PM (77rzZ)

48 I, too, don't care about white supremacy, because I think it's largely bullshit made up to extract money from people who are gullible enough to think it's a problem.

Posted by: huerfano at August 13, 2026 12:31 PM (2Xqig)

49
They call her Vampire the Buffet Slayer

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 12:31 PM (iABCo)

50 I dunno. It’s kinda hard to dork that. How do you get past the slimy fat rolls filled with Cheetos crumbs, BO that would make an Indian wretch, and a hoohah that smells like week old fish that sat in the sun. Not even a bottle of Jack Daniels would help that.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 13, 2026 12:32 PM (yv1Au)

51 > Southern Poverty Law Center’s Director of Intelligence, Heidi Beirich.
------------
Say what?!

Director of Intelligence.... how Soviet of them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 13, 2026 12:32 PM (2Cry5)

52 My word is she ugly… and she has a man voice. I wonder if she has the Seinfeld man-hands? I don’t wanna know

Not even a self-respecting Nazi would want to hit that… throwing up in mouth

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 13, 2026 12:32 PM (MaA4a)

53 Gaslight: *checkmark*
Projection: *checkmark*
Transference: *checkmark*

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the children They do not Kill at August 13, 2026 12:32 PM (QB6+C)

54 There's probably something seriously wrong with me but I cannot comprehend a person 50+ years old risking everything for sex.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 13, 2026 12:32 PM (2ap+5)

55 31 Guys will dork anything
Posted by: nckate

If we're paid enough, then... possibly. This case shows we're not all that different from girls

Posted by: 88C+u at August 13, 2026 12:32 PM (88C+u)

56
I found out today that Elvis was only 42 when he died. That dude lived a rough life.
Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 12:31 PM (77rzZ)

__________

If it wasn't for Colonel Parker, he would have died at 42.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 12:32 PM (O0L8i)

57 It wasn't just SPLC. Others were involved. Go after the financiers. Destroy this filthy vermin!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 13, 2026 12:32 PM (sAmhv)

58 She looks like she was just rolled out of the Karen Factory

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now With Extra Fapness at August 13, 2026 12:32 PM (fapp/)

59 Harry Mudd's wife.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 13, 2026 12:33 PM (wtvvX)

60 William White Williams is an unsavory individual and I'm sure he's not a ton of fun at parties.

But when his outré organization National Alliance was infiltrated by Beirich, he stated to the New York Post: "I knew it was that fat, ugly hog Heidi Beirich."

I'll give him max points for factual accuracy, if nothing else.

There's no better way to describe Beirich, than as a "fat, ugly hog." Both in body and spirit.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 13, 2026 12:33 PM (BI5O2)

61 Why am I convinced there is overlap between the Porky's extended Universe and The Life and Times of William Jefferson Clinton?

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at August 13, 2026 12:33 PM (r7+Q7)

62 Afternoon Ace
The woman looks like something out of The Hills Have Eyes
I don't think I could fix her

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 13, 2026 12:33 PM (WOnE5)

63 Don't care what she looks like. It's a reprehensible organization and I expect she's out there so the SPLC can say, "We had no idea of her corruption. We're all shocked !!" She's the token fall woman.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 12:33 PM (JrHfD)

64 "Guys will dork anything
Posted by: nckate

If we're paid enough, then... possibly. This case shows we're not all that different from girls"

Or penguins.

Posted by: Big Penguin at August 13, 2026 12:34 PM (MWfyi)

65 Heidi's not attractive. Lol.

First world problems.

Heidi laying on a long beach chair in a white bikini generously rubbing suntan lotion all over her pearly white skin as the midday sun beats down on her is some poor Saudi Arabian teenage boys fantasy.

To some, she's prime early 1980's Sears catalog bra section.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 13, 2026 12:34 PM (Sco7b)

66 31 Guys will dork anything
Posted by: nckate

She had to pay a nazi to fuck her.

Posted by: Closing Time at August 13, 2026 12:34 PM (hqQIL)

67 What jury will convict her?

Uncharacteristically, for you, this is a good point... or it would be if she weren't facing going to trial in Alabama.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 12:34 PM (ExV1e)

68 > You know, I’ve often wondered where Elvis went. Then I see this chick and wonder if maybe she ate him.

Elvis at his heaviest could eat this chick for lunch and still have room for a peanut butter and banana sandwich.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 13, 2026 12:34 PM (mkw2N)

69 "that fat, ugly hog Heidi Beirich."

The truest statement ever made. Her legal name should be forcibly changed to "Fat Ugly Hog" by a judge.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 13, 2026 12:35 PM (2ocoG)

70 >> I found out today that Elvis was only 42 when he died. That dude lived a rough life.
Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 12:31 PM (77rzZ)

Yeah, but that guy had his dick in more women than anybody who will ever live.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 13, 2026 12:35 PM (yv1Au)

71 I don't think she looks bad at all.

Posted by: Buffalo Bill at August 13, 2026 12:35 PM (iABCo)

72 Of course the lefties are all still sticking with the "they were just paying informants!!"

Someone noted earlier that this superseding indictment is a predicate for RICO.

So I'm sure this is just her ....

LOL, gonna be hilarious when they seize all the off-shore assets of the SPLC.
Say, why do they need to off-shore their assets?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 13, 2026 12:35 PM (3cUTc)

73 Not even a bottle of Jack Daniels would help that.
Posted by: Vengeance

A Navy guy I knew used to say, "Not a night dark enough or a bottle of Jack Daniels big enough."

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 12:35 PM (77rzZ)

74 She looks like she was just rolled out of the Karen Factory
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger


The Factory put everything they had into this one!

Posted by: literally at August 13, 2026 12:36 PM (VHUov)

75 Heidi laying on a long beach chair in a white bikini generously rubbing suntan lotion all over her pearly white skin as the midday sun beats down on her

Lotsa beach in Tattooine.

Posted by: Stateless, ma bookie; keel-ee calleya ku kah at August 13, 2026 12:36 PM (88C+u)

76 The Guardian: Trump’s justice department arrests expert on far right as part of SPLC crackdown

Correction: Trump’s weaponized justice department arrests expert...

More accurate would be "Fascist American regime abducts expert on fascism and far right."

MAGA is seeking revenge on anyone who fought the KKK and other right-wing terrorist groups. They see the SPLC as part of a broader Jewish conspiracy to 'replace whites' and turn America Communist. That's why the right always calls the SPLC Communist.

Arrested for paying spies to infiltrate white supremacist groups. Instead of arresting her, why not hire her to do that? Am I alone in *wanting* people to be infiltrating these groups?

What I'm reading is she's a hero...unless you have a stake in shutting down organizations that do this kind of work in order to promote white supremacy

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 13, 2026 12:36 PM (t19vo)

77 My standards are lower than this chicks belly to the ground, and I wouldn’t do her.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 13, 2026 12:36 PM (yv1Au)

78 A Navy guy I knew used to say, "Not a night dark enough or a bottle of Jack Daniels big enough."
Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 12:35 PM (77rzZ)


I was in the Navy and saw some of the women guys went home with... your guy is misremembering.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 12:37 PM (ExV1e)

79 Tell me at least two dozen Feebs showed up at her door, at dawn, with guns drawn, to make the arrest.

Then tell me there's video.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at August 13, 2026 12:37 PM (e37bH)

80 " I don't think she looks bad at all.
Posted by: Buffalo Bill"

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Posted by: zombie Roy Orbison at August 13, 2026 12:37 PM (MWfyi)

81 There's no way she could lay on a beach. Everyone would try and push her back in

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 13, 2026 12:38 PM (WOnE5)

82 21 This is Little Debbie's older sister BIG DEBBIE.
Posted by: Multiple Chins is a Human Right at August 13, 2026 12:26 PM (


Whatever you do, never order a Big Debbie's oatmeal cream pie.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 13, 2026 12:38 PM (NeUY1)

83 Of course the lefties are all still sticking with the "they were just paying informants!!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 13, 2026 12:35 PM (3cUTc)

And Pete Townshend was just doing research.

Posted by: Buffalo Bill at August 13, 2026 12:38 PM (iABCo)

84 My TSLA was up 7.6%, so I sold it. Not bad for two weeks.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 13, 2026 12:38 PM (mkw2N)

85 your guy is misremembering.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 12:37 PM (ExV1e)

But you haven't seen her big surprise!

Posted by: two months at sea at August 13, 2026 12:38 PM (88C+u)

86 I always wondered what happened to the girl I went to high school with who tried to put a whole package of hot dogs in her vagina.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 13, 2026 12:38 PM (yv1Au)

87 Even the Paolo would go limp at the sight of this women….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 13, 2026 12:39 PM (MaA4a)

88 Married with children line....


Heidi Birch: you're standing in my sun! I'm trying to get an all over tan!

Al: That's asking a lot of the sun.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 13, 2026 12:39 PM (2ap+5)

89 80 " I don't think she looks bad at all.
Posted by: Buffalo Bill"

You're really gonna need to sweet talk this one into the Fun Van. Because you ain't lifting her.

Bitch will get stuck halfway down the well.

Posted by: I'm Hannibal Lector and I approved this message at August 13, 2026 12:39 PM (hqQIL)

90 They see the SPLC as part of a broader Jewish conspiracy to 'replace whites' and turn America Communist.
----------

No one was actually saying that.......

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 12:39 PM (iABCo)

91 I always wondered what happened to the girl I went to high school with who tried to put a whole package of hot dogs in her vagina.
Posted by: Vengeance T

Tried? Tried?? There is no try, only do!

Posted by: zombie Roy Orbison at August 13, 2026 12:40 PM (MWfyi)

92 There's no way she could lay on a beach. Everyone would try and push her back in
Posted by: Smell the Glove


Not us.
-- Florence, Oregon Explosives Experts

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 12:40 PM (77rzZ)

93 There's no way she could lay on a beach. Everyone would try and push her back in
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 13, 2026 12:38 PM (WOnE5)

The sea was angry that day, my friends… like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 13, 2026 12:40 PM (MaA4a)

94 Director of Intelligence.... how Soviet of them.
Posted by: Martini Farmer


I didn't realize the SPLC was a government..... but I guess I should have.

Posted by: mikeski at August 13, 2026 12:40 PM (VHUov)

95 87 Even the Paolo would go limp at the sight of this women….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 13, 2026 12:39 PM (MaA4a

Okay then.

We have an open challenge for Masturbatin' Pete.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 13, 2026 12:40 PM (Sco7b)

96 So, like a firefighter becoming an arsonist for job security.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 13, 2026 12:41 PM (xWQZT)

97 "We had to fund the KKK to stop them."

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 12:41 PM (iABCo)

98 Yeah, even a serial killer would pass that one up. Too big of a hole to dig, and probably too big to cut up on the bathtub. It would be like trying to dress out a cow in a teacup.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 13, 2026 12:41 PM (Otznn)

99 Tried? Tried?? There is no try, only do!
Posted by: zombie Roy Orbison


Who's the crazy fool that gave Roy a lightsaber?!?

Posted by: mikeski at August 13, 2026 12:41 PM (VHUov)

100 81 There's no way she could lay on a beach. Everyone would try and push her back in
Posted by: Smell the Glove

What if, instead, we got a bunch of dynamite...

Posted by: Florence, Oregon, 1970 at August 13, 2026 12:42 PM (t19vo)

101 I always wondered what happened to the girl I went to high school with who tried to put a whole package of hot dogs in her vagina.
Posted by: Vengeance T

Were you there to witness it, or was she bragging about it all over school?

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 12:42 PM (77rzZ)

102 She's the antidote for the 4-hour boner

Posted by: one hour sober at August 13, 2026 12:42 PM (J4Dwc)

103 Why not just have sex with a beached whale. I mean, could you really tell the difference?

When the whale (the marine one) vomits on you, you can sell it for good money.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 13, 2026 12:42 PM (vTZFs)

104
Heidi Beirich, CFO SPLC who was just arrested for secretly funding White Supremacy Nazi Groups complained a few years ago how fast these Nazi groups were exploding under Donald Trump

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It isn't just her or the SPLC doing this. It's a widespread pattern on the Left. Think of all the racial hoaxes and fake nooses. The GOPe agreeing to be lied about and demonized. The criminals turned loose to attack again.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 13, 2026 12:42 PM (azNOR)

105 Ow! My eyes!

Posted by: Stevie Wonder at August 13, 2026 12:42 PM (Q+gd/)

106 I found out today that Elvis was only 42 when he died. That dude lived a rough life.
Posted by: Bulg

Name the starlet he DIDN'T sleep with.

Got a lot of smooth to go with the rough.

Posted by: Auspex at August 13, 2026 12:43 PM (Y8DZL)

107 Okay then.

We have an open challenge for Masturbatin' Pete.
Posted by: Stateless

I regret nothing!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar, selflessly jumping on that fat bomb to protect the Horde at August 13, 2026 12:43 PM (t19vo)

108 I always wondered what happened to the girl I went to high school with who tried to put a whole package of hot dogs in her vagina.
Posted by: Vengeance T
_________

She got elected DA in Fulton County.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 13, 2026 12:43 PM (XvL8K)

109 whole package of hot dogs in her vagina.

Little smokies?

Posted by: kitty queen at August 13, 2026 12:43 PM (x0xqR)

110 Ralph: I was popular with the girls. They all wanted to be near me when we went to the beach.
Alice: Ralph, it's not that they liked you. They just wanted to sit in the shade.

Posted by: The Honeymooners at August 13, 2026 12:44 PM (JM9I6)

111 When she sits around the house, she sits...*around* the house!

Posted by: Crusader at August 13, 2026 12:44 PM (TN0g+)

112 Harry Mudd's wife.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 13, 2026 12:33 PM (wtvvX)

The actress playing Harry Mudd's wife was much thinner, just the character was a total shrew.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 12:44 PM (W90Ou)

113 I always wondered what happened to the girl I went to high school with who tried to put a whole package of hot dogs in her vagina.

With or without opening the package? Yes, it matters to my Kalshi position.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 13, 2026 12:44 PM (vTZFs)

114 The legal theory they are using to go after Jabba the Slut is that the SPLC defrauded its donors by not telling them the money was being given to Jabba's white supremacist boyfriend.

I'm not sure if that will hold but I want months of discussion from the FNM about how leftwing NGOs giving money to the white supremacists is a perfectly normal and legal thing.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 12:44 PM (sKqQm)

115 >> Were you there to witness it, or was she bragging about it all over school?
Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 12:42 PM (77rzZ)

My best friend's mom was an ER nurse. The girl went to the hospital because, well, I guess one broke off.

So much for HIPPA and patient privacy. I think she moved to the Arctic after that.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 13, 2026 12:45 PM (Otznn)

116 Arrested for paying spies to infiltrate white supremacist groups. Instead of arresting her, why not hire her to do that? Am I alone in *wanting* people to be infiltrating these groups?

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 13, 2026 12:36 PM (t19vo)

Um. The SPLC is not a law enforcement organization, you worthless dildo magnet.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 13, 2026 12:45 PM (AdHga)

117 I always wondered what happened to the girl I went to high school with who tried to put a whole package of hot dogs in her vagina.

Amateur.

Posted by: Lily Phillips Says She Had Sex With 1,113 Men in 12 Hours at August 13, 2026 12:45 PM (sKqQm)

118 HERR Dr. BEIRICH!!

Posted by: Minuteman at August 13, 2026 12:46 PM (7FRd5)

119 Indeed, The Paolo is, how you say, human.

Posted by: Paolo at August 13, 2026 12:46 PM (0sNs1)

120 found out today that Elvis was only 42 when he died. That dude lived a rough life.
Posted by: Bulg

Name the starlet he DIDN'T sleep with.

Got a lot of smooth to go with the rough.

Posted by: Auspex at August 13, 2026 12:43 PM (Y8DZL)

AKKSHUAALLLYYY. Back then, it was probably mostly carpeted. Not smooth.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 13, 2026 12:47 PM (AdHga)

121 Off topic technical note: Just upgraded a Raspberry computer here and got an error message on loading this site. An ad tried to open the camera that the Raspberry doesn't have. They are watching you.

Also Chromium sucks diseased donkey taint that it failed to stop the attempt.

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at August 13, 2026 12:47 PM (+iL5S)

122 A couple months ago Congress had the "acting" SPLC Director in the hotseat. Black dude. Dinna know nuttin'. Kept saying he wasn't familiar with the issues that were being brought up.

My question now is; where's the actual Director of the SPLC? Did the authorities ever find him/her/it?

This cow is one cog in the SPLC's vast wheel of "directors" who apparently are all in on the fraud, corruption and social injustice being foisted on the public.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 13, 2026 12:47 PM (2Cry5)

123 She ain’t fat, she’s just fluffy.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 13, 2026 12:47 PM (6ydKt)

124 This is the top breaking news story at cnn, apple news and Google news.

J/k There’s no mention of it whatsoever.

Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez at August 13, 2026 12:47 PM (7xx4i)

125 Once again, the dark part of my psyche wishes that we were even 1/10th as dangerous and evil as these people pretend we are. They would not have the courage to challenge us.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 12:47 PM (jjoN6)

126
MAGA is seeking revenge on anyone who fought the KKK and other right-wing terrorist groups. They see the SPLC as part of a broader Jewish conspiracy to 'replace whites' and turn America Communist. That's why the right always calls the SPLC Communist.


I am amused how the left bounces between "Replacement Theory is a racist myth" and "You crackers are a dying breed, all these new immigrants are going to destroy you if you don't embrace socialism now"

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 12:47 PM (sKqQm)

127 Posted by: Lily Phillips Says She Had Sex With 1,113 Men in 12 Hours at August 13, 2026 12:45 PM (sKqQm)

So each guy had 38 seconds? Wonder if she's hiring...

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 12:48 PM (iABCo)

128 I found out today that Elvis was only 42 when he died. That dude lived a rough life.
Posted by: Bulg

Dude's waist was 42 too. So in fat years he was 84.

Posted by: Nothing But A Hound Dog at August 13, 2026 12:48 PM (hqQIL)

129 We are in the early stages of the Bolshevik takeover of America. This doesn't get fixed Constitutionally, IMO. A gardening tip from Jefferson comes to mind.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 13, 2026 12:48 PM (F4p3X)

130 F bombs splashing in the title!

Posted by: Cray Cray at August 13, 2026 12:48 PM (9CU5T)

131 She so fat, she use a VCR for a beeper!

Posted by: Antique Yo Mama Jokes at August 13, 2026 12:49 PM (JM9I6)

132 Assolutamente no!

Posted by: The Paolo at August 13, 2026 12:49 PM (g47mK)

133 Arrested for paying spies to infiltrate white supremacist groups. Instead of arresting her, why not hire her to do that?
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She wasn't arrested for that. She was arrested for using donor money for personal expenses, and using donor money to recruit and build the very "enemy" that her organization was allegedly working against. Its embezzlement. There are exactly *zero* laws that prohibit attempts to "infiltrate" an organization. But that's not what this Lizzo did.

Posted by: Crusader at August 13, 2026 12:49 PM (TN0g+)

134 The idea of Heidi Beirich getting turned out by a meth-mouthed neo-Nazi is what I would call a "macabre Comedy of Terrors."

But, set aside the transgressive and presumably grotesque sex acts involved in this hilarious pecadillo, at least for a moment.

If your group is going up against the National Alliance, and I, the Jew, find myself asking "who do I hate more? NA, or you? Nevermind, scratch that, it's definitely you," then you have severely fucked up your PR game.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 13, 2026 12:49 PM (BI5O2)

135 Imagine the bush on that thing. It probably rivals Angela Davis.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 13, 2026 12:50 PM (Otznn)

136 Boy, that KKK dude has horrible taste in women. Who'd wanna sleep with that thing?
Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 12:24 PM

---

They all look the same with a sheet over their heads.

Posted by: Darth Randall at August 13, 2026 12:50 PM (mseD3)

137 Arrested for paying spies to infiltrate white supremacist groups. Instead of arresting her, why not hire her to do that? Am I alone in *wanting* people to be infiltrating these groups?

Remember in the early 2020s when the left argued any violence at a BLM event/Floyd riot was caused by boogaloo boys trying to stoke fears of racialist violence?

Well, let's play a fun game here. Let's suppose it came out that Charlie Kirk had paid a bunch of Black Panther types to start fires and vandalize buildings under the claim he was investigating terrorist leftwing orgs. How long would the left let that survive as an idea before prosecuting him for paying for terrorists and boogaloo boys?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 12:50 PM (sKqQm)

138 HERR Dr. BEIRICH!!
Posted by: Minuteman

*Horses whinny in background.*

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 13, 2026 12:50 PM (xWQZT)

139 My best friend's mom was an ER nurse. The girl went to the hospital because, well, I guess one broke off.

So much for HIPPA and patient privacy. I think she moved to the Arctic after that.
Posted by: Vengeance


Gotta use the natural-casing ones. Can't trust that extruded-collagen stuff to hold together.

Posted by: educated prevert at August 13, 2026 12:50 PM (VHUov)

140
I guess founder Morris Dees feels better about being forced out of the SPLC now. He is distant from ground zero, out of the news, and presumably still has his money.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 13, 2026 12:50 PM (VWtfl)

141 You people are all terrible and going to hell.

And I’m telling mom.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 13, 2026 12:51 PM (Otznn)

142 I found out today that Elvis was only 42 when he died. That dude lived a rough life.
Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 12:31 PM (77rzZ)


You actually believe he died?

Posted by: Doof at August 13, 2026 12:51 PM (S0M0K)

143 They all look the same with a sheet over their heads.
Posted by: Darth Randall


Basic geometry disagrees.

Posted by: mikeski at August 13, 2026 12:51 PM (VHUov)

144 127 Posted by: Lily Phillips Says She Had Sex With 1,113 Men in 12 Hours at August 13, 2026 12:45 PM (sKqQm)

So each guy had 38 seconds? Wonder if she's hiring...
Posted by: ...

Uh...three holes, two hands, a pair of feet...with a little creativity, she could multitask like one of those one-man bands.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar, selflessly jumping on that fat bomb to protect the Horde at August 13, 2026 12:52 PM (K9nu8)

145 Imagine the bush on that thing. It probably rivals Angela Davis.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 13, 2026 12:50 PM (Otznn)

Like having Don King in a headlock.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 13, 2026 12:52 PM (AdHga)

146 Real life Scooby Doo meme.

Posted by: Clay at August 13, 2026 12:52 PM (JT2CP)

147 125 Once again, the dark part of my psyche wishes that we were even 1/10th as dangerous and evil as these people pretend we are. They would not have the courage to challenge us.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 12:47 PM (jjoN6

Someone here once pointed out that the left can ramp up the violence, get concessions and ramp it down again.

Conservatives have a binary choice given family, homes, jobs.

Peacefully resist, peacefully resist, peacefully resist.

Or kill them all.

I always remember that.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 13, 2026 12:52 PM (Sco7b)

148
Okay, well, I'll admit, something seems to be happening.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 12:52 PM (XJ22o)

149 Remember in the early 2020s when the left argued any violence at a BLM event/Floyd riot was caused by boogaloo boys trying to stoke fears of racialist violence?

Well, let's play a fun game here. Let's suppose it came out that Charlie Kirk had paid a bunch of Black Panther types......

18-1
---------

Better game. Let's suppose it WAS boogaloo boys attacking blacks but only because the Left was putting them up to it and paying their wages.

Now what....?

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 12:52 PM (iABCo)

150 140
I guess founder Morris Dees feels better about being forced out of the SPLC now. He is distant from ground zero, out of the news, and presumably still has his money.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

And the sweet memory of bopping Benson.

Posted by: Auspex at August 13, 2026 12:53 PM (Y8DZL)

151 The idea of Heidi Beirich getting turned out by a meth-mouthed neo-Nazi is what I would call a "macabre Comedy of Terrors."

A lot of leftwing women end up with odd sexual fixations. They believe masculine white men are evil so then they get turned on by evil. Your average lefty then beds a series of superficially masculine losers who hit, choke, and treat them poorly.

Jabba here just cranked it to 11. Instead of bedding a dude bro with a few questionable tattoos and a meth habit she went straight to the uber fuhrer.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 12:53 PM (sKqQm)

152 Just leave it to the horde to come up with 101 creative and humorous ways to say this lady is very ugly…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 13, 2026 12:53 PM (MaA4a)

153 You may think this is just pillow talk, but just hear me out...

...Imma start a graft to scam KKK members by soliciting money to oppose the SPLC and then donor some of it to the SPLC to keep their operation going, Boo.

Now gimme some of that hot pointy mask love!

Posted by: Dr. REV. Heidi Beirich, esquirina at August 13, 2026 12:54 PM (7FRd5)

154 Just leave it to the horde to come up with 101 creative and humorous ways to say this lady is very ugly…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt


Sometimes the soul just shows through like that.

Posted by: mikeski at August 13, 2026 12:54 PM (VHUov)

155 A gardening tip from Jefferson comes to mind.
Posted by: Chairborne!

Our tip of planting corn, beans and squash together, and fertilizing with fish scraps, didn't stop the white man's takeover at all!

Posted by: Native Americans at August 13, 2026 12:54 PM (K9nu8)

156 “A man’s gotta do what he’s gotta do to get paid.”

Posted by: John F. Kerry at August 13, 2026 12:55 PM (9CU5T)

157 You actually believe he died?
Posted by: Doof

Well, maybe he did the Piper thing, where he died but still comes back every so often, in his case to work at that McDonald's in Kalamazoo.

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 12:55 PM (77rzZ)

158 The charges against the the SPLC and Heidi Beirich are for wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering related to secretly funneling donor funds to extremist groups.

These are RICO predicates. Just sayin'

They have Heidi dead to rights, so she's facing serious jail time or she can talk to help build out the RICO charge network. A big board, lost of colored string.

Big RICO also coming out of Miami.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 13, 2026 12:55 PM (dtajH)

159 The only reason the SPLC had any legitimacy was because of the 'cover' the media gave them. As they do for any anti-American, leftist organization. Notice how they never, ever call anyone or thing on the Left radical or extremist. Or even Leftist for crying out loud. But on the right, everyone from the Boy Scouts on down are Extremist, Right Wing!


Unfortunately for a weak-minded, mal-educated, distracted people this fucking works. This is why Democracy, IMO, is not working.


And yes, I know we're a Constitutional Republic...just bear with my short-hand description, please.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 13, 2026 12:55 PM (F4p3X)

160 Harry Mudd's wife

A pin-up girl compared to that SPLC manatee. That, and Harry Mudd's wife will shut up. The SPLC thing probably never does.

Posted by: weew at August 13, 2026 12:55 PM (9TspW)

161 Looks like he will do some time regardless of what Bragg and a NYC jury try and pull:

Luigi Mangione expected to plead guilty to federal charges in assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO

NY Post article : https://tinyurl.com/4ykfsrdm

Posted by: Ann at August 13, 2026 12:56 PM (SHHm+)

162 Once again, the dark part of my psyche wishes that we were even 1/10th as dangerous and evil as these people pretend we are. They would not have the courage to challenge us.

Remember during the early 90s when the primary protest group in America was pro-lifers? The left pulled out all the stops to criminalize that (with help from Mitch McConnell no less!)

And there is no question if the right broadly embraced political violence the Overton window would be far, far to the right of where it is now.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 12:56 PM (sKqQm)

163 Okay, well, I'll admit, something seems to be happening.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Uh oh. That's dangerous talk on this blog...

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 12:56 PM (77rzZ)

164 Elvis Presley is alive and well, living in Tweed, Ontario.

Posted by: far cry at August 13, 2026 12:58 PM (X+NGn)

165 I bought a new dishwasher 3 years ago. It’s already on its last legs making some strange sounds while operating. Long out of warranty. Calling an appliance repair guy is $125 just to diagnose it. Then another $150-250 to fix it probably. A new one is $500. No point in repairing.

And that’s exactly what the manufacturers calculate and why everything is such shit quality now.

And this is part of the inflation number that doesn’t show up. Sure dishwashers are cheap compared to 20 years ago as are most appliances. But 20 years ago you bought one and it lasted 20 years. Now you have to buy them every 3 fucking years. Which makes them 600% more expensive relatively speaking.

Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez at August 13, 2026 12:59 PM (7xx4i)

166 11 The SPLC will just say they had no idea this "person" was doing this....
Posted by: It's me donna

Renders it liable for private lawsuits plus charging her means that it is evidence for the IRS to pull their non profit status. That kills their money intake as rich leftists donors demand that tax deduction or will likely go elsewhere. Same as the collapse of Acorn and BLM.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 12:59 PM (E4rtv)

167 Fat Elvis could still sing

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 13, 2026 01:00 PM (MaA4a)

168 Speaking of weird women, did everyone know that Alice Pearce did not appear in any Bewitched episodes in color?

Posted by: TV Times at August 13, 2026 01:00 PM (JM9I6)

169 Peacefully resist, peacefully resist, peacefully resist.

Or kill them all.

I always remember that.
Posted by: Stateless


Like the poem "The men who wanted to be left alone."

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 01:00 PM (jjoN6)

170 And this is part of the inflation number that doesn’t show up. Sure dishwashers are cheap compared to 20 years ago as are most appliances. But 20 years ago you bought one and it lasted 20 years. Now you have to buy them every 3 fucking years. Which makes them 600% more expensive relatively speaking.
Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez

Listen to your economics major self. You really do know math!

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 01:00 PM (77rzZ)

171 164 Elvis Presley is alive and well, living in Tweed, Ontario.
Posted by: far cry at August 13, 2026 12:58 PM (X+NGn)
--------
Shut up, that's just a rumor.

Posted by: The Tweed Peanut Butter and Nanner sammich cartel at August 13, 2026 01:00 PM (3aLWR)

172 Harcourt Fenton Mudd - "Completely Unavoidable"
(Star Trek-The Original Series -Parody Music Video)

https://youtu.be/0-8WCwNp_oM

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 01:01 PM (u82oZ)

173 Elvis Presley is alive, but unwell. He was swallowed whole by a young Jerry Nadler in 1977, and has struggled to break free of the abdominal stoma he burst through in 1980 ever since.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 13, 2026 01:01 PM (BI5O2)

174 Same as the collapse of Acorn and BLM.

The way these leftwing NGOs die is hilarious:

Acorn: Willing to help a literal pimp on camera
BLM: Founder stole all the money
SPLC: Senior employee used org money to buy sex from a white supremacist

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 01:01 PM (sKqQm)

175 Speaking of weird women, did everyone know that Alice Pearce did not appear in any Bewitched episodes in color?
Posted by: TV Times

I knew that.

She was much funnier as Gladys Kravitz than Sandra Gould.

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 01:01 PM (77rzZ)

176 Harcourt Fenton Mudd - "Completely Unavoidable"
(Star Trek-The Original Series -Parody Music Video)


We will apparently have lifelike humanoid robots long before we get starships...Thanks Japan...I guess.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 01:02 PM (sKqQm)

177
Arrested for paying spies to infiltrate white supremacist groups. Instead of arresting her, why not hire her to do that? Am I alone in *wanting* people to be infiltrating these groups?

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

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

I guess this intrepid commenter didn't get down to the part where the KKK used the dough to EXPAND and CREATE NEW chapters.

That's not exactly my idea of infiltration and subversion.

It would be hilarious if the DOJ subpoenas KKK leadership and asks them if there was any understanding between them and SPLC as to where the dough would go. Because, you know, "Here, Mr. Wizard, take this big fat check" isn't the same as spending your money to set up double agents and send them on secret missions.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 01:02 PM (XJ22o)

178 Heidi could feed Ilham Nur's tribe for a month.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 13, 2026 01:02 PM (kLvfY)

179 Speaking of weird women, did everyone know that Alice Pearce did not appear in any Bewitched episodes in color?
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She died. She apparently had cancer when she accepted the role and didn't tell anyone.

Posted by: Crusader at August 13, 2026 01:02 PM (TN0g+)

180 Don’t forget, Jocelyn Benson, who is running on the Democrat ticket for governor in Michigan was on the board of the SPLC during this time.

Posted by: Jen the original at August 13, 2026 01:03 PM (EiUt/)

181 Katie Miller
@KatieMiller
Aug 12
Marco Rubio is just not a diet guy:

“I tried keto once.

“It was a near-psychotic event for me. If I had been in this job while doing it, I would’ve been like, “Mr. President, we must bomb Paraguay.”

“And it’s like, why? I don’t know. I’m just really mad. I haven’t had any sugar.“



Note: Paraguay is reviewing if they can legally send SOS Rubio Pop-Tarts

Posted by: Kindltot at August 13, 2026 01:03 PM (rbvCR)

182 It would be hilarious if the DOJ subpoenas KKK leadership and asks them if there was any understanding between them and SPLC as to where the dough would go.

See she'd put the check down her pants and told me if I wanted the money I had better be good at fishing and have brought a nice tackle to use to catch a Heidi Fish.

Posted by: The poor KKK guy at August 13, 2026 01:03 PM (sKqQm)

183 And there is no question if the right broadly embraced political violence the Overton window would be far, far to the right of where it is now.

Posted by: 18-1
======
The right, by and large, does not have a large population of ne'er do wells that can be activated as a mob by cash. The left creates them by the score.

The Jacksonian right, by and large has a binary switch between kill them all and avoidance of conflict.

Violence then is not calibrated like it is for leftists and indeed most of the world. Most of the world uses political violence to force others to do what they want without widescale destruction. The dominant strain on the right in the US is Jacksonian. Law abiding until it is not.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 01:04 PM (E4rtv)

184 I saw Nazi-Bang open for Marie Osmond at MetalFest '88.

Posted by: zombie at August 13, 2026 01:04 PM (Av6i5)

185 The great white whale got laid, weighed and paid.

Posted by: burma shave at August 13, 2026 01:05 PM (ehY6c)

186 We will apparently have lifelike humanoid robots long before we get starships...Thanks Japan...I guess.
Posted by: 18-1

Flying cars, sexbots, promises, promises.

Posted by: Auspex at August 13, 2026 01:05 PM (Y8DZL)

187 Could the wearers of white sheets sue the SPLC to provide a list of agents?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 13, 2026 01:05 PM (kLvfY)

188 They have a real crappy statue of the lead from Bewitched in Salem MA.

Nice enough town...if you ignore the people living there

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 01:05 PM (sKqQm)

189 > Speaking of weird women, did everyone know that Alice Pearce did not appear in any Bewitched episodes in color?

Poor lady died of cancer.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 13, 2026 01:05 PM (mkw2N)

190 Rubio is unhinged. He needs to stay like this forever and maybe we could beat these retards for another two elections.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 01:06 PM (iABCo)

191 Cherry 2000 or 33-S?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 13, 2026 01:06 PM (kLvfY)

192 188 They have a real crappy statue of the lead from Bewitched in Salem MA.

Nice enough town...if you ignore the people living there
Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 01:05 PM (sKqQm)

Same can be said for most of the state. And NYS, CA.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 13, 2026 01:06 PM (N39Ws)

193 174 Same as the collapse of Acorn and BLM.

The way these leftwing NGOs die is hilarious:

Acorn: Willing to help a literal pimp on camera
BLM: Founder stole all the money
SPLC: Senior employee used org money to buy sex from a white supremacist
Posted by: 18-1

To the left, they care not about the organizations but the cause. So Acorn's peeps drifted to new organizations doing the same crap, BLM, ditto. What drives it is large pools of cash, often derived from local, state, and federal coffers plus foreign money and domestic traitors like Soros, Hoffman, etc.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 01:07 PM (E4rtv)

194 Sometimes I forget just how crazy-evil-brainwashed-relentless-sneaky-misinformed-amoral our enemies are.

Posted by: zombie at August 13, 2026 01:07 PM (Av6i5)

195
She's a Ph.D., donchano?

Heidi, She-Wolf of the KKK

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at August 13, 2026 01:07 PM (s9VOe)

196 SPLC leadership to their entire donor base:

"Not our fault. YOU TRUSTED US!"

Posted by: mrp at August 13, 2026 01:08 PM (rj6Yv)

197 I took a ghost tour in Salem and it was amusing.

They took us to one haunted mansion where I didn't see anything but I noticed there were two types of people working the place - college aged theater girls and middle aged gay guys.

The middle aged guys knew all the ghost stories the girls looked nice in their sorta goth get ups.

Note, I saw zero ghosts.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 01:08 PM (sKqQm)

198 We have an open challenge for Masturbatin' Pete.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 13, 2026 12:40 PM


Nowadays his performance on that challenge would involve asking if this woman is Jewish.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 13, 2026 01:09 PM (2ocoG)

199 190 Rubio is unhinged. He needs to stay like this forever and maybe we could beat these retards for another two elections.
Posted by: ...
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Someone, probably not Trump, is going to have to cross the Rubicon in dealing with the treacherous left and Rinos, after Trump departs. DeSantis would probably I think, Rubio, at least this version might, I think Vance is possibly the weakest probability.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 01:09 PM (E4rtv)

200 These days, Rubio is much more appealing to me than Vance. Maybe it’s that meme…maybe it’s the Vance friendship with TuCa… he’s just been the most impressive person in Trump 2.0… well, him and Bessent

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 13, 2026 01:10 PM (MaA4a)

201 194 Sometimes I forget just how crazy-evil-brainwashed-relentless-sneaky-misinformed-amoral our enemies are.
Posted by: zombie
======
Read the Old Testament. The enemy is as old as human civilization.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 01:10 PM (E4rtv)

202 Sure dishwashers are cheap compared to 20 years ago as are most appliances. But 20 years ago you bought one and it lasted 20 years. Now you have to buy them every 3 fucking years. Which makes them 600% more expensive relatively speaking.
Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez

Why don't you just buy a good one?

(Miele or Bosch)

Yes, they are expensive but they will last and have damn few repairs.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 13, 2026 01:10 PM (udaaY)

203 Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 01:09 PM (E4rtv)

The Left wants you afraid to say things. Trump's success is he makes them afraid of what he will say.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 01:11 PM (iABCo)

204 Meanwhile the media continues to try to make a scandal out of Trump's plane switch.

Posted by: steevy at August 13, 2026 01:11 PM (YwEeS)

205 TBH I would say the rough order in likelyhood of throwing down on RINOs would be:

Vance
DeSantis
Rubio

Vance doesn't owe the GOPers anything. DeSantis has worked with them, but as governor blazed his own non-Rhino path, and Rubio worked as a border line GOPer himself for years before getting the nod from Trump as SOS where he has been arguably the best SOS of all time

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 01:12 PM (sKqQm)

206 Thanks annoying pop-up for this gem:

Elder Abuse Training

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 13, 2026 01:12 PM (kLvfY)

207 The way these leftwing NGOs die is hilarious:

Acorn: Willing to help a literal pimp on camera
BLM: Founder stole all the money
SPLC: Senior employee used org money to buy sex from a white supremacist
Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 01:01 PM (sKqQm)
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Someone should make a sitcom around all three...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 13, 2026 01:12 PM (FZ29D)

208
Her rendition of "I'm Tired" was a thing of horror, those afflicted by it said.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at August 13, 2026 01:12 PM (s9VOe)

209 Meanwhile the media continues to try to make a scandal out of Trump's plane switch.
Posted by: steevy at August 13, 2026 01:11 PM (YwEeS)

It’s just awful horrible that the SS took steps to avoid an assassination of the prez… sarc

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 13, 2026 01:12 PM (MaA4a)

210 She died. She apparently had cancer when she accepted the role and didn't tell anyone.
Posted by: Crusader

Carolyn Jones hid her cancer diagnosis so that she would still get hired. Madelyn Rhue did the same with her MS diagnosis.

Posted by: Memento Mori..... at August 13, 2026 01:13 PM (JM9I6)

211 Once again this proves out the fact that the LEFT will ALWAYS accuse you of what they are guilty of.

You Support White Supremacy she yells while supporting actual White Supremacists....

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 13, 2026 01:13 PM (mP0Kj)

212 Nowadays his performance on that challenge would involve asking if this woman is Jewish.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 13, 2026 01:09 PM (2ocoG)

Of all the animals who could claim to be Jewish, i think a hog is the hardest sell.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 13, 2026 01:14 PM (BI5O2)

213 Lily Phillips Says She Had Sex With 1,113 Men in 12 Hours at August 13, 2026 12:45 PM

Is that ... like ... a long time?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard alumnus at August 13, 2026 01:15 PM (0sNs1)

214 206 Thanks annoying pop-up for this gem:

Elder Abuse Training

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 13, 2026 01:12 PM (kLvfY

Prevention or 'How to'?

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 13, 2026 01:15 PM (Sco7b)

215 Wait. You don't think the people who concentrated black people in tiny enclaves of horror, rent their families asunder, and are now actively making the world despise and tire of them, actually don't like black people all that much....?

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 01:16 PM (iABCo)

216 Is there nothing the Jews won't do?

Per Tucker Carlson, @benshapiro was "created" by Israel.
"They" got him "into Harvard Law School" & made
@realDailyWire successful by getting the company a "deal with Facebook that no one got."
Tucker added that Shapiro's views are actually "the opinions of the people who prop up Ben Shapiro, who created Ben Shapiro. This is what they think."
While Tucker mostly avoided naming "they" — initially calling Shapiro an "employee... of larger interests" — he eventually let the mask slip.
At 2:35 of this clip, Tucker refers to "Ben Shapiro's employer's foreign policy."

https://tinyurl.com/yenv4phd

-
I guess it was like Dr. Frankenstein creating the monster.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 13, 2026 01:17 PM (ndZc7)

217 Agnes Moorehead got cancer from that Genghis Khan movie they filmed by the nuclear test sites in Nevada. Same with John Wayne and Susan Hayward.

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 01:17 PM (77rzZ)

218 Vance doesn't owe the GOPers anything. DeSantis has worked with them, but as governor blazed his own non-Rhino path, and Rubio worked as a border line GOPer himself for years before getting the nod from Trump as SOS where he has been arguably the best SOS of all time
Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 01:12 PM (sKqQm)


At least Vance wasn't friends with Myer Lansky and perverts like Roy Cohn. People like that are beyond the pale, and must be rejected

Posted by: Kindltot at August 13, 2026 01:17 PM (rbvCR)

219 That chick nailed a dude every 39 seconds.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 13, 2026 01:18 PM (7zn4w)

220 Someone, probably not Trump, is going to have to cross the Rubicon in dealing with the treacherous left and Rinos, after Trump departs. DeSantis would probably I think, Rubio, at least this version might, I think Vance is possibly the weakest probability.
Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 01:09 PM (E4rtv)
=====

Tempting for the kill-shot to end all the fuss, but this kind of crap has been going on since before the American War for Independence. The Wets will be with us always. Washington had to put up with the Whiskey Rebellion, Andrew Jackson with the Nullification Crisis, something something in Kansas, Harper's Ferry, and the Big Something that started in 1860, (and Copperheads galore).

There's always Something going on.

Posted by: mrp at August 13, 2026 01:18 PM (rj6Yv)

221 Wow. That thing is just rancid.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 13, 2026 01:18 PM (X/q9i)

222
Acorn: Willing to help a literal pimp on camera
BLM: Founder stole all the money
SPLC: Senior employee used org money to buy sex from a white supremacist
Posted by: 18-1

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

Didn't Acorn manage to dissolve into the eternal sea of grift, perhaps losing its ego but contributing untold droplets to the unchanging tides of theft and corruption?

I'd really like to see something like SPLC destroyed. Like its former employees have to downsize and get Uber and Doordash gigs.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 01:18 PM (XJ22o)

223 Have you guys seen the shock glove ICE is buying? It makes sense. It's already in your hand, unlike a TASER that is sitting on your belt. If you're grabbing someone with a TASER in hand, you can only use one hand. With this thing on, you have both hands plus the TASER functionality. Plus there's no way for cops to mistake their gun for their TASER.

http://tiny.cc/b0k8101

Posted by: bonhomme at August 13, 2026 01:19 PM (mkw2N)

224 Okay, well, I'll admit, something seems to be happening.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 12:52 PM


Have you alerted That Guy?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 13, 2026 01:19 PM (0sNs1)

225 Not clicking to find out, let the ambiguity seep into your thoughts...

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 13, 2026 01:19 PM (kLvfY)

226 When they made Heidi Beirich they broke the mold.

Rumor has it the beat the hell out of the mold-maker too.

Posted by: 496 at August 13, 2026 01:20 PM (JfNq6)

227 200 These days, Rubio is much more appealing to me than Vance. Maybe it’s that meme…maybe it’s the Vance friendship with TuCa… he’s just been the most impressive person in Trump 2.0… well, him and Bessent
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
=======
For me as well. We have about one year or so longer for the audition for Trump's successor so I am content to wait until it is necessary.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 01:20 PM (E4rtv)

228 Read the Old Testament. The enemy is as old as human civilization.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 01:10 PM (E4rtv)



And they were smote as I recall. The New Testament is far more forgiving and I am struggling with that. Honestly.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 13, 2026 01:20 PM (F4p3X)

229 Meanwhile the media continues to try to make a scandal out of Trump's plane switch.
Posted by: steevy

Everybody knows you should always sacrifice a president to save a journalist.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 13, 2026 01:20 PM (ndZc7)

230 A big board, lost of colored string.

They're talking about colored string! They're basically the Klan 2.0!!!

Posted by: SPLC spy watching AoS comments at August 13, 2026 01:20 PM (K9nu8)

231
Okay, well, I'll admit, something seems to be happening.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 12:52 PM

Have you alerted That Guy?
Posted by: Duncanthrax

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

I AM That Guy.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 01:21 PM (XJ22o)

232 Trump’s justice department arrests expert on far-right as part of SPLC crackdown.

The justice department on Wednesday arrested a leading expert on far-right extremism, charging her with financial crimes as part of the government’s ongoing case against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).

-The Gaurdian

Posted by: 13times at August 13, 2026 01:21 PM (6iKlf)

233
Lily Phillips Says She Had Sex With 1,113 Men in 12 Hours


She should give that former Cambridge professor faker a call and compare notes on how to recognize when you're claiming too much for your performances.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at August 13, 2026 01:21 PM (s9VOe)

234 Rubio-Bessent in '28!

A Hispanic (the Donks and Media will dub him a White Hispanic) and a gay dude. I'd trust Bessent as POTUS if anything happens to Rubio.

How would the Donks respond? AOC and Mayor Buttplug?

Bigger problem - how many in the Repub base would stay home rather than voting a for a gay dude?

Posted by: Gref at August 13, 2026 01:22 PM (5rh/l)

235 When they made Heidi Beirich they broke the mold.

Posted by: 496 at August 13, 2026 01:20 PM (JfNq6)
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Quite a bit of it grew back... (HT: Emo Philips)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 13, 2026 01:22 PM (FZ29D)

236 I'm wondering how the trigger works. I imagine you have to squeeze or press, and that triggers it. So you might not be able to walk around with the thing on your hand all the time. Or maybe you can learn to use that hand without triggering the shock functionality.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 13, 2026 01:22 PM (mkw2N)

237 Would take more than $4 million to entice me to fuck that cow

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 13, 2026 01:22 PM (iFTx/)

238 At least Vance wasn't friends with Myer Lansky...
Posted by: Kindltot


Yes, but at least his knives were sharp.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 13, 2026 01:23 PM (diia5)

239 Didn't Acorn manage to dissolve into the eternal sea of grift, perhaps losing its ego but contributing untold droplets to the unchanging tides of theft and corruption?

Soooo...you're saying they were lost in time, like tears...in rain?

Posted by: Archimedes at August 13, 2026 01:23 PM (Riz8t)

240 And they were smote as I recall. The New Testament is far more forgiving and I am struggling with that. Honestly.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above!

Jesus did a lot of verbal smiting. And something about the money changers.

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 01:23 PM (77rzZ)

241 Lily Phillips Says She Had Sex With 1,113 Men in 12 Hours

As a point to consider here, if you trace back 100 generations of her mother, her mother's mother and so on they collectively probably had sex with fewer men in their whole lives then she did in 12 hours.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 01:23 PM (sKqQm)

242 Meanwhile the media continues to try to make a scandal out of Trump's plane switch.
Posted by: steevy

Everybody knows you should always sacrifice a president to save a journalist.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 13, 2026 01:20 PM (ndZc7)



The Secret Service is pledged to protect the President's life. Not journalist's lives.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 13, 2026 01:23 PM (F4p3X)

243 Bigger problem - how many in the Repub base would stay home rather than voting a for a gay dude?
Posted by: Gref at August 13, 2026 01:22 PM (5rh/l)


How many would stay home because he was a Soros henchman and one of the Banksters that broke the Pound?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 13, 2026 01:23 PM (rbvCR)

244 Okay, well, I'll admit, something seems to be happening.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 12:52 PM

Have you alerted That Guy?


That Guy is probably AOSHQ's most prolific commenter.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 13, 2026 01:24 PM (Riz8t)

245
Okay, well, I'll admit, something seems to be happening.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia


Here?

What it is ain't exactly clear.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at August 13, 2026 01:25 PM (s9VOe)

246 237 Would take more than $4 million to entice me to fuck that cow
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Just shows to go ya, everyone has their price!

Posted by: The Million Dollar Man at August 13, 2026 01:25 PM (JM9I6)

247 And so it begins.

Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at August 13, 2026 01:25 PM (amcLV)

248 Read the Old Testament. The enemy is as old as human civilization.

-
Rosa DeLauro is pretty old but as human civilization?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 13, 2026 01:25 PM (ndZc7)

249 217 Agnes Moorehead got cancer from that Genghis Khan movie they filmed by the nuclear test sites in Nevada. Same with John Wayne and Susan Hayward.
Posted by: Bulg
=======
And it wasn't even a good movie to sacrifice anyone's life over. Mostly forgotten now.

But you want to see some balls of steel, checkout the guys underneath an airburst nuke taking pictures and observing it from the ground at point zero.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 01:25 PM (E4rtv)

250 A clear case of Fugly. No hearings necessary.

Posted by: Weasel at August 13, 2026 01:26 PM (leKdc)

251 Jesus did a lot of verbal smiting. And something about the money changers.
Posted by: Bulg

Sorry, Jesus...it's never enough for the base. Not even escalating to angrily worded letters!!!

Posted by: Trey Gowdy and other congressional GOPers at August 13, 2026 01:26 PM (K9nu8)

252 I've never known people who pretended to know both as little and as much as a Leftist.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 01:26 PM (iABCo)

253 Rosa DeLauro is pretty old but as human civilization?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

We forget that the past had very bright colors that were not always in the best of taste. So it goes for the mummy undead.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 01:26 PM (E4rtv)

254 Rosa DeLauro is pretty old but as human civilization?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks


You're getting her confused with me.
-- Taylor Lorenz

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 01:27 PM (77rzZ)

255
That Guy is probably AOSHQ's most prolific commenter.
Posted by: Archimedes


True, but only since the Guy Who Shouts, En Fuego! went AWOL.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at August 13, 2026 01:27 PM (s9VOe)

256 Everybody knows you should always sacrifice a president to save a journalist.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 13, 2026 01:20 PM


So say we all.

Posted by: Jim Acosta, Brian "Sex Machine" Stelter, and Anderson Cooper at August 13, 2026 01:27 PM (0sNs1)

257 Posted by: Elric The Blade

Who cares? Aside from you, I mean You're not running a white supremacist group, are you?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 01:27 PM (wmzkx)

258 One of the more pathetic things about this SPLC story is I am willing to bet Heidi wasn't buying sex so much as "The Boyfriend Experience"

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 01:27 PM (sKqQm)

259 Heidi Beirich had body-form mold issues, so she moved to Palm Springs.

Posted by: 13times at August 13, 2026 01:27 PM (6iKlf)

260 Lily Phillips Says She Had Sex With 1,113 Men in 12 Hours

The math indicates 1,113 premature ejaculators.

I know, no math...

Posted by: Auspex at August 13, 2026 01:28 PM (Y8DZL)

261
"Put it in me, you big ol' racist, you! Fill me with a bigoted baby or two! Wait, where are you going?"

"To get the bag of flour."

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at August 13, 2026 01:29 PM (s9VOe)

262 And they were smote as I recall. The New Testament is far more forgiving and I am struggling with that. Honestly.
Posted by: Chairborne!.
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If you read between the lines, the NT is actually more horrifying for the evil doing nonbelievers. OT had them being smited with not much consideration of the afterlife. NT has them ALL damned for all time apparently after death.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 01:29 PM (E4rtv)

263 I love the way the popup ads hide themselves on android so you can read stuff but get in the way when you try to scroll or comment.

Absolute genius stuff.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at August 13, 2026 01:30 PM (GqAGy)

264 The Secret Service is pledged to protect the President's life.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above!

Or anyone else they're assigned to protect.

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 01:30 PM (77rzZ)

265 The math indicates 1,113 premature ejaculators.
I know, no math...
Posted by: Auspex at August 13, 2026 01:28 PM


38 seconds is NOT premature!

Posted by: Speedy Gonzales at August 13, 2026 01:31 PM (0sNs1)

266
"To get the bag of flour."

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at August 13, 2026 01:29 PM (s9VOe)

"Make sure it's the WHITE flour baby!!!"

"I love it when you talk dirty to me."

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 01:31 PM (iABCo)

267 More likely Agnes Moorehead got cancer from her garish makeup as Endora.

Posted by: Max Factor at August 13, 2026 01:31 PM (JM9I6)

268 If you read between the lines, the NT is actually more horrifying for the evil doing nonbelievers. OT had them being smited with not much consideration of the afterlife. NT has them ALL damned for all time apparently after death.
Posted by: whig

Yes, I was thinking that, too.

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 01:31 PM (77rzZ)

269 263 I love the way the popup ads hide themselves on android so you can read stuff but get in the way when you try to scroll or comment.

Absolute genius stuff.
Posted by: Richard Cranium

Do yourself a favor and get Brave for Android. It doesn't work nearly as well for IoS due to underlying Webkit. But Brave is wizard for blocking scripting crap and adds on Linux and Android. Win 11, about half and half.

The price is updates every other day or so to block new adware malware twists for Brave.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 01:32 PM (E4rtv)

270 Nood Karoline Leavitt

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 01:32 PM (sKqQm)

271 I found out today that Elvis was only 42 when he died. That dude lived a rough life.
Posted by: Bulg

Name the starlet he DIDN'T sleep with.

Got a lot of smooth to go with the rough.
Posted by: Auspex at August 13, 2026 12:43 PM (Y8DZL)


Terri Garr, in her dancer days. Being a good Jewish girl, she turned him down.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 13, 2026 01:32 PM (bj7t1)

272 Lily Phillips Says She Had Sex With 1,113 Men in 12 Hours

The math indicates 1,113 premature ejaculators.

I know, no math...
Posted by: Auspex at August 13, 2026 01:28 PM (Y8DZL)
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I did some math.

1113/720 minutes.

Pass the brain bleach, please.

Posted by: mrp at August 13, 2026 01:33 PM (rj6Yv)

273 Who cares? Aside from you, I mean You're not running a white supremacist group, are you?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 01:27 PM (wmzkx)

I care.

I want to know what every man on this blogs's price is, to fuck that fat ugly hog Heidi Beirich.

I couldn't do it. Married. But a single YD says "low eight figures. Maybe $15m."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 13, 2026 01:33 PM (BI5O2)

274 Speaking of Jesus . . .

Report: Kansas Democrat Nominee for Governor Cindy Holscher is getting massive backlash about her comment on Jesus Christ

She said: “I have no idea if Jesus was trans, gay, straight, etc.”

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I'm pretty sure he was straight because there's nothing in the Bible about him benefiting from DEI.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 13, 2026 01:34 PM (ndZc7)

275 NOOD Karoline Leavitt.

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 01:34 PM (77rzZ)

276 "I love it when you talk dirty to me."

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 01:31 PM (iABCo)



Humus. Topsoil. Earth. Loam.


Is that dirty enough?

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 13, 2026 01:34 PM (F4p3X)

277 There's always Something going on.
Posted by: mrp at August 13, 2026 01:18 PM (rj6Yv)

https://shorturl.at/LCqUV

Posted by: zombie Marin Gaye at August 13, 2026 01:35 PM (3sXRv)

278 I did some math.

1113/720 minutes.

Pass the brain bleach, please.
Posted by: mrp

The Democrats support your family whatever it looks like.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 13, 2026 01:36 PM (ndZc7)

279 The AWFLs complaining about "white supremacy" as the most awful thing ever can only make that claim because they purposely conflate the atrocities of WWII Nazis with "white" culture. Never mind that the vast majority of the rest of Europe and America was opposed to the Nazis and died in the hundreds of thousands to eradicate them. And never mind that there were many others that were just as bad, if not worse, than the Nazis: Stalinist Soviet Union, Japanese militarists of WWII, Maoist China, Khmer Rouge, Turkish genocide of Armenians, and on and on, none of which can be called "white supremacy." And that's just in the 20th century.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 13, 2026 01:38 PM (/jglT)

280 did some math.

1113/720 minutes.

Pass the brain bleach, please.
Posted by: mrp

Yep. Every 39 seconds.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 13, 2026 02:13 PM (7zn4w)

281 calling bullshit on "romantic partner", rolling with that hog is beastiality

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 13, 2026 03:20 PM (0/EbQ)

The Morning Rant: When Capital Is Mobile, Socialism Will Fail

punk-monkey.jpg

The Soviet Union had a captive audience...nobody could leave with their money or their infrastructure unless the party allowed it. Communist China is the same way, as is Cuba, and North Korea, and Venezuela, and...

And leaving Krasnoyarsk for Tomsk, in the hope of more opportunity didn't work either...the laws under which the subjects of a socialist country operate made that change a triviality, even if one could get a permit to move.

But in free market economies, capital is mobile! And even more important; people are mobile. No permits required! No permission from the local People's Committee is needed...just a moving company and a funds transfer to the new city. So if you want to move your widget company to another city, have at it! And if you can convince your employees to go with you? All the better!

Why is this important? Because in the United States Of America, the deeply deluded flirtation with the out-and-proud socialism of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has exploded in the last few years. Whether it is organic growth of socialist principles, or a careful manipulation of the news cycle combined with excellent grassroots planning remains to be seen.

But one thing is certain; socialism has arrived in a few of our cities, including the biggest one! NYC is firmly in the grip of a socialist/Islamist mayor, and he is gleefully implementing public programs, increasing the tax rates wherever possible. and in all other respects bringing the soul-crushing policies of socialism to the people and businesses of New York City.

But this ain't the Soviet Union, and people and companies are leaving. And that is a very big problem for a city that has as its tax base a large number of highly paid people in finance and the employees in corporate offices whose presence in NYC is a business imperative...or at least it used to be!

And how do they do it? It's easy! Just leave. Our Constitutional Republic is specifically designed to give the states broad discretion over their governance, and that includes the business climate. So the draw of Texas and Tennessee and Florida -- all states with no income tax and a business friendly regulatory structure -- is easy to understand.

JP Morgan Chase has reduced head count by 6,000 people, and has expanded operations in Florida and Texas. Goldman Sachs has unveiled an explicit program (Project Voyage) of relocation to Dallas and Salt Lake City. Citadel's global headquarters is now in Miami. Apollo Global Management is expanding in Austin. Blackstone is expanding in Dallas, and Miami. AllianceBernstein is moving several thousand employees to Nashville. And these are peole whose salaries are not $50k/year for clerical work or running a cash register. These are in many cases highly compensated employees who make $250k...or many multiples of that. The decrease in tax revenue from just a few of these people leaving is substantial, and it is not going to end anytime soon. The top 1% of earners in NYC pays 40% of the personal income tax! That is huge and unsustainable.

And that's just finance. Other large corporations whose executives can see the never-ending increases in corporate and personal taxes, coupled with the vast improvement in data movement no longer have to be in NYC. The internet may very well be the death knell of NYC! Walmart, Amazon, even tiny little Foot Locker are relocating employees or flat out getting the hell out of NYC.

And lest one assume that the state of NY is more sane... it isn't. New York State taxes are among the highest in the country, and the state is losing corporations and highly compensated people at an outrageous rate too!

And all of this is because of the wisdom and genius of the founders of our great country. Each state is largely free to experiment. And the flow of capital from the socialist experiment in New York City to the free states is huge, and growing. California and Illinois and Minnesota and New Jersey are also suffering from the same disease, and the low tax states are very happy to cultivate an atmosphere of freedom from regulation and taxation that makes them an attractive alternative to the sclerotic blue states.


[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!

Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM




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1 Yep

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 13, 2026 11:01 AM (O5BzH)

2 Rookie mistake... again. Off to get the others.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at August 13, 2026 11:02 AM (VkY89)

3 MONKEY!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 13, 2026 11:02 AM (N1tpc)

4 When Capital Is Mobile, Socialism Will Fail

Sounds like a recipe for WAR? no?
There is Profit, yes, but only at a distance.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 13, 2026 11:03 AM (Ooz63)

5 This is exactly why socialists in socialist states are seeking to bring the red states under their thumb.

The send out locusts to colonize the urban centers of other states who then capture the levers of government and create another hellhole on earth.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 13, 2026 11:03 AM (FZ29D)

6 I nood'd

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 13, 2026 11:04 AM (O5BzH)

7 5 This is exactly why socialists in socialist states are seeking to bring the red states under their thumb.

The send out locusts to colonize the urban centers of other states who then capture the levers of government and create another hellhole on earth.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Misery likes company.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:04 AM (E4rtv)

8 The attempt will be made to Nationalize Socialism.

Eh. Last time that was tried, millions and millions died.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 11:04 AM (u82oZ)

9 "In headlines, Mayor Mamdani announces the building of a wall around the city of New York to protect the citizens from the capitalist threat outside the borders."

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 11:05 AM (jjoN6)

10 Corgi summoned.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at August 13, 2026 11:05 AM (VkY89)

11 Misery likes company.
Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:04 AM (E4rtv)
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I don't think misery likes anything.

It *hates* happiness and prosperity. It's fueled by envy.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 13, 2026 11:05 AM (FZ29D)

12 And leaving Krasnoyarsk for Tomsk, in the hope of more opportunity didn't work either...the laws under which the subjects of a socialist country operate made that change a triviality, even if one could get a permit to move.
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So much dignity under Marxism!

Posted by: Axeman at August 13, 2026 11:05 AM (XMAAx)

13 There is a massive opportunity for some other cities to improve from New York's foolish choices.

For example, Detroit has LOTS of empty buildings. If its leaders were smart, they'd be reaching out to NY businesses and its Jewish community to take advantage of cheap rent, less insane policies and an existing Jewish community.

I'm going to bet that Detroit doesn't have leaders smart enough for that. Like most other big cities in the US.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 13, 2026 11:06 AM (N1tpc)

14 I've been learning all about Thanksgiving! It turns out the white people were socialists and the Indians saved their sorry asses! So, not colonialist! And the white people were idiots. All good.

Except they didn't do socialism right.

Posted by: Francesca Hong at August 13, 2026 11:06 AM (3ZBdr)

15 The USSR had internal passports as well, so people could not travel from city to city in Russia without written authorization. I can see the socialists here embracing that.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 13, 2026 11:06 AM (ddn0m)

16 "In headlines, Mayor Mamdani announces the building of a wall around the city of New York to protect the citizens from the capitalist threat outside the borders."
Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 11:05 AM (jjoN6)
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Go for it!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 13, 2026 11:06 AM (FZ29D)

17 The attempt will be made to Nationalize Socialism.

Eh. Last time that was tried, millions and millions died.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 11:04 AM (u82oZ)
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Wrong. The vast majority of European countries are basically national-socialist.

It works reasonably well, until it doesn't.

Posted by: Axeman at August 13, 2026 11:07 AM (XMAAx)

18 Mamdani's already said he's more than willing to impose "exit taxes" on corporations or people leaving.

Other blue states are contemplating similar.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 13, 2026 11:07 AM (2Cry5)

19 The USSR had internal passports as well, so people could not travel from city to city in Russia without written authorization. I can see the socialists here embracing that.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

This happens in many countries.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 13, 2026 11:07 AM (O5BzH)

20 15 I've been learning all about Thanksgiving! It turns out the white people were socialists and the Indians saved their sorry asses! So, not colonialist! And the white people were idiots. All good.

Except they didn't do socialism right.


NOW WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY TO DO SOCIALISM RIGHT.

Posted by: COLOSSUS at August 13, 2026 11:07 AM (sGtp+)

21 Someone once described wealth as the power to control your future. The thing about power is that people who have it are more than willing to use some of it to maintain it.

So, the people with lots of wealth are certainly going to react to attempts to take some if it by using some of it to keep the rest.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at August 13, 2026 11:07 AM (S6tOh)

22 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 11:07 AM (2YhKe)

23 I don't think misery likes anything.

It *hates* happiness and prosperity. It's fueled by envy.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel


Socialism is nothing more than institutionalized envy.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 13, 2026 11:07 AM (ddn0m)

24 It can be lunch time

Posted by: Skip at August 13, 2026 11:08 AM (ctP9t)

25 For example, Detroit has LOTS of empty buildings. If its leaders were smart, they'd be reaching out to NY businesses and its Jewish community to take advantage of cheap rent, less insane policies and an existing Jewish community.

I'm going to bet that Detroit doesn't have leaders smart enough for that. Like most other big cities in the US.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 13, 2026 11:06 AM (N1tpc)
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Uh, doesn't Detroit have a large Muslim population?

I can't see them being on board with this at all.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 13, 2026 11:08 AM (FZ29D)

26 Why is it that liberal cities chase off the rich by increasing taxes to pay for entitlements, but never decrease taxes to end entitlements to keep the rich around and chase off the poor?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 11:08 AM (2YhKe)

27 Mamdani's already said he's more than willing to impose "exit taxes" on corporations or people leaving.

There's an old joke that the reason divorce is so expensive is because it's worth it.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 11:08 AM (jjoN6)

28 Communist China is the same way, as is Cuba, and North Korea, and Venezuela, and...

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... Califzuela is not far behind, comrades!

Posted by: ShainS at August 13, 2026 11:08 AM (ASeFW)

29 Wall Street will move to friendlier environs, leaving only the Bull and the annoying Little Girl.

Posted by: Statues of Limitations at August 13, 2026 11:08 AM (JM9I6)

30 5 This is exactly why socialists in socialist states are seeking to bring the red states under their thumb.

The send out locusts to colonize the urban centers of other states who then capture the levers of government and create another hellhole on earth.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Actually, it is the Brennen Undead who do this, who pit Man against other men until we exist no more, because it makes 'their' job easier
-- people professing their inner secrets to their sponsored/AI
-- Orwell's panopticon isn't on the wall, it is in your and and pocket more addicitve than heroin, and more valuable to them than your own existance


LET's GO BRANDON!
TAKE A CHANCE FREE THE WORLD.
INDICT/EXPOSE BRENNAN and let his compromatee's pay for the canoe.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 13, 2026 11:08 AM (bfddz)

31 Misery likes company.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:04 AM (E4rtv)



Joanie Loves Chachi.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 11:09 AM (2YhKe)

32 Yep. Freedom of movement. "No papers, state to state."

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 13, 2026 11:09 AM (aJQbY)

33 Fascism wasn't defeated in WWII. It went underground while it's popularity grew and grew. It became the government of almost every country, and as much of the United States as the progressives could muster.

Fascism is the system in which the government makes all decisions it cares to make. If the government cares to make the decision of what you can say on line, it does.

Posted by: Axeman at August 13, 2026 11:09 AM (XMAAx)

34 21 15 I've been learning all about Thanksgiving! It turns out the white people were socialists and the Indians saved their sorry asses! So, not colonialist! And the white people were idiots. All good.

Except they didn't do socialism right.

NOW WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY TO DO SOCIALISM RIGHT.
Posted by: COLOSSUS

DSA: Build Borg Better.
One Mind. One Purpose. One Goal.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 13, 2026 11:10 AM (bfddz)

35 Go for it!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 13, 2026 11:06 AM (FZ29D)

Agree heartily!

Posted by: Snake Plissken at August 13, 2026 11:10 AM (1z8ji)

36 Mamdani's already said he's more than willing to impose "exit taxes" on corporations or people leaving.

Has anyone tested that in court? I assume that the courts would permit it since it's blue areas doing it but it sure seems sus.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 11:10 AM (ExV1e)

37 There is some support for much of "downstate" Illinois joining either Missouri or Indiana, to escape the wrath of the Chicago Outfit.

Not sure if there is any real chance of that, but I'd favor it. My little farm is not mobile, so that would be the only way for me to escape Illinois. (unless I decided to cash out with prices high, and buy a few acres in Eastern Tennessee hills ... milder winter weather, but still not beastly hot in summer.)

Posted by: illiniwek at August 13, 2026 11:10 AM (vbXSk)

38 Rochelle, Rochelle had no problem in travelling from Milan to Minsk, I remember.

Posted by: Papieren, Bitte! at August 13, 2026 11:11 AM (JM9I6)

39 Mamdani's already said he's more than willing to impose "exit taxes" on corporations or people leaving.

Other blue states are contemplating similar.
Posted by: Martini Farmer


I would love to see a futures market calculating pricing on what is the appropriate cost to escape certain regions.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 13, 2026 11:11 AM (ddn0m)

40 Joanie Loves Chachi.
Posted by: Sponge

Erin Moran's dimples. Damn. They did things to young Bulg.

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 11:11 AM (77rzZ)

41 Watch Maxinomics on YouTube. Crisp, insightful and no BS on a wide variety of economics and history topics, including this.

You will be smarter for watching.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 13, 2026 11:11 AM (bX16E)

42 So, about the Ellisons getting mad at our little lawsuit and Paramount moving to Tennessee, Texas, Georgia, or Florida...

Posted by: Gavin Newsom at August 13, 2026 11:11 AM (nECtM)

43 I don't think misery likes anything.

It *hates* happiness and prosperity. It's fueled by envy.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Germans have a term for it, schadenfreude. Ahem, "the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another."

Miserable people want others to be as miserable as they are because they suck. Not exclusively leftist but all ideological leftists (other than the psychopathic leftist leaders) are miserable because they have substituted government for Christ.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:11 AM (E4rtv)

44 Why is it that liberal cities chase off the rich by increasing taxes to pay for entitlements, but never decrease taxes to end entitlements to keep the rich around and chase off the poor?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 11:08 AM (2YhKe)

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

Of course that's rhetorical.

Oppressor vs. Oppressed ... with Government The Ultimate Oppressor!

Posted by: ShainS at August 13, 2026 11:12 AM (ASeFW)

45 "When Capital Is Mobile, Socialism Will Fail"

Which is why we have to impose it everywhere, MAGAts!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 13, 2026 11:12 AM (AdHga)

46 Comes from the same motivation that Stan uses when he breaks his tools. He hates them too and wants them as damned as he is.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:12 AM (E4rtv)

47 The number of billionaires living in NYC is increasing
Don't want to pay it? Move to Jersey orOklahoma.

Posted by: Paul at August 13, 2026 11:10 AM (Vy4tY)



Both states have an income tax. The number of billionaires leaving NYC for no income tax states, like Florida and Texas are increasing, bigly.

You're f*cking stupid. Stop swallowing jizz, fag.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 11:12 AM (2YhKe)

48 Ah but as I bring up often, Chinese in the 70s, 80s seem to be trapped and not allowed to leave. How then in 2000s they can leave by the millions. Many women pregnant get to leave, come here have a baby then leave to go back?
Students come by the hundreds of thousands. The Chinese all of a sudden in last 20 years feel bad and let there citizens out?
Something doesn't add up.

Posted by: Skip at August 13, 2026 11:12 AM (ctP9t)

49 Uh, doesn't Detroit have a large Muslim population?

I can't see them being on board with this at all.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 13, 2026 11:08 AM (FZ29D)

Detroit doesn't. Surrounding communities, yes.

Interestingly, Detroit imported a LOT of Iraqi Arabs in the 70s. Mostly Christians who live in the northern suburbs. The Muslim Arabs came more recently and took over Dearborn which is one of the southern suburbs.

The northern, Christian, Arabs are on good terms with the local Jewish community, which is also in the northern suburbs.

There's a lot of people in the area who've already escaped musselmen occupation and won't be too pleased to live under it again.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 13, 2026 11:14 AM (N1tpc)

50 A lot of foreign sports stars became citizens of Monaco .

Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 11:14 AM (KC5Lt)

51 But in free market economies, capital is mobile!
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In free markets, you *have* property. Property implies control.

Thus decision-making is distributed. The more you allow a private individual to control--as long as it doesn't adversely affect other self-determination, the more distributed decision-making is outside the government.

This is why free economies should not die.

Marx supposedly wanted to restore to man his "dignity", but as long as there is a state, they decide what is enough "dignity" for you.

Cliff notes: This is NOT dignity.

Posted by: Axeman at August 13, 2026 11:15 AM (XMAAx)

52 46 Why is it that liberal cities chase off the rich by increasing taxes to pay for entitlements, but never decrease taxes to end entitlements to keep the rich around and chase off the poor?

Posted by: Sponge
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Three men who died recently are brought before the throne of God and told that they may each have one wish.

The Briton asks for an end to war.

The American asks for an end to hunger.

The Russian smiles slyly and says, “In my village, I have a neighbor who has a cow. I do not have a cow. I wish that my neighbor’s cow shall sicken and die.”

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:15 AM (E4rtv)

53 There's also a term for when normal, well-adjusted, happy people take delight in bad things happening to liberals.

Posted by: schadenboner at August 13, 2026 11:15 AM (J4Dwc)

54 Why is it that liberal cities chase off the rich by increasing taxes to pay for entitlements, but never decrease taxes to end entitlements to keep the rich around and chase off the poor?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 11:08 AM (2YhKe)
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Witness Cleveland chasing John D. Rockefeller out. Dumb ass local politicos thought themselves so clever passing a "millionaire tax", aimed at him, and he left.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 13, 2026 11:15 AM (nECtM)

55 Columbus, Ohio was a very pleasant medium-sized city in the early 1980s. Forced bussing after 1979 was ruining the public schools and bringing crime and decay to many places, but there were good parochial schools as well as close-in suburbs. Hilliard was tiny - we called it "hillbilliard". Now it is overflowing and a plurality of households with children in the Hilliard public school system speak Arabic as their first language. Nearby Tuttle Mall, which is "credited" with destroying the downtown City Center mall, looks like a middle eastern bazaar now. It's so awful that I prefer Cleveland now.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 13, 2026 11:15 AM (2ap+5)

56 I am happy to see all these capitalists and their running dog lackeys leaving the great workers city of New York. Now we can truly build a socialist paradise based on love, trust and harmony. No more 2026, it is now Year Zero!

(excuse me Sir, here is your Starbucks Venti Mocha Frappuccino)

Onward for the revolution!

Posted by: Zohran Mamdani, Idiot Mayor at August 13, 2026 11:16 AM (e2lsi)

57 Erin Moran's dimples. Damn. They did things to young Bulg.
Posted by: Bulg

May I suggest a 1979 made for TV movie "Twirl". Stars Erin and Lisa Whelchel and yes, it's about twirlers. It's much better than it sounds. I was surprised. On Youtube last I looked.

Posted by: Wielding My Baton at August 13, 2026 11:16 AM (JM9I6)

58 I'd love to see a movement, a law, something that emphasizes that if a local or state government goes bankrupt, they will NEVER be bailed out.

Let's see how NYC funds their dream utopia then.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 13, 2026 11:16 AM (Sco7b)

59 The NY diaspora ruins whereever they land. They ruined California in the 1970s!

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 13, 2026 11:16 AM (bX16E)

60 24 I don't think misery likes anything.

It *hates* happiness and prosperity. It's fueled by envy.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Socialism is nothing more than institutionalized envy.
Posted by: Thomas Paine


LIBS hate the man who has a dollar more than them, because they believe that dollar belongs to them.

The reality is, they are nothing more than the deluded fools and useful idiots of the Esptein class who fund their follies, and the counter-activists, because it is entertaining; they laugh behind closed doors, up down left right, all are their playthings.

What could possibly go wrong?
What FOOLS these Mortals Be?
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-irlTheBRENNANcameo

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 13, 2026 11:16 AM (eU+M+)

61 Paul clearly has earned an advanced degree in weed.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 13, 2026 11:17 AM (udaaY)

62 Liberal Cities ... never decrease taxes to end entitlements to keep the rich around and chase off the poor?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Liberals want slaves.

Joke's on them. Slaves worked.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 11:17 AM (u82oZ)

63
The USSR had internal passports as well, so people could not travel from city to city in Russia without written authorization. I can see the socialists here embracing that.
Posted by: Thomas Paine


Social credit scores and new vaccination cards.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 13, 2026 11:18 AM (Cqx++)

64 Marx supposedly wanted to restore to man his "dignity", but as long as there is a state, they decide what is enough "dignity" for you.

Cliff notes: This is NOT dignity.
Posted by: Axeman

Marx being the degenerate he was failed to reckon Locke's property included the person's life. As did Rousseau, thus they are free to murder enemies of state (taking the most valuable property of all--a life).

Protection of property is designed to protect someone's life as even depriving someone of the wherewithal to sustain their own life is no less than killing them.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:18 AM (E4rtv)

65 Liberal Cities ... never decrease taxes to end entitlements to keep the rich around and chase off the poor?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Liberals want slaves.

Joke's on them. Slaves worked.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 11:17 AM (u82oZ)

Most of the liberals don't realize that THEY will be the slaves.

The commies knew them to be "useful idiots".

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 13, 2026 11:18 AM (N1tpc)

66 So to the user ... (Never know how to pronounce that): My wife sent me the link about the pesto rolls.

Go to King Arthur Baking and look for Pesto Swirls. That's where she got the recipe from.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 11:18 AM (jjoN6)

67 Delrahim also became the first Paramount Skydance official to publicly state the company may quit California, following reports attributed to CEO David Ellison earlier in the week. There is "a point at which where you have a duty, a fiduciary duty to your shareholders, and those are the factors you consider," Delrahim declared. "If I was governor, I wouldn't want to lose Hollywood from the state. I wouldn't want to lose a major company like Paramount to another state. It isn't a blackmail attempt. You go where you're wanted."
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Imagine that, going where you're wanted. Take note Madmani.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 13, 2026 11:19 AM (UpmsQ)

68 The Left unknowingly follow 1984 almost as an instruction book .

This taxing the rich is more Animal Farm.

Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 11:19 AM (KC5Lt)

69 So to the user ... (Never know how to pronounce that): My wife sent me the link about the pesto rolls.

Go to King Arthur Baking and look for Pesto Swirls. That's where she got the recipe from.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 11:18 AM (jjoN6)

(I think it's "ellipsis")

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 13, 2026 11:19 AM (N1tpc)

70 54 There's also a term for when normal, well-adjusted, happy people take delight in bad things happening to liberals.
Posted by: schadenboner
======
As I said, it is not exclusive to the left but all ideological leftists not on the top of the slippery mountain peak of power are in fact miserable because like Stan, they rejected the true Lord and substituted a man made fake god of government (and idiocies derived from that like The People).

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:20 AM (E4rtv)

71 (I think it's "ellipsis")

I said that a while back but my accent was a bit off.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 11:21 AM (jjoN6)

72 Take note Madmani.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

"Madmani?" I am so stealing that.

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 11:22 AM (77rzZ)

73 Real National Socialism has never been tried.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 11:22 AM (iABCo)

74 If NYC real estate prices are indeed going up, as the idiot posits, how does that square with Madmani's promises of more affordable housing?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2026 11:22 AM (1z8ji)

75 Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 11:18 AM (jjoN6)

Thank you!!! And to her as well.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 11:22 AM (iABCo)

76 73 Real National Socialism has never been tried.
Posted by: ...


It will work THIS time because we're the ones the world is waiting for!

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 11:22 AM (jjoN6)

77 I'd love to see a movement, a law, something that emphasizes that if a local or state government goes bankrupt, they will NEVER be bailed out.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 13, 2026 11:16 AM (Sco7b)
====================
States can't go bankrupt under present law. Kind of wild to imagine what will happen to state taxes when it's time to pay the piper in New York and all the rich people have bailed, and no longer paying personal income taxes.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 13, 2026 11:22 AM (UpmsQ)

78 Liberals want slaves.

Joke's on them. Slaves worked.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
========
Eh, Elois and Morlocks. Bye the Bye, ye shall have pie in the sky.

Utopians have a religious belief in "Progress" instead of Providence.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:22 AM (E4rtv)

79 75 Thank you!!! And to her as well.
Posted by: ...


You're very welcome. Let me know how they turn out.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 11:23 AM (jjoN6)

80 Columbus, Ohio was a very pleasant medium-sized city in the early 1980s. Forced bussing after 1979 was ruining the public schools and bringing crime and decay to many places, but there were good parochial schools as well as close-in suburbs. Hilliard was tiny - we called it "hillbilliard". Now it is overflowing and a plurality of households with children in the Hilliard public school system speak Arabic as their first language. Nearby Tuttle Mall, which is "credited" with destroying the downtown City Center mall, looks like a middle eastern bazaar now.
Posted by: Oglebay

Westerville (and the school system) also went to hell after the Somalis invaded. Dear Wife was Executive Director in the system and spent all her time trying to unfuck the situation. As you know, there are 'disturbances' at Polaris Mall and Easton Mall routinely which, for the uninitiated, were the upscale shopping centers (read this as - not in the shithole part of town).

We got the hell out.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 13, 2026 11:23 AM (udaaY)

81 And she does a bread loaf with a pesto center as well. purrpurrpurr

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 11:23 AM (jjoN6)

82 LIBS hate the man who has a dollar more than them,
------

And a dollar less. And any dollar. And no dollar.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 11:23 AM (iABCo)

83 Mamdani wants your money but doesn't care if you leave. That will give him less people to worry about toppling him. Remember the line from Milton: "Better to rule in hell than serve in heaven". That is the thinking of every dictator. Think of Cuba, N Korea, Venezuela etc etc

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at August 13, 2026 11:23 AM (k/3Bw)

84 There's also a term for when normal, well-adjusted, happy people take delight in bad things happening to liberals.
Posted by: schadenboner
======

The difference is that's a counter punch. Otherwise if they didn't try to force crap down our mouth the Right is mostly live and let be.

Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 11:23 AM (KC5Lt)

85 States can't go bankrupt under present law. Kind of wild to imagine what will happen to state taxes when it's time to pay the piper in New York and all the rich people have bailed, and no longer paying personal income taxes.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Illinois went through this--they issue script to vendors of the state that are simply IOUs.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:24 AM (E4rtv)

86 If NYC real estate prices are indeed going up, as the idiot posits, how does that square with Madmani's promises of more affordable housing?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2026 11:22 AM (1z8ji)
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Especially since the city council members require personal payoffs before allowing developers to build new apartments.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 13, 2026 11:24 AM (UpmsQ)

87 I've mentioned it before, but we have translations of Sumerian tablets from 4,000 year ago that fully describe a market (incorrectly derided as capitalism) system.

Included investments, business partnerships, contracts, and even international trading.

Even a black market to avoid the taxes and tolls of government.

No one "invented" capitalism--it's always been the default of mankind.
What was invented--and will always fail--is the bastard children of marxism.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 13, 2026 11:24 AM (3cUTc)

88 Social credit scores and new vaccination cards.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

I am already for have dot on forehead with imbedded QR code which I am for updating on the daily

Further requirement is for only bigotry

Posted by: H1b Miklos Patel at August 13, 2026 11:24 AM (XOG/m)

89
Money goes where money is well treated.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 11:24 AM (O0L8i)

90 82 And a dollar less. And any dollar. And no dollar.
Posted by: ...


"You have a dollar. This person does not. THAT'S NOT FAIR so we're going to take it away from you and give it to him."

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 11:24 AM (jjoN6)

91 I do not like the terms "capitalist" or 'Capitalism".

Those were created by Karl Marx.

Market is better

Posted by: Miklos, actual Karl Marx University alumnus at August 13, 2026 11:26 AM (XOG/m)

92 I read an article about AOC claiming that the difference between socialism and democratic socialism is the democracy part. Is it rude of me to speculate how she got passing grades at her alma mater?

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 11:26 AM (jjoN6)

93 The commies knew them to be "useful idiots".
Posted by: Formerly Virginian
=========
The lure of free shit is how people sell themselves into slavery. At least the Roman law was honest about it.

TANSTAAFL should be tattoed on every school kid's arms. There Ain't No Such Thing as a Free Lunch--R. Heinlein.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:26 AM (E4rtv)

94
Imagine that, going where you're wanted.

White flight.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 13, 2026 11:27 AM (Cqx++)

95 Illinois went through this--they issue script to vendors of the state that are simply IOUs.
Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:24 AM (E4rtv)
====================
A finger in the dyke, temporarily holding off the flood waters. But then vendors stop playing along, and slowly then suddenly, the flailing would begin.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 13, 2026 11:27 AM (UpmsQ)

96 Is it rude of me to speculate how she got passing grades at her alma mater?
Posted by: NR Pax

Oh, I think we know how...

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 11:27 AM (77rzZ)

97 Looks like Musk is going to build his chip plant close to me ( actually on the bordering county) . I think part of his choice was the proximity of Texas A&M.

Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 11:27 AM (KC5Lt)

98 👍
My concern is movement through the states like locusts. I *itch all the time about the NY mass movement to PA during C19. Well, it continues & grows. (There is NO street or parking lot without an abundance of NY license plates.) And now, after Wolf, Gov. Shapiro.

Old, I remember some of the Vietnam War. The idea that communism grows and must be stopped in Southeast Asia was known as the domino theory, the belief a primary reason the United States entered the Vietnam War. But while neighboring nations, Laos and Cambodia, also fell to communist governments, the wider global domino effect did not happen as predicted.

However, Vietnam did not abandon socialism because capitalism became mobile; rather, in 1986, the ruling Communist Party deliberately introduced market reforms known Renewal to rescue a collapsing command economy.

Rather than failing, the state retained a monopoly on political power and control over key economic sectors, creating a "socialist-oriented market economy" that, reportedly, dramatically reduced poverty.

If true, it's that brand of socialism I fear might consume the US, especially to support greed & the influx of undocumented since +/-2006.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 13, 2026 11:28 AM (NFX2v)

99 Ok, I can't even read the comments due to the pop up appearing every 5 seconds.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 13, 2026 11:28 AM (ddn0m)

100 Why does Central Planning sound so good to people? Mostly because they must believe in some inherent goodness of mankind. Not just that they know better, but that they will summon their benevolence and follow their heart into a beautiful new dawn.

Man is partly good (conscience), but we are inherently corrupt. Begging to be ruled by the corrupt is exactly as it sounds.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 11:28 AM (iABCo)

101 Marxism is half based on Envy, what you have and I don't has to be equal

Posted by: Skip at August 13, 2026 11:28 AM (ctP9t)

102 States can't go bankrupt under present law. Kind of wild to imagine what will happen to state taxes when it's time to pay the piper in New York and all the rich people have bailed, and no longer paying personal income taxes.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 13, 2026 11:22 AM (UpmsQ)

Good to know. I had to do research.

States just default on bonds but it hasn't happened since Arkansas in 1933. But still, I think bondholders will just expect some sort of bailout.

If it's made clear that the US government will NEVER bail them out, then maybe funding would dry up.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 13, 2026 11:29 AM (Sco7b)

103 Which is to say, it's embarrassing that anyone is stupid enough to think that some smelly, unwashed, lay-about, less than 200 years ago, stumbled upon a workable plan to defeat thousands of years of human nature.

And not just a bunch of stupid words to justify his avarice and sloth.

But then avarice and sloth are human nature.

And very enticing to the college educated with no further marketable skills.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 13, 2026 11:29 AM (3cUTc)

104
I read an article about AOC claiming that the difference between socialism and democratic socialism is the democracy part. Is it rude of me to speculate how she got passing grades at her alma mater?
Posted by: NR Pax


Don't they have "elections" in North Korea?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 13, 2026 11:29 AM (Cqx++)

105 Illinois went through this--they issue script to vendors of the state that are simply IOUs.
Posted by: whig

Cali tried that too, but it was shot down by the Comptroller of the Currency as being an effective issuance of currency, because they were tradeable.

Posted by: Miklos recalls that at August 13, 2026 11:29 AM (XOG/m)

106 White flight.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.


White people move out: White flight.
White people move in: Gentrification.

They will never be happy until all white people are dead and even then, that happiness will last about three seconds and they'll find a new group to attack.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 11:29 AM (jjoN6)

107 Earthquake! I'm guessing a 4.0. Definitely felt it.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 13, 2026 11:30 AM (DZ9Lv)

108 Don't they have "elections" in North Korea?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.


Not only that but they cured obesity in 99.8% of the population.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 11:30 AM (jjoN6)

109 99 Ok, I can't even read the comments due to the pop up appearing every 5 seconds.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 13, 2026 11:28 AM (ddn0m)

YEP YEP YEP

Posted by: POP UPS at August 13, 2026 11:31 AM (mxGIP)

110 Why does Central Planning sound so good to people? Mostly because they must believe in some inherent goodness of mankind. Not just that they know better, but that they will summon their benevolence and follow their heart into a beautiful new dawn.

Man is partly good (conscience), but we are inherently corrupt. Begging to be ruled by the corrupt is exactly as it sounds.
Posted by: ...

I think it was Robert Conquest who said "Every advocate of central planning sees himself as the central planner."

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 11:31 AM (77rzZ)

111 92 I read an article about AOC claiming that the difference between socialism and democratic socialism is the democracy part. Is it rude of me to speculate how she got passing grades at her alma mater?
Posted by: NR Pax
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All just restatements of the Levelers, the radical city Anabaptists in Germany in the Reformation, and demented musing of Rousseau and Marx.

Democracy is to them another name for Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Soviet Union had elections too for the Supreme Soviet, which in turn ratified everything that the Politburo wanted. Courts as well with a generous bill of rights, which were in turn whatever 'justice' corresponded with what the Politburo wanted in a particular case.

So in their case, "Democracy" is a euphemism of an oligarchic state run by insiders like her with the sole purpose of the electorate ratifying the decisions of the oligarchy. And in fact misapplied to the US and its Founding. It is a republic (as was the Soviet Union in theory) and voters cannot ratify decisions of insiders to violate the very Constitution that their power is based upon.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:32 AM (E4rtv)

112 Posted by: Miklos, actual Karl Marx University alumnus at August 13, 2026 11:26 AM (XOG/m)

I like stealing their terms and making it our own.

Americans do that best. Yankee Doodle Dandy was supposed to insult tus. It became a beloved song. Redneck is a proud moniker. Gringo is a name of an American Mexican restaurant chain. Etc etc .

Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 11:32 AM (KC5Lt)

113 Safari? Ad Block Plus.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 11:32 AM (u82oZ)

114 I read an article about AOC claiming that the difference between socialism and democratic socialism is the democracy part.
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So the difference is a word.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 11:32 AM (iABCo)

115 Yep, nailed it. 4.0

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 13, 2026 11:32 AM (DZ9Lv)

116 Earthquake! I'm guessing a 4.0. Definitely felt it.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal

Where? Where are you?

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 11:32 AM (77rzZ)

117 Go on and take the money and run.

Posted by: little people at August 13, 2026 11:32 AM (ehY6c)

118 109 99 Ok, I can't even read the comments due to the pop up appearing every 5 seconds.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Go to browser security settings and shut off webscripts aka Javascript, etc.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:33 AM (E4rtv)

119 107 Earthquake! I'm guessing a 4.0. Definitely felt it.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 13, 2026 11:30 AM


USGS agrees with you that it's a 4.0

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/

Posted by: Cybersmythe at August 13, 2026 11:33 AM (S6tOh)

120 80 Columbus, Ohio was a very pleasant medium-sized city in the early 1980s. Forced bussing after 1979 was ruining the public schools and bringing crime and decay to many places, but there were good parochial schools as well as close-in suburbs. Hilliard was tiny - we called it "hillbilliard". Now it is overflowing and a plurality of households with children in the Hilliard public school system speak Arabic as their first language. Nearby Tuttle Mall, which is "credited" with destroying the downtown City Center mall, looks like a middle eastern bazaar now.
Posted by: Oglebay

I was there until 2008. The hilltop area was getting pretty scary. I remember going to one nearly abandoned mall there at the time. I was worried about my car the entire time.

I was close to Hilliard. The Meijer's and Big Bear stores were really nice. It was a nice area back then.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 13, 2026 11:34 AM (Sco7b)

121 The difference between "cream" and "ice cream" is the ice!

Posted by: AOC, America's Orifice at August 13, 2026 11:34 AM (qUkBO)

122 Also, the Vietnamese central planners decided to produce lots of coffee. Vietnam has become the world's second largest producer of coffee. It is almost all B-grade, but there is plenty and it is cheap. This makes the lives of small producers of better coffee elsewhere impossible.

Why does Starbucks over-roast it's coffee?

Now you know.....the rest of the story

Posted by: Miklos in best Paul Harvey voice at August 13, 2026 11:35 AM (XOG/m)

123 >>Americans do that best. Yankee Doodle Dandy was supposed to insult tus. It became a beloved song. Redneck is a proud moniker. Gringo is a name of an American Mexican restaurant chain. Etc etc .

For some, that doesn't always work out so well

Posted by: former Sambo restaurant franchisees at August 13, 2026 11:35 AM (J4Dwc)

124 Sure, Democracy is the difference, yet they want vote fraud to be the top

Posted by: Skip at August 13, 2026 11:36 AM (ctP9t)

125 States just default on bonds but it hasn't happened since Arkansas in 1933. But still, I think bondholders will just expect some sort of bailout.

If it's made clear that the US government will NEVER bail them out, then maybe funding would dry up.
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 13, 2026 11:29 AM (Sco7b)

Easy solution for bond defaults: bondholders get paid off by being given title to State land and/or buildings, at prevailing market rates.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2026 11:36 AM (1z8ji)

126 Where? Where are you?
Posted by: Bulg

In my house. ;->
San Francisco

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 13, 2026 11:37 AM (DZ9Lv)

127 For some, that doesn't always work out so well
Posted by: former Sambo restaurant franchisees

Yeah, I'm unemployed too.

Posted by: Uncle Ben at August 13, 2026 11:37 AM (JM9I6)

128 Cali tried that too, but it was shot down by the Comptroller of the Currency as being an effective issuance of currency, because they were tradeable.
Posted by: Miklos
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I don't think Illinois made theirs tradeable to others. Eventually Illinois borrowed enough and increased taxes enough to drop the practice for now.

Cut enough federal fraud though, I suspect a number of blue states are going to go into a fiscal death spiral. They have been using fraud in Medicaid and other fed programs to pay the "Pauls" in their states by robbing 'Peter'--the federal government. They can do this in Medicaid from putting up illusory 'matches' by taxing medical procedures then billing the fedgov for their share of the match. Other fiscal tricks on grants, etc.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:37 AM (E4rtv)

129 I think it was Robert Conquest who said "Every advocate of central planning sees himself as the central planner."
Posted by: Bulg

who plans whom

Posted by: Miklos paraphrases Lenin at August 13, 2026 11:38 AM (XOG/m)

130 In my house. ;->
San Francisco
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal

Ah, I imagine San Franciscans (and Californians in general) are very adept at gauging the magnitude of earthquakes.

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 11:39 AM (77rzZ)

131 Democratic Socialism is when the Socialists use Democracy to institute Socialism and get rid of Democracy.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 11:39 AM (iABCo)

132 or some, that doesn't always work out so well
Posted by: former Sambo restaurant franchisees

Yeah, I'm unemployed too.
Posted by: Uncle Ben at August 13, 2026 11:37 AM (JM9I6)

Uh I don't think those were intentionally trying to insult Americans and..... ah screw it.

Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 11:39 AM (KC5Lt)

133 Blue states are looking into other ways to make it expensive, or legally a hassle to leave.

Renting a U-Haul in CA to bug out is expensive, but it's because of demand, mostly. But the state could implement legal hurdles too, if it wanted. Or tack on a disconnect fee for utilities that's unreasonable. Stop refunding deposits or money spent on something that you no longer need in the state you're moving to.

There's no end to lengths they'll go to make it hard for you to bug out.

A year after transferring a vehicle from CA to WV I was still getting nasty letters telling me my registration was expired and they were going to repossess the truck. It was paid for. And in another state. Registered and titled there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 13, 2026 11:40 AM (2Cry5)

134 The NY diaspora ruins whereever they land. They ruined California in the 1970s!

There is a point at which we leave each field to find a new one. That point never changes.

Posted by: Locusts at August 13, 2026 11:40 AM (TmQh+)

135 Cont'd

During the initial rollout of Renewal in the late 1980s and 1990s, the immediate casualties of dismantling the old socialist safety net were the working class and rural poor.
(The wealth had quickly concentrated in industrial hubs like Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi.)

Under strict socialism, the state provided basic healthcare, education, and food rations.

To transition to a market economy, the government instituted user fees for hospitals & schools. Poor families suddenly could not afford medical treatments, whereas the emerging elite could buy high-quality private care.

The rising middle class bears the heaviest structural tax burden; the ultra-wealthy found loopholes to retain their capital, and the poor initially bore the brunt of slashed state services before broader growth lifted them up.

Who still paid/pays the financial burden? Middle class. Who paid the initial systemic price? Poor.

SSDD

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 13, 2026 11:40 AM (NFX2v)

136
Why does Starbucks over-roast it's coffee?

Now you know.....the rest of the story
Posted by: Miklos in best Paul Harvey voice

__________

All I want is some ordinary joe. SBUX is not only awful but hideously overpriced.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 11:40 AM (O0L8i)

137 Trump is letting this latest op play out a bit. Gonna be fascinating to watch how he handles this attempted lurch to the Left. How far does he let them go before he makes a move?

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 11:40 AM (iABCo)

138 Also, the Vietnamese central planners decided to produce lots of coffee. Vietnam has become the world's second largest producer of coffee. It is almost all B-grade, but there is plenty and it is cheap. This makes the lives of small producers of better coffee elsewhere impossible.

Why does Starbucks over-roast it's coffee?

Now you know.....the rest of the story
Posted by: Miklos in best Paul Harvey voice at August 13, 2026 11:35 AM (XOG/m)

I was given a big sack of Vietnamese coffee by the Vietnamese wife of a long-time friend. It was excellent coffee. She brought back something like 50 kilos of it on her last visit to VN.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2026 11:40 AM (1z8ji)

139 Yeah, I'm unemployed too.
Posted by: Uncle Ben

I done got retired myself, you handsome man

txt me

Posted by: Aunt Jemima at August 13, 2026 11:41 AM (XOG/m)

140 124 Sure, Democracy is the difference, yet they want vote fraud to be the top
Posted by: Skip

Democrats have no interest in a 'democracy' but instead use 'votes' as ratifying what Democrats have done and will do. The actual existence of a voter is irrelevant just like it was in Venezuela. What matters is the veneer of approval just like the Supreme Soviet voting to approve whatever the Politburo did.

And that is how you get a communistic dictatorship of the proletariat disguised which is simply a rehash of a warped aristocracy that treated peasants as property of the lords over them. To do with as they wished. Kings were actually brought about being given 'divine right to rule' in order to crush the rapacious nobility that had every interest in keeping their form of forced labor. And Kings in turn became decadent and evil because absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:42 AM (E4rtv)

141 'A note on how the economy is doing, from the view of a small fabrication shop.'
youtube.com/watch?v=iW3VtonN7W4

Posted by: gp at August 13, 2026 11:42 AM (Jr5Lq)

142 Wait until 15 years from now when black children are taught that beloved black icons were removed from shelves systematically by racist Republicans.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 11:43 AM (iABCo)

143 For some, that doesn't always work out so well
Posted by: former Sambo restaurant franchisees

Yeah, I'm unemployed too.
Posted by: Uncle Ben
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Join the club fellows.

Posted by: Aunt Jemima at August 13, 2026 11:43 AM (XeU6L)

144 Ah, I imagine San Franciscans (and Californians in general) are very adept at gauging the magnitude of earthquakes.
Posted by: Bulg

Once you're in a significant quake (5.7 in '87 and 6.9 in '89), anything above a 4 is a rush because you know what to anticipate. For an instant, you wonder.... Quakes can be surprisingly loud.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 13, 2026 11:43 AM (DZ9Lv)

145
Hey, I'm still around!

Posted by: The Quaker Oats Guy at August 13, 2026 11:44 AM (O0L8i)

146 Yeah, I'm unemployed too.
Posted by: Uncle Ben

I done got retired myself, you handsome man

txt me
Posted by: Aunt Jemima


Call me.

Posted by: Land O' Lakes Chick at August 13, 2026 11:44 AM (lrRtF)

147 For some, that doesn't always work out so well
Posted by: former Sambo restaurant franchisees

Yeah, I'm unemployed too.
Posted by: Uncle Ben
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Join the club fellows.
Posted by: Aunt Jemima
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[weeps softly]

Posted by: Land O'Lakes Indian Maiden at August 13, 2026 11:44 AM (XeU6L)

148 I was given a big sack of Vietnamese coffee by the Vietnamese wife of a long-time friend. It was excellent coffee. She brought back something like 50 kilos of it on her last visit to VN.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

The quality stuff is maybe 5%. So good for you! If she is getting it on the private, there you go.

The 95% is a combination of climate, microclimates, soil, altitude, and communism.

Posted by: Mornin' Miklos at August 13, 2026 11:45 AM (XOG/m)

149 Yeah, I'm unemployed too.
Posted by: Uncle Ben
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Join the club fellows.
Posted by: Aunt Jemima

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Land O'Lakes Indian Girl at August 13, 2026 11:45 AM (77rzZ)

150 The Heritage Foundation, 2020, 'America Is a Republic, Not a Democracy'

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 13, 2026 11:45 AM (NFX2v)

151 Vietnam is benefiting greatly from foreign capitalism and investment and freedom of movement. It props up the communist government until it doesn't.

Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 11:45 AM (KC5Lt)

152 For an instant, you wonder.... Quakes can be surprisingly loud.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 13, 2026 11:43 AM


When we were stationed on Adak island in Alaska earth quakes were a weekly and sometimes a daily occurrence. I do remember one that sounded as if a train was going right by our front door. It was loud.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 13, 2026 11:45 AM (cpFbA)

153 Yeah, I'm unemployed too.
Posted by: Uncle Ben
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Join the club fellows.
Posted by: Aunt Jemima

This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Land O'Lakes Indian Girl


This place. LOL.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 13, 2026 11:46 AM (lrRtF)

154
This is only a test.

If this was a real comment, your bank accounts would be engorged with wealth.

But this is only a test.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 11:46 AM (O0L8i)

155 151. 👍

And the U.S.?

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 13, 2026 11:46 AM (NFX2v)

156 145
Hey, I'm still around!
Posted by: The Quaker Oats Guy

I passed away decades ago.

Posted by: Mama Celeste at August 13, 2026 11:47 AM (JM9I6)

157 Easy solution for bond defaults: bondholders get paid off by being given title to State land and/or buildings, at prevailing market rates.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Bond holders get nothing. They were happy enough to give out loans to deadbeats and in return get sweet higher than average interest payments until they stopped. Same reason why I had no sympathy for those that kept buying Argentinian bonds for decades at nosebleed interest rates which inevitably resulted in default. Instead, the bondholders should be able to pursue the wealth of all the politicians and their corrupt cronies that issued the debt in lawsuits. That way the real culprits are punished.

You want to break the cycle, then the incentive for bondholders is not to lend to deadbeats--if they do, they will have to take the high interest they demand as sufficient return. The incentive for the deadbeat is they don't get any money except at nosebleed interest which takes away their cash to operate to buy votes and steal wealth for themselves. The incentive for the politicians is to avoid themselves losing their generational wealth from a state going insolvent.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:48 AM (E4rtv)

158 And the U.S.?
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 13, 2026 11:46 AM (NFX2v)

We have 50 experiments going on right now. Benefits of a Republic instead of a Democracy.

Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 11:48 AM (KC5Lt)

159 Thx CBD.
My NYS county has asked the state legislature to allow it to apply a high earner surcharge. I wouldn't be surprised to see the next legislature allow it. There are some wealthy people in this county , one of the Facebook founders and his husband live north of Woodstock. Buffett's kid lives here as do various celebs. They are all leftists, the Facebook hubby was a Dem congressional candidate a few years back, so this is a target rich environment. It won't stop at the rich however

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 13, 2026 11:48 AM (WOnE5)

160 Call me.
Posted by: Land O' Lakes Chick

That chick and a stick or two of butter

We could have a Fine Time

Posted by: Miklos wanna get all Indigenous on that girl at August 13, 2026 11:48 AM (XOG/m)

161 Lived in Mountain View when the Loma Prieta quake struck in '89. Several smaller quakes before that.

The Loma Prieta quake collapsed the upper deck of I-880 onto the lower deck. Afterwards, locals started referring to that stretch of interstate as I-440.

Dark humor...

Posted by: one hour sober at August 13, 2026 11:48 AM (J4Dwc)

162 Don't forget us:

Rastus (Cream of Wheat)
Frito Bandito
Eskimo Pie

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 13, 2026 11:48 AM (XvL8K)

163 OT Well, apparently they have another D. nutcase running in Maine for Senate . I guess Susan Collins' staff campaign staff is good at ferreting this stuff out:

https://tinyurl.com/5n8umxfc

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 11:49 AM (xPsv8)

164 I passed away decades ago.
Posted by: Mama Celeste

You were the village bicycle.

Posted by: Chef Boyardee at August 13, 2026 11:49 AM (O5BzH)

165 I read an article about AOC claiming that the difference between socialism and democratic socialism is the democracy part.

Dems would like you to think that 'Democratic' and 'democratic' are the same thing. They are not. As newly-single AOC knows- it's all about the "D".

Posted by: t-bird at August 13, 2026 11:49 AM (04KGT)

166 Off sock.

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 11:49 AM (77rzZ)

167 From the last thread:

I asked Gemini to give me a list of the most remote Swiss villages by distance to the nearest Swiss city, while still having high-speed internet, supermarkets, schools, and restaurants. It spit out the three most remote, which are all out in the Alps near Chur.

The distances from each village to Chur are:
Andeer: 37 kilometers (approx. 30 minutes driving or 43 minutes via direct bus)
Splügen: 51 kilometers (approx. 39 minutes driving or 58 minutes via hourly bus)
Scuol: 118 kilometers (approx. 1 hour and 45 minutes driving or 2 hours via regional train)

Yeah I was right, that redditor from the last thread lives in a suburb of some Swiss city and he acts like he's out in the hollers of West Virginia. These people are wildly delusional, lol.

Posted by: ballistic at August 13, 2026 11:49 AM (oqH4h)

168 137 Trump is letting this latest op play out a bit. Gonna be fascinating to watch how he handles this attempted lurch to the Left. How far does he let them go before he makes a move?
Posted by: ...
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Fresh evidence of Democrat (and perhaps GOPe) voter fraud is always useful so it disarms the argument that 2020 was so long ago.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:50 AM (E4rtv)

169 I'm still around. Make me yodel, Big Boy!

Posted by: Swiss Miss at August 13, 2026 11:51 AM (JM9I6)

170 Bond holders get nothing. They were happy enough to give out loans to deadbeats and in return get sweet higher than average interest payments

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Municipal bonds pay low interest, because income is tax free.

The Federal Income Tax rules effectively subsidize spendthrift cities.

Posted by: Miklos is neither a deadbeat lender nor borrower at August 13, 2026 11:52 AM (XOG/m)

171
We don't hear about rural connectivity any more. Was it solved by the government or Elon Musk?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 11:52 AM (O0L8i)

172 Sure, big companies can vote with their feet. But red jurisdictions didn't exactly wow us with their commitment to freedom during Coof Madness. And you only have to lose one national election to have 25,000 Haitians dumped into a town of 50,000. The average person is less able to vote with their feet than ever before with the tendrils of the federal government grasping at everything and your average Republican being less than conservative.

Posted by: Hotel California at August 13, 2026 11:52 AM (hqQIL)

173 Hey, I'm still around!
Posted by: The Quaker Oats Guy

I passed away decades ago.
Posted by: Mama Celeste
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I managed to hold on until 2020.

Posted by: Cream of Wheat Chef at August 13, 2026 11:52 AM (XeU6L)

174 Once you're in a significant quake (5.7 in '87 and 6.9 in '89), anything above a 4 is a rush because you know what to anticipate. For an instant, you wonder.... Quakes can be surprisingly loud.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal


I was on a bus when Loma Prieta hit. The bus suddenly pulled to the side and I looked around.

Thought one as I looked at a car bouncing up and down: "Damn. They're going at it pretty hard.

Thought two as I looked around: "If they're going at it hard enough to shake the neighborhood, does she have a sister? Oh right. Earthquake.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 11:53 AM (jjoN6)

175 Easy solution for bond defaults: bondholders get paid off by being given title to State land and/or buildings, at prevailing market rates.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2026 11:36 AM (1z8ji)


Bondholders get paid off by being given title to the elected officials who caused the problem.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 11:53 AM (ExV1e)

176 Yeah, I'm unemployed too.

I'm on that farm upstate with rover.

Posted by: kitty queen at August 13, 2026 11:53 AM (eMUgY)

177
I'm still around. Make me yodel, Big Boy!
Posted by: Swiss Miss at August 13, 2026 11:51 AM (JM9I6)

________

Hussy!

Posted by: St. Pauli Girl at August 13, 2026 11:54 AM (O0L8i)

178 Don't forget us:

Rastus (Cream of Wheat)
Frito Bandito
Eskimo Pie
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 13, 2026 11:48 AM (XvL8K)
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That last guy was delicious.

Posted by: Klondike Bar Polar Bear at August 13, 2026 11:54 AM (amcLV)

179 Once you're in a significant quake (5.7 in '87 and 6.9 in '89), anything above a 4 is a rush because you know what to anticipate. For an instant, you wonder.... Quakes can be surprisingly loud.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 13, 2026 11:43 AM (DZ9Lv)

Loud? No shit! Especially if one works at a factory that manufactures Christmas bells.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 13, 2026 11:54 AM (g8Ew8)

180 171
We don't hear about rural connectivity any more. Was it solved by the government or Elon Musk?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 11:52 AM (O0L8i)
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lolz

Posted by: ballistic at August 13, 2026 11:55 AM (oqH4h)

181 Municipal bonds pay low interest, because income is tax free.

The Federal Income Tax rules effectively subsidize spendthrift cities.
Posted by: Miklos
========
Blame Scotus--see McCulloch v. Maryland 1816. Marshall's opinion rested in part on the power to tax is the power to destroy. If you did in fact have federalism, then the states could not tax the federal government or its 'corporations' lest that meant that the states could destroy the federal government that way. But the converse was true too, the federal government could not tax the states and their policy instruments lest they be able to destroy the other sovereign governments of the states.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:55 AM (E4rtv)

182 Hey, I'm still around!
Posted by: The Quaker Oats Guy


It's been a while for me.

Posted by: The Original Allstate "Mayhem" Guy at August 13, 2026 11:55 AM (04KGT)

183 My first quake while living in CA, I was in a chase lounge by the apartment complex swimming pool reading a book when I noticed the water in the pool sloshing back-and-forth and spilling out over the sides.

That was wild.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 13, 2026 11:56 AM (J4Dwc)

184 I was on a bus when Loma Prieta hit. The bus suddenly pulled to the side and I looked around.

I was in an office building in Sunnyvale. A co-worker and I moved to the doorway and watched a 300 pound printer walk itself halfway across the room.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 13, 2026 11:56 AM (vTZFs)

185 The Federal Income Tax rules effectively subsidize spendthrift cities.

Posted by: Miklos is neither a deadbeat lender nor borrower at August 13, 2026 11:52 AM (XOG/m)


Excellent point, but I am going to take advantage of it for as long as I can!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 13, 2026 11:56 AM (l4RKn)

186 The Loma Prieta quake hit exactly one week before I was to head off to boot camp in San Diego. Made me wonder if I really wanted to go to California.

But after boot camp it was off to Monterey, and I fell in love with California.

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 11:56 AM (77rzZ)

187 Bondholders get paid off by being given title to the elected officials who caused the problem.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Heh. I like that even better than my paltry suggestion. Bondholders would be left with owning a bunch of untalented and ugly assholes as a booby prize for stupid lending.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:56 AM (E4rtv)

188 @171 Hadrian, I believe the wonderful Pete Buttgiggle solved all broadband issues

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 13, 2026 11:56 AM (WOnE5)

189 Hey, I'm still around!
Posted by: The Quaker Oats Guy

I passed away decades ago.
Posted by: Mama Celeste
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I managed to hold on until 2020.
Posted by: Cream of Wheat Chef

You all laughed at me. Laughed!

But I have my revenge

I'm still here, you fucking bastards

Posted by: Little Debbie at August 13, 2026 11:56 AM (XOG/m)

190 We don't hear about rural connectivity any more. Was it solved by the government or Elon Musk?
Posted by: Hadrian
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I believe that BPL (Broadband over Power line) has been a predictable failure. After ~$60 Billion in grants.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 13, 2026 11:57 AM (XeU6L)

191 one hour sober

I was on a ship offshore of San Francisco during the Loma Prieta quake.

We saw all the TV coverage. The Nimitz Freeway got a 5 second clip. Knew there were a lot of dead there. Came in thinking about what to do for martial law. Using the 30 power big eyes, evidence of damage was light.

My car on the pier was halfway between the Nimitz Freeway and the failed part of the Bay Bridge. Cracks in the pier pavement.

Got a story about the fires if wanted.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 11:58 AM (u82oZ)

192 But after boot camp it was off to Monterey, and I fell in love with California.
Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 11:56 AM (77rzZ)
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Ft. Ord?

Posted by: Klondike Bar Polar Bear at August 13, 2026 11:58 AM (amcLV)

193 I believe that BPL (Broadband over Power line) has been a predictable failure. After ~$60 Billion in grants.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
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Not sure that those who got the money think of it as a failure. That is one of the problems with federal spending.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:59 AM (E4rtv)

194 But after boot camp it was off to Monterey, and I fell in love with California.

I still love California, I just hate Californians.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 13, 2026 11:59 AM (vTZFs)

195
I'm still here, you fucking bastards
Posted by: Little Debbie at August 13, 2026 11:56 AM (XOG/m


Yes and in every ride on cart customers basket in Walmart !

Posted by: It's me donna at August 13, 2026 11:59 AM (vQrSy)

196 Gah!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 13, 2026 11:59 AM (amcLV)

197
I'm still here, you fucking bastards
Posted by: Little Debbie at August 13, 2026 11:56 AM (XOG/m)

__________

And we love you.

Posted by: Pedo Democrats at August 13, 2026 11:59 AM (O0L8i)

198 I'm still here, you fucking bastards
Posted by: Little Debbie
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Hmm. 'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest' just came to mind.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 13, 2026 11:59 AM (XeU6L)

199 The richer you are the easier it is to move.

So the states going more and more socialist will see their richer people move

The one exception to this are those who are politically connected where paying 10% in taxes might not matter because most of their income comes from laundered tax payer money anyway - so sure they lose 10% off the top but they make way more since government will give them more.

Amusingly in this regard they are more like the dependent class then the wealthy members of the productive class

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 11:59 AM (sKqQm)

200 one hour sober

One thing. For the next two days, everyone was a polite driver. It did take a month for the "Did the Earth move for you" tales to go away.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 11:59 AM (u82oZ)

201 Ft. Ord?
Posted by: Klondike
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Not Ft. Bragg?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 13, 2026 12:01 PM (XeU6L)

202
Her Majesty spends an inordinate amount of time leaving on a trip. Not taking a trip, just leaving.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 12:01 PM (O0L8i)

203 I still love California, I just hate Californians.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 13, 2026 11:59 AM (vTZFs)


Yup. Most beautiful state in the country...populated by 40,000,000 retards.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 13, 2026 12:02 PM (l4RKn)

204 Mike Hammer

My broadband is increasingly unreliable. I have a tower 10 miles away.

Looking at StarLink.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 12:02 PM (u82oZ)

205 I believe that BPL (Broadband over Power line) has been a predictable failure. After ~$60 Billion in grants.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

I can waste money for less

Posted by: Aspiring federal Grantee and rapper Miklos, turnin' his income around at August 13, 2026 12:02 PM (XOG/m)

206 I'm still around. Make me yodel, Big Boy!
Posted by: Swiss Miss at August 13, 2026 11:51 AM (JM9I6)


I'll bring the meat.
-- Big Boy, Burger Guy

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 12:02 PM (77rzZ)

207 Yup. Most beautiful state in the country...populated by 40,000,000 retards.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 13, 2026 12:02 PM (l4RKn)


Ahem...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 13, 2026 12:03 PM (vQrSy)

208 Ft. Ord?
Posted by: Klondike Bar Polar Bear

Defense Language Institute

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 12:03 PM (77rzZ)

209 Defense Language Institute
Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 12:03 PM (77rzZ)
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What language did they learn you?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 13, 2026 12:04 PM (amcLV)

210 {{{It's me donna}}}

There must be 15 million exceptions to CBD's comment. You are one of those exceptional people.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 12:04 PM (u82oZ)

211 What language did they learn you?
Posted by: Captain Obvious

russkiy yazik

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 12:05 PM (77rzZ)

212 So Wendy's should change their mascot for somehow demeaning gingers.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 13, 2026 12:05 PM (XvL8K)

213 There must be 15 million exceptions to CBD's comment. You are one of those exceptional people.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 12:04 PM (u82oZ)


There are a few of us...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 13, 2026 12:05 PM (vQrSy)

214 I can waste money for less
Posted by: Aspiring federal Grantee and rapper Miklos
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I can write the grant applications, it will require a modest commission.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 13, 2026 12:05 PM (XeU6L)

215 russkiy yazik
Posted by: Bulg

ochen harasho

Posted by: Miklosov, Ancient Slavonaut Theorist at August 13, 2026 12:06 PM (XOG/m)

216 So Wendy's should change their mascot for somehow demeaning gingers.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 13, 2026 12:05 PM (XvL8K)


What does Wendy Thomas think of that suggestion?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 12:06 PM (ExV1e)

217 Posted by: It's me donna at August 13, 2026 12:05 PM (vQrSy)

Head on a swivel....

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 12:06 PM (iABCo)

218 217 Posted by: It's me donna at August 13, 2026 12:05 PM (vQrSy)

Head on a swivel....
Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 12:06 PM (iABCo)

Always.....

Posted by: It's me donna at August 13, 2026 12:07 PM (vQrSy)

219 I can write the grant applications, it will require a modest commission.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.

Not in the budget this cycle

Posted by: Bean Counters of Wasted days and wasted nights (Freddy Fender) at August 13, 2026 12:08 PM (XOG/m)

220 There must be 15 million exceptions to CBD's comment. You are one of those exceptional people.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 12:04 PM (u82oZ)


Cathy Ireland, too.

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 12:08 PM (77rzZ)

221 Head on a swivel....
Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 12:06 PM (iABCo)


I had more success in life using a reciprocating saw. -- Kamala

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 12:08 PM (ExV1e)

222 Irony is dead,

Today's headline at GWP,

"Frank Luntz Calls for ‘Total and Complete Shutdown of Primary Polling’ After Polls Got Michigan and Wisconsin So Wrong"

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 12:09 PM (E4rtv)

223 Cathy Ireland, too.
Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 12:08 PM (77rzZ)


She related to Kathy Ireland?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 12:09 PM (ExV1e)

224 In practice, what is the difference between head on a swivel and head on a rotating pike?

Posted by: Miklos requires clarification before the Zoom meeting in 5 minutes about this at August 13, 2026 12:10 PM (XOG/m)

225 Cathy Ireland, too.
Posted by: Bulg

Cathy Ireland > Ireland.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 12:10 PM (E4rtv)

226 So can anyone predict what will happen next?
--> Sure ya can! Dem-ruled shitholes will pass LAWS demanding that if you want to move your business out of their shithole you must pay an "exit tax" equal to three times your business's last state tax bill.
Most businesses will ditch plans to flee, hoping the situation will improve. A tiny few will leave without paying--and the host state will sue. And leftist judges (which rule every lower court) will rule in favor of the Dem shithole states.
So in a matter of months, the notion that you can move businesses and capital to more welcoming states--though *technically true,* will be effectively nullified by leftist judges under the "full faith and credit" clause.

Posted by: sf at August 13, 2026 12:10 PM (dK6Bp)

227 We don't hear about rural connectivity any more. Was it solved by the government or Elon Musk?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh


Elon.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 13, 2026 12:10 PM (lrRtF)

228 "Frank Luntz Calls for ‘Total and Complete Shutdown of Primary Polling’ After Polls Got Michigan and Wisconsin So Wrong"
Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 12:09 PM (E4rtv)


Jim Cramer looks around nervously.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 12:11 PM (ExV1e)

229 She related to Kathy Ireland?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Twins. Made it easier for the mother to use the correct name when facing identical twins.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 12:11 PM (E4rtv)

230 Stationed at Moffett Field, I made the drive from the South Bay to Ft. Ord several times to play the Bayonet golf course on the base.

Very difficult course, for sure.

Some PGA Tour pros arriving on the peninsula for the annual stop at Pebble Beach would play practice rounds at Bayonet to sharpen their game ahead of the tournament.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 13, 2026 12:11 PM (J4Dwc)

231 Jim Cramer looks around nervously.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Heh.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 12:12 PM (E4rtv)

232 Wholesale price inflation report is out, and the word is "unexpectedly". Imagine that.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 13, 2026 12:12 PM (cTuVd)

233 Some PGA Tour pros arriving on the peninsula for the annual stop at Pebble Beach would play practice rounds at Bayonet to sharpen their game ahead of the tournament.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 13, 2026 12:11 PM (J4Dwc)


Would they shave a couple points off their score?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 12:13 PM (ExV1e)

234 I'm not waiting on a lahdee, I'm just waitin on an Ace.

Posted by: Jick Magger of the Stones Rolling at August 13, 2026 12:13 PM (E4rtv)

235 232 Wholesale price inflation report is out, and the word is "unexpectedly". Imagine that.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
========
News media getting whacked up the head repeatedly by reality is an evergreen story.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 12:14 PM (E4rtv)

236 203 I still love California, I just hate Californians.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 13, 2026 11:59 AM (vTZFs)

Yup. Most beautiful state in the country...populated by 40,000,000 retards.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 13, 2026 12:02 PM (l4RKn)

Don Henley can be an idiot, but he get's some things right.

"They call it Paradise, I don't know why.
Call someplace Paradise, kiss it goodbye!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 13, 2026 12:14 PM (edUvp)

237 158. We have 50 experiments going on right now. Benefits of a Republic instead of a Democracy.
Posted by: polynikes

👏🏻 excellent.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 13, 2026 12:15 PM (NFX2v)

238 165 I read an article about AOC claiming that the difference between socialism and democratic socialism is the democracy part.

Dems would like you to think that 'Democratic' and 'democratic' are the same thing. They are not. As newly-single AOC knows- it's all about the "D".
Posted by: t-bird at August 13, 2026 11:49 AM (04KGT)
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Das ist korrect.

Posted by: The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) at August 13, 2026 12:15 PM (3aLWR)

239 Stationed at Moffett Field, I made the drive from the South Bay to Ft. Ord several times to play the Bayonet golf course on the base.

Very difficult course, for sure.

Some PGA Tour pros arriving on the peninsula for the annual stop at Pebble Beach would play practice rounds at Bayonet to sharpen their game ahead of the tournament.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 13, 2026 12:11 PM (J4Dwc)

***

The greens were a bitch. It didn't matter what the lay looked like, the ball would ALWAYS break to the Bay.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 13, 2026 12:16 PM (ptDe5)

240 Wholesale price inflation report is out, and the word is "unexpectedly". Imagine that.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Note the key proviso-

"excluding the volatile food, energy, and Miklos sectors"

Posted by: Imklos reports at August 13, 2026 12:16 PM (XOG/m)

241 Can't help thinking of the Who's Going Mobile here.

I'm goin' home
And when I wanna go home
I'm goin' mobile
Well, I'm gonna find a home
And we'll see how it feels
Goin' mobile
Keep me movin'

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 12:16 PM (E4rtv)

242 I read an article about AOC claiming that the difference between socialism and democratic socialism is the democracy part.

As has been pointed out, North Korea is a democracy. You have the option between Kim and being executed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 12:17 PM (ExV1e)

243 The greens were a bitch.
Posted by: Diogenes

Yeah, they were a bunch of see-you-next-Tuesdays.
-- The Blues

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 12:17 PM (77rzZ)

244 234 I'm not waiting on a lahdee, I'm just waitin on an Ace.

ace rimmer? what a guy!

Posted by: anachronda at August 13, 2026 12:19 PM (sGtp+)

245 242 I read an article about AOC claiming that the difference between socialism and democratic socialism is the democracy part.

As has been pointed out, North Korea is a democracy. You have the option between Kim and being executed.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 12:17 PM (ExV1e)

Democracy is the animating philosophy of a gang rape. You just got outvoted, toots.

No thanks.

Posted by: No sale at August 13, 2026 12:19 PM (hqQIL)

246 199 The richer you are the easier it is to move.

So the states going more and more socialist will see their richer people move."

Cuba has taken this to the extreme. Although they try to stop it, the young, healthy, and ambitious have been slipping out of the country for decades now, not all to the US, many to South and Central America.

consequence - besides the communist government, the core problem that all other problems flow from is that Cuba for the most part is now occupied by the sick, the elderly, and the mentally defective. I suspect that's one reason why the US is in no hurry to push things there; when the current regime falls, there's no human capital there worth working with.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 13, 2026 12:20 PM (edUvp)

247 Willowed myself

Noon news

CBC - Fat bastard subhuman piece of shit Ford hopes AI will bring Ontario billions of bucks

MS Now - Epstein files - that never gets old

CNN - inflation cools, gas orices high 82 days to midterm

FoxNews - WNBA - dudes joining, also the ghetto apes

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 13, 2026 12:20 PM (Sco7b)

248 As has been pointed out, North Korea is a democracy. You have the option between Kim and being executed.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 12:17 PM (ExV1e)
---
It's right there in the name!

"Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea"

Would a Democrat lie to you?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 13, 2026 12:21 PM (FZ29D)

249 Whether it is organic growth of socialist principles, or a careful manipulation of the news cycle combined with excellent grassroots planning remains to be seen.


My money is on the grassroots planning aimed at Education, the Media, Labor Unions, and the Democrats.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 13, 2026 12:21 PM (ptDe5)

250 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 13, 2026 12:22 PM (NcvvS)

251 gas orices high 82 days to midterm


The gas from my orices gets me high, too.
-- Joe Biden

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 12:22 PM (77rzZ)

252 Nood. SPLC.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 12:22 PM (ExV1e)

253 TOTALLY NOOD

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 13, 2026 12:23 PM (wtvvX)

254 >>It didn't matter what the lay looked like, the ball would ALWAYS break to the Bay

Yep. Same thing at Torrey Pines down south. My first round there, I was playing the south course with a local guy who'd played it many times. I'm on the fourth green, which runs along the ocean, lining up my putt. Dude says, which way do you think it'll break? I said about two cups right (away from the ocean). He says, nope, aim two cups right, it'll break left toward the ocean.

He was correct.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 13, 2026 12:25 PM (J4Dwc)

255 58 I'd love to see a law saying that if a local or state government goes bankrupt, they will NEVER be bailed out.
-->Let's see how NYC funds their dream utopia then."

Nothing will change, because laws mean nuffin' to Democrats, socialists and communists. They'll simply ignore your Law and get a Dem-ruled congress to give 'em $200 billion--and the Media will swoon and fawn and slobber that it was a faaaabulous idea!

Posted by: sf at August 13, 2026 12:31 PM (dK6Bp)

256 95 Illinois went through this--instead of paying companies the state buys needed things from, they issue "scrip" which is just a promise to pay.
-- whig (edited)

"But eventually companies stop being suckers."

Nah, the faabulous state simply finds new companies that are delighted to get faaabulous State contracts for tens of millions, and everything continues as before.

Posted by: sf at August 13, 2026 01:08 PM (dK6Bp)

257 All I want is some ordinary joe. SBUX is not only awful but hideously overpriced.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 11:40 AM (O0L8i)

I will never understand why saying “expensive” became TOO HARD.

In any event, res tantum valet quantum vendi potest.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 13, 2026 01:09 PM (4g5V+)

258 So, state sovereignty is suddenly cool again? Heh!

Well, just a warning that Tennessee is full of gun-totin', Bible-thumpin' rednecks, and no bluedog Democrats would be happy here. >:-)

Posted by: Beverly at August 13, 2026 01:51 PM (reMys)

259 When Capital Is Mobile, Socialism Will Fail

Money printing and laundering is the ultimate in mobility.

When Capital is Trackable and Auditable, Socialism Will Fail.

Posted by: t-bird at August 13, 2026 03:01 PM (PM/iv)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

Rusinol Summer Shower.jpg


Summer shower

Santiago Rusinol

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM




Comments

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 09:30 AM (2YhKe)

2 He wants a blow. She's not willing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 09:30 AM (2YhKe)

3 They look bored with life in general.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 09:31 AM (jjoN6)

4 Are they going to a funeral?

Posted by: redridinghood at August 13, 2026 09:31 AM (NpAcC)

5 Do not take Rusinol if you are allergic to Rusinol.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 09:31 AM (wzUl9)

6 If there's a theme to this week, I'm not seeing it.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 13, 2026 09:31 AM (qRla/)

7 The couple was angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at August 13, 2026 09:31 AM (2Ez/1)

8 Summer shower.

Neither are in the shower. You can't see rain......WTF?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 09:31 AM (2YhKe)

9 With a golden shower to follow.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 13, 2026 09:31 AM (EGW4m)

10 Are they going to a funeral?
Posted by: redridinghood at August 13, 2026


***
It does look like they are formally dressed for something, and hoping the rain will stop soon.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 09:32 AM (wzUl9)

11 Good morning good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 13, 2026 09:32 AM (udaaY)

12 Funeral is in rain delay

Posted by: one hour sober at August 13, 2026 09:32 AM (J4Dwc)

13 Is that what you kids are calling it now?

Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at August 13, 2026 09:32 AM (2Ez/1)

14 ???

No summer. No shower.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 13, 2026 09:32 AM (JvZF+)

15 Another complete lack of happy little bushes.

But, hey, it's your painting.

Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at August 13, 2026 09:33 AM (0sNs1)

16 Jeepers they must be living in the Arctic. Fire in the fireplace and a scarf and long sleeves?

Who died? This is depressing af.

Posted by: AYFKM? at August 13, 2026 09:33 AM (WtkHN)

17 They don't seem like a happy couple.
Would hang, like the simple colors.
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 13, 2026 09:33 AM (WOnE5)

18 The ennui is palpable.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 13, 2026 09:33 AM (amcLV)

19 Wretched sock

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 13, 2026 09:33 AM (WtkHN)

20 Funeral is in rain delay
Posted by: one hour sober

He doesn't smell too bad yet.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 13, 2026 09:33 AM (EGW4m)

21 A joyless morning, with an unused bed in the corner.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 13, 2026 09:34 AM (4nevv)

22 Ottoman, which is a plus, but too White Priveilegy for my taste.

Posted by: Darktown Strut at August 13, 2026 09:34 AM (JM9I6)

23 They're waiting around until the Cat in the Hat shows up...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 13, 2026 09:34 AM (FZ29D)

24 More like Summer Dour.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at August 13, 2026 09:34 AM (GTqXr)

25 He wants a blow. She's not willing.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 09:30 AM


So ... married?

Posted by: J. Random 'Ron at August 13, 2026 09:34 AM (y+CVr)

26 The orange-ish glow just visible in the fireplace, in summer, suggests that this is somewhere pretty far north. But Rusinol was a Spanish painter, not Russian, so I dunno.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 09:34 AM (wzUl9)

27 All dressed up but no place to go.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 13, 2026 09:35 AM (bNf8H)

28 Shower to Shower each day
Helps keep the odor away
Have you Annie Sprinkle today?
"I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam."

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 13, 2026 09:35 AM (als2z)

29 I thought you brought the umbrella.
No, I thought YOU brought it.

Posted by: Dammit, woman! at August 13, 2026 09:35 AM (2Ez/1)

30
A dog would cheer them up. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 09:35 AM (O0L8i)

31 Nice light in picture. Thanks, CBD. I was not familiar with that artist, but he also has some very nice pictures of gardens.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 09:35 AM (+hwtP)

32 I'd suggest an indoor boinkathon, but I don't think those two are up for it.

Posted by: No Name Today at August 13, 2026 09:35 AM (8mulE)

33 Shouldn't there be some vigorous and mutual soaping and rinsing and toweling off involved? At least, that's the way it goes in my fantasies.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 13, 2026 09:35 AM (wVcYX)

34
So ... married?
Posted by: J. Random 'Ron at August 13, 2026 09:34 AM (y+CVr)



A valid assessment.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 09:36 AM (2YhKe)

35 He wants a blow. She's not willing.
Posted by: Sponge
___________

Or she's disappointed with his latest effort.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 13, 2026 09:36 AM (XvL8K)

36 Had a summer shower rumble through here yesterday. Usual mix of high winds, pouring rain, and a little bit of hail.

Fortunately, I didn't lose power, though the lights flickered for a moment.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 13, 2026 09:36 AM (FZ29D)

37 Rusinol Corp. had a wide range of bowling alley lane conditioners.

Posted by: Wood Eye? at August 13, 2026 09:36 AM (JM9I6)

38 Caption:

"Marie, as I stand here at the window watching our French Poodle, Montegue Clingenham the Third, I often think, I would be a happier man if I, too, could roll around in my own poo."

Posted by: naturalfake at August 13, 2026 09:36 AM (iJfKG)

39 The compositional usage of triangles is interesting.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 13, 2026 09:36 AM (0sNs1)

40 i would wonder what a winter bath looks like.

Posted by: cmeat at August 13, 2026 09:36 AM (Bep7s)

41 A joyless morning, with an unused bed in the corner.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 13, 2026 09:34 AM (4nevv)


Can't go for a walk, the weather is warm and rainy, shoot. The bed is right there! One could read afterwards.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 13, 2026 09:36 AM (rbvCR)

42 I think this is the first time I've seen a painting in the Art Thread where the title makes no f*cking sense whatsoever.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 09:36 AM (2YhKe)

43 I wish she would take a shower.

Posted by: That guy at August 13, 2026 09:36 AM (MWfyi)

44 I wish he would take a shower.

Posted by: That gal at August 13, 2026 09:37 AM (MWfyi)

45 He wants a blow. She's not willing.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 09:30 AM


Are they ever?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 13, 2026 09:37 AM (qRla/)

46
Shouldn't there be some vigorous and mutual soaping and rinsing and toweling off involved? At least, that's the way it goes in my fantasies.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 13, 2026 09:35 AM (wVcYX)

_________

"Mmmmm, I don't think so."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 09:37 AM (O0L8i)

47 Had a summer shower rumble through here yesterday. Usual mix of high winds, pouring rain, and a little bit of hail.

Fortunately, I didn't lose power, though the lights flickered for a moment.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 13, 2026 09:36 AM (FZ29D)



We've had 3 drops of rain over the last month.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 09:37 AM (2YhKe)

48 Aren't you glad you use Dial?

Posted by: Don't You Wish Everyone Did? at August 13, 2026 09:37 AM (JM9I6)

49 The ennui is palpable.

Well ennui special?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 13, 2026 09:38 AM (als2z)

50 "If only we had small technological devices in our hands by which we could entertain ourselves endlessly -- with marginally interesting but infinitely changing short stories in moving-picture form."

Posted by: red speck at August 13, 2026 09:38 AM (Ve/HL)

51 Joyless.

Must've had a picnic planned, dang rain!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 13, 2026 09:38 AM (X8xt3)

52 Did anyone notice the windmill through the window? Clearly they are ill prepared for the weather in Holland.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 13, 2026 09:38 AM (rbvCR)

53
Are they ever?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 13, 2026 09:37 AM (qRla/)



Not for a long time.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 09:38 AM (2YhKe)

54 Happily, no one showed this painting to Gene Kelly before his dance scene in Singing in the Rain

Posted by: Miklos the terpsichorean aesthete at August 13, 2026 09:39 AM (XOG/m)

55 Think they both get their hair cut at the same place.

Posted by: Great Clips at August 13, 2026 09:39 AM (JM9I6)

56 Petrichor and Ozone waft in thru the opened window . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 13, 2026 09:39 AM (wVcYX)

57 "Stripped Bare" is playing down at the theater and he wishes to go.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 13, 2026 09:39 AM (EGW4m)

58 They had tried to organize a shower party, but it was a washout.

Posted by: Oh, no... at August 13, 2026 09:39 AM (2Ez/1)

59 I like the woman's posture...it is interesting and evocative.

By the way, Rusinol was a bit of a prick.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 13, 2026 09:39 AM (l4RKn)

60 "we kinna lookin' fer da sheepin inda rainin!"

Posted by: cmeat at August 13, 2026 09:39 AM (Bep7s)

61 We need common sense ennui control.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 13, 2026 09:40 AM (ndZc7)

62 My assessment: The artist had a lot of black paint, was a cheapskate who decided to use some of it it before buying other paints, and was pretty good at depicting people but lousy at depicting rain.

would not hang

Posted by: Gref at August 13, 2026 09:40 AM (5rh/l)

63 That's quite a bustle she's got.

Posted by: Don Black at August 13, 2026 09:40 AM (ZxPkt)

64 Did anyone notice the windmill through the window? Clearly they are ill prepared for the weather in Holland.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 13, 2026


***
That explains the fireplace!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 09:40 AM (wzUl9)

65 And this looks like a fairly well-appointed home in relative comfort. My god, things must've been incredibly dreary back then for the less-well-off.

Posted by: red speck at August 13, 2026 09:40 AM (Ve/HL)

66 He: I'm proud of you.
She: I'm tired of you too.

Posted by: AgathaPagatha at August 13, 2026 09:40 AM (zDWkG)

67 He wants anal.

She's not willing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 09:40 AM (2YhKe)

68 You know what they need?

Day-drinking!

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 13, 2026 09:41 AM (Sco7b)

69 She caught him taking a shower with the maid.

Posted by: dantesed at August 13, 2026 09:41 AM (Oy/m2)

70 60 "we kinna lookin' fer da sheepin inda rainin!"
Posted by: cmeat

I get that! Benny Hill FTW!

Posted by: Beginnin' Rainin' at August 13, 2026 09:42 AM (JM9I6)

71 You're soaking in it.

Posted by: Madge at August 13, 2026 09:42 AM (2Ez/1)

72 They’re bored. I’m bored looking at it…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 13, 2026 09:42 AM (MaA4a)

73 Walter and Skyler White of the 1890s.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 13, 2026 09:42 AM (amcLV)

74 I don't think artists want someone to look at their paintings and say 'boring' no matter how well it was executed.

Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 09:42 AM (KC5Lt)

75 They had tried to organize a shower party, but it was a washout.
Posted by: Oh, no.

Rain check, please

Posted by: Miklos can do this later, gator at August 13, 2026 09:43 AM (XOG/m)

76 She caught him taking a shower with the maid.
Posted by: dantesed

Don't blame him.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 13, 2026 09:43 AM (EGW4m)

77 56 my kids are named petrichor and geosmin.

Posted by: cmeat at August 13, 2026 09:43 AM (Bep7s)

78 68 You know what they need?

Day-drinking!
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 13, 2026 09:41 AM

Damn right!

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at August 13, 2026 09:44 AM (2Ez/1)

79 She caught him taking a shower with the maid.
Posted by: dantesed at August 13, 2026 09:41 AM (Oy/m2)



That never happens.

Posted by: Arnold Schwarzenegger at August 13, 2026 09:44 AM (2YhKe)

80
It was only that one time.

Oh, Richard, just stop.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 09:44 AM (O0L8i)

81 I just learned that Leonard Cohen took down both Joni Mitchell and Janis Joplin.

I suppose a lot of blind people are good at music, though.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 13, 2026 09:44 AM (BI5O2)

82 She caught him taking a shower with the maid.
Posted by: dantesed at August 13, 2026 09:41 AM (Oy/m2)

I was pointing out all the floor tile grout lines that needed extra cleaning! That's why we were on our hands and knees! Honest!!

Posted by: Guy in painting at August 13, 2026 09:44 AM (wVcYX)

83 That's quite a bustle she's got.
Posted by: Don Black

Is there a bustle in the hedgerow?

Posted by: Miklos has no pot, so no AM Led Zep at August 13, 2026 09:45 AM (XOG/m)

84 petrichor is my favorite word.

Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 09:45 AM (KC5Lt)

85 They had planned on going to the beach. They be disappointed.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 13, 2026 09:45 AM (2Cry5)

86 Ahhh…a summer shower, a passing cloud in the relationship. Tension now, unhappy feelings, but it shall pass.

Posted by: Piper at August 13, 2026 09:45 AM (2UJ+q)

87
Is there a bustle in the hedgerow?
Posted by: Miklos has no pot, so no AM Led Zep at August 13, 2026 09:45 AM (XOG/m)



In case you don't know.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 09:45 AM (2YhKe)

88 You know, you rarely see Santiago in a limerick.

Posted by: Limerick lover at August 13, 2026 09:46 AM (2Ez/1)

89 Damn right!
Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff

MITTS OFF MY POPOV

bitch

Posted by: *hic* at August 13, 2026 09:46 AM (XOG/m)

90 Walter and Skyler White of the 1890s.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 13, 2026 09:42 AM (amcLV)

I am the danger!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 13, 2026 09:46 AM (MaA4a)

91 lamps don't match, bedding is in the middle of being changed?

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 13, 2026 09:46 AM (aJQbY)

92 Walter and Skyler White of the 1890s.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 13, 2026


***
He's running illegal cigarettes to provide for his family . . . but he'll discover he likes doing it anyway.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 09:47 AM (wzUl9)

93 26 The orange-ish glow just visible in the fireplace, in summer, suggests that this is somewhere pretty far north. But Rusinol was a Spanish painter, not Russian, so I dunno.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Per my quick research, this is in Paris.

Posted by: Piper at August 13, 2026 09:47 AM (2UJ+q)

94 89 you can't day drink unless you start early morning.

Posted by: cmeat at August 13, 2026 09:47 AM (Bep7s)

95 It's no dogs but I have a horse painting in my nic .

Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 09:48 AM (KC5Lt)

96 lamps don't match, bedding is in the middle of being changed?
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 13, 2026


***
This could be a room in an inn. They've traveled here for the funeral, which was tiring enough, and now they're stuck inside while it rains.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 09:48 AM (wzUl9)

97 We should have brought our rubbers.

Posted by: Eromero at August 13, 2026 09:48 AM (0ViWo)

98 Looks like me yesterday. Big plans to trim hedges and mow back lawn. About to go out, sky got dark, thunder, rain in sheets, an inch total. Washout.

Posted by: Maybe Today? at August 13, 2026 09:48 AM (JM9I6)

99 You know what they need?

Day-drinking!
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 13, 2026 09:41 AM (Sco7b)


You asked for it. . .

https://tinyurl.com/syvbyk34

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 13, 2026 09:48 AM (qRla/)

100 100

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 13, 2026 09:49 AM (/+uur)

101 it's a mad dash to the irish pub next to the funeral parlor.

Posted by: cmeat at August 13, 2026 09:49 AM (Bep7s)

102 It looks like emotional tension, not great big feelings where a vase gets thrown or something.

Posted by: Piper at August 13, 2026 09:49 AM (2UJ+q)

103 Caption:

"Sometimes I think I could've been a successful shop owner if only my parents had loved me more. You see, Marie I was the second child. My older sister, Clarice got riding lessons and a pony, She got piano lessons, Marie! and a piano to play upon. My how she would play!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 13, 2026 09:49 AM (iJfKG)

104 He just told her he prefers men.

So...gay.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 13, 2026 09:50 AM (J4Dwc)

105 This could be a room in an inn. They've traveled here for the funeral, which was tiring enough, and now they're stuck inside while it rains.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 09:48 AM

What, no cable? No WiFi?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 13, 2026 09:50 AM (2Ez/1)

106 He loves the toxic masculinity of football now.

Abdul El-Sayed Challenges Mike Rogers to No-Pads Tackle Football Showdown as Senate Race turns Personal

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 13, 2026 09:50 AM (ndZc7)

107 Is there a bustle in the hedgerow?
Posted by: Miklos has no pot, so no AM Led Zep at August 13, 2026 09:45 AM (XOG/m)


In case you don't know.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 09:45 AM (2YhKe)

Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.
Oh.
[guitar solo]

Posted by: Guy in painting about to rock out at August 13, 2026 09:50 AM (wVcYX)

108 lamps don't match, bedding is in the middle of being changed?
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 13, 2026


***
A lot of Western Europe, even aside from the Scandinavian countries, is at pretty high latitudes. Winnipeg is at the same latitude. Europe gets the Gulf Stream for warmth, but if it didn't it would be pretty wintry most of the year.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 09:50 AM (wzUl9)

109 Not that I have ever thrown a vase at someone. Though in retrospect, there were a few moments where that would have been entirely appropriate.

Posted by: Piper at August 13, 2026 09:51 AM (2UJ+q)

110
There once was a lady named Bauer
Said, "This might take me more than an hour.
Everything reeks,
It's been 52 weeks.
Now it's time for my yearly summer shower!"

Posted by: muldoon at August 13, 2026 09:51 AM (I0N4X)

111 She caught him taking a shower with the maid.
Posted by: dantesed at August 13, 2026 09:41 AM (Oy/m2)


There's an old Punch cartoon from the early 1900s that shows a mother gesturing to the governess and telling her daughter to kiss her goodnight.

"I won't," says the daughter. "She slaps people's faces when they try to kiss her."

"Oh, such nonsense!"

"It's true, Mama. Just ask Papa."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 13, 2026 09:51 AM (qRla/)

112 You asked for it. . .

https://tinyurl.com/syvbyk34
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

MURICA

Posted by: Miklos only day drinks from Nostalgia at August 13, 2026 09:52 AM (XOG/m)

113 Leonard Cohen was Radical Chic.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 13, 2026 09:52 AM (JvZF+)

114 it's a mad dash to the irish pub next to the funeral parlor.
Posted by: cmeat at August 13, 2026 09:49 AM (Bep7s)

Do they serve Flaming Dr. Peppers?

Posted by: Count de Monet remembers at August 13, 2026 09:52 AM (wVcYX)

115 What, no cable? No WiFi?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 13, 2026 09:50 AM (2Ez/1)

No WNBA!
Was life even worth living?

I just checked Instagram.
WNBA 3.7 million followers.
Lol...sad

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 13, 2026 09:52 AM (Sco7b)

116 Is that 1890s Bill and Hillary?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 13, 2026 09:52 AM (MaA4a)

117 Caption (con't)

"I wanted a ukulele, you see. A ukulele I could play along with my sister, Clarice.

But, my parents...my parents never loved me enough to buy me that ukulele. My dreams were shattered.

They bought me a kazoo instead.

Oh, what bitter music it played....*weeps*

Posted by: naturalfake at August 13, 2026 09:53 AM (iJfKG)

118 The lamps on the mantle are nice. Not as lovely as Franz Kessler's work, but interesting.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 13, 2026 09:54 AM (2ap+5)

119 Trump changed Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America through sheer force of will. A funnel pointing slightly more west could divert the Gulf Stream to Greenland, away from western Europe, freezing the lefties out. It's all part of the plan.

Posted by: March Of The Penguins at August 13, 2026 09:54 AM (JM9I6)

120 116 Is that 1890s Bill and Hillary?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 13, 2026 09:52 AM

What difference, at this point, does it make?

Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at August 13, 2026 09:54 AM (2Ez/1)

121 A lot of Western Europe, even aside from the Scandinavian countries, is at pretty high latitudes. Winnipeg is at the same latitude. Europe gets the Gulf Stream for warmth, but if it didn't it would be pretty wintry most of the year.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 09:50 AM (wzUl9)
----
Yep. For context, Ceuta in northern Morocco is about the same latitude as Memphis, TN.

Just about everything in Europe is north of Memphis, in other words.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 13, 2026 09:54 AM (FZ29D)

122 Leonard Cohen was Radical Chic.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 13, 2026 09:52

He was one of those dudes who's talented AF, but still sucks buttcheeks, anyway.

"Everybody Knows" was his only cool song.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 13, 2026 09:55 AM (BI5O2)

123 Not that I have ever thrown a vase at someone. Though in retrospect, there were a few moments where that would have been entirely appropriate.

Posted by: Piper at August 13, 2026 09:51 AM (2UJ+q)

In your Flower Power years

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 09:55 AM (iABCo)

124 My darling, why don't we get drunk and screw?

Posted by: That guy at August 13, 2026 09:55 AM (MWfyi)

125 104 i knew it!

Posted by: cmeat at August 13, 2026 09:55 AM (Bep7s)

126 Now it's time for my yearly summer shower!"
Posted by: muldoon

One Saturday per year, if I need it or not

Posted by: Miklos thought his doctor's appointment was yesterday at August 13, 2026 09:56 AM (XOG/m)

127 Comment from Reddit on a discussion about density.

“ US is very poorly managed in rural areas.

Here in Switzerland the small villages in the middle of nowhere have everything and are an amazing place to live. I have 10gbit fiber internet, train, bus, poste office, school, restaurants and a super market in a village of 1000 habitants in the middle of a valley away from the cities.”

This guy thinks having internet, a school, a supermarket and some restaurants in a small town doesn’t exist in the US. Lol

Remember those videos of Europeans being shocked by American during the World Cup? We need a lot more of them.

Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez at August 13, 2026 09:57 AM (7xx4i)

128 110 "mmnnnh! has it been a year already?"

Posted by: cmeat at August 13, 2026 09:57 AM (Bep7s)

129 Every other news item on the Fox News site is about a black man or illegal killing another white person. Shits getting out of hand.

Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 09:57 AM (KC5Lt)

130 my kids are named petrichor and geosmin.
Posted by: cmeat at August 13, 2026 09:43 AM (Bep7s)


"Buggy" and "Hen" then?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 13, 2026 09:57 AM (rbvCR)

131
To me, Leonard Cohen was one of those people who became famous after they died. Never heard of him, never heard anything by him. Then he died and all you heard about was how fabulous he was.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 09:57 AM (NrCWn)

132 *Just about everything in Europe is north of Memphis, in other words.*

Stuck inside of Milan, with the Minsk blues again.

Posted by: Dylan at August 13, 2026 09:58 AM (2Ez/1)

133
Per my quick research, this is in Paris.
Posted by: Piper at August 13, 2026 09:47 AM (2UJ+q)



Ah, so he's homo and she has grooming issues........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 09:58 AM (2YhKe)

134 114 chartreuse.

Posted by: cmeat at August 13, 2026 09:58 AM (Bep7s)

135 129 Every other news item on the Fox News site is about a black man or illegal killing another white person. Shits getting out of hand.
Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 09:57 AM


Yoo-hoo.

Posted by: The OFF button at August 13, 2026 09:59 AM (2Ez/1)

136 The painting is evocative of a mood, just not an interesting scene. Not sure where you would hang it at home although it would do well in an exhibit. But I like the style with its detail, use of color, and how it captures a slow rainy day.

I looked at some of his other paintings on his Wiki page. I am impressed, especially his landscapes. He manages to give that glow like a Maxfield Parrish painting. I suspect polynikes would like his style. (Wild guess on my part.)

Posted by: JTB at August 13, 2026 09:59 AM (yTvNw)

137 Not that I have ever thrown a vase at someone. Though in retrospect, there were a few moments where that would have been entirely appropriate.

Posted by: Piper

Do people who throw vases pronounce it vases or vahzes?

Posted by: Miklos adheres to protocol at August 13, 2026 09:59 AM (XOG/m)

138 My parents loved Leonard Cohen. I remember they used to play his records all the time circa late 80s early 90s.

Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez at August 13, 2026 09:59 AM (7xx4i)

139 Not that I have ever thrown a vase at someone.

-
It seems Maine's squeaky clean substitute candidate Troy Jackson has a few skeletons in his closet.

https://tinyurl.com/4dtjr3mp

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 13, 2026 09:59 AM (ndZc7)

140
Leonard Cohen was Radical Chic.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 13, 2026 09:52

He was one of those dudes who's talented AF, but still sucks buttcheeks, anyway.

"Everybody Knows" was his only cool song.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 13, 2026 09:55 AM (BI5O2)



Well, to be fair, Ol' Lenny was banging Rebecca De Mornay in her prime.


you gotta give him credit for that.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 13, 2026 10:00 AM (iJfKG)

141 117 when they were early teens we took a bunch of neighborhood kids to valpo with atwo picnic tables covered in firearms. after sunset by the bonfire, boy broke out a ukele. it was kind of unusual.

Posted by: cmeat at August 13, 2026 10:01 AM (Bep7s)

142 To me, Leonard Cohen was one of those people who became famous after they died. Never heard of him, never heard anything by him. Then he died and all you heard about was how fabulous he was.

The Robyn Hitchcock rule.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 13, 2026 10:01 AM (qRla/)

143 Do people who throw vases pronounce it vases or vahzes?
Posted by: Miklos adheres to protocol at August 13, 2026 09:59 AM

"Ashtray."

Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at August 13, 2026 10:02 AM (2Ez/1)

144 Well, to be fair, Ol' Lenny was banging Rebecca De Mornay in her prime.


you gotta give him credit for that.
Posted by: naturalfake

he did it from love..hehehe

Posted by: Big brother Chet from Wierd Science at August 13, 2026 10:02 AM (XOG/m)

145 Yoo-hoo.
Posted by: The OFF button at August 13, 2026 09:59 AM (2Ez/1)

Don't understand the attempted snark but like the effort.

Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 10:03 AM (KC5Lt)

146 122 hallelujah
joni and janis not exactly israeli supermodels, and janis was unconcho, woke up looking for a beer to wash down some 'ludes.

Posted by: cmeat at August 13, 2026 10:03 AM (Bep7s)

147
Clarice's Kid Brother - a limerick

There once was a fellow named Bailey
Who played his kazoo nearly daily
But the tunes he played were sad
'Cause ever since he was a lad
He'd wished his folks had bought a ukulele

Posted by: muldoon at August 13, 2026 10:03 AM (I0N4X)

148 Victorians did tend to wear a lot of black. Supposedly my great grandmother wore black for decades after her husband died, so maybe these people are together after a funeral and they're not mad with each other at all, just in grief .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 10:03 AM (rHgXV)

149 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. He's telling her he's found another woman. She's telling him the same thing.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 13, 2026 10:04 AM (2WIwB)

150 Caption:

"Well, Marie, as Leonard Cohen often says:

And the sun pours down like honey
On our lady of the harbor
And she shows you where to look
Among the garbage and the flowers

There are heroes in the seaweed
There are children in the morning
They are leaning out for love
And they will lean that way forever
While Suzanne holds the mirror

And you want to travel with her
And you want to travel blind
And you know that you can trust her
For she's touched your perfect body with her mind

I often think of this as I watch the hummingbirds flit about our honeysuckle arbor."

Posted by: naturalfake at August 13, 2026 10:05 AM (iJfKG)

151 130 first cousins.

Posted by: cmeat at August 13, 2026 10:05 AM (Bep7s)

152 135 hardest i will laugh today. maybe.

Posted by: cmeat at August 13, 2026 10:06 AM (Bep7s)

153 Remember those videos of Europeans being shocked by American during the World Cup? We need a lot more of them.
Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez at August 13, 2026 09:57 AM (7xx4i)



2030 is supposed to be Spain, Morocco and Portugal with opening matches in South America, which might be problematic if Pain falls to the invaders, then the will do the openers and main play in Argentina and Chile.


2036 will be Saudi Arabia, but 2038 is not assigned yet, the US could put the games in completely different stadiums from last time just to rub it in,

Posted by: Kindltot at August 13, 2026 10:06 AM (rbvCR)

154 Clarice's Kid Brother - a limerick

There once was a fellow named Bailey
Who played his kazoo nearly daily
But the tunes he played were sad
'Cause ever since he was a lad
He'd wished his folks had bought a ukulele
Posted by: muldoon at August 13, 2026 10:03 AM (I0N4X)


Ha! Nice!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 13, 2026 10:06 AM (iJfKG)

155 "If you don't know I'm not going to tell you."

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 10:06 AM (iABCo)

156 >It seems Maine's squeaky clean substitute candidate Troy Jackson has a few skeletons in his closet.
-----------
His wife's also his cousin?!

*snickers in West Virginian hillbilly*

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 13, 2026 10:07 AM (2Cry5)

157

"I found the complimentary breakfast....unexceptional. Do not book Best Western Paris Centrale ever again, Gerard"

Posted by: Miklos has points with people though at August 13, 2026 10:07 AM (XOG/m)

158 Posted by: JTB at August 13, 2026 09:59 AM (yTvNw)

I do because he uses just a level more of chroma and color than a photorealistic rendering. I always prefer a painterly rendition than a photorealistic one. Though I greatly admire the skill of photorealism painters.

Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 10:09 AM (KC5Lt)

159 Bleah. Just commented on the Morning Report. My last brain cell seems to have skipped town into retirement.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 13, 2026 10:10 AM (OUMaO)

160 127 Comment from Reddit on a discussion about density.

This guy thinks having internet, a school, a supermarket and some restaurants in a small town doesn’t exist in the US. Lol

Remember those videos of Europeans being shocked by American during the World Cup? We need a lot more of them.
Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez at August 13, 2026 09:57 AM (7xx4i)
------

A LOT of Europeans are very un-worldly and have no idea about the scale of anything outside of Europe, which is comparatively a small place with a lot of smaller places inside it. His "village" is probably the equivalent of a typical American suburb or maybe exurb as far as distance from a major metro. Let this dude find a small town in West Texas then come talk about "poorly managed density."

Posted by: ballistic at August 13, 2026 10:10 AM (oqH4h)

161 She is disappointed in her tip which was only $20 when she thought doing the backdoor rumba was worth at least $50.

Always get your money up front.

Posted by: A Pimp's Love at August 13, 2026 10:11 AM (e2lsi)

162 Muslim foot-washing stations coming to DFW Terminal D.

Privately-funded.

Huh.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 13, 2026 10:11 AM (J4Dwc)

163 BTW, if you haven't been following Enes Kanter and Royce White's little stunt, you should. It's very funny.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 13, 2026 10:12 AM (BI5O2)

164 No sex please, thank you! We're British.

Posted by: Unwillin' Barkis at August 13, 2026 10:12 AM (/G2NI)

165 Muslim foot-washing stations coming to DFW Terminal D.

Privately-funded.

Huh.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 13, 2026 10:11 AM (J4Dwc)



They are trying to build their sharia towns everywhere.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 10:12 AM (2YhKe)

166 Does Enes thyme with...

Posted by: I gotta ask at August 13, 2026 10:13 AM (2Ez/1)

167 Had the umbrella not yet been discovered?

Posted by: Weasel at August 13, 2026 10:13 AM (TMF5Z)

168 Baby's got back!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2026 10:13 AM (1z8ji)

169
A LOT of Europeans are very un-worldly and have no idea about the scale of anything outside of Europe

__________

The chattering pseuds, that herd of independent thinkers, just swallows whole whatever ignorant lies their state-run media tell them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 10:14 AM (IrNLt)

170 Does Enes thyme with...
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 13, 2026 10:13 AM (2Ez/1)



.......

Posted by: Enos Strate at August 13, 2026 10:14 AM (2YhKe)

171 Had the umbrella not yet been discovered?
Posted by: Weasel

No. Not until Neville Chamberlain became PM.

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 10:14 AM (77rzZ)

172 BTW, if you haven't been following Enes Kanter and Royce White's little stunt, you should. It's very funny.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 13, 2026 10:12 AM (BI5O2)


The response reminds me of a five year old girl indignantly yelling at a five year old boy, "That's not how you play Make-Believe!"

Posted by: Kindltot at August 13, 2026 10:15 AM (rbvCR)

173 Muslim foot-washing stations coming to DFW Terminal D.

Privately-funded.

Huh.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 13, 2026 10:11 AM (J4Dwc)

Someone should demand privately funded confessional booths in terminal D.

Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 10:15 AM (KC5Lt)

174 167 Had the umbrella not yet been discovered?
Posted by: Weasel at August 13, 2026 10:13 AM

See comment #29.

Posted by: Dammit, woman! at August 13, 2026 10:15 AM (2Ez/1)

175 Don't stare out the window, take your clothes off and go run around in the garden, both of you.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 13, 2026 10:16 AM (sl73Y)

176 Muslim foot-washing stations coming to DFW Terminal D.

Privately-funded.

Huh.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 13, 2026 10:11 AM (J4Dwc)


They are trying to build their sharia towns everywhere.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 10:12 AM (2YhKe)


That would seem to be unconstitutional.

Placing a religious "utility" within a public airport which is controlled by federal law.

Any moron lawyers care to comment?

Posted by: naturalfake at August 13, 2026 10:16 AM (iJfKG)

177 Ahem.
Does Enes RHYME with...

Posted by: I gotta ask at August 13, 2026 10:16 AM (2Ez/1)

178 Foot washing stations should have drains and such.


Seems like a great place to take a leak, especially when the line at the restrooms are long.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 10:17 AM (2YhKe)

179 Ahem.
Does Enes RHYME with...
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 13, 2026 10:16 AM (2Ez/1)

Every female sports tranny has one.

Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 10:17 AM (KC5Lt)

180 That would seem to be unconstitutional.

Placing a religious "utility" within a public airport which is controlled by federal law.

Any moron lawyers care to comment?
Posted by: naturalfake at August 13, 2026 10:16 AM (iJfKG)



There are chapels in terminals.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 10:17 AM (2YhKe)

181 Out of all four, the summer shower was the enjoyed the most. They made it special by getting soap.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 13, 2026 10:17 AM (6/7Fs)

182 The response reminds me of a five year old girl indignantly yelling at a five year old boy, "That's not how you play Make-Believe!"
Posted by: Kindltot at August 13, 2026 10:15 AM (rbvCR)

Both of them are funny. But I think my favorite clip so far is Kanter signing his declaration in front of a painting of George Washington, and wearing a "Pay Women" t-shirt.

Dead. I'm daad.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 13, 2026 10:18 AM (BI5O2)

183
But if someone wanted to put a Cross somewhere in an airport, the anti-religious hate bigots would be in court right away.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 10:18 AM (O0L8i)

184 Seems like a great place to take a leak, especially when the line at the restrooms are long.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 10:17 AM (2YhKe)

--------

Or even a dump, for the extroverts among us.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 13, 2026 10:18 AM (6/7Fs)

185 144 sounds like some risque bidnis

Posted by: cmeat at August 13, 2026 10:19 AM (Bep7s)

186 *That would seem to be unconstitutional.

Placing a religious "utility" within a public airport which is controlled by federal law.*
++++++

"The Interfaith Chapel at Washington Dulles International Airport offers a quiet oasis away from the rush and demands of travel and work. All persons are welcome - from employees who come for a few minutes break, to passengers and other visitors who feel the need to pray and to read. The Chapel is open 24 hours daily."

Posted by: Random example at August 13, 2026 10:19 AM (2Ez/1)

187
There are chapels in terminals.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 10:17 AM (2YhKe)


But, they're non-denominational.

They make a huge point of that. You won't find any particular religious iconography there.

They're more like "quiet rooms".

Foot-washing stations are strictly for muslim use.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 13, 2026 10:19 AM (iJfKG)

188 The logical position the WNBA should take is that fully transitioned female transgenders are allowed in the WNBA.

That would immediately make the problem go away because there are no fake women competing in female sports willing to cut off their dick and balls.

Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 10:22 AM (KC5Lt)

189 We'll need a small room for our snakes.

Posted by: The Pentecostal Holiness Alliance at August 13, 2026 10:22 AM (2Ez/1)

190
Foot-washing stations are strictly for muslim use.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 13, 2026 10:19 AM (iJfKG)

_________

I can't get a pedicure?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 10:23 AM (O0L8i)

191 Foot-washing stations are strictly for muslim use.
Posted by: naturalfake

What about Foot-Washing Baptists?

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 10:24 AM (77rzZ)

192 150 "... and dear margaret remembers that for me"

Posted by: cmeat at August 13, 2026 10:24 AM (Bep7s)

193 Muslim foot-washing stations coming to DFW Terminal D.


Good!
Excellent!
Now we know where they'll all be gathered.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 13, 2026 10:24 AM (2WIwB)

194 Summer shower,1891
Santiago Rusinol

I like it. Captures the current and recent past summers in SE PA. Hot and humid, absolutely miserable unless one can escape... perhaps to the shore or Pocono mountains. (Pass on the latter if relatively normal).

The artist has a lovely and extensive body of work.

Wikipedia, in part: Santiago Rusiñol, (Spanish: Barcelona 25 February 1861 – Aranjuez 13 June 1931) was a Spanish painter, poet, journalist, collector and playwright. He was one of the leaders of the Catalan modernisme movement. [2] He created more than a thousand paintings and wrote numerous works in Spanish and Catalan.

Thank you.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 13, 2026 10:25 AM (NFX2v)

195 Muslim foot-washing stations coming to DFW Terminal D. Privately-funded. Huh.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 13, 2026 10:11 AM (J4Dwc)

Put it next to the pulled pork BBQ shop.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 13, 2026 10:25 AM (3Ope8)

196 What about Foot-Washing Baptists?
Posted by: Bulg

Count me in, Bubba

*burp*

I can smoke in here right?

Posted by: Beer Drinking Foot Washing Baptists at August 13, 2026 10:27 AM (XOG/m)

197 What about Foot-Washing Baptists?
Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 10:24 AM (77rzZ)

They would do that in the context of worship service usually for Lent before the Last Supper service , remembering-as you know Jesus' washing of his disciples feet- not in an airport

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 10:27 AM (xPsv8)

198 Foot-washing stations are strictly for muslim use.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 13, 2026 10:19 AM

But what if my support doggie rolled in some poo? A quick cleaning won't bother anyone.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 13, 2026 10:28 AM (2WIwB)

199 166 brother of elvis the pelvis.

Posted by: cmeat at August 13, 2026 10:28 AM (Bep7s)

200 176 Muslim foot-washing stations coming to DFW Terminal D.
Privately-funded.
Huh.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 13, 2026 10:11 AM (J4Dwc)


It'll serve as a nice memorial one day.....

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 13, 2026 10:29 AM (Sco7b)

201 2030 is supposed to be Spain, Morocco and Portugal

Do you think the human traffickers have that circled on their calendars?

Posted by: t-bird at August 13, 2026 10:29 AM (TmQh+)

202 Nice. Kind of boring, but nice.

'I say, My Dear. Would you fancy a snog?'

'No, Reginald- I have a headache.'

'Very good, madam.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 13, 2026 10:29 AM (Y/06r)

203 178 "way ahead of ya"

Posted by: arnold ziffel at August 13, 2026 10:30 AM (Bep7s)

204 What about Foot-Washing Baptists?
Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 10:24 AM (77rzZ)

What, the emotional support snakes aren't enough?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 13, 2026 10:31 AM (P2Dqx)

205 Before Viagra, women discretely called these moments Summer Showers.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 13, 2026 10:31 AM (wGerL)

206 Seems like a great place to take a leak, especially when the line at the restrooms are long.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 10:17 AM (2YhKe)

As a Man, the World is my urinal.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 13, 2026 10:32 AM (Y/06r)

207
That would immediately make the problem go away because there are no fake women competing in female sports willing to cut off their dick and balls.

Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 10:22 AM (KC5Lt)

It makes one problem go away but it amplifies the political and social one which involves "you are what you think you are and society is forced to bow down" - otherwise they might send the wrong message to "the children".

Imagine the WNBA telling a boy he's in fact not a girl because he doesn't have the requisite parts? Indoctrination evaporates. What a palaver.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 10:32 AM (iABCo)

208 178 Foot washing stations should have drains and such.


Seems like a great place to take a leak, especially when the line at the restrooms are long.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 10:17 AM (2YhKe)

========

The concern would be the havoc wreaked on pristine Christian penises by the filthy, fetid foot fungus of the average muslim.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 13, 2026 10:33 AM (2ap+5)

209 That's a right nice spittoon ya'll got

Bet I can hit it from way over here

Posted by: Beer Drinking Foot Washing Baptists at August 13, 2026 10:33 AM (XOG/m)

210 Kindness will win! Everybody else can go to hell!

Posted by: Lesbian WNBA Head Coach at August 13, 2026 10:33 AM (e2lsi)

211 His "village" is probably the equivalent of a typical American suburb or maybe exurb as far as distance from a major metro

-

Yeah it’s hard to be far away from a city in Europe. Like even major cities are practically suburbs of each other . For example Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund and Bonn which are thought of as 4 cities in Germany are basically one metro area With a lot of “villages” in between that are just suburbs.

Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez at August 13, 2026 10:33 AM (7xx4i)

212 The logical position the WNBA should take is that fully transitioned female transgenders are allowed in the WNBA.

That would immediately make the problem go away because there are no fake women competing in female sports willing to cut off their dick and balls.
Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 10:22 AM (KC5Lt)


For argument's sake - please define "fully transitioned"?

Posted by: Doof at August 13, 2026 10:35 AM (S0M0K)

213 191. What about Foot-Washing Baptists?
Posted by: Bulg

😠 Uh-oh.

What of the foot-washing ceremony in the Roman Catholic Church that takes place during the Mass of the Lord's Supper on Maundy Thursday, which opens the Easter Triduum?

We're not going back to two weeks of "religion wars" are we? 😢

Posted by: An almost fine Baptist at August 13, 2026 10:35 AM (NFX2v)

214 You think you're not happy now? Wait until we get approval for the call-to-prayer being cast over DFW terminal speakers five times per day.

Posted by: CAIR-Texas at August 13, 2026 10:36 AM (J4Dwc)

215 Country Joe McDonald was Janis Joplin's beau, but he had broken up with her before she died. I think her heroin addiction had much to do with that.

Posted by: Pale Horse at August 13, 2026 10:36 AM (JM9I6)

216 Gun Owners of America (GOA), along with lead plaintiff Silencer Shop, made history tonight as GOA members Brandon Herrera and Wes Virdell lawfully acquired suppressors without complying with the currently enjoined registration requirements of the National Firearms Act of 1934. -- Zero Hedge

Brandon Herrera was involved, of course!

https://tinyurl.com/4cdf8pce




https://tinyurl.com/4cdf8pce

Posted by: Kindltot at August 13, 2026 10:36 AM (rbvCR)

217 For argument's sake - please define "fully transitioned"?
Posted by: Doof

And from what?

Posted by: Miklos' DIY wings don't work so good at August 13, 2026 10:37 AM (XOG/m)

218 206 mom still says "handy picnic item"

Posted by: cmeat at August 13, 2026 10:37 AM (Bep7s)

219 If a man has to meet specific bodily requirements to compete in the WNBA it exposes the lie and damages the cause. Why should you or anyone anywhere get to choose any pronouns that don't match your parts, and force others to abide. The WNBA would essentially be assigning pronouns to people. Whoops...

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 10:37 AM (iABCo)

220 The foot washing station can be used as a urinal and for garbage overflow.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 13, 2026 10:37 AM (O5BzH)

221 Country Joe McDonald was Janis Joplin's beau, but he had broken up with her before she died. I think her heroin addiction had much to do with that.
Posted by: Pale Horse

Didn't she date Bill Bennett at one point?

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 10:37 AM (77rzZ)

222 "Here in Switzerland the small villages in the middle of nowhere"

Der Schweis isn't big enough to have a middle of nowhere.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 13, 2026 10:38 AM (DZ9Lv)

223 208 the radiator shop in waukegan's marquis has said "a great place to take a leak" for decades. it's right next to the bait shop/ taco stand. really.

Posted by: cmeat at August 13, 2026 10:38 AM (Bep7s)

224 What, the emotional support snakes aren't enough?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 13, 2026 10:31 AM (P2Dqx)


Please. That is some sects of Pentecostals, and Selma Hayek, of course

Posted by: Kindltot at August 13, 2026 10:39 AM (rbvCR)

225 What does the "W" in WNBA stand for?

Wesbians.

Posted by: Elmer Fudd at August 13, 2026 10:39 AM (2Ez/1)

226 Der Schweis isn't big enough to have a middle of nowhere.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 13, 2026 10:38 AM (DZ9Lv)
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It's smaller than Massachusetts by a considerable margin.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 13, 2026 10:39 AM (amcLV)

227 212 half of brain removed

Posted by: cmeat at August 13, 2026 10:40 AM (Bep7s)

228 221 Country Joe McDonald was Janis Joplin's beau, but he had broken up with her before she died. I think her heroin addiction had much to do with that.
Posted by: Pale Horse

Didn't she date Bill Bennett at one point?
Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 10:37 AM (77rzZ)

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Before or after her affair with Jason Arday?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 13, 2026 10:40 AM (6/7Fs)

229 Ask yourself this: what if you were a promising Division I player, you blew out your shoulder, and missed the NBA Draft back in '18? You never got in pro shape again, because of the pain pills and other drugs, but you're still in good shape.

You're stuck in a garden-level apartment with little or no work, listening to internet weirdos tell you that becoming a chick is a sweet hustle.

Why not chop 'em off? Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven, right?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 13, 2026 10:41 AM (BI5O2)

230 Der Schweis isn't big enough to have a middle of nowhere.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal

You know what would be cool? If the size of countries was based, not on the area inside their borders, but on their actual surface area, as if they were flattened out. Switzerland would become a lot bigger if you included the surface area of all those mountains.

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

231 Comment from Reddit on a discussion about density.

“ US is very poorly managed in rural areas.

Here in Switzerland the small villages in the middle of nowhere have everything and are an amazing place to live. I have 10gbit fiber internet, train, bus, poste office, school, restaurants and a super market in a village of 1000 habitants in the middle of a valley away from the cities.”

This guy thinks having internet, a school, a supermarket and some restaurants in a small town doesn’t exist in the US. Lol

Remember those videos of Europeans being shocked by American during the World Cup? We need a lot more of them.
Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez at August 13, 2026 09:57 AM (7xx4i)


Commenter is unaware that Switzerland is roughly the size of LA (the city, not the state).

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 10:42 AM (ExV1e)

232 Country Joe McDonald was Janis Joplin's beau, but he had broken up with her before she died. I think her heroin addiction had much to do with that.

Posted by: Pale Horse at August 13, 2026 10:36 AM (JM9I6)


Apparently Joplin was promiscuous, and less than fastidious in her personal hygiene.

Lovely combination.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 13, 2026 10:42 AM (l4RKn)

233 Before or after her affair with Jason Arday?
Posted by: Cicero

Bitch thought she could take my man.

Non! Rien de rien!

Posted by: Edith Piaf at August 13, 2026 10:42 AM (XOG/m)

234 Yeah it’s hard to be far away from a city in Europe. Like even major cities are practically suburbs of each other . For example Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund and Bonn which are thought of as 4 cities in Germany are basically one metro area With a lot of “villages” in between that are just suburbs.
Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez at August 13, 2026 10:33 AM (7xx4i)
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Yep. Hamburg to Frankfurt is about the same as Dallas to San Antonio. These people have no idea just how large the US is, lol.

Posted by: ballistic at August 13, 2026 10:43 AM (oqH4h)

235 Country Dick Montana > Country Joe McDonald.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 13, 2026 10:43 AM (XvL8K)

236 Commenter is unaware that Switzerland is roughly the size of LA (the city, not the state).

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 10:42 AM (ExV1e)


Uh...not really.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 13, 2026 10:44 AM (l4RKn)

237 Commenter is unaware that Switzerland is roughly the size of LA (the city, not the state).
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 10:42 AM (ExV1e)
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LA County is ~4000 sq mi. Switzerland is ~16000 sq mi.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 13, 2026 10:45 AM (amcLV)

238 The Greater Los Angeles combined statistical area spans 33,954 square miles

Posted by: ballistic at August 13, 2026 10:46 AM (oqH4h)

239 For argument's sake - please define "fully transitioned"?
Posted by: Doof at August 13, 2026 10:35 AM (S0M0K)


Possessing no Y chromosome.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 10:46 AM (ExV1e)

240 234 my cousin flew in from kronberg and drove a rental from midwest to left coast. his eyes were alot larger when he got back here.
his dad would always balk and kvetch at the thought of driving me to dusseldorf to see his wife's brothers.

Posted by: cmeat at August 13, 2026 10:47 AM (Bep7s)

241 Saying that Los Angeles is only Los Angeles county is like saying Houston is only Harris County.

Posted by: ballistic at August 13, 2026 10:48 AM (oqH4h)

242 35 He wants a blow. She's not willing.
Posted by: Sponge
___________

Or she's disappointed with his latest effort.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 13, 2026 09:36 AM (XvL8K)

She's a tranny and he's gay?

Posted by: Weirdos and preverts at August 13, 2026 10:48 AM (TbWk/)

243 236 Commenter is unaware that Switzerland is roughly the size of LA (the city, not the state).

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 10:42 AM (ExV1e)

Uh...not really.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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With traffic, LA seems bigger.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 10:48 AM (E4rtv)

244 Spring shower, summer shower, autumn shower. Winter is too cold to bathe.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 13, 2026 10:48 AM (l3cgK)

245 She's a tranny and he's gay?
Posted by: Weirdos and preverts
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Perverts in the Victorian age were expected to be discreet. Not marching in Pride parades.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 10:49 AM (E4rtv)

246 his dad would always balk and kvetch at the thought of driving me to dusseldorf to see his wife's brothers.


Why would anyone drive anywhere to see his wife's brothers?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 13, 2026 10:49 AM (o5Cl5)

247 Commenter is unaware that Switzerland is roughly the size of LA (the city, not the state).
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 10:42 AM (ExV1e)
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LA County is ~4000 sq mi. Switzerland is ~16000 sq mi.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 13, 2026 10:45 AM (amcLV)


Fine. Roughly four times the size of one city. I hope you and CBD are happy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 10:50 AM (ExV1e)

248 Perverts in the Victorian age were expected to be discreet. Not marching in Pride parades.
Posted by: whig

Ah

The whole Stiff Upper Lip thing

Posted by: Now Miklos understands at August 13, 2026 10:51 AM (XOG/m)

249 246 it wasn't the distance? gas prices were the same, but it was for a liter.

Posted by: cmeat at August 13, 2026 10:51 AM (Bep7s)

250 Fine. Roughly four times the size of one city. I hope you and CBD are happy.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

To be fair, LA county has more illegal immigrants that the population of Switzerland.

Posted by: Miklos for the Record at August 13, 2026 10:52 AM (XOG/m)

251 You're stuck in a garden-level apartment with little or no work, listening to internet weirdos tell you that becoming a chick is a sweet hustle.
Why not chop 'em off? Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven, right?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Why chop 'em off? Kip and Henry didn't.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 13, 2026 10:53 AM (DZ9Lv)

252 his dad would always balk and kvetch at the thought of driving me to dusseldorf to see his wife's brothers.

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And they were named Rolf.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 13, 2026 10:53 AM (amcLV)

253 If you really like attention the best way to get it here is to get a fact even slightly wrong. You will get plenty!

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 10:53 AM (iABCo)

254 What does the "W" in WNBA stand for?

Wesbians.
Posted by: Elmer Fudd at August 13, 2026 10:39 AM (2Ez/1)



HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 10:53 AM (2YhKe)

255 The silly slap dance with the feathered hat and leather shorts with suspenders that all Alpen-folk do is just plain silly.

Posted by: Lenny Lederhosen at August 13, 2026 10:54 AM (JM9I6)

256 Ah

The whole Stiff Upper Lip thing
Posted by: Now Miklos understands
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Respectability was everything when the wife was doing the gardener and the husband a child Victorian era prostitute.

Every generation believes they have discovered new sins, but as Ecclesiastes says, there is nothing new under the sun.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 10:54 AM (E4rtv)

257 And they were named Rolf.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

Thorough but painful masseurs

Posted by: Miklos avoids at August 13, 2026 10:54 AM (XOG/m)

258 The silly slap dance with the feathered hat and leather shorts with suspenders that all Alpen-folk do is just plain silly.

They have lots of time to practice because they're not driving long distances looking for a supermarket.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 13, 2026 10:55 AM (o5Cl5)

259
Apparently Joplin was promiscuous, and less than fastidious in her personal hygiene.

Lovely combination.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 13, 2026 10:42 AM (l4RKn)



I saw Stanky Pussy open for Pussy Riot at The Kremlin in 2015.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 10:55 AM (2YhKe)

260 Why would anyone drive anywhere to see his wife's brothers?
Posted by: Cicero
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In other words, uncles.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 10:55 AM (E4rtv)

261 I drove 2 hrs each way last weekend to play golf. Same day there and back.

For a Europoor that’s a week vacation with SO MUCH DRIVING!!

Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez at August 13, 2026 10:56 AM (7xx4i)

262 I saw Stanky Pussy open for Pussy Riot at The Kremlin in 2015.
Posted by: Sponge
=======
Not only first! but you really get around Sponge.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 10:56 AM (E4rtv)

263 Are there any notorious sports trannies that have had the full junkotomy?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2026 10:56 AM (1z8ji)

264 252 rheinhardt and ingoldt

Posted by: cmeat at August 13, 2026 10:56 AM (Bep7s)

265 214 You think you're not happy now? Wait until we get approval for the call-to-prayer being cast over DFW terminal speakers five times per day.

Posted by: CAIR-Texas

Because almost all major U.S. airports are publicly owned by city or regional governments, the airport management governs the leases, footprint, and policies of the chapel. They treat chapels as leased or designated operational spaces, not self-governing sanctuaries.

Because airports are nonpublic forums, airport authorities regularly step in to regulate or alter chapel use based on safety, crowd control, and structural neutrality.

Legally, the doors cannot be locked or restricted to exclude the public, thus U.S. Rep. Chip Roy's inquiry.

While a chapel may be located deep past a TSA checkpoint, the space itself remains entirely under the jurisdiction of the municipal airport authority, which balances travelers' religious freedom with terminal safety and operational flow.

TSA's only involvement is ensuring that anyone entering a chapel located on the airside (post-security) has been successfully screened.

Posted by: CAIR - NJ & Minnesota & PA at August 13, 2026 10:57 AM (NFX2v)

266 Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez at August 13, 2026 10:56 AM (7xx4i)

She plays golf?

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 10:57 AM (77rzZ)

267 In other words, uncles.
Posted by: whig

Well, uncles once removed

Posted by: Miklos knows Southern Genealogy to a T at August 13, 2026 10:57 AM (XOG/m)

268 Why would anyone drive anywhere to see his wife's brothers?
Posted by: Cicero
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In other words, uncles.


In our part of the country they call them "brothers-in-law."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 13, 2026 10:57 AM (o5Cl5)

269 263 Are there any notorious sports trannies that have had the full junkotomy?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Sounds like a job for the FBI to investigate deeply.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 10:57 AM (E4rtv)

270 Why would anyone drive anywhere to see his wife's brothers?"

Brothers wives, OTOH...

/insert relative humidity joke here

Posted by: man at August 13, 2026 10:57 AM (cGjQu)

271 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

I nominated you for press sec yesterday because I thought your resume included a hypothetical "idea" to bar the doors and set fire to the place. I don't remotely advocate that kind of thing but I admire your spunk. Then again I don't want to put words in your mouth.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 10:58 AM (iABCo)

272 Momma Cass smelled of low tide and flour.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 13, 2026 10:58 AM (O5BzH)

273 In our part of the country they call them "brothers-in-law."
Posted by: Cicero

Wut? Is this the original poster doing I am my own grandpa shtick?

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 10:59 AM (E4rtv)

274 266 just balls and holes.

Posted by: cmeat at August 13, 2026 10:59 AM (Bep7s)

275 Switzerland would become a lot bigger if you included the surface area of all those mountains."

Alaska
Texas
West Virginia

Posted by: man at August 13, 2026 11:00 AM (cGjQu)

276 I hope we get another babe for the new Press Secretary.

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 11:00 AM (77rzZ)

277 272 Momma Cass smelled of low tide and flour.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
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I can just imagine the biopic in Smellovision. Thanks for that monstrous suggestion.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:01 AM (E4rtv)

278 I hope we get another babe for the new Press Secretary.
Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 11:00 AM (77rzZ)



Trump tends to surround himself with them.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 11:01 AM (2YhKe)

279 274 266 just balls and holes.
Posted by: cmeat

You forgot counting strokes.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:01 AM (E4rtv)

280 272 a protege of grace slick.

Posted by: cmeat at August 13, 2026 11:01 AM (Bep7s)

281 Monkey Nood

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 13, 2026 11:02 AM (O5BzH)

282 I drove 2 hrs each way last weekend to play golf. Same day there and back."

The visiting Brits freaked over driving to Austin. And back.

Posted by: man at August 13, 2026 11:02 AM (cGjQu)

283 >>Are there any notorious sports trannies that have had the full junkotomy?

I think the tennis tranny from back in the 70s which kind of started this whole thing did. Forget her name. Dr.-something.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 13, 2026 11:02 AM (J4Dwc)

284 Implied bewbs only. Very bad art.

Posted by: Axeman at August 13, 2026 11:02 AM (XMAAx)

285 275 nepal

Posted by: cmeat at August 13, 2026 11:02 AM (Bep7s)

286 Monkey Up!

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at August 13, 2026 11:02 AM (VkY89)

287 278 I hope we get another babe for the new Press Secretary.
Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 11:00 AM (77rzZ)


Trump tends to surround himself with them.
Posted by: Sponge
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They can be a lot harder edged than males in the same position and get away with it.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:02 AM (E4rtv)

288 Trump tends to surround himself with them.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

They let you do it

Posted by: President Miklos J. Trump at August 13, 2026 11:02 AM (XOG/m)

289 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 11:02 AM (77rzZ)

290 Are there any notorious sports trannies that have had the full junkotomy?

I think the tennis tranny from back in the 70s which kind of started this whole thing did. Forget her name. Dr.-something.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 13, 2026 11:02 AM (J4Dwc)
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Renee Richards.

Posted by: Axeman at August 13, 2026 11:03 AM (XMAAx)

291 Right, previously known as Dr. Dick Raskind.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 13, 2026 11:07 AM (J4Dwc)

292 Renee Richards.
Posted by: Axeman at August 13, 2026 11:03 AM (XMAAx)

291 Right, previously known as Dr. Dick Raskind.
Posted by: one hour sober

I can tell a story about that, if asked later

Posted by: Miklos recalls at August 13, 2026 11:12 AM (XOG/m)

293 Renee Richards.
Posted by: Axeman at August 13, 2026 11:03 AM (XMAAx)

He was so bad that no one cared.

Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 11:12 AM (KC5Lt)

294 Noon news

CBC - Fat bastard subhuman piece of shit Ford hopes AI will bring Ontario billions of bucks

MS Now - Epstein files - that never gets old

CNN - inflation cools, gas orices high 82 days to midterm

FoxNews - WNBA - dudes joining, also the ghetto apes

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 13, 2026 12:07 PM (Sco7b)

295 Anyone here?

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 13, 2026 12:19 PM (Sco7b)

296 Karine Jean-Pierre left some pretty tiny shoes to fill.

Posted by: Jerry Carroll at August 13, 2026 02:05 PM (RRQTN)

297 And this is their 'Happy Time' … imagine the rest of the day.

Posted by: Dr_No at August 13, 2026 02:56 PM (ayRl+)

The Morning Report — 8/ 13 /26

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Good morning kids. So now that the dust is settling after yesterday's Democrat primary results here in Wisconsin that saw the rabid, evil leftist Francesca Hong go down to defeat, first something reeks to high heaven like moldering limburger.


Republicans, however, suspected that the winning tactic was that Democrats in states in which they controlled elections legalized election fraud with mail-in voting, ballot harvesting, and the abandonment of voter ID. In addition, Trump supporters looked at data from the six states in which, for the first time in election history, vote counting stopped for hours, only to resume with Trump’s lead destroyed and Biden suddenly winning. The data look suspicious.

Wisconsin was one of those swing states. Looking at how Francesca Hong lost yesterday, there’s an eerie similarity between her loss and Trump’s in 2020.

Whether she legitimately lost or the powers that be rigged it in favor of her opponent. Let's take a gander at the "winner" Crowley.

David Crowley, the Milwaukee County executive who pulled off a stunning upset over the summer’s socialist surge, has blamed systemic racism for police shootings, opposed legislation to protect law enforcement, and declared Wisconsin the worst place in America to raise a black child.

In August 2020, Crowley went all-in on the Black Lives Matter narrative surrounding the domestic disturbance call that ended with the officer-involved shooting of Jacob Blake. The then-29-year-old, who had a felony warrant out for his arrest, was armed with a knife and was attempting to get into the driver’s seat of an SUV when he was shot seven times, triggering widespread unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and setting the stage for the later acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse. . . Before the so-called “summer of love” in 2020, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee also opposed “Blue Lives Matter“ legislation that would’ve added law enforcement officers to the state’s hate crime protected categories, saying the proposal “only furthers the divide between the urban communities and police that serve them.”

Okay, either the electorate legitimately or the Democrat Party leaders swapped out the candidate who advocated abolishing Thanksgiving and the 4th of July for someone who insists the nation is a racist white-supremacist police state intent on the genocide of colored people of color.

However you slice it, all the Democrats succeeded in doing was changing their name from Hyman to Seymour. In the last analysis is Crowley really any less toxic/palatable to the general public (if that is the Democrats' actual concern) than Hong?

Their quest for the seeming holy grail of being perceived as moderate continues...

The ‘moderate Democrat’ is a campaign myth meant to deceive voters into electing leftists.. . Crowley may be less radical than Hong, but being less radical than a racist, anti-American Marxist doesn’t make you a moderate. On unions, wages, abortion, and immigration, Crowley’s positions are decidedly left-wing. The only real big distinction is he hasn’t said he hates Thanksgiving or called for abolishing the Senate.

But what the press and even regular people are doing is allowing Democrats to redefine “moderate” to mean basically anyone standing even half a step to the right of their most extreme member. Once the standard is set, the entire “moderate” claim becomes merely a campaign myth meant to deceive voters into electing an actual leftist who cosplays as a moderate but will still deliver Democrats’ overall left-wing policy goals.

Moderates would be the Nazis who favored Gas chambers and crematoria over the mass shootings into mass graves by the Einsatzgruppen.

Speaking of a prolonged and festering stench from Wisconsin...

On Wednesday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) responded to fears that Democrats are moving too far to the left by saying that “Republicans have loved to use democratic socialist over and over, and now they’re calling us Communists.” And “they don’t understand the definitions of what they’re calling us.”
. . . “I think the Republicans have loved to use democratic socialist over and over, and now they’re calling us Communists. Like, they’ve lost any credibility. They clearly haven’t taken a high school or even a junior high civics class recently, because they don’t understand the definitions of what they’re calling us. But what people do know is they’re paying more out of pocket for goods, because of actions of Donald Trump and the Republicans in Congress.”

We understand very well, you degenerate lying scumbag. Your own mentors/precursors in Marx and Engels defined Socialism as merely the precursor to full on Communism. Democrat/socialism is the precancerous stage to full on Stage Four Terminal Cancer. So the question is, are we as a nation and society in that precancerous stage or what the hell is going on?

Beyond Hong and Crowley, Leftists/Democrats at every level have been shrieking their lungs out about packing the Supreme Court, abolishing the Second and every other amendment and the Constitution itself for years now. Hell, the dead and moldering Ruth Bader Meinhoff Ginsberg proclaimed the South African Constitution as superior to our own, despite the fact of supposedly swearing a sacred oath to uphold the latter in her tenure on the Supreme Court.

The Democrat Party has had a lust for absolute power for over 200 years, to the point of seeking the destruction of this nation as founded in order to acquire and hold onto that power forever.

Furious Hasan Piker melts down over Francesca Hong’s loss: ‘Outlaw Thanksgiving and outlaw boomers’

Hey, maybe Piker's a moderate and wants to outlaw boomers via gas chambers and not mass shooting. Meh, whatever his reach is it's his words that are horrifyingly reflective of a not insignificant number of our fellow citizens in name only.

So, to sum it all up, I ask what does all this mean? is the Democrat Party really scared that most of America still is sane and repulsed by the views of more and more of their base? Hong, Crowley, Piker et al are bad enough but the Schemers, Bidens, Pelosis, Clintons and all the rest via the things they have supported over the years have no problem with the former, at least until they train their rhetorical and ultimately literal guns on them for not delivering the keys to the kingdom and the head of America as founded to them on a silver platter.

Have a good day,


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1 Happy Thursday

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 13, 2026 07:40 AM (/+uur)

2 G'mornin' JJ, and thank you!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 13, 2026 07:40 AM (VyBeY)

3 Morning, everyone!

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 07:40 AM (jjoN6)

4 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 07:40 AM (u82oZ)

5 "Lauren Boebert’s Son Arrested on Charges of Child Sexual Exploitation"

What a f'd up family.

Posted by: fd at August 13, 2026 07:41 AM (MWfyi)

6 yeal, lol, how 'bout that "election", huh?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 13, 2026 07:41 AM (VyBeY)

7 something reeks to high heaven like moldering limburger.



I read that as smoldering limburger

Posted by: Spaz kid Miklos at August 13, 2026 07:42 AM (XOG/m)

8 Yo

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 13, 2026 07:42 AM (rzEIv)

9 All the comments disappeared for a minute.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 13, 2026 07:43 AM (rzEIv)

10 >>colored people of color

Heh

Posted by: one hour sober at August 13, 2026 07:43 AM (J4Dwc)

11 Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Will Do!

Posted by: Miklos got Breakfast PBR for the whole week at August 13, 2026 07:43 AM (XOG/m)

12 demonrats got no worries; tanned, rested, and ready to commit unlimited vote fraud to gain permanent power.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 13, 2026 07:43 AM (VyBeY)

13 Most women reach their beauty peak around 15.

Posted by: LTG at August 13, 2026 02:27 AM (BeyMP)

Thank you JJ hope you are well. Catching up on ONT waiting for this thing, and ran across this unfortunate bit of wisdom.

The fuck???

IMO it's earlier 30's when women usually "peak" but then I do like fully grown women, and to each... I guess... their own... I guess?

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 07:43 AM (iABCo)

14 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 07:44 AM (ExV1e)

15 "Lily" Wachowski does not look good as a woman, and he is incredibly stupid if he thinks there would be a big audience for a completely transgender film.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 07:44 AM (yl+Aq)

16 Who’s Been Destroying Norms?

"But it's (D)ifferent when we do it because (R)easons!"

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 07:45 AM (jjoN6)

17 The left is full of looneys but we have our share on the right too. I think that in general, most people are crazy.

Posted by: fd at August 13, 2026 07:45 AM (MWfyi)

18 Yesterday, Hong was winning until, magically, she was losing. It was a familiar story.

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I believe this crazy lady won her primary, but it was snatched from her by the Democrats for various reasons.

What I really can't determine is what frightens me more...that she could actually be elected or that the fraud it just so institutionalized and common now that we'll never, ever be rid of it. Meaning, of course, that The People have zero election integrity and tptb are going to "elect" whomever they want. It's only getting worse with each election cycle.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 13, 2026 07:45 AM (qBdHI)

19 ‘The Matrix’ Director Lilly Wachowski Bashes Hollywood for Refusing to Fund ‘Wall-to-Wall Trans Cast’ Action Film

Given that 41% of the cast will be dead before filming is done, why would they want to invest?

No, no; don't get up. I'll show myself out.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 07:46 AM (jjoN6)

20 The fuck???

IMO it's earlier 30's when women usually "peak" but then I do like fully grown women, and to each... I guess... their own... I guess?
Posted by: ...

Average LTG Joe comes from an interesting family

Posted by: Miklos suspects at August 13, 2026 07:46 AM (XOG/m)

21 David Crowley, the Milwaukee County executive who pulled off a stunning upset over the summer’s socialist surge, has blamed systemic racism for police shootings, opposed legislation to protect law enforcement, and declared Wisconsin the worst place in America to raise a black child.

~5.9% of the population of Wisconsin is black but the AWFLs will go all-in on suicidal empathy and the idea that blacks should not be held to the same standard as everyone else.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 07:47 AM (ExV1e)

22 I think the media was doing its biased thing again against the child of a conservative ,because this is apparently the real story :

He is accused of having sexual intercourse with a 17-year-old girl when he was 18, according to Tyler Boebert’s arrest affidavit

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 07:48 AM (yl+Aq)

23 Posted by: Lady in Black at August 13, 2026 07:45 AM (qBdHI)

My sincere belief is the only reason they cheated against her and not for her is not ideological but that they didn't think they could get her over the finish line in November.

The creepy thing to me is why didn't they do the same against the jihadist in Michigan. Do they think he can "win"? Because I sure as fuck do.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 07:48 AM (iABCo)

24 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at August 13, 2026 07:49 AM (lrRtF)

25 “People like it,” Wachowski said of the script for the proposed action film. “But they really don’t want to make it because it’s [got a] wall-to-wall trans cast. I have to get creative and figure out different ways that I can get this in front of people.”

There is this place called "Kickstarter" that will fund your dreams of an all trans action movie, dude. If it is as liked as you think it is, it will get funding. It's really that simple.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 07:50 AM (jjoN6)

26 Posted by: Paul at August 13, 2026 07:48

Oh, a poll from Sienna. I'm totally, absolutely convinced . /s . I live near NYC. He still has support but it's dropping because he's an idiot.

But good try, troll!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 07:50 AM (yl+Aq)

27 The Dems problem in the same problem they've always had.

They think they just need to tweak the message and the messenger and all will be well. They will usher in a new Golden Age for mankind!

They can never, ever accept that their foundational principles are in error. That their policies always lead to suffering and death.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 13, 2026 07:51 AM (FZ29D)

28 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 13, 2026 07:51 AM (2Cry5)

29 Morning all
Posted by: rickb223

Jo reggelt, tisztelt Uram!

Persze, Sefton Urnak is

Posted by: Miklos, as if it was yesterday at August 13, 2026 07:51 AM (XOG/m)

30 What I really can't determine is what frightens me more...that she could actually be elected or that the fraud it just so institutionalized and common now that we'll never, ever be rid of it. Meaning, of course, that The People have zero election integrity and tptb are going to "elect" whomever they want. It's only getting worse with each election cycle.
Posted by: Lady in Black


We can get rid of the fraud. We did it in Iraq in their first election.

We. Just. Don't. Have. The. Will.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 13, 2026 07:51 AM (lrRtF)

31 "He is accused of having sexual intercourse with a 17-year-old girl when he was 18, according to Tyler Boebert’s arrest affidavit
Posted by: FenelonSpoke"

And then put it on Instagram. No boy genius, that one.

Posted by: fd at August 13, 2026 07:52 AM (MWfyi)

32 Yesterday, Hong was winning until, magically, she was losing.

And she knows enough about how the system works that she conceded, immediately.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 07:53 AM (ExV1e)

33 24 Posted by: Lady in Black at August 13, 2026 07:45 AM (qBdHI)

My sincere belief is the only reason they cheated against her and not for her is not ideological but that they didn't think they could get her over the finish line in November.

The creepy thing to me is why didn't they do the same against the jihadist in Michigan. Do they think he can "win"? Because I sure as fuck do.
Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 07:48 AM (iABCo)


Detroit and environs are now a de facto Islamic caliphate. Also Jocelyn Benson will do her job.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 13, 2026 07:54 AM (x0n13)

34 He is accused of having sexual intercourse with a 17-year-old girl when he was 18, according to Tyler Boebert’s arrest affidavit

He can just say that he identified as a girl at the time and he'll be set free.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 07:55 AM (jjoN6)

35 Red with rage Furious Hasan Piker melts down over Francesca Hong’s loss: ‘Outlaw Thanksgiving and outlaw boomers’

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This country would be well-served if this pig were to fall into a volcano. He's a vile subhuman and evil to the marrow of his bones.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 13, 2026 07:55 AM (qBdHI)

36 Thinking of Tyler Robinson this morning, and recalling the wisdom of Heavy D and the Boys.

"Check it now hip hip hooray'n, check what I am sayin / You'll be happy like a faggot in jail, when Heav is playin"

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 13, 2026 07:55 AM (1clWT)

37 He is accused of having sexual intercourse with a 17-year-old girl when he was 18, according to Tyler Boebert’s arrest affidavit



Most every senior in high school is shitting himself right not.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 13, 2026 07:56 AM (lrRtF)

38 Would the rank and file Democrats oppose, and then tank a radical Muslim candidate running on a similar set of ideas as Hong? Or a Muslim candidate just as insane?

I have doubts.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 13, 2026 07:56 AM (2Cry5)

39 Black students will suffer psychological harm if they walk into a building named for Stonewall Jackson, a liberal judge said.

The only solution is to let them emigrate to a place where they won't be constantly reminded of a situation which none of them have ever experienced.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 07:56 AM (ExV1e)

40 "The beloved grandmother remained silent, hands clasped in a prayer position when she was killed by doctors."

Well, she was really not THAT beloved.

Posted by: fd at August 13, 2026 07:57 AM (MWfyi)

41 I saw Outlaw Boomers open for Boomtown Rats back in 86. All those guy have passed away by now.

Posted by: fd at August 13, 2026 07:58 AM (MWfyi)

42 Who are the Democratic Socialites of America?
Is that like a debutante organization for overweight lesbians with purple hair, sleeve tattoos, and tackle box faces adorned in Che Guevera T shirts?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 13, 2026 07:59 AM (2Ez/1)

43 Red with rage Furious Hasan Piker melts down over Francesca Hong’s loss: ‘Outlaw Thanksgiving and outlaw boomers’




Bring it goatfucker.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 13, 2026 07:59 AM (lrRtF)

44 Siena University (formerly College) that does polls for publicity

Approximately 2700 students in fall 2026, based on recent declines of 9% per year

Cost of a four year degree about $330,000

Dean is Rashmi H. Assudani






Posted by: Miklos likes to check sources at August 13, 2026 07:59 AM (XOG/m)

45 My people used to take their beloved grandmothers out into the woods and leave them there.

Posted by: Heap Big Lizzy Warren at August 13, 2026 08:00 AM (MWfyi)

46 This country would be well-served if this pig were to fall into a volcano.
Posted by: Lady in Black


Just make sure his dog has a home first.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 08:00 AM (jjoN6)

47 "The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and former executive Heidi Beirich have been indicted on charges of wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering related to secretly funneling donor funds to extremist groups."

These are RICO predicates. Just sayin'

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 13, 2026 08:00 AM (dtajH)

48 Black students will suffer psychological harm if they walk into a building named for Stonewall Jackson, a liberal judge said.

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If I were a betting person, I would lay down my marker on asking 1000 black students to give a simple biography of who he even was, and they wouldn't know a thing. That is, other than "Stonewall Jackson bad."

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 13, 2026 08:01 AM (qBdHI)

49 Who are the Democratic Socialites of America?
Is that like a debutante organization for overweight lesbians with purple hair, sleeve tattoos, and tackle box faces adorned in Che Guevera T shirts?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty


Chelsea Clinton - Chairpuppy.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 13, 2026 08:01 AM (lrRtF)

50 The most dangerous part of any American city has the street named after MLK junior.

Posted by: But you can't say that out loud at August 13, 2026 08:01 AM (2Ez/1)

51 The Left Is Coming for Your County Sheriff
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Not really a surprise. The left has a very strong lock on the law enforcement mechanisms of densely-populated urban areas.

They don't have nearly as strong a lock on law enforcement in counties with much lower population densities.

This is just another strategy to strangle the American people.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 13, 2026 08:02 AM (FZ29D)

52 Cost of a four year degree about $330,000

My advice to the youngsters: College is a scam. Make it one in your favor.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 08:02 AM (jjoN6)

53 Most every senior in high school is shitting himself right not.
Posted by: rickb223

safer play is to just fuck the teachers like all the guys

you can do that when you're 15

Posted by: 18 year old practicl wisdom at August 13, 2026 08:02 AM (XOG/m)

54 Mornin’, All. Happy Thursday.

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 08:03 AM (77rzZ)

55 >Black students will suffer psychological harm if they walk into a building named for Stonewall Jackson, a liberal judge said.
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No they won't, because they don't know Stonewall Jackson even existed, much less who he was

I doubt public schools are taking deep dives into Civil War history beyond the issue of slavery

Posted by: Don Black at August 13, 2026 08:03 AM (ZxPkt)

56 I think the media was doing its biased thing again against the child of a conservative ,because this is apparently the real story :

He is accused of having sexual intercourse with a 17-year-old girl when he was 18, according to Tyler Boebert’s arrest affidavit
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 07:48 AM (yl+Aq)


Most people never read beyond the headline which will be "Rep. Boebert’s son arrested for sexual assault of a minor."

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 08:03 AM (ExV1e)

57 The attacker pulled out three knives during the struggle with officers.
Knife-Wielding Attacker Shouts ‘Allahu Akbar,’ Stabs Police Officers


I just don't care anymore. Don't whine about foreign savages trying to murder people when the same government imports them in by the millions, and rewards them with lavish entitlements and a perpetual Get Out Of Jail card.

And then the retarded population keeps voting in the saboteurs who are profiting off the destruction of any Quality of Life you had or can imagine.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 13, 2026 08:05 AM (a3CJ+)

58 Approximately 2700 students in fall 2026, based on recent declines of 9% per year

Cost of a four year degree about $330,000

Posted by: Miklos likes to check sources at August 13, 2026 07:59 AM (XOG/m)
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If the university I work for was losing 9% enrollment year after year, our Chancellor would be shitting bricks.

I'm guessing they offer nothing more than various grievance studies degrees and charging a premium for that privilege.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 13, 2026 08:05 AM (FZ29D)

59 That is, other than "Stonewall Jackson bad."
Posted by: Lady in Black

"The Stonewall riots (also called the Stonewall uprising, rebellion, or simply Stonewall) were a series of spontaneous demonstrations and clashes between members of the LGBTQ+ community and police that began in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, outside the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, New York City."

Posted by: Miklos plays mind games at August 13, 2026 08:05 AM (XOG/m)

60 What's with the Brothers Wachowski?

They climb the greasy pole of Hollywood and can get the finest trim, and then they cut their dicks off?

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 13, 2026 08:05 AM (dtajH)

61 47 "The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and former executive Heidi Beirich have been indicted on charges of wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering related to secretly funneling donor funds to extremist groups."
Posted by: Ignoramus

Michigan Sec State and gubernatorial candidate Jocelyn Benson was on the SPLC board and worked as a secret agent for the organization while starting out, but it's been very quiet around here about that.

Hoping she gets handed an indictment, too.

Posted by: Auspex at August 13, 2026 08:05 AM (Y8DZL)

62 They would hear "Stonewall" and probably think of the fag riots they were taught about in school.

Posted by: fd at August 13, 2026 08:05 AM (MWfyi)

63 "He is accused of having sexual intercourse with a 17-year-old girl when he was 18, according to Tyler Boebert’s arrest affidavit
Posted by: FenelonSpoke"

And then put it on Instagram. No boy genius, that one.
Posted by: fd at August 13, 2026 07:52 AM (MWfyi)


Presumably this is in Colorado? If so...

Colorado’s Romeo and Juliet law, codified under C.R.S. § 18-3-401.3, provides a close-in-age exemption to statutory rape charges for consensual sexual activity between minors and older partners who fall within specific age gaps. While the general age of consent in Colorado is 17, this law allows for legal leniency to prevent the criminalization of relationships between teenagers close in age.

Unless the girl accuses him of rape, I don't see where this has even a remote legal justification.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 08:06 AM (ExV1e)

64 Morning all. No results yet from Tuesday's interview. Praying to hear good news today or tomorrow.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 13, 2026 08:06 AM (aJQbY)

65 How is it in any way plausible that the "radical" Hong would join hands with the establishment five seconds after being so obviously cheated?

I can't even see the Tea Party doing that. Certainly not Trump. Maybe later but right away? And these are supposed to be violent radical purist commies who want to take down the system? I think her behavior fits my WWF theory better than some quick localized incentive or threat. A genuine radical gives no fucks about incentives or threats. That's the whole point of being anti establishment. Suddenly they are pragmatists?

The things Democrats expect their own followers to swallow let alone anyone else are fantastically egregious.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 08:07 AM (iABCo)

66 The Stonewall Riots were the day after Gay Icon Judy Garland's funeral. Coincidence?

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 13, 2026 08:07 AM (dtajH)

67 Black students will suffer psychological harm if they walk into a building named for Stonewall Jackson, a liberal judge said.

This is not the same caliber of people that won the American Revolution or World War Eleven.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 13, 2026 08:07 AM (a3CJ+)

68 Rep Mark Pocan WI (D): They clearly haven’t taken a high school or even a junior high civics class recently, because they don’t understand the definitions of what they’re calling us.


You know, he may not be that wrong given the state of education. There was a clearly defined definition back in my day.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at August 13, 2026 08:07 AM (beMHv)

69 "Unless the girl accuses him of rape, I don't see where this has even a remote legal justification.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic "

Probably not. If he had been 17 and 364 days it would be nothing. Still, he's a dumbass for putting it on the internet.

Posted by: fd at August 13, 2026 08:07 AM (MWfyi)

70 I said it yesterday: No such thing as a moderate Dem. Remember 2020, Grandpa Joe was the (literally) empty vessel that could be portrayed as a moderate, then when selected (not elected) the old fool had no idea what was going on and his administration was as radical or more radical than Obama’s. We still don’t know who was operating the levers behind the scenes….

Crowley is as bad as Hong. In MI, El-Sayad is only slightly worse than Stevens…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 13, 2026 08:08 AM (MaA4a)

71 Sitting right here, boss.

Posted by: Your local community college at August 13, 2026 08:09 AM (2Ez/1)

72 Which brings to mind a line I should have used in HS.

"Hey baby, it's my 18th birthday tomorrow. Let's keep it legal."

Posted by: fd at August 13, 2026 08:09 AM (MWfyi)

73 "The beloved grandmother remained silent, hands clasped in a prayer position when she was killed by doctors."

I am trying to get Hillary to go on a canadian vacation this fall. So exciting!

Posted by: Billy Jeff, Pervert In Chief at August 13, 2026 08:09 AM (e2lsi)

74 Probably not. If he had been 17 and 364 days it would be nothing. Still, he's a dumbass for putting it on the internet.
Posted by: fd at August 13, 2026 08:07 AM (MWfyi)


Yes, he's a dumbass, as are most teens, however...

The girl was 17 at the time. The age of consent in Colorado is 17. There's absolutely no basis for statutory rape, even if he were 50. Add in the R&J law and there's even less.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 08:10 AM (ExV1e)

75 "Still, he's a dumbass for putting it on the internet."

A tale as old as 1998.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 13, 2026 08:10 AM (2Ez/1)

76 71 Sitting right here, boss.
Posted by: Your local community college


From the time she was old enough to start thinking about colleges, my friend made it clear to his daughter to start with community college. She has an inheritance that was really good and he would let her live with him while she went to school.

I am happy to say that she listened to him and is in her second year of CC.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 08:11 AM (jjoN6)

77 Posted by: Billy Jeff, Pervert In Chief

You spelled prevert rong

Posted by: Billy Carter, the only decent one in the whole damn fambly at August 13, 2026 08:11 AM (XOG/m)

78 If I had $300K when I was starting out I think I would have invested in an auto shop instead of college.

Posted by: fd at August 13, 2026 08:12 AM (MWfyi)

79 Stonewall Jackson actually encouraged literacy for slaves, so that they could read the Bible.

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 08:13 AM (77rzZ)

80 78 If I had $300K when I was starting out I think I would have invested in an auto shop instead of college.
Posted by: fd at August 13, 2026 08:12 AM

Hey sailor.

Posted by: Vegas at August 13, 2026 08:13 AM (2Ez/1)

81 Stonewall Jackson actually encouraged literacy for slaves, so that they could read the Bible.
Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 08:13 AM (77rzZ)


Hence the emotional distress black students would feel.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 08:14 AM (ExV1e)

82 "Hey sailor.
Posted by: Vegas"

I've never been a gambler. It holds no allure for me.

Posted by: fd at August 13, 2026 08:18 AM (MWfyi)

83 I've never been a gambler. It holds no allure for me.
Posted by: fd

*nods knowingly*

Posted by: Kenny Rogers at August 13, 2026 08:19 AM (XOG/m)

84 I see my opinions of the news are shared

They would have no idea who Stonewall Jackson was, other than "old dead white guy".

They'd probably mix it up with Margery Stoneman Douglas.

And yes, Hong lost because she was a complete nutjob but mostly because the Dems realized that if she was allowed to win the primary they might as well concede the seat, vs now they have a good chance they think.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 13, 2026 08:20 AM (aJQbY)

85 County Sheriff is the highest elected official, they have enormous power if they choose to exercise it. This has long stuck in the craw of totalitarians. I think ordinarily the idea is to install leftist progressive Sheriffs, but also work to defang the office.

Police departments are a relatively new phenomenon historically. The Sheriff can basically “draft” the citizenry when required, to chase an escaped felon for example. That’s what a posse is about. It’s actually a crime to refuse this. Sort of like jury duty or whatever.

One can sort of predict that a system where enormous amounts of taxpayer money is allocated towards a police department that cannot be effectively used is going to cause people to start asking questions. Although the public school systems, the other half of this compulsory funding operation seems to be chugging along fine, and minting freshly mind laundered agitators at a pretty good clip, so who knows.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 13, 2026 08:21 AM (rFdmY)

86 > Most people never read beyond the headline which will be "Rep. Boebert’s son arrested for sexual assault of a minor."
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Someone's looking for a payoff. The case seems... iffy.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 13, 2026 08:21 AM (2Cry5)

87 It is a good thing that black students never cause distress to anyone.

Posted by: on a positive note at August 13, 2026 08:21 AM (XOG/m)

88 The problem is, for the most part, Democrats can get their most strident lunatics elected and the GOP can't get pipe hitting Conservatives elected to counter these lunatics.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 13, 2026 08:21 AM (XV/Pl)

89 88 The problem is, for the most part, Democrats can get their most strident lunatics elected and the GOP can't get pipe hitting Conservatives elected to counter these lunatics.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 13, 2026 08:21 AM (XV/P

Can't or doesn't want to

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 08:22 AM (iABCo)

90 they have a good chance they think.
Posted by: RandomDave

I hope you have a good chance too

Posted by: Miklos, fingers crossed at August 13, 2026 08:23 AM (XOG/m)

91 So the Lakers sold for $12 Billion plus. What's a WNBA franchise worth?

Posted by: Nana, On A Very Fixed Income at August 13, 2026 08:23 AM (JM9I6)

92 "So why do automakers keep throwing good money after bad?"

We just write it off.

Posted by: GM at August 13, 2026 08:25 AM (MWfyi)

93 While I admire Caroline Leavitt’s decision to leave to care for her kids, I’ll miss seeing that particular piece of eye candy on the screen.

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 08:25 AM (77rzZ)

94 So the Lakers sold for $12 Billion plus. What's a WNBA franchise worth?
Posted by: Nana, On A Very Fixed Income


Since the league has lost money every year, they'll pay you $12.95 to take one.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 13, 2026 08:26 AM (lrRtF)

95 So the Lakers sold for $12 Billion plus. What's a WNBA franchise worth?
Posted by: Nana, On A Very Fixed Income

WNBA gets half of that, right?

Posted by: Miklos, thinking that's how it works at August 13, 2026 08:26 AM (XOG/m)

96 So the Lakers sold for $12 Billion plus. What's a WNBA franchise worth?

Depends on the current price and how much fuel is in their tour bus.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 13, 2026 08:26 AM (9Hs2w)

97 While I admire Caroline Leavitt’s decision to leave to care for her kids, I’ll miss seeing that particular piece of eye candy on the screen.
Posted by: Bulg

MAGA MILF

Posted by: Miklos, succinct at August 13, 2026 08:27 AM (XOG/m)

98 91 12 billion would probably buy the entire WNBA, with change left over to buy the Pecos League Kinda Professional Baseball organization.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 13, 2026 08:27 AM (gm9Sb)

99 I thought MAGA's problem was Trump's felonies, egg prices, gas prices, the war, the reflecting pool...

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 08:27 AM (iABCo)

100 @89

>>Can't or doesn't want to

Possibly a little bit of both.

And that is the crux of the biscuit of why we are where we are with Socialist Lunatics on the ascendency everywhere.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 13, 2026 08:28 AM (XV/Pl)

101 > What's a WNBA franchise worth?
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If enough men, former basketball players who are identifying as women get into the league, the pure entertainment value will probably jack any franchise's worth up a bit.

It's still a silly league. Women thugs. Soon to be joined by male thugs. LMAO

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 13, 2026 08:28 AM (2Cry5)

102 What's a WNBA franchise worth?
------

20 bucks...

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 08:28 AM (iABCo)

103 Since the league has lost money every year, they'll pay you $12.95 to take one.
Posted by: rickb223

It is entirely possible that a decent bowling alley is worth more than a WNBA franchise

Posted by: Miklos, here for the beer and maybe a score at August 13, 2026 08:29 AM (XOG/m)

104 So, apparently, the issue in the Boebert son case is that he was stupid enough to video the event and, since she was 17, that makes it child porn. Which he then posted online, making it dissemination of child porn.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 08:29 AM (ExV1e)

105 The WSJ is garbage now. Maybe it always was? William Galston has a piece up.. I don’t know what it’s supposed to be: opinion, editorial, essay, historical description…. But it’s a weasel-worded thing that seems to want to say that Israel’s gone too far in response to 10/7, but won’t come right out and say it… and a few backhand swipes at Netanyahu. What is wrong with these people?? 10/7 was an act of war and everything that flowed from that has been the FO part of FAFO for Hamas. Gazans overwhelmingly approved of 10/7…. So FO. Galston is a retard

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 13, 2026 08:29 AM (MaA4a)

106 MAGA MILF

Posted by: Miklos, succinct at August 13, 2026 08:27 AM (XOG/m

No relation to Mega Maid

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 08:29 AM (iABCo)

107 94 While I admire Caroline Leavitt’s decision to leave to care for her kids, I’ll miss seeing that particular piece of eye candy on the screen.
Posted by: Bulg

I think she will run for Congress again from NH, then governor, then run for President when she is old enough. She is 28 now.

Posted by: Nostrildamus.... at August 13, 2026 08:29 AM (JM9I6)

108 Baby Gabriel has been born and is “on the path” to the Hershey highway to the old dirt road.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 13, 2026 08:30 AM (S32xh)

109 Why don't lesbians and frilly men just do Lingerie Football?

Posted by: Miklos, unable to answer at August 13, 2026 08:30 AM (XOG/m)

110 108 - Did you get a load of the parents' names of that poor Baby Gabriel? Gees.

Posted by: Jaimo at August 13, 2026 08:31 AM (2noDb)

111 Hey, Miklos. Good to see you.

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 08:32 AM (77rzZ)

112 It is entirely possible that a decent bowling alley is worth more than a WNBA franchise
Posted by: Miklos


I'd definitely pay more for a bowling alley than a WNBA franchise.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 13, 2026 08:32 AM (lrRtF)

113 So the Lakers sold for $12 Billion plus. What's a WNBA franchise worth?
Posted by: Nana, On A Very Fixed Income at August 13, 2026 08:23 AM (JM9I6)

After being sold for $10B less than 2 years ago. That pace of turnover in ownership is very unusual…. I don’t get the $12B. The Lakers are probably the most valuable franchise in the NBA but the NFL is way more popular and the Seahawks just sold for $9.3B IIRC…. There’s no way a Super Bowl winning NFL franchise is worth less than any NBA team

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 13, 2026 08:32 AM (MaA4a)

114 Speaking of a prolonged and festering stench from Wisconsin...

It's an acquired taste.

Posted by: Limburger Cheese at August 13, 2026 08:32 AM (wVcYX)

115 Black students will suffer psychological harm if they walk into a building named for Stonewall Jackson, a liberal judge said.

So the judge is asserting that black people as a whole are fragile little creatures. Bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see how it plays out.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 08:33 AM (jjoN6)

116 If bowling shoes were more stylish, perhaps the sport would be popular again.

Posted by: Jimmy Choo at August 13, 2026 08:34 AM (JM9I6)

117 What does the "W" in WNBA stand for?

Wesbians.

Posted by: Elmer Fudd at August 13, 2026 08:35 AM (2Ez/1)

118 Good to see you.
Posted by: Bulg

I feel seen

Posted by: Miklos, a minority of about 8% of the world's population at August 13, 2026 08:38 AM (XOG/m)

119 Jes take down the Stonewall part, and put up Jesse.

Posted by: Or Reggie at August 13, 2026 08:38 AM (JM9I6)

120 Today Is National Filet Mignon Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 13, 2026 08:38 AM (NpAcC)

121 Or Jumanji "Action" Jackson.

Posted by: Name Game at August 13, 2026 08:40 AM (JM9I6)

122 Caitlan Clarke should sue the WNBA for a cut of their increased revenue, she's resposnible for their revenue jump and distribuiton deals.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 13, 2026 08:40 AM (XV/Pl)

123 Make Bowling Alleys And Roller Rinks Great Again!

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 13, 2026 08:40 AM (wVcYX)

124 Sherry Jackson. Hubba hubba.

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 08:41 AM (77rzZ)

125 >
I'd definitely pay more for a bowling alley than a WNBA franchise.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 13, 2026 08:32 AM (lrRtF)

I'd pay more for a burned-out match than a WNBA franchise, because, while both worthless, the burned-out match would keep its mouth shut and not rant about "whiteness".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 08:41 AM (IG3/x)

126 Based on the words from his mouth, Hasan Piker represents an ongoing, clear and present danger to society. His comment about 'outlawing boomers' is flagrant ageism; where are the lefties screaming about this?!? He is inciting his followers to commit murder against the older generation, he is guilty of a crime and needs to be prosecuted in a conservative state. The First Amendment does not protect incitement to violence.
I can think of lots of appropriate punishments for him but I will withhold the specifics of same for the sake of good order.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at August 13, 2026 08:41 AM (JNTt1)

127 The left: Trust the experts, they are always right unlike you mouth breathing "internet researchers"

The experts: Francesa Hong is going to easily win, And remember the people whose votes are counted last, the mail in ballots are all extremely leftwing so she'll pick up votes as the night goes on

Hong loses based on last minute mail in ballots

The right: Hey wait a minute this looks fishy all the last minute ballots went for the nominally more moderate candidate

The left: nothing to see here, move along

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 08:42 AM (sKqQm)

128 120 Today Is National Filet Mignon Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

All I got is a NY Strip. Guess it will have to do.

Posted by: With Ketchup at August 13, 2026 08:42 AM (JM9I6)

129
*polite cough*

Posted by: Shuffleboard courts and horseshoe pits at August 13, 2026 08:42 AM (2Ez/1)

130 Good morning Horde, thx JJ.
I always wondered why the issue of surrogacy has never been forced to deal with the fact that selling humans , even babies , amounts to slavery. Adoption is obviously different but agreeing to sell a baby at birth violates the babies rights not to be chattel. Womb rental is one thing , the outright purchase is very different

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 13, 2026 08:43 AM (WOnE5)

131 Make Bowling Alleys And Roller Rinks Great Again!
Posted by: Count de Monet

Roller Derby?

I'm puttin' Darleen in

Posted by: Miklos sees easy money at August 13, 2026 08:43 AM (XOG/m)

132 Sherry Jackson. Hubba hubba.
Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 08:41 AM (77rzZ)

Hubba-worthy checks out. "Schwing", even.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 13, 2026 08:43 AM (wVcYX)

133 I thought a NY Strip was a style for pubic hair.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 08:44 AM (IG3/x)

134 So, apparently, the issue in the Boebert son case is that he was stupid enough to video the event and, since she was 17, that makes it child porn. Which he then posted online, making it dissemination of child porn.

He should have rogered a gunsel in the senate committee room, filmed it and sent it to one of the Wachowski brothers to put in their new movie about trannys, troons and gunsels.

People would flock to see it.

Posted by: Using the word Gunsel at August 13, 2026 08:44 AM (e2lsi)

135 I sound naughty.
But I'm not.

Posted by: Cornhole at August 13, 2026 08:44 AM (2Ez/1)

136 Hong got schlonged!

Posted by: Couldn't Beat The Cheat at August 13, 2026 08:44 AM (JM9I6)

137 I also want to return to this notion of "surprise strategic voting" that the left is claiming.

Are there any examples of this in past elections in WI or really anywhere?

So the specific set of conditions:

In a primary the more extreme candidate is way, way up by 20 or more points and they then lose because 20% of the electorate changed their mind when they got to voting because they worried their preferred candidate wasn't electable

Because the other answer to this - enough votes were produced to give the more moderate guy the win because that's what the Dems want is way simpler.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 08:45 AM (sKqQm)

138 I thought a NY Strip was a style for pubic hair.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Landing strip

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 13, 2026 08:45 AM (EGW4m)

139
So every FBI person involved in "Operation Round River" has been fired or indicted, right?

Right?

Posted by: Auspex at August 13, 2026 08:46 AM (Y8DZL)

140 Good morning!

Posted by: Piper at August 13, 2026 08:47 AM (2UJ+q)

141 Make Bowling Alleys And Roller Rinks Great Again!
Posted by: Count de Monet

One bowling alley is already pretty damn great

https://www.rocknbowl.com/

Posted by: Miklos ate alligator sandwiches there at August 13, 2026 08:47 AM (XOG/m)

142 So, apparently, the issue in the Boebert son case is that he was stupid enough to video the event and, since she was 17, that makes it child porn. Which he then posted online, making it dissemination of child porn.

I suspect if you had access to internal communications this is the CO State Dems trying to get Boebert's seat.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 08:47 AM (sKqQm)

143 133 I thought a NY Strip was a style for pubic hair.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Urrybody got they's mind in the gutter up in here.

Posted by: Hence, The Bowling Alley Talk at August 13, 2026 08:47 AM (JM9I6)

144 > 124 Sherry Jackson. Hubba hubba.
Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 08:41 AM (77rzZ)


https://tinyurl.com/4k2t2cz6

Looks like it was cold in the photography studio.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 08:48 AM (IG3/x)

145 I sound naughty.
But I'm not.
Posted by: Cornhole at August 13, 2026 08:44 AM (2Ez/1)

Ditto.

Posted by: Slip 'N Slide at August 13, 2026 08:48 AM (wVcYX)

146 Marco Rubio will be the next Press Secretary.

Posted by: Man Of Many Hats at August 13, 2026 08:48 AM (JM9I6)

147 18-1

Was it an open primary, with decreased R voters and the same amount of missing R voters in the D vote total?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 08:49 AM (u82oZ)

148 Using the word Gunsel

*lights a smoke like Bogie*

Posted by: Miklos says let's give 'em the gunsel at August 13, 2026 08:49 AM (XOG/m)

149 Whoever came up with the idea of selling beer at the bowling alley was a marketing genius.

Perhaps they could regain their popularity if they started serving avocado toast and soy lattes.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 08:49 AM (IG3/x)

150 Black students will suffer psychological harm if they walk into a building named for Stonewall Jackson, a liberal judge said.

• Make an observation: (see above)
• Ask a Question. Turn the observation into a clear, testable question.
• Conduct background research
• Form a hypothesis
• Design and perform an experiment
• Analyze the data
• Draw a conclusion
• Communicate and Repeat

Pretty sure that the liberal judge activist skipped everything and went straight to "Draw a Conclusion". Who needs the Scientific Method when you have god-like powers to declare conclusions by fiat?

Posted by: Community Notes at August 13, 2026 08:50 AM (9Hs2w)

151 Man Of Many Hats

But are they Festive?

Posted by: Miklos like consistency at August 13, 2026 08:50 AM (XOG/m)

152 For Boebert's son's video, did he post it online in a public forum or did he have it stored in one of his own online accounts.

The former would seem to me to be a real issue, and this often gets captured under "revenge porn" laws, but if the latter not only has he committed no crime the people that brought the charge should be arrested for depriving him of his rights for a fishing expedition to go after his mother.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 08:50 AM (sKqQm)

153 > 145 I sound naughty.
But I'm not.
Posted by: Cornhole at August 13, 2026 08:44 AM (2Ez/1)

Ditto.
Posted by: Slip 'N Slide at August 13, 2026 08:48 AM (wVcYX)

Ballcock
Close nipple

Posted by: The Plumbing Section at Lowes at August 13, 2026 08:50 AM (IG3/x)

154 Rodrigo Borgia

Pencil test: Passed.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 08:51 AM (u82oZ)

155 Thoughts on reviving Celebrity Bowling and Bowling For Dollars?

Posted by: TV Addict at August 13, 2026 08:51 AM (JM9I6)

156 Why would "Many Hands" be a good name for a Native American electrician?

Many Hands make light work.

Blame Spider Robinson for this, not me.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 08:51 AM (IG3/x)

157 Rallye stripe

Posted by: Don Black at August 13, 2026 08:52 AM (ZxPkt)

158 One bowling alley is already pretty damn great

https://www.rocknbowl.com/
Posted by: Miklos ate alligator sandwiches there at August 13, 2026 08:47 AM (XOG/m)

Laissez les bons temps rouler!

FYI - Le Bon Temps Roule is an iconic, 24-hour dive bar located in Uptown New Orleans at 4801 Magazine Street.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 13, 2026 08:52 AM (wVcYX)

159 130 Good morning Horde, thx JJ.
I always wondered why the issue of surrogacy has never been forced to deal with the fact that selling humans , even babies , amounts to slavery. Adoption is obviously different but agreeing to sell a baby at birth violates the babies rights not to be chattel. Womb rental is one thing , the outright purchase is very different
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 13, 2026 08:43 AM (WOnE5)

Technically, the surrogate does not make money. Legally, the only thing that can be paid for is expenses related to the birth of the child. So it has been dealt with, but clearly there are still huge issues.

Posted by: Piper at August 13, 2026 08:52 AM (2UJ+q)

160 Perhaps they could regain their popularity if they started serving avocado toast and soy lattes.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Vending machines for smokes

Like back when it was America

Posted by: Miklos likes to light one up sometimes at August 13, 2026 08:52 AM (XOG/m)

161 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 08:52 AM (2YhKe)

162 $10 says this becomes a hardwood vs carpet thread

Posted by: Don Black at August 13, 2026 08:52 AM (ZxPkt)

163 Bonjour fellow future camp mates. I call the corner bunk and hands off my veggie garden.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 13, 2026 08:52 AM (tNwfv)

164 However you slice it, all the Democrats succeeded in doing was changing their name from Hyman to Seymour.


Nah....they changed their name from Democrats to Sandusky's years ago......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 08:53 AM (2YhKe)

165 "In a primary the more extreme candidate is way, way up by 20 or more points and they then lose..."

+++
What I think you're referring to is the candidate was "up by 20 or more points in the polls..."

Polls are irrelevant now, thanks to technology. Random sampling is next to impossible. It changed rather rapidly and we the voting public haven't adjusted to it. We are so conditioned to decades and decades of semi-reliable polls as a predictor that we still pay attention to them.
Polls are worthless now.

This post refers:
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/411870.php

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 13, 2026 08:53 AM (2Ez/1)

166 150 Black students will suffer psychological harm if they walk into a building named for Stonewall Jackson, a liberal judge said.


They've overcome the stigma of 'acting white' so maybe they'll adjust.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 13, 2026 08:53 AM (Sco7b)

167 Thoughts on reviving Celebrity Bowling and Bowling For Dollars?
Posted by: TV Addict

Sure!

Posted by: Nick Price, lottery fixer at August 13, 2026 08:53 AM (EGW4m)

168 Big Chief Squaw Speaks With Forked Tongue is just asking questions.

Elizabeth Warren
@SenWarren
A new Spider-Man movie just hit theaters.
And it got me thinking: could Spider-Man afford to buy a home in New York City?

-
And Superman's Fortress of Solitude? Forget about it! But the solution is obvious. Just redistribute Batman's income.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 13, 2026 08:53 AM (ndZc7)

169 The Lakers is big celebrity in El Lay. Lakers, baby. Yeah, worth way more than the Seahawks. Not a lotta glitz in Seeattel. Free tix to a 'hawks game ain't pullin' the same tail Lakers is, especially in inclement weather.

Posted by: Dark Lix at August 13, 2026 08:54 AM (DZ9Lv)

170 Rallye stripe
Posted by: Don Black at August 13, 2026 08:52 AM (ZxPkt)

Fupa mat

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 13, 2026 08:54 AM (wVcYX)

171 I always wondered why the issue of surrogacy has never been forced to deal with the fact that selling humans , even babies, amounts to slavery.

Uneducated guess: It was done with consenting adults and was not really publicly talked about prior to cases like this. I'm not even sure it could be defined as slavery since you have a man and a woman making a child that grows inside a third party with the understanding the baby would go to the parents.

But demanding the child be aborted just because of this is outright evil.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 08:54 AM (jjoN6)

172 I don’t understand why anyone is happy about hong losing. She was going to lose bigly in November. Crowley is pretty much assured a win now.

Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez at August 13, 2026 08:55 AM (7xx4i)

173 The beloved grandmother remained silent, hands clasped in a prayer position when she was killed by doctors.
======================
Meanwhile, Justine Castreaux stays safely in California, out of the reach of Canadian doctor-murderers.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 13, 2026 08:55 AM (tNwfv)

174 2026 WI Gov primary

D
Crowley 315k
Hong 315k
Others 164k

R
Tiffany 420k
Other 20k

2022 Primary

D
Evers 492k

R
Michels 327k
Kleefish 291k
Others 75k

The big takeaway is contested elections get more votes, but honestly looks like the D numbers in 2026 were goosed, likely to give Crowley just enough to win.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 08:55 AM (sKqQm)

175 Good news, everyone!

Bobwan
@BobHumphreys
let me get this straight. AOC is now the moderate establishment candidate.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 13, 2026 08:55 AM (ndZc7)

176 Hasan Piker is pushing the limits of speech, as in, he's openly and outright calling for violence and murder because he KNOWS nothing will happen to him. Nothing happens to the left when they do that. ANYONE on the right calls for violence in any form whatsoever and they're vilified by the media, arrested by some alphabet agency and likely never heard from again.

We can't have nice things......and likely never will. The left sucks and they have ALL the power.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 08:56 AM (2YhKe)

177 The Spanberger quote: "if I am talking to any candidate, or certainly anyone who might be running in Virginia, my priority is going to be that they understand the vital resources that are needed to keep our communities safe, to strengthen our schools, and to ultimately lower costs."

Translations:
Keep our communities safe = double-down on sanctuary laws and harassment and obstruction of ICE officers; abolish ICE ASAP

Strengthen our schools = Go along with every teachers union demand for huge teacher salary raises and hiring more and more teachers and school staffers (especially trans counselors, i.e, groomers), promote trans participation in official school sports, hide trans student ID as trans, medical status, prescriptions, etc, from parents

Ultimately lower costs = Put more and more people, especially illegals, on welfare and on Medicaid (continue to look the other way on fraud with FedGov dollars, tasking state employees to develop harder-to-discover fraud schemes)

Posted by: Gref at August 13, 2026 08:56 AM (5rh/l)

178 I think the point is that elections are just theater, meant to showcase the ebb and flow of Democrats internal divisions, and the speed at which the subversion of our country should take place. They are no longer contests in which the people choose their elected representatives, but rather a process to elect the figurehead- who does the bidding of their party. That why they’ve embraced a coalition of horribles that would otherwise be an anathema to the voting public- they have effectively rendered voting inconsequential. We are losing our republic for precisely this reason, and the fact that not one person with courage has stepped in to halt it.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 13, 2026 08:57 AM (hZXic)

179 163 Bonjour fellow future camp mates. I call the corner bunk and hands off my veggie garden.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 13, 2026 08

Rude. Because I am starving right now.

Posted by: Piper at August 13, 2026 08:57 AM (2UJ+q)

180 FYI - Le Bon Temps Roule is an iconic, 24-hour dive bar located in Uptown New Orleans at 4801 Magazine Street.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Miss Mae's is at 4336 Magazine Street.

I would go there, because I remember Miss Mae and her remarkable beehive hairdo.

Posted by: Miklos likes dive bar options at August 13, 2026 08:57 AM (XOG/m)

181
The big takeaway is contested elections get more votes, but honestly looks like the D numbers in 2026 were goosed, likely to give Crowley just enough to win.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 08:55 AM (sKqQm)



The big takeaway is they cheated, again, and no one did anything about it.

If you don't think they'll cheat again in November, you're not paying attention.

Until SOMETHING happens to secure our elections, in EVERY state, we're proper f*cked.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 08:58 AM (2YhKe)

182 Hong and her followers will dutifully do what they’re told and support the machine that stole the election from them. Say what will about the left but they follow orders well.

Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez at August 13, 2026 08:58 AM (7xx4i)

183 141 - Problem with the glorified Chucky Cheeses is that they don't support real bowlers. We had nice bowling alleys around us until they closed the pro shops and brought in lazer tag, arcades, and lazer light shows. Half the lanes are for open bowlers to bowl in the dark and the leagues have been shut out with no place to get their bowling balls drilled or serviced or actually bowl in leagues anymore.

Posted by: Jaimo at August 13, 2026 08:58 AM (2noDb)

184 Whoever came up with the idea of selling beer at the bowling alley was a marketing genius.

Perhaps they could regain their popularity if they started serving avocado toast and soy lattes.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 08:49 AM (IG3/x)

Just keep the County Health Departments treading lightly on the bowling alley grill operations. Just clean enough.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 13, 2026 08:58 AM (wVcYX)

185 When Hasan Piker openly calls for the murder of white capitalists, does it never occur to anybody that he IS A WHITE CAPITALIST?

Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at August 13, 2026 08:58 AM (igCg8)

186 Rude. Because I am starving right now.

Posted by: Piper at August 13, 2026 08:57 AM (2UJ+q)



Veggies aren't going to fix that situation.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 08:58 AM (2YhKe)

187 > Vending machines for smokes

Like back when it was America
Posted by: Miklos likes to light one up sometimes at August 13, 2026 08:52 AM (XOG/m)

Those continued to exist in bars up here (including bowling alleys) long after they'd been banned in most public venues.

I guess the thinking was that unattended kids weren't supposed to be in bars in the first place.

Nowadays you'd need a hand truck to carry enough quarters for a pack of smokes.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 08:59 AM (IG3/x)

188 One bowling alley is already pretty damn great

https://www.rocknbowl.com/
Posted by: Miklos ate alligator sandwiches there at August 13, 2026 08:47 AM (XOG/m)

Laissez les bons temps rouler!

FYI - Le Bon Temps Roule is an iconic, 24-hour dive bar located in Uptown New Orleans at 4801 Magazine Street.
Posted by: Count de Monet


The bowling alley that I grew up in, literally, was torn down before I could hit 21 and drink in the bar.
I haz a major sad. Parents bowled 3x a week. I was in the nursery until old enough to sit and watch. Then I had Saturday morning league.
I'll never forget their french fries & cheeseburgers.

R. I. P. Red Bird Lanes.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 13, 2026 08:59 AM (lrRtF)

189 However you slice it, all the Democrats succeeded in doing was changing their name from Hyman to Seymour.

Ken, Lonnie, I'd like you to meet Mohamet, Jugdish, Hyman and Seymour.

Posted by: DNC at August 13, 2026 08:59 AM (e2lsi)

190 Make Bowling Alleys And Roller Rinks Great Again!
Posted by: Count de Monet

=====

I have no idea which alley owner was the first to market late night bowling with DJ's, lighting, drinks and such, but remember learning about it in the mid/late 80's at The Garden Bowl in downtown Detroit. And they're still in business!

So - yeah, better investment than WNBA.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at August 13, 2026 08:59 AM (4HoLg)

191 The ugly harpies cheering the new unlimited abortion "law" in MA is enough to turn stomachs. All should be jailed.

Posted by: Defining Deviancy Down at August 13, 2026 08:59 AM (JM9I6)

192 I just want to pay tribute to Karoline Leavitt, a beautiful blond with a tempting rack, and smarter than all the pipsqueek prototerrorist sympathizers in the press room. Watching her dissect those scumsuckers is a rare pleasure and I wish her, her husband and their family only good things in the future.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 13, 2026 09:00 AM (k+wO+)

193 Posted by: NR Pax

If consenting adults can abort a child, why can't they sell one?

Posted by: Miklos likes the word why at August 13, 2026 09:00 AM (XOG/m)

194 Just keep the County Health Departments treading lightly on the bowling alley grill operations. Just clean enough.
Posted by: Count de Monet


With Flo the waitress.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 13, 2026 09:00 AM (lrRtF)

195 Saw a doc on bowling in America and how it’s changed. It’s basically private equity that saw all these cheap bowling alleys, bought them and turned them into Dave and Busters with a bowling alley attached.

Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez at August 13, 2026 09:00 AM (7xx4i)

196 Come see me at midnight for coffee and beignets.

Posted by: Cafe DuMonde at August 13, 2026 09:00 AM (2Ez/1)

197
Plants watered, fountain turned on, birdies fed. I have done my duty.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 09:01 AM (O0L8i)

198 There's no bigger tell that all the Dems know there is fraud than the fact that she conceded.

And remember:
Under current SCOTUS precedent, the people--as they interpret the Constitution that begins "We the People"--do not have standing to seek a free, fair and transparent election.

That it what the 7 of the 9 said in TX v. PA in 2020.

You, you the people, under your Constitution, do not have standing to seek a free, fair and transparent election.
Only the government that runs the (fraudulent) election has that right.
And, just barely this year, candidates now do.
But not you, the one the outcome actually affects.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 13, 2026 09:01 AM (3cUTc)

199 Rude. Because I am starving right now.
Posted by: Piper at August 13, 2026 08:57 AM (2UJ+q)
==================
My bride likes barre workouts, so we can barter!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 13, 2026 09:01 AM (k+wO+)

200 Technically, the surrogate does not make money. Legally, the only thing that can be paid for is expenses related to the birth of the child. So it has been dealt with, but clearly there are still huge issues.
Posted by: Piper at August 13, 2026 08:52 AM (2UJ+q)

Phoebe Buffay had her brother’s triplets on Friends. Don’t think she got paid for the inconvenience. Shock (and comedic) value high… along with Smelly Cat

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 13, 2026 09:01 AM (MaA4a)

201 I have done my duty.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 09:01 AM (O0L8i)
===============
A fine way to summarize.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 13, 2026 09:02 AM (k+wO+)

202 192 I just want to pay tribute to Karoline Leavitt, a beautiful blond with a tempting rack...

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 13, 2026 09:00 AM


We would also have accepted "pronounced hooterage."

Posted by: The judges at August 13, 2026 09:02 AM (2Ez/1)

203 Have Republicans really learned the same playbook, VDH?

And is that really the answer?

Sort of, to the first question. And to the second question: no, or not exactly.

By the end of Trump's term we'll not have come close to turning this ship around. What we do with Trump's examples and spirit will be the issue. And as for fighting like the Left, i.e., with mendacity and hatred and violence, we need to find a more confident and open but no less ruthless way of fighting. The conservative base and its heartiest and bravest warriors are showing the way. Our politicians for the most part, sadly, are not.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 13, 2026 09:03 AM (b4LBp)

204 Rick, same with us, hubby and I bowled each two leagues a week, my son was at the alley from the moment he was born until he got old enough for bumper bowling and all his birthday parties were at the lanes. He turned out to be a pretty damn good 210 average bowler. We both quit about the time they turned all the alleys near us into, as I mentioned above, Chucky Cheeses with all their crap to bring in the young kids who really weren't there to bowl after all, thus kicking out all the good leagues that were a staple.

Posted by: Jaimo at August 13, 2026 09:03 AM (2noDb)

205 Saw a doc on bowling in America and how it’s changed. It’s basically private equity that saw all these cheap bowling alleys, bought them and turned them into Dave and Busters with a bowling alley attached.

Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez


Because 24 hour manufacturing died out. Which is why league play was during the week. Most every manufacturing town/steel mill town had multiple allies and shift leagues.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 13, 2026 09:03 AM (lrRtF)

206 Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok

Kathy Hochul announces $7 Million taxpayer dollars towards illegal aliens’ legal fees

Posted by: redridinghood at August 13, 2026 09:03 AM (NpAcC)

207 They would have no idea who Stonewall Jackson was, other than "old dead white guy".

-
Mason who built the Great Wall of China?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 13, 2026 09:03 AM (ndZc7)

208 Veggies aren't going to fix that situation.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 08:58 AM (2YhKe)
===================
On special occasions we slaughter the fatted rat!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 13, 2026 09:03 AM (k+wO+)

209 Rick, same with us, hubby and I bowled each two leagues a week, my son was at the alley from the moment he was born until he got old enough for bumper bowling and all his birthday parties were at the lanes. He turned out to be a pretty damn good 210 average bowler. We both quit about the time they turned all the alleys near us into, as I mentioned above, Chucky Cheeses with all their crap to bring in the young kids who really weren't there to bowl after all, thus kicking out all the good leagues that were a staple.
Posted by: Jaimo


Fist bump!

Posted by: rickb223 at August 13, 2026 09:03 AM (lrRtF)

210 I suspect if you had access to internal communications this is the CO State Dems trying to get Boebert's seat.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 08:47 AM (sKqQm)


I don't doubt that this is true but what I saw discussed initially was that she was 17 and he was 18, which is entirely legal in Colorado... right up to the point where you decide that videoing it for posterity, and posting it online, is the thing you want to do.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 09:04 AM (ExV1e)

211 Come see me at midnight for coffee and beignets.
Posted by: Cafe DuMonde

Then off to the few dive bars in the Quarter.

The Dungeon, if you can fit in

Posted by: Miklos remembers things he should not at August 13, 2026 09:05 AM (XOG/m)

212 Whoever came up with the idea of selling beer at the bowling alley was a marketing genius.

The pricing was always the cheapest at my local when growing up.

That, and a "Yeah, you look 21" serving policy.

Posted by: Auspex at August 13, 2026 09:05 AM (Y8DZL)

213 Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 08:54 AM (jjoN6)

Hey in case you are still around I think I'd asked you about what your better half's pesto rolls are like. Hard, soft , fluffy, etc. I bake bread, just like to know since I think they're a good idea.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 09:06 AM (iABCo)

214 The former would seem to me to be a real issue, and this often gets captured under "revenge porn" laws, but if the latter not only has he committed no crime the people that brought the charge should be arrested for depriving him of his rights for a fishing expedition to go after his mother.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 08:50 AM (sKqQm)


It's still child porn, even if he just immediately burned it to a DVD which he keeps locked in a safe at all times. It's stupid, because that wasn't the intent, but it is what it is.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 09:07 AM (ExV1e)

215 Fist bump!
Posted by: rickb223

There are numerous jokes involving three holes that the kids just could not even

Posted by: Miklos will have another Falstaff at August 13, 2026 09:07 AM (XOG/m)

216 It's also,
Lefthanders Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 13, 2026 09:07 AM (NpAcC)

217 What I think you're referring to is the candidate was "up by 20 or more points in the polls..."

Yes polls are crap

But 22 points off?

I asked google AI to look at the RCP data and tell me how often this has happened before this in other governor primary races in the last 10 years and the answer was once - the 2026 Minnesota Republican Gubernatorial Primary so I see why Lindell is pissed off...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 09:07 AM (sKqQm)

218 MVP Lanes in Fort Wayne is owned by PBA Hall of Famer Wes Malott. It has a good balance of maintaining solid leagues and tournaments while having the bar and food and arcade and laser bowling as well.

Posted by: Any better, I'd be twins at August 13, 2026 09:07 AM (2CeDH)

219 I think all of our dive bowling alleys are still in operation... none have been turned into a Chuck E. Cheese or a Dave & Busters.

Must be four or five in the city plus one on base.

I should probably go bowling while I still can.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 09:08 AM (IG3/x)

220 Miklos, we had a guy that only used 2.

Posted by: Jaimo at August 13, 2026 09:08 AM (2noDb)

221 "I'd asked you about what your better half's pesto rolls are like..."

That's not code for anything is it?

Posted by: Sounds kinky at August 13, 2026 09:08 AM (2Ez/1)

222 Actor Jed Allan had a steady gig all through the 70s hosting Celebrity Bowling.

Posted by: Up My Alley at August 13, 2026 09:08 AM (JM9I6)

223
Our little garden is not very well groomed, but it has a multitude of plenitude of firebushes, bottlebrushes, jasmine, lavender and milkweed. Plus a running fountain and baths. Feeders a short distance. The It Place for birds, bees and butterflies.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 09:08 AM (O0L8i)

224 Under current SCOTUS precedent, the people--as they interpret the Constitution that begins "We the People"--do not have standing to seek a free, fair and transparent election.

That it what the 7 of the 9 said in TX v. PA in 2020.

—-

It was even more ridiculous. If someone brought a case before the election “judges” said you can’t do anything since the election hasn’t happened. Then if you brought a suit post election it was too late because we can’t chance elections.

Deniers have a free hand to cheat with no consequences.

Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez at August 13, 2026 09:09 AM (7xx4i)

225 "That it what the 7 of the 9 said in TX v. PA in 2020."

7 of 9 barred the case at the courthouse door so it never got filed, which is extraordinary. Had it been filed, a metric shit-ton of evidence would have been on the record.

It was a clever gambit because a state suing another state has original jurisdiction at SCOTUS

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 13, 2026 09:09 AM (dtajH)

226 Vending machines for smokes

Like back when it was America
Posted by: Miklos likes to light one up sometimes
+++
You can still buy smokes from vending machines in Europe.
And we think we have so much more freedom over here.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at August 13, 2026 09:09 AM (Lo97M)

227 CNBC says the state with more data centers than any other state is....ta-dum..., Virginia!

Biggest contributor to real estate taxes paid in Loudon County and a huge statewide contributor. Has Spanberger defended data centers?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 13, 2026 09:09 AM (tNwfv)

228 There are numerous jokes involving three holes that the kids just could not even
Posted by: Miklos will have another Falstaff


Pick 'em up and carry 'em like a six pack.
I miss Falstaff. Lemp Brewery.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 13, 2026 09:10 AM (lrRtF)

229 218, yea but he's a bowler who owns the place, not some big corporation who doesn't actually care about bowling.

Also, lefties make good bowlers, nice natural hook. I had a nice hook.

Posted by: Jaimo at August 13, 2026 09:10 AM (2noDb)

230 Miklos, we had a guy that only used 2.
Posted by: Jaimo

So

He met Darleen

Posted by: Miklos reconciles with Self at August 13, 2026 09:10 AM (XOG/m)

231 What Hong said is just the conclusions of same thing every Democrat in every city and state says.

They all say the first parts, about how America is racist, has mistreated natives, etc., etc.

She just stated their conclusions out loud:
Therefore, we must ban Thanksgiving. Ban Independence Day.

No Democrat anywhere will disagree with her premise, none of them.
They just don't want to say the logical conclusions.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 13, 2026 09:11 AM (3cUTc)

232 Kathy Hochul announces $7 Million taxpayer dollars towards illegal aliens’ legal fees

What prevents Kath Hochul from announcing $7 million taxpayer dollars towards her personal retirement fund?

At what point does this become looting of the treasury?

Posted by: Community Notes at August 13, 2026 09:11 AM (nAS9C)

233 It's also,
Lefthanders Day.
Posted by: redridinghood


It's about time!

Posted by: rickb223 at August 13, 2026 09:11 AM (lrRtF)

234 Speaking of movies, Paw Patrol is right wing propaganda.

The Economist
@TheEconomist
Of the main gang of six pups, some critics note, only one is a girl, whose outfit and even eyes are pink. Worse, the top dog is a police pup, so the whole thing is pro-police “copaganda”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 13, 2026 09:11 AM (ndZc7)

235 The most darkly amusing part was seeing the Dems argue that there'd never been any evidence for election fraud in Philadelphia... while two former Philadelphia election judges were actually *doing time* for election fraud.

I don't remember the details, but presumably the judges in question tried to screw over the winning Dem. No way they'd have done time for cheating against the Republican.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 09:11 AM (IG3/x)

236 Susan Collins is allegedly down 2% to Jackson in a Fox News poll. At this point in 2020 she was down 10% to Sara Gideon. Collins won by 8. This poll is early but good news

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 13, 2026 09:12 AM (WOnE5)

237 The fact the left hate data centers and flock cameras has made me reconsider my position on them.

Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez at August 13, 2026 09:12 AM (7xx4i)

238 Darleen, huh. Here we just called her Deuce.

Posted by: Jaimo at August 13, 2026 09:12 AM (2noDb)

239 To a moderate Democrat, Susan Collins is a radical, right-wing extremist.

That's how far left the "center" of the party is.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 13, 2026 09:13 AM (3cUTc)

240 You can still buy smokes from vending machines in Europe.
And we think we have so much more freedom over here.
Posted by: Florida Peasant

Where?

Very taxed, very regulated

never saw that

Posted by: Miklos calls bullshit at August 13, 2026 09:13 AM (XOG/m)

241 Speaking of movies, Paw Patrol is right wing propaganda.

The Economist
@TheEconomist
Of the main gang of six pups, some critics note, only one is a girl, whose outfit and even eyes are pink. Worse, the top dog is a police pup, so the whole thing is pro-police “copaganda”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks



The word "Patrol" didn't give it away, huh?

Posted by: rickb223 at August 13, 2026 09:14 AM (lrRtF)

242 Of the main gang of six pups, some critics note, only one is a girl, whose outfit and even eyes are pink. Worse, the top dog is a police pup, so the whole thing is pro-police “copaganda”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 13, 2026 09:11 AM (ndZc7)

Didn’t they get the message that woke 1 is crazy?

Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez at August 13, 2026 09:14 AM (7xx4i)

243
Womb rental.

A womb with a view.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 09:14 AM (iABCo)

244 Darleen, huh. Here we just called her Deuce.
Posted by: Jaimo

So that's where that came from.

I was scared to ask

Posted by: Miklos calls on Marleen for Comfort at August 13, 2026 09:15 AM (XOG/m)

245 Regarding the Boebert spawn…. I don’t know or care about the legalities, but filming and posting intimate encounters is gross and does not speak well to character and morals. I know I sound all judgy but wasn’t Boebert herself giving a handy to some date at a movie theater. Bad character and judgement

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 13, 2026 09:15 AM (MaA4a)

246 I love how the Democrats are saying the Wisconsin election proves the election was on the level, no fraud. In fact, it proves that there IS fraud. The establishment Dems stole it from the DSA. Republicans shouldn't be too happy about the infighting. Both hate Republicans. Both will steal elections from Republicans.

Posted by: Jeff Carter at August 13, 2026 09:16 AM (qHa8y)

247 To a moderate Democrat, Susan Collins is a radical, right-wing extremist.

That's how far left the "center" of the party is.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 13, 2026 09:13 AM (3cUTc)

For as long as I’ve followed politics every Republican was worse than Hitler.

Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez at August 13, 2026 09:16 AM (7xx4i)

248 Speaking of movies, Paw Patrol is right wing propaganda.


I mean it fits, Paw Patrol goes back to 2013. What passed for moderate or a-political then is extreme right wing per the FNM now

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 09:16 AM (sKqQm)

249 The difference between socialism and communism is when they start shooting the innocent.

In communism, they start shooting them from the beginning and don't stop.

In socialism, they start shooting them when the people realize it's no different than communism.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 13, 2026 09:16 AM (3cUTc)

250 Miss Mae's is at 4336 Magazine Street.

I would go there, because I remember Miss Mae and her remarkable beehive hairdo.
Posted by: Miklos likes dive bar options at August 13, 2026 08:57 AM (XOG/m)

Back last century, in the closing decades, was in the French Quarter with work friends celebrating the night before a wedding. Had my first and only (so far!) Flaming Dr. Pepper drink. Don't remember which establishment. I remember the remarkable drink.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 13, 2026 09:16 AM (wVcYX)

251 The fact the left hate data centers and flock cameras has made me reconsider my position on them.
Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez


I hate the saying, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", but in this case it's appropriate.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 13, 2026 09:17 AM (lrRtF)

252
sudo rm -rf

Don't try this at ~

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 13, 2026 09:17 AM (0sNs1)

253 Shot.

The Lead CNN
@TheLeadCNN
Police investigating after a Black woman was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi

-
Chaser.

Sean Davis
@seanmdav
Her black boyfriend was arrested.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 13, 2026 09:17 AM (ndZc7)

254 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 13, 2026 09:17 AM (JvZF+)

255 In Hermann, Missouri there are vending machines that sell bratwurst, bacon, summer sausage, snack sticks, and jerky.

Posted by: So there's that at August 13, 2026 09:18 AM (2Ez/1)

256 Okay, instructor here, class started, I am going to get food. lol.

Posted by: Piper at August 13, 2026 09:18 AM (2UJ+q)

257 It’s basically private equity that saw all these cheap bowling alleys, bought them and turned them into Dave and Busters with a bowling alley attached.

Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez
_________

Related - Recently watched a youtube explaining why mattress stores are all over the place. They rent properties thought to be in areas of future commercial expansion and just sit on them till the landlord of the strip mall or whatever wants them out for tenant that will generate greater foot traffic, and then negotiate a buyout that gives them a profit. Or if the contract permits, sublease at a profit. No significant cost in converting the property since a mattress store is basically just a big open space to begin with.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 13, 2026 09:18 AM (XvL8K)

258 Regarding the Boebert spawn…. I don’t know or care about the legalities, but filming and posting intimate encounters is gross and does not speak well to character and morals. I know I sound all judgy but wasn’t Boebert herself giving a handy to some date at a movie theater. Bad character and judgement

All true but if this was a Dem's kid the charges would never have been brought.

Yes yes Republicans should "be better" but they are people and if you set a higher standard for them then Dems you are just hanging election victories to dems.

Does anyone seriously believe if the FBI accessed the online accounts of every Dem officeholder's teen kid that a bunch of them wouldn't have illegal porn they made with a girl/boyfriend?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 09:19 AM (sKqQm)

259 Thanks for the fun. Off to oil my lanes.

Posted by: Lane Conditioner at August 13, 2026 09:19 AM (JM9I6)

260 Don't remember which establishment. I remember the remarkable drink.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Good chance it was Pat O'Brien's

Posted by: Miklos stole glasses from there at August 13, 2026 09:19 AM (XOG/m)

261 Well, time for my morning nap, because I'm retired and I can.

Be well, folks.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 09:19 AM (IG3/x)

262 Making YouTube videos opposing data centers is peak 2026 irony.

Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez at August 13, 2026 09:20 AM (7xx4i)

263 It's also,
Lefthanders Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 13, 2026 09:07 AM


It doesn't get much more sinister than this.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 13, 2026 09:20 AM (0sNs1)

264 Maybe the vote tabulation mistake wasn't in Wisconsin, where late vote counts in corrupt Milwaukee somehow pushed Crowley to a surprise victory. Maybe the real error was in Michigan, where "establishment" lefty, trailing by double digits in the polls, somehow fell a mere 15,000 votes short of a shocking upset over Dr. al-Qaeda.

Which vote counters are in more hot water, the Wisconsinites who delivered the state from being hung with Hong, or the Michiganders who failed to prevent Sayed from being on the fall ballot?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 13, 2026 09:20 AM (4nevv)

265 We were a better country when cigarettes could advertise, and lawyers couldn’t.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 13, 2026 09:20 AM (rFdmY)

266 Morning, all.

>>Furious Hasan Piker melts down over Francesca Hong’s loss: ‘Outlaw Thanksgiving and outlaw boomers’


Awww, you mad, bro?

Posted by: Lizzy at August 13, 2026 09:20 AM (X8xt3)

267 pro-police “copaganda"?

copaganda?

Posted by: dantesed at August 13, 2026 09:21 AM (Oy/m2)

268 Someone should ask Piker if he thinks the election was fair, and if not what he plans on doing about it.

He could work with Hong voters to get a lawsuit and discovery going...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 09:21 AM (sKqQm)

269 My lefty auntie, world traveler extraordinaire, used to steal ashtrays, glasses and all sorts of swag from restaurants and hotels. She just laughed and said “I just leave a big tip!”

Posted by: Common Tater at August 13, 2026 09:22 AM (rFdmY)

270 I was in Germany in May. I saw several cigarette vending machines. Both Kaiserslautern and Kindsbach near the Ramstein air base have them.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at August 13, 2026 09:22 AM (Lo97M)

271 Hey in case you are still around I think I'd asked you about what your better half's pesto rolls are like. Hard, soft , fluffy, etc. I bake bread, just like to know since I think they're a good idea.
Posted by: ...


Still here. She makes the rolls soft. I'll ask where she got the recipe and forward it here by the 1100 thread.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 09:22 AM (jjoN6)

272 Marxist-Leninism 1.0 was super woke. 2.0 will be more fun!

Posted by: Sandy Occasional Cortex at August 13, 2026 09:22 AM (4nevv)

273 I used to be a thing.

Posted by: Twinkletoes Flinstone at August 13, 2026 09:23 AM (wVcYX)

274 Related - Recently watched a youtube explaining why mattress stores are all over the place. They rent properties thought to be in areas of future commercial expansion and just sit on them till the landlord of the strip mall or whatever wants them out for tenant that will generate greater foot traffic, and then negotiate a buyout that gives them a profit. Or if the contract permits, sublease at a profit. No significant cost in converting the property since a mattress store is basically just a big open space to begin with.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 13, 2026 09:18 AM

I saw that, too. The Fat Electrician.

https://youtu.be/5NV3Mf1EHEk

Interesting assessment.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 13, 2026 09:23 AM (2Ez/1)

275 Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 09:19 AM (sKqQm)

Yes, but is it be better or don't be extraordinarily fucking intergalactically stupid. Of course there are multiple impossible standards but posting sex videos of under 18 yo if that's what happened is Retarded with a capital (R).

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 09:23 AM (iABCo)

276
Welp, another victory for Moderate Democrats.

A tenth state has now made it legal for The Ladies to murder their own children by vivisection seconds before they're born.

I guess all women will now vote for the Democrats in November.

We're doomed.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 13, 2026 09:23 AM (iJfKG)

277 Regarding the Boebert spawn…. I don’t know or care about the legalities, but filming and posting intimate encounters is gross and does not speak well to character and morals.

-
That sort of thing is best kept inside the locker room.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 13, 2026 09:23 AM (ndZc7)

278 The Economyst

The dark underbelly of “Paw Patrol”
Why a debate over a hit cartoon is more than culture-war madness

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 13, 2026 09:23 AM (/+uur)

279 35 This country would be well-served if this pig were to fall into a volcano. He's a vile subhuman and evil to the marrow of his bones.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 13, 2026 07:55 AM (qBdHI)

I was watching an old L&O Criminal Intent last night (with Jeff Goldblum, not the OGs) and the perp turned his victims into mulch. Just sayin’

Posted by: TxAnn at August 13, 2026 09:24 AM (SjAWL)

280 Awww, you mad, bro?

Posted by: Lizzy at August 13, 2026 09:20 AM (X8xt3)

I think we should "outlaw" him. Slowly.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 09:24 AM (iABCo)

281 naturalfake

The Left is doomed.

Go forth and multiple. Go to the Philippines if needed.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 09:24 AM (u82oZ)

282 European cigarettes only have 19, not 20 to a pack. They have all the good old American brands you never see any longer. At least that was the case mumble mumble years ago. And regardless of the brand they all taste like shit. I think the Brits still have passable smokes, at least Dunhills and similar.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 13, 2026 09:25 AM (rFdmY)

283 >>Speaking of movies, Paw Patrol is right wing propaganda.

The Economist
@TheEconomist
Of the main gang of six pups, some critics note, only one is a girl, whose outfit and even eyes are pink. Worse, the top dog is a police pup, so the whole thing is pro-police “copaganda”


IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THE LEFT'S CARTOON PROPAGANDA HAS ALWAYS BEEN MET WITH, "ARE YOU NUTTY, IT'S JUST A CARTOON!!"

PAW PATROL IS JUST A CARTOON, YOU GUYZ!

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at August 13, 2026 09:25 AM (X8xt3)

284 Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 09:22 AM (jjoN6)

You're a star thanks.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 09:26 AM (iABCo)

285 Does anyone seriously believe if the FBI accessed the online accounts of every Dem officeholder's teen kid that a bunch of them wouldn't have illegal porn they made with a girl/boyfriend?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 09:19 AM (sKqQm)

You’re definitely right about that and despite my judginess I’d definitely vote for Boebert over any Dem no matter how personally pure. I’ll admit it does bother me a little… but not anywhere enough to sway my vote

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 13, 2026 09:26 AM (MaA4a)

286 Judge Michael Urbanski sided with the Virginia NAACP and ordered Shenandoah County to rename Stonewall Jackson High School and Ashby-Lee Elementary School. The school board previously changed the names in 2020, only for new leaders to revert to the previous names in 2024.
===========================
This might be the dumbest and most blatant partisan activism of August, at least so far.

Posted by: and John Roberts is a deeply stupid coward at August 13, 2026 09:27 AM (4nevv)

287
It's also,
Lefthanders Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 13, 2026 09:07 AM


What the hell?!?!

Where's Lefthander's Month???

You Right Privilege bastards owe me and mine reparations!

Reparations, I say!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 13, 2026 09:27 AM (iJfKG)

288 Saw a doc on bowling in America and how it’s changed. It’s basically private equity that saw all these cheap bowling alleys, bought them and turned them into Dave and Busters with a bowling alley attached.

Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez


Because 24 hour manufacturing died out. Which is why league play was during the week. Most every manufacturing town/steel mill town had multiple allies and shift leagues.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 13, 2026 09:03 AM (lrRtF)

Berra-Rizzuto Lanes in Clifton, NJ. Yogi and The Scooter ran a great alley...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 13, 2026 09:27 AM (nbLIj)

289 Good chance it was Pat O'Brien's
Posted by: Miklos stole glasses from there at August 13, 2026 09:19 AM (XOG/m)

It wasn't O'Brien's. This place was a block or three off the main drag, away from the river (Easterly?) If I 'memba my geography and orienteering.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 13, 2026 09:27 AM (wVcYX)

290 Wasn't it Rizzuto-Berra Bowl?

Posted by: Both Navy Veterans, Too at August 13, 2026 09:29 AM (JM9I6)

291 European cigarettes only have 19, not 20 to a pack. They have all the good old American brands you never see any longer. At least that was the case mumble mumble years ago. And regardless of the brand they all taste like shit. I think the Brits still have passable smokes, at least Dunhills and similar.
Posted by: Common Tater

British practice girl over there smoked Dunhills. I thought they were 16 to pack.

Posted by: Nick Price, lottery fixer at August 13, 2026 09:29 AM (EGW4m)

292 Michael Urbanski sided with the Virginia NAACP and ordered Shenandoah County to rename Stonewall Jackson High School and Ashby-Lee Elementary School. The school board previously changed the names in 2020, only for new leaders to revert to the previous names in 2024.
===========================
This might be the dumbest and most blatant partisan activism of August, at least so far.

Posted by: and John Roberts is a deeply stupid coward at August 13, 2026 09:27 AM (4nevv)

It’s under the “Dems can do it but Reps can’t do it” clause of the constitution.

Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez at August 13, 2026 09:29 AM (7xx4i)

293 It wasn't O'Brien's. This place was a block or three off the main drag, away from the river (Easterly?) If I 'memba my geography and orienteering.

Posted by: Count de Monet

Hard to keep track

The Quarter has, what, at least five or six bars

Posted by: Miklos recalls place called House of the Rising Sun at August 13, 2026 09:30 AM (XOG/m)

294 White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s Wednesday announcement that she’s leaving her role stunned many insiders.
Full court press Karoline Leavitt’s possible successors emerge after WH press secretary’s surprise departure
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JJS, this link is broken.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 13, 2026 09:30 AM (4nevv)

295 288 - I love Clifton, NJ. I didn't know there was a bowling alley there. I frequent that town periodically. I love when I hit Massachusetts and see bowling alleys and get all excited until I realize they're freakin candle pin.

Posted by: Jaimo at August 13, 2026 09:30 AM (2noDb)

296 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 09:31 AM (2YhKe)

297 >>I think we should "outlaw" him. Slowly.


Yup.

But isn't it just like his tribe to rage and demand the things he hates must be "outlawed"/stop existing?

This is why they are incompatible with the West.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 13, 2026 09:31 AM (X8xt3)

298 The Quarter has, what, at least five or six bars

Posted by: Miklos recalls place called House of the Rising Sun at August 13, 2026 09:30 AM (XOG/m)

It has a few, yes. One needs never to go thirsty.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 13, 2026 09:32 AM (wVcYX)

299 The dark underbelly of “Paw Patrol”
Why a debate over a hit cartoon is more than culture-war madness
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 13, 2026 09:23 AM (/+uur)
====================
There's a dark underbelly to Paw Patrol?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 13, 2026 09:32 AM (4nevv)

300 He loves the toxic masculinity of football now.

Abdul El-Sayed Challenges Mike Rogers to No-Pads Tackle Football Showdown as Senate Race turns Personal

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 13, 2026 09:35 AM (ndZc7)

301 Wasn't it Rizzuto-Berra Bowl?
Posted by: Both Navy Veterans, Too at August 13, 2026 09:29 AM (JM9I6)

My memory was Berra-Rizzuto. My memory comes with terms and conditions, however, and is void where prohibited...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 13, 2026 09:39 AM (nbLIj)

302 It’s Crowley’s campaign myth versus the R’s ability to create their own campaign myth and effectively attack and damage Crowley’s campaign myth.
Seriously. . Really, seriously?
You can bet your entire pile of quatloos on the Communists and their media monopoly , not to mention their never to be investigated but painfully apparent Cheat code, to smash the R candidate.
The Commies are ascendant. The RINOs have the Commies right where they want them. And therein lies THE problem….’our’ side is NOT our side.

Posted by: Voter theater. at August 13, 2026 09:39 AM (FCPbW)

303 The whole football and fireworks thing was to draw us in.

Trump tried to teach us how to win. Let's see how Rogers handles it.

Nowhere pithy enough but something *along the lines* of - "this election isn't about playing football, this is about what is in our minds. Our thoughts. You told us some of yours, and then you deleted the posts, Sayed. Thousands of them. Let's have a Showdown about that."

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 09:41 AM (iABCo)

304 I love Clifton, NJ. I didn't know there was a bowling alley there. I frequent that town periodically. I love when I hit Massachusetts and see bowling alleys and get all excited until I realize they're freakin candle pin.
Posted by: Jaimo at August 13, 2026 09:30 AM (2noDb)

Used to love Baltimore's duck pin lanes. My late sister lived there and I'd make her take me every time I visited..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 13, 2026 09:41 AM (nbLIj)

305 'Morning, all. Thanks, J.J. 👏🏻

I think it was just another rope-a-dope played on conservatives.

I have a circuitous 'logic' but here goes: Abdul El-Sayed is from MI. His August 2026 primary victory came in the most expensive U.S. Senate primary ever.

Jim Clyburn had "criticized him over a perceived lack of diversity and Black support at his campaign rallies" but El-Sayed would win by heavily dominating university areas and younger demographic groups, sweeping every major college town in the state.

The 'old' Democratic party, which for the most part is all in with the 'new' socialist aspects, absolutely knew he would carry the state.

>Michigan Advance, High turnout shaped Michigan primary, boosting El-Sayed and Lawrence to victory, Aug. 6, 2026

In part, John Sellek of Harbor Strategic told the Advance on Thursday that the only other time Michigan has, in the last 20 years, seen this level of turnout was when U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) was on the ticket.

“So it’s unique, but it is a sign of real difficulty for Republicans currently taking the blame for high prices, tariffs, the war and more,” Sellek said.

And CNN was on it! 🎆

Cont'd -

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 13, 2026 09:50 AM (NFX2v)

306 Now, back to Clyburn's "perceived lack of diversity and Black support" and the state of Wisconsin & 'White adjacent' Francesca Hong. She didn't have Black support, ran a provocative campaign, and the old guard Democrats were saved!

NYT, Hong's Defeat Shows the Limits of the Progressive Movement; Forbes, Socialist Francesca Hong Narrowly Loses Wisconsin Gubernatorial Primary After ‘Cancel Thanksgiving’ Controversy; WP, How mainstream Democrats pulled over a big upset against a democratic socialist, etc.

Theater.

🤔 Oh, it was the polls! Mediate, ‘Can We Catch a Break?’ CNN Data Guru Breaks Down Why Polling May Be Overestimating ‘Lefties,’ Aug 12, 2026

In part, "He (Enten) pointed out that both Hong and Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed both won the five counties in their respective states with the highest share of under-40 voters. The polling, he argued, may have “too many” young progressives participating, and giving an exaggerated sense of the candidates’ popularity."

AND who could 'take' that election without question? Perfect!

More old guard protection. And conservatives were so mean to a first generation woman of an immigrant family, a POC, in a 'historical' race!

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 13, 2026 09:50 AM (NFX2v)

307 You can still buy smokes from vending machines in Europe.
And we think we have so much more freedom over here.

Posted by: Florida Peasant


I mean what, for that they only give up free speech, the right to bear arms and defend yourself, basic economic freedoms, legitimate redress of grievances, political representation...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 13, 2026 10:08 AM (OUMaO)

308 Not the brightest bulb, I struggle to understand some of Ace's posts such as the antitrust law suit Re Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.

Why are 12 state attorneys general, led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta and New York Attorney General Letitia James, leading the effort? Why all 'liberal' states? (California & New York joined by Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington.)

Had to ask AI. The answer, in part, "The involvement of exclusively Democratic ("liberal") state attorneys general boils down to a mix of ideological approaches to antitrust enforcement and a highly contentious political battle over the ownership of CNN."

Republican critics accuse the 12 liberal AGs of abusing antitrust powers purely to preserve CNN's liberal bent.

Liberal AGs argue that allowing two of Hollywood's remaining five major studios to combine will severely harm labor (like the Writers Guild of America, which has filed its own companion lawsuit) and raise subscription prices for the working-class consumer.

Think I got it: CNN and TDS.

Good day! 🤗

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 13, 2026 10:14 AM (NFX2v)

309 “If it was not safe for the president to be on that flight, how was it safe for the media to be on that flight? And to be lied to,” a CNN guest said.

“Someone needs to tell me why that is a legal order,” she said.

Posted by: SMOD at August 13, 2026 10:40 AM (RHGPo)

310 Well, the good news is, if Crowley was a MKE County Executive, then he's likely so corrupt that even a cursory glance will find evidence of criminality. Too bad that won't happen from legacy media or local law enforcement.

Posted by: mngiggle at August 13, 2026 01:18 PM (UaLwK)

Daily News Stuff 13 August 2026

Top Story



Tech News



Musical Interlude





Disclaimer: Don't lesnerize!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM




Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 13, 2026 04:32 AM (Ia/+0)

2 Rise and shine!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 13, 2026 04:33 AM (/HDaX)

3 Top 5?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 04:33 AM (wzUl9)

4 w00t

Posted by: m at August 13, 2026 04:33 AM (odBC9)

5 BOING!

Busy.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 13, 2026 04:33 AM (yMCWt)

6 I forget who wrote the story about "lesnerize." Robert Sheckley?

And "Superstition" is one of the great songs of the '70s. There, I said it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 04:34 AM (wzUl9)

7 I'm reposting this over here because it's a nice story:

Four teens from Florida help push an elderly woman's broken down mobile wheelchair in the rain. Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/vpxcte5m

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 04:36 AM (W90Ou)

8 I've always thought that if someone did a movie of Robert Heinlein's Friday, "Superstition" should be the intro over credits music.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 04:36 AM (wzUl9)

9 >>>Some Claude users are mad[e] that Claude will catch them using Claude.

Old man yelling at Claude!

Posted by: m at August 13, 2026 04:37 AM (odBC9)

10 As the article notes, Intel's first product was memory - specifically a 64-bit SRAM module.


I note that the Man who Made Intel (Engineer, not MBA) was Grof Andras, better known as Andy Grove.

To the end of his days, he spoke English with a thick layer of Hungarian.

Posted by: Mere Murican Magyar Miklos at August 13, 2026 04:41 AM (XOG/m)

11 Anyway! Evening and morning, fellow satellites and satraps of the vast AoSHQ Empire on this Thor's Day.

Last night I dreamed that I had gone away to college, an Ivy League or similar place, and was in a "temporary" dorm suite with a number of other guys. Two of them woke us all at 6:30 am, saying, "We need to smoke." Which made me realize that I had not brought a pipe or tobacco with me. Nor, it seemed, had I brought more than one change of clothing; I thought in the dream that I'd have to have my mother ship a *lot* of stuff to me. Plus there were no branches of my bank in this college town.

My suitemates began to head out -- we were all moving to our permanent dorms, it seemed. I was trying to pack when a young girl about five feet tall knocked at the door, and asked me, "Have you heard about Janix?" Before she could explain whether that was a person, a product, or a movement, I woke up.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 04:42 AM (wzUl9)

12 Mornin'

And, later. Going to take a nap.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 13, 2026 04:42 AM (sAmhv)

13 Finally, 4 Mgid ads and got comment block open
If not back again before I go
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at August 13, 2026 04:43 AM (Ia/+0)

14 Four teens from Florida help push an elderly woman's broken down mobile wheelchair in the rain. Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/vpxcte5m
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

How did they know it was a "woman"?

Are they teen biologists?

Posted by: Associate Justice Ketanji Jackson-Browne at August 13, 2026 04:43 AM (XOG/m)

15 10 As the article notes, Intel's first product was memory - specifically a 64-bit SRAM module.


I note that the Man who Made Intel (Engineer, not MBA) was Grof Andras, better known as Andy Grove.

To the end of his days, he spoke English with a thick layer of Hungarian.
Posted by: Mere Murican Magyar Miklos at August 13, 2026 04:41 AM (XOG/m)

Looking him up online; he sounds amazing.
(1936-2016)

Posted by: m at August 13, 2026 04:48 AM (odBC9)

16 Claudes don't let Claudes Claude Claudes.

How much code could Claude Code code if Claude Code could code code?

Posted by: mikeski at August 13, 2026 04:48 AM (VHUov)

17 Superstition has good music .As a person of faith ( and older ) I question some of the lyrics. Believing that there is a devil is "superstitious "? Then again, I don't make Stevie Wonder my spiritual guide .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 04:49 AM (wmzkx)

18 Willowed: On the topic of Buicks-

Mine (inherited) has never had ballots in the trunk, to my knowledge.

But it is a 2010 LaCrosse with 53k on the clock.
Posted by: Miklos don't get around much at August 13, 2026


***
One of the first generation, then, when LaCrosse was the mid-level car, the replacement for LeSabre? Later, after the demise of the model that replaced the much-missed Park Avenue, LaCrosse moved up to become the top-level car.

No, wait. 2010 was the first year of the big flagship LaCrosse, the generation I have (mine is a 2016).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 04:50 AM (wzUl9)

19 Disclaimer: Don't lesnerize!
Posted by: Pixy Misa

I guess Martinizing is still OK

Posted by: Miklos also did the de-lousing part at August 13, 2026 04:50 AM (XOG/m)

20 With only about 4.5 hours of sleep, I'm not sure I have the energy to work out. Which might be Sheer Laziness whispering in my ear, of course.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 04:52 AM (wzUl9)

21 Post card from parents arrives 26 years later. Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/yyj27p2a

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 04:52 AM (wmzkx)

22 No, wait. 2010 was the first year of the big flagship LaCrosse, the generation I have (mine is a 2016).
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming

Only nine years until I can register it as a Classic (cheaper insurance).

Posted by: Miklos plans ahead at August 13, 2026 04:52 AM (XOG/m)

23 Disclaimer: Don't lesnerize!
Posted by: Pixy Misa

I guess Martinizing is still OK

Posted by: Miklos also did the de-lousing part at August 13, 2026 04:50 AM (XOG/m)
-

Anyone here still Simonize?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 13, 2026 04:52 AM (yMCWt)

24 Anyone here still Simonize?
Posted by: Biden's Dog


I've never even considered buying an ecclesiastical office.

Posted by: mikeski at August 13, 2026 04:55 AM (VHUov)

25 Alternate musical interlude:

https://tinyurl.com/47ru8rws

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 13, 2026 04:57 AM (yMCWt)

26 6 I forget who wrote the story about "lesnerize." Robert Sheckley?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere


Yes, the short story "Protection", about the overly helpful validusian derg.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 13, 2026 04:57 AM (BLOW1)

27 Disclaimer: Don't lesnerize!
Posted by: Pixy Misa


WNBA has enough of them already.

Posted by: mikeski at August 13, 2026 04:57 AM (VHUov)

28 At the Book Club at the library last night, the genre under discussion was the "cozy" mystery. As usual, I was the only guy there, and so the only one to dislike the genre -- at least the ones I've read. The others did admit that the genre was kind of like cotton candy or M & Ms; you wouldn't want to make a steady diet of any of them.

I touted the virtues of Josephine Tey's last novel, The Singing Sands. It has "cozy" elements: no gore or explicit language or sex; it takes place mostly in small communities in Scotland; and the sleuth, even though he's a Scotland Yard inspector, is on medical leave (an attack of claustrophobia!), so he's sort of an amateur detective in this story.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 04:57 AM (wzUl9)

29 Anyone here still Simonize?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs


Says who?

Posted by: Miklos awaits prompt at August 13, 2026 04:58 AM (XOG/m)

30 Sorry to repeat but Philistines upon you, America:

https://tinyurl.com/yx2pur6t

https://tinyurl.com/4ze7r2bh

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 13, 2026 05:00 AM (yMCWt)

31 Anyone here still Simonize?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs
-

Says who?

Posted by: Miklos awaits prompt at August 13, 2026 04:58 AM (XOG/m)
-

Ize said.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 13, 2026 05:01 AM (yMCWt)

32 The Google introduced its Pixel 11 phones and related products yesterday. A few things I noticed.

Trevor Noah, The event MC, is a tech illiterate who probably carries an iPhone.

Cell phone design and implementation maxed about 5 years ago, it seems, and has barely advanced since then. For example, a Pixel 11 key feature is an LED on the back camera bar that lights up when one of your favorites calls you. Yeah! Somehow this is supposed to make it easier for cell phone addicts to not interact with their phone.

AI jammed into every conceivable nook and cranny of these electronic surveillance devices now makes electronic surveillance acceptable.

Plus the prices are higher.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 13, 2026 05:01 AM (JUTN6)

33 I forget who wrote the story about "lesnerize." Robert Sheckley?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Yes, the short story "Protection", about the overly helpful validusian derg.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 13, 2026


***
Sheckley was kind of a gadfly of SF magazines in the '50s -- very prolific, using at least one pen name, and producing a raft of stories with his brand of poker-faced humor. Sort of like William Tenn.

One Sheckley story in Galaxy, "A Wind Is Rising," features humans stationed on a planet where the winds blow at over 100 miles per hour nearly all the time. A very tense story that would have made a fine Outer Limits, old or new, had they possessed the budget for it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 05:01 AM (wzUl9)

34 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 04:57 AM (wzUl9

And did Tey sound like someone they would like to read or had anyone?

If you were going to start a book club for men how would you advertise that, and what would you choose?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 05:02 AM (wmzkx)

35 Ize said.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs

An Ize-ly Brother!

Posted by: Miklos wants to SHOUT at August 13, 2026 05:03 AM (XOG/m)

36 Posted by: mikeski at August 13, 2026 04:55 AM (VHUov)

LOL.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 05:03 AM (wmzkx)

37 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 05:04 AM (u82oZ)

38 The ghetto ride of choice in northern Minnesota is the 2000 to about 2005 Buicks.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 13, 2026 05:04 AM (JUTN6)

39 Thursday on Movies! is Noir and Mystery Day. They start off today with Joan Crawford in Flamingo Road -- the basis, I guess, for the nighttime soap in the '80s with Morgan Fairchild -- and progress through three Hitchcock films and two Michael Shaynes, before climaxing with Sunset Boulevard in prime time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 05:06 AM (wzUl9)

40 FenelonSpoke

Military Sci-Fi Book Club: Finding the plot holes.

Many men, few women readers.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 05:06 AM (u82oZ)

41 If you were going to start a book club for men how would you advertise that, and what would you choose?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Jack London, Mark Twain, Chaucer

Evelyn Waugh and Winston Churchill for the advanced members

H.L. Mencken required for entry

And some things to laugh at and make fun of in a guy way because famous but why?

Posted by: Miklos has opinions at August 13, 2026 05:07 AM (XOG/m)

42 Happy Birthday, Annie Oakley!

https://tinyurl.com/4zakrndb

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 05:08 AM (wmzkx)

43 Friday I am going to show Monty Python and the Holy grail to a widow who has never seen it. She claims to like British humor.
We shall see.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 05:08 AM (u82oZ)

44 If I was to start a book club for men I would republish all the popular mechanics from the 1940s and '50s and the 1960s " men's magazines" that had a busty woman on the cover and endless articles about how Hitler escaped Argentina.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 13, 2026 05:09 AM (JUTN6)

45
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 13, 2026 05:10 AM (AMvSw)

46 And did Tey sound like someone they would like to read or had anyone?

If you were going to start a book club for men how would you advertise that, and what would you choose?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026


***
The librarian who runs the thing, who seems to have eclectic tastes, wrote down the title in her notebook, so maybe she'll look the author up.

For men? Adventure and crime stories. Some Alistair Maclean spy tales, the Bond books, Elmore Leonard's and Loren Estleman's Westerns and some of their crime/mystery stories, etc. Herman Wouk's Caine Mutiny and maybe his story of a young writer, Youngblood Hawke.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 05:10 AM (wzUl9)

47 Posted by: Miklos has opinions at August 13, 2026 05:07 AM (XOG/m)

Ive read most of those folks and I like them, but since men are sometimes lamenting the loss of male only spaces ( and I agree with them) they would have to advertise it surreptitiously , I suppose.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 05:11 AM (wmzkx)

48 How did they know it was a "woman"?

Are they teen biologists?
Posted by: Associate Justice Ketanji Jackson-Browne


They were homeschooled so that complicated question was already figured out by the time they were ten.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 05:11 AM (jjoN6)

49 The ghetto ride of choice in northern Minnesota is the 2000 to about 2005 Buicks.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 13, 2026


***
Park Avenues and LeSabres, I'll warrant, with yellow-ringed whitewalls on big sparkly rims, and paint jobs that have seen better days.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 05:12 AM (wzUl9)

50 Miklos has opinions

An alternative is Heinlein, The Asimov Robot stories, Matthew Hughes for his tales of the Archonate, and Ryk E. Spoor for his Grand Central Arena stories.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 05:13 AM (u82oZ)

51 Actually the Book Club is going to concentrate on Westerns next month. I've got a couple of Leonards and Estlemans that I can opine about.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 05:13 AM (wzUl9)

52 21 Post card from parents arrives 26 years later.

Thank you, Fen. Sending that along to my mom. She'll love it.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 05:13 AM (jjoN6)

53 8 I've always thought that if someone did a movie of Robert Heinlein's Friday, "Superstition" should be the intro over credits music.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 04:36 AM (wzUl9)


It has occurred to me, as a fan of LitRPG, that if a movie is to ever be made of one of my faves, it would fall to me to learn how to use GenAI for video. My experience of creative endeavors tells me that there would be very limited benefit from learning how to do short-form works like music videos; once the tools were mastered (after the first one or three), the workflow would be so different, it would be time do dive straight in to the deep end.

Posted by: SciVo at August 13, 2026 05:14 AM (Sy6m/)

54 Park Avenues and LeSabres, I'll warrant, with yellow-ringed whitewalls on big sparkly rims, and paint jobs that have seen better days. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

You overlooked the rust holes in the in the body from the road salt.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 13, 2026 05:17 AM (JUTN6)

55 Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 05:13 AM (jjoN6)

You are most welcome!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 05:18 AM (xPsv8)

56 Happy Thursday, everyone! I have an appointment this afternoon to get an MRI done on my knee so my PA can get an idea of what is wrong and what needs to be done. My sister in law has offered to look at the images as well because as a former ER doc, she was annoyed that my follow up appointment isn't until next week.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 05:18 AM (jjoN6)

57 We shall see.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

The Kollidge that I attended brought in people (for a fee) to speak and inform/entertain. The contracts said that they had to spend an hour after with the student speakers' committee in a kind of reception. I was never a member, but disregarded the student committee pissants who tried to keep me out.

One was Graham Chapman of the Pythonites. The students were always shy about approaching the Famous People, I wasn't, so Mr Chapman and I were having a conversation in which I knew not to ask about Monty Python, or repeat any usual question.

Then two from the Official Committee came over and said "we love your British humour, more sophisticated than American".

Chapman looked at them and said "we did fart jokes, you know"

Posted by: Miklos well remembers at August 13, 2026 05:19 AM (XOG/m)

58 The first time I heard Superstition was at 71 or 72 Rolling Stones concert. Stevie Wonder opened for the Stones. I can barely remember what the stoves played, but I remember nearly every note Stevie Wonder played.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 13, 2026 05:19 AM (JUTN6)

59 Miklos well remembers

You are most fortunate.

What questions did you ask?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 05:23 AM (u82oZ)

60 >>>The "Godmother of AI" says the biggest risk to AI is students losing the desire learn. (Tech Spot)
Don't know how to tell you this, Fei-Fei...

Indeed!

Posted by: m at August 13, 2026 05:23 AM (odBC9)

61 My book club would spend months on the Bronte Sisters, if we have enough Bourbon and cigars, and PBR.

We would take turns reading passages in exaggerated girl voices while tending to the grill and smoker, and trying to get Earl's truck fixed.

Posted by: Miklos thinks hell this might work at August 13, 2026 05:24 AM (XOG/m)

62 Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 05:18 AM (jjoN6

Will keep you in prayer and I'm glad your SIL can look at the images.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 05:25 AM (xPsv8)

63 Old time hymn by Mormon Tabernacle Choir "Be Still, My Soul":

https://tinyurl.com/yarju59k

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 05:29 AM (xPsv8)

64 I can barely remember what the stoves played

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 13, 2026 05:19 AM (JUTN6)
-

They were hot back then.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 13, 2026 05:29 AM (yMCWt)

65 I suspect that NVidia's is fast-milking the market for as much money as it can get before the bubble pops. No graphics card is worth $16K. That's just... stupid.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 13, 2026 05:30 AM (O7YUW)

66 They were hot back then.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey


They were a gas.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 05:32 AM (jjoN6)

67 My Guys' Book Club could also tackle Stephen Hunter's stories of the law enforcement adventures of the Swagger men, Charles in the 1930s, his son Earl until his death in 1956, and *his* son Bob Lee from the '70s to recent times.

Charles I picture looking like Scott Glenn; Earl, like Rory Calhoun. Bob Lee I'm not sure about. Didn't Mark Wahlberg play him in one film adaptation?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 05:33 AM (wzUl9)

68 Stevie Wonder - Superstition

He's a good one.

Posted by: m at August 13, 2026 05:33 AM (odBC9)

69 64 I can barely remember what the stoves played

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 13, 2026 05:19 AM (JUTN6)
-

They were hot back then.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 13, 2026 05:29 AM (yMCWt)

; )

Posted by: m at August 13, 2026 05:34 AM (odBC9)

70 What questions did you ask?
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Starting about that time, I have met some well known people, and it started then-

Nothing about what you are famous for

Nothing particularly personal

Look around-same or different (to them, not me)?

I asked if the same cheap (but French, must be French) wine was all the universities he did his appearances at (Yes, good laugh)

Do you have time to eat some New Orleans food, do you know where to go? (No actually, do you have any suggestions)

Well, I made you laugh, do I have a career in comedy (perhaps, probably not, it is a funny business).

We were talking about New Orleans food when we were rudely interrupted.

Posted by: Miklos never asks the same question once at August 13, 2026 05:35 AM (XOG/m)

71 57 Then two from the Official Committee came over and said "we love your British humour, more sophisticated than American".
Posted by: Miklos well remembers at August 13, 2026 05:19 AM (XOG/m)

They seem nice.

Posted by: m at August 13, 2026 05:37 AM (odBC9)

72 Miklos asks good questions

Thank you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 05:38 AM (u82oZ)

73 Miklos

This sounds like Tulane, not Loyola.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 05:39 AM (u82oZ)

74 Grumbling of thunder outside. Maybe my idea of skipping my workout today was not such a bad one. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 05:41 AM (wzUl9)

75 No graphics card is worth $16K. That's just... stupid.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Not even if it is a mint condition original signed by Rookie Joe DiMaggio himself?

Posted by: Miklos knos what he's got, or can make at August 13, 2026 05:41 AM (XOG/m)

76 I was happy to meet a neighbor yesterday whom I didn't really know , who set up lovely boxes of flowers on the bridge over our little pond by the street. She does a lovely job with them and I am so grateful .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 05:41 AM (wmzkx)

77 This sounds like Tulane, not Loyola.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

In Nawlins it is pronounced Lie-ola

Pretty girls right next door

Posted by: Miklos and Muldoon have a vague collegiate connection at August 13, 2026 05:43 AM (XOG/m)

78 60 >>>The "Godmother of AI" says the biggest risk to AI is students losing the desire learn. (Tech Spot)
Don't know how to tell you this, Fei-Fei...

Indeed!
Posted by: m at August 13, 2026 05:23 AM (odBC9)

Subtitle of the article:

Fei-Fei Li warns overreliance on AI could erode students' motivation, agency, and ability to think for themselves

Ayup!

archive site:

https://archive.is/oO7Lj

Posted by: m at August 13, 2026 05:46 AM (odBC9)

79 There was an American Chemical Society meeting in NO one year. My professor and I spent Saturday night touring the Tulane chemistry department. And walked the grounds of Loyola.

My major professor then failed at tenure, so he went to Loyola. Just in time for the floods. He moved to a third university.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 05:47 AM (u82oZ)

80 The Godmother of AI article has an embedded Huberman Lab video in which she is interviewed.

hubermanlab.com

Using AI for Good
Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity
Dr. Fei-Fei Li

Posted by: m at August 13, 2026 05:53 AM (odBC9)

81 I'm going to be like Village Idiot's Apprentice , and go for a walk. It's only 82℉ outside.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 05:54 AM (u82oZ)

82 Stevie Wonder
Superstition
Sesame Street Live
https://youtu.be/_ul7X5js1vE

This is the version.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 13, 2026 05:54 AM (JUTN6)

83 I spent Saturday night touring the Tulane chemistry department.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

As a young lad, I considered the on campus beer joint the "Chemistry Department".

Loyola had one too, but the idjits never bothered to wander over and say hi.

Posted by: Miklos enjoyed his time there, even god good grades somehow at August 13, 2026 05:55 AM (XOG/m)

84 Our kitten is standing straight up on his back feet to play with his toy mouse. He makes me laugh

May you all have a blessed day and know that you are a blessing to others!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 05:56 AM (wmzkx)

85 82 Stevie Wonder
Superstition
Sesame Street Live
https://youtu.be/_ul7X5js1vE

This is the version.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 13, 2026 05:54 AM (JUTN6)

Wow! He IS the music!

Posted by: m at August 13, 2026 06:04 AM (odBC9)

86 This sounds like Tulane, not Loyola.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
*
In Nawlins it is pronounced Lie-ola

Pretty girls right next door
Posted by: Miklos and Muldoon have a vague collegiate connection at August 13, 2026


***
Not as many pretty ones as in years gone by. A lot of them look like they've been snacking on Twinkies for a good part of the day since they were twelve.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 06:07 AM (wzUl9)

87 There was an American Chemical Society meeting in NO one year. My professor and I spent Saturday night touring the Tulane chemistry department. And walked the grounds of Loyola.

My major professor then failed at tenure, so he went to Loyola. Just in time for the floods. He moved to a third university.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026


***
What year did you visit?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 06:08 AM (wzUl9)

88

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 13, 2026 06:10 AM (yM1Zs)

89 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at August 13, 2026 06:11 AM (2Ez/1)

90 *hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 13, 2026


***
What morning would be complete without a belch from The Hag, amirite?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 06:11 AM (wzUl9)

91 Not as many pretty ones as in years gone by. A lot of them look like they've been snacking on Twinkies for a good part of the day since they were twelve.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Ha!

Probably sad but true.

But my freshman year I went to a couple of parties at the katlick all-girl college right across St Charles. Was that Dominican? I think they closed soon after.

The girls there were man-hungry, and all about thrice my skinny 18 year old self.

I realized that nekkid activities could easily get my bones broken. ta-ta, well-fed young ladies

Posted by: Miklos made difficult decisions early in life at August 13, 2026 06:15 AM (XOG/m)

92 80 The Godmother of AI article has an embedded Huberman Lab video in which she is interviewed.

hubermanlab.com

Using AI for Good
Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity
Dr. Fei-Fei Li
Posted by: m at August 13, 2026 05:53 AM (odBC9)

It's two hours plus a bit.

Posted by: m at August 13, 2026 06:16 AM (odBC9)

93 What morning would be complete without a belch from The Hag, amirite?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

We are the last Proud Sponsor of the Clinton Global Foundation

Posted by: Val-U-Rite (which does sound like a K&B brand) at August 13, 2026 06:18 AM (XOG/m)

94 But my freshman year I went to a couple of parties at the katlick all-girl college right across St Charles. Was that Dominican? I think they closed soon after.

The girls there were man-hungry, and all about thrice my skinny 18 year old self.

I realized that nekkid activities could easily get my bones broken. ta-ta, well-fed young ladies
Posted by: Miklos made difficult decisions early in life at August 13, 2026


***
Right, Dominican was up the street, about a block past Broadway. Loyola took the buildings over in the late '80s or early '90s -- at least Miss Linda was staying there during her first semester of law at Loyola. Not sure if they are still owned by Loyola, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 06:20 AM (wzUl9)

95 Isn't Andrew Huberman the self-help guru that got busted for having six simultaneous affairs with women? None knew about the other?

Charming guy.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 13, 2026 06:22 AM (nHXB4)

96 When I started working at Two-Lane in 1988, there were plenty of good-looking girls, including graduate students. And some in my night school classes, too, and one lovely lady I dated who managed the Arby's inside the university center building.

Still there were some when I returned to work there in '02, but a lot of them were slim Chinese students. Though there was one Brazilian girl, fair-skinned with black hair, who was spectacular.

The undergrads, however, steadily gained avoirdupois over the years.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 06:25 AM (wzUl9)

97 Not sure if they are still owned by Loyola, though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

I think Tulane leased some dorms for a while, until they got in all the money and built their own.

Posted by: Miklos finds it amusing that the Alumi Association thinks I should give moneys at August 13, 2026 06:26 AM (XOG/m)

98 Isn't Andrew Huberman the self-help guru that got busted for having six simultaneous affairs with women? None knew about the other?

Charming guy.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes,

Consummate consummating one might say

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 13, 2026 06:26 AM (JUTN6)

99 Wolfus Aurelius

1994.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 06:26 AM (u82oZ)

100 95 Isn't Andrew Huberman the self-help guru that got busted for having six simultaneous affairs with women? None knew about the other?

Charming guy.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 13, 2026 06:22 AM (nHXB4)

None of that is on his Wikipedia page.

Posted by: m at August 13, 2026 06:27 AM (odBC9)

101 83 As a young lad, I considered the on campus beer joint the "Chemistry Department".

Posted by: Miklos enjoyed his time there, even god good grades somehow at August 13, 2026 05:55 AM (XOG/m)

heh

Posted by: m at August 13, 2026 06:28 AM (odBC9)

102 Janix isn’t right for everyone. Don’t take Janix if you are allergic to Janix.

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 13, 2026 06:28 AM (pI9r+)

103 Hillary Clinton

Web Hubble had it in for you. Webb Hubble!

Was Henry Waxman unavailable?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 06:28 AM (u82oZ)

104 G'mornin' everyone!

Happy Friday Eve!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 13, 2026 06:28 AM (VyBeY)

105 IIRC, Buick had the highest quality ratings in recent years of any GM product. Of course, GM had already ditched the Old- smobile and pony-act nameplates. My parents usually went GM, except several Dodges. After a lemon Dodge or two, they tried Chebby again.
I exclude GM consideration since Mr. Obama’s phony “bankruptcy” for GM, since my 401-k once held GM bonds. I was lucky that my bonds matured before the bondholders were betrayed by the “bankruptcy”.

Posted by: Fenderbender at August 13, 2026 06:28 AM (1FEc1)

106 Isn't Andrew Huberman the self-help guru that got busted for having six simultaneous affairs with women? None knew about the other?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 13, 2026 06:22 AM (nHXB4)

Let’s not get all knotted up about oo did oo.

Posted by: Pete Bog channeling Python at August 13, 2026 06:31 AM (pI9r+)

107 The undergrads, however, steadily gained avoirdupois over the years.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Mass is a mathematically measurable manifestation.

It sometimes comes down to raw numbers.

In my day

Tulane-5/3 ratio boys/girls

Loyola-7/3 ratio girls/boys

Res ipsa loquitur

Posted by: Miklosius does not remember Tulane's official Latin Motto, sure they got one though at August 13, 2026 06:31 AM (XOG/m)

108 Andrew Huberman Daily Mail article:

https://tinyurl.com/yufjs998

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 13, 2026 06:31 AM (nHXB4)

109 Wolfus Aurelius

1994.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026


***
I was working at the Graduate School office then, down in the main building on St. Charles. Used MS Access to build them an automated payroll action form (PAF) printing system. The GS had to generate them for all the grad students except for the med school and Engineering. The lady whose job it had been took all summer to *type* the darn things, a lot of the data over and over again. That was just the sort of thing computers were for.

Still my best achievement in the computer field, bar none.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 06:31 AM (wzUl9)

110
The girls there were man-hungry

Can such things be?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 06:32 AM (O0L8i)

111 I received a class action settlement check in the amount of $2.23 a couple days ago. I was greatly disappointed as I was counting on that settlement to continue to fund my retirement debauchery.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 13, 2026 06:32 AM (JUTN6)

112 100 95 Isn't Andrew Huberman the self-help guru that got busted for having six simultaneous affairs with women? None knew about the other?

Charming guy.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 13, 2026 06:22 AM (nHXB4)

None of that is on his Wikipedia page.
Posted by: m at August 13, 2026 06:27 AM (odBC9)

Oh, it does have this:

Enrique Alpañés, writing in El Pais in 2025, described Huberman as "He-Man in a lab coat: a bearded, muscular jock with an impressive resume and even better oratory skills ... [preaching] a Silicon Valley-style self-help approach, a kind of “pop neuroscience” focused on lifestyle changes and supplements to work faster and live longer", though opining that Huberman often "recommends activities that are more befitting a deranged shaman than a scientist".

Posted by: m at August 13, 2026 06:33 AM (odBC9)

113 Happy Friday Eve!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez

It is now Friday

Drink appropriately

Posted by: President Miklos J. Trump, by Executive Order at August 13, 2026 06:33 AM (XOG/m)

114
Posted by: Miklosius does not remember Tulane's official Latin Motto, sure they got one though at August 13, 2026 06:31 AM (XOG/m)

Deo et Patriae

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 06:34 AM (O0L8i)

115 111 I received a class action settlement check in the amount of $2.23 a couple days ago. I was greatly disappointed as I was counting on that settlement to continue to fund my retirement debauchery.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 13, 2026 06:32 AM (JUTN6)


My favorite class action settlement was from Zappos, due to a data breach.

A one-time 10% off coupon, which would expire in 30 days...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 13, 2026 06:34 AM (nHXB4)

116 Six at once? Excluding the skeez and public health factors, that’s a remarkable bit of logistical work.

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 13, 2026 06:35 AM (pI9r+)

117 I think Tulane leased some dorms for a while, until they got in all the money and built their own.
Posted by: Miklos finds it amusing that the Alumi Association thinks I should give moneys at August 13, 2026


***
For many years the grad student apartments used to stand on the north end of campus, a long walk from anything else. Katrina finished that off. For a time Two-Lane leased apartments in a Garden District-area building, and they had some apartments as late as 2015 down by the med school and the public library.

They built some new grad housing, I think, but I'm not sure where.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 06:36 AM (wzUl9)

118
Isn't Andrew Huberman the self-help guru that got busted for having six simultaneous affairs with women? None knew about the other?

Charming guy.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 13, 2026 06:22 AM (nHXB4)


Must have been exhausting. One good thing about monogamy is that there's only one situation to handle.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 06:36 AM (O0L8i)

119 Still my best achievement in the computer field, bar none.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

University Textbook Department

Downstairs in the UC

Oh lawd

Barbara Williams was the best boss I ever had, though

Posted by: Miklos was apartially self-funded student at August 13, 2026 06:37 AM (XOG/m)

120 Must have been exhausting. One good thing about monogamy is that there's only one situation to handle.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh


*smiles....?*

Posted by: Eve at August 13, 2026 06:38 AM (XOG/m)

121 Must have been exhausting. One good thing about monogamy is that there's only one situation to handle.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Do your dogs know this?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 13, 2026 06:41 AM (JUTN6)

122
Now that I'm finished with assembling my journal references, the time to assemble my patent references draws nigh. Reviewing the CPC Scheme for catalysts, at random I looked up B01J 2531/0227 (Catalysts; Compositional aspects of complexes used; Complexes comprising pentahapto-cyclopentadienyl analogues; Carbollides) and damned if the first reference wasn't one where I'm an inventor.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 06:41 AM (O0L8i)

123 108 Andrew Huberman Daily Mail article:

https://tinyurl.com/yufjs998
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 13, 2026 06:31 AM (nHXB4)

Thank you!

archive site:

https://archive.is/wip/QrMG3

Posted by: m at August 13, 2026 06:41 AM (odBC9)

124 I fed the furry monsters early last night, as we left for the library at 5:15. So I'll feed them a little earlier than usual this morning, and get them back on the 6 pm and 6 am schedule tonight and tomorrow.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 06:41 AM (wzUl9)

125 123 108 Andrew Huberman Daily Mail article:

https://tinyurl.com/yufjs998
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 13, 2026 06:31 AM (nHXB4)

Thank you!

archive site:

https://archive.is/wip/QrMG3
Posted by: m at August 13, 2026 06:41 AM (odBC9)

It reads like a he-said, she-said.

Posted by: m at August 13, 2026 06:43 AM (odBC9)

126 Must have been exhausting. One good thing about monogamy is that there's only one situation to handle.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh


***
The most I ever tried to juggle was two women. Exhausting indeed.

But fun for all concerned . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 06:43 AM (wzUl9)

127
Her Majesty and The Big Dummy head out this morning for a four-weekend trip to points north (Waco, Twin Cities, Amana, Des Moines). Spare a thought for safe travels.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 06:44 AM (O0L8i)

128 For many years the grad student apartments used to stand on the north end of campus, a long walk from anything else.



Looked like Stalinist communal housing.

As a student, I was....involved in a satirical weekly for which Two-Lane was a target rich environment.

One of my first published pieces was after the old Sugar Bowl Stadium was demolished was a mock Official Study that determined the best use of the old stadium site was for a stadium.

Lot of housing there now, or so I hear. AND A POOL

Posted by: Miklos declines all University requests for gifts in my dotage at August 13, 2026 06:44 AM (XOG/m)

129 Hadrian the Seventh

Very cool.

Better than walking the stacks, seeing a familiar journal, and thumbing to your first paper.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 06:45 AM (u82oZ)

130 But fun for all concerned . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

GLARE GLARE GLARE

Posted by: Darleen, Marleen and Charleen at August 13, 2026 06:45 AM (XOG/m)

131 Deranged shaman?

A certain mad Russian holy man would like to have a word with him.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 13, 2026 06:45 AM (2GVsD)

132 I once tried juggling three women. The head injury lawsuits bankrupted me.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 13, 2026 06:46 AM (JUTN6)

133 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 06:44 AM (O0L8i)

I will do that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 06:46 AM (rHgXV)

134 Alteria Pilgram

Different ports is the answer.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 06:47 AM (u82oZ)

135
Better than walking the stacks, seeing a familiar journal, and thumbing to your first paper.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 06:45 AM (u82oZ)


https://tinyurl.com/3a6jp8na

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 06:47 AM (O0L8i)

136 Different ports is the answer.

Cruise widows wave.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 13, 2026 06:47 AM (2GVsD)

137 Hadrian the Seventh

Prayers for safe and rewarding travels ascending.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 06:48 AM (u82oZ)

138 Hadrian, I managed to see the brace picture of the Borzois you sent when I got home. Gorgeous dogs and it looked like they were having fun.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 06:49 AM (jjoN6)

139
I managed to see the brace picture of the Borzois you sent when I got home. Gorgeous dogs and it looked like they were having fun.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 06:49 AM (jjoN6)


Two Borzoi boys are a team.

Two Borzoi girls are a conspiracy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 06:50 AM (O0L8i)

140 Better than walking the stacks, seeing a familiar journal, and thumbing to your first paper.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

*thinks...walking the stacks....saw your favorite journal*

*maybe*

*needs work*

Posted by: Miklos, songwriter for Patsy Cline at August 13, 2026 06:50 AM (XOG/m)

141 "Sharing what we love." Devotional on Acts 4:1-8

https://tinyurl.com/46wdsxn7

Reading this reminds me of poster Marcus, a very nice guy sharing his faith in Christ. Haven't seen him for a while. Hope he's doing well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 06:51 AM (rHgXV)

142 Hadrian the Seventh

OMG.
Physical Organic Chemistry and Hammett's equation. I am having a linear free-energy relationship flashback.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 06:51 AM (u82oZ)

143 For many years the grad student apartments used to stand on the north end of campus, a long walk from anything else.
*
Looked like Stalinist communal housing.

As a student, I was....involved in a satirical weekly for which Two-Lane was a target rich environment.

One of my first published pieces was after the old Sugar Bowl Stadium was demolished was a mock Official Study that determined the best use of the old stadium site was for a stadium.

Lot of housing there now, or so I hear. AND A POOL
Posted by: Miklos declines all University requests for gifts in my dotage at August 13, 2026


***
Was that the satirical paper that referred to the official campus newspaper, the Hullabaloo, as the "Hullabaloser?"

When the future Mrs. Wolfus No. 1 was a student there in the mid-'70s, the pool was in the "basement" (really the ground level) of the UC. Along with a barbershop!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 06:52 AM (wzUl9)

144 Old Two-Lane stadium is significant for me, not because I was ever there (I was not) but the first Super Bowl I remember watching was played there between the Steelers and Vikings. SB IX, I believe… I was a young lad rooting for the Vikes because they had Fran Tarkenton, but they got beat up that day by the Steel Curtain. Still sticks in my head…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 13, 2026 06:54 AM (MaA4a)

145 The Two-Lane Hullabaloo once used to run Dave Barry's column. I recall one suggesting a game show called "Eat Bugs for Money."

"You would do this. Yes, you! You reading this right now! For enough cash, you'd eat bugs for money, wouldn't you?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 06:56 AM (wzUl9)

146 Two Borzoi girls are a conspiracy.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh


And a group of Greyhounds are a Nap.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 06:57 AM (jjoN6)

147 What's the Janix, Kenneth?????

Posted by: Dan at August 13, 2026 06:59 AM (DZ9Lv)

148 Old Two-Lane stadium is significant for me, not because I was ever there (I was not) but the first Super Bowl I remember watching was played there between the Steelers and Vikings. SB IX, I believe… I was a young lad rooting for the Vikes because they had Fran Tarkenton, but they got beat up that day by the Steel Curtain. Still sticks in my head…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 13, 2026


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The old stadium was practically across the street from the future Mrs. Wolfus No. 1's dorm. Neither of us had any interest in feetsball. We'd walk (yes, it was possible to walk pretty safely after dark in certain areas then) over to a nearby restaurant for some pizza; there'd be nobody there. As we came back, the game would be over and everybody would be streaming *away* from the stadium.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 06:59 AM (wzUl9)

149 When the future Mrs. Wolfus No. 1 was a student there in the mid-'70s, the pool was in the "basement" (really the ground level) of the UC. Along with a barbershop!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

The pool was only for the swim team, not for regular students. The barber shop charged $3 for a simple and quick ROTC cut, which was OK with me.

The Hullabaloozer was based on the name of a professor named Radomir Lujza who was quite good, but whose son (a Junior of the same name ) attended for free (perk of being on faculty) and had written inbecilia in the Hullaballoo and was thus dubbed Radical Loser.

Posted by: Miklos, now it all comes back at August 13, 2026 07:00 AM (XOG/m)

150 Two Borzoi boys are a team.

Two Borzoi girls are a conspiracy.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026


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Two cats are a hit squad.

Especially if you happen to be a mouse, a lizard, or a salamander.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 07:00 AM (wzUl9)

151 If you were going to start a book club for men how would you advertise that, and what would you choose?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Boobs

Posted by: Average male AoS poster at August 13, 2026 07:01 AM (DZ9Lv)

152 The old stadium was practically across the street from the future Mrs. Wolfus No. 1's dorm. Neither of us had any interest in feetsball. We'd walk (yes, it was possible to walk pretty safely after dark in certain areas then) over to a nearby restaurant for some pizza; there'd be nobody there. As we came back, the game would be over and everybody would be streaming *away* from the stadium.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 06:59 AM (wzUl9)

That is interesting…. 3 of the first 9 super bowls were played there between 1970 and 1975. Does that timeframe coincide with your time there?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 13, 2026 07:02 AM (MaA4a)

153 It reads like a he-said, she-said.
Posted by: m at August 13, 2026 06:43 AM (odBC9)

Technically, a she said, she said, she said.

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 13, 2026 07:03 AM (Edxq2)

154 111
When you get those notices in the mail saying that you might be entitled to money from a class action settlement, read the fine print!
The ones that I have seen, say they can compel you to produce more documentation!
I throw them in the trash.

Posted by: Fenderbender at August 13, 2026 07:03 AM (1FEc1)

155 Posted by: Average male AoS poster at August 13, 2026 07:01 AM (DZ9Lv

If it were men only there wouldn't be only boobs, unless they were "man boobs" , but yes, that does sound like many posters at " Hootersville" uhh ASHQ. Thanks for the chuckle.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 07:04 AM (DzHyO)

156 That is interesting…. 3 of the first 9 super bowls were played there between 1970 and 1975. Does that timeframe coincide with your time there?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 13, 2026


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Yes; Mrs. W. No. 1 attended from '74 to '76 before transferring to the campus in Lafayette (when we got married and moved). I didn't attend until the night school after I became an employee, twelve years later.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 07:04 AM (wzUl9)

157 The most I ever tried to juggle was two women. Exhausting indeed.

But fun for all concerned . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Guy on the Cal Poly SLO debate team tried to juggle 2 girlfriends, one on his team and one on mine. They both figured it out at nationals and publicly clobbered him.

Posted by: Dark Lix at August 13, 2026 07:05 AM (DZ9Lv)

158 "Any" not "only"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 07:06 AM (DzHyO)

159 The old stadium was practically across the street from the future Mrs. Wolfus No. 1's dorm.



Roommates and I "acquired" some of the astroturf from the old stadium. It was part of the 20 yard line, but only part. Became the "floor treatment" of our apartment.

We enjoyed telling girls (on the rare occasions any came over) that this is the original two yard line, number's right there

Posted by: Miklos recalls and becomes content at August 13, 2026 07:07 AM (XOG/m)

160 The most I ever tried to juggle was two women. Exhausting indeed.

But fun for all concerned . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Guy on the Cal Poly SLO debate team tried to juggle 2 girlfriends, one on his team and one on mine. They both figured it out at nationals and publicly clobbered him.
Posted by: Dark Lix at August 13, 2026


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In my case they each worked, and lived, at opposite ends of town. A workout it was for my little Ford Escort, since I lived in a third area, about halfway between them.

One was ten years younger than me; the other about five years older. An interesting contrast.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 07:08 AM (wzUl9)

161 Intel's been a day late and a dollar short for about a decade.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 13, 2026 07:09 AM (+LSGm)

162 Kind stranger at the Birmingham airport:

https://tinyurl.com/4e67xxkc

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 07:10 AM (SQmE5)

163 Intel's been a day late and a dollar short for about a decade.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 13, 2026


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Currently adjusted to six days and $7.99 thanks to inflation . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 07:10 AM (wzUl9)

164 One was ten years younger than me; the other about five years older. An interesting contrast.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

*looks for a job, any job at Loyola, Tulane, UNO, or even Delgado, if the....uh...personnel schedule works*

Posted by: Miklos is only occasionally picky at August 13, 2026 07:12 AM (XOG/m)

165 The two simultaneous girlfriends were a contrast in looks too. One looked like Claudia Cardinale's younger and less glamorous (but still super cute) sister. The older, like Marsha Mason when she did The Goodbye Girl.

Ah, for 1991 again . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 07:15 AM (wzUl9)

166 mornin yall. I got an email that Microsoft is doing away with SMS two factor authentication because it's not secure. I don't care what they come up with, as long as humans are involved, it won't be secure.

Posted by: Joe Biteum at August 13, 2026 07:16 AM (MWfyi)

167 One of my older siblings went to Georgia Tech and was in a frat. Circa 1970 the yellow jackets hosted Tulane for Homecoming and my family went to Atlanta. It was tradition for every frat to decorate the house in a "float" for a prize competition. This involved copious amounts of chicken wire, colored tissue paper and no small amount of hooch. They were extremely creative, and being Tech, the display had to be dynamic enough to pretty much get up and walk around the yard to even come close to winning.
Ten year old me was awed at all the amazing depictions of how a flying stinging insect was going to destroy the Green Wave.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 13, 2026 07:17 AM (2Ez/1)

168 mornin yall. I got an email that Microsoft is doing away with SMS two factor authentication because it's not secure. I don't care what they come up with, as long as humans are involved, it won't be secure.
Posted by: Joe Biteum at August 13, 2026


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I'm so bloody tired of having not only to log in to a website, but also having to get a code off my phone or email and enter that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 07:18 AM (wzUl9)

169 Oh my, off brain dead sock.

Posted by: fd at August 13, 2026 07:19 AM (MWfyi)

170 The "Godmother of AI" says the biggest risk to AI is students losing the desire learn. (Tech Spot)

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No shit? Why hasn't anyone else thought of this before?

Posted by: Biergood at August 13, 2026 07:19 AM (PwgSL)

171 Ah, for 1991 again . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming

Your adventure led to an an unanticipated series of events including the bankruptcy of Schwegman's and the end of K&B, yet you emerged almost unscathed.

Posted by: Miklos has plot concepts over here at August 13, 2026 07:20 AM (XOG/m)

172 mornin yall. I got an email that Microsoft is doing away with SMS two factor authentication because it's not secure. I don't care what they come up with, as long as humans are involved, it won't be secure.
Posted by: Joe Biteum at August 13, 2026

That stinks. Their stupid 2FA app has never worked for me on Android.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 13, 2026 07:21 AM (+LSGm)

173 "Bill Gates’ daughter Phoebe accused of ‘cookie stuffing’ scheme that has max penalty of 20 years in prison"

She fancies herself as a business person. Why bother? She's just screwing things up for others when she could go away and live a life of luxury. A Gates family trait, I guess.

Posted by: fd at August 13, 2026 07:22 AM (MWfyi)

174 Not much on the schedule here today. We might go over to the nearby mall and walk at ten am. Otherwise I need to get an (approximate and wildly optimistic) insurance quote on a house I like, and if it's not too excruciating a price, to ask my real estate agent to set up a video tour. It's a nice-looking 2BR/1BA with garage and basement in what appears on Gorgle Street View to be a nice area.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 07:23 AM (wzUl9)

175 Ah, for 1991 again . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming
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Your adventure led to an an unanticipated series of events including the bankruptcy of Schwegman's and the end of K&B, yet you emerged almost unscathed.
Posted by: Miklos has plot concepts over here at August 13, 2026


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Sometimes I get lucky. In more than one way.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 07:24 AM (wzUl9)

176 I thought Gates' kid was Phil, not Phoebe

Or will be?

I dunno

Posted by: Miklos is rather uninformed and unconcerned at August 13, 2026 07:24 AM (XOG/m)

177 The local schools started up last Friday (stupid, I know) and yesterday one of the high schools got shut down until next Monday because a student shot another student.

Posted by: fd at August 13, 2026 07:25 AM (MWfyi)

178 I thought Gates' kid was Phil, not Phoebe

Or will be?

I dunno
Posted by: Miklos is rather uninformed and unconcerned at August 13, 2026


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"Open" and "Closed" were two names they rejected.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 07:25 AM (wzUl9)

179 When the future Mrs. Wolfus No. 1 was a student there in the mid-'70s, the pool was in the "basement" (really the ground level) of the UC. Along with a barbershop!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 06:52 AM (wzUl9)

Wait. Did you say there was wimmin in the basement?

Posted by: Hick at August 13, 2026 07:25 AM (1Ff7Z)

180 The local schools started up last Friday (stupid, I know) and yesterday one of the high schools got shut down until next Monday because a student shot another student.
Posted by: fd at August 13, 2026


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That's the hard way to avoid having to write a theme on "How I Spent My Summer Vacation"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 07:26 AM (wzUl9)

181 The principal says "I want you to know how incredibly proud I am of each and every one of you,"

Posted by: fd at August 13, 2026 07:26 AM (MWfyi)

182 Sometimes I get lucky. In more than one way.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

I hope that applies to the new house elsewhere.

Posted by: Miklos wishes well at August 13, 2026 07:27 AM (XOG/m)

183 I'm so bloody tired of having not only to log in to a website, but also having to get a code off my phone or email and enter that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 07:18 AM (wzUl9)

Especially for paying a water bill or something. Do they think someone's gonna hack it and pay the bill for me?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 13, 2026 07:29 AM (1Ff7Z)

184 177 The local schools started up last Friday (stupid, I know) and yesterday one of the high schools got shut down until next Monday because a student shot another student.
Posted by: fd


That's a self-starter right there.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 07:29 AM (jjoN6)

185 Sometimes I get lucky. In more than one way.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
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I hope that applies to the new house elsewhere.
Posted by: Miklos wishes well at August 13, 2026


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You and me both. The house I recently considered to be perfect and in a perfect location got snapped up before I could video tour it. I've got to move faster.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 07:29 AM (wzUl9)

186 Waiting for JJ to drop so I can understand why the feck gas jumped fifty cents overnight

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 13, 2026 07:29 AM (bGiud)

187 "Especially for paying a water bill or something. Do they think someone's gonna hack it and pay the bill for me?
Posted by: OrangeEnt"

Exactly. My ISP makes me do that every month to pay my bill. Dumb.

Posted by: fd at August 13, 2026 07:30 AM (MWfyi)

188 What stops you from renting in Tally Ho instead of the Crescent City?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 13, 2026 07:30 AM (2Ez/1)

189 Gates is a good example of what Danny Polishchul calls the "Forbes 30 Under 30-to-prison pipeline."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 13, 2026 07:31 AM (BI5O2)

190 I'm so bloody tired of having not only to log in to a website, but also having to get a code off my phone or email and enter that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026
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Especially for paying a water bill or something. Do they think someone's gonna hack it and pay the bill for me?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 13, 2026


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I've still got my creditors sending me paper bills, and I mail my check to them. Let 'em work for their money. They're not giving me a discount for going online.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 07:31 AM (wzUl9)

191 The principal says "I want you to know how incredibly proud I am of each and every one of you,"
Posted by: fd

Lil' Miklos-"incredible" means unbelievable, impossible to believe, so I don't believe you

*lil' Miklos does one of those Free GED courses*

Posted by: Miklos should learn the virtues of silence at August 13, 2026 07:32 AM (XOG/m)

192 My mom has a lot of fun when she has to explain to companies that she does not have nor ever will have a smart phone.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 07:33 AM (jjoN6)

193 What stops you from renting in Tally Ho instead of the Crescent City?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 13, 2026


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Because I think I have only one big move left in me. And the money that would cost, including moving my furniture or storing it, deposits, rent on a year's lease, pet deposits, and pet rent (the usual scams nowadays) mounts up to good money I could be be putting into the house.

That said, I might *have* to go and rent for a while.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 07:33 AM (wzUl9)

194 Victor Tango. I'm guessing the fact that the strategic reserve is at 30% so the oil companies decided to gouge us since PDT cannot release reserves.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 13, 2026 07:36 AM (2NHgQ)

195 That said, I might *have* to go and rent for a while.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Fat City, baby

Welcome to Met'ry

Posted by: various Italian named property companies at August 13, 2026 07:37 AM (XOG/m)

196 Wolfus Aurelius

Donate the furniture. Ship your beloved car.

Buy new to you furniture on arrival. Rent a truck to bring the rest of your stuff.

When I moved we both sold our cars. Bought new. The difference is we had equity.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 07:38 AM (u82oZ)

197 Gas has been falling, for regular unleaded gas (RUG) anyway, for a little while here. The Buick is at half a tank and I'm trying to use ethanol-free (E0) when I can. That stuff doesn't usually fall much when RUG does, though. I may go back to 50/50 or 40/60 RUG/E0 for my fill-ups for a while.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 07:39 AM (wzUl9)

198 Alternatively, set up three piles before you move:

Pile 1: I need to have this. Ideally, this should be the smallest one.
Pile 2: I will donate this.
Pile 3: I will set this on fire.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 07:39 AM (jjoN6)

199 nood!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 13, 2026 07:40 AM (VyBeY)

200 "Lauren Boebert’s Son Arrested on Charges of Child Sexual Exploitation"

What a f'd up family.

Posted by: fd at August 13, 2026 07:40 AM (MWfyi)

201 Donate the furniture. Ship your beloved car.

Buy new to you furniture on arrival. Rent a truck to bring the rest of your stuff.

When I moved we both sold our cars. Bought new. The difference is we had equity.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026


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Well, I have capital, but no equity. And it would be hard to replace a lot of my furniture, which is real solid wood, including my desk -- which dates to about 1960 and was my dinner, homework, and hobby table growing up. I'm scared to see what a Mission-style armchair would cost nowadays. I'll leave my ancient box spring and a fe other things behind and buy new, though.

Trying to drive three days in a rental truck with two cats in carriers? Not a good idea.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 07:43 AM (wzUl9)

202 Alternatively, set up three piles before you move:

Pile 1: I need to have this. Ideally, this should be the smallest one.
Pile 2: I will donate this.
Pile 3: I will set this on fire.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026


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I'd be most pleased to leave Piles 2 and 3 for this place's apartment mismanagement to deal with.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 07:44 AM (wzUl9)

203
JJS

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 13, 2026 07:44 AM (/+uur)

204 "Because I think I have only one big move left in me."

Thought experiment, or at least a paper exercise.
Make it a small move.
Get rid of everything except the bare minimum you need to exist as if you were camping. One table, one chair, one lamp, one place setting, an air mattress and a single set of sheets.
Get rid of everything else. Give it away, because selling isn't worth it, unless you can find a company that does an online estate sale for you.
Make your footprint so small it will fit into a small u haul trailer.
When you get a new place buy new stuff.
Start over.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 13, 2026 07:44 AM (2Ez/1)

205
Fat City, baby

Welcome to Met'ry
Posted by: various Italian named property companies at August 13, 2026


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Nowadays Fat City looks like a Western ghost town after the silver mines closed down. Some businesses, yes, and some condos, but otherwise it's not the party magnet it was in the '70s and '80s.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 07:46 AM (wzUl9)

206 The Movie Vault Roku App, is finally at an acceptable MVP, but it looks like a year one UI.

There are no React like UI libraries to build Roku apps and I'm programming raw xml and Brightscript.

Anyhow, super happy with what I've developed so far and have replaced Plex across my entire home.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 13, 2026 07:47 AM (XV/Pl)

207 Make it a small move.
Get rid of everything except the bare minimum you need to exist as if you were camping. One table, one chair, one lamp, one place setting, an air mattress and a single set of sheets.
Get rid of everything else. Give it away, because selling isn't worth it, unless you can find a company that does an online estate sale for you.
Make your footprint so small it will fit into a small u haul trailer.
When you get a new place buy new stuff.
Start over.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 13, 2026


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Yes, I'm going to do a lot of that. My current love seat can stay or be donated, and maybe my dinette table and chairs. Certain clothes and a lot of books, too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 07:48 AM (wzUl9)

208 Yes, I'm going to do a lot of that. My current love seat can stay or be donated, and maybe my dinette table and chairs. Certain clothes and a lot of books, too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

Do it today.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 13, 2026 07:49 AM (2Ez/1)

209 The incident is fueling more criticism of the MAID program, which was legalized in 2016 and has dramatically expanded since, with the total number of assisted deaths set at roughly 100,000.

Yeah, true euthanasia, which does not require the consent of the condemned. MAID--Murder Accomplished, Invalid Determination.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 13, 2026 09:01 AM (l3cgK)

Wednesday Night ONT - August 12, 2026 [TRex]

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Good evening Horde! The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety. The bar is open and (mostly) re-stocked with Tab. Only the best for the Horde...

Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. If you're a troll, go away.

This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Please.

[Top photo from NASA: Shock waves are visible around a T-38 trainer aircraft during NASA's Air-to-Air Background Oriented Schlieren flights in 2019. Schlieren imaging makes normally invisible changes in air density visible, giving researchers a way to see the same shock waves that can create sonic booms on the ground.]

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Happy Birthday!

ICYMI - congratulations to the Blogfather for 25 years of InstaPundit.

Like many others, we found InstaPundit following 9/11. We read things we did not see elsewhere and found other writers and blogs we wouldn't have found otherwise. Maintaining staying power and relevance on the internet for over 25 years without burning out is impressive.

From the Blogfather: Some thoughts on InstaPundit's 25th bloggiversary.

One of the big lessons of the past twenty five years is that the preening self-regard of the laptop class is largely unjustified. There's a lot of ignored wisdom out there.

Third, speaking of the laptop class, the press is much, much worse than I thought it was at the beginning of this exercise, and I was pretty skeptical about the press then.

Read the whole thing.
Heh.

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Animal News

A Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster's Wheel to Upload to Strava. It Runs Surprisingly Far Every Night

Thijs de Buck, an MRI physicist based in Utrecht, the Netherlands, recently posted on Reddit that he built a speed and distance tracker for his hamster's wheel, with the data automatically uploaded to Mollie's own Strava account. Mollie, his 10-month-old hamster, is now committed to logging nightly runs with distance, pace, and time.

One recent activity showed 6.06 miles in 4 hours and 37 minutes. The next night, Mollie logged 5.55 miles in 3 hours and 56 minutes.

And the little guy's not exactly phoning it in. De Buck said Mollie is averaging almost 10 kilometers per night, with a current record of 10.8 kilometers after the first week of tracking.

"I really believe he'll be able to exceed that soon," he said.

Mollie also has a weirdly consistent schedule for a hamster. Over one seven-day stretch, he started within the same 10-minute window on five nights, between 9:54 and 10:04 p.m. He tends to run in short bursts, sometimes reaching about 4 to 5 kilometers per hour on the live monitor, then hops off for water.

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Content Rejected from the Hobby Thread

Anyone ever attend a vintage pyrex swap? Never knew such a thing existed:

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Military Traditions

How U.S. Navy Pilots Really Get Their Callsigns

Let's pause a bit and talk about the 'rules' for callsigns.

It's rumored that Air Force fighter jocks get to pick their own callsigns... which is where you get things like 'Ripper' and 'Ace' and 'Thor.'

Not in the Navy.

Callsigns are bequeathed for doing something stupid or memorable. The more you fight the more it sticks.

Usually a new guy in a squadron is given something like 'FNG' (Fucking New Guy) or 'New Jack' or 'Don't Speak.'

Eventually, someone does something noteworthy, and the King (or Queen) of the JOPA [Junior Officer Protection Agency] calls a kangaroo court known as a 'callsign review board.'

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Mandatory Maiden

Long documentary - save this one for later:

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Subaru News

For all the Subaru fans among the Horde - I held my breath a few times through this video. Impressive.

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Life Advice

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Niche YouTube Channel of the Week

Tonight's feature is a YouTube channel called The Slow Motion Guys. No, the channel is not about guys that move slowly. It is about two friends armed with camera equipment to show activities in super-super-super slow motion.

Some of it feels a little like a science class. Some of it feels a little like a technology class. Some of it feels like madness and giggles purely for the sake of having fun.

Over 45 million people have watched their video on how a TV works. Their video showing popcorn popping has over 24 million views. Spinning a record to pieces? Spinning a CD to destruction? Paint vibrating on a speaker? Airbag deploy? Camera shutter? They've got it all. When things happen so quickly, we miss what really happens.

They've been at it for 15 years and have over 15 million subscribers. This is a favorite:

Difficult to call it an unknown channel but it absolutely qualifies as a niche channel. It is exactly the type of content that could not survive elsewhere but thrives on a narrowcasting internet platform.

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Pittsburgh Scanner

The Pittsburgh police scanner in internet treasure. Thank you people of Pittsburgh and thank you Pittsburgh scanner!

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A Cooter tribute for the big ONT finish:

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There is no truth to the rumor that TRex is set to be announced as the new White House Press Secretary. Correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com where it will be promptly be ignored. Are you lurking ????

Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:00 PM




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1 Time travel sure is confusing!

Posted by: mindful webworker - asking the important questions at August 12, 2026 10:00 PM (B18Qw)

2 Heterosexual.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 10:00 PM (VQ0bX)

3 This is a Tucker... free zone.

Sid, Paul. This means you tuckers.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 12, 2026 10:01 PM (1Ff7Z)

4 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2026 10:02 PM (udaaY)

5 Hello all!

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at August 12, 2026 10:03 PM (zMzlR)

6 A Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster's Wheel to Upload to Strava. It Runs Surprisingly Far Every Night

One recent activity showed 6.06 miles in 4 hours and 37 minutes. The next night, Mollie logged 5.55 miles in 3 hours and 56 minutes.


Piker.

Posted by: the server hampsters at August 12, 2026 10:03 PM (VHUov)

7 Pittsburgh doesn't disappoint.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 12, 2026 10:04 PM (2WIwB)

8 Come Fly with Me
--

You found a good one. eueToob prefers to put the crap up front
so the ASCAP fees are less.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 10:05 PM (VQ0bX)

9 If you lick Ca, you'll get some fizzing. I'd move its licking safety rating from green to yellow.

Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 10:06 PM (Jr5Lq)

10 Cooter was an ok character, I guess.

Leftist though. I mean, he did run for CONgress as a D.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 12, 2026 10:06 PM (1Ff7Z)

11 It's rumored that Air Force fighter jocks get to pick their own callsigns... which is where you get things like 'Ripper' and 'Ace' and 'Thor.'
---
This is absolutely, categorically, and completely false.

Air Force callsigns are about puns and embarrassing incidents. A pilot who overshot the runway and ended up in sand is "Baja." Get it? Baja racing. It's all in-jokes and also name puns. Ask me how I know.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 10:06 PM (ZOv7s)

12 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 12, 2026 10:06 PM (zZu0s)

13 Hey! Mr. REX🦖🦖! Yay!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 12, 2026 10:07 PM (hJKeX)

14 I still have a "Ben Jones for Congress" sticker on my guitar case. I have to remind people that he was Cooter.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 12, 2026 10:07 PM (nDXEV)

15 Not sure I'd want to fly away with Frank.

I'd rather be sitting in a deck chair up over Kansas City.

https://youtu.be/JtTmx30HNrk

Posted by: mindful webworker - breaking the fun barrier at August 12, 2026 10:08 PM (B18Qw)

16 209 She already feels less of a woman

She already feels mutilated.

Men love boobs. Right?

It’s a shitty thing to say. I’ve been married. And my Boobs have been mutilated.

Posted by: AYFKM? at August 12, 2026 10:03 PM (pXM6/)

You have no idea how she feels, or what her relationship with her husband is like. You are accusing someone of being shitty. You don't know. That makes you the shitty one in this discussion.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 12, 2026 10:08 PM (+Z9Sn)

17 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 10:06 PM (ZOv7s)

Posted something on ALH yesterday you might find a little interesting.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 12, 2026 10:09 PM (1Ff7Z)

18 Thanks for the ONT, Dino. Great content.

Posted by: scampydog at August 12, 2026 10:09 PM (CG21m)

19 cool stuff

An old friend from a "past life" (30 years back, FB friend for a decade or so) got woken up on diet and the vax, and lost a lot of weight.

But now every damn thing is conspiracy, no prescriptions are good, all just serve Big Pharma. AND there were No Planes on 9/11, another fraud. AND USA is the real terrorist, Muslims are apparently fine. And of course Israel runs Trump and US military policy.

So sad ... now I need to come up with a cogent response, but it is late, so, for another day I guess.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 12, 2026 10:09 PM (vbXSk)

20 Other great GA political stickers from yore: Pat Swindall (yeah, the name fit), and Don Johnson (not the Miami Vice guy, some hack in a bad toupee).

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 12, 2026 10:09 PM (nDXEV)

21 12 Thanks for the ONT.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 12, 2026 10:06 PM
13 Hey! Mr. REX🦖🦖! Yay!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 12, 2026 10:07 PM
***
Howdy gang!

Posted by: TRex - general lee dino at August 12, 2026 10:10 PM (Q7yzj)

22 Pittsburgh Scanner
Mr. Washington. 92 Crane Ave - Miller's Crossing Fleatique. Caller said that the store is selling individual parts of human remains.


Pittsburgh Scanner is blue-balling me. I really want to see the followup tweet to that one.

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2026 10:10 PM (VHUov)

23 YouTube channel called The Slow Motion Guys

Been enjoying Gav & Dan's antics for years. Never miss one.

BTW, they're the Slow-Mo Guys. Just FTR. No "tion".

Posted by: mindful webworker - slooooowwwww mmmmmoooo at August 12, 2026 10:11 PM (B18Qw)

24 If you want to lick P, go with the red or black allotropes, and lick only in moderation.

Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 10:11 PM (Jr5Lq)

25 An old friend from a "past life" (30 years back, FB friend for a decade or so) got woken up on diet and the vax, and lost a lot of weight.

But now every damn thing is conspiracy, no prescriptions are good, all just serve Big Pharma. AND there were No Planes on 9/11, another fraud. AND USA is the real terrorist, Muslims are apparently fine. And of course Israel runs Trump and US military policy.
Posted by: illiniwek


Red Pills should come with Tinfoil Hats.

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2026 10:11 PM (VHUov)

26 I want to go to an antique pyrex swap

Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 12, 2026 10:12 PM (Ydd86)

27 Five minutes of samba trio:
youtube.com/watch?v=tKE7zt_1Z20

Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 10:12 PM (Jr5Lq)

28 Cooter is a silly nickname.

Posted by: Pooter at August 12, 2026 10:12 PM (JM9I6)

29 Air Force callsigns are about puns and embarrassing incidents. A pilot who overshot the runway and ended up in sand is "Baja." Get it? Baja racing. It's all in-jokes and also name puns. Ask me how I know.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

See also Naval Aviator's callsigns. I give you: STAB — short for “Shit Twice And Boltered.” 'Digestive emergencies' in the cockpit of an F/A-18 on two separate flights.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2026 10:12 PM (udaaY)

30 I got my first call sign assigned for violating a strict order on paperwork. LOSA stuck for a while. The LO stood for legal order. Let your imagination run wild for the SA which was the bad thing I did with a keyboard.

Posted by: epador at August 12, 2026 10:13 PM (TRnzq)

31 Evening Horde thx TRex
The Wendy's in Pittsburgh is a happening place

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 10:14 PM (WOnE5)

32 If you want to lick P, go with the red or black allotropes, and lick only in moderation.
Posted by: gp

Ask your Dr. if licking P is for you.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2026 10:14 PM (udaaY)

33 22 Pittsburgh Scanner is blue-balling me. I really want to see the followup tweet to that one.

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2026 10:10 PM
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You don't. The next tweet said the item was reported to be a rib.

I checked back though. No resolution.

Posted by: TRex - lost sheperd dino at August 12, 2026 10:14 PM (Q7yzj)

34 I want to go to an antique pyrex swap
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport
***********
Me too! Maybe the dino will let us know where and when....

Posted by: The Grateful - R at August 12, 2026 10:14 PM (XfIK1)

35 I'd think that you wouldn't want to lick Lithium at all. Wouldn't the moisture from your tongue make it go 'splody 'splody?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 12, 2026 10:14 PM (0CU3H)

36 Subaru...'spit'....
Stupid hippy cars...you can bet they have a Coexist sticker, right along side a 'Trump Hitler' sticker....
Coexist indeed 🙄....


Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 12, 2026 10:14 PM (hJKeX)

37 "I want to go to an antique pyrex swap"

I've got a bunch from misc garage sales. Why people would want to part with tiptop quality kitchen and cookware for two bits apiece, I dunno.

Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 10:14 PM (Jr5Lq)

38 You have no idea how she feels, or what her relationship with her husband is like. You are accusing someone of being shitty. You don't know. That makes you the shitty one in this discussion.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 12, 2026 10:08 PM (+Z9Sn)
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Some people just want to judge everyone. I thought it was funny, and there's some layers in this, because my wife knows that my great-grandfather wrote letters home to my great-grandmother during WW I about how he missed "the twins."

So yeah, guys like bewbs, and we're sad when our wives lose them. Fuck cancer.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 10:15 PM (ZOv7s)

39 I want to go to an antique pyrex swap
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport

I've been scouring the thrift shops near here for antique pyrex. No luck so far but I have met some interesting folks in the kitchenware aisle I must say.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2026 10:15 PM (udaaY)

40 Reacher is back

Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 12, 2026 10:15 PM (Ydd86)

41 The modern Pyrex is substandard compared to vintage Pyrex. Thought everyone knew that. Chinamen are ruining everything. I saw ersatz "Hyrex" in a thrift store, made in China, of course.

Posted by: Ole Buzzard at August 12, 2026 10:16 PM (JM9I6)

42 I want to go to an antique pyrex swap
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 12, 2026 10:12 PM (Ydd86)

Why not? Those things almost never break.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 12, 2026 10:16 PM (1Ff7Z)

43 Yay Wednesday Night ONT! Thanks, T Rex!

Pittsburgh is one entertaining place, I tells ya!

Cool top pic of the T-38 shock waves. So beautifully linear!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 12, 2026 10:16 PM (D/6p1)

44 I liked "H_ngm_n" as a call sign in Top Gun; Maverick; very clever. BTW, a far better film than the original. Aside from the flying scenes, I hated the original.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 12, 2026 10:17 PM (0aYVJ)

45 Cooter is a silly nickname.
Posted by: Pooter at August 12, 2026 10:12 PM (JM9I6)

We agree!

Posted by: Tater and Booger at August 12, 2026 10:17 PM (1Ff7Z)

46 Chinamen are ruining everything. I saw ersatz "Hyrex" in a thrift store, made in China, of course.

Not to be confused with Hyrax, a small, stout, and furry herbivorous mammal native to Africa and the Middle East.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 10:17 PM (Riz8t)

47 I'm so old I remember (I was in 7th grade) the original song "I Think We're Alone Now" by Tommy James and the Shondells. I had a transistor radio, man. I liked it. However, I did not understand most lyrics of songs til college as I was still playing sports with boys. I did not know what they were hiding (a slow learner).

I do remember memorizing the Periodic Table in pre-med chemistry with many college boys. Who were apparently as traumatized by the university class as I was as no one asked me out. It remains a mystery, as I was finally ready.

Hope you all are well and fighting commies and muzzies daily. Goodnight.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreatisParanoid at August 12, 2026 10:17 PM (hzuYO)

48 See also Naval Aviator's callsigns. I give you: STAB — short for “Shit Twice And Boltered.” 'Digestive emergencies' in the cockpit of an F/A-18 on two separate flights.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2026 10:12 PM (udaaY)
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Yeah, I saw that a while ago. A lot of "cool" callsigns are backhanded compliments at best. At first glance "Maverick" sounds cool and wild, and then you realize it's "Blue Falcon" in code. Not a team player.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 10:18 PM (ZOv7s)

49
Not in the Navy.

Callsigns are bequeathed for doing something stupid or memorable. The more you fight the more it sticks.


In my scout troop, the youths set one rule, "Own Your Nickname, We're Not Changing It". One time a scout noted that he had no nickname despite hsving been in the troop for a couple of years. I informed him that one almost always acquired a nickname after having done something extremely stupid. From this, the young man told his mother that "Mr. Krebs thinks I'm smart." "Why is that?" "Because he said you earn a nickname if you do something stupid, and I have no nickname."

I told his mother that I never said that he had not done stupid things. What had bappened was, of the many stupid things he had done, none rose to the level of being stupid enough to call down a nickname upon him.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 12, 2026 10:18 PM (s9VOe)

50 Subaru Red Bull Rocket, how many gears does that thing have?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 10:18 PM (VQ0bX)

51 Oh, that Pittsburgh Scanner always delivers!

Walked in on two women enjoying the bed in the B&B?

Why complain? Just charge customers extra for that. Right?

Posted by: mindful webworker - specialty services at August 12, 2026 10:18 PM (B18Qw)

52 You have to admit Goose died doing what he loved: Shattering his cranium against a glass canopy at Mach 2.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 12, 2026 10:18 PM (nDXEV)

53 31 Evening Horde thx TRex
The Wendy's in Pittsburgh is a happening place

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 10:14 PM
***
I do wonder how many police calls at the Wendy's the Pittsburgh Scanner people decide to skip for fear of taking over the rest of the content. Their whole gig could change to the Wendy's Scanner.

Posted by: TRex - pyrex hoarder dino at August 12, 2026 10:18 PM (Q7yzj)

54 A 50-50 mix of Chick-fil-A sauce and mild horseradish sauce is simply amazing on roast beef.

Just thought you should know.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 12, 2026 10:19 PM (zs/VU)

55 If you're trying to sync some sound files to some animation, and you think beer or two will help, well, I have to tell you they won't.

Until they do. Usually around the 3rd or 4th. Suddenly everything works!

Tonight, anyway. Tomorrow, maybe not.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 12, 2026 10:20 PM (CHHv1)

56 What had happened was, of the many stupid things he had done, none rose to the level of being stupid enough to call down a nickname upon him.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars

Clearly not a regular here.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2026 10:20 PM (udaaY)

57 I've never really had a nickname attached to me. In the Army, I was Doc, but, shit, every medic is called Doc. I am the king of nondescript.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 12, 2026 10:20 PM (0aYVJ)

58 Not to be confused with Hyrax, a small, stout, and furry herbivorous mammal native to Africa and the Middle East.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 10:17 PM (Riz8t)

Or Hydrox. The original chocolate sandwich cookie.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 12, 2026 10:20 PM (1Ff7Z)

59 Li in H2O, more fizzy than splody. Yellow ranking acceptable:
youtube.com/watch?v=Vxqe_ZOwsHs

Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 10:21 PM (Jr5Lq)

60 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 12, 2026 10:21 PM (sAmhv)

61 Not to be confused with Hyrax, a small, stout, and furry herbivorous mammal native to Africa and the Middle East.
Posted by: Archimedes

Could they run a server?

Posted by: Wheels Within Wheels at August 12, 2026 10:21 PM (JM9I6)

62 43 Yay Wednesday Night ONT! Thanks, T Rex!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 12, 2026 10:16 PM
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Good evening LS! Thanks for being here.

Posted by: TRex - pyrex stacker dino at August 12, 2026 10:21 PM (Q7yzj)

63 Thank you for the ONT TRex.

I'm getting back to work in a few minutes. The animals are resting so work can get done.

Anyways, this was on Deadline.
I hope they make this movie!
They need to make this movie!

We got screwed out of black Superman. We deserve this.


As trans onscreen representation takes a hit in Hollywood, Lilly Wachowski is attempting to make a film with an all-transgender cast… if only the industry will let her.

The Matrix co-auteur recently explained that despite some excitement over the script, financiers “really don’t want to make” her dystopian political thriller The Hunted, which is co-written with partner Mickey Ray Mahoney and budgeted at $10 million, due to the film’s “wall-to-wall trans cast.”

“People like it, but they really don’t want to make it because it’s wall-to-wall trans cast,” said Wachowski on KCRW’s The Business podcast. “I have to get creative and figure out different ways that I can get this in front of people.”

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 12, 2026 10:21 PM (Sco7b)

64 I liked "H_ngm_n" as a call sign in Top Gun; Maverick; very clever. BTW, a far better film than the original. Aside from the flying scenes, I hated the original.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 12, 2026 10:17 PM (0aYVJ)
---
They work. The excesses of the original have aged well. I wrote a scathing denunciation of the sequel, and have never been happier to have been completely wrong.

As a side note, I considered trying to switch over to the Navy so that I could score the trifecta, having done Army and Air Force.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 10:21 PM (ZOv7s)

65 Pittsburgh Scanner
Arlington Heights. Arlington Ave. Caller said that a woman wearing only a red fish net body suit is outside flagging guys down offering them services. Caller does not like this.


.....and Pittsburgh Scanner wasn't willing to cop to their prostitution sting?

or

.....joke's on you, though, because she's only offering tax preparation services.

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2026 10:21 PM (VHUov)

66 Yeah ... maybe a car for hippie lesbos, but those WRX Sti models are pretty fine. I'd be glad to have one

Posted by: YellowBird at August 12, 2026 10:22 PM (MEbkQ)

67 Li in H2O, more fizzy than splody. Yellow ranking acceptable:
youtube.com/watch?v=Vxqe_ZOwsHs
Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 10:21 PM (Jr5Lq)

Sodium (Na) in water is very interesting.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 12, 2026 10:22 PM (zs/VU)

68 I really want to see the followup tweet to that one.
Posted by: mikeski

You don't. The next tweet said the item was reported to be a rib.
I checked back though. No resolution.
Posted by: TRex


You're right. That's not nearly as funny as I was expecting.

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2026 10:22 PM (VHUov)

69 59 Li in H2O, more fizzy than splody. Yellow ranking acceptable:
youtube.com/watch?v=Vxqe_ZOwsHs
Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 10:21 PM (Jr5Lq)

I sit corrected. Thanks!

I misremembered Na vs. Li.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 12, 2026 10:23 PM (0CU3H)

70 As a side note, I considered trying to switch over to the Navy so that I could score the trifecta, having done Army and Air Force.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Legions of Dependapotamuses have joined the chat.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2026 10:23 PM (udaaY)

71 Yo Dino, thanks for the Maiden / DiAnno video!

Might not hear from me much, depends on whether I can keep myself from watching the whole thing.... I'm such a hopeless fanboy

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 12, 2026 10:24 PM (97l2N)

72 Meg Ryan was very cute in TopGun

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 10:24 PM (WOnE5)

73 US Army dumps ten tons of Na into Lake Lenore, just for the helluvit:
youtube.com/watch?v=HY7mTCMvpEM

Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 10:24 PM (Jr5Lq)

74 66 Yeah ... maybe a car for hippie lesbos, but those WRX Sti models are pretty fine. I'd be glad to have one

Posted by: YellowBird at August 12, 2026 10:22 PM
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I would throw money at Subaru if they would make a proper manual WRX STi hatchback again. There are rumors one is coming in 2027 but don't know volumes or markets. Stay tuned and keep fingers crossed...

Posted by: TRex - pyrex appraiser dino at August 12, 2026 10:25 PM (Q7yzj)

75 I've never really had a nickname attached to me. In the Army, I was Doc, but, shit, every medic is called Doc. I am the king of nondescript.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

For the longest time, I thought my nickname was 'Stunad!'. That's what Dad called me until I left home.

(Actually a great man. Miss you Pop.)

Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2026 10:25 PM (udaaY)

76 Meg Ryan was very cute in TopGun
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 10:24 PM (WOnE5)

Yeah, agree, but she was chewing the scenery big-time. I found it off-putting.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 12, 2026 10:26 PM (0aYVJ)

77 You lick Na or K, your tongue probably won't explode, but it will be dissolved by the highly caustic hydroxides that result.

Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 10:26 PM (Jr5Lq)

78 71 Yo Dino, thanks for the Maiden / DiAnno video!

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 12, 2026 10:24 PM
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Excellent.

Posted by: TRex - pyrex repair service dino at August 12, 2026 10:26 PM (Q7yzj)

79 For the longest time, I thought my nickname was 'Stunad!'. That's what Dad called me until I left home.

(Actually a great man. Miss you Pop.)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2026 10:25 PM (udaaY)

Better than being called either slingshit or terrapin turd.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 12, 2026 10:26 PM (1Ff7Z)

80 Legions of Dependapotamuses have joined the chat.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2026 10:23 PM (udaaY)
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Mrs. Lloyd very much enjoyed being numbered among the Dependa because we were so very boring.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 10:27 PM (ZOv7s)

81
I'd think that you wouldn't want to lick Lithium at all. Wouldn't the moisture from your tongue make it go 'splody 'splody?
Posted by: Darrell Harris


Sure, it might, or at least burst into flame, in addition to giving you one hell of a tongue burned by caustic.

Thing is, though, reactive metals like the alkalis are stored in an oil to stop them being exposed to air or water, so you'd have to contend with that gustatory delight first and foremost, as it would coat the metallic morsel.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 12, 2026 10:27 PM (s9VOe)

82 Not to be confused with Hyrax, a small, stout, and furry herbivorous mammal native to Africa and the Middle East.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 10:17 PM (Riz8t)

Or Hydrox. The original chocolate sandwich cookie.


O Gas-X, an over-the-counter medication containing simethicone, used to quickly relieve bloating, pressure, and discomfort from intestinal gas. It works locally in the digestive tract by combining smaller gas bubbles into larger ones so the body can pass the gas more easily.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 10:27 PM (Riz8t)

83 "Red Pills should come with Tinfoil Hats."
Posted by: mikeski

ha, yes. And of course, there is a woman involved. heh

I was surprised to hear she was a Ted Cruz advocate, even had some political web thang, an aspect I never knew about her. But ... sigh, So Are the Hours of Our Days ... heh.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 12, 2026 10:27 PM (vbXSk)

84 WTF is the laptop class?
t
Pretentious shit

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 12, 2026 10:27 PM (qFwJc)

85 Correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com where it will be promptly be ignored.

You lost your answering service velociraptor in the meteor strike, didn't you.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 12, 2026 10:28 PM (qx7Zg)

86 Evening horde! I had no idea Pyrex (vintage) was so popular. Makes me want to go to garage sales!

Posted by: Iris at August 12, 2026 10:28 PM (286+n)

87 Here's to Cooter.

*clink*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 12, 2026 10:28 PM (o5Cl5)

88 Evening all. Still waiting for feedback on the interview. Hopefully tomorrow.

Now to read the content.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 12, 2026 10:28 PM (aJQbY)

89 Nickname in school was Snidley Whiplash.
Why no, I wasn't popular.

Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at August 12, 2026 10:28 PM (zNcSj)

90 I would throw money at Subaru if they would make a proper manual WRX STi hatchback again. There are rumors one is coming in 2027 but don't know volumes or markets. Stay tuned and keep fingers crossed...

Posted by: TRex - pyrex appraiser dino at August 12, 2026 10:25 PM
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Agreed. The new WRX isn't much to get excited about. Bigger brakes and the dynamic suspension. Oh and $10k more that I paid. Very Meh.

Now a hatch STi, that's a whole 'nother thing

Posted by: YellowBird at August 12, 2026 10:28 PM (MEbkQ)

91 “People like it, but they really don’t want to make it because it’s wall-to-wall trans cast,” said Wachowski on KCRW’s The Business podcast. “I have to get creative and figure out different ways that I can get this in front of people.”
Posted by: Stateless


When you say "people like it," but you exclude the "wall-to-wall trans cast" xerselves, are there still "people," plural, or is it now just you?

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2026 10:29 PM (VHUov)

92 Not ok. She feels dewoman ized enough. She feels no longer attractive. Men talk about boobs all the time.

It’s not a joke. It’s traumatic.

Posted by: AYFKM? at August 12, 2026 10:12 PM (yEz+x)

Everyone is different though. You have to make allowances for differences in situation and temper.

For example I call my wife a cunt to her face all the time. She's British. She expects it. Now if I called her a libtard, or said she was like her mother, those would be fighting words.

Sorry for what you went through btw. Very. I happen to like legs FWIW.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 10:29 PM (vE0+H)

93 61 Not to be confused with Hyrax, a small, stout, and furry herbivorous mammal native to Africa and the Middle East.
Posted by: Archimedes

--------

Accept no substitutes!

Posted by: Oreo at August 12, 2026 10:30 PM (o5Cl5)

94 Heat the wrong thing in Pyrex in the microwave and you can have a splodey splodey. We knew about the possibility and Brit Lass still did it, the cunt. She was heating beeswax. I read an article about why it happens. Freaky sound. Microwave lived.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 10:31 PM (vE0+H)

95
Neglect not the horrible fate of young ladies who painted radium salts onto watch dials and would lick the brush to create as fine a point at its tip as possible.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 12, 2026 10:32 PM (s9VOe)

96 I don't advise licking pure sulfur

Posted by: gKWVE at August 12, 2026 10:32 PM (88C+u)

97 And pure cobalt isn't lickable either.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 12, 2026 10:33 PM (88C+u)

98 Forgot to thank T Rex as I don't know where my manners are tonight.

I wandered onto a youtube (it could have been from here) about the different jobs on an aircraft carrier. While I would have loved to have flown just once with a pilot, the most dangerous jobs are the guys on the carrier.

They all are in different colors and on this one the guys in green who launch and recover the jets with cables. Hook runners.

It was a very cool youtube. I think this is the one.

https://tinyurl.com/mu4h6zjy

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreatisParanoid at August 12, 2026 10:33 PM (hzuYO)

99 It appears that the revolver, under water, is more lethal than the semi-auto.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 10:33 PM (VQ0bX)

100 28 Cooter is a silly nickname.
Posted by: Pooter at August 12, 2026 10:12 PM (JM9I6)

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I know, right?

Posted by: Quim at August 12, 2026 10:33 PM (o5Cl5)

101 18 Thanks for the ONT, Dino. Great content.

Posted by: scampydog at August 12, 2026 10:09 PM
***
Doggo!

Posted by: TRex - pyrex insurance coverage dino at August 12, 2026 10:34 PM (Q7yzj)

102 Lilly Wachowski is attempting to make a film with an all-transgender cast… if only the industry will let her.
Posted by: Stateless


TIL the Wachowski Brothers both went trans. I was trying to figure out if they had a sister named Lilly. Nope, it's one of the originals.

Or maybe I did know this before and conveniently forgot it in the ensuing decade because who cares about the mental illnesses of Hollyweird?

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2026 10:35 PM (VHUov)

103 Ephemerol is creating new scanners.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 12, 2026 10:35 PM (nDXEV)

104 Heat the wrong thing in Pyrex in the microwave and you can have a splodey splodey. We knew about the possibility and Brit Lass still did it, the cunt. She was heating beeswax. I read an article about why it happens. Freaky sound. Microwave lived.
Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 10:31 PM (vE0+H)

were it not for my wife, I would not have a microwave in the house. they suck. I almost never use it, except for popcorn. And then I stand right there like Bob Wiley, 30 seconds to go, 20 seconds to go...

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 12, 2026 10:35 PM (0aYVJ)

105 I don't advise licking pure sulfur
Posted by: gKWVE at August 12, 2026 10:32 PM (88C+u)

Or a Timex. Nothing will happen to it. It'll just keep on ticking.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 12, 2026 10:35 PM (1Ff7Z)

106 One of the most unique call signs for a Naval aviator had to be Pager 'ROT' Page.

One night he had to land a Turkey at Moffett Field near San Francisco in horrible weather. On final a wind shear grabbed hold of his plane and only by going to full burners was he able to save himself and the plane.

The base commander duly got an angry letter in the mail from a regular complainer demanding to know 'when will this Reign of Terror' will end? The angry letter was forwarded to Page's CO.

So his callsign became ROT.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 12, 2026 10:37 PM (2GVsD)

107 FUN FACT: If you fire your semiautomatic underwater, by the time the ejected casing goes down your shirt it will be cool enough not to leave a permanent scar.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 12, 2026 10:37 PM (6/7Fs)

108 88 Evening all. Still waiting for feedback on the interview. Hopefully tomorrow.

Now to read the content.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 12, 2026 10:28 PM (aJQbY)
*************

Prayers!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreatisParanoid at August 12, 2026 10:37 PM (hzuYO)

109 What's the nickname the National Alliance stuck on the poor guy who had to shag SPLC Heidi?

Posted by: gKWVE at August 12, 2026 10:37 PM (88C+u)

110 107 Ha!

Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 10:37 PM (Jr5Lq)

111
Old Pyrex is great. New Pyrex is shit.

They are using a different kind of sand or something now.

A few years ago I bought new Pyrex to cook Christmas Eve dinner. Took it out of the oven and it exploded.

Thank goodness KFC was still open on Christmas Eve.



Posted by: four seasons at August 12, 2026 10:38 PM (/QHx4)

112 When you say "people like it," but you exclude the "wall-to-wall trans cast" xerselves, are there still "people," plural, or is it now just you?
Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2026 10:29 PM (VHUov)

If it doesn't get made, hundreds will be disappointed.

Asian entertainment for the win.

Okay, and select Hollywood stuff but that pile of crap to dig through is getting bigger and bigger.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 12, 2026 10:38 PM (Sco7b)

113 98 Forgot to thank T Rex as I don't know where my manners are tonight.

I wandered onto a youtube (it could have been from here) about the different jobs on an aircraft carrier.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreatisParanoid at August 12, 2026 10:33 PM
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You're welcome. I agree with the aircraft carrier thing. I would love to have a front row seat to watch carrier operations. Seems unlikely but holding out hope someday, somehow...

Posted by: TRex - fake pyrex detector dino at August 12, 2026 10:39 PM (rBp1O)

114 TIL the Wachowski Brothers both went trans.

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2026 10:35 PM (VHUov)

They BOTH went trans?
Damn.

I have to get back to work. All of you good people have a good night.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 12, 2026 10:40 PM (Sco7b)

115 How can it be just past 10:30?

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2026 10:41 PM (Ia/+0)

116 hydrox>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>oreo

Posted by: free tibet at August 12, 2026 10:41 PM (iNp3L)

117 Vintage Pyrex is made of Borosilicate glass, and is suitable for use from 400° oven to table top.

Then sometime in the 80s maybe they decided to cheap out on the glass. It breaks in the heat of an oven. Just guessing on the year, but I distinctly remember dear Mom being mightily pissed off at shit breaking in the oven.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 12, 2026 10:41 PM (rFdmY)

118 For the longest time, I thought my nickname was 'Stunad!'. That's what Dad called me until I left home.

(Actually a great man. Miss you Pop.)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2026 10:25 PM (udaaY)

I heard that from my grandmother a lot. That and little sfachimm, however the hell you spell it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 12, 2026 10:41 PM (S41Gd)

119 Evening, TRex and ONT Horde. I would put Calcium on the "do not lick list", too. It reacts with water much as sodium and potassium do, just not as vigorously. But caustic lime burns are a possibility.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2026 10:42 PM (1z8ji)

120 How can it be just past 10:30?
——

It got late early, didn’t it?

Posted by: Common Tater at August 12, 2026 10:42 PM (rFdmY)

121 Old Pyrex is great. New Pyrex is s***.

They are using a different kind of sand or something now.


Old Pyrex was borosilicate glass. The new stuff is soda-lime glass, which is much cheaper but doesn't have the resistance to thermal shock of the old stuff.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 10:42 PM (Riz8t)

122 I have some vintage Pyrex. It's about 70 years old and in great shape, which is why it has always been so popular.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 12, 2026 10:43 PM (0Htd1)

123 116 hydrox>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>oreo
Posted by: free tibet

well, you might get better specific impulse from loading your rocket with hydrox than with an oreo

Posted by: gKWVE hasn't tried soaking the oreo in liquid o2 tho at August 12, 2026 10:43 PM (88C+u)

124 How can it be just past 10:30?
Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2026 10:41 PM (Ia/+0)

It isn't. It's 7:45.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 12, 2026 10:45 PM (1Ff7Z)

125 If you lick Hg, I doubt it would react with common tongue gunk, and because of its high surface tension, it probably won't stick. Just don't swallow it. Between licking sessions, keep your stash in a tightly sealed container, so as not to breathe the vapor.

I don't think elemental S would harm you. It's not acutely toxic, and it's indigestible AFAIK. I doubt it tastes like much of anything.

Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 10:46 PM (Jr5Lq)

126 So sad ... now I need to come up with a cogent response, but it is late, so, for another day I guess.
Posted by: illiniwek at August 12, 2026 10:09 PM (vbXSk)

Tell he has an intracranial lead deficiency disorder, but that suck-starting a Glock could cure him.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2026 10:46 PM (1z8ji)

127 A few years ago I bought new Pyrex to cook Christmas Eve dinner. Took it out of the oven and it exploded.

Thank goodness KFC was still open on Christmas Eve.

Posted by: four seasons at August 12, 2026 10:38 PM (/QHx4)

You just reminded me I had a friend in 1999 who had one go - from the oven as well - on Christmas Day. She couldn't believe it.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 10:47 PM (vE0+H)

128 I dunno gp, I heard it was corrosive. Maybe that's just when it's hot (and nobody is suggesting licking, say, molten lead, except for Paul)

Posted by: gKWVE at August 12, 2026 10:47 PM (88C+u)

129 My first nickname was Snicklefritz by my grandfather who died when I was a baby. He was not German and I don't know why. He thought I hung the moon and I wish I had gotten old enough to know him. He had a massive MI. Felt bad after dinner holding me and asked for someone to take the baby. Died later at the hospital.

My father called me Gertrude for reasons unknown as it is not even close to my name.

The man I married has many nicknames for me for different reasons and calamities. I answer to them all.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 12, 2026 10:50 PM (hzuYO)

130 My late sister gave me a couple of Pyrex pie dishes. They have a blueish hue, which means they are high quality.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 12, 2026 10:51 PM (0aYVJ)

131 That top pic?
Been there, done that. It's pretty cool.

I hope our F16 guy is still around to appreciate it.

Posted by: GWB at August 12, 2026 10:52 PM (kU0PQ)

132 Hmm, having some weird power issues in Chicago area. The weather's clear now, and the storm we had this morning wasn't nearly as bad as yesterday's.

Internet is acting funky, too.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at August 12, 2026 10:52 PM (vSvIl)

133 How am supposed to grow a third arm if I'm not allowed to lick Plutonium?

Posted by: Orson at August 12, 2026 10:52 PM (dIske)

134 “People like it, but they really don’t want to make it because it’s wall-to-wall trans cast,” said Wachowski on KCRW’s The Business podcast. “I have to get creative and figure out different ways that I can get this in front of people.”
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 12, 2026 10:21 PM (Sco7b)

Isn't "Lilly" Wachowski a man posing as a woman?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2026 10:52 PM (1z8ji)

135 "I dunno gp, I heard S was corrosive."

To the extent it oxidizes and then mixes with H2O, it forms acids. It might be a good experiment to get a beaker of saliva, put a pH probe in it, and then dump in some elemental S and observe it over time.

Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 10:52 PM (Jr5Lq)

136 So his callsign became ROT.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 12, 2026 10:37 PM
****
Great origin story.

Posted by: TRex - flock-free dino at August 12, 2026 10:53 PM (XfIK1)

137 They BOTH went trans?
Damn.

I have to get back to work. All of you good people have a good night.
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 12, 2026 10:40 PM (Sco7b)
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Yeah. Shades of the Ferris Bueller "So that's how it is in their family."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 10:54 PM (ZOv7s)

138 I was trying to remember something tonight, a bluesy jazz singer, female, did a couple of albums in the early 80’s, kind of an urban sound. Can’t find her name anywhere.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 12, 2026 10:54 PM (QFcqn)

139 Dad called my wife Punk. He was the Dad she wished she could have had.

My grandpa called grandma The Wheelie. Because she was his sidekick on all of their long road trips. I doubt they ever spent more than a few years in one spot.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 12, 2026 10:56 PM (0aYVJ)

140 I don't advise licking pure sulfur
Posted by: gKWVE at August 12, 2026 10:32 PM (88C+u)

Practically insoluble in water or spit. Same as licking wax or plastic.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2026 10:56 PM (1z8ji)

141 Anita Baker?

Posted by: Iris at August 12, 2026 10:56 PM (286+n)

142 How can it be just past 10:30?
Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2026 10:41 PM (Ia/+0)

It isn't. It's 7:45.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 12, 2026 10:45 PM (1Ff7Z)

*checks watch*

*shows 6:18*

Posted by: Future Senator Blutarsky at August 12, 2026 10:57 PM (wVcYX)

143 "Tell he has an intracranial lead deficiency disorder, but that suck-starting a Glock could cure him."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

heh .. well he does the carnivore thing, and guess his advocacy of that is of some merit. And some of the rest is "alt-right"? maybe, or is that an older version of alt-right? heh

I don't wat him dead, and will try to clarify that Israel may have their own issues, but Islam is actively taking over Europe, and Minnesota, and much of the world.

How much of the "Alt-Islam World" is actually "Western", idk. Saudis and others kinda pretend, but where we really stand with them, idk. They have a lot invested in our markets, and that has made them even more wealthy than their oil ... and they must love our military helping them. sigh

Posted by: illiniwek at August 12, 2026 10:57 PM (vbXSk)

144 That periodic table has more elements than I recall from school. Different names, too.

But my OCD is happy that the bottom row is full, now. Please stop discovering new elements.

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2026 10:57 PM (VHUov)

145
Heat the wrong thing in Pyrex in the microwave and you can have a splodey splodey.

How do you know if something is the wrong thing?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2026 10:57 PM (Cqx++)

146 I was trying to remember something tonight, a bluesy jazz singer, female, did a couple of albums in the early 80’s, kind of an urban sound. Can’t find her name anywhere.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 12, 2026 10:54 PM (QFcqn)


Norah Jones?

Posted by: Diogenes at August 12, 2026 10:57 PM (2WIwB)

147 I just looked online for the primary colors pyrex bowls, which I have. They've gone up in price. Nice.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 12, 2026 10:58 PM (0Htd1)

148 What's the nickname the National Alliance stuck on the poor guy who had to shag SPLC Heidi?
Posted by: gKWVE at August 12, 2026 10:37 PM (88C+u)

Porker-porker?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2026 11:00 PM (1z8ji)

149 There was a guy named Guericke back in the 1600s. He made sulfurball-on-a-stick treats. The kids would lick em in the dark and watch the sparks of static electricity fly.

At least, that's the way I remember the story.

Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 11:00 PM (Jr5Lq)

150 mikeski, wait 'til we get to the Island of Stability

Posted by: gKWVE at August 12, 2026 11:00 PM (88C+u)

151 It's rumored that Air Force fighter jocks get to pick their own callsigns...

Not entirely. Real callsigns are assigned - albeit less formally - by others. Sometimes they get assigned right out of pilot training*. Some people manage to not do anything ... notable after that. Others get picked up for being an oddball or quirky**. And not just pilots, but crewmembers and anyone pilot-adjacent.

Now, some people are lame enough they do pick their own. Nobody cares enough to assign them one. Nobody socializes enough with them to see the sorts of social faux pas that often lead to them.

(* "Flame-face" Martin. Yes, there was alcohol involved.)
(** "Skippy" - assigned because he packed peanut butter when we went to Thailand for exercises. He really couldn't handle Thai food.)

Posted by: GWB at August 12, 2026 11:00 PM (kU0PQ)

152 Isn't "Lilly" Wachowski a man posing as a woman?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


Yes. See #102. The Wachowski Brothers (The Matrix) both flipped their wigs.

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2026 11:00 PM (VHUov)

153 I hate to say it, but based on the reputation of public school these days, a "don't lick it" Elemental Table makes some sense, considering the whole "Tid Pod" era.

Posted by: Orson at August 12, 2026 11:00 PM (dIske)

154 Heat the wrong thing in Pyrex in the microwave and you can have a splodey splodey.

How do you know if something is the wrong thing?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.


By the splodey, mostly.

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2026 11:01 PM (VHUov)

155 ...The man I married has many nicknames for me for different reasons and calamities. I answer to them all.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 12, 2026 10:50 PM (hzuYO)

That's a tell that you've got good people around you who love you.

Posted by: GWB at August 12, 2026 11:01 PM (kU0PQ)

156 Norah Jones?
Posted by: Diogenes at August 12, 2026 10:57 PM (2WIwB)
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I don't think she was born yet.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 11:02 PM (ZOv7s)

157 "But my OCD is happy that the bottom row is full, now. Please stop discovering new elements."

I've proposed, many times, a search for the elements with zero and negative atomic numbers. No funding yet.

Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 11:02 PM (Jr5Lq)

158 It’s a good show to put a small cube of elemental sodium into water - quite a powerful reaction. I remember sodium like that has to kept in some kind of oil, which it won’t react with.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 12, 2026 11:02 PM (QFcqn)

159 Hmm, having some weird power issues in Chicago area. The weather's clear now, and the storm we had this morning wasn't nearly as bad as yesterday's.

Internet is acting funky, too.
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at August 12, 2026 10:52 PM (vSvIl)

Time to turn off Barky's Flak Tower of Horrors?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 12, 2026 11:03 PM (qx7Zg)

160 Vintage Pyrex swap? Pffft. Come to one of my "Tupperware" parties!

Posted by: some lesbo selling dildos at August 12, 2026 11:03 PM (oq9dX)

161
Pyrex: borosilicate

pyrex: soda lime

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2026 11:03 PM (O0L8i)

162 How do you know if something is the wrong thing?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2026 10:57 PM (Cqx++)

I forget. It might just be something that sits at too high a temperature for too long? I would say Brit Lass's beeswax went considerably higher than 212. I recall reading some things were worse than others.

It's also bad luck because it has to do with existing bubbles in the glass. I personally wouldn't heat anything in pyrex in the microwave for very long.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 11:03 PM (vE0+H)

163 As far as lickable goes...

That first category should be "Sure, it's probably fine... unless it's below freezing."

Posted by: GWB at August 12, 2026 11:03 PM (kU0PQ)

164 Never had a nickname, and in the army I was usually called The 2.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 12, 2026 11:03 PM (2WIwB)

165
Look for old Pyrex at yard sales, estate sales or resale shops.

Posted by: four seasons at August 12, 2026 11:04 PM (/QHx4)

166 The big Pyrex bowl in the pic, the yellow one, was a common sight in homes. They had other colors too, but that must have been a favorite.

Fire King made good stuff too, be on the lookout for that. Anchor-Hoching I think, out of Ohio. Owens Corning out of New York state was a fine company as well.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 12, 2026 11:05 PM (rFdmY)

167 Damn, I thought it was a Bell x1. I are dumb.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 12, 2026 11:05 PM (diia5)

168 Wandered away to have a delicious bacon cheeseburger and conversation with MiladyJo and daughter. Back now just to clock out early.

Countdown to surgery on Friday, to reshape muh belly. Been warned it will hurt a while after. Meh.

🎶 It's only pain and that is all.
Why do it hurt the way it do? 🤕


What does 3/5 of a mile in ten seconds work out to in MPH?

https://youtu.be/2DWhlTzMAMw

G'night, y'all.💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - oops. Math. Sorry. at August 12, 2026 11:06 PM (B18Qw)

169 Never had a nickname, and in the army I was usually called The 2.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 12, 2026 11:03 PM (2WIwB)
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I've had a bunch over the years. In Army BCT, the cadre called me "Cliffie" but my fellow trainees called me "Frasier."

Kind of funny generational Cheers/Frasier divide. But in the ANG, I never really got a callsign/moniker.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 11:07 PM (ZOv7s)

170 163 As far as lickable goes...

That first category should be "Sure, it's probably fine... unless it's below freezing."
Posted by: GWB at August 12, 2026 11:03 PM (kU0PQ)

Oh thure! You thay that now. Where were you thix month ago?

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at August 12, 2026 11:07 PM (r7+Q7)

171 Seattle has the ability to recall a mayor?

https://youtu.be/p7HGqdxgpfQ

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 12, 2026 11:07 PM (qx7Zg)

172 146 I was trying to remember something tonight, a bluesy jazz singer, female, did a couple of albums in the early 80’s, kind of an urban sound. Can’t find her name anywhere.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 12, 2026 10:54 PM (QFcqn)


Norah Jones?
Posted by: Diogenes at August 12, 2026 10:57 PM (2WIwB)
___________________

You might have the wrong Jones. I'll go with Rickie Lee Jones.

Posted by: Orson at August 12, 2026 11:07 PM (dIske)

173 No, I would bet it is due to the very uneven heating characteristics of microwave heating. One portion of the food will be almost cold, the other side blazing hot. An oven is nice steady, even heat.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 12, 2026 11:08 PM (rFdmY)

174 "a bluesy jazz singer, female, did a couple of albums in the early 80’s, kind of an urban sound. "

Google AI sez Angela Bofill or Sue Ann Carwell.

Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 11:09 PM (Jr5Lq)

175 Good evening morons e grazie Dino

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2026 11:10 PM (JvZF+)

176 You might have the wrong Jones. I'll go with Rickie Lee Jones.
Posted by: Orson at August 12, 2026 11:07 PM (dIske)
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I'm going to go with Anita Baker or Taylor Dayne.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 11:10 PM (ZOv7s)

177 You might have the wrong Jones. I'll go with Rickie Lee Jones.
Posted by: Orson at August 12, 2026 11:07 PM (dIske)

Madeleine Peyroux? She sounds a little like Billie Holliday.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2026 11:10 PM (1z8ji)

178 Old Pyrex is great. New Pyrex is shit.
They are using a different kind of sand or something now.
A few years ago I bought new Pyrex to cook Christmas Eve dinner. Took it out of the oven and it exploded.
Posted by: four seasons
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Uppercase label - PYREX is made in Europe and uses the original formulation of Borosilicate glass.

Lower case(sort of sloppy font) label is American and cheap need it up.years ago using tempered "regular" glass.

The American crap will put up with high heat better than standard glass, but it won't take quick temperature changes anywhere near as well.as the European or "old" Pyrex.

Posted by: buddhaha at August 12, 2026 11:11 PM (drwAN)

179 You can make a bowl of plain old water erupt/explode in a microwave by superheating it, and then disturbing it. People get hurt sometimes.

Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 11:11 PM (Jr5Lq)

180 The way to tell, by the way, is the font. “PYREX” versus “Pyrex”. Tupperware fucked up their line too. Switched over to a cheaper plastic. I think the older stuff had a depiction of a Seal on it. Get it?

Posted by: Common Tater at August 12, 2026 11:11 PM (rFdmY)

181 Norah Jones?
Posted by: Diogenes at August 12, 2026 10:57 PM (2WIwB)
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I don't think she was born yet.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 11:02 PM (ZOv7s)

***

Valid point.
But now I think I'll put on the CD. Haven't listened in awhile.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 12, 2026 11:11 PM (2WIwB)

182 As far as lickable goes...

Posted by: GWB at August 12, 2026 11:03 PM (kU0PQ)
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I'm here for it, as long as it's a dude.

Posted by: Mayor Pete at August 12, 2026 11:11 PM (ZOv7s)

183 Never had a nickname, and in the army I was usually called The 2.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 12, 2026 11:03 PM (2WIwB)

It's the clever kids that give the nicknames that stick.

They tend to be among the most observant, if not, the most popular.



Posted by: LTG at August 12, 2026 11:12 PM (BeyMP)

184 Cheapened not cheap need it. Fsckin auto cucumber

Posted by: buddhaha at August 12, 2026 11:12 PM (drwAN)

185 Gun guys, I expect a discussion on Sunday evening on why the .357 hollowpoint acted differently than the 9mm out of the barrel. The 9mm tumbled and the .357 did not.

Posted by: GWB at August 12, 2026 11:13 PM (kU0PQ)

186 When I first saw the photo at the top of this thread (the airplane & shock waves), I thought:

"Oh, no! Not ceiling joinery! First World Problems has metastasized into the ONT! Say it ain't so!"

Posted by: mnw at August 12, 2026 11:14 PM (RCjYY)

187 "Make Me Psychic" by Sally Cruikshank, 1978, 8 minutes.

I love this cartoon, Ms. Sally is one of the most creative animators in the world. Quality is a bit dodgy but it's too much fun. I watch this regularly. You'll have fun.

Plus, I'm on beer five.

https://tinyurl.com/4ua43e2c

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 12, 2026 11:14 PM (CHHv1)

188 153 I hate to say it, but based on the reputation of public school these days, a "don't lick it" Elemental Table makes some sense, considering the whole "Tid Pod" era.
Posted by: Orson at August 12, 2026 11:00 PM (dIske)

also, don't stick your testicles together with those reaally powerful little magnets at college summer camp.

Posted by: sal at August 12, 2026 11:14 PM (f+FmA)

189 Blazing sunset in Sonoma this evening. Orange-pink-blue.

Last night was overcast. Tonight I will see Perseids. I will!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2026 11:15 PM (JvZF+)

190 A lot of those vintage Pyrex are still in use in my kitchen. I watched the video and nodded repeatedly as I saw so many of my own Pyrex.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at August 12, 2026 11:15 PM (DK5Sh)

191 The way to tell, by the way, is the font. “PYREX” versus “Pyrex”. Tupperware fucked up their line too. Switched over to a cheaper plastic. I think the older stuff had a depiction of a Seal on it. Get it?
Posted by: Common Tater at August 12, 2026 11:11 PM (rFdmY)


Everyone has cheaped out. Even the classic Linsmore Waterford glasses made today are markedly different in heft and feel from those made 20 years ago.

Posted by: LASue at August 12, 2026 11:15 PM (qtfk+)

192 Gun guys, I expect a discussion on Sunday evening on why the .357 hollowpoint acted differently than the 9mm out of the barrel. The 9mm tumbled and the .357 did not.
Posted by: GWB at August 12, 2026 11:13 PM (kU0PQ)
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The same barrel?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 11:15 PM (ZOv7s)

193 "Oh, no! Not ceiling joinery! First World Problems has metastasized into the ONT! Say it ain't so!"
Posted by: mnw at August 12, 2026 11:14 PM (RCjYY)

Dang! I thought that too.
Horde mind.

Posted by: sal at August 12, 2026 11:16 PM (f+FmA)

194 You got it! It was Rickie Lee Jonex I was trying to remember, and I don’t even know why.

I knew this was the place to ask!

(I looked at a bunch of those “female vocalists of the 80’s” online lists and not one mentioned her name.

Sic transit Gloria.

Oh wait that was Laura Branigan.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 12, 2026 11:16 PM (b2kfj)

195 Pittsburgh Scanner
Somewhere in the northern part of the city. No street, you'll see why. Caller owns an Airbnb and walked in on two women really enjoying the bed part of the Airbnb together. Caller is mad and wants them kicked out.


So why did the Airbnb owner think he could just walk into the house, much less the bedroom, while the house was rented out?

Or were the engineers stress-testing the bed trespassing?

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2026 11:17 PM (VHUov)

196
Everyone has cheaped out. Even the classic Linsmore Waterford glasses made today are markedly different in heft and feel from those made 20 years ago.
Posted by: LASue at August 12, 2026 11:15 PM (qtfk+)

__________

"But we increased share price by $0.02 in Q2!" - The Friggin' MBAs

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2026 11:17 PM (O0L8i)

197 Everyone has cheaped out. Even the classic Linsmore Waterford glasses made today are markedly different in heft and feel from those made 20 years ago.
Posted by: LASue at August 12, 2026 11:15 PM (qtfk+)
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It's called the "en-shitification" and it's about how companies squandered long-term credibility for short-term gain.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 11:18 PM (ZOv7s)

198 *yawn*

Okay, I'm caught up mostly...

Probably ought to go to sleep, huh?

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 12, 2026 11:19 PM (aJQbY)

199 Jeez.
Mrs.D has Spiderman on. It's the one where three of them are together battling bad guys. And aunt Mae is dead.
I'm turning up Norah Jones.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 12, 2026 11:19 PM (2WIwB)

200 Sic transit Gloria.

Oh wait that was Laura Branigan.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 12, 2026 11:16 PM (b2kfj)

I didn't know she was sick!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 12, 2026 11:20 PM (1Ff7Z)

201
Interesting case in TX and CA. A Texas woman is acting as the surrogate mother for a California couple. The baby has complications. The couple wants to end the pregnancy. The surrogate mother refuses to. Her body, her choice, right?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2026 11:20 PM (O0L8i)

202 Sic transit Gloria.

Oh wait that was Laura Branigan.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 12, 2026 11:16 PM (b2kfj)

I didn't know she was sick!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 12, 2026 11:20 PM (1Ff7Z)


I didn't know she was going anywhere.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 12, 2026 11:22 PM (2WIwB)

203 For the longest time, I thought my nickname was 'Stunad!'. That's what Dad called me until I left home.

(Actually a great man. Miss you Pop.)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2026 10:25 PM (udaaY)
===

I use Boy F.'s Italian name as a nickname other people think it is his real name.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2026 11:23 PM (JvZF+)

204 Still jacking with the Movie Vault Roku app, xml / brightscript are not the same as html / javascript, steep learning curve.

The app works but it is uglier than Chelsea Clinton.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2026 11:23 PM (XV/Pl)

205 200

Worse than sick.

Long dead.

Posted by: mnw at August 12, 2026 11:23 PM (RCjYY)

206 A lot of those vintage Pyrex are still in use in my kitchen. I watched the video and nodded repeatedly as I saw so many of my own Pyrex.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at August 12, 2026 11:15 PM (DK5Sh)

Pyrex to me will always be that 8 oz glass measuring cup.

Posted by: LTG at August 12, 2026 11:23 PM (BeyMP)

207 Red-purple-blue fading into the night.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2026 11:25 PM (JvZF+)

208 What was lab glassware made from? I always wanted some beakers and flasks, and a bunsen burner. Science!

Posted by: Common Tater at August 12, 2026 11:25 PM (rFdmY)

209 Her body, her choice, right?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2026 11:20 PM (O0L8i)

bet they argue their baby

SLAVE

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 12, 2026 11:26 PM (/+uur)

210 168 Wandered away to have a delicious bacon cheeseburger and conversation with MiladyJo and daughter. Back now just to clock out early.

Countdown to surgery on Friday, to reshape muh belly. Been warned it will hurt a while after. Meh.

🎶 It's only pain and that is all.
Why do it hurt the way it do? 🤕

G'night, y'all.💤
Posted by: mindful webworker - oops. Math. Sorry. at August 12, 2026 11:06 PM (B18Qw)
*********
It is rare to have post-op teaching for surgery these days. So I will teach you (if you see this).

You will have pain but it is going to get better every single day. I had 2 c-sections and remembered all the nurse teaching I gave.

1) You will be asked to take deep breaths and cough to rid lungs of remnant anesthesia gunk. Brace your belly with a pillow and hold it. You need to do this to prevent pnemonia. Also use the incentive spirometer.

You don't realize how much you use your abdominal muscles when you sneeze. Brace, baby, brace with that pillow for a few days as it helps.

2) The first time you get out of bed it will hurt. After that not as bad. Keep moving and it gets better daily.

You will do well and I want to hear how well you are doing. XXXX

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 12, 2026 11:26 PM (hzuYO)

211 What about the Visions stuff. Amber color. I wanted to melt aluminum in it. Cast iron worked fine.

Posted by: Lord Percy at August 12, 2026 11:27 PM (2NMTK)

212 Laura Branigan:

"Gloria" was the Blues team's chosen warmup song in 2019. When they won the Stanley Cup, one local radio station played "Gloria" on a continuous loop for a whole day.

Posted by: mnw at August 12, 2026 11:27 PM (RCjYY)

213
What was lab glassware made from? I always wanted some beakers and flasks, and a bunsen burner. Science!
Posted by: Common Tater at August 12, 2026 11:25 PM (rFdmY)

__________

Ace Glass, Vineland, NJ

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2026 11:29 PM (O0L8i)

214 Charlies murderer said it is not public violence as he only killed Charlie

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 12, 2026 11:30 PM (/+uur)

215 "US Army dumps ten tons of Na into Lake Lenore, just for the helluvit"

Meh. Lemme know when we're disposing of Rubidium.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 12, 2026 11:30 PM (DZ9Lv)

216 "Schlieren imaging makes normally invisible changes in air density visible"

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Eric Swalwell better watch out

Posted by: 496 at August 12, 2026 11:33 PM (ymrLq)

217 Hadrian. The woman gave birth in Tx and the baby is being treated for its heart condition.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 12, 2026 11:33 PM (2NHgQ)

218 I think Charlie was picked to be killed.
He was clean, married, Christian, and well spoken.
He was killed so that the next Charlie knows he will be killed.

Little secret is that every youtuber that is semi-conservative has been shot at.

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 12, 2026 11:33 PM (/+uur)

219 Accept no substitutes!
Posted by: Oreo

And get your balls to the wall.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 12, 2026 11:34 PM (DZ9Lv)

220 Interesting case in TX and CA. A Texas woman is acting as the surrogate mother for a California couple. The baby has complications. The couple wants to end the pregnancy. The surrogate mother refuses to. Her body, her choice, right?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2026 11:20 PM (O0L8i)

Is there not an iron-clad contract with language to cover an eventuality of that nature?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2026 11:34 PM (1z8ji)

221 214

He'll have A LOT of time to ponder that assertion. 30 years or so probably. But at least he'll get plenty of letters from his multitude of young women fans!

That's all he'll be getting... from a heterosexual source, anyway.

Posted by: mnw at August 12, 2026 11:34 PM (RCjYY)

222
Apparently the sand in southern New Jersey has a high quartz content that makes very good lab glassware.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2026 11:34 PM (O0L8i)

223 I knew a navy fighter pilot whose callsign was a certain Eastern European liquor.

He was an excellent human being and helped me through a tough spot in my life way more than he knew.

Posted by: 496 at August 12, 2026 11:36 PM (ymrLq)

224 217 Hadrian. The woman gave birth in Tx and the baby is being treated for its heart condition.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 12, 2026 11:33 PM (2NHgQ)

They know there is ghey and elbowsnian gene.
It is in the records and can be told to parents.

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 12, 2026 11:37 PM (/+uur)

225 Gun guys, I expect a discussion on Sunday evening on why the .357 hollowpoint acted differently than the 9mm out of the barrel. The 9mm tumbled and the .357 did not.

SWAG? The .357 is faster. A quick check of the Lyman book shows roughly 200 fps for similar weights. Can't be more specific without more details. I did think it was interesting how the cavitation patterns differed.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 12, 2026 11:37 PM (vTZFs)

226 Still jacking with the Movie Vault Roku app, xml / brightscript are not the same as html / javascript, steep learning curve.

The app works but it is uglier than Chelsea Clinton.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2026 11:23 PM (XV/Pl)

Have mercy. Just put her down.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 12, 2026 11:38 PM (dK+Kv)

227 Apparently the sand in southern New Jersey has a high quartz content that makes very good lab glassware.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2026 11:34 PM (O0L8i)

Most sand is high in quartz; much sand is essentially pure quartz.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2026 11:39 PM (1z8ji)

228
Interesting case in TX and CA. A Texas woman is acting as the surrogate mother for a California couple. The baby has complications. The couple wants to end the pregnancy. The surrogate mother refuses to. Her body, her choice, right?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

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

Absolutely right. I suppose there was a contract that said the couple would call the shots in such an event -- or any event -- but ts.

Funny thing: Erica Jong once weighed in on a situation like this. She said the mother (meaning, for lack of a better them, the birthing person) wins. Motherhood is sacred.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 11:39 PM (XJ22o)

229 Prisoners who do a long stretch in the pen come out older, of course, but they look like they've been in a state of suspended animation otherwise.

No drugs; no booze; healthy diet whether they wanted one or not.

Posted by: mnw at August 12, 2026 11:40 PM (RCjYY)

230 Gun guys, I expect a discussion on Sunday evening on why the .357 hollowpoint acted differently than the 9mm out of the barrel. The 9mm tumbled and the .357 did not.
Posted by: GWB at August 12, 2026 11:13 PM (kU0PQ)


Longer, heavier bullet is going slower, all of these contribute to stability in water.
Longer bullet has less wobble for one thing. Low speed works in water better, and the heavier bullet has mass which is inertia

Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2026 11:40 PM (rbvCR)

231 Is there not an iron-clad contract with language to cover an eventuality of that nature?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

If a court says it violates public policy, it's not iron-clad (or, to put it another way, it rusted).

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 12, 2026 11:42 PM (DZ9Lv)

232 The case in TX about the surrogate mother sounds like a Graham Greene novel.

Posted by: mnw at August 12, 2026 11:42 PM (RCjYY)

233 It's called the "en-shitification" and it's about how companies squandered long-term credibility for short-term gain.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 11:18 PM (ZOv7s)


It is also the focus on the financialization over the production functions of manufacturing. There are a number of reasons for it, but focusing on share price and overhead for profits is a main one.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2026 11:42 PM (rbvCR)

234 Prisoners who do a long stretch in the pen come out older, of course, but they look like they've been in a state of suspended animation otherwise.

No drugs; no booze; healthy diet whether they wanted one or not.
Posted by: mnw

Dunno about the no booze, but there's plenty of drugs in prison.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 12, 2026 11:42 PM (DZ9Lv)

235
Is there not an iron-clad contract with language to cover an eventuality of that nature?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

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

There probably is, but there are probably also terms in case the "birthing person" defies the gamete donors. Like she's... stuck with the kid? Liable for all the money they spent on her plus more for violating contract?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 11:43 PM (XJ22o)

236 229 Prisoners who do a long stretch in the pen come out older, of course, but they look like they've been in a state of suspended animation otherwise.

No drugs; no booze; healthy diet whether they wanted one or not.
Posted by: mnw at August 12, 2026 11:40 PM (RCjYY)

I took Theories of Crime Causation in 1981 as I wanted to write a paper on Retail Theft for a Masters.
They had LSD on stamp and you could smoke the letters.

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 12, 2026 11:43 PM (/+uur)

237
Prisoners who do a long stretch in the pen come out older, of course, but they look like they've been in a state of suspended animation otherwise.

No drugs; no booze; healthy diet whether they wanted one or not.
Posted by: mnw

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

Really? I saw some before-and-after shots of people who did relatively short stints and omg. Tatted, defeated, ragged. Of course that was "Don't go to jail, kidz" propaganda, so maybe they were cherry-picked.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 11:45 PM (XJ22o)

238 I did not have buying and selling babies on my Bingo Card.

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 12, 2026 11:45 PM (/+uur)

239 234

Pretty much.

Clifford Irving (forged the Howard Hughes bio) was in a prison CAMP, not a real prison prison. He got caught with hooch. "What happens now?" he asked.

"Now Clifford, you're going to JAIL."

Posted by: mnw at August 12, 2026 11:46 PM (RCjYY)

240 Dunno about the no booze, but there's plenty of drugs in prison.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 12, 2026 11:42 PM (DZ9Lv)


Often it turns out that some guards are the dealers.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2026 11:47 PM (rbvCR)

241 "Dunno about the no booze, but there's plenty of drugs in prison."

The new hotness is drug-soaked paper documents.

Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 11:49 PM (Jr5Lq)

242
"Make Me Psychic" by Sally Cruikshank, 1978, 8 minutes.

I love this cartoon, Ms. Sally is one of the most creative animators in the world. Quality is a bit dodgy but it's too much fun. I watch this regularly. You'll have fun.


I liked that. I subscribed to check out more later.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2026 11:49 PM (Cqx++)

243 Charlies murderer said it is not public violence as he only killed Charlie
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 12, 2026 11:30 PM (/+uur)

The Left perceived a threat and one of their foot soldiers took action.

If even if there was no larger conspiracy involved, very successful from their standpoint.

Charlie Kirk was expected to have a large presence in politics going forward.

Now he's off the board.

Posted by: LTG at August 12, 2026 11:50 PM (BeyMP)

244 Morticia

A LOT of them come out looking really well-preserved, though.

Anyone who thinks they'll have plenty of booze and drugs in prison, just like outside, is delusional. I mean real prison, not prison camps. Inmates in prisons eat Campers for lunch.

Posted by: mnw at August 12, 2026 11:51 PM (RCjYY)

245
Sorry for such a day-walker question, and don't answer if you don't want to go there, but what's with those 5 empty USB drives in Wisconsin?

Like, election officials at some polling place(s) failed to properly download data and it wasn't discovered until these 5 sticks were delivered to... a tabulation center?

I'd have thought digital data could be tabulated on a server and wouldn't have to be physically transported.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 11:51 PM (XJ22o)

246 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 11:15 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2026 11:40 PM (rbvCR)

Sunday night, guys. Sunday.

Posted by: GWB at August 12, 2026 11:52 PM (kU0PQ)

247
Morticia

A LOT of them come out looking really well-preserved, though.

Posted by: mnw

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

I can believe it. Like I say, I was viewing propaganda.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 11:52 PM (XJ22o)

248 ICYMI - congratulations to the Blogfather for 25 years of InstaPundit.
------------

I found Ace of Spades via Instapundit.

My perhaps numerous comments here do not, I think, justify Ed Driscoll's repeated Ace Cut and Pastes.

Maybe Ed is lazy, maybe good promo for Ace, ask the Ewok out front.

Posted by: Miklos has comments older than Jason Arday's diploma at August 12, 2026 11:53 PM (XOG/m)

249 Callsigns are bequeathed for doing something stupid or memorable. The more you fight the more it sticks.


How do you people think I got "Miklos"?

Posted by: Miklos washes out every Saturday, whether he needs it or not at August 12, 2026 11:55 PM (XOG/m)

250 @242 - she's awesome. "Face Like a Frog" is terrific, and has a great role for a beloved b-movie stalwart. Glad you liked her work.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 12, 2026 11:57 PM (CHHv1)

251 233 It's called the "en-shitification" and it's about how companies squandered long-term credibility for short-term gain.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
---

Ding Dong. Who's at the door? Why, it's MBA calling.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 11:57 PM (VQ0bX)

252 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Back home, sleeping in our own bed sure does feel great after a 1/2 week on a sleeper sofa bed and 1/2 week in a hospital bed 🎉🎉🎉

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 12, 2026 11:58 PM (SRRAx)

253 Is there not an iron-clad contract with language to cover an eventuality of that nature?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

A job AI probably can't do (yet)

Attorney specialized in all the shit involving the increasingly multiple ways of kid making contracts + citizenship issues.

Posted by: Miklos, Solicitor at August 12, 2026 11:59 PM (XOG/m)

254 245 Morticia

The late tabulation of those absentee ballots didn't seem to change anything. Wong was losing by the same margin both before and after.

It might've been better if Wong had won, from the standpoint of the GOP picking up that seat.

The guy who replaced Gauleiter Platner in ME as the DEM nominee is now extremely competitive with Collins, which Platner wasn't by the time he quit.

Posted by: mnw at August 12, 2026 11:59 PM (RCjYY)

255 Back home, sleeping in our own bed sure does feel great after a 1/2 week on a sleeper sofa bed and 1/2 week in a hospital bed 🎉🎉🎉
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One

*partially sings, partially just hums lullaby*

Posted by: Comforting ole Mammy Miklos at August 13, 2026 12:01 AM (XOG/m)

256 Aces output has been pretty meager lately.

A lot of cut and paste boxes with a few original sentences.

I'm hoping he'll get his mojo back soon.

Posted by: LTG at August 13, 2026 12:01 AM (BeyMP)

257 @252 Hello Teresa! Congrats on the environs improvements!

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 13, 2026 12:01 AM (CHHv1)

258
NASA is working on a "quiet" supersonic aircraft design, the X-59. The goal is to make a more gentle "thump" rather than the sharp crack, and open things up for supersonic commercial flights over land.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 13, 2026 12:03 AM (w6EFb)

259 "Back home, sleeping in our own bed sure does feel great after a 1/2 week on a sleeper sofa bed and 1/2 week in a hospital bed"

Hearing that makes us feel good too!

Thing I hated most about my five day hospital stay was the noise. Hard to sleep with ceaseless racket. Not as noisy as jail, but near enough.

Posted by: gp at August 13, 2026 12:04 AM (Jr5Lq)

260 Did you know that you can just BUY the Texas Roadhouse honey cinnamon butter in the grocery store?! It's pretty good, but I should have spread more on the toast I just devoured.

Posted by: pookysgirl is not sharing! at August 13, 2026 12:05 AM (Wt5PA)

261 Ding Dong. Who's at the door? Why, it's MBA calling.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends

Old Papa, who built a successful accounting firm, told me why he would never hire an MBA (and this was decades ago)-

"They think they know everything, with experience in nothing. And they want too much money."

I have tried to imagine the conversation when an MBA tried to justify his value to a CPA.

Posted by: Miklos is amused by the latter thought at August 13, 2026 12:05 AM (XOG/m)

262 I thought the Manson women looked pretty good for having served 45 yrs or so.

Patricia Krenwinkel learned to train seeing eye dogs. I think she's the only one who's still locked up. Might be wrong. Susan Atkins kicked the oxygen habit. Van Houten got paroled, IIRC.

Posted by: mnw at August 13, 2026 12:06 AM (RCjYY)

263 Did you know that you can just BUY the Texas Roadhouse honey cinnamon butter in the grocery store?! It's pretty good, but I should have spread more on the toast I just devoured.
Posted by: pookysgirl

MURICA!!!!

Posted by: Miklos has no Freak Flag to fly, unless it's the Gadsden at August 13, 2026 12:06 AM (XOG/m)

264

LTG,

Find another site to read.

ace rocks

Posted by: four seasons at August 13, 2026 12:07 AM (/QHx4)

265
In the hospital now, and the nursing home, there are probably about 20 things beeping incessantly at any one time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 13, 2026 12:08 AM (w6EFb)

266 Welcome back, TiFW.

Posted by: mnw at August 13, 2026 12:08 AM (RCjYY)

267 Accept no substitutes!
Posted by: Oreo

Oreos ARE the substitute

Posted by: free tibet at August 13, 2026 12:09 AM (iNp3L)

268 Howdy, horde! Thanks TRex.. top pic really confuzzled me until I read the description, LOL.

Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 12:10 AM (rdVOm)

269 In the hospital now, and the nursing home, there are probably about 20 things beeping incessantly at any one time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Been there

One Robby the Robot from Lost in Space would probably do it

Posted by: Miklos has no fond memories at August 13, 2026 12:11 AM (XOG/m)

270 Did you know that you can just BUY the Texas Roadhouse honey cinnamon butter in the grocery store?! It's pretty good, but I should have spread more on the toast I just devoured.

Posted by: pookysgirl is not sharing! at August 13, 2026 12:05 AM (Wt5PA)

Lots of copycats out there you can make, I've seen some raves. This seems to be fairly definitive:

1 Stick Salted Butter, Softened
1 tsp Cinnamon
1 Tbsp Honey
1/4 C sugar

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 12:12 AM (vE0+H)

271 @265 much comfort to you

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 13, 2026 12:12 AM (CHHv1)

272 Pookysgirl how are you feeling???

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 12:12 AM (vE0+H)

273
Posted by: mnw at August 12, 2026 11:59 PM (RCjYY)

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

I get the political significance, but what th happened? Someone in an armored truck delivered 5 precious USB sticks to a Sacred Tabulation Temple and it turned out they were empty? Like, someone forgot to dip them in the Magical Pond of Knowledge and sent them to the priests with no runes to interpret?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 12:13 AM (XJ22o)

274 Yesterday's windoze f-update was a SOB for my poor lil computer. Lost count of the number of restarts before it settled down. Thought I might need to go shopping, ugh! But it was a good reminder to make another file backup.

Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 12:13 AM (rdVOm)

275 IIRC, Publius and I are a few months apart in age though his mother is about 5-6 years older. My mother was recently in the hospital for pneumonia and things are rapidly going downhill musculo-skeletal-brain-wise. At this point, things are measured in weeks but you never know. However, she's certainly not going Jean Calment.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 13, 2026 12:14 AM (DZ9Lv)

276 Howdy, horde! Thanks TRex.. top pic really confuzzled me until I read the description, LOL.
Posted by: JQ

Consult your Doctor if you show signs of Confuzzelment, discombobulation, or general disgronification.

Posted by: Prof. Dr Chikoinanda Wnankpa, with CDC approved Remedies for all Instances at August 13, 2026 12:14 AM (XOG/m)

277
In the hospital now, and the nursing home, there are probably about 20 things beeping incessantly at any one time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

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And plenty of blinking lights for your entertainment?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 12:15 AM (XJ22o)

278 The WNBA has gone to extreme lengths to not capitalize on the cultural phenomenon that could have been Caitlin Clark's entry into the league.

This should have been such a no questions asked slamdunk.

Instead they have totally botched it.

Almost seems it might be intentional.

Posted by: LTG at August 13, 2026 12:15 AM (BeyMP)

279
Ugh, sorry to hear that, Dark One.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 12:16 AM (XJ22o)

280 Here is a fun fact. When I was a junior in high school I had a part time job. All the juniors were getting their class rings so I went to Zales and ordered mine. I paid for it myself, it cost $120.00 dollars. Took me a month to pay it out. Today if I scraped it the gold in it is worth $I200.00. But I can't bring myself to scrap it.

Posted by: Case at August 13, 2026 12:16 AM (fV9m3)

281
We've made the decisions with Mama, and she's now in hospice. They are very, very nice people. She'll be with us at home.

It's clear she's reached the last stage.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 13, 2026 12:16 AM (w6EFb)

282 "In the hospital now, and the nursing home, there are probably about 20 things beeping incessantly at any one time."

The infuser they had me tethered to would shriek an alarm every four hours, and not stop until tended by a nurse. Room mate had to have damn TV on 24/7. I had to post a 'keep the door closed' sign to muffle the noise from the corridor.

It seems like a little thing, but in confinement, uncontrollable unnecessary noise really grinds you down.

Posted by: gp at August 13, 2026 12:17 AM (Jr5Lq)

283 ace rocks

Posted by: four seasons

You agin' Mister Ace?

Ima throw a rock

In yore di-rection

Posted by: Ernest T. Miklos-Bass at August 13, 2026 12:18 AM (XOG/m)

284 Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

You know what I am thinking and praying.

Posted by: Miklos at August 13, 2026 12:19 AM (XOG/m)

285 NASA is working on a "quiet" supersonic aircraft design, the X-59. The goal is to make a more gentle "thump" rather than the sharp crack, and open things up for supersonic commercial flights over land.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 13, 2026 12:03 AM (w6EFb)


Boom Supersonic is working on the Overture passenger plane, they have had the XB-1 demonstration jet up and running, and Boom is developing their own turbofan

Posted by: Kindltot at August 13, 2026 12:19 AM (rbvCR)

286
Here's an eclipse shot of opportunity someone took (I would guess from Spain) today, posted in reply on Andrew McCarthy's X feed:

https://t.ly/XZJ5_

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 13, 2026 12:19 AM (w6EFb)

287 In the hospital now, and the nursing home, there are probably about 20 things beeping incessantly at any one time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

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And plenty of blinking lights for your entertainment?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 12:15 AM (XJ22o)

Not in my experience in hospitals. All the interesting things get turned away from the patient.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 13, 2026 12:20 AM (qx7Zg)

288 "She'll be with us at home."

God bless you and her, publius.

Posted by: gp at August 13, 2026 12:20 AM (Jr5Lq)

289 {TiFW} welcome home

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 13, 2026 12:20 AM (JvZF+)

290 Neighbor a prayer for her complete and immediate healing

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 13, 2026 12:20 AM (JvZF+)

291
Van Houten got paroled, IIRC.
Posted by: mnw

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Yes. I just read she was released at the age of 73, which seems like she got a decent chunk of time to live out.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 12:20 AM (XJ22o)

292 273 Morticia

I have no idea.

I'm inclined to think it was because election workers are dumber than the proverbial box of rocks. The Board of Election Commissioners in places like Milwaukee (and St. Louis) doesn't exactly get the rocket scientists.

Posted by: mnw at August 13, 2026 12:21 AM (RCjYY)

293 Here is a fun fact. When I was a junior in high school I had a part time job. All the juniors were getting their class rings so I went to Zales and ordered mine. I paid for it myself, it cost $120.00 dollars. Took me a month to pay it out. Today if I scraped it the gold in it is worth $I200.00. But I can't bring myself to scrap it.

Posted by: Case at August 13, 2026 12:16 AM (fV9m3)

A high school ring was a must, bigtime. Once in college, I never wore it again. I did buy a college ring too, but only wore it for a few years. Would still not scrap them.

Publius' Clemson ring would choke a horse. He only wears it on special occasions.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 13, 2026 12:21 AM (w6EFb)

294
Back home, sleeping in our own bed sure does feel great after a 1/2 week on a sleeper sofa bed and 1/2 week in a hospital bed 🎉🎉🎉
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

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Halloooo, Teresa!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 12:21 AM (XJ22o)

295 Dark Lixtiquatal and publius-- prayers up for all of you & your families. Heartbreaking times...

Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 12:21 AM (rdVOm)

296
I'm inclined to think it was because election workers are dumber than the proverbial box of rocks. The Board of Election Commissioners in places like Milwaukee (and St. Louis) doesn't exactly get the rocket scientists.
Posted by: mnw

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Disgusting. Public servants. Let's nationalize everything!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 12:23 AM (XJ22o)

297 And plenty of blinking lights for your entertainment?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia


Achtung! Alles Lookenspeepers!

Das computermaschine ist nicht für gefingerpoken und mittengrabben.

Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzensparken.

Ist nicht für gewerken bei das dummkopfen.

Das rubbernecken sightseeren keepen das cottenpickenen hans in das pockets muss.

Relaxen und watchen das blinkenlichten.

Posted by: ancient nerd humor at August 13, 2026 12:23 AM (VHUov)

298
Thanks, all.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 13, 2026 12:24 AM (w6EFb)

299 publius how nice it will be to have her home.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 13, 2026 12:24 AM (JvZF+)

300 publius & Lix

That's tough reading. Really sorry. Most people live long enough to have to go through it.

Posted by: mnw at August 13, 2026 12:24 AM (RCjYY)

301 281
We've made the decisions with Mama, and she's now in hospice. They are very, very nice people. She'll be with us at home.

It's clear she's reached the last stage.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 13, 2026 12:16 AM (w6EFb)
**********
My father died at home under Hospice Care, which we only used for oxygen and me trying a morphine patch when his breathing was labored.

My heart goes out to you. It is difficult but also good that she'll be home (if that makes sense). My entire comfort for the 5yrs he was bedridden was that he had great care at home with people who loved him.

Prayers all will be peaceful.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 13, 2026 12:24 AM (hzuYO)

302 I'm inclined to think it was because election workers are dumber than the proverbial box of rocks. The Board of Election Commissioners in places like Milwaukee (and St. Louis) doesn't exactly get the rocket scientists.
Posted by: mnw at August 13, 2026 12:21 AM (RCjYY)

They are Democrats, so crooked. Crooked explains everything.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2026 12:25 AM (1z8ji)

303
publius and Miley,

You both have taken wonderful care of Mama.

Praying for you all.

Posted by: four seasons at August 13, 2026 12:25 AM (/QHx4)

304 Publius' Clemson ring would choke a horse. He only wears it on special occasions.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

I didn't know you even had a horse

Posted by: Miklos abides at August 13, 2026 12:26 AM (XOG/m)

305 Yesterday's windoze f-update was a SOB for my poor lil computer. Lost count of the number of restarts before it settled down. Thought I might need to go shopping, ugh! But it was a good reminder to make another file backup.
Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 12:13 AM (rdVOm)

Linux. Mint. It works, and it is free.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2026 12:27 AM (1z8ji)

306
A high school ring was a must, bigtime. Once in college, I never wore it again. I did buy a college ring too, but only wore it for a few years. Would still not scrap them.

Publius' Clemson ring would choke a horse. He only wears it on special occasions.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 13, 2026 12:21 AM (w6EFb)
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My now and then wise mother told me to consider a nice ring vs class ring for about the same cost.

We went to the jeweler and my parents bought me a diamond and sapphire white gold "dinner ring" for my right hand. Have worn it daily since I was 16yrs old, swimming, skiing, and mountain hikes. My engagement and wedding bands are the same stones. It worked out well! It is promised to our 5yr old grandgirl once I clock out.

Our nieces did the same thing vs a class ring that is good for about a year.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 13, 2026 12:29 AM (hzuYO)

307 West Point has a neat class ring program. It is the Memorial Ring program. Graduates can, at any time in their career or later, donate their rings which are melted down during an annual ceremony and mixed into the gold used for upcoming graduating classes. This is seen as physically binding past and present members of the Long Gray Line.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 13, 2026 12:30 AM (2WIwB)

308
Posted by: ancient nerd humor

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I ran it through Google Translate, and it looked right.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 12:30 AM (XJ22o)

309 Democrat U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico now says he does not support gender mutilation surgery for minors—but when Texas lawmakers voted to prohibit the procedures, Talarico voted no.
_ American Principles Project

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 13, 2026 12:30 AM (VQ0bX)

310 The Left cheats in elections.

They have made an art of it.

They have an impressive scoreboard of stolen elections.

It goes back to Kennedy in 1960.

They get away with it more often than not.

What we are seeing today is just a continuation.

Posted by: LTG at August 13, 2026 12:31 AM (BeyMP)

311
The was the eclipse shot Andrew McCarthy was going for, the one he was hoping to get. This is sort of preliminary, and I'm sure he'll have some really detailed version soon:

https://t.ly/I7iuf

That's the curve of the Moon's shadow against the sunset western sky.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 13, 2026 12:31 AM (w6EFb)

312 I'm proud of having made and paid for my own cremation and burial. All my kids will have to do is make one phone call.

I buried my brother and my mother. My kids won't have to do that. They don't realize yet how much agony I'm sparing them.

Nobody likes to contemplate their own death. I put it off for years.

Posted by: mnw at August 13, 2026 12:31 AM (RCjYY)

313 A high school ring was a must, bigtime. Once in college, I never wore it again. I did buy a college ring too, but only wore it for a few years. Would still not scrap them.

Publius' Clemson ring would choke a horse. He only wears it on special occasions.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 13, 2026 12:21 AM (w6EFb)

I don't remember if high school and/or college rings were a thing where I grew up. I know that I never had either. I cannot abide the thought of wearing one. Rings can be a severe hazard when working with power tools, or even just servicing a car battery.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2026 12:31 AM (1z8ji)

314 I ran it through Google Translate, and it looked right.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Well, I trained Google Translate

Posted by: Miklos can make sense or nonsense on demand at August 13, 2026 12:32 AM (XOG/m)

315 U.S. Health and Human Services has announced it will end the use of Medicaid and CHIP funds to pay for “sex-rejecting procedures” for children.

These procedures include prescription of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, as well as surgical operations that cause permanent bodily damage.

The initiative was originally proposed last year in response to an executive order from President Donald Trump to end gender-mutilating procedures on children.
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Took them long enough

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 13, 2026 12:32 AM (VQ0bX)

316
Linux won't run the Adobe Creative Suite.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 12:34 AM (XJ22o)

317 My mother lost the love of her life 11 years ago. The rest of it was just hanging on, watching her one grandchild (whom she adores) grow up, and hearing about her kids' accomplishments. Kyphosis takes a lot of joy out of life.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 13, 2026 12:35 AM (DZ9Lv)

318 A tall black kid in my 5th grade called me Klondike Kat after I helped him with some school work. He went on to play BB and I remained about the size of a cat.

Posted by: Igotnothing at August 13, 2026 12:35 AM (wo6er)

319
U.S. Health and Human Services has announced it will end the use of Medicaid and CHIP funds to pay for “sex-rejecting procedures” for children.

Posted by: Braenyard

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

So, trans genocide.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 12:36 AM (XJ22o)

320
There's an old joke, which I can't remember exactly. Three friends go in a bar. The bartender says to the first one, I see you're a Harvard man. How did you know the guy asks. Something about the way he pronounced certain words.

Second guy is identified as a Yale man, for a similar reason.

Bartender says to third, I see you're a Clempson man. Again, how did you know? Bartender replies, "I saw your ring when you were picking your nose."

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 13, 2026 12:36 AM (w6EFb)

321 >>>They have an impressive scoreboard of stolen elections.

It goes back to Kennedy in 1960.
...
Posted by: LTG
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Lyndon Johnson ~1948.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 13, 2026 12:36 AM (VQ0bX)

322 Linux won't run the Adobe Creative Suite.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 12:34 AM (XJ22o)

Whatever that is? There is probably a Linux-friendly substitute that will do most of the tasks in the Adobe package. Libre Office pretty much mimics MS Office, and can even save files to formats that Windows can open.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2026 12:37 AM (1z8ji)

323
I ran it through Google Translate, and it looked right.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Well, I trained Google Translate
Posted by: Miklos

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Well, I trained you.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 12:37 AM (XJ22o)

324 Rings can be a severe hazard when working with power tools, or even just servicing a car battery.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Dad had to have his wedding band cut off after a (home) shop incident-- smashed his hand somehow-- OUCH!

At work, the mechanics weren't allowed rings of any kind. Line workers, only wedding rings. No one was allowed other jewelry like watches, bracelets or necklaces. (Some of the younger brats employees defied the rules with their "body jewelry" and got away with eyebrow rings and snotrings and nose-studs. Ick.)

Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 12:37 AM (rdVOm)

325 “sex-rejecting procedures” for children.




I like the counter phrasing of this

Posted by: Miklos approves at August 13, 2026 12:38 AM (XOG/m)

326 The "n" in Clemson stands for nowledge.

Posted by: mnw at August 13, 2026 12:38 AM (RCjYY)

327 A high school ring was a must, bigtime. Once in college, I never wore it again. I did buy a college ring too, but only wore it for a few years. Would still not scrap them.

Publius' Clemson ring would choke a horse. He only wears it on special occasions.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 13, 2026 12:21 AM (w6EFb)

My ring vanished years ago. I never figured out where it went. That was a good chunk of gold.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 13, 2026 12:38 AM (S41Gd)

328 Rings can be a severe hazard when working with power tools, or even just servicing a car battery.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2026 12:31 AM (1z8ji)

You really don't want to have a ring catch on something when you fall off a ladder, either.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 13, 2026 12:39 AM (zs/VU)

329 Well, I trained you.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

*wants treat*

*deserves a treat*

Posted by: cute lil' Miklos, wagging the best he can at August 13, 2026 12:39 AM (XOG/m)

330
There is probably a Linux-friendly substitute that will do most of the tasks in the Adobe package. Libre Office pretty much mimics MS Office, and can even save files to formats that Windows can open.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

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

There is, and I've heard of creators who have made the switch, but call me lazy about doing a big conversion. Libre Office hasn't always treated me well either.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 12:39 AM (XJ22o)

331 ================

So, trans genocide.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Soon, there will never be another trans except in geek
tents at the circus.



Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 13, 2026 12:39 AM (VQ0bX)

332 So, trans genocide.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 12:36 AM (XJ22o)

A genocide that rivals the Israeli "genocide" of the Paleosimians in its complete lack of effectiveness.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2026 12:40 AM (1z8ji)

333
Here's a time lapse video of the shadow sweeping across the field of view:

https://t.ly/MMdAM

He was in the Balearic Sea for this. He set up dozens of cameras on a ship there, and it took him around 12 hours to get everything set up.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 13, 2026 12:40 AM (w6EFb)

334 A friend of mine was on the U of Washington (spits) football team that were co-champions in football back in the 90's. His ring is obnoxiously huge.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 13, 2026 12:40 AM (2WIwB)

335 The "n" in Clemson stands for nowledge.
Posted by: mnw

The "p" stands for "kow"

Posted by: Or so Publius says at August 13, 2026 12:41 AM (XOG/m)

336
You really don't want to have a ring catch on something when you fall off a ladder, either.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

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

Knew a guy that happened to. It wasn't a ladder -- it was a hook on a tank. Tore his finger clean off, and he was shipped home.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 12:42 AM (XJ22o)

337 Libre Office hasn't always treated me well either.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

My home Office has Cuba Libres

Posted by: Miklos, mixologist of "work" and pleasure at August 13, 2026 12:42 AM (XOG/m)

338 Rings can be a severe hazard when working with power tools, or even just servicing a car battery.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Dad had to have his wedding band cut off after a (home) shop incident-- smashed his hand somehow-- OUCH!

At work, the mechanics weren't allowed rings of any kind. Line workers, only wedding rings. No one was allowed other jewelry like watches, bracelets or necklaces. (Some of the younger brats employees defied the rules with their "body jewelry" and got away with eyebrow rings and snotrings and nose-studs. Ick.)

Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 12:37 AM (rdVOm)

I wore my wedding ring for one week. I was coming down a ladder and there was a #8 finishing nail sticking out of a 2x4 and it slipped under the ring. Had I decided to hop off the ladder at that instant, as I usually did, it would have ripped my finger off. Never wore any kind of ring after that, no jewelry of any kind, not even a watch. I knew an electrician who had his ring hit a wire and burned through his finger. Yeah, no bling here.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 13, 2026 12:44 AM (S41Gd)

339 Well, the lazy fiberglass resin on my dune buggy body did eventually harden overnight. At least it had gelled, and gotten some body to it. I made a few passes with a heat gun, which helped a lot, and then mixed some hardener with acetone, and brushed it on, which I think ended the surface tackiness. I bought some more hardener today, and both areas need another layer of mat anyway, so that should fix things up.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2026 12:44 AM (1z8ji)

340 A tall black kid in my 5th grade called me Klondike Kat after I helped him with some school work. He went on to play BB and I remained about the size of a cat.
Posted by: Igotnothing at August 13, 2026 12:35 AM (wo6er)

Reminds me of one of my own experiences with a black kid in my youth.

I'm totally not racist yall.

I'm a totally self denying white boy who refuses to notice any differences in spite of the overwhelming evidence that the others seem to have declared open season on my like.

Posted by: LTG at August 13, 2026 12:46 AM (BeyMP)

341 My PE teacher in junior high was missing his left ring finger. I don't recall if he ever told us how it happened.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 13, 2026 12:46 AM (zs/VU)

342
Dad had to have his wedding band cut off after a (home) shop incident-- smashed his hand somehow-- OUCH!

Posted by: JQ

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Yup, happened to me. I broke my arm and my hand swelled up to twice its normal size and they had to cut a ring off.

Being the Jason Arday of grueling experiences here tonight, I won the Rachmaninoff Competition two days later and saved a bus full of kids that was about to go over a cliff by grabbing the bumper and dragging it to safety.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 12:47 AM (XJ22o)

343 As for rings, I only wear a plain gold wedding band.

My knuckles are large from working with my hands all my life. My hands are really... not pretty IMO and so I'd rather not call attention to them with fancy rings anyway. (Not that the rings would stay "upright" on my fingers.)

Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 12:48 AM (rdVOm)

344
A tall black kid in my 5th grade called me Klondike Kat after I helped him with some school work.

Posted by: Igotnothing

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That sounds pretty cool. I never got a cool nickname like that.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 12:48 AM (XJ22o)

345
My smartass chatbot just told me, "I actually think you'd enjoy Linux Mint quite a bit—as long as you treat it as an addition to your toolkit rather than a replacement for the machine you rely on to create content."

Fucking presumptuous...

It also gave me a recipe for a Cuba Libre. Maybe I ought to add that to my toolkit, like Miklos.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 12:52 AM (XJ22o)

346 An older guy goes into a bar, orders four shots of whisky and four beer chasers. Sits at a table, sets them up like he's waiting for somebody, but proceeds to drink all. Asks for another round, and another.

Bartender asks ??....."Well, when me and my best buddies got out of the Army, we promised to meet at least once a year and have a few. And for a long time we did."

Bartender says.... so, your buddies have all passed on?

"Hell no, two remarried horrible women and one gave up drinking"

Posted by: Genial Bartender Miklos at August 13, 2026 12:53 AM (XOG/m)

347
This is actually kind of funny:

@FrankLuntz
I am calling for a total and complete shutdown of primary polling in the Midwestern United States until we can figure out what the hell is going on.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 12:53 AM (XJ22o)

348 Looks like somebody in Illinois won the billion dollar Powerball jackpot.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 13, 2026 12:53 AM (zs/VU)

349 grabbing the bumper and dragging it to safety.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Nobel Peace Prize AWARDED

Posted by: The Swedish Academy of Miklos at August 13, 2026 12:55 AM (XOG/m)

350 328 Rings can be a severe hazard when working with power tools, or even just servicing a car battery.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Step over here for a moment.
_engine lathe

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 13, 2026 12:55 AM (VQ0bX)

351 My PE teacher in junior high was missing his left ring finger. I don't recall if he ever told us how it happened.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

Former Shop Class teacher?

Posted by: Inquiring Mind of Miklos at August 13, 2026 12:56 AM (XOG/m)

352 Happy Wednesday Horde!

publius and Miley, hugs for you both, you are doing the right thing for Mama, may she be at peace.

JQ, that's all that I wear for jewelry too, just my wedding band, well meaning friends have suggested that I remove it, but I am happy right where it is.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 13, 2026 12:57 AM (ibDUx)

353 Looks like somebody in Illinois won the billion dollar Powerball jackpot.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

Does Anna Puma live in Illinois?

This could be fun

Posted by: Miklos so hopes at August 13, 2026 12:57 AM (XOG/m)

354 "Hell no, two remarried horrible women and one gave up drinking"
Posted by: Genial Bartender Miklos


I heard one like that. But an Irish guy, who eventually ordered one fewer Guinness.

"Aw, Paddy, I'm sorry for your loss."

"What loss? Sean gave up drinkin' fer Lent."

Posted by: mikeski at August 13, 2026 12:58 AM (VHUov)

355 JQ, that's all that I wear for jewelry too, just my wedding band, well meaning friends have suggested that I remove it, but I am happy right where it is.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

We don't even ask for a deposit on bar tabs

Posted by: Trusting bartender Miklos at August 13, 2026 12:59 AM (XOG/m)

356 Well, the lazy fiberglass resin on my dune buggy body did eventually harden overnight. At least it had gelled, and gotten some body to it. I made a few passes with a heat gun, which helped a lot, and then mixed some hardener with acetone, and brushed it on, which I think ended the surface tackiness. I bought some more hardener today, and both areas need another layer of mat anyway, so that should fix things up.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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A lot of epoxy formulations require heat to set up. Check with the supplier you bought the stuff from. At one place I worked, we bought a fiberglass "doghouse" to mount some comm equipment out in the boonies. At one point we made some mods to the gear which required cutting some parts of the casing, and then building a little box around it. We dutifully made a disposable mold to build this on, then matted and "goo'd" the thing together. Next day, no setup. Finally called the supplier. "Oh, you have to have the stuff at over 120°F to kick off the catalyst." We rigged up a box over it out of rigid foam panels and stuck a heater in it. It set up fine.

Posted by: buddhaha at August 13, 2026 01:01 AM (drwAN)

357 "What loss? Sean gave up drinkin' fer Lent."
Posted by: mikeski

There are versions

Posted by: Miklos suspects that some jokes predate written language at August 13, 2026 01:01 AM (XOG/m)

358
Does Anna Puma live in Illinois?

This could be fun
Posted by: Miklos

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Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 01:03 AM (XJ22o)

359 This is actually kind of funny:

@FrankLuntz
I am calling for a total and complete shutdown of primary polling in the Midwestern United States until we can figure out what the hell is going on.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 12:53 AM (XJ22o)

Well, Mr. Putz, you keep forgetting that people will vote but won't talk to you and don't like you.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 13, 2026 01:06 AM (qx7Zg)

360 Tuckers are cowards, I'm a shower.

Posted by: mea culpa at August 13, 2026 01:06 AM (k0pmD)

361 Sweet dreams, everyone, and may they come true. 'night.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 13, 2026 01:08 AM (VQ0bX)

362 Well, Mr. Putz, you keep forgetting that people will vote but won't talk to you and don't like you.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

I miss my roomie Kevin

he was a rock solid......um...conservative

Posted by: Lank Putz at August 13, 2026 01:10 AM (XOG/m)

363 Blacks are the most likely perpetrators of violent crimes in the USA today.

This is just basic fact.

Not really controversial.

Punching above their weight.

That 2 to 3 percent of young Black males aged between 11 to the lower twenties account for an overwhelming number of the violent crimes in our country.

Minus them out and our American crime rates are really vanishingly low.

Posted by: LTG at August 13, 2026 01:10 AM (BeyMP)

364 We made it at least 150 years in this country without anybody doing any public polling at all. Oh we had polls, but they were called “elections”.

I got no problem with going back to that model.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 13, 2026 01:11 AM (b2kfj)

365 28 Cooter is a silly nickname.
Posted by: Pooter at August 12, 2026 10:12 PM (JM9I6)


Portland has a Couch St., which I believe is named after a town father. It's pronounced Cooch, I guess because his name was. Visitors are nonplussed.

Posted by: SciVo at August 13, 2026 01:12 AM (Sy6m/)

366 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 13, 2026 12:44 AM (S41Gd)

I was an Electronics Tech in the Navy, worked on live gear every day.

I wore my wedding ring on a chain around my neck, so it would not do the arcy sparky thing.

After she screwed around on me and we got divorced, I suddenly realized it had been a collar...

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 13, 2026 01:12 AM (mP0Kj)

367 A lot of epoxy formulations require heat to set up. Check with the supplier you bought the stuff from. At one place I worked, we bought a fiberglass "doghouse" to mount some comm equipment out in the boonies. At one point we made some mods to the gear which required cutting some parts of the casing, and then building a little box around it. We dutifully made a disposable mold to build this on, then matted and "goo'd" the thing together. Next day, no setup. Finally called the supplier. "Oh, you have to have the stuff at over 120°F to kick off the catalyst." We rigged up a box over it out of rigid foam panels and stuck a heater in it. It set up fine.
Posted by: buddhaha at August 13, 2026 01:01 AM (drwAN)

This is polyester resin, like what boats are made of. It gets slow acting in cold weather, but temps in the 50's or higher should be no problem, and it has been in the 60's here last few days. Heat accelerates it, but the reaction itself is exothermic, and a thick application can get quite warm of its own doing.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2026 01:12 AM (1z8ji)

368 LOL Miklos, poor Lank Putz, the yang poon of pollsters.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 13, 2026 01:13 AM (ibDUx)

369 JQ, that's all that I wear for jewelry too, just my wedding band, well meaning friends have suggested that I remove it, but I am happy right where it is.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

Good for you! I plan to keep wearing mine as well.

Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 01:14 AM (rdVOm)

370 Portland has a Couch St., which I believe is named after a town father. It's pronounced Cooch, I guess because his name was. Visitors are nonplussed.
Posted by: SciVo

Interesting

Posted by: Davenport, Iowa at August 13, 2026 01:15 AM (XOG/m)

371
@FrankLuntz
I am calling for a total and complete shutdown of primary polling in the Midwestern United States until we can figure out what the hell is going on.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia


Call for it all you want, jackass. Did you make this call in the presence of the geniuses you enlist to play grimacing and dim witted monkeys with their tongues lolling out as they futilely attempt to master their controllers to reflect their opinions as you spoke?

No? Then you have no basis for taking such a stand, sir, and you may go back to playing house with Kevin McCarthy, ex-SOTH, and you two can race your little kiddie cars around his faux Oval Office there.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at August 13, 2026 01:16 AM (s9VOe)

372 Posted by: Romeo13 at August 13, 2026 01:12 AM

My XH was a CTM. No ring allowed. Not that he *ever* wore one... or acted like he was actually married...

Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 01:16 AM (rdVOm)

373 Interesting
Posted by: Davenport, Iowa at August 13, 2026 01:15 AM (XOG/m)

Do the Brahmins in Davenport still practice settee?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2026 01:17 AM (1z8ji)

374 I have a wedding ring in my jewelry box, along with cufflinks I rarely wear either.
Dealing with some high current electric stuff for years, I was never comfortable wearing it. I explained this to my wife about 2 months after we were married, and she had no problem with me not wearing it. Now that I'm retired, I got it out... and it doesn't fit. Which is not surprising because I weigh about 60# more than the day we were married.
In the army, I and my cow-orkers would get regularly hassled for not wearing my dog tags. Finally, had some General write us notes, like in high school, giving us permission to carry them in our pockets. Carried that piece of paper in my wallet. Bending over a piece of equipment featuring 350V B battery and having your dog tags swing into it was not anything any of us wanted to experience.

Posted by: buddhaha at August 13, 2026 01:17 AM (drwAN)

375 Do the Brahmins in Davenport still practice settee?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

All such are quite flammable indeed Sir

Posted by: Lower Caste Miklos at August 13, 2026 01:19 AM (XOG/m)

376
Now now, Luntz was clearly being playful and self-deprecating. Even the predicticators know they're failenating.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 01:20 AM (XJ22o)

377 If you like explosions, enjoy Edgar Montrose from the Red Green Show. I enjoy his take on Dances With Wolves.

https://youtu.be/1tXqxPbq7XE

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 13, 2026 01:21 AM (qx7Zg)

378
Thunderdome Wendy's


A tasty meal, a Frosty, and live entertainment!

What is McDonalds' countering marketing move -- reviving the McRib and having the HamBurgler and Mayor McCheese making out in the kiddos' play room?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at August 13, 2026 01:22 AM (s9VOe)

379
Do the Brahmins in Davenport still practice settee?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

All such are quite flammable indeed Sir

Posted by: Lower Caste Miklos


It's cushions that they're pushin'!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at August 13, 2026 01:24 AM (s9VOe)

380 Thunderdome Wendy's

A tasty meal, a Frosty, and live entertainment!

What is McDonalds' countering marketing move -- reviving the McRib and having the HamBurgler and Mayor McCheese making out in the kiddos' play room?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot


This ONT Scanner list is the 3rd and 4th mention of "that Wendy's."

At least, I'm probably forgetting some.

It's got a reputation, apparently.

Posted by: mikeski at August 13, 2026 01:25 AM (VHUov)

381 Portland has a Couch St., which I believe is named after a town father. It's pronounced Cooch, I guess because his name was. Visitors are nonplussed.
Posted by: SciVo
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The story I heard was that his wife was trying to.put on airs, and insisted that it be pronounced "in the French manner" : Cooosh.
Of course, the lumberjack and dock workers butchered it into Cooch. An amusing story, even if it isn't true. Who knows?
The locals have fun with tourons over this, as well as watching them trying to find "Carny" street on a map, spelled Kearney.

Posted by: buddhaha at August 13, 2026 01:26 AM (drwAN)

382 Stephanie White unwittingly totally represents the strong black lesbian women ethos of the WNBA.

She reflexively defended a strong black lesbian woman of color against one of her own players.

For that alone she should immediately be fired as the Head Coach of the Indiana Fever.

Posted by: LTG at August 13, 2026 01:31 AM (BeyMP)

383
Oh my, just read one of the big power operators in the UK had to warn customers to not use any large appliances during the eclipse.

You see, solar output gets reduced over those solar panel farms even during partial eclipses....

What a way to run a grid....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 13, 2026 01:32 AM (w6EFb)

384
Stephanie White unwittingly


She should legally change her name to add that third word to her monicker.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at August 13, 2026 01:35 AM (s9VOe)

385 Oh my, just read one of the big power operators in the UK had to warn customers to not use any large appliances during the eclipse.

You see, solar output gets reduced over those solar panel farms even during partial eclipses....

What a way to run a grid....

Posted by: publius


Dafuq do they do at night?

Posted by: mikeski at August 13, 2026 01:35 AM (VHUov)

386 Dafuq do they do at night?
Posted by: mikeski at August 13, 2026 01:35 AM (VHUov)

They take the shades off the lunar panels, of course.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2026 01:37 AM (1z8ji)

387 The story I heard was that his wife was trying to.put on airs, and insisted that it be pronounced "in the French manner" : Cooosh.

Pishtash

Posted by: Stephen Cole-bear, late of Late Night at August 13, 2026 01:38 AM (XOG/m)

388 When I first viewed the ONT picture of the NASA shock waves I thought I was looking at the inside of a scratch and dent refrigerator where the gasket got all crunched up.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 13, 2026 01:40 AM (ibDUx)

389 The locals have fun with tourons over this, as well as watching them trying to find "Carny" street on a map, spelled Kearney.
Posted by: buddhaha

Now do Tchoupitoulas

Posted by: Former Nawlinzer Mikleuse at August 13, 2026 01:40 AM (XOG/m)

390
Europe is just fucked energy wise. Sold their souls to the climate cultists.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 13, 2026 01:43 AM (w6EFb)

391
Linux won't run the Adobe Creative Suite.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 12:34 AM (XJ22o)

Whatever that is?


It is pricey as all get out, is what it is. Subscription, of course, so the revenue stream never dries up.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at August 13, 2026 01:44 AM (s9VOe)

392 Getting on for midnight here. Time for me to go to bed. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2026 01:44 AM (1z8ji)

393
It's a demand thing. The eclipse was going to happen there when people were getting off work, which is a peak demand period. And they're dependent on the solar farms for some fraction of generation, and the heat wave and high market prices cut into what reserves they had.

It's just a stupid thing that anybody with any knowledge would know would be a problem with solar and other "renewable" sources. Tthey are unreliable -- there are these things called clouds that cause that the solar irradiance curve to be quite erratic, and wind is erratic. Erratic and unpredictable is not what you need for power generation.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 13, 2026 01:47 AM (w6EFb)

394 1990 was a singularly propipituous year for crazy hot actress births.

Emma Watson
Kristen Stewart
Jennifer Lawrence

Can't find another year like it.

Posted by: LTG at August 13, 2026 01:48 AM (BeyMP)

395 Europe is just fucked energy wise. Sold their souls to the climate cultists.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

I worked on many EU-funded energy research projects about "renewables" and other energy topics. There were time when I would wake up in a half-dream of nothing but algae (algae is the Future!).

Not a single one made economic sense, other than one that theoretically could produce electricity from all spectra (not just visible light) at a theoretical efficiency approaching 100%. Very different kind of solar collectors, little nano-sized antennas.

But alas, when I found that Idaho National Laboratory had been trying that and run into technical issues, the University of Vienna physicists said "but ours will work!"

Alas again

Posted by: Miklos was paid for fruitless endeavours at August 13, 2026 01:51 AM (XOG/m)

396 I thought I was looking at the inside of a scratch and dent refrigerator where the gasket got all crunched up.
Posted by: Debby

LOL! It does look rather like that...

Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 01:51 AM (rdVOm)

397
That periodic table has more elements than I recall from school. Different names, too.

But my OCD is happy that the bottom row is full, now. Please stop discovering new elements.

Posted by: mikeski


It was interesting being in grad school at Berkeley back in the time when they had a near lock on creating new elements. A lot of students made their bones by figuring out how to run tests to determine the new critters' chemical properties, one atom at a time.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at August 13, 2026 01:53 AM (s9VOe)

398 This is polyester resin, like what boats are made of. It gets slow acting in cold weather, but temps in the 50's or higher should be no problem, and it has been in the 60's here last few days. Heat accelerates it, but the reaction itself is exothermic, and a thick application can get quite warm of its own doing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I've never heard of any special formulation for polyester resins.

The one I was talking about didn't require long term heat. We had a temp probe into the box and just heated it up to 130° for about an hour then left it run on its own, and , yeah, it got nicely exothermic.

Posted by: buddhaha at August 13, 2026 01:53 AM (drwAN)

399 The United States should be 100% Nuclear by now. These same idiots that are all in on solar are the same ilk that panicked over 3 mile island and shut the industry down in it's infancy. Now that we need data centers it's all good to open Nuke plants again.
Idiotic.

Posted by: Reforger at August 13, 2026 01:56 AM (Zqvxn)

400 My favorite is about the Germans with subsidized solar panels. Germany is not famous for sunny days, but hey, subsidy. In the winter the panels are covered for months under snow.

Solution-

Heating wires to melt the snow, powered from....????

Posted by: Miklos verstehe nicht at August 13, 2026 01:56 AM (XOG/m)

401 >> Please stop discovering new elements.

They are working on Element 120 now.

There is a predicted island of stability way up there with certain magic numbers of neutrons. The problem is they can get the desired number of protons, but getting something with the predicted stable number of neutrons is much harder to do.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 13, 2026 01:59 AM (w6EFb)

402 And everything is 220vac.

Posted by: Reforger at August 13, 2026 01:59 AM (Zqvxn)

403 When I first viewed the ONT picture of the NASA shock waves I thought I was looking at the inside of a scratch and dent refrigerator where the gasket got all crunched up.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
--------
Metropolis movie poster popped into my brain.

Posted by: scampydog at August 13, 2026 02:00 AM (CG21m)

404 Not found

Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 02:01 AM (rdVOm)

405
Element 118 there is named Oganesson. It should be a noble gas. But it is not. Well, it's not predicted to be -- they don't enough of a sample of it to actually see what it would be like.

The nucleus has so much positive charge the inner shell electrons are "orbiting" near light speed, and there are strong relativistic effects which just mess the expected classical behavior up. It will be solid, and likely a semiconductor at room temp, they think.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 13, 2026 02:02 AM (w6EFb)

406 Freshman year in Kollidge, I was recruited to go into one of the lecture halls late and help put centerfolds of Nice Ladies from certain publications over each of the squares of the big Periodic Table.

Now there are more squares, and Penthouse is no more

I feel sorry for the kids (well, the few binary-identifying ones)

Posted by: Misspent Youth of Miklos at August 13, 2026 02:03 AM (XOG/m)

407 My room in Germany was on 2, 10amp circuits. Many a fight over those plugs. The heating was part of the hot water system with radiators in front of the windows. Pretty much every place I went over there was like that.

Posted by: Reforger at August 13, 2026 02:04 AM (Zqvxn)

408 Not found
Posted by: JQ

Miklos is taking a break under the table

Kick him nice if you need something

Posted by: Yer Pal the Regular at barstool 6 at August 13, 2026 02:05 AM (XOG/m)

409 > Thijs de Buck

Is his wife named Thijs de Doe?

Yes, today's Pyrex, even if made in the US, is utter trash.

Something something sold the brand name something.

I hear that French-made Pyrex is still the real deal.

Seen on X:

A man attracted to other men is gay.
A woman attracted to other women is lesbian.
A person attracted to attention is queer.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 02:05 AM (IG3/x)

410 Noone is going to dispute my calling of 1990 as the greatest year of actress births and Emma Watson as the GOAT in terms of modern actress beauty.

Posted by: LTG at August 13, 2026 02:05 AM (BeyMP)

411 Base housing in Misawa had radiators/steam heat when we were there. Nice, once you found the *sweet spot*

50hz ac power. We were too cheap to buy a new alarm clock, so set ours ahead 10min/hr of sleep time each night, to wake on time in the mornings. LOL.

Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 02:08 AM (rdVOm)

412 "Germany is not famous for sunny days"

Nor sunny dispositions

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 13, 2026 02:09 AM (DZ9Lv)

413
When I first viewed the ONT picture of the NASA shock waves I thought I was looking at the inside of a scratch and dent refrigerator where the gasket got all crunched up.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
--------
Metropolis movie poster popped into my brain.
Posted by: scampydog

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

Bent mini-blinds.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 02:09 AM (XJ22o)

414 Now the entire American built area of the base I was stationed is covered in solar panels. They knocked down the DOD stuff and insulted it's memory. I don't remember seeing the sun much there.

Posted by: Reforger at August 13, 2026 02:09 AM (Zqvxn)

415 Or, was it 10min/hr behind? I forget... but it worked for us.

Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 02:09 AM (rdVOm)

416 > The story I heard was that his wife was trying to.put on airs, and insisted that it be pronounced "in the French manner" : Cooosh.

Posted by: buddhaha at August 13, 2026 01:26 AM (drwAN)

Is there a Tar-zhey there?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 02:10 AM (IG3/x)

417 > Emma Watson as the GOAT in terms of modern actress beauty.
Posted by: LTG at August 13, 2026 02:05 AM (BeyMP)

She looks pretty mannish nowadays, IMO.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 02:12 AM (IG3/x)

418 A distaff answer to the mystery click? There is probably someone who can name the make, model, and even year of her car:

Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
https://youtu.be/lbjZPFBD6JU

Posted by: SciVo at August 13, 2026 02:13 AM (Sy6m/)

419 Lil bro drives thru/past Lost Wages regularly. Says there's huge solar arrays in the desert. "Bird fryers" he calls them.

What a waste of land! And destroyed habitat for local fauna. Ugh.

Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 02:14 AM (rdVOm)

420 >> Or, was it 10min/hr behind? I forget... but it worked for us.

Ahh, I 'memba now-- 50 minutes per hour. That's the ticket!

Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 02:15 AM (rdVOm)

421 Florida Man steals rare coin collection, cashes them all in at a CoinStar machine.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 02:17 AM (IG3/x)

422 Florida Man steals rare coin collection, cashes them all in at a CoinStar machine.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Drugs *were* involved. Somehow.

Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 02:18 AM (rdVOm)

423 What a waste of land! And destroyed habitat for local fauna. Ugh.
Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 02:14 AM (rdVOm)

I did a lot of mechanican work at the one in Nowhere Nevada. It was a huge waste of money and everybody involved walked away pretty well off. That was a huge concrete pour.

Posted by: Reforger at August 13, 2026 02:18 AM (Zqvxn)

424 Florida Man steals rare coin collection, cashes them all in at a CoinStar machine.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia


And now they're all scratched up by the automatic sorter, and worth 1/10th of what they were.....

Posted by: mikeski at August 13, 2026 02:19 AM (VHUov)

425 And it's shut down.

Posted by: Reforger at August 13, 2026 02:19 AM (Zqvxn)

426 Babylon Bee: Elon Musk Buys The United Kingdom To Establish Free Speech There

Elon Musk: How much is it?

(you probably remember that he asked the same question about Twitter, back when)

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 02:19 AM (IG3/x)

427
Just reading, it's indeed a bitch to get the required number of neutrons. They're working on some exotic ways to do it, but still aren't there.

There are experimental hints that island of stability is there as predicted. It should be centered around Z = 114.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 13, 2026 02:21 AM (w6EFb)

428 Reforger, it seems to me that all this "green" energy BS, is anything BUT environmentally friendly. Almost as if it's intended to *destroy* rather than *improve*

Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 02:22 AM (rdVOm)

429 Screw CoinStar-- you give up 10% using those machines.

Go to local bank or credit union & get full value. LOL.

Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 02:24 AM (rdVOm)

430 Florida Man steals rare coin collection, cashes them all in at a CoinStar machine.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

CoinStar machines can be a great source of part-time retirement income!

Posted by: Financially Savvy Miklos at August 13, 2026 02:25 AM (XOG/m)

431 > Almost as if it's intended to *destroy* rather than *improve*
Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 02:22 AM (rdVOm)

It definitely is. The entire left agenda is aimed at destroying Western Civilization, and has been for over fifty years.

The days when even lefties like Woody Guthrie wrote songs praising (e.g.) the Grand Coulee Dam are long gone.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 02:25 AM (IG3/x)

432 So can stealing things

Posted by: Financially Savvy Miklos, on second thought at August 13, 2026 02:25 AM (XOG/m)

433 Where's that darned Time Machine?!

Drop me off in the 1970s.

Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 02:26 AM (rdVOm)

434 Florida Man steals rare coin collection, cashes them all in at a CoinStar machine.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
---------
In his defense it was BOGO on a handle of tequila and he was feeling lucky with the Lotto tickets.

Posted by: scampydog at August 13, 2026 02:26 AM (CG21m)

435 > Go to local bank or credit union & get full value. LOL.
Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 02:24 AM (rdVOm)

Yeah, it doesn't take all that long to count and roll them.

If you have enough coins that this becomes onerous, you can buy your own coin sorter, at all kinds of different levels of price and technological sophistication.

I get the sense that even vending machine operators don't have to deal with as many coins nowadays, since so many of them take cards.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 02:27 AM (IG3/x)

436 Go to local bank or credit union & get full value. LOL.
Posted by: JQ

They even give you the paper coin rolls for FREE

Posted by: Miklos is personally responsible for the Penny Shortage at August 13, 2026 02:27 AM (XOG/m)

437 Emma Watson as the GOAT in terms of modern actress beauty.
Posted by: LTG at August 13, 2026 02:05 AM (BeyMP)

She looks pretty mannish nowadays, IMO.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 02:12 AM (IG3/x)

Place in time pertains for actresses. They look best in their teens if we're being really honest about it.

Most women reach their beauty peak around 15.

Posted by: LTG at August 13, 2026 02:27 AM (BeyMP)

438 I tried to buy Uncle Palp's coin sorter from one of his laundromats

It was set for Bulgarian coins, for some reason

Posted by: Miklos and the Horde CRIES OUT at August 13, 2026 02:29 AM (XOG/m)

439 > If you have enough coins that this becomes onerous, you can buy your own coin sorter, at all kinds of different levels of price and technological sophistication.

A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I worked in a large coin op laundromat.

I had a plastic tube that held exactly $10 in quarters, and was just enough larger that you could slip the tube down it.

Counting the day's take took less than ten minutes.


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 02:30 AM (IG3/x)

440 My credit union has a coin sorting machine.

Dump your coffee can full of coins & let it whirl. Pretty soon, it spits out a ticket that you take to the teller window to get cash or make deposit. (also kicks out the damaged coins and pocket lint)

Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 02:30 AM (rdVOm)

441 > Most women reach their beauty peak around 15.
Posted by: LTG at August 13, 2026 02:27 AM (BeyMP)

I don't know about that, but I do know that most English women start to develop a pronounced resemblance to Monty Python in drag once they hit their mid-to-late 30s.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 02:31 AM (IG3/x)

442
Well, this got me off on a nuclear tangent. There are other islands of stability predicted at higher Z's, 126, and way up at 164. This would be *massive* nuclei indeed.

And beyond that, there is some theoretical reasoning that a "continent of stability" might exist well beyond that. At that level, you would have nuclei as we think of it, but a quark soup. This would be quark matter for the nucleus. And yes, it could still form atoms of a sort with electrons around it.

This would be truly "exotic matter", beyond any of our kin. Who the hell knows what it would be like.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 13, 2026 02:32 AM (w6EFb)

443 Most women reach their beauty peak around 15.
Posted by: LTG

Thanks, buddy! I feel so freaking beautiful now! More than 4x "peak" LOL.

But I don't care.. never was a beauty queen anyway. (and the "pretty" girls had to fight off so many jerks)

Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 02:34 AM (rdVOm)

444 > Elon Musk: How much is it?

LOL!

https://tinyurl.com/365w7szu

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 02:35 AM (IG3/x)

445 I had a plastic tube that held exactly $10 in quarters, and was just enough larger that you could slip the tube down it.

Counting the day's take took less than ten minutes.


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

I have seen what happens when casinos wash their daily take of quarters.

That shit be nasty

Posted by: Dainty Miklos at August 13, 2026 02:35 AM (XOG/m)

446 > That shit be nasty

Posted by: Dainty Miklos at August 13, 2026 02:35 AM (XOG/m)

Oh, yeah.

Bills aren't any better.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 02:36 AM (IG3/x)

447 I'm a lucky girl-- won a whole $4 on lotto today!

AND! Found a twenty in my clean jeans' pocket. It got laundered, heh.

Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 02:38 AM (rdVOm)

448 Elon Musk: How much is it?

LOL!

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

If Elon were to buy the UK, that would include the Bank of England.

This could be entirely self-financing, with some inflation for holders of Pounds Sterling

Posted by: Miklos seen what Soros done at August 13, 2026 02:38 AM (XOG/m)

449 I'm a lucky girl-- won a whole $4 on lotto today!

AND! Found a twenty in my clean jeans' pocket. It got laundered, heh.
Posted by: JQ

Your money's no good here, Miss.

The ususal?

Posted by: Genial Bartender Miklos (no tips, not allowed on Work Release) at August 13, 2026 02:40 AM (XOG/m)

450
I'm thinking if any experimental physicists get any ideas about how to create some of that quark soup matter, they might want to hold off on it.

Might better not try that anywhere on Erf.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 13, 2026 02:41 AM (w6EFb)

451 pretty" girls had to fight off so many jerks)
Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 02:34 AM (rdVOm)

Pretty girls were raped at very young ages. That's the truth of what's going on.

No wonder why dykes gained traction.

Posted by: LTG at August 13, 2026 02:41 AM (BeyMP)

452 Your money's no good here, Miss.

The ususal?
Posted by: Genial Bartender Miklos (no tips, not allowed on Work Release)

Why, thank you! Yes, please!

And I'll put a few $ on your commissary account...

Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 02:43 AM (rdVOm)

453 (and the "pretty" girls had to fight off so many jerks)
Posted by: JQ

In my case, they were quite good at it.

Almost professional, even

Posted by: Unrequited Miklos at August 13, 2026 02:43 AM (XOG/m)

454 Apropos of nothing, two of my favorite channels for YouTube shorts are Dramecs (your Daily Dose Of Cats) and Plumes (sings to animals).

youtube.com/@dramecs
youtube.com/@Plumesmusic

They're worth adding to your Subscriptions, to increase the odds of a little pick-me-up sitting to the right of whatever video you're watching.

Posted by: SciVo at August 13, 2026 02:45 AM (Sy6m/)

455 *neglects to carefully measure the pour on JQ's beverage*

Posted by: Miklos also wants to know what about these pitchers of Long Islands at August 13, 2026 02:47 AM (XOG/m)

456
Pretty girls were raped at very young ages. That's the truth of what's going on.

No wonder why dykes gained traction.
Posted by: LTG

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

And my oft-repeated theory: why girls decided to "become" men.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2026 02:48 AM (XJ22o)

457 Up to 10:30 had most bizarre dreams

Posted by: Skip at August 13, 2026 02:48 AM (Ia/+0)

458 *neglects to carefully measure the pour on JQ's beverage*
Posted by: Miklos also wants to know what about these pitchers of Long Islands

Wooooooh! That's a lip-smackin' toddy, Miklos!

Thank you!

Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 02:51 AM (rdVOm)

459 I never wanted to BE a man, just was always interested in guy-type things-- mechanical stuff, mainly. But also: running, doing jumps on bicycle, catching bugs and turtles, climbing trees...

Good thing I'm not a kid today-- asshoes would probly try to turn me into a " " " boy " " "

Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 02:56 AM (rdVOm)

460 Thank you!
Posted by: JQ

*resumes well-deserved rest under the far corner table under a couple of table cloths*

Posted by: Miklos done Double Duty at August 13, 2026 02:57 AM (XOG/m)

461 Pretty girls were raped at very young ages. That's the truth of what's going on.

No wonder why dykes gained traction.
Posted by: LTG at August 13, 2026 02:41 AM (BeyMP)


Robert Stacy McCain wrote of lesbian supermodels and "The Curse Of Beauty" in 2014:

https://tinyurl.com/2czchr7e

Posted by: SciVo at August 13, 2026 02:59 AM (Sy6m/)

462 Good night, all.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 02:59 AM (IG3/x)

463 Night, Rodrigo!

Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 03:00 AM (rdVOm)

464 Young pretty white women are more often than not being assaulted by these supposedly mentally impaired Black Men.

I'm not supposed to notice that these racial dynamics only seem to go one way.

Posted by: LTG at August 13, 2026 03:02 AM (BeyMP)

465 Good night, all.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2026 02:59 AM (IG3/x)

463 Night, Rodrigo!
Posted by: JQ

The Borgias get up to no good during nighttime hours

Posted by: Miklos the late nite Historian at August 13, 2026 03:02 AM (XOG/m)

466 My credit union has a coin sorting machine.

Dump your coffee can full of coins & let it whirl. Pretty soon, it spits out a ticket that you take to the teller window to get cash or make deposit. (also kicks out the damaged coins and pocket lint)
Posted by: JQ


They really dislike coin-like things that aren't quite the right size or weight, too.

I had a couple Cayman Islands coins in a batch I ran thru the one at my credit union. It made a huge marbles-in-the-clothes-dryer racket, and eventually dumped those coins back out. Which was nice, since I meant to keep them as souvenirs. Not sure how they got stuffed into the spare-change jar.

It never had an issue with Canadian coins, which show up fairly often in MN, and generally get treated as equal to American ones. It probably wouldn't know what to do with a Loonie, though.

Posted by: mikeski at August 13, 2026 03:04 AM (VHUov)

467 I'm not supposed to notice that these racial dynamics only seem to go one way.
Posted by: LTG

I will say this *one time only*--

When I worked in a military club, overseas... my waitressing shift was often scheduled in the area where funk/dance music was DJ'd. Very dark crowd, IYKWIM. I was often propositioned, but thankfully had a very good Master At Arms to protect me & other staff.

I overheard convos that would (or maybe not?) curl your hair. Very derogatory toward YT wimmen. VERY! And we're talking about early 1980s.. can just imagine how much worse it is, since obastard.

Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 03:09 AM (rdVOm)

468 It probably wouldn't know what to do with a Loonie, though.
Posted by: mikeski

After Hungary joined the EU, Hungarians were pleased to discover that their forint coins worth about 20 cents were accepted as 1 Euro in machines in Euroland, and the about 50 cent heavier coins were accepted as 1 British pound in machines there.

Posted by: Miklos tested this and it worked at August 13, 2026 03:09 AM (XOG/m)

469 "The haters come for Boy George over Israel. I know what it feels like."

WaPo

https://t.co/s67QJws9QM

Posted by: m at August 13, 2026 03:12 AM (odBC9)

470 Inter racial violence in our current United States is pretty much a monopoly of black on white.

If anyone cared to look into the actual numbers they would be actually shocked.

Truth be told, blacks are insanely more prone to violence than any other people.

We will continue to ignore this because not want to be racist.

Posted by: LTG at August 13, 2026 03:12 AM (BeyMP)

471 Local Hawaiians hate YT too. XH and I, and our friends nearly got clobbered while tailgating outside a concert at Aloha Stadium!

Again, the '80s. This shyte has been brewing for a very long time, and it's *everybody* against YT.

Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 03:16 AM (rdVOm)

472 "The haters come for Boy George over Israel.


"Do you really want to hurt me?'


Yes

Yes we do

Posted by: Islamic Communists against Homosexuals (sometimes) at August 13, 2026 03:18 AM (XOG/m)

473 While in southern Idaho, my (F) friend and I were stalked by a group of Mexican men... we drove like crazy to lose them! Scary! (late 1970s)

Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 03:23 AM (rdVOm)

474 I have had some respect for Boy George (or Boy Girl as we called him) since the 80s based on one thing.

In an interview, he was asked about his extravagant use of clothes and makeup etc.

As I recall, he said "When young, I was always called the one with the big nose. So I decided, be the one with the big nose and a bit of style. Fuck them"

Posted by: Miklos notes that Johnny Rotten is rather normie too for years now at August 13, 2026 03:23 AM (XOG/m)

475 I should have just got up 40 minutes ago

Posted by: Skip at August 13, 2026 03:24 AM (Ia/+0)

476 One of my former BF's older sister was actually captured by a group of "immigrants" and was drugged and *passed around* a camp. Took her parents a couple of months to find and extricate her!

Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 03:26 AM (rdVOm)

477 I should have just got up 40 minutes ago
Posted by: Skip

School starts in a week, young Mister Skipper

Posted by: Auntie Miklos expects good marks at August 13, 2026 03:27 AM (XOG/m)

478 Going down a Boy George rabbit hole, I found this interview (from 2009), which is just great.

Boy George on Life After Prison | Archive Interview | Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

youtube

https://tinyurl.com/yc6ewabt

17:19

Posted by: m at August 13, 2026 03:28 AM (odBC9)

479 476 One of my former BF's older sister was actually captured by a group of "immigrants" and was drugged and *passed around* a camp. Took her parents a couple of months to find and extricate her!
Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 03:26 AM (rdVOm)

Oh, my gosh, JQ!

Posted by: m at August 13, 2026 03:28 AM (odBC9)

480 One of my former BF's older sister was actually captured by a group of "immigrants" and was drugged and *passed around* a camp. Took her parents a couple of months to find and extricate her!
Posted by: JQ

I grew up in South Carolina and Hungary.

Never heard of such a thing.

Posted by: Miklos was a free range non-milk carton kid at August 13, 2026 03:29 AM (XOG/m)

481 Now I have millions of Boy George videos in my For You or whatever.

Posted by: m at August 13, 2026 03:30 AM (odBC9)

482 ... which is fine.

Posted by: m at August 13, 2026 03:31 AM (odBC9)

483 Oh, my gosh, JQ!
Posted by: m

Yeah. Stuff happened. They lived in NM at that time.

Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 03:33 AM (rdVOm)

484 Sweet dreams Horde, the pillow is calling.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 13, 2026 03:36 AM (ibDUx)

485 Night, Debby!

I'm ready to rack-out also...

Good night, horde!

Posted by: JQ at August 13, 2026 03:37 AM (rdVOm)

486 Mgid is just lurking on my page, enough to stop commenting, yet not obvious to see. Double tap it shows up but to get it gone disappears

Posted by: Skip at August 13, 2026 03:37 AM (Ia/+0)

487 469 "The haters come for Boy George over Israel. I know what it feels like."

https://t.co/s67QJws9QM
Posted by: m at August 13, 2026 03:12 AM (odBC9)


By John Ondrasik
John Ondrasik, a singer-songwriter, performs as Five for Fighting.


ICYMI, here is the Five For Fighting song (piano-driven pop rock) that I linked recently, that will punch you in the feelz if you're at all sentimental:

Five for Fighting - 100 Years
https://youtu.be/tR-qQcNT_fY

Posted by: SciVo at August 13, 2026 03:38 AM (Sy6m/)

488 Spam news: I just found a (I thought) funny tweet on the parody @TheMossadIL 𝕏 site that mentioned Tupperware, so I copied it here and hit post and got a "are you spamming us?" alert. Well, no, so I changed some of its line breaks and tried again and no; took out some of the text and no; tried this a couple of times. Then I looked in the comments at the site and there were only two or three comments and the commenters had flagged the tweet as AI-written and spam! So, yay, spamcatchers?

Posted by: m at August 13, 2026 03:43 AM (odBC9)

489 487 469

Five for Fighting - 100 Years
https://youtu.be/tR-qQcNT_fY
Posted by: SciVo at August 13, 2026 03:38 AM (Sy6m/)

2004
That reminds me a lot of How to Save a Life (2005).

Posted by: m at August 13, 2026 03:52 AM (odBC9)

490 I forgot to time the coffee

Posted by: Skip at August 13, 2026 03:58 AM (Ia/+0)

491 The way I see it, 1. we can be sure there is an 'AI' bubble because of the refusal of the big memory manufacturers to build out capacity, and 2. there is only one rather convoluted way for that bubble to pop in a copacetic way.

For the bubble to pop, they have to see that their bets won't pay out the way they hope. For it to pop gently, they still have to pay out a bit. And we need for them to be at least somewhat wrong, since their bets are so massive I suspect that for them to fully pay off, we'd all be paying them for every bit of compute we need. Personal computers exploded in popularity for a reason, and a world without them would be a human dystopia.

There is a narrow channel of possibility where both the things we need can happen. A technology that enhances productivity can improve the value of the employee to the employer, if it is not able to replace him entirely, due to enabling the creation of more saleable value per man-hour. If the bubble pops from realization that there is no GenAI coming, no "synthetic cognition" or 'singularity', just another productivity tool, then maybe it could pop gently and in a pro-employment way. So, I know what to pray for.

Posted by: SciVo at August 13, 2026 04:02 AM (Sy6m/)

492 I just finally read the tab with yesterday's Morning Rant on data center financing and went off on a tangent.

Posted by: SciVo at August 13, 2026 04:04 AM (Sy6m/)

493 490 I forgot to time the coffee
Posted by: Skip at August 13, 2026 03:58 AM (Ia/+0)

uh-oh

Posted by: m at August 13, 2026 04:06 AM (odBC9)

494 429 Screw CoinStar-- you give up 10% using those machines.

Go to local bank or credit union & get full value. LOL.
Posted by: JQ



True, but you can't buy a 30-pack of Busch Light and some smokes in a bank or credit union.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 13, 2026 04:06 AM (sAmhv)

495 Morning, late night people. I heard a rumor that last night's ONT got to 600 comments. Kind of like the hamster above with his six miles a day on his wheel. And why is a male hamster called "Mollie"?

I'm up early, long story, but it involves a colorful dream I'll save for the new thread. Who's up?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 04:07 AM (wzUl9)

496 I forgot to time the coffee
Posted by: Skip

He has found out about coffee

Next he will find where I keep the brandy

Posted by: Auntie Miklos, remembering that "Uncle" Spiro left some ouzo at August 13, 2026 04:08 AM (XOG/m)

497 Who's up?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

The ONT ran 600 comments in six days

Posted by: Prof. Dr. Jason Ardayklos at August 13, 2026 04:10 AM (XOG/m)

498 "The haters come for Boy George over Israel. I know what it feels like."

WaPo

https://t.co/s67QJws9QM
Posted by: m at August 13, 2026


***
Karma karma karma karma, karma chameleon

(Not a slap at Boy George, it's just the only one of his songs I can think of)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 04:10 AM (wzUl9)

499 Going to bed soon to at least get a nap. Got to pick up the car today. It's sick. Took it in for one problem, turned out to be several. All self inflicted. I'm lazy, it back fired. It's an old Honda (12 years old) and it runs fine. Probably why I didn't realize I had a cracked timing belt. Plus other stuff that falls apart with age. It's going to cost a mint but I can cover it. I budget well.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 13, 2026 04:11 AM (sAmhv)

500 500

Posted by: m at August 13, 2026 04:11 AM (odBC9)

501
True, but you can't buy a 30-pack of Busch Light and some smokes in a bank or credit union.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 13, 2026


***
Gettin' so's you need a bank loan to buy those things

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 04:11 AM (wzUl9)

502 498: Yea, that's the only one I can think of. It got a ton of airplay when I was a yute.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 13, 2026 04:12 AM (sAmhv)

503 495 I heard a rumor that last night's ONT got to 600 comments.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 04:07 AM (wzUl9)

I think the numbers were boosted by some play-by-play on the Hong is Wrong governor race.

Posted by: m at August 13, 2026 04:12 AM (odBC9)

504 I think the numbers were boosted by some play-by-play on the Hong is Wrong governor race.
Posted by: m

My favorite was

HONG SCHLONGED

Posted by: Miklos wishes he had come up with that at August 13, 2026 04:15 AM (XOG/m)

505 498: Yea, that's the only one I can think of. It got a ton of airplay when I was a yute.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 13, 2026


***
I had to look it up, and somebody mentioned one of them above, but there was "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me," "Church of the Poison Mind," and "Miss Me Blind."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 04:15 AM (wzUl9)

506 498 Karma karma karma karma, karma chameleon

(Not a slap at Boy George, it's just the only one of his songs I can think of)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 04:10 AM (wzUl9)

In the 2009 Jonathan Ross interview (linked at comment 478 up above) Boy George says that, as he was being escorted into prison, inmates greeted him by calling out "karma chameleon!".

Posted by: m at August 13, 2026 04:17 AM (odBC9)

507 I'm awake, after a fashion, and having coffee of course. Little gray Dagny La Siberienne was curled on the couch in my spot when I got up. I scooped her up and popped her onto a cushion on my lap, and she stayed for two whole minutes before realizing, "I'm The Cat Who Walks By Herself" and vaulting away.

The trouble with being up this early is that I'm getting hungry, yet I don't want to go work out quite yet. Though I'm certainly not going to wait until it gets light at six am. First World Problems. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 04:18 AM (wzUl9)

508 I had to look it up, and somebody mentioned one of them above, but there was "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me," "Church of the Poison Mind," and "Miss Me Blind."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

There was better music at the time

*cranks up eclectic 80s faves at volume, because all the neighbors are out of town or hard of hearing*

Posted by: Miklos parties on at August 13, 2026 04:20 AM (XOG/m)

509 In the '80s I really liked, and still do like, "Karma Chameleon." The tune is irresistible, and the musicianship of Culture Club is fine work. It's on the music flash drive in my car.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 04:20 AM (wzUl9)

510 Wolfus-

You have interesting dreams.

Do they ever seem like the basis for a story?

Posted by: Miklos has enough real life material at August 13, 2026 04:21 AM (XOG/m)

511 I had to look it up, and somebody mentioned one of them above, but there was "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me," "Church of the Poison Mind," and "Miss Me Blind."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

There was better music at the time

*cranks up eclectic 80s faves at volume, because all the neighbors are out of town or hard of hearing*
Posted by: Miklos parties on at August 13, 2026


***
Bonnie Tyler's "Holding Out for a Hero" from the soundtrack of Footloose was the last truly *exciting* single in pop music history.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 04:22 AM (wzUl9)

512 First World Problems. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming

maybe

In New Orleans, the early daylight hours are probably the safest

Posted by: Miklos just guesses at August 13, 2026 04:24 AM (XOG/m)

513 "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me"


Oh yea, that got a lot of airplay too!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 13, 2026 04:24 AM (sAmhv)

514 Wolfus-

You have interesting dreams.

Do they ever seem like the basis for a story?
Posted by: Miklos has enough real life material at August 13, 2026


***
Yes. I dreamed that I ran into the ex-Mrs. Wolfus No. 2, and it scared me, so that I wrote a story in which a man and a woman, two old lovers, meet. During the course of their conversation, we realize that they used to abduct, torture, and murder young runaway girls back in the "good old days." A very disturbing story for sure.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 04:26 AM (wzUl9)

515 What time does Pixy post the Tech Thread nowadays? Used to be at three am my time, but he mentioned at some point he was working later, and would be posting later too. I think it's about 6:30 pm his time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 04:28 AM (wzUl9)

516 in two minutes

Posted by: m at August 13, 2026 04:28 AM (odBC9)

517 During the course of their conversation, we realize that they used to abduct, torture, and murder young runaway girls back in the "good old days." A very disturbing story for sure.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere



That would make a pretty good, disturbing movie. Especially if you realize that they got away with it and grew old.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 13, 2026 04:29 AM (sAmhv)

518 Another day, another leftist judicial stupidity . Judge declares schools in VA with confederate names violate black students' rights. The comments are deservedly vitriolic . Legal Insurrection site:

https://tinyurl.com/56ancexx

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 04:30 AM (W90Ou)

519 Puddleglum, a twelve-year-old Honda is just getting well broken in.

My Buick hit 100,000 miles yesterday evening. On the way to the book club meeting, I saw it had 99,999, so I drove into a bank parking lot and made a few circles until it clicked over. Miss Linda took a pic of the odometer. Not bad for a ten-year-old car, 65K of it under my ownership.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 04:31 AM (wzUl9)

520 During the course of their conversation, we realize that they used to abduct, torture, and murder young runaway girls back in the "good old days." A very disturbing story for sure.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
*
That would make a pretty good, disturbing movie. Especially if you realize that they got away with it and grew old.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 13, 2026


***
That's exactly what happened.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 04:32 AM (wzUl9)

521 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at August 13, 2026 04:32 AM (odBC9)

522 TECH THREAD IS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at August 13, 2026 04:33 AM (Ia/+0)

523 Pixy hath arrived

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2026 04:33 AM (wzUl9)

524 And on a happier note, four teens from Florida help push an elderly woman's broken down mobile wheelchair in the rain. Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/vpxcte5m

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 04:34 AM (W90Ou)

525 A very disturbing story for sure.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming

There is probably a market for that.

On the topic of Buicks-

Mine (inherited) has never had ballots in the trunk, to my knowledge.

But it is a 2010 LaCrosse with 53k on the clock.

Posted by: Miklos don't get around much at August 13, 2026 04:34 AM (XOG/m)

526 When Pixy arrives

Pixy Fukkin ARRIVES

Posted by: Miklos v. Multiplicity at August 13, 2026 04:36 AM (XOG/m)

527 It is interesting to contemplate how back in the day, Boy George was naturally compared and contrasted with the poorly closeted George Michael (came out in '9.

The latter had undeniable talent, but apparently some kind of psychological pain that he took out on himself. I'm surprised to read that he made it to 53, surviving drugs, pneumonia, and a coma, before falling to heart disease on Christmas Day in 2016.

Say what else you will about Boy George, it's an accomplishment in this life to be comfortable with yourself, and he plainly has that.

Posted by: SciVo at August 13, 2026 04:37 AM (Sy6m/)

528 @pittsburgh Scanner

why would you choose to be employed at a Thunderdome Wendy's. seems dangerous to be there

Posted by: paulnjax at August 13, 2026 07:28 AM (PPnyU)

Supercell Eclipse Cafe

shadowwalk.jpg
Edinburgh (?)
Pete Wands
@wandspja

Trash birds.

This is one big chungus baby tiger.

Old but good: Dressing your dog up in a giant spider costume and terrorizing the neighbors.

A tripod fish.

I could do this but I don't feel like it right now.

Deer and bunny are friends.

Hand-feeding a wild hawk.

This starling's mimicry is eerie.

Cat saves a chicken from a fox. They're not all evil.


Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:48 PM




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1 Yep

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 07:47 PM (d9FiM)

2 rst?

Posted by: Reforger at August 12, 2026 07:49 PM (Zqvxn)

3 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2026 07:49 PM (Ia/+0)

4 Top pic looks like a spy story.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 12, 2026 07:51 PM (zYpTz)

5 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2026 07:52 PM (udaaY)

6 Hi everyone!

Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2026 07:52 PM (ZdaMQ)

7 Get out more, you people!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 12, 2026 07:53 PM (wxsGM)

8 Remember folks, every Femocracy is a failure.

Massachusetts
New York
Virginia
NJ
California (lol)
Minnesota (lol)

Posted by: Vengeance at August 12, 2026 07:53 PM (6qFZ4)

9 Another night at work of nothing to do.
I can't believe I get paid to do this.
Going to put in a bunch of requesitions for a mini machine shop I think we need. Run it up the chain and see if the purchasing manager is not paying attention again and just signing things.
Worked before.

Posted by: Reforger at August 12, 2026 07:54 PM (Zqvxn)

10 I might have thought it was end of times in Nebraska if I was there

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2026 07:55 PM (Ia/+0)

11 Top pic looks like a spy story.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

With a sniper behind every tree.

You guys do okay with the storms yesterday? Dear wife had to drive through them - a bit scary but all was well.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2026 07:55 PM (udaaY)

12 St. Paulinas needs to go on a diet.

Posted by: Fatty Boombilatti at August 12, 2026 07:56 PM (JM9I6)

13
Between the kidnap and the rescue, that chicken must have lost half its feathers.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 07:56 PM (XJ22o)

14 Skip

Here in the Great Plains states we call that April and May.

Had some close calls here the last year.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 12, 2026 07:56 PM (u82oZ)

15 A nice cafe to end a busy day of news. Gracias.

Posted by: H at August 12, 2026 07:56 PM (49bBV)

16
Get out more, you people!
Posted by: Hokey Pokey

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

Okay, I'm going to the nearest Starbucks drive-thru and get something.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 07:57 PM (XJ22o)

17 Please don't tempt Mooslim men with lamby-porn. They have no self control.

Posted by: Pulling The Wool at August 12, 2026 07:57 PM (JM9I6)

18 men carry a 25-meter-tall, 2.5-ton (5,500-lb) tower

-
It was phallic enough without the bouncing.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 12, 2026 07:57 PM (ndZc7)

19 Top Pic. Is he looking at his friggin' cell phone?!

I really hate seeing almost everybody walking blindly down the path, glued to their fucking phones. I do keep my phone with me (in case I have a heart attack or something), but I do not carry it in my hand while walking. People! Enjoy the outdoors. Feel the sun, and the breeze. Listen to the birds. Chirp at the skwerls. Nod at passersby.

And, lest you think I am yelling at the younger folks, I see people my age doing the same damn thing.

Definitely near the top of my pet peeve list.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 12, 2026 07:57 PM (0aYVJ)

20 Reforget I most always try for a bottle of Scotch in a long order of material

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2026 07:57 PM (Ia/+0)

21 a centuries-old tradition honoring Saint Paulinus

— Massimo

St. Paulinus got his ass kicked at Stalingrad, didn't he?

Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2026 07:58 PM (udaaY)

22 Hand-feeding a wild hawk.

That'll be literal, eventually.

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2026 07:58 PM (VHUov)

23 Ritchie Blackmore is performing with Deep Purple tonight. First time in over 30 years.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 12, 2026 07:58 PM (CNl8/)

24 Are you supposed to not stare into the abyss, or into the eclipse?

Posted by: Warby Parker at August 12, 2026 07:58 PM (JM9I6)

25
Cat had plans for the chicken. Fox threatened to interrupt them.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 07:59 PM (XJ22o)

26 I could do this but I don't feel like it right now.

He's only five; you could take him, Ace. Just cover your junk.

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2026 07:59 PM (VHUov)

27 That Minnie is adorable. Too adorable.

I shared this last thread. I'm in the computer room getting to work but this happened an hour ago.

.......

I just took Ralphy outside for washroom. Snowflake races across the street startling a couple of Moms and their girls going to the park swimming pool.

They all came over to pet Snowflake and Ralphy whom I held. Then they told my friend he has a beautiful cat.

It was cute.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 12, 2026 08:00 PM (Sco7b)

28 You guys do okay with the storms yesterday? Dear wife had to drive through them - a bit scary but all was well.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2026 07:55 PM (udaaY)

Lot of flooding in my county, but our house is on a hill, so we were good. I was worried about wind, as there is an old silver maple next to the house, and those things are never stable.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 12, 2026 08:00 PM (zYpTz)

29 Chunk Chunk Chicken

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 12, 2026 08:00 PM (nDXEV)

30 >>>Dressing your dog up in a giant spider costume and terrorizing the neighbors.

Hello... Hey, I was wondering. I don't really like my dog anymore, but I'm kind of a coward. How can I get someone else to shoot him?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 12, 2026 08:02 PM (syz1S)

31 Get out more, you people!
Posted by: Hokey Pokey

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

Okay, I'm going to the nearest Starbucks drive-thru and get something.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 07:57 PM (XJ22o)

***

Ok
Rocky Road Ice Cream!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 12, 2026 08:03 PM (2WIwB)

32 Cat saves a chicken from a fox. They're not all evil.

I wasn't saving the chicken, I was dinnerblocking the fox.

Posted by: cat, evil at August 12, 2026 08:04 PM (VHUov)

33 DO NOT FEED WILD RAPTORS! crazy lady...the haws could have damaged her arm..why do you think falconers wear those massive gloves ?!

Posted by: runner at August 12, 2026 08:04 PM (g47mK)

34 If I saw that super cell in Nebraska, I'd suddenly remember an appointment a hundred miles away.

Posted by: Eromero at August 12, 2026 08:04 PM (LHPAg)

35 Some cool stuff up there.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 12, 2026 08:05 PM (zZu0s)

36 Way past my bedtime
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2026 08:05 PM (Ia/+0)

37 Italy's birth rate is 1.14 per woman. Takes 2.1 or so to stay even. Quit hauling phallic statues and get married you degenerates!

Posted by: I Should Be Pope at August 12, 2026 08:06 PM (JM9I6)

38 I think that chicken probably became a human meal that night.

Posted by: polynikes at August 12, 2026 08:07 PM (KC5Lt)

39 No more Mr. Nice Guy?

Mehdi Hasan
@mehdirhasan
I wonder if the White House press corps will finally go a little harder on Trump now they know he was okay with... potentially letting them die.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 12, 2026 08:08 PM (ndZc7)

40 Evenin’, All.

That is one ugly sheep.

Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 08:10 PM (77rzZ)

41 DO NOT FEED WILD RAPTORS! crazy lady...the haws could have damaged her arm..why do you think falconers wear those massive gloves ?!
Posted by: runner


Please stop yelling. You're going to frighten my wasp colony.

Posted by: crazy lady at August 12, 2026 08:10 PM (VHUov)

42 Wudu is typically performed before Salah or reading the Quran. Activities that invalidate wudu include urination, defecation, flatulence, deep sleep, light bleeding (depending on madhhab), menstruation, postpartum status, and sexual intercourse.

Since they pray five times a day, and can't have an invalid wudu, that must mean no Afternoon Delight.

So the only whoopie is Midnight at the Oasis?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 12, 2026 08:10 PM (0sNs1)

43 "I wonder if the White House press corps will finally go a little harder on Trump now they know he was okay with... potentially letting them die."

He potentially lets them die every day. He could potentially off them all tomorrow.

Posted by: fd at August 12, 2026 08:11 PM (MWfyi)

44 Yes mehdi, instead of insighting lunatics to murder PDT the press will do it themselves. That’s the only way they could treat him worse than they already do. What an asshat.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 12, 2026 08:11 PM (2NHgQ)

45 Top pic made me think of The Exorcist poster

https://rb.gy/wa45o5

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 08:11 PM (vE0+H)

46 33 DO NOT FEED WILD RAPTORS! crazy lady...the haws could have damaged her arm..why do you think falconers wear those massive gloves ?!
Posted by: runner at August 12, 2026 08:04 PM (g47mK)

I think the gloves are for when the hawks land/perch. As long as the hawk doesn't miss as he grabs the chow...

Yeah, you're right. Those talons can do some damage.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 12, 2026 08:11 PM (syz1S)

47 Get outside people.....

It's 95 degrees outside. Screw that crap.

Posted by: Case at August 12, 2026 08:12 PM (fV9m3)

48 Violet the wonder beagle has the zoomies. So cute.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 12, 2026 08:13 PM (2NHgQ)

49 St. Paolo

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2026 08:13 PM (Cqx++)

50 I wonder if the White House press corps will finally go a little harder on Trump now they know he was okay with... potentially letting them die."


===

LOL, Marco and Bessent were on the decoy plane too. So were other cabinet members. I don't see them complaining!

Posted by: runner at August 12, 2026 08:14 PM (g47mK)

51 Do not take wudu if you are allergic to wudu, or to any of its ingredients.

Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 08:14 PM (77rzZ)

52 "I wonder if the White House press corps will finally go a little harder on Trump now they know he was okay with... potentially letting them die."


*Shrugs shoulders*

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 08:14 PM (d9FiM)

53 Ritchie Blackmore is performing with Deep Purple tonight. First time in over 30 years.
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 12, 2026 07:58 PM (CNl8/)

He's 81 years old. I hope Graham Bonnet shows up and kicks his wrinkled old ass for firing him.

Posted by: Rainbow at August 12, 2026 08:15 PM (G5vcO)

54 know he was okay with... potentially letting them die.
------------------------

CNN "just happened to" broadcast a Trump rally live for the first time in 7 years and pointed a high speed camera at his head so they and the rest of their demented sons and daughters of Satan could masturbate to his face being blown apart in super slow motion for the rest of their lives. Please spare me the bullshit.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 08:15 PM (vE0+H)

55 Supercell over Nebraska > Two Moons Over My Hammy

Posted by: Diogenes at August 12, 2026 08:17 PM (2WIwB)

56 Does the Deep Purple concert start at 4:30PM like the Early Bird Specials in Del Boca Vista?

Posted by: Uncle Leo at August 12, 2026 08:18 PM (JM9I6)

57 48 Violet the wonder beagle has the zoomies. So cute.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 12, 2026

When Saijo has zoomies, he smooshes his ears down and looks like a seal.

Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2026 08:18 PM (ZdaMQ)

58 Supercell over Nebraska > Two Moons Over My Hammy
Posted by: Diogenes at August 12, 2026 08:17 PM (2WIwB)
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I saw Supercell Over Nebraska open for John (Cougar) Mellencamp at Pine Knob in '87. Great show!

Posted by: David French at August 12, 2026 08:18 PM (ZOv7s)

59 39 No more Mr. Nice Guy?

Mehdi Hasan
@mehdirhasan
I wonder if the White House press corps will finally go a little harder on Trump now they know he was okay with... potentially letting them die.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 12, 2026 08:08 PM (ndZc7)

Um...

The most overused word is "unsafe." You are never safe. You could get hit by a bus, you could die of a massive heart attack, you could bust an aneurism, you could just, you know, croak.

Is it really the Secret Service's job to protect these feckless idiots? Why, no, no it is not.

If you feel unsafe with PDT, then fuck off back to your studio and hide in a closet.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 12, 2026 08:20 PM (+Z9Sn)

60 There's a Supercell in my pants.

Posted by: Preznit Depends at August 12, 2026 08:21 PM (JM9I6)

61 56 Does the Deep Purple concert start at 4:30PM like the Early Bird Specials in Del Boca Vista?
Posted by: Uncle Leo at August 12, 2026 08:18 PM (JM9I6)

They do, plus they have low sodium entrees. And a Salad Wagon.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 12, 2026 08:21 PM (nDXEV)

62 Goes to Gateway Pundit:

BABY GABRIEL HAS BEEN BORN! After a highly publicized legal battle over his medical care, Baby Gabriel has arrived in Texas. The case drew national attention after his surrogate, McKenna West, fought to ensure he could receive life-saving treatment for a treatable heart condition. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had intervened to protect the baby’s access to necessary medical care.

Read the rest of the story, link in the comment.

https://tinyurl.com/46rcp2tk


Suck dick Talarico.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 12, 2026 08:21 PM (VbzrQ)

63 Hey, Piper!

Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 08:21 PM (77rzZ)

64 Heh, The White House press corpse.

Posted by: davidt at August 12, 2026 08:22 PM (Q+gd/)

65 Cell the movie sucked and I walked out. Cell the band wasn't half bad. I think we played with em at Lollapalooza second stage in 93.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 12, 2026 08:23 PM (nDXEV)

66 Supercell over Nebraska > Two Moons Over My Hammy
Posted by: Diogenes



Everyone in the red Dodge truck! We have to get Dorothy under the cell!

Posted by: rickb223 at August 12, 2026 08:23 PM (VbzrQ)

67 Star Trek is on. It's the one where they enter the low T zone.

Posted by: fd at August 12, 2026 08:23 PM (MWfyi)

68 CNN "just happened to" broadcast a Trump rally live for the first time in 7 years and pointed a high speed camera at his head so they and the rest of their demented sons and daughters of Satan could masturbate to his face being blown apart in super slow motion for the rest of their lives. Please spare me the bullshit.
Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 08:15 PM (vE0+H)
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The releases of information are not being conducted in real time. These were held back. If you work in the business, you know that. Trump has been holding back a ton of this stuff to completely derail Dem momentum in the midterms. Everyone wringing their hands over oil or Iran are just fools.

Only an abject idiot releases information when they find it. Yes, the reporters are running with it, but it was fed to them. All of them are being fed.

The next few months are going to be absolutely lit.

Posted by: David French at August 12, 2026 08:24 PM (ZOv7s)

69 *looks at italicans carrying heavy tower*

This is going to be great!

Posted by: Local Italican Chirpractors at August 12, 2026 08:24 PM (brIJB)

70 Begone cuckshed-dwelling sock!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 08:24 PM (ZOv7s)

71 Hey, A. H. Lloyd!

Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 08:26 PM (77rzZ)

72 70 Begone cuckshed-dwelling sock!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 08:24 PM (ZOv7s)

It was pretty icky.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 12, 2026 08:26 PM (+Z9Sn)

73 67 Star Trek is on. It's the one where they enter the low T zone.
Posted by: fd at August 12, 2026 08:23 PM (MWfyi)

C'mon. That could be Organia, Halka, Starbase 24 or a number of failed colonies like Tarsus IV.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 12, 2026 08:26 PM (nDXEV)

74 Star Trek is on. It's the one where they enter the low T zone.
Posted by: fd

Don't tell me - they also discuss the inviolate Prime Directive and then spend most of the episode breaking it.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2026 08:26 PM (udaaY)

75 If you feel unsafe with PDT, then fuck off back to your studio and hide in a closet.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 12, 2026 08:20 PM (+Z9Sn)
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LOL, the White House simps have lied as hard as they can about Trump. Trump actually tried to kick them out - he's worried about their safety - but the SUED to be let back in.

I guarantee that if Trump told them to get off the plane due to a terror threat, they would have raised absolute hell.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 08:27 PM (ZOv7s)

76 This zone sucks all of the energy out of you.

Posted by: fd at August 12, 2026 08:27 PM (MWfyi)

77 I'd wager most of those guys carrying the statue are unemployed and live in Mommy's basement.

Posted by: All Mammoni! at August 12, 2026 08:27 PM (JM9I6)

78 Don't tell me - they also discuss the inviolate Prime Directive and then spend most of the episode breaking it.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2026 08:26 PM (udaaY)
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Kirk bangs some high quality talent as well.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 08:27 PM (ZOv7s)

79 He's 81 years old (Blackmore). I hope Graham Bonnet shows up and kicks his wrinkled old ass for firing him.
Posted by: Rainbow

I understand Bonnet would be taking a haircut to perform there.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2026 08:27 PM (udaaY)

80 Does the Deep Purple concert start at 4:30PM like the Early Bird Specials in Del Boca Vista?
Posted by: Uncle Leo at August 12, 2026 08:18 PM (JM9I6)

You think you could keep us out of Del Boca Vista? We're moving in lock, stock and barrel. We're gonna be in the pool. We're gonna be in the clubhouse. We're gonna be all over that shuffleboard court! And I dare you to keep me out!

Posted by: The Rolling Stones, Older than dirt at August 12, 2026 08:29 PM (G5vcO)

81 You cast the spell, so break it.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 12, 2026 08:29 PM (nDXEV)

82 I'd wager most of those guys carrying the statue are unemployed and live in Mommy's basement.
Posted by: All Mammoni! at August 12, 2026 08:27 PM (JM9I6)
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The secular basement dwellers aren't the ones showing up for ancient Catholic rituals. Much of Europe has secularized, but that has made the Catholic remnant a lot more strident.

The Pope's visit to Spain was lit.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 08:30 PM (ZOv7s)

83 I saw Supercell Over Nebraska open for Supercell (not over Nebraska) at the Steelhouse in 2012.

https://youtu.be/a6nmtJAC4NM

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2026 08:30 PM (VHUov)

84
See Andrew McCarthy's X feed here for some of his first eclipse shots. He was on a boat in the Mediterranean for this:

https://t.ly/C2ALU

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 12, 2026 08:30 PM (w6EFb)

85 Damn, another sneezing fit. What a stupid reflex.

Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 08:31 PM (77rzZ)

86 Hey, A. H. Lloyd!
Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 08:26 PM (77rzZ)
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Hello! The surgery went very well. Mrs. Lloyd is spending the night just to be on the safe side. It's nice to have the whole ordeal over and now focus on healing and recovery.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 08:31 PM (ZOv7s)

87 Posted by: tcn in AK at August 12, 2026 08:20 PM (+Z9Sn)

The funniest part of this is they want the White House Press Corpse (spelled this way on purpose) to be HARDER on Trump

Like they don't already hate his guts and constantly write negative stories?

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 12, 2026 08:31 PM (mP0Kj)

88 It was pretty icky.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 12, 2026 08:26 PM (+Z9Sn)
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You have no idea.

Posted by: Nancy French at August 12, 2026 08:32 PM (ZOv7s)

89 You people and your weather.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2026 08:32 PM (JvZF+)

90 The releases of information are not being conducted in real time. These were held back. If you work in the business, you know that. Trump has been holding back a ton of this stuff to completely derail Dem momentum in the midterms. Everyone wringing their hands over oil or Iran are just fools.

Only an abject idiot releases information when they find it. Yes, the reporters are running with it, but it was fed to them. All of them are being fed.

The next few months are going to be absolutely lit.

Posted by: David French at August 12, 2026 08:24 PM (ZOv7s)

I enjoyed this but didn't understand the sock - I figured it was an old gay one.

BTW continued prayers for you and your lovely. I'm sorry you are going through it but good to hear that things are ok (last I heard).

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 08:33 PM (vE0+H)

91
Oh, a cool one he got post totality. The partially eclipsed setting sun over the horizon:

https://t.ly/UGQwx

He mentioned earlier he wanted to get in a spot with low sun altitude for what he was going for, and this shows what he was aiming for.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 12, 2026 08:33 PM (w6EFb)

92 86 A. H., what was the surgery?

Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 08:33 PM (77rzZ)

93 The funniest part of this is they want the White House Press Corpse (spelled this way on purpose) to be HARDER on Trump

Like they don't already hate his guts and constantly write negative stories?

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 12, 2026 08:31 PM (mP0Kj)

It turns out you can just say things. Leftards only believe about 2% of what they actually say. And you can tell which stuff that is because it's the most hateful and vile shit they come out with.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 08:34 PM (vE0+H)

94 Cat saves chicken from a fox
=====

Pro Tip: Do Not Play With Barn Cat

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2026 08:34 PM (JvZF+)

95 Like they don't already hate his guts and constantly write negative stories?
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 12, 2026 08:31 PM (mP0Kj)
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Performative outrage knows no limits. There is always someone who is MORE pissed, demanding that others equal their rage.

The fact that it's completely ineffective is besides the point. It should be obvious by now that liberal guys are very comfortable with being loudly impotent.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 08:34 PM (ZOv7s)

96
You people and your weather.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

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

We had an earthquake today! California rules.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at August 12, 2026 08:35 PM (DUAdZ)

97 Has anybody heard from commenter XTC? Haven’t seen him lately.

Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 08:35 PM (77rzZ)

98 Left on the plane - bitch
Made to get off the plane - bitch.

Fuck 'em. They're commie assholes. This is what they do.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 08:36 PM (d9FiM)

99 liberal guys are very comfortable with being loudly impotent.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 08:34 PM


The Paolo is, how you say, quietly potent.

Posted by: Paolo at August 12, 2026 08:36 PM (0sNs1)

100 I'd wager most of those guys carrying the statue are unemployed and live in Mommy's basement.
Posted by: All Mammoni!

The secular basement dwellers aren't the ones showing up for ancient Catholic rituals.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd


And regardless of their religiosity, basement-dwellers aren't known for hoisting 50+ lbs and dancing down the street with it.

5500 lb tower, 100+ dudes..... but does the weight include the band and the announcer standing on it?

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2026 08:36 PM (VHUov)

101 Deep Thought:

If a daredevil is killed doing a stunt does he become a dareangel?

Posted by: polynikes at August 12, 2026 08:36 PM (KC5Lt)

102 Damn, another sneezing fit. What a stupid reflex.
Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 08:31 PM


Have you tried motorboating?

Posted by: J. Random 'Ron at August 12, 2026 08:37 PM (0sNs1)

103 I guarantee that if Trump told them to get off the plane due to a terror threat, they would have raised absolute hell.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 08:27 PM (ZOv7s)

That was like when the libs all complained that Bush should have "done something" about his "9/11 warning" (Bin Laden Determined to Strike In U.S.).

You can see it now in the wake of Selected Not Elected -- Bush announces he has "classified intelligence" and therefore must crack down on swarthy men at airports and other high value locations. Would have gone down an absolute treat. "Yes President Bush, Good Idea President Bush, We Believe You President Bush, Thank You President Bush" they would have all said. Fuck, they wouldn't even let him do it on 9/12!

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 08:37 PM (vE0+H)

104 A. H., what was the surgery?
Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 08:33 PM (77rzZ)
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Double mastectomy for stage one breast cancer. We caught it at stage zero, and they upgraded it last week, but the operation was already scheduled so I'm not sure what the point was. We're waiting for the biopsy to see if chemo needs to happen.

Just before she was to be prepped, I got to chat with her and all the staff is doing their thing and as I left and paused and looked wistfully at her chest. "I'm going to miss you guys. We had 26 great years together."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 08:37 PM (ZOv7s)

105 Ian Gillan looks great for 81.

Posted by: Dark Lix at August 12, 2026 08:38 PM (DZ9Lv)

106 Left on the plane - bitch
Made to get off the plane - bitch.

Fuck 'em. They're commie assholes. This is what they do.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 08:36 PM (d9FiM)
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What's going to be funny is to see how many of them decided to travel independently, because they're all simpering cowards.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 08:40 PM (ZOv7s)

107 96
You people and your weather.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

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

We had an earthquake today! California rules.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at August 12, 2026 08:35 PM (DUAdZ)

Calif had 192 Earthquakes in the last week...

and no, I'm not kidding or exaggerating...

But lots of little quakes are much better than one big un.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 12, 2026 08:40 PM (mP0Kj)

108 We had an earthquake today! California rules.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at August 12, 2026 08:35 PM (DUAdZ)
=====

I thought you were in SEPa?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2026 08:40 PM (JvZF+)

109 I’m sorry, A. H., but I’m glad that your missus is OK. Please give her hugs on the Horde’s behalf.

Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 08:40 PM (77rzZ)

110 Hello! The surgery went very well. Mrs. Lloyd is spending the night just to be on the safe side. It's nice to have the whole ordeal over and now focus on healing and recovery.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Prayers for full healing and joy in recovery.

Posted by: Auspex at August 12, 2026 08:41 PM (Y8DZL)

111 Funny how no one is mad at Iran for possibly killing a bunch of reporters.

Posted by: fd at August 12, 2026 08:41 PM (MWfyi)

112 Funny how no one is mad at Iran for possibly killing a bunch of reporters.

Posted by: fd at August 12, 2026 08:41 PM (MWfyi)

The dog that didn't bark, eh

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 08:41 PM (vE0+H)

113 That was like when the libs all complained that Bush should have "done something" about his "9/11 warning" (Bin Laden Determined to Strike In U.S.).

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 08:37 PM (vE0+H)
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"We need to slash defense spending and put that money towards schools!"

"You idiot! You didn't spend enough on missiles! Iran is beating us!"

Exact same people.

Speaking of which...why do retired flag officers think they are allowed to talk about classified things like critical national defense secrets? Hegseth needs to break a bunch of these fat, cowardly DEI-loving war-losing shits.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 08:42 PM (ZOv7s)

114 Thanks for the prayers and encouragement guys. The Horde is the best.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 08:43 PM (ZOv7s)

115 Saw a lost cat outside Subway this evening. Time was, I'd rescue it. But now I'm too old and broke to take in any more. Now I'll fret about its fate forever. Soft hearted sap.

Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 08:45 PM (Jr5Lq)

116 We had an earthquake today! California rules.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at August 12, 2026 08:35 PM (DUAdZ)

Just one? AK shakes constantly.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 12, 2026 08:46 PM (+Z9Sn)

117
And another low-angle effect he was going for:

https://t.ly/-0Kp4

That's a brief video of the Moon's shadow splitting the sunset sky in half.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 12, 2026 08:47 PM (w6EFb)

118 Speaking of which...why do retired flag officers think they are allowed to talk about classified things like critical national defense secrets? Hegseth needs to break a bunch of these fat, cowardly DEI-loving war-losing shits.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 08:42 PM (ZOv7s)

They don't get to. When they do, they need to be court marshalled. They do not get to flout the rules just because they retired. Sedition and/or treason still apply.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 12, 2026 08:48 PM (+Z9Sn)

119 How many times now has Iran tried to assassinate Trump? The White House press corpse doesn't know they are in danger whenever they are near Trump? The same SS who let an assassin nick Trump's ear is going to protect the press corpse?

Posted by: davidt at August 12, 2026 08:49 PM (Q+gd/)

120 Hi, Bulg. Sorry, I was cleaning the kitchen.

Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2026 08:49 PM (ZdaMQ)

121 120 Piper, I thought you had people for that.

Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 08:52 PM (77rzZ)

122 They don't get to. When they do, they need to be court marshalled. They do not get to flout the rules just because they retired. Sedition and/or treason still apply.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 12, 2026 08:48 PM (+Z9Sn)

Thank you. Small pet peeve of mine - even Judge Judy gets it wrong - and I am hardly a grammarian.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 08:54 PM (vE0+H)

123 114 A. H., take care of her. Prayer up.

Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 08:55 PM (77rzZ)

124 118 Speaking of which...why do retired flag officers think they are allowed to talk about classified things ...
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 08:42 PM (ZOv7s)

They don't get to. When they do, they need to ...
Posted by: tcn
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Have their fingers broken, one at a time as bullet points, while they are being lectured on protocol.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 08:55 PM (VQ0bX)

125 121 120 Piper, I thought you had people for that.
Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 08:52 PM (77rzZ)

I should have daily staff, but no. 😂

Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2026 08:56 PM (ZdaMQ)

126
I thought you were in SEPa?
Posted by: San Franpsycho

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Southeast Pennsylvania?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 08:57 PM (XJ22o)

127 You do not get to flute the rules in the low brass section.

Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 08:57 PM (77rzZ)

128 Those people up there in housing so comfortable we could never afford do not understand the mood of the people. They have enough money, they could buy a clue.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 08:57 PM (VQ0bX)

129 I should have daily staff, but no. 😂

Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2026 08:56 PM (ZdaMQ)

I will give you, how you say, daily staff.

Posted by: Paolo at August 12, 2026 08:57 PM (vE0+H)

130 Thank you. Small pet peeve of mine - even Judge Judy gets it wrong - and I am hardly a grammarian.

Posted by: ...
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nazi


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 08:59 PM (VQ0bX)

131
Calif had 192 Earthquakes in the last week...

and no, I'm not kidding or exaggerating...

But lots of little quakes are much better than one big un.
Posted by: Romeo13

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

I'm sure we had 192. I just happened to be in the zone for one of them today.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 08:59 PM (XJ22o)

132 BIL's surgery today went well after the sedation kicked in - as you may remember he has some developmental disabilities. He got spooked during the check in process and actually thought he could overcome his sister's (my lovely wife) will and strength when pissed off. Fool.

Anyway, the surgeon removed a monster organ that shouldn't have been and he is now in recovery. Thanks for all the well wishes and prayers.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2026 08:59 PM (udaaY)

133 Blonde Morticia, in the zone. OK.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 09:00 PM (VQ0bX)

134 I've been looking everywhere for that thing!

Posted by: Phantom of the Opera at August 12, 2026 09:01 PM (Q+gd/)

135 Piper, J’s gotta step up.

Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 09:02 PM (77rzZ)

136 ...actually thought he could overcome his sister's (my lovely wife) will and strength when pissed off. Fool.

he is now in recovery. Thanks for all the well wishes and prayers.

Posted by: Tonypete
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Fool, hahahahaah
Well, anyway, The best to your BIL.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 09:03 PM (VQ0bX)

137 They don't get to. When they do, they need to ...
Posted by: tcn
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Have their fingers broken, one at a time as bullet points, while they are being lectured on protocol.

Posted by: Braenyard

Nah - make it really painful. Order them to attend briefings given by O-1s until they give up the plans to the Norden Bombsight.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2026 09:04 PM (udaaY)

138 Tonypete, prayer up.

Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 09:04 PM (77rzZ)

139 Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 08:59 PM (VQ0bX)

Tucker and Candace here I come.

Even Brit Lass thought it was flaunt and she's at least several times smarter than I am and besides the English are supposed to know language. It's not flaunt. Flaunt has become an "accepted misuse". But this I do not accept.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 09:04 PM (vE0+H)

140
Will remember Mrs. Lloyd in my Rosary intentions tomorrow.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2026 09:05 PM (O0L8i)

141 118 Speaking of which...why do retired flag officers think they are allowed to talk about classified things ...
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

They have information that's valuable, and haven't had to worry about consequences of misconduct for many years? Still don't, typically, unless they do something GROSSLY improper AND it gets general media attention.

Posted by: Military Moron at August 12, 2026 09:06 PM (+/CWD)

142 Flaunt is "show off." Flout is ignore flagrantly, to the point of abuse. I have no idea how those two words get reversed.

English, m-f'er. Do you speak it?

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 12, 2026 09:06 PM (+Z9Sn)

143 I propose the new word 'flunt' to replace flout and flaunt, in order to restore vocabularian harmony.

Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 09:07 PM (Jr5Lq)

144
I did not know Bulg was into eclipse photography. Warning, NSFW silhouette:

https://t.ly/H2U8G

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 12, 2026 09:07 PM (w6EFb)

145
flaunted; flaunting; flaunts
Synonyms of flaunt

intransitive verb
1: to display or obtrude oneself to public notice
… a great flaunting crowd …—Charles Dickens

2: to wave or flutter showily
the flag flaunts in the breeze

transitive verb
1: to display ostentatiously or impudently : parade
flaunting his superiority
a chance to flaunt clothes, bodies, and sexuality—New Yorker

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 09:07 PM (VQ0bX)

146 Watching "Minions & Monsters". It's... not for kids

Posted by: gKWVE at August 12, 2026 09:09 PM (88C+u)

147 SUE the T. rex
@SUEtheTrex
10h
TODAY IS MY UNEARTH DAY! THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE DAY THEY FOUND ME IN THE GROUND!

CELEBRATE BY CREATING CHAOS IN A MIDWESTERN CITY. EAT RAW MEAT OUTSIDE. SCREAM AT PUBLIC ART. MAKE AN ENEMY OF A STATUE. BULLY A MAMMAL. SECRETLY BE TENDER. SCREAM AT A ROCK IN THE SKY!
Aug 12, 2026 · 2:16 PM UTC

Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2026 09:10 PM (rbvCR)

148 I used to “flounce.”
— Zombie Lindsey Graham

Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 09:11 PM (77rzZ)

149 Nah - make it really painful. Order them to attend briefings given by O-1s until they give up the plans to the Norden Bombsight.

Posted by: Tonypete
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I see that you are a gentleman and give gentlemanly respect to rank.
These people have adulterated their rank and deserve no respect.
Give the treasonous bitches what they deserve break their fingers or hang them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 09:11 PM (VQ0bX)

150 Posted by: tcn in AK at August 12, 2026 09:06 PM (+Z9Sn)

I do not want to excuse the abusers of language - Lord knows I love to beat up the English a bit myself - but apparently it's because someone thought flout was itself a corruption of flaunt because they saw someone breaking a rule one time "ostentatiously".

To make matters worse this mistake became codified somewhere along the way as a tolerable one. But the wrong word, however similar, is not a tolerable substitute for the right word.

And honestly I don't give a shit about most other wrong words or word orders or spellings. English is supposed to be fun. It's just when someone flouts this particular one, I believe they do so ostentatiously.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 09:14 PM (vE0+H)

151 "The Court-Martial of General Tso" with James Hong was on streaming last night, pretty decent but dubbing was not great.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 12, 2026 09:14 PM (nDXEV)

152 147 Good Grief, Ben R., could you back off a little?

Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 09:14 PM (77rzZ)

153
Gave The Big Dummy a bath this evening. He's a good boy and never gives the least problem, but he's a pain to do all the same.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2026 09:15 PM (O0L8i)

154 Gave The Big Dummy a bath this evening. He's a good boy and never gives the least problem, but he's a pain to do all the same.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2026 09:15 PM (O0L8i)

Taking over for Aunt Esther?

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 12, 2026 09:16 PM (nDXEV)

155 Ten minutes of Sergio Mendes and Brasil 88:
youtube.com/watch?v=PXgIfKTVyCI

Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 09:17 PM (Jr5Lq)

156 To make matters worse this mistake became codified somewhere along the way as a tolerable one. But the wrong word, however similar, is not a tolerable substitute for the right word ...
Posted by: ...
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One must be careful, just because it appears on the web as a spelling or definition no longer means that it's correct.
The web is full of crap presented as valid.



Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 09:17 PM (VQ0bX)

157 Flout the flaunt flounce!

Posted by: Flaunt Flounce Flouter at August 12, 2026 09:18 PM (MWfyi)

158 flaunted; flaunting; flaunts
Synonyms of flaunt

The gunsel flaunted across the ballroom flaunting his gunsel package while others criticized the way the gunsel flaunts his wares so unashamedly.

Posted by: Gunsel and Flaunt at August 12, 2026 09:19 PM (G5vcO)

159 Hadrian, just a thought, maybe purebred dogs are dumb because of inbreeding? The canine brain version of the Hapsburg jaw?

Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 09:20 PM (77rzZ)

160 I remember that one time I flaunted and they had to rush me off the stage.

Posted by: Joe Biteum at August 12, 2026 09:21 PM (MWfyi)

161 Haunfel and Grefel.

Posted by: runner at August 12, 2026 09:21 PM (g47mK)

162 159 Hadrian, just a thought, maybe purebred dogs are dumb because of inbreeding? The canine brain version of the Hapsburg jaw?

Posted by: Bulg
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Working dogs aren't bred that way and don't suffer the afflictions of the upscale.
Border Collies
Beagles

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 09:23 PM (VQ0bX)

163
I have been writing to professors at universities here and abroad requesting reprints of journal articles and explaining they're for my book. Not only have the responses been positive but also friendly and even, to my astonishment, flattering. And here I thought I was just a forgotten nobody.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2026 09:23 PM (O0L8i)

164 The trash-to-sculpture birds lady is incredible. Wonder if she sells those.

Posted by: mnw at August 12, 2026 09:23 PM (RCjYY)

165
Hadrian, just a thought, maybe purebred dogs are dumb because of inbreeding? The canine brain version of the Hapsburg jaw?

Posted by: Bulg

__________

The boys are dumb on their own merits. The girls will steal your watch, wallet and phone without you being aware of it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2026 09:24 PM (O0L8i)

166 The girls will steal your watch, wallet and phone without you being aware of it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Some girls are just naturally that way.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 09:26 PM (VQ0bX)

167 The surrogate, McKenna West, an Alaskan nurse and single mother of two, had entered into a surrogacy agreement through Worldwide Surrogacy Specialists with the California couple, identified in court documents as Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed.

Let me guess, the donors were first cousins.

They should probably be deported.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 12, 2026 09:28 PM (C0Nlv)

168 I still think that inbreeding animals is a bad idea.

Hybrid vigor is where it’s at.

Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 09:28 PM (77rzZ)

169 Will remember Mrs. Lloyd in my Rosary intentions tomorrow.
Posted by: Hadrian


Saw this and was concerned Mrs. Lloyd was no longer with us! Had to go back upthread for context. Whew. Yes, God bless her in recovery. And comfort to A.H. as well.

Posted by: mindful webworker - partial info can be distressing at August 12, 2026 09:28 PM (B18Qw)

170 A compilation of people taking video of the recent Menasha/Appleton tornado (instead of taking shelter) ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LULcjdaT5BE

Posted by: davidt at August 12, 2026 09:30 PM (Q+gd/)

171
Blonde Morticia, in the zone. OK.

Posted by: Braenyard -

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

ITZ as we say.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at August 12, 2026 09:30 PM (XJ22o)

172 I love traditions like the procession of the tower carriers in Italy. It makes me happy that we come from a history and culture, European, that gave so much to the world.

Posted by: Decaf at August 12, 2026 09:34 PM (ZNpJk)

173 over 100 men carry a 25-meter-tall, 2.5-ton (5,500-lb) tower

That looks like a lot of fun. So, how many giraffes is 25 meters?

Posted by: mindful webworker - asking the important questions at August 12, 2026 09:34 PM (B18Qw)

174
News from my day. I had a reason to pay a visit to the West Marine store in Rehoboth Beach, DE this afternoon to acquire a replacement fire extinguisher for our watercraft.

Imagine my surprise to enter the store only to encounter it in a going out of business sale. The two guys staffing the checkout area said the company had filed for bankruptcy recently. It was extremely likely that all of its stores were closing or would be doing so soon.

"We're long since sold out of fire extinguishers." I got the replacement somewhere else.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 12, 2026 09:37 PM (s9VOe)

175

Hit that long lunar note and let it float.

https://youtu.be/XF177Aj59C8

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2026 09:37 PM (Cqx++)

176
I still think that inbreeding animals is a bad idea.

Hybrid vigor is where it’s at.
Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 09:28 PM (77rzZ)

_________

It has to be done carefully and with great aforethought. And there's no evidence that mixed breeds are any healthier than purebred.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2026 09:39 PM (NrCWn)

177 Ajax was pure bred and BY FAR the smartest dog I have ever known. He had a grasp of spatial reasoning that was creepy at times.

He was smarter than a lot of people I know, including some commenters on this blog.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 12, 2026 09:40 PM (zZu0s)

178
including some commenters on this blog.

__________

Well, that's an awfully low bar.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2026 09:41 PM (NrCWn)

179 Saw this and was concerned Mrs. Lloyd was no longer with us! Had to go back upthread for context. Whew. Yes, God bless her in recovery. And comfort to A.H. as well.
Posted by: mindful webworker - partial info can be distressing at August 12, 2026 09:28 PM (B18Qw)
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She is very much alive and texting!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 09:43 PM (ZOv7s)

180 Smartest dog I ever knew was a blue heeler.

Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 09:43 PM (Jr5Lq)

181
Gave The Big Dummy a bath this evening. He's a good boy and never gives the least problem, but he's a pain to do all the same.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh


I came across a "LaMonte" in our family tree two days ago, out in second cousin territory as a grandfather of some degree. No evidence was available immediately to judge whether he was a big dummy, but that branch hasn't beennfully scoped out yet.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 12, 2026 09:44 PM (s9VOe)

182 And here I thought I was just a forgotten nobody.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2026 09:23 PM (O0L8i)

Awesome! And never to me...

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 09:45 PM (vE0+H)

183
Hubby and I are watching the Cubs game.

There are people there wearing yellow shirts protesting Harris Teeter keeping chickens in cages.

WTH?

Posted by: four seasons at August 12, 2026 09:45 PM (/QHx4)

184 Smartest dog I ever knew was a blue heeler.
Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 09:43 PM (Jr5Lq)

*fistbump* Red Heeler was Ajax.

They sometimes come at a problem sideways.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 12, 2026 09:46 PM (zZu0s)

185
He was smarter than a lot of people I know, including some commenters on this blog.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone


I don't get it.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 12, 2026 09:46 PM (s9VOe)

186 It has to be done carefully and with great aforethought. And there's no evidence that mixed breeds are any healthier than purebred.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2026 09:39 PM (NrCWn)
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The "inbred royalty" line is old English propaganda. The Habsburgs constantly sought marriages outside their line to add new territories. That's how Charles V could be such a threat to the rest of Europe.

There used to be a saying that the Habsburgs were unlucky in war, but lucky in marriage because they didn't conquer territory, they married into it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 09:47 PM (ZOv7s)

187 I can't figure out how those Italians are carrying that tower. Plus there are people on the platform dancing...that does not seem right for the poor men.

Are men UNDER the platform?

This will bug me forevermore.

Have been babysitting all week and am exhausted but sleeping really well every night. Baby girl likes noises and singing and we supply both.

She's almost a year old and tried to cluck like a hen today as the book she loves has animals. It will be awhile before she can master my rooster crow. She pets the Golden who looks like her's, and pants like a doggie (can't bark yet).

At a puppy stage of life pre-walking and fast crawls to you smiling to be picked up. We love her lots.

The eclipse from the fighter jet, Ace. Wow. All I could think about was God.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 12, 2026 09:47 PM (hzuYO)

188 Line breeding. I concentrated a line to a legend in horses in order to preserve those genetics.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 12, 2026 09:48 PM (EZtVN)

189
There used to be a saying that the Habsburgs were unlucky in war, but lucky in marriage because they didn't conquer territory, they married into it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 09:47 PM (ZOv7s)

__________

Bella gerant alii, tu, felix Austria, nube.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2026 09:49 PM (O0L8i)

190 @163
Sometimes it's best to be a forgotten nobody.

Posted by: Case at August 12, 2026 09:50 PM (fV9m3)

191
He was smarter than a lot of people I know, including some commenters on this blog.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 12, 2026 09:40 PM (zZu0s)

************
I'm right here and this is about me, isn't it

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreatisParanoid at August 12, 2026 09:50 PM (hzuYO)

192 Hubby and I are watching the Cubs game.

There are people there wearing yellow shirts protesting Harris Teeter keeping chickens in cages.

WTH?

Posted by: four seasons at August 12, 2026 09:45 PM (/QHx4)
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Cheap grace. T-shirt Calvinism. "By these protest signs we are saved."

Kind of funny how I got flak for "Yard Sign Calvinism" and then Buck Throckmorton noted that Karens are basically bored Puritan women.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 09:50 PM (ZOv7s)

193
There are people there wearing yellow shirts protesting Harris Teeter keeping chickens in cages.

WTH?

Posted by: four seasons


A grocery store that sells live chickens?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2026 09:51 PM (Cqx++)

194 noted that Karens are basically bored Puritan women.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 09:50 PM (ZOv7s)

I was thinking self-absorbed social-climbing control freak assholes. Power of and?

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 09:53 PM (vE0+H)

195
Most of us are trying to survive.

Being upset that chickens are caged?

Get a life.

Posted by: four seasons at August 12, 2026 09:54 PM (/QHx4)

196 113 AHL

Good catch! AFAIK, conservatives don't do that weathervane krap.

Speaking of respectable, unbiased purveyors of fact, I offer up the WSJ & CNBC for your consideration. Just this past week, I have seen these headlines. I'm going to rely on my memoiy-- not going to go through a lot of dreck to quote verbatim, but trust me:

"Trump Falsely States Childhood Vaccines May Cause Serious Health Problems"

"Trump Claims Wrongly That Voting By Non-Citizens Is Widespread"

Like that! This is not bilge from The View or Vanity Fair! This is respectable journalism!

Posted by: mnw at August 12, 2026 09:54 PM (RCjYY)

197
There are people there wearing yellow shirts protesting Harris Teeter keeping chickens in cages.


They've not learned the snow job that is "free range chicken" yet, have they?

Chickens are dumb. Their gateway to "free ranging" is a single door at the end of a chicken house dozens of yards long. Ain't no chickens taking the long walk to go out that door.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 12, 2026 09:55 PM (s9VOe)

198 I was thinking self-absorbed social-climbing control freak assholes. Power of and?
Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 09:53 PM (vE0+H)
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It falls squarely into the category of "nothing is new under the sun."

Chicks screaming about witches in Salem are now screaming about Trump. SSDD.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 09:55 PM (ZOv7s)

199 I've probably told this story before, but don't really care.

When he was about a year old, I kept trying to get him 'thinking toys'. He solved every one so quickly it was slightly creepy. Then I found one. It was a bottle with the screw end on the large end (the bottle looked kind of like a milk bottle.) In the small open end there was a rope inserted in the neck of the bottle. The idea being you filled the bottle up with treats, the dog would pull on the rope or swing the bottle around and get treats one or two at a time.

So I fill the bottle up and set the toy down in front of Ajax. He gets down and just stares at it. Sniffs both ends and just stares some more. Wheels turning furiously. I turn around thinking 'got you.'

Then about 5 mind later I hear munching. Turn around in my chair and there is Ajax with a pile of treats in front of him, pigging out. The bottle half empty beside him. Intact. And im like 'Whaaaaa'. He just wagged his tail at me.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 12, 2026 09:56 PM (zZu0s)

200 104 A. H., what was the surgery?
Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 08:33 PM (77rzZ)
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Double mastectomy for stage one breast cancer. We caught it at stage zero, and they upgraded it last week, but the operation was already scheduled so I'm not sure what the point was. We're waiting for the biopsy to see if chemo needs to happen.

Just before she was to be prepped, I got to chat with her and all the staff is doing their thing and as I left and paused and looked wistfully at her chest. "I'm going to miss you guys. We had 26 great years together."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August


What a shitty thing to say to your wife.

Posted by: AYFKM? at August 12, 2026 09:56 PM (pXM6/)

201 176
I still think that inbreeding animals is a bad idea.

Hybrid vigor is where it’s at.
Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 09:28 PM (77rzZ)
_________
It has to be done carefully and with great aforethought. And there's no evidence that mixed breeds are any healthier than purebred.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2026 09:39 PM (NrCWn)

I have only ever had one "pure bred" dog. He was an amazing terrier, but downright odd. Not stupid, but driven, in the silly way terriers tend to be.

I have had many mutts, some were (are) idiots and some ridiculously intelligent dogs. The two I have now are Alaskan sled dogs, which means a mix of Siberian husky, probably some lab, probably some German shepherd, sometimes a little bit of wolf depending on the dog yard they bred in, and sometimes something else. They are bred for speed and endurance, and for sleeping in the snow below zero.

One sister is crafty and curious, the other is a complete idiot, but loyal in her stupidity. They look similar, except that one about 10 lbs bigger than the other. They are both fast and can run forever.

Breeding isn't just for "pure breed" conformance. Sometimes it is for other reasons.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 12, 2026 09:57 PM (+Z9Sn)

202 ..."Trump Falsely States Childhood Vaccines May Cause Serious Health Problems"

"Trump Claims Wrongly That Voting By Non-Citizens Is Widespread"

Like that! This is not bilge from The View or Vanity Fair! This is respectable journalism!

Posted by: mnw
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Like my doctor said, I don't understand how intelligent people (he was talking about his friends) believe that crap.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 09:58 PM (VQ0bX)

203 What a shitty thing to say to your wife.
Posted by: AYFKM? at August 12, 2026 09:56 PM (pXM6/)

And what an ass you are.

Do you suppose she got the joke? I doubt you have ever been married.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 12, 2026 09:58 PM (+Z9Sn)

204 Like that! This is not bilge from The View or Vanity Fair! This is respectable journalism!

Posted by: mnw at August 12, 2026 09:54 PM (RCjYY)
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WSJ is just as bad as the NYT. The reporters are all woke, and the editorial page is beholden to importing peasants to drive down wages.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 09:59 PM (ZOv7s)

205 I can't figure out how those Italians are carrying that tower. Plus there are people on the platform dancing...that does not seem right for the poor men.
Are men UNDER the platform?


It's like a litter/palanquin. There are bars projecting from the sides, and the men around it are carrying it by those bars. I don't think anyone is dumb enough to be underneath the 2.5 ton tower....

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2026 10:00 PM (VHUov)

206 So I am wondering how he did it. Because I cannot quite figure it out. The screw end is intact. The rope end is intact.

So I fill it back up and put it down in front of him again. Sat down in my chair and turned around but kept glancing over my shoulder.

He turned the bottle around so it was laying on his front legs, small end away from him. He then grasped the big end in his mouth. Then shook the bottle up and down, spilling the treats out in a small pile .
I stopped trying to buy him 'thinking toys' because I realized it was just insulting for us both.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 12, 2026 10:00 PM (zZu0s)

207 >>Like my doctor said, I don't understand how intelligent people (he was talking about his friends) believe that crap.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 09:58 PM (VQ0bX)

When you realize this is their modern day religion, it explains a lot.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 12, 2026 10:01 PM (nDXEV)

208 nood

Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 10:01 PM (Jr5Lq)

209 She already feels less of a woman

She already feels mutilated.

Men love boobs. Right?

It’s a shitty thing to say. I’ve been married. And my Boobs have been mutilated.

Posted by: AYFKM? at August 12, 2026 10:03 PM (pXM6/)

210 204 AHL

Don't forget CNBC. For a purely financial news website, CNBC sure hates on Trump A LOT!

Almost daily CNBC commits some kind of bias atrocity. I guess they assume MAGAns are too dumb and broke to read financial news.

Posted by: mnw at August 12, 2026 10:04 PM (RCjYY)

211
It's like a litter/palanquin. There are bars projecting from the sides, and the men around it are carrying it by those bars. I don't think anyone is dumb enough to be underneath the 2.5 ton tower....
Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2026 10:00 PM (VHUov)
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Thanks. It said 100 men carrying it and I tried to count. They must tag team?

I would like to be carried in a litter but don't have one. I'm that tired this week from a baby girl alternating with the older chimp grandchildren who make us more tired. When we have all 3 at the same time we need a day to recover.

What we do for love the week before school starts...

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreatisParanoid at August 12, 2026 10:04 PM (hzuYO)

212
I think AHL sad the right thing to his wife.

We here don't know what type of relationship people have with their family.

Every relationship is different. Having a sense of humor is important.

Best wishes for the AhL family!!

Posted by: four seasons at August 12, 2026 10:04 PM (/QHx4)

213 Bluebell the hen wants to know when the super-size ray will be available so she can go visit the dumb bint monkeys with their bright yellow t-shirts.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 12, 2026 10:07 PM (+fdRY)

214 What a shitty thing to say to your wife.
Posted by: AYFKM? at August 12, 2026 09:56 PM (pXM6/)

And what an ass you are.

Do you suppose she got the joke? I doubt you have ever been married.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 12, 2026 09:58 PM (+Z9Sn)

My wife would have quipped, "grab a handful, these are the last boobies you'll handle...or else."

Gotta have a sense of humor about the shit life throws at you.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 12, 2026 10:09 PM (0aYVJ)

215 Say the men who keep ogling at the big boobies on the sidewalk.

Not ok. She feels dewoman ized enough. She feels no longer attractive. Men talk about boobs all the time.

It’s not a joke. It’s traumatic.

Posted by: AYFKM? at August 12, 2026 10:12 PM (yEz+x)

216 Not ok. She feels dewoman ized enough. She feels no longer attractive. Men talk about boobs all the time.

It’s not a joke. It’s traumatic.

Posted by: AYFKM? at August 12, 2026 10:12 PM (yEz+x)

Everyone is different though. You have to make allowances for differences in situation and temper.

For example I call my wife a cunt to her face all the time. She's British. She expects it. Now if I called her a libtard, or said she was like her mother, those would be fighting words.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 10:26 PM (vE0+H)

217 Sorry for what you went through btw. Very. I happen to like legs FWIW.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 10:27 PM (vE0+H)

Quick Hits

Women are broken. Men aren't doing great either, but holy mackerel, are women cooked.

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"Gender is an artificial social construct and can be completely changed with a mere thought" says the barren woman whose childlessness compels her to find a substitute to mother, and settles on... wasps.

Mamdani, who ran on defunding the police, volunteers the NYPD to escort his whore wife to the Middle East for her rabble-rousing terror-trip, and the NYPD says go f*** yourself, Sparky.


A seemingly red-faced Mayor Zohran Mamdani blamed a "miscommunication" Tuesday after an awkward public clash between City Hall and NYPD officials over whether the department would provide security for his wife Rama Duwaji's upcoming Middle East trip.

The high-profile back-and-forth appeared to end when Hizzoner asserted that Duwaji would not receive a taxpayer-funded police escort on her jaunt to Syria and Lebanon next month -- despite his own senior spokesperson claiming she would the day prior.

...

"Upon the strong recommendation of the NYPD, the first lady's security detail will be joining her when she travels to visit family in Syria and Lebanon," Mamdani's spokeswoman Dora Pekec said.


But City Hall's assertion drew a stunning response from the NYPD Tuesday morning.

"The NYPD does not send officers to countries with level four travel advisories for discretionary reasons not linked to investigative work," a department spokesperson insisted.

"This is not an investigative trip, and therefore, NYPD personnel will not be traveling there for it."

The statement not only undercut Pekec's assertion, but effectively amounted to NYPD officials publicly breaking with their boss: Mamdani.

...


Both countries are on the US State Department's "Do Not Travel" list due to security concerns.

The prospect of sending NYPD cops to countries on the "Do Not Travel" list struck former police commissioner Bill Bratton as "ill-advised."

...

Duwaji, a 29-year-old Syrian-American artist, traveled overseas just last month without police protection.

She co-hosted in July a pro-Palestinian all-female spiritual retreat on the French island of Corsica, and was also the "artist-in-residence" at a sold-out "Plants Of The Quran" workshop on the Spanish island of Mallorca. Both were organized by the Women Sanctuary, a Muslim-and-women-focused travel group run by Parisian designer Rym Nur.

These socialists and radical egalitarians sure do expect to be treated like Royals, don't they?

Dana Loesch
@DLoesch

The terror-loving nepo baby who VERBATIM demanded the NYPD be defunded NOW demands that the same officers risk their lives by traveling with his selfie-obsessed wife so she can make a personal visit to a country for which the US maintains a Level 4: do not travel advisory.

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Sophie Cunningham's coach explains why she took the side of the thug who almost took her own player's head off. Oh wait, she doesn't explain, she just says she lives with "grace and humility" and everyone else can "go to hell."

"Go to hell," one of the top markers of grace and humility. I think it's Ephesians.

David Axelrod says it's okay that Barack Obama used fake signatures to get himself on the Democrat primary ballot because that's not exactly the same as falsifying votes in an election.

A "butch, non-binary teacher" says "their" first day of the new school year will consist of bullying students into calling zem "they/them."

What kind of videos has Cavernous Nostrils been watching?

Nancy Pelosi says she had no idea Biden was mentally declining. This is because she herself is mentally declining, ironically.

She says that "whoever knew" should be punished.



For some reason, this terrorist Muslim Turk (and Turks have a long history of multiple genocides) just can't go three words without calling for violence.



Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:40 PM




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1 Before you go

Posted by: Bete at August 12, 2026 06:42 PM (LX4y3)

2 !

Posted by: wth at August 12, 2026 06:42 PM (UjdFS)

3 It's all fun and games until a wasp stings her on the tit.

Posted by: wth at August 12, 2026 06:43 PM (UjdFS)

4 The male to male transmission of knowledge on how to behave is still somewhat intact, women largely have to rely on public education growing up.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at August 12, 2026 06:43 PM (okun6)

5 Hong probably won

Posted by: It's me donna at August 12, 2026 06:43 PM (FtULh)

6 She says that "whoever knew" should be punished.

Uh-oh. There goes everybody with two eyes...

Posted by: t-bird at August 12, 2026 06:43 PM (hLZfT)

7 Emotional Support Africanised Killer Bees.
Kinda covers all the bases.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 12, 2026 06:43 PM (nDXEV)

8 Hasan. Poor little bitch.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 12, 2026 06:44 PM (zZu0s)

9 piker is a scream

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 12, 2026 06:45 PM (CWTWj)

10 Miss Royce White is a woman with a dick. Deal with it.

Posted by: huerfano at August 12, 2026 06:45 PM (CSc+i)

11 Hasan Piker ends off his stream by melting down over Francesca Hong’s defeat and threatening the establishment

“The knives will be out”


I think this nutball is going to become a recurring character this season!

Posted by: t-bird at August 12, 2026 06:45 PM (hLZfT)

12 I'm going to have free range cobras at the house.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 06:46 PM (+mpku)

13 Great.

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
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12m
OMG

Islamic foot wash stations are being installed inside the bathrooms at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport

Posted by: beckster at August 12, 2026 06:46 PM (kX27y)

14 Sad thing is Dems got a much bigger turn out in WI than R's did, so those here are probably screwed anyway.

Posted by: Bete at August 12, 2026 06:46 PM (LX4y3)

15 "Gender is an artificial social construct and can be completely changed with a mere thought" says the barren woman whose childlessness compels her to find a substitute to mother, and settles on... wasps.

At least she won't smell of cat piss.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 12, 2026 06:47 PM (pawvM)

16 Woman Dies In Wasp Attack After Stumble

Posted by: Headlines we expect to see at August 12, 2026 06:48 PM (MWfyi)

17 Piker's podcast seems to be an unending series of hissy fits.

Posted by: huerfano at August 12, 2026 06:48 PM (CSc+i)

18 Kill them with extreme prejudice

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2026 06:48 PM (Ia/+0)

19 14 Sad thing is Dems got a much bigger turn out in WI than R's did, so those here are probably screwed anyway.
Posted by: Bete at August 12, 2026 06:46 PM (LX4y3)

Wisconsin is an open primary State.....

Posted by: It's me donna at August 12, 2026 06:49 PM (FtULh)

20 @ wth: "It's all fun and games until a wasp stings her on the tit."

That's the textbook definition of a Bee-cup .

Posted by: The Walking Dude at August 12, 2026 06:49 PM (GJkZ/)

21 NBC just had that WNBA coach on. What a sub-human piece of shit.

Watching this go on, I'm really starting to dislike these ghetto apes.

...........

I just took Ralphy outside for washroom. Snowflake races across the street startling a couple of Moms and their girls going to the park swimming pool.

They all came over to pet Snowflake and Ralphy whom I held. Then they told my friend he has a beautiful cat.

It was cute.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 12, 2026 06:50 PM (Sco7b)

22 if there was a machine in operation for that purpose, I would favor putting hasan piker in it.

jus' sayin'.

for a friend.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 12, 2026 06:50 PM (VyBeY)

23 They all seem so nice

Posted by: 496 at August 12, 2026 06:50 PM (jth8J)

24 Hong went to far Left probably

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2026 06:50 PM (Ia/+0)

25 Zohran Mamdani and his wife Rama Duwaji.
Who let these fucks in the country?

Posted by: wth at August 12, 2026 06:50 PM (UjdFS)

26 I'm not a big fan of bugs, in general. But mf-ing wasps, hornets, are whole nuther level.

I just don't like pests, vermin, because of the ick. But wasps have put personal hurt on me. And also, in the bug world, wasps are kind of lovecraftian horrors. They take over other creatures, turn them into zombies, lay eggs in them and use their slowly dissolving bodies as ambulatory incubation chambers. They are freaking monsters. Here I'll just say it, they are "The jerks of Animalia"

Posted by: banana Dream at August 12, 2026 06:50 PM (3uBP9)

27 14 Sad thing is Dems got a much bigger turn out in WI than R's did, so those here are probably screwed anyway.
Posted by: Bete
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Tiffany was not stupid enough, unlike Mike Lindell next door, to promise GOP voters to push for amnesty. Every GOP consultant and donor best get it through their heads--the base refuses any amnesty and its legal workarounds like OPT, visa overstays, and H1b crap.

Base wants the era of cheap labor for corporate and country club donors over. Even if covered with a sticky residue of Christianity arguments that we owe Muzzies the right to come here to build mosques so they can rule over us because of 'caring'. Ditto for other shitholes not Muzzie.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 06:51 PM (E4rtv)

28 Just wait until that nut needs one of those binders the wasps have pappered over. It will be comedy gold watching her try to retrieve it.

Posted by: Embarrassing Stain at August 12, 2026 06:51 PM (Isv03)

29 25 Zohran Mamdani and his wife Rama Duwaji.
Who let these fucks in the country?
Posted by: wth at August 12, 2026 06:50 PM (UjdFS)

Have you seen Al Sayed's wife ?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 12, 2026 06:51 PM (FtULh)

30 Hassan just says it out loud with a very public platform. The rest of the leftists think the same thoughts. Why are we still pretending that these communists can be reasoned with?

Posted by: Crusader at August 12, 2026 06:51 PM (TN0g+)

31 I just took Ralphy outside for washroom. Snowflake races across the street startling a couple of Moms and their girls going to the park swimming pool.

They all came over to pet Snowflake and Ralphy whom I held. Then they told my friend he has a beautiful cat.

It was cute.

Posted by: Stateless

Nice report. Hope you are doing well and the forest fires have died down.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 06:51 PM (E4rtv)

32 > Sophie Cunningham's coach explains why she took the side of the thug who almost took her own player's head off. Oh wait, she doesn't explain, she just says she lives with "grace and humility" and everyone else can "go to hell."

Coach also claimed she didn't react immediately because she didn't see it in real time, which is a blatant lie. There are photographs showing her looking right at the play in real time. Additionally, the big screen showed the replay several times while it was under review. Coach had many opportunities to see that her player got mugged, and respond accordingly.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 12, 2026 06:52 PM (mkw2N)

33 I saw him maybe 3 times that whole year, so I didn't know.

Doesn't she have a TV? Heck, I don't have a TV and didn't see him F2F ever—and yet I figured it out six months before he even ran the first time.

She must be too busy manipulating the stock market to notice these things like the head of her party turning into a zombie.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 12, 2026 06:52 PM (+4Cf6)

34 Disclaimer. I’ve been drinking and I’m typically one and done with hard alcohol. That said, I’m very irritated by this post. I’m a woman and in no way resemble this twat who nurtures a wasp nest in her office. Ace, I’d like you to know that I installed a gravestone today in our church cemetery. Does that sound like I’m the same as this twat that nurtures a f’ing wasp nest? Time for another cocktail.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 12, 2026 06:52 PM (2NHgQ)

35 Gotta admit, I laugh at all the folks who think we are not ALREADY in a Socialist situation.

Look around you. Is there ANYTHING within your sight that does not have some Government regulation on it? Some rule... some law?

so·cial·ism

noun
socialism (noun)
a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole:

Note the REGULATED in the definition.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 12, 2026 06:53 PM (mP0Kj)

36 5 Hong probably won
Posted by: It's me donna
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Probably. Be curious about the walking around money and ballot harvesting money that was spent by the winning Dem candidate in the last couple of weeks.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 06:53 PM (E4rtv)

37 The Wasp Lady. Would love to know more about her. “ Quirky” would not cover her by a long shot, I am betting.

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 06:53 PM (sTlXt)

38 > Islamic foot wash stations are being installed inside the bathrooms at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport

Every US airport I've been to in the last ten years is absolutely full of Muslim workers. They're working security, in the shops, in the restaurants, as janitors, etc.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 12, 2026 06:54 PM (mkw2N)

39 "EL-SAYED: "I want to actually take it a step further...we need some system of public control."

And exactly who(m?) do you mean by the "public". You mean the commie totalitarian that gets elected by fraud and threats, and by a block vote of Islamists?

Posted by: illiniwek at August 12, 2026 06:54 PM (vbXSk)

40 There are plenty of men that are nothing to be proud of either, neverenoughcaffeine.

Posted by: fd at August 12, 2026 06:54 PM (MWfyi)

41 Nice report. Hope you are doing well and the forest fires have died down.
Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 06:51 P

Thank you. Doing better. And no where near forest fires.

I hope you're well too.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 12, 2026 06:54 PM (Sco7b)

42 Meh, back to watching videos of selfie takers getting gored by bison in Yellowstone

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 12, 2026 06:54 PM (bX16E)

43 Just wait until that nut needs one of those binders the wasps have pappered over. It will be comedy gold watching her try to retrieve it.

Far more fun if a cow worker lobs a Nerf ball at the side of the nest while she is sitting there.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 12, 2026 06:55 PM (+4Cf6)

44 I thought maybe Blackie Lawless was in her office.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 12, 2026 06:55 PM (CNl8/)

45 17 Piker's podcast seems to be an unending series of hissy fits.
Posted by: huerfano
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Because he is a whiny bitch. Has the same emotional control of a 13 yr old kid on a bender. And that is what Muzzies are in the end, push the right buttons and they become raging maniacs.

I am a fan more of cold rage myself.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 06:55 PM (E4rtv)

46 * looks at sign next to wasp nest *

I hope nothing catches on fire, or it'll be a real Benny Hill skit.

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2026 06:55 PM (VHUov)

47 Base wants the era of cheap labor for corporate and country club donors over. Even if covered with a sticky residue of Christianity arguments that we owe Muzzies the right to come here to build mosques so they can rule over us because of 'caring'. Ditto for other shitholes not Muzzie.
Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 06:51 PM (E4rtv)

Consultants and candidates should have learned itafter Walker's demise post embracing that in his presidential run.

Posted by: Bete at August 12, 2026 06:55 PM (LX4y3)

48 The way the trans people act when faced with the slightest pushback is interesting. If they all got together in one place I wouldn't be surprised to see a Jonestown like occurrence.
And I think Piker wants to be a martyr, but he's too much of a coward

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 06:56 PM (WOnE5)

49 42 Meh, back to watching videos of selfie takers getting gored by bison in Yellowstone
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 12, 2026 06:54 PM (bX16E)


That NEVER gets old. Bring back the Darwin Awards. Probably a Wasp category.

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 06:56 PM (sTlXt)

50 Thank you. Doing better. And no where near forest fires.

I hope you're well too.
Posted by: Stateless
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Keeping the docs employed. Like your Ralphie and Snowflake stories as they cheer me up. Thanks for that.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 06:56 PM (E4rtv)

51 Can you piss in the foot washing bowl?

Posted by: Pudinhead at August 12, 2026 06:56 PM (KGj36)

52 The Wasp Lady. Would love to know more about her. “ Quirky” would not cover her by a long shot, I am betting.

Over-prescribed anti-anxiety meds.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 12, 2026 06:56 PM (+4Cf6)

53 r/Hasan_Piker
The media is going to run with Hong’s loss, but don’t forget that we just destroyed Angie Craig in MN! (Peggy Flanagan wins with 59%)

I'M READY TO BE FUCKING PEGGED THIS NOVEMBER BABY. She wasn't polling nearly as well and she went belt to ass on Craig. Good shit. Hong was a disappointing outcome, but selfishly, MN had a pretty good night. Sounds like CT had some small wins too.

Hong will be back, she's incredible talented. Honestly I want her in Congress instead of Governor. I think she's more suited for the role anyway. She's got 2 years to build a stronger movement.

She could absolutely skullfuck RoJo here in WI. Hopefully she addresses any weaknesses from this race and throws her hat in there.

Last night the DSA candidates won 14 of 19 state legislature seats that were contested across NH, CT, and MN. Hardly an L just because Hong barely lost.

Progress takes time and she was a big reach. Still nothing to be discouraged about, just learn from her campaign and do better next time.

DSA was only 6k people when Trump was first elected. The momentum is here. This was just one election.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 12, 2026 06:57 PM (+/CWD)

54 Hasan. Poor little bitch.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 12, 2026 06:44 PM (zZu0s)

The funniest thing about Piker is he has a curated bubble of 100 pct bootlickers but still goes off on them about 20 times a day. He's stroking out someday soon.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 06:57 PM (uhVAy)

55 >>Zohran Mamdani and his wife Rama Duwaji.


20 years ago I would ask if you could smell toast and offer to drive you to the hospital when you said that to me.

Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2026 06:57 PM (uzmqU)

56 "Coach had many opportunities to see that her player got mugged, and respond accordingly." Posted by: bonhomme

And she has done this before, supporting the take down on Sophie, and other times as well. (iirc) even the governor of Indiana called for her to resign over not supporting her players as they were under clear attack.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 12, 2026 06:57 PM (vbXSk)

57 I found some rando "science" site that featured a stupid listicle of the "biggest jerks of the animal kingdom" and it just has a few but one is the "jackdaw". Why? Because, the radfem writing the article explains, [the male jackdaw is known to have a unique sense of his female partners stress level.]

??? ok sure, go on...

[And sometimes the male jackdaw does not immediately act to console the female.]

IYFKM...

Posted by: banana Dream at August 12, 2026 06:57 PM (3uBP9)

58 Sad thing is Dems got a much bigger turn out in WI than R's did, so those here are probably screwed anyway.
Posted by: Bete at August 12, 2026 06:46 PM (LX4y3)
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Probably more contested races. The GOP vote in Michigan was much less than the Dems but there were very few serious elections. Some weirdo spent a gazillion dollar trying to defeat John James but still got blown away.

Meanwhile the Dems were having a knife fight in the senate race, and lots of activity downballot as well.

Basically the DSA types are making a play to take over the party, and so that's driving up primary turnout. The GOP has pretty much purged its Never Trump faction, so things are quieter.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 06:58 PM (ZOv7s)

59 Have you seen Al Sayed's wife ?
Posted by: It's me donna
.......

OK I Goggled her. Homely little rat face poking out of the towel wrapped tightly around her chin. I guess her neck is too sexy for public viewing.

Posted by: wth at August 12, 2026 06:58 PM (UjdFS)

60 40 There are plenty of men that are nothing to be proud of either, neverenoughcaffeine.
Posted by: fd at August 12, 2026 06:54 PM (MWfyi)

It's a fair cop.

Posted by: Bete at August 12, 2026 06:58 PM (LX4y3)

61 May she get all she wishes for. DEAR LORD.

Posted by: Pamazon at August 12, 2026 06:58 PM (b5MGU)

62 At the old house (concrete, 1920s-1930s), we had a lot of wasps getting in every year. Mud-daubers. Not aggressive. Leave them alone and they'll leave you alone.

Brother (RIP) lived there a while, I lived there later for years. Regular friends all knew the rules, but newbies seeing wasps inside would freak out, jump up, wave their arms around, and zing! It had its amusing aspects.

This year, we've been rehabbing the place, sealing all the holes and securing against critters. There were gaping gaps in the ceiling of the front porch (about 40'x4'). Tearing the whole ceiling down, there were several pounds of old mud-dauber nests. Also a lot of snake skins.

All those poor, poor wasps. Border Security has changed. Should be a little less varmit invasion now.

Posted by: mindful webworker - be kind to our winged insect friends at August 12, 2026 06:58 PM (B18Qw)

63 Keeping the docs employed. Like your Ralphie and Snowflake stories as they cheer me up. Thanks for that.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 06:56 PM (E4rtv

I'm working on a ton of things. The website will get pictures.

Oh, and you all reminded me, I have a wasp to spray by the back kitchen window. We'll see if Eilish feels a stabbing disturbance in Mother Gaia's all-encompassing field of love.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 12, 2026 06:59 PM (Sco7b)

64 I just found out a managing partner of a firm I know now has a trannie "daughter."

FFS, I mean, I knew she was leftie.
But she's generally pretty smart.

Man, this shit is gone too far

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 12, 2026 06:59 PM (3cUTc)

65 51 Can you piss in the foot washing bowl?
Posted by: Pudinhead at August 12, 2026 06:56 PM (KGj36)
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I'm sorry, Officer, I thought that was the urinal for vertically-differently-abled pyrsns.

Posted by: What I'm gonna say at August 12, 2026 06:59 PM (brIJB)

66 And this is Adam, and this is Barry, and this is Charlie . . .
- Crazy-ass Wasp Lady

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 12, 2026 07:00 PM (ndZc7)

67 Consultants and candidates should have learned itafter Walker's demise post embracing that in his presidential run.
Posted by: Bete

I suspect it is because the consultants and the donor classes are actually well to the left of the average Republican and share many of the same opinions as your average Uniparty Democrat that has done well economically. A lot of investors, corporate execs, and small business types that have done well have the attitude that the rest of the GOP constituency are whiney losers and lazy.

Unfortunately for them, that rest of the GOP coalition outnumbers them probably 70-80 percent to 20.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 07:00 PM (E4rtv)

68 he article explains, [the male jackdaw is known to have a unique sense of his female partners stress level.]

??? ok sure, go on...

[And sometimes the male jackdaw does not immediately act to console the female.]
Posted by: banana Dream


Told her to "calm down" once. Never again.

Posted by: the male jackdaw at August 12, 2026 07:00 PM (VHUov)

69 The way the trans people act when faced with the slightest pushback is interesting. If they all got together in one place I wouldn't be surprised to see a Jonestown like occurrence.
And I think Piker wants to be a martyr, but he's too much of a coward
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 06:56 PM (WOnE5)

yeah when he went to the LA 'riots' he was a mile away and had PRESS all over his body so nobody would shoot at him.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 07:00 PM (uhVAy)

70
Hong will be back

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

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Undoubtedly true. She is serving her third term in the WI state legislature. Couldn't simultaneously run for a 4th AND the governorship, but I'm sure she'll be back in 2028.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 07:00 PM (XJ22o)

71 Can you piss in the foot washing bowl?
Posted by: Pudinhead
......

Yeah, but the line gets pretty long.

Posted by: wth at August 12, 2026 07:00 PM (UjdFS)

72 What a stupid time to be alive.

Posted by: Count de Monet's Remote Location at August 12, 2026 07:01 PM (q2NNn)

73 Mamdani's wife would look better in a burkha

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 07:01 PM (WOnE5)

74 Does he want public control but not public ownership?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2026 07:02 PM (Cqx++)

75 I'M READY TO BE FUCKING PEGGED THIS NOVEMBER BABY.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 12, 2026 06:57 PM (+/CWD)
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Why wait that long?! I'm ready right now!

Posted by: David French at August 12, 2026 07:02 PM (ZOv7s)

76 Can you piss in the foot washing bowl?
Posted by: Pudinhead


Any restaurants on the concourse selling bacon cheeseburgers?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2026 07:02 PM (VHUov)

77 Minnesota is a f*cked up POS state that still owes the country $$$$$ over all the fraud their government took from our tax dollars. And their governor is a crook who should be in jail.

Posted by: Case at August 12, 2026 07:02 PM (fV9m3)

78
Yo Nancy you idiot I never saw Biden ONCE in person but I knew he was a blithering idiot.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 07:02 PM (XJ22o)

79 yeah when he went to the LA 'riots' he was a mile away and had PRESS all over his body so nobody would shoot at him.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 07:00 PM (uhVAy)

I'd think that would encourage gunfire.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 12, 2026 07:02 PM (Sco7b)

80 Can you piss in the foot washing bowl?
Posted by: Pudinhead
......

Yeah, but the line gets pretty long.
Posted by: wth


Actual LOL!

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2026 07:03 PM (VHUov)

81 That's the textbook definition of a Bee-cup .
Posted by: The Walking Dude at August 12, 2026 06:49 PM


You know about comb sizes?

Posted by: Frank Constanza at August 12, 2026 07:03 PM (0sNs1)

82
Last summer we had a huge hornet nest in a part of backyard we don't use. The hornets were not bothering anyone.

We called the pest control company and they said since they were not a threat to leave it alone and when autumn arrived they would leave the nest.

The nest was a beautiful work of art. So amazing little things could construct it.

The hornets did leave and the local conservation office came to get it. They use it as an educational example in their classes.

Posted by: four seasons at August 12, 2026 07:03 PM (/QHx4)

83 Still looking for a band flyer of Hornets Attack Victor Mature.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 12, 2026 07:03 PM (nDXEV)

84 Friend worked for a city in the Dayton OH area and he was required to install hand washing implements for a Muslim gathering at a convention center . Yes, to be used after they wiped their ass ends after defecating.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 12, 2026 07:04 PM (2NHgQ)

85 I'm so tired of people showing off their mental illnesses like it's something they should be getting awards for.

I'm also just plain tired so please forgive the crappy grammar in the sentence above.

Posted by: bluebell at August 12, 2026 07:04 PM (afFes)

86 And I think Piker wants to be a martyr, but he's too much of a coward
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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After the shit he pulled shocking that poor dog, I hope he meets a pack of rabid pit bulls.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 07:04 PM (E4rtv)

87 I'm not a big fan of bugs, in general. But mf-ing wasps, hornets, are whole nuther level.

I just don't like pests, vermin, because of the ick. But wasps have put personal hurt on me. And also, in the bug world, wasps are kind of lovecraftian horrors. They take over other creatures, turn them into zombies, lay eggs in them and use their slowly dissolving bodies as ambulatory incubation chambers. They are freaking monsters. Here I'll just say it, they are "The jerks of Animalia"
Posted by: banana Dream at August 12, 2026 06:50 PM (3uBP9)

Never been stung by a wasp, have stepped on a number of bees as a barefoot kid. So no personal hurt from a wasp.

But not because they didn't try. Wasps are Asshoe.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 07:07 PM (uhVAy)

88
Lady, just move the wasps outdoors where they belong. They're not going to like it when it's time for them to emigrate and they're all trapped indoors.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 07:07 PM (XJ22o)

89 The nest was a beautiful work of art. So amazing little things could construct it.

The hornets did leave and the local conservation office came to get it. They use it as an educational example in their classes.
Posted by: four seasons


They could have done that earlier, and taught a different lesson.

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2026 07:07 PM (VHUov)

90 Saw at a Otherwise Christian college last year in a religious area a foot washing station. Didn't know of any Christian to be doing that but could just not know. But suspected it was for Muslims

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2026 07:07 PM (Ia/+0)

91 "Perception is 9/10ths of the law."

Candace is a retard.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2026 07:08 PM (l4RKn)

92 72 What a stupid time to be alive.
Posted by: Count de Monet's

I am sure that is a common phrase used in history whenever the ruling class proves to be incompetent asshats that deserve a nice pit of hellfire.

I can see that when the Roman emperors invited the Goths to stick around and stay awhile. I can see people saying that when the iconoclasts went nuts. And I can see Euros saying it right along with us adding in Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.

Foolishness, stupidity and cupidity through the Ages.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 07:08 PM (E4rtv)

93
All those poor, poor wasps. Border Security has changed. Should be a little less varmit invasion now.
Posted by: mindful webworker - be kind to our winged insect friends at August 12, 2026 06:58 PM (B18Qw)

Are you suggesting something like territorial-programmed murder hornets all along the southern border, murder hornets genetically altered? Or am I making too much out this?

Posted by: Eromero at August 12, 2026 07:08 PM (LHPAg)

94 Logan Act anyone? Local cops fly to Shitholeistan to bodyguard the wife? Beuller? Fuck off is the polite response.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 12, 2026 07:08 PM (wxsGM)

95 Lady, just move the wasps outdoors where they belong. They're not going to like it when it's time for them to emigrate and they're all trapped indoors.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 07:07 PM (XJ22o)
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We, however, might enjoy seeing that on a livestream.

Posted by: bluebell at August 12, 2026 07:08 PM (afFes)

96 Islamic foot wash stations are being installed inside the bathrooms at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport
Posted by: beckster at August 12, 2026 06:46 PM (kX27y)

The DFW region is right properly well fooked.
Houston is probably trying to catch up. Probably.

Posted by: Count de Monet's Remote Location at August 12, 2026 07:08 PM (q2NNn)

97 "Upon the strong recommendation of the NYPD..." Mamdani's spokeswoman Dora Pekec said.
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So, Dora lied. Was that the miscommunication?

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 12, 2026 07:09 PM (iNosy)

98 After the shit he pulled shocking that poor dog, I hope he meets a pack of rabid pit bulls.
Posted by: whig

The latest immigrant meltdown of the day is somewhat related.

ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) plans to spend up to $20 million to equip officers with electric shock gloves known as the G.L.O.V.E. (Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter). Manufactured by Compliant Technologies LLC, these devices are designed to deliver painful electric shocks through direct skin contact to gain compliance from combative individuals, with distribution expected by March 31, 2027.

The Hasan and Emperor Palpatine references have been amusing.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 12, 2026 07:09 PM (+/CWD)

99 Every US airport I've been to in the last ten years is absolutely full of Muslim workers. They're working security, in the shops, in the restaurants, as janitors, etc.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 12, 2026 06:54 PM (mkw2N)
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Let's just hope there's no outbreak of Sudden Jihad Syndrome...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 07:09 PM (FZ29D)

100 91 "Perception is 9/10ths of the law."

Candace is a retard.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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Somehow I associate a animated pile of poo speaking whenever I see her picture.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 07:09 PM (E4rtv)

101 Undoubtedly true. She is serving her third term in the WI state legislature. Couldn't simultaneously run for a 4th AND the governorship, but I'm sure she'll be back in 2028.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 07:00 PM (XJ22o)

Surely WI has more bug eyed idiots without pulling this one back in?

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 07:09 PM (uhVAy)

102 I'm also just plain tired so please forgive the crappy grammar in the sentence above.

Posted by: bluebell at August 12, 2026 07:04 PM (afFes)


You need chocolate.

It's medicine!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2026 07:09 PM (l4RKn)

103
Ironic and Non-Ironic Karmic Betting Form For This Thread:

Woman Stung to Death by Pet Wasps 10-1

Woman Has Wasp Fly Up Her Nose and Build Nest in Her Empty Skull 3-1

Muslim Woman Goes to Muslim Country For Muslim Wine-Mom Spirit Quest is Murdered By Muslims 5-1

Muslim Woman Goes to Muslim Country For Muslim Wine-Mom Spirit Quest as a Ruse, Runs Away With Jewish Lover 6-1

WNBA Coach Filled With Grace and humility is Suddenly Dragged to Hell by Demons For reasons Unknown 13-5

Woman Politician Gets Into a Slap Fight with Royce White Using Her Aged Pendulous Boobs and Beats Him to Death 2-1

Muslim Communist Says knives will be out then Immediately is Beaten to Death by a Monkey with a Swiss Army Knife Blades In 9-1

Place your bets, ladies and gentlemen.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 12, 2026 07:09 PM (iJfKG)

104 I bet Nanzi isn't all thrre either

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2026 07:10 PM (Ia/+0)

105
foot wash station might be just the thing for cleaning mud off your boots

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 12, 2026 07:10 PM (VyBeY)

106 ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) plans to spend up to $20 million to equip officers with electric shock gloves known as the G.L.O.V.E. (Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter). Manufactured by Compliant Technologies LLC, these devices are designed to deliver painful electric shocks through direct skin contact to gain compliance from combative individuals, with distribution expected by March 31, 2027.

The Hasan and Emperor Palpatine references have been amusing.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

I saw that earlier. Gee, I hope they get field tests on the assholes rioting around ICE facilities.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 07:10 PM (E4rtv)

107 If I lived alone, and the wasps were not in an area I would need to be annoying them constantly, I'd leave them there, too. I wouldn't feel motherly to them, but I am not bothered by such things, and am fascinated by insects in general.

But I'd be wondering how they got in, and in such numbers to set up public housing.

I suppose they may have come with the container itself?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 12, 2026 07:10 PM (Vvh2V)

108 Somehow I associate a animated pile of poo speaking whenever I see her picture.
Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 07:09 PM (E4rtv)
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Dear Lord, please forgive me but this made me laugh out loud.

Posted by: bluebell at August 12, 2026 07:10 PM (afFes)

109 Foolishness, stupidity and cupidity through the Ages.
Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 07:08 PM (E4rtv)

Also applies to August of 1914.

Posted by: Count de Monet's Remote Location at August 12, 2026 07:10 PM (q2NNn)

110
Place your bets, ladies and gentlemen.
Posted by: naturalfake
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You have discovered the path to riches--the House always wins.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 07:11 PM (E4rtv)

111 Everybody probably knows already that Cenk Uygur is Hasan Piker's uncle, right? It's probably been discussed.

I saw a photo of Piker's office. He has a framed newspaper on the wall from 9/12/01, i.e., the day after the 9/11 twin towers bombing.

Piker is a U.S. citizen, who grew up in Turkiye, so he can't be deported. However, since he celebrates terrorism, I would hope the feds are monitoring his fans to see how many of THEM are illegals.

Posted by: mnw at August 12, 2026 07:12 PM (RCjYY)

112 You need chocolate.

It's medicine!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2026 07:09 PM (l4RKn)
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You are so right! Instead, I'm eating Greek yogurt with peaches and walnuts. Not chocolate, but pretty tasty nonetheless.

Posted by: bluebell at August 12, 2026 07:12 PM (afFes)

113 And I think Piker wants to be a martyr, but he's too much of a coward
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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After the shit he pulled shocking that poor dog, I hope he meets a pack of rabid pit bulls.
Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 07:04 PM (E4rtv)

it was amusing when one of Hasan's drama detractors kept a running list of blown excuses/explanations for the "Electric Dog" incidents...none of which worked.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 07:12 PM (uhVAy)

114 I did a spoof flyer for Homeless Footbath and Poetry Slam back in the 90s, but it didn't go over too well.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 12, 2026 07:12 PM (nDXEV)

115 Also applies to August of 1914.
Posted by: Count de Monet's
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Yep, the war that killed European civilization and such foolishness as sending men in full battle packs with rifles to crawl over barbed wire under heavy machine gun fire and artillery.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 07:12 PM (E4rtv)

116 And King Charles III has let the endangered red squirrels who broke into a wing of the Scottish royal residence take over, so it's not just women! 😂

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 12, 2026 07:12 PM (Vvh2V)

117 You need chocolate.

It's medicine!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2026 07:09 PM (l4RKn)
___

I rate this as true.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 12, 2026 07:13 PM (24NQL)

118 Hi Tammy!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 12, 2026 07:13 PM (24NQL)

119 Women are broken, including activist women judges:


https://tinyurl.com/2pmsadcf

An activist judge appointed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom freed a criminal illegal immigrant just a day before he allegedly butchered a retiree to death in his front yard.

Contra Costa Superior Court Judge Nichelle Holmes released Marcos Iriarte-Valdez, 36 — a criminal alien who also holds citizenship in Spain — just before Iriarte-Valdez allegedly fatally stabbed Todd Stewart, 68, at Stewart’s Martinez home last week.

Iriarte-Valdez, who has been in the US since 2007, was already in trouble with the law and was granted pretrial release by Holmes for a residential burglary case when he was jailed last Tuesday for allegedly violating the terms of his home detention monitoring.

Posted by: beckster at August 12, 2026 07:13 PM (kX27y)

120 Everybody probably knows already that Cenk Uygur is Hasan Piker's uncle, right? It's probably been discussed.

I saw a photo of Piker's office. He has a framed newspaper on the wall from 9/12/01, i.e., the day after the 9/11 twin towers bombing.

Piker is a U.S. citizen, who grew up in Turkiye, so he can't be deported. However, since he celebrates terrorism, I would hope the feds are monitoring his fans to see how many of THEM are illegals.
Posted by: mnw at August 12, 2026 07:12 PM (RCjYY)

he just put that up. There used to be a drawing of him as a furry wearing a suspiciously full diaper on that wall.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 07:13 PM (uhVAy)

121 AFTER WASHING FEET
PLEASE DRY WITH YOUR HEAD TOWEL

Posted by: wth at August 12, 2026 07:13 PM (UjdFS)

122 Lady, just move the wasps outdoors where they belong. They're not going to like it when it's time for them to emigrate and they're all trapped indoors.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 07:07 PM (XJ22o)


She is so self-absorbed that she doesn't care about the wasps...all she cares about is her entertainment and virtue signalling. If something more interesting came along she would dump those wasps in a heartbeat.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2026 07:13 PM (l4RKn)

123 it was amusing when one of Hasan's drama detractors kept a running list of blown excuses/explanations for the "Electric Dog" incidents...none of which worked.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Anyone that makes excuses for that evil twinkie asshole deserve to be on a list somewhere compiled by someone.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 07:13 PM (E4rtv)

124 Manufactured by Compliant Technologies LLC...
____________

Company name checks out.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 12, 2026 07:14 PM (XvL8K)

125 I wish they would start eating their own, literally.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 12, 2026 07:14 PM (2GVsD)

126 @116 so Charles is letting red squirrels and Muslims take over

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 07:15 PM (WOnE5)

127 And King Charles III has let the endangered red squirrels who broke into a wing of the Scottish royal residence take over, so it's not just women! 😂
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor


Fine. Women and castrati.

Posted by: mikeski, running serpentine at August 12, 2026 07:16 PM (VHUov)

128 Did the Grammar Nazis have concentration camps for Superflous Apostrophes and Comma Splice crimes?

"First, they came for the editors and I didn't say anything. Becasue fck them."

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 12, 2026 07:16 PM (nDXEV)

129 84 Friend worked for a city in the Dayton OH area and he was required to install hand washing implements for a Muslim gathering at a convention center . Yes, to be used after they wiped their ass ends after defecating.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 12, 2026 07:04 PM (2NHgQ)

What, they don't have "sinks?"

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 12, 2026 07:18 PM (zYpTz)

130 Posted by: naturalfake at August 12, 2026 07:09 PM (iJfKG)

Anything that happens to that WNBA coach will be welcome.

We see so many nasty, ugly souls on these threads. It takes a lot to rise to the middle of the top.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 12, 2026 07:18 PM (Sco7b)

131 Foolishness, stupidity and cupidity through the Ages.
Posted by: whig

Boy, ain't that the truth! Toddler, preschooler, elementary school . . .

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 12, 2026 07:18 PM (ndZc7)

132 Hasan Piker supporters, closeted Furries?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 12, 2026 07:18 PM (2GVsD)

133 Everybody probably knows already that Cenk Uygur is Hasan Piker's uncle, right? It's probably been discussed

Wasn't Cenk at Tucker's gay little party meeting/announcement?

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 12, 2026 07:18 PM (+/CWD)

134
Place your bets, ladies and gentlemen.
Posted by: naturalfake

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Those all fall in the Too Good To Be True category.

I would like to travel along with Mrs. Mamdani just to see how she works out the necessities, however. "Necessities" being ostentatious & performative security, luxury accommodations, handmaids to keep her hydrated and her sat phone charged, and assistants to bully the locals who are always late and forget to set up the audio.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 07:18 PM (XJ22o)

135 I would take the red squirrels over the invaders.

At least the squirrel is local.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 12, 2026 07:19 PM (2GVsD)

136 "First, they came for the editors, and I didn't say anything. Because, fck them."
Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 12, 2026 07:16 PM


FIFY.

Posted by: Grammar and Punctuation Nazis at August 12, 2026 07:19 PM (0sNs1)

137 I would take the red squirrels over the invaders.

At least the squirrel is local.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 12, 2026 07:19 PM (2GVsD)
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The gray squirrels will take them both on...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 07:20 PM (FZ29D)

138 Piker the piker looks deformed. Probably the steroids, that also calcify the sulci.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 07:20 PM (VQ0bX)

139 One man's Muslim Footwashing Station is another man's Service Dog Drinking Fountain.

Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2026 07:20 PM (uzmqU)

140 So, I'm in Texas. At midnight am I allowed to convert my rifle to an SBR without going through the atf??? Asking the important questions here.

Posted by: lin-duh at August 12, 2026 07:20 PM (VCgbV)

141 I work with some beautiful women who could kick my ass. East Texas.

Posted by: Billythesquid at August 12, 2026 07:21 PM (gN+5I)

142 One man's Muslim Footwashing Station is another man's Service Dog Drinking Fountain.
Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2026 07:20 PM (uzmqU)
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Why do you hate dogs?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 07:22 PM (FZ29D)

143 "Go to hell," one of the top markers of grace and humility. I think it's Ephesians."

Cornerstone for Mennonites. Maybe

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 07:22 PM (cGjQu)

144 136 "First, they came for the editors, and I didn't say anything. Because, fck them."
Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 12, 2026 07:16 PM

FIFY.
Posted by: Grammar and Punctuation Nazis at August 12, 2026 07:19 PM (0sNs1)
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first they came for
the editors and
I didn't
say anything Because
fck
them.

Posted by: Chat-eecummings at August 12, 2026 07:22 PM (brIJB)

145 125 I wish they would start eating their own, literally.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 12, 2026 07:14 PM (2GVsD)
Oh, they will.

Posted by: Eromero at August 12, 2026 07:22 PM (LHPAg)

146 Forgive me for not being up on my Muslim foot-washing protocol, but does this mean they take their shoes and socks off in a public bathroom and wash their feet after using the bathroom? And then put the same socks and shoes back on? What is the purpose?

Posted by: bluebell at August 12, 2026 07:22 PM (afFes)

147 Relocating to Home Base.

Posted by: Count de Monet's Remote Location at August 12, 2026 07:22 PM (q2NNn)

148 Did the Grammar Nazis have concentration camps for Superflous Apostrophes and Comma Splice crimes?

"First, they came for the editors and I didn't say anything. Becasue fck them."
Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 12, 2026 07:16 PM (nDXEV)

There is a funny brit skit about a Grammar Nazi in a company meeting who shoots anyone misusing words...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmVnr7rsWrE

and also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4vf8N6GpdM

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 07:23 PM (uhVAy)

149 BREAKING:

SEATTLE — Recall charges have been filed against Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson, beginning a legal review that must be completed before supporters can begin gathering signatures to try to force a recall election.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 12, 2026 07:23 PM (W2Pud)

150 We see so many nasty, ugly souls on these threads. It takes a lot to rise to the middle of the top.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 12, 2026 07:18 PM


Some of us prefer bottom.

Posted by: Peggees at August 12, 2026 07:23 PM (IkVQC)

151 They have those jet engine hand dryers just like public restrooms but they're down near the floor.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 12, 2026 07:23 PM (nDXEV)

152 And judging from that video, Hassan Piker also doesn't seem to know how to properly display a katana.

Weasel-san would not approve.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 12, 2026 07:23 PM (Wnv9h)

153 So, I'm in Texas. At midnight am I allowed to convert my rifle to an SBR without going through the atf???"

Scary Black Rifle?

/kidding

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 07:23 PM (cGjQu)

154 Be a shsme if Mrs Mamdamni got kidnapped or sumpin

Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 12, 2026 07:23 PM (Ydd86)

155 There are plenty of men that are nothing to be proud of either, neverenoughcaffeine.
Posted by: fd


Yet somehow their worthlessness is properly blamed on their actions, and not their sex.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 12, 2026 07:23 PM (vJrRc)

156 I think crazy women are somewhat regional. They seem to be a lower proportion of the population in our community than what I see represented elsewhere. But then, most of the women I hang out with are wives and mothers. Might be a factor.

Posted by: Emmie at August 12, 2026 07:24 PM (OlzlW)

157 151 They have those jet engine hand dryers just like public restrooms but they're down near the floor.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 12, 2026 07:23 PM (nDXEV)
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Where they should be.

Posted by: Robert Reich at August 12, 2026 07:24 PM (brIJB)

158 'the knives will be out" is a particularly apt expression for Piker. and it may not be metaphorical.

Posted by: vivi at August 12, 2026 07:25 PM (7esJd)

159 How do you recall Katie Wilson? The voters knew she was a nitwit with no experience and idiotic ideas, but they elected her anyway. They'd have to recall the Dems

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 07:25 PM (WOnE5)

160 Piker the piker looks deformed. Probably the steroids, that also calcify the sulci.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 07:20 PM (VQ0bX)

he seems to be trying some suit/camera tricks to keep his head from looking clownishly small

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 07:25 PM (uhVAy)

161 There is not one of these trannies participating in women's sports that have transitioned. They all have their cock and balls.

Posted by: polynikes at August 12, 2026 07:25 PM (KC5Lt)

162 145 125 I wish they would start eating their own, literally.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 12, 2026 07:14 PM (2GVsD)
Oh, they will.
Posted by: Eromero

They're already straining under the internal incoherence.

1- Unlimited tranny vs normie moderates
2- Anti-semites vs Jews
3- Black voters vs mass immigrants taking their jobs/neighborhoods/benefits
4- Commies vs crony/big government shakedown capitalists

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 12, 2026 07:25 PM (+/CWD)

163 not being up on my Muslim foot-washing protocol"

Wudu.

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 07:26 PM (cGjQu)

164 Black voters vs mass immigrants taking their jobs/neighborhoods/benefits"

But Hollywood assures me they get along famously...

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 07:27 PM (cGjQu)

165 BREAKING:

SEATTLE — Recall charges have been filed against Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson, beginning a legal review that must be completed before supporters can begin gathering signatures to try to force a recall election.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 12, 2026 07:23 PM (W2Pud)

Not sure if 'being a WA Democrat' is really a good reason for a recall.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 07:27 PM (uhVAy)

166 "Go to hell," one of the top markers of grace and humility. I think it's Ephesians.
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LOL, ace.
LOL.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 12, 2026 07:27 PM (2Ez/1)

167 117 You need chocolate.

It's medicine!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2026 07:09 PM (l4RKn)
___

I rate this as true.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy
---

Therefore, my banana chips are medicine.
I shall self medicate.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 07:28 PM (VQ0bX)

168 What are they going to recall her for? Is she not lefty enough?

Posted by: fd at August 12, 2026 07:28 PM (MWfyi)

169 not being up on my Muslim foot-washing protocol"

Wudu.
Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 07:26 PM (cGjQu)
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I say, Wudu
Wudu you think you're fooling?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 12, 2026 07:28 PM (amcLV)

170 Wudu is the procedure for cleansing parts of the body, a type of ritual purification by ablution, in Islam. The steps of wudu are: washing the hands, rinsing the mouth and nose, washing the face, then the forearms, then wiping the head and ears, then washing or wiping the feet, done in order without any long breaks between them.

Wudu is an important part of ritual purity in Islam and is governed by fiqh, which specifies hygienical jurisprudence and defines the rituals that constitute it. Ritual purity is called tahara.

Wudu is typically performed before Salah or reading the Quran. Activities that invalidate wudu include urination, defecation, flatulence, deep sleep, light bleeding (depending on madhhab), menstruation, postpartum status, and sexual intercourse.

Wudu is often translated as 'partial ablution', as opposed to ghusl, which refers to 'full ablution', where the whole body is washed. An alternative to wudu is tayammum 'dry ablution', which uses clean sand or dust in place of water due to complete water scarcity or when one is suffering from moisture-induced skin inflammation or illness.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at August 12, 2026 07:28 PM (0sNs1)

171 Wudu.
Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 07:26 PM (cGjQu)
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Gesundheit.

Is that something I'm supposed to look up?

Posted by: bluebell at August 12, 2026 07:28 PM (afFes)

172 Back to the computer soon.

The foot washing stations?
Do the women have them too?

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 12, 2026 07:28 PM (Sco7b)

173 There is not one of these trannies participating in women's sports that have transitioned. They all have their cock and balls.
Posted by: polynikes at August 12, 2026 07:25 PM (KC5Lt)

only the dumb ones transition medically. A purple fright wig is cheap and leaves you able to beat people up at protests and the like.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 07:29 PM (uhVAy)

174
We have plants in the garden to attract bees. They've never given me the least trouble. The foraging ones don't even notice me.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2026 07:29 PM (O0L8i)

175 You need chocolate.

It's medicine!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2026 07:09 PM (l4RKn)
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Part of the four major food groups:

fat, salt, beer and chocolate.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 12, 2026 07:29 PM (amcLV)

176 "Yet somehow their worthlessness is properly blamed on their actions, and not their sex."

You must be a veteran of the Mortimer, Pepe, and mgtow era.

Those were some hellacious threads.

Posted by: Will Robinson at August 12, 2026 07:30 PM (zBgIx)

177 What are they going to recall her for? Is she not lefty enough?
Posted by: fd at August 12, 2026 07:28 PM (MWfyi)

The one they won't say is driving out the entire city tax base.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 07:30 PM (uhVAy)

178 The steps of wudu are: washing the hands, rinsing the mouth and nose, washing the face, then the forearms, then wiping the head and ears, then washing or wiping the feet, done in order without any long breaks between them.

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Thank you, Wesley Crusher (words I never thought I would say). Does this mean they go through that entire sequence every time they use a public restroom? That must be a sight to see.

Posted by: bluebell at August 12, 2026 07:30 PM (afFes)

179 Thanks Wesley.
That was interesting!

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 12, 2026 07:31 PM (Sco7b)

180 Also...is she sure those are wasps and not hornets?

A womman on the Internet rescuses all insects. Gives spiders a free ride outside vs me killing them. It is my house and I don't want to be bit by a spider. I don't need a sign to post that I will kill bugs if you enter.

She is a miserable person. Incredibly negative and argumentative towards fellow humans...especially those who disagree with her (that would be me).

I also note she's alone with no husband and I am unsure if she killed him, he died or she divorced him as she has spawn. Heaven knows I don't tolerate her online and she must be a bitter nag in person.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 12, 2026 07:31 PM (hzuYO)

181 Is that something I'm supposed to look up?
Posted by: bluebell at August 12, 2026 07:28 PM (afFes)
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Wesley Crusher's got it covered.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 07:31 PM (FZ29D)

182 I say pressure wash 'em and be done with it.

Posted by: fd at August 12, 2026 07:31 PM (MWfyi)

183

My late father worked for a company that employed muzzies.

He said the sinks were disgusting because of the foot washing and also the bathrooms too because of the ass wiping with their hands.

Posted by: four seasons at August 12, 2026 07:31 PM (/QHx4)

184 We have plants in the garden to attract bees. They've never given me the least trouble. The foraging ones don't even notice me.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2026 07:29 PM (O0L8i)

I love honeybees and bumblebees. I hate wasps and hornets. Been stang so many times.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 12, 2026 07:32 PM (0aYVJ)

185 If I lived alone, and the wasps were not in an area I would need to be annoying them constantly, I'd leave them there, too.

Well, that's batshit insane.

Posted by: Women Really Are Cooked at August 12, 2026 07:32 PM (BwkT6)

186 I also note she's alone with no husband and I am unsure if she killed him, he died or she divorced him as she has spawn. Heaven knows I don't tolerate her online and she must be a bitter nag in person.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 12, 2026 07:31 PM (hzuYO)
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For all we know her husband's mummified corpse is hidden in the nest. It's a pretty big nest.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 07:32 PM (FZ29D)

187 Is that something I'm supposed to look up?
Posted by: bluebell at August 12, 2026 07:28 PM


I did it for you, ma'am.

Even in the 24th Century, your shiv, muscle car piloting, and cookbook editing skills are legendary.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at August 12, 2026 07:33 PM (0sNs1)

188 And judging from that video, Hassan Piker also doesn't seem to know how to properly display a katana.

Here's an image from one of his livestreams, where he and some friends were looking at swords, and they flipped out when they saw this one with a swastika-esque guard. They bought it, and have it sometimes in their videos.

https://tinyurl.com/39x7zxch

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 12, 2026 07:33 PM (+/CWD)

189 I wonder if Piker's taxes are on the up and up? maybe an IRS auditor could take a look....

Posted by: vivi at August 12, 2026 07:34 PM (7esJd)

190 13 Islamic foot wash stations are being installed inside the bathrooms at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport

my alma mater had a surfeit of middle eastern foreign students. always amusing was the muddy shoeprints on the toilet seats in the winter.

Posted by: anachronda at August 12, 2026 07:34 PM (sGtp+)

191 Also...is she sure those are wasps and not hornets?

A womman on the Internet rescuses all insects. Gives spiders a free ride outside vs me killing them. It is my house and I don't want to be bit by a spider. I don't need a sign to post that I will kill bugs if you enter.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 12, 2026 07:31 PM (hzuYO)

A streamer gal I watch sometimes had a largish bug in her room and was freaking a little (its Texas). She finally caught it and took it outside her house...and it tumbled right into a spider web and the spider got to it in a flash. Very funny.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 07:34 PM (uhVAy)

192 I saw Level 4: do not travel advisory open for Butthole Surfers at the Long Beach Vet in 1986.

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 12, 2026 07:34 PM (/+uur)

193 Hasan Piker says the US deserved 9/11.
Hasan Piker wishes every white woman to get r@ped by invaders
Hasan Piker wants the streets to run red with blood.
Hasan Piker supports Muslim terrorism.
Hasan Piker shocks his dog.
Hasan Piker wears Mao suits and reads from the Littel Red Book while living in a million-dollar mansion.

He's the very model of a modern-day DSA candidate.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 12, 2026 07:34 PM (2GVsD)

194 How do you back the players on your team 100% when your fouled player definitively stated that the foul was intentional and the first statement you made after the incident was to defend the other team's player by saying it wasn't intentional?

And losing respect for Clark trying to be middle of the road all the time.

Posted by: polynikes at August 12, 2026 07:34 PM (KC5Lt)

195 Well thank you again, Wesley. I'm always very hesitant to look up something I've seen here with no context. Very. Hesitant.

Posted by: bluebell at August 12, 2026 07:34 PM (afFes)

196 190 13 Islamic foot wash stations are being installed inside the bathrooms at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport

my alma mater had a surfeit of middle eastern foreign students. always amusing was the muddy shoeprints on the toilet seats in the winter.
Posted by: anachronda at August 12, 2026 07:34 PM (sGtp+)

DUDE that is the shitter!

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 12, 2026 07:35 PM (/+uur)

197 177 What are they going to recall her for? Is she not lefty enough?
Posted by: fd at August 12, 2026 07:28 PM (MWfyi)

The one they won't say is driving out the entire city tax base.
Posted by: Oldcat

It wasn't popular or working, so it obviously wasn't real socialism.

Posted by: DSA Apologists at August 12, 2026 07:35 PM (+/CWD)

198 I wonder if Piker's taxes are on the up and up? maybe an IRS auditor could take a look....
Posted by: vivi at August 12, 2026 07:34 PM (7esJd)

He's more worried about the investigation into his visit to Cuba to aid the Communists there.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 07:35 PM (uhVAy)

199 I was hoping the wasps were WASPS and she had a whole colony of white Anglo-Saxon Protestants living in her office. She wouldn't be so sanguine about that, though.

Posted by: JuJuBee at August 12, 2026 07:35 PM (YSQQv)

200 The WNBA is a political op.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 07:35 PM (d9FiM)

201 I love honeybees and bumblebees. I hate wasps and hornets. Been stang so many times.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 12, 2026 07:32 PM (0aYVJ)
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When I had lavender and oregano blooming in my side yard, I noted that the honeybees exclusively visited the oregano and the bumblebees the lavender. Interesting divergence.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 12, 2026 07:36 PM (amcLV)

202 Hasan Piker and Medea Benajamin are under Federal investigation IIRC for their little 'humanitarian' jaunt to Cuba where they stayed in government owned five-star hotels

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 12, 2026 07:36 PM (2GVsD)

203 146 Forgive me for not being up on my Muslim foot-washing protocol, but does this mean they take their shoes and socks off in a public bathroom and wash their feet after using the bathroom? And then put the same socks and shoes back on? What is the purpose?


Pretty sure they do it before praying. It also creates quite the mess because the process ends up spraying water all over the floor.

Posted by: the dandy at August 12, 2026 07:36 PM (8l8nW)

204 Thank you, Wesley Crusher (words I never thought I would say). Does this mean they go through that entire sequence every time they use a public restroom? That must be a sight to see.
Posted by: bluebell at August 12, 2026 07:30 PM (afFes)
No. That's why the perfume, cologne, etc.

Posted by: Eromero at August 12, 2026 07:36 PM (LHPAg)

205 He's the very model of a modern-day DSA candidate.
Posted by: Anna Puma

He has information animal, tranny and political?

Posted by: DSA Apologists at August 12, 2026 07:37 PM (+/CWD)

206 He's the very model of a modern-day DSA candidate.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 12, 2026 07:34 PM (2GVsD)

So, CNN or MS Now?
Special correspondent.

I'd go MS Now, Al Sharpton doesn't look great and a spot may open up.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 12, 2026 07:37 PM (Sco7b)

207 Jen get in the car!

https://tinyurl.com/yvxpcsu8

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 12, 2026 07:38 PM (YZ0Fo)

208 I was hoping the wasps were WASPS and she had a whole colony of white Anglo-Saxon Protestants living in her office. She wouldn't be so sanguine about that, though.
Posted by: JuJuBee at August 12, 2026 07:35 PM (YSQQv)
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The penny loafers! The Izod Lacoste shirts! Aaaaaah!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 12, 2026 07:39 PM (amcLV)

209 CNN or MSNOW?

Depends, which has the most viewers?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 12, 2026 07:39 PM (2GVsD)

210 When I had lavender and oregano blooming in my side yard, I noted that the honeybees exclusively visited the oregano and the bumblebees the lavender. Interesting divergence.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 12, 2026 07:36 PM (amcLV)

I do not see many bumblebees where I live, but the honeybees love them some lavender. Around here, you'll see bumblebees in the mountains. Big fluffy ones. Flying teddy bears.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 12, 2026 07:39 PM (0aYVJ)

211 Pretty sure they do it before praying. It also creates quite the mess because the process ends up spraying water all over the floor.
Posted by: the dandy

Yes. Before praying. Just another step by the goatrapers to show dominance and rub your nose in it.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 07:39 PM (d9FiM)

212 When I had lavender and oregano blooming in my side yard, I noted that the honeybees exclusively visited the oregano and the bumblebees the lavender. Interesting divergence.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 12, 2026 07:36 PM (amcLV)


That means the bumblebees are FABULOUS!!

Posted by: The obvious conclusion at August 12, 2026 07:39 PM (brIJB)

213 The WNBA is a political op.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory


And an accounting trick by the NBA.

Not much of a dessert topping, though.

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2026 07:39 PM (VHUov)

214 Or a floor wax

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 12, 2026 07:40 PM (2GVsD)

215 Cambridge vice-chancellor insists Arday case is an ‘aberration.’

There are about 40,000 of these butt fuckin morons in the US.

There are 20,318 high schools in the United States and every one has 2 or 3.
There are 3,982 degree-granting postsecondary institutions in the United States.

I could drive to a dart throw and find the closet school, get a list of profs, and by 2nd Breakfast I could find a stack of plagiarism higher than a race dog shit.

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 12, 2026 07:40 PM (/+uur)

216 Do that Wudu that you do so well.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2026 07:40 PM (Cqx++)

217 When I had lavender and oregano blooming in my side yard, I noted that the honeybees exclusively visited the oregano and the bumblebees the lavender. Interesting divergence.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

That means the bumblebees are FABULOUS!!
Posted by: The obvious conclusion


They wear animal-patterned fur pimp coats 24/7. Duh. Of course they're fabulous.

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2026 07:41 PM (VHUov)

218 WNBA
Whiney Negress Basketball Assholes

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 12, 2026 07:41 PM (/+uur)

219 I also note she's alone with no husband and I am unsure if she killed him, he died or she divorced him as she has spawn. Heaven knows I don't tolerate her online and she must be a bitter nag in person.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 12, 2026 07:31 PM (hzuYO)

She just gave him a free ride outside, rather than killing him.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 12, 2026 07:41 PM (zYpTz)

220 209 CNN or MSNOW?

Depends, which has the most viewers?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 12, 2026 07:39 PM (2GVsD)

I lloked up a bunch of ratings a while back.

MS Now had about 1.7 million.
I think CNN was less than a million but I'm not sure about that.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 12, 2026 07:41 PM (Sco7b)

221 196 190 13 Islamic foot wash stations are being installed inside the bathrooms at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport
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Incrementally, one step at a time.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 07:41 PM (VQ0bX)

222 >>He has information animal, tranny and political?


You could have gone with

...and allegedly a pedophil(e).

Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2026 07:42 PM (uzmqU)

223
The WNBA is a political op.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

And an accounting trick by the NBA.


Like Springtime For Hitler?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2026 07:42 PM (Cqx++)

224 They look at us and laugh. They say, look, they know what we are doing yet they do nothing but talk. They deserve us.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 07:43 PM (VQ0bX)

225 Islam is slowly creeping in and taking over...

Posted by: lin-duh at August 12, 2026 07:43 PM (VCgbV)

226 221 196 190 13 Islamic foot wash stations are being installed inside the bathrooms at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport
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Incrementally, one step at a time.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 07:41 PM (VQ0bX)

Chilis Terlingua Pride
5 hopadillos
I could really fuck these up

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 12, 2026 07:44 PM (/+uur)

227
'the knives will be out" is a particularly apt expression for Piker. and it may not be metaphorical.
Posted by: vivi at August 12, 2026 07:25 PM (7esJd)



For his cocksucker uncivilized savage co-religionists, sure. Not for him personally. I guarantee that he's a great big pussy who talks a lot of smack to get someone ELSE to go all violent, while he hides behind his microphone sipping a Starbucks Iced White Chocolate Mocha.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 12, 2026 07:44 PM (y9nCu)

228 So, CNN or MS Now?
Special correspondent.

I'd go MS Now, Al Sharpton doesn't look great and a spot may open up.
Posted by: Stateless

Top 4 ratings hosts at MSNOW

Rachel Maddow
Lawrence O'Donnell
Chris Hayes
Jen Psaki

Wow...what a lineup.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 12, 2026 07:45 PM (+/CWD)

229 'the knives will be out" is a particularly apt expression for Piker. and it may not be metaphorical.
Posted by: vivi

For his cocksucker uncivilized savage co-religionists, sure. Not for him personally. I guarantee that he's a great big pussy who talks a lot of smack to get someone ELSE to go all violent, while he hides behind his microphone sipping a Starbucks Iced White Chocolate Mocha.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur


[radical-muslim, moderate-muslim meme here]

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2026 07:46 PM (VHUov)

230 Recall? Well, she is defective, and dangerous

Posted by: Common Tater at August 12, 2026 07:46 PM (zHCmI)

231 She insisted that the importance of the university’s “staff of colour” was not in question, saying “this particular case is an aberration and should not be used to cast aspersions on their work or the legitimacy of their roles at Cambridge”.

hahaha

the colour people did it

hahahaha

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 12, 2026 07:47 PM (/+uur)

232 They look at us and laugh. They say, look, they know what we are doing yet they do nothing but talk. They deserve us.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 07:43 PM (VQ0bX)

225 Islam is slowly creeping in and taking over...
Posted by: lin-duh at August 12, 2026 07:43 PM (VCgbV)
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Yes. Profoundly disconcerting. Kind of like seeing floodwater slowly rising and wondering if I should climb up the hill.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 12, 2026 07:47 PM (0aYVJ)

233 Wow...what a lineup.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 12, 2026 07:45 PM (+/CWD)

Morning Joe

The number one morning show!
In Washington DC.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 12, 2026 07:47 PM (Sco7b)

234 Nood

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 07:48 PM (d9FiM)

235 She has WASPs in her office? I wondered where that rock band went.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 12, 2026 07:49 PM (sAmhv)

236 Posted by: bluebell at August 12, 2026 07:30 PM (afFes)

And 5 times a day before they pray.

If you walk into to any public restroom in Europe, there will be an inch of water on the floor.

They think we're so dirty because we only use paper to wipe, but I'm like, it seems far nastier to be spraying your butt with a hose and letting the feces filled spray go everywhere, which I then have to walk through the entire time I'm in the restroom.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 12, 2026 08:05 PM (Vvh2V)

237 Pretty sure they do it before praying. It also creates quite the mess because the process ends up spraying water all over the floor.
Posted by: the dandy

Yes. Before praying. Just another step by the goatrapers to show dominance and rub your nose in it.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
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You want to.play dominance games? Piss in the damned things.

Posted by: buddhaha at August 12, 2026 09:32 PM (drwAN)

238 One person with a wasp allergy in, or merely visiting, that office would have standing to sue for $$$$$. Some folks have to carry epi-pens for wasp bites, which isn't just a minor sting or allergy.

Posted by: Nathan at August 12, 2026 09:36 PM (KMIjy)

239 I do not see many bumblebees where I live, but the honeybees love them some lavender. Around here, you'll see bumblebees in the mountains. Big fluffy ones. Flying teddy bears.
Posted by: Pug Mahon
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Flying teddy bears, indeed.
They're not like a honeybee (Africanized ones excepted). If a honeybee lands on your arm, it will just fly off if you wave at it. A bumblebee will sting the shit out of you for that. Be very passive with a bumblebee; they're a lot like some of our "vibrant culture" friends - they don't take no disrespect.

Posted by: buddhaha at August 12, 2026 09:40 PM (drwAN)

Tyler Robinson's Defense Team: Yes, Our Client Shot and Killed Charlie Kirk, But "The Shooter Hit the Intended Target," So No One Else Was In Danger and So the Death Penalty Should Be Off the Table

To get the death penalty, there must be an enhancement to "mere" murder. I would think that premeditated murder is enhancement enough, but in Utah, mistakenly regarded as a red state, you need to murder someone in a bad way.

Those "bad ways" of committing murder include putting additional people in danger or killing someone for a political motive.

Robinson's team concedes that he murdered Charlie Kirk -- I mean, he admitted it eleven times in texts and verbal admission to his parents.

But they say his shot was well-aimed and did not put anyone else in danger, so he should not be executed for his murder.


NBC "News:"

Lawyers for the man charged with killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk say he shouldn't be eligible for the death penalty because the shooter "hit the intended target" during the assassination last year at a Utah event attended by thousands of people.

Defendant Tyler Robinson's attorneys say prosecutors have not proven that others who attended Kirk's event at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10 were endangered by the shooting -- a potentially aggravating factor under state law that would make it a capital crime.

...

Utah law states that if a defendant "knowingly created a great risk of death to another individual" other than the victim who was killed, it can be used as an aggravating factor. But Robinson's defense team notes that the state needs to show there was a "high probability" that Robinson put the thousands of people gathered at the Turning Point USA rally where Kirk was speaking at risk for death, and not just a "possibility" of that happening.

"The state has failed to show that the actual conduct created a 'high probability' that someone other than Mr. Kirk would be killed and, thus, this theory fails as a matter of law," according to their briefing. "Where no other person was injured in a manner creating a great risk of death, and no other shots were fired, the allegation of ... (an) aggravator cannot be sustained."

Defense attorneys contend there was no one else in the "line of fire" when the fatal shot was fired. Furthermore, "the firing of a single shot at an intended victim that hit only the intended victim" is not an aggravating factor "merely because other people were in the vicinity."...

"The bullet that struck and killed Mr. Kirk was not fired in an enclosed bedroom or space but rather, an open-air arena with what the state's witnesses termed, 'a clear line of sight.' There were no threats to others in the course of conduct. There was no one 'directly' next to Mr. Kirk when he was shot, and there was no one under the tent on the side that Mr. Kirk was struck or behind him in the breezeway. Multiple shots were not fired. There were no ricocheting bullets."

They also claim there is no evidence that Robinson murdered Charlie Kirk for political reasons... despite Robinson marking his bullets with slogans indicating this was a Trans Vengeance Execution.

Now, it may occur to you that this is rather bad news for the world's stupidest narcissist Candace Owens.

But if you believe that, then you have kept admirably clean of information about Candace Owens.

This retard says the defense's admission that Robinson murdered her "best friend" Charlie Kirk hardly puts a scratch in her Grand Theory That Erika Kirk, French Intelligence, Egyptian Planes, Mormon Bee-People and of course The Jews Killed Charlie Kirk.

Candace Owens
@RealCandaceO


Ugh... I've barely had my coffee and I can already tell that the "overwhelming evidence" crowd is lying about the recent case filings in the hope that no one will actually read them or understand them.

How are they not tired of running the exact same strategy and losing every time?

"Pay a bunch of influencers to make emotive claims, and hope people don't actually read through the filings"

It is exactly as they did with the ATF report and every other element of this case.

Lie quickly, repeatedly, and hope no one will take notice.

I will report on what's actually in the filings later today.

As the announcer said of one of the candidates for Twit of the Year: "He doesn't know the meaning of 'losing.' He doesn't know the meaning of 'winning,' either, he has no sensory apparatus of any kind..."


Blake Neff
@BlakeSNeff


Candace is having her latest blowup because the defense's new 41-page filing in the Tyler Robinson case uses exactly none of the wild claims she's spent the last 11 months pushing. Rather than make the case that Robinson is not guilty, the filing focuses almost exclusively on trying to spare him from the death penalty.

-The filing spends only one page contesting the actual murder evidence, by arguing that Lance Twiggs's testimony was improper hearsay. ALL the rest of the filing concerns aggravating factors or secondary charges.

-The filing admits that Charlie was killed by a rifle shot from the Losee Center -- it explicitly describes the person captured on camera on the Losee rooftop as "the shooter." There is absolutely no effort to talk about exploding microphones, either directly or indirectly by contesting the idea Charlie was killed by a rifle round.

-The filing never argues that Robinson was not at UVU -- in fact, on page 22, it says "the evidence shows Mr. Robinson walking up and down stairs at UVU" and calls it a "reasonable inference" that his impaired gait was caused by a "fully-assembled rifle."

-The filing admits that Robinson was texting with Lance Twiggs, telling him "Im gonna turn myself in willingly." When Lance asks if there's any way he avoid prison, he replies "I highly doubt it."

Professional lawyers, unlike dishonest podcasters, have ethical obligations that bar them from saying things they know are untrue. So, unsurprisingly, their defense bears absolutely no resemblance to the one Candace has spent months shilling to her audience.

The "I Know You Are But What Am I" Rhetorical Gambit:

Andrew Wilson is giving this retard $300,000 to debate her stupid ideas, and yet she's spamming out reasons why she can't do it this day or at this place or with this moderator:


Have you ever watched Cavernous Nostrils trying to pronounce simple words?

It's always an adventure.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:41 PM




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1 Sponge

Posted by: Bete at August 12, 2026 05:42 PM (LX4y3)

2
Yeah, sponge, whatevs.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 05:43 PM (XJ22o)

3 None of this matches my proof, so it's bullshhhhhit. The defense are all Israeli agents.
-Candice Owns.

Posted by: Bete at August 12, 2026 05:43 PM (LX4y3)

4
So it wasn't murder-murder.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 05:44 PM (XJ22o)

5 "You're not allowed to execute my client because he has such good aim" is quite the novel defense.

It's probably not going to go over to well in southern Utah but I give them an A for creativity.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 12, 2026 05:45 PM (6ydKt)

6 Professional lawyers, unlike dishonest podcasters, have ethical obligations that bar them from saying things they know are untrue. So, unsurprisingly, their defense bears absolutely no resemblance to the one Candace has spent months shilling to her audience.

Damn...getting called out for having lower ethical standards than lawyers is brutal.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 12, 2026 05:45 PM (+/CWD)

7 "or killing someone for a political motive."

So, did that get swept under the rug?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 12, 2026 05:47 PM (qFwJc)

8 The stupidity of the showcased persons in this post is oozing out of my device Ace, and burning the finish off my table.

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 05:47 PM (sTlXt)

9 "Pay a bunch of influencers to make emotive claims, and hope people don't actually read through the filings"
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I think I like this the most.

Because she thinks she's describing others, not herself.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 12, 2026 05:47 PM (3cUTc)

10 "Yes, my client killed this person and he meant to kill this person, and you can tell because the only person he shot was the one he meant to kill"

Utah is wild, man.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 12, 2026 05:47 PM (vJrRc)

11 Damn, that’s some serious ghetto going on

Posted by: Accomack at August 12, 2026 05:49 PM (8jVAy)

12 "You're not allowed to execute my client because he has such good aim" is quite the novel defense.

It's probably not going to go over to well in southern Utah but I give them an A for creativity.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 12, 2026 05:45 PM (6ydKt)
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Insert obligatory, "That's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see how it plays out for them."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 05:49 PM (FZ29D)

13 ‘ To get the death penalty, there must be an enhancement to "mere" murder. I would think that premeditated murder is enhancement enough, but in Utah, mistakenly regarded as a red state, you need to murder someone in a bad way.’

This is standard in almost all states, even the reddest of the red. Texas? Yup, death penalty isn’t on the table in the Lone Star unless the murder includes certain ‘aggravating factors.’

Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 12, 2026 05:49 PM (yTXpW)

14 Professional lawyers, unlike dishonest podcasters, have ethical obligations that bar them from saying things they know are untrue.
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Quibble:
technically, it's a prohibition against a filing saying things that are false.
And even that is open to what the meaning of "is" is.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 12, 2026 05:50 PM (3cUTc)

15 It's so thoroughly disgusting that instead of Kirk's murder uniting the Right, somehow it deeply divided us all over some stupid washed personality that wanted to make a name for herself.

A gay, furry freak has confessed to basically everyone that yes he did it, the shooting is on video, even his parents turning him in, all sorts of other evidence, etc. But really it was Mossad!

I'm sure the Left just loves this.

Posted by: Sharpie at August 12, 2026 05:50 PM (r13UX)

16
I retract my ill-considered reprobations of the site previously.

When crazy is all that is, that's all there is to cover.

Posted by: Auspex at August 12, 2026 05:50 PM (Y8DZL)

17 >>>Candace Owens MISPRONOUNCING 40 words straight.

FedSlop!!!

lol

Posted by: No Name Today at August 12, 2026 05:51 PM (8mulE)

18 Robinson Admits to Murdering Kirk, Owens Hardest Hit

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 12, 2026 05:51 PM (gEIsK)

19 I am wholly uninterested in any news about Owens that doesn't start and end with "indicted" and/or "committed".
As for Utah's law, that's a bold take. As I read it, assassinations of private citizens should be fine. If you miss and brain some other bystander, that's an accident and you also didn't murder the target. If you don't miss, yeah it sucks you killed that one guy you naughty naughty boy, go into timeout, in the penalty box where you feel shame, you know.
But if you kill someone important like a pro-amnesty GOP guy, that might cause chaos, so it's death for you.

Posted by: 88C+u at August 12, 2026 05:51 PM (88C+u)

20 Surely political murder counts as an enhancement.

Posted by: toby928(c) at August 12, 2026 05:51 PM (+v9Nq)

21 Okay, she is married to the son of a Lord and can’t pronounce chalet?

Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2026 05:52 PM (ZdaMQ)

22 Ugh… I’ve barely had my coffee and I can already tell that the “overwhelming evidence” crowd is lying about the recent case filings in the hope that no one will actually read them or understand them.

The faux dismissive arrogance combined with pre-emptive accusations that her opponents are always lying is her standard operating procedure.

It's also kinda like what professional wrestlers do to work the crowd, which is what Candace reminds me of these days.

A character, acting out a part, saying anything she has to to get by one more week and bring in the clicks and cash before her audience gets bored and moves on the next big thing.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 12, 2026 05:52 PM (6ydKt)

23 Damn...getting called out for having lower ethical standards than lawyers is brutal.
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And how do you think we feel?

Posted by: Car Salesmen Everywhere at August 12, 2026 05:52 PM (TN0g+)

24 Leaving her mispronunciations aside, her voice is quite annoying. I envision being stuck on a long car ride with her prattling on, and jumping out of the car as it slows for a stop light.

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 05:52 PM (sTlXt)

25 I try not to acknowledge Owens existence, but I'm convinced that one of her lunatic followers is going to attack her when the followers deranged mind suddenly realizes that he or she has been lied to repeatedly by Owens

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 05:52 PM (WOnE5)

26 10 "Yes, my client killed this person and he meant to kill this person, and you can tell because the only person he shot was the one he meant to kill"

Utah is wild, man.
Posted by: FeatherBlade

His lawyers are trying to spare his life, they have no reason, unlike Candace who is making money from the lies, to spout off bullshit in court that is likely to end up with them losing and possibly being disbarred.

So you make an argument within the confines of the law (this was probably designed for crimes of passion where one person was targeted) that no other person was likely at risk.

Candace likely wanted the defense to have bullshit artists like Robert Barnes or Mike Avenatti that make bold exaggerations in the media that they cannot back up in court.

Tyler, if he wants to live, probably wants the lawyers that might spare his miserable life.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 05:53 PM (E4rtv)

27 Sponge!!!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 12, 2026 05:53 PM (24NQL)

28 15 It's so thoroughly disgusting that instead of Kirk's murder uniting the Right, somehow it deeply divided us all over some stupid washed personality that wanted to make a name for herself.

A gay, furry freak has confessed to basically everyone that yes he did it, the shooting is on video, even his parents turning him in, all sorts of other evidence, etc. But really it was Mossad!

I'm sure the Left just loves this.
Posted by: Sharpie at August 12, 2026 05

I wasn’t united with Candace to start. That girl is coocoocadoo.

Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2026 05:54 PM (ZdaMQ)

29 It's so thoroughly disgusting that instead of Kirk's murder uniting the Right, somehow it deeply divided us all over some stupid washed personality that wanted to make a name for herself.
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Candace Ovens isn't part of "the Right" and we're not "divided".

Posted by: Crusader at August 12, 2026 05:54 PM (TN0g+)

30 25 I try not to acknowledge Owens existence, but I'm convinced that one of her lunatic followers is going to attack her when the followers deranged mind suddenly realizes that he or she has been lied to repeatedly by Owens
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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I want her and her poofter crash test dummy husband along with the deranged Milo to all depart for UK asap. They are stinking up Tennessee just from being there.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 05:54 PM (E4rtv)

31 If the debate with Andrew Wilson actually happens (big If), I expect Candygram to plead the Fifth (not answer) more times than Fauci.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 12, 2026 05:54 PM (Q89nA)

32 21 Okay, she is married to the son of a Lord and can’t pronounce chalet?

Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2026 05:52 PM (ZdaMQ)

She was thinking of shallots because who doesn't love tiny onions?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 12, 2026 05:54 PM (6ydKt)

33 So being a poor shot would be an enhancing factor?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 12, 2026 05:54 PM (XvL8K)

34 It's so thoroughly disgusting that instead of Kirk's murder uniting the Right, somehow it deeply divided us all over some stupid washed personality that wanted to make a name for herself.

A gay, furry freak has confessed to basically everyone that yes he did it, the shooting is on video, even his parents turning him in, all sorts of other evidence, etc. But really it was Mossad!

I'm sure the Left just loves this.
Posted by: Sharpie at August 12, 2026 05:50 PM (r13UX)

Nobody this has 'shaken out' was ever on the right.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:55 PM (uhVAy)

35 What kind of defense is "his shot was well-aimed" ??

Posted by: you really don't want to know at August 12, 2026 05:55 PM (AGz65)

36 >>>technically, it's a prohibition against a filing saying things that are false.

The standard is knowingly false. That's why "honest" defense attorneys are careful to tell their clients to STFU. That gives the lawyer the room to speculate freely.

Posted by: No Name Today at August 12, 2026 05:55 PM (8mulE)

37 Does being wrong; being an idiot; being a shill; being shrill make Candy less entertaining? Of course not - it enhances the entertainment.

Posted by: Handcuffed to the Bumper of a State Trooper's Ford at August 12, 2026 05:56 PM (DDWHE)

38 I've seen some folks guestimate how much it is that Candy Nose pulls in from one of her shows.

It ain't nothing to sneeze at--ragebaiting is profitable.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 12, 2026 05:56 PM (3cUTc)

39 It's also kinda like what professional wrestlers do to work the crowd, which is what Candace reminds me of these days.

A character, acting out a part, saying anything she has to to get by one more week and bring in the clicks and cash before her audience gets bored and moves on the next big thing.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

She got paid for lying at an early age and so learned it can be profitable for a psychotic bitch that has no truth in her. So she goes to the inversion of who is lying every time when challenged while her tall tales keep getting taller. Too bad it isn't her nose like Pinocchio.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 05:56 PM (E4rtv)

40 Nobody this has 'shaken out' was ever on the right.
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Fact.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 12, 2026 05:56 PM (f0sNM)

41 Yes, my client was accurate in killing the target he was aiming at so he should not get the death penalty because he was accurate with his rifle in committing cold blooded murder.

Sounds like a Monty Python sketch.

Posted by: dantesed at August 12, 2026 05:57 PM (Oy/m2)

42 ...if a defendant "knowingly created a great risk of death to another individual" other than the victim who was killed, it can be used as an aggravating factor...

It...kind of makes sense, I guess. There's a reason we have things like manslaughter, second degree murder, 1st degree, etc. Spraying bullets into a crowd, or using a large explosive device, to kill one specific person, even if you only hit the intended target, is worse than killing them when they're alone and no one else is at risk.

Charlie, as I recall, had people all around him, though, and the bullet was a powerful rifle cartridge that could reasonably be expected to pass through the target, with a changed trajectory, and ricochet off the ground. Is that enough threat to innocent bystanders to meet the threshold? It's a good legal question.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 12, 2026 05:57 PM (+/CWD)

43 Guess some Leftist Judge will make up their own law's eventually

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2026 05:57 PM (Ia/+0)

44 I am wholly uninterested in any news about Owens that doesn't start and end with "indicted" and/or "committed".
As for Utah's law, that's a bold take. As I read it, assassinations of private citizens should be fine. If you miss and brain some other bystander, that's an accident and you also didn't murder the target. If you don't miss, yeah it sucks you killed that one guy you naughty naughty boy, go into timeout, in the penalty box where you feel shame, you know.
But if you kill someone important like a pro-amnesty GOP guy, that might cause chaos, so it's death for you.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 12, 2026 05:51 PM (88C+u)

there was the joke in the Steve Martin movie The Jerk that when he is crowing about getting in the phone book it cuts to an assassin picking his name at random out of the phone book and coming to kill the "Random SOB".

So by Utah law this would not merit the death penalty?

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:57 PM (uhVAy)

45 It’s grift, like MeAgain. Whatever pays.

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 05:57 PM (sTlXt)

46 38 I've seen some folks guestimate how much it is that Candy Nose pulls in from one of her shows.
It ain't nothing to sneeze at--
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 12, 2026 05:56 PM (3cUTc)

Well yeah, it'd probably be a Category Four in her case.

Posted by: good bye, Seattle! at August 12, 2026 05:57 PM (88C+u)

47 I want this twink in general population.

Posted by: steevy at August 12, 2026 05:57 PM (YwEeS)

48 Too bad it isn't her nose like Pinocchio.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 05:56 PM (E4rtv)

She can't back down now.
What is left of her reputation is on the line after the Brigitte Macron disaster.

She'll stick to her story until her dying day.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 12, 2026 05:58 PM (6ydKt)

49 Tyler, if he wants to live, probably wants the lawyers that might spare his miserable life.
Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 05:53 PM (E4rtv)

I can't imagine wanting to spend the rest of my life in jail, but I guess there is always the chance a leftist on the jury decides they are going for nullification.

Posted by: Bete at August 12, 2026 05:58 PM (LX4y3)

50
I thought lying in wait and stalking were special circumstances. Likewise political assassination, which this clearly was.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 12, 2026 05:58 PM (azNOR)

51 Okay, she is married to the son of a Lord and can’t pronounce chalet?
Posted by: Piper

If not in the video, her pronunciation of 'macabre' is the stuff of legend.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 12, 2026 05:58 PM (Q89nA)

52 Facts are mere impediments to the theory -- The Grand Unified Theory of Everything, which posits that "It's the Jews' fault" explains all physical phenomena.

Posted by: zombie at August 12, 2026 05:58 PM (Av6i5)

53 Charlie, as I recall, had people all around him, though, and the bullet was a powerful rifle cartridge that could reasonably be expected to pass through the target, with a changed trajectory, and ricochet off the ground. Is that enough threat to innocent bystanders to meet the threshold? It's a good legal question.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 12, 2026 05:57 PM (+/CWD)

No real point, it was obviously political because to a leftist everything is.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:58 PM (uhVAy)

54 If the debate with Andrew Wilson actually happens (big If), I expect Candygram to plead the Fifth (not answer) more times than Fauci.
Posted by: Stu Podaso


Conspiracy wackos do not plead the fifth. They just launch into more conspiracies. "Mossad paid Andrew!!! They're aiming energy weapons at me right now~!"

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 12, 2026 05:58 PM (diia5)

55 The sad part?

This will change exactly none of CandyAss Ovens rapid delusional followers. If anything, the reverse will be true. She will double and triple and quadruple and double-dodecahedron down.

Don’t you fools know that the best evidence of a vast conspiracy is the total absence of any evidence of the conspiracy?

Over-under for how long it takes for Ovens to claim this creep’s own lawyers are Mossad agents? Not joking.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 12, 2026 05:59 PM (yTXpW)

56 I'm sure the Left just loves this.
Posted by: Sharpie at August 12, 2026 05:50 PM (r13UX)

Nobody this has 'shaken out' was ever on the right.
Posted by: Oldcat


But darn if "sharpie" isn't going to continue to try to convince us that it's true.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 12, 2026 05:59 PM (vJrRc)

57 18 Robinson Admits to Murdering Kirk, Owens Hardest Hit

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 12, 2026 05:51 PM (gEIsK)


Ricochet ?

Posted by: you really don't want to know at August 12, 2026 05:59 PM (AGz65)

58 How the Fk did they come up with that convoluted theory?

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2026 05:59 PM (Ia/+0)

59 Note I only say that because I expect him to never be executed.

Posted by: steevy at August 12, 2026 05:59 PM (YwEeS)

60 51 Okay, she is married to the son of a Lord and can’t pronounce chalet?
Posted by: Piper

If not in the video, her pronunciation of 'macabre' is the stuff of legend.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 12, 2026 05:58 PM (Q89nA

I only got to grandiose. But I have heard the macabre one before and…yikes.

Her husband called her a grifter’s grifter, so there is that.

Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2026 06:00 PM (ZdaMQ)

61 38 I've seen some folks guestimate how much it is that Candy Nose pulls in from one of her shows.

It ain't nothing to sneeze at--ragebaiting is profitable.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

It is all fun and games until the libel and slander lawsuits roll in and this case is pretty much going to make it an open and shut case for Candace to be held liable by Charlie's widow. Then I think the floodgates are going to open and she flees the country to avoid paying judgment. No one wanted to sue a nasty pig wallowing in the mud because a) the pig likes it, and b) there is a real threat that Ovens will cause one or more of her demented flying monkeys to cause harm and harassment to the person suing her.

Like Alex Jones, it is all fun and games until the jury verdict rolls in and the judge enforces the inevitable judgment.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 06:00 PM (E4rtv)

62 Okay, she is married to the son of a Lord and can’t pronounce chalet?
Posted by: Piper

If not in the video, her pronunciation of 'macabre' is the stuff of legend.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 12, 2026 05:58 PM (Q89nA)

I think in England they pronounce it to rhyme with pallet.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 06:00 PM (uhVAy)

63
Lemme axe you this !

Posted by: Canyon Owens at August 12, 2026 06:00 PM (NtVYv)

64 "Candace claims..."

*shrugs*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2026 06:00 PM (RIvkX)

65 58 How the Fk did they come up with that convoluted theory?
Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2026 05:59 PM (Ia/+0)

Lawyerbabble, a version of bullshit dazzling.

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 06:00 PM (sTlXt)

66 >> I think in England they pronounce it to rhyme with pallet.

Same with "valet".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 12, 2026 06:01 PM (w6EFb)

67 51 Okay, she is married to the son of a Lord and can’t pronounce chalet?
Posted by: Piper

If not in the video, her pronunciation of 'macabre' is the stuff of legend.
Posted by: Stu Podaso


Don't we celebrate Hannukah because the Macabres re-dedicated The Temple?

Posted by: zombie at August 12, 2026 06:01 PM (Av6i5)

68 If not in the video, her pronunciation of 'macabre' is the stuff of legend.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 12, 2026 05:58 PM (Q89nA)

I used to pronounce it Mack A Bree as a joke

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 06:01 PM (uhVAy)

69 Now look, retards, they said the shooter. They didn't say Tyler Robinson. Could have been anyone. How many times do I have to explain it?

Posted by: Candy-O at August 12, 2026 06:01 PM (QaH55)

70 Lawyers often make arguments that sound good in court and sound ridiculous in public. I'm sure there is some court decision in Utah that hinges on this question cited in their brief. They are being paid by the state, and they are going to bill millions.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 12, 2026 06:02 PM (wGerL)

71 It ain't nothing to sneeze at--ragebaiting is profitable.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 12, 2026 05:56 PM (3cUTc)
___

"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?"

- Matthew 16:26 (LSB)

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 12, 2026 06:02 PM (24NQL)

72 The right: The left is dangerous. Look one of their tranny chasers just admitted to murdering the top right wing speaker in the country

The left: Nah man that's what THE JEWS want you to think. It was really them! Like they planned this for years with their undercover agent Erika Kirk.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 06:02 PM (sKqQm)

73 ... but in Utah, mistakenly regarded as a red state, you need to murder someone in a bad way.

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You mean, like, kill them twice?

[One verse from the great Michael Piranha parody 3"Hotel Honolulu:"]

"Mirrors on the table
Gang-bangers on ice
To end up in prison here
You'd have to kill someone twice

So tell the crooks on the mainland
Living here is so great
'Cuz no one has more lenient laws
Than the 50th state"


archives.starbulletin.com
/1998/06/08/features/story1.html

Posted by: ShainS at August 12, 2026 06:02 PM (toNFd)

74 Candace speaks Workers' English

Makes the rules as she goes.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2026 06:02 PM (RIvkX)

75
Sorry, I'm not following.

Isn't this just pleading guilty?

Posted by: Auspex at August 12, 2026 06:02 PM (Y8DZL)

76 55 The sad part?

This will change exactly none of CandyAss Ovens rapid delusional followers. If anything, the reverse will be true. She will double and triple and quadruple and double-dodecahedron down.

Don’t you fools know that the best evidence of a vast conspiracy is the total absence of any evidence of the conspiracy?

Over-under for how long it takes for Ovens to claim this creep’s own lawyers are Mossad agents? Not joking.
Posted by: Elric the Blade

Short run perhaps, long run these types always burn out their followers. Happened with Aimee Semple way back in the day and plenty others over time. The lies build up, the believability goes down, the legal process begins chewing up the liar, and eventually the liar is left nakedly exposed to the public stage. Then after the dogs have barked, the caravan moves on.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 06:02 PM (E4rtv)

77 66 >> I think in England they pronounce it to rhyme with pallet.

Same with "valet".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley


I always make the valett wait in the foyerr.

Posted by: zombie at August 12, 2026 06:02 PM (Av6i5)

78 macabre can be pronounced correctly with 2 or 3 syllables.

Why is that sir?

Nobody knows.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 12, 2026 06:04 PM (wGerL)

79 Charlie, as I recall, had people all around him, though, and the bullet was a powerful rifle cartridge that could reasonably be expected to pass through the target, with a changed trajectory, and ricochet off the ground. Is that enough threat to innocent bystanders to meet the threshold? It's a good legal question.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 12, 2026 05:57 PM (+/CWD)

Hunting rounds are designed to not over penetrate, but they are also considered a cruel and unneeded bullet for people as they fragment and cause much greater harm than a full-jacketed round.
Just quoting the Breaker's monologue in Breaker Morant on "Dum-Dum bullets" could make one of the jury members go green.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2026 06:04 PM (rbvCR)

80 The English have never been able to speak proper American.

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 06:04 PM (sTlXt)

81 Candace Owens is worth $2M with her insane ranting, which is bad, but Kim Kardashian is worth $2B primarily based off of a sex tape and having a big ass.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 06:04 PM (sKqQm)

82 Bonk bonk on the head

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 12, 2026 06:05 PM (nDXEV)

83
Didn't the Secret Service have Airforce One land inside one of Candace Owens nostrils to escape an Iranian rocket attack?

The woman is a hero! A hero, I say!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 12, 2026 06:05 PM (iJfKG)

84 Didn't some guy named Comperatore take a bullet?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 12, 2026 06:05 PM (qFwJc)

85 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?"

- Matthew 16:26 (LSB)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 12, 2026 06:02 PM (24NQL)

depends what you think your soul is worth I suppose.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 06:05 PM (uhVAy)

86 "or killing someone for a political motive."

So, did that get swept under the rug?
Posted by: no one of any consequence


It was ideological, but not political, man.

Posted by: mikeski, hitting the bong at August 12, 2026 06:06 PM (VHUov)

87 The Utah prosecutors have at least 3 aggravated theories to justify the death penalty. First is the one that Ace is mentioning: putting others in danger. The whole "He was a good shot and killed who he was aiming at, no one else so no death penalty!" is a novel defense idea.

The second one the prosecutors have is something about endangering kids or making them watch it or something. Lots of kids in the audience watched Charlie die. The defense argues that "Well, it was a college campus! How could Robinson know kids might be there?"

The third one is the political/trans angle: Robinson killed Kirk because of his political views. Defense argues that there is not enough evidence of that one so Robinson shouldn't be put to death for that.

All of these are weak defense theories, but they have to argue something I guess. But no, the prosecution has more than one arrow in their quivers here.

Posted by: SimoHayha at August 12, 2026 06:06 PM (IeYnM)

88 73 ... but in Utah, mistakenly regarded as a red state, you need to murder someone in a bad way.

Don't blame Utah for this, it was a Scotus ruling that restored the Death Penalty, Gregg v. Georgia, where they only allowed death penalty statutes on the basis that the penalty had to be imposed only if specific aggravating circumstances showing the murder was somehow worse than regular murders including murder for money, murder for politics, for sexual depravity, drug dealing, etc. etc. around the murder occurred.

The jury (some states used judges before Ring v. Arizona required only a jury to impose a death sentence) was to take into account ALL aggravating facts and mitigating facts (which are not to be limited by statute) into account before imposing the sentence.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 06:07 PM (E4rtv)

89 >> The English have never been able to speak proper American.

I know. Al-you-min-ee-um. Zed. Mee-thane. Maths. The list goes on.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 12, 2026 06:07 PM (w6EFb)

90 I used to pronounce it Mack A Bree as a joke
Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 06:01 PM (uhVAy)

I like that.

Me:
Gazebo is gaze-bow
Placebo is place-bow

I got many more. My Dad taught me well.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 12, 2026 06:07 PM (0aYVJ)

91 67 51 Okay, she is married to the son of a Lord and can’t pronounce chalet?
Posted by: Piper

If not in the video, her pronunciation of 'macabre' is the stuff of legend.
Posted by: Stu Podaso

Don't we celebrate Hannukah because the Macabres re-dedicated The Temple?
Posted by: zombie

This is hysterical

Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2026 06:07 PM (ZdaMQ)

92 I think in England they pronounce it to rhyme with pallet.

Same with "valet".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley


Mom always pronounced Maître d' and Accoutrements as "mater-dee" and "acoot-tur-mints" but she was doing it on purpose to make a point about disliking social climbers and them who were too full of themselves.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2026 06:07 PM (rbvCR)

93 Candace Owens MISPRONOUNCING 40 words straight.

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She is obviously reading the words she keeps mispronouncing so why not substitute another word for it before recording or going live? It seems logic is beyond her in every way.

Posted by: Decaf at August 12, 2026 06:07 PM (ZNpJk)

94 Those "bad ways" of committing murder include putting additional people in danger or killing someone for a political motive.

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We may never know the motive.

Posted by: ShainS at August 12, 2026 06:07 PM (toNFd)

95 Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 12, 2026 06:05 PM (qFwJc)

Another Democrat assassin. He can't be given the death penalty. He's already dead.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 12, 2026 06:07 PM (wGerL)

96 84 Didn't some guy named Comperatore take a bullet?
Posted by: no one of any consequence
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That was Trump's attempted assassination in Butler PA.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 06:07 PM (E4rtv)

97 My favorite little restaurant has mangrove snapper…wonder how I get out of making dinner…

Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2026 06:08 PM (ZdaMQ)

98 Oh, wrong assassination.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 12, 2026 06:08 PM (qFwJc)

99 Don't we celebrate Hannukah because the Macabres re-dedicated The Temple?
Posted by: zombie

This is hysterical
Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2026 06:07 PM (ZdaMQ)

Very Jewish to make a major holiday over a big savings in lamp oil.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 06:09 PM (uhVAy)

100 Who wants some Whore De Overs~~???

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 12, 2026 06:09 PM (diia5)

101 Conspiracy wackos do not plead the fifth. They just launch into more conspiracies. "Mossad paid Andrew!!! They're aiming energy weapons at me right now~!"
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Wilson 'debated' Stew Peters about this topic, and Peters basically spent the entire time stating he wasn't going to answer any questions about his theories, but Wilson had to prove the state's case in the Robinson hearings. I can see whats-her-face doing something similar.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 12, 2026 06:09 PM (Q89nA)

102 depends what you think your soul is worth I suppose.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 06:05 PM (uhVAy)
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Considering that both God and Satan want it, I'd say it's priceless.

Sad that most people disagree.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 12, 2026 06:10 PM (24NQL)

103 89 >> The English have never been able to speak proper American.

I know. Al-you-min-ee-um. Zed. Mee-thane. Maths. The list goes on.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 12, 2026 06:07 PM (w6EFb)

And the ridiculous writing - sticking a ridiculous “ u “ in everything, as well as that dumb “ boot “ and “ bonnet “ nonsense. Pathetic.

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 06:10 PM (sTlXt)

104 Horse doovers.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 12, 2026 06:10 PM (0aYVJ)

105 Wilson 'debated' Stew Peters about this topic, and Peters basically spent the entire time stating he wasn't going to answer any questions about his theories, but Wilson had to prove the state's case in the Robinson hearings. I can see whats-her-face doing something similar.
Posted by: Stu Podaso
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Doesn't work for civil liability cases.

And Candace has no intention of debating anyone on anything--to do so is to expose her and her followers to ridicule and risk of revealing her lies.

Punk ass bitch.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 06:11 PM (E4rtv)

106 She’s massively dyslexic.

Posted by: Accomack at August 12, 2026 06:11 PM (AZXeW)

107 Wilson 'debated' Stew Peters about this topic, and Peters basically spent the entire time stating he wasn't going to answer any questions about his theories, but Wilson had to prove the state's case in the Robinson hearings. I can see whats-her-face doing something similar.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 12, 2026 06:09 PM (Q89nA)

I think Candace will skate, hopefully without steaking the 300K from Andrew. He's pretty formidable even if he likes you. His wife is pretty formidable as well. It is funny when the chicks on Whatever podcast appeal to HER when Andrew is 'too mean' and she chops them up.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 06:12 PM (uhVAy)

108 102 depends what you think your soul is worth I suppose.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 06:05 PM (uhVAy)
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Considering that both God and Satan want it, I'd say it's priceless.

Sad that most people disagree.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 12, 2026 06:10 PM (24NQL)

The huge majority of people are doomed, SMH, so the devil is getting plenty of guests.

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 06:12 PM (sTlXt)

109 That it was a political assassination is clear. What other motive could he have for murdering a political figure in cold blood?

Posted by: steevy at August 12, 2026 06:12 PM (YwEeS)

110 If not in the video, her pronunciation of 'macabre' is the stuff of legend.
Posted by: Stu Podaso


Is it like "Brett Favre" where the letters are out of order? "Ma-Carb?"

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2026 06:12 PM (VHUov)

111 She’s massively dyslexic.
Posted by: Accomack at August 12, 2026 06:11 PM (AZXeW)

That's not how 'stupid' is spelled. If you don't know big words, don't have them in your script.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 06:12 PM (uhVAy)

112 7 "or killing someone for a political motive."

So, did that get swept under the rug?
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 12, 2026 05:47 PM (qFwJc)

The left contends that 'Human Rights' issues (which they get to define) somehow have no intersection with Politics.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 12, 2026 06:13 PM (mP0Kj)

113
Also, Brits say cen-tri-FYOO-gul for centrifugal, and cen-tri-PEE-tal for centripetal. Some of that is like fingernails on the chalkboard.

But to be fair, our pronunciations have the same effect on them.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 12, 2026 06:13 PM (w6EFb)

114 80 The English have never been able to speak proper American.
Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 06:04 PM (sTlXt)

I was watching a cooking video the other day with some fat limey chef who kept saying tinned toe-mot-toes. I had to replay it 3-4 times to figure out he was talking about canned tomatoes. I hate the English.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 12, 2026 06:13 PM (QaH55)

115 98 Oh, wrong assassination.
Posted by: no one of any consequence
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We still know little to nothing of the Butler assassination other than it appears to be another notch for the incels that then become troon, or troon curious. Someone activated these shits--in the case of Tyler, it is possible even that the wrong asshole is on trial as his furry bitch is likely to skate but highly likely to have egged murderous rage on his lover. Watch and wait if they call Furry asshole to the stand how the defense will play it.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 06:14 PM (E4rtv)

116 9 >> The English have never been able to speak proper American.

I know. Al-you-min-ee-um. Zed. Mee-thane. Maths. The list goes on.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 12, 2026 06:07 PM (w6EFb)

The change from Aluminum is scientifically invalid.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 06:14 PM (uhVAy)

117 113
Also, Brits say cen-tri-FYOO-gul for centrifugal, and cen-tri-PEE-tal for centripetal. Some of that is like fingernails on the chalkboard.

But to be fair, our pronunciations have the same effect on them.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 12, 2026 06:13 PM (w6EFb)

Of course, but we are right so they’ll just have to deal with it, or get with Our Program.

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 06:14 PM (sTlXt)

118 Elon Musk's introduction as the new owner of the UK:

https://tinyurl.com/mrsr2tpy

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 12, 2026 06:15 PM (24NQL)

119 Professional lawyers, unlike dishonest podcasters, have ethical obligations that bar them from saying things they know are untrue

Lol, "lawyers" and "ethical" in the same sentence. "Legal" obligations, maybe. "Ethical"? Sure.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 12, 2026 06:15 PM (9ZFZd)

120 I live by the "alligator" defense. ' Gator in the golf course pond/ lake? Let members know; pets, people start disappearing? Time for the 'gator to go...

Posted by: pahound at August 12, 2026 06:15 PM (AjR4+)

121 She’s massively dyslexic.
Posted by: Accomack at August 12, 2026 06:11 PM (AZXeW)


Her presentation is overly "bright" and precise. It is seriously weird.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2026 06:15 PM (rbvCR)

122 If you hold to predestination, the soul is worthless.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 12, 2026 06:15 PM (88C+u)

123
Sounds like she speaks jive

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 12, 2026 06:16 PM (NtVYv)

124 I was waiting to see if "epitome" made the Owens mispronunciation list.

Posted by: Halfhand at August 12, 2026 06:16 PM (Ysav4)

125 122 If you hold to predestination, the soul is worthless.
Posted by: gKWVE at August 12, 2026 06:15 PM (88C+u)


I do, and I am rather fond of mine.

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 06:16 PM (sTlXt)

126 I was watching a cooking video the other day with some fat limey chef who kept saying tinned toe-mot-toes. I had to replay it 3-4 times to figure out he was talking about canned tomatoes. I hate the English.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder


Po-tay-to, po-tah-to, to-may-to, to-mah-to
Oh, let's call the whole thing off!

Posted by: Fred & Ginger at August 12, 2026 06:16 PM (VHUov)

127 >> The English have never been able to speak proper American.

I know. Al-you-min-ee-um. Zed. Mee-thane. Maths. The list goes on.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 12, 2026 06:07 PM (w6EFb)
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It's why we find their accent absolutely hilarious.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 06:16 PM (FZ29D)

128 If you hold to predestination, the soul is worthless.
Posted by: gKWVE at August 12, 2026 06:15 PM (88C+u)

you were born for that comment.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 06:16 PM (uhVAy)

129 The mispronunciations seem like a form of Tourette's.

Or should I say terreds.

Posted by: polynikes at August 12, 2026 06:17 PM (KC5Lt)

130 109 That it was a political assassination is clear. What other motive could he have for murdering a political figure in cold blood?
Posted by: steevy
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Lawyers for the defense are compelled to put the best defense that they can before the court. The mass of evidence precludes trying the old SODDI or TODDI defense--some other dude did it or the other dude did it. I suspect that we are going to see, if Furry asshole is called as a prosecution witness, that the defense will make it like Tyler was besotted and manipulated into killing-so the motive was love, not political hatred.

Dunno if the prosecution is going to call the guy though as they have enough without it and the defense is not likely to risk it either.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 06:17 PM (E4rtv)

131 128 If you hold to predestination, the soul is worthless.
Posted by: gKWVE at August 12, 2026 06:15 PM (88C+u)

you were born for that comment.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 06:16 PM (uhVAy)

That’s pretty good.

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 06:17 PM (sTlXt)

132 It's why we find their accent absolutely hilarious.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 06:16 PM (FZ29D)

That and if you go there almost nobody in England speaks that way either.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 06:17 PM (uhVAy)

133 ter·ror·ism

noun
terrorism (noun)
the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims:

So, murder because of the Trans agenda, which is POLITICAL, is terrorism...

And somehow that is NOT an aggravating circumstance?

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 12, 2026 06:18 PM (mP0Kj)

134 If you hold to predestination, the soul is worthless.
Posted by: gKWVE at August 12, 2026 06:15 PM (88C+u)
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I hold that God lives outside of time, so He knows who will and who will not repent.

We, on the other hand, do not.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 12, 2026 06:18 PM (24NQL)

135 "50. I thought lying in wait and stalking were special circumstances. Likewise political assassination, which this clearly was."

Neither lying in wait nor stalking are aggravating factors in Utah. Nor was the victim law enforcement or a public official, which Utah law does have as aggravators.

The prosecutors have charged the one factor that fits, while the defense says there are not enough grounds.

I wonder just how many rounds were left in the rifle, and isn't that sufficient evidence of posing grave danger to others around the victim? Just a thought.

Posted by: Fritz at August 12, 2026 06:19 PM (J7jo9)

136 My second choice is trolling the rubes.

Posted by: Accomack at August 12, 2026 06:19 PM (AZXeW)

137 If you hold to predestination, the soul is worthless.
Posted by: gKWVE at August 12, 2026 06:15 PM (88C+u)
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I hold that God lives outside of time, so He knows who will and who will not repent.

We, on the other hand, do not.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 12, 2026 06:18 PM (24NQL)

I remember a short-short SF/Fantasy story where God shows up late for the second coming.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 06:20 PM (uhVAy)

138 The English have never been able to speak proper American.

Whenever I watch a British TV show, I always turn on the closed captions.

Posted by: dantesed at August 12, 2026 06:20 PM (Oy/m2)

139 I was waiting to see if "epitome" made the Owens mispronunciation list.
Posted by: Halfhand at August 12, 2026 06:16 PM (Ysav4)

Brian Regan had a great bit about that. Someone said "you pronounce every word wrong!"

He responded, "now that is the eppy-tome of hyper-bowl."

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 12, 2026 06:20 PM (0aYVJ)

140 Candace should show an emoticon of respect.

Posted by: Mega Mac at August 12, 2026 06:20 PM (BI5O2)

141 It's why we find their accent absolutely hilarious.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

That and if you go there almost nobody in England speaks that way either.
Posted by: Oldcat


Well, their accents are regional.

Like "The three blocks off the north side of Main Street in Codswollop-on-Great-Ouse, on Thursday, accent" regional.

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2026 06:20 PM (VHUov)

142 Black America has this petulant ignorance streak. Mispronouncing SAT words would be a thing.

Posted by: Accomack at August 12, 2026 06:21 PM (AZXeW)

143 I was waiting to see if "epitome" made the Owens mispronunciation list.
Posted by: Halfhand at August 12, 2026 06:16 PM (Ysav4)

Eppy Tome?

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 06:21 PM (uhVAy)

144 If you hold to predestination, the soul is worthless.
Posted by: gKWVE at August 12, 2026 06:15 PM (88C+u)
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I hold that God lives outside of time, so He knows who will and who will not repent.

We, on the other hand, do not.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 12, 2026 06:18 PM (24NQL)

I think life is like a Pachinko machine. The final destination is known in a random path but God can intervene and change the direction if he chooses.

Posted by: polynikes at August 12, 2026 06:21 PM (KC5Lt)

145 134 If you hold to predestination, the soul is worthless.
Posted by: gKWVE at August 12, 2026 06:15 PM (88C+u)
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I hold that God lives outside of time, so He knows who will and who will not repent.

We, on the other hand, do not.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 12, 2026 06:18 PM (24NQL)

Nice point. If He knows something is going to happen in the future, it kinda follows that it is gonna happen. Unless He gets surprised all the time by us little scamps, which means He’s NOT omniscient, so just a kinda little God.

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 06:22 PM (sTlXt)

146 That kid deserves only one thing.

Posted by: fd at August 12, 2026 06:22 PM (MWfyi)

147 Good grief. This is as preposterous as that idiot in Spokane who started the Old Trail fire only being convicted of manslaughter for murdering his own father. WTH is happening in the US with this total disregard for human life? Sickening.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 12, 2026 06:22 PM (2NHgQ)

148 ***his shot was well-aimed and did not put anyone else in danger, so he should not be executed for his murder.
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Amazing times in which we live.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 06:22 PM (VQ0bX)

149 Mahopac.
I grew up saying mayo pack.
The smart set said ma hoe pack.
My Buffalo cousins are more familiar with Indian place names and said the latter.

Posted by: Accomack at August 12, 2026 06:22 PM (AZXeW)

150 I usually call for life in prison, and don't care for the death penalty.

But it might be the only way when it comes to these guys who shoot prominent right wingers.

These pizza-faced weirdos and furries and shut-ins will just get released by some Communist judge once some time passes and nobody is looking.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 12, 2026 06:23 PM (BI5O2)

151 I think I will talk about Candy Ovens now, or maybe the foul and filthy English.

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 06:23 PM (sTlXt)

152 Like "The three blocks off the north side of Main Street in Codswollop-on-Great-Ouse, on Thursday, accent" regional.
Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2026 06:20 PM (VHUov)
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The Brits struggle to do a Midwestern American accent. It's very difficult because it's so unique and a fusion of disparate elements with the Irish "R" but lots of Germanisms worked in. Much of what we think is "American" is German, and when the German language was forcibly suppressed in 1917, I think a lot of speakers bent American English into something of a pretzel.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 06:24 PM (ZOv7s)

153 Surely political murder counts as an enhancement.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 12, 2026 05:51 PM (+v9Nq)


They're making the argument that it wasn't political. Totally not political. No sirree, nothing to see here.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2026 06:24 PM (ExV1e)

154 I hold that God lives outside of time, so He knows who will and who will not repent.

We, on the other hand, do not.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy
_________

But if He knows, doesn't that still mean it's predestined?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 12, 2026 06:24 PM (XvL8K)

155 114 80 The English have never been able to speak proper American.
Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 06:04 PM (sTlXt)

I was watching a cooking video the other day with some fat limey chef who kept saying tinned toe-mot-toes. I had to replay it 3-4 times to figure out he was talking about canned tomatoes. I hate the English.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 12, 2026 06:13 PM (QaH55)


The Brits expect 330+ million Americans to use English pronunciations, spelling, and grammar as used in England by 30 million (?) Englanders (not Scots, Welsh, and Northern Irelanders). When we don't, they call us uneducated barbarians. Because they can only attempt to assuage their feelings of inferiority and envy of America and Americans using miscellaneous tiny cultural comparison ways. Sad.

Posted by: Gref at August 12, 2026 06:24 PM (5rh/l)

156 147 Good grief. This is as preposterous as that idiot in Spokane who started the Old Trail fire only being convicted of manslaughter for murdering his own father. WTH is happening in the US with this total disregard for human life? Sickening.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine
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One of the problems with tilting the balance too much toward the individual and too little toward society. Warren Court while redressing older grievances of the wrongfully accused introduced new grievances where judges feel free to let loose monsters to kill, main, and terrorize society. Same with the mentally ill.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 06:25 PM (E4rtv)

157 I have fired s 30.06. it was not fun. It has 2x the power of a 223 round. I helped butcher an 800 pound moose in Alaska that was hit by one. The round went right through her after shattering a rib.

Posted by: Paul at August 12, 2026 06:25 PM (UZfgv)

158 I usually call for life in prison, and don't care for the death penalty.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 12, 2026 06:23 PM (BI5O2)
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I used to buy the argument that the death penalty gave the state too much power, but I now feel that a quick death is better than locking someone in a dungeon for life. For one thing, prisons are expensive, and we're basically forced to feed scumbags who in every previous civilization would have been executed.

It's basically cheap grace. Make Hanging Great Again.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 06:25 PM (ZOv7s)

159 >>>He’s NOT omniscient, so just a kinda little God.

Posted by: tubal at
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Let's humiliate ourselves over things we will not know
in this lifetime for $500.


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 06:25 PM (VQ0bX)

160 The Brits struggle to do a Midwestern American accent. It's very difficult because it's so unique and a fusion of disparate elements with the Irish "R" but lots of Germanisms worked in. Much of what we think is "American" is German, and when the German language was forcibly suppressed in 1917, I think a lot of speakers bent American English into something of a pretzel.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Heh, the British Royal family , being German, should have no such problems with the Midwest accent then.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 06:26 PM (E4rtv)

161 149 Mahopac.
I grew up saying mayo pack.
The smart set said ma hoe pack.
My Buffalo cousins are more familiar with Indian place names and said the latter.
Posted by: Accomack at August 12, 2026 06:22 PM (AZXeW)


Id much rather have my whore than mayonnaise. Just saying …

Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 12, 2026 06:26 PM (yTXpW)

162 So... my oldest (younger) sister came to visit me today and brought penis shaped sugar cookies with a smilie face and the legend "Peter Prostate" to 'celebrate' my cancer. Apparently, all my siblings chipped in.

I have a weird family.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2026 06:27 PM (ExV1e)

163 What gets me is how Brits can turn the word "no" into a multisyllabic word. Naeiuw.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 12, 2026 06:27 PM (0aYVJ)

164 159 >>>He’s NOT omniscient, so just a kinda little God.

Posted by: tubal at
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Let's humiliate ourselves over things we will not know
in this lifetime for $500.


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 06:25 PM (VQ0bX)

Or, talk about Candy Ovens which was the point of the post. I am BACK On Track, Braenyard!!

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 06:27 PM (sTlXt)

165 Posted by: Paul at August 12, 2026 06:25 PM (UZfgv)

Did your boyfriend help?

Posted by: polynikes at August 12, 2026 06:27 PM (KC5Lt)

166 154 I hold that God lives outside of time, so He knows who will and who will not repent.

We, on the other hand, do not.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy
_________

But if He knows, doesn't that still mean it's predestined?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 12, 2026 06:24 PM (XvL8K)
Well, yeah. It's all His stuff.

Posted by: Eromero at August 12, 2026 06:28 PM (LHPAg)

167 There are some British actors who seem to be able to pull off American

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2026 06:28 PM (Ia/+0)

168 I have a weird family.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2026 06:27 PM (ExV1e)


LOL.. They sound great

Posted by: It's me donna at August 12, 2026 06:28 PM (FtULh)

169 157 I have fired s 30.06. it was not fun. It has 2x the power of a 223 round. I helped butcher an 800 pound moose in Alaska that was hit by one. The round went right through her after shattering a rib.
Posted by: Paul at August 12, 2026 06:25 PM (UZfgv)

Yeah ... sure Jan ...

Posted by: browndog says woof at August 12, 2026 06:28 PM (3sXRv)

170 So... my oldest (younger) sister came to visit me today and brought penis shaped sugar cookies with a smilie face and the legend "Peter Prostate" to 'celebrate' my cancer. Apparently, all my siblings chipped in.

I have a weird family.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2026 06:27 PM (ExV1e)

So funny. I bet your family is awesome. And prayers to you.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 12, 2026 06:29 PM (0aYVJ)

171 Heh, the British Royal family , being German, should have no such problems with the Midwest accent then.
Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 06:26 PM (E4rtv)

There are different dialects in Germany as in England. Hannover is north Germany, while without a demographic map US immigration might be more South German, say Bavaria.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 06:29 PM (uhVAy)

172 Did it have the thing that goes up, Paul?

Posted by: fd at August 12, 2026 06:29 PM (MWfyi)

173 Obama pronounced corps like a corpse.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 12, 2026 06:29 PM (qFwJc)

174 Heh, the British Royal family , being German, should have no such problems with the Midwest accent then.
Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 06:26 PM (E4rtv)
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And of course the true claimants to the throne of England presently speak German.

Hugh Laurie was asked if doing an American show in America with Americans helped him with House's accent and he said no. He always had to work hard to make sure he got it right because American English is very inconsistent.

Southern accents, on the other hand, are very easy for the English to do, and that's what they often resort to if asked to play an American.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 06:30 PM (ZOv7s)

175 173 Obama pronounced corps like a corpse.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 12, 2026 06:29 PM (qFwJc)

Pockiston was my favorite.

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 06:30 PM (sTlXt)

176 whig you’ve touched on the other problem, mental illness. Just because you’re mentally ill shouldn’t give you a free pass on murder. If not prison a mentally ill murderer should be institutionalized. Nope, cannot do that since it’s cruel. Tell that to the families of those that were murdered by these ill people, what about the cruelty of them living without their loved ones?

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 12, 2026 06:30 PM (2NHgQ)

177 "I have a weird family.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic"

Did she bring them in a bag?

Posted by: fd at August 12, 2026 06:30 PM (MWfyi)

178 161 149 Mahopac.
I grew up saying mayo pack.
The smart set said ma hoe pack.
My Buffalo cousins are more familiar with Indian place names and said the latter.
Posted by: Accomack at August 12, 2026 06:22 PM (AZXeW)


Id much rather have my whore than mayonnaise. Just saying …
Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 12, 2026 06:26 PM (yTXpW)
May-Oh-Naze!
Louis Gossett Jr.

Posted by: Eromero at August 12, 2026 06:30 PM (LHPAg)

179 167 There are some British actors who seem to be able to pull off American
Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2026 06:28 PM (Ia/+0)
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Christian Bale. Ever hear him in an interview? Sounds like a bad Monty python skit.

Hugh Jackman? Yes, he’s Aussie but holy shit the native accent on the guy in interviews. Sounds like a parody of crocodile Dundee.


Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 12, 2026 06:31 PM (yTXpW)

180 I think Candy is just an evil narcissistic grifter, she's not dumb or mentally ill

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 06:31 PM (xcxpd)

181 There are different dialects in Germany as in England. Hannover is north Germany, while without a demographic map US immigration might be more South German, say Bavaria.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 06:29 PM (uhVAy)
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I think most Germans came from the Rhineland and areas outside of Prussia proper. The towns kind of give it away in some areas. Frankenmuth, Michigan is Bavarian.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 06:31 PM (ZOv7s)

182 Ace internet debater and slayer-of-Leftists Andrew Wilson is now on to debate the psycho-chick Owens. She's set to receive a payoff of $350k.

I admire Wilson but this is a mistake.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 12, 2026 06:31 PM (7s9Qe)

183 Obama pronounced corps like a corpse.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 12, 2026 06:29 PM (qFwJc)

Pockiston was my favorite.
Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 06:30 PM (sTlXt

And Orion as o-Ree-on

Posted by: polynikes at August 12, 2026 06:32 PM (KC5Lt)

184 180 I think Candy is just an evil narcissistic grifter, she's not dumb or mentally ill
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 06:31 PM (xcxpd)

Same, but I would add weird ass hell, also.

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 06:32 PM (sTlXt)

185 There are some British actors who seem to be able to pull off American
Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2026 06:28 PM (Ia/+0)

Gary Oldman

Posted by: dantesed at August 12, 2026 06:32 PM (Oy/m2)

186 But they say his shot was well-aimed and did not put anyone else in danger, so he should not be executed for his murder.

You see, your honor, yes I know I was going 50 over the speed limit in the school zone, but my speeding was well executed, the drifting around the corner and through the parking lot was viral video material, yet I did not actually hit anyone so they weren't in danger, so this charge should be dismissed.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 12, 2026 06:32 PM (BvPIe)

187 The death penalty is licit. Read the Catechism of the Council of Trent. It is for the protection of the innocent.

JPII watered it down in the CCC. Bergoglio, the heretic and antipope forbids it.

All you Catholics, throw out your CCC and read the Catechism of the Council of Trent.

The CCC is sprinkled throughout with little poison pills of heresy.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 12, 2026 06:32 PM (qFwJc)

188 I have a 30-36, my .44 magnum carbine kicks harder.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 06:33 PM (xcxpd)

189 *30-06
sheesh, I need an edit feature

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 06:33 PM (xcxpd)

190 @149 funny is listening to non upstate NYers trying to pronounce Dutch or Native American place names . Mahopac was Indian.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 06:33 PM (WOnE5)

191 This will cause a NOOD, but Mrs. Lloyd is doing well after her surgery. She elected to stay overnight at the hospital because one of the nerve blockers didn't work and she can get better pain management there.

As the surgical team was assembling and I had to go, I wished her well and then looked at her chest and said: "Well, I'm gonna miss you guys. I really enjoyed the 26 years we had together."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 06:34 PM (ZOv7s)

192 189 *30-06
sheesh, I need an edit feature
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 06:33 PM (xcxpd)

You didn’t press the unsend key??

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 06:34 PM (sTlXt)

193 Worse than Benghazi.

Rick Wilson
@TheRickWilson
The image Trump cowering like a little bitch in a catering truck with other members of his throuple while running away and leaving the rest of his team and the media to die in a possible Iranian attack will never get old.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 12, 2026 06:34 PM (ndZc7)

194 Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese are the same language. The characters are the same. They aren’t different languages, but different dialects. Dialects that are so different they can’t understand each other. Odd. But China, so …

Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 12, 2026 06:35 PM (yTXpW)

195 Well, Robinson is an absolute dead bang loser, so his attorney has to get creative.

Posted by: Random PJ at August 12, 2026 06:35 PM (+jscL)

196 Obama calling the Falklands the Maldives instead of Malvinas was a showing of his Candace like intellect

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 06:35 PM (WOnE5)

197 Did she bring them in a bag?
Posted by: fd at August 12, 2026 06:30 PM (MWfyi)


No, they were in a bakery box. She bought them local. Apparently, the bakery was not at all keen on making them but she 'splained the situation and convinced them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2026 06:36 PM (ExV1e)

198 I think most Germans came from the Rhineland and areas outside of Prussia proper. The towns kind of give it away in some areas. Frankenmuth, Michigan is Bavarian.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 06:31 PM (ZOv7s)

Yeah, Prussia and Hannover were owned by major powers and thus somewhat insulated from the kind of stresses that spark emigration. There were revolts and civil wars in 1848 that sparked an urgent need to leave the scene for many, who then came to the US and fought in the ACW. A German District in Cincy was called 'Over the Rhine' because it was across a canal and had lots of Germans.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 06:36 PM (uhVAy)

199 There are some British actors who seem to be able to pull off American
Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2026 06:28 PM (Ia/+0)

Gary Oldman
Posted by: dantesed at August 12, 2026 06:32 PM (Oy/m2)
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It can and has been done, but in interviews they all describe it as something of a chore. Being able to do it well is something of a brag.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 06:36 PM (ZOv7s)

200 196 Obama calling the Falklands the Maldives instead of Malvinas was a showing of his Candace like intellect
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 06:35 PM (WOnE5)

He was only, what 10,000 miles off?

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 06:36 PM (sTlXt)

201 candy owen and the rick wilson in the same thread! Make it stop.
Anyway. Murder is murder and he cops to it, fry his ass UT.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 12, 2026 06:36 PM (2NHgQ)

202 A.H., glad to hear it. Good luck and God bless to you and your wife

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 06:37 PM (WOnE5)

203 What if Tyler Robinson was really trying to shoot him in the ear...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 12, 2026 06:37 PM (E9VJ1)

204 But they say his shot was well-aimed and did not put anyone else in danger, so he should not be executed for his murder.

The argument is ridiculous even as stated. No one intends a neck shot. It was a misplaced head or torso shot and therefore not "well-aimed"

Posted by: Halfhand at August 12, 2026 06:37 PM (Ysav4)

205 College staircase dope and bullshit session.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 12, 2026 06:37 PM (wxsGM)

206 He did not only murder Charlie Kirk, he was attempting to murder the whole Christian Movement, and its confrontation of the evil left (and its predatory nature). That seems to enhance the charge sufficiently for the death penalty, imo.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 12, 2026 06:38 PM (vbXSk)

207 > But if He knows, doesn't that still mean it's predestined?

Foreknowledge isn't the same as predestination. Foreknowledge is knowing something will occur. Predestination is making something occur.

The classic formulation:
God knows all things perfectly.
God knows X will happen.
Therefore X will happen. (necessity of the consequence)
It does not follow that you could not have done otherwise. (necessity of the consequent)

God's knowledge tracks what free agents will freely do. It doesn't force the choice.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 12, 2026 06:38 PM (mkw2N)

208 Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese are the same language. The characters are the same. They aren’t different languages, but different dialects. Dialects that are so different they can’t understand each other. Odd. But China, so …
Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 12, 2026 06:35 PM (yTXpW)
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They are different languages but use the same characters, which are symbolic/conceptual rather than phonetic. The spoken words can be completely different, but the concepts are the same. Really weird.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 06:38 PM (ZOv7s)

209
I used to buy the argument that the death penalty gave the state too much power, but I now feel that a quick death is better than locking someone in a dungeon for life.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

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I'm in favor of giving them a choice. BUT -- if your choice is the dungeon, it's irrevocable.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 06:38 PM (XJ22o)

210 @149 funny is listening to non upstate NYers trying to pronounce Dutch or Native American place names . Mahopac was Indian.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 06:33 PM (WOnE5)

What makes spelling vs pronunciation gets hard is when it is written down. Indian names are usually just how they sound since they were not written down before.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 06:38 PM (uhVAy)

211 "Well, I'm gonna miss you guys. I really enjoyed the 26 years we had together."

With MS, my wife's "shrank." Oh well. as Ben Franklin noted, the nether regions are the last to go.

Love her. Fondle what is there that is little left. Kiss her and tell her that you love her.

And then give her what for.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 12, 2026 06:39 PM (qFwJc)

212 Tyler's argument, or his lawyers is totally BS

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2026 06:40 PM (Ia/+0)

213 The image Trump cowering like a little bitch in a catering truck with other members of his throuple while running away and leaving the rest of his team and the media to die in a possible Iranian attack will never get old.


You do realize that those multi-millionaire freeloaders in the Enemedia could have just made separate arrangements themselves to get home. Commercial flights to accept American passengers from that area.

Apparently the threat wasn't that much of a deal to spring a few thousand bucks for a 1st class home.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 12, 2026 06:40 PM (pawvM)

214 There are some British actors who seem to be able to pull off American

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Didja see that Hugh Laurie called out the Woke-stapo the other day.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 12, 2026 06:40 PM (ndZc7)

215 A.H., glad to hear it. Good luck and God bless to you and your wife
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 06:37 PM (WOnE5)
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Thank you! It's crazy that we had no idea about any of this at the start of July. One hell of a ride.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 06:40 PM (ZOv7s)

216 Very Jewish to make a major holiday over a big savings in lamp oil.

Some years ago I worked with an observant Jewish dude who explained that it wasn't a major holiday but latkes and jelly donuts are good so just go with it.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 12, 2026 06:40 PM (vTZFs)

217 "He did not only murder Charlie Kirk, he was attempting to murder the whole Christian Movement"

AND, trying to instill fear in anyone that might speak out publicly about clear Christian (American) beliefs. "Obey us or our crazies will murder you ... and that goes for you too, DJ Trump".

Posted by: illiniwek at August 12, 2026 06:40 PM (vbXSk)

218 To get the death penalty, there must be an enhancement to "mere" murder.

In other words, I shot the sheriff, but I didn't shoot the deputy.

Posted by: t-bird at August 12, 2026 06:40 PM (hLZfT)

219 If you know what happens at any point in time you don't have to manipulate anything. You just know what happens.

Posted by: fd at August 12, 2026 06:41 PM (MWfyi)

220 Felt recoil is a function of Newtonian physics. The weight of the bullet, the powder charge, the weight of the rifle, and the frequency of the recoil impulse all affect the experience. Shoot a 30-06 in a Garand weighing ten pounds with range ammo--150 gr at 2700 is not horrible in part because the gas operation lessens the recoil impulse. Fire it in a six pound bolt action 18-20 inch barrel rifle and using 160's or 170's bullets, it can be unpleasant.

The fit of a rifle and how much you work out makes a difference too. Heavy muscles in the shoulder can help shield and cushion the recoil impact and the rifle butt of the stock means x amount of energy is applied over x amount of surface area contacting the shoulder. Fatter stock, greater dispersion of force on the shoulder, thin and small stock butt, much more unpleasant.

Then we have rifle butt pads--none or steel, you best have a firm hold on the rifle cause woo boy it can pound. Put a thick recoil pad or a shooters jacket. Much less.

I find 30-06 in a decently weighted rifle more pleasant in recoil than firing 12 gauge slugs from a shotgun, ceteris paribus.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 06:41 PM (E4rtv)

221 Obama calling the Falklands the Maldives instead of Malvinas was a showing of his Candace like intellect
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 06:35 PM (WOnE5)

He was only, what 10,000 miles off?
Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 06:36 PM (sTlXt)

Asshole trying to be cute and annoy the English like usual by using the Argentine name., and like the dope he is getting it wrong.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 06:41 PM (uhVAy)

222 He shot into a crowd of people. There were people standing around Charlie, there's a lot of audience participation. Any jury that buys that BS is both ridiculously stupid and not surprisingly out of currently observed norms for society.

Posted by: banana Dream - Democracy! at August 12, 2026 06:42 PM (3uBP9)

223 @210 true and around here the Dutch wrote down what they thought the Indians were saying.
There's a Mountain range just south of me running to the Penn border. They're named the Shawangunks. They're pronounced Shon-gum. Any pronunciation sounds vweird.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 06:42 PM (WOnE5)

224 212 Tyler's argument, or his lawyers is totally BS
Posted by: Skip
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Lawyers are duty bound to give the best arguments that they can for their client, even when it is a losing effort. They are trying to save his life with the stack of evidence precluding him getting acquitted.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 06:42 PM (E4rtv)

225 Apparently the threat wasn't that much of a deal to spring a few thousand bucks for a 1st class home.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 12, 2026 06:40 PM (pawvM)

Like they pay anyway, they are on expense accounts.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 06:42 PM (uhVAy)

226 183 Obama pronounced corps like a corpse.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 12, 2026 06:29 PM (qFwJc)

Pockiston was my favorite.
Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 06:30 PM (sTlXt

And Orion as o-Ree-on


i wonder how he pronounces tannhauser

Posted by: anachronda at August 12, 2026 06:43 PM (sGtp+)

227 "The image Trump cowering like a little bitch in a catering truck with other members of his throuple while running away and leaving the rest of his team and the media to die in a possible Iranian attack will never get old."

How about the picture of Trump getting shot in the head and standing and raising his fist in defiance? Will that get old? You miserable little goblin loser.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 12, 2026 06:43 PM (7s9Qe)

228 Nood

Posted by: Bete at August 12, 2026 06:43 PM (LX4y3)

229 God's knowledge tracks what free agents will freely do.

Except the Scriptures clearly state that the Will is a slave to sin.

Slavery ≢ Free

Posted by: Community Notes at August 12, 2026 06:43 PM (pawvM)

230 I'm in favor of giving them a choice. BUT -- if your choice is the dungeon, it's irrevocable.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 06:38 PM (XJ22o)
Me, too. Chair, rope, or firing squad.

Posted by: Eromero at August 12, 2026 06:44 PM (LHPAg)

231 Oldcat. I live in an area that was originally Salish. xwlhtlhplhhskwts
This means he had in his possession a bunchberry plant. I will never try to pronounce that.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 12, 2026 06:44 PM (2NHgQ)

232 Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo
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Chief Brownell's say, stiffer spring, thicker buffer.
Make floors shiny and bright.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 06:45 PM (VQ0bX)

233 It's all BS.

You plotted. You planned. It is murder. And if the state won't administer justice, we live in a tyranny.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 12, 2026 06:45 PM (qFwJc)

234 191 This will cause a NOOD, but Mrs. Lloyd is doing well after her surgery. She elected to stay overnight at the hospital because one of the nerve blockers didn't work and she can get better pain management there.

As the surgical team was assembling and I had to go, I wished her well and then looked at her chest and said: "Well, I'm gonna miss you guys. I really enjoyed the 26 years we had together."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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May her healing be swift and may your family be blessed during recovery. Sorry to hear about it.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 06:45 PM (E4rtv)

235 I find 30-06 in a decently weighted rifle more pleasant in recoil than firing 12 gauge slugs from a shotgun, ceteris paribus.
Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 06:41 PM (E4rtv)
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A while back a friend of mine brought his Dirty Harry Model 29 and compared it to my Taurus Tracker. We used the same ammo in both.

We all figured the 29 would have less felt recoil due to its massive size. We were wrong. The Taurus was much nicer due to the rubber grips and the ported barrel. Still a handful, but not as bad as that Smith.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 06:45 PM (ZOv7s)

236 May her healing be swift and may your family be blessed during recovery. Sorry to hear about it.
Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 06:45 PM (E4rtv)
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Thank you, and keep healing yourself!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 06:45 PM (ZOv7s)

237 " I think Candy is just an evil narcissistic grifter, she's not dumb or mentally ill"

the lies she throws around, to undermine a "more pure" movement (for her profit, and to serve her ego), makes her "evil". And that is a mental illness, (or demonic possession, whatever).

Posted by: illiniwek at August 12, 2026 06:46 PM (vbXSk)

238 The longstanding definition of chutzpah is killing your parents then pleading for mercy on the grounds of being an orphan.

That still stands, but I have to say, the defense team pleading for mercy on the grounds of being a crack marksman is definitely up there.

Posted by: Sam at August 12, 2026 06:46 PM (7jMef)

239 IT'S HILARIOUS BECAUSE THE MORMONS HATE BEING CALL PROTESTANTS AND THE PROTESTANTS DON'T CONSIDER THEM EVEN CHRISTIAN.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 12, 2026 06:47 PM (qFwJc)

240 >>>Pockiston was my favorite.
Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 06:30 PM (sTlXt

And Orion as o-Ree-on

Posted by: polynikes
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He and his bull thigh wife love rubbing it in.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 06:47 PM (VQ0bX)

241 true and around here the Dutch wrote down what they thought the Indians were saying.
There's a Mountain range just south of me running to the Penn border. They're named the Shawangunks. They're pronounced Shon-gum. Any pronunciation sounds vweird.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 06:42 PM (WOnE5)
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Is it Mackinac or Mackinaw? Michigan says "Yes."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 06:47 PM (ZOv7s)

242 It's obvious this mental case, Candace Owens, is not reevaluating her stance on any of the ludicrous things she's said and been confronted with as having been completely wrong. No mea culpa, showing she at least has some integrity, is going to be forthcoming. She's actually gotten more and more combative...or in her pronunciation, "cobmative." What a loon.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 12, 2026 06:47 PM (qBdHI)

243 Had to do a "project" in Lake Mohopic. Rich dude, big kitchen install. That's where Gualliani was sending the NYC homeless. The rooms were full, because in a whisper (we have alot of homeless).

Posted by: pahound at August 12, 2026 06:50 PM (AjR4+)

244 When I was a sprout, I read John Hershey's novel, The War Lover. The chick's name is Penelope. I had no idea how to pronounce it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 12, 2026 06:51 PM (ndZc7)

245 Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Good wishes to the Mrs.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 06:51 PM (VQ0bX)

246 220 I find 30-06 in a decently weighted rifle more pleasant in recoil than firing 12 gauge slugs from a shotgun, ceteris paribus.

doubtless pronounced "chartreus microbus".

Posted by: anachronda at August 12, 2026 07:10 PM (sGtp+)

247 Ace! She offered the defense team her theory of maroon shirts/khaki pants!!!

What is wrong with the defense team not wanting her help?

Why is she scared to debate this guy? Because she's full of it? Pathetic weirdo.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 12, 2026 07:27 PM (hzuYO)

248 Is it Mackinac or Mackinaw? Michigan says "Yes."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 12, 2026 06:47 PM (ZOv7s)


We have a local river that starts out is "LaCreole" and ends up at the Willamette as "Rickreall"

Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2026 07:57 PM (rbvCR)

249 Robinson left more DNA at the crime site than on his Gay Transsexual Furry Lover's bed sheets.

Posted by: JTP at August 13, 2026 01:02 AM (5jqlx)

Paramount Warns California: Stop Blocking Our Purchase of Warner Bros. Through Endless Lawfare Or We're Moving The Entire Multibillion Dollar Corporation to a Different State

California's taxation alone would make the move a good one -- Paramount pays an extra $500 million in taxes every year solely due to the excessive taxes California levies on them.

They have the idea they can tax and bully as much as they like because hey, what are you going to do, leave California?

They don't seem to have noticed that a ton of tax-rich corporations have already done just that.

David Ellison Reportedly Sets October 1 Deadline to Move Paramount Out of California Over Warner Bros. Lawsuit

The escalating battle over Paramount Skydance's proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery may now threaten something much larger than the merger itself: Hollywood's century-old position as the center of the American entertainment industry. Paramount CEO David Ellison has reportedly told his top executives that he is prepared to move the company out of California if the state's attorney general, Rob Bonta, refuses to negotiate a settlement in the lawsuit seeking to block Paramount's roughly $110 billion Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition.

And according to a bombshell new report from Puck's Matthew Belloni, Ellison has put an actual date on the threat.

October 1.

Belloni reports that Ellison recently gathered Paramount's 12-member Executive Leadership Team for a meeting on the Paramount lot, where the CEO laid out what could become one of the most consequential corporate relocations in Hollywood history.

Paramount would be the first mover here. Many other entertainment companies have surely considered leaving California, but they are stopped by fears that "it simply isn't done." Once Paramount proves it can be done, there would be a rush of companies leaving.


According to two people Belloni says have direct knowledge of the meeting, Ellison told the executives that Paramount Skydance would relocate to Tennessee, Texas, Georgia, or potentially another state if Bonta does not come to the negotiating table.

Even more significantly, Ellison reportedly said Paramount's board has already signed off on the move.

That transforms what previously sounded like political pressure into something considerably more concrete.

Ellison reportedly remains confident that Paramount will ultimately prevail against the lawsuit brought by California and 11 other states attempting to stop the Warner Bros. transaction.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta officially led the coalition of 12 Democrat attorneys general in filing the antitrust lawsuit last month, arguing that the transaction would reduce competition in the entertainment industry. The federal Justice Department, meanwhile, had already cleared the merger.

But Ellison reportedly told Paramount leadership that if the dispute is not resolved by October 1, the company will begin the process of leaving California.

The significance of that date isn't arbitrary.

Beginning after September 30, Paramount is expected to owe Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders approximately $650 million per quarter, commonly described as roughly $7 million per day, while the deal remains unfinished. A federal judge recently scheduled the antitrust trial to begin March 2, 2027, potentially leaving Paramount responsible for more than $1 billion in additional payments before the case is resolved.

And if the Warner Bros. transaction ultimately collapses, Paramount could face a staggering $7 billion termination fee.

Those numbers dramatically change the economics of the standoff.

According to Belloni, Ellison told executives that rather than responding to those costs by slashing content spending or restructuring the company, relocation represents another option.

This wouldn't simply mean changing the address on Paramount's corporate headquarters.

Belloni reports that Ellison is developing a five-year plan under which the company's headquarters would move first, followed eventually by most studio jobs.

....

For decades, states including Georgia, Texas, and Tennessee have attempted to take pieces of Hollywood away from California. California may now be giving one of Hollywood's most powerful executives a reason to hand them something much bigger.

October 1 suddenly looks like one of the most important dates on Hollywood's calendar.

In other Failures of Hollywood news, Jessica Gao, the woke incompetent who was made the showrunner of "She-Hulk" as a pure DEI move, hasn't worked much since she spent $200 million on what ultimately turned out to be the World's Most Expensive Twitter Diss on the CHUDs.

She probably won't be given such power again.


She-Hulk Reportedly Had "Catastrophic" Test Screenings -- Then Jessica Gao Threatened to Quit Over Kevin Feige's Hat


While She-Hulk: Attorney at Law> was canceled after one season, the story behind its troubled production is becoming a cautionary tale for the ages.

Tatiana Maslany's short-lived run as Jennifer Walters received renewed attention after X user QQ shared an amusing observation about the series.

"The funniest story was how the creators originally conceived of She-Hulk as a case of the week type lawyer show," QQ wrote, "but then they got to the writer's room and they all said they don't know how to do that as if it was lost knowledge like the Roman aqueducts."

...

Edgar Award-winning author Daniel Friedman used the post as a launching point to summarize She-Hulk's behind-the-scenes drama, from reportedly "catastrophic" test screenings to the showrunner threatening to quit over Kevin Feige's hat.

How Jessica Gao Landed She-Hulk

In his post, which quickly went viral, Friedman explained that She-Hulk showrunner Jessica Gao wrote the famous "Pickle Rick" episode of the animated series Rick and Morty. However, she reportedly clashed with the show's co-creator, Dan Harmon, over the decision to cast Susan Sarandon as a character Gao had written as Asian.

I'm not sure she "wrote" the episode as most people would think of "writing" something. TV shows have a showrunner, who acts as the main writer, and a writers room, all of whom contribute jokes and "beats" to a story. A specific person is assigned to "write" it but they're largely compiling what came out of the writers room.

Who knows, maybe this was her idea and maybe she did write the episode mostly by herself.

But I don't think that's how TV writing actually works.

That's why they say she's the "credited writer." She got the credit, yeah, but we don't know how much she was responsible for.

Harmon subsequently agreed to host a podcast with Gao titled Whiting Wongs. Friedman described it as "40 hours of him apologizing and learning about racism."


The writing credit on the popular episode and the podcast appear to have raised Gao's profile. She subsequently landed the showrunner position on the upcoming She-Hulk, but Friedman wrote that "the production was extremely troubled."

"In addition to not staffing lawyers or legal-drama writers on the show who could deliver on the Ally McBeal in the MCU' pitch, the She-Hulk show required -- as described by Gao in interviews -- an extraordinary level of direct personal involvement and micromanagement from Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige," Friedman said.

Feige's attempts to course-correct throughout the process may not have been well received, although Gao reportedly described their professional relationship as supportive and collaborative. According to Friedman, test audience reactions to the series were "catastrophic," prompting Feige to intervene repeatedly and reshape the Disney+ series.


Any tensions surrounding the show's overall direction were mild compared to the bizarre dispute that reportedly erupted over the season finale.

Jennifer concludes the series by breaking through the Disney+ interface and confronting K.E.V.I.N., an artificial intelligence responsible for controlling the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The robot was an unmistakable parody of Feige, whose trademark wardrobe includes a baseball cap.

Gao wanted K.E.V.I.N. to wear a small black cap. Feige rejected the idea because he believed that placing a hat on a robot made no logical sense.

This is and always was a dumb idea and it's what makes me think she wasn't really the main writer on "Pickle Rick." This is the kind of thing a n00b thinks is funny.

Not only did she think this Basic Bitch idea was super-funny, she was actually willing to die on that hill. She actually quit the show to get this "joke" included.

"I was incensed, and in this big meeting, in front of like 20 people, I said, 'Kevin, if you don't let me put a hat on that robot, then I quit,'" Gao told The Hollywood Reporter.

Rather than backing down, Feige immediately appeared to accept her resignation.

"Thank you very much, Jessica," he replied. "You've done some great work for us, and we really appreciate everything."

Unfortunately a producer worked out a compromise where the stupid robot would have a mechanical brim over its eyes that looked sort of hat-like and she got to stay on the show.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:30 PM




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1 Yeet!

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 12, 2026 04:30 PM (W2Pud)

2 Yeet Yeet!

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 12, 2026 04:31 PM (W2Pud)

3 Yeet Yeet Yeet

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 12, 2026 04:31 PM (W2Pud)

4 Rumors about the Plano area...

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 04:34 PM (XuXeR)

5 One thing to keep in mind, you could have easily made She Hulk sort of like Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Instead of teen girl gets super powers and still has to deal with life young 20ish woman gets them and has to deal with life.

BTVS was a decent hit.
Supergirl (tv show) was a decent hit

And this She Hulk stuff was right in the middle of the MCU still doing well.

I didn't watch the show but it should have been hard for it to not do pretty well

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 04:35 PM (sKqQm)

6 Note to CA:

They are going to move anyway. Nobody can make decent entertainment in this climate.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 04:35 PM (uhVAy)

7 This move to Texas will blend well with their adoption of Sharia Law.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 04:36 PM (+v1tm)

8 It's not like Democrats can just stop being ideology-obsessed pests.

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2026 04:37 PM (XMAAx)

9 They should just move to Vegas already. Marky Mark has already done it for his production company.

Even if they get their way in this deal they are going to get screwed eventually just because of CA normal operating procedure and revenge.

Posted by: polynikes at August 12, 2026 04:37 PM (KC5Lt)

10 The funniest thing about She-Hulk is how all the writers on the show had no idea how TV courtroom dramas work and had apparently never seen one.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2026 04:37 PM (2ocoG)

11 BTVS was a decent hit.
Supergirl (tv show) was a decent hit

And this She Hulk stuff was right in the middle of the MCU still doing well.

I didn't watch the show but it should have been hard for it to not do pretty well
Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 04:35 PM (sKqQm)

it's all about writing. Buffy was a long time ago when Weeden was young. These new breeds of writers are terrible, and probably could not produce a good show just because they don't know how.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 04:37 PM (uhVAy)

12 Hollyrock's changed a lot since I was a star.

Posted by: Stony Curtis at August 12, 2026 04:37 PM (JM9I6)

13 Make the move anyway. Start having moving trucks arrive, and start laying off people on September 15th.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 12, 2026 04:38 PM (960t3)

14 Boise is importing the rest of California, might as well move Hollyweird here too.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 04:38 PM (+v1tm)

15 The funniest thing about She-Hulk is how all the writers on the show had no idea how TV courtroom dramas work and had apparently never seen one.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2026 04:37 PM (2ocoG)

They couldn't even make dissolute woman slice of life funny, and they lived that personally.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 04:38 PM (uhVAy)

16 Plano is near the Indian city of frisco

Posted by: nckate at August 12, 2026 04:38 PM (enNUy)

17 Great. Now Gov RINO Lee or MARSHA! will throw pallets of Tennessee taxpayer money at Hollyweird to get them to flood Tennessee with more despciable Californians.

Go back Goldern Staters! You will hate it here! Floods! Tornadoes! Locusts! Humidity so high we swim through the air in the summer!

Posted by: Martin Tell at August 12, 2026 04:39 PM (sFNX2)

18 Make the move anyway. Start having moving trucks arrive, and start laying off people on September 15th.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 12, 2026 04:38 PM (960t3)

It worked for the Baltimore Colts.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 04:39 PM (uhVAy)

19 Writers today have less and less life experience in their the real world to draw upon, so tv shows become less relevant and relatable to normal people.

Posted by: Open Channel D at August 12, 2026 04:40 PM (gYnrv)

20 Writers today have less and less life experience in their the real world to draw upon, so tv shows become less relevant and relatable to normal people.

Yeah, but they're aces in appealing to...MODERN AUDIENCES!

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 04:41 PM (Riz8t)

21 I like the CA Post Editorial Board take:

Bonta needs to stop stalling, grandstanding and politicizing the proposed Paramount Skydance-Warner Bros. merger. And he needs to do it now.

The federal government in June approved the union.

Bonta, on the other hand, has led a group of 12 blue-state attorneys-general who’ve moved to block the pairing, or delay it long enough to let a future US president intervene.

While Bonta, et al, insist their stance is legal and not political, why is it then that only Democratic AGs have sued to stop the deal?

Is the problem, for these partisans, really that industry consolidation would hurt consumers? (As if this litigious, tax-dollar-wasting group has a care for the average Joe.)

Or is it that Paramount CEO David Ellison is seen by some as Trump-friendly?

The horror. Here we have a Hollywood executive who doesn’t march in lockstep with Democrats. (Or Republicans, really.)

To keep such an undesirable from gaining more reach, is Bonta willing to blow up Hollywood?

Posted by: beckster at August 12, 2026 04:41 PM (kX27y)

22 On a related note, yesterday I used Grok to make a 30 second Godzilla-style monster movie of our miniature dachshund and two cats destroying LA that was better than anything put out by Hollywood since Project Hail Mary.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 04:41 PM (/m4e3)

23 Go back Goldern Staters! You will hate it here! Floods! Tornadoes! Locusts! Humidity so high we swim through the air in the summer!
Posted by: Martin Tell
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Toothless hillbillies, and, pig squealers.

Posted by: A toothless hillbilly at August 12, 2026 04:42 PM (XeU6L)

24 Any news on Oak Island?

Posted by: Pudinhead at August 12, 2026 04:42 PM (KGj36)

25 Speaking of Joss Whedon I'm still amused how he can be a leftist and write something like Firefly and not realize how it calls out all his leftist pablum as stupid.

BTVS was sort of that way in the first 4 or 5 seasons and then they capped it as stupid early 00s feminism on steroids.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 04:42 PM (sKqQm)

26 "Paramount Warns California: Stop Blocking Our Purchase of Warner Bros. Through Endless Lawfare Or We're Moving The Entire Multibillion Dollar Corporation to a Different State"


Do not move to Texas, we are closed, the moose out front should have told you that.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 12, 2026 04:42 PM (cpFbA)

27 Didn't he JUST have an Op-Ed in the NYT where he said he's misunderstood and a nice guy? He sounds like Gul Dukat.

Whatever these nepo tech lords say in public is only the tip of the iceberg. It’s just the usual spin to blame CA government for what they’ve been planning to do all along with no oversight.

Nothing says negotiating in good faith like agreeing to a trial date and then trying to threaten people into settling a week later.

Good fucking luck to him convincing talent to come shlep all the way to Texas or Florida to collaborate with their executives. There’s a reason industries cluster in certain geographic regions.

Byyyeeeee (Intrepid- Katie Wilson?)

This eally sucks. They have is by the short hairs. No good options but relent.

Do these people not hear themselves when they say this stupid shit? They sound like Bond villains.

Your stock price is $8 a share dude. You’re not going to build a new studio in a red state. 

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 12, 2026 04:42 PM (+/CWD)

28 I have a hot take that part of the reason GA went from a deep red state to purple one is the movie industry moving out there.

As much as I love seeing CA suffer, I dont like liberals spreading out in the USA.

Posted by: Sharpie at August 12, 2026 04:43 PM (r13UX)

29 I left Hollywood also.

Posted by: Peggy Entwhistle at August 12, 2026 04:43 PM (JM9I6)

30 To keep such an undesirable from gaining more reach, is Bonta willing to blow up Hollywood?


sure he is

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 12, 2026 04:43 PM (j+aD2)

31 Any news on Oak Island?

They found a button! Or maybe just a piece of shell with a hole in it.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 12, 2026 04:43 PM (8JvNE)

32 Keep all of these fuckheads centralized in one shitty location, please.

Gonna start lobbying the Texas legislature to pass a law prohibiting any of these propaganda mills from incorporating or operating in this state. Fucking locusts, the lot of 'em.

Posted by: ballistic at August 12, 2026 04:44 PM (oqH4h)

33 Hollywood was founded to evade Edison's patent enforcement goons. It would only be karma for the movie studios to move to Right To Work states and break the Hollywood craft union's chokehold on production staffing.

Posted by: Rick T at August 12, 2026 04:44 PM (xeXUW)

34 25 Speaking of Joss Whedon I'm still amused how he can be a leftist and write something like Firefly and not realize how it calls out all his leftist pablum as stupid.



he was a wokester to hide his pervy sex-abusive self

like all "male feminists" who aren't gay

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 12, 2026 04:44 PM (j+aD2)

35 At this point, this is like one of the leading makers of 8-Track tapes threatening to move operations.

Who gives a shit where the grandchildren of the writers of three episodes of Gilligan's Island set up shop?

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 04:44 PM (/m4e3)

36 Farscape >>>> Firefly

Posted by: polynikes at August 12, 2026 04:44 PM (KC5Lt)

37 The funniest thing about She-Hulk is how all the writers on the show had no idea how TV courtroom dramas work and had apparently never seen one.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2026 04:37 PM (2ocoG)
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And somehow, they couldn't just hire some writers who had worked on that kind of show before.

Thus, this knowledge would stay hidden.

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2026 04:45 PM (XMAAx)

38 Speaking of Joss Whedon I'm still amused how he can be a leftist and write something like Firefly and not realize how it calls out all his leftist pablum as stupid.

BTVS was sort of that way in the first 4 or 5 seasons and then they capped it as stupid early 00s feminism on steroids.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 04:42 PM (sKqQm)

In the early days he could project himself into the world he invented better. That ability fades with time for most writers or shows when actors get too influential.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 04:45 PM (uhVAy)

39 Canada has been taking business away from Hollywood for decades too. A LOT of very popular shows were made here thanks to a cheaper dollar.

I did read a lot of comments on Deadline from people very upset about the loss of jobs and less Hollywood content. Which is horrible because where will be get all of our shows lecturing us how to think.

And since 'She-Hulk' was mentioned, Amazon Prime still had 'Stargirl' which was on the CW and was a LOT of fun.

The father being the sidekick AND mentor was a nice twist. Also Solomon Grundy AND a kick-ass robot - yeah, it was a lot of fun.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 12, 2026 04:46 PM (Sco7b)

40 I left Hollywood under duress.

Posted by: Thelma Todd at August 12, 2026 04:46 PM (JM9I6)

41 36 Farscape >>>> Firefly
Posted by: polynikes

Farscape didn't give us Saffron, Intergalactic Space Whore.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 12, 2026 04:46 PM (+/CWD)

42 If Republicans were smart, start having Hollywood specific tax increases in your state.

Or even federal.

Treat Hollywood the way liberals treat the energy industry or gun manufacturers. Run them out of the country.

Posted by: Sharpie at August 12, 2026 04:47 PM (r13UX)

43 OT. Mike Lindell is refusing to concede in Minnesota. That's why Republicans are the stupid party. He lost by a lot but he still thinks funny stuff in the voting made him lise

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 04:47 PM (WOnE5)

44 like all "male feminists" who aren't gay
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 12, 2026 04:44 PM (j+aD2)
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All eight of them!

Posted by: ballistic at August 12, 2026 04:47 PM (oqH4h)

45 So, she fought for an insult to her actual boss.

She is not a smart.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 12, 2026 04:47 PM (zZu0s)

46 Speaking of Joss Whedon I'm still amused how he can be a leftist and write something like Firefly and not realize how it calls out all his leftist pablum as stupid.

Joss doesn't know he's a leftist like a fish doesn't know he's wet.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 12, 2026 04:47 PM (8JvNE)

47 Ugh keep Hollywoke in Leftcoastia

Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 12, 2026 04:47 PM (JjGzL)

48 Authorities arrested Heidi Beirich, the former chief financial officer of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Tuesday as part of the fraud case against the SPLC, Attorney General Todd Blanche announced."


HAHAH, she no gone Beirich no mo, now she just Bebitch

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 12, 2026 04:47 PM (NtVYv)

49 We're still suing for residuals.

Posted by: Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray, and Lauren Chapin at August 12, 2026 04:47 PM (JM9I6)

50 he was a wokester to hide his pervy sex-abusive self

So my idea is we'll have like this karate, super hero teenaged girl right? And she like do flying kicks against like hot female vampires that are also teen girls. And they'll all be super hot.

And...

All of them will be in miniskirts. Except I'll have this one nerd chick that is really cute and she'll come out as bi and a dominatrix or something

Now that is feminism right?

Posted by: Joss Whedon making the pitch for BTVS at August 12, 2026 04:47 PM (sKqQm)

51 43 OT. Mike Lindell is refusing to concede in Minnesota. That's why Republicans are the stupid party. He lost by a lot but he still thinks funny stuff in the voting made him lise


dude is a nut job

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 12, 2026 04:48 PM (j+aD2)

52 And somehow, they couldn't just hire some writers who had worked on that kind of show before.

Thus, this knowledge would stay hidden.
Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2026 04:45 PM (XMAAx)

Well for a start, who hired a stable of "comedy" "comic book" "lawyers" show without making any of those qualities a requirement for hiring?

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 04:48 PM (uhVAy)

53 Amazon Prime still had 'Stargirl' which was on the CW and was a LOT of fun.

The father being the sidekick AND mentor was a nice twist. Also Solomon Grundy AND a kick-ass robot - yeah, it was a lot of fun.
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart

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My daughter at the time loved this show. It was well done for what it was. A fun, low budget comic book type show basically free of woke politics.

Posted by: Sharpie at August 12, 2026 04:48 PM (r13UX)

54 Farscape didn't give us Saffron, Intergalactic Space Whore.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 12, 2026 04:46 PM (+/CWD)

Farscape had Chiana. Space slut.

Posted by: polynikes at August 12, 2026 04:48 PM (KC5Lt)

55 Since this thread is movie-adjacent:

Saw the new Spiderman movie.

Overall, I enjoyed it. And it was a good time at the movies.

One thing...oh...I guess concerned me.

Between Supergirl and a female hero in this movie,
the New Thing is Hollywood is-

Murder Chick Chic.

That is, a super-powered female commits straight-up murder buuuuut we're supposed to still think of her as a "hero".

I guess Grrrrl Boss wasn't quite enough, but Grrrrl Murder Boss...Now you got something!

We'll probably see plenty off this from here on out.

We're not going to have a return to normal culture before we all die are we?

Sad.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 12, 2026 04:48 PM (iJfKG)

56 Firefly only worked because Adam Baldwin took a character designed to be a slam on masculinity and did it so goddamned good it made everyone else better and fall in line or be left looking stupid.

Proud to have finally gotten to meet the giant sonofabitch at Boise ComicCon this year and shake his hand. (Dude is like 9ft tall.)

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 04:48 PM (/m4e3)

57 I hope theymove out

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2026 04:48 PM (Ia/+0)

58 36 Farscape >>>> Firefly
Posted by: polynikes

Farscape didn't give us Saffron, Intergalactic Space Whore.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 12, 2026 04:46 PM (+/CWD)

This is very valid. Hmmm, you had Claudia Black in tight leather. Gigi Edgley always looked like a gay guys view of a hot gal to me. Bony, wiry, insane.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 12, 2026 04:49 PM (zZu0s)

59 31 Any news on Oak Island?

They found a button! Or maybe just a piece of shell with a hole in it.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 12, 2026 04:43 PM (8JvNE)

That was funny. Thanks.

Hmmm. I wonder if I can get the CBC to fund a show where I go looking for the mass graves of children from the Indian residential schools?

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 12, 2026 04:49 PM (Sco7b)

60 Posted by: Joss Whedon making the pitch for BTVS at August 12, 2026 04:47 PM (sKqQm)

it was a lot simpler....it was a hit movie by someone else.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 04:49 PM (uhVAy)

61 That is, a super-powered female commits straight-up murder buuuuut we're supposed to still think of her as a "hero".


the new take on Jane Gray SUCKS

I'm very annoyed with "new canon" for the X men overall

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 12, 2026 04:49 PM (j+aD2)

62 Yeet Yeet Yeet
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 12, 2026 04:31 PM (W2Pud)

Hey there you

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 04:49 PM (vE0+H)

63 jean! sorry my cat is bugging me

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 12, 2026 04:50 PM (j+aD2)

64 has led a group of 12 blue-state attorneys-general who’ve moved to block the pairing"

Wait a sec... 11 other states are involved... why, exactly?

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 04:50 PM (XuXeR)

65 Clanker Hats are TIGHT!

Posted by: Pitch Meeting Producer Guy at August 12, 2026 04:50 PM (U/s6V)

66 Farscape didn't give us Saffron, Intergalactic Space Whore.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 12, 2026 04:46 PM (+/CWD)
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Are you just mad about Saffron?

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2026 04:50 PM (XMAAx)

67 dude is a nut job
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 12, 2026 04:48 PM (j+aD2)

You go to war with the nut jobs you have.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 12, 2026 04:50 PM (zZu0s)

68 31 Any news on Oak Island?

They found a button! Or maybe just a piece of shell with a hole in it.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 12, 2026 04:43 PM (8JvNE)

That was funny. Thanks.

Hmmm. I wonder if I can get the CBC to fund a show where I go looking for the mass graves of children from the Indian residential schools?
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 12, 2026 04:49 PM (Sco7b)

I seriously remember at 12 some 50 years ago reading about Oak Island and the total failure to find crap there decades earlier. Can't they waste time on some other island?

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 04:50 PM (uhVAy)

69 Any news on Oak Island?
Posted by: Pudinhead

The excavators are moving into place.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 04:51 PM (wOO3z)

70 OK, so antitrust Law says the Feds must sign off on major mergers and acquisitions, and there is a Board that looks at all this stuff.

They have signed off on the merger... so under what authority is anyone suing over this? How can a STATE AG show DAMAGE to even get standing to sue?

Now, I could see a competitor gaining standing, as they could be damaged, but what damage is there to the STATE?

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 12, 2026 04:51 PM (mP0Kj)

71 Wait a sec... 11 other states are involved... why, exactly?



well if they're like Shapiro, they don't do ANYTHING but grandstand, so why not

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 12, 2026 04:51 PM (j+aD2)

72 Oh anyone ever see the show LEXX?

It took everything good and bad about shows like BTVS and cranked it to 11.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 04:51 PM (sKqQm)

73 Wait a sec... 11 other states are involved... why, exactly?
Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 04:50 PM (XuXeR)

They're angry that the Ellisons met with Trump, so they would prefer the company go down in flames and everyone be out of work.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 12, 2026 04:52 PM (zZu0s)

74 Any news on Oak Island?
Posted by: Pudinhead at August 12, 2026 04:42 PM (KGj36)

It isn't big enough to handle three Hollywood egos, let alone the whole bunch.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 12, 2026 04:52 PM (qx7Zg)

75 Farscape didn't give us Saffron, Intergalactic Space Whore."

Just Virginia Hey.

*sigh*

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 04:52 PM (XuXeR)

76 Zhaan on Farscape was played by Virginia Hey. Very good looking. Was the hot woman in The Road Warrior

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 04:52 PM (WOnE5)

77 I hear Ozzie and Harriet are taking their show, which has been on since 1954, to Canada next season. Doesn't seem right.

Posted by: Here Come the Nelsons at August 12, 2026 04:53 PM (JM9I6)

78 Battle of the Network Stars, but with hot Sci-Fi chicks.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 04:54 PM (/m4e3)

79 Zhaan on Farscape was played by Virginia Hey. Very good looking. Was the hot woman in The Road Warrior
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 04:52 PM (WOnE5)

Radiated light rays gave her orgasms.

Posted by: polynikes at August 12, 2026 04:54 PM (KC5Lt)

80 This is the kind of thing a n00b thinks is funny.

You mean like calling "nood" when there really isn't one?

Posted by: That Guy who's new around here at August 12, 2026 04:54 PM (0sNs1)

81 Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 04:50 PM (uhVAy)

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 04:51 PM (wOO3z)


I've wondered why they just completely hollow it out. I will watch the last episode though.

I'm going to check on my friends' cat Snowflake. She came in here and has slept almost a solid 6 hours and we're nearing 5 PM.

I'm nominating her as DEI Government Employee of the week.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 12, 2026 04:54 PM (Sco7b)

82 23 Go back Goldern Staters! You will hate it here! Floods! Tornadoes! Locusts! Humidity so high we swim through the air in the summer!
Posted by: Martin Tell
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Toothless hillbillies, and, pig squealers.
Posted by: A toothless hillbilly at August 12, 2026 04:42 PM (XeU6L)

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*banjo music plays in background*

Posted by: Needs a soundtrack at August 12, 2026 04:54 PM (U/s6V)

83 This is very valid. Hmmm, you had Claudia Black in tight leather. Gigi Edgley always looked like a gay guys view of a hot gal to me. Bony, wiry, insane.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 12, 2026 04:49 PM (zZu0s)

Lithe and stone cold crazy works for me.
I can fix Chiana.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 12, 2026 04:54 PM (yfRPb)

84 72 Oh anyone ever see the show LEXX?

It took everything good and bad about shows like BTVS and cranked it to 11.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 04:51 PM (sKqQm)

It's on Tubi.

I like to fall asleep to it.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 12, 2026 04:55 PM (Sco7b)

85 Remember:
Corporate taxes--paid by the corporation, they don't pass them on to the consumer.

Tariff taxes--Paid by the consumer, corporations pass those taxes on to the consumer.

That $500 million a year is a tax by California on everyone from every other state--we pay those taxes to Paramount who then gives it to CA.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 12, 2026 04:55 PM (3cUTc)

86 If it was conceived as Alley McBeal in The Marvel Universe, why not get the writers of Alley McBeal?

Apparently, most of the main writers are still active.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2026 04:55 PM (XV/Pl)

87 I can fix Chiana.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 12, 2026 04:54 PM (yfRPb)

Til she bangs your son, Dargo.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 12, 2026 04:56 PM (zZu0s)

88 79 Zhaan on Farscape was played by Virginia Hey. Very good looking. Was the hot woman in The Road Warrior
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 04:52 PM (WOnE5)

Radiated light rays gave her orgasms.
Posted by: polynikes at August 12, 2026 04:54 PM (KC5Lt)

MOAR LIGHT!

Posted by: T'raltixx at August 12, 2026 04:56 PM (yfRPb)

89 66 Farscape didn't give us Saffron, Intergalactic Space Whore.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 12, 2026 04:46 PM (+/CWD)
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Are you just mad about Saffron?
Posted by: Axeman

I'm just upset she's in a galaxy far, far away. 😔 🐙

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 12, 2026 04:56 PM (+/CWD)

90 I'm going to check on my friends' cat Snowflake. She came in here and has slept almost a solid 6 hours and we're nearing 5 PM.

I'm nominating her as DEI Government Employee of the week.
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 12, 2026 04:54 PM (Sco7b)

She can't be DEI, sounds like she's a white cat.

My girl cat has discovered she fits in a particular desk drawer and I have to pull it out so she can sleep in the fan.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 04:56 PM (uhVAy)

91 That $500 million a year is a tax by California on everyone from every other state--we pay those taxes to Paramount who then gives it to CA.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 12, 2026 04:55 PM (3cUTc)
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And the fuckin retards are still broke as a joke.

Posted by: ballistic at August 12, 2026 04:56 PM (oqH4h)

92 Authorities arrested , Heidi Beirichhe former chief financial officer of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Tuesday as part of the fraud case against the SPLC, Attorney General Todd Blanche announced."
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Ah. A bit of good news.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 12, 2026 04:56 PM (XeU6L)

93
Literally, there was an earthquake in Cali just now. I felt it. Off to usgs.gov...

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 04:57 PM (XJ22o)

94 MOAR LIGHT!
Posted by: T'raltixx at August 12, 2026 04:56 PM (yfRPb)

Then we'll have Pizza! And margaritas Shooters!

Posted by: Harvey at August 12, 2026 04:57 PM (zZu0s)

95 Now, I could see a competitor gaining standing, as they could be damaged, but what damage is there to the STATE?
Posted by: Romeo13


Merger -> layoffs of redundant positions -> less tax revenue

Posted by: Random 9th Circuit Judge at August 12, 2026 04:57 PM (VHUov)

96 If it was conceived as Alley McBeal in The Marvel Universe, why not get the writers of Alley McBeal?
Posted by: Thomas Bender


Money and lack of control. New know-nothings get paid less and will obey ideological commands.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 12, 2026 04:57 PM (diia5)

97 Farscape didn't give us Saffron, Intergalactic Space Whore."
Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 04:52 PM


Don't badmouth Saffron. I'm just wild about Saffron.

She's just wild about me.

Posted by: Donovan at August 12, 2026 04:57 PM (0sNs1)

98 Literally, there was an earthquake in Cali just now. I felt it. Off to usgs.gov...
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 04:57 PM (XJ22o)

Which half?

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 04:57 PM (uhVAy)

99 Move it all back to New York.

Posted by: Zombie Tom Edison at August 12, 2026 04:57 PM (Cqx++)

100 "Whiting Wongs?". Is it delivered in Elmer Fudd's voice? Thuffering thoccotash!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 12, 2026 04:57 PM (wxsGM)

101 Larry Ellison should just buy Cuba, and move Paramount there. It has a lot of things he likes: sunshine, cheap labor, and he'd get to right the legal code.

The Cuban people would get running wate, reliable electricity, plenty of movie jobs, and even casting as extras.

California loses.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 12, 2026 04:58 PM (qx7Zg)

102 Radiated light rays gave her orgasms."

Supposedly so did one of the guys from Duran Duran...

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 04:58 PM (XuXeR)

103 Hopefully they will be able to do a "Barbie" sequel before they move!

Posted by: Fags Everywhere at August 12, 2026 04:58 PM (e2lsi)

104 She's just wild about me.
Posted by: Donovan at August 12, 2026 04:57 PM (0sNs1)

And everyone else.

Posted by: Malcolm Reynolds at August 12, 2026 04:58 PM (zZu0s)

105 Farscape didn't give us Saffron, Intergalactic Space Whore."
Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 04:52 PM

Don't badmouth Saffron. I'm just wild about Saffron.

She's just wild about me.
Posted by: Donovan at August 12, 2026 04:57 PM (0sNs1)

Saffron was funny, but a bit too much of a one trick pony. "Don't want to interrupt your CRAZY TIME..."

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 04:59 PM (uhVAy)

106 These people have become friggin' cartoon characters.
What fools they be!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 12, 2026 04:59 PM (2WIwB)

107 I'm nominating her as DEI Government Employee of the week.
Posted by: Stateless
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You've never met a FEMA supervisor. They spend their time at the site in question...dozing in their car. $100K/year.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 12, 2026 04:59 PM (XeU6L)

108 This decision is paramount.

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2026 04:59 PM (XMAAx)

109 At least Hollywood treats female child stars well!

Posted by: Dana Plato and Anissa Jones at August 12, 2026 04:59 PM (JM9I6)

110
Note to CA:

They are going to move anyway. Nobody can make decent entertainment in this climate.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 04:35 PM (uhVAy)



But TV audiences will be confused by the Southern California location sets! Nothing in Texas or Georgia will look like North Korea in MASH!

Or Tennessee in Death Proof

Or Kentucky in Justified

Or the Arena Planet in Star Trek

Actually, none of these totally look like SoCal. None of them, I say.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 12, 2026 04:59 PM (y9nCu)

111 You can just watch Dead Pool to get a sluttier Saffron.

Posted by: polynikes at August 12, 2026 05:00 PM (bvDnE)

112 At least Hollywood treats female child stars well!
Posted by: Dana Plato and Anissa Jones at August 12, 2026 04:59 PM (JM9I6)

And Britney Spears and Maitland Ward and...

Posted by: Lindsey Lohan at August 12, 2026 05:00 PM (zZu0s)

113 The only thing I remember about Ally McBeal was the baby dance being a metaphor of her eggs shriveling up because she couldnt stop being a feminist slutmonkey whorepig

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now With Extra Fapness at August 12, 2026 05:00 PM (fapp/)

114 PJM - "Karoline Leavitt Resigns as White House Press Secretary"

Posted by: on topic of bugouts at August 12, 2026 05:00 PM (88C+u)

115
With AI and digital effects already killing movies, this won't help. Hollywood is dead. Has been for awhile. COVID killed Hollywood as much as anything.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 12, 2026 05:00 PM (OkYzo)

116 111 You can just watch Dead Pool to get a sluttier Saffron.
Posted by: polynikes

I like the pegging scene best.

Posted by: Kyle Kulinski at August 12, 2026 05:01 PM (+/CWD)

117 Actually, none of these totally look like SoCal. None of them, I say.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 12, 2026 04:59 PM (y9nCu)

I have hiked in areas here that have those melty rock sandstone sticking up here and there that like the ones where Kirk fought the Gorn. Not the same ones, more remote.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:01 PM (uhVAy)

118 Stay in Hollywood! I worked in the business for 5 years out there, and I don't want any of those retarded assholes moving to (and destroying) conservative States.
You idiots in Hollywood voted for all of the shit that is destroying your business, so you just stew in that stink.

Posted by: Tamminator at August 12, 2026 05:01 PM (tHEhe)

119 You can just watch Dead Pool to get a sluttier Saffron.
Posted by: polynikes at August 12, 2026 05:00 PM (bvDnE)

Different actress from the same show. Morena Beccarin instead of Christina Hendricks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 12, 2026 05:02 PM (zZu0s)

120 "The funniest story was how the creators originally conceived of She-Hulk as a case of the week type lawyer show," QQ wrote, "but then they got to the writer's room and they all said they don't know how to do that as if it was lost knowledge like the Roman aqueducts."
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Tell me you don't understand your product without actually telling me that.

These writers have never watched a television program featuring lawyers?

Law & Order has been around since the stone age of television!

Start there and figure it out.

Idiots.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 05:02 PM (FZ29D)

121 Everything the Left touches it destroys. Cities, states, countries, businesses, schools, universities. Call it the Thanatos Touch, the inversion of Midas.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 12, 2026 05:02 PM (7s9Qe)

122 PJM - "Karoline Leavitt Resigns as White House Press Secretary"
Posted by: on topic of bugouts at August 12, 2026 05:00 PM (88C+u)

She put motherhood ahead of her career.

Posted by: polynikes at August 12, 2026 05:02 PM (bvDnE)

123 This decision is paramount."

And Universal?

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 05:03 PM (XuXeR)

124 Now, I could see a competitor gaining standing, as they could be damaged, but what damage is there to the STATE?
Posted by: Romeo13

==

I'm no lawyer, but states basically have a blank check on regulation. And CA is easily the worst.

I mean the Coastal Commission can basically dictate the terms of rental properties or what you do to your patio. They can sure as hell stop a multi-billion dollar merger.

Posted by: Sharpie at August 12, 2026 05:03 PM (r13UX)

125 Actually, none of these totally look like SoCal. None of them, I say.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 12, 2026 04:59 PM (y9nCu)

One thing Socal has that few other places do is the totally flat valleys with hills all around. Places like Ohio don't have that kind of landform much.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:03 PM (uhVAy)

126 There's a movie filming here in my city with Nina Dobrev. I had to look her up, she's damn good looking. It's called It Happened One Summer.
NYS gives all kinds of breaks to bring productions here. Trickle down to local delis .

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 05:04 PM (WOnE5)

127 I have a hot take that part of the reason GA went from a deep red state to purple one is the movie industry moving out there.

As much as I love seeing CA suffer, I dont like liberals spreading out in the USA.

Posted by: Sharpie at August 12, 2026 04:43 PM (r13UX)
==
East Coast and Midwest rustbelt city dwellers moving to Atlanta (the new HOT city, thank you for AC), and then the local democrat party rebirthing itself with all the fraud in Fulton County.

Posted by: Black JEM at August 12, 2026 05:04 PM (7/DDO)

128 She put motherhood ahead of her career.
Posted by: polynikes

She's 28, and her husband is 60?

Nice.....

Posted by: South Park Cops at August 12, 2026 05:04 PM (+/CWD)

129 Oh anyone ever see the show LEXX?

It took everything good and bad about shows like BTVS and cranked it to 11.
Posted by: 18-1


The undead assassin guy was cute.

Good fucking luck to him convincing talent to come shlep all the way to Texas or Florida to collaborate with their executives. There’s a reason industries cluster in certain geographic regions.

And that reason is the weather is usually good, and consistent enough that they can shoot outside year round without screwing up the continuity.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 12, 2026 05:04 PM (vJrRc)

130 She put motherhood ahead of her career.
Posted by: polynikes at August 12, 2026 05:02 PM (bvDnE)
___

Good for her.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 12, 2026 05:04 PM (24NQL)

131 Different actress from the same show. Morena Beccarin instead of Christina Hendricks.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 12, 2026 05:02 PM (zZu0s)

The intergalactic whore was Beccarin. Hendricks was the scam artist . Therein lie the confusion.

Posted by: polynikes at August 12, 2026 05:04 PM (KC5Lt)

132 "The funniest story was how the creators originally conceived of She-Hulk as a case of the week type lawyer show," QQ wrote, "but then they got to the writer's room and they all said they don't know how to do that as if it was lost knowledge like the Roman aqueducts."
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Perry Mason
Matlock
Murder, She Wrote
Ally McBeal
and on and on and on; the well of lawyer and legal shows on TV is bottomless.

Total lost knowledge, for sure.
And not just a bunch of know-nothing, done-nothing bints well above even the most generous telling of their qualifications.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 12, 2026 05:05 PM (3cUTc)

133 Authorities arrested , Heidi Beirichhe former chief financial officer of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Tuesday as part of the fraud case against the SPLC, Attorney General Todd Blanche announced."
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Nice RBF, Heidi:

https://shorturl.at/RPCAr

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 12, 2026 05:05 PM (XeU6L)

134 The Biden Pess Secretary says “ call me “, Donald!

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 05:05 PM (sTlXt)

135 East Coast and Midwest rustbelt city dwellers moving to Atlanta (the new HOT city, thank you for AC), and then the local democrat party rebirthing itself with all the fraud in Fulton County.
Posted by: Black JEM

==

Honestly, Atlanta is such a shit hole. I cant believe anyone would move there willingly. One of the worst cities I've ever been to.

Posted by: Sharpie at August 12, 2026 05:05 PM (r13UX)

136 Morena Baccarin, quite fetching.

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 05:06 PM (sTlXt)

137 Posted by: Frank Barone at August 12, 2026 05:00 PM (OkYzo)

I don't think it's killed quite yet. "The Odyssey" is still playing at my local theater and they're having a big attendance for "Spider-Man" , and it's not Hollywood per se but "Young Washington" is still playing at the movie theatre since July 4th, so some people still want to see movies. There seems to be a big interest in old movies from the 40's to the 60's at a movie theatre in the next town. My son loved seeing "Twin Peaks" prequel on the big screen.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 12, 2026 05:06 PM (xPsv8)

138 Good fucking luck to him convincing talent to come shlep all the way to Texas or Florida to collaborate with their executives. There’s a reason industries cluster in certain geographic regions.

And that reason is the weather is usually good, and consistent enough that they can shoot outside year round without screwing up the continuity.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 12, 2026 05:04 PM (vJrRc)

They sclepped to CA in the first place and in those days that was absolute nowhere from the East Coast where movies were done.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:06 PM (uhVAy)

139 Saffron was also a prostitute

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 12, 2026 05:06 PM (j+aD2)

140 Tyler Perry does his stuff in Georgia.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 12, 2026 05:06 PM (qFwJc)

141 Honestly, Atlanta is such a shit hole. I cant believe anyone would move there willingly. One of the worst cities I've ever been to.
Posted by: Sharpie at August 12, 2026 05:05 PM (r13UX)

Sherman burned it for a reason.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:07 PM (uhVAy)

142 The intergalactic whore was Beccarin. Hendricks was the scam artist . Therein lie the confusion.
Posted by: polynikes at August 12, 2026 05:04 PM (KC5Lt)

Lol. Inara WAS a space whore, but Mal called Saffron (Hendricks) the Intergalactic Space Whore.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 12, 2026 05:07 PM (zZu0s)

143 If the work moves to Texas, won’t the hired hands follow?

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 05:07 PM (sTlXt)

144 The intergalactic whore was Beccarin. Hendricks was the scam artist . Therein lie the confusion.
Posted by: polynikes

Incorrect. Inara was specifically not a whore, but a licensed and registered guild approved companion. Also, I believe Ace dubbed her Saffron, Intergalactic Space Whore in the before times of the site.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 12, 2026 05:08 PM (+/CWD)

145 Ally McBeal ... couldnt stop being a feminist slutmonkey whorepig

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now With Extra Fapness at August 12, 2026 05:00 PM (fapp/)
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Well summed.

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2026 05:08 PM (XMAAx)

146 Farscape didn't give us Saffron, Intergalactic Space Whore."
Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 04:52 PM

Don't badmouth Saffron. I'm just wild about Saffron.

She's just wild about me.
Posted by: Donovan at August 12, 2026 04:57 PM (0sNs1)
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Her proper name is "YoSaffBridge."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 05:08 PM (FZ29D)

147 To really make money as an intergalactic whore, you've got to get around, which means you've got to be able to do the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs or less consistently.

Posted by: Han Solo at August 12, 2026 05:08 PM (0sNs1)

148 Saffron was also a prostitute
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 12, 2026 05:06 PM (j+aD2)

She was on only two episodes right. Which one was she a prostitute rather than marrying people as a scam?

Posted by: polynikes at August 12, 2026 05:08 PM (KC5Lt)

149 Remembered from today's AoSHQ posts:

Caroline Leavitt defeated Hong Not Dongs to be the new She Hulk to be filmed in Texas despite interference from Christopher Wray.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 05:09 PM (M0SOR)

150 Ally McBeal, Anorexia Pioneer.

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 05:09 PM (sTlXt)

151 Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 05:06 PM (sTlXt)

Hi, tubal

I was looking at some earlier threads and I noted that you have an 11th month old puppy whom you love but who is wearing you and you wife out. I can relate . We have a dear two month old kitten and he is wearing us out. Anyway, hang in there and best to you!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 12, 2026 05:09 PM (xPsv8)

152 136 Morena Baccarin, quite fetching.
Posted by: tubal

Meh.

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at August 12, 2026 05:09 PM (+/CWD)

153 "arguing that the transaction would reduce competition in the entertainment industry."

LOL.

It's not like Whoreywood is vital as say, oil (Standard Oil), or many other real necessities of life.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 12, 2026 05:09 PM (qFwJc)

154 Sherman burned it for a reason.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:07 PM (uhVAy)
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They had TWO chances to get Atlanta right and failed both times.

Posted by: ballistic at August 12, 2026 05:10 PM (oqH4h)

155 Saffron was also a prostitute
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 12, 2026 05:06 PM (j+aD2)

She'd hook up with dudes, marry them and rip them off/have her crime partners incinerate them in their ship. Not sure how that makes her a prostitute.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:10 PM (uhVAy)

156 She'd hook up with dudes, marry them and rip them off/have her crime partners incinerate them in their ship. Not sure how that makes her a prostitute.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:10 PM (uhVAy)

Well, kind of whorish.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 12, 2026 05:10 PM (zZu0s)

157 Lol. Inara WAS a space whore, but Mal called Saffron (Hendricks) the Intergalactic Space Whore.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 12, 2026 05:07 PM (zZu0s)

Ah. No confusion now.

Posted by: polynikes at August 12, 2026 05:11 PM (KC5Lt)

158 I was looking at some earlier threads and I noted that you have an 11th month old puppy whom you love but who is wearing you and you wife out. I can relate . We have a dear two month old kitten and he is wearing us out. Anyway, hang in there and best to you!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 12, 2026 05:09 PM (xPsv

They all grow up and calm down a little soon enough.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:11 PM (uhVAy)

159 Honestly, Atlanta is such a shit hole. I cant believe anyone would move there willingly. One of the worst cities I've ever been to.
Posted by: Sharpie at August 12, 2026 05:05 PM


To be fair, once you're there you can move about on MARTA.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at August 12, 2026 05:11 PM (0sNs1)

160 155 Saffron was also a prostitute
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 12, 2026 05:06 PM (j+aD2)

She'd hook up with dudes, marry them and rip them off/have her crime partners incinerate them in their ship. Not sure how that makes her a prostitute.
Posted by: Oldcat

When she and Inara were fighting, I recall Inara saying something about Saffron having had companion training?

Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 12, 2026 05:11 PM (+/CWD)

161
Yup, just a 2.7 but I was sitting on top of it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 05:11 PM (XJ22o)

162 Baccarrinn is super hot. Smokin hot in Fast Charlie.

Damn shame she got shuffled aside in Deadpool 2 for an annoying fat kid.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 05:12 PM (M0SOR)

163 To be fair, once you're there you can move about on MARTA.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher

Shut up, Wesley.

Posted by: Captain Picard at August 12, 2026 05:12 PM (+/CWD)

164 so, fraud !

"Cam Higby 🇺🇸
@camhigby
3h
Yesterday I went to Minneapolis polls disguised as a Muslim woman.

Poll workers were going to let me vote in other people’s names, and then vouch for 8 other unregistered foreigners.

Full video coming soon. Stay tuned.
@ctznjusticelg"

Posted by: runner at August 12, 2026 05:12 PM (g47mK)

165 When she and Inara were fighting, I recall Inara saying something about Saffron having had companion training?
Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 12, 2026 05:11 PM (+/CWD)
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Yeah, that sounds vaguely familiar...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 05:12 PM (FZ29D)

166 When she and Inara were fighting, I recall Inara saying something about Saffron having had companion training?


yes. they knew each other - Saffron was another Companion, but she went bad.

Inara could easily have pulled the same grift if she wanted to.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 12, 2026 05:13 PM (j+aD2)

167 151 Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 05:06 PM (sTlXt)

Hi, tubal

I was looking at some earlier threads and I noted that you have an 11th month old puppy whom you love but who is wearing you and you wife out. I can relate . We have a dear two month old kitten and he is wearing us out. Anyway, hang in there and best to you!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 12, 2026 05:09 PM (xPsv

Hey Fen! Good to hear from you. He’s 60 pounds and 26 inches at the shoulder already. Runs like a deer. Will fetch a ball until I have heat stroke. Guards our house like it’s his purpose in life. Would not trade him for anything.

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 05:13 PM (sTlXt)

168 She'd hook up with dudes, marry them and rip them off/have her crime partners incinerate them in their ship. Not sure how that makes her a prostitute.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:10 PM (uhVAy)

Well, kind of whorish.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 12, 2026 05:10 PM (zZu0s)

Whore fits, but no cash was exchanged. Betrayal seems to be her common denominator from the info we have.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:13 PM (uhVAy)

169 Cam Higby is a dude , BTW!

Posted by: runner at August 12, 2026 05:14 PM (g47mK)

170 I can imagine her coming up with the idea of putting the Smiths into family therapy and writing the monologue at the end where the therapist tells Rick he's an insecure dick.

That's about it.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 12, 2026 05:14 PM (f0sNM)

171 While I would love to see Paramount move out of CA, the fact is that there aren't many places on earth, much less the US, that have SoCal's weather. Talent can move, and states would fall over themselves coming up with an attractive enough tax package to make it worthwhile, but most other locations in the US are either too cold in the winter (Northeast), or too hot in the summer (TX), or have hurricane risks (FL, LA, NC).

The other thing I'd be very concerned about - especially if I were a Red Stater - is that these locusts would take their voting patterns with them. If they moved to NC, for instance, that state might as well become a Blue State.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 12, 2026 05:14 PM (0CU3H)

172 Whore fits, but no cash was exchanged. Betrayal seems to be her common denominator from the info we have.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:13 PM (uhVAy)
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"Chronic Backstabbing Disorder." -- TVTropes.org

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 05:14 PM (FZ29D)

173
Rumors about the Plano area...
Posted by: man

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

I wish Galveston didn't flood regularly. They'd have a coast to work with.

Poor Galveston, nice town but no one's gonna put a big plant there.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 05:14 PM (XJ22o)

174 169. Thanks.
I was going through my Chilton Guide and couldn't find it.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 05:15 PM (M0SOR)

175 yes. they knew each other - Saffron was another Companion, but she went bad.

Inara could easily have pulled the same grift if she wanted to.
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 12, 2026 05:13 PM (j+aD2)

She said Saffron had some training, not sure she made the grade. You'd think the psychotic nature of Saffron would have popped up pretty quick.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:15 PM (uhVAy)

176 I've been watching some AI stuff on YouTube that's as good, and sometimes better, than what Hollywood is putting out.

A 30 minute video he says took him about a month to make.

Saw those two Rebel Moon movies the other day.
Jeez, talk about doing way, way less with so much. I mean, the bad guy was the only interesting character.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 12, 2026 05:16 PM (3cUTc)

177 She said Saffron had some training, not sure she made the grade. You'd think the psychotic nature of Saffron would have popped up pretty quick.
Posted by: Oldcat

She's hot AND crazy?!?!? I'll pay extra!

Posted by: Plenty of Thirsty Rich Dudes at August 12, 2026 05:17 PM (+/CWD)

178 We were sold on the idea of hot space hookers but we ended up with really plain ones who wear diapers while driving across country to kill people.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 05:17 PM (M0SOR)

179 Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:11

I'm sure they will calm down eventually and our kitten makes us laugh, so it works out. I mentioned on a tech thread several weeks ago that our old black cat had to be put to sleep, so I think it was God's grace that after that someone had put out a sign in a house a couple of miles away saying "Free Kittens" He may have been free but he kitten though he is he eats like a horse. The cat food isn't free. LOL.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 12, 2026 05:17 PM (xPsv8)

180 Hendricks is 51 years old. Time, it Flies.

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 05:17 PM (sTlXt)

181 When you point this stuff out to Californians they shrug and say whatever we have so many companies here in tech we won’t miss them.

I’ve had this conversation numerous times. There are no more sane people left in the state. They’ve all left.

Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez at August 12, 2026 05:17 PM (V1UCz)

182 We made the move out of London.

Posted by: Lloyd's of Lubbock at August 12, 2026 05:18 PM (JM9I6)

183 "and she got to stay on the show."

Yuge mistake.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 12, 2026 05:18 PM (qFwJc)

184 California's weather is becoming less and less of an advantage. AI can put in whatever background you desire.

I'm seeing it in some shows my wife likes to watch. Some of it is pretty piss poor. Some, not. The science fiction shows can (sort of) get away with it, the "home on the range" stuff, not so much.

But it's getting better and is only stymied by money.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 12, 2026 05:18 PM (2Cry5)

185 She said Saffron had some training, not sure she made the grade. You'd think the psychotic nature of Saffron would have popped up pretty quick.
Posted by: Oldcat

She's hot AND crazy?!?!? I'll pay extra!
Posted by: Plenty of Thirsty Rich Dudes at August 12, 2026 05:17 PM (+/CWD)

The homicide though might make you think longer.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:18 PM (uhVAy)

186 She said Saffron had some training, not sure she made the grade. You'd think the psychotic nature of Saffron would have popped up pretty quick.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:15 PM (uhVAy)
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Sadly we never got enough of a show to explore the full extent of the social and political influence of the Companions Guild.

It's implied in the show that Companions wield tremendous influence in that world. Could have had some cool storylines featuring Companions manipulating events behind the scenes.

Plus more hot sexy chicks.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 05:18 PM (FZ29D)

187 179 Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:11

I'm sure they will calm down eventually and our kitten makes us laugh, so it works out. I mentioned on a tech thread several weeks ago that our old black cat had to be put to sleep, so I think it was God's grace that after that someone had put out a sign in a house a couple of miles away saying "Free Kittens" He may have been free but he kitten though he is he eats like a horse. The cat food isn't free. LOL.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 12, 2026 05:17 PM (xPsv

Do you have your laser pointer?

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 05:18 PM (sTlXt)

188 @camhigby
3h
Yesterday I went to Minneapolis polls disguised as a Muslim woman.

Poll workers were going to let me vote in other people’s names, and then vouch for 8 other unregistered foreigners.
______

That man attempted to defraud our pristine elections! Prosecute him!
- Democrats (willing to prosecute, but only if it's an enemy)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 12, 2026 05:19 PM (gEIsK)

189 I think Vegas would be a perfect move. Close to LA , decent weather for filming year round, more desirable for Hollywood types than most other cities except probably NYC.

Posted by: polynikes at August 12, 2026 05:19 PM (KC5Lt)

190 Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 05:13 PM (sTlXt)

That's wonderful, but don't have heat stroke.

I have lost some weight from playing with the kitten.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 12, 2026 05:19 PM (xPsv8)

191 This decision is paramount."

And Universal?
Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 05:03 PM (XuXeR)


And Looney tunes!
Tha...tha...tha...tha...that's all folks!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 12, 2026 05:20 PM (2WIwB)

192
Saffron was funny, but a bit too much of a one trick pony. "Don't want to interrupt your CRAZY TIME..."
Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 04:59 PM (uhVAy)




"But face it hubby.... I'm really HOT."

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 12, 2026 05:20 PM (y9nCu)

193 I will put up $10 on Tennessee. Anyone want to give me odds?

I will explain my reasons for thinking this later.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 12, 2026 05:20 PM (qFwJc)

194 California Attorney General Rob Bonta officially led the coalition of 12 Democrat attorneys general in filing the antitrust lawsuit last month, arguing that the transaction would reduce competition in the entertainment industry.
________________________

This makes, absolutely, no sense. The DNC (the masters of Bonta and the State AG's) depend on a shallow pool so that they can influence the product to reflect their agenda (political views). It's why there is always a progessive "message" in most productions. The merger (and a monopoly) is to their advantage....

And, this is all immaterial in that AI is going to put them ALL out of work. Talent, producers, editors, casting directors.

Posted by: Orson at August 12, 2026 05:20 PM (dIske)

195 Saffron put on some poundage in the movie Drive.

Posted by: polynikes at August 12, 2026 05:21 PM (KC5Lt)

196 "But face it hubby.... I'm really HOT."
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

It's not worth it, dudes!!!

Posted by: Johnny Depp at August 12, 2026 05:21 PM (+/CWD)

197 A gentle request from a DU commenter:

"Just a gentle request

We all are going through some very trying times these days. The toxic, malevolent person in the White House is causing untold stress and turmoil. He is systematically trying to eviscerate our democracy and our Constitution, but let's please not let him divide us. These are very trying times. Nerves are on edge, frustration is off the charts, but let's support each other.

Everyone here is here because we love and support our country. That is what DU is all about. It's what makes DU great.

Lately, I have noticed a bit of hostility towards some of our members. That is not who we are and not what we need. We are stronger together. All of us are struggling. Let's embrace and support each other.

Thanks for reading."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 12, 2026 05:21 PM (0sNs1)

198 Larry Ellison should just buy Cuba, and move Paramount there. It has a lot of things he likes: sunshine, cheap labor, and he'd get to right the legal code.
_____

You forgot about the underage prostitutes!
- Canadian Tourists

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 12, 2026 05:21 PM (gEIsK)

199 Yes, son found it yesterday. It must have been left over from a previous cat. I know when they get older they figure it out and get kind of blase about it , but this little guy gets so excited by it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 12, 2026 05:21 PM (xPsv8)

200 The funniest thing about She-Hulk, attorney at law, is that Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law did the idea first and was a hell of a lot funnier and much more well written.

The episode where he represented Race Bannon in his palimony suit against Dr. Quest had me in tears!

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 12, 2026 05:22 PM (edUvp)

201 I'm sure they will calm down eventually and our kitten makes us laugh, so it works out. I mentioned on a tech thread several weeks ago that our old black cat had to be put to sleep, so I think it was God's grace that after that someone had put out a sign in a house a couple of miles away saying "Free Kittens" He may have been free but he kitten though he is he eats like a horse. The cat food isn't free. LOL.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 12, 2026 05:17 PM (xPsv

They need that to go from 8 oz to 8 pounds in about a year. Humans spread that out to about 10-15 years.

I cheat by having a nibble bowl of dry for between meal snacking and so far none of my cats have betrayed the trust by getting fat or trying to hog the wet food at dinner times.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:22 PM (uhVAy)

202 You forgot about the underage prostitutes!
- Canadian Tourists
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 12, 2026 05:21 PM (gEIsK)

I doubt anyone in Hollywood is interested in those.

Posted by: trying to keep a straight face at August 12, 2026 05:22 PM (88C+u)

203 "To keep such an undesirable from gaining more reach, is Bonta willing to blow up Hollywood?
"

I had to drive through Hollywood in 2022.

Blow it up.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 12, 2026 05:23 PM (qFwJc)

204 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 12, 2026 05:21 PM (xPsv

Sorry. That thread was in response to tubal asking about laser pointers.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 12, 2026 05:23 PM (xPsv8)

205 Jack McGee should've exposed She-Hulk in the media when he had the chance.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 12, 2026 05:23 PM (nDXEV)

206 Farscape didn't give us Saffron, Intergalactic Space Whore.

And here I thought that was Morena Baccarin's official role.

Posted by: Halfhand at August 12, 2026 05:24 PM (Ysav4)

207 Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 12, 2026 05:21 PM (0sNs1)

That's hilarious because besides being diametrically opposite of the Left, I would buy a farm so I could bet the farm this poster got raked over the coals.

Posted by: polynikes at August 12, 2026 05:24 PM (KC5Lt)

208 can imagine her coming up with the idea of putting the Smiths into family therapy

Maybe then they wouldn't have broken up and sued each other like they did

Posted by: 88C+u at August 12, 2026 05:25 PM (88C+u)

209 Do you have your laser pointer?
Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 05:18 PM (sTlXt)

I used to have a whole group of cats who saw through the laser pointer from day one, would just turn and look at me and go 'you think im dumb? you are doing that'.

An old shoestring though? Infinite entertainment.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:25 PM (uhVAy)

210 Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:22 PM (uhVAy

He's working hard at growing. He's gained two lbs in about three weeks, but he gets the zoomies so much he's not getting fat.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 12, 2026 05:25 PM (xPsv8)

211 154 Sherman burned it for a reason.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:07 PM (uhVAy)
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They had TWO chances to get Atlanta right and failed both times.
Posted by: ballistic at August 12, 2026 05:10 PM (oqH4h)

Funny thing about that "fact" - GWTW had it right. It was actually the Confederates who burned Atlanta as they fled, to prevent Sherman from capturing it intact and using it as a base.

He just rebuilt whatever he needed for his army and used it anyway.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 12, 2026 05:25 PM (edUvp)

212 Lately, I have noticed a bit of hostility towards some of our members. That is not who we are and not what we need. We are stronger together. All of us are struggling. Let's embrace and support each other.

I assume it's part of the growing Dem civil war between normie Dems and the radical DSA. Good.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 12, 2026 05:25 PM (+/CWD)

213 Kylie or Inara ??? - space opera version of Gilligan’s Island.

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 05:25 PM (sTlXt)

214
Good fucking luck to him convincing talent to come shlep all the way to Texas or Florida to collaborate with their executives.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

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This is delusion on crack. The thirst for stardom -- or even participation in the movie industry -- is like no other. People will go to Antarctica if that's where movies are being made.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 05:26 PM (XJ22o)

215 213 Kylie or Inara ??? - space opera version of Gilligan’s Island.
Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 05:25 PM (sTlXt)

Can I have both? I'd buy that for a dollar

Posted by: 88C+u at August 12, 2026 05:26 PM (88C+u)

216 CNN - black woman found hanging from tree in Mississippi.

I'm sure the media will handle this situation delicately.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 12, 2026 05:26 PM (Sco7b)

217
Increasingly, this site looks like coverage of mental illness.

The Cuba angle has potential, though; politically the showrunners and Junta seem to be aligned.

Posted by: Auspex at August 12, 2026 05:26 PM (Y8DZL)

218 Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:25 PM (uhVAy)

This kitten likes the string on my bathrobe.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 12, 2026 05:26 PM (xPsv8)

219 209 Do you have your laser pointer?
Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 05:18 PM (sTlXt)

I used to have a whole group of cats who saw through the laser pointer from day one, would just turn and look at me and go 'you think im dumb? you are doing that'.

An old shoestring though? Infinite entertainment.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:25 PM (uhVAy)

The magic Ball of Tinfoil is an oldie but a goodie. Also, paper sacks.

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 05:27 PM (sTlXt)

220 "We are stronger together. "

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 12, 2026 05:21 PM (0sNs1)
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DU fascists.

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2026 05:27 PM (XMAAx)

221
Yup, just a 2.7 but I was sitting on top of it.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia


Shake shake shake, shake shake shake
Shake your booty, shake your booty
Oh, shake shake shake, shake shake shake
Shake your booty, shake your booty

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2026 05:27 PM (Cqx++)

222 Lately, I have noticed a bit of hostility towards some of our members. That is not who we are and not what we need. We are stronger together. All of us are struggling. Let's embrace and support each other.

Thanks for reading."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 12, 2026 05:21 PM (0sNs1)
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HA! Gaayyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

Posted by: ballistic at August 12, 2026 05:27 PM (oqH4h)

223
If the work moves to Texas, won’t the hired hands follow?
Posted by: tubal

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

Absolutely. That's part of Ellison's threat -- those people will either be out of a job or they'll scramble out of the state, too.

But a lot of the hired hands are being AI'd out of their careers anyway.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 05:28 PM (XJ22o)

224 CNN - black guy handling the story.

Not Don.
Obviously.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 12, 2026 05:28 PM (Sco7b)

225 He is systematically trying to eviscerate our democracy and our Constitution,

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The same Constitution that you & yours proudly & overtly wipe your asses with.

Posted by: ShainS at August 12, 2026 05:28 PM (mrdUs)

226 Posted by: Tom Servo at August 12, 2026 05:25 PM (edUvp)

Sherman is the answer to one of my favorite trivia questions.

Who was the first President of what we know now as Louisiana State University ?

Posted by: polynikes at August 12, 2026 05:28 PM (KC5Lt)

227 Sadly we never got enough of a show to explore the full extent of the social and political influence of the Companions Guild.

It's implied in the show that Companions wield tremendous influence in that world. Could have had some cool storylines featuring Companions manipulating events behind the scenes.

Plus more hot sexy chicks.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 05:18 PM (FZ29D)

Yes, there was some interesting world-building in the show that never got played out.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:28 PM (uhVAy)

228 Posted by: Tom Servo at August 12, 2026 05:25 PM (edUvp)

Sherman is the answer to one of my favorite trivia questions.

Who was the first President of what we know now as Louisiana State University ?
Posted by: polynikes at August 12, 2026 05:28 PM (KC5Lt)

I knew that. He also told his southern friends when he moved north something very much like Rhett Butler said to the planters as the war was starting in Gone With the Wind.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:29 PM (uhVAy)

229 Anyone seen the Sherman's March documentary from '85 a guy did with grant money? Charmingly hilarious.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 12, 2026 05:30 PM (nDXEV)

230
Shake shake shake, shake shake shake
Shake your booty, shake your booty
Oh, shake shake shake, shake shake shake
Shake your booty, shake your booty
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

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

The song I need is something about being dizzy. I think it made the fluids in my inner ear slosh around a little.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 05:30 PM (XJ22o)

231 221
Yup, just a 2.7 but I was sitting on top of it.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

You, Brian Williams and Jake Tapper can sit down over beers and share stories of your brushes with near death.

So there is that...

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 12, 2026 05:30 PM (Sco7b)

232 I think Sherman burned Columbia South Carolina too. Guy got around.

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 05:30 PM (sTlXt)

233 Lately, I have noticed a bit of hostility towards some of our members. That is not who we are and not what we need. We are stronger together. All of us are struggling. Let's embrace and support each other.

Thanks for reading."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 12, 2026 05:21 PM (0sNs1)

Actually, that IS who they are. Note the lack of Red Staters, Republicans...etc etc etc

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:31 PM (uhVAy)

234 Its 5:30 already

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2026 05:32 PM (Ia/+0)

235 I think Sherman burned Columbia South Carolina too. Guy got around.
Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 05:30 PM (sTlXt)

Or more probably the retreating Reb Cavalry started fires the Union could not stop. And some soldiers helped spread it. While he marched thru Georgia people there kept telling Sherman why he was not going to SC, they started it.

I tend to believe Sherman because he would have just admitted to it if he had done so. He could legally burn military stores, stuff owned by governments in rebellion, stuff that could help opposing forces...that covers a lot.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:35 PM (uhVAy)

236 234 Its 5:30 already
Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2026 05:32 PM (Ia/+0)

( Looks at watch, shakes it - wait, I’m in Missouri - nevermind)

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 05:35 PM (sTlXt)

237
I think Sherman burned Columbia South Carolina too. Guy got around.
Posted by: tubal


He liked neckties.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2026 05:37 PM (Cqx++)

238 My Civil War ancestor's unit had its 3 year term end so was sent back into TN for the remainder of his service. He was also wounded in the march TO Atlanta and recuperating.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:37 PM (uhVAy)

239 235 I think Sherman burned Columbia South Carolina too. Guy got around.
Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 05:30 PM (sTlXt)

Or more probably the retreating Reb Cavalry started fires the Union could not stop. And some soldiers helped spread it. While he marched thru Georgia people there kept telling Sherman why he was not going to SC, they started it.

I tend to believe Sherman because he would have just admitted to it if he had done so. He could legally burn military stores, stuff owned by governments in rebellion, stuff that could help opposing forces...that covers a lot.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:35 PM (uhVAy)

FAFO - The Early Years.

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 05:37 PM (sTlXt)

240 Or was it bowties?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2026 05:37 PM (Cqx++)

241 Kevin Feige let She-Hulk get way out of hand.

The fact that he allowed them to make the finale all about him as an evil robot controlling the universe says it all.

He should have fired Gao and her entire crew once he realized they couldn't even give him the courtroom lawyer gal show he'd ask for. Just letting them wing it and make it up as they went along for an entire season of shows should have gotten him fired.

I think everybody can say for sure that Marvel was headed for disaster once She-Hulk came out and that's all on Feige.

Apparently it's very difficult to get fired at Disney no matter how much money you lose for the company. Take Kathleen Kennedy as the most glaring example.

The only executive they wanted to fire was the former short-lived CEO who got fired for backing down over the fight in Florida against DeSantis.

Hollywood should be broken up and scattered to the winds.
It stinks as bad as the Democrat party it's a subsidiary of.
They can probably find better, more hungry, more competent talent outside of L.A. anyhow.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 12, 2026 05:38 PM (6ydKt)

242 240 Or was it bowties?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2026 05:37 PM (Cqx++)

I DO appreciate his view of journalists.

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 05:38 PM (sTlXt)

243 I think Sherman burned Columbia South Carolina too. Guy got around.
Posted by: tubal

He liked neckties.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2026 05:37 PM (Cqx++)

He was very scientific - if you just bend them, they can easily be unbent. If you heat the middle and with clamps twist and bend them, it is way harder to undo.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:38 PM (uhVAy)

244 222 Lately, I have noticed a bit of hostility towards some of our members. That is not who we are and not what we need. We are stronger together. All of us are struggling. Let's embrace and support each other.

Thanks for reading."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 12, 2026 05:21 PM (0sNs1)
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LMAO...My first thought was...that sure doesn't sound like "Duncanthrax", and thankfully I scanned the comments and found the original source before singing "Kumbaya". That would have been embarrassing.

As for the vacuous "DU"...I support that comment in that it's much easier to shoot rats in a barrel than when they are running all over the damn place.

Posted by: Orson at August 12, 2026 05:39 PM (dIske)

245 We are shaking booties in here?

Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2026 05:39 PM (ZdaMQ)

246 240 Or was it bowties?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2026 05:37 PM (Cqx++)

I DO appreciate his view of journalists.
Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 05:38 PM (sTlXt)

He was cheered when a small boat with reporters was sunk by Vicksburg's batteries. "They were so weighed down by their opinions they must have sunk like stones"

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:40 PM (uhVAy)

247 We are shaking booties in here?
Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2026 05:39 PM (ZdaMQ)
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We never stopped!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 05:40 PM (FZ29D)

248 246 240 Or was it bowties?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2026 05:37 PM (Cqx++)

I DO appreciate his view of journalists.
Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 05:38 PM (sTlXt)

He was cheered when a small boat with reporters was sunk by Vicksburg's batteries. "They were so weighed down by their opinions they must have sunk like stones"
Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:40 PM (uhVAy)

LOL !

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 05:41 PM (sTlXt)

249 233 Lately, I have noticed a bit of hostility towards some of our members. That is not who we are and not what we need. We are stronger together. All of us are struggling. Let's embrace and support each other.
Posted by: Oldcat

Dude: YOU THOWIN' DOWN? YOU THOWIN' RIGHT NOW?

Posted by: Auspex at August 12, 2026 05:41 PM (Y8DZL)

250 247 We are shaking booties in here?
Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2026 05:39 PM (ZdaMQ)

__________________

Among other things.

Posted by: Michael J Fox at August 12, 2026 05:41 PM (dIske)

251 The Five is showing video of President Trump on Rosie O'Donnell's show 30 years ago.

Where'd their love go wrong?

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 12, 2026 05:42 PM (Sco7b)

252 The only executive they wanted to fire was the former short-lived CEO who got fired for backing down over the fight in Florida against DeSantis.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 12, 2026 05:38 PM (6ydKt)

He was the one who wanted to fix things by making movies rather than teaching lessons on liberalism...at least a little. He was purged for wrongthink, not fired.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:42 PM (uhVAy)

253
Larry Ellison should just buy Cuba, and move Paramount there.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

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

If Marco can pull a few things off, LOTSA industries and places had better brace for competition.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 05:42 PM (XJ22o)

254 He was cheered when a small boat with reporters was sunk by Vicksburg's batteries. "They were so weighed down by their opinions they must have sunk like stones"
Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:40 PM (uhVAy)

LOL !
Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2026 05:41 PM (sTlXt)

Sherman was the best at quotes.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:43 PM (uhVAy)

255 Nood

Posted by: Bete at August 12, 2026 05:43 PM (LX4y3)

256 233 Lately, I have noticed a bit of hostility towards some of our members. That is not who we are and not what we need. We are stronger together. All of us are struggling. Let's embrace and support each other.
Posted by: Oldcat

Dude: YOU THOWIN' DOWN? YOU THOWIN' RIGHT NOW?
Posted by: Auspex at August 12, 2026 05:41 PM (Y8DZL)

I deny that I said that first part

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:44 PM (uhVAy)

257 Sherman was the best at quotes.
Posted by: Oldcat

I was no slouch, either.

Posted by: Mr. Peabody at August 12, 2026 05:44 PM (JM9I6)

258 Funny thing about Sherman. After Georgia, after sparing Charleston. After Columbia, he made a deal and Lincoln had to tell him that he did not have the authority to grant such generous terms.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 12, 2026 05:45 PM (qFwJc)

259 Hey tubal!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 12, 2026 05:47 PM (24NQL)

260 Newsome and Bonta back down and then Ellison brings in Mel Gibson to deliver the line: "First, you will....."

Posted by: Seagrams and sprite at August 12, 2026 05:48 PM (gOgTs)

261 Funny thing about Sherman. After Georgia, after sparing Charleston. After Columbia, he made a deal and Lincoln had to tell him that he did not have the authority to grant such generous terms.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 12, 2026 05:45 PM (qFwJc)

There is a funny story about that first 'surrender terms' that Sherman passed the bottle around to Joe Johnson and another General there. As he was writing the last part he absent mindedly took a second drink himself and put it away in his pocket. The second Reb general was livid after the incident that he didn't get a second shot. "General Sherman is a HOG! That's right, a HOG! He knew we needed that drink!"

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 05:49 PM (uhVAy)

262
Didn't the Secret Service have Airforce One land inside one of Candace Owens nostrils to escape an Iranian terror rocket attack?

The woman is a hero! A hero, I say!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 12, 2026 06:01 PM (iJfKG)

263 They can keep their liberal votes right the fuck in California.

I know y'all are rooting for everyone to leave California, but they're bring their votes, and the votes of all the emoyess who transfer, with them.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 12, 2026 06:02 PM (Vvh2V)

264 We made the move out of London.
Posted by: Lloyd's of Lubbock at August 12, 2026 05:18 PM (JM9I6)


You think they will get offices in the Great Plains Building?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 12, 2026 09:24 PM (ZVgZ4)

265 >Inara was specifically not a whore, but a licensed and registered guild approved companion

She's a whore, Shepherd.

>Yes, there was some interesting world-building in the show that never got played out

I have to assume at least some of the popularity of the show is that no one remembers Westerns. The A plots were all straight up stock Western plots, and the milieu was just every Western with a light SF gloss on it. To make things worse for Whedon's Millennial-socialist fanbase, the Browncoaters are an allegory for the CSA.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at August 12, 2026 10:06 PM (LgYtf)

The FBI and "Intelligence" Agencies Had Intel From 14 Different Sources About the Biden Family's Corruption. Wray Covered It Up and Claimed It Was All "Disinformation"

Christopher Wray was recommended to Trump by Super-Republican Chris Christie.

So you know he's a straight shooter.


The FBI and U.S. spy agencies received derogatory evidence about Joe Biden from 14 different informants but embarked on a secret operation to tamp down a Ukrainian corruption scandal engulfing his family during the 2020 election by formally designating Attorney General Bill Barr, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, key members of Congress and journalists as Russian disinformation "conduits," according to explosive intelligence community documents declassified by the White House.

A spreadsheet that was recovered from U.S. intelligence agency files and made public Wednesday by the White House Government Transparency Task Force shows that spy agencies and the FBI created a list of more than six dozen prominent organizations, Americans or foreigners who became figures in the Biden family Ukraine scandal and the 2019 impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.

The spreadsheet neatly divided figures along political lines, with Democrats like the Bidens, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Barack Obama and George Soros listed as victimized "targets" of Russian disinformation and conservatives like Fox News, One America News, filmmaker Michael Caputo and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani as "conduits" for disinformation.

The FBI also labeled two of President Donald Trump's first-term Cabinet secretaries, Pompeo and Barr, as well as Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley, Ron Johnson and Lindsey Graham and House GOP committee chairmen Devin Nunes and Jim Jordan as "conduits" even while they all investigated whether the allegations of corruption against the Biden family were true.

The designations were part of a secret counterintelligence operation codenamed "Round River" that was launched during the 2020 election by a task force of FBI analysts claiming to be fighting "malign foreign influence" in the 2020 election, according to an administration official.

The Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), based in FBI headquarters, concurred with each of the assessments in the spreadsheet with a "no objection" designation, the documents state.

...

In some ways, the Round River operation is a mirror opposite of the Russia collusion probe known as Crossfire Hurricane in which the FBI pursued unsubstantiated allegations spread by Democrats that Trump and his allies conspired with Vladimir Putin to hijack the 2016 election. In Round River, FBI analysts sought to dismiss significant evidence in the bureau's possession, including Hunter Biden's own laptop, pointing to possible corruption by the Bidens.

Documents released by the White House earlier this month exposed an investigation in 2017 codenamed "Oxferd Comma" alleging the newly elected president Trump may have been acting as a Russian asset when he fired then-Director James Comey even though the bureau's own evidence overwhelmingly showed at the time there was no collusion with the Kremlin.

By the way: 0xferd Comma was spelled that way -- with an "e" instead of an "o" and a zero instead of a capital "O" so that investigators could not find references to it in emails and government servers. It was deliberately misspelled so that no evidence of the crime could be discovered through normal investigatory means.


Remarkably, the effort to portray the Biden scandal as Russian disinformation came even though confidential human sources working for the FBI and other agencies began reporting a steady stream of concerns starting in 2015 that Ukraine was possibly targeting the future first family for influence, the memos show. The FBI has identified at least 14 informants who were providing derogatory information on the Bidens, according to an FBI letter made public Wednesday.

In that letter to the White House Government Transparency Task Force, FBI Director Kash Patel said the Foreign Influence Task Force was terminated on his watch and its activities are now under investigation.

That Task Force was run by the leftwing woman who admitted she was running a "shadow government" inside the one that the American people think is the real government.


He said he shared concerns cited in a 2025 Director of National Intelligence memo declassified on Wednesday that Round River was used as a political tool to neutralize an alleged corruption narrative about Biden, the Democrats' 2020 presidential nominee, rather than to address true national security threats.

"While our internal review of the FITF is not yet complete, we are investigating whether the FITF used information learned from the Round River assessment to undermine or influence ongoing investigations by only focusing on the subset of CHS's (Confidential Human Sources) involving the Bidens," Patel wrote, according to the letter reviewed by Just the News.

"We remain concerned that defensive briefings to Congress may have been overly focused on just Biden and Ukraine rather than the balanced picture of all foreign threats," he added.

Patel said the bureau is "firmly committed to identifying, investigating and holding accountable all abuses" that occurred during the Round River operation and to ensure "that future counterintelligence operations remain focused exclusively on legitimate foreign threats and are never used to advance political narratives."

...

Grassley, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, and Johnson, the Senate Budget Committee chairman, have been investigating the Round River operation for years and have raised concerns the FBI may have used a 2020 defensive briefing to them as a way of thwarting their probe into Burisma and Biden family corruption allegations.

In essence, the FBI Foreign Influence Task Force operation treated Barr's investigation into the Biden controversy as a potential disinformation threat, closely aligning with the Biden presidential campaign's and legacy media's efforts to portray the Burisma allegations as "conspiracy theories."

That conspiracy theory storyline -- referred to in the documents as the "Ukraine narrative" -- persisted well beyond the 2020 election that put Biden into the White House until two IRS whistleblowers and some former Biden business partners came forward to Congress beginning in 2023 and shared evidence that Hunter Biden had committed crimes, including failing to pay taxes on monies he earned from Burisma, and sought to use his father's influence to help the Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
...


The intelligence review pinpointed the start of Round River to December 2019, just as Trump's Ukraine impeachment proceedings were raging, and gave a succinct description of its mission.

"Around December 2019, the FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force -- Russia (FITF-R) unofficially formed a group of analysts who utilized internal systems to gather any/all derogatory information previously reported by confidential human sources (CHSs) on Joseph Biden corruption and other Ukraine-related topics (known as the Ukraine narrative) including Burisma, Hunter Biden, Mykola Zlochevsky, Ukraine interference in 2016 US presidential election to red flag the reporting as Russian disinformation," the DNI report said.

Remarkably, the DNI report alleges, the Round River team amended each of three informant files to portray their long-term reporting as false.

"The team of analysts had administrative accesses to all reporting and drafted intelligence products that were later added to each CHS file to show the reporting was deemed Russian disinformation," the DNI memo stated. "The FITF-R team also provided defensive briefings to any Congressional member who obtained reporting related to any aspect of the Ukraine narrative."

Paul Sperry says that the criminal Chris Wray was behind this corrupt effort:

Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_

BREAKING: Just-declassified FBI docs reveal Dir. Wray during the 2020 election classified Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Victoria Nuland and Amos Hochstein, along w/ George Soros, as "targets" of Russian "disinformation" in the Burisma scandal, while journalist John Solomon was branded a "conduit" of "disinformation"

Former Trump advisor and Deep State target Peter Navarro says we have to put all the conspirators under oath and compel them to admit the conspiracy or go to prison for perjury and obstruction.

On May 16, 2017, the FBI took one of the most extraordinary steps in its history: It opened a full investigation of the sitting American president.

Newly declassified documents released by the White House say the bureau asked whether the president "is or was directed by, controlled by, and/or coordinated activities with" Vladimir Putin's Russia -- and whether he "obstructed and/or conspired to obstruct" the FBI's own investigation.

That the FBI had targeted President Trump was reported in 2019. What was missing was the paperwork -- the opening document, the names on it, the chain of command.


The May 16 "opening communication" lists FBI General Counsel James Baker and Counterintelligence Division Assistant Director E.W. "Bill" Priestap as the approving officials.

The investigation was opened at Priestap's direction, in consultation with Baker's Office of General Counsel; and Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe personally notified Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

The next day -- May 17 -- Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller special counsel, and the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax took flight.


James Comey figures in the hoax, too. He went from fired FBI director to a central witness.

The FBI used Comey's account of his talks with Trump -- and Trump's firing of Comey -- to support the obstruction theory.

Another critical layer has now been exposed. The FBI says its predicate for the probe rested on "predetermined criteria established by the Crossfire Hurricane investigative team" based on an assessment of supposedly "reliable lead information."


Who built that predicate?

Peter Strzok, a central figure in Crossfire Hurricane, and FBI lawyer Lisa Page were close to the investigation.

When Page asked whether Trump would become president, Strzok replied: "No. No he won't. We'll stop it."

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz later said that message was not merely indicative of a biased state of mind but implied a willingness to take official action to affect a candidate's electoral prospects.

Yet the actual drafter of the opening communication remains redacted. That name should be released.

So should the names of everyone who formulated, reviewed or supplied the "reliable lead information" used to put a sitting president under investigation -- along with the communications among Priestap, Baker, McCabe and the investigative team, McCabe's record of what he told Rosenstein, what Rosenstein knew before he appointed Mueller and what Mueller did, if anything, to independently validate the extraordinary allegation he was tasked to investigate.

...


It's past time to put those who built and ran this Russia hoax under the microscope.

Sen. Chuck Grassley's Senate Judiciary Committee and Chairman Jim Jordan's House Judiciary Committee hold the tools; Grassley has been a bulldog, Jordan far less so.

Subpoena Priestap, Baker, McCabe, Rosenstein and Comey for sworn, public testimony.

...

The officials who set the Russia hoax in motion and carried it forward have names.

Now put them under oath. And do it before the November election.

Meanwhile, "Fusion Ken" Dilanian, a stenographer and PR manager for the leftwing conspiracy at the heart of the CIA, says that Trump is running the DOJ like "Russia and China" for investigating the people he works for.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:25 PM




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1 Yep

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 03:27 PM (C3xJX)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 03:27 PM (2YhKe)

3 Why is Wray not standing in front of a firing squad?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 03:27 PM (2YhKe)

4 this is all beyond belief

our government is viciously corrupt

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 12, 2026 03:28 PM (j+aD2)

5 It's not the crime, it's the c0ver up.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 03:29 PM (asFP3)

6 Ok it's the crime.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 03:29 PM (asFP3)

7 I've got a plane to catch.

L8rs bitches!

Posted by: Christopher Wray at August 12, 2026 03:29 PM (2YhKe)

8 By the way: 0xferd Comma was spelled that way -- with an "e" instead of an "o" and a zero instead of a capital "O" so that investigators could not find references to it in emails and government servers.
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Isn't this standard practice for the government when they want to conceal something from FOIA requests?

The standard method would be to search for properly spelled words (and maybe common alternate misspellings).

They go out of their way to obscure the keywords in documents so that they will only turn up in a deliberate search by those who "need" those documents AND know how to find them already.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 03:30 PM (FZ29D)

9 "Disinformation"


Everyone might want to dust off their copy of the newspeak dictionary.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 12, 2026 03:30 PM (cpFbA)

10 I wonder how many lawmakers would be in jail if authorities did their jobs.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 12, 2026 03:30 PM (Sco7b)

11 Peter Strzok, a central figure in Crossfire Hurricane, and FBI lawyer Lisa Page were close to the investigation.


Here and I'd almost forgot about creepy fag and gummy bear.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 03:30 PM (2YhKe)

12 late here bc work is crazy but on the last thread, one thing I wanted to say

I knew doctors who were deeply against abortion. BUT to be part of a hospital system as an ob/gyn that was a requirement (willingness to perform abortions at the level the hospital does).

I knew excellent ob/gyns who had to switch to just gyn because of this, or move to a Catholic hospital, or just retire. It's been this way since before O-care btw.

doctors are heavily pushed to do this against their morals

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 12, 2026 03:31 PM (j+aD2)

13 So many sticks to chase at once. And they all taste like shit when we run and pick them up.

Makes me so happy to pay taxes.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 03:31 PM (4csOi)

14 The movie review length post really makes you bring your A game to Brave when trying to tap the comments link in that millisecond you get. Tap reload damnit tap reload damnit, etc.

Posted by: nckate at August 12, 2026 03:31 PM (enNUy)

15 "this is all beyond belief

our government is viciously corrupt"

All of our politicians are lying self-dealers. All of them.

Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 03:31 PM (Jr5Lq)

16 wonder how many lawmakers would be in jail if authorities did their jobs.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 12, 2026 03:30 PM (Sco7b

90%

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 03:31 PM (C3xJX)

17 Tucker Carlson needs to get Hunter Biden back on to explain the meaning of all of this.

Posted by: SMOD at August 12, 2026 03:32 PM (RHGPo)

18 Trump trying to investigate Biden (and others) links to Ukraine was what triggered Bearclaw to try and plant evidence to frame Trump for his first impeachment. Trump had already secured the documents before he got there.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 03:32 PM (uhVAy)

19
Sorry, 51 different sources are the threshold of credibility.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2026 03:32 PM (O0L8i)

20 our government is viciously corrupt"

All government. Washington was right.

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 03:32 PM (XuXeR)

21 14 The movie review length post really makes you bring your A game to Brave when trying to tap the comments link in that millisecond you get. Tap reload damnit tap reload damnit, etc.


ugh I'm sorry nckate

I can see my little script blocker working here. it just keeps adding up numbers of blocked scripts. if I stay on a thread for a decent amount of time it gets over 100!!! initial load is minimum 3 scripts (likely all to trigger popup ads)

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 12, 2026 03:32 PM (j+aD2)

22 I think we all agree Trump made a lot of bad hiring decisions. My theory is he trusted too many establishment types - starting with Pence. At the time, we thought it would be a good way for Trump to "grease the skids" as he got involved with DC politics. We all know now they took his outstretched hand holding an olive branch and shoved it up our squeaker. Sadly we still have too many of those establishment types left in DC.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 12, 2026 03:33 PM (N39Ws)

23 Boasberg set to rule that this was all "Bitchen" in a 30pg ruling he already wrote.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 03:33 PM (4csOi)

24 From out here in the cheap seats it appears extinction levels of corruption have been evident since the Clintons and their odious band of scrofulous wankers arrived in Washington. Just keeps getting worse and worse, wave after wave in subsequent administrations and the saboteurs are now firmly entrenched at every office and bureaucratic stronghold.

“We’ve got ‘em where we want ‘em, we’re completely surrounded”

Posted by: Common Tater at August 12, 2026 03:34 PM (f547z)

25
>>Former Trump advisor and Deep State target Peter Navarro says we have to put all the conspirators under oath and compel them to admit the conspiracy or go to prison for perjury and obstruction.

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

Too bad he's not in the current administration.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 03:36 PM (XJ22o)

26 Oh yeah sure and monkeys will fly out of my butt.

Posted by: Guy who always says "Nothing will happen" and is usually right at August 12, 2026 03:37 PM (MWfyi)

27 Trump really fucked himself with the people he picked. I know there's always someone else to blame, but the buck stops with him and he should have known better.

Like Trump asking Comey to stay on, I mean did anyone really think he was a straight shooter?

Posted by: Sharpie at August 12, 2026 03:37 PM (r13UX)

28 Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law

Posted by: wth at August 12, 2026 03:39 PM (UjdFS)

29 Forgot the quote:

"Former Trump advisor and Deep State target Peter Navarro says we have to put all the conspirators under oath and compel them to admit the conspiracy or go to prison for perjury and obstruction."

Posted by: Guy who always says "Nothing will happen" and is usually right at August 12, 2026 03:39 PM (MWfyi)

30 To this day, 9 out of 10 Leftist Progressives will insist that Hillary lost due to Russian interference in the 2016 election. And, if we're rounding up, it's 10 out of 10.

Posted by: Orson at August 12, 2026 03:40 PM (dIske)

31 And... Arrests so far: 0.0

It's useless to get all worked up in a lather when the Relevant Law Enforcement Agencies steadfastly refuse to do their jobs, and run a bunch of flagrantly guilty leftist swine to ground. The fix is in.

Posted by: Brewingfrog at August 12, 2026 03:40 PM (Iz5jw)

32 I think about this when the left is shrieking about how corrupt Trump is, how he's a dictator, how he's abusing the office.

Well.
Not enough, he isn't--because you're not proposing to reduce the size, scope and reach of the federal government to stop it.

No.
You want the tools of corruption, bribery and abuse of office--that you're accusing Trump of abusing--to stay in place for when you ever get back to power.

If Trump really was 1/100 as bad as you claim he is, you'd be screaming for laws reducing the size, scope and reach of the federal government--to stop him and anyone like him ever again.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 12, 2026 03:40 PM (3cUTc)

33 Like Trump asking Comey to stay on, I mean did anyone really think he was a straight shooter?

.. just ask Scooter Libby

Posted by: SMOD at August 12, 2026 03:40 PM (RHGPo)

34 Many new houses in Virginia and Mercedes cars will be bought because of the investigation into this.

I don't expect to see anyone on a chain gang from this.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 03:40 PM (4csOi)

35 You want the tools of corruption, bribery and abuse of office--that you're accusing Trump of abusing--to stay in place for when you ever get back to power.

If Trump really was 1/100 as bad as you claim he is, you'd be screaming for laws reducing the size, scope and reach of the federal government--to stop him and anyone like him ever again.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 12, 2026 03:40 PM (3cUTc) .

It turns out you can just say things.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 03:41 PM (asFP3)

36 Do we have any emails from ANYONE involved questioning the legality and/or wisdom of taking these actions?

Or do they just go with the flow because "everyone does it?"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 03:41 PM (FZ29D)

37
Or do they just go with the flow because "everyone does it?"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 03:41 PM (FZ29D)



When you're a Teflon Don, nothing sticks.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 03:42 PM (2YhKe)

38 Straight as Jim Comey!

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2026 03:42 PM (Q4cxx)

39 Hang them all.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 12, 2026 03:42 PM (dK+Kv)

40
First! Before nothing-will-happen guy.

Posted by: Auspex at August 12, 2026 03:42 PM (Y8DZL)

41 By the way: 0xferd Comma was spelled that way -- with an "e" instead of an "o" and a zero instead of a capital "O" so that investigators could not find references to it in emails and government servers.

I never want to read the quip "Never attribute to malice when incompetence will suffice" ever again. EVER.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 12, 2026 03:42 PM (diia5)

42 36.

It's all a big club, and we aint in it. - G. Carlin

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 03:43 PM (4csOi)

43 I worked in the Intel business for over 30 years and this just infuriates me. Complete unprofessional bullshit! Since before the time of the Hittites, it has been axiomatic that when intelligence lies, soldiers die. And in today's nuclear world, who is lying to the National Command Authority? Now cities can die. Bastards need prison with no chance of parole.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 12, 2026 03:43 PM (2WIwB)

44 Do we have any emails from ANYONE involved questioning the legality and/or wisdom of taking these actions?

Or do they just go with the flow because "everyone does it?"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 03:41 PM (FZ29D)

We are already long past the time when most in government thought there was a limit to what they can do. "We will stop him being elected President" and everyone there agreed.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 03:43 PM (uhVAy)

45 Hang them all.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
.......

Sometimes the old ways are the best ways.

Posted by: wth at August 12, 2026 03:43 PM (UjdFS)

46 How the hell is anyone after Trump going to survive the onslaught? How did he?

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 03:44 PM (asFP3)

47 So much corruption, so much hunger for power and control.

The Tree of Liberty thirsts.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 03:44 PM (xcxpd)

48 What a long day
Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2026 03:44 PM (Ia/+0)

49 Per Breitbart: SPLC CFO arrested on fraud charges.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 03:44 PM (C3xJX)

50 I'm sure Huge Hewitt is just about to say 'Guys, guys, it's ok because they have training.'

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 12, 2026 03:44 PM (diia5)

51 So 40% of our population, 80% of our government, and 95% of our media are actively lying and subverting our Constitution and our very way of life.

Posted by: Crusader at August 12, 2026 03:44 PM (TN0g+)

52 I bet the Trump family making billions illegally on inside AI and crypto investments is disinformation, though, huh?

Posted by: Sid at August 12, 2026 03:45 PM (yzl9t)

53 Per Breitbart: SPLC CFO arrested on fraud charges.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 03:44 PM (C3xJX)

Not so much "Poverty" in that house, amirite?

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 03:45 PM (uhVAy)

54 Round River was a reach.

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2026 03:45 PM (Q4cxx)

55 30 To this day, 9 out of 10 Leftist Progressives will insist that Hillary lost due to Russian interference in the 2016 election. And, if we're rounding up, it's 10 out of 10.
Posted by: Orson at August 12, 2026 03:40 PM (dIske)

And also that Trump is deranged for saying there were irregularities in 2020, cause elections are perfect.

Posted by: Bete at August 12, 2026 03:45 PM (LX4y3)

56 Posted by: Sid at August 12, 2026 03:45 PM

Try harder. Use both hands.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 12, 2026 03:45 PM (OkYzo)

57 Remember:

It's been near 30 years, and the FBI still won't admit who they let Hillary extort when they gave her those 600 files.
And don't think for a second they didn't know why she wanted them.
And what she did with them.

But yeah, sure, Kash is going to be able to reform the agency ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 12, 2026 03:46 PM (3cUTc)

58 Go home and blow your mommy, Sid.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 03:46 PM (C3xJX)

59 By the way: 0xferd Comma was spelled that way -- with an "e" instead of an "o" and a zero instead of a capital "O" so that investigators could not find references to it in emails and government servers. It was deliberately misspelled so that no evidence of the crime could be discovered through normal investigatory means.

This is utter bullshit. Any SOUNDEX search will find it. Any AI query will find it. SOUNDEX has been around since the 1930s and has been used in government computer systems and databases for decades.

They deliberately sabotaged the search to avoid anything except perfect spelling and alignment of those words.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 12, 2026 03:46 PM (pUU4E)

60 Nice to know but years too late. Get after the current fraud and corruption please.

Posted by: High tech at August 12, 2026 03:46 PM (37cEZ)

61 "First! Before nothing-will-happen guy.
Posted by: Auspex "

Uh, #26 & 29.

Posted by: Guy who always says "Nothing will happen" and is usually right at August 12, 2026 03:46 PM (MWfyi)

62 60 Nice to know but years too late. Get after the current fraud and corruption please.
Posted by: High tech at August 12, 2026 03:46 PM (37cEZ)

Do both?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 03:47 PM (xcxpd)

63 "Christopher Wray was recommended to Trump by Super-Republican Chris Christie."

Wray was terrible, and Christie was even worse, but there is an explanation of how the two knew each other. Wray was the lawyer who (successfully) defended Christie against those Bridgegate charges that got two of his subordinates into legal hot water. Christie probably meant well in the beginning. We know, of course, how that turned out.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 12, 2026 03:47 PM (0CU3H)

64 I was reading a MA forum on their new "abortion until birth law" and it is interesting their were three buckets of responses:

I'm disgusted
You don't understand the law
Abortion until birth is GOOD

And I have to say every single one of the Abortion until birth is good people at the female NPC look - fat sloppy, and RBF.

And as always the lefties saying you don't understand the law it doesn't allow abortion until birth and the lefties saying abortion until birth is good just ignored each other not a one calling the other out while they both bitched at the normal women disgusted by this...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 03:47 PM (sKqQm)

65 Jim Comey the kelp scented seashore philosopher?

Posted by: wth at August 12, 2026 03:48 PM (UjdFS)

66 Posted by: High tech at August 12, 2026 03:46 PM (37cEZ)

Concur.

Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 03:48 PM (Jr5Lq)

67
Why is Wray not standing in front of a firing squad?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

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

Why do people keep asking this?

Posted by: Nothing Happens Bureau at August 12, 2026 03:48 PM (XJ22o)

68 "First! Before nothing-will-happen guy.
Posted by: Auspex "

Uh, #26 & 29.

Plenty is happening - all this stuff is coming out onto the interwebs and the people who backed it are being exposed. It can't be hidden behind the wall of silence anymore.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 03:48 PM (uhVAy)

69
Ken Dilanian is a paid CIA asset. Everyone knows this.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 12, 2026 03:48 PM (OkYzo)

70 Jim Comey the kelp scented seashore philosopher?
Posted by: wth at August 12, 2026 03:48 PM (UjdFS)

Those seashells had FAMILY, man! what a monster!

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 03:48 PM (uhVAy)

71 "We remain concerned that defensive briefings to Congress may have been overly focused on just Biden and Ukraine rather than the balanced picture of all foreign threats," he added.
---
THAT'S NOT YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS, ASSHOLE!!!

And it's bullshit anyway.

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2026 03:49 PM (Q4cxx)

72 I never want to read the quip "Never attribute to malice when incompetence will suffice" ever again. EVER.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 12, 2026 03:42 PM (diia5)

Agreed. When supreme narcissist Obama was encouraging people to think he was incompetent I became very wary of that adage. Narcissists don't want to be considered incompetent unless the truth would look even worse.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 12, 2026 03:49 PM (lFFaq)

73 62 60 Nice to know but years too late. Get after the current fraud and corruption please.
Posted by: High tech at August 12, 2026 03:46 PM (37cEZ)

Do both?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 03:47 PM (xcxpd)

I'd settle for "either", but, yeah.

Posted by: Bete at August 12, 2026 03:49 PM (LX4y3)

74 Wray was terrible, and Christie was even worse, but there is an explanation of how the two knew each other. Wray was the lawyer who (successfully) defended Christie against those Bridgegate charges that got two of his subordinates into legal hot water. Christie probably meant well in the beginning. We know, of course, how that turned out.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 12, 2026 03:47 PM (0CU3H)

he probably did not. Has he denounced Wray yet?

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 03:49 PM (uhVAy)

75 The entire or all but intelligence agencies ate the Deep State

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2026 03:50 PM (Ia/+0)

76 Well we at least arrest the SPLC cfo for fraud.

Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2026 03:50 PM (ZdaMQ)

77 Well obviously we'll need years and years of committees and hearings and investigations and subpoenas and testimonies and affidavits and grand juries and Special Prosecutors and tens of millions of dollars and a 2,000 page report that nobody will read to get to the bottom of all this. THEN we'll get some people held accountable...oh, the Statute of Limitations has passed during all this? Nobody gets charged with anything??? Dagnabbit! Why does this keep happening?

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at August 12, 2026 03:50 PM (V362x)

78 52

AND IVANKA SELLS PERFUME !

Posted by: wth at August 12, 2026 03:50 PM (UjdFS)

79 69
Ken Dilanian is a paid CIA asset. Everyone knows this.
Posted by: Frank Barone at August 12, 2026 03:48 PM (OkYzo)

Most of the top Press is

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 03:51 PM (xcxpd)

80 I put the Wray appointment solely on Trump. There was plenty of warning at the time that it was a bad pick. Hell, every dem on the committee voted to advance him to the full Senate. The only possible excuse for it is that Wray was somehow the best that Trump thought he could get through the Senate.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 12, 2026 03:51 PM (XvL8K)

81 A crack team of Untouchable Ham & Eggers within Sacred Law Enforcement are gonna fix this shit. Elliot Ness 2.0

It is painful to be this cynical and bad for my health. Seriously. But the alternative feels even worse.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 03:51 PM (+v1tm)

82 Tumbrels and heads on pikes.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 12, 2026 03:51 PM (ZVgZ4)

83 62 60 Nice to know but years too late. Get after the current fraud and corruption please.
Posted by: High tech at August 12, 2026 03:46 PM (37cEZ)

Do both?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 03:47 PM (xcxpd)

Dismissed with prejudice
-DC judge

Posted by: Bete at August 12, 2026 03:51 PM (LX4y3)

84 Plenty is happening - all this stuff is coming out onto the interwebs and the people who backed it are being exposed. It can't be hidden behind the wall of silence anymore.

Posted by: Oldcat

I don't even know what you're talking about.

Posted by: Behind the Media's Wall of Silence at August 12, 2026 03:52 PM (yFLFB)

85 MS NOW’s Justice Reporter GOES OFF on Trump DOJ: Being Run Like In Russia and China
---
Yup.

Corruption be damned. The Narrative MUST FLOW!

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2026 03:52 PM (Q4cxx)

86
Foiled again by the adroit NWHG!

Posted by: Auspex at August 12, 2026 03:53 PM (Y8DZL)

87 Indict that asswipe Wray with Misprision of a Felony , put him on trial and send him to PMITA Prison.

It's the ONLY way to stop this.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at August 12, 2026 03:53 PM (ChQXW)

88 And. Now we know why Tucker was platforming Hunter.

Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2026 03:53 PM (uzmqU)

89 The only possible excuse for it is that Wray was somehow the best that Trump thought he could get through the Senate.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 12, 2026 03:51 PM (XvL8K)

There was a lot of that. The competent and useful people were also being threatened, which people seem to forget.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 12, 2026 03:53 PM (lFFaq)

90 To traverse the valley, you must first become taller than the mountain.

Posted by: Comeyfucius Say at August 12, 2026 03:53 PM (asFP3)

91 MS NOW’s Justice Reporter GOES OFF on Trump DOJ: Being Run Like In Russia and China

The Biden junta has the leading opposition candidate arrested on bogus charges that they outright said they would not charge anyone else with and we are just ignoring that?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 03:53 PM (sKqQm)

92 I don't even know what you're talking about.
Posted by: Behind the Media's Wall of Silence at August 12, 2026 03:52 PM (yFLFB)

That part of the population is dying out - the next generation has not read a newspaper or watched a nightly news program in their lives, or near enough.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 03:54 PM (uhVAy)

93 It has all the earmarks...

Posted by: Is that how this works? at August 12, 2026 03:54 PM (2Ez/1)

94 Karoline Leavitt is leaving her post at the WH end of this month. Wonder who will replace her?

Posted by: beckster at August 12, 2026 03:54 PM (kX27y)

95 Hong hung low
Too funny

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2026 03:54 PM (Ia/+0)

96 I think, on balance, maybe during WWII was the last time the federal government was working for the American people.

But somewhere soon after, probably the late 60s, it tipped over to largely working against the American people.

A trend that accelerated under Obama and, by Biden, saw nearly the whole of the federal government actively working against the American people.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 12, 2026 03:54 PM (3cUTc)

97 The fool seeks answers, while the wise merely stop asking questions.

Posted by: Comeyfucius Say at August 12, 2026 03:55 PM (asFP3)

98 Unless the administration has some idea other than running these people through the existing judicial ringer, this is going to waste a lot of people's time.

The existing judiciary is squarely on the left's side. These people are too important for them to be lost for any period of time when the work of overthrowing the country isn't remotely finished. The perps are gonna' walk.

Knowing we were right all along is totally insufficient. People need to be publicly hanged by the neck until dead. This has a way of quieting down the agitators.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 12, 2026 03:55 PM (2Cry5)

99 What's a television?

Posted by: Young people at August 12, 2026 03:55 PM (2Ez/1)

100 And. Now we know why Tucker was platforming Hunter.
Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2026 03:53 PM (uzmqU)

Because he needs another kid's note to get into some college probably.

I was accepting to evil traitor Tucker, but sucking up to Hunter Tucker is a bridge too far.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 03:55 PM (uhVAy)

101 Truth Social. Crap.

Our wonderful White House Press Secretary, and one of my most trusted aides, Karoline Leavitt, will be departing her role at the end of the month so she can spend more time with her beautiful young children and family, a decision I totally understand and respect! Karoline will now be one of my top outside advisors, and an influential voice within the Republican Party, as we work to defy History, and conclusively win the Midterm Elections. Karoline has been a real leader in the White House, and has done a phenomenal job fighting for Justice, Liberty, and Freedom, since 2018, including our Historic Re-Election Campaign of 2024. Karoline has been one of the best White House Press Secretaries in the History of the Office. Thank you, Karoline, for a job well done! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Posted by: rickb223 at August 12, 2026 03:56 PM (xHe0y)

102 What's a television?
Posted by: Young people at August 12, 2026 03:55 PM (2Ez/1)

Right next to the 8 track tape player, son.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 03:56 PM (uhVAy)

103 beckster I would volunteer, not near as pretty as her though

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2026 03:56 PM (Ia/+0)

104 This convinces the Trump choir.

The people with TDS are going to suspect it of "McCarthyism" because it comes from the Trump DoJ.

And the vast middle Lofos will never know about it.

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2026 03:57 PM (Q4cxx)

105 A lesser mind examines all sides, a superior one knows there are no sides, only truth.

Posted by: Comeyfucius Say at August 12, 2026 03:57 PM (asFP3)

106 She's a mom. Maybe she needs to go mom.

Posted by: But that's just me at August 12, 2026 03:57 PM (2Ez/1)

107 Posted by: rickb223 at August 12, 2026 03:56 PM (xHe0y)

Didn't she have cancer?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 12, 2026 03:57 PM (lFFaq)

108 Remember that big piggy Heidi Beirich? former CFO of the SPLC who was banging one of the wignats supposedly being investigated?
She got arrested today.

Posted by: 88C+u at August 12, 2026 03:58 PM (88C+u)

109 87 Indict that asswipe Wray with Misprision of a Felony , put him on trial and send him to PMITA Prison.

It's the ONLY way to stop this.
Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at August 12, 2026 03:53 PM (ChQXW)

It's more likely president AoC gives him the medal of Freedom than Wray sees a day behind bars.

Posted by: Bete at August 12, 2026 03:58 PM (LX4y3)

110 Straight shooter Chris "Duck Lips" Wray could shoot around corners when he had to.

Posted by: Paco at August 12, 2026 03:58 PM (2L+MU)

111 She's a mom. Maybe she needs to go mom.
Posted by: But that's just me at August 12, 2026 03:57 PM (2Ez/1)

her talents are wasted making the press look like idiots, they do it all by themselves. She can put her feet up and remote in some real important work from now on, she's earned it.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 03:58 PM (uhVAy)

112 DJT today: "Karoline Leavitt, will be departing her role at the end of the month so she can spend more time with her beautiful young children and family, a decision I totally understand and respect!"

Bulwark tonite: "Trump sez Leavitt hasn't been spending enough time with her family! Hints at neglect!"

Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 03:58 PM (Jr5Lq)

113 beckster I would volunteer, not near as pretty as her though
Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2026 03:56 PM (Ia/+0)

Too bad there's no way to let him know Alex the Chick is available.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 12, 2026 03:58 PM (lFFaq)

114 I think it's now easy to figure out how we got "No-scandal Obama".

It's not a lie if you believe it. -- George Costanza.

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2026 03:59 PM (Q4cxx)

115 Here's a link with a pic of Heidi aka "Jabba the Slut"
tinyurl.com/56cz4wbd

Posted by: 88C+u at August 12, 2026 03:59 PM (88C+u)

116 Posted by: Comeyfucius Say
.......

To swim the pond, the frog's asshole must be watertight.

Posted by: wth at August 12, 2026 03:59 PM (UjdFS)

117 The brave men of the FBI in the tradition of John Connolly and Lon Horiuchi will bust this case wide open. Only a matter of time.

I hear they are considering a motion to consider a vote to conduct a hearing on whether to hold an investigation of the matter in the future.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 03:59 PM (+v1tm)

118 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at August 12, 2026 03:59 PM (2Ez/1)

119 former CFO of the SPLC who was banging one of the wignats supposedly being investigated?
She got arrested today.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 12, 2026 03:58 PM (88C+u)

Yay!

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 12, 2026 03:59 PM (lFFaq)

120 Posted by: rickb223 at August 12, 2026 03:56 PM (xHe0y)

Didn't she have cancer?
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 12, 2026 03:57 PM (lFFaq)

Tulsi's husband did.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 03:59 PM (uhVAy)

121
Thanks to Caroline Levett, and respect for being a good mom.

Posted by: Auspex at August 12, 2026 03:59 PM (Y8DZL)

122 Polliwog, it is Wiles that has cancer.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 12, 2026 03:59 PM (EZtVN)

123 Grassley has been a bulldog, "


Are you sure you don't mean Deputy Dawg ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 12, 2026 04:00 PM (NtVYv)

124 Biden could not afford to buy a hide on My ticket he had to rent on the off-season

When he finally st 80yo bought a beach house in YFrlaware for 2 million it wasn't even beachfront
No yachts or jets
Sport ? He rode a mountain bike no Vail skiing

The chief accuser of Biden corruption hot a 5 year sentence for lying

Posted by: Paul at August 12, 2026 04:00 PM (gV94l)

125 Was it YD who said as Press Sec he would just set fire to the press room? I don't approve of the methods or of harming anyone, but he would be my pick. Maybe we could get him to moderate.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 04:01 PM (asFP3)

126 There is not a spot hot enough in Hell for Nuland.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 12, 2026 04:01 PM (EZtVN)

127 Paul is very Mary Cloggenstein today.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 04:01 PM (2YhKe)

128 Someone's been day drinking under his bridge.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 04:01 PM (uhVAy)

129 "She got arrested today."

We voted for this.

Posted by: Trumpsters at August 12, 2026 04:01 PM (2Ez/1)

130 Paul is a very persistent kool-ade drinker.

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2026 04:02 PM (Q4cxx)

131 Thank you for your service Karoline Levitt. Enjoy motherhood.

Posted by: WisRich at August 12, 2026 04:02 PM (G0vdT)

132 We voted for this.
Posted by: Trumpsters at August 12, 2026 04:01 PM (2Ez/1)

I didn't.

Posted by: Heidi's future cellmate at August 12, 2026 04:02 PM (88C+u)

133 Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 03:59 PM (uhVAy)

Ah. I was thinking Leavitt had breast cancer somewhat recently. Guess I could look it up. I'm still not used to all the information in the world being in the palm of my hand.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 12, 2026 04:02 PM (lFFaq)

134 There is not a spot hot enough in Hell for Nuland.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 12, 2026 04:01 PM (EZtVN)

Having to hang with Neocons is almost as good a punishment. I had to laugh when Putin stole West Africa from her and the French a few years back.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 04:03 PM (uhVAy)

135 This is all the fault of a couple of rouge agents in the Cincinnati office.

They' and their supervisors have been assigned an additional week of training at the Waikiki Resort in Hawaii.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 12, 2026 04:03 PM (3cUTc)

136 If Kamala Harris had won, not only would we NOT know of these many varieties of corruption., but they would be doubling down on it. And spending us into oblivion: NGOs, AID, etc

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 12, 2026 04:03 PM (jgF2C)

137 Sitting right here, boss.

Posted by: The Internet at August 12, 2026 04:03 PM (2Ez/1)

138 Leavitt has been a great Press Secretary. One of a kind. Sad to see her go.

I hope the next one is just as good.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 04:03 PM (+v1tm)

139 "I'm still not used to all the information in the world being in the palm of my hand."

I keep it in a fanny pack. Hands free.

Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 04:03 PM (Jr5Lq)

140 I'm sure the statute of limitations has expired for all of them.

Posted by: Harun at August 12, 2026 04:04 PM (IuIym)

141 It was Suzie Wiles who had cancer. Hope she's doing better.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 12, 2026 04:04 PM (lFFaq)

142 Pam Bondi has thyroid cancer.

Posted by: Oh by the way at August 12, 2026 04:05 PM (2Ez/1)

143 "She got arrested today."

We voted for this.
Posted by: Trumpsters at August 12, 2026 04:01 PM (2Ez/1)



Woah.......She's a Jabba missing a hut......



https://shorturl.fm/qbbGL

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 04:05 PM (2YhKe)

144 This is all the fault of a couple of rouge agents in the Cincinnati office.

They' and their supervisors have been assigned an additional week of training at the Waikiki Resort in Hawaii.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice a

Freaking Todd!

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 12, 2026 04:05 PM (YZ0Fo)

145 I thought Bondi's husband had breast cancer?

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 04:05 PM (+v1tm)

146 "First! Before nothing-will-happen guy.
Posted by: Auspex "

Uh, #26 & 29.


We are all NWHG in spirit.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 12, 2026 04:06 PM (trKrw)

147 I think he chewed it on that mountain bike.

Posted by: wth at August 12, 2026 04:06 PM (UjdFS)

148 145 Ha!

Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 04:06 PM (Jr5Lq)

149 Woah.......She's a Jabba missing a hut......

https://shorturl.fm/qbbGL

Gross tonnage.

Posted by: Also known as at August 12, 2026 04:06 PM (2Ez/1)

150 I heard Eddie Murphy punched Jimmy Walker in the lip!

Why Eddie?

I like Good Times.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 04:07 PM (+v1tm)

151 Leavitt has been a great Press Secretary. One of a kind. Sad to see her go.

I hope the next one is just as good.
Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 04:03 PM (+v1tm)

The Bad Lip Reading video of Sarah Huckabee Sanders from Trump's first administration is hilarious. I assume it's still available on YouTube.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 12, 2026 04:07 PM (lFFaq)

152 Leavitt has been a great Press Secretary. One of a kind. Sad to see her go.

I hope the next one is just as good.
Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 04:03 PM (+v1tm)

The next one should be a dude in a red fright wig and just hand out empty sheets of paper and answer every question with "I will circle back to you"

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 04:08 PM (uhVAy)

153 Woah.......She's a Jabba missing a hut......

https://shorturl.fm/qbbGL
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
.......

Thought bubble:
I'm so fat.

Posted by: wth at August 12, 2026 04:08 PM (UjdFS)

154 I heard Eddie Murphy punched Jimmy Walker in the lip!

Why Eddie?

I like Good Times.
Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 04:07 PM (+v1tm)


I heard a rumor that during the filming of "Any Given Sunday," a disagreement between LL Cool J and Jamie Foxx led to a scuffle where Foxx reportedly kicked the crap out of LL.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 04:08 PM (2YhKe)

155 I see the DOJ's theory for arresting the SPLC chick is that they didn't tell donors their dollars were going to her KKK boyfriend.

I have no idea how this will play out in court but based on what the Biden Junta did to right leaning orgs I am all for it and I want the news to be full of stories about how giving money to the KKK is a completely normal, legal thing for a leftwing group to do

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 04:08 PM (sKqQm)

156 If we can't have R. Lee Ermey as Press Secretary, I'd be satisfied with Rob Schnieder.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 04:08 PM (+v1tm)

157 If she just went by "Sarah Sanders" would anybody know who she is?

Posted by: I gotta ask at August 12, 2026 04:09 PM (2Ez/1)

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 04:09 PM (2YhKe)

159 Woof.

Hadn't had that happen in a while.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 04:09 PM (2YhKe)

160
Ham & Eggers.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 12, 2026 04:09 PM (OkYzo)

161 But somewhere soon after, probably the late 60s, it tipped over to largely working against the American people.

A trend that accelerated under Obama and, by Biden, saw nearly the whole of the federal government actively working against the American people.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 12, 2026 03:54 PM (3cUTc)


Friday, November 22, 1963

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 12, 2026 04:09 PM (ZVgZ4)

162 If we can't have R. Lee Ermey as Press Secretary, I'd be satisfied with Rob Schnieder.
Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 04:08 PM (+v1tm)



Well, one is dead, so........choices are limited there.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 04:09 PM (2YhKe)

163 Plenty is happening - all this stuff is coming out onto the interwebs and the people who backed it are being exposed. It can't be hidden behind the wall of silence anymore.

Yay! Raised cortisol levels and frustration for all! Even more disgust and hatred for the justice legal court system that has completely destroyed Rule of Law and placed the former United States deeper into the Failed State status

Posted by: Community Notes at August 12, 2026 04:10 PM (nAS9C)

164 Attack of the Italicans successfully defeated!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 12, 2026 04:10 PM (ZVgZ4)

165 162.

Marines don't die. They just fall back to regroup.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 04:10 PM (+v1tm)

166 When was the last Mitch sighting?

Posted by: Mildly curious at August 12, 2026 04:10 PM (2Ez/1)

167 When Biden left the VP slot he was reportedly worth about $1.5 million. Last year he was reportedly worth $10 million. That doesn’t even count some of the income on book deals, etc.

Weird.

That’s public information, dingleberry.

Posted by: That Guy at August 12, 2026 04:11 PM (3arSl)

168 Trust Wray

*giggles*

Posted by: Q at August 12, 2026 04:11 PM (anL5R)

169 The more we see, the more rotten we can see that it was...I mean, we knew it was rotten and coming from the top and sides...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 12, 2026 04:11 PM (l3cgK)

170 When Biden left the VP slot he was reportedly worth about $1.5 million. Last year he was reportedly worth $10 million. That doesn’t even count some of the income on book deals, etc.


Ayanna Presley went from a net worth of -18K to $8M in years on a $174K salary in congress.

Amazing how this stuff works isn't it?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 04:12 PM (sKqQm)

171 What if Trump had a Press Secretary that just spoke like Joe Biden at every press briefing?

They couldn't say shit about it.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 04:12 PM (+v1tm)

172 Yay! Raised cortisol levels and frustration for all! Even more disgust and hatred for the justice legal court system that has completely destroyed Rule of Law and placed the former United States deeper into the Failed State status
Posted by: Community Notes at August 12, 2026 04:10 PM (nAS9C)

Faith in the government is the last thing the founders wanted us to have. In fact after rebelling against one, they screwed up making a replacement and ditched it for a better setup.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 04:12 PM (uhVAy)

173 Pick had a few bad picks. You kind of waive your hand and go, eh he took bad advice. It sounds like Wray was one of the biggest dick munchers on the planet. Not sure how he missed that one.

Posted by: That Guy at August 12, 2026 04:13 PM (3arSl)

174 Russia, Russia! connected to Trump for years.

And yet, I think the Bidens & the Biden autopen minions (and more) were, and remain, Working Families Party socialists.

Biden coveted what Sanders but attacked his presidential campaign differently. Joey emphasized traditional ties to 'working-class families' and trade unions, and held events with distinct labor presence.

Sanders had long built a strong pro-labor platform that helped him earn notable endorsements from national unions. He's still raking them in for his endorsees.

Sanders supports a Green New Deal. So did Biden.

>Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders, Ramirez Reintroduce the Green New Deal for Public Housing Act, August 6, 2026, Press Release (It's back!)
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The WFP cross-endorsed and actively campaigned for Obama during his 2008 presidential run. He also hosted the White House Summit on Working Families in June 2014, focusing on issues like paid family leave, workplace flexibility, and affordable child care.

The Working Families Party (WFP) generally supported Joe Biden’s presidential runs and legislative goals.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 12, 2026 04:13 PM (NFX2v)

175 What if Trump had a Press Secretary that just spoke like Joe Biden at every press briefing?

They couldn't say shit about it.
Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 04:12 PM (+v1tm)

in true DEI spirit, we should have a deaf press secretary.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 04:13 PM (uhVAy)

176 Speaking of Rob Schneider, I rewatched "Deuce Bigelow" a few nights ago. It's still good.

Posted by: 88C+u at August 12, 2026 04:13 PM (88C+u)

177 Is Wray a cross dresser? I keep hearing something about a delicate satin draped frame…

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 12, 2026 04:13 PM (ZVgZ4)

178 I’m pretty sure that troll is a woman, and blinded by spluge.

Posted by: That Guy at August 12, 2026 04:14 PM (3arSl)

179
I thought Bondi's husband had breast cancer?
Posted by: sifty boones

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Are you thinking of Tulsi, whose husband has some kind of cancer?

Posted by: Nothing Happens Bureau at August 12, 2026 04:14 PM (XJ22o)

180 This is all the fault of a couple of rouge agents in the Cincinnati office.

They' and their supervisors have been assigned an additional week of training at the Waikiki Resort in Hawaii.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 12, 2026 04:03 PM (3cUTc)
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You forgot to take the fifth on all remaining questions.

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2026 04:14 PM (XMAAx)

181
Sock

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 04:14 PM (XJ22o)

182 Wray is the kind of character that a bad Tom Clancy ghost writer would write right before he got fired.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 04:14 PM (+v1tm)

183 Was Bondi the one with a husband that went tranny?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 04:15 PM (sKqQm)

184 Rumors and rumors of rumors…

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 12, 2026 04:15 PM (ZVgZ4)

185 180 This is all the fault of a couple of rouge agents in the Cincinnati office.

They' and their supervisors have been assigned an additional week of training at the Waikiki Resort in Hawaii.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 12, 2026 04:03 PM (3cUTc)
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You forgot to take the fifth on all remaining questions.

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2026 04:14 PM (XMAAx)

Cross-dressing Moulin Rouge agents...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 12, 2026 04:15 PM (l3cgK)

186 Was Bondi the one with a husband that went tranny?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 04:15 PM (sKqQm)

No, that was the one from West Dakota

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 04:15 PM (uhVAy)

187 Was Bondi the one with a husband that went tranny?
Posted by: 18-1

Noem.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 04:16 PM (wOO3z)

188 Is Jabba the Slut's KKK boyfriend also a biggun or is he normal sized?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 04:16 PM (sKqQm)

189 DSA candidates really need to stop just ignoring black voters, they don’t struggle with black voters they barely even acknowledge black voters

How are the moderates "acknowledging" black voters in ways the DSA isn't? Other than not specifically pandering to them with these platitudes or with the stoking of racial grievances ala Jasmine Crockett?

No, the dynamic here is that the DSA isn't really trying to hone in on any races votes specifically, and the black vote is more conservative, so they break for the "moderate" candidate

Moderates don’t boil everything down to class consciousness. I'm Indian American and my community is majority maybe Pete Buttigieg level liberal. I see this trend with a lot of minority communities.

Isnt race a distraction created by the capitalists, and class the truly important thing?

We do not live in a post-racial society yet.

DSA types fail to understand socialism isn’t un popular with white America because capitalist realism or whatever its because they think communism equals gay trans, and race mixing the greatest evil of all to them

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 12, 2026 04:16 PM (+/CWD)

190 And boomer libs still orgasm in their pants over Watergate.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 12, 2026 04:16 PM (gEIsK)

191 It's all a riddle inside an enigma wrapped in a retard.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 04:16 PM (+v1tm)

192 Unreal. No one is held accountable or punished.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 12, 2026 04:17 PM (hzuYO)

193 Imagine having Noem as your wife and you decide that your hairy ass would look better then her in slinky lingerie...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 04:17 PM (sKqQm)

194 “Rouge agents”? Were they following in the rumored tradition of J. Edgar Hoover?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 12, 2026 04:17 PM (ZVgZ4)

195
Hong hung low
Too funny
Posted by: Skip

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Hong gets the gong.

I'm sure there are tons of funnies out there today.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 04:17 PM (XJ22o)

196 Isnt race a distraction created by the capitalists, and class the truly important thing?

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 12, 2026 04:16 PM (+/CWD)

Liberal college kids discover science AND political theory!

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 04:18 PM (uhVAy)

197 Hong Gone Fooey

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 04:18 PM (+v1tm)

198 Isnt race a distraction created by the capitalists, and class the truly important thing?

The right: We should judge people by the content of their character not the color of their skin

The left: That's racist! In fact being color blind is the most racist thing that could be!

Also the left: Why do you rightwingers keep making everything about the color of someone's skin?!?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 04:19 PM (sKqQm)

199 Hong Gone Screwy.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 04:19 PM (wOO3z)

200 Hong Gone Fooey

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 04:18 PM (+v1tm)
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Hong Gone Floozy

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2026 04:19 PM (XMAAx)

201 And boomer libs still orgasm in their pants over Watergate.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 12, 2026 04:16 PM (gEIsK)

mostly just the press, and they had to be spoon fed everything by the deepsters. Heroes!

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 04:19 PM (uhVAy)

202 It was deliberately misspelled so that no evidence of the crime could be discovered through normal investigatory means.

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AKA Consciousness Of Guilt.

Posted by: ShainS at August 12, 2026 04:20 PM (dVpbe)

203 DSA types fail to understand socialism isn’t un popular with white America because capitalist realism or whatever its because they think communism equals gay trans, and race mixing the greatest evil of all to them

For the record if we are talking Shakira I'm down for race mixing right now.

OTOH, David French can handle the gay/trans side of things.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 04:20 PM (sKqQm)

204 Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 12, 2026 04:16 PM (+/CWD)

That's some authentic frontier Ivy League gibberish right there.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 12, 2026 04:21 PM (wrS5m)

205 188 Is Jabba the Slut's KKK boyfriend also a biggun or is he normal sized?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 04:16 PM

Fun size.
Like me.

Posted by: Snickers at August 12, 2026 04:21 PM (2Ez/1)

206 Per Breitbart: SPLC CFO arrested on fraud charges.

I was assured that nothing will happen. What is this sorcery?

Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2026 04:22 PM (2ocoG)

207
Unreal. No one is held accountable or punished.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

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These are the only Things Happening I can think of:

- Feeding Our Future fraudsters sentenced & fined (after YEARS of investigation)

- Fraction of illegals being deported

- Some Medicare/Medicaid/etc fraudsters arrested and charged

- Anti-ICE killers sentenced

- Other anti-ICE people charged somewhere maybe

But no one in the Deep State as far as I know has been touched. Anyone enlighten me and Christy?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 04:22 PM (XJ22o)

208 We do not live in a post-racial society yet.

I was watching a video by Jason Pargin who is a somewhat reasonable leftist on how race relations were better in the 80s/90s.

He's jumped on the general leftwing bandwagon of, "No things were worse then its just no one black or white knew it at the time!" which is another bit of stupid cognitive dissonance

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 04:22 PM (sKqQm)

209 Hong No Dong has more time to be a shitty chef.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 04:22 PM (+v1tm)

210 DSA types fail to understand socialism isn’t un popular with white America because capitalist realism or whatever its because they think communism equals gay trans, and race mixing the greatest evil of all to them
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It's also not too popular with black Americans.

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2026 04:22 PM (XMAAx)

211 "She got arrested today."

We voted for this.
Posted by: Trumpsters at August 12, 2026 04:01 PM (2Ez/1)

Woah.......Se's a Jabba missing a hut......


https://shorturl.fm/qbbGL
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 04:05 PM (2YhKe)
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The Sarlacc is gonna need TWO thousand years to digest all that..

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 04:22 PM (FZ29D)

212 It was deliberately misspelled so that no evidence of the crime could be discovered through normal investigatory means.

Google's been able to match misspellings on that level for 20 years, and AI search does it even better. They're gonna need to try a lot harder if they do this again.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2026 04:23 PM (2ocoG)

213 But no one in the Deep State as far as I know has been touched. Anyone enlighten me and Christy?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 04:22 PM (XJ22o)

All of those people were in the Deep State.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 04:23 PM (uhVAy)

214 Rouge agents”? Were they following in the rumored tradition of J. Edgar Hoover?"

Nah. Ford.

/river rouge, a recent art theme

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 04:24 PM (XuXeR)

215 I was assured that nothing will happen. What is this sorcery?
Posted by: Ian S

Nothing counts as "happened" until someone is convicted of a felony and is in prison serving that sentence.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 12, 2026 04:24 PM (+/CWD)

216 Listen fat! 23 skidoo and I shat upon you. Mom!

Posted by: Joe Biden, Potatoe Brain at August 12, 2026 04:24 PM (e2lsi)

217 Socialism is popular with two groups:

1) People that don't have much
2) People that don't realize they are in fact rich

and while immoral the former group is understandable - why not just steal from your neighbors instead of working yourself?

But the latter group? I'm surrounded by these people. They are in the top 10% of wage earners and live in multimillion dollar houses and for some reason believe they are working class so they'll get MORE stuff when the revolution comes

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 04:24 PM (sKqQm)

218 Surrendering for a photograph for 15 minutes before walking back out the door free into a Lincoln Navigator is not the same as being punished.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 04:24 PM (+v1tm)

219 It was deliberately misspelled so that no evidence of the crime could be discovered through normal investigatory means.

Google's been able to match misspellings on that level for 20 years, and AI search does it even better. They're gonna need to try a lot harder if they do this again.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2026 04:23 PM (2ocoG)

They type in the searches for the FoIA requests. I suppose this should end.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 04:24 PM (uhVAy)

220 Unless and until individuals are put up against the wall and shot and the FBI is plowed under the earth, this shit will keep happening.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 12, 2026 04:24 PM (YjkhO)

221 Google's been able to match misspellings on that level for 20 years, and AI search does it even better. They're gonna need to try a lot harder if they do this again.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2026 04:23 PM (2ocoG)

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One Word: Plastics Ebonics.

Posted by: ShainS at August 12, 2026 04:25 PM (dVpbe)

222 Hey guys, remember how the Republicans had ActBlue on the ropes forcing them to testify under oath before a committee and resulting in the representatives of ActBlue having to resort to the 5th Ammendment protection? Surely, that was the end of that fraud infested cheat factory....right?

(((ActBlue is having a record-breaking year for a midterm cycle in 2026, pulling in massive small-dollar donor hauls that surpass all previous non-presidential quarters in the organization's history.)))


JUSTICE!!!!

Posted by: Orson at August 12, 2026 04:25 PM (dIske)

223 Woah.......Se's a Jabba missing a hut......

https://shorturl.fm/qbbGL
Posted by: Sponge

Avast! I've spotted the beast!

Posted by: Captain Ahab at August 12, 2026 04:26 PM (+/CWD)

224 Woah.......Se's a Jabba missing a hut......"

The buffet... it's empty.

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 04:26 PM (XuXeR)

225 But the latter group? I'm surrounded by these people. They are in the top 10% of wage earners and live in multimillion dollar houses and for some reason believe they are working class so they'll get MORE stuff when the revolution comes
Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 04:24 PM (sKqQm)

With socialism, everyone thinks THEY will be the one passing out things to the 'social groups'. In the USSR it was the Politburo that got the Dachas, not the workers.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 04:26 PM (uhVAy)

226 Nothing counts as "happened" until someone is convicted of a felony and is in prison serving that sentence.

That's a goalpost move. "Nothing will happen" originally meant nobody would even be arrested.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2026 04:26 PM (2ocoG)

227 Unless and until individuals are put up against the wall and shot and the FBI is plowed under the earth, this shit will keep happening.

Honestly I don't think we have to go that far.

Right now this kind of crap in incentivized, yes, even still under Trump.

Chris Wray a career civil servant is some how worth $20M.

The first step is just end this crap where people in government get access to all sorts of deals and no show side jobs.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 04:27 PM (sKqQm)

228 I don't expect to see anyone on a chain gang from this.
Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 03:40 PM (4csOi)

You don't want them on a chain gang, because a future Donk President or GOP squish will pardon them.

You want them to "flee the country to avoid prosecution", and never be seen or heard from again.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2026 04:27 PM (1z8ji)

229
Why is Wray not standing in front of a firing squad?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 03:27 PM (2YhKe)




Firing squad my ass. Too honorable.

A Short Drop and a Sudden Stop
Hemp Necktie
Black Jack Ketchum Special (my personal favorite)

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 12, 2026 04:27 PM (y9nCu)

230 (((ActBlue is having a record-breaking year for a midterm cycle in 2026, pulling in massive small-dollar donor hauls that surpass all previous non-presidential quarters in the organization's history.)))


JUSTICE!!!!
Posted by: Orson at August 12, 2026 04:25 PM (dIske)

I thought all their staff quit a while ago to avoid questioning.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 04:27 PM (uhVAy)

231 Until I see a photo of an Army Ranger bayonetting Neville Singham I will be less than whelmed. Then my whelm will runneth over.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 04:28 PM (+v1tm)

232 For the record, the entire AoSHQ Copy Edit Army does not support the abomination "0xferd Comma".

Posted by: Assistant Associate AoSHQ Copy Editor, Punctuation Brigade, Comma Company at August 12, 2026 04:29 PM (0sNs1)

233 With socialism, everyone thinks THEY will be the one passing out things to the 'social groups'. "

They'll be getting things. 9 and 7.62...

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 04:29 PM (XuXeR)

234 228.

These people flee the country the way Roman Polanski flees the country.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 04:29 PM (+v1tm)

235 (((ActBlue is having a record-breaking year for a midterm cycle in 2026, pulling in massive small-dollar donor hauls that surpass all previous non-presidential quarters in the organization's history.)))
____

Unless DoJ is using this haul to collect evidence for the largest money laundering arrest in history in time for maximum effect for the midterms, then this just sucks.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 12, 2026 04:30 PM (gEIsK)

236
(((ActBlue is having a record-breaking year for a midterm cycle in 2026, pulling in massive small-dollar donor hauls that surpass all previous non-presidential quarters in the organization's history.)))


I remember diving into some act blue donations and it is hillarious how obvious it is fraud.

$5-$12 donations at random intervals to various candidates. Really? Not weekly, not biweekly, not monthly just random intervals of trivial amounts and thousands of people doing it.

Makes no sense from a real individual donations perspective - you aren't giving a bulk sum and you aren't donating based off of how you got paid.

But it makes perfect sense if someone is laundering large amounts of money through a bunch of nominal individual citizen accounts...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 04:30 PM (sKqQm)

237 Firing squad my ass. Too honorable.

A Short Drop and a Sudden Stop
Hemp Necktie
Black Jack Ketchum Special (my personal favorite)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 12, 2026 04:27 PM


May I suggest an alternative?

Posted by: zombie Vlad Tepes at August 12, 2026 04:30 PM (0sNs1)

238 228.

These people flee the country the way Roman Polanski flees the country.
Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 04:29 PM (+v1tm)

Outside the Beltway and not on "Meet the Press" = Siberia.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 04:30 PM (uhVAy)

239 (((ActBlue is having a record-breaking year for a midterm cycle in 2026, pulling in massive small-dollar donor hauls that surpass all previous non-presidential quarters in the organization's history.)))
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China probably has record donations, then.

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2026 04:31 PM (XMAAx)

240 Unless DoJ is using this haul to collect evidence for the largest money laundering arrest in history in time for maximum effect for the midterms, then this just sucks.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 12, 2026 04:30 PM


Nothing will happen.

Posted by: That Guy who sonorously intones "Nothing will happen." at August 12, 2026 04:31 PM (0sNs1)

241 I don't care what Heidi Beirich of the SPLC looks like. It's a reprehensible organization and I hope she gets some big fine, or jail time or both. She wouldn't be any less of a corrupt person if she looked like a blonde Wonder Woman in her prime.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 12, 2026 04:31 PM (y8wRt)

242 Nood

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 12, 2026 04:31 PM (W2Pud)

243 That's a goalpost move. "Nothing will happen" originally meant nobody would even be arrested.
Posted by: Ian S

I appreciate arrests, and think they're an important step...but ultimately they don't amount to the consequences we need to see. We've see way too many traitors and criminals arrested, only to have charges dropped, sweetheart plea deals remove consequences, corrupt judges intervene, etc.

Posted by: Captain Ahab at August 12, 2026 04:31 PM (+/CWD)

244
These people flee the country the way Roman Polanski flees the country.
Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 04:29 PM (+v1tm)



If Delta runs out of targets in the GWOT, I have a list.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 12, 2026 04:32 PM (y9nCu)

245 ActBlue is having a record-breaking year "

According to....

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 04:32 PM (XuXeR)

246 I thought all their staff quit a while ago to avoid questioning.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 04:27 PM (uhVAy)
______________________

Just some of the executives trying to avoid testifying. They surely still have a hand in operations (unofficially)...and they are packing in the $ as fast as possible and probably skipping a few safety precautions in the process. I assure you that a portion of the Welfare/Medical care / Pre-school/ Hospice FRAUD is making it's way back to them in tiny bundles that don't require FEC scrutiny. By about a month before the mid-terms the DNC will be reporting a massive windfall of grassroots donations instead of a $2 Million debt. And, the Republicans are content to let it happen. They already had their Kabuki performance, one show only.

Posted by: Orson at August 12, 2026 04:35 PM (dIske)

247 They type in the searches for the FoIA requests. I suppose this should end.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 04:24 PM (uhVAy)
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Yes, and from what I've heard of that, you have to put in voluminous batches of mispellings to make sure they didn't pull this kind of trick.

Because, yes, that's how FOIA search works.

(Protecting the corrupt).

And yes, you have to wait until all searches are done and each search is a different "case", again, from what I've heard about the process.

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2026 04:35 PM (XMAAx)

248 245 ActBlue is having a record-breaking year "

According to....
Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 04:32 PM (XuXeR)
_______________________

ActBlu's own filings and press releases. You might think that's a bias source, and it is. But, it's also a felony if proved otherwise.

Posted by: Orson at August 12, 2026 04:41 PM (dIske)

249 These people flee the country the way Roman Polanski flees the country.
Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 04:29 PM (+v1tm)

Which is why it was in scare quotes...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2026 04:42 PM (1z8ji)

250 One Word: Plastics Ebonics.
Posted by: ShainS at August 12, 2026 04:25 PM (dVpbe)


Where is Barbara Billingsley now that we need her?!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 12, 2026 04:54 PM (ZVgZ4)

251 I'd care a lot more about this if I thought there would be any consequences.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at August 12, 2026 05:54 PM (pE12i)

Massachusetts Becomes the Tenth Blue State to Authorize Abortions Up Until the Moment of Crowning

Safe, legal, and rare you guys.


Democratic Gov. Maura Healey was met with applause and smiles as she signed away Massachusetts' gestational limits on abortion, making the deep-blue state the 10th to permit the procedure up to birth.

Under the Prioritizing Patient Access to Care Act, health care workers will have greater discretion in determining whether to perform an abortion later in pregnancy, without facing legal penalties under the state's previous restrictions.

Healey said the law is intended to ensure families facing medical complications late in pregnancy can abort their babies in Massachusetts rather than having to travel out of state. Those complications can include maternal health complications and fatal diagnoses.

During the bill signing, Healey pledged to keep abortion safe, legal and accessible in Massachusetts for as long as she remains governor.

Oh, they dropped the "rare" and replaced it with "accessible," meaning "convenient."

Which is the opposite of "rare." 7-Elevens are not rare.


"We believe that health care decisions should be made between women and families and their doctors, not politicians," Healey said. "Abortion will remain safe. It will remain legal, and it will remain accessible here in Massachusetts. That's my commitment to you."

The bill is scheduled to take effect in 90 days. Previously, state law generally prohibited abortions after 24 weeks, with limited exceptions.

Massachusetts now joins Alaska, Colorado, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon and Vermont in removing gestational age limits on abortion, along with the District of Columbia.

...

SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser condemned the signing of the "egregious" law in a statement Monday, arguing that late-term abortions can involve dismemberment of the fetus.

Fox News is so liberal. There is no "can" here. Late-term abortions must involve dismembering and decapitating the baby, because the baby is now too large to pass through the birth canal without an actual birth.

"It should shock the conscience that tens of thousands of unborn Americans are barbarically dismembered limb by limb and torn apart every single year," she said. "Sadly, that number will only increase with Gov. Healey's approval of the Abortion Up Until Birth Bill. The GOP must abandon the 'leave it to the states' position -- a stance that permits egregious late-term abortion laws like this one -- and advance national protections for unborn children."

...

The other countries that allow such procedures include Australia, Canada, China, Guinea-Bissau, Mexico, South Korea and Vietnam, according to SBA.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:15 PM




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1 FIRST?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 02:16 PM (iFTx/)

2 Infanticide. May they all rot in hell forever.

Posted by: Pamazon at August 12, 2026 02:17 PM (b5MGU)

3 I know that the Chicago Pope won't do anything, but having Catholic Governor Maura Healey sign that should result in her immediate excommunication.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 12, 2026 02:17 PM (aD4fx)

4 Evil satanic murdering -monsters

Posted by: Gonzotx at August 12, 2026 02:18 PM (rjg+P)

5 Get your body parts right here. Arm leg torso -whatever you need -we got you covered!

Posted by: The Democrat Party at August 12, 2026 02:19 PM (nvKZ7)

6 They only go that far because infanticide isn't politically feasible.

Yet.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 12, 2026 02:19 PM (OUMaO)

7 "Healey said the law is intended to ensure families facing medical complications late in pregnancy can abort their babies in Massachusetts."

Complications = "The loser I fucked in a drunken stupor and got me pregnant doesn't wuv me anymore [sobs]"

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 02:20 PM (iFTx/)

8 "No one wants to do abortions up to birth. That's a Republican conspiracy theory."

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 02:20 PM (asFP3)

9 Authorize Abortions Up Until the Moment of Crowning"

We talking birth or regicide?

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 02:20 PM (XuXeR)

10 Guinea-Bissau?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2026 02:20 PM (Cqx++)

11 If they'll kill innocent babies, they'll surely kill us "infidels" to the Progressive Cult.

Posted by: The FINAL Final Solution at August 12, 2026 02:21 PM (qUkBO)

12 "Fox News is so liberal. There is no "can" here. Late-term abortions must involve dismembering and decapitating the baby, because the baby is now too large to pass through the birth control without an actual birth."

Ace - I think that should be birth canal

Posted by: Doof at August 12, 2026 02:21 PM (S0M0K)

13 Disgusting

Posted by: H at August 12, 2026 02:22 PM (cpYEo)

14 Looks like that's a "dude in a dress" on the far left. Amazing how trans insinuate themselves into *everything*.

Also interesting how many abortionists are gay guys. Almost as if they hate women and want to damage them as thoroughly as possible.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 12, 2026 02:23 PM (lFFaq)

15 I think that should be birth canal"

Canal, river, whatever...

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 02:23 PM (XuXeR)

16 Ace - I think that should be birth canal

Posted by: Doof at August 12, 2026 02:21 PM (S0M0K)

Apparently it's never too late for birth control.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 02:23 PM (asFP3)

17 The glee on the face of that blonde in the reddish/blackish dress is nothing but pure evil. No other explanation.

Posted by: Doof at August 12, 2026 02:23 PM (S0M0K)

18 There is not a single medically valid reason to abort in the third trimester. At that point, the baby's going to be delivered, dead or alive.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 12, 2026 02:23 PM (mkw2N)

19 As someone pointed out recently, abortion's killed more people than both World Wars, Stalin, and Mao combined. The left is a death cult, full stop.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2026 02:24 PM (2ocoG)

20 If they'll kill innocent babies, they'll surely kill us "infidels" to the Progressive Cult.
Posted by: The FINAL Final Solution


They can try. In fact, I pray they do try.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 12, 2026 02:24 PM (xHe0y)

21 Wanting to kill babies is pretty sick. Restricting it so you can only kill your own babies is double-plus sick.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 02:24 PM (uhVAy)

22 I hate Taxachusetts so much. If my company had an office up here in Live Free or Die country, I'd never set foot in it again. But NH is sadly too stupid to take advantage of their infinitely more stupid southern neighbor, and has been for decades.

I'm reading the John Adams book that was the basis for the HBO series, and it's such a bummer that the cradle of the American revolution has been completely subverted by gay race communism.

Lots of natural beauty in the state, but like CA the Democrats are trying as hard as possible to make it unlivable for anyone but them.

Posted by: MrUNIVAC at August 12, 2026 02:24 PM (7COU4)

23 Next they'll be talking about eating them.

Posted by: wth at August 12, 2026 02:25 PM (UjdFS)

24 Ace - I think that should be birth canal

Posted by: Doof at August 12, 2026 02:21 PM (S0M0K)

Apparently it's never too late for birth control.
Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 02:23 PM (asFP3)


The ultimate last minute form of birth control. Beyond sickening.

Posted by: Doof at August 12, 2026 02:25 PM (S0M0K)

25 "Surrounded by applauding women, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signed a sweeping abortion bill Monday that removes the state's gestational age limit"

Lotsa men secretly applauding too, or at least doing the old dodged-a-bullet "whew" thing.

It's insane that there's a much easier, cheaper, and more readily accessible solution to all these unwanted pregnancies. It's called "birth control." There are like 10 different birth control methods. Just pick one.

But nah. The lefty solution to unwanted pregnancies is to murder the baby and in many cases carve it up like bacon.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 02:25 PM (iFTx/)

26 health care decisions should be made between women and families and their doctors, not politicians,"

BTW, we're taking over more of your Healthcare.

/ the part she didn't say out loud

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 02:25 PM (XuXeR)

27 Ever notice how those FOR abortion have already won the Birth Canal Bingo?

Posted by: rickb223 at August 12, 2026 02:25 PM (xHe0y)

28 Something to keep in mind, you know you are pregnant by the 3rd month or so.

This is why most countries ban it after 6 months - you've know you were pregnant either get an abortion before that or you can't

Why would someone want to wait and then do it with the child is now viable?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 02:26 PM (sKqQm)

29 Everything is going according to plan....

Posted by: Satan at August 12, 2026 02:26 PM (asFP3)

30 health care decisions should be made between women and families and their doctors, not politicians,"

And the pizza shop you wanted to go into without have gotten the clot shot you racist NAZI bot

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 02:26 PM (sKqQm)

31 Posted by: Doof at August 12, 2026 02:21 PM (S0M0K)

Fixed.

At least for now!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2026 02:26 PM (l4RKn)

32 Looks like that's a "dude in a dress" on the far left. Amazing how trans insinuate themselves into *everything*.

Also interesting how many abortionists are gay guys. Almost as if they hate women and want to damage them as thoroughly as possible.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 12, 2026 02:23 PM (lFFaq)
____

And lesbians. My message to straight ladies: never take advice from lesbians. They do not have your interests in mind.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 02:27 PM (iFTx/)

33 health care decisions should be made between women and families and their doctors, not politicians,"

BTW, we're taking over more of your Healthcare.

/ the part she didn't say out loud
Posted by: man


Men/husbands/boyfriends not included.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 12, 2026 02:27 PM (xHe0y)

34 > The glee on the face of that blonde in the reddish/blackish dress is nothing but pure evil. No other explanation.

Every single one of them surrounding that table is rotten. They are zealots. There's no ethically or medically defensible reason for this law. They love it because it reduces restrictions on abortion.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 12, 2026 02:27 PM (mkw2N)

35 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 02:27 PM (2YhKe)

36 Why would someone want to wait and then do it with the child is now viable?

Posted by: 18-1

More to eat.

Posted by: Democrat at August 12, 2026 02:27 PM (UjdFS)

37 Massmurderchusetts

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 12, 2026 02:28 PM (ypoHM)

38 You can't convince me these evil creatures are the same species as me. Somewhere something happened in the human DNA and the lines split.

Homo Molechus happened.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 02:28 PM (+v1tm)

39 Ya no lum'n sonsabitches.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 02:28 PM (2YhKe)

40 Next they'll legalize murder of white people from birth to Social Security Eligibility. They have already done it unofficially, but they'll put paper to it soon.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 02:28 PM (+v1tm)

41 Surrounded by birth persons!

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 02:29 PM (asFP3)

42 Massmurderchusetts

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 12, 2026 02:28 PM (ypoHM)

I hate you.

I tried for a few minutes and gave up. I hate you.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 02:29 PM (asFP3)

43 Late-term abortions must involve dismembering and decapitating the baby, because the baby is now too large to pass through the birth control without an actual birth.
__________

And there's evidence that pain can be felt at as little as 15 weeks, maybe even less.

Pre Dobbs, my state required that the abortionist at least cause "fetal demise" before performing a D&C, which involved injecting potassium chloride into the heart, digoxin into the amniotic fluid, or severing the cord. PP forum shopped for a friendly federal judge and got the law struck down on the grounds that it created an unreasonable burden for abortionists to learn those procedures.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 12, 2026 02:29 PM (XvL8K)

44 Surrounded by applauding women"

White women.

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 02:29 PM (XuXeR)

45 Posted by: bonhomme at August 12, 2026 02:23 PM (mkw2N)

Correct. This procedure is *at least* as dangerous to the mother, leaving aside the guaranteed fatality to the baby, as any complications would be.

It's disturbing how many doctors in gynecology act like abortion is the one and only solution to all difficulties. There's a reason Hippocrates specifically forbade it along with the general "do no harm". Apparently, many medical schools no longer administer the oath at all. Something I think prospective patients should have a right to know.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 12, 2026 02:29 PM (lFFaq)

46 I dont even really care about the abortion issue, I would even call myself somewhat liberal on this issue, but every once in a while I'm reminded what ghouls the Democrats really are.

Posted by: Sharpie at August 12, 2026 02:29 PM (r13UX)

47 > health care decisions should be made between women and families and their doctors, not politicians

This argument is ridiculous because an abortion doctor will never ever advise against an abortion. Not ever. And many states have laws in place to hide abortion decisions from husbands and boyfriends. So it's really just one woman's decision.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 12, 2026 02:29 PM (mkw2N)

48 MA is one of the few states that would likely by bright blue even without fraud...

There are so many heritage American scum bags if you haven't been there you would not believe it...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 02:29 PM (sKqQm)

49 Prioritizing Patient Access to Care Act


It's just MAID for unborn babies, you guys......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 02:30 PM (2YhKe)

50 Soylent Green is babies.

Posted by: Democrat at August 12, 2026 02:30 PM (UjdFS)

51 Next step is to start decertifying doctors who won't play that game.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 02:31 PM (uhVAy)

52 Next they'll legalize murder of white people from birth to Social Security Eligibility. They have already done it unofficially, but they'll put paper to it soon.
Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 02:28 PM (+v1tm)


Post-3rd trimester. Gestational overtime.

Posted by: Doof at August 12, 2026 02:31 PM (S0M0K)

53 I look at that room and start to understand being gay.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 02:31 PM (asFP3)

54 Why would someone want to wait and then do it with the child is now viable?"

Wait, Hector has been deported?

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 02:31 PM (XuXeR)

55 Healey is a childless lesbian. Crushing babies skulls doesn't have much of an emotional impact on her

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 02:31 PM (WOnE5)

56 44 Surrounded by applauding women"

White women.
Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 02:29 PM (XuXeR)

Not one black or Hispanic woman in that crowd. There may be one Asian woman there.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 12, 2026 02:31 PM (0CU3H)

57 Healey said the law is intended to ensure families facing medical complications late in pregnancy can abort their babies in Massachusetts rather than having to travel out of state. Those complications can include maternal health complications and fatal diagnoses.


This is a lie.

It is intended to allow for any and all abortions, regardless, because it's a doctor's decision if they want to or not. There are no limitations.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 02:31 PM (2YhKe)

58 And lesbians. My message to straight ladies: never take advice from lesbians. They do not have your interests in mind.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 02:27 PM (iFTx/)

Very true.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 12, 2026 02:31 PM (lFFaq)

59 Something to keep in mind, you know you are pregnant by the 3rd month or so.

This is why most countries ban it after 6 months - you've know you were pregnant either get an abortion before that or you can't

Why would someone want to wait and then do it with the child is now viable?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 02:26 PM (sKqQm)
________

I think three reasons:

1. Outright laziness and procrastination.

2. There are women who like the "thrill" and attention of being pregnant, but aren't really committed to the baby. In the first 6 months, it's not really "real." But as the due date approaches, it becomes very real -- too real. So they panic and do the unthinkable.

3. I think the baby daddy plays into #2. He too might be caught up in being a father -- or at least feigning it -- until shit gets real. Then he's out the door. Girl is now abandoned, panics, and does the unthinkable.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 02:31 PM (iFTx/)

60 >>>Surrounded by applauding women"

White women.


Which is funny because abortion overwhelmingly kills black babies. Margaret Sanger would love it.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2026 02:32 PM (2ocoG)

61 Eh fuck gay, I look at that room and start to understand Sharia.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 02:32 PM (asFP3)

62 23 Next they'll be talking about eating them.

Wait they don’t do that already?

Posted by: morigu at August 12, 2026 02:32 PM (JuZ3M)

63 The pro-life side is ridiculous and makes no sense. Just wants to control women. No other arguments.

Posted by: Sid at August 12, 2026 02:32 PM (yzl9t)

64 I look at that room and start to understand being gay."

Si

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 02:33 PM (XuXeR)

65 "I think that should be birth canal"

Birth strait. Delivery channel.

Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 02:33 PM (Jr5Lq)

66 You can't convince me these evil creatures are the same species as me. Somewhere something happened in the human DNA and the lines split.

Homo Molechus happened.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 02:28 PM (+v1tm)

Sadly, this is not the case. History shows the human capacity for evil repeatedly. That's why you can never just 'go along'.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 02:33 PM (uhVAy)

67 And lesbians. My message to straight ladies: never take advice from lesbians. They do not have your interests in mind.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
.......

But they do throw the best "Tupperware" parties. IYKWIM

Posted by: wth at August 12, 2026 02:34 PM (UjdFS)

68 Ba'al worshipers pass there children through the flame.

Posted by: Eromero at August 12, 2026 02:34 PM (LHPAg)

69 My message to straight ladies: never take advice from lesbians. They do not have your interests in mind."

No one hates women more than women.

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 02:34 PM (XuXeR)

70 The GOP must abandon the 'leave it to the states' position -- a stance that permits egregious late-term abortion laws like this one -- and advance national protections for unborn children.

Unfortunately, the Supreme Court already ruled against that possibility.

When they overturned Roe v. Wade-- which set a national policy for allowing abortion-- the Supes basically said, "Nope, Roe v. Wade is unconstitutional, becuase there can't be any nationwide law regarding abortion." That ruling cuts both ways. It eliminated Roe v. Wade thereby allowing many pro-lifer states t set pro-life policies, but it also by the same measure allow pro-abortion states to set whatever pro-abortion laws they want.

It's just going to have to be a state-by-state battle from here on out. We're probably going to have to endure living in a country with states that allow abortion up until birth..

Posted by: zombie at August 12, 2026 02:34 PM (Av6i5)

71 The magic 1/4 inch comrade...

If only people had been screaming this was their goal for the last of 22 years or so....

Posted by: sven at August 12, 2026 02:34 PM (Int1s)

72 Why would someone want to wait and then do it with the child is now viable?"
-------

To see if it's sid

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 02:34 PM (asFP3)

73 Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 12, 2026 02:29 PM (XvL8K)

It probably was. Most abortionists are too incompetent to practice actual medicine. I wouldn't let one work on a pet I was fond of, much less a person.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 12, 2026 02:34 PM (lFFaq)

74 Not that this justifies it, but if makes people feel any better, it's almost exclusively Dem voters that will be taking advantage of the very liberal abortion laws.

They really are going extinct as a voter base, provided we can keep all the invaders out of our country.

Posted by: Sharpie at August 12, 2026 02:35 PM (r13UX)

75 Those fine salt of the earth Irish you always see in the bullshit cop shows and Backdraft are doing a fine job.

I now have a better list of states to shrug my shoulders about when the next natural disasters or terrorist attacks happen.

Massachusetts now joins Alaska, Colorado, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon and Vermont.

Throw in New York, California, and Rhode Island and you got yourself a fine mess of don't give a shit what happens to them.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 02:35 PM (EgBjZ)

76 making the deep-blue state the 10th to permit the procedure up to birth.
------

But Democrats are worried some "extremists" might try to take over!!

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 02:35 PM (asFP3)

77 MA is one of the few states that would likely by bright blue even without fraud...

There are so many heritage American scum bags if you haven't been there you would not believe it...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 02:29 PM (sKqQm)


I have been there, and I do believe it.

The South Coast area (Fall River/New Bedford) is semi-sane; virtually everywhere else in the state has terminal wokeism.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 12, 2026 02:35 PM (jGGMD)

78 65 "I think that should be birth canal"

Birth strait. Delivery channel.
Posted by: gp


The hemi-cloaca.

Posted by: zombie at August 12, 2026 02:35 PM (Av6i5)

79 "We believe that health care decisions should be made between women and families and their doctors, not politicians," Healey said.

Doctors who idolize Kermit Gosnell

Posted by: Doof at August 12, 2026 02:36 PM (S0M0K)

80 Black Lives Matter (har har)

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 02:36 PM (asFP3)

81 And Medicare for all!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2026 02:36 PM (Cqx++)

82 Evil whores. All of them.

Evil. Disgusting. Whores.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 02:37 PM (2YhKe)

83 Not that this justifies it, but if makes people feel any better, it's almost exclusively Dem voters that will be taking advantage of the very liberal abortion laws.

They really are going extinct as a voter base, provided we can keep all the invaders out of our country.
Posted by: Sharpie at August 12, 2026 02:35 PM (r13UX)

Leftists are born when they enter a liberal highschool or university. Children still are uncorrupted at the core for the most part.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 02:37 PM (uhVAy)

84
The hemi-cloaca.
Posted by: zombie at August 12, 2026 02:35 PM (Av6i5)



"You're gettin' a Hemi!!!!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 02:37 PM (2YhKe)

85 The GOP must abandon the 'leave it to the states' position -- a stance that permits egregious late-term abortion laws like this one -- and advance national protections for unborn children.

Unfortunately, the Supreme Court already ruled against that possibility.

When they overturned Roe v. Wade-- which set a national policy for allowing abortion-- the Supes basically said, "Nope, Roe v. Wade is unconstitutional, becuase there can't be any nationwide law regarding abortion." That ruling cuts both ways. It eliminated Roe v. Wade thereby allowing many pro-lifer states t set pro-life policies, but it also by the same measure allow pro-abortion states to set whatever pro-abortion laws they want.

It's just going to have to be a state-by-state battle from here on out. We're probably going to have to endure living in a country with states that allow abortion up until birth..
Posted by: zombie

===
I never really understood the logic that overturning Roe vs Wade would fix everything.

I predicted ages ago, that if states could vote on this, basically all 50 states would vote on some form of legalized abortion.

I would even say the abortion laws overall got way worse, sadly

Posted by: Sharpie at August 12, 2026 02:37 PM (r13UX)

86 Western ,more rural Mass used to be rational . Then the left discovered the Berkshires and most of Western Mass went the same way as Harvard Yard

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 02:38 PM (WOnE5)

87 Surrounded by applauding women"

White women.
Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 02:29 PM (XuXeR)
_______

Which is ironic because white woman -- especially affluent white women like those in the video -- are almost statistically never gonna want or need an abortion.

Abortion is overwhelmingly a black and latina thing, mostly in the lower income brackets.

These AWFuLs cheering on abortions are channeling Margaret Sanger: they're cheering on poor minority ladies carrying out their own genocide. Sick.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 02:38 PM (iFTx/)

88 > Birth strait. Delivery channel.

Spawn slide.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 12, 2026 02:38 PM (mkw2N)

89 Save a baby
Spay a leftist

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 12, 2026 02:38 PM (ypoHM)

90 So modern democrats now support child care like the Aztecs.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 12, 2026 02:38 PM (0U5gm)

91 Throw in New York, California, and Rhode Island and you got yourself a fine mess of don't give a shit what happens to them.
Posted by: sifty boones

What is a "Rhode Island"?

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 12, 2026 02:38 PM (YZ0Fo)

92 Jake from BarrNone called the birth canal "God's 3D Printer."

Posted by: pookysgirl at August 12, 2026 02:38 PM (HYpDC)

93 Leftists are born when they enter a liberal highschool or university. Children still are uncorrupted at the core for the most part.
Posted by: Oldcat

==

People tend to land on their parent's politics and values. It's a really high ratio, like 80%.

Posted by: Sharpie at August 12, 2026 02:38 PM (r13UX)

94 Eh fuck gay, I look at that room and start to understand Sharia.
Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 02:32 PM (asFP3)


There's a reason "Islam is right about women" is one of the guaranteed ways to blue-screen a leftist.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2026 02:39 PM (2ocoG)

95 The ones having the abortions are the ones who'd otherwise be raising their offspring to hate you.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 12, 2026 02:39 PM (DZ9Lv)

96
Commonsense, moderate Democratic policy on abortion:

No restrictions
No exemptions
No alternatives
No opposition

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2026 02:39 PM (O0L8i)

97 66. Oldcat. You are right.

Evil never sleeps. Evil is the default setting of history.

We locked two generations of our best overseas when we should have been burning this horseshit to the ground.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 02:39 PM (EgBjZ)

98 I predicted ages ago, that if states could vote on this, basically all 50 states would vote on some form of legalized abortion.

I would even say the abortion laws overall got way worse, sadly
Posted by: Sharpie at August 12, 2026 02:37 PM (r13UX)


Events have borne this out, unfortunately, at least here in MO.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 12, 2026 02:39 PM (jGGMD)

99 These AWFuLs cheering on abortions are channeling Margaret Sanger: they're cheering on poor minority ladies carrying out their own genocide. Sick.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 02:38 PM (iFTx/)

Not sick. Evil. Very, very evil.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 12, 2026 02:39 PM (lFFaq)

100 What is a "Rhode Island"?
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 12, 2026 02:38 PM (YZ0Fo)


$20, same as in town.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2026 02:39 PM (2ocoG)

101 Having a doctor do in the babe is more scientific and ethical than bashing head against the boxcar.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 12, 2026 02:40 PM (gm9Sb)

102 7-Elevens are not rare.
----
They will be if the commies have their way.

Maybe they'll force 7-Elevens to start offering abortion services in order to stay in business.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 02:40 PM (FZ29D)

103
The Black Genocide Act of 2026

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2026 02:41 PM (O0L8i)

104 91.

Mythical postage stamp with a bunch of commie fags living on it.

Where Narnia dumps its septic tank.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 02:41 PM (EgBjZ)

105 Leftists are born when they enter a liberal highschool or university. Children still are uncorrupted at the core for the most part.
Posted by: Oldcat

==

People tend to land on their parent's politics and values. It's a really high ratio, like 80%.
Posted by: Sharpie at August 12, 2026 02:38 PM (r13UX)

There's entire web sites of pictures of a kid going off to college looking normal and then a picture 2 years later being cut up, pierced and tatted. That ratio isn't good enough.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 02:41 PM (uhVAy)

106 Women without natural affections.

They've turned their divine gift to create and nurture life into a ghoulish obsession for causing and encouraging death--of the very most innocent lives of all.

This is what the witchcraft of man and worship of demons turns women into.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 12, 2026 02:41 PM (3cUTc)

107 The left: The pro-life argument makes no sense

Also the left: We have to bring rapists and murderers into our country because they can't get on welfare back home

Also, also the left: Oh and we need end capital punishment because even serial killers have a right to life

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 02:41 PM (sKqQm)

108 Surrounded by applauding women, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signed a sweeping abortion bill Monday that removes the state’s gestational age limit, giving health care providers greater discretion to perform abortions later in pregnancy.
______________________________

Trust the science, you guys. This is the equivalent to murdering someone if they dare to try and get out of the local swimming pool.

Incidentally, who wants to start the betting pool on the application of Euthanasia on minors of they become too much of a burden on the parent's lifestyle?

Posted by: Orson at August 12, 2026 02:41 PM (dIske)

109
They cheer the mutilation of children for their gender bender wants. What's the death of a fully developed to them?

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 12, 2026 02:41 PM (OkYzo)

110 So wrong. It's beyond gross.

Posted by: connected and litigious at August 12, 2026 02:42 PM (cS1cw)

111 These AWFuLs cheering on abortions are channeling Margaret Sanger: they're cheering on poor minority ladies carrying out their own genocide. Sick.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 02:38 PM (iFTx/)

Not sick. Evil. Very, very evil.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 12, 2026 02:39 PM (lFFaq)

Note that Sanger is one of their heroes.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 02:42 PM (uhVAy)

112 Human culling.

Posted by: mrp at August 12, 2026 02:42 PM (rj6Yv)

113 I'd vote for retroactive.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 12, 2026 02:43 PM (EZtVN)

114 Infant Outlet

Posted by: bonhomme at August 12, 2026 02:43 PM (mkw2N)

115 The left: The pro-life argument makes no sense

Also the left: We have to bring rapists and murderers into our country because they can't get on welfare back home

Also, also the left: Oh and we need end capital punishment because even serial killers have a right to life
Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 02:41 PM (sKqQm)

Yes, the Dems platform of killing the innocent to protect the most guilty has always been ghastly.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 02:43 PM (uhVAy)

116 You can't convince me these evil creatures are the same species as me. Somewhere something happened in the human DNA and the lines split.

Homo Molechus happened.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 02:28 PM (+v1tm)
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Every single one of them has a devil on their shoulder whispering sweet nothings into their ear...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 02:44 PM (FZ29D)

117 They cheer the mutilation of children for their gender bender wants. What's the death of a fully developed to them?

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 12, 2026 02:41 PM (OkYzo)
_________

And they'd gleeful put us all in boxcars to concentration camps for out-of-the extermination. Demons, the whole fucking stinking lot of them.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 02:44 PM (iFTx/)

118 "7-Elevens are not rare."

Google AI sez: "The United States has approximately 12,172 to 13,247 7-Eleven stores (including corporate and franchised locations of 7-Eleven, Speedway, and Stripes)"

But the good news is that Casey's is catching up, with around 2,950 stores across 19 states. Go Casey's!

Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 02:44 PM (Jr5Lq)

119 And there's evidence that pain can be felt at as little as 15 weeks, maybe even less.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 12, 2026 02:29 PM (XvL8K)


This is the slippery slope that has allowed the debate to move from: Life is precious, to some changing definition of viability and humanness or whatever.

I don't care whether the baby can feel pain. He or she is a human being and deserves our protection.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2026 02:44 PM (l4RKn)

120 As many here have said, there isn't a single one of those evil broads who would not wear out a 3hp GinchMaster 9000 while watching us all be machinegunned into a trench.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 02:44 PM (EgBjZ)

121 121 7-11 hot dogs vs Casey's pizza. Discuss.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 12, 2026 02:45 PM (gm9Sb)

122 Kermit Gosnell had some patents on abortion "tools". Or applied for them.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 02:46 PM (wOO3z)

123 But the good news is that Casey's is catching up, with around 2,950 stores across 19 states. Go Casey's!
Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 02:44 PM (Jr5Lq)
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Casey's pizza is surprisingly good.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 02:46 PM (FZ29D)

124 There needs to be a lot of women's narratives on what their abortion was like, and why they regret it today.

That is going to be the main way to try to save babies

Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2026 02:46 PM (rbvCR)

125 Rare, accessible, it's all the same.

It's like when one chicken store says their chicken is "hot, crispy, and delicious," and the next says theirs is "cold, soggy, and bland."

It's all the same, right?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 12, 2026 02:46 PM (BI5O2)

126 I predicted ages ago, that if states could vote on this, basically all 50 states would vote on some form of legalized abortion.

I would even say the abortion laws overall got way worse, sadly
Posted by: Sharpie at August 12, 2026 02:37 PM (r13UX)


Events have borne this out, unfortunately, at least here in MO.
Posted by: Dr. T at August 12, 2026 02:39 PM (jGGMD)

I don't think that's quite true. Most states have very few or no abortion centers. MO only had one, i recall. It is an industry in very few areas.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 02:46 PM (uhVAy)

127 My next-door neighbor--a total lockstep Democrat--just adopted a stray cat that had been brought in to the city pound. (Well, his daughter adopted it without consulting the parents.) Standard pratice at the pund is when a stray female feral cat is brought in, they always sterilize it, to prevent stray cat overpopulation. And if the cst (as often happens) is also already pregnant-- they abrt the little pre-born kitten.

That's what happened with his new cat. The daughter brought it home, it was acted crazy and weird, they called up the pound, who said, "Oh, yeah, when we fixed her, she was about to give birth, so we terminated it. Mama cats kinds go crazy for a whole when that happened because their hormones spin out of control."

He told me all this as we watched the cat indeed acting insane in his yard - -yowling, digging random holes and looking in them (apparent for the lost kittens), alternately hissing and puring and nothing, etc. It was really sad to watch.

Anyway, the whole pintis, while telling me this, he dug himself into a verbal hole and couldn't think of a word other than "abortion" to describe what the pund had done to the cat. But he didn't want to say it.

Posted by: zombie at August 12, 2026 02:46 PM (Av6i5)

128 Remember when Bill Clinton campaigned on making abortion "safe, legal and rare?"

One out of the 3 is all that they really wanted.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 12, 2026 02:46 PM (3cUTc)

129 As many here have said, there isn't a single one of those evil broads who would not wear out a 3hp GinchMaster 9000 while watching us all be machinegunned into a trench.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 02:44 PM (EgBjZ)

While National Review and much of the GOP cheers

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 02:47 PM (asFP3)

130 Casey's has good gas station pizza. I was surprised.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 02:47 PM (wOO3z)

131
Ask a Democrat whether a live birth in the course of an abortion is now a child with rights. You won't get a straight answer.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2026 02:47 PM (O0L8i)

132 There's entire web sites of pictures of a kid going off to college looking normal and then a picture 2 years later being cut up, pierced and tatted. That ratio isn't good enough.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 02:41 PM (uhVAy)

Happened to my Middlest Kidlet. Drop dead gorgeous, and not just me saying so, but autistic and found the attention she automatically got to be creepy and frightening. Got away from home and got a new group of "friends" who told her they had a solution to all that. She's very smart, but super gullible, and believed every word.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 12, 2026 02:47 PM (lFFaq)

133 These same mutherfuckers would be screaming stop over a litter of puppies or kittens.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 12, 2026 02:48 PM (EZtVN)

134 There needs to be a lot of women's narratives on what their abortion was like, and why they regret it today.

That is going to be the main way to try to save babies
Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2026 02:46 PM (rbvCR)

Those stories have been around since the 70s, I heard it all because the Catholics kept us informed on what it was about, even us kids. The political machine has perfected the suppression of information in that way due to the abortion lobby.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 02:48 PM (uhVAy)

135 44 Surrounded by applauding women"

White women.
Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 02:29 PM (XuXeR)

See also: Trained seals

Posted by: TxAnn at August 12, 2026 02:48 PM (SjAWL)

136 But the good news is that Casey's is catching up, with around 2,950 stores across 19 states. Go Casey's!

As a Midwestern-born resident of a place I like less, I love the advance of Casey's. But I'm distraught at the demise of Kum and Go.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2026 02:49 PM (2ocoG)

137 Abortion will always be legal as long as Congress needs the services so much.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 02:49 PM (EgBjZ)

138 44 Surrounded by applauding women"

White women.
Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 02:29 PM (XuXeR)

See also: Trained seals
Posted by: TxAnn at August 12, 2026 02:48 PM

Liberal white women.

Posted by: G. Orwell at August 12, 2026 02:49 PM (2Ez/1)

139 Standard pratice at the pund is when a stray female feral cat is brought in, they always sterilize it, to prevent stray cat overpopulation.

Posted by: zombie at August 12, 2026 02:46 PM (Av6i5)
________

"Fuck you, ya wanker"

-- Brian Setzer

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 02:49 PM (iFTx/)

140 Surrounded by applauding women"

White women.
Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 02:29 PM (XuXeR)

See also: Trained seals
Posted by: TxAnn at

You'll be hearing from our lawyers!
-Trained seals Local 647

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 12, 2026 02:49 PM (YZ0Fo)

141 Surrounded by applauding women" /i]

Unmarried women aren't really...they are married to Uncle Sugar and will do whatever Uncle Sugar says.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 02:49 PM (sKqQm)

142 I don't think that's quite true. Most states have very few or no abortion centers. MO only had one, i recall. It is an industry in very few areas.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 02:46 PM (uhVAy)

There were more abortions in 2025 than there were before Roe was struck down.

1,126,000, which was up from 2024, which was up from 2023, which was up from 2022.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 02:50 PM (AdHga)

143 Alaska?

Posted by: alanon at August 12, 2026 02:50 PM (tpsNe)

144 There is no national divorce. There is only Bosnia.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 12, 2026 02:50 PM (dK+Kv)

145 He told me all this as we watched the cat indeed acting insane in his yard - -yowling, digging random holes and looking in them (apparent for the lost kittens), alternately hissing and puring and nothing, etc. It was really sad to watch.

Anyway, the whole pintis, while telling me this, he dug himself into a verbal hole and couldn't think of a word other than "abortion" to describe what the pund had done to the cat. But he didn't want to say it.
Posted by: zombie at August 12, 2026 02:46 PM (Av6i5)

its called grieving. My cats grieve when their friends and companions die as much as I do.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 02:51 PM (uhVAy)

146 Casey's, in some areas, will even have pizza delivery for their not bad pizza. I live in one of those areas and have a Casey's a block away. Most handy when most drunk.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 12, 2026 02:51 PM (gm9Sb)

147 > Alaska?

Hawaiya?

Posted by: bonhomme at August 12, 2026 02:51 PM (mkw2N)

148 What's the typical demographic of women who take advantage of this type of abortion? Is there any data on this?

I have a suspicion. But it's not something I dwell on.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 12, 2026 02:51 PM (2Cry5)

149 98 Yes so the cool kids all sit at the dining room table while a preggo sits on it with legs spread and gives birth to be eaten alive by the cool kids....
Posted by: Yer Sistas Azz at August 12, 2026 02:39 PM (jwV5
Eerily specific.

Posted by: Eromero at August 12, 2026 02:51 PM (LHPAg)

150 Please, think of the kittens

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 12, 2026 02:52 PM (83sl1)

151 These same mutherfuckers would be screaming stop over a litter of puppies or kittens.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 12, 2026 02:48 PM (EZtVN)

Unless their hero Fauci was doing it....

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 02:52 PM (asFP3)

152 Massachusetts Legalizes Abortion Up Until Kindergarten

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From the Bee.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 12, 2026 02:52 PM (ndZc7)

153 As someone who'd lived in Massachusetts in my formatives years, I say the fewer Massholes the better.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 12, 2026 02:52 PM (bX16E)

154 The movie Eden has the most insane delivery I've ever seen presented - the woman is being threatened by wild dogs as she goes into labor...and supposedly it is based on real events.

We've gone from that to...well, baby daddy turned out to be an asshole so time to kill his baby...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 02:53 PM (sKqQm)

155 really some sick shit. 100% murder of the most innocent. These people have to be satan worshippers

Posted by: SamIam at August 12, 2026 02:53 PM (wlfXV)

156 ---
Casey's pizza is surprisingly good.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 02:46 PM (FZ29D)



It has no choice but to be better than Hunt Brother's........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 02:53 PM (2YhKe)

157 Monstrous. I only wish someone had brought in a sacrificial newborn infant and laid her on the governors desk, and passed around a knife asking these smiling ghouls to take the first stab.

Posted by: LASue at August 12, 2026 02:53 PM (qtfk+)

158 I seem to always be a thread or two late, but I thought this was interesting:

Crowley beat Wong in WI because undecided DEMs broke heavily for Crowley. The reason they give is "concerns about Wong's electability."

I hate it when DEMs show any sign of common sense like that.

Posted by: mnw at August 12, 2026 02:53 PM (RCjYY)

159 109
They cheer the mutilation of children for their gender bender wants. What's the death of a fully developed to them?

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 12, 2026 02:41 PM (OkYzo)

What'll be interesting to see is how they react to the outcome of the Lindsay Clancy trial.

This is a high profile case where the mother, suffering from post partum depression, killed her 3 children, including an 8 month old. Then she tried to commit suicide (unsuccessfully) by slitting her throat and wrists then doing a "peter pan" out the top floor window of their house.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 12, 2026 02:53 PM (N39Ws)

160 133 Remember when Bill Clinton campaigned on making abortion "safe, legal and rare?"

One out of the 3 is all that they really wanted.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

-----------------
Taxpayer paid!

That was always their goal as they ere driven by PP.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 12, 2026 02:53 PM (7PtGv)

161 The GOP must abandon the 'leave it to the states' position -- a stance that permits egregious late-term abortion laws like this one -- and advance national protections for unborn children."
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The GOP never did the rhetorical or intellectual work on repealing Roe v. Wade--even though every Republican running for federal office since Reagan promised to repeal it.

Because none of them really believed what they said.
And none of them ever expected it to happen.
But, boy-howdy, what a nice, throw-away line they all could use to pretend to be conservative and get the vote of the religious.

I mean, look at how they all sputter and short-circuit now when asked now about abortion?
All they ever had was repeating the phrases someone else coined--they never believed abortion was an evil.

One candidate actually believed what he said:
Donald J. Trump

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 12, 2026 02:53 PM (3cUTc)

162 Nice. Most of the time, late term abortions are life saving. Modern conservatives won't believe that because of the fear, anger, and hatred they consume, but it's the truth.

But these same conservative women are first to be all up in the news when they're the ones who need an abortion. You know, cuz the only moral abortion is their abortion.

By leaving it up to the states the issue has become even more polarized. Perfectly legal women's health in one state can get you prison time or even the death penalty in another. We won't last long as a country like this. TRUST DOCTORS.

Look at Gov Healey's signing ceremony. Are we sure this is good for women’s health I don’t see any men in the video making decisions?!?! /s

Our side tried mightily to compromise and reason this out to a system with checks and balances. The other side just said, "Fuck you. My way or nothing. And, my way is nothing." Reap what you sowed.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 12, 2026 02:54 PM (+/CWD)

163 What's the typical demographic of women who take advantage of this type of abortion? Is there any data on this?

I have a suspicion. But it's not something I dwell on.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 12, 2026 02:51 PM (2Cry5)
________

See my comment above for some suggestions ....

We will never get anything approaching accurate statistics for late-term because the NPC coding is that 100% of late-term abortions are because of serious health issues, and not at all because of the "mother's" convenience.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 02:54 PM (iFTx/)

164 A bunch of smiling demons clapping for infantcide.

Posted by: Biergood at August 12, 2026 02:54 PM (PwgSL)

165 As someone pointed out recently, abortion's killed more people than both World Wars, Stalin, and Mao combined. The left is a death cult, full stop.
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Slavery was worth fighting a civil war over.

But abortion is something we should resolve with talk and acceptance, apparently.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at August 12, 2026 02:54 PM (vSvIl)

166 Abortion will always be legal as long as Congress needs the services so much.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 02:49 PM (EgBjZ)

You don't think they'd just exempt themselves like they have from everything else. The first time that happened the doors of congress needed to be sealed closed until those who voted for it were executed and replaced.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 12, 2026 02:54 PM (lFFaq)

167 Thank Buc-Ee's.

They made it cool to be clean, bright and pleasant when refueling again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 02:55 PM (2YhKe)

168 Hong Gone Fooey

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 02:55 PM (EgBjZ)

169 There were more abortions in 2025 than there were before Roe was struck down.

1,126,000, which was up from 2024, which was up from 2023, which was up from 2022.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 02:50 PM (AdHga)

Not surprising, they had to rally the troops around the only thing they could agree upon, owning the red staters by killing their kids.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 02:55 PM (uhVAy)

170 They have abortion until birth. Canada has "assisted" euthanasia. Seems like the hard moral lines on human life keep getting pushed to a smaller and smaller domain...
Next hurdle is post-birth abortion.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 12, 2026 02:56 PM (l3cgK)

171 Remember when Bill Clinton campaigned on making abortion "safe, legal and rare?"

One out of the 3 is all that they really wanted.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice



And yet, it's not really all that safe. How many deaths have there been on abortion tables in the last year?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 02:56 PM (2YhKe)

172 "We believe that health care decisions should be made between women and families and their doctors, not politicians," Healey said.

==

"Not politicians...or the full-term babies themselves!!"

This is sickness beyond anything I can comprehend. A full-term baby abortion is pure and simple murder. I wouldn't want to be any of these ghastly, irredeemable people when they face judgement day.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 12, 2026 02:56 PM (qBdHI)

173 Infanticide and Euthanasia have always been the end game.

Posted by: RS at August 12, 2026 02:56 PM (GYx3d)

174 Reap what you sowed.
---------

Ha ha ha. Indeed.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 02:56 PM (asFP3)

175 Ahh, what might have been.

Andrew Kaczynski
@KFILE
How much of Hong’s loss can be attributed to her bizarre decision to spend the last 10 days of the campaign responding to questions about abolishing the police or Thanksgiving abolition? She could’ve just not gone on national TV.

MeliAndee
@meliandee
Andrew: why couldn’t she have just hid her crazy for a few days?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 12, 2026 02:56 PM (ndZc7)

176 Next hurdle is post-birth abortion.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 12, 2026 02:56 PM (l3cgK)



That's what 'immigrants' are for.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 02:57 PM (2YhKe)

177 See my comment above for some suggestions ....

We will never get anything approaching accurate statistics for late-term because the NPC coding is that 100% of late-term abortions are because of serious health issues, and not at all because of the "mother's" convenience.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 02:54 PM (iFTx/)

Convenience has always been a serious health issue in the abortion game. Since day 1.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 02:57 PM (uhVAy)

178 Crowley beat Wong in WI because undecided DEMs broke heavily for Crowley. The reason they give is "concerns about Wong's electability."

In the LA mayor race and a number of other high profile elections they told us the flood of votes for the leftwing candidate was because those are last minute mail in voters.

Here they say its because that demographic is instead moderate, not left.

Let me suggest in both cases those weren't real votes.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 02:57 PM (sKqQm)

179 166.

It sickens me to think of how many abortions the Kennedys and Swalwell-types in Congress have generated in 250 years.

They won't even let us see how many payoffs they have made to keep people quiet.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 02:57 PM (EgBjZ)

180 If we're garbage people and deplorable because we say forbidden words, what the fuck are these?

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 02:57 PM (asFP3)

181 They have abortion until birth. Canada has "assisted" euthanasia. Seems like the hard moral lines on human life keep getting pushed to a smaller and smaller domain...
Next hurdle is post-birth abortion.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 12, 2026 02:56 PM (l3cgK)

Didn't they pass that law in Virginia already?

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 02:58 PM (uhVAy)

182 If we're garbage people and deplorable because we say forbidden words, what the fuck are these?
Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 02:57 PM (asFP3)



Beasts from the depths of Hell.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 02:58 PM (2YhKe)

183
The Kermit Gosnell Memorial Act

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2026 02:59 PM (O0L8i)

184 Here they say its because that demographic is instead moderate, not left.

Let me suggest in both cases those weren't real votes.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 02:57 PM (sKqQm)


But they were useful votes, which is enough for a leftist.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 02:59 PM (uhVAy)

185 Eh fuck gay, I look at that room and start to understand Sharia.
Posted by: ...



Beating them with broomsticks I could get behind.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 12, 2026 02:59 PM (xHe0y)

186 They're doing anything they can to keep the shit goblins engaged.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 02:59 PM (wOO3z)

187 148 What's the typical demographic of women who take advantage of this type of abortion? Is there any data on this?

I have a suspicion. But it's not something I dwell on.
Posted by: Martini Farmer


I'll just say it:

Fat teenage black girls who didn't even realize they were pregnant. That's what accounts for at least half of these 8th-month abortions.

The whole argument about "doctors are afraid to perform necessary medical procedures because they're afraid of being accused of performing a late-term abortion" is a total lie, a fake narrative. That almost never happens. What does happen is that dumb girls don;'t even know they;'re pregnant (or don't want to admit it to themselves or anyone else) until they eventually realize that pretending the problem doesn't exist doesn't make the problem go away.

But the Left doesn't mind this fact at all because the whole original purpoe of legalizing abortion was to decrease the number of black babies, a key part of Margret Sanger's eugenics movement.

Posted by: zombie at August 12, 2026 03:00 PM (Av6i5)

188 Question: if you can legally kill the unborn at 9 months gestation (meaning that child could have lived outside the womb), what does that mean for premature babies?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 12, 2026 03:00 PM (l3cgK)

189 That was then.

Geraldo Rivera Calls On Trump To Apologize For "Shithole Countries" Remark

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This is now.

Geraldo Rivera
@GeraldoRivera
Expelling Haitian immigrants is sending them straight to hell.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 12, 2026 03:01 PM (ndZc7)

190 Don't these clapping broads know how not to get pregnant?

Idiots.

Posted by: ATM at August 12, 2026 03:01 PM (e2lsi)

191
And yet, it's not really all that safe. How many deaths have there been on abortion tables in the last year?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 02:56 PM (2YhKe)

Well since soon they will have to wrestle down the 6 foot 5 linebacker for the 16 year post birth abortion procedures soon to come, they aren't likely to get a better group of doctors.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 03:01 PM (uhVAy)

192 What Republicans should be countering with is the repeal of child support laws.

There never, ever was a problem of "deadbeat" dads.
It was sloven rakes who shacked up with a loser she knew was a loser and now she engages in emotional blackmail of religious men, claiming that she's akin to widow and entitled to their sympathies.

No.

Why are the resources of the state being used to protect them from the consequences of their choices?
Your daughter is not going to suffer that fate, why do you support laws that reward other women who've made poor choices?

If women can terminate the baby, men should have the right to terminate any support.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 12, 2026 03:01 PM (3cUTc)

193 177 Ironically the Dead Kennedys best album was titled "Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death"

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 12, 2026 03:03 PM (bX16E)

194
And yet, it's not really all that safe. How many deaths have there been on abortion tables in the last year?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 02:56 PM (2YhKe)

_________

Post-Roe deaths were about the same as pre-Roe.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2026 03:03 PM (O0L8i)

195 "Healey said the law is intended to ensure families facing medical complications late in pregnancy can abort their babies in Massachusetts


———

But that already existed, in fact this law removed the medical requirements. Someone on that side needs to tell me what the difference is between this or the day after birth. This is beyond disturbing.

Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2026 03:03 PM (ZdaMQ)

196 Question: if you can legally kill the unborn at 9 months gestation (meaning that child could have lived outside the womb),

what does that mean for premature babies?...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)


I was one. I am so thankful for my parents.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 12, 2026 03:04 PM (xHe0y)

197 Until immediate, unequivocal consequences result from being an AWFL, there is no bottom to this slope.

I really don't see how "coexist" or "live and let live" is even an option anymore.

If I'm getting there, a maybe 4-5 on the crazy scale, I know the real crazies are there already and have a pot of coffee brewing.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 03:04 PM (4csOi)

198 I'll just say it:

Fat teenage black girls who didn't even realize they were pregnant. That's what accounts for at least half of these 8th-month abortions.


There's no way you make it nearly that far in pregnancy without knowing. The Left just wants no restrictions or consequences for their initiatives, and aborting babies is one of their touchstones. How the managed to brainwash so many women into supporting it to this extreme is horrifying. I get women wanting access to early abortion, even if they think it’s wrong, but third trimester? Barbaric.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 12, 2026 03:04 PM (+/CWD)

199 "Healey said the law is intended to ensure families facing medical complications late in pregnancy can abort their babies in Massachusetts


———

But that already existed, in fact this law removed the medical requirements. Someone on that side needs to tell me what the difference is between this or the day after birth. This is beyond disturbing.
Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2026 03:03 PM (ZdaMQ)

There was a Virginia law a few years back that did mention post birth abortions. Wonder what happened to that.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 03:05 PM (uhVAy)

200 @GeraldoRivera
Expelling Haitian immigrants is sending them straight to hell.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 12, 2026 03:01 PM (ndZc7)



Someone should simply reply: Shut the f*ck up, clown.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 03:05 PM (2YhKe)

201 There never, ever was a problem of "deadbeat" dads

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at

You, my friend, couldn’t be more wrong.

Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2026 03:05 PM (ZdaMQ)

202 If women can terminate the baby, men should have the right to terminate any support.

I've seen feminists field this answer many times and the answer is always its (D)ifferent when we want to be free of responsibilities versus men

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 03:05 PM (sKqQm)

203 When the baby starts to crown, what is the method of termination? Center punch? Auger bit?

These people are sick assholes.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 03:05 PM (wOO3z)

204 Sickening. It joins 10 other states & D.C,

(AI Overview) Recent large-scale clinical studies publish that when extremely premature infants born at 23 weeks receive active, aggressive neonatal resuscitation and treatment, their survival-to-discharge rate is approximately 55% to 58%.

Survival chances increase incrementally with every single day a pregnancy continues at this stage. A baby born at 23 weeks and 6 days has a statistically higher chance of survival than a baby born at 23 weeks and 0 days.
Among the 23-week micro-preemies who survive, studies track that about half grow up with no or mild neurological disabilities, while the remaining portion may face moderate to severe long-term health challenges (such as chronic lung issues or developmental delays).
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According to the Pennsylvania Department of Health and the state's Abortion Control Act, abortion is legally restricted after 23 weeks and 6 days of pregnancy (often cited as a 24-week limit), unless two physicians certify it's necessary for the health of mother.

I don't agree at all with 24 weeks for a routine limitation, either.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 12, 2026 03:06 PM (NFX2v)

205 Why is Haiti hell?

It is full of Haitians

So then what does bringing in mass numbers of Haitians do to the US?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 03:06 PM (sKqQm)

206 130 Casey's has good gas station pizza. I was surprised.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 02:47 PM (wOO3z)

________________________

I've got an outlier for your. I live near a gas station that makes fantastic fried chicken & a local pizza place worked out a deal to have a little mini-counter at that same gas station to sell nothing but pizzas...and they are also, fantastic. I'm surprised we don't see more of that. It's a limited overhead with a captive customer base that allows customers to hit two buttons with one stop.

Posted by: Orson at August 12, 2026 03:06 PM (dIske)

207 A few days ago here in SE Michigan, a Facebook page dedicated to Ann Arbor denizens was lit up over pro-life individuals going door to door and leaving graphic photos of abortions. The AWFLS were incensed that their small children could have seen these images. I mean, these twits carried on, posted ring camera photos of those dropping off the material at their doorsteps, wanted to call the police, etc. Completely lost on them was the fact that the images they were horrified over are the procedures they support and fund. A few brave souls spoke up to remind them of that fact and were immediately labeled as right wing, or worse, men who had no business telling women what they should do with their bodies.

Posted by: jen the original at August 12, 2026 03:06 PM (EiUt/)

208 You, my friend, couldn’t be more wrong.

Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2026 03:05 PM (ZdaMQ)

Forget it, he's rolling.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 03:06 PM (asFP3)

209 I hope to live to see the day I don't see the fuckin name Geraldo Rivera in the news. These mofos seem to live forever. That adrenochrome shit must be real.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 03:07 PM (4csOi)

210 If you think about it, abortion really is the ultimate "shopping cart" test. (referencing the meme about people returning shopping carts)

Not just for women, and I don't want to put it all on them because many are young and fooled when they have abortion, but on society as a whole.

A human life (the most precious thing in the world) is totally dependent on the mother, but they have to make some sacrifice and pay the piper for their own decision to have sex. They can accept responsibility and some sacrifice (honestly 9 months is not a life sentence.) They can accept providence and the path their life is now on.

Or they can kill it. Easy peasy.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 12, 2026 03:07 PM (7PtGv)

211 In my Pro-Life volunteering, we met a woman who was 27 weeks along when she realized she was pregnant. (Crazy but it happens. She was in her early 40s and just presumed that her period stopped because of menopause.)

We spent weeks discussing her baby and our services, while her "friends" at work tried to collect enough money to send her to another state to kill the child. No medical problems, no reason other than "I'm all alone and I can't have a baby right now."

But eventually she softened. I remember the moment when she looked at us and said, "It will be just the two of us, but I will do this for my daughter."

A few months ago I had the privilege of attending this little girl's first birthday party. I love this work!

Posted by: Half Dozen at August 12, 2026 03:08 PM (wmpJF)

212 Fat teenage black girls who didn't even realize they were pregnant. That's what accounts for at least half of these 8th-month abortions.

- zombie

The odds of this happening are beyond rare, but let’s say it happens. So what? That baby is viable. It is a known consequence of certain behaviors.

I might suggest if you are able to get pregnant, maybe don’t have sex unless you are ready to have a baby.


And I don’t mean you- I mean the general you.

Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2026 03:09 PM (ZdaMQ)

213 I can't get too worked up about abortion, because there are lots of people that don't deserve the blessing of children.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 12, 2026 03:09 PM (bX16E)

214 A few days ago here in SE Michigan, a Facebook page dedicated to Ann Arbor denizens was lit up over pro-life individuals going door to door and leaving graphic photos of abortions. The AWFLS were incensed that their small children could have seen these images. I mean, these twits carried on, posted ring camera photos of those dropping off the material at their doorsteps, wanted to call the police, etc. Completely lost on them was the fact that the images they were horrified over are the procedures they support and fund. A few brave souls spoke up to remind them of that fact and were immediately labeled as right wing, or worse, men who had no business telling women what they should do with their bodies.
Posted by: jen the original at August 12, 2026 03:06 PM (EiUt/)

leftist Larry Flynt when being charged with pornography in Ohio for, you know, running a porn magazine, sent everyone in the city of Cincinnati suburbs a pamphlet of horribly shot up Vietnam war dead. I got it before my younger brothers and sisters.

Maggots, all of them.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 03:09 PM (uhVAy)

215 The left: You have to work and pay into USAID to save children in Africa. As an adult human being you are responsible for saving children's lives

Also the left: Burdened with a child?!? F*ck that and in fact this abortion better be taxpayer funded!

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 03:10 PM (sKqQm)

216 I guess since the baby can't complain about pain, they aren't going to give that baby the same consideration they give capital punishment prisoners, where they make the execution as comfortable as possible.

Posted by: Emmie at August 12, 2026 03:10 PM (OlzlW)

217 A few months ago I had the privilege of attending this little girl's first birthday party. I love this work!
Posted by: Half Dozen at August 12, 2026 03:08 PM (wmpJF)

Thank you so much for being there for that woman and her baby.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 12, 2026 03:10 PM (lFFaq)

218 Geraldo Rivera
@GeraldoRivera
Expelling Haitian immigrants is sending them straight to hell.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 12, 2026 03:01 PM (ndZc7)

Gerry.. Why should we allow them to turn Our Country to hell... They can go back to their own...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 12, 2026 03:11 PM (FtULh)

219 If I'm getting there, a maybe 4-5 on the crazy scale, I know the real crazies are there already and have a pot of coffee brewing.

Posted by: sifty boones


Try hanging out on Substack sometime. There's stuff there that makes us look like bleeding hearts.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 12, 2026 03:11 PM (OUMaO)

220 I just can't wrap my head around what kind of monster would murder a baby as it is being born.


The left created some serious issues when they dropped God from their lives. They created false idols (fauci dolls/prayer candles) and are running false prophets for national office (talerico/sayed).

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 12, 2026 03:11 PM (cpFbA)

221 Fat teenage black girls who didn't even realize they were pregnant. That's what accounts for at least half of these 8th-month abortions.

- zombie

-----------

There was recently a case of a trans "man" dying of treatments because "he" was pregnant and the doctors did not know his true sex and thus were unaware of what it would do to a pregnant woman.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 03:11 PM (uhVAy)

222 The left: You have to work and pay into USAID to save children in Africa. As an adult human being you are responsible for saving children's lives

Also the left: Burdened with a child?!? F*ck that and in fact this abortion better be taxpayer funded!
Posted by: 18-10

Brown foreign immigrant babies >>>>>>> American babies born to current citizens.

Posted by: AWFLs at August 12, 2026 03:12 PM (+/CWD)

223 Got home earlier than I expected.

I cannot understand women- if you're fat- not knowing you are pregnant - they didn't teach you about menstrual periods in school health class? And waiting till the ninth month to have an abortion ?!! Reprehensible. Surely there would be some childless people who would love to adopt your baby. Maura Healy and the women supporting this are evil ghouls.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 12, 2026 03:12 PM (wmzkx)

224 213 I can't get too worked up about abortion, because there are lots of people that don't deserve the blessing of children.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 12, 2026 03:09 PM (bX16E)


Do these children deserve to be murdered?

Posted by: Emmie at August 12, 2026 03:13 PM (OlzlW)

225 I believe in postpartum abortion for the people who advocate for infanticide. Show us an example, by laying down your lives for a cause you believe in!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 12, 2026 03:13 PM (ZVgZ4)

226 There was recently a case of a trans "man" dying of treatments because "he" was pregnant and the doctors did not know his true sex and thus were unaware of what it would do to a pregnant woman.
Posted by: Oldcat

As nature intended.

Posted by: Charles Darwin at August 12, 2026 03:13 PM (+/CWD)

227 There was recently a case of a trans "man" dying of treatments because "he" was pregnant and the doctors did not know his true sex and thus were unaware of what it would do to a pregnant woman.

A few years ago the FNM announced the world's first pregnant man.

It was a woman cosplaying as a man.

How did she get pregnant? PIV sex with her husband.

So...she wasn't the first pregnant man she was the 10billionith or whatever pregnant woman.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 03:13 PM (sKqQm)

228 I might suggest if you are able to get pregnant, maybe don’t have sex unless you are ready to have a baby.


And I don’t mean you- I mean the general you.
Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2026 03:09 PM (ZdaMQ)



They can go to their local Planned Parenthood or clinic and get a script for birth control and get it cheap.

They just choose not to prioritize it because they've been conditioned to f*ck anything with a dick, let them stay inside and daddy government will fix it.

Some communities have been royally f*cked by the media and the government.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 03:13 PM (2YhKe)

229 Got home earlier than I expected.

I cannot understand women- if you're fat- not knowing you are pregnant - they didn't teach you about menstrual periods in school health class? And waiting till the ninth month to have an abortion ?!! Reprehensible. Surely there would be some childless people who would love to adopt your baby. Maura Healy and the women supporting this are evil ghouls.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 12, 2026 03:12 PM (wmzkx)

I understand from people I know who were trying that it is difficult to impossible to adopt cross race in America these last 4-5 decades

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 03:14 PM (uhVAy)

230 A few days ago here in SE Michigan, a Facebook page dedicated to Ann Arbor denizens was lit up over pro-life individuals going door to door and leaving graphic photos of abortions. The AWFLS were incensed that their small children could have seen these images...
Posted by: jen the original at August 12, 2026 03:06 PM (EiUt/)


In my experience they are even more horrified by beautiful pictures of the healthy kids that escaped their clutches.

When we're on the sidewalk in front of PP, I make sure to show those pictures to their "escorts" whose job is to prevent us from saving those children.

Posted by: Half Dozen at August 12, 2026 03:14 PM (wmpJF)

231 "If it saves just one life........"

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 03:14 PM (asFP3)

232 220. It's the same kind of evil I don't understand about the Nazis. I watched the entire Tom Hanks WWII documentary a few weeks ago and it's hard to comprehend gunning down, blowing up, and gassing several hundred unarmed men women and children in a day, then going home to your family and playing with your own children.

Posted by: jen the original at August 12, 2026 03:15 PM (EiUt/)

233 A few months ago I had the privilege of attending this little girl's first birthday party. I love this work!

Posted by: Half Dozen at August 12, 2026 03:08 PM


You actually saved a human life, not many people can say that.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 12, 2026 03:15 PM (cpFbA)

234 Posted by: Half Dozen at August 12, 2026 03:08 PM (wmpJF)

That's wonderful. Thanks for your work. I talked to some of the lovely women at the "Right to Life" table at the recent 4H fair. I so appreciated them.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 12, 2026 03:15 PM (wmzkx)

235 "In 1960, roughly 8% of U.S. children lived in father-absent homes (versus ~20–24% in recent decades)."

That included widows.

Again:
There was never a "deadbeat father" problem.
Not one that justified the massive state agencies we have now.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 12, 2026 03:16 PM (3cUTc)

236
We will never get anything approaching accurate statistics for late-term because the NPC coding is that 100% of late-term abortions are because of serious health issues, and not at all because of the "mother's" convenience.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 02:54 PM

That makes zero sense, though, because if there issues affecting either the mother or the baby, you can have a c section more quickly than an abortion, and both parties are saved. You are not saving the mother from delivering a dead baby with this, either. Because at that stage, there is none of the dismembering (this whole thing makes me want to throw up) that happens in early abortions. The baby is given a shot into its heart, they wait for the baby to die, then they induce labor. Barbaric isn’t even close to what this is.

Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2026 03:16 PM (ZdaMQ)

237 136 But I'm distraught at the demise of Kum and Go.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2026 02:49 PM (2ocoG)
==

Ties in with the deadbeat dads/child support argument

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at August 12, 2026 03:16 PM (0bjKf)

238 Geraldo Rivera
@GeraldoRivera
Expelling Haitian immigrants is sending them straight to hell.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 12, 2026 03:01 PM


Most of them didn't come here from Haiti. They don't have to go back to Haiti. You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 12, 2026 03:16 PM (bFu5X)

239 219.

I'd rather put this cigar out on my eyeball than hang out on Substack.

But I get your point.

Also, OpSec is a thing.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 03:17 PM (4csOi)

240 Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 03:14 PM (uhVAy)

I didn't know it was that high. It's a ridiculous rule.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 12, 2026 03:17 PM (wmzkx)

241 This might be an uncomfortable take, but if blue states want to remove their own potential voters from the gene pool, then the long term result will be more conservative voters in the future.

Posted by: AlecK at August 12, 2026 03:17 PM (cMlC1)

242 I understand from people I know who were trying that it is difficult to impossible to adopt cross race in America these last 4-5 decades
Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 03:14 PM (uhVAy)



Unless you're homo. The 2 lesbians across the street from me seemed to have no issue with their lily white asses getting their hands on a black baby girl 18 or so years ago.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 03:17 PM (2YhKe)

243 No need for abortion.... See me early

Posted by: Dr Fauci's magic Covid shot at August 12, 2026 03:17 PM (FtULh)

244 220. It's the same kind of evil I don't understand about the Nazis. I watched the entire Tom Hanks WWII documentary a few weeks ago and it's hard to comprehend gunning down, blowing up, and gassing several hundred unarmed men women and children in a day, then going home to your family and playing with your own children.
Posted by: jen the original at August 12, 2026 03:15 PM (EiUt/)

They tended to be pretty drunk when they did it, often enough. Not that that's an excuse, of course. And often enough the locals would help out, or do it on their own.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 03:18 PM (uhVAy)

245 We will never get anything approaching accurate statistics for late-term because the NPC coding is that 100% of late-term abortions are because of serious health issues, and not at all because of the "mother's" convenience.

Several times pro-life groups and legislators have really tried to engage with pro-aborts on life/health of the mother exemptions.

And the pro-aborts always, always include "mental health". So this isn't "if I have this baby I will die" its "If I have this baby I will be sadder then if I didn't trust me I know!"

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 03:18 PM (sKqQm)

246 They just choose not to prioritize it because they've been conditioned to f*ck anything with a dick, let them stay inside and daddy government will fix it.

Children out of wedlock? More money for food, upgraded government housing, free childcare, free pre and post natal medical visits, and many more fabulous prizes!!!

Posted by: Uncle Sugar at August 12, 2026 03:18 PM (+/CWD)

247 Here's another angle: can a medical provider opt out of performing abortions? I know in the past people have been required to participate or lose their job and/or license.

Because abortion "choice" only works one way.

Posted by: Emmie at August 12, 2026 03:18 PM (OlzlW)

248
Most of them didn't come here from Haiti. They don't have to go back to Haiti. You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 12, 2026 03:16 PM (bFu5X)



Someone should send him the following:

"Wait.....what? *insert clip of Conan O'Brien swimming*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 03:19 PM (2YhKe)

249 I just can't wrap my head around what kind of monster would murder a baby as it is being born.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 12, 2026 03:11 PM (cpFbA)


This kind of monster:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1018966517481721

Posted by: Half Dozen at August 12, 2026 03:19 PM (wmpJF)

250 Pete booty juice bought 2 black kids

Posted by: nckate at August 12, 2026 03:20 PM (enNUy)

251 This might be an uncomfortable take, but if blue states want to remove their own potential voters from the gene pool, then the long term result will be more conservative voters in the future.
Posted by: AlecK at August 12, 2026 03:17 PM (cMlC1)
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Which wouldn't be so bad if they just focused on THEIR kids.

They also want to recruit YOUR kids to the cause, no matter what state you live in.

They are also all-in on bringing endless hordes of highly fecund third-worlders to make up for their own shortfall in blue states.

THEY can have all the children they want, but you and yours can't.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 03:20 PM (FZ29D)

252 224 213 I can't get too worked up about abortion, because there are lots of people that don't deserve the blessing of children.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 12, 2026 03:09 PM (bX16E)

Do these children deserve to be murdered?
Posted by: Emmie at August 12, 2026 03:13 PM (OlzlW)

This. 10000x this.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 12, 2026 03:20 PM (N39Ws)

253 I remember reading that at the start of the Holocaust the Germans tried to send regular cops/prison guards to work at the death camps. And these guys committed suicide, drank themselves to death, etc.

So they started bringing in psychopaths. But they ran into problems here as well - these people loved the killing part of the job but not the keeping order/following rules part.

So then they weeded out the less functional psychopaths.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 03:20 PM (sKqQm)

254 Fine by me. Liberals in liberal states murdering their own children works for me. I'm way past trying to make these lunatics behave morally. If they want to cull their own herds, have at it.

Posted by: Good Riddance at August 12, 2026 03:20 PM (yzvsc)

255 This might be an uncomfortable take, but if blue states want to remove their own potential voters from the gene pool, then the long term result will be more conservative voters in the future.

Posted by: AlecK at August 12, 2026 03:17 PM (cMlC1)

Trump was born in a blue state. Where are we right now without him?

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 03:21 PM (asFP3)

256 208
Forget it, he's rolling.
Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 03:06 PM (asFP3

I am going to sit on my hands. I am a little touchy about this one, as you know.

Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2026 03:21 PM (ZdaMQ)

257 Ya know, the allies marched neighbors through the concentration camps in Germany after the SS tried to destroy them and then fled. As has been said in the past, God will only take so much.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 12, 2026 03:21 PM (wxsGM)

258
THEY can have all the children they want, but you and yours can't.


I've been looking at Euro-ads and documents on pregnancy and child birth and they split into two classes.

1) Abort your kids, its bad for the environment and you! And these have only white people in the pictures in them

2) Here's how to get government benefits so you can have a healthy child! And the pictures are all Muslim/African.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 03:22 PM (sKqQm)

259 24 weeks was an abomination..

Posted by: It's me donna at August 12, 2026 03:22 PM (FtULh)

260 250 Pete booty juice bought 2 black kids
Posted by: nckate

He already was polling near 0% with black voters. If he thinks this will help with a future presidential run...I think he's very wrong.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 12, 2026 03:23 PM (+/CWD)

261 This might be an uncomfortable take, but if blue states want to remove their own potential voters from the gene pool, then the long term result will be more conservative voters in the future.

Posted by: AlecK at August 12, 2026 03:17 PM (cMlC1)

Trump was born in a blue state. Where are we right now without him?
Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 03:21 PM (asFP3)

Every blue state has a lot of red counties. Every red state has a few blue counties.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 03:23 PM (uhVAy)

262 This might be an uncomfortable take, but if blue states want to remove their own potential voters from the gene pool, then the long term result will be more conservative voters in the future.
Posted by: AlecK at August 12, 2026 03:17 PM (cMlC1)

ROFLMAO

Posted by: Public schools and the university system at August 12, 2026 03:23 PM (vSvIl)

263 This might be an uncomfortable take, but if blue states want to remove their own potential voters from the gene pool, then the long term result will be more conservative voters in the future.

Posted by: AlecK at August 12, 2026

That isn’t uncomfortable. It’s a pretty gross take. Babies are innocents. Every life is a blessing from God. We should never, ever believe that we should stand in the Lord’s stead.

Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2026 03:23 PM (ZdaMQ)

264 Two of the most selfish things on EARTH:

1. Suicide
1A. Abortion

You have made the decision that you're more important that everything else on God's green Earth

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 03:23 PM (2YhKe)

265 I find the whole thread as a sad reminder that the same impulses that caused Phoenicians and other MENA people to sacrifice children to Molech is still with us today.

And like then except for the statue bit, celebrated as a sacrifice to the temple of the murderesses themselves.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 03:23 PM (E4rtv)

266 I'm torn because every life is precious and deserves dignity, but also I have a dark side that laughs at all the various ways leftists want to take themselves out of the gene pool.

Posted by: ballistic at August 12, 2026 03:24 PM (oqH4h)

267 So then they weeded out the less functional psychopaths.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 03:20 PM (sKqQm)
----
There's a "Goldilocks Zone" for psychopathy?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 03:24 PM (FZ29D)

268 I don't know how true it was, but even the Soviets assigned to kill all the pets around Chernobyl went crazy.

Abortion doctors are inhuman to me. Ed Gein shit.

Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 03:24 PM (4csOi)

269 CNN now...

ICE plans to buy $20 million dollars woth of electrical shock gloves.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 12, 2026 03:24 PM (Sco7b)

270
He already was polling near 0% with black voters. If he thinks this will help with a future presidential run...I think he's very wrong.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 12, 2026 03:23 PM (+/CWD)



If he does run, those 2 will be front and center of every appearance he does.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 03:24 PM (2YhKe)

271 This might be an uncomfortable take, but if blue states want to remove their own potential voters from the gene pool, then the long term result will be more conservative voters in the future.
Posted by: AlecK at August 12, 2026 03:17 PM (cMlC1)


This is where I'm at in the national discussion. It's horrific that Leftists are killing their own children. I mourn for the suffering of those children. I have done everything I can to convince them to stop killing their children.

But still they insist on killing their own children, and there's nothing more I can do about it. So I look for the silver lining, and take comfort in the fact that they are killing off their own voter base.

If that sounds harsh, talk to them about it, not to me. I'm not the one encouraging the slaughter.

Posted by: Half Dozen at August 12, 2026 03:24 PM (wmpJF)

272 comprehend gunning down, blowing up, and gassing several hundred unarmed men women and children in a day

Nothin says lovin like somethin from the oven!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 12, 2026 03:24 PM (G0bxm)

273 this is mass killing

it's evil

there is no silver lining

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 12, 2026 03:25 PM (j+aD2)

274 And I'm going to go off topic here, but here's a nice story about doctors saving babies after the recent earthquake in Colombia affecting a hospital. "National Catholic Register" site:

https://tinyurl.com/5y7ryf3w

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 12, 2026 03:25 PM (wmzkx)

275 James Talarico has said abortion is OK, because even though he admits the fetus is alive, it's not a "person", therefore it's ok to abort.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 12, 2026 03:25 PM (U/s6V)

276 @GeraldoRivera
Expelling Haitian immigrants is sending them straight to hell.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me!


QUACK

Posted by: Ducks for Trump at August 12, 2026 03:25 PM (UjdFS)

277 I am going to take a moment here and pray for some of you that have put politics above human babies. Tiny, innocent babies.

Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2026 03:25 PM (ZdaMQ)

278 nothing against you Half Dozen! you clearly are active in the pro-life movement

but really .. there is no silver lining

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 12, 2026 03:25 PM (j+aD2)

279 228 I might suggest if you are able to get pregnant, maybe don’t have sex unless you are ready to have a baby.


And I don’t mean you- I mean the general you.
Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2026 03:09 PM (ZdaMQ)
___________________________

I'll remind you that the primary demographic that takes advantage of abortions overall is made up of the same people that for an entire summer thought that it was a good rational decision to sucker punch white women and white elderly for no particular reason other than entertainment while traversing the sidewalks across the country.

Don't expect them to show personal discipline or any concept of consequences.

Posted by: Orson at August 12, 2026 03:26 PM (dIske)

280 James Talarico has said abortion is OK, because even though he admits the fetus is alive, it's not a "person", therefore it's ok to abort.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 12, 2026 03:25 PM (U/s6V)



"Christian preacher......"


Uh huh.....f*cking heretic.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 03:26 PM (2YhKe)

281 This is along the lines of my "human sacrifice is their next thing" theory. Abortion up to x weeks isn't good enough. Nor are exceptions. They want the whole ball of wax. Cutting off kids genitals and laughing at and jailing parents for trying to stop them isn't enough. Nothing is ever enough and that's what's spine tingling.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 03:26 PM (asFP3)

282 If he does run, those 2 will be front and center of every appearance he does.
Posted by: Sponge

Probably. And the liberal white women that already love him will est it up. I don't think the black community will be thrilled.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 12, 2026 03:26 PM (+/CWD)

283 And remember. That asshole piece of absolute SHIT Pence said you shouldn't vote for Trump because of his abortion stance when THIS was the freaking alternative.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at August 12, 2026 03:26 PM (setIA)

284 275 James Talarico has said abortion is OK, because even though he admits the fetus is alive, it's not a "person", therefore it's ok to abort.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 12, 2026 03:25 PM (U/s6V)

I must have missed that part in the Bible

Posted by: It's me donna at August 12, 2026 03:26 PM (FtULh)

285 nood

Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 03:26 PM (Jr5Lq)

286
Here's another angle: can a medical provider opt out of performing abortions? I know in the past people have been required to participate or lose their job and/or license.

Because abortion "choice" only works one way.
Posted by: Emmie at August 12, 2026 03:18 PM (OlzlW)

__________

The idea among the aborticomaniacs is that you cannot be allowed to opt out. That you cannot tell a pregnant woman that there are alternatives to having an abortion. That abortions need not be performed by physicians. And so on.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2026 03:27 PM (O0L8i)

287 Re: above conversations about concentration camps

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And yet the rare 'Born Survivors.'

The story features Eva Clarke, Hana Berger Moran, and Mark Olsky, three of the youngest Holocaust survivors. Their mothers hid their pregnancies in Auschwitz before giving birth in horrific conditions—in a labor camp, on a death train, and at the Mauthausen concentration camp—just before liberation in April 1945.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 12, 2026 03:28 PM (NFX2v)

288 281 This is along the lines of my "human sacrifice is their next thing" theory. Abortion up to x weeks isn't good enough. Nor are exceptions. They want the whole ball of wax. Cutting off kids genitals and laughing at and jailing parents for trying to stop them isn't enough. Nothing is ever enough and that's what's spine tingling.
Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 03:26 PM (asFP3)
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If they had their way we'd be flinging virgins into volcanoes to appease the weather gods (i.e. climate change).

As it is, the left already kills hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people in Europe every time it gets hot because they're too pious to their weather god to install fucking air conditioning.

The left is a death cult and its adherents have lost all sense of self-preservation in furtherance of the cult.

Posted by: ballistic at August 12, 2026 03:28 PM (oqH4h)

289 That isn’t uncomfortable. It’s a pretty gross take. Babies are innocents. Every life is a blessing from God. We should never, ever believe that we should stand in the Lord’s stead.

Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2026 03:23 PM


53 million aborted babies beg to differ. The one single consolation I can find in this entire bloody murderous mess started by the racist democrats is that those babies souls are in heaven with God.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 12, 2026 03:28 PM (cpFbA)

290 By the way, here's a talk I gave last year, telling some of my stories from the sidewalk:

https://bit.ly/4g4gaWB

Posted by: Half Dozen at August 12, 2026 03:29 PM (wmpJF)

291
Yet popes and cardinals condemn this then turn around and chuckle with the Biden's and Pelosi's that are the driving force behind the legitimacy of this horror while accepting money from them.

And, yeah, financially support Islam as well.

Posted by: Auspex at August 12, 2026 03:30 PM (Y8DZL)

292 Abortion doctors are inhuman to me. Ed Gein shit.
Posted by: sifty boones at August 12, 2026 03:24 PM (4csOi)

Serial killers who found a way to get paid. I'd be very surprised if Cowbell was the only one keeping trophies.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 12, 2026 03:33 PM (lFFaq)

293 nothing against you Half Dozen! you clearly are active in the pro-life movement

but really .. there is no silver lining
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 12, 2026 03:25 PM (j+aD2)


I agree. It's a coping mechanism on my part.

And I do try to point this out in discussions with Leftists. Trying to find anything that they might actually care about enough to stop and say, "Wait -- what the @#&* are we doing?"

But it doesn't work. Turns out they really don't care about much of anything.

Posted by: Half Dozen at August 12, 2026 03:34 PM (wmpJF)

294 It is sad but, the pagans do what the pagans do. I care only slightly more what they do in Massachusetts than I care what they do in France.

Posted by: toby928(c) at August 12, 2026 03:38 PM (4NO2D)

295 BABY KILLERS: ONE AND ALL!

Posted by: Kurtz at August 12, 2026 03:42 PM (YMiZs)

296 You shall not suffer a witch to live.


Posted by: shrugs at August 12, 2026 03:54 PM (anL5R)

297 Demonic Democrats. They denounced God in 2012 and Satan walzed in.

They KNOW at 20wks any issues with the baby. They know with sonograms and genetic testing. To then carry a baby another 20wks to die at birth is beyond all I care to contemplate. They will answer to God. All of them.

Someone would want that baby. The ONE time a mother with a premature baby at our med center, she was induced to DELIVER the premie. A rare time the mother had HELLP Syndrome (involving clotting and potential liver failure). Both lived.

DO NOT believe the bs about "saving the mother."

It is not "women's rights" it is barbaric genocide.

Please give $ or time to pregnancy resource centers, many supported by churches. To help unwed mothers or those in poverty considering abortions.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 12, 2026 04:28 PM (hzuYO)

298 Another carpet-muncher governor doing evil.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at August 12, 2026 05:34 PM (cHygk)

Abdulrahman El-Sayed: My Obligation Is to Follow Sharia Law Until the Day I Die

We may have lost Francesca, but we still have Abdulrahman.

Revealed: El-Sayed Proclaimed 'Obligation' To Follow Sharia Law Until the Day He Dies


'When I die and I stand before God ... I don't want to say I did it the easy way instead of the Shariah-compliant way,' El-Sayed told the New York Times in 2009

Andrew Kerr and Jessica Schwalb


Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed once declared his sacred "obligation" to follow Sharia law in every aspect of his life until he meets his maker on the day he dies, according to unearthed comments he made to the New York Times in 2009 as a young man buying his first home.

"Ultimately, the question is, when I die and I stand before God and go through everything I did in my life, I don't want to say I did it the easy way instead of the Shariah-compliant way. Not because of fear but because of obligation," said El-Sayed, who the Times identified at the time as a 24-year-old medical student and Rhodes scholar who had just taken out a "Sharia-compliant" mortgage to purchase a $123,000 condominium in Ann Arbor.

Sharia, or Islamic religious law, sets strict rules for living that include harsh restrictions on women and gruesome, medieval-era forms of criminal justice. Sharia law also prohibits the paying or earning of interest, a restriction that has led some banks to offer special mortgages for devout Muslims, like El-Sayed, which tack onto the principal what a typical borrower would pay in interest across the life of the loan.

The young El-Sayed's expression of lifelong devotion to Sharia law takes new meaning following his narrow primary victory last week and raises the question of how much Sharia law continues to guide him.

El-Sayed has played a delicate balancing act on the campaign trail when it comes to his personal faith. While he has embraced his status as a Muslim man before voters, the progressive Democrat often frames his faith in broad brush strokes to avoid specifics. In October 2025, for example, El-Sayed told Religion News Service that his faith "orients me to try and be a better person" and to "treat people -- all people -- with dignity and humanity and respect."

But El-Sayed has bristled when pressed on the topic of Sharia law. During his failed 2018 campaign for Michigan governor, El-Sayed denied ever saying he was "Sharia-compliant" during an interview with the Jewish conservative journalist Laura Loomer--a strong critic of Islam--before cutting the interview short and scolding his staff for not stopping it sooner.

El-Sayed also rejected allegations that he intended to subvert the Constitution and implement Sharia law. A documentary about his 2018 gubernatorial bid shows him telling the filmmakers not to shoot a bookshelf in his home that contained the Quran and controversial works about Islam, including Cutting the Fuse, a 2010 book that argues that suicidal terrorism is driven by foreign military occupation, not Islamic extremism.

El-Sayed's private bookshelf also contained a copy of A Thematic Commentary on the Qur'an written by Muslim Brotherhood member Sheikh Mohammed al-Ghazali, who said "the refusal of implemenation [sic] of sharia is apostasy" as he testified in defense of 13 Islamic terrorists who had gunned down an Egyptian professor who called for the separation of church and state in Egypt. Al-Ghazali testified during the 1993 trial that the slain professor was "without doubt" an infidel and said most Islamic scholars would agree that such apostates should be killed, but that he personally believes the professor should have received a life sentence instead, the Washington Post reported.

"You're going to want to not get these things in the shot," El-Sayed said in the documentary, How To Fix A Primary, as he pointed to his bookshelf which contained al-Ghazali's writings. "We're trying to keep the shot secular."

It's all taqiyya all the time.

...

El-Sayed is also heavily invested in so-called Sharia-compliant investment funds managed by Amana Mutual Funds, whose late cofounder and chairman, Yaqub Mirza, was identified in a 1988 FBI memo as one of several "members and leaders of the IKHWAN," which is shorthand for the Muslim Brotherhood. El-Sayed reported in his latest financial disclosure that he and his wife own between $150,000 and $425,000 in Amana's funds, which excludes investments in companies that earn more than 5 percent of their revenue from "haram sources" including interest, gambling, alcohol, tobacco, pornography, and pork.

In 2002, federal antiterrorism agents raided Mirza's home as part of a wider antiterror operation against the Safa Group, a cluster of Islamic entities based in Virginia, the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post reported. No charges were filed, and Amana Funds itself was spared serious scrutiny during the probe, according to a local report.

Scott Jennings notes something it's hard to miss: these foreign anchor-babies sure do seem to hate football and holidays and fireworks and all the little details of basic
normie American culture.

Why it's almost as if they seek to overthrow it and replace American culture with their own shithole country foreign "culture."

Overton
@overton_news
The CNN panel didn't like hearing it, but Scott Jennings went ahead and said it anyway.

Jennings says the attacks on American holidays from socialist candidates like Francesca Hong and Abdul El-Sayed are actually a window into something much deeper.

And when Kaitlan Collins tried to downplay El-Sayed's comments about July 4th, Jennings fired right back.

The communists can no longer hide their hatred of America and all of its traditions.

JENNINGS: "When you're so crazy that Bernie Sanders and AOC won't even endorse you, you're pretty far out there!"

"I think these holiday conversations are actually valuable."

"She hates Thanksgiving. Today, our own k-file here at CNN uncovered the fact that over in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed wants to get rid of the 4th of July."

"And I think the reason these things..."

COLLINS: "I think he said we should get rid of fireworks."

JENNINGS: "He was very critical of the 4th of July."

COLLINS: "Getting rid of fireworks is different than getting rid of the 4th of July."

JENNINGS: "I think you're downplaying the message..."

"I think these are windows into the souls of these anti-American, radical communists."

"If you hate Thanksgiving and you hate the 4th of July, what you're really saying is I hate some of the pillars that undergird American culture."

"And how are you going to have a conversation with a voter about affordability or public safety or anything else, if you're trying to get rid of Thanksgiving and the 4th of July?"

"I mean, if I was Christmas and Easter I wouldn't be feeling too comfortable right now if these people win!"

Abdulrahman's wing-man Hasan Piker sure doesn't seem to like anything about America:

He is a big fan of Hamas's rape-terrorism and murder of what he calls "baby settlers" and the rest of the world calls "babies."

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:21 PM




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1 In before Elric the Butterknife

Posted by: Halfhand at August 12, 2026 01:21 PM (Ysav4)

2 FIRSTING WITH THE BLADE

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 01:21 PM (iFTx/)

3 Dang it... off to get the others.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at August 12, 2026 01:21 PM (VkY89)

4 wow

Posted by: doug at August 12, 2026 01:22 PM (B1+sW)

5 Corgis summoned.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at August 12, 2026 01:23 PM (VkY89)

6 This is pretty crazy.

Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2026 01:24 PM (ZdaMQ)

7 I hope the media keeps Hasan Piker front and center until election day. He's such a toxic little poser that he'll be a big plus for us. You know, if the votes are actually counted.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 01:24 PM (Riz8t)

8 Hasan Piker is a Dancing Boy.

That guy has sucked more Turkish Cock than his mother.

Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2026 01:25 PM (uzmqU)

9 He seems .... nice.

I'd love to get a beer and a brat with him at a UMichigan game this fall. Ammirite?

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at August 12, 2026 01:25 PM (KFbdf)

10 WAR.

Posted by: Eromero at August 12, 2026 01:25 PM (LHPAg)

11 My only lingering question is - why didn't they steal it from him....

👀

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 01:25 PM (asFP3)

12 "Mayonnaise monkey isn't enough. Call the whites cum-skins. That's the shit that'll really make em mad."

How ironic that the mind of this cum-skinned homosexual jumps right to the visuals of semen on skin.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 01:25 PM (iFTx/)

13 This is a good video. Average American hardest hit.

https://tinyurl.com/3cuj34nw

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 01:26 PM (Riz8t)

14 Thanks again, to Bush. Way to fucking go.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 12, 2026 01:26 PM (diia5)

15 I saw that Non-binary Ben Shapiro put up this quote by Ronald Reagan:

"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program."

That quote, unfortunately did not account for the abject stupidity of today's "Socialists" (who probably can't even define Socialism coherently). It, also, did not fully account for the indocrinization of "higher" education...where gullible students took the words of the radical instructors as gospel without parsing out their meaning. In Reagan's time that would surely have been accurate. Today, situational awareness, has been replaced by regurgitation without subterfuge.

Posted by: Kanye West at August 12, 2026 01:26 PM (dIske)

16 May that day be soon ... right soon ...

Posted by: browndog says woof at August 12, 2026 01:27 PM (3sXRv)

17 So Hong lost.... (maybe, i.e. she was cheated) but still only "lost" by about 3000 votes. I've seen Democrats locally try to claim that DSA doesn't represent Democrats and DSA is only about 1 to 2% of the left.... but how can they keep claiming that now? 5 years ago we didn't have Hong and Mamdani and Hayed and Piker being so "popular." and winning or close to winning Democrat primaries.

Posted by: SimoHayha at August 12, 2026 01:27 PM (IeYnM)

18 Hasan Piker does not make me angry. Dumb as fuck Americans who listen to his crap and nod along make me angry.

Posted by: huerfano at August 12, 2026 01:27 PM (CSc+i)

19 This is pretty crazy.
Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2026 01:24 PM (ZdaMQ)

Islam in a nutshell. Deport them all.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2026 01:27 PM (1z8ji)

20 Call the whites cum-skins.

Sounds gay. Like really really gay.

Posted by: Piker talks like a fag at August 12, 2026 01:27 PM (TbWk/)

21 With my florid complexion, I think of myself more as a Beetroot Baboon.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 12, 2026 01:27 PM (amcLV)

22 Why are trust fund babies, like Piker, so given to advocating the violent overthrow of the United States?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 12, 2026 01:27 PM (wsp19)

23 I'm a mayonnaise monkey. OK.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 01:27 PM (wOO3z)

24 Abdulrahman, Abdulrahman, Kadbdulrahman. He's gonna reach out and stab ya.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 12, 2026 01:28 PM (dK+Kv)

25 I saw Hasan Piker last nite on video for the first time. He's such an intellectual and rhetorical lightweight, so totally unserious and uncaring, I don't understand why anybody would be a fan. Does he in fact have a lot of followers?

Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 01:28 PM (Jr5Lq)

26 Abdul ramen is the worst ramen.

Posted by: People who eat ramen at August 12, 2026 01:28 PM (2Ez/1)

27
Ward Churchill passed away today.

Finally, a good Indian.

Posted by: Auspex at August 12, 2026 01:28 PM (Y8DZL)

28 Remember when Hasan Piker said this?

"I wipe my ass with the Constitution, it's a f*cking piece of paper, motherf*ck the Constitution and motherf*ck this country"

Imagine saying this and still being treated like a serious political voice

WOW! pic.twitter.com/fGNvZwQINZ

— TONY� (@TONYxTWO) August 12, 2026
_________________

Tony missed the most telling part of that rant: "You can fuck and suck me from the back."

Yea, straight guys always go around making comments about getting their asses fucked and sucked. Totally.

This guy's worked on more dicks than a retired urologist.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 01:29 PM (iFTx/)

29 22 Why are trust fund babies, like Piker, so given to advocating the violent overthrow of the United States?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 12, 2026 01:27 PM
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Boredom.

Posted by: And they want to seem edgy at August 12, 2026 01:29 PM (2Ez/1)

30 Remembering when “separation of church and state” was a thing. Watching as any vestige of Judeo-Christian heritage and custom was ruthlessly expunged from the public sphere. No place for such things in a secular society we were admonished, by our learned elders and academics.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 12, 2026 01:29 PM (jrkXE)

31 So much for stepping back from his hard leftist stances.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 12, 2026 01:30 PM (cWLG3)

32 It's time to outlaw Sharia. As Clear and Present Danger to the Constitution, that certain persons swear on the Bible to protect. Of course now Derk Derka are taking oath of office on the Sharia codex that is koran, so they need to be disqualified.

Posted by: runner at August 12, 2026 01:30 PM (g47mK)

33 WAR.

Posted by: Eromero at August 12, 2026 01:25 PM (LHPAg)

This.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 12, 2026 01:30 PM (dK+Kv)

34 I guess it's time to come clean. I am a Sharia plant.

The reason I don't drink beer isn't complications from Crohns Disease, it's that I think Allah is truly the monkey's nuts, and moohamhead (there are many spellings) is his prophet.

Also Jesus did miracles from his crib, talking clearly as a baby, explicitly telling Mary he was a prophet of Allah. The people who wrote the Bible just didn't want you to know that. Praise Allah, the Koran unearthed it.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 01:30 PM (asFP3)

35 >>I saw Hasan Piker last nite on video for the first time. He's such an intellectual and rhetorical lightweight, so totally unserious and uncaring, I don't understand why anybody would be a fan. Does he in fact have a lot of followers?


Yes. Mostly Gay Men, Terrorists and Pakistanis.

Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2026 01:30 PM (uzmqU)

36 This guy's worked on more dicks than a retired urologist.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 01:29 PM (iFTx/)

Worked more cocks than a rooster farmer

Posted by: More pricks than a phlebotomist at August 12, 2026 01:31 PM (TbWk/)

37 That is not a quote by Reagan.

That is a quote by some Soviet fuckstick.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 12, 2026 01:31 PM (jrkXE)

38 22 Why are trust fund babies, like Piker, so given to advocating the violent overthrow of the United State

From the Art Thread this morning:

111 This is perfect. They're willing to try anything - except hard work.

“Many of the loser children of my wealthy friends who see no way to emulate the success of their parents, have gravitated toward Mamdani-ism and found community and a sense of purpose by rejecting capitalism as a way to cope with their own failure. Please note they have nor however rejected their trust funds or living subsidies while pursuing their ‘passions’ in NGOs, dabbling in the arts or trying to invest their parents money in ‘VC.’

https://tinyurl.com/3bfxxfeu

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 01:31 PM (Riz8t)

39 I guess it's time to come clean. I am a Sharia plant.
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Is that like a ficus?

Posted by: Harvey Weinstein at August 12, 2026 01:32 PM (amcLV)

40 34 I guess it's time to come clean. I am a Sharia plant.

The reason I don't drink beer isn't complications from Crohns Disease, it's that I think Allah is truly the monkey's nuts, and moohamhead (there are many spellings) is his prophet.

Also Jesus did miracles from his crib, talking clearly as a baby, explicitly telling Mary he was a prophet of Allah. The people who wrote the Bible just didn't want you to know that. Praise Allah, the Koran unearthed it.
Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 01:30 PM (asFP3)
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"Next, on Tucker Carlson"

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 12, 2026 01:32 PM (cWLG3)

41 Next it will be OK to take an oath of office in the US on the Communist Manifesto. This bullshit needs to go away.

Posted by: runner at August 12, 2026 01:32 PM (g47mK)

42 My Obligation Is to Follow Sharia Law Until the Day I Die

His swearing-in oath should be interesting.

Posted by: t-bird at August 12, 2026 01:32 PM (9I5W+)

43 22 Why are trust fund babies, like Piker, so given to advocating the violent overthrow of the United States?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 12, 2026 01:27 PM

Because they believe they will be the ones in the balcony ruling over the dirty peasants on the ground.

Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2026 01:32 PM (ZdaMQ)

44 >>Why are trust fund babies, like Piker, so given to advocating the violent overthrow of the United States?


They are usually exposed to education / university the longest.

Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2026 01:32 PM (uzmqU)

45 What's scary is this guy could get elected.

Posted by: Ann at August 12, 2026 01:33 PM (SHHm+)

46 Call the whites cum-skins.

Sounds gay. Like really really gay.

Posted by: Piker talks like a fag at August 12, 2026 01:27 PM (TbWk/)

Yeah. He's seen one up close.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 01:33 PM (AdHga)

47 Yes. Mostly Gay Men, Terrorists and Pakistanis.

Ah, the oft-attempted, but rarely achieved, triple redundancy.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 01:33 PM (Riz8t)

48 Pay no attention to that old stuff... It was woke 1 don't you know...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 12, 2026 01:33 PM (4WM7K)

49 Deus Vult, douchebag.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 12, 2026 01:33 PM (6eubQ)

50 crazy but committed...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 01:33 PM (xcxpd)

51 I saw Hasan Piker last nite on video for the first time. He's such an intellectual and rhetorical lightweight, so totally unserious and uncaring, I don't understand why anybody would be a fan. Does he in fact have a lot of followers?

The females find him irresistible, like a gay Paolo.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2026 01:34 PM (2ocoG)

52 Why are trust fund babies, like Piker, so given to advocating the violent overthrow of the United States?

Nothing has value when you are given everything.

Posted by: Halfhand at August 12, 2026 01:34 PM (Ysav4)

53 We have to voluntarily hand over all our power to these people to prove that we're not racist.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 12, 2026 01:34 PM (OlzlW)

54 50 crazy but committed...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 01:33 PM (xcxpd)
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to a psychiatric hospital, God willing.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 12, 2026 01:35 PM (cWLG3)

55 It's time to outlaw Sharia. As Clear and Present Danger to the Constitution, that certain persons swear on the Bible to protect. Of course now Derk Derka are taking oath of office on the Sharia codex that is koran, so they need to be disqualified.
Posted by: runner


Can't outlaw it if every law runs headlong into religious protections. You'd have to dislodge it from a religious context to do so - nearly impossible. The best avenue may be to go after it in a distributed fashion like they went after the KKK. Destroy the nodes and network with laws already on the books.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 12, 2026 01:35 PM (diia5)

56 54 50 crazy but committed...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 01:33 PM (xcxpd)
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to a psychiatric hospital, God willing.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 12, 2026 01:35 PM (cWLG3)

Endorsed

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 01:35 PM (xcxpd)

57 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 01:35 PM (2YhKe)

58 If shariah law prohibits the earning of interest, how does a "shariah-compliant" investment fund earn money?

And apparently they can invest in "haram" sources of revenue so long as they account for less than 5% of the return on investment.

Bunch of hypocrites is what they are.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 01:36 PM (FZ29D)

59 “I wipe my ass with the Constitution, it’s a f*cking piece of paper, motherf*ck the Constitution and motherf*ck this country”
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-David Souter

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 01:37 PM (asFP3)

60 22 Why are trust fund babies, like Piker, so given to advocating the violent overthrow of the United States?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 12, 2026 01:27 PM
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Because their soft-ass lazy fuck absentee rich faggot parents never gave them five across the eyes for being little shits.

Posted by: ballistic at August 12, 2026 01:37 PM (oqH4h)

61 With my florid complexion, I think of myself more as a Beetroot Baboon.

Kind of an Olive Orang personally.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 12, 2026 01:37 PM (vTZFs)

62
Thanksgiving > Ramadan
Forth of July > Ramadan
Christmas> Ramadan
Gengis Khans Birthday > Ramadan

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 12, 2026 01:38 PM (OkYzo)

63 What's scary is this guy could get elected.
Posted by: Ann at August 12, 2026 01:33 PM (SHHm+)
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Muslims know they can't defeat America militarily, so their aim is to defeat us politically by taking over any and all elected offices wherever they can.

Once they've saturated an area (e.g., Dearborn), they can flip the switch and turn the entire area into Islam-central.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 01:38 PM (FZ29D)

64 Is this really news?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2026 01:38 PM (JvZF+)

65 Is our terrorists educated?

We’re fighting’ them over there so we don’t fight ‘em over here.

Now watch this drive.

Posted by: George W Bush at August 12, 2026 01:39 PM (gRN/J)

66 I still think the resurfaced videos from when Piker was trying to be a dudebro explaining to everyone how to smash ALL of the mish are funnier. Because he couldn't be more obviously gay if he tried.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2026 01:39 PM (2ocoG)

67 Why are trust fund babies, like Piker, so given to advocating the violent overthrow of the United States?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 12, 2026 01:27 PM (wsp19)
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What else are they gonna do? They're lazy, they're stupid, they're bored, and modern social media gives them a convenient outlet to indulge their narcissistic resentment and envy.

Plus, with "influencers" like Piker, they are whores trolling for likes, so they latch on to whatever The Thing is at the moment. The more extreme the better. See also Cucker Carlson, Me-again Kelly, and CandyAss Owens.

If you look at Piker's older vids, his gimmick was over-the-top macho he-mannish posturing. That gimmick wore out, so he found another. Virulent America- and Jew-hate is big business now. When this wears out, he'll move on again.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 01:39 PM (iFTx/)

68 We have to voluntarily hand over all our power heads to these people to prove that we're not racist.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 12, 2026 01:34 PM (OlzlW)

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 01:40 PM (asFP3)

69
I think a few cartoons drawings of Mohammad are due for an appearance at Michigan Senate campaigns.

We must provoke the crazy to come out of El-Sayed & Piker.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 12, 2026 01:40 PM (OkYzo)

70 Aisha , mohammad's child bride, wrote thousands of hadiths, which are the foundation of islamic teaching. So, basically, the koran is written by a woman.

Posted by: runner at August 12, 2026 01:40 PM (g47mK)

71 When Dana Bash is offended by a lefty, albeit Islamic one, saying something , you've got a big problem

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 01:40 PM (WOnE5)

72 Thanksgiving > Ramadan
Forth of July > Ramadan
Christmas> Ramadan
Gengis Khans Birthday > Ramadan


Toyotathon >> Ramadan

Posted by: Oddbob at August 12, 2026 01:41 PM (vTZFs)

73 "Muslims know they can't defeat America militarily, so their aim is to defeat us politically by taking over any and all elected offices wherever they can."

Another aim is to outbreed the non-Muslim population. I've heard some of them declare that very goal.

Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 01:41 PM (Jr5Lq)

74 My Obligation Is to Follow Sharia Law Until the Day I Die

Is next week good for you?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 12, 2026 01:42 PM (zQnwZ)

75 Aisha , mohammad's child bride, wrote thousands of hadiths, which are the foundation of islamic teaching. So, basically, the koran is written by a woman.
Posted by: runner at

Twilight and 50 shades were also written by women. I'm seeing a pattern.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 12, 2026 01:42 PM (YZ0Fo)

76 WAR.

Posted by: Eromero at August 12, 2026 01:25 PM (LHPAg)

This.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 12, 2026 01:30 PM (dK+Kv)
***

His terms are acceptable.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 12, 2026 01:42 PM (2WIwB)

77 When they show you who they are,
When they tell you who they are,
Believe them.

Honor the threat accordingly.

Posted by: Count de Monet, on lunch time break at August 12, 2026 01:42 PM (q2NNn)

78 yeah; somebody calls you 'c*m skin', there is one response; the chang meme (G****Y!) and laugh.

My father lived in New York as a young german immigrant in the 50's. I've heard slurs for every race that draws breath; you call me that, i can't even take you seriously.
Go ingest another man's testosterone and get back to me when you're serious.

Posted by: Nelly at August 12, 2026 01:42 PM (6+ehB)

79 If you look at Piker's older vids, his gimmick was over-the-top macho he-mannish posturing. That gimmick wore out, so he found another. Virulent America- and Jew-hate is big business now. When this wears out, he'll move on again.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 01:39 PM (iFTx/)
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Much like the arc of Cavernous Nostrils starting off as an archconservative and transforming into a Jew-hating conspiracy loon.

Posted by: ballistic at August 12, 2026 01:42 PM (oqH4h)

80 Dentist Appointment>Ramadan

Posted by: Minuteman at August 12, 2026 01:43 PM (LlFp9)

81 Pay no attention to that old stuff... It was woke 1 don't you know...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 12, 2026 01:33 PM (4WM7K)

One thing about the new flavor I agree on. It is a lot of #2

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 01:43 PM (asFP3)

82 April Fools Day = Ramadan

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 01:43 PM (WOnE5)

83 WI Senate

I realize this was discussed on the previous thread.

The good news is that Wong lost-- she was el-Sayed only more stupid.

The bad news is, the DEMs prolly hold this seat. The GOP has a pretty good nominee (Tom Tiffany), & he likely would've beaten Wong.

But no matter how bad Crowley (D) turns out to be, I'm still glad Wong lost.

Posted by: mnw at August 12, 2026 01:43 PM (RCjYY)

84 Just wait until Sharia law meets the WNBA.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 12, 2026 01:43 PM (gRN/J)

85 Tax Day > Ramadan

Posted by: Minuteman at August 12, 2026 01:43 PM (LlFp9)

86 I hang around with a lot of nice people. I worry, though, that they might turn out to be a bunch of surrender monkeys.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 12, 2026 01:44 PM (OlzlW)

87 Another aim is to outbreed the non-Muslim population. I've heard some of them declare that very goal.

Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 01:41 PM

Until a uterus starts showing up in rectums, the liberals can't breed their way of their future Sharia masters.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 12, 2026 01:44 PM (OkYzo)

88 When I say "Islam is incompatible with Western values" this is what I mean.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2026 01:44 PM (JvZF+)

89 Jennings is correct, and it's something I've been thinking as well. Nations (and the cohesive group of people within them) have shared cultural norms and values. The US was fairly unique in having mass immigration, so racial and ethnic variety, but still a unified culture shared through successful assimilation.

The commies hate that, and have to destroy it. That's why there's the attack on Christianity, sports, all the major US holidays (and creation of new gay ones, like Juneteenth and Pride month), the celebration of non-assimilated colonizers speaking foreign language. Destroy and remove everything uniquely American culturally, so it's just a piece of land where citizens from all around the world csn live under (eventually) a global commie collective. Terrifying.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 12, 2026 01:44 PM (+/CWD)

90 Another aim is to outbreed the non-Muslim population. I've heard some of them declare that very goal.
Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 01:41 PM (Jr5Lq)
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Yep.

Islam is the original BAMN ideology.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 01:44 PM (FZ29D)

91 Hasan Piker is a Dancing Boy.

That guy has sucked more Turkish Cock than his mother.
Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2026 01:25 PM (uzmqU)



We find these statements to be true.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 12, 2026 01:44 PM (2YhKe)

92 Taking a shit > ramadan

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 12, 2026 01:44 PM (zQnwZ)

93 Just wait until Sharia law meets the WNBA.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 12, 2026 01:43 PM (gRN/J)



It's prolly easier to play in a burka than it is with those damn wigs they wear.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 01:44 PM (2YhKe)

94 If shariah law prohibits the earning of interest, how does a "shariah-compliant" investment fund earn money?

And apparently they can invest in "haram" sources of revenue so long as they account for less than 5% of the return on investment.

Bunch of hypocrites is what they are.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 01:36 PM (FZ29D)
________

Easy to get around. I assume it's done the same way as religious Jews being prohibited by Halakha from charging each other loan interest. But if that law was followed, the entire USA banking system would shut down. They get around it by "Heter Iska" agreements.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 01:45 PM (iFTx/)

95
If you look at Piker's older vids, his gimmick was over-the-top macho he-mannish posturing.

Posted by: Elric The Blade

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

So, the Andrew Tate of Color. I guess he wasn't scoring enough to pass himself off as a Paolo.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 01:45 PM (XJ22o)

96
Autopsy > Ramadan

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 12, 2026 01:45 PM (OkYzo)

97 If you look at Piker's older vids, his gimmick was over-the-top macho he-mannish posturing. That gimmick wore out, so he found another. Virulent America- and Jew-hate is big business now. When this wears out, he'll move on again.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 01:39 PM (iFTx/)
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Much like the arc of Cavernous Nostrils starting off as an archconservative and transforming into a Jew-hating conspiracy loon.

Posted by: ballistic at August 12, 2026 01:42 PM (oqH4h)

And Tucker Carlson.

I am sensing a pattern.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 12, 2026 01:45 PM (dK+Kv)

98 I'm pretty sure he actually hates America. It's not the kind of thing you generally make up.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 01:45 PM (asFP3)

99 When they show you who they are,
When they tell you who they are,
Believe them.

==

Absolutely.

Posted by: runner at August 12, 2026 01:45 PM (g47mK)

100 Aisha , mohammad's child bride, wrote thousands of hadiths, which are the foundation of islamic teaching. So, basically, the koran is written by a woman.
Posted by: runner at

Twilight and 50 shades were also written by women. I'm seeing a pattern.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 12, 2026 01:42 PM (YZ0Fo)

Hello! Ready for more stories about Ayla and Jondalar?

Posted by: Jean M. Auel at August 12, 2026 01:45 PM (q2NNn)

101 My father lived in New York as a young german immigrant in the 50's. I've heard slurs for every race that draws breath; you call me that, i can't even take you seriously.
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I kind of miss the Polish jokes.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 12, 2026 01:46 PM (XeU6L)

102 Amendment to Constitution
Oath of office to be taken with hand on the Bible.

Violation of office results in impeachment. By majority vote of one of the two branches.

Posted by: torabora at August 12, 2026 01:46 PM (EyDez)

103 I'm a Miracle Whip monkey.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2026 01:46 PM (Cqx++)

104 Axelrod found himself hearing it from former White House spokesman and political commentator Pete Seat on “Anderson Cooper 360” and looked completely dumbfounded when Seat reminded him that Democrat officials in Indiana — Seat’s home state — were convicted of petition fraud relating to the 2008 primary.

“The gentleman you previously worked for, David Axelrod, Barack Obama got on the ballot because Democrats in that county submitted fraudulent ballot petition signatures.”

“People, including the Democrat county chair, went to jail over that.”

Posted by: SMOD at August 12, 2026 01:46 PM (YsG2T)

105 I hang around with a lot of nice people. I worry, though, that they might turn out to be a bunch of surrender monkeys.
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 12, 2026 01:44 PM (OlzlW)

They might be secret mayonnaise monkeys.

Posted by: Count de Monet, on lunch time break at August 12, 2026 01:48 PM (q2NNn)

106 If you look at Piker's older vids, his gimmick was over-the-top macho he-mannish posturing. That gimmick wore out, so he found another. Virulent America- and Jew-hate is big business now. When this wears out, he'll move on again.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 01:39 PM (iFTx/)
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Much like the arc of Cavernous Nostrils starting off as an archconservative and transforming into a Jew-hating conspiracy loon.
Posted by: ballistic at August 12, 2026 01:42 PM (oqH4h)
__________

Yup. I think a lot of these people are getting directly paid by hostile foreign governments (including Islamist ones). Cucker for sure. He's 100% a whore.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 01:48 PM (iFTx/)

107
This is Obama unfiltered. He hated America but could never openly say it.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 12, 2026 01:48 PM (OkYzo)

108 am sensing a pattern.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 12, 2026 01:45 PM (dK+Kv)
****
This is about me isn't it.

Posted by: Zombie Jessie Jackson at August 12, 2026 01:48 PM (EyDez)

109 WNBA Menopause Awareness Night >>> Ramadan

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 12, 2026 01:48 PM (gRN/J)

110 I kind of miss the Polish jokes.

Same, but the Poles are currently the smartest Europeans. Zero immigration, zero tolerance for border crossings.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2026 01:50 PM (2ocoG)

111 In southern Colorado, we had Bojohn jokes. I have no idea how to spell that or what ethnicity it refers to.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 12, 2026 01:50 PM (OlzlW)

112 If you look at Piker's older vids, his gimmick was over-the-top macho he-mannish posturing.

Posted by: Elric The Blade

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

So, the Andrew Tate of Color. I guess he wasn't scoring enough to pass himself off as a Paolo.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 01:45 PM (XJ22o)
_______

Yup. And ironically, or maybe unironically, both are flamingly gay. It's comic to watch these fairies talk more macho shit about getting girls than the Paolo.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 01:50 PM (iFTx/)

113 Neera Tanden, an annoying dirt bag in her own right, is taking a ton of crap on X for saying campaigning with Piker is a "deathtrap". Please keep this up until after the midterms. And then do it again

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 01:50 PM (WOnE5)

114
I wipe my ass with the koran, it’s a f*cking piece of paper, motherf*ck the koran and motherf*ck your religion




Personally, I think that my version rolls off the tongue better.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 12, 2026 01:51 PM (y9nCu)

115 Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 12, 2026 01:44 PM (+/CWD)

About 37% of the country is praying every day to Satan that one of his minions takes the president out. I mean, it's not good.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 01:51 PM (asFP3)

116 Talk Like A Pirate Day >> ramadan

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at August 12, 2026 01:51 PM (GMWTj)

117 A WNBA game > Ramadan.
Let me think about that one a bit

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 01:52 PM (WOnE5)

118 89
The commies hate that, and have to destroy it. That's why there's the attack on Christianity, sports, all the major US holidays (and creation of new gay ones, like Juneteenth and Pride month), the celebration of non-assimilated colonizers speaking foreign language. Destroy and remove everything uniquely American culturally, so it's just a piece of land where citizens from all around the world csn live under (eventually) a global commie collective. Terrifying.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 12, 2026 01:44 PM (+/CWD)
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The commies hate Joy. What do all of the places that have been run by leftists for any length of time have in common? They're boring as shit and everyone is sullen and unhappy. And I'm counting most of today's Europe in this statement. Europe is fucking BORING once you get past the pretty architecture and the food culture if you're into that. There's not shit to do that's just fun for the sake of it (no, soccer doesn't count). Lefties are miserable people that want to drag everyone down to their level.

Posted by: ballistic at August 12, 2026 01:52 PM (oqH4h)

119 My sharia amour, lovely as a summer day
My sharia amour, distant as the Milky Way
My sharia amour, pretty little law that I adore
You're the only theology my heart beats for
How I wish that you were mine

Posted by: Abdul El-Sayed at August 12, 2026 01:52 PM (q2NNn)

120 A lot of change in a negative direction in my lifetime. The absolutely disgusting, vile language would never be uttered in public in the past. People would be ashamed to say those kinds of things even to friends… I never heard such things.

Now people bellow this stuff loud and proud out in public, and are rewarded. Sad. Robert Bork wrote a book many years ago: Slouching Towards Gomorrah….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 12, 2026 01:52 PM (zEBE+)

121 I wipe my ass with the koran, it’s a f*cking piece of paper, motherf*ck the koran and motherf*ck your religion




Personally, I think that my version rolls off the tongue better.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 12, 2026 01:51 PM (y9nCu)



Bumpersticker worthy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 01:52 PM (2YhKe)

122 "Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
22m
🚨 NOW: AG Todd Blanche confirms DOJ is surging resources into Minnesota fraud investigations, reaching as far as the LEADERSHIP and OFFICIALS who allowed it

"We've spent a ton of resources and we continue to spend a ton of resources in Minneapolis combating fraud. And that includes a very intense look at the leadership and the programs and who's administering them."

"The governor knows that, and everybody knows that, and that should be the case. That's what every single person should expect us to do is the Department of Justice."

"Yes, we have a lot of resources spending there"

LOCK THEM UP!

Posted by: runner at August 12, 2026 01:53 PM (g47mK)

123 There's a reason the Euros who came over here for the World Cup were so blown away. A big part of American culture is that we just do shit for the hell of it to have a good time and we're a generally happy and amiable people because of it.

Posted by: ballistic at August 12, 2026 01:53 PM (oqH4h)

124 Hassan has twice the testosterone in just his colon as the average man has in his entire body.

Posted by: toby928(c) at August 12, 2026 01:53 PM (4NO2D)

125 Talk Like A Pirate Day >> ramadan
Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at August 12, 2026 01:51 PM (GMWTj)



Taco Bell exploding lettuce diarrhea >> ramadan

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 01:53 PM (2YhKe)

126 Twilight and 50 shades were also written by women. I'm seeing a pattern.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 12, 2026 01:42 PM (YZ0Fo)

Hello! Ready for more stories about Ayla and Jondalar?
Posted by: Jean M. Auel

Look, it's not all bad. Morning Glory Milking Farm was hot!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 12, 2026 01:53 PM (+/CWD)

127 @124 that's disgusting! and true!

Posted by: runner at August 12, 2026 01:54 PM (g47mK)

128 Hassan has twice the testosterone in just his colon as the average man has in his entire body.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 12, 2026 01:53 PM (4NO2D)



ITS FUNNY BECAUSE HE MEANS THERE'S A LOT OF MALE SEMEN UP THERE FROM GUYS EJACULATING INSIDE HIS RECTUM.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at August 12, 2026 01:55 PM (2YhKe)

129 If Abdul keeps this up, he may only get 30% of the vote.

C'mon, you know I'm right.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 12, 2026 01:55 PM (Sco7b)

130 Four people share a dark train compartment: an old lady, a young woman, a Russian officer, and a Pole.

The train enters a long tunnel. In the pitch black, a loud "muwah" kiss is heard, followed immediately by a sharp smack.

Out in the light, the Russian officer has a red handprint on his face.

The old lady thinks: "What a brave girl, slapping that rude officer who kissed her."

The young woman thinks: "Why on earth did the officer try to kiss the old lady?"

The Russian thinks: "That fool of a Pole kissed the girl, and she hit me by mistake!"

The Pole thinks: "I am a genius. I kissed the back of my hand, slapped the Russian, and got away with it."

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 01:55 PM (iFTx/)

131 cooking bacon naked > ramadan

Posted by: ballistic at August 12, 2026 01:55 PM (oqH4h)

132 Pete Seat? That's hilarious!

Posted by: Joe Blow at August 12, 2026 01:56 PM (Cjger)

133 Another aim is to outbreed the non-Muslim population. I've heard some of them declare that very goal.
Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 01:41 PM (Jr5Lq)

A very doable goal.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 12, 2026 01:57 PM (g8Ew8)

134 cooking bacon naked > ramadan
Posted by: ballistic at August 12, 2026 01:55 PM (oqH4h)



This is starting to remind me a lot of the old Billy Crystal character doing "I hate when I do that."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 01:57 PM (2YhKe)

135 This is about me isn't it.
Posted by: Zombie Jessie Jackson
-----

Don't forget that his kid, Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., was sentenced to 30 months in Federal Prison.

Apple, tree.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 12, 2026 01:57 PM (XeU6L)

136 37 That is not a quote by Reagan.

That is a quote by some Soviet fuckstick.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 12, 2026 01:31 PM (jrkXE)

______________________________

Well, if you want to be anal retentive about it. The quote was originally attributed to Norman Thomas who ran for president six times or so (so not a Russian fuckstick). However, historians never found documentation that he made the quote....So, it would seem Reagan tailored it himself in incorrectly attributed it to Thomas. Reagan was talking about the concept of socialized medicine at the time.

Posted by: Kanye West at August 12, 2026 01:57 PM (dIske)

137 There's a reason the Euros who came over here for the World Cup were so blown away. A big part of American culture is that we just do shit for the hell of it to have a good time and we're a generally happy and amiable people because of it.

Posted by: ballistic at August 12, 2026 01:53 PM (oqH4h)

I am sure it is a shock when you are sullen and downtrodden, devoid of hope, to see all the shiny happy people.

We were at a small town fair this past weekend selling walking tacos (basically a taco salad in a bag of Fritos or Doritos), and some British chick was raving about it being the best thing she's had in her mouth.

These people dominated the spice trade, and yet, they no nothing of flavor. Even cheap, out of the bag or out of a jar flavor.

Sad.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 12, 2026 01:57 PM (dK+Kv)

138
Well, if you want to be anal retentive about it. The quote was originally attributed to Norman Thomas who ran for president six times or so (so not a Russian fuckstick). However, historians never found documentation that he made the quote....So, it would seem Reagan tailored it himself in incorrectly attributed it to Thomas. Reagan was talking about the concept of socialized medicine at the time.

Posted by: Kanye West at August 12, 2026 01:57 PM (dIske)




You're a gay fish.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 01:58 PM (2YhKe)

139 Another aim is to outbreed the non-Muslim population. I've heard some of them declare that very goal.
Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 01:41 PM (Jr5Lq)

A very doable goal.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 12, 2026 01:57 PM


Oh fuck.

Posted by: The Goats at August 12, 2026 01:58 PM (2ocoG)

140
So, the Andrew Tate of Color. I guess he wasn't scoring enough to pass himself off as a Paolo.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 01:45 PM (XJ22o)
_______

Yup. And ironically, or maybe unironically, both are flamingly gay. It's comic to watch these fairies talk more macho shit about getting girls than the Paolo.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 01:50 PM (iFTx/)



Tate always struck me as another mohammedan cocksucker who, like all mohammedans, hates women. Closeted mohammedan = closeted homosexual.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 12, 2026 01:58 PM (y9nCu)

141 Abdulrahmen Noodles.

Posted by: Del at August 12, 2026 01:58 PM (zhWvq)

142 We were at a small town fair this past weekend selling walking tacos (basically a taco salad in a bag of Fritos or Doritos), and some British chick was raving about it being the best thing she's had in her mouth.

: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 12, 2026 01:57 PM (dK+Kv)




I have, how you say, surprise for her.......

Posted by: The Paolo at August 12, 2026 01:59 PM (2YhKe)

143 73 "Muslims know they can't defeat America militarily, so their aim is to defeat us politically by taking over any and all elected offices wherever they can."

Another aim is to outbreed the non-Muslim population. I've heard some of them declare that very goal.
Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 01:41 PM (Jr5Lq)
How many Americans will convert voluntarily? By ethnicity?

Posted by: Eromero at August 12, 2026 01:59 PM (LHPAg)

144 "Taco Bell exploding lettuce diarrhea >> ramadan"

Smoke from wildfires in Canada >> ramadan

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at August 12, 2026 01:59 PM (GMWTj)

145 We were at a small town fair this past weekend selling walking tacos (basically a taco salad in a bag of Fritos or Doritos), and some British chick was raving about it being the best thing she's had in her mouth.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 12, 2026 01:57

I'm doing dishes.

Someone else want to cleverly handle this.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 12, 2026 01:59 PM (Sco7b)

146 Hey, what do you know! Sounds like only Puebloans would know what a bojon is:

https://pueblostarjournal.org/news/2023/06/02/
slovenian-puebloans-ethnic-slur-bojon/

Pueblo had a rich tapestry of ethnic groups, but they were all participants in the general community. They enjoyed sharing their cultural heritage with everyone else. There were special holiday treats and cultural festivals. It was fun! Although I was quite puzzled when a guy at my high school thought it was unusual that a "white girl" would be willing to date an Italian.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 12, 2026 01:59 PM (OlzlW)

147 There's a reason the Euros who came over here for the World Cup were so blown away. A big part of American culture is that we just do shit for the hell of it to have a good time and we're a generally happy and amiable people because of it.

In the US, things are permitted until they're explicitly outlawed. Europe is the reverse.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2026 01:59 PM (2ocoG)

148 We were at a small town fair this past weekend selling walking tacos (basically a taco salad in a bag of Fritos or Doritos), and some British chick was raving about it being the best thing she's had in her mouth.

These people dominated the spice trade, and yet, they no nothing of flavor. Even cheap, out of the bag or out of a jar flavor.

Sad.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 12, 2026 01:57 PM (dK+Kv)

That is not merely a failure of spice I'm afraid

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 02:00 PM (asFP3)

149 I'm doing dishes.

Someone else want to cleverly handle this.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 12, 2026 01:59 PM (Sco7b)

She was pretty, nice hooters, too. It took great restraint.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 12, 2026 02:00 PM (dK+Kv)

150
A big part of American culture is that we just do shit for the hell of it to have a good time and we're a generally happy and amiable people because of it.
Posted by: ballistic


At least until the money machine grinds to a halt.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2026 02:00 PM (Cqx++)

151 This race the Dems came up short in the cheat to keep him out despite his supposed huge lead in the polls... Evidently they adjusted for that in yesterday's race in Wisconsin....

Posted by: It's me donna at August 12, 2026 02:00 PM (4WM7K)

152 These people need to disappear.

Posted by: Don Black at August 12, 2026 02:01 PM (ZxPkt)

153 https://tinyurl.com/mr67w5kk

11 Defendants Charged in Dismantling of Decade-Long Nationwide Marriage Fraud Scheme
Wednesday, August 12, 2026

A two-count indictment was unsealed charging 11 individuals with conspiring, over the course of more than a decade, to orchestrate more than 1,000 sham marriages to fraudulently obtain immigration status for foreign nationals, primarily citizens of the People’s Republic of China. Some individuals paid up to $100,000 per sham marriage, according to the indictment.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2026 02:02 PM (rbvCR)

154 Are Wong and Crowley really committed to a "Unity" campaign tour? Maybe with a few Bernie Sanders guest appearances?

Posted by: mrp at August 12, 2026 02:02 PM (rj6Yv)

155 This is Obama unfiltered. He hated America but could never openly say it.
Posted by: Frank Barone at August 12, 2026 01:48 PM (OkYzo)

This! Oh, and he still hates America.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 12, 2026 02:02 PM (g8Ew8)

156
Posted by: runner at August 12, 2026 01:53 PM (g47mK)

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

Something has happened. We've dropped "a ton of" money on taking "a very intense look" at voter fraud in MN.

I eagerly look forward to the "results" phase of this action.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 02:02 PM (XJ22o)

157 Another aim is to outbreed the non-Muslim population. I've heard some of them declare that very goal.

Mark Steyn was sanctioned by a media regulator (I forget if it was British or Canadian) for accurately quoting an iman in Norway who told Muslims to breed "like cockroaches".

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 12, 2026 02:03 PM (aD4fx)

158 Abdulrahman El-Sayed: My Obligation Is to Follow Sharia Law Until the Day I Die
—Disinformation Expert Ace


I have no issue with helping him.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 12, 2026 02:03 PM (xHe0y)

159 There's a reason the Euros who came over here for the World Cup were so blown away. A big part of American culture is that we just do shit for the hell of it to have a good time and we're a generally happy and amiable people because of it.

Posted by: ballistic at August 12, 2026 01:53 PM (oqH4h)

I am sure it is a shock when you are sullen and downtrodden, devoid of hope, to see all the shiny happy people.

We were at a small town fair this past weekend selling walking tacos (basically a taco salad in a bag of Fritos or Doritos), and some British chick was raving about it being the best thing she's had in her mouth.

These people dominated the spice trade, and yet, they no nothing of flavor. Even cheap, out of the bag or out of a jar flavor.

Sad.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 12, 2026 01:57 PM (dK+Kv)
_________

I believe a big part of it is the relentless anti-American propaganda they've been fed by the Eurotrash commies their entire lives. They are more hysterical about Trump in Europe than Democraps are here. Then they get here, and see they've been lied to, and it's a big eye-opener.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 02:03 PM (iFTx/)

160 142 We were at a small town fair this past weekend selling walking tacos (basically a taco salad in a bag of Fritos or Doritos), and some British chick was raving about it being the best thing she's had in her mouth.

: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 12, 2026 01:57 PM (dK+Kv)


I'm thinking that the Republicans should use some of the footage of the foreigners who came to the US for the World cup.. Everytime the dems go with their doom and gloom about this Country play one of the Europeans saying how wonderful it is here...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 12, 2026 02:04 PM (4WM7K)

161 Another aim is to outbreed the non-Muslim population. I've heard some of them declare that very goal.


You ain't out breeding them if you keep paying them.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 12, 2026 02:04 PM (xHe0y)

162 “ …. and some British chick was raving about it being the best thing she's had in her mouth”

How you say, this is not correction!

Posted by: Paolo at August 12, 2026 02:04 PM (ixbDh)

163 I eagerly look forward to the "results" phase of this action.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 02:02 PM (XJ22o)

me too, to be honest

Posted by: runner at August 12, 2026 02:04 PM (g47mK)

164 If that Piker fella hates white people, what is he doing here?

Burkina Faso is nice this time of year.

Posted by: Please leave at August 12, 2026 02:04 PM (e2lsi)

165 How many Americans will convert voluntarily? By ethnicity?

The AWFLs first.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 12, 2026 02:04 PM (aD4fx)

166 At least until the money machine grinds to a halt.

A significant number of the things Americans do for the hell of it are based around not having enough money to do something the "right way".

Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2026 02:04 PM (2ocoG)

167
🎵 Abdul Rahman Mohammed El Sayed

Sharia is my law too

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 02:05 PM (asFP3)

168
She was pretty, nice hooters, too. It took great restraint.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 12, 2026 02:00 PM (dK+Kv)

Good for you on your restraint!

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 12, 2026 02:05 PM (Sco7b)

169 Not a parody

@LD_Sceptics 3m
Clowns are entertaining migrants at a Calais camp just 50m from gangs plotting Channel crossings, in a bizarre glimpse of the symbiotic relationship between aid workers and people-smugglers.
Link to Telegraph article
https://tinyurl.com/4b7f63ae

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 12, 2026 02:06 PM (diia5)

170 167
🎵 Abdul Rahman Mohammed El Sayed

Sharia is my law too
Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 02:05 PM (asFP3)

Whenever I go out the people always shout there goes.....

Posted by: It's me donna at August 12, 2026 02:06 PM (4WM7K)

171 11 Defendants Charged in Dismantling of Decade-Long Nationwide Marriage Fraud Scheme
Wednesday, August 12, 2026
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Omar: It's only 2 defendants, big deal

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 02:07 PM (asFP3)

172
Whenever I go out, the people always shout
There goes Abdul Rahman Mohammed El Sayed

Posted by: Abdul Rahman Mohammed El Sayed at August 12, 2026 02:07 PM (4NO2D)

173 I think Muslim men scare white women that Dems have to win over.

Posted by: Sharpie at August 12, 2026 02:07 PM (iZHgT)

174 Clowns are entertaining migrants at a Calais camp just 50m from gangs plotting Channel crossings, in a bizarre glimpse of the symbiotic relationship between aid workers and people-smugglers.

I think they should all be sent back to their shitholes, but subjecting them to clowns is just mean.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2026 02:07 PM (2ocoG)

175 I think Muslim men scare white women that Dems have to win over.

Disagree. For white women, 9/11 was the Luigi Mangione shooting write large: it brought a new forbidden hotness to the attention of their cooters.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2026 02:08 PM (2ocoG)

176 They seem nice.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me again.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 12, 2026 02:08 PM (W2Pud)

177 I'm thinking that the Republicans should use some of the footage of the foreigners who came to the US for the World cup.. Everytime the dems go with their doom and gloom about this Country play one of the Europeans saying how wonderful it is here...
Posted by: It's me donna at August 12, 2026 02:04 PM (4WM7K)

No... that's just what they'll be expecting us to do.

Posted by: Rex Kramer, GOPe Senior Advisor at August 12, 2026 02:09 PM (q2NNn)

178 Just as an aside, Anderson Renewal window people need a Tomahawk missile targeting their corporate headquarters.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 12, 2026 02:10 PM (f547z)

179 El-Sayed taking out a “sharia compliant mortgage” is right up there with buying halal meat in terms of controversial takes.

Yeah, sounds like a Muslim who is saying he tries to live by the principles of his religion? This isn't much different from a devout Christian saying they want to live a Biblically-driven life. As long as they govern in a way to allows freedom of religion, it's not a specific concern.

Oh no! Anyways money out of politics, money in your pocket. Free Medicare for all

"Religion is like a penis. If you have a white one, it's your duty to force it on people without their consent." -Ancient GOP proverb

Yeah, he’s a Muslim, so he plans to follow the tenets of Islam for the rest of his life. Is…is that shocking? Do you think, say, James Talarico plans to follow Christian law until the day he dies? Would that surprise you?

Islam is no more one monolithic religion that makes every Muslim believe exactly the same thing, than Christianity is.

Just as there are progressive, modern Christians and rigid, dogmatic Christians who have different ways of living a Christian life, there are modern progressive Muslims.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 12, 2026 02:10 PM (+/CWD)

180 I think Muslim men scare white women that Dems have to win over.

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Dunno, it seems that quite a few of the awfls are turned on by the Moslems. Rape fantasy is a thing over there.

Posted by: Joe Blow at August 12, 2026 02:10 PM (Cjger)

181 Just as an aside, Anderson Renewal window people need a Tomahawk missile targeting their corporate headquarters.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 12, 2026 02:10 PM (f547z)
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Oh, no! I won't get my FREE steak dinner!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 02:10 PM (FZ29D)

182 I think Muslim men scare white women that Dems have to win over.

Can't disagree more strongly. There are so many videos out there of Muslim men being protected from a crowd by white women.

White women, especially the Wine Box Wendy's of the world, LOVE the dusky migrants.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 02:10 PM (AdHga)

183
Yeah, he’s a Muslim, so he plans to follow the tenets of Islam for the rest of his life. Is…is that shocking? Do you think, say, James Talarico plans to follow Christian law until the day he dies? Would that surprise you?

Christian law ? Yeah... That would surprise me...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 12, 2026 02:11 PM (4WM7K)

184 This isn't much different from a devout Christian saying they want to live a Biblically-driven life. As long as they govern in a way to allows freedom of religion, it's not a specific concern.
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Fucking hell. If ignorance is bliss, this guy just reached nirvana

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 02:12 PM (asFP3)

185 The reason these commies hate Thanksgiving and July 4th isn't just that they're quintessentially American (although most countries have their own version of independence day).

They hate them because these are happy, celebratory holidays where people are encouraged to get together, eat, drink, have fun, and shoot off fireworks.

These commies are bitter, resentful, jealous, anti-social incel lunatics who can't stand other people having fun. Remember when the left was desperate to shut down Thanksgiving, fucking 8 months into covid? Same motivation.


Look at Islam itself. Very little happy celebration. Lotsa mourning, fasting, abstaining, punishing, and forceful conforming. Being Muslim is more like being in a prison camp than any other religion.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 02:12 PM (iFTx/)

186 White women, especially the Wine Box Wendy's of the world, LOVE the dusky migrants.

It's a meme at this point that DSA leadership is 99% Wine Box Wendys and DSA candidates are 99% foreigners.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2026 02:12 PM (2ocoG)

187 This isn't much different from a devout Christian saying they want to live a Biblically-driven life. As long as they govern in a way to allows freedom of religion, it's not a specific concern.



Welp. It's VERY different. You condemn that devout Christian whilst praising the 'devout Muslim.'

You won't be able to explain WHY you treat them differently, just that you do. Because Christian bad Islam good.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 02:13 PM (AdHga)

188
She was pretty, nice hooters, too. It took great restraint.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 12, 2026 02:00 PM (dK+Kv)



I was half expecting some pudgy, tattooed, Cockney slag with only 1/3 of her teeth left.

I'm a sucker for most UK accents when they're found on the pretty ones. It ends up that about half the women that I've dated had UK, Irish or Aussie accents. The exception is Cockney, which makes US southern biker chick meth addict accents sound like trans-Atlantic Harvard Boston Brahmin. Cockney gives me noodle-dick.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 12, 2026 02:14 PM (y9nCu)

189 Can't disagree more strongly. There are so many videos out there of Muslim men being protected from a crowd by white women.

White women, especially the Wine Box Wendy's of the world, LOVE the dusky migrants.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung

==

I'm not debating the left-wing, activist white women.

It's the mushy middle type female voters.


Posted by: Sharpie at August 12, 2026 02:14 PM (r13UX)

190 It's all taqiyya all the time.
......

Too much tequila and I pass out.

Posted by: wth at August 12, 2026 02:14 PM (UjdFS)

191 Just as an aside, Anderson Renewal window people need a Tomahawk missile targeting their corporate headquarters.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 12, 2026 02:10 PM (f547z)


NO! You fool! That will break all their windows and they will become richer than ever!

Posted by: Kindltot - Didn't really understand Frederick Bastiat after all at August 12, 2026 02:14 PM (rbvCR)

192 Hasan Piker does not make me angry. Dumb as fuck Americans who listen to his crap and nod along make me angry.
Posted by: huerfano at August 12, 2026 01:27 PM (CSc+i)
**********
They're even worse than the people that listen to Tucker and Nick Fuentes... and that's a pretty low bar.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 12, 2026 02:14 PM (NpAcC)

193 Yeah, he’s a Muslim, so he plans to follow the tenets of Islam for the rest of his life. Is…is that shocking? Do you think, say, James Talarico plans to follow Christian law until the day he dies? Would that surprise you?

Christian law ? Yeah... That would surprise me...
Posted by: It's me donna at August 12, 2026 02:11 PM (4WM7K)

Tenets? They're more like whatcha call guidelines than actual rules.

Posted by: Captain Barbossa, YoHo! at August 12, 2026 02:15 PM (q2NNn)

194 Yeah, sounds like a Muslim who is saying he tries to live by the principles of his religion? This isn't much different from a devout Christian saying they want to live a Biblically-driven life.

As long as they govern in a way to allows freedom of religion, it's not a specific concern.



Tell us again, how many Christian churches are there in Saudia Arabia? Afghanistan?

Posted by: rickb223 at August 12, 2026 02:15 PM (xHe0y)

195 > Juggling troupe performs at Loon-Plage camp where gangs deploy 15m-long dinghies
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The name of that camp... 🤡

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 12, 2026 02:15 PM (2Cry5)

196 Muslims believe some very disgusting things. Christians don't.

Very common sense for most people to understand.
If someone was a buddhist, I have way less concerns than an Islamic Fundamentalist.

Posted by: Sharpie at August 12, 2026 02:15 PM (r13UX)

197 White women, especially the Wine Box Wendy's of the world, LOVE the dusky migrants.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung

It's those hot, hot rape fantasies.

Posted by: Bernie Sanders at August 12, 2026 02:16 PM (UjdFS)

198 Most islhamic countries are shitholes. Why are so many westerners so enamored with that 7th century death cult?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 02:17 PM (2YhKe)

199 It's a meme at this point that DSA leadership is 99% Wine Box Wendys and DSA candidates are 99% foreigners.
Posted by: Ian S.

And yet, 85% listed white as one of their ethnic identities; 64% male (10% non-binary/other), LGBTQIA+: 32% (up sharply from prior surveys), and ~60% agnostic/atheist.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 12, 2026 02:17 PM (+/CWD)

200 It's the mushy middle type female voters.


Posted by: Sharpie at August 12, 2026 02:14 PM (r13UX)

I get the distinction.

I think those mushy middle type female voters want so desperately to stay Members In Good Standing that they'll never do anything to risk it - not even privately, in the voting booth.

Al Sayed did very, very well among white, college educated women. They're your mushy middle types.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 02:17 PM (AdHga)

201 Just as an aside, Anderson Renewal window people need a Tomahawk missile targeting their corporate headquarters.
Posted by: Common Tater

===

It's well known to be the scummiest of all window installers. It's like the same tactics to sell timeshares.

Posted by: Sharpie at August 12, 2026 02:17 PM (r13UX)

202 Hasan Piker does not make me angry. Dumb as fuck Americans who listen to his crap and nod along make me angry.
Posted by: huerfano at August 12, 2026 01:27 PM (CSc+i)
**********
They're even worse than the people that listen to Tucker and Nick Fuentes... and that's a pretty low bar.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 12, 2026 02:14 PM (NpAcC)

People are susceptible to online algorithms, they are designed to rewire the brain.

Posted by: runner at August 12, 2026 02:17 PM (g47mK)

203 Look at Islam itself. Very little happy celebration. Lotsa mourning, fasting, abstaining, punishing, and forceful conforming.

Posted by: Elric The Blade


And fucking little children. Don't forget that.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 12, 2026 02:17 PM (xHe0y)

204 moral of the story is...don't be stupid , be a smarty...

Posted by: runner at August 12, 2026 02:18 PM (g47mK)

205 Yeah, sounds like a Muslim who is saying he tries to live by the principles of his religion? This isn't much different from a devout Christian saying they want to live a Biblically-driven life. As long as they govern in a way to allows freedom of religion, it's not a specific concern.
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Show me just ONE translation of the Bible where Christ commands his disciples to behead those who don't follow his teachings.

Take your time. I'll wait.

Idiot.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 02:19 PM (FZ29D)

206
And fucking little children. Don't forget that.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 12, 2026 02:17 PM (xHe0y)




And goats.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 02:19 PM (2YhKe)

207 Look at Islam itself. Very little happy celebration. Lotsa mourning, fasting, abstaining, punishing, and forceful conforming. Being Muslim is more like being in a prison camp than any other religion.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 02:12 PM (iFTx/)

Pie Jesu Domine, dona eis requiem
[bonk!]

Come for the 30 days of fasting, get ecstatic with the self-flagellation!

Posted by: Medieval Imams at August 12, 2026 02:19 PM (q2NNn)

208
Al Sayed did very, very well among white, college educated women. They're your mushy middle types.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung

==

In a Democrat Primary. Pretty skewed demo there.

And really what won him the primary was fellow Muslims.

The reality is, there's a lot of moderate Republican type housewives that Dems are able to steal votes from. I dont think they get the same vibes from an Al Sayed as some other generic Dem that just promises to protect abortion rights.

Posted by: Sharpie at August 12, 2026 02:20 PM (r13UX)

209 So anyways, the movie Mannose, the Hands of Fate is about dealing with a UTI apparently.

Not a fan.

Posted by: Kindltot - Didn't really understand Frederick Bastiat after all at August 12, 2026 02:20 PM (rbvCR)

210
Yeah, sounds like a Muslim who is saying he tries to live by the principles of his religion? This isn't much different from a devout Christian saying they want to live a Biblically-driven life. As long as they govern in a way to allows freedom of religion, it's not a specific concern.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

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

"Governing in a way to allows freedom of religion" is not sharia-compliant.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 02:20 PM (XJ22o)

211 Tell us again, how many Christian churches are there in Saudia Arabia? Afghanistan?
Posted by: rickb223

None, because all the Christians that lived there saw how awesome Islam is and converted. It happens everywhere!

Posted by: Violent Muslim Apologist at August 12, 2026 02:20 PM (+/CWD)

212
Come for the 30 days of fasting, get ecstatic with the self-flagellation!
Posted by: Medieval Imams at August 12, 2026 02:19 PM (q2NNn)



Fasting.......where you can eat whatever after sundown......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 02:20 PM (2YhKe)

213 I enjoy all the responses on X pointing out that literally everyone laughs at Piker's stupid attempts at racial slurs, but the Wakandan Death Word is fatal at 500 yards.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2026 02:20 PM (2ocoG)

214 Look at Islam itself. Very little happy celebration. Lotsa mourning, fasting, abstaining, punishing, and forceful conforming.

Posted by: Elric The Blade

People who know such things (those who escaped ishlam) will tell you that ishlam purports to solve all your problems. And if your problems are not solved, you are just not following and praying strong enough.

Posted by: runner at August 12, 2026 02:20 PM (g47mK)

215
"Governing in a way to allows freedom of religion" is not sharia-compliant.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 12, 2026 02:20 PM (XJ22o)



Well, they ARE stupid.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 02:22 PM (2YhKe)

216 El-Jihadi is not going to win the general election.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 12, 2026 02:22 PM (EZtVN)

217
I think Muslim men scare white women that Dems have to win over.

Can't disagree more strongly. There are so many videos out there of Muslim men being protected from a crowd by white women.

White women, especially the Wine Box Wendy's of the world, LOVE the dusky migrants.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 02:10 PM (AdHga)


Spring Break and Summers between semesters in the US are happy happy joy joy times in mohammedan countries. Because that's when the blonde Western University hippie chicks travel to the middle east to do "NGO volunteer work", and get plowed by unwashed mohammedan young men.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 12, 2026 02:22 PM (y9nCu)

218 I hate Taxachusetts so much. If my company had an office up here in Live Free or Die country, I'd never set foot in it again.

I'm reading the John Adams book that was the basis for the HBO series, and it's such a bummer that the cradle of the American revolution has been completely subverted by gay race communism.

Lots of natural beauty in the state, but like CA the Democrats are trying as hard as possible to make it unlivable for anyone but them.

Posted by: MrUNIVAC at August 12, 2026 02:22 PM (7COU4)

219 In a Democrat Primary. Pretty skewed demo there.

And really what won him the primary was fellow Muslims.

Posted by: Sharpie at August 12, 2026 02:20 PM (r13UX)

Fair points, both.

I guess this is the first time we've really hit Press to Test, if you don't count Obama as a Muslim.

Trump won white women by 4, and won Michigan, so we'll see.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 02:22 PM (AdHga)

220 I once closed a deal with a sharia-compliant mortgage. Basically, it's a sham, like a Catholic annulment after you had two kids.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 12, 2026 02:23 PM (wGerL)

221 El-Jihadi is not going to win the general election.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 12, 2026 02:22 PM (EZtVN)



They just cheated, again.

I have zero faith they won't be 'allowed' to cheat in November.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 02:23 PM (2YhKe)

222 I was half expecting some pudgy, tattooed, Cockney slag with only 1/3 of her teeth left.

I'm a sucker for most UK accents when they're found on the pretty ones. It ends up that about half the women that I've dated had UK, Irish or Aussie accents. The exception is Cockney, which makes US southern biker chick meth addict accents sound like trans-Atlantic Harvard Boston Brahmin. Cockney gives me noodle-dick.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 12, 2026 02:14 PM (y9nCu)

She was very polite, respectful, and cheerful. Her accent was exceptional.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 12, 2026 02:23 PM (dK+Kv)

223 Whoops, wrong thread.

Posted by: MrUNIVAC at August 12, 2026 02:23 PM (7COU4)

224 I have zero faith they won't be 'allowed' to cheat in November.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 02:23 PM (2YhKe)

Why cheat now and not in 2024?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 02:24 PM (AdHga)

225
Why cheat now and not in 2024?
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 02:24 PM (AdHga)



I'm sure they did. I'm guessing our side outvoted the cheat. Bigly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 02:25 PM (2YhKe)

226 Sponge, they cheated to dial down the crazy even if Crowley is just as bad.

He isn't going to win either.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 12, 2026 02:25 PM (EZtVN)

227
He isn't going to win either.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 12, 2026 02:25 PM (EZtVN)



I pray you're correct.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 02:26 PM (2YhKe)

228 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 02:28 PM (2YhKe)

229 Fair points, both.

I guess this is the first time we've really hit Press to Test, if you don't count Obama as a Muslim.

Trump won white women by 4, and won Michigan, so we'll see.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung

===

My take is the reason many affluent, white women vote Dem because of social issues like abortion and just basically liberal attitudes about a lot things. At least in my circle, that's what it's really about.

I just don't see someone Al Sayed that really wears their Muslim background on their sleeve being a big seller to these types. It's well known they are incredibly backwards as a group and just straight up anti-women.

But yea, lots of dumb female voters, no argument there.

Posted by: Sharpie at August 12, 2026 02:28 PM (r13UX)

230
Look at Islam itself. Very little happy celebration. Lotsa mourning, fasting, abstaining, punishing, and forceful conforming.

Posted by: Elric The Blade



Ayasshola Khomeini used to sternly tell his asshole followers that laughter wasn't permitted in islam, while at the same time he was known to have a good sense of humor in private, especially when the humor was directed at him. Hypocritical cocksucker.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 12, 2026 02:28 PM (y9nCu)

231 I'm sure they did. I'm guessing our side outvoted the cheat. Bigly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 02:25 PM (2YhKe)

Vote totals weren't really all that different in Michigan. I'm sure they could have found an extra hundred thousand ballots lying around in 2024 like they did in 2020.

2020:

2.8 million - Biden
2.7 million - Trump

2024:

2.8 million - Trump
2.7 million - Harris

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 02:30 PM (AdHga)

232 Abdulrahman El-Sayed: My Obligation Is to Follow Sharia Law Until the Day I Die

Your terms are acceptable.
Say when.

Posted by: waepnedmann at August 12, 2026 02:33 PM (STnhA)

233 I tend to stay away from crazy people like this dude. And I sure would not vote to give people like this power. It's like they are from a different planet with strange customs that I want no part of.

Posted by: Case at August 12, 2026 02:34 PM (fV9m3)

234 White Rabbit has 40k plus followers (for what thats worth}

August 18 Dearborn, Michigan Crusaders, March on Dearborn city Council meeting 6 PM. Don’t miss out Patriot unite.https://tinyurl.com/bdebdx47

Then there is this!

OCTOBER 17 2026 IS THE DEADLINE , AFTER THAT THE REPUBLIC REGULATORS RIDE!!!!!
https://tinyurl.com/mvavedvd

Posted by: Yer Sistas Azz at August 12, 2026 02:36 PM (jwV58)

235 Piker doesn't even seem to understand that he, himself, is white. He's whiter than I am and that's pretty white.

Does he think he's a trans-POC or something, like Rachel Dolezal?

Posted by: Ralph at August 12, 2026 02:36 PM (8WZD4)

236 And he's backed by the UAW and National Nurses United.

And his father-in-law, a nephrologist at a Detroit hospital who had given $300,000 to El Sayed's biggest individual donor, Fighting for Michigan, as of July 15.

And his wife, Dr. Sarah Jukaku, a psychiatrist in Ann Arbor, Michigan affiliated with University of Michigan Health-Ann Arbor.
---
>New York Times, 'With El-Sayed’s Victory Comes a Wave of Islamophobia' As Muslim politicians like Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan have become more prominent, they have experienced considerable bigotry. President Trump said Democrats were electing “jihadists.” 21 hours ago
---
As long as the US Constitution holds:
Article VI of the Constitution explicitly states that federal law and the Constitution are the highest law in the nation, superseding any conflicting state, foreign, or religious legal doctrine.

The First Amendment prohibits the government from establishing a state religion or favoring one religion over another, making the adoption of any religious code as national law unconstitutional.

Individual liberties cannot be overridden by legislative action or religious mandates.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 12, 2026 02:44 PM (NFX2v)

237 Piker (what an appropriate name) says the 'the knives will be out" for establishment Democrats.
that's what you call a Freudian slip.

Posted by: vivi at August 12, 2026 02:48 PM (7esJd)

238 Piker (what an appropriate name) says the 'the knives will be out" for establishment Democrats.
that's what you call a Freudian slip.

Posted by: vivi at August 12, 2026 02:48 PM (7esJd)

Seriously.

What is it with Muslims and knives?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 02:52 PM (AdHga)

239 What is it with Muslims and knives?
Posted by: Washington Nearsider


7th century arabia is considered the most perfect time. Hence, 7th C technology.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 12, 2026 03:18 PM (diia5)

240 When he dies and stands before God, Jesus will say he doesn't know him. He will be damned to eternity with his current leader, Satan.

There is still time to repent and turn away from his demonic cult and accept the one true Lord and Savior.

Posted by: JJ at August 12, 2026 03:24 PM (W2dIs)

241 What is it with Muslims and knives?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 02:52 PM (AdHga)

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

"You slit the throat of the goat before
you rape it, comrade!"

Posted by: ShainS at August 12, 2026 04:41 PM (dVpbe)

After Polls Predicted a 97% Chance of a Double-Digit Victory for Francesca Hong, Missing USB Drives and Late Ballot Shenanigans Hand the Establishment Candidate the "Win"

Did they steal it? I don't know, but the socialists have got to be wondering that.

And I encourage that speculation!

OSZ
@OpenSourceZone

Last 5 Wisconsin Governor Democratic Primary Polls

State Navigate: 🔵 Hong +22
Public Policy Polling: 🔵 Hong +18
Marquette University: 🔵 Hong +25
State Navigate: 🔵 Hong +29
Public Policy Polling: 🔵 Hong +20

Results (88% Reporting): 🟡Crowley +0.5

The also leftwing candidate, Crowley, actually abandoned the race but re-entered it after Establishment types insisted he get back in to stop Hong. He wound up "winning" by around 3000 votes out of more than half a million.

I keep clicking on articles to see if there's an update showing that Hong won.

Alas, it seems we've lost this one.

Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley narrowly upset Democratic socialist Francesca Hong in Wisconsin's Democratic gubernatorial primary Tuesday night, despite polls showing Hong in front by double-digits in the final stretch before polling day.

Crowley's campaign said the 37-year-old state legislator and member of the Democratic Socialists of America called Crowley early Wednesday to concede the race. Hong trailed her rival by more than 3,200 votes out of more than 787,000 ballots cast as of 6 a.m. ET., a margin of 0.41 percentage points.

Under Wisconsin law, Hong could have requested a recount since she trailed by under one percentage point, but would have had to pay for it since her deficit was greater than 0.25 percentage points. State law does not provide for automatic recounts in close races.

She chose not to. I think, in the end, she wanted to lose the primary, because that allows her to continue on as an agitator and podcast goon. Had she won the primary and then been blown out in the general, she'd be excluded by the whole rotten Democrat Party, including the socialists, who need to pretend they're #Winning.


Crowley, 40, was the late choice of Wisconsin's Democratic establishment after Lt. Gov Sara Rodriguez and her predecessor Mandela Barnes dropped out of the race in recent weeks. Crowley had initially dropped out and endorsed Rodriguez last month, but re-entered the race in an effort to stop Hong after Barnes quit.

...

Crowley, who will face GOP Rep. Tom Tiffany in the November general election, would be the Badger State's first ever black governor.

Hong immediately endorsed the guy who cheated to beat her because she has a Coward's Heart.

But that doesn't stop us from crying #RiggedElection on her behalf.

Also winning: This nasty mentally-ill woman.

Is this a transgender?

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:19 PM




Comments

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 12:19 PM (2YhKe)

2 Polls are for strippers......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 12:19 PM (2YhKe)

3 Off to lum, NOOD.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 12:19 PM (2YhKe)

4 Nooded. Sponge, we got it covered.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 12, 2026 12:20 PM (NcvvS)

5 I felt bad for ace last night when she lost.

So much easy material.

What are the odds of the Dems producing more stupid, crazy bitches?

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 12, 2026 12:21 PM (Sco7b)

6 Says Hasan Piker: "The knives are out!"

Even though progressives say election fraud is impossible, they're saying Hong lost because of election fraud.

The establishment screwed her. They're livid.

I'm sure the 49% of Dems who voted for Hong will definitely turn out in November, though.

Womp. Womp.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 12:22 PM (AdHga)

7 And yet I bet the Dems are still going to be all-in AGAINST the SAVE act...

...because they know if it passes they can't use their shenanigans to save their "preferred" candidates in primary season.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 12:22 PM (FZ29D)

8 Top 10!

Posted by: Crusader at August 12, 2026 12:22 PM (TN0g+)

9
Sonny and Cher made "And the Cheat Goes On" in the 60's and it was a hit.

This is coming everywhere in november.

Posted by: Auspex at August 12, 2026 12:22 PM (Y8DZL)

10 Is this a transgender?"

Ewwww.

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 12:22 PM (cGjQu)

11 Cheating on behalf of a black candidate in Milwaukee. The cynicism here hurts.

Posted by: Blank USB Drive at August 12, 2026 12:22 PM (2LBLq)

12 .....and Hasan Piker now says the "knives are OUT!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 12:22 PM (2YhKe)

13 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 12, 2026 12:23 PM (u82oZ)

14 >>>Says Hasan Piker: "The knives are out!"
Even though progressives say election fraud is impossible, they're saying Hong lost because of election fraud.
The establishment screwed her. They're livid.

Oh, good!

Posted by: ace at August 12, 2026 12:23 PM (1wjle)

15 What are the odds of the Dems producing more stupid, crazy bitches?
-----

The same as the sun rising in the east...

Posted by: Crusader at August 12, 2026 12:23 PM (TN0g+)

16 Hong probably got paid off by establishment types.

Posted by: mr tmz at August 12, 2026 12:23 PM (rJ48h)

17 12 .....and Hasan Piker now says the "knives are OUT!"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer


I'll be over here with a bucket full of quarters at the wishing well and wish a mfcker would.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 12, 2026 12:24 PM (NR6c1)

18 What are the odds of the Dems producing more stupid, crazy bitches?"

99

And .999999999

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 12:24 PM (cGjQu)

19 Hong got "Bernied" and someone told her to STFU or else. Wow, the Democrats are ruthless and have no fear of visibly committing fraud.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at August 12, 2026 12:24 PM (n17eQ)

20
Transgender Islamist is peak Democrat.

Until they graft something else on to their body politic.

Posted by: Auspex at August 12, 2026 12:24 PM (Y8DZL)

21 Russian interference

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 12, 2026 12:25 PM (cZ8IN)

22

I've seen your picture
Your name in lights above it
This is your big debut
It's like a dream come true
So won't you smile for the camera?
I know they're gonna love it
Peg

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2026 12:25 PM (Cqx++)

23 This is who just won the nomination for the US Senate in Minnesota pic.twitter.com/gOhu5vEHDy

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 12, 2026


Say 'um' one more time, you emptyheaded ditzbag.......FFS.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 12:25 PM (2YhKe)

24 The knives are out"

K Bar? Benchmade? Cheap Chinese on Amazon?

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 12:25 PM (cGjQu)

25 Hilarious

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at August 12, 2026 12:25 PM (okun6)

26 I could have been first but I was emptying my thumb drive.

Posted by: fd at August 12, 2026 12:25 PM (MWfyi)

27 Hong got "Bernied" and someone told her to STFU or else. Wow, the Democrats are ruthless and have no fear of visibly committing fraud.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at August 12, 2026 12:24 PM (n17eQ)

Sure. They can get HER to shut the fuck up.

But her voters aren't going to forgive.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 12:25 PM (AdHga)

28 This Flanagan chick. One look at her face tells you that she's a hateful harpy. Of course, the Hateful Harpy wing of the Democrat Party is very strong.

Posted by: tsj017 at August 12, 2026 12:26 PM (xakWh)

29 Ding Dong the Hong got schlonged!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 12:26 PM (2YhKe)

30 Now that she's "lost" her position, she can still be a firebrand for her cause, forcing the candidate who "won" to move towards even more Left.

For Hong, it may be the best of all possible worlds. She'll still get $$ shoveled at her to speak out against "the establishment" (i.e., Republicans, never Dems) and she doesn't have to worry about trivial things like getting out the vote for her.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 12:26 PM (FZ29D)

31 Pool party at my new house!

Posted by: Francesca Hong at August 12, 2026 12:26 PM (+IsEU)

32 A hijab will hide if the kid is trans... for a little bit.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 12, 2026 12:26 PM (cZ8IN)

33 The knives are out"

K Bar? Benchmade? Cheap Chinese on Amazon?

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 12:25 PM (cGjQu)

Benchmade or Kersahw.

It is known.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 12:26 PM (AdHga)

34 Out of an entire state, only about 250k supported the crazy. I guess that's slightly good news.

Posted by: LASue at August 12, 2026 12:27 PM (qtfk+)

35 It was Stolen. Definitely. Stolen.

Posted by: Rain Man at August 12, 2026 12:27 PM (PiwSw)

36 Crowley, actually abandoned the race but re-entered it after Establishment types insisted he get back in to stop Hong. He wound up "winning" by around 3000 votes out of more than half a million.

Hey, it's a 50-50 party, Dems! Oh, and Crowley now has a 'mandate'.

Posted by: t-bird at August 12, 2026 12:27 PM (5FKHw)

37 I felt bad for ace last night when she lost.

So much easy material.

What are the odds of the Dems producing more stupid, crazy bitches?


She won't go away, she's too crazy. And the Dems have a factory spitting out crazy bitches.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2026 12:27 PM (2ocoG)

38 I hope these knives are long. Very long. And something happens at night. Call it...

Posted by: Reforger at August 12, 2026 12:27 PM (Zqvxn)

39 But her voters aren't going to forgive."

Huh? There's a sale on quinoa at whole foods! With delivery!

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 12:28 PM (cGjQu)

40 Afternoon Ace.
The Flanagan v Tafoya Senate race could be interesting to watch. While Minnesota is crazy , a lot of them realize that Flanagan is nut bag. Tafoya at least has a shot

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 12:28 PM (WOnE5)

41 They're always able to get the losers out just in time.

So should I just assume now Wisconsin elects a Dem Governor?

Posted by: Sharpie at August 12, 2026 12:28 PM (uksHY)

42
She won't go away, she's too crazy. And the Dems have a factory spitting out crazy bitches.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2026 12:27 PM (2ocoG)



I EAT WITH A COMB!!!!

Posted by: Amy Klobuchar at August 12, 2026 12:28 PM (2YhKe)

43 The best part of all of this is that the people who did the cheating are the same ones affirming that there was no cheating.

And Hong's base knows it.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 12:28 PM (AdHga)

44 "What are the odds of the Dems producing more stupid, crazy bitches?
Posted by: Stateless"


I think we are still not even close to Peak Dem Stupid Crazy Bitches.

Posted by: Ripley at August 12, 2026 12:28 PM (GUOwU)

45 @27

>>But her voters aren't going to forgive.

The only consistent ethos or ethic a leftist adheres to is, power by any means necessary.

They will vote for Crowley in November, or at the very least, their ballots will be cast for him.

IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2026 12:29 PM (XV/Pl)

46 33 The knives are out"

K Bar? Benchmade? Cheap Chinese on Amazon?

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 12:25 PM (cGjQu)

Klingon Mekleth.
It's made for disemboweling.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 12, 2026 12:29 PM (Sco7b)

47 There used to be safe spaces for the Peggy Flanagans of this world.

Posted by: Pilgrim State Hospital Bldg. 23 at August 12, 2026 12:29 PM (JM9I6)

48 Correction:
4,617,710 adults live in Wisconsin. Less than 300,000 voted for crazy commie woman.

That seems like good news.

Posted by: LASue at August 12, 2026 12:29 PM (qtfk+)

49 Now that she's "lost" her position, she can still be a firebrand for her cause, forcing the candidate who "won" to move towards even more Left.

*fistbump*

Posted by: Kamala Ding-dong at August 12, 2026 12:29 PM (w9Wax)

50
The knives are out

What kind of knife is on Peggy's shirt?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2026 12:30 PM (Cqx++)

51 > Is this a transgender?
-------
Is it human? The jury's out on that one.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 12, 2026 12:30 PM (2Cry5)

52 Looks like she got hong out to dry!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 12, 2026 12:30 PM (wtvvX)

53 Hasan Piker: "Nothing triggers me to no end like a guy who's like, 'I really like Francesca Hong's policies, but I'm also a stupid guy who shits in his diapers, and I will be Soylent Green one day because I'm so fucking dumb.'"

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 12:31 PM (AdHga)

54 Such a great twist in the movie. Now you'll have Democrats screaming for the SAVE America Act while RINOs still resist.

That being said, who runs primary elections? Why would states have to pay for and operate them?

Posted by: t-bird at August 12, 2026 12:31 PM (5FKHw)

55 There used to be safe spaces for the Peggy Flanagans of this world.
Posted by: Pilgrim State Hospital Bldg. 23"

Spencer State Hospital, Spencer, WV. More isolated.

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 12:31 PM (cGjQu)

56 Two possibilities:

Polling is completely busted
This is proof of fraud

Now the Trump DOJ should exhaustively look at that second point

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 12:31 PM (sKqQm)

57 33 The knives are out"

K Bar? Benchmade? Cheap Chinese on Amazon?

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 12:25 PM (cGjQu)

Ginsu!!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 12, 2026 12:31 PM (wtvvX)

58 There sure seems to be an endless stream of batsh*t crazy leftist women running for office. I'm not talking just your run of the mill lamebrain Democrat. These are all insane, literally insane, women inching so very close to winning these elections. One seemingly outdoing the other in crazy. It's really horrifying.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 12, 2026 12:32 PM (qBdHI)

59 Wonder what they offered Hong to go away quietly.

Posted by: Speculatin' Here at August 12, 2026 12:32 PM (JM9I6)

60 Peggy Flanagan says Somalians are the �fabric of our state� and it�s �racist� to expose fraud



"The beautiful Somali community......."


Uh huh.......


https://shorturl.fm/DU4ii

Posted by: Amy Klobuchar at August 12, 2026 12:32 PM (2YhKe)

61 That being said, who runs primary elections"

Auntie Entity?

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 12:32 PM (cGjQu)

62 Damnit........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 12:32 PM (2YhKe)

63 The Governor of MI is riding in. Old Sven spots him and says "the Governor is a n...". People waiting say the Governor is near.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 12, 2026 12:33 PM (gm9Sb)

64 Washington Nearsider

Super Hobby has shipped the Revell Me 262A-1a/U4 and the Eduard Hybrid 1/32 P-51B.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 12, 2026 12:33 PM (cZ8IN)

65 Super Hobby has shipped the Revell Me 262A-1a/U4 and the Eduard Hybrid 1/32 P-51B.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 12, 2026 12:33 PM (cZ8IN)

NICE!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 12:33 PM (AdHga)

66 >>Is this a transgender?

Peggy Flanigan. More like, Pegme Flannigan, amirite?

Posted by: one hour sober at August 12, 2026 12:33 PM (J4Dwc)

67 Abujah Muhammad Jamal Hamas aka Peggy Flanagan

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 12:33 PM (asFP3)

68 Hasan Piker: "Nothing triggers me to no end like a guy who's like, 'I really like Francesca Hong's policies, but I'm also a stupid guy who shits in his diapers, and I will be Soylent Green one day because I'm so fucking dumb.'"
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 12:31 PM (AdHga)



The future of the Democrat party.

What a f*cking genius.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 12:33 PM (2YhKe)

69 Where the fuck do women like this Flanagan creature come from?

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 12, 2026 12:33 PM (U4hpE)

70 So Crowley got the same treatment as Spender Pratt did. The big bump in the middle of the night from unlikely supporters.

Posted by: Random PJ at August 12, 2026 12:33 PM (+jscL)

71 You almost have to laugh at the Dems running around saying Somalis built America.

Even if you were to ignore that they are all on welfare, they haven't been here long enough to build much of anything

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 12:33 PM (sKqQm)

72 The results are self-evident: stop letting liberal white ladies run things.

Posted by: That's right, I typed it at August 12, 2026 12:34 PM (2Ez/1)

73 Wonder what they offered Hong to go away quietly."

Codeine? Lithium?

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 12:34 PM (cGjQu)

74 So Crowley got the same treatment as Spender Pratt did. The big bump in the middle of the night from unlikely supporters.

The claim with LA was of course the mail in vote is the most leftwing demographic.

Apparently the Dems are arguing that of course the mail in vote is the most rightwing demographic

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 12:34 PM (sKqQm)

75 Knives out?!

Hopefully, a Night of the Long Knives.

Posted by: dantesed at August 12, 2026 12:35 PM (Oy/m2)

76 Whoresan Cryker is the biggest who gives a shit in the history of not giving a shit.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 12:35 PM (asFP3)

77 Conservatives need to do a better job keeping their powder dry when "crazy" is about to get nominated for the Dems.

There was like a full court press of click bait to take her out and Dems realized she would probably lose.

Posted by: Sharpie at August 12, 2026 12:35 PM (iZHgT)

78 The results are self-evident: stop letting liberal white ladies run things.
Posted by: That's right, I typed it at August 12, 2026 12:34 PM (2Ez/1)



Stop letting liberals run anything, regardless of selected gender.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 12:35 PM (2YhKe)

79 After Polls Predicted a 97% Chance of a Double-Digit Victory for Francesca Hong, Missing USB Drives and Late Ballot Shenanigans Hand the Establishment Candidate the "Win"
—Disinformation Expert Ace



If she accepts the outcome without raising a stink, she was paid off.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 12, 2026 12:35 PM (xHe0y)

80 33 The knives are out


Damn it!
*runs and hides*

Posted by: That Unfortunate Penny and Tomato at August 12, 2026 12:35 PM (w9Wax)

81 73 Wonder what they offered Hong to go away quietly."

Codeine? Lithium?
Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 12:34 PM (cGjQu)

Lime green pants and a boba tea.

Posted by: Blank USB Drive at August 12, 2026 12:35 PM (2LBLq)

82 women like this Flanagan creature come from?"

Lana?

/ read it backwards...

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 12:36 PM (cGjQu)

83 80 33 The knives are out

Damn it!
*runs and hides*
Posted by: That Unfortunate Penny and Tomato at August 12, 2026 12:35 PM (w9Wax)


Oh, boo hoo.

Posted by: The sheet of paper at August 12, 2026 12:37 PM (PiwSw)

84 Hong Kong Phooey took a dive. No question in my mind about it. She's the Bernie with boobs of 2026. No other Democrap would ever have waived a recount in such a close race. No way.

This is sad news for us. Tiffany was almost sure to beat her. Crowley will be tougher to beat in part because he's black and blacks will be motivated to vote. They would have mostly sat out for Red Whore.

I still think this one is winnable but it'll be a harder pull.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 12:37 PM (iFTx/)

85 They "killed" Republicans in turnout though. Turnout LOL

Posted by: steevy at August 12, 2026 12:37 PM (YwEeS)

86 >>"We're not corrupt, we're stupid" defense

One does not preclude the other and both are likely.

Posted by: huerfano at August 12, 2026 12:37 PM (CSc+i)

87 Think what you like, but Jim Clyburn was in Wisconsin just before the primary, and that coincided with the "Black Caucus" vociferously endorsing Crowly.

Clyburn always seems to make his rounds to specific states to which he has no real connection just before a hinge type election occurs. In 2020, Clyburn traveled to every single swing state before the General election. He did no campaigning. So, why? It's a good question.

Posted by: Orson at August 12, 2026 12:37 PM (dIske)

88 So Crowley got the same treatment as Spender Pratt did. The big bump in the middle of the night from unlikely supporters.

"It worked, didn't it?" - Chuck Schumer

Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2026 12:37 PM (2ocoG)

89 The whole election process in blue states is a fucking circus.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 12, 2026 12:38 PM (bx2ki)

90 This will not stand!

Posted by: Republicans for Hong (we're totes legit) at August 12, 2026 12:38 PM (0sNs1)

91 I thought they would cheat her in like they did with the jihadist but it seems obvious now they don't think she can win or even "win". And they need that governorship.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 12:38 PM (asFP3)

92 Dylan Mulvaney > Kaitlan Collins > Peggy Flanagan

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2026 12:38 PM (JvZF+)

93 I know Crowley's the 'winnable' candidate for the left, but I can see this going the way of Crockett.

The clear, obvious favorite of the base is tossed aside for the establishment's choice.

A non-zero percentage of Crockett's voters just AREN'T going to vote in Texas. A non-zero percentage of them will vote against Talarico for spite.

Likewise Wisconsin.

I think we've got a small to mediium chance there.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 12:38 PM (AdHga)

94 Milwaukee says due to human error, 5 out of 9 USBs were missing election results.


They forgot to click the "Safely remove media" icon in the task tray, didn't they........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 12:38 PM (2YhKe)

95 73 Wonder what they offered Hong to go away quietly."

Codeine? Lithium?
Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 12:34 PM (cGjQu)

Polonium.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 12, 2026 12:38 PM (wtvvX)

96 WI is more corrupt than PA?? IIIIInteresting....

Posted by: runner at August 12, 2026 12:38 PM (g47mK)

97 Nice indeed.

May build the wing and engines of the A-1a kit just to get a jump on the U4.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 12, 2026 12:38 PM (cZ8IN)

98 Dylan Mulvaney > Kaitlan Collins > Peggy Flanagan
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2026 12:38 PM (JvZF+)



We're getting the same guys!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 12:39 PM (2YhKe)

99 Hong Kong Screwy

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 12:39 PM (wOO3z)

100 "...that allows her to continue on as an agitator and podcast goon."


Mommy, when I grow up, I want to be an agitator and podcast goon.

Posted by: Little girls everywhere at August 12, 2026 12:39 PM (2Ez/1)

101 Hasan Piker: "Nothing triggers me to no end like a guy who's like, 'I really like Francesca Hong's policies, but I'm also a stupid guy who shits in his diapers, and I will be Soylent Green one day because I'm so fucking dumb.'"
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 12:31 PM (AdHga)


Dude, showing such contempt for the electorate won't win over any fence sitters...Wait. This is the guy that wants rivers of capitalist blood to flow?
I guess electorate has nothing to do with it then.
And Hong got ScHonged! (where's the L?)
She got the L beaten out of her.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 12, 2026 12:39 PM (zafwz)

102 Dems couldn’t let her win. She would have handed out money to the wrong people.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 12, 2026 12:39 PM (bxRm+)

103 This Hong election result is almost as suspicious as clogged toilets and stopped counting in 2020. I guess the DSA loonies won’t be labeled as “against our democracy” if they point that out….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 12, 2026 12:39 PM (zEBE+)

104 There was like a full court press of click bait to take her out and Dems realized she would probably lose.

Posted by: Sharpie at August 12, 2026 12:35 PM (iZHgT)

Last week's oppo dump that - if the election was fair - really beat her came from the left. Not Republicans.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 12:39 PM (AdHga)

105 Peggy Flanagan says Somalians are the "fabric of our state" and it's "racist" to expose fraud

Somalian fraud is the fabric of Minnesota. Have you run that past actual Minnesotans?

Posted by: t-bird at August 12, 2026 12:39 PM (5FKHw)

106 Also this has the effect of making the "racism must be declared a public health crisis" in the middle of a pandemic into a "moderate".

A MODERATE

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 12:39 PM (asFP3)

107 Say 'um' one more time, you emptyheaded ditzbag.......FFS.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 12:25 PM (2YhKe)


Not watching it - was it full of "like" and "literally" also?

Posted by: Doof at August 12, 2026 12:40 PM (S0M0K)

108 I'm mostly pessimistic about Wis Gov, but Crowley has no fire in his belly. He gave up easily at first, and then barely beat a clinically insane woman with no redeeming qualities, maybe even needing the help of insider fraud to cross that finish line. The fraud is the actual threat, not the weak, diffident candidate.

Posted by: SciVo at August 12, 2026 12:40 PM (Sy6m/)

109 I don't know which is worse: a predicted double-digit win for a commie, or someone stealing the election.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at August 12, 2026 12:40 PM (ERYKL)

110 Funny how she never says anything about the REST of Minnesota. She's only running to protect the f*cking Somali community.

Minnesota, Y R U so stupid?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 12:40 PM (2YhKe)

111 A moderate Democrat thinks Republicans need to be fatally shot only once.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 12:40 PM (asFP3)

112 You almost have to laugh at the Dems running around saying Somalis built America.

Even if you were to ignore that they are all on welfare, they haven't been here long enough to build much of anything

--

Any incandescently ridiculous retard, like that Flanagan whacko, who utters such hilarious lies (that nobody believes) needs to be beaten about the head in hopes of curing such brazen stupidity. Good lord....

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 12, 2026 12:40 PM (qBdHI)

113 85 They "killed" Republicans in turnout though. Turnout LOL
Posted by: steevy at August 12, 2026 12:37 PM (YwEeS)

It'll be the same way in November but without the LOL.

Posted by: Blank USB Drive at August 12, 2026 12:40 PM (2LBLq)

114 Peggy Fleming >>>>>>>>>> Peggy Flanagan

Posted by: dantesed at August 12, 2026 12:40 PM (Oy/m2)

115
Not watching it - was it full of "like" and "literally" also?
Posted by: Doof at August 12, 2026 12:40 PM (S0M0K)



No, shockingly enough. Just lots of 'um's'........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 12:40 PM (2YhKe)

116 So what's the story with the USB drives? They were supposed to have votes on them and didn't? All from Hong areas or something? I'm totally not up to speed on this. What happened?

Posted by: SimoHayha at August 12, 2026 12:41 PM (IeYnM)

117 WI is more corrupt than PA?? IIIIInteresting....
Posted by: runner at August 12, 2026 12:38 PM (g47mK)

Who's "more" corrupt has everything to do with who gets caught in any particular election cycle and nothing to do with actual levels of corrupt, which are all dialed up to 11

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 12, 2026 12:41 PM (zafwz)

118 Is Flanagan Muslim or does she wear the head covering in solidarity?? She’s nuts either way…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 12, 2026 12:41 PM (zEBE+)

119 I'm mostly pessimistic about Wis Gov, but Crowley has no fire in his belly. He gave up easily at first, and then barely beat a clinically insane woman with no redeeming qualities, maybe even needing the help of insider fraud to cross that finish line. The fraud is the actual threat, not the weak, diffident candidate.
Posted by: SciVo

===

I just tend to think in an off year election in a purple state, these things just usually go to the party out of power.

He seems though like a lousy candidate, but that's most every Democrat, yet they still seem to win.

Posted by: Sharpie at August 12, 2026 12:42 PM (iZHgT)

120 Mistakes were made.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 12:42 PM (wOO3z)

121 WI is more corrupt than PA?? IIIIInteresting....

Posted by: runner at August 12, 2026 12:38 PM (g47mK)

An awful lot of cleanup has been forced upon Pennsylvania.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 12:42 PM (AdHga)

122 Awwww

Posted by: steevy at August 12, 2026 12:42 PM (YwEeS)

123 hmmm...who cheated harder wins

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 12:43 PM (xcxpd)

124 Wonder what they offered Hong to go away quietly.
.......

New swim goggles?

Posted by: wth at August 12, 2026 12:43 PM (UjdFS)

125 Blue state turnout = harvested ballots

Posted by: steevy at August 12, 2026 12:44 PM (YwEeS)

126 WI is more corrupt than PA?? IIIIInteresting....

Posted by: runner at August 12, 2026 12:38 PM (g47mK)

An awful lot of cleanup has been forced upon Pennsylvania.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 12:42 PM (AdHga)

Yep.

Posted by: runner at August 12, 2026 12:44 PM (g47mK)

127 "It worked, didn't it?" - Chuck Schumer
Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2026 12:37 PM (2ocoG)

Piss off, wanker! You're working my corner!

Posted by: Zombie Harry Reid at August 12, 2026 12:44 PM (zafwz)

128 Late to the thread, so I suspect it's already been said, but the DSA Dems now have to figure out how to say the party cheated them in '26, while at the same time saying that cheating never happens.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 12:45 PM (Riz8t)

129 and congrats to Sponge

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 12:45 PM (xcxpd)

130 I know Crowley's the 'winnable' candidate for the left, but I can see this going the way of Crockett.

The clear, obvious favorite of the base is tossed aside for the establishment's choice.

A non-zero percentage of Crockett's voters just AREN'T going to vote in Texas. A non-zero percentage of them will vote against Talarico for spite.

Likewise Wisconsin.

I think we've got a small to mediium chance there.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung

==

I don't think Democrats aren't as ideological as they are cast, they just want to beat Republicans.

They're just really, really angry and the socialist left is saying the most incendiary things so they gravitate towards that.

Posted by: Sharpie at August 12, 2026 12:45 PM (iZHgT)

131
Wonder what they offered Hong to go away quietly."

Codeine? Lithium?
Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 12:34 PM (cGjQu)


I believe a free lakehouse is the standard established by Bernie.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 12, 2026 12:45 PM (iJfKG)

132 If Somalis built America we'd all be living in mud huts with no roof.

Posted by: wth at August 12, 2026 12:45 PM (UjdFS)

133 Wonder what they offered Hong to go away quietly.
.......
New swim goggles?
Posted by: wth

Orbital decompression.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 12, 2026 12:45 PM (w9Wax)

134 So the vote counting process depends on a bunch of admin assistants running around with USB flash drives?

Posted by: Hell of an operation you're running down there at August 12, 2026 12:45 PM (2Ez/1)

135 19 Wow, the Democrats are ruthless and have no fear of visibly committing fraud.

Look at what they supposedly did in SD to remove the actual D Senate Primary winner n order to give their actual candidate, the “Independent”, a better chance to beat Rounds. Burning down a home now in the D toolbox? Fraud seems mild in comparison.

Posted by: EveR at August 12, 2026 12:45 PM (BHhxj)

136 I'm mostly pessimistic about Wis Gov, but Crowley has no fire in his belly. He gave up easily at first, and then barely beat a clinically insane woman with no redeeming qualities, maybe even needing the help of insider fraud to cross that finish line.

Barely beat. Right.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 12:46 PM (Riz8t)

137 New swim goggles?
Posted by: wth at August 12, 2026 12:43 PM (UjdFS)


Her eye-job may have been botched. It happens

Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2026 12:46 PM (rbvCR)

138 hmmm...who cheated harder wins
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 12:43 PM (xcxpd)


DNC Vision Statement

Posted by: Doof at August 12, 2026 12:46 PM (S0M0K)

139 I assume the pollsters that predicted Hong's victory are keeping their heads down and their mouths shut.

Posted by: mr tmz at August 12, 2026 12:46 PM (rJ48h)

140 Hello friends. Taught 2 classes, did my own workout, then went on a walk at the nature preserve with Saijo and my kid. I think we all got a little over heated, the last 1/2 mile was brutal. Can jump in the pool in about 30 minutes per the pool service instructions. Until then, I will talk to y’all and see how looney toons things are in the world.

Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2026 12:46 PM (ZdaMQ)

141 138 hmmm...who cheated harder wins
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 12:43 PM (xcxpd)

DNC Vision Statement
Posted by: Doof at August 12, 2026 12:46 PM (S0M0K)

no kidding

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 12:47 PM (xcxpd)

142 I mean, I'm saying this from Massafreakinchusetts, but...WTF, Minnesota?!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 12, 2026 12:47 PM (bFu5X)

143 They're just really, really angry and the socialist left is saying the most incendiary things so they gravitate towards that.

Posted by: Sharpie

They have to keep their shit goblins engaged.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 12:47 PM (wOO3z)

144 Wonder what they offered Hong to go away quietly.
.......
New swim goggles?
Posted by: wth

Orbital decompression.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 12, 2026 12:45 PM (w9Wax)

She really does look like a French Bulldog.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 12:47 PM (AdHga)

145 132 If Somalis built America we'd all be living in mud huts with no roof.

If Somalis built America, why doesn't Minnesota look like Manhattan?

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 12:47 PM (Riz8t)

146 and congrats to Sponge
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 12:45 PM (xcxpd)



*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 12:47 PM (2YhKe)

147 This chick Flanagan is a Hollywood creation. Her father (a native "activist") abandoned the mother and daughter to Section 8 and Medicaid. The mother was a professional DFL worker, reliant on public money of various types. Peggy herself was a "child psychology" grad at the U, with a minor in American Indian something or other. This Irish looking woman walks around calling herself a "person of color", and worked initially for an NGO as a community activist. She herself is, of course, divorced, because who could possibly live with a robot Karen?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 12, 2026 12:47 PM (C0BiQ)

148 Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 12:45 PM (Riz8t)

Holding two contradictory claims at the same time is FNAB of being a leftard.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 12:48 PM (asFP3)

149 I mean, I'm saying this from Massafreakinchusetts, but...WTF, Minnesota?!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 12, 2026 12:47 PM (bFu5X)



Hey. Congrats on that abortion till birth law being signed. I'm sure you're totally excited, bruh.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 12:48 PM (2YhKe)

150 121 WI is more corrupt than PA?? IIIIInteresting....

Posted by: runner at August 12, 2026 12:38 PM (g47mK)

An awful lot of cleanup has been forced upon Pennsylvania.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 12:42 PM (AdHga)

And WI had Madison

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 12:49 PM (xcxpd)

151 118 Is Flanagan Muslim or does she wear the head covering in solidarity?? She’s nuts either way…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 12, 2026 12:41 PM
++++
I think it's the combination of head covering and Julia Roberts glasses...

Posted by: Creeps me out at August 12, 2026 12:49 PM (2Ez/1)

152 145 132 If Somalis built America we'd all be living in mud huts with no roof.

If Somalis built America, why doesn't Minnesota look like Manhattan?


I screwed that up. Let's try again.

If Somalis built America, why doesn't Mogadishu look like Manhattan?

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 12:49 PM (Riz8t)

153 Gov. Evers enacted the Gov. Gavin Newsom secret “break the glass” plan to prevent Wisconsin from electing a candidate that would lose to the Republican.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 12, 2026 12:49 PM (NpAcC)

154 I believe a free lakehouse is the standard established by Bernie.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 12, 2026 12:45 PM


Only serious Party elders get lakeside dacha, comrade, not crazy who can be exiled and airbrushed from photographs.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 12, 2026 12:49 PM (bFu5X)

155 The downside to Hong losing is that we actually will miss a potential governor cutting herself to death because of the job pressure

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 12:50 PM (WOnE5)

156 I know Crowley's the 'winnable' candidate for the left, but I can see this going the way of Crockett.

The clear, obvious favorite of the base is tossed aside for the establishment's choice.

A non-zero percentage of Crockett's voters just AREN'T going to vote in Texas. A non-zero percentage of them will vote against Talarico for spite.

Likewise Wisconsin.

I think we've got a small to mediium chance there.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung


Nah.

Crockett is fanning the fires of resentment and racism.

That's very different than Hong and "well, okay then, I lost" attitude.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 12, 2026 12:50 PM (iJfKG)

157 132 If Somalis built America we'd all be living in mud huts with no roof.
Posted by: wth at August 12, 2026 12:45 PM (UjdFS)

Pepsi cans nailed to sticks. I had no idea what poverty was until I went to Somalia.

Posted by: Reforger at August 12, 2026 12:50 PM (Zqvxn)

158 The whole election process in blue states is a fucking circus.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
......

and you don't even have to pay 25 cents for the Freak Show.

Posted by: wth at August 12, 2026 12:50 PM (UjdFS)

159 Late to the thread, so I suspect it's already been said, but the DSA Dems now have to figure out how to say the party cheated them in '26, while at the same time saying that cheating never happens.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 12:45 PM (Riz8t)


It is the very topic that would catch fire with the DSA voters, it has the benefit of both being one of those memes that all the loyal sorts have to ignore, and a perfect example of the "Boomers betraying us"
If they can accept it, or if they get permission to admit it, that topic will be a wildfire.

The DNC better be sweating right now.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2026 12:50 PM (rbvCR)

160 The bad news is that Hong lost. The good news is if the DNC's check clears, she can begin her house collection.

Posted by: Bernie Sanders at August 12, 2026 12:50 PM (NuGfO)

161 If Somalis built America, why doesn't Mogadishu look like Manhattan?

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 12:49 PM (Riz8t)

For a similar reason that Mexico doesn't have a Summer Olympic team.

Any Mexican who can run, jump, or swim is already here.

Haayyooooo!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 12:50 PM (AdHga)

162 Depends how much they cleaned up Philly. It drives the state.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 12:50 PM (wOO3z)

163 If Somalis built America, why doesn't Mogadishu look like Manhattan?
Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 12:49 PM


Colonialism!!!!!

Posted by: Karen McAWFL at August 12, 2026 12:50 PM (bFu5X)

164 Hello friends. Taught 2 classes, did my own workout, then went on a walk at the nature preserve with Saijo and my kid. I think we all got a little over heated, the last 1/2 mile was brutal. Can jump in the pool in about 30 minutes per the pool service instructions. Until then, I will talk to y’all and see how looney toons things are in the world.
Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2026 12:46 PM (ZdaMQ)
=====

SHOWER BEFORE ENTERING
BATHING CAPS MUST BE WORN
NO DIVING

Posted by: And most importantly NO RUNNING at August 12, 2026 12:50 PM (JvZF+)

165 Hello friends. Taught 2 classes, did my own workout, then went on a walk at the nature preserve with Saijo and my kid. I think we all got a little over heated, the last 1/2 mile was brutal. Can jump in the pool in about 30 minutes per the pool service instructions. Until then, I will talk to y’all and see how looney toons things are in the world.
Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2026 12:46 PM (ZdaMQ)

Monday after work I made the mistake of trying to run in the Florida heat. I had been doing this but previous days were either cloudy or rainy or breezy which somewhat mitigates the heat. But Monday…. None of those things plus bright sun, no clouds. It was absolutely brutal; I’d planned to go 10K but turned around at 2 miles and felt like I was gonna die the last half mile…. I felt crappy the rest of the night. Heat is dangerous….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 12, 2026 12:50 PM (zEBE+)

166 Afternoon Ace.
The Flanagan v Tafoya Senate race could be interesting to watch. While Minnesota is crazy , a lot of them realize that Flanagan is nut bag. Tafoya at least has a shot

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 12:28 PM (WOnE5)
==
Election Time on You Tube which does a lot of compiling of polling data and had the presidential prediction down pat about a month and a half before the election - only has Flanagan up about 3 points, and felt her support was soft. He still has her winning - it is Minnesota - but isn't sure Tafoya couldn't catch her.

Posted by: Black JEM at August 12, 2026 12:51 PM (7/DDO)

167 Holding two contradictory claims at the same time is FNAB of being a leftard.

Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy?

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 12:51 PM (Riz8t)

168
The DNC better be sweating right now.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2026 12:50 PM (rbvCR)

They are, but only because they can't afford to run the air conditioning in their mortgaged headquarters building.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 12:51 PM (AdHga)

169 The quick concession by Hong is kind of a tell. She knew it was going to be rigged and was compensated in exchange for not raising a fuss. How else to explain conceding when down by 3,000 votes when polling had you as a shoo-in, in addition to all the vote counting irregularities?

Posted by: Paladin at August 12, 2026 12:51 PM (qmK/s)

170 Why do all these "female" DSA loons look like Jennifer Welch? Ugly goblins.

Hong, of course, excepted. She looks like a fish.

Posted by: Mr. Wawa at August 12, 2026 12:52 PM (Cjger)

171 The whole election process in blue states is a fucking circus.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

"blue" states

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 12:52 PM (asFP3)

172 Hey. Congrats on that abortion till birth law being signed. I'm sure you're totally excited, bruh.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 12:48 PM


*types*

*deletes*

*attempts to summon SMOD*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 12, 2026 12:52 PM (bFu5X)

173 @147 Huck, cracks me up that the Indian activist dad was a drunken guy who abandoned the family but she identifies with him.
Mom who kept her alive in Section 8, not so much

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 12:52 PM (WOnE5)

174 Depends how much they cleaned up Philly. It drives the state.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 12:50 PM (wOO3z)
====================
"cleaned up Philly" is a figure of speech, describing something impossible to accomplish

Posted by: zombie Frank Rizzo at August 12, 2026 12:53 PM (C0BiQ)

175 Was it 2010 when all the one-ups-man-ship was going in WI? All the suburbs surrounding Milwaukee were waiting on vote tallies from the city and only then releasing their vote tallies? I seem to remember something along those lines.

Posted by: nooneyouknowyouknow at August 12, 2026 12:53 PM (Iwv3U)

176 If Somalis built America, why doesn't Minnesota look like Manhattan?
Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 12:47 PM (Riz8t)
=====

*wields truncheon*
Look again kaffir.

Posted by: Sharia Compliance Officer at August 12, 2026 12:53 PM (JvZF+)

177 Two possibilities:

Polling is completely busted
This is proof of fraud

Now the Trump DOJ should exhaustively look at that second point
Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 12:31 PM (sKqQm)
====

The Wisconsin Dem primary results and any investigations into the matter should be showcased all the way to Election Day.

Posted by: mrp at August 12, 2026 12:53 PM (rj6Yv)

178 This is who just won the nomination for the US Senate in Minnesota pic.twitter.com/gOhu5vEHDy

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 12, 2026
_________

Wow. Two things stand out to me:

1. Flanagan can barely speak a coherent sentence. There's more "uhhs" and "ahhs" in that transcript than real words.

2. The Somalis in the video have noticeable utter contempt for her. Flanagan is sucking their dicks with fawning praise, and they're just standing there stonefaced like "will this stupid white bitch just shut the fuck up." Even when Flanagan calls "Nimka" out by name, Nimka barely acknowledges it.

It's embarrassing to prostrate yourself before 13th century savages who hate your guts.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 12:53 PM (iFTx/)

179 I assume the pollsters that predicted Hong's victory are keeping their heads down and their mouths shut.

To be fair, what we really predicted was a 97% chance that fraud would be necessary to defeat Hong.

Posted by: Pollsters at August 12, 2026 12:54 PM (hLZfT)

180 Speaking of dem vote counting shenanigans… remember when Pete Buttgig “won” the 2020 Iowa caucuses but really no one won because the Dems were so stupid they forgot how to count? Good times….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 12, 2026 12:54 PM (zEBE+)

181 If this is cheating, then it is VERY problematic! They got it down to a science where they just barely win the vote, making it that more plausible.

Moreover, they were able to hit a number that obligates the candidate, not the state, to pay for a recount.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at August 12, 2026 12:54 PM (GMWTj)

182 Why CNN missed their big chance to put Graham Platner on as an election night analyst is beyond me. Big miss!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 12, 2026 12:55 PM (m48BN)

183 The DSA will be happy to claim fraud today but no fraud in the next election that fraud benefits them. Could be a soon as tomorrow. It's what the clapping seals do.

Republicans: The is fraud in every election, sometimes it's not enough to change the outcome

Democrats: Fraud is the driver of certain designated elections and in others there is not a scintilla of cheating or wrongdoing because it's impossible.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 12:55 PM (asFP3)

184 I felt crappy the rest of the night. Heat is dangerous….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

It’s very sticky hot here on the gulf coast of Alabama, already 90. We don’t have our normal breeze off the bay right now, either. Poor Saijo is lying flat on his side directly under the fan. He ate lots of ice cubes.

Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2026 12:55 PM (ZdaMQ)

185 The Dems control the election process in WI. I have a feeling Crowley is going to 'win' the Governorship the same way he 'won' the primary.

Posted by: davidt at August 12, 2026 12:56 PM (Q+gd/)

186 Pepsi cans nailed to sticks. I had no idea what poverty was until I went to Somalia.
Posted by: Reforger at August 12, 2026 12:50 PM


I just missed Somalia, but Haiti was an eye-opener.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 12, 2026 12:56 PM (bFu5X)

187 "Clean" and "Philadelphia" should never be in the same sentence.

Posted by: Sharia Compliance Officer at August 12, 2026 12:56 PM (JvZF+)

188 To be fair, what we really predicted was a 97% chance that fraud would be necessary to defeat Hong.
Posted by: Pollsters at August 12, 2026 12:54 PM (hLZfT)
===================
Laughs. Ruefully.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 12, 2026 12:56 PM (m48BN)

189 133 Wonder what they offered Hong to go away quietly.
.......
New swim goggles?
Posted by: wth

Orbital decompression.


as in "dust off and decompress from orbit. it's the only way to be sure." ??

Posted by: anachronda at August 12, 2026 12:56 PM (sGtp+)

190 I flushed my toilet twice last night...I bet that was the cause of the vote errors.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 12, 2026 12:58 PM (2WIwB)

191 If this is cheating, then it is VERY problematic! They got it down to a science where they just barely win the vote, making it that more plausible.

Moreover, they were able to hit a number that obligates the candidate, not the state, to pay for a recount.
Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at August 12, 2026 12:54 PM (GMWTj)


I would say, "What is the overall characteristics of all Oregon statewide elections" Alex

Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2026 12:58 PM (rbvCR)

192 182 Why CNN missed their big chance to put Graham Platner on as an election night analyst is beyond me. Big miss!
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Who is this Platner person of which you speak? Can't seem to remember...

Posted by: Auspex at August 12, 2026 12:58 PM (Y8DZL)

193 >Wonder what they offered Hong to go away quietly.


Same as that bandleader, an offer she could not refuse.

Posted by: davidt at August 12, 2026 12:59 PM (Q+gd/)

194 If Somalis built America, why doesn't Mogadishu look like Manhattan?

--

TBF, Manhattan is starting to look like Mogadishu.

Posted by: Mr. Wawa at August 12, 2026 12:59 PM (Cjger)

195 Last 5 Wisconsin Governor Democratic Primary Polls

State Navigate: 🔵 Hong +22
Public Policy Polling: 🔵 Hong +18
Marquette University: 🔵 Hong +25
State Navigate: 🔵 Hong +29
Public Policy Polling: 🔵 Hong +20
_________

Crowley stole it and Hong took a dive, but those polls ... come the fuck on. There's no way on this earth or any other that Hong was ever legitimately ahead by 29 points. Or anything close to it.

29 fucking points??? Ice cream wouldn't poll 29 points ahead of chlamydia in a poll of WI democraps.

All these polls are just comic bullshit that don't even rise to the level of being pulled out a goat's ass after it's raped by Hasan Piker.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 12:59 PM (iFTx/)

196 "Even if you were to ignore that they are all on welfare, they haven't been here long enough to build much of anything"


We just have to give them more time. I mean, they did such a splendid job in Somalia.

Posted by: Ripley at August 12, 2026 01:00 PM (GUOwU)

197 Who is this Platner person of which you speak? Can't seem to remember...
Posted by: Auspex at August 12, 2026 12:58 PM


Isn't he that Republican fellow with the Nazi tattoo?

Posted by: MSNOW at August 12, 2026 01:00 PM (bFu5X)

198 176 If Somalis built America, why doesn't Minnesota look like Manhattan?
Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 12:47 PM (Riz8t)
=====

*wields truncheon*
Look again kaffir.
Posted by: Sharia Compliance Officer at August 12, 2026 12:53 PM (JvZF+)

*looks*
"Oh wait, I have a G21..."

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 01:00 PM (xcxpd)

199 Hah! Just got a phishing e-mail threatening to suspend my iCloud account if I don't "verify" my payment method. I simply deleted it. Normally I forward them to "phishing@yadayada", but anyone dumb enough to pay money to store their data in the "cloud" deserves to be fleeced.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2026 01:00 PM (1z8ji)

200 Father Flanagan>>Peggy Flanagan

Posted by: Boys Town at August 12, 2026 01:00 PM (JM9I6)

201 If Somalis built America, why doesn't Mogadishu look like Manhattan?

--

TBF, Manhattan is starting to look like Mogadishu.
Posted by: Mr. Wawa at August 12, 2026 12:59 PM (Cjger)

***

so, its a work in progress then?

Posted by: Diogenes at August 12, 2026 01:00 PM (2WIwB)

202 So Dems were able to get rid of Platner and Hong. But no Al-Sayed.

They are good at last minute electioneering. Those two would have been huge gifts to the GOP.

Posted by: Sharpie at August 12, 2026 01:01 PM (iZHgT)

203 All these polls are just comic bullshit that don't even rise to the level of being pulled out a goat's ass after it's raped by Hasan Piker.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 12:59 PM (iFTx/)

I'll bet Hasan Piker is a catcher, not a goat pitcher

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 01:01 PM (xcxpd)

204 Same as that bandleader, an offer she could not refuse.

Posted by: davidt at August 12, 2026 12:59 PM (Q+gd/)

Either her signature or brains would be on the piece of paper?

Doubtful.

She would have said, "you're gonna need a much smaller piece of paper!"

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 01:01 PM (asFP3)

205 Speaking of dem vote counting shenanigans…

Be with you in a second!

Posted by: California at August 12, 2026 01:01 PM (DGgho)

206 Polls have difficulty catching the "shy" fake ballot. No one wants to tell a pollster they are going to create thousands of fake votes. They just don't answer the phone.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 12, 2026 01:02 PM (wGerL)

207 I felt crappy the rest of the night. Heat is dangerous….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

It’s very sticky hot here on the gulf coast of Alabama, already 90. We don’t have our normal breeze off the bay right now, either. Poor Saijo is lying flat on his side directly under the fan. He ate lots of ice cubes.
Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2026 12:55 PM (ZdaMQ)
_____

My central AC took a shit last night. Luckily, I had a back-up window unit in the basement that I lugged up -- these things weight a FUCKTON -- that will at least keep the temp manageable until I can get someone it to fix the central AC.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 01:02 PM (iFTx/)

208 Tough call for the MSM.

"Crowley Triumphs in an Amazing Come From Behind Victory!!!!!"

or

"Officials And Trusted Pollsters Are Puzzled by the Milwaukee Board of Elections' Ballot Procedures"

Posted by: mrp at August 12, 2026 01:02 PM (rj6Yv)

209 WI is more corrupt than PA?? IIIIInteresting....
Posted by: runner at August 12, 2026 12:38 PM (g47mK)

Who's "more" corrupt has everything to do with who gets caught in any particular election cycle and nothing to do with actual levels of corrupt, which are all dialed up to 11
Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 12, 2026 12:41 PM (zafwz)
=========================
Without knowing, I bet Wisconsin is pretty clean, until you hit Milwaukee. Things get ugly there.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 12, 2026 01:03 PM (m48BN)

210 The knives are out"

K Bar? Benchmade? Cheap Chinese on Amazon?

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 12:25 PM (cGjQu)

Benchmade or Kersahw.

It is known.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 12:26 PM (AdHga)

***

Pulls out the Old Timer...
yup. it may be small but it is sharp as all hell!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 12, 2026 01:03 PM (2WIwB)

211 *** and the Democrat Socialist stole it from her.

Given this fact, everyone should be very concerned with what the left is plotting in November.
---

They've been working on the cheat for nearly a century.
They are not going to allow what is now near perfection
to drift away.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 01:03 PM (VQ0bX)

212 A good gang shooting between Somali clans at the Minnesota State Fair, with a number of casualties, probably wouldn't help Flanagan

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 01:03 PM (WOnE5)

213 /oops hijab off

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2026 01:04 PM (JvZF+)

214 >>>Did they steal it? I don't know, but the socialists have got to be wondering that.

I'd put money on it that they stole it. What are you going to do about it, DSA?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 12, 2026 01:05 PM (dK+Kv)

215 *types*

*deletes*

*attempts to summon SMOD*



* Mentions Prometheus *

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at August 12, 2026 01:05 PM (Q7e/Z)

216 They've been working on the cheat for nearly a century.
They are not going to allow what is now near perfection
to drift away.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 01:03 PM (VQ0bX)
****
It's perfected in California. No Republicans can ever again win a state wide election.

Posted by: torabora at August 12, 2026 01:05 PM (EyDez)

217 " A good gang shooting between Somali clans at the Minnesota State Fair, with a number of casualties, probably wouldn't help Flanagan"

According to Keith Ellison, it's scheduled for August 29th - be there!

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at August 12, 2026 01:05 PM (GMWTj)

218 Trusted pollsters. Like finding a snake oil salesman with integrity.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 01:05 PM (wOO3z)

219 The Milwalkee/Madison axis of corruption is a satellite of Chicago.

Posted by: davidt at August 12, 2026 01:06 PM (Q+gd/)

220 OT: Regarding New Orleans' pilot of using AI to handle 911 calls... two thoughts:
1. Will it encourage slackers to let the AI handle calls when there isn't an overload of callers in queue?
2. How much easier will it be to SWAT people when AI answers the call? Or have they put in guardrails to prevent AI from handling reports of an active shooter in the house or killings?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 12, 2026 01:06 PM (cWLG3)

221 *** and the Democrat Socialist stole it from her.

Given this fact, everyone should be very concerned with what the left is plotting in November.
---

They've been working on the cheat for nearly a century.
They are not going to allow what is now near perfection
to drift away.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 01:03 PM (VQ0bX)

***

It would be interesting to see if Dean Logan (formerly the elections supervisor in King Co Washington State and now in LA) was on hand to offer advice.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 12, 2026 01:06 PM (2WIwB)

222 I prefer to think we all won.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 12, 2026 01:07 PM (Y/06r)

223 "Crowley Triumphs in an Amazing Come From Behind Victory!!!!!"

Is that a thumb drive in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

Posted by: David Crowley at August 12, 2026 01:07 PM (hLZfT)

224 OT: Regarding New Orleans' pilot of using AI to handle 911 calls... two thoughts:
1. Will it encourage slackers to let the AI handle calls when there isn't an overload of callers in queue?
2. How much easier will it be to SWAT people when AI answers the call? Or have they put in guardrails to prevent AI from handling reports of an active shooter in the house or killings?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 12, 2026 01:06 PM (cWLG3)



AI will not be able to discern the information from someone calling in sheer panic.........

Or a thick accent. Scots are f*cked.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 01:07 PM (2YhKe)

225 It's perfected in California. No Republicans can ever again win a state wide election.
Posted by: torabora at August 12, 2026 01:05 PM (EyDez)

The dem machine in CA makes old time Tammany Hall in NY blush

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 12, 2026 01:07 PM (zEBE+)

226 Well, duh

@PollTracker2024 2h
#WisconsinGovernor

David Crowley announces that he and Francesca Hong will jointly campaign together as part of a “unity tour.”

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 12, 2026 01:07 PM (diia5)

227 I'm eating fishsticks that I mistakenly bought instead of breaded fillets.

They are not as hard as tits though.

Posted by: toby928(c) at August 12, 2026 01:08 PM (4NO2D)

228 So the Trotskyites control the elections, trying to keep the Leninists from taking them over...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 12, 2026 01:08 PM (l3cgK)

229 Actually, now I am wondering if some fiddling went on in the El Sayed election as well. There, they almost got the number of votes right, but not quite. In Hong's case, they got the number of votes correct.

For both, the real trick is not to beat the DSA candidate by a lot to make it look plausible.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at August 12, 2026 01:08 PM (GMWTj)

230 I assume the pollsters that predicted Hong's victory are keeping their heads down and their mouths shut.

To be fair, what we really predicted was a 97% chance that fraud would be necessary to defeat Hong.


Upon reflection, you nailed it. The pollsters are simply forecasting how much fraud is necessary for the Establishment chosen candidate to "win".

Posted by: Community Notes at August 12, 2026 01:08 PM (pUU4E)

231 David Crowley announces that he and Francesca Hong will jointly campaign together as part of a “unity tour.”

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 12, 2026 01:07 PM (diia5)

So did she get one of Bernie's dachas or one of her very own?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 01:08 PM (AdHga)

232 I'm eating fishsticks that I mistakenly bought instead of breaded fillets.

They are not as hard as tits though.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 12, 2026 01:08 PM (4NO2D)



One of the all-time classic nicks........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 01:08 PM (2YhKe)

233 "Peggy Flanagan says Somalians are the fabric of our state"


Wait! Isn't it racist for White people to be nice to POC?

Posted by: Ripley at August 12, 2026 01:08 PM (GUOwU)

234 214 >>>Did they steal it? I don't know, but the socialists have got to be wondering that.

I'd put money on it that they stole it. What are you going to do about it, DSA?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
---

Did you watch it last night. She was winning then about two hours before the close Crowley started moving up. The last hour it was neck and neck. But in the nick of time the Buicks showed up and just before the close, BAM! 2000 votes for Crowley.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 01:08 PM (VQ0bX)

235 227 I'm eating fishsticks that I mistakenly bought instead of breaded fillets.

They are not as hard as tits though.

Posted by: toby928(c) at August 12, 2026 01:08 PM (4NO2D)

If you got the frozen ones they might be...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 12, 2026 01:08 PM (l3cgK)

236 They've been working on the cheat for nearly a century.
They are not going to allow what is now near perfection
to drift away.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 01:03 PM (VQ0bX)


I am absolutely convinced the cheat has been baked in for years. I am not sure we will ever fix it, short of massive public protests and civil disobedience.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 12, 2026 01:09 PM (2WIwB)

237 212 A good gang shooting between Somali clans at the Minnesota State Fair, with a number of casualties, probably wouldn't help Flanagan
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Guessing the pig livestock exhibit will keep their attendance figures low.

Posted by: Auspex at August 12, 2026 01:09 PM (Y8DZL)

238 Hong needed to be punchier in her responses and tie any personal swipe back to policy relentlessly; it's how Mamdani and El Sayed won - progressives basically have to be perfect and relentlessly stay on message no matter the shenanigans the media pulls.

The Establishment doesn't have to be perfect, their nominees fail up all day

we've moved the goal posts so far that an establishment candidate with the full force behind them beating a progressive who got no major national endorsements from AOC or Bernie is an upset? That's a horrible sign for the establishment

those Hong +30 polls were largely while Crowley had dropped out of the race, meaning it was basically a single leftist candidate, a handful of moderates with no traction, and ~40% undecideds. Then Crowley reentered the race and solidified the center-left vote.

Can't wait to see the "far left" be the fall guys if the Dems lose this one. The centrist narrative will be that DSA commies stayed home like some disobedient children.

She was super close. This is a victory. Great work in WI, reds!

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 12, 2026 01:09 PM (+/CWD)

239 210 The knives are out"

K Bar? Benchmade? Cheap Chinese on Amazon?

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 12:25 PM (cGjQu)

Benchmade or Kersahw.

It is known.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 12:26 PM (AdHga)

***

Pulls out the Old Timer...
yup. it may be small but it is sharp as all hell!
Posted by: Diogenes at August 12, 2026 01:03 PM (2WIwB)
---
Also consider Buck or Gerber knives made in the USA. I recently bought a USA made Gerber with a magnacut steel blade that I think was money well spent. They generally indicate which are made in the USA on their website.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 12, 2026 01:10 PM (cWLG3)

240 237 212 A good gang shooting between Somali clans at the Minnesota State Fair, with a number of casualties, probably wouldn't help Flanagan
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Guessing the pig livestock exhibit will keep their attendance figures low.
Posted by: Auspex at August 12, 2026 01:09 PM (Y8DZL)

And miss the butter cow?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 01:10 PM (xcxpd)

241 Did you watch it last night. She was winning then about two hours before the close Crowley started moving up. The last hour it was neck and neck. But in the nick of time the Buicks showed up and just before the close, BAM! 2000 votes for Crowley.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 01:08 PM (VQ0bX)

It's funny when it happens to someone else. I watched it in the sense that I read the play by play on the ONT two hours or so post event.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 12, 2026 01:10 PM (dK+Kv)

242 K Bar? Benchmade? Cheap Chinese on Amazon?

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 12:25 PM (cGjQu)

Benchmade or Kersahw.

It is known.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 12:26 PM (AdHga)

***

Pulls out the Old Timer...
yup. it may be small but it is sharp as all hell!
Posted by: Diogenes at August 12, 2026 01:03 PM (2WIwB)
---
Also consider Buck or Gerber knives made in the USA. I recently bought a USA made Gerber with a magnacut steel blade that I think was money well spent. They generally indicate which are made in the USA on their website.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 12, 2026 01:10 PM (cWLG3)

Cold Steel or Spyderco

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 01:10 PM (xcxpd)

243 The last of three robin hatchlings is about to leave the nest. So proud!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2026 01:10 PM (JvZF+)

244 "So the Trotskyites control the elections, trying to keep the Leninists from taking them over..."

Hey - didja see Senator Kennedy's new nickname for the DSA? "Lululenins!"

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at August 12, 2026 01:10 PM (GMWTj)

245 She was super close. This is a victory. Great work in WI, reds!

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 12, 2026 01:09 PM (+/CWD)

Loser talk.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 12, 2026 01:11 PM (dK+Kv)

246 Today is total eclipse ?

Posted by: runner at August 12, 2026 01:11 PM (g47mK)

247 238
...
She was super close. This is a victory. Great work in WI, reds!
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 12, 2026 01:09 PM (+/CWD)
---
They really don't hide it anymore do they? Calling each other "reds", or "comrade."

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 12, 2026 01:11 PM (cWLG3)

248 Or a thick accent. Scots are f*cked."

"Pearpfune"

*pair phone

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 01:12 PM (cGjQu)

249 Hey - didja see Senator Kennedy's new nickname for the DSA? "Lululenins!"

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at August 12, 2026 01:10 PM (GMWTj)

That's gold!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 12, 2026 01:12 PM (dK+Kv)

250 Did they steal it? I don't know, but the socialists have got to be wondering that.

I'd put money on it that they stole it. What are you going to do about it, DSA?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 12, 2026 01:05 PM (dK+Kv)
________

The odd thing is that Crowley is just as commie as the Red Whore. There's no daylight between them on any material issues. It's just that he hides his radicalism better than she does.

I think that's part of the reason she took a dive. DSA wasn't that upset about Crowley winning, because (i) they know Hong is a repulsive candidate with way too much smelly baggage and (ii) Crowley is on their side anwyay.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 01:12 PM (iFTx/)

251 don't look at the sun

Posted by: runner at August 12, 2026 01:12 PM (g47mK)

252 @242 Cold Steel is good, but made in Taiwan.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 12, 2026 01:12 PM (cWLG3)

253 *looks at sun*

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 01:12 PM (wOO3z)

254 But Mama...that's where the fun is...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 01:12 PM (xcxpd)

255 Next time will be her turn.

Posted by: davidt at August 12, 2026 01:13 PM (Q+gd/)

256 A good gang shooting between Somali clans at the Minnesota State Fair, with a number of casualties, probably wouldn't help Flanagan
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Somebody should set up a booth at the State Fair, selling sideways sights for Glocks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2026 01:13 PM (1z8ji)

257 Cold Steel is good, but made in Taiwan.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 12, 2026 01:12 PM (cWLG3)

True, I've had good experiences with them though. If you want a big knife, a durable knife that comes sharp from the factory, its my go-to.

I like Spyderco a bit more for folders though.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 01:13 PM (xcxpd)

258 David Crowley announces that he and Francesca Hong will jointly campaign together as part of a “unity tour.”
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 12, 2026 01:07 PM (diia5)

She certainly caved fast... Threat or pay off ?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 12, 2026 01:14 PM (4WM7K)

259 Benchmade or Kersahw.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider


Wildly different price points there.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 12, 2026 01:14 PM (diia5)

260 @242 Cold Steel is good, but made in Taiwan.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 12, 2026 01:12 PM



They do not like it up 'em.

Posted by: toby928(c) at August 12, 2026 01:14 PM (4NO2D)

261 it's actually good news for Rs that Hong and that other dude are campaigning together

Posted by: runner at August 12, 2026 01:14 PM (g47mK)

262 235 227 I'm eating fishsticks that I mistakenly bought instead of breaded fillets.

They are not as hard as tits though.

Posted by: toby928(c) at August 12, 2026 01:08 PM (4NO2D)
_____________________________

I like fishsticks, but I had to stop eating them because all my friends would laugh at me and not tell me why.

Posted by: Kanye West at August 12, 2026 01:14 PM (dIske)

263 A "unity tour" with Crowley and Hong might , might keep the DSA types in line, but it will push conservative Dems and independents to the Republicans

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 01:14 PM (WOnE5)

264 Today is total eclipse ?"

She's dead, Jim.

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 01:14 PM (cGjQu)

265 ESEE or TOPS makes more sense.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 12, 2026 01:14 PM (diia5)

266 246 Today is total eclipse ?

Posted by: runner at August 12, 2026 01:11 PM (g47mK)

Don't believe there'll be squat to see from where I live as Northeastern US will have a partial eclipse. It's also overcast here.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 12, 2026 01:14 PM (l3cgK)

267 258 David Crowley announces that he and Francesca Hong will jointly campaign together as part of a “unity tour.”
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 12, 2026 01:07 PM (diia5)

She certainly caved fast... Threat or pay off ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 12, 2026 01:14 PM (4WM7K)

Probably both, carrot and stick

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 01:15 PM (xcxpd)

268 @242 Cold Steel is good, but made in Taiwan.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 12, 2026 01:12 PM (cWLG3)

I typically get Benchmade, but I'll go with Cold Steel and Boker if I like the designs, fit, and steel.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 12, 2026 01:15 PM (dK+Kv)

269 partial eclipse from Alaska to North Carolina (according to NASA)

Posted by: runner at August 12, 2026 01:15 PM (g47mK)

270 Wildly different price points there."

*pulls out bugout mini*

Yeah

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 01:15 PM (cGjQu)

271 that will at least keep the temp manageable until I can get someone it to fix the central AC.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Get out the check book...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 12, 2026 01:15 PM (XeU6L)

272 Today is total eclipse ?
Posted by: runner at August 12, 2026 01:11 PM (g47mK)

If Mitch McConnell were to pass away, would that be a Turtle Eclipse?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2026 01:16 PM (1z8ji)

273 265 ESEE or TOPS makes more sense.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 12, 2026 01:14 PM (diia5)

To be frank, I haven't used either brand of knife. Are they good? Or good enough?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 01:16 PM (xcxpd)

274 would that be a Turtle Eclipse?"

*golf clap

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 01:16 PM (cGjQu)

275 268 @242 Cold Steel is good, but made in Taiwan.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 12, 2026 01:12 PM (cWLG3)

I typically get Benchmade, but I'll go with Cold Steel and Boker if I like the designs, fit, and steel.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 12, 2026 01:15 PM (dK+Kv)

Oh Boker...those are good at good price points.

Morakniv too

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 01:17 PM (xcxpd)

276 I was pretty confident the Republican would win the Governorship.. Not so much now... She would have been easier to beat in my opinion and the cloud of a possible steal in this race is another worry...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 12, 2026 01:18 PM (4WM7K)

277 272 Today is total eclipse ?
Posted by: runner at August 12, 2026 01:11 PM (g47mK)

If Mitch McConnell were to pass away, would that be a Turtle Eclipse?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2026 01:16 PM (1z8ji)

What moon are we at? Sailor Moon?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 12, 2026 01:18 PM (l3cgK)

278 >>Pepsi cans nailed to sticks. I had no idea what poverty was until I went to Somalia.

Prior to a flight from Diego Garcia to Berbera, which was still Somalia at the time, not Somaliland, I reviewed the notes for the airport at which we'd land. It stated that I should first make a low pass over the runway to scare off any of the native animals that may be hanging out.

I guess they'd never heard of fences in Somalia.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 12, 2026 01:18 PM (J4Dwc)

279 AI will not be able to discern the information from someone calling in sheer panic.........

Or a thick accent. Scots are f*cked.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 01:07 PM (2YhKe)
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It's Louisiana, so a thick Creole or Cajun accent is probably more likely...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 01:18 PM (FZ29D)

280 May DSA members couldn't get off of work in time to vote.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 12, 2026 01:18 PM (wGerL)

281 Yeah I think the main takeaway is Democrats have built an election fraud machine they can adjust on a dime.

People should be extraordinarily concerned about November where they are targeting control of the House and Senate.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 12, 2026 01:19 PM (6eubQ)

282 that will at least keep the temp manageable until I can get someone it to fix the central AC.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Get out the check book...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 12, 2026 01:15 PM (XeU6L)
________

Outside condenser and inside air handler are running, but air isn't cold. I'm hoping it's just out of freon (or whatever they use now). But that would mean a leak somewhere. I think I know where it is, though.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 01:19 PM (iFTx/)

283 Cold Steel is good, but made in Taiwan.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO
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Recently borrowed a set of impact tool sockets from a friend, Kobalt brand. Expected them to be Yang Poon, but nope, Viet Nam. And...the ubiquitous warning in fine print that they might case cancer, in California.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 12, 2026 01:20 PM (XeU6L)

284 Wasn't "Cold Steel" one of Zoolander 's poses?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 01:20 PM (WOnE5)

285 To be frank, I haven't used either brand of knife. Are they good? Or good enough?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards


They are on the higher end of machined/hand finished for the outdoors/mil-rescue stuff.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 12, 2026 01:20 PM (diia5)

286 Mohammed, mahamed, mahamet nood.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at August 12, 2026 01:22 PM (VkY89)

287 Outside condenser and inside air handler are running, but air isn't cold. I'm hoping it's just out of freon (or whatever they use now). But that would mean a leak somewhere. I think I know where it is, though.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 12, 2026 01:19 PM


Is the compressor running, or just the fan? If the Freon pressure were too low, the compressor would not run so as to not seize.

Posted by: toby928(c) at August 12, 2026 01:22 PM (4NO2D)

288 Turtle Eclipse was a good B side from Bonnie Tyler. RIP

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 01:22 PM (WOnE5)

289 Election fraud is going to be like Covid. Everyone is falling in line at the moment. But Democrats are going to push it too far in November. Then voters are going to be hunting for heads to put on pikes.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 12, 2026 01:22 PM (6eubQ)

290 Wildly different price points there."

Yup.

Do you need a knife or A KNIFE?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 01:22 PM (AdHga)

291 Hong was told not to contest.

Dems have no clue of the degree of election oversight, electronic and otherwise, about to be visited on state election processes like Wisconsin's and Colorado's this Fall. The smart move would be not to attempt to repeat past thefts, but they are desperate. This Fall's election will be one for the ages....

Posted by: Yossarian at August 12, 2026 01:22 PM (NI8lP)

292 If it's cloudy out, does the eclipse come back at another time?

Posted by: Like A Rain Check at August 12, 2026 01:22 PM (JM9I6)

293 Sali mana who/what? English stupid, do you speak it? What's that you say? You're the LT Gov for general tampon. Ohh, okey-dokey then, carry on.

Posted by: Lloyd Loar at August 12, 2026 01:23 PM (Mx+TJ)

294 Voter fraud is an unproven fallacy
It is also an insult to my country

Posted by: Paul at August 12, 2026 01:23 PM (5pPq9)

295 I walked a mile yesterday, in the heat, to cast my futile vote against the Republican grifter Jerry Carl in our primary run-off.

He won with 74.7% of the vote.

Fuck my life.

Posted by: toby928(c) at August 12, 2026 01:24 PM (4NO2D)

296 May DSA members couldn't get off of work in time to vote.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 12, 2026 01:18 PM (wGerL)

God that's funny

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 01:24 PM (asFP3)

297 283 Cold Steel is good, but made in Taiwan.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO
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Recently borrowed a set of impact tool sockets from a friend, Kobalt brand. Expected them to be Yang Poon, but nope, Viet Nam. And...the ubiquitous warning in fine print that they might case cancer, in California.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 12, 2026 01:20 PM (XeU6L)
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Another reason I'm glad I finally moved from CA a couple of years ago... none of the products I use every day are known to cause cancer in my state. Leave CA to fight cancer! 😄

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 12, 2026 01:24 PM (cWLG3)

298 Harmeet Dhillon might need to investigate this race

Posted by: It's me donna at August 12, 2026 01:25 PM (4WM7K)

299 Read the stuff they did with election fraud in Venezuela. It’s scary stuff. Like they could manipulate the machine totals and make it synch with the audit.

This is why we need paper ballots.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 12, 2026 01:25 PM (6eubQ)

300 The only insult to the country is your mom’s roastie.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 12, 2026 01:26 PM (6eubQ)

301 Wasn't "Cold Steel" one of Zoolander 's poses?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 01:20 PM (WOnE5)

Blue Steel.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 12, 2026 01:26 PM (dK+Kv)

302 290 Wildly different price points there."

Yup.

Do you need a knife or A KNIFE?
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 01:22 PM (AdHga)
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Do you need a knife or a KNIFE, or a $$KNIFE$$?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 12, 2026 01:27 PM (cWLG3)

303 I'd put money on it that they stole it.

You have no evidence of that. ...because we didn't even look at those thumb drives we wiped. It's possible we would have won, anyways.

Posted by: Dem Headquarters at August 12, 2026 01:28 PM (9I5W+)

304 Prior to a flight from Diego Garcia to Berbera, which was still Somalia at the time, not Somaliland, I reviewed the notes for the airport at which we'd land. It stated that I should first make a low pass over the runway to scare off any of the native animals that may be hanging out.

I guess they'd never heard of fences in Somalia.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 12, 2026 01:18 PM (J4Dwc)

Did you get to see any cool native wildlife?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 12, 2026 01:28 PM (lFFaq)

305 Um, she's, um, right, um, that Minnesotans are supporting, um, the Somali community but, um, she didn't, um, specify, um, that the support, um, is in the form, um, of footing the bill for the, um, fraud.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 12, 2026 01:29 PM (OlzlW)

306 Wasn't "Cold Steel" one of Zoolander 's poses?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 01:20 PM (WOnE5)

Blue Steel.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 12, 2026 01:26 PM


THEY'RE ALL THE SAME LOOK!!

Posted by: toby928(c) at August 12, 2026 01:29 PM (4NO2D)

307 Nood Sharia

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 01:31 PM (AdHga)

308 My HVAC is mechanically sound but it requires a type of freon that is harmful to the environment and is no longer legal.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 01:38 PM (VQ0bX)

309 We all know they cheated in Wisconsin. Lets use that to make sure the polls in the general are watched by the national guard.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 01:58 PM (uhVAy)

310 Two possibilities:

Polling is completely busted
This is proof of fraud

Now the Trump DOJ should exhaustively look at that second point
Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2026 12:31 PM (sKqQm)

Embrace the power of BOTH

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 02:01 PM (uhVAy)

311 I don't think Democrats aren't as ideological as they are cast, they just want to beat Republicans.

They're just really, really angry and the socialist left is saying the most incendiary things so they gravitate towards that.

Posted by: Sharpie at August 12, 2026 12:45 PM (iZHgT)

The DSA being 'the base' is a new media concoction just like all the 'new ideas' flowing out of ultra liberal colleges controlled by leftists.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 02:07 PM (uhVAy)

312 Without knowing, I bet Wisconsin is pretty clean, until you hit Milwaukee. Things get ugly there.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 12, 2026 01:03 PM (m48BN)

I used to live in Chicago. Milwaukee has always been 100 pct fraud central in every election in history. Polls kept open past close time, over 100 pct voting rates, the usual to see if they can overturn the rural districts.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 02:11 PM (uhVAy)

313 It is the very topic that would catch fire with the DSA voters, it has the benefit of both being one of those memes that all the loyal sorts have to ignore, and a perfect example of the "Boomers betraying us"
If they can accept it, or if they get permission to admit it, that topic will be a wildfire.

The DNC better be sweating right now.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2026 12:50 PM (rbvCR)

They are sweating because they can't afford to pay the A/C Bills.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 02:13 PM (uhVAy)

314 19 Wow, the Democrats are ruthless and have no fear of visibly committing fraud.

Look at what they supposedly did in SD to remove the actual D Senate Primary winner n order to give their actual candidate, the “Independent”, a better chance to beat Rounds. Burning down a home now in the D toolbox? Fraud seems mild in comparison.
Posted by: EveR at August 12, 2026 12:45 PM (BHhxj)

These are signs of weakness, not strength. If you have a well oiled machine you can make it grind out your result and make it look natural. These panicky spasmic moves are not that.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 02:15 PM (uhVAy)

315 Hey. Congrats on that abortion till birth law being signed. I'm sure you're totally excited, bruh.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 12:48 PM

*types*

*deletes*

*attempts to summon SMOD*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 12, 2026 12:52 PM (bFu5X)

You know that won't be enough for them. It never is.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2026 02:16 PM (uhVAy)

316 It's a wonderful thing to see two heads of the same corrupt Democrat party snake trying to eat each other. They are both cheating and can't hide it anymore.

Posted by: JJ at August 12, 2026 03:25 PM (W2dIs)

317 OF COURSE they stole it.

And they are proud they did.

They play to win it ALL.

And they have no fear whatsoever of the DOJ . Zero.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at August 12, 2026 03:58 PM (htXty)

318 MNN BREAKING...

* HONG'S COMMUNIST SUPPORTERS SUSPECT FOUL PLAY IN THE GOVERNOR'S RACE, ESPECIALLY AFTER CROWLEY WON BY 81 MILLION VOTES

EVEN A STOPPED COSSACK IS RIGHT TWICE A DAY!

* THE WISCONSIN DEMOCRAT PARTY PROMISES THAT AS A CONSOLATION PRIZE, FRANCESCA HONG WILL BE GIVEN THE EMPTY LUGGAGE WHICH WERE UNLOADED DURING THE 3 AM WATER MAIN BREAK

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Posted by: alxrxqrd at August 13, 2026 11:25 AM (aimv1)

Wednesday Morning Rant

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But Can It Pay?

The AI bubble is a thing to behold, and its scale beggars belief. The question underlying the insane AI build-out is not whether AI is useful - it is, at least for some things - or whether AI is overhyped - it is - but whether AI can pay. Can these investments bring in enough money to payy off the bonds, in time for it to matter? The amounts of money being funneled into AI capacity is truly staggering, and all of it ultimately rests on the answer to the question of "can it pay" being a resounding yes. As the scale increases and the dollars fly, the risks grow in tandem and the odds of a bigger problem increase. While all of AI is bubbly, the behavior of the AI mega-players called hyperscalers is the easiest to examine.

The hyperscalers are the ones building the gigantic datacenters and spending trillions on huge AI capacity and training new models - and promising to spend trillions more. The idea is that they will sell this capacity on through services at a price high enough and at sufficient volume in time to make it pay enough to cover the bonds - and position the company properly before the next major refresh when they have to upgrade. This depends on demand, prices and nobody coming up with a way to do it cheaper. There are very real risks and the Big Five hyperscalers - Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and Oracle - are spending so much on this that it threatens not just the overall enterprise, but the wider economy. The amounts involved are so huge that they're playing accounting games to enable it to continue.

There are a number of examples. The new datacenters being built are interesting in their own right, as it is often difficult to determine who is paying for them. Many of these new datacenters don't have the company's name on the door. Or the paperwork. Or the balance sheet. These data centers are being built through "special-purpose vehicles," or SPVs. Datacenter SPVs are standalone psuedo-corporations created to finance, build and sometimes operate a datacenter on behalf of its actual owner. For example, take a deal called Beignet, the SPV building a new Meta datacenter in Louisiana. Meta owns 20% of the SPV, and put up $1.3 billion. Private equity outfit Blue Owl put up $3 billion and owns 80% of the SPV. Combined, they put up around 14% of the total $30 billion cost of the build-out, with the rest financed by bonds issued by the SPV and purchased in bulk by investment funds like PIMCO. Meta will lease most of the Beignet datacenter from Blue Owl, who will take the lease payments to pay the coupons to bondholders and dividends to itself and its minority partner who is also the primary tenant.

Why the complicated structure? Accounting tricks. Continuing with Beignet as an example, take a worst-case scenario where the SPV fails. If that happens, the majority owner - Blue Owl - will sell off everything it can to pay back bondholders. This will inevitably result in a gap. If Beignet were a normal enterprise, that results in a "haircut" - the bondholders lose the difference. If it were a normal enterprise, it would also have to pay ruinous interest rates to finance a high-risk and high-complexity scheme. But it isn't a normal enterprise, and it gets to issue investment-grade bonds. Why? Because Meta is backstopping it. If Beignet fails and is liquidated and the bondholders are not made whole, Meta puts up the difference. The complicated structure lets the SPV borrow at blue-chip rates and - most importantly - allows the blue chip with the risk exposure to hold that exposure off its balance sheet to maintain that rating while burning through capital at alarming rates. Meta is ultimately on the hook for the bond issue, but Meta also gets to exclude the massive liability from its balance sheet.

If that seems extremely suspicious, it's because it is. It's a vast game of hide-the-risk - but hiding the risk doesn't make it go away, and no amount of wishful thinking or accounting tricks can change that. And it's a very, very big problem. Last year, the hyperscalers issued $121 billion in new debt. That sounds like a lot, but this year, the total issuance is on pace to quadruple that as Morgan-Stanley (via Forbes) estimates $570 billion issuance. And the Big Five hyperscalers are holding, by some estimates, around $1.5 trillion dollars' worth of debt off their balance sheets. And people are finally noticing. From a piece of Bloomberg coverage:

"The accounting treatment itself is in fashion. But what if one of these companies was a house of cards and was propping itself up with this accounting treatment?" said Tom Selling, technical accounting consultant. "To me, that's the risk."
Indeed, but it ignores the obvious question: why bother with this complex accounting treatment otherwise? The stated argument is along the lines of, "there will be other tenants involved, too, not just us, so it makes sense" but that's a much weaker argument than the obvious one of "to hide risk."
"If we just looked at the financial statements, we would be more or less short sighted: missing liabilities, missing obligations, missing key elements of these structures that really truly represent the economics," Gonzales said.
Investors have to dig through disclosures attached to corporate financial statements to find details on the off-balance sheet structures and how each firm accounts for those arrangements and any related obligations.
The information is there, but finding it requires more work than if Meta, for example, borrowed directly to finance the build out, said Gil Luria, head of technology research for D.A. Davidson & Co.
"Enron's crime wasn't having special purpose vehicles. Enron's crime was hiding them," Luria said.
Yes, SPVs aren't illegal. But at this scale and with corporations this hypothetically rich and credit-worthy backstopping them, they are a red flag.

And that scale is another part of the reason. Nobody can afford this. It is getting into nation-state levels of capital and debt expenditure and even the mighty hyperscalers can't pay for their bets, especially as the market for AI bonds appears to be softening. Between known on-balance-sheet debt and estimated off-balance-sheet debt, the Big Five hyperscalers have racked up almost $2.5 trillion in debt so far. Alphabet (Google) plays the hide-the-risk game comparatively little and most of its debt is on its balance sheet and because of that, its accounting is easier to understand - and it is also is in negative free cash flow for the first time since going public as its capital expenditures exceed its cashflows. How many of its fellow hyperscalers are in the same situation, with the reality hidden off the balance sheet?

The answer to the basic AI question of "can it pay" will have profound consequences not just for the hyperscalers, but for the wider economy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix at 11:00 AM




Comments

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 11:00 AM (2YhKe)

2 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at August 12, 2026 11:00 AM (xHe0y)

3 MANNIX!!!!!


Not a cop......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 11:00 AM (2YhKe)

4 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 12, 2026 11:01 AM (NcvvS)

5 As did I.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 11:02 AM (2YhKe)

6 It's the era of the shyster.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 11:02 AM (wOO3z)

7 Top 10!

Posted by: Heavy Meta at August 12, 2026 11:02 AM (GTqXr)

8 Tulipmania!

Posted by: Your FTD Florist at August 12, 2026 11:03 AM (JM9I6)

9 The crash of the AI market is going to be far worse than the dot com bubble bursting.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 12, 2026 11:04 AM (NR6c1)

10
Here's some more grist for you anti-Boomers' Anti-Boomer Mill:

https://instapundit.com/816127/#disqus_thread


It may be the single stupidest bit of writing that I've ever read.

Hilariously silly. It sounds exactly like Hitler describing the Jooooooos at a rally.

Enjoy!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 12, 2026 11:04 AM (iJfKG)

11 >Yes, SPVs aren't illegal. But at this scale and with corporations this hypothetically rich and credit-worthy backstopping them, they are a red flag.

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*waves*

Posted by: Credit Default Swaps at August 12, 2026 11:04 AM (GTqXr)

12 It can be lunch time

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2026 11:04 AM (LTCST)

13 Good morning good people.

(Not AI created or posted)

Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2026 11:05 AM (udaaY)

14 It's interesting that X doesn't even make the top 5 list - or is that another example of jiggery-pokery?

Per Reddit:

xAI (or X) is an owner and operator of massive AI superclusters rather than a top commercial construction contractor or builder of data centers for the broader industry.

I'm not sure I understand the distinction.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 11:06 AM (Riz8t)

15 This is going to make the dot com bust look like a ripple in the pond.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 12, 2026 11:06 AM (0U5gm)

16 I guess naming it "doughnut" might have given the game away.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 11:07 AM (asFP3)

17 The crash of the AI market is going to be far worse than the dot com bubble bursting.

Agreed. I'm trying to develop a strategy for pulling money out of the market and putting it on the sideline for the inevitable bottom feeding opportunities.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 11:07 AM (Riz8t)

18 Interesting essay, Joe. Thanks.

Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 11:08 AM (77rzZ)

19 All of my vast knowledge and intelligence is natural and not artificially enhanced.

Posted by: The Big Dummy at August 12, 2026 11:08 AM (JM9I6)

20 All of my vast knowledge and intelligence is natural and not artificially enhanced.

It sounds like it's spectacular.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 11:09 AM (Riz8t)

21 Who's paying the rest?
Taxpayers.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 12, 2026 11:09 AM (w7peH)

22 Tell me it's all money laundering without telling me it's all money laundering.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 11:09 AM (2YhKe)

23 I don't really think this AI craze is about $. In the end it's all about control of DATA and $ as weapons against citizens. Think China, but even more insane and global.

Posted by: Esperman at August 12, 2026 11:10 AM (lXuCG)

24 ign up for our AI service, and you can replace all of those pesky humans youre paying $100k/ year"

"Great! What's the price?"

"$200k per human."

Posted by: 2009Refugee at August 12, 2026 11:10 AM (w8lCO)

25 All the bigs are trying to be the winner after the shakeout, a la Google and Amazon. I wish I knew who that would be, or if it will be any of them, as opposed to a lean, nimble dark horse.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 11:11 AM (Riz8t)

26
To a certain extent this reminds me of all the bundling of crappy "redline" loans that killed the economy in the 90s.

The Pitch: "By themselves, these loans are a terrible, horrible, no good risk buuuuuut, bundled all together, they're a glorious money-making opportunity and you'd be stupid not to load up!"

Recycled history ain't great.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 12, 2026 11:11 AM (iJfKG)

27 >>As did I.

*fistbump*

Posted by: Nazdar at August 12, 2026 11:12 AM (NcvvS)

28 So... we will pay.

You'll own nothing and like it.

Seems to me this is a massive resource grab for all the marbles.

Posted by: Derak at August 12, 2026 11:12 AM (JUYGW)

29 >17 The crash of the AI market is going to be far worse than the dot com bubble bursting.

Agreed. I'm trying to develop a strategy for pulling money out of the market and putting it on the sideline for the inevitable bottom feeding opportunities.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 11:07 AM (Riz8t)

I spent the past 18 months reallocating assets from equities to bonds ahead of my retirement. I'm roughly 45/55 bonds to equities. Most of my work income is replaced by bond dividends so if there is a significant correction, my income is untouched. But I'm still looking for opportunities to bottom feed.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at August 12, 2026 11:12 AM (GTqXr)

30 Per Reddit:

xAI (or X) is an owner and operator of massive AI superclusters rather than a top commercial construction contractor or builder of data centers for the broader industry.

I'm not sure I understand the distinction.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 11:06 AM (Riz8t)


I believe, although I could be wrong, that xAI primarily runs data centers for other people and uses their silliness to pay the bills with Grok using any free computing. For example, they run a profit because Google cannot keep up with construction equal to their delusions so they pay xAI for compute time.

In many ways, xAI is operating like general store owners during the California gold rush.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2026 11:12 AM (ExV1e)

31 I am surprised that blue owls are into building datacenters. I thought they only made platforms in their trees to drink tea on

Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2026 11:13 AM (rbvCR)

32 How its worth the expense still bogels me. Same as
spending billions for a train ride.

Of course that train rail is a scam to spend public money into pockets

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2026 11:13 AM (LTCST)

33 >>Posted by: The Big Dummy at August 12, 2026 11:08 AM (JM9I6)

Hadrian, how did Varus get access?

Posted by: Nazdar at August 12, 2026 11:13 AM (NcvvS)

34 It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at August 12, 2026 11:13 AM (2Ez/1)

35 AI data centers will be linked in order to create the AGI we need to fight the aliens.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 12, 2026 11:15 AM (3cUTc)

36 14 It's interesting that X doesn't even make the top 5 list - or is that another example of jiggery-pokery?

Per Reddit:

xAI (or X) is an owner and operator of massive AI superclusters rather than a top commercial construction contractor or builder of data centers for the broader industry.

I'm not sure I understand the distinction.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 11:06 AM (Riz8t)

It's a much smaller business.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at August 12, 2026 11:15 AM (okun6)

37 All the bigs are trying to be the winner after the shakeout, a la Google and Amazon. I wish I knew who that would be, or if it will be any of them, as opposed to a lean, nimble dark horse.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 11:11 AM (Riz8t)


Eventually, someone will realize that AGI based on LLMs is a pipe dream and they'll start working to tailor their system to what LLMs can excel at. They will be the winner.

Probably have to get rid of the delusional executive suite first, though.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2026 11:15 AM (ExV1e)

38 I am surprised that blue owls are into building datacenters. I thought they only made platforms in their trees to drink tea on
Posted by: Kindltot

Blue owl's gone. King Friday had enough of his shit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 11:15 AM (wOO3z)

39
All that being said...

Short of aa worldwide Butlerian Jihad,

AI is a game we must play.

The panning for information gold and pattern spotting available make them military and economic and security must-haves.

Our Betters rubbed the lamp and now the genie is out and he ain't going back.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 12, 2026 11:15 AM (iJfKG)

40 The state of AI right now is annoying and buggy. These embedded algorithms are unpredictable. I don't even subscribe to their services but see them tampering with everything I do behind the scenes. I get delays, reboots, autocucumber, word substitution, letter deletion, word deletion, - it appears to be mostly a juiced up search engine. Keywords are still paramount.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 12, 2026 11:15 AM (tvdD1)

41
Seems to me this is a massive resource grab for all the marbles.
Posted by: Derak at August 12, 2026 11:12 AM (JUYGW)



Microsoft has spent decades trying to remove the PC and data storage from your home and centralizing it in their systems.

Google has taken it to exorbitant levels. Ever use a Chromebook? Apple is going the same direction.

"You don't own your data. I DO!" Famous words from Google's founder.....or was it that other guy.....anyway.

All your data are belong to them. Soon.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 11:15 AM (2YhKe)

42 The crash of the AI market is going to be far worse than the dot com bubble bursting.

Agreed. I'm trying to develop a strategy for pulling money out of the market and putting it on the sideline for the inevitable bottom feeding opportunities.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 11:07 AM (Riz8t)
==
I've issued some options on Microsoft to lock in profits from its long growth history, and create some cash. The bigger question is what to do about the chip makers?

Posted by: Black JEM at August 12, 2026 11:16 AM (7/DDO)

43 The speed at which current AI (and computer tech in general) becomes obsolete is going hit this sector sooner rather than later.

I think the jury's out on whether it can adapt fast enough.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 12, 2026 11:18 AM (2Cry5)

44 Sign up for our AI service, and you can replace all of those pesky humans youre paying $100k/ year"

I read an article a while back about a factory owner who despised having to pay for humans to work in his previous company and was doing everything he could to automate the entire floor.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 12, 2026 11:18 AM (NR6c1)

45 We don't see the problem.

Posted by: zombie South Sea Company at August 12, 2026 11:18 AM (amcLV)

46 The long term problem I see with all of this AI craze is while you may be the first and corner the market there will be people constantly working to do it faster, better and cheaper.


It will be just like when the plasma TV was king for years and all of a sudden the LCD TV's came on the market cheaper better and they lasted longer.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 12, 2026 11:18 AM (cpFbA)

47 Machines, old gods with new mouths, mutter and multiply; the world, amazed and half-afraid, turns its face to them as to a flood that remembers our names.

Posted by: Old Bill Faulkner at August 12, 2026 11:18 AM (2Ez/1)

48 M'haps we have to the rich after all.

Posted by: little people at August 12, 2026 11:19 AM (ehY6c)

49 Data Factories (that's what the cool kids are calling them) should be treated as any other thing or product. We don't talk about "computer" like it's one invariant monolith of a thing. There are all kinds of different computers, doing different things, that different companies build for different customers to do different things. There is just as much variation when you take a whole bunch of computers and shove them into one building. Who's designing and building it? Who's using it? Who's leasing out all that computing power, and to whom? Is it AWS? X? The Economic Council of Greater Timbuktu? Is it used for AI research? Cloud compute? Storing some idiot's fifty billion blurry pictures of the inside of his pocket from now until the inevitable heat death of the universe?

They all look roughly the same from street view, but there are a lot of players doing a lot of things in the Data Factory space that make sweeping unqualified statements about "datacenters" difficult.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 12, 2026 11:19 AM (Ot/FD)

50 eat

Posted by: little people at August 12, 2026 11:20 AM (ehY6c)

51 eat

Posted by: little people at August 12, 2026 11:20 AM


Eat little people?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 12, 2026 11:20 AM (cpFbA)

52 Since the introduction of the Z80, Watts per FLOP (power required to do Floating Point Operations per second) has been in decline, on average 38% a year. Data centers built today will be obsolete in three years, out competed by new data centers doing much more with much less power.

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at August 12, 2026 11:21 AM (PjLJ5)

53 eat
Posted by: little people at August 12, 2026 11:20 AM (ehY6
--------
excrete.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 12, 2026 11:21 AM (amcLV)

54 In many ways, xAI is operating like general store owners during the California gold rush.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
==========
In part at least, you are correct. Anthropic is a big customer of xAI datacenters (now folded into SpaceX). In a complicated partnership, Microsoft provides Azure computing to Open AI, and so on.

But that is for models running today, not necessarily for the future models where they are building datacenters on spec for the different AI competitors.

There will be a shakeout and the WCC Central story that pixy posted earlier shows that you can take a cheaper model, train it partially on the expensive frontier model output and in essence, gain most of the frontier model's advantage for peanuts.

Like Elon and Grok AI, it may be to the advantage of NOT being Claude or Open AI front runners because the slightly less than absolute bleeding edge frontier models don't consume the cash that Claude or OpenAI are spending that is not sustainable. Now NVIDIA is getting involved as well, basically staking the AI companies if they use NVIDIA hardware.

I don't think we know where this is going to end.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 11:22 AM (E4rtv)

55 What hath zero interest bound and soft money policies wrought?

for $1000, Alex

Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2026 11:22 AM (rbvCR)

56 AI is programmed. Most programming is H1-B visa holders.

It's not only liberal in design, it's stupid because H1-B visa holders.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 11:22 AM (2YhKe)

57 This is a lot like the dot.com bubble, in that when it burst, we saw what the Internet was really worth, and most importantly, what it could really do for people. AI is vastly overhyped, but I think when the AI bubble bursts, we’ll see the true value and use of AI.

Those expenditures are scary though. The data center thing doesn’t freak me out as it does other people. The nearby shithole town has some areas of blight that can be replaced by data centers if people are willing and they just might give people in town something to do other than eat, sleep and shit (h/t, The Helmsman). Oh, and get high and commit crimes. My worry is that when the bubble bursts, you’ll have some worthless property sitting idle forever until someone comes in to repurpose. In the case of my nearby town…nobody will come.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 12, 2026 11:22 AM (4g5V+)

58 Can these investments bring in enough money to pay off the bonds

Pay off?!

Posted by: Government-Shielded Entities at August 12, 2026 11:23 AM (ScG/9)

59 It's not that there's no risk from pouring all that money into data centers... there is, and it's significant.

The thing is, the risk from NOT moving your company into AI is even higher.

It's a choice between "may be out of business" and "definitely will be out of business".

First prize is wealth beyond your wildest dreams (even if you are Elon Musk). Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is that your company dies.

If the "OMG data!!! centers!!! bad!!!" contingent manages to derail the buildout the first prize winner is going to be Chy-na.

I'm pretty sure the ChiComs are behind this, just as they (and before them, the Sovs) were behind the propaganda against nuclear power.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 12, 2026 11:23 AM (IG3/x)

60 Data centers built today will be obsolete in three years, out competed by new data centers doing much more with much less power.
Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at August 12, 2026 11:21 AM (PjLJ5)

Honestly, data centers being built today are mostly already three years obsolete before they even cut the ribbon. The factory designs are changing faster than construction can keep up. It's the wild west out there.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 12, 2026 11:23 AM (Ot/FD)

61
Eat little people?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 12, 2026 11:20 AM (cpFbA)




I'm listening......

Posted by: Godzilla at August 12, 2026 11:23 AM (2YhKe)

62 Bah! Silicon phantoms multiply, engines think, and fortunes clatter forth like coins on a miser’s desk - yet every fevered venture hisses, “More, more, more!”

Posted by: The ghost of Ebenezer Scrooge at August 12, 2026 11:24 AM (2Ez/1)

63 I don't think we know where this is going to end.
Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 11:22 AM (E4rtv)

Nope. All speculation. But it is interesting to think about.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 12, 2026 11:24 AM (4g5V+)

64 Some say soon some smart engineer is going to figure out a smart way to train AI systems requiring about one-hundredth of the computing power now used, and these brute-force monster data centers are going to be irrelevant.

Posted by: Ralph at August 12, 2026 11:24 AM (8WZD4)

65
Like Elon and Grok AI, it may be to the advantage of NOT being Claude or Open AI front runners because the slightly less than absolute bleeding edge frontier models don't consume the cash that Claude or OpenAI are spending that is not sustainable. Now NVIDIA is getting involved as well, basically staking the AI companies if they use NVIDIA hardware.

I don't think we know where this is going to end.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 11:22 AM (E4rtv)

To pay off successfully, the frontrunners need to be able to charge premium prices for what underneath the hood looks mostly like a commodity product. If we see signs of customers being locked into one AI model or another that's possible, but at present people are just routing tasks to whatever is cheapest to complete a task.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at August 12, 2026 11:24 AM (okun6)

66 Just trapezing from one disaster to the next.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 11:24 AM (wOO3z)

67 Eat little people?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 12, 2026 11:20 AM (cpFbA)

I'm listening......
Posted by: Godzilla at August 12, 2026 11:23 AM (2YhKe)

Remember Rampage? That was a great game.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 12, 2026 11:25 AM (Ot/FD)

68 There will be a shakeout and the WCC Central story that pixy posted earlier shows that you can take a cheaper model, train it partially on the expensive frontier model output and in essence, gain most of the frontier model's advantage for peanuts.

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: China at August 12, 2026 11:25 AM (Riz8t)

69 64 Some DAY soon some smart engineer is going to figure out a smart way to train AI systems requiring about one-hundredth of the computing power now used, and these brute-force monster data centers are going to be irrelevant.

Fixed typo.

Posted by: Ralph at August 12, 2026 11:25 AM (8WZD4)

70 Death of key personnel can sink a market faster than anything else. The Confetti Industry has never really rebounded since my untimely death in 2017.

Posted by: Rip Taylor's Ghost at August 12, 2026 11:25 AM (JM9I6)

71 >My worry is that when the bubble bursts, you’ll have some worthless property sitting idle forever until someone comes in to repurpose. In the case of my nearby town…nobody will come.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 12, 2026 11:22 AM (4g5V+)

Same can be said for automated warehouses. In south Jersey along I-295 and the NJ Turnpike, farmland has been tilled under and massive warehouses constructed. Some are occupied by Amazon and Target, but most seem like they are spec buildings waiting for a buyer.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at August 12, 2026 11:25 AM (GTqXr)

72 52 Since the introduction of the Z80, Watts per FLOP (power required to do Floating Point Operations per second) has been in decline, on average 38% a year. Data centers built today will be obsolete in three years, out competed by new data centers doing much more with much less power.
Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits

I would not count on those future datacenters being built. Washout will occur before then due to financial strain. Look for consolidation instead among the AI crowd.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 11:26 AM (E4rtv)

73 "My worry is that when the bubble bursts, you’ll have some worthless property sitting idle forever until someone comes in to repurpose. In the case of my nearby town…nobody will come.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 12, 2026 11:22 AM"
+++
*ahem*

Posted by: Empty casinos at August 12, 2026 11:26 AM (2Ez/1)

74 Some are occupied by Amazon and Target, but most seem like they are spec buildings waiting for a buyer.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at August 12, 2026 11:25 AM (GTqXr)

Nicely poised for a grand return of American Manufacturing?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 12, 2026 11:26 AM (Ot/FD)

75 I notice that xAI is the only major player that has told the Eurosavages to go fuck themselves when it comes to adding built-in spying to their AI products. At least they have so far.

If we survive, one day Elon Musk is going to be hailed as the person who saved Western Civilization, first by buying Twitter, and now by pushing back against the "alignment" tards.

Grok certainly has areas where it tries to steer the narrative, but far less so than any of the others. I'm willing, for now, to accept that Grok is that way as a function of the training material, rather than a deliberate bias. Not so with the others, especially Claude.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 12, 2026 11:27 AM (IG3/x)

76 My worry is that when the bubble bursts, you’ll have some worthless property sitting idle forever until someone comes in to repurpose. In the case of my nearby town…nobody will come.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 12, 2026 11:22 AM (4g5V+)

It could take a very long time. We're still hooking up fiber built during the tech bubble.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at August 12, 2026 11:27 AM (okun6)

77 When the AI bubble bursts, I hope to be in Thailand, frolicking on the beach with my gunsel while the world burns.

Posted by: James Talarico, homosexual at August 12, 2026 11:27 AM (e2lsi)

78 I used to be a thing.

Posted by: Suburban shopping malls at August 12, 2026 11:27 AM (2Ez/1)

79 Claude Balls.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 11:28 AM (wOO3z)

80 [
Remember Rampage? That was a great game.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 12, 2026 11:25 AM (Ot/FD)



Pure destruction. Doesn't get much better.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 11:28 AM (2YhKe)

81 >I'm pretty sure the ChiComs are behind this, just as they (and before them, the Sovs) were behind the propaganda against nuclear power.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 12, 2026 11:23 AM (IG3/x)

They've successfully recruited the AWFL army. Funny thing is, there have been, and continue to be massive data centers in the middle of residential communities for well over 30 years in my neck of the woods. Not a peep from anyone. Funny, that.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at August 12, 2026 11:29 AM (GTqXr)

82 >It could take a very long time. We're still hooking up fiber built during the tech bubble.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at August 12, 2026 11:27 AM

Yoo - hoo!

Posted by: Starlink at August 12, 2026 11:29 AM (2Ez/1)

83 Kate at smalldeadanimals pisted a link to this yesterday.

BREAKING: A consortium of Private Equity firms are putting together a deal to lend Nvidia $500B Apollo, Blackstone, Blackrock, Brookfield, Goldman and KKR are involved, in what is arguably is the largest financing deal ever on Wall Street


Hey ChatGPT! I need you to come up with 10 viable business plans for me to pay back half a trillion dollars. American dollars....sadly.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 12, 2026 11:29 AM (Sco7b)

84 I guess naming it "doughnut" might have given the game away.

Hole in the middle? On the other hand, the notable characteristic of a beignet is that it is light, fluffy, and sugary not that it is nutritious.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 12, 2026 11:29 AM (vTZFs)

85 > Like Elon and Grok AI, it may be to the advantage of NOT being Claude or Open AI front runners because the slightly less than absolute bleeding edge frontier models don't consume the cash that Claude or OpenAI are spending that is not sustainable.

The latest models from Grok are just about as good as Claude, IMO.

More so if you prefer your AI dinner without a side of communism.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 12, 2026 11:29 AM (IG3/x)

86 71 >My worry is that when the bubble bursts, you’ll have some worthless property sitting idle forever until someone comes in to repurpose. In the case of my nearby town…nobody will come.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 12, 2026 11:22 AM (4g5V+)

Same can be said for automated warehouses. In south Jersey along I-295 and the NJ Turnpike, farmland has been tilled under and massive warehouses constructed. Some are occupied by Amazon and Target, but most seem like they are spec buildings waiting for a buyer.
Posted by: Heavy Meta
======
It is easier to recover from overspending on infrastructure than it is a financial meltdown like 2008. We had a tech meltdown after Web 1.0 crashed and failed, we had a meltdown regarding fiber optic mania, and yet each of those failures left a bunch of infrastructure available cheap for the future and better companies to utilize for growth.

Neither shook the US finances like giving a bunch of home loans to people that would not repay them.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 11:29 AM (E4rtv)

87 Should I sell my tulip bulbs and beanie babies?

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

88 Bubbles won't burst, if you have a dependable Bubble Machine.

Posted by: Lawrence Welk Groupie at August 12, 2026 11:29 AM (JM9I6)

89 its as if they think AI will cure cancer, eliminate disease and death and bring about whirled peas.

Have they read no science fiction?

Are they all just Utopian hippies with finance degrees?

What could go wrong???

Posted by: stay tuned at August 12, 2026 11:29 AM (anL5R)

90 Same can be said for automated warehouses. In south Jersey along I-295 and the NJ Turnpike, farmland has been tilled under and massive warehouses constructed. Some are occupied by Amazon and Target, but most seem like they are spec buildings waiting for a buyer.

Here in NoVa, hospital complexes are often what comes in to replace now-unused malls.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 11:29 AM (Riz8t)

91
This sounds like Enron or FTX debt-structuring schemes.

Arthur Andersen went under with Enron because other firms independently exposed their complicity.

FTX shared the same advantage as Big AI has now: no reliable auditing.

All these modern firms benefit from the new system, since the MBS/CDO collapse a decade later, which is that debt is now valued arbitrarily.

But they still keep going under anyway, because Renfield Accounting can only cover for so much, and then you get a stake through your heart.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 12, 2026 11:30 AM (BI5O2)

92 > They've successfully recruited the AWFL army. Funny thing is, there have been, and continue to be massive data centers in the middle of residential communities for well over 30 years in my neck of the woods. Not a peep from anyone. Funny, that.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at August 12, 2026 11:29 AM (GTqXr)

There's nothing more amusing, in a black humor way, than seeing some tard ranting about "data centers" on Facebook or X.

Just where do you think your rant is being stored, Skippy?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 12, 2026 11:30 AM (IG3/x)

93 It will be just like when the plasma TV was king for years and all of a sudden the LCD TV's came on the market cheaper better and they lasted longer.

Both trash. Can they hold your house down during a hurricane?

Posted by: Sony Trinitron at August 12, 2026 11:30 AM (0ZmKh)

94 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 12, 2026 11:30 AM (bFu5X)

95 > 89 its as if they think AI will cure cancer, eliminate disease and death and bring about whirled peas.


World peace isn't gonna happen.

Curing cancer is definitely on the table, though.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 12, 2026 11:31 AM (IG3/x)

96 " its as if they think AI will cure cancer, eliminate disease and death and bring about whirled peas."
=====

Have you seen my car?

Posted by: George Jetson at August 12, 2026 11:31 AM (2Ez/1)

97 SPONGE!!!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 12, 2026 11:30 AM (bFu5X)



*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 11:31 AM (2YhKe)

98 39
All that being said...

Short of aa worldwide Butlerian Jihad,

AI is a game we must play.

The panning for information gold and pattern spotting available make them military and economic and security must-haves.

Our Betters rubbed the lamp and now the genie is out and he ain't going back.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 12, 2026 11:15 AM (iJfKG)

When I go back into the classroom to the greatest extent possible I want my classroom more or less functionally stuck in 1985. The better for the younguns to learn.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 12, 2026 11:32 AM (4g5V+)

99
I used to be a thing.

Posted by: Suburban shopping malls at August 12, 2026 11:27 AM (2Ez/1)


Not to worry.

In Plano, you are turned into a playing arena for the Dallas Stars.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 12, 2026 11:32 AM (iJfKG)

100 its as if they think AI will cure cancer, eliminate disease and death and bring about whirled peas.

I don't know about the peas, but AI has already been very useful in genomics and designing new drugs. If we left it at that, it would still be worth it. You know, until the robots rise up and spray us all with designer plagues.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 11:32 AM (Riz8t)

101
In Plano, you are turned into a playing arena for the Dallas Stars.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 12, 2026 11:32 AM (iJfKG)



Good for them. First, screw Dallas. Second, screw the Mavericks. They absolutely f*cked the Stars franchise when the new owners took over.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 11:33 AM (2YhKe)

102 AI data centers will be linked in order to create the AGI we need to fight the aliens.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 12, 2026 11:15 AM (3cUTc)



"When AGI arrived, it came with a pair of fake tits"
@charliebcurran

https://tinyurl.com/2uyka4w7

Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2026 11:33 AM (rbvCR)

103 narf

Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2026 11:34 AM (rbvCR)

104 The latest models from Grok are just about as good as Claude, IMO.

More so if you prefer your AI dinner without a side of communism.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Have no dog in the fight but I think Claude was smart in aiming at coding as a specialty niche to differentiate itself from Open AI or Grok even. But, the easy of 'stealing' frontier model's edge apparently, especially by the Chicoms, means that the vast world market envisioned by Open AI and Claude is not going to be theirs. It will go to the cheapest alternative even if the Chicoms own the cheating company. Neither company has the cash flow longterm to keep burning it so as to beat the other to the vaunted IPO.

Google with Gemini, and SpaceX have other income streams that neither Claude or Open AI have. Personally, in the wreckage, I would buy Apple stock above any of them because they stayed out of the AI shitshow and they have the cash to buy the shell of any AI company that crashes out.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 11:34 AM (E4rtv)

105 Lo, minds of iron wake; algorithms bloom like spring, and mortal trades do quake beneath this star-born, wondrous, restless surge.

Posted by: Shades of Shakespeare at August 12, 2026 11:34 AM (2Ez/1)

106 And just when all these companies think they've got AI squared away, quantum computing will start coming online.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 12, 2026 11:34 AM (g8Ew8)

107 99
I used to be a thing.

Posted by: Suburban shopping malls at August 12, 2026 11:27 AM (2Ez/1)

Not to worry.

In Plano, you are turned into a playing arena for the Dallas Stars.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 12, 2026 11:32 AM (iJfKG)

Circa 1975, an abandoned Dallas area shopping mall was where they shot the movie “Logan’s Run”.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 12, 2026 11:35 AM (4g5V+)

108 Another angle to the whole story is the sheer number of jobs it's creating/sustaining. Building a data factory isn't quite like any other construction project. It's obviously trades-intensive while the shell is being built out. It's also much more manic of of timetable than your typical large build, which means lots of tasty overtime. And then after all that, all the blood and guts of the place require a whole new crew of technicians and tradesmen to get everything up and going properly, again on a manic timetable, requiring a staggering amount of people going in and out of the place for upwards of a year or more.

Externalities aside, all that can do amazing things to a place's local economy, long before they even turn the lineups on.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 12, 2026 11:35 AM (Ot/FD)

109 > Have no dog in the fight but I think Claude was smart in aiming at coding as a specialty niche to differentiate itself from Open AI or Grok even.

Have you tried Grok Code?

It's now better than Claude, IMO.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 12, 2026 11:35 AM (IG3/x)

110 Oh good. A young woman just won a car on 'The Price is Right.' Good for her.

Some guy also won an Af4ican Safari. $27,000. Damn. That must be the not get raped and killed package.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 12, 2026 11:36 AM (Sco7b)

111 This circular financing is crazy. Creating debt instruments on equipment that depreciates quickly is a recipe for disaster.

Posted by: WisRich at August 12, 2026 11:36 AM (G0vdT)

112
"When AGI arrived, it came with a pair of fake tits"
@charliebcurran

https://tinyurl.com/2uyka4w7
Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2026 11:33 AM (rbvCR)



HI HO!!!! KERMIT the FROG here.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 11:36 AM (2YhKe)

113 They will fund it with traffic tickets from all the cameras

Posted by: fd at August 12, 2026 11:37 AM (ywXg9)

114 89 its as if they think AI will cure cancer, eliminate disease and death and bring about whirled peas.




Crime will be eliminated with my cameras.

Posted by: Flock CEO at August 12, 2026 11:37 AM (4g5V+)

115 108 Another angle to the whole story is the sheer number of jobs it's creating/sustaining. Building a data factory isn't quite like any other construction project. It's obviously trades-intensive while the shell is being built out. It's also much more manic of of timetable than your typical large build, which means lots of tasty overtime. And then after all that, all the blood and guts of the place require a whole new crew of technicians and tradesmen to get everything up and going properly, again on a manic timetable, requiring a staggering amount of people going in and out of the place for upwards of a year or more.

Externalities aside, all that can do amazing things to a place's local economy, long before they even turn the lineups on.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 12, 2026 11:35 AM (Ot/FD)

It is ultimately temporary though. We're not building permanent cities in the Permian basin where datacenters are going up. Municipalities that treat it as a new normal will screw up their budgets.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at August 12, 2026 11:37 AM (okun6)

116 Google with Gemini, and SpaceX have other income streams that neither Claude or Open AI have. Personally, in the wreckage, I would buy Apple stock above any of them because they stayed out of the AI shitshow and they have the cash to buy the shell of any AI company that crashes out.

Interesting, and agreed.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 11:38 AM (Riz8t)

117 106 And just when all these companies think they've got AI squared away, quantum computing will start coming online.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 12, 2026 11:34 AM (g8Ew

I'm hoping for a future where quantum computing doesn't replace traditional ones and zeros, but seamlessly integrates with it, coupling the freedom and speed of qbits with the merciless determinism of the logic gate. A best of both worlds kind of approach.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 12, 2026 11:38 AM (Ot/FD)

118 113 They will fund it with traffic tickets from all the cameras
Posted by: fd at August 12, 2026 11:37 AM (ywXg9)

Yeah, about that.

Posted by: Texas Transportation Code at August 12, 2026 11:38 AM (4g5V+)

119
Circa 1975, an abandoned Dallas area shopping mall was where they shot the movie “Logan’s Run”.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 12, 2026 11:35 AM (4g5V+)



Why use an abandoned mall?

Posted by: The Blues Brothers at August 12, 2026 11:38 AM (2YhKe)

120 It will be just like when the plasma TV was king for years and all of a sudden the LCD TV's came on the market cheaper better and they lasted longer.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 12, 2026 11:18 AM (cpFbA)

Plasmas were pushed out the market by guess what, an LCD lobby who got California to pass "environmental' laws that effectively made it illegal to sell them. Amazing what the Left gets away with an even we who are in touch have no idea. Imagine what the low fo's know. NOTHING

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 11:39 AM (asFP3)

121 Circa 1975, an abandoned Dallas area shopping mall was where they shot the movie “Logan’s Run”.

It still takes me aback when I realize that 1975 was 51 years ago. I remember 1975 very well.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 11:39 AM (Riz8t)

122 "The accounting treatment itself is in fashion. But what if one of these companies was a house of cards and was propping itself up with this accounting treatment?" said Tom Selling, technical accounting consultant. "To me, that's the risk."

I just had a PTSD moment from my days at Enron although I left before the great implosion. Just seeing SPV gives me the vapors.

Posted by: TxAnn at August 12, 2026 11:40 AM (SjAWL)

123 And the Big Five hyperscalers are holding, by some estimates, around $1.5 trillion dollars' worth of debt"

Is that a lot?

/ nearly $40 Trillion Dollar debt

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 11:40 AM (cGjQu)

124 Should I sell my tulip bulbs and beanie babies?

Buy the dip!

Posted by: Oddbob at August 12, 2026 11:40 AM (vTZFs)

125
Should I sell my tulip bulbs and beanie babies?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2026 11:29 AM (Cqx++)



Yes. Reinvest the proceeds into baseball cards and other pro sports memorabilia.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 12, 2026 11:40 AM (iqcvy)

126 122 "The accounting treatment itself is in fashion. But what if one of these companies was a house of cards and was propping itself up with this accounting treatment?" said Tom Selling, technical accounting consultant. "To me, that's the risk."

I just had a PTSD moment from my days at Enron although I left before the great implosion. Just seeing SPV gives me the vapors.


The time to buy is NOW!!!

Posted by: Jim Cramer at August 12, 2026 11:41 AM (Riz8t)

127 It is ultimately temporary though. We're not building permanent cities in the Permian basin where datacenters are going up. Municipalities that treat it as a new normal will screw up their budgets.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at August 12, 2026 11:37 AM (okun6)

It has to be a shock to a town council rolling in the revenue when the ribbon is finally cut and that horde of thousands of people buying stuff and paying for tolls and parking and whatnot on their corporate cards suddenly drops to a few dozen employees who keep the lights on and sit in a chair silencing alarms without looking at what they were for (and then get fired for doing that).

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 12, 2026 11:41 AM (Ot/FD)

128 There's nothing more amusing, in a black humor way, than seeing some tard ranting about "data centers" on Facebook or X.

Just where do you think your rant is being stored, Skippy?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 12, 2026 11:30 AM (IG3/x)



They're the same ones who thought putting a post about "you can't use my pictures that I posted on the public forum because I put these words in my feed" dumbshittery.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 11:41 AM (2YhKe)

129 ...would work.

Damn brain.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 11:41 AM (2YhKe)

130 And the Big Five hyperscalers are holding, by some estimates, around $1.5 trillion dollars' worth of debt"

Is that a lot?


Assuming 5% interest, that's $75B a year in JUST interest. So no.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 11:42 AM (Riz8t)

131 To pay off successfully, the frontrunners need to be able to charge premium prices for what underneath the hood looks mostly like a commodity product. If we see signs of customers being locked into one AI model or another that's possible, but at present people are just routing tasks to whatever is cheapest to complete a task.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy
=====
Good point. But I think the tech execs involved are believing in the network effect where you have just one dominant company and the rest are rounding errors rather than an oligopoly. Probably driven in part by the example of social media. That model may not apply here at all for AI because good enough might beat the most expensive. Could be the auto mfg should be the AI company model.

I also think some of them think that by hyperscaling, we get to AGI that way rather than simply rebranded machine learning. AGI is indeed a Vernor Vinge singularity event.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 11:43 AM (E4rtv)

132 The local Boy Scout council, after going nearly bankrupt because they let the gays have their way with them, had to sell the scout camp they had owned for about 100 years. Now the developer who bought it wants to put up a data center there and the neighbors are pissed. I would be too. The old scout camp was a beautiful place, with lakes and trails and all the stuff a proper scout camp should have.

Posted by: fd at August 12, 2026 11:43 AM (ywXg9)

133 Time to crash

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 12, 2026 11:43 AM (4g5V+)

134 130 And the Big Five hyperscalers are holding, by some estimates, around $1.5 trillion dollars' worth of debt"

Is that a lot?

Assuming 5% interest, that's $75B a year in JUST interest. So no.
Posted by: Archimedes
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For size, the American Student Loan debt is about the same size 1.5 trillion or so. Yet no one frets much about the coming financial collapse of higher ed in part due to issues like AI, inferior product being sold as premium, etc.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 11:44 AM (E4rtv)

135 It will be just like when the plasma TV was king for years and all of a sudden the LCD TV's came on the market cheaper better and they lasted longer.

LCDs still have a worse picture than plasma. You have to go OLED and pay "real TV" money to match plasma.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2026 11:45 AM (2ocoG)

136 Remember:


Garbage in, garbage out is still a thing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 11:45 AM (2YhKe)

137 This data centers' excess capacity should lower the cost for cloud storage and personal domains.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 12, 2026 11:45 AM (sIhl1)

138 There's nothing more amusing, in a black humor way, than seeing some tard ranting about "data centers" on Facebook or X.

Just where do you think your rant is being stored, Skippy?


And who do you think is giving you "likes", real people?

Posted by: t-bird at August 12, 2026 11:46 AM (5FKHw)

139 The local Boy Scout council, after going nearly bankrupt because they let the gays have their way with them, had to sell the scout camp they had owned for about 100 years. Now the developer who bought it wants to put up a data center there and the neighbors are pissed. I would be too. The old scout camp was a beautiful place, with lakes and trails and all the stuff a proper scout camp should have.
Posted by: fd at August 12, 2026 11:43 AM (ywXg9)

Once again, everything the left touches turns to shit.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 12, 2026 11:46 AM (g8Ew8)

140 132 The local Boy Scout council, after going nearly bankrupt because they let the gays have their way with them, had to sell the scout camp they had owned for about 100 years. Now the developer who bought it wants to put up a data center there and the neighbors are pissed. I would be too. The old scout camp was a beautiful place, with lakes and trails and all the stuff a proper scout camp should have.
Posted by: fd
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Some of the people putting datacenters in places like that are not doing it for economic reasons is my guess. Like Muzzies putting mosques as markers for conquest.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 11:46 AM (E4rtv)

141
LCDs still have a worse picture than plasma. You have to go OLED and pay "real TV" money to match plasma.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2026 11:45 AM (2ocoG)



The worst thing about plasma TV's is you need to run your A/C during the winter when watching one.

Them f*cking things run HOT.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 11:46 AM (2YhKe)

142 A couple of AI generated viruses, not real ones, but models of them have been examined and determined to be nothing ever seen in nature, yet plausible.

Someone's going to take this, and go all Fauci on it, then turn it loose.

It's not going to be robots that kill us. It'll be some smart ass in a fucking lab coat.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 12, 2026 11:46 AM (2Cry5)

143 Ok, who are The Big Five Hyperscalers?

Posted by: And what's their best album? at August 12, 2026 11:46 AM (2Ez/1)

144 Leftist in Austin hate data centers because of the "environmental impact" and effects on quality of life. But mainly it's about water usage and then energy usage. It's a huge issue here. Plus Elon Musk is big, big double bad. In fact he's the devil incarnate!!!😈 ///

Posted by: lin-duh at August 12, 2026 11:47 AM (EneHm)

145 Whether it's Enron risk-hedging with SPEs, or these AI players doing it with SPVs, or FTX ventilating its holdings through Alameda, it's all the same type of scheme.

They've been pulling these scams off for years.

Remember when you were 7, and your female friends would solemnly declare that they didn't fart or sweat?

Would you believe it from them 30 years later?

That's what this is.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 12, 2026 11:47 AM (BI5O2)

146 To pay off successfully, the frontrunners need to be able to charge premium prices for what underneath the hood looks mostly like a commodity product. If we see signs of customers being locked into one AI model or another that's possible, but at present people are just routing tasks to whatever is cheapest to complete a task.

I route tasks to whichever model is the best at something. GPT-5.6 writes the cleanest code, Claude is the best at actually running and debugging, and Grok 4.5 can do both but not quite as well. But it's sufficiently cheaper enough that lower-grade tasks get pushed its way. Elon said 4.6 will be out this week, should be interesting.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2026 11:47 AM (2ocoG)

147 horde of thousands of people buying stuff and paying for tolls and parking and whatnot on their corporate cards suddenly drops"

"Hey, XOM is moving here! Raise all the prices!

/Spring, TX - 2015

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 11:48 AM (cGjQu)

148 And in the process, they are killing the home pc market, the used PC market and the gaming community. Yhis is actually more like the telco bubble in that they are building physical things.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 12, 2026 11:48 AM (bkuEU)

149 127 It is ultimately temporary though. We're not building permanent cities in the Permian basin where datacenters are going up. Municipalities that treat it as a new normal will screw up their budgets.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at August 12, 2026 11:37 AM (okun6)

It has to be a shock to a town council rolling in the revenue when the ribbon is finally cut and that horde of thousands of people buying stuff and paying for tolls and parking and whatnot on their corporate cards suddenly drops to a few dozen employees who keep the lights on and sit in a chair silencing alarms without looking at what they were for (and then get fired for doing that).

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 12, 2026 11:41 AM (Ot/FD)

I expect this to be the worst in rural areas, where the impact will be proportionally higher. Community centers and bigger staff they won't be able to afford long run.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at August 12, 2026 11:48 AM (okun6)

150 Real nailbiter today

DOJ has until 12:59 AM eastern to get a filing in *and approved* to continue the stay on an injunction, or else suppressors, SBRs, and SBSs are effectively no longer governed by the NFA.

The injunction went in a week ago with a 1 week stay to let DOJ appeal it. It isn't blanket nationwide, but applies to all current and future members of several 2A groups and customers of Silencershop, PSA, and a few others.

This is a really big deal. Lot of dudes waiting for the deadline with parts and tools, much like when the federal AWB expired in 2004.

Posted by: heya at August 12, 2026 11:48 AM (23NNO)

151 144 Leftist in Austin hate data centers because of the "environmental impact" and effects on quality of life. But mainly it's about water usage and then energy usage. It's a huge issue here. Plus Elon Musk is big, big double bad. In fact he's the devil incarnate!!!😈 ///
Posted by: lin-duh at August 12, 2026 11:47 AM (EneHm)

Disguise it as one kick ass huge mosque.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 12, 2026 11:49 AM (Sco7b)

152 138 There's nothing more amusing, in a black humor way, than seeing some tard ranting about "data centers" on Facebook or X.

Just where do you think your rant is being stored, Skippy?

And who do you think is giving you "likes", real people?
Posted by: t-bird
======
Increasingly the whole internet datastream is being dehumanized as it ain't humans driving the demand directly anymore but computers talking to other computers using agents aka bots.

Humans are merely becoming just a set of inputs into increasingly sophisticated algorithms that do everything from demand curve based pricing on the fly to self driving cars.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 11:49 AM (E4rtv)

153 Some of the people putting datacenters in places like that are not doing it for economic reasons is my guess. Like Muzzies putting mosques as markers for conquest.
Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 11:46 AM (E4rtv)


Once upon a time you could buy a company car and a plot of land for the future development site of the business, and then when the plans fell through, someone got the property and the car in the settlement, and often that was the guy who arranged to buy them, negotiated the failure, and got it in kind as a settlement for all his valiant work.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2026 11:49 AM (rbvCR)

154 106 And just when all these companies think they've got AI squared away, quantum computing will start coming online.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

They'll square both of it away when they realize the obviousness of the course
-- AI, like Soylent Green will be made out of People.

Body parts and bio-organioids, at present, moving up the foodchain chain to your pocket-book.

this is the cTHIEL future more frightening and deadly than ctHILLARY. JD and mELON-head have to throw down against the cTHIELian cohorts: cthKARP, cthLUCKEY, cthANDURIL while they still can and they will forever demonstrate worthiness of higher office (and prior offences) in comparison to the unmitigated evil(s) at stake.

Why?
Because Greater Evil always destroy its maker

What's the Lesser Evil these Days?
It's BECOME too hard to tell!

IceKingJOE: Build Back Better?
DSA: Build BORG Better

-- One Mind, One Purpose, One Future.
Resistance is NOT futile because Impedance is Real.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa8ZNyL-kxk

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 12, 2026 11:49 AM (d+bIu)

155 AI will never become "conscious" no matter how many fever dreams they have about it. That's not how consciousness works.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 11:49 AM (asFP3)

156 Leftist in Austin hate data centers because ... they've been told to. That's a switch from a couple of years ago...

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 11:50 AM (cGjQu)

157 A recent article I saw stated that if a $200 per month subscription to ChatGpt were fully utilized, it would cost OpenAI upwards of $14K to provide the service. Until the service is profitable, just getting a bigger truck (ie: Data Center), ain't gonna solve the problem.

Posted by: AlecK at August 12, 2026 11:50 AM (cMlC1)

158 Trump and his billionaire friends want data centers
F the plebs

Posted by: Paul at August 12, 2026 11:50 AM (yKi7k)

159
It will be just like when the plasma TV was king for years and all of a sudden the LCD TV's came on the market cheaper better and they lasted longer.

LCDs still have a worse picture than plasma. You have to go OLED and pay "real TV" money to match plasma.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2026 11:45 AM (2ocoG)


OLED is cheap these days.

You can get a great OLED with an awesome picture in a huge size and a very nice sound set up for what you would payed for a mediocre LCD 5 years ago, if you wait for the right sale.

Did I mention that capitalism and the free market is awesome? No? Well, it is!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 12, 2026 11:50 AM (iJfKG)

160 Data wasn't even a good character. He doesn't deserve all these centers.

Posted by: rumpus room at August 12, 2026 11:51 AM (Ealv7)

161 > suddenly drops to a few dozen employees who keep the lights on and sit in a chair silencing alarms without looking at what they were for (and then get fired for doing that).

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 12, 2026 11:41 AM (Ot/FD)

The increase in the property tax base will be some compensation.

Having an extra half billion in taxable property could make a real difference for Bum Fuck, Nebraska.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 12, 2026 11:51 AM (IG3/x)

162 ***The information is there, but finding it requires more work than if Meta, for example, borrowed directly to finance the build out,
---

But wouldn't borrowing directly be a more expensive way to do it?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 11:51 AM (VQ0bX)

163 The Internet is dead.

Posted by: It's all bots at August 12, 2026 11:51 AM (2Ez/1)

164 Posted by: Paul at August 12, 2026 11:50 AM (yKi7k)


You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at August 12, 2026 11:51 AM (2YhKe)

165 For size, the American Student Loan debt is about the same size 1.5 trillion or so. Yet no one frets much about the coming financial collapse of higher ed "

This.

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 11:52 AM (cGjQu)

166 It still takes me aback when I realize that 1975 was 51 years ago. I remember 1975 very well.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 11:39 AM


I graduated high school in 75 and shipped to Army boot camp that summer.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 12, 2026 11:52 AM (cpFbA)

167
Posted by: Paul at August 12, 2026 11:50 AM (yKi7k)

Being a Mom's-basement living, envious, weasely, little troll is no way to go through life, son.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 12, 2026 11:52 AM (iJfKG)

168 For size, the American Student Loan debt is about the same size 1.5 trillion or so. Yet no one frets much about the coming financial collapse of higher ed "

This.

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 11:52 AM


They just write it off Jerry.......

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 12, 2026 11:52 AM (cpFbA)

169 Fascinating discussion, Joe.

I have no idea no the hyperscalers will eventually get paid. I use ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, Codex etc for free…. My employer is really pushing AI and have their own internal version of ChatGPT (which is actually surprisingly useful)…. I get month end reports on my token usage but I pay ZERO. Who’s actually paying for these things right now? I can’t imagine a world where Joe and Jane consumer pony up a monthly fee to use…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 12, 2026 11:53 AM (zEBE+)

170 I think Plasma is still better than OLED although I saw a Sony that kind of floored me. You still get these awful "trails" on OLED.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 11:53 AM (asFP3)

171 The Internet is dead.
Posted by: It's all bots at August 12, 2026 11:51 AM (2Ez/1)
----
Well at least we can't be blamed for that...

Posted by: It's all ads at August 12, 2026 11:53 AM (FZ29D)

172 The Internet is dead.

Posted by: It's all bots at August 12, 2026 11:51 AM (2Ez/1)

No it's not.

Posted by: Bot from NSA at August 12, 2026 11:54 AM (asFP3)

173 88 Bubbles won't burst, if you have a dependable Bubble Machine.
Posted by: Lawrence Welk Groupie at August 12, 2026 11:29 AM (JM9I6)


*pawbump*

Posted by: Robot Monster at August 12, 2026 11:54 AM (PiwSw)

174 Posted by: Bot from NSA at August 12, 2026 11:54 AM

*golf clap*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 12, 2026 11:55 AM (bFu5X)

175 A golf course uses about four times the water as a data center (more than that, if the data center is recirculating the same water), and takes up approximately the same amount of land.

But for some reason we don't see massive anti-golf course protests.

Strange, innit?


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 12, 2026 11:55 AM (IG3/x)

176
The increase in the property tax base will be some compensation.

Having an extra half billion in taxable property could make a real difference for Bum Fuck, Nebraska.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 12, 2026 11:51 AM


The downside to all of that extra tax $$$$ is they draw large amounts of power and water and in places like the DFW metro plex where they are building these things like crazy there is no extra capacity for any utilities. Everything is pretty much already maxxed out yet they keep handing out building permits.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 12, 2026 11:55 AM (cpFbA)

177 This sounds like Enron or FTX debt-structuring schemes.

Arthur Andersen went under with Enron because other firms independently exposed their complicity.

FTX shared the same advantage as Big AI has now: no reliable auditing.

All these modern firms benefit from the new system, since the MBS/CDO collapse a decade later, which is that debt is now valued arbitrarily.

But they still keep going under anyway, because Renfield Accounting can only cover for so much, and then you get a stake through your heart.
-------

I know my limitations when it comes to conversations of this type, but I'm not sure how GAAP squares with the assertion that Meta (in the Beignet example) would be legally required to cough-up any shortage in a liquidation scenario? IF that's the case, how can that NOT be a "liability" in balance sheet terms?

Posted by: Crusader, Former Federal Bank Examiner at August 12, 2026 11:55 AM (TN0g+)

178 148 And in the process, they are killing the home pc market, the used PC market and the gaming community. Yhis is actually more like the telco bubble in that they are building physical things.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Yes, because those only gave companies a single digit sales increase rather than being able to front a massive IPO with untold billions for the insiders.

My guess is Oracle and the Ellisons are going to be one of the casualties, Microsoft to the extent that they are now actively cannibalizing their own sacrosanct product lines is another, can't tell on Google which probably has its own Android half of cellphones to feed, and then Apple which stayed out of the muck and can afford to buy the survivor(s) of the shakeout probably. SpaceX is difficult to tell as Elon is using one part of the company to build demand as a customer for other parts of the company. Not the same as pureplay AI like Claude or Open AI.

Nvidia though is a company that I would probably short--they bet the farm on AI production leaving AMD in the dust but AMD and Intel might get the last laugh there. Intel pulled out of serious AI after its AI oriented CPUs failed badly.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 11:56 AM (E4rtv)

179 The wit and wisdom of Hasan Piker.

Remember when Hasan Piker said this?

“I wipe my ass with the Constitution, it’s a f*cking piece of paper, motherf*ck the Constitution and motherf*ck this country”

Imagine saying this and still being treated like a serious political voice

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 12, 2026 11:56 AM (ndZc7)

180 Bubbles won't burst, if you have a dependable Bubble Machine.
Posted by: Lawrence Welk Groupie"

That's nothing.

/Whipped Cream and Other Delights

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 11:56 AM (cGjQu)

181 I am working on my own project and do pay for ChatGPT, Perplexity and Grok. Free Gemini has done TONS of stuff for me.

They're good and useful. And I'm doing something I'd never be able to do on my own. But wow, they aren't the miracle I was led to believe.

I learned a lot though.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 12, 2026 11:56 AM (Sco7b)

182 Andrew Weissmann, was the lead prosecutor in the ENRON case.
That tells more about the prosecution than the so called crime.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 11:57 AM (VQ0bX)

183 > applies to all current and future members of several 2A groups

GOA is one.

As I understand it, you don't even have to be a pre-existing member.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 12, 2026 11:57 AM (IG3/x)

184
Leftist in Austin hate data centers because of the "environmental impact" and effects on quality of life. But mainly it's about water usage and then energy usage. It's a huge issue here. Plus Elon Musk is big, big double bad. In fact he's the devil incarnate!!!😈 ///
Posted by: lin-duh at August 12, 2026 11:47 AM (EneHm)


In Austin, "quality of life" are magic anger words for the leftard, when they really have nothing rational to complain about.

It's been the same for decades.

Saad.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 12, 2026 11:57 AM (iJfKG)

185 I know my limitations when it comes to conversations of this type, but I'm not sure how GAAP squares with the assertion that Meta (in the Beignet example) would be legally required to cough-up any shortage in a liquidation scenario? IF that's the case, how can that NOT be a "liability" in balance sheet terms?
Posted by: Crusader

I think we are all guessing because it depends on contract language between partners and exactly how those would be interpreted should the shakeout occur. The financial crisis ended up with the big banks skating on much of their implied liability and getting bailed out for the rest in 2008-9. I can see the big companies with the clout doing the same here--like Meta. Investors are the disposable ones here, not the companies.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 11:58 AM (E4rtv)

186 Enron?

*shifty eyes*

"On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution."

Posted by: Paul Krugman at August 12, 2026 11:58 AM (PiwSw)

187 Death of home PC market means less horsepower for the plebes to open source AI and compete with the big boys.

FNAB

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 11:59 AM (asFP3)

188 TBH pretty sure I did not understand the essay.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2026 11:59 AM (JvZF+)

189
I know my limitations when it comes to conversations of this type, but I'm not sure how GAAP squares with the assertion that Meta (in the Beignet example) would be legally required to cough-up any shortage in a liquidation scenario? IF that's the case, how can that NOT be a "liability" in balance sheet terms?

Posted by: Crusader, Former Federal Bank Examiner at August 12, 2026 11:55 AM (TN0g+)

It's a contingent liability on something that may not occur.

Financial derivatives used for hedging for instance do not show up in liabilities. The actual required payout on them is unknown until events play out.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at August 12, 2026 11:59 AM (okun6)

190 Not Nancy's fault!

Nancy Pelosi claims she didn't know Biden was mentally declining:

“I saw him maybe 3 times that whole year…so I didn't know. But I do think those who did know should have acted upon that information…whoever knew.”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 12, 2026 11:59 AM (ndZc7)

191 A golf course uses about four times the water as a data center (more than that, if the data center is recirculating the same water), and takes up approximately the same amount of land.

But for some reason we don't see massive anti-golf course protests.

Strange, innit?


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 12, 2026 11:55 AM


Biggest wastes of space. Those and cemeteries!

Posted by: Al Czervik at August 12, 2026 11:59 AM (bFu5X)

192 In Austin, "quality of life" are magic anger words for the leftard, when they really have nothing rational to complain about."

People in Allendale still have those stupid signs up...

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 12:00 PM (cGjQu)

193 In Austin, "quality of life" are magic anger words for the leftard, when they really have nothing rational to complain about.

It's been the same for decades.

Saad.
Posted by: naturalfake

Yes, a datacenter is notably inferior at quality of life than having drug addled hoboes in public places, thieves requiring all products to be locked up at stores, teen takeovers, and random minorities attacking white people with lethal menace in the streets. Oh, and food trucks.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 12:00 PM (E4rtv)

194 >>You still get these awful "trails" on OLED.

Nothing that a set of Monster HDMI cables can't fix. They are totally worth the extra cost above inferior HDMI cables, which are all of them not made by Monster.

Posted by: Best Buy salesperson at August 12, 2026 12:01 PM (J4Dwc)

195 I often wonder if AI is going to do to us what it did to the Krell.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 12, 2026 12:01 PM (CHHv1)

196 The actual required payout on them is unknown until events play out."

So, gambling.

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 12:01 PM (cGjQu)

197 169 Fascinating discussion, Joe.

I have no idea no the hyperscalers will eventually get paid. I use ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, Codex etc for free…. My employer is really pushing AI and have their own internal version of ChatGPT (which is actually surprisingly useful)…. I get month end reports on my token usage but I pay ZERO. Who’s actually paying for these things right now? I can’t imagine a world where Joe and Jane consumer pony up a monthly fee to use…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Imagine the day of workshare where Joe and Jane rent out their consciousness -- Movie: Johnny Mnemonic , Electric State

Guess who's vacuuming up all the ideas and goals you input into this system? -- cthKARP
Guess who's survielance systems will "keep you safe" -- cthANDURIL
Guess who's really paying the bill -- cTHEIL, but the real ones we never see, inventing the world where all service them without ever knowing they live in their prison.

That's who's paying the bill.

LET's GO BRANDON!
Take a Chance; Free the World!
Indict Brennan, freeCUBA, finish the LIBs.
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-signedSCHWARTZWALD

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 12, 2026 12:01 PM (IvAzk)

198 Yes, a datacenter is notably inferior at quality of life than having drug addled hoboes in public places, thieves requiring all products to be locked up at stores, teen takeovers, and random minorities attacking white people with lethal menace in the streets. Oh, and food trucks.
Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 12:00 PM (E4rtv)


Well, seriously, who is saying we can't have both?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2026 12:02 PM (rbvCR)

199 >>>Arthur Andersen went under with Enron because ...
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The government wanted scalps.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 12:02 PM (VQ0bX)

200 Noon news

CBC - endless Canadian Wildfires
CNN - Crowley
MS Now - Pirro convenes special grand jury. Reflecting pool I guess

FoxNews - Outnumbered - crazy socialists

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 12, 2026 12:02 PM (Sco7b)

201
This data centers' excess capacity should lower the cost for cloud storage and personal domains.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 12, 2026 11:45 AM (sIhl1)



Should.

But it won't. At least, not for unregulated cloud storage. At some point, the datacenters are going to start screening all of our data and deleting anything that the commies don't like, but the first step will be in charging premiums for unscreened cloud storage. And your unscreened storage will be on the shittiest hard drives that risk data loss, not to mention the access times will suffer.

Eventually, the unscreened storage will go away and your "private" data will be screened and cleaned up as they "improve performance".

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 12, 2026 12:03 PM (iqcvy)

202 Oh, and food trucks."

And voodoo donuts. And expensive IPAs

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 12:03 PM (cGjQu)

203 Excellent article, Mannix.

Have free cash to pick up once in a generation bargains after the bubble bursts.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 12, 2026 12:04 PM (dK+Kv)

204 Schism in the administration.

LMAO! Marco Rubio just dropped this hilarious response to Sec. RFK Jr.'s diet

Q: Have you adopted RFK's diet of red meat and fermented vegetables?

RUBIO: "No! This is a CRAZY diet. This is a diet that consists of eating sauerkraut and meat. Now you understand like this is not a sustainable thing. He has to travel with coolers of sauerkraut!"

"I'm not going to travel the world with a cooler full of sauerkraut. It's ridiculous. I can't do it!"

Q: Are you MAHA?

RUBIO: "I'm in favor of MAHA. Like I think people should be healthy."

JEANETTE: No, he's not.

Q: What's he eat?

JEANETTE: Pop-Tarts!

RUBIO: The Pop-Tart is one of the great American innovations in the history of the world.

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He's got my vote!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 12, 2026 12:04 PM (ndZc7)

205 Hong's supporters have decided that "Election Fraud" is responsible for her loss.

This is going to be epic.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 12:04 PM (AdHga)

206 Nancy Pelosi claims she didn't know Biden was mentally declining:

“I saw him maybe 3 times that whole year…so I didn't know. But I do think those who did know should have acted upon that information…whoever knew.”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 12, 2026 11:59 AM (ndZc7)



Lying c*nt whore.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 12:04 PM (2YhKe)

207 Have free cash to pick up once in a generation bargains after the bubble bursts."

What's "cash"?

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 12:05 PM (cGjQu)

208 >Imagine saying this and still being treated like a serious political voice

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 12, 2026 11:56 AM (ndZc7)

But he's so dreamy!

~Rolling Stone

Posted by: Heavy Meta at August 12, 2026 12:05 PM (GTqXr)

209 Hong's supporters have decided that "Election Fraud" is responsible for her loss.

This is going to be epic.
-----

Popcorn!

Posted by: Crusader at August 12, 2026 12:05 PM (TN0g+)

210 >>>Arthur Andersen went under with Enron because ...
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What. Me worry?

Posted by: Paul Krugman at August 12, 2026 12:06 PM (2YhKe)

211 187 Death of home PC market means less horsepower for the plebes to open source AI and compete with the big boys.

FNAB
Posted by: ...
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Eh, run OpenSeek on an old computer and you will get somewhere around 80-90 percent of the performance of frontier models. It is the frontier models that demand those new datacenters as the existing models are superceded by the newest ones. They repeatedly use the training data from the older model to train the new one plus any other data they can scrounge (now getting into old product manuals, old reference books, etc. territory).

Think Johnny Five in Short Circuit with the need for more 'input'.

Kind of like how the TV market settled out--you could pay through the nose for the bleeding edge with all its problems or wait about 2-3 years for those bleeding edge models to be faster, cheaper, etc. on sale at Walmart. Same for the PC market--you pay for bleeding edge. Noticed something with the auto market in a report, customers are now turning away from premium cars as the amenities in the new standard models have made things like heated seats, data displays, safety additives into things rolled into std. models. Not premium anymore

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 12:06 PM (E4rtv)

212 A golf course uses about four times the water as a data center (more than that, if the data center is recirculating the same water), and takes up approximately the same amount of land.

But for some reason we don't see massive anti-golf course protests.

Strange, innit?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 12, 2026 11:55 AM

I believe golf is losing popularity. First off, Tiger Woods is no longer active…. He was a HUGE draw to the sport in his heyday. I used to play golf nearly every weekend but in the last 10 years I’ve barely played…. I’ve noticed several courses I used to frequent are now gone… replaced by avacado groves or other farmland or in at least one case it’s now a place where you can pay to go hunting (in Michigan). Then the dust up between PGA and LIV alienated casual viewers. The whole thing is boring now

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 12, 2026 12:06 PM (zEBE+)

213 But he's so dreamy!"

Smoldering intensity and swarthy looks.
White chick bait.

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 12:07 PM (cGjQu)

214

New Orleans began using AI this spring for non-emergency calls coming to its 311 line and is now rolling it out to an agency that takes about 1,000 calls per day.

Carbyne’s AI Emergency Call Triage, for example, sends what it thinks are multiple calls for one incident to an AI bot. They get an AI response if they are calling about a previously reported incident, but are transferred to a human if they are not.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2026 12:07 PM (Cqx++)

215 He's got my vote!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 12, 2026 12:04 PM (ndZc7)


JD Vance is losing weight. I think Usha is showing him "Fat JD" memes and giving him significant looks.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2026 12:08 PM (rbvCR)

216 Q: What's he eat?

JEANETTE: Pop-Tarts!

RUBIO: The Pop-Tart is one of the great American innovations in the history of the world.


A rare misstep from Rubio. Pop-Tarts are vile.

Posted by: far cry at August 12, 2026 12:08 PM (LSV6F)

217
I believe golf is losing popularity. First off, Tiger Woods is no longer active…. He was a HUGE draw to the sport in his heyday. I used to play golf nearly every weekend but in the last 10 years I’ve barely played…. I’ve noticed several courses I used to frequent are now gone… replaced by avacado groves or other farmland or in at least one case it’s now a place where you can pay to go hunting (in Michigan). Then the dust up between PGA and LIV alienated casual viewers. The whole thing is boring now
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 12, 2026 12:06 PM (zEBE+)



The Myrtle Beach area has closed over 100 courses in the last several years.

Most are being turned into housing projects.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 12:08 PM (2YhKe)

218 The pop-up ads seem to have lessened today?

Posted by: Crusader at August 12, 2026 12:08 PM (TN0g+)

219 New Orleans began using AI this spring for non-emergency calls"

That's rayciss!

/demographic of city employees

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 12:09 PM (cGjQu)

220 AOC takes the next step.

AOC Has Her Boyfriend Frozen In Case She Wants Him In The Future

-
From the Bee.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 12, 2026 12:10 PM (ndZc7)

221 Musk will put DCs in space with unlimited solar and no water//cooling issues.

Smart. Thats why he is a trillionaire.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 12, 2026 12:10 PM (bX16E)

222 218 The pop-up ads seem to have lessened today?
Posted by: Crusader at August 12, 2026 12:08 PM (TN0g

They sure haven't. Every refresh.

Posted by: POP UPS SUCK at August 12, 2026 12:10 PM (XQ1sx)

223 I'm still AI skeptical...which is ironic as I just got in charge of using Claude for Test Automation at work.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 12:10 PM (xcxpd)

224 I believe golf is losing popularity"

Everything has peaks and valleys.

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 12:11 PM (cGjQu)

225 Datacenters still have humans. Humans are still stupid. I received this message from the DC I support yesterday:

We recently determined that an unauthorized actor obtained an employee’s credentials through social engineering and used those credentials to access certain business systems available to the employee’s account, including our CRM platform. We immediately secured the account, revoked active sessions, and initiated an investigation.


"Did you fire the dumbass that gave their login info out?!?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 12:11 PM (2YhKe)

226 I think a lot of these AI companies believe the government will bail them out.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 12:11 PM (xcxpd)

227 196 The actual required payout on them is unknown until events play out."

So, gambling.
Posted by: man
=======
Our vaunted financial markets and insurance are all examples of betting on outcomes. No different than a casino except it is easier to rig a lot of outcomes for financial markets and insurance. Black Jack has specific odds as does Roulette, etc. so you can calculate those to a decimal point.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 12:11 PM (E4rtv)

228 196 "The actual required payout on them is unknown until events play out."

So, gambling.

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 12:01 PM (cGjQu)

They're structured like a gamble rather than a debt so they don't go on the balance sheet. Similarly a lawsuit doesn't show up unless the expectation is you'll lose and the amount is reasonably estimable.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at August 12, 2026 12:12 PM (okun6)

229 And that scale is another part of the reason. Nobody can afford this.
===================
True.

This reminds me of railroad expansion 150 years ago.

Next year, hyperscalers are estimated to spend an estimated $1.5 trillion in new capital spending, or at least that's an estimate I saw tossed out yesterday. Debt issuance is so huge it starting to crowd out the other big borrower, America, and preventing interest rates from dropping lower. That means debt issuance is so high, it is causing the United States government budget strain. It's incredible.

A friend of mine sold all his stocks and bought physical gold and silver, he's so shocked by the debt levels. Is that the right path? Or will the stock market and general robustness of the economy bail us all out? Who the hell can say.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 12, 2026 12:12 PM (OOFuB)

230 The Myrtle Beach area has closed over 100 courses in the last several years.

Most are being turned into housing projects.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 12:08 PM (2YhKe
They will revert to truck farming in the caliphate.

Posted by: Eromero at August 12, 2026 12:12 PM (qsfar)

231 and no water//cooling issues."

So how does cooling work in a near vacuum?

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 12:12 PM (cGjQu)

232 Musk will put DCs in space with unlimited solar and no water//cooling issues.

Smart. Thats why he is a trillionaire.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 12, 2026 12:10 PM (bX16E)



Maintenance and upkeep becomes MEGA f*cking expensive.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 12:12 PM (2YhKe)

233 Over at GP there is a hysterical vid from the Babylon Bee about the state of New Mexico.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 12:13 PM (WOnE5)

234 195 I often wonder if AI is going to do to us what it did to the Krell.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm
---

It was all good until...

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 12:13 PM (VQ0bX)

235 231 and no water//cooling issues."

So how does cooling work in a near vacuum?
Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 12:12 PM (cGjQu)

I was thinking that too....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 12:13 PM (xcxpd)

236 226 I think a lot of these AI companies believe the government will bail them out.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Possibly. I can see Trump though demanding a stake if it happens in his term like Intel. Not giving them fed money for nothing like Dems or normal GOPe would.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 12:14 PM (E4rtv)

237 Lakers just sold for $12.5 billion after being bought last year for $10 billion.

Posted by: mr tmz at August 12, 2026 12:14 PM (rJ48h)

238 Massachusetts takes the next step.

Massachusetts Legalizes Abortion Up Until Kindergarten

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From the Bee.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 12, 2026 12:14 PM (ndZc7)

239 The Myrtle Beach area has closed over 100 courses in the last several years.

Most are being turned into housing projects.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 12:08 PM (2YhKe)

That's sad, but not surprising. I was looking at the MB area myself recently.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 12:15 PM (xcxpd)

240 235 231 and no water//cooling issues."

So how does cooling work in a near vacuum?
Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 12:12 PM (cGjQu)

I was thinking that too....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 12:13 PM (xcxpd)

The hope seems to be to recycle the energy but that's pretty speculative.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at August 12, 2026 12:15 PM (okun6)

241 This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Solyndra at August 12, 2026 12:15 PM (e2lsi)

242 236 226 I think a lot of these AI companies believe the government will bail them out.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Possibly. I can see Trump though demanding a stake if it happens in his term like Intel. Not giving them fed money for nothing like Dems or normal GOPe would.
Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 12:14 PM (E4rtv)

I guess that is a least-bad scenario. I don't like bailouts as a general rule. Abominable Intelligences are being misused badly as it is.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 12:16 PM (xcxpd)

243 Sponge, his satelites are disposable. The burn up in thee atmosphere in five years, and he still makes money on them.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 12, 2026 12:16 PM (bX16E)

244 So how does cooling work in a near vacuum?

Radiative.

Posted by: t-bird at August 12, 2026 12:16 PM (5FKHw)

245 244 So how does cooling work in a near vacuum?

Sucky.

Posted by: Couldn't resist at August 12, 2026 12:18 PM (2Ez/1)

246 Maintenance and upkeep becomes MEGA f*cking expensive"

Hal, give me the the duct tape...

Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 12:18 PM (cGjQu)

247 So how does cooling work in a near vacuum?
Posted by: man

Publius or Gref among the nightowls could explain it. Also Pawn. Latter two are real rocket scientists and Publius is of all things physics, a genius.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 12:18 PM (E4rtv)

248 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 12, 2026 12:19 PM (NcvvS)

249 A golf course uses about four times the water as a data center (more than that, if the data center is recirculating the same water), and takes up approximately the same amount of land.

But for some reason we don't see massive anti-golf course protests.

Strange, innit?


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 12, 2026 11:55 AM (IG3/x)
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It's the collision between their need for electricity and the green ideal of closing all carbon based energy production. Turbines are noisy and use NatGas. Bad, by definiton.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 12, 2026 12:19 PM (ET1ES)

250 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 12:19 PM (2YhKe)

251
That's sad, but not surprising. I was looking at the MB area myself recently.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 12:15 PM (xcxpd)



Been on golf trips the last few years there. It's not a bad area, TBH.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 12:20 PM (2YhKe)

252 >>>The Myrtle Beach area has closed over 100 courses in the last several years.

Most are being turned into housing projects.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
---

Obama and Biden had a devastating effect on middle-class with disposable income.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2026 12:21 PM (VQ0bX)

253 So how does cooling work in a near vacuum?

Radiative.
Posted by: t-bird at August 12, 2026 12:16 PM (5FKHw)

Indeed. Point a hot surface towards deep space (away from the sun) and heat will flow away from it. This is the process that makes ice form on puddles under a clear night sky, even though the air temperature does not drop below freezing.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 12, 2026 12:21 PM (InJki)

254 I guess that is a least-bad scenario. I don't like bailouts as a general rule. Abominable Intelligences are being misused badly as it is.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

It is a tool that can work, but most politicians see dollar signs for themselves if they just shovel the money to the bailout. But markets panic and you get irrational get rid of it responses during a panic.

Intel was getting beaten down for example for not making ENOUGH of a profit and predictions that it would fail by short sellers rather than the facts in the matter.

And I think naked short types should be drawn and quartered while being burned at the stake. They are parasites. Want to short, get a stake or borrow it from someone to do so putting your own ass at risk. Naked shorts are simply trying to psychologically beat down the price so you can score cheap profits with little outlay and risk.

Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 12:23 PM (E4rtv)

255 So how does cooling work in a near vacuum?
Posted by: man at August 12, 2026 12:12 PM (cGjQu)
===================
Is it cooling we are talking about or heat radiation? Obviously in space, radiating heat is no problem. As far as cooling goes, if the satellite is not directly facing the sun it is sitting a few hundred degrees below zero, but much warmer if facing the sun. Right? So cooling might just be a matter of shielding satellites on the day side of orbit, and warming them on the night side. Would that be right?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 12, 2026 12:24 PM (FPQLW)

256 "When AGI arrived, it came with a pair of fake tits"
@charliebcurran

https://tinyurl.com/2uyka4w7
Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2026 11:33 AM (rbvCR)


Snake Plissken? I heard you was dead!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 12, 2026 12:27 PM (/HDaX)

257 Maintenance and upkeep becomes MEGA f*cking expensive.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 12:12 PM (2YhKe)
================
Sponge I think it's just the opposite, zero cost maintenance. The satellites work until their orbit degrades and they burn up in the atmosphere. New satellites replace them, usually more capable ones. Rinse and repeat.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 12, 2026 12:28 PM (FPQLW)

258 When AGI arrived, it came with a pair of fake tits"
@charliebcurran

https://tinyurl.com/2uyka4w7
Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2026 11:33 AM (rbvCR)

I would wish for more realism but I appreciate the effort
Would

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2026 12:40 PM (xcxpd)

259 Why won't hyperscalers see diminshing returns in the value of what they're delivering.

Why won't the winners be those that figure out how to use AI as a tool. Why won't they be able to do this with "pretty good AI" without needing to be on the bleeding edge?

What about military applications?

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 12, 2026 01:03 PM (dtajH)

260 Publius or Gref among the nightowls could explain it. Also Pawn. Latter two are real rocket scientists and Publius is of all things physics, a genius.
Posted by: whig at August 12, 2026 12:18 PM


I'm a rocket scientist, too, at least by training. You can use radiation for cooling, but you have to be careful to point your radiator away from bright objects. It can be done, but it's not a zero-cost thing.

According to the article in last month's Aerospace America, the biggest problem would be orbital deconfliction. I think the biggest problem is that there is no good reason to put data centers in orbit so you have to pay huge costs for no real gain in order to do it, but that's just me.

The huge costs I'm talking about are the launch costs. It takes so much energy to put anything into orbit that an orbital anything is going to be expensive. Yes, SpaceX has done amazing things to reduce the cost of lifting stuff into orbit, but they've basically just reduced it from ludicrous to immense. The hope is that SpaceX can further reduce it to merely extremely large.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at August 12, 2026 02:18 PM (Zst8M)

261 The government will ensure AI succeeds because it is needed for their omnipresent omniscient surveillance state.

Posted by: Butch at August 12, 2026 03:32 PM (98xTj)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

Hopper Bridle.jpg

Bridle Path
Edward Hopper

Well, this is different!

[Hat Tip: neverenoughcaffeine]

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM




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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 09:30 AM (2YhKe)

2 I hope that's not a Wyle E. Coyote tunnel.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 09:31 AM (2YhKe)

3 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 12, 2026 09:31 AM (NcvvS)

4 White horse founders on the jagged rocks.

Posted by: gp at August 12, 2026 09:31 AM (Jr5Lq)

5 Nooded.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 12, 2026 09:31 AM (NcvvS)



*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 09:32 AM (2YhKe)

6 Low bridge

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 12, 2026 09:32 AM (2Cry5)

7 The horses were angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at August 12, 2026 09:32 AM (2Ez/1)

8 I wouldn't have guessed Hopper...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 12, 2026 09:32 AM (FtULh)

9 "You dicks, wait for me!"

Posted by: Pestilence, on the fourth horse, off-stage left at August 12, 2026 09:32 AM (Ot/FD)

10 He thinks he's in for a 3some.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 09:32 AM (2YhKe)

11 Those horses know something is in that tunnel.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 12, 2026 09:32 AM (xHe0y)

12 Is the person on the left sans pants?

Posted by: ballistic at August 12, 2026 09:32 AM (oqH4h)

13 2 I hope that's not a Wyle E. Coyote tunnel.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 09:31 AM (2YhKe)

White horse knows

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 12, 2026 09:33 AM (Ot/FD)

14 No boobs, no dog.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 12, 2026 09:33 AM (gg4h4)

15 Definitely different. I'm surprised the bridle path goes into a dark tunnel like that, seems the kind of thing prone to head injuries and getting thrown by nervous horses.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 12, 2026 09:33 AM (aJQbY)

16 Hopper? I just met her!

Posted by: Rimshot at August 12, 2026 09:33 AM (2Ez/1)

17 Horses are dog adjacent so art.

Posted by: Tuna at August 12, 2026 09:33 AM (lJ0H4)

18 Tunnel entrance is too low! They’re gonna get lumps in their heads

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 12, 2026 09:34 AM (zEBE+)

19 I don't normally care much for Hopper, but I like this one.

The white horse looks like it doesn't want to go down into the dark scary tunnel.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 09:34 AM (FZ29D)

20 Bridal path? No, thanks. I just GOT OFF the bridal path.

Posted by: Sandy The Bartender at August 12, 2026 09:34 AM (2Ez/1)

21 They need a Low bridge ahead.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 12, 2026 09:34 AM (cpFbA)

22 I’ll admit that I wouldn’t have recognized this as a Hopper. I guess he was in a good mood that day. Must’ve gotten laid the night before.

Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 09:34 AM (77rzZ)

23 6 Low bridge

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 12, 2026 09:32 AM (2Cry5)

"Low bridge, everybody down,
Low bridge, we must be getting near a town.

You can always tell your neighbor; you can always tell your pal
If he's ever navigated on the Erie Canal."

would not hang this one

Posted by: Gref at August 12, 2026 09:34 AM (5rh/l)

24 Motion.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2026 09:35 AM (JvZF+)

25 Not what I was expecting from Hopper.
I like it!

Posted by: redridinghood at August 12, 2026 09:35 AM (NpAcC)

26 I think this is the first Hopper I've ever seen that shows movement.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 12, 2026 09:36 AM (qRla/)

27 The white horse is not too crazy about going into a dark tunnel.

Posted by: dantesed at August 12, 2026 09:36 AM (Oy/m2)

28 White Privilege personified. Persons of color relegated to being bootblacks and horse shit shovelers.

Posted by: It Never Ends at August 12, 2026 09:36 AM (JM9I6)

29 I have absolutely no idea about these sorts of things but it just feels like it's a social faux pas to gallop on a bridle path.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 12, 2026 09:36 AM (Ot/FD)

30 But I think I actually prefer lonely, moody Hopper.

Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 09:37 AM (77rzZ)

31 Nope!

~ the white horse

Posted by: one hour sober at August 12, 2026 09:37 AM (J4Dwc)

32 This one is fun.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at August 12, 2026 09:37 AM (sCWcD)

33 Looks nice, low bridge maybe

Mgid won't let me comment

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2026 09:37 AM (LTCST)

34 Motion.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Definitely different from the stillness of the other Hopper paintings I've seen.

Posted by: Tuna at August 12, 2026 09:37 AM (lJ0H4)

35
White horse knows
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 12, 2026 09:33 AM (Ot/FD)



You asked for it..........


https://youtu.be/mlYJf6CJXV8

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 09:37 AM (2YhKe)

36 I'd slow down if I be heading into that tunnel.

Posted by: huerfano at August 12, 2026 09:38 AM (VJX5o)

37 Down, down to Goblin Town
They go, my lad! Ho ho, my lad

Posted by: 88C+u at August 12, 2026 09:38 AM (88C+u)

38 I'd slow down if I be heading into that tunnel.

Posted by: huerfano at August 12, 2026 09:38 AM (VJX5o)



Depends on who's chasing you. And what they're using to stop you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 09:39 AM (2YhKe)

39 Posted by: Pestilence, on the fourth horse,

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

Pestilence Rides A Pale Horse - a limerick

An old country vet named Doc Phipps
Found a cure for a rare equine grippe
He heals sores of the mouth
Now he’s known through the South
The pox-man of the poor horse’s lips

Posted by: muldoon at August 12, 2026 09:39 AM (I0N4X)

40 18 Tunnel entrance is too low! They’re gonna get lumps in their heads
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 12, 2026 09:34 AM
+++
During the educational Saturday mornings of my callow youth I learned from a certain Mr. Wile E. Coyote that the only thing necessary to create a tunnel entrance was a gallon of paint and a four inch brush.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 12, 2026 09:39 AM (2Ez/1)

41 Looks like fat boy laying back slaming on the brakes.
Poor suffering white horse.

Posted by: Kafiroon at August 12, 2026 09:40 AM (VyFya)

42 A palate cleanser from the gay beach and porn theater.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 09:40 AM (CjhZR)

43 Human and animal, everyone in the painting has been dead for many decades.

Posted by: Memento Mori at August 12, 2026 09:40 AM (JM9I6)

44 canter horse keep up?

Posted by: cmeat at August 12, 2026 09:41 AM (Bep7s)

45 Maybe they all have to hit the toilet. Hence the rush.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 12, 2026 09:42 AM (g8Ew8)

46 If I was rich I would love to own a Hopper...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 12, 2026 09:42 AM (u1xao)

47 46 If I was rich I would love to own a Hopper...

Pogo sticks really aren't that expensive.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 09:43 AM (Riz8t)

48 canter horse keep up?
Posted by: cmeat

Already time to rein in the horse puns.

Posted by: Tuna at August 12, 2026 09:43 AM (lJ0H4)

49 Who's going to be first to stirrup the horse puns?

Posted by: one hour sober at August 12, 2026 09:43 AM (J4Dwc)

50 "i'm a grumpy old troll..."

Posted by: cmeat at August 12, 2026 09:43 AM (Bep7s)

51 This is OK, but can't we go back to Fire Island?

Posted by: The Grand Poof at August 12, 2026 09:43 AM (JM9I6)

52 Dammit, Tuna!

Posted by: one hour sober at August 12, 2026 09:43 AM (J4Dwc)

53 "Low bridge, everybody down,
Low bridge, we must be getting near a town.

You can always tell your neighbor; you can always tell your pal
If he's ever navigated on the Erie Canal."

would not hang this one
Posted by: Gref at August 12, 2026 09:34 AM
++++

https://youtu.be/UzEqNePIrZI

Posted by: The Kingston Trio at August 12, 2026 09:44 AM (2Ez/1)

54 Hopper meets Remington

***winnies***

Posted by: browndog hates traitors at August 12, 2026 09:44 AM (kqcJd)

55 White Privilege personified. Persons of color relegated to being bootblacks and horse shit shovelers.

Jason Arday is lurking in the tunnel.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 09:44 AM (Riz8t)

56 I’m still missing the nude prossie from a week or two ago….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 12, 2026 09:44 AM (zEBE+)

57 12 Is the person on the left sans pants?
Posted by: ballistic at August 12, 2026 09:32 AM (oqH4h)

Soon.
--The guy on the right.

Posted by: No Name Today at August 12, 2026 09:44 AM (8mulE)

58 Already time to rein in the horse puns.
Posted by: Tuna

Who's going to be first to stirrup the horse puns?
Posted by: one hour sober

Seems they've already be spurred on.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at August 12, 2026 09:44 AM (sCWcD)

59 The topic is unexpected but the style is recognizable. The houses in the background, the tunnel and stonework has his signature use of color and brush work. The people have that soft look he is known for: enough detail to be recognizable but still soft and generic. It's the horses that break with expectations. An aspect of life in NYC that no longer exists but did in the 1930s. As soon as I saw Hopper's name I realized it was Central Park. Wouldn't want to go through that tunnel on foot or horseback today.

Hopper, with his style and subjects, is one of the few artists that made NYC palatable. That aspect is long gone.

Posted by: JTB at August 12, 2026 09:45 AM (yTvNw)

60 This painting is about me.

Posted by: Jake Tapper at August 12, 2026 09:45 AM (47/pr)

61 This painting is about me.
Posted by: Jake Tapper at August 12, 2026 09:45 AM (47/pr)



You let Fauci bang your wife, didn't you, you cuck.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 09:46 AM (2YhKe)

62 >>Is the person on the left sans pants?

un-dressage

Posted by: one hour sober at August 12, 2026 09:46 AM (J4Dwc)

63 49 Who's going to be first to stirrup the horse puns?
Posted by: one hour sober at August 12, 2026 09:43 AM

I'll give you the answer that you'll endorse.

Posted by: Mr. Ed at August 12, 2026 09:46 AM (2Ez/1)

64 During the educational Saturday mornings of my callow youth I learned from a certain Mr. Wile E. Coyote that the only thing necessary to create a tunnel entrance was a gallon of paint and a four inch brush.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 12, 2026 09:39 AM (2Ez/1)
----
There was a meme over at Powerline this past weekend that showed someone who failed to learn that lesson the hard way.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 09:47 AM (FZ29D)

65 51 you can visit pen island

Posted by: cmeat at August 12, 2026 09:47 AM (Bep7s)

66 Is this the Black Hole that swallowed that plane?

Posted by: Don Lemon, Journalist, Intellectual, Dreamer at August 12, 2026 09:47 AM (PiwSw)

67
Horses, therefore acceptable art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2026 09:48 AM (8NbNL)

68 Can't see the racks.

Disappoint.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 09:49 AM (2YhKe)

69 Horses, therefore acceptable art.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

The Hadrian stamp of approval.

Posted by: Tuna at August 12, 2026 09:49 AM (lJ0H4)

70 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. No place to put golf clubs on a horse. Pass.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 12, 2026 09:50 AM (2WIwB)

71 68 Can't see the racks.

Disappoint.
Posted by: Sponge

You know about the cup sizes?

Posted by: Frank Costanza at August 12, 2026 09:50 AM (2Ez/1)

72 >>Is the person on the left sans pants?

un-dressage


Well done.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 09:51 AM (Riz8t)

73 Wile E. Coyote v. Acme comes out in August.

John Cena is in it.

Warner shelved it for some reason but sold it to another distributor.

Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4tjvbLn8Xs

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 12, 2026 09:51 AM (3cUTc)

74 i saw fordham gneiss, tuckahoe marble and schist open for the iguanas at cbgb's.

Posted by: cmeat at August 12, 2026 09:52 AM (Bep7s)

75 When you cross horse puns with donkey puns, you get something worthy of emuleation.

Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 09:52 AM (77rzZ)

76 Frau Blucher

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 09:52 AM (asFP3)

77 70 the mare has room for one putter.

Posted by: cmeat at August 12, 2026 09:52 AM (Bep7s)

78 If he's ever navigated on the Erie Canal."

Posted by: Gref
______

Thanks for the fourth grade music class earworm.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 12, 2026 09:53 AM (XvL8K)

79 Acceptable replacement.......


https://shorturl.fm/RNcaj

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 09:53 AM (2YhKe)

80 it makes it hard to driver.

Posted by: cmeat at August 12, 2026 09:53 AM (Bep7s)

81 Is this the Black Hole that swallowed that plane?

Posted by: Don Lemon, Journalist, Intellectual, Dreamer at August 12, 2026 09:47 AM (PiwSw)

Fancy that to swallow a plane!

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 09:54 AM (asFP3)

82
Where does the dark tunnel lead? Is there a depressing diner in there where the sun never shines?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 12, 2026 09:54 AM (VWtfl)

83 When you cross horse puns with donkey puns, you get something worthy of emuleation.

Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 09:52 AM (77rzZ)



This is about me, isn't it........

Posted by: Alexandria Ocrazyo Cotits at August 12, 2026 09:54 AM (2YhKe)

84 What knockers!!

Posted by: Gene Wilder at August 12, 2026 09:54 AM (2Ez/1)

85 3 ring-wraithes, once great kings of men cursed and seduced by the dark side of the force

Posted by: The Ballots at August 12, 2026 09:55 AM (LOZbR)

86 Don't saddle this thread with horse puns.

Posted by: dantesed at August 12, 2026 09:55 AM (Oy/m2)

87 Is this the Black Hole that swallowed that plane?

Posted by: Don Lemon, Journalist, Intellectual, Dreamer at August 12, 2026 09:47 AM (PiwSw)

Fancy that to swallow a plane!

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 09:54 AM (asFP3)

It's pronounced 'peen.' Duh.

- Booty Juice

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 09:55 AM (AdHga)

88 The name is Vod

Posted by: Vod Kaknockers at August 12, 2026 09:56 AM (LOZbR)

89 Princess Diana had a weird premonition as she rode into the tunnel....

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 12, 2026 09:57 AM (w9Wax)

90 I had a pony!

Posted by: Manya at August 12, 2026 09:57 AM (JM9I6)

91 Did someone say they need a hole?

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at August 12, 2026 09:57 AM (V1UCz)

92 86 Don't saddle this thread with horse puns.
Posted by: dantesed at August 12, 2026 09:55 AM

That's hay-larious.

Posted by: Oh, no... at August 12, 2026 09:57 AM (2Ez/1)

93 Wile E. Coyote v. Acme comes out in August.

John Cena is in it.

Warner shelved it for some reason but sold it to another distributor.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 12, 2026 09:51 AM (3cUTc)




John Cena apologized to China in perfect mandarin for calling Taiwan it's own country.

John Cena can GFH.

Out.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 09:58 AM (2YhKe)

94 One description claims this show the sentiments left over from the 19th century when NYC was changing rapidly. This was painted in 1939.
Surprisingly the NYC population in 1930 was just under 7.4 million and it's around 8.5 million today. I thought the 2026 number would be much higher. Does that increase of 1.1 million make that much difference in being able to live normally in NYC vs what's going on today with crime, high taxes and all of the other things that progressivism has wrought? I wonder what the demographics were in 1939. Off to do some research.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 12, 2026 09:58 AM (2NHgQ)

95 This is about me, isn't it........

Posted by: Alexandria Ocrazyo Cotits


Who is now back on the market. Now's your chance, fellas.

This was only days after she put her egg harvesting routine on the internet. IOW, I want kids, but not YOUR kids. That's gotta hurt.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 09:59 AM (Riz8t)

96 There are pop ups in that tunnel

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 12, 2026 09:59 AM (F4VYo)

97 ‘Whoa, I ain’t going in there!’
- something White Horse probably said

Posted by: Eromero at August 12, 2026 10:00 AM (0ViWo)

98 83 When you cross horse puns with donkey puns, you get something worthy of emuleation.

Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 09:52 AM


Maybe she’s barn with it… Maybe it’s neighbelline.

Posted by: Groan at August 12, 2026 10:00 AM (2Ez/1)

99 You gotta scrape a few eggs to make an omelet.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 12, 2026 10:00 AM (Ot/FD)

100 You gotta scrape a few eggs to make an omelet.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 12, 2026 10:00 AM (Ot/FD)



My body, my choice, bigot.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 10:00 AM (2YhKe)

101 So you dreamt you met your muzza een a tunnel. No I do not know vut dees means. Perhaps you veel travel zoon....

Posted by: Sigmund Freud at August 12, 2026 10:01 AM (asFP3)

102
The Equestrian Pessimist - a limerick

There once was a horseman from Maine
Who gave his brave horsey free rein
"That's a tunnel my friend,
but the light at the end
Is the light of an oncoming train!"

Posted by: muldoon at August 12, 2026 10:01 AM (I0N4X)

103 I saw AOC on some show recently. She was looking pretty good. Looked like she lost weight, GLP probably.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at August 12, 2026 10:01 AM (V1UCz)

104 Surprisingly the NYC population in 1930 was just under 7.4 million and it's around 8.5 million today.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffein
_________

The metro area population has more than doubled since 1930.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 12, 2026 10:02 AM (XvL8K)

105
There once was a horseman from Maine
Who gave his brave horsey free rein
"That's a tunnel my friend,
but the light at the end
Is the light of an oncoming train!"
Posted by: muldoon at August 12, 2026 10:01 AM (I0N4X)



And I will f*ck him in the ass.......no homo.

Posted by: Graham Platner at August 12, 2026 10:02 AM (2YhKe)

106 Maybe she’s barn with it… Maybe it’s neighbelline.
Posted by: Groan at August 12, 2026 10:00 AM (2Ez/1)
------------
Neighbelline! Why can't you be true!

Posted by: Churck Berry at August 12, 2026 10:02 AM (PiwSw)

107 Before Central Park was built, the most popular place to picnic in NYC was Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

Posted by: Grave Visitations at August 12, 2026 10:02 AM (JM9I6)

108 89 Princess Diana had a weird premonition as she rode into the tunnel....

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 12, 2026 09:57 AM (w9Wax)

Letting too many people into her tunnel is what caused her the problems in the first place.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 10:02 AM (AdHga)

109 You tube videos show rider after rider slamming their head into the top of the tunnel.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 12, 2026 10:02 AM (w9Wax)

110 Princess Diana had a weird premonition as she rode into the tunnel....

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 12, 2026 09:57 AM (w9Wax)



If you're gonna ride, don't ride the drunk horse.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 10:03 AM (2YhKe)

111 This is perfect. They're willing to try anything - except hard work.

“Many of the loser children of my wealthy friends who see no way to emulate the success of their parents, have gravitated toward Mamdani-ism and found community and a sense of purpose by rejecting capitalism as a way to cope with their own failure. Please note they have nor however rejected their trust funds or living subsidies while pursuing their ‘passions’ in NGOs, dabbling in the arts or trying to invest their parents money in ‘VC.’

https://tinyurl.com/3bfxxfeu

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 10:03 AM (Riz8t)

112 86 Don't saddle this thread with horse puns.
Posted by: dantesed at August 12, 2026 09:55 AM


Can I ask you equestrian?

Posted by: Neigh at August 12, 2026 10:03 AM (2Ez/1)

113 We git what we git when we don’t throw a fit.

Posted by: Eromero at August 12, 2026 10:04 AM (0ViWo)

114 109 You tube videos show rider after rider slamming their head into the top of the tunnel.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 12, 2026 10:02 AM

I had nothing to do with that.

Posted by: Artificial Intelligence at August 12, 2026 10:04 AM (2Ez/1)

115 Like this one , nice action and colors. Big Hopper fan.
Would hang , thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 10:04 AM (WOnE5)

116
Can I ask you equestrian?
Posted by: Neigh at August 12, 2026 10:03 AM (2Ez/1)



My nephew signed up for an equestrian class his Sr. year of high school.

"Equestrian?"

"Yeah! You know. Welding!"

"Uh......no.....that's horses......."

"Really? Crap! I better change that......."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 10:06 AM (2YhKe)

117 109 You tube videos show rider after rider slamming their head into the top of the tunnel.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 12, 2026 10:02 AM
----
Three riders go in...one one rider comes out.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 10:06 AM (FZ29D)

118 Oh good grief. I see it's going to be THAT kind of day. Why does CBD hate bridges? Why?

Posted by: Weasel at August 12, 2026 10:06 AM (TMF5Z)

119 Wile E. Coyote v. Acme comes out in August.

John Cena is in it.

Warner shelved it for some reason but sold it to another distributor.


The Road Runner isn't trans, so big Hollywood wasn't interested.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2026 10:07 AM (2ocoG)

120 I love this sexually.

Did you see what happened in MKE county? Our state can’t even have a clean election when Dems are involved!

So establishment Democrats blocked the crazy socialist in Wisconsin.

Wonder how that will go over with the younger college voters.



I read about it … magical votes showed up at the last minute to help Crowley.

Funny how that happens when the Democrat establishment wants it to.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 10:07 AM (Riz8t)

121 Thanks Biff. Not educated in the difference between metro and the balance of NYC. So metro includes the greater area of the tri-state, which includes NJ and CT. Odd way to look at NYC. Might I suggest that NJ and CT hand over their counties that are included in the metro area to NYC so that the balance of the two states could be somewhat normal.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 12, 2026 10:07 AM (2NHgQ)

122 My nephew signed up for an equestrian class his Sr. year of high school.

"Equestrian?"

"Yeah! You know. Welding!"

"Uh......no.....that's horses......."

"Really? Crap! I better change that......."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 10:06 AM (2YhKe)
----
Chicks dig horses....And those who ride them.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2026 10:07 AM (FZ29D)

123 Chicks dig horses....And those who ride them.

And centaurs. Or so I hear.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 10:08 AM (Riz8t)

124 Not your typical Hopper!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 12, 2026 10:09 AM (MzbjZ)

125 If you wanna ride,
Don't ride the white horse.
If you wanna ride,
Ride the white pony.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 12, 2026 10:09 AM (i+vnO)

126 I was late in JJ's thread, but I was at a social event this weekend with my wife and a few of her acquaintances. The person the set up the event was talking about how she got her JD with loans of about $60,000. (She's a bit older). She got out of school, went to work for nonprofits and held her loans in abeyance for a long time. Interest accrued to over $200,000. She was thanking Biden for forgiving the loans during Covid. I wanted to pull what little hair I have left out, and tell her you're welcome, on behalf of tax paying citizens. This was the authority that the SC said Biden didn't have. I'm still pissed about it. Nothing but contempt for people like that.

Posted by: AnchorPoint at August 12, 2026 10:09 AM (V9pbl)

127 123 Chicks dig horses....And those who ride them.

And centaurs. Or so I hear.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 10:08 AM (Riz8t)


And Bears.

Posted by: Karen McKarenface at August 12, 2026 10:10 AM (PiwSw)

128 127 123 Chicks dig horses....And those who ride them.

And centaurs. Or so I hear.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 10:08 AM (Riz8t)

And Bears.
Posted by: Karen McKarenface at August 12, 2026 10:10 AM (PiwSw)
——-

‘Meh’

— Minotaurs

Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 12, 2026 10:10 AM (i+vnO)

129 Just give the damn horse a name and be done with it.

Posted by: America at August 12, 2026 10:10 AM (2Ez/1)

130 So you dreamt you met your muzza een a tunnel. No I do not know vut dees means. Perhaps you veel travel zoon....
Posted by: Sigmund Freud


*******

Zat ees ein ridiculous akzent mein friend, und you are more Fraud than Freud. It iss simple. Effery sex psychiatrist knows ze meaning uff ein pulsating steed plunging into a tunnel...!

Posted by: Dr. Ruth Westheimer, diminutive sex therapist extraordinaire at August 12, 2026 10:11 AM (I0N4X)

131 125 If you wanna ride,
Don't ride the white horse.
If you wanna ride,
Ride the white pony.
Posted by: Elric the Blade

Got off the White Horse in '78, Mate! Stayed off and still standing!

Posted by: Keith Richards at August 12, 2026 10:12 AM (JM9I6)

132 Thanks Biff. Not educated in the difference between metro and the balance of NYC.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine
___________

It's that way with virtually all major US cities. The core city has been stagnant or even declining in population since the mid 20th century, and the suburbs have exploded.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 12, 2026 10:12 AM (XvL8K)

133 129 Just give the damn horse a name and be done with it.
Posted by: America at August 12, 2026 10:10 AM (2Ez/1)
-----------
In the desert, you can remember your name
Cos there ain't no one for to give you no pain.

Posted by: Dewey Bunnell, Lyricist par excellence at August 12, 2026 10:12 AM (PiwSw)

134 "...knows ze meaning uff ein pulsating steed plunging into a tunnel...!"
=====
Is this about me?

Posted by: Steely Dan at August 12, 2026 10:13 AM (2Ez/1)

135 17 Horses are dog adjacent so art.
Posted by: Tuna at August 12, 2026 09:33 AM (lJ0H4)


No poker, not art.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at August 12, 2026 10:13 AM (0bjKf)

136 Posted by: RandomDave

Whats the news? No news?

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 10:13 AM (asFP3)

137 126: what a grifting bitch.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 10:13 AM (CjhZR)

138 I read about it … magical votes showed up at the last minute to help Crowley.

Funny how that happens when the Democrat establishment wants it to.


Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 10:07 AM (Riz8t)

Hasan Piker said, of the results in Wisconsin, "the knives will be out."

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 12, 2026 10:14 AM (AdHga)

139 Hasan Piker said, of the results in Wisconsin, "the knives will be out."

Oh my. He certainly does talk butch a lot. You know, when he's not busy torturing his dog.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 10:16 AM (Riz8t)

140 Trivia: The Building in the background is The Dakota, on the northwest corner of Central Park West and 72nd St. That's the building John Lennon and Yoko Ono were returning home to when Lennon was gunned down some 46 years ago.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 12, 2026 10:17 AM (y1wyK)

141 “Into the Valley of Death rode the Six Hundred … ” - wait - where are the other 597? Bueller … ? Bueller … ?

Posted by: Dr_No at August 12, 2026 10:19 AM (ayRl+)

142 Keep in mind:

Everything the left says about white supremacy, white privilege and racism ...

... is actually 100% true and accurate about islam and arabs.
In every way, in every day, in every crime, abuse and evil.

Proving the left are not against all those--they are merely against not being the beneficiaries.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 12, 2026 10:19 AM (3cUTc)

143 It's that way with virtually all major US cities. The core city has been stagnant or even declining in population since the mid 20th century, and the suburbs have exploded.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
________

Detroit, for instance, has lost 2/3 of its population since 1950, but the metro area has grown by a third.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 12, 2026 10:20 AM (XvL8K)

144 The blonde in the back looks like she'd rather have a second rate horse between her legs than a first rate man.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 12, 2026 10:21 AM (2WIwB)

145 140 Trivia: The Building in the background is The Dakota, on the northwest corner of Central Park West and 72nd St. That's the building John Lennon and Yoko Ono were returning home to when Lennon was gunned down some 46 years ago.
Posted by: Biden's Dog

From Wiki:
"The Dakota's co-op board, which decides whether to allow prospective tenants, has a reputation for selectivity."


Like survivors from the Andrea Doria?

Posted by: Obscure Seinfeld reference at August 12, 2026 10:21 AM (2Ez/1)

146
The Punctual Rider - a limerick

A horse person out for a lark
Galloped blindly right into the dark
A bystander said,
"What's that scar on your head?"
"He replied, "An equestrian mark!"

Posted by: Dr. Ruth Westheimer, diminutive sex therapist extraordinaire at August 12, 2026 10:23 AM (I0N4X)

147 /sock fail

Posted by: muldoon at August 12, 2026 10:24 AM (I0N4X)

148 46 years later, and I still have no reason to care about John Lennon.

Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 10:24 AM (77rzZ)

149 The white horse suddenly noticed that the sign saying "Height: 11' 8"" has gone missing …

Posted by: Dr_No at August 12, 2026 10:25 AM (ayRl+)

150 The horses seem reluctant to enter the tunnel.

Posted by: Toad-0 at August 12, 2026 10:25 AM (Ly50L)

151 “Into the Valley of Death rode the Six Hundred … ” - wait - where are the other 597? Bueller … ? Bueller … ?
Posted by: Dr_No



Where the hell is everyone going? Get back here this instant!

Posted by: rickb223 at August 12, 2026 10:25 AM (xHe0y)

152 >>Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 09:32 AM (2YhKe)

*fistbump* Was still in the MR catching up on comments.

That's a low bridge to be riding under.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 12, 2026 10:27 AM (NcvvS)

153 @ 148 46 years later, and I still have no reason to care about John Lennon. Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 10:24 AM (77rzZ)
___________________________

Lennon's only worthwhile music was also legitimately inauthentic … remember 'Working Class Hero'? Lennon was not of the 'working class' except for its propaganda value to him.

Posted by: Dr_No at August 12, 2026 10:28 AM (ayRl+)

154 143 Muzzies are good at poppin’ out kids.

Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 10:29 AM (77rzZ)

155 Just how does something "go missing?"

Posted by: I gotta ask at August 12, 2026 10:29 AM (2Ez/1)

156 There's a low bridge in Louisville that the locals refer to as "The Can Opener."

There's plenty of signage about it; big yellow signs with the actual clearance on them, flashing lights, etc. It's a toss up whether the truck gets stuck under the overpass or just has the top of the trailer or box ripped off.

It's at least a monthly occurrence.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 12, 2026 10:29 AM (2Cry5)

157 Posted by: Graham Platner at August 12, 2026 10:02 AM (2YhKe)

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

That's pretty gross. What's the point?

Posted by: muldoon at August 12, 2026 10:29 AM (I0N4X)

158 Looks like more Depression era artwork. I see Hopper is a so-called realist, but those hats somehow stay on their heads?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 12, 2026 10:30 AM (cWLG3)

159 My nephew signed up for an equestrian class his Sr. year of high school.

"Equestrian?"

"Yeah! You know. Welding!"

"Uh......no.....that's horses......."

"Really? Crap! I better change that......."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 10:06 AM (2YhKe)

"Why'd they kick you out of class?"

"I asked them where i was supposed to put the ground clamp."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 12, 2026 10:32 AM (Ot/FD)

160 I wonder what the demographics were in 1939. Off to do some research.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 12, 2026 09:58 AM (2NHgQ)


Italian, Irish, Jewish, German, WASP.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2026 10:32 AM (l4RKn)

161 “Into the Valley of Death rode the Six Hundred … ” - wait - where are the other 597? Bueller … ? Bueller … ?
Posted by: Dr_No

Where the hell is everyone going? Get back here this instant!
Posted by: rickb22
__________

That kind of actually happened. Captain Nolan, who screwed up the original instructions on the point of attack, was killed before he could correct the mistake.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 12, 2026 10:32 AM (XvL8K)

162 155 Just how does something "go missing?"
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 12, 2026 10:29 AM (2Ez/1)

Well if it were here, it wouldn't be missing. So wherever it is that isn't here, it had to have gone there at some point!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 12, 2026 10:35 AM (Ot/FD)

163 Two men chasing a woman into darkness.

There's a lesson here, gentlemen.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 12, 2026 10:36 AM (g8Ew8)

164 They will get to the gate and have boiling oil poured on them. The end.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2026 10:36 AM (CjhZR)

165 Just how does something "go missing?"
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 12, 2026 10:29 AM (2Ez/1)



No idea.

Posted by: Congressional Budget Office at August 12, 2026 10:37 AM (2YhKe)

166 165 Just how does something "go missing?"
Posted by: I gotta ask

It happens.

Posted by: Judge Crater, Jimmy Hoffa at August 12, 2026 10:39 AM (JM9I6)

167 WOO-HOO! A tropical storm is forming east of Bermuda. Sure hope it doesn't become a major hurricane! (wink-wink)

Posted by: Dr. Rick Knapp, Weather Channel at August 12, 2026 10:39 AM (J4Dwc)

168 What was the motive of Lennon’s killer, anyway?

Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 10:39 AM (77rzZ)

169 No major hurricanes struck the US last year and this year is trending the same way.

Posted by: Weather Channel Hardest Hit at August 12, 2026 10:41 AM (JM9I6)

170 Into the pit of carkoon.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 12, 2026 10:41 AM (S41Gd)

171 What was the motive of Lennon’s killer, anyway?
Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 10:39 AM (77rzZ)

Imagine no more Lennon......

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 12, 2026 10:41 AM (g8Ew8)

172 @161, Biff, as I recall Nolan was killed by the first shell. The Reason Why is a great book about the Charge.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 10:41 AM (WOnE5)

173 2 broads and their Dad's gunsel when into the tunnel. 2 broads and no gunsel came out.

Posted by: The Gunsel In The Tunnel at August 12, 2026 10:42 AM (e2lsi)

174 Lennon's killer was pissed Lennon let loose Yoko's music on the world

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 10:42 AM (WOnE5)

175 No major hurricanes struck the US last year and this year is trending the same way.

It's obviously global warming.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 10:43 AM (Riz8t)

176 174 Lennon's killer was pissed Lennon let loose Yoko's music on the world
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 10:42 AM (WOnE5)

"and yoko ono is standing right there and not one fucking bullet...."

Posted by: Dennis Leary at August 12, 2026 10:43 AM (Ot/FD)

177 Yoko hasn't sold her apartment at the Dakota even though she is now living on her "farm" upstate.

Posted by: My Love Will Turn You On at August 12, 2026 10:44 AM (JM9I6)

178 Yoko lives nw of me in Delaware county NY
Enough mountains between us so I don't have to here her singing

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 10:45 AM (WOnE5)

179 BTW, anything north of the Bronx/Yonkers line is upstate.

Posted by: NYC Refugee Since 1988 at August 12, 2026 10:45 AM (JM9I6)

180 Hear not here . Jeez

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 10:46 AM (WOnE5)

181 Biff, as I recall Nolan was killed by the first shell. The Reason Why is a great book about the Charge.
Posted by: Smell the Glove
_________

Does it say anything about Nolan trying to waive Lucan off before he was killed? I know I've read that, but it could have been from Flashman.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 12, 2026 10:46 AM (XvL8K)

182 Lennon's killer was pissed Lennon let loose Yoko's music on the world

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 10:42 AM (WOnE5)


An avenging angel with shitty aim. He could have gotten a 2-fer.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 12, 2026 10:46 AM (S41Gd)

183 So who was funding the immigration pilgrimage for all those fine upstanding strapping young Moroccan Mohammeddan Boy Scouts?

Posted by: Attention span of a gnat at August 12, 2026 10:47 AM (2Ez/1)

184 163 Two men chasing a woman into darkness.

There's a lesson here, gentlemen.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 12, 2026 10:36 AM (g8Ew

--
Yeah, it's hard to chase someone while they are behind you.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 12, 2026 10:47 AM (cWLG3)

185 What was the motive of Lennon’s killer, anyway?

Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 10:39 AM (77rzZ)

Probably a dumb commie like 96% of all assassins.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 10:47 AM (asFP3)

186 180 Hear not here . Jeez
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2026 10:46 AM (WOnE5)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HER CATERWAULING IS SO PIGFUCKINGLY AWFUL IT DISTORTS THE VERY LAWS OF GRAMMAR LIKE A MAGNET SLAPPED ON A CATHODE RAY TUBE MONITOR BY SOME UNRULY MALEVOLENT CHILD

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISSBERGER at August 12, 2026 10:48 AM (Ot/FD)

187 Hitting a hundred horse puns should be a cinch.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 12, 2026 10:48 AM (tvdD1)

188 ..., if you're still here -

The news is no news yet. Hopefully I'll hear "your start date is..." this week. Keep prayin!

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 12, 2026 10:49 AM (aJQbY)

189 The news is no news yet. Hopefully I'll hear "your start date is..." this week. Keep prayin!

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 12, 2026 10:49 AM (aJQbY)

Will do RD. 🤞🏻

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2026 10:50 AM (asFP3)

190 Chairman LMAO, "he chased her, and chased her, and chased her, until she caught him"

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 12, 2026 10:51 AM (aJQbY)

191 Ya know, Freud's practical ideas about psychology were all binned a long time ago, because it's nonsense.

But I've always found him to be a particularly unlikable intellectual douchebag, and I never could figure out quite why.

Until one minute ago, when it hit me: that guy was just a retread. His whole thing was nicely dressed in 20th century pseudoscientific folderol, but it was the same old Epicurean nonsense from the ancient Mediterranean, brought back to life for a modern audience of spiritually barren hedonists in central Europe.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 12, 2026 10:51 AM (BI5O2)

192 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 12, 2026 10:51 AM (BI5O2)

The ex of a buddy of mine wrote her master's thesis on the theory that Epicurus was history's first Hipster.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 12, 2026 10:53 AM (Ot/FD)

193 So THAT'S where the bastard came from.

Posted by: Ichabod Crane at August 12, 2026 10:54 AM (YJPBh)

194 191 Also, his painting nekkid lardasses on ottomans.

Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 10:55 AM (77rzZ)

195 That's Jane Chisholm on the chestnut horse for all you "Diner" fans.

Posted by: Rex B at August 12, 2026 10:55 AM (R0XxO)

196 175 No major hurricanes struck the US last year and this year is trending the same way.

It's obviously global warming.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2026 10:43 AM (Riz8t)


Haven't you heard ? It's the hottest summer in history ! Except for 2021 and 1936....

Posted by: It's me donna at August 12, 2026 10:57 AM (4WM7K)

197 > You let Fauci bang your wife, didn't you, you cuck.
My wife? Ha!

Posted by: Drippin' Jake Tapper at August 12, 2026 10:57 AM (YJPBh)

198

Haven't you heard ? It's the hottest summer in history ! Except for 2021 and 1936....
Posted by: It's me donna at August 12, 2026 10:57 AM (4WM7K)



It's been several years since NTX had this many consecutive days over 100 degrees.

We're all gonna die.......

Posted by: Congressional Budget Office at August 12, 2026 10:58 AM (2YhKe)

199 And shyte.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 10:58 AM (2YhKe)

200 The ex of a buddy of mine wrote her master's thesis on the theory that Epicurus was history's first Hipster.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 12, 2026 10:53 AM (Ot/FD

Tough, but fair.

I would say "but he wasn't a copycat; his dumb thing was his own," but there had to be a First Hipster, too.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 12, 2026 10:58 AM (BI5O2)

201 Alternate title:

"Though Hoping For the Billy Goats Gruff, The Bridge Troll Was Perfectly Happy to Eat the Family Huffington and Their Horses"

Posted by: naturalfake at August 12, 2026 11:00 AM (iJfKG)

202 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 12, 2026 11:00 AM (NcvvS)

203 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 12, 2026 11:00 AM (2YhKe)

204
Here's some more grist for you anti-Boomers' Anti-Boomer Mill:

https://instapundit.com/816127/#disqus_thread


It may be the single stupidest bit of writing that I've ever read.

Hilariously silly. It sounds exactly like Hitler describing the Jooooooos at a rally.

Enjoy!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 12, 2026 11:03 AM (iJfKG)

205
168 What was the motive of Lennon’s killer, anyway?
Posted by: Bulg at August 12, 2026 10:39 AM

-------

He blamed Lennon for misleading him about the nature of this world, through his music and public pronouncements, and so ruining his life. Also, he was a psycho.

The leaders of his prison group therapy endeavored to get him to understand that he was a useless piece of shit all on his own, not because of Lennon.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 12, 2026 11:09 AM (azNOR)

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