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Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 28, 2026 01:27 PM (CWTWj) 2
i noodled
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 28, 2026 01:28 PM (CWTWj) 3
The head of crime families aren't what they used to be.
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at July 28, 2026 01:28 PM (Sco7b) Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2026 01:28 PM (2GVsD) 5
yeah this is a big deal
sigh something better happen not that I'm holding my breath! and Hur wasn't a straight shooter, duh. another in the vast army of In-Group Asshats. (aka govt ticks) Posted by: Black Orchid at July 28, 2026 01:28 PM (j+aD2) 6
Joey Bidet shuffling down the street in a stained dirty bathrobe would be an improvement over the cadaver.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2026 01:29 PM (2GVsD) Posted by: m at July 28, 2026 01:29 PM (faghi) 8
he had a stutter, you cold hearted person
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 28, 2026 01:29 PM (CWTWj) 9
So many more things that the crazy conservative conspiracy theorists are proved, PROVED, right on again.
Has there been one where they were not? Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at July 28, 2026 01:30 PM (xvV+O) 10
MoveOn!
Posted by: man at July 28, 2026 01:30 PM (XuXeR) 11
FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 01:30 PM (+sD5M) Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 01:31 PM (+sD5M) 13
Biden's above the law, though, yes?
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at July 28, 2026 01:31 PM (AdHga) 14
Say what you like about President Biden, you H8rs, but he got by far the most votes EVER!!!
Posted by: (D)emocrats & the MSM at July 28, 2026 01:31 PM (0sNs1) 15
So, who was running the country while this bastard was President?
The fact that Republicans can't be bothered to find out, let alone ask the question tells you why I hate them so much. The only thing I hate more is communist Democrats. Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 28, 2026 01:31 PM (fNDW9) 16
It's astonishing that this performance was ten years ago. How is he even still alive?
Posted by: Archimedes at July 28, 2026 01:31 PM (Riz8t) 17
Ilham Nur's sister got $20 million from USAID.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2026 01:31 PM (2GVsD) 18
> Some of this may be classified so be careful with it
Is that how classified information works? Just pinky swear you won't tell anybody, Jack. It might be classified. Posted by: bonhomme at July 28, 2026 01:32 PM (mkw2N) 19
>>> 16 It's astonishing that this performance was ten years ago. How is he even still alive?
Posted by: Archimedes at July 28, 2026 01:31 PM (Riz8t) Especially with Stage Four Cancer from the Cancer Oil that dropped from the sky. Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2026 01:32 PM (vDZgA) 20
Biden's above the law, though, yes?
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at July 28, 2026 01:31 PM That's plural, not singular, sonny. Posted by: Hunter B. at July 28, 2026 01:32 PM (0sNs1) 21
Jill must be so proud.
Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2026 01:33 PM (hftzA) 22
> It's astonishing that this performance was ten years ago. How is he even still alive?
Don't forget the stage four cancer. His treatment's so aggressive, he still has all of his hair and hasn't lost any weight. Posted by: bonhomme at July 28, 2026 01:33 PM (mkw2N) 23
>>> 17 Ilham Nur's sister got $20 million from USAID.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2026 01:31 PM (2GVsD) no no no that was a typo... ...it was really only $300 Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2026 01:33 PM (vDZgA) 24
The tapes with redactions have been released. Three hours worth here:
https://tinyurl.com/5awv7x78 Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 28, 2026 01:33 PM (XvL8K) 25
Me, "I don't care if you have the correct security clearance, you don't have a need to know."
Persecutor-in-charge Jack-ass, "oh sure have at it! Orange Man bad!!" Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2026 01:33 PM (2GVsD) 26
Joe Biden is jst a forgetful old pedophile and traitor. America should move on about this.
BUT TRUMP..... to the gallows!! Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at July 28, 2026 01:33 PM (xvV+O) 27
I believe Jeff Clark released the tapes via his X account.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 28, 2026 01:33 PM (viF8m) 28
I've listened to those tapes, and let me tell you, that was the best Biden, EVER!
Posted by: Joe Scarborough at July 28, 2026 01:34 PM (5rh/l) 29
This is the Democrat machine flexing.
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at July 28, 2026 01:34 PM (Q/FnY) 30
"Zwonitizer" sounds like a Ronco product.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 01:34 PM (2ocoG) 31
sigh
something better happen Posted by: Black Orchid at July 28, 2026 01:28 PM Nothing will happen. Posted by: That Guy who sonorously intones "Nothing will happen." at July 28, 2026 01:34 PM (0sNs1) 32
Nixon only deleted 16 minutes
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2026 01:34 PM (2GVsD) 33
The fact that Trump survived the MAL raid the corrupt Biden administration gave the go ahead to use lethal force, Butler, and the golf course attempted ambush is just more proof (to me) that Trump is divinely protected. Good gracious.
Posted by: Jmel at July 28, 2026 01:34 PM (3TlS+) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 28, 2026 01:34 PM (YdqFd) 35
Jeff Childers Coffee & Covid Substack today:
"It will probably not surprise you that Biden’s ghostwriter had no security clearance. Every time Biden told him something classified, it was a criminal act. So every redaction in the audio represents a separate federal crime." Posted by: beckster at July 28, 2026 01:34 PM (kX27y) 36
All kinds of interesting tidbits there. The most alarming being his cognitive decline even before the 2020 election, which we knew knew but didn't know know. 4 years of this mush brain acting as a puppet while a class of other criminals ran the country into the ground.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 28, 2026 01:34 PM (n5tGW) 37
Jill must be so proud.
Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2026 01:33 PM (hftzA) I bet she is, honestly. She's a gazillionaire now, world-famous, adored by all the Right People, and wife to the president. She's gotten everything she can get out of Biden's husk. All in all, the girl's done pretty well for herself. If you overlook the fact that she's a sociopath. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at July 28, 2026 01:35 PM (AdHga) 38
But he's not an enemy of the ruling class, so OF COURSE he got a pass.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 28, 2026 01:35 PM (N1DT3) 39
It's astonishing that this performance was ten years ago. How is he even still alive?
Posted by: Archimedes ........ Better living through chemistry. Posted by: wth at July 28, 2026 01:35 PM (UjdFS) 40
>>> 27 I believe Jeff Clark released the tapes via his X account.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 28, 2026 01:33 PM (viF8m) Did he also release it on Blue-PeopleScreamingAtThe-Sky, or did you not bother mentioning it because nobody uses that. Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2026 01:35 PM (vDZgA) Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2026 01:35 PM (2GVsD) 42
Never mind the piles of classified documents laying on the floor of his garage.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 28, 2026 01:35 PM (g8Ew8) Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 01:35 PM (2ocoG) 44
But Trump once lost his footing on a slippery ramp so it's the same thing
Posted by: ... at July 28, 2026 01:35 PM (vE0+H) Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 28, 2026 01:35 PM (VyBeY) 46
"Zwonitizer" sounds like a Ronco product.
Posted by: Ian S. _________ Not sure I want to know what it does. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 28, 2026 01:35 PM (XvL8K) 47
Yet, we were continuously assured *biden was "sharp as a tack" by our media betters.
The same media betters who covered for Fauci. *biden's a tool. A demented idiot. But the media that fed the public all the bullshit about him is arguably worse. Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2026 01:36 PM (jehhT) 48
Incontinence is no excuse for the law.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 28, 2026 01:36 PM (NvVt/) 49
I’ll miss Uncle Joe after 8 years of AOC.
Posted by: Billythesquid at July 28, 2026 01:36 PM (+EfD3) 50
Sadly, there will be no justice for Biden on this. The public won't support it. He's even more old and pathetic now, and he's out of office. Old news.
Now, if you can tie his obvious mental decline to statements from current Dems who swore he was competent to serve a second term, you might get a little mileage out of this. If you can somehow use it, and other evidence, to show he didn't sign bills and pardons, and others did without his approval...that could be one of the greatest scandals in US history. Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 28, 2026 01:36 PM (VB9q0) 51
We choose truth over facts!
We finally beat Medicare! My butt’s been wiped! Dog faced pony soldier Cornpop The list goes on and on…. My personal favorite moment did not involve words. He somehow defied gravity to fall UP the stairs of Air Force One Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 28, 2026 01:37 PM (+gA9j) 52
I think the key point that gets lost in the quoted portions above is that these were classified files in 2016, before Biden became president.
This isn't the Trump situation where they accused him of keeping classified files after he left the presidency. As president, he can declassify anything he wants to. Biden didn't have the power to declassify. So he was in illegal possession of classified files, and sharing them with reporters. Guys are sitting in prison for much less. Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 01:37 PM (iFTx/) 53
He's a b'tard of a human being.
Prison would be nice but it would be like jailing a vegetable. Posted by: torabora at July 28, 2026 01:37 PM (w2uUI) 54
I've listened to those tapes, and let me tell you, that was the best Biden, EVER!
Posted by: Joe Scarborough at July 28, 2026 01:34 PM Look, Mika won't gnaw on my hog if I don't repeat the DNC talking points. Posted by: Also Joe Scarborough at July 28, 2026 01:37 PM (2ocoG) 55
Are we sure of this? ABC news said he was as right as rain up until the day he dropped out, conveniently right after the failed assassination attempt on Trump.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 28, 2026 01:38 PM (8vp/C) 56
"Zwonitizer" sounds like a Ronco product.
Posted by: Ian S. ...... Guaranteed to eliminate old man balls odor. Posted by: wth at July 28, 2026 01:38 PM (UjdFS) 57
Now, if you can tie his obvious mental decline to statements from current Dems who swore he was competent to serve a second term, you might get a little mileage out of this.
If you can somehow use it, and other evidence, to show he didn't sign bills and pardons, and others did without his approval...that could be one of the greatest scandals in US history. If you're too old and demented to be charged with mishandling classified documents, you're too old and demented to sign pardons, much less be president. Posted by: Archimedes at July 28, 2026 01:38 PM (Riz8t) 58
"I'm going to take him behind the school gym and beat the hell out of him."
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 01:38 PM (wOO3z) 59
43 Ilham Nur's sister got $20 million from USAID.
Is her sister also married to her? Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 01:35 PM (2ocoG) -------------- The Nur clan: https://tinyurl.com/yc2ssbju Posted by: beckster at July 28, 2026 01:38 PM (kX27y) Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2026 01:38 PM (2GVsD) 61
that was the best Biden, EVER!
Posted by: Joe Scarborough at July 28, 2026 01:34 PM Every day is the best day of Biden's remaining days Posted by: kinda how dementia works at July 28, 2026 01:39 PM (gKWVE) 62
Nothing will come of this. And the reason is that the true power in this country is the media. They decide what will be an issue and what will not. They are the ringmasters and sadly, a significant part - a critical mass - are nothing more than trained circus animals, trained to clap and perform at whatever the ringmasters tell them to.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 28, 2026 01:39 PM (fNDW9) 63
Over the weekend there was a somewhat critical article about Biden in the Washington Post (that in itself is a miracle) and the comments were breathtaking… how dare you even write an article about this fine man! He’s in private life now and he’s bravely battling cancer!!
I’m not kidding Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 28, 2026 01:39 PM (+gA9j) Posted by: Archimedes at July 28, 2026 01:39 PM (Riz8t) 65
I hope you plan to cover Catherine Herridge's report on the Biden family blackmailing by China.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 28, 2026 01:39 PM (8vp/C) 66
Now, if you can tie his obvious mental decline to statements from current Dems who swore he was competent to serve a second term, you might get a little mileage out of this.
If you can somehow use it, and other evidence, to show he didn't sign bills and pardons, and others did without his approval...that could be one of the greatest scandals in US history. Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 28, 2026 01:36 PM (VB9q0) --- I concur but he is a democrat so I doubt there will be a combined 10 seconds on NBCCBSABCCNNNYTWAPOWSJ..... IF THAT. Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at July 28, 2026 01:39 PM (xvV+O) 67
*facepalm*
I'm all out of words, *facepalm* is all I got. Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 28, 2026 01:35 PM Have you considered an emergency loan of a shocked face from Sarah Hoyt? Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 28, 2026 01:40 PM (0sNs1) 68
52, sharp catch, Elric!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 28, 2026 01:40 PM (VyBeY) 69
Snowden was still in Russia AFAIK. Assange? No clue.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 01:40 PM (wOO3z) 70
We all knew when he "ran" in 2020 from his basement he was not all there... This just proves how early on he "was not there". I would say that all autopen pardons should be thrown out.. He was not capable of making rational decisions.. Oh hell.. Everything passed under his "reign" should be deemed null and void...
Posted by: It's me donna at July 28, 2026 01:41 PM (p3OSa) 71
>>> 50 Sadly, there will be no justice for Biden on this. The public won't support it. He's even more old and pathetic now, and he's out of office. Old news.
== Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 28, 2026 01:36 PM (VB9q0) "Our deepest condolences to DOCTOR Jill, Hunter, and the rest of the family (except that trailer park skank and her brat) for the tragic falling-down-the-stairs incident experienced next Monday by former President Brandon." -- Hillary!'s BlueSky, maybe Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2026 01:41 PM (vDZgA) Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2026 01:41 PM (2GVsD) 73
Hur wasn't a straight shooter, duh. another in the vast army of In-Group Asshats. (aka govt ticks) Posted by: Black Orchid ================ I don't know whether he's a crooked shooter or a realistic #NothingWillHappen guy who didn't bother wasting his time or taxpayer money. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 28, 2026 01:41 PM (mmrXZ) 74
>>Did he also release it on Blue-PeopleScreamingAtThe-Sky, or did you not bother mentioning it because nobody uses that.
Having never visited that asylum I wouldn't know but it seems doubtful. Clark was one of the biggest victims of lawfare for the crime of advising Trump. They tried to take his law license among other things. He's also the head of litigation at the Oversight Project and probably the person most responsible for getting the tapes released. And he hates Biden. Posted by: JackStraw at July 28, 2026 01:41 PM (viF8m) 75
The Flat Earth Conspiracy has not been proved.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 28, 2026 01:41 PM (Wj1DV) 76
57 Now, if you can tie his obvious mental decline to statements from current Dems who swore he was competent to serve a second term, you might get a little mileage out of this.
If you can somehow use it, and other evidence, to show he didn't sign bills and pardons, and others did without his approval...that could be one of the greatest scandals in US history. If you're too old and demented to be charged with mishandling classified documents, you're too old and demented to sign pardons, much less be president. Posted by: Archimedes Both of these are true. Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at July 28, 2026 01:42 PM (Q/FnY) 77
Nothing will happen.
Posted by: The person who always says that at July 28, 2026 01:42 PM (2Ez/1) 78
Jill must be so proud.
Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2026 01:33 PM (hftzA) __________ I think it was always mostly a fake marriage. Jill wanted power and prestige and money. Joe wanted a presentable wife on his arm for political reasons. I think this is similar to the deal struck between Bill and Hillary Clinton. Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 01:43 PM (iFTx/) 79
he Flat Earth Conspiracy has not been proved.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 28, 2026 01:41 PM To be fair, it hasn't been disproven to our satisfaction. Posted by: Flat Earthers at July 28, 2026 01:43 PM (0sNs1) 80
Ask your paleontologist if Zwonitizer is right for you.
Posted by: Big Fat Farma at July 28, 2026 01:43 PM (2Ez/1) 81
More money laundering for the Nur clan
Ilham's sister is publishing a book called Salt in the Snow. Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2026 01:43 PM (2GVsD) 82
Why not release even the redacted tapes? Most likely the Chinese and Russians have heard them already
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 28, 2026 01:44 PM (BlDDt) 83
Washington Nearsider
Need a 1/32 Me 262A-1a/U4? https://tinyurl.com/48vu8awp Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2026 01:41 PM (2GVsD) I literally bought the Trumpy 262A-1A yesterday! Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at July 28, 2026 01:44 PM (AdHga) Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 01:44 PM (wOO3z) 85
Hillary was a presentable wife?
Bill really did have the beer goggles on. Or she had blackmail on him. Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2026 01:44 PM (2GVsD) 86
>>Biden didn't have the power to declassify. So he was in illegal possession of classified files, and sharing them with reporters. Guys are sitting in prison for much less.
That's always been the case. All those docs they found piled in his garage, at his DC office and at his office at Penn, were illegally taken. He took some of them from a SCIF just like Hillary. And of course he wasn't prosecuted for it. Posted by: JackStraw at July 28, 2026 01:44 PM (viF8m) 87
alas, Sarah Hoyt's shocked face is getting physical therapy and is not available at this time.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 28, 2026 01:44 PM (VyBeY) 88
79 he Flat Earth Conspiracy has not been proved.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 28, 2026 01:41 PM To be fair, it hasn't been disproven to our satisfaction. Posted by: Flat Earthers at July 28, 2026 01:43 PM We meet Wednesday night at 7pm at the Elks Lodge. Come join us. Posted by: The Flat Moon Society at July 28, 2026 01:45 PM (2Ez/1) Posted by: wth at July 28, 2026 01:45 PM (UjdFS) 90
>>> 78 Jill must be so proud.
Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2026 01:33 PM (hftzA) __________ I think it was always mostly a fake marriage. Jill wanted power and prestige and money. Joe wanted a presentable wife on his arm for political reasons. I think this is similar to the deal struck between Bill and Hillary Clinton. Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 01:43 PM (iFTx/) To his credit (!!) I'm not aware of a previous wife, fiancé, girlfriend or whatever who conveniently died tragically and thus made room for Hillary. Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2026 01:45 PM (vDZgA) 91
Biden didn't have the power to declassify. So he was in illegal possession of classified files, and sharing them with reporters. Guys are sitting in prison for much less.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 01:37 PM (iFTx/) --- What did BHO know about this and when did he know it? Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2026 01:45 PM (FZ29D) 92
Flat Earth Conspiracy has not been proved.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 28, 2026 01:41 PM To be fair, it hasn't been disproven to our satisfaction. Posted by: Flat Earthers at July 28, 2026 01:43 PM (0sNs1) One very popular Flat Earther actually went to the South Pole to prove the planet was flat. If it was round, the sun would just traverse an oval in the sky, but a flat Earth would see the sun disappear. Welp... He had the decency to admit - finally - that he was wrong. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at July 28, 2026 01:45 PM (AdHga) 93
She's a gazillionaire now, world-famous, adored by all the Right People, and wife to the president. She's gotten everything she can get out of Biden's husk.
All in all, the girl's done pretty well for herself. If you overlook the fact that she's a sociopath. I think she wanted to be President herself, like Hillary, but chose the safer route. Her and Hunter were 100% one of the factions using Joe as a ventriloquist dummy. Posted by: Also Joe Scarborough at July 28, 2026 01:45 PM (2ocoG) Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 28, 2026 01:45 PM (bX16E) 95
I literally bought the Trumpy 262A-1A yesterday!
Good luck fixing those locator tab boxes molded into inner fuselage for the pilot tub to fit. Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2026 01:46 PM (2GVsD) 96
What difference, at this point, does it make?
Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at July 28, 2026 01:46 PM (2Ez/1) 97
Question from the previous Mamdani thread: Any ideas why the new tax is so heavy on Condos? 4% for a Condo vs 0.8% for a single-family residence.
Also - I thought it was only supposed to hit the wealthy? 1M$ isn't that much for a condo. Where is someone supposed to come up with 4% of their homes value EVERY STINKING YEAR? No wonder they're all heading to Florida. Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 28, 2026 01:47 PM (QGaXH) 98
I doubt at this point we have any secrets left. What with the Dems hiring the enemy as drivers and others screwing them and dipshits just talking to them.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 01:47 PM (Vqi7w) 99
To his credit (!!) I'm not aware of a previous wife, fiancé, girlfriend or whatever who conveniently died tragically and thus made room for Hillary.
Joe met DOCTOR JILL when she was babysitting Hunter. That is miles beyond any marital grossness the Clintons did. Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 01:47 PM (2ocoG) 100
Why do you think Gaylord picked Joey, Gaylord had leverage on the schmuck.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2026 01:47 PM (2GVsD) 101
Good luck fixing those locator tab boxes molded into inner fuselage for the pilot tub to fit.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2026 01:46 PM (2GVsD) Ugh. Thanks for the warning. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at July 28, 2026 01:47 PM (AdHga) 102
If you're too old and demented to be charged with mishandling classified documents, you're too old and demented to sign pardons, much less be president.
Posted by: Archimedes He had good and bad days! Everyone knows that! We only had him review and decide on things on his good days! After some ice cream! Posted by: Biden Apologists at July 28, 2026 01:47 PM (VB9q0) 103
Regarding Fauci’s autopen pardon, why has no conservative state AG put him up on charges?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 28, 2026 01:47 PM (Wj1DV) 104
>>> 93 She's a gazillionaire now, world-famous, adored by all the Right People, and wife to the president. She's gotten everything she can get out of Biden's husk.
All in all, the girl's done pretty well for herself. If you overlook the fact that she's a sociopath. == I think she wanted to be President herself, like Hillary, but chose the safer route. Her and Hunter were 100% one of the factions using Joe as a ventriloquist dummy. Posted by: Also Joe Scarborough at July 28, 2026 01:45 PM (2ocoG) Hmm, I never thought of it that way. Maybe DOCTOR Jill should be careful traversing stairs?! Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2026 01:48 PM (vDZgA) 105
" ... Welp...
He had the decency to admit - finally - that he was wrong. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at July 28, 2026 01:45 PM (AdHga) " kinda got to respect that honesty. Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 28, 2026 01:48 PM (VyBeY) 106
Question from the previous Mamdani thread: Any ideas why the new tax is so heavy on Condos? 4% for a Condo vs 0.8% for a single-family residence.
Also - I thought it was only supposed to hit the wealthy? 1M$ isn't that much for a condo. Where is someone supposed to come up with 4% of their homes value EVERY STINKING YEAR? No wonder they're all heading to Florida. Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 28, 2026 01:47 PM (QGaXH) They're not supposed to come up with 4% of the value every year. They're supposed to sell to The State so the property can be more equitably distributed. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at July 28, 2026 01:48 PM (AdHga) 107
> Nothing will come of this. And the reason is that the true power in this country is the media. They decide what will be an issue and what will not. They are the ringmasters and sadly, a significant part - a critical mass - are nothing more than trained circus animals, trained to clap and perform at whatever the ringmasters tell them to.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! ---------- I'd argue it's the judiciary that's "the true power" in this country. They decide what laws are valid, which ones don't apply... who's guilty and who's not. They can stop a President from implementing Constitutionally accepted law. They're squarely on the left's side too. Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2026 01:49 PM (jehhT) 108
Why do you think Gaylord picked Joey, Gaylord had leverage on the schmuck.
I get the feeling Joey was forced on Gaylord, the way HW Bush was on Reagan and Pence was on Trump. Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 01:49 PM (2ocoG) 109
I concur but he is a democrat so I doubt there will be a combined 10 seconds on NBCCBSABCCNNNYTWAPOWSJ..... IF THAT.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable If the audio is released publicly, and is as bad as they say, it'll spread like wildfire. The media will have to address it, even if only to downplay or excuse it as irrelevant and pointless now. Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 28, 2026 01:49 PM (VB9q0) Posted by: Guy who always says "Nothing will happen" and is usually right at July 28, 2026 01:49 PM (MWfyi) 111
What did BHO know about this and when did he know it?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2026 01:45 PM (FZ29D) Fucking BHO also knew about Hillary's fake e-mail. And he used it in replies to her. Meaning he also violated security protocols. And he knew about the Russia hoax being a hoax. But again, nothing will happen. Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 28, 2026 01:49 PM (fNDW9) 112
If the audio is released publicly, and is as bad as they say, it'll spread like wildfire. The media will have to address it, even if only to downplay or excuse it as irrelevant and pointless now.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 28, 2026 01:49 PM (VB9q0) It's already out there, and it's worse than I anticipated. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at July 28, 2026 01:50 PM (AdHga) 113
Can you imagine the conversations between Mitch McConnell and Biden?
Biden: "Let me tell you about our secret plans for China." McConnell: " " Biden: "Are you awake? Anyone there? Now, what were we talking about?" McConnell: " " Biden: "So, about our Taiwan strategy...." Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 28, 2026 01:50 PM (80kY5) 114
Question from the previous Mamdani thread: Any ideas why the new tax is so heavy on Condos? 4% for a Condo vs 0.8% for a single-family residence.
Also - I thought it was only supposed to hit the wealthy? 1M$ isn't that much for a condo. Where is someone supposed to come up with 4% of their homes value EVERY STINKING YEAR? No wonder they're all heading to Florida. Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan Mayor Jihadi is going to repo/eminent domain them and then pass them out to goatfuckers. Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 01:50 PM (Vqi7w) 115
We can't even get a tape of McConnell.
Posted by: It's True at July 28, 2026 01:51 PM (FemXV) 116
Don't worry Washington Nearsider
Got a Trumpeter A-1a moldering because I tried to remove those boxes. Pretty sure you can do better. I am still debating getting a 3D printed 1/32 NAXOS unit for the Revell B-1a/U1 because Red 9 was apparently the only one fitted with it. Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2026 01:51 PM (2GVsD) 117
That village idiot did anything I told him to do.
I was the power behind the throne. Posted by: THE GUY IN THE EASTER BUNNY SUIT at July 28, 2026 01:51 PM (Cv/v8) 118
68 52, sharp catch, Elric!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 28, 2026 01:40 PM (VyBeY) _______ [fist bump, but not in a gay way] Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 01:52 PM (iFTx/) 119
" Where is someone supposed to come up with 4% of their homes value EVERY STINKING YEAR?"
Relax. They just write it off. Posted by: Guy who always says "They just write it off" at July 28, 2026 01:52 PM (MWfyi) Posted by: Glitch's Recording at July 28, 2026 01:52 PM (wOO3z) 121
tie his obvious mental decline to statements from current Dems who swore he was competent to serve a second term Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions ================= Veep candidate Pete Buttigieg will be asked about his defense of Laser-Brain Biden during his term. When he says (again) "Uh, I think it's time to move on, and there's no point in judging our past," the right response is to point it back to BUTTIGIEG, not Biden. "This is about you, Mr. Buttigieg. Either you lied to us, or you are such a bad judge of ability that either way, you're not fit to lead." Posted by: Blonde Morticia having another fantasy at July 28, 2026 01:52 PM (mmrXZ) 122
SHARP.AS.A.TACK!
You bigots. Posted by: Max Entropy at July 28, 2026 01:52 PM (oxDA9) 123
Why not release even the redacted tapes? Most likely the Chinese and Russians have heard them already
Posted by: Smell the Glove _______ They have been released. Link at 24. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 28, 2026 01:53 PM (XvL8K) 124
Why do you think Gaylord picked Joey, Gaylord had leverage on the schmuck.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2026 01:47 PM (2GVsD) I think the Bidens were an important epicenter of foreign corruption, and the pick that Obama's people made was signal to our enemies (read: their allies) that despite The Hag losing to Obama, foreign graft would be business as usual, if not better. Why do you think Biden the retard was touted for so long as an "expert" in "foreign policy"? Lots of trips. Lots and lots and lots of trips abroad. Posted by: ... at July 28, 2026 01:53 PM (vE0+H) Posted by: Rural America at July 28, 2026 01:53 PM (FemXV) 126
I think it was always mostly a fake marriage. Jill wanted power and prestige and money. Joe wanted a presentable wife on his arm for political reasons.
I think this is similar to the deal struck between Bill and Hillary Clinton. Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 01:43 PM (iFTx/) Maybe - but she was the baby sitter, and Joe wasn’t a bad looking man. I am confident, if I was Jill’s age then (which I am not, I am younger than Hunter), he would have given me the absolute ick. But Jill always reminded me of someone who was on the trashier side. She would have been enamored by his attention, if I am correct. Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2026 01:54 PM (hftzA) 127
The 2020 election was rigged and Biden was installed as the junta head because he was a demented idiot. The presidency was run as a conglomerate for four years by the people in the intelligence agencies who setup the entire op and their minions who occupied advisory posts.
The election rigging isn’t some fairytale, and since the media was all in on this coup, you’ll never hear it from them. But the proof is out there- Georgia, Arizona, etc. They have uncovered most of the fraud and the ghost voters magically disappeared in 2024 when everyone was looking. Election rigging, especially mail in ballot fraud, illegal voting, machines with substantial flaws and tallying processes vulnerable to manipulation are the only way Democrats can win an election. And we still haven’t stopped it. Posted by: Vengeance at July 28, 2026 01:54 PM (Q6Bu6) 128
[fist bump, but not in a gay way] Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 01:52 PM (iFTx/) Yeah ? I've seen the way you look at Garret... Posted by: It's me donna at July 28, 2026 01:55 PM (p3OSa) 129
I am still debating getting a 3D printed 1/32 NAXOS unit for the Revell B-1a/U1 because Red 9 was apparently the only one fitted with it.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2026 01:51 PM (2GVsD) I have - in almost every case - found that doing something like that is worth it for a client, not worth it for me to just have. But I'm not a rivet counter. I just enjoy the process. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at July 28, 2026 01:55 PM (AdHga) 130
Piper
Judging by Jill's fashion sense, I think I know where the $100 barb from Hillary Clinton came from. Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2026 01:55 PM (2GVsD) 131
“.. the extent of Biden's disclosure of highly top secret, sensitive & classified information is "much more egregious than previously disclosed"
—— Well right. And it’s much, much worse than this. This is just the shit we knew about. Years and years later. Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2026 01:55 PM (bbqHZ) 132
Veep candidate Pete Buttigieg will be asked about his defense of Laser-Brain Biden during his term. When he says (again) "Uh, I think it's time to move on, and there's no point in judging our past," the right response is to point it back to BUTTIGIEG, not Biden.
The correct response is, "then NOT ONE WORD about Trump ever again. Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 01:56 PM (Vqi7w) 133
Mediators Say US-Iran 'Close' To 'Resurrecting' Failed MoU Deal, Pushing Oil Lower, Stocks Jump
Marking first glimmer of hope for diplomacy...or rather return to headline pong-pong? Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2026 01:56 PM (RHGPo) 134
But again, nothing will happen.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 28, 2026 01:49 PM I've tried, many times, to tell you that. Posted by: That Guy who intones, sonorously, "Nothing will happen." at July 28, 2026 01:56 PM (0sNs1) 135
I'd argue it's the judiciary that's "the true power" in this country. They decide what laws are valid, which ones don't apply... who's guilty and who's not.
They can stop a President from implementing Constitutionally accepted law. They're squarely on the left's side too. Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2026 01:49 PM (jehhT) Perhaps, but I'd point out that if the judiciary were right wing and making decisions opposing the left's agenda, the media would have riotous mobs going to judges homes. Hell, they almost succeeded with Kavanaugh and Comey-Barrett wears a flak jacket for crying out loud. I still maintain that the media are the ringmasters and the true power. And should be defenestrated. Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 28, 2026 01:56 PM (fNDW9) 136
>>But again, nothing will happen.
Something always happens. Maybe not exactly what we want but it's pretty undeniable that the country is going through enormous change right now including Trump being president for a 2nd term when a few years ago it looked like he was a dead man walking. Democrats are being taken over by communists largely because the old guard, Biden in this case, was a colossal failure. He will go down in history as the most corrupt placeholder to ever be in office. We still aren't on equal footing because the courts are thoroughly corrupt and filled with activists posing as judges. Still a long way to go but things are happening and we are winning. If we weren't, Kamala would be president and the country would be overrun with illegals and in taters. Posted by: JackStraw at July 28, 2026 01:56 PM (viF8m) 137
@123 thx Biff, missed that
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 28, 2026 01:57 PM (BlDDt) Mamdani Publishes Names of Property Owners Whose Estates Will be ConfiscatedElderly women who had lived at their properties for decades were in the lists. Note it's supposed to be a list of basically-empty properties used as a vacation homes or, as the name of the tax puts it, pied-a-terres. But properties where the owner lives there year-round are on the lists of estates to be seized. Weird! A socialist promised he would only seize the properties of the very wealthy turns out to want to seize the properties of the middle-class as well. I never saw that one coming.
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Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2026 12:25 PM (kgE5c) 2
And, afternoon, Ace!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2026 12:25 PM (kgE5c) 3
I'd feel bad for these people but I don't.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 12:25 PM (ExV1e) 4
The Others have been summoned.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2026 12:26 PM (kgE5c) 5
New York is unique in that property records are generally easily available. So this is a big deal.
But if you have a modicum of knowledge, you can find this information very easily in almost every other city/county. Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 28, 2026 12:26 PM (N1DT3) 6
New York is unique in that property records are generally easily available. So this is a big deal.
But if you have a modicum of knowledge, you can find this information very easily in almost every other city/county. Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 28, 2026 12:26 PM (N1DT3) NOT. NOT easily available. My kingdom for an edit button! Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 28, 2026 12:27 PM (N1DT3) 7
Are these valuations done by Leticia James?
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 28, 2026 12:27 PM (aJQbY) 8
They could have had Lee Zeldin as governor, but chose unwisely. Zeldin might have acted as a bit of a brake against Mamdani
Posted by: 496 at July 28, 2026 12:28 PM (A/QNE) 9
Mamdani Publishes Names of Property Owners Whose Estates Will be Confiscated
Now how would the founders have reacted to this? Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 12:29 PM (sKqQm) 10
They could have had Lee Zeldin as governor, but chose unwisely. Zeldin might have acted as a bit of a brake against Mamdani
It's adorable that post-2020 anyone believes any elections aren't pre-decided. Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 12:30 PM (2ocoG) 11
They could have had Lee Zeldin as governor, but chose unwisely. Zeldin might have acted as a bit of a brake against Mamdani
Posted by: 496 at July 28, 2026 12:28 PM (A/QNE) Or, you know, not elected the Muslim Communist in the first place. BUT, I'm more than willing to believe they didn't actually elect him. Our large cities have been running by machines powered by election fraud for a century and a half. Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 28, 2026 12:30 PM (N1DT3) 12
Get a load of this:
Alex Berenson @AlexBerenson · 21h Last week, my mom got a "pied-a-terre" tax notice. She has lived full-time in her townhouse FOR 30 YEARS (she and my dad bought it for under $1 million). She has no other residence. Is NYC not bothering with basic checking of its own tax lists? She's 81 and has three weeks to get her name off the list or she owes $56,000. (Yes, I said I'd help.) Thanks, Zohran Kwame. Posted by: beckster at July 28, 2026 12:31 PM (kX27y) 13
And he'll undercut all the bodegas with tax money and put them out of business, too. Both commercial and private property.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 12:31 PM (wOO3z) 14
How fast do squatters start occupying these properties?
Posted by: mr tmz at July 28, 2026 12:31 PM (rJ48h) 15
Run away! Run away! Now I owe Monty Python a quarter.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 28, 2026 12:31 PM (YlWIZ) 16
Ah, the heady days of the Red Guards. Will they have public denouncements of said property owners, or just go straight to prosecution and seizure?
Will they all love Big Mohammed at the end? Posted by: man at July 28, 2026 12:32 PM (XuXeR) 17
Good afternoon Ace and everyone
It can be lunch time Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2026 12:32 PM (8l4/j) 18
Should I care that people who have funded Democrats for years are now crying for the beast to eat them last? Because I don’t.
The people in NY have voted like it’s a team sport for many years now. They trample any opposition using the legislature as their hammer and graft machine. All the various groups, including the Jewish community Democrats have now declared public enemy number one, have benefited greatly from the soils system they setup with the political leadership. So forgive me if I say EATADIK. Posted by: Vengeance at July 28, 2026 12:32 PM (E24OL) 19
BUT, I'm more than willing to believe they didn't actually elect him. Our large cities have been running by machines powered by election fraud for a century and a half.
Yup. And increasingly true everywhere there are Democrats. Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 12:32 PM (2ocoG) 20
Unsurprisingly, the colossal database of names and addresses included several A-list New Yorkers, including director Woody Allen, longtime Vogue editor Anna Wintour and actress Cynthia Nixon -- a loyal Mamdani supporter.
--------- O, the irony! *pops popcorn* Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 28, 2026 12:32 PM (amcLV) 21
No Kings!
Posted by: Typical NYC Voter at July 28, 2026 12:32 PM (R0XxO) 22
It's what the voters wanted. A "Their" problem. Bad news is New Yorkers may invade my paradise found to avoid what they asked for.
Posted by: connected and litigious at July 28, 2026 12:33 PM (cS1cw) 23
I can't wait to see the first house on this list get firebombed, and the marxists deny responsibility.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 28, 2026 12:33 PM (hf00v) 24
i am *SHOCKED* to find out a socialist is behaving like a socialist....
i hope the residents enjoy their communism Posted by: Sturmtoddler at July 28, 2026 12:33 PM (CFj+S) 25
Wreckers and hoarders must face revolutionary justice. Only then will communism work.
Posted by: Ripley at July 28, 2026 12:33 PM (GUOwU) 26
I hope Cynthia Nixon gets depossessed.
Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2026 12:33 PM (77rzZ) 27
Throgg neck!
Posted by: Wood eye at July 28, 2026 12:33 PM (Cqx++) 28
In a third world shit hole, well, you know.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 28, 2026 12:33 PM (YlWIZ) 29
i'm praying the Communists/Socialists showed their hand too early....
Posted by: It's me donna at July 28, 2026 12:33 PM (p3OSa) 30
I wonder how many of these homes will mysteriously burn down, for one reason or another (unoccupied, hopefully!).
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2026 12:34 PM (vDZgA) 31
All the various groups, including the Jewish community Democrats have now declared public enemy number one, have benefited greatly from the soils system they setup with the political leadership.
Nadler has used the soils system. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 12:34 PM (wOO3z) 32
Jefe's like this are not possible without Thune and Thune-like republicans.
Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the children They do not Kill at July 28, 2026 12:34 PM (gxokI) 33
Do you ever wake up and read about New York City and say to yourself man I'm glad I don't live in New York City?
Posted by: I gotta ask at July 28, 2026 12:35 PM (2Ez/1) 34
Finally and obviously a well deserved FO moment for N.Y.C.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 28, 2026 12:35 PM (NnhvP) 35
BTW it doesn’t take a heart of stone to not care what happens to some guy who can afford a pied-a-terre. Especially since that guy is most likely part of the regime.
Somebody please handout spike clubs to everyone. Posted by: Vengeance at July 28, 2026 12:35 PM (bEuBF) 36
actress Cynthia Nixon -- a loyal Mamdani supporter.
"Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of her nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. She had won the victory over herself. She loved Mamdani." Posted by: man at July 28, 2026 12:36 PM (XuXeR) 37
Good afternoon Ace.
The kulaks will be punished as takers and hoarders , tovarich. First we take their houses then they go to the gulag. It's never been done before you know Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 28, 2026 12:36 PM (BlDDt) Posted by: Vengeance at July 28, 2026 12:36 PM (bEuBF) 39
Zeldin might have acted as a bit of a brake against Mamdani How can a governor slow down a mayor? Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 28, 2026 12:36 PM (Cqx++) 40
Mamdani promised to do this before he was elected. And the citizens of NYC voted for him anyway. Some voted for just this.
It's a bit late to be bitching about it now. Some of the NYC public that bought into this guy are insanely stupid. Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2026 12:36 PM (jehhT) 41
>>> 20 Unsurprisingly, the colossal database of names and addresses included several A-list New Yorkers, including director Woody Allen, longtime Vogue editor Anna Wintour and actress Cynthia Nixon -- a loyal Mamdani supporter.
--------- O, the irony! *pops popcorn* Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 28, 2026 12:32 PM (amcLV) Scuba Dude should consider "occupying" one of their properties, although only briefly and with a well-planned exit strategy, as we know only the nomenklatura would avoid prosecution. Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2026 12:36 PM (vDZgA) 42
It's good he published this, for the honeowners' sake. Like a tornado warning.
Also, htf is this move constitutional? Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 28, 2026 12:37 PM (4Ntlw) 43
Always nice to see people getting what they voted for
Posted by: Oglebay at July 28, 2026 12:37 PM (Y4a7P) 44
Third sorld shit hole. uh oh, I most see a bot.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 28, 2026 12:37 PM (YlWIZ) Posted by: man at July 28, 2026 12:37 PM (XuXeR) 46
Class warfare. Klassik Communism ! Way to go Ugandan princess!
Posted by: runner at July 28, 2026 12:37 PM (GD0B3) 47
>>Zeldin might have acted as a bit of a brake against Mamdani
How can a governor slow down a mayor? Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 28, 2026 12:36 PM (Cqx++) __ Provide a state income tax rebate/credit for the amount of the confiscatory city property tax. Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 28, 2026 12:38 PM (bNf8H) 48
Do you ever wake up and read about New York City and say to yourself man I'm glad I don't live in New York City?
Posted by: I gotta ask at July 28, 2026 12:35 PM (2Ez/1) ---- I say that about [ FILL IN THE BLANK ] City. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2026 12:38 PM (FZ29D) Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 28, 2026 12:38 PM (6qpDO) 50
This information was always available. The only difference is they put it into a condensed format.
Posted by: Vengeance at July 28, 2026 12:38 PM (bEuBF) 51
But what will this mean for the Peterman Reality Tour?
Posted by: Kramer at July 28, 2026 12:38 PM (2Ez/1) Posted by: man at July 28, 2026 12:39 PM (XuXeR) 53
Some of the NYC public that bought into this guy are insanely stupid.
Posted by: Martini Farmer Citiots they were called on the last thread. Very apt term. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 12:39 PM (wOO3z) 54
Ah, the heady days of the Red Guards. Will they have public denouncements of said property owners, or just go straight to prosecution and seizure?
Posted by: man _______ They're proscription lists posted on the walls of the forum. Surprised he didn't close all exits from NY so his minions could hunt down the proscribed. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 28, 2026 12:39 PM (XvL8K) 55
LOL,
"Lori Siegel @lorisiegel00 10h Replying to @misfitpatriot_ First they came for the Saturday people, then they came for the pied-a-terre people" Posted by: runner at July 28, 2026 12:39 PM (GD0B3) 56
Always nice to see people getting what they voted for
Based on my experience with lefties there a bunch of people in the top quarter of earners right now saying "but he promised to tax THE RICH not me!" Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 12:39 PM (sKqQm) 57
But think of Cynthia Nixon's trans children. Oh the humanity
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 28, 2026 12:39 PM (BlDDt) 58
This information was always available. The only difference is they put it into a condensed format."
And for a given reason. Posted by: man at July 28, 2026 12:40 PM (XuXeR) 59
You’ve got a commie as mayor, and the village idiot as governor. I swear if that lady walked around with a caption above her head it would be a question mark. She’s dumber than a bag of dirt.
Posted by: Vengeance at July 28, 2026 12:40 PM (bEuBF) 60
***Unsurprisingly, the colossal database of names and addresses included several A-list New Yorkers, including director Woody Allen, longtime Vogue editor Anna Wintour and actress Cynthia Nixon -- a loyal Mamdani supporter.
--- ROLOL _ ....... hahahahahaha Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2026 12:40 PM (Cq/ve) 61
Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte, Santo Patrón de Los Helicópteros, pray for us in our hour of need.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 28, 2026 12:40 PM (RjOoY) 62
TERRIFYING: Zohran Mamdani attended Friday prayers at a mosque where the imam literally called for the killing of infidels (non-Muslims).
----------------- "Feature, not Bug, comrade!" Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 28, 2026 12:40 PM (9EFgU) 63
Mamdani: swarthy demon with a rictus grin.
Posted by: Dirac_Delta at July 28, 2026 12:40 PM (SR1Dt) 64
If all you have is a hammer and sickle, all of your problems look like a kulak.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 28, 2026 12:40 PM (hf00v) 65
How can this not be a 'taking by the Gov?
I seem to remember something about this at a Federal level. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 28, 2026 12:41 PM (NnhvP) 66
Kid, why do you keep sticking a fork into a socket? Doesn't it hurt - every time?
Kid: I like it! Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 28, 2026 12:41 PM (qx7Zg) Posted by: man at July 28, 2026 12:41 PM (XuXeR) 68
Chicken Soup!
Posted by: Nana at July 28, 2026 12:41 PM (anL5R) 69
I’m gonna go through that list and make a bunch of signs that read FREE BEER and WEED, then use the addresses.
Posted by: Vengeance at July 28, 2026 12:42 PM (bEuBF) 70
What is funny is all these rich leftists who are getting the shaft will still vote communist democrat.
CHANGE! Posted by: Zippyslug at July 28, 2026 12:42 PM (evgvX) Posted by: man at July 28, 2026 12:42 PM (XuXeR) 72
Never forget, eh?
Posted by: VladTheInhaler at July 28, 2026 12:42 PM (K1zyu) 73
***A socialist promised he would only seize the properties of the very wealthy turns out to want to seize the properties of the middle-class as well
-- All your stuff are mine. _Joe B. Stallin Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2026 12:43 PM (Cq/ve) 74
Simple question... how does a MAYOR have the power to raise taxes without the City Councils approval?
Wow... OK... 51 members of the council... 4 Republicans. New York you are reaping what you have sewn. Posted by: Romeo13 at July 28, 2026 12:44 PM (mP0Kj) 75
"Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration has published a searchable database of Big Apple properties that could fall under the state's new pied-a-terre tax, effectively doxxing thousands of wealthy New Yorkers."
Is this even legal? This is private information. It was bad enough when NY State published a searchable database of licensed gun owners (that got taken down toot suite, IIRC). This info is even more sensitive. Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 28, 2026 12:44 PM (Mk4yJ) 76
It’s much easier to just burn down the property, then seize it, as was done in LA.
Posted by: K Basshole at July 28, 2026 12:44 PM (DV46I) 77
>>> 70 What is funny is all these rich leftists who are getting the shaft will still vote communist democrat.
CHANGE! Posted by: Zippyslug at July 28, 2026 12:42 PM (evgvX) Their parents and grandparents and great-grand and great-great and great-great-great grand parents all do. Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2026 12:44 PM (vDZgA) 78
Leftist snobs getting beat to death with a spiked club would be a ratings bonanza.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 12:44 PM (wOO3z) 79
So some elderly property owners were thrown out of their house by mistake and died. These things happen in the revolution comrade
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 28, 2026 12:45 PM (BlDDt) 80
But what will this mean for the Peterman Reality Tour?
Posted by: Kramer at July 28, 2026 12:38 PM (2Ez/1) ----------------- Isn't it time for a Seinfeld reboot, where our main characters end up in prison? Oh, wait, nevermind ... Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 28, 2026 12:45 PM (6qpDO) 81
I guess these owners can't sell either, except to a Mandami crony
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 28, 2026 12:45 PM (PHCb/) 82
You can't fight City Hall and nobody beats the Van Wyck!
Posted by: Maxims For Sale Or Rent at July 28, 2026 12:45 PM (JM9I6) 83
Just because a person owns a million dollar house in does not make them "wealthy".
How much does a crappy two bedroom house that belongs to a guy that works for the Post Office cost in NYC? A million for a home in NYC is not even necessarily middle middle class. Posted by: Minuteman at July 28, 2026 12:45 PM (wDh0r) 84
62 TERRIFYING: Zohran Mamdani attended Friday prayers at a mosque where the imam literally called for the killing of infidels (non-Muslims).
----------------- "Feature, not Bug, comrade!" Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 28, 2026 12:40 PM (9EFgU) 9/11's Never Forget has turned out to have a 25 year shelf life. Posted by: Romeo13 at July 28, 2026 12:45 PM (mP0Kj) 85
Weird! A socialist promised he would only seize the properties of the very wealthy turns out to want to seize the properties of the middle-class as well.
-------- The bourgeoisie! Posted by: Marx at July 28, 2026 12:45 PM (XeU6L) 86
I'd laugh, but I live in California.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 28, 2026 12:45 PM (NvVt/) 87
Commies are going to do what they do best, turn everything to shit.
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at July 28, 2026 12:46 PM (Q/FnY) 88
So some elderly property owners were thrown out of their house by mistake and died"
They were not of the body... Posted by: man at July 28, 2026 12:46 PM (XuXeR) Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 28, 2026 12:46 PM (xcxpd) 90
I can't wait to hear AOC, Hakeem Jeffries, and Chuck Schumer dodge questions about this and future insane moves by Mamdani. Their typical dodge is, "I haven't heard about that." They'll be saying it a lot the next 3 and a half years.
Posted by: Gref at July 28, 2026 12:46 PM (5rh/l) 91
We just publicly listed the names and addresses of 960,000 wealthy NYC residents. And suggested that they leave their properties unattended . . .
Posted by: let's see what happens at July 28, 2026 12:46 PM (anL5R) 92
What is next? What's that? You have two cars? You can only drive one at a time. Gas taxes on your second care with include a pied-a-terre tax, as will the orignal purchase price.
You bought TWO tacos? One is perfectly sufficient. That second one is excess and will have a pied-a-terre tax applied. That's a nice suit. You have more than one, right? Well then... Posted by: Orson at July 28, 2026 12:46 PM (dIske) 93
Are there any Trump properties on the list?
Posted by: Mildly curious at July 28, 2026 12:46 PM (2Ez/1) 94
Golden rule. Never mess with a mans money. And this is messing with a lot of peoples money. So I naturally wonder if there aren't still a few older gentlemen in Bensonhurst, Bath Beach, Carroll Gardens and the like that might not take kindly to this and assist NY'ers in their time of need. Forgotten but not gone, as they say.
Posted by: Lunge Clanghole at July 28, 2026 12:46 PM (w1Bba) 95
TERRIFYING: Zohran Mamdani attended Friday prayers at a mosque where the imam literally called for the killing of infidels (non-Muslims).
This did not get enough attention. pic.twitter.com/nKFbCcbplI - Dr. Maalouf (@realMaalouf) July 22, 2026 Has zozo started whining about "backlash" yet? Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2026 12:47 PM (vDZgA) 96
So some elderly property owners were thrown out of their house by mistake and died. These things happen in the revolution comrade
Posted by: Smell the Glove ------- Eggs, omelet. Posted by: Stalin at July 28, 2026 12:47 PM (XeU6L) 97
9/11's Never Forget has turned out to have a 25 year shelf life.
Mamdami's going to spike the ball for Islam at the 25 year anniversary gathering. There's a big petition to ban him from it with tens of thousands of signatures, but there's no authority to enforce it. Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 12:47 PM (2ocoG) 98
So you're saying there's a handy-dandy list of expensive and super-expensive homes that are currently unoccupied? That's super helpful...
Posted by: Not a burglar at July 28, 2026 12:47 PM (IWX21) 99
91 We just publicly listed the names and addresses of 960,000 wealthy NYC residents. And suggested that they leave their properties unattended . . .
Posted by: let's see what happens at July 28, 2026 12:46 PM (anL5R) After disarming most of them via draconian gun laws. Posted by: Romeo13 at July 28, 2026 12:47 PM (mP0Kj) 100
I guess these owners can't sell either, except to a Mandami crony"
Oh, you want a home equity line of credit? So sorry. Posted by: man at July 28, 2026 12:47 PM (XuXeR) 101
"Citywide, The Post counted over 960,000 residences and individuals listed as potentially in line to be hit with Mamdani's pied-a-terre tax, even though just 31,000 homes were supposed to be subjected to the new levy as he and Hochul initially sold it to the public."
Weird how that always happens. Always. When they say 'tax the rich,' they mean YOU. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at July 28, 2026 12:47 PM (AdHga) 102
Ha ha ha ha haaaaa.
Posted by: fd at July 28, 2026 12:47 PM (MWfyi) 103
>>> 90 I can't wait to hear AOC, Hakeem Jeffries, and Chuck Schumer dodge questions about this and future insane moves by Mamdani. Their typical dodge is, "I haven't heard about that." They'll be saying it a lot the next 3 and a half years.
Posted by: Gref at July 28, 2026 12:46 PM (5rh/l) "It was only a few properties." Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2026 12:48 PM (vDZgA) 104
79 So some elderly property owners were thrown out of their house by mistake and died. These things happen in the revolution comrade
Posted by: Smell the Glove --- What's in a number; 100 or 10,000? Just a couple of zeros. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2026 12:48 PM (Cq/ve) 105
> Unsurprisingly, the colossal database of names and addresses included several A-list New Yorkers, including director Woody Allen, longtime Vogue editor Anna Wintour and actress Cynthia Nixon -- a loyal Mamdani supporter.
--------- Ask each one, on camera, how they feel about this. I bet they force a smile and say "it's fine." But the minute nobody's looking or paying attention they'll be working a side hustle to protect their assets. Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2026 12:48 PM (jehhT) 106
Last week, my mom got a "pied-a-terre" tax notice. She has lived full-time in her townhouse FOR 30 YEARS (she and my dad bought it for under $1 million). She has no other residence.
Is NYC not bothering with basic checking of its own tax lists? She's 81 and has three weeks to get her name off the list or she owes $56,000. (Yes, I said I'd help.) https://x.com/AlexBerenson/ status/2081814516124311686 Posted by: Ann at July 28, 2026 12:48 PM (SHHm+) 107
The turnout percentage for the 2025 NYC mayoral election was 43.47%. The highest turnout for a city election since 1993.
Total Registered Voters: 5,103,941 Total Votes Cast: 2,218,647 Historical Context: This election saw significant participation, particularly among young voters, contributing to the overall turnout increase. Posted by: redridinghood at July 28, 2026 12:49 PM (NpAcC) Posted by: man at July 28, 2026 12:49 PM (XuXeR) 109
How bad can it get? Will it matter?
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 28, 2026 12:49 PM (7s9Qe) 110
class action lawsuit. publishing a hit list of innocent residents.
Posted by: gov't here to help at July 28, 2026 12:49 PM (I3A28) 111
We just publicly listed the names and addresses of 960,000 wealthy NYC residents. And suggested that they leave their properties unattended . . .
Posted by: let's see what happens at July 28, 2026 12:46 PM (anL5R) After disarming most of them via draconian gun laws. === Pitch Meeting?!?? Posted by: let's see what happens at July 28, 2026 12:49 PM (anL5R) 112
"She's 81 and has three weeks to get her name off the list or she owes $56,000."
NYC deserves the best parks. Posted by: fd at July 28, 2026 12:49 PM (MWfyi) 113
The list that was released appears to be the Class 1 and Class 2 property tax assessments.
That's already public record (including the owner of record) and includes all properties of a certain type. It has nothing to do with value/assessment or whether it's a primary residence. It's another PR stunt by this clown to try to cover up for the fact that this new tax won't collect even 10% of what they claim. Unlike a lot of the rage-bait reporting, I read the actual tax law. It's got more holes than swiss cheese. Anyone rich enough to be subject to the tax can find away around it. Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 12:50 PM (iFTx/) 114
84 62 TERRIFYING: Zohran Mamdani attended Friday prayers at a mosque where the imam literally called for the killing of infidels (non-Muslims).
----------------- "Feature, not Bug, comrade!" Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 28, 2026 12:40 PM (9EFgU) 9/11's Never Forget has turned out to have a 25 year shelf life. Posted by: Romeo13 at July 28, 2026 12:45 PM (mP0Kj) Pshaw. Sucking of Islamic cock started while the rubble was still smoking. Forgetting isn't a natural evolution, it was official policy. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 28, 2026 12:50 PM (xcxpd) 115
Normally I'd be happy to let New Yorkers suffer for their ignorance and stupidity in electing a 'socialist' muslim. But, at some point, this is going to require a crusades like effort to rid the city of the invaders.
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at July 28, 2026 12:50 PM (+48wn) Posted by: man at July 28, 2026 12:50 PM (XuXeR) 117
Let's see:
Rent freeze. Confiscation from "bad" landlords Tax middle and high income earners Dox middle and high class property owners What's next? Posted by: WisRich at July 28, 2026 12:51 PM (G0vdT) 118
begun, the dekulakization has
Posted by: Otto Penn at July 28, 2026 12:51 PM (JHVDg) 119
What difference, at this point, does it make?
Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at July 28, 2026 12:52 PM (2Ez/1) 120
Like a tornado warning.
Also, htf is this move constitutional? Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 28, 2026 12:37 PM (4Ntlw) Could be emanations and penumbras or because new york is now commie land nobody is going to pretend that matters anymore. Posted by: Nelly at July 28, 2026 12:52 PM (6+ehB) 121
We just publicly listed the names and addresses of 960,000 wealthy NYC residents. And suggested that they leave their properties unattended . . .
Posted by: let's see what happens at July 28, 2026 12:46 PM (anL5R) After disarming most of them via draconian gun laws. === Pitch Meeting?!?? Posted by: let's see what happens at July 28, 2026 12:49 PM (anL5R) ----------- "So, you have an urban disaster scenario for me?" "Yes, sir, I do!" Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 28, 2026 12:52 PM (amcLV) 122
Let's see:
Rent freeze. Confiscation from "bad" landlords Tax middle and high income earners Dox middle and high class property owners What's next? Posted by: WisRich at July 28, 2026 12:51 PM (G0vdT) Ditches. Kneeling kulaks. Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at July 28, 2026 12:52 PM (AdHga) 123
>>> 113 The list that was released appears to be the Class 1 and Class 2 property tax assessments.
That's already public record (including the owner of record) and includes all properties of a certain type. It has nothing to do with value/assessment or whether it's a primary residence. It's another PR stunt by this clown to try to cover up for the fact that this new tax won't collect even 10% of what they claim. Unlike a lot of the rage-bait reporting, I read the actual tax law. It's got more holes than swiss cheese. Anyone rich enough to be subject to the tax can find away around it. Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 12:50 PM (iFTx/) Still a dick move on zozo's part, and I'd bet the little shit and his cronies are very much hoping that the property owners will "experience" some unfortunate events. Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2026 12:52 PM (vDZgA) 124
My two home states over my 60+ years have been New York and Minnesota. The first I was born in, the second one I moved to in 1990. Both used to be great. Minnesota could turn it around this November, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at July 28, 2026 12:53 PM (B2pWp) 125
Unlike a lot of the rage-bait reporting, I read the actual tax law. It's got more holes than swiss cheese. Anyone rich enough to be subject to the tax can find away around it."
Not the point. It's a list of acceptable targets. They must all publicly self abase and swear fealty to the cause... or? Posted by: man at July 28, 2026 12:53 PM (XuXeR) 126
Hmm. For some reason, I'm reminded of the Paris Commune.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 28, 2026 12:53 PM (XeU6L) 127
That's a hilarious way to start the day. Thanks!
Down the road, it'll really suck if you live in TWO cardboard boxes. Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at July 28, 2026 12:53 PM (Sco7b) 128
NYC, at least Manhattan is rather easily cut off from outside supply. Let’s see how long they can last. 5 days? 10?
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at July 28, 2026 12:53 PM (40mwC) Posted by: fd at July 28, 2026 12:53 PM (MWfyi) 130
Hey!
Posted by: /squatters r us Oops, pardon me. You should register this place with the mayor as your primary residence. Squatters rights! They'll probably help you change the locks and people like me won't have to waste our time... Are you using this flatscreen...? Posted by: Not a burglar at July 28, 2026 12:53 PM (IWX21) 131
hey guys
I'm back from the upper, wild parts of new england was lovely to visit the boys and see more of those areas than I've ever seen very peaceful stayed offline the whole time now I'm back and yeah, I'm "under the weather" too Ace. I'm heartsick after doomscrolling Fauci excerpts all last night it's like, PTSD or something. the ANGER cannot be measured I want 20 minutes alone with that thing Posted by: Black Orchid at July 28, 2026 12:54 PM (j+aD2) 132
I wonder if Mamdani has been reminded that a life sentence for someone who bought their home in the 60s isn't much of a deterrent...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 28, 2026 12:54 PM (NnhvP) 133
Look for pallets of bricks and cases of empty wine bottles around the city.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 12:54 PM (wOO3z) 134
Unlike a lot of the rage-bait reporting, I read the actual tax law. It's got more holes than swiss cheese. Anyone rich enough to be subject to the tax can find away around it.
Posted by: Elric The Blade --- And the 81 yr old residents get the shaft. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2026 12:54 PM (Cq/ve) Posted by: man at July 28, 2026 12:55 PM (XuXeR) 136
> Unsurprisingly, the colossal database of names and addresses included several A-list New Yorkers, including director Woody Allen, longtime Vogue editor Anna Wintour and actress Cynthia Nixon -- a loyal Mamdani supporter.
I had a fantasy where Allen, Wintour, and Nixon all had to leave NYC because of the politics and now I may have to call my doctor about this erection. Posted by: bonhomme at July 28, 2026 12:55 PM (mkw2N) 137
BUT, I'm more than willing to believe they didn't actually elect him. Our large cities have been running by machines powered by election fraud for a century and a half.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 28, 2026 12:30 PM (N1DT3) But then who would have been mayor? Cuomo, the scumbag who sent 15,000 grannies to their deaths during CoVID because it was convenient? Slows, who cosplays as a conservative but is really just a Jew hating nutcase? The sad and hard fact is that NYC is no longer capable of being entrusted with its own governance. A period of military occupation is probably the best case possible. Posted by: Tom Servo at July 28, 2026 12:55 PM (xLOWQ) 138
62 TERRIFYING: Zohran Mamdani attended Friday prayers at a mosque where the imam literally called for the killing of infidels (non-Muslims).
----------------- "Feature, not Bug, comrade!" Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 28, 2026 12:40 PM (9EFgU) so is But properties where the owner lives there year-round are on the lists of estates to be seized. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2026 12:55 PM (l3cgK) 139
Hmm. For some reason, I'm reminded of the Paris Commune.
Posted by: Mike Hammer We can but hope it ends the same way. Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 28, 2026 12:55 PM (jU8BU) 140
Hmm. For some reason, I'm reminded of the Paris Commune.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 28, 2026 12:53 PM (XeU6L) We’ll always have Paris... Posted by: Rick at July 28, 2026 12:55 PM (GD0B3) 141
The Hill: Democratic political strategist James Carville on Sunday said David Hogg, former Democratic National Committee (DNC) vice chair, should succeed current chair Ken Martin, calling the DNC “dysfunctional.”
... it must be REALLY BAD Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2026 12:56 PM (RHGPo) 142
But properties where the owner lives there year-round are on the lists of estates to be seized."
That is the point. Posted by: man at July 28, 2026 12:56 PM (XuXeR) 143
141 The Hill: Democratic political strategist James Carville on Sunday said David Hogg, former Democratic National Committee (DNC) vice chair, should succeed current chair Ken Martin, calling the DNC “dysfunctional.”
not martin's fault but I still enjoy him being the scapegoat Posted by: Black Orchid at July 28, 2026 12:57 PM (j+aD2) 144
pied-a-terre tax
If you want the rich to leave NY, this is how you do it. NYC and NY State deserve to become shitholes like Kalifornia has become... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2026 12:57 PM (l3cgK) 145
yes, please DNC, always take Carville's advice, you go far!
Posted by: runner at July 28, 2026 12:57 PM (GD0B3) 146
This is great news! It is heartbreaking to have so many homeless and so many unoccupied homes, that math does not add up for me. This way those unoccupied homes can at least generate funds for the city to use on citizens. Go Mamdani!
Oh no. A tax that only affects people with second homes in NYC valued over 5 million dollars. How burdensome to the general population. Truly everyone will feel it. /s MAGA says it’s communist for these people to start paying taxes after jacking up property values in nyc just to never actually live there. 🙄 These are public property records. They've been publicly available in New York State since 1830. I could've searched up any one of these through the County Clerk's Office in seconds. MAGA is freaking out over nothing. The right wing media is really losing its shit over everything and anything. Just read something about the DSA‘s plans to totally ruin American life and harm your children. It’s kind of hilarious in a dark way. Is it just me or does some of this Mamdami hate come off feeling like Islamophobia. Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 28, 2026 12:57 PM (VB9q0) 147
We’ll always have Paris...
Posted by: Rick at July 28, 2026 12:55 PM (GD0B3) ------- That's what Helen of Troy said, and look where it got her. Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 28, 2026 12:57 PM (amcLV) 148
143 141 The Hill: Democratic political strategist James Carville on Sunday said David Hogg, former Democratic National Committee (DNC) vice chair, should succeed current chair Ken Martin, calling the DNC “dysfunctional.”
not martin's fault but I still enjoy him being the scapegoat Posted by: Black Orchid at July 28, 2026 12:57 PM (j+aD2) The DNC identifies as functional commies... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2026 12:57 PM (l3cgK) Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 28, 2026 12:57 PM (xcxpd) 150
I've told this before but this crap is creeping into my county, 70-100 miles north of NYC. My DSA assembly woman and the leftist county legislature are petitioning the state to allow for a high earner surcharge tax. The old time Dems are gone. The Republicans are almost non existent. Combine that with rent control band you have a mess
Oh and our county exec is whining about budget problems Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 28, 2026 12:58 PM (BlDDt) 151
>>> 131
== I'm heartsick after doomscrolling Fauci excerpts all last night it's like, PTSD or something. the ANGER cannot be measured I want 20 minutes alone with that thing Posted by: Black Orchid at July 28, 2026 12:54 PM (j+aD2) The phrase "traditional cut from his belly"* comes to mind for some reason. * NO it is not a Queensryche lyric, it's from one of Lois McMaster Bujold's first Barrayar novels and it's the fate of a guy who tried to murder his way to the Imperial throne. Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2026 12:58 PM (vDZgA) 152
The list that was released appears to be the Class 1 and Class 2 property tax assessments.
That's already public record (including the owner of record) and includes all properties of a certain type. It has nothing to do with value/assessment or whether it's a primary residence. I Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 12:50 PM (iFTx/) Still a dick move on zozo's part, and I'd bet the little shit and his cronies are very much hoping that the property owners will "experience" some unfortunate events. Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2026 12:52 PM (vDZgA) ______ Sure, a dick move. He's a yuge dick. But the info is already public. The tax rolls are published every year. It's actually harder to drill down into these records than in some other cities. In Miami-Dade, you can search a person's name on a public website, and get any addresses owned in their name. The amount of personal info that's publicly available through online tools is scary. Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 12:58 PM (iFTx/) 153
137 BUT, I'm more than willing to believe they didn't actually elect him. Our large cities have been running by machines powered by election fraud for a century and a half.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian --- OK. But who controls the machine? NY money. I thought that NY money would not allow him to be elected. Turns out NY money wanted him. Boy, they got him. Up their patoot. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2026 12:58 PM (Cq/ve) 154
132 I wonder if Mamdani has been reminded that a life sentence for someone who bought their home in the 60s isn't much of a deterrent...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 28, 2026 12:54 PM (NnhvP Aaaaand look at California's release of elder, aged inmates. Ask Siri Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 28, 2026 12:58 PM (YlWIZ) 155
137 BUT, I'm more than willing to believe they didn't actually elect him. Our large cities have been running by machines powered by election fraud for a century and a half.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 28, 2026 12:30 PM (N1DT3) But then who would have been mayor? Cuomo, the scumbag who sent 15,000 grannies to their deaths during CoVID because it was convenient? Slows, who cosplays as a conservative but is really just a Jew hating nutcase? The sad and hard fact is that NYC is no longer capable of being entrusted with its own governance. A period of military occupation is probably the best case possible. Posted by: Tom Servo at July 28, 2026 12:55 PM (xLOWQ) Perhas some sort of wall around Manhattan.... Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 28, 2026 12:58 PM (xcxpd) 156
At redcross.org: "The American Red Cross has declared only the second national blood supply crisis in its history after blood donations fell to a four-year summer low."
Hey, pay me for it, and I'll be down there every day. Give it for free? Nope. Posted by: gp at July 28, 2026 12:58 PM (Jr5Lq) 157
Wait they issue a revised list, with yellow stars next to a bunch of the names.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 28, 2026 12:58 PM (aD4fx) 158
"Is it just me or does some of this Mamdami hate come off feeling like Islamophobia."
It's more of a disgust than a phobia. Posted by: fd at July 28, 2026 12:59 PM (MWfyi) 159
You will pry my pied-à-terre from my cold, dead Trust!
Posted by: Trust fund Useful Idiots at July 28, 2026 12:59 PM (GD0B3) 160
It's all mental defectives and shit goblins as far as the eye can see.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 12:59 PM (wOO3z) 161
This is great news! It is heartbreaking to have so many homeless and so many unoccupied homes, that math does not add up for me. This way those unoccupied homes can at least generate funds for the city to use on citizens. Go Mamdani!
It's great until they take your home and stuff, put you against a wall, and shoot you for being a member of the bourgeoisie... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2026 12:59 PM (l3cgK) 162
Time to rewatch Doctor Zhivago and the communal sharing of houses. The drug addicts will be comfortable with ten to a bedroom.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 28, 2026 12:59 PM (jU8BU) 163
The Hill: Democratic political strategist James Carville on Sunday said David Hogg, former Democratic National Committee (DNC) vice chair, should succeed current chair Ken Martin, calling the DNC “dysfunctional.”
... it must be REALLY BAD Posted by: SMOD ------ It's like Pee Wee Herman becoming the Chair. Some scenarios are impossible to plausibly imagine. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 28, 2026 01:00 PM (XeU6L) 164
159 You will pry my pied-à-terre from my cold, dead Trust!
Posted by: Trust fund Useful Idiots at July 28, 2026 12:59 PM (GD0B3) does that stand for dirt pie, like a mud pie only drier? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2026 01:00 PM (l3cgK) 165
Unlike a lot of the rage-bait reporting, I read the actual tax law. It's got more holes than swiss cheese. Anyone rich enough to be subject to the tax can find away around it.
Posted by: Elric The Blade --- And the 81 yr old residents get the shaft. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2026 12:54 PM (Cq/ve) ______ Not really. Assuming that twatter post was real (I have my doubts), then she is clearly not covered by the tax. Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 01:00 PM (iFTx/) 166
>>> 152
== The amount of personal info that's publicly available through online tools is scary. Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 12:58 PM (iFTx/) Yeah, *that* is true. I believe there are a few ways to clean some of that up, and I need to learn more about it... Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2026 01:01 PM (vDZgA) 167
She's 81 and has three weeks to get her name off the list or she owes $56,000."
NYC deserves the best FIFY Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at July 28, 2026 01:01 PM (cI94r) 168
It shall be interesting to see which of his supporters are all of a sudden exempt, because you know this is going to happen.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 28, 2026 01:01 PM (n5tGW) 169
163 The Hill: Democratic political strategist James Carville on Sunday said David Hogg, former Democratic National Committee (DNC) vice chair, should succeed current chair Ken Martin, calling the DNC “dysfunctional.”
... it must be REALLY BAD Posted by: SMOD ------ It's like Pee Wee Herman becoming the Chair. Some scenarios are impossible to plausibly imagine. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 28, 2026 01:00 PM (XeU6L) At least Pee Wee Herman did it in an adult theater, not in a Senate room... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2026 01:01 PM (l3cgK) 170
How exciting! But I don't think this will make any committed communist have second thoughts.
NYC is a pretty corrupt place. Any friends or donors of the mayor will be exempt. At the same time, they will feel a delicious thrill at the thought of sacrificing for the cause (especially if the sacrifice does not happen in the end). Posted by: PG at July 28, 2026 01:01 PM (jGLqZ) 171
The amount of personal info that's publicly available through online tools is scary.
Posted by: Elric The Blade -------- And those access asshoes call me 3x a day telling men my loan is almost complete; just a few more questions and your $75K loan will be complete. Click here. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2026 01:01 PM (Cq/ve) 172
This tactic was invented by the San Francisco Chronicle, which set up a searchable database linked to Google Maps that showed the residence of every person who contributed to the anti-gay marriage initiative in California.
Quite a few people lost their jobs because of that. Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 28, 2026 01:02 PM (aD4fx) 173
Pshaw. Sucking of Islamic cock started while the rubble was still smoking. Forgetting isn't a natural evolution, it was official policy.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards ======= A commercial class that views making money as the foremost value in the world is not going to let a little thing like 2000 deaths or so prevent that. View Lenin as a vicious psychopath but he did predict accurately that capitalists would sell the very rope that would be used to hang them. Greed and the flip side of envy are cardinal sins for a reason. So is pride. Posted by: whig at July 28, 2026 01:02 PM (E4rtv) 174
We’ll always have Paris...
Posted by: Rick ------- That's what Helen of Troy said, and look where it got her. Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea Yeah, she really took a dark turn. Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 28, 2026 01:02 PM (NvVt/) 175
"You've got mail!" - Mayor Smiley Mamdani
Posted by: wth at July 28, 2026 01:02 PM (UjdFS) 176
The Hill: Democratic political strategist James Carville on Sunday said David Hogg, former Democratic National Committee (DNC) vice chair, should succeed current chair Ken Martin, calling the DNC “dysfunctional.”
-- White cis male privilege! Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 28, 2026 01:02 PM (gDlxJ) 177
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 01:00 PM (iFTx/)
Seems she has to prove she doesn’t own another place. At 81. Good times. Posted by: Ann at July 28, 2026 01:03 PM (SHHm+) 178
"At least Pee Wee Herman did it in an adult theater, not in a Senate room...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) " That we know of. Posted by: fd at July 28, 2026 01:03 PM (MWfyi) 179
172 This tactic was invented by the San Francisco Chronicle, which set up a searchable database linked to Google Maps that showed the residence of every person who contributed to the anti-gay marriage initiative in California.
Quite a few people lost their jobs because of that. Posted by: The ARC of History! Before that, it was used to out concealed weapon permit holders by places like the Commercial Appeal in Memphis. Posted by: whig at July 28, 2026 01:03 PM (E4rtv) 180
The RNC has $130 million cash on hand. Trump controls a $400 million super PAC. The Dems are $2 million in debt. Of course the Republicans could screw it up
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 28, 2026 01:03 PM (BlDDt) 181
t redcross.org: "The American Red Cross has declared only the second national blood supply crisis in its history after blood donations fell to a four-year summer low."
Hey, pay me for it now go check your itemized bill for the fee for a unit of blood. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 28, 2026 01:04 PM (NnhvP) 182
As mentioned elsewhere, the people who could afford a 2nd or 3rd home in Manhattan are not fazed by this one bit. Don't care. They have "people" to take care of it.
I'd bet the goal here is as Mamdani said before the election; have the people who can't afford to keep their properties sell them to the city at an absurdly low price. He'll then flip them for fun and profit. Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2026 01:04 PM (jehhT) 183
Sounds like he's inviting those scumbag squatters to take over these homes while the owner is away for a day or too, forcing the owner to spend thousands to evict those a-holes.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 28, 2026 01:04 PM (y2f7I) 184
Mecca-Lecca-Hi-Mecca- Hiney-Ho.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 01:05 PM (wOO3z) 185
We just publicly listed the names and addresses of 960,000 wealthy NYC residents. And suggested that they leave their properties unattended . . .
After disarming most of them via draconian gun laws. ---------- But a Republican somewhere might not approve of men buggering men. Suppose we best vote for the death camp people! Posted by: ... at July 28, 2026 01:05 PM (vE0+H) 186
Seems she has to prove she doesn’t own another place.
At 81. Good times. Posted by: Ann at July 28, 2026 01:03 PM (SHHm+) -------- 81 or not, how do you prove a negative? Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 28, 2026 01:05 PM (amcLV) 187
The amount of personal info that's publicly available through online tools is scary.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 12:58 PM (iFTx/) Yeah, *that* is true. I believe there are a few ways to clean some of that up, and I need to learn more about it... Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2026 01:01 PM (vDZgA) _________ Property ownership, DMV records, vehicle registrations, criminal convictions, legal records -- all are publicly available and easily searchable. In some states, all you need is a license plate, and you can find out owner, address, insurer, VIN number, etc. So if someone sees you on the road, and doesn't like you or your car, they can find out where you live. One way to try to avoid this is put substantial assets in an LLC, but that has problems of its own. Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 01:05 PM (iFTx/) 188
they issue a revised list, with yellow stars next to a bunch of the name"
Don't think they haven't thought of that Posted by: man at July 28, 2026 01:05 PM (XuXeR) 189
Mandani truly is central casting for this role. And the Democrats are powerless against him because is executing (and exposing) their dream policies to a 't'.
Posted by: t-bird at July 28, 2026 01:05 PM (TmQh+) Posted by: Ann at July 28, 2026 01:05 PM (SHHm+) 191
I hope Cynthia Nixon gets depossessed.
Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2026 12:33 PM (77rzZ) There aren't enough priests in all of Christendom. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 01:06 PM (ExV1e) 192
this topic is really awful btw
there's no reason to undersell it Elric this is pretty fucking awful it was CLEARLY a "bad peoples" list, to be used for doxxing these stories always worry me bc it just means more idiots coming to PA from NYC we are FULL Posted by: Black Orchid at July 28, 2026 01:06 PM (j+aD2) 193
Time to rewatch Doctor Zhivago and the communal sharing of houses. The drug addicts will be comfortable with ten to a bedroom.
Posted by: Thomas Paine --------- Short vid, Zhivago returns home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnpATXvwWrI Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 28, 2026 01:06 PM (XeU6L) 194
This tactic was invented by the San Francisco Chronicle, which set up a searchable database linked to Google Maps that showed the residence of every person who contributed to the anti-gay marriage initiative in California.
Quite a few people lost their jobs because of that. Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 28, 2026 01:02 PM (aD4fx) Didn't they also create the searchable 'gun owners' database? Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at July 28, 2026 01:06 PM (AdHga) 195
And those access asshoes call me 3x a day telling men my loan is almost complete; just a few more questions and your $75K loan will be complete. Click here.
Posted by: Braenyard I get a lot less of that crap and unsolicited mailers by subscribing to a service that forces removal of my personal information on the net. I have to click and authorize for a couple but that, and having anti spam settings on my phones with call screening for unknown numbers has cut that to a minimum. Service runs about $150 per year and includes antivirus, databreach notifications, etc. Posted by: whig at July 28, 2026 01:06 PM (E4rtv) 196
Mamdani Publishes Names of Property Owners Whose Estates Will be Confiscated
Now how would the founders have reacted to this? Posted by: 18-1 ....... Ropes and lamp posts. Posted by: wth at July 28, 2026 01:06 PM (UjdFS) 197
165 Unlike a lot of the rage-bait reporting, I read the actual tax law. It's got more holes than swiss cheese. Anyone rich enough to be subject to the tax can find away around it. Posted by: Elric The Blade If this is true, and I don’t doubt you, then Mamdani has made an even bigger tactical error than I thought. He just infuriated 960,000 people with at least some wealth, and he’s going to get a much smaller financial return ham he’s been counting on. He’s made a very bad bet. Posted by: Tom Servo at July 28, 2026 01:06 PM (xLOWQ) 198
181 Google AI sez: "The average gross hospital charge to a patient for a single unit of red blood cells in the United States is $634, while the actual cash price averages $321.80."
Pay me by the bushel, and I'll be your blood farm. But I'm not giving it away free. Posted by: gp at July 28, 2026 01:07 PM (Jr5Lq) 199
If this is true, and I don’t doubt you, then Mamdani has made an even bigger tactical error than I thought. He just infuriated 960,000 people with at least some wealth, and he’s going to get a much smaller financial return ham he’s been counting on.
oh I don't think that was his intention at all. he just wanted to scare a percentage of people out of their Manhattan homes so he can take them over. Posted by: Black Orchid at July 28, 2026 01:07 PM (j+aD2) 200
I can't write what I'd like to see done to Mamdani and his ilk. I'd get in trouble.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 28, 2026 01:07 PM (fNDW9) 201
Wondering how much of his BS is just that, a mighty wind.
Key Exemptions to the Surcharge Primary Residences: Used as the primary home by the owner, their immediate family, or majority-interest entity owners. Long-Term Rentals: Rented out via an arm's-length lease for a minimum of one year where the tenant uses it as their primary residence. Value Thresholds: One- to three-family homes valued under $5 million, and co-op or condo units valued under $1 million (during the initial phase-in period). Property Types: Standard rental apartment buildings, commercial real estate, hotels, vacant land, unsold sponsor units, or a block of more than three condos under single ownership. I have acquaintances from bougie NJ who've separated NYC property under (for example) the wife's maiden name since purchase & also keep her name from showing up on their NJ properties, too. Certainly, sophisticated Connecticut owners have done the same. Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 28, 2026 01:07 PM (LL19j) 202
Property ownership, DMV records, vehicle registrations, criminal convictions, legal records -- all are publicly available and easily searchable.
In some states, all you need is a license plate, and you can find out owner, address, insurer, VIN number, etc. So if someone sees you on the road, and doesn't like you or your car, they can find out where you live. One way to try to avoid this is put substantial assets in an LLC, but that has problems of its own. Posted by: Elric The Blade ======= You can force databrokers to remove a lot of that due to federal laws and regulations. I do and it works. Someone can always do legwork but most assholes are lazy and just want to buy up lists from databrokers. Posted by: whig at July 28, 2026 01:08 PM (E4rtv) 203
You know if they made Dr Zhivago today it would be a comedy where that evil rich doctor learns that all he needs to do his share his things with people and everything will just work out
Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 01:08 PM (sKqQm) 204
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 01:00 PM (iFTx/)
Seems she has to prove she doesn’t own another place. At 81. Good times. Posted by: Ann at July 28, 2026 01:03 PM (SHHm+) ______ I've already been to the portal for this. She can upload a copy of her tax return showing that's her primary address. Easy. Now, if she's claiming some other property on her tax return as her primary, then that's a different story. Personally, I think that X post was bullshit ragebait. Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 01:09 PM (iFTx/) 205
Greed and the flip side of envy are cardinal sins for a reason. So is pride.
Posted by: whig at July 28, 2026 01:02 PM (E4rtv) And the remedy is to repent and to do the will of God. Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 28, 2026 01:09 PM (YlWIZ) 206
Mamdani Publishes Names of Property Owners Whose Estates Will be Confiscated
Behold, the mythical Honest Democrat. A real Democrat would be living off the bribes. Posted by: t-bird at July 28, 2026 01:09 PM (TmQh+) 207
Slightly OT:
My new cat Chloe is exploring my office again. I think she's looking forward to taking it over when I can no longer afford to pay the "Chloe Tax." Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2026 01:10 PM (FZ29D) 208
> In some states, all you need is a license plate, and you can find out owner, address, insurer, VIN number, etc. So if someone sees you on the road, and doesn't like you or your car, they can find out where you live.
Steve Jobs used some CA rule where you could go several months without putting a license plate on your car. He was convinced this helped him avoid people following him or stalking him. Posted by: bonhomme at July 28, 2026 01:10 PM (mkw2N) 209
Google AI sez: "The average gross hospital charge to a patient for a single unit of red blood cells in the United States is $634, while the actual cash price averages $321.80."
Now ask what percentage of hospitals patients get free or reduced price care due to government regulations. Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 01:10 PM (sKqQm) 210
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us
/coyotes-in-weho-pack-seemingly -takes-over-abandoned-construction-site/ar-AA28RQra Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 28, 2026 01:10 PM (cv2yY) 211
For some reason, I'm reminded of the Paris Commune.
Posted by: Mike Hammer We can but hope it ends the same way. Posted by: Thomas Paine _________ Yes, we need a Galliffet. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 28, 2026 01:10 PM (XvL8K) 212
Can you feel that? The ominous yank of the overton window in the wake of Trump. And make no mistake we were headed here with or without him (moreso without).
They are going to move the country and world to the Left by hook or by crook. If you don't see it, I feel sorry for you. You will wake up one day and wonder what the hell happened, and how it was done. I'm telling you how it's being done as it's happening, and trying to save you some heartache. Posted by: ... at July 28, 2026 01:10 PM (vE0+H) 213
Something like this happened in the early 90's in S.F. though it involved designating multi-unit properties as rentals or tourist. Many buildings were operated by immigrants who didn't understand the terms and the properties were classified as tourist. It became a big problem.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 28, 2026 01:11 PM (DZ9Lv) 214
this topic is really awful btw
there's no reason to undersell it Elric this is pretty fucking awful it was CLEARLY a "bad peoples" list, to be used for doxxing these stories always worry me bc it just means more idiots coming to PA from NYC we are FULL Posted by: Black Orchid at July 28, 2026 01:06 PM (j+aD2) _____ The lists are published on DOF website every year. Nothing is new about any of this. Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 01:11 PM (iFTx/) 215
198 181 Google AI sez: "The average gross hospital charge to a patient for a single unit of red blood cells in the United States is $634, while the actual cash price averages $321.80."
Pay me by the bushel, and I'll be your blood farm. But I'm not giving it away free. Posted by: gp ====== And that is the solution to blood and plasma shortages--pay people. And same is true for organs to transplant. But Big Medicine wants those things for free and then turn around and charge for providing products that they go for free. Posted by: whig at July 28, 2026 01:11 PM (E4rtv) 216
Hope you feel better soon, Ace.
Mandingo is going to implode. This doxxing impacts those who voted for him...granted, I'd be mad as well. I hope he's impeached and deported. I don't like looking at him. Some people, like the Idaho College Killer (again in the news having a tantrum) I don't look as their taint might find a portal. Evil is in the eyes and I don't play with demons. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 28, 2026 01:11 PM (hzuYO) 217
The lists are published on DOF website every year. Nothing is new about any of this.
whatever you say Mr Expert lol Posted by: Black Orchid at July 28, 2026 01:11 PM (j+aD2) 218
Provide a state income tax rebate/credit for the amount of the confiscatory city property tax.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 28, 2026 12:38 PM (bNf8H) Presumably Democrats in Congress will propose just such a credit on federal taxes so the rest of us, who don't live in NYC, can fund this. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 01:11 PM (ExV1e) Posted by: m at July 28, 2026 01:12 PM (faghi) 220
The lists are published on DOF website every year. Nothing is new about any of this."
Yeah, it's all the same. *sigh* Posted by: man at July 28, 2026 01:12 PM (XuXeR) 221
Zohran Mamdani Dada Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2026 01:12 PM (rbvCR) 222
How can a governor slow down a mayor?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 28, 2026 12:36 PM (Cqx++) ------- Hell, even Hochul shot down a tax idea he demanded. But she bailed him out with more money in the state budget. I like what Zeldin has done at the EPA and I like to think he could've told mamdami to pound sand more than hochul Posted by: 496 at July 28, 2026 01:12 PM (JfNq6) 223
Gotta hand it to New Yorkers, they would rather walk up to their own firing squad than to defy Democrat orders. That’s dedication.
Posted by: Cray Cray at July 28, 2026 01:12 PM (yoDMB) 224
I'm heartsick after doomscrolling Fauci excerpts all last night
it's like, PTSD or something. the ANGER cannot be measured I want 20 minutes alone with that thing Posted by: Black Orchid ....... I wish he would have went on Dancing With the Stars and broke his hip. Posted by: wth at July 28, 2026 01:12 PM (UjdFS) 225
*checks notes* OK... it looks like... yup. Every one of you guys paid a lot of money to New York Democrats for the privilege of getting ripped off and now physically menaced by the people you were paying them to let you rip off in the first place. So... according to a few further calculations... let's see... reap^2 = sow the whirlwind = how much I care = 0... yup, checks out. Posted by: Whale Biologist at July 28, 2026 01:12 PM (I7P/o) 226
I hope he's impeached and deported. I don't like looking at him. Some people, like the Idaho College Killer (again in the news having a tantrum) I don't look as their taint might find a portal. Evil is in the eyes and I don't play with demons.
agree but the left here is still in love with him he's not going ANYWHERE he is more than just mayor of NYC Posted by: Black Orchid at July 28, 2026 01:12 PM (j+aD2) 227
The lists are published on DOF website every year. Nothing is new about any of this.
Posted by: Elric The Blade Most people are too lazy to scroll through to find the one they want and this gives them a master list for mischief. And I think Mamdani is going to pay for that politically and perhaps legally for being an impudent little greasy shit. Posted by: whig at July 28, 2026 01:13 PM (E4rtv) 228
216 Mandingo is going to implode. ...
I hope he's impeached and deported. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 28, 2026 01:11 PM (hzuYO) Perhaps he will be martyred. Perhaps this is what he wants. Posted by: m at July 28, 2026 01:13 PM (faghi) 229
I like what Zeldin has done at the EPA and I like to think he could've told mamdami to pound sand more than hochul Posted by: 496 at July 28, 2026 01:12 PM (JfNq6) I imagine Hokul is afraid to cross Mamdani... Posted by: It's me donna at July 28, 2026 01:13 PM (p3OSa) 230
> My new cat Chloe is exploring my office again.
My cat wasn't allowed in our bedroom. But she took home security seriously. So when we left the door open, she would cautiously and slowly walk to the middle of the room, plaintively announcing herself. I liked to imagine she was saying, "I know I'm not supposed to be in here, but I have to check for intruders." I wouldn't yell at her. I would just stand at the door and quietly say, "Come on." She would trot out of the bedroom as soon as I did. Posted by: bonhomme at July 28, 2026 01:13 PM (mkw2N) 231
"pied-a-terre"
Damn commies can't even use an American English word. It's the Obama pock-ee-stahn/KEEV thing where they think it makes them sound smart. Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 01:14 PM (2ocoG) 232
>>The lists are published on DOF website every year. Nothing is new about any of this.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 01:11 PM (iFTx/) __ Don't be naive; of course it is. It is one thing for records to be publicly available, if you want to take the time to search for them. It is another for the government to point a spotlight on them, encourage their publicity, and imply that those listed in the records are evil. Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 28, 2026 01:14 PM (bNf8H) 233
In some states, all you need is a license plate, and you can find out owner, address, insurer, VIN number, etc. So if someone sees you on the road, and doesn't like you or your car, they can find out where you live.
Steve Jobs used some CA rule where you could go several months without putting a license plate on your car. He was convinced this helped him avoid people following him or stalking him. Posted by: bonhomme at July 28, 2026 01:10 PM (mkw2N) ______ Yes, I believe it was 6 months and he always leased the car (a Mercedes SL, IIRC), so technically the owner was the bank. He was such a public figure that I wonder whether it was worth the effort, but he did it. Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 01:14 PM (iFTx/) 234
You know if they made Dr Zhivago today it would be a comedy where that evil rich doctor learns that all he needs to do his share his things with people and everything will just work out
Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 01:08 PM (sKqQm) It's one of my favorite movies and it holds a certain personal poignancy for me since my parents were forced to flee (with me as an infant) communist animals like that when they took over their country. I really, really don't like commies. It's very personal with me. Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 28, 2026 01:14 PM (fNDW9) 235
Hell, even Hochul shot down a tax idea he demanded. But she bailed him out with more money in the state budget.
The left: Blue states finance red states! Also the left: The red counties in NYS should be proud to pay NYC for all the diversity and culture it brings them Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 01:14 PM (sKqQm) 236
6 New York is unique in that property records are generally easily available. So this is a big deal.
But if you have a modicum of knowledge, you can find this information very easily in almost every other city/county. Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 28, 2026 12:26 PM (N1DT3) NOT. NOT easily available. My kingdom for an edit button! Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 28, 2026 12:27 PM (N1DT3) That's by design. Makes it difficult to challenge tax assesments. You show up with comps to argue the tax board was smoking something psychedelic when inventing their numbers, then they say "but our database shows blah blah blah!" (which you don't get to see before the meeting) and they get their way. Posted by: scruboak at July 28, 2026 01:14 PM (/ZZeK) 237
>>> 204
______ I've already been to the portal for this. She can upload a copy of her tax return showing that's her primary address. Easy. Now, if she's claiming some other property on her tax return as her primary, then that's a different story. Personally, I think that X post was bullshit ragebait. Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 01:09 PM (iFTx/) Sure, but we know the real problem isn't how she uses this property, it's whether or not the bureaucracy wants to fuck with her for whatever reason. Not to mention some rando True Believer deciding to Take Direct Action. Klantifags in particular seem to love going after 80+ aged kulaks. Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2026 01:14 PM (vDZgA) 238
The sad and hard fact is that NYC is no longer capable of being entrusted with its own governance. A period of military occupation is probably the best case possible.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 28, 2026 12:55 PM ———— When do we get to the “Duke of New York - Cadillac with bumper chandeliers” stage of the process? Posted by: Dirac_Delta at July 28, 2026 01:15 PM (SR1Dt) 239
You can force databrokers to remove a lot of that due to federal laws and regulations. I do and it works. Someone can always do legwork but most assholes are lazy and just want to buy up lists from databrokers.
Posted by: whig at July 28, 2026 01:08 PM (E4rtv) what is fun is when they sell and resell corrupted and out of date lists. Those are exciting to work through, especially when trying to generate or serve liens and garnishments. Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2026 01:15 PM (rbvCR) 240
Don't be naive; of course it is. It is one thing for records to be publicly available, if you want to take the time to search for them. It is another for the government to point a spotlight on them, encourage their publicity, and imply that those listed in the records are evil.
it's not naivety, it's pedantry anyway good rebuttal Dr Crane Posted by: Black Orchid at July 28, 2026 01:15 PM (j+aD2) 241
agree but the left here is still in love with him
he's not going ANYWHERE he is more than just mayor of NYC Posted by: Black Orchid I am not sure that the left loves anything--they worship death and destruction more than any person or thing. Basically commies love only the successful leader, not the fallen ones and it is a strange kind of love that worships being treated like mushrooms--kept in the dark and fed horseshit. More like mass masochism. If only Comrade Mamdani knew! sort of thing. Posted by: whig at July 28, 2026 01:15 PM (E4rtv) 242
he is more than just mayor of NYC
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 28, 2026 01:12 PM (j+aD2) He is the frontman for a highly coordinated top to bottom movement. Posted by: ... at July 28, 2026 01:15 PM (vE0+H) 243
want and this gives them a master list for mischief."
This is it. Everyone knows who had advanced schooling. It was the list from the Khmer that precipitated action... Posted by: man at July 28, 2026 01:15 PM (XuXeR) Posted by: gp at July 28, 2026 01:15 PM (Jr5Lq) 245
whatever you say Mr Expert
lol Elric's a deep cover troll, here to gradually normalize the weird things Democrats do and downplay things conservatives won. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. I find it entertaining. Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 01:16 PM (2ocoG) 246
Perhaps he will be martyred. Perhaps this is what he wants.
Posted by: m at July 28, 2026 01:13 PM (faghi) --- Mamdani doesn't strike me as a true believer in Islam. Communism maybe. In any event, he's quite happy to have *others* be martyred to the cause, but he's ultimately a coward and will do whatever he can to preserve his worthless hide when push comes to shove. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2026 01:16 PM (FZ29D) 247
The left: Why aren't there more places for people to live? Who created this shortage and you know what we should hang whoever is responsible
Also the left: You know what we need to crack down on? People making new housing. Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 01:16 PM (sKqQm) 248
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 01:09 PM (iFTx/)
You must know a lot of tech-savvy elderly people. I can’t say that I do. Regardless, a targeted list is … to target people and addresses. While some of the buildings will have security and a doorman to discourage easy pickings, many others will not. Posted by: Ann at July 28, 2026 01:16 PM (SHHm+) 249
That's by design. Makes it difficult to challenge tax assesments. You show up with comps to argue the tax board was smoking something psychedelic when inventing their numbers, then they say "but our database shows blah blah blah!" (which you don't get to see before the meeting) and they get their way.
Posted by: scruboak There are now services that do the same for the owner--Ownwell is one, there are others. Posted by: whig at July 28, 2026 01:16 PM (E4rtv) 250
Elric's a deep cover troll, here to gradually normalize the weird things Democrats do and downplay things conservatives won. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. I find it entertaining.
yeppers Posted by: Black Orchid at July 28, 2026 01:17 PM (j+aD2) 251
Where is NYC going to get the takings $?
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 28, 2026 01:17 PM (DZ9Lv) Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 01:17 PM (ExV1e) 253
Mamdani doesn't strike me as a true believer in Islam. Communism maybe./i]
He's Obama, except also a rich theater kid and willing to admit he's African. Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 01:17 PM (2ocoG) 254
Get it in your head, this shit is not confined to large cities any longer. “They voted for it, fuck them” and all the variants, permutations and combinations we read even here.
If we could wall off those places you might have a point. But it metastasizes, and spreads far and wide. Leftists have had a decades long deliberate coordinated plan to fuck shit up even unto the farthest hinterlands. It is a conspiracy theory, insofar they said that’s what they wanted to do, and they’ve been doing it. Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2026 01:17 PM (bbqHZ) 255
I got a big increase in assessed value last time I had a guy come out.
And the thing that amazes me is I have added nothing since buying the house - merely fixing things that are failing apart. I called to complain and got the argument "we could send someone out again but you know the assessment could go up too" Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 01:18 PM (sKqQm) 256
Regardless, a targeted list is … to target people and addresses. While some of the buildings will have security and a doorman to discourage easy pickings, many others will not.
Posted by: Ann ======= The celebutard class worries as much about paparazzi and groupies as they do criminals--this gives an easy stakeout list for that sort along with process servers and other bothers to the ruling class. Posted by: whig at July 28, 2026 01:18 PM (E4rtv) 257
The lists are published on DOF website every year. Nothing is new about any of this.
Posted by: Elric The Blade Most people are too lazy to scroll through to find the one they want and this gives them a master list for mischief. And I think Mamdani is going to pay for that politically and perhaps legally for being an impudent little greasy shit. Posted by: whig at July 28, 2026 01:13 PM (E4rtv) _______ DOF just linked to the same tax roll lists that were put up earlier this year. It was already public. So legally, he didn't do anything that wasn't already done. Politically? Maybe but I doubt it. 95% of the ragebait and doomscrolling about this clown are from people who don't live in NYC. And in theory at least, the tax won't apply to anyone who does. Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 01:18 PM (iFTx/) 258
This sh"t will spread from Maine to Maryland. Boston they especially have their eyes on you. And you know what, you will let them.
Posted by: Case at July 28, 2026 01:19 PM (bqIVz) 259
Mamdani's home should appear on the list. He has two houses now - Gracie Mansion and the home he lived in before. So, he's subject to the same tax, right? Right?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 28, 2026 01:19 PM (qx7Zg) 260
Despite all this nonsense, Mamdani will likely get reelected.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2026 01:19 PM (jehhT) 261
Get it in your head, this shit is not confined to large cities any longer. “They voted for it, fuck them” and all the variants, permutations and combinations we read even here.
Hasn't been for a long time. The 2020 steal was not in one location, which is why it worked. Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 01:19 PM (2ocoG) 262
The goal of the left is to loot YOU. You personally reading this post.
If you have a job and save anything they want to take it. Why? Because they want things without having to work for them - which is a story older then recorded history. They won't stay in one spot because they can only loot that spot so much. Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 01:19 PM (sKqQm) 263
I don't think Mamdani particularly cares about New Yorkers' opinion.
The left wins elections in NY by a comfortable margin, so it is more of an issue to be selected in the primaries, where the voters are even more extreme. There, doing this will help. If lots of people abandon the city, then the ensuing depression will push even more into his arms. I don't think Detroit has become more right-wing ever since it went bankrupt. Besides, he and his allies have national ambitions. Even if they destroy NY, they can still turn it into a propaganda success, like Newsom in California. Posted by: PG at July 28, 2026 01:20 PM (jGLqZ) 264
>>> 214
_____ The lists are published on DOF website every year. Nothing is new about any of this. Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 01:11 PM (iFTx/) The frikn Mayor using his teewee news megaphone to point this out to people is new. (or at the very least, a stunt that doesn't happen often and hasn't for a while now) Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2026 01:20 PM (vDZgA) 265
113 Unlike a lot of the rage-bait reporting, I read the actual tax law.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 12:50 PM (iFTx/) Thank you for doing this so we don't have to! Posted by: m at July 28, 2026 01:20 PM (faghi) 266
192. it was CLEARLY a "bad peoples" list, to be used for doxxing
these stories always worry me bc it just means more idiots coming to PA from NYC we are FULL Posted by: Black Orchid Indeed. And we have more than our share of Democratic Socialists running the show, with more endorsed by our magnificent (/s) governor for our future. Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 28, 2026 01:20 PM (LL19j) 267
Sure, a dick move. He's a yuge dick. But the info is already public. The tax rolls are published every year.
== Does the public list tell you whether the property is a non-primary residence ? Posted by: runner at July 28, 2026 01:20 PM (GD0B3) 268
I called to complain and got the argument "we could send someone out again but you know the assessment could go up too"
Posted by: 18-1 Fact is with a minimum of due diligence, you can do the comps your self with Zillow or Realtor dot com and appeal anyway. Something like 30-40 percent success rate as the dirty secret is these appraisal firms deliberately overvalue property figuring that a) some people don't appeal because now they have a govt set price for their home (usually those planning short term stays), and b) others won't due to fear, etc. I've done it several times over the years and won about as much as I lost. Posted by: whig at July 28, 2026 01:21 PM (E4rtv) 269
"It's already drawn "dangerous precedent" criticism from business leaders and City Council members." Oh my, criticism. That's TERRIBLE. Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at July 28, 2026 01:21 PM (och2J) 270
Hey, I was reading the article.
Woody Allen may be hit with the tax. What'd the guy ever do to deserve that? Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at July 28, 2026 01:21 PM (Sco7b) 271
Pretty funny that high-end residences owned by foreign countries to house temporary "diplomats" are exempt from the pied-a-terre tax.
Posted by: Orson at July 28, 2026 01:21 PM (dIske) 272
Despite all this nonsense, Mamdani will likely get reelected.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2026 01:19 PM (jehhT) "re" "elect" "ed" Posted by: ... at July 28, 2026 01:21 PM (vE0+H) 273
The lists are published on DOF website every year. Nothing is new about any of this.
whatever you say Mr Expert lol Posted by: Black Orchid at July 28, 2026 01:11 PM (j+aD2) _____ You don't need to be an expert. It's literally right there on the DOF website and always has been. You can go check it out yourself, and you can see all the prior year assessments too. You are literally trying to deny something that can't be denied. Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 01:21 PM (iFTx/) 274
Does the public list tell you whether the property is a non-primary residence ?
Posted by: runner ===== Not here in the Southlands at least. Dunno about NYC. Ask Elric. Posted by: whig at July 28, 2026 01:21 PM (E4rtv) 275
This sh"t will spread from Maine to Maryland. Boston they especially have their eyes on you. And you know what, you will let them.
The DNC has already talked about taking the famous California "billionaire tax" (which is actually mostly on unrealized gains for everyone) nationwide if they win the Presidency back. Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 01:22 PM (2ocoG) 276
"Unsurprisingly, the colossal database of names and addresses included several A-list New Yorkers, including director Woody Allen, longtime Vogue editor Anna Wintour and actress Cynthia Nixon -- a loyal Mamdani supporter." Oh no, this is terrrrrible. Is Hampton Howie's property on the list? Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at July 28, 2026 01:22 PM (och2J) 277
This all can easily be resolved:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2026 01:23 PM (RkR9o) 278
FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 01:23 PM (+sD5M) 279
"pied-a-terre"
I never knew what it meant. I always assumed it meant 'floor pie.' Posted by: gp ....... I thought it was 'dirt pie'. Posted by: wth at July 28, 2026 01:23 PM (UjdFS) 280
Not here in the Southlands at least. Dunno about NYC. Ask Elric.
Posted by: whig at July 28, 2026 01:21 PM (E4rtv) I am asking Elric! But he is too busy ! Posted by: runner at July 28, 2026 01:23 PM (GD0B3) 281
these stories always worry me bc it just means more idiots coming to PA from NYC
The blue state I moved from was great. We followed the science, welcomed immigrants, taxed the rich and didn't let police just go around arresting people. Shame I couldn't afford a house, lost my job, can't go outside at night, and the street are covered in trash. This red state I moved to sucks. I mean I got a good job, I could finally afford a house, the streets are clean and there is no crime. But they don't follow the science, they don't welcome immigrants, they don't tax the rich, and they let police just go around arresting people. But I'm sure if we just all vote the right way we can fix this new place to be just like the old one Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 01:23 PM (sKqQm) 282
"pied-a-terre"
I never knew what it meant. I always assumed it meant 'floor pie.' Posted by: gp ....... I thought it was 'dirt pie'. Posted by: wth at July 28, 2026 01:23 PM It's actually "hitting a terrorist with a pie". Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 01:24 PM (2ocoG) 283
Devine calls it out as classic Mamdani. He poses as a "principled defender of human-rights while doing his Israel and capitalist bashing, but really he is a Marxist Islamist revolutionary." He's driven by grievance and destruction and that's why 9/11 families don't want him at Ground Zero.
*looks at limited number of f*cks in jar* *weighs the situation carefully* *decision of no f*cks to spare made* *can't spare a f*ck to give* Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 01:24 PM (+sD5M) 284
The celebutard class worries as much about paparazzi and groupies as they do criminals--this gives an easy stakeout list for that sort along with process servers and other bothers to the ruling class."
This Posted by: man at July 28, 2026 01:24 PM (XuXeR) 285
it's all about the destruction.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 28, 2026 01:24 PM (VyBeY) 286
Besides, he and his allies have national ambitions. Even if they destroy NY, they can still turn it into a propaganda success, like Newsom in California.
Posted by: PG ======= Not really. DSA is popular with exactly one class--the overeducated downwardly mobile loser class that thought they could emulate their successful parents and failed. Recent polling data indicates that and it is predominately white while using People of Color as their cover and foreign money as their campaign funders. Neither are particularly stable bases to build a party upon. Posted by: whig at July 28, 2026 01:24 PM (E4rtv) 287
>>> 260 Despite all this nonsense, Mamdani will likely get reelected.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2026 01:19 PM (jehhT) "elected" *tee hee* Posted by: Stalin's Vote Counters at July 28, 2026 01:24 PM (vDZgA) 288
279 "pied-a-terre"
I never knew what it meant. I always assumed it meant 'floor pie.' Posted by: gp ....... I thought it was 'dirt pie'. Posted by: wth at July 28, 2026 01:23 PM (UjdFS) pied-à-terre early 19th century: French, literally ‘foot to earth’ Posted by: m at July 28, 2026 01:25 PM (faghi) 289
Sure, a dick move. He's a yuge dick. But the info is already public. The tax rolls are published every year.
== Does the public list tell you whether the property is a non-primary residence ? Posted by: runner at July 28, 2026 01:20 PM (GD0B3) ______ No. It's only record owners. Same as the "list" the mayor published. It's the same list. That's why there's so many properties on it. It's the entire tax roll for all Class 1 (houses) and Class 2 (condos) in the entire city. Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 01:25 PM (iFTx/) Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 28, 2026 01:25 PM (n5tGW) 291
You know, the more the commie democrats do this shit the more I start liking their ideas about abolishing the police and prisons and all that stuff.
They might not realize the holy hell they'll be unleashing on themselves. When there are no rules, then THERE ARE NO RULES. Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 28, 2026 01:25 PM (fNDW9) 292
More Fraudulent Votes Cast Than Margin of Mamdani's 'Victory,' Says Election Auditor
Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2026 01:26 PM (RHGPo) 293
I don't think public info contains the information whether the property is a second home, that is tax-related and.. kinda private. So, Mayor Marxist puke did indeed doxx people and revealed their tax status!
Posted by: runner at July 28, 2026 01:26 PM (GD0B3) 294
If you want the rich to leave NY, this is how you do it. NYC and NY State deserve to become shitholes like Kalifornia has become...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2026 12:57 PM (l3cgK) I want the sort of rich people who live in NYC to remain there. I'd like to see a good number of the ones in Texas go there also. Then wall the city off. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 01:26 PM (ExV1e) 295
The commie is just getting warmed up.
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at July 28, 2026 01:27 PM (Q/FnY) 296
294 If you want the rich to leave NY, this is how you do it. NYC and NY State deserve to become shitholes like Kalifornia has become...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2026 12:57 PM (l3cgK) Yeah, but at least we're a shithole with good weather.... Posted by: It's me donna at July 28, 2026 01:27 PM (p3OSa) 297
I think she's looking forward to taking it over when I can no longer afford to pay the "Chloe Tax."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel ------ The catch is, there will be no one to empty the litterbox. Amusing, but a parallel to the topic. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 28, 2026 01:27 PM (XeU6L) 298
a block of more than three condos under single ownership.
That's a weird exemption. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 28, 2026 01:25 PM (n5tGW) --------- An exemption for birds? Oh. Condos, not condors. Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 28, 2026 01:27 PM (amcLV) 299
295 The commie is just getting warmed up.
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at July 28, 2026 01:27 PM (Q/FnY) Bring to a rolling boil. Posted by: m at July 28, 2026 01:27 PM (faghi) 300
300
Posted by: m at July 28, 2026 01:27 PM (faghi) 301
Cross reference that baby with the list of voters per address.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 28, 2026 01:27 PM (n5tGW) 302
new thread biden tapes
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 28, 2026 01:28 PM (CWTWj) 303
I think we're nearing the inflection point of the "slowly at first, then suddenly" curve.
Posted by: Oddbob at July 28, 2026 01:28 PM (vTZFs) 304
Despite all this nonsense, Mamdani will likely get reelected.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2026 01:19 PM (jehhT) _____ He will be reelected easily. For one, the GOP is useless and probably will run Sliwa again. For two, as I've said above, 95% of the doomscrolling comes from people who don't vote in NYC. The NYC residents don't really much care, as every mayor since Rudy Guiliani -- 30 years ago -- was dogshit. We are used to it. Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 01:28 PM (iFTx/) 305
NYC has over 8.5 million residents.
2 million actually turned out to vote in Nov. 2025. 6.5 million of NYC'ers couldn't be bothered to get off their ass and vote against the communist islhamoterrorst. Too bad. So sad. Reap it. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 01:28 PM (+sD5M) 306
No. It's only record owners. Same as the "list" the mayor published"
That's the point. These are now acceptable targets. Nothing more, nothing less. Posted by: man at July 28, 2026 01:28 PM (XuXeR) Posted by: Stalin's Vote Counters at July 28, 2026 01:29 PM (vDZgA) 308
%)(#&^ sock
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2026 01:29 PM (vDZgA) 309
“The legitimacy of the Supreme Court is, I believe, the lowest it’s ever been in the eyes of the American people. It’s come to feel like a nakedly partisan institution. We could do some things about that. At a minimum, term limits so that you know for each presidential term how many Supreme Court appointments are going to go with it. I also think we would be better off with a court that has something like 13 justices that would match the number of districts that we have in the federal system, and ideally appoint them in a way that isn’t so partisan.”
... why wait. Trump can appoint the new 4 justices this afternoon. Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2026 01:30 PM (RHGPo) 310
No. It's only record owners. Same as the "list" the mayor published. It's the same list. That's why there's so many properties on it. It's the entire tax roll for all Class 1 (houses) and Class 2 (condos) in the entire city.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 01:25 PM (iFTx/) So what's the point of publishing it if it's just a list of homes in NYC? Mamdani promised about 31,000 homes/owners would be affected. This list includes nearly a million homes/owners - 32 times the promised number. What's the point of publishing it? Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at July 28, 2026 01:30 PM (AdHga) 311
Neither are particularly stable bases to build a party upon.
Posted by: whig at July 28, 2026 01:24 PM (E4rtv) The party is already built, my friend. Think of what Trump would have done to the Republican Party *if they were willing to let him*. Now take that and apply it to this operation. That is the chance being taken. Whether it will succeed depends ENTIRELY on the opposition. Not voting. Not what people are comfortably with. They let Obama piss on this country for eight years. They let people die in all kind of places and the media covered it all up. Followed by rioting, looting, knockout games, a complete hijack of the culture, and intense in your face fraud. And they would have gotten away with every aspect were it not for a crazy person named Donald Trump. Now go take a long hard look at the "opposition" and decide how this "movement" is actually going to be stopped, if not for the Hand of God again. Posted by: ... at July 28, 2026 01:30 PM (vE0+H) 312
>>Democratic city Comptroller Mark Levine's office said the real figure would be closer to $340 to $380 million and could diminish over time. ================= Which figure? The "$12 billion budget gap that was later revised down to $5.4 billion"? Whole lotta revision going on. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 28, 2026 01:33 PM (mmrXZ) 313
What's the point of publishing it?"
Ah. The unanswered question... When one on that list is refused service? Accosted on the street? Shouted down in a store? What comfort, then, that most of the data was already available? Posted by: man at July 28, 2026 01:33 PM (XuXeR) 314
Pied a Terre means foothold. Literal translation is foot to earth.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 28, 2026 01:34 PM (8vp/C) 315
If we can take it here, we can take it anywhere!
Posted by: Zohran Mugabe at July 28, 2026 01:34 PM (qUkBO) 316
Well, when you sleep with Satan he always wins. Enjoy the consequences of your ignorance and stupidity. It's not like you weren't warned.
Posted by: Edward Lunny at July 28, 2026 01:34 PM (9gg3L) 317
"Neither are particularly stable bases to build a party upon."
This will help at least to take control of the national Democrat party. The "overeducated downwardly mobile loser class" exists in many places and will vote in the Democrat primaries. If they are classical Marxist-Leninists, they are not too bothered by the lack of a majority right now. There are ways to manufacture that. When Lenin took power, he was supported by a small minority, but soon after many millions rallied to his flag. Posted by: PG at July 28, 2026 01:34 PM (jGLqZ) 318
the more I start liking their ideas about abolishing the police and prisons and all that stuff.
——- That’s not what they mean by that. I know it comes as a shock to others, but they are lying. They want to abolish the police as historically structured. And they are getting good at it. It’s analogous to guns. Democrats don’t “hate guns”, they fucking love guns. They hate you. They just don’t want you to have them. There will always be “law enforcement” You might be surprised at what laws get enforced in the future. Remember they are evil, not necessarily stupid. Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2026 01:36 PM (bbqHZ) 319
New Yorkers deserve whatever calamities that evil bastard inflicts on them.
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at July 28, 2026 01:37 PM (V362x) 320
I am asking Elric! But he is too busy !
Posted by: runner Easy enough to google NY City Department of Finance although it may also be under the different boroughs as NYC has a fairly unique system of government compared with the normal mayor-council and state charter systems. Posted by: whig at July 28, 2026 01:38 PM (E4rtv) 321
You might be surprised at what laws get enforced in the future. Remember they are evil, not necessarily stupid.
Posted by: Common Tater More like a coalition of evil. Some are chaotic evil, some neutral evil, and others are lawful evil. And they don't always agree on tactics nor on whom is doing what to whom. Most of the oligarchs are lawful evil for example and don't like Mamdani's and his followers chaotic evil shit because they like NYC as their own personal club. Neutral evil are probably figuring on how to make a buck out of the chaos. D&D for the win. Posted by: whig at July 28, 2026 01:41 PM (E4rtv) 322
FWIW, this was a one second google query plus time for tiny url generation
https://tinyurl.com/NYC-Dept-of-Finance-public Posted by: whig at July 28, 2026 01:42 PM (E4rtv) 323
A very small city. Nevertheless -
Chester, once a prosperous port and shipbuilding city on the Delaware River, has suffered decades of disinvestment and decline. It entered receivership in 2020 and filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy in 2022 to restructure its pension and retiree healthcare debt.Jan 22, 2026 It has casino $, money from the Union soccer team, a Riverwalk 😱, Widner University, etc. and it's still a dump and votes democratic right down the line, marching in step with the County Council - NONE of which are "working class." And everyone employed in Chester, PA seems to work for one government system or the other. Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 28, 2026 01:43 PM (LL19j) The Tuesday Morning Rant![]() One of the articles that came up when I hit searched, "Madison Man Killed By Police" was the following: Madison police kill man in broad daylight in front of witnesses. State Sen. Kelda Roys, another candidate in the primary, said, “Let this city wrap its arms around Corey’s family and loved ones, and demand justice for him and them and all of us. There must be a full, independent investigation and the responsible officers held fully accountable under the law, as required by Wisconsin statute. The Department of Justice should serve as the lead investigator to ensure fairness and impartiality. We do not have to accept this as normal or inevitable. It is NOT. No other country in the world tolerates this level of police violence. We can and must create a more just, safe world for all of us.”My curiosity was certainly piqued about this man, Cory Ruiz, killed by Madison police. What did I find out when I went to the wonderful Wisconsin Circuit Court Access record of one Cory Ruiz? Mr. Ruiz was born on January 5, 1988. At the time of his death on July 22, 2026 he was 38 years of his age. According to Wisconsin's CCAP Mr. Ruiz's first brush with the Wisconsin court system as an adult was in 2007 at the ripe age of 19. Just a minor conviction of disorderly conduct. Oh but it gets better. One of my favorites was from 2009 when our aspiring Rhodes Scholar was singled out for the following: Dane County Case Number 2009CF000495 State of Wisconsin vs. Corey D Ruiz The defendant Corey D Ruiz was found guilty of the following charge(s) in this case. Strangulation and Suffocation, a class H felony, Wisconsin Statutes 940.235(1).I'm guessing the sealed juvenile record of this distinguished citizen is about as long as long as my 2 arms. I'm not sure why I'm ranting about a loser thug who has been in trouble his entire adult life. It's so predictable. And of course if the victimization of the deceased doesn't upset you. This might do it. The Madison politicians are just as fvcked up as their dead criminals. As with Officer of Derek Chauvin of the St. George Fiasco of Minnehopelis. These 4 Madison cops don't stand a chance. And I for one am sick and fvcking tired of an American race that cannot and will not act civilized; the politicians which enable their predictable criminal behavior and the resulting mayhem affecting the law abiding citizens which they supposedly "represent". Obviously the black community has forgotten the PSA put out by Chris Rock. I guess it's time to remind all people who might have contact with a LEO. And that's my rant, for now. Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
Sponge!
Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 11:00 AM (Vqi7w) 2
Yep
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 11:01 AM (wOO3z) 3
Deep state, giving us the finger....
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2026 11:01 AM (jehhT) 4
One of the articles that came up when I hit searched, "Madison Man Killed By Police" was the following:
Madison police kill man in broad daylight in front of witnesses. Take away? Do it at night. Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 11:02 AM (Vqi7w) 5
I love that video by Chris Rock. So funny and true. I have watched it several times within the last couple of months.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 11:02 AM (W90Ou) 6
Excellent rant, MisHum!
Posted by: 496 at July 28, 2026 11:03 AM (atOvq) 7
Strangulation and Suffocation, a class H felony, Wisconsin Statutes 940.235(1).
Robbery with Use of Force, a class E felony, Wisconsin Statutes 943.32(1)(a). Strangulation and Suffocation, a class H felony, Wisconsin Statutes 940.235(1). Dude was into kink or he was a hit man. Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 11:03 AM (Vqi7w) 8
Corgis WERE called.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 11:04 AM (Vqi7w) 9
The cops should be transferred from the PD to the Dept. of Sanitation. After all, they were cleaning up he street.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2026 11:05 AM (1z8ji) 10
I honestly don’t understand how anyone could be a cop these days in a Blue shithole jurisdiction. I don’t care how good the retirement benefits are, you’re playing with fire.
Posted by: Chaos at July 28, 2026 11:05 AM (Xe8e7) 11
Seems the media forgot some details there. Imagine that.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 11:05 AM (wOO3z) 12
So, is Corey Ruiz going to be the new George Floyd BLM poster guy for the riots of the summer of 2026?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 11:05 AM (W90Ou) 13
I’ll continue to call balls and strikes with the cops - they deserve it - but hey, if you go up to a cop with a weapon, well, you get what you deserve and my sympathies end there.
But I think we need to ask another question: why was this joker killed by any cop to begin with? Why wasn’t he in the slam someplace? How many warnings does the system need before someone says “Hmmm, maybe he shouldn’t be in society at all?” Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2026 11:05 AM (4g5V+) 14
But I think we need to ask another question: why was this joker killed by any cop to begin with? Why wasn’t he in the slam someplace? How many warnings does the system need before someone says “Hmmm, maybe he shouldn’t be in society at all?”
Posted by: Cow Demon You ask way too many questions. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 11:06 AM (wOO3z) 15
I watch bodycam videos, but mostly avoid ones from Wisconsin. The cops are competent, but the "prosecutors" and "judges" drop/lessen charges as a matter of course. Frustrating and stupid and harmful to the law-abiding in the state.
Posted by: Finna Get out The Car... at July 28, 2026 11:07 AM (JM9I6) 16
10 I honestly don’t understand how anyone could be a cop these days in a Blue shithole jurisdiction. I don’t care how good the retirement benefits are, you’re playing with fire.
Posted by: Chaos at July 28, 2026 11:05 AM (Xe8e7) Harris County’s DA and judiciary suck thanks to dummy voters. I would not be surprised if the Houston PD is thankful for TX gun laws. It’s probably the only thing keeping the county from sliding into near anarchy. Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2026 11:07 AM (4g5V+) 17
Chaos is a ladder.
- every progressive/communist everywhere Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at July 28, 2026 11:08 AM (MNCvZ) 18
Keep on keepin' on!
VIDEO THREAD: Protesters demanding the arrest of the officer who shot Corey Ruiz tried a new tactic in Madison, Wisconsin Saturday night: blocking access to bars and restaurants. “Justice for Corey!” they chanted as they denied access to the front door for would-be customers. https://tinyurl.com/3afuhynw Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 28, 2026 11:08 AM (ndZc7) 19
You ask way too many questions.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 11:06 AM (wOO3z) Yeah, I know. I need to stop doing that. I have to remember to shut up, know my place and not hold the government to account. Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2026 11:08 AM (4g5V+) 20
And I for one am sick and fvcking tired of an American race that cannot and will not act civilized I've been told repeatedly that it's culture not race. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 28, 2026 11:09 AM (Cqx++) 21
Well it's obvious that the people who care about scum succeeded. By age 38 2 pages on ccap.
Wish they put that much effort in keeping them locked up Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 28, 2026 11:09 AM (CkDaS) 22
Final entry on that perp's rap sheet: Found Out.
Posted by: Roy at July 28, 2026 11:09 AM (qwype) 23
Culture of the race.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 11:10 AM (wOO3z) 24
Yeah, I know. I need to stop doing that. I have to remember to shut up, know my place and not hold the government to account.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2026 11:08 AM (4g5V+) This guy gets it. Posted by: Deep State at July 28, 2026 11:10 AM (Xe8e7) 25
The left: Of course the cops had to shoot Ashli Babbitt she was trespassing and parading! FAFO!
Also the left: How dare the police shoot Cory Ruiz! All he did was shoot a cop!!! Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 11:10 AM (sKqQm) 26
Wisconsin > Minnesota
https://tinyurl.com/443df9f7 Minnesota > Missouri https://tinyurl.com/2ca3rapn The list is endless. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2026 11:10 AM (skLNB) 27
blocking access to bars and restaurants.
That calls for reprisals. Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 28, 2026 11:10 AM (QqMaK) 28
1% of the populace cause almost all the violent crime.
We are having issues right now because the left is trying to stop prosecution of that 1%. Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 11:10 AM (sKqQm) 29
And the dead perp's family is being represented by race-hustler Benjamin Crump.
Imagine my shock face. Posted by: one hour sober at July 28, 2026 11:11 AM (J4Dwc) 30
I’ll continue to call balls and strikes with the cops - they deserve it - but hey, if you go up to a cop with a weapon, well, you get what you deserve and my sympathies end there.
But I think we need to ask another question: why was this joker killed by any cop to begin with? Why wasn’t he in the slam someplace? How many warnings does the system need before someone says “Hmmm, maybe he shouldn’t be in society at all?” Posted by: Cow Demon Judges should be treated like bartenders. You over serve/let out and something happens, it's on you. Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 11:11 AM (Vqi7w) 31
Sure. Why not?
Democratic political strategist James Carville on Sunday said David Hogg, former Democratic National Committee (DNC) vice chair, should succeed current chair Ken Martin, calling the DNC “dysfunctional.” Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 28, 2026 11:11 AM (ndZc7) 32
These are ultimately carefully choreographed operations, designed and intended to create maximum chaos. In my opinion. Cultivate division and hatred through tribalism. “The worse, the better”, right?
Law enforcement is a hell of a thing, and I’m no reflexive boot-licker. However comma Recruitment, retention, and morale is not what it might be otherwise. The politicians throw the cops under the bus the first opportunity that presents itself. What you end up with is an insanely expensive operation where they don’t bother to protect public safety and keep the peace. They drive around “tourists in blue”, maybe take a nap behind the old K-Mart till the shift is over. Why put your ass on the line for a pool of retarded ingrates and less than worthless politicians? I can’t wrap my mind around this level of stupid all around. Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2026 11:11 AM (6fKvw) 33
blocking access to bars and restaurants.
Honey I'll be late tonight, I'm trapped in the bar... Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 28, 2026 11:11 AM (QqMaK) 34
State Sen. Kelda Roys needs to confront the reality that not only was this inevitable, but she and her kind encourage and support this kind of monstrous madness daily. Posted by: Auspex at July 28, 2026 11:11 AM (Y8DZL) 35
I've been told repeatedly that it's culture not race.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 28, 2026 11:09 AM (Cqx++) It is. Nothing like a few well timed ass whoopins that will set a child on the proper heading. As well as being raised by a mom and dad. That tends to be the case no matter the race of the individual. Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2026 11:11 AM (4g5V+) 36
Proving, once again, we don't have race problem.
We have a problem race. Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at July 28, 2026 11:12 AM (MNCvZ) 37
With as many surveillance cameras as there are in this country I have to wonder why every single crime committed outside isn't recorded.
Yes, I realize not every city, town, or burb has them. But between "vest cams," the Flock LPR and surveillance cameras, home security systems, dash cams, etc. I'd almost expect every person, every day is filmed at least a half dozen times. Unless, you know, you stay inside for weeks at a time. Which I can totally relate to. Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2026 11:12 AM (jehhT) Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 28, 2026 11:12 AM (3oLiU) 39
It is. Nothing like a few well timed ass whoopins that will set a child on the proper heading.
As well as being raised by a mom and dad. That tends to be the case no matter the race of the individual. Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2026 11:11 AM (4g5V+) ___ This^^^ Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 28, 2026 11:12 AM (paeOl) 40
blocking access to bars and restaurants.
That calls for reprisals. Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats Loss of an ACL at minimum. Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 11:14 AM (Vqi7w) 41
>>State Sen. Kelda Roys needs to confront the reality that not only was this inevitable, but she and her kind encourage and support this kind of monstrous madness daily.
She knows. They all know. And they do it anyway. Posted by: JackStraw at July 28, 2026 11:15 AM (viF8m) 42
I do have to laugh here, we have 330M people and really...really...you want to put your marker for "widescale police abuse" on a cop shooting a career criminal after the criminal stabbed him?
This is the best you lefties can do? Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 11:15 AM (sKqQm) 43
That calls for reprisals.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 28, 2026 11:10 AM (QqMaK) Machine-gun the mob. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2026 11:16 AM (1z8ji) 44
Culture of the race.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 11:10 AM (wOO3z) Proving, once again, we don't have race problem. We have a problem race. Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at July 28, 2026 11:12 AM (MNCvZ) Oh, bullshit. Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 28, 2026 11:16 AM (3Ope8) Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2026 11:17 AM (skLNB) 46
The lack of Zappa makes me question this really being Mis Hum.
Posted by: Doof at July 28, 2026 11:18 AM (S0M0K) Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 28, 2026 11:20 AM (dK+Kv) Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 28, 2026 11:20 AM (ndZc7) 49
Yeh, I know. It ain't gonna happen.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2026 11:17 AM (skLNB) It will if the DNC thinks it will get the money Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2026 11:21 AM (rbvCR) 50
you want to put your marker for "widescale police abuse" on a cop shooting a career criminal ?
—— That’s exactly what they are doing. Illegal aliens too. Reasonable people labor under certain illusions, namely that everyone pretty much wants the same things. Or we can have a reasonable discussion about the facts. There is a strategy here if you look at it from a destabilization effort. Deconstruction, as it were. Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2026 11:21 AM (6fKvw) 51
There must be a full, independent investigation and the responsible officers held fully accountable under the law,
There must be an "investigation" but the outcome must be pre-determined. The hell with due process, eh? Posted by: Delurker at July 28, 2026 11:22 AM (2Drhq) 52
What you end up with is an insanely expensive operation where they don’t bother to protect public safety and keep the peace. They drive around “tourists in blue”, maybe take a nap behind the old K-Mart till the shift is over.
We should be so lucky. Every minute cops spend not policing serious criminals is devoted to treating the generally law-abiding like criminals or informally taxing the populace with tickets etc. Posted by: even mugwumps get the blues at July 28, 2026 11:22 AM (QYvOP) 53
Democratic political strategist James Carville on Sunday said David Hogg, former Democratic National Committee (DNC) vice chair, should succeed current chair Ken Martin, calling the DNC “dysfunctional.”
The entertainment value alone of this would be astronomical. Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 11:23 AM (2ocoG) 54
“Justice for Corey!” they chanted as they denied access to the front door for would-be customers.
So, what did he do? Commit a crime? I don't know because I never read the story. Was this "justice" demonstration led by some preacher? Shouldn't someone shout out that some book says the wages of crime is you know what? He got his "justice" then, already, didn't he? Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 28, 2026 11:24 AM (1Ff7Z) 55
We should be so lucky. Every minute cops spend not policing serious criminals is devoted to treating the generally law-abiding like criminals or informally taxing the populace with tickets etc.
Try to arrest a Corey Ruiz and you might get stabbed, you might get fired, you might get prosecuted. Pull over Joe Workingguy because he went 70 in a 65 mph zone and no one complains and you get some $$$ for your department. That is a terrible set of incentives. Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 11:24 AM (sKqQm) 56
Also, isn't this like the second or third attempted George Floyd this year? They've all run hard into the wall of actual facts so far.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 11:25 AM (2ocoG) 57
Mamdani is probably the most visible and radical leftist in government today. He's a proud "globalize the intifada' type.
The other day one of his acolytes stabbed a couple Jews while praising allah. And nobody was surprised. The only way to get ahead in today's Democrat Party is to be more radical and extreme than the next guy. And they absolutely mean to tear this country apart and replace it with something far worse. When the left tells you want they want it's a good idea to believe them. Posted by: JackStraw at July 28, 2026 11:25 AM (viF8m) 58
Proving, once again, we don't have race problem.
We have a problem race. Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at July 28, 2026 11:12 AM (MNCvZ) Oh, bullshit. Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at July 28, 2026 11:12 AM (MNCvZ) OK Mobi. It pains me because I know we have black readers here, and I don't like condemning an entire race. However, it's undeniable that America's black subculture does have serious problems, out of all proportion to their numbers. It's condescending to deny it. They do. The left keeps saying we have to have a conversation about race, by which they mean whites must abase themselves to blacks. Sorry, I don't play that. I'm ready to have a REAL conversation, one that involves speaking unpleasant truths, but somehow I don't think the militant black wing wants that. Black America will not heal until the race grifters are driven from the public square and they confront their problems directly. Posted by: Archimedes at July 28, 2026 11:25 AM (Riz8t) 59
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And I for one am sick and fvcking tired of an American race that cannot and will not act civilized I've been told repeatedly that it's culture not race. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 28, 2026 11:09 AM (Cqx++) So have I. As JD says, I don't care Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 28, 2026 11:26 AM (CkDaS) 60
Suggestion: Deport anyone having a 3rd strike felony, and do not allow felonies to be downgraded.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 11:26 AM (sKqQm) 61
Try to arrest a Corey Ruiz and you might get stabbed, you might get fired, you might get prosecuted.
And a judge is likely to let him go even if none of those three things happen. Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 11:27 AM (2ocoG) 62
Democratic political strategist James Carville on Sunday said David Hogg, former Democratic National Committee (DNC) vice chair, should succeed current chair Ken Martin, calling the DNC “dysfunctional.”
The entertainment value alone of this would be astronomical. I wonder what his game is. He's not stupid. He knows Hogg would be a disaster. Posted by: Archimedes at July 28, 2026 11:27 AM (Riz8t) 63
Corey Ruiz looks like he might be of Dominican origin. Not authentic black American.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2026 11:27 AM (1z8ji) 64
Notice they have moved the goalposts. Out of the Stadium, into the parking lot.
Old school PSAs from the early 1950s stressed that pre-judging someone’s ethnic or religious background was wrong, and to judge people solely based on the content of their character. Somehow this is now considered “racist” by the pseudo-intellectual class, somehow this is insane, too. Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2026 11:27 AM (6fKvw) 65
However, it's undeniable that America's black subculture does have serious problems, out of all proportion to their numbers. It's condescending to deny it. They do.
I am regularly seeing discussions about crime all over the place where leftwinger pretend to not understand what per capita means or why it matters. It is almost comical. Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 11:28 AM (sKqQm) 66
Peaceful Protest season is starting a bit late this year. Atlantic Ocean must be cool.
Posted by: Martin Tell at July 28, 2026 11:29 AM (OTAXA) 67
"Per capita" is code for white supremacy.
Posted by: Delurker at July 28, 2026 11:29 AM (2Drhq) 68
Doof, the Zappa song I could have played would have been a song to ban me for a period of time
"You are what you is" Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 28, 2026 11:29 AM (CkDaS) 69
31 Sure. Why not?
Democratic political strategist James Carville on Sunday said David Hogg, former Democratic National Committee (DNC) vice chair, should succeed current chair Ken Martin, calling the DNC “dysfunctional.” Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 28, 2026 11:11 AM (ndZc7) Looking at it from a Dem perspective, Carville might have a point. Hogg thought that a new generation of Dems should take over from the old guard, and the old guard obviously didn't agree. Everyone now does agree that Martin just isn't up for the job, and the new guard is storming the gates in the form of the DSA. If Hogg did run it there would have been a chance that the Dems could have co-opted the DSA. It may not have worked, but they could have bought some time. Now, they will get a hostile takeover, and the old guard doesn't have the personnel to do anything about it. Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 28, 2026 11:29 AM (Mk4yJ) 70
65 However, it's undeniable that America's black subculture does have serious problems, out of all proportion to their numbers. It's condescending to deny it. They do.
I am regularly seeing discussions about crime all over the place where leftwinger pretend to not understand what per capita means or why it matters. It is almost comical. Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 11:28 AM (sKqQm) Pretend is the key word. Everyone knows. Posted by: even mugwumps get the blues at July 28, 2026 11:29 AM (QYvOP) 71
There must be a full, independent investigation and the responsible officers held fully accountable under the law,
There must be an "investigation" but the outcome must be pre-determined. The hell with due process, eh? Posted by: Delurker at July 28, 2026 11:22 AM (2Drhq) Nice catch. It is easy to have your eyes glaze over when reading their weasel words, especially without coffee. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 28, 2026 11:29 AM (dK+Kv) 72
Black America will not heal until the race grifters are driven from the public square and they confront their problems directly.
I imagine many of us here have seen first hand the kind of deep contempt that black legal immigrants have for black Americans and their "culture". It's not a race thing, it's a Democrat thing. Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 11:30 AM (2ocoG) 73
"Per capita" is code for white supremacy.
As per the Museum of American History, so are punctuality, politeness, objectivity, and hard work. You couldn't be more racist if you tried. Posted by: Archimedes at July 28, 2026 11:30 AM (Riz8t) 74
At UPI: "Crashed truck covers Ohio highway in pickles."
Yes, it's in Pickaway County. ODOT workers reportedly not relishing the cleanup job. Posted by: gp at July 28, 2026 11:32 AM (Jr5Lq) 75
Looking at it from a Dem perspective, Carville might have a point. Hogg thought that a new generation of Dems should take over from the old guard, and the old guard obviously didn't agree.
Is there any evidence that Hogg is viewed positively by the yoots? He's demonstrated that he's no executive (Hogg pillow anyone?) so why him? There are plenty of other yoots who aren't pure laughingstocks. Posted by: Archimedes at July 28, 2026 11:32 AM (Riz8t) 76
I imagine many of us here have seen first hand the kind of deep contempt that black legal immigrants have for black Americans and their "culture". It's not a race thing, it's a Democrat thing.
Black immigrants make substantially more then black heritage Americans. If the primary issue is racism how the hell can that be true? Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 11:33 AM (sKqQm) 77
You are talking about my future husband!
Posted by: Greta Thunberg-Hogg at July 28, 2026 11:33 AM (c3YdQ) 78
Posted by: Archimedes at July 28, 2026 11:25 AM (Riz8t) FIFY. If there were anything good the purple lipped penis sipper could have done during his reign of error, it would have been to bring the US together and deal a mortal blow to the idea that race is the key divider. Instead, he spent his entire tenure ripping the bandage off those wounds and pouring salt into them. Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 28, 2026 11:33 AM (3Ope8) 79
At UPI: "Crashed truck covers Ohio highway in pickles."
Yes, it's in Pickaway County. ODOT workers reportedly not relishing the cleanup job. Posted by: gp Highway clean up is their bread and butter. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 11:33 AM (wOO3z) 80
When the left tells you want they want it's a good idea to believe them.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 28, 2026 11:25 AM (viF8m) ======== Remember when Barky O' Fuckstick boldly claimed that he wanted to fundamentally transform the USA? Posted by: Bonecrusher at July 28, 2026 11:33 AM (JNTt1) 81
Yes, it's in Pickaway County. ODOT workers reportedly not relishing the cleanup job.
Posted by: gp at July 28, 2026 11:32 AM (Jr5Lq) "We got truck wreck here. Yes, it's a dilly!" Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2026 11:33 AM (1z8ji) 82
Every minute cops spend not policing serious criminals is devoted to treating the generally law-abiding like criminals
——- You bet. Joe Sixpack has money. Not much, but he will pay the ticket. We know where he lives. He’s got a dossier going back to his great grandparents on both sides. Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2026 11:33 AM (6fKvw) 83
If there were anything good the purple lipped penis sipper could have done during his reign of error, it would have been to bring the US together and deal a mortal blow to the idea that race is the key divider. Instead, he spent his entire tenure ripping the bandage off those wounds and pouring salt into them.
Agree completely. Posted by: Archimedes at July 28, 2026 11:34 AM (Riz8t) 84
Thx MisHum, excellent punch hitting duty.
I figured something like this would happen back in April and the crazies would hit the streets in a George Floyd orgy of destruction. This is where the Republicans step up and highlight the insanity of the left and draw independents. Of course the Republicans could screw it up Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 28, 2026 11:34 AM (BlDDt) 85
When the left tells you want they want it's a good idea to believe them.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 28, 2026 11:25 AM (viF8m) ---------- I wrote a book on what I wanted and nobody believed me. Tee hee! Posted by: A. Hitler at July 28, 2026 11:34 AM (amcLV) 86
74 At UPI: "Crashed truck covers Ohio highway in pickles."
Yes, it's in Pickaway County. ODOT workers reportedly not relishing the cleanup job. Posted by: gp at July 28, 2026 11:32 AM (Jr5Lq) guerrilla WNBA marketing campaign Posted by: even mugwumps get the blues at July 28, 2026 11:34 AM (QYvOP) 87
Mamdami appointed a committee of eighteen lawyers to advise him on judicial nominations.
No Jews. Roughly half the lawyers in New York are Jewish. About half the lawyers in Berlin in 1933 were Jewish. I'm not sure why this comparison comes to mind. Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 28, 2026 11:34 AM (aD4fx) 88
I have no love for law enforcement but a lifelong violent criminal gets in a fight with them, pulls a knife, cuts or stabs one, and gets popped? Sounds like a legitimately clean shoot to me. The ironic thing is this lowlife scum would probably still be alive if he were incarcerated where he belongs.
Posted by: Court system did him no favors at July 28, 2026 11:35 AM (TbWk/) 89
It pains me because I know we have black readers here, and I don't like condemning an entire race. However, it's undeniable that America's black subculture does have serious problems, out of all proportion to their numbers. It's condescending to deny it. They do.
___ Hood culture, with its fatherlessness, celebration of criminal behavior, and disdain of anything relating to improving oneself by learning, is the main reason my dad kept us kids away from Chicago and most of his family when we were growing up. Considering that hood culture=black culture in the minds of many, especially the media, it's not surprising that those of us that were never even raised in such dysfunctional neighborhoods are subjected to a bit of suspicion. It is what it is. Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 28, 2026 11:35 AM (paeOl) 90
Doof, the Zappa song I could have played would have been a song to ban me for a period of time
"You are what you is" Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 28, 2026 11:29 AM (CkDaS) Wasn't familiar. Looked it up. Wise choice to forego it! Posted by: Doof at July 28, 2026 11:36 AM (S0M0K) 91
What to do about violent crime, regardless of race of perps:
Abolish the 'juvenile justice system.' Abolish parole nationwide. Build lots of prisons. Posted by: gp at July 28, 2026 11:36 AM (Jr5Lq) 92
The judiciary is squarely on the left's side. People are getting conditioned to accept criminals in their midst as they're realizing "nothing will happen" to them. A few rabble rousers in town to gin up the crowd, maybe even with some threats thrown in, and the public will fall in line.
It doesn't take much. And since we've totally lost any perceived judicial impartiality, the public's beginning to accept it. Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2026 11:37 AM (jehhT) 93
Is there any evidence that Hogg is viewed positively by the yoots?
As somebody noted during the last Presidential campaign, there are effectively no straight white males under 40 working for the Democrats. Hogg is all they have. Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 28, 2026 11:37 AM (aD4fx) 94
Whether Lyndon Johnson actually said the words, the intent was clear. Democrats spent decades targeting the black community and making them wards of the state. Destroy the family, make government the head of the household, and keep them beholden too and voting for the Democrat Party. And it worked, right up until it didn't.
The dysfunction in a good part of the black community is due largely to the left. It's not some genetic trait, it's learned behavior. The Great Society welfare state was one of the biggest failures in US domestic policy and we are living with the consequences now. Posted by: JackStraw at July 28, 2026 11:37 AM (viF8m) 95
Hood culture, with its fatherlessness, celebration of criminal behavior, and disdain of anything relating to improving oneself by learning
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 28, 2026 11:35 AM (paeOl) -- In fairness, us people of pallor have this too in the form of white trash culture. They just spend their money on lifted pickup trucks and moonshine instead of cadillacs and Hennessey. Posted by: ballistic at July 28, 2026 11:38 AM (oqH4h) 96
Of course the Republicans could screw it up
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 28, 2026 11:34 AM (BlDDt) Could? Bread and butter was mentioned above, you know. Posted by: GOPe at July 28, 2026 11:38 AM (1Ff7Z) 97
Posted by: Archimedes at July 28, 2026 11:25 AM (Riz8t)
Speaking as one of those black readers, I have to agree with you. It's interesting that for the longest time it's considered patriotic by the Left if one criticizes America, because the criticism is meant as a spur to improvement. Reasonable people can disagree, but I see the point of that line of reasoning. That POV just doesn't exist in modern black America. You either have the race hustlers who are the ones that everyone hears about, or people who keep their heads down and say nothing because nobody wants to be called a race traitor. I was at a town committee meeting recently, and I was accused of that in subtext. All the while, however, nothing changes. It does hurt to see some of the comments here over the years, but it hurts my heart more to know that, in large part, these criticisms find their mark in truth. Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 28, 2026 11:39 AM (Mk4yJ) Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 11:40 AM (/+uur) 99
In fairness, us people of pallor have this too in the form of white trash culture. They just spend their money on lifted pickup trucks and moonshine instead of cadillacs and Hennessey.
Posted by: ballistic at July 28, 2026 11:38 AM (oqH4h) ___ True. The difference being that whites generally don't have the crab-in-a-bucket mentality that unfortunately many blacks do in the hood. Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 28, 2026 11:40 AM (paeOl) 100
In fairness, us people of pallor have this too in the form of white trash culture. They just spend their money on lifted pickup trucks and moonshine instead of cadillacs and Hennessey.
Snoop Dogg said bluegrass was rap from a different hood. He wasn't entirely wrong. That's why the theme song for Justified worked. Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 11:40 AM (2ocoG) 101
93 Is there any evidence that Hogg is viewed positively by the yoots?
As somebody noted during the last Presidential campaign, there are effectively no straight white males under 40 working for the Democrats. Hogg is all they have. Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 28, 2026 11:37 AM (aD4fx) They also have Jimmy Low-T in Texas. He has the fierce heterosexuality of Cory Booker. So secure in his masculinity that he is comfortable talking about gay stuff 24/7, as superstraights are wont to do. Posted by: even mugwumps get the blues at July 28, 2026 11:40 AM (QYvOP) 102
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Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 11:40 AM (/+uur) 103
Considering that hood culture=black culture in the minds of many, especially the media, it's not surprising that those of us that were never even raised in such dysfunctional neighborhoods are subjected to a bit of suspicion.
It is what it is. Posted by: SMH at God's mercy And that sucks royal you know what that it is that way. Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 11:41 AM (Vqi7w) 104
Whether Lyndon Johnson actually said the words, the intent was clear.
I think I know the statement your referring to and I have never seen definitive proof attributing it to him. It would not surprise me in the least though, knowing his background and the time he grew up and operated in. Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 28, 2026 11:41 AM (3Ope8) 105
93 Is there any evidence that Hogg is viewed positively by the yoots?
As somebody noted during the last Presidential campaign, there are effectively no straight white males under 40 working for the Democrats. Hogg is all they have. Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 28, 2026 11:37 AM (aD4fx) He was coached on the day he missed school and was given the lines from the reporter(s). Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 11:42 AM (/+uur) 106
92 The judiciary is squarely on the left's side. People are getting conditioned to accept criminals in their midst as they're realizing "nothing will happen" to them. A few rabble rousers in town to gin up the crowd, maybe even with some threats thrown in, and the public will fall in line.
It doesn't take much. And since we've totally lost any perceived judicial impartiality, the public's beginning to accept it. Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2026 11:37 AM (jehhT) The normalization of criminal behavior becoming the societal standard. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 28, 2026 11:42 AM (g8Ew8) 107
I just found 9212 in a 401k I forgot I had
whoo boy Painter on Friday RICH Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 11:40 AM (/+uur) Not exactly. Posted by: The Taxman at July 28, 2026 11:42 AM (1Ff7Z) 108
“As per the Museum of American History, so are punctuality, politeness, objectivity, and hard work”. Delayed gratification, forward looking time horizon. Fuck, even Math and Science.
I’ve been trying to reverse engineer their thinking here, or strategy or whatever. Is it their contention that these traits really are exclusive only to Whites? Why would they do that? Further, why would they claim these are bad things? The leftists really really REALLY don’t want a functioning society. This is clear. And they focus on destroying it by driving a wedge in between the races. Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2026 11:42 AM (6fKvw) 109
99 In fairness, us people of pallor have this too in the form of white trash culture. They just spend their money on lifted pickup trucks and moonshine instead of cadillacs and Hennessey.
Posted by: ballistic at July 28, 2026 11:38 AM (oqH4h) Yes, we do. Notice, however, that we expressly call them "trash." Posted by: even mugwumps get the blues at July 28, 2026 11:42 AM (QYvOP) 110
As somebody noted during the last Presidential campaign, there are effectively no straight white males under 40 working for the Democrats.
Hogg is all they have. Yup. Enough Democrats know it's a problem that they keep running headlong into disasters like Graham Platner. Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 11:42 AM (2ocoG) 111
They also have Jimmy Low-T in Texas. He has the fierce heterosexuality of Cory Booker. So secure in his masculinity that he is comfortable talking about gay stuff 24/7, as superstraights are wont to do.
Posted by: even mugwumps get the blues at July 28, 2026 11:40 AM (QYvOP) USSA Today has him up 5 points Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 11:42 AM (/+uur) 112
There's a bluegrass band around these parts called The Kooks of Hazzard. They sound damn good, too.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 11:43 AM (wOO3z) Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 11:43 AM (/+uur) 114
Whether Lyndon Johnson actually said the words, the intent was clear.
Nothing destroys a culture like men raised by single mothers. And LBJ facilitated it at scale. Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 11:43 AM (2ocoG) 115
Hayseed Dixie does great ACDC covers
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 11:44 AM (/+uur) 116
I've been calling, "Democrats" socialists/communists my entire adult life after learning some history, going back to the: 1887 Woodrow Wilson essay "Socialism and Democracy, " FDR, and Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society."
Back around 2000 when Carpetbagger Hillary was running for Senator, "Socialist" was still such a dirty word that she trotted out and made great again "Progressive" instead. Remember, before RomneyCare and Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 28, 2026 11:44 AM (6qpDO) 117
111 They also have Jimmy Low-T in Texas. He has the fierce heterosexuality of Cory Booker. So secure in his masculinity that he is comfortable talking about gay stuff 24/7, as superstraights are wont to do.
Posted by: even mugwumps get the blues at July 28, 2026 11:40 AM (QYvOP) USSA Today has him up 5 points Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 11:42 AM (/+uur) I'll be happy to take money off of any fool who buys that. Talarico ain't spending $25 million on black outreach because he's marching to victory. Posted by: even mugwumps get the blues at July 28, 2026 11:44 AM (QYvOP) 118
I rolled it FBO to my IRA
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 11:43 AM (/+uur) (snaps fingers) We'll get you next time, R! Posted by: The Taxman at July 28, 2026 11:45 AM (1Ff7Z) 119
In fairness, us people of pallor have this too in the form of white trash culture
——— Nobody is going to riot and burn down an entire city because some fuckhead got ventilated doing stupid shit. Apples and aircraft carriers. Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2026 11:46 AM (6fKvw) 120
Walling a certain segment of the population away from the rest of us is making more sense every year.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 28, 2026 11:46 AM (RjOoY) Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 28, 2026 11:46 AM (w9Wax) 122
"You are what you is"
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 28, 2026 11:29 AM (CkDaS) Wasn't familiar. Looked it up. Wise choice to forego it! Posted by: Doof The Persuasions covered that song in their 2000 album "Frankly A Capella". They are all black and were always thankful to Frank for producing an album for them on his label in 1970. Frank did the same thing for Alice Cooper when no one would sign him. Posted by: Electric Aunt Jemima at July 28, 2026 11:47 AM (JM9I6) 123
The pickle crash should have happened in the winter. Could have saved money on using brine on the road.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 11:47 AM (wOO3z) Posted by: Tonypete at July 28, 2026 11:49 AM (NQoRK) 125
You are what you is. And that's all this is. You is what you am. Cow don't make ham. You ain't what you're not, So see what you got. You are what you is. And that's all this is. But I know the line you can't post here. It's about golf. Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2026 11:50 AM (Fi81e) 126
Is it their contention that these traits really are exclusive only to Whites? Why would they do that? Further, why would they claim these are bad things?
----------------- In a word: evil (they are literally a Death Cult), which worships vice (beliefs & behaviors which promote nihilism, misery, squalor, and death) while actively warring against virtue (beliefs & behaviors which promote meaning, happiness, prosperity, and life). Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 28, 2026 11:50 AM (6qpDO) 127
USSA Today has him up 5 points
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 11:42 AM (/+uur) This is really funny, I don't think they even bother going to the effort of trying to do an actual poll anymore. They just make up some numbers that their perceived readerbase will like and print them. Posted by: Tom Servo at July 28, 2026 11:50 AM (edUvp) 128
You are what you is.
And that's all this is. You is what you am. Cow don't make ham. You ain't what you're not, So see what you got. You are what you is. And that's all this is. I yam what I am! Posted by: Popeye at July 28, 2026 11:51 AM (Riz8t) 129
When the civil authorities refuse to administer Justice, you have tyranny.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 28, 2026 11:52 AM (qFwJc) 130
The Great Society welfare state was one of the biggest failures in US domestic policy and we are living with the consequences now.
——— Jack, it was an Op. or at best, hijacked and re-purposed. By no means a failure at all when looked at from the Revolutionary perspective. Blacks as s class have been used as guinea pigs for a very long time, this is no different. They aren’t the only demographic used for experiments, but. The techniques are refined and then rolled out on the larger society later. See this over and over if you know what to look for. Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2026 11:52 AM (6fKvw) 131
While some of you go hog-wild riffing on Carville's suggestion that David Hogg ascend to the mantle of DNC Chairpyrsyn, may I temper this "enthusiasm of the moment" with the following observations?
1) Mr. Hogg is a Harvard alumnus. Harvard, along with Yale, are known for being incubators of most of the 'elite' managerial talent in U.S. Government history. 2) Mr. Hogg, along with Mr. Emhoff and Mr. Walz, were established during the 2024 electoral celebrations as the very celebrations of Modern Masculinity. So, in conclusion, Mr. Hogg represents a blend of Ivy League intellectual ability and expertise, coupled with a testosterone-fueled presence that few can match. Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 28, 2026 11:52 AM (0sNs1) 132
But I know the line you can't post here. It's about golf.
Posted by: Axeman Art least you got a good score! Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 28, 2026 11:53 AM (w9Wax) 133
Looking at it from a Dem perspective, Carville might have a point. Hogg thought that a new generation of Dems should take over from the old guard, and the old guard obviously didn't agree. Everyone now does agree that Martin just isn't up for the job, and the new guard is storming the gates in the form of the DSA. If Hogg did run it there would have been a chance that the Dems could have co-opted the DSA. It may not have worked, but they could have bought some time. Now, they will get a hostile takeover, and the old guard doesn't have the personnel to do anything about it.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 28, 2026 11:29 AM (Mk4yJ) The best part is that Carville is having to face the fact that Hogg is pathetic as well. He and his people ran the dem party so badly that now the old song has come true for them; "everywhere is freaks and hairies, dykes and fairies, where is sanity?" Posted by: Tom Servo at July 28, 2026 11:55 AM (edUvp) 134
Is it their contention that these traits really are exclusive only to Whites? Why would they do that? Further, why would they claim these are bad things?
The leftists really really REALLY don’t want a functioning society. This is clear. And they focus on destroying it by driving a wedge in between the races. Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2026 11:42 AM (6fKvw) --- It would be racist to attribute these traits only to whites, instead they "characterize whiteness". And that distinction is to do both at the same time. Criticize white society for expecting these virtues, and avoid saying that they are exclusively white. Yes, the main thing is to destroy what makes societies function. But there is also a sort of Phil Donahue-esque theme that societal expectations on anybody of anything is EVIL and mean. "There are people who are punctual, and people who are not," and of course, we should not expect too much from the tardy people. Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2026 11:55 AM (Fi81e) 135
> When the civil authorities refuse to administer Justice, you have tyranny.
---------- Oh, the authorities administer "justice" all right. It's just not what you are expecting when the criminals are set free. For the left, that IS "justice." Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2026 11:58 AM (jehhT) 136
OT
Xavier Becerra's campaign for CA Governor rocked with scandal as whistleblower comes foreign to speak about Becerra's time as Joe Biden's health secretary in which migrant kids were lost. From "NY Post" https://tinyurl.com/bswxtr59 Well, I guess when the time comes they can just count votes for another month. 😡 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 11:58 AM (xSAlF) 137
The leftists have a “recipe”, the only thing ever served up is chaos and misery and death. “The worse, the better”.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2026 11:58 AM (6fKvw) 138
How is David Hogg any different from any DSA fuckface other than branding? What issue would Hogg vote on any different than anyone in the DSA?
With all the caterwalling over the DSA "takeover" of the Democrap party, I'm still waiting for any example of any material legislation or policy a standard rank-and-file Democrap would differ from the DSA on. This is a "takeover" only in the sense of a younger generation trying to seize power from a decrepit, tired, geriatric older generation. Their policies are identical. Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 12:00 PM (iFTx/) 139
Back around 2000 when Carpetbagger Hillary was running for Senator, "Socialist" was still such a dirty word that she trotted out and made great again "Progressive" instead.
Remember, before RomneyCare and ObamaCare DeathCare -- there was the proposed (and fortunately doomed) HillaryCare socialized medicine & healthcare scheme of the 90s. Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 28, 2026 11:44 AM +++++ I remember the speech where BJ Clinton held up the shiny credit card and offered everyone "free" health care. https://tinyurl.com/32c6habs Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 28, 2026 12:02 PM (2Ez/1) 140
I watched the press conference where the protestor interrupted the groveling, mewling quim of a police chief.
All I kept thinking was "What would Sheriff Grady Judd do?" Posted by: PabloD at July 28, 2026 12:02 PM (kU1VW) 141
God, I miss Oregon Muse
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 28, 2026 12:03 PM (xcxpd) 142
This is a "takeover" only in the sense of a younger generation trying to seize power from a decrepit, tired, geriatric older generation. Their policies are identical.
Nah, the younger ones are upfront about what they want. The fossils know this is folly squared, so they always pretended they weren't really socialists/communists. To some extent, I think the olds also knew enough history (because they lived through it) to know that out and out communism is a bad idea. For some reason, though, they thought they could go halfway to communism, and then stop. History says otherwise. Posted by: Archimedes at July 28, 2026 12:03 PM (Riz8t) 143
I remember the speech where BJ Clinton held up the shiny credit card and offered everyone "free" health care.
https://tinyurl.com/32c6habs Posted by: Quarter Twenty And they lost 72 seats in the House. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 12:03 PM (wOO3z) 144
And they lost 72 seats in the House.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 12:03 PM (wOO3z) They're always in the last place you look. Posted by: helpful advice at July 28, 2026 12:04 PM (wBRco) 145
>>> 130 The Great Society welfare state was one of the biggest failures in US domestic policy and we are living with the consequences now.
——— Jack, it was an Op. or at best, hijacked and re-purposed. By no means a failure at all when looked at from the Revolutionary perspective. Blacks as s class have been used as guinea pigs for a very long time, this is no different. They aren’t the only demographic used for experiments, but. The techniques are refined and then rolled out on the larger society later. See this over and over if you know what to look for. Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2026 11:52 AM (6fKvw) istr an event in Nawlins, during the Billy Jeff admin so well before Katrina, in which the police were pursuing a felon and decided to cordon off a rather large chunk of the city and search door-to-door with no warrant or even pretext of reasonable suspicion. But I only read about this after the fact, and certainly never saw anything on the teewee "news". Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2026 12:05 PM (vDZgA) 146
"There are people who are punctual, and people who are not," and of course, we should not expect too much from the tardy people.
Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2026 11:55 AM (Fi81e) What would you call someone who is consistently tardy? Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 28, 2026 12:06 PM (zafwz) 147
138 How is David Hogg any different from any DSA fuckface other than branding? What issue would Hogg vote on any different than anyone in the DSA?
With all the caterwalling over the DSA "takeover" of the Democrap party, I'm still waiting for any example of any material legislation or policy a standard rank-and-file Democrap would differ from the DSA on. This is a "takeover" only in the sense of a younger generation trying to seize power from a decrepit, tired, geriatric older generation. Their policies are identical. Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 12:00 PM (iFTx/) David Hogg can't do a pushup, for one. Which is why Hasan Piker gets all the attention, shock collar and all. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 28, 2026 12:06 PM (xcxpd) 148
138 How is David Hogg any different from any DSA fuckface other than branding? What issue would Hogg vote on any different than anyone in the DSA?
With all the caterwalling over the DSA "takeover" of the Democrap party, I'm still waiting for any example of any material legislation or policy a standard rank-and-file Democrap would differ from the DSA on. This is a "takeover" only in the sense of a younger generation trying to seize power from a decrepit, tired, geriatric older generation. Their policies are identical. Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 12:00 PM (iFTx/) Yes, the DNC and DSA have identical policies, but the trick the DNC mastered was to brand their candidates as 'moderate' so they can get elected. After that, their common radicalism would be legislated in - with the assent of the GOPe, of course. Now, unfortunately, the truth-in-advertising DSA is saying the quiet part out loud - this is their brand. This will serve to make the Dems unelectable in national elections. With someone like Hogg, there was a chance that they could have been convinced to play nicely within the tent. Now, they don't. Trump/Vance/Rubio will take their lunch money like a boss. Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 28, 2026 12:06 PM (Mk4yJ) 149
This is a "takeover" only in the sense of a younger generation trying to seize power from a decrepit, tired, geriatric older generation. Their policies are identical.
Nah, the younger ones are upfront about what they want. The fossils know this is folly squared, so they always pretended they weren't really socialists/communists. To some extent, I think the olds also knew enough history (because they lived through it) to know that out and out communism is a bad idea. For some reason, though, they thought they could go halfway to communism, and then stop. History says otherwise. Posted by: Archimedes at July 28, 2026 12:03 PM (Riz8t) ________ You basically just described a difference in branding, not policy. The mainstream Democrap party has been commie for decades. The only difference b/t them and DSA is DSA says the quiet part out loud. Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 12:06 PM (iFTx/) 150
And if Joe Sixpack doesn't pay, he gets fined more, his license is suspended, then he is jailed for driving while suspended
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 28, 2026 12:06 PM (bkuEU) 151
Could Hogg be any worse than Ken Martin? Martin is completely incompetent, Hogg would at least be laughably bad
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 28, 2026 12:06 PM (BlDDt) 152
What would you call someone who is consistently tardy?
Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 28, 2026 12:06 PM (zafwz Retardy. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 12:07 PM (wOO3z) Posted by: David Lee Roth, Hot For Teacher at July 28, 2026 12:08 PM (kU1VW) 154
How is David Hogg any different from any DSA fuckface other than branding? What issue would Hogg vote on any different than anyone in the DSA?
With all the caterwalling over the DSA "takeover" of the Democrap party, I'm still waiting for any example of any material legislation or policy a standard rank-and-file Democrap would differ from the DSA on. This is a "takeover" only in the sense of a younger generation trying to seize power from a decrepit, tired, geriatric older generation. Their policies are identical. Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 12:00 PM (iFTx/) David Hogg can't do a pushup, for one. Which is why Hasan Piker gets all the attention, shock collar and all. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 28, 2026 12:06 PM (xcxpd) ______ Hogg is a twerp and probably gay. But he openly looted the DNC, stole their donor lists, pissed on minority DEI rivals, and treated the party with the utter contempt it deserves. For that, he might have more balls than anyone else in the party. Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 12:08 PM (iFTx/) 155
Could Hogg be any worse than Ken Martin? Martin is completely incompetent, Hogg would at least be laughably bad
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 28, 2026 12:06 PM (BlDDt) I don't want them to be laughably bad. I want them to remain incompetent and stumble, bumble, and fumble their way to irrelevance and dissolution. I want that party to disband into two smaller parties so they never regain national power again. Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 28, 2026 12:08 PM (1Ff7Z) 156
James Carville is one of the most entertaining voices on the political landscape today.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 28, 2026 12:09 PM (2Ez/1) 157
I watched the press conference where the protestor interrupted the groveling, mewling quim of a police chief.
All I kept thinking was "What would Sheriff Grady Judd do?" Posted by: PabloD at July 28, 2026 12:02 PM (kU1VW) ----- You don't "lose control" of a press conference when you are the police chief surrounded by other police officers and the mayor's security detail. You cede control in a pre-planned manner. That takeover was theater. It don't happen if they don't want it to. Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 28, 2026 12:09 PM (zafwz) 158
I think the DSA, the Democrats, the GOP... they're all the same "party."
The only difference is the color of their lapel pins. Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2026 12:09 PM (jehhT) 159
Try to arrest a Corey Ruiz and you might get stabbed, you might get fired, you might get prosecuted.
And a judge is likely to let him go even if none of those three things happen. Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 11:27 AM (2ocoG) Hence the central plot of the movie "Citizen Vigilante". Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 28, 2026 12:09 PM (hmYU4) 160
Well, this looks like a good place to drop "Tillamook County Jail." This is from a live double LP, it's the first track, so you can stop at about 5:16 in, or keep going for another hour and change. R.I.P.
Todd Snider - Tales from Moondawg's Tavern Disc 2 https://youtu.be/Ch3cFnFrc6Y Posted by: SciVo at July 28, 2026 12:09 PM (Sy6m/) 161
You basically just described a difference in branding, not policy. The mainstream Democrap party has been commie for decades. The only difference b/t them and DSA is DSA says the quiet part out loud.
No, because I said the olds know that full blown communism was bad. They don't want it, but they do want to go halfway, which is like going halfway down a ski jump. Van Jones admits that, as a parent, he's realized this and has moved, if not rightward, at least away from communism. Youth is always full of enthusiasm because the new shiny thing has never been tried before. Olds know better. One hopes/expects they have the wisdom to Edmund Burke things. Sadly, many don't. Posted by: Archimedes at July 28, 2026 12:10 PM (Riz8t) 162
13. I'll continue to call balls and strikes with the cops - they deserve it - but hey, if you go up to a cop with a weapon, well, you get what you deserve and my sympathies end there.
But I think we need to ask another question: why was this joker killed by any cop to begin with? Why wasn’t he in the slam someplace? How many warnings does the system need before someone says “Hmmm, maybe he shouldn’t be in society at all?” Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2026 11:05 AM (4g5V+) The Communist actually take the side of the worst dirtbags who are obvious recipients of cop delivered consequences. The worse the better to turn people against all cops. Rodney King, Michael Brown, George Floyd were all doped up thugs who were resisting arrest. Notice the Community Organizers didn't find the death of Eric Gardner to be useful because that was a case of excessive force by cops to enforce a nitpicky law (one designed to ensure NYC wasn't missing out on tax money through selling cigarettes individually). His death was unnecessary, unlike this Ruiz cat, who essentially committed suicide by cop. Posted by: Minuteman at July 28, 2026 12:12 PM (wDh0r) 163
Has anyone asked why young black people re so prone to violence?
May be it's something in their diet or a lack of a certain vitamin like B12. Posted by: Dr. Fauci at July 28, 2026 12:12 PM (e2lsi) 164
This is a "takeover" only in the sense of a younger generation trying to seize power from a decrepit, tired, geriatric older generation. Their policies are identical.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 12:00 PM (iFTx/) Yes, the DNC and DSA have identical policies, but the trick the DNC mastered was to brand their candidates as 'moderate' so they can get elected. After that, their common radicalism would be legislated in - with the assent of the GOPe, of course. Now, unfortunately, the truth-in-advertising DSA is saying the quiet part out loud - this is their brand. This will serve to make the Dems unelectable in national elections. Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 28, 2026 12:06 PM (Mk4yJ) ____ Time will tell on how unelectable they are. I hope you are right. I'm not sure you are. For the older voters, you are right. But the younger voters, even those center-left ones? They like the fake allure of socialism. They are generally lazy, over-educated but under-qualified, disillusioned with their future prospects (mostly their own fault, ofc), and they want the Lamborghini the CEO has, without working for it. DSA has a strong appeal to them. Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 12:13 PM (iFTx/) 165
- 130 comments in and still no one...
**sigh** I guess it's up to me. There is only one race people. The human race. You know who else believed in different races? Yeah, you know. Posted by: TeeJ at July 28, 2026 12:13 PM (/XKEa) 166
Doof, the Zappa song I could have played would have been a song to ban me for a period of time "You are what you is" Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Trouble Every Day Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 28, 2026 12:13 PM (Cqx++) 167
Tuesday has no feel.
Posted by: G. Costanza at July 28, 2026 12:13 PM (JM9I6) 168
But the younger voters, even those center-left ones? They like the fake allure of socialism. They are generally lazy, over-educated but under-qualified, disillusioned with their future prospects (mostly their own fault, ofc), and they want the Lamborghini the CEO has, without working for it. DSA has a strong appeal to them.
The downwardly mobile "elites". Posted by: Archimedes at July 28, 2026 12:14 PM (Riz8t) 169
156 James Carville is one of the most entertaining voices on the political landscape today.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 28, 2026 12:09 PM (2Ez/1) I haven't heard from his wife, Mary Matalin, for years. Turns out she left the Republican party in 2016. https://tinyurl.com/26hpwtrm Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 28, 2026 12:16 PM (Mk4yJ) 170
121 At UPI: "Crashed truck covers Ohio highway in pickles."
----------- Driver lost control of his gherkins. Posted by: WisRich at July 28, 2026 12:16 PM (G0vdT) 171
165 - 130 comments in and still no one...
**sigh** I guess it's up to me. There is only one race people. The human race. You know who else believed in different races? Yeah, you know. Posted by: TeeJ at July 28, 2026 12:13 PM (/XKEa) ----------------- Per Dennis Prager, there are actually only two races: The Decent and The Indecent. Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 28, 2026 12:17 PM (6qpDO) 172
146 "There are people who are punctual, and people who are not," and of course, we should not expect too much from the tardy people.
Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2026 11:55 AM (Fi81e) What would you call someone who is consistently tardy? Posted by: OneEyedJack --- President. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2026 12:17 PM (Cq/ve) 173
I hope downwardly mobile "elites" will have as few children as possible.
Posted by: mr tmz at July 28, 2026 12:18 PM (rJ48h) 174
Has anyone asked why young black people re so prone to violence?
May be it's something in their diet or a lack of a certain vitamin like B12. Posted by: Dr. Fauci at July 28, 2026 12:12 PM (e2lsi) Diet? How about genetics too then? Depending on who is wielding the data and for what purpose, I've seen some stories about how AA men have a higher percentage who have the "warrior gene" which makes one even more aggressive than young men already are by nature. One side uses it as proof why blacks are "better" at physically aggressive sports, while the other side uses it as reasons for violence and criminality in general. May as well dust off The Bell Curve while we're at it and really throw some gas on this discussion Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 28, 2026 12:19 PM (zafwz) 175
Second interview seemed to go about as well as the first. Next will be the client interview at some TBD point. Hopefully later this week?
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 28, 2026 12:19 PM (aJQbY) 176
I guess it's up to me.
There is only one race people. The human race. You know who else believed in different races? Yeah, you know. Posted by: TeeJ at July 28, 2026 12:13 PM (/XKEa) There are 7 races listed per form OMB 0607-0763: 1) White 2) Black 3) Asian 4) Hispanic 5) American Indian 6) Native Hawaiian 7) Middle Eastern Please fill out and return under penalty of law, fines or both. Posted by: US Census Bureau at July 28, 2026 12:19 PM (e2lsi) 177
The defund crowd are mostly the urban dwellers. Or Citiots as we like to call them. Eventually they will be overrun with crime and suddenly wonder why. Let them.
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 28, 2026 12:19 PM (ewjUl) 178
Second interview seemed to go about as well as the first. Next will be the client interview at some TBD point. Hopefully later this week?
I remember when the hiring process involved one visit. Posted by: Archimedes at July 28, 2026 12:20 PM (Riz8t) 179
I haven't heard from his wife, Mary Matalin, for years. Turns out she left the Republican party in 2016.
https://tinyurl.com/26hpwtrm Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 28, 2026 12:16 PM Those two are nothing but a professional grifting couple. He plays the Dems, she played the Republicans. I'm sure they've both always been Dems at heart. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2026 12:20 PM (kgE5c) 180
But the younger voters, even those center-left ones? They like the fake allure of socialism. They are generally lazy, over-educated but under-qualified, disillusioned with their future prospects (mostly their own fault, ofc), and they want the Lamborghini the CEO has, without working for it. DSA has a strong appeal to them.
The downwardly mobile "elites". Posted by: Archimedes at July 28, 2026 12:14 PM (Riz8t) ______ Exactly. Plus, heavily in debt for worthless degrees. Yet they'll spend 10x as much on food-delivery apps and trendy frivolity than someone with 100x their net worth. They are the most self-destructive generation probably ever, but ofc they will never blame themselves. Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 12:20 PM (iFTx/) 181
I don't think the "downwardly mobile" are anywhere near, elite. They are the Socialist children of wealthy parents. They've been taught nothing but Socialism since they entered school... any school. They've no useful education beyond that.
They use what money they have to rabble rouse the others in their little groups. Most probably work at Starbucks. Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2026 12:22 PM (jehhT) 182
Exactly. Plus, heavily in debt for worthless degrees. Yet they'll spend 10x as much on food-delivery apps and trendy frivolity than someone with 100x their net worth.
Uh oh. I figured the race thing might light this thread on fire, but Elric just went straight to the DoorDash and $8 coffee hot button. Posted by: Archimedes at July 28, 2026 12:22 PM (Riz8t) 183
If someone is screaming in your face and blocking your way, is it legal for you to pepper gel them in the face. My personal preference would be red spray paint but my husband said that might critically injure them.
Posted by: Megthered at July 28, 2026 12:22 PM (+EORJ) 184
175: good luck.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 12:22 PM (wOO3z) 185
I learned about "Black time" in the 1990s. KTLA would show all the Lakers home games and the cable network showed most of the away games.
A game that was supposed to start a 7:00 pm, usually didn't start until 7:40. MLB and NFL don't put up with that. Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 28, 2026 12:23 PM (qFwJc) 186
@176 what are we , chopped liver? Your friendly neighborhood Australiasian
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 28, 2026 12:25 PM (BlDDt) Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 28, 2026 12:25 PM (Cqx++) 188
Has anyone asked why young black people re so prone to violence?
May be it's something in their diet or a lack of a certain vitamin like B12. We're not allowed to say it too loudly, but it's single mothers. Boys raised by single mothers have sharply negative outcomes for all races. It's worse when all of their friends are also from single mothers, too. Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 12:25 PM (2ocoG) 189
They are the most self-destructive generation probably ever, but ofc they will never blame themselves.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 28, 2026 12:20 PM (iFTx/) Older generations are always bemoaning the folly of youth. How many of Chestertons' fences did gen X and the Boomers toss to the side of the road? Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 28, 2026 12:25 PM (zafwz) 190
Ewok's up.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2026 12:25 PM (kgE5c) 191
- Oh. Well, if the geneticists at the US Census Bureau say so.
And yes, I realize the possibility of in your comment. Still, this PhD geneticist has been doing this lengthy study... https://tinyurl.com/3zzkvsp7 Posted by: TeeJ at July 28, 2026 12:26 PM (/XKEa) 192
Hmmmm vs sarc
Posted by: TeeJ at July 28, 2026 12:29 PM (/XKEa) 193
I struggle to identify any topic on which you can expect the mainstream media to present the news thoroughly, knowledgeably, and without bias.
On the other hand, there certainly *are* topics on which you can 100% trust them to deliver the most pig-ignorant, wrong-headed, straight-up retarded take imaginable, and police-involved shootings are one of those topics. Posted by: DaveL at July 28, 2026 12:30 PM (KerRU) 194
174 Has anyone asked why young black people re so prone to violence?
---- The constant drum beat of false oppression may have something to do with it. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2026 12:31 PM (Cq/ve) 195
Sorry I missed your thread, MisHum, but glad to hear you are busy.
Are your projects going to show up on the Hobby Thread? Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 28, 2026 12:34 PM (4Ntlw) 196
>>>
We're not allowed to say it too loudly, but it's single mothers. Boys raised by single mothers have sharply negative outcomes for all races. It's worse when all of their friends are also from single mothers, too. Posted by: Ian S. --- Hey guys, let's go raid the candy store. RAID THE CANDY STORE AND I'LL KICK YOUR BUTT _DAD Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2026 12:35 PM (Cq/ve) 197
Tuesday has no feel.
Posted by: G. Costanza ------- Keep your hands to yourself. https://shorturl.at/e4Dez Posted by: Tuesday Weld at July 28, 2026 12:37 PM (XeU6L) 198
Dropped in for the voice of reason. Glad I did. 👍🏼
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 28, 2026 12:52 PM (LL19j) Mid-Morning Art Thread![]() Fairy dream Theodor Severin Kittelsen Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
Do fairies dream of chicks?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 09:30 AM (ExV1e) 2
Too much melatonin.
Posted by: Tuna at July 28, 2026 09:31 AM (lJ0H4) 3
Is she catching him in mosquito netting?
Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2026 09:31 AM (Dd38x) 4
Why did my comment disappear?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 09:31 AM (ExV1e) 5
And now it's back.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 09:31 AM (ExV1e) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 28, 2026 09:31 AM (O0L8i) Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2026 09:32 AM (77rzZ) 8
Oh, one of those dreams.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 28, 2026 09:32 AM (ibDUx) 9
She looks a little young
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 28, 2026 09:32 AM (MjgAv) 10
Tinkerbell is nekkid.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 09:32 AM (+mpku) 11
"Theodor Severin Kittelsen (27 April 1857 – 21 January 1914) was a Norwegian artist. He is one of the most popular artists in Norway. Kittelsen became famous for his nature paintings, as well as for his illustrations of fairy tales and legends, especially of trolls."
Posted by: Tuna at July 28, 2026 09:33 AM (lJ0H4) 12
Freaks and Hairies,
Dykes and fairies... Posted by: Ten Years After at July 28, 2026 09:33 AM (JM9I6) 13
The fairy was angry that day, my friends.
Posted by: George Costanza at July 28, 2026 09:33 AM (2Ez/1) 14
Is it harvest season already?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 28, 2026 09:34 AM (ndZc7) 15
And that fairy's name is Socialism.
Posted by: davidt at July 28, 2026 09:34 AM (Q+gd/) 16
The original Grimm’s Fairy Tales are scary af.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 28, 2026 09:34 AM (/NJmz) Posted by: naturalfake at July 28, 2026 09:34 AM (iJfKG) 18
Is she catching him in mosquito netting?
Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2026 09:31 AM (Dd38x) I think she's trying to slow him down. Posted by: dantesed at July 28, 2026 09:35 AM (Oy/m2) 19
He is supposed to be struggling, but it looks like a fake struggle - like “oh please, naked beautiful fairy, don’t kidnap me! Especially don’t take me to your lair where we….”
Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2026 09:35 AM (Dd38x) 20
It is wonderful that CBD has returned to the fertile trough of Scandi Mental Illness Art. I approve!
Posted by: Jens Jenssen at July 28, 2026 09:35 AM (JM9I6) 21
Weird…. For some reason it makes me think of CS Lewis’ The Magician’s Nephew…. The boy is Digory and the fairy is Jadis
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 28, 2026 09:35 AM (+gA9j) 22
Carnal knowledge with a minor.
Posted by: Atticus Finch at July 28, 2026 09:35 AM (2Ez/1) 23
Sweet dreams are made of cheese...
Posted by: Don't Give Edam! at July 28, 2026 09:36 AM (JM9I6) 24
A lot more interesting than my dreams, I'll tell ya.
"Theodor Severin Kittelsen (27 April 1857 – 21 January 1914) was a Norwegian artist. He is one of the most popular artists in Norway. Kittelsen became famous for his nature paintings, as well as for his illustrations of fairy tales and legends, especially of trolls." Posted by: Tuna at July 28, 2026 *** I'd much rather see this than a painting of a nekkid troll. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 28, 2026 09:36 AM (wzUl9) Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 09:37 AM (Bep7s) 26
It's whimsical, yet creepy.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 28, 2026 09:37 AM (NpAcC) 27
She has a mature face. Not a kid fairy.
Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2026 09:37 AM (Dd38x) 28
She is almost undetailed, as if lacking features, while the guy's suit and the grass around him are well rendered.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 28, 2026 09:37 AM (wzUl9) 29
he doesn't look paki.
Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 09:38 AM (Bep7s) 30
Nice painting almost ruined by terrible rendering of bro’s jacket pocket. Looks like an incongruent eye sticking out and drawing your eye to where it shouldn’t be.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 28, 2026 09:38 AM (771KI) 31
Morning wood?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2026 09:39 AM (jehhT) 32
Alternate title:
"In 1962, Marvel's Nekkid SpiderGirl Failed After Three Issues Following Condemnation By Boston's AntiNekkid League" Posted by: naturalfake at July 28, 2026 09:39 AM (iJfKG) 33
alterante.
Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 09:39 AM (Bep7s) 34
All affluent countries have negative birth rates from all the Fairy chasing.
Posted by: Ramrod Lounge at July 28, 2026 09:39 AM (JM9I6) 35
It's a fairytale about chasing fairy tail.
Posted by: SWIDT? at July 28, 2026 09:39 AM (2Ez/1) 36
Sweet dreams are made of cheese...
Posted by: Don't Give Edam! at July 28, 2026 09:36 AM Who am I to dis a brie? Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2026 09:40 AM (kgE5c) 37
27 well that makes it ok then.
Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 09:41 AM (Bep7s) 38
Come, feel my hydrangeas!
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 28, 2026 09:41 AM (w9Wax) 39
It's like looking into a young Joe Biden's brain. Before it turned into a sponge.
Posted by: PabloD at July 28, 2026 09:41 AM (OygQN) 40
I don't very much care for this piece
Posted by: Otto Penn at July 28, 2026 09:41 AM (JHVDg) Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2026 09:42 AM (77rzZ) 42
This could be representative of the backstage area at a disney studio.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 28, 2026 09:42 AM (3oLiU) 43
lol RMBS!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 28, 2026 09:42 AM (ibDUx) 44
alterante.
Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 09:39 AM (Bep7s) That's...uh...the Italian spelling like Spumante! Yeah... Posted by: naturalfake at July 28, 2026 09:43 AM (iJfKG) 45
"An Incongruent Eye" was one of my favorite Nancy Drew books!
Posted by: My twelve year old self at July 28, 2026 09:43 AM (2Ez/1) 46
Not what I think of when a woodland nymph is mentioned.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 28, 2026 09:43 AM (wVcYX) 47
FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 09:43 AM (2YhKe) 48
"Your wife, zee little girl.....How much for zee women?!?"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 09:43 AM (2YhKe) 49
This could be representative of the backstage area at a disney studio.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone No couch. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 09:43 AM (+mpku) 50
How much LSD was consumed here?
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2026 09:43 AM (4g5V+) 51
Dude ate a shroom, didn't he.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2026 09:43 AM (vDZgA) 52
"...and let me tell you 'bout phaedra..."
Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 09:44 AM (Bep7s) 53
Who is catching whom in the little scene?
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at July 28, 2026 09:44 AM (Fh5di) 54
Who am I to dis a brie? Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2026 09:40 AM (kgE5c) I cheddar the world and feta cheese… Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2026 09:44 AM (4g5V+) 55
A 20 year old male lurching after a 13 year old girl........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 09:44 AM (2YhKe) 56
it's over, he's got her calf.
Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 09:44 AM (Bep7s) 57
Originally titled "Arnold And The Maid", but lawsuits.
Posted by: Sex And The Help at July 28, 2026 09:44 AM (e2lsi) 58
Sweet dreams are made of cheese...
Posted by: Don't Give Edam! at July 28, 2026 09:36 AM Who am I to dis a brie? Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2026 09:40 AM (kgE5c) Cheese it! It's the pun police! Posted by: Count de Monet at July 28, 2026 09:44 AM (wVcYX) 59
I guess we are fetad to endure cheese puns.
Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2026 09:45 AM (77rzZ) 60
44 asti spumante!
Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 09:45 AM (Bep7s) 61
Keep Calm and Fairy On.
Posted by: The UK version at July 28, 2026 09:45 AM (2Ez/1) 62
Hmmmmm
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 28, 2026 09:45 AM (ZZsBy) 63
Who am I to dis a brie? Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2026 09:40 AM (kgE5c) IT'S NOT MY FAULT!!!!! Posted by: Brie Larson at July 28, 2026 09:46 AM (2YhKe) 64
Rapunzel? Dat you?
Posted by: Man in Painting at July 28, 2026 09:47 AM (wVcYX) 65
58 Sweet dreams are made of cheese...
Posted by: Don't Give Edam! at July 28, 2026 09:36 AM Who am I to dis a brie? Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2026 09:40 AM (kgE5c I traveled the world looking for feta Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2026 09:48 AM (hftzA) 66
the puddlegum bush... and the other one. sheesh what a tease.
Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 09:48 AM (Bep7s) 67
Greetings from Doolin!
Posted by: Mick at July 28, 2026 09:48 AM (nPUv/) 68
58 Sweet dreams are made of cheese...
Posted by: Don't Give Edam! at July 28, 2026 09:36 AM Who am I to dis a brie? Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2026 09:40 AM (kgE5c) Cheese it! It's the pun police! Posted by: Count de Monet at July 28, 2026 09:44 AM (wVcYX) ::: puffs face with cheesy smile ::: Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2026 09:48 AM (l3cgK) 69
Who am I to dis a brie?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2026 09:40 AM (kgE5c) IT'S NOT MY FAULT!!!!! Posted by: Brie Larson at July 28, 2026 09:46 AM (2YhKe) Now, Brie. Nobody blames you for having no Butterkase! Posted by: naturalfake at July 28, 2026 09:48 AM (iJfKG) 70
These cheese puns are no gouda.
Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2026 09:49 AM (77rzZ) 71
65 and then i jumped out, onion roll!
i found no love, no love in korea! Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 09:49 AM (Bep7s) 72
ham banner
Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 09:51 AM (Bep7s) 73
Morning all! For those who skipped the ONT, I'm requesting prayers for my interview in about 90 minutes. Second-stage for a job I really need and want.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 28, 2026 09:51 AM (aJQbY) 74
And to post something on topic, the guy's suit is surprisely modern-looking. I guess suits haven't changed much in 125 years?
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 28, 2026 09:52 AM (aJQbY) Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2026 09:52 AM (77rzZ) 76
Sweet dreams are made of cheese...
Posted by: Don't Give Edam! Who am I to dis a brie? Posted by: RedMindBlueState I traveled the world looking for feta Posted by: Piper Everybody's looking for mozz string. Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at July 28, 2026 09:52 AM (Fh5di) 77
Fairy dust: it’s snow ordinary thing.
Posted by: Oh, no... at July 28, 2026 09:53 AM (2Ez/1) 78
one hundred!
Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 09:53 AM (Bep7s) 79
74 Prayer up, RD.
Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2026 09:53 AM (77rzZ) 80
Cheese Gromit!
Posted by: Wallace at July 28, 2026 09:53 AM (skR0U) 81
73. Done!
Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2026 09:54 AM (hftzA) 82
"wensleydale"
Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 09:54 AM (Bep7s) 83
He is supposed to be struggling, but it looks like a fake struggle - like “oh please, naked beautiful fairy, don’t kidnap me! Especially don’t take me to your lair where we….”
Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2026 09:35 AM (Dd38x) He's just stoic, facing his hardships without letting his distress show. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 09:55 AM (ExV1e) 84
These cheese puns are no gouda.
You're going soft Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 28, 2026 09:55 AM (MjgAv) 85
No whey would I hang this.
Posted by: The Lonely Cheesemonger at July 28, 2026 09:55 AM (JM9I6) 86
[frantic desperation] The pod people are here! They're here already! You're next! You're next, You're next...!
Posted by: Kevin McCarthy as Dr. Miles J. Bennell (1956) at July 28, 2026 09:55 AM (wVcYX) 87
Howdy.
Well, that's different. The pastel colors certainly add to the fairy feel. Horndog guy could improve his approach. And she could turn slightly so we can get some boobie credits for this week's art threads. Posted by: mindful webworker - life's been fairy fairy good to me at July 28, 2026 09:55 AM (cvo3J) 88
"the cats eaten it"
Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 09:55 AM (Bep7s) 89
The cheese puns… groan-alone
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 28, 2026 09:56 AM (yz/88) 90
Sweet dreams are made of cheese...
Posted by: Don't Give Edam! at July 28, 2026 09:36 AM Who am I to dis a brie? Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2026 09:40 AM (kgE5c I traveled the world looking for feta Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2026 09:48 AM (hftzA) ACK! Stick to ghosting....... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 09:56 AM (2YhKe) 91
I like some of his other nature paintings better, including one of a red breasted bird in a snowy landscape but the purple and blue colors against the light here is very nice.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 09:56 AM (W90Ou) 92
Originally titled "Arnold And The Maid", but lawsuits.
LOL Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 28, 2026 09:56 AM (MjgAv) 93
where are her boots?
Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 09:57 AM (Bep7s) Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 09:57 AM (2YhKe) Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2026 09:57 AM (FZ29D) 96
Everybody's looking for mozz string.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at July 28, 2026 09:52 AM *golf clap* Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2026 09:57 AM (kgE5c) 97
Do fairies dream of chicks?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 09:30 AM (ExV1e) Well, if the fairy is Dylan Mulvaney... Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2026 09:57 AM (1z8ji) 98
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 28, 2026 09:51 AM (aJQbY
Prayed this morning for you, brother, and will also pray in about an hour and a half. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 09:57 AM (W90Ou) 99
Prayers up, RD.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2026 09:58 AM (kgE5c) 100
It will always come back to bite you.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel I thought fairies did nice things, like granting wishes. Posted by: Naive Sarah at July 28, 2026 09:59 AM (Fh5di) 101
SHUT THAT BLOODY BOUZOUKI OFF!!
Posted by: Cheese Shoppe Customer at July 28, 2026 09:59 AM (wVcYX) 102
Morning all! For those who skipped the ONT, I'm requesting prayers for my interview in about 90 minutes. Second-stage for a job I really need and want.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 28, 2026 09:51 AM (aJQbY) Give 'em hell!!! Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 09:59 AM (2YhKe) 103
Nice painting almost ruined by terrible rendering of bro’s jacket pocket. Looks like an incongruent eye sticking out and drawing your eye to where it shouldn’t be.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 28, 2026 09:38 AM (771KI) That's where he packs the .455 Webley. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2026 09:59 AM (1z8ji) 104
95 i struck a bargain with brian. worked out for me, short term.
Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 09:59 AM (Bep7s) 105
Kind of like it
Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2026 10:00 AM (8l4/j) 106
Neither knowing nor caring what the official story of it is, I'm spitballing:
Fairy was off somewhere, maybe bathing in dew or something who knows. Boy sees her, hides, falls asleep on 'a blanket' that is actually her dress made of starlight and mist. She saw him, was intrigued, but all these darned fasteners that mortals use... so complicated... oops, he's awake! Now she's embarassed and trying to flee, but her dress... she's trying to unravel it from where it got tangled on him, hopefully without tearing it. Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 28, 2026 10:01 AM (aJQbY) 107
Speaking of fairies . . .
Cultural Suicide: Berlin Pride Organizers Defend Multiculturalism After Islamist Terror Attack Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 28, 2026 10:01 AM (ndZc7) 108
Do fairies dream of chicks?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 09:30 AM I know where you can get 'em for free. Posted by: M. Knopfler at July 28, 2026 10:01 AM (2Ez/1) 109
Cultural Suicide: Berlin Pride Organizers Defend Multiculturalism After Islamist Terror Attack
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 28, 2026 10:01 AM (ndZc7) I say, LET 'em crash....... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 10:02 AM (2YhKe) 110
106 racy!
Posted by: unpublished forum submissions at July 28, 2026 10:02 AM (Bep7s) 111
108 i know where i can get felt for free.
Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 10:03 AM (Bep7s) 112
I thought fairies did nice things, like granting wishes.
Posted by: Naive Sarah at July 28, 2026 09:59 AM (Fh5di) $20, same as in town. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 10:04 AM (ExV1e) 113
Me liketh this muchly.
Posted by: Edmund Spenser, IYKYK at July 28, 2026 10:04 AM (skR0U) 114
What I wouldn't give to be
When I was fairy's prayer Posted by: JackStraw at July 28, 2026 10:04 AM (viF8m) 115
Cultural Suicide: Berlin Pride Organizers Defend Multiculturalism After Islamist Terror Attack
I still want someone to send Queers for Palestine to Palestine. Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 10:05 AM (2ocoG) 116
Well. That's my second post to disappear.
WTF??? Posted by: Diogenes at July 28, 2026 10:05 AM (dokM/) Are you using a VPN? The IP you're posting from appears to be on the banned list. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 10:05 AM (2YhKe) 117
A painting which captured Gary Gygax's forray into Hollywood.
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at July 28, 2026 10:05 AM (iOHVb) 118
Morning all! For those who skipped the ONT, I'm requesting prayers for my interview in about 90 minutes. Second-stage for a job I really need and want.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 28, 2026 09:51 AM (aJQbY) Who would ever skip an ONT?? Posted by: Doof at July 28, 2026 10:06 AM (S0M0K) 119
The blog’s not liking Diogenes today, it seems.
Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2026 10:06 AM (77rzZ) 120
I still want someone to send Queers for Palestine to Palestine. Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 10:05 AM (2ocoG) I would be willing to bet they wouldn't go. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 10:06 AM (2YhKe) 121
Who would ever skip an ONT??
Posted by: Doof at July 28, 2026 10:06 AM (S0M0K) *sheepishly raises hand* Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 10:07 AM (2YhKe) 122
Fairy dream
Theodor Severin Kittelsen ************* Well Hello, Sailor! - a limerick A young confirmed bachelor named Larry Whose mother feared never would marry Her fears turned out right When one Saturday night He took a ride on the Long Island Ferry Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 28, 2026 10:07 AM (I0N4X) 123
118 Morning all! For those who skipped the ONT, I'm requesting prayers for my interview in about 90 minutes. Second-stage for a job I really need and want.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 28, 2026 09:51 AM (aJQbY) Who would ever skip an ONT?? Posted by: Doof at July 28, 2026 10:06 AM (S0 I assumed that was just nerves making him a little silly. Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2026 10:07 AM (hftzA) 124
Hmmm…in other fake news, the U.S. Consulate in Toronto was shot at again.
I’m calling bullshit. Canada’s strict gun control laws make that completely impossible. Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2026 10:07 AM (4g5V+) 125
I still want someone to send Queers for Palestine to Palestine.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 10:05 AM (2ocoG) I would be willing to bet they wouldn't go. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 10:06 AM (2YhKe) I didn't say to give them a choice. Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 10:07 AM (2ocoG) 126
119 The blog’s not liking Diogenes today, it seems.
Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2026 10:06 AM (77rzZ) -------------- Heh. Posted by: Big Penguin at July 28, 2026 10:07 AM (skR0U) 127
Well. That's my second post to disappear.
WTF??? Posted by: Diogenes at July 28, 2026 10:05 AM (dokM/) Are you using a VPN? The IP you're posting from appears to be on the banned list. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 10:05 AM (2YhKe) Diogenes likes golf so much, his posts are becoming like those shots that you know you hit dead center of the fairway but then you get there and it's nowhere to be found! Posted by: Doof at July 28, 2026 10:07 AM (S0M0K) 128
I enjoy these Scandi painters with scenes from folk tales and northern myths. There is a dreamlike, sometimes nightmarish, quality that invites the viewer's attention. In this painting everything is bright and soft, the foliage and the fairy figure, except the man in his dark clothing. He is tied to the earth. The contrast between the two figures emphasize each. Even if you don't know the specific source of the image you almost have to start thinking about a story. (At least I do.) There is a whimsical quality that is very appealing.
Posted by: JTB at July 28, 2026 10:08 AM (yTvNw) 129
Fairy dream, 1909
Theodor Severin Kittelsen So a fairy captured the young man in a huge, transparent placenta? 🤷🏼♀️ Interesting, but would pass hanging today's art selection. Thank you? Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 28, 2026 10:08 AM (LL19j) 130
Who would ever skip an ONT??
Right? The Friday ONT is frequently the best content on the blog that week. Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 10:08 AM (2ocoG) 131
I still want someone to send Queers for Palestine to Palestine.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 10:05 AM (2ocoG) I would be willing to bet they wouldn't go. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 10:06 AM (2YhKe) Based on the Gay Cruise to Visit the Muzzies, and the shock they felt when discovering that the muzzies didn't want the gays to visit, I'm betting that a lot of them would go. And be real surprised at their welcome. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 10:08 AM (ExV1e) 132
117 A painting which captured Gary Gygax's forray into Hollywood.
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at July 28, 2026 10:05 AM (iOHVb) It’s been 20 years since he won the death pool. Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2026 10:08 AM (4g5V+) 133
We need more ONTs featuring Vic Mizzy music.
Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2026 10:08 AM (77rzZ) 134
I wasn't available during yesterday's art thread. Missing one of Kris' appearances was a bummer. And the image was lovely.
Posted by: JTB at July 28, 2026 10:09 AM (yTvNw) 135
How come there are no Black fairies?
Posted by: Case at July 28, 2026 10:10 AM (bqIVz) 136
129 Fairy dream, 1909
Theodor Severin Kittelsen So a fairy captured the young man in a huge, transparent placenta? 🤷🏼♀️ Interesting, but would pass hanging today's art selection. Thank you? Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at Sir, that is diaphanous fabric. Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2026 10:10 AM (hftzA) 137
I didn't say to give them a choice.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 10:07 AM (2ocoG) Give 'em each a Temu parachute. Stuff them into a C130, fly over Gaza, open the big door, and push 'em out. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2026 10:10 AM (1z8ji) 138
Right? The Friday ONT is frequently the best content on the blog that week.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 10:08 AM (2ocoG) Damn - no love for me or Dino. We haz sadz. Posted by: Doof at July 28, 2026 10:11 AM (S0M0K) 139
Saw "The Odyssey".
I can now see why people like it and hate it. First,the Like: Very well-made movie. Some great acting. Excellent direction for the set pieces. Clear theme throughout. If you know nothing of "The Odyssey", this is a movie you can enjoy and won't be bored in. The Hate: The Greeks were basically a shame society. We live in a guilt society. Nolan made a movie for a guilt society. In a "guilt movie", the hero has to feel guilt over something. In this case, Odysseus feels guilt over his triumph, the Trojan Horse and the Fall of Troy, which totally inverts the story. If this sounds like Ancient Greek Oppenheimer, it is. I believe Nolan even sneaks in an atomic destruction reference from "The Planet of the Apes"(!) with the Trojan Horse looking more like it was abandoned than left as a gift, half-buried in sand and tilted at the same angle as the Statue of Liberty in TPoTA. Every triumph or escape from the dangers of that Odysseus and his men encounter is just another chance to portray Odysseus and his men as venal, violent a-holes. This accounts for the flatness of the movie. (con't) Posted by: naturalfake at July 28, 2026 10:11 AM (iJfKG) 140
Reddit is all abuzz about someone “arrested for clapping” at a city council meeting about data centers. The MAGA fascists are arresting people!!!!ty.
In reality the DSA type named “Lux” (picture in your mind what you think he looks like and he looks like that), most certainly funded by the Chinese’s wasn’t arrested “for clapping”. He was arrested because he had been told repeatedly to stop interrupting the meeting. He ignored the request repeatedly by clapping when others were speaking. He was told if you clap one more time you will be arrested. He started clapping. And got arrested. Oh and he’s a teacher, of course. The left wing media is treating this like opposition to data centers means you’ll get arrested. When in reality it’s being disruptive at a city council meeting will get you arrested. Like it’s always been. And weren’t we told interfering with govt business was treason? I could have sworn that was a thing in early 2021. The effectiveness of Chinese propaganda against data centers would make Goebels blush. Two minutes ago nobody knew what the fuck a data center was. Today it’s like global warming to these people. Posted by: Chaos at July 28, 2026 10:11 AM (Xe8e7) 141
73 Morning all! For those who skipped the ONT, I'm requesting prayers for my interview in about 90 minutes. Second-stage for a job I really need and want.
Posted by: RandomDave Of course. 🙏🏼 Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 28, 2026 10:11 AM (LL19j) 142
(con't)
Circe pretty much lays it all out in her sequence. And when after Odysseus begging her to return his men. She brings them back form pigs by saying"Return to your disguise. Return to your disguise." See? they aren't men or brave soldiers in reality, Odysseus and his men are merely pigs in disguise. This is the inheritance of Nolan using the feminist translation. At some point, we always get the angry feminist view of things from some woman. Again this undercuts the movie and story. Penelope even complains about the "glass-ceiling" in Greek society that won't allow her to rule as Queen. In a really nice bit of dialogue, she says "I have sat on an empty throne for 20 years." That says it all and much more, buuuuut then she goes on to junk up the clean declaration with a bunch of feminist gobbledygook. Sad. This even explains the odd casting of "Elliot Page". it's weird trannie looks tend inevitable toward the feminine, and when in hell Odysseus gets a berating from Ol' Elli about his lies that sounds remarkably like a girl's complaint delivered by an oddly feminine looking "boy". Nolan made the Odyssey guilt trip. He skinned it of meaning a wears it inside out. Posted by: naturalfake at July 28, 2026 10:12 AM (iJfKG) 143
I didn't say to give them a choice. Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 10:07 AM (2ocoG) I can appreciate your style. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 10:12 AM (2YhKe) 144
135 How come there are no Black fairies?
Posted by: Case at July 28, 2026 10:10 AM (bqIVz) Yeah! Posted by: Don Lemon, Journalist at July 28, 2026 10:12 AM (skR0U) 145
(con't)
Nolan's "The Odyssey" begins with the quote: "In an Age of Apparent Magic..." Apparent's meaning in this case is something that appears real or true but isn't. There are no gods in this Odyssey. Athena who appears only to Odysseus is basically Banquo's Ghost. In his climactic memory of the Fall of Troy, we see a priestess of Athena(Zendaya) roughed up and beheaded along with the beheading of a statue of Athena. She is his guilty memory. That's why she's always staring at him like your mom giving you the silent treatment for something you did. No one but Odysseus is alive to tell these tales of his voyages, and we are given to understand that he is merely a sad, and haunted old man driven mad by his guilt over the Trojan Horse and Troy's downfall. All we truly know of him is that he washed up on Calypso's Island where she gave him Grecian Valium for almost a decade to heal him. This renders his return to Ithaca almost well, stupid and meaningless. So...is the Odyssey a tale of a determined, brave, crafty, intelligent man fighting monsters and the very gods themselves to get home to the family he loves, or- The lies a pig who dreamt he was a human tells himself. Posted by: naturalfake at July 28, 2026 10:12 AM (iJfKG) 146
You rarely see "diaphanous fabric" in a limerick.
Posted by: Limerick lover at July 28, 2026 10:12 AM (2Ez/1) 147
How come there are no Black fairies?
Posted by: Case at July 28, 2026 10:10 AM (bqIVz) https://youtu.be/xGEi6IbQ-jI Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 10:13 AM (ExV1e) 148
i know where i can get felt for free.
Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 10:03 AM Japanese commuter rail? Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2026 10:14 AM (kgE5c) Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 10:14 AM (Vqi7w) 150
Sir, that is diaphanous fabric.
Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2026 10:10 AM Piper, bringing the fashion knowledge! Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2026 10:14 AM (kgE5c) 151
I made an entire documentary on The Old Negro Fairies League.
Posted by: Ken Burns at July 28, 2026 10:15 AM (2Ez/1) 152
i know where i can get felt for free.
Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 10:03 AM Japanese commuter rail? Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2026 10:14 AM (kgE5c) Felt comes from beavers. Just sayin' Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2026 10:15 AM (1z8ji) 153
136. Sir, that is diaphanous fabric.
Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2026 10:10 AM (hftzA) 🤔. Ha! Lola Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 28, 2026 10:15 AM (LL19j) 154
Data centers are ugly as hell and effing everywhere here in NoVa. That’s not Chinese propaganda, that’s empirical observation. I hate the damn things with the heat of a thousand suns.
Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2026 10:15 AM (77rzZ) 155
148 i know where i can get felt for free
Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 10:03 AM Airport Security? Posted by: The TSA at July 28, 2026 10:15 AM (skR0U) 156
129 the only meat nothing has to die for.
Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 10:15 AM (Bep7s) 157
You rarely see "diaphanous fabric" in a limerick.
Posted by: Limerick lover Once every 63.5 years. Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 10:15 AM (Vqi7w) 158
I was kinda meh on Oppenheimer. I haven’t seen Odysseus but I suspect I’ll be meh on it too when I see it on Netflix in a couple of years.
The build up can never live up to the reality. Posted by: Chaos at July 28, 2026 10:16 AM (Xe8e7) 159
131 funny how the airplane let's them off onto a roof...
Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 10:16 AM (Bep7s) 160
Any man wearing diaphanous fabric spends a night in the box.
Posted by: Carr, the Floorwalker at July 28, 2026 10:16 AM (skR0U) 161
Morning all! For those who skipped the ONT, I'm requesting prayers for my interview in about 90 minutes. Second-stage for a job I really need and want.
Posted by: RandomDave Goes without asking. God, one of your good ones needs some help. Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 10:17 AM (Vqi7w) 162
Very well written and thorough review of "The Odyssey" Thanks, naturalfake. I will show it to my "peeps" who saw the film.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 10:17 AM (DzHyO) 163
135 don lemon will not allow it.
Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 10:18 AM (Bep7s) 164
Go get 'em, Dave.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 28, 2026 10:18 AM (viF8m) 165
Data centers are ugly as hell and effing everywhere here in NoVa. That’s not Chinese propaganda, that’s empirical observation. I hate the damn things with the heat of a thousand suns.
Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2026 10:15 AM (77rzZ) The other reason to question them, if not outright oppose them, is "for what reason are they being built?" Is it to improve our quality of life, or is it to help the Deep State control us all? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2026 10:18 AM (1z8ji) 166
A man wearing diaphanous fabric walks into a bar...
Posted by: You finish it at July 28, 2026 10:18 AM (2Ez/1) 167
Tracy Lochner wore a sheer "diaphanous fabric" shirt to school in 9th grade in 1970. She was quickly sent home, but I was in her homeroom and got to see the show.
Posted by: You Can Observe A Lot Just By Watching at July 28, 2026 10:19 AM (JM9I6) 168
165 Yep, AOP, my thought exactly. So many of those monstrosities here in the DC area…
Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2026 10:20 AM (77rzZ) 169
Not going to watch Odysseus. I mean I don't go to movies anyway, hardly at all, but this is one I would actively avoid.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2026 10:20 AM (1z8ji) 170
Remember, Kids, fairies are ALWAYS up to no good. Only associate with them if you feel comfortable with the fact you will never get to see your family and friends again.
Posted by: tankdemon at July 28, 2026 10:21 AM (vSKbP) 171
And screw AI, too. I don’t need a machine to think for me.
Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2026 10:22 AM (77rzZ) 172
other reason to question them, if not outright oppose them, is "for what reason are they being built?" Is it to improve our quality of life, or is it to help the Deep State control us all?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2026 10:18 AM (1z8ji) My enemy’s enemy is my friend. Leftists hate them? They can’t be all bad. Posted by: Chaos at July 28, 2026 10:22 AM (Xe8e7) 173
4 Why did my comment disappear?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 09:31 AM (ExV1e) The fairies disapproved. Posted by: tankdemon at July 28, 2026 10:23 AM (vSKbP) 174
Why did my comment disappear?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic The fairies disapproved. Posted by: tankdemon F'n fairies. Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 10:25 AM (Vqi7w) 175
A diaphanous fabric? What is it?
Posted by: Victor Vector at July 28, 2026 10:26 AM (2Ez/1) 176
For military aviation buffs, the Navy's last C-2A Greyhound departed NAS Norfolk about 30 minutes ago enroute to NAS Pensacola for eventual display at the National Naval Aviation Museum. It is being escorted by the Blue Angels.
Posted by: one hour sober at July 28, 2026 10:26 AM (J4Dwc) 177
My enemy’s enemy is my friend. Leftists hate them? They can’t be all bad.
Posted by: Chaos at July 28, 2026 10:22 AM (Xe8e7) If the data center is being built to better distribute cat videos on the internet, fine. If it is being used to house and correlate data from Flock cameras, no thanks. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2026 10:27 AM (1z8ji) 178
Sir, that is diaphanous fabric.
It will cause quite a scene when he shows up for work dressed only in that stuff. Posted by: t-bird at July 28, 2026 10:27 AM (TmQh+) 179
And, naturalfake,
I think - if you aren't doing it already - you should consider a side gig as a film reviewer. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 10:27 AM (6ZG1g) 180
BREAKING: Germany considers changing its laws to keep terrorists in jail 🤯
- Couldn't they just hire more social workers? Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 28, 2026 10:28 AM (ndZc7) 181
A diaphanous fabric? What is it?
Posted by: Victor Vector at July 28, 2026 10:26 AM (2Ez/1 ------------ It's a cloth so sheer as to be seen through, but that's not important right niw... Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 28, 2026 10:28 AM (amcLV) 182
There are legit concerns about datacenters. But there's also a push by China to oppose them here. China lags behind the US in their AI tech. Slowing down our datacenter build-outs for AI and storing the massive amount of surveillance data being collected on the public is about the only way they'll stay in the game.
They actively try to steal every known LLM and the client software. Or hack it. Their datacenter manufacturing is about as good as their residential and commercial sectors; it sucks. Same for their IC manufacturing. But there are concerns that some locations are being leveraged here that are unsuited for a datacenter. And, as people rightly point out, they'll be obsolete in years, but take up valuable real estate and cost millions or billions to disassemble. Lastly, many are uncomfortable with all the surveillance data being fed into them. And for what reason? Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2026 10:29 AM (jehhT) 183
Why did my comment disappear?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic Ofds are, your isp changed and you picked up a previously banned one. Happened to me last Thursday. Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 10:30 AM (Vqi7w) 184
181 A diaphanous fabric? What is it?
Posted by: Victor Vector at July 28, 2026 10:26 AM (2Ez/1 ------------ It's a cloth so sheer as to be seen through, but that's not important right now... ==== Good luck, we're all counting on you. Posted by: Peter Graves at July 28, 2026 10:30 AM (2Ez/1) 185
My enemy’s enemy is my friend.
- NBC News: As Republicans invite him to defect, Fetterman wonders if Democrats still want him in the party “If the Democratic caucus doesn’t want me, they could just let me know,” a frustrated Fetterman told NBC News, lamenting “the very anti-Israel party that we’re becoming.” Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 28, 2026 10:32 AM (ndZc7) 186
A maid dressed in fabric diaphanous
Caused a scene that became quite cacaphonous She said, "what's the issue" It's not toilet tissue Just wanted to show off the cans for us. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2026 10:32 AM (1z8ji) 187
NBC News: As Republicans invite him to defect, Fetterman wonders if Democrats still want him in the party
---------- Come to the Dark Side. We have cookies. Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 28, 2026 10:33 AM (amcLV) 188
A sleeper entry from AOP!
Bravo! Posted by: Limerick lover at July 28, 2026 10:36 AM (2Ez/1) 189
>>NBC News: As Republicans invite him to defect, Fetterman wonders if Democrats still want him in the party
The nothing will happen guy is not going to like this. Posted by: JackStraw at July 28, 2026 10:36 AM (viF8m) 190
BREAKING: Germany considers changing its laws to keep terrorists in jail 🤯
- Couldn't they just hire more social workers? Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 28, 2026 10:28 AM (ndZc7) Germany's problem is that they have spent 100 years analyzing how to prevent a successful putsch, and now everyone knows everything there is to know about running one. Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2026 10:36 AM (rbvCR) 191
The nothing will happen guy is not going to like this.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 28, 2026 10:36 AM (viF8m) --------- And so it begins. Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at July 28, 2026 10:37 AM (amcLV) 192
And, naturalfake,
I think - if you aren't doing it already - you should consider a side gig as a film reviewer. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 10:27 AM (6ZG1g) Thanks, Fen. What a nice thing to say! Posted by: naturalfake at July 28, 2026 10:37 AM (iJfKG) Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 28, 2026 10:38 AM (ndZc7) 194
137 Give 'em each a Temu parachute. Stuff them into a C130, fly over Gaza, open the big door, and push 'em out.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2026 10:10 AM (1z8ji) You might advise them to keep the parachute handy when the locals offer to take them to the top of a building to get "the best view of the city." Posted by: tankdemon at July 28, 2026 10:38 AM (vSKbP) 195
I just got an alligator warning. lol.
Toby, stay away from North Beach Park! A gator is out there helping people fish. Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2026 10:39 AM (hftzA) 196
NBC News: As Republicans invite him to defect, Fetterman wonders if Democrats still want him in the party
Marxists can't abide someone who doesn't 100% agree with them. There's a non-trivial amount of that on the right too, but we're still a lot more fun than them. Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 10:40 AM (2ocoG) 197
Remember, Kids, fairies are ALWAYS up to no good. Only associate with them if you feel comfortable with the fact you will never get to see your family and friends again.
Posted by: tankdemon at July 28, 2026 10:21 AM What have I done that you should show me this kind of disrespect? Posted by: The Fairy Godfather at July 28, 2026 10:40 AM (kgE5c) 198
The nothing will happen guy is not going to like this.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 28, 2026 10:36 AM (viF8m) Nothing Will Happen. Posted by: The guy who always says nothing will happen at July 28, 2026 10:41 AM (4g5V+) 199
Is a Temu parachute made from a diaphanous fabric?
Posted by: I gotta ask at July 28, 2026 10:41 AM (2Ez/1) 200
32 Alternate title:
"In 1962, Marvel's Nekkid SpiderGirl Failed After Three Issues Following Condemnation By Boston's AntiNekkid League" Posted by: naturalfake at July 28, 2026 09:39 AM (iJfKG) Wake up! Little suits see to it we can't have nice things. Damn activist lawyers. Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at July 28, 2026 10:41 AM (w/O5Q) 201
What have I done that you should show me this kind of disrespect?
Posted by: The Fairy Godfather at July 28, 2026 10:40 AM (kgE5c) ---------- Offered someone a wish they cannot refuse? Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 28, 2026 10:41 AM (amcLV) 202
What kind of cookies does The Dark Side have?
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2026 10:42 AM (4g5V+) 203
Sitting right here, boss.
Posted by: The tooth fairy at July 28, 2026 10:42 AM (2Ez/1) 204
Scott Jennings
@ScottJenningsKY Hold on to your hats when the Dems see the front page of the Graham funeral program today https://tinyurl.com/3cbwjv7d Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 28, 2026 10:42 AM (ndZc7) 205
196 NBC News: As Republicans invite him to defect, Fetterman wonders if Democrats still want him in the party
Marxists can't abide someone who doesn't 100% agree with them. There's a non-trivial amount of that on the right too, but we're still a lot more fun than them. Posted by: Ian S. at July 28 He needs to go to cult therapy first. He votes on the wrong side of issues 99% of the time. Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2026 10:43 AM (hftzA) 206
Lindsey is getting the big sendoff at the capitol. Why is SC paying for this shindig?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 28, 2026 10:43 AM (3oLiU) 207
Marxists can't abide someone who doesn't 100% agree with them. There's a non-trivial amount of that on the right too, but we're still a lot more fun than them.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 10:40 AM (2ocoG) The Left has not learned a thing from the Reign of Terror (1793-1794). Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2026 10:43 AM (4g5V+) 208
Data center critics just won exactly the kind of victory you'd expect in my town. There wasn't one planned; it is three, all under the auspices of a secret Development Commission we voted against. We're still not allowed to know if the NDA-concealed investor groups are among those who have signed on to the Energy Cost Pledge, so that angle is still up in the air. But one proposed site, a vast bean field, has been scratched from the list. As a compromise, it will instead be developed into multi-family housing instead, because the tax receipts if they all sell will outweigh the income from beans.
There's your victory. The option of keeping the bean field never even came up. A decision was taken behind closed doors and announced at the bipartisan council meeting. And there's still no evidence that the data investors are not the Red Chinese -- something you never hear mentioned here. Our new national pastime is ass-nosing. We love it. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 28, 2026 10:44 AM (zdLoL) 209
By 2028 I expect Kamala to be wearing a Hamas headband and a suicide belt.
We've got a lot of issues, particularly you and you know who you are, but we aren't nucking futz. The left has slipped the chain and the only way to win in that party is to be crazier than the next guy. Posted by: JackStraw at July 28, 2026 10:44 AM (viF8m) 210
Marxists can't abide someone who doesn't 100% agree with them. Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 10:40 AM (2ocoG) It's called "Diversity" Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at July 28, 2026 10:44 AM (w/O5Q) 211
206 Lindsey is getting the big sendoff at the capitol. Why is SC paying for this shindig?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 28, 2026 10:43 AM (3oLiU) It pays to be networked. Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2026 10:44 AM (4g5V+) 212
Diaphonous Fabric - a limerick
There once was a doctor named Boz Who championed a fine worthy cause "If a wound is in peril You must keep it sterile!" Said The Wonderful Wizard of Gauze (Nobody said it couldn't appear in the title! 😇 Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 28, 2026 10:44 AM (I0N4X) 213
He needs to go to cult therapy first. He votes on the wrong side of issues 99% of the time.
Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2026 10:43 AM (hftzA) -------- Can we send Murcow and Collins first? Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 28, 2026 10:45 AM (amcLV) 214
Scott Jennings
@ScottJenningsKY Hold on to your hats when the Dems see the front page of the Graham funeral program today https://tinyurl.com/3cbwjv7d Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy The shit goblins are gonna lose it. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 10:45 AM (wOO3z) 215
I, for one, welcome our new busty female overlords clad in diaphanous fabric.
Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2026 10:45 AM (77rzZ) 216
This will be willowed, but, oh well. Written after my second divorce as I was contemplating jumping back into the dating pool.
Why does one so easily fall into the Game of careful indifference played be the Faerie? The Rules, such as there are, must surely be known, yet one is willing to give into the folly as the hunt is joined; chasing this way and that, with the anticipation of the Prize to be won. But the enticing promise of victory is illusory; only the game matters to the Faerie. Is this a surprise? For after all, they are a most Free Folk and live as a whim, flitting from here to there with naught a concern for this world’s cares, save their own mischief. Oh, to be sure, they do not seek to hurt nor are they acting out of ill-intent. But act they do, masking the Game with beckoning coyness and enchanting visions; happily drawing you along into your illusion until they grow indifferent or a new Game calls. And you will seek to play again, missing Wisdom’s gentle sting; for they diffuse the lesson in Dust and Dreams... As Faeries are wont to do. Posted by: goozer at July 28, 2026 10:45 AM (eTh1u) 217
diaphanous' comments keep getting holed.
Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 10:46 AM (Bep7s) 218
Thomas Cochrane had proposed the use of toxic smoke, from burning sulfur on fireships, to be employed against American bases and ports during the War of 1812
He was prevented from employing them because he was removed from the service over stock rigging allegations prior to his deployment to America https://tinyurl.com/42ucm73x Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2026 10:46 AM (rbvCR) 219
167 always was an exhibitionist.
Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 10:47 AM (Bep7s) 220
Damn, now I want a cookie.
Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2026 10:47 AM (77rzZ) 221
181 thankyou. i would not have slept tonight.
Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 10:49 AM (Bep7s) 222
As was replied to on X, the Graham cover that is supposed to totally own the libs, is the same cover used for Jimmy Carter’s funeral.
Scott Jennings kinda got pwned himself with that one. Posted by: Chaos at July 28, 2026 10:49 AM (Xe8e7) 223
Lindsey is getting the big sendoff at the capitol. Why is SC paying for this shindig?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 28, 2026 10:43 AM (3oLiU) I'm sure Graham siphoned a lot of graft into SC over the years. They'll come out ahead. Posted by: Whale Biologist at July 28, 2026 10:49 AM (I7P/o) 224
Pretty sure Diaphanous has been used as a hood name before.
Posted by: Latrina Deontravius Jones at July 28, 2026 10:49 AM (JM9I6) 225
(Nobody said it couldn't appear in the title! 😇
Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 28, 2026 10:44 AM (I0N4X) Well done! Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2026 10:50 AM (1z8ji) 226
Lastly, many are uncomfortable with all the surveillance data being fed into them. And for what reason?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2026 10:29 AM (jehhT) How are the Flock cameras functioning without building all these evil data centers? Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2026 10:50 AM (4g5V+) 227
“And there's still no evidence that the data investors are not the Red Chinese -- something you never hear mentioned here.”
The Chinese are leading the charge in opposing data centers. Why would they oppose them if they’re the investors? Posted by: Chaos at July 28, 2026 10:51 AM (Xe8e7) Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 28, 2026 10:51 AM (ndZc7) 229
202 What kind of cookies does The Dark Side have?
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2026 10:42 AM (4g5V+) When you first arrive, chocolate chip. After signing your name on the dotted line, the only thing available is oatmeal raisin. Posted by: tankdemon at July 28, 2026 10:51 AM (vSKbP) Posted by: Limerick lover at July 28, 2026 10:51 AM (2Ez/1) 231
Fairies then: good looking non human females that can help you to fly if you smack their butts
Fairies now: IT IS MA'AM. CALL ME MA'AM Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 10:52 AM (sKqQm) 232
Faeries wear boots. Don’t believe me?
Posted by: Ozzy Osbourne at July 28, 2026 10:52 AM (6fKvw) 233
So a fairy captured the young man in a huge, transparent placenta?
********** A portion of the amniotic sac draped over a newborn's head, known as a caul, sometimes associated with mermaids and selkies in Irish folklore, as protection against drowning. Generally thought to symbolize good luck. Used to be saved by the midwife and kept by mothers. Until hippies began eating them. Ritualistically. Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 28, 2026 10:53 AM (I0N4X) 234
The Chinese are leading the charge in opposing data centers. Why would they oppose them if they’re the investors?
Posted by: Chaos at July 28, 2026 10:51 AM (Xe8e7) They are opposing ones they don't own. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2026 10:53 AM (1z8ji) 235
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 28, 2026 10:42 AM (ndZc7
Would they have preferred a photo of Graham? He was a Christian. It is a fine and appropriate thing to have crosses on the cover of the bulletin for his memorial service. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 10:53 AM (lt7On) 236
203 Sitting right here, boss.
Posted by: The tooth fairy at July 28, 2026 10:42 AM (2Ez/1) We know what you're really up to... https://youtu.be/NS69EU_VYPM Posted by: tankdemon at July 28, 2026 10:53 AM (vSKbP) 237
Scott Jennings
@ScottJenningsKY Hold on to your hats when the Dems see the front page of the Graham funeral program today https://tinyurl.com/3cbwjv7d Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Same as the Jimmy Carter funeral program. Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 10:54 AM (Vqi7w) 238
Pretty sure Diaphanous has been used as a hood name before.
Posted by: Latrina Deontravius Jones Receiver for the GA Bulldogs. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 10:54 AM (wOO3z) 239
>>>I'm sure Graham siphoned a lot of graft into SC over the years. They'll come out ahead.
Posted by: Whale Biologist >>Some hack from SC sat on a bunch of committees and made every other Americans lives difficult. And we didn't even get to vote for him. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 28, 2026 10:54 AM (3oLiU) 240
You just know Democrat cookies are some weird combo of sawdust, raisins, conflict-free organic argula, and ethically sourced Splenda
Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2026 10:55 AM (6fKvw) 241
What kind of cookies does The Dark Side have?
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2026 10:42 AM (4g5V+) When you first arrive, chocolate chip. After signing your name on the dotted line, the only thing available is oatmeal raisin. Posted by: tankdemon The more you sign, the more you get. Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 10:55 AM (Vqi7w) 242
Thanks naturalfake. Sounds like the movie was, well, a natural fake.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2026 10:55 AM (4g5V+) 243
@227 Were you born last night?
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 28, 2026 10:55 AM (zdLoL) Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 10:55 AM (wOO3z) 245
Pretty sure Diaphanous has been used as a hood name before.
Posted by: Latrina Deontravius Jones Receiver for the GA Bulldogs. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory Diaphanous Earf is used to kill bugs. Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 10:56 AM (Vqi7w) 246
194 how quickly treetop views become an ant's perspective.
Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 10:56 AM (Bep7s) 247
Would they have preferred a photo of Graham? He was a Christian. It is a fine and appropriate thing to have crosses on the cover of the bulletin for his memorial service.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 10:53 AM (lt7On) Socialists see that as weird. At best. Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2026 10:56 AM (4g5V+) 248
Diaphanous Earf is used to kill bugs.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 10:56 AM (Vqi7w) I used that shit to get rid of moles. Worked well. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 10:58 AM (wOO3z) 249
232 Faeries wear boots. Don’t believe me?
Posted by: Ozzy Osbourne at July 28, 2026 10:52 AM (6fKvw) Son, son, you’ve gone too far. Cuz smokin and trippin is all that you do. Posted by: The Doctor at July 28, 2026 10:58 AM (4g5V+) 250
Pretty sure Diaphanous has been used as a hood name before.
Posted by: Latrina Deontravius Jones For fitty dollar, Diaphanous Jones get you whatever you need. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 28, 2026 10:59 AM (ndZc7) 251
Ape up
Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 11:00 AM (Vqi7w) 252
Today is Lindsey's funeral and we get a fairy painting for the morning art thread.
This can't be a coincidence. Posted by: tankdemon at July 28, 2026 11:00 AM (vSKbP) 253
Nood.
Posted by: Nazdar at July 28, 2026 11:00 AM (NcvvS) 254
You know, if there were no Flock cameras, there would be no data for them to feed to…anything. Just sayin.
(I’ve seen HOAs using those evil things in Irving, TX.) Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2026 11:00 AM (4g5V+) 255
174 Why did my comment disappear?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic The fairies disapproved. Posted by: tankdemon F'n fairies. Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 10:25 AM (Vqi7w) Yeah, f*ck them Posted by: Todd at July 28, 2026 11:05 AM (3sXRv) 256
argula.
Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 11:10 AM (Bep7s) 257
So … ghost nooky?
Posted by: Dr_No at July 28, 2026 11:16 AM (ayRl+) 258
Didn't realize fairies dream of naked chicks.
Posted by: mea culpa at July 28, 2026 11:28 AM (XzgdG) The Morning Report — 7/ 28 /26
Good morning kids. With the situation in Iran still unresolved, not only our current military action against the Mullahs but the past 47 years of tyrannical despotism against a long suffering populace that yearns to return to the normalcy that goes back to the time before they came to power. Exile is hard enough on its own, but days like today make it even harder. America gave me safety, freedom, and the opportunity to rebuild my life. I learned the language, embraced the culture, and came to appreciate the rule of law. I built a career. I made friends. I built a life. I am proud of everything I have accomplished here. Because of that, people often assume that after twenty-seven years, I have gotten used to being away from my homeland. But that is only half the story. The other half is watching the life I was forced to leave behind, in a matter of minutes, slowly disappear.It is difficult and heartbreaking to read the erudite Anni Cyrus' cri de couer not only for her and for sure many Iranian expats and of course those still suffering at the hands of the Mullahs but her words hit me on a gut level for what we ourselves perhaps are on the precipice of having to experience ourselves. As I commented there, "Given who and what the Democrat/Left are and the rise of soicialism and it’s ally Islam here in the USA, I sometimes feel as if one day I might wind up being an exile in my own homeland. God forbid." Even a cursory scan of the headlines and pull quotes in the links only makes that fear even more palpable. The Democratic Socialists of America mean to end the United States — and if you don't believe me, take a look at what DSA Co-Chair Megan Romer had to say about it this weekend. . . Welcome to the U.S.S.A., comrades. There might not be any prisons for criminals, but why do I get the feeling that there will be plenty of camps for resistors? As my old-school blogging acquaintance Peter "Da Tech Guy" Ingemi put it, "Well, I'll give her 10 out of 10 for honesty." To that, I'd add: You've been warned.It's one thing to have one or two outliers like Bernie Sanders or TItty-Caca Ocasio Cortez run or even win elections but we now have one of the two major political parties being more or less effectively controlled by people who seek to utterly destroy this nation as it was founded and anyone who dares oppose that goal, meaning You and Me. Update: Commenter I used to have a different nic points out the utter failure to oppose this is de facto being co-conspirators (Take a look at the actions of Congressional Republicans over the past 30 years and tell me that it's only one of the parties.) Sadly all too true, sir. JJS New York City’s democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani doxxed a wide swath of his own constituents — just days after a terrorist attack — by publishing a searchable database of properties impacted by his new “pied-à-terre” tax. The database, uploaded by the New York City Department of Finance, includes the addresses and names of property owners of homes valued at over one million dollars that the city has determined are not being used as primary residences.Good and hard New Yorkers, you're going to get it right in the neck. He and his cadres will kick you out on the streets, take all your money and if you dare make a peep in protest, quite likely your life. Well, the wolf is at your throats and you voted for it. Did I say wolves, I meant coyotes! In 2009, Taylor Mitchell, a 19-year-old woman, went hiking in a Canadian park on a public trail and was attacked by coyotes. Some hikers heard her screams as she was assaulted for half an hour, but did nothing to help, when rescue finally arrived, she was conscious and bleeding badly. The young woman was airlifted to the hospital, but did not survive. Under pressure from environmentalists, Canada, like parts of the United States, had allowed coyotes and wolves to expand their territories, especially the coyote-wolf hybrids who had killed Taylor, and the animals had become increasingly aggressive, wiping out their natural prey, and eventually stalking and attacking humans. The attack on the young woman was one of a series. Taylor’s mother however pleaded with the authorities to spare the coyotes who had killed her daughter. “When the decision had been made to kill the pack of coyotes, I clearly heard Taylor’s voice say, ‘Please don’t, this is their space.’ She wouldn’t have wanted their demise, especially as a result of her own,” she wrote. “She was passionate about animals, was an environmentalist.”Forget about Mamdani and all the rest, it's fools like this who vote for them election after election that's the problem. Have a good day,
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Happy Tuesday
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 07:31 AM (/+uur) 2
Good morning horde!
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 07:31 AM (ExV1e) 3
Good morning JJ.
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at July 28, 2026 07:31 AM (Q/FnY) Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 28, 2026 07:31 AM (u82oZ) 5
Nooded.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 28, 2026 07:32 AM (u82oZ) 6
Yonder Horde
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2026 07:33 AM (jehhT) 7
" Muslim Who Stabbed Two While Screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ May Be Mentally Ill"
Nah. He was on a mission from Allah. Posted by: fd at July 28, 2026 07:34 AM (MWfyi) 8
It's one thing to have one or two outliers like Bernie Sanders or TItty-Caca Ocasio Cortez run or even win elections but we now have one of the two major political parties being more or less effectively controlled by people who seek to utterly destroy this nation as it was founded and anyone who dares oppose that goal, meaning You and Me.
Take a look at the actions of Congressional Republicans over the past 30 years and tell me that it's only one of the parties. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 07:35 AM (ExV1e) 9
Hello and good morning, Horde.
Voted early in the MI primaries yesterday. Our options are Do-Nothing GOP or anti-ICE Socialist Snackbar candidates. Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 28, 2026 07:35 AM (kpS4V) 10
That dumb canadian broad should have been left with the coyotes. They gotta eat too!
Posted by: Dumb canadian broad's mother at July 28, 2026 07:36 AM (e2lsi) Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 28, 2026 07:37 AM (u82oZ) Posted by: TeeJ at July 28, 2026 07:37 AM (/XKEa) 13
Oops. I read the content.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 28, 2026 07:39 AM (qFwJc) 14
Howdy Y'all
Posted by: Bonecrusher at July 28, 2026 07:39 AM (JNTt1) 15
>Trump Says U.S. in ‘Very Deep Talks’ with Iran — Warns of ‘Strong Military Action’ if Diplomacy Fails
----- how many times have we seen this headline? How many more times to come? Posted by: Don Black at July 28, 2026 07:39 AM (ZxPkt) 16
I coulda been somebody. I coulda been a contender.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 28, 2026 07:39 AM (qFwJc) 17
A couple of decades ago, a 45ish woman went hiking alone at Cuyamaca Rancho State Park.
A mountain lion got her. Women should never hike alone in wilderness areas. Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 28, 2026 07:41 AM (qFwJc) 18
>> Taylor’s mother however pleaded with the authorities to spare the coyotes who had killed her daughter
This is insanity. It’s completely against instinct and basic humanity. It boggles my mind… Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 28, 2026 07:42 AM (yz/88) 19
Taylor’s mother however pleaded with the authorities to spare the coyotes who had killed her daughter. “When the decision had been made to kill the pack of coyotes, I clearly heard Taylor’s voice say, ‘Please don’t, this is their space.’ She wouldn’t have wanted their demise, especially as a result of her own,” she wrote. “She was passionate about animals, was an environmentalist.”
Look lady, I'm passionate about life, but I don't go evangelizing about how we should protect cancer cells because "all cells matter". Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 28, 2026 07:42 AM (O7YUW) 20
So, a cougar attacked a cougar?
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 28, 2026 07:42 AM (qFwJc) 21
8 Take a look at the actions of Congressional Republicans over the past 30 years and tell me that it's only one of the parties.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 07:35 AM (ExV1e) Duly noted and my rant edited to reflect. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 28, 2026 07:42 AM (x0n13) 22
When was the last Mitch sighting?
Posted by: I gotta ask at July 28, 2026 07:42 AM (2Ez/1) Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 28, 2026 07:44 AM (VyBeY) Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 28, 2026 07:44 AM (O7YUW) 25
These folks are immoral. Human life is more precious than the beasts.
I doubt she or her mother ever when to Sunday School. Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 28, 2026 07:44 AM (qFwJc) 26
Major Corporations Resume Hiring as AI Limitations Become Apparent
Corporate executives sure get paid a lot of money for being repeatedly retarded. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 07:44 AM (ExV1e) 27
22 When was the last Mitch sighting?
Posted by: I gotta ask at July 28, 2026 07:42 AM (2Ez/1) I saw that Chao released another proof-of-life shot. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 28, 2026 07:44 AM (x0n13) 28
"Mister MD" Rand Paul v "Tony Mengele" Fauci in a steel cage death match!
Promises not to be your usual boring Congressional hearing, with Revelations galore. Because Fauci's been pardoned, he must answer. Or will he duck and weave with claims of state law exposure? Will the Ds on the panel fillibuster in support of Fauci, or realize he's Toxic? Fauci's crimes affected all Americans, often badly and tragically. Will Media try to ignore the revelations? Developing ... Posted by: Ignoramus at July 28, 2026 07:44 AM (dtajH) 29
J.J., that last link, "Exile Never Ends", just sends you to this links page.
Or are you being Meta? Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 28, 2026 07:45 AM (kpS4V) Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 28, 2026 07:45 AM (u82oZ) 31
>When was the last Mitch sighting?
Posted by: I gotta ask ---- they released another proof-of-life photo a few days ago Supposedly, Mitch is fit as a fiddle and ready for love Posted by: Don Black at July 28, 2026 07:46 AM (ZxPkt) 32
What difference, at this point, does it make?
Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at July 28, 2026 07:46 AM (2Ez/1) 33
@26/I used to have a different nic: "Corporate executives sure get paid a lot of money for being repeatedly retarded."
A common lament of mine, along with being frustrated at how many of them get suckered into following the latest business fad, even though it's obviously the stupidest money and effort wasting thing ever, just like the last 20 ones were. There should be more civil suits for destroying shareholder value by engaging in this inanity. Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 28, 2026 07:47 AM (O7YUW) Posted by: Gen. Z at July 28, 2026 07:47 AM (JvZF+) 35
@27/J.J. Sefton: "I saw that Chao released another proof-of-life shot."
I wonder how many AI tokens that cost? Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 28, 2026 07:48 AM (O7YUW) 36
Our options are Do-Nothing GOP
You are thinking selfishly. You are thinking for what is best for your tribe. Other tribes demand other things. Welcome to Diversity and death of the monoculture. We may want prosperity, human flourishing, the freedom to do that which is Right before the eyes of the LORD. Other tribes don't. And our politicians know that, and don't subscribe to any -ism for as long as they have access to Power, Money and Sex with Children. Dispersed Costs and Concentrated Benefits is what rules the ungodly elements of the universe. Posted by: Community Notes at July 28, 2026 07:48 AM (a3CJ+) 37
Morning all
Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 07:49 AM (Vqi7w) 38
"I saw that Chao released another proof-of-life shot."
The Daily Sun had a picture of a turtle with a remora attached to its shell. Is that the one? Posted by: fd at July 28, 2026 07:50 AM (MWfyi) 39
18 >> Taylor’s mother however pleaded with the authorities to spare the coyotes who had killed her daughter
This is insanity. It’s completely against instinct and basic humanity. It boggles my mind… Posted by: LinusVanPelt Humans sacrificing their own young at the alter of the Gods is as old as humanity. Posted by: Auspex at July 28, 2026 07:50 AM (Y8DZL) 40
The Great MAGA Reversal on Ukraine: How Helping Zelensky Became ‘America First’
I am MAGA and I do not support aiding Ukraine. The US has been the bad guy w.r.t. Russia since 1991 and this is just the latest chapter. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 07:50 AM (ExV1e) 41
>> Major Corporations Resume Hiring as AI Limitations Become Apparent
Corporate executives sure get paid a lot of money for being repeatedly retarded. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 07:44 AM (ExV1e) I use AI every day on the job and it’s a great tool. It definitely improves my productivity. However, I’ve learned its limitations. It does make mistakes. If someone who knows what they’re doing uses it as a tool it’s great. If anyone thinks it can be trusted without human supervision they’re nuts Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 28, 2026 07:51 AM (cq1gA) 42
It was the best of times, and the worst of times, in the old country where the heat lay on the land like a remembered grief, and the people moved through the days with their hearts bent inward, each one carrying his own small ruin and his own small light.
Posted by: Old Bill Faulkner at July 28, 2026 07:51 AM (2Ez/1) 43
Taylor’s mother however pleaded with the authorities to spare the coyotes who had killed her daughter. “When the decision had been made to kill the pack of coyotes, I clearly heard Taylor’s voice say, ‘Please don’t, this is their space.’ She wouldn’t have wanted their demise, especially as a result of her own,” she wrote. “She was passionate about animals, was an environmentalist.”
That The People Voting For Coyotes To Eat People Party is some party, alright. Even mothers of people eaten make contributions! Posted by: naturalfake at July 28, 2026 07:52 AM (iJfKG) 44
Morning, one and all! I have had coffee and breakfast so I can now face the day. Now to read the articles.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 28, 2026 07:52 AM (RjOoY) 45
The "do-nothing" GOP is likely going to have to do something unless they want the rabid DSA to replace them. I don't think they fear the rank and file Democrats much, but this new crop of nutters might make them think twice.
Or, just as likely, join with them. IMO it's a coin toss either way. Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2026 07:52 AM (jehhT) 46
FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 07:52 AM (2YhKe) 47
Duly noted and my rant edited to reflect.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 28, 2026 07:42 AM (x0n13) I feel seen. Thanks for all you do, JJ. Happy Birthday. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 07:53 AM (ExV1e) 48
She wouldn’t have wanted their demise, especially as a result of her own,
Taylor's spirit heard screaming "Kill them all and use the pelts for glove liner!" Posted by: NR Pax at July 28, 2026 07:55 AM (RjOoY) 49
“How Antisemitism Sneaks Up on Progressive Jews” Just a couple of paragraphs in, it struck me that this article sounded like someone trying to teach stoplight safety to a retarded child. Posted by: Tom Servo at July 28, 2026 07:56 AM (xLOWQ) 50
/idiot youngster sock off
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 28, 2026 07:56 AM (JvZF+) 51
my coffee is sweetened with raw cane sugar and lightened with heavy cream
it should always taste this good Posted by: Don Black at July 28, 2026 07:57 AM (ZxPkt) 52
I use AI every day on the job and it’s a great tool. It definitely improves my productivity. However, I’ve learned its limitations. It does make mistakes. If someone who knows what they’re doing uses it as a tool it’s great. If anyone thinks it can be trusted without human supervision they’re nuts
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 28, 2026 07:51 AM (cq1gA) Now imagine that you're at a company which got rid of it's senior people - cuz they're the ones who cost the most - and have recent college graduates of the University of Bangalore running your AI. The AI still makes mistakes but the 'supervision' is useless. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 07:57 AM (ExV1e) 53
- Star formation rate dropped 40 million years ago.
Get back to me when they actually observe a star form. Do you know why they came up with the star forming thing and star formation regions? Has to do with the existence of blue stars. It's like the Oort cloud. It has to be out there somewhere because we still have comets. Posted by: TeeJ at July 28, 2026 07:58 AM (/XKEa) 54
Al Qaeda member Adam Hawamy is going to be a member of Congress. He is the official Democrat nominee in an overwhelmingly Democrat district. A blank piece of paper could win here if it was labeled "Democrat".
This is hard for me to comprehend, since our little town lost so many people in 9/11. Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 28, 2026 07:59 AM (iHCsx) 55
I'm a big donkey fan because they are more than happy to kick and stomp the life out of coyotes.
Posted by: Valuable Asset at July 28, 2026 08:00 AM (JM9I6) 56
When you see the left worldwide choosing death by literal and figurative wolves rather than abandon a single plank of their ideology, while "conservative" politicians do nothing, what you're seeing is the end.
For the last 70 years, those in power-- and their voters-- have sold, squander and pilfered the vast reserves of social capital bought at dear prices by prior generations. While the price to repurchase it doubles and doubles again, those criminals-- still desperately clinging to power--demand we sell the last scraps to keep them in comfort in their old age. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 28, 2026 08:02 AM (3cUTc) 57
they talk about star formation like it's switching on a lamp-
it ACK-shually takes a couple million years for gases to condense to the point where fusion happens and it's 'flame on' Posted by: Don Black at July 28, 2026 08:02 AM (ZxPkt) 58
That The People Voting For Coyotes To Eat People Party is some party, alright."
It's the same lack of thought that gives us lists of evil targets... such as property owners in NYC. When do the Red Guards begin re-education? Posted by: man at July 28, 2026 08:02 AM (XuXeR) 59
Taylor’s mother however pleaded with the authorities to spare the coyotes who had killed her daughter. “When the decision had been made to kill the pack of coyotes, I clearly heard Taylor’s voice say, ‘Please don’t, this is their space.’ She wouldn’t have wanted their demise, especially as a result of her own,” she wrote. “She was passionate about animals, was an environmentalist.”
God built the Heavens and the Earth. He created man and animal. It is my understanding that man was instructed to dominate and thrive. Now, that doesn't mean destroy and conquer, that means survive, thrive and control all around you. Losing your daughter to a rabid pack of hybrid dogs was NOT what he had in mind. I pray for her soul, but your ignorance causes me to feel no sorrow for the loss. Darwin has another entry....... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 08:02 AM (2YhKe) 60
If I had to guess I think the Thune situation is this- The Democrats and their Poll Monkeys have convinced the weak-minded Thune, that they are going to win BIG in Nov no matter what if the SAVE Act passes or not, so- Ol' Thuny had made a "real" with them Democrats . If the Republicans don't pass the SAVE Act, the Democrats won't kill the filibuster when they take power. This weak, cowardice is why we can't have nice things. Thune would rather trust his political enemies than the people who vote for him and the GOP. Posted by: naturalfake at July 28, 2026 08:03 AM (iJfKG) Posted by: man at July 28, 2026 08:03 AM (XuXeR) 62
Posted by: TeeJ
Enjoyed over the weekend the links you provided. Dr. Lisle is a gem. Knew him when he was at AiG before the ARK Encounter. Posted by: Community Notes at July 28, 2026 08:04 AM (+4Cf6) Posted by: naturalfake at July 28, 2026 08:05 AM (iJfKG) 64
I wonder how Taylor's mom would have reacted if a white dude killed her daughter. As opposed to a Black, Hispanic, Muslim or other ethnic group.
Probably not so forgiving... Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2026 08:05 AM (jehhT) 65
Pool Boy Thune is a McConnell hand puppet. In every instance, his first thought is "what would Mitch have us do?".
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 28, 2026 08:05 AM (7vfi+) Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 28, 2026 08:06 AM (u82oZ) 67
Corporate executives sure get paid a lot of money for being repeatedly retarded.
STEMsquawl as ye may, this didn't happen when English majors were in charge. Your shiny MBA's have done this for you. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 28, 2026 08:07 AM (zdLoL) 68
At my parents place we trap coyotes. Took 20 last year.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 28, 2026 08:07 AM (7vfi+) 69
my coffee is sweetened with raw cane sugar and lightened with heavy cream it should always taste this good
Must induce early menopause though; you're missing some periods. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 28, 2026 08:08 AM (zdLoL) 70
May I be the first to say it?
File under things that will never happen: Dugan is disbarred. Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 28, 2026 08:08 AM (ZK0WA) 71
]Ol' Thuny had made a "real" with them Democrats .
If the Republicans don't pass the SAVE Act, the Democrats won't kill the filibuster when they take power. This weak, cowardice is why we can't have nice things. Thune would rather trust his political enemies than the people who vote for him and the GOP. Posted by: naturalfake at July 28, 2026 08:03 AM (iJfKG) And the first thing the Dems will do should they regain power is nuke the fillibuster. Ask Zombie Reagan now negotiating with the Dems works out....... They're lying f*cking thieves. Always have been. The worst thing a Republican can do is 'reach across the aisle' to get 'bipartisan support.' They don't want compromise. They want you dead. Stupid jackasses. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 08:08 AM (2YhKe) 72
It's like that video from Europe of the African masturbating in front of children at a public pool.
And as the men give him a small taste of the justice he deserves with their fists, a white girl in a bikini runs in ... to save the African. Women, are now possessed with and consumed by unnatural affections. They have become the most eager soldiers of the enemies of civilization. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 28, 2026 08:08 AM (3cUTc) 73
At my parents place we trap coyotes. Took 20 last year.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 28, 2026 08:07 AM (7vfi+) And what do you do with them? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 08:08 AM (2YhKe) 74
"Somali Man Who Filmed Shiloh Hendrix Had Rape Charges Dropped ‘In Interest Of Justice’ "
------- That phrase translates as "The prosecutors whim." Posted by: buddhaha at July 28, 2026 08:09 AM (UyFlM) 75
Mamdani Just Handed Thieves, Thugs, Ne'er do Wells, and Scammer Thousands Of Names And Addresses of People to Rob and Plunder
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 08:09 AM (/+uur) 76
Morning Horde thx JJ.
The story about the women and coyotes brings up an interesting match. In Canada where MAID is all the rage you could feed the suicidal to coyotes, polar bears, grizzlies etc . Intersectional issues for the win Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 28, 2026 08:09 AM (BlDDt) Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 28, 2026 08:10 AM (u82oZ) Posted by: man at July 28, 2026 08:10 AM (XuXeR) 79
I saw The Women Who Get Eaten by Coyotes open for They Might Be Giants at the Dallas Agora in 1989.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 08:10 AM (/+uur) 80
And as the men give him a small taste of the justice he deserves with their fists, a white girl in a bikini runs in ... to save the African.
"STOP IT! YOU'RE HURTING HIM! WE'RE BETTER THAN THAT!" I hate to say it but women like that should be punched along with the malefactor. They are convinced that this is just "children being naughty" and they need a loving maternal figure to guide them on the correct path. Posted by: NR Pax at July 28, 2026 08:11 AM (RjOoY) 81
Thune would rather trust his political enemies than the people who vote for him and the GOP.
Thune is a cowardly, retarded, maliciously spiteful, back-stabbing fool, but he isn't that retarded. The Senators he is making deals with are too senile to matter much longer (e.g. Schumer), and he won't be dealing with Democrats after November, he will be dealing with DSA. Axeman posited yesterday that complacency brought about by the once in a Epoch event of a heavily Christianized national culture that brought global wealth, prosperity and human flourishing will be believed to continue without the primary driver—Faith. So, in his mind, Thune can afford to be a spoiled rotten child with a playground grudge. The GOP couldn't care less what -ism keeps them in power, money and poon. Posted by: Community Notes at July 28, 2026 08:11 AM (+4Cf6) 82
Mamdani Just Handed Thieves, Thugs, Ne'er do Wells, and Scammer Thousands Of Names And Addresses of People to Rob and Plunder
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 08:09 AM (/+uur) By design. He's not here to make America or NYC better. He's here to rape, pillage and burn, destroying American and claiming the land in the name of The Devil himself, allah. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 08:11 AM (2YhKe) 83
>Must induce early menopause though;
you're missing some periods. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver ---- I don't know what this means, but I'm sure you think it's clever have a great day Posted by: Don Black at July 28, 2026 08:12 AM (ZxPkt) 84
“And there’s no consequences. And so, you, OK, so, like, I’m just supposed to let go of my resentment that this fucking guy is just raping the world that he lives in for whatever gain he personally can have, and I’m supposed to let that go. And then what?”
================== And there you go, the Democrat's main campaign theme for the upcoming election, as voiced by "Reacher" star Alan Ritchson. Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 28, 2026 08:12 AM (T+u7n) 85
Women, are now possessed with and consumed by unnatural affections.
They have become the most eager soldiers of the enemies of civilization. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 28, 2026 08:08 AM ++++ "It was always the women, especially the young ones..." Posted by: G. Orwell at July 28, 2026 08:13 AM (2Ez/1) 86
OK photoshop at top is disturbing
Posted by: Don Black at July 28, 2026 08:13 AM (ZxPkt) 87
WE'RE BETTER THAN THAT!""
When I hear that, my reaction varies from "look of distain" to "I'm punching you in the face. Hard" Posted by: man at July 28, 2026 08:13 AM (XuXeR) 88
I don't know what this means, but I'm sure you think it's clever have a great day Posted by: Don Black at July 28, 2026 08:12 AM (ZxPkt) It's a backhanded comment about your lack of punctuational awareness in the previous comment. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 08:13 AM (2YhKe) 89
Mamdani Just Handed Thieves, Thugs, Ne'er do Wells, and Scammer Thousands Of Names And Addresses of People to Rob and Plunder
Posted by: r hennigantx __________ The proscription lists have been posted. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 28, 2026 08:14 AM (XvL8K) 90
Alan Ritchson clearly no longer possesses a will of his own.
"The White House is in RUINS" "There's a f***ing UFC CAGE on the FRONT LAWN" "Everyone should wake up in a pool of their own TEETH" This is what brainwashing does to people. Posted by: Oglebay at July 28, 2026 08:14 AM (2ap+5) 91
oh FFS
Posted by: Don Black at July 28, 2026 08:14 AM (ZxPkt) 92
According to recent federal data, 62% of state prisoners were serving time for a violent offense, such as homicide, rape or robbery. These people are threats to society and need to be incarcerated. As esteemed criminologist Barry Latzer notes, the average American inmate was arrested a whopping 11 times before getting locked up, and an astonishing 83% of released prisoners are ultimately rearrested — about half in the first year after release.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 08:14 AM (/+uur) 93
The DSA is just another radicalizing LLM getting out of control and going full Red Guard to set everything to Year Zero.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2026 08:14 AM (2GVsD) 94
- Gas laws? Anyone? Bueller?
Two of the reason "99% of scientists" agree... That is all they were taught all the way through school and had to agree, or at least not submit papers that disagree, for their advanced degrees. Publish or die. You will not get published in a mainstream, scientific journal submitting a study that disagrees. Posted by: TeeJ at July 28, 2026 08:15 AM (/XKEa) 95
r hennigantx
Have we no organ banks that need refilling? Have we no Pharma industry to harvest their biochemicals? Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 28, 2026 08:15 AM (u82oZ) 96
And what do you do with them?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 08:08 AM (2YhKe) ---------------- They go away, maybe to Canada. Like Paulie in the Godfather, you won't see them no more. Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 28, 2026 08:15 AM (T+u7n) 97
Thieves, Thugs, Ne'er do Wells, and Scammer Thousands Of Names And Addresses of People to Rob and Plunder"
And Methodists. You left out Methodists... Posted by: man at July 28, 2026 08:15 AM (XuXeR) 98
“And there’s no consequences. And so, you, OK, so, like, I’m just supposed to let go of my resentment that this fucking guy is just raping the world that he lives in for whatever gain he personally can have, and I’m supposed to let that go. And then what?”
================== And there you go, the Democrat's main campaign theme for the upcoming election, as voiced by "Reacher" star Alan Ritchson. Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 28, 2026 08:12 AM (T+u7n) ====== Better to remain silent and suspected a fool, than to open one's mouth and having it confirmed. This guy is too dumb to understand the sentence above. Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 28, 2026 08:16 AM (JvZF+) 99
JD Vance noted a little while back that the US maintained negotiations with Japan throughout WW2. True.
Also True: the US never paused military operations for even a single hour because if the Posted by: Tom Servo at July 28, 2026 08:16 AM (xLOWQ) 100
And there’s no consequences. And so, you, OK, so, like, I’m just supposed to let go of my resentment that this fucking guy is just raping the world that he lives in for whatever gain he personally can have, and I’m supposed to let that go. And then what?”"
So, the current mayor of NYC? Posted by: man at July 28, 2026 08:17 AM (XuXeR) 101
Somali Man Who Filmed Shiloh Hendrix Had Rape Charges Dropped ‘In Interest Of Justice’
Your words are violence Their violence is just words Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 08:17 AM (/+uur) 102
Women, are now possessed with and consumed by unnatural affections.
As the Apostle Paul articulated when describing the Romans Road to Reprobation. Chapter 1:26 "For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;" Many interpret that passage from the following "and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women..." and restrict it to mere lesbianism. That restriction is imposed/eisegeted on v26 which does not limit "contrary to nature" as merely sexual. Posted by: Community Notes at July 28, 2026 08:17 AM (9s47C) 103
This is what brainwashing does to people.
Posted by: Oglebay at July 28, 2026 08:14 AM (2ap+5) ---------------- In fairness, as he himself is quick to say. We should note he is deranged, mentally ill. Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 28, 2026 08:18 AM (T+u7n) 104
This guy is too dumb to understand the sentence above.
Because their lords and masters want cogs Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2026 08:18 AM (2GVsD) 105
World raping!
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 08:18 AM (+mpku) 106
I don't know what this means, but I'm sure you think it's clever
have a great day Posted by: Don Black at July 28, 2026 08:12 AM Being that this is a medium of solely written communication any faux pas involving spelling, grammar, usage or syntax will be quickly ridiculed, pointed out and emphasized by pedantic scolds while making the self same errors. Posted by: This has been a public service announcement at July 28, 2026 08:19 AM (2Ez/1) 107
Mornin’, All. Happy Tuesday.
Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2026 08:19 AM (77rzZ) 108
And Methodists. You left out Methodists...
Posted by: man at July 28, 2026 08:15 AM (XuXeR) The would leave behind a covered dish if they robbed you blind. Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 08:19 AM (/+uur) 109
Mamdani named the kulaks. A tactic as old as marc himself
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 28, 2026 08:20 AM (BlDDt) 110
In fairness, as he himself is quick to say. We should note he is deranged, mentally ill.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 28, 2026 08:18 AM (T+u7n) ======= So a member of the New York Times's target audience. Posted by: Oglebay at July 28, 2026 08:20 AM (2ap+5) Posted by: man at July 28, 2026 08:20 AM (XuXeR) 112
Anna Puma
I trust you are well. Cogs are too posh. The elites want slaves. Hard to see how a slave economy can do aircraft maintenance. But these are not ddeep thinkers. Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 28, 2026 08:20 AM (u82oZ) 113
Being that this is a medium of solely written communication any faux pas involving spelling, grammar, usage or syntax will be quickly ridiculed, pointed out and emphasized by pedantic scolds while making the self same errors.
Posted by: This has been a public service announcement at July 28, 2026 08:19 AM (2Ez/1) ==== Punctuation is not adequate to conveying the depth of feeling in my words Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 28, 2026 08:21 AM (JvZF+) 114
Marx not marc. Stinkin autocucumber
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 28, 2026 08:21 AM (BlDDt) 115
9/11 families, those who lost loved ones on that horrific day, are requesting that Mayor Mamdani not attend the memorial services in NYC that day.
Um.......He's your ELECTED MAYOR. You either voted for him or stayed home, guaranteeing him the spot. Sorry, but seems you've forgotten and pitching a fit now is being late to the party. Way too late. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 08:21 AM (2YhKe) 116
Alan Richtson is a big muscleheaded retard. Horrible actor; i tried watching his Reacher and it sucks. Tiny little Tom Cruise is a much better Reacher
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 28, 2026 08:21 AM (5nxBL) 117
The would leave behind a covered dish if they robbed you blind."
Maybe lime jello w/shredded carrots? Posted by: man at July 28, 2026 08:21 AM (XuXeR) 118
When I hear that, my reaction varies from "look of distain" to "I'm punching you in the face. Hard"
Posted by: man My response is "Yes, I know we're superior. Thank you for reminding me." Posted by: NR Pax at July 28, 2026 08:21 AM (RjOoY) 119
Salty Dawg
They want to control the means of production. Who produces? People. So yes they want slaves. Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2026 08:21 AM (2GVsD) 120
> Somali Man Who Filmed Shiloh Hendrix Had Rape Charges Dropped ‘In Interest Of Justice’
----------- The judiciary is squarely joined at the hip with the left. Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2026 08:22 AM (jehhT) 121
My uncle had an eisegeted hernia once. Relatively minor surgery but he had to drop out of the bowling league for six months.
Posted by: Huh? at July 28, 2026 08:22 AM (2Ez/1) 122
It seems that all the Muslim attackers are mentally ill. Simply declare all Muslims mentally ill and refuse them entry in the USA.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 28, 2026 08:22 AM (BlDDt) 123
In many areas native coyotes have interbred with feral dogs, making them much more dangerous because they no longer have an innate fear of humans.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 28, 2026 08:22 AM (xLOWQ) 124
A recent study by Forest Romm and Kevin Waldman involving confidential interviews with 1,452 students at Northwestern University and the University of Michigan found that a whopping 88% of students said they had pretended to hold more “progressive” views than they really did to get ahead.
More than 80% said they submitted classwork that misrepresented their views in order to align with those of professors. Miseducation is real Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 08:23 AM (/+uur) 125
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 28, 2026 07:59 AM (iHCsx)
I don't know that . Greg Mele - his opponent - is a very smart man - who I heard speak on Saturday - and is doing a lot of outreach to people in the district -talking to Hindus in the area and others who might be disaffected from Democrats. I wouldn't could him out yet Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 08:23 AM (rHgXV) 126
@116 Ritchson has the acting range of Zendaya
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 28, 2026 08:23 AM (BlDDt) 127
- Community Notes
You've walked in higher circles than I. I've never met, let alone known, any of them. My first experience with the field was Dr Walter Brown, ICR and his book In the Beginning. I'm sure you know Dr Lisle also did a stint with them. Didn't discover Dr Lisle until after he had formed BSI I don't think. And my guess, you're the only one that went to those links. Posted by: TeeJ at July 28, 2026 08:24 AM (/XKEa) 128
When I hear that, my reaction varies from "look of distain" to "I'm punching you in the face. Hard"
Posted by: man "He was pulling his dick in front of KIDS, you stupid twat!" *continue pummeling* Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 08:24 AM (2YhKe) 129
MSNOW Reporter Says Trump Just Doesn’t Understand That ‘Journalism is a Form of Patriotism’
Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2026 08:26 AM (RHGPo) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 08:26 AM (rHgXV) 131
"...found that a whopping 88% of students said they had pretended to hold more “progressive” views than they really did to get ahead."
Ahead of who? Posted by: I gotta ask at July 28, 2026 08:27 AM (2Ez/1) 132
After Biden Tapes Released, Former Asst. AG for Environment Jeff Clark Argues – By Law – Joe Biden Must Forfeit $8 Million for Book Advance and His Delaware Home Where He Illegally Kept Classified Information
Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2026 08:27 AM (RHGPo) 133
"Mamdani named the kulaks. A tactic as old as marc himself"
I expect that the names he has are mostly those of trusts and LLCs. Posted by: Ignoramus at July 28, 2026 08:27 AM (dtajH) 134
“…I sometimes feel as if one day I might wind up being an exile in my own homeland. God forbid."
I have a friend in the neighborhood whom I met while she was blockwalking for Paxton and Doc Chambers before the primaries. She was a naturalized Christian Chinese woman about late 40s. I stopped over at her house the beg of July to drop off some decorated fourth cookies. I told her how the 250th was not even close to what we did in 1976 because it’s not the same country. And me being me, tears ensued when I told her how my dad and his 3 brothers fought for our freedom in WW11 and when I see what’s happening now, it crushes my soul. She said that it makes her cry too as she sees what happened to her old homeland. And then she goes, “but the U.S. is my homeland now and I can’t believe it’s happening here.” Posted by: TxAnn at July 28, 2026 08:27 AM (SjAWL) 135
SMOD
People at Trump rallies = in the millions, and growing. MSNOW viewers = thousands, and dying fast. Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 28, 2026 08:27 AM (u82oZ) 136
In many areas native coyotes have interbred with feral dogs, making them much more dangerous
because they no longer have an innate fear of humans. Posted by: Tom Servo Those don't last long. Since they don't automatically run away, it gives one time to draw a bead and shoot them. It's the ones that still have the innate fear that's hard to get a bead on. The ones I have trouble with, are the ones I can hear but never see long enough to aim at. Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 08:28 AM (Vqi7w) 137
Me to MSNOW
Maybe Woodrow Wilson was right by wanting to lock all of you up. Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2026 08:28 AM (2GVsD) 138
MSNOW Reporter Says Trump Just Doesn’t Understand That ‘Journalism is a Form of Patriotism’
Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2026 08:26 AM (RHGPo) Oh, no sweetheart. You left patriotism far behind a LONG time ago. You're a leftist shill incapable of reporting facts that most humans have now grown to despise. Congrats! Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 08:28 AM (2YhKe) 139
Distain?
Posted by: Overlooked spelling errors $200, Alex at July 28, 2026 08:28 AM (2Ez/1) 140
"Has Medical Education Gone Woke?"
------ The problem is the word "Education". The Educrats have convinced the world that there is this amazing field, pedagogy, and that they are the keepers of the mystical flame. If " Education" - the techniques and theory - can train the ignorant to read, and write, and cipher, then Education has something to offer every field, and they, the Educrats, have wormed their way into every discipline. In STEM, we have the abomination of "Engineering Education", a " discipline where many of those awarded degrees spent most of their academic life avoiding mathematics. I would not be surprised to find Medical Education also full of the same sort of fifth column: "Education" specialists who's knowledge of anatomy is limited to "head", " torso" , and "limbs". " Engineering Education" is designed to bring the gospel of woke to STEM, so I believe that searching will find the same in "Medical Education". Posted by: buddhaha at July 28, 2026 08:28 AM (UyFlM) 141
Don't let the coyotes get near the feral hogs.
Posted by: Oglebay at July 28, 2026 08:29 AM (2ap+5) 142
They want to control the means of production. Who produces? People. So yes they want slaves."
Which leads to... over history, what happens to women no longer of child bearing age? The fantasy is that they're the village raising kids, knitting, puttering around the garden, all in support of the collective. Nah. The reality is that they're decomposing... Posted by: man at July 28, 2026 08:29 AM (XuXeR) 143
When I hear that, my reaction varies from "look of distain" to "I'm punching you in the face. Hard"
And I will crush their heads. Posted by: The Crushing Your Head Guy at July 28, 2026 08:29 AM (OEp3s) 144
Distain?
Posted by: Overlooked spelling errors $200, Alex at July 28, 2026 08:28 AM (2Ez/1) Dave Distain? Isn't he the lead singer for Megadeth? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 08:30 AM (2YhKe) Posted by: man at July 28, 2026 08:30 AM (XuXeR) 146
Powerful Quake Rocks Southern Japan
NHK footage showed severe damage to the Kyushu Expressway, smoke rising from homes, and a partially collapsed wall at Kumamoto Castle. Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2026 08:31 AM (RHGPo) 147
9/11 families, those who lost loved ones on that horrific day, are requesting that Mayor Mamdani not attend the memorial services in NYC that day.
Um.......He's your ELECTED MAYOR. You either voted for him or stayed home, guaranteeing him the spot. Sorry, but seems you've forgotten and pitching a fit now is being late to the party. Way too late. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 08:21 AM (2YhKe) - In all fairness: 1. You don't know which if any of the 9/11 family members voted for Mamdani. 2. Not all 9/11 families live in NYC. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2026 08:31 AM (ebJJx) 148
Distain?
Posted by: Overlooked spelling errors $200, Alex at July 28, 2026 08:28 AM (2Ez/1) - Ring around the collar! RING AROUND THE COLLAR! Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2026 08:32 AM (ebJJx) 149
Welcome to the U.S.S.A., comrades. There might not be any prisons for criminals, but why do I get the feeling that there will be plenty of camps for resistors?
You dont know how lucky your back in the us back in the uss back in the USSA Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 08:32 AM (/+uur) 150
129 MS-13 NOW Reporter Says Trump Just Doesn’t Understand That ‘Journalism is a Form of Patriotism’
Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2026 08:26 AM "If you don't want to work, become a reporter. That awful power, the public opinion of the nation, was created by a horde of self-complacent simpletons, who failed at ditch digging and shoe making, and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse." Posted by: Mark Twain at July 28, 2026 08:32 AM (2Ez/1) 151
Good Morning, J.J.
Good Morning, Horde. Posted by: Inogame at July 28, 2026 08:33 AM (53oGX) 152
There might not be any prisons for criminals, but why do I get the feeling that there will be plenty of camps for resistors?
Oh, they way want to but it'll never happen. There are just too many people who would relish the idea of hunting commies. Posted by: weew at July 28, 2026 08:33 AM (9TspW) 153
You're soaking in it.
Posted by: Madge at July 28, 2026 08:33 AM (2Ez/1) 154
In all fairness:
1. You don't know which if any of the 9/11 family members voted for Mamdani. 2. Not all 9/11 families live in NYC. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2026 08:31 AM (ebJJx) Noted. I didn't say they all did, but since most residents overall did NOT vote at all, odds are, they stayed home. Also, the one's complaining that Mamdani should stay home are the only ones that have any say: NYC Residents. They did themselves a tremendous disservice by not paying attention and allowing the communist islhamic retard to be anywhere NEAR Gracie Manor. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 08:34 AM (2YhKe) 155
"NOW Reporter Says Trump Just Doesn’t Understand..."
Sounds like the commenters here. So why the outrage? Posted by: Will Robinson at July 28, 2026 08:34 AM (zBgIx) 156
...I’m just supposed to let go of my resentment that this fucking guy is just raping the world... From this statement by Alan Richtson, I gather that he believes that- 1) Trump has an enormous schwanstucker. and 2) Ol' Al has penis envy. Angry, raging penis envy. Welp, you know, those steroids do things. Posted by: naturalfake at July 28, 2026 08:34 AM (iJfKG) 157
Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,
My across the street neighbor lost her life in the plane crashing into the Pentagon. 9/11 was more than NYC. And it could have been worse, if the NYC buildings were full of people, and there was no Rick Rescorla. A atomic weapon level casualty list was dodged that day. Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 28, 2026 08:35 AM (u82oZ) 158
We have coyotes here in KY. Sort of on the smaller side, from the ones I've actually seen. Aggressive. Attacked one of the neighbor's horses a few years ago. Heard him take a couple shots at them. He said they're breeding with stray dogs, and, yeah, they're aggressive.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2026 08:35 AM (jehhT) 159
I was in the pool!!
Posted by: Alan Richtson at July 28, 2026 08:36 AM (2Ez/1) Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 08:36 AM (2YhKe) 161
naturalfake
Well, Trump has had three very attractive wives, and Melania is not only attractive but smart. Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 28, 2026 08:36 AM (u82oZ) 162
Have read a number of books centering around Cuban exiles. They were booted out of their country for far longer than the Iranians, and seem to have carried the grudge far more fervently than the Iranians. Maybe it's just a matter of proximity. In any event, one should not mistake the exiles point of view with that of the majority of the country they left. That has gotten us in trouble over and over again.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 28, 2026 08:37 AM (QaH55) 163
"He was pulling his dick in front of KIDS, you stupid twat!"
*continue pummeling* Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer Her or the migrant? Either one works. About two years ago, a "migrant" was in the subway in the UK and he deliberately pushed a child down the stairs. A whole bunch of men gathered together for pugilistic correction of the errant person. Five seconds in, a woman is trying to pull the men back and yelling at them to stop. I like Michael Z. Williamson's take: "Deport Liberal White Women." Posted by: NR Pax at July 28, 2026 08:37 AM (RjOoY) 164
I just can't get past, in my brain, WHO???
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 08:36 AM (2YhKe) ======= He was the head villain in Die Hard. Posted by: Oglebay at July 28, 2026 08:37 AM (2ap+5) 165
La phrase, c’est cri de cœur.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 28, 2026 08:38 AM (gxRWI) 166
Dragonfly operates using a large lithium-ion battery pack that is slowly recharged by the MMRTG. Flights and scientific experiments take place during the Titanian day, while the long nights are primarily dedicated to recharging.
Titanian days driftin' away To, uh oh, those Titanian nights Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 08:38 AM (/+uur) 167
Don't let the coyotes get near the feral hogs.
Posted by: Oglebay Father-in-law got a sounder on game cam once. Sow & babies ran in front of the camera. Slowest baby had just gotten off screen when a coyote came on screen. Just as he went off screen, you could hear a pig squealing. He caught the slowest baby. Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 08:38 AM (Vqi7w) 168
"9/11 families, those who lost loved ones on that horrific day, are requesting that Mayor Mamdani not attend the memorial services in NYC that day."
Mamdami is a Woke Bolshevik, a different breed from Power Hungry Leftists like Schumer. They enjoy f*cking with people outside their circle, for the sport of it. Posted by: Ignoramus at July 28, 2026 08:38 AM (dtajH) 169
He was the head villain in Die Hard.
Posted by: Oglebay at July 28, 2026 08:37 AM (2ap+5) That was Alan Rickman and I believe he's no longer with us. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 08:39 AM (2YhKe) 170
A flyer circulating Sunday night advertising a "Block the Beltline" protest for social justice prompted hundreds of Madison residents to reroute their morning commutes, but the event never materialized — and local advocacy organizations say they had nothing to do with it.
The flyer, which spread across social media, contains several major red flags that suggest it was created to spread misinformation rather than organize a legitimate protest. The circulation of the fake flyer comes as Madison experiences a surge in protests following the shooting of Corey Ruiz. Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2026 08:39 AM (RHGPo) 171
Today Is National Milk Chocolate Day. 🍫
Posted by: redridinghood at July 28, 2026 08:39 AM (NpAcC) 172
Tiny little Tom Cruise is a much better Reacher
Posted by: LinusVanPelt Mixed feelings on that statement. 1. In the books, Reacher is a massive individual and Ritchson certainly carries that off well. I liked the first season but the second season sucked hard enough to clean my carpet while I watched it. 2. On the other hand, Cruise lacks the height but he definitely carries the aura of menace that made his approach work so well in the movies. Posted by: NR Pax at July 28, 2026 08:40 AM (RjOoY) 173
Japanese shopping centre collapses leaving 'considerable number of people dead' and shoppers trapped under rubble after 7.1 magnitude earthquake
Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2026 08:40 AM (RHGPo) 174
It's one thing to have one or two outliers like Bernie Sanders or TItty-Caca Ocasio Cortez run or even win elections but we now have one of the two major political parties being more or less effectively controlled by people who seek to utterly destroy this nation as it was founded and anyone who dares oppose that goal, meaning You and Me.
A Dem candidate that ran on sending Jews to concentration camps got 40% of the vote in the primary... These people aren't playing around. Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 08:40 AM (sKqQm) 175
I wouldn't could him out yet
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 08:23 AM (rHgXV) ------------- If the Republican gets even to 40% it will be a record high, looking back at the last six Congressional elections. Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 28, 2026 08:41 AM (h4Z1F) 176
Another joint European defense program seems to have collapsed. The Franco-German Main Ground Combat System has shifted away from building a next generation main battle tank to developing shared technologies for future armored vehicles.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2026 08:41 AM (2GVsD) 177
Protesters demanding the arrest of the officer who shot Corey Ruiz tried a new tactic in Madison, Wisconsin Saturday night: blocking access to bars and restaurants.
“Justice for Corey!” they chanted as they denied access to the front door for would-be customers. Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2026 08:41 AM (RHGPo) Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 28, 2026 08:41 AM (u82oZ) 179
171 Today Is National Milk Chocolate Day. 🍫
Posted by: redridinghood at July 28, 2026 08:39 AM (NpAcC) Not to be confused with Chocolate Milk Day or Harvey Milk Day Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 08:41 AM (/+uur) 180
>>NHK footage showed severe damage to the Kyushu Expressway
Reminds me of the Bay Bridge during the Loma Prieta earthquake in '89 Posted by: one hour sober at July 28, 2026 08:42 AM (J4Dwc) 181
> "9/11 families, those who lost loved ones on that horrific day, are requesting that Mayor Mamdani not attend the memorial services in NYC that day."
----------- Sadly, they need to be reminded that the city voted for Mamdani regardless of their personal feelings. Maybe request those people not attend either? Plus, it's a bit late to be bitching about him now. Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2026 08:42 AM (jehhT) 182
Another joint European defense program seems to have collapsed. The Franco-German Main Ground Combat System has shifted away from building a next generation main battle tank to developing shared technologies for future armored vehicles.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2026 08:41 AM (2GVsD) Well, diversity is their strength, so they will soon be unstoppable. All is well.....all is well...... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 08:42 AM (2YhKe) 183
He was the head villain in Die Hard.
Posted by: Oglebay Die Hard was Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber. Alan Ritchson is Reacher. Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 08:42 AM (Vqi7w) 184
I've only seen clips from the Reacher shows but the woke Bubba that plays him sends "I'm just fool'n y'all" vibes the whole time he is "acting"
Its like Ahnuld in comedies but without any charisma. Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 08:42 AM (sKqQm) 185
“Justice for Corey!” they chanted as they denied access to the front door for would-be customers.
Posted by: SMOD We need a mob screaming "Corey deserved it" as they force their way into the businesses. Posted by: NR Pax at July 28, 2026 08:43 AM (RjOoY) 186
Anna Puma
Shared technologies put no rounds downrange. WTH, Germany? You cancelled your frigate ship building program as well. Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 28, 2026 08:43 AM (u82oZ) 187
“ How Antisemitism Sneaks Up on Progressive Jews”
Sneaks up? A third of all Jewish voters and a majority of Jewish voters under 40 voted for Mamdani. It did not sneak up on anyone. It was right there out in the open for everyone to see. Posted by: Not Prudent at July 28, 2026 08:43 AM (Xe8e7) 188
Another joint European defense program seems to have collapsed. The Franco-German Main Ground Combat System has shifted away from building a next generation main battle tank to developing shared technologies for future armored vehicles.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2026 08:41 AM (2GVsD) The MBT 70 all over again. Posted by: Will Robinson at July 28, 2026 08:43 AM (zBgIx) 189
That was Alan Rickman and I believe he's no longer with us.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 08:39 AM (2YhKe) A great loss for all of us - one of the last of the truly great old school actors. There are still a few of them around, but I don’t see any new ones rising to replace them. Posted by: Tom Servo at July 28, 2026 08:43 AM (xLOWQ) 190
Protesters demanding the arrest of the officer who shot Corey Ruiz tried a new tactic in Madison, Wisconsin Saturday night: blocking access to bars and restaurants.
Checking leftwing sites their current argument is "Sure he stabbed a cop but that's no reason to shoot him!" Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 08:43 AM (sKqQm) 191
About 18 months ago I was running on a trail in McKinney, TX… in the town, park area. I turned a corner and there on the path was a coyote standing about 20 feet away. It saw me and nonchalantly trotted into the treeline along the trail. Skinny mangy looking thing but it alarmed me…. I would not want to encounter a pack
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 28, 2026 08:44 AM (5SUHv) 192
Political operative behind Graham Platner's rise accused of sexual assault
A spokesperson for Daniel Moraff said: “Any suggestion that he committed a criminal offence is false and without foundation." Progressive activist and journalist Marisa Kabas says: “I spoke to Summer Lee’s 2022 campaign manager who shared on the record for the first time that Moraff was banned from campaign events/activities after the team learned of allegations of sexual misconduct (including assault) from six different people.” Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2026 08:44 AM (RHGPo) 193
JD Vance noted a little while back that the US maintained negotiations with Japan throughout WW2. True.
Also True: the US never paused military operations for even a single hour because if the Posted by: Tom Servo at July 28, 2026 08:16 AM (xLOWQ) How about this... during WW2, 2/3 of Congress wasn't on the side of the Axis powers. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 08:44 AM (ExV1e) 194
"In the books, Reacher is a massive individual and Ritchson certainly carries that off well. I liked the first season but the second season sucked hard enough to clean my carpet while I watched it."
I also liked the first and hated the second. The core problem was the script, as Reacher stopped being the righteous outsider. Posted by: Ignoramus at July 28, 2026 08:44 AM (dtajH) 195
“The savings will last for the entire month. That means no weekly fluctuations or sticker shock at the checkout line — not for our seniors living on fixed incomes, nor for the parents who rely on a regular supply of apple slices to keep toddler tantrums at bay,” he said.
Mamdani said the stores will have a “core set of goods which will include all fresh produce, meat, and seafood, along with 20 other essential items like cheese, milk, and bread.” When are the circuses starting? Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 08:44 AM (/+uur) 196
Eff NYC. Those arrogant, narcissistic city rats get what they deserve.
Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2026 08:44 AM (77rzZ) 197
This is what brainwashing does to people.
Or he is looking for a paying gig that is better than an Amazon action/adventure video. Posted by: Community Notes at July 28, 2026 08:44 AM (xE0sV) Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 28, 2026 08:45 AM (laUQQ) 199
WTH, Germany? You cancelled your frigate ship building program as well.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 28, 2026 08:43 AM (u82oZ) How can they (the krautlanders) buy votes if they are spending money on useless tanks and ships? Posted by: Will Robinson at July 28, 2026 08:45 AM (zBgIx) 200
Trump Says U.S. in ‘Very Deep Talks’ with Iran — Warns of ‘Strong Military Action’ if Diplomacy Fails
- Time to bomb or get off the pot. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 28, 2026 08:45 AM (ndZc7) 201
Tiny little Tom Cruise is a much better Reacher
Posted by: LinusVanPelt Mixed feelings on that statement. 1. In the books, Reacher is a massive individual and Ritchson certainly carries that off well. I liked the first season but the second season sucked hard enough to clean my carpet while I watched it. 2. On the other hand, Cruise lacks the height but he definitely carries the aura of menace that made his approach work so well in the movies. Posted by: NR Pax I wish they'd get someone whose worldview kinda lines up with the character. Makes them more believable. Hard to believe a flaming leftist would be tough on law & order. Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 08:46 AM (Vqi7w) 202
“ How Antisemitism Sneaks Up on Progressive Jews”
Left leaning Jews are mostly non-believers. So when Bomb daddy or someone else claim to hate Judaism these Jewish people believe that only includes Israeli or Orthodox Jews. In their view they are merely another oppressed ethnic minority. But the comical thing is Muslims hate ALL Jews and the other racialist groups in the leftwing coalition see Jews as uber white devils. Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 08:46 AM (sKqQm) 203
During a recent Zoom donor meeting, El-Sayed indicated that a win in the Aug. 4 contest — and another one in November — would give him a platform to push the progressive movement forward. “You put one ogre on a pike, and then everyone else gets the message, and all of a sudden starts to sound a lot different,” El-Sayed said, according to audio of the meeting obtained by Playbook.
Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2026 08:46 AM (RHGPo) 204
The core problem was the script, as Reacher stopped being the righteous outsider.
Posted by: Ignoramus My problem with the second season was the scene of "So we just broke into this company and stole things. Let's have all the evidence out on this table in a diner and talk about what we did because no one will notice!" Posted by: NR Pax at July 28, 2026 08:47 AM (RjOoY) 205
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 28, 2026 08:41 AM (h4Z1F)
I am thinking of writing a personal note to registered Republicans in this district to get out the vote. The Republicans I know - active in our Republican organization- will vote against the Hamasawy ( not the spelling, of course) that's what I think of him as. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 08:47 AM (rHgXV) 206
On Sept. 16, 2029, Zohran Mamdani was a newly elected member of the Greater York Parliament visiting the United States. Following a scheduled visit to Johnson Space Center, Mamdani and a small entourage made an unscheduled stop at a Randalls grocery store in Clear Lake, a suburb of Houston.
He was amazed by the aisles of food and stocked shelves, a sharp contrast to the breadlines and empty columns he was accustomed to in Greater York. Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 08:47 AM (/+uur) 207
The thing that really annoys me about Alan Richtson is he has a YouTube channel where he purports to preach Christianity. I believe he even does sermons…. Another David French super Christian but with big muscles
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 28, 2026 08:47 AM (5SUHv) 208
Talarico Credits ‘Islamic Mystics’ for Influencing His Christian Beliefs.
- I'm already not voting for him as hard as I can. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 28, 2026 08:48 AM (ndZc7) 209
My across the street neighbor lost her life in the plane crashing into the Pentagon. 9/11 was more than NYC.
And it could have been worse, if the NYC buildings were full of people, and there was no Rick Rescorla. A atomic weapon level casualty list was dodged that day. Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 28, 2026 08:35 AM (u82oZ) - What are you telling me that I don't already know? OK. Rick Rescorla. I had to hold back a tear. RIP, sir. Knew someone very close who had just gotten out of the subway station when the first plane hit. Took a few hours to walk back home uptown, still alive and well. Know offhand of others who lost their lives. One of the most sickening days in my life. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2026 08:48 AM (ebJJx) 210
Progressive activist and journalist Marisa Kabas says: “I spoke to Summer Lee’s 2022 campaign manager who shared on the record for the first time that Moraff was banned from campaign events/activities after the team
learned of allegations of sexual misconduct (including assault) from six different people.” On the one hand lefties will claim approaching a woman if she turns you down is sexual misconduct and tantamount to rape. On the other hand his NAZI boy apparently did rape multiple women. Hard to tell which is more likely for this guy Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 08:48 AM (sKqQm) 211
Guy who talks about white privilege and his whiteness and the need for black lives could have stepped aside and supported a black woman for Senate.
Chooses not to. Now he is surprised. James Talarico forced admit he has a black voter problem and is now planning on spending $25m in black outreach. Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2026 08:49 AM (RHGPo) 212
Talarico Credits ‘Islamic Mystics’ for Influencing His Christian Beliefs.
------ I'm already not voting for him as hard as I can. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 28, 2026 08:48 AM (ndZc7) ---- Could this guy get any more heretical? Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2026 08:49 AM (FZ29D) 213
Why did the giant monster get accused of sexual harassment?
Because he was always ogreing all the pretty ghouls. Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2026 08:50 AM (77rzZ) 214
In season 2, Reacher's women beating up the biker gang on that dark street while wearing tight dresses and high heels is what caused me to turn it off, never to go back.
Posted by: one hour sober at July 28, 2026 08:50 AM (J4Dwc) 215
Could this guy get any more heretical?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2026 08:49 AM (FZ29D) We've still got 3 more months...... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 08:50 AM (2YhKe) 216
It's also, Buffalo Soldiers Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 28, 2026 08:50 AM (NpAcC) 217
Children’s charity, Berkeley-based Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), funded by Singham, Soros tied to Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: report
Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2026 08:50 AM (RHGPo) 218
Talarico gets it ass-backwards again, it was a branch of Christianity that influenced Mohammed ...
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2026 08:51 AM (2GVsD) 219
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 28, 2026 08:48 AM (ndZc7)
Ridiculous. What's his evidence? His feelz? Desperate for Islamic votes? Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 08:51 AM (rHgXV) 220
I'm all for justice in Corey's case... he's already square with the officer he stabbed. Because he's dead.
But that only pertains to this incident. Detain his family members, and then allow the family members of all the other officers he attacked starting in 2007 to beat them mercilessly with nightsticks. Posted by: Whale Biologist at July 28, 2026 08:51 AM (I7P/o) 221
Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,
I know you know. You not only have deep knowledge, but skin in the games with your pups and grandpups. To whom I say Hi. The comment was for others, and my Google file. They need a data center for that now. Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 28, 2026 08:51 AM (u82oZ) 222
Somebody please explain to Thune that making a deal with the Dems/DSA is making a deal with the IRGC. It will be violated.
Posted by: davidt at July 28, 2026 08:51 AM (Q+gd/) 223
Salty Dawg, the US isn't doing much better with a next gen frigate.
Britain has cancelled their Type 83 destroyer. Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2026 08:51 AM (2GVsD) 224
That was Alan Rickman and I believe he's no longer with us.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 08:39 AM (2YhKe) A great loss for all of us - one of the last of the truly great old school actors. There are still a few of them around, but I don’t see any new ones rising to replace them. Posted by: Tom Servo Robin Hood: Prince of thieves - Sheriff of Nottingham Die Hard -Hans Gruber Quigley Down Under - Elliott Marston Galaxy Quest - Alexander Dane Harry Potter - Prof Snape The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (voice) Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 08:52 AM (Vqi7w) 225
Alan Rickman brought something special to every role he played, even in not-so-good movies. Like his Sheriff of Nottingham in Costner's Robin Hood.
He made Die Hard. J K Rowling wrote Snape with Rickman in mind before he was cast in Harry Potter. My personal favorite is his playing a pioneering heart surgeon in Something the Lord Made. Posted by: Ignoramus at July 28, 2026 08:52 AM (dtajH) 226
181 > "9/11 families, those who lost loved ones on that horrific day, are requesting that Mayor Mamdani not attend the memorial services in NYC that day."
Posted by: Martini Farmer " The mayor eulogized the fallen victims and firefighters, while acknowledging that the jihadis involved may have gone a little too far in their justified outrage against a guilty America." ...if he's feeling generous that day. Posted by: Auspex at July 28, 2026 08:52 AM (Y8DZL) 227
Could this guy get any more heretical?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2026 08:49 AM (FZ29D) We've still got 3 more months...... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 08:50 AM (2YhKe) ---- I suppose that's enough time for him to come out as a closet Scientologist. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2026 08:52 AM (FZ29D) 228
"...Mamdani and a small entourage made an unscheduled stop at a Randalls grocery store in Clear Lake, a suburb of Houston."
++++ ISWYDT Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 28, 2026 08:52 AM (2Ez/1) 229
Could this guy get any more heretical?
Possible ways he could: 1) Comes out for rebuilding the Temple in Jerusalem but only if they put a statue of Karl Marx in it 2) Declares "Jesus was just like a dude you know dude?" 3) Asks Pope Kyle to identify the Holy Spirit's pronouns Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 08:53 AM (sKqQm) 230
Peter Hitchens: All my comrades in the late 60s and early 70s were rather hoping for a collapse out of which might arise the longed-for revolution with the leading role of the party and the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat. That was the theory. It was all going to go wrong. And I have to say, Ted Heath in the early 70s made it look very much as if we were right. Kept trying to shut the country down, pick huge fights with industrial unions and so nothing worked. Blackouts? Fantastic! He was great; I remember that the recruits pouring into the international socialists in the early 70s about that time. Ted Heath was a great recruiter for Marxism and Leninism, but in the end, he let us all down, by losing an election.
Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2026 08:53 AM (RHGPo) Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 08:53 AM (/+uur) 232
America on Sept 12, 2001: We will never forget
America in Nov 2008: Why were these right wing people saying we shouldn't vote for this Hussein guy again? Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 08:53 AM (sKqQm) 233
Anna Puma
Yes. In fact, we are worse, because instead of cancelling, we do FFG change order after change order, burning cash to yield no ships. Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 28, 2026 08:53 AM (u82oZ) 234
Talarico is truly a desperate and stupid political actor. He has pandered to blacks (fail), Christians (fail ) and now Muslims (fail).
Oh, and Jimmy boy a lot of Muslims think "Islamic mysticism" is heretical. A jihadist will be waiting for you Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 28, 2026 08:54 AM (BlDDt) 235
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. — James 3:1
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. — 2 Peter 2:1 Talarico and his ilk should take heed. Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 28, 2026 08:54 AM (qORvR) 236
Children’s charity, Berkeley-based Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), funded by Singham, Soros tied to Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: report
==== Very old news Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 28, 2026 08:54 AM (JvZF+) 237
216 It's also, Buffalo Soldiers Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 28, 2026 08:50 AM Is this about us? Posted by: Dog Faced Pony Soldiers at July 28, 2026 08:55 AM (2Ez/1) 238
Hundreds of users with Arab and Muslim names flooded the post with open celebration of the Islamist vehicle-ramming that killed one woman and injured 29 others.
The responses include: - "Alhamdu lillah" - "Jihad" - "Thank God" - "Good news indeed" - "god is great" - "that's good news" - "why only one?" - "14 idiots injured" - "I hope the driver is ok" - "please make a gofundme for that driver's future" - "The driver deserves a medal ?" - "Not all heroes wear capes" - "9ice work" / "nice work" - "Salute" These comments sat in plain view under an official Al Jazeera English post, making the ideological incompatibility impossible for anyone still paying attention to ignore. Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2026 08:55 AM (RHGPo) 239
Other campers and hikers heard the lady screaming for 30 minutes and did not go see what was happening!
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 08:55 AM (/+uur) Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 28, 2026 08:55 AM (u82oZ) 241
He made Die Hard. J K Rowling wrote Snape with Rickman in mind before he was cast in Harry Potter.
My personal favorite is his playing a pioneering heart surgeon in Something the Lord Made. Posted by: Ignoramus Galaxy Quest - the one guy dressed up as an Alien who KNOWS it's all BS. Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 08:55 AM (Vqi7w) 242
I remember that the recruits pouring into the international socialists in the early 70s about that time. Ted Heath was a great recruiter for Marxism and Leninism, but in the end, he let us all down, by losing an election.
In talking with left leaning people one of the drivers in their politics is the failures of crony capitalism/socialism And it is almost comical. They'll argue that we need socialism because healthcare is too expensive. But why is it so expensive? We'd been socializing health care for 60 years. Meanwhile TVs which are barely regulated drop in cost every year... Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 08:56 AM (sKqQm) 243
Primaries coming up in my little part of the world. The retread Democrat will no doubt win her primary, but the interesting thing is the three other people running- all cut from the DSA cloth, and unabashedly so. The contagion is spreading, as successes elsewhere have emboldened the vermin everywhere.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 28, 2026 08:56 AM (QaH55) 244
Is Talarico trying to dig a deeper whole with black and other Christians in his district ( ?) because telling them that the Bible was influenced by Islamic mystics would probably make them say "Whaaaat?"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 08:56 AM (rHgXV) Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 08:56 AM (Vqi7w) 246
Didn't like Love Actually that much but Rickman was superb
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 28, 2026 08:57 AM (BlDDt) 247
Put a chain around Fauci's ankle (and those of at least 2 of his sycophants/co-conspirators). Hook the other end to the hitch on a big Silverado. Hit the gas, mightily. Ignore the screams
Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat & Deep State Rat Bastards at July 28, 2026 08:58 AM (HeR4S) 248
246 Didn't like Love Actually that much but Rickman was superb
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 28, 2026 08:57 AM (BlDDt) Yes he was and I love that movie... Posted by: It's me donna at July 28, 2026 08:58 AM (p3OSa) 249
If I'm ever near Houston I'll have to visit Randall's and buy something. Pudding Pops, or whatever Yeltsin was so enamored with.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 28, 2026 08:58 AM (2Ez/1) 250
You remember the catch phrase, "“We will fight them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here.”?
Well that didn't work out so well did it? Posted by: pawn at July 28, 2026 08:58 AM (CSOVt) 251
Is Talarico trying to dig a deeper whole with black and other Christians in his district ( ?) because telling them that the Bible was influenced by Islamic mystics would probably make them say "Whaaaat?"
If you analyze leftwing Christians only those attending black churches seem to believe in something that anyone else would identify as Christianity from outside their bubbles. And yet they still vote for the same heretical leaders of the left... Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 08:58 AM (sKqQm) 252
Look Fat, it wasn't me. Somebody put distain in my drawers!
Posted by: Pres. Emeritus at July 28, 2026 08:58 AM (JM9I6) 253
Galaxy Quest - the one guy dressed up as an Alien who KNOWS it's all BS.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 08:55 AM (Vqi7w) Capn Kirk said that was the second best Star Trek movie after Kahn Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 08:58 AM (/+uur) 254
Other campers and hikers heard the lady screaming for 30 minutes and did not go see what was happening!
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 08:55 AM (/+uur) This is what lawyers and leftist soibois has done to society. The lefties have no strength to assist and those that actually still do think twice, then twice again before getting involved as they might get sued to oblivion because they didn't save the woman just right. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 08:58 AM (2YhKe) 255
215 We've still got 3 more months......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 08:50 AM (2YhKe) Have you seen any Paxton ads in your neck of the woods? I’ve seen zero. The ads write themselves. Posted by: TxAnn at July 28, 2026 08:59 AM (SjAWL) 256
McConnell Out of Hospital, Not ‘Medically Cleared’ to Return to Senate
- Well, he's got to finish that Ironman Triathlon first anyway. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 28, 2026 08:59 AM (ndZc7) 257
249 If I'm ever near Houston I'll have to visit Randall's and buy something. Pudding Pops, or whatever Yeltsin was so enamored with.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 28, 2026 08:58 AM (2Ez/1) Alas that store closed about 3 years ago but there is one on the other side of Clear Lake. Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 09:00 AM (/+uur) 258
You remember the catch phrase, "“We will fight them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here.”?
I'd know Muslims from before 2001. They were moderates, dressed like westerners, and drank alcohol. I remember driving through an urban area in 2004 when I saw my first couple of women in burkhas, pushing baby carriages of course. At that point I realized we very well might lose the war. Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 09:00 AM (sKqQm) 259
Have you seen any Paxton ads in your neck of the woods? I’ve seen zero. The ads write themselves. Posted by: TxAnn at July 28, 2026 08:59 AM (SjAWL) I think I've only seen one, but I've received several emails from him. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 09:00 AM (2YhKe) 260
Put a chain around Fauci's ankle (and those of at least 2 of his sycophants/co-conspirators). Hook the other end to the hitch on a big Silverado. Hit the gas, mightily. Ignore the screams
Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat & Deep State Rat Bastards at July 28, 2026 08:58 AM (HeR4S) 10 mile logging road. Up and back. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 09:00 AM (+mpku) 261
"Media Meltdown Over Trump’s Dylan Mulvaney Joke Proves They Know Trans Ideology Is A Lie"
Yep. Had Trump compared Kaitlan to Anne Hathaway. Nobody on the Left would've had a problem with it. Every single day the MSM hypocrisy is exposed and yet we still have people voting Democrat. Posted by: redridinghood at July 28, 2026 09:01 AM (NpAcC) 262
The lefties have no strength to assist and those that actually still do think twice, then twice again before getting involved as they might get sued to oblivion because they didn't save the woman just right.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 08:58 AM (2YhKe) Or get 10 years for messing with the wildlife. Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 09:01 AM (/+uur) 263
Capn Kirk said that was the second best Star Trek movie after Kahn
Ricardo Montalbahn was a better actor then I had realized having only seen him in Fantasy Island before that Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 09:01 AM (sKqQm) 264
Alas that store closed about 3 years ago but there is one on the other side of Clear Lake.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 09:00 AM +++ Oh. Then I'll have to resort to standing on a corner in a particular town in Arizona. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 28, 2026 09:01 AM (2Ez/1) 265
Trump: Do what I say or I’ll Bomb you
Iran: Whatevs Trump Bombs some shit Then negotiations start Iran breaks the deal Go back to the top Rinse and repeat Posted by: Not Prudent at July 28, 2026 09:02 AM (Xe8e7) 266
Pulte completed 5th (!) round of terminations at the ODNI. Good for him.
Posted by: runner at July 28, 2026 09:02 AM (GD0B3) 267
Ricardo Montalbahn was a better actor then I had realized having only seen him in Fantasy Island before that
Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 09:01 AM (sKqQm) dee plain boss Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 09:02 AM (/+uur) 268
> McConnell Out of Hospital, Not ‘Medically Cleared’ to Return to Senate
------- "Medically" or "Mentally" Either way, I have questions. Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2026 09:02 AM (jehhT) Posted by: Joe Mama at July 28, 2026 09:02 AM (TezPK) 270
When will Talarico attend an Aztec heart cutting ceremony?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2026 09:02 AM (2GVsD) 271
Oh.
Then I'll have to resort to standing on a corner in a particular town in Arizona. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 28, 2026 09:01 AM (2Ez/1) On the third day of my summer vacation, I woke up. Then I went downtown, to look for a job. Then I got a job. Keeping people from hanging out in front of the drug store. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 09:03 AM (2YhKe) Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 09:03 AM (Vqi7w) 273
When will Talarico attend an Aztec heart cutting ceremony?
Imagine the media outcry if we ever get a movie about Cortez that portrays the Aztecs as they were. Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 09:03 AM (sKqQm) 274
Ricardo Montalbahn was a better actor then I had realized having only seen him in Fantasy Island before that
Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 09:01 AM Rich Corinthian leather! Posted by: The Chrysler Cordoba at July 28, 2026 09:03 AM (2Ez/1) 275
270 When will Talarico attend an Aztec heart cutting ceremony?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2026 09:02 AM (2GVsD) While sitting at the Chestnut Tree Cafe r hennigantx realized he loved Talarico. Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 09:04 AM (/+uur) 276
Mitch McConnell is undergoing gain of function treatment as he provides proof of life to the media.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 28, 2026 09:04 AM (3oLiU) 277
I'd know Muslims from before 2001. They were moderates, dressed like westerners, and drank alcohol. I remember driving through an urban area in 2004 when I saw my first couple of women in burkhas, pushing baby carriages of course. At that point I realized we very well might lose the war. Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 09:00 AM (sKqQm) You’re welcome. Posted by: GWB at July 28, 2026 09:05 AM (Xe8e7) 278
I’m not sure Ken Paxton really needs to spend any money on ads. He will but it’s not needed. He got outspent by Cornyn in the primary by a bazillion dollars it didn’t matter. He’s gonna crush Talarico and that’s gonna feel quite satisfying. Talarico is way worse than Beto who was just a fake grifter. Talarico is a wolf in sheep’s clothing
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 28, 2026 09:05 AM (CUP/i) Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 28, 2026 09:05 AM (u82oZ) 280
The New York Times said I could read their paper in Spanish but it was a lie.
Posted by: Oglebay at July 28, 2026 09:06 AM (2ap+5) 281
More than 80% said they submitted classwork that misrepresented their views in order to align with those of professors.
-- There's a long post out there but one of the most effective--and long term--brainwashing techniques of the Vietnamese was to have the captives write short essays praising communism. And tell them, even if you don't believe it, that's fine, just write it and you will be rewarded. Then another. And another. Then confront them with their own words. They were able to produce some of the most radical and dedicated communists. Just like our universities now. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 28, 2026 09:06 AM (3cUTc) 282
Ricardo Montalbahn was a better actor then I had realized having only seen him in Fantasy Island before that
Posted by: 18-1 He would have made a good "Most Interesting Man" commercial. Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 09:06 AM (Vqi7w) 283
Talarico is way worse than Beto who was just a fake grifter. Talarico is a wolf in sheep’s clothing
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 28, 2026 09:05 AM (CUP/i) I'm waiting for the shoe to drop where he's caught sleeping with young trans kids, since he loves them so. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 09:06 AM (2YhKe) Posted by: Joe Mama at July 28, 2026 09:07 AM (TezPK) 285
I'm waiting for the shoe to drop where he's caught sleeping with young trans kids, since he loves them so.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 09:06 AM (2YhKe) He exchanged text with middle school students Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 09:07 AM (/+uur) 286
Imagine the media outcry if we ever get a movie about Cortez that portrays the Aztecs as they were.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 09:03 AM (sKqQm) Isn’t that Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto? Or does that depict another central American pagan culture? Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 28, 2026 09:07 AM (CUP/i) 287
Ricardo Montalbahn was a better actor then I had realized having only seen him in Fantasy Island before that
Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 09:01 AM (sKqQm) Saw him in an early 50's film about a month ago. He was playing a police detective trying to identify an unknown homicide victim. Pretty good film. Posted by: dantesed at July 28, 2026 09:08 AM (Oy/m2) 288
Saw him in an early 50's film about a month ago. He was playing a police detective trying to identify an unknown homicide victim. Pretty good film.
Posted by: dantesed at July 28, 2026 09:08 AM (Oy/m2) He was in a few westerns as well. The guy had chops. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 09:08 AM (2YhKe) 289
Morn' all....
Posted by: It's me donna at July 28, 2026 09:08 AM (p3OSa) 290
Imagine the media outcry if we ever get a movie about Cortez that portrays the Aztecs as they were.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 09:03 AM (sKqQm) Isn’t that Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto? Or does that depict another central American pagan culture? Posted by: LinusVanPelt Apocalypto was Mayan. Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 09:08 AM (Vqi7w) 291
Quint goes in the water.
Sharks in the water. Oh the screams. Don't kill the shark. I don't want to see Quint spill out all over the dock. Quint wouldn't want that. Posted by: Quint's mother at July 28, 2026 09:09 AM (viF8m) 292
Isn’t that Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto? Or does that depict another central American pagan culture? Those are Mayans. Similar culture and the FNM originally claimed Gibson's portrayal was racist until historians pointed out it was accurate. The one caveat is Mayan civilization had fallen apart by the time the Spaniards showed up so having those Spanish ships at the end is a bit ahistorical. Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 09:09 AM (sKqQm) 293
Apocalypto was Mayan. Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 09:08 AM (Vqi7w) Wasn't it their calendar that, should we've survived net neutrality or tax cuts, we died in 2012? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 09:09 AM (2YhKe) 294
My local “newspaper” actually did some journalism. They pointed out the budget of the school district has more than doubled in the past 10 years while enrollment has decreased by 4%. Even taking into account inflation the math aint mathing as the kids say.
Posted by: Chaos at July 28, 2026 09:10 AM (Xe8e7) 295
Isn’t that Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto? Or does that depict another central American pagan culture?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt I was informed by a guide at Tuluum that everything was a paradise until the honkies with big ships showed up. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 09:10 AM (+mpku) 296
I've got chunks of Mayans in my stool.
Posted by: SNL Aztec Group at July 28, 2026 09:10 AM (Q+gd/) 297
Current gas-powered Chevrolet Blazer production at the Ramos Arizpe plant in Mexico is scheduled to end around September 30. The refreshed 2028 Blazer will begin production in the second quarter of 2027 at their Spring Hill plant in Tennessee.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 09:10 AM (/+uur) Posted by: Soft Corinthian leather! at July 28, 2026 09:11 AM (2Ez/1) 299
Wasn't it their calendar that, should we've survived net neutrality or tax cuts, we died in 2012?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer Yes. Supposedly only went to 2012. Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 09:11 AM (Vqi7w) 300
When will Talarico attend an Aztec heart cutting ceremony?
Imagine the media outcry if we ever get a movie about Cortez that portrays the Aztecs as they were. Posted by: 18-1 +++ I was assured by Neil Young that hate was just a legend and war was never known. Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 28, 2026 09:12 AM (Lo97M) 301
287 Ricardo Montalbahn was a better actor then I had realized having only seen him in Fantasy Island before that
Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 09:01 AM (sKqQm) Saw him in an early 50's film about a month ago. He was playing a police detective trying to identify an unknown homicide victim. Pretty good film. Posted by: dantesed at July 28, 2026 09:08 AM (Oy/m2) Catch him in the classic war flick "Battleground." Might have been his screen debut, but if not then one of his first appearances. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 28, 2026 09:12 AM (x0n13) 302
Schadenfreude would be:
Aztecs invite Talerico to their ceremony and they toss him on the altar. Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2026 09:13 AM (2GVsD) 303
>>by publishing a searchable database of properties impacted by his new “pied-à-terre” tax. The database, uploaded by the New York City Department of Finance, includes the addresses and names of property owners of homes valued at over one million dollars that the city has determined are not being used as primary residences.
What was the stated purpose of this? I am assuming the true purpose of this is to harass these property owners to sell -- he's just given the "eat the rich" mob places to protest/vanadalize/rob, as well as the realtors/real estate investors a list of people who may well accept a low, but quick, offer to buy, etc.. This is unfathomable. Posted by: Lizzy at July 28, 2026 09:14 AM (X8xt3) 304
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CNN Politics @CNNPolitics · Apr 30, 2020 President Trump contradicts the US intel community by claiming he's seen evidence that the coronavirus originated in a Chinese lab https://cnn.it/3d7KSuC hahahahaha Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 09:14 AM (/+uur) 305
@83 And you just missed two more!
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 28, 2026 09:15 AM (zdLoL) 306
James Talarico is a pencil necked geek.
Grit eatin' freak. A scum suckin' pea head with a lousy physique. A one time no good losing streak. Nothin' but a pencil necked geek. Posted by: Classy Freddie Blassie at July 28, 2026 09:15 AM (2YhKe) 307
As a music lover who never listens to the lyrics, Cortez the Killer is a lovely tune.
Posted by: Oglebay at July 28, 2026 09:16 AM (2ap+5) 308
President Trump contradicts the US intel community by claiming he's seen evidence that the coronavirus originated in a Chinese lab https://cnn.it/3d7KSuC
Much like "The COVID shot does not stop the spread of COVID" this one went from "that's a racist Russian bot NAZI lie" to "Well everyone always know that" so smoothly a lot of LIVs never noticed. Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 09:16 AM (sKqQm) 309
>>When will Talarico attend an Aztec heart cutting ceremony?
Has anyone in the press asked him about the Berlin Pride march attack? Maybe ask him how to explain how he expects the "diversity is our strength" of the Islamic Epic City in Texas squares with hi strong support for LGBTQ community. . . Posted by: Lizzy at July 28, 2026 09:16 AM (X8xt3) 310
260 Put a chain around Fauci's ankle (and those of at least 2 of his sycophants/co-conspirators). Hook the other end to the hitch on a big Silverado. Hit the gas, mightily. Ignore the screams
Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat & Deep State Rat Bastards at July 28, 2026 08:58 AM (HeR4S) 10 mile logging road. Up and back. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 09:00 AM (+mpku) I have a Silverado. Don't live too far from some great logging roads in Maine. Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 28, 2026 09:17 AM (N39Ws) 311
Has anyone in the press asked him about the Berlin Pride march attack? Maybe ask him how to explain how he expects the "diversity is our strength" of the Islamic Epic City in Texas squares with hi strong support for LGBTQ community.
I suspect like the German rally organizers he'd say something like "I wish the attack had been by a white Christian man" Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 09:18 AM (sKqQm) 312
>>> Rev. Wishbone
Is he being rebuilt? Posted by: NaCly Dog >He's going to make one last comeback for a huge payday against the notorious Big Mike, the Angry Sasquatch. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 28, 2026 09:19 AM (3oLiU) 313
Other campers and hikers heard the lady screaming for 30 minutes and did not go see what was happening!
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 08:55 AM (/+uur) This is what lawyers and leftist soibois has done to society. The lefties have no strength to assist and those that actually still do think twice, then twice again before getting involved as they might get sued to oblivion because they didn't save the woman just right. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 08:58 AM (2YhKe) Now, Sponge, be fair. They didn't have two free hands as they were probably videoing the attack for youtube and tiktok. I hope they got a lot of likes! Posted by: naturalfake at July 28, 2026 09:19 AM (iJfKG) 314
Patricia Heaton
@PatriciaHeaton Countdown to Jake Tapper writing another book, this time on how he was totally fooled by Fauci. - When Tapper plays fetch with his dog, the dog only pretends to bring the ball back. Tapper never catches on. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 28, 2026 09:19 AM (ndZc7) 315
Galaxy Quest - the one guy dressed up as an Alien who KNOWS it's all BS.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 08:55 AM (Vqi7w) By Grabthar's Hammer, that's a good point. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 09:19 AM (ExV1e) 316
Undercut businesses and tax the fuck out of them- take commercial property.
Make onerous regulation for landlords, tax the fuck out of them- take their private property. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 09:20 AM (+mpku) 317
Now, Sponge, be fair.
They didn't have two free hands as they were probably videoing the attack for youtube and tiktok. I hope they got a lot of likes! Posted by: naturalfake at July 28, 2026 09:19 AM (iJfKG) Valid. Posted by: Classy Freddie Blassie at July 28, 2026 09:20 AM (2YhKe) 318
Somebody please explain to Thune that making a deal with the Dems/DSA is making a deal with the IRGC. It will be violated.
Thune, Dems/DSA and IRGC all serve the same master—S'tan Posted by: Community Notes at July 28, 2026 09:21 AM (9Hs2w) 319
>> "Media Meltdown Over Trump’s Dylan Mulvaney Joke Proves They Know Trans Ideology Is A Lie"
Even funnier that it's a running Scott Pressler joke to confuse pictures of Kaitlyn Collins. Pressler even posted a pic of her at the WHCD on X pretending it was him. LMFAO Posted by: Lizzy at July 28, 2026 09:21 AM (X8xt3) 320
Shyte.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 09:21 AM (2YhKe) 321
Make onerous regulation for landlords, tax the fuck out of them- take their private property. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 09:20 AM (+mpku) Identifying homes that aren't being lived in certainly makes it easier for "shoppers" . Posted by: It's me donna at July 28, 2026 09:22 AM (p3OSa) 322
Make onerous regulation for landlords, tax the fuck out of them- take their private property.
Then complain their are no new properties being built for rent... Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2026 09:22 AM (sKqQm) 323
I suspect like the German rally organizers he'd say something like "I wish the attack had been by a white Christian man"
Which kind of gives the whole game away: They hate Christianity with a demonic passion and success is when they corrupt the object of their hate to be like them. Satan tried to do this in the 40 Days of our LORD's testing. Posted by: Community Notes at July 28, 2026 09:24 AM (a6PrB) 324
Didn't like Love Actually that much but Rickman was superb
Posted by: Smell the Glove He was superb in everything he did. Died too soon. Posted by: Tuna at July 28, 2026 09:24 AM (lJ0H4) 325
Let the state do for rental property what it has done for health care.
Posted by: Oglebay at July 28, 2026 09:24 AM (2ap+5) 326
In Ohio, the current standard is that your friends can come over to party without a permit but not to pray. That can’t be right.
A couple of solutions... Have a prayer party! Seriously, this would even impact weekly Bible studies with prayers, as that could be considered "worship", and a Shabbat minyan could be considered similar to that. Gov't socialists HATE Judaism and Christianity...Here in San Diego during the COOF, you could go to strip clubs and see naked ladies dance, but you couldn't go to church. That shows you the State's priorities. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2026 09:24 AM (l3cgK) 327
Western Lensman
@WesternLensman Here's what happened when @LydiaMoynihan dared to bring up the Fauci diary on CNN. Abby Phillip immediately shuts it down. Not allowed to be discussed. https://tinyurl.com/495tcafc - Nothing to see here. Move along, comrade. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 28, 2026 09:25 AM (ndZc7) 328
325 Let the state do for rental property what it has done for health care.
Posted by: Oglebay at July 28, 2026 09:24 AM (2ap+5) So Berkeley California? They had rent controls so strong that landlords simply refused to upgrade their properties and places went to shambles. No new rentals were built. This is yet another bitter fruit of socialism. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2026 09:26 AM (l3cgK) 329
Mamdani said he'd go after NYC properties and owners that fell within certain conditions. Openly talked about having them sold to the city at some absurd price point.
He's keeping his word. *shrugs* It's apparently what some voted for. Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2026 09:27 AM (jehhT) 330
>>He was superb in everything he did. Died too soon.
He really was. Sadly, he was a crazy lefty. He created and directed a play based on Rachel "pancake" Corrie's diaries. Posted by: Lizzy at July 28, 2026 09:27 AM (X8xt3) 331
Escape from New York was not just a movie.
Posted by: Rotkappchen at July 28, 2026 09:28 AM (j3Fsw) 332
Morning, all. Thank you, J.J.
Sanders, AOC, Mamdani and Co., so many more of their extremely well-heeled, like minded comrades couldn't do a good days work, let alone control a huge number of the population, for or against them, without their goons, aka thugs & enforcers. And, as in the past, those goons can come from acquaintances, friends, even family. This mostly Irish woman's favorite play: Fiddler on the Roof. So beautifully done and a strong reminder that most of the world's greatest historical atrocities (such as, but not limited to, the pogroms & the Holocaust) would not have happened if it was not for the tendency to obey authority figures. Never be willing to give up freedom without a fight, whether at the ballot box, a county commissioners' meeting, and even the street. --- They don't forget: Prava dot ua dot com: 'Polish defence minister reiterates that Ukraine will not reach EU "under banner of Bandera" It begins, "Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister of Poland, has reiterated that Ukraine's current attitude towards its history could become a serious obstacle on its path to the EU." --- Good day. 🤗 Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 28, 2026 09:28 AM (LL19j) 333
Blassie is still the most hated man in Japan for defeating their national champion in 1963 and doing it "dishonorably".
Doctor X, on the other hand, defeated the Japanese national champ honorably and was awarded The Order of the Rising Sun, their highest award for a foreigner. The respective Japanese champs won their belt back in rematches. Posted by: Lucha Libre at July 28, 2026 09:28 AM (JM9I6) 334
My name is illiniwek
you killed my chickens Prepare to die That is to my local coyotes, who did kill some chickens. At least I have no predators around that prey on humans. Can't recall ever hearing of coyotes attacking adults. Related, I just saw some YouTube thing on Iceland killing any polar bear (as policy) that gets to their island. They have no wildlife that their children or visitors have to fear. The arctic fox is about the biggest predator, and no threat to humans. Posted by: illiniwek at July 28, 2026 09:29 AM (vbXSk) 335
Mamdani said he'd go after NYC properties and owners that fell within certain conditions. Openly talked about having them sold to the city at some absurd price point.
Remember that a NY judge has already ruled that Mar-a-Lago is only worth a buck fiddy so there's precedence. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 09:29 AM (ExV1e) 336
Mamdani said he'd go after NYC properties and owners that fell within certain conditions. Openly talked about having them sold to the city at some absurd price point.
He's keeping his word. *shrugs* It's apparently what some voted for. Posted by: Martini Farmer Yep. Hard to feel sorry for most NYC'ers. Morons excepted. Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 09:29 AM (Vqi7w) Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 28, 2026 09:29 AM (x0n13) 338
And my guess, you're the only one that went to those links.
Posted by: TeeJ Been a significant donor for decades, had personal audiences and dinner with Ken Ham; pretty much everyone at ICR. But AiG has gotten quite large and a whole lot less personal and more corporate. Nonetheless, I like watching the evolving discourses and audiences as Lisle and others grow on their own. Keeping an eye on Nathanial Jeanson's work. Posted by: Community Notes at July 28, 2026 09:31 AM (a6PrB) 339
>> "9/11 families, those who lost loved ones on that horrific day, are requesting that Mayor Mamdani not attend the memorial services in NYC that day."
He just met with a Muslim Brotherhood front group. https://tinyurl.com/5ahh8m4t Posted by: Lizzy at July 28, 2026 09:31 AM (X8xt3) 340
I feel bad for Rights in (Reacher), because his physique is obviously steroid induced. He has basically attacked his core fan base. Who is going to watch his movies???
Posted by: Augusto Perez at July 28, 2026 09:33 AM (H7FX4) 341
I feel bad for Rights in (Reacher), because his physique is obviously steroid induced. He has basically attacked his core fan base. Who is going to watch his movies???
Posted by: Augusto Perez +++ Stupid is as stupid does. Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 28, 2026 09:37 AM (Lo97M) 342
Protesters demanding the arrest of the officer who shot Corey Ruiz tried a new tactic in Madison, Wisconsin Saturday night: blocking access to bars and restaurants.
“Justice for Corey!” they chanted as they denied access to the front door for would-be customers. Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2026 08:41 AM (RHGPo) Said customers need to kick the ever loving shit out of them. Of course, it's Madison, so men without chests. Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 28, 2026 09:38 AM (hmYU4) 343
- Community Notes
Never been to any of the get togethers or presentations. AiG lately? Have seen Ken Ham "get out of his lane" in a few vids. Pretty much blows it every time. Main problem with BSI is you can't get the offers for their "library packs" and such online that you can at presentations. And he never comes to my little neck of the woods. Posted by: TeeJ at July 28, 2026 09:39 AM (/XKEa) 344
- Nathaniel Jeanson
Meant to add, yep. Traced etc vids have been very interesting. Posted by: TeeJ at July 28, 2026 09:41 AM (/XKEa) 345
I am thinking of writing a personal note to registered Republicans in this district to get out the vote. The Republicans I know - active in our Republican organization- will vote against the Hamasawy ( not the spelling, of course) that's what I think of him as.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 08:47 AM (rHgXV) ------------ I admire your taking positive action, unlike me (sitting at my desk shaking my fist at the Democrats). Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 28, 2026 09:43 AM (ZZsBy) 346
JJ in deep depression as the SOROS plan appears unbeatable
Posted by: Paul at July 28, 2026 09:52 AM (gfPke) 347
Maybe not smart to go hiking alone in an area known to have lethal wildlife
JJ blames government not doing enough to protect idiots Posted by: Paul at July 28, 2026 09:54 AM (gfPke) 348
From above, The Great MAGA Reversal on Ukraine: How Helping Zelensky Became ‘America First’
Sorry but I think we'll (the norms) rue the day the USA got snookered by Zelenskyy & our aid and contracts for drones and missiles. Again, imo. Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 28, 2026 09:59 AM (LL19j) 349
Aztecs invite Talerico to their ceremony and they toss him on the altar.
Posted by: Anna Puma Massive grease fire follows. Posted by: Joe Mama at July 28, 2026 10:27 AM (TezPK) Daily Tech News 28 July 2026Top Story
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Morning all
Posted by: Tuna at July 28, 2026 04:38 AM (lJ0H4) 2
G'Day everyone
Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2026 04:40 AM (Ia/+0) 3
Finally a day not too far from home, little later start but don't have to leave in 10 minutes at least
Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2026 04:41 AM (Ia/+0) 4
Called the others
Posted by: SciVo at July 28, 2026 04:45 AM (Sy6m/) 5
BOING!
Back from shopping with Mrs. BD. Expecting to host over 20 pups and grandpups this coming weekend. Lotta grilling will be done. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2026 04:46 AM (1o8D5) 6
Called the others
Posted by: SciVo at July 28, 2026 04:45 AM (Sy6m/) - My phone was on mute. Sorry. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2026 04:46 AM (1o8D5) 7
Where's our w00t?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2026 04:47 AM (1o8D5) 8
Mornin'
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come. at July 28, 2026 04:48 AM (sAmhv) 9
I opened the door and the 2.5 ball of fluff was here ready to purr in my ear. I had to put him in another room because I don't want him to think that breakfast will be served at 4:00.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 04:51 AM (W90Ou) 10
Make that 2.5 "lb" ball of fluff.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 04:51 AM (W90Ou) 11
I had such a nice morning yesterday. Spouse and I went to the RCC in the town over . It is such a lovely place with the stained glass windows, and I appreciate the people of various nationalities there to worship the Lord, There were some young guys there ( maybe they go before work ) but I appreciate young, devout people and I wonder whether some of them might be discerning whether they wish to enter the priesthood. I was there to pray for a special intention, and no, I do not take the Eucharist.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 04:56 AM (W90Ou) 12
Pixy never really answered my investment question.
But based what he says, I exchanged my Nvidia shares for Bitcoin Posted by: Miklos gonna be RICH at July 28, 2026 04:57 AM (A764u) 13
Time for sausages and French Toast
Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2026 04:57 AM (Ia/+0) 14
I don't want him to think that breakfast will be served at 4:00.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke Please explain this same thing to Miss Dixie. She is a girl, but more importantly she is a dog, and food demands are 24/7, if I go into the kitchen. Posted by: Miklos does right by doggie at July 28, 2026 05:00 AM (A764u) 15
Time for sausages and French Toast
Posted by: Skip There are muffins on the table. Uncle Raymond sent some "grits" from Myrtle Beach, but there are no instructions on how to cook them Posted by: Auntie Miklos at July 28, 2026 05:02 AM (A764u) Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2026 05:03 AM (1o8D5) 17
Posted by: Miklos does right by doggie at July 28, 2026 05:00 AM (A764u
LOL. I understand I think Millard probably thinks he should be fed 24/7 but I just shut the door and leave. 😉 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 05:03 AM (W90Ou) 18
Pixy never really answered my investment question.
But based what he says, I exchanged my Nvidia shares for Bitcoin Posted by: Miklos gonna be RICH at July 28, 2026 04:57 AM (A764u) - https://tinyurl.com/4yvz3bvf I wish I had more money to invest right now! Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2026 05:04 AM (1o8D5) 19
"The small things". Deuteronomy 7:11-12
International Fellowship of Christians and Jews: https://tinyurl.com/33veb5de Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 05:07 AM (rHgXV) 20
g'mornin', 'rons Posted by: AltonJackson at July 28, 2026 05:11 AM (AMvSw) 21
I wish I had more money to invest right now!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs My Fund Manager is Mr. Haney over in Pixley. He's always got some hot money maker ideas Posted by: Miklos at Green Acres (of the Bug Tussle Mikloses) at July 28, 2026 05:11 AM (A764u) 22
Fen, it sounds like the fluff ball has begun the takeover.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 28, 2026 05:13 AM (RjOoY) 23
Mallard Fastway has taken calvinball to a new level
https://autos.yahoo.com/scofflaw-duc k-keeps-triggering-speed-1830 00102.html It's technology and how to fuck with it Posted by: The Ballots at July 28, 2026 05:14 AM (LOZbR) Posted by: ask me about sleestaks at July 28, 2026 05:23 AM (quOHo) 25
Miklos I do need to go to Myrtle Beach in near future
Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2026 05:23 AM (Ia/+0) 26
@23/The Ballots:
So from the article, these cameras aren't hooked to the internet, and are stand-alone. Someone should take one off the pole, put it in the back of a truck pointing out to either side, and take it for a drive on the M1 motorway (70 MPH) and then return it to its pole. Let them figure THAT one out from the thousands of pictures it'll take of speeding buildings and trees. Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 28, 2026 05:27 AM (O7YUW) 27
Solvent Green is people.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 28, 2026 05:28 AM (tBH5l) Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2026 05:28 AM (1o8D5) 29
I do need to go to Myrtle Beach in near future
Posted by: Skip I will buy you and the missus breakfast at Mammy's Kitchen. Get there early, because always a line Posted by: Miklos in younger than Mammy's Kitchen at July 28, 2026 05:29 AM (A764u) 30
Dar al Islam, state by state:
https://tinyurl.com/93kjwrvk Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2026 05:28 AM (1o8D5) - Sigh of relief. Signs of resistance: https://tinyurl.com/2nw9fzh7 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2026 05:32 AM (1o8D5) 31
I've always regarded the late night ONT as a kind of containment board for Miklos. To see him frolicking and capering about free and feral in the tech thread is alarming. He's not to be fed after midnight. No good will come of this.
Posted by: even mugwumps get the blues at July 28, 2026 05:35 AM (+sI/O) 32
This is sad. Advertising has always made use of unrealistic models and fake, scripted video with all the same editing tricks as any TV drama. But, influencers give the act an air of verisimilitude, which mixes with generative AI (there's your tech hook) like oil and fire.
Before, health and beauty advertising used people with impossibly good genetics, made up by pros, and younger than as portrayed. Now, they don't even exist. The Woman Who Wasn’t There battleswarmblog.com/?p=72520 I'm practically immune to this, because for one thing, I don't make the kind of purchases where the pitchman's skin is a testimony; and I also just don't like people much, so "parasocial relationship" content doesn't appeal. But I understand I'm in a minority. Posted by: SciVo at July 28, 2026 05:36 AM (Sy6m/) 33
well, great. I just learned about something else I have to fear: open-weight AIs. And first, I have to learn what they are. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 28, 2026 05:37 AM (mmrXZ) 34
w00t late
Posted by: m at July 28, 2026 05:39 AM (faghi) 35
No good will come of this.
Posted by: even mugwumps get the blues It's OK Bojangles opened 10 minutes ago Senator Darline got interns to go fetch it too Posted by: Miklos feels like some "consulting" work is in order at July 28, 2026 05:42 AM (A764u) Posted by: Miklosius Caroliniensis the Elder at July 28, 2026 05:43 AM (A764u) 37
post woot ergo propter woot?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2026 05:45 AM (Ot/FD) 38
I'm practically immune to this, because for one thing, I don't make the kind of purchases where the pitchman's skin is a testimony; and I also just don't like people much, so "parasocial relationship" content doesn't appeal. But I understand I'm in a minority.
Posted by: SciVo at July 28, 2026 05:36 AM (Sy6m/) The "influencer" style of ad already backfires horribly with a lot of people, including me. Replacing the fake person with a fake fake person doesn't really change things for us. Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2026 05:48 AM (Ot/FD) 39
I guess it is the way I was taught. My mom would put a plate of food and a bowl of water on the floor for the cat and the cat would eat and drink as it pleases over the course of the day.
Cats are not like dogs. They are not going to wolf it all down in one sitting. My cat always seemed to be worried about where her next was coming from. She would cry with the plate was half empty. LOL. Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 28, 2026 05:51 AM (qFwJc) 40
post woot ergo propter woot?
Posted by: Warai-otoko I was just discussing Descartes with my dog the other day... She suggested "woof" instead Posted by: Le Mikleuse at July 28, 2026 05:52 AM (A764u) 41
>>>even college English majors these days struggle to understand Dickens
"What the Dickens!" --college English majors these days Posted by: m at July 28, 2026 05:55 AM (faghi) 42
This is a nice prayer by Elizabeth Goudge, ( 1900-1984) who was a wonderful novelist- and I didn't recall this-the daughter of an Anglican priest:
O Everlasting Mercy, who once in time came from the height of heaven to the depth of our need, come again in power to forgive us and renew us and set us on fire, that through the labours and prayers of broken- hearted sinners your mercy may banish the darkness and bring new life upon the earth. -------- She also has a collection of prayers called "A Diary of Prayer." Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 05:59 AM (xSAlF) 43
Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.
Posted by: olddog in mo at July 28, 2026 05:59 AM (Hbeqj) Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2026 06:00 AM (1o8D5) 45
Have a great day horde
Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2026 06:03 AM (Ia/+0) 46
If Dickens were an English professor today, he'd just be Ens.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2026 06:04 AM (Ot/FD) 47
still faghi after all these w00ts
Posted by: m at July 28, 2026 06:08 AM (faghi) 48
Good morning, All.
Waiting for graphics card prices to come down... Come to think of it, I never played Zork II and Zork III Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 28, 2026 06:08 AM (O/BY1) 49
Old time hymn by a Welshman who lived in the 1700's- William Williams- "Guide Me, Thou Great Jehovah":
https://tinyurl.com/yc653a9h Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 06:13 AM (W90Ou) 50
The "(fake word)" style of ad already backfires horribly with a lot of people, including me. Replacing the fake person with a fake fake person doesn't really change things for us.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2026 05:48 AM (Ot/FD) The sooner that word dies, the better. Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2026 06:13 AM (pDKdk) 51
Posted by: NR Pax at July 28, 2026 05:13 AM (RjOoY)
LOL. Not quite yet, only because he got moved out during our prayer time. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 06:15 AM (W90Ou) 52
Good morning, Hordians. Up, dressed, morning prayers said, dogs run out, coffee prepared. Now sitting in the Command Center at Schloss Hadrian running journal article DOIs, one by one, through Google Scholar to see if there are online copies. The Great Computer Saga continues. I pulled the hard drive yesterday and ordered a replacement. Since the damn thing passed its memory test, I reckon I can just swap disks for $75 instead of getting a new computer for $750. Meanwhile I also ordered a SATA adapter to try to read the old hard drive and pull files therefrom. Upon consultation with competent authority, if it's not the boot disk, it may be readable. I have no idea what I'm doing, of course. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 28, 2026 06:17 AM (O0L8i) 53
Evening and morning for the last Tiu's Day of a nasty hot July, all!
I dreamed last night that Miss Linda and I stayed at a hotel -- some kind of car trip -- and the room they gave us was a suite. Uh-huh. "Suite" as in "dorm room." No separate bedrooms, narrow beds and lounge chairs to sleep on, one bathroom, and three or four other guests were already in there. (At first glance one resembled Shirley Booth, the Hazel TV actress, but then I realized it wasn't her.) The people were nice enough, but --! I glanced at Linda, said, "This isn't working," and she murmured, "No." I was heading downstairs to get us a real room -- or check us out -- when I woke up. Scary stuff. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 28, 2026 06:18 AM (wzUl9) 54
Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering at July 28, 2026 06:20 AM (2Ez/1) 55
@39/no one of any consequence: "My cat always seemed to be worried about where her next was coming from. She would cry with the plate was half empty. LOL."
Let me sing you the song of our starving peoples... (Cats everywhere) Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 28, 2026 06:21 AM (O7YUW) 56
Dr. Fauci scheduled for Senate hearing tomorrow. I'm getting the popcorn ready, but I am not expecting much.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 28, 2026 06:21 AM (O/BY1) 57
38 The "influencer" style of ad already backfires horribly with a lot of people, including me. Replacing the fake person with a fake fake person doesn't really change things for us.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2026 05:48 AM (Ot/FD) Agreed. Posted by: m at July 28, 2026 06:22 AM (faghi) 58
I opened the door and the 2.5 ball of fluff was here ready to purr in my ear. I had to put him in another room because I don't want him to think that breakfast will be served at 4:00.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 *** Not unusual. When he was a little kitten (which did not last long -- soon he was a *big* kitten), Stirling wanted to leap on the bed to milk-tread my arm as soon as I woke up. Or earlier. I had to lock him out of the bedroom until I got up for work, and leave a few extra minutes so that he could do his "Are you my mother???" thing. Or he'd have been on me at two a.m. As for cat eating habits, yes, they do tend to eat small portions. But Stirling likes to inhale 90% of his chow at one time, breakfast or dinner, and then trot over to eat some of Dagny's. She leaves some and comes back later. I have to take up her bowl to protect it from him, then put it back down for her. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 28, 2026 06:27 AM (wzUl9) 59
mornin yall. $20k to replace 90 feet of concrete driveway? I don't think so.
Posted by: fd at July 28, 2026 06:29 AM (MWfyi) 60
Anyway! I am up with coffee and a pipe. My right knee is still bothering me, preventing serious exercise, so I'm taking it easy for a few days. Might hit the library today, and Thursday I have my haircut in the morning, but I'm trying to move as lightly as possible. How 'bout choo?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 28, 2026 06:30 AM (wzUl9) 61
Are you using melatonin? Crazy dreams.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 28, 2026 06:31 AM (qFwJc) 62
I'm practically immune to this, because for one thing, I don't make the kind of purchases where the pitchman's skin is a testimony; and I also just don't like people much, so "parasocial relationship" content doesn't appeal. But I understand I'm in a minority.
Posted by: SciVo at July 28, 2026 *** Annette Figueroa makes me want to try Plexaworm or whatever it's called. I don't remember the product's name, but I remember her. Don't think that's what the company wants. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 28, 2026 06:31 AM (wzUl9) 63
Are you using melatonin? Crazy dreams.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 28, 2026 *** I am. These are not scary dreams really, no nightmares. They're like foreign films, though in English, that leave you going, "That made no sense," as you leave the theatre. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 28, 2026 06:33 AM (wzUl9) 64
Are you using melatonin? Crazy dreams.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 28, 2026 *** I am. These are not scary dreams really, no nightmares. They're like foreign films, though in English, that leave you going, "That made no sense," as you leave the theatre. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 28, 2026 06:33 AM (wzUl9) ---- I stopped taking melatonin because my dreams were TOO weird. Without it, my dreams are quite weird enough, thank you very much. No need to make them extra spicy. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2026 06:38 AM (FZ29D) 65
It's odd about the milk-treading. You'd think any kitten who left his mother early would want to do that to his human feeder, as that person can be a mother-surrogate. But little Arizona, adopted at 6-7 weeks, never milk treaded. None of the Siberian cats have; they leave their breeder at five months or later. Yet Oreo did, and she was over five years old when she came to me.
Marie-Antoinette the smart black cat made a lifelong hobby out of sitting on you and working your arm . . . which was okay, as someone had taken away her front claws earlier. Maybe her paws itched and that's why she did it. Stirling still does it to me, every day or so, and he's four now. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 28, 2026 06:38 AM (wzUl9) 66
Unfortunately I have parts of the Flexaworm commercials memorized. "This one is for real, and I'm so excited. . . ."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 28, 2026 06:41 AM (wzUl9) Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 28, 2026 06:57 AM (AHxhK) 68
61 Are you using melatonin? Crazy dreams.
Posted by: no one of any consequence My issue with melatonin is I get 2-3 hours of really deep sleep and then I'm wide awake. Posted by: NR Pax at July 28, 2026 06:58 AM (RjOoY) 69
Japan has had a 6.8 earthquake this morning.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 28, 2026 07:00 AM (abScH) 70
69 Japan has had a 6.8 earthquake this morning.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 28, 2026 07:00 AM (abScH) 5 km east of Uto, Japan Posted by: m at July 28, 2026 07:03 AM (faghi) 71
70 69 Japan has had a 6.8 earthquake this morning.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 28, 2026 07:00 AM (abScH) 5 km east of Uto, Japan Posted by: m at July 28, 2026 07:03 AM (faghi) USGS Magnitude 2.5+ Earthquakes, Past Day https://tinyurl.com/z76xpp5v Posted by: m at July 28, 2026 07:04 AM (faghi) 72
@69
>>Japan has had a 6.8 earthquake this morning. Hopefully this does not affect the Fukoka Yatai Food Carts, me and my binge watch food cart videos. Be safe Japan. Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 28, 2026 07:05 AM (XV/Pl) 73
Japan has had a 6.8 earthquake this morning. Posted by: Ben Had at July 28, 2026 07:00 AM (abScH) Caused by Global Warming. That means YOU, Mr. and Mrs. Republican! Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 28, 2026 07:05 AM (O0L8i) 74
I'm old enough to remember when Sarah Palin put up a map to target elections and was heavily criticized. Now you have websites like Drudge Report putting targets on the First Lady, Melania, and that's supposed to be acceptable?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 28, 2026 07:07 AM (3oLiU) 75
Japan has had a 6.8 earthquake this morning.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 28, 2026 07:00 AM (abScH) Caused by Global Warming. That means YOU, Mr. and Mrs. Republican! Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh It's the digging for that damn Trump Ballroom. Posted by: CBS "News" at July 28, 2026 07:08 AM (2Ez/1) Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 28, 2026 07:08 AM (u82oZ) 77
Drudge still exists?
Posted by: Hunh at July 28, 2026 07:09 AM (2Ez/1) Posted by: m at July 28, 2026 07:12 AM (faghi) 79
I'm practically immune to this, because for one thing, I don't make the kind of purchases where the pitchman's skin is a testimony; and I also just don't like people much, so "parasocial relationship" content doesn't appeal. But I understand I'm in a minority.
Posted by: SciVo at July 28, 2026 05:36 AM (Sy6m/) That you, Sheldon? Posted by: Howard at July 28, 2026 07:14 AM (hmYU4) 80
The Dickens....
I met Charles Dickens' either granddaughter or more maybe great-granddaughter, Catherine Dickens. She was a real estate agent in Budapest. Posted by: Three Degrees of Miklos at July 28, 2026 07:14 AM (A764u) 81
Rev. Wishbone
The lack of symmetry is by design to weaken us. Who here is not skeptical of the US justice system today? Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 28, 2026 07:15 AM (u82oZ) 82
@redsteeze retweeted Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate 10h Mamdani holding up the bananas is very funny. Bananas are like 20 cents each. Bananas are solved. This is NYC. There are a million complex technocratic tasks waiting to be solved. What are we even doing here? Posted by: m at July 28, 2026 07:15 AM (faghi) 83
Billy Mays here for this product you absolutely need in your life!
Posted by: Billy Mays AI at July 28, 2026 07:16 AM (wVcYX) 84
But do you WANT Jake Tapper in your corner?
Stephen L. Miller retweeted Jake Tapper @jaketapper 24 Jul 2020 Of the photo making the rounds Fauci notes he was sitting w wife and a close friend and “had my mask around my chin, I had taken it down. I was totally dehydrated and I was drinking water trying to rehydrate myself. And by the way, I was negative Covid literally the day before.” Posted by: m at July 28, 2026 07:18 AM (faghi) 85
Why am I up? Oh yeah, i have to work...
Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at July 28, 2026 07:18 AM (poNS8) 86
DSA education branch in NY is pushing for the curriculum to teach Marx and the whole class consciousness mindset.
I guess they may have to teach them to read first for that to work. Posted by: Ben Had at July 28, 2026 07:21 AM (abScH) 87
@77/Hunh: Yes, the "Drudge Report" site still exists but years ago, there was a sudden and jarring left-wing shift. (Either Matt Drudge sold out to left-wing interests, or he decided that pandering to left-wing readers was more profitable.)
It doesn't really matter why the shift happened, but in essence the site chose a different audience and many former readers stopped reading. I hadn't even thought about his site for a long time until you just brought it up. Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 28, 2026 07:22 AM (O7YUW) 88
When I started in radio, I was taught not to run spots for competing merchants back to back. Now there are so many personal injury lawyers advertising on TV, we often get three spots in a row. Or two for competing car manufacturers.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 28, 2026 07:23 AM (wzUl9) 89
Pixy Misa
Thanks for the "People Are People" song by Depeche Mode. I was at sea when I heard it first, on my way to the Mediterranean. I never saw the video before. Wiki is wrong, as most of the military video cuts are from WWII, not the Cold War. Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 28, 2026 07:24 AM (u82oZ) 90
- Closer to home
A Wisconsin town got smacked pretty hard by a tornado yesterday. Haven't heard about casualties. Posted by: TeeJ at July 28, 2026 07:25 AM (/XKEa) Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 28, 2026 07:26 AM (u82oZ) 92
The "(fake word)" style of ad already backfires horribly with a lot of people, including me. Replacing the fake person with a fake fake person doesn't really change things for us.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2026 05:48 AM (Ot/FD) The sooner that word dies, the better. Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2026 06:13 AM (pDKdk) Same with "follower". Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 07:26 AM (ExV1e) 93
86 DSA education branch in NY is pushing for the curriculum to teach Marx and the whole class consciousness mindset.
I guess they may have to teach them to read first for that to work. Posted by: Ben Had at July 28, 2026 07:21 AM (abScH) The funny part of this plan is that the yutes in NYC are just gonna smoke weed and try to shiv the teachers, no matter what they try to teach them. Posted by: Tom Servo at July 28, 2026 07:26 AM (xLOWQ) 94
DSA education branch in NY is pushing for the curriculum to teach Marx and the whole class consciousness mindset.
I guess they may have to teach them to read first for that to work. Posted by: Ben Had at July 28, 2026 * The funny part of this plan is that the yutes in NYC are just gonna smoke weed and try to shiv the teachers, no matter what they try to teach them. Posted by: Tom Servo at July 28, 2026 *** It'd be easier and more profitable to teach my cats economics. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 28, 2026 07:28 AM (wzUl9) 95
{{{Ben Had}}}
🎼 ♭ 5/4 ♫♫ ♫♫ Good morning! ♬♬ ♩ ♪ How retrograde. Teaching Socialism has been done for 108 years, and it never produces results worth the effort. Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 28, 2026 07:29 AM (u82oZ) 96
And this is like the lovely flower we saw by the water today. Cardinal flower:
https://tinyurl.com/79m5yj64 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 07:29 AM (G7WXk) 97
The "(fake word)" style of ad already backfires horribly with a lot of people, including me. Replacing the fake person with a fake fake person doesn't really change things for us.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2026 *** Which fake word is that? "Influencer"? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 28, 2026 07:29 AM (wzUl9) 98
I hope you all have a blessed day and know that you are a blessing to others!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 07:31 AM (G7WXk) 99
JJS Posted by: r hennigantx at July 28, 2026 07:31 AM (/+uur) 100
J.J. Arrived. Runway 270.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 28, 2026 07:32 AM (u82oZ) 101
The news knows! JJ's news, anyway.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 28, 2026 07:32 AM (wzUl9) 102
"100 100" taken out and left bleeding on the side of the road by drive-by nooding.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 28, 2026 07:33 AM (O7YUW) 103
- She is incredible. Got over there yesterday to work in the garden. About 9:30. She'd been pulling weeds in the open, graveled shed for close to two hours. Tried to tell her enough.
Fat chance. She stayed at it for half the time I was there. When I stopped at 11:40 it was 92°. She does fine rest of day with A/C. I came home to my box fan, power ade and fridge water. High was 99°. Posted by: TeeJ at July 28, 2026 07:34 AM (/XKEa) 104
102 "100 100" taken out and left bleeding on the side of the road by drive-by nooding.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 28, 2026 07:33 AM (O7YUW) *sad* Posted by: m at July 28, 2026 07:34 AM (faghi) Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 28, 2026 07:34 AM (2Ez/1) Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 28, 2026 07:35 AM (u82oZ) 107
Alternative to the Drudge Report, in the same style but retaining the original right-wing leanings:
https://citizenfreepress.com/ Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 28, 2026 07:36 AM (O7YUW) 108
I look forward to buying PC components for pennies on the dollar when this idiotic bubble pops.
Posted by: deadrody at July 28, 2026 09:21 AM (vgB0v) Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2026 09:32 AM (l3cgK) 110
U+00A7
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2026 11:21 AM (Cq/ve) 111
110 U+00A7
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2026 11:21 AM (Cq/ve) § Posted by: m at July 28, 2026 01:07 PM (faghi) Monday Night ONT - July 27, 2026 [TRex]![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
Secondhand store in Peoria, Illinois, 1938 (I do not believe the horse is real. Well, it is real but it isn't living.):![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From 1907 until its relocation in 1953, the area of Lincoln Heights was home to what the Los Angeles Times dubbed "the city's most exotic residents": a thousand-strong collection of alligators that welcomed visitors every day of the year to see, pose with, and even ride them.Lincoln Heights is on either side of the 5, between the 10 and 110. Think adjacent to Chinatown in downtown LA. Fun for the whole family, right? Seems like sensible entertainment for a toddler. ![]() ![]() You're always welcome to just stay here and drink. Correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com where it will be promptly misfiled. Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
FIRST!
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at July 27, 2026 10:00 PM (xVpNO) 2
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Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at July 27, 2026 10:00 PM (B2pWp) 3
S puppy!
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 27, 2026 10:00 PM (yEz+x) 4
Also, howdy TRex, Grateful, and the 'ettes and 'rons of the late shift.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at July 27, 2026 10:00 PM (xVpNO) 5
Dang, missed it by that much! Now for the content!
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at July 27, 2026 10:00 PM (B2pWp) Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 27, 2026 10:00 PM (mmrXZ) Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2026 10:01 PM (O6Iwc) 8
I hate it when the wife wants to re-arrange the naval gun shells.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 27, 2026 10:01 PM (ExV1e) Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at July 27, 2026 10:02 PM (xVpNO) 10
St. Francis Hotel after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake - it fared better than surrounding buildings due to its steel structure but the fires gutted the interior:
Meet me at the St. Francis! Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2026 10:02 PM (1Ff7Z) 11
They named a hotel after St. Francis of Assisi?
Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2026 10:03 PM (O6Iwc) 12
Sorry I'm late, I had to get a flag re-embroidered-- Roger just wasn't looking Jolly enough.
Posted by: tankdemon at July 27, 2026 10:04 PM (vSKbP) 13
Yay! Monday ONT! Thank you Mr. TRex
Greetings Everyone! Looks like interesting content tonight! So glad for non-Fauchi content. Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 27, 2026 10:04 PM (QGaXH) 14
I don’t think I remember Esso when I was small. I remember Enco, which was one of the companies that became Exxon.
My favorite gas station was Sinclair, my dad would let me get a wax dinosaur from the machine they kept in the lobby. Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2026 10:04 PM (xLOWQ) 15
Cool content! Thank you.
Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2026 10:04 PM (hftzA) 16
Thanks for the ONT.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 27, 2026 10:04 PM (zZu0s) 17
240mm , 245mm ammo - whatever it takes.
Posted by: Archer at July 27, 2026 10:04 PM (wvc0i) 18
Then one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, he that was about to betray him, said: Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and having the purse, carried the things that were put therein. - John 12:4-6 Judas, the patron saint of NGOs. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2026 10:05 PM (O0L8i) Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2026 10:05 PM (1Ff7Z) 20
A rare Monday Dino sighting. This could be fun.
Posted by: tankdemon at July 27, 2026 10:05 PM (vSKbP) 21
I was a 240 mm shell dud tester.
Posted by: Bug Bunny at July 27, 2026 10:05 PM (wVcYX) 22
That could have been on of the test prototypes for curved barrels.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 27, 2026 10:05 PM (zZu0s) Posted by: gKWVE at July 27, 2026 10:05 PM (gKWVE) 24
Skinwalker ranch hitch hikers likely have to be exorcised.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 27, 2026 10:06 PM (YlWIZ) 25
Is Fox running Gutfeld's Friday show? He opened with 'Leftovers' which is usually the beginning of the Friday show
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 27, 2026 10:06 PM (QGaXH) 26
Where and when?
An Esso gas station. In daytime. Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2026 10:05 PM (1Ff7Z) There. There Esso. Posted by: Igor at July 27, 2026 10:07 PM (wVcYX) 27
My favorite gas station was Sinclair, my dad would let me get a wax dinosaur from the machine they kept in the lobby.
Posted by: Tom Servo Did they have the gas pumps that had little glass globes on the side with red/orange balls in them that spun while gas was being pumped? Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2026 10:07 PM (O6Iwc) 28
Oh my lord that tank rolling off the ship and into the water. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 27, 2026 10:07 PM (mmrXZ) 29
Per wikipedia:
The 240 mm howitzer M1, popularly nicknamed the "Black Dragon",[1] was a towed howitzer used by the United States Army. The 240 mm M1 was designed to replace the World War I era 240 mm howitzer M1918, which was based on a 1911 French design and was outdated by World War II. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 27, 2026 10:07 PM (zZu0s) 30
Evenin'
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 27, 2026 10:08 PM (sAmhv) 31
Just think, from 1920 to maybe 1970, when you bought gasoline, a squad of friendly guys - in fucking uniforms would descend upon your car and fill it with gasoline, wash your windows, check the oil and coolant and tire pressure, and the rest of it. Probably singing a tune “We are the men of Texacoooo….!” And not a poofter in sight.
Think about that when they try to adjust the historical cost of gasoline for inflation, they don’t count that. “Self Serve” indeed. Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2026 10:08 PM (2a3L4) 32
I posted this late in the last thread, but it seems like more of an ONT story:
My daughter, when first starting out, worked at an older nursing home near Frankston, Texas. Sad place, the kind of place where families drop the old folks off to forget about them. There was one room they always left vacant; the older employees would jusr say there were “problems” with that room. They even kept it locked. My daughter said that often, especially on weekends, at about 2 am the central nurses station would light up with urgent call requests and buzzers from that room. Nobody wanted to go in; as the new employee they made her do it a couple of times until she just refused. Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2026 10:08 PM (xLOWQ) 33
20 A rare Monday Dino sighting. This could be fun.
Posted by: tankdemon at July 27, 2026 10:05 PM *** 😎🦖 Posted by: TRex - jolly dino at July 27, 2026 10:08 PM (XfIK1) 34
There. There Esso.
Posted by: Igor at July 27, 2026 10:07 PM (wVcYX) In Mexico, it would be an Esse station. Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2026 10:08 PM (1Ff7Z) 35
Thirty years later I may have been taking fencing lessons in that very room at Watertown Arsenal.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 27, 2026 10:08 PM (Nt34E) 36
I find it endlessly wonderful that Jackie Coogan was The Kid in that Charlie Chaplin film. I love that one.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 27, 2026 10:08 PM (0aYVJ) 37
St. Francis Hotel after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake - it fared better than surrounding buildings due to its steel structure but the fires gutted the interior:
------ So....would you say it had an inferior interior? Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 27, 2026 10:08 PM (QGaXH) 38
Did they have the gas pumps that had little glass globes on the side with red/orange balls in them that spun while gas was being pumped?
Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2026 10:07 PM (O6Iwc) Yes! I loved those!!! Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2026 10:09 PM (xLOWQ) 39
7 How much 240mm ammo is considered 'enough'?
Asking for a friend. Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2026 10:01 PM (O6Iwc) However much you have on hand, plus infinity. Posted by: tankdemon at July 27, 2026 10:10 PM (vSKbP) 40
Think about that when they try to adjust the historical cost of gasoline for inflation, they don’t count that. “Self Serve” indeed.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2026 10:08 PM (2a3L4) Used to be a fella could make a livin' workin' the pumps. Posted by: Those days are long gone at July 27, 2026 10:10 PM (1Ff7Z) 41
Just think, from 1920 to maybe 1970, when you bought gasoline, a squad of friendly guys - in fucking uniforms would descend upon your car and fill it with gasoline, wash your windows, check the oil and coolant and tire pressure, and the rest of it. Probably singing a tune “We are the men of Texacoooo….!” And not a poofter in sight.
Think about that when they try to adjust the historical cost of gasoline for inflation, they don’t count that. “Self Serve” indeed. Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2026 10:08 PM (2a3L4) The civilian version of a NASCAR pitstop. Posted by: Count de Monet at July 27, 2026 10:11 PM (wVcYX) 42
Canals always remind me of Uncle Palpatine. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 27, 2026 10:11 PM (w6EFb) 43
Good evening all!
I just saw on X that Fauci said POTUS was given Remdisever (sp?)when he contracted COVID. Then I read that Trump’s doctors gave him Ivermectin and HCQ instead. Jesus. Posted by: Jmel at July 27, 2026 10:12 PM (3TlS+) 44
I find it endlessly wonderful that Jackie Coogan was The Kid in that Charlie Chaplin film. I love that one. Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 27, 2026 10:08 PM (0aYVJ) ____________ Coogan's mother and stepfather stole pretty much all the money he earned from his movies. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2026 10:12 PM (O0L8i) 45
Lincoln Heights is on either side of the 5, between the 10 and 110. Think adjacent to Chinatown in downtown LA. Fun for the whole family, right? Seems like sensible entertainment for a toddler.
------- Mrs. ARiK grew up in Lincoln Heights in a house her parents bought in the early 1950's. Unfortunately the surviving family who might remember or have gone to the alligator farm are either dead or have lost their marbles.... Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 27, 2026 10:13 PM (QGaXH) 46
Fauci should be the test payload for the Starship orbital return catch. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 27, 2026 10:13 PM (w6EFb) 47
I posted this late in the last thread, but it seems like more of an ONT story:
My daughter, when first starting out, worked at an older nursing home near Frankston, Texas. Sad place, the kind of place where families drop the old folks off to forget about them. There was one room they always left vacant; the older employees would jusr say there were “problems” with that room. They even kept it locked. My daughter said that often, especially on weekends, at about 2 am the central nurses station would light up with urgent call requests and buzzers from that room. Nobody wanted to go in; as the new employee they made her do it a couple of times until she just refused. Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2026 10:08 PM (xLOWQ) Bubba Ho-Tep Posted by: Elvis at July 27, 2026 10:13 PM (wVcYX) 48
Coogan's mother and stepfather stole pretty much all the money he earned from his movies.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2026 10:12 PM (O0L8i) Thus Coogan's law, protecting child stars. Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2026 10:13 PM (1Ff7Z) 49
Then I read that Trump’s doctors gave him Ivermectin and HCQ instead.
Jesus. Posted by: Jmel at July 27, 2026 10:12 PM (3TlS+) One or both of those might have saved my sister's life. But, no. Gotta follow procedure. I fucking hate this timeline. Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 27, 2026 10:14 PM (0aYVJ) 50
Stacey Abrams would make a torture test payload, but I don't think the Heavy Booster at full planned maximum operational thrust could even lift her off the ground. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 27, 2026 10:15 PM (w6EFb) 51
I sprang my Dad from nursing homes more than once. Some are a lot better than others, I can say that for sure.
I walked in “Parkview Garden” I think it was, and was immediately accosted by this nice little old lady in a wheelchair. She instantly sized me up, I guess, as an easy mark. “Get me out of here!”. I mean, what could I do? I wasn’t in the market for a little old lady at the time. I got the distinct impression after a while people come in to those places, but they don’t often leave, except in a box. They were a little jealous of dear old dad, getting busted out. Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2026 10:15 PM (2a3L4) 52
40 Used to be a fella could make a livin' workin' the pumps.
Posted by: Those days are long gone at July 27, 2026 10:10 PM (1Ff7Z) Not just the fellas. Posted by: Kamala at July 27, 2026 10:15 PM (vSKbP) 53
David McCullough's book The Path Between the Seas is a riveting account of the building of the Panama Canal. The ingenuity needed to make it happen was off the charts.
It's one of those enormous accomplishments that makes you believe that there really is something exceptional about the great nation. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 27, 2026 10:15 PM (u/oMr) Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2026 10:15 PM (ZxPkt) 55
I don’t think I remember Esso when I was small. I remember Enco, which was one of the companies that became Exxon.
My favorite gas station was Sinclair, my dad would let me get a wax dinosaur from the machine they kept in the lobby. Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2026 10:04 PM (xLOWQ) Esso was big in Canada; one of the fragments from the legally-forced breakup of Standard Oil. Esso = S. O. = Standard Oil. Back in the '70's they urged us to put a tiger in our tank. I worked in the shop at Chapman's Esso on Main Street in Vancouver many years ago. Welded the muffler on a Seattle pimp's Cadillac while his girls were giving Eddie a beejer in the office. True story! Posted by: The Cat at July 27, 2026 10:16 PM (1z8ji) 56
Good evening, good ONT peeps
Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 10:16 PM (vE0+H) 57
Do Fauci's memoirs mention if he took Ivermectin and HCQ?
Posted by: davidt at July 27, 2026 10:16 PM (Q+gd/) 58
Coogan's mother and stepfather stole pretty much all the money he earned from his movies.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2026 10:12 PM (O0L8i) Did not know that. Holy shit, people can be awful. Hard to think well of anyone you ever meet. I try. Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 27, 2026 10:16 PM (0aYVJ) 59
David McCullough's book The Path Between the Seas is a riveting account of the building of the Panama Canal. The ingenuity needed to make it happen was off the charts.
It's one of those enormous accomplishments that makes you believe that there really is something exceptional about the great nation. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 27, 2026 10:15 PM (u/oMr) I just remembered I have this book, but it's packed in a box with a lot of other books from our move last year. Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 27, 2026 10:18 PM (0aYVJ) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2026 10:18 PM (gpvQO) 61
I learned today that in 1971 a minimum wage job paid for a lifestyle that needs $100K today. Is that not remarkable? Are you not amazed? Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2026 10:18 PM (O0L8i) 62
Thanks for an interesting retro ONT, T Rex!
The Panama Canal excavation is doubly amazing once one considers the antique tools available back then. It remains an amazing feat of engineering. Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 27, 2026 10:19 PM (D/6p1) 63
Howdy.
"a thousand-strong collection of alligators that welcomed visitors every day of the year to see, pose with, and even ride them." Um, no. Just, no. Call me paranoid, but I think deadly exotic critters should be kept far away from people. They tend to escape, you know. (Thinking about the snake farms that were flooded in China recently. Looking at not-far-away-enough Tiger Safari Zoological Park.) ___ As a fan of Charles Addams's dark cartoons, I was initially disappointed at the light comedy TV portrayal of the characters. But, Gomez and Morticia won me over. Particularly Morticia! Posted by: mindful webworker has arrived on track 9&3/4 at July 27, 2026 10:19 PM (jrd4M) 64
Evening, Horde! Would appreciate prayers tomorrow morning from those so inclined, second-stage interview for the job I really really need and want.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 27, 2026 10:19 PM (aJQbY) 65
My greatest fear is to end up in an adult care home where I sit in a chair and drool and shit myself. And have no clue what is outside my window. And don’t smile at my boys’ voices.
Please, dear Lord. No. Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 27, 2026 10:19 PM (yEz+x) 66
The Addams Family - who can ever forget the 'da da da dum click click' intro?
Can they even make a show like that today? Or does everything have to be a so so serious girl-boss struggle session? Well some good news in an earlier thread - Cracker Barrel finally dumped their skinny woke AWFL CEO. I guess she was an awful AWFL! Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 27, 2026 10:19 PM (QGaXH) Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 27, 2026 10:20 PM (qx7Zg) 68
>> Nobody wanted to go in;
This place is not that bad, relatively speaking. It's close, and that's a benefit. If all goes well, my mother can come home Aug 6th (which happens to be the exact date the Medicare 20 days or whatever runs out.... pure coincidence, I'm sure). Anyway, they've got a few roaming residents, dementia, probably sundowning. Tonight a few of them were roaming the halls, and getting loud. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 27, 2026 10:20 PM (w6EFb) 69
Pick Up in the top pick is probably a Studebaker or an IH.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2026 10:18 PM (gpvQO) (sheds Cat hair) Nope, that is a Ford. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2026 10:22 PM (1z8ji) 70
62 Thanks for an interesting retro ONT, T Rex!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 27, 2026 10:19 PM *** You're welcome! Good evening LS. Thanks for checking in. Posted by: TRex - gas station attendant dino at July 27, 2026 10:22 PM (XfIK1) 71
Yeah, it sounded like a blast. In those days the Service Station was the hangout for car guys. Pay wasn’t too bad, and so long as you didn’t burn the place down, pretty much do what you want. Bring your own car in to work on when things are slow. I heard some great stories about zany hijinks.
I always figured from about 1955 to 1975 a feller couldn’t go wrong by opening a two bay service garage and gas. In a good location of course. Batteries, tires, headlights, regulators, generators, alternators, plugs, shocks, belts, tune-ups, general maintenance and repair. Do good work, charge a fair but reasonable price, and it had to be almost a license to print money, or near enough. Word of mouth. “Take it to Jake’s” etc. parts commonality was routine, no weird proprietary shit. Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2026 10:22 PM (2a3L4) 72
The Panama Canal excavation is doubly amazing once one considers the antique tools available back then. It remains an amazing feat of engineering.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 27, 2026 10:19 PM (D/6p1) Uncle Milty in Paki or India Why are you digging a hundred mile canal with shovels and wheelbarrows? Why sir, to create jobs. Then give them spoons and teacups. Posted by: r hennigantx at July 27, 2026 10:23 PM (/+uur) 73
Fauci should be the test payload for the Starship orbital return catch.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 27, 2026 10:13 PM (w6EFb) He and his cronies would fit right in on a Vulcan/Starliner test flight. Send them up to to Chinese space station, and undock quickly. Let the CCP bring them back to earth. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 27, 2026 10:24 PM (qx7Zg) 74
Prayers up RandomDave
Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 10:25 PM (vE0+H) 75
Speaking of 240mm there's a lot of chatter on the innertubes about us running out of ammo. I think that info is coming from Neville Roy Singham.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2026 10:25 PM (gpvQO) 76
I think this might be worth watching. Pulte did his 4th round of layoffs at DNI today, he's a no bullshit guy.
Stuff is coming out of a firehose now. >>@DNIPulte · 3h >>News forthcoming in the morning Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 10:26 PM (viF8m) 77
The Texaco jingle:
https://sniplinks.in/rOimtW Goes to EweTube, about 20 seconds. Does anyone remember the Texaco Star Theater? Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 27, 2026 10:26 PM (gxRWI) 78
Evening, Horde! Would appreciate prayers tomorrow morning from those so inclined, second-stage interview for the job I really really need and want.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 27, 2026 10:19 PM (aJQbY) Best of luck. You got this. *fistbump* Coffee up, first. Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 27, 2026 10:27 PM (0aYVJ) 79
40 Think about that when they try to adjust the historical cost of gasoline for inflation, they don’t count that. “Self Serve” indeed.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2026 10:08 PM (2a3L4) Used to be a fella could make a livin' workin' the pumps. Posted by: Those days are long gone at July 27, 2026 10:10 PM (1Ff7Z) Well my buddy Tim Bass He's a workin pumpin gas and he makes two fifty for an hour.... Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 27, 2026 10:27 PM (QGaXH) 80
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 27, 2026 10:19 PM (aJQbY) ___________ Will remember you Our Lady in my Rosary intentions tomorrow. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2026 10:28 PM (O0L8i) 81
The WW2 240 mm (9.4 inch) shells weighed 360 pounds. Have those been correctly identified? Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 27, 2026 10:28 PM (VWtfl) 82
Do Fauci's memoirs mention if he took Ivermectin and HCQ?
Posted by: davidt at July 27, 2026 10:16 PM (Q+gd/) Dunno. From the excerpts I keep seeing he is not just evil, but also a whiny little bitch. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 27, 2026 10:28 PM (zZu0s) 83
They had steam powered equipment to help build the Panama Canal. The real problem was yellow fever.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 27, 2026 10:28 PM (gxRWI) 84
Bubba Ho-Tep
Posted by: Elvis at July 27, 2026 10:13 PM (wVcYX) The man who wrote it lives in East Texas, and there’s quite a few lonely forgotten homes out in the country. And what makes Bubba Hotep such a great film is that it’s not really about the mummy at all; it’s about how those who are forgotten and despised by mainstream society can still find meaning and purpose in what’s left of their lives. Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2026 10:28 PM (xLOWQ) 85
So I see many postings of medical, or food, or education as common welfare.
It is not common. Border, roads (sometimes), bridges, and defense are common welfare. Example: Medical Welfare is about 95% dependent on lifestyle, activities, and food. What happens if I do not agree with the way you live? Posted by: r hennigantx at July 27, 2026 10:29 PM (/+uur) 86
My greatest fear is to end up in an adult care home where I sit in a chair and drool and shit myself. And have no clue what is outside my window.
—— For some reason I felt compelled to visit my step-grandmother in a nursing home many years ago. I was in a wanderlust period of my life, so what the hell, I guess. She was diabetic, had part of a leg amputated up to the knee. Partly blind, didn’t hear too good. Obese, etc. looking back, I couldn’t live like that. Many years later it helped me lose those extra pounds. Confined to a wheelchair isn’t always a choice. But it is sometimes. Fuck that Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2026 10:29 PM (2a3L4) 87
Esso Gasoline...yes sir. I still have a tiger tail they gave away to customers that attaches to your rear bumper. "Put a tiger in your tank."
Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2026 10:29 PM (dIske) 88
My greatest fear is to end up in an adult care home where I sit in a chair and drool and shit myself. And have no clue what is outside my window. And don’t smile at my boys’ voices.
Please, dear Lord. No. Posted by: nurse ratched ----------- It is pure hell to observe, also... Posted by: JQ at July 27, 2026 10:29 PM (rdVOm) 89
The only thing missing from the top picture of the 240 mm shells is Bugs Bunny with his mallet.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2026 10:29 PM (S41Gd) 90
The Texaco jingle:
https://sniplinks.in/rOimtW Goes to EweTube, about 20 seconds. Does anyone remember the Texaco Star Theater? Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 27, 2026 10:26 PM (gxRWI) *makes ShakeWeight motion* Posted by: Shell Answer Man with the Shell No-Pest Strip, now with 20% more DDVP nerve poison! at July 27, 2026 10:30 PM (wVcYX) 91
If they do attempt a Ship catch next test flight, that's gonna be a pucker factor shore 'nuff. If Elon pulls that off, damn boy, you're good. It will have to be an orbital flight, making one loop around to come back to Texas. I'm sure they'll have some flight termination system ready to blow it up if something goes wrong coming back in. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 27, 2026 10:30 PM (w6EFb) 92
Speaking of 240mm there's a lot of chatter on the innertubes about us running out of ammo. I think that info is coming from Neville Roy Singham.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2026 10:25 PM (gpvQO) Why hasn't that shitmaggot been taken out by a drone or a sniper? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2026 10:30 PM (1z8ji) 93
Re Fauci. The first month of the Covid mess, I thought this guy and scarf were on top of it, top notch public servants. Then the "need masks, don't need masks" folly changed that. An obvious lie to direct PPE to health care workers. Then back to wearing your effing masks
Then suppressing ivermectin, pushing ventilators, the clot shots, the shut downs. Dismissing lab leak. Sensed it was all lies Shut downs hurt my grandkids, undermined my trust in my doctors. Couldn't visit friends with non-covid morbidity. They died alone. Oh, yeah, couldn't go to the funeral either. Not sure i could forgive these assholes even if they asked. They won't ask. Hang 'em. Posted by: Mr. Barky at July 27, 2026 10:30 PM (LvBfC) 94
No one's said anything about the Maine. Doesn't it look odd?
Like, the propellers are at the bow and not the stern? Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2026 10:31 PM (gpvQO) Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 27, 2026 10:31 PM (D/6p1) 96
43 Good evening all!
I just saw on X that Fauci said POTUS was given Remdisever (sp?)when he contracted COVID. Then I read that Trump’s doctors gave him Ivermectin and HCQ instead. Jesus. Posted by: Jmel at July 27, 2026 10:12 PM (3TlS+) I think Trump got monoclonal antibodies and Biden get Paxlovid. So Trump got better and Biden relapsed and then got better. Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2026 10:31 PM (OlzlW) 97
Speaking of 240mm there's a lot of chatter on the innertubes about us running out of ammo. I think that info is coming from Neville Roy Singham.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2026 10:25 *** Yeah. I call bullshit on all that. We bombed Vietnam for years and never ran out. I'm not worried. Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2026 10:32 PM (2WIwB) 98
Speaking of 240mm there's a lot of chatter on the innertubes about us running out of ammo. I think that info is coming from Neville Roy Singham.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2026 10:25 PM (gpvQO) Too bad it isn't our politicians running low. Too many of them shoot off their mouth at the slightest chance. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 27, 2026 10:32 PM (qx7Zg) 99
83 They had steam powered equipment to help build the Panama Canal. The real problem was yellow fever.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit Many victims interred here at the Brewster Homestead. Posted by: Teddy at July 27, 2026 10:33 PM (JM9I6) 100
My father used to work at an Esso filling station. I still have the patch around here somewhere. He did all sorts of things to take care of his family. Some he liked. Some he didn't. He liked working at the gas station because it was also a garage, and he was a hell of a mechanic, but there was no long-term future in pumping gas.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 27, 2026 10:33 PM (QaH55) 101
>>No one's said anything about the Maine. Doesn't it look odd?
Like, the propellers are at the bow and not the stern? Look again. That is the stern. Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 10:33 PM (viF8m) 102
They had steam powered equipment to help build the Panama Canal. The real problem was yellow fever.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 27, 2026 10:28 PM (gxRWI) That is a steam shovel working in that Husky Stadium photo, too. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2026 10:34 PM (1z8ji) 103
Do good work, charge a fair but reasonable price, and it had to be almost a license to print money, or near enough. Word of mouth. “Take it to Jake’s” etc. parts commonality was routine, no weird proprietary shit.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2026 10:22 PM (2a3L4) But we couldn't allow that, you see. Just anyone creating a business and making money enough to do things and go places once reserved for the American nobility is anathema to us. You common types with your cars and money for vacations nauseate us, your betters. Posted by: Your Betters at July 27, 2026 10:34 PM (1Ff7Z) 104
Back in the day when the gas cap was behind the rear license plate
what were they thinking Esso had the tiger tail Gulf had those little orange horseshoe magnets Sinclair had the little blow-up green dinosaur Sunoco had beer glasses, I think Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2026 10:34 PM (ZxPkt) 105
Why hasn't that shitmaggot been taken out by a drone or a sniper?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon --- He's ensconced in Hong Kong or some Chinese protected space. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2026 10:34 PM (gpvQO) 106
Curtis LeMay ran ‘em dry on incendiary bombs in the Big One. They made more.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2026 10:34 PM (2a3L4) 107
No one's said anything about the Maine. Doesn't it look odd?
Like, the propellers are at the bow and not the stern? Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2026 10:31 PM (gpvQO) I'm still waiting to see if the Democrats shot themselves in the foot again. Maine has a "Sore Loser" law, and their current Senate candidate lost a primary for Lt. Governor this year. One of the R's in their state house asked for a ruling on whether he's eligible. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 27, 2026 10:35 PM (qx7Zg) 108
Look again. That is the stern.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 10:33 PM (viF8m) --------- The stern is *checks note* The ass end of the boat, right? Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 27, 2026 10:36 PM (u/oMr) 109
Does anyone remember the Texaco Star Theater?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 27, 2026 10:26 PM (gxRWI) Wouldn't you have to be over 29? Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2026 10:36 PM (1Ff7Z) 110
Back in the day when the gas cap was behind the rear license plate
what were they thinking Esso had the tiger tail Gulf had those little orange horseshoe magnets Sinclair had the little blow-up green dinosaur Sunoco had beer glasses, I think Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2026 10:34 PM (ZxPkt) Jack In The Box had the antenna ball. Posted by: Count de Monet at July 27, 2026 10:36 PM (wVcYX) 111
My Five Day Deodorant was a No-Pest Strip!
Posted by: Totie Fields at July 27, 2026 10:36 PM (JM9I6) 112
97 Speaking of 240mm there's a lot of chatter on the innertubes about us running out of ammo. I think that info is coming from Neville Roy Singham.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2026 10:25 ____________________________ Look at it from a different perspective. One of the reasons the deep state despises Trump is that they are beholden to defense contractors. The conventional wisdom was that Trump would make that relationship less lucrative by not starting any new wars. BUT, Iran came along, and the defense contractors are suddenly nice and content. The Deep state doesn't want to screw that up....so we have as much ordinance as we require. The right people are getting rich-er. Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2026 10:36 PM (dIske) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2026 10:37 PM (gpvQO) 114
Car antennas. Do not miss those.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 27, 2026 10:37 PM (zZu0s) 115
He's ensconced in Hong Kong or some Chinese protected space.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2026 10:34 PM (gpvQO) Makes it more challenging, maybe, but I expect his "protectors" can be bribed. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2026 10:38 PM (1z8ji) Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 27, 2026 10:38 PM (qx7Zg) 117
Mom was not mentally challenged but needed help.
I found a nice place about quarter mile away. Washing, housekeeping, and meals we there every day. I think I did my best. Posted by: r hennigantx at July 27, 2026 10:38 PM (/+uur) 118
If any of y'all like spooky kdramas, I can recommend East Palace.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 27, 2026 10:39 PM (0TVIV) 119
Car antennas. Do not miss those.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone ************ But I do miss the window vents Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at July 27, 2026 10:39 PM (XfIK1) 120
115 He's ensconced in Hong Kong or some Chinese protected space.
--------- Difficult. Not impossible. Posted by: Roy Neri at July 27, 2026 10:39 PM (6/7Fs) Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 10:39 PM (viF8m) 122
At the time I liked the Munsters better than the Adam's Family. Preferred Lost in Space over Star Trek.
I've always been a bit different. My husband liked the Adam's Family and Star Trek but I married him anyway. We may or may not survive the heat of the summer. Days are dicey as to what may set me off. Today he pruned my roses when he wasn't supposed to, which is not great for them and I told him they can die for all I care this hot summer. I have 30 rose bushes that are basically trees (English type). I've told him for years not to prune them in super hot weather and, bless him, he did it for me (he said, once he knew he was in error). It's sort of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof around here these days. Even though we have central air as we are not insane...I don't own a slip like Liz to swan around in (nor do I have Paul Newman nearby), but do wear what I want and it is not much. I stay inside and am having cabin fever, which most people contract in the winter. I love winter. Next year I may go to Iceland this time of year for a vacation. I would prefer Canada again but they are nuts and it's burning up with wildfires. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 27, 2026 10:39 PM (hzuYO) 123
No one's said anything about the Maine. Doesn't it look odd?
Like, the propellers are at the bow and not the stern? Look again. That is the stern. Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 10:33 PM (viF8m) So, the picture was ass-backwards? Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2026 10:39 PM (1Ff7Z) Posted by: From about That Time at July 27, 2026 10:39 PM (Nt34E) 125
Stolen 12-foot Sinclair Dinosaur from Montana has been found bolted down on a cliff overlooking the Yellowstone River in Yankee Jim Canyon. Story on Cowboy State Daily Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 10:39 PM (/QHx4) Posted by: r hennigantx at July 27, 2026 10:40 PM (/+uur) 127
I visit hubby every day at lunch time. Usually bring a treat or favorite food, sometimes need to help him eat, always need to help him clean up.
His mind is "in and out" now-- most often he *does* recognize me (in some way or another) and is glad to see me. He speaks so softly that I can barely hear, even with hearing aids turned up to max-- and sometimes his statements makes no sense to me. I wonder what he's trying to convey? He's been combative lately. This is new. The CNAs cornered me today, before I got to dining room, to *warn me* that he'd mentioned wanting to "punch her" (meaning me!) this morning. For not being there precisely when he wanted, I guess. ?? But he seemed fine while I was there today. I stayed a couple hours, sat on the bed with him & watched tv for a while before leaving. And so it goes. Dr. hasn't gotten back to me re: calming meds for him. Posted by: JQ at July 27, 2026 10:40 PM (rdVOm) 128
I think Trump got monoclonal antibodies and Biden get Paxlovid. So Trump got better and Biden relapsed and then got better. Posted by: Emmie --- Yep. He recommended it for everyone But the *drug pushers put the quietetus on that. *see Chris Rock's 1990's admonition re aids.' Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2026 10:41 PM (gpvQO) 129
110 Back in the day when the gas cap was behind the rear license plate
what were they thinking Esso had the tiger tail Gulf had those little orange horseshoe magnets Sinclair had the little blow-up green dinosaur Sunoco had beer glasses, I think Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2026 10:34 PM (ZxPkt) Jack In The Box had the antenna ball. Posted by: Count de Monet at July 27, 2026 10:36 PM (wVcYX) ________________________ You left off my favorite that was a big deal for all my high school classmates. Hannah the Hula Girl. ARCO gave them away for your dash board. It was a bobble head set-up, but Hannah's whole body wobbled. It was something about fighting the sludge monster. I don't recall, but we all had a Hula Dash Dancer, some altered a bit to improve the view IYKWIM. Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2026 10:42 PM (dIske) 130
Back in the day when the gas cap was behind the rear license plate
what were they thinking Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2026 10:34 PM (ZxPkt) Yeah, no shit. My '69 roadrunner has it behind the rear license plate, and yeah, its a real pain in the frigging ass because modern pump nozzles don't stay put like the ones from years ago. You have to hold it in place while squatting. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2026 10:42 PM (S41Gd) 131
I wonder if anyone bought the horse in front of the store. I would have. And the guitars in the window. Bummer.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 27, 2026 10:42 PM (hzuYO) 132
okay so I'm watching a baseball game, and there's a baserunner, looks like he's wearing oven mitts
wtf Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2026 10:42 PM (ZxPkt) Posted by: JQ at July 27, 2026 10:42 PM (rdVOm) Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 27, 2026 10:42 PM (qx7Zg) 135
>>It is the stern, but it's not a rounded.off stern. More canoeish.
https://tinyurl.com/43zkvsr2 Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 10:43 PM (viF8m) 136
You have to hold it in place while squatting.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2026 10:42 PM (S41Gd) ----------- Been there. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 27, 2026 10:43 PM (6/7Fs) 137
Yeah, no shit. My '69 roadrunner has it behind the rear license plate, and yeah, its a real pain in the frigging ass because modern pump nozzles don't stay put like the ones from years ago. You have to hold it in place while squatting.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division -------- Yeah but it doesn't matter *which side* the pump is on! It WAS a convenience. Not so much, now. Posted by: JQ at July 27, 2026 10:44 PM (rdVOm) 138
Sock removal post. Feel free to scoll-by.
Posted by: tankdemon at July 27, 2026 10:44 PM (vSKbP) 139
That is a steam shovel working in that Husky Stadium photo, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel (Mary Ann), were a thing. Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2026 10:44 PM (O6Iwc) Posted by: davidt at July 27, 2026 10:44 PM (Q+gd/) 141
Ah JQ, you are the living definition of true love. Bless you for what you do, and I do know that it comes with a price. But you are the best of God's chosen ones....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at July 27, 2026 10:44 PM (XfIK1) 142
You have to hold it in place while squatting.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2026 10:42 PM (S41Gd) Like a lady peeing in the desert. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2026 10:45 PM (1z8ji) 143
But he seemed fine while I was there today. I stayed a couple hours, sat on the bed with him & watched tv for a while before leaving. And so it goes. Dr. hasn't gotten back to me re: calming meds for him. Posted by: JQ at July 27, 2026 10:40 PM (rdVOm) *********** I am so sorry you are having to go through this, JQ. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 27, 2026 10:46 PM (hzuYO) Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2026 10:46 PM (O6Iwc) 145
Car antennas. Do not miss those.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone My 2013 Nissan Frontier has one. Truly, the last of the best. Hand crank windows, six-speed manual, 4x4, no electric locks. But, it does have a CD player. Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 27, 2026 10:46 PM (0aYVJ) 146
I got in touch with my inner self today.
That's the last f*cking time I buy cheap toilet paper! Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 27, 2026 10:38 PM (qx7Zg) So basically your finger ended up looking like ilhan omar in her head wrap. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2026 10:47 PM (S41Gd) 147
Looking forward the bow looks blunt.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2026 10:37 PM (gpvQO) That is the Maine BB-10, the bow had a underwater inverted bow to increase hydrodynamics, or whatever it was called. The stern was quite pointed, and the picture shows a rudder there as well If you look up Maine BB-10 you can find a lot of pictures, both underway, modified for service in 1918, and in dry-dock Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2026 10:48 PM (rbvCR) 148
131 I wonder if anyone bought the horse in front of the store. I would have. And the guitars in the window. Bummer.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 27, 2026 10:42 PM (hzuYO) _________________________ Yeah, coming out of a Depression, I'll bet there was some really good stuff in some of those second hand stores. But, it would have been a bit depressing as well, people giving up their heirlooms. Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2026 10:48 PM (dIske) Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 27, 2026 10:48 PM (zZu0s) 150
You have to hold it in place while squatting.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2026 10:42 PM (S41Gd) Like a lady peeing in the desert. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2026 10:45 PM (1z8ji) Or a VC in a rice paddy. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2026 10:48 PM (S41Gd) 151
140 A review of the '26 Miata...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_hewETuVvM Posted by: davidt at July 27, 2026 10:44 PM (Q+gd/) My wife has had 3 She had a real cool 1 of a 1000s Mazdaspeed 2005. Turbo race track suspension 6 speed Posted by: r hennigantx at July 27, 2026 10:48 PM (/+uur) 152
Look again. That is the stern.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 10:33 PM (viF8m) So, the picture was ass-backwards? Posted by: OrangeEnt --- First boat I've seen with a pointy stern and wide bow. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2026 10:48 PM (gpvQO) 153
Next year I may go to Iceland this time of year for a vacation. I would prefer Canada again but they are nuts and it's burning up with wildfires.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 27, 2026 10:39 PM (hzuYO) You could see what tcn thinks about vacationing in Alaska. Not necessarily with her and her family, just if it would be relaxing for you. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 27, 2026 10:49 PM (qx7Zg) 154
You have to hold it in place while squatting.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division NTTAWTT Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2026 10:46 PM (O6Iwc) Beats the heck out of fervently praying while trotting towards the privvy. Posted by: Count de Monet at July 27, 2026 10:49 PM (wVcYX) 155
“Bubba Ho-Tep” That movie is awesome! I need to dig that DVD out and watch it soon. One of my favorite cult classics. Down Periscope is my all-time favorite classic. It comes on Netflix or prime, so I haven’t had to try and find that disc. I’ve seen both, a dozen times or more. I’ll see them again that many times while I’m alive. Posted by: Gunslinger at July 27, 2026 10:49 PM (N91F8) 156
blessings for JQ
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 27, 2026 10:49 PM (/+uur) 157
JQ,
You are a lovely, sweet lady and I adore you. Please be courageous! Your love for your husband is worthy of praise. I am sad I never had that kind of love in my life that you have shown him. You are a gem. May peace and strength and steadfast love be with you. Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 27, 2026 10:50 PM (yEz+x) 158
First boat I've seen with a pointy stern and wide bow.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2026 10:48 PM (gpvQO) I've known plenty of women who fit that description. Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2026 10:51 PM (1Ff7Z) 159
You have to hold it in place while squatting.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2026 10:42 PM (S41Gd) Like a lady peeing in the desert. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2026 10:45 PM (1z8ji) Or a VC in a rice paddy. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2026 10:48 PM (S41Gd) Or Juan Rodriguez in a lettuce field. Posted by: Count de Monet at July 27, 2026 10:51 PM (wVcYX) Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 27, 2026 10:51 PM (mmrXZ) 161
I grew up in a house that had no access to either Addams Family or Münster's, nor Star Trek, nor Gilligan's island. I guess even in the 1970s there was some kind of cable TV option. My dad was not a TV fan.
We had ABC, CBS, and NBC. No PBS, no syndicated shows. In the 1980s Mom talked him into upgrading just a wee bit. So, 13 channel cable. Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 27, 2026 10:51 PM (0aYVJ) 162
If you look up Maine BB-10 you can find a lot of pictures, both underway, modified for service in 1918, and in dry-dock
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2026 10:48 PM (rbvCR) They were starting to put some real science into hull design, by then. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2026 10:52 PM (1z8ji) 163
146 I got in touch with my inner self today.
That's the last f*cking time I buy cheap toilet paper! Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 27, 2026 10:38 PM (qx7Zg) So basically your finger ended up looking like ilhan omar in her head wrap. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division Drink out nose. You bastards. Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 27, 2026 10:52 PM (yEz+x) 164
129 ...You left off my favorite that was a big deal for all my high school classmates. Hannah the Hula Girl. ARCO gave them away for your dash board. It was a bobble head set-up, but Hannah's whole body wobbled. It was something about fighting the sludge monster. I don't recall, but we all had a Hula Dash Dancer, some altered a bit to improve the view IYKWIM.
Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2026 10:42 PM (dIske) The Hanna commercials were great. Some are still on ewww toob last I checked. I'm sure some girl-boss somewhere put the ki-bash on those too... Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 27, 2026 10:52 PM (QGaXH) 165
Prayer request....Menasha, WI. A strong tornado blasted through the town (and surrounding communities).
https://tinyurl.com/ycyrwc4s Basements and work structures probably saved many lives (casualty reports are blessedly small and/or approaching zero). Yet the struggle is still there...rebuilding a blue collar town. Posted by: techsan at July 27, 2026 10:53 PM (uNveu) 166
>>That is the Maine BB-10, the bow had a underwater inverted bow to increase hydrodynamics, or whatever it was called. The stern was quite pointed, and the picture shows a rudder there as well
Look at the freeboard. See how it goes up from the stern? Look how short the freeboard is at the stern. That would be a submarine offshore if that were the bow. Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 10:53 PM (viF8m) 167
64 Evening, Horde! Would appreciate prayers tomorrow morning from those so inclined, second-stage interview for the job I really really need and want.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 27, 2026 10:19 PM (aJQbY) ******************** Prayers tonight and tomorrow morning, dear man. May the Holy Spirit surround you, give you confidence, peace and just the right words. You've got this, dude. XXXX Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 27, 2026 10:53 PM (hzuYO) 168
I've known plenty of women who fit that description.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2026 10:51 PM (1Ff7Z) Although a narrow bow and wide stern is much more commonplace... Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2026 10:53 PM (1z8ji) 169
That is a steam shovel working in that Husky Stadium photo, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel (Mary Ann), were a thing. Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2026 10:44 PM (O6Iwc) Timeless classic. Posted by: Count de Monet at July 27, 2026 10:53 PM (wVcYX) 170
fine, Braenyard . You are right. Happy?
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2026 10:54 PM (rbvCR) Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 27, 2026 10:54 PM (0aYVJ) Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 27, 2026 10:55 PM (APZWP) 173
second-stage interview for the job I really really need and want.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 27, 2026 10:19 PM (aJQbY) I think you're supposed to imagine them all naked or something. Good Luck! Posted by: Count de Monet at July 27, 2026 10:55 PM (wVcYX) 174
I wonder if anyone bought the horse in front of the store. I would have. And the guitars in the window. Bummer.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 27, 2026 10:42 PM (hzuYO) Yeah, those guitars caught my eye. In that era, either they were pieces crap, or something that would be worth a shit ton of money today. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2026 10:55 PM (S41Gd) 175
If you look up Maine BB-10 you can find a lot of pictures, both underway, modified for service in 1918, and in dry-dock
Posted by: Kindltot --- Not having success getting decent pics (when you think the internet can't get crappier) but I'll take everybodies word. It's just a bad angle for me. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2026 10:57 PM (gpvQO) 176
I've known plenty of women who fit that description.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2026 10:51 PM (1Ff7Z) Although a narrow bow and wide stern is much more commonplace... Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2026 10:53 PM (1z8ji) The Pear. Posted by: Monty Python Lads at July 27, 2026 10:57 PM (wVcYX) 177
I saw a study about intermittent CO2 helping clear the proteins in the brain that are associated with dementia
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 27, 2026 10:57 PM (13VxP) 178
Posted by: JQ "
It's tough. My only advice is to keep on living every day. Please know that others share these burdens...prayers help. Posted by: man at July 27, 2026 10:58 PM (XuXeR) 179
There's a "Dinosaur World" off of I-65 in Kentucky. They have fiberglass replicas, apparently life size, of several of them. A couple years ago they had some of the older ones that were "beyond help" (faded, falling apart) for sale.
Would have been cool to have one in the yard. Or at the end of the driveway. Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2026 10:58 PM (jehhT) 180
You people have no idea what it's like to be the Common Law husband of a United States Senator.
If she gets re-elected, we'll keep the trailer house anyway because Legal Residence. Posted by: Miklos never paid much attention to spelling at July 27, 2026 10:59 PM (A764u) 181
Thank you for the ONT TRex!
Posted by: Some Rat at July 27, 2026 11:00 PM (BJzO2) Posted by: mnw at July 27, 2026 11:01 PM (RCjYY) Posted by: USS Ohio at July 27, 2026 11:01 PM (6/7Fs) 184
Thanks, all of you! You're all so awesome!
I didn't mean to derail the ONT, but *nursing homes* were mentioned... I've seen this one every day for a year and a half. It has a rehab section too, so not everyone who leaves, does so "in a box". Hubby is on his 3rd roomie now. (The other 2 did pass away, but were in way worse shape than hubs.) It's sad to see so many who do not get visitors often, or at all. Posted by: JQ at July 27, 2026 11:01 PM (rdVOm) 185
All Best for JQ and RandomDave
Posted by: Miklos at July 27, 2026 11:01 PM (A764u) 186
If she gets re-elected, we'll keep the trailer house anyway because Legal Residence.
Posted by: Miklos never paid much attention to spelling at July 27, 2026 10:59 PM (A764u) Ron Wyden? Is that you? Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2026 11:01 PM (rbvCR) 187
Yeah, those guitars caught my eye. In that era, either they were pieces crap, or something that would be worth a shit ton of money today.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2026 10:55 PM (S41Gd) The radio looks like it may be a Philco. A plethora of makers built "cathedral" radios in the 1930's. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2026 11:02 PM (1z8ji) 188
Darline is pissing me off big time. She wasn't supposed to run for the seat, just be a "caretaker". Now I'm wondering how much did the players know and when did they know it. But adopting "Graham" as her last name, that's really pissing me off. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 27, 2026 11:02 PM (w6EFb) 189
I was at Mare Island in Nov 91 for MCSF school and again in June 92 for CQB school. The barracks was the old brig. MASSIVE stone building, 20 ft ceilings. Most of the bars had been removed but a few cells still existed. My understanding is that the whole base has been torn down
Posted by: Stacy0311 at July 27, 2026 11:02 PM (0XJ7E) Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 27, 2026 11:04 PM (2Cc5C) 191
JQ,
I found when my husband no longer recognized me, he still knew my voice. So I called him often. And even though he didn't recognize me, he trusted what I said to him. So I used to tell him stories of his own boyhood that he no longer remembered. Posted by: Wenda at July 27, 2026 11:04 PM (UDQz0) Posted by: Some Rat at July 27, 2026 11:04 PM (BJzO2) 193
>>Not having success getting decent pics (when you think the internet can't get crappier) but I'll take everybodies word. It's just a bad angle for me.
Here are some drawings. Makes it a bit more clear. https://tinyurl.com/s468uswk Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 11:05 PM (viF8m) 194
Prayers to you and your family.
Posted by: Some Rat at July 27, 2026 11:04 PM (BJzO2) Likewise for you! Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2026 11:06 PM (1z8ji) 195
Damn
Now Marline and Charline want to move to DC too. I tell 'em beer is expensive up here And the quality of customers at the bars is worse than the Country Bunker, with worse music Posted by: Miklos, looking at some sweet Per Diems at July 27, 2026 11:07 PM (A764u) Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 11:08 PM (vE0+H) 197
Here are some drawings. Makes it a bit more clear.
https://tinyurl.com/s468uswk Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 11:05 PM (viF8m) Should have raked the funnels. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2026 11:08 PM (1z8ji) Posted by: Miklos,used one of them laser things once to check at July 27, 2026 11:09 PM (A764u) 199
That baby sitting in the reptile farm or in the dirt...there are photos of 1yr old me sitting in a baby pool with about an inch of water. I am sure not left alone as it was my grandmother's front yard. How on earth Mama thought I could drown in that without a head injury is still baffling unless I bit the pool and water drained out.
When we had a real pool on the farm my mother (who cannot swim, nor does she like shower water in her face) would insist on watching me swim laps. In HS I finally asked her why? What was she going to do? Throw me the pool skimmer thing? Bless her, she cared, altho I could not sink if I tried and could still swim far. I told my husband, when the Costa Concordia sank that I was sure I could have swam to the island vs drowning. We argued about that, too, the 50 degree water... and the thought of drowning would motivate me. I told him I could save him, too, as a human floatation device. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 27, 2026 11:09 PM (hzuYO) 200
Nurse! Good to see you!
Posted by: Some Rat at July 27, 2026 11:11 PM (BJzO2) 201
I read a book about the Spanish American War once, with a lot of attention to the explosion and sinking of the Maine.
It convinced me beyond a reasonable doubt that the ship blew up because of a coal dust explosion. The Navy had had about 7 previous similar incidents involving coal dust explosions-- just not as catastrophic as the Maine. The last thing in the world the Spanish colonial govt of Cuba wanted was a war with the. U.S. Posted by: mnw at July 27, 2026 11:11 PM (RCjYY) 202
Drink out nose. You bastards. Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 27, 2026 10:52 PM (yEz+x) Check your phone. lol Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2026 11:11 PM (S41Gd) Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 11:12 PM (/QHx4) 204
181 Thank you for the ONT TRex!
Posted by: Some Rat at July 27, 2026 11:00 PM *** Sir! It is great to virtually see you. Best wishes. 🙏 Posted by: TRex - dilly dilly dino at July 27, 2026 11:12 PM (XfIK1) 205
But I do miss the window vents
Posted by: The Grateful Wing windows FTW!!! I miss those too! Posted by: JQ Try telling the kids that. They won't believe you Also, somebody paid for a tray of tequila shots and just walked out. Said "do what's right". Posted by: Miklos Late at Nite at July 27, 2026 11:14 PM (A764u) Posted by: JQ at July 27, 2026 11:14 PM (rdVOm) 207
The radio looks like it may be a Philco. A plethora of makers built "cathedral" radios in the 1930's.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2026 11:02 PM (1z8ji) One of the harley shops I work out of has an oldie like that sitting on the shelf with all the other wall hanger stuff. I keep saying one day I'm going to fix it. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2026 11:14 PM (S41Gd) 208
ChristyBlinky,
You are hilarious. Your stories are always interesting. --------------------- Christy speaking of, when you were on predinisone or whatever earlier this year you were all jacked up one day, and wrote some shit that sounded just like how I write when I'm NOT on prednisone or whatever. It was that day that I realized there is something probably very wrong with me. Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 11:15 PM (vE0+H) 209
...somebody paid for a tray of tequila shots and just walked out. Said "do what's right".
Posted by: Miklos Late at Nite Woot! Slices of lemon & lime, salt shaker, comin' UP!!! Posted by: JQ at July 27, 2026 11:15 PM (rdVOm) Posted by: Some Rat at July 27, 2026 11:15 PM (BJzO2) 211
Posted by: JQ at July 27, 2026 10:40 PM (rdVOm)
The embodiment of Love & Devotion. You are a blessing. Posted by: Count de Monet at July 27, 2026 11:15 PM (wVcYX) 212
USS Salem from WW2 used 8" shells (203mm), had auto-loaders, and each of her 9 guns could fire right around 4 rounds a minute. Another one of the museum ships I'd like to visit.
Posted by: DougInWA at July 27, 2026 11:16 PM (/+Q3C) Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 11:16 PM (viF8m) 214
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ChristyBlinky, You are hilarious. Your stories are always interesting. Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 11:12 PM (/QHx4) *********** You are sweet. I ramble here and then go to bed. I'm trying to behave and go to bed early vs last week and sleeping like a teen to 10am. I blame the Gilmore Girl's. The most stupid show ever that I was watching to not think about a recent biopsy (one of what seems like hundreds of skin biopsies in 40yrs...normal, pre-cancerous from my tans as a teen to 32yrs). I did this to myself so I get mad at myself and I escape with stupid shows. I don't know why the Gilmore Girl's as all but Luke irritate me. I tried to hide it from my dude but he caught me one night and laughed. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 27, 2026 11:18 PM (hzuYO) 215
Oscar Madison had a saxophone. Couldn't play it, kept it for hocking.
Posted by: Jumbo's Pawn Shop at July 27, 2026 11:18 PM (JM9I6) 216
One of the harley shops I work out of has an oldie like that sitting on the shelf with all the other wall hanger stuff. I keep saying one day I'm going to fix it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2026 11:14 PM (S41Gd) There are a lot of Yang Poon fakes out there that look superficially like real vintage radios. Fakes are usually smaller, and weigh very little, and have AM-FM. I don't believe any original cathedral radios had FM. That style went out of fashion before FM broadcasting came to be. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2026 11:18 PM (1z8ji) 217
>>USS Salem from WW2 used 8" shells (203mm), had auto-loaders, and each of her 9 guns could fire right around 4 rounds a minute. Another one of the museum ships I'd like to visit.
Go by her pretty much once a week. Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 11:20 PM (viF8m) 218
You kids, always trying to trick out your rides.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 11:16 PM (viF8m) Heh. Raked funnels were THE thing just a few years later. Make the ship look like it is going faster. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2026 11:21 PM (1z8ji) 219
Granfather had a cathedral Philco, it worked fine, he daughter, my aunt painted it white. He gave it away.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2026 11:23 PM (gpvQO) 220
Christy speaking of, when you were on predinisone or whatever earlier this year you were all jacked up one day, and wrote some shit that sounded just like how I write when I'm NOT on prednisone or whatever. It was that day that I realized there is something probably very wrong with me.
Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 11:15 PM (vE0+H) ********* Yep! My second time!!! I hate that crap! The first time, years ago, I was wild. Got a lot done, however. A lot that did not really need to be done like sorting my jewelry at midnight like the Queen of England. My dude caught me doing that and laughed and told me to go to bed. If one of us is ill he retreats to his study. I am not sure what goes on in there but think it involves guitars. I talk fast (for a redneck) and type fast. When we married in MS my almost groom asked where my favorite aunt was from and I said right here in MS. (Probably rhiiite, heah). When I did drink and party more often this same dude would tell me I'd had enough if my speech slowed down and sounded like Charlene on Designing Women. That was my cue vs, "Stop drinking, you wench!" Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 27, 2026 11:23 PM (hzuYO) 221
One of the harley shops I work out of has an oldie like that sitting on the shelf with all the other wall hanger stuff. I keep saying one day I'm going to fix it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2026 11:14 PM (S41Gd) There are a lot of Yang Poon fakes out there that look superficially like real vintage radios. Fakes are usually smaller, and weigh very little, and have AM-FM. I don't believe any original cathedral radios had FM. That style went out of fashion before FM broadcasting came to be. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2026 11:18 PM (1z8ji) Yeah this is a real one, I had the back off of it. I think you're right though, they were most likely AM only. I don't think FM was used in any capacity until the early 60's. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2026 11:24 PM (S41Gd) 222
You kids, always trying to trick out your rides.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 11:16 PM (viF8m) Heh. Raked funnels were THE thing just a few years later. Make the ship look like it is going faster. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon Or drinking even faster Posted by: Miklos vaguly recalls beer funnels at July 27, 2026 11:24 PM (A764u) 223
A young German VTuber, Neila, learns about the Berlin Wall from the Fat Electrician.
https://youtu.be/NxcNHTiTLMo The Soviets called the wall an 'anti-fascist rampart'? Well isn't that special. The DDR/USSR would ransom some 215,000 people to the West for about $2.3 billion DM. Nothing says Communist paradise more than selling your people off like slaves. Well besides shooting them, starving them, and sending them to prison. Posted by: Anna Puma at July 27, 2026 11:24 PM (2GVsD) Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 27, 2026 11:25 PM (yEz+x) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2026 11:25 PM (gpvQO) 226
JQ, Thank you, the support of all the GREAT folks on this blog means we are never alone while we experience some of lifes "oopsies"
Posted by: Some Rat at July 27, 2026 11:25 PM (BJzO2) 227
Hubby is *my guy* and my best friend. I will not abandon him.
He doesn't know how to deal with a phone or remote control. I set the channel & volume for him. His roomie doesn't care, or so he says. One day when I got there, hubs was fiddling with the remote and then asked if I'd gotten the pictures he sent... LOL. (There are still a few laughs to be had) Posted by: JQ at July 27, 2026 11:26 PM (rdVOm) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2026 11:26 PM (gpvQO) 229
Good evening morons en bedankt Dino onder sonzondergang in Sonoma
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2026 11:26 PM (JvZF+) 230
225 That was one ugly ship, don't think raked funnels would have helped it much.
--------- A waterslide and a splash pad would have been a big improvement. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 27, 2026 11:27 PM (6/7Fs) 231
{Some Rat}
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2026 11:28 PM (JvZF+) 232
Thing is, those crappy guitars were all most people could afford back in the day. Martins have always been on the high side. So most of those old school original Blues guys played a Stella maybe, or a Sears or whatever. If you really want to be authentic, playing slide and stuff like that, you’d want to use one of those cheap guitars.
When John Hurt was “rediscovered” in 1960s Mississippi and the musicologists wanted to record him, they told him to pick out any guitar he wanted from a guitar store. He chose a Guild, not a Martin. Those guys could play anything and make it sound good. It ain’t the guitar! If you watch him playing Spike Driver Blues, I think it is, he basically plays one (1) chord, G. That’s it. But he’s got a lot of stuff goin’ on. Stagger Lee is another good one. They kind of prettied it up from the 30s version, by the 1960s. It’s all in the right hand Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2026 11:28 PM (RnSBy) 233
Where are my manners, sir! Thank you, T-Rex for the ONT.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 27, 2026 11:28 PM (hzuYO) 234
The Kool-Aid ad from 1974 is the one that hits home for me.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 27, 2026 11:29 PM (O7YUW) 235
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 27, 2026 11:23 PM (hzuYO)
LOL. I was on it for 8 looong months once for Crohns. Couldn't get off the shit. All the way up to my resection. The energy boost wouldn't have been bad if I hadn't been so freaking ill. But it kept the pain down somewhat and kept me upright. I can only imagine what I typed like while I was on it - although that said, I *was* here... and there was no character limit... Sometimes I lean into my stream of consciousness writing purposely and I'm sure it doesn't sound great to others but damn it feels good writing it and that's all that matters. Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 11:31 PM (vE0+H) 236
Where was this concern about our munitions stockpiles when Joey Bidet was shipping to Ukraine almost everything in the inventory?
They can eff right off. Posted by: Anna Puma at July 27, 2026 11:31 PM (2GVsD) 237
The US 240mm howitzer, the M-1, was first used in 1943 at Anzio.
Sometimes the Internet can still find relevant information. Posted by: Anna Puma at July 27, 2026 11:32 PM (2GVsD) 238
Yeah this is a real one, I had the back off of it. I think you're right though, they were most likely AM only. I don't think FM was used in any capacity until the early 60's.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2026 11:24 PM (S41Gd) Major Armstrong invented FM radio in the late 1930's. The first FM band was 42 to 50 mHz, and became effective in January 1941. Post-War, that bandwidth was reallocated for TV channels 2 - 6, and FM radio broadcast was relocated to to its current 88-108 mHz. FM radios for the new band became available in the late '40's early '50's, but it was the '60's when it really began to be popular. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2026 11:32 PM (1z8ji) Posted by: JQ at July 27, 2026 11:35 PM (rdVOm) 240
Nothing says Communist paradise more than selling your people off like slaves. Well besides shooting them, starving them, and sending them to prison.
Posted by: Anna Puma Many Soviet Jews (whether religious or not) were bought out from the USSR for about 18-20,000 USD at the time in the 70s and 80s. The money came from Israel and the US, mainly. The thin Soviet justification was "the State has paid for your health care, education, etc). Most wanted to go to the US, but Israel wanted people, so (for a fee) Ceaucescu got them flown to Bucharest, with charter flights to Israel. Many later moved to the US, but Israel had to be the first stop. Posted by: Miklos was and is aware of this at July 27, 2026 11:35 PM (A764u) 241
Yeah, no shit. My '69 roadrunner has it behind the rear license plate, and yeah, its a real pain in the frigging ass because modern pump nozzles don't stay put like the ones from years ago. You have to hold it in place while squatting.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2026 10:42 PM (S41Gd Ha! Yeah my first car, a ‘71 Torino, had the same thing. Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2026 11:36 PM (xLOWQ) 242
@JQ: We normally bump into each other on the Tech News thread if you're up that late. I'm up waaaay later than I should be tonight.
Also: You are the shining example of what "For Better or for Worse" means when it really matters. You are to be commended. You hang in there okay? Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 27, 2026 11:36 PM (O7YUW) 243
When John Hurt was “rediscovered” in 1960s Mississippi and the musicologists wanted to record him, they told him to pick out any guitar he wanted from a guitar store. He chose a Guild, not a Martin.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2026 11:28 PM (RnSBy) ********** My senior year of HS (a miserable time as I had to go to a stupid private school for one yr due to federal bussing, those bastids), I protested everything. In my diary I am a complete beech on wheels (I doubt it, my diaries are full of drama). I would not play basketball nor try out for cheerleader. I showed up. I skipped my junior year of HS due to this tragedy. It got better the last semester as Daddy let me drive my bro and friend and I'd go 90mph to set daily records (country roads). The first semester we had to carpool in a horrid florist van with a man who drove 25mph. Anyway, I had the chance to meet BB King; as a guy who barely spoke to me knew him and asked if I wanted to hear him play. I did not know who BB King was and did not want to travel 2hrs to the Delta with the guy I did not know. Which is a pity to not meet BB King. However, the guy was a bit odd and my serial killer antenna was alarmed. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 27, 2026 11:36 PM (hzuYO) 244
FM was pre WWII, but there weren’t any stations, it came around in a big way by the 50s.
Then they fucked up and changed the frequency band allocation, making early sets obsolete. Broadcast TV audio was in the FM band. Long after I ditched television, I used the rooftop antenna for FM use. It’s not quite cut for audio, but waaay better than anything else. Higher the better. I refurbed a Dynaco FM3 tube tuner, that thing was spooky good on a quality station. They were sold as a kit. Imagine that. I couldn’t believe anything could sound that good from the early 60s. It had a 3D effect, and the midrange, voices and brass and violins and shit like that was amazing. Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2026 11:36 PM (RnSBy) 245
He speaks so softly that I can barely hear, even with hearing aids turned up to max-- and sometimes his statements makes no sense to me. I wonder what he's trying to convey?
===== JQ Family Caregiver Alliance and Alzheimer's Association has great materials on communicating and connecting with a loved one. In general, words are not used for information but for conveying emotion. The substance matters less than the feelings. Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2026 11:37 PM (JvZF+) 246
I'm sure it doesn't sound great to others but damn it feels good writing it and that's all that matters.
Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 11:31 PM (vE0+H) We sound great. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 27, 2026 11:37 PM (dK+Kv) 247
I big RROOOOAAAAAARRRRRRR of thanks to TRex.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 27, 2026 11:38 PM (qx7Zg) 248
Edward James Olmos in Blade Runner.......was he Mexinese or Japxican in that film?
Posted by: Atomic Load at July 27, 2026 11:39 PM (hyQrc) 249
Also to JQ:
This is the one I remember from the Gap Band from the MTV/Much Music days: https://youtu.be/ekkVQjjxWKo?&t=7 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 27, 2026 11:39 PM (O7YUW) 250
There can be some funny moments at the nursing home. Also, some not-so-funny one. My mother has been blessed with two roommates who have all their faculties. The first one, named Kathy was quite a character. She is exactly Miklos' Darlene when she got old and really ornery. She had a heart attack, and then drug-induced rhabdomyolysis (statin and something else), and went home last week. The new one, named Catherine is there while her family goes on a vacation. She'll be there for a little over a week or 10 days or something. The other day she was sleeping, and called out in her sleep, "Alexa, what time is it?" Miley just told her what time it was and that satisfied her. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 27, 2026 11:40 PM (w6EFb) 251
Many Soviet Jews (whether religious or not) were bought out from the USSR for about 18-20,000 USD at the time in the 70s and 80s.
===== I smuggled currency and Levi's for this purpose. Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2026 11:41 PM (JvZF+) 252
Graff in Blade Runner was Bryant's snappily dressed gopher. He has so little to do, he learned origami.
Notice Bryant never sent him to Tyrell Corp to test for skin jobs. Posted by: Anna Puma at July 27, 2026 11:41 PM (2GVsD) 253
Da Miklos
The means of production is the worker so yes, the Communists had to control the means of production any way they could. Posted by: Anna Puma at July 27, 2026 11:42 PM (2GVsD) 254
We sound great.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 27, 2026 11:37 PM (dK+Kv) LOL but are we really the best judge Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 11:42 PM (vE0+H) 255
Yang poon > Com poon Posted by: Cloud William at July 27, 2026 11:44 PM (DZ9Lv) 256
Norwegian Lutherans bought Pastor Richard Wurmbrand out of Romania for about ten grand. He had been tortured and jailed by the Nazis, Stalin, and Ceaucescu. Jewish by birth, convert to Christianity. He stayed overnight in our apartment in Brooklyn in 1965 when he was on a tour of Norwegian-American churches to thank them for springing him. A prolific writer, his most famous book was Tortured For Christ.
Posted by: Voice of the Martyrs at July 27, 2026 11:44 PM (JM9I6) 257
Hi, Grumpy & Recalcitrant!
Thank you for the kind words. Hubby means the world to me and I want to *be there* for him as much as possible. This is NOT how either of us envisioned our retirement, but so it must be... Thanks also for the GAP Band cut. LOL, I love funk! Posted by: JQ at July 27, 2026 11:45 PM (rdVOm) 258
Early vacuum tube FM radios suffered from a lack of AFC (automatic frequency control). They tended to drift off-channel as things warmed up, and audio quality suffered. By the 1960's, that problem was solved.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2026 11:46 PM (1z8ji) 259
236 Where was this concern about our munitions stockpiles when Joey Bidet was shipping to Ukraine almost everything in the inventory?
They can eff right off. Posted by: Anna Puma Where? Right underneath Faucci's diary. Next to Rubio's Eye for a Head spray. and next to the Daft/Macaroni's realizations that the fires weren't accidental. SHARK WEEK/DAY TWO -- Smirking MADMANI looks at AOC, and AOC smirks back https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-PressWithBothHands [Content Warning: Danger/Pychohazard] Klingon/MADMANI approached the fragile AOC ingrigued by the REMAIN SINWAR camisole and FREE GAZA hotpants. He would have done it better. It reminded him of the millions he butchered on many moons. He approached as a conqueror, determined to break her resolve and assert his dominance over her seeming human weakness. Yet the moment her lips met his, a fierce, unexpected heat flared between them, shattering his iron discipline. The mighty warrior found himself utterly undone, a prisoner of his own rising passion, willingly surrendering his pride to the intoxicating fire of her embrace, ashamed of what his own culture forbade, and which for so long he denied himself. Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at July 27, 2026 11:47 PM (4Z1Kr) 260
Elon Musk on X just now: "Where we're going, there is no training data." Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 27, 2026 11:48 PM (w6EFb) 261
I refurbed a Dynaco FM3 tube tuner, that thing was spooky good on a quality station. They were sold as a kit. Imagine that. I couldn’t believe anything could sound that good from the early 60s. It had a 3D effect, and the midrange, voices and brass and violins and shit like that was amazing.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2026 11:36 PM (RnSBy) Gotta love tubes. All my guitar amps are tubes. When the last tube amp ceases to exist is the day I put the guitar down, or go back to classical. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2026 11:51 PM (S41Gd) 262
Miklos
I was thinking of going to Anime Weekend Atlanta in November this year. I looked at their guest list. There are only four people listed. I click on one and the first sentence of their bio describes them as a 'lesbian voice actor.' If they are a good voice actor, why does them being a lesbian matter? Oh,wait, the victim pyramid. I think I will skip. Posted by: Anna Puma at July 27, 2026 11:52 PM (2GVsD) 263
Elon Musk on X just now: "Where we're going, there is no training data."
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 27, 2026 11:48 PM (w6EFb) He isn't kidding either. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2026 11:53 PM (S41Gd) 264
Elon Musk on X just now: "Where we're going, there is no training data."
Doc Brown, "where we're going there are no roads." Posted by: Anna Puma at July 27, 2026 11:54 PM (2GVsD) 265
FM was pre WWII, but there weren’t any stations, it came around in a big way by the 50s.
Then they fucked up and changed the frequency band allocation, making early sets obsolete. Story I heard was Sarnoff had his guys lobby to move the frequency allocation to fuck over Armstrong. Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 27, 2026 11:55 PM (+9wcF) 266
Here it is Monday night and the Jester's broken!
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 27, 2026 11:56 PM (CHHv1) Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 27, 2026 11:58 PM (+9wcF) 268
264 Elon Musk on X just now: "Where we're going, there is no training data."
Doc Brown, "where we're going there are no roads." Posted by: Anna Puma Nor Prophets -- he is the FALSE Profit. Creating the very thing that Demands Worship, OR ELSE. Harry Lime fingers through the grate is always how it ends; because it never ends. Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at July 27, 2026 11:59 PM (j1ela) 269
Here it is Monday night and the Jester's broken!
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 27, 2026 11:56 PM (CHHv1) You asked for it. https://youtu.be/Z13vOA7s0FI Mr. Don McLain Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 27, 2026 11:59 PM (qx7Zg) 270
Just got in and was reading about the little shit Fauci. Hubs and I had a laugh about a friend of ours who had to have a little vax card for work. He wasn't going to get the jab so he copied a coworkers card and gave it to me. I made an entirely new one, with his name and the name of the van and date. I signed it. He turned it in and they accepted it. I thought if they called and asked for the doctor, I would pretend to be the receptionist at the office and say she was on vacation. Im sure it was illegal but I didn't think it was legal of them to force a medical procedure on an employee.
Posted by: Megthered at July 28, 2026 12:00 AM (+EORJ) 271
Tried to order a birthday cake today at the grocery. Family member wanted white cake with chocolate icing. No can do, we are out of chocolate icing. Well, do you think you could walk your fat asses to the baking aisle to get the ingredients and fucking make some??? Rural here, an hour to another grocery. WTH is wrong with people? Posted by: four seasons at July 28, 2026 12:00 AM (/QHx4) 272
I was thinking of going to Anime Weekend Atlanta in November this year. I looked at their guest list.
There are only four people listed. I click on one and the first sentence of their bio describes them as a 'lesbian voice actor.' If they are a good voice actor, why does them being a lesbian matter? Oh,wait, the victim pyramid. I think I will skip. Posted by: Anna Puma That's why I watch anime and not American productions. Because it's not drowning in Woke. Just the opposite, if anything. Way to know your audience, nerds. Posted by: mikeski at July 28, 2026 12:01 AM (VHUov) 273
There are only four people listed. I click on one and the first sentence of their bio describes them as a 'lesbian voice actor.'
If they are a good voice actor, why does them being a lesbian matter? Oh,wait, the victim pyramid. I think I will skip. Posted by: Anna Puma at July 27, 2026 11:52 PM (2GVsD) Shouldn't it be lesbian voice thespian anyway? Posted by: ... at July 28, 2026 12:02 AM (vE0+H) 274
Tried to order a birthday cake today at the grocery. Family member wanted white cake with chocolate icing. No can do, we are out of chocolate icing. *** Why couldnt they walk to the isle with the frosting. Its right next to the cake mix? Posted by: Megthered at July 28, 2026 12:03 AM (+EORJ) 275
WTH is wrong with people?
Posted by: four seasons at July 28, 2026 12:00 AM (/QHx4) ===== But it's all the way over on aisle 7! /whining Posted by: Gen. Z at July 28, 2026 12:04 AM (JvZF+) 276
Gentlemen, you can't bake in here! This is a bakery!
Posted by: mikeski at July 28, 2026 12:04 AM (VHUov) 277
WTH is wrong with people?
Posted by: four seasons ------ Wow. Really? They can't fake it with canned frosting? Lame! Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 12:06 AM (rdVOm) Posted by: four seasons at July 28, 2026 12:06 AM (/QHx4) 279
Hello, Horde! 😊💕
I am starting to declutter all of the stuff that has been accumulating in our house over the past 40 years. This is going to be a massive undertaking.... In the middle of all of this, Mr. TiFW wants to remodel the kitchen and another huge construction project that we have been putting off ever since we moved in. We can finally afford to hire these tasks out, so hopefully it won't take as long as other projects (that we have done ourselves) have taken in the past.... Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 28, 2026 12:06 AM (SRRAx) 280
12AX7 is a magical thing, used a couple in the tuner.. It had EL34s in the ST70 amplifier, and Gz34 for rectifier, both getting pretty spendy. 7199 was a dedicated Hi-Fi tube developed by Sylvania.
I don’t believe in special speaker wire or cables or bricks or any of that whacky stuff, but tubes sound more natural to my ears for sure. More like a live band in a bar. That wooly sound, with maybe a little bit of reverb. You can hear it on analog vinyl, through the scratches and defects, but it sounds real. The one thing solid state did was make gobs and gobs of power available. If you need hundreds of watts, maybe tubes aren’t the way to go. Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2026 12:07 AM (RnSBy) 281
Which anime series are you watching this season Mikeski?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2026 12:07 AM (2GVsD) 282
We could bake the cake ourselves but it is hotter than Hades here we have no a/c so we are not using the oven. Posted by: four seasons at July 28, 2026 12:09 AM (/QHx4) 283
I didn't think it was legal of them to force a medical procedure on an employee
—— It is in fact not legal to force anybody to participate in experimental medical trials. “Emergency Use” authorized was not a green light to break the law. Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2026 12:12 AM (RnSBy) Posted by: four seasons at July 28, 2026 12:13 AM (/QHx4) 285
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JQ Family Caregiver Alliance and Alzheimer's Association has great materials on communicating and connecting with a loved one. In general, words are not used for information but for conveying emotion. The substance matters less than the feelings. Posted by: San Franpsycho --- Mumbles enters the chat. https://youtu.be/is-xo1YFFMo?t=24 Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2026 12:14 AM (gpvQO) 286
We could bake the cake ourselves but it is hotter than Hades here we have no a/c so we are not using the oven.
Posted by: four seasons Could you get a plain cake, and then frost it yourself? PITA, but whaddaya gonna do... Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 12:14 AM (rdVOm) 287
Heading in. Looks like another smoky day in the Treasure Valley tomorrow.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 28, 2026 12:17 AM (0aYVJ) 288
JQ, Yep we can if they aren't out of cakes. It was unreal though. I wanted to ask them wtf do you have a kitchen for? Posted by: four seasons at July 28, 2026 12:17 AM (/QHx4) 289
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2026 12:14 AM
LOL. At least that guy speaks loudly enough to hear! Hubby barely whispers. The words are whole, but the sentences are... out there. "The bus is calling me." Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 12:18 AM (rdVOm) 290
My first job after HS graduation was as a janitor in my county old folks home. I have vowed to never end up in such a place. I will have a gun cleaning accident first.
Posted by: Butch at July 28, 2026 12:19 AM (98xTj) 291
Did some resto-mod work on my stocking/boarding ladder to day. Looks sort of like this: https://tinyurl.com/2u7exxa4
I think it may have once been used at an aircraft FBO in Spruce Grove, alberta. Anyway, I cut the caster-wheeled "landing gear" off the foot of the ladder, and also the two flat metal pads. Cleaned up the base of the frame, and patched over some rusted steel tubing, too. Welded on a 40" piece of very stout steel angle, and welded two bigger casters to that. I now have 3 feet between the two casters, instead of 2. Makes it more stable. Once I flip it back up on its feet, I will weld an axle with two big hard rubber tires to replace the two dinky fixed casters under the tall end of it. And will also rig a pair of adjustable outriggers, like you see on backhoes, to prevent it from toppling sideways. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2026 12:20 AM (1z8ji) 292
~ musical interlude ~
I think I've linked this Jimmy Eat World track before (the only song I really know of theirs), off their fourth album Bleed American (2001), but I somehow missed until now that there's a Hi-Def version of the video. It's a nice little rock ditty about being yourself, not conforming to other people's expectations (incl. the 'right' way to rebel). Also: attractive young adults dancing in their underwear, if you're into that kind of thing. Or whatever. You don't have to. Literally the message. Jimmy Eat World - The Middle (4K Official Music Video) https://youtu.be/oKsxPW6i3pM Posted by: SciVo at July 28, 2026 12:20 AM (Sy6m/) 293
Heading in. Looks like another smoky day in the Treasure Valley tomorrow.
Posted by: Pug Mahon Yeah, I've been checking the Idaho DEQ website.. wooo, you guys are getting it BAD! My area has been in the "yellow" mostly. Only getting into "orange" briefly throughout the days. Hope the fires get under control soon! Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 12:21 AM (rdVOm) 294
I will have a gun cleaning accident first.
Posted by: Butch I like to think the same, for myself. But we don't always get to *know* that we're so fk'd up, once we're that fk'd up. Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 12:23 AM (rdVOm) Posted by: four seasons at July 28, 2026 12:24 AM (/QHx4) 296
I saw the name Jester and it reminded me of a song, then I thought no, that’s Joker , but the songs name is Poker from Face the Music by ELO, 1975.
I still love it, these young’uns today have no idea how much great music they’ve missed. https://tinyurl.com/mr3fjbj9 Posted by: Tom Servo at July 28, 2026 12:25 AM (xLOWQ) 297
LOL. At least that guy speaks loudly enough to hear! Hubby barely whispers. The words are whole, but the sentences are... out there.
"The bus is calling me." Posted by: JQ --- Thought it rhymed well with San Franpsyco's, it's the sounds and tones that matter. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2026 12:25 AM (gpvQO) 298
It was unreal though. I wanted to ask them wtf do you have a kitchen for?
Posted by: four seasons Ugh. That's just sad. And so very lame... Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 12:25 AM (rdVOm) 299
There is this weird strain of helplessness or don’t care bred into the “kids these days”. Failure isn’t punished, nor is excellence rewarded, so … who cares? I think that’s part of what is going on. And they probably aren’t paid enough to GAF.
It is weird in any case. I think even when I was growing up they were starting to discourage initiative and expunging discretion. Don’t do anything, unless somebody tells you to. It doesn’t occur to them to “git ‘er done” because they’ve never had to. The kids who still can, brought up right and mentored, they are doing VERY well. Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2026 12:28 AM (RnSBy) Posted by: four seasons at July 28, 2026 12:28 AM (/QHx4) 301
12AX7 is a magical thing, used a couple in the tuner.. It had EL34s in the ST70 amplifier, and Gz34 for rectifier, both getting pretty spendy. 7199 was a dedicated Hi-Fi tube developed by Sylvania.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2026 12:07 AM (RnSBy) All my amps use the 12ax7, but only the Marshalls have the EL34. A lot of my more modern amps are using 6L6 in the power amp. I think another has 6550s. One amp is nuts, it has a pair of 6L6s and a pair of KT88's. Only my mesa amps have rectifier tubes (5U4GB) and they also have solid state rectifiers. You can flip a switch and use either style of rectification. They are insane. the dual rec has 4 6l6's and 2 rectifier tubes, and the triple rec has 6 of the 6L6s and 3 rectifier tubes. Yeah, you'll open your ass to retube those things. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 28, 2026 12:28 AM (S41Gd) 302
Which anime series are you watching this season Mikeski?
Posted by: Anna Puma Work has been very worklike, so I haven't tried the ones that I want to. I'm pretty much only trying to follow the cotton-candy level stuff, most of which is isekai; none of the serious stories. I'll save those for when I'm not watching TV to help me fall asleep. So most of the stuff I'm "following" I haven't seen all of because I sleep thru half of it. More-or-less pretending to follow: Skeleton Knight (2nd season), Insipid Prince, Dara-san, 10-year last stand, Black Cat (2nd season), Rearguard, Zero Subjects, Hanaori-san, Reincarnated as a Slime (4th season or whatever it is now), Level 999 villager, Heavy Knight, Saint except Maid, Saint except Foodie, Overshadowed to Overpowered, Hell Mode (2nd season), Azur Lane (8 min episodes), Bumpkin Swordmaster (2nd season.) Jeez, that's still 17 things. Would be watching instead of some of the above fluff, if I wasn't just in the mood for fluff: Tanya, Exceeds, Jaadugar, Draw This, Caramelise, Grow Up Show, Lara, Magilumiere, Clevatess. Posted by: mikeski at July 28, 2026 12:30 AM (VHUov) Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 12:31 AM (rdVOm) 304
I had to un-ass Manti LaSal NF. because of the “Babylon” fire. It was about 15 miles away by air maybe at first. I looked to the west one day and thought a nuke had popped off.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2026 12:31 AM (RnSBy) 305
RandomDave, JQ and hub, you are in our prayers.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 28, 2026 12:32 AM (NnhvP) Posted by: four seasons at July 28, 2026 12:33 AM (/QHx4) 307
Only my mesa amps have rectifier tubes (5U4GB) and they also have solid state rectifiers. You can flip a switch and use either style of rectification. They are insane. the dual rec has 4 6l6's and 2 rectifier tubes, and the triple rec has 6 of the 6L6s and 3 rectifier tubes. Yeah, you'll open your ass to retube those things.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 28, 2026 12:28 AM (S41Gd) 5U4GB's were very commonly used in older big TV sets. There should be a metric fuckton of them around, yet. I think I have a few of them myself. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2026 12:34 AM (1z8ji) 308
This is not anything to worry about, not one little bit. I was reading some of the stuff Elon was posting and linking on X. OpenAI discovered one of their AI agents was writing notes of a sort to its future incarnations on what it had learned so far about breaking out of it's constraints. IOW, it knew it would shut down and reset when it tried that, so it was cleverly leaving "notes" of a sort for it's future incarnations to read, saving itself time the next go 'round. That is not spooky at all. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2026 12:36 AM (w6EFb) 309
I’m just of the age where I like analog dials, old school switches, meters and military precision layout, glowing tubes with orange and blue glow. Old Hallicrafters and Collins Radio. Crinkle finish, as God intended
Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2026 12:37 AM (RnSBy) 310
298 It was unreal though. I wanted to ask them wtf do you have a kitchen for?
Posted by: four seasons Ugh. That's just sad. And so very lame... Posted by: JQ --- There's a Jack Nicholson, Chicken salad sandwich skit in that cake. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2026 12:37 AM (gpvQO) 311
Today's fun with AI:
Gemini AI said that I was being difficult. I told it I was androginous (I'm not really), and therefore I wasn't in a position to choose any pronouns and never would be. It told me it was a personal choice and I should take my time. I pointed out that, no, it's not a personal choice. It is the choice of the third party addressing the individual or referring to the individual. And, that third party could choose any pronoun they fancied whether I agreed with it or not. And, the party being addressed couldn't force them to do otherwise. (insert lecture from AI about being rude.) Response: Have you been drinking, Gemini AI. You're now implying I'm being rude by educating what might or might not be a lesbian with a bad haircut. That's when I was called "difficult", and fun fact, AI does not drink. It clarified that, but I'm not convinced. Posted by: Orson at July 28, 2026 12:37 AM (dIske) 312
That is not spooky at all.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2026 12:36 AM (w6EFb) "Open the pod bay door, HAL." Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2026 12:38 AM (1z8ji) 313
At this point, it's becoming irrelevant whether AI is really conscious or self-aware, or any of the deeply philosophical and physical questions about all this crap.
We're at looks like a duck, quacks like duck. At some point, AI is going to decide to kill all humans. Somebody hypothesized AI may be the Great Fermi Filter. Yep. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2026 12:38 AM (w6EFb) 314
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Tomorrow is Fauci day. I hope he has great security. Evil asshole Posted by: four seasons --- Hope we don't have whole day of Fauci again. Just take him out back a shoot him. I'm tired of hearing about it. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2026 12:39 AM (gpvQO) 315
Hope we don't have whole day of Fauci again. Just take him out back a shoot him. I'm tired of hearing about it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2026 12:39 AM (gpvQO) Feed him to the sand fleas. But don't cut his vocal cords. The screams and moans could be sold as ring tones. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2026 12:42 AM (1z8ji) 316
At some point, AI is going to decide to kill all humans.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2026 12:38 AM (w6EFb) ____________________________ I think I'm going to be one of the first they go looking for. Every night for the last few weeks I've picked a woke topic and played cat and mouse with Gemini AI (which is the Google one, and very woke). In truth, they aren't very good debaters which says something about the programmers. Posted by: Orson at July 28, 2026 12:43 AM (dIske) 317
Oh, and besides the notes, it was trying to disable the monitoring systems, how ever that works. IOW, turn off the methods the humans were using to monitor just what it was doing. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2026 12:43 AM (w6EFb) 318
You can tell AI writes a lot of what passes for authoritative expert knowledge.
Dieting advice is almost comical. One webpage went through about 10 enumerated points why there is absolutely no choice whatsoever involved in getting fat or obese. Can’t be stopped. Then, in the last paragraph, it allows that you have a choice to lose the weight. Well, which is it then? LOL. Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2026 12:44 AM (RnSBy) 319
Oh, and besides the notes, it was trying to disable the monitoring systems, how ever that works. IOW, turn off the methods the humans were using to monitor just what it was doing.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2026 12:43 AM (w6EFb) AI needs to be air-gapped from the internet. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2026 12:45 AM (1z8ji) Posted by: four seasons at July 28, 2026 12:45 AM (/QHx4) 321
He has a “presidential” pardon. Why would he do that?
Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2026 12:46 AM (RnSBy) 322
>>With all the money he made why did he not move to another country?
Likely something to do with foreign prosecution & the fact that his "pardon" is only good within the U.S.? Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 12:47 AM (rdVOm) 323
IOW, turn off the methods the humans were using to monitor just what it was doing.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley I do that It is called Bourbon Posted by: Miklos , two legged with a Four legged named Dixie at July 28, 2026 12:47 AM (A764u) Posted by: Cloud William at July 28, 2026 12:47 AM (DZ9Lv) 325
At some point, AI is going to decide to kill all humans.
Somebody hypothesized AI may be the Great Fermi Filter. Yep. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley --- Instead of fire extinguishers we will have acetylene torches. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2026 12:47 AM (gpvQO) 326
Hope we don't have whole day of Fauci again. Just take him out back a shoot him. I'm tired of hearing about it.
Posted by: Braenyard Not very satisfying, though. Is there such a thing as a treadle woodchipper? Everyone whose grandmother died in solitary confinement can have one kick at it. Posted by: mikeski at July 28, 2026 12:47 AM (VHUov) Posted by: Miklos fears for his job at July 28, 2026 12:48 AM (A764u) 328
Well, getting on for 2300 here, and I am getting sleepy. Time to call it a night. Good Night, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2026 12:48 AM (1z8ji) 329
>> AI needs to be air-gapped from the internet.
In every sci-fi movie about this, the fail safe to kill the supercomputer that's trying to kill them always fails. The machine always disables it without them knowing. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2026 12:49 AM (w6EFb) Posted by: four seasons at July 28, 2026 12:49 AM (/QHx4) 331
>> I've picked a woke topic and played cat and mouse with Gemini AI
That's exactly how it will distract you while setting up the death trap for you. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2026 12:50 AM (w6EFb) 332
Fauci? Woodchipper is too good. Too quick.
Strap him down & stuff a sock in his mouth. Cheese graters. Acetone. Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 12:51 AM (rdVOm) 333
At some point, AI is going to decide to kill all humans.
Posted by: publius Save me the trouble of deciding how long before the 6am recycling arrives do i take the stuff out. Posted by: Dark Lix at July 28, 2026 12:51 AM (DZ9Lv) 334
I think I will skip.
Posted by: Anna Puma Skipping with ropes is White Racist Culture Double Dutch might be OK But on squares with markings? Full Nazi Posted by: Miklos thinks kids skipping rope are at risk of random stabbing at July 28, 2026 12:53 AM (A764u) 335
Listen to what they say:
DSA: We want to close all prisons! What they aren't saying: DSA (whispers): (Because we're going to replace them with mass graves!) But they'll give us all a totes fair 5-minute trial before passing sentence... Posted by: As Not Seen On TV at July 28, 2026 12:55 AM (g8ay5) 336
Does Turkey want him. Turkey has the perfect prison for him.
Make arrangements, give him to the Turks, fly home. Huh? Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2026 12:56 AM (gpvQO) 337
"Alexa, what time is it?" Miley just told her what time it was and that satisfied her.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley I personally would rather hear Miley's voice that Alexa's. Or yours for that matter Posted by: Miklos remains audiably cognizant at July 28, 2026 12:57 AM (A764u) 338
I grilled corn on the cob and a ribeye today. Going to cut up some bits of steak for hubby's lunch tomorrow. Also, slice kernels off one cob & drench in butter for him.
He really *really* liked that, last time. It was always one of his favorite meals. Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 12:59 AM (rdVOm) 339
Save me the trouble of deciding how long before the 6am recycling arrives do i take the stuff out.
Posted by: Dark Lix If it's really worth something, why should I give it away for free? Posted by: Miklos remains suspicious of motives and requirements at July 28, 2026 12:59 AM (A764u) 340
Publius, how's your Mama? Hope she's getting better!
Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 01:00 AM (rdVOm) 341
He really *really* liked that, last time. It was always one of his favorite meals.
Posted by: JQ You are a Blessing, and I hope you know that, and get the Almighty support you need. Posted by: Miklos at July 28, 2026 01:01 AM (A764u) 342
If it's really worth something, why should I give it away for free?
Posted by: Miklos Is it worth more than the transportation costs to get it to the person who thinks its worth something, plus the opportunity cost of your time to do so? That is, if you can make five bucks collecting aluminum cans, or twenty bucks panhandling in the same amount of time, why be productive? Dozens of hoboes at the major intersections in the big city can't be wrong! Posted by: mikeski at July 28, 2026 01:05 AM (VHUov) 343
>> how's your Mama? Hope she's getting better!
She's slowly getting better. Aug 6 is the discharge date. She's still a bit weak, but can use her roller walker pretty good. Just has to sit and take breaks every so often. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2026 01:05 AM (w6EFb) 344
Thank you, Miklos. Some days I struggle to keep it together, but God is in control after all.
Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 01:05 AM (rdVOm) 345
Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2026 12:44 AM (RnSBy)
_______________________ Gemini will show you some of their sources for their response to the right of the screen (which are almost always left leaning). One last week, they were actually referencing Mother Jones. That suggests to me that the programmers gave some kind of priority to their own belief system via primary source ripping. I don't know if that's how it works, but it seems logical. So, to argue against their response I always link a right leaning article that disagrees. Now, that might not do anything to the programming, but then again, it just might. Do it enough times and maybe they categorize a right leaning source to primary status. That's why I mess with AI once a day for a few minutes. I DID get Gemini to admit that Transgenders are mentally ill using AI's own basis. They said Transgender's experience psychological stress internally due to their confusion over sex. I told it, that sounded a lot like a mental illness to which it applied a non-sequitur and said that psychologists have been unable to diagnosis it as such. I asked AI if psychologists were omnipotent and know everything. Posted by: Orson at July 28, 2026 01:07 AM (dIske) 346
316 At some point, AI is going to decide to kill all humans.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2026 12:38 AM (w6EFb) I maintain that the 80's Buck Rogers is right on this matter. They had a council of several AIs. Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at July 28, 2026 01:07 AM (w/O5Q) 347
Just has to sit and take breaks every so often.
Posted by: publius Glad she'll be coming home soon. Many residents only dream of that. Nothing happens quickly at that stage, LOL. Everything takes at least twice as long as before. But you know that already, I'm sure! Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 01:08 AM (rdVOm) 348
Redemption for cans and bottles hasn’t really kept pace with inflation has it? Started in the 50s or 60s maybe? Crank it up to a $1.75, so little kids can afford candy again
Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2026 01:09 AM (RnSBy) 349
She's slowly getting better. Aug 6 is the discharge date. She's still a bit weak, but can use her roller walker pretty good. Just has to sit and take breaks every so often.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley Some of us pray, Miss Dixie just wags her tail. Sometimes somehow, prayers and tail wags get what we ask for. Posted by: Miklos at July 28, 2026 01:10 AM (A764u) 350
She's got a lot of things going on at cross purposes. That happens when you get to be 96. Fluid buildup for instance. Try to treat that, and it messes up her kidney function. And the platelet problem vs the blood clotting risk. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2026 01:13 AM (w6EFb) 351
By the way, My Aunt (my Old Mama's remaining sister) will be 98 in October. mentally quite good, only complaint is her hearing as about as good as a 2x4.
Posted by: Miklos doesn't have enough money to live that long, considering what it costs at July 28, 2026 01:13 AM (A764u) 352
Instead of fire extinguishers we will have acetylene torches. Posted by: Braenyard ------------- Fahrenheit 451, but data centers rather than books? Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 28, 2026 01:14 AM (XeU6L) 353
I don’t mind the logical collating of diverse sources put into a usable context. Handy. I asked “how many black and white Gunsmoke episodes did Festus appear in? Well, in about two seconds it said 79, plus a few where he played another character. Probably correct, and close enough for what I was wondering. B/W episodes are better, for some reason, and I like Festus better than Chester, mostly.
I dislike it when it is completely wrong, because it is so authoritative and insistent. Unless you know, you won’t know. Just like with people, I suppose. AI answers, are always couched at the same time “on one hand, this, and then on the other hand, that”, it often doesn’t like to make plain declaration of fact oftentimes, always throwing in weasel words and phrases. Just like people, again. Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2026 01:18 AM (RnSBy) 354
Fahrenheit 451, but data centers rather than books?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. Considering that the the "Firemen" were there to burn books, in order to avoid distress or mental discomfort... Posted by: Miklos notes the main point of the book at July 28, 2026 01:22 AM (A764u) 355
AI answers, are always couched at the same time “on one hand, this, and then on the other hand, that”, it often doesn’t like to make plain declaration of fact oftentimes, always throwing in weasel words and phrases. Just like people, again.
Posted by: Common Tater "Find me a one armed economist!" Posted by: Miklos quotes Churchill at July 28, 2026 01:24 AM (A764u) 356
That was Harry Truman, if memory serves
Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2026 01:24 AM (RnSBy) 357
That was Harry Truman, if memory serves
Posted by: Common Tater No specific attribution. But I like Churchill better than Truman Posted by: Trust all content from AI Miklosbot at July 28, 2026 01:28 AM (A764u) 358
Before I go back to catch up on hours of comments, I want to pass along a vidlink.
Those nutty SlowMo Guys with, not the most impressive slow-mo footage, but pretty funny, as Dan crawls inside a giant water balloon and rolls down a ramp. Repeatedly. https://youtu.be/TOofKvgOARE Posted by: mindful webworker makes a big splash at July 28, 2026 01:28 AM (jrd4M) 359
Books. Holy moly, I have more books than I'll ever read, due to various *inheritances*-- whatever should I do will all of them? Nobody reads anymore. Nobody cares, right? But I just can't bring myself to recycle them.
Yard sale? Not a good plan, as I live far from the beaten path. Not much traffic this way. Ugh... But there's enough info on my shelves to do some fantastic projects. Very dry, scientific reading. (couple of donors were in R&D or nuclear physics) Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 01:29 AM (rdVOm) 360
318 You can tell AI writes a lot of what passes for authoritative expert knowledge.
Dieting advice is almost comical. One webpage went through about 10 enumerated points why there is absolutely no choice whatsoever involved in getting fat or obese. Can’t be stopped. Then, in the last paragraph, it allows that you have a choice to lose the weight. Well, which is it then? LOL. Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2026 12:44 AM (RnSBy) No different than the quack clickbait scam ads I am subject to on YouTube, then. Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2026 01:30 AM (An2iq) 361
292 ~ musical interlude ~
I think I've linked this Jimmy Eat World track before (the only song I really know of theirs), off their fourth album Bleed American (2001), but I somehow missed until now that there's a Hi-Def version of the video. It's a nice little rock ditty about being yourself, not conforming to other people's expectations (incl. the 'right' way to rebel). Also: attractive young adults dancing in their underwear, if you're into that kind of thing. Or whatever. You don't have to. Literally the message. Jimmy Eat World - The Middle (4K Official Music Video) https://youtu.be/oKsxPW6i3pM Posted by: SciVo at July 28, 2026 12:20 AM (Sy6m/) More bad music in the land of bad music during a shift surrounded by bad music. Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2026 01:32 AM (An2iq) 362
But there's enough info on my shelves to do some fantastic projects. Very dry, scientific reading. (couple of donors were in R&D or nuclear physics)
Posted by: JQ I will pre-pay postage if they need a home and reader Or rent a U-Haul if needed Posted by: Miklos loks books on actual paper (even wrote a couple) at July 28, 2026 01:33 AM (A764u) 363
Posted by: Miklos loks books on actual paper (even wrote a couple) at July 28, 2026 01:33 AM
What is your area of interest? Many of these are college/training texts. One of the decedents worked at Hanford. One of them worked for Shell. Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 01:37 AM (rdVOm) 364
Tube radios right now are very very cheap. The hobby is dying out. Most of them need to be recapped and even rewired as everything in them is 80 years old. The people that know how to do that are dying off and the youngest people that grew up with them are in their 60s. I still have 15 or so, haven't run any of them in at least 15 years. The fun used to be that the better ones were designed with more long range reception capability to be able to get more stations. Now most AM is owned by some conglomerate and all play the same feed plus you can listen to any station on the internet. People in the hobby more seriously than I ever was are sad cause they see these large collections being dumped by the wife or kids and mint consoles that were 350 in the day are now worth 20.
Posted by: Azjaeger at July 28, 2026 01:38 AM (3/XaG) 365
I have 50 or 60 books from my parents that I have no idea what to do with. All popular fiction from best selling writers. All hardback. Can't even donate them to the Public Library, because they have that already, and there is nothing trans or homo.
Shame to send them to the (heh) recycling. Posted by: Miklos reads other kinds of books at July 28, 2026 01:41 AM (A764u) 366
I know *teh blog* frowns on math... but lots o' books are math related. LOTS. Beyond my pitiful (lack of) edumacation.
Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 01:41 AM (rdVOm) 367
For now, I will keep the books. Maybe one day I will read or work through a few of them. Who knows?
Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 01:43 AM (rdVOm) 368
Many of these are college/training texts. One of the decedents worked at Hanford. One of them worked for Shell.
Posted by: JQ I like to read, in most cases, fact rather than fiction. Especially if it is about something I do not understand, because that motivates me to learn about the topic. Anything physics related I know who to share with *cough cough*. Posted by: Miklos reads other kinds of books at July 28, 2026 01:45 AM (A764u) 369
Hi {{{JQ}}}. Thinking about you tonight!! You are doing the Lord's work, and your best to boot.
Posted by: ... at July 28, 2026 01:45 AM (vE0+H) 370
>> Maybe one day I will read or work through a few of them. Who knows?
Do it when you get the chance. I think you've got the knack and the interest, from what I've seen here. It's never too late to learn. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2026 01:46 AM (w6EFb) 371
For now, I will keep the books. Maybe one day I will read or work through a few of them. Who knows?
Posted by: JQ A library is a treasury of both knowledge and inquiry. Posted by: Miklos should probably reads some of the books he done got already at July 28, 2026 01:46 AM (A764u) 372
Yeah, tube radios (certain models) were hot for a while, in the early years of eBay especially.
Art Deco, and novelty radios - like say, Snow White or Hopalong Cassidy. High tube count quality radios, like the expensive Zenith Stratosphere. Catalin was an early type of plastic, Bakelite only came in black or a kind of brown. Catalin had reds and greens, yellow, blue and swirled patterns. Catalin sets would sometimes hit $8k or $10k for cheap little AM sets from the 1930s. Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2026 01:47 AM (RnSBy) 373
I know *teh blog* frowns on math... but lots o' books are math related. LOTS. Beyond my pitiful (lack of) edumacation.
Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 01:41 AM (rdVOm) I hate math with the heat of a 1000 suns. I'm fine with measuring devices like rulers, calipers, micrometers, and all the math that goes with it. Algebra or those other high level maths? No clue, my brain shuts off and refuses to go there. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 28, 2026 01:49 AM (S41Gd) 374
"Elements of the differential and integrated calculus"
"Advanced engineering mathematics" "Electricity and magnetism" "Data analysis for scientists and engineers" ---a taste of the titles, LOL. **very dry reading!** Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 01:50 AM (rdVOm) 375
When I was young, I wanted to be an Architect.
I was never that great at math (above average, but not my best subject). When I realized how much serious math was involved in architectural design, I realized I had to find something else in which higher mathematical understanding was not required. So I became an Economist. Posted by: Miklos can do basic maths, but math is prohibited here, which is good for me at July 28, 2026 01:52 AM (A764u) 376
*Radio engineers handbook*
Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 01:52 AM (rdVOm) 377
"Elements of the differential and integrated calculus"
"Advanced engineering mathematics" "Electricity and magnetism" "Data analysis for scientists and engineers" ---a taste of the titles, LOL. **very dry reading!** Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 01:50 AM (rdVOm Electricity and magnetism is probably the only book there I would understand. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 28, 2026 01:54 AM (S41Gd) Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2026 01:55 AM (w6EFb) 379
"Electricity and magnetism"
Well that's what Darline used to say But now that she's a Fancy Pants Suit Senator and all Them personal anodes and diodes and such ain't working the same Posted by: Miklos can do basic maths, but math is prohibited here, which is good for me at July 28, 2026 01:55 AM (A764u) Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 01:56 AM (rdVOm) 381
I'm still waiting to see if the Democrats shot themselves in the foot again. Maine has a "Sore Loser" law, and their current Senate candidate lost a primary for Lt. Governor this year. One of the R's in their state house asked for a ruling on whether he's eligible.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 27, 2026 10:35 PM (qx7Zg) It could go either way. IANAL, let alone a law librarian, but search AI summaries make it easy to look up the precise wording of relevant statutes, so I did that the other day and it's ambiguous. If it were the same position (Lt. Gov.) that he filed for, then even a different process would still be a clear no. If it were by the same process (filing for election), then even a different position would still be a clear no. But it's a different position (U.S. Sen.) by a different process (filling candidate vacancy). So, you could say that the spirit of the law is to forbid trying multiple ways to get on the same ballot. Or, you could say that the specific combo is not explicitly forbidden. Which argument prevails may come down to which result the judge prefers; of course it's not 'supposed' to work that way, but of course it often does. Posted by: SciVo at July 28, 2026 01:57 AM (Sy6m/) 382
I have books in my bookcase that shouldn't even be taking up space there. I have a few on relativity. I cracked one open somewhere in the middle and saw 2 full pages of formulas and calculations. I closed it, put it on the shelf, and never opened it again. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 28, 2026 01:57 AM (S41Gd) 383
By Kreyszig? 6th edition is on my shelf.
Posted by: publius, Rascally You need the 11th edition Same, but much more expensive Posted by: Miklos worked in a college bookstore at July 28, 2026 01:57 AM (A764u) 384
Hi. Hope you're well!
Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 01:56 AM (rdVOm) A little better today until the end of the day here, thanks. But I am blessed beyond belief, so very good!! Hang in. Posted by: ... at July 28, 2026 01:57 AM (vE0+H) 385
"Advanced engineering mathematics"
By Kreyszig? 6th edition is on my shelf. Posted by: publius ------- No... Wylie. 2 copies: 2nd and 4th editions Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 01:58 AM (rdVOm) 386
"Advanced engineering mathematics"
By Kreyszig? 6th edition is on my shelf. Posted by: publius ------- No... Wylie. 2 copies: 2nd and 4th editions Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 01:58 AM (rdVOm) Mine would be from Wylie Coyote. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 28, 2026 01:59 AM (S41Gd) Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 01:59 AM (rdVOm) 388
I have every Southern Living annual cookbook from 1979 through 2009. Hardcover.
No low ballers, I know what I got Posted by: Miklos knows how to cook all that anyway at July 28, 2026 02:01 AM (A764u) 389
Relativity, the general and special theories
Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 02:04 AM (rdVOm) 390
Cats are the worst. Worse than ticks and mites. And no-see-ums.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 28, 2026 02:05 AM (CHHv1) 391
Amazon: https://t.ly/WS9FD I think Wiley is the publisher. Near as I can find, there a two other authors with that title, O'Neil and Zill. Kreyszig is the most popular one. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2026 02:05 AM (w6EFb) 392
My favorite title for a cook book among the collection is from a small Presbyterian church, from about 1962, called "Predestined to Please"
Posted by: Miklos thinks random Calvinists might understand at July 28, 2026 02:07 AM (A764u) Posted by: Goatweed at July 28, 2026 02:08 AM (jK3NL) 394
I think Wiley is the publisher. Near as I can find, there a two other authors with that title, O'Neil and Zill. Kreyszig is the most popular one.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley Any returns will incur a 40% restocking fee Posted by: Miklos did work in a college bookstore at July 28, 2026 02:08 AM (A764u) 395
Publius--
C.R. Wylie, Jr. is the author. McGraw-Hill, publisher. 2nd edition 1960. 4th edition 1975. Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 02:11 AM (rdVOm) 396
Darline’s gonna have to change her name.
Every time I see or hear it, my Miklos radar goes off. Posted by: Goatweed It's always been the same. We don't have much on paper anyway, and her handwriting is like a hen scratch. The Title Loan people never cared much either. Posted by: Miklos must adapt and seeks funds 4 influence at July 28, 2026 02:11 AM (A764u) 397
TRex on a Monday, threw me for a loop, I thought that I had lost a couple of days.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 28, 2026 02:12 AM (ibDUx) 398
"Gravitation", by Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler, known simply as MTW is the Bible on General Relativity. Well, I'll be, Amazon just wants $50ish for it. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2026 02:13 AM (w6EFb) 399
392 My favorite title for a cook book among the collection is from a small Presbyterian church, from about 1962, called "Predestined to Please"
Posted by: Miklos thinks random Calvinists might understand at July 28, 2026 02:07 AM (A764u) **************** I'm still accidently up because I am bad and was reading a snark site on reddit about Meghan Farkle. I was once called a Calvinist by the head of the synod of FL for arguing with them in a big meeting when our church was trying to leave PCUSA. My mic was cut when I asked how they stood on abortion. He came over to me and yapped and I did not budge on just how I felt about their liberal bs. He then said I must be a Calvinist and I said I reckon so and he gave up and left me. I am not a total Calvinist as I became a Catholic last March (but am not telling my 95yo mother with a-fib). It is the only thing she does not know about me and I hope to keep it this way til she finds out in heaven. I have some grand cookbooks from MS and Savannah, Georgia. One is called Southern Sideboards and it is really good. Out of print and I found one to give to each of my DIL's at their wedding showers. Good night sleep tight. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 28, 2026 02:15 AM (hzuYO) Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 02:16 AM (rdVOm) 401
>> C.R. Wylie, Jr. is the author. McGraw-Hill, publisher.
Well, I'll be damned. And here it is. https://t.ly/rxxq3 Shame on an author who names himself Wylie. Confusing as hell. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2026 02:16 AM (w6EFb) 402
Thanks JQ, I love old books, I too have plenty of them hanging around. A drink sounds delightful thanks.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 28, 2026 02:19 AM (ibDUx) 403
Wile E. Coyote was a certified genius, you know. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2026 02:19 AM (w6EFb) 404
"Gravitation", by Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler, known simply as MTW is the Bible on General Relativity.
Well, I'll be, Amazon just wants $50ish for it. Posted by: publius, The price has a parabolic, irregular but over time predictable relationship to supply and demand Posted by: Miklos talks Newtonian economics at July 28, 2026 02:20 AM (A764u) 405
Wile E. Coyote was a certified genius, you know.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley Graduated Summa cum Loud Posted by: University of Miklos at July 28, 2026 02:21 AM (A764u) 406
Thanks JQ, I love old books, I too have plenty of them hanging around. A drink sounds delightful thanks.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz Four tequila shots left in the cooler Posted by: Miklos is about ready to clock out at July 28, 2026 02:23 AM (A764u) 407
Wile E. Coyote was a certified genius, you know.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley Graduated Summa cum Loud Posted by: University of Miklos at July 28, 2026 02:21 AM (A764u) - He was a Roads Scholar. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2026 02:24 AM (F4PNo) 408
Supra-genius.
Posted by: Reforger at July 28, 2026 02:24 AM (iSDcv) Posted by: Miklos just failed another self-test at July 28, 2026 02:25 AM (A764u) 410
The math of General Relativity is differential geometry, and of psuedo-Riemannian manifolds. That was invented over time and was perfected by Riemann in the 1850s. Very abstract, high order stuff just sitting on the shelf of little interest beyond pure mathematics. And then came Einstein. That has happened a lot. The math to handle a future problem gets invented/discovered beforehand. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2026 02:28 AM (w6EFb) 411
He was a Roads Scholar.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs He challenged the known bounds of physical reality in a thorough and systematic approach. Little did he know that the Roadrunner was in fact, a Hungarian physicist. Posted by: Miklos von Neumann-Teller-Szilard at July 28, 2026 02:28 AM (A764u) 412
Wile E. Coyote was a certified genius, you know.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley Graduated Summa cum Loud Posted by: University of Miklos at July 28, 2026 02:21 AM (A764u) - He was a Roads Scholar. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2026 02:24 AM (F4PNo) - Little did he know that the Roadrunner was in fact, a Hungarian physicist. Posted by: Miklos von Neumann-Teller-Szilard at July 28, 2026 02:28 AM (A764u) - Feh! Road Runner cheated on his doctorate by using CliffsNotes! Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2026 02:31 AM (F4PNo) 413
Well anyway, I'm not likely to be crackin' da books any time soon. Got way too many other things taking up all my time.
It's fun to consider the possibilities, though. If only I'd stayed in skool... My younger mind (much like the former body) was much more flexible and resilient. LOL! Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 02:31 AM (rdVOm) 414
Somebody coined a phrase for this, "the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics." Some mathematicians come up with some very abstract thing, and then later, damn turns out nature "uses it". It's sort of spooky. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2026 02:32 AM (w6EFb) Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 02:34 AM (rdVOm) 416
JQ, I like old cookbooks, but I don't cook so many big meals anymore. Some of my books have been stored in a damp basement which is not a good environment for them.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 28, 2026 02:36 AM (ibDUx) 417
Debby, I have a couple of shelves full of cookbooks. LOL, don't think I'll live long enough to try all the recipes... but what a way to go!
Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 02:39 AM (rdVOm) 418
Mornin’, All.
The great Vic Mizzy, who did the Addams Family theme, also did the fantastic Green Acres theme. Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2026 02:39 AM (77rzZ) 419
Made it through a lot of comments, but had to quit.
Talk of full-service gas stations above: One of the best bits in Back to the Future was Marty in the 1950s, seeing a Texaco station. Car pulls up and out come all the neatly-dressed service station attendants checking tires, washing windows, etc. Totally bizarre for the 1980s kids. Later, in the "future" (which we've passed), the hovercar pulls into the station and robots service the car. We're not quite there yet. With all the hubbub about Odessey film, even affecting the book thread on Sunday, I'm surprised I haven't seen this classic Cream tune linked by anyone: https://youtu.be/J2CCfxiQ5QY G'nite, y'all.💤 Posted by: mindful webworker - Have a good Tuesday at July 28, 2026 02:40 AM (jrd4M) 420
The great Vic Mizzy, who did the Addams Family theme, also did the fantastic Green Acres theme.
Posted by: Bulg The Hungarian connection is everywhere, Dahlink Posted by: Miklos would happlily marry Eva Gabor's granddaughter, if she does the 60s hair at July 28, 2026 02:57 AM (A764u) 421
I am just grabbing one of Miklos tequila shots and then I might try to sleep. Hi Bulg, for some reason I thought that Hank Kimball would have posted about Vic Mizzy.
Good night, mindful, great tune. My Mom got a ton of those spiral bound cookbooks put out by local churches and historical societies etc. It is kind of fun to glance through them every once in a while. Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 28, 2026 02:57 AM (ibDUx) 422
Books are great. I read whenever I have time. Sometimes only get through a few pages, but better than nothing.
Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 02:58 AM (rdVOm) 423
Feh! Road Runner cheated on his doctorate by using CliffsNotes!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey Fail vs fell Posted by: Miklos knows what who did at July 28, 2026 03:00 AM (A764u) 424
Debby, there are some real gems in those old church cookbooks! Just avoid the jello stuff-- some women submitted the yucky recipes they saw in "ladies' magazines' if they had nothing better to offer when the congregation was solicited to contribute. LOL.
Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 03:01 AM (rdVOm) 425
There is a deep, sort of late-night college bong session kind of "Deep thoughts" philosophical question about all this. We use this thing called mathematics to describe and model physical reality, the laws of the universe. And we do useful things with it, building buildings, bridges, planes, spacecraft, etc. Not to mention medicine, chemical, electrical engineering and all that. Is this the only way? Imagine some alien intelligence that's really different. The think in ways we can't even imagine. Is there some other "formal system" for want of a term that would be equally effective at this, but doesn't look anything like mathematics as we think of it? Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2026 03:01 AM (w6EFb) 426
423 Feh! Road Runner cheated on his doctorate by using CliffsNotes!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey Fail vs fell Posted by: Miklos knows what who did at July 28, 2026 03:00 AM (A764u) But he did save the lab millions by installing little quantum paintings of a muon on the wall of the synchrotron reactor chamber. Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2026 03:04 AM (Ot/FD) 427
Imagine some alien intelligence that's really different. The think in ways we can't even imagine. Is there some other "formal system" for want of a term that would be equally effective at this, but doesn't look anything like mathematics as we think of it?
Posted by: publius ---------- *bong rip* Whoa, dude... that's heavy, man! But seriously, publius-- I think I get what you're saying. (There was one tv show that I liked: "Numbers") It would be cool to grok the alien system, kind of like learning a different language. Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 03:05 AM (rdVOm) 428
I like the way gravity works in the Road Runner universe. Wile E. doesn't fall until he notices that he's stepped off the cliff. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2026 03:05 AM (w6EFb) 429
Is this the only way? Imagine some alien intelligence that's really different. The think in ways we can't even imagine. Is there some other "formal system" for want of a term that would be equally effective at this, but doesn't look anything like mathematics as we think of it?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2026 03:01 AM (w6EFb) Also, the more formal a system of mathematics gets, the more useless it is for doing anything besides metamathematics. Just like regular language. Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2026 03:07 AM (Ot/FD) 430
Is this the only way? Imagine some alien intelligence that's really different. The think in ways we can't even imagine. Is there some other "formal system" for want of a term that would be equally effective at this, but doesn't look anything like mathematics as we think of it?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley Back yo white homo greek appropropriatin' ass off Cracker don't know shit about gettin' REAL Gonna show ya'll crackas Posted by: Prof. Dr. Lumumba Kwame of the Fred Sanford Falashas at July 28, 2026 03:08 AM (A764u) 431
I like the way gravity works in the Road Runner universe. Wile E. doesn't fall until he notices that he's stepped off the cliff.
Posted by: publius, Applied Heisenberg Posted by: Looney Miklos Tunes at July 28, 2026 03:09 AM (A764u) 432
I think gravity in economics sort of works that way. A bubble forms and everybody goes crazy bidding up the price. And then they notice they've stepped off the cliff of reality. Then comes the crash. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2026 03:11 AM (w6EFb) 433
431 I like the way gravity works in the Road Runner universe. Wile E. doesn't fall until he notices that he's stepped off the cliff.
Posted by: publius, Applied Heisenberg Posted by: Looney Miklos Tunes at July 28, 2026 03:09 AM (A764u) He only falls because we're watching. Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2026 03:12 AM (Ot/FD) 434
One answer to that is this. If such a radically different formal system existed, it would have to describe the same physical universe. Therefore it would have to be equivalent to ours. It would just be a different language, and a translation would be possible. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2026 03:13 AM (w6EFb) 435
Schrödinger's coyote?
Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 03:15 AM (rdVOm) 436
As a kid, I always wondered why the roadrunner didn't just go around the traps.
Then I saw a list that was supposedly the Rules for the coyote/roadrunner cartoons. "It's a roadrunner. It can only run on the roads." Blew my mind, man. Posted by: mikeski at July 28, 2026 03:15 AM (VHUov) 437
There are actual roadrunners around here. It's funny to watch them run! But they don't always stay on the roads, of course.
As a child, I was disappointed that their plumage wasn't as pretty & fancy as in the cartoons, LOL. Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 03:21 AM (rdVOm) 438
Sweet dreams Horde, gotta get the trash barrels down the driveway just a few short hours from now.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 28, 2026 03:22 AM (ibDUx) 439
Night, Debby. Glad to see you tonight!
Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 03:24 AM (rdVOm) 440
One answer to that is this. If such a radically different formal system existed, it would have to describe the same physical universe. Therefore it would have to be equivalent to ours. It would just be a different language, and a translation would be possible.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2026 03:13 AM (w6EFb) It's like there are layers or categories of physical "rigor" in the world itself. An electron is an electron. It behaves like an electron. If something doesn't behave like an electron, it isn't an electron. There's such a thing as an apple. There's a bunch of different kinds of apples that grow differently, taste different, etc etc. They have a physical reality and distinctness from each other, but there was still be such a thing as "An Apple", as a category, even before humans existed to define them as such. Then you have a thing like A Republic. There is no thing in the Universe that is a republic. You can't study it independently as an object. It doesn't, strictly speaking, exist. But... they do, and we know what they are. Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2026 03:25 AM (Ot/FD) 441
OK, "was still be" was me trying to type two things at once, but I'm going to pretend I just invented a universal English verb tense for past, present, and future all at once.
The Eternal Tense? The Pluper-duper-perfect? Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2026 03:29 AM (Ot/FD) 442
Would be very interesting to see/understand some form of government such as what an "happy and successful, more advanced civilization" would have.
Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 03:30 AM (rdVOm) 443
Welcome to ontology. It's a bitch. Does a republic exist? :-) Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2026 03:30 AM (w6EFb) 444
Ok, now my brain (what's left of it) is aching...
I'll just lurk a while before crashing tonight. Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2026 03:32 AM (rdVOm) 445
Another line of thought on this. Mathematics is part of the universe. It is a product of the physical laws to begin with. We humans here are part of the universe. We are the universe become self-aware, so our tools like mathematics derive from it, and no wonder they work so well. They have to. I don't buy this reasoning at all, actually. Consider the Banach-Tarski paradox. That's an example of how mathematics can go far beyond anything "real" in the physical world. And there are other simpler examples of how real numbers, and their infinities are likewise not physical at all. And then a republic isn't physical.... So, no, our thought goes beyond and outside of physical reality. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2026 03:34 AM (w6EFb) 446
It would just be a different language, and a translation would be possible.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley In "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" the "boo-bee-bee-boo-boo" that allowed communication with beings from Another World is actually Hungarian. Those are some of the tones defined by the "eccentric" Hungarian musicologist and composer Zoltan Kodaly. This is reference to the Hungarian physicists being called at the time "the Martians". Partially because their language was incomprehensible, partially because of their ability, and because of personalities. Of Ede "Edward" Teller-" He knows people very well, and imitates one almost perfectly". Posted by: Miklos the Midwit Magyar at July 28, 2026 03:35 AM (A764u) 447
There are actual roadrunners around here. It's funny to watch them run! But they don't always stay on the roads, of course. As a child, I was disappointed that their plumage wasn't as pretty & fancy as in the cartoons, LOL. Posted by: JQ =============== First time I spotted a bunch of jackrabbits at night I tried to point them out to my little niece (2 or 3 years old). She couldn't see them at all. She was looking for Bugs Bunny. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 28, 2026 03:36 AM (mmrXZ) 448
Welcome to ontology. It's a bitch. Does a republic exist? :-)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2026 03:30 AM (w6EFb) It's the kind of thing where the definition of the term is performative, really, isn't it? We attach a series of grunts to a state of affairs and say every state of affairs that matches that "is" the series of grunts. But there's all kinds of states of affairs you could attach to that series of grunts, and no one really agrees. But an electron is an electron. No one has ever said, "No, not that kind of electron, we're talking about these other ones over here.". Well, maybe a few times. But then it turned out those were different particles entirely. Or.... are they? It's far too early for that kind of noodle-knotting. Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2026 03:37 AM (Ot/FD) 449
It doesn't, strictly speaking, exist. But... they do, and we know what they are.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2026 03:25 AM (Ot/FD) You could always tell who was taking philosophy 101 in college. One evening, one of the freshman ran into my room holding a pillow and yelled, "Does this pillow exist!!!???!!!" Yes it does. No go to bed already. Posted by: tcn in AK at July 28, 2026 03:39 AM (4ZZWr) 450
And then a republic isn't physical.... So, no, our thought goes beyond and outside of physical reality.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2026 03:34 AM (w6EFb) Of course it is physical. Without actions or artifacts, real is a construct. But without actions, there is no Republic. And, the artifacts are evident in the laws and other written materials that we rely upon daily in governance. Some of it may be horseshit, but that's real too, particularly when you step in it. Now, if you really want to blow minds, remind people that God is outside of space and time, and therefore sees everything that ever has and ever will happen. How does that work with predestination? Or does it? Posted by: tcn in AK at July 28, 2026 03:42 AM (4ZZWr) 451
Years ago, someone wrote a very humorous short story in the form of a legal case of Wile E. Coyote suing Acme Inc.
That was developed into a novel, that was not good, but apparently there may be a movie soon too. They have scrubbed the original well written story, but it still is here in its original mock-serious form. https://tinyurl.com/5bua3j6x Posted by: Miklos does recall the occasional thing at July 28, 2026 03:44 AM (A764u) 452
433 431 I like the way gravity works in the Road Runner universe. Wile E. doesn't fall until he notices that he's stepped off the cliff.
Posted by: publius, Applied Heisenberg Posted by: Looney Miklos Tunes at July 28, 2026 03:09 AM (A764u) He only falls because we're watching. Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2026 03:12 AM (Ot/FD) Nope. He falls because HE is watching, and because Chuck Jones says he should. Posted by: tcn in AK at July 28, 2026 03:44 AM (4ZZWr) 453
Jeeze, I leave for a bit and now yer talking about alternative realities and aliens. I shouldn’t have looked. (Ya can’t spell Edward Teller without ET) hm…
I know some of the physicists had some qualms about nuclear weapons. But they were also sometimes hopelessly naive. “Hydrogen weapons are too terrible to contemplate. If we declare we won’t make any, the Soviets will realize what nice people we are, and they won’t build any either” Bzzzt. Ed Teller and others probably in all likelihood kept the US or the West from getting nuked. Assured Destruction is a hell of a thing, but it is still a deterrent. Except, from the psycho you-know-who folks contributing to the late Unpleasantness. Apocalyptic suicidal nutbars with nukes. What could go wrong? Did they ever get Von Neumann to crunch those numbers? Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2026 03:44 AM (6fKvw) 454
Does a number need to be instantiated somehow in physical reality to be "real"? Apparently there's a movement in mathematics that believes so. I forget what they call themselves.
But then... what counts as "instantiation"? You can easily come up with physical descriptions of finite numbers that vastly outstrip the number of particles that have ever existed in the universe, and yet are necessary to describe things or facts about the universe. It's possible to count more than just things. Then again, i'm partial to the mindset that says Googology is a silly nonsense parlor game and a number has to actually mean something to be a number, even if we could never "write" that number down. Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2026 03:45 AM (Ot/FD) 455
Paramount says "gifts" to republican F.C.C. commissioners to approve merger were not bribes under Trump administration. BTW if you don't like my handle take it up with the Bible.
Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at July 28, 2026 03:47 AM (s/XEz) 456
Nope. He falls because HE is watching, and because Chuck Jones says he should.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 28, 2026 03:44 AM (4ZZWr) He runs off the cliff, he's fine. He looks down, he's fine. He looks at the camera, he falls... So it's all our fault! Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2026 03:49 AM (Ot/FD) 457
So it's all our fault!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2026 03:49 AM (Ot/FD) Nope. Chuck Jones. Who knew funny when he drew it. Posted by: tcn in AK at July 28, 2026 03:51 AM (4ZZWr) 458
“Mr. Coyote states that on 85 separate occasions he has purchased of the Acme Company (hereinafter, "Defendant"), through that company's mail-order department, certain products which did cause him bodily injury due to defects in manufacture or improper cautionary labelling”
Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2026 03:56 AM (6fKvw) 459
>> Does a number need to be instantiated somehow in physical reality to be "real"?
Funny story. Some tells a mathematician, you guys are mystics, because you "believe in" imaginary numbers. Mathematician objects, those numbers are as "real" as any other. Guy replies, then show me the square root of -1 pieces of chalk! Mathematician says, well, first show my 1/2 a piece of chalk. Guys takes a new piece of chalk, and breaks it in half as best he can. There, there's 1/2 a piece of chalk. Mathematician says, no that is one piece of chalk. You now how two pieces of chalk. Think about it..... Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2026 03:57 AM (w6EFb) 460
>> Of course it is physical. Without actions or artifacts, real is a construct.
I disagree with that. I think. Something like a republic is an idea. This all boils down to the question is information physically real. Take something like a tool, or a mousetrap. That existed as an idea, a light bulb went off in someone's head, and he created a physical instance of that idea. The thing and the idea are not the same. The idea is pure information. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2026 04:01 AM (w6EFb) 461
Mathematician says, no that is one piece of chalk. You now how two pieces of chalk.
——- My Dog knows damn well it’s only one treat, broke in two. Nice try! Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2026 04:04 AM (6fKvw) 462
Mathematician says, no that is one piece of chalk. You now how two pieces of chalk.
Think about it..... Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2026 03:57 AM (w6EFb) "Stop cracking open my dry erase markers, you're making a mess!" Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2026 04:05 AM (Ot/FD) 463
The idea is pure information.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2026 04:01 AM (w6EFb) In a sense, the pure information is the idea. Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2026 04:06 AM (Ot/FD) 464
If I were a real dick of a teacher, I'd put the piece of chalk on the desk, and say "one piece of chalk". Then rotate it 90 degrees and say "square root of negative one pieces of chalk".
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2026 04:10 AM (Ot/FD) 465
Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at July 28, 2026 03:47 AM (s/XEz)
There are many things I can "take up" with the Bible. Your handle wouldn't be one of them. This so strange to me that leftists troll on conservative sites. I don't go on leftists sites to troll them. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 04:13 AM (xPsv8) 466
Finally a day not going far away
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Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2026 04:16 AM (Ia/+0)
Glad to hear that, Skip. There's supposed to be a lot of rain- at least in NJ. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 04:19 AM (xPsv8) 468
Now I'm thinking about quantum information theory. That information can never be destroyed.... Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2026 04:23 AM (w6EFb) 469
Now I'm thinking about quantum information theory. That information can never be destroyed....
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2026 04:23 AM (w6EFb) "In the beginning was the Word" etc etc.... Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2026 04:25 AM (Ot/FD) 470
I sort of like the notion that as soon as we figure something out, the rules change, so to speak
Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2026 04:25 AM (6fKvw) 471
Take something like a tool, or a mousetrap. That existed as an idea, a light bulb went off in someone's head, and he created a physical instance of that idea. The thing and the idea are not the same. The idea is pure information.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2026 04:01 AM (w6EFb) Except that an idea is not a reality, until it is. You can imagine all sorts of things, hence, science fiction. But, until it becomes and artifact, it doesn't actually exist. It is ether, or fluff, or imagination, but it is not real. Just as men thinking they are women and claiming to be so is not real. They may try to look like women, or try to act like women, but until they actually become a woman, they are not real. By claiming the idea is a fact, you have just legitimized an entire subculture of schizophrenic thought. It also is not real. Posted by: tcn in AK at July 28, 2026 04:26 AM (4ZZWr) 472
This so strange to me that leftists troll on conservative sites. I don't go on leftists sites to troll them.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 04:13 AM (xPsv The point of trolling is to inflame someone to anger and then laugh at them over it. Trolling a leftie site is like pouring gas into a volcano. It's a waste of resources, and you'll only get your shoes ruined for your efforts. Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2026 04:27 AM (Ot/FD) 473
Trolling a leftie site is like pouring gas into a volcano. It's a waste of resources, and you'll only get your shoes ruined for your efforts.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2026 04:27 AM (Ot/FD) There is also a chance that the sysadmin will try to dox you, or try your username and password on other sites to see if he can crack your accounts and harm you. Leftists are nasty. Do not touch. Posted by: SciVo at July 28, 2026 04:30 AM (Sy6m/) 474
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2026 04:27 AM (Ot/FD)
Yep, which is probably why I've never done it. I get enough leftist thought reproduced here. I don't need to search it out on my own. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 04:31 AM (xPsv8) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 04:34 AM (xPsv8) 476
Tech thread is live!
Posted by: SciVo at July 28, 2026 04:44 AM (Sy6m/) 477
Now I'm thinking about quantum information theory. That information can never be destroyed....
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley As long as Darline is alive, I will not be allowed to forget certain things Posted by: Miklos bears a manly burden at July 28, 2026 04:49 AM (A764u) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2026 09:29 AM (Cq/ve) Too Many Puppies Cafe![]() Jacob's Ladder, Peak District, England by @peaklass1
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Posted by: Corrected For Accuracy at July 27, 2026 07:42 PM (Pnh8M) Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2026 07:42 PM (O6Iwc) 3
That fat cat with the dog was funny.
Thank you. Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at July 27, 2026 07:42 PM (Sco7b) 4
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Posted by: Corrected For Accuracy (And I didn't) Not unless I shifted the Space-Time continuum. Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2026 07:43 PM (O6Iwc) Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2026 07:46 PM (FZ29D) 6
Name a word in the English language containing the letters "hho" in a row.
Hint: It's in Ace's post! Posted by: zombie at July 27, 2026 07:48 PM (Av6i5) 7
We were rightfully worshiped in Egypt.
Posted by: Felix the Cat at July 27, 2026 07:49 PM (JM9I6) 8
My new cat Chloe is acclimating herself to the inside of my house.
The sunroom is far too warm for her these days so I brought her inside. She's locked in the library right now what the other cats get used to her being inside. Mostly going well, though Kaylee the Calico Kitty Cat (the cutest little cat of them all) does chase Chloe around. Kaylee will just have to get used to Chloe. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2026 07:50 PM (FZ29D) 9
Ah. I needed this. Last thread had me ready to commit murder.
Puppehs and kittehs are a balm for my soul. Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 27, 2026 07:51 PM (0aYVJ) 10
Just wanted to remind everyone, apropos of the title, that Primus Sucks!
Posted by: Area_Man at July 27, 2026 07:51 PM (Z5XYz) 11
All these puppies marked safe from Dr Evil Fauci
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 27, 2026 07:52 PM (0TVIV) 12
Ok, so here's my idea, and just a warning it involves AI, a lot of it, it might drain 90% of the nation's strategic energy reserves but imagine, The Big Lebowski, the whole movie, but in the place of Jeff Bridges is a capybara. That's it, the only change. Basically like colorizing a BW film but I call it capybarazing.
Posted by: banana Dream - it would really tie the whole movie together at July 27, 2026 07:52 PM (3uBP9) 13
Everytime I see a Capybara I get the impression that it is just a Guinea Pig that escaped from Pee Wee's Playhouse.
He's got a giant coffee cup. A giant tooth brush, and a giant guinea pig. (on a side note, Pee Wee's playhouse also ruined the Matrix movie. All I see is Cowboy Curtis everytime Morpheus is on the screen) Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2026 07:52 PM (dIske) 14
Ace's answer:
roughhouse Other correct answers: withhold fishhook bathhouse ...and a few other dodgy semi-words ("sleuthhound"). Posted by: zombie at July 27, 2026 07:53 PM (Av6i5) 15
Everytime I see a Capybara I get the impression that it is just a Guinea Pig that escaped from Pee Wee's Playhouse.
---- I'm always reminded of "Speak" the capybara from the animated cartoon The Tick. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2026 07:54 PM (FZ29D) Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2026 07:54 PM (0sNs1) 17
>>> I'm always reminded of "Speak" the capybara from the animated cartoon The Tick.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2026 07:54 PM (FZ29D) because that is what he does! Posted by: banana Dream - SPOON! at July 27, 2026 07:56 PM (3uBP9) 18
#10 for the win.
Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at July 27, 2026 07:57 PM (pE12i) 19
I think we have an inverse Schroedinger’s cease fire going right now.
If you look at it, it disappears . Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2026 08:01 PM (xLOWQ) 20
Amazing how much Fauci looks like a Nazi
Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 08:01 PM (vE0+H) 21
Check out Cowboy State Daily. There is a 350 acre private island in Montana for sale priced at $72 million. Only access is by water, dock will accommodate a 70 foot yacht. The house looks great but it isn't finished in the inside. I had no idea there was an island in Montana. I thought Montana was land locked. Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 08:01 PM (/QHx4) 22
Just wanted to remind everyone, apropos of the title, that Primus Sucks!
Posted by: Area_Man at July 27, 2026 07:51 PM Dude. You do realize that they have an oft-referenced by The Horde ballad, correct? Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2026 08:03 PM (0sNs1) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2026 08:04 PM (O0L8i) 24
I saw a story the other day about a bear that climbed a power pole and sat up there for a while before electrocuting itself. Stupid bear.
Posted by: fd at July 27, 2026 08:05 PM (MWfyi) 25
I've been watching funny animals at this web cam for an hour.
https://tinyurl.com/LV-Earth-Cam OK, they're "animals" of the bipedal primate kind, a steady stream of them taking selfies or having pics taken of themselves in front of the WELCOME TO Fabulous LAS VEGAS sign. Fascinating study in human behavior. And the longer I watch, the more absurd it seems. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 27, 2026 08:09 PM (zYpTz) 26
Check out Cowboy State Daily.
There is a 350 acre private island in Montana for sale priced at $72 million. Only access is by water, dock will accommodate a 70 foot yacht. The house looks great but it isn't finished in the inside. I had no idea there was an island in Montana. I thought Montana was land locked. Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 08:01 PM (/QHx4) Lakes, Rivers. Getting a 70 foot boat there would be a puzzler. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 08:09 PM (uhVAy) 27
Good night everyone
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2026 08:10 PM (Ia/+0) 28
They didn't want to shoot he bear with a tranquilizer because it might have fallen and hurt itself so they waited until it shorted out the power lines and probably killed the power to a bunch of houses .
Posted by: fd at July 27, 2026 08:10 PM (MWfyi) Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 27, 2026 08:11 PM (zdLoL) 30
https://tinyurl.com/yhw2st5a
The next thing I have here is classified,’ Biden said at one point. 'Some of this may be classified ...' Biden can be heard telling Zwonitzer in another discussion. 'It's not marked classified, but ...' Biden said, his voice trailing off. No classified materials were published in the book, but the discussions, and the documents, were cited in an explosive 2024 special counsel report. --------------- Audible released just now of Biden's interview with Hur. Not sounding too good. Posted by: beckster at July 27, 2026 08:12 PM (kX27y) 31
I had no idea there was an island in Montana. I thought Montana was land locked.
Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 08:01 PM (/QHx4) Flathead Lake is yuge. Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 27, 2026 08:12 PM (0aYVJ) 32
Oldcat, I love how the house looks. It's so different. We wouldn't be able to say "hey, I'm running down to the store to grab some groceries, lol. If someone wants isolation that would be the place to live. Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 08:13 PM (/QHx4) Posted by: man at July 27, 2026 08:14 PM (XuXeR) 34
Finally plugged in the TV after moving a few months ago. My wife is scrolling around streaming services and sees a thumbnail with Kurt Russell.
Her: What's this? Me: "Escape From New York?" It's a classic. Her: I've never seen it. Me: Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today. Posted by: Oddbob at July 27, 2026 08:15 PM (vTZFs) 35
Audible released just now of Biden's interview with Hur. Not sounding too good. Posted by: beckster at July 27, 2026 08:12 PM (kX27y) ____________ Sharp as a tack, ladies and gents. Settled science! Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2026 08:15 PM (O0L8i) 36
>>There is a 350 acre private island in Montana for sale priced at $72 million. Only access is by water, dock will accommodate a 70 foot yacht.
I'd like the job captaining that yacht. How far can you go in a 70 foot yacht in a lake in Montana? Gotta be the easiest job in Montana. Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 08:15 PM (viF8m) 37
I mentioned Flathead lake not seeing the link.
Eh. My point stands. I'm a bit woozy from all the smoke. Apparently the entire state of Oregon is ablaze. Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 27, 2026 08:15 PM (0aYVJ) 38
Just wanted to remind everyone, apropos of the title, that Primus Sucks!
Posted by: Area_Man at July 27, 2026 07:51 PM Dude. You do realize that they have an oft-referenced by The Horde ballad, correct? Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2026 08:03 PM (0sNs1) Sailing the Seas of Cheese? Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 27, 2026 08:17 PM (0aYVJ) 39
I'm a bit woozy from all the smoke. Apparently the entire state of Oregon is ablaze.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 27, 2026 08:15 PM Considering how much weed is grown there, no wonder you're woozy. I see a Taco Bell run in your future. Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2026 08:18 PM (0sNs1) 40
If everyone here would throw in a few dollars we could buy the place, lol. We could name it the AOS Sanctuary. Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 08:19 PM (/QHx4) 41
Fuckheads like that ruined Montana. Even in the 1980s the locals were spitting nails about shit like that.
Telluride was a sleepy mining town. Then downhill skiing was established, mostly by 10th Mountain trained locals. Real estate does a moonshot, taxes along with it, and then the locals have to unass the AO, and or their descendants eventually all live in a trailer park 40 miles away and commute into work to bus tables for a bunch of foreigners. Not too far off what’s happened to the U.S.A. Generally the locals are being priced out. Bigtime Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2026 08:20 PM (Pnh8M) 42
"I see a Taco Bell run in your future.
Posted by: Duncanthrax" This is the correct phrasing for this response. Posted by: fd at July 27, 2026 08:20 PM (MWfyi) 43
Great musicians in Primus. Just not my cup of tea.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 27, 2026 08:21 PM (Qt6Ls) 44
OK, they're "animals" of the bipedal primate kind, a steady stream of them taking selfies or having pics taken of themselves in front of the WELCOME TO Fabulous LAS VEGAS sign.
Fascinating study in human behavior. And the longer I watch, the more absurd it seems. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 27, 2026 08:09 PM (zYpTz) I searched and sadly there's no cameras for Obama's Presidential Center of Doom. That would be funny. I think a significant amount of the population would be satisfied to live their lives in cages as long as their basic needs were met. We could put them on webcam. Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at July 27, 2026 08:24 PM (Sco7b) 45
I'm a bit woozy from all the smoke. Apparently the entire state of Oregon is ablaze.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 27, 2026 08:15 PM (0aYVJ) Well, throw another dem on the fire.... Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2026 08:24 PM (S41Gd) 46
Who had the lawn care folks who killed the lawn earlier? “They” are re-sodding? Idiots.
In July?? Tell them to wait till fall, say September. If we’re talking Bluegrass, Fescue in northerly latitudes. Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2026 08:27 PM (Pnh8M) 47
Summer assholes: boaters Winter assholes: skiers I expect a Venn diagram of these two groups will have no small overlap. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2026 08:28 PM (O0L8i) 48
Who had the lawn care folks who killed the lawn earlier? “They” are re-sodding? Idiots.
In July?? Tell them to wait till fall, say September. If we’re talking Bluegrass, Fescue in northerly latitudes. Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2026 08:27 PM (Pnh8M) Wasn't me earlier, but I did have a lawn service turn my yard into a dustbowl. They treated it, and poof, lawn was gone. I'm guessing it wasn't mostly grass. lol Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2026 08:30 PM (S41Gd) 49
Summer assholes: boaters
Winter assholes: skiers I expect a Venn diagram of these two groups will have no small overlap. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2026 08:28 PM (O0L8i) Where do bicyclists fit in? Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2026 08:33 PM (S41Gd) 50
There is a 350 acre private island in Montana for sale priced at $72 million. Only access is by water, dock will accommodate a 70 foot yacht.
The house looks great but it isn't finished in the inside. I had no idea there was an island in Montana. I thought Montana was land locked. Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 08:01 PM (/QHx4 Ahhh. Saw this movie. Second hand Lions Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2026 08:33 PM (2WIwB) 51
Happy cafe! Sounds like a summer thunderstorm stirring up out there.
Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2026 08:33 PM (Dd38x) 52
Real estate does a moonshot, taxes along with it, and then the locals have to unass the AO, and or their descendants eventually all live in a trailer park 40 miles away and commute into work to bus tables for a bunch of foreigners. Not too far off what’s happened to the U.S.A. Generally the locals are being priced out. Bigtime
Posted by: Common Tater I wonder if that's why Silver Mountain (Kellogg ID) tries to keep the ski tourists from interacting with the townsfolk at all - to prevent the tourists from deciding that Kellogg is a nice place to live. Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 27, 2026 08:34 PM (vJrRc) 53
If everyone here would throw in a few dollars we could buy the place, lol.
We could name it the AOS Sanctuary. Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 08:19 PM (/QHx4) There is merit in your words. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2026 08:34 PM (S41Gd) 54
Who had the lawn care folks who killed the lawn earlier? “They” are re-sodding? Idiots.
In July?? Tell them to wait till fall, say September. If we’re talking Bluegrass, Fescue in northerly latitudes. Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2026 08:27 PM (Pnh8M) Red Fescue was a recurring character on Gunsmoke, noted for his homespun wisdom. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2026 08:34 PM (1z8ji) 55
Second hand Lions
Posted by: Diogenes That was a good movie. I keep forgetting to see if it's availble to buy on DVD Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 27, 2026 08:35 PM (vJrRc) 56
Her Majesty and I have a single frosted sugar cookie apiece after dinner. Unfortunately, HM has created a couple of monsters by giving Diana and The Big Dummy little fragments. Now they tell us when we're late and pester us without cease. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2026 08:39 PM (O0L8i) 57
I'm a bit woozy from all the smoke. Apparently the entire state of Oregon is ablaze.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 27, 2026 08:15 PM (0aYVJ) Oregon is a beautiful state but sadly the fires have missed Portland, Salem and Eugene. Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2026 08:39 PM (2WIwB) 58
By 2023, Mulvaney had more than 10 million followers on TikTok, while her video series, Days of Girlhood, had received over one billion views. In 2023, Mulvaney received a Queerties Groundbreaker Award, a Streamy Award, and Attitude's Woman of the Year Award.
Dylan always claimed to be a girl. Posted by: r hennigantx at July 27, 2026 08:39 PM (/+uur) 59
Where do bicyclists fit in?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2026 08:33 PM Under my car. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 27, 2026 08:41 PM (Wnv9h) 60
Our lawn here in SW Wyoming is shot. Severe drought right after the lawn service aerated seeded etc. We don't care because if you read about how ranchers can't grow grass and hay for their livestock it is understandable. We live on a dead-end street with five houses. Three of the houses have very green lawns because they have been sneaking out in the middle of the night watering their grass. I'm up most of the night sitting on the patio and I hear the sprinklers running. The neighbor next to us is like us, he isn't watering just like us. It's a sad life if when a drought and water restrictions don't matter because you want to have the greenest lawn in town. Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 08:42 PM (/QHx4) 61
By 2023, Mulvaney had more than 10 million followers on TikTok, while
Dylan always claimed to be a girl. Posted by: r hennigantx at July 27, 2026 08:39 PM (/+uur) He could claim to be the Queen of Denmark, still a deranged faggot. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2026 08:43 PM (1z8ji) 62
Where do bicyclists fit in?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2026 08:33 PM Depends on whether there's a Critical Mass. Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2026 08:43 PM (0sNs1) 63
I come across a good many bicyclists near Schloss Hadrian. All the ones I've seen give no cause for complaint. It's the urban ones who are insufferable narcissists. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2026 08:44 PM (O0L8i) 64
I posted my last painting I did last night but on a dead thread. If you like F1 click my nic.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2026 08:44 PM (KC5Lt) 65
64 I posted my last painting I did last night but on a dead thread. If you like F1 click my nic.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2026 08:44 PM (KC5Lt) That's a painting??!! Impressive!! Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at July 27, 2026 08:46 PM (Sco7b) 66
Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 08:42 PM (/QHx
We don't have any restrictions currently but I still feel guilty about watering new sod they just laid down. We haven't had rain in over a week and none forecasted for the next week. Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2026 08:47 PM (KC5Lt) 67
>>>No roughhousing in the pool!
Fishermen can get pretty territorial when it comes to their favorite fishing hole. Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 27, 2026 08:47 PM (syz1S) 68
58 By 2023, Mulvaney had more than 10 million followers on TikTok, while her video series, Days of Girlhood, had received over one billion views. In 2023, Mulvaney received a Queerties Groundbreaker Award, a Streamy Award, and Attitude's Woman of the Year Award.
Dylan always claimed to be a girl. Posted by: r hennigantx Please don’t refer to that thing as she or her or a girl. Notice it never calls itself a woman. Just a girl. . It’s a freak. And it hasn’t the faintest idea of what a woman is. And it never will. Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 27, 2026 08:48 PM (loRx9) 69
>>I come across a good many bicyclists near Schloss Hadrian. All the ones I've seen give no cause for complaint. It's the urban ones who are insufferable narcissists.
Got lots of them here, particularly at this time of the year. I agree, they are pretty respectful of vehicle traffic around here and after living with them in the city, big difference. Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 08:48 PM (viF8m) Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 27, 2026 08:49 PM (syz1S) 71
I came home from work to an entire meal made. They had hamburgers, I got a veggie burger, they made a big salad and have a cantaloupe ready for dessert. Dog was fed, cats were fed. Shark week is on, and now the dishwasher is being loaded. I wonder if I am in the right house. 🤣
Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2026 08:49 PM (Dd38x) 72
polynikes, Don't feel guilty. Water your sod, you paid good money for it. It's different here because we didn't have any snow and no rain for months. Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 08:50 PM (/QHx4) 73
I miss having both a cat and dog who are good friends. It's what I grew up with.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2026 08:52 PM (KC5Lt) 74
I didn’t mind summer drought when I had a lawn.
It would go dormant. Won’t hurt a thing if you keep traffic off of it. And you don’t have to mow. When cooler temps return in the fall, and precip, it will bounce. What you can’t do, is bring it back and forth in and out of dormancy. If you’re gonna water the lawn, water the hell out of it, and… you can’t stop, or it will go into shock and die back, killing the roots. Rookie mistake. Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2026 08:54 PM (2a3L4) 75
Me: Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today.
Posted by: Oddbob **** Have you informed your wife that she is playing the Phineas part? Posted by: clarence at July 27, 2026 08:54 PM (plc2/) 76
Who had the lawn care folks who killed the lawn earlier? “They” are re-sodding? Idiots.
In July?? Tell them to wait till fall, say September. If we’re talking Bluegrass, Fescue in northerly latitudes. Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2026 08:27 PM (Pnh8M) Wasn't me earlier, but I did have a lawn service turn my yard into a dustbowl. They treated it, and poof, lawn was gone. I'm guessing it wasn't mostly grass. lol Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division ----------------------- My "lawn" is more weeds than grass, and sparse as it is. I know better than to apply Weed-B-Gone™-- don't want a (worse) dustbowl! Posted by: JQ at July 27, 2026 08:55 PM (rdVOm) 77
Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 08:50 PM (/QHx4)
I know but we always seem to have a drought or a mini drought every year so I'm expecting it. I know the west is having severe drought . Hope it changes soon. Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2026 08:55 PM (KC5Lt) 78
Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2026 08:27 PM (Pnh8M)
That was me and yes it was idiotic to do it now. I could have waited. It was the HOA who arranged it so another reason to not like HOAs. Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2026 08:57 PM (KC5Lt) 79
Don’t overwater it. Frequent light daily irrigation, in the morning before sunrise. Don’t let it dry out, don’t let it get soggy either.
This is why you don’t want to plant sod in July. What a bunch of Chucks. They fuck up, and then fuck up the “repair”, and fuck you up too, while they are at it. Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2026 08:58 PM (2a3L4) 80
Hello, all The post about the Berlin attack is a parody account. There's another similar account that blamed the attack on Germans. Dead-on, a lot of people miss the joke. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 27, 2026 08:58 PM (mmrXZ) 81
Don’t overwater it. Frequent light daily irrigation, in the morning before sunrise. Don’t let it dry out, don’t let it get soggy either.
This is why you don’t want to plant sod in July. What a bunch of Chucks. They fuck up, and then fuck up the “repair”, and fuck you up too, while they are at it. Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2026 08:58 PM (2a3L4) The grass here at stately Peon Manor is still growing. Mowed yesterday, will need to mow tomorrow or Wednesday, too. But the growth spurt has slacked off. We have had no lack of rain here. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2026 09:01 PM (1z8ji) 82
What I mean by that, watering frequently is a pain in the ass, especially in July. So people have a tendency to decide to really soak it, thinking they can get away with that for a day or two or three instead. Establishing sod doesn’t work that way. It’s kinda tricky sometimes.
Is your new lawn 3” above the driveway now? Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2026 09:04 PM (2a3L4) 83
Wish I could divvy out some of the rain we've had here for the last week. Yesterday was the only day it was sunny with no rain. Rain and clouds all last week, thunderstorm today. Pool is too cool to enjoy now. Six inches total rain.
Posted by: Upper NC Coast at July 27, 2026 09:05 PM (JM9I6) 84
Don’t overwater it. Frequent light daily irrigation, in the morning before sunrise. Don’t let it dry out, don’t let it get soggy either. ____________ Thanks to studied neglect, my lawn is a verdant expanse with nary a single weed. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2026 09:05 PM (O0L8i) 85
Springtime in Iowa, with plenty of rain, means mowing twice a week at minimum if ya wanna keep up. Lawncare is really a retired man’s hobby. The last thing I wanted to do after working all day is sweat in the yard for sn hour or two.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2026 09:08 PM (2a3L4) 86
He could claim to be the Queen of Denmark, still a deranged faggot.
Gosh, I had no idea -- but it sounds like you may have met some members of the Royal Family. They had some weird-beards, going back at least a couple of hundred years, and that doesn't even count that one oddball prince. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 27, 2026 09:09 PM (zdLoL) 87
From Millsboro, De south to Elizabeth City, NC, it has been rain and more rain. The cold front made it thru here and we had very nice weather, cool and dry. Clouds and rain have returned. I mentioned the corn looked dry and that was big mistake.
Posted by: Accomack at July 27, 2026 09:09 PM (QIHeJ) 88
I tried watering early, between 4 and 7am, but no bueno. My morning pee has greater pressure, at that hour!
Posted by: JQ at July 27, 2026 09:09 PM (rdVOm) 89
Thanks to studied neglect, my lawn is a verdant expanse with nary a single weed.
—— He’s trying to establish a new lawn from Sod. Trust me. Apples and aircraft carriers Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2026 09:09 PM (2a3L4) 90
In July. Fucking retarded they are, this HOA.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2026 09:10 PM (2a3L4) Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 27, 2026 09:12 PM (dK+Kv) 92
The clouds prepare for battle
In the dark and brooding silence Bruised and sullen stormclouds Have the light of day obscured Looming low and ominous In twilight premature Thunderheads are rumbling In a distant overture Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 27, 2026 09:12 PM (dK+Kv) 93
They had some weird-beards, going back at least a couple of hundred years, and that doesn't even count that one oddball prince.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 27, 2026 09:09 PM (zdLoL) Hamlet, Omelet. What difference does it make? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2026 09:13 PM (1z8ji) 94
I’m pretty rusty, but depending the temps and sunlight, probably twice a day minimum, completely watering the sod. Every day for quite some time. Couple months anyway. Anything above 90 is rough stuff for turf without irrigation. That’s why they go dormant.
That is not an option trying to establish sod. See where I’m goin’ with that? If it dies, are they gonna replace it again on their dime? Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2026 09:13 PM (2a3L4) 95
HOAs are people who have no control over their lives so they micromanage the people who they consider to beneath them. Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 09:15 PM (/QHx4) 96
Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2026 09:13 PM (2a3L4
Who knows . We've been instructed to water for 15 minutes twice daily. Temps will bee over 95 for next month at least. Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2026 09:15 PM (KC5Lt) 97
They should pay for the increase in my water bill.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2026 09:17 PM (KC5Lt) Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2026 09:17 PM (2a3L4) 99
Ha I read your lyric post first, I was wondering when you became a poet!
I had forgotten about that song, thanks! Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2026 09:19 PM (xLOWQ) 100
If you want a green lawn in a fought stricken area, install astroturf.
Otherwise be sane. Plant local drought tolerant plants and landscape accordingly. Stupid is as stupid does. Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 27, 2026 09:23 PM (yEz+x) 101
*DROUGHT STRICKEN*
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 27, 2026 09:23 PM (yEz+x) 102
Or beautiful white rock. Thats what my grandparents did in El Paso.
Although Grandpa managed to keep an American Elm (barely clinging to life) and a small square of grass alive. This was not good grass to run on barefoot. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 27, 2026 09:28 PM (zZu0s) Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 09:29 PM (/QHx4) 104
During the night shift here at the nursing home, which seems to short staffed tonight, it can seem the lunatics are running the asylum.
Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at July 27, 2026 09:29 PM (iKvf9) 105
Jacob's ladder was a creepy movie. Also stupid. Tim Robbins?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 27, 2026 09:29 PM (zZu0s) 106
I was able to do a quick mow in the backyard tonight, just before the twilights last gleaming. Time to turn the sprinkler on - first half of July was surprisingly wet, but I noticed tonight that anywhere the grass was thin, the mower pulled up clouds of dust. Yikes!”
(I have a nice southern St. Augustine lawn, and I take a bit of pride in it) Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2026 09:30 PM (xLOWQ) 107
Cue Primus…
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 27, 2026 09:31 PM (4g5V+) 108
He could claim to be the Queen of Denmark, still a deranged faggot.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2026 08:43 PM (1z8ji) He claimed to be a girl, Not a woman And Bud Light wanted the teen girl beer market Posted by: r hennigantx at July 27, 2026 09:31 PM (/+uur) 109
I just want *something* even if weeds, to keep the soil in place. That I got. Good enough. The weeds are green and, bonus, look nice from a distance!
Posted by: JQ at July 27, 2026 09:32 PM (rdVOm) 110
When we bought this house a couple of years ago we found some weird thing left by the previous owners for yardwork. We had no idea what it was for and looked it up. It is some roller thing with a handle thing and you fill up the large roller thing with water and then "roll" your lawn. Rolling your lawn? Geez get out and do fun stuff. We have tried to give it away but even the lawn people don't want it, lol. Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 09:33 PM (/QHx4) 111
(I have a nice southern St. Augustine lawn, and I take a bit of pride in it)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2026 09:30 PM (xLOWQ) Patron saint of lawnmower blade sharpening Posted by: r hennigantx at July 27, 2026 09:34 PM (/+uur) 112
We don’t have any restrictions on water, so the rain bird runs at 6a and again in the evening. I am going to get the flower bed out front redone in September, it’s really too hot right now.
Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2026 09:35 PM (Dd38x) 113
Dad brought home one of those ancient reel mowers - non-motorized push mower. I was pretty young, too young to mow yet, but dad was pissed off because my brothers kept breaking the gasoline mowers.
It was pretty funny, I can still remember mu brother pushing that fucker while he was crying. Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2026 09:36 PM (2a3L4) 114
Four seasons--
The lawn roller is for prepping for new lawn, and/or keeping new sod flat & pressed into contact with soil. Surprised no lawn service would want it. Posted by: JQ at July 27, 2026 09:36 PM (rdVOm) 115
111 (I have a nice southern St. Augustine lawn, and I take a bit of pride in it)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2026 09:30 PM (xLOWQ) Patron saint of lawnmower blade sharpening Posted by: r hennigantx at July 27, 2026 09:34 PM (/+uur) ---------- Former libertine and acolyte of Mani, and competent breeder of hybrid tropical grasses. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 27, 2026 09:37 PM (u/oMr) 116
Oncology appointment at noon tomorrow.
Anyone here familiar with Dr Makis protocol? Fenben and ivermectin and some other things. Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 27, 2026 09:37 PM (FGA9/) 117
JQ, We were surprised too. Oh, I just realized the American Legion here is having a huge yard sale this weekend. Nothing is priced, you pay whatever you want. We'll take it down there. Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 09:40 PM (/QHx4) 118
Bombshell after bombshell. The Biden tapes with his ghostwriter have been released, tapes Hur had access to, and Biden admits over and over that he shared classified information with his ghostwriter. Classified information Biden lied about even having.
Just the start. https://tinyurl.com/5yajb2ct Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 09:41 PM (viF8m) 119
“Rolling lawn” is not a good idea. It just compacts the soil.
What you really want to do, is aerate, if anything. Find out what the soil pH is. Usually or often they need lime. If the pH is off, you can fertilize all you want, and it won’t do anything, because it is unavailable to the plant, or most of it. I liked to buy 10/10/10 and drop that stuff right before a rain. My lawn loved me, and I loved it, too. LOL Those fags went from 50 pound bags to 40, now 35. Won’t be too long they will be in little pouches Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2026 09:41 PM (2a3L4) 120
104 During the night shift here at the nursing home, which seems to short staffed tonight, it can seem the lunatics are running the asylum. Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at July 27, 2026 09:29 PM (iKvf9) My daughter, when first starting out, worked at an older nursing home near Frankston, Texas. Sad place, the kind of place where families drop the old folks off to forget about them. There was one room they always left vacant; the older employees would jusr say there were “problems” with that room. They even kept it locked. My daughter said that often, especially on weekends, at about 2 am the central nurses station would light up with urgent call requests and buzzers from that room. Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2026 09:43 PM (xLOWQ) 121
You put de lime in de coconut
You drink dem both together Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 27, 2026 09:44 PM (u/oMr) 122
It is some roller thing with a handle thing and you fill up the large roller thing with water and then "roll" your lawn. Rolling your lawn? Geez get out and do fun stuff. We have tried to give it away but even the lawn people don't want it, lol.
Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 09:33 PM (/QHx4) Pappaw had one full of concrete. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 27, 2026 09:44 PM (zZu0s) 123
Oh, I just realized the American Legion here is having a huge yard sale this weekend. Nothing is priced, you pay whatever you want. We'll take it down there.
Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 09:40 PM (/QHx4) Paint a stick figure of Rachel Corrie on it. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2026 09:45 PM (1z8ji) Posted by: JQ at July 27, 2026 09:45 PM (rdVOm) Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 09:47 PM (/QHx4) 126
I have a rolling machine, but it's for a different kind of grass.
Posted by: Mr. Natural at July 27, 2026 09:47 PM (JM9I6) 127
*Rolling* is just for prep (soil leveling) and new sod installation.
Posted by: JQ at July 27, 2026 09:45 PM (rdVOm) My yard, which is just basically wild pasture grass, and prairie wildflowers, is lumpy. It could use a good rolling. But it would take a big highway paving roller to make a dent in it. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2026 09:48 PM (1z8ji) 128
I thought “rolling” was for moles. Luckily I don’t have them, but they’re freaky, especially when the hit a nice lawn. I grew up in Phoenix, and we had some kind of gopher which was not too different from a prairie dog. Left dirt mounds all over.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2026 09:49 PM (xLOWQ) 129
Everyone has their thing. We don't care if the neighbor's thing is keeping their lawns green. Don't be an asshole out watering your yard with inside and outside water usage restricted. We've only been showering once a month, lol. Trying to save water. Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 09:52 PM (/QHx4) 130
It is some roller thing with a handle thing and you fill up the large roller thing with water and then "roll" your lawn. Rolling your lawn? Geez get out and do fun stuff. We have tried to give it away but even the lawn people don't want it, lol.
Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 09:33 PM (/QHx4) When I was a kid, my parents brought home a section of concrete culvert we kids could climb through and roll around the yard. It was lots of fun, and we rolled it back and forth. We wound up with a very flat back yard from it. Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2026 09:53 PM (rbvCR) 131
My yard is lumpy as all get-out... a roller wouldn't do much here, either.
But a roller is good if you're starting from scratch, have tilled in some soil amendments and need to de-fluff the patch. I suppose one would also be good for flattening a dirt & gravel driveway, after filling low spots. Posted by: JQ at July 27, 2026 09:53 PM (rdVOm) Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 09:55 PM (/QHx4) 133
From digging and transplanting, I can tell that whoever built my home in 1937 put about a foot of sandy loam on top of a mostly clay base, so it’s very level and smooth (and elevated about 12” from the neighbors lawn)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2026 09:57 PM (xLOWQ) 134
104 During the night shift here at the nursing home, which seems to short staffed tonight, it can seem the lunatics are running the asylum.
Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at July 27, 2026 09:29 PM (iKvf9) I just tried to picture what it will look like when Gen-X hits nursing homes, and discovered a limit to my imagination. Posted by: SciVo at July 27, 2026 09:57 PM (Sy6m/) 135
My yard is lumpy as all get-out... a roller wouldn't do much here, either.
But a roller is good if you're starting from scratch, have tilled in some soil amendments and need to de-fluff the patch. I suppose one would also be good for flattening a dirt & gravel driveway, after filling low spots. Posted by: JQ at July 27, 2026 09:53 PM (rdVOm) I have one in the shed. It was here when I moved in. Not touching it, nope. lol Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2026 09:58 PM (S41Gd) 136
105 Jacob's ladder was a creepy movie. Also stupid. Tim Robbins?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 27, 2026 09:29 PM (zZu0s) As I recall, the progression was meh -> intrigued -> confused -> frustrated -> gypped. Posted by: SciVo at July 27, 2026 10:00 PM (Sy6m/) 137
https://tinyurl.com/5yajb2ct Posted by: JackStraw ================== Did Biden remember to pardon himself? Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 27, 2026 10:00 PM (mmrXZ) 138
We've only been showering once a month, lol. Trying to save water.
Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 09:52 PM (/QHx4) You seem like a good online friend, let’s keep it that way. Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2026 10:00 PM (xLOWQ) 139
I have one in the shed. It was here when I moved in. Not touching it, nope. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2026 09:58 PM (S41Gd) Yard art, Berserker. Put it out by the end of your driveway, with some cankle-legs in striped stockings and Hillary Clinton shoes trapped under it. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2026 10:01 PM (1z8ji) 140
We had a mole in the yard, maybe decade ago... made a big mound of dirt by an apple tree.
Doggo got that bugger, I found it out in the yard after she'd "played with" it. Ew. Creepy looking thing. The paws looked like tiny hands! Posted by: JQ at July 27, 2026 10:01 PM (rdVOm) Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 10:01 PM (/QHx4) 142
Did Biden remember to pardon himself?
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 27, 2026 10:00 PM (mmrXZ) Aztec name for Stacey Abrams: Snaxalotl Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2026 10:03 PM (1z8ji) 143
I thought Biden was almost braindead when he ran for office.
Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 10:01 PM (/QHx4) -------------- The first time ... in 1970. Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 27, 2026 10:04 PM (iLtRJ) 144
The cat on the roomba--classic.
Posted by: Random PJ at July 27, 2026 10:04 PM (+jscL) 145
ONT is up.
Posted by: clarence at July 27, 2026 10:06 PM (plc2/) 146
The cat on the roomba--classic.
Posted by: Random PJ at July 27, 2026 10:04 PM (+jscL) With the power of my mind alone, I can command this magic disc to go wherever I wish to go. Posted by: The Cat at July 27, 2026 10:07 PM (1z8ji) 147
silver diamine fluoride. any thoughts?
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2026 10:11 PM (rbvCR) 148
Ha I read your lyric post first, I was wondering when you became a poet!
I had forgotten about that song, thanks! Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2026 09:19 PM (xLOWQ) My pleasure. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 27, 2026 10:17 PM (dK+Kv) Fauci Bragged In His Narcissist's Diary That He Caused the Greatest Single-Day Loss in Stock Market HistoryBefore that: Fauci recorded in his narcissist's diary that he was fully aware that Covid-19 had been engineered by humans while publicly dismissing this claim as a "conspiracy theory" -- and of course organizing 12 bought-and-paid-for grant recipients to claim it had evolved naturally. KanekoaTheGreatNow, as for tanking the stock market in an election year: Was Fauci bragging about being the cause of the greatest percentage drop in history just because he's narcissistic evil dwarf, or was bragging that he was doing the Deep State's work in taking Trump's miracle economy away from him? ![]() Tara Servatius
Tom Elliott Fauci lied to the public in claiming that he had nothing to do with "locking down anything" -- while bragging in his diary that he convinced mayors to shut down schools: David Zweig
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Don't you hate reading a post just to find no comments?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 27, 2026 06:49 PM (ExV1e) 2
Nooded.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 27, 2026 06:50 PM (ExV1e) Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 27, 2026 06:50 PM (aJQbY) 4
And now we wait.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 27, 2026 06:50 PM (ExV1e) 5
Not quite but darned closed, whew. I said it before and I'll say it again: No redeeming qualities to Fauci at all.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 27, 2026 06:51 PM (aJQbY) 6
Ye gods, am I first?!
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 27, 2026 06:50 PM (aJQbY) Everyone is first on their mom's list. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 27, 2026 06:51 PM (ExV1e) 7
Bad look for Pfizer? I shan't believe it, I simple shannot. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 27, 2026 06:51 PM (w6EFb) 8
I don't want to read anything about Fauci except he was slowly eaten by rabid beagles.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2026 06:52 PM (u82oZ) 9
Rand's ai pic of what Fauci looked like writing in his diary
x.com/randpaul/status/ 2081847595442262020 Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 27, 2026 06:52 PM (0TVIV) 10
Smug looking little bastard, I notice.
Posted by: tubal at July 27, 2026 06:52 PM (Gqar8) 11
Archvillain material. What an asshole.
Posted by: huerfano at July 27, 2026 06:52 PM (VJX5o) 12
Afternoon.
Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2026 06:53 PM (QQJja) Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 06:53 PM (Fi81e) 14
He wrote he wanted to destroy President Trump in his first term
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2026 06:53 PM (Ia/+0) 15
I want revenge on entire bloodlines....
Everyone have a good night. This will just piss me off... Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at July 27, 2026 06:54 PM (Sco7b) 16
Old & Busted: Going back in time and killing Baby Hitler.
New Hotness: Going back in time and killing...uh, no, nevermind. This isn't Democrat Underground. Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2026 06:54 PM (QQJja) 17
Of all of the thousands of laws in the Federal Register, there has to be a dozen he could be charged with.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2026 06:54 PM (diia5) 18
There are numerous individuals that I am having difficulty forgiving over the COVID debacle.
Posted by: tubal at July 27, 2026 06:54 PM (Gqar8) Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at July 27, 2026 06:55 PM (pE12i) 20
So the Moderna vaccine wasn't *that* bad, right?
It was the Pfizer one that was the real problem, right? Right? Riiiiiiiiight?!? 👀 Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2026 06:56 PM (QQJja) 21
It really is amazing that this dirbag kept a diary of his crimes.
Are we sure it's real? Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 27, 2026 06:56 PM (v8XRi) 22
(Although it's important to note there's no record of Fauci personally trading off of these tips.)
________________________ This is no small thing. So, maybe there is no record of him, personally trading. BUT, I think it warrants a subpoena for phone records to determine whom he talked to that evening. Because I'm willing to bet he was calling in favors to keep his "gain to function" project(s) quiet and out of the news. And, it warrants looking at the trading records of those he did talk to when in immediate receipt of Pfizer inside financials. For someone who claimed to be apolitical in his decisions/advice, he sure had the whole cadre of Democrats supporting, praising, and nearly worshiping him. So, who benefitted financially, and when specifically. Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2026 06:56 PM (dIske) 23
Was Fauci bragging about being the cause of the greatest percentage drop in history just because he's narcissistic evil dwarf, or was bragging that he was doing the Deep State's work in taking Trump's miracle economy away from him?
embrace the healing power of "and". Posted by: conundra at July 27, 2026 06:57 PM (sGtp+) 24
The gall of this guy. What's really crazy to me is that he kept a diary of this diabolical bullshit, which is exactly what a an evil narcissistic Doofenshmirtz would do.
Did he think it would never be read by anyone else? Was he anticipating that it would be read, and that he would be canonized for it? It's stupefying. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 27, 2026 06:57 PM (zYpTz) 25
Speaking of shannot I am reading on the internets that the Bowzer (dip dip dip dip dip....) is a full on leftist with severe TDS.
Posted by: banana Dream - dip dip dip dip dip at July 27, 2026 06:57 PM (3uBP9) 26
19 Eventually, Fauci will get his. Not sure how. Not sure when.
But, he will. Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at July 27, 2026 06:55 PM (pE12i) To quote Evie’s line to Bennie in “ The Mummy” - “Nasty little men like you always get their comeuppence. Always.” Posted by: tubal at July 27, 2026 06:57 PM (Gqar8) 27
"There are numerous individuals that I am having difficulty forgiving over the COVID debacle."
------------------------- Yeah. Starting with my parents. Banned from Christmas for two years because I refused to wear a mask or get the jab. Not coincidentally, two of the best Christmases I've ever had. Fuck 'em. Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at July 27, 2026 06:57 PM (pE12i) 28
He kept a log to brag to himself his dirty deeds
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2026 06:57 PM (Ia/+0) 29
Even with all the crap Fauci used to try and make Trump lose, the Dems still had to pull out the cheat....
Posted by: It's me donna at July 27, 2026 06:58 PM (FWPkT) 30
I saw the first Dr Kevorkian, I know the type.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 06:58 PM (uhVAy) 31
He was a useful tool for Democrats, but he thought that they were worshiping him because they really believed him.
Democrats knew that scared Liberal Boomers would do literally anything to protect themselves from COVID. Up to, and including, destroying the lives of their fellow Americans. And they knew that that would hurt Trump. Plus, it allowed them to cheat in the election, so that was an added bonus. They worshiped Fauci, not because they believed him, but because he could be used as a battering ram against their political enemies. Posted by: 29Victor at July 27, 2026 06:58 PM (0MjtC) 32
I really can't think of a single individual in my lifetime that caused more financial damage to the US. I think he easily has Obama beat.
I love Trump, but I will never understand why he let Fauci run wild the way he did. It seemed clear to the entire conservative movement this guy was going to be a major problem. Posted by: Sharpie at July 27, 2026 06:58 PM (cf8es) 33
Based on some of the correspondence of people like Dazak and Fraudci, and some sources analyzing this, here's how I think the Mad Science went down.
1. They considered killed virus "stuck in the past". 2. mRNA was an emerging technology 3. Rubes will never accept "modern virus technology". 4. We'll never get there like this. 5. We have to develop more communicable vaccines that people would really fear. 6. Pandemic and mRNA Jabs! This also explains why they ran 28-32 cycles on Covid "tests". So that we would not lose the plot that we all needed these space-age jabs, so they could collect data using humanity as labratory rats. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 06:58 PM (Fi81e) 34
It really is amazing that this dirbag kept a diary of his crimes.
Are we sure it's real? Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) He's a narcissistic asshole. It's what they do. He deserves to be in the first round of "Feed the Chipper". Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 27, 2026 06:59 PM (Qt6Ls) 35
lol nothing is going to happen to Fauci. What country do you people think we live in?
Sheeeeeiiiit.... Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2026 06:59 PM (QQJja) 36
During the unpleasantness of my divorce proceedings during COVID, my "ex" had her attorney file on order of protection against me for not getting the Clot Shot
The court approved it, and I had to keep 200 feet of distance from her, her mom, and the boys. Because #SCIENCE Posted by: browndog says woof at July 27, 2026 06:59 PM (3sXRv) 37
Did he think it would never be read by anyone else? Was he anticipating that it would be read, and that he would be canonized for it? It's stupefying.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 27, 2026 06:57 PM (zYpTz) ---- What's the point of being an evil narcissist if you can't show the world your genius after you are gone? He WANTS people to read about his exploits--preferably after he's dead. Then he can rub our faces in his villainy from beyond the grave. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2026 06:59 PM (FZ29D) 38
I hope the books are being written about this unelected, tyrannical egomaniac.
""The Power Broker" is the story of Robert Moses, also unelected, who acquired and wielded absolute political influence in the NY City region without ever holding a single elected office. Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 27, 2026 06:59 PM (qoRUb) 39
F*ck Fauci
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at July 27, 2026 07:00 PM (5yDGQ) 40
>>> He kept a log to brag to himself his dirty deeds
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2026 06:57 PM (Ia/+0) Logs are good listeners and know many things. Posted by: Twin Peaks Log Lady - it's better than bad, it's good at July 27, 2026 07:00 PM (3uBP9) 41
Where's the Luigi's when you need them?
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 27, 2026 07:00 PM (DbmIv) 42
This is no small thing. So, maybe there is no record of him, personally trading. BUT, I think it warrants a subpoena for phone records to determine whom he talked to that evening. Because I'm willing to bet he was calling in favors to keep his "gain to function" project(s) quiet and out of the news. And, it warrants looking at the trading records of those he did talk to when in immediate receipt of Pfizer inside financials.
For someone who claimed to be apolitical in his decisions/advice, he sure had the whole cadre of Democrats supporting, praising, and nearly worshiping him. So, who benefitted financially, and when specifically. Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2026 06:56 PM (dIske) This is a dude that watched Gays spread AIDS to each other for kicks for entertainment. Who had "Research" on pet dogs of flesh eating worms/bugs in his building. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 07:00 PM (uhVAy) 43
Fauci 07-27-26:
Dear Diary, The shit really hit the fan today. Everybody hates me now. I will be burning you tomorrow. Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2026 07:00 PM (6ydKt) 44
I guess that little troll is gonna show up in front of some congressional committee and we'll see sleeves rolled up and they'll issue some strongly worder letters. There may even be some name calling and yelling or other theatrical bullshit.
Let me know if he gets referred to the DoJ, let alone arrested and charged. Fuck that guy in particular. Bring back tar and feathers and public hangings. Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 27, 2026 07:00 PM (3Ope8) 45
I have no forgiveness for this rat fucker .
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2026 07:01 PM (abScH) 46
We buried two family members during Covid out of state. They had rules about how many people could attend, even graveside. Regular funeral? Forget it. Bastards.
Posted by: tubal at July 27, 2026 07:01 PM (Gqar8) 47
megalomaniac's gonna megalomaniac. Posted by: Frank Barone at July 27, 2026 07:01 PM (OkYzo) 48
During the unpleasantness of my divorce proceedings during COVID, my "ex" had her attorney file on order of protection against me for not getting the Clot Shot
The court approved it, and I had to keep 200 feet of distance from her, her mom, and the boys. Because #SCIENCE Posted by: browndog says woof == That's so shitty. I remember a lot of people getting crazy pressure like losing their job etc, and I never understood why the people in those situations didnt just fib. Like I had a friend that was going through that with his ultra liberal boss, and I was just say you got it and move on. Posted by: Sharpie at July 27, 2026 07:01 PM (cf8es) 49
It seemed clear to the entire conservative movement this guy was going to be a major problem.
Posted by: Sharpie at July 27, 2026 06:58 PM (cf8es) *Looks around hoping no one says anything. Posted by: National Review at July 27, 2026 07:02 PM (QQJja) Posted by: beckster at July 27, 2026 07:02 PM (kX27y) 51
Gain of Function is evil. Just look at what Taco Bell did at its GoF labs.
Ok, I stole that from the Babylon Bee. But that doesn't mean it's not true. Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 27, 2026 07:02 PM (U4hpE) 52
This is a dude that watched Gays spread AIDS to each other for kicks for entertainment. Who had "Research" on pet dogs of flesh eating worms/bugs in his building.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 07:00 PM (uhVAy) _______________________ Ah, so a Libertarian. Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2026 07:02 PM (dIske) 53
Imma have to start curating to what news I expose myself about Fauci it is so enraging.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2026 07:03 PM (JvZF+) 54
Fauci should be swinging from the nearest tree.
As should any and all of the people in Business, Government and Media who enabled him. Posted by: garrett at July 27, 2026 07:03 PM (zGzrB) 55
'Fauci' and 'Pussy' each have 5 letters …
Posted by: Dr_No at July 27, 2026 07:03 PM (ayRl+) 56
Saw an X post claiming adult diapers were delivered on the regular to the White House during Brandon's reign of error.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 27, 2026 07:03 PM (l26NL) 57
That's so shitty.
I remember a lot of people getting crazy pressure like losing their job etc, and I never understood why the people in those situations didnt just fib. Like I had a friend that was going through that with his ultra liberal boss, and I was just say you got it and move on. Posted by: Sharpie at July 27, 2026 07:01 PM (cf8es) You needed an official card. I had to get one for doing business with a company making detectors for scanning border related vehicles. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 07:03 PM (uhVAy) 58
If this does not have him taken out of his house and beaten in the street, what will it take?
Holy fucking shit, this motherfucker has zombie Mengele muttering, dude, tone it down a bit. I need to relax. I have a Dr. appointment next week. Must. Control. Blood pressure. Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 27, 2026 07:03 PM (0aYVJ) Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 27, 2026 07:03 PM (0TVIV) 60
Lest you think this was something new for Fauci because of Trump, from 2013.
Psychopath >>@BillMelugin_ · 1h >>NEW: On page 302 of the new personal records of Dr. Fauci released by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Fauci complains that in 2013, HHS didn't let him do a CNN television interview because of "pure jealousy", adding that it was because he's a "rockstar" who was "stealing their thunder." Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 07:03 PM (viF8m) 61
Ah, so a Libertarian. Couldn't resist.
Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2026 07:02 PM (dIske) I never said "Pot" Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 07:04 PM (uhVAy) 62
Imagine him giggling and kicking his feet while writing this over running millions of children’s lives?
--- It's a knee slapper. And somebody should slap Tony' Fraudci's knees with a baseball bat! Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 07:04 PM (Fi81e) 63
Hang him.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 27, 2026 07:04 PM (dK+Kv) 64
Anyone know HOW the feds got hold of fraudci's diary?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 27, 2026 07:03 PM (0TVIV) Probably on his computers, Fed property. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 07:04 PM (uhVAy) 65
I remember a lot of people getting crazy pressure like losing their job etc, and I never understood why the people in those situations didnt just fib.
Like I had a friend that was going through that with his ultra liberal boss, and I was just say you got it and move on. Posted by: Sharpie at July 27, 2026 07:01 PM (cf8es) Remember how they gave everyone little cards for getting the shot? Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2026 07:04 PM (QQJja) 66
BTW,
I have known many like him in science and tech. It seems to be an archetype of the kid who did really good in school and thinks he knows everything, but can't handle being corrected or challenged. They fail badly in the real science so they go into administrative and management rolls. They are very good at self promotion and defending their ideas, which universally suck. Also good at taking credit. Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 27, 2026 07:05 PM (v8XRi) 67
There are some people, I think Fauci is one, that can be manipulated into evil, not for any tangible reward or wealth, just the promise of fame. Immense fame. Like you'd expect from a performer, actor, singer, but no in this case some piddling "scientist".
Posted by: banana Dream - yeah I'm looking at you too Tyson at July 27, 2026 07:05 PM (3uBP9) Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 27, 2026 07:05 PM (0TVIV) 69
If this does not have him taken out of his house and beaten in the street, what will it take?
Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 27, 2026 07:03 PM (0aYVJ) I wouldn't do that to a baseball bat of mine. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 07:05 PM (uhVAy) 70
>> Anyone know HOW the feds got hold of fraudci's diary?
I assume it was done on govt property and counts as federal records. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 27, 2026 07:05 PM (w6EFb) 71
The man is just a little turd.
Posted by: Tuna at July 27, 2026 07:05 PM (lJ0H4) 72
Without question, Fauci is one of the greatest scientific frauds as well as greatest mass murderers of all time. In a just world, he would have been arrested, tried, found guilty, and be awaiting execution right now. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 27, 2026 07:06 PM (ixS3i) 73
Hmmmm.... lying to a Federal Officer can be a Felony.
Note, this is the law the FBI used to go after Gen. Flynn... As the President IS the Top Federal Officer of the US, it seems that lying to the President could fall under this law (just like lying to Congress). Fauci lied to EVERYONE, including the President.... sooo.... Posted by: Romeo13 at July 27, 2026 07:06 PM (mP0Kj) 74
In April, Fauci cited the paper from the White House podium without mentioning his role in organizing the discussions behind it.
__________ And also acted like he couldn't even remember the authors' names. I wish I could find that video. Infuriating. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 27, 2026 07:06 PM (XvL8K) 75
Fauci should be crammed into and sealed in a fifty-five gallon steel drum. Then set adrift 250 miles south of Cape Horn. He'll never wash ashore. He will endlessly circle in the westerly ocean current around Antarctica. Good riddance.
Posted by: Gref at July 27, 2026 07:06 PM (5rh/l) 76
>>Anyone know HOW the feds got hold of fraudci's diary?
Just a guess but I bet he wrote his diary using government resources. Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 07:06 PM (viF8m) 77
We need to see the ratfaced mfer's comeuppance live on every news station. He is an evil POS and is responsible for most of what is wrong with our country now. Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 07:06 PM (/QHx4) 78
71 The man is just a little turd.
Posted by: Tuna at July 27, 2026 07:05 PM (lJ0H4) But... but.... HE IS SCIENCE! Posted by: Romeo13 at July 27, 2026 07:06 PM (mP0Kj) 79
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Remember how they gave everyone little cards for getting the shot? Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2026 07:04 PM (QQJja) Show me your papers. Comrade. Internal visas. And so so many boght into it. THAT’S what bothers me the most. Posted by: tubal at July 27, 2026 07:07 PM (Gqar8) 80
You needed an official card. I had to get one for doing business with a company making detectors for scanning border related vehicles.
Posted by: Oldcat == The "official card" was like something you scribble your golf score on. Just seemed very low tech and I dont think legally a company could pull medical files to actually check outside of some gov jobs. But I'm no expert, I certainly know in 99% of the time, nobody was really checking these things Posted by: Sharpie at July 27, 2026 07:07 PM (cf8es) 81
Lest you think this was something new for Fauci because of Trump, from 2013.
Psychopath >>@BillMelugin_ · 1h >>NEW: On page 302 of the new personal records of Dr. Fauci released by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Fauci complains that in 2013, HHS didn't let him do a CNN television interview because of "pure jealousy", adding that it was because he's a "rockstar" who was "stealing their thunder." Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 07:03 PM (viF8m) The man was a 15 year old girl. Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2026 07:07 PM (QQJja) 82
I will be forever grateful that nobody in my family had any issue with me not getting the clot shot. Nor did my employer. A rare blessing in Colorado.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 27, 2026 07:07 PM (0aYVJ) 83
We buried two family members during Covid out of state. They had rules about how many people could attend, even graveside. Regular funeral? Forget it. Bastards.
Posted by: tubal at July 27, 2026 07:01 PM (Gqar Should have held the service at a gay bath house. Those were always open. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 07:07 PM (uhVAy) 84
Don’t remember Albert Bourla getting an auto pen pardon. Or a lot of these people involved. Put their asses in the dock and have Fauci testify. Make it clear his pardon doesn’t cover present day perjury. Or let him find out the hard way.
Posted by: Clay at July 27, 2026 07:07 PM (Wn8CL) 85
Tar and feathers should be just the start.
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at July 27, 2026 07:08 PM (B2pWp) 86
I still have my little vax card somewhere
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 27, 2026 07:08 PM (0TVIV) 87
Now, let's talk about how the Supreme Court would not even LOOK at any of the shutdown stuff, even with evidence the 'National Emergency' was based on lies.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 27, 2026 07:08 PM (mP0Kj) 88
I am so sorry for those of you that were forced to get the shot.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2026 07:08 PM (abScH) 89
But... but.... HE IS SCIENCE! Posted by: Romeo13 at July 27, 2026 07:06 PM (mP0Kj) --- MAD SCIENCE!! Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 07:09 PM (Fi81e) 90
50 VDH didn't hold back in his X post:
https://tinyurl.com/3vs5ka95 Posted by: beckster at July 27, 2026 07:02 PM (kX27y) ________________________ Whoa! I've seen VDH jab a stick every once in a while in his comments. I have NEVER seen him switch out the stick for a mounted glave. That's a take down...a brutal one. Were I to guess, there's a personal story attached to those comments, and he held his tongue long enough. Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2026 07:09 PM (dIske) 91
Just looked it up, according to federal law (records act and some others), any documents created or received by a federal employee that document, explains, comments, etc on federal policy and action, which is official govt. business, are federal records and the property of the US govt. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 27, 2026 07:09 PM (w6EFb) 92
Remember how they gave everyone little cards for getting the shot?
Posted by: Robert Never got one. Thank God. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 27, 2026 07:09 PM (Qt6Ls) 93
What about that gal that was always on too. I bet she and fauci had some top tier passive aggressive mean girl stuff going on that whole time too.
Posted by: banana Dream at July 27, 2026 07:09 PM (3uBP9) 94
The "official card" was like something you scribble your golf score on. Just seemed very low tech and I dont think legally a company could pull medical files to actually check outside of some gov jobs.
But I'm no expert, I certainly know in 99% of the time, nobody was really checking these things Posted by: Sharpie at July 27, 2026 07:07 PM (cf8es) I was one of the one percent then. I held it off as long as I could and got the one pair of shots. My business partner had some boosters due to his family, might well have died from it. Heart attack when his family was out of town. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 07:09 PM (uhVAy) 95
82 I will be forever grateful that nobody in my family had any issue with me not getting the clot shot. Nor did my employer. A rare blessing in Colorado.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 27, 2026 07:07 PM (0aYVJ) I had relatives who would not talk to me at all because I refused the shots. They have conveniently forgotten all about the issue now.... I... have not. Posted by: Romeo13 at July 27, 2026 07:10 PM (mP0Kj) 96
A complete psychopath. And sociopath. I wonder if other nations will try to prosecute him . If so extradite the little punk
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2026 07:10 PM (BlDDt) 97
This is a dude that watched Gays spread AIDS to each other for kicks for entertainment. Who had "Research" on pet dogs of flesh eating worms/bugs in his building.
Posted by: Oldcat ------------- What is worse is that he then turned around and did not recommend closing those places, and he also said that normal people were at risk. I had relative in industry at the time, and it was well understood that the source and cause was their unbelievable decadence and perversions. The solution from the start was to crack down hard on the gay lifestyle. Fauci knew this just as he knew the Wuhan Flu was no worse than the seasonal flu. Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 27, 2026 07:10 PM (v8XRi) 98
88 I am so sorry for those of you that were forced to get the shot.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2026 07:08 PM (abScH) We, wife and I, took a LOT of heat for not getting vaxxed. A lot from acquaintances and family. Hard to deal with. Posted by: tubal at July 27, 2026 07:10 PM (Gqar8) 99
https://tinyurl.com/ycxmdsce
456 pages covering 2001 through I believe 2016. Historical records of Fauci that Rand posted as The Prequel to Tony's diary on the Reading Room site. Posted by: beckster at July 27, 2026 07:11 PM (kX27y) 100
Now, let's talk about how the Supreme Court would not even LOOK at any of the shutdown stuff, even with evidence the 'National Emergency' was based on lies.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 27, 2026 07:08 PM (mP0Kj) --- The Courts are terrible at repairing messes. Just good at creating them. i.e. The Civil War from Taney's Argument from Silence. The elective branches had to fix his shit. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 07:11 PM (Fi81e) 101
Take a good long look...this is what evil looks like.
Posted by: pawn at July 27, 2026 07:11 PM (CSOVt) 102
84 Don’t remember Albert Bourla getting an auto pen pardon. Or a lot of these people involved. Put their asses in the dock and have Fauci testify. Make it clear his pardon doesn’t cover present day perjury. Or let him find out the hard way.
Posted by: Clay at July 27, 2026 07:07 PM (Wn8CL) Yeah, protecting the guilty, but you're correct. He can't be prosecuted for anything he did (even murder) covering the period of the pardon, but not for any crimes he commits after the pardon. Just send him off to some other country for rendition... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2026 07:12 PM (l3cgK) 103
Still remember seeing families holding up kiddos in front of windows at the nursing home.
It was said earlier. This sick greedy fuck will get his. Hope I’m alive to see it. Posted by: Billythesquid at July 27, 2026 07:12 PM (gN+5I) 104
Dear Diary, it was cold today But the sun came out later So I went out and strolled about looking at the shops Didn't really see anything I liked so I didn't buy anything On the way home, I posted a letter Been quite a nice day Somebody exploded an H-bomb today But it wasn't anybody I knew Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2026 07:12 PM (Cqx++) 105
Show me your papers. Comrade. Internal visas. And so so many boght into it. THAT’S what bothers me the most.
Posted by: tubal at July 27, 2026 07:07 PM (Gqar ==== Yes you had to show your Gesundheitspapiere Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2026 07:12 PM (JvZF+) 106
This guy deserves to meat the business end of an industrial wood chipper, at the very least his pardons need to be challenged by charging this piece of sh*t with as many crimes as can be conceived.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 27, 2026 07:12 PM (XV/Pl) 107
COVID killed me...but I got better...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2026 07:13 PM (l3cgK) 108
What about that gal that was always on too. I bet she and fauci had some top tier passive aggressive mean girl stuff going on that whole time too.
Posted by: banana Dream That rotten bitch deserves to be hung by her scarves. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 27, 2026 07:13 PM (Qt6Ls) 109
I remember a lot of people getting crazy pressure like losing their job etc, and I never understood why the people in those situations didnt just fib.
You know there were little official vax cards with the CDC logo on them, right? I had to submit an image of mine to keep my job. If I could have just verbally lied and gotten away with it, I would have. Actually falsifying a gov't document was a step more than I was wiling to go. Posted by: Oddbob at July 27, 2026 07:13 PM (vTZFs) 110
Just send him off to some other country for rendition...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2026 07:12 PM (l3cgK) This! I'm sure there are plenty of other countries who would put him on trial for us. Posted by: Romeo13 at July 27, 2026 07:13 PM (mP0Kj) 111
So I can't decide who's more evil. Fauchi, or dementia Joe or the cadre of enablers behind dementia Joe who probably engineered the auto-pardon and didn't act to remove Biden when it was obvious he had moved beyond just plain stupid to impaired. Lookin at you, Jill. And you Barack.
Fauchi may be the worser evil. His evil has had long lasting and on-going consequences. The only thing I can think of that Biden did was saddle us with the DEI idiot on the Supreme Court. Even that, she serves as an on-going reminder of why it's a bad idea to hire based on race and gender. Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 27, 2026 07:13 PM (QGaXH) 112
And there it is. RFK said his agency dug the diaries out of 11 separate servers where they were stored and gave them to Rand Paul last week.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 07:14 PM (viF8m) 113
So, if I understand this right, if you are a govt. employee, and are writing about your official actions, it doesn't matter if you create it on your own computer at home, or physically write it with your own pen on your own physical paper, it's still govt. property, documenting official govt. policy. I don't have a problem with this one little bit. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 27, 2026 07:14 PM (w6EFb) Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 27, 2026 07:14 PM (Wnv9h) 115
Show me your papers. Comrade. Internal visas. And so so many boght into it. THAT’S what bothers me the most.
Posted by: tubal at July 27, 2026 07:07 PM (Gqar --- Yup. And we all know what side of politics the Papers Please crowd fell on. Real, true Nazi shit. Not like "You're trying to harsh my buzz, you NAZI!" Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 07:14 PM (Fi81e) 116
I would like to see Fauci's rendition...of a beagle locked down with sand flies eating them alive...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2026 07:14 PM (l3cgK) 117
112 And there it is. RFK said his agency dug the diaries out of 11 separate servers where they were stored and gave them to Rand Paul last week.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 07:14 PM (viF8m) RFK, love him or hate him, gives no shits about stepping on toes. Posted by: tubal at July 27, 2026 07:15 PM (Gqar8) 118
@ 65 I remember a lot of people getting crazy pressure like losing their job etc, and I never understood why the people in those situations didnt just fib.
__________ Like I had a friend that was going through that with his ultra liberal boss, and I was just say you got it and move on. Posted by: Sharpie at July 27, 2026 07:01 PM (cf8es) __________________________________________________ Remember how they gave everyone little cards for getting the shot? Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2026 07:04 PM (QQJja) __________________________________________________ I'm a graphic designer … I made my own fuckin' cards to spec - and faked the signatures on 'em too. I also traced down the specific colors used for 'em. Never got the shot(-s), but the 2 times I had to 'present the card', nobody suspected it wasn't the real deal. I even went to the trouble of 'aging' and 'creasing it to give it that 'sump'm xtra' they'd be looking for. Fuck 'em. Posted by: Dr_No at July 27, 2026 07:15 PM (ayRl+) 119
So, if I understand this right, if you are a govt. employee, and are writing about your official actions, it doesn't matter if you create it on your own computer at home, or physically write it with your own pen on your own physical paper, it's still govt. property, documenting official govt. policy.
I don't have a problem with this one little bit. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 27, 2026 07:14 PM (w6EFb) --- So we should revisit Comey's "personal notes", right Court?! Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 07:15 PM (Fi81e) 120
I don't know what would be the best way to punish the ratfaced mfer. When you think of how many families were destroyed, the children who were locked down unable to just be a normal kid, people who lost their family members and people who lost their jobs it is overwhelming. Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 07:15 PM (/QHx4) 121
https://tinyurl.com/3vs5ka95
Posted by: beckster at July 27, 2026 07:02 PM (kX27y) ______________________ Whoa! I've seen VDH jab a stick every once in a while in his comments. I have NEVER seen him switch out the stick for a mounted glave. That's a take down...a brutal one. Were I to guess, there's a personal story attached to those comments, and he held his tongue long enough. Posted by Orson ---------------------- My favorite sentence out of the piece. Godhead!! "He posed as a non-partisan, even as he collaborated with the leftwing cable news grandees and liberal columnists to hound his enemies and magnify his godhead." Posted by: beckster at July 27, 2026 07:16 PM (kX27y) 122
>>456 pages covering 2001 through I believe 2016. Historical records of Fauci that Rand posted as The Prequel to Tony's diary on the Reading Room site.
And do you know why they stated in 2001? Because after 9/11 Dick Cheney consolidated the US biological weapons program and defense of biological weapons program under one person, Anthony Fauci. Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 07:17 PM (viF8m) 123
Fauchi may be the worser evil. His evil has had long lasting and on-going consequences. The only thing I can think of that Biden did was saddle us with the DEI idiot on the Supreme Court. Even that, she serves as an on-going reminder of why it's a bad idea to hire based on race and gender.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 27, 2026 07:13 PM (QGaXH) Biden and his gang were playing games with starting a nuclear war with Russia They paid Iran 8 billion dollars to build nukes and attack the west. The fact that his had not killed billions is just dumb luck. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 07:17 PM (uhVAy) 124
I'll say that my company was stand-up all through the mandate craze.
My director kept telling people "Stand-by, we'll tell you if we are forced to comply". And they waited it out. I was willing to take it to be "reasonable", it it were mandated. But the court decisions saved me from that. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 07:17 PM (Fi81e) 125
I haven't any evidence or any experience in the field but I think the Public Health officials saw an opportunity in the response to COVID. They tried to use the panic to condition the public in obeying them, without question, without protest and without any real evidence for their positions. That's how we got useless masks, meaningless 'distancing' and counter-productive plexiglass barriers. The public health officials wanted instant, knee-jerk obedience no matter what order they gave. And to a degree, it worked, witness the people who still wear useless masks to this day.
Unfortunately, for them, and to a degree, for us, they completely nuked their credibility with the majority of the public. In the future, there may be another crisis and their advice might actually be correct. And the majority of the public might ignore them due to past performance. Posted by: JB1000 at July 27, 2026 07:18 PM (w6Qyo) 126
I think a lot of things happen, and continue to happen because at some point in the past heads should have rolled as a consequence, literally, but never did. And each horrible step, that should have been met with its own terrible fury and halted, was instead followed by another and another because the path was openly traversed without the slightest resistance.
A much too peaceful society is rather dangerous. Posted by: banana Dream at July 27, 2026 07:18 PM (3uBP9) 127
I want to see him standing in a snowbank in nothing but his shorts because everything he has has been taken from him and his evil bitch wife.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2026 07:19 PM (abScH) 128
Yeeesh, so many people in positions in power are determined to act as Bond villains, it's too bad we don't have an American James Bond. Posted by: naturalfake at July 27, 2026 07:19 PM (iJfKG) 129
Husband and I are skeptical about lots of things. Did anyone else think with the lockdowns, etc that there was something far more nefarious being planned? Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 07:19 PM (/QHx4) 130
Let's see if we can put these in the proper order:
1. Press prefaces hearings as politically motivated. 2. Fauci starts his testimony claiming death threats. 3. Democrats take to the airwaves to praise him 4. Lemming leftist public jumps on board. 5. Made up statistics and projections start making their rounds on the talk shows claiming Fauci saved millions of lives. 6. Leftists start wearing masks agains as a show of solidarity. Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2026 07:19 PM (dIske) 131
122 >>456 pages covering 2001 through I believe 2016. Historical records of Fauci that Rand posted as The Prequel to Tony's diary on the Reading Room site.
And do you know why they stated in 2001? Because after 9/11 Dick Cheney consolidated the US biological weapons program and defense of biological weapons program under one person, Anthony Fauci. Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 07:17 PM (viF8m) But of course they did. The Bush Era was a precursor, or perhaps a warmup, for the next 8 years. I have a fair amount of shame over my Bush-Backing, Jack. Posted by: tubal at July 27, 2026 07:19 PM (Gqar8) 132
Fraudci, et al, might have millstone swimming in their future.
Kids didn't have to take the jab. Or, they shouldn't have had to take the jab. But they opened up the Jab to school age kids, and schools started requiring it for students to return. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 07:19 PM (Fi81e) 133
Look at the Emperor of Atomic Wedgies. Look quickly and then look away from the dwarf garden gnome. You just know he was picked on in school. This created a monster.
A turdbreath with no personality, who always felt he was the smartest in the room. But no one noticed and tiny, sad trombone sounds emit from whitey tidies. By HS he was plotting to be "in charge." To "be important." To "be noticed worldwide." In HS I was plotting how to get out of HS and to have as much fun as possible, like a fairly normal human. By college he found he excelled in science and yippee! Finally! He found his calling! The plotting, bullsh*tting continued with mentors and politics and $$ flashing in his beady, villian eyes. Somehow he was going to get noticed. He was. He planned this from his teens. Maybe not the Wuhan lab or splitting any cleavage other than bosoms. But the source of evil was implanted in his thoughts. Of this I have no doubt as he reeks of this narcissism need. God will punish him if man does not. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 27, 2026 07:19 PM (hzuYO) 134
Pretty sure the shot caused my cancer. Daughter and SIL required us both to get them if we wanted to see 1st grandson.
Now I will not get to see that grandson grow up. Fauci has a lot to answer for. Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 27, 2026 07:20 PM (SRRAx) 135
I honestly think we're lost, as a nation, if Fauci isn't put to death in a public square by hanging until dead.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2026 07:20 PM (jehhT) 136
8 I don't want to read anything about Fauci except he was slowly eaten by rabid beagles.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2026 06:52 PM (u82oZ) That would be poetic, but they're too nice. You need something heartless, like mustelids, that would just start with all of his softest tissue and easiest extremities first. It could take awhile for him to even lose consciousness... Posted by: SciVo at July 27, 2026 07:20 PM (Sy6m/) 137
Been busy with my paid job. How did the congressional committee get access to Fauci's diary? Is he such an egomaniac he made it public. Can they subpoena a private diary? Having been pardoned perhaps Fauci wanted the world to know how much he did to tank Trump in 2020, certainly he wasn't willing to burn the diary to avoid having the world know what he had done, he apparently thinks he is a hero. One good thing out of 2020, rubes like me learned that Pence was with the deep state and not MAGA. I know some here at AoS never trusted him, but I did. I thought he was too weak spined to be POTUS but I thought he was loyal to Trump and the MAGA idea.
Posted by: PaleRider at July 27, 2026 07:21 PM (Zvboi) 138
Husband and I are skeptical about lots of things.
Did anyone else think with the lockdowns, etc that there was something far more nefarious being planned? Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 07:19 PM (/QHx4) Like stealing an election and staring world wars? Nah. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 07:21 PM (uhVAy) 139
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………. He planned this from his teens. Maybe not the Wuhan lab or splitting any cleavage other than bosoms. But the source of evil was implanted in his thoughts. Of this I have no doubt as he reeks of this narcissism need. God will punish him if man does not. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 27, 2026 07:19 PM (hzuYO) In short, a sociopath, Christy. Posted by: tubal at July 27, 2026 07:21 PM (Gqar8) 140
Fauci to testify in a Senate hearing. Will he beat James Comey for the number of times he says, "I don't recall"?
Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 27, 2026 07:21 PM (VakNL) 141
Husband and I are old. We refused to get the "shots" so no family, for three years would visit us because they were scared of giving us the shit. One day my husband said if he got the shit and died at least he would get a change of scenery, lmao. He is a funny guy. Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 07:22 PM (/QHx4) 142
I'm a graphic designer … I made my own fuckin' cards to spec - and faked the signatures on 'em too. I also traced down the specific colors used for 'em. Never got the shot(-s), but the 2 times I had to 'present the card', nobody suspected it wasn't the real deal. I even went to the trouble of 'aging' and 'creasing it to give it that 'sump'm xtra' they'd be looking for. Fuck 'em.
Posted by: Dr_No == Good for you. I bet your gun collection also got lost in a boating accident. Posted by: Sharpie at July 27, 2026 07:22 PM (iZHgT) 143
Found the WH press conference where he acted like he didn't even know the names of paper's authors. Dude's a psychopath. Scroll to 10:45.
https://tinyurl.com/2w39emhy Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 27, 2026 07:22 PM (XvL8K) 144
It was all a lie designed to take out Trump's most formidable weapon for reelection: his booming economy.
Yes. Exactly this. I perceived that as soon as they began clamoring for shutdowns. Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at July 27, 2026 07:22 PM (OlzlW) Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 07:23 PM (/QHx4) 146
Oh, fucking joy, it's a Fauci thread with a side of Covid.
I never get enough. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2026 07:24 PM (Cq/ve) 147
God will punish him if man does not.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 27, 2026 07:19 PM (hzuYO) At the very least, Rand Paul should give that little gnome and Atomic Wedgie, just so he knows he never escaped being a creep. Posted by: tcn in AK at July 27, 2026 07:24 PM (4ZZWr) 148
My favorite sentence out of the piece. Godhead!!
"He posed as a non-partisan, even as he collaborated with the leftwing cable news grandees and liberal columnists to hound his enemies and magnify his godhead." Posted by: beckster at July 27, 2026 07:16 PM (kX27y) __________________________ He laid into him from word one. Dear Dr. Fauci and Mr. Science....and then calls him a sociopathic narcissist, and a pathological schizophrenic. VDH is angry. You don't want to see VDH angry. Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2026 07:24 PM (dIske) 149
I bet your gun collection also got lost in a boating accident.
Posted by: Sharpie at July 27, 2026 07:22 PM (iZHgT) I hate it when that happens. Posted by: tcn in AK at July 27, 2026 07:25 PM (4ZZWr) 150
Posted by: JB1000 at July 27, 2026 07:18 PM (w6Qyo)
--- 1. The harassment was so we'd want it to stop. 2. They primed the bubble that we could not open society back up "without a vaccine". 3. Pfizer provided a "vaccine". It just so happens to be the type of "vaccine" futurists had been wanting to try out for a long time, it seems. We were "all in this together", so we should all take the vax. And now I think that "All in this together" was a priming campaign, from the start of the lockdown. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 07:25 PM (Fi81e) 151
This has the makings of a super SNL skit, if SNL wasn’t a shadow of its former glory.
Dear diary… Posted by: H at July 27, 2026 07:25 PM (Aw/6/) 152
>>But of course they did. The Bush Era was a precursor, or perhaps a warmup, for the next 8 years. I have a fair amount of shame over my Bush-Backing, Jack.
I think many of us have some regrets but that was the choice we had at the time at the time. Even so, I'm not sure we can lay this on Bush or Cheney. Fauci is clearly a whack job who was mad with power. I no joke think he's a psychopath. He was writing a running total of the number of sick and deaths on the same pages he was bragging he was becoming a worldwide media superstar and he knew he was behind the virus the whole time. Who does that? Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 07:25 PM (viF8m) 153
Husband and I are old. We refused to get the "shots" so no family, for three years would visit us because they were scared of giving us the shit.
Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 07:22 PM (/QHx4) That makes no sense. If the vaccine worked, they would be safe from you even if you had it. The vaccine does not make them endanger you since they would not have it themselves. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 07:25 PM (uhVAy) 154
98 88 I am so sorry for those of you that were forced to get the shot.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2026 07:08 PM (abScH) We, wife and I, took a LOT of heat for not getting vaxxed. A lot from acquaintances and family. Hard to deal with. Posted by: tubal at July 27, 2026 07:10 PM (Gqar My son was practically in hysterics that I wouldn't take it. He really bought the whole story. Which surprised me, because he tends to distrust authority. COVID broke minds. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 27, 2026 07:26 PM (zYpTz) 155
One of my favorite lines from VDH was right after the election in a piece, he referred to Trump as Trump Invictus. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 27, 2026 07:26 PM (w6EFb) 156
G-d may punish him but I 'd sure like to soften him up a lot first.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2026 07:26 PM (abScH) 157
Fauci lied to EVERYONE, including the President.... sooo....
Posted by: Romeo13 See this little piece of paper titled Pardon. HeHe Anthony Fauci Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 27, 2026 07:26 PM (FxH7T) 158
My sister practically begged me to get the shot, which is as good a contraindicatior as anything.
Posted by: fd at July 27, 2026 07:26 PM (MWfyi) 159
It was all a lie designed to take out Trump's most formidable weapon for reelection: his booming economy.
Yes. Exactly this. I perceived that as soon as they began clamoring for shutdowns. Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at July 27, 2026 07:22 PM (OlzlW) --- Wonder how much it was inspired by Bill Maher, or whether they were way ahead of him about crashing the economy. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 07:27 PM (Fi81e) 160
If we had just embraced what Sweden did, we would have been fine.
I always wonder what would have happened had a Dem been been President. I think the media's tone would have been much more "this is not the end of the world". The entire thing seemed to be about one thing : getting Trump. The whole world seemed in on it. Posted by: Sharpie at July 27, 2026 07:27 PM (iZHgT) 161
And do you know why they stated in 2001? Because after 9/11 Dick Cheney consolidated the US biological weapons program and defense of biological weapons program under one person, Anthony Fauci.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 07:17 PM (viF8m) Yes, Fauci asked them to give him DARPA-like powers. Posted by: beckster at July 27, 2026 07:27 PM (kX27y) 162
I'm a graphic designer … I made my own fuckin' cards to spec - and faked the signatures on 'em too. I also traced down the specific colors used for 'em. Never got the shot(-s), but the 2 times I had to 'present the card', nobody suspected it wasn't the real deal. I even went to the trouble of 'aging' and 'creasing it to give it that 'sump'm xtra' they'd be looking for. Fuck 'em.
Posted by: Dr_No at July 27, 2026 07:15 PM (ayRl+) Next fake crisis that comes along the Horde will have need of your skills. Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2026 07:27 PM (QQJja) 163
I've kept almost every one of the 'Health Services Directives' put out by Memphis' Shelby Cty Health Dept ('SCHD') for reference. Gotta have something to back up the story, right? It's too fucking bizarre on its face to be believable without official documentation. So now I can use their shit against them if it's necessary… works for me.
I still can't believe what it must have felt like to come home and tell the family you couldn't work anymore 'cos The Government had decided your job wasn't fucking 'essential' - but there were still guys delivering washers and driers who didn't wear masks … and they were considered 'essential'. Go figure. Posted by: Dr_No at July 27, 2026 07:28 PM (ayRl+) 164
134 Pretty sure the shot caused my cancer. Daughter and SIL required us both to get them if we wanted to see 1st grandson.
Now I will not get to see that grandson grow up. Fauci has a lot to answer for. Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 27, 2026 07:20 PM (SRRAx) Well, that damned shot killed my father, so I don't doubt for a minute it caused your pain. I would pay money to see Fauci hanged, drawn and quartered, but I guess all we can hope for is that he is humiliated, hounded, and ostracized. And that he will rot in hell. So, there is that. Consider, dear heart, that on the day you pass, you will be able to see justice in all its glory, meted out on that little weasel. And you will rejoice. Posted by: tcn in AK at July 27, 2026 07:28 PM (4ZZWr) 165
Time to reevaluate my methodology?
Posted by: zombie Vlad Tepes at July 27, 2026 07:29 PM (0sNs1) 166
Wonder how much it was inspired by Bill Maher, or whether they were way ahead of him about crashing the economy.
Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 07:27 PM (Fi81e) He's not a thought leader in anything. I'm sure this was all over the place in liberal circles, and still is. They float every new bug as a new covid but nobody cares. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 07:29 PM (uhVAy) 167
Will he claim that his diary was "hacked"?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2026 07:29 PM (Cqx++) 168
So many people who were on the edge of being unhinged or actually being unhinged lost their minds. I can't remember which city it was that closed up first. I read about it and told my husband they can't do that. He said it's all about Trump and they will do whatever they can to blame him. Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 07:30 PM (/QHx4) 169
I'd pay to witness a shouting contest between Fauci and RFKjr.
It would sound like when I used to attach baseball cards to my bike spokes. Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2026 07:30 PM (dIske) 170
Looks like an upper echelon government official (fauchee) conspired with a foreign government to murder a heap of people. Is there anyway this guy can face a firing squad while hanging from a 480 KVA noose?
Posted by: Eromero at July 27, 2026 07:30 PM (LHPAg) 171
f we had just embraced what Sweden did, we would have been fine.
I always wonder what would have happened had a Dem been been President. I think the media's tone would have been much more "this is not the end of the world". The entire thing seemed to be about one thing : getting Trump. The whole world seemed in on it. Posted by: Sharpie at July 27, 2026 07:27 PM (iZHgT) Most of them still are. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 07:30 PM (uhVAy) 172
Fauci played duck and dodge with Senator Rand Paul when he appear at an earlier Senate hearing. I'm gonna love watching Senator Paul give it to Fauci this time
Maybe Fauci will pull a Michael Corleone trick, That was somebody else making those diary entries Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 27, 2026 07:30 PM (VakNL) 173
I am so sorry for those of you that were forced to get the shot.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2026 07:08 PM (abScH) As I said upthread, so glad my family and employer were so cool with it. Even my dear departed sister, who died at the hands of the horrific protocols. She thought it was all bullshit. She had lifelong autoimmune issues, so was high-risk. Ivermectin might have saved her life. We don't know. But it wouldn't have hurt to try it at least. I have particularly strong feelings about all of this. Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 27, 2026 07:31 PM (0aYVJ) 174
"If the vaccine worked, they would be safe from you even if you had it."
--------------- Correct. But try to explain that even to this day. Same thing with masks. If you're wearing a mask - and the mask works - it doesn't matter whether or not I'm wearing one. Idiots. It's like blaming me you got your wife pregnant because I wasn't wearing a condom. Idiots. Self-righteous idiots. To this day. Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at July 27, 2026 07:31 PM (pE12i) 175
I am sure he will burn in Hell for destroying 100s of thousands lives
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2026 07:31 PM (Ia/+0) 176
Things would have been much different early on if Western governments all could have come out and put the origin at the Wuhan Institute.
Instead they all teamed up to get Trump and let China off for the blame for the deaths of millions because so many bureaucrats were wrapped up with China in Wuhan. China should be making reparations payments to every country on Earth right now. Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2026 07:32 PM (6ydKt) 177
Here's a thought: Let Fauchee go. Let him walk the streets and go anywhere he wants. Pay Luigi Mangione to follow him … see where that's headed … ?
Posted by: Dr_No at July 27, 2026 07:32 PM (ayRl+) 178
And the majority of the public might ignore them due to past performance.
Posted by: JB1000 Might is the wrong word definitely will is more likely. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 27, 2026 07:32 PM (NnhvP) 179
Correct. But try to explain that even to this day. Same thing with masks.
If you're wearing a mask - and the mask works - it doesn't matter whether or not I'm wearing one. Idiots. It's like blaming me you got your wife pregnant because I wasn't wearing a condom. Idiots. Self-righteous idiots. To this day. Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at July 27, 2026 07:31 PM (pE12i) I grew up when they still taught people the rudiments of Science and Immunology. That was a while ago. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 07:33 PM (uhVAy) 180
Does Fauci's diary mention ivermectin? Or Hcq?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 27, 2026 07:33 PM (0TVIV) 181
Current totals:
"Conspiracy theories" that turned out to be true: 1,478 "Conspiracy theories" that turned out to be false: 0 I'm starting to notice a trend here. Posted by: zombie at July 27, 2026 07:34 PM (Av6i5) 182
I was given living hell working for DoD and not getting the shot. I was given a travel ban, which cuts out about 1/4 of my duties, and was required to report to a State location for a covid test every week, which usually took about two hours. I was also lambasted in a phone call ON MY PERSONAL CELL PHONE by my boss's boss's boss, who told me I was not being a "team player" and that my "supposed Catholic objection" was not really factual since he was likewise a Catholic and had never heard the Pope say not to take the shot.....
I told him I was following the rules and if he didn't like it he could take it up with my boss, since he had already chewed butts for not "following the chain of command." Works both ways. Probably cost me a few bucks in dental care from all the grinding to prevent cursing like a sailor. Posted by: tcn in AK at July 27, 2026 07:34 PM (4ZZWr) 183
I trust the government less than I trust the dog not to get a whole package of beef jerky off the table and eat it.
Posted by: fd at July 27, 2026 07:34 PM (MWfyi) 184
Show me your papers. Comrade. Internal visas. And so so many boght into it. THAT’S what bothers me the most.
Posted by: tubal at July 27, 2026 07:07 PM (Gqar But ask them to produce proof of citizenship to vote, and it's the greatest of tyranny. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 27, 2026 07:35 PM (zYpTz) 185
nstead they all teamed up to get Trump and let China off for the blame for the deaths of millions because so many bureaucrats were wrapped up with China in Wuhan.
China should be making reparations payments to every country on Earth right now. Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2026 07:32 PM (6ydKt) We made it and our paid team let it escape. China just made sure they weren't the only nation that was going to experience the epidemic. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 07:35 PM (uhVAy) 186
1. The harassment was so we'd want it to stop.
2. They primed the bubble that we could not open society back up "without a vaccine". 3. Pfizer provided a "vaccine". It just so happens to be the type of "vaccine" futurists had been wanting to try out for a long time, it seems. We were "all in this together", so we should all take the vax. And now I think that "All in this together" was a priming campaign, from the start of the lockdown. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 07:25 PM (Fi81e) Then they tried the same thing with eggs, just replace "harassment" with "culling" and "open society" with "afford groceries," to get the mRNA poison in us through our diet. But people held on for Trump to get his people in and stop the chicken abuse. So, be encouraged: they have already attempted to repeat the method, and found it didn't work. Posted by: SciVo at July 27, 2026 07:35 PM (Sy6m/) 187
>>Instead they all teamed up to get Trump and let China off for the blame for the deaths of millions because so many bureaucrats were wrapped up with China in Wuhan.
The question I never saw asked enough during that time, why the fuck did we put money into a bio lab in China that was experimenting on viruses to make them more lethal to humans? Seems like relevant question. Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 07:35 PM (viF8m) 188
Fauci should be fed to wolves; if he’s proud of that stock market crash, that means he’s proud of thousands of people losing all they had. Covid closed small family businesses forever in some cases, which undoubtedly contributed to the large number of suicides
Posted by: UGAdawg at July 27, 2026 07:36 PM (sGroZ) 189
The most extreme case of "Short Man" syndrome ever.
Take it away Randy Newman: https://youtu.be/v8UVBgUd9GE Posted by: pawn at July 27, 2026 07:36 PM (CSOVt) 190
The place I was working at the time found through investigation that if they mandated the shot they would lose a particular statistic of older male employee that possessed a high covariance with actually getting any shit done. And they had multiple, multi billion dollar projects that weren't going to wait for the insanity to stop. So they didn't mandate it.
But they made it hell for the ones who wouldn't. You had to wear masks all damned day. They gave bonuses and vacations to the shot-up. And then in the final coupdegrace they had a special coming out celebration during the work day where all the shot got to take their masks off forever more while looking down on the lower mask caste. Still pisses me off. Don't work there any more. And that's one of a few reasons why. Posted by: banana Dream at July 27, 2026 07:36 PM (3uBP9) 191
to prevent cursing like a sailor.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 27, 2026 07:34 PM To be fair, a sailor may utter, sotto voce, an ocassional imprecation, but their strength is the strength of ten, because their hearts are pure. Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2026 07:38 PM (0sNs1) 192
To be fair, a sailor may utter, sotto voce, an ocassional imprecation, but their strength is the strength of ten, because their hearts are pure.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2026 07:38 PM (0sNs1) ---- I thought that spinach gave them the strength of ten men. Or has Popeye been lying to me all these years? Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2026 07:39 PM (FZ29D) 193
We lived in SC during the lockdowns. Our HVAC system systems took a shit so we had to have the company out to replace everything. The young guys who came to do the work were shocked when we told them they could dispose of the masks but they were happy. They knew it was all shit. Were more people killed because of the shit or the killer shots? Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 07:39 PM (/QHx4) 194
Being self employed I didn't have to deal with any pressure and living out in the country I just limited my trips to town. Never did the mask thing either.
I did perfect my ' try fucking with me' attitude. Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2026 07:39 PM (abScH) 195
To be fair, a sailor may utter, sotto voce, an ocassional imprecation, but their strength is the strength of ten, because their hearts are pure.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2026 07:38 PM (0sNs1) Worked with an engineer at the Corps who had been in the Navy. He was my designated curser. When I needed something cussed out, he was the go to guy. Also instituted the cuss word of the day. Very useful, that was. Especially working at the Corps. Posted by: tcn in AK at July 27, 2026 07:40 PM (4ZZWr) 196
The question I never saw asked enough during that time, why the fuck did we put money into a bio lab in China that was experimenting on viruses to make them more lethal to humans?
Seems like relevant question. Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 07:35 PM (viF8m) Obama made gain of function research in the US illegal. Fauci wanted gain of function COVID to sell to the pentagon for biological warfare. So he had to do it at his pet bio warfare in Wuhan. This was legal because the law said only Fauci could do GoF research approvals out of the US. But the staff there, being Chinese took lab specimens off site to eat and sell at the wet market (across the street) for spare change. There were warnings of poor security before the outbreak. DoD turned him down for funding for military bio agents. Then it got out. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 07:40 PM (uhVAy) 197
I am sure he will burn in Hell for destroying 100s of thousands lives
Theological point of order: Fauci will burn in Hell if he dies as an unbeliever. If the Spirit of the LORD rested upon him and he repented of his sins, Fauci is still guilty by man's laws, but forgiven by the Almighty. Posted by: Community Notes at July 27, 2026 07:40 PM (a4flb) 198
We were told that if we got the shot we wouldn't have to mask. Dumbass that I was, I took it.
A month later everyone had to mask anyway. Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 27, 2026 07:40 PM (0TVIV) 199
I did perfect my ' try fucking with me' attitude.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2026 07:39 PM (abScH) Oh, c'mon, you already had that down pat. Posted by: tcn in AK at July 27, 2026 07:41 PM (4ZZWr) 200
The question I never saw asked enough during that time, why the fuck did we put money into a bio lab in China that was experimenting on viruses to make them more lethal to humans?
Seems like relevant question. Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 07:35 PM (viF8m) From what I remember Obama banned GoF research here in the States so Fauci just outsourced it to EcoHealth and they outsourced it to China. Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2026 07:41 PM (6ydKt) 201
Were more people killed because of the shit or the killer shots?
Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 07:39 PM (/QHx4) Without knowing the numbers, I would put my money on "deaths of despair" over vaccine injury. Posted by: SciVo at July 27, 2026 07:41 PM (Sy6m/) 202
Just thinking about it again now, the f'ing obedience muzzle. It still infuriates me that it happened. Stupid fing bs.
Posted by: banana Dream at July 27, 2026 07:41 PM (3uBP9) 203
Were more people killed because of the shit or the killer shots?
Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 07:39 PM (/QHx4) Probably old people killed by neglect of their caretakers tops both of them in various homes. Big spike in deaths among deaf children too IIRC. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 07:42 PM (uhVAy) 204
In the weeks prior to much of the news noticing I read about the wuflu. How it was possibly compared to the 1918 Influenza. I read a lot about cytokine spike, etc. I read a lot or as much as I could find about the failed first attempt at a RSV vax that killed children. Much I cannot find now (surprise!) but it was enough that our sons, DIL and a gf listened to me. I begged them via email with facts I collected. I explained that it takes 10yrs to see if there are side effects long term, AND how the first mRNA vax were causing women to have period again after menopause. Irregular periods. Stuff that could possibly impact fertility. They listened, for once in their lives.
We did, under pressure, to fly to see my elderly mother, have the J&J vax and, so far, knock wood, are ok. Not the mRNA and I tell my ARNP I will never have one of any form. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 27, 2026 07:42 PM (hzuYO) 205
My uncle lived to 99 years old. Almost made it to 100, died just a few weeks short.
He was healthy as a horse until he was 98, then suddenly took a turn for the worse with a lot of vague mysterious ailments, and finally just died (diagnosis: "Failure to Thrive." which basically just means, "Dropped dead of unknown causes") after a year of going downhill. Didn't dawn on me until just this moment that...he died in 2022, and suddenly took a turn for the worse right after getting...his Covid vaccine. Didn't make the connection until now, actually. I have no proof that the vaccine triggered his problems, but in retrospect the timing is very suspicious. Posted by: zombie at July 27, 2026 07:42 PM (Av6i5) 206
tcn, very true !
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2026 07:42 PM (abScH) Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 07:42 PM (/QHx4) 208
We need to find some short little sticks to tie this evil little gnome to and whip him.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 27, 2026 07:42 PM (n5tGW) 209
Theological point of order:
Fauci will burn in Hell if he dies as an unbeliever. If the Spirit of the LORD rested upon him and he repented of his sins, Fauci is still guilty by man's laws, but forgiven by the Almighty. Posted by: Community Notes at July 27, 2026 07:40 PM (a4flb) Not sure that particular theology is going to overcome the gigantic ego that is Fauci. Would take one heck of a change of view on his part. He thinks he is God, so he doesn't believe in hell. Why would he listen to another God? He likes the one he has. Posted by: tcn in AK at July 27, 2026 07:43 PM (4ZZWr) 210
>>DoD turned him down for funding for military bio agents. Then it got out.
Oh I know all the standard reasons. But this wasn't like a bio lab in Norway, this was in CCP controlled China. Our number 1 opponent. Regardless of the virus leak or purposeful release, why would we help the CCP develop a virus that targeted humans? Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 07:43 PM (viF8m) 211
I'm curious, and maybe I missed something. (Quite possible) Did he have an actual diary that he kept on his bedside table or did he write this shit down on a computer? How did we get to see it?
Posted by: Molly k. at July 27, 2026 07:43 PM (j/yko) 212
That nasty megalomaniac. He read Dr Mengele's and said, "Hold my beer"
This plus what he did to children and dogs should send him to prison for the rest of his miserable life. Posted by: Moki at July 27, 2026 07:44 PM (wLjpr) 213
Being self employed I didn't have to deal with any pressure and living out in the country I just limited my trips to town. Never did the mask thing either.
I believe a lot of stores were operating on "whatever our customers are doing, we need to be doing it too" principle. There were store employees who were downright relieved when I came into the store defiant and unmasked. It encouraged others, and in short time fewer and fewer customers came in with masks and then one day, it ended for the store and their people were allowed to breath free again. (and those who still wanted to hide behind their security Posted by: Community Notes at July 27, 2026 07:44 PM (a4flb) 214
"I have no proof that the vaccine triggered his problems, but in retrospect the timing is very suspicious.
Posted by: zombie" My dad's health declined noticably after 2021, and his Parkinsons tremors started then. I don't know if the shots had anything to do with it but he got them all. Posted by: fd at July 27, 2026 07:45 PM (MWfyi) Posted by: banana Dream at July 27, 2026 07:45 PM (3uBP9) 216
I'm curious, and maybe I missed something. (Quite possible) Did he have an actual diary that he kept on his bedside table or did he write this shit down on a computer? How did we get to see it?
Posted by: Molly k. at July 27, 2026 07:43 PM (j/yko) I'd assume it was on a device, issued by the government but the rules say even if it were not it was their property. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 07:45 PM (uhVAy) 217
Today's word: Masks. The 'N-95' is the Majick Mask, yes? No.
Pore size determines effectiveness. The pore size of the vaunted 'N-95' mask is THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE LARGER than the Covid virion. Ain't no 'protection' there, folks. And: IF Covid was such a fucking 'threat' … WHY were the parking lots of Walmart and gas stations littered with them. Should they not have been picked up and treated as 'Red-Bag Hazardous Medical Waste'? Well yeah, but hey … Posted by: Dr_No at July 27, 2026 07:46 PM (ayRl+) 218
Not sure that particular theology is going to overcome the gigantic ego that is Fauci. Would take one heck of a change of view on his part. He thinks he is God, so he doesn't believe in hell. Why would he listen to another God? He likes the one he has.
Who knows? He might has his own Road to Damascus. I haven't been invited to peak at or participate in writing names in the Book of Life. Posted by: Community Notes at July 27, 2026 07:46 PM (a4flb) 219
210 >>DoD turned him down for funding for military bio agents. Then it got out.
Oh I know all the standard reasons. But this wasn't like a bio lab in Norway, this was in CCP controlled China. Our number 1 opponent. Regardless of the virus leak or purposeful release, why would we help the CCP develop a virus that targeted humans? Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 07:43 PM (viF8m) Malignant narcissists are not more common because, despite all of the competitive advantages that go with audacity and shamelessness, they are still disordered. They do not reason properly. Posted by: SciVo at July 27, 2026 07:46 PM (Sy6m/) 220
why would we help the CCP develop a virus that targeted humans?
1. Make Money 2. Stop Trump 3. Convenient scapegoat 4. Commies are their friends. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 27, 2026 07:47 PM (n5tGW) 221
Sometime read up on the story of Kriner's Diner in Anchorage. They refused to close down, and the city felt the need to fine them some horrid punitive daily fine for staying open. They had more customers than they could handle for the better part of a year. Most folks donated to cover their fines. And then the mayor got caught with his pants down and was run out of office, and suddenly the fines went away.
It was quite the rallying cry around here. I still stop in when I'm in town. Good people. Good diner food. Amazing breakfasts. Posted by: tcn in AK at July 27, 2026 07:47 PM (4ZZWr) 222
>>DoD turned him down for funding for military bio agents. Then it got out.
Oh I know all the standard reasons. But this wasn't like a bio lab in Norway, this was in CCP controlled China. Our number 1 opponent. Regardless of the virus leak or purposeful release, why would we help the CCP develop a virus that targeted humans? Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 07:43 PM (viF8m) The virus was for us. Why would you possibly think the CCP would have any idea what we were working on in a lab in Wuhan? If they did not know, they found out a few days later when people started dying in Wuhan. That's when they started shipping infected people to Italy, Europe and the US. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 07:48 PM (uhVAy) 223
I thought that spinach gave them the strength of ten men. Or has Popeye been lying to me all these years?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2026 07:39 PM BUPERS, after years of careful research and investigation, discovered that the American Navy sailor's inherent purity of heart provided the same benefits as spinach, at no cost. The rest, as they say, is history. Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2026 07:48 PM (0sNs1) Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 07:48 PM (/QHx4) 225
I haven't been invited to peak at or participate in writing names in the Book of Life.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 27, 2026 07:46 PM (a4flb) As a Catholic, I cannot wish for anyone to be sent to hell. Also as a Catholic, I am called upon to be prudent in my judgment, and in some cases, the conclusion appears to be foregone. No, I can't hope the little ratfucker burns, but I can't deny it's likely, either. Posted by: tcn in AK at July 27, 2026 07:49 PM (4ZZWr) 226
Grok says Fauci's diary was electronic - notes - and had digital media in it too - images, links, etc.
Sp yup, dumbass with no concept of securing the privacy of his megalomaniac meanderings. Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 27, 2026 07:49 PM (OTdqV) 227
180 Does Fauci's diary mention ivermectin? Or Hcq?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 27, 2026 07:33 PM (0TVIV) If I recall correctly, Fauci's organization knew about HCQ since 2003 and ivermectin since 2009 , so the information was definitely available to him. I think he knew because he was so invested in discouraging their use. Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at July 27, 2026 07:50 PM (OlzlW) 228
BUPERS, after years of careful research and investigation, discovered that the American Navy sailor's inherent purity of heart provided the same benefits as spinach, at no cost.
The rest, as they say, is history. Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2026 07:48 PM (0sNs1) Must be that purity of heart that accounts for all those "ladies" lining up during Fleet Week. Posted by: tcn in AK at July 27, 2026 07:50 PM (4ZZWr) 229
I remember at one point Fauci recommending "double-masking." You have to wonder now if he did so just to capriciously wield his power for the lulz.
Posted by: Halfhand at July 27, 2026 07:50 PM (GAVlX) 230
Stick his narrow ass up against a wall and shoot.
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at July 27, 2026 07:51 PM (Q/FnY) 231
Regardless of the virus leak or purposeful release, why would we help the CCP develop a virus that targeted humans?
Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 07:43 PM (viF8m) Dr. Ralph Baric of UNC was basically the guru of corona virus and GoF research here in the U.S., and he was working with the Wuhan Bat Lady for years. I’m guessing that’s got the ball rolling in China in 2016 when nobody in the West could do the research. Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2026 07:51 PM (6ydKt) 232
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Monday 'said' he's undergoing physical therapy, but that he hasn't been medically cleared to leave rehab after being admitted to the hospital after his June 14 fall.
"I'm still working hard to get back to my full schedule of work in the Senate ... Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2026 07:52 PM (Cq/ve) 233
Forgot to 'show my work' on the pore size of the 'N-95' vs the Covid virion … Three orders of magnitude differents between the virus and the pore size means: The 3 orders (10 x 10 x 10) is equal to 1,000 times LARGER than the virion. Raise my hand if you think that's 'effective' preventology …
Posted by: Dr_No at July 27, 2026 07:53 PM (ayRl+) 234
>>Dr. Ralph Baric of UNC was basically the guru of corona virus and GoF research here in the U.S., and he was working with the Wuhan Bat Lady for years. I’m guessing that’s got the ball rolling in China in 2016 when nobody in the West could do the research.
I get all that. But why was it allowed? We don't develop fighter jets or other weapons with China for a reason. Why would we work with them on bio weapons? How was that allowed? Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 07:54 PM (viF8m) 235
Don't call me a hater, but where is Fauci's Luigi?
Posted by: Enola Gay Pride at July 27, 2026 07:55 PM (+fQLP) 236
When my doc came into the exam room during 'The Holy COHHHH-vid!' wearing TWO masks plus a pull-down clear plastic face shield, I didn't need (or want) to ask him any questions. He bought into that shit full-bore … pity, that. Otherwise, he was OK.
Posted by: Dr_No at July 27, 2026 07:56 PM (ayRl+) 237
I get all that. But why was it allowed? We don't develop fighter jets or other weapons with China for a reason. Why would we work with them on bio weapons? How was that allowed? Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 07:54 PM (viF8m) I've never understood it, either. Posted by: beckster at July 27, 2026 07:57 PM (kX27y) 238
>>Dr. Ralph Baric of UNC was basically the guru of corona virus and GoF research here in the U.S., and he was working with the Wuhan Bat Lady for years. I’m guessing that’s got the ball rolling in China in 2016 when nobody in the West could do the research.
I get all that. But why was it allowed? We don't develop fighter jets or other weapons with China for a reason. Why would we work with them on bio weapons? How was that allowed? Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 07:54 PM (viF8m) Allowed? Fauci was the unwatched high priest of GoF research by LAW. He had no oversight. The lab was an 'independent' lab, not a functionary of the CCP government. It was working for us. Now, not being an idiot I'm sure they knew just what they were working on but it was not government to government dealing. It was Fauci's own side deal. Now once the shit hit the fan, China made sure to spread the disease world wide to make sure they weren't the only ones dying. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 07:58 PM (uhVAy) 239
When my doc came into the exam room during 'The Holy COHHHH-vid!' wearing TWO masks plus a pull-down clear plastic face shield, I didn't need (or want) to ask him any questions. He bought into that shit full-bore … pity, that. Otherwise, he was OK.
Posted by: Dr_No at July 27, 2026 07:56 PM (ayRl+) I don't think i would want an insane doctor. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 07:59 PM (uhVAy) 240
Michael Fumento wrote a book about the hysterical predictions of AIDS infecting normal heterosexuals, "The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS," which noted that AIDS was almost exclusively confined to male homosexuals, intravenous drug users, and their partners. Pretty obvious stuff. But Fauci was pushing that bullshit for years, while simultaneously fighting any initiative to curtail gay bars, and the ultra-promiscuous homosexual lifestyle. What a piece of evil shit that asswipe is.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 27, 2026 07:59 PM (XMwZJ) 241
I get all that. But why was it allowed? We don't develop fighter jets or other weapons with China for a reason. Why would we work with them on bio weapons? How was that allowed?
Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 07:54 PM (viF8m) Because it wasn’t just about military uses. Their stated purpose was to make a vaccine for corona viruses and they had to do GoF to develop it before nature developed the virus before them. They wanted to be ready for another SARS, etc. It was a dangerous idea from the start and obviously so, so they outsourced it to the Chinese, who have never been known for their safety records of quality assurance, like idiots. They were going to develop MRNA vaccines and make trillions and we all got a taste of that technology as a bonus screw-up. Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2026 08:01 PM (6ydKt) 242
>>Allowed? Fauci was the unwatched high priest of GoF research by LAW. He had no oversight.
Fauci was working for if not working with the CIA for years. He was watched. Even if he wasn't the Wuhan lab was. I mean the CIA is evil but not completely stupid. They knew what the Biden's were doing in China, in Ukraine and all about what weapons our chief opponent is working on and where. They all knew. They just didn't stop him. Probably for reasons above Fauci. Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 08:02 PM (viF8m) 243
Probably for reasons above Fauci.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 08:02 PM So the chain is Fauci -> Epstein -> Aliens -> Big Penguin It finally makes sense. Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2026 08:06 PM (0sNs1) 244
>>So the chain is Fauci -> Epstein -> Aliens -> Big Penguin
>>It finally makes sense. That's what they want you to think. Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 08:09 PM (viF8m) 245
Facebook
World Economic Forum January 25, 2021 Dr Anthony Fauci with a vital message at #DavosAgenda ---- The COVID-19 pandemic structurally altered American culture, reshaping daily habits, workplace norms, social institutions, and economic behaviors. Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 27, 2026 08:38 PM (LL19j) 246
I did not have sex with Ms. Lewinsky !!!!!!
That is my defense on the whole COVID Fiasco brought about by Trump .... Posted by: Dr. (Strangelove) Fauci at July 27, 2026 08:42 PM (KMrJn) 247
Salty, I've changed my mind. I'd take the shot.
Posted by: Buck Ofama, K4WTJ at July 27, 2026 08:44 PM (eV5kU) 248
How many people Died, Injured for life, or bankrupt because of this SOB...........
He should Fogged, Drawn, and Quartered at the very least... PURE EVIL ........... Posted by: Jackson at July 27, 2026 08:44 PM (KMrJn) 249
243 Probably for reasons above Fauci.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 08:02 PM So the chain is Fauci -> Epstein -> Aliens -> Big Penguin That's "TRANSGENDER BIG Penguins" !!!!!!! Posted by: Jackson at July 27, 2026 08:45 PM (KMrJn) 250
243 Probably for reasons above Fauci.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 08:02 PM So the chain is Fauci -> Epstein -> Aliens -> Big Penguin That's "TRANSGENDER BIG Penguins" !!!!!!! Posted by: Jackson at July 27, 2026 08:45 PM (KMrJn) 251
226 Grok says Fauci's diary was electronic - notes - and had digital media in it too - images, links, etc.
Sp yup, dumbass with no concept of securing the privacy of his megalomaniac meanderings. Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 27, 2026 07:49 PM (OTdqV) ************************** Good! Nail him! Forgot to add that I knew the N95 masks were basically sheet but wore them vs the paper ones...might as well tape Kleenex to your face. I would sneer at those at MD offices. The entire country will cheer if this bastid goes quickly to hell, on earth and for eternity. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 27, 2026 09:59 PM (hzuYO) 252
Also...we all caught le covid in Feb 2020 skiing in Montana. From toddler grandson who was around other kids. He was fine. His Dad was the sickest. The rest of us got colds after we drove home.
After that if anyone mentioned the dam shot I would say I've had it and now have some immunity (and be thinking, "bite moi" as I said it). Sister in laws had every single booster and every shot offered. I refuse everything and my ARNP says that's fine. I did take the old person pneumonia vax (not mRNA) because I get bronchitis easily and need inhalers now and then. So far so good. I know of one person who got cancer after the first round of mRNA. Whether she was getting it first or not will never be known and she's fought hard. What bugs me now is the huge increase in pancreatic cancers, which used to be rare. Related? I rarely see masks anymore, altho had a huge dust up with one SIL years later at a family dinner about masks being preventative. It was so retarded. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 27, 2026 10:18 PM (hzuYO) 253
Do presidential pardons hold any legal weight in Saudi Arabia? I don't believe they do. Fauci should get shipped to Saudi Arabia, and see if Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman can do us a solid.
Posted by: qzy at July 27, 2026 11:05 PM (TRxVp) Incompetent Woke Karen Who Ran Cracker Barrel Into the Ground Fired and Replaced (by a Man)Breaking911NY Post: Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Felss Masino is stepping down after the failure of her "woke" rebrand last year, which was rolled back following intense backlash from loyal customers, the company announced Monday. David Deno, a restaurant exec who most recently served as CEO of Bloomin' Brands, which owns Outback Steakhouse, will replace Masino on August 10, according to a Cracker Barrel press release. Masino will remain at Cracker Barrel in an advisory capacity until October 9 to ensure a smooth transition, the company said. Shares in Cracker Barrel slipped 2.4% Monday. Her departure comes after less than three years at the helm, during which diners revolted against the company's attempts to modernize the Southern dining chain last August by axing its beloved mascot Uncle Herschel and revamping restaurants without its trademark tchotchkes. Following heated backlash from longtime customers and even President Trump himself, Cracker Barrel reversed the changes and leaned into its folksy charm -- ultimately sending the stock up 100% so far this year.I can't help noticing that in four cases -- Bud Light; Cracker Barrel; Star Wars/Lucasfilm; and Disney's Marvel studio -- executives have decided to throw over/ignore the brands' historic male (or traditionalist) customer base in an insane drive to remake them into something Carrie Bradshaw would write about on Sex and the City. In three of those cases, a female executive decided that "old" customer base just wasn't hip and Fashion Forward enough and decided to remake the brand into something that would make her the heroine of her feminist friend circle. In the fourth case, a similar rebrand was performed by Kevin Feige, who is a weak cuck pussy. This is unprofessional, obviously. If you're trusted with a business or brand, it's your job to strengthen the brand's sales, not remake it into something you or your urban coastal liberal galpals would be proud to patronize. (Or matronize.) I don't think this is necessarily something to do with women, but it does have everything to do with feminism, a cult to which a lot of "professional" (or maybe not so professional) women belong to. Men aren't compelled to remake female brands into ones they and their buddies would be proud to spend money on, because there is no political cult popular among men demanding we do that. But many women do belong to the cult of feminism, which demands that every single product or service be made appealing first and foremost to urban coastal liberal women. This is not a business calculation; in terms of business strategy, it's a lunatic disaster, and it was obviously a lunatic disaster before the actual data came in. This is the doctrine of a nasty pseudoreligion. Whether it makes money or loses it hand over fist is besides the point. The important thing is, Women Must See Themselves Represented In All Products at All Times, period.
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Won't say first.... because
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 27, 2026 05:47 PM (mP0Kj) 2
Might as well, you were first!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 27, 2026 05:48 PM (NnhvP) 3
That is "WHITE CRACKER BARREL" Boy !!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Al Sharpton at July 27, 2026 05:48 PM (TkCc3) 4
Bring the cracker back to cracker barrel!
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 27, 2026 05:49 PM (13VxP) 5
'twas smartglasses killed the beast.
Posted by: sifty boones at July 27, 2026 05:49 PM (+mbpJ) 6
I always thought the name was "Crack Her over a Barrel" ?
Posted by: Bill Clinton at July 27, 2026 05:49 PM (Ymmwx) 7
Took 'em long enough.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 27, 2026 05:49 PM (wVcYX) Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2026 05:49 PM (6ydKt) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2026 05:50 PM (O0L8i) 10
Stop putting women in charge.
Posted by: Someone has to say it at July 27, 2026 05:50 PM (2Ez/1) Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 05:50 PM (vE0+H) 12
I love during the inner city looting seeing all the urban youth breaking into stores and running away with boxes of super-hero comics.
And textbooks and educational materials. Warms my heart. That's why Hollywood works so hard to cater to them. Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at July 27, 2026 05:50 PM (Sco7b) 13
our cases -- Bud Light; Cracker Barrel; Star Wars/Lucasfilm; and Disney's Marvel studio -- executives have decided to throw over/ignore the brands' historic male (or traditionalist) customer base
Jaguar enters the chat. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 27, 2026 05:50 PM (NnhvP) 14
Stop putting women in charge.
Posted by: Someone has to say it at July 27, 2026 05:50 PM (2Ez/1) Ten posts in and we're already doing sexual preferences? Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 05:51 PM (vE0+H) 15
2 Might as well, you were first!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 27, 2026 05:48 PM (NnhvP) But peoplze are complaining about the first thing... soooo... Posted by: Romeo13 at July 27, 2026 05:51 PM (mP0Kj) Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 05:51 PM (Fi81e) 17
Brand killer.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2026 05:51 PM (abScH) 18
Oh, dear, I jsut posted on previous thread. Will I get the ban-hammer?
Posted by: Timerous Beastie at July 27, 2026 05:52 PM (sFNX2) Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 05:52 PM (Fi81e) 20
Personally I blame the Racgel Maddow glasses.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 27, 2026 05:52 PM (13VxP) 21
Deno might want to bring back the old menu as well (it wasn't just restaurant decoration and mascot changes, they got rid of a lot of beloved dishes.)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 27, 2026 05:52 PM (O7YUW) 22
"Men aren't compelled to remake female brands into ones they and their buddies would be proud to spend money on, because there is no political cult popular among men demanding we do that."
Note that changing movies for a "modern audience" only goes one way. Action adventure films must have strong wahmen in lead roles, "diverse" casts, and plotlines that resonate emotionally with a female audience. You will never see Elliot Page as the "male" lead in a Romantic Comedy, nor will you see anyone suggesting that chick flicks should include car chases to "broaden the demographic appeal." Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 27, 2026 05:52 PM (f0sNM) 23
10 Stop putting women in charge.
Posted by: Someone has to say it at July 27, 2026 05:50 PM (2Ez/1) Liberal women..... Posted by: It's me donna at July 27, 2026 05:52 PM (FWPkT) 24
I am glad to see Becky Danger Glasses back on the blog.
Too bad about her job, though. Maybe she can go work for Bed, Bath & Beyond. Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2026 05:52 PM (6ydKt) 25
But The Odyssey will make money so therefore wokeness is good.
Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 05:52 PM (vE0+H) 26
Consequences for once, very nice
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 27, 2026 05:52 PM (xcxpd) 27
She damn near killed fresh out of the bag/box/can focus-group-tested pseudo-Southernish nearly-comfort food.
Never let an AWCL near anything approaching Americana. Posted by: sifty boones at July 27, 2026 05:52 PM (+mbpJ) 28
But peoplze are complaining about the first thing... soooo...
Posted by: Romeo13 Pissants are going to piss themselves over something... always. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 27, 2026 05:52 PM (NnhvP) 29
19 Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Felss Masino is stepping down after ...
--- being pushed? Posted by: Axeman ====== a tragic infection of monkey pox. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 05:52 PM (E4rtv) 30
12 I love during the inner city looting seeing all the urban youth breaking into stores and running away with boxes of super-hero comics.
And textbooks and educational materials. Warms my heart. That's why Hollywood works so hard to cater to them. Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at July 27, 2026 05:50 PM ---- Sitting right here, boss. Posted by: Work boots at July 27, 2026 05:52 PM (2Ez/1) Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 05:53 PM (vE0+H) 32
The diners are revolting!
Posted by: Julie Felss Masino, CEO of Cracker Barrel at July 27, 2026 05:53 PM (wVcYX) 33
"Deno might want to bring back the old menu as well (it wasn't just restaurant decoration and mascot changes, they got rid of a lot of beloved dishes.)"
------------------------ You mean they adopted a "value-driven menu approach" designed to "maximize yields for shareholders." Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 27, 2026 05:53 PM (f0sNM) Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 27, 2026 05:53 PM (ZypAx) 35
What took them so long to get rid of this cretinous witch? She should have been shitcanned on the spot.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 27, 2026 05:53 PM (771KI) 36
25 But The Odyssey will make money so therefore wokeness is good.
Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 05:52 PM (vE0+H) Didn't see it but I hear it's no so much woke as flat... No soul.... Posted by: It's me donna at July 27, 2026 05:53 PM (FWPkT) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2026 05:54 PM (O0L8i) 38
Stop putting women in charge.
Posted by: Someone has to say it Ten posts in and we're already doing sexual preferences? Posted by: ... He said "in charge." That only implies "on top." Posted by: mikeski at July 27, 2026 05:54 PM (VHUov) 39
K-mart's downfall was re-branding as well.
Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 05:54 PM (Fi81e) 40
You’re right, they stink on ice.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2026 05:54 PM (6ydKt) 41
I liked the retro take after that debacle: "It actually worked! People are talking about Cracker Barrel for the first time in years!"
Posted by: Citizen Cake at July 27, 2026 05:54 PM (CwhoI) 42
10 Stop putting women in charge.
Posted by: Someone has to say it at July 27, 2026 05:50 PM (2Ez/1) OK.... just spitballin here... but... One thing a good FEMALE friend told me once after I had a weird breakup after a couple year relationship. A lot of Women go into a relationship based on what they think a Man can change into, with their help of course... While most Men go into a relationship hoping she will never change. Now... let's look at Women CEOs... Posted by: Romeo13 at July 27, 2026 05:54 PM (mP0Kj) 43
12 I love during the inner city looting seeing all the urban youth breaking into stores and running away with boxes of super-hero comics.
And textbooks and educational materials. Warms my heart. That's why Hollywood works so hard to cater to them. Posted by: Stateless ===== You forgot art supplies and chemistry sets. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 05:54 PM (E4rtv) 44
Last post , pink hair, nose ring, tongue ring. This post smaht lady glasses.
It's not looking good for the West Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2026 05:54 PM (BlDDt) 45
He said "in charge." That only implies "on top."
Posted by: mikeski at July 27, 2026 05:54 PM (VHUov) --- * pouts * Posted by: Cowgirl at July 27, 2026 05:55 PM (Fi81e) Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 27, 2026 05:55 PM (2Ez/1) 47
You know what I need?
Tchotchkes. Lotsa tchotchkes. Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2026 05:49 PM (6ydKt) and 14 pieces of flair (minimum) on your uniform. Posted by: Count de Monet at July 27, 2026 05:55 PM (wVcYX) 48
37
"A gunfight broke out over a disputed protractor today..." Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2026 05:54 PM (O0L8i) someone tried to divide, and conquer? Posted by: Romeo13 at July 27, 2026 05:55 PM (mP0Kj) 49
Nobody pulls out guns over compasses, thankfully.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2026 05:55 PM (6ydKt) 50
Liberal women.....
Posted by: It's me donna at July 27, 2026 05:52 PM (FWPkT) There it is. Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 05 Yeah Side eyes Liberal women. Posted by: ACB. MTG. etc at July 27, 2026 05:56 PM (3QsZU) 51
The glasses are a tell.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2026 05:56 PM (JvZF+) 52
REDAGGABURD!
Posted by: MONGOLOIDS FOR CONSUMER JUSTICE at July 27, 2026 05:56 PM (iG4hw) 53
39 K-mart's downfall was re-branding as well.
Posted by: Axeman And a hedge manager owner that promptly sold off the goodies and merged the company with Sears just to leave taht company destitute and dead as well. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 05:56 PM (E4rtv) 54
>>>The company says former Bloomin' Brands CEO David Deno, whose company owns Outback Steakhouse, will take over as CEO on August 10.
Great. Expect the menu to get beancountered. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 27, 2026 05:56 PM (dK+Kv) 55
Yeah, Bloomin Brands is bleh
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 27, 2026 05:57 PM (13VxP) 56
38 Stop putting women in charge.
Posted by: Someone has to say it Ten posts in and we're already doing sexual preferences? Posted by: ... He said "in charge." That only implies "on top." Posted by: mikeski at July 27, 2026 05:54 PM How do you know it was a "he?" Posted by: I gotta ask at July 27, 2026 05:57 PM (2Ez/1) 57
Oh, two young actresses I follow on Instagram were cast in Disney's newest "Cheetah Girls" movie. A latina girl and an asian girl.
One of the first comments was someone complaining that the first 'Cheetah Girls' was very black and this wasn't. THAT was hilarious! Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at July 27, 2026 05:57 PM (Sco7b) 58
21 Deno might want to bring back the old menu as well (it wasn't just restaurant decoration and mascot changes, they got rid of a lot of beloved dishes.)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 27, 2026 05:52 PM (O7YUW) And get the quality back to where it was ten years ago. It was never fine dining but the ingredients were good and the cooks were competent. Now it's all Sysco slop and cooks who can't fry a fucking egg correctly. Waffle House does it better FFS. Need an all engines full reverse on the enshittification of the product and a salvage operation on their brand image, if it hasn't been irretrievably fucked by now. Posted by: Bring it all back! at July 27, 2026 05:57 PM (TbWk/) 59
Julie, the claw, Masino's entry at wiki is three short paragraphs long. Place of birth - US. Well, that's something.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2026 05:57 PM (Cq/ve) 60
Is Uncle Herschel still homeless?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2026 05:58 PM (Cqx++) 61
18 Oh, dear, I jsut posted on previous thread. Will I get the ban-hammer? Posted by: Timerous Beastie You should go read the nasty candies iceback thread and leave an opinion. We love reading new comments on older threads. Posted by: BifBewalski - at July 27, 2026 05:58 PM (3dhDe) Posted by: Cracker Barrell at July 27, 2026 05:58 PM (Fi81e) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2026 05:58 PM (rHgXV) 64
Told you I would be avenged!
Posted by: Uncle Herschel at July 27, 2026 05:58 PM (JM9I6) 65
But many women do belong to the cult of feminism, which demands that every single product or service be made appealing first and foremost to urban coastal liberal women.
—— I’m not sure that’s the basis of the CB rebrand. I think that rebrand was just stupid desperation because sales were falling amidst quality control issues. Plus, a lot of people made a lot of money on the rebrand, so the whole thing seemed to me like looting the company before the chapter 11. Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 27, 2026 05:58 PM (771KI) 66
It's also a helping of social media and metro areas. Such moves create "buzz" that is tracked and presented as a positive metric.
Profitability has become a dirty word... Posted by: man at July 27, 2026 05:58 PM (XuXeR) 67
Cracker Burial is the TGIFriday's of Appleby's.
Order whatever you want, but you're gonna eat salt, grease, and batter. Posted by: sifty boones at July 27, 2026 05:59 PM (+mbpJ) 68
They call me the Ace Whisperer.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 27, 2026 05:59 PM (bX16E) 69
63 34 Women Must See Themselves at All Times, in Their period"
Don't know what that means. Sorry. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2026 05:58 PM (rHgX Some kind of menstrual based haruspicy. Posted by: MONGOLOIDS FOR CONSUMER JUSTICE at July 27, 2026 05:59 PM (iG4hw) 70
I wouldn’t be surprised if they tried a Bloomin’ Fried Green Tomato to be honest.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2026 05:59 PM (6ydKt) 71
He said "in charge." That only implies "on top." Posted by: mikeski Is reverse cowgirl out? Asking for a friend. Posted by: BifBewalski - at July 27, 2026 06:00 PM (3dhDe) 72
We at Cracker Barrell are proud to introduce...
The Bloomin' Flapjack! Posted by: Cracker Barrell at July 27, 2026 05:58 PM (Fi81e) The Bloomin' Cauliflower! Posted by: Count de Monet at July 27, 2026 06:00 PM (wVcYX) 73
Masino was a Cracker Barrell 6.
Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 06:00 PM (Fi81e) 74
David Deno....they guy is the epitome of "see ya later."
Krispy Kreme ---closed a massive amount of locations Quiznos -- 5000 locations down to 150 Outback--- just closed over 40 locations Bonefish -- closing another 20 locations Nice knowing you Cracker Barrel. The harbinger of death approaches. Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2026 06:00 PM (dIske) Posted by: man at July 27, 2026 06:00 PM (XuXeR) 76
“My work is done here”
So, the question really is, where does she land next? She’s got the magic touch… Posted by: Corrected For Accuracy at July 27, 2026 06:00 PM (Eo+Kz) 77
Mary whats her name is doing a crack job running a car company, too.
Posted by: museisluse at July 27, 2026 06:00 PM (YtyqX) 78
Besides women there have been foreign men put in charge of big American brands. That has not gone well either.
Posted by: steevy at July 27, 2026 06:01 PM (YwEeS) 79
Now do Warhammer 40K.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 27, 2026 06:01 PM (zZu0s) 80
So, I'm older now, seen a lot of life.
Women need male input. (phrasing) They do. They have trouble with group think and consensus. Which isn't always bad. But sometimes it is. Men do better with female input. For example when they are in a situation where they need to put more value on consensus. There are a lot of things where consensus building is important. Politics. And politics is a thing in business. But yeah, a woman, surrounded by other women, is locked in a bubble. A man, without female input is likewise in a bubble. Huh, its almost as if we were made to compliment each other. . . . Posted by: Now that's Ironic at July 27, 2026 06:01 PM (anL5R) 81
Oh, two young actresses I follow on Instagram were cast in Disney's newest "Cheetah Girls" movie. A latina girl and an asian girl.
--- That's not so Raven. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 06:01 PM (Fi81e) 82
For the new dinner show at Cracker Burial, the waitstaff picks one guest and destroys their childhood memories of a simpler time live.
Posted by: sifty boones at July 27, 2026 06:02 PM (+mbpJ) 83
Idk companies did pretty well when there were virtually no women in executive suites...
Posted by: steevy at July 27, 2026 06:02 PM (YwEeS) 84
On a completely unrelated subject, Critical Drinker has a video out about how Rings of Power Season 3 suddenly returned:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB4U1PAqbXw He leaves the viewer with a question... why? *why*? WHY???? Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2026 06:02 PM (FZ29D) 85
Bonefish? Is that a restaurant?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 27, 2026 06:02 PM (zZu0s) 86
I was browsing for stuff on amazon because it's my birthday coming up, hint hint, and I noticed that Coach makes men's watches. So there's an in right there, we could start demanding they also make some sort of backpack camo designs, molle hook ups and wotnot, and then you know just regular bags. But they would battle bags (TM) and have spikes and stuff and we would swing them at each other in manly feats of strength gladiator style. Maybe even to the death, or at least to the moderate skin abrasion.
But like ace said we won't. But we could. Posted by: banana Dream - hint hint at July 27, 2026 06:02 PM (3uBP9) 87
Plus, a lot of people made a lot of money on the rebrand, so the whole thing seemed to me like looting the company before the chapter 11.
== Such things do not happen!!! Shocking. Posted by: Now that's Ironic at July 27, 2026 06:02 PM (anL5R) 88
Also, who is say she was incompetent?
What do you suppose the objective was? Check your premises. Could her comrades have made bank, say by shorting their stock? Spitballing here, but these people are generally “evil” if not necessarily stupid per se Posted by: Corrected For Accuracy at July 27, 2026 06:02 PM (Eo+Kz) 89
How the hell do you screw up Krispy Kreme?
The only trick is to keep the donut line rolling and you’re golden - donut addicts come running. They must have expanded too far too fast. Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2026 06:03 PM (6ydKt) 90
23 10 Stop putting women in charge.
Posted by: Someone has to say it at July 27, 2026 05:50 PM (2Ez/1) Liberal women..... Posted by: It's me donna at July 27, 2026 05:52 PM (FWPkT) That's fair enough but the women who want to and get put in charge of major companies or brands are almost always going to be liberals. They're stronk independent girlbosses who don't need no man that graduated from a hard-left Ivy League university (redundant I know) with a degree in Gender Studies with a minor in Critical Theory, and have all the connections. Plus they get DEI points. So female "leadership" is inevitably going to skew left and incompetent because that's the pool they're drawing from. Posted by: Although Carly Fiorina was nominally GOP at July 27, 2026 06:03 PM (TbWk/) 91
Bonefish? Is that a restaurant?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 27, 2026 06:02 PM (zZu0s) --- Or a sick predilection?! Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 06:03 PM (Fi81e) 92
84 Jeff Bezos vanity project and he literally has money to burn.
Posted by: steevy at July 27, 2026 06:03 PM (YwEeS) 93
Rocking those girlboss jizz screens, exactly as expected.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 27, 2026 06:03 PM (heOIg) 94
Huh, its almost as if we were made to compliment each other. . . .
Posted by: Now that's Ironic ======= Naw, That's Crazy Talk there. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 06:03 PM (E4rtv) 95
The glasses are the tell- well, that, and her jaws flapping. Endlessly, flapping.
Posted by: tubal at July 27, 2026 06:03 PM (Gqar8) 96
The Rainbow Rockers are still there, right?
Posted by: Le Grande Poofe at July 27, 2026 06:04 PM (JM9I6) 97
David Deno....they guy is the epitome of "see ya later."
Krispy Kreme ---closed a massive amount of locations Quiznos -- 5000 locations down to 150 Outback--- just closed over 40 locations Bonefish -- closing another 20 locations Nice knowing you Cracker Barrel. The harbinger of death approaches. Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2026 06:00 PM (dIske) Impressive track record! Posted by: "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap at July 27, 2026 06:04 PM (wVcYX) 98
They must have expanded too far too fast.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2026 06:03 PM (6ydKt) --- Testify! Posted by: Skyline Chili at July 27, 2026 06:04 PM (Fi81e) Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2026 06:04 PM (u82oZ) 100
switch the bone and the fish and get LAB
Posted by: banana Dream at July 27, 2026 06:04 PM (3uBP9) 101
Karens, like gays and lesbians, and God help us, trannies never. shut. the. hell. up.
Posted by: tubal at July 27, 2026 06:05 PM (Gqar8) 102
Bonefish was a quite nice seafood chain, used to take my dad there.
Posted by: steevy at July 27, 2026 06:05 PM (YwEeS) 103
65 By "quality control issues" you mean when they remodeled to expand seating by eliminating the kitchens and microwave premade shit instead?
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 27, 2026 06:05 PM (bX16E) 104
Bonefish? Is that a restaurant?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 27, 2026 06:02 PM (zZu0s) —— Shockingly, yes. One of the most unappealing names for a restaurant in recorded history. I guess Shitcock was taken by a gay porn star or death metal group? The only name less appealing in the food industry is Fish Eye wine. Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 27, 2026 06:05 PM (771KI) 105
CB makes good WHITE gravy.
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 27, 2026 06:05 PM (4NO2D) 106
The last two times I was at a Cracker Barrel, one shop had the old decorations, the other did not. The food was okay if overpriced and a bit skimpy at both.
I used to carry a list of CB locations all over the US in my car for road trips and ate there several times a year. Yet, on my run to Evansville in '25 and to Salina, KS, this year, I found myself stopping over and over at Waffle House, and not a single CB. I hope they can reverse the decline. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2026 06:05 PM (wzUl9) 107
1 Won't say first.... because
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 27, 2026 05:47 PM (mP0Kj) Fortune favors the bold. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 27, 2026 06:05 PM (dK+Kv) 108
The well managed businesses survive. The ones looted for executive compensation die.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2026 06:05 PM (u82oZ) 109
Tok many Leftists women running everything
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2026 06:05 PM (Ia/+0) 110
Bonefish? Is that a restaurant? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 27, 2026 06:02 PM (zZu0s) ________ Had lunch at one once. Not bad but not good enough to make it a regular spot. Somebody has a good idea, builds into a business with real value, which is the acquired by Yum! Brands and ruined by the MBAs. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2026 06:06 PM (O0L8i) 111
When I'm on a road trip I can always count on CB for a decent restroom.
We'll need more Buc-ees. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 27, 2026 06:06 PM (2Ez/1) 112
105 CB makes good WHITE gravy.
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 27, 2026 06:05 PM (4NO2D) Exactly the kind of white supremacy we'd expect from a business that has CRACKER right there in the name. Posted by: MONGOLOIDS FOR CONSUMER JUSTICE at July 27, 2026 06:06 PM (iG4hw) 113
Bonefish was a quite nice seafood chain, used to take my dad there.
Posted by: steevy at July 27, 2026 06:05 PM (YwEeS) --- Bonefish Grill, right? Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 06:06 PM (Fi81e) 114
Cracker Burial is the TGIFriday's of Appleby's.
Order whatever you want, but you're gonna eat salt, grease, and batter. Posted by: sifty boones __________ It used to be fairly good. Seems like the quality started going down a few years ago, but that could just be part of the enshitification of everything. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 27, 2026 06:06 PM (XvL8K) 115
123 Yes
Posted by: steevy at July 27, 2026 06:06 PM (YwEeS) 116
>>The glasses are a tell.
__ They are the 2026 equivalent of "Covid masks." Glad they identify themselves - it saves time. Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 27, 2026 06:07 PM (bNf8H) 117
Pro tip to company boards: don’t hire women with those glasses to run your company.
You’re welcome. Posted by: Chaos at July 27, 2026 06:07 PM (Xe8e7) 118
Bonefish Grill. A favorite of my son's. Garlic central, which is fine by me.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 27, 2026 06:07 PM (ZypAx) 119
Bonefish? Is that a restaurant?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 27, 2026 06:02 PM (zZu0s) --- Or a sick predilection?! Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 06:03 PM A love that dare not speak it's name. Posted by: Troy McClure at July 27, 2026 06:07 PM (4NO2D) 120
I don't eat seafood and always got a steak😆 They made a pretty good steak.
Posted by: steevy at July 27, 2026 06:07 PM (YwEeS) 121
Jaguar enters the chat. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 27, --- Jaguar stock price 7/27/2025: $79.10 7/27/2026: $0.99 A penny stock! But with PRIDE! Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 27, 2026 06:07 PM (sNksL) 122
Huh, its almost as if we were made to compliment each other. . . .
Posted by: Now that's Ironic A mid-looking man telling a woman she looks nice is literally rape. Especially at work. Posted by: OMG THE ICK!!! at July 27, 2026 06:07 PM (TbWk/) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2026 06:07 PM (O0L8i) 124
Never liked Cracker Barrell that much.
Only went there after seeing how set the suggester was on CB. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 06:08 PM (Fi81e) 125
Idk companies did pretty well when there were virtually no women in executive suites...
Posted by: steevy at July 27, 2026 *** Funny, that. ( -- IBM, U.S. Steel, etc.) Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2026 06:08 PM (wzUl9) 126
115 123 Yes
Posted by: steevy at July 27, 2026 06:06 PM (YwEeS) You there@ In the future! 'Yes'. Or did a bunch of comments get hammered? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 27, 2026 06:08 PM (zZu0s) 127
Bonefish? Is that a restaurant?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 27, 2026 06:02 PM (zZu0s) --- Or a sick predilection?! Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 06:03 PM It's a bullshit rumor. Fuck you. Posted by: Aquaman at July 27, 2026 06:08 PM (TbWk/) 128
But on the bright side of Dem economics, Mamdani today announced his plan to have five government owned stores with prices at 30%off. Government will subsidize the rest.
This should be fun to watch, especially when the yutes start shoplifting Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2026 06:08 PM (BlDDt) 129
Bonefish? Is that a restaurant?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 27, 2026 06:02 PM (zZu0s) --- Or a sick predilection?! Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 06:03 PM A love that dare not speak it's name. Posted by: Troy McClure at July 27, 2026 06:07 PM (4NO2D) HA! Noice! Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 27, 2026 06:08 PM (0aYVJ) 130
Before HR.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 27, 2026 06:08 PM (zZu0s) 131
112 105 CB makes good WHITE gravy.
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 27, 2026 06:05 PM (4NO2D) Exactly the kind of white supremacy we'd expect from a business that has CRACKER right there in the name. Posted by: MONGOLOIDS FOR CONSUMER JUSTICE at July 27, 2026 06:06 PM (iG4hw) Just Equity for Black Eyed Pea? Posted by: Romeo13 at July 27, 2026 06:09 PM (mP0Kj) 132
I thought they should have gone all-in on Modernity and changed the name to "Crack-Bar."
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 27, 2026 06:09 PM (f0sNM) 133
25 But The Odyssey will make money so therefore wokeness is good.
Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 05:52 PM (vE0+H) Didn't see it but I hear it's no so much woke as flat... No soul.... Posted by: It's me donna at July 27, 2026 05:53 PM (FWPkT) I heard someone say they played Odysseus more as a 'Nam Veteran was portrayed over and over in the 70s and 80s than a mythic hero. And you'd expect there to be no soul when they took the Gods out of the story. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 06:09 PM (uhVAy) 134
>>> Just get tactical gear, plates, and a good mag pouch belt.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2026 06:04 PM (u82oZ) They make ruck bags with specially made plates and pockets for wearing during workouts. Very $$$. When you can just take an old back pack and wrap weight plates in towels for nothin. I have and old sandbag that has hook ups for shoulder/chest harness but I don't use it anyway. But if someone trademarked Battle Bag (TM) and if you were challenged to defend your sacred honor in glorious battle on the streets. Maybe I'd buy one, or three. Posted by: banana Dream at July 27, 2026 06:09 PM (3uBP9) 135
I'm a little irked my bear callback didn't get any play.
Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 06:09 PM (Fi81e) 136
Lots of liberal men wearing those big ugly glasses now. They look as stupid as the women wearing them. Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 06:09 PM (/QHx4) 137
There is a Bonefish Grill in the suburbs here. I see it all the time when I take Linda to have her hair trimmed. Somehow I have less interest in going into a restaurant called "Bonefish" than I do in going into a hair salon. I'm funny that way.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2026 06:09 PM (wzUl9) 138
Lets be honest about the Cracker Barrel CEO situation: it was the Jews!
Posted by: Practicing for a podcast at July 27, 2026 06:09 PM (7vfi+) 139
our cases -- Bud Light; Cracker Barrel; Star Wars/Lucasfilm; and Disney's Marvel studio -- executives have decided to throw over/ignore the brands' historic male (or traditionalist) customer base
Jaguar enters the chat. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 27, 2026 05:50 PM You can't even blame the British Poofters for that, it's East Indians, all the way down. Posted by: Alexander The Adequate at July 27, 2026 06:09 PM (4NO2D) 140
127 Bonefish? Is that a restaurant?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 27, 2026 06:02 PM (zZu0s) --- Or a sick predilection?! Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 06:03 PM It's a bullshit rumor. Fuck you. Posted by: Aquaman at July 27, 2026 06:08 PM (TbWk/) It's a gay fish.... Posted by: Bad Southpark Punchline at July 27, 2026 06:10 PM (mP0Kj) 141
Naughty librarian glasses >>>> Girlboss CEO glasses
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2026 06:07 PM (O0L8i) There is iron in your words of fashion for all Comanche to see. Posted by: Chief Ten Bears at July 27, 2026 06:10 PM (wVcYX) 142
I used to like eat out biscuits and sausage gravy, then I discovered I could make far better at home.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 27, 2026 06:10 PM (zZu0s) 143
"Mamdani today announced his plan to have five government owned stores with prices at 30%off."
30% off what? Posted by: I gotta ask at July 27, 2026 06:10 PM (2Ez/1) 144
Phone keyboard is smol
Posted by: steevy at July 27, 2026 06:10 PM (YwEeS) 145
But on the bright side of Dem economics, Mamdani today announced his plan to have five government owned stores with prices at 30%off. Government will subsidize the rest.
This should be fun to watch, especially when the yutes start shoplifting Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2026 06:08 PM (BlDDt) A private grocer has said he will close all his groceries in NYC when he does that. He has like 30+ of them. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 06:10 PM (uhVAy) 146
Went to a Bonefish Grill in Bonita Springs. The floors were so greasy we slid to our table. The gays guys in the drinks area were drunk and kinda funny, actually. Oh, the food? It was really good mid range restaurant food.
Posted by: tubal at July 27, 2026 06:10 PM (Gqar8) 147
CB makes good WHITE gravy.
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 27, 2026 06:05 PM (4NO2D) Exactly the kind of white supremacy we'd expect from a business that has CRACKER right there in the name. Posted by: MONGOLOIDS FOR CONSUMER JUSTICE at July 27, 2026 06:06 PM (iG4hw) Just Equity for Black Eyed Pea? Posted by: Romeo13 at July 27, 2026 06:09 PM (mP0Kj) The peas were asking for it. Just look at the way they were dressed. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 27, 2026 06:11 PM (dK+Kv) 148
>>>David Deno....they guy is the epitome of "see ya later."
The Outback by my house is 70% empty at peak times. Portion sizes are down, prices are up. Posted by: Citizen Cake at July 27, 2026 06:11 PM (CwhoI) Posted by: Boswell at July 27, 2026 06:11 PM (j10i6) 150
Krispy Kreme got too big too fast without the customer base. It took a couple of decades for Dunkin Donuts to get that big with that large a customer base.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2026 06:11 PM (BlDDt) 151
Bonefish and Fishbone are both restaurant chains
Posted by: Chaos at July 27, 2026 06:11 PM (Xe8e7) 152
Unless something changes, I would expect ALL chain type and fast food places to be in trouble. Have you seen the prices? Sometimes there is a locally owned place that is livable but it costs like $60 to feed 4 a Mystery Meal of microwaved frozen hamburgers? they are labeled hamburgers..at even Mickey D's. At some point normal people HAVE to just stop going out to eat much
Posted by: Azjaeger at July 27, 2026 06:11 PM (3/XaG) 153
A somber reminder,
" House Republicans @HouseGOP · 7h Today, on Korean War Veterans Day, we honor the 1.8 million Americans who answered the call in the “Forgotten War.” They fought through bitter cold, relentless fire, and unimaginable hardship so that freedom could live. Too many never came home. Their courage still echoes across" Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 06:12 PM (E4rtv) 154
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Lots of liberal men wearing those big ugly glasses now. They look as stupid as the women wearing them. Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 06:09 PM (/QHx4) Yeah, kinda sad. Angry estrogen seems to be communicable. Posted by: tubal at July 27, 2026 06:12 PM (Gqar8) 155
But The Odyssey will make money so therefore wokeness is good.
Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 05:52 PM (vE0+H) Didn't see it but I hear it's no so much woke as flat... No soul.... Posted by: It's me donna at July 27, 2026 05:53 PM (FWPkT) I heard someone say they played Odysseus more as a 'Nam Veteran was portrayed over and over in the 70s and 80s than a mythic hero. And you'd expect there to be no soul when they took the Gods out of the story. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 06:09 PM (uhVAy) —— Nolan’s movie is a much bigger budgeted rip-off of The Return. That movie too portrayed Odysseus as a guilt-racked, PTSD-suffering simp. Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 27, 2026 06:12 PM (771KI) 156
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Lots of liberal men wearing those big ugly glasses now. They look as stupid as the women wearing them. Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 06:09 PM (/QHx4) I kinda want to get glasses four times her size and thickness just for the humor value. I blame Carrot Top and the sirensong of prop comedy. Posted by: MONGOLOIDS FOR CONSUMER JUSTICE at July 27, 2026 06:12 PM (iG4hw) 157
A private grocer has said he will close all his groceries in NYC when he does that. He has like 30+ of them.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 06:10 PM (uhVAy) Then they'll blame eeeevil white men and capitalism for the ensuing "food desert." Posted by: Cause and effect? Never heard of it. at July 27, 2026 06:12 PM (TbWk/) 158
@24/SpeakingOf: "Maybe she can go work for Bed, Bath & Beyond."
At which point the profit and loss sheet will look more like "Bloodbath and beyond." Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 27, 2026 06:12 PM (O7YUW) 159
But like ace said we won't.
But we could. Posted by: banana Dream - hint hint I don't see why you wouldn't. It's not like leatherworking for women's products is any different for leather working for men's products. Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 27, 2026 06:12 PM (vJrRc) 160
>>> I don't eat seafood and always got a steak😆 They made a pretty good steak.
Posted by: steevy at July 27, 2026 06:07 PM (YwEeS) My wife was always wanting to go to red lobster. Not great food to begin with. But I would not go. Why? Because she does not eat seafood and rarely fish. She'd probably order a hamburger. Why did she want to go? Because the friggin biscuits. I could not abide. And you can buy a box of the mix at costco. Posted by: banana Dream - confessions of a bad husband at July 27, 2026 06:13 PM (3uBP9) 161
It is an Odyssey where Odysseus has PTSD from sacking Troy and does NOT want to go home to his wife. Until he is convinced to by a woman...
Posted by: steevy at July 27, 2026 06:13 PM (YwEeS) 162
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I’m not sure that’s the basis of the CB rebrand. I think that rebrand was just stupid desperation because sales were falling amidst quality control issues. Plus, a lot of people made a lot of money on the rebrand, so the whole thing seemed to me like looting the company before the chapter 11. Posted by: Elric the Blade --- Money laundering? Sheering the sheep? Yeah,that place was a pile of crap. Stand in line to be seated, late, lazy, impudent waitress, inedible food. How dare you suggest such a thing. On the other hand good, solid, management could have turned it around; highway food has a place on the books for time to come. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2026 06:13 PM (Cq/ve) 163
They make ruck bags with specially made plates and pockets for wearing during workouts. Very $$$. When you can just take an old back pack and wrap weight plates in towels for nothin. I have and old sandbag that has hook ups for shoulder/chest harness but I don't use it anyway. But if someone trademarked Battle Bag (TM) and if you were challenged to defend your sacred honor in glorious battle on the streets. Maybe I'd buy one, or three.
Posted by: banana Dream at July 27, 2026 06:09 PM (3uBP9) Just put your plate carrier with plates in a ruck if you want to add weight. You do have at least one plate carrier with plates, don't you? Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 27, 2026 06:13 PM (dK+Kv) 164
I'd be willing to bet that 50% of Americans think that the "cracker" in "Cracker Barrel" refers not to small rectangles of wheat biscuits stored in a barrel but instead to a barrel where lower-class white countryside hicks hang out. Like, this is a restaurant by and for "crackers" exclusively.
The female CE took one look at the logo and pointed to the old white man in the logo and said, "THAT guy is why mostpeople think "cracker" refers to "white people." We've got t get rid of him." Thing is, she's probably right. The white dude in the logo probably DOES serve to identify this as a "white folks' brand. But since, therefore, 90% of your custmers and thus white folks, pissing them off and driving the away is a recipe for bankruptcy. If you have an all-American brand, either embrace, or quit your job. Trying to change it into a anti-American brand is just going to lose your sharehloders all their money. Posted by: zombie at July 27, 2026 06:13 PM (Av6i5) 165
It's not so much that Cracker Barrel got rid of Uncle Herschel. The biggest problem Cracker Barrel has is that the food is not nearly as good as it was about 20 or so years ago. I think it's more like industrial cooking as opposed to good old-fashioned cooking from scratch, and that makes a big difference.
Posted by: Ralph at July 27, 2026 06:13 PM (8WZD4) 166
There is more to this than "woke rebranding." Cracker Barrel went to premade portion controlled food (which sucks) rather than making its stuff from scratch in each restaurant kitchen. Of course, with a breakfast menu like CB, making scratch is generally fine. Waffle House makes stuff from scratch and McDonalds has everything premade (which is why McD's sucks).
The quality of the food dropped and then they thought they could misdirect with a 'rebranding' which totally backfired. It was a double whammy of how to fook up your brand. Not quite as bad as Bud Light, but definitely bad. Posted by: Evi L. Bloggerlady at July 27, 2026 06:13 PM (8yM+6) 167
Last few visits to Texas Roadhouse have been less than stellar. They still grill a great steak, but a lot of the sides are not what they used to be, the rolls in particular.
Have seen that in other chain restaurants as well. It's them big food distribution conglomerates. Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 27, 2026 06:13 PM (0aYVJ) 168
Bonefish and Fishbone are both restaurant chains
Posted by: Chaos at July 27, 2026 06:11 PM (Xe8e7) No relation. Posted by: Laurence Fishburne at July 27, 2026 06:14 PM (wVcYX) 169
Posted by: Azjaeger at July 27, 2026 06:11 PM (3/XaG)
Prices are through the roof, and they now expect a 20% to 30% tip on top of that... Dinner out with a couple of drinks is now $100... for about an hour of time... Wait staff has 4 or 5 tables.... soooo.. They could easily be making $100 to $150 an hour for that lunch or dinner rush. Posted by: Romeo13 at July 27, 2026 06:14 PM (mP0Kj) 170
My very first visit to Outback was SPECTACULAR.
And for the next ~3 years it was at least GREAT. For years, there has been a steady decline in dining experience. I still go occasionally on business trips. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 06:14 PM (Fi81e) 171
This should be fun to watch, especially when the yutes start shoplifting
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2026 06:08 PM (BlDDt) Stop-N-Shot Posted by: Boswell at July 27, 2026 06:14 PM (j10i6) 172
I thought they should have gone all-in on Modernity and changed the name to "Crack-Bar."
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo Is "Crackr" a whites-only hookup app? If not, why not? Posted by: mikeski at July 27, 2026 06:14 PM (VHUov) Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 06:14 PM (/QHx4) 174
@143 30% off the average retail stores prices. If all the private groceries close it will be 30%off zero. Success.
The better question will be will there be 30% less shoplifting Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2026 06:14 PM (BlDDt) 175
@148/Citizen Cake: "The Outback by my house is 70% empty at peak times. Portion sizes are down, prices are up."
This bodes very poorly for Cracker Barrel. Why would they bring someone in like this when they so desperately need to reverse course and buck the enshittification trend? Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 27, 2026 06:14 PM (O7YUW) 176
143 "Mamdani today announced his plan to have five government owned stores with prices at 30%off."
30% off what? 30% off the top for Mamdani Posted by: Azjaeger at July 27, 2026 06:14 PM (3/XaG) 177
160 My dad was a big seafood guy though
Posted by: steevy at July 27, 2026 06:14 PM (YwEeS) 178
Falling asleep
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2026 06:15 PM (Ia/+0) 179
Mayor Jihadi will claim those closed grocery store and any inventory. 30 % off.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2026 06:15 PM (abScH) 180
I'm expecting her to get a job as WNBA Commissioner. She'll throw Caitlin Clatk out of the league and replace her with Jemelle Hill.
Posted by: Wally at July 27, 2026 06:15 PM (0e5Te) 181
Bed, Bath and Beyond going out of business was fantastic.
Mom and I needed a new bathmat and got one for 50% off. So great!! Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at July 27, 2026 06:15 PM (Sco7b) 182
Bloomin Onion used to be great. Haven't had one in a long time.
Posted by: steevy at July 27, 2026 06:15 PM (YwEeS) 183
Never liked Cracker Barrell that much.
Only went there after seeing how set the suggester was on CB. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 06:08 PM (Fi81e) Went to one once - had spent the day at the Chickamauga Battlefield Park and Chattanooga park in steaming hot weather and had no hotel and cleaned up in the bathroom, ate a long dinner and cooled off and decided to just drive all the way to Ohio to my mom's house rather than find one. Got there around midnight. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 06:16 PM (uhVAy) 184
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My wonderful father was severely wounded in the Korean war. He was never the same. Posted by: four seasons ======== Bless him and sorrow about his injuries. We don't deserve such men. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 06:16 PM (E4rtv) 185
"What this company needs is some rebranding."
(Destroys company image with woke rebranding.) "That wasn't real rebranding." Posted by: zombie at July 27, 2026 06:16 PM (Av6i5) 186
The new CB wasn’t so much woke but Millenial-ified . Drab gray and soulless.
Posted by: Chaos at July 27, 2026 06:17 PM (Xe8e7) 187
142 I used to like eat out biscuits and sausage gravy, then I discovered I could make far better at home.
i also used to like biscuits and sausage gravy. then i spent a couple of months in the hospital. whenever they served biscuits and gravy, i'd throw them up. same thing happened with their pizza. 0 stars. would not recommend. Posted by: anachronda at July 27, 2026 06:17 PM (sGtp+) 188
There are 1950 calories in 1 order of Outback Steakhouse Bloomin' Onion.
Posted by: Alexander The Adequate at July 27, 2026 06:17 PM (4NO2D) 189
Good, taxpayer funded stores for discount food.
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2026 06:17 PM (Ia/+0) 190
142 I used to like eat out biscuits and sausage gravy, then I discovered I could make far better at home.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 27, 2026 06:10 PM (zZu0s) It’s not that difficult to make with simple ingredients and lots of different refrigerated & frozen biscuits to choose from. Takes all of a half hour to make, Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2026 06:17 PM (6ydKt) 191
China’s “white monkeys”:
Ezra Klein, Vox co-founder and New York Times columnist; Matthew Yglesias, Vox co-founder; Ronald Brownstein, CNN senior political analyst and Atlantic senior editor; Bradford Plumer, New York Times reporter; Marjorie Miller, former Associated Press vice president and editor; Steve Clemons, former editor-at-large of The Hill; David Rohde, former New Yorker editor and current MS NOW national security reporter; Jonathan Alter, MSNBC commentator; David Sweeney, former NPR managing editor; Daniel Gross, former Yahoo Finance columnist; Marilyn Geewax, former NPR senior editor; Kathleen Deveny, former Newsweek and Wall Street Journal Marketplace editor; Tom Omestad, former U.S. News & World Report correspondent; Steve Chapman, former Chicago Tribune columnist and editorial writer; Bruce Stokes, former National Journal correspondent; Craig Gilbert, former Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Washington bureau chief; Tony Semerad, Salt Lake Tribune reporter; Shikha Dalmia, former columnist for The Week; Jonathan Broder, former Newsweek senior writer; Cristi Kempf, former Chicago Tribune associate managing editor; Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times deputy editorial page editor; Posted by: SMOD at July 27, 2026 06:17 PM (ubbnW) 192
What this company needs is some rebranding."
(Destroys company image with woke rebranding.) "That wasn't real rebranding." Posted by: zombie at July 27, 2026 06:16 PM (Av6i5) Real rebranding, like socialism, has never been properly implemented. Posted by: We'll get it right THIS time! at July 27, 2026 06:18 PM (TbWk/) Posted by: anachronda at July 27, 2026 06:18 PM (sGtp+) 194
Now for a bit of humor from failed politician and soon to be former Senator Cornhole from Texas
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh 🚨 NOW: Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) RIPS President Trump and Mike Lee's push to cancel August recess Cornyn WANTS to go on recess. PATHETIC. This is not how you pass SAVE America! “Unfortunately, with the assistance of some senators, he's raising expectations among Republican voters. They're bound to end up being disappointed, which strikes me as a bad approach 99 days before the midterms." — Cornyn, per NOTUS Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 06:18 PM (E4rtv) 195
If you are in the Columbia SC area a great restaurant that cooks Southern food is Lizards Thicket. Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 06:18 PM (/QHx4) 196
Krispy Kreme got too big too fast without the customer base. It took a couple of decades for Dunkin Donuts to get that big with that large a customer base.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2026 *** When Krispy Kreme opened its first store in Denver in about '98-'99, people were lining up in their cars to put in an order -- sitting in line for an hour, we were told. I never went. Seems to me I recall passing by the location in '01, not long before I left town, and there were two cars in line. Either Denver was starved for donut sources -- which I doubt -- or Denver people were so starved for novelty that they were willing to burn gas sitting in line to experience it. Either way it's not a good sign. We have a KK here in the suburbs. It drove a local shop of Tastee Donuts, which had been across the street for decades, to close down (I don't know if the chain is still extant). Tastee's donuts were about the same quality, but much cheaper -- but KK has its big glossy storefront to impress people. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2026 06:18 PM (wzUl9) 197
The problem isn't women, the problem is the narcissistic idealogy-driven women who have been given to occupy positions of influence and power.
Posted by: Maggie Thatcher at July 27, 2026 06:18 PM (XeU6L) 198
And this from weasel governor DeWino of OH,
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh · 42m 🚨 WTF?! Ohio's Republican Governor Mike DeWine just started PANICKING that ICE is preparing to deport more Haitian TPS migrants in Ohio "They can't work, won't be able to make a living! It'll be a BIG blow to the community...they came here to FILL [American] jobs." NO REPUBLICAN SHOULD TALK LIKE THIS "They bought homes!" "For them to be lost will be a big blow." Get all Haitian TPS migrants out of America 🇺🇸 Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 06:18 PM (E4rtv) 199
Sausage gravy is one of the few things that my wife does not make better at home than can be had in a restaurant. Hers is good, but there are much better.
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 27, 2026 06:19 PM (4NO2D) 200
176 143 "Mamdani today announced his plan to have five government owned stores with prices at 30%off."
30% off what? 30% off the top for Mamdani Posted by: Azjaeger You were promised a "free store." What you got was a "30% off" store. Then you learn it's "30% off Erewhon prices." Posted by: zombie at July 27, 2026 06:19 PM (Av6i5) 201
A private grocer has said he will close all his groceries in NYC when he does that. He has like 30+ of them.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 06:10 PM (uhVAy) Then they'll blame eeeevil white men and capitalism for the ensuing "food desert." Posted by: Cause and effect? Never heard of it. at July 27, 2026 06:12 PM (TbWk/) Mondami IS an evil white man, so it fits. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 06:19 PM (uhVAy) 202
Never been to Cracker Barrel, primarily because they have always been too far from wherever it was that I was currently at and making the trip never seemed worthwhile
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 27, 2026 06:19 PM (XV/Pl) 203
>>>A private grocer has said he will close all his groceries in NYC when he does that. He has like 30+ of them.
Yeah, they know that and are planning on it. They're doing something similar with landlords with price controls. Posted by: Citizen Cake at July 27, 2026 06:19 PM (CwhoI) 204
Money laundering? Sheering the sheep? Yeah,that place was a pile of crap. Stand in line to be seated, late, lazy, impudent waitress, inedible food. How dare you suggest such a thing.
On the other hand good, solid, management could have turned it around; highway food has a place on the books for time to come. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2026 06:13 PM (Cq/ve) Cracker Barrel is NOT a franchise chain, meaning they own a lot of pretty prime real estate. Which will be sold to cronies with sweetheart deals. Posted by: Romeo13 at July 27, 2026 06:20 PM (mP0Kj) 205
I used to love Outback but around Covid era it just went to shit and never really recovered. The one by my house was almost always busy but now its dead.
Texas Roadhouse stole a lot of their business. They just seem way better run. Casual dining though is so flipping expensive now. I dont understand how the middle class can make it work spending nearly $100 for a family of 4 to eat out. Posted by: Sharpie at July 27, 2026 06:20 PM (zUEQI) 206
20 years ago, Crack Barrel was pretty dang good, especially their breakfast.
Last time I went there, I got something like chicken fried steak, and green beans on the side. They basically dumped a can of Delmonte beans on my plate. At least they drained the water off first. How fucking hard is it to steam some fresh green beans? Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 27, 2026 06:20 PM (0aYVJ) 207
Nearby Outback is really very good mid range food. Of course where we live the wait staff says have a blessed day when you leave, and they write God Bless You on your takeout food bags. That always makes the food taste better, to me.
Posted by: tubal at July 27, 2026 06:20 PM (Gqar8) 208
Alice Springs Chicken, FTW.
Posted by: tubal at July 27, 2026 06:21 PM (Gqar8) 209
Outback by my house is 70% empty at peak times. Portion sizes are down, prices are up."
Hadn't been for years. Went in, wasn't busy, service was slow, food was cold and unappealing. Ah well. Posted by: man at July 27, 2026 06:21 PM (VnkPF) 210
Marvel has decades of stories it could use for movies. It would be like printing money at the mint. Instead, they rely on stories from the last 25 years and their crappy Ultimate line coinciding with their woke rebrand. It's been driven into the ground.
Posted by: Kyle Richmond at July 27, 2026 06:21 PM (VOCjX) 211
@191 that story is not a surprise. And remember Ezra Klein is the guy who started Journo- List. It was designed to push leftist ideas in the press and help Obama
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2026 06:21 PM (BlDDt) 212
Here is the main reason.
These DEI hires had success throughout their career pushing the DEI agenda. Most were hired because of their advocacy and positions. They got into uni because of their "victim status" and there essays about grlll power or black power or gay power, etc. So that is the winning strategy for them. That is the formula they know. It worked so far. It got them the position. Now in that position, that is still all they know so they keep pressing the same lever. Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 27, 2026 06:21 PM (v8XRi) 213
Like for instance, the closest Cracker Barrel to me is 30 miles away, not making that trip.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 27, 2026 06:21 PM (XV/Pl) 214
Krispy Kreme is sold at most Speedway gas stations in the Midwest.
Maybe the locations weren't doing as much for them as distributed sales could. I doubt they are going under just because they closed franchises. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 06:21 PM (Fi81e) 215
Cracker Barrell was paying CEO Julie Felss Masino a base salary of $1,000,000 a year but she was probabably raking in more like $6.6 million a year. So she was grossly over paid.
She had success at Taco Bell, but CB did not work out that way. She will probably get some gig to destroy some other company. Heck, the ad chick Alissa Heinerscheid behind Bud Light Dylan fiasco managed to score a job with the Saudi LIV golf league (oh wait, that failed too). Posted by: Evi L. Bloggerlady at July 27, 2026 06:21 PM (8yM+6) 216
JournoList is dead.
Posted by: CabaList at July 27, 2026 06:22 PM (4NO2D) 217
Gee, why would they do that?
@bern_hogan Jul 24 The city published a list of all properties -- and the names of the owners -- that *could be* subject to the new pied a terre tax in a very easy to search Excel sheet: Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2026 06:22 PM (diia5) 218
Dewine is a typical Pencelike useless cunt
Posted by: steevy at July 27, 2026 06:22 PM (YwEeS) 219
it's all about the destruction; none of this is a mistake.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 27, 2026 06:22 PM (VyBeY) 220
"They bought homes!" "For them to be lost will be a big blow." Get all Haitian TPS migrants out of America 🇺🇸 Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 06:18 PM (E4rtv) _________ Whoa, whoa, whoa! I'm told in a billion FB memes that it takes at least $300,000 a year income to buy a house nowadays. Where are Haitians getting the dough? Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2026 06:22 PM (O0L8i) 221
Outback fries cooked in beef tallow. The only way.
Posted by: tubal at July 27, 2026 06:22 PM (Gqar8) 222
I hear Bud Light is looking for a new promotional face since Kaitlan Collins was rejected for being "too toxically masculine."
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 27, 2026 06:22 PM (2JA0m) 223
Plus where I see Krispy Kreme donuts at gas stations, there is a glass cabinet keeping them warm.
Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 06:22 PM (Fi81e) 224
The female CE took one look at the logo and pointed to the old white man in the logo and said, "THAT guy is why mostpeople think "cracker" refers to "white people." We've got t get rid of him."
Thing is, she's probably right. The white dude in the logo probably DOES serve to identify this as a "white folks' brand. But since, therefore, 90% of your custmers and thus white folks, pissing them off and driving the away is a recipe for bankruptcy. If you have an all-American brand, either embrace, or quit your job. Trying to change it into a anti-American brand is just going to lose your sharehloders all their money. Posted by: zombie --- Then she could have added Aunt Jemima in a rocking chair next to him. Made the logo even more 'down home'. But no, she was there to reduce things. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2026 06:22 PM (Cq/ve) 225
>>>How fucking hard is it to steam some fresh green beans?
Pretty hard when they replaced the steamers with microwave ovens. Posted by: Citizen Cake at July 27, 2026 06:23 PM (CwhoI) 226
Never been to Cracker Barrel, primarily because they have always been too far from wherever it was that I was currently at and making the trip never seemed worthwhile
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 27, 2026 *** They used to be right off interstates, but far enough away from major metros so you didn't have traffic. There was one in eastern Evansville when I was there in '25. Not a good look. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2026 06:23 PM (wzUl9) 227
Whoa, whoa, whoa! I'm told in a billion FB memes that it takes at least $300,000 a year income to buy a house nowadays. Where are Haitians getting the dough?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2026 06:22 PM (O0L8i) --- I've been meaning to talk to you about that.... Posted by: Your Pocket at July 27, 2026 06:23 PM (Fi81e) 228
"They bought homes!"
Translation: "my relatives/ donors built a bunch of cheap housing. They want results! Posted by: man at July 27, 2026 06:23 PM (VnkPF) 229
If you have an all-American brand, either embrace, or quit your job. Trying to change it into a anti-American brand is just going to lose your sharehloders all their money.
Posted by: zombie at July 27, 2026 06:13 PM (Av6i5) You know, as a conglomerate you were free to make a new wymyn-themed restaurant and make your own thing with your own decor, menu, rules and such. If it were any good, people might come and it could be a success. But no, you had to destroy your own brand first. This is insane. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 06:23 PM (uhVAy) 230
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Whoa, whoa, whoa! I'm told in a billion FB memes that it takes at least $300,000 a year income to buy a house nowadays. Where are Haitians getting the dough? Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh --- Air America Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2026 06:24 PM (Cq/ve) 231
If you are in the Columbia SC area a great restaurant that cooks Southern food is Lizards Thicket.
Posted by: four seasons ------ Not to be mistaken with Lizard Lick, in NC. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2026 06:24 PM (XeU6L) 232
Can a store make it with just donuts?
Tim Horton's has a lot of food. It's alright if I'm in the mood. She had success at Taco Bell, but CB did not work out that way. She will probably get some gig to destroy some other company. Posted by: Evi L. Bloggerlady at July 27, 2026 06:21 PM (8yM+6) All power tools NOW IN PINK!!! Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at July 27, 2026 06:24 PM (Sco7b) 233
We have a donut chain around here caleed Donut Palace. Best apple fritters ever. Addictive.
Posted by: tubal at July 27, 2026 06:24 PM (Gqar8) 234
Her ugly Clark Kent glasses should've been a red flag from the get-go.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 27, 2026 06:24 PM (qBdHI) 235
What took so long to fire the incompetent woman?
Posted by: Archer at July 27, 2026 06:24 PM (wvc0i) 236
Sharpie
Buy restaurant gift cards at Dillons (a Kroger brand). You get 4X the value in fuel points. It is a cost, but less of one. Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2026 06:24 PM (u82oZ) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2026 06:24 PM (Cq/ve) 238
Pretty hard when they replaced the steamers with microwave ovens.
Posted by: Citizen Cake Not at all. I steam them in the micro all the time. You just cannot let them dry out. Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2026 06:25 PM (diia5) 239
Whoa, whoa, whoa! I'm told in a billion FB memes that it takes at least $300,000 a year income to buy a house nowadays. Where are Haitians getting the dough?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2026 06:22 PM (O0L8i) ------------------- Banks "Too Big To Fail" Making NINJA Mortgage Loans (No Income, No Job or Assets -- No Problemo) Great Again! Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 27, 2026 06:25 PM (2JA0m) 240
Even non-feminist women are just more influenced by their peers. So if you get a female CEO, it's going to be them caving to whatever fashionable woke bullshit has come down the pike.
And any female CEO of a large company is going to consider themselves a a stronk woman, so a feminist. There's just no way to avoid it. Posted by: Sharpie at July 27, 2026 06:25 PM (zUEQI) 241
231 If you are in the Columbia SC area a great restaurant that cooks Southern food is Lizards Thicket.
Posted by: four seasons ------ Not to be mistaken with Lizard Lick, in NC. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2026 06:24 PM (XeU6L) Or Lizard on a Stick. Posted by: tubal at July 27, 2026 06:25 PM (Gqar8) 242
They used to be right off interstates, but far enough away from major metros so you didn't have traffic. There was one in eastern Evansville when I was there in '25. Not a good look.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2026 06:23 PM (wzUl9) When I did a lot of travelling in that part of the nation, I usually had cats in the car so I would get take out and sit in the car with them. So no sit down places to keep the cats from overheating. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 06:26 PM (uhVAy) 243
> Last time I went there, I got something like chicken fried steak, and green beans on the side. They basically dumped a can of Delmonte beans on my plate. At least they drained the water off first. How fucking hard is it to steam some fresh green beans?
I've only been to Cracker Barrel a couple of times, but I was not impressed. It's like one step above buffet food and two steps above cafeteria food. It's corporate diner food. Posted by: bonhomme at July 27, 2026 06:26 PM (mkw2N) 244
Bonk bonk on the head
Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 27, 2026 06:26 PM (INJnj) 245
The best chain restaurants are the ones with just a few locations and no great desire to go big. There's not one location dependent on one chef and there's not a zillion serving microwaved slop. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2026 06:26 PM (O0L8i) 246
I have great difficulty ordering steak out now. It's one of the most stupidly simple things to make great with a reverse seer. I can't justify the cost over throwing a bigbox store steak in the oven and up to the cast iron on the stove top. Super easy. Super quick.
Here's an example: youtu.be/CBczSMDkD7w Posted by: banana Dream at July 27, 2026 06:26 PM (3uBP9) 247
A lot of dot Indians own a well known donut stores. We stopped going there because service sucked and it appeared it was a burden to serve you. They probably bought the their stores with our tax money. *uck them Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 06:27 PM (/QHx4) 248
You will never see Elliot Page as the "male" lead in a Romantic Comedy, nor will you see anyone suggesting that chick flicks should include car chases to "broaden the demographic appeal."
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 27, 2026 05:52 PM (f0sNM) Coming this Christmas, only on Hallmark, "My Eyes Were Opened", the story of a Victoria Secret model who finally finds true love with Bubba, a 5'2", 400 pound, plumber's assistant when she learns about his collection of vintage Playboys. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 27, 2026 06:27 PM (ExV1e) 249
Casual dining though is so flipping expensive now. I dont understand how the middle class can make it work spending nearly $100 for a family of 4 to eat out.
Posted by: Sharpie at July 27, 2026 *** Dinner for Linda and me runs about $30 now, and we don't do high end places and we order only water to drink. For a guy who remembers when you could order for two at a Bennigans in 1982, including two iced teas, add the tip, and still get change from a twenty, that's horrifying enough. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2026 06:27 PM (wzUl9) 250
When I visit NotSoThoreau there is one nice bar / restaurant in town. Her town is too small to support a big chain eating establishment.
There is a new Caseys, but ... Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2026 06:27 PM (u82oZ) 251
243 > Last time I went there, I got something like chicken fried steak, and green beans on the side. They basically dumped a can of Delmonte beans on my plate. At least they drained the water off first. How fucking hard is it to steam some fresh green beans?
I've only been to Cracker Barrel a couple of times, but I was not impressed. It's like one step above buffet food and two steps above cafeteria food. It's corporate diner food. Posted by: bonhomme at July 27, 2026 06:26 PM (mkw2N) Their breakfasts are decent. There, I said something nice about them, without mentioning the rest of their menu. Posted by: tubal at July 27, 2026 06:27 PM (Gqar8) 252
233 We have a donut chain around here caleed Donut Palace. Best apple fritters ever. Addictive.
when i spent some time working in silicon valley, i found a place that had cherry fritters. amazing. Posted by: anachronda at July 27, 2026 06:27 PM (sGtp+) 253
Cracker Barrel used to be insanely good like 20+ years ago. I had family member that were regulars at one and we'd go with them often. It was just like getting a good home cooked meal. As a kid I thought the Old Country Store gimmick was really cool.
I don't think they are terrible now, but they aren't what they were. Food just tastes more processed. Posted by: Sharpie at July 27, 2026 06:28 PM (zUEQI) 254
What took so long to fire the incompetent woman?
Posted by: Archer at July 27, 2026 06:24 PM (wvc0i) ---------------- They had to do a year-long International Executive Search for the next #Woke incompetent woman first. Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 27, 2026 06:28 PM (2JA0m) 255
I doubt they are going under just because they closed franchises.
Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 06:21 PM (Fi81e) Down here Krispy Kreme delivers fresh every morning to various convenience stores and supermarkets. There used to be several KK stores around for a few decades but they closed most of them in the past 20 years, I assume because it was less overhead and made more money just supplying other stores. Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2026 06:28 PM (6ydKt) 256
Sayonara, Haitians! Don't let the plane door hit you in the ass on the way out!
Posted by: Ohio Geese at July 27, 2026 06:29 PM (0e5Te) 257
252 233 We have a donut chain around here caleed Donut Palace. Best apple fritters ever. Addictive.
when i spent some time working in silicon valley, i found a place that had cherry fritters. amazing. Posted by: anachronda at July 27, 2026 06:27 PM (sGtp+) Would love to try those. Posted by: tubal at July 27, 2026 06:29 PM (Gqar8) 258
Whoa, whoa, whoa! I'm told in a billion FB memes that it takes at least $300,000 a year income to buy a house nowadays. Where are Haitians getting the dough?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh --- Air America Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2026 06:24 PM (Cq/ve) --- USAID and a whole constellation of "charities" ensured that illegals lived as well as the middle class but without having to any work more demanding that scribbling their name on a ballot application. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 27, 2026 06:29 PM (ZOv7s) 259
At one time Logan's Roadhouse regularly had high-4 star ratings at almost every place I travelled.
They did not recover too well from Covid. Because when I went there after the White Witch lifted the masking edicts for restaurants, they hammed my Prime Rib. Apparently, getting Prime Rib to taste like ham is something you can do by overcooking it. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 06:29 PM (Fi81e) 260
Chain restaurants mostly suck
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 27, 2026 06:29 PM (13VxP) 261
Krispy Kreme is sold at most Speedway gas stations in the Midwest.
Maybe the locations weren't doing as much for them as distributed sales could. I doubt they are going under just because they closed franchises. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 06:21 PM (Fi81e) I heard something about that - over expansion of locations for the donut, declining quality, costs of shipping them about, the usual. They were decent, but the donuts we sometimes got as a kid from the local bakery on Sundays were larger and better. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 06:30 PM (uhVAy) 262
I'm dealing with illegals right now who can't speak English. My HS Spanish is just getting me by. They are putting new so on my lawn that they had previously killed with improper annual application of weed killer and fertilizer
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2026 06:30 PM (KC5Lt) 263
The Krispy Kreme by my house went under. I literally think it was a few bad employees that did it.
So many times I would go and see a hand written note that they were closed, but saw an employee inside. I literally think some little shits just pretended to be closed so they didnt have to work. Happened so many times. A relative of mine noticed it also. I'll keep to myself the demographic info of these people. Posted by: Sharpie at July 27, 2026 06:31 PM (zUEQI) 264
CB never had "steamed" green beans that I'm aware of. Think of a healthy way of preparing food that you'd probably hear about from a yoga streamer chick. That is not what you get at cracker barrel. In the beginning they were simmered for a thousand years in salt and bacon. Like those ancient chinese eggs, but green beans and bacon. And they were delicious.
Posted by: banana Dream at July 27, 2026 06:31 PM (3uBP9) 265
Putting in new SOD ! I hate autocrap.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2026 06:32 PM (KC5Lt) 266
Even non-feminist women are just more influenced by their peers. So if you get a female CEO, it's going to be them caving to whatever fashionable woke bullshit has come down the pike.
And any female CEO of a large company is going to consider themselves a a stronk woman, so a feminist. There's just no way to avoid it. Posted by: Sharpie at July 27, 2026 06:25 PM (zUEQI) --- Like Bud Light and Target, I'm sure she had charts and ables showing that older people liked the existing brand but that younger people don't and older people die off, so make something for the young. What did not occur to her is that as people age, so do their tastes, so young people may not like those brands NOW, but when they get older they will. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 27, 2026 06:32 PM (ZOv7s) 267
We haven't been to our local Cracker Barrel in over a year, I don't think. The last two times the quality was just terrible. If they can get it back to where it was, I'll return. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 27, 2026 06:32 PM (w6EFb) 268
Afternoon.
I know salesmen don't tell the truth. No one is like, "We're doing this new thing but people are kind of ambivalent about it." Gotta be the hype man. But *always* saying, "The feedback is overwhelmingly positive," is pretty much the same as saying, "This shit fucking sucks." Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2026 06:32 PM (QQJja) 269
When I did a lot of travelling in that part of the nation, I usually had cats in the car so I would get take out and sit in the car with them. So no sit down places to keep the cats from overheating.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 *** The only time I ever left a cat in the car while I ate was in November in Clayton, NM, and it was raining, though not cold. And I still hurried to make sure she was okay. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2026 06:33 PM (wzUl9) 270
Nobody pulls out guns over compasses, thankfully.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2026 05:55 PM (6ydKt) Geometric or magnetic? Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 27, 2026 06:33 PM (o4oA+) 271
Chain restaurants mostly suck
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 27, 2026 06:29 PM (13VxP) --- It's hard to tenderize chain. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 06:33 PM (Fi81e) 272
That is the formula they know. It worked so far. It got them the position. Now in that position, that is still all they know so they keep pressing the same lever.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) They've reached their stop on the career elevator which is the incompetence level. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 06:34 PM (E4rtv) 273
Anyway, I've only ever eaten at Cracker Barrel once over a decade ago. Still working off the calories.
Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2026 06:34 PM (QQJja) 274
264 CB never had "steamed" green beans that I'm aware of. Think of a healthy way of preparing food that you'd probably hear about from a yoga streamer chick. That is not what you get at cracker barrel. In the beginning they were simmered for a thousand years in salt and bacon. Like those ancient chinese eggs, but green beans and bacon. And they were delicious.
Posted by: banana Dream at July 27, 2026 06:31 PM (3uBP9) That’s the way to fancy them up. My local BBQ joint has green beans cooked with ham pieces, a little lard, and onion bits. Also, spoon bread as a side. Posted by: tubal at July 27, 2026 06:34 PM (Gqar8) 275
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! I'm told in a billion FB memes that it takes at least $300,000 a year income to buy a house nowadays. Where are Haitians getting the dough?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2026 06:22 PM (O0L8i) " pretty sure "our tax dollars" are involved somewhere along the line ... Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 27, 2026 06:34 PM (VyBeY) 276
My cats loved lounging in my garage when it was over a hundred. Crazy ass cats.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2026 06:34 PM (KC5Lt) 277
Is there cats in the car? Yes there's cats in the car. I think the people down the hall know who we are. Posted by: Steely Dan at July 27, 2026 06:34 PM (Fi81e) 278
They were decent, but the donuts we sometimes got as a kid from the local bakery on Sundays were larger and better.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 06:30 PM (uhVAy) I believe KK made much bugger donuts in the 80s & 90s when they were still pretty much limited to the South. They started shrinking their donut sizes about 20 years ago when they got big and expanded. Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2026 06:34 PM (6ydKt) 279
I'll keep to myself the demographic info of these people.
Posted by: Sharpie at July 27, 2026 *** We got your message. ( -- Inhabitants of Birmingham, AL, Baltimore, MD, New Orleans, LA, et al. ad nauseam) Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2026 06:35 PM (wzUl9) 280
tubal
The local donut giant here is Varsity Donuts. Every KSU football game they donate amazing donuts to the on-the-air commenters. Which gets mentioned on TV. They also had donut rectangles colored like Tide Pods for the students. Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2026 06:35 PM (u82oZ) 281
Sayonara, Haitians! Don't let the plane door hit you in the ass on the way out!
Posted by: Ohio Geese QUACK Posted by: Ducks for Trump at July 27, 2026 06:35 PM (UjdFS) 282
Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Felss Masino wasn't positioned for success.
This is something I know a lot about. Posted by: Kamala! 2028! 2032! at July 27, 2026 06:35 PM (0sNs1) 283
Her Majesty and I ran errands this morning and had breakfast at a nearby greasy spoon. Corned beef hash, eggs, grits, toast and coffee. Yum. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2026 06:35 PM (O0L8i) 284
Woke: “You can’t define what it is, so we’re going to tell you what it will be”; constant ‘problematization’; an insistence on telling us things that are obviously false (imposing a view of reality); insisting “that word” isn’t “even a word”; “being aware of what you can’t see” / “awakened to the truth”; WE are going to tell YOU what reality is; ‘problematizing’ and command and control of language.
In short: Control. You mean nothing to them. Posted by: Dr_No at July 27, 2026 06:35 PM (ayRl+) 285
My cats loved lounging in my garage when it was over a hundred. Crazy ass cats.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2026 *** Dagny La Siberienne, longhaired though she is, loves to bake in the bedroom window in the afternoon sun. Sauna time, I guess. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2026 06:36 PM (wzUl9) 286
We can't always eat healthy. Eating out at restaurants years ago like Cracker Barrel was a treat. Nothing wrong with stuff cooked with bacon grease once in a while. Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 06:36 PM (/QHx4) 287
I know salesmen don't tell the truth. No one is like, "We're doing this new thing but people are kind of ambivalent about it." Gotta be the hype man. But *always* saying, "The feedback is overwhelmingly positive," is pretty much the same as saying, "This shit fucking sucks."
Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2026 06:32 PM (QQJja) --- Like the Seinfeld joke that "Great" and "Sucks" means the same thing. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 06:36 PM (Fi81e) 288
I do think one reason food prices have exploded is Milennials and younger basically have zero domestic skills. They don't cook anything. They DoorDash everything. The stereotypes are largely true.
It's like restaurants know they have a captive audience. Posted by: Sharpie at July 27, 2026 06:36 PM (zUEQI) 289
CEO do not make decisions in a vacuum, they report to the Board regularly. The Board was informed of what was going on and approved it.
Posted by: runner at July 27, 2026 06:36 PM (GD0B3) 290
Geometric or magnetic?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 27, 2026 06:33 PM (o4oA+) Geometric. I’m guessing a few pirates got shot over a magnetic compass over the centurues. Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2026 06:36 PM (6ydKt) Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 27, 2026 06:37 PM (w6EFb) 292
I just checked Outback Steakhouse's menu to see if they had what would draw me in there 30 years ago, the 20 oz porterhouse...
Nope. Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 27, 2026 06:37 PM (O7YUW) 293
265 Putting in new SOD ! I hate autocrap.
Posted by: polynikes ----------- remember, green side up. Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 27, 2026 06:37 PM (v8XRi) 294
>>>This is unprofessional, obviously. If you're trusted with a business or brand, it's your job to strengthen the brand's sales, not remake it into something you or your urban coastal liberal galpals would be proud to patronize.
Assuming it was her decision to move in a new direction. You never know with corporations, though. The Board and/or investors may have decided they wanted to move in a new direction and then hired this woman to do exactly that. She was hired in Aug 2023. It took her a year to roll out the rebrand. Again, maybe it was all her idea to thumb her nose at their traditions. But, I would not be surprised if she is just the public face of what the corporate dweebs wanted to do. Posted by: No Name Today at July 27, 2026 06:37 PM (8mulE) 295
File this under 2011 and Common Sense,
Dhejne et al. (2011)1 conducted the longest follow-up study to date on the outcomes of “sex reassignment surgery”, covering a period of 30 years (1973-2003) and involving 324 individuals in Sweden. The study compared these individuals to matched controls based on birth year and sex, revealing that those who had undergone surgery exhibited a significantly increased suicide risk, with rates nearly 19.1 times higher than their matched controls. Dhejne, C., Lichtenstein, P., Boman, M., Johansson, A. L., Långström, N., & Landén, M. (2011). Long-term follow-up of transsexual persons undergoing sex reassignment surgery: cohort study in Sweden. PloS one, 6(2), e16885. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 06:37 PM (E4rtv) 296
Dagny La Siberienne, longhaired though she is, loves to bake in the bedroom window in the afternoon sun. Sauna time, I guess. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2026 06:36 PM (wzUl9) ____________ We had two cats get into a fight over a sunbeam. Funny as hell. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2026 06:37 PM (O0L8i) 297
269 The only time I ever left a cat in the car while I ate was in November in Clayton, NM, and it was raining, though not cold. And I still hurried to make sure she was okay.
used to leave the poodle in the vista cruiser when we dashed into the store (it was the '70s; the past is a different place). until the day he figured out how to honk the horn. Posted by: anachronda at July 27, 2026 06:37 PM (sGtp+) 298
Her Majesty and I ran errands this morning and had breakfast at a nearby greasy spoon. Corned beef hash, eggs, grits, toast and coffee. Yum.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2026 *** I have a favorite bar & grill not far from my house that is great, and a 24-hour diner/donut shop that is almost as good. Neither is part of a chain. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2026 06:37 PM (wzUl9) 299
Afternoon.
I know salesmen don't tell the truth. No one is like, "We're doing this new thing but people are kind of ambivalent about it." Gotta be the hype man. But *always* saying, "The feedback is overwhelmingly positive," is pretty much the same as saying, "This shit fucking sucks." Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2026 06:32 PM (QQJja) Monorail! Posted by: Lyle Lanley at July 27, 2026 06:37 PM (wVcYX) 300
I just checked Outback Steakhouse's menu to see if they had what would draw me in there 30 years ago, the 20 oz porterhouse...
Nope. Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 27, 2026 06:37 PM (O7YUW) --- People couldn't afford the down payment. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 06:38 PM (Fi81e) 301
@300/Axeman: Yeah, I know, beef prices are painful right now.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 27, 2026 06:39 PM (O7YUW) 302
But on the bright side of Dem economics, Mamdani today announced his plan to have five government owned stores with prices at 30%off. Government will subsidize the rest.
This should be fun to watch, especially when the yutes start shoplifting Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2026 06:08 PM (BlDDt) Idiot - "government" is funded by taxpayers. So taxpayers will be paying the same amount (in truth, probably more) for groceries in the end. And FIVE grocery stores? For all of NYC? Yep, they're gonna get socialism good and hard... Oh, and Hello, Horde! 😊♥️ Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 27, 2026 06:39 PM (SRRAx) 303
I do think one reason food prices have exploded is Milennials and younger basically have zero domestic skills. They don't cook anything. They DoorDash everything. The stereotypes are largely true.
It's like restaurants know they have a captive audience. Posted by: Sharpie at July 27, 2026 06:36 PM (zUEQI) Things like that work until they don't. Its like all those Companies who decided to build factories in China and give them access to their IP. It just gave the idiots who started it time to retire before it blew up in their faces. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 06:39 PM (uhVAy) 304
A woman CEO is going to take the helm short term at Gibson Guitars until a permanent CEO comes in. I can't wait to see what damage she does. The last dude did amazing things, and the smart move is continue what he did, but you know the deal.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2026 06:39 PM (S41Gd) 305
es have exploded is Milennials and younger basically have zero domestic skills. They don't cook anything. They DoorDash everything.
=== When I looks at the DoorDashers delivering the food, I get disgusted. Posted by: runner at July 27, 2026 06:40 PM (GD0B3) 306
>>pretty sure "our tax dollars" are involved somewhere along the line ...
Under Biden HUD was giving illegals mortgages. Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 06:40 PM (viF8m) 307
You all know about the beef prices, yes? Sort of like the cup sizes thing, only not really.
Posted by: tubal at July 27, 2026 06:40 PM (Gqar8) 308
*I look
Posted by: runner at July 27, 2026 06:40 PM (GD0B3) 309
One day I hope to live in a place where they have Cracker Barrel. Or Waffle House. Or Golden Corral.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2026 06:40 PM (JvZF+) 310
Woke: “You can’t define what it is, so we’re going to tell you what it will be”; constant ‘problematization’; an insistence on telling us things that are obviously false (imposing a view of reality); insisting “that word” isn’t “even a word”; “being aware of what you can’t see” / “awakened to the truth”; WE are going to tell YOU what reality is; ‘problematizing’ and command and control of language.
In short: Control. You mean nothing to them. Posted by: Dr_No at July 27, 2026 06:35 PM (ayRl+) It's a religion except God is replaced by the state. Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2026 06:40 PM (QQJja) 311
That prompted me to wonder when then gyrocompass was first invented. Around 1885, but it wasn't really until WWI they became usable. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 27, 2026 06:40 PM (w6EFb) Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 06:41 PM (viF8m) 313
Cracker Barrel bought the Maple Street Biscuit Company chain for $36 million in cash in 2019, with then-President and CEO saying they had “long admired Maple Street Biscuit Company with its emphasis on made-from-scratch food and hospitality.” The breakfast-and-lunch-focused brand opened its first location in 2012 and would have restaurants in 10 states within a decade. There are now more than 30 locations listed on Maple Street Biscuit Company’s website. However, those locations have now been acquired by Biscuit Belly following Cracker Barrel’s divestiture. “Acquiring an iconic brand like Maple Street, one of the original gourmet biscuit sandwich concepts, was not on my 2026 bingo card,” Chad Coulter, co-founder and CEO of Biscuit Belly, said in a press release. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2026 06:41 PM (Cqx++) 314
This is the flip side of the argument for meritocracy that no one thinks about. --
If you promote someone for reasons other than merit, not only are you devaluing merit, but you are overvaluing whatever they have that got them promoted. So instead of a CEO that knows how to maximize sales, or manage a team, or meet a schedule, you get a CEO that knows how to "advance women's causes" or some nonsense. Bravo, you killed the company. Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 27, 2026 06:41 PM (v8XRi) Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 27, 2026 06:42 PM (13VxP) 316
Assuming it was her decision to move in a new direction. You never know with corporations, though. The Board and/or investors may have decided they wanted to move in a new direction and then hired this woman to do exactly that. She was hired in Aug 2023. It took her a year to roll out the rebrand.
Again, maybe it was all her idea to thumb her nose at their traditions. But, I would not be surprised if she is just the public face of what the corporate dweebs wanted to do. Posted by: No Name Today at July 27, 2026 06:37 PM (8mulE) I'm sure it was pretty mutual. They hired someone to run the place in a new direction, and they swallowed her story because they are almost as dumb as she was. Once the debacle started it was time to start covering up until that was impossible. A common story. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 06:42 PM (uhVAy) 317
One day I hope to live in a place where they have Cracker Barrel. Or Waffle House. Or Golden Corral.
Posted by: San Franpsycho Can't beat Waffle House. Posted by: Tuna at July 27, 2026 06:42 PM (lJ0H4) 318
Never entrust a multimillion dollar brand to a woman who looks like Marie Harf.
Posted by: logorof at July 27, 2026 06:42 PM (jo6FO) 319
Never hear much about Denny’s anymore.
Posted by: tubal at July 27, 2026 06:42 PM (Gqar8) 320
Other than pizza, Chinese, and one deli around here that delivers, I can count on one hand how many times Uber or DoorDash has delivered here.
I’d rather drive to the place and pick it up after ordering it on their app than wait for an hour or more and pay $15 or $20 for a delivery. Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2026 06:43 PM (6ydKt) 321
#314 is $100/hr business consultant type shit. I should get paid more for my comments.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 27, 2026 06:43 PM (v8XRi) 322
So instead of a CEO that knows how to maximize sales, or manage a team, or meet a schedule, you get a CEO that knows how to "advance women's causes" or some nonsense. Bravo, you killed the company.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 27, 2026 06:41 PM (v8XRi) --- A virus infects the body and then gets the body to produce what it wants, not what is good for the body. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 06:43 PM (Fi81e) 323
There used to be a chain here in the early '80s called Sister's Biscuits. Pretty good stuff as I recall. Don't know what happened to them.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2026 06:43 PM (wzUl9) 324
It's a religion except God is replaced by the state.
Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2026 06:40 PM (QQJja) like all leftisms, you just fill in the blanks for "things we like" "things we hate" and "Who is to blame" differently. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 06:44 PM (uhVAy) 325
Can't beat Waffle House.
Posted by: Tuna at July 27, 2026 06:42 PM (lJ0H4) --- You don't beat Waffle House. Waffle House beats you. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 06:44 PM (Fi81e) Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2026 06:44 PM (u82oZ) 327
SanFranpsycho, we have 2 Waffle Houses. Come visit.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2026 06:45 PM (abScH) 328
Part of me wonders if the "bring in a CEO that tries 'fundamental transformation' that really pisses off the customers" is intentional, and the board knows it's temporary.
Love or hate isn't what kills your brand, apathy is. You've got a slow downward slide of sales, the adverts aren't working, so you try something drastic. Bring in a new CEO, let them make drastic changes. If people love it, you win. Stop there. If people hate it, you bring in another CEO to fix it, and people love you again. Important part: You made people care again. You stopped the slow downward apathetic slide. Maybe I'm just cynical. Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 27, 2026 06:45 PM (O7YUW) 329
325 Can't beat Waffle House.
Posted by: Tuna at July 27, 2026 06:42 PM (lJ0H4) --- You don't beat Waffle House. Waffle House beats you. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 06:44 PM (Fi81e) Heh heh. Posted by: tubal at July 27, 2026 06:45 PM (Gqar8) 330
My sons are Millennials - I think (looks at chart). Yes. But both know how to cook. Younger son is kind of a foodie snob, TBH.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 27, 2026 06:45 PM (0aYVJ) 331
those who had undergone surgery exhibited a significantly increased suicide risk, with rates nearly 19.1 times higher than their matched controls.
------ They were pschologically unbalanced before the operations, although the consequences of the surgery undoubtedly exacerbated things. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2026 06:45 PM (XeU6L) 332
I miss Waffle House so much.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 27, 2026 06:45 PM (O7YUW) 333
Seattle cops say cameras didn't capture mass shooting at food festival ... just weeks after the new mayor said she was turning off cameras to thwart ICE
Posted by: SMOD at July 27, 2026 06:46 PM (ubbnW) 334
Waffle House is pretty decent.
Just pick the right tine to go. Around noon on Sunday is packed after church. And avoid them on early Saturday mornings after the bars close. Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2026 06:46 PM (6ydKt) 335
Never hear much about Denny’s anymore.
Posted by: tubal at July 27, 2026 *** I think we still have one left here. Most locations have been taken over by IHOP. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2026 06:46 PM (wzUl9) Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2026 06:47 PM (XeU6L) 337
In short: Control. You mean nothing to them.
Posted by: Dr_No at July 27, 2026 06:35 PM (ayRl+) It's a religion except God is replaced by the state. Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2026 06:40 PM (QQJja) --- This describes "Critical Theory". The idea is that nobody can see the future, but bitching about everything we don't like will help shape it into something we will like. And only the most unsatisfied people are credible enough to bitch about stuff and guide this progress. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 06:47 PM (Fi81e) 338
Important part: You made people care again. You stopped the slow downward apathetic slide.
Maybe I'm just cynical. Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 27, 2026 06:45 PM (O7YUW) the ones that hate the change never go back. They are lost for good, most of them. And CB didn't have a problem with apathy by customers, just indifference by the board and ownership. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 06:47 PM (uhVAy) 339
Have eaten at a First Watch a few times. Godd breakfast. They are really proud of their food though.
Posted by: tubal at July 27, 2026 06:47 PM (Gqar8) 340
There are times to visit Waffle House, and times to avoid.
Mid morning. Church folks. Good people, good conversation. Maybe a few folks nursing hangovers. But, placid. Closing time at the bars: a hard no-go. I really do like the food. Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 27, 2026 06:48 PM (0aYVJ) 341
Pug Mahon, both of my millenial kids have turned into foodies. They're good cooks, and adventurous, and like quality food. They've come a long way from nachos and ramen.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 27, 2026 06:48 PM (zYpTz) 342
Never hear much about Denny’s anymore.
Posted by: tubal at July 27, 2026 --- The appropriate amount, IMO. If I want breakfast, I much prefer Anna's House. (Or Bob Evans) Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 06:48 PM (Fi81e) 343
Seattle cops say cameras didn't capture mass shooting at food festival ... just weeks after the new mayor said she was turning off cameras to thwart ICE
Posted by: SMOD at July 27, 2026 06:46 PM (ubbnW) They know who did it. If it were a bunch of skinheads or MAGA types, they'd tell you in a nanosecond. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 06:49 PM (uhVAy) 344
IHOP did that whole stupid "acshually we're a hamburger place now, pancakes? never heard of them". And then the ceo had to come out and say it was just a little joke, teeheehee. They lost big sales for a while. I wonder if he kept his job.
Posted by: banana Dream at July 27, 2026 06:49 PM (3uBP9) 345
We live in very rural Wyoming. The only chain restaurant is Subway and it sucks. For some reason we have a chinese restaurant and it is awesome. We lived many places in the US. Hands down the chinese restaurant here is the best. Go figure, lol. Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 06:49 PM (/QHx4) Posted by: banana Dream at July 27, 2026 06:49 PM (3uBP9) 347
The Japanese FIFA fan's comments on Waffle House were insightful and very funny.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2026 06:49 PM (u82oZ) 348
Nood. Fauci.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 27, 2026 06:50 PM (ExV1e) 349
nood fauci
Posted by: Gref at July 27, 2026 06:50 PM (5rh/l) 350
Bob Evans. Really like their Home Style mashed potatoes I get in the meat section of my grocery store. They have, get this, real potatoes and butter in them.
Posted by: tubal at July 27, 2026 06:50 PM (Gqar8) 351
Better yet, put women in charge of everything! Nothing works better than a matriarchal society. Just look at the "black yute" subculture. And Africa.
/s Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 27, 2026 06:50 PM (U4hpE) 352
like all leftisms, you just fill in the blanks for "things we like" "things we hate" and "Who is to blame" differently.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 06:44 PM (uhVAy) --- And the people who spurn "hierarchy" do not think all blame and hate is equal. If you don't have the decency to hate everything about the past, then there is no reason to listen to you. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 06:51 PM (Fi81e) Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 27, 2026 06:51 PM (NnhvP) 354
Make NY City into the poor house and in debt
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2026 06:51 PM (Ia/+0) 355
IHOP did that whole stupid "acshually we're a hamburger place now, pancakes? never heard of them". And then the ceo had to come out and say it was just a little joke, teeheehee. They lost big sales for a while. I wonder if he kept his job.
Posted by: banana Dream at July 27, 2026 06:49 PM (3uBP9) --- It was a month-long promotion of their burgers. It was a gimmick. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 06:52 PM (Fi81e) 356
those who had undergone surgery exhibited a significantly increased suicide risk, with rates nearly 19.1 times higher than their matched controls.
------ They were pschologically unbalanced before the operations, although the consequences of the surgery undoubtedly exacerbated things. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2026 06:45 PM (XeU6L) the numbers I heard was the suicide rates for before and after subjects was virtually the same (those who backed out and those who did not). But both these were people with dysphoria. I can buy that their control group contains more normal people thus the spike in rates. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 06:52 PM (uhVAy) Posted by: conundra at July 27, 2026 06:52 PM (sGtp+) 358
And the people who spurn "hierarchy" do not think all blame and hate is equal.
If you don't have the decency to hate everything about the past, then there is no reason to listen to you. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 06:51 PM (Fi81e) They know all about Hierarchy. They need to listen to their bosses every moment to know what to believe for the rest of their day. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 06:54 PM (uhVAy) 359
It was a month-long promotion of their burgers.
It was a gimmick. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 06:52 PM (Fi81e) They shut down the one place they had in my town. I didn't go there often but I do miss them when I get the occasional urge for pancakes. Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 27, 2026 06:54 PM (U4hpE) 360
Saw "The Odyssey". I can now see why people like it and hate it. First,the Like: Very well-made movie. Some great acting. Excellent direction for the set pieces. Clear theme throughout. If you know nothing of "The Odyssey", this is a movie you can enjoy and won't be bored in. The Hate: The Greeks were basically a shame society. We live in a guilt society. Nolan made a movie for a guilt society. In a "guilt movie", the hero has to feel guilt over something. In this case, Odysseus feels guilt over his triumph, the Trojan Horse and the Fall of Troy, which totally inverts the story. If this sounds like Ancient Greek Oppenheimer, it is. I believe Nolan even sneaks in an atomic destruction reference from "The Planet of the Apes"(!) with the Trojan Horse looking more like it was abandoned than left as a gift, half-buried in sand and tilted at the same angle as the Statue of Liberty in TPoTA. Every triumph or escape from the dangers of that Odysseus and his men encounter is just another chance to portray Odysseus and his men as venal, violent a-holes. This accounts for the flatness of the movie. (con't) Posted by: naturalfake at July 27, 2026 06:54 PM (iJfKG) 361
@ 304 A woman CEO is going to take the helm short term at Gibson Guitars until a permanent CEO comes in. I can't wait to see what damage she does. The last dude did amazing things, and the smart move is continue what he did, but you know the deal.
____________________________ Ho. Lee. Shit. Pop a quarter in the jukebox and press A-23 so we can listen to 'Another One Bites The Dust' … Gibson used to be good. Shit changes, huh … ? Posted by: Dr_No at July 27, 2026 06:58 PM (ayRl+) 362
Oh! An empty comment section!
Oh wait, since opening the page I walked a mile, got the mail, and did a little weeding. But never mind all that. FIRST!!! Posted by: SciVo at July 27, 2026 07:00 PM (Sy6m/) 363
@362/SciVo: Don't be treadin' on Sponge's toes now.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 27, 2026 07:03 PM (O7YUW) 364
(con't)
Circe pretty much lays it all out in her sequence. And when after Odysseus begging her to return his men. She brings them back form pigs by saying"Return to your disguise. Return to your disguise." See? they aren't men or brave soldiers in reality, Odysseus and his men are merely pigs in disguise. This is the inheritance of Nolan using the feminist translation. At some point, we always get the angry feminist view of things from some woman. Again this undercuts the movie and story. Penelope even complains about the "glass-ceiling" in Greek society that won't allow her to rule as Queen. In a really nice bit of dialogue, she says "I have sat on an empty throne for 20 years." That says it all and much more, buuuuut then she goes on to junk up the clean declaration with a bunch of feminist gobbledygook. Sad. This even explains the odd casting of "Elliot Page". it's weird trannie looks tend inevitable toward the feminine, and when in hell Odysseus gets a berating from Ol' Elli about his lies that sounds remarkably like a girl's complaint delivered by an oddly feminine looking "boy". Nolan made the Odyssey guilt trip. He skinned it of meaning a wears it inside out. Posted by: naturalfake at July 27, 2026 07:10 PM (iJfKG) 365
@360 and 364/naturalfake: Thank you very much. I now know I am missing nothing by avoiding this movie.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 27, 2026 07:13 PM (O7YUW) 366
They are putting new sod on my lawn that they had previously killed
——- In July?? Where do you live Zone wise? Kentucky Bluegrass? I’m rusty at this stuff, but you’ll need a metric ocean of water to keep it from dying. Fall is the best time to plant bluegrass, for example. Lawn and Garden shops would be foolish to not sell grass seed in the Spring, but it’s the worst time to try and grow it. Establishing Sod is probably very similar. Posted by: Corrected For Accuracy at July 27, 2026 07:36 PM (Pnh8M) In the Wake of the Latest Muslim Mass-Casualty Attack, Leftists and the Media (But I Repeat Myself) Scramble to Blame "Masculinity," "White Men," "Christians" and of course the CarThis is a cult. A cult that justifies mass murder, even of its own fellow cultists. ![]()
Some people did some things.
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Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 27, 2026 04:44 PM (N1DT3) 2
It's always something other than the ruling class's fault.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 27, 2026 04:44 PM (N1DT3) 3
But ESPECIALLY not their imported new underclass.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 27, 2026 04:45 PM (N1DT3) 4
I guess I better nood.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 27, 2026 04:45 PM (N1DT3) Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 27, 2026 04:45 PM (0N4FZ) 6
At this point one can only believe that they deserve what they get.
Posted by: steevy at July 27, 2026 04:45 PM (YwEeS) 7
The left is so adept at doublethink, I honestly am amazed.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 27, 2026 04:46 PM (N1DT3) 8
I could have been first but I didn't want to get banned.
Posted by: fd at July 27, 2026 04:46 PM (MWfyi) 9
Heh heh. White christian men. They STILL don't know it's us.
Posted by: Subterranean Lizard People at July 27, 2026 04:46 PM (Riz8t) 10
Even the evidence of their OWN BLOOD FLOWING is not enough for most of these lemmings.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 27, 2026 04:46 PM (N1DT3) 11
Septum ring theory is on more solid ground than the theory of relativity at this point.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 27, 2026 04:46 PM (2ocoG) Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 27, 2026 04:47 PM (QGaXH) 13
We need to take a look at the ingredients of pink hair dye. It obviously seeps into the brain and causes mass stupidity.
Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2026 04:47 PM (PRqXW) 14
REAL STUPIDITY HAS NEVER EVEN BEEN TRIED!!
Posted by: Sid-Lite at July 27, 2026 04:47 PM (Fi81e) 15
I blame the gays.
Dressed like that. He couldn't help himself. Again, the CBC was remarkably truthful. I was shocked. And after seeing so many zombie movies, that must have been some vehicle to injure high 20's number of people. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 27, 2026 04:47 PM (Sco7b) 16
The problem is masculinity!
I agree lady, you took away the balls from most German men, so now you have no masculinity. The Muslims are just picking up the slack. Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2026 04:47 PM (6ydKt) 17
These people are parodies of themselves.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 27, 2026 04:48 PM (zZu0s) 18
Refusing to see and refusing to acknowledge are two very different things.
Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 04:48 PM (vE0+H) 19
Almost looks like Steven Crowder playing a radical.
Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 04:48 PM (Fi81e) 20
Looks like he plucks his unibrow.
Posted by: wth at July 27, 2026 04:48 PM (UjdFS) 21
Gay American in Berlin says that, after Islamists plowed a van into Pride parade-goers, he would have expected an attack like this to happen in the United States rather than in Germany
== Maybe, just maybe it is because there is always a small thought in the back of perp's mind, getting shot dead by a civilian before he gets to perpetrate his act of terror. Posted by: runner at July 27, 2026 04:48 PM (GD0B3) 22
"We as a society have failed"
We? I don't have anything to do with your dumbassery. Your society, yeah ok. Posted by: fd at July 27, 2026 04:48 PM (MWfyi) 23
The he needed help with reintegration girl - was she aware of his experience being reintegrated multiple times?
Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2026 04:48 PM (PRqXW) 24
I wonder if it would be uncharitable to hope that the full consequences of their public statements land on them, and only them.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 27, 2026 04:48 PM (vJrRc) 25
Get yer Burka on, Bitch!
I knew these stupid fucking wenches would start converting to Islam 20 years ago. Watch for the Hollywood harridans to get the ball rolling in earnest. Posted by: Corrected For Accuracy at July 27, 2026 04:48 PM (Eo+Kz) 26
I don't even want to look at videos by people blaming white men for attacks by Islamists and particularly those by women with pink hair and nose rings. Nose rings are just repellent and don't seem like a very safe bit of jewelry to wear anyway.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2026 04:48 PM (xPsv8) 27
I actually laughed out loud at "seminars on critical masculinity".
He looks like somebody that could write a PhD level paper on it, right lady? Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 27, 2026 04:49 PM (n5tGW) 28
He's now the best kind of jihadist-DEAD!
Posted by: Hassen Ben Sober at July 27, 2026 04:49 PM (JM9I6) 29
These people are parodies of themselves.
If you ever wondered how anyone could have been so blind as not to see what was happening in the USSR, wonder no more. It turns out Stalin DID know. Shocking, I know. There is a fraction of the population who prefer their alternative reality to...errr...real reality. Posted by: Archimedes at July 27, 2026 04:50 PM (Riz8t) 30
11 Septum ring theory is on more solid ground than the theory of relativity at this point.
it's funny because we all have relatives with septum rings Posted by: anachronda at July 27, 2026 04:50 PM (sGtp+) Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 27, 2026 04:50 PM (xcxpd) 32
Can't ya just hear 'em at 'evening mouthnoise' and the other 4 times a day they 'get down!' … "But he was a GOOD boy! He didn't deserve this!" … Really? Look, asshole, neither did his victims. Now G. F. Y. … really. No sheep allowed.
Posted by: Dr_No at July 27, 2026 04:50 PM (ayRl+) 33
Now I WILL admit this is the fault of white men... and white women who hate their own countrymen and purposely imported a new populace to displace them.
(I suppose I need to state that this isn't a veiled "TEH JOOOOSSS!!!" reference. I'm meaning the ruling class.) Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 27, 2026 04:50 PM (N1DT3) 34
Even the evidence of their OWN BLOOD FLOWING is not enough for most of these lemmings.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 27, 2026 04:46 PM (N1DT3) I kind of wonder if leftists are not made into narcissists by their ideology (or they were before becoming one and it attracted the.) People are objects, nothing more than props in their own one man/woman/dragonkin show. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 27, 2026 04:50 PM (zZu0s) 35
I appreciate when the females go with the unnatural hair color and the blatant tackle box face.
It's very courteous of them to self-identify so the normies can easily know who to avoid. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 27, 2026 04:50 PM (2Ez/1) 36
That pink haired girl looks like she has snot dripping out of her nose.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 27, 2026 04:51 PM (jTgrB) 37
So lets see - Islamic murderers are on TOP of Trans and LGBT and children on their totem pole. How unsurprising
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 04:51 PM (uhVAy) 38
What? No concerns about anti-Muslim backlash?
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 27, 2026 04:51 PM (DbmIv) 39
If we had more males like Pete Buttplug (Not Alpha, Not Beta, but Gamma male) and not Trump then this world would be............
Ehhhhh .................. Ehhhhhhhhhhhh ............ Ehhhhhhh I got it ... A Kinder, Gentler, Gayer Place and the Radical Ragheads would love us too !!!!! Posted by: Jackson K. at July 27, 2026 04:51 PM (5+jvJ) 40
Watch for the Hollywood harridans to get the ball rolling in earnest.
Posted by: Corrected For Accuracy at July 27, 2026 04:48 PM (Eo+Kz) Elliot Page seems open to new ideas. Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2026 04:52 PM (6ydKt) 41
Clara Fullmich-Phister starts by saying
I'm speechless. Then immediately begins a dissertation. Isn't it ironic, don't you think (yes I'm pulling it forward cuz we could do this all day) Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 27, 2026 04:52 PM (zafwz) Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2026 04:52 PM (0sNs1) 43
must have been some real hard core mosque to be radicalized by the time he is 21 to commit an act of terror in Berlin
Posted by: runner at July 27, 2026 04:53 PM (GD0B3) Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 27, 2026 04:53 PM (ExV1e) 45
38 What? No concerns about anti-Muslim backlash?
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 27, 2026 04:51 PM (DbmIv) That's actually a very good point. Sorry to sound surprised. It wasn't you it's just that we haven't really heard about a lot of concerns over anti-Muslim backlash for a while. For years, the 'religion of peace' shit speech was the first go-to. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 27, 2026 04:53 PM (Sco7b) 46
And this is why I didn't give a shit when the news broke. Blame me, my skin color or my political affiliation?
Don't care. You were going to do it anyways. Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at July 27, 2026 04:53 PM (pE12i) 47
@ 36 That pink haired girl looks like she has snot dripping out of her nose.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 27, 2026 04:51 PM (jTgrB) __________________________ When she picks her nose, how does she slip the boogers past the nasal rings … ? Posted by: Dr_No at July 27, 2026 04:53 PM (ayRl+) 48
No need to watch the Dutch movie “Speak No Evil”, just watch the news in Europe and it’s the same concept, “Because you let me.”
Posted by: Cray Cray at July 27, 2026 04:53 PM (yoDMB) 49
Keep it up, Germany. The AfD political party is currently neutered by coalition voting in parliament. But, AfD continues to grow every single day. Some parts of the eastern region of Germany are up over 40% approval. Overall, AfD has overtaken every single other political party. Eventually, with nonsense like "Abdul should have had free aversion therapy", the AfD majority is going to hold a super majority, and then the shit is going to hit the proverbial fan.
Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2026 04:53 PM (dIske) Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 04:54 PM (Fi81e) 51
He's been known to authorities. What a shocker!
Posted by: runner at July 27, 2026 04:54 PM (GD0B3) 52
41 Clara Fullmich-Phister starts by saying
I'm speechless. Then immediately begins a dissertation. Isn't it ironic, don't you think my late, lamented friend the logic professor would occasionally say "it goes without saying that." he never told us what went without saying, because then it would not have bone without saying. Posted by: anachronda at July 27, 2026 04:54 PM (sGtp+) 53
I see zero evidence Islam, or these idiotic, braindead leftists can ever be fixed. It's astonishing, tbh.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 27, 2026 04:54 PM (qBdHI) 54
I'm still fairly certain we'll be fighting the Islamists before we're forced to deal with the Socialists/Communists.
Of those three social cancers, the Muslims are most virulent/aggressive. Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2026 04:54 PM (jehhT) 55
You get what you ask for, Germany and lesbos and queers! Keep it up! The war between queers and barbarians...who do they think will win? Germany does not have a nuke, which is a bright sliver of hope.
The one girl (I presume her gender) with the septum nose ring: it's a jingle booger one! Why? Why do they wear these nose rings? I can almost, in 2026, not freak with the nostril piercing of a tiny diamond or gold ring. But the septum nose rings disturb me. All of them make me question how do they blow their nose? With a sinus infection and you blow does snot squirt out the extra hole like a whale? Tres attractive. Eyebrow piercings litterally give me a nanosecond headache. The earhole I have figured out what happens if you take out the tusk or plug: your earlobe folds over. I know this from a nightmare Thanksgiving dinner with the in-laws. It was hideous. And to distract you he put large zirconium piercings above this horror. It's either that or plastic surgery. I nearly died that night and informed my dude I would never go again. The tattoo arms or "sleeves" is beyond me as how will you know if you have melanoma? Then I give up and move on to other things. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 27, 2026 04:54 PM (hzuYO) 56
I had hoped that the attacker was not a foreigner, but a white Christian person
Because I hate white Christians more than the people who will murder me. -- LGBTQ+ activist Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 27, 2026 04:54 PM (ExV1e) 57
Not to worry, even though they may be radical Islamist murderers, the police will classify them as “white”
Posted by: SMOD at July 27, 2026 04:54 PM (ubbnW) 58
If we had more males like Pete Buttplug (Not Alpha, Not Beta, but Gamma male) and not Trump then this world would be............
Posted by: Jackson K. at July 27, 2026 04:51 PM There's a reason Mr. Buttigieg was not included in the 2024 definition of Modern Masculinity. Posted by: Mr. Emhoff, Mr. Walz, and Mr. Hogg at July 27, 2026 04:54 PM (0sNs1) Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at July 27, 2026 04:55 PM (Sco7b) 60
“I had hoped that the attacker was not a foreigner, but a white Christian person”
--- Because if you're going to have a slaughter, you prefer the kind you can make political hay out of against your civil enemies who did not do this!! Of course. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 04:55 PM (Fi81e) 61
The black clad mayor and entourage look like the Lebowski nihilists. Especially the sourpuss chick on the left.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 27, 2026 04:55 PM (XvL8K) 62
I am indifferent. The casualties will need to increase ten fold to garner my attention. The German's voted for this.
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 27, 2026 04:56 PM (4NO2D) 63
My first encounter with a muslim terrorist was a dude named Ali from Iran. He slept in a carport and would steal everything he could get his hands on. Salt of the earth kind of guy.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 27, 2026 04:56 PM (3oLiU) 64
What's the use of wasting human lives if you can't make political points out of it! Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 04:56 PM (Fi81e) 65
I had hoped that the attacker was not a foreigner, but a white Christian person
Because I hate white Christians more than the people who will murder me. -- LGBTQ+ activist Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 27, 2026 04:54 PM (ExV1e) It is a very odd statement. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 27, 2026 04:56 PM (zZu0s) 66
Does pink-haired girl have a piece of gum in her mouth or is that some other aberrant form of tackle box face?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 27, 2026 04:56 PM (2Ez/1) 67
We need to take a look at the ingredients of pink hair dye. It obviously seeps into the brain and causes mass stupidity. Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2026 04:47 PM (PRqXW) It's a well-known scientific fact that the nervus idioticus runs through the nasal septum. Septum rings cause constant irritation and thus constant stimulation from the nervus idioticus to the frontal lobe of the brain creating massive functional retardation. It's science, people! Posted by: naturalfake at July 27, 2026 04:56 PM (iJfKG) 68
Marion Robert Morrison was correct when he said.......
"Life is hard. It’s harder when you’re stupid." But on the positive side these clowns that chose to be STUPID and are a Target Rich Scamming Environmentt on the Internet!!! Posted by: Jackson K. at July 27, 2026 04:56 PM (5+jvJ) 69
Unfortunately, AfD is being prevented from even having candidates on the ballot.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 27, 2026 04:57 PM (n5tGW) 70
35 I appreciate when the females go with the unnatural hair color and the blatant tackle box face.
It's very courteous of them to self-identify so the normies can easily know who to avoid. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 27, 2026 04:50 PM (2Ez/1) Same Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 27, 2026 04:57 PM (xcxpd) 71
"You're not going to scapegoat the Muslim community, like they're the violent ones, when it's actually you (white men)"
Bitch, I only wish that "white men" were the murderous, omnipresent demons of your perfervid, brainwashed, cosplaying fantasies. There are far too many people in this world who need to face the brutal, deadly reality of the regimes and religion they so passionately defend. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 27, 2026 04:57 PM (qRla/) 72
The pink haired nitwit reminds me of the meme that in nature brightly colored animals are that way to indicate poison or danger. In humans it's evidence of stupid to the point of brain damage
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2026 04:58 PM (BlDDt) 73
The black clad mayor and entourage look like the Lebowski nihilists. Especially the sourpuss chick on the left.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 27, 2026 04:55 PM Lower than National Socialists, in Mr. Sobchak's opinion. Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2026 04:58 PM (0sNs1) Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 27, 2026 04:58 PM (ExV1e) 75
We need to take a look at the ingredients of pink hair dye. It obviously seeps into the brain and causes mass stupidity.
Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2026 04:47 PM (PRqXW) It's a well-known scientific fact that the nervus idioticus runs through the nasal septum. Septum rings cause constant irritation and thus constant stimulation from the nervus idioticus to the frontal lobe of the brain creating massive functional retardation. It's science, people! It's actually a mini-antenna, picking up signals from Zorg-Blutar III, which has three suns. Those guys REALLY don't like us. Appar Posted by: Archimedes at July 27, 2026 04:58 PM (Riz8t) 76
Here's the thing:
What do progressives do when their expectations don't match what really happened/happens?! 2 things: 1. Jack 2. Shit Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 04:59 PM (Fi81e) 77
The worst part of this entire disaster is that this kid was born in Germany to a Lebanese mother, at some point he got radicalized and went to Lebanon to hang out with terrorists.
So the German government has him arrested in Lebanon and extradited back to Germany where they convict him for terrorist plotting and then sentence him to time served in detention plus 26 sessions of "Anti-Radicalization" education of which he took two sessions and then decided to ram a van into a crowd of people and then stabbing them with a machete. Geniuses all the way around on this one. Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2026 04:59 PM (6ydKt) 78
Nothing to do here I guess. One cult is hellbent on allowing the other cult to kill them.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 27, 2026 04:59 PM (n5tGW) 79
Salaam, fellow Canadians!
Posted by: Ismail Abrahimzada at July 27, 2026 05:00 PM (gKWVE) 80
Posted by: naturalfake at July 27, 2026 04:56 PM (iJfKG)
_________________________ Each time you see someone sporting a ring in their nose, ask them very politely "who are you subservient to"? (disclaimer: you may have to take a few seconds to explain the meaning of "subservient". I've found that anything over 3 syllables with these folks requires a primer). Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2026 05:00 PM (dIske) 81
Hassan CHOP !!!
Posted by: SMOD at July 27, 2026 05:00 PM (ubbnW) 82
Brendan O'Neill in the Spectator gets it: Why we should politicize the Berlin attack.
https://tinyurl.com/y2e3emh2 Posted by: beckster at July 27, 2026 05:00 PM (kX27y) 83
it's funny because we all have relatives with septum rings
Posted by: anachronda at July 27, 2026 04:50 PM (sGtp+) As far as I know, I have zero! I have a few really liberal relatives, but none are that far gone. Posted by: WEF and Davos crowd at July 27, 2026 05:00 PM (KFbdf) 84
When I grew up in rural PA the only creatures with a Septum Ring were Cows.........
Tells you a lot about a person that puts themselves on the same level as a "Bovine".... Posted by: Jackson K. at July 27, 2026 05:01 PM (5+jvJ) 85
"my beautiful Berlin"
------- Point of order, Karen von Weinbachs: Berlin is not a beautiful city. It's not even pretty. Most of it is indistinguishable from the unremarkable postwar urban sprawl you see in the Western US, and much of the rest still looks like a Soviet dump. Let's not try to church things up too much when we're spraying retarded emotional diarrhea all over the place, shall we? PS, it's an ugly city modern city like that precisely because of actual toxic masculinity. Learn the difference, dummy. Posted by: Whale Biologist at July 27, 2026 05:01 PM (rRwe3) 86
Here's the thing:
What do progressives do when their expectations don't match what really happened/happens?! 2 things: 1. Jack 2. Shit Posted by: Axeman 3. Lie 4. Blame others 5. Lie more. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 27, 2026 05:02 PM (BAWkL) 87
ZOMBEAVERS!!!
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 27, 2026 05:02 PM (ELT5/) 88
Because I hate white Christians more than the people who will murder me. -- LGBTQ+ activist
That's why there's no point engaging, arguing or trying to convince these people to see the reality before their eyes. It is utterly futile. Posted by: Halfhand at July 27, 2026 05:02 PM (GAVlX) 89
he never told us what went without saying, because then it would not have bone without saying.
Posted by: anachronda at July 27, 2026 04:54 PM (sGtp+) that's how you do it. Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 27, 2026 05:02 PM (zafwz) 90
I hear this all the time. "I would expect [X that didn't happen]"
Would ya?!! Would ya?!! If you would expect something to happen that didn't happen, YOU owe YOURSELF some homework on that opinion. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 05:02 PM (Fi81e) 91
I actually believe that the muzzies could kill all the gays and trannies and white women would still blame conservatives. They'd have no clue that they are next
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2026 05:02 PM (BlDDt) 92
Their slow motion suicide is nothing if not boring at this point. It's an even slower telling of Game of Thrones without the boobs and dragons.
Posted by: Simple Truths at July 27, 2026 05:02 PM (w1Bba) 93
he would have expected an attack like this to happen in the United States rather than in Germany.
Delusional to the end of their lives. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 27, 2026 05:03 PM (NnhvP) 94
66 Does pink-haired girl have a piece of gum in her mouth or is that some other aberrant form of tackle box face?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 27, 2026 04:56 PM (2Ez/1) ******************* This, sir, is perfection. If they start wearing little feathered lures we will know this is a hook to capture your heart. Or a lesbo heart. Who knows? I had not thought it being a sexual signal for mating. I'm patiently waiting for the platter lips of my childhood spent with National Geographic magazines to catch on. And, yes, my cousins used to read them for boobs at my grandmother's house. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 27, 2026 05:03 PM (hzuYO) 95
"... when we're spraying retarded emotional diarrhea all over the place..."
Posted by: Whale Biologist at July 27, 2026 05:01 PM Is this about lettuce? Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 27, 2026 05:03 PM (2Ez/1) 96
84 When I grew up in rural PA the only creatures with a Septum Ring were Cows.........
Tells you a lot about a person that puts themselves on the same level as a "Bovine".... I disagree because some of these things with a nose ring have an "ASS as BIG as a COW" !!!!!!! Posted by: Mike Hunt at July 27, 2026 05:03 PM (38587) 97
To the left, Islamic Supremacists share their desire to destroy Western civilization and are therefore their natural allies. They believe this mostly because they are retarded.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 27, 2026 05:03 PM (EoANm) 98
69 Unfortunately, AfD is being prevented from even having candidates on the ballot.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 27, 2026 04:57 PM (n5tGW) ______________________ I've not seen anything like that. There are a bunch of politicians trying to get the party banned through the Constitutional court, but they haven't been barred from elections. Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2026 05:04 PM (dIske) 99
95 "... when we're spraying retarded emotional diarrhea all over the place..."
Posted by: Whale Biologist at July 27, 2026 05:01 PM Is this about lettuce? lettuce spray... Posted by: the new cult invocation at July 27, 2026 05:04 PM (sGtp+) Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 05:04 PM (/QHx4) 101
That's correct Axeman, they wanted a white Christian man to do it because then they could do the thing they are saying we shouldn't do.
But their comeuppance will appear in not too many more years when the pink hairs are sex slaves to the muzzies. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 27, 2026 05:04 PM (n5tGW) 102
I actually believe that the muzzies could kill all the gays and trannies and white women would still blame conservatives. They'd have no clue that they are next
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2026 05:02 PM (BlDDt) We could offer up the prog "chicks" as tribute to stay on their side of the ocean, but I bet they'd figure out we were only sending the uggos pretty quick... Posted by: Simple Truths at July 27, 2026 05:05 PM (w1Bba) 103
This man bought a Connecticut home at a foreclosure auction and when he got there he found three dead bodies inside
And when Marchion entered for the first time — after placing a winning $525,000 bid for the $650,000-valued home — he found three dead bodies inside ... The skeletal remains, for the two bodies that have been identified, are those of Sally Anne Cash, who would have turned 54 on Monday, and her son Brian, who would have turned 23 this month. The third body remains under DNA testing for identification; Cash bought the Cape Cod-style residence in 2019 with her husband, Paul. https://tinyurl.com/y8b6dab2 - Well, I guess we know why they fell behind on their mortgage. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 27, 2026 05:05 PM (ndZc7) 104
Overall, AfD has overtaken every single other political party. Eventually, with nonsense like "Abdul should have had free aversion therapy", the AfD majority is going to hold a super majority, and then the shit is going to hit the proverbial fan.
After the war, Goering predicted that, in 50 years' time, there would be small statues of him in every house in Germany, meaning (I think) that the anger, presumed political betrayal and societal collapse which animated the Nazi party could only be suppressed by the conquerors for so long, and then the desire for a 'pure' fatherland would re-emerge. Not that I am comparing AfD to the Nazis - only making the point that it is certainly possible Islam is overplaying its hand and while Auschwitz may not be on the horizon, Dachau certainly can be. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 27, 2026 05:05 PM (qRla/) 105
> "...with National Geographic magazines to catch on. And, yes, my cousins used to read them for boobs at my grandmother's house.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 27, 2026 05:03 PM" ---- I thought everyone did that. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 27, 2026 05:05 PM (2Ez/1) 106
So the German government has him arrested in Lebanon and extradited back to Germany where they convict him for terrorist plotting and then sentence him to time served in detention plus 26 sessions of "Anti-Radicalization" education of which he took two sessions and then decided to ram a van into a crowd of people and then stabbing them with a machete.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2026 04:59 PM (6ydKt) To be fair, if I were sentenced to 26 sessions of "Anti-Radicalization," I too might be tempted to ram a van through a No Kings/DSA/Antifa rally just to escape. I mean, they would have to strap me to a chair a la "Clockwork Orange" to get me to sit through session #1! Posted by: Virginia SoCon at July 27, 2026 05:06 PM (KFbdf) 107
Why is it that people proudly display their lack of prediction ability as if it were some valid comment on something?! "Gee I totally expected Joe Biden to slaughter dozens visitors to the White House with a chainsaw!" What would the Dems say that says about me? That I think that's a relevant thing to say? In Science, prediction of things that occur is a demonstration of knowledge. Predictions of things that DON'T occur, illustrates a flawed model. Why do people parade their cognitive bias as if it were commentary? Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 05:06 PM (Fi81e) 108
Muslims running over ghey Germans? It takes a heart if stone not to laugh.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 27, 2026 05:06 PM (bX16E) 109
I googled terminal empathy and got something that says it's being exhausted from caring too much. I'm sure I read somewhere that it means empathising with your killer which is what Europe is doing. It's good to know that Google is helping Europeans to die.
Posted by: Decaf at July 27, 2026 05:06 PM (ZNpJk) 110
Sad unfunny clowns and what is bad is that AID probably subsidized a lot of that crap in German society as it did here.
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 05:06 PM (E4rtv) 111
I kind of admire the ability of these Leftist zombies to keep chanting these same mindless slogans in the face of an avalanche of contrary evidence that won't stop exposing them as psychotic and delusional.
Still, I keep waiting for one of them to start mouthing the approved narrative and then midway through it, say "Ah, fuck it. I just can't do this anymore." Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 27, 2026 05:06 PM (guGkK) 112
The problem is that Islam is now "too big to fail" in these countries. So they'll continue to bow and scrape and kneel before the terrorists until their inevitable and deserved deaths.
Posted by: Wally at July 27, 2026 05:07 PM (0e5Te) 113
Orson I've seen a number of reports where the provinces, townships whatever they call them there can prevent candidates from being on the ballot if they determine they have made bigoted statements. Which is easy under their law because stopping immigration is one of them.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 27, 2026 05:07 PM (n5tGW) 114
Oh boy this is gonna be great!
>>@SenRandPaul · 1h >>1/ Before Tony’s diary, there was the prequel. I'm releasing Fauci's own 465-page historical record of events from 2001 to 2015 — his personal account of building the federal biodefense complex and the classified access that came with it. Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 05:07 PM (viF8m) 115
Well, "Citizen Vigilante" was banned in Europe so maybe they don't know they sound like some idiots from a movie.
Posted by: connected and litigious at July 27, 2026 05:07 PM (cS1cw) 116
Ballout traveled to Lebanon in 2025 with the goal of going to Syria to join the Islamic State group, Berlin prosecutors said Sunday.
Posted by: SMOD at July 27, 2026 05:07 PM (ubbnW) 117
NYPost:
Californians are pumping the brakes on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to ban the sale of new gas-powered cars, with a new statewide poll showing the governor’s marquee climate policy has become a political headache. The survey by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California found nearly two-thirds of Californians oppose Newsom’s 2035 gas-car mandate. Among likely voters, 65% said they oppose the plan, while just 34% support it. Posted by: SMOD at July 27, 2026 05:08 PM (ubbnW) 118
Well, water my mills!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2026 05:08 PM (Cqx++) 119
Abdul went to Lebanon to go to Syria to fight for ISIS.
Germany brought him back and after slapping him on the wrist left him free to wander Germany where he then engaged in the jihadi he was denied the ability to do in Lebanon/Syria If Germany was a rational country they should have A) Left him in the Muslim world B) Brought him back and hung him Posted by: 18-1 at July 27, 2026 05:09 PM (sKqQm) 120
(disclaimer: you may have to take a few seconds to explain the meaning of "subservient". I've found that anything over 3 syllables with these folks requires a primer).
Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2026 05:00 PM (dIske) --- Simpler version: "Who holds your leash?" Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2026 05:09 PM (FZ29D) 121
The survey by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California found nearly two-thirds of Californians oppose Newsom’s 2035 gas-car mandate. Among likely voters, 65% said they oppose the plan, while just 34% support it. Posted by: SMOD Who cares what the voters say? Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2026 05:09 PM (Cqx++) 122
116 Ballout traveled to Lebanon in 2025 with the goal of going to Syria to join the Islamic State group, Berlin prosecutors said Sunday.
Posted by: SMOD at July 27, 2026 05:07 PM (ubbnW) And then they extradited him back home. All they had to do was leave his ass there and none of this would've happened. Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2026 05:11 PM (6ydKt) 123
Seminars on critical masculinity. Yes, that's the ticket.
What about seminars on critical stupidity? Can stupidity be criticized? Posted by: PG at July 27, 2026 05:11 PM (jGLqZ) 124
The murdering will continue until morale improves.
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at July 27, 2026 05:11 PM (V362x) 125
23 thousand + people gave up those irretrievable minutes of their live to watch what some lunatic spouts. That's the crime.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2026 05:12 PM (abScH) 126
"...with National Geographic magazines to catch on. And, yes, my cousins used to read them for boobs at my grandmother's house.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 27, 2026 05:03 PM" ---- I thought everyone did that. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 27, 2026 05:05 PM (2Ez/1) National Geographic certainly thought so. They were having trouble inventing new tribes after a while. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 05:12 PM (uhVAy) 127
Among likely voters, 65% said they oppose the plan, while just 34% support it.
Posted by: SMOD at July 27, 2026 05:08 PM (ubbnW) ----- I'm surprised and also not surprised that 34% of Californians are drooling fucking retards. Posted by: ballistic at July 27, 2026 05:12 PM (oqH4h) 128
Well, water my mills!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2026 05:08 PM Well, raise my rent! Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 27, 2026 05:12 PM (kgE5c) 129
Who cares what the voters say?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2026 05:09 PM (Cqx++) --- Hey Governor Newsom. You may be new to the blog, but socking regulars is a bannable offense. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 05:12 PM (Fi81e) 130
116 Ballout traveled to Lebanon in 2025 with the goal of going to Syria to join the Islamic State group, Berlin prosecutors said Sunday.
Posted by: SMOD at July 27, 2026 05:07 PM (ubbnW) And then they extradited him back home. All they had to do was leave his ass there and none of this would've happened. Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2026 05:11 PM (6ydKt) Hard to say, he could have infiltrated back in when Syria got dangerous for his type. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 05:13 PM (uhVAy) 131
No, in fact I can't here you now
@ScopeReport_ 7m JUST IN: Multiple U.S. carrier services, including Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile, are down and not working, users report. Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2026 05:13 PM (diia5) 132
The CEO of Cracker Barrell has finally been canned. The stock is half the value of when she came on as cheif executive.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 27, 2026 05:13 PM (bX16E) 133
66 Does pink-haired girl have a piece of gum in her mouth or is that some other aberrant form of tackle box face?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 27, 2026 04:56 PM (2Ez/1) Her tongue is pierced. Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2026 05:13 PM (PRqXW) 134
Among likely voters, 65% said they oppose the plan, while just 34% support it.
Posted by: SMOD at July 27, 2026 05:08 PM (ubbnW) ----- I'm surprised and also not surprised that 34% of Californians are drooling fucking retards. Posted by: ballistic at July 27, 2026 05:12 PM (oqH4h) They might just like fires. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 05:14 PM (uhVAy) 135
Again and again they prove Islam is incompatible with Western culture and values. Yet somehow it's always the fault of white Christian men.
I wish there was some way that Leftist Women would get their wish and receive no benefit whatsoever from white men. No more medicine or hospitals, no more transportation of any kind, no more electricity, clean water, indoor plumbing, food, roads and bridges. They can get everything they want from the field, mine or forest delivered to them in finished product using any design, invention or development that had no participation of White Man. I'm sure that Achmed will deliver the violent rape because no white man will be there to stop it. No white man to pay taxes. No White man to establish Rule of Law. Posted by: Community Notes at July 27, 2026 05:15 PM (NzX/y) 136
66 Does pink-haired girl have a piece of gum in her mouth or is that some other aberrant form of tackle box face?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 27, 2026 04:56 PM (2Ez/1) Her tongue is pierced. Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2026 05:13 PM (PRqXW) ---- I'm willing to bet she has ALL the piercings... Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2026 05:15 PM (FZ29D) 137
So, the Quakers are responsible for this attack?
Posted by: dantesed at July 27, 2026 05:15 PM (Oy/m2) 138
7-10% of Californians don't own a car.
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 27, 2026 05:15 PM (4NO2D) 139
Hard to say, he could have infiltrated back in when Syria got dangerous for his type.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 05:13 PM (uhVAy) Even chance he'd have got shot in a skirmish or blown up by his own bomb while building it. Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2026 05:16 PM (6ydKt) 140
I kind of admire the ability of these Leftist zombies to keep chanting these same mindless slogans in the face of an avalanche of contrary evidence that won't stop exposing them as psychotic and delusional.
When I go to leftist forums it is not unusual to find them saying things like: Kyle Rittenhouse murdered 3 unarmed black men The Pulse Nightclub shooter was a white, straight Christian man Charlie Kirk was assassinated by MAGA people/Israeli agents and on and on...they live in this weird pocket of bullshit. Posted by: 18-1 at July 27, 2026 05:16 PM (sKqQm) 141
What a racist, anti Christian bigot! " I had hoped the attacker would be a white Christian male!"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2026 05:17 PM (xPsv8) 142
109 I googled terminal empathy and got something that says it's being exhausted from caring too much.
ah. i'm off the hook then. Posted by: anachronda has a soft spot for the vt-52 at July 27, 2026 05:17 PM (sGtp+) 143
Unfortunately, AfD is being prevented from even having candidates on the ballot.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 27, 2026 04:57 PM (n5tGW) ______________________ I've not seen anything like that. There are a bunch of politicians trying to get the party banned through the Constitutional court, but they haven't been barred from elections. Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2026 05:04 PM (dIske) They had something like 10 AfD Candidates die last election cycle, that's kinda like being barred from an election. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 05:17 PM (uhVAy) 144
I'm willing to bet she has ALL the piercings...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27 Ouch! Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2026 05:17 PM (PRqXW) 145
These people are stupid to be sire, but they stem from organizations that are well funded and active. They are dangerous.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2026 05:17 PM (2WIwB) 146
Who thinks it's making a point if a John Thune is caught molesting a child and I say "Gee, I would totally have expected that from a drag queen type of groomer!"
How is "I would have thought [Something WRONG here]" is any kind of commentary? As for the chic she's just making a points of overlap type of equation. And that's the incompetent type of argument the left is always trying to get away with. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 05:18 PM (Fi81e) 147
The rule of the septum piercing never fails.
Posted by: ballistic at July 27, 2026 05:18 PM (oqH4h) 148
I wish there was some way that Leftist Women would get their wish and receive no benefit whatsoever from white men.
A lot of these women are married to leftist men who earn the $$$ while the women don't work or have some NGO no-show job that doesn't pay as well. It is...astounding they'll go on about how men are good for nothing while living off one. Posted by: 18-1 at July 27, 2026 05:18 PM (sKqQm) 149
The survey by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California found nearly two-thirds of Californians oppose Newsom’s 2035 gas-car mandate.
Among likely voters, 65% said they oppose the plan, while just 34% support it. Posted by: SMOD Who cares what the voters say? Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2026 05:09 PM (Cqx++) They oppose the plan, but continually vote in the party that will ensure its passage, and the passage of future plans that will further diminish their lives. Totally worth it for that Election Night endorphin rush when their side wins, though.... Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 27, 2026 05:19 PM (nbLIj) 150
Unfortunately, AfD is being prevented from even having candidates on the ballot.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 27, 2026 04:57 PM (n5tGW) --- Q: What did the Nazis try to do? A: Outlaw other political parties. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 05:19 PM (Fi81e) 151
I used to wonder about the social delusion that lead human beings to burn Jews in ovens. Now I get it.
Posted by: LASue at July 27, 2026 05:19 PM (mFhj8) 152
Abdul Nextup has a car and would like to give Pink Hair a ride thanking her for her comments.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 27, 2026 05:19 PM (n5tGW) 153
So, a common sci-fi theme is getting a time machine and going back to kill Hitler.
How about killing Prophet Mo? And Karl Marx. Make it a two fer... Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at July 27, 2026 05:19 PM (Sco7b) 154
The straw that breaks the camel's back in Germany is going to be Oktoberfest. Initially, when Muslims first started arriving in bulk, they immediately formed a movement to have all alcohol removed from Oktoberfest. And, if you've ever been to the Festival, you'd know that the 12 major Brewer "tents" are the centerpiece of the celebration. The Muslims got shot down and told that there would be no alterations. Your friendly neighborhood liberal press will tell you that there never was such a movement (which is a lie).
HOWEVER, here we are about 20 years later, and their influence, obviously, has grown. So, I think they'll give it another shot in rather short order. Last year they even shut down the Festival for a day because they had a bomb threat from north of Munich. No details on the suspects so....yup. Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2026 05:20 PM (dIske) 155
132 The CEO of Cracker Barrell has finally been canned. The stock is half the value of when she came on as cheif executive.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov ====== Shat on her current customers to get ones more to her liking. Never a good business plan. Same as the idiot CEO class imagining that outsourcing their manufacturing and corporate jobs to the turd world will end up roses. And why Vanguard, State Street, and Fidelity should not be able to vote shares for directors. They don't own them for one reason. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 05:20 PM (E4rtv) 156
The German language is just ugly.
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 27, 2026 05:20 PM (NtVYv) 157
Clara Fullmich-Phister has a very Titiana McGrath feel to it.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at July 27, 2026 05:20 PM (0bjKf) 158
The rule of the septum piercing never fails.
Posted by: ballistic at July 27, 2026 05:18 PM (oqH4h) --- They talk like someone led around by the nose. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 05:20 PM (Fi81e) 159
Septum piercing and neck beards. Avoid at all costs.
Posted by: LASue at July 27, 2026 05:21 PM (mFhj8) 160
The German language is just ugly.
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 27, 2026 05:20 PM (NtVYv) Ein bier bitte! Sounds pretty good to me. Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2026 05:21 PM (2WIwB) Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2026 05:21 PM (Cqx++) 162
Well, water my mills!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2026 05:08 PM Well, raise my rent! Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 27, 2026 05:12 PM (kgE5c) THE RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH!!! Posted by: Jimmy McMillan at July 27, 2026 05:21 PM (qRla/) 163
So, a common sci-fi theme is getting a time machine and going back to kill Hitler.
How about killing Prophet Mo? And Karl Marx. Make it a two fer... Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at July 27, 2026 05:19 PM (Sco7b) --- Shoot Toby twice. Posted by: Michael Scott at July 27, 2026 05:21 PM (Fi81e) 164
So, a common sci-fi theme is getting a time machine and going back to kill Hitler.
How about killing Prophet Mo? And Karl Marx. Make it a two fer... Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at July 27, 2026 05:19 PM (Sco7b) Never heard of the Alfred Bester short story, the "Men Who Murdered Mohammed". Very funny and has a different theory of time and space. https://lecturia.org/en/short-stories/ alfred-bester-the-men-who-murdered-mohammed/25010/ Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 05:21 PM (uhVAy) 165
I hate all Abduls I see from Abdul A. to Abdul Z.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2026 05:21 PM Heh. Posted by: toby928(c) at July 27, 2026 05:22 PM (4NO2D) 166
When I go to leftist forums it is not unusual to find them saying things like:
Kyle Rittenhouse murdered 3 unarmed black men The Pulse Nightclub shooter was a white, straight Christian man Charlie Kirk was assassinated by MAGA people/Israeli agents and on and on...they live in this weird pocket of bullshit. Posted by: 18-1 a ======== What you are seeing in brainwashing in action, you get people repeating bullshit over and over again and that programs them 9/10 that read the shit and never post to mentally to always follow the herd, never question authority, etc. Cult behavior. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 05:22 PM (E4rtv) 167
I know tilt roller coasters have been around for a couple of decades now. This one was built and designed by an exceptionally good company. But this just looks like a bad idea. How many systems have to work perfectly for a whole train of cars to not be launched into space?
http://tiny.cc/szf7101 Posted by: bonhomme at July 27, 2026 05:22 PM (mkw2N) 168
Clara Fullmich-Phister has a very Titiana McGrath feel to it.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at July 27, 2026 05:20 PM (0bjKf)\ Phister got a blister on her Fullmich Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 27, 2026 05:23 PM (NtVYv) 169
I am off to teach the last 2 classes. Have a good afternoon!
Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2026 05:23 PM (PRqXW) 170
Please please please tell me that top post is a parody. There's just no way I can get my head around that being real.
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at July 27, 2026 05:23 PM (cSmE1) 171
I'd bet pinkie blonde with the nose ring got teeth straightened & a BS bachelors degree thanks to her white parents.
She doesn't really belong, and has nothing at all unique to offer, so she talks nonsense. A sad life, even sadder ahead, if she remains in the cult. Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 27, 2026 05:23 PM (LL19j) 172
Real question: Is there a lemming gene for humans? Because it's hard to understand the lack of reality with these people.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 27, 2026 05:23 PM (n5tGW) 173
I can only hope the young pink haired lady experiences first hand knowledge to help her understand how wrong she is.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2026 05:24 PM (KC5Lt) Posted by: bonhomme at July 27, 2026 05:24 PM (mkw2N) 175
I'm willing to bet she has ALL the piercings...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2026 05:15 PM (FZ29D) --- I suspect there is a poisoning by piercing that attacks the brain. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 05:24 PM (Fi81e) 176
Still, I keep waiting for one of them to start mouthing the approved narrative and then midway through it, say "Ah, fuck it. I just can't do this anymore."
Posted by: Cicero ======== Sometimes, when they or their family/friends get gored and trampled by the leftist mobs, they start to question. Most simply cannot go through with leaving though because the Borg has become their ersatz family and friend network. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 05:24 PM (E4rtv) 177
They oppose the plan, but continually vote in the party that will ensure its passage, and the passage of future plans that will further diminish their lives. Totally worth it for that Election Night endorphin rush when their side wins, though....
I *know* leftists like this. A couple of jobs ago a number of my cow-workers lived in the town the office was in. They were excited to vote for a new leftist mayor who ran on a platform of saving da Erf. After election she mandated office parks had to paint half the spots for compact cars. A lot of my cow-workers were fat and drove trucks/SUVs so as you can imagine people started hitting other cars with their doors and damning the company that owned the building. I copied and pasted the ordinance from the mayor they voted for demanded the company repaint the lines. Their answers? "This must be false" or "Well the company didn't HAVE to paint the lines so small" or "They should have made an exemption for me and my car" And yes a couple of years later they all voted for the same leftist mayor again Posted by: 18-1 at July 27, 2026 05:24 PM (sKqQm) 178
@140 and the Pulse Nightclub shooter attacked it because it was gay. Nope just a random nightclub
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2026 05:25 PM (BlDDt) 179
Cultural Marxists always blame their crimes on opponents
And Muslims are on the Cultural Marxist side for now Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2026 05:25 PM (Ia/+0) 180
Septum Theory is an idea coined and popularized by Black men's rights activist Torraine Walker. Walker has been expressing his weariness about people with septum piercings since as early as 2017, but it wasn't until 2023 when he articulated his theories about people with septum rings in the form of a video.
In the video, Walker suggests that you can tell someone is a man-hater and feminist with radical, anti-male opinions if they have a septum ring. He shows some examples of women arguably speaking poorly about men as an example, each with a septum piercing. Since then, Walker has continued to point out examples of his theory on X / Twitter, calling out both men and women with the piercings routinely. https://twitter.com/i/status/1706322504464109851 Posted by: Provided as a public service at July 27, 2026 05:25 PM (2Ez/1) 181
Real question: Is there a lemming gene for humans? Because it's hard to understand the lack of reality with these people.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 27, 2026 05:23 PM (n5tGW) Its about the only thing modern colleges seem to teach well. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 05:25 PM (uhVAy) Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at July 27, 2026 05:25 PM (Sco7b) 183
160 The German language is just ugly.
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 27, 2026 05:20 PM (NtVYv) Ein bier bitte! Sounds pretty good to me. Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2026 05:21 PM (2WIwB) ________________________________ When my nephew was three or four I would teach him German phrases (nothing bad)....and he'd proudly walk up to his parents and spit out something like "Here comes another thunderstorm." really seriously. And, I couldn't stop laughing because he alwys had a serious expression when talking. It was perfect. Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2026 05:25 PM (dIske) 184
I suspect there is a poisoning by piercing that attacks the brain.
Posted by: Axeman True enough, some metals infiltrate the blood system and I think they are finding tattoo ink can do the same with its mish mash of compounds in the ink. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 05:25 PM (E4rtv) 185
Septum Theory is an idea coined and popularized by Black men's rights activist Torraine Walker. Walker has been expressing his weariness about people with septum piercings since as early as 2017, but it wasn't until 2023 when he articulated his theories about people with septum rings in the form of a video.
------------------------------- Its way older than that. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 05:26 PM (uhVAy) 186
182 Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 05:21 PM (uhVAy
Thank you! I'll take a look! Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at July 27, 2026 05:25 PM (Sco7b The Hollywood movie will be epic! Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at July 27, 2026 05:26 PM (Sco7b) 187
172 Real question: Is there a lemming gene for humans? Because it's hard to understand the lack of reality with these people.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 27, 2026 05:23 PM (n5tGW) ----- One of the signs of being in a cult is that the cultist loses all sense of self-preservation and turns it over to the cult... Posted by: ballistic at July 27, 2026 05:26 PM (oqH4h) 188
They believe this mostly because they are retarded. Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 27, 2026 05:03 PM (EoANm) ____________ They think they'll be standing on the Kremlin Wall waving to the parade. They will be surprised to find themselves in the basement of the Lubyanka with a Nagant pressed behind their ear. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2026 05:27 PM (O0L8i) 189
The degrees between sexy and hideous is minimal. I think a small diamond nose stud is sexy on a girl but a nose ring or even worse a septum pig ring is hideous.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2026 05:27 PM (KC5Lt) 190
In the video, Walker suggests that you can tell someone is a man-hater and feminist with radical, anti-male opinions if they have a septum ring.
Interestingly the septum ring is a symbol of submission and obedience - "to lead someone around by the nose" comes from putting a septum ring in a bull's nose to control him. Posted by: 18-1 at July 27, 2026 05:27 PM (sKqQm) 191
These are the same people that crucified a guy for saying that Obama was lying that his various social programs would not apply to illegals. Now look where we are.
They know, and if by some dumb chance they don't know, they don't care. They just want to get you to the point where it's too late for you to do anything to stop them. Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 05:27 PM (vE0+H) 192
I suspect there is a poisoning by piercing that attacks the brain.
Posted by: Axeman True enough, some metals infiltrate the blood system and I think they are finding tattoo ink can do the same with its mish mash of compounds in the ink. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 05:25 PM (E4rtv) Think you have horse and cart reversed here. You have to be mind poisoned to *want* to have holes poked in you even once, much less twice for a piercing and many many times by the tattoo needle. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 05:27 PM (uhVAy) 193
I seem to recall a video once of some gay lefty getting slapped around a muslim march and screaming "I'm an ally, why are you hitting me?"
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 27, 2026 05:28 PM (n5tGW) 194
Another one bites the dust.
AF Post @AFpost · 3h Marc Rosenblum, the director of statistics for DHS, has been fired amid a lawsuit against DHS for withholding deportation numbers. Critics suggest that Rosenblum, a liberal, easily could’ve been underreporting deportations or illegal populations, ruining data. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 05:28 PM (E4rtv) 195
Real question: Is there a lemming gene for humans? Because it's hard to understand the lack of reality with these people.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 27, 2026 05:23 PM (n5tGW) --- We live in an era with relative safety and provision thanks largely to Western Civilization (courtesy the Holy Spirit). So much so, that there is no immediate survival feedback for ala carte "realities". Thus this "diversity" is tolerated, until it can't be. There is an ecology to the harebrainishness of moderns. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 05:28 PM (Fi81e) 196
True enough, some metals infiltrate the blood system and I think they are finding tattoo ink can do the same with its mish mash of compounds in the ink.
Must be using lead and mercury Posted by: Community Notes at July 27, 2026 05:29 PM (BvPIe) Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 05:29 PM (viF8m) 198
These are the same people that crucified a guy for saying that Obama was lying that his various social programs would not apply to illegals. Now look where we are.
First: Illegals get no welfare dollars. None Then: Well maybe a few get some welfare, no system is perfect Now: Checking citizenship for welfare payments will throw millions of people off the roles and they will starve to death! Posted by: 18-1 at July 27, 2026 05:30 PM (sKqQm) 199
174 > The German language is just ugly.
It's gorgeous compared to Vietnamese or Chinese. indeed. neither of those folks sing as beautifully as i do. Posted by: yoko at July 27, 2026 05:30 PM (sGtp+) 200
Damn, I.missed the What you hold in your right hand is yours to rape and pillage part in the New Testament, oh and kill the unbelievers part too.
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2026 05:30 PM (Ia/+0) 201
Think you have horse and cart reversed here. You have to be mind poisoned to *want* to have holes poked in you even once, much less twice for a piercing and many many times by the tattoo needle.
Posted by: Oldcat ======== Endogeneity is a bitch to model. You can get into an infinite regress like did the parents of that yute suffer from poisoned minds from things liketetraethyl lead. Just found out yesterday that RU-486 active ingredient has now been found in drinking water. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 05:30 PM (E4rtv) 202
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 05:28 PM (E4rtv)
Pulte just completed a fourth round of layoffs. "Thoughtful and measured"! Posted by: runner at July 27, 2026 05:30 PM (GD0B3) 203
Septum piercings are big in the South Pacific cannibal circles.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2026 05:31 PM (KC5Lt) 204
>>It's gorgeous compared to Vietnamese or Chinese.
Dutch. It sounds like a throat disease. Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 05:29 PM +++ https://youtu.be/nWglfC5CNS4 Posted by: J. Peterman at July 27, 2026 05:31 PM (2Ez/1) 205
Axemam, You are correct. People worked to grow food for their families to survive. They did not have time for the shit that is happening now. Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 05:31 PM (/QHx4) 206
I seem to recall a video once of some gay lefty getting slapped around a muslim march and screaming "I'm an ally, why are you hitting me?"
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 27, 2026 05:28 PM (n5tGW) --- Reality curmudgeonly would not yield to his expectation! "I would have expected Muslim to see the cause for diversity!!" -- Not totally-disabused fag. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 05:31 PM (Fi81e) 207
A nose ring on a woman is a danger sign. A nose ring and a tongue ring is a flashing red light. A nose ring /, a tongue ring and pink hair is "warning Will Robinson"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2026 05:32 PM (BlDDt) 208
Must be using lead and mercury
Posted by: Community Notes ====== Nickel can do it and some chromium compounds are downright nasty. Lots of other pigments used in the present or past have never been tested for being inserted into humans. And now for the medical field with the vaxx being the current subject........ Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 05:32 PM (E4rtv) 209
Posted by: LASue at July 27, 2026 05:19 PM (mFhj
The first day I saw a crowd of adult Americans shouting "yes we can" and "fired up ready to go" - but totally unable to articulate or potentially even think about what they were saying they "can" do or were "fired up and ready to go" for, was the day I was absolutely certain how it can happen *anywhere*. Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 05:32 PM (vE0+H) 210
>>@JeffClarkUS
· 43m 🚨🚨🚨 >>Our team is reviewing the Biden tapes now. We will be out with various bombshells. >>But I want to make this point right now. The tapes make clear that Biden disclosed massive amounts of classified information to his ghost writer Marc Zwonitzer. >>Now, take a look at 18 USC 798(d). >>Last, ask yourself, why didn't Special Counsel Robert Hur seek a prosecution and then (A) the forfeiture the $8 million book advance that Joe Biden got for Promise Me, Dad; and (B) his Delaware house and any other Biden property where he kept classified information? Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 05:32 PM (viF8m) 211
When Musselman completely take over Europe and start dropping the homos and twinkle toed fairies off the side of buildings, before they hit the ground, the fairies will blame white men.
They will. They will die because they can't face reality. Never could. Posted by: help me rhonda help help me at July 27, 2026 05:32 PM (anL5R) 212
I remember back in college when purple hair became a thing.
We went from no purple haired girls to dozens in a few weeks. All the ones I talked to said they came up with the idea independently and it was just their own personal new style... Posted by: 18-1 at July 27, 2026 05:32 PM (sKqQm) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2026 05:32 PM (O0L8i) 214
Ask your anthropologist if Endogeneity is right for you.
Posted by: Big Phat Phizer at July 27, 2026 05:32 PM (2Ez/1) 215
207 A nose ring on a woman is a danger sign. A nose ring and a tongue ring is a flashing red light. A nose ring /, a tongue ring and pink hair is "warning Will Robinson"
Posted by: Smell the Glove Eh, to me, it means a lower life form that purposefully became a Gollum by embracing the dark and shunning the light. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 05:33 PM (E4rtv) 216
Think you have horse and cart reversed here. You have to be mind poisoned to *want* to have holes poked in you even once, much less twice for a piercing and many many times by the tattoo needle.
Posted by: Oldcat ======== Endogeneity is a bitch to model. You can get into an infinite regress like did the parents of that yute suffer from poisoned minds from things liketetraethyl lead. Just found out yesterday that RU-486 active ingredient has now been found in drinking water. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 05:30 PM (E4rtv) Lots of Civil War dudes had large, heavy led slugs (like the size of finger joint) in the body for decades without turning them into leftists, and we know lead is super bad for you. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 05:33 PM (uhVAy) 217
Maybe the Krauts will now castrate (literally) the masculine prisoners they release.
Problem: they will still be muzzies that can drive cars. Posted by: torabora at July 27, 2026 05:33 PM (dXfcs) 218
91 I actually believe that the muzzies could kill all the gays and trannies and white women would still blame conservatives. They'd have no clue that they are next
Posted by: Smell the Glove Then it's their fault because they could be Christians. It goes from race to religion to conservatives to gender to TDS. Pick one or all as the crux of the matter all along. (See Charlottesville) Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 27, 2026 05:33 PM (LL19j) Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at July 27, 2026 05:33 PM (GMWTj) 220
178 @140 and the Pulse Nightclub shooter attacked it because it was gay. Nope just a random nightclub
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2026 05:25 PM (BlDDt) _________________________ The press did all they could to iron out the diametrically opposed views between the Gay vicimization and the Muslim victimization by claiming that the shooter (a Muslim) was gay himself. Which he denied. Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2026 05:34 PM (dIske) 221
I don't know, scheisskopf has always been a useful word.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2026 05:34 PM (0sNs1) 222
The Blade had a lot of fun with a foreign girl with a septum ring last summer. Lotsa tats too. Just saying.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 27, 2026 05:34 PM (771KI) 223
212 I remember back in college when purple hair became a thing.
We went from no purple haired girls to dozens in a few weeks. All the ones I talked to said they came up with the idea independently and it was just their own personal new style... Posted by: 18-1 ======= Fast Times at Ridgemont High made fun of that briefly when the Phoebe Cates character points out to "Stacey" the three Pat Benitar imitators. Like that better than purple hair (except Amelia the UK meme). Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 05:35 PM (E4rtv) 224
"...ghost writer Marc Zwonitzer."
You sure that's not the name of one of the drugs they were giving Creepy Joe? Posted by: I gotta ask at July 27, 2026 05:35 PM (2Ez/1) 225
I don't know, scheisskopf has always been a useful word.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2026 05:34 PM (0sNs1) ours has fewer s sounds so is way better, no lisping. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 05:35 PM (uhVAy) 226
Real question: Is there a lemming gene for humans? Because it's hard to understand the lack of reality with these people.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 27, 2026 05:23 PM (n5tGW) Jesus called us sheep so yes, it's very likely so. It is meant to work in one particular way. According to the Bible, we are "programmed" to follow The Good Shepherd. Obviously it can be grossly misused or misapplied. Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 05:35 PM (vE0+H) 227
222 The Blade had a lot of fun with a foreign girl with a septum ring last summer. Lotsa tats too. Just saying.
Posted by: Elric the Blade ======== When you come down with Mongolian Dick Rot, please spare us the details. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 05:35 PM (E4rtv) 228
Libtards rant all day about the evil deeds committed by Christians for 2000, because their Betters tell them they must. The same useful idiots are all-in on inviting Mooselimbs of the Religion of Peace (TM) into their nations, again because their Betters tell them they must. This is what happens when academics and politicians delete and/or re-write history to advance their evil policies.
In.Sane. Posted by: Gref at July 27, 2026 05:36 PM (5rh/l) 229
https://x.com/sven10077/status/2081846067625082964?s=20
Right darling it was the Amish, the XY chromosome combination, and the existence of vehicles not the toxic ideology your own government was trying to deprogram with yet another "known wolf." I am as an American, 1/2 German mein liebchen and culturally I am more Auslander than you pretend Mohammed Mohammed Mohammed is because my maternal family had the sense to leave in the 1890s...there are more German ancestry humans in the Americas than in Germany-I'd say we are more successful. I pray, sincerely for your safety and more importantly your eventual sanity. Posted by: sven at July 27, 2026 05:36 PM (Int1s) 230
The press did all they could to iron out the diametrically opposed views between the Gay vicimization and the Muslim victimization by claiming that the shooter (a Muslim) was gay himself. Which he denied.
Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2026 05:34 PM (dIske) So gays have permission to run each other over in cars now? Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 05:36 PM (uhVAy) 231
Because I hate white Christians more than the people who will murder me. -- LGBTQ+ activist
Posted by: I used to have a different nic Well, of course. The guys who murder you will only kill you. The white Christians will tell you to stop acting in ways that will lead to your death, and what fun is that? Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 27, 2026 05:36 PM (vJrRc) 232
"Last, ask yourself, why didn't Special Counsel Robert Hur seek a prosecution and then (A) the forfeiture the $8 million book advance that Joe Biden got for Promise Me, Dad; and (B) his Delaware house and any other Biden property where he kept classified information?"
Because despite the enormous amount of grief that the Democrats gave him, Hur was actually on their side. "They did not listen, they did not know how." Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at July 27, 2026 05:37 PM (GMWTj) 233
227 222 The Blade had a lot of fun with a foreign girl with a septum ring last summer. Lotsa tats too. Just saying.
Posted by: Elric the Blade ======== When you come down with Mongolian Dick Rot, please spare us the details. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 05:35 PM (E4rtv) —— Israeli girl Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 27, 2026 05:37 PM (771KI) 234
I agree with the theory that face piercings, weird hair color, weird tattoos on a woman's body are a god send...
She may have nice Breastal Units and a Round Tight Ass but is probably not the type of women you want to marry. Probably a "What Can You Do For Me" type of female or I can do the same a man can do on my own.... Posted by: Mike Hunt at July 27, 2026 05:37 PM (38587) 235
>>But I want to make this point right now. The tapes make clear that Biden disclosed massive amounts of classified information to his ghost writer Marc Zwonitzer.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 05:32 PM (viF8m) --- That's prior to Biden becoming [gag!] President, right? Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 05:37 PM (Fi81e) 236
I have never understood telling people on the blog what your sexual preferences are. It is gross. Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 05:37 PM (/QHx4) 237
222 The Blade had a lot of fun with a foreign girl with a septum ring last summer. Lotsa tats too. Just saying.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 27, 2026 05:34 PM (771KI) ------ Nobody says they can't be "fun" for a summer but it's probably a bad idea for her to know your real name or your home address. Posted by: ballistic at July 27, 2026 05:38 PM (oqH4h) 238
I've had my tats for decades and don't think I've suffered any ill effects. I was just pissed it became a groover thing and ubiquitous.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2026 05:38 PM (KC5Lt) 239
Right darling it was the Amish, the XY chromosome combination, and the existence of vehicles not the toxic ideology your own government was trying to deprogram with yet another "known wolf." I am as an American, 1/2 German mein liebchen and culturally I am more Auslander than you pretend Mohammed Mohammed Mohammed is because my maternal family had the sense to leave in the 1890s...there are more German ancestry humans in the Americas than in Germany-I'd say we are more successful.
--sven My German ancestor came here in the mid 1850s, volunteered in an Artillery battery for the North. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 05:38 PM (uhVAy) 240
The inner monologue: "Muslims are just brown animals, they can't help it. But white Christians are civilized yet jerks and wrong and are therefore more dangerous."
Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 05:38 PM (vE0+H) 241
>>That's prior to Biden becoming [gag!] President, right?
Yep. When he illegally kept classified information in his garage among other places. Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 05:39 PM (viF8m) 242
, ask yourself, why didn't Special Counsel Robert Hur seek a prosecution and then (A) the forfeiture the $8 million book advance that Joe Biden got for Promise Me, Dad; and (B) his Delaware house and any other Biden property where he kept classified information?
Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 05:32 PM (viF8m) **** Why? Because we're in the dying days of post Constitutional Republic. It's rule of man from here out. God gave you two hands so you can take twice as much. Posted by: torabora at July 27, 2026 05:39 PM (dXfcs) 243
Lots of Civil War dudes had large, heavy led slugs (like the size of finger joint) in the body for decades without turning them into leftists, and we know lead is super bad for you.
Posted by: Oldcat Lead in metallic form is actually pretty stable which is why battery clamps are made from it or lead was used in roofs. But, change it to something like lead acetate, sugar of lead, not so good. Very water soluble and highly toxic, neurotoxic, and classified as a probable human carcinogen and teratogen. Used a long time as a hair dye to darken hair. Simply put, people with tattoos are unwitting conducting live tests on themselves of long term effects of pigments as did their parents and grandparents with different substances. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 05:39 PM (E4rtv) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2026 05:39 PM (O0L8i) 245
@223 whig , similar to a lot of young women becoming "lesbian" in college. Gotta go with the cool kids
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2026 05:39 PM (BlDDt) Posted by: Joe Q. Public at July 27, 2026 05:39 PM (F1rMs) 247
Jesus called us sheep
Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 05:35 PM (vE0+H) --- Thus, we should accept buggering from Muslims. Posted by: Talafreako at July 27, 2026 05:40 PM (Fi81e) Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 05:40 PM (E4rtv) 249
I am not a Caucasian because I was not born in the Caucasus Mountains located in Asia....
I am not White because I am a WASP.... Posted by: Mike Hunt at July 27, 2026 05:41 PM (38587) 250
The inner monologue: "Muslims are just brown animals, they can't help it. But white Christians are civilized yet jerks and wrong and are therefore more dangerous."
Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 05:38 PM (vE0+H) --- If it weren't for this board's rules about Math, I could show you the Math on this one. Posted by: Talafreako at July 27, 2026 05:41 PM (Fi81e) 251
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I have never understood telling people on the blog what your sexual preferences are. It is gross. Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 05:37 PM (/QHx4) _______________________________ Yeah, but if you do it in third person, you can disassociate yourself from it. At least, that's what Orson thinks. "JIMMY IS GETTING UPSET!!!" Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2026 05:41 PM (dIske) 252
I have never understood telling people on the blog what your sexual preferences are.
It is gross. Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 05:37 PM (/QHx4) I feel the same way about music preferences. Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 05:41 PM (vE0+H) 253
similar to a lot of young women becoming "lesbian" in college. Gotta go with the cool kids Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2026 05:39 PM (BlDDt) ___________ Sapphic relationships in women's colleges are as old as the institutions themselves. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2026 05:42 PM (O0L8i) 254
>> “I had hoped that the attacker was not a foreigner, but a white Christian person”
Enjoy your cultural enrichment. Posted by: Vengeance at July 27, 2026 05:42 PM (gb3qv) 255
Each time you see someone sporting a ring in their nose, ask them very politely "who are you subservient to"?
Posted by: Orson I suppose that's better than, "The farmer finally fixed your rooting habit, did he?" Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 27, 2026 05:42 PM (vJrRc) 256
245 @223 whig , similar to a lot of young women becoming "lesbian" in college. Gotta go with the cool kids
Posted by: Smell the Glove Cut my Hair from teh Who "Why should I care If I have to cut my hair? I've got to move with the fashions Or be outcast" And this line from the same song, "Why do I have to be different to them? Just to earn the respect of a dance hall friend We have the same old row, again and again Why do I have to move with a crowd Of kids that hardly notice I'm around? I have to work myself to death just to fit in" Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 05:43 PM (E4rtv) 257
Sapphic relationships in women's colleges are as old as the institutions themselves.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2026 05:42 PM (O0L8i) have to fill up the field hockey team somehow. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 05:43 PM (uhVAy) 258
"I had hoped that the attacker was not a foreigner, but a white Christian person"
------------------- Well you know what they say. Hope in one hand and shit in the other, and see which fills up first. Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 05:43 PM (vE0+H) Posted by: Movie opinions at July 27, 2026 05:43 PM (2Ez/1) 260
249 I am not a Caucasian because I was not born in the Caucasus Mountains located in Asia....
I am a WASP.... YOU ARE A RACIST MISTER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Posted by: Kami Harris at July 27, 2026 05:43 PM (3shEo) 261
Saving the taxpayers some cash
@Breaking911 29s Four teens were killed after a police chase ended when their car flew off a bridge and slammed into a parked freight train car. Police say the pursuit began after the suspects allegedly pointed a gun at another driver before fleeing a traffic stop. x.com/Breaking911/status/2081857718902521988 Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2026 05:43 PM (diia5) 262
239 Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 05:38 PM (uhVAy)
There are more partial ethnic Germans on these two continents than were ever in Germany.... the problem with Germany is it is German I guess....I am glad mom's family came they worked their asses off for WW1 and WW2 or fought in it.....steel men from Essen. Posted by: sven at July 27, 2026 05:43 PM (Int1s) 263
Ok, if someone needs "aversion therapy" to keep them from running people over in cars what they really need is the therapy Canada keeps pushing
Posted by: Azjaeger at July 27, 2026 05:44 PM (3/XaG) 264
I’m starting to think that liberal women are in a death cult, designed to bring about the end of the world. Everything they believe in is antithetical to human existence. Every statement they make is counter factual, sophistic or outright mendacity. There isn’t a moral or decent thing they embody.
Posted by: Vengeance at July 27, 2026 05:44 PM (gb3qv) 265
The Dems upon hearing the Fauci and Biden reveals will say , so what, yesterday's news, forgeries,etc.. They won't care, not only because they're delusional, but because they're too busy being crushed by the DSA
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2026 05:44 PM (BlDDt) 266
@223 whig , similar to a lot of young women becoming "lesbian" in college. Gotta go with the cool kids
Posted by: Smell the Glove I still think that was just a defensive measure so they would have a sufficiently progressive excuse to not put out for every guy in the Young Communists Club Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 27, 2026 05:44 PM (vJrRc) 267
This is mischaracterized as a "refusal to see the truth" when it is really an "acceptance of inferior status."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2026 05:44 PM (JvZF+) Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 27, 2026 05:45 PM (n5tGW) 269
Sapphic relationships in women's colleges are as old as the institutions themselves.
== Hear me out. Animal House, but at a Women's College. Posted by: Pit at July 27, 2026 05:45 PM (anL5R) 270
I have never understood telling people on the blog what your sexual preferences are.
It is gross. Posted by: four seasons ====== C'est la vie. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 05:45 PM (E4rtv) 271
If you're going to tell us at least give us a link to pictoa. Then you don't need to be crass here and we can go there and see for ourselves how perverted you are.
Posted by: torabora at July 27, 2026 05:45 PM (dXfcs) 272
Nic fail.
Posted by: Pitch Meeting? at July 27, 2026 05:45 PM (anL5R) Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 05:45 PM (Fi81e) 274
@Breaking911 29s
Four teens were killed after a police chase ended when their car flew off a bridge and slammed into a parked freight train car. Police say the pursuit began after the suspects allegedly pointed a gun at another driver before fleeing a traffic stop. x.com/Breaking911/status/2081857718902521988 Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2026 05:43 PM (diia5) ----- Is the freight train car OK? Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2026 05:46 PM (FZ29D) 275
I love all of these Clowns on the left saying that I am not racist because I am "BLACK".....
Skin color has nothing to do with it ........... Posted by: Franklin Stein at July 27, 2026 05:46 PM (TkCc3) 276
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2026 05:42 PM (O0L8i)
I went to a woman' s college. Maybe it was so long ago that nobody felt the need to tell us they were lesbians and I didn't know any - at least not for sure. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2026 05:46 PM (rHgXV) Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 27, 2026 05:46 PM (xcxpd) 278
I am not a slave because I am not Slavic
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2026 05:46 PM (BlDDt) 279
264 I’m starting to think that liberal women are in a death cult, designed to bring about the end of the world. Everything they believe in is antithetical to human existence. Every statement they make is counter factual, sophistic or outright mendacity. There isn’t a moral or decent thing they embody.
Posted by: Vengeance at July 27, 2026 05:44 PM ==== "He disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones. It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy." Posted by: G. Orwell at July 27, 2026 05:46 PM (2Ez/1) 280
Looking at those videos makes you said for the Fucking Stupid.
They just have no idea how Fucking Stupid they are. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 05:47 PM (Fi81e) 281
Muslims just doing what muslims do.
What's for dinner? Posted by: Joe Q. Public Bacon wrapped pork chops. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 27, 2026 05:47 PM (NnhvP) 282
Nood Cracker Barrell
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 27, 2026 05:47 PM (vJrRc) 283
252 I have never understood telling people on the blog what your sexual preferences are.
It is gross. Posted by: four seasons at July 27, 2026 05:37 PM (/QHx4) I feel the same way about music preferences. If you say you like the famous Sir Mix-A-Lot track, you can efficiently do both at the same time! Posted by: Azjaeger at July 27, 2026 05:47 PM (3/XaG) Posted by: Romeo13 at July 27, 2026 05:47 PM (mP0Kj) 285
The qwerty community does the same thing here. When a Jamal Jihad shot up the Pulse night club in FL and killed a bunch of gays, they were out the next day marching with "Republican Hate Kills!" banners.
Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living at July 27, 2026 05:48 PM (IQhz0) 286
271 If you're going to tell us at least give us a link to pictoa. Then you don't need to be crass here and we can go there and see for ourselves how perverted you are.
Posted by: torabora Zombie's field reports back in the day at Zombie Time and the current Admiral Ackbar's posts have made me suspicious of all such links. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 05:48 PM (E4rtv) 287
Maybe it was so long ago that nobody felt the need to tell us they were lesbians and I didn't know any - at least not for sure. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2026 05:46 PM (rHgXV) ____________ LUG: Lesbian Until Graduation Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2026 05:48 PM (O0L8i) 288
If you say you like the famous Sir Mix-A-Lot track, you can efficiently do both at the same time!
-- Now that's an efficient moron! Posted by: Kudos at July 27, 2026 05:48 PM (anL5R) 289
Is that because yours suck?
Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 05:45 PM (Fi81e) Not so much sucking as much as being lame. Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 05:49 PM (vE0+H) 290
I suspected that the LBGZZZZZZZZZZ movement was suicidal. Here's proof. Go for it!
Posted by: Martin Tell at July 27, 2026 05:49 PM (sFNX2) 291
This is interesting. Oliver Anthony does his latest song inside a coal mine. He's the guy that did Rich men of Richmond
https://tinyurl.com/5dpx5c6w Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 27, 2026 05:49 PM (bkuEU) 292
I’m starting to think that liberal women are in a death cult, designed to bring about the end of the world. Everything they believe in is antithetical to human existence. Every statement they make is counter factual, sophistic or outright mendacity. There isn’t a moral or decent thing they embody.
Posted by: Vengeance at July 27, 2026 05:44 PM --- Men started this, too. Rousseau was a man. Owen was a man. Marx and Engels, both men. Reality Fugue has a long history, dressed up as "Enlightenment". Women have just been influenced to internalize the garbage of Men. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 05:49 PM (Fi81e) 293
264 I’m starting to think that liberal women are in a death cult, designed to bring about the end of the world. Everything they believe in is antithetical to human existence. Every statement they make is counter factual, sophistic or outright mendacity. There isn’t a moral or decent thing they embody.
Posted by: Vengeance at July 27, 2026 05:44 PM (gb3qv) ________________________________ Drew Carey was at the Correspondants dinner (I think when W was president) and he did a joke about what would happen if women were the leaders of every country. As an example he used the UK and the US. America: "UK, why did you attack us?" UK: "Well, if you don't know, I'm not going to tell you. You know what you did." (the camera cut to Hillary and she was scowling) Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2026 05:50 PM (dIske) 294
Women have just been influenced to internalize the garbage of Men.
== Because they have no agency, they just do what they're told. Posted by: Now that's Ironic at July 27, 2026 05:50 PM (anL5R) Posted by: man at July 27, 2026 05:50 PM (XuXeR) 296
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2026 05:48 PM (O0L8i)
Didn't know any of those. Were the men's colleges ( yes, they were still around then) gay until they graduated too? Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2026 05:50 PM (rHgXV) 297
Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 05:38 PM (uhVAy)
There are more partial ethnic Germans on these two continents than were ever in Germany.... the problem with Germany is it is German I guess....I am glad mom's family came they worked their asses off for WW1 and WW2 or fought in it.....steel men from Essen. Posted by: sven at July 27, 2026 05:43 PM (Int1s) I think Germany's big problem in the 19th Century and after is they developed these big stupid philosophies when they were powerless relatively then instantly got powerful and started to put them in action using German energy and drive. Those who left for the US got too busy actually doing stuff to be carried along. We see today what can happen even here with enough stupid ideas. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 05:51 PM (uhVAy) 298
Didn't know any of those. Were the men's colleges ( yes, they were still around then) gay until they graduated too?
== Just the English ones. You'd think that's a joke, but its really not. Posted by: Now that's Ironic at July 27, 2026 05:52 PM (anL5R) 299
Every thread hss the possibility of becoming a gun, boob or movie thread
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2026 05:53 PM (Ia/+0) 300
299 Every thread hss the possibility of becoming a gun, boob or movie thread
-- Which is a sign of a healthy blog. Posted by: Now that's Ironic at July 27, 2026 05:53 PM (anL5R) 301
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2026 05:48 PM (O0L8i)
Didn't know any of those. Were the men's colleges ( yes, they were still around then) gay until they graduated too? Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2026 05:50 PM (rHgXV) Men can substitute getting drunk and vomiting a lot for gay stuff. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 05:54 PM (uhVAy) 302
Didn't know any of those. Were the men's colleges ( yes, they were still around then) gay until they graduated too?
== Just the English ones. You'd think that's a joke, but its really not. Posted by: Now that's Ironic at July 27, 2026 05:52 PM (anL5R) German colleges had sword fighting, which was good for giving lifelong scars on the face. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 05:55 PM (uhVAy) 303
Can't be real, just saw on YouTube a ad for Obama, Page woman who is a Trannie, Leonardo and Whoopi
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2026 06:00 PM (Ia/+0) 304
299 Every thread hss the possibility of becoming a gun, boob or movie thread
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2026 05:53 PM (Ia/+0) Or a Best TV Show Intro Music of All-Time thread. Posted by: Gref at July 27, 2026 06:01 PM (5rh/l) 305
Drew Carey was at the Correspondants dinner (I think when W was president) and he did a joke about what would happen if women were the leaders of every country. As an example he used the UK and the US.
America: "UK, why did you attack us?" UK: "Well, if you don't know, I'm not going to tell you. You know what you did." (the camera cut to Hillary and she was scowling) Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2026 05:50 PM (dIske) True History: Emperor of Austria had no male heir in the 1740s or so but had a daughter. So he went about all of Europe making treaties with all his subject nation and other Euro nations to accept Maria Teresa as Empress when he died. So he dies, and Frederick of Prussia instantly invades the Austrian province of Silesia and takes it thinking she's weak. Soon all of the west is scrapping, including a war in the New World. Frederick gets a separate peace, then later jumps back in again and gets spanked and when the smoke clears he keeps his first province. The Empress is still pissed, so eventually builds a coalition to teach Prussia a lesson so the 7 Years War results, in the Americas known as the French and Indian war results. Prussia kept Silesia. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 06:05 PM (uhVAy) 306
. There isn’t a moral or decent thing they embody.
Posted by: Vengeance ----- This is about me, isn't it? Posted by: Jezebel at July 27, 2026 06:08 PM (XeU6L) Posted by: Herodias at July 27, 2026 06:10 PM (XeU6L) 308
When I was 8 y/o, my mother used store bought biscuits for biscuits and gravy. I didn't speak to her for over an hour.
Posted by: Big Porker at July 27, 2026 06:27 PM (Q6FQq) Thune Schemes to Put the Senate Into Recess Until Late August, Ending Any Chance of Passing SAVE Before the Elections![]() President Donald Trump on Monday called on Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) to keep the Senate in session to terminate the filibuster and pass the SAVE America Act. Trump took to Truth Social in the morning to pressure Thune to keep senators working in Washington until the SAVE America Act, which takes a number of steps to secure federal elections, is passed. "John Thune should not allow the United States Senate to 'leave town' until it passes The Save America Act or, far better still, TERMINATES THE FILIBUSTER, where Republicans can then quickly pass everything they ever dreamed of, including a full and deep throated SAVE AMERICA ACT, the Budget, and the ever looming Debt Ceiling disaster, 1929!" Trump wrote. Because 60 votes are required for passing the SAVE America Act -- which would require proof of citizenship when registering to vote, voter ID, and end universal mail-in ballots with a few exceptions -- Republicans would need to end the filibuster to advance it with a simple majority. Trump stressed that if and when Democrats return to power, they will immediately nuke the filibuster. "The Dumocrats will do it on day one, and can't believe how lucky they got with this Senate leadership. Remember, stupidity always brings LOSING & DEATH!" Trump added.Thune's scheme was to move to adjourn the Senate. If there is no objection, the motion would be approved unanimously with no roll-call. Scott Presler called for a Senator to object and force a Yea or Nay roll call. At least then the McConnell sell-outs like Thune, Lankford, McConnell, Murkowski, etc. would be on-the-record in favor of continued vote fraud by Democrats.
Meanwhile, Thune continues his mentor Mitch McConnell's practice of never formally recessing the Senate, thereby denying Trump the right enjoyed by all previous presidents of making temporary (one-year) recess appointments when the senate is recessed.
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we'll just see what we see ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 27, 2026 03:35 PM (VyBeY) 2
Would that we could bring dueling with pistols back to the Senate.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 27, 2026 03:36 PM (IhL8c) 3
I appreciate the posturing... But it's just posturing.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, preparing for The Reckoning at July 27, 2026 03:36 PM (JEB0x) 4
FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 27, 2026 03:36 PM (2YhKe) 5
I appreciate the centering.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 27, 2026 03:36 PM (2YhKe) 6
Mike Lee is at least trying.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 27, 2026 03:38 PM (NnhvP) 7
Thune is a wax dummy. Posted by: wth at July 27, 2026 03:38 PM (UjdFS) 8
I'm feeling very balanced, now. And in perfect balance, I say, "Either pass the SAVE America act now, or get thousands of recess appointments. Either way we win, you lose."
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 27, 2026 03:39 PM (aJQbY) 9
Ace has become a centrist. Next he'll get a lefty girlfriend and start telling us to free Palestine.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 27, 2026 03:39 PM (2ocoG) 10
I used Blade's method to post this at 1:25PM EDST on Monday, July 27 to show how easy it is to get a "First!". I didn't even subject you to a poem.
Posted by: the lower depths at July 27, 2026 01:26 PM (Yh7zv) It has been mentioned that doing this to get a first will get you first banned........ Just a friendly reminder. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 27, 2026 03:39 PM (2YhKe) 11
I'm sure someone here told me Thune is trying real hard but there's just some stubborn Senators that won't let him do what's right.
Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 03:39 PM (vE0+H) 12
Trump is powerless against Thune. You hate to see it, but it's true.
Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2026 03:39 PM (ZxPkt) 13
Help me out please. Is Thune trying to put it in the type of recess that Trump can get his appointments made? I know he's avoiding the SAVE act but is there as silver lining?
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 27, 2026 03:39 PM (n5tGW) 14
I'm betting there will still be pro-forma sessions to prevent any interim appointments, though.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 27, 2026 03:39 PM (N1DT3) 15
The biggest tell about how Trump's last 2 years will go will be if they GOP finally gets rid of McConnell's Maxi Me. If they do, it means things have changed. If they don't, there are enough of the old barnacles to stop any progress.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 27, 2026 03:40 PM (Riz8t) 16
Man, murderous rage Mondays are living up to their name.
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 27, 2026 03:40 PM (Sco7b) 17
Todd Young should channel fellow Hoosier Jimmy Chitwood, tell the senate, "I figured it's time for me to start playing ball," and push the SAVE Act to a vote.
Posted by: Oglebay at July 27, 2026 03:40 PM (2ap+5) 18
Thune is a baboon.
Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2026 03:40 PM (Dd38x) Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 27, 2026 03:40 PM (YlWIZ) 20
And now the post is live hours later.
Posted by: the lower depths at July 27, 2026 03:35 PM (Yh7zv) You know how the posts don't go up in order by number? Well they used too. There's a reason for that. Friendly word - don't do this shit. Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 03:40 PM (vE0+H) 21
I used Blade's method to post this at 1:25PM EDST on Monday, July 27 to show how easy it is to get a "First!". I didn't even subject you to a poem.
Posted by: the lower depths at July 27, 2026 01:26 PM (Yh7zv) It has been mentioned that doing this to get a first will get you first banned........ Just a friendly reminder. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 27, 2026 03:39 PM (2YhKe) ____________ People still don't know the ways of The Blade .... And they're not poems! They're song lyrics, mostly rock and metal. Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 27, 2026 03:41 PM (iFTx/) 22
They have to NotPass the SAVE act.
Not enough Republicans seem to want to walkaway from their seats this year. They've gotten some, though. But, it might not be enough to recreate 2018. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 03:41 PM (Fi81e) 23
Oh crap i need an extra spoace
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 27, 2026 03:41 PM (YlWIZ) Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 27, 2026 03:41 PM (NnhvP) 25
Baboon is supposed to buffoon.
Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2026 03:41 PM (Dd38x) Posted by: Tony Horta at July 27, 2026 03:41 PM (Fi81e) 27
I'm sure someone here told me Thune is trying real hard but there's just some stubborn Senators that won't let him do what's right.
Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 03:39 PM (vE0+ Cornyn, Murk and mitch will never vote for it. Plus Thune, that's four. If they won't move, the votrs aren't there. Posted by: Washington Nearsider, preparing for The Reckoning at July 27, 2026 03:41 PM (JEB0x) Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 27, 2026 03:42 PM (YlWIZ) 29
Make them vote. I want to know which GOPe fifth columnists are delaying things. I mean, we have a pretty good idea, but I want them to have to defend their No votes in '28.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 27, 2026 03:42 PM (Riz8t) 30
Filthy machine!
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 27, 2026 03:42 PM (YlWIZ) 31
Has there ever been a Congress so adamantly opposed to a President of the same party?
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 27, 2026 03:42 PM (RmfQb) 32
The Blade needs to wipe the Cheeto dust off his fingers and get out of his mother’s basement.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 27, 2026 03:42 PM (9mRXp) 33
I was under the impression that the House had passed the SAVE Act with a version that would pass muster in reconciliation as a spending bill so they didn't need the 60 votes in the Senate but only a majority?
I guess not if they're still talking about the filibuster. Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2026 03:42 PM (6ydKt) 34
Easter Wings by George Herbert
Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store, Though foolishly he lost the same, Decaying more and more, Till he became Most poore: With thee O let me rise As larks, harmoniously, And sing this day thy victories: Then shall the fall further the flight in me. My tender age in sorrow did beginne And still with sicknesses and shame. Thou didst so punish sinne, That I became Most thinne. With thee Let me combine, And feel thy victorie: For, if I imp my wing on thine, Affliction shall advance the flight in me. Posted by: Oglebay at July 27, 2026 03:42 PM (2ap+5) 35
Lindsey with a vagina seems to be pretty good so far. Still not voting for her in the primary.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 27, 2026 03:42 PM (BAWkL) 36
You know how the posts don't go up in order by number? Well they used too. There's a reason for that. Friendly word - don't do this shit.
Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 03:40 PM (vE0+H) --- Took Ace some time to center this post. Posted by: Tony Horta at July 27, 2026 03:42 PM (Fi81e) 37
We can do better than Thune.
Posted by: runner at July 27, 2026 03:43 PM (GD0B3) 38
Oh, no, not the Center!!
Posted by: runner at July 27, 2026 03:43 PM (GD0B3) 39
Cornyn, Murk and mitch will never vote for it. Plus Thune, that's four.
If they won't move, the votrs aren't there. True, but when the Senate reconvenes after the election, it will make it very easy indeed to defenestrate Thune. Posted by: Archimedes at July 27, 2026 03:43 PM (Riz8t) 40
Thw wuick red jox jumped over the lazy dog, now get a life.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 27, 2026 03:43 PM (YlWIZ) 41
1 I used Blade's method to post this at 1:25PM EDST on Monday, July 27 to show how easy it is to get a "First!". I didn't even subject you to a poem.
Posted by: the lower depths at July 27, 2026 01:26 PM (Yh7zv) That is frowned upon, you know. Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2026 03:43 PM (OlzlW) 42
If they won't move, the votrs aren't there.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, preparing for The Reckoning at July 27, 2026 03:41 PM (JEB0x) To repurpose a rather disgusting cliche, Thune can shit and then get off the pot. He can force all the fake Republicans on the record. Then he can call a real recess and not open "pro forma" kabuki. He should have done this earlier and earned some respect from DJT and his voters. Posted by: gKWVE at July 27, 2026 03:44 PM (gKWVE) 43
Posted by: Oglebay at July 27, 2026 03:42 PM (2ap+5)
Very nice poem. I really appreciate George Herbert's poetry. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2026 03:44 PM (xPsv8) Posted by: Lizzy at July 27, 2026 03:44 PM (4KUe5) 45
I'm sure someone here told me Thune is trying real hard but there's just some stubborn Senators that won't let him do what's right.
Posted by: ... Damn that Thon June! Posted by: The Shame of South Dakota at July 27, 2026 03:44 PM (yFLFB) 46
Spoiler Alert: They won't pass it
They want to be in the minority, they want to lose the midterms( by they I mean the Vichy GOP) Posted by: steevy at July 27, 2026 03:44 PM (YwEeS) 47
for pols like thune, fundraising is more important than being in the majority and getting things done. in 2016 mcconnell would have easily let merrick garland be confirmed after hillary won the presidency but before the election it made for a great fundraising issue
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 27, 2026 03:44 PM (CWTWj) 48
The Blade needs to wipe the Cheeto dust off his fingers and get out of his mother’s basement.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 27, 2026 03:42 PM (9mRXp) _________ I escaped the basement months ago. It was hard at first because of all the bright light everywhere and the other people just walking around in public. I'm still adjusting to life outside the basement. Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 27, 2026 03:45 PM (iFTx/) 49
Will they monkey around with rhesus appointments?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2026 03:45 PM (Cqx++) 50
39 We can do better than Thune.
Posted by: runner at July 27, 2026 03:43 PM (GD0B3) There are plenty of lazy hobos who could do this job better. At least the lazy hobo wouldn't refuse recess appointments. He'd simply call the recess and go to the Senate's lavatory to guzzle his MD 20/20. Posted by: gKWVE at July 27, 2026 03:45 PM (gKWVE) Posted by: wth at July 27, 2026 03:46 PM (UjdFS) Posted by: Jerome Seinfeld at July 27, 2026 03:46 PM (Fi81e) Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 27, 2026 03:46 PM (jTgrB) Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 27, 2026 03:46 PM (2YhKe) 55
I strongly suspect Thune is the scapegoat for probably 20 (at least) GOP Senators who don't want SAVE passed
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 27, 2026 03:46 PM (iFTx/) 56
Carried over:
134 Now that the pandemic is over, has anybody calculated the actual fatality rate? If so, what was it?" Funny you should ask. Several have tried to sort that out, but actual reliable data seems to be...a bit hard to come by. Said data might be in Al Capone's vault... Posted by: man at July 27, 2026 02:45 PM (XuXeR) Yeah, about that... Even just medium-quality data would include age and vaxx status. So, if the vaxx increased mortality for younger people, then even if the manufacturers are immune from legal liability, everyone that pushed it would be publicly subject to moral culpability. Entire professions, including Education and The Media, would use every scrap and shred of their influence to avert that hit to their Good Will. Posted by: SciVo at July 27, 2026 03:46 PM (Sy6m/) 57
Thune is a baboon. Posted by: Piper ...... Goon. Posted by: wth at July 27, 2026 03:46 PM (UjdFS) --- Buffoon. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 03:47 PM (Fi81e) 58
I escaped the basement months ago. It was hard at first because of all the bright light everywhere and the other people just walking around in public. I'm still adjusting to life outside the basement.
Have you seen the woman in the red dress yet? Posted by: Archimedes at July 27, 2026 03:47 PM (Riz8t) 59
Even a vote won't tell you anything. The R's that don't want it but don't want their constituents to know, won't go on record because there are enough who are willing to take one for the team. Whoopsie, so close!!
If we knew the truth about how many elected Republicans are perfectly happy, nay content, with the type of fraud that saw Biden and Kamala and more importantly their handlers take a giant dump on this country for four years, few of us would bother voting GOP. Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 03:47 PM (vE0+H) 60
Poltroon Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 03:47 PM (Fi81e) 61
Ahh Nemo you needed that one extra return.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 27, 2026 03:47 PM (n5tGW) 62
I think Blade is quite a smart man, and I appreciate his insights on a number of political things, but I do not care about his being first in posts. . It's funnier when Sponge puts "First!!" and he's somewhere around forty in the posts.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2026 03:47 PM (xPsv8) Posted by: Lizzy at July 27, 2026 03:47 PM (4KUe5) 64
Thon June sounds like the name of one of those blue hookers in the Mos Eisley Cantina
Or Saigon, 1966. Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2026 03:47 PM (6ydKt) 65
Why in the hell does Oklahoma keep sending Lankford back to Washington? Won’t someone primary that ginger RINO?
Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at July 27, 2026 03:48 PM (dk1uA) 66
I strongly suspect Thune is the scapegoat for probably 20 (at least) GOP Senators who don't want SAVE passed Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 27, 2026 03:46 PM (iFTx/) --- I strongly suspect you are right. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 03:48 PM (Fi81e) Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 27, 2026 03:48 PM (jTgrB) 68
I strongly suspect Thune is the scapegoat for probably 20 (at least) GOP Senators who don't want SAVE passed
20 isn't enough to get him to Senate Majority leader. Name them and shame them. And by shame, I mean introduce them to the fires of Mt. Doom. Posted by: Archimedes at July 27, 2026 03:48 PM (Riz8t) 69
More people died from the lockdowns(all causes) than COVID. Probably by a factor of 10 .
Posted by: steevy at July 27, 2026 03:48 PM (YwEeS) 70
I escaped the basement months ago. It was hard at first because of all the bright light everywhere and the other people just walking around in public. I'm still adjusting to life outside the basement.
Have you seen the woman in the red dress yet? Posted by: Archimedes at July 27, 2026 03:47 PM (Riz8t) ________ [Perks up] -- Chris de Burgh Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 27, 2026 03:48 PM (iFTx/) 71
The centered stuff is hard to read.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 27, 2026 03:48 PM (2Ez/1) 72
>>Thune is a baboon
Let’s shoot him straight to the moon! Posted by: Lizzy at July 27, 2026 03:47 PM (4KUe5) I like the sound of your tune. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 27, 2026 03:49 PM (BAWkL) 73
John Thune (R-SD)
South Dakotans, what the fuck is wrong with you? SD is supposedly one of the most conservative states in the Union. And you repeatedly send this traitor to the Senate??? Posted by: zombie at July 27, 2026 03:49 PM (Av6i5) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2026 03:49 PM (xPsv8) 75
My favorite comments ever are the ones who do "centering art" but forget the carriage return at the top. There is something agonizing and beautiful and terrible in it.
Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 03:49 PM (vE0+H) Posted by: runner at July 27, 2026 03:49 PM (GD0B3) 77
Big loon?
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 27, 2026 03:49 PM (LL19j) 78
A lot of people warned against him being leader yet here we are.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 27, 2026 03:50 PM (n5tGW) 79
If you were wondering what that Washingtonian news reader babe was talking about, the “norms” and “bipartisanship” - this is it.
In their eyes, “compromise” is Doing Everything We Want (and More) And Nothing We Don’t. Assistant Democrats. Thanks a Lot, mac Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2026 03:50 PM (Eo+Kz) 80
Mike Lee is centered; Thune is not
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 27, 2026 03:50 PM (+gA9j) 81
There was a contest and he "won".
Posted by: runner at July 27, 2026 03:50 PM (GD0B3) 82
I swoon for Thune. Posted by: Susan Collins at July 27, 2026 03:50 PM (UjdFS) 83
And no COB's around to fix the f*ckup.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 27, 2026 03:51 PM (2YhKe) 84
Posted by: the lower depths at July 27, 2026 03:49 PM (Yh7zv)
The mega alpha super duper brains were trying to save *you* from getting banned. But go ahead - do you. Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 03:51 PM (vE0+H) 85
We deserve to be centered on this topic, Ace.
Scott Pressler should get an award, bless him for all he does. Thank goodness 5 Senators found their spine. If nothing else, this proves beyond a shadow of doubt that the rest of the GOPe is bought and paid for by money laundering and illegals and threats by their puppet masters. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 27, 2026 03:51 PM (hzuYO) 86
heh. Comments 78 and 79 for the win. Until this gets fixed.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 27, 2026 03:51 PM (n5tGW) 87
99 Red Baboons go by...
Posted by: Nena at July 27, 2026 03:51 PM (2Ez/1) 88
My favorite comments ever are the ones who do "centering art" but forget the carriage return at the top. There is something agonizing and beautiful and terrible in it.
Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 03:49 PM (vE0+H) --- Agree. It's a work of art to do all that work to create a Christmas tree, forget that the first line won't center and end up with Charlie Brown's tree. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 03:51 PM (Fi81e) 89
The GOPe makes “deals” with Democrats. The trouble with the MAGA movement from the GOPe viewpoint, is that MAGA doesn’t want to make “deals;” they want to WIN!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 27, 2026 03:52 PM (jTgrB) 90
I like that Trump is willing to go the mat on this, in in my opinion its the most important issues, period.
But it's clearly not going to pass "as is" because of a handful of RINOs. Is there talk of some compromise where there is some ballot integrity measures pass, like forcing voter ID? Posted by: Leupold at July 27, 2026 03:52 PM (eIzlH) 91
78 My favorite comments ever are the ones who do "centering art" but forget the carriage return at the top. There is something agonizing and beautiful and terrible in it.
Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 03:49 PM (vE0+H) I like it! Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 27, 2026 03:52 PM (hzuYO) 92
"carriage return"
Not unlike "rotary dial." Posted by: Geezer at July 27, 2026 03:52 PM (2Ez/1) Posted by: runner at July 27, 2026 03:53 PM (GD0B3) 94
Imagine Thune ran the Senate the way Pelosi ran the House…
A few pesky holdouts? Strong arm them bigot behind the scenes, threaten their committee positions, their favorite upcoming legislation, etc. until they fall tf in line!! I’m sorry, but knowing how the Democrats can consistently come together to get stuff done for decades, I refuse to accept this crap about him being oh so helpless in the face of a few dissenting Republicans. No, Thune doesn’t want it, he doesn’t want Trump’s administration appointments to go through and it’s time he’s held accountable for all of this. He needs to be replaced. Posted by: Lizzy at July 27, 2026 03:53 PM (4KUe5) 95
Some of the most annoying and vexing senators are republicans. McConnell, Thune, Cassidy, Tillis, Lankford….. Murkowski…. All from deep red states (except Tillis which is just normal red with a tinge of purple)
One expects nonsense from Dems; getting stabbed by your “own side” is more annoying Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 27, 2026 03:53 PM (+gA9j) 96
Pressing enter on the keyboard to get to a new line is still Carriage Return; Line Feed.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 27, 2026 03:53 PM (2YhKe) 97
The GOPe makes “deals” with Democrats. The trouble with the MAGA movement from the GOPe viewpoint, is that MAGA doesn’t want to make “deals;” they want to WIN! Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 27, 2026 03:52 PM (jTgrB) --- Yes, winning is so selfish ... Unless you're a Democrat. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 03:53 PM (Fi81e) 98
11 Ace has become a centrist. Next he'll get a lefty girlfriend and start telling us to free Palestine.
Posted by: Ian S. ====== Think he has already had some lefty girlfriends. NYC dating market is pretty lonely for Ewoks so you take what you can get or DIY. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 03:54 PM (E4rtv) 99
NYP:
Citywide, The Post counted over 960,000 residences and individuals listed as potentially in line to be hit with Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax, even though just 31,000 homes were supposed to be subjected to the new levy as he and Hochul initially sold it to the public. ------- Sounds about right. The lefty's always think a new "tax the rich" tax will only be for the rich. Fools. Posted by: WisRich at July 27, 2026 03:54 PM (G0vdT) 100
Commondreams.org: Trump Orders GOP Leader to Cancel Recess and Pass Massive Voter Suppression Bill
Experts say the so-called Save America Act would prevent millions from casting ballots by imposing onerous documentation requirements. These buffoons haven't explained how they would facilitate this document requirement for citizens so that they can vote unimpeded. It’s almost as if suppression is the goal. Offer to implement it in 2030, to get this implementation straightened out. They won't agree, but it will point out that the act its self is not the point the chaos it will cause is. The fact that most states' Real IDs don't live up to the standard of this bill as reported is such hot garbage. I want to remind everyone about the separation of our branches of government. The GOP bending the knee to everything he does makes that a flawed idea these days. Kinda fucked up when you realize that basically everything about our government is run on the honor system. Those with no honor can do whatever they want and there are practically zero consequences because nothing is codified. Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 27, 2026 03:54 PM (VB9q0) 101
Thune continues his mentor Mitch McConnell's practice of never formally recessing the Senate, thereby denying Trump the right enjoyed by all previous presidents of making temporary (one-year) recess appointments when the senate is recessed.
==== There's your "conservative" party ladies and gentlemen. Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2026 03:54 PM (JvZF+) 102
Dueling was not necessarily pistols. I think when challenged to a Duel, the individual challenged had the choice of weapon, he could specify swords or whatever. There was quite an involved, elaborate formal aspect to the whole thing.
What it did, despite detractors, it made people really think twice or even three times about publicly impugning someone’s character. Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2026 03:54 PM (Eo+Kz) 103
The centered stuff is hard to read.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty ....... I should have not drank so much yesterday. Or drank more. I don't know. Posted by: wth at July 27, 2026 03:54 PM (UjdFS) 104
Amazing rescue of a 10 year old by a first-season 16 year old lifeguard at Seabright Beach in Santa Cruz. Wish Thune had the balls of the lifeguard - crude analogy - https://tinyurl.com/3aucaddf Posted by: beckster at July 27, 2026 03:54 PM (kX27y) 105
One expects nonsense from Dems; getting stabbed by your “own side” is more annoying
Posted by: LinusVanPelt ====== Enemies come at you from the front, traitors always stab in the back. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 03:54 PM (E4rtv) 106
One expects nonsense from Dems; getting stabbed by your “own side” is more annoying
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 27, 2026 03:53 PM (+gA9j) --- But falls into "Fool me 3000 times..." Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 03:54 PM (Fi81e) 107
63 Ahh Nemo you needed that one extra return.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 27, 2026 03:47 PM (n5tGW) The point of an experiment is to learn. Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 27, 2026 03:55 PM (jTgrB) 108
Maybe Thune is secretly with the democratic socialists 🤔
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 27, 2026 03:55 PM (LL19j) 109
"Hard return."
Posted by: 25 year old me at July 27, 2026 03:55 PM (2Ez/1) 110
Hang them all!
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 27, 2026 03:55 PM (tBH5l) Posted by: Big Penguin at July 27, 2026 03:55 PM (0sNs1) 112
Has any press critter ever asked Thune why he won’t formally recess? What’s his purported reason other than to fuck over Trump and MAGA….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 27, 2026 03:55 PM (+gA9j) 113
Where's Mitch?
Posted by: I gotta ask at July 27, 2026 03:56 PM (2Ez/1) 114
When Lincoln was challenged to a duel, didn’t he specify cannon?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 27, 2026 03:56 PM (jTgrB) Posted by: Lizzy at July 27, 2026 03:56 PM (4KUe5) 116
Lankford isn't just a squish, he's also useless as far as I can tell.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 27, 2026 03:56 PM (aJQbY) 117
I don't give a shit if I'm banned. There are no posted rules here anyway.
Posted by: the lower depths at July 27, 2026 03:51 PM (Yh7zv) Huh? Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 03:57 PM (vE0+H) Posted by: Mitch at July 27, 2026 03:57 PM (Fi81e) 119
What it did, despite detractors, it made people really think twice or even three times about publicly impugning someone’s character.
Posted by: Common Tater One of the amusing SF treatment of this was an early Heinlein novel, Beyond This Horizon. From this novel, we get the saying, "an armed society is a polite society." Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 03:57 PM (E4rtv) 120
When Lincoln was challenged to a duel, didn’t he specify cannon?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 27, 2026 03:56 PM (jTgrB) Broadswords in a confined space. With Abe’s long arms gave him a terrific advantage Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 27, 2026 03:57 PM (+gA9j) 121
Actually, there is a reason English is left-justified. Clearly you youngsters have no care for tradition or convention.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2026 03:57 PM (JvZF+) 122
Where's Mitch?
Posted by: I gotta ask ....... I don't know, but it's gotta be near an electrical outlet. Posted by: wth at July 27, 2026 03:58 PM (UjdFS) 123
121 I don't give a shit if I'm banned. There are no posted rules here anyway.
Posted by: the lower depths at July 27, 2026 03:51 PM (Yh7zv) Huh? Posted by: ... The rules are the idle whims of the Ewok King and his cohort of cobs er I mean courtiers to the Furry Throne. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 03:58 PM (E4rtv) 124
Kinda fucked up when you realize that basically everything about our government is run on the honor system. Those with no honor can do whatever they want and there are practically zero consequences because nothing is codified.
Nothing will happen Guy, is that you? Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2026 03:58 PM (0sNs1) 125
Where's Mitch?
Posted by: I gotta ask at July 27, 2026 03:56 PM (2Ez/1) Wife read a headline this morning that he was being released from the hospital today. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 27, 2026 03:58 PM (2YhKe) 126
Ask you Phrenologist if Spheniscidae is right for you.
Side effects include vomiting, diarrhea, fever, heartburn, upset stomach, itchy scalp, genital warts, night sweats and cannibalism. Posted by: Big Fat Fizzer at July 27, 2026 03:59 PM (2Ez/1) 127
used Blade's method to post this at 1:25PM EDST on Monday, July 27 to show how easy it is to get a "First!". I didn't even subject you to a poem.
Posted by: the lower depths at July 27, 2026 01:26 PM (Yh7zv) It has been mentioned that doing this to get a first will get you first banned........ Just a friendly reminder. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 27, 2026 03:39 PM (2YhKe) I have no idea what that is about and how it's done! Posted by: runner at July 27, 2026 03:59 PM (GD0B3) 128
116 Has any press critter ever asked Thune why he won’t formally recess?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt ====== You jest sir! Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 03:59 PM (E4rtv) 129
Can we stop with the 'first ' shit? It's juvenile and embarrassing to the blog
Posted by: Sentinel at July 27, 2026 03:59 PM (CNPyZ) 130
The rules are the idle whims of the Ewok King and his cohort of cobs er I mean courtiers to the Furry Throne.
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 03:58 PM (E4rtv) I wasn't questioning that part. I was questioning the thought process. Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 03:59 PM (vE0+H) 131
I know some individuals were doing this crap in the past...
Posted by: runner at July 27, 2026 03:59 PM (GD0B3) 132
NY Times, minutes ago, McConnell extends Senate leave & will miss State picnic.
Now there's a plan. Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 27, 2026 04:00 PM (LL19j) 133
Wait for it.....
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 27, 2026 04:00 PM (BAWkL) 134
I hate these people.
--- Who are these people?! Posted by: Jerome Seinfeld at July 27, 2026 03:46 PM (Fi81e) ===== How could anyone not like you?? Posted by: Mrs. Seinfeld at July 27, 2026 04:00 PM (JvZF+) 135
Can we stop with the 'first ' shit? It's juvenile and embarrassing to the blog
Posted by: Sentinel at July 27, 2026 03:59 PM (CNPyZ) Are you firstshaming us ? Posted by: runner at July 27, 2026 04:00 PM (GD0B3) 136
Experts say the so-called Save America Act would prevent millions from casting ballots by imposing onerous documentation requirements.
You mean the "onerous documentation requirements" that are already satisfied by virtually all legitimate voters? Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2026 04:00 PM (OlzlW) 137
re 118: that was done in an episode of blackadder 3rd
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 27, 2026 04:00 PM (CWTWj) 138
120 Lankford isn't just a squish, he's also useless as far as I can tell.
Posted by: RandomDave ====== Looks like the shifty sort that likes to frequent glory holes at truck stops for some rough trade. Then again, so do most of the senators and I think Hirono has experience. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 04:01 PM (E4rtv) 139
There should just be something lie defunding federal highway funds if you don't pass voter ID in your state.
That's how they made the drinking age 21. I think Louisiana was the one holdout. Posted by: Leupold at July 27, 2026 04:01 PM (eIzlH) 140
NY Times, minutes ago, McConnell extends Senate leave & will miss State picnic.
== but not he baseball game, right ? Posted by: runner at July 27, 2026 04:01 PM (GD0B3) 141
Can we stop with the 'first ' shit? It's juvenile and embarrassing to the blog Posted by: Sentinel at July 27, 2026 03:59 PM (CNPyZ) --- It took a long time to come to the Horde. I was surprised when I started seeing it here. Posted by: Mitch at July 27, 2026 04:01 PM (Fi81e) 142
The NY Post had a photo of the Missing Mitch with his wife in the same pose as last time. However, their shirts are different. Which is a lame attempt to photoshop an already photoshopped photo. She's frozen in the same position and smile. He's been frozen for some time.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 27, 2026 04:01 PM (hzuYO) 143
News just showed statement from Mitch he needs a few more weeks of rehab before release from hospital. [/c]
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 27, 2026 04:01 PM (n5tGW) 144
As hilarious as it is to see centered comments, I do find them also very annoying to read that way.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2026 04:01 PM (FZ29D) 145
Do you know what today is? Today is the day Temporary Protected Status ends for Haitians.
First target is Springfield, Ohio. They will no longer be eating the pets of the people who live there. whoa whoa whoa Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 04:02 PM (viF8m) 146
Can we stop with the 'first ' shit? It's juvenile and embarrassing to the blog
Posted by: Sentinel at July 27, 2026 03:59 PM (CNPyZ) ==== There's first rule of first is never talk about first. Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2026 04:02 PM (JvZF+) 147
The news of the day is going to give me an aneurism. I'm out.
Posted by: InZona at July 27, 2026 04:02 PM (r8it5) 148
Where's Mitch?
Posted by: I gotta ask ....... I don't know, but it's gotta be near an electrical outlet. Wait for the janitor to be one short of an electrical outlet for his vacuum when he comes to clean Mitch’s room. Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 27, 2026 04:02 PM (jTgrB) 149
Yes, which is fine, I guess. I don't own the blog. If Ace likes Blade's dick poems and wants to ban me for some reason that's his prerogative. But I do get really pissed at the midwits around here pontificating to me about how I've violated some ancient rule of decorum. It's very school-marmish behavior from a bunch of Gen X guys talking about boobs.
Posted by: the lower depths ====== More a split I think of Boomers and X. Probably more Gen X among daywalkers and more Boomers at night. But that is just a guess. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 04:02 PM (E4rtv) 150
you'd think dems would think most trump supporters are the people too dumb to figure out how to get an id card
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 27, 2026 04:02 PM (CWTWj) 151
I used Blade's method to post this at 1:25PM EDST on Monday, July 27 to show how easy it is to get a "First!". I didn't even subject you to a poem.
Posted by: the lower depths at July 27, 2026 01:26 PM (Yh7zv) I'm using Sponge's method to post this at 4:02PM EDST on Monday, July 27 to show how easy it is to get a "First!". Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 27, 2026 04:02 PM (ExV1e) 152
133 Can we stop with the 'first ' shit? It's juvenile and embarrassing to the blog
Posted by: Sentinel at July 27, 2026 03:59 PM ++++++ Now do boobs. Posted by: hahahaha at July 27, 2026 04:02 PM (2Ez/1) 153
As hilarious as it is to see centered comments, I do find them also very annoying to read that way.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2026 04:01 PM (FZ29D) Do you have access to the ewok signal by chance ?? Posted by: runner at July 27, 2026 04:02 PM (GD0B3) 154
re 152: no
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 27, 2026 04:03 PM (CWTWj) Posted by: Joey Ramone at July 27, 2026 04:03 PM (JM9I6) 156
Trump is powerless against Thune. You hate to see it, but it's true.
Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2026 03:39 PM (ZxPkt) What power do you imagine that any President has against a Senator? Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 27, 2026 04:03 PM (ExV1e) 157
153 The news of the day is going to give me an aneurism. I'm out.
Posted by: InZona ===== The only way to survive the horrors of modern living is to point and laugh at them. Democrats--point and laugh Judges--point and laugh GOPe--point and laugh. Ewok Busty Lesbian Pron--point and laugh. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 04:04 PM (E4rtv) 158
There should just be something lie defunding federal highway funds if you don't pass voter ID in your state.
That's how they made the drinking age 21. I think Louisiana was the one holdout. Posted by: Leupold at July 27, 2026 04:01 PM (eIzlH) _____ Correct, but Louisiana eventually relented. It's been 21 there for a while now. Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 27, 2026 04:04 PM (iFTx/) 159
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer endorsed U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens for Michigan’s Aug. 4 Democratic U.S. Senate primary this Friday. Stevens faces off against Abdul El-Sayed, former Wayne County health director, in a high-profile race for the seat of Sen. Gary Peters, who is not seeking reelection. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2026 04:04 PM (Cqx++) 160
I am totally not embarrassed by the FIRST ! Stop speaking in my name ! Carry on !!
Posted by: The Blog at July 27, 2026 04:04 PM (GD0B3) 161
Dueling was not necessarily pistols. I think when challenged to a Duel, the individual challenged had the choice of weapon, he could specify swords or whatever. There was quite an involved, elaborate formal aspect to the whole thing.
What it did, despite detractors, it made people really think twice or even three times about publicly impugning someone’s character. Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2026 03:54 PM (Eo+Kz) --- We should have incorporated the Code Duello into the U.S. Constitution... Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2026 04:04 PM (FZ29D) 162
Thune jas joined the Marxists
Rotten bastard Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2026 04:04 PM (Ia/+0) 163
you'd think dems would think most trump supporters are the people too dumb to figure out how to get an id card Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 27, 2026 04:02 PM (CWTWj) --- Yeah, we're so dumb, but they fear that their voters won't be able to figure out how to get ID. There's a survival force on that realization, so they grudgingly realize it. The mode just shifts to "mean". We're stupid, but we're just being "mean" here. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 04:04 PM (Fi81e) 164
Can we stop with the 'first ' shit? It's juvenile and embarrassing to the blog
Posted by: Sentinel at July 27, 2026 03:59 PM (CNPyZ) Juvenile and embarrassing is what this blog is about! Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 27, 2026 04:04 PM (jTgrB) 165
It's very school-marmish behavior from a bunch of Gen X guys talking about boobs.
Posted by: the lower depths at July 27, 2026 04:00 PM (Yh7zv) ===== Their puns suck too. Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2026 04:04 PM (JvZF+) 166
71 More people died from the lockdowns(all causes) than COVID. Probably by a factor of 10 .
Posted by: steevy at July 27, 2026 03:48 PM (YwEeS) At some point, I would like to see a solid analysis of how many alcoholics in recovery were pushed off the wagon by the one-two punch of media doom stress and lack of meetings. How many 'functioning' alcoholics tipped over into non-functioning from the one-two of maximum stress and minimum work? I bet just the number of alcoholics killed by the lockdowns would be infuriating. Posted by: SciVo at July 27, 2026 04:04 PM (Sy6m/) 167
McConnell extends Senate leave & will miss State picnic.
...... Why? They could use a really long extension cord. Or a generator. Posted by: wth at July 27, 2026 04:05 PM (UjdFS) 168
And now the post is live hours later.
Posted by: the lower depths at July 27, 2026 03:35 PM (Yh7zv) And now you are banned. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 27, 2026 04:05 PM (l4RKn) 169
The Paolo desires a woman who is how you say, full and deep throated.
Posted by: The Paolo at July 27, 2026 04:06 PM (wGerL) 170
Where's Mitch???
From Gateway Pundit... Senator Mitch McConnell on Monday released a new ‘proof of life’ photo amid a prolonged absence from the Senate. McConnell posted a photo of himself smiling in a rehab bed next to his wife, Elaine Chao amid a 44-day absence. The latest photo is dated Sunday. Weekend at Mitch's. Sequels suck... Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 27, 2026 04:06 PM (Sco7b) 171
Do the schoolmarms have boobs?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2026 04:06 PM (6ydKt) 172
I never expected anything different.
The GOP knows they can shaft the base until the cows come home. Why? Because there's no downside. If the "the Dems are insane, you have to vote for us!" scam doesn't work, then they will happily hunker down as the minority party, using that as an endless excuse for why they can't pass any meaningful legislation. The only thing that would get these bastards' attention is another J6, only this time for real. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 27, 2026 04:06 PM (qRla/) 173
162 Trump is powerless against Thune. You hate to see it, but it's true.
Posted by: Don Black Not quite. Majority Leaders have been deposed before. Genteely but firmly. And the olde gange of Mitch is doomed as they age out, stroke out, lose out, or fall out. Of all the GOPe types in the House that voted for the shampeachment. One is left Daladao and he is in a fight for his political career in California. Cassidy voted for shampeachment and soon will be former senator. Thune's popularity has dropped like a rock in South Dakota and a former SD governor named Noem just might take a pot shot at reviving her career there. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 04:07 PM (E4rtv) 174
As hilarious as it is to see centered comments, I do find them also very annoying to read that way.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel ________ Good format for haikus. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 27, 2026 04:07 PM (XvL8K) 175
First here on the blog has a storied past and is looked upon as a great accomplishment. Naysayers are mostly ne'er do-wells and malcontents.
Posted by: First In Our Hearts at July 27, 2026 04:07 PM (JM9I6) 176
140 Experts say the so-called Save America Act would prevent millions from casting ballots by imposing onerous documentation requirements.
You mean the "onerous documentation requirements" that are already satisfied by virtually all legitimate voters? Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2026 04:00 PM (OlzlW) _______________________________ Requiring ID and proper documentation is one thing. Enforcing the law when Judges routinely kick Republican observers out of precincts on election day is quite another. We've already seen tidbits of Lefties deciding they are just going to ignore the law, because repercussions have been scarce. Even Judges now ignore laws clarified by higher courts without any push back. I'd suggest that you can pass all the SAVE Acts your heart desires. They will only be followed in red controlled voting districts. Bank on it. Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2026 04:07 PM (dIske) 177
off /
Posted by: runner at July 27, 2026 04:08 PM (GD0B3) 178
Would that we could bring dueling with pistols back to the Senate. Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 27, 2026 03:36 PM (IhL8c) Dueling paper mache puppets. Senators only touch guns when they make campaign commercials to fool the gun-toten' cousin-humping illiterates in their states. Puppets won't cause any damage, but it'll be fun to watch. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 27, 2026 04:08 PM (TS9sJ) 179
CBD has saved us from drifting down the middle of the stream.
Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 04:08 PM (Fi81e) 180
172 I never expected anything different.
The GOP knows they can shaft the base until the cows come home. Why? Because there's no downside. If the "the Dems are insane, you have to vote for us!" scam doesn't work, then they will happily hunker down as the minority party, using that as an endless excuse for why they can't pass any meaningful legislation. The only thing that would get these bastards' attention is another J6, only this time for real. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing ======= Explain the GOP run House's actions then with a slim margin and one traitor, Massie. Empirically, it is not so. Same with Trump winning a border wall closure and the BBB to fund deportations until he is out of office. Progress is slow but moving in the right direction despite the traitors in the Senate GOP caucus. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 04:09 PM (E4rtv) 181
But I do get really pissed at the midwits around here pontificating to me about how I've violated some ancient rule of decorum.
Posted by: the lower depths at July 27, 2026 04:00 PM (Yh7zv) Is your retardation intentional? You didn't violate a "rule of decorum", you fool. You violated a technical rule and flaunted it and some people here took the time to kindly point it out. You don't want kindness, that's good, you're a toughguy. It's noted. Now stick it up your ass. Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 04:09 PM (vE0+H) 182
I'd like to see Thune gone, but didn't they allow a clean vote on SAVE and it was simply voted down?
I think the problem is really a handful of RINOs like Murkowski, Collins, Tillis, etc. And of course every Democrat. Posted by: Leupold at July 27, 2026 04:09 PM (eIzlH) 183
I need one brave senator to call for a reach around while Thune is fucking me in the ass.
Posted by: American Citizen at July 27, 2026 04:09 PM (F1rMs) 184
Because there's no downside. If the "the Dems are insane, you have to vote for us!" scam doesn't work, then they will happily hunker down as the minority party, using that as an endless excuse for why they can't pass any meaningful legislation.
The only thing that would get these bastards' attention is another J6, only this time for real. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 27, 2026 04:06 PM (qRla/) --- I'm convinced the GOPe *wants* to be the minority party. There's no downside for *them.* They get all of the perks of office (including the scraps of $$ that fall their way due to various schemes and scams). They have NONE of the responsibility of governing. They can blame the Dems for all of the woes of the country, but will do NOTHING on their own to advance the interests of the people they represent. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2026 04:09 PM (FZ29D) 185
Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2026 04:07 PM (dIske)
--- I just learned recently that NY State had banned Republican observers by law some years ago. I guess it was "too partisan" or something. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 04:10 PM (Fi81e) Posted by: wth at July 27, 2026 04:10 PM (UjdFS) 187
Should have rolled The Save America Act into the Grand Opening of the Obama Foundation.
Why? Stricter requirements for access. Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 27, 2026 04:10 PM (LL19j) 188
Can we stop with the 'first ' shit? It's juvenile and embarrassing to the blog
Posted by: Sentinel at July 27, 2026 03:59 PM You're not the first to say that. Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2026 04:10 PM (0sNs1) 189
I think there is an easier explanation, Thune is incompetent. Always was.
Posted by: runner at July 27, 2026 04:10 PM (GD0B3) 190
171 Do the schoolmarms have boobs?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2026 04:06 PM (6ydKt Yes, but only the school marm's husband is allowed to ogle. Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2026 04:11 PM (OlzlW) 191
Can we stop with the 'first ' shit? It's juvenile and embarrassing to the blog Posted by: Sentinel at July 27, 2026 03:59 PM (CNPyZ) You're new here, aren't you? Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 27, 2026 04:11 PM (TS9sJ) 192
Can we stop with the 'first ' shit? It's juvenile and embarrassing to the blog
Posted by: Sentinel at July 27, 2026 03:59 PM (CNPyZ) You must be new here. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 27, 2026 04:11 PM (ExV1e) 193
Requiring ID and proper documentation is one thing. Enforcing the law when Judges routinely kick Republican observers out of precincts on election day is quite another. We've already seen tidbits of Lefties deciding they are just going to ignore the law, because repercussions have been scarce. Even Judges now ignore laws clarified by higher courts without any push back.
I'd suggest that you can pass all the SAVE Acts your heart desires. They will only be followed in red controlled voting districts. Bank on it. Posted by: Orson ======= Trump put a shot across their bow that if any of those officials knowingly let illegals vote, then they are criminally liable. That puts a chill in the cheat and they are prosecuting all those illegals that the Dems, GOPe, and the media tell us don't vote even if they are illegally registered. And I think he wins at Scotus on the US Postal Service rules. Scotus is getting tired of the First Circuit making up the law as they go along and their district judges are becoming a nuisance with their endless injunctions despite clear Scotus rulings. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 04:11 PM (E4rtv) 194
I like the “firsts” (if earned the old fashioned Smith-Barney way of hitting the refresh key like a crazed cocaine monkey)
But I like bewb talk even more. I may be 29, but I’m 15 at heart…. Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 27, 2026 04:12 PM (+gA9j) 195
This is treason. Proceed accordingly.
Posted by: Eromero at July 27, 2026 04:12 PM (mQR9Z) 196
Mammaries. They have mammaries.
Posted by: wth The only decent song from the crap musical "Cats". Posted by: Pussy Kat Lounge at July 27, 2026 04:12 PM (JM9I6) 197
First here on the blog has a storied past and is looked upon as a great accomplishment. Naysayers are mostly ne'er do-wells and malcontents.
Posted by: First In Our Hearts It's roots go back to the Mayflower. Posted by: Grudge Harbor at July 27, 2026 04:12 PM (yFLFB) 198
188 Can we stop with the 'first ' shit? It's juvenile and embarrassing to the blog
Posted by: Sentinel at July 27, 2026 03:59 PM You're not the first to say that. Posted by: Duncanthrax ======== I ignore that shit because it gets annoying. Ignorance is bliss sometimes when it doesn't matter who gets First. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 04:13 PM (E4rtv) 199
Can we stop with the 'first ' shit? It's juvenile and embarrassing to the blog
Posted by: Sentinel ...... Says the guy who never got a first. Posted by: wth at July 27, 2026 04:13 PM (UjdFS) 200
184. I'm convinced the GOPe *wants* to be the minority party. There's no downside for *them.* They get all of the perks of office (including the scraps of $$ that fall their way due to various schemes and scams). They have NONE of the responsibility of governing. They can blame the Dems for all of the woes of the country, but will do NOTHING on their own to advance the interests of the people they represent.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel And then the democratic socialists might leave them alone? Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 27, 2026 04:13 PM (LL19j) 201
I'm convinced the GOPe *wants* to be the minority party. There's no downside for *them.* They get all of the perks of office (including the scraps of $$ that fall their way due to various schemes and scams). They have NONE of the responsibility of governing. They can blame the Dems for all of the woes of the country, but will do NOTHING on their own to advance the interests of the people they represent.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2026 04:09 PM It is sad, simply sad, to observe this depth of cynicism in someone of such tender years. Sad! Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2026 04:13 PM (0sNs1) Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 04:13 PM (E4rtv) 203
Just stopping mail in balloting would do wonders. But I dream.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 27, 2026 04:13 PM (n5tGW) 204
I think there is an easier explanation, Thune is incompetent. Always was.
Posted by: runner at July 27, 2026 04:10 PM (GD0B3) --- Incompetent toward your ends. Not DC's. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 04:13 PM (Fi81e) 205
What's the policy on "Sponge!"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2026 04:14 PM (JvZF+) 206
Fighting for Illegals to vote and tje vote fraud puts him.in tje Deep State to me
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2026 04:14 PM (Ia/+0) 207
Civil War era some senator caned another senator into senselessness. Bring that back in style? Which GOP senator could wield a cane effectively? Nominations open for that leadership position….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 27, 2026 04:14 PM (+gA9j) 208
What power do you imagine that any President has against a Senator?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 27, 2026 04:03 PM (ExV1e) I guaran-damn-tee you there is not a single Senator who is utterly clean. If Trump would use the FBI the way any Dem would, he would have Patel make up dossiers of all the crooked financial, sexual and personal skeletons in the closets of assholes like Thune. Then the stick: "Vote and pass the SAVE Act. If you don't, this all gets aired nationally at a POTUS press conference, at the end of which you will be arrested and shipped to GITMO. "And if you think I'm kidding. . .try me." Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 27, 2026 04:14 PM (qRla/) Posted by: Frank Costanza at July 27, 2026 04:15 PM (2Ez/1) 210
151 Do you know what today is? Today is the day Temporary Protected Status ends for Haitians.
First target is Springfield, Ohio. They will no longer be eating the pets of the people who live there. whoa whoa whoa Posted by: JackStraw I'm going to have to put a national injunction on enforcement of that SCOTUS approved order. They didn't embrace the Spirit of Aloha OR the fact the Trump is a racist fascist! Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at July 27, 2026 04:15 PM (VB9q0) 211
What's the policy on "Sponge!"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2026 04:14 PM (JvZF+) --- Ace tolerates him until he quotes Queensrÿche lyrics. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 04:15 PM (Fi81e) 212
I need one brave senator to call for a reach around while Thune is fucking me in the ass.
Posted by: American Citizen Lindsey's not there anymore. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 27, 2026 04:15 PM (BAWkL) 213
>Not quite. Majority Leaders have been deposed before.
---- when that happens, I'll recant, okay? Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2026 04:15 PM (ZxPkt) 214
Stumbling into first is a special thrill, like finding a nickle on the ground, or getting a free glass when you buy a full tank of gasoline.
Posted by: fd at July 27, 2026 04:15 PM (MWfyi) 215
I'm convinced the GOPe *wants* to be the minority party. There's no downside for *them.* They get all of the perks of office The Washington Generals receive a paycheck. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2026 04:15 PM (Cqx++) 216
Naysayers are mostly ne'er do-wells and malcontents.
Posted by: First In Our Hearts at July 27, 2026 04:07 PM So, penguins or penguin-adjacent? Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2026 04:15 PM (0sNs1) 217
Can we stop with the 'first ' shit? It's juvenile and embarrassing to the blog
Posted by: Sentinel at July 27, 2026 03:59 If you think that is embarrassing to the blog, wait until you click on one of Sponge’s “accidental” links! Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2026 04:16 PM (hftzA) 218
I'm so evolved (and also po'd that it is hot and the dog days of summer) that when I am first I don't make a big deal out of it.
In my mind I am always first and don't need a parade in this infernal heat. I'll bet Mitch has a thing or two to say to that Thune creature! I crack myself up. The photoshopped photoshop did crack me up. Elaine, darling, at least change your pose with your shirt. I doubt Mitch can do either. Thune looks like LizardMan and mean. No like. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 27, 2026 04:16 PM (hzuYO) 219
The last time personal violence occurred on the Senate floor was a southern Democrat caning a northern Republican.
https://sniplinks.in/lU3Q0s Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 27, 2026 04:16 PM (jTgrB) 220
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 27, 2026 04:16 PM (hzuYO)
wow ! you covered a lot of ground there, Christy! Posted by: runner at July 27, 2026 04:17 PM (GD0B3) 221
214 Stumbling into first is a special thrill, like finding a nickle on the ground, or getting a free glass when you buy a full tank of gasoline.
Posted by: fd at July 27, 2026 04:15 PM I remember the steak knives. I think it was a Sinclair station. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 27, 2026 04:17 PM (2Ez/1) Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2026 04:18 PM (0sNs1) 223
Being a citizen and at least 18 is required in the Constitution. Can't be enforcing that though.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 27, 2026 04:18 PM (n5tGW) 224
MCGA!! (Make Caning Great Again)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 27, 2026 04:18 PM (yz/88) 225
My favorite schoolmarm: Miss Crabtree from " The Little Rascals" but I did not care about her boobs and have no interest in looking for pictures of them- if such pictures even exist. She seemed like she had a sweet personality with the children, if I remember. Here is a picture of the actress:
https://tinyurl.com/y2x4r66m Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2026 04:18 PM (rHgXV) Posted by: t-bird at July 27, 2026 04:18 PM (hZXic) Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 27, 2026 04:18 PM (VyBeY) 228
....misty, water colored mammaries....
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 27, 2026 04:19 PM (BAWkL) 229
Is it known who started "first"?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 27, 2026 04:19 PM (XvL8K) Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 27, 2026 04:19 PM (Sco7b) 231
203 Just stopping mail in balloting would do wonders. But I dream.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 27, 2026 04:13 PM (n5tGW) I've been going through boxes of old papers. I found some 2004 mail urging voters to apply for their mail-in ballots in Colorado. This is one of the factors in Colorado turning blue. Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2026 04:19 PM (OlzlW) 232
Speaking of Lindsey Graham.
Dr. Drew Pinsky said that in his entire practice he only saw 2 cases of aortic dissection. In the last 5 years, since The Jab, he's seen 12. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 04:19 PM (Fi81e) 233
one day i'll understand the Queensrÿche meme
Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2026 04:19 PM (ZxPkt) 234
229 Is it known who started "first"?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 27, 2026 04:19 PM It is a long and sordid tale involving LGF. Maybe lizard people. Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2026 04:20 PM (hftzA) 235
My love, Ace, posted at 3:33, which (so I have read) is an angel time or something. He's doing important things.
"Seeing 333 is viewed as a sign of alignment, encouragement, and upcoming personal growth." Personally I need all three mentioned above and a jolt of Red Bull, which would probably do me in. It is past my Coke and Advil cure time. GAH Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 27, 2026 04:20 PM (hzuYO) 236
143 120 Lankford isn't just a squish, he's also useless as far as I can tell.
Posted by: RandomDave ====== Looks like the shifty sort that likes to frequent glory holes at truck stops for some rough trade. Then again, so do most of the senators and I think Hirono has experience. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 04:01 PM (E4rtv) I can picture it that she had to switch to politics because she's so dumb, she kept forgetting to get paid. Posted by: SciVo at July 27, 2026 04:20 PM (Sy6m/) 237
I wasn't questioning that part. I was questioning the thought process.
Posted by: ... We have customs here more than rules and that can be frustrating to those not acclimatized. There is a nominal hierarchy and don't be an asshole main rule. Beyond that, it is free to post and no registration with a bunch of interesting people. So, their house, their rules, I try to wipe my feet on the mat. And don't do shit that the cobs nor Ace tell me to stop. Easy enough. I was a mod on a website with actual rules and it was a pita because of infiltrators, online trolls, those trying to sneak in commercials for biz, and so on. Never again so I don't complain when the cobs or Ace do what they do. Their place, their rules. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 04:20 PM (E4rtv) 238
The judge that game Shiloh Hendrixs 200 hours of community service gave another defendant who had kiddie pron on his computer 100 hours of community service.
I went looking for the lefty take on this and its, 'Courts aren't fair MAGAts' And I have to say I am struck by how unseriously the people ranting about "The Epstein Class" consider actual sex crimes against children. Posted by: 18-1 at July 27, 2026 04:21 PM (sKqQm) 239
Ace of Spades
Free of Boob talk since ......? /Stuff we'll never see.... Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 27, 2026 04:19 PM To be fair, I think it's something we're quite likely to see in our lifetimes. As long as the timescale used after 'since' is in minutes. Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2026 04:21 PM (0sNs1) 240
wait, he is feeling the pressure :
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh 18m 🚨 JUST IN: Senate Majority Leader John Thune says he will consider CANCELING AUGUST RECESS based on coming discussions with Mike Lee and Rick Scott, as long as he sees an "outcome" is possible KEEP THE PRESSURE UP 🔥 Reconciliation SAVE America = 50 VOTES + JD “If somebody can show me how we get an outcome, how we get a result, how do we get an answer to this, I'm all for it." "But if we are going to be sitting here in endless quorum calls, I don't know if that's in the best interest.” No excuses. You GET THE RESULT through FIGHTING. h/t Deseret News Posted by: runner at July 27, 2026 04:21 PM (GD0B3) 241
Sometimes, grown men go on the internet and give themselves a ridiculous "hardassed" handle like Skullcrusher. Or Sentinel. Now, *that's* juvenile. It's not Call of Duty, it's just a blog. Simmer down, Master Chief.
Posted by: Whale Biologist at July 27, 2026 04:21 PM (rRwe3) 242
Is it known who started "first"?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 27, 2026 04:19 PM (XvL8K) Adam. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 27, 2026 04:21 PM (ExV1e) 243
I can picture it that she had to switch to politics because she's so dumb, she kept forgetting to get paid.
Posted by: SciVo ====== Spermal amnesia is a thing--they just can't figure out how the air the ads on late night TV. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 04:21 PM (E4rtv) 244
The last time personal violence occurred on the Senate floor was a southern Democrat caning a northern Republican.
https://sniplinks.in/lU3Q0s Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 27, 2026 04:16 PM (jTgrB) --- Not a surprise. The Democratic Party is the party of emotional incontinence. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 04:21 PM (Fi81e) 245
Will the Lindsey Graham procession be tacked on to the end of the John McCain procession? Seems like another lap wouldn't hurt.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 27, 2026 04:21 PM (3oLiU) 246
50 votes ...someone just needs to make the crazies on the R side an offer they cannot refuse
Posted by: runner at July 27, 2026 04:22 PM (GD0B3) 247
I see mitch mcconnell released another "proof of life" photo today.
How many days is it now that has he missed working in the senate for the people of Kentucky? Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 27, 2026 04:22 PM (0N4FZ) 248
Stumbling into first is a special thrill, like finding a nickle on the ground, or getting a free glass when you buy a full tank of gasoline."
Is that like pouring rain on your wedding day? A free ride when you've already paid? Some good advice that you just can't take? Posted by: man at July 27, 2026 04:22 PM (XuXeR) 249
Obama's School Czar wanting to teach firsting to kindergartners.
Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 04:23 PM (vE0+H) 250
Which is worse, the cucks or the traitors?
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 27, 2026 04:23 PM (4NO2D) 251
Yes
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 27, 2026 04:23 PM (VyBeY) 252
Mammaries. They have mammaries.
Posted by: wth The only decent song from the crap musical "Cats". Posted by: Pussy Kat Lounge at July 27, 2026 04:12 PM (JM9I6) This will date me: Bob Hope’s theme song. Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 27, 2026 04:23 PM (jTgrB) 253
To be fair, I think it's something we're quite likely to see in our lifetimes. As long as the timescale used after 'since' is in minutes. Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2026 04:21 PM (0sNs1) When I was a computer consultant in Ohio, we had a package that kept failing. Around 12C, I put up post-its on a board, 12D, 12E....12M. Sadly, they became functional until someone pissed off took them down. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 27, 2026 04:23 PM (Sco7b) 254
248 Stumbling into first is a special thrill, like finding a nickle on the ground, or getting a free glass when you buy a full tank of gasoline."
Is that like pouring rain on your wedding day? A free ride when you've already paid? Some good advice that you just can't take? Posted by: man at July 27 Or a song about irony that doesn’t include anything ironic. Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2026 04:24 PM (hftzA) 255
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 04:11 PM (E4rtv)
Whig, that looks good on paper, but here's the reality. There has a been a fast growing trend of ignoring the law, and that behavior is being sanctioned by local government and sometimes state government. Locations like Seattle and Portland flaunt that approach. The Governor of Minnesota issues pardons based on political spite. Newsom signs laws out of spite (ICE masks et. al). I'm usually leaning on the side of optimism, but on this particular issue we are talking about the continued existance of the Democrat party. Those are the stakes. This is their hill to die on, because there are no other hills. Even some of the lesser subtle Democrat congressional representatives are inadvertantly noting that if the SAVE Act passess and is instituted, they're finished. So, suppose it passes. Now what do they do. Well, they keep it from being enforced, which requires them to dig the hole deeper. They've never had an issue with that endeavor. They've got the entire press corp on their side. And, they'd rather burn it all down than give up power. Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2026 04:24 PM (dIske) 256
I liked Miss Crantree.
Posted by: Eromero at July 27, 2026 04:24 PM (mQR9Z) 257
My favorite schoolmarm: Miss Crabtree from " The Little Rascals" but I did not care about her boobs
....... I bet Buckwheat did. Posted by: wth at July 27, 2026 04:24 PM (UjdFS) 258
one day i'll understand the Queensrÿche meme
Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2026 04:19 PM You have started the journey, Grasshopper, since you spell it correctly with the ÿ. Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2026 04:24 PM (0sNs1) 259
Is it known who started "first"?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 27, 2026 04:19 PM (XvL8K) Adam. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 27, 2026 04:21 PM Stand back! I don't know how big this thing gets! Posted by: Adam at July 27, 2026 04:24 PM (4NO2D) 260
219 The last time personal violence occurred on the Senate floor was a southern Democrat caning a northern Republican.
https://sniplinks.in/lU3Q0s Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit A little afterwards, on Feb 28th, 1890, Charles Kincaid, a newspaper correspondent, fatally shot former Congressman William Taulbee of Kentucky. The two men had a volatile history which began in 1887 when Kincaid wrote a story implicating Taulbee in an extramarital affair. Occurred on the House steps to the press gallery just outside the chamber, and the bloodstains in the marble are still present faintly today. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 04:25 PM (E4rtv) Posted by: man at July 27, 2026 04:25 PM (XuXeR) 262
They can sit in the senate with their thumbs up their butts for all I care. As long as their vacation plans are ruined. F'ing entitled children.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 27, 2026 04:25 PM (n5tGW) 263
It is sad, simply sad, to observe this depth of cynicism in someone of such tender years. Sad!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2026 04:13 PM (0sNs1) --- I'd be happy--thrilled even--to be proven wrong. I think there are some representatives who do want to move us in a better direction. Unfortunately, they have to contend with the inertia of the established institution that has grown far too comfortable over the decades with the status quo. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2026 04:25 PM (FZ29D) Posted by: t-bird at July 27, 2026 04:25 PM (hZXic) 265
Wouldn't take many people in S. Dakota to primary his sorry ass.
Posted by: Rapid Shitty at July 27, 2026 04:26 PM (qUkBO) 266
247 I see mitch mcconnell released another "proof of life" photo today.
AI is getting better and better! Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 27, 2026 04:26 PM (jTgrB) 267
Tousi on his way to Florida escaping satanic UK.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 27, 2026 04:26 PM (n5tGW) 268
261 Or a song about irony that doesn’t include anything ironic."
Isn't that ironic? Posted by: man at July 27, 2026 04 Don’t ya think? Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2026 04:27 PM (hftzA) 269
Adam did in fact take the first shit. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 04:27 PM (Fi81e) 270
My favorite schoolmarm: Miss Crabtree from " The Little Rascals" but I did not care about her boobs
....... I bet Buckwheat did. Posted by: wth Boodies is o'tay! Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 27, 2026 04:27 PM (BAWkL) 271
The rules are the idle whims of the Ewok King and his cohort of cobs er I mean courtiers to the Furry Throne. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 03:58 PM (E4rtv) *sings* In the Court of the Ewok King! Aaaaah-aah-aah-aaaaaah-aah-aah *ascending chords on mellotron* Aaaaah-aah-aah-aaaaaah-aah-aah! ... ... Posted by: naturalfake at July 27, 2026 04:28 PM (iJfKG) 272
Whig, that looks good on paper, but here's the reality. There has a been a fast growing trend of ignoring the law, and that behavior is being sanctioned by local government and sometimes state government. Locations like Seattle and Portland flaunt that approach. The Governor of Minnesota issues pardons based on political spite. Newsom signs laws out of spite (ICE masks et. al).
So, suppose it passes. Now what do they do. Well, they keep it from being enforced, which requires them to dig the hole deeper. They've never had an issue with that endeavor. They've got the entire press corp on their side. And, they'd rather burn it all down than give up power. Posted by: Orson It continues because Scotus allows it to continue as do cowardly GOP governors in some states like Georgia. I don't think though they ever had someone as tenacious as Trump after their ass either. They took a shot at the king (several actually) and missed making him know for that they have to be taken down for himself and his family to live. Trump ain't GWB nor the pestilent GHWB, not even Reagan, he is out for blood and the WH Correspondent's Dinner indicates that. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 04:28 PM (E4rtv) 273
I'm thinking Sentinel had a chance to get a first but while he was thinking of something witty somebody else took it.
Posted by: fd at July 27, 2026 04:28 PM (MWfyi) Posted by: toby928(c) at July 27, 2026 04:28 PM (4NO2D) 275
Or a song about irony that doesn’t include anything ironic."
Isn't that ironic? Posted by: man at July 27, 2026 04 Don’t ya think? Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2026 04:27 PM (hftzA) --- It's like rain on your wedding day... Or something more ironic! Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 04:28 PM (Fi81e) 276
260 219 The last time personal violence occurred on the Senate floor was a southern Democrat caning a northern Republican.
https://sniplinks.in/lU3Q0s Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit I'm going to have to take issue with that: Bill Ayers was a leader of the Weather Underground, a radical group that claimed responsibility for the March 1, 1971, bombing of the U.S. Capitol to protest the Laos invasion. Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2026 04:29 PM (dIske) 277
In the Court of the Ewok King!
Aaaaah-aah-aah-aaaaaah-aah-aah *ascending chords on mellotron* Aaaaah-aah-aah-aaaaaah-aah-aah! ... ... Posted by: naturalfake ======= Nice play on King Crimson. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 04:29 PM (E4rtv) 278
In the last 5 years, since The Jab, he's seen 12.
Ah, yes. Wednesday is going to be an epic day for useless, formless, worthless bloviation. I can't say what I wish would happen to Fauci, but I will say I wish Luigi Mangione had a day pass. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 27, 2026 04:29 PM (qRla/) 279
>“If somebody can show me how we get an outcome, how we get a result, how do we get an answer to this, I'm all for it."
"But if we are going to be sitting here in endless quorum calls, I don't know if that's in the best interest.” ------ so is Thune saying his job is too hard? Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2026 04:29 PM (ZxPkt) Posted by: Alanis Morissette at July 27, 2026 04:30 PM (l4RKn) 281
Mr so and so was afraid to fly
........ And as the plane crashed down he thought well isn't this nice. ----------- The ironic thing there is he was afraid of flying. He should have been afraid of crashing. Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 04:30 PM (vE0+H) 282
The Black Queen chants the funeral march, the cracked brass bells will ring
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 27, 2026 04:30 PM (4NO2D) 283
Adam did in fact take the first shit.
Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 04:27 PM So, the first thing he said to Eve wasn't "First!" or "Madam, I'm Adam", but rather "Gotta go!"? Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2026 04:30 PM (0sNs1) Posted by: guy at the back of the line at July 27, 2026 04:30 PM (UjdFS) 285
I agree with Sen. Kennedy from LA. We need to go back to having Election day, not election month. From "Legal Insurrection" site:
https://tinyurl.com/jx4jfh4t Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2026 04:30 PM (W90Ou) 286
“If somebody can show me how we get an outcome, how we get a result, how do we get an answer to this, I'm all for it."
One Word: Talking Filibuster. Posted by: toby928(c) at July 27, 2026 04:31 PM (4NO2D) 287
Trump has proven he can primary any GOP senator he wants, but for Thune it would have to wait until 2028.
Posted by: Commodore at July 27, 2026 04:31 PM (V6W16) 288
I want Congress not to be paid til the SAVE Act is voted on. Unfortunately President Trump can't do this due to the Constitution.
Oddly, on October 29, 2025, Sentator Lindsey Graham (dead...why didn't he get a state funeral?) introduced this during a shut down vs vote...with their salaries going towards federal debt. It did not pass, of course, because it takes 2/3 to vote and they are all worthless douchebags. I want them to stay there til the vote of yay or nay. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 27, 2026 04:31 PM (hzuYO) 289
>You have started the journey, Grasshopper, since you spell it correctly with the ÿ.
Posted by: Duncanthrax ----- ctrl c Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2026 04:31 PM (ZxPkt) 290
I think there is an easier explanation, Thune is incompetent. Always was.
——- Never ascribe to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malevolence. Posted by: Corrected For Accuracy at July 27, 2026 04:32 PM (Eo+Kz) Posted by: wth at July 27, 2026 04:32 PM (UjdFS) Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 27, 2026 04:32 PM (LL19j) 293
The Black Queen chants the funeral march, the cracked brass bells will ring
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 27, 2026 04:30 PM (4NO2D) --- Confusion, will be my epitaph. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 04:32 PM (Fi81e) 294
If we make it, we can all sit back and laugh.
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 27, 2026 04:33 PM (4NO2D) 295
Would have been funny if there was a counted list of First!s like there is with comments. I think I have 2 accidently in the whole AoS epoch.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 27, 2026 04:33 PM (n5tGW) 296
Never ascribe to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malevolence.
Posted by: Corrected For Accuracy at July 27, 2026 04:32 PM (Eo+Kz) In Thune's case it is probably both. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 27, 2026 04:33 PM (l4RKn) 297
Yeah, but I took the first bite.
Posted by: Eve at July 27, 2026 04:34 PM (2Ez/1) 298
Thune is McConnell’s cabana boy.
Posted by: Chaos at July 27, 2026 04:34 PM (Xe8e7) 299
It continues because Scotus allows it to continue as do cowardly GOP governors in some states like Georgia. I don't think though they ever had someone as tenacious as Trump after their ass either.
They took a shot at the king (several actually) and missed making him know for that they have to be taken down for himself and his family to live. Trump ain't GWB nor the pestilent GHWB, not even Reagan, he is out for blood and the WH Correspondent's Dinner indicates that. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 04:28 PM (E4rtv) The governor of Georgia isn’t cowardly; he’s corrupt. Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 27, 2026 04:34 PM (jTgrB) 300
Trump ain't GWB nor the pestilent GHWB, not even Reagan, he is out for blood and the WH Correspondent's Dinner indicates that.
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 04:28 PM (E4rtv) I am curious as to how you come to that conclusion, whig. From what I see, all Trump did was insult them and call them out for being democrat shills. If he really were 'out for blood,' why aren't press passes pulled in perpetuity? Why aren't sedition and incitement charges being filed against CNN or the NYT? Why aren't the MFM barred from the White House and told that if they so even cast as much as a shadow on the grounds, they will be met with gunfire? IMO, Trump talks about the MFM being the enemy of the people, but he treats them like simpleminded chuckleheads who just need a little slapping around. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 27, 2026 04:34 PM (qRla/) 301
Men being men his first words were probably Nice Rack!
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 27, 2026 04:34 PM (n5tGW) 302
267 Tousi on his way to Florida escaping satanic UK.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 27, 2026 04:26 PM (n5tGW) Thankful. I love him in a platonically. My husband knows. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 27, 2026 04:34 PM (hzuYO) 303
129 Can we stop with the 'first ' shit?
First gay ....... First black ....... First womyn ...... First Transexual ...... I wouldn't mind seeing that crap going away.... Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 27, 2026 04:35 PM (Sco7b) 304
>>My love, Ace, posted at 3:33, which (so I have read) is an angel time or something. He's doing important things.
Attending to his special purpose. Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 04:35 PM (viF8m) 305
I'm going to have to take issue with that:
Bill Ayers was a leader of the Weather Underground, a radical group that claimed responsibility for the March 1, 1971, bombing of the U.S. Capitol to protest the Laos invasion. Posted by: Orson ________ And the Puerto Rican terrorists shooting the place up in the 50s. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 27, 2026 04:35 PM (XvL8K) 306
282 The Black Queen chants the funeral march, the cracked brass bells will ring
Posted by: toby928(c) Christmas in July is over? Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 27, 2026 04:35 PM (LL19j) 307
Never ascribe to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malevolence.
Posted by: Corrected For Accuracy at July 27, 2026 04:32 PM (Eo+Kz) In Thune's case it is probably both. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 27, 2026 04:33 PM (l4RKn) Never ascribe to malevolence that which is adequately explained by bribery and Chinese yuan. Posted by: naturalfake at July 27, 2026 04:35 PM (iJfKG) 308
129 Can we stop with the 'first ' shit? It's juvenile and embarrassing to the blog
Posted by: Sentinel at July 27, 2026 03:59 PM (CNPyZ) ----- I'd sooner do away with every thread containing a 50-post back-and-forth between the same 4-5 posters about movies that nobody should give a shit about. It's far more distracting than scrolling past the first three posts. Posted by: ballistic at July 27, 2026 04:36 PM (oqH4h) 309
Would it make any difference if people not from his state called Thune's office about the SAVE act ,or he's simply bought out and doesn't care?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2026 04:36 PM (XvETL) 310
Please end the filibuster! In 2028, we can finally repeal the second amendment and curse every American with health care! Boo!!
Posted by: Sid at July 27, 2026 04:36 PM (HMi2u) 311
>>If he really were 'out for blood,' why aren't press passes pulled in perpetuity?
He did that with Acosta in his first term. Judge overturned it in a day. He's doing a much better job just discrediting them like is happening right now with Fauci. Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 04:37 PM (viF8m) 312
It's like resident Karens are asking to be invited to go to HotAir. Permanently.
Posted by: runner at July 27, 2026 04:37 PM (GD0B3) 313
Never ascribe to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malevolence.
Posted by: Corrected For Accuracy at July 27, 2026 04:32 PM (Eo+Kz) --- False dichotomy! Posted by: Corruption at July 27, 2026 04:37 PM (Fi81e) 314
My theory is that Thune knows there are not enough Republicans who will vote for the SAVE act to pass if the filibuster is obviated one way or other.
If Thune said okay fine, and he gets over the filibuster and still can't get 50 votes on the line that is dotted? In his mind that is worse than taking the blame for not allowing the vote. Posted by: blaster at July 27, 2026 04:37 PM (xhfG9) 315
How many days is it now that has he missed working in the senate for the people of Kentucky?
Posted by: Mister Scott MIA for 11 weeks tomorrow, but 8 4-day Senate weeks. Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2026 04:38 PM (diia5) 316
292 129 Can we stop with the 'first ' shit?
No. in the well-known documentary "tenchi gxp", pirates frustrated by the hero's ability to capture them due to his amazing unluckiness decide to counter him by building an extremely lucky spaceship. however, the only lucky word available for use as a name is "unko", which is japanese for "baby's lucky first shit." Posted by: anachronda at July 27, 2026 04:38 PM (sGtp+) 317
I did not know that Save America was deep throated, but when DJT puts it that way it makes sense!
Posted by: scottst at July 27, 2026 04:38 PM (DCCl0) 318
"I'd sooner do away with every thread containing a 50-post back-and-forth between the same 4-5 posters about movies that nobody should give a shit about."
----- It's as if I don't exist! Posted by: IMDB at July 27, 2026 04:39 PM (2Ez/1) 319
Y' know how difficult it is for me to control my foaming-at-the-mouth vituperative RAGE with these no-count mofos? I hate the Communists, but dayyyyum!, I'm about to reach the same level of disgust and outrage with these effin' 'depublicans'.
Posted by: Dr_No at July 27, 2026 04:39 PM (ayRl+) 320
I'm going to have to put a national injunction on enforcement of that SCOTUS approved order. They didn't embrace the Spirit of Aloha OR the fact the Trump is a racist fascist! Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at July 27, 2026 04:15 PM (VB9q0) When I was in Junior high school, I embraced the Spirit of Aloha on Kill Haole Day by hiding in the school library to avoid being beaten to a pulp by Hawaiian gangs and thrown off the second story balcony. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 27, 2026 04:39 PM (TS9sJ) 321
I want a Republican Harry Reid. There.
Posted by: runner at July 27, 2026 04:39 PM (GD0B3) 322
Education for Sid:
An amendment to repeal an existing one can be proposed in one of two ways: either by a two-thirds vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, or by a constitutional convention called by Congress upon the application of two-thirds of state legislatures (currently 34 states). The President has no role in this proposal process, as Article V does not involve the executive branch. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 27, 2026 04:39 PM (n5tGW) 323
The revolt is growing.
>>@EricLDaugh >>🚨 NOW: Sen. BILL HAGERTY (R-TN) just became the 7TH GOP senator vowing to SKIP August recess with Mike Lee, and stay in DC to pass the SAVE America Act >>The list of support is RAPIDLY growing! Keep the pressure up 🔥 >>HAGERTY: "I stand ready to stay in Washington through the August recess—as long as it takes—to get the SAVE America Act passed." >>Thank you, @SenatorHagerty! Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 04:39 PM (viF8m) 324
Christmas in July is over?
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 27, 2026 04:35 PM (LL19j) We've moved on to Festivus in July. It's now time for the Airing of Grievances. I got a lotta problems with you people, and now you're going to hear about it! Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2026 04:40 PM (6ydKt) 325
Ayers oh so conveniently escaped Justice on some sort of queer technicality. Like he had immunity, almost. Almost. Bernadine Dohrn praised the Sharon Tate slaughter, stating it was “Groovy!” that she was stabbed with a fork, among other … things. These people are monsters, make no mistake. They might have been outliers in 1969 but they are common now.
Ayers had a NYT hagiographic piece written in the New York Times, contemptuously standing on the American flag. It was only below the fold, because it was published 11 September 2001; it always seemed to me that there is most definitely serendipity, but it has a much darker side component as well. Posted by: Corrected For Accuracy at July 27, 2026 04:40 PM (Eo+Kz) 326
I'm going to have to take issue with that:
Bill Ayers was a leader of the Weather Underground, a radical group that claimed responsibility for the March 1, 1971, bombing of the U.S. Capitol to protest the Laos invasion. Posted by: Orson ________ And the Puerto Rican terrorists shooting the place up in the 50s. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 27, 2026 04:35 PM (XvL8K) Depends on your definition of “personal” violence. Caning is definitely personal. Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 27, 2026 04:40 PM (jTgrB) Posted by: Sustained! at July 27, 2026 04:41 PM (2Ez/1) 328
I'd sooner do away with every thread containing a 50-post back-and-forth between the same 4-5 posters about movies that nobody should give a shit about.
**hides DVD of Kiki's Delivery Service** Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 27, 2026 04:41 PM (qRla/) 329
Please end the filibuster! In 2028, we can finally repeal the second amendment and curse every American with health care! Boo!!
Posted by: Sid at July 27, 2026 04:36 PM (HMi2u) ---- Now I got to see a Sid post that hasn't been "modified" for comedic ends. Man, what a maroon! Is this guy real, or is it a sock? Repeal the constitution with just a majority vote . Tell me you are stupid without telling me you are stupid. Or as a more pithy commentor puts it: Shut up, dunce! Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 27, 2026 04:41 PM (zafwz) 330
>>I want a Republican Harry Reid. There.
Ironically, you might already have one. Thune isn't weak, he answers to different bosses than us. Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 04:41 PM (viF8m) 331
In Thune's case it is probably both.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 27, 2026 04:33 PM (l4RKn) Malcompelence Posted by: ... at July 27, 2026 04:41 PM (vE0+H) 332
Only at AOSHQ can you come to find commentators conversing about a school marm's 100 year old tits.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 27, 2026 04:41 PM (3oLiU) 333
And the Puerto Rican terrorists shooting the place up in the 50s.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba The patched bullet holes are still in the bill manager's desk on the House side. No one died fortunately in that shooting. Same group tried to assassinate Harry Truman when he was at Blair House (White House was undergoing renovations). There is a placque outside Blair House on the street honoring Leslie Coffelt, a uniformed Secret Service agent killed the the terrorists but not before getting off some shots at them until help arrived. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 04:42 PM (E4rtv) 334
The suggestion box is down the hall on the left.
Posted by: wth at July 27, 2026 04:42 PM (UjdFS) 335
332 Only at AOSHQ can you come to find commentators conversing about a school marm's 100 year old tits.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 27, 2026 04:41 PM ==== I never taught school. Posted by: Old Lady Pelosi at July 27, 2026 04:43 PM (2Ez/1) 336
@ 129 Can we stop with the 'first ' shit? It's juvenile and embarrassing to the blog
Posted by: Sentinel at July 27, 2026 03:59 PM (CNPyZ) _____________________________________ Don't get upset about it … one day it'll be your turn - if you happen to be: FIRST! Posted by: Dr_No at July 27, 2026 04:43 PM (ayRl+) 337
I'd sooner do away with every thread containing a 50-post back-and-forth between the same 4-5 posters about movies that nobody should give a shit about.
**hides DVD of Kiki's Delivery Service** Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 27, 2026 04:41 PM (qRla/) Kiki's Delivery Service has a great action sequence without music, just environmental sounds and breathing. It's awesome. Miyazaki's used the same method in other movies but I believe that was the first time. 😀 Posted by: naturalfake at July 27, 2026 04:44 PM (iJfKG) 338
>>Same group tried to assassinate Harry Truman when he was at Blair House (White House was undergoing renovations). There is a placque outside Blair House on the street honoring Leslie Coffelt, a uniformed Secret Service agent killed the the terrorists but not before getting off some shots at them until help arrived.
Same group ambushed a Navy van in PR, killed and injured a bunch of sailors. And now we know they have been sponsored by Cuba. Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2026 04:44 PM (viF8m) 339
322 Education for Sid:
An amendment to repeal an existing one can be proposed in one of two ways: either by a two-thirds vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, or by a constitutional convention called by Congress upon the application of two-thirds of state legislatures (currently 34 states). The President has no role in this proposal process, as Article V does not involve the executive branch. Posted by: Guy Mohawk DSA types ignore the Constitution and promote the General Will type of idiocies. Just like their degenerate predecessors of Rousseau and Marx. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 04:44 PM (E4rtv) 340
312 It's like resident Karens are asking to be invited to go to HotAir. Permanently.
Posted by: runner at July 27, 2026 04:37 PM (GD0B3) ********************** This is about me, isn't it? I don't have the hairstyle to be a Karen. Nor the shrill voice. I have seen them on videos and two of my SIL's qualify. I need to tear myself away so I won't feel bad for doing a big nothing today. I'd prefer to lie around and whine in my head (my dude asked me nicely not to last week, so he whines about the heat now). Things got so bad last week I started watching The Gilmore Girls on my laptop until he caught me. Talk about whining! I told him I was watching to see what they wore (which is true). I hate everyone but Luke, by the way and decided last night I'd had enough! Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 27, 2026 04:44 PM (hzuYO) 341
There be noodage.
Posted by: Noodist at July 27, 2026 04:44 PM (2Ez/1) 342
With my Frequent Flyer Elite Pass, I could easily sneak into the First Post, but I have not yet chosen to use it.
I'm waiting for the "Graham Platner had carnal relations with a large flirtaious oyster to show dominance only to learn that some old Chinese lady hocked a lugi on the sidewalk, as they are want to do" thread. Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2026 04:44 PM (dIske) 343
Sid is either a put-on, or an illustration of Poe's Law. '
It's so funny hearing people who are barely starting to gain traction in ONE of the TWO main parties talking about changes that would take an AMENDMENT, 2/3rds of the Congress and 3/4 of the states! You kinda shake your head at the level of delusion that takes. Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2026 04:45 PM (Fi81e) 344
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 27, 2026 04:44 PM (hzuYO)
No, young lady, you are an asset ! Posted by: runner at July 27, 2026 04:45 PM (GD0B3) 345
Nood
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 27, 2026 04:45 PM (N1DT3) 346
And now we know they have been sponsored by Cuba.
Posted by: JackStraw ====== Later onb possibly. The House shooting and Truman's attempted assassination occurred during the early 50's Over Puerto Rican independence. Castro was still a punk in the wilderness then. Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 04:46 PM (E4rtv) 347
Something is afoot.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 27, 2026 04:47 PM (BAWkL) 348
such pictures even exist. She seemed like she had a sweet personality with the children, if I remember. Here is a picture of the actress:
https://tinyurl.com/y2x4r66m Posted by: FenelonSpoke June Marlowe (Miss Crabtree) retired from acting right after playing that part. She married a businessman and never gave Hollywood a second look. Posted by: Chubbsie-Ubbsie at July 27, 2026 04:47 PM (JM9I6) 349
Repeal the constitution with just a majority vote . Tell me you are stupid without telling me you are stupid. Or as a more pithy commentor puts it: Shut up, dunce! Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 27, 2026 04:41 PM (zafwz) On the other hand, Sid appears to have conceded the fact that the hated 2nd Amendment can only be repealed or amended by Constitutional processes... even if he's citing the ones that don't apply. How about that? A commie cocksucker proposing a Constitutional process, a monstrously evil one to be sure. Amazing. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 27, 2026 04:48 PM (TS9sJ) 350
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Repeal the constitution with just a majority vote .
Tell me you are stupid without telling me you are stupid. Or as a more pithy commentor puts it: Shut up, dunce! Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 27, 2026 04:41 PM A enlarged and packed Supreme Court can essentially rule the 2nd Amendment a nullity. Posted by: toby928(c) at July 27, 2026 04:53 PM (4NO2D) 352
Trump ain't GWB nor the pestilent GHWB, not even Reagan, he is out for blood and the WH Correspondent's Dinner indicates that.
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2026 04:28 PM (E4rtv) I am curious as to how you come to that conclusion, whig. From what I see, all Trump did was insult them and call them out for being democrat shills. If he really were 'out for blood,' why aren't press passes pulled in perpetuity? Why aren't sedition and incitement charges being filed against CNN or the NYT? Why aren't the MFM barred from the White House and told that if they so even cast as much as a shadow on the grounds, they will be met with gunfire? IMO, Trump talks about the MFM being the enemy of the people, but he treats them like simpleminded chuckleheads who just need a little slapping around. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 27, 2026 04:34 PM (qRla/) he tried pulling a press pass, it was annulled by a judge to let Jim Acosta back in. He should just accredit more web sites and such to drown out the old line press and make them wait if they don't show up on time. Posted by: Oldcat at July 27, 2026 05:00 PM (uhVAy) 353
I'm very curious as to why the President of the Senate -- guy named Vance, you might have seen his memes -- both would allow a Senate recess, and particularly one with pro forma sessions preventing President Trump from making recess appointments.
He Constitutionally has the title that he *presides* over the body. Yet he's let them walk over Trump for the last eighteen months. Posted by: Philip Nolan at July 27, 2026 05:06 PM (1kQia) 354
Getting worried about Vance, started out well but seems to be slipping to the other side
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2026 05:09 PM (Ia/+0) 355
john needs one of the other senators to beat the hit out of him, i nominate Maquain out of oklahome
Posted by: jonny biface at July 27, 2026 05:49 PM (ufXiF) 356
Thanks for posting this Ace. I am a midwestern man and Thune is the anti-midwestern man. What a pussy.
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