The Morning Report — 7/ 1 /26Daily Tech News 1 July 2026Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - June 30, 2026 [Doof]Tuesday CafeQuick HitsOUT: Media Propaganda That Democrats Aren't Socialists, Just Liberals<br>IN: New Media Propaganda That Democrats Aren't Communists, Just SocialistsClaim: Michelle Obama Has Blocked Cheryl Hines From Appearing on Larry David's New Show, Because She's RFKJr.'s WifeAnother Mamdani-Backed Muslim Wins Democrat Primary for State Senator; Claims That "Racism, Capitalism, White Supremacy, and Islamophobia" "Manifested" in 9/11Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Boys in Girls SportsRo Khanna Promises to Fight the Oligarchs, Tax the Rich, and Imprison "the Epstein Class" While Driving a $190,000 Range Rover, Owning Family Golf Courses, and Taking Elevators In His MansionOf Course: The Five Liberal Supreme Court Justices (Including Liberals Roberts and Coney-Barrett) Decide the 14th Amendment Can Go Blow, Anyone Born in the US is a US CitizenThe Morning RantMid-Morning Art ThreadThe Morning Report — 6/ 30 /26Daily Tech News 30 June 2026Monday Overnight Open Thread - June 29, 2026 [scampydog]Hot Monday CafeQuick HitsSupreme Court May Decide Birthright Citizenship Case This Week; RNC Sues Colorado Over Allowing Birth Tourism Foreigners Who Never Even Set Foot in Colorado to Vote ThereAnother (Expected) Deadly Heat Wave Hits Europe, With Some Beginning to Doubt the Green Left's Dogmatic Opposition to Air Conditioning

The Morning Report — 7/ 1 /26

Good morning kids. Of course the top story is the utterly devastating if not sadly unsurprising SCOTUS decision upholding the complete bastardization of the 14th Amendment. If I want to be charitable I'd say that Roberts' and Barrett's lives were directly threatened by the usual Democrat/Leftist terrorists. Either that or they were paid off from the same funders of the aforementioned terrorists. But screw that as their duty is to uphold and defend the Constitution, same as it always has been throughout their careers as jurists. It may just be that they made a purely political decision to not rock the boat and let the cancerous rot that has been destroying this nation and its institutions for much of its history, including the very institution that they are a part of. When President Trump first announced that he was issuing an executive order banning birthright citizenship I had a feeling of dread that it would not survive the ultimate challenge at SCOTUS, and foolishly as time went on, I still held out hope that sanity would prevail. So much for that delusion, The great Clarence Thomas' brilliant dissent notwithstanding.

“The Court today takes the extraordinary step of holding facially unconstitutional the President’s Order excluding from citizenship the children of foreign temporary visitors and illegal aliens,” Thomas writes:
In doing so, the Court adds to the sad history of the Fourteenth Amendment, which was designed and understood to secure equal rights for the freed blacks but has instead been repurposed for political projects that the Reconstruction Congress did not support. Because many potential applications of the President’s Order are consistent with the original public meaning of the Citizenship Clause, I respectfully dissent. [Emphasis added]

Of course, one does not have to be one of if not America's greatest jurists and legal minds ever to serve in any court to know how completely insane this decision was. All one has to do is know the most rudimentary facts about how and why the 14th Amendment was enacted as well as to be able, and willing, to read and understand plain English What happened yesterday was yet another jackboot to the head of America as founded, as it lays prostrate on the ground after decades of curb-stomping by the Democrats and those whose complicity and inaction allow them to get away with it.

And the President nailed it with this observation:

“I would like to congratulate President Xi, and the Great Country of China, on their massive Birthright Citizenship WIN!” Trump declared via his Truth Social platform.
The court’s decision protects, for now, the practice of “birth tourism,” which is used by many wealthy Chinese nationals who travel to the United States to give birth to their children.

And if I still want to engage in delusion, there are a few Pollyannas out there as well:

Vice President JD Vance argued Tuesday that there is a “big silver lining” in the divided Supreme Court ruling striking down President Trump’s executive order outlawing birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants and tourists.
“I know a lot of conservatives, Laura, certainly the people that I’m talking to, that you’re talking to, are extremely disappointed in this, but I do actually think there’s a really big silver lining here, and that’s the simple fact that a lot of legal experts expected this case to go the wrong direction by seven to two, or even eight to one,” Vance said in an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham.
“The fact that this case was a 5-to-4 decision effectively means that the concept of birthright citizenship, which is an absurdity to the 14th Amendment, that concept is hanging by a thread,” the vice president argued during his appearance on “The Ingraham Angle.”
. . . “What I take from [the ruling] is, yes, we’ve got to fix the immigration system even more, we have to be even more aware of who’s coming into our country to make sure that they’re not benefiting from this atrocious Supreme Court ruling,” Vance said, adding, “but it also means that we have to keep fighting … because we actually have an opportunity to reverse this decision.”
The vice president further argued that the high court’s “major, major mistake” might invite pregnant foreign nationals “to come here quite literally on a vacation, give birth, and then all of a sudden the child and their family have the full benefits of American citizenship.”
“It’s just a preposterous ruling, and the absurdity of that outcome suggests why the Supreme Court should have went the other way.”

Yeah, we have an opportunity to reverse this? I'm sure future POTUS Titty Caca Ocasio Cortez will get right on that by packing the court with 19 or more Maoists! 250 years was a good run, I guess. If we make it to 500 or even 1,000 we'll probably be where England is, the irony of course is that that is the nation we rebelled against in the first place.

So, at what point do we take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?
Or do we doom ourselvelves forever to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune unto death?

Have a good day,

"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

The decision was 6 to 3 against Trump, but Justice Brett Kavanaugh argued that Trump and other politicians can change the rule via legislation.
SCOTUS Affirms Birthright Citizenship, Rejects Trump’s Executive Order
Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Barrett joined the liberals in ruling that children of illegal aliens born on U.S. soil are American citizens under the 14th Amendment.
SCOTUS Says Babies Of Illegal Aliens, CCP Birth Tourists Are US Citizens Because Of Magic Dirt
‘The Court has repurposed the Fourteenth Amendment to protect its own set of preferred rights,’ Justice Thomas wrote.
‘Grotesque Results’ Of Birth Tourism Allow Foreign Invaders To Seize Control Of U.S. From The Inside
“The Supreme Court upheld Birthright Citizenship, which is too bad for our Country, but we can easily make it up in Congress through Legislation, with the support of the President, that has now been determined during this process,” Trump wrote. “No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary!”
Trump Says Birthright Citizenship Ruling ‘Too Bad’ but Lays Out Pathway Forward Through Congress
"Too bad for our country."
Trump Congratulates Xi Jinping On Major Win At SCOTUS
In his dissenting opinion, Thomas writes that “both the Civil Rights Act and the Citizenship Clause guaranteed citizenship to persons born and domiciled in the United States regardless of their race.”
Clarence Thomas on SCOTUS Ruling: 14th Amendment Has Been ‘Repurposed for Political Projects’
The Supreme Court handed the keys of citizenship to anyone with a plane ticket and a due date.
SCOTUS made US citizenship cheaper than a tourist visa—we Americans know how valuable it really is
There is more than one way to skin a cat, after all. The justices say that babies born in our country to illegal aliens and birth tourists are U.S. citizens? Fine. What if these grasping, scofflaw women weren’t allowed into the country in the first place?
President Trump Could End Most Birthright Citizenship With This 1 Simple Trick
It’s counterintuitive, but there’s a cost to solving a political problem: It removes the issue from the public sphere. Because we lost today, the immigration issue is still relevant. And we can still use it to drive voters to the polls.
The Political Upside of Losing the Birthright Citizenship Case
One ruling declared it within the president’s authority to interpret the word “temporary” as the opposite of “permanent” with regard to migrants who have been permitted to live within the U.S. for what is understood to be a finite period. He can order their removal. (Good!) A separate ruling, on the other hand, affirmed automatic American citizenship to babies born to migrants who have illegally entered the country. (Bad!) Yet a third ruling deemed it legal for states to count voter ballots that arrive after Election Day, thus rendering the whole concept of “Election Day” void. (Very bad!)
Supreme Court Makes It Clear. Mass Deportations Are Mandatory To Save America
“The fact that this case was a 5-to-4 decision effectively means that the concept of birthright citizenship, which is an absurdity to the 14th Amendment, that concept is hanging by a thread. . . “What I take from [the ruling] is, yes, we’ve got to fix the immigration system even more, we have to be even more aware of who’s coming into our country to make sure that they’re not benefiting from this atrocious Supreme Court ruling,” Vance said, adding, “but it also means that we have to keep fighting … because we actually have an opportunity to reverse this decision.” (I'm sure future POTUS Titty Caca Cortez will get right on that by packing the court with Maoists! - jjs)
Vance argues there is a ‘big silver lining’ in Supreme Court’s ‘preposterous ruling’ in birthright citizenship case
The Supreme Court ruled the Civil War was fought so that Chinese nationals who have set up birth tourism companies in the United States could have anchor babies.
SCOTUS Says The US Civil War Was Basically About Protecting ChiCom Birth Tourists
THE IRAN CONFLICT, "PEACE DEAL" (aftermath??)
Bold lies can obscure the truth and buy time.
Shattered Ayatollahs Betting on Propaganda Power
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . The U.N... AND HISTORY
IDF Chief Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir “This day reminds us of our overall responsibility and the weight that rests on our shoulders.”
Israel Eliminates Hamas, Islamic Jihad Commanders as Gaza Operation Nears 1000-Day Mark
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
McCarthy was completely correct that communists had infiltrated the U.S. government, and his legacy has been vindicated by later evidence.
McCarthyism Didn’t Go Far Enough To Root Out Filthy Commies, So Now We Have Modern NYC
Populist movements have exposed a deep divide between Western elites and voters—but their biggest challenge may be turning backlash into a lasting governing strategy.
The Grave and Increasingly Obvious Limitations of Populist Politics
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
However, it’s dramatically increased presidential power, something that needs to change quickly if we are to maintain our constitutional system.
The Supreme Court Has Weakened The Regulatory State
Counting non-citizens is only one of several major problems affecting the accuracy of the Census.
Why the US Census needs an accurate count of citizens, not just population
You’d think that people who are constantly fretting about “threats to democracy” would be cheering this decision.
The Supreme Court Restores Balance To The Force
The Department of Housing and Urban Development offers a new path forward on homelessness, but activists demand more of the same.
HUD Rejects Failed “Housing First” Strategy
The Supreme Court has finally brought the administrative state back under elected control.
Humphrey’s Executor Has Been Slaughtered

WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
A small but significant win in the battle against Sharia supremacism.
Canada: Regina, Saskatchewan’s Call to Islamic Prayer on Loudspeakers on Hold After Backlash
A failed notion, false hope, and cynical deception should at last be discarded.
It’s Long Past Time to Give Up the ‘Moderate Muslim’ Fantasies
Demographic eclipse and cultural surrender in post-Christian Europe.
The Waning Of The West
"We have nowhere else to go."
Anni Cyrus Video: “I’m Willing to Die To Stop Islam From Taking Over America.” (what about the Leftists? - jjs)
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS
The rise of the Socialist left in New York is a bad omen for obvious reasons.The radical agenda is uniformly anti-police, pro-criminal, favors wildly expanded government powers over private property and demands punishing taxes on businesses and high-income families to fund its redistribution schemes. If that were all, it would still be a destructive and dangerous movement.
Michael Goodwin: Dems’ destructive agenda has turned them into a Jew-hating cult
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The original NPR item carried the headline, “Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, retires,” and described Alito as a key figure in leading the conservative charge on abortion and other issues.
NPR Retracts False Story Saying Justice Alito Was Retiring: ‘Erroneously Published’

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Jacob Siegel’s brand new book focuses on how rulers and elites use digital tools to calibrate information and control the masses.
The Information State: Its Impact On Freedom
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
“But on the other hand, I have been shocked, not only by my own change of mind, but by … some of my colleagues,” he said. “People who are longtime advocates of globalization and free trade, who are saying, ‘okay Europe needs to do [something]’ … really if you like, it’s national security, it’s market disruption, to just allow something as big as the European auto industry to just be overrun, even if consumers would benefit for a while, it’s not 20 years ago anymore.”
Paul Krugman Suddenly Admits Tariffs May Be ‘Necessary’ After Years Of Globalist Dogma
The approximately nine percent gap between the weakest and strongest market underscores the localized nature of housing costs. While affordability is a key concern for all Americans, it’s evident that markets vary significantly by region, and thus may reflect differences in political priorities. However, this data also suggests that inflation-adjusted housing wealth has now declined for 11 consecutive months, showing that while some areas are becoming less expensive than others, the affordability of housing remains a nationwide issue.
US Home Prices Decline Continues for Third Month
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
LET THEM EAT ICE: The elite bureaucrats on the upper floors allowed to enjoy cool air, while staff on lower floors are encouraged to enjoy more traditional options.
European Commission Adopts Feudal Approach to Air Conditioning Distribution
‘Nose-ringed Just Stop Oil pests’ hurt environmental movement with mainstream voters
Climate Activists ‘Exaggerating,’ Liberal Journalist Says, Denouncing ‘Shrill Eco-Catastrophism’
Air conditioning has become the subject of intense political debate in Europe. Leftists, such as Jean Luc-Melenchon, leader of the far-left La France Insoumise (France Unbowed) party, argue that using AC would make the heatwave worse. By contrast, Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National (National Rally) party has called for a nationwide rollout of AC.
Paris Deputy Mayor Blames Americans Having AC for Europe’s Deadly Heatwave.
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Alison Winter, serial killer Rex Heuermann’s therapist, received $60,000 in reimbursement payments for insurance claims from 2018 to 2024 without having a clinical social work license, Newsday reported, citing prosecutors. Over $50,000 was allegedly billed via Cigna. The insurance company reportedly requires masters-level clinicians who work independently to have a state license in order to be part of their network. Winter also obtained reimbursement payments via UnitedHealthcare and Medicare, according to court documents.
REPORT: Serial Killer’s Therapist Allegedly Practiced For Years Without A License, Faces Felony Charges
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
Millions dead, billions of dollars in economic value lost.
Will China Ever Be Held Accountable for COVID-19?
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Enjoy your Nancy Pelosi Institute, taxpayers.
College With $1B in Federal Grants Creates ‘Nancy Pelosi Institute’
School choice is crucial to the American Dream—we need a new birth of freedom.
What, to the Black Student, is the Fourth of July?
SECOND AMENDMENT
t's been a good couple of weeks at the Supreme Court for gun rights activists, but there's reason to feel disappointed.
Two SCOTUS Wins For Gun Rights, But Questions Remain About The ‘History And Tradition’ Test
Democrat Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s efforts to enact a sweeping gun-control agenda were placed on hold by courts in June, while the state Legislature pushed back the effective date of another law.
Abigail Spanberger’s Plan To Ban Guns Blows Up In Her Face
THE 2020 AND OTHER ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
Lee, a leading advocate and sponsor of the SAVE America Act — landmark election integrity legislation supported by President Donald Trump — cited the Senate’s handling of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as a historical example of how major legislation can advance even when the votes for cloture are not initially in place.
EXCLUSIVE: Mike Lee Explains How LBJ Broke A Filibuster And What It Means For The SAVE America Act
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
“So, overall, that is a wing of the party without a doubt. But they’re not Democrats. They’re not socialists, several of them, many of them have actually are an avowed communist. So between P hustle in Maine and some of the other winners, you know, in New York, that’s, you know, they should form their own party and run on all the things that they’ve had to do on, on social media.”
Fetterman: The ‘Dirtbag Left’ Is Clearly Anti-America
Sen. John Fetterman told the Free Beacon that Claire Valdez is 'pro-Hamas'
'She Hasn't Asked for My Endorsement': New York Democrat Party Chair Keeps Distance From Darializa Avila Chevalier as Party Frets Over Socialist Surge
POLITICS
South Dakota’s GOP runoff pits a populist outsider promising sweeping reform against an incumbent defending his record — a test of whether voters want disruption or continuity.
The South Dakota 2026 GOP Gubernatorial Runoff
And the DSA controls the Democrats.
A Marxist Majority Controls the Democratic Socialists of America
Melat Kiros’ win follows victories from three Zohran Mamdani-backed challengers in New York
Colo-radical: Socialist Who Called 9/11 ‘Inevitable’ Takes Down 15-Term Incumbent in Denver House Primary (more like Colo-rectal - jjs)
The vice president said government should prioritize policies that strengthen families, communities, and workers.
JD Vance Lays Out Post-Trump Conservative Vision In Interview With Michael Knowles
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Fujimori is expected to assume the office of President on July 28, 2026. Her victory in Peru represents another victory for the right-wing in Latin America, potentially aligning with United States President Donald J. Trump. As the country has seen nine presidents in ten years, spectators will be looking to Fujimori to provide much-needed stability.
Another Right-Wing Victory in Latin America as Keiko Fujimori Clinches Peruvian Presidency Over Leftist Rival.
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
“Excessive subsidies and zero-premium plans created unusually strong incentives for improper enrollment, while weak verification systems…allowed those incentives to be exploited at scale.” – Brian Blase, President of the Paragon Health Institute
Obamacare Enrollment Declines by 3 Million Amid Fraud Crackdown.
Families of loved ones with Duchenne, Huntington’s, and Sanfilippo showed up to Senate hearings in February 2026 in wheelchairs and in tears — and with nothing left to lose. Senators, patient advocates, and the scientific community gave them full support, and interestingly, Makary and Prasad were gone within weeks.
Did Leftwing Influence Encourage the FDA to Leave Rare Disease Patients Behind?
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Maybe you've heard of Rocket Lab, the scrappy New Zealand-based launch company whose innovative Electron small-lift rocket quickly became one of the most popular in U.S. service, thanks to its high success rate and rapid launch cadence. Except for nerds like me paying close attention to the launch industry, Rocket Lab gets a little lost in SpaceX's shadow. But that might be about to change with the company's multibillion-dollar acquisition.
This Scrappy Little Rocket Company Just Made a Big Play Against Elon Musk
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"That takes that ridiculous situation off the table!!!"
Supreme Court Trans Ruling Fulfills Trump’s Campaign Promise
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Despite strong political differences most Americans remain around of who they are.
As U.S. Nears Its 250th Birthday, Nearly 3/4 Still Say They’re Proud To Be American: I&I/TIPP Poll
Christian Toto: The Invite star shows paper-thin skin, but he's has a point on one key area
Seth Rogen Is (Partially) Right about Film Critics
“Puy de Fou’s shows are about as historically accurate as a Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show...The Puy de Fou model is in the process of being exported abroad.”
What the American Right Can Learn From France
HITHER & YON
The untold path to Independence.
The Background That Made the Revolution Possible

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1 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 07:29 AM (u82oZ)

2 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at July 01, 2026 07:29 AM (NcvvS)

3 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2026 07:29 AM (jehhT)

4 What hath Roberts wrought?

The only practical response is to deport all Illegal Immigrants who don't have an anchor baby an urgent pace.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 01, 2026 07:29 AM (dtajH)

5 70 degrees, 100% humidity, heading to the mid-90s in Kentuckiana.

Posted by: Nazdar at July 01, 2026 07:30 AM (NcvvS)

6 5 70 degrees, 100% humidity, heading to the mid-90s in Kentuckiana.
Posted by: Nazdar at July 01, 2026 07:30 AM (NcvvS)

Hot and humid here in southern Cheeseland.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 01, 2026 07:31 AM (x0n13)

7 Ban dual citizenship.

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2026 07:32 AM (MWfyi)

8 Lord I’m southbound

Posted by: Redenzo at July 01, 2026 07:32 AM (cYX+0)

9 It's a stupid idea anyway.

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2026 07:32 AM (MWfyi)

10 Coming home to you

Posted by: Redenzo at July 01, 2026 07:32 AM (cYX+0)

11 Good morning again dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 07:33 AM (RIvkX)

12 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 07:33 AM (ExV1e)

13 How hard would it have been to simply decide, "At least one of the parents had to be residing in the United States as a legal alien at the time of the child's birth in order for the child to be granted U.S. Citizenship" ?

WTF, SCOTUS?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 01, 2026 07:34 AM (O7YUW)

14 Further to 13: Or as a legal resident, or citizen. (You get the idea I'm driving at, I hope.)

I'm up later than normal and need to have my first coffee. Doing that now.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 01, 2026 07:35 AM (O7YUW)

15 >“The fact that this case was a 5-to-4 decision effectively means that the concept of birthright citizenship, which is an absurdity to the 14th Amendment, that concept is hanging by a thread. . . “
-----

Missed it by >< that much.

Posted by: Don Black at July 01, 2026 07:35 AM (cVN12)

16 WTF, SCOTUS?

SCOTUS does not arrive to a conclusion. They work backwards from it.

Posted by: Halfhand at July 01, 2026 07:36 AM (9MUFz)

17
I'm just here to see Nothing Will Happen Guy to show up, but I'm guessing nothing will happen.

Posted by: Auspex at July 01, 2026 07:37 AM (Y8DZL)

18 I figured I would approve birthright citizenship so I can save money on my collecting of minority trophy children.

I need 1 Chinese, 1 Khmer, 1 Mongolian and a Viet, prefer a Hmong if I can acquire one to make my Oriental collection complete.

They will look great in our next family photo!

Posted by: Amy Conehead Bareass at July 01, 2026 07:37 AM (K5H/e)

19 And pregnancy tests at the border will be deemed a violation of the 4th Amendment and privacy.

Posted by: davidt at July 01, 2026 07:38 AM (Q+gd/)

20 Will China Ever Be Held Accountable for COVID-19?

Will the US?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 07:39 AM (ExV1e)

21 >I'm just here to see Nothing Will Happen Guy to show up, but I'm guessing nothing will happen.

Posted by: Auspex
----

as far as the scenario you mention goes- nothing will happen

Posted by: Don Black at July 01, 2026 07:39 AM (cVN12)

22 Halfhand

Sigh. Congress and it's failure. It all comes back to Congress and the Senators in office who are the enemy of American and Legacy Americans.

Impeaching Justices or shaping lower courts, all within the powers Congress holds, are off the table.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 07:40 AM (u82oZ)

23
Coffee is lifting the I.Q. past 30; I can feel it.

Halfway to topping out.

Posted by: Auspex at July 01, 2026 07:40 AM (Y8DZL)

24 Will China Ever Be Held Accountable for COVID-19?

No.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 01, 2026 07:41 AM (0N4FZ)

25 Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)

The US started the COVID-19 Wuhan fire. Mostly a Deep State project to kneecap China.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 07:42 AM (u82oZ)

26 Barrett's collection of brown, yellow, black kids she bought online or wherever should have disqualified her from the birthright case.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2026 07:42 AM (jehhT)

27 And pregnancy tests at the border will be deemed a violation of the 4th Amendment and privacy.
Posted by: davidt at July 01, 2026 07:38 AM (Q+gd/)

Ah, but pregnancy tests won't be required. They will only be requested, as the woman is requesting entry into the country. A favor for a favor.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 07:42 AM (ExV1e)

28 I would love to know if J.D. Vance thinks the Iranians are still "rully kewl?"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 07:43 AM (RIvkX)

29 Barrett's collection of brown, yellow, black kids she bought online or wherever should have disqualified her from the birthright case.

YMMV
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2026 07:42 AM (jehhT)

Which would have made it a 4-4 ruling, which would have upheld the lower court's ruling, which would have had the exact same effect.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 07:44 AM (ExV1e)

30 And while we are at it, can we reverse the 19th Amendment?

Men Create Civilization
Women Destroy it.

Even when they had a perfect, sinless Paradise where everything they would ever want was easily at hand, Adam's first impulse was to organize via naming the animals and discover his place, yet Eve's first act was to piss off God just to see what He would do.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 01, 2026 07:45 AM (nCgQz)

31 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2026 07:45 AM (sgkY8)

32 Sigh. Congress and it's failure. It all comes back to Congress and the Senators in office who are the enemy of American and Legacy Americans.

Yep. The fact that an empirically evident imbecile like KBJ was even seated shows how feckless they are.

Posted by: Halfhand at July 01, 2026 07:45 AM (9MUFz)

33 San Franpsycho

J.D. Vance has inherited a thankless, impossible task. At least he is trying harder than Kamala "Border Czar" Harris ever did.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 07:45 AM (u82oZ)

34 The Marxists invasion continues

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2026 07:46 AM (sgkY8)

35 30 Eve's first act was to piss off God just to see what He would do.
Posted by: Community Notes

Apples don't just sell themselves, you know.

Posted by: Auspex at July 01, 2026 07:47 AM (Y8DZL)

36 I don't like that so many SCOTUS decisions have the effect of creating new law. Above all, the Supreme Court is an appeals court. SCOTUS rulings should be either 'granted' or 'denied', and that's it.

Posted by: Don Black at July 01, 2026 07:48 AM (cVN12)

37 I wish the great Clarence Thomas would not have said “I respectfully dissent” but instead written “I disrespectfully and with derision dissent this abomination of legal trash”…. Or something along those lines with more invective than I can invent now off the top of my head

Forget respectfully…. There can be ZERO respect for a decision that so mangled constitutional concepts that as far as I can tell the majority views US citizens as old-fashioned feudal era subjects (of the king, ironically) rather than human beings with rights granted by God almighty. They really backed themselves into a corner… I wonder if they even realize how abhorrent their “reasoning” is….. no, they knew the result they wanted and generated a claptrap of tangled logic to get there; certainly the constitution didn’t factor into their decision

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 01, 2026 07:48 AM (D2O3S)

38 Skip

80+% of American people wanted the end of birthright citizenship. Keep pressing, and use other methods.

Turning off the money tap has proven successful. Can the Administration zero out public money for maternity clinics that birth foreigner's babies?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 07:49 AM (u82oZ)

39 “American economic policy on the right is now much more Alexander Hamilton than it is Milton Friedman,” Vance said, arguing that President Trump’s political movement has already transformed the GOP’s approach to trade, tariffs, manufacturing, and industrial policy.

Rather than viewing economic growth as an end in itself, Vance argued that government should prioritize policies that strengthen families, communities, and workers.

“The economy is a tool to service the dignity of the human person,” he told Knowles.
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Da Fuq is this b.s??

Keep your "government policies" off my family, my community, and my employees. This is fascism, not conservatism.

Keep talking J.D. and show us the real you.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 07:49 AM (RIvkX)

40 >The fact that an empirically evident imbecile like KBJ was even seated shows how feckless they are.
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we need more feck.

Posted by: Don Black at July 01, 2026 07:49 AM (cVN12)

41 Don Black

Good and hard?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 07:50 AM (u82oZ)

42 Trump Says Birthright Citizenship Ruling ‘Too Bad’ but Lays Out Pathway Forward Through Congress

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I mean, what else can he say. At least he's the only president that's ever tried to even show a modicum of concern on this issue.

But Congress is purely, absolutely, unequivocally, worthlessly, and most importantly, diabolically useless. They aren't going to pass a damned thing relating to this*. Nearly every one of them would get vertigo from being in a sewer; that's how low and scummy they are.

*or anything relating to saving America

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 01, 2026 07:51 AM (qBdHI)

43 I’m getting annoyed with Vance recently. Between his absurd comments on the Iran negotiations and now add his nonsense about a silver lining and I’m thinking: Is this guy losing it? Pull yourself together JD!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 01, 2026 07:51 AM (D2O3S)

44 Salty, I think he is showing he is too young, too naive, and he is in way over his head.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 07:52 AM (RIvkX)

45 {{{Lady in Black}}}

Preach it, sister.

I like "get vertigo from being in a sewer". I may need that phrase.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 07:53 AM (u82oZ)

46 Roberts and ACB are trying to save the Court from the Democrats packing it.

Buying themselves a separate peace by selling America to the wolves.

But make no mistake:
This is an issue Republicans can fix:
Simple majority vote in the House and the Senate to limit citizenship to those legally born here; no judicial review.

And you can immediately tell who is not serious about fixing it by those who propose a Constitutional Amendment--that has to pass super-majorities of Congress, the President and 3/4 of the states.
Hell, I bet it won't even get 30 votes in the Senate, that's how deeply stupid and unserious that proposal is; failure theater.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2026 07:53 AM (3cUTc)

47 San Franpsycho

Could be. The test is how effective he can be. He has strengths, but big weaknesses also.

Rubio continues to impress.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 07:54 AM (u82oZ)

48 "we need more feck.
Posted by: Don Black "

*checks ebay for secondhand feck*

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2026 07:54 AM (MWfyi)

49 The Executive Order was not going to be upheld . This is the duty of Congress to address. PDT put this issue in their lap but it is up to us, the people, to right this ship.

Take a page out of the dem playbook and continue to fight.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 07:55 AM (afJtY)

50 And you can immediately tell who is not serious about fixing it by those who propose a Constitutional Amendment--that has to pass super-majorities of Congress, the President and 3/4 of the states.
Hell, I bet it won't even get 30 votes in the Senate, that's how deeply stupid and unserious that proposal is; failure theater.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2026 07:53 AM

At this point in time amending the constitution is physically impossible and will never be done again.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 01, 2026 07:57 AM (0N4FZ)

51 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at July 01, 2026 07:57 AM (2Ez/1)

52 Congress can write 50 different laws to stop this. No amendment needed.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 07:59 AM (afJtY)

53 Congratulations on your first, Salty my friend

Posted by: Buck at July 01, 2026 07:59 AM (z6ONu)

54 Hard-working public servants:

@NEWSMAX
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29m
EARLY EXIT: House Republican leaders abruptly canceled votes on major legislation Tuesday and sent lawmakers home early for a nearly two-week recess after a group of Republicans blocked action on the House floor. MORE: https://bit.ly/3QLTZKU

Posted by: Don Black at July 01, 2026 08:00 AM (cVN12)

55 Aliens are most definitely not Immigrants. It is well to carefully think about the words used to describe.

When leftists are allowed to define the very terms or words used in debate they will tend to have an advantage in manipulating opinions or persuasion.

That is rather the point, appeals to emotion. Euphemisms. “Undocumented Immigrants” makes it sound more benign, no? Like he just misplaced his wallet somewhere.

There is a class of Legal Aliens, too. “Alien” is not a pejorative, it is a technical or legal term of art in the USC Title 18, all that stuff.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 01, 2026 08:01 AM (wJccJ)

56 46> Observing the death of a mono-culture

Constitutional Amendments today would be impossible to pass. I can't think of anything that Congress and We The People could ever agree on. The Ruling class, servants to Stan and foreign oligarchs, and fully occupying the Dark Tetrad personalities will always be at war with The Governed.

We can't even agree on Standard Time or Daylight Saving Time even though nearly everyone hates our current pointless ritual.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 01, 2026 08:01 AM (U4c/V)

57 I don't think Congress can right a law that goes against what this court has decided the 14th amendment means. It will be tied up in court for years and lose. You're essentially saying it's ok for Congress to decide the 14th is wrong. That would take a constitutional amendment and that ain't happening in any of our lifetimes.

Posted by: Jaimo at July 01, 2026 08:02 AM (2noDb)

58 I really liked J.D., read his book, love his story. I was happy Trump picked him and happy to vote for him.

Am disappoint.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 08:02 AM (RIvkX)

59 Buck

Thank you. Not my first first, even this week.

I sent you an email, as requested, from my NaCly email account. No response seen.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 08:02 AM (u82oZ)

60 In its 2024 report, Tilting the Balance, CIS found that excluding non-citizens reduces that figure to about 308.3 million. Excluding both non-citizens and their minor children reduces it further to about 301.9 million. In other words, nearly 30 million were included in the congressional apportionment.

30000000/800000=37
So illegals are a State bigger than Texas.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 01, 2026 08:02 AM (/+uur)

61 I’m getting annoyed with Vance recently. Between his absurd comments on the Iran negotiations and now add his nonsense about a silver lining and I’m thinking: Is this guy losing it? Pull yourself together JD!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 01, 2026 07:51 AM (D2O3S)

1. Trump made Vance the lead negotiator. He cannot go around publicly stating that the Iranians are faithless and everyone in the country should be annihilated in nuclear fire.
2. Vance's comments on the "silver lining" are almost exactly the same thing that Kurt Schlichter and other have said.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 08:03 AM (ExV1e)

62 We only need to get to about 260 to be where England is. Vance's Thoughtful Republican on My Side shtick is getting old but I fear he's the best chance we've got. Of a very very bad lot.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 08:03 AM (J9Kpb)

63 The Restore America Agenda:

- End the filibuster
- pass the SAVE Act
- limit citizenship to legal residents only
- defund the courts

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2026 08:04 AM (3cUTc)

64 And you can immediately tell who is not serious about fixing it by those who propose a Constitutional Amendment--that has to pass super-majorities of Congress, the President and 3/4 of the states.

The President is not involved in amending the Constitution.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 08:04 AM (ExV1e)

65 61 - I agree with you. Poor JD drew the short straw to try and explain or excuse Trump's stupid decision to take on Iran before the midterms. Whatever he says he has to tread lightly so as not to piss off Trump or other warmongers.

Posted by: Jaimo at July 01, 2026 08:04 AM (2noDb)

66 People's Hippo Voice

Good plan. Defunding the lower courts is within the power of Congress.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 08:05 AM (u82oZ)

67 NPR Retracts False Story Saying Justice Alito Was Retiring: ‘Erroneously Published’

All Breaking NEws stories are 51% lies.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 01, 2026 08:06 AM (/+uur)

68 Marxists don't do what the people want, they do what they need to stay in power

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2026 08:06 AM (sgkY8)

69 58 I really liked J.D., read his book, love his story. I was happy Trump picked him and happy to vote for him.

Am disappoint.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 08:02 AM (RIvkX)

He's not coasting to the 2028 nomination. Rough seas ahead.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 01, 2026 08:06 AM (fZiTB)

70 It’s counterintuitive, but there’s a cost to solving a political problem: It removes the issue from the public sphere. Because we lost today, the immigration issue is still relevant. And we can still use it to drive voters to the polls.
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This sounds suspiciously like the Roberts 8D Chess Theory of ObamaCare Taxing. There is ZERO upside, political or otherwise, of this to anyone but the thieves who want to corrupt and destroy America. Zero. If we're in Death by 1,000 Cuts this stupidity was about 70 of them.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 08:07 AM (J9Kpb)

71 I think the legislature is a lost cause... becoming irrelevant. They're more concerned with making money than running the country. That's what the intelligence community is for.

Now, the judiciary is a different story. They're the enablers for all the shit being dumped on us. The reverence we apply to them is misplaced.

There certainly needs to be some sort of reckoning, and soon.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2026 08:07 AM (jehhT)

72 People's Hippo, all worthy and doable. Statusquotidians are akin to turtles. Pull you head back instead of stick your neck out.

I intend to fight harder

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 08:07 AM (afJtY)

73 As best as I can tell, the upshot of the "logic" of this decision is identical to the kind of logic that would call a bank robbery "making a withdrawal".

Hey, you left the bank with more money than you had. That's just a withdrawal. And withdrawals are totally legal.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 01, 2026 08:07 AM (Ot/FD)

74 Martini Farmer

Good analysis.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 08:08 AM (u82oZ)

75 Rubio continues to impress.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 07:54 AM (u82oZ)

14 years of stabbing us in the back in the Senate, all forgotten because there's a new target for the forgetful hate.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 08:10 AM (ExV1e)

76 Nice too see abortion Barbie lose in Colorado last night. 30 year demon

Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:11 AM (YCxFk)

77 That article about how “Tail Gunner” Joe McCarthy was right about commies reminded me of Whittaker Chambers’ wonderful book Witness. Rumpled, plump and ugly, non-charming Chambers was right all along about the elegant and suave Alger Hiss. Good thing he hid those receipts (the proof) in a pumpkin… the difference today is the commies are quite open about it. Don’t try at all to hide their ideology

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 01, 2026 08:11 AM (D2O3S)

78 Hard-working public servants:

@NEWSMAX
·
29m
EARLY EXIT: House Republican leaders abruptly canceled votes on major legislation Tuesday and sent lawmakers home early for a nearly two-week recess after a group of Republicans blocked action on the House floor. MORE: https://bit.ly/3QLTZKU
Posted by: Don Black at July 01, 2026 08:00 AM (cVN12)

They're blocking votes in the House to try and force a vote in the Senate on SAVE.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 08:11 AM (ExV1e)

79
7 Ban dual citizenship.
Posted by: fd at July 01, 2026 07:32 AM (MWfyi)

SCOTUS has already ruled that you can’t do that. Back in the 60’s.

We did used to have laws against it. That’s why we don’t anymore.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2026 08:12 AM (7wNAQ)

80 I used to have a different nic

Not forgotten. Is Rubio only successful because of Trump being a strong leader? I have doubts, but want to acknowledge achievements.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 08:12 AM (u82oZ)

81 14AM meme:

https://tinyurl.com/3rs8258e

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 01, 2026 08:13 AM (x8PQF)

82 Can’t find your email, Salty. Try again at jack471 at bellsouth dot net

Posted by: Buck at July 01, 2026 08:13 AM (z6ONu)

83 Now, the judiciary is a different story. They're the enablers for all the shit being dumped on us. The reverence we apply to them is misplaced.

There certainly needs to be some sort of reckoning, and soon.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2026 08:07 AM (jehhT)

What did Bukele say recently about the judiciary?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 01, 2026 08:13 AM (D2O3S)

84 Barrett's collection of brown, yellow, black kids she bought online or wherever should have disqualified her from the birthright case.

YMMV

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In going against the grain of my species (heresy!), I will say what I've believed for a long time. Women are simply not up to the task of using logic, not emotion, when it comes to political or constitutional matters. Yes, plenty of men are as guilty, but I do not trust women as a whole and do not vote for women because of it. The only exception I can think of at the moment is Sarah Huckabee Sanders. The rest? Totally unreliable. They think and act like women. And women fall short in my book when their feelz overtake common sense and logic. The exact opposite of what this country needs. I was always skeptical of ACB for that reason. And she's proven my theory too many times.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 01, 2026 08:13 AM (qBdHI)

85 To throw the citizens a bone SCOTUS granted cert in two rifle ban cases on their last day. They will consolidate Viramontes v. Cook County, a Seventh Circuit (Illinois) case and Grant v. Higgins from the Second Circuit (Connecticut) and review the case next term.

I believe given the 5-4 rulings on Election Day and Birthright citizenship, and the legal arguments made, anyone who treasures their Second Amendment rights should be concerned. I expect more constitutional subversion from ACB and Roberts. I also believe that any favorable ruling would come with enough caveats it will give the defendant states another avenue to undermine our Second Amendment rights.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 01, 2026 08:14 AM (+Tpk4)

86 The Nancy Pelosi Institute for Representative Democracy is raising $50 million to ‘focus on GRIFT ~~climate change, wealth inequality, criminal justice, the impact of artificial intelligence on democracy, and electoral reforms aimed at reducing polarization.”~~

fisked it

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 01, 2026 08:14 AM (/+uur)

87 Marxists don't do what the people want, they do what they need to stay in power

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2026 08:06 AM (sgkY

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Marxists > RINOs

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 01, 2026 08:14 AM (x8PQF)

88 They're blocking votes in the House to try and force a vote in the Senate on SAVE.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 08:11 AM (ExV1e)

I have to support this because the rebellion was led by the lovely Luna (swoon)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 01, 2026 08:14 AM (D2O3S)

89 ACB is the biggest mistake Trump ever made.

Posted by: Delurker at July 01, 2026 08:14 AM (2Drhq)

90 I like "get vertigo from being in a sewer". I may need that phrase.

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I actually glommed onto it from somewhere else, who knows where! I put it in my insult bank for later use. It's a good one.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 01, 2026 08:15 AM (qBdHI)

91 Nice to know that we actual citizens are now on the same level as the spawn of the felonious fence hoppers who squat one out after they break their way into the country. Thanks for putting me in my place just in time for my quarterly tax payment. Good to know it will be going to support the “real Americans.” Buck Ferrett.

Posted by: Me no speaky ingrish at July 01, 2026 08:15 AM (hD90I)

92 Good morning Horde thx JJ great report.
Does anyone think that if there is a massive increase in birth tourism, that our elite specifically the GOPe will do anything. We've seen non GOPe types already beginning the constitutional amendment process. I doubt the GOPe will move.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2026 08:16 AM (dcxJn)

93 ACB’s social activism should have been a giant red flag for Trump who has for years decried the DEI crowd. You can thank the Federalist Society for both her and Roberts. It’s why Trump has said should he get another pick, they won’t be anywhere near that process.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 01, 2026 08:16 AM (+Tpk4)

94 Any Boney Carrot.

Posted by: Just wanted to type that at July 01, 2026 08:17 AM (2Ez/1)

95 I called Luna's office to say thank you.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 08:17 AM (afJtY)

96 JJ, why you and Trump pick on Chynah?!?!?!

https://tinyurl.com/4tvzntkz

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 01, 2026 08:17 AM (x8PQF)

97 ACB is the biggest mistake Trump ever made.

Posted by: Delurker at July 01, 2026 08:14 AM (2Drhq)

She's definitely the longest-lasting.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at July 01, 2026 08:18 AM (xA5g+)

98 You can thank the Federalist Society for both her and Roberts. It’s why Trump has said should he get another pick, they won’t be anywhere near that process.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 01, 2026 08:16 AM (+Tpk4)

We recently learned that Mitch informed Trump that Barrett was going to be the pick and that was that.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at July 01, 2026 08:19 AM (xA5g+)

99 Lady in Black

That's an idea for an ace post!

List what is in your insult bank.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 08:19 AM (u82oZ)

100 Keep in mind, none of these commies have won in swing states. Chickenpooper won his Senate primary in CO easily last night. Deep blue seats only have flipped

Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:19 AM (YCxFk)

101 In going against the grain of my species (heresy!), I will say what I've believed for a long time. Women are simply not up to the task of using logic, not emotion, when it comes to political or constitutional matters.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 01, 2026 08:13 AM (qBdHI)
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This is why we should NOT have nice things - like comment edit and delete buttons.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 01, 2026 08:20 AM (x8PQF)

102 14 years of stabbing us in the back in the Senate, all forgotten because there's a new target for the forgetful hate.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 08:10 AM (ExV1e)

Basically.... yeah.

I don't care who fights for us right now, so long as they fight. I would rather yesterday's squish who has taken up the cudgels today, than the standard RINO bastard who waves a plastic toy sword around at us screaming bloody murder about what a fighter he is.

No enemies in a foxhole, but you have to actually be in my foxhole for that to count.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 01, 2026 08:20 AM (Ot/FD)

103 ACB’s legal reasoning in the Election Day case is perhaps just as bad as anything we have seen from KBJ. The birthright citizenship case doesn’t even try to make a constitutional argument, it’s a rehashing of the courts own precedents. Both are embarrassingly bereft of constitutional premise.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 01, 2026 08:20 AM (+Tpk4)

104 List what is in your insult bank.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 08:19 AM (u82oZ)
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I can't insult someone bad unless I know how big their momma is.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 08:21 AM (RIvkX)

105 Jonah

Outmigration from Deep States should have electoral consequences, not just economic woes. We need a tight, focused Census.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 08:21 AM (u82oZ)

106
1. Trump made Vance the lead negotiator. He cannot go around publicly stating that the Iranians are faithless and everyone in the country should be annihilated in nuclear fire.
2. Vance's comments on the "silver lining" are almost exactly the same thing that Kurt Schlichter and other have said.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 08:03 AM (ExV1e)

I enjoy Schlicter’s writing, his ideas usually echo my own, and the only fault I find is that he tends to be far too much of an apologist at times. For instance his piece yesterday, which you referenced, said (paraphrased) “this was great news! Look how close we came! All we need is a couple new justices and a better Congress, and I know this will be overturned in 20 or 30 years!”

Kurt, we don’t have 20 or 30 years left to fix this. By then, all the children of the ones being born today will be having children of their own, and the games will be over.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2026 08:21 AM (7wNAQ)

107 Ginsberg passes so close to 20/20 election. Dems wanted to stall and do another Kav trial. Woman was way to go. Easy confirm. She did vote right way on Roe, but I agree she is soft like O’Connor.

Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:22 AM (YCxFk)

108 And not to sound misogynistic, but there should never be another woman on the court. They’ve all been disasters for our constitution. Every one.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 01, 2026 08:22 AM (+Tpk4)

109 I voted for a Congressman and Senators so I now absolve myself from anything other than bitching about what happens.
We the people are responsible.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 08:22 AM (afJtY)

110 “80+% of American people want the end of so-called “birthright citizenship”.

Left unspoken, in a Democracy importing an illegal electorate is treason.

American citizens aren’t allowed to vote on this. Ain’t it grand? The “government” is electing a new people, since apparently the ignorant hick rube mouth breathers out in flyover country aren’t down with the program.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 01, 2026 08:22 AM (wJccJ)

111 San Franpsycho

I have faith in your ability to handle large women.

Now, gun-toting Internal Security KGB types is another matter.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 08:22 AM (u82oZ)

112 "Both are embarrassingly bereft of constitutional premise."

It's as if they had vertigo.
From being in a sewer.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 01, 2026 08:23 AM (2Ez/1)

113 97 She's definitely the longest-lasting.

That's why.

Posted by: Delurker at July 01, 2026 08:24 AM (2Drhq)

114 Administration officials say tighter eligibility verification and program integrity measures prevented about 2.9 million people from receiving subsidies they were not entitled to, while estimates of fraudulent enrollments have dropped from 5.6 million to 2.6 million.

There are at least 1 million Obamacare members with NO SSID.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 01, 2026 08:24 AM (/+uur)

115 It starts by Trump telling universities no more Chinese visas for graduate programs. Univ of Illinois is now called little Beijing

Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:24 AM (YCxFk)

116 You're soaking in it.

Posted by: Madge at July 01, 2026 08:26 AM (2Ez/1)

117 I agree with you. Poor JD drew the short straw to try and explain or excuse Trump's stupid decision to take on Iran before the midterms. Whatever he says he has to tread lightly so as not to piss off Trump or other warmongers.
Posted by: Jaimo at July 01, 2026 08:04 AM (2noDb)

Sure, my point was that Trump is a big poopyhead who should have waited until after the midterms, not caught the Iranian leadership all in one place, and had everyone pissing and moaning about how he attacked before the 2028 election.

Everyone would forget their disappointment with Vance as quickly as they've forgotten their disgust with Rubio but for the fact that he's from Florida and, for some reason, that's an aphrodisiac for commenters here.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 08:26 AM (ExV1e)

118 The American system is a complex web of graft and blackmail - so I have no doubt that SC justices are being bribed and threatened. Nearly everyone in the ruling class is, every day.

That's just how the machine runs. But Barrett and Roberts did this for the same reason everyone in the ruling class does what they do - class loyalty.

This isn't a decision that required any cajoling. Anchor babies are a key feature of the ruling class war against the subject classes. It would be treason to undermine that. No top man in good standing will go against it.

Same with vote fraud. That's why I never considered the possibility of Congress just shrugging their shoulders and saying "well, I guess the hated subjects win this critical battle. Let's just surrender. We're passing SAVE. We shall put down our tabulators and rig elections no more."

That's not how any of this works.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 01, 2026 08:26 AM (BI5O2)

119 Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 08:22 AM (u82oZ)
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Ha!

Your faith in me is sadly misplaced.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 08:26 AM (RIvkX)

120 You can thank the Federalist Society for both her and Roberts. It’s why Trump has said should he get another pick, they won’t be anywhere near that process.
Posted by: Vengeance at July 01, 2026 08:16 AM (+Tpk4)

From what I've read, Trump initially wanted Barbara Lagoa from Florida. It was Pence and McConnell who pushed Barrett.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 01, 2026 08:27 AM (fZiTB)

121 ACB is the biggest mistake Trump ever made.
Posted by: Delurker at July 01, 2026 08:14 AM (2Drhq)

I agree. -- Mike Pence

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 08:28 AM (ExV1e)

122 SC judges can grift?

Who knew!!!

https://tinyurl.com/26rht5bc

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 01, 2026 08:28 AM (x8PQF)

123 It starts by Trump telling universities no more Chinese visas for graduate programs. Univ of Illinois is now called little Beijing
Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:24 AM (YCxFk)

Why are they here? Are there no colleges in Red China? How many Americans go to college in Red China? Anyone want Moo Goo Gai Pan?

Posted by: Questions at July 01, 2026 08:28 AM (K5H/e)

124 I really liked J.D., read his book, love his story. I was happy Trump picked him and happy to vote for him.

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I read his book, too. I was very impressed with his success from his very humble upbringing. He grew up in a town just a few miles from where I'm from. I could relate to much of what he wrote about: his blue collar upbringing, the hopelessness that befell so many of those he knew, and it's what led him, against all odds, to succeed as he did in a most impressive way.

Only the next couple of years will tell how his political path will unfold, but I do have a few cautions that are starting to bother me. The biggest being Schmucker Carlson. But we'll see...

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 01, 2026 08:29 AM (qBdHI)

125 This is a 6-3 court in our favor and we have people celebrating how "close" it was?

Optimism is fine, keeping the troops together is fine, but for the love of God don't piss on our heads and tell us it's a beautiful day.

This is a disaster for every future possible case and it's only gonna get worse as we lose our two sanest arbiters. There is the sunny side and then there is willful blindness. The enemy is inside the gate and they are way more than just an idea.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 08:29 AM (J9Kpb)

126
97 ACB is the biggest mistake Trump ever made.

Posted by: Delurker at July 01, 2026 08:14 AM (2Drhq)

Worse than Jeff Sessions? That mistake lost the effectiveness of his entire first term, if you’ve forgotten.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2026 08:29 AM (7wNAQ)

127 Tanned, rested and ready!

Posted by: Harriet Miers at July 01, 2026 08:29 AM (2Ez/1)

128 Rumpled, plump and ugly, non-charming Chambers was right all along about the elegant and suave Alger Hiss.
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They were, um … “friends” IYKWIMAITTYD. (Not that there is anything wrong with that!)

Posted by: Common Tater at July 01, 2026 08:29 AM (wJccJ)

129 I respectfully dissent.

As I said, elsewhere, Mr. Thomas I disrespectfully dissent! I don't think they deserve any respect whatsoever for ignoring the clear written text combined with the words of those who wrote and passed the 14th Amendment. I am also astounded the War of 1812 wasn't addressed, it seems. It was directly due to a nation (Britain) asserting that those in America were still subject to British authority because they had been born on what was once British soil.

Posted by: GWB at July 01, 2026 08:30 AM (kU0PQ)

130 I agree. -- Mike Pence

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At least Pence was only a transitory mistake. We're stuck with ACB until she goes to her great reward in heaven.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 01, 2026 08:30 AM (qBdHI)

131 ACB (female) has been generally awful, but don’t forget, Roberts (male) has been even worse and for a longer period of time…. Both are adoptive parents but that doesn’t mean adoption is bad.

I think these two are a product of higher academia (Notre Dame and Harvard). Both bastions of leftism and hatred of America… and they both apparently have a personality trait of wanting to be liked above all else. Less about gender and more about weakness of core convictions

As much as I hate abortion it’d be better for the country if they’d left Roe alone and got this one right….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 01, 2026 08:30 AM (D2O3S)

132 Been playing music, but electrical guys came today and getting loud urban 'music'with the usual profanity

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2026 08:31 AM (sgkY8)

133 @126 Yup, add in Barr and Wray and Trump's first term was controlled by the Russia gate BS and Epstein crap.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2026 08:32 AM (dcxJn)

134 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2026 08:33 AM (4Agqc)

135 Moorpark Protester Loay Alnaji Sentenced For 2023 Killing of Opposing Protester Paul Kessler
By Andrew Gillies

June 30, 2026 12:25 pm
Published June 30, 2026 12:49 pm

VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) – Loay Abdel Fattah Alnaji, a Moorpark man facing charges related to the death of opposing protester Paul Kessler, was sentenced to one year in Ventura County Jail and two years of felony probation this week.
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"He dented my megaphone with his joo head!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 08:33 AM (RIvkX)

136 The thing about Rubio and/or Vance is that they're familiar with Trump's vision for the country. That they might have their own "spin" on it isn't (to me) all that relevant when they wax poetic about "stuff."

Some people take every word spoken by either of them literally.

They're politicians. Nothing they say is what they're really thinking.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2026 08:33 AM (jehhT)

137 Please let Alito/Thomas name his replacement, whenever the day come we.

Posted by: shenanigans at July 01, 2026 08:34 AM (ZDltW)

138 At least Pence was only a transitory mistake. We're stuck with ACB until she goes to her great reward in heaven.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 01, 2026 08:30 AM (qBdHI)

But boy did he stick the knife in when it counted. When he thought it was the coup de grace on America as we knew it.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 08:34 AM (J9Kpb)

139 ACB is the biggest mistake Trump ever made.

Posted by: Delurker at July 01, 2026 08:14 AM (2Drhq)

Worse than Jeff Sessions? That mistake lost the effectiveness of his entire first term, if you’ve forgotten.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2026 08:29 AM (7wNAQ)

Yeah, but Barrett is there for the next 40 years.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at July 01, 2026 08:35 AM (xA5g+)

140 Where’s Whig or one of our other parliamentarians? Didn’t Nixon get one of his picks shot down? Clifford Hainesworth or something like that.

It used to be almost automatic that presidents had their nominees confirmed. In recent years it has turned into a dumpster fire on bath salts.

The left is now trying to argue that packing the Court with more associate justices is really about unpacking the Court.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 01, 2026 08:35 AM (wJccJ)

141 shenanigans

We need better GOP Senators.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 08:35 AM (u82oZ)

142 The World Is Becoming Increasingly Divided By Fertility
https://shorturl.at/k4KqX

These Countries Are Building The Most Small Modular Nuclear Reactors
https://shorturl.at/2r5RB

Zerohedge - from Visual Capitalist

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 01, 2026 08:35 AM (R+iUD)

143 136 The thing about Rubio and/or Vance is that they're familiar with Trump's vision for the country. That they might have their own "spin" on it isn't (to me) all that relevant when they wax poetic about "stuff."

I agree and think that with either man we have the elusive "talks/acts liberal but swings hard right in office" possibility.

JD in particular will calm down the old biddies but I don't think he's going to govern boomer-left.

either way the Millennials - particularly those with children - are FINALLY seemingly wising up

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at July 01, 2026 08:35 AM (j+aD2)

144 ACB is the biggest mistake Trump ever made.

Posted by: Delurker

Worse than Jeff Sessions? That mistake lost the effectiveness of his entire first term, if you’ve forgotten.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Yes. Amy Boney Carrot is still fucking us LONG after Sessions is gone. And will continue to screw us for years to come. The damage she can inflict for the next 30 years is incalculable.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2026 08:36 AM (4Agqc)

145 No excuse for Barrett. Her inadequacies were quite obvious to anybody who looked. Zero trial experience. No impressive teaching or writing work. Her few public interviews were weak tea. On the other hand, Raymond Kethledge, a finalist for the position twice, has sterling conservative credentials and a top-level intellect (author of a book on leadership). Also a finalist was Barbara Lagoa from Florida, with a far more impressive conservative record than Barrett.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 01, 2026 08:37 AM (fZiTB)

146 91> American citizenship devalued to simple commodity.

What is the draw to serve in the military now?

An illegal alien or Chinese tourist scores full access rights to America's dwindling bounty then moments later joins the Grievance Army screaming "WE BUILT THIS PLACE" having only the tick/tock of a clock's time here so that they can claim more of the public treasury for themselves.

Yet Heritage Americans are expected to fight and die to please the foreign policy ambitions and MIC money/influence pipeline in the name of "National Security" when such security is just open borders, open treasury, open colonization and open auctioning of the next grifting politician.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 01, 2026 08:37 AM (U4c/V)

147 We need better GOP Senators.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 08:35 AM (u82oZ)
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Might I suggest we hold hearings on the matter?

Posted by: Weasel at July 01, 2026 08:38 AM (6tnon)

148 rickb223

Add Roberts to the list, and the 3 lockstep idiotic Leftist Justices. Maybe just the unlearned one first.

If we had a reliable Senate, we could pack the Court with Thomas-like clones. And there would be much rejoicing.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 08:39 AM (u82oZ)

149 Sessions was a weird thing.

What I noticed, one, he was a long time conservative firebrand. He always sounded good. And notably he was among the first if not the very first to voice his support for then potential candidate Donald J. Trump. Remember that?

I thought he was gonna kick ass and take names. Finally. Get an AG with some cajones. Can’t hardly throw a rock in D.C. without hitting somebody who belongs in prison.

And then … he recused himself. Is he even still alive??

Posted by: Common Tater at July 01, 2026 08:39 AM (wJccJ)

150 shenanigans

I shall shenan, then I shall shenanigan.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2026 08:40 AM (4Agqc)

151 Worse than Jeff Sessions? That mistake lost the effectiveness of his entire first term, if you’ve forgotten.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2026 08:29 AM (7wNAQ)

Aw shucks! I always though my soft Southern delivery and cornpone charm had everybody fooled that I was not an Alabammy Hillbilly Asshole.

Posted by: Jeff Sessions, Alabama Hillbilly at July 01, 2026 08:40 AM (K5H/e)

152 Everyone would forget their disappointment with Vance as quickly as they've forgotten their disgust with Rubio but for the fact that he's from Florida and, for some reason, that's an aphrodisiac for commenters here.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 08:26 AM (ExV1e)

I believe everyone knows that Vance is just doing what he’s told to do, and has little choice in the matter. But it’s easier to openly criticize him than to criticize the one giving the orders.

Be that as it may, it’s quite obvious that the MOU
talks Vance was heading have already collapsed completely, and no more are scheduled. Trump wants a nice quiet July 4th celebration with no distractions; but remember how Muslims love to launch big attacks on their enemies holidays? (Like October 7)

Right now the US is tossing Iran a nice, slow pitch right across the middle of the plate. They see it, even if we don’t.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2026 08:40 AM (7wNAQ)

153 Weasel

Thank you for your inscription for my gift Deplorable Cookbook gift. It was very well received.

Or so that widow says, as she turns walking with me into stalking me.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 08:40 AM (u82oZ)

154 147 We need better GOP Senators.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 08:35 AM (u82oZ)

We need to scrap the 17th.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 01, 2026 08:40 AM (fZiTB)

155 Amy was never, ever going to vote for anything that would hurt (even slightly, emotionally) her children.

that's just baked in the cake.

to some degree, the Roe decision led us to this. yesterday I was contemplating the large number of my peers (and young boomers) who chose foreign adoption. I was almost one of them, but I'm too stubborn to give up even after years of IF treatment.

and many would have adopted domestically but it was basically impossible. of say 20 families I know, ONE adopted domestically and it took them years. they tried to adopt their daughter's sibling later, and it never went through

partly this is due to the Roe decision. families with primary or secondary IF, or those who "didn't want to burden the planet with more normal babies" or something - they basically had to adopt internationally.

China was maybe the best option, but very hard and very pricy. Anyway. ACB went with Haiti, likely via the Church. The Roberts' did a whole thing for Mrs Roberts to sneak some Irish children out via South American (shady) because she was Irish American.

For those of us paying out the nose for IF treatments, and for those who payed out the nose for adoptions, tough.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at July 01, 2026 08:41 AM (j+aD2)

156 I assume Sessions was reminded by the powers that be that they knew there was a Sessions Jr out there that he had during an affair and they would publicize it if he didn't allow the Russiagate Hoax to continue...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 08:41 AM (sKqQm)

157 So Chinese "American citizens" will be casting votes by mail from Beijing in our elections.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 01, 2026 08:41 AM (YDjYy)

158 I don't not like Vance or Rubio. Insofar as they remain useful to Trump, fine, whatever, but I have no use for either of them in their own right.

They are career GOP politicians. They're part of the system I want to see permanently wrecked. Can't ever be trusted.

Once he's out of the picture, either of these men will immediately seek to co-opt his movement and restore the status quo ante. But this is true of any Republican. As of January 2028, we go back to a controlled opposition cuck party machine - just wearing red hats, this time.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 01, 2026 08:42 AM (BI5O2)

159 Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2026 08:21 AM (7wNAQ)

And should he put out a piece saying that all is lost? No reason to vote. Consider suicide.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 08:42 AM (ExV1e)

160 I think Vance and Rubio are both terrific, and will support both over broken glass against the Commies in 2028

Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:42 AM (YCxFk)

161 Community Notes

War is a Racket by Smedley Butler got there first in 1935.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 08:43 AM (u82oZ)

162 Sessions forte was immigration. He should have been the head of DHS and he would have had a different legacy.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 08:43 AM (afJtY)

163 Mornin’, All. Happy July.

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2026 08:44 AM (77rzZ)

164 158. Say what? Vance was only elected in 2022 to his first office, and served his country in Middle East. How is that a career pol?

Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:44 AM (YCxFk)

165 Young women in modern America are told by the FNM that fertility isn't an issue and they can have kids easily until 40 at least.

I saw a Whatever podcast where one guest presented the numbers on fertility decline - starting at 28 for most women - and none of the female guests would believe it. It turned out some 40 year old female celeb had just had a healthy child and so they all argued that meant they could as well.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 08:45 AM (sKqQm)

166 Today Is International Chicken Wing Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 01, 2026 08:45 AM (NpAcC)

167 164 158. Say what? Vance was only elected in 2022 to his first office, and served his country in Middle East. How is that a career pol?

lol Jonah that was my reaction too!

let them wallow

I like JD and I like Marco. I'd prefer Ron maybe but either way. All good.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at July 01, 2026 08:45 AM (j+aD2)

168 I need an answer to a question. Does birth right citizenship entitle the person-when they are 18-to vote? I am really perplexed by this decision of the court.

Posted by: . Chillin the most at July 01, 2026 08:45 AM (Sv8TC)

169 I shall shenan, then I shall shenanigan.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2026 08:40
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*pointing*

The doah is that way.

Posted by: The Blue Ridge Mountains at July 01, 2026 08:45 AM (2Ez/1)

170 Would R's let any true conservative past the Senate now? I have strong doubts.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 08:46 AM (J9Kpb)

171 It turned out some 40 year old female celeb had just had a healthy child and so they all argued that meant they could as well

yep that burned Gen X bad. we all got married too late.

you can have kids at 40 or even 50 IF you've been having them all along! if you try for the first time then, it's a long shot.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at July 01, 2026 08:46 AM (j+aD2)

172 James Ho of the Fifth circuit is next up. First asian on court, and a great conservative

Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:46 AM (YCxFk)

173 They're politicians. Nothing they say is what they're really thinking.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2026 08:33 AM (jehhT)

Word. It's all advertising.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 08:46 AM (ExV1e)

174 Does birth right citizenship entitle the person-when they are 18-to vote?/i]

Yes.

They still have to register to vote, but blue states have made that so easy people that don't exist do it all the time...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 08:46 AM (sKqQm)

175 Sessions decided to recuse himself because he once brushed sleeves with a Russian diplomat at a DC cocktail party. Pathetic preemptive surrender, but he sure proved his "ethical" standards!

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 01, 2026 08:46 AM (fZiTB)

176 need an answer to a question. Does birth right citizenship entitle the person-when they are 18-to vote? I am really perplexed by this decision of the court.

Posted by: . Chillin the most at July 01, 2026 08:45 AM (Sv8TC)

Yes it confers them every advantage of citizenship because they are a citizen.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 08:47 AM (J9Kpb)

177 Posted by: The Blue Ridge Mountains "

Shenandoah River...

Posted by: man at July 01, 2026 08:47 AM (XuXeR)

178 Have to remember Tom Tillis wants to be a lobbyist and needs to be on good standing with Senate Conservatives to do that after he retires. He will not 86 a Trump Scotus pick

Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:47 AM (YCxFk)

179 Desantis is great Orchid. Wish his public speaking was better, but would support him big also

Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:49 AM (YCxFk)

180 Ideally society would encourage people to find a spouse and start having kids shortly after HS but it does the opposite of this, pointing people to college and partying until at least 30 and career focus after that.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 08:49 AM (sKqQm)

181 yep that burned Gen X bad. we all got married too late.

you can have kids at 40 or even 50 IF you've been having them all along! if you try for the first time then, it's a long shot.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at July 01, 2026 08:46 AM (j+aD2)

My then-wife had our first at 35.

We were younger than a huge percentage of our peers who were having their firsts.

On the upside, we were exponentially more financially stable. On the downside, having kids is for the young. We still FELT young then, of course...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at July 01, 2026 08:49 AM (xA5g+)

182 The Marxist takeover of the Dems has spread from NY and Cali to Colorado. The 15 term Dem Congress critter DeGette was beaten by a 29 yr old Dem Socialist. Theater kids for the win!

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2026 08:50 AM (dcxJn)

183 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 01, 2026 08:42 AM (BI5O2)

One could argue we don't have to go "back", it never left.

Trump came along and showed Republicans how to win. And how to do it by simply assenting to and acting on what their own voters had been asking for, and what they'd been promising, for 50 years.

They said "nah bro we good". But they still want you to donate.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 08:51 AM (J9Kpb)

184 171 Would R's let any true conservative past the Senate now? I have strong doubts.
Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 08:46 AM (J9Kpb)

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R's should pick a Black conservative to get hearings easily.

Dude. That only works for Democrats. Remember Clarence Thomas?

Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 01, 2026 08:51 AM (W/5JY)

185 Non doom scenario. Republicans pick up 5 in the House and two in the Senate . Legislation then has a different complexion.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 08:51 AM (afJtY)

186 The 15 term Dem Congress critter DeGette was beaten by a 29 yr old Dem Socialist"

Oh noes. What will we do?

Posted by: man at July 01, 2026 08:51 AM (XuXeR)

187 "It turned out some 40 year old female celeb had just had a healthy child and so they all argued that meant they could as well."
+++
Because you can spend so many fulfilling years in a nondescript cubicle serving me!

Posted by: The Soulless Corporation at July 01, 2026 08:51 AM (2Ez/1)

188 On the downside, having kids is for the young. We still FELT young then, of course...

Drinking all night and getting up for work the next day is way easier in your early 20s then it is after that.

But the same is true with dealing with a baby that keeps you up all night

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 08:52 AM (sKqQm)

189 yep that burned Gen X bad. we all got married too late.

you can have kids at 40 or even 50 IF you've been having them all along! if you try for the first time then, it's a long shot.
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at July 01, 2026 08:46 AM (j+aD2)

We had our first when I was 35…. If I had to do it all over again I’d have kids much younger… say mid-20s…. Better to be battling teenagers in your late 30s early 40s than 10+ years after that. Energy naturally wanes…. Plus, would love to see how my kids are faring into their 50s but realistically probably not…. Which is kinda sad

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 01, 2026 08:52 AM (YetvJ)

190 Fall of 2020, Covid, Ginsberg passes. Goober Graham saying we should wait until January to replace. Murkowski and Collins saying the same. We had no choice but Barrett, nor did Trump. Only pro lifer that they GOP moderates would vote for. Is what it is

Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:52 AM (YCxFk)

191 Non doom scenario"

That's not allowed here anymore, I think. Kinda sad. The joy is gone...

Posted by: man at July 01, 2026 08:52 AM (XuXeR)

192 At this point it appears the senate is an active force of opposition to Trump.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 01, 2026 08:52 AM (fZiTB)

193 I might have different feelings about the birthright situation if the kid squeezed out here had to remain in the country until they turned 21.

Rather than have the parent(s) spirit them back to wherever... then send them back here to be a nuisance.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2026 08:52 AM (jehhT)

194 Posted by: The Blue Ridge Mountains "

Shenandoah River...
Posted by: man

Life is old there...

Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2026 08:52 AM (4Agqc)

195 And Romney was still in Senate too

Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:53 AM (YCxFk)

196 180 Desantis is great Orchid. Wish his public speaking was better, but would support him big also
Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:49 AM (YCxFk)

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The opposite of Newsom in so many ways. I really think he could be a great president

Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 01, 2026 08:53 AM (W/5JY)

197 Dems did it to biden too. Sinema and Manchin stopped the negation of the Filibuster, which saved America's ass

Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:54 AM (YCxFk)

198 JJ's mother was put in a camp by people like you, troll.

Just. Like. You.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 08:54 AM (RIvkX)

199 I got spoiled by Trump. There probably won’t be another like him in my lifetime… come to think of it I got to see both Reagan and Trump!

Rubio Vance DeSantis would all be great. But none of them are Trump

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 01, 2026 08:54 AM (YetvJ)

200 Have a family and kids or don't or cannot but scrounging the globe for children just to have kids because you can afford it is insane.

Clown World.

Posted by: Bozo The Clown at July 01, 2026 08:54 AM (K5H/e)

201 158 I don't not like Vance or Rubio. Insofar as they remain useful to Trump, fine, whatever, but I have no use for either of them in their own right.

They are career GOP politicians. They're part of the system I want to see permanently wrecked. Can't ever be trusted.

Once he's out of the picture, either of these men will immediately seek to co-opt his movement and restore the status quo ante. But this is true of any Republican. As of January 2028, we go back to a controlled opposition cuck party machine - just wearing red hats, this time.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 01, 2026 08:42 AM (BI5O2)
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We are now fighting communists and to save the Republic from them.

If we get one of them across the finish line in 2028 or both if they're on the same ticket, we have a chance of replacing more Supreme Court justices.
If we lose the Democrat party will pack the court with communists.
The 3 Democrat justices we have will be considered too right wing compared to what the left is going to put forward.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 01, 2026 08:54 AM (NpAcC)

202 Worse than Jeff Sessions? That mistake lost the effectiveness of his entire first term, if you’ve forgotten.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2026 08:29 AM (7wNAQ)

Sessions was the willing trigger man that started the whole shit show. Not Comey. Sessions.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 01, 2026 08:55 AM (NrrBq)

203 @109

>>I voted for a Congressman and Senators so I now absolve myself from anything other than bitching about what happens. We the people are responsible.

What can one do besides that?

We've seen what happens when we take to the streets, infiltration, subjugation and imprisonment on faggot ass shit like, parading.

When things eventually break, they will break bad and the people that have foisted these grotesqueries on us will rue the day.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2026 08:55 AM (XV/Pl)

204 177> Voting and birth right citizenship

How does that work with Chinese birth tourism?

So the anchor baby returns to China and after 18 years states like Colorado will let the new voter participate in elections.

In which district? And where do the jury duty summons originate and get sent?

I submit that Chinese birth tourists have superior rights to Heritage US citizens. First, they don't have to pay US income taxes, they get to enjoy full voting rights with absolutely none of the duties, and at any time make claims to whatever residual benefits that will remain once the world has plundered us into penury.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 01, 2026 08:55 AM (xE0sV)

205 180 Desantis is great Orchid. Wish his public speaking was better, but would support him big also
Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:49 AM (YCxFk)

I like DeSantis a lot; but to run a national campaign you’ve got to be a great campaigner, and he just isn’t. He would do well as a high level appointee in the future.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2026 08:55 AM (7wNAQ)

206 If only Roberts and Barrett were as scared of conservatives as they are of the Left and their ground troops.

Posted by: smelting at July 01, 2026 08:55 AM (7iM56)

207 Communist candidates lost big in the IL Dem primaries also, media not talking about that

Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:56 AM (YCxFk)

208 Today is also International Joke Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 01, 2026 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

209 Posted by: The Blue Ridge Mountains "

Shenandoah River...
Posted by: man

Life is old there...
Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2026 08:52 AM

And yet my lyrics refer to "the wide Missouri."

Posted by: Oh Shenandoah at July 01, 2026 08:56 AM (2Ez/1)

210 Sometimes I think Congress resents the fact that there is an executive branch, with a President

back in the olden times, the Continental Congress was top dog

Posted by: Don Black at July 01, 2026 08:57 AM (cVN12)

211 Roberts is the problem. Christmas day if that sleazebag retired.

Someday Roberts will retire under a Dem like Souter

Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:57 AM (YCxFk)

212 Posted by: redridinghood at July 01, 2026 08:54 AM (NpAcC)

You're not wrong but the "you HAVE to vote for people you think will betray you to stop the communists" only seems to work one way.

Then as soon as someone came along who was actually on our side, the "thoughtful Republicans" in the party said outright: "nope time to vote for communists".

Should give anybody pause. And should make the argument moot. Because an argument that only works one way is no argument at all.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 08:58 AM (J9Kpb)

213 205. Agree Tom

Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:58 AM (YCxFk)

214 Does birth right citizenship entitle the person-when they are 18-to vote? I am really perplexed by this decision of the court.

Posted by: . Chillin the most at July 01, 2026 08:45 AM (Sv8TC)

Now, what if Chynah takes all those magic-dirt citizens and starts marrying them to other magic-dirt citizens? A child of two citizens is a citizen even if they were born outside the US and never set foot on the magic-dirt.

Pretty soon, Chynah conquers the US without a shot being fired.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 08:58 AM (ExV1e)

215
192 At this point it appears the senate is an active force of opposition to Trump.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 01, 2026 08:52 AM (fZiTB)

They always have been. After Cornyn and Cassidy lost, they realized there’s no point in pretending any differently any more.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2026 08:58 AM (7wNAQ)

216 @ModernityNews
·
1h
Outgoing UK PM “Proud To Have The GAYEST Parliament Of All Time Anywhere In The World”
“I don’t think there is any Parliament that is gayer than this Parliament.”

Posted by: Don Black at July 01, 2026 08:59 AM (cVN12)

217 @193

>>I might have different feelings about the birthright situation if the kid squeezed out here had to remain in the country until they turned 21.

Per John Roberts ridiculous ruling, a Portuguese woman on a trip to the US to see the world cup, pops out a kid during intermission, that kid is an American Citizen.

It's preposterous at every level of analysis.

But here we are, living in clown world with clowns dressed in black robes.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2026 08:59 AM (XV/Pl)

218 Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 08:54 AM (RIvkX)

They wear that as a badge of honor and can't wait to do the same to you. No matter what they "say".

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 09:00 AM (J9Kpb)

219 199. Well Said Linus. Trump and Reagan were warriors who fought back. Gipper had to deal with a Dem House his whole span too.

After Romney and McCain, we wanted a fighter to go after the Dem Viet Cong

Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 09:00 AM (YCxFk)

220 Desantis is great Orchid. Wish his public speaking was better, but would support him big also
Posted by: Jonah at July 01, 2026 08:49 AM (YCxFk)

While I have reservations about DeSantis - stemming from the fact that he's never had a job outside of government and has broken his word in the past - I would support him in a general election but not in the primary. Of course, I don't think he'd ever get to the general election because he has no personality and, sadly, that matters more than it should.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 09:00 AM (ExV1e)

221 Life is old there..."

Older than the trees?

Posted by: man at July 01, 2026 09:01 AM (XuXeR)

222 I used to have a different nic, hear , hear.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 09:01 AM (afJtY)

223 The GOPe isn't weak.

The GOPe is co-opted.

And we know exactly when it happed - 1999.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 09:01 AM (sKqQm)

224 Have a great day, everyone.

May you all support American Exceptionalism, not the Deep State.

I must get a cunning plan.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 09:02 AM (u82oZ)

225 Younger than the mountains…

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2026 09:02 AM (77rzZ)

226 > Pretty soon, Chynah conquers the US without a shot being fired.
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In some respects, they already have.

They outright own much of FedGov. Our national infrastructure. And so on...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2026 09:02 AM (jehhT)

227 Rather than have the parent(s) spirit them back to wherever... then send them back here to be a nuisance.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2026 08:52 AM (jehhT)

They don't have to send them back. They can vote for Chynah friendly policies from the comfort of their gulag.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 09:02 AM (ExV1e)

228 Posted by: The Blue Ridge Mountains "

Shenandoah River...
Posted by: man

Life is old there...
Posted by: rickb223

I don't get it.

Posted by: This Is Not A Sports Song at July 01, 2026 09:02 AM (Trl6K)

229 Where China ended up being smarter then the Soviets is that ideology doesn't matter as much as $$$

I don't think your average Chinese stooge in DC really cares for Chinese style national socialism. They care for the $$$ that they get though and really its just a small change to how they'd otherwise vote right?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 09:03 AM (sKqQm)

230 Younger than the mountains…"

Growing like a ...breeze...?

Song lyrics. Bizarre.

Posted by: man at July 01, 2026 09:04 AM (XuXeR)

231 DeSantis demonstrated his impoverished judgment when he bet against Trump at a time when it was both temporally asynchronous and politically dunderheaded.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 09:04 AM (J9Kpb)

232 Sometimes I think Congress resents the fact that there is an executive branch, with a President

back in the olden times, the Continental Congress was top dog
Posted by: Don Black at July 01, 2026 08:57 AM (cVN12)

If that were true, they'd stop passing bills that say that the executive branch gets to decide what they mean.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2026 09:04 AM (ExV1e)

233 @216 Future BBC headline

GAYEST PARLIAMENT IN HISTORY THROWN OFF ROOF

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2026 09:05 AM (dcxJn)

234 Good morning!

(Yikes, almost typed "TGIF!")

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 09:05 AM (X8xt3)

235 I don't get it.
Posted by: This Is Not A Sports Song "

Fall Saturdays in Morgantown, West Virginia disagree...

Posted by: man at July 01, 2026 09:05 AM (XuXeR)

236 Morn' all... I'm still bummed over yesterday's debacle...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 01, 2026 09:06 AM (FtULh)

237 >>Have a great day, everyone.
May you all support American Exceptionalism, not the Deep State.

Thanks, you, too!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 09:06 AM (X8xt3)

238 My wife and I are looking to move to West Virginia.

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2026 09:06 AM (77rzZ)

239 I saw a Whatever podcast where one guest presented the numbers on fertility decline - starting at 28 for most women - and none of the female guests would believe it. It turned out some 40 year old female celeb had just had a healthy child and so they all argued that meant they could as well.
---
Girl Math:
This rare exception proves the statistical average is wrong.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2026 09:07 AM (3cUTc)

240 Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 09:05 AM (X8xt3)

Or as I like to say, TGIL

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 09:07 AM (J9Kpb)

241 DeSantis demonstrated his impoverished judgment when he bet against Trump at a time when it was both temporally asynchronous and politically dunderheaded.

Why would you hold it against him that he threw his hat in the ring and ran a fairly positive campaign?

Had the Dems assassinated Trump or managed to jail him that would have left DeSantis the heir apparent instead of Haley which I think would have been a good thing

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 09:08 AM (sKqQm)

242 I like how this guy thinks!

@chriswithans
If you're a U.S. citizen and you're living abroad, you have to file taxes on your income. Doesn't matter where it's from. And if you want exclusions or credits, you still have to file. (This is the #1 reason why departing Americans renounce their citizenship.)

The IRS should be mining foreign countries looking for "anchor babies" and other citizens who aren't filing. Instead of obsessing about whether your grandma reported her Etsy knitting earnings, they should be focused on this.

And then you can give them a choice: renounce your citizenship or pay back taxes on everything you owed, including penalties.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 09:08 AM (X8xt3)

243 My wife and I are looking to move to West Virginia."

There are some absolutely lovely areas. Transportation can be challenging in spots, tho...

Posted by: man at July 01, 2026 09:08 AM (XuXeR)

244 Sessions decided to recuse himself because he once brushed sleeves with a Russian diplomat at a DC cocktail party. Pathetic preemptive surrender, but he sure proved his "ethical" standards!
---
Before there was suicidal empathy, Republicans had perfected suicidal congeniality.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2026 09:10 AM (3cUTc)

245 At the border, if a pregnancy test is refused, then State should issue a visa for the presumed fetus for temporary visitation rights to the US. After the visa expires, the fetus or child can then be deported. Heh heh.

Posted by: MichiCanuck at July 01, 2026 09:10 AM (KpyH1)

246 >>Or as I like to say, TGIL

Heh!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 09:10 AM (X8xt3)

247 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at July 01, 2026 09:10 AM (53oGX)

248 @241

>>Why would you hold it against him that he threw his hat in the ring and ran a fairly positive campaign?

People have to come to terms with the fact that DeSantis just does not have that thing that would allow him to be President.

He just doesn't.

Unless something disastrous happens, the ticket will be Vance and Rubio.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2026 09:11 AM (XV/Pl)

249 Had the Dems assassinated Trump or managed to jail him that would have left DeSantis the heir apparent instead of Haley which I think would have been a good thing

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 09:08 AM (sKqQm)

DeSantis somewhat mysteriously dropped out, leaving Haley with the delegates when Trump was shot.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 09:11 AM (J9Kpb)

250 >>The 15 term Dem Congress critter DeGette was beaten by a 29 yr old Dem Socialist"

Oh, F#CK!
Ethiopian Socialist who is as abrasive as Omar and Tlaib.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 09:12 AM (X8xt3)

251 The 15 term Dem Congress critter DeGette was beaten by a 29 yr old Dem Socialist"
---
Turning their mockery upon them:
The Face-Eating Leopard Party finds the leopard eating their face.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2026 09:12 AM (3cUTc)

252 @chriswithans
If you're a U.S. citizen and you're living abroad, you have to file taxes on your income. Doesn't matter where it's from. And if you want exclusions or credits, you still have to file. (This is the #1 reason why departing Americans renounce their citizenship.)

The IRS should be mining foreign countries looking for "anchor babies" and other citizens who aren't filing. Instead of obsessing about whether your grandma reported her Etsy knitting earnings, they should be focused on this.

And then you can give them a choice: renounce your citizenship or pay back taxes on everything you owed, including penalties.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 09:08 AM (X8xt3)

Hmmm. That's actually a pretty good idea.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 01, 2026 09:13 AM (IZsO+)

253 > My wife and I are looking to move to West Virginia.
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Eastern WV is a lot different from Western WV. Same for North and South.

I used to live, and still own a house, in far West WV near the Ohio River.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2026 09:13 AM (jehhT)

254 Lets encourage birth tourism among Afrikaners.

Posted by: mr tmz at July 01, 2026 09:15 AM (rJ48h)

255 They always have been. After Cornyn and Cassidy lost, they realized there’s no point in pretending any differently any more.
--
You should see Cornyn on X now.
He is everything he was accused of but conservative.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2026 09:15 AM (3cUTc)

256 @250 Lizzy, yup. I just saw her victory speech . Oligarchy, we aren't waiting , as well as every other socialist platitude. The volume was turned up to 11

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2026 09:15 AM (dcxJn)

257 What’s with the leopard eating the face thing? Where does that come from?

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2026 09:16 AM (77rzZ)

258 Interesting backstory behind how the John Denver classic song came to be.

https://tinyurl.com/yuj4yczr

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 01, 2026 09:16 AM (2Ez/1)

259 The most delegates I mean. He still retained 3rd place I believe.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 09:16 AM (J9Kpb)

260 Congress is lazy and corrupt. In particular, the senate. They have been aloof in their duties, snobbish in their attitudes and indolent in their work ethic. That apathy and sloth has cost us dearly, as senators have valued their own arrogant, cavalier pronouncements over the work they should be doing for the people. All of our problems and failures are largely based on their inability to act and function on behalf of the republic instead of themselves.

They need a good throat punch. All of them.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 01, 2026 09:17 AM (zvo7E)

261 Headline over at Liberty Daily-

MTG: Actually, Trump Is the Traitor Who Works on Behalf of a Foreign Country, Israel

https://tinyurl.com/s5wme2h4

Posted by: redridinghood at July 01, 2026 09:17 AM (NpAcC)

262 I still think that ACB is a 1.

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2026 09:17 AM (77rzZ)

263 >>Turning their mockery upon them:
The Face-Eating Leopard Party finds the leopard eating their face.

It will be entertaining to see where DeGette goes next.
She is NEVER in Colorado. All of her townhalls with constituents are done by phone/Zoom, for many years (long before Covid). She went to DC and hubby stayed home in CO to raise the kids, IIRC.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 09:17 AM (X8xt3)

264 Eastern WV is a lot different from Western WV. Same for North and South."

Indeed. Mrs was born in Morgantown, and we still own property not far from Charleston.. barely 3 hours' drive apart, but very different.

Posted by: man at July 01, 2026 09:17 AM (XuXeR)

265 The IRS should be mining foreign countries looking for "anchor babies" and other citizens who aren't filing. Instead of obsessing about whether your grandma reported her Etsy knitting earnings, they should be focused on this.”

California, Colorado and the rest of the Dem party are already scouring the world for ‘anchor babies” that don’t vote.

They say “you don’t have to worry about figuring out who to vote for, we’ll do it for you! We’ll even pay you for it!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2026 09:17 AM (7wNAQ)

266 "Leopards eating faces" is a popular political and social metaphor used to describe people who vote for or support harmful, oppressive policies, but then act completely shocked and regretful when those same policies negatively affect them personally.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 09:18 AM (sKqQm)

267 Marjorie Trailer Queen.

Posted by: I just like to type that at July 01, 2026 09:18 AM (2Ez/1)

268 Bernie is looking out for you.

Sen. Bernie Sanders
@SenSanders
Europe is suffering through its worst heat wave in recorded history.
This week, 3 dozen U.S. states will likely see record-breaking temperatures.
No, Mr. Trump. Climate change is not a “hoax.”
We must stop fossil fuel industry greed and save the planet.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at July 01, 2026 09:18 AM (ndZc7)

269 If lefties believe what they say about global warming the ONLY solution at this point would be to nuke China.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 09:19 AM (sKqQm)

270 @257

>>What’s with the leopard eating the face thing? Where does that come from?

I think it's a corruption of, Weasel's Ripped My Flesh.

Tim Cahill had a book, Jaguars Ripped My Flesh.

So a thing eating your face off is not a stretch.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2026 09:20 AM (XV/Pl)

271 J.J. ended his editorial with this:

So, at what point do we take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?
Or do we doom ourselves forever to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune unto death?
------
I think we've got two years to figure that out. There's no guarantee Vance or Rubio or whomever will win in '28. Or that they're prepared to face it rather than let it happen. With the nominal left reeling a bit right now I'd say some soul searching might be necessary soon.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2026 09:20 AM (jehhT)

272 The application to live here requires you list the length of your left leg and the length of your right leg.

Posted by: The State of West Virginia at July 01, 2026 09:20 AM (2Ez/1)

273 The BBC explains it all.

The BBC has issued an official explanation on why it has failed to cover our rape gang inquiry.
'Complex choices' are made for editorial and practical reasons.
These choices 'should not be taken as indicative of bias.'

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at July 01, 2026 09:21 AM (ndZc7)

274 >>I just saw her victory speech . Oligarchy, we aren't waiting , as well as every other socialist platitude. The volume was turned up to 11

She is BAD:
@DSA_Watch
🚨 Democratic Socialist Melat Kiros, running against Rep. Diana DeGette in Colorado’s 1st Congressional District, told 9NEWS in an interview with Kyle Clark
@KyleClark she was happy to see the tech company Palantir leave Colorado

Kiros said she would also be happy if defense contractor Lockheed Martin leaves Colorado. Lockheed employs roughly 15,000 Coloradans and contributes to defending American lives.

video clip: https://tinyurl.com/2htxcn4b

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 09:21 AM (X8xt3)

275 You should see Cornyn on X now.
He is everything he was accused of but conservative.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2026 09:15 AM (3cUTc)

I’ve been watching him. It’s really amazing how people act when they feel they finally don’t have to pretend anymore. He now works hard every day to prove that everything that Paxton and Texas conservatives said about him was true.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2026 09:21 AM (7wNAQ)

276 The application to live here requires you list the length of your left leg and the length of your right leg.
Posted by: The State of West Virginia "

You left out the brother/ sister/cousin relationship chart

Posted by: man at July 01, 2026 09:21 AM (XuXeR)

Daily Tech News 1 July 2026

Top Story

South Korea's national and regional governments and major industrial groups have jointly committed to $1 trillion in investment to expand production of chips and bots. (Ars Technica)

$585 billion to increase chip production, with a particular focus on doubling memory production within five years.

$357 billion to construct new datacenters to, uh, use up all that extra memory.

And still more billions to expand production of robots and build 8 gigawatts of new generating capacity to power it all.

Tech News

Speaking of which, Henrico County in Virginia is asking schools to open the blinds and turn off the lights to save electricity. (404 Media) (archive site)

Henrico County has 37 datacenters and is constructing 17 more right now.
Meta - which is to say Facebook - is reusing its DDR4 memory in DDR5 servers. (Tom's Hardware)

That doesn't work, so what they've done is create a custom CXL-to-DDR4 adapter chip, which allows the servers to access memory over PCIe.
G Skill's new ultra low latency 32GB memory kits cost just $1100. (Tom's Hardware)

Thanks, but no.
For those experiencing difficulties with the latest iteration of Microsoft Notepad, there is a solution. (GitHub)

Though you will need to assemble it yourself.

It should come to about 2686 bytes and has full feature compatibility with classic Notepad.
The Redmagic Astra 2 is a large small tablet with a 2400x1504 185Hz OLED display. (Liliputing)

With its 9" screen it's really pushing the boundaries of a small tablet, but it's only about 20% heavier than the 7" Nexus 7.

It runs on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 and has up to 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. Pricing in China starts at $780 for the base model with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage and goes up from there.

The previous model - no longer available - started at $549, so it's gotten a lot more expensive.
The GPD Win Max 3 is a mini-laptop with, curiously enough, a 9" 2400x1504 OLED display. (Liliputing)

With a 165Hz refresh so it's the display used in the previous Redmagic Astra tablet.

Apart from that, it has up to a Ryzen 395 processor with 128GB of RAM, and M.2 2280 and 2230 slots for storage.

And a detachable 97Wh battery, which is a lot given its size.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: No, I'm good thanks.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:33 AM

Comments

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1 Hopefully on time today. Good morning!

Posted by: meh at July 01, 2026 04:33 AM (zZxsY)

2 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2026 04:34 AM (Ia/+0)

3 w00t

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 04:34 AM (6wpGE)

4 Happy July 1st, Pixy!

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 04:34 AM (6wpGE)

5 Mornin'

Speaking of which, Henrico County in Virginia is asking schools to open the blinds and turn off the lights to save electricity. (404 Media) (archive site)

Henrico County has 37 datacenters and is constructing 17 more right now.

It's ok. CIA Barbie and her merry band of Marxists/Islamists will take care of it!!

Yea, we're screwed. I'm going for a walk. BBL

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2026 04:36 AM (sAmhv)

6 I'm not seeing the digital world getting any better. I'm just seeing chaos.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 01, 2026 04:41 AM (fkjGs)

7
Electric Six Lyrics
"Danger! High Voltage"

Fire in the disco
Fire in the taco bell
Fire in the disco
Fire in the gates of hell

Catchy!

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 04:42 AM (6wpGE)

8 I should hit that long road
See you when I get there
East bound and down

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2026 04:43 AM (Ia/+0)

9 Breakfast sounded good, Skip!

444 Made easy French Toast with Thomas's Swirl Bread and strawberries on top, quite filled up.
Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2026 04:14 AM (Ia/+0)

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 04:44 AM (6wpGE)

10 Bulldog speaks mind in public. Such funny sounds:
Faithpot site ;

https://tinyurl.com/nhk2p457

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2026 04:56 AM (Yl2Ob)

11
s0m3tH1ng wr0ng w!th tH|s d@rn data6a$e!!!!!

1t won't upd@t3!!!!!!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2026 05:01 AM (XJ22o)

12 the author of this tweet (from 2022?) is re-upping it in response to someone's discussion of typos:

Benjamin Ryan V
@benryanwriter
Replying to @JLimHospMD
This is misinformation about #monkeypox. The outbreak is occurring almost entirely among men who have sex with me. Public health experts agree that sexual contact is the principle driver of transmission and have asserted that risk to kids
remains "very low*.

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 05:01 AM (6wpGE)

13 Good night from the West Coast!

Posted by: SciVo at July 01, 2026 05:03 AM (Sy6m/)

14 And I had such a nice experience at the senior car center yesterday I had a Bible study on Ephesians ( which I enjoyed ) and then the Activities Director had invited me and several volunteers who do all kinds of programs there to a late luncheon, I finished up about half an hour
Too early so I walked around the building which is nicely landscaped As I turned a corner in the back I saw two spotted fawns eating grass. When the saw me they took off running in various directions. They are so funny -The way they dash off and jump. And it was very kind of the Activities Director to give us a luncheon and little gift bags as well

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2026 05:05 AM (Yl2Ob)

15 Belated BOING!

Shopping done! Soon lunchtime with Mrs. BD.

Maybe l8r. I'm completely surrounded by no decent whiskey! Will order online.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 01, 2026 05:08 AM (x8PQF)

16 Couple who has been married for 80 years shares how they did that. Such a nice, thoughtful Christian couple

https://tinyurl.com/bkv73esa

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2026 05:09 AM (Yl2Ob)

17 13 Good night from the West Coast!
Posted by: SciVo at July 01, 2026 05:03 AM (Sy6m/)

*waves*

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 05:11 AM (6wpGE)

18
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 01, 2026 05:11 AM (AMvSw)

19 Plenty of Morons saw this coming:

Open Source Intel @Osint613

Saudi Arabia first blocked U.S. use of its bases and airspace for Project Freedom, Trump's operation to keep the waterway open, halting the mission. The White House threatened to withhold missile-defense interceptors until Riyadh reversed course. It did. The rift has strained ties, with Washington now weighing a reduced military footprint in the kingdom in favor of Israel and Jordan.

Source: WSJ

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 01, 2026 05:15 AM (x8PQF)

20 So many data centers. So little useful data.

Posted by: Wally at July 01, 2026 05:15 AM (0e5Te)

21
the author of this tweet (from 2022?) is re-upping it in response to someone's discussion of typos:

Posted by: m

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

Dear Sir or Madman, Please find attached my resume for the above-referenced position...

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2026 05:16 AM (XJ22o)

22
Plenty of Morons saw this coming:

Posted by: Biden's Dog

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

Why in the hell would Saudi Arabia do this? They don't even like the Iranians. And they have neeq-nafsak money relative to other Arab nations.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2026 05:20 AM (XJ22o)

23
Welp, I'm talky to myself. Off to bed.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2026 05:21 AM (XJ22o)

24 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 01, 2026 05:21 AM (Hbeqj)

25 21
the author of this tweet (from 2022?) is re-upping it in response to someone's discussion of typos:

Posted by: m

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

Dear Sir or Madman, Please find attached my resume for the above-referenced position...
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2026 05:16 AM (XJ22o)

heh

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 05:23 AM (6wpGE)

26 NPP >>>>>> Notepad

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 01, 2026 05:33 AM (967/Q)

27 Saudi’s have the Yemen backed Houthi on one coast and the Chinese backed Iran on the other. Oman is hooked up with Iran, too. SA will make a deal with them.
The Bosphorus to the Ganges should be glassed.

Posted by: Accomack at July 01, 2026 05:34 AM (8jVAy)

28 I really do like NPP. My favorite part is that it cashes whatever I have in unsaved tabs so I can just close it and open it right back with stuff still there. Great for scratch notes.

Posted by: meh at July 01, 2026 05:34 AM (kK7U2)

29 SA is a peninsula but they don’t control their ocean access. Their failure to control Yemen and Oman will be their downfall.

Posted by: Accomack at July 01, 2026 05:35 AM (8jVAy)

30 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. Somewhere in the mid 70s here at Stately Poppins Manor, with temperatures headed to the mid 90s.

I'm trying to knock off a couple of chapters of my book before the heat really kicks in.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 01, 2026 05:36 AM (qRla/)

31 Caches? Words are hard.

Posted by: meh at July 01, 2026 05:37 AM (kK7U2)

32 22
Plenty of Morons saw this coming:

Posted by: Biden's Dog

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

Why in the hell would Saudi Arabia do this? They don't even like the Iranians. And they have neeq-nafsak money relative to other Arab nations.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Because they're Arabs. It's what they do. I'm not sure we have actual allies anymore. We have 'who is useful', until they aren't.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2026 05:38 AM (sAmhv)

33 27 Saudi’s have the Yemen backed Houthi on one coast and the Chinese backed Iran on the other. Oman is hooked up with Iran, too. SA will make a deal with them.
The Bosphorus to the Ganges should be glassed.
Posted by: Accomack at July 01, 2026 05:34 AM (8jVAy)

I entered into a google search box:

bosporus to ganges route

(the same way you might enter into a google search box: chicago to new york city route--and have google cough up a map and distances given for different modes of transportation)

and it didn't work.

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 05:39 AM (6wpGE)

34 Accomack at July 01, 2026 05:34 AM (8jVAy)

The Saudis live there. They have to consider what happens if Trump declares "victory" and withdraws or if Democrats win big in the mid-terms and force withdraw, or the GOPe align with Democrats and force withdraw, or the Israelis get tired of being Trump's yo-yo and the coalition falls apart...

Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at July 01, 2026 05:39 AM (6BjcW)

35 BBC is out to get PDT

(top story)
Trump made more than $1bn from crypto in first year back in office

US Supreme Court has dealt heavy defeats to Trump, while expanding his power

(2 of 7 front-page stories)

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 05:48 AM (6wpGE)

36 Evening and morning, late toilers and early risers! It's Woden's Day, the start of a new month, and the midpoint of the year, all in one swell foop!

Rain chances are higher today, and I need to go shopping for new khakis. The pair I've been wearing at home for some years, and patched during the Sniffle Scare, have finally reached the end of their useful life. Banana Republic and the Gap each have factory stores in the same shopping center with a J. Crew and an Old Navy. Convenient, if annoying that they're not closer to me.

With any luck I'll find what I need in the first store.

("Old Navy"? Hmph. Just try buying an vintage bridge coat or pea jacket there.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 01, 2026 05:51 AM (wzUl9)

37 BBC dutifully ignoring their own faltering island. They're simply yelling 'SQUIRREL' but with a dull, Oxford, English accent.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2026 05:51 AM (sAmhv)

38 Mafe it, barely

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2026 05:52 AM (sgkY8)

39 Nice story about a dad, his mustang ( car ) and his family. Good News network site:

https://tinyurl.com/32meewkp

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2026 05:56 AM (RKlIw)

40 All the establishment press hates Trump, but aside from jingoistic posts on Truth Social, he seems quite content to let them control the message.

Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at July 01, 2026 05:58 AM (6BjcW)

41 UK Prime Minister details (BBC):

A contest for a new leader of the Labour party is expected to begin next month. [July]

The winner will then become the next prime minister because the Labour Party is the biggest political party in parliament.

Mr Starmer said he will ask the Labour Party's National Executive Committee that nominations for the party's new leader open on 9 July.

He said this will be completed before the summer break, which is a week later, on 16 July.

In the case of a leadership contest, this will mean that a new leader would be in place by the time parliament returns from its summer break on 1 September.

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 05:58 AM (6wpGE)

42 G'mornin' everyone!

sun's not up yet, already 74 degrees. yech.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 01, 2026 05:58 AM (VyBeY)

43 38 Mafe it, barely
Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2026 05:52 AM (sgkY

Trying to make a pun on that typo. Not coming up with anything.

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 06:00 AM (6wpGE)

44 I guess maybe:

(Mafe)
I'm gonna live forever
I'm gonna learn how to fly (High)
I feel it coming together
People will see me and cry (Mafe)

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 06:01 AM (6wpGE)

45 Nope. I'm going to eschew politics and its attendant squabbles today. May you have a blessed day!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2026 06:01 AM (Yl2Ob)

46 G'mornin' everyone!

sun's not up yet, already 74 degrees. yech.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 01, 2026

***
Sounds great compared to the stinking wind from Hell that I'm facing this a.m.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 01, 2026 06:02 AM (wzUl9)

47 37 BBC dutifully ignoring their own faltering island. They're simply yelling 'SQUIRREL' but with a dull, Oxford, English accent.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2026 05:51 AM (sAmhv)

"squhl"?

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 06:05 AM (6wpGE)

48 Last night we watched the 1944 classic Mr. Skeffington with Bette Davis and Claude Rains. Wit and style in black-and-white, a tremendous performance from Bette as she ages from age 25 to 50, Claude's usual sharp delivery, and a strong supporting cast. Marjorie Riordan plays Bette's adult daughter -- and she looked so much like Debra Winger would look forty years later that I was positive they were related. Alas, IMDb says no.

The actor who embodied "Teddy," the Brewster brother who is "building the Panama Canal" in his basement, in Arsenic and Old Lace that same year turns in an effective performance too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 01, 2026 06:09 AM (wzUl9)

49 In fact I picked up several classics from my local library. All Through the Night w/ Bogart (apparently a "gangsters vs. Gestapo" story with some welcome humor) from '42, and two Cary Grant vehicles on the same disc, My Favorite Wife and Night and Day.

I tried to find something more recent among their DVDs that appealed to me. I really did. But so much of it looked desperately grim, or silly.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 01, 2026 06:13 AM (wzUl9)

50 Wolfus, have you ever seen The Last Hurrah with Spencer Tracy? Either that or Barbara Stanwyck in Lady of Burlesque might be entertaining.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 01, 2026 06:16 AM (qRla/)

51 In fact I picked up several classics from my local library. All Through the Night w/ Bogart (apparently a "gangsters vs. Gestapo" story with some welcome humor) from '42, and two Cary Grant vehicles on the same disc, My Favorite Wife and Night and Day.

I tried to find something more recent among their DVDs that appealed to me. I really did. But so much of it looked desperately grim, or silly.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

"My Favorite Wife" is one of my favorites. Cary Grant and Irene Dunn were a good team on screen. They're also funny in "The Awful Truth".

Posted by: Tuna at July 01, 2026 06:17 AM (lJ0H4)

52
Good morning, Hordians. Up, dressed, morning prayers said, dogs taken care of, coffee prepared. Now sitting in the Command Center at Schloss Hadrian logging in journal references, this time from Dalton Transactions.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2026 06:19 AM (O0L8i)

53 I want to purchase an inexpensive Blu ray player. Any suggestions?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 06:20 AM (afJtY)

54 47: Heh!

Going to be around 100 for the rest of the week. Yay.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2026 06:21 AM (sAmhv)

55 Wolfus, have you ever seen The Last Hurrah with Spencer Tracy? Either that or Barbara Stanwyck in Lady of Burlesque might be entertaining.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 01, 2026

***
I'll look to see if they have those!

And Tuna, yes, Cary Grant & Irene Dunne were also fantastic in another (dramatic) dimension in Penny Serenade. That film has the finest dramatic work I've ever seen from Grant -- not that he was ever bad.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 01, 2026 06:22 AM (wzUl9)

56 Good morning! The prime objective for today's hop is to ~~do a couple of precision approaches at some uncontrolled airports~~ climb and maintain 70F.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 01, 2026 06:25 AM (3Ope8)

57
Wolfus, have you ever seen The Last Hurrah with Spencer Tracy?

The book, by Edwin O'Connor, is super excellent.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2026 06:25 AM (O0L8i)

58
Couple who has been married for 80 years shares how they did that.

Separate bathrooms, my dear boy, separate bathrooms.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2026 06:30 AM (O0L8i)

59 eh, as I typed that I was thinking "probably worse where Wolfus is"

now we're getting some rain, woohoo!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 01, 2026 06:32 AM (VyBeY)

60 mornin yall. It turns out that the man who died of a heart attack in Alabama while trying to dispose of the body of his girlfriend is from Macon. Strangely, his name contains no "Q", or even a "travious".

Posted by: The people on the upper floors at July 01, 2026 06:35 AM (MWfyi)

61 Oh darn, off executive sock.

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2026 06:35 AM (MWfyi)

62 I want to purchase an inexpensive Blu ray player. Any suggestions?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 06:20 AM (afJtY)

I bought this one recently:

https://tinyurl.com/37bhfw4z

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 01, 2026 06:37 AM (qRla/)

63 "want to purchase an inexpensive Blu ray player. Any suggestions?

Posted by: Ben Had"

Amazon has them for $100 or so but I would buy from BH Photo first. $89 for a Panasonic.

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2026 06:39 AM (MWfyi)

64 Morning peeps. Finished mowing the yard yesterday. The "heat index" was 117F. We had several days of rain late last week and into Saturday... almost 7 inches. The ground is saturated, causing morning fog and high humidity during the day. However, the pool's nice.

Pity those Euro-wienies. Do they even have pools?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2026 06:41 AM (jehhT)

65 Barack Obama still dilating on slavery as the 250th nears. It never ends.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 01, 2026 06:41 AM (fZiTB)

66 MP 4, thank you. I was gifted a complation of "Thin Man" movies and it is blu ray so I'm looking for the cheapest possible player. I have a large DVD selection and this is the only blu ray.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 06:41 AM (afJtY)

Posted by: Don Black at July 01, 2026 06:42 AM (cVN12)

68 "Speaking of which, Henrico County in Virginia is asking schools to open the blinds and turn off the lights to save electricity. (404 Media) (archive site)

Henrico County has 37 datacenters and is constructing 17 more right now."
- - - - - - - -
I've a suspicion that the electricity usage is more leaning towards HVAC - cooling down the schools. And letting the sunlight in, with all its waves of radation, is the #1 cause of heat generation in the schools (and the world, for that matter).

Especially if, being good little serfs, they moved to CFLs, then to LED lighting, which is supposed to use less energy. On the plus side, LEDs do generate less heat.

Posted by: G. Quagmire at July 01, 2026 06:43 AM (4h45B)

69 You're welcome, Ben Had. I'm a fumble-fingers, so I looked for the simplest player I could find and this was it.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 01, 2026 06:44 AM (qRla/)

70 Ben Had, I bet you could get a good working one on eBay for less than $50.

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2026 06:45 AM (MWfyi)

71 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 06:46 AM (u82oZ)

72 fd, Walmart supposedly has one for around $ 35 if they have it in stock. I checked the pawn shop but they were higher than brand new.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 06:47 AM (afJtY)

73 54 47: Heh!

Going to be around 100 for the rest of the week. Yay.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2026 06:21 AM (sAmhv)

A friend who lives in/near DC emailed me yesterday to report those same woes. Stay cool!

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 06:48 AM (6wpGE)

74 Posted by: The people on the upper floors at July 01, 2026 06:35 AM (MWfyi)

61 Oh darn, off executive sock.
Posted by: fd at July 01, 2026 06:35 AM (MWfyi)

It's a kind of timeless sock, fd!

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 06:49 AM (6wpGE)

75 Good morning. Gonna be 96 here. Stay cool, cats 'n' kittens.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 01, 2026 06:52 AM (kpS4V)

76 Hadrian the Seventh

Was Chem Abstracts not complete enough that you had to go to individual journals?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 06:53 AM (u82oZ)

77

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 01, 2026 06:53 AM (fqYPV)

78 77

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 01, 2026 06:53 AM (fqYPV)

You'll never be President.

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 06:54 AM (6wpGE)

79 Hillary Clinton

Hi there, Ms. Ambition >>> Ability.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 06:55 AM (u82oZ)

80 Going to be around 100 for the rest of the week. Yay.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2026 06:21 AM (sAmhv)

A friend who lives in/near DC emailed me yesterday to report those same woes. Stay cool!
Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 06:48 AM (6wpGE)

That's probably going to keep visitors away, which will delight the Dems.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 01, 2026 06:55 AM (qRla/)

81 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 06:55 AM (RIvkX)

82 Look for a Phillips Blu-Ray player at Walmart.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 01, 2026 06:56 AM (qFwJc)

83 65 Barack Obama still dilating on slavery as the 250th nears. It never ends.
Posted by: Ordinary American

It goes on. It goes on, America. The grift... the grift... is not... over!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2026 06:56 AM (sAmhv)

84 79 Hillary Clinton

Hi there, Ms. Ambition >>> Ability.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 06:55 AM (u82oZ)

Ms. Bitchiness >>> Believability.

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 06:56 AM (6wpGE)

85 Just watch the video damnit

https://youtube.com/shorts/a2l9a2hxIes

Posted by: The Ballots at July 01, 2026 06:57 AM (LOZbR)

86 m

We need Wesley Crusher to note the 23° axial tilt, and the Earth's rotation around the sun.

It is summer. Could have been worse this year, but the Sun is sliding down from it's cyclical solar maximum.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 06:58 AM (u82oZ)

87 I'm working right through the 4th, in a very cold room, so I'll be cool enough. I wear a jacket in that office. I sleep during the day, or I'll try to. My condo is ancient and the AC here is sketchy at best. It keeps things not sweltering, which will do.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2026 06:59 AM (sAmhv)

88 m

The appearance of Hillary allows us to return to the halcyon days of Flamewar Friday.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 06:59 AM (u82oZ)

89 Plenty of Morons saw this coming:
=====

The inevitable result of this feckless Iran adventure.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 06:59 AM (RIvkX)

90 They're going to have fireworks on the National Mall on the 4th, and you can watch them here!

https://tinyurl.com/pkw89dhd

https://www.earthcam.com

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 07:01 AM (6wpGE)

91 That "TinyRetroPad" app is interesting as a concept - try to shrink the size while still being a full-fledged Windows app. But apparently it uses some sort of compression software, "Crinkler" (also a project on GitHub), to obtain that shrunken size in the EXE file. And there's warnings that Windows Defender complains about both; naturally, since compression is a type of obfuscation that malware usually does (the competent ones, anyways).

I'm also reminded of a recent surge in web malware from "AdShield". It tries to get around various adware blocks, AND the JavaScript that invokes it is a mess of obsfucated code that tries to add together strings of unicode values and then EXECs them. Just like malware. If you happen to have Dev Tools open to the Networking tab, it goes crazy sending messages to "HTML-LOAD" and similar servers, like it was the rest of the world pouring over the US borders during the Biden Empire.

Posted by: G. Quagmire at July 01, 2026 07:03 AM (4h45B)

92 m

Used to go every year. One time I took my camera. Great fireworks. I was in the center of the Mall, and most pictures had the Washington Monument block the bursts.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 07:03 AM (u82oZ)

93 on the earthcam.com DC website:

Thanks to EarthCam's partnership with the National Park Service, anyone can experience Washington, D.C., from the top of the Monument.

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 07:03 AM (6wpGE)

94 fd, Walmart supposedly has one for around $ 35 if they have it in stock. I checked the pawn shop but they were higher than brand new.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 06:47 AM (afJtY)

Be careful with their ONN crap. Had a regular dvd player. Watched Bullitt. Replaced when no longer working with ONN player because $25. Wouldn't play Bullitt: no files. Correct area. Had trouble with a balky mouse freezing for no reason. It was ONN. Thought the HD was too full or RAM was high use. Nope. Replaced ONN mouse with Logitech: no problems since. Not gonna buy ONN stuff again.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2026 07:04 AM (1Ff7Z)

95 92 m

Used to go every year. One time I took my camera. Great fireworks. I was in the center of the Mall, and most pictures had the Washington Monument block the bursts.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 07:03 AM (u82oZ)

cool

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 07:06 AM (6wpGE)

96 m

For the 2000 fireworks, The scaffolding on the Washington Monument was a staging area for fireworks.

Bill Clinton was President for the Party December 31st 2000 in the US Mall. Any astronomer knows this party was a year early.

6 Jumbotron were installed down the Reflecting Pool. I was with my abundantly-provided black girlfriend at the end of the Reflecting Pool. Secret Service screening broke down by that time.

President Clinton was late. He had with him Sophia Loren and Lix Taylor, both without a lot of torso coverage on a cool night. He gave a forgettable speech.

The fireworks went off close to me on the Washington Monument repair scaffolding. For only 20 minutes.

Then the official party left, and there were more fireworks from a badge on the Potomac.

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

97 7:07am and 75 degrees in DC according to webcam

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 07:07 AM (6wpGE)

98 I like hearing morons co plain about the heat it makes the perpetual fog and cold a little more bearable. High 67 today.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 07:08 AM (RIvkX)

99
Was Chem Abstracts not complete enough that you had to go to individual journals?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 06:53 AM (u82oZ)

How do I access CA? How do I get the records displayed? Going through STN? Elon Musk couldn't finance that.

No, it's a long, long plodding search with Google Scholar and the databases from the publishers. I've gotten the citations from ACS, Elsevier, Wiley, Springer and a couple of others. The Royal Society of Chemistry is the last one I'm going to go through.

Then, whenever that's all done, I have to organize them all by keywords, which will have to be generated. And after that, I actually have to get them to read them. And there's going to be close to 8500 of them.

And that's just the journal articles. There's also patents, though that will be a one-day search. Even limiting them to US, EP and PCT, there will be an equivalent number. I feel like Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion.

https://tinyurl.com/mvp3etxx

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2026 07:09 AM (O0L8i)

100 100

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 07:09 AM (6wpGE)

101 Liz Taylor.

At the White House afterparty that time, my Secret Service friend told me Liz was on one side of Bill Clinton, and Sophia Loren was on the other. Bill stared down Sophia's dress, while ignoring Liz. Liz called him out on that. But I don't know the rest of the story.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 07:09 AM (u82oZ)

102 98 I like hearing morons co plain
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 07:08 AM (RIvkX)

Co plaining here, boss.

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 07:10 AM (6wpGE)

103 I like hearing morons co plain about the heat it makes the perpetual fog and cold a little more bearable. High 67 today.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 07:08 AM (RIvkX)

The East Bay is probably warmer, if you want to commiserate with them. Not even expected to be 100 here in Parts Unknown.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2026 07:10 AM (1Ff7Z)

104 Hadrian the Seventh

Yikes!

So STN tightened up private access. I had an account through my failed startup. Was a tax item.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 07:12 AM (u82oZ)

105 We may have a chance of seeing fireworks despite the fog this year, they are firing them off the Golden Gate Bridge.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 07:13 AM (RIvkX)

106 San Franpsycho

Cool.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 07:14 AM (u82oZ)

107 DC (Bethesda) forecast: July 1 = 98 F, July 2 = 103 F, July 3 = 103F, July 4 = 100F.

Boy are there going to be a lot of medical rescues.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at July 01, 2026 07:15 AM (S8cdb)

108 I recall going down to the Mall for fireworks on the 4th several times. I know once, it rained really hard and people struggled with their soaking wet blankets to get to the Metro stations. It was quite the sight. Mud everywhere.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2026 07:15 AM (jehhT)

109 Bill stared down Sophia's dress, while ignoring Liz. Liz called him out on that.

Loren has a reputation as a notorious flirt. She almost broke up Peter Sellers' marriage.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 01, 2026 07:15 AM (qRla/)

110 The East Bay is probably warmer, if you want to commiserate with them. Not even expected to be 100 here in Parts Unknown.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2026 07:10 AM (1Ff7Z)
=====

Anywhere outside San Francisco, Daly City, or Pacifica will have a more typical high-desert climate. Coming home from working in Marin you drive into a wall of fog 30 degrees colder.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 07:17 AM (RIvkX)

111 Flear and Co plain is all we do.

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2026 07:17 AM (Gqar8)

112 109 Bill stared down Sophia's dress, while ignoring Liz. Liz called him out on that.

Loren has a reputation as a notorious flirt. She almost broke up Peter Sellers' marriage.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 01, 2026 07:15 AM (qRla/)

My favorite sex goddess. So real and authentic.

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2026 07:18 AM (Gqar8)

113 91 AND the JavaScript that invokes it is a mess of obsfucated code
Posted by: G. Quagmire at July 01, 2026 07:03 AM (4h45B)

If "obsfuc(k)ated" isn't an intentional typo, it is nonetheless a great one.

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 07:19 AM (6wpGE)

114 Yes, but how many of you have fire smoke in your weather forecast

Posted by: Don Black at July 01, 2026 07:19 AM (cVN12)

115
And the pitiful thing is that after all this time and effort, it still won't be comprehensive, either on the patent or the non-patent side.

Then, assuming I live long enough to see it published, academic assholes will disparage it as long, prolix and dull.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2026 07:19 AM (O0L8i)

116 112 109 Bill stared down Sophia's dress, while ignoring Liz. Liz called him out on that.

Loren has a reputation as a notorious flirt.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 01, 2026 07:15 AM (qRla/)

My favorite sex goddess. So real and authentic.
Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2026 07:18 AM (Gqar

Is that: the one on the left is named "real" and the one on the right is named "authentic"?

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 07:21 AM (6wpGE)

117
Yes, but how many of you have fire smoke in your weather forecast
Posted by: Don Black at July 01, 2026 07:19 AM (cVN12)

We had Saharan dust in ours. Does that count?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2026 07:21 AM (O0L8i)

118 116 112 109 Bill stared down Sophia's dress, while ignoring Liz. Liz called him out on that.

Loren has a reputation as a notorious flirt.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 01, 2026 07:15 AM (qRla/)

My favorite sex goddess. So real and authentic.
Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2026 07:18 AM (Gqar

Is that: the one on the left is named "real" and the one on the right is named "authentic"?
Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 07:21 AM (6wpGE)

No!! Well - yeah, kinda, I guess.

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2026 07:22 AM (Gqar8)

119 Weather, that never ending complaint about to hot, to cold. We haven't broken any heat records yet this summer, although the media is screaming at me about not going outdoors or something. Record highs go back to 1901 as being the worst. Those damn SUV's back in old days, sure put out a lots of bad gases.

Posted by: colin at July 01, 2026 07:24 AM (CiQE7)

120 This UN Special Rapporteur Tlaleng Mofokeng was mentioned on the blog a day or so ago.

Here is a little video calling her to account.

https://youtu.be/93tnr1LVA4Y

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 07:25 AM (RIvkX)

121 colin

I saw a picture of a Texas town in summer in the 19th Century. The horses looked like they wanted water, but the DeLorean coupe was doing just fine.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 07:27 AM (u82oZ)

122 Does the National Mall have a Saks store?

Posted by: Bimbo blonde influencer at July 01, 2026 07:29 AM (J4Dwc)

123 Nood JJ.

Posted by: Nazdar at July 01, 2026 07:29 AM (NcvvS)

124 J.J. had landed on runway 270.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 01, 2026 07:29 AM (u82oZ)

125 G Skill's new ultra low latency 32GB memory kits cost just $1100.

Thanks, but no.

This.

(Mornin' all.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 01, 2026 07:31 AM (O7YUW)

126 Mom always said, "Stop co plaining or I'll give you something to really co plain about!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 07:32 AM (RIvkX)

127 126 Mom always said, "Stop co plaining or I'll give you something to really co plain about!"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 07:32 AM (RIvkX)

Mom Franpsycho!

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 07:47 AM (6wpGE)

Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - June 30, 2026 [Doof]

Photo credit - RedMindBlueState

The Tuesday night ONT has arrived. The waning hours of June 2026. So glad you could be here. Open thread, as always. Got anything interesting on your mind tonight?

[Top photo: The Monastery of the Holy Trinity in Greece]

***

Imagine being a leftist and hating all of this patriotism.

First up the Sphere in Las Vegas

I love this country so much �� pic.twitter.com/x4ga5mPGmI
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 28, 2026

A two-fer from Hoover Dam

Just now over Hoover Dam! pic.twitter.com/tCKO1Q1Vtn
— Kevin Janison (@KevinJanison) June 30, 2026

Hoover Dam is once again going full red-white-and-blue every night through July 4.

The giant American flag will be raised overnight and visible to visitors starting Tuesday morning.

The top-of-dam and Memorial Bridge walkways will stay open until 10 p.m. each night. pic.twitter.com/BSxyuBY1We
— Las Vegas Locally �� (@LasVegasLocally) June 29, 2026

Check out this awesome train

LET’S GO �� America’s 250th train just ARRIVED in Washington, DC. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY EPIC
pic.twitter.com/rDISSS8Qq7
— MAGA Voice (@MAGAVoice) June 30, 2026

Super cool photo from more than 100 years ago

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The grass used for the World Cup is some high tech stuff!

This reporter explains the insane process of turning American football stadiums into natural-grass soccer fields for the World Cup.

Some of these stadiums normally use artificial turf, but FIFA requires World Cup matches to be played on natural grass. pic.twitter.com/PvKQXRyyB5
— Dudes Posting Their W’s (@DudespostingWs) June 29, 2026

Bonus points for saying "field".

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I missed this when I was a kid. Or it's AI. I dunno. But it's funny!

Ahhhh, the good ol’ days. When even The Flintstones landed a good dck joke. �� pic.twitter.com/XuI0qrxXlF
— Jen (@SweetTexanRose) June 30, 2026

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DJ Doof - Shakin' It Edition

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Tonight's ONT brought to you by change of month

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1 Top photo: The Monastery of the Holy Trinity in Greece

Looks like St. Cyril's to me, James.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2026 10:00 PM (1Ff7Z)

2 not first

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 30, 2026 10:00 PM (THY4u)

3 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 30, 2026 10:00 PM (9KCLn)

4
*massive C major chord*

Doooooooof!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 10:01 PM (O0L8i)

5 Sh*t on time and everything.

Posted by: Case at June 30, 2026 10:01 PM (IY9No)

6 You just *waited* for me to comment so you could Willow me, didn't you Mr. Doof.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 10:01 PM (R+iUD)

7 *massive C major chord*

Doooooooof!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 10:01 PM (O0L8i)

That last "o" sounded a bit sharp

Posted by: Doof at June 30, 2026 10:02 PM (QMAsf)

8 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 30, 2026 10:03 PM (+9wcF)

9
Talarico looks like a guy who has a court order to stay 100 yards from a school.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 10:04 PM (O0L8i)

10 ...FIFA requires World Cup matches to be played on natural grass.

Ok, THIS is one area in which I will concede superiority to the Euros. Turf is of Stan.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 10:04 PM (R+iUD)

11 I love that last photo!

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 10:04 PM (KC5Lt)

12 Hey, Doof. Thank you for addressing me by my real first name at the NoVa MoMe.

You truly are a class act.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 10:04 PM (77rzZ)

13 Good evening morons y gracias Disco.

I've seen so many Dead shows open with Shakedown Street.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 10:04 PM (RIvkX)

14 You just *waited* for me to comment so you could Willow me, didn't you Mr. Doof.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 10:01 PM (R+iUD)

Not guilty. But now I need to try that some time!

Posted by: Doof at June 30, 2026 10:04 PM (QMAsf)

15 You can't see the display on the dam from the top. I think that shot was from either a helo or from the Pat Tillman Bridge.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2026 10:04 PM (1Ff7Z)

16 Betty Rubble was better looking than Wilma Flintstone. Just saying.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 30, 2026 10:05 PM (qFwJc)

17 Talarico looks like a guy who has a court order to stay 100 yards from a school.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 10:04 PM (O0L8i)
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Better make it 1000 yards. Just to be safe.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 30, 2026 10:05 PM (gnNyN)

18 9 Talarico looks like a guy who has a court order to stay 100 yards from a school.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Talarico is leading among women and Hispanics in Texas.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 10:05 PM (gKWVE)

19 Betty Rubble was better looking than Wilma Flintstone. Just saying.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 30, 2026 10:05 PM (qFwJc)
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"I'd go with Betty. But I'd be thinking about Wilma."

Posted by: The Cat from Red Dwarf at June 30, 2026 10:06 PM (gnNyN)

20 Betty Rubble was better looking than Wilma Flintstone. Just saying.

But Wilma was a redhead. How many little boy's souls did she steal through the TV?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 30, 2026 10:06 PM (+9wcF)

21 "Good evening good people."

False premise. There are no good people.

Kind of like "why do bad things happen to good people?"

Posted by: Zombie John Calvin at June 30, 2026 10:06 PM (qFwJc)

22 >>> 18 9 Talarico looks like a guy who has a court order to stay 100 yards from a school.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Talarico is leading among women and Hispanics in Texas.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 10:05 PM (gKWVE)

Was Robert O'Rourke leading among women and Hispanics in Texas?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 10:06 PM (R+iUD)

23 Looks like St. Cyril's to me, James."

It's for your eyes only...

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 10:06 PM (XuXeR)

24 Hey, Doof. Thank you for addressing me by my real first name at the NoVa MoMe.

You truly are a class act.
Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 10:04 PM (77rzZ)

Once in a while I can be classy. Don't let that get out!

Posted by: Doof at June 30, 2026 10:06 PM (QMAsf)

25 Had our Security Team pistol quals today - only two NDs and one bad slide bite amongst the group. I'm the youngest guy there. Look, I understand you were a badass when you rode with the Rough Riders but really?

Posted by: Tonypete at June 30, 2026 10:06 PM (9KCLn)

26 NFL players ain't happy the stadiums allowed the field change but not for them.

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 10:07 PM (KC5Lt)

27 Many thanks for the ONT Doof. It is a good attempt to cheer the good folks after today's devastating SC decision. I would love to join in the cheers, and try to be positive, but I cannot help thinking--

The United States of America - 1776 - 2026. Rest in Peace. You were our final hope.

Sorry everyone.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 30, 2026 10:07 PM (CHHv1)

28 Good evening! We made our last walk in between thunderstorms. This dog will not go in his yard, because according to Shiba Rule 3.1.3 subsection g, that is entirely too close to the house where you do not go potty. Ever. So we have to walk down to the corner, and across the street.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 10:07 PM (hftzA)

29 Betty Rubble was better looking than Wilma Flintstone. Just saying.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 30, 2026 10:05 PM (qFwJc)

Pebbles was a hottie

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 30, 2026 10:07 PM (QMAsf)

30 Looks like St. Cyril's to me, James."

It's for your eyes only...
Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 10:06 PM (XuXeR)

Carole Bouquet was pretty good looking.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2026 10:08 PM (1Ff7Z)

31 16 Oh, great. Now the “Betty v, Wilma” wars are gonna start.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 10:08 PM (77rzZ)

32 Hey, Doof. Thank you for addressing me by my real first name at the NoVa MoMe.

You truly are a class act.
Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 10:04 PM (77rzZ)
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Clarence?
Chad?
Jehosephat?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 10:08 PM (RIvkX)

33 There are two kinds of redheads. Ann-Margaret and Kathy Griffin.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 30, 2026 10:09 PM (qFwJc)

34 But Wilma was a redhead. How many little boy's souls did she steal through the TV?
Posted by: Blanco Basura

I always wondered how I'd act if I was the Mastodon with my trunk stuck through the wall spraying water on a nekkid Wilma.

Not really - I know what I'd be doing.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 30, 2026 10:09 PM (9KCLn)

35 Ann Margrock

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 10:10 PM (KC5Lt)

36
16 Betty Rubble was better looking than Wilma Flintstone. Just saying.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 30, 2026 10:05 PM (qFwJc)

Please, no Rule 34.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 10:10 PM (7wNAQ)

37
The Big Dummy returns to Schloss Hadrian tomorrow after his month-long vacation in Ohio.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 10:10 PM (O0L8i)

38 "North Coast groomers deliver drive up service"

Headline from an Oregon paper. Could be about dogs. Then again...

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 30, 2026 10:10 PM (obVEo)

39 The United States of America - 1776 - 2026. Rest in Peace. You were our final hope.

Sorry everyone.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 30, 2026 10:07 PM (CHHv1)

Don't give up hope, BC. The Republicans will... ah, forget it. We're done.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2026 10:10 PM (1Ff7Z)

40 32 Hey, Doof. Thank you for addressing me by my real first name at the NoVa MoMe.

You truly are a class act.
Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 10:04 PM (77rzZ)
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Clarence?
Chad?
Jehosephat?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 10:08 PM (RIvkX)

Rumpelstiltskin

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 10:10 PM (hftzA)

41 Please, no Rule 34.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Oh trust me - it's out there.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 30, 2026 10:11 PM (9KCLn)

42 Good evening morons y gracias Disco.

I've seen so many Dead shows open with Shakedown Street.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 10:04 PM (RIvkX)

I considered a live version. The shortest one among the ones I saw was 12 minutes. No thanks. The 5 minute album version is already too long!

Posted by: Doof at June 30, 2026 10:11 PM (QMAsf)

43 They are either beautiful or hideous.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 30, 2026 10:12 PM (qFwJc)

44 16 Betty Rubble was better looking than Wilma Flintstone. Just saying.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 30, 2026 10:05 PM (qFwJc)

I'm convinced that Cartoons and 60's 70's sitcoms gave us normal Men an inflated view of what kind of chicks we could marry.

Betty and Wilma with those schlugs? Josie and the Pussycats? Mom Brady? Mrs. McMillan? Mrs. Ward (who looked good...)...

The era was full of normal to substandard Men, who were the butt of most jokes, always having Hawty wives.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 10:12 PM (mP0Kj)

45 Clarence?
Chad?
Jehosephat?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 10:08 PM (RIvkX)

Aloysius?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2026 10:12 PM (1Ff7Z)

46 40 32 Hey, Doof. Thank you for addressing me by my real first name at the NoVa MoMe.

You truly are a class act.
Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 10:04 PM (77rzZ)
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Clarence?
Chad?
Jehosephat?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 10:08 PM (RIvkX)

Rumpelstiltskin
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 10:10 PM (hftzA)

BeetleJui..... not gonna say it!

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 10:13 PM (mP0Kj)

47 39 The United States of America - 1776 - 2026. Rest in Peace. You were our final hope.

Sorry everyone.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 30, 2026 10:07 PM (CHHv1)

Don't give up hope, BC. The Republicans will... ah, forget it. We're done.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2026 10:10 PM

We are not done. We are going to fight for our country, we are going to be resourceful. We are Americans, dang it. We have soaring eagles. We have Bucc-ees. We have God. We are putting our faith in him over man. And we are going to make it.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 10:13 PM (hftzA)

48 So did the Supreme Court define anywhere the US has jurisdiction to be MAGIC DIRT? Embassies, military installations, ships at sea, airplanes?

The MAGIC DIRT citizenship certainly cheapens what it means to be an American. We are no longer the home of the free, we're the home of the global free shit army.

Posted by: Minuteman at June 30, 2026 10:13 PM (47/pr)

49
Baseball fights are so lame. Like they're the last dance at the gay nightclub.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 10:14 PM (O0L8i)

50 Gee. You think we might have been brainwashed?

Nah. Forget about it.

Seriously, would Herman Munster got Yvonne de Carlo?

Hollywood fantasies.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 30, 2026 10:15 PM (qFwJc)

51 We are not done. We are going to fight for our country, we are going to be resourceful. We are Americans, dang it. We have soaring eagles. We have Bucc-ees. We have God. We are putting our faith in him over man. And we are going to make it.
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 10:13 PM (hftzA)

True, but if we HAD to rely on the R party....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2026 10:15 PM (1Ff7Z)

52 Betty Rubble was better looking than Wilma Flintstone. Just saying.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 30, 2026 10:05 PM (qFwJc)

Not in the movie. Wilma was Elizabeth McGovern, Betty was Rosie friggin' O'Donnel. Yeesh.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 30, 2026 10:15 PM (0aYVJ)

53 39 The United States of America - 1776 - 2026. Rest in Peace. You were our final hope.

Sorry everyone.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 30, 2026 10:07 PM (CHHv1)

Don't give up hope, BC. The Republicans will... ah, forget it. We're done.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2026 10:10 PM (1Ff7Z)

On the eve of the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence from England... a war we fought to NOT be under English Law... the Supremes declared that English Law was more important than the laws we had already passed in this country.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 10:15 PM (mP0Kj)

54 Baseball fights are so lame. Like they're the last dance at the gay nightclub.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Except when Nolan Ryan is beating the shit out of you.

Posted by: Robin Ventura at June 30, 2026 10:15 PM (9KCLn)

55
The era was full of normal to substandard Men, who were the butt of most jokes, always having Hawty wives.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 10:12 PM (mP0Kj)

________

Steady on there, boyo. I'm a substandard man with a hot wife.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 10:15 PM (O0L8i)

56 Talarico is leading among women and Hispanics in Texas.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 10:05 PM (gKWVE)

I find it difficult to believe that Hispanics would vote for that Alfred E. Neumann looking mutant kiddy toucher.

Posted by: Butch at June 30, 2026 10:15 PM (98xTj)

57 We are not done. We are going to fight for our country, we are going to be resourceful. We are Americans, dang it. We have soaring eagles. We have Bucc-ees. We have God. We are putting our faith in him over man. And we are going to make it.
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 10:13 PM (hftzA)

Ever the optimist, you are. Please don't lose that.

Posted by: Doof at June 30, 2026 10:16 PM (QMAsf)

58 Heh. Nobody knows that my first name is actually “Cuthbert.”

Wait…uh oh…

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 10:16 PM (77rzZ)

59
Except when Nolan Ryan is beating the shit out of you.

Posted by: Robin Ventura at June 30, 2026 10:15 PM (9KCLn)

____________

The exception that highlights the rule. I almost expect to see Buddy Bizarre in there.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 10:17 PM (O0L8i)

60 50 Gee. You think we might have been brainwashed?

Nah. Forget about it.

Seriously, would Herman Munster got Yvonne de Carlo?

Hollywood fantasies.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 30, 2026 10:15 PM (qFwJc)

Carolyn Jones... BEST MORTICIA...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 10:18 PM (mP0Kj)

61 Baseball fights are so lame. Like they're the last dance at the gay nightclub.

If they were serious about it, they wouldn't toss the bat and helmet at the start.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2026 10:18 PM (vTZFs)

62 Good evening Horde. Thanks Disco!

Posted by: TRex - dam dino at June 30, 2026 10:18 PM (IQ6Gq)

63 The era was full of normal to substandard Men, who were the butt of most jokes, always having Hawty wives.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 10:12 PM (mP0Kj)

Like Kevin James and Leah Rimini? Like Jim Belushi and his wife character? Those old show tropes?

The wife has always been better looking than the husband on most tv shows.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2026 10:18 PM (1Ff7Z)

64
True, but if we HAD to rely on the R party....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2026 10:15 PM (1Ff7Z

We are going to make the R party stand for….(quick someone help me with an r word that is inspirational and reflects us taking it back)

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 10:18 PM (hftzA)

65 The MAGIC DIRT citizenship certainly cheapens what it means to be an American. We are no longer the home of the free, we're the home of the global free shit army.
Posted by: Minuteman

Birthright Bob strikes again. The requirement to become a US citizen are less that what is demanded when establishing residency in a US state.

Old Hotness: Wet foot, Dry foot. New Hotness: Squat and Pop.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 30, 2026 10:18 PM (obVEo)

66 Evenin'

Still bingeing Ella Langley.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 30, 2026 10:19 PM (sAmhv)

67 Heh. Nobody knows that my first name is actually “Cuthbert.”

Wait…uh oh…
Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 10:16 PM (77rzZ)

That sounds... tinny.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2026 10:19 PM (1Ff7Z)

68 Steady on there, boyo. I'm a substandard man with a hot wife.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 10:15 PM (O0L8i)

As am I. As my sons would, and do say, I was a reacher, she was a settler.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 30, 2026 10:19 PM (0aYVJ)

69 Good evening Horde. Thanks Disco!
Posted by: TRex - dam dino at June 30, 2026 10:18 PM (IQ6Gq)

Yo, Dino!

Posted by: Doof at June 30, 2026 10:19 PM (QMAsf)

70 Today got off to a rousing start. I got an email from my discount cellular carrier giving me 24 hours notice that one of my services was being discontinued, its number will be lost, and by the way they are hoping to go into Chapter 11 bankruptcy, so my other service is imperiled.

Fortunately, the dead service only goes to my backup phone, so I have a bit of breathing room to get my main number transferred.

This time, I'm making sure I have two different carriers, so if one goes belly up I'll have a backup on hand.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 30, 2026 10:19 PM (+wZeq)

71 The United States of America - 1776 - 2026. Rest in Peace. You were our final hope.

Sorry everyone.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 30, 2026 10:07 PM (CHHv1)

We've had much much worse happen and continued to be the best of the rest.

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 10:20 PM (KC5Lt)

72
Nobody knows that my first name is actually “Cuthbert.”

Wait…uh oh…
Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 10:16 PM (77rzZ)

__________

*snickers cruelly*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 10:20 PM (O0L8i)

73 67 Heh. Nobody knows that my first name is actually “Cuthbert.”

Wait…uh oh…
Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 10:16 PM (77rzZ)

That sounds... tinny.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2026 10:19 PM (1Ff7Z)

I know Cuthbert...

Posted by: Mrs. McClintock at June 30, 2026 10:20 PM (mP0Kj)

74 57 We are not done. We are going to fight for our country, we are going to be resourceful. We are Americans, dang it. We have soaring eagles. We have Bucc-ees. We have God. We are putting our faith in him over man. And we are going to make it.
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 10:13 PM (hftzA)

Ever the optimist, you are. Please don't lose that.
Posted by: Doof at June 30, 2026 10:16 PM (QMAsf)

In the mean time, let’s all save our loose change to buy an island. We should have a lil back up plan. Just in case.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 10:21 PM (hftzA)

75 I find it difficult to believe that Hispanics would vote for that Alfred E. Neumann looking mutant kiddy toucher.
Posted by: Butch

This is from the NYT/Siena poll taken today.
There's some time between now and November. I agree that Paxton can run this idjit's numbers down just by telling Tejanos that "Talarico" is not in fact his birth name, and that the Gospel of Thomas is not in fact in the New Testament.
Women are going to be a harder sell, but mothers of daughters might appreciate his stance on trannies.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 10:21 PM (gKWVE)

76 We are going to make the R party stand for….(quick someone help me with an r word that is inspirational and reflects us taking it back)
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 10:18 PM (hftzA)

Restoration

Posted by: Emmie at June 30, 2026 10:22 PM (pAWWf)

77 Looks like St. Cyril's to me, James."

It's for your eyes only...
Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 10:06 PM

Well spotted, gentlemen.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 30, 2026 10:23 PM (Wnv9h)

78 Has anyone found a source for cluebats - not solid steel baseball bats, but ones that work without someone getting arrested?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 30, 2026 10:23 PM (qx7Zg)

79 Are the Boomers here ready to admit that women have no place in government or are we still defending Pam Blondi and AOC—I mean, ACB?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 30, 2026 10:24 PM (l3YAf)

80 If two liberal ideals contradict themselves what happens? Buttered toast strapped to a cat or do they eventually blip out of existence?

Posted by: H at June 30, 2026 10:24 PM (w8ire)

81 We are not done. We are going to fight for our country, we are going to be resourceful. We are Americans, dang it. We have soaring eagles. We have Bucc-ees. We have God. We are putting our faith in him over man. And we are going to make it.
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No, none of us are ever going to fight for it.

Those farmers two and a half centuries fought for it.

All we do is talk and vote, and sit on juries to give the system a veneer of legitimacy. And pay taxes because we've decided that's somehow virtuous. And submit to the government's demands (see covid) because it doesn't occur to most of us not to mindlessly obey. We suppress men so that idiot women can pretend to be our equals, and celebrate sodomites.

We don't value independence. Most of "our" corporations and public servants will happily enforce European speech codes. And we're addicted to cheap Chinese shit. And for some reason even our side's leaders want greater entanglement with the Chicoms.

This generation simply isn't worthy of the name "American."

Posted by: Methos at June 30, 2026 10:25 PM (vSvIl)

82 This is from the NYT/Siena poll taken today.
There's some time between now and November. I agree that Paxton can run this idjit's numbers down just by telling Tejanos that "Talarico" is not in fact his birth name, and that the Gospel of Thomas is not in fact in the New Testament.
Women are going to be a harder sell, but mothers of daughters might appreciate his stance on trannies.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 10:21 PM (gKWVE)

The Tejanos will not care. Talarico is Italian. And he was adopted. He didn’t make the name up.

Best to just go with this guy is cucucachoo. The end.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 10:25 PM (hftzA)

83 20 minutes into the Mexico - Ecuador game and remarkably not a single player has rolled around on the field in utter agony after being looked at by an opposing player, only to be suddenly cured the moment a referee tells the player to knock it off.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 30, 2026 10:25 PM (obVEo)

84 Heh. Nobody knows that my first name is actually “Cuthbert.”

Wait…uh oh…
Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 10:16 PM (77rzZ)

That sounds... tinny.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2026 10:19 PM (1Ff7Z)

I know Cuthbert...
Posted by: Mrs. McClintock at June 30, 2026 10:20 PM (mP0Kj)

I was certain it was Hedley Lamar.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 30, 2026 10:25 PM (qx7Zg)

85 We are going to make the R party stand for….(quick someone help me with an r word that is inspirational and reflects us taking it back)
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 10:18 PM (hftzA)

Restoration
Posted by: Emmie
++++
Reckoning

Posted by: Florida Peasant at June 30, 2026 10:26 PM (PoHyk)

86 76 We are going to make the R party stand for….(quick someone help me with an r word that is inspirational and reflects us taking it back)
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 10:18 PM (hftzA)

Restoration
Posted by: Emmie at June 30, 2026 10:22 PM

Thank you.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 10:26 PM (hftzA)

87 Amy Coney Barrett imported Haitians into her own family.

Of course she thinks anything old thing that falls out and touches our soil automatically becomes “American”..

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 30, 2026 10:27 PM (l3YAf)

88 I climbed up there. Spectacular view. Second only to Yosemite in my travels.

Posted by: Frank Nobody at June 30, 2026 10:27 PM (75cud)

89

We don't have a Buc-ee's yet but Wally's opens tomorrow.

https://www.wallys.com

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 30, 2026 10:27 PM (Cqx++)

90 Actually a Bible PAC running ads in TX with Thomas 114, Thomas 22 (which Talarico quoted!), Thomas 105 might help.
And be educational.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 10:27 PM (gKWVE)

91 I was 10 years old during the Bicentennial. The buildup was colossal. John Wayne was the Grand Marshal at the Cody Stampede parade. Red, white and blue everywhere. Cute tourist girls walking around.

Now? I am not seeing anything close to that. It feels perfunctory.

I try to keep up my spirits, but, it ain't easy.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 30, 2026 10:27 PM (0aYVJ)

92 You believe a poll about Texans, taken by the NYT, that just happens to give aid and comfort to their favored candidate?

Publicly announced polling is pure propaganda, designed to demoralize the opposition.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 30, 2026 10:28 PM (+wZeq)

93 79 Are the Boomers here ready to admit that women have no place in government or are we still defending Pam Blondi and AOC—I mean, ACB?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 30, 2026 10:24 PM (l3YAf)

It’s not the women who are in need of the ONT fainting couch this evening.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 10:29 PM (hftzA)

94 Trivia that stuffs my head - the original Cuthbert was an early monk and holy man from the Northumbria and York area. “Bert” suggests he was Saxon. Interesting guy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 10:29 PM (7wNAQ)

95 Evening, Horde.

Good interviews today, but sadly I probably won't hear more from them for at least several days or possibly next week. So frustrating to be 'so close, but not there yet'!

Posted by: RandomDave at June 30, 2026 10:29 PM (aJQbY)

96 9
Talarico looks like a guy who has a court order to stay 100 yards from a school.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

LoL!! Yes, he does!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 30, 2026 10:29 PM (sAmhv)

97 Is the top photo really a monastery? That must be why I don't see the gun turrets or air defenses for an evil genius' citadel.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 30, 2026 10:29 PM (qx7Zg)

98 You know, every one of those recruits who made up that American flag is long dead.

Yes, I AM the Bluebird of Fucking Happiness.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 30, 2026 10:29 PM (qA8eD)

99 It’s not the women who are in need of the ONT fainting couch this evening.
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 10:29 PM (hftzA)

Cute.

Meanwhile, you’ve failed to secure a future for your people, the most fundamental duty of any generation. Aren’t you proud of yourself?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 30, 2026 10:31 PM (l3YAf)

100 Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 30, 2026 10:27 PM (0aYVJ)

We elected Jimmy Carter in 1976 . Can't be worse than that.

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 10:31 PM (KC5Lt)

101 Talarico looks like a guy who has a court order to stay 100 yards from a school.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

LoL!! Yes, he does!
Posted by: Puddleglum

There is still time.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 30, 2026 10:31 PM (obVEo)

102 Talarico & Platner were both leading a week or so ago. Now they're tied.

I think the open seat in NC is gone, although James Madison (or whig?) disagree.

If Mitch croaks, we'll have to worry about a newly appointed DEM incumbent in KY.

OH is shaky too. But Ossoff might lose in GA.

Coming in on a wing and a prayer.

I'm not receptive to the argument that it doesn't make any difference, btw.

Posted by: mnw at June 30, 2026 10:31 PM (RCjYY)

103
In 1976, the Democratic party still had a significant southern presence, including a lot of old bulls. Now it's the party of young America-hating lunatics and the young Turks of yesteryear are scared for their lives.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 10:31 PM (O0L8i)

104 *Puts on hat*

*Kicks June in the nuts*

Posted by: Perry the Platypus at June 30, 2026 10:32 PM (+0Wk3)

105 Kind of like "why do bad things happen to good people?"
Posted by: Zombie John Calvin

I had an acquaintance who would say that. She was a chronic screwup, making one bad choice after another. You'd think that after 3 divorces, 2 affairs with men who were living with other women, and being fired from 3 jobs in a row, she'd figure out what was the common denominator in all these situations.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 30, 2026 10:33 PM (0Htd1)

106 We elected Jimmy Carter in 1976 . Can't be worse than that.
Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 10:31 PM (KC5Lt)

Are you forgetting the last two D presidents, Poly?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2026 10:33 PM (1Ff7Z)

107 Heh...I think maybe Instapundit, PJ Media, and the Conservative Treehouse all read this site. All three are suggesting my idea from much earlier today that when applications are made for a VISA or Residency to the US, the Consolate medical examination should incude a pregnancy test...and admission into the US is expressly denied to pregnant applicants.

LOL...The Conservative Treehouse wants to call it the "Roberts Rule."

Posted by: Orson at June 30, 2026 10:33 PM (dIske)

108 Ed Driscoll frequently transfers content from here over to Instapundit. He does at least link and credit the source.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 10:35 PM (gKWVE)

109 Are you forgetting the last two D presidents, Poly?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2026 10:33 PM (1Ff7Z)

I just remember it was worse under Carter . Reagan made a lot of people forget that.

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 10:35 PM (KC5Lt)

110 At a cookout:

#1: Don't worry, these burgers are plant based.

#2: Mmmm! Delicious! What plant are these made from?

#1: A meat packing plant!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 30, 2026 10:35 PM (qx7Zg)

111 My prediction is over the next 10 years is the most popular boy's name globally will be John Roberts.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 30, 2026 10:35 PM (obVEo)

112 We elected Jimmy Carter in 1976 . Can't be worse than that.
Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 10:31 PM (KC5Lt)

That is NOT relevant to my post. *At. All.* and besides: Bill Clinton, Bronco Bama, Slow Joe Biden. Runners up: both Bushes.

My point is this, the love for America was huge and palpable. It was real.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 30, 2026 10:37 PM (0aYVJ)

113 @47 Thank you. I really, really want to believe that. And I keep trying.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 30, 2026 10:37 PM (CHHv1)

114 That "Roberts Rule" is interesting, but it won't prevent any foreign broad from getting knocked up *after* she gets here, and decides to stay. Nice try, though.

Just close the borders already. No more "refugee" no more "tps" no more H1b, no more...!

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 10:38 PM (rdVOm)

115 Theses been no better example of how useless and worthless polling has become everywhere - and especially in Texas - than the runoff race between Cornyn and Paxton . EVERY poll published said it was “too close to call”, although by the last days , some admitted that Paxton had a slight lead.

In fact, Paxton won by a 2-1 margin, one of the biggest wipeouts seen in a supposedly close race.

And every pollster missed it. It’s not just that they didn’t want it to be true; the “science” of polling has been hopelessly broken by cell phones and caller ID, among other things, and pollsters mostly just make up numbers that the people paying them want to hear.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 10:38 PM (7wNAQ)

116
Ed Driscoll frequently transfers content from here over to Instapundit. He does at least link and credit the source.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 10:35 PM (gKWVE)

_____________

More frequently he transfers content from Podhoretz, Goldberg, Treacher and the rest of the extended-pinky commentariat.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 10:38 PM (O0L8i)

117 My prediction is over the next 10 years is the most popular boy's name globally will be John Roberts.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 30, 2026 10:35 PM (obVEo)

Globally, and coincidentally, here.

Posted by: Methos at June 30, 2026 10:38 PM (vSvIl)

118
Well spotted, gentlemen.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 30, 2026 10:23 PM (Wnv9h)

Was the picture from Meteora pr Mt. Athos? Both absolutely gorgeous!

I got to go by Mt. Athos in a boat, but was not allowed to land on the island, since I'm an 'ette. But I was a brat and touched a rock when we let the men off the boat at the dock so they could tour it.

Posted by: moki at June 30, 2026 10:39 PM (wLjpr)

119 Steady on there, boyo. I'm a substandard man with a hot wife.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

As am I. I have a 1980's era Glamor Shot of Mrs. Lovely that the photographer used as an advert in his shop window. It's about 2' x 3' and she is ALL done up with the makeup, hair and feather boa. I think it is beautiful but Mrs Lovely? Not so much.

I've assured her if she dies first that bad boy will be on display at the funeral home.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 30, 2026 10:39 PM (9KCLn)

120 Just close the borders already. No more "refugee" no more "tps" no more H1b, no more...!
Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 10:38 PM (rdVOm)

That will not happen!

Posted by: GOPe, DNC, CoC, NGOs at June 30, 2026 10:40 PM (1Ff7Z)

121 I had an acquaintance who would say that. She was a chronic screwup, making one bad choice after another. You'd think that after 3 divorces, 2 affairs with men who were living with other women, and being fired from 3 jobs in a row, she'd figure out what was the common denominator in all these situations.
Posted by: nerdygirl

Don't tell me - she attributed it all to 'bad luck'.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 30, 2026 10:40 PM (9KCLn)

122 Eddie Money - Shakin'
https://youtu.be/2tcD_dVcXE4

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 30, 2026 10:40 PM (wVcYX)

123 I wonder, though, when we turn like the Liberal Idiots into the idea that "believing hard enough is enough to overcome reality."

We need to stop that thinking, because it's not true in the slightest. It's what keeps Liberals going to the polls and subscribing to the New York Times, and until John Roberts, it's what kept us focused on what was right there in front of us.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 30, 2026 10:41 PM (CHHv1)

124 Spent another fruitful day coding, finished a custom password vault implementation using Unix Pass and gpg keys and cobbled together several admin cheatsheets and dropped on the home server.

The way it's set up, if you drop an html into the watch folder, it will auto-generate a link/card on the cheatsheet page based on the naming and create search tags.

So if you drop the file:
React -- Guide -- Reference -- React-How-To.html

It creates a Card called React, two search tags: Guide and Reference and the name of the file: React-How-To

Basically I've been non-stop coding fro the last 8 months various and sundry projects.

The is all in addition to rolling out MVP1.5 of the ERP.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 30, 2026 10:41 PM (XV/Pl)

125 Blood cells to stem cells to "miniature human ovaries" with egg cells:
tinyurl.com/emr676se

Posted by: o brave new world with such people in it at June 30, 2026 10:41 PM (gKWVE)

126
I got to go by Mt. Athos in a boat, but was not allowed to land on the island, since I'm an 'ette.

_______

And you'd make the inhabitants forget they were monks.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 10:41 PM (O0L8i)

127 Posted by: moki at June 30, 2026 10:39 PM (wLjpr)

I have something nearing completion that could probably use a read....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2026 10:41 PM (1Ff7Z)

128 I had an acquaintance who would say that. She was a chronic screwup, making one bad choice after another. You'd think that after 3 divorces, 2 affairs with men who were living with other women, and being fired from 3 jobs in a row, she'd figure out what was the common denominator in all these situations.
Posted by: nerdygirl

Don't tell me - she attributed it all to 'bad luck'.
Posted by: Tonypete

I am going with a lack of being setup for success. That or the oppressive patriarchy.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 30, 2026 10:42 PM (obVEo)

129 Any attempt to include pregnancy screening in consular matters will almost certainly be blocked by (absurd, lawless) judicial action. By the time the executive is finished indulging this idiotic bad faith sabotage - and WINS! a decision - it may well be time for the roulette wheel to be spun again, with a 50/50 chance of a Dem prez, which obviously will mean instant and complete dismantling of every aspect of border security and immigration enforcement.

But hey, DOJ is talking real tough, Homan-tough, about prosecuting those "exploiting" the loophole (loophole? SCOTUS just, and not for the first time, just issued a baseless lawless Revolutionary Command Council* decree of immense destructive potential, the not only legislated, they repealed a constitutional amendment and replaced it with a retarded disastrous fake substitute).

Hilarious, in a dark way. Not to be outdone, some including Sen. Schmitt are talking about a constitutional amendment (!) as a "fix". Other Legal Cult types are musing about the "opening" Kavanaugh left, for legislative fixes. Such "fixes" have as much chance of happening as a repeal of O-care.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 30, 2026 10:42 PM (U/Byj)

130 Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 30, 2026 10:37 PM (0aYVJ)

My post wasn't a shot at you. Guess I'll flounce again.

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 10:43 PM (KC5Lt)

131 Talarico looks like a guy who has a court order to stay 100 yards from a school.
——

The authorities need to Check out his crawlspace for foul odors

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 10:43 PM (f9G9D)

132 I just saw a meme that could be turned into a side business, even at a MoMe.

Think ice cream truck, but with German Music and selling ice Cold Beer.

Visual at https://youtu.be/ewrEq9wBx7E?t=135

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 30, 2026 10:43 PM (qx7Zg)

133 Thanks for the star-spangled Tuesday Night ONT, Doof1

Great photo by RedMindBlueState.

Love the final meme of July kicking June to the curb!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 30, 2026 10:43 PM (D/6p1)

134 Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 30, 2026 10:41 PM (XV/Pl)

Once more, sir. In English.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2026 10:43 PM (1Ff7Z)

135 I just remember it was worse under Carter . Reagan made a lot of people forget that.
Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 10:35 PM (KC5Lt)

Why do Boomers talk about the Carter admin like it was some unparalleled horror?

- America was nearly 90% white
- How many cities were overrun by fent zombies in 1979?
- How many foreigners were squatting in our country then?
- How many pride parades with fags pissing on one another in public were there in 1979?

Oh no, stagflation! Things cost more for a little tiny while! The horror!! So much worse than irreversibly throwing away four centuries of your country’s identity and generations of your ancestors’ sacrifice for cheap drywall and avocados!!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 30, 2026 10:43 PM (l3YAf)

136 107 Heh...I think maybe Instapundit, PJ Media, and the Conservative Treehouse all read this site. All three are suggesting my idea from much earlier today that when applications are made for a VISA or Residency to the US, the Consolate medical examination should incude a pregnancy test...and admission into the US is expressly denied to pregnant applicants.

LOL...The Conservative Treehouse wants to call it the "Roberts Rule."

Posted by: Orson at June 30, 2026 10:33 PM (dIske)

Years ago, that was the case. Any communicable disease mean visas could not be issued. I am not sure when it changed, but I still followed those regulations in the late 80's early 90's. My guess is the latter clinton years.

Posted by: moki at June 30, 2026 10:44 PM (wLjpr)

137 Apart from amnesty, the most massive powerful perverse incentive for mass illegal migration was just declared *part of the US constitution*.

Happy 250th!

Posted by: rhomboid at June 30, 2026 10:44 PM (U/Byj)

138 I got to go by Mt. Athos in a boat, but was not allowed to land on the island, since I'm an 'ette. But I was a brat and touched a rock when we let the men off the boat at the dock so they could tour it.
Posted by: moki at June 30, 2026 10:39 PM (wLjpr)

Oh yes, locals call it Cootie Rock now...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 30, 2026 10:44 PM (nbLIj)

139 My prediction is over the next 10 years is the most popular boy's name globally will be John Roberts.

My prediction is more recent, that the NYT will have a glowing profile of John Roberts, "The Man Who Stood firm against tyranny."

It will start by noting that he had a dodgy origin--appointed by W after all--but grew to recognize the creeping tyranny ("America is the best!") that threatened this nation.

Real history will note him as the greatest traitor in American history.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 30, 2026 10:44 PM (CHHv1)

140 127 Posted by: moki at June 30, 2026 10:39 PM (wLjpr)

I have something nearing completion that could probably use a read....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2026 10:41 PM (1Ff7Z)

Send it my way - I can check it out next week! I'm finishing edits on a friend's book and should be done with that this week.

Posted by: moki at June 30, 2026 10:45 PM (wLjpr)

141 Someone, I think in an earlier thread, was asking if these guys were still around (yes):

John Birch Society
@The_JBS
·
2h
Your taxes are paying for an Illegal Alien with an Anchor Baby to live in the starter home your American kids can't afford.

Posted by: Methos at June 30, 2026 10:46 PM (vSvIl)

142 Democrats are going to pass the “Scott Weiner Will Personally Rape Your Grandkids Act of 2029” and old RINO voters are like “Oh my gosh, did you know we used to have to wait in line for gasoline! It’s so much better now!”

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 30, 2026 10:46 PM (l3YAf)

143 I just saw a meme that could be turned into a side business, even at a MoMe.

Think ice cream truck, but with German Music and selling ice Cold Beer.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

*Jots a note to add an item to the next month's Knight's of Columbus agenda*

Posted by: Tonypete at June 30, 2026 10:46 PM (9KCLn)

144 Y’all, if you are interested in a decent take on celebrating our Country’s birthday, starting at the 1.51 mark to about 4.30, this is how my pastor started the service Sunday. You can skip the first part where he is explaining a giving platform migration, that won’t matter to anyone. And after that is the actual sermon, which also may not be interesting to everyone.

https://tinyurl.com/y3d7jhmc

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 10:47 PM (hftzA)

145 My post wasn't a shot at you. Guess I'll flounce again.
Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 10:43 PM (KC5Lt)

I apologize for my crankiness. You meant no harm *tosses a beer*

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 30, 2026 10:47 PM (0aYVJ)

146
Oh yes, locals call it Cootie Rock now...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 30, 2026 10:44 PM (nbLIj)

That is funny! Haven't thought about cooties in a long time!

Posted by: moki at June 30, 2026 10:47 PM (wLjpr)

147 Oh yes, locals call it Cootie Rock now...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 30, 2026 10:44 PM (nbLIj)

What?! Moki is the kindest, most friendly, intelligent person on the board here!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2026 10:48 PM (1Ff7Z)

148 61 Baseball fights are so lame. Like they're the last dance at the gay nightclub.
If they were serious about it, they wouldn't toss the bat and helmet at the start.
Posted by: Oddbob

Are you a hockey fan? Those sticks aren't just for hitting pucks.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 30, 2026 10:48 PM (0Htd1)

149 Call:
@The_JBS
Your taxes are paying for an Illegal Alien with an Anchor Baby to live in the starter home your American kids can't afford.
Posted by: Methos at June 30, 2026 10:46 PM (vSvIl)

Raise:
@factpostnews
Trump: I don't want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up

Posted by: o brave new world with such people in it at June 30, 2026 10:48 PM (gKWVE)

150 Wondering about that whole "co-equal" thing:

Executive says no magic dirt.
Judicial says yes, magic dirt.
Legislative...? Fks off.

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 10:49 PM (rdVOm)

151 Hey, we heading to the Outer Banks tomorrow morning. Anyone need anything from Miss Ellen's Biscuits 'N Porn while I'm there?

Posted by: Tonypete at June 30, 2026 10:50 PM (9KCLn)

152 SCOTUS appears to be *more equal than others*

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 10:50 PM (rdVOm)

153
Are you a hockey fan? Those sticks aren't just for hitting pucks.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 30, 2026 10:48 PM (0Htd1)

___________

I think the last stick fight in the NHL was in the 60s. Larry Zeidel and Eddie Shack going at it after Shack made an anit-Semitic chirp.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 10:51 PM (O0L8i)

154 Oh, the Revolutionary Command Council was Saddam's pro forma "consultative" authority. Spoiler: there weren't many votes whose outcome was uncertain.

SCOTUS now issues decrees, not anything resembling a serious ruling (though, for the 1,000th time, the ridiculous conceit that courts should be anything more than glorified clerks should always be rejected - contemptuously) based on a straight reading of the law or constitution.

Not sure I can bear to read all of it, but seems they've reached new lows now. Wasn't Ginsberg the idiot who burbled about "learning" from other constitutions (like that of the model state of South Africa!). And now we have these 5 cretins citing concepts from extinct monarchies to invert the plain meaning (zero doubt about the actual purpose) of an amendment.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 30, 2026 10:51 PM (U/Byj)

155 Send it my way - I can check it out next week! I'm finishing edits on a friend's book and should be done with that this week.
Posted by: moki at June 30, 2026 10:45 PM (wLjpr)

Thanks. I'm still working on the last chapter, but should get it done in a day or so. Then, I'll look it over and do some light editing. It's another western.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2026 10:51 PM (1Ff7Z)

156 Ok, raging. Sorry. I got work to do... bbl.

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 10:51 PM (rdVOm)

157 I am ecstatic over Birthright Bob's ruling. It assures we will have sufficient people to pick our crops. Downside: It us. Bottom rail is on top now.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 30, 2026 10:53 PM (obVEo)

158 So, CO-1. Diane DeGette flooded the ads with "I stand up against Drumpf!".
She is losing to the DSA.
Melat Kiros will, it seems, now be running for this seat. This star wars name comes to us from Ethiopia and she is showing her gratitude for our diversity and inclusion.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 10:53 PM (gKWVE)

159 It’s not “magic dirt”. More like they declared a legal definition of “subject to the jurisdiction of.”

It now means “any sentient being located inside US boundaries, except for space aliens in UFO’s and Bigfoot.”

But if they appeal, Roberts will probably make them citizens too, with full voting rights.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 10:53 PM (7wNAQ)

160 There is a genuine Norseman Viking Raider throwback on the Norwegian footyball team.

Caught a bit of today's game while at Cardiac Rehab. The game was played in Dallas, TX. In the center of the Norwegian fan section was a guy dressed in full Elmer Fudd Viking regalia - including his magic helmet. A black guy, having the time of his life.

I expected to see cowboy hats with Viking horns.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 30, 2026 10:53 PM (wVcYX)

161 Are you a hockey fan? Those sticks aren't just for hitting pucks.

Posted by: nerdygirl

When I lived in Maine, there were more women's hockey leagues than men's. We'd go to the games just for for the women's fights.

Absolutely vicious.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 30, 2026 10:53 PM (9KCLn)

162 147 Oh yes, locals call it Cootie Rock now...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 30, 2026 10:44 PM (nbLIj)

What?! Moki is the kindest, most friendly, intelligent person on the board here!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2026 10:48 PM (1Ff7Z)

Lol, I assure you that is not the truth!! And I'm happy to read whatever you send!!

Posted by: moki at June 30, 2026 10:54 PM (wLjpr)

163 Oh, and Kiros didn't think that the Boulder firebombing was antisemitic.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 10:55 PM (gKWVE)

164 Yikes! I'm so late!

DOOF!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 30, 2026 10:55 PM (uTEOj)

165 I gotta say, I liked the scene in For Your Eyes Only where Bond is scaling the cliffs to that monastery. They actually took the time to demonstrate him tying a Prusik knot with his boot lace to finish the ascent. That kind of attention to detail wasn't common in those movies.

Posted by: PabloD at June 30, 2026 10:57 PM (byoW7)

166 Good interviews today, but sadly I probably won't hear more from them for at least several days or possibly next week. So frustrating to be 'so close, but not there yet'!
Posted by: RandomDave

It'll happen. I had 2 brothers who went through it. The day comes, when you get that call.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 30, 2026 10:58 PM (0Htd1)

167 All sports fights are idiotic. But they appeal to a large part of the bell curve. The part that weighs us down generally.

There's always boxing, and now all the new more barbaric fighting sports, for the Coliseum mob.

Sat with an NHL owner at a game in the late 80s, asked him about the ban-fighting situation. Amazingly, given his team's "legacy" and nickname, he was in favor, but he said only a handful of other owners had agreed. Gretzky and a few other players had pushed it, IIRC.

An AHL player I dined with after a game in which he was involved in a brief altercation said they were laughing. It was kind of a pro forma "fight" as one goalies had been accidentally bumped during a commercial break, so both sides felt "obligated" to do the kabuki.

Of course without fights hockey can't exist, well, except for the 95% of hockey in which fights are just as banned as in tennis or golf.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 30, 2026 10:58 PM (U/Byj)

168 Lol, I assure you that is not the truth!! And I'm happy to read whatever you send!!

Posted by: moki at June 30, 2026 10:54 PM (wLjpr)

Did you finish "Randy?" What did you think?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2026 10:58 PM (1Ff7Z)

169 I was thinking today about how I first thought about this citizenship issue when I started looking at it, about 15 to 20 years ago. A very brief look led me to conclude “well the language in the 14th is clear, and SCOTUS says Wong Kim Ark is controlling, so you’re gonna have to do a constitutional amendment to change anything.”

But over time I came to realize that there were much better, more nuanced arguments, and lots of precedent for dealing with the issue in more manageable ways, and so my thoughts changed.

But now here comes Roberts, today, saying “well the language in the 14th is clear, and SCOTUS says Wong Kim Ark is controlling, so you’re gonna have to do a constitutional amendment to change anything.”

Congratulations on your 5 minute analysis, genius.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 11:01 PM (7wNAQ)

170 Posted by: moki at June 30, 2026 10:47 PM (wLjpr)

You get me...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 30, 2026 11:04 PM (nbLIj)

171 @134

>>Once more, sir. In English.

It's mostly website and webserver stuff.

The real heavy lifting is the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), its a program to help manage and implement Broadcast Integration Projects.

I'm a Broadcast Itegration Project Manager, Media and Entertainment vertical, specifically.

I build television studios and broadcast and transmission facilites.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 30, 2026 11:04 PM (XV/Pl)

172 which fights are just as banned as in tennis or golf.
Posted by: rhomboid

I'd like to see heckling allowed in both tennis or golf.

Make it real sport.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 30, 2026 11:04 PM (9KCLn)

173 From last thread, from Tater:
>> and also delves into some of the aspects of orbital mechanics. I knew it was complicated, but I didn’t realize the twists involved with rendezvous.

There are literal twists involved. I recalled some of the complexity last night after Rodrigo posted that cool ISS docking simulator thing.

They originally misunderestimated just how complex and tricky this would be. That is, final proximity operations. Chasing a spacecraft already in orbit, that is launching another spacecraft and matching course and speed, they knew that was complex.

But once you got within a few hundred feet, they didn't think it would be that bad. And that was due to just naively applying the Equivalence Principle. The Erf's tidal field is very small, literally on the order of micro-g's. So they assumed it would be close to 3D inertial space for two close-by objects free-falling in orbit together.

The trouble is while that is true, it's the time scale involved. In LEO, you're whipping around around once per 90 minutes give or take, and that means that tidal field is also rotating. That makes all the difference.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 11:05 PM (w6EFb)

174 Don't tell me - she attributed it all to 'bad luck'.
Posted by: Tonypete

Yes, she did. The reality was that instead of focusing on her own career path, she expected to fix her financial situation by latching onto a man.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 30, 2026 11:06 PM (0Htd1)

175 I'd like to see heckling allowed in both tennis or golf.
Make it real sport.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 30, 2026 11:04 PM (9KCLn)

youtu.be/sxmBPk5FSzI

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 11:07 PM (gKWVE)

176 Good night, friends!

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 11:09 PM (Dd38x)

177 /screen junkies now has an honest trailer for Idiocracy

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 11:09 PM (gKWVE)

178 Fights in tennis could be cool if you could make a rule that you could only hit your opponent on the head with the webbing, not with the rim or handle.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 11:09 PM (7wNAQ)

179 Eh, the early 70s were the opening shots of serious national decline. The “oil shocks” coupled with dollar devaluation. Oil hovered around $2 a barrel for about 20 years. The Embargo. OPEC. It doesn’t sound much like now, but it quickly doubled, tripled, and settled at $8 a barrel.

This wiped out all sorts of things we took for granted. The Milkman and full service gasoline stations. My parents were by no means poor, but the single breadwinner went bye-bye. Generic brands. Powdered Milk instead of fresh. Dairy butter a distant memory. Beef and pork did a moonshot, etc. Workers wages have been stagnant since then. 1974. That’s insane.

By 1980 the US dollar was in trouble. The Fed chief Paul Volcker, raised interest rates overnight to almost 20%, including the overnight rate in fact. That’s the interest rates banks charge each other.

This is not possible today. Not even close. Monetary inflation steals your money. Even at the “targeted” 2 or 3 percent rate of inflation, your savings and investments are cut in half every 20 years. Complete bullshit.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 11:10 PM (f9G9D)

180 I'd like to see heckling allowed in both tennis or golf.

Make it real sport.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 30, 2026 11:04 PM (9KCLn)

NNNOOONANN!!!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 30, 2026 11:10 PM (0aYVJ)

181 I like that July kicking June post.

Thanks for the ONT. I'm getting work done while the animals are sleeping comfortably.

I have 'Supergirl' streaming on the computer. Shhhhh.
It's only in the background while I work but yeah, it seems pretty bad.

She's cute but aside from that, meh. It's all been done before in different forms, mashed into a blender and puked out unappetizingly.

Posted by: Stateless - He's not heavy, he's my dog! at June 30, 2026 11:11 PM (Sco7b)

182 which fights are just as banned as in tennis or golf.
Posted by: rhomboid

I'd like to see heckling allowed in both tennis or golf.

Make it real sport.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 30, 2026 11:04 PM (9KCLn)

Like Al Czervik in Caddyshack, or the WNBA towards Caitlyn Clark?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 30, 2026 11:11 PM (qx7Zg)

183 That kind of attention to detail wasn't common in those movies.
Posted by: PabloD at June 30, 2026 10:57 PM (byoW7)

Die Another Day not only had no attention to detail, it also had crappy CGI, pointless fights, incoherent script, no plot, car chases reminiscent of Batman and Robin, and we never saw Halle Berry's boobs.

Really nothing to recommend it.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 30, 2026 11:15 PM (rbvCR)

184 or the WNBA towards Caitlyn Clark?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 30, 2026 11:11 PM (qx7Zg)

Target acquired, green leader; ready for launch

Posted by: the green dildo at June 30, 2026 11:17 PM (gKWVE)

185 Maybe gWVEilpqlnb above linked it, didn't check, but the Phoenix Open has at least wild cheering and carrying on by the gallery, none of the "Quiet Please" signs held up by tournament staffers. Sort of its signature feature.

No officially sanctioned fights between golfers though.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 30, 2026 11:19 PM (U/Byj)

186 8/6 is Enola Gay Pride Day.
Celebrate with a mushroom on your salad or on your burger.

Posted by: Enola Gay Pride at June 30, 2026 11:21 PM (z6zoc)

187 Right, Pubs - if you’re in orbit with the pointy end going forward, at some … point, you’ll be pointing straight down, and eventually, going “backwards”, and around and around it goes.

A big part of the expense were the tracking stations and comms. They had all these factors to think about. We’re gonna launch from the Cape at a certain degree bearing, and we want to more or less fly over “friendly” countries in case of trouble.

Certain countries might be ideally located for a tracking station, but they are unstable regimes. John Llewellyn was a former combat Marine who was in Mission Control sent to some remote site that was “experiencing unrest” and roadblocks and twitchy guards with guns and that kind of crap. Gene Kranz got a cryptic teletype from him once that took a while to figure out what he meant.

“We’ve got them where we want them” meaning they were surrounded, but they weren’t leaving their post. LOL

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 11:21 PM (f9G9D)

188 The fantasy escapist coping by various people online trying to absorb the SCOTUS decree is something.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 30, 2026 11:21 PM (U/Byj)

189 or the WNBA towards Caitlyn Clark?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 30, 2026 11:11 PM (qx7Zg)
Target acquired, green leader; ready for launch
Posted by: the green dildo

When did the WNBA become all about showcasing the talents of racist black lesbians? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 30, 2026 11:21 PM (obVEo)

190 Peeking in

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 11:22 PM (Ia/+0)

191 When did the WNBA become all about showcasing the talents of racist black lesbians? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 30, 2026 11:21 PM (obVEo)

I think the only way to make it more ghetto would be for fights to break out and wigs to be ripped off like on the Jerry Springer show.

And DNA tests at half-time to see if we can find their biological baby daddies.

I denounce myself...
Not really.

Posted by: Stateless - He's not heavy, he's my dog! at June 30, 2026 11:24 PM (Sco7b)

192 I build television studios and broadcast and transmission facilities. Posted by: Thomas Bender

Anyone ever ask you "what's frequency Kenneth?" in an offhand way?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 30, 2026 11:24 PM (obVEo)

193 This is from the NYT/Siena poll taken today.
There's some time between now and November. I agree that Paxton can run this idjit's numbers down just by telling Tejanos that "Talarico" is not in fact his birth name, and that the Gospel of Thomas is not in fact in the New Testament.
Women are going to be a harder sell, but mothers of daughters might appreciate his stance on trannies.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 10:21 PM (gKWVE)

Just run an ad, right before the vote. Pic of Talarico, and the legend: This deranged shitmaggot wants to make your kids queer. English and Spanish. TV, billboards, newspapers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2026 11:25 PM (1z8ji)

194 When did the WNBA become all about showcasing the talents of racist black lesbians? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 30, 2026 11:21 PM (obVEo)

I haven't searched, because I don't want it in my search history. Has a WNBA team played a high school boys' team, either varsity or JV, to see how they "stack up"?

I suspect they'd lose against a decent team, which is why I suspect they'll never try it.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 30, 2026 11:26 PM (qx7Zg)

195 Las Vegas is RACIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIST and obviously Hates Homos !!!!!!!

When the jets fly over the sphere with afterburners lit the sphere should have had the PRIDE FLAG instead of the US Flag.

I call on President Obama (First Black Gay President) to do something about Las Vegas, Nevada, and the Casinos !!!!!!!

Posted by: Mike Hunt at June 30, 2026 11:27 PM (lagsy)

196 I thought this was a nice story. Republican and Democrat from PA work together work together to get their state represented at the "Great American State Fair":

https://tinyurl.com/37m63hr3

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 30, 2026 11:28 PM (Yl2Ob)

197 Wretchard (Richard Fernandez) just put a post on X that tickled me. He was reacting to a protest by Zulus in South Africa, against poorer immigrants coming into their areas. Thousands protesting in traditional Zulu attire, singing and chanting together.

Wretchard’s observation: “Well, they've got a very good bass section, mind, but no top tenors that's for sure.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 11:28 PM (7wNAQ)

198 @BillMelugin_
BREAKING: Rep. Tom Kean (R-NJ), who had been MIA for months due to an undisclosed medical condition, announces on the House floor that he was diagnosed with depression, and that's why he was out for so long.
Jun 30, 2026 · 3:15 PM UTC

Posted by: it up, you should suck at June 30, 2026 11:28 PM (gKWVE)

199 The 1917 photo reminded me of the postcard I set aside to tell y’all about. Among other things it says: “We are just 7 miles from Colo Spring. It is just beautiful today and yesterday - 94 degrees but it cools off at night. The wheat harvest is in full force here.” The card is dated June 25, 1963.

Posted by: SnailRacer at June 30, 2026 11:30 PM (2unc8)

200 Dred Scott was overturned, though at some cost and no little blood. Today’s ruling can be overturned too.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 30, 2026 11:31 PM (ZVgZ4)

201 198 @BillMelugin_
BREAKING: Rep. Tom Kean (R-NJ), who had been MIA for months due to an undisclosed medical condition, announces on the House floor that he was diagnosed with depression, and that's why he was out for so long.
Jun 30, 2026 · 3:15 PM UTC

----------

So I guess he'll be reimbursing his salary to the taxpayers, right?

RIGHT??!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 30, 2026 11:34 PM (u/oMr)

202 I think the last stick fight in the NHL was in the 60s. Larry Zeidel and Eddie Shack going at it after Shack made an anit-Semitic chirp.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

There was a fight in Muskegon where players were in the stands hitting fans. A woman went to the hospital with a broken arm. But that wasn't major league. I believe they were IHL.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 30, 2026 11:34 PM (0Htd1)

203 44 ...The era was full of normal to substandard Men, who were the butt of most jokes, always having Hawty wives.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 10:12 PM (mP0Kj)

Nobody here believes me but I steadfastly maintain it was Arthur Lake who started us men on the road to perdition. HE is/was the singularity, the fork in the road, the camel who's nose first got under the tent!!

Greetings Everyone!

Thank you Sir Doof for a most enjoyable ONT.

We lost some yardage today but the game is still afoot...to mix metaphors. Remember betting against this country has been a bad bet for the last 250 years. The fat lady hasn't sung.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 30, 2026 11:34 PM (QGaXH)

204 2 anchor babies on the field for Mexico right now.

Roberts and ACB cheering them on. Probably.

Posted by: World Cup Update at June 30, 2026 11:36 PM (HE7b3)

205 Velma, and that is a hill I will die on. You just know she had it going on inside that baggy sweater. Plus smart chicks are always way more inventive in the sack.

I've noticed that the modern-day live-action Scooby Doo movies and such always make Velma hawt. They know it too.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2026 11:36 PM (qpyNK)

206 197 Wretchard (Richard Fernandez) just put a post on X that tickled me. He was reacting to a protest by Zulus in South Africa, against poorer immigrants coming into their areas. Thousands protesting in traditional Zulu attire, singing and chanting together.

Wretchard’s observation: “Well, they've got a very good bass section, mind, but no top tenors that's for sure.”
Posted by: Tom Servo

youtu.be/E4JgkTQ5DzE
Do they even allow this movie to be shown in the UK anymore?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 30, 2026 11:36 PM (sAmhv)

207 >> Certain countries might be ideally located for a tracking station, but they are unstable regimes.

Tananarive tracking station was a big one during the Apollo days. I remember that because of the name. They moved there in 1964 from some other African site due to political unrest, and I think they closed Tananarive in '75 when the govt. became hostile.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 11:36 PM (w6EFb)

208 46 Carence?
Chad?
Jehosephat?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 10:08 PM (RIvkX)

Rumpelstiltskin
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 10:10 PM (hftzA)

BeetleJui..... not gonna say it!
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 10:13 PM (mP0Kj)

Raimo...,,better not say that either...,

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 30, 2026 11:36 PM (QGaXH)

209 157 I am ecstatic over Birthright Bob's ruling. It assures we will have sufficient people to pick our crops. Downside: It us. Bottom rail is on top now.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 30, 2026 10:53 PM (obVEo)

I have no problem with the ruling. They did, indeed, follow the text of the amendment. It is the amendment that is bad, and needs to be changed. That we can do, and I believe Trump is on it. Like white on rice.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 30, 2026 11:38 PM (bl07w)

210 I'll butt in here and say that depression is no joke. If it was a joke it would be "funpression" or "happy happy joy time".
On the other hand, if my case of the sads causes me not to be able to do my job, I'd have to request a sabbatical and not get paid for the work I wasn't doing. I'd think.
Sitting on my ass watching Morrissey vids on Youtube NOT doing my job would not be tolerated.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 11:38 PM (gKWVE)

211 Kean represents one of the most competitive districts in the country too. He was a top DEM target BEFORE he got depressed and missed hundreds of votes.

He's gonna be crucified.

Posted by: mnw at June 30, 2026 11:38 PM (RCjYY)

212 204 2 anchor babies on the field for Mexico right now.

Roberts and ACB cheering them on. Probably.
Posted by: World Cup Update at June 30, 2026 11:36 PM (HE7b3)

I believe one of them was born and raised in Anchorage. Why he doesn't play for the US is a mystery to me.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 30, 2026 11:39 PM (bl07w)

213 @192

>>Anyone ever ask you "what's frequency Kenneth?" in an offhand way?

The frequency is alway 3.579545 MHz.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 30, 2026 11:39 PM (XV/Pl)

214 Velma, and that is a hill I will die on. You just know she had it going on inside that baggy sweater. Plus smart chicks are always way more inventive in the sack.

I've noticed that the modern-day live-action Scooby Doo movies and such always make Velma hawt. They know it too.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2026 11:36 PM (qpyNK)

Linda Cardellini, best Velma ever. Loved her in Freaks and Geeks as well.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 30, 2026 11:40 PM (0aYVJ)

215 > "The Man Who Stood firm against tyranny."

I think they mean "tranny", and by "standing firm" they mean "had a raging boner".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2026 11:41 PM (qpyNK)

216 6:40AM. Greetings from July.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 30, 2026 11:41 PM (x8PQF)

217 > Linda Cardellini, best Velma ever. Loved her in Freaks and Geeks as well.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 30, 2026 11:40 PM (0aYVJ)

Yes, total smokeshow.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2026 11:41 PM (qpyNK)

218 @198

>>announces on the House floor that he was diagnosed with depression, and that's why he was out for so long.

And he will be even more depressed when he's booted out of office.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 30, 2026 11:42 PM (XV/Pl)

219 216 6:40AM. Greetings from July.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 30, 2026 11:41 PM (x8PQF)

Oh good, you don't have to be gay anymore.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 11:42 PM (gKWVE)

220 believe one of them was born and raised in Anchorage. Why he doesn't play for the US is a mystery to me.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 30, 2026 11:39 PM (bl07w)

Correct one do them is from Alaska
Why? Because anchor babies and their illegal parents have zero allegiance to the US. It’s a place to collect a check and nothing more.

Posted by: World Cup Update at June 30, 2026 11:42 PM (HE7b3)

221 179 Eh, the early 70s were the opening shots of serious national decline. The “oil shocks” coupled with dollar devaluation. Oil hovered around $2 a barrel for about 20 years. The Embargo. OPEC. It doesn’t sound much like now, but it quickly doubled, tripled, and settled at $8 a barrel
...
Common Tater
---

on June 17, 1972 , The Watergate scandal began, when five men were caught breaking into the DNC...

In October 1973, the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries announced that it was implementing a total oil embargo against countries that had supported Israel at any point during the 1973 Yom Kippur War,

They took advantage of Nixon being hamstrung by the Democrat putsch against him.

October ‘73 was the perfect time to punch them in the nose.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 11:43 PM (vPv7/)

222 On the other hand, if my case of the sads causes me not to be able to do my job, I'd have to request a sabbatical and not get paid for the work I wasn't doing. I'd think.
Sitting on my ass watching Morrissey vids on Youtube NOT doing my job would not be tolerated.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 11:38 PM (gKWVE)

Well, thank God you never employed me. I went through two serious bouts of that garbage, and luckily I didn't lose my job. Do you fire people who get heart attacks? I don't think so.

True, actual depression is chemical, not a case of the sads. It is treatable, usually, but not always, with medication. I know that medication is prescribed like candy, but for those who truly need it, it is a Godsend, as is the time away from stress that is required for recovery.

The fact that Muffy and Buffy claim they are depressed and take a bunch of SRIs doesn't negate that fact that some of us need that treatment to live.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 30, 2026 11:43 PM (bl07w)

223 We lost some yardage today but the game is still afoot...to mix metaphors. Remember betting against this country has been a bad bet for the last 250 years. The fat lady hasn't sung.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 30, 2026 11:34 PM (QGaXH)

You think the fat lady's been born already? I'm not sure that's the truth. Remember...

https://youtu.be/-KqrjeScLSI

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 30, 2026 11:43 PM (qx7Zg)

224 Mariners making it happen.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 30, 2026 11:44 PM (gVsIh)

225 216 6:40AM. Greetings from July.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 30, 2026 11:41 PM (x8PQF)

Little less faggy today?

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 30, 2026 11:44 PM (bl07w)

226 If Kean's too depressed to vote for many months, how come he suddenly recovered just in time to campaign for reelection? And how do we know he won't relapse the day after he wins another term?

Those are questions his DEM opponent will be asking.

Posted by: mnw at June 30, 2026 11:45 PM (RCjYY)

227 137 Apart from amnesty, the most massive powerful perverse incentive for mass illegal migration was just declared *part of the US constitution*.

if illegal aliens are "subject to the jurisdiction thereof", does that mean they can be drafted?

Posted by: anachronda at June 30, 2026 11:46 PM (qdr3M)

228 if illegal aliens are "subject to the jurisdiction thereof", does that mean they can be drafted?
Posted by: anachronda at June 30, 2026 11:46 PM (qdr3M)

Drafted, taxed, arrested, and if found to break laws, denaturalized and deported.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 30, 2026 11:47 PM (bl07w)

229 tcn, my post (in what you quoted) included "request a sabbatical". Implying you could get rehired after the bout was over.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 11:47 PM (gKWVE)

230 213 @192

>>Anyone ever ask you "what's frequency Kenneth?" in an offhand way?

The frequency is alway 3.579545 MHz.

it's 1.6ghz. unless it's 1.2ghz. and tonight it was 30mhz.

Posted by: the skinwalker ranch guys at June 30, 2026 11:48 PM (qdr3M)

231 216 6:40AM. Greetings from July.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 30, 2026 11:41 PM (x8PQF)

All sphincters safely untouched and accounted for.
Everyone have a great month.
Back to work and a shitty movie in the background.

Posted by: Stateless - He's not heavy, he's my dog! at June 30, 2026 11:50 PM (Sco7b)

232 Good evening! Today, alternative rock band Better Than Ezra's founding bassist Tom Drummond turned 57. If the band name isn't ringing a bell, here's the big radio hit from their second album, Deluxe (1993 indie/re-released 1995 major):

Better Than Ezra - Good (Official Video)
https://youtu.be/PFaQ_gPOTks

However! They're still recording and performing, just with a different drummer and an added keyboardist/lead guitarist. So, here's a poppy (and peppy) track off their latest album, Super Magick (2024):

Better Than Ezra - Live A Little (Official Visual)
https://youtu.be/Y1P0Nf35NF4

Posted by: SciVo at June 30, 2026 11:50 PM (Sy6m/)

233 “ Hey, we heading to the Outer Banks tomorrow morning. Anyone need anything from Miss Ellen's Biscuits 'N Porn while I'm there?”
Yess!
Grab me some fireworks. Not the neutered California ones. I want Disneyland-quality ones.
And some smaller shit that gets some air when you light them.
Thank you. Take Venmo?

Posted by: Gunslinger at June 30, 2026 11:50 PM (Mxkwh)

234 193 This is from the NYT/Siena poll taken today.
There's some time between now and November. I agree that Paxton can run this idjit's numbers down just by telling Tejanos that "Talarico" is not in fact his birth name, and that the Gospel of Thomas is not in fact in the New Testament.
Women are going to be a harder sell, but mothers of daughters might appreciate his stance on trannies.
Posted by: gKWVE
---

TMI. All they have to do is tell them that Talarico is an Italian not a Mexican.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 11:51 PM (vPv7/)

235 Isn't Steven Tyler's real name something like that?

Although I think he's Portuguese. I know Joe Perry is.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2026 11:52 PM (qpyNK)

236 28 Good evening! We made our last walk in between thunderstorms. This dog will not go in his yard, because according to Shiba Rule 3.1.3 subsection g, that is entirely too close to the house where you do not go potty. Ever. So we have to walk down to the corner, and across the street.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 10:07 PM (hftzA)

I have the opposite situation with the rescue dog we got last fall. She has never, as in never, taken a dump while being walked. I'm not complaining, since I don't particularly enjoy picking up dog crap in a little bag and carrying it home, but it seems weird after all the other dogs we've had.

Posted by: a.moron at June 30, 2026 11:53 PM (X5Jzz)

237 > Grab me some fireworks. Not the neutered California ones.
Posted by: Gunslinger at June 30, 2026 11:50 PM (Mxkwh)

The kind that get sold out of a car trunk by some guy with an eyepatch and a hook hand.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2026 11:54 PM (qpyNK)

238 So pride month will be over for y'all on the east coast in a few minutes. Congrats for getting it over with. We still have a hour to go. We live in some stupid times.

Posted by: Case at June 30, 2026 11:54 PM (IY9No)

239 I've been trying to figure how long I've been posting here. I realized last night it's been more than 10 years.

My first post seemed to kill commenting on a Memorial Day post in 2016, using a nic I now longer remember. Went back to lurking for several months, before I posted again.

If any lurkers read this, know that, unless you go past the bounds here, it's pretty safe to try.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 30, 2026 11:55 PM (qx7Zg)

240 I’d love to visit Mt, Athos.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 11:55 PM (77rzZ)

241 Peeking in
Posted by: Skip

I think it's called Beijing today, bro.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 30, 2026 11:56 PM (diia5)

242 Grab me some fireworks. Not the neutered California ones.
Posted by: Gunslinger at June 30, 2026 11:50 PM (Mxkwh)

The kind that get sold out of a car trunk by some guy with an eyepatch and a hook hand.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2026 11:54 PM (qpyNK)

The kind that make Marines wonder if they're too much?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 30, 2026 11:56 PM (qx7Zg)

243 Just checked. Tyler is Tallarico, with two l's.

Wikipedia says Italian, German, Polish, English and African-American.

Perry is half-Portuguese and half-Italian.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2026 11:57 PM (qpyNK)

244 “They followed the text…”

Bullshit

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 11:57 PM (Touuh)

245 My LR has an annoying "Google tv" system kicked on a Sony and tells me "World Cup - the world is watching". Actually no. Can almost guarantee very little of "the world" here in America has any idea what is or has been going on with the soccer games let alone watching it. Normally a popular sport is popular on its own - it doesn't require telling you "everyone is watching".

Posted by: Germain at June 30, 2026 11:57 PM (hyQrc)

246 @226

>>Those are questions his DEM opponent will be asking.

He's just a faggot ass entitled legacy deuschbag.

These people think they are aristocracy.

If it wasn't so deadly serious I'd laugh my ass off a he got booted from congress.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 30, 2026 11:59 PM (XV/Pl)

247 English actress Madeline Smith had a great rack.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 11:59 PM (77rzZ)

248 “ Hey, we heading to the Outer Banks tomorrow morning. Anyone need anything from Miss Ellen's Biscuits 'N Porn while I'm there?”
-----

Climb the Hatteras light, and visit the Hatteras musum...if you havent.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2026 12:01 AM (XeU6L)

249 Hell, who even knows if he was sad. It's not like any of these people are truthful. Sad could mean banging underage hookers and smoking meth.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 01, 2026 12:01 AM (ZkWXv)

250 I've also been playing around with the Starship shell prompt.

I think I'm going to replace oh-my-zsh and powerlevel10k with this, it's amazing what you can configure with this bad boy.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2026 12:01 AM (XV/Pl)

251 Hey, Happy July, Everyone!

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2026 12:02 AM (77rzZ)

252 “I've been trying to figure how long I've been posting here. I realized last night it's been more than 10 years.”

Can’t recall when I first posted here, but started sucking up Ace’s bandwidth shortly after 9-11.
Anyone remember the Hog on Ice blog?
Fun stuff there too, but gone for years now.
I did buy his cookbook though. Pretty awesome stuff in that…

Posted by: Gunslinger at July 01, 2026 12:02 AM (Mxkwh)

253 English actress Madeline Smith had a great rack.
Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 11:59 PM (77rzZ)

How about American actress Chase Masterson, Leta from DS9?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 01, 2026 12:03 AM (qx7Zg)

254 I've been posting in various incarnations since 2007.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2026 12:03 AM (XV/Pl)

255 I would not be surprised if Iran launches a major attack on US sites on July 4th, just to piss Trump off. They’re making more and more noises like they’re planning something just like that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2026 12:04 AM (7wNAQ)

256 229 tcn, my post (in what you quoted) included "request a sabbatical". Implying you could get rehired after the bout was over.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 11:47 PM (gKWVE)

I don't know of any job outside of academia that offers a sabbatical. I know mine certainly wouldn't.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2026 12:04 AM (bl07w)

257 Stephen Den Beste brought me here.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2026 12:05 AM (XV/Pl)

258 Stephen Den Beste brought me here.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2026 12:05 AM (XV/Pl)

I have no idea when I started reading here, or what led me here. I'm just glad I did.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 01, 2026 12:07 AM (qx7Zg)

259 253 Not bad…

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2026 12:07 AM (77rzZ)

260 216 6:40AM. Greetings from July.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 30, 2026 11:41 PM (x8PQF)

Waves back from June....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 01, 2026 12:08 AM (QGaXH)

261 241 Peeking in
Posted by: Skip

I think it's called Beijing today, bro.

Posted by: weft cut-loop
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They keep messing with Japan they'd better duck.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2026 12:08 AM (vPv7/)

262 Wikipedia says Italian, German, Polish, English and African
——
Not necessarily in that order?

Posted by: Common Tater at July 01, 2026 12:08 AM (KP4aP)

263 Foreign nationals can serve in the US military (believe it's still one way to accelerated citizenship), but obviously can't be drafted.

And with this absurd "ruling" that completely inverts the uncontested intent, context, purpose, AND language of the 14th, remember anything/anyone born inside US territory is automatically a citizen. Don't believe such citizens can be denaturalized or deported (how would that be possible? deported to where?), as naturalized citizens can be. Unless there has been a massive change in our laws that I've missed.

This atrocity has 2 enormous practical consequences only one of which seems to be recognized. First it codifies and greatly increases the perverse incentive to enter the US illegally (or any way possible). Second it represents a new maximum in judicial lawlessness and usurpation. There was no ambiguity in the 14th, its language and history are simple and uncontestable. It was specifically a remedy for the unique situation of former slaves in the US. Period. That it was such was redundantly confirmed by decades later when equivalent legislation for Native Americans, also obviously people in a unique situation, was passed.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2026 12:09 AM (U/Byj)

264 My wife was posting here before I was.

Now that I post here regularly, she doesn’t post at all.

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2026 12:10 AM (77rzZ)

265 I use to post on another site but the guy who ran it turned into Mr. Super Liberal and kicked a bunch of us off his site. Been so long I forgot his name. Anyways that's when I came here.

Posted by: Case at July 01, 2026 12:12 AM (IY9No)

266 223 ..You think the fat lady's been born already? I'm not sure that's the truth. Remember...

https://youtu.be/-KqrjeScLSI
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 30, 2026 11:43 PM (qx7Zg)

"You think the fat lady's been born already?"

Mumble mumble assumes facts not in evidence..,mumble mumble...,

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 01, 2026 12:14 AM (QGaXH)

267 > 265 I use to post on another site but the guy who ran it turned into Mr. Super Liberal and kicked a bunch of us off his site.

I didn't get kicked off... I just stopped posting and left. I don't even remember what my handle was on there.

I held on to a burner account for a while in case I felt like trolling him, but at some point I realized I just didn't care.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 01, 2026 12:15 AM (qpyNK)

268 I would not be surprised if Iran launches a major attack on US sites on July 4th, just to piss Trump off. They’re making more and more noises like they’re planning something just like that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2026 12:04 AM (7wNAQ)

They should get erased from orbit if they pull a stunt like that.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 01, 2026 12:15 AM (snZF9)

269 I use to post on another site but the guy who ran it turned into Mr. Super Liberal and kicked a bunch of us off his site. Been so long I forgot his name. Anyways that's when I came here.

Posted by: Case at July 01, 2026 12:12 AM (IY9No)

Teeny johnson.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 01, 2026 12:17 AM (snZF9)

270 rhomboid at July 01, 2026 12:09 AM (U/Byj)

Your insightful comment…I feel exactly the same way.
But!

I read a short essay today by Kurt Schlicter.
I was “ heartened” by what he presented.
We moved the ball down the field. We have a chance to score if the Supreme Court draft goes our way with the next opportunity.
Don’t despair. There’s still time on the clock.

Posted by: Gunslinger at July 01, 2026 12:17 AM (Mxkwh)

271 Good night folks. Been drinking.

I think what we all want is to matter to someone. Not in the sense that parents matter to children, because children could not survive otherwise.

I mean that someone choose that someone else matters to them, not because of necessity, but because of choice.

To put it dumber, "I want to matter to someone because that someone decided I mattered to them, not because of necessity, but because they looked at me and said 'You matter to me.'"

Yeah I'm a dumbhead.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 01, 2026 12:18 AM (CHHv1)

272 Claude Fable and Mythos are apparently either back or soon will be.

The Commerce Department has lifted the NOFORN restriction.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 01, 2026 12:19 AM (qpyNK)

273 252

Anyone remember the Hog on Ice blog?
Fun stuff there too, but gone for years now.
I did buy his cookbook though. Pretty awesome stuff in that…
Posted by: Gunslinger at July 01, 2026 12:02 AM (Mxkwh)

I used to read Dr. Sanity....anyone remember her?

Assuming she's not around anymore...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 01, 2026 12:19 AM (QGaXH)

274 I can't recall exactly when I started commenting here. Ace was still uncomfortable with the word "cuck." So it's been a little while but not as long as you maroons.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 01, 2026 12:20 AM (ZkWXv)

275 @269.
Yeah, that was him. Little Green Footballs.

Posted by: Case at July 01, 2026 12:20 AM (IY9No)

276 Anyone remember the Hog on Ice blog?
Fun stuff there too, but gone for years now.
I did buy his cookbook though. Pretty awesome stuff in that…
Posted by: Gunslinger at July 01, 2026 12:02 AM (Mxkwh)

Oh, yes. Steve Graham, IIRC. For a while he called his blog "The Carnival of Hate" but he toned down the title, as people looked askance at it.

Last I saw, he had contracted a terrible case of Religion, and was bouncing between churches. I hope he is okay.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 01, 2026 12:21 AM (+wZeq)

277 Yeah I'm a dumbhead.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
---------

Not hardly. Moreover, as a fellow Moron, I like you because I like you. Read all of your comments.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2026 12:21 AM (XeU6L)

278 BIG NEWS! For the first time ever, the Republican Party will hold a MIDTERM CONVENTION. It will be in Dallas, Texas — One of my favorite places in the World. It will be fantastic! It has never been done before, and will be a truly Historic Event. We are going to celebrate the GREAT AMERICAN COMEBACK, and the incredible successes of the American People who transformed our Country through the America First Agenda ...etc., etc. THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICA HAS ONLY JUST BEGUN! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2026 12:22 AM (vPv7/)

279 I would not be surprised if Iran launches a major attack on US sites on July 4th, just to piss Trump off. They’re making more and more noises like they’re planning something just like that.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2026 12:04 AM (7wNAQ)

They're apparently holding the Ayatollah's funeral on the 4th on the theory we'll be to busy partying to do anything about the obvious cluster of high value targets.

Posted by: Methos at July 01, 2026 12:22 AM (vSvIl)

280 274 I can't recall exactly when I started commenting here. Ace was still uncomfortable with the word "cuck." So it's been a little while but not as long as you maroons.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 01, 2026 12:20 AM (ZkWXv)

I can remember when posting insulting comments about Big Mike Obama here was verboten.

Posted by: a.moron at July 01, 2026 12:23 AM (X5Jzz)

281 @269.
Yeah, that was him. Little Green Footballs.

Posted by: Case at July 01, 2026 12:20 AM (IY9No)

Little green shitballs.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 01, 2026 12:24 AM (snZF9)

282 They're apparently holding the Ayatollah's funeral on the 4th on the theory we'll be to busy partying to do anything about the obvious cluster of high value targets.
Posted by: Methos at July 01, 2026 12:22 AM (vSvIl)

Some fireworks would be nice. Like a couple of A-10 passes strafing the funeral procession.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2026 12:25 AM (1z8ji)

283 G-d, I love the Thunderbirds! My Dad was stationed at Nellis AFB during the sixties and we used to see them practicing all the time, and attended many airshows. Air Force all the way, baby!

Posted by: tankascribe at July 01, 2026 12:25 AM (NtoJk)

284 279 They're apparently holding the Ayatollah's funeral on the 4th on the theory we'll be to busy partying to do anything about the obvious cluster of high value targets.
Posted by: Methos at July 01, 2026 12:22 AM (vSvIl)

Shhhh....nobody tell them about Washington crossing the Delaware Christmas night, 1776....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 01, 2026 12:26 AM (QGaXH)

285 @277 - same here, always read and enjoy your postings.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 01, 2026 12:26 AM (CHHv1)

286 > They're apparently holding the Ayatollah's funeral on the 4th on the theory we'll be to busy partying to do anything about the obvious cluster of high value targets.
Posted by: Methos at July 01, 2026 12:22 AM (vSvIl)

Cold War story:

Moscow. U.S. Embassy. New Year's Eve.

Ambassador says "Think of that poor KGB bastard stuck in a booth somewhere on New Year's Eve, listening to us having fun".

Phone rings. Ambassador answers. Sound of champagne cork popping, followed by deep laughter. Click.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 01, 2026 12:26 AM (qpyNK)

287 They're apparently holding the Ayatollah's funeral on the 4th on the theory we'll be to busy partying to do anything about the obvious cluster of high value targets.

Posted by: Methos at July 01, 2026 12:22 AM (vSvIl)

We fought a multi front war in WWII. I think we can crack open beers and burn a country off the map simultaneously.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 01, 2026 12:27 AM (snZF9)

288 Illegal aliens were subject to the Draft and required to register prior to this latest fairy tale ruling.

In fact, all Aliens & Foreign nationals have been required to register since about 1940, with their updated address. The F.B.I. had a fairly large database of named individuals who would be rounded up and detained during a declared national emergency.

During the war foreign nationals or “enemy” aliens could not be in possession of cameras, binoculars or shortwave radios. Enrico Fermi was not allowed to fly on aircraft because - before he was naturalized - Italy was a belligerent. Later, the government didn’t want to let him fly simply because he was so important to the war effort.

The government can make things happen (or not happen) when it wants to do so. If your country is invaded by millions of illegal aliens, guess what. Someone wants it that way.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 01, 2026 12:27 AM (KP4aP)

289 277 Yeah I'm a dumbhead.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
---------

Not hardly. Moreover, as a fellow Moron, I like you because I like you. Read all of your comments.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2026 12:21 AM (XeU6L)

I second Mr. Hammer's comment BC.

I usually scroll through all the comments before turning in for the night.

Had a busy day today - went and got a haircut...,

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 01, 2026 12:30 AM (QGaXH)

290 Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 01, 2026 12:18 AM

{{{BC}}}

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2026 12:30 AM (rdVOm)

291
They're apparently holding the Ayatollah's funeral on the 4th on the theory we'll be to busy partying to do anything about the obvious cluster of high value targets.
Posted by: Methos

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

Wait, what? Did I miss some news?

Also, good evening!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2026 12:32 AM (XJ22o)

292 A funeral on a single day? How cheap.

Posted by: zombie john mccain at July 01, 2026 12:34 AM (ZkWXv)

293 288 The government can make things happen (or not happen) when it wants to do so. If your country is invaded by millions of illegal aliens, guess what. Someone wants it that way.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 01, 2026 12:27 AM (KP4aP

"Someone wants it that way"

EXACTLY! This X 10,000,000....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 01, 2026 12:34 AM (QGaXH)

294 Perry is half-Portuguese and half-Italian.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

I'll have to tell DH about that, Rodrigo. He himself is half-Portuguese and half-Polish and takes delight in saying he's "a Portlock" or telling people that he's "Poliguese."

Posted by: tankascribe at July 01, 2026 12:34 AM (NtoJk)

295 Claude Fable and Mythos are apparently either back or soon will be.

The Commerce Department has lifted the NOFORN restriction.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 01, 2026 12:19 AM (qpyNK)

If they want to attract attention, the next engine will be called Claudette. People can choose between using Claudette or Claude.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 01, 2026 12:34 AM (qx7Zg)

296 If we were to require photo IDs to vote, and if Sasquatches were allowed to vote, would we finally get clear photographs of them on the IDs, or would they be blurry?

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at July 01, 2026 12:34 AM (yO07m)

297 Jesus. A friend just texted me. 2 of his friends got wiped out on the motorcycles (harleys) over the weekend. Fucking car pulled out in front of them. One died at the scene, the other lost a limb and is hanging on by a thread. He has a 7 year old daughter. Drivers like that need an instant bullet in the head.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 01, 2026 12:35 AM (snZF9)

298
Illegal aliens were subject to the Draft and required to register prior to this latest fairy tale ruling.

Posted by: Common Tater

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

You mean, they were allowed to get into our military.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2026 12:35 AM (XJ22o)

299
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 01, 2026 12:35 AM (snZF9)

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

Awful! I'm so sorry.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2026 12:36 AM (XJ22o)

300 We fought a multi front war in WWII. I think we can crack open beers and burn a country off the map simultaneously.
Posted by: Berserker

***BEST FIREWORKS EVAR!***

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2026 12:37 AM (rdVOm)

301 Jesus. A friend just texted me. 2 of his friends got wiped out on the motorcycles (harleys) over the weekend. Fucking car pulled out in front of them. One died at the scene, the other lost a limb and is hanging on by a thread. He has a 7 year old daughter. Drivers like that need an instant bullet in the head.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

That is horrible. Condolences and prayers, Berserker.

Posted by: tankascribe at July 01, 2026 12:37 AM (NtoJk)

302 The latest incarnation of the "Hog on Ice" blog is here:

https://toolsofrenewal.com

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 01, 2026 12:38 AM (+wZeq)

303 We fought a multi front war in WWII. I think we can crack open beers and burn a country off the map simultaneously.
Posted by: Berserker

***BEST FIREWORKS EVAR!***

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2026 12:37 AM (rdVOm)

Right?? lol. Happy 250..*FOOM*

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 01, 2026 12:38 AM (snZF9)

304 @290 - ha ha, the beautiful JQ has fallen into my trap!

I mean, I'd say that if I was a supervillain. Or willing to admit being a supervillain. That? Over there? It's, erm, a modern sculpture. It's not a death ray. Pinkie swears!

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 01, 2026 12:39 AM (CHHv1)

305 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 01, 2026 12:35 AM

Oh, holey moley. Sorry.

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2026 12:39 AM (rdVOm)

306 Jesus. A friend just texted me. 2 of his friends got wiped out on the motorcycles (harleys) over the weekend. Fucking car pulled out in front of them. One died at the scene, the other lost a limb and is hanging on by a thread. He has a 7 year old daughter. Drivers like that need an instant bullet in the head.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 01, 2026 12:35 AM (snZF9)

Sorry to hear that, Berserker.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2026 12:40 AM (1z8ji)

307
Last thread, I was going on about this being the anniversary of the Tunguska event, early morning June 30th, 1908. The object was likely a big fragment from the Taurid meteor stream, which is debris from Comet Encke. The stream's orbit crosses the earth right at this time, and the angle comes in from the sun. The morning side of earth is leading in the orbit, and that's the side it comes in on. Siberia was in the bullseye by luck of the rotational draw.

Now, there is a tie-in with the Younger Dryas Impact theory, too. Comet Encke could well be a chunk of a much larger comet that broke up ages ago, and on a faithful day 12,800 years ago, the Earth plowed right into that.

Some of the YD Impact guys joke that the date was June 30, 10,800 BC.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 01, 2026 12:42 AM (w6EFb)

308 >> Fucking car pulled out in front of them.

Jeebus, that's awful.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 01, 2026 12:44 AM (w6EFb)

309 Jesus. A friend just texted me. 2 of his friends got wiped out on the motorcycles (harleys) over the weekend. Fucking car pulled out in front of them. One died at the scene, the other lost a limb and is hanging on by a thread. He has a 7 year old daughter. Drivers like that need an instant bullet in the head.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 01, 2026 12:35 AM (snZF9)

Prayers for the injured.

For the driver, why not tar, feather, draw, and quarter?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 01, 2026 12:46 AM (qx7Zg)

310 Heh, Little Green Footballs. Never posted there but used to frequent the site, especially during the Dan Rather/GWB bs. Watching Charles Johnson slowly descend into madness was interesting. I suspect he was always like that but 9/11 brought about a certain amount of clarity that even got through to him. Didn't last long, of course, and he reverted back to his norm, which was drooling, halfwit, commie.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2026 12:46 AM (sAmhv)

311 I didn't know these guys. I'm trying to piece together how that could happen. You always watch the side streets. If you see a car bet on them pulling out in front of you. Not only do they pull out, but they stop dead like a deer in the headlights and block your path. They also should have been riding staggered. The fact that they both got whacked tells me they weren't. I don't want to judge, but my gut tells me this might..might have been avoided. Not that it was their fault, but you need to ride like every car out there is trying to hit you, because they are. If you let your guard down you're fucked.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 01, 2026 12:46 AM (snZF9)

312 For the driver, why not tar, feather, draw, and quarter?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 01, 2026 12:46 AM (qx7Zg)

I think a tire fire is more fitting.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 01, 2026 12:49 AM (snZF9)

313 279 I would not be surprised if Iran launches a major attack on US sites on July 4th, just to piss Trump off. They’re making more and more noises like they’re planning something just like that.
Posted by: Tom Servo
----

What's the lyrics, 'what a fool believes', let 'em, I'd rather they kill each other some more but if they want to be that stupid, so be it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2026 12:51 AM (vPv7/)

314 You mean, they were allowed to get into our military
——

No, what it means is illegal aliens have always been liable to the Draft, should one be implemented, and all males regardless of “status” are in fact required to Register upon their 18th birthday . Sorry if I wasn’t clear?
——

Yeah, I had a scooter for a while. Heavy bastard it was. I found driving it wasn’t that enjoyable. Motorcycles have always been somewhat dangerous on the road but in recent decades it has gotten ridiculous. Way too many fuckheads on the roads.

Like everything else, there are no longer objective tests to get a driver license, near as I can tell.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 01, 2026 12:52 AM (+Oqoq)

315 Heh, Little Green Footballs. Never posted there but used to frequent the site, especially during the Dan Rather/GWB bs. Watching Charles Johnson slowly descend into madness was interesting. I suspect he was always like that but 9/11 brought about a certain amount of clarity that even got through to him. Didn't last long, of course, and he reverted back to his norm, which was drooling, halfwit, commie.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2026 12:46 AM (sAmhv)

Yeah that was really something to see. It really was a decent into madness. Registration was closed forever, then finally I caught it open one day and got in. Then I watched it go to shit. I might have posted a few times.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 01, 2026 12:52 AM (snZF9)

316 >>>Not that it was their fault, but you need to ride like every car out there is trying to hit you, because they are. If you let your guard down you're fucked.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
---

Back when the world was round the Dept. of Transportation said,
every accident is an avoidable accident.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2026 12:53 AM (vPv7/)

317
I was trying to find an animation of what happens to a little spherical cloud of test particles dropped into a circular orbit. That shows how object initially close together drift in a complex ways. I've seen it before, but couldn't easily find a good one. Anyway, that little ball of particles will get stretched into a long skinny banana like shape all along the orbital path, and it will be oscillating and undulating as it does so.

That's a perfect way to see how a comet forms a long debris trail that becomes a meteor stream as it goes around the sun.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 01, 2026 12:56 AM (w6EFb)

318 Publius, there is some really cool imagery of the Earth. As you know, it isn’t round. More like an oblate spheroid.

The underlying actual imagery or shape of the earth minus the ocean is pretty interesting. It looks like something whacked the Earth and took a huge chunk out. Which may be … wait for it.

Our Moon!

Posted by: Common Tater at July 01, 2026 12:57 AM (+Oqoq)

319 Bers, I admit to being *one of those car-driving asshoes*.

Was at an intersection, almost turned left in front of an oncoming bike... caught myself, but it could've been ugly. And it was after I'd been through the required classes to get my own motorcycle endorsement!

Afterward, I was incredulous at my near-mistake. I SAW the bike approaching, but it just didn't register as *a vehicle that I should yield to* even though the rider had right-of-way.

Very sobering.

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2026 12:57 AM (rdVOm)

320 Friend of mine was riding his bike up the freeway south of S.F. Hit from behind my a drunk driver. Killed almost instantly. Friend was a good guy too. Looked like a crazy, Pacific islander type but he was a total teddy bear. We bonded over Blue Oyster Cult as hardcore fans. BOC's 1998 album has an RIP to him.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 01, 2026 12:57 AM (DZ9Lv)

321 Well, I put in a long day today, so I am going to call it a night. Got to go back out to the shop. Left a mosquito coil burning. If it hasn't burned itself out by now, I will extinguish it, for safety's sake.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2026 12:57 AM (1z8ji)

322 Guy, on the highway, passed me in my lane. That was it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2026 01:00 AM (vPv7/)

323 Heading north to Tacoma tomorrow after work for Fourth of July. I want to bring a beef brisket, but I can't smoke it there, so I'm going to start it tonight around midnight. Saturday I'll heat it up and try to put a crust on it. I think I'll sleep downstairs so I can hear the temperature alarm if anything goes wrong. I've got a fire going. It's cold here!

Seems like a good time to test out the Strawberry Basil Smash recipe I'm bringing (found at https://tinyurl.com/2akndn7x):

- 2 ounces gin
- 3/4 ounce orgeat
- 1 ounce lime juice
- 3-5 fresh basil leaves
- 3ish strawberries
- generous barspoon of strawberry jam
- 2 dashes Fee Brothers Rhubarb Bitters

Muddle, shake with ice, strain, pour.

It's good! Might need another test though.

Posted by: frammish at July 01, 2026 01:02 AM (rcENI)

324 My older bro rode bikes often. Mainly dirt bikes, but still... he'd been on the roads, on 2 wheels, a whole lot more than me. When I got my mc permit, he gave me his wisdom:

"Sis, when you get on a motorcycle, something *magical* happens...
.
.
.
...You become INVISIBLE! Don't expect other drivers to even notice you."

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2026 01:03 AM (rdVOm)

325 327 That's a perfect way to see how a comet forms a long debris trail that becomes a meteor stream as it goes around the sun.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 01, 2026 12:56 AM (w6EFb)

Publius - thank you for all the cool info you share here!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 01, 2026 01:04 AM (QGaXH)

326 DSA guy unseated a longtime, 68-yr-old DEM incumbent in CO CD-1 tonight.

It's a safe DEM seat, so... another Mamdani guy goes to Congress. There's going to be quite a large group of DSA congresspersons. It's not just the Squad any more.

Posted by: mnw at July 01, 2026 01:04 AM (RCjYY)

327
NASA Ames high resolution supercomputer simulation of the Giant Impact Hypothesis of the Moon's formation:

https://t.ly/0x5y0

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 01, 2026 01:05 AM (w6EFb)

328 Bers, I admit to being *one of those car-driving asshoes*.

Was at an intersection, almost turned left in front of an oncoming bike... caught myself, but it could've been ugly. And it was after I'd been through the required classes to get my own motorcycle endorsement!

Afterward, I was incredulous at my near-mistake. I SAW the bike approaching, but it just didn't register as *a vehicle that I should yield to* even though the rider had right-of-way.

Very sobering.

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2026 12:57 AM (rdVOm)

I almost got hit on the tour bike. The frigging thing is lit up like a christmas tree and they still pulled out in front of me. But I saw the car pull up to the stop sign and I felt it in my bones they were gonna pull out, so I was already on the brakes.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 01, 2026 01:07 AM (snZF9)

329 *shuffles up to the dark end of the bar*

Could use a drink and a ride and $20

I'll need to run a tab

C'mon, I used to work here

Posted by: Mercy on down and out Miklos at July 01, 2026 01:07 AM (6VErX)

330 Of course without fights hockey can't exist, well, except for the 95% of hockey in which fights are just as banned as in tennis or golf.
Posted by: rhomboid
----
In 13 years of playing organized hockey, The Kid only got in one fight, in Langford, up on Vancouver Island. The official "shake off of the gloves" and everything. He got the best of it, and as soon as the linesmen grabbed them he went turtle, so the other kid got in nothing. The ref could have called a major and game for fighting which was an automatic two game suspension, but I think he was amused. Matching double minors for roughing.

Posted by: buddhaha at July 01, 2026 01:07 AM (rj9+0)

331 311 I didn't know these guys. I'm trying to piece together how that could happen. You always watch the side streets. If you see a car bet on them pulling out in front of you. Not only do they pull out, but they stop dead like a deer in the headlights and block your path. They also should have been riding staggered. The fact that they both got whacked tells me they weren't. I don't want to judge, but my gut tells me this might..might have been avoided. Not that it was their fault, but you need to ride like every car out there is trying to hit you, because they are. If you let your guard down you're fucked.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 01, 2026 12:46 AM (snZF9)

Berserker - how awful! So sorry to hear. I worry about being on the other side of that equation due to a moment of inattentiveness.

Worse are the middle school kids on e-bikes. Every day I see violations that could get them killed and cause some innocent driver a lifetime of guilt....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 01, 2026 01:08 AM (QGaXH)

332 "Sis, when you get on a motorcycle, something *magical* happens...
.
.
.
...You become INVISIBLE! Don't expect other drivers to even notice you."

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2026 01:03 AM (rdVOm)

He's 100% right.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 01, 2026 01:08 AM (snZF9)

333
DSA guy unseated a longtime, 68-yr-old DEM incumbent in CO CD-1 tonight.

It's a safe DEM seat, so... another Mamdani guy goes to Congress. There's going to be quite a large group of DSA congresspersons. It's not just the Squad any more.
Posted by: mnw

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

oh my GODDDD. Not that Melat Kiros????

This utter bitch says we deserved 9/11. She was so fucking far out she got fired by her New York law firm, then scuttled off to get a Ph.D. in Public Administration, which is her current occupation. She was born in Ethiopia and hates America with a passion.

She is also very attractive. DSA knows exactly what they're doing. omg this woman is arguably worse than anything that happened in NYC.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2026 01:09 AM (XJ22o)

334 >>>The Monastery of the Holy Trinity in Greece

That's in St. Cyrils, yes?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 01, 2026 01:11 AM (dK+Kv)

335 Hey, Miklos.. ya look a bit rough, man.. Here, this ones on me. You ok?

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2026 01:11 AM (rdVOm)

336 Mort

No, Kiros lost tonight. It was the (white male) state AG who defeated the DEM incumbent.

Posted by: mnw at July 01, 2026 01:12 AM (RCjYY)

337 >> Publius - thank you for all the cool info you share here!

You're welcome -- I love this stuff.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 01, 2026 01:12 AM (w6EFb)

338 Even in a car, it pisses me off the way people drive balls to the walls up to a stop sign and brake at the last minute. I “know” they are going to stop, but I really don’t. They physics of two vehicles at high speed approaching at right angles on a collision course is the problem. It indicates they are not aware of this, at some level.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 01, 2026 01:14 AM (+Oqoq)

339 333 ...She is also very attractive. DSA knows exactly what they're doing. omg this woman is arguably worse than anything that happened in NYC.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2026 01:09 AM (XJ22o)

Every guy has met or dated his share of attractive women who got ugly real fast as soon as they started to speak...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 01, 2026 01:16 AM (QGaXH)

340 Morticia

Me bad. Kiros DID win in CO CD-1.

That was sloppy on my part. Kiros took out the longtime DEM incumbent.

Posted by: mnw at July 01, 2026 01:16 AM (RCjYY)

341 Wow the strawberry and basil pulp is better than the cocktail!

Posted by: frammish at July 01, 2026 01:19 AM (rcENI)

342 I was confusing 2 different CO races. A DIFFERENT DSA candidate won the DEM nomination for governor.

DEM socialists had a very good night in CO tonight!

Posted by: mnw at July 01, 2026 01:19 AM (RCjYY)

343 10 ...FIFA requires World Cup matches to be played on natural grass.

Ok, THIS is one area in which I will concede superiority to the Euros. Turf is of Stan.

**********

You know who invented AstroTurf? The Jews!!!

Posted by: George Costanza (Operating as O'Brien) at July 01, 2026 01:20 AM (rgnea)

344
Mort

No, Kiros lost tonight. It was the (white male) state AG who defeated the DEM incumbent.
Posted by: mnw

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

In that case... there were TWO races where DSA won in CO. Because that horrid bitch I just described did in fact defeat a 15-term Dem. DeGette.

awful awful awful

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2026 01:21 AM (XJ22o)

345
Here is the "shape of the earth" in a gravitational sense. This is the geoid, the gravitational equipotential surface (which defines sea level globally) of the earth.

This is not the topographic shape, it's important to note. The earth's gravity vector is normal to that surface at any point. This is the result of high precision satellite gravimetry, mapping the earth's gravitational field to high precision:

https://t.ly/ysHT4

That's also exaggerated to let you see the deviation from spherical easily. The height parameter at the top left controls that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 01, 2026 01:22 AM (w6EFb)

346 nvidia is casually giving you access to 5 frontier chinese AI models for free 😳

no credit card
no subscriptions
just one API key that unlocks everything

what you get for $0:

- DeepSeek V4 Flash for ultra-fast inference
- MiniMax M3 as a drop-in coding assistant
- Qwen3.5-397B for advanced reasoning tasks
- Kimi K2.6 for agentic workflows and long chains
- GLM 5.1 as a reliable everyday model

why this is huge

https://tinyurl.com/5aebdyr2

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2026 01:22 AM (vPv7/)

347 Northern Idaho, two weeks ago:

A passing attempt in a marked no-passing zone on U.S. Highway 12 east of Kooskia ended in a crash that killed three motorcyclists Tuesday afternoon, according to Idaho State Police.

ISP said troopers are investigating the three-fatality collision, which happened at about 4 p.m. Tuesday, June 16, 2026, near milepost 113 on U.S. Highway 12 east of Kooskia.

The preliminary investigation indicates a 2019 Ford F-150 was traveling westbound when the driver attempted to pass another vehicle in a marked no-passing zone. ISP said the pickup crossed the double yellow centerline and collided with three motorcycles traveling eastbound.

ISP said the 60-year-old female driver of the Ford, from Colorado Springs, Colorado, was taken to a local hospital for medical evaluation. After her release, she was arrested and booked into the Idaho County Jail on probable cause for three counts of vehicular manslaughter.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 01, 2026 01:22 AM (+wZeq)

348 After 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 looking for the Winnower why do people play dxe4? I don't know what theory says, but my games from there seem boring.

Posted by: frammish at July 01, 2026 01:23 AM (rcENI)

349 Even in a car, it pisses me off the way people drive balls to the walls up to a stop sign and brake at the last minute. I “know” they are going to stop, but I really don’t. They physics of two vehicles at high speed approaching at right angles on a collision course is the problem. It indicates they are not aware of this, at some level.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 01, 2026 01:14 AM (+Oqoq)

Yeah jerkoffs like that can spook you. Its bad when you have a small group of bikes and the ones up front start hitting their brakes. We try to ride spread out for that reason.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 01, 2026 01:24 AM (snZF9)

350 344

I tried to correct my error as fast as possible, as you can see.

Posted by: mnw at July 01, 2026 01:24 AM (RCjYY)

351
Every guy has met or dated his share of attractive women who got ugly real fast as soon as they started to speak...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

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

And yet they keep getting re-elected.

I'm telling you, the DSA is using glamorous foreign pinups to destroy this country. They know what they're doing.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2026 01:24 AM (XJ22o)

352
I tried to correct my error as fast as possible, as you can see.
Posted by: mnw

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

I know, we were typing at the same time.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2026 01:24 AM (XJ22o)

353 RFK Jr. Announces He's Ending Emergency Liability Protection For COVID-19 Vaccine Makers
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Better late than never.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2026 01:27 AM (vPv7/)

354 The preliminary investigation indicates a 2019 Ford F-150 was traveling westbound when the driver attempted to pass another vehicle in a marked no-passing zone. ISP said the pickup crossed the double yellow centerline and collided with three motorcycles traveling eastbound.

ISP said the 60-year-old female driver of the Ford, from Colorado Springs, Colorado, was taken to a local hospital for medical evaluation. After her release, she was arrested and booked into the Idaho County Jail on probable cause for three counts of vehicular manslaughter.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 01, 2026 01:22 AM (+wZeq)

Yup, tire fire or bullet in the head.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 01, 2026 01:27 AM (snZF9)

355 >>...A passing attempt in a marked no-passing zone on U.S. Highway 12 east of Kooskia...

That's some really twisty road there. Stoopid CO broad should've slowed down.

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2026 01:30 AM (rdVOm)

356 AND stayed in her lane!

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2026 01:32 AM (rdVOm)

357 Never cross the double yellow line.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2026 01:33 AM (vPv7/)

358 The GOP has been known to put up eye candy too-- Kari Lake was certainly one.

I could mention several others, but... I don't want to get called "BLIND Man!", because beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I think most would agree that Kristi Noem is one deserves to be included.

I'm probably the only one here who remembers FL SoS Katherine Harris. She was briefly famous for her role in the 2000 Bush/Gore disputed election.

Posted by: mnw at July 01, 2026 01:33 AM (RCjYY)

359 I'm fine with DSA types being elected. They are legitimately crazy. It presents as clear a contrast as is humanly possible to the electorate. If the country chooses them over sanity, it deserves its fate. We might not deserve it. But if they cannot be defeated, the die is cast.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 01, 2026 01:34 AM (ZkWXv)

360
I'm really blackpilled by those DSA wins in CO. That one woman is unspeakably horrendous. She's gorgeous, and she hates America ==> she WILL be a US Senator someday.

She has a law degree and hates America ==> she could be a Dem-appointed SCOTUS Justice someday.

Just. Awful.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2026 01:35 AM (XJ22o)

361 "As SpaceX continues to invest in the area, SpaceX is offering our neighbors in the Memphis area no upfront hardware costs on Residential @Starlink kits for new customers and a discount on home internet service plans for both new and existing customers," Starlink wrote on X.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2026 01:36 AM (vPv7/)

362
Posted by: mnw at July 01, 2026 01:33 AM (RCjYY)

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

Trump does like his pretty ladies, but they are appointments. I don't see the GOP recruiting pretty girls the way DSA is. They're female Obamas x 100.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2026 01:37 AM (XJ22o)

363 "the die is cast":

MN AG Keith Ellison?
NY AG Leticia James?

Those are 2 die that got cast... and won statewide elections too.

They're both as leftwing nuts as any of the new DSA crop.

Posted by: mnw at July 01, 2026 01:38 AM (RCjYY)

364 As SpaceX continues to invest in the area, SpaceX is offering our neighbors in the Memphis area no upfront hardware costs on Residential @Starlink kits for new customers and a discount on home internet service plans for both new and existing customers," Starlink wrote on X.
Posted by: Braenyard

Clearly a Fascist Musk plot to kill children in Nigeria.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 01, 2026 01:38 AM (obVEo)

365 Trump does like his pretty ladies, but they are appointments. I don't see the GOP recruiting pretty girls the way DSA is. They're female Obamas x 100.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2026 01:37 AM (XJ22o)

I'm not exactly finding these dem women that attractive. Yeah they're not blue haired land whales, but they aren't anything special.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 01, 2026 01:41 AM (snZF9)

366 The Archdiocese of San Francisco has agreed to pay $395 million to settle more than 500 lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse by church officials, in what the plaintiffs’ lawyers described as the largest per-survivor settlement.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2026 01:41 AM (vPv7/)

367 346 Braenyard

I'll try it out tomorrow! Besides ordinary work, I can't believe how many side projects and home infra jobs I've been able to hand to Claude Code the last few months:

- Working Perseus VM, with scripts to generate vocab lists for any text/author.
- Keeping the raspberry pi sprinkler system in the garage from dropping off the wifi.
- Fixing the xfce dual-monitor wake-up-from-sleep with one hdmi and one dp.
- Diagnosing spontaneous reboots with no logs every 3-10 days.
- Finally adding spamassassin to the domains with self-hosted email.
- Linting the ansible scripts for various systems.
- Diagnosing problems with the old Brother printer.
- Finding ways to extend wifi to the far end of the house.
- Rails polymorphic constraints.
- Upgrading my weight/run time/bp spreadsheet to a Rails app.
- Dike out React from my time tracking app, replaced with a bit of Stimulus.
- More munin graphs.
- Jellyfin server.
- Personal Firefox plugin for pass(1).
- Why did git-crypt stop working in my dotfiles repo?
- OCR+RAG of old database research papers.

Posted by: frammish at July 01, 2026 01:42 AM (rcENI)

368 Not to mention the dems will vote for communists if they were a cyclops version of hillary.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 01, 2026 01:42 AM (snZF9)

369 Nytol

I'm trying to break my habit of staying up so late.

Posted by: mnw at July 01, 2026 01:42 AM (RCjYY)

370 It is the latest agreement over clergy sexual abuse claims. In 2024, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles agreed to a record $880 million settlement.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2026 01:42 AM (vPv7/)

371 365 Trump does like his pretty ladies, but they are appointments. I don't see the GOP recruiting pretty girls the way DSA is. They're female Obamas x 100.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2026 01:37 AM (XJ22o)

I'm not exactly finding these dem women that attractive. Yeah they're not blue haired land whales, but they aren't anything special.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 01, 2026 01:41 AM (snZF9)

Neither are Lake or Noem really. Lake looks like a lesbian and Noem looks like a local pageant girl.

Politics really is Hollywood for ugly people.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 01, 2026 01:44 AM (ZkWXv)

372
To first order, the earth is a sphere. To second, it's an oblate (Maclaurin) spheroid. To third order, it's pear shaped, with the southern hemisphere a little bit fatter than the northern. To higher yet, it's, well, slightly lumpy. But nowhere near as lumpy as the Moon.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 01, 2026 01:45 AM (w6EFb)

373 Bers, that is an awful story about the bikers.

I see that JQ has assisted Miklos, tell him that I will buy him the next one.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 01, 2026 01:46 AM (ibDUx)

374 365

THAT'S why I didn't include more names on my "GOP eye candy" post, bc I didn't want to get into a debate about who's hot and who's not.

I mentioned 3 that I thought would be declared hot by acclamation.

Posted by: mnw at July 01, 2026 01:46 AM (RCjYY)

375 Hi, Debby!

*pours Chivas*

Cheers!

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2026 01:48 AM (rdVOm)

376 PM Netanyahu on Turkey:

Erdogan speaks about wanting to destroy Israel and take control of Jerusalem again.

I think he forgot that 400 years of Ottoman rule are over. Today there is a strong State of Israel.

He should calm down. We will not allow anyone to threaten our existence or our security, and I think we have shown what we are capable of.
--

They just can't let it go. Trump didn't give the Kurds enough weapons. If they don't settle down, if this thing kicks up again (it will) we should decimate the whole region. They want to live like 7th century barbarians let's make their wish come true.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2026 01:50 AM (vPv7/)

377 Hey, Miklos.. ya look a bit rough, man.. Here, this ones on me. You ok?
Posted by: JQ

Thankee Missus

Now I can pay for my dog's beer

Posted by: Miss Dixie sez Hi at July 01, 2026 01:51 AM (6VErX)

378 369 Nytol

I'm trying to break my habit of staying up so late.

Posted by: mnw
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Don't forget to take you medicine,

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2026 01:53 AM (vPv7/)

379 Aw, Miss Dixie Doodle is here, too! Sweet pup... beer? Really? Ok.. I'll cover that one too.

Hope you're well, Miklos!

*gives Miss Dixie a skritch*

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2026 01:56 AM (rdVOm)

380 Same nick since 2004.

Posted by: Reforger at July 01, 2026 01:58 AM (0dsIZ)

381 Thanks JQ, Cheers, I hope that you are less achy today.

I got a lot done around here today, guests are arriving Friday and I should be in good shape.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 01, 2026 01:58 AM (ibDUx)

382 Sounds like a nice party is shaping up for you & yours, Debby. Enjoy!

I wasn't as sore as I thought I'd be, this morning. So, I went out and did more work in the same area today. Am making good progress in a space that's been neglected for several years. Think I've removed about a cubic yard of english ivy! Next step... spray it with shrub poison. Might take a couple-three treatments, that stuff is *tough* to eradicate.

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2026 02:05 AM (rdVOm)

383 Berserker, I'm sorry to hear that about your friend's friends. Was this it?

"Deadly Route 22 Collision Involved 2 Motorcycles And Another Vehicle, Sheriff Says"

Patch.com, dated Mon, Jun 29: https://tinyurl.com/3cd5xvy6

"TOWN OF NORTH EAST, NY — A tragedy on a Hudson Valley highway has left one dead, and another in critical condition.

"The deadly crash involving a motor vehicle and two motorcycles is under investigation after a collision on State Route 22, in the Town of North East, on Monday morning, according to the Dutchess County Sheriff's Office.

"The Sheriff's Office reported that one of the motorcycle riders died from injuries sustained in the crash. The other motorcycle rider was rushed to Vassar Hospital, where they remain in critical condition. The driver of the other vehicle involved was also taken to Vassar Hospital for medical evaluation."

(article continues)

Posted by: SciVo at July 01, 2026 02:11 AM (Sy6m/)

384 (cont'd)

"The Dutchess County Sheriff's Office said multiple agencies assisted at the scene and during the investigation. Those agencies included the Dutchess County Medical Examiner, the New York State Police, the Millerton Fire Company, the Amenia Fire Company, and Empress Ambulance Service.

"Investigators are asking anyone who may have witnessed the crash or the events leading up to it to come forward. The Sheriff's Office urged potential witnesses to contact Detective Catuzza at 845-486-3881 or by email at this email address. The Sheriff's Office can also be contacted through its tipline at 845-605-2583 or by email."

Posted by: SciVo at July 01, 2026 02:21 AM (Sy6m/)

385 No guests here for Independence Day... I'll just fly Old Glory and pray for us all. Maybe have a couple beverages. Grill a burger. Enjoy my little slice of paradise all alone. (Lunch with hubby, as always, but the rest of the day...*sigh*)

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2026 02:24 AM (rdVOm)

386 Too late to get a table ?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 02:25 AM (afJtY)

387 Sen. John Hickenlooper defeated progressive state Sen. Julie Gonzales in Colorado's Democratic Senate primary, securing the nomination as he seeks a second term.

Gonzales argued Democrats needed to take a more aggressive approach to opposing President Trump and criticized Hickenlooper's moderate record, including some of his votes in favor of Trump's nominees.

The result marks a setback for the Democratic Party's progressive wing after a string of recent primary victories elsewhere

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2026 02:26 AM (vPv7/)

388 Howdy, Ben Had! You're here... early? late?

Of course you may sit wherever you like!

Beverage? On the house!

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2026 02:27 AM (rdVOm)

389 JQ, early. I brought a bottle of bourbon cream to share.
Sparks the coffee right up!

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 02:30 AM (afJtY)

390 Sen. John Hickenlooper defeated progressive state Sen. Julie Gonzales in Colorado's Democratic Senate primary, securing the nomination as he seeks a second term.

The result marks a setback for the Democratic Party's progressive wing after a string of recent primary victories elsewhere
Posted by: Braenyard

1) Name recognition
B) Incumbency
3) Name recognition, especially when it's a pretty gay name

Posted by: mikeski at July 01, 2026 02:31 AM (VHUov)

391 Ooooo. Bourbon cream!

Got a fresh pot of Kona coffee... here ya go... room for a double in your mug!

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2026 02:32 AM (rdVOm)

392 Well, you can tell where the sympathies of the Leftie Activists With Bylines lie. Can you believe, framing it as a 'setback' for the socialists to fail to primary out a sitting U.S. Senator, as if they had it in the bag. Sheesh!

Posted by: SciVo at July 01, 2026 02:32 AM (Sy6m/)

393 Slides over so that Ben Had can have a seat, such an unexpected pleasure to have you here at this hour. I hope that a horse is not sick.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 01, 2026 02:32 AM (ibDUx)

394 G-d Bless America and I intend to give him all the help
I can.

The fight is only over if you surrender.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 02:34 AM (afJtY)

395 Debbie, gratefully all the critters are well. Summer schedule has me starting at 3 so I can get the horses done before it gets too hot.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 02:38 AM (afJtY)

396 Hour to go

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2026 02:39 AM (Ia/+0)

397 July 2026. How can this be?

Have a good Independence Day weekend. Be positive. It helps.

Posted by: Late-Night Lurker at July 01, 2026 02:41 AM (LDzCq)

398 Name recognition, especially when it's a pretty gay name

Posted by: mikeski
--

It's far out to say Hickenlooper is a win over the radical.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2026 02:42 AM (vPv7/)

399 Well I can see where a Bourbon Cream will give you a little get up and go to get the chores done!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 01, 2026 02:42 AM (ibDUx)

400 Skip , Good morning. Have you ever installed any faux stone plnaling?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 02:43 AM (afJtY)

401 Be positive. It helps.
Posted by: Late-Night Lurker at July 01, 2026 02:41 AM (LDzCq)

*waives pride flag one last time*

Posted by: HIV at July 01, 2026 02:44 AM (oXssD)

402 Paneling was intended.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 02:44 AM (afJtY)

403 Debbie, smoothes out the creaking old body.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 02:46 AM (afJtY)

404 6 IRGC muckity mucks have been assassinated in the provincial area of Iran. A good start.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 02:49 AM (afJtY)

405 I am off to sleep, Horde, sweet dreams.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 01, 2026 02:56 AM (ibDUx)

406 'Night, Debby

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2026 02:57 AM (rdVOm)

407 404 6 IRGC muckity mucks have been assassinated in the provincial area of Iran. A good start.
Posted by: Ben Had

Good comment number! "Terrorists not found."

Posted by: mikeski at July 01, 2026 02:58 AM (VHUov)

408 Peaceful slumber, DDS

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 02:59 AM (afJtY)

409 6 IRGC muckity mucks have been assassinated in the provincial area of Iran. A good start.
Posted by: Ben Had

Indeed.

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2026 02:59 AM (rdVOm)

410 Debbie, smoothes out the creaking old body.
Posted by: Ben Had

I make double coffee cold brewed protein smoothies

It's hot here

Posted by: Miklos lives in an undisclosed sinkhole of heat and humidity at July 01, 2026 03:00 AM (6VErX)

411 mikeski , hahahaha. I didn't notice.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 03:00 AM (afJtY)

412 I'm working July 4th. I sometimes get it off, but not this year. Just the way the schedule bounces.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2026 03:02 AM (sAmhv)

413 Miklos, Good morning. I take my protein in the red meat form.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 03:03 AM (afJtY)

414 The fight is only over if you surrender.
Posted by: Ben Had

*sharpens pointy sticks just in case*

Posted by: Miklos is turning Japanese at July 01, 2026 03:03 AM (6VErX)

415 Miklos, if I had a sharper wit I could use one of those stcks as a pun jab.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 03:05 AM (afJtY)

416 Posted by: Miklos lives in an undisclosed sinkhole of heat and humidity

We've had a brief respite from the usual heat... back into the convection oven next week, tho.

One year, before we had any a/c units, we bought a plastic kiddie pool and spent many hours in the water with our cold beverages. Better than nothing, LOL.

I'll be putting in the portable a/c this weekend. Easy peasy. (suck it, yurrup-peons!)

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2026 03:07 AM (rdVOm)

417 Miklos, Good morning. I take my protein in the red meat form.
Posted by: Ben Had

Beef

The only red meat ™

Posted by: Quail aficionado Mikos ™ at July 01, 2026 03:07 AM (6VErX)

418 I'm working July 4th. I sometimes get it off, but not this year. Just the way the schedule bounces.
Posted by: Puddleglum

Stop by Club ONT! The 4th is Caturday, and some of us Morons are bound to check in. I know I'll be here for the great company! (don't let that scare you away)

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2026 03:09 AM (rdVOm)

419 Miklos, if I had a sharper wit I could use one of those stcks as a pun jab.
Posted by: Ben Had

The Marines and Army both call them pungi sticks, similar to Pugil Sticks

But Different

Posted by: Hello from Scenic Ft Jackson! at July 01, 2026 03:10 AM (6VErX)

420 Is Yak meat considered "red meat"? Honest question.

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2026 03:11 AM (rdVOm)

421 I might as well get up

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2026 03:11 AM (Ia/+0)

422 Miklos, ready for some more of those birds to fly your way?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 03:12 AM (afJtY)

423 JQ, yes. My second favorite red meat is Wildebeest.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 03:14 AM (afJtY)

424 412 I'm working July 4th. I sometimes get it off, but not this year. Just the way the schedule bounces.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2026 03:02 AM (sAmhv)

I'm retired. I get all the days off. DH, not so much.

But, we are scooting down to Kasilof on the 5th through the 10th. Dipnetting some lovely Kasilof Red Salmon, which some of you morons and ettes have tasted. DH fishes, I clean and ice. We go with friends, and then have feasts on shore along with a few libations. It probably doesn't pay out, but oh my, how we love our smoked salmon and our good friends and a good time.

Watching the weir counts and it is looking good for that week.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2026 03:14 AM (bl07w)

425 Thanks, Ben Had! I've been wondering. I'd guess that ~~bison~~ buffalo is also "red" meat...

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2026 03:17 AM (rdVOm)

426 Is Yak meat considered "red meat"? Honest question.
Posted by: JQ

I had New Orleans Red Beans and Rice in Bangkok in a place run by a Vet from Nawlins.

The recipe was original but the sausage?

"Yeah, but not yak, water buffalo"

Posted by: Mikleuse le Cuisinaire Mondiale at July 01, 2026 03:17 AM (6VErX)

427 tcn, your smoked salmon is the best.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 03:17 AM (afJtY)

428 Mmm. Salmon...

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2026 03:18 AM (rdVOm)

429 Dang it! Now I'm hungry but it's time for bed! LOL

This place.

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2026 03:19 AM (rdVOm)

430 The commercial Yak breeders around here raise them more for their fiber. A combination of Yak Buffalo wool socks are like walking on air.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 03:20 AM (afJtY)

431 ready for some more of those birds to fly your way?
Posted by: Ben Had

I now have freezer space, but may not the best time to meet with Miley and Publius.

Best food from best people should be eaten with best friends.

Posted by: Merci Madame le Horse Boss Lady at July 01, 2026 03:21 AM (6VErX)

432 Miklos, when the time is right I will know.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 03:22 AM (afJtY)

433 Before I check out... extra prayer up for publius' mom, publius & Miley.

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2026 03:23 AM (rdVOm)

434 The commercial Yak breeders around here raise them more for their fiber. A combination of Yak Buffalo wool socks are like walking on air.
Posted by: Ben Had

I knew a Finnish girl who worked on an ostrich farm in Hungary...

Posted by: even Miklos can't make this up at July 01, 2026 03:25 AM (6VErX)

435 when the time is right I will know.
Posted by: Ben Had

How did you think that I don't know what others must know?

*looks again at the local Cistercian monastery*

Posted by: Lay Brother Miklos at July 01, 2026 03:28 AM (6VErX)

436 Punches J5 on the jukebox, for Miklos, Willie Nelson singing " To all girls I've loved before"

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 03:31 AM (afJtY)

437 Beverage finished. *hic*

G'night, all. Thanks for being here! {{{Horde}}}

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2026 03:31 AM (rdVOm)

438 Is now the time of recline

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol9_0schMHs

Posted by: Miklos uesd to be nice at July 01, 2026 03:36 AM (6VErX)

439 The muck bucket isn't going to fill itself so I best get at it.

Catch ya at a coffee break.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2026 03:41 AM (afJtY)

440 Another one bites the dust! In colorado district 1 another aipac corporate drone goes down to defeat despite corporate establishment donor money and backing. Chuckie schumer has put his name on a waiting list for an exclusive jewish retirement community.

Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at July 01, 2026 03:41 AM (vGWNK)

441 Stop by Club ONT! The 4th is Caturday, and some of us Morons are bound to check in. I know I'll be here for the great company! (don't let that scare you away)
Posted by: JQ

I'll be around! Should be a quiet night. Holidays usually are.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2026 03:45 AM (sAmhv)

442 Still binge listening to Ella Langley.

youtu.be/R38wB_dDBek

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2026 03:57 AM (sAmhv)

443 ew I took these two comments to be in conversation talking about the same thing and ew

87 Amy Coney Barrett imported Haitians into her own family.

Of course she thinks anything old thing that *falls out* and touches our soil automatically becomes “American”..
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 30, 2026 10:27 PM (l3YAf)

88 I climbed *up there.* Spectacular view. Second only to Yosemite in my travels.
Posted by: Frank Nobody at June 30, 2026 10:27 PM (75cud)

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 04:13 AM (6wpGE)

444 Made easy French Toast with Thomas's Swirl Bread and strawberries on top, quite filled up.

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2026 04:14 AM (Ia/+0)

445 After 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 looking for the Winnower why do people play dxe4? I don't know what theory says, but my games from there seem boring.

Posted by: frammish at July 01, 2026 01:23 AM (rcENI)

Exchanging in the French is a classic out for both sides when they don't want test their knowledge of the opening theory. Usually black isn't the one you'd expect to opt out, but 3. ... dxe4 is a solid response to both 3. Nc3 and 3. Nd2 so it allows the black player to comfortably play the French without having to memorize quite as much.

Posted by: Sjg at July 01, 2026 04:17 AM (i8HNq)

446 Jesus. A friend just texted me. 2 of his friends got wiped out on the motorcycles (harleys) over the weekend. Fucking car pulled out in front of them. One died at the scene, the other lost a limb and is hanging on by a thread. He has a 7 year old daughter. Drivers like that need an instant bullet in the head.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 01, 2026 12:35 AM (snZF9)

My brother was driving his new HONDA 90 when a woman pulled in front of him. Broadsided he did, flew over the car he did, and cracked his cheap helmet. Thankfully he survived.
I always wrote it off as small scooter. Then just 5 years ago, I was driving, clear crisp morning a woman pulled out in front of me. Broadsided her I did.I was until that second skeptical of airbags. NO MORE. Without airbags and crush zones, I would not be here.
So sorry for your friends.

Posted by: Miflin at July 01, 2026 04:33 AM (aA6YN)

447 Pixy's up! at https://ai.mee.nu

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 04:33 AM (6wpGE)

448 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 04:34 AM (6wpGE)

449 297 Jesus. A friend just texted me. 2 of his friends got wiped out on the motorcycles (harleys) over the weekend. Fucking car pulled out in front of them. One died at the scene, the other lost a limb and is hanging on by a thread. He has a 7 year old daughter. Drivers like that need an instant bullet in the head.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 01, 2026 12:35 AM (snZF9)

Heartbreaking, Bers. Very sorry.

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 04:37 AM (6wpGE)

450 Was Woodrow Wilson the first trans-woman President ???

Posted by: SMOD at July 01, 2026 06:44 AM (O7XEN)

Tuesday Cafe

Lauterbrunnen Valley in the Swiss Alps

Dog hints that it's time for a walk.

World Pup shootout.

Cat working hard on the farm.

Malinois thinks its owner's umbrella is a chew toy.

I've heard some call the performance pets put on when they haven't been fed for twenty minutes the Hunger Games. Here a kitten pounces and seizes on an unopened can of cat food, carrying on like a mental patient.

This dog must be salty.

Kangaroo rush hour.

Kitten adopts a jogger.

Space Invaders.

Dogs beating the heat.

Will you be my friend?

Wobbly juvenile giraffe stoops down for water.

Mama deer and her baby..🦌😍 pic.twitter.com/TQVqoEsgu8
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) June 28, 2026

Happy cat, happy kittens..🐈🐾😍 pic.twitter.com/ElOcIOYV9H
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) June 28, 2026

It's so hot outside..🐕🐾🥵😅 pic.twitter.com/s1IClE5pM5
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) June 27, 2026

Pupper living the best life..🐕🐾😅 pic.twitter.com/E1Cxfej5rF
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) June 30, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:30 PM

Comments

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1 /plants flag

Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at June 30, 2026 07:31 PM (mQbp+)

2 H

Posted by: Thanatopsis at June 30, 2026 07:31 PM (Lx4gz)

3 Hola, dammit!

Posted by: Thanatopsis at June 30, 2026 07:31 PM (Lx4gz)

4 Cubanos are ready! Wash up.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 07:32 PM (Dd38x)

5 *Lauterbrunnen

Posted by: limbomaniac at June 30, 2026 07:32 PM (Q4twi)

6 I bet a man with a Slinky could get a lot of slinkin done in that top picture.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 30, 2026 07:33 PM (3uBP9)

7 I could have been first but I was beating the heat.

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 07:35 PM (MWfyi)

8 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 07:35 PM (Ia/+0)

9 Hills and valleys, huh?

"Country Roads, take me home, to the place I belong...

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 07:35 PM (XuXeR)

10 Gorgeous photo, Ace.

I love it when there are clouds below the mountains here.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 07:36 PM (hzuYO)

11 Curses! Willowed again!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 07:36 PM (R+iUD)

12 I pine for Switzerland.

Before Ace started posting Swiss mountain pictures on the cafe, I had no idea I pined for Switzerland.

That little chalet looks like heaven.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 30, 2026 07:36 PM (zYpTz)

13
*sits down at tiny, greasy Café table*
*raises arm and snaps fingers*

Garçon!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 07:37 PM (O0L8i)

14 I pine for Switzerland.

Fir sure.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2026 07:39 PM (vTZFs)

15 Can someone fix the lack of centering, please? After the previous thread, this left justified crap hurts my eyes.

Posted by: a.moron at June 30, 2026 07:39 PM (X5Jzz)

16 >>> Gorgeous photo, Ace.

I love it when there are clouds below the mountains here.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 07:36 PM (hzuYO)

"Clouds below the mountains" if you know what I mean, hint hint nudge nudge, a nods as good as a wink to a blind bat, say no more...

Posted by: banana Dream at June 30, 2026 07:39 PM (3uBP9)

17
That little chalet looks like heaven.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 30, 2026 07:36 PM (zYpTz)

_____________

The outhouse is waaaaaay over there.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 07:39 PM (O0L8i)

18
"A lot of us, myself included, didn't even know the play took place until after the game. And now we're being painted as thugs. And [there are] death threats out on us, so it's really unacceptable. It's something that needs to change in this league, and I'm just really sick and tired of it."
-- Alyssa Thomas, forward for the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury

Don't start thugging, won't be thug painted.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 30, 2026 07:40 PM (0sNs1)

19 and just like that...

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 07:40 PM (vPv7/)

20 13
*sits down at tiny, greasy Café table*
*raises arm and snaps fingers*

Garçon!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026

I made healthier but you wouldn’t know it cubanos, garlicky green beans and rainbow veggie salad. It’s in the kitchen, though. You have to go grab your plate.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 07:40 PM (Dd38x)

21
/plants flag
Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing

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

For a second I thought that was the pants flag.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 07:40 PM (XJ22o)

22 It's so hot outside.

Yes it is, we are under a heat wave for the rest of the week.
High for the 4th is supposed to be over 100 degrees.

Posted by: Case at June 30, 2026 07:40 PM (IY9No)

23 The pupper side eying his leash is cute.

Posted by: Tuna at June 30, 2026 07:41 PM (lJ0H4)

24
It’s in the kitchen, though. You have to go grab your plate.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 07:40 PM (Dd38x)

___________

What if I wanted a hamburger?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 07:41 PM (O0L8i)

25 I so appreciate the Cafe, ace.
What a great tradition. You started it as “The Quarantine Cafe.” It was so loved then. And needed. And silly and soothing and fun.

Thank you.

*hugs*

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 30, 2026 07:41 PM (yEz+x)

26 The outhouse is waaaaaay over there.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 07:39 PM (O0L8i)

Eh. When I have enough money to move to Switzerland, I'll have enough money for a septic tank.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 30, 2026 07:42 PM (zYpTz)

27 >>> 18
"A lot of us, myself included, didn't even know the play took place until after the game. And now we're being painted as thugs. And [there are] death threats out on us, so it's really unacceptable. It's something that needs to change in this league, and I'm just really sick and tired of it."
-- Alyssa Thomas, forward for the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury

Don't start thugging, won't be thug painted.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 30, 2026 07:40 PM (0sNs1)

What does Alyssa think needs to change? People seeing her teamates being asshoes? Clark bringing in what is it, almost half of the WNBA's revenue? Retard.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 07:42 PM (R+iUD)

28
Eh. When I have enough money to move to Switzerland, I'll have enough money for a septic tank.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 30, 2026 07:42 PM (zYpTz)

__________

You will never have enough money to move to Switzerland.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 07:43 PM (O0L8i)

29
What if I wanted a hamburger?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026

Fine.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 07:43 PM (Dd38x)

30 I pine for Switzerland.

Fir sure.
Posted by: Oddbob

Yew bet.

Posted by: Tuna at June 30, 2026 07:43 PM (lJ0H4)

31 You will never have enough money to move to Switzerland.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 07:43 PM (O0L8i)

You get me.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 30, 2026 07:46 PM (zYpTz)

32 Heidi !

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at June 30, 2026 07:46 PM (URO9T)

33 Its so hot outside cracked me up

Time for bedtime, have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 07:46 PM (Ia/+0)

34 The recent rumor that a penguin with a laser on its head was used to create a 350 foot cut in the DC reflecting pool liner is not beyond the realm of possibilities. It is an established fact that Nazi scientists beneath the Antarctic have developed their fowl-based weaponry far beyond that seen during WWii. Big Penguin's continued use of this technology and partnership with the Soros to disrupt the 250th anniversary of our great country will no doubt manifest itself over the next few days. Be vigilant, and carry nose plugs.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at June 30, 2026 07:47 PM (MWfyi)

35
Got the lawn and pens mowed today. Two and a half hours in the heat. At last the yard and back acreage look decent. Took a terrific beating doing it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 07:49 PM (O0L8i)

36 What if I wanted a hamburger?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 07:41 PM

Over here!

Posted by: Charles "Chuck" Schumer (D-NY) at June 30, 2026 07:49 PM (0sNs1)

37 I want to go to that little valley in Switzerland. Or really any little valley in Switzerland. It looks quiet and peaceful there.

Posted by: bluebell at June 30, 2026 07:52 PM (afFes)

38
It was so hot today..
How hot was it?
It was so hot, they were feeding crushed ice to the chickens so they wouldn't lay hard-boiled eggs

Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 07:52 PM (ZxPkt)

39 Birthright Bob made it clear today that the requirements to being a US citizen are lower than then requirements to being recognized as a US state resident.

We be f'd. This ruling is a neon billboard ad to the world "come on down."

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 30, 2026 07:52 PM (obVEo)

40 This heat is brutal. And we still have all of July and August to go. But at least I can have A/C. (Looks at Europe and smirks)

Posted by: Case at June 30, 2026 07:54 PM (IY9No)

41
What if I wanted a hamburger?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Today is Tuesday. Pay up, Wimpy.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 30, 2026 07:54 PM (Cqx++)

42 7 I could have been first but I was beating the heat.
Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 07:35 PM (MWfyi)

Is that what we are calling it now?

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 30, 2026 07:56 PM (bl07w)

43 37 I want to go to that little valley in Switzerland. Or really any little valley in Switzerland. It looks quiet and peaceful there.
Posted by: bluebell at June 30, 2026 07:52 PM (afFes)

Switzerland has THOUSANDS of bomb shelters, that they have spent generations building.

probably a little tunnel back there somewhere...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 07:57 PM (mP0Kj)

44 "Is that what we are calling it now?
Posted by: tcn in AK"

Also known as "dousing the fire".

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 07:58 PM (MWfyi)

45 Eastern US Heat Wave Set to Collide With World Cup Matches
---

Bastardi says it could be 105.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 08:00 PM (vPv7/)

46 I want to go to that little valley in Switzerland. Or really any little valley in Switzerland. It looks quiet and peaceful there.
Posted by: bluebell at June 30, 2026 07:52 PM (afFes)

Don't need to go to Europe. There are a ton places like that in Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, etc.

But, don't tell anyone else. Idaho, Montana and Wyoming suck. Stay far away.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 30, 2026 08:00 PM (0aYVJ)

47 39 Birthright Bob made it clear today that the requirements to being a US citizen are lower than then requirements to being recognized as a US state resident.

We be f'd. This ruling is a neon billboard ad to the world "come on down."
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 30, 2026 07:52 PM (obVEo)

When you register to vote in Calif, you are supposed to have some form of ID, which includes things like a Bill... but you can just click past it, and continue, and still get registered.

And note, they do not check if a bill you photocopy onto their website is even valid... could be photoshopped easily.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 08:00 PM (mP0Kj)

48 Today is the 108th anniversary of the Tunguska event. That was about a 15 MT airburst from a comet fragment and leveled about 800 square miles of trees.

Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at June 30, 2026 08:01 PM (+82YS)

49 45 Eastern US Heat Wave Set to Collide With World Cup Matches
---

Bastardi says it could be 105.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 08:00 PM (vPv7/)

Yeah, uh, that would still be 5 degrees cooler than normal for here this time of year.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 08:01 PM (mP0Kj)

50 48 Today is the 108th anniversary of the Tunguska event. That was about a 15 MT airburst from a comet fragment and leveled about 800 square miles of trees.
Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at June 30, 2026 08:01 PM (+82YS)

Yeah, not sayin it was aliens... but...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 08:02 PM (mP0Kj)

51 Thunder storms here and of course Saijo thinks he needs to go out. He will have to wait a sec.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 08:02 PM (hftzA)

52 Locally, we are good for fireworks. A ton of rain last weekend, and only moderately hot, but sunny, for the 4th. Only my second summer in Idaho, but it's been cooler than last summer.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 30, 2026 08:03 PM (0aYVJ)

53 Don't need to go to Europe. There are a ton places like that in Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, etc.

But, don't tell anyone else. Idaho, Montana and Wyoming suck. Stay far away.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 30, 2026 08:00 PM (0aYVJ)

True. All of it. Horrible places. Maybe one day, I can return. It's a lot more likely than being able to move to Switzerland.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 30, 2026 08:03 PM (zYpTz)

54
Don't need to go to Europe. There are a ton places like that in Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, etc.

___________

Once drove on I-90 through the Bitterroots. It was among the loveliest and most striking episodes in my driving experiences.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 08:05 PM (O0L8i)

55 What if I wanted a hamburger?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Got the lawn and pens mowed today. Two and a half hours in the heat. At last the yard and back acreage look decent. Took a terrific beating doing it.

You deserve a double with cheese and bacon.

Posted by: Tuna at June 30, 2026 08:05 PM (lJ0H4)

56 Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 30, 2026 07:41 PM

Nurse!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 30, 2026 08:06 PM (Wnv9h)

57 I hope we get another shot at the birth right citizenship issue. Hang in there, Justice Thomas.

Posted by: LASue at June 30, 2026 08:07 PM (lCppi)

58 NPR sez: "U.S. murder rate approaches a record low"

Yes, yes, it's NPR, but I choose to believe it because it's great news. IMHO, the second greatest achievement of DJT second term, after the first greatest: the closing of the southern border.

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 08:07 PM (Jr5Lq)

59 Big rolling thunder here, but no rain yet.

Posted by: toby928(c) at June 30, 2026 08:07 PM (4NO2D)

60 48 Today is the 108th anniversary of the Tunguska event. That was about a 15 MT airburst from a comet fragment and leveled about 800 square miles of trees.
Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at June 30, 2026 08:01 PM (+82YS)

Yeah, not sayin it was aliens... but...
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 08:02 PM (mP0Kj)

Those poor airmen. Left riddled with STDs.

Posted by: Often Wrong, Never In Doubt at June 30, 2026 08:09 PM (wVcYX)

61 Bastardi says it could be 105.

Just an aside, but I bet that guy hated Jr. High.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2026 08:09 PM (vTZFs)

62 When this heat breaks in a couple days, I expect ass-kicking T-storms.

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 08:10 PM (Jr5Lq)

63 59 Big rolling thunder here, but no rain yet.
Posted by: toby928(c) at June 30, 2026 08:07 PM

I see the lightening, it’s going kind of crazy. Weather says we have an hour of it.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 08:11 PM (hftzA)

64 Today is the 108th anniversary of the Tunguska event. That was about a 15 MT airburst from a comet fragment and leveled about 800 square miles of trees.
Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at June 30, 2026 08:01 PM (+82YS)

Yeah, not sayin it was aliens... but...
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 08:02 PM (mP0Kj)

Those poor airmen. Left riddled with STDs.
Posted by: Often Wrong, Never In Doubt at June 30, 2026 08:09 PM (wVcYX)

Gotta admit, this one took me a minute. Well done.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 30, 2026 08:12 PM (0aYVJ)

65 Those bastards!

Axios
@axios
GOP reboots the Red Scare as young Democrats embrace socialism

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 08:12 PM (ndZc7)

66 IMHO, the second greatest achievement of DJT second term, after the first greatest: the closing of the southern border.
Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 08:07 PM (Jr5Lq)

It's almost like those two things are directly related.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 30, 2026 08:13 PM (zYpTz)

67 I mowed the lawn today, and pulled blackberry vines out of the hedges.
Cutting blackberries out of hedges is one of those hateful tasks that gets engrossing once you get started. I was just going to do one section near the back, and I wound up doing the whole back and the side hedge as well.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 30, 2026 08:13 PM (rbvCR)

68 What if I wanted a hamburger?"

Whataburger over there.
In n out down the road.
Mels is a bit further that away...

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 08:13 PM (XuXeR)

69 Those poor airmen. Left riddled with STDs."

Tus....oh.

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 08:13 PM (XuXeR)

70 >>Today is Tuesday. Pay up, Wimpy.

LOL. Reminded me of a story Dad told about this one particularly ne'er do well guy in his small home town, back in the early 1940s:

Grandma would set pies on the window sill to cool, and occasionally one would "disappear." Usually apple. She discovered that it was always the same guy, and he had no family so it wasn't as if he was trying to provide for children.

She made a special 'apple' pie out of potato slices, along with the usual good-smelling spices, baked it, then set it on the sill and left the house for a while. Sure enough, it got stolen.

Haha, she said no more pies were stolen after that!

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 08:14 PM (rdVOm)

71 I am surprised that NPR did not claim the drop in violent crime was because blue states have continually failed to report or even respond to violent crime, showing Trump unable to influence even this part of the social contract.

NPR must be more interested in supporting the blue cities than in damaging Trump.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 30, 2026 08:15 PM (rbvCR)

72 @axios
Ravenna and Constantinople reboot the Bubonic Scare as a ship full of rats departs Pelusium
"We didn't really need civilization anyway", Roman experts shrug

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 08:16 PM (gKWVE)

73 RMBS!

It’s just lovely here. Cloudy. 65. Little breeze.

Two more Eurofag Kickball Games in the city this week. Then we’re done iirc.

Too many tourists. Kill everyone.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 30, 2026 08:17 PM (DqQS/)

74 64 Today is the 108th anniversary of the Tunguska event. That was about a 15 MT airburst from a comet fragment and leveled about 800 square miles of trees.
Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at June 30, 2026 08:01 PM (+82YS)

Yeah, not sayin it was aliens... but...
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 08:02 PM (mP0Kj)

Those poor airmen. Left riddled with STDs.
Posted by: Often Wrong, Never In Doubt at June 30, 2026 08:09 PM (wVcYX)

Gotta admit, this one took me a minute. Well done.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 30, 2026 08:12 PM (0aYVJ)

It’s 2016?

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 30, 2026 08:18 PM (qA8eD)

75
Grandma would set pies on the window sill to cool, and occasionally one would "disappear." Usually apple. She discovered that it was always the same guy, and he had no family so it wasn't as if he was trying to provide for children.

She made a special 'apple' pie out of potato slices, along with the usual good-smelling spices, baked it, then set it on the sill and left the house for a while. Sure enough, it got stolen.

Haha, she said no more pies were stolen after that!
Posted by: JQ

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

Do you want to hear another funny story? Some guy who recovered from being a genuine neo-Nazi punk in East Germany talked about his childhood there. The kids would steal the cakes from the local industrial bakery and... use them to have cake-fights. The food was such shyte that they didn't even eat the "treats." Just used them as weapons!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 08:20 PM (XJ22o)

76 RMBS!

It’s just lovely here. Cloudy. 65. Little breeze.

Two more Eurofag Kickball Games in the city this week. Then we’re done iirc.

Too many tourists. Kill everyone.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 30, 2026 08:17 PM

Nice. It's getting way too hot here. On the plus side, Boston has been like a big block party lately. The Eurofags have been having fun here and pissing the lefties off by having fun in Boston. Especially the Scots.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 30, 2026 08:21 PM (Wnv9h)

77 >> Those poor airmen.

ROFL.

Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at June 30, 2026 08:21 PM (+82YS)

78 Seventeen minutes of Stan Getz 1954:
youtube.com/watch?v=-0wZ9eBqz9o

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 08:22 PM (Jr5Lq)

79 The food was such shyte that they didn't even eat the "treats." Just used them as weapons!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

LOL

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 08:23 PM (rdVOm)

80 >>I want to go to that little valley in Switzerland. Or really any little valley in Switzerland. It looks quiet and peaceful there.

One of my favorite trips was visiting Lake Lucerne and Mt. Pilatus. They have a tour called the Golden Circle that starts with a boat ride around Lake Lucerne which is beautiful. Busier than that little valley but right at the base of the Alps and lovely.

The ride ends at the base of Mt Pilatus where you take a cog railway to the top of Mt Pilatus. The railway is very steep but there are homes like the one in the photo above and cows grazing on the side of the mountain and crazy Swiss hiking up the mountain.

Big viewing area at the top of the Alps and the lake and a couple restaurants and a hotel. You hop on a gondola and ride back to Lucerne for big ending. Really spectacular views.

https://tinyurl.com/2v5suabp

Posted by: JackStraw at June 30, 2026 08:23 PM (viF8m)

81 *sits down at tiny, greasy Café table*
*raises arm and snaps fingers*
Garçon!
Posted by: Hadrian

*Garçon saunters over slowly, wipes table with greasier bar rag*

"Oui, monsewer. Quelle sera votre pression?"

*Snaps towel; walks away without taking order.*

Posted by: travailleur webattentif - sniffing diffidently at June 30, 2026 08:24 PM (FL3q9)

82 RMBS

I’ve never seen as many American flags (not on fire) as I did after the USA v Australia match a couple weeks ago. It was freaking amazing!

Tons of tourists. I don’t think Seattle could handle the Scotts. Or the British. Jeepers.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 30, 2026 08:24 PM (yEz+x)

83 "A lot of us, myself included, didn't even know the play took place until after the game. And now we're being painted as thugs. And [there are] death threats out on us, so it's really unacceptable. It's something that needs to change in this league, and I'm just really sick and tired of it."
-- Alyssa Thomas, forward for the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury

Don't start thugging, won't be thug painted.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 30, 2026 07:40 PM (0sNs1)

This isn't the first time. She was knocked out for half a year last season. She has been speared in the eyes several times intentionally.

I saw the Pistons knock Jordan around for years and I never saw him get fingers and eyes in the face repeatedly, every game like the WNBA.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2026 08:25 PM (uhVAy)

84
This isn't the first time. She was knocked out for half a year last season. She has been speared in the eyes several times intentionally.

____________

Women are warm, empathic and supportive of each other. That's what I'm told.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 08:28 PM (O0L8i)

85 The Tunguska object was most likely a large fragment in the Taurid meteor stream. That is the debris trail of Comet Encke, which crosses the ETFs orbit on two spots, one around June 30 of course, a few day window.

At this spot the stream is coming at you from the direction of the sun. You can't see it coming.

Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at June 30, 2026 08:29 PM (+82YS)

86 Slapshot is on TCM. I think it’s my favorite sports movie. Newman took a real risk doing this.

Posted by: Blutarski, gradually then suddenly at June 30, 2026 08:29 PM (l26NL)

87 Just so you all can be jealous, our local ski area got 12-15 inches of snow last night.

Posted by: Wenda at June 30, 2026 08:30 PM (AZWHC)

88 Hm, if the taters were cooked thoroughly, it might be pretty good? Cheese & onions &c.

That … isn’t what she had in mind though I betcha. I’ve heard oft-repeated tales of Ex-Lax being liberally incorporated into common break area refrigerators, lunches that formerly were mysteriously disappearing are suddenly and unexpectedly left alone! Hm

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 08:30 PM (EmvwI)

89 First World Problems: Ok, not really but it's all that Freddy the German soccer fan guy. I've been binge listening to Ella Langley for the last few days. Don't care what the cool kids say, I like her.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 30, 2026 08:32 PM (sAmhv)

90 AI sez: "Potato pie is a versatile dish made with potatoes, butter, milk, and cheese. It can be savory or sweet. You can make a savory version with mashed potatoes, ham, and mozzarella in a casserole dish, or a pastry-crusted pie filled with sliced potatoes, cheese, and onions"

I'd buy that for a dollar.

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 08:34 PM (Jr5Lq)

91 Switzerland has a robust form of Democracy, some say it was a model for the founders. Lots of referendums. Swiss citizens vote on everything.

Democrats here don’t like democracy. For example one final hurdle for would be Swiss citizenship, your neighbors get to vote on whether you should become a Swiss citizen.

Can you imagine the howls of outrage from the leftist twats? Now that’s Democratic.

“Nah, brah. That guy is a dickhead”

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 08:34 PM (EmvwI)

92 Tons of tourists. I don’t think Seattle could handle the Scotts. Or the British. Jeepers.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 30, 2026 08:24 PM

I'd love to see the Tartan Army invade Seattle. There just isn't enough popcorn.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 30, 2026 08:35 PM (Wnv9h)

93 That … isn’t what she had in mind though I betcha. I’ve heard oft-repeated tales of Ex-Lax being liberally incorporated into common break area refrigerators, lunches that formerly were mysteriously disappearing are suddenly and unexpectedly left alone! Hm
Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 08:30 PM (EmvwI)

There was that office-wide email that went something like, "for who-ever needed milk for their coffee and took it out of the clear container in the break-room fridge, please understand that I am just back from maternity leave and I am pumping breast milk for my son . . ."

Posted by: Kindltot at June 30, 2026 08:35 PM (rbvCR)

94
Just so you all can be jealous, our local ski area got 12-15 inches of snow last night.
Posted by: Wenda

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

And the gas tax goes up to about $.65/gallon here in California tomorrow. I get to contribute more to the common good.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 08:35 PM (XJ22o)

95 Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 08:30 PM

Haha, grandma was so tired of being ripped off.. times were hard for everyone back then. I'm sure the pie smelled terrific but tasted like crap, as intended.

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 08:37 PM (rdVOm)

96 34 The recent rumor that a penguin with a laser on its head was used to create a 350 foot cut in the DC reflecting pool liner is not beyond the realm of possibilities. It is an established fact that Nazi scientists beneath the Antarctic have developed their fowl-based weaponry far beyond that seen during WWii. Big Penguin's continued use of this technology and partnership with the Soros to disrupt the 250th anniversary of our great country will no doubt manifest itself over the next few days. Be vigilant, and carry nose plugs.
Posted by: Penguin Facts at June 30, 2026 07:47 PM (MWfyi)

Beware The Penguins

Posted by: Bud Ice at June 30, 2026 08:37 PM (qA8eD)

97 The weather is putting a halt to my golf game. Near 100 tomorrow. Maybe next week (sigh). Probably rain then. We need it.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 30, 2026 08:37 PM (sAmhv)

98
And the gas tax goes up to about $.65/gallon here in California tomorrow. I get to contribute more to the common good.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 08:35 PM (XJ22o)

Paid $2.89/gal in Cleburne, TX today.

Posted by: Bud Ice at June 30, 2026 08:38 PM (qA8eD)

99 Die sock die

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 30, 2026 08:38 PM (qA8eD)

100 Here's our new law debuting tomorrow: "Illinois now requires universal blood lead testing for all children." Cripes.

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 08:40 PM (Jr5Lq)

101 Beware The Penguins
Posted by: Bud Ice at June 30, 2026 08:37 PM

Dobee dobee doo....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 30, 2026 08:40 PM (Wnv9h)

102 Die sock die
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 30, 2026 08:38 PM (qA8eD)

Nobody who speaks German could be evil.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 30, 2026 08:41 PM (0aYVJ)

103 Trump is giving Iran back to the Iranians. What kind of insane person does that?

Posted by: Pawl at June 30, 2026 08:41 PM (MWfyi)

104 In other words, Swiss citizens have the right of self determination. A sovereign entity. When the asshats here say “that’s not who we are!”

What they are REALLY saying, we don’t have the right to say what we will become.

Or put another way, in modern America, no particular group can actually define itself. That’s how they destroyed the Boy Scouts, for just one of many examples. A fine organization, it was.

Or say, an after school Bible study group. You just have to allow an atheist satan worshipping goat fucker be President, or it’s “discrimination”.

In much the same way, the USA is not allowed to define itself any longer. This is not by accident. “Sovereign” nations have to go, and be subsumed by the globalist borg. We’re watching this play out in real time. 100 years worth now, I suppose.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 08:42 PM (EmvwI)

105 "Illinois now requires universal blood lead testing for all children."

It's just a little blood. They'll get used to it.

Posted by: Pawl at June 30, 2026 08:43 PM (MWfyi)

106 I wish there was a movie made based on the Tunguska event where there is was international group of military sent to investigate. It could've had Arnie and other big action heros.

They take a Zepplin to the site and discover it is an alien spaceship zoo. Not sure of the plot other than there is lots of guns and killing.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 30, 2026 08:43 PM (tSa4q)

107 The vast majority of lead-poisoned children in Illinois got that way by being shot.

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 08:46 PM (Jr5Lq)

108 Gas is 5.50 here in SeaTown.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 30, 2026 08:47 PM (yEz+x)

109 $3.89/gal in Shitsville.

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 08:48 PM (Jr5Lq)

110 As the precision of measurement standards improve, the bureaucrats like to lower the threshold of acceptable limits. Parts per million can now be measured in parts per billion.

Frightening the womenfolk & horses, and turning errybody into neurotics.

Setting allowable limits arbitrarily is a time proven method of destroying business and industry, a de facto prohibition or outlawing of any given particular activity. It’s not “illegal” per se, it’s simply that nobody can pencil it out and afford to comply.

So the industry, jobs, factories, etc get offshored to Mexico or Cambodia or China or wherever, they don’t play silly reindeer games.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 08:51 PM (EmvwI)

111 My Swiss Valley in my nic.

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 08:51 PM (KC5Lt)

112 When the govt completes its Jihad Against Lead, and every last trace of plumbum is eradicated from Illinois, at least that will be one less thing they can blame for stupid kids being stupid.

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 08:52 PM (Jr5Lq)

113 Unleaded Reg at Krogers here before discount is $3.15

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 08:52 PM (KC5Lt)

114 Ope, "Slapshot" is on TCM. It's halfway through and I've seen it half a dozen times, but I'm watching it anyway.

"And from Mile 40, Saskatchewan..."

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 30, 2026 08:53 PM (kpS4V)

115 They didn't get a scientific investigation team out there until 1927, almost 10 years later. There were witnesses, including a farmer named Sergei Semenov.

Sergei felt the enormous heat pulse and shockwave, very similar to a big nuke.

Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at June 30, 2026 08:53 PM (+82YS)

116 Turn off the air conditioners on the lower floors.

Posted by: The people on the upper floors at June 30, 2026 08:53 PM (MWfyi)

117 Dave’s a killer!

Dave’s a mess.

Posted by: Blutarski, gradually then suddenly at June 30, 2026 08:54 PM (l26NL)

118 I'm watching Slap Shot too!

Posted by: Archer at June 30, 2026 08:55 PM (wvc0i)

119
$2.99 at Costco, $3.09 at HEB.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 08:55 PM (O0L8i)

120 The weather is putting a halt to my golf game. Near 100 tomorrow. Maybe next week (sigh). Probably rain then. We need it.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 30, 2026 08:37 PM (sAmhv)

I only played 13 holes today. Too damn hot.

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 08:55 PM (KC5Lt)

121 She's a lesbian! A lesbian!

Posted by: Archer at June 30, 2026 08:55 PM (wvc0i)

122 I'm watching Slap Shot too!

Posted by: Archer at June 30, 2026 08:55 PM (wvc0i)

Goon is free on Roku. Would be a great double header.

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 08:57 PM (KC5Lt)

123 >86 Slapshot is on TCM. I think it’s my favorite sports movie. Newman took a real risk doing this.
Posted by: Blutarski, gradually then suddenly at June 30, 2026 08:29 PM (l26NL)

Brando was extremely competitive, and in 1968 he appeared at a private party celebrating Oscar nominations in which Paul Newman was in attendance with his wife Joanne Woodward. Brando approached Newman and began a conversation that eventually became very heated, resulting in Brando shouting and Newman walking away. Later that evening Brando stood on a table and challenged Newman to an egg eating contest, like the one Newman was depicted doing in Cool Hand Luke, however Newman ignored the challenge.

Brando, undeterred, had somebody from his entourage bring him dozens of hard boiled eggs, and started the competition without Newman. While eating, he would loudly keep count as he consumed the eggs saying things like "21 Newman! 21 eggs already! I'm better than you Newman!", while mocking and insulting Newman the whole time, and calling him a "phony".

Eventually, Brando consumed 51 eggs before being removed from the party, 1 more than Newman's character did in Cool Hand Luke. As he was being escorted out, he

Posted by: Chudley Moore at June 30, 2026 08:57 PM (zw+Ob)

124 Ace, your 80s Mystery Click has interesting captioning....

It happened one summer, it happened one time
It happened forever, for a short time
is transcribed as
If ever one summer
If ever one time
If ever forever, for a short time

It's sooooo smart. /eyeroll/

Posted by: GWB at June 30, 2026 08:57 PM (kU0PQ)

125 For this Mexican soccer game, do the refs hand out green cards?

Posted by: Wally at June 30, 2026 08:57 PM (jeAJZ)

126
For the end of Pride Month

"You know, your son looks like a fag to me. You better get married again, 'cause he's gonna wind up with somebody's cock in his mouth before you can say 'Jack Robinson'".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 08:57 PM (O0L8i)

127 "As he was being escorted out, he"

Now THAT'S how you leave your audience wanting more!

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 08:58 PM (Jr5Lq)

128 As he was being escorted out, he reportedly said "51 eggs Newman! I beat you! You couldn't eat 51 eggs because you're a phony, Newman. I'm better than you, and always will be Newman! Don't ever forget that!"

Posted by: Chudley Moore at June 30, 2026 08:58 PM (zw+Ob)

129 Okay guys, show us what you've got.

Posted by: Archer at June 30, 2026 09:00 PM (wvc0i)

130 Fortunato, I have a cask of Amontilado in the cellar. It's much cooler down there.

Posted by: Eromero at June 30, 2026 09:01 PM (LHPAg)

131 OwnZA. OwnZA.

Posted by: Blutarski, gradually then suddenly at June 30, 2026 09:01 PM (l26NL)

132
Scouts?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 09:01 PM (O0L8i)

133 Goon is a great hockey movie.

Posted by: Archer at June 30, 2026 09:02 PM (wvc0i)

134 Minnesota has now legalized gay bathhouses after pressure from Tim Walz. He's totally straight though.

Apparently that news may get Obama to move his obelisk there.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2026 09:03 PM (xlvhb)

135 …In much the same way, the USA is not allowed to define itself any longer. This is not by accident. “Sovereign” nations have to go, and be subsumed by the globalist borg. We’re watching this play out in real time. 100 years worth now, I suppose.
Posted by: Common Tater

I am still astounded at the cavalier way the "elites" manage to overrule and overrun the common folk with the invading armies. And they just keep doing it.

Latest PJ Watson, again, on the dispersal of alien invaders across Britain. Why aren't the Brits arming themselves? Oh, riiight.

https://youtu.be/oe-qRTTdLsY

"At this point, you've just got to accept that this isn't an organic migrant crisis; it's a deliberate weaponized assault on native Brits."

Posted by: mindful webworker - basking in a/c turned down low at June 30, 2026 09:03 PM (FL3q9)

136 SCOTUS has now destroyed free and fair elections by ruling that Election Day, really isn’t the day that’s set, it’s a mutable day based on when ballots are received.

They also took the 14th Amendment meant specifically for African Americans and turned it into an immigration weapon that automatically confers citizenship on whoever crosses the border.

ACB is perhaps the worst justice to ever serve on the court. She is subverting the constitution at will, along with her fellow traveler, Roberts.

A lot of people have decried the fact they haven’t taken up the 2A bans cases, even as many citizens are irreversibly harmed by the lack of injunctions- which by the way should be a “clue”. I say, I hope this court never takes up a ban case because it will just be another right ACB steals from us.

Posted by: Vengeance at June 30, 2026 09:04 PM (1lVAS)

137 Oglet’orp?

Posted by: Blutarski, gradually then suddenly at June 30, 2026 09:04 PM (l26NL)

138 14 I pine for Switzerland.

Fir sure.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2026 07:39 PM

May need to spruce it up a bit.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 30, 2026 09:04 PM (gVsIh)

139 At the ballgame with my grandson.
Go Mariners!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at June 30, 2026 09:05 PM (gVsIh)

140 Posted by: Vengeance at June 30, 2026 09:04 PM (1lVAS

They just ruled on the Hawaiian ban .

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 09:06 PM (KC5Lt)

141 ACB is perhaps the worst justice to ever serve on the court. She is subverting the constitution at will, along with her fellow traveler, Roberts.

She’s awful, but nobody tops Earl Warren.

Almost every serious problem in this country today can be traced back to him.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 09:06 PM (7wNAQ)

142 Why aren't the Brits arming themselves? Oh, riiight.

Just a periodic reminder that school shootings didn't exist before the late 90s and then they suddenly happened in the US, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand within a short period of time. 3 of the 4 countries banned guns.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2026 09:07 PM (xlvhb)

143 "U.S. President Donald Trump said that the Republican convention for the midterms will be held in Dallas, Texas on September 9-10."

Y'all going ??

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 09:08 PM (SCqlx)

144 My favorite hockey movies are:
Slapshot
Mystery, Alaska
Goon
Youngblood (mostly because of Cynthia Gibb)

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 30, 2026 09:08 PM (0aYVJ)

145 >142 Just a periodic reminder that school shootings didn't exist before the late 90s and then they suddenly happened in the US, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand within a short period of time. 3 of the 4 countries banned guns.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2026 09:07 PM (xlvhb)

And now the sudden international push for internet-ID, for the children, of course.

Posted by: Chudley Moore at June 30, 2026 09:09 PM (zw+Ob)

146 I love how bloodthirsty the crowd is.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 30, 2026 09:10 PM (kpS4V)

147 Even now, Tunguska sized object could still sneak in, coming out of the sun and we wouldn't see it coming.

Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at June 30, 2026 09:10 PM (+82YS)

148 Youngblood (mostly because of Cynthia Gibb)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 30, 2026 09:08 PM (0aYVJ)

Oh! I forgot! And the woman running the boarding house! Dang.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 30, 2026 09:11 PM (0aYVJ)

149 Because gay bathhouses worked out so well the last time.

I'm sure they've got all the dangers associated with unprotected anal sex with multiple partners fixed now.

Anyway, it's a great day for Bette Midler. Welcome back, Bette. It's ON!

Posted by: mnw at June 30, 2026 09:12 PM (RCjYY)

150 Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2026 09:07 PM (xlvhb

I think the biggest mass killing at a school in the US happened in 1927. 45 dead.

That doesn't count because history only starts yesterday for the left. Also it was a bomb instead of a gun. The biggest gun mass killing was at VA Tech. 27. IIRC the shooter wasn't American.

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 09:12 PM (KC5Lt)

151 Miss McGill

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 30, 2026 09:13 PM (0aYVJ)

152 I was in England when the Dunblane massacre occurred, and all I heard was "American-style violence" from the media.

You don't hear them bleating about our violence and racism anymore now that they are enjoying the blessings of diversity.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 30, 2026 09:14 PM (kpS4V)

153 And now the sudden international push for internet-ID, for the children, of course.

That is 100% so they can jail people who make comments they don't like. There's always a trial run of this shit in Europe before it goes wide, because they're more prone to be sheep there.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2026 09:14 PM (xlvhb)

154 151 Fionnula Flanagan.

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 09:14 PM (Jr5Lq)

155 The Eurotrash are still losing their minds over Americans (and even the occasional Canadian, Japanese, and, hell, probably Hottentot) lighting them up for letting their old people die of heat stroke.

They've got a circular excuse going... when one excuse is refuted, they'll bring out the next, eventually circling back to the first one. It's the same circular excuse strategy that communists always deploy to excuse the failures of communism.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2026 09:15 PM (qpyNK)

156 My favorite hockey movies are:
Slapshot
Mystery, Alaska
Goon
Youngblood (mostly because of Cynthia Gibb)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 30, 2026 09:08 PM (0aYVJ)

I give up one of my man cards and say I'd add two other skating movies to that list.

The Cutting Edge
Ice Castles

( also because of the chicks but they are really good anyway)

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 09:16 PM (KC5Lt)

157 149 Because gay bathhouses worked out so well the last time.

I'm sure they've got all the dangers associated with unprotected anal sex with multiple partners fixed now.

Anyway, it's a great day for Bette Midler. Welcome back, Bette. It's ON!

Posted by: mnw at

Why do gay guys need a public place for sex? Why can’t they just use their bedroom or if not that a seedy hotel?

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 09:16 PM (hftzA)

158 Even now, Tunguska sized object could still sneak in, coming out of the sun and we wouldn't see it coming.
Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at June 30, 2026 09:10 PM (+82YS)

The Why Files (giving the atheist opinion on what destroyed Sodom) mentioned in passing that in late 2024 a building-sized asteroid was inside the orbit of some of our satellites and wasn't discovered until two days later.

Posted by: Methos at June 30, 2026 09:16 PM (vSvIl)

159 I was in England when the Dunblane massacre occurred, and all I heard was "American-style violence" from the media.

I saw some funny data on X today that you're more likely to die of diarrhea in India than of guns in the US. And it's a significant margin, too.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2026 09:17 PM (xlvhb)

160 > the biggest mass killing at a school in the US happened in 1927. 45 dead.

The biggest mass killing in Europe happened between 1917 and 1991. 40-60 million dead.

I still can't quite understand why murder by government doesn't count.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2026 09:17 PM (qpyNK)

161 Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2026 09:17 PM (qpyN

That's a big ass school !

( I understand your point though)

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 09:19 PM (KC5Lt)

162 The Eurotrash are still losing their minds over Americans (and even the occasional Canadian, Japanese, and, hell, probably Hottentot) lighting them up for letting their old people die of heat stroke.
-
Some comedienne took the time to look up the stats, and apparently more Europeans die from summer heat than Americans from "gun violence" all year.

Posted by: Methos at June 30, 2026 09:19 PM (vSvIl)

163 Malinois thinks its owner's umbrella is a chew toy.

That's funny. Glad to see a Malinois even less trained than our Daisy. She got over chewing up random shoes and bras and furniture and now just chews up her own toys. And the occasional squirrel.

Posted by: mindful webworker - if it's mal-eh-nwah, why isn't it ill-eh-nwah? at June 30, 2026 09:20 PM (FL3q9)

164 > Hottentot

Now I'm wondering... is "Hottentot" still okay, or is that one of those words we're not allowed to say any more?

Oh, right: I don't give a shit.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2026 09:20 PM (qpyNK)

165
I saw some funny data on X today that you're more likely to die of diarrhea in India than of guns in the US. And it's a significant margin, too.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2026 09:17 PM (xlvhb)

___________

But nobody really cares about that. Bashing the US is the only point.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 09:20 PM (O0L8i)

166 Piper

Hi.

Because it's impossible to get 55 naked guys in one room!

Posted by: mnw at June 30, 2026 09:20 PM (RCjYY)

167 "Iran's Speaker of Parliament, Ghalibaf:

From the day the blockade was actually lifted until today, we have exported over 40 million barrels of oil, and this happened in just the last 10 or 12 days.

But in the previous 50 or 60 days, we truly didn't export even a single barrel of oil. We were entirely tied up with this issue..."

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 09:21 PM (SCqlx)

168 "Iran's Speaker of Parliament, Ghalibaf:

We are selling our oil at a 20 percent premium..."

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 09:22 PM (SCqlx)

169 > Why do gay guys need a public place for sex? Why can’t they just use their bedroom or if not that a seedy hotel?
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 09:16 PM (hftzA)

Takes too much time. Their goal is to get their rocks off as quickly as possible, as anonymously as possible.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2026 09:22 PM (qpyNK)

170 Publius - there’s a great book I’m reading, called “This New Ocean”, a history of Project Mercury. It’s a hefty tome of 708 pages, written shortly after completion in the 1960s.

It delved into all aspects of the initial impetus, during the 1950s and prior, with the NACA and also delves into some of the aspects of orbital mechanics. I knew it was complicated, but I didn’t realize the twists involved with rendezvous.

There’s also some semi-related interesting stuff on the torture devices constructed to put the astronauts through the paces.

One was called MASTIF, it revolved on 3 gimbals and could hit 60 RPM in a single revolution, turning on three axes. They had a big red “Chicken” button to be pressed, when you couldn’t handle it any longer. A loud klaxon would sound, letting everyone know you wimped out. LOL

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 09:22 PM (9EbSF)

171 Because it's impossible to get 55 naked guys in one room!

That's why Obama wanted to build the ballroom first. Except he thought "ball room" meant something else entirely.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2026 09:22 PM (xlvhb)

172 "Interviewer: Trump said that this money would only be allowed to be used to buy grain, and only from American farmers. How true was this?

Iran's Ghalibaf: Not accurate at all, really.."

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 09:22 PM (SCqlx)

173
Can you imagine the deaths if this heat wave happened in August? It's a good way to offload all those elderly people who cost the state money.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 09:23 PM (O0L8i)

174 "Iran's Parliament Speaker, Ghalibaf:

$12 billion is to be given to the Central Bank so that it can purchase any goods it needs, at any price and in any currency worldwide. This is possible, and the process is underway..."

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 09:23 PM (SCqlx)

175 To answer my own question, Wikipedia sez:

"Use of the term Hottentot is now considered deeply offensive"

Oh, well.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2026 09:23 PM (qpyNK)

176 Some comedienne took the time to look up the stats, and apparently more Europeans die from summer heat than Americans from "gun violence" all year.
Posted by: Methos at June 30, 2026 09:19 PM (vSvIl

Reminded me that Europeans count infant mortality rate different than the USA . They don't count premature births.

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 09:23 PM (KC5Lt)

177 "TankerTrackers: Oil exports from Iran have topped 50 million barrels since U.S. ended its blockade on Iran 2 weeks ago..."

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 09:24 PM (SCqlx)

178 Whenever I see deer I think deer shit, beheaded tulips and ticks.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 30, 2026 09:25 PM (XV/Pl)

179 >>"Use of the term Hottentot is now considered deeply offensive"

What makes a Hottentot so hot?

Courage.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 30, 2026 09:26 PM (viF8m)

180 Wikipedia sez:

"Use of the term Hottentot is now considered deeply offensive"

Is that like how "Eskimo" became the most offensive slur in the history of man during the 2020 Summer of Love? At least, according to the Canadian government and white women.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2026 09:26 PM (xlvhb)

181 “Use of the term Hottentot is now considered deeply offensive"

Oh, well.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2026 09:23 PM (qpyNK)

What makes the Hottentot’s so hot?
What have they got that I ain’t got?

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 09:26 PM (7wNAQ)

182 Homosexuals are …. different. Anonymous anal intercourse, with dozens of partners is not unheard of.

That’s why they used to make massive arrests at public parks, rest areas, and the like. They all congregate at places like that to “cruise”.

Dick Quest was the British CNN correspondent arrested in NYC’s Central Park early one morning, notable because of an apparent drug-induced disorientation, with a leash around his member. Could happen to anybody

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 09:27 PM (9EbSF)

183 Just a periodic reminder that school shootings didn't exist before the late 90s and then they suddenly happened in the US, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand within a short period of time. 3 of the 4 countries banned guns.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2026 09:07 PM (xlvhb)

So, will Alex Jones ever pay that billion dollar penalty for making a similar allegation?

Posted by: Kindltot at June 30, 2026 09:27 PM (rbvCR)

184 In the west, I don't think anyone's died of diarrhea since the American Civil War.

Posted by: mnw at June 30, 2026 09:28 PM (RCjYY)

185 Did someone say "hot tots"? Sign me up. Love the smell!

Posted by: Joseph Robinette Biden at June 30, 2026 09:28 PM (qpyNK)

186
Miss McGill

She called herself Lil.
But everyone knew her as Nancy.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 30, 2026 09:28 PM (Cqx++)

187 Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 09:27 PM (9EbS

George Michaels was arrested at one of those anonymous hook up spots. Definitely a kink for homos.

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 09:28 PM (KC5Lt)

188 > Dick Quest

That was this guy's REAL NAME?

Oooo....kay.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2026 09:29 PM (qpyNK)

189 Can we say Kaffir ?

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 09:30 PM (SCqlx)

190 Hold up, there was a CNN reporter named "Dick Quest"? Was he Johnny's uncle that nobody talks about?

Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2026 09:31 PM (xlvhb)

191 > Dick Quest

That was this guy's REAL NAME?

Oooo....kay.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2026 09:29 PM (qpyNK)
---
A self-fulfilling prophecy?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 30, 2026 09:31 PM (gnNyN)

192 I’m not making this up

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 09:32 PM (9EbSF)

193 Dick Quest
Wiener
Spitzer

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 30, 2026 09:32 PM (kpS4V)

194 At great risk to my NSA file I Googled "CNN dick quest" and it's true. (I was expecting Don Lemon to pop up with a prompt like that).

Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2026 09:33 PM (xlvhb)

195 Johnny’s never talked about brother.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 09:34 PM (7wNAQ)

196 Jews happiest with SCOTUS decision.
=====

I wouldn't say happy but you're the expert on da joos.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 09:34 PM (RIvkX)

197 At great risk to my NSA file I Googled "CNN dick quest" and it's true. (I was expecting Don Lemon to pop up with a prompt like that).
Posted by: Ian S

You are already on every list. Not much more you can do to get red flagged.

Posted by: NSA Bob at June 30, 2026 09:35 PM (4ektZ)

198 Toobin said hold my beer.

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 09:36 PM (KC5Lt)

199 His on-air name was Richard Quest, he did the "Briton-in-the-street" shtick where he played a refined Brit interviewing stupid American lumpen for CNN.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 09:37 PM (RIvkX)

200 175 To answer my own question, Wikipedia sez:

"Use of the term Hottentot is now considered deeply offensive"

Oh, well.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2026 09:23 PM (qpyNK)
By whom? Hottentots?

Posted by: Eromero at June 30, 2026 09:38 PM (LHPAg)

201

The House on Tuesday evening canceled votes for the remainder of the week amid tensions over the SAVE America Act, which means lawmakers can go home for the Fourth of July holiday and a week-long recess next week.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 30, 2026 09:39 PM (Cqx++)

202 > At least, according to the Canadian government and white women.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2026 09:26 PM (xlvhb)

Meanwhile it's still commonly used here in Alaska.

Calling them all "Inuit" is jug-headed even by woketard standards.

The Inuit live in Canada. Alaska has Inupiat (fairly closely related to the Inuit, but distinct) and Yupik (more distant).

Yupik definitely do not like being called "Inuit". Historically the two groups did not get along.

The languages are related, but not that closely. It's like calling a Spaniard "French" just because they both speak a Romance language (i.e., might even get your ass kicked for that).

Oh, and Alaska's Indian tribes are definitely not Eskimos. Take the historical dislike between Inupiat and Yupik and magnify it by about a hundred.

Where I live there are Eskimos (Chugachigmiut, a Yupik people) on the other side of the Chugach mountain range east of town, in the Prince William Sound drainage. On this side, in the Cook Inlet drainage, it's historically been all Indians (Denaʼina, an Athabascan people).

Why? Because the Denaʼina genocided the Chugachigmiut on this side of the Chugach mountains before Whitey even showed up.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2026 09:39 PM (qpyNK)

203
Altuve wins appeal on a third strike with the bases loaded, two outs and a 3-2 count. Then Alvarez hits a grand slam.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 09:41 PM (O0L8i)

204 His on-air name was Richard Quest, he did the "Briton-in-the-street" shtick where he played a refined Brit interviewing stupid American lumpen for CNN.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 09:37 PM (RIvkX

The USA has over 430 Nobel prize winners. The next closest is Great Britain with 148.

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 09:42 PM (KC5Lt)

205 A self-fulfilling prophecy?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Nominative determinism
https://w.wiki/aBr

Posted by: mindful webworker visits Doctor Paine the dentist at June 30, 2026 09:45 PM (FL3q9)

206
The USA has over 430 Nobel prize winners. The next closest is Great Britain with 148.

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 09:42 PM (KC5Lt)

___________

Point this out to the Eurotrash and they'll whine about how many were foreign born. To which the reply is that they had to come here to do Nobel Prize worthy work.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 09:46 PM (O0L8i)

207
Though Bob Grubbs (2005, Chemistry) was born in Possum Trot, Kentucky.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 09:48 PM (O0L8i)

208 You are already on every list. Not much more you can do to get red flagged

At this point, if you’re not already on some sort of list, you really ought to be ashamed of yourself. I mean, really.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 09:49 PM (9EbSF)

209 Though Bob Grubbs (2005, Chemistry) was born in Possum Trot, Kentucky.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 09:48 PM (O0L8i)

The youngest person to build a nuclear reactor is a red neck from Tennessee. He broke the previous record of another young redneck from Arkansas.

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 09:51 PM (KC5Lt)

210 Guys like Johnny Von Neumann or Enrico Fermi were certainly “foreign born” but the Eurotrash kicked them out.

LOL. These sorts of arguments are infantile.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 09:51 PM (9EbSF)

211 Evenin’, All.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 09:52 PM (77rzZ)

212 My grandparents were foreign born but were American through and through.

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 09:53 PM (KC5Lt)

213 Boobs!

Jus’ sayin’.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 09:53 PM (77rzZ)

214 I suppose Schlong Crusade would have been too on the nose... and upper lip, and palate

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 09:55 PM (gKWVE)

215 The youngest person to build a nuclear reactor is a red neck from Tennessee
——-

Luis Alvarez once suggested that a sufficiently large mass of U235 slammed into another mass by hand could achieve criticality and blow up.

This is of course why Uranium and such is so closely monitored.

Fermi constructed NR-1 on the squash court during the war using hired people off the street, involving tons of bricks of graphite. He did this because the government contracted firm to construct it was on strike, it was supposed to be built at Argonne iirc.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 09:56 PM (9EbSF)

216 MacCracken: Dunlop, you suck cock!
Dunlop: All I can get!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 30, 2026 09:57 PM (kpS4V)

217 >>> 208 You are already on every list. Not much more you can do to get red flagged

At this point, if you’re not already on some sort of list, you really ought to be ashamed of yourself. I mean, really.
Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 09:49 PM (9EbSF)

Lists are *so* '97, Heather.

My Social Credit score is like, 100 times more negative than yours.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 09:57 PM (R+iUD)

218 Tesla was born in Croatia to Serbian parents but became an American citizen when he was 35.

The story of America which is only 250 years old.

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 09:57 PM (KC5Lt)

219 What makes the Hottentots so hot?
What puts the “ape” in “apricot?”
Whatta they got that I ain’t got?

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 09:58 PM (77rzZ)

220 _

Point this out to the Eurotrash and they'll whine about how many were foreign born. To which the reply is that they had to come here to do Nobel Prize worthy work.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 09:46 PM (O0L8i)

Germany would have had a lot more, but they wanted to put them all in death camps so they came to America instead.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 09:58 PM (7wNAQ)

221 Reminded me that Europeans count infant mortality rate different than the USA . They don't count premature births."

This. Mrs was once unit manager Neonatal, and was on an overseas project. No one else counts as we do.

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 09:58 PM (XuXeR)

222 >>> 183 Just a periodic reminder that school shootings didn't exist before the late 90s and then they suddenly happened in the US, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand within a short period of time. 3 of the 4 countries banned guns.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2026 09:07 PM (xlvhb)

So, will Alex Jones ever pay that billion dollar penalty for making a similar allegation?
Posted by: Kindltot at June 30, 2026 09:27 PM (rbvCR)

I would call Jones' claim an order of magnitude beyond 'hey look why are school shootings suddenly, unexpectedly increasing' but that doesn't make the penalty any less commie bullshit.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 10:00 PM (R+iUD)

223 NOOD

TuONT

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 10:00 PM (R+iUD)

224 Fermi was a great fan of Square Dancing. He was said to “dance with his brain, not his feet”, but still. He loved America.

They assigned him a personal bodyguard during the Los Alamos days. They spent a lot of time playing Gin Rummy when traveling. By the time the war ended, he ended up owing his bodyguard several million dollars. They both would reveal this to people with a serious tone. LOL

I guess Von Neumann learned to play poker, but always got beat. He wrote the book on probability theory and similar.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 10:01 PM (9EbSF)

225 You are already on every list. Not much more you can do to get red flagged.
Posted by: NSA Bob at June 30, 2026 09:35 PM

I'm confident I do have a decent NSA file. My sister has a high enough security clearance that she's personally briefed every SecState in the last 25 years, starting with Condi Rice so I probably get some notice by association. In real life it just means I win all Six Degrees Of contests without trying.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2026 10:02 PM (KLKSV)

226 War will be the last option, after 50 years of 'conservatives' doing nothing but line their own pockets.

Posted by: Eromero at June 30, 2026 10:03 PM (LHPAg)

227
I saw some funny data on X today that you're more likely to die of diarrhea in India than of guns in the US. And it's a significant margin, too.

Posted by: Ian S.

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

Also: more likely to die of heat-related illness in Germany than of guns in the US. And still, no AC...

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2026 12:27 AM (XJ22o)

Quick Hits

This is going to shock you, but Ketanji Brown-Jackson writes Supreme Court opinions like she's a six-year-old girl who just logged into twitter.

Miranda Devine
@mirandadevine

@NYT is still lying about the Laptop From Hell, to excuse the fact they failed to cover the story. This time, the so-called paper of record claims that it was the loathsome Miles Guo who first published material from Hunter Biden's laptop. False. The @nypost first published that material on October 14, 2020.
Guo's sleazy G-News subsequently ran material from the laptop - along with faked photos that were not on the laptop. I often wondered if Guo ran the fake photos deliberately to discredit the laptop because he mixed in the same circles as Hunter's Chinese pals and was worried he would be found out.

The New Yorker
@NewYorker
Israel's ban on Palestinian workers has left families hungry and parents unable to pay for their children's school fees. Still, the ban is being justified in the name of security, and shows no signs of abating.

Katie Pavlich
@KatiePavlich
Israel is a sovereign country and Palestinians from Gaza or the West Bank have zero right to work in that country - especially after Israelis who lived on the border with Gaza invited Palestinians into their homes to work and break bread. Gaza Palestinians returned the favor by taking notes about where safe rooms were, layouts of the homes, if there were dogs, etc. in plans for their ultimate slaughter, pillaging and rape on October 7. Dozens of Americans were murdered at the NOVA peace festival down the road.
So yeah, they're not allowed to work in Israel anymore. Maybe you should be asking the governments of Gaza and the West Bank to foster economies that benefit their people so they don't have to go work in the country next door.

The New York Times freaks out over Republican women having babies while Democrat women abort theirs.

This isn't pregnancy. It's a political plot.
A full-blown, unhinged conspiracy orchestrated by the MAGA movement to take over the hearts, minds and uteruses of gestating people all over the nation, one bassinet, one burp, one stretch mark at a time.
The New York Times has cracked the code. It's Pulitzer time, baby!
In an investigation masquerading as a style piece, the Paper of Record published an unglued commentary, researched with the self-seriousness of Watergate, revealing that a whopping three women connected to the White House are preggers.
At the same time!
That Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Katie Miller, the wife of White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller and Second Lady Usha Vance should all be on the nest simultaneously isn't just a happy mini baby boom. It is -- according to the Times -- a pernicious "Handmaid's Tale"-style political plot promoting conservative child-making frenzy in an age of declining birthrates and the collapse of the Democratic Party in middle America.
It's a cautionary fable, a warning that the dreaded GOP's steady rate of reproduction amid a Democratic baby drought poses a dire threat to the nation.
According to the Gray Lady (now Gray Female-Identifying Newspaper) Republicans are planning to win support and ever-greater numbers of adherents by growing their own voters. One infant at a time.
It's all laid out in the piece entitled "The Politics and Power of the Pregnancy Image."
In it, Times chief fashion critic Vanessa Friedman writes: "That three such prominent women in the MAGA movement were pregnant at pretty much the same time was, indubitably, a coincidence."
Or maybe not.
"But" -- there's always a "but" -- "for an administration that has such an intuitive and strategic understanding of the power of aesthetics that an unspoken dress code in which men outfit themselves in the image of the president has developed, it has also become a telling one," Friedman froths.
"Together, the women have created a notably consistent, and somewhat paradigm-shifting, picture of the White House's family and fertility platform."

Saw an interesting video about why people are so annoyed by this genre of facial expression. Speaking for myself I think of it as Appeal To Consensus Face, an attempt to triumph via social proof and fashionable opinion rather than via argument and debate. pic.twitter.com/Ce0FQ7WdwW
— NPRG (@CptHastings1916) June 22, 2026

MUST WATCH: Audience erupts in applause after @RepEliCrane slams Democrat witness and former NIH official over the agency�s handling of COVID.

Witness: "The NIH is beloved by the American people.�

Rep. Crane: �I think you�re wrong, ma'am.�

"When you say that the NIH doesn't� pic.twitter.com/inGhKo1apC
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) June 30, 2026

One of my favorite clips of RFK Jr. is when he torched far-left activist Krystal Ball on this issue.pic.twitter.com/dhdDmu8GS7 https://t.co/pzkEGZEy5j
— Ryan Saavedra (@RyanSaavedra) June 30, 2026

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1 meh

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 06:21 PM (XJ22o)

2 What, she couldn't find the right emoji?

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at June 30, 2026 06:21 PM (j7INY)

3
I mean my mood, not the post.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 06:22 PM (XJ22o)

4 Top 10 after reading the content.

Posted by: Crusader at June 30, 2026 06:23 PM (TN0g+)

5
It's so unfair I can't even.

Posted by: Justice Sotomayor, like, writing for the dissent at June 30, 2026 06:23 PM (XJ22o)

6 Today's leftist freak out on social media: Trump added a golden eagle to the front of the White House, and you'll never guess what they are saying about it.

OK yeah you guessed, they are saying NAZIS LIKED EAGLES ITS FASCIST OMG!!!1!!!1!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2026 06:23 PM (UZCuZ)

7
It's so unfair I can't even.
Posted by: Justice Sotomayor, like, writing for the dissent

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Oh shoot that was supposed to be Justice *Jackson*

Posted by: Justice Sotomayor, like, writing for the dissent at June 30, 2026 06:24 PM (XJ22o)

8 The New Yorker
@NewYorker
Israel's ban on Palestinian workers has left families hungry and parents unable to pay for their children's school fees. Still, the ban is being justified in the name of security, and shows no signs of abating.

-
Damn Jews just don't want to be raped and murdered!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 06:24 PM (ndZc7)

9 I'm fairly certain that Justice Jumanji-Jackson is having her opinions written by AI.

Posted by: DangerGirl - what SanityProd??? at June 30, 2026 06:26 PM (yjPLJ)

10 Appeal To Consensus Face

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I was thinking Don't Make Me Kill Face.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 06:28 PM (ndZc7)

11 Centered

Posted by: Ann at June 30, 2026 06:29 PM (SHHm+)

12 "It just don't make no sense!" - KBJ

Posted by: garrett at June 30, 2026 06:30 PM (v9lAB)

13 "pernicious "Handmaid's Tale"-style political plot"

Woo that is just nuts.

Posted by: Guy wearing a tinfoil hat at June 30, 2026 06:30 PM (MWfyi)

14 Appeal To Consensus Face, when combined with Bird Hands, constitutes infallible argument.

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 06:30 PM (Jr5Lq)

15 This middle earth BS only happens after hours!!

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 06:31 PM (SCqlx)

16 AOSHQ -No left, no right

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 30, 2026 06:31 PM (XeU6L)

17

Centerville?

Centreville?

Posted by: Middleton at June 30, 2026 06:31 PM (MWfyi)

18 Appeal To Consensus Face, when combined with Bird Hands, constitutes infallible argument.
Posted by: gp
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Recorded while sitting in your car is a plus.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 30, 2026 06:32 PM (XeU6L)

19 out of all the snafus , Middle Earth is most disorienting!

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 06:32 PM (SCqlx)

20 Governor Tim Walz
@GovTimWalz
As the Supreme Court says states can be cruel to trans kids, my message is clear:
Here in Minnesota, we stand with and value our trans neighbors and youth.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 06:34 PM (ndZc7)

21 It takes practice to master Appeal To Consensus Face, since it is easily misperformed as Who Cut The Cheese Face.

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 06:34 PM (Jr5Lq)

22 As the Supreme Court says states can be cruel to trans kids, my message is clear:
Here in Minnesota, we stand with and value our trans neighbors and youth.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 06:34 PM (ndZc7)

I must have missed SCOTUS saying that

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 06:35 PM (FtULh)

23 >>Governor Tim Walz
@GovTimWalz
As the Supreme Court says states can be cruel to trans kids, my message is clear:
Here in Minnesota, we stand with and value our trans neighbors and youth.

Eat a Carburetor, Faggot.

Posted by: garrett at June 30, 2026 06:35 PM (v9lAB)

24 one would imagine the ny times would have no problem with clerics encouraging moslems to have lots of kids

Posted by: gnats local 678 at June 30, 2026 06:36 PM (CWTWj)

25 Appeal To Consensus Face, when combined with Bird Hands, constitutes infallible argument.
Posted by: gp
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Recorded while sitting in your car is a plus.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 30, 2026 06:32 PM (XeU6L)

Needs a couple of claps on the emphasis points.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 30, 2026 06:36 PM (wVcYX)

26 >>It takes practice to master Appeal To Consensus Face, since it is easily misperformed as Who Cut The Cheese Face.

Visla have a natural Appeal to Consensus Face.

Posted by: garrett at June 30, 2026 06:36 PM (v9lAB)

27 Oh thst eagle thing is real? Hilarious thing to do. I did not see that coming. One of Trump's greatest trolls

Posted by: Azjaeger at June 30, 2026 06:36 PM (3/XaG)

28
Wow, RFKJ bringing facts. Even math.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 06:36 PM (XJ22o)

29 walz: dems confuse you can't with you can say no. he's a putz who probably eats pizza with a spoon

Posted by: gnats local 678 at June 30, 2026 06:38 PM (CWTWj)

30 Uh oh

Posted by: Weasel at June 30, 2026 06:38 PM (mGFn3)

31 I must have missed SCOTUS saying that
Posted by: It's me donna

It's in the penumbras and emanations.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 06:38 PM (ndZc7)

32 In KJB's defence, she is fucking stupid.

Posted by: Reforger at June 30, 2026 06:38 PM (0dsIZ)

33 The decision today means that no foreigner must ever be allowed to step foot on our land. It also means that the SCOTUS cannot be trusted and must be packed with conservatives. It is just a partisan political branch like any other and what you do not protect you agree to concede to your enemy.

What will happen? The R's will crap their pants and cower in fear as the left takes over everything and packs the court.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 30, 2026 06:38 PM (3uBP9)

34 Eat a Carburetor, Faggot.
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Sorry. Fricasseed Stromberg not Halal.

Posted by: Timmy at June 30, 2026 06:39 PM (XeU6L)

35 We in Brattleboro stan with are trans and trans-leaning neighbors and roommates and want the Supeream Courtv to remember that Brattleboro don't need them anrojn, anyhow.

Posted by: Mary Clogenstien of Brattleboro Vermouth at June 30, 2026 06:39 PM (MWfyi)

36 whopping three women connected to the White House are preggers."

Well, of course the NYT is confused - hetero sex is just...

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 06:39 PM (XuXeR)

37 >>In KJB's defence, she is fucking stupid.

Also, she Signed this to the staff at the Zoo...

So, it might not be an accurate translation.

Posted by: garrett at June 30, 2026 06:39 PM (v9lAB)

38 I'm fairly certain that Justice Jumanji-Jackson is having her opinions written by AI.

It may be "A" but it sure ain't "I."

Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2026 06:40 PM (vTZFs)

39 It's in the penumbras and emanations"

Nah. It's in the tortillas and churros...

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 06:40 PM (XuXeR)

40 I didn't get any of my Biden Laptop news from Miles Guo. I got it from Garrett Ziegler's "Marco Polo" project, also from Miranda Devine, The Laptop From Hell.
And from Twitter at the time which up and BANNED talk about the laptop, to the point of blocking the NY Post.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 06:41 PM (gKWVE)

41 Sorry. Fricasseed Stromberg not Halal."

Side or downdraft?

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 06:41 PM (XuXeR)

42 Zero immigration for a generation, the forty year definition. My plan. Too harsh?

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 06:41 PM (Gqar8)

43 will no one rid me of this turbulent centering?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at June 30, 2026 06:41 PM (CWTWj)

44
Holy shyte that chick asking If you (Israelis) blow up their (Palis') parents, how do you think that's gonna affect their attitude towards you?

See this is why Hamas kills whole families -- mother, father, kids. No one in the family left to have a bad attitude toward being raped and killed.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 06:41 PM (XJ22o)

45 38 I'm fairly certain that Justice Jumanji-Jackson is having her opinions written by AI.

It may be "A" but it sure ain't "I."
Posted by: Oddbob at Jue 30, 2026 06:40 PM (vTZFs)

You'll be hearing from Our Lawyers

Posted by: AI local 123 at June 30, 2026 06:42 PM (FtULh)

46 I must have missed SCOTUS saying that

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 06:35 PM (FtULh)

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If they can't steal titles from or beat up female athletes, then that is cruel!!!! waaaaahhhhhhhhhhh

Posted by: DangerGirl - what SanityProd??? at June 30, 2026 06:42 PM (yjPLJ)

47 Zero immigration for a generation, the forty year definition. My plan. Too harsh?
Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 06:41 PM (Gqar

This is no time for half measures. 80 years.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 30, 2026 06:42 PM (wVcYX)

48 The New Yorker @NewYorker
Israel's ban on Palestinian workers has left families hungry and parents unable to pay for their children's school fees. Still, the ban is being justified in the name of security, and shows no signs of abating.
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This is like KTVU reporting on the plight of auto glass repair shops in Oakland now that break-ins abated.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 06:44 PM (RIvkX)

49 Stuck in the middle again.

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at June 30, 2026 06:45 PM (w3u3d)

50 21 It takes practice to master Appeal To Consensus Face, since it is easily misperformed as Who Cut The Cheese Face.
Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 06:34 PM (Jr5Lq)

Could be bitter beer face...

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 30, 2026 06:46 PM (bl07w)

51 The blog is angry.

Posted by: Weasel at June 30, 2026 06:46 PM (mGFn3)

52 My guess is Jackson is out getting her nails done while 21 year old interns write her decisions.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2026 06:46 PM (UZCuZ)

53 When they say, "Wearing it like a skinsuit,"

They mean, KBJ's legal opinions, which are an affront to the law itself.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 06:46 PM (RIvkX)

54 >>> Zero immigration for a generation, the forty year definition. My plan. Too harsh?
Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 06:41 PM (Gqar

Plus kicking out any new arrivals. New as in their lifetime, not born here. GTFO Then find the ones that got us in this situation and show them the door too. All this is the easy going amenable nice friendly option.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 30, 2026 06:46 PM (3uBP9)

55 It may be "A" but it sure ain't "I."

Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2026 06:40 PM (vTZFs)

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GIGO

Posted by: DangerGirl - what SanityProd??? at June 30, 2026 06:46 PM (yjPLJ)

56 Did KBJ's staff bring her milk and cookies while she was writing her assignment? What a twit. Those dread locks are pulling too tight on her scalp and affecting her mindthoughts.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 30, 2026 06:47 PM (fkjGs)

57 Huh. Looks like the most based American on the court is... Kavanaugh:
X ilan_wurman/status/ 2071997107859493305
I probably side with Alito, which might exile me from the US, but whatever, I took the oath.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 06:47 PM (gKWVE)

58 Governor Tim Walz.

Why is this guy still Governor? He should be in jail somewhere.

Posted by: Case at June 30, 2026 06:48 PM (IY9No)

59 "42 Zero immigration for a generation, the forty year definition. My plan. Too harsh?

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 06:41 PM (Gqar

"

not harsh enough

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 30, 2026 06:48 PM (VyBeY)

60 beat up female athletes

-
Emmanuel Acho (whoever the hell that is): "The WNBA, at this junction in time, would be better off without Caitlin Clark because she is a bigger distraction than she is an additive"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 06:48 PM (ndZc7)

61 Why do all the arguments for those poor poor Palestinians always begin AFTER the part where those Palestinians raped and murdered Israelis?

Here's an argument: You Palis want to live? Quit raping and murdering the Jews.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 30, 2026 06:49 PM (bl07w)

62 Why is this guy still Governor? He should be in jail somewhere.
Posted by: Case at June 30, 2026 06:48 PM (IY9No)

Because Republicans are mean.

Some idiot judge.

Posted by: Reforger at June 30, 2026 06:50 PM (0dsIZ)

63 Someone needs to stick a dick or a dollar bill, or something in that woman named "Krystal Ball"'s mouth.

I guess we know why she is not a stripper in spite of her parent's apparent wishes.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at June 30, 2026 06:50 PM (cUmOc)

64 In it, Times chief fashion critic Vanessa Friedman writes: "That three such prominent women in the MAGA movement were pregnant at pretty much the same time was, indubitably, a coincidence."

Or maybe not.
***
Stupid NYT. Do they think they coordinated their ovulation times and nights of romance??

When I was a jr. associate, tin my class of about 20 lawyers (probably 12 women?) there were 4 of us pregnant at the same time, and 3 more pregnant in the class ahead of me. We all were due within 2 months of each other. We lined up for a picture of all of our protruding bellies, which I still have.
When there are more than a few married women between 25 and 39 and in your workforce, the odds of several of them being pregnant at the same time seem pretty high.

Posted by: LASue at June 30, 2026 06:50 PM (lCppi)

65 Maybe Chuy could reach out to James Talarico about how centered he is?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 30, 2026 06:50 PM (0sNs1)

66 51 The blog is angry.
Posted by: Weasel at June 30, 2026 06:46 PM (mGFn3)
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There goes tummy-rub Tuesdays...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 30, 2026 06:50 PM (gnNyN)

67 58 Governor Tim Walz.

Why is this guy still Governor? He should be in jail somewhere.
Posted by: Case at June 30, 2026 06:48 PM (IY9No)

To be fair to the Gov, it is mighty difficult to speak objectively and clearly while sucking Somali dicks.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 30, 2026 06:51 PM (bl07w)

68 If Caitlin C went to Europe to play, would she encounter fewer racist lesbian black women players? She might live longer, cause they may murder her sooner or later.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 06:51 PM (Gqar8)

69 59 "42 Zero immigration for a generation, the forty year definition. My plan. Too harsh?

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 06:41 PM (Gqar "

not harsh enough
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 30, 2026 06:48 PM (VyBeY)

American is full, Moose up North should have told you.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 06:51 PM (mP0Kj)

70 If the Rs weren't worthless conniving cucks this would light a fire under them to pass SAVE at least.

Posted by: Narrator - It turns out the Rs were in fact worthless conniving cucks. at June 30, 2026 06:51 PM (3uBP9)

71 tubal, I wonder if Clark sees herself as a new Perpetua.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 06:51 PM (gKWVE)

72 This is like KTVU reporting on the plight of auto glass repair shops in Oakland now that break-ins abated.

Literally the broken windows fallacy

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2026 06:52 PM (UZCuZ)

73 52 My guess is Jackson is out getting her nails done while 21 year old interns write her decisions.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2026 06:46 PM (UZCuZ)

I assure you she has clerks, not interns and they are all over 21. It is a BFD to be a Supreme Court clerk.

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at June 30, 2026 06:52 PM (w3u3d)

74 Not only do the Dems embrace abortion, they're also hot to trot about sterilizing the surviving children by turning them into human chimeras.

Posted by: mrp at June 30, 2026 06:52 PM (rj6Yv)

75 WTH? Still centered?

Posted by: Nazdar at June 30, 2026 06:52 PM (NcvvS)

76 Posted by: LASue at June 30, 2026 06:50 PM (lCppi)

the key is that Trump is hiring much Younger staff... not a bunch of old hags.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 06:52 PM (mP0Kj)

77 71 tubal, I wonder if Clark sees herself as a new Perpetua.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 06:51 PM (gKWVE)

Might explain things.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 06:52 PM (Gqar8)

78 The blog is angry.
Posted by: Weasel
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OTOH...center mass

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 30, 2026 06:53 PM (XeU6L)

79 I assure you she has clerks, not interns and they are all over 21. It is a BFD to be a Supreme Court clerk.
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at June 30, 2026 06:52 PM (w3u3d)

Probably not the resume polisher it could be if they were working for an intelligent Justice, but there ya go.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 30, 2026 06:53 PM (bl07w)

80 I've been here many times before

Posted by: Gref at June 30, 2026 06:54 PM (5rh/l)

81 The second to the last clip with that expert "Krystal Ball" explaining why so many man are not getting married is enlightening.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at June 30, 2026 06:54 PM (cUmOc)

82 OTOH...center mass
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 30, 2026 06:53 PM (XeU6L)
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Center hold and send it.

Posted by: Weasel at June 30, 2026 06:55 PM (m8wiN)

83 OTOH...center mass
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 30, 2026 06:53 PM (XeU6L)

Here we go again:

https://youtu.be/XbYZhMMLHGo

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 30, 2026 06:55 PM (bl07w)

84 An eagle has always been a symbol of our country.
But then I wouldn't expect some lefty Commie to know that.

Posted by: Case at June 30, 2026 06:55 PM (IY9No)

85 I'm sorry, I can't read centered text. My mind keeps listing to port and the thoughts slip overboard.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at June 30, 2026 06:56 PM (cUmOc)

86 The second to the last clip with that expert "Krystal Ball" explaining why so many man are not getting married is enlightening.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at June 30, 2026 06:54 PM (cUmOc)
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She is married to Kyle Kulinski

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 06:56 PM (RIvkX)

87 "The Martyrdom of Saints Perpetua and Felicitas"
https://tinyurl.com/mu7cmmn8

IDNKT!

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 06:57 PM (Jr5Lq)

88 Centered font is for menus, decrees, and parking signage. I'm getting a headache.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 06:57 PM (RIvkX)

89 78 The blog is angry.
Posted by: Weasel
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OTOH...center mass
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc

At keyboard range you can't miss.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at June 30, 2026 06:57 PM (Q/FnY)

90 I assure you she has clerks, not interns and they are all over 21. It is a BFD to be a Supreme Court clerk.
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat

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Thinks this through -- she hires the clerks, so they are probably just like her and sitting beside getting the pedicure.
But the clerks hire interns and maybe they wrote it.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at June 30, 2026 06:58 PM (cUmOc)

91 The Centermass Experiment ... wasn't that an old Hammer flick?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 30, 2026 06:58 PM (VyBeY)

92 The HOA will be hearing about this.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 30, 2026 06:58 PM (DZ9Lv)

93 If the format changes and we lose the center watch out for widening gyers because I've heard that's next.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 30, 2026 06:59 PM (3uBP9)

94 Widening Gyers would be a great Ska Band name if those existed anymore.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 30, 2026 06:59 PM (3uBP9)

95 She is married to Kyle Kulinski
Posted by: San Franpsycho

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I had to check if you were joking.

Good grief Kyle married Krystal.
Is their family crest KKK? Is Kyle gay and she's a beard? I don't get it, she is so so so insufferable.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at June 30, 2026 07:00 PM (cUmOc)

96 Roberts always seems to side with batshit if the conservative side isn't completely ironclad.

Posted by: Jonathan at June 30, 2026 07:01 PM (aP8jC)

97 here in Wisconsin you can now get Yuengling in 24 oz. cans

Progress!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 30, 2026 07:01 PM (VyBeY)

98 88 Centered font is for menus, decrees, and parking signage. I'm getting a headache.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

And twitter embeds. It seems Ace centers them for some reason and why this happens.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at June 30, 2026 07:01 PM (cUmOc)

99 Ketanji Brown-Jackson is the kind of USSC judge that proves some average Joe or Jane right off the street could do a better job of being a Justice.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at June 30, 2026 07:02 PM (Q/FnY)

100 Jonathan, what's whacked is how Kavanaugh said "the parents have to be citizens! MAGAAAA" and then "ehhh whatever, ya win some ya lose some, I'm just gonna sign my name to this bullshit majority opinion".
Very Cornyn of him.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 07:02 PM (gKWVE)

101 So yeah, they're not allowed to work in Israel anymore. Maybe you should be asking the governments of Gaza and the West Bank to foster economies that benefit their people so they don't have to go work in the country next door.
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Also, maybe you shouldn't have burned down that world-renown flower factory that Israel left you?

You think?

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 07:03 PM (Fi81e)

102 The NIH woman used the term "beloved". Every AI generated crap article says someone was "beloved ". "Beloved " former Yankees utility player died at 92.
The bureaucrats are becoming bad AIs

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 07:04 PM (f6yx7)

103 A hobo pulled out the toilet would write a better opinion than Ketanji. At least he has a rough idea what a woman is

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 07:04 PM (gKWVE)

104 *** Gaza Palestinians returned the favor by taking notes about where safe rooms were, layouts of the homes, if there were dogs, etc. in plans for their ultimate slaughter, pillaging and rape on October 7.
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Right between the eyes, is a phrase that comes to mind.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 07:04 PM (vPv7/)

105 Huh. I've seen comments about when the blog has italic or centered type, but it's always fixed by the time I get to it. It's sort of fun to see what the early birds mean.

Posted by: Weak Geek at June 30, 2026 07:05 PM (yRCXf)

106 I LOVE IT WHEN WE ARE CENTERED!

Kenjababa the Shell Necklace justeece knows about ante. She calls her antes daily. I give her creds for mocking Justice Thomas and calling him myopic. I would think that she might be on her way to that biology degree!

That woman making the face of woe/I'm gonna cry...one of my SIL's does that AND talks baby talk when super distressed. Her brother (the dude I am married to) can baby talk after he gets off the phone with her. Usually it's due to someone trying to rip her off for money and threatens her online from Nigeria or something like that. I'm nice to her. Sometimes I feel sorry for her. Then I don't.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 07:05 PM (hzuYO)

107 Ketanji Brown-Jackson written opinions strike me as being drafted by a person writing a 10 page university freshman term paper who has a marginal understanding of the subject matter and an intellect best suited to filling out multiple choice restaurant comment cards.

Or Pompous padded prose.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 30, 2026 07:05 PM (obVEo)

108 My guess is Jackson is out getting her nails done while 21 year old interns write her decisions.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2026 06:46 PM (UZCuZ)

Did. Bees gettin my hair and nails did. Did fool!

Whatz up with all the big college words and all dat. I bee done finna go to da salons when I done gets paid.

Posted by: Kunta Kinte Jackson Brown, Illiterate SCOTUS Ebonics User at June 30, 2026 07:05 PM (og9zY)

109 So the center is still holding?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 30, 2026 07:06 PM (Wnv9h)

110 Ketanji has a stable of high achieving clerks from USA, Columbia, Yale, Duke, Penn and NYU, as would be expected.

Posted by: LASue at June 30, 2026 07:06 PM (lCppi)

111

The blog is angry.
Posted by: Weasel

You would cry too if it happened to you.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 30, 2026 07:07 PM (Cqx++)

112 NPR ran a big piece today all about how justice Alito is retiring from the Supreme Court.

They had to issue a retraction and an apology.

The writer of this article? The person who ran it?

Nina.... Totenberg. A name that should go down in infamy

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2026 07:07 PM (UZCuZ)

113 Also, who is this Loretta saying I wasn't elected queen?

Has she never heard of beauty pageants?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreatQueenofWorld at June 30, 2026 07:07 PM (hzuYO)

114 Krystal Ball is one annoying bitch. She is not at all centered

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 07:07 PM (z0iLf)

115 Governor Tim Walz
@GovTimWalz
As the Supreme Court says states can be cruel to trans kids, my message is clear:

I like to fuck little boys up the ass! Woooeeh!

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 07:07 PM (riF+o)

116 Mark Halperin on 2-Way is speculating that Swalwell is ratting our Ruben Gallego because Gallego threw Swalwell under the bus.
The NYT is reporting the Justice Department is investigating Gallego for improperly using campaign funds for personal things like family trips. Somebody wants Gallego out of the Dem Socialist way.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 07:08 PM (f6yx7)

117 Until right leaning judges start engaging in judicial activism none of this crap will stop.

But get one judge to decide the income tax is unconstitutional and we'd see serious and major judicial reform. Yes I know it was passed by an amendment but like the other amendments it would be trivial to argue the implementation the government has (and any potential implementation in the future) are still unconstitutional...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 07:09 PM (sKqQm)

118 NPR ran a big piece today all about how justice Alito is retiring from the Supreme Court.

They had to issue a retraction and an apology.

The writer of this article? The person who ran it?

Nina.... Totenberg. A name that should go down in infamy
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I wonder from whom Nina got her "scoop"?

Posted by: Tuna at June 30, 2026 07:09 PM (lJ0H4)

119

Would you rather be beloved or bespoke?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 30, 2026 07:10 PM (Cqx++)

120 There's some joy -

New York Magazine
It was widely, almost universally, expected that Donald Trump’s 2025 executive order purporting to abolish “birthright citizenship” would not survive a U.S. Supreme Court review of its constitutionality. Not so expected was that four Supreme Court justices would claim Trump’s action *did* comply with the 14th Amendment despite its clear language that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to its jurisdiction, are citizens of the United States.”
But this defeat for Trump isn’t as definitive as the one we expected, writes Ed Kilgore. “As a matter of constitutional law, Trump v. Barbara is a 5-4 decision that hardly closes off the question for all time. Rather than shutting down Trump’s efforts to radically redefine and restrict the meaning of citizenship, the narrow conservative majority at the Supreme Court will likely embolden him and like-minded nativists to keep up the fight.”

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 30, 2026 07:10 PM (NFX2v)

121 I don't think Arizona is far enough along the Colorado path to elect a DSA. (yet)

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 07:10 PM (gKWVE)

122 Ketanji Brown-Jackson written opinions strike me as being drafted by a person writing a 10 page university freshman term paper who has a marginal understanding of the subject matter and an intellect best suited to filling out multiple choice restaurant comment cards.

Or Pompous padded prose.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 30, 2026 07:05 PM (obVEo)

I write with the pompatus of prose.

Posted by: Ketanji Brown-Jackson, Some People Call Me Maurice at June 30, 2026 07:10 PM (wVcYX)

123 The Gaza genocide...ah yes.

Oddly with Israel in complete control of the area though there are still Muslims occupying Gaza...the Israelis are really the worst Hitlers to ever Hitler.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 07:10 PM (sKqQm)

124 This is not a defense of KBJ - 'cause she is a dope - but I will say people fucking hate lawyers because they write stuff in a manner that deliberately confuses average people, often deliberately, and to show how smart they're supposed to be are. Later in my career, we strove to write and communicate in clear text. That is, stuff we could all grasp and understand. Such things are occasionally important.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at June 30, 2026 07:10 PM (QaH55)

125 "I'm not defending Hamas"...

Yes you are dumbtits.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 30, 2026 07:11 PM (n5tGW)

126 I wonder from whom Nina got her "scoop"?

Its probably true, just not yet. Alito will likely retire this summer or fall.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2026 07:11 PM (UZCuZ)

127 I wonder from whom Nina got her "scoop"?
Posted by: Tuna at June 30, 2026 07:09 PM (lJ0H4)

Prolly from one of her many litter boxes.

Becuz cats. Get it?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 30, 2026 07:11 PM (0aYVJ)

128 In an investigation masquerading as a style piece, the Paper of Record published an unglued commentary, researched with the self-seriousness of Watergate, revealing that a whopping three women connected to the White House are preggers.
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These.
People.
Are.
Such.
BABIES!

If their decisions in comparison to your decisions put them at a disadvantage they don't have any other route but to declare that a lack equal outcomes of different decisions is "NO FAIR!"

We have no future is 50% of America can become so juvenile in their reactions.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 07:11 PM (Fi81e)

129 We got lucky with KBJ. THey could have appointed a serious person, like Breyer, who would have voted the same way she does. The embarrassment is going to require future presidents to appoint minimally qualified people.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at June 30, 2026 07:11 PM (R86kT)

130 and subject to its jurisdiction

Illegals cannot be subject to American jurisdiction though or they wouldn't be here.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 07:11 PM (sKqQm)

131 Oddly with Israel in complete control of the area though there are still Muslims occupying Gaza...the Israelis are really the worst Hitlers to ever Hitler.

My favorite Gaza genocide stat is how a report on how many kids are in Gaza was lower before the war started than the current report by the UN. Its like, the worst genocide ever.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2026 07:12 PM (UZCuZ)

132 When your dining out in Chicago -

Tafari’s Kitchen: Located inside the Forum building just off the John Lewis Plaza, the Center’s onsite restaurant offers a full menu of casual food inspired by the Obamas’ personal stories, culture, and commitment to healthy eating. The restaurant features a welcoming dining space with wide glass doors for al fresco dining on warmer days. It honors the award-winning former White House culinary team member and beloved personal chef to the Obama family who tragically passed away in 2023. Tafari Campbell was known as a warm, fun-loving, and humble soul who used his immense gifts and passion for food to spread joy and bring people together, and a painting of him by Kate Capshaw will hang in the restaurant.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 30, 2026 07:12 PM (NFX2v)

133 I love the political plot of having conservative babies. I would have more but I'm old, so it's up to sons (3 so far and counting).

The women who notch their tattoos or piercings with the number of abortions are tipping into eternal hellfire to brag about it. Evil. Who on earth impregnates them anyway? Hobos they pay in Everclear? She better be getting forgiveness for this. Yes I am casting millstones at her and don't care.

I would like to thank Ace for all he does as some of this I would not read otherwise.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 07:12 PM (hzuYO)

134 President 18-1 would keep deporting the children of illegals.

If the courts want to argue they are citizens it can pay to fly them back...and at which point I'd send them home again.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 07:12 PM (sKqQm)

135
"Ze old have babies ploy, eh!" -- Inspector Clouseau

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 07:12 PM (Fi81e)

136 you're 🤬

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 30, 2026 07:13 PM (NFX2v)

137 I love the political plot of having conservative babies. I would have more but I'm old, so it's up to sons (3 so far and counting).

One of the interesting side effects of the birth dirth is that America is going to become more evangelical, more Mennonite, and more Orthodox Jewish

Atheists and mainstream Christians/Jews don't have enough kids.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 07:14 PM (sKqQm)

138 My guess is Jackson is out getting her nails done while 21 year old interns write her decisions.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2026 06:46 PM

I dunno. I supervise, among others, two female lawyers. One is a Persyn of Melanin from Harvard. The other is from a very good law school which is not Harvard. The first writes in a style that I can only describe as stream of consciousness. The other writes as if she's casually chatting with the reader. Needless to say, I have spilled rivers of red pixels on various pleadings and administrative decisions.

So, no...I think it's entirely probable that Jumanji actually writes this drivel.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 30, 2026 07:14 PM (Wnv9h)

139 Lemme just jump right in the center of things here...

Posted by: RandomDave at June 30, 2026 07:15 PM (aJQbY)

140 The Nation, Politics / June 30, 2026
A Strategic Alito Retirement Would Confirm SCOTUS’s Complete Ideological Capture
Granting the hard-right jurist power over choosing a successor is a democratic disaster—and a far cry from John Roberts’s fanciful claims of nonpartisanship.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 30, 2026 07:15 PM (NFX2v)

141 Y'all know there are kids in China who'd love to comment on a blog like this.

Quit yer bellyachin'.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 30, 2026 07:15 PM (0sNs1)

142 As a point of order, there is no requirement for an associate justice on the Court to pass the bar or be an attorney. Just advise and consent of the Senate.

“Expert” legal opinion from the rarefied air of academe is in fact responsible in part as to why the U.S.A. is so utterly FUBAR.

I’m not “anti intellectual”; precisely the opposite, in fact. But so many important positions have been hijacked by quacks and grifters and pseudo-intellectuals. It’s a scam, pulled on the citizenry.

“Oh, this is all really complicated and stuff. You didn’t attend Deah Old Hahvahd. Don’t worry, we’ll ‘splain to you what they really meant.”

One slot (at least) should be reserved for normal, decent people. A plumber, or a welder, a dry cleaning business owner, that kind of thing.

No law agin’ it. Suggest this to a Liberal and they’d drop their Martini. They don’t really want “Democracy”. Not even a little bit.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 07:16 PM (riF+o)

143 KBJ's decisions read like they're written by the prison guy from In Living Color.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 30, 2026 07:16 PM (g/cZn)

144 I assume if the Rs increase their Senate number after this election we will see one or two retirements. And hopefully wise latina will go to the great panaderia in the sky...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 07:16 PM (sKqQm)

145 K B-J was probably all through school a diversity student, just pass her along because we need her in the class

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 07:16 PM (Ia/+0)

146 and subject to its jurisdiction

Illegals cannot be subject to American jurisdiction though or they wouldn't be here.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 07:11 PM (sKqQm)

How about this- they are subject to American jurisdiction, and therefore that jurisdiction says we can throw them out because they are illegally present. Kinda circular logic, or rather Kejanki Jackson Brown logic, but hey, I didn't go to Harvard.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at June 30, 2026 07:17 PM (QaH55)

147 Granting the hard-right jurist power over choosing a successor is a democratic disaster

Ah, yes. The ol' "It's only fair when we do it, not when you do it!" position.

Posted by: RandomDave at June 30, 2026 07:17 PM (aJQbY)

148 I wonder from whom Nina got her "scoop"?
Posted by: Tuna

Two scoops in a package of Kellogg's Raisin Bran.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 30, 2026 07:18 PM (DZ9Lv)

149 One of the interesting side effects of the birth dirth is that America is going to become more evangelical, more Mennonite, and more Orthodox Jewish

Atheists and mainstream Christians/Jews don't have enough kids.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 07:14 PM

Speaking from the Orthodox Christian perspective, our parishes seem to have a whole lot of big families. I like this trend. I would help, but I need to find a wife first.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 30, 2026 07:18 PM (Wnv9h)

150 I wonder from whom Nina got her "scoop"?
Posted by: Tuna at June 30, 2026 07:09 PM (lJ0H4)

===

Prolly from one of her many litter boxes.

Becuz cats. Get it?
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 30, 2026 07:11 PM

John Kasich?

His father was a mailman, you know.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 30, 2026 07:18 PM (0sNs1)

151 Alito as hard right is comical.

Put me on the SC and you'd finally see what an activist conservative judge would do...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 07:18 PM (sKqQm)

152 Did you know -

Jessica Garland (Merrick Garland's daughter) is clerking for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. Justice Kagan initially hired her in July 2020, but due to conflict-of-interest concerns while her father was serving as U.S. Attorney General, the clerkship was postponed. She later joined Justice Kagan's chambers and is listed among the clerks for the Court.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 30, 2026 07:18 PM (NFX2v)

153 MSLSD is taken aback the Kavanaugh suggested in his opinion that Congress may have the power to change the definition of birthright citizenship. I too am shocked. Shocked.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 30, 2026 07:19 PM (obVEo)

154 Here in Minnesota, we stand with and value our trans neighbors and youth.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 06:34 PM (ndZc7)
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"Come to Minnesota and beat the crap out of our girls".

At least that's what I'm hearing--since you don't have to use other people's actual words anymore.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 07:19 PM (Fi81e)

155 I like this trend. I would help, but I need to find a wife first.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 30, 2026 07:18 PM

HordeSource (tm) is standing by to assist with pick-up lines and general dating and relationship advice whenever you're ready!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 30, 2026 07:20 PM (0sNs1)

156 Speaking from the Orthodox Christian perspective, our parishes seem to have a whole lot of big families. I like this trend. I would help, but I need to find a wife first.

Orthodox gives you the advantage of an ancient tradition without an anti-Christian apostate at the top of the hierarchy like the RCC

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 07:20 PM (sKqQm)

157 The NIH lady is also extremely annoying…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 07:20 PM (ALKK0)

158
HordeSource (tm) is standing by to assist with pick-up lines and general dating and relationship advice whenever you're ready!

Step 1: Put on pants

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 07:20 PM (sKqQm)

159 One slot (at least) should be reserved for normal, decent people. A plumber, or a welder, a dry cleaning business owner, that kind of thing.
Posted by: Common Tater

I'd love if none of the actual legislators, judges, etc could be lawyers. Let them hire lawyers as staff, and to help with legal wording, but they should come from a background that thinks in concrete terms.

Posted by: RandomDave at June 30, 2026 07:21 PM (aJQbY)

160 158
HordeSource (tm) is standing by to assist with pick-up lines and general dating and relationship advice whenever you're ready!

Step 1: Put on pants
Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 07:20 PM (sKqQm)

So you have a chance to take them off, later...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 07:21 PM (mP0Kj)

161 Dr. Ginexi is a Dim women, innoculated with her big glasses and pinched face.

I love her last response and the still photo of her suppressing a flappy fart of fear.

She READ the crap about Tuskeegee and syphilis as her response to his question.

Lie/deflect/make bird hands/done

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 07:21 PM (hzuYO)

162 One of the things that traditional American society was designed to do is get young men and women of marriageable age and interest to mingle.

Yet another thing modern America has failed at.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 07:21 PM (sKqQm)

163 If conservatives can't always lose everything, it's NO FAIR!

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 07:22 PM (Fi81e)

164 You all up in here talkin like you somethin. You ain't shit. (Marbury v Dolly Madison Zingers) 12 U.S. 345, supra

Posted by: Hon. Ketanji Brown Jackson at June 30, 2026 07:23 PM (R86kT)

165
I'd love if none of the actual legislators, judges, etc could be lawyers. Let them hire lawyers as staff, and to help with legal wording, but they should come from a background that thinks in concrete terms.

The FNM tells me a black person is only represented in government if the official is also a black person.

But somehow a WASP/Jew/or Wide Latina born with a silver spoon in her mouth and a lifetime of fake government jobs provides representation to normal people that work at real jobs...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 07:23 PM (sKqQm)

166 I always thought 'kid' was term for baby goats. I didn't realize that it was a big time, supreme court substitute legal word for 'child'. We're dealing with middling to low IQ people here, folks.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 30, 2026 07:23 PM (fkjGs)

167 I like this trend. I would help, but I need to find a wife first.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 30, 2026 07:18 PM

HordeSource (tm) is standing by to assist with pick-up lines and general dating and relationship advice whenever you're ready!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 30, 2026 07:20 PM (0sNs1)

Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory... lasts forever.

Posted by: Shane Falco at June 30, 2026 07:23 PM (wVcYX)

168 the Center’s onsite restaurant offers a full menu of casual food inspired by the Obamas’ personal stories, culture, and commitment to healthy eating.

So dog is featured on the menu?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 30, 2026 07:23 PM (0sNs1)

169 I'd like the jooo-hating muzzie-lovers to explain why the Palestinians are so desparate to work for their genociders.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 07:23 PM (R+iUD)

170 HordeSource (tm) is standing by to assist with pick-up lines and general dating and relationship advice whenever you're ready!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 30, 2026 07:20 PM

Umm....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 30, 2026 07:24 PM (Wnv9h)

171 >>> HordeSource (tm) is standing by to assist with pick-up lines and general dating and relationship advice whenever you're ready!

Step 1: Put on pants
Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 07:20 PM (sKqQm)

What if I already have pants on? Do I put on additional pair? Do they go on over the current pants or on another part of my body? I haven't tested it but I think I have a finite number of pants max capacity, somewhere in the ballpark of two dozen pants and things start going nonlinear.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 30, 2026 07:24 PM (3uBP9)

172 and subject to its jurisdiction

That's not even the killer phrase. The key is that overlooked word "resides." As in "lives in, has a residence", aka "NOT A VISITOR"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2026 07:24 PM (UZCuZ)

173 Kejanki Brown Jacchthon - Lithen biches, Wait for it, I axed you a question and I expecth and anser !

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 30, 2026 07:24 PM (NtVYv)

174 *looks down at baby bump*

Hear that, kiddo? You're paradigm-shifting!

Posted by: pookysgirl, starting to look pregnant at June 30, 2026 07:24 PM (Wt5PA)

175 Steve Rattner from the Obama administration is getting dragged on X for some probably made up chart claiming we get an excellent "return on investment" for stopping Africans dying of AIDS at only $8000 a person.

That quickly became that there's an exchange rate between gay AIDS Africans and US dollars and people pricing stuff accordingly.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2026 07:24 PM (KLKSV)

176 It's Friday night. Ace must be blow drying his fur for a night on the town.

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 07:24 PM (MWfyi)

177 the Center’s onsite restaurant offers a full menu of casual food inspired by the Obamas’ personal stories, culture, and commitment to healthy eating.

Also lots of sausage.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 07:24 PM (sKqQm)

178 142, 159, THIS!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 30, 2026 07:25 PM (VyBeY)

179 That's not even the killer phrase. The key is that overlooked word "resides." As in "lives in, has a residence", aka "NOT A VISITOR"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2026 07:24 PM (UZCuZ)
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Not so fast!

Posted by: Feudal, Monarchist Principle at June 30, 2026 07:25 PM (Fi81e)

180 I was just checking to see if you were paying attention.

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 07:25 PM (MWfyi)

181 get young men and women of marriageable age and interest to mingle. Yet another thing modern America has failed at.

XY: I'm interested in anime and Dungeons & Dragons
XX: I like astrology and tarot

Kinda difficult to really get these two together (and would we want to?)

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 07:25 PM (gKWVE)

182 177 the Center’s onsite restaurant offers a full menu of casual food inspired by the Obamas’ personal stories, culture, and commitment to healthy eating.

Also lots of sausage.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 07:24 PM (sKqQm)

So, they serve Dog?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 07:25 PM (mP0Kj)

183 170 HordeSource (tm) is standing by to assist with pick-up lines and general dating and relationship advice whenever you're ready!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 30, 2026 07:20 PM

Umm....
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 30, 2026 07:24 PM

No, we are really good at this!

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 07:26 PM (Dd38x)

184 Rattner is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. My guess is he's saved exactly 0 Africans with his personal wealth however

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 07:26 PM (sKqQm)

185 Step 1: Put on pants

Your OWN pants.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 30, 2026 07:26 PM (g/cZn)

186 If Trump gets another chance to nominate an Associate Justice, I expect the opposition to quickly devolve from protest to outright rioting and violence.

Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 07:26 PM (ZxPkt)

187 I want all of you to start having babies. Now.

Find a conservative woman (easy to find as no tattoos on arms or blue hair and nostril ring), woo her with your kindness, humor and good looks. Marry. And join the political plot. We did our duty and had two sons who vote conservative and married and are Christian.

I wanted one more boy (it would have probably been twin boys) and my husband vetoed due to the c-section potential uterine rupture deal at the time and losing me and the baby.

Get this done!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 07:26 PM (hzuYO)

188 write stuff in a manner that deliberately confuses average people, often deliberately, and to show how smart they're supposed to be
——-

Generally, I’ve learned that unscrupulous types like to muddy the water, to try and make it look deep.

“This is really complicated. There is no simple solution, blah blah blah.”

The truth is, sometimes things are very simple. It’s just not easy and this especially applies to Politics.

When your local critter is enthusing about how they are fine-tuning the Weather a hundred years from now, you can be sure they aren’t doing fuck-all about roads, crime, sewage, any of the nuts and bolts stuff about good government. Those are indeed difficult tasks, but the one thing they are not is “complicated”.

Consider though, since they cannot handle simple tasks, what are the odds they are going to shine on the truly complex stuff?

Yeah. No chance.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 07:26 PM (riF+o)

189 185 Step 1: Put on pants

Your OWN pants.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 30, 2026 07:26

See?

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 07:26 PM (Dd38x)

190 "176 It's Friday night. "

O, if only ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 30, 2026 07:27 PM (VyBeY)

191 I'm sick of hearings I want hangings.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 07:27 PM (vPv7/)

192 XY: I'm interested in anime and Dungeons & Dragons
XX: I like astrology and tarot

More like:
XY: I'm interested in a job, a home, and a car
XX: I'm interested in getting my cooter blasted by illegals while imagining that they're Mamdami

Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2026 07:28 PM (KLKSV)

193 " I want all of you to start having babies. Now."

I did my turn. Now, how to get the offspring to procreate?

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 07:28 PM (MWfyi)

194 XY: I'm interested in anime and Dungeons & Dragons
XX: I like astrology and tarot

Well, you aren't marrying a woman into tarot.

But yes male and female hobbies are usually different...you just have to try to find something that women like that you are ok with...

If I was a younger man I think I would have tried hiking orgs - because you know the women you are hiking with like nature, stay in shape, and can at least disconnect from social media for a while...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 07:28 PM (sKqQm)

195 >>> HordeSource (tm) is standing by to assist with pick-up lines and general dating and relationship advice whenever you're ready!

Step 1: Put on pants
Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 07:20 PM (sKqQm)

What if I already have pants on? Do I put on additional pair? Do they go on over the current pants or on another part of my body? I haven't tested it but I think I have a finite number of pants max capacity, somewhere in the ballpark of two dozen pants and things start going nonlinear.
Posted by: banana Dream at June 30, 2026 07:24 PM (3uBP9)

Assert your masculinity and walk proud!

Posted by: Eldridge Cleaver Action Pants at June 30, 2026 07:29 PM (wVcYX)

196 176 It's Friday night. Ace must be blow drying his fur for a night on the town.
Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 07:24 PM (MWfyi)

You almost confused me. All of May I did not know the day.

I am pretty sure today is Tuesday. Last day of June.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 07:29 PM (hzuYO)

197 It's Friday night somewhere.

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 07:29 PM (MWfyi)

198 >>> 132 When your dining out in Chicago -

Tafari’s Kitchen: Located inside the Forum building just off the John Lewis Plaza, the Center’s onsite restaurant offers a full menu of casual food inspired by the Obamas’ personal stories, culture, and commitment to healthy eating. The restaurant features a welcoming dining space with wide glass doors for al fresco dining on warmer days. It honors the award-winning former White House culinary team member and beloved personal chef to the Obama family who tragically passed away in 2023. Tafari Campbell was known as a warm, fun-loving, and humble soul who used his immense gifts and passion for food to spread joy and bring people together, and a painting of him by Kate Capshaw will hang in the restaurant.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 30, 2026 07:12 PM (NFX2v)

Seriously? That's too funny. Hollywood is such a bunch of retards.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 07:30 PM (R+iUD)

199 you can be sure they aren’t doing fuck-all about roads, crime, sewage, any of the nuts and bolts stuff about good government

With a fraction of current budgets state and local governments used to be able to provide police, fire, and roads with no issues.

Something younger people should be reminded of.

Muggings, potholes, and wild fires are all choices we've made as a society

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 07:30 PM (sKqQm)

200 I want all of you to start having babies. Now.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 07:26 PM (hzuYO)
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This is precisely why the progs took over the schools in the 90s and 00s.

Also precisely why they teach kids they might want to be trans and take those kids away the instant an impressionable child nods.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 07:30 PM (Fi81e)

201 Nina.... Totenberg. A name that should go down in infamy
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I wonder from whom Nina got her "scoop"?

My guess -- and that's all that it is -- is that every SCOTUS reporter has that story (and one like it about Thomas) already written and in a folder on their computer. She had it open to add stuff about todays rulings, hit the wrong button and published it by mistake. Of course, nothing like that could ever happen around here. Ace runs a tighter ship than NPR does.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2026 07:31 PM (vTZFs)

202 Consider though, since they cannot handle simple tasks, what are the odds they are going to shine on the truly complex stuff?

Yeah. No chance.

Posted by: Common Tater
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Consider how complex fixing the economy was with Obama and how overnight things turned around under Trump.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 07:31 PM (vPv7/)

203 Many women find a man wearing a kilt attractive.

Even moreso when they make small talk asking if anything is worn under there, and you reply "No, it's all in working order."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 30, 2026 07:31 PM (0sNs1)

204

nood

cafe

Posted by: banana Dream at June 30, 2026 07:31 PM (3uBP9)

205 I want all of you to start having babies. Now.

Find a conservative woman (easy to find as no tattoos on arms or blue hair and nostril ring), woo her with your kindness, humor and good looks. Marry. And join the political plot. We did our duty and had two sons who vote conservative and married and are Christian.

I am 60 years old with bad health and no money, its just not even on the table. But I encourage everyone else to do so, and have many babies.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2026 07:31 PM (UZCuZ)

206 Centered though we are
And amusement we exude
The Cafe is now open--
NOOD

Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at June 30, 2026 07:32 PM (mQbp+)

207 >>> 134 President 18-1 would keep deporting the children of illegals.

If the courts want to argue they are citizens it can pay to fly them back...and at which point I'd send them home again.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 07:12 PM (sKqQm)

Keep the kids 3 and under and adopt them out to parents who will raise them in *our* culture. Because fuck you, that's why.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 07:32 PM (R+iUD)

208
Also precisely why they teach kids they might want to be trans and take those kids away the instant an impressionable child nods.

One of the more comical parts of this is the media spent roughly 1970-2000 telling people you didn't have to confirm to a gender stereotype...men can knit and women can do carpentry which is all true.

But now if you have a interest in anything that isn't traditional masculine you obviously need to cut your balls off because you are really a woman

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 07:32 PM (sKqQm)

209 XY: I'm interested in anime and Dungeons & Dragons
XX: I like astrology and tarot

Kinda difficult to really get these two together (and would we want to?)

Ackshually...

There's plenty of anime references about tarot:
https://tinyurl.com/ccs-tarot

Posted by: RandomDave at June 30, 2026 07:34 PM (aJQbY)

210 Rather than shutting down Trump’s efforts to radically redefine and restrict the meaning of citizenship, the narrow conservative majority at the Supreme Court will likely embolden him and like-minded nativists to keep up the fight.”
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 30, 2026 07:10 PM (NFX2v)

Greetings, fellow like-minded nativists.

Posted by: LASue at June 30, 2026 07:34 PM (lCppi)

211 Also precisely why they teach kids they might want to be trans and take those kids away the instant an impressionable child nods.

Posted by: Axeman
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Perversely they are creating a Tuskegee effect for strong minded conservatives.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 07:35 PM (vPv7/)

212 If it's any help to anyone, I met my future husband in a hospital elevator. Introduced to me by my classmate who was dating him.

A month later he decided he was not really dating her but I made him straighten that out. She became a lesbian later, which might explain some of the confusion.

I know this is not a lot of help, but you could start riding a lot of elevators.

Heaven knows I would not want to be single now with all the angst and wahoo or try dating sites. I'm sure only serial killers would want to date me based on what I'd say.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 07:35 PM (hzuYO)

213 One of the more comical parts of this is the media spent roughly 1970-2000 telling people you didn't have to confirm to a gender stereotype...men can knit and women can do carpentry which is all true.

But now if you have a interest in anything that isn't traditional masculine you obviously need to cut your balls off because you are really a woman
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100%.

Which is why: Don't believe progs about anything.

No matter how reasonable it sounds. If you internalize it, they'll be out of that corner before you are.

Anybody remember "what happens behind closed doors"? By the time you nod they'll be on you about parades and licenses.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 07:36 PM (Fi81e)

214 I want all of you to start having babies. Now.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 07:26 PM (hzuYO)

I'm working on it! And Pookette is saying things like she's in training for when she has her own baby.

Posted by: pookysgirl, starting to look pregnant at June 30, 2026 07:36 PM (Wt5PA)

215 XY: I'm interested in anime and Dungeons & Dragons
XX: I like astrology and tarot

XY: I'm a Christian conservative who likes fantasy role playing games and baseball
XX: AS IF! GRODY!!! *runs off to find Chad*

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2026 07:37 PM (UZCuZ)

216 I want all of you to start having babies. Now.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 07:26 PM

I'm willing to plow the field but someone else will have to work the harvest.

Posted by: toby928(c) at June 30, 2026 08:00 PM (4NO2D)

217 This is the 1960 British film "Vllage of the Damned". A bunch of the town's women got pregnant all at the same time -- by the Devil!

Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 30, 2026 08:02 PM (AuqUK)

OUT: Media Propaganda That Democrats Aren't Socialists, Just Liberals
IN: New Media Propaganda That Democrats Aren't Communists, Just Socialists

Given that you lied for 70 years about Democrats' strong affinity for creeping socialism, you don't really have much credibility now that you admit they've been socialists all along but defenitely!!! aren't Slowly Boiling Frogs communists, do you?

Axios:
GOP reboots the Red Scare as young Democrats embrace socialism

"Red scare." LOL, we're just making it up, huh, Axios? Where do we get these crazy ideas from?

Just pure gaslighting.

70 years after the Red Scare and 35 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, President Trump and Republicans are trying to re-introduce a national fear of "godless communists" ahead of the critical midterms.
Why it matters: A wave of resounding victories by Democratic Socialists has the GOP trotting out a message that last worked when most of those candidates weren't even born.
It's too soon to know if the message is working -- but Trump and Republican strategists see an opening with voters old enough to remember Soviet-era nuclear drills and spy dramas.
The big picture: Former Trump aide Steve Bannon has argued for years that former Wisconsin Sen. Joe McCarthy was right about communism's widespread infiltration into the U.S. government.

I have little use for Steve Bannon but he's basically right. Yes, the op goes back that far. "These aren't the communists in the State Department you're looking for."

As the communist's left favorite two-step deceit always goes:

CLAIM 1: There are no communists in the State Department

When Claim 1 falls, go to the back-up:

CLAIM 2: Well yes there are communists in the State Department but it's no big deal!

You see this two-step all the time. "Of course Democrats aren't grooming kids to be transgender"/"Of course Democrats are encouraging children to find their true sexual selves, as they should!!!"

On Sunday, Trump called communism "the Greatest Threat to our Country since World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor, or 9/11!"

Well yes, especially now that the would-be Pan-Communist Empire has fused with the Pan-Islamist Empire.

Once a fringe view, now right-wing voices seem to be calling for a McCarthyism revival.

In other words: It's so strange that now that Democrats are admitting to being communists, people are once again announcing themselves as communist-opponents!

What they're saying: "It's a common electoral strategy for conservatives to attack liberals, progressives, democratic socialists as communists, and imply therefore that they are much more extreme than they actually are," Kathryn Olmsted, a U.C. Davis distinguished professor of history, tells Axios.
But, she adds, "we're definitely reaching a new fever pitch."

Keep in mind the media has denied for 70 years that Democrats were socialists.

Now that the Democrat Socialists have taken over the Democrat Party, they say of course they're socialists, but that's a good thing!

Reality check: Democratic socialism is not communism. New York's Zohran Mamdani and Washington, D.C., mayoral candidate Janeese Lewis George both call for expanded government programs, Axios' Josephine Walker writes.
"Any attempt to smear us as 'extremists' falls flat when so many Americans are struggling with the rising cost of housing, homelessness, unaffordable healthcare, and underfunded schools," a DSA spokesperson told Axios in a statement.
Still, Democrats are grappling with what it means for progressives and young Americans embracing labels that once stoked fears of communism.
Between the lines: Red-baiting "has much less resonance for a younger generation, which did not grow up living under the shadow of the Soviet Union," says Ethan Porter, co-director of GW's Institute for Data, Democracy and Politics.
"For many young voters, communism is just not an effective boogeyman."

We know, because they've embraced communism.

Pramila Jayapal: "The reason he is using 'communism' is because he knows socialism is really popular"

The goal of Socialism is Communism. Pramila Jayapal just said the quiet part out loud.

The Democrat Party is gone, they're socialists and communists now. pic.twitter.com/rlsQ7bXCd3
— Thomas Hern (@ThomasMHern) June 30, 2026

Below: CNN's "objective newsperson" Kaitlin Collins announces, as a factual matter, that Democrat Socialism is not communism because the comms department of the Democrat Party says it's not.

CNN�s Kaitlan Collins: Democratic socialism is not Communism

DSA leader: Our goal is communism pic.twitter.com/Takzm4dSh8
— AG (@AGHamilton29) June 30, 2026

And below: The leader of the Democrat Socialists of America says "Our goal is communism."

Democrat Socialists of America (DSA) top leader David Jenkins: "Our goal is Communism." pic.twitter.com/Kh3irLDLgb
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 29, 2026

But, but, but: Kaitlin Collins heard from a Democrat operative they're not communists! What gives?! We all know that communists strictly forbid lying in pursuit of communism, right?

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:20 PM

Comments

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1 I find myself being first by accident.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 05:22 PM (hzuYO)

2 How about treasonous pieces of shit?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 05:22 PM (ExV1e)

3 I nooded.

Posted by: the lower depths at June 30, 2026 05:23 PM (b4kuR)

4 I have informed the others.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 05:23 PM (ExV1e)

5 I also think Kaitlan Collis is trans.

I will go tell everyone below, Ace. It's lonely at the top.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 05:23 PM (hzuYO)

6 Gentle reminder that Barack Obama started his political career in the "New Party" of Chicago. This was DSA before DSA. The idea was to get connections so as to win primaries in the Democrat Party.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 05:24 PM (gKWVE)

7 They are out and proud.

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 05:24 PM (MWfyi)

8 incompetent but highly paid whores.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 30, 2026 05:24 PM (VyBeY)

9 There was a time where news readers had to look good on camera. "Anchorman" made fun of this being their only qualification. Now we get Kaitlin Collins who looks like the Bud Light guy.

Posted by: the lower depths at June 30, 2026 05:24 PM (b4kuR)

10 I was promised hoors?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 30, 2026 05:25 PM (xcxpd)

11 " Former Trump aide Steve Bannon has argued for years that former Wisconsin Sen. Joe McCarthy was right about communism's widespread infiltration into the U.S. government."

I've said the same thing but did they give me a radio show and prison sentence? NO!

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 05:25 PM (MWfyi)

12 Kaitlin Collins will never stop until she gets those puppies!!! - Well, that may be too obscure reference.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 05:25 PM (Gqar8)

13 Liberation from what, commie?

Posted by: huerfano at June 30, 2026 05:26 PM (VJX5o)

14 "Communism is the goal" was, I believe, the 1935 statement of Roger Baldwin who founded... the ACLU.
The ACLU off/and/on since then became more principled, but not the money behind them.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 05:26 PM (gKWVE)

15 Willowed.

Speaking of Mooch and Mr. Mooch . . .

Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness — HBO Sketch Comedy Series
“Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness” (full title: Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America) is a 2026 American sketch comedy limited series created by Larry David and Jeff Schaffer, produced by Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions

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I'm sure it'll be knee slapper!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 05:26 PM (ndZc7)

16 Kaitlin Collins could be a hoor....I've done worse

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 30, 2026 05:26 PM (xcxpd)

17 13 Liberation from what, commie?
Posted by: huerfano at June 30, 2026 05:26 PM (VJX5o)

The laws of nature

Posted by: the lower depths at June 30, 2026 05:26 PM (b4kuR)

18 Kaitlin Collins looks like a really well put together tranny. "She" is an inspiration to chicks with dicks everywhere.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 30, 2026 05:27 PM (Y6K7e)

19 We need to replace the Washington Monument with The Colossus of McCarthy.

Posted by: garrett at June 30, 2026 05:27 PM (v9lAB)

20 Let us not forget who Barky picked to lead the CIA, the commie John Brennan.

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 05:27 PM (MWfyi)

21 Willowed:
The Citizen Vigilante film was nonsensical ass. But I will admit, scenes like the one where he metes out rough justice on a corrupt judge was very schadenfreude inducing.

Apparently in the medieval days, if you were a corrupt judge and were caught you got flayed alive? I don't begrudge that. People in power without fear of retribution do evil things.

Posted by: LizLem at June 30, 2026 05:27 PM (gWBY1)

22 Socialism, Communism and Fascism are all sisters. And their mother is Marxism.

All are evil. All end in starvation and mass murder.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 30, 2026 05:27 PM (n5tGW)

23 leave the prison sentence, take the radio show!

(but what about the cannoli?)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 30, 2026 05:28 PM (VyBeY)

24 The Democrats don't really want communism. That is, they are not interested in the government owning the means of production. They don't want government to claim ownership of all the farms and factories.

What they want is corporations, beholding to the Democrats, to run all those things. The non-threatening word for that form of government is Corporatism. The less nice word is Fascism. That's what the Dems really are.

Posted by: No Name Today at June 30, 2026 05:28 PM (8mulE)

25 "the Pursuit of Unhappiness"

Mooch's life's work.

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 05:28 PM (MWfyi)

26 19 We need to replace the Washington Monument with The Colossus of McCarthy.
Posted by: garrett

"Judge Dredd" replaced or at least overshadowed the Statue of Liberty with a big statue of a Judge.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 05:28 PM (gKWVE)

27 >>Kaitlin Collins looks like a really well put together tranny.

You could carve a Roast with his face.

Posted by: garrett at June 30, 2026 05:29 PM (v9lAB)

28 Talking point: Democracy is two wolves and a sheep discussing what to have for dinner

Implication: We need a shepherd to make sure things are fair,

Outcome: The shepherd will keep the wolves to keep the sheep in line, and eventually the shepherd will butcher the sheep when it no longer produces sufficient wool and lambs, and share it with the wolves to reward their loyalty.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 30, 2026 05:29 PM (rbvCR)

29 Given that you lied for 70 years about Democrats' strong affinity for creeping socialism, you don't really have much credibility now that you admit they've been socialists all along but defenitely!!!
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Totally.

So the last scorpion tried to sting you, you can take this one across the river!

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 05:29 PM (Fi81e)

30 28 Talking point: Democracy is two wolves and a sheep discussing what to have for dinner

Implication: We need a shepherd to make sure things are fair,

Outcome: The shepherd will keep the wolves to keep the sheep in line, and eventually the shepherd will butcher the sheep when it no longer produces sufficient wool and lambs, and share it with the wolves to reward their loyalty.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 30, 2026 05:29 PM (rbvCR)

I love happy endings

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 30, 2026 05:29 PM (xcxpd)

31 leave the prison sentence, take the radio show!

(but what about the cannoli?)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 30, 2026 05:28 PM (VyBeY)
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Always take the cannoli.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 30, 2026 05:29 PM (amcLV)

32 "Are you now, and for how long, have you been a communist?" The new question to ask.

Obama's (real dad?) mentor (Frank Marshall Davis) was on the official list of card carrying communists. Chicago seems to be the U.S. capitol for the Commies, along with their ties to organized crime (The Outfit).

Posted by: illiniwek at June 30, 2026 05:30 PM (vbXSk)

33 27 >>Kaitlin Collins looks like a really well put together tranny.

You could carve a Roast with his face.
Posted by: garrett at June 30, 2026 05:29 PM (v9lAB)

She looks Shrike-like. Maybe her Spirit Animal.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 05:30 PM (Gqar8)

34 I hate commies worse than I hate Illinois Nazis.

Posted by: Every Leftist Asshat at June 30, 2026 05:30 PM (bl07w)

35 spot-on!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 30, 2026 05:30 PM (VyBeY)

36 Kaitlan Collins?

0.0

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 05:31 PM (RIvkX)

37 OMG we just want everybody to have health care (and for our opponents to be murdered or locked up in camps), what's wrong with that?

Posted by: DSA at June 30, 2026 05:31 PM (DNnoz)

38 I’m encouraged by this. The media seem worried about these new GOP attacks on out and proud, whip-out-their-red-dicks socialists and commies. That’s why they are trying so hard to downplay the red scare.

I have said here several times that this isn’t a takeover. It’s a rebranding of a Democrap party that’s been secretly socialist for over 50 years. But I’m encouraged that the leftwing media seems scared enough of that rebranding to try to explain it away.

Media wants socialism, for sure, but they’re acting like the country as a whole ain’t ready for it. Like when youre on a date and you pull out your dick too early and you get heismanned. But if you waited a little longer, and romanced the chick a little more, you woulda got lucky.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at June 30, 2026 05:31 PM (qLMMh)

39 CLAIM 1: There are no communists in the State Department

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“There is no cannibalism in the British Navy, absolutely none… and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount, more than I personally admit”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 05:31 PM (ndZc7)

40 Everyone knows socialism is just temu communism.

Who is this so-called DSA leader David Jenkins, who looks like he took your order at Starbucks last week? Is he the "mastermind" getting all these socialists commies into power, and who is really pulling his strings? Or is he just riding the current trend of the democrat party kicking out the last vestiges of the JFK democrats?

Posted by: LizLem at June 30, 2026 05:32 PM (gWBY1)

41 Axios is Politico4Kidz

Posted by: toby928(c) at June 30, 2026 05:32 PM (4NO2D)

42 CLAIM 1: There are no communists in the State Department

When Claim 1 falls, go to the back-up:

CLAIM 2: Well yes there are communists in the State Department but it's no big deal!
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I guess this goes back a ways:

Phase 1. It's not happening.
Phase 2. It's happening, but it's not significant.

Is there any wonder that I don't want these people doing my thinking for me?

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 05:32 PM (Fi81e)

43 Communists are just Socialists In A Hurry.

The left doesn’t have that much power yet, but they are definitely feeling their oats. The old hippies, the pseudo hippies anyway, are bat-shit crazy, and are about to shuffle off this mortal coil. They want to leave their mark. The younger revolutionaries have no patience whatsoever and are willing to push them down the stairs.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 05:32 PM (i+HwW)

44 Communism, socialism, psychopathy, are all based upon the idea that what is your should by right be mine. Not that I worked for it, or earned it, or are otherwise entitled. I'm just envious, so I get it.

As Rocket said: What if I want it more than he does?

Posted by: Every Leftist Asshat at June 30, 2026 05:33 PM (bl07w)

45 It's hard to argue with Socialists (or more aptly, promoters of Socialism who haven't the faintest idea what Socialism truly is).

It's like arguing with a retard, and you keep having to look around to convince yourself that your aren't abusing the mentally handicapped purposefully. It feels wrong. You full expect your debate opponent to belt out "JOHN CENA!!" at any given moment or some passerby giving you a "shame" face for picking on the disabled.

Posted by: Orson at June 30, 2026 05:33 PM (dIske)

46 "70 years after the Red Scare..."

That was the Second Red Scare.
The First Red Scare was in the early 1900s when Anarachists, and their Communist brethren, were rioting, bombing, assassinating, and creating havoc on a regular basis, which in part lead to the creation of the FBI.

So technically we're now in the Third Red Scare, and what we've come to realize is that it's the Reds doing all the scaring.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 30, 2026 05:34 PM (6ydKt)

47 We should definitely go down the path that brought Venezuela to the shining star it is.

Equal misery sounds amazing.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 05:34 PM (hftzA)

48 Everyone knows socialism is just temu communism.
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Except modern Marxists aren't trying to get to a government-less commune.

They aren't planning to stop managing you. Ideology + State Supremacy = fascism.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 05:34 PM (Fi81e)

49 Pay no attention to that commie behind the curtain.

Posted by: Cheez Wiz at June 30, 2026 05:34 PM (Cqx++)

50 Losers are socialists/commies. They don't have toys to throw out of their prams.

They want what hard working people have and have public tantrums with posters created and printed by a capitalist. Then take their body odors, tattoos and pierced noses and blue hair to protest people who worked for a living to reap some rewards before death.

The dead nephew-in-law was like this as well as an atheist. The dinner at my MIL's where we met him he was whining about the above, said he thought the protest against Wall Street was the greatest thing ever and nothing similar (the SIL I love snickered, um summer of '69). Then started whining that people with college degrees should not be managers over him (his dream job of a manager of a call station of Grub Hub came later, his only job we are aware of in shitcago).

My husband, who was sort of high on cough medicine from getting sick on the plane earlier, politely informed him he'd worked hard for everything we have. He's a calm and diplomatic guy who normally would have ignored the eejit spewing at his left.

The little commie flounced to the bathroom. He might have been crying. I almost laughed.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 05:34 PM (hzuYO)

51 Democrat, Socialist, Communist. All the same. Just different names. They lie, cheat, and steal. They are not nice people.
Too bad the media won't tell the truth and cover for them.

Posted by: Case at June 30, 2026 05:34 PM (IY9No)

52 What ever happened to the John Birch Society? This era should be a hay day for them. Kill a commie for your mommy.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 30, 2026 05:35 PM (fkjGs)

53 Why it matters: A wave of resounding victories by Democratic Socialists

Are they resounding though? I don't think that winning with 9% of voters in a rotten borough is saying that much.

Posted by: toby928(c) at June 30, 2026 05:35 PM (4NO2D)

54 Ann Coulter is also big on McCarthy being right, and that is why "Deep State" sought to (and mostly did) destroy him.

There is a big book on the details "Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies"

I bought it in 2010, have not read it ... but it's in the stack. heh

Posted by: illiniwek at June 30, 2026 05:35 PM (vbXSk)

55 It's like arguing with a retard, and you keep having to look around to convince yourself that your aren't abusing the mentally handicapped purposefully. It feels wrong. You full expect your debate opponent to belt out "JOHN CENA!!" at any given moment or some passerby giving you a "shame" face for picking on the disabled.
Posted by: Orson at June 30, 2026 05:33 PM (dIske)

"Stand up Chuck, God love ya!"

Posted by: Every Leftist Asshat at June 30, 2026 05:35 PM (bl07w)

56 Marx described Democratic Socialists as "Proletarians who are not yet sufficiently clear about the conditions of the liberation of their class"

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 05:35 PM (MWfyi)

57 Holy shit! That’s the ‘top leader’ of DSA? That fucking loser? You gotta be pulling my dick. He looks like he aspires to wiping the shit off the dicks of gay porn stars after they pull out of some guy’s asshole.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at June 30, 2026 05:36 PM (qLMMh)

58 Axios:
GOP reboots the Red Scare as young Democrats embrace socialism

"Red scare." LOL, we're just making it up, huh, Axios? Where do we get these crazy ideas from?
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When did snakehead Carville become part of the GOP?

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 05:36 PM (Fi81e)

59 If we're getting on an anti-socialism kick, the GOP will repeal obamacare as a demonstration of good faith, right?

Posted by: Methos at June 30, 2026 05:37 PM (vSvIl)

60 Communism is a social, political, and economic system that will work the next time it's tried.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 05:37 PM (ndZc7)

61 Blocked and Reported's recent free episode was a good snarky takedown of Graham Platner. They are promising that their next free episode will be a deeper look at the rise of DSA. They are both lefty journalists, but they do not sound too keen on the DSA taking over the dem party.

Also, they've done exposes on the falsehoods of Laramie and Stonewall (the latter was I think during pride month!)

Posted by: LizLem at June 30, 2026 05:38 PM (gWBY1)

62 Kaitlin Collins will never stop until she gets those puppies!!! - Well, that may be too obscure reference.
Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 05:25 PM (Gqar

Why would she want a spotted fur coat in this heat?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 30, 2026 05:38 PM (97NWC)

63 The Propaganda Ministry is saying their propaganda isn't what their propaganda is

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 05:39 PM (Ia/+0)

64 Paradoxically, communist infiltration in the US government has progressed a lot after the fall of the Soviet Union, because it is less easy to make the argument that communists are traitors to their country, spies for a foreign power, etc..
There's still China, but Chinese espionage is widely accepted nowadays. Nobody cares. You are racist if you accuse someone of being a Chinese spy.
Besides, not all US communists are obviously tied to China; however, if there ever is a glasnost in China and their archives open, who knows what we will find. Maybe they finance the majority of US protest movements in some indirect manner. Unlike during the Soviet Union, people don't talk about it, though.

Posted by: PG at June 30, 2026 05:39 PM (5tjvu)

65 Pramila Jayapal is MY REPRESENTATIVE!

Yay me!

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 30, 2026 05:40 PM (TQKnz)

66 "What ever happened to the John Birch Society? This era should be a hay day for them. Kill a commie for your mommy." Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

I used to read their stuff (a little) a few decades ago, and they were mostly correct. I think they are still around, making good points. I forget the guy that leads that group ... he seems like MAGA to me (or my version of "MAGA").

Posted by: illiniwek at June 30, 2026 05:40 PM (vbXSk)

67 Now that the Democrat Socialists have taken over the Democrat Party, they say of course they're socialists, but that's a good thing!
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So we're at Phase "You know, it's a good thing!"

I think some of the media is still on Phase "Well, it's happening, but it's limited."

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 05:40 PM (Fi81e)

68
Real communism has never been tried.

Tired lie, but I had to Trotsky it out.

Posted by: Auspex at June 30, 2026 05:41 PM (Y8DZL)

69 65 Pramila Jayapal is MY REPRESENTATIVE!

Yay me!
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 30, 2026 05:40 PM (TQKnz)

That might be true on paper, but I'm pretty sure you are not whom she represents.

Posted by: Every Leftist Asshat at June 30, 2026 05:41 PM (bl07w)

70 Real communism has never been tried.

Tired lie, but I had to Trotsky it out.
Posted by: Auspex at June 30, 2026 05:41 PM (Y8DZL)
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You're just Stalin for time.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 30, 2026 05:41 PM (amcLV)

71 Yes, they are still around and have a magazine which makes excellent points.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 30, 2026 05:42 PM (Yl2Ob)

72 Socialism: a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole:

Communism: a theory or system of social organization in which all property is owned by the community and each person contributes and receives according to their ability and needs.

In each, there is an over riding Oligarchy, or Party, which decides who gets access to resources.

So, except of a bit of paper of who owns but does not control a company, what is the difference?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 05:42 PM (mP0Kj)

73 The DSA are National Socialists - that seems familiar, for some reason.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 05:42 PM (Gqar8)

74 Off, filthy sock!

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 30, 2026 05:42 PM (bl07w)

75 Dems reboot the KLAN scare.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 30, 2026 05:42 PM (Cqx++)

76 If NYC Communism doesn't work Seattle will try

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 05:42 PM (Ia/+0)

77 Speaking of our glorious mediq . . .

INSANE: NBC’s Craig Melvin offers a trigger warning for trans people watching...

“Just a quick note here. The terms that we’re using here during our reporting, biological male, biological female, the high court put those terms in quotations in their decision and their dissent.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 05:42 PM (ndZc7)

78 Real communism has never been tried.

Tired lie, but I had to Trotsky it out.
Posted by: Auspex at June 30, 2026 05:41 PM (Y8DZL)
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You're just Stalin for time.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 30, 2026 05:41 PM (amcLV)
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I'm Lenin you guys some leeway for this.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 05:42 PM (Fi81e)

79 Someone posted about the "Ride of Killgore Trout", so I had to look it up, being unfamiliar. I thought it was a clothing store. It is a clothing store, a Jewish news website confirmed, it has recently expanded in Eton Square. On this website, I saw a sad headline that a 3 year old in was killed by a car in an outdoor barbeque restaurant in Beachwood. Turns out that the driver of the car is Kenneth McFadden's daughter (Mr McFadden tried to say he was driver, no dice per surveillance video). McFadden is the somewhat famous "Mouse McFadden", a Cleveland State basketball player who helped lead a Sweet Sixteen run in '86. The article didn't provide the name of the poor deceased child, so I looked it up. Very sad obituary, this tragedy happened on Father's day. Parents of the child were Jonathan and Simon. Wait, what? There is a fundraising page so they can be pay a surrogate for another child (surrogacy idea apparently in the works prior to tragedy per the page, not sure if the poor child's death was catalyst to get fundraiser started). Anyway, I'm back from this strange trip down the rabbit hole and will now pour myself a drink.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2026 05:42 PM (Dv3i1)

80 In the last bad Indiana Jones movie they make a big effort to talk about the Red Scare and how it is a bad thing and then...a group of Soviets spies show up and start fighting with Indi for the McGuffin.

It is almost comical how un self aware the movie was

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 05:42 PM (sKqQm)

81 71- In reference to the John Birch society.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 30, 2026 05:43 PM (Yl2Ob)

82 The DSA are National Socialists - that seems familiar, for some reason.
Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 05:42 PM (Gqar

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A workers' party.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 05:43 PM (Fi81e)

83
Socialism, Communism and Fascism are all sisters. And their mother is Marxism.

All are evil. All end in starvation and mass murder.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 30, 2026 05:27 PM (n5tGW)

Because mass murder is the whole point of being a socialist. Socialists are just commie cocksuckers who haven't graduated to the commie fantasy of shooting kneeling Kulaks in the back of the neck.

And yes, that includes your nice hippie neighbor who wouldn't hurt a fly.

They. Want. You. Dead.

Just ask them. They have no problem with telling you that they want right-wingers and moderates to die. They'll proudly admit it. Our failing is that we poo-poo their bloody fantasies as just hyperbole, rather than taking them seriously.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 30, 2026 05:44 PM (hpF/D)

84 The Venona decrypts proved McCarthy was right.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 30, 2026 05:44 PM (XvL8K)

85 So, except of a bit of paper of who owns but does not control a company, what is the difference?
Posted by: Romeo13

Socialism has a better press agent and then it morphs into communism when the voting is over.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 30, 2026 05:44 PM (/k3in)

86 Marxism is revenge fantasy.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 30, 2026 05:44 PM (g/cZn)

87 >>“Just a quick note here. The terms that we’re using here during our reporting, biological male, biological female, the high court put those terms in quotations in their decision and their dissent.

If your Sex isn't immutable, there can be NO discrimination based on Sex.

Posted by: garrett at June 30, 2026 05:45 PM (v9lAB)

88 Here comes the afternoon fog.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 05:45 PM (RIvkX)

89 57 Holy shit! That’s the ‘top leader’ of DSA? That fucking loser? You gotta be pulling my dick. He looks like he aspires to wiping the shit off the dicks of gay porn stars after they pull out of some guy’s asshole.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at June 30, 2026 05:36 PM (qLMMh)
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So, basically a perfect mascot for what's left of "men" of the left?

Yep that checks out.

Posted by: ballistic at June 30, 2026 05:45 PM (oqH4h)

90 The JBS deciding that Ike was a Soviet agent was an epic own-goal.

Posted by: toby928(c) at June 30, 2026 05:46 PM (4NO2D)

91 This ties into the birthright citizenship in a way. The biggest abuser of that protocol are the Chinese. It really is a State Security issue. If the Trump administration was serious (which I think they are), they would research every single corporate espionage case that involves "Chinese Americans" given citizenship through the birthright process...as well as outright espionage cases. They would, also, research politicians on the same premis, like that Mayor out in California that was reporting to the CCP. I think her name was Wong, or Wang. I forget. She and her chief of staff were communicating regularly with the CCP, and her municipal policies reflected that.

So, as Socialism creeps to Communism instead of Nixon's shortsighted belief that Communism would creep to Democracy on Mainland China...we should be treating the whole deal as a National Security issue.

Posted by: Orson at June 30, 2026 05:46 PM (dIske)

92 I love the meme
Voters for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party are surprised that leopards are eating their faces
Appropriate

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 05:46 PM (f6yx7)

93 Real communism has never been tried.

Tired lie, but I had to Trotsky it out.
Posted by: Auspex at June 30, 2026 05:41 PM (Y8DZL)
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You're just Stalin for time.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 30, 2026 05:41 PM (amcLV)

Ice wanted to axe you about that.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 30, 2026 05:47 PM (97NWC)

94 Media loves all types of socialists, but yet for some reason hates the national socialists. Tomayto Tomahto.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2026 05:47 PM (Dv3i1)

95 A socialist is a communist that hasn't picked up a gun yet.

Posted by: ballistic at June 30, 2026 05:47 PM (oqH4h)

96 The "means of production" is people. Commies want to own the people. Americans (real ones, that is) would prefer not. We are sorta kinda into freedom, and the government needs to be told to pound sand now and again to remind it of that.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 30, 2026 05:47 PM (bl07w)

97 At least they still feel the need to deny it in national venues.

Posted by: mea culpa at June 30, 2026 05:47 PM (CvZSB)

98 Anarchists Unite!

Posted by: toby928(c) at June 30, 2026 05:47 PM (4NO2D)

99 "Democrat Socialists of America (DSA) top leader David Jenkins: "Our goal is Communism."

The International Communist Party argues that electoral democracy "will not be enough" for the overthrow of capitalism. They call for a proletarian revolution which strips the bourgeoisie of political rights and participation, and uses its "dictatorial grip on power to abolish by force the basis for capitalist exploitation."

Posted by: per wiki at June 30, 2026 05:48 PM (MWfyi)

100 Anarchists Unite!
Posted by: toby928(c) at June 30, 2026 05:47 PM (4NO2D)
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Dyslexics Untie!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 30, 2026 05:48 PM (amcLV)

101 The shining star of socialism is the NHS in the UK.

Where you wait months or years for a MRI and/or cancer surgery.

Yeah, I want that.

Due to our wicked capitalistic society we have more MRI's in one state in the USA than all of Canada, who has 420. Which is part of the delay but not all of it.

I got a sinus infection or plague on the plane to Scotland once. After climbing the cobblestone Royal Mile, dragging my suitcase after the train, the hotel let the almost dead woman and family check in early (pre-covid).

I was told NOT to go to the ED (I guess you have to bleed for that). Given a private MD I saw the next day and paid out of pocket ($600) for a complete workup and later a z-pack (which you rarely see now). I discovered at the pharmacy you can buy low dose codeine legally (or could), which was nice for me as I hate head pain plus snot. I lay dying for most of one day and recovered.

The next day we went to Stirling. I was staggering along Spittal Street and took a photo of the sign because I was doing a lot of that. Son was irritated with his slow walking corpse mom until HE got walking pneumonia on the plane back to FL.

This was my only experience with the NHS.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 05:49 PM (hzuYO)

102 If your Sex isn't immutable, there can be NO discrimination based on Sex.
Posted by: garrett at June 30, 2026 05:45 PM (v9lAB)

I would add that men claiming they "feel like women" have no possibility of knowing what it feels like to be a woman, so it is a lie, straight up.

And vice versa.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 30, 2026 05:49 PM (bl07w)

103 Even in the Reagan 80's, you couldn't throw a cat without hitting a self-described communist at my small, midwestern college. But that was before trust fund babies and online monetization, hence those dweebs were forced to join the real world after graduation.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at June 30, 2026 05:49 PM (CwhoI)

104 Why should proclaimed Communists and Socialists be allowed to run for office in federal elections for Congress?
Why should proclaimed Communists and Socialists be permitted to vote in federal elections for Congress?
Why should you be allowed to participate in a Constitutional process if you wish to eliminate the Constitution?
Why should we take an oath to "preserve and defend" the Constitution from someone who has already said they seek to eliminate it?

Posted by: Philip Nolan at June 30, 2026 05:49 PM (1kQia)

105 Socialism was always described as the transitional stage on the way to Communism.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 30, 2026 05:50 PM (g/cZn)

106 @101 the crazy thing is that Brits still claim to be proud of the NHS. Masochists

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 05:51 PM (f6yx7)

107 I guess this goes back a ways:

Phase 1. It's not happening.
Phase 2. It's happening, but it's not significant.
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Dalrymple’s Law of Merited Implausibility

That’s Not Happening!
And …It’s Good That It Is!

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 05:52 PM (17+JQ)

108 The liberals are really going to try and parse the definition of communism and make it appear to be something it isn't.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 30, 2026 05:52 PM (0N4FZ)

109 Does the NHS explain why the British have such awful teeth?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 30, 2026 05:52 PM (97NWC)

110 Posted by: Orson at June 30, 2026 05:46 PM (dIske)

Wow... just looked... did you know some States allow you to Fax or Email in your vote from OverSeas?

If you manage to get on ANY State voter registration, like in Calif where there is no check on validity at all... then you can get your ballot sent to... oh... CHINA...

And thus a Chinese citizen who was born here as a birth tourist, can and will vote in US elections... because of three Supreme court decisions.

1. Birthplace citizenship
2. Dual citizenship
3 Mail in voting legal.

We are treading water over the fucking Marians Trench...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 05:52 PM (mP0Kj)

111 Godless Communists?

LOL I visit my son in So. Cal. and I am surrounded by them.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 30, 2026 05:53 PM (qFwJc)

112 Collectivists. The crux of the problem. There can be no individual liberty in a collectivist society. The collectivist longhouse is ruled by consensus. A consensus needs no facts.

Posted by: Rod at June 30, 2026 05:54 PM (zhWvq)

113 > Once a fringe view, now right-wing voices seem to be calling for a McCarthyism revival.
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He wasn't wrong.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 30, 2026 05:54 PM (jehhT)

114 I'm Lenin you guys some leeway for this.
Posted by: Axeman

Are Yuri certain you want to do that?

Posted by: Kratwurst at June 30, 2026 05:54 PM (36bTp)

115 The Turtle of the Senate is close to assuming room temperature.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 30, 2026 05:54 PM (1S/J9)

116 The Holocaust didn't happen and we'll do it right next time!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 05:54 PM (ndZc7)

117 Communists - We will shoot you in the neck if you don't do what we tell you to do.

Socialist - One Vote, One Time, then,
We will shoot you in the neck if you don't do what we tell you to do.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 30, 2026 05:54 PM (/lPRQ)

118 There's some airhead leftist demagogue who's trotting out the oldest/dumbest crap in modern times - icky Big Oil! is *gouging* consumers because gas prices AREN'T FALLING FAST ENOUGH!!!!

Sounds like maybe we should nationalize Big Oil, or at least regulate all their pricing. There are still ex-Soviet GOSPLAN veterans around who could be consulted on how to set prices.

Fortunately such demagogic idiocy, the kind you'd hear from the Berkeley city council, is on the fringes. Nobody prominent would echo this nonsense.

Oh.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 30, 2026 05:54 PM (U/Byj)

119 >>>Tired lie, but I had to Trotsky it out.

Posted by: Auspex

>I had the trotskies a few days ago and it wore me out. I was blowing word salad out of both ends.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 30, 2026 05:54 PM (fkjGs)

120 98 Anarchists Unite!
Posted by: toby928(c) at June 30, 2026 05:47 PM (4NO2D)

I must catch up with my fellow anarchists! For I am their LEADER!

Oh... wait...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 05:54 PM (mP0Kj)

121
In the last bad Indiana Jones movie they make a big effort to talk about the Red Scare and how it is a bad thing and then...a group of Soviets spies show up and start fighting with Indi for the McGuffin.

It is almost comical how un self aware the movie was
Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 05:42 PM (sKqQm)

Spielberg just had to get his McCarthyism film fix. Every Hollywood director has to make a McCarthyism Red Scare film at least once in their career. I think it's in the charter of the Director's Guild of America.

Honestly, Hollywood would be a better place if they abandoned their stupid obsession with McCarthyism and formed an obsession for showing Scarlett Johansson's tits on-screen.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 30, 2026 05:54 PM (hpF/D)

122 There are people here just Putin us on.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 30, 2026 05:55 PM (n5tGW)

123 @100 DAM - Mother's Against Dyslexia

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 05:55 PM (f6yx7)

124 "Democrat Socialists of America (DSA) top leader David Jenkins: "Our goal is Communism."
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Sounds like the founder of the ACLU.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 05:55 PM (Fi81e)

125 I'm Lenin you guys some leeway for this.
Posted by: Axeman

Are Yuri certain you want to do that?
Posted by: Kratwurst at June 30, 2026 05:54 PM (36bTp)
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You know what they say: Gorbage On, Gorbachev.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 05:57 PM (Fi81e)

126 One interesting facet of the communists is that they are hellbent on reducing the population of the planet. Thus, they could eventually breed themselves out of existence.

This is also why they are hellbent on indoctrinating other peoples' children--because that's the only way they can expand their ideology over time.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 30, 2026 05:57 PM (gnNyN)

127 The American left would hold down the trigger of a flamethrower in a small, enclosed room if it meant we were the first to get burnt.

Posted by: Cray Cray at June 30, 2026 05:57 PM (nCTkv)

128 I want to seen Biden stroke out on live TV and drown in a pool of his own vomit. Does that make me a socialist or communist?

And how much vomit does it take to fill a pool?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 30, 2026 05:57 PM (wBaIH)

129 123 @100 DAM - Mother's Against Dyslexia
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 05:55 PM (f6yx7)

Well, I AM a charter member of DAMM...

Drunks Against Mad Mothers.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 05:58 PM (mP0Kj)

130 115 The Turtle of the Senate is close to assuming room temperature.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 30, 2026 05:54 PM (1S/J9)

He'll probably die on purpose on July 4th like Jefferson and Adams as he thinks he's important. I would have pity but can't find a drop right now after some of the more recent etm he's done.

Then his chy knee widow will want a state funeral like McCain had for a week.

Hillary will want one, too. I saw it on her hag face at HGWB's funeral.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 05:58 PM (hzuYO)

131 I have little use for Steve Bannon but he's basically right.

===

Brocken clock. He is not right, the people he is parroting are right.

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 05:59 PM (SCqlx)

132 43> Hippies want to leave their mark.

Their terms are acceptable — their mark shall be their own chalk outline.

Posted by: Community Notes at June 30, 2026 05:59 PM (/TiS1)

133 Fortunately such demagogic idiocy, the kind you'd hear from the Berkeley city council, is on the fringes. Nobody prominent would echo this nonsense.

Oh.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 30, 2026 05:54 PM (U/Byj)

Do you remember when Trump resolved Iran's threat to close the straits by first goading Iran into closing the straits and then declaring it closed himself and started seizing tankers and sinking Iranian Navy ships? Which pretty much swept Iran off its stance on that issue?

Posted by: Kindltot at June 30, 2026 05:59 PM (rbvCR)

134 Real communism has never been tried

Since there is always a false choice here - National Socialism vs. Communism or International Socialism seems to be the required binary choice here - is there a corrolary?

“Real Naziism has never been tried” Is this a valid statement too?

Why or why not? Collectivists are just thugs and gangsters. 100 million dead, at least, piles of skulls in the 20th century.

And that’s not counting the Wars. Chew on that for a while.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 05:59 PM (17+JQ)

135 I remember in college learning about the paradox of anarchy
"The paradox of anarchy is that in order to be successful anarchists have to organize"
I asked the professor when had anarchists ever been successful he babbled a bit about the Russian revolution. They were killed not long thereafter

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 05:59 PM (f6yx7)

136 Then his chy knee widow will want a state funeral like McCain had for a week.

Hillary will want one, too. I saw it on her hag face at HGWB's funeral.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 05:58 PM (hzuYO)

Can the Turtle and Hitlery both be buried near Jane Fonda? so I don't have to go to too many places to piss on their graves?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 05:59 PM (mP0Kj)

137 Socialism was always described as the transitional stage on the way to Communism.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles

IIRC - transnational socialism is communism as it was widely known before that national socialist and the transnational socialist got into a lovers spat.

Henceforth all self-identified good socialists began calling themselves "communist" and their hated Ex was called "fascist".

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 30, 2026 06:00 PM (/lPRQ)

138 The Turtle of the Senate is close to assuming room temperature.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 30, 2026 05:54 PM (1S/J9)

Good, ride that barbed cock old man.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 30, 2026 06:00 PM (snZF9)

139
I was right.

Posted by: Joe McCarthy at June 30, 2026 06:00 PM (OkYzo)

140 Dems... We're gonna give you everything free ! This time we mean it

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 06:01 PM (FtULh)

141 OT-Virginians helping rescue people after the. Venezuela earthquakes "Sunny Skyz "site:

https://tinyurl.com/3tx92yf7

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 30, 2026 06:01 PM (2sfNr)

142 135 I remember in college learning about the paradox of anarchy
"The paradox of anarchy is that in order to be successful anarchists have to organize"
I asked the professor when had anarchists ever been successful he babbled a bit about the Russian revolution. They were killed not long thereafter
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 05:59 PM (f6yx7)

I love that the self chosen patron Saint of Anarchists, is Guy Fawlkes... who actually tried to blow up Parliament because he was a Catholic Religious Extremist, and Parliament was passing laws about religion.

So, not about Gov power, but Religion.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 06:01 PM (mP0Kj)

143 131 I have little use for Steve Bannon but he's basically right.

===

Brocken clock. He is not right, the people he is parroting are right.
Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 05:59 PM (SCqlx)
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I can't listen or look at him. He could be saying I was elected Queen of the World and I'd miss the tiara.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 06:01 PM (hzuYO)

144 Communists must unremittingly struggle against these bourgeois socialists because they work for the enemies of communists and protect the society which communists aim to overthrow.

Posted by: per wiki at June 30, 2026 06:02 PM (MWfyi)

145 Overall, this has been a really crappy day

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 06:03 PM (FtULh)

146 “Red Scare”

You left out “Witch Hunt” and “Paranoia” “McCarthyism” too.

Anytime anybody writes about the era, these are required adjectives. It’s almost comical, once you know what to look for. You’ll find it. Every. Time.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 06:03 PM (17+JQ)

147 Do you remember when Trump resolved Iran's threat to close the straits by first goading Iran into closing the straits and then declaring it closed himself and started seizing tankers and sinking Iranian Navy ships? Which pretty much swept Iran off its stance on that issue?

Posted by: Kindltot at June 30, 2026 05:59 PM (rbvCR)

If by resolved you mean that they and Oman are publicly discussing with the shipping companies what face saving name will be given to transit fees through the strait, while Trump apparently negotiates with people who have no say whether ships in the strait are being shot at.

Posted by: Methos at June 30, 2026 06:03 PM (vSvIl)

148 We need to replace the Washington Monument with The Colossus of McCarthy.
Posted by: garrett at June 30, 2026 05:27 PM (v9lAB)

Bumper sticker suggestion: "Joe McCarthy had a better batting average than Babe Ruth"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2026 06:04 PM (1z8ji)

149
A workers' party.

It seems that most of their leaders have never had real jobs.

Shocker.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 30, 2026 06:05 PM (g/cZn)

150 Honestly, Hollywood would be a better place if they abandoned their stupid obsession with McCarthyism and formed an obsession for showing Scarlett Johansson's tits on-screen.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 30, 2026 05:54 PM (hpF/D)

I can start it off. Soooooo not work friendly. You have been warned.

https://www.boobpedia.com/boobs/Scarlett_Johansson

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 30, 2026 06:05 PM (snZF9)

151 Henceforth all self-identified good socialists began calling themselves "communist" and their hated Ex was called "fascist".
——-

Revisionist!!!!

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 06:05 PM (17+JQ)

152 We are treading water over the fucking Marians Trench...
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 05:52 PM (mP0Kj)

_______________

The Chinese are pretty methodical in the way they use Birthright citizenship. While most using it from Central and South America will attempt to use it to stay in the country, China will purposefully have the family return (Russia does this too btw but had a bunch get caught back in 2010). Anyway, China will groom the US citizen from childhood and that individual returns to the US in their 20's to secure positions in those industries the China requires information. They've been known to even have some enter the US military upon return to the US.

Posted by: Orson at June 30, 2026 06:06 PM (dIske)

153 Communists then the Muslims at war

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 06:06 PM (Ia/+0)

154 Marxism is revenge fantasy.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 30, 2026 05:44 PM (g/cZn)

Marxism is covetousness written as government policy. There's a reason it's mentioned in the Ten Commandments.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 30, 2026 06:06 PM (g8Ew8)

155 One interesting facet of the communists is that they are hellbent on reducing the population of the planet. Thus, they could eventually breed themselves out of existence.

This is also why they are hellbent on indoctrinating other peoples' children--because that's the only way they can expand their ideology over time.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 30, 2026 05:57 PM (gnNyN)

Sounds like another group often allied with the far left. Wonder what the overlap on a Venn diagram would be?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 30, 2026 06:07 PM (97NWC)

156 Kamala picked up a dose of the Trotskies the moment she was elected vice president.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 30, 2026 06:07 PM (fkjGs)

157 Anytime anybody writes about the era, these are required adjectives. It’s almost comical, once you know what to look for. You’ll find it. Every. Time.
Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 06:03 PM (17+JQ)
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They are also required to act like Senator Joe McCarthy controlled the House Un-American Activities Committee which predated him by at least a decade, and was mostly run by Democrats, except for 2 years of its existence.

And the HUAC-associated "black list" was really bad despite writers and directors getting work through cut-outs, and was main a reaction to commies in Hollywood trying to prevent patriots from getting jobs in the industry.

You must mix up ALL THOSE THINGS!!

Otherwise, something looks bad for Democrats.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 06:08 PM (Fi81e)

158 The media and their leftist masters will be completely sucsessful in this new iteration of republicans siezing. The following is an outline of their basic attack:

The Premise
Left: Republicans are saying that water is wet, therefore they are bad people and you must now vote for us and do everything we say.

The Evidence
Left: See! See! Here's proof that Republicans have said water is wet, they are still saying that water is wet, therefore you must now vote for us and do everything we say.

Posted by: banana Dream - as an example for the reader find the fallacy at June 30, 2026 06:08 PM (3uBP9)

159 Marxism is revenge fantasy.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 30, 2026 05:44 PM (g/cZn)
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Fits the "DSA" platform intimately.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 06:09 PM (Fi81e)

160 ****President Trump and Republicans are trying to re-introduce a national fear of "godless communists" ahead of the critical midterms._
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi5gozH7qcM

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 06:09 PM (vPv7/)

161 If by resolved you mean that they and Oman are publicly discussing with the shipping companies what face saving name will be given to transit fees through the strait, while Trump apparently negotiates with people who have no say whether ships in the strait are being shot at.
Posted by: Methos at June 30, 2026 06:03 PM (vSvIl)

and oil prices are falling, instead of being $200/bbl, so rejoice what has been done instead of bitching that it was not done the way you want it to be done.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 30, 2026 06:09 PM (rbvCR)

162
We're not going to eat your faces.

Posted by: Founder of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party at June 30, 2026 06:09 PM (XJ22o)

163 Too kind for the ScarJo boobies.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 30, 2026 06:09 PM (Aa6+n)

164 Wait, Christy got elected Queen of the World? Nobody ever tells me anything.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 30, 2026 06:10 PM (u73oe)

165 164 Wait, Christy got elected Queen of the World? Nobody ever tells me anything.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 30, 2026 06:10 PM (u73oe)

Will there be champagne at her Coronation ? I need some champagne

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 06:11 PM (FtULh)

166 They've always been reds.

Posted by: steevy at June 30, 2026 06:11 PM (YwEeS)

167 166 They've always been reds.
Posted by: steevy at June 30, 2026 06:11 PM (YwEeS)

They've just come out of the closet

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 06:12 PM (FtULh)

168
They've been known to even have some enter the US military upon return to the US.
Posted by: Orson

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I think we're exceeding recruitment goals now. Maybe we can screen more carefully? Bueller?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 06:12 PM (XJ22o)

169 ***Well yes, especially now that the would-be Pan-Communist Empire has fused with the Pan-Islamist Empire.
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Images of Hitler and the Islamist having a chat.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 06:13 PM (vPv7/)

170 and oil prices are falling, instead of being $200/bbl, so rejoice what has been done instead of bitching that it was not done the way you want it to be done.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 30, 2026 06:09 PM (rbvCR)

I don't care about oil prices. Oil prices were not the reason for the conflict.

I care about ending the capacity of the mullahs to project force outside their borders, preferably inside as well. According to their media the only lesson they have learned is that they need to have nukes in order to be untouchable.

Posted by: Methos at June 30, 2026 06:13 PM (vSvIl)

171 Hillary is the Red Queen. Then, now, always. AOC wants to be successor ( with several others).

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 06:13 PM (Gqar8)

172 INSANE: NBC’s Craig Melvin offers a trigger warning for trans people watching...

“Just a quick note here. The terms that we’re using here during our reporting, biological male, biological female, the high court put those terms in quotations in their decision and their dissent.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 05:42 PM (ndZc7)

Trannies are counterfeit humans, and should get the same treatment given to counterfeit money when it is discovered.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2026 06:13 PM (1z8ji)

173 What the average Ameican thinks is "communism" is actually socialism.

Gulags? That's socialism.

Public execution of dissidents? That's socialism.

Forced abortions? That's socialism.

Bread lines, shortages, starvation? That's socialism.

What, then, is "commnism"?

Communism is living day-to-day wearing burlap togas on a collective farm with a bunch of glassy0eyed hippies, where there is n money, n familyunit, no personal possessions, no cvilization, no individuality, the words "I" and "me" banished from the language. That's communism.

Socialism is the stage we must g through to get to communism. Socialism is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Khmer Rouge, Zimbabwe's forced confiscation of all personal possessions, North Korea, Fidel Castro, mass graves and concentration camps. That's socialism.

Good ol' mild-mannered, not really that bad, socialism.

Posted by: zombie at June 30, 2026 06:15 PM (Av6i5)

174 Trannies are counterfeit humans, and should get the same treatment given to counterfeit money when it is discovered.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2026 06:13 PM (1z8ji)

—————

We throw counterfeit money feet first into a wood chipper?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 30, 2026 06:16 PM (u73oe)

175 Where do Whitaker Chambers and Richard Nixon go to get their apology?

Posted by: alanon at June 30, 2026 06:16 PM (jHMkm)

176 The Sandman intro on the sidebar is way too long. ...Wait oh, the Doors . Sandman . never mind then, carry on.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 30, 2026 06:16 PM (3uBP9)

177 Why should proclaimed Communists and Socialists be allowed to run for office in federal elections for Congress?
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Numerous EOs signed by Truman through Kennedy made it illegal to employ Communists in the Federal government. Clinton or some other fag may have rescinded those?

“Have you ever been a member of an organization advocating the violent overthrow of the government?” If so, describe here:

(Use additional sheets if necessary)

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 06:16 PM (17+JQ)

178 We're not going to eat your faces.
Posted by: Founder of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party at June 30, 2026 06:09 PM (XJ22o)
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Leopard-hating demagogues consider this "love nibble" that some of us leopards have been giving people's faces an attempt to eat people's faces!!

We must stamp out specie-ism!

Posted by: Local Regent for Leopards Eating People's Faces at June 30, 2026 06:16 PM (Fi81e)

179 Venona Papers proved McCarthy was correct. It also showed Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were guilty. Yet to this day their two sons are trying to get Ethel exonerated. They petitioned both Barky and Joey. The two sons weren't adopted by family but by communists named Meeropol. Commies never stop

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 06:17 PM (f6yx7)

180 'Once a fringe view, now left-wing voices seem to be calling for a Jewish Holocaust revival.'

Posted by: alanon at June 30, 2026 06:17 PM (jHMkm)

181 Open Secret
Jumbo Shrimp
Virtual Reality

Democratic Socialism

Posted by: Orson at June 30, 2026 06:18 PM (dIske)

182 178 We're not going to eat your faces.
Posted by: Founder of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party at June 30, 2026 06:09 PM (XJ22o)
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Leopard-hating demagogues consider this "love nibble" that some of us leopards have been giving people's faces an attempt to eat people's faces!!

We must stamp out specie-ism!
Posted by: Local Regent for Leopards Eating People's Faces at June 30, 2026 06:16 PM (Fi81e)

/has mental flashback to the time he took Acid and went to see the movie Cat People...

/shudders

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 06:18 PM (mP0Kj)

183 Good ol' mild-mannered, not really that bad, socialism.
Posted by: zombie at June 30, 2026 06:15 PM (Av6i5)
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Zactly!

Only real socialism that gets to communism has never been tried!

Posted by: Up With Communism at June 30, 2026 06:18 PM (Fi81e)

184 "... the words "I" and "me" banished from the language. That's communism."

Everyone is equally miserable. Except for the folks running things.

Posted by: per wiki at June 30, 2026 06:18 PM (MWfyi)

185 You don't elect queens.

Posted by: Loretta, Queen of the Britons at June 30, 2026 06:19 PM (gKWVE)

186 J.B.S. Haldane:

the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages:
(i) this is worthless nonsense;
(ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view;
(iii) this is true, but quite unimportant;
(iv) I always said so.

Posted by: alanon at June 30, 2026 06:20 PM (jHMkm)

187 185 You don't elect queens.
Posted by: Loretta, Queen of the Britons at June 30, 2026 06:19 PM (gKWVE)
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"Transgender" dance contest.

Posted by: Orson at June 30, 2026 06:20 PM (dIske)

188 The Motels are a great group

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 30, 2026 06:20 PM (xcxpd)

189 You don't elect queens.
Posted by: Loretta, Queen of the Britons at June 30, 2026 06:19 PM (gKWVE)

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You crossed the streams!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 30, 2026 06:21 PM (u73oe)

190 174 Trannies are counterfeit humans, and should get the same treatment given to counterfeit money when it is discovered.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2026 06:13 PM (1z8ji)

—————

We throw counterfeit money feet first into a wood chipper?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 30, 2026 06:16 PM (u73oe)

May I submit to the stylebook a new Pronoun for the Trans folks.... Cray.... short for Cray Cray... slang for Crazy... because they are ignoring subjective reality.

So not 'they say'... but 'cray say'... not she says, but 'cray says'...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 06:21 PM (mP0Kj)

191 188 The Motels are a great group
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 30, 2026 06:20 PM (xcxpd)

Only if you’re Lonely.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 06:21 PM (Gqar8)

192 'Democrats grappling' is right up there with Republicans seizing and pouncing.

Posted by: alanon at June 30, 2026 06:21 PM (jHMkm)

193 You don't elect queens.
Posted by: Loretta, Queen of the Britons at June 30, 2026 06:19 PM (gKWVE)
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"Transgender" dance contest.
Posted by: Orson at June 30, 2026 06:20 PM (dIske)
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He is the Dancing Queen
Young and sweet, only seventeen!

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 06:21 PM (Fi81e)

194 Wait, Christy got elected Queen of the World? Nobody ever tells me anything.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 30, 2026 06:10 PM

I didn't get my mail-in ballot.

Posted by: toby928(c) at June 30, 2026 06:22 PM (4NO2D)

195 Merely by getting elected, one is “deemed” to have passed a background investigation.

Fatal flaw right there. Hardly any Democrats and not too many Republicans would ever pass a cursory background or loyalty investigation.

Character DOES matter. What you do on your “own time” DOES matter. Don’t be fooled.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 06:22 PM (17+JQ)

196 187 185 You don't elect queens.
Posted by: Loretta, Queen of the Britons at June 30, 2026 06:19 PM (gKWVE)
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"Transgender" dance contest.
Posted by: Orson at June 30, 2026 06:20 PM (dIske)

Hmmm... wonder if the infamous Trans slap fight video is still a bannanation offense...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 06:23 PM (mP0Kj)

197 Character DOES matter. What you do on your “own time” DOES matter. Don’t be fooled.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 06:22 PM (17+JQ)
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-- Roger Daltry has entered the chat --

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 06:23 PM (Fi81e)

198 Communism is nothing is owned personally
Everything is free, food, housing, transportation
Everyone is equal
Problem is Everyone will nexer be equal because the Communists will always be on top.
If everything is free, nothing needs to be worked for

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 06:23 PM (Ia/+0)

199 194 Wait, Christy got elected Queen of the World? Nobody ever tells me anything.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 30, 2026 06:10 PM

I didn't get my mail-in ballot.
Posted by: toby928(c) at June 30, 2026 06:22 PM (4NO2D)

Hell, I'm still waitin on my Vast Right Wing Conspiracy Membership card.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 06:24 PM (mP0Kj)

200 Do you think ChristyBlinky will be hiring now that she’s queen of the world? Where should I send my resume?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 30, 2026 06:24 PM (u73oe)

201 196
Transgender" dance contest.
Posted by: Orson at June 30, 2026 06:20 PM (dIske)

Hmmm... wonder if the infamous Trans slap fight video is still a bannanation offense...
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 06:23 PM (mP0Kj)

??? Backstory?

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 06:24 PM (Gqar8)

202 Hell, I'm still waitin on my Vast Right Wing Conspiracy Membership card.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 06:24 PM (mP0Kj)
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I'm wishing that it had been a little vaster....

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 06:24 PM (Fi81e)

203 191 188 The Motels are a great group
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 30, 2026 06:20 PM (xcxpd)

Only if you’re Lonely.
Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 06:21 PM (Gqar

They have Total Control too

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 30, 2026 06:25 PM (xcxpd)

204 Call a Spade a Spade, call a Communist a Communist!
Luckily, not all of GenZ are complete dupes to what the "Democrat Socialists" are selling. Our side needs to keep being informative and loud. Hit them with facts and watch the DSA spin.

Posted by: Tracy at June 30, 2026 06:25 PM (FdeDl)

205 Even in the Reagan 80's, you couldn't throw a cat without hitting a self-described communist at my small, midwestern college. But that was before trust fund babies and online monetization, hence those dweebs were forced to join the real world after graduation.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at June 30, 2026 05:49 PM (CwhoI)
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Oberlin?

Posted by: mrp at June 30, 2026 06:27 PM (rj6Yv)

206 Problem is Everyone will nexer be equal because the Communists will always be on top.
If everything is free, nothing needs to be worked for
Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 06:23 PM (Ia/+0)

Communism is supposed to be paid according to ability and needs.... but someone has to decide how much you are paid, or need.

So instead of business deciding how much you are paid, or need, its a bunch of Party member bureaucrats.

For the under class it will end up with the same result... but will kill any incentive for the upper or middle class.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 06:27 PM (mP0Kj)

207 203 191 188 The Motels are a great group
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 30, 2026 06:20 PM (xcxpd)

Only if you’re Lonely.
Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 06:21 PM (Gqar

They have Total Control too
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 30, 2026 06:25 PM (xcxpd)

Least it’s not A Total Eclipse of the Heart. 80’s are calling.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 06:27 PM (Gqar8)

208 The 'Alito Resigns' story may have been tracking down a leaker.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 30, 2026 06:27 PM (g/cZn)

209 I'm Lenin you guys some leeway for this.
Posted by: Axeman

Are Yuri certain you want to do that?
Posted by: Kratwurst at June 30, 2026 05:54 PM (36bTp)
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You know what they say: Gorbage On, Gorbachev.
Posted by: Axeman

You don't Sergei.

Posted by: Tuna at June 30, 2026 06:27 PM (lJ0H4)

210 Calling a spade a spade is RACIST!

Posted by: White Liberals at June 30, 2026 06:27 PM (Fi81e)

211 Of course we know the main stream media thinks we are nothing but stupid rubes who will believe anything they tell us. And then they wonder why fewer and fewer watch them.
They need to re examine who are the stupid ones.

Posted by: Case at June 30, 2026 06:28 PM (IY9No)

212 They have Total Control too

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 30, 2026 06:25 PM (xcxpd)
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But only Suddenly Last Summer

Posted by: White Liberals at June 30, 2026 06:29 PM (Fi81e)

213 Hmmm... wonder if the infamous Trans slap fight video is still a bannanation offense...
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 06:23 PM (mP0Kj)

??? Backstory?
Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 06:24 PM (Gqar

There was a hilarious slap fight video of some South American Trans folks... that got posted here by a COB?

Comments got out of hand... and hilarious, but it was back when Ace was still having advertisers who cared about such stuff

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 06:29 PM (mP0Kj)

214 212 They have Total Control too

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 30, 2026 06:25 PM (xcxpd)
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But only Suddenly Last Summer
Posted by: White Liberals at June 30, 2026 06:29 PM (Fi81e)

Ah those were the days my friend
honestly, I thought they’d never end

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 06:30 PM (Gqar8)

215 I'm Lenin you guys some leeway for this.
Posted by: Axeman

Are Yuri certain you want to do that?
Posted by: Kratwurst at June 30, 2026 05:54 PM (36bTp)
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You know what they say: Gorbage On, Gorbachev.
Posted by: Axeman

You don't Sergei.
Posted by: Tuna at June 30, 2026 06:27 PM (lJ0H4)
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I don't want this thread ignored Andropov people's radar.

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

216 Both Ethel and Julius were sentenced to the death penalty, in part to put pressure on them to confess - and name names.

The thinking by the Judge was that Julius would never allow his wife to be executed, if either had cooperated they could have had their death sentence commuted.

They had kids, none of their friends or family would take them during the incarceration trial period, so they were shuffled off to “social services”.

Maybe they were bluffing, but da Judge called their bluff, and off to ole Sparky they went at Sing Sing.

Judge Kaufman pointed out the damage they did was incalculable. The Korean War was attributed to the fact of atomic espionage on their part, among other things.

I can understand why communism in the 1920s or 1930s gained traction, but there is really no excuse after that. They tied themselves into pretzels after the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 06:30 PM (17+JQ)

217 213 Hmmm... wonder if the infamous Trans slap fight video is still a bannanation offense...
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 06:23 PM (mP0Kj)

??? Backstory?
Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 06:24 PM (Gqar

There was a hilarious slap fight video of some South American Trans folks... that got posted here by a COB?

Comments got out of hand... and hilarious, but it was back when Ace was still having advertisers who cared about such stuff
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 06:29 PM (mP0Kj)

Crap, missed it. Ah well

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 06:31 PM (Gqar8)

218 Communism is supposed to be paid according to ability and needs.... but someone has to decide how much you are paid, or need.

So instead of business deciding how much you are paid, or need, its a bunch of Party member bureaucrats.

For the under class it will end up with the same result... but will kill any incentive for the upper or middle class.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 06:27 PM (mP0Kj)

There's only two groups with communism. The well-to-do party members and the workers. 90+% will be workers. Their misery will be equally shared.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 30, 2026 06:32 PM (g8Ew8)

219 148 We need to replace the Washington Monument with The Colossus of McCarthy.
Posted by: garrett at June 30, 2026 05:27 PM (v9lAB)
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Don't abuse our history increase it. There's room enough for the Colossus to have its proper place.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 06:33 PM (vPv7/)

220 I care about ending the capacity of the mullahs to project force outside their borders, preferably inside as well. According to their media the only lesson they have learned is that they need to have nukes in order to be untouchable.
Posted by: Methos at June 30, 2026 06:13 PM (vSvIl)

We got involved because Israel said "do something or we will", and when we started negotiating Iran told us to screw off because they had just about refined Uranium and they figured they could hold out long enough to pop some nukes.
Everything since then has been arm bending to get them to comply. This is not Ukraine where the EU is feeding funds and weapons to the Ukes to bleed Russia white, Iranians don't have much of a backdoor for supplies and only the Chinese are willing and they don't do resupply on credit.

I think we have some space here.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 30, 2026 06:34 PM (rbvCR)

221 I think it's time to close out the regime in Cuba. Then we send in the 82nd AB and demolish every bit of Castro's legacy, starting with the monuments. It won't cost much, we can offer free Costco memberships to use in the Costco we'll build in Havana if the applicants turn in at least one ton (American measure) for each membership.

Posted by: mrp at June 30, 2026 06:34 PM (rj6Yv)

222 we can offer free Costco memberships to use in the Costco we'll build in Havana if the applicants turn in at least one ton (American measure) for each membership.
Posted by: mrp at June 30, 2026 06:34 PM (rj6Yv)
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One ton of rubble, that is.

Posted by: mrp at June 30, 2026 06:35 PM (rj6Yv)

223 There was a hilarious slap fight video of some South American Trans folks... that got posted here by a COB?

Comments got out of hand... and hilarious, but it was back when Ace was still having advertisers who cared about such stuff
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 06:29 PM (mP0Kj)

I recently saw a video of an Asian dude dressed up as Sailor Moon doing a serious beat-down on some burly black dude who was mocking him.
"I got my ass handed to me by Sailor Moon" is hard to live down, I think.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 30, 2026 06:38 PM (rbvCR)

224 "I got my ass handed to me by Sailor Moon" is hard to live down, I think.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 30, 2026 06:38 PM (rbvCR)
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But if you drop your ass, a little help is nice no matter who it is.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 06:40 PM (Fi81e)

225 221 I think it's time to close out the regime in Cuba. Then we send in the 82nd AB and demolish every bit of Castro's legacy, starting with the monuments. It won't cost much, we can offer free Costco memberships to use in the Costco we'll build in Havana if the applicants turn in at least one ton (American measure) for each membership.
Posted by: mrp at June 30, 2026 06:34 PM (rj6Yv)

Too bad I'll probably be too old to really appreciate the fall of communism in Cuba. I would have loved going there. It's probably a very beautiful island.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 30, 2026 06:41 PM (g8Ew8)

226 Where did we go wrong

Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 06:45 PM (ZxPkt)

227 221 I think it's time to close out the regime in Cuba. ...
Posted by: mrp
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Trump, the director of this orchestra, said, we take care of Hormuz first then we fix Cuba.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 06:49 PM (vPv7/)

228 226 Where did we go wrong

that left turn at albuquerque

Posted by: anachronda at June 30, 2026 06:52 PM (v3pYe)

229 Even in the Reagan 80's, you couldn't throw a cat without hitting a self-described communist at my small, midwestern college. But that was before trust fund babies and online monetization, hence those dweebs were forced to join the real world after graduation.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at June 30, 2026 05:49 PM (CwhoI)

Yeah, the "Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade" was a thing when I was in college. They didn't seem all that youthful.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2026 08:11 PM (uhVAy)

230 "Red scare." LOL, we're just making it up, huh, Axios?

Which is doubly hilarious when you remember that the Verona Files showed the "fearmongers" back then were ACTUALLY RIGHT.

Posted by: GWB at June 30, 2026 08:38 PM (kU0PQ)

231 I'm old enough to remember when Democrats used to get really upset when you called them Socialists.

Posted by: Cymbaline at July 01, 2026 09:07 AM (pbmm8)

Claim: Michelle Obama Has Blocked Cheryl Hines From Appearing on Larry David's New Show, Because She's RFKJr.'s Wife

Toxic masculinity.

Michelle Obama 'Bans' Cheryl Hines From Appearing in New Larry David HBO Show Over MAGA Links -- Ex-First Lady 'Can Be A B**** on Wheels'

Michelle Obama has reportedly banned Cheryl Hines from appearing in a new HBO show she is executive producing over her MAGA links.

Michelle Obama has banned Cheryl Hines from appearing in a new HBO series honouring America's 250th birthday, according to new claims, RadarOnline.com can reveal.
The former First Lady, 62, is an executive producer on Larry David's new seven-episode sketch show, Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America, and reportedly used her influence to stop Hines from featuring.

Michelle Obama does not want Hines anywhere near her show, according to reports.
Hines, 60, starred alongside David, 78, in the hit comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm; however, their relationship has become strained in recent years due to her relationship with the nation's Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
...
And her ties to MAGA have resulted in Hines being omitted from the series, with insiders claiming the prospect of her featuring would make Michelle go "absolutely ballistic."

Obama himself will appear in this mock "historical" series which will, undoubtedly, regurgitate all of the left's invectives about America.

Like he just did.

Former President Barack Obama took aim at the Founding Fathers ahead of America's 250th anniversary, saying they held a "deep flaw" for their ties to slavery despite being "geniuses."
"I think sometimes we get confused in thinking that these two stories are separate. They're intertwined, right? Which is why it's possible for me to be a great admirer of George Washington, and also acknowledge he was a slaveholder," said Obama in an interview Sunday with MSNOW.
The 44th president's appearance comes as most Americans prepare to celebrate the nation's 250th birthday on Saturday with patriotic events across the country, while Obama is using the milestone to deliver a more cautionary message about the state of American democracy.

"That does not negate [Washington's] greatness, it simply acknowledges that there's a profound deep flaw in these Founding Fathers who were also geniuses and gave us these tools," Obama said.
"It's that we're this mixed bag, we've got contradictions. And embody the country's contradictions," he added.

Bonus: I mentioned Jill Biden's very suspicious book sales yesterday. Now the NY Post writes it up.

Former First Lady Jill Biden's memoir had a brief run atop the New York Times bestseller list before tumbling out of the rankings just weeks later -- fueling online speculation that its lofty debut owed more to bulk book orders than to sustained reader demand.
"View from the East Wing," which was published by Simon & Schuster's imprint Gallery Books, debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction list on June 21 with a dagger (�) symbol indicating that retailers reported some bulk purchases.
By the following week, it had slipped to No. 3, and it has since fallen off the list altogether.
The sharp drop has sparked claims on social media that the 299-page book reached the top through orchestrated buying campaigns instead of real consumer demand.
Former FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver was among the most prominent critics, writing on X that the memoir "debuted at #1 on the NYT due to astroturfed bulk orders" before noting that it was "completely" off the list two weeks later and calling such a rapid decline "very rare."
Publishing experts caution that the reality is more nuanced.
"I don't think there is anything sinister about it," Lauren Cobello, founder and CEO of Leverage with Media PR, told The Post.

Except that Lauren Cobello specializes in bulk purchases of books to artificially boost their initial sales to get them on the best seller list. This is not an objective expert the media is contacting, but an invested, partisan champion of the system itself.

As usual.

"I think it's a strategy, a smart strategy for how people are engaging their network so that they can get more books in the hands of their readers," she said of bulk buying.

Cobello, whose agency specializes in launching bestselling books, said bulk purchases are a routine feature of modern publishing campaigns -- particularly for politicians, celebrities and high-profile authors embarking on national book tours.
...
"It's almost impossible to not have bulk orders" for major political figures and celebrities, Cobello said, noting that bookstores hosting large events often place orders for hundreds of books at a time.

This bitch is just spamming out pro-Jill-Biden spin:

She also pushed back on the suggestion that the memoir's rapid decline necessarily signals failure.
"It wasn't a complete flop," Cobello said, pointing to its continued appearance on the USA Today bestseller list after it exited the Times rankings.
"She definitely had some bulk orders, but I think they were tied to the events that she had."

Why even contact such a clear partisan as you supposed "outside expert witness"?

Right next to this. pic.twitter.com/99i8XBX20w
— The Karen Hunter (@huntskarens) June 29, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:20 PM

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1 maybe first

Posted by: gnats local 678 at June 30, 2026 04:21 PM (CWTWj)

2 Michelle Obama is a man.

Posted by: Hung Like A Donkey at June 30, 2026 04:24 PM (K5H/e)

3 Ballsy move on Big Mike's part

Posted by: 496 at June 30, 2026 04:24 PM (MAwnQ)

4 Former President Barack Obama took aim at the Founding Fathers ahead of America's 250th anniversary, saying they held a "deep flaw" for their ties to slavery despite being "geniuses."

"I think sometimes we get confused in thinking that these two stories are separate. They're intertwined, right? Which is why it's possible for me to be a great admirer of George Washington, and also acknowledge he was a slaveholder," said Obama in an interview Sunday with MSNOW...

"That does not negate [Washington's] greatness, it simply acknowledges that there's a profound deep flaw in these Founding Fathers who were also geniuses and gave us these tools," Obama said.

Well, how fortunate for you Barack, in that you don't have a deep flaw in an otherwise sterling character. You're all flaw, you bitchy little pissant. Kudos for consistency.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2026 04:24 PM (Riz8t)

5 in modern leftwing religion slavery is the original sin we must constantly atone for

Posted by: gnats local 678 at June 30, 2026 04:24 PM (CWTWj)

6

I thought men werent as bitchy and cunt-like.

This is just another attack on black women, calling them angry nasty gorilla-looking smelly hideous and ugly, nasty loudmouthed and foul water buffaloes.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at June 30, 2026 04:24 PM (et1vG)

7 "I think sometimes we get confused in thinking that these two stories are separate. They're intertwined, right? Which is why it's possible for me to be a great admirer of George Washington, and also acknowledge he was a slaveholder," said Obama in an interview Sunday with MSNOW.

That narcissistic idiot has only one game and that is racism. Without that he is nothing.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 30, 2026 04:25 PM (0N4FZ)

8 Cheryl Hines will now benefit from the Streisand effect, though it's being applied by a third party.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 30, 2026 04:25 PM (O7YUW)

9 So fucking sick of these people.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 30, 2026 04:25 PM (TNnZH)

10 Nothing will ever make Mooch happy unless she wakes one morning blonde, with blue or green eyes, thin and white flawless skin. (Which I is why I am so much happier than she is.)

No amount of money or any title will do the trick.

As she ages she will more and more resemble one of those dessicated apple face dolls, but with braid extensions and false eyelashes.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 04:25 PM (hzuYO)

11 if i were running for president and had a brilliant academic record i would hide my transcripts, too

Posted by: gnats local 678 at June 30, 2026 04:25 PM (CWTWj)

12 Yeah, this is racial.

Posted by: alanon at June 30, 2026 04:26 PM (jHMkm)

13 Who would want to read a book by the trophy wife of a retard?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2026 04:26 PM (mPXxA)

14 Eating their own, again.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 04:26 PM (RIvkX)

15 Nothing will ever make Mooch happy unless she wakes one morning blonde, with blue or green eyes, thin and white flawless skin. (Which I is why I am so much happier than she is.)

No amount of money or any title will do the trick.

And actual achievements, instead of race-based grifts. Those would help make her happy, but unfortunately, they usually require, you know, work.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2026 04:27 PM (Riz8t)

16 11 if i were running for president and had a brilliant academic record i would hide my transcripts, too
Posted by: gnats local 678 at June 30, 2026 04:25 PM (CWTWj)

Did you know Bill Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar? Case they never fucking shut up about it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2026 04:27 PM (mPXxA)

17 Maybe Sophie Cunningham can be the replacement.

Posted by: alanon at June 30, 2026 04:27 PM (jHMkm)

18 Fuck Larry David who is embarrassed by this country( as no doubt are the Obamas). GTFO

Posted by: steevy at June 30, 2026 04:27 PM (YwEeS)

19 Books written that will never be read.

Votes cast that will never be counted.

Criminals caught who will never be prosecuted.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 04:28 PM (RIvkX)

20 MICHELLE --- DUDE - stop being such a bitch!!!

Hey, are there any real pictures out there of Mooch as a child?
Or did they go the way of all things Obama?

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 30, 2026 04:28 PM (Sco7b)

21 Cheryl Hines and Larry David for that matter shouldn't have asked to be anywhere near this steaming loaf.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 04:29 PM (gKWVE)

22 Looking at those pics of Hill-dog and Jill-dog, I am reminded that you cannot spell haggard without "hag".

Posted by: Joe Mama at June 30, 2026 04:29 PM (TezPK)

23 All within the party, nothing outside the party, nothing against the party.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at June 30, 2026 04:29 PM (2UFOY)

24 Bonus: I mentioned Jill Biden's very suspicious book sales yesterday. Now the NY Post writes it up.

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The NYT has argued in court that their best seller's list isn't an actual list of best sellers but is simply editorial content.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 04:29 PM (qd4Mv)

25 No-noodin' sonsabitches.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 30, 2026 04:29 PM (dK+Kv)

26 The NYT has argued in court that their best seller's list isn't an actual list of best sellers but is simply editorial content.

That makes sense, because "best seller's list" leaves so much room for interpretation.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2026 04:31 PM (Riz8t)

27 Larry who?

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 04:31 PM (MWfyi)

28 ok, nood, there

Posted by: gnats local 678 at June 30, 2026 04:31 PM (CWTWj)

29 Big Mike just being Big Mike. Why anyone wants to be associated with, or even have to deal with that slacker is beyond me. He's never gonna be happy or satisfied with his station in life. He's just another trans.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 30, 2026 04:31 PM (3Ope8)

30 sellers

Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2026 04:31 PM (Riz8t)

31
They don't know that Mean Girls applies to them.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 04:31 PM (Fi81e)

32 Who gives their kid two first names?

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 04:31 PM (MWfyi)

33 26 The NYT has argued in court that their best seller's list isn't an actual list of best sellers but is simply editorial content.

That makes sense, because "best seller's list" leaves so much room for interpretation.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2026 04:31 PM (Riz8t)

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"Sure, it sold the most. But the purchases weren't the best. This one sold the least, but I think it sold best."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 04:31 PM (qd4Mv)

34 Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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"success is not enough; others must fail." (Oscar Wilde.)

You are wrong there, that would help but she was also need for all female looking women to become wildebeests like her.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at June 30, 2026 04:31 PM (2UFOY)

35 The Michelle Obama 250th Celebration of America. No words - none that I am going to indulge in here anyway.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 04:32 PM (Gqar8)

36 re 27: i can't see! why not? i got my eyes closed!

Posted by: gnats local 678 at June 30, 2026 04:32 PM (CWTWj)

37 "Cobello, whose agency specializes in launching bestselling books, said bulk purchases are a routine feature of modern publishing campaigns -- particularly for politicians --- who are collecting payback for favors they did while they held power in office."

Posted by: illiniwek at June 30, 2026 04:32 PM (vbXSk)

38
31
They don't know that Mean Girls applies to them.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 04:31 PM (Fi81e)

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If Big Mike were really a man, she would have told Cheryl to her face that she wasn't worth a job on Larry David's show instead of back-biting like a woman.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 04:32 PM (qd4Mv)

39 Big Mike is ahole. Barky is ahole. Larry David is ahole.
Cheryl Hines is better off. Will not watch

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 04:32 PM (f6yx7)

40 Michelle Obama does not want Hines anywhere near her show, according to reports.
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Remember, folks, they hated the Hollywood Black lists which were like totally fascist and mean!

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 04:33 PM (Fi81e)

41 40 Michelle Obama does not want Hines anywhere near her show, according to reports.
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Remember, folks, they hated the Hollywood Black lists which were like totally fascist and mean!

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 04:33 PM (Fi81e)

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The only problem with the Hollywood Blacklists were the targets.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 04:33 PM (qd4Mv)

42 Big Mike = Troon Boon.

Posted by: Joe Mama at June 30, 2026 04:33 PM (TezPK)

43 10 Nothing will ever make Mooch happy unless she wakes one morning blonde, with blue or green eyes, thin and white flawless skin. (Which I is why I am so much happier than she is.)

No amount of money or any title will do the trick.

As she ages she will more and more resemble one of those dessicated apple face dolls, but with braid extensions and false eyelashes.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 04:25 PM (hzuYO)

Looks like a pissed off bulldog.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 04:33 PM (Gqar8)

44 Books written that will never be read.

Votes cast that will never be counted.

Criminals caught who will never be prosecuted.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 04:28 PM (RIvkX)

Letters not written,
never meaning to send

Posted by: Moody Blues Prog Rock at June 30, 2026 04:33 PM (wVcYX)

45 I'm all hopped-up on Peanut M&Ms so I should probably keep my opinions to myself.

Posted by: Weasel at June 30, 2026 04:34 PM (64qRd)

46 In other whiny overpaid celery news, Taylor Swift is building a castle inside... Madison Square Garden. For her wedding to ... somebody. Probably Travis Kelce.
She may as well build it inside her own vagoo because that's another structure Kelce will only get to visit once.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 04:34 PM (gKWVE)

47 17 Maybe Sophie Cunningham can be the replacement.
Posted by: alanon at June 30, 2026 04:27 PM (jHMkm)

I love her. No lesbo.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 04:34 PM (hzuYO)

48 Well okay dude, if you want to start discussing deep flaws. How's about we talk about your wife's penis?

Posted by: Zombie George Washington at June 30, 2026 04:34 PM (anL5R)

49

"The former First Lady, 62, is an executive producer on Larry David's new seven-episode sketch show"

Could you imagine having to deal with that bitch?

She probably just knuckle-drags in a few times to yell at people then leaves, the lazy POS.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at June 30, 2026 04:34 PM (et1vG)

50 Believe I saw that Hines is a former Groundling.

David is using improv comedians and guys like Seinfeld on that show.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 04:34 PM (Fi81e)

51 I hereby give my quarterly notice that all morons are instructed to:

Self correct all posted misspelling, typos, and grammatical errors by this user when reading.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at June 30, 2026 04:34 PM (2UFOY)

52 In other whiny overpaid celery news, Taylor Swift is building a castle inside... Madison Square Garden. For her wedding to ... somebody. Probably Travis Kelce.
She may as well build it inside her own vagoo because that's another structure Kelce will only get to visit once.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 04:34 PM (gKWVE)
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Doesn't she know about the Nazis?

Sounds like she doesn't know about Madison 1926 Nazi Rally Garden....

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 04:35 PM (Fi81e)

53 Um, yeah, Barry, also what the deal with all the cock sucking you like to do? Seems like you might have a bit of a problem there, no?

Posted by: Zombie George Washington at June 30, 2026 04:35 PM (anL5R)

54 "Larry David's new seven-episode sketch show, Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America"

That sounds like some commie rat bastard Democrat Socialist shit right there.

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 04:35 PM (MWfyi)

55 49

"The former First Lady, 62, is an executive producer on Larry David's new seven-episode sketch show"

Could you imagine having to deal with that bitch?

She probably just knuckle-drags in a few times to yell at people then leaves, the lazy POS.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at June 30, 2026 04:34 PM (et1vG)

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It's going to be like her hospital job. A title without responsibility.

She gets to hang out with some famous people and charge the production company for it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 04:36 PM (qd4Mv)

56 Jill Biden memoir's disappearance from NYT bestseller list after debuting at top raises questions about sales numbers: 'Very rare'
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Many questions are raised, but are never answered.

Maybe there could be a specialized group of individuals that 'investigate' unanswered questions and 'reports' this to the public.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2026 04:36 PM (Dv3i1)

57 I read the review of the Larry David series in the NY Post. It's supposed to be not good at all.

Posted by: Tuna at June 30, 2026 04:36 PM (lJ0H4)

58 You are wrong there, that would help but she was also need for all female looking women to become wildebeests like her.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at June 30, 2026 04:31 PM (2UFOY)

We'd all have to have buck teefs and chesticles?

I vote no. Mooch could probably squash me, but I could mock her til she did.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 04:36 PM (hzuYO)

59

"As she ages she will more and more resemble one of those dessicated apple face dolls, but with braid extensions and false eyelashes."

She will start looking like Kwame Kilpatricks hideous mom, or what the hell she is.

What would posses a man to impregnate something as monstrous and fugly as that. It is astonishing.

Well, I guess gorillas mate in the wild, so...

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at June 30, 2026 04:36 PM (et1vG)

60 Sparkle fairy mom jeans, I'm not the one with a dead chief floating in my backyard pond am I?

Posted by: Zombie George Washington at June 30, 2026 04:36 PM (anL5R)

61 Wasn't Michelle responsible for picking up the phone and getting Tim Allen's show cancelled as well? She was besties with someone at ABC.

Posted by: Ktgreat at June 30, 2026 04:36 PM (SueMp)

62 "Self correct all posted misspelling, typos, and grammatical errors by this user when reading.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Posted by: bob"

That is not who we are.

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 04:36 PM (MWfyi)

63 Whatever asshole handed Big Mike the EP position on a 250th anniversary of the country needs to be outed and shamed our of their profession.

They did this to spite MAGA. They need to suffer.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at June 30, 2026 04:36 PM (2UFOY)

64 56 Many questions are raised, but are never answered.

Maybe there could be a specialized group of individuals that 'investigate' unanswered questions and 'reports' this to the public.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2026 04:36 PM (Dv3i1)

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The NYT has answered this in court years ago.

The best seller list isn't a list of books and how many copies they sell. The best seller list is an editorial.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 04:37 PM (qd4Mv)

65 >>> "Sure, it sold the most. But the purchases weren't the best. This one sold the least, but I think it sold best."

"And if your children's books take over the NYT bestseller's list, taking away precious space to showcase our friends' liberal propaganda navel gazing novels, we'll just make up a new category and wipe the kids books from the bestseller list! Ta da!"

Posted by: Also the NYT at June 30, 2026 04:37 PM (gWBY1)

66 The only problem with the Hollywood Blacklists were the targets.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 04:33 PM (qd4Mv)
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Plus as Elia Kazan testified, the commies started the black list first. "Oh, you don't want to hire Reagan, he's a hack." (i.e., non-commie patriot)

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 04:37 PM (Fi81e)

67 Seriously, I may be dead, but I could kick your skinny ass without getting out of my mfking grave.

Posted by: Zombie George Washington at June 30, 2026 04:37 PM (anL5R)

68 It's a shame Larry David doesn't have a boy who loves him as much as Rob Reiner's kid did. In the fierce competition for most punchable face in America, Larry David is putting in the work.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 30, 2026 04:38 PM (xJhwE)

69 It's hot today, but Accuweather has it currently at 97 when all the local weather outlets have it at 93 or 94. They screw with the numbers in real time to support the global warmening crap.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 30, 2026 04:38 PM (XvL8K)

70 66 The only problem with the Hollywood Blacklists were the targets.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 04:33 PM (qd4Mv)
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Plus as Elia Kazan testified, the commies started the black list first. "Oh, you don't want to hire Reagan, he's a hack." (i.e., non-commie patriot)

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 04:37 PM (Fi81e)

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Elia Kazan was based.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 04:38 PM (qd4Mv)

71 I would imagine Larry David's show is to documentaries what Howard Zinn's book is to history textbooks...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 30, 2026 04:38 PM (XE5AP)

72 History repeats itself. Hollywood commies start "blacklisting" again.

Although they hate the black list and it was totally uncool when they didn't get gigs--except through cut-outs, that is!

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 04:38 PM (Fi81e)

73 >>>"I think sometimes we get confused in thinking that these two stories are separate. They're intertwined, right? Which is why it's possible for me to be a great admirer of George Washington, and also acknowledge he was a slaveholder," said Obama in an interview Sunday with MSNOW.

Unmentioned was the fact that Obama himself was descended from slavers.

Posted by: No Name Today at June 30, 2026 04:38 PM (8mulE)

74 It's like Mandami when he was attacking Cuomo over Covid. Now that he's done, he's not going to mention it. It's to be censored if they're not actively using it to reinforce power. They furiously look away from the material Tulsi released because they think they disproved it during the authorship of "Proximal Origins" back in Feb. 2020 and don't even HAVE to look at any contrary evidence.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at June 30, 2026 04:39 PM (sOSjW)

75 She gives me such a fking headache. It has become truly exhausting to deal with certain black folks anymore.

Posted by: sidney at June 30, 2026 04:39 PM (Uy/WF)

76 When it comes to Mean Girl Slap-Fights, Ace is the queen.

Posted by: zombie at June 30, 2026 04:39 PM (Av6i5)

77 Books written that will never be read.

Votes cast that will never be counted.

Criminals caught who will never be prosecuted.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 04:28 PM (RIvkX)

Letters not written,
never meaning to send
Posted by: Moody Blues Prog Rock

Heh

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 30, 2026 04:39 PM (6XDXn)

78 72 History repeats itself. Hollywood commies start "blacklisting" again.

Although they hate the black list and it was totally uncool when they didn't get gigs--except through cut-outs, that is!

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 04:38 PM (Fi81e)

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If Herman Mankiewicz and Dalton Trumbo had shot Barbara Stanwyck in the head...It might be the only way the left would love them more.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 04:39 PM (qd4Mv)

79 Between Big Mike, TFG, and Homewrecker Jill, there must be an epic amount of typing and deleting in Horde World.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at June 30, 2026 04:39 PM (gpQ8/)

80 What is Mooch tne show producer?

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 04:39 PM (Ia/+0)

81 Elia Kazan was based.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 04:38 PM (qd4Mv)
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And I wrote that never being that impressed by most of Reagan's screen performances. But it wasn't true of all the patriotic Hollywood stars they were negging.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 04:39 PM (Fi81e)

82
I remain unashamed of not living up to the Obama's expectations.

Posted by: Auspex at June 30, 2026 04:40 PM (Y8DZL)

83 81 Elia Kazan was based.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 04:38 PM (qd4Mv)
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And I wrote that never being that impressed by most of Reagan's screen performances. But it wasn't true of all the patriotic Hollywood stars they were negging.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 04:39 PM (Fi81e)

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Reagan was an unremarkable leading man. Like 90% of leading men.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 04:40 PM (qd4Mv)

84 Do any of us doubt Michelle Obama is a witch? She doesn’t exactly hide this.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 04:40 PM (Dd38x)

85 To be fair, at least Hilldog had some actual sort-of accomplishments. Dr. Jill is just a skank idiot that never did shit other than suck Joe's dick.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 30, 2026 04:40 PM (XMwZJ)

86 It isn't race. It's culture. Right?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 30, 2026 04:41 PM (Cqx++)

87 Between Big Mike, TFG, and Homewrecker Jill, there must be an epic amount of typing and deleting in Horde World.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at June 30, 2026 04:39 PM (gpQ8/)

Meh. They are non-entities for which they are fun to hang around the left's neck. Otherwise, I have not Fs to give if they croak or not.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 30, 2026 04:41 PM (dK+Kv)

88 I have many “ fatigues” going on now, and the stupid list keeps growing. Bet I am not alone here.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 04:41 PM (Gqar8)

89 I don't have a lot of good things to say about Larry David. The only reason I can see him standing up to Big Mike is that his ego might be bigger than Barry's.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 30, 2026 04:41 PM (xcxpd)

90 I remain unashamed of not living up to the Obama's expectations.

Right? We must try to pick up the shattered pieces of our lives and go on.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2026 04:41 PM (Riz8t)

91 The best seller list isn't a list of books and how many copies they sell. The best seller list is an editorial.
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Ah, so these are the best because NYT is pushing an ideology that these books best support, and they happen to be for sale, and NYT lists them in their birdcage liner, thus, best seller list.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2026 04:41 PM (Dv3i1)

92 91 The best seller list isn't a list of books and how many copies they sell. The best seller list is an editorial.
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Ah, so these are the best because NYT is pushing an ideology that these books best support, and they happen to be for sale, and NYT lists them in their birdcage liner, thus, best seller list.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2026 04:41 PM (Dv3i1)

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As the NYT has argued in court, yes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 04:42 PM (qd4Mv)

93 To be fair, at least Hilldog had some actual sort-of accomplishments.

Such as?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2026 04:42 PM (Riz8t)

94 >>As she ages she will more and more resemble one of those dessicated apple face dolls, but with braid extensions and false eyelashes.
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Like Aunt Esther, but with a schlong.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at June 30, 2026 04:42 PM (bNf8H)

95 83 81 Elia Kazan was based.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 04:38 PM (qd4Mv)
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And I wrote that never being that impressed by most of Reagan's screen performances. But it wasn't true of all the patriotic Hollywood stars they were negging.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 04:39 PM (Fi81e)

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Reagan was an unremarkable leading man. Like 90% of leading men.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 04:40 PM (qd4Mv)

He's no Jimmy Stewart but he was affable. That goes a long way.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 30, 2026 04:42 PM (xcxpd)

96 93 To be fair, at least Hilldog had some actual sort-of accomplishments.

Such as?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2026 04:42 PM (Riz8t)

She made the trains run on time?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 30, 2026 04:43 PM (xcxpd)

97 The NYT has answered this in court years ago.

The best seller list isn't a list of books and how many copies they sell. The best seller list is an editorial.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 04:37 PM (qd4Mv)

aka "Best Chicken Fried Steak In The State!"

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 30, 2026 04:43 PM (wVcYX)

98 To be fair, at least Hilldog had some actual sort-of accomplishments.

Such as?
Posted by: Archimedes

An impressive body-count?

Posted by: Joe Mama at June 30, 2026 04:43 PM (TezPK)

99 Can you smell the tolerance and inclusion?

Posted by: Darth Randall at June 30, 2026 04:43 PM (dvvVb)

100 >>> The former First Lady, 62, is an executive producer on Larry David's new seven-episode sketch show, Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America

So this is NOT a real special on the 250th, it's a lame liberal take on kvetching about America, pretending to be comedy. Not being on this isn't a huge loss, really. But fans of Larry and Cheryl as a comedy duo will miss out.

I asked my Gen Z kid his take on Michelle. He said she ruined their school lunches. That does kind of wrap up his generation's take on her in a nutshell.

Posted by: Also the NYT at June 30, 2026 04:43 PM (gWBY1)

101 95
He's no Jimmy Stewart but he was affable. That goes a long way.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 30, 2026 04:42 PM (xcxpd)

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Wel...well...well.we...well now see here...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 04:43 PM (qd4Mv)

102 Kurt Schlichter argues that today's birthright citizenship debacle was actually a win, and we should dial back the doom. I'd like to buy it, but I'm not there yet.

https://tinyurl.com/2ssvcptw

Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2026 04:43 PM (Riz8t)

103 What the Hell does Obama and Big Mike know about slavery ?????

That SOB enslaved millions of Americans with the Commie Obamacare Law !!!!!

Obama, Big Mike and Hilderbeast are like VD......

Always Festering and Never go away !!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at June 30, 2026 04:43 PM (xl8DV)

104 They did this to spite MAGA. They need to suffer.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus)

Few will watch this trash.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 30, 2026 04:43 PM (6XDXn)

105 "Which is why it's possible for me to be a great admirer of George Washington, and also acknowledge he was a slaveholder..."

And that's why I believe it's possible for you to be gay, and acknowledge that your shit's all retarded.

Pompous ass...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 30, 2026 04:43 PM (nbLIj)

106 I still might check out the show.

But Big Mooch, puts a weight on the other side.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 04:44 PM (Fi81e)

107 "Do any of us doubt Michelle Obama is a witch? She doesn’t exactly hide this.
Posted by: Piper"

Witches got dicks?

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 04:44 PM (MWfyi)

108 105 "Which is why it's possible for me to be a great admirer of George Washington, and also acknowledge he was a slaveholder..."

And that's why I believe it's possible for you to be gay, and acknowledge that your shit's all retarded.

Pompous ass...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 30, 2026 04:43 PM (nbLIj)

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He admires Washington...how? In what ways has Obama praised Washington?

Any specific way or just the normal pablum of "first president, only one who could do it"?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 04:44 PM (qd4Mv)

109 At Reuters: "Bird nests of fibre-optic cables show war's impact on Ukraine"

Optical fiber is so fragile, yet they can launch drones trailing many miles of the stuff without breakage or tangling in the drone props. Somebody was thinking outside the box with that stuff.

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 04:44 PM (Jr5Lq)

110
It's hot today, but Accuweather has it currently at 97 when all the local weather outlets have it at 93 or 94. They screw with the numbers in real time to support the global warmening crap.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

We're killing the French with our air conditioners.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 30, 2026 04:44 PM (Cqx++)

111 A very succinct version of my life story. Not a word of a lie.

https://tinyurl.com/4sh79tum

Posted by: Zombie George Washington at June 30, 2026 04:45 PM (anL5R)

112 82
I remain unashamed of not living up to the Obama's expectations.
Posted by: Auspex at June 30, 2026 04:40 PM (Y8DZL)

I still embrace the label Bitter Clinger by TFG. As well as Deplorable from the Hildebeast. Wear that with pride.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 30, 2026 04:45 PM (N39Ws)

113 68 It's a shame Larry David doesn't have a boy who loves him as much as Rob Reiner's kid did. In the fierce competition for most punchable face in America, Larry David is putting in the work.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

I get the sense that Larry David is much like the George Costanza character that was modeled on him, but without any of George's good qualities. Or like Larry in Curb Your Enthusiasm, again except without any of Larry's good qualities.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2026 04:45 PM (Dv3i1)

114 Former First Lady Jill Biden's memoir properly named:

"How Joe and I Scammed America" ............

Posted by: Jackson K. at June 30, 2026 04:45 PM (xl8DV)

115 "Reagan was an unremarkable leading man."

He used 20-Mule Team Borax, and that's good enough for me.

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 04:45 PM (Jr5Lq)

116 106 I still might check out the show.

But Big Mooch, puts a weight on the other side.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 04:44 PM (Fi81e)

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I got through 2-3 seasons of Curb Your Enthusiasm before I just couldn't take it anymore.

Larry David is better as a supporting character (George in Seinfeld) than as the central focus of a whole show.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 04:45 PM (qd4Mv)

117 >>>Kurt Schlichter argues that today's birthright citizenship debacle was actually a win, and we should dial back the doom. I'd like to buy it, but I'm not there yet.

If only we had a legislative body filled with people's representatives whose duty it was to ensure legislation is passed according to the will of the people.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 30, 2026 04:45 PM (dK+Kv)

118 "Which is why it's possible for me to be a great admirer of George Washington, and also acknowledge he was a slaveholder..."

And that's why I believe it's possible for you to be gay, and acknowledge that your shit's all retarded.

Pompous ass...

He is the embodiment of the background trombone substituting for adult voices in Charlie Brown specials. Wah wah wahhhh...

Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2026 04:46 PM (Riz8t)

119 It's hot today, but Accuweather has it currently at 97 when all the local weather outlets have it at 93 or 94. They screw with the numbers in real time to support the global warmening crap.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

They need to get rid of the "Accu" part of "Accuweather" then.

Posted by: Thrawn at June 30, 2026 04:46 PM (KKMoa)

120 Speaking of spite,...

So some interesting history posted at end of Insty ONT this morning.

It seems that many of the small towns in Wyoming (and I guess elsewhere) were just post offices for the temporary camps set up for the rail road workers (often "hackers" who cut trees to make ties, so not just on the main line.) As well as other post offices set up without anyone thinking that the name would become permanent for a town or city.

That is why they often have silly names.

One example was DuBois, legend has it., pronounced doo-boys because it pissed off the politician who named it after himself and would get annoyed when people pronounced his name that way.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at June 30, 2026 04:46 PM (2UFOY)

121 We're killing the French with our air conditioners.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 30, 2026 04:44 PM (Cqx++)

It's 65F here right now.

*cranks up the AC to eleventy*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 30, 2026 04:46 PM (dK+Kv)

122 Big Mike seems a bit insecure. Maybe we should start calling it "Little Mike." Or "Lesser Mike."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 30, 2026 04:47 PM (jehhT)

123 18 Fuck Larry David who is embarrassed by this country( as no doubt are the Obamas). GTFO
Posted by: steevy at June 30, 2026 04:27 PM (YwEeS)
_________________

If you think about it, it was probably a last ditch effort to have Cheryl Hines included in the show by currying favor with the "decision" makers. Didn't work, apparently.

IT IS NOT "The Summer of George".

Posted by: Orson at June 30, 2026 04:47 PM (dIske)

124 "Which is why it's possible for me to be a great admirer of George Washington, and also acknowledge he was a slaveholder..."
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I'm a better President than any of these other jerkoffs.
- B Hussein Obama

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2026 04:47 PM (Dv3i1)

125 Money Laundering, pure and simple. Bulk book buys of Politicians are nothing but disguised payoffs and bribery (if still in office).

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 04:47 PM (mP0Kj)

126 I'm pretty sure the titans of American Liberty will survive the judgment of the dog-eating purple-lipped man-f***ing scoamf.

Posted by: weew at June 30, 2026 04:47 PM (9TspW)

127 122 Big Mike seems a bit insecure. Maybe we should start calling it "Little Mike." Or "Lesser Mike."
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 30, 2026 04:47 PM (jehhT)

Mrs. Obama.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 30, 2026 04:47 PM (XE5AP)

128 To be fair, at least Hilldog had some actual sort-of accomplishments.

Such as?
Posted by: Archimedes

She was part of the house judiciary legal team that drafted the memo on what is an impeachable offense during the watergate hearings. This was when she was fresh out of Yale. A little ironic, no?

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 04:48 PM (Dd38x)

129 That's OK let Cheryl go on Gutfeld's show. Will get more viewers anyway.

Posted by: Case at June 30, 2026 04:48 PM (IY9No)

130 Schlicter:
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Let’s understand how the courts work. They don’t like changing things. They revere precedent.
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Which as the court insists on reviewing more and more actions of government puts increasingly more government behavior out of the reach of voters, as voters have little if any effect on precedent.

So, we're back to fuck judges--they have disgraced themselves. Because precedent keeps decisions out of the power of the filthy unwashed.

This is elitism. It wouldn't be so bad, if judges weren't trying to make more and more legal precedent so they get this universal review of government behavior.

But, fuck judges.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 04:48 PM (Fi81e)

131 117 >>>Kurt Schlichter argues that today's birthright citizenship debacle was actually a win, and we should dial back the doom. I'd like to buy it, but I'm not there yet.

If only we had a legislative body filled with people's representatives whose duty it was to ensure legislation is passed according to the will of the people.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 30, 2026 04:45 PM (dK+Kv)

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We've got congressman proposing stuff in response. 1.5 years ago we did not.

Nothing will happen this congress, not with Mitch, Tillis, Cassidy, and Cornyn still around.

But if things go well in November, the next Congress could be much more amenable to trying something.

I have this running theory that there are five senators taking all the flack for 10-20 others in not getting things done. All five are out (except Murkowski) at the end of this Congress. Suddenly, next congress, that cover is gone. More will have to volunteer to be scapegoats (possible) while the rest of the GOP Senate will be less amenable to not getting things done. The other 10-20 are cowards, hence the cover. And there are those in that 10-20 (like Ernst) who are going, too.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 04:48 PM (qd4Mv)

132 125 Money Laundering, pure and simple. Bulk book buys of Politicians are nothing but disguised payoffs and bribery (if still in office).
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 04:47 PM (mP0Kj)

Packing material has to come from somewhere.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 04:49 PM (Gqar8)

133 A very succinct version of my life story. Not a word of a lie.

https://tinyurl.com/4sh79tum

Posted by: Zombie George Washington

Ahhhhhhhhhh
O-ba-ma O-ba-ma
Floppy wristed ponce
Without achievements to his name

Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2026 04:49 PM (Riz8t)

134 It isn't race. It's culture. Right?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 30, 2026 04:41 PM (Cqx++)

Wellllll....no one likes to mention me so I will just, ya know, hahaha, pretend I don't exist.

Posted by: IQ Scores at June 30, 2026 04:49 PM (K5H/e)

135 "Between Big Mike, TFG, and Homewrecker Jill, there must be an epic amount of typing and deleting in Horde World."

To me, they're ancient history, and worthy of little notice. We got a fresher crop of lefties to contend with.

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 04:49 PM (Jr5Lq)

136 Looks like we're close to splashing McConnell--the Turtle has run the race. The great dying of the Senate has begun.

Good thing we got all of those judicial nominations in!

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 30, 2026 04:50 PM (1S/J9)

137 It's hot today, but Accuweather has it currently at 97 when all the local weather outlets have it at 93 or 94. They screw with the numbers in real time to support the global warmening crap.

------

My phone keeps buzzing with EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNINGs

It's currently 88 degrees outside.

Posted by: Midnight Rambler at June 30, 2026 04:50 PM (8JR9p)

138 76 When it comes to Mean Girl Slap-Fights, Ace is the queen.
Posted by: zombie at June 30, 2026 04:39 PM (Av6i5)

LOL. Ah, memories.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 30, 2026 04:50 PM (g8Ew8)

139 scoamf.

Posted by: weew at June 30, 2026 04:47 PM (9TspW)

I haven't seen that in a while, thanks for that bit of nostalgia (and truth!). Who was the Horde member who wrote that every morning in JJ's Morning Report?

Posted by: moki at June 30, 2026 04:50 PM (wLjpr)

140 45 I'm all hopped-up on Peanut M&Ms so I should probably keep my opinions to myself.
Posted by: Weasel

I'm pretty deep into a Honey-coated Sesame stick binge right now myself, but, stay cool man, I'll talk you down.

Posted by: Auspex at June 30, 2026 04:50 PM (Y8DZL)

141 Michell Obama has always been a bitch. An entitled aren't I great but I have never done anything other than do jobs that were given to me because of who I was married to or because I was black and they needed a token bitch.

She was a completely undistinguished lawyer who couldn't hack it in the Chicago legal world. A racist to her core. She can burn in hell along with her commie husband.

Posted by: Black JEM at June 30, 2026 04:50 PM (GZYu7)

142 250 Years ago today... they were debating the Declaration of Independence, that would make the Colonies NOT part of English Law or Governance.

Today the Supreme Court announced that our Citizenship is still dictated not by US Law and custom, but by English Law.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 04:50 PM (mP0Kj)

143 Anyone that gives Pencil Dick Barry a hard time will answer to me !!!!

Meet me at Rocko's Gym anytime and we will go 10 rounds

Posted by: Big MIKE at June 30, 2026 04:51 PM (xl8DV)

144 To be fair, at least Hilldog had some actual sort-of accomplishments.

Such as?
Posted by: Archimedes

She was part of the house judiciary legal team that drafted the memo on what is an impeachable offense during the watergate hearings. This was when she was fresh out of Yale. A little ironic, no?

Would that be the committee from which she was fired by Sam Ervin for lying?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2026 04:51 PM (Riz8t)

145 She was part of the house judiciary legal team that drafted the memo on what is an impeachable offense during the watergate hearings. This was when she was fresh out of Yale. A little ironic, no?
Posted by: Piper

Was also kicked off said committee.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 30, 2026 04:51 PM (6XDXn)

146 More Schlichter:
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Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Barrett do vote on principle; their vote was entirely predictable to anyone familiar with how the courts work. It’s just that their principle is wrong, reflecting the old and established view of the 14th Amendment that we are currently challenging with new scholarship.
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So why did they have to make up the story about British feudal claims being our citizenship tradition.

It's bullshit. Alito and Thomas clearly illustrate how there is more immediate context decades within the ratification of the 14th amendment.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 04:52 PM (Fi81e)

147 It's hilarious that Oblahblah is appearing on jerkoff basic cable networks.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 30, 2026 04:52 PM (wBaIH)

148 He's no Jimmy Stewart but he was affable. That goes a long way.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 30, 2026 04:42 PM (xcxpd)

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Wel...well...well.we...well now see here...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 04:43 PM (qd4Mv)

See? Good thing he wasn't President.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 30, 2026 04:52 PM (xcxpd)

149 Kurt Schlichter argues that today's birthright citizenship debacle was actually a win, and we should dial back the doom. I'd like to buy it, but I'm not there yet.

If only we had a legislative body filled with people's representatives whose duty it was to ensure legislation is passed according to the will of the people.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 30, 2026 04:45 PM (dK+Kv)

Sounds like he is saying 'Trust the plan'... I think I've heard that before.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 04:52 PM (mP0Kj)

150 Kinda funny that the dem party gets boners talking about hiollywood blacklists from the 50s while creating new ones in the 21 century. Big Mike and barky fail to see the mixed bag I'm sure.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 30, 2026 04:52 PM (hb0zc)

151 I like how morons (not the good kind) like Jugears and Big Mike judge people of the 18th century according to the moral standards of 2026. As if slavery wasn't common practice around the world at that time. It wasn't "invented" by Americans.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 30, 2026 04:53 PM (XMwZJ)

152 146 So why did they have to make up the story about British feudal claims being our citizenship tradition.

It's bullshit. Alito and Thomas clearly illustrate how there is more immediate context decades within the ratification of the 14th amendment.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 04:52 PM (Fi81e)

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I think you just have to look at Wong Kim Ark, which is explicit in asserting that Ark has citizenship because of his legal domicile despite the nationalities of his parents, to say that post 14th precendent had already determined that illegal babies didn't get citizenship.

But I just stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 04:53 PM (qd4Mv)

153 >>> He admires Washington...how? In what ways has Obama praised Washington?

He has to pretend to because the musical Hamilton praises Washington. And his ego thinks his presidency is tied to the success of that musical. I think that's pretty much it.

Posted by: LizLem at June 30, 2026 04:53 PM (gWBY1)

154 148 Wel...well...well.we...well now see here...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 04:43 PM (qd4Mv)

See? Good thing he wasn't President.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 30, 2026 04:52 PM (xcxpd)

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Would have been great before the movies!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 04:54 PM (qd4Mv)

155 Why are these Demo F**k Stains not angry with England, France, Spain, Dutch, etc because they are the ones that brought SLAVES TO AMERICA!!!!!!!

Go over to these countries and protest MoFos......

Posted by: Jackson K. at June 30, 2026 04:54 PM (xl8DV)

156 re birthright citizenship

If you saw Citizen Vigilante, you know that scene with the car.

Many people criticized that scene because it makes him seem like a psychopath.

In reality, it is the Writer explaining that if we insist on staying in our lane and not breaking the rules, we will end up dead in a ditch.

Those 5 women on the SCOTUS are behind the wheel insisting that we drive the country into a ditch.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at June 30, 2026 04:54 PM (2UFOY)

157 Will Barry and Michelle ask (demand) that Larry invite Chevalier over for a chat?

Posted by: mrp at June 30, 2026 04:54 PM (rj6Yv)

158 In his mind, barky is sheriff bart and America is rock ridge. Can't let it go.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 30, 2026 04:54 PM (hb0zc)

159 She made the trains run on time?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 30, 2026 04:43 PM

She made the plain that ran on time
The most traveled SoS in history going around pushing her Global Scam

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 04:54 PM (Ia/+0)

160 Wel...well...well.we...well now see here...

I absolutely cannot abide Jimmy Stewart and his fake "aw shucks" stuttering.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2026 04:54 PM (Riz8t)

161 155 Why are these Demo F**k Stains not angry with England, France, Spain, Dutch, etc because they are the ones that brought SLAVES TO AMERICA!!!!!!!

Go over to these countries and protest MoFos......

Posted by: Jackson K. at June 30, 2026 04:54 PM (xl8DV)

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Angry at the black tribes that captured the slaves, the Arab traders who brought them to the West Coast of Africa?

Nonsense. That's just their culture.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 04:55 PM (qd4Mv)

162 She was a completely undistinguished lawyer who couldn't hack it in the Chicago legal world. A racist to her core. She can burn in hell along with her commie husband.
Posted by: Black JEM
_________

She failed the bar exam on her first try.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 30, 2026 04:55 PM (XvL8K)

163 45 I'm all hopped-up on Peanut M&Ms so I should probably keep my opinions to myself.

Posted by: Weasel at June 30, 2026 04:34 PM (64qRd)

That and a diet coke is the breakfast of champions, my friend. Keep hopping!

Posted by: moki at June 30, 2026 04:55 PM (wLjpr)

164 250 Years ago today... they were debating the Declaration of Independence, that would make the Colonies NOT part of English Law or Governance.

Today the Supreme Court announced that our Citizenship is still dictated not by US Law and custom, but by English Law.
-
So, America's 250th anniversary will be "celebrated" under foreign occupation.

I'm sure the fireworks will be pretty, though.

Posted by: Methos at June 30, 2026 04:55 PM (vSvIl)

165 160 Wel...well...well.we...well now see here...

I absolutely cannot abide Jimmy Stewart and his fake "aw shucks" stuttering.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2026 04:54 PM (Riz8t)

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What if he lassoed the moon for ya?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 04:55 PM (qd4Mv)

166 Read about how (and by whom) Coney Barrett was maneuvered to be Trump's choice.

Posted by: steevy at June 30, 2026 04:55 PM (YwEeS)

167 Obama: "I think sometimes we get confused..."

That right there pretty much sums up this Harvard scholar.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 30, 2026 04:56 PM (2WIwB)

168 Probably ubama will play the part of the’delicate’ houseboy.

Posted by: Eromero at June 30, 2026 04:56 PM (LHPAg)

169 GOP is so full of turncoats. Trump learned a lot during his 4 years in the wilderness.

Posted by: steevy at June 30, 2026 04:56 PM (YwEeS)

170 She was part of the house judiciary legal team that drafted the memo on what is an impeachable offense during the watergate hearings. This was when she was fresh out of Yale. A little ironic, no?
=
She was a shit head even then. Her boss
Zeifman was quoted saying about her: “She was a liar. She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.”…
“If I had the power to fire her, I would have fired her.”

He didn't fire her, but told her when her time was up she wasn't getting a recommendation. You will see this in the media as being debunked because they are attacking the assertion that she was fired. She wasn't fired, but she was told off and is a filthy scum.

Posted by: the more you know at June 30, 2026 04:56 PM (anL5R)

171 Kurt Schlichter argues that today's birthright citizenship debacle was actually a win, and we should dial back the doom. I'd like to buy it, but I'm not there yet.
-
How many dimensions does his chessboard have?

Posted by: Methos at June 30, 2026 04:56 PM (vSvIl)

172 167 Obama: "I think sometimes we get confused..."

That right there pretty much sums up this Harvard scholar.
Posted by: Diogenes

I don't understand.
- Justice Jumanji Jackson

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2026 04:57 PM (Dv3i1)

173 >>> Nothing will ever make Mooch happy unless she wakes one morning blonde, with blue or green eyes, thin and white flawless skin.

I don't think she wants to be white, I think she wishes she looked like Beyoncé, tbh. I am surprised she hasn't taken the shot yet.

Posted by: LizLem at June 30, 2026 04:57 PM (gWBY1)

174 45 I'm all hopped-up on Peanut M&Ms so I should probably keep my opinions to myself.

Posted by: Weasel

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That's not the moron way at all.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at June 30, 2026 04:57 PM (2UFOY)

175 When Reagan announced he was running for governor Jack Warner is alleged to have said " no, no, Jimmy Stewart for governor, Ron Reagan for best friend"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 04:57 PM (f6yx7)

176 149> Kurt Schlichter likes the treachery of the five SCOTUS women

Think of the Savings! Instead of raising money to send missionaries to the shitholes, bring the shitholes to the missionaries!

The new proselytes will even provide a gratuitous glorious bonfire at your church to show their appreciation.

Posted by: Community Notes at June 30, 2026 04:58 PM (xE0sV)

177 169 GOP is so full of turncoats. Trump learned a lot during his 4 years in the wilderness.

Posted by: steevy at June 30, 2026 04:56 PM (YwEeS)

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Of the 7 GOP Senators who voted for conviction on Trump's impeachment, only 2 (Collins and Murkowski) will be left at the start of next Congress.

Cassidy, Mitt, Burr, Sasse, and Toomey are all gone.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 04:58 PM (qd4Mv)

178 "How many dimensions does his chessboard have?
Posted by: Methos"

The bright side is a bit tarnished.

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 04:58 PM (MWfyi)

179 151 I like how morons (not the good kind) like Jugears and Big Mike judge people of the 18th century according to the moral standards of 2026. As if slavery wasn't common practice around the world at that time. It wasn't "invented" by Americans.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 30, 2026 04:53 PM (XMwZJ)

Didn't I see Michelle holding a sign saying, "Bring Back out Girls?" Slavery is alive and well in Nigeria, with girls being kidnapped daily. Not a word from her about that though, is there???

Posted by: moki at June 30, 2026 04:59 PM (wLjpr)

180 Jimmy Stewart was okay in "Winchester '73", except for smirk he always made when some pilgrim bragged about his Spencer rifle.

Posted by: mrp at June 30, 2026 04:59 PM (rj6Yv)

181 Hillary also failed the DC bar exam, but that usually has a much lower passage rate than Illinois.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 30, 2026 04:59 PM (XvL8K)

182 Kurt Schlichter argues that today's birthright citizenship debacle was actually a win, and we should dial back the doom. I'd like to buy it, but I'm not there yet.
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How many dimensions does his chessboard have?

I saw the blurb at Insty but didn't click through to read it. At first blush, it sounds like copium.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2026 04:59 PM (vTZFs)

183 Re Hilldog, I'm not saying she has IMPRESSIVE accomplishments, only that she's done a bit more than suck Joe's cock.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 30, 2026 05:00 PM (XMwZJ)

184 So why did they have to make up the story about British feudal claims being our citizenship tradition.

It's bullshit. Alito and Thomas clearly illustrate how there is more immediate context decades within the ratification of the 14th amendment.
Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 04:52 PM (Fi81e)

Note, in English Feudal society, a Peasant owed 1 day a week worth of labor, to his Lord... as 1 day was God's, that meant 1/6 of his labor either in work, or Money.

So, 16.66%. Let's see... 12.4% Social Security... close.

25%- 30% combined state, local, Fed, income tax.

Property tax? ie paying the lord to live on hour land... another 1% or so

Sales Tax? oh... 9% here. then of course Gas Tax.

Sounds like we are a hell of a lot WORSE off then Peasants were.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 05:00 PM (mP0Kj)

185 176 149> Kurt Schlichter likes the treachery of the five SCOTUS women

Think of the Savings! Instead of raising money to send missionaries to the shitholes, bring the shitholes to the missionaries!

The new proselytes will even provide a gratuitous glorious bonfire at your church to show their appreciation.

Posted by: Community Notes at June 30, 2026 04:58 PM (xE0sV)

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Birthright citizenship was never our biggest problem in immigration. It was the open borders was the problem.

And Trump is cracking down so much on even legal immigration that birthright citizenship is going to be even less of an issue over time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 05:00 PM (qd4Mv)

186 171 Kurt Schlichter argues that today's birthright citizenship debacle was actually a win, and we should dial back the doom. I'd like to buy it, but I'm not there yet.
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How many dimensions does his chessboard have?
Posted by: Methos at June 30, 2026 04:56 PM (vSvIl)

It’s a grid like everyone else’s.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 05:00 PM (Gqar8)

187 Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Barrett do vote on principle; their vote was entirely predictable to anyone familiar with how the courts work. It’s just that their principle is wrong, reflecting the old and established view of the 14th Amendment that we are currently challenging with new scholarship.
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So why did they have to make up the story about British feudal claims being our citizenship tradition.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 04:52 PM (Fi81e)

Because birthright citizenship was taken as a given until recently. I don't think it was discussed in any textbook other than as being axiomatic. It's one of those things like "The New Deal ended the Great Depression" that you were just told is true.

Roberts (and Barrett) seem to think that they need to preserve institutional credibility, as if they can control anything so nebulous. And doubtless Roberts knew that Thomas would wheel out one of his history lesson specials in a dissent. So he went looking for support for what he "knew" was already there. That he had to fall back on feudalism is actually kind of funny. Apparently nothing else less on-the-nose on our 250th birthday would work at all.

Posted by: the lower depths at June 30, 2026 05:00 PM (b4kuR)

188 I was hoping to find something funny to post from AI with the following prompts.

1. Gemini, can you do a web search to determine the total number of positive websites devoted to the beauty and style of Michelle Obama please?

2. How about the intellect and greatness of Barack Obama?

3. Are there sites yet dedicated to the grandeur of the Obama Presidential Library?

Okay, I feel better. That was funny but too much to post.

Speaking of Mooch, an India-Indian guy came around to talk about internet providers. He really liked my monkey statue. He told me he took a picture.

Posted by: Stateless - He's not heavy, he's my dog! at June 30, 2026 05:00 PM (Sco7b)

189 Schlichter in summary:
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So what if the court is acting like the superlegislature the Federalist Papers said would invalidate their reason for being--we're one seat away from reversing all this.... it the Democrats don't win, stack the courts, doing laps with this verdict.

I sorta get where he's coming from. The battle is not completely lost. I just can't agree that the SCOTUS having "seats" and "votes" and invalidating themselves--by the admission in this very opinion piece--it's a recoverable situation.

Because you've accepted the rogue behavior of a branch that continually expands its area of review. And seems in no hurry to reign the overreach of their profession in, just "Hey, guys, knock off the restraining order from one regional judge stuff!"

I never was thinking this is the end. It's a part--perhaps a shadow of the end--but he's trying to talk me out of a funk that I'm not in, and normalizing court expansion (which is happening anyway).

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 05:01 PM (Fi81e)

190 Didn't I see Michelle holding a sign saying, "Bring Back out Girls?" Slavery is alive and well in Nigeria, with girls being kidnapped daily. Not a word from her about that though, is there???
Posted by: moki at June 30, 2026 04:59 PM (wLjpr)
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No money in it. House staff don't come free.

Posted by: mrp at June 30, 2026 05:01 PM (rj6Yv)

191 How many dimensions does his chessboard have?
Posted by: Methos at June 30, 2026 04:56 PM (vSvIl)

It's a Klein board.

Posted by: stuffed up its own butt at June 30, 2026 05:01 PM (gKWVE)

192 Would that be the committee from which she was fired by Sam Ervin for lying?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2026 04:51

She wasn’t fired, but Jerry Zeifman did call her unethical and wouldn’t give her a letter or recommendation. Leopards, spots.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 05:01 PM (Dd38x)

193 Hey Obama, you know who else were slave holders? Every Muslim dynasty in history, American Indians, your ancestors, Michelle's ancestors, Kamala Harris's ancestors, West Africans who held and sold slaves, and on, and on.

None of my ancestors ever were slave holders however one of them died on the battlefield of Gettysburg fighting against the South. He left a young wife with two small babies. You wouldn't know greatness if it smacked you on your bony ass.

Posted by: Cheri at June 30, 2026 05:02 PM (oiNtH)

194 Didn't I see Michelle holding a sign saying, "Bring Back out Girls?" Slavery is alive and well in Nigeria, with girls being kidnapped daily. Not a word from her about that though, is there???
Posted by: moki at June 30, 2026 04:59 PM (wLjpr)

Yeah, that was a thing for a short while.

Too bad she didn't know anyone capable of doing anything.

Posted by: Stateless - He's not heavy, he's my dog! at June 30, 2026 05:02 PM (Sco7b)

195 “We did NOT come here to coexist. We are superior to everyone else and will not be surpassed. No one is above us. If other factions want to live with under our guidance, they have to worship our Precedents!!” -- The Judge Class

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 05:03 PM (Fi81e)

196 >>> So, America's 250th anniversary will be "celebrated" under foreign occupation.
I'm sure the fireworks will be pretty, though.
Posted by: Methos at June 30, 2026 04:55 PM (vSvIl)

They will! But not out in the west where they've been banned, because the west is burning really bad this year.

Silver linings... because of the World Cup, we are exporting the joys of ranch dressing over to the Europeans. And they now know the sweet meaty joy that is southern BBQ, before the Muslim caliphates take over Europe and ban all pork.

Posted by: LizLem at June 30, 2026 05:03 PM (gWBY1)

197 Do any of us doubt Michelle Obama is a witch? She doesn’t exactly hide this.
Posted by: Piper"

I haven't been following this angle. What did she say about this?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 30, 2026 05:03 PM (zQPHf)

198 The true solution to birthright citizenship is kicking people out of the country and preventing more from coming in.

Net out-migration for the first time in decades last year.

The SCOTUS case was a loss, there are ways around it, there's more political will now than before to deal with it, but the overall effort now is towards remigration. At least 2.5 more years of this, and if the cleanup in elections and immigration is as significant as possible, the win from 2024 can look like small beans by 2028.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 05:03 PM (qd4Mv)

199 Many many years ago, on this very blog, I said Michelle looked like a gorilla.

I was chastised.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 30, 2026 05:03 PM (R0XxO)

200 She was part of the house judiciary legal team that drafted the memo on what is an impeachable offense during the watergate hearings. This was when she was fresh out of Yale. A little ironic, no?
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 04:48 PM (Dd38x)

I seem to recall she was almost fired from the committee for lying about something or other..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 30, 2026 05:03 PM (nbLIj)

201 What a maroon.

Just as one could unfortunately be born into slavery.

It also follows, one could be born into a slaveholding family. With me so far?

Now what? You modern sophisticated people say “I would have freed my slaves”

Maybe. Highly doubtful. The first problem, there wasn’t anyplace for them to go. Let’s say you owned 75 slaves on your plantation.

They cost the equivalent of about $50,000 or more per. Democrats would be the last on the planet to do something like that.

Plus, inheritance and bankruptcy law was quite different back then. As the heir to an Estate, you were on the hook for debts. That is not the case today.

They had Debtor’s Prisons. Totally awful. If you think modern or historical Democrats would go to prison and forfeit hundreds of thousands of dollars in “assets” you’re smoking your socks.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 05:04 PM (P7T1m)

202 Reminder - Chicago is still a sanctuary city.

@EricLDaugh
SHERIDAN GORMAN'S MOM JUST NOW TO DEMOCRATS:

"I need you to imagine this is YOUR daughter."

"Because I'm VERY sure you won't be cutting off anyone when they're speaking."

"You won't, I'd be very sure you won't call this a 'political stunt!'"

"The grief is real. Every day I wake up with unimaginable pain. I wake up in the middle of the night and I think, did my daughter cry for me? She made it 40 feet, she made it 40 feet running for her life. Did she cry out for me? She died on that pavement all by herself, lonely, bleeding on that pavement."

"And I will never, ever rest. I actually have to say that I am devastated my husband and I. We're only a couple years away from retirement. I've worked my whole life so hard. All I wanted to do was just enjoy our children. Just wanted to enjoy my Sheridan."

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2026 05:05 PM (Dv3i1)

203 Gorilla my dreams!

Posted by: Barky McDogeaterface at June 30, 2026 05:05 PM (MWfyi)

204 "institutional credibility" lol
*spit*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 30, 2026 05:05 PM (VyBeY)

205 199 Many many years ago, on this very blog, I said Michelle looked like a gorilla.

I was chastised.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 30, 2026 05:03 PM (R0XxO)

Like, why you hate gorilla?

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 05:05 PM (Gqar8)

206 Someone needs to explain to me anything good that came out of this Birthright ruling

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 05:06 PM (Ia/+0)

207 Kurt Schlichter argues that today's birthright citizenship debacle was actually a win, and we should dial back the doom. I'd like to buy it, but I'm not there yet.

https://tinyurl.com/2ssvcptw
Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2026 04:43 PM (Riz8t)

That read an awful lot like the captain of the Titanic telling us that hitting the iceberg is wonderful because it was only, just barely, big enough to sink the ship.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 05:06 PM (ExV1e)

208 Would that be the committee from which she was fired by Sam Ervin for lying?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2026 04:51

She wasn’t fired, but Jerry Zeifman did call her unethical and wouldn’t give her a letter or recommendation. Leopards, spots.

Okay, you win this one. But I'll be back!

Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2026 05:06 PM (Riz8t)

209
The SNL skit with Carvey as Stewart and Hartman as Reagan was probably the last funny one they aired.

Posted by: Auspex at June 30, 2026 05:06 PM (Y8DZL)

210 Roberts (and Barrett) seem to think that they need to preserve institutional credibility...
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Right oh. So much credibility in making us all servants of a sovereign in service to once again taking the Dredd Scott decision to the woodshed. Because!

It would be funny, except FFS, that actually just happened. It takes really smart dipshit people to fuck something up so completely upside down and backwards without realizing they will be mocked for generations over this rationale.

Posted by: Turn off the GD superconducting supercollider we're already through the Irony Wormhole at June 30, 2026 05:07 PM (anL5R)

211 199 Many many years ago, on this very blog, I said Michelle looked like a gorilla.

I was chastised.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 30, 2026 05:03 PM (R0XxO)

I was thinking about that when I was upstairs. There was a point where calling Mooch a Wookie or Worf was very frowned upon.

McCain was around.

That was not who we were....

Shockingly, the left didn't reciprocate our restraint.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 30, 2026 05:07 PM (Sco7b)

212 Many many years ago, on this very blog, I said Michelle looked like a gorilla.

I was chastised.
Posted by: nurse ratched
_____

It was probably Malor.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 30, 2026 05:07 PM (XvL8K)

213 Many many years ago, on this very blog, I said Michelle looked like a gorilla.
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Why would you say something like that? That’s not true. (I’ve heard comparisons to the Star Wars Wookie )

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 05:07 PM (P7T1m)

214 I absolutely cannot abide Jimmy Stewart and his fake "aw shucks" stuttering.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Of all the Hollywood stars at the time, Jimmy served his country--flew quite a few bombing raids and you can see his PTSD affecting him in It's a Wonderful Life. Cue the prayer scene.

Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 05:07 PM (E4rtv)

215 It was probably Malor.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 30, 2026 05:07 PM (XvL8K)

He was a catty bitch.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 30, 2026 05:07 PM (dK+Kv)

216 Barry Obama had 8 years to fix America and I'm still trying figure out what he did beside run his cockhole. His legacy is that he gave us Sleepy Joe Biden and Kamala.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 30, 2026 05:08 PM (fkjGs)

217 "It was probably Malor.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

I wasn't too happy either.

Posted by: Magilla at June 30, 2026 05:08 PM (MWfyi)

218 206 Someone needs to explain to me anything good that came out of this Birthright ruling
Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 05:06 PM (Ia/+0)

Haven't you noticed how pissed off people are about it here? I know that a lot of Republicans have Stockholm Syndrome after years of Mitch and co, but it is possible to turn a court defeat into a political issue. Dims wouldn't shut up about "reproductive rights" after Dobbs and still whine about it.

Posted by: the lower depths at June 30, 2026 05:08 PM (b4kuR)

219 110> We're killing the French with our air conditioners.

I blame the air-conditioners not be securely attached to upper floor windows.

Posted by: Community Notes at June 30, 2026 05:08 PM (a3CJ+)

220 Birthright citizenship was never our biggest problem in immigration. It was the open borders was the problem.

And Trump is cracking down so much on even legal immigration that birthright citizenship is going to be even less of an issue over time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 05:00 PM (qd4Mv)

Nope, three Supreme Court decisions show how dangerous this becomes.

1. Birth tourist to the US, kid is a citizen.
2. Dual Citizenship Legal by Supreme Court Fiat.
3. All Citizens right to vote, and vote by mail.

So, ChiCom comes here on a Visa and has a kid, goes back to China.

18 years later, Kid, never having lived in the US is still a Dual Citizen with the right to vote. Registers ONLINE because there is no verification process... then changes the address to where they want the ballot sent, in China.

Hell, due to international mail... it does not even look like the Ballot needs to be postmarked by the USPS by election day, but could be done by a foreign post office, and we'd still have to count it due to current law.

Even without other cheating, this takes the control of our elections OUT of the hands of Native Cits.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 05:08 PM (mP0Kj)

221 It was probably Malor.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
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AOS is well rid of that asshole. I'd imagine it is so enlarged now as to encompass all of his head.

Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 05:08 PM (E4rtv)

222 Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 05:01 PM (Dd38x)

Ah, so I sorta 'membered...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 30, 2026 05:08 PM (nbLIj)

223 So, buying books to make sure the advance to the author was "financially justified" is not money laundering for what reason?

Posted by: Kindltot at June 30, 2026 05:08 PM (rbvCR)

224 We're killing the French with our air conditioners.

I blame the air-conditioners not be securely attached to upper floor windows.

Posted by: Community Notes at June 30, 2026 05:08 PM (a3CJ+)

Never look a gift-horse in the mouth.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 30, 2026 05:09 PM (dK+Kv)

225 That read an awful lot like the captain of the Titanic telling us that hitting the iceberg is wonderful because it was only, just barely, big enough to sink the ship.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Like saying cancer is your best friend.

Posted by: Tuna at June 30, 2026 05:09 PM (lJ0H4)

226 HBO is dogshit.

I refuse to subscribe to a Streaming vehicle that hates America and Americans.

Posted by: YosemiteSatchmo at June 30, 2026 05:09 PM (tlMsu)

227 208 Okay, you win this one. But I'll be back!
Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2026 05:06

Have no fear, I am not the Horde Historian by any stretch!

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 05:09 PM (Dd38x)

228 219 110> We're killing the French with our air conditioners.

I blame the air-conditioners not be securely attached to upper floor windows.
Posted by: Community Notes at June 30, 2026 05:08 PM (a3CJ+)

If any Hawt French Babes want to come over and 'share' my Air Conditioning? I'll take one for the team to help international relations!

Hell... I've even got a Bikini ready swimming pool out back.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 05:10 PM (mP0Kj)

229 "We're killing the French with our air conditioners."

Maybe trebuchet was not the best way to deliver them.

Posted by: Magilla at June 30, 2026 05:10 PM (MWfyi)

230 Like saying cancer is your best friend.

Posted by: Tuna at June 30, 2026 05:09 PM (lJ0H4)
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What doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger.

Posted by: Friedrich Nietzsche at June 30, 2026 05:10 PM (Fi81e)

231 Why did Michelle and Jill get photographed for multitudes of magazine covers, yet Melania only ever made a small handful?

I think our culture deliberately moved away from beauty as a standard in order to stick it to Trump.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2026 05:10 PM (Dv3i1)

232 226 HBO is dogshit.

I refuse to subscribe to a Streaming vehicle that hates America and Americans.

Posted by: YosemiteSatchmo

Larry David is not someone I admire nor want to watch. Guy is evil essentially. Jason Alexander based his character George in Seinfeld on Larry David and his mannerisms.

Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 05:10 PM (E4rtv)

233 221 It was probably Malor.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
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AOS is well rid of that asshole. I'd imagine it is so enlarged now as to encompass all of his head.
Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 05:08 PM (E4rtv

Cannot think of anyone who was bounced from or flounced off from the HQ that I miss, or was a net loss.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 05:11 PM (Gqar8)

234 Leftists use books for money laundering , they get milloons and sell 100 books

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 05:11 PM (Ia/+0)

235 Michelle Obama goes on Jimmy Kimmel Live for marketing campaigns for herself and hubby. Her husband was & continues to be a Netflix president, much like Zelenskyy.

PS - Caroline Kennedy and the rest of the tribe kiss the butts of the Os.

From above, "Former President Barack Obama took aim at the Founding Fathers ahead of America's 250th anniversary, saying they held a "deep flaw" for their ties to slavery despite being "geniuses."

No surprise. At the minimum, see Philly & the signing of the Declaration of Independence. (In January, the National Park Service removed a prominent slavery exhibit from the President’s House site in Philadelphia. The removal was part of the Trump administration's "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" initiative. The city of Philadelphia sued to restore the displays, but a federal appeals court ruled that the administration has the authority to alter the site.) Also, the Smithsonian stirs the pot a lot.

Include a huge offering of the worse programming ever for the 4th of July holiday in Philadelphia and you know exactly how 'some' think and feel.
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See what states wildly purchased Jill's book for their library systems.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 30, 2026 05:11 PM (NFX2v)

236 223 So, buying books to make sure the advance to the author was "financially justified" is not money laundering for what reason?

Posted by: Kindltot at June 30, 2026 05:08 PM (rbvCR)

I'd like to see a stockholder lawsuit asking about that practice, because it can't be good for business.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 05:11 PM (mP0Kj)

237 Many many years ago, on this very blog, I said Michelle looked like a gorilla.

I was chastised.
Posted by: nurse ratched

I will send you the Patterson–Gimlin film of Michelle taking a walk in the woods

Posted by: Kindltot at June 30, 2026 05:11 PM (rbvCR)

238 If any Hawt French Babes want to come over and 'share' my Air Conditioning? I'll take one for the team to help international relations!
____

Have them bathed, shaved, and brought to your air conditioned tent?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2026 05:12 PM (Dv3i1)

239 216 Barry Obama had 8 years to fix America and I'm still trying figure out what he did beside run his cockhole. His legacy is that he gave us Sleepy Joe Biden and Kamala.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

Obama's legacy was and is, Donald Trump. Unintentional Consequences don't need to bad all the time.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 30, 2026 05:12 PM (sAmhv)

240 I think our culture deliberately moved away from beauty as a standard in order to stick it to Trump.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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I think the haute couture crowd is essentially dying out. Ugly shit couture and ugly models don't exactly create anything to emulate.

Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 05:12 PM (E4rtv)

241 You know who else had a deep flaw.

Posted by: Magilla at June 30, 2026 05:12 PM (MWfyi)

242 Of course they're doing a Hate the USA series on it's 250th birthday. Because they do.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 30, 2026 05:12 PM (n5tGW)

243 Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 05:01 PM (Dd38x)

Ah, so I sorta 'membered...
Posted by: Joe Kidd
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Yeah, her boss totally said he would have fired her if he had the power to do it.
called her a liar, unethical and other stuff.

She's a real peach alright.

Posted by: Turn off the GD superconducting supercollider we're already through the Irony Wormhole at June 30, 2026 05:13 PM (anL5R)

244 That is not the Gorilla Channel I was looking for.

Posted by: PDT at June 30, 2026 05:13 PM (wBRco)

245 240 I think our culture deliberately moved away from beauty as a standard in order to stick it to Trump.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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I think the haute couture crowd is essentially dying out. Ugly shit couture and ugly models don't exactly create anything to emulate.
Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 05:12 PM (E4rtv)

Hmmm - Ella Emhoff.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 05:13 PM (Gqar8)

246 Larry David is not someone I admire nor want to watch. Guy is evil essentially. Jason Alexander based his character George in Seinfeld on Larry David and his mannerisms.

Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 05:10 PM (E4rtv)
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David wrote George as himself. So it makes sense that Alexander patterned himself after David.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 05:13 PM (Fi81e)

247 237 Many many years ago, on this very blog, I said Michelle looked like a gorilla.

I was chastised.
Posted by: nurse ratched

I will send you the Patterson–Gimlin film of Michelle taking a walk in the woods

Posted by: Kindltot at June 30, 2026 05:11 PM (rbvCR)

I seem to remember a bannination threat about Wookie Jokes.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 05:13 PM (mP0Kj)

248 There once was a guy named Big Mike

Who tried to pass himself off as a dyke

Shacked up with 0berry, who was himself quite the fairy

Etc because I couldn't think of the ending

Posted by: The Ballots at June 30, 2026 05:13 PM (jrgJz)

249 "Which is why it's possible for me to be a great admirer of George Washington, and also acknowledge he was a slaveholder," said Obama in an interview Sunday with MSNOW"

IOW. I'm better than he was.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at June 30, 2026 05:13 PM (FxH7T)

250 I don’t really think Jimmy Stewart was acting. That’s pretty much WYSIWYG personified. He was a combat pilot of several B-24 bombing raids. A fine man. By all accounts an excellent commander.

Boeing B-17s hogged a lot of the spotlight, but B-24 production dwarfed Wichita’s output. I think Ford’s River Rouge plant, the largest in the world at the time, was churning out a B-24 every hour 24/7 at one point.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 05:13 PM (P7T1m)

251 Cannot think of anyone who was bounced from or flounced off from the HQ that I miss, or was a net loss.
Posted by: tubal
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I agree with you but I see others on particular individuals they happened to like do not.

Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 05:14 PM (E4rtv)

252
I seem to remember a bannination threat about Wookie Jokes.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 05:13 PM (mP0Kj)

Probably before adpocalypse.

After? Nothing to lose.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 30, 2026 05:14 PM (dK+Kv)

253 238 If any Hawt French Babes want to come over and 'share' my Air Conditioning? I'll take one for the team to help international relations!
____

Have them bathed, shaved, and brought to your air conditioned tent?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2026 05:12 PM (Dv3i1)

Ah Yes, The Zod Protocol... good call.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 05:14 PM (mP0Kj)

254 It wasn't a complete flop," Cobello said, pointing to its continued appearance on the USA Today bestseller list after it exited the Times rankings

Ahh. The more selective audience marketing scheme

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at June 30, 2026 05:15 PM (FxH7T)

255 >>> 206 Someone needs to explain to me anything good that came out of this Birthright ruling
Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 05:06 PM (Ia/+0)

USAID defunded means right wing leaders getting voted in in South America, which means they can finally clean up their countries, which hopefully means less illegals coming here to escape those countries.

It can still be changed by a new constitutional amendment (good luck with that though).

And the scotus ruling can be a rallying cry to pass the save act?

That's all I got, sorry.

Posted by: LizLem at June 30, 2026 05:15 PM (gWBY1)

256 My phone keeps buzzing with EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNINGs

It's currently 88 degrees outside.
Posted by: Midnight Rambler at June 30, 2026 04:50 PM (8JR9p)

I believe that's hot enough to kill half of Europe. The native half not employed as government overseers.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 05:16 PM (ExV1e)

257 Didn't I see Michelle holding a sign saying, "Bring Back out Girls?" Slavery is alive and well in Nigeria, with girls being kidnapped daily. Not a word from her about that though, is there???
Posted by: moki at June 30, 2026 04:59 PM (wLjpr)

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That's as far as she was prepared to go for Christian girls.

Posted by: Decaf at June 30, 2026 05:16 PM (ZNpJk)

258 I remember the midnight ride of Killgore Trout

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 05:17 PM (gKWVE)

259 Hey everyone I will be visiting all the "Gay Bars" in NYC to garner votes for me in Novemeber.

Like my good friend Kamala would say:

"CUM out and show me what you got" !!!

Posted by: Senatoor Chucky "Gay Pride Boy" Shomore at June 30, 2026 05:17 PM (KmLJe)

260 And the scotus ruling can be a rallying cry to pass the save act?
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that'll never get passed. It will upset the carefully entrenched system of mutual chicanery which affords our leaders lifestyles to which they could never hope to achieve honestly.

Posted by: Here, have some painful truth at June 30, 2026 05:17 PM (anL5R)

261 USAID defunded means right wing leaders getting voted in in South America, which means they can finally clean up their countries, which hopefully means less illegals coming here to escape those countries.

It can still be changed by a new constitutional amendment (good luck with that though).

And the scotus ruling can be a rallying cry to pass the save act?

That's all I got, sorry.
Posted by: LizLem at June 30, 2026 05:15 PM (gWBY1)

Well that and I imagine most people have no idea about Chinese birth tourism and the like. Seems like a good issue to get people angry about, and we do have even squishes like Tom Emmer talking about Somalis going back, so formerly verboten topics are being talked about outside of X (other than Michael Obama looking like a gorilla).

Posted by: the lower depths at June 30, 2026 05:18 PM (b4kuR)

262 Didn't I see Michelle holding a sign saying, "Bring Back out Girls?"

Posted by: moki at June 30, 2026 04:59 PM (wLjpr)
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She only wanted the "out" girls brought back. The straight and closeted ones were getting just desserts.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 05:18 PM (Fi81e)

263 M is for Wookie.
That's good enough for me.
M is for Wookie.
That's good enough me.
Wookie, wookie, wookie starts with M.

Posted by: First Ladypenis at June 30, 2026 05:18 PM (5Gtet)

264 think ~~our culture~~ they deliberately moved away from beauty as a standard in order to stick it to Trump
——-

No, this predates the Trumpster by quite a lot. Decades even.

Beauty is a “social construct”. It’s part and parcel of the Frankfort School of deconstructionism and Critical Theory. Thus a hot female, is only beautiful because reasons. There are no objective standards of beauty, you see.

Yes, they are insane.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 05:19 PM (i+HwW)

265 I'm eagerly awaiting the release of Joe Biden's presidential memoirs and the disastrous book tour that follows.

They better hurry before he forgets how to walk.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 30, 2026 05:19 PM (6ydKt)

266 And the scotus ruling can be a rallying cry to pass the save act?
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that'll never get passed. It will upset the carefully entrenched system of mutual chicanery which affords our leaders lifestyles to which they could never hope to achieve honestly.

Posted by: Here, have some painful truth at June 30, 2026 05:17 PM (anL5R)
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Plus, no judge has signed off on the idea we're allowed to do that.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 05:19 PM (Fi81e)

267 Detailed history of Stewart's WWII history.
https://tinyurl.com/Jimmy-Stewart-WWII

Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 05:19 PM (E4rtv)

268 Barry rewrites history like he creates composite, fictitious, college girlfriends. Everybody knows that Paki on the couch was packing his fudge.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 30, 2026 05:20 PM (fkjGs)

269
I absolutely cannot abide Jimmy Stewart and his fake "aw shucks" stuttering.
Posted by: Archimedes

How about the "aw shucks" meanderings of Senator John Kennedy?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 30, 2026 05:20 PM (Cqx++)

270 267 Detailed history of Stewart's WWII history.
https://tinyurl.com/Jimmy-Stewart-WWII
Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 05:19 PM (E4rtv)

Part of why he seems so unhinged in parts of 'It's a Wonderful Life' was apparently due to his war stress.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 30, 2026 05:20 PM (xcxpd)

271 I'm eagerly awaiting the release of Joe Biden's presidential memoirs and the disastrous book tour that follows.

They better hurry before he forgets how to walk.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 30, 2026 05:19 PM (6ydKt)
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It sold 81 million copies day #1.

...

Somehow nobody seems to know that many people how have one

...

Posted by: From the Future at June 30, 2026 05:20 PM (Fi81e)

272 I think the NYT just makes up its ‘bestseller’ lists. Actual book sales — bulk or otherwise — probably account for maybe 25% of their rankings. The rest is pure ideological dogshit.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at June 30, 2026 05:20 PM (qLMMh)

273 And the scotus ruling can be a rallying cry to pass the save act?
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Do you really think, given the effort SCOTUS has put into preserving the voting privileges of foreigners (just this week), that they'd let the Save act stand?

Posted by: Methos at June 30, 2026 05:21 PM (vSvIl)

274 Yep, Congress loves to keep the barely a majority on either side so nothing ever gets done and they all have an excuse.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 30, 2026 05:21 PM (n5tGW)

275 Cannot think of anyone who was bounced from or flounced off from the HQ that I miss, or was a net loss.
Posted by: tubal

AtC

Posted by: Ann at June 30, 2026 05:21 PM (SHHm+)

276 267 Detailed history of Stewart's WWII history.
https://tinyurl.com/Jimmy-Stewart-WWII
Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 05:19 PM (E4rtv)

We live in a cynical age. That being said there is little to nothing bad to be said about the guy.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 05:21 PM (Gqar8)

277 Part of why he seems so unhinged in parts of 'It's a Wonderful Life' was apparently due to his war stress.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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True.

Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 05:21 PM (E4rtv)

278 Someone needs to explain to me anything good that came out of this Birthright ruling
Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 05:06 PM (Ia/+0)

With the other decision that gave Trump his immigration powers back, there's definitely going to be ways to work around this decision to have the same result we were looking toward.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 30, 2026 05:21 PM (g8Ew8)

279 That's all I got, sorry.
Posted by: LizLem at June 30, 2026 05:15 PM (gWBY1)

Never be sorry for having hope, LizLem.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 05:21 PM (hzuYO)

280 13 Who would want to read a book by the trophy wife of a retard?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2026 04:26 PM (mPXxA)

If that bitch is a trophy, I'd hate to be the winner.

Posted by: Every Leftist Asshat at June 30, 2026 05:21 PM (bl07w)

281 275: She still posts here, now and then.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 30, 2026 05:22 PM (sAmhv)

282 250 I don’t really think Jimmy Stewart was acting. That’s pretty much WYSIWYG personified. He was a combat pilot of several B-24 bombing raids. A fine man. By all accounts an excellent commander.

Boeing B-17s hogged a lot of the spotlight, but B-24 production dwarfed Wichita’s output. I think Ford’s River Rouge plant, the largest in the world at the time, was churning out a B-24 every hour 24/7 at one point.
Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 05:13 PM (P7T1m)

Consolidated was in the business of punishment

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 30, 2026 05:22 PM (xcxpd)

283 NOOD - new media talking points on socialism etc.

Posted by: the lower depths at June 30, 2026 05:23 PM (b4kuR)

284 Nope, three Supreme Court decisions show how dangerous this becomes.

1. Birth tourist to the US, kid is a citizen.
2. Dual Citizenship Legal by Supreme Court Fiat.
3. All Citizens right to vote, and vote by mail.
———

The Court held that American citizens were on the hook financially to support illegal aliens in government schools. They should have been impeached right then and there, and Congress remedied this fairy tale abomination permanently.

A “Citizen” is merely a second class Chump in our world today. All by design.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 05:23 PM (i+HwW)

285 Nood. The media inches closer to the truth.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 05:23 PM (ExV1e)

286 Cannot think of anyone who was bounced from or flounced off from the HQ that I miss, or was a net loss.
Posted by: tubal

AtC
Posted by: Ann at June 30, 2026 05:21 PM (SHHm+)

Empire of Jeff

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 30, 2026 05:23 PM (g8Ew8)

287 >>> Plus, no judge has signed off on the idea we're allowed to do that.
Posted by: Axeman

The Citizen Vigilante film was nonsensical ass. But I will admit, scenes like the one where he metes out rough justice on a corrupt judge was very schadenfreude inducing.

Apparently in the medieval days, if you were a corrupt judge and were caught you got flayed alive? I don't begrudge that. People in power without fear of retribution do evil things.

Posted by: LizLem at June 30, 2026 05:24 PM (gWBY1)

288 Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 30, 2026 05:22 PM (sAmhv)

I seldom see her… maybe once in the past year. I’ll have to look for her if she is back.

Posted by: Ann at June 30, 2026 05:24 PM (SHHm+)

289 Nood, y'all.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 05:24 PM (hzuYO)

290 nood! hoors!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 30, 2026 05:24 PM (VyBeY)

291 Speaking of Mooch and Mr. Mooch . . .

Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness — HBO Sketch Comedy Series
“Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness” (full title: Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America) is a 2026 American sketch comedy limited series created by Larry David and Jeff Schaffer, produced by Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions

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I'm sure it'll be Knee slapper!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 05:24 PM (ndZc7)

292 278 Someone needs to explain to me anything good that came out of this Birthright ruling
Posted by: Skip

Clarified the issue and made it a litmus test for new Scotus appointees from the GOP. Case was really a 5-4 decision as Kavanaugh's concurrence for the sixth vote was that Trump did not have that power but Congress could. Most of the bloviating that the court majority did was in fact obiter dicta not necessary to judge whether Trump had the constitutional power. And that is where Roberts and ACB being preening social virtue signalling twats went too far. Like Justice Taney trying to resolve a question forever, Roberts and co joined with the deraged leftist witch coven on the court to misread constitutional history and even British law.

Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 05:26 PM (E4rtv)

293 Cock-blocked?

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at June 30, 2026 05:26 PM (QaH55)

294 Although I now live in the Deep South, and enjoy pork BBQ, I am a native Texan, and to me BBQ means first of all beef brisket. But these days it’s gotten so pricey, I often just settle for pork! Maybe it’s cheaper in Texas, closer to the source.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 30, 2026 05:27 PM (97NWC)

295 LoJ Simpson had a trophy wife, Mooch isn't but a bad luck draw

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 05:27 PM (Ia/+0)

296 199 Many many years ago, on this very blog, I said Michelle looked like a gorilla.

I was chastised.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 30, 2026 05:03 PM (R0XxO)

Well, to be fair, there was no reason to be so mean to the gorillas.

Posted by: Every Leftist Asshat at June 30, 2026 05:28 PM (bl07w)

297 Vance and Rubio should run in 2028 on a limited birthright citizenship amendment and a few other needed amendments while they're at it.

It's a winning formula.
Need to win Congress big to do it, though.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 30, 2026 05:28 PM (6ydKt)

298 231. I think our culture deliberately moved away from beauty as a standard in order to stick it to Trump.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

Yeah. But since he's pretty much surrounded by beauty, it doesn't stick it to him too badly.

See Ella Emhoff, still a "fashion model."

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 30, 2026 05:29 PM (NFX2v)

299 I think the Europeans are playing their heat wave to be Global warming to get their citizens to cry uncle.

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 05:30 PM (Ia/+0)

300 As she ages she will more and more resemble one of those dessicated apple face dolls, but with braid extensions and false eyelashes.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 04:25 PM (hzuYO)

"You're so ugly, I can push your face into some dough and make gorilla cookies!"

Posted by: Fred Sanford at June 30, 2026 05:33 PM (5xuJ/)

301 Clearing out their elderly so they can introduce air-conditioned vaca condos for tourists with $$.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 30, 2026 05:34 PM (NFX2v)

302 Dems been at MAMA for a while.

Make America Marxist Anon.

Posted by: From the Future at June 30, 2026 05:58 PM (Fi81e)

303 I think the Europeans are playing their heat wave to be Global warming to get their citizens to cry uncle.

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 05:30 PM (Ia/+0)
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Or Egg or Seed Donor Sibling!

Posted by: From the Future at June 30, 2026 06:00 PM (Fi81e)

304 See Ella Emhoff, still a "fashion model."

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 30, 2026 05:29 PM (NFX2v)
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Didn't she change her name to "Jack"?

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 06:01 PM (Fi81e)

305 Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 30, 2026 04:47 PM (jehhT)

I always liked the 'Bigger than Medium Mike Mike' formulation; miserable person. The entire world will feel the relief of a solid bowel movement when she finally departs this mortal coil.

Posted by: Nelly at June 30, 2026 06:10 PM (6+ehB)

Another Mamdani-Backed Muslim Wins Democrat Primary for State Senator; Claims That "Racism, Capitalism, White Supremacy, and Islamophobia" "Manifested" in 9/11

She says that 9/11 was just the manifestation of America's "long trajectory" of "racism, capitalism, white supremacy" and "islamophobia" and the "manifestation" of these crimes -- the chickens coming home to roost -- was 9/11.

She excuses terrorists because they come from "colonized lands" and uses Ilhan Omar's formulation that Muslims shouldn't have to apologize for something "a couple of people did" and goes further: she demands apologies for "genocide and slavery" plus reparations before she'll consider offering her own apologies.

She's also clearly brain-damaged, as she cannot speak three words without saying "like," "um," or "you know."

By the way, Muslims are the most enslaving race in history and are still enslaving people.

Muslim Mamdani-backed socialist primary winner suggested America deserved 9/11 in unearthed video

Aber Kawas, the daughter of a deported Jordanian national, won the Democratic primary for a deeply blue Queens district
Another radical far-left candidate backed by socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is under fire after a resurfaced social media clip shows her appearing to suggest that America deserved the September 11, 2001, terror attacks.
Aber Kawas is the Muslim daughter of illegal aliens who is now the Democratic nominee for the New York State Senate District 12. Like Mamdani, Kawas is a socialist.

"The system of capitalism and racism and White supremacy... and Islamophobia have all been used to colonize lands, to take resources from other people and so this is a long trajectory, and we're just seeing the manifestations of that continuation with 9/11," she said in a 2017 episode of the Asian American Writers' Association podcast titled "Islamophobia beyond 9/11 with Aber Kawas."
She then downplayed the horrific attack.

"The idea we have to apologize for a terror attack that a couple of people did and then there is no apology or reparations for genocides and for slavery... is something I find reprehensible," she said.

...
She has also reportedly been affiliated with the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has previously been designated as a terrorist organization in some U.S. states and other countries.
Her father, Jordanian national Abdelkareem Kawas, came to the United States on a tourist visa in 1989 and never left, according to the New York Post. He was later deported after a conviction for real estate fraud and a prison stint.
Kawas made this story central to her campaign and portrayed it on the trail as cruel persecution by immigration authorities of her father.

She won the very blue district she was running in, which means she's running essentially unopposed in November.

New York City just elected Aber Kwas to their State Senate.

This is her blaming 9/11 on America because of our �system of capitalism, racism, white supremacy and islamophobia.� pic.twitter.com/ns0TmK1P18
— America (@america) June 24, 2026

Ron DeSantis
@RonDeSantis

Imagine if, in the aftermath of 9/11, someone told you within 25 years someone like this would be getting elected in NYC -- would you have believed it?

I don't know if this is the same woman. I guess it's not. But here's someone hired by Mamdani:

Here�s a woman who was hired by Zohran Mamdani.

Let me say a few words.

You don�t have to be �pro police� for this video to make your skin crawl.

You don�t need a thin blue line.

You don�t need a badge and shield or to consider yourself a conservative.

You just have to� pic.twitter.com/lV0g8MLPuP
— Sweeenie (@sweeenie) June 29, 2026

The next Congresswoman from the 12th district of New York, a communist Muslim convert and anchor baby named Darializa Alvia Chevalier, wants to know why New York is sending money to Israel for a "genocide" while spending no money on public education.

A community note adds some context:

NYC public schools FY2026 budget is $45 billion (~$35k per student). National K-12 spending exceeds $980 billion annually. US aid to Israel is about $3.8 billion/year.

BTW, school enrollment in NYC has plunged since covid and the general enshittification process of communist mayors. And yet the budget for schools zoomed upwards.

Meanwhile, "Islamic scholars" proclaim that America and indeed all Western nations are now under Islamic control and there's nothing you can do about that.

Islamic scholar Mohammad Nusairat in Chicago drops the mask:

�We did NOT come here to coexist. We are superior to everyone else and will not be surpassed. No one is above us. If other religions want to live with us, they have to worship Allah� pic.twitter.com/6X56NK0HBo
— SonofLiberty357 (@SonofLiberty357) June 29, 2026

Just fill in �U.K.� with name of ANY western country.

Islamic scholar in UK says:

"We will transform the UK into an Islamic state and impose humiliating laws on Christians and other non-Muslims to make them want to convert to Islam." pic.twitter.com/IDk2YP9Bjq
— SonofLiberty357 (@SonofLiberty357) June 29, 2026

This asshole wants to know why people on the right don't complain about the Amish. It's like he reads the comments.

Joshua Reed Eakle
@JoshEakle
Setting aside half the misinformation in this post, the Amish are also clearly a community that refuses to assimilate to American society.
And yet no one on the right seems to care. Curious.

Bonchie
@bonchieredstate
"The Amish? The people who have been in America since its founding, produce virtually no crime, consume almost no welfare, and don't demand the country be changed for them?"

Tucker Carlson continues feting Russia government operatives as "wise men," including the Russian "Merchant of Death" convicted of selling arms to terrorists (who was let out of prison in exchange for WNBA pothead Briney Griner).

Tuq'r is plainly making common cause with communists and Islamists to fight the real enemy, Jewish Capitalism, as Hitler always called it.

Dana Loesch writes:

Dana Loesch
@DLoesch
Tucker thinks he's smart enough to use Islamism as a way to usher in socialism (red/green) but in reality, Islamists are using him as a stooge to spread Islamism.
David Brock 2.0

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:20 PM

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1 1?

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 03:22 PM (Ia/+0)

2 Well I'll be
Have to go find them

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 03:22 PM (Ia/+0)

3 And dutifully called em

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 03:23 PM (Ia/+0)

4 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 03:24 PM (2YhKe)

5 She excuses terrorists because they come from "colonized lands"

That is a level of delusion so bad that the average schizophrenic would be calling them crazy.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 30, 2026 03:24 PM (/k3in)

6 She says that 9/11 was just the manifestation of America's "long trajectory" of "racism, capitalism, white supremacy" and "islamophobia" and the "manifestation" of these crimes -- the chickens coming home to roost -- was 9/11.

Never Forget.

Oops........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 03:24 PM (2YhKe)

7 She could have been elected president in 2008.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 03:25 PM (KqZez)

8 Go ahead and try to turn America into Americastan
Double dog dare yeah.
You want war lets have it

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 03:25 PM (Ia/+0)

9 "Claims That "Racism, Capitalism, White Supremacy, and Islamophobia" "Manifested" in 9/11"

she's a real peach, as are all the commies coming to power, for now.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 30, 2026 03:25 PM (vbXSk)

10 She excuses terrorists because they come from "colonized lands"

Weren't most of the hijackers Saudis? And the only country to colonize parts of Saudi Arabia was the Muslim Ottoman Empire...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 03:25 PM (sKqQm)

11 How far down?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 30, 2026 03:26 PM (W2MUi)

12 She seems nice.

Posted by: WisRich at June 30, 2026 03:26 PM (G0vdT)

13 'Member when we were told we have to fight them 'over there' so we don't have to fight them here?

Good times...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 30, 2026 03:26 PM (diia5)

14 I think we need to look seriously at the idea of burning these demon worshipers at the stake. Think of it as a preview of what is waiting for them on the other side.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 30, 2026 03:26 PM (/k3in)

15 All infidels need to be liquidated. I think there is no other option.

Posted by: Archer at June 30, 2026 03:26 PM (UXA3Z)

16 "The system of capitalism and racism and White supremacy... and Islamophobia have all been used to colonize lands, to take resources from other people and so this is a long trajectory, and we're just seeing the manifestations of that continuation with 9/11,"

islham has been robbing, stealing, raping, pillaging and burning for 1400 years, you insufferable twat.

GFY.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 03:26 PM (2YhKe)

17 David Brock flipped politically because twinks weren't going to literally bend over for him if he kept writing take downs of leftwing pols.

Tucker just wants $$$

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 03:27 PM (sKqQm)

18 There's a muslim, probably, guy running in Michigan. I saw his commercial the other day.

Endorsed by Bernie and the UAW!!

I have to say, seeing Ontario manufacturing leave after they supported socialists for years, I didn't cry.

And Alabama can probably use some more nice, high paying manufacturing jobs.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 30, 2026 03:27 PM (Sco7b)

19 Liberal Jewish voters spent their entire adult lives effing around in NYC, now they find out when they're too elderly to defend themselves or buy a house in the suburbs.

Posted by: God's Honest Truth at June 30, 2026 03:27 PM (TH4O4)

20 "The next Congresswoman from the 12th district of New York, a communist Muslim convert and anchor baby named Darializa Alvia Chevalier, wants to know why New York is sending money to Israel for a "genocide" while spending no money on public education."
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Didn't someone dig up an email/text of Chevalier praising North Korea?

Posted by: mrp at June 30, 2026 03:28 PM (rj6Yv)

21
Are my perceptions mistaken or are the girl DemSocs far, far wackier than the guys? Madame Defarge was a placid old biddie next to these maenads.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 03:28 PM (O0L8i)

22 Setting aside half the misinformation in this post, the Amish are also clearly a community that refuses to assimilate to American society.

And yet no one on the right seems to care. Curious.
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If dumb was a food this post would solve world hunger.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 03:28 PM (KqZez)

23 This asshole wants to know why people on the right don't complain about the Amish. It's like he reads the comments.

I was recommending the other day that leftists that want gay, fossil free socialism can and should go forum communes where they can do exactly that without bothering the rest of us.

So if they did "go Amish" I would stop complaining about them

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 03:28 PM (sKqQm)

24 They have never hidden their agenda for Ummah, the radical islamists. You will submit or die (I will die).

I have quoted here and other places that this has been known since 1999 when a scholar in the UK said basically this at a joint kumbaya coexist panel (paraphrased because I do not feel like looking for it):

Your country will collapse to islam BECAUSE your own laws of democrazy protect us.

They knew this. They knew people are bleeding hearts. They knew then they could control voting blocs with illegal immigration and no go zones for police.

They are succeeding hiding behind our laws of protection due to their religion and color of their skin.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 03:30 PM (hzuYO)

25 The further they go with this, the more a simple "Fu-uck You!" will suffice.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 03:30 PM (Fi81e)

26 93% of New Yorkers decided that it was too inconvenient to get out and vote in the most recent election. Well, congratulations.

You earned this. Never Forget, my ass. You stupid lazy f*cks just brought ISLHAM to NYC as it's LEADERSHIP.

You absolute retard mutherf*ckers. Enjoy it.

Wall up NYC. It's a cancer that needs to be removed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 03:30 PM (2YhKe)

27
The smugly bitch who was screaming at Arab NYC cops is Hadeeqa Malik, who will doubtless ascend in politics.

served as a Communications, Outreach, Policy, and Constituent Services Intern in Mamdani's New York State Assembly office

Currently:

Outreach Coordinator at CAIR

Student Lead for the Tamkeen Movement (a Muslim community organizing group)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 03:30 PM (XJ22o)

28 Another Mamdani-Backed Muslim Wins Democrat Primary for State Senator; Claims That "Racism, Capitalism, White Supremacy, and Islamophobia" "Manifested" in 9/11

He missed terrorism in that list...wonder why?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 03:31 PM (l3cgK)

29 It was social media posts and reposts of Chavalier praising NK 's Kim il-Sung.

Posted by: mrp at June 30, 2026 03:31 PM (rj6Yv)

30 Who names their kid Aber?

Posted by: I gotta ask at June 30, 2026 03:32 PM (mOAYJ)

31 the Amish are also clearly a community that refuses to assimilate to American society.

"Apple, this is Orange. I know you guys are nowhere near alike but I need you to be the same thing for my argument to work."

Posted by: NR Pax at June 30, 2026 03:32 PM (/k3in)

32 If dumb was a food this post would solve world hunger.
Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 03:28 PM (KqZez)
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He has a point as we are always pointing out Amish violence.

This is what I mean by the single-point "equality" or "overlap".

The best that you can do is apologize to them that they are so dumb such that it would be a waste of your time to explain something so simple to them.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 03:32 PM (Fi81e)

33
Communications, Outreach, Policy, and Constituent Services Intern

______________

I'LL KEEEEEL YOU!!!!!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 03:33 PM (O0L8i)

34 I don't know what's more loathsome: Muslims or NYers.

Apparently they are the same.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 30, 2026 03:33 PM (wBaIH)

35 So, once again, in 15 to 20 years, when KBJ is Chief, she will make the newcomers on the bench appear reasonable. Because the newcomers will be Sharia law judges . . .

bc liberals don't have babies but mussies do. How's that working out?

Posted by: ranty mcranterson at June 30, 2026 03:33 PM (anL5R)

36
Didn't someone dig up an email/text of Chevalier praising North Korea?
Posted by: mrp

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

Yes, and when she was asked about it: "That framing is one that I've been very proud to be able to say I won't respond to."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 03:33 PM (XJ22o)

37 I dropped by a Mennonite bakery the other day and it was interesting. They had electric lights, computerized payment systems, and electric baking machinery in their open concept store.

I did like the Christian wall art and music...it was a nice change from your average corporate grocery store.

I did ask the clerk if she was part of a Mennonite community because I was interested in what it was like but she turned red and got quiet so she obviously didn't want to talk so I just paid and ate my food.

Later I did some research and there had been a Mennonite community in that area for some time.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 03:33 PM (sKqQm)

38 Archer there is another outcome for Muslim takeover
Jizya, you work and pay Muslims taxes so they don't work

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 03:33 PM (Ia/+0)

39 Early OT, but it's funny:

"Unbelievable Damage": 131-Mph Windstorm Snaps Wind Turbines In Half Across South Dakota
https://shorturl.at/YUeMm
Zerohedge

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 03:34 PM (R+iUD)

40 She was born in America so even though her parents were not citizens she is as American as every one of you, bigots.

Posted by: EzE at June 30, 2026 03:34 PM (pxzPN)

41
I see a lot of al-Sayed yard signs in West Michigan.

The Senate nominee alternative for Democrats in Michigan is:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLNGy3HEyRU

Cringe warning: do not watch on a full stomach.

Posted by: Auspex at June 30, 2026 03:34 PM (Y8DZL)

42 Reich wingers complain about pressure cookers filled with nails and ball bearings but never... BUTTER CHURNING.

I wonder why that is. 🤔

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 03:34 PM (KqZez)

43 Excusing violence because people were victims of violence promotes a legitimacy of revenge.

This is a lesser idea than reconciliation. Understanding is not condoning.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 03:35 PM (Fi81e)

44 Is it still rayciss to ban muslims from coming here and deporting those that are?

So confusing...

Posted by: So Simple But... at June 30, 2026 03:35 PM (K5H/e)

45
31 the Amish are also clearly a community that refuses to assimilate to American society.

"Apple, this is Orange. I know you guys are nowhere near alike but I need you to be the same thing for my argument to work."
Posted by: NR Pax at June 30, 2026 03:32 PM (/k3in)

I would like to introduce this poster to:
Amish Markets
Amish Furniture Stores
Amish Portable Building Stores
Sadly, also Amish puppy mills, where they should stop doing now, but they are partaking in capitalism.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 03:35 PM (pZEOD)

46
Can't wait for the Amish to ride into Washington, DC with their buggies and bats (or whatever they use for weapons) to destroy America.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 03:35 PM (XJ22o)

47 Shooting has started in the left, but let me know when its time to return fire.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 30, 2026 03:35 PM (K7yvy)

48 Reich wingers complain about pressure cookers filled with nails and ball bearings but never... BUTTER CHURNING.

I wonder why that is. 🤔
Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 03:34 PM (KqZez)
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Excellent point. I have my scourge at the ready.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 03:35 PM (Fi81e)

49 Oh and for this 'no one can stop Islam' guy, why am I thinking of the Bloom County where a cockroach was taunting Opus about humans nuking themselves. Roach says "We're INDESTRUCTIBLE!" and then Opus stomps him.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 03:35 PM (R+iUD)

50 My question is, do these people really have a chance of winning in a general election? These are just dem candidates that won their primary, aren't they?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 30, 2026 03:36 PM (g8Ew8)

51 The Amish are Christians of European descent. They aren’t that far from the rest of America to begin with. Before the invention of the ICE, the harnessing of electricity, etc. they were even closer to mainstream America.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 03:36 PM (77rzZ)

52 A few weeks ago I saw a video clip on twixxer of a jewish rabbi who said that muslims were the broom that his people were using to sweep white people out of europe. He was very pleased with that. Didn't seem to be at all bothered by the fact that most muslims don't much like jews.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at June 30, 2026 03:36 PM (V362x)

53 Well, let's just get it all out on the table. Pretend to be this? Pretend to be that? Not anymore. Easier to find when the shooting starts.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at June 30, 2026 03:36 PM (QaH55)

54 Reich wingers complain about pressure cookers filled with nails and ball bearings but never... BUTTER CHURNING.

This might explain why specifically: (link goes to youtube) https://tinyurl.com/4phpsua6

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 03:36 PM (sKqQm)

55 the Amish are also clearly a community that refuses to assimilate to American society.

"Apple, this is Orange. I know you guys are nowhere near alike but I need you to be the same thing for my argument to work."
Posted by: NR Pax at June 30, 2026 03:32 PM (/k3in)

Please tell me that f*ck is getting dragged in his Xcrement feed........That's some buttf*ck ignorance right there.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 03:37 PM (2YhKe)

56 "What About the Amish" is the most what about since the invention of what aboutism started.

Posted by: Max Power at June 30, 2026 03:37 PM (SFJWK)

57 Weren't most of the hijackers Saudis? And the only country to colonize parts of Saudi Arabia was the Muslim Ottoman Empire...
Posted by: 18-1
=====
Yep. Just as Mo colonized most of the Christian Middle East and North Africa. Screw that oppressor oppressed bullshit which is only a tactic to shut people up. Just like the Crusades were a reaction to Muslims attacking Europe repeatedly and trying to occupy it, enslave Christians, etc.

Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 03:37 PM (E4rtv)

58 Who names their kid Aber?
Posted by: I gotta ask

Mr. and Mrs. Nein.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 30, 2026 03:37 PM (diia5)

59 Maybe we shouldn't have given the most radical islamists billions to fight the Russians for us?

Posted by: Paul at June 30, 2026 03:37 PM (vrSgz)

60 This might explain why specifically: (link goes to youtube) https://tinyurl.com/4phpsua6
Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 03:36 PM (sKqQm)

Mmmmmm......boobs........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 03:38 PM (2YhKe)

61 MELANIA TRUMP • @MELANIATRUMP. 36m
"As many of you may know, I fully support the LGBTQIA+ community. But we must also ensure that our female athletes are protected and respected." - MELANIA, #1 NYT Bestseller, (p. 156)
The U.S. Supreme Court has now legally confirmed this opinion:
"Under Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, may schools maintain women's and girls' sports for biological females?... The answer is yes."
America, we can support the rights of the LGBTQIA+ community and also protect opportunities for female athletes. Respect everyone and keep girls' sports fair.
Both ideals are essential.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 03:38 PM (Dd38x)

62 Posted by: Paul at June 30, 2026 03:37 PM (vrSgz)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at June 30, 2026 03:38 PM (2YhKe)

63 47 Shooting has started in the left, but let me know when its time to return fire.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
=======
Keep them holed up in the cities and refuse to let them out or supplies in. Siege essentially as it is not worth the death toll to root them out building by building.

Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 03:38 PM (E4rtv)

64 This terror slag is replacing retiring state senator Michael Gianaris. He's as far left as she is. She will not vote any differently on any issue than he would have.

As I've been saying, none of these new out-and-proud commies are any different than the old crusty secret commies.

The only difference is the newer generation's open hostility to America and Israel. Gianaris tried to straddle the fence on Israel-Palestine, trying to pander to both sides. But anyone who tries to straddle the fence between Israel and pure evil is really a supporter of evil.

The new generation is openly demonic.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 30, 2026 03:39 PM (iFTx/)

65 Well, its a little known fact, but the Amish secretly are building a massive data center underground in Adams county ohio to house their mega AI project. They plan on harnessing the power of AI to perfect the horse and buggy and the manpowered barn raising. Perfidious bastards. They want all the donkeys for themselves!

Posted by: Cenk Unhinged at June 30, 2026 03:39 PM (anL5R)

66 Paul.

Your family tree has no limbs, does it.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 03:39 PM (2YhKe)

67 Melania should have stopped at LGB, truly.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 03:40 PM (Dd38x)

68 They plan on harnessing the power of AI to perfect the horse and buggy and the manpowered barn raising. Perfidious bastards. They want all the donkeys for themselves!
Posted by: Cenk Unhinged at June 30, 2026 03:39 PM (anL5R)

You're just upset they won't let you f*ck their horses, aren't ya, Chunk.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 03:40 PM (2YhKe)

69 This might explain why specifically: (link goes to youtube) https://tinyurl.com/4phpsua6
Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 03:36 PM (sKqQm)

You are a gentleman and a scholar and a Great American.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 03:40 PM (KqZez)

70 “We did NOT come here to coexist. We are superior to everyone else and will not be surpassed. No one is above us. If other religions want to live with us, they have to worship Allah”
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He's a POC supremacist. At least he isn't a White Supremacist!

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 03:40 PM (Fi81e)

71 As I pointed out yesterday (to some consternation) on the now classic Hot/Crazy matrix scale chart, all dames start out as a minimum of four (4) on the Crazy scale. Not 0 or 1 as might be supposed

Are my perceptions mistaken or are the girl DemSocs far, far wackier than the guys?

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 03:41 PM (TwIK5)

72 DEPORT!

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 03:41 PM (TGBdN)

73 That can't be the real Pawl, it's using complete sentences. I think it's one of our recently banned or flounced nitwits.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 03:41 PM (R+iUD)

74 Paul.

Your family tree has no limbs, does it.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 03:39 PM (2YhKe)
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I can't believe Paul has turned so sharply on Obama!

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 03:41 PM (Fi81e)

75 In 'Stan there were two distinct factions fighting the Soviets.

We funded Masood the Pakis funded Hekmatyar.

We won and Masood formed a government.

But they didn't do a great job managing the country and after Clinton withdrew support Masood's government lost ground to the Pakistan funding jihadis.

On the eve of 9/11, literally the day before, the Paki funded Taliban assassinated Masood knowing he would have been our choice to fight against them.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 03:42 PM (sKqQm)

76 Just an observation- all these chicks (and most of the men) seem to go to the same Persian eyebrow place to get the work done. Except the Farooq guy. Dude, find a barber.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at June 30, 2026 03:42 PM (QaH55)

77 GOP needs to contest every US representative slot in the country. Even if you just set up on a street corner with some pizza and coolers of cokes. People need an option and it does not have to cost millions. Gives experience for staffers too.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2026 03:42 PM (uhVAy)

78 "the chickens coming home to roost -- was 9/11."

What is their excuse for the Christians they are murdering in Nigeria?

Posted by: illiniwek at June 30, 2026 03:42 PM (vbXSk)

79 This might explain why specifically: (link goes to youtube) https://tinyurl.com/4phpsua6
Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 03:36 PM (sKqQm)

You are a gentleman and a scholar and a Great American.
Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 03:40 PM (KqZez)

I sense a theme here........

https://youtu.be/zIa8fZftUHA?t=32

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 03:42 PM (2YhKe)

80
*runs in waving teletype print*

LeBron James won't be returning to the Lakers next year!!!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 03:42 PM (O0L8i)

81 Open war is upon you, whether you would risk it or not.

Posted by: Shit Aragorn Said at June 30, 2026 03:43 PM (M0V4/)

82 50 My question is, do these people really have a chance of winning in a general election? These are just dem candidates that won their primary, aren't they?

In an extremely urban area that is already 85% Dim they will be fine. Anywhere else is going to be a problem for them. I'm not sure how some guy with an extremely Arab sounding name is going to play with the most low info normies in MI, for instance.

Posted by: the lower depths at June 30, 2026 03:43 PM (b4kuR)

83 31 the Amish are also clearly a community that refuses to assimilate to American society.

"Apple, this is Orange. I know you guys are nowhere near alike but I need you to be the same thing for my argument to work."
Posted by: NR Pax at June 30, 2026 03:32 PM
****
IMO, it's even money that if *ucker Carlson's New National Socialist movement gains any traction, their first initiative will be to "do something about" those unassimilable Orthodox Jews ... like me and my family and friends.

Posted by: werewife at June 30, 2026 03:43 PM (5ayY3)

84 *runs in waving teletype print*

LeBron James won't be returning to the Lakers next year!!!
==
Missed chance to sock NPR ....

Posted by: Raise Eyebrow at June 30, 2026 03:44 PM (anL5R)

85 The Left's various factions are always incredibly interesting. It's always a race to see who gets eaten by the Alligators last.

Sadly, the 'gators won't be satisfied in the end and will still come for the rest of us.

Posted by: Gaff at June 30, 2026 03:44 PM (EqzMw)

86 80
*runs in waving teletype print*

LeBron James won't be returning to the Lakers next year!!!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 03:42 PM (O0L8i)

Oh noes!

This frees him up for his true calling - Hollyweird!

He can star in Space Jam 3.

Posted by: Thrawn at June 30, 2026 03:45 PM (KKMoa)

87 Oh, all right then. She can go fuck right off then.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2026 03:45 PM (mPXxA)

88
LeBron James won't be returning to the Lakers next year!!!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 03:42 PM (O0L8i)

And the crowd rejoices........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 03:45 PM (2YhKe)

89
A public service announcement:

If they sound moderate, they're lying.
If they sound extreme, they mean it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 03:45 PM (O0L8i)

90 Is LeBron choosing to spend more time with his male fans?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 03:45 PM (sKqQm)

91 LeBron James won't be returning to the Lakers next year!!!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 03:42 PM (O0L8i)

Oh noes!

This frees him up for his true calling - Hollyweird!

He can star in Space Jam 3.
Posted by: Thrawn at June 30, 2026 03:45 PM (KKMoa)

Maybe he can finally finish a book.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2026 03:45 PM (mPXxA)

92 It feels like we are coming to the "all at once" part.

Posted by: Cray Cray at June 30, 2026 03:46 PM (RmciC)

93 the Amish are also clearly a community that refuses to assimilate to American society.
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I didn't know people from Dumbfuckistan posted on X.

I'm guessing he's even from Lower Dumbfuckistan.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 03:46 PM (Fi81e)

94 93 the Amish are also clearly a community that refuses to assimilate to American society.
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I didn't know people from Dumbfuckistan posted on X.

I'm guessing he's even from Lower Dumbfuckistan.
Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 03:46 PM (Fi81e)

The Amish sell us good furniture and food items.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2026 03:47 PM (mPXxA)

95
The Amish in my area seem to work hard, have side business they run out of their nice farms, which seem to have a lot of livestock in well maintained fields.

If a Carrington event occurs you will want to be their friend.

Posted by: Auspex at June 30, 2026 03:47 PM (Y8DZL)

96 The Left's various factions are always incredibly interesting. It's always a race to see who gets eaten by the ~~Alligators~~most rapid faction last.

---

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 03:47 PM (Fi81e)

97 50 My question is, do these people really have a chance of winning in a general election? These are just dem candidates that won their primary, aren't they?

In an extremely urban area that is already 85% Dim they will be fine. Anywhere else is going to be a problem for them. I'm not sure how some guy with an extremely Arab sounding name is going to play with the most low info normies in MI, for instance.
Posted by: the lower depths at June 30, 2026 03:43 PM (b4kuR)

Most inner city districts are unopposed.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2026 03:48 PM (uhVAy)

98 24 They have never hidden their agenda for Ummah, the radical islamists. You will submit or die (I will die).

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 03:30 PM (hzuYO)

I am not the one that will die.

Posted by: Every Leftist Asshat at June 30, 2026 03:48 PM (bl07w)

99 the Amish are also clearly a community that refuses to assimilate to American society.
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I didn't know people from Dumbfuckistan posted on X.

I'm guessing he's even from Lower Dumbfuckistan.
Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 03:46 PM (Fi81e)

The Amish sell us good furniture and food items.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2026 03:47 PM (mPXxA)
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The Dumbfuckistanian is the belcher of the comment, not the Amish.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 03:48 PM (Fi81e)

100 I am not sure of a good analogue for the amish. Maybe a kibbutz that works? Less socialism, I think (which is probably why it works.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2026 03:49 PM (mPXxA)

101 "Why don't these people have a problem with the Amish", say the inveterate Jew-haters....

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 03:49 PM (KqZez)

102 A community note adds some context:

NYC public schools FY2026 budget is $45 billion (~$35k per student). National K-12 spending exceeds $980 billion annually. US aid to Israel is about $3.8 billion/year.

Why ruin the propaganda with facts when the lies sound so much better?

The (small number of) idiots who voted for her don't care about the truth, they want the revolution.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 30, 2026 03:49 PM (6ydKt)

103 There is a rumor out that Senator Mitch McConnell is close to death and may die at any time as his health has seriously deteriorated.

So we have that going for us.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 30, 2026 03:49 PM (rbvCR)

104 The Dumbfuckistanian is the belcher of the comment, not the Amish.
Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 03:48 PM (Fi81e)

I was talking about the refusal to integrate with society, not the retard original commenter.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2026 03:50 PM (mPXxA)

105 Speaking of Hekmatyar I looked up what he has been up to since the US left 'Stan.

He went back and made nice with the current Taliban leadership but after a while they got annoyed with him and took away his TV show.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 03:50 PM (sKqQm)

106 82 In any combination of OK, AR, and MO, this stuff will not play well.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 30, 2026 03:50 PM (gm9Sb)

107 The Amish are a blight on modern society. They absolutely refuse to live in modern times. They will not recklessly spend their money on the latest electronic gizmo, nor contribute to political action committees. They spend their time, farming, building things and socializing within their own community! How unprogressive!!! My God look at all those prime farm animals. Sheep, goats, cows I could go on but I'm going to have to excuse myself

Posted by: Cenk Unhinged at June 30, 2026 03:50 PM (anL5R)

108 IMO, it's even money that if *ucker Carlson's New National Socialist movement gains any traction, their first initiative will be to "do something about" those unassimilable Orthodox Jews ... like me and my family and friends.
Posted by: werewife at June 30, 2026 03:43 PM (5ayY3)

He started out being one of the top communicators to his base, who are a majority of the country in the last election, to having no influence at all in the government, nor the RINO wing, nor with the party base. His trajectory is not looking good.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2026 03:51 PM (uhVAy)

109 I'm wondering why it took NYC so long to embrace the warm collectivism of Islam.

I wonder if the Canadians are foolish enough to trade Alberta for everything north of Pennsylvania?

Posted by: p-squared at June 30, 2026 03:51 PM (0prFs)

110 Most inner city districts are unopposed.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2026 03:48 PM (uhVAy)

Irrelevant if they are opposed or not. In inner city districts the D partisanship % is so high already that the D ballot line could literally say "Satan the Eater of Damned Souls" and the nominee would easily win 2/3 of the vote.

The interesting bit is how much traction, if any, Al-Fucka or whatever the hell his name is gets outside of Metro Detroit. These DSA types have almost no ground presence outside their strongholds beyond teachers, and those types are exceptionally lazy.

Posted by: the lower depths at June 30, 2026 03:51 PM (b4kuR)

111 I'm not sure how some guy with an extremely Arab sounding name is going to play with the most low info normies in MI, for instance.
Posted by: the lower depths at June 30, 2026 03:43 PM (b4kuR)

You mean like in Dearborn and Hamtramck?

Posted by: Kindltot at June 30, 2026 03:51 PM (rbvCR)

112 So we have that going for us.
==
Its Mitch. Plan on a year long coma beforehand.

Posted by: I'm just saying at June 30, 2026 03:52 PM (anL5R)

113 The barbarians are inside the gates doing donuts on our front lawns. Turns out the Constitution was a suicide pact after all.

Posted by: Call to prayer 5x a day! at June 30, 2026 03:52 PM (TbWk/)

114 103 There is a rumor out that Senator Mitch McConnell is close to death and may die at any time as his health has seriously deteriorated.

But how could you tell? Anyone got a mirror?

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at June 30, 2026 03:52 PM (QaH55)

115 His trajectory is not looking good.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2026 03:51 PM (uhVAy)
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To slightly paraphrase Tom Wolfe, it's the trajectory of a set of car keys.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 30, 2026 03:53 PM (amcLV)

116 "We did NOT come here to coexist. We are superior to everyone else and will not be surpassed. No one is above us. If other religions want to live with us, they have to worship Allah”

Fortunately for the Muslims, they get a pass on their supremacy because hey aren't White.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 30, 2026 03:53 PM (6ydKt)

117 RBG was almost certainly dead for quite a while until it was formally announced. Time to play the same game with Mitch the Bitch...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 03:53 PM (sKqQm)

118 In related news, the college-educated elf-women of Rivendell are celebrating the recent election of four orcs to the Council of Ellrond.

Posted by: Josh Brolin's Blistered Taint at June 30, 2026 03:53 PM (3izae)

119 113 Charlie's in the wire and there's a cure for it.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 30, 2026 03:53 PM (gm9Sb)

120 Me thinks NYC needs to be invaded to expel the foreign invaders.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 30, 2026 03:53 PM (snZF9)

121 Oh shit maybe approving unlimited 3rd world anchor babies wasn’t such a great idea after all.

Ooops
Oopsy

Posted by: SCOTUS at June 30, 2026 03:54 PM (ViSCT)

122 In any combination of OK, AR, and MO, this stuff will not play well.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

We haven't been doing so hot with the "That would never happen here." gambit.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 30, 2026 03:54 PM (M0V4/)

123 103 There is a rumor out that Senator Mitch McConnell is close to death and may die at any time as his health has seriously deteriorated.
Posted by: Kindltot

Sad if so, he did stop Merrick Garland from becoming a Supreme Court Justice but frittered away his last 10 years with TDS.

Let's hope there is not a 3 month RINO funeral ritual.

Posted by: Auspex at June 30, 2026 03:54 PM (Y8DZL)

124 In related news, the college-educated elf-women of Rivendell are celebrating the recent election of four orcs to the Council of Ellrond.

Out: Long blonde hair and flowey dresses

In: Short blue hair and nose rings

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 03:54 PM (sKqQm)

125 You mean like in Dearborn and Hamtramck?
Posted by: Kindltot at June 30, 2026 03:51 PM (rbvCR)

Well they are of the ummah, and doubtless very high info about which of their brethren to support. Most of the MI isn't Muslim though, or even Arab. I don't think the Muslims make up 5% of the population there.

Posted by: the lower depths at June 30, 2026 03:54 PM (b4kuR)

126 "The system of capitalism and racism and White supremacy... and Japanophobia have all been used to colonize lands, to take resources from other people and so this is a long trajectory, and we're just seeing the manifestations of that continuation with Pearl Harbor on 12/7!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 03:55 PM (ndZc7)

127 Well they are of the ummah, and doubtless very high info about which of their brethren to support. Most of the MI isn't Muslim though, or even Arab. I don't think the Muslims make up 5% of the population there.
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Give it a couple more decades and get back to us.

Posted by: I'm just saying at June 30, 2026 03:55 PM (anL5R)

128 Most inner city districts are unopposed.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2026 03:48 PM (uhVAy)

I would hazard to guess that most inner city districts are so corrupt that it doesn't matter if they are unopposed or not.
Meaning there is no popular representation for any election, only what the corrupt election and party structure deems to have occurred -- up to and including disallowing any unapproved candidate from even being on the ballot.

So of course we get to insult and yell at all the people there for not voting because of course they don't. It makes us feel virtuous, and if the commenters here can feel virtuous then, well, there is no reason to search for a solution, is there.

Posted by: Kindltot - Kindltot huffing his own virtuous farts with the rest of you at June 30, 2026 03:56 PM (rbvCR)

129 There is a rumor out that Senator Mitch McConnell is close to death and may die at any time as his health has seriously deteriorated.

Posted by: Kindltot

But how could you tell? Anyone got a mirror?
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder

Is he on his back, kicking his arms and legs in the air? If so, leave him be. Let nature take its course.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 30, 2026 03:57 PM (M0V4/)

130
I haven’t seen any supersonic aircraft or nuclear power plants invented by these Mohammedans. They mostly like to destroy stuff.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at June 30, 2026 03:57 PM (t5j1y)

131 Sad if so, he did stop Merrick Garland from becoming a Supreme Court Justice but frittered away his last 10 years with TDS.

Let's hope there is not a 3 month RINO funeral ritual.
Posted by: Auspex at June

But you need to know why. He did not stop it because he wanted to keep Garland off the court. He thought Hillary would win, and promised to support him when Hillary renominated him. He was protecting the timing of appointments, he was not protecting us from Garland.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 03:57 PM (hftzA)

132 Charlie's in the wire and there's a cure for it.
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All outta F.U. Gas.

Posted by: Col. Mike Kirby at June 30, 2026 03:57 PM (anL5R)

133 https://www.wlky.com/article/mitch- mcconnell-hospital-condition-louisville-kentucky/71768553

Posted by: Nova Local at June 30, 2026 03:57 PM (tOcjL)

134 RBG was almost certainly dead for quite a while until it was formally announced. Time to play the same game with Mitch the Bitch...
Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 03:53 PM (sKqQm)
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Shades of Qin Shi Huang.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 30, 2026 03:58 PM (amcLV)

135 Sad if so, he did stop Merrick Garland from becoming a Supreme Court Justice but frittered away his last 10 years with TDS.

Let's hope there is not a 3 month RINO funeral ritual.
Posted by: Auspex at June 30, 2026 03:54 PM (Y8DZL)
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I heard a story that he picked Barrett.

The gift that keeps on intermittently taking.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 03:58 PM (Fi81e)

136 Oh by all means we should just reason with these people and find common ground with them/ heavy, dripping, mordant sarc. What pray tell, Horde, do we have in common with these Islamics?

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 03:58 PM (Gqar8)

137 "There is a rumor out that Senator Mitch McConnell is close to death and may die at any time as his health has seriously deteriorated."

That fkr is going to torment us to his dying day. Hurry the fk up Mitch.

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 03:58 PM (MWfyi)

138 125 Arvo and Toivo in the UP of MI (pictures of Simo Hayha and Von Mannerheim on the walls of the sauna) would have little use for the Sons of the Desert.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 30, 2026 03:58 PM (gm9Sb)

139 Muslims “only” make up 5-10% of western European countries. How’s that working out? It doesn’t take much for them to infect and kill a host nation.

Michigan at 5% is on the precipice.

Posted by: Gonna Be Ugly at June 30, 2026 03:59 PM (ViSCT)

140 "he did stop Merrick Garland from becoming a Supreme Court Justice"

ANYBODY in his position should have done it too. It's no big accomplishment.

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 03:59 PM (MWfyi)

141 Give it a couple more decades and get back to us.
Posted by: I'm just saying at June 30, 2026 03:55 PM (anL5R)

Why? Muslims are asocial and generally unlikeable. You seem to assume that they just grow at some steady rate without any kind of response whatsoever. One thing they do have in common with the Amish is their insane need to micromanage community life. Why do they both do this? It is not a sign of strength. It is a sign of weakness. they both know their members would leave for ANYTHING other than what they have now if they had the chance.

Posted by: the lower depths at June 30, 2026 04:00 PM (b4kuR)

142 "We did NOT come here to coexist. We are superior to everyone else and will not be surpassed. No one is above us. If other religions want to live with us, they have to worship Allah”

Fortunately for the Muslims, they get a pass on their supremacy because hey aren't White.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 30, 2026 03:53 PM (6ydKt)
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They're Caucasian, the same race as a lot of us.

Fuck, they are imperialists plenty and started the African slave trade.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 04:00 PM (Fi81e)

143 139 Muslims “only” make up 5-10% of western European countries. How’s that working out? It doesn’t take much for them to infect and kill a host nation.

Michigan at 5% is on the precipice.
Posted by: Gonna Be Ugly at June 30, 2026 03:59 PM (ViSCT)

If 5% net of your body mass is composed of parasites, or cancer tissue, are you in good shape? I think my analogy is valid.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 04:00 PM (Gqar8)

144 Finally read through the birthright thread. Still doesn't answer my question though. Doesn't this put an end to dual citizenship? I don't see how someone, that is automatically a citizen of the parent's country, can be "subject to the jurisdiction" of the US.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 30, 2026 04:00 PM (bkuEU)

145 Why do they both do this? It is not a sign of strength. It is a sign of weakness. they both know their members would leave for ANYTHING other than what they have now if they had the chance.

Posted by: the lower depths at June 30, 2026 04:00 PM (b4kuR)
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You apparently don't know about one Amish custom...

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 04:01 PM (Fi81e)

146 Muslim wasps shouting stupid ideas with all the vigor and belief of confident morons.

Posted by: Chunk at June 30, 2026 04:01 PM (jh+Uo)

147 Muslims “only” make up 5-10% of western European countries. How’s that working out? It doesn’t take much for them to infect and kill a host nation.

Michigan at 5% is on the precipice.
Posted by: Gonna Be Ugly at June 30, 2026 03:59 PM (ViSCT)

As always, the problem is with the 90-95 percent majority that does not enforce laws and favors the takeover.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2026 04:02 PM (uhVAy)

148 139 Muslims “only” make up 5-10% of western European countries. How’s that working out? It doesn’t take much for them to infect and kill a host nation.

Michigan at 5% is on the precipice.
Posted by: Gonna Be Ugly at June 30, 2026 03:59 PM (ViSCT)
Apparently it's less than 3% in MI, but my point isn't that this is a good thing, it's that their power is greatly overstated. They have 'power' only because asshole politicians see them as a voting bloc. And as you note, they only ahve to get to 5-10% of the population before people get sick of them and Uwe Boll suddenly is viewed as a cinematic genius because he makes movies about shooting them.

Posted by: the lower depths at June 30, 2026 04:02 PM (b4kuR)

149 Why is that fat Islamic pig in my country?

Posted by: Crusader at June 30, 2026 04:02 PM (TN0g+)

150 Finally read through the birthright thread. Still doesn't answer my question though. Doesn't this put an end to dual citizenship? I don't see how someone, that is automatically a citizen of the parent's country, can be "subject to the jurisdiction" of the US.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 30, 2026 04:00 PM (bkuEU)
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No. Because REASONS.

Posted by: Professionals of the Elite Sophist Profession at June 30, 2026 04:02 PM (Fi81e)

151 The only good Muslim is a dead Muslim

Posted by: Ben K at June 30, 2026 04:02 PM (ZnI4q)

152 We did NOT come here to coexist

It will become amusingly interesting when the infrastructure that currently enables their revolutionary fervor suddenly decides to stop supplying them.

Posted by: Halfhand at June 30, 2026 04:02 PM (9MUFz)

153 need to micromanage community life. Why do they both do this? It is not a sign of strength. It is a sign of weakness. they both know their members would leave for ANYTHING other than what they have now if they had the chance.
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Wow I stand corrected. As we have seen in Europe, these muslim enclaves all fall apart when their attempts to micromanage community life allow them to coopt local govt and police and run decades long rape gangs with total impunity. *wipes brow* phew!

Posted by: Col. Mike Kirby at June 30, 2026 04:03 PM (anL5R)

154 Wait. Muslim is a race?

Posted by: I gotta ask at June 30, 2026 04:03 PM (mOAYJ)

155 145 Why do they both do this? It is not a sign of strength. It is a sign of weakness. they both know their members would leave for ANYTHING other than what they have now if they had the chance.

Posted by: the lower depths at June 30, 2026 04:00 PM (b4kuR)
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You apparently don't know about one Amish custom...
Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 04:01 PM (Fi81e)

I live in Lancaster County, PA. I know plenty about the Amish, thanks.

Posted by: the lower depths at June 30, 2026 04:03 PM (b4kuR)

156 Ann Coulter, in the dim reaches of time, said the ME solution was to kill their leaders and convert their masses.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 04:03 PM (Gqar8)

157 She excuses terrorists because they come from "colonized lands"

That is a level of delusion so bad that the average schizophrenic would be calling them crazy.
Posted by: NR Pax

Well, they did, it was just that the lands were colonized by Muslims, over the objections for the non-Muslims who lived there first.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at June 30, 2026 04:04 PM (vJrRc)

158 As we have seen in Europe, these muslim enclaves all fall apart when their attempts to micromanage community life allow them to coopt local govt and police and run decades long rape gangs with total impunity. *wipes brow* phew!
Posted by: Col. Mike Kirby at June 30, 2026 04:03 PM (anL5R)
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Countries will grow out of the rape gang phase. It's just a phase they are going through.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 04:04 PM (Fi81e)

159 What if the voter fraud plan isn't just to let "Democrats" win elections? But rather to make sure as many open Communists and Islamists get put in place as quickly as possible?

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 04:04 PM (KqZez)

160 Charlie's in the wire and there's a cure for it.
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Beehive rounds?

Posted by: Mike Hammer's Ontos at June 30, 2026 04:04 PM (XeU6L)

161 153 need to micromanage community life. Why do they both do this? It is not a sign of strength. It is a sign of weakness. they both know their members would leave for ANYTHING other than what they have now if they had the chance.
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Wow I stand corrected. As we have seen in Europe, these muslim enclaves all fall apart when their attempts to micromanage community life allow them to coopt local govt and police and run decades long rape gangs with total impunity. *wipes brow* phew!
Posted by: Col. Mike Kirby at June 30, 2026 04:03 PM (anL5R)

You appear to have a problem with reading comprehension.

Posted by: the lower depths at June 30, 2026 04:04 PM (b4kuR)

162 119 113 Charlie's in the wire and there's a cure for it.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 30, 2026 03:53 PM (gm9Sb)

Heh

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 30, 2026 04:04 PM (g8Ew8)

163 They're Caucasian, the same race as a lot of us.

Fuck, they are imperialists plenty and started the African slave trade.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 04:00 PM (Fi81e)

They are Non-European, so carry no colonial guilt.

They're colonialism and slave-trading, and current day slave-holding don't count as it's all part of their culture.

History starts in 1945, so anything before then doesn't matter.

(the left has excuses for every political hypocrisy)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 30, 2026 04:05 PM (6ydKt)

164 Posted by: Ben K at June 30, 2026 04:02 PM (ZnI4q)

Moby on deck?

Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2026 04:05 PM (vTZFs)

165 Was playing around with AI regarding the new breed and what makes them so inherently miserable.

Some responses -

In their parents' home countries, these families belonged to the upper echelons of society. They held immense social capital, prestige, and institutional power. When they move to the U.S., that hyper-elite status does not always translate. Regardless of their wealth, they are often grouped into broad American racial or ethnic minority categories. For a first-generation child, growing up with the awareness that their family is royalty back home, but viewing themselves as just another minority group in America, can breed deep resentment toward the American social hierarchy.

What might look like visceral "hate" is often the adoption of high-level academic cynicism. They are trained to dissect the flaws of Western capitalism and American foreign policy, which manifests as a vocal, hyper-critical stance against the very country they live in.

Their wealth gives them the luxury of global mobility, but their professional networks, corporate ties, and asset structures are deeply embedded in Western institutions. Returning to a developing nation—even one where their

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 30, 2026 04:05 PM (NFX2v)

166 parents had power—often means giving up the hyper-advanced infrastructure, legal protections, and global market access that the U.S. provides.

While they may visit on vacations, these children are culturally American. They speak with American accents, think through a Western lens, and lack the hyper-localized cultural nuances required to navigate the business or political landscapes of their parents' native countries.

If they return to "fix" things, they are often viewed by the locals as arrogant, entitled American outsiders trying to dictate terms. They don't have the grassroots credibility to enact change.

And so "ours" too - the Barack Obamas, AOCs, Ro Khannas and so many others, like as Nan, Bernie, and Liz, who help create an arrogant, self-absorbed and potentially violent political landscape.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 30, 2026 04:05 PM (NFX2v)

167 They're = Their

(it's just another one of those days)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 30, 2026 04:05 PM (6ydKt)

168 Wait. Muslim is a race?
Posted by: I gotta ask

You know, like rats.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 04:05 PM (ndZc7)

169 116 "We did NOT come here to coexist. We are superior to everyone else and will not be surpassed. No one is above us. If other religions want to live with us, they have to worship Allah”

Fortunately for the Muslims, they get a pass on their supremacy because hey aren't White.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 30, 2026 03:53 PM
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Once upon a time, Arabs would be infuriated at any insinuation that they were not as white as the wind-driven snow. There's even a reference in the Koran that those who go to Hell are changed to have blue eyes and - oops - dark skin. But of course, this was before Muslims learned of the unbridled power of Western white guilt....

Posted by: werewife at June 30, 2026 04:06 PM (5ayY3)

170 Muslim wasps shouting stupid ideas with all the vigor and belief of confident morons.
Posted by: Chunk
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Just wait for the minarets and loudspeakers.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 30, 2026 04:06 PM (XeU6L)

171 Wow I stand corrected. As we have seen in Europe, these muslim enclaves all fall apart when their attempts to micromanage community life allow them to coopt local govt and police and run decades long rape gangs with total impunity. *wipes brow* phew!
Posted by: Col. Mike Kirby at June 30, 2026 04:03 PM (anL5R)

You appear to have a problem with reading comprehension.
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Its always somebody else's problem isn't it?

Posted by: Dr. Phil at June 30, 2026 04:07 PM (anL5R)

172 McConnell wanted Hillary to appoint the justice.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 04:07 PM (KqZez)

173 Wait. Muslim is a race?
Posted by: I gotta ask at June 30, 2026 04:03 PM (mOAYJ)
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Shhhh. Facts have no place in their argument.

Posted by: bluebell at June 30, 2026 04:07 PM (afFes)

174 Moby on deck?
Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2026 04:05 PM (vTZFs)
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Short nic we've never seen before? Probably.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 30, 2026 04:07 PM (amcLV)

175 23 This asshole wants to know why people on the right don't complain about the Amish. It's like he reads the comments.

I was recommending the other day that leftists that want gay, fossil free socialism can and should go forum communes where they can do exactly that without bothering the rest of us.

So if they did "go Amish" I would stop complaining about them
Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 03:28 PM (sKqQm)
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The ignorance of how the Amish operate is inconceivable to the Left. First off, you want to piss off an Amish person...over regulate them (milk pasturation being a big one). The Amish aren't dirt poor.,..they are quite wealthy, and if they owe you money they will pay timely, to the penny and in cash. They are more Libertarian than most self-proclaimed Libertarians. AND, Amish in PA know what Amish in Ohio, and many other communities are facing at any given time. They are not isolated by any fashion. They hold a lot of conservative values, are pacifists, and for the most part reflect a community that doesn't want government intervention.

Posted by: Orson at June 30, 2026 04:08 PM (dIske)

176 My Christian Conundrum - love your enemies and pray for them - defend the faith and further the Kingdom of God.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 04:08 PM (Gqar8)

177 You apparently don't know about one Amish custom...
Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 04:01 PM (Fi81e)

I live in Lancaster County, PA. I know plenty about the Amish, thanks.
Posted by: the lower depths at June 30, 2026 04:03 PM (b4kuR)
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So, what custom am I talking about in reference to "they both know their members would leave for ANYTHING other than what they have now if they had the chance."

Do young Amish ever "get the chance"?

It's a custom. It's been illustrated on a TV show. And you sound ignorant as hell about it.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 04:08 PM (Fi81e)

178 103 There is a rumor out that Senator Mitch McConnell is close to death and may die at any time as his health has seriously deteriorated.
Posted by: Kindltot

Please Lord give Trump the strength to say nothing.

Posted by: Frank Barone at June 30, 2026 04:08 PM (OkYzo)

179 173 Wait. Muslim is a race?
Posted by: I gotta ask at June 30, 2026 04:03 PM (mOAYJ)
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Shhhh. Facts have no place in their argument.
Posted by: bluebell at June 30, 2026 04:07 PM (afFes)

They are racing all right.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 04:09 PM (Gqar8)

180 The 5% is only effective if they get to leach of the entitlements. That's another way we can starve the cancer.

Posted by: Cray Cray at June 30, 2026 04:09 PM (RmciC)

181 the Amish are also clearly a community that refuses to assimilate to American society

I don't look at that way at all.
They do lots of work in se Pa, construction jobs, sell food, agriculture, household.goods

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 04:10 PM (Ia/+0)

182 Y'all just let me know when spicy time arrives.

Posted by: Weasel at June 30, 2026 04:10 PM (nI4xo)

183 Just wait for the minarets and loudspeakers.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 30, 2026 04:06 PM (XeU6L)

And that goes over really well with 'infidels', so much so the notorious permissive Scandinavians try to ban them.

The first and most obvious solution to the problem of Islam is simply to broadcast their message more adequately. The video clips posted above are good. Websites that directly quote hadith and sunnah are very helpful as well.

The idea that Islam just naturally takes over places is nonsense. Even in full military and political control it took them centuries to convert Egypt and even Nubia (now the hellhole known as Sudan). The stage where Muslims become more visible and impossible to ignore is actually a good one, if you want people to confront them.

Posted by: the lower depths at June 30, 2026 04:10 PM (b4kuR)

184 178 103 There is a rumor out that Senator Mitch McConnell is close to death and may die at any time as his health has seriously deteriorated.
Posted by: Kindltot

Damn.. He needs to hang in there.. We all know the Dem Gov. of that State is gonna try and put a Dem in his place

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 04:10 PM (XBi0V)

185 We are doomed.

DOOOOOOOOMED

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 30, 2026 04:10 PM (/mzXQ)

186 Please Lord give Trump the strength to say nothing.

And me a pony.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2026 04:10 PM (vTZFs)

187 My Christian Conundrum - love your enemies and pray for them - defend the faith and further the Kingdom of God.
Posted by: tubal

Amalekite the assholes!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 04:11 PM (ndZc7)

188 Y'all just let me know when spicy time arrives.

You wont have to be told. It'll be delivered to your doorstep.

Posted by: Halfhand at June 30, 2026 04:11 PM (9MUFz)

189 185 We are doomed.

DOOOOOOOOMED
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 30, 2026 04:10 PM (/mzXQ)

More doomed than yesterday ?

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 04:11 PM (XBi0V)

190 My Christian Conundrum - love your enemies and pray for them - defend the faith and further the Kingdom of God.

"I love killing evil people but pray that they atone for their sins before I send them to the next world."

Posted by: NR Pax at June 30, 2026 04:12 PM (/k3in)

191 First on scene, or nearly anyway, to the flooding in North Carolina last year were Amish, to build tiny homes for the homeless from flooding. Guess who obstructed them?

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 04:12 PM (Gqar8)

192 We are doomed.

DOOOOOOOOMED
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 30, 2026 04:10 PM (/mzXQ)
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Now, you listen to me.

I was thinking about socking this as "Eeyore", but decided not.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 04:12 PM (Fi81e)

193 Amalekite the assholes!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 04:11 PM (ndZc7)
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I'm in pieces over this.

Posted by: King Agag at June 30, 2026 04:12 PM (amcLV)

194 Y'all just let me know when spicy time arrives.

You wont have to be told. It'll be delivered to your doorstep.
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By a bearded Amish buggy driver.

Posted by: Probably not at June 30, 2026 04:12 PM (anL5R)

195 She was born in America so even though her parents were not citizens she is as American as every one of you, bigots.

Posted by: EzE at June 30, 2026 03:34 PM (pxzPN)
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She may be a citizen and since I don't know her parents story. I would argue the SCOTUS got it wrong and eventually the Congress will fix this after 2030, but she isn't really an American because she hates the country.

Posted by: Black JEM at June 30, 2026 04:13 PM (GZYu7)

196 We are doomed.

DOOOOOOOOMED
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 30, 2026 04:10 PM (/mzXQ)

More doomed than yesterday ?

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 04:11 PM (XBi0V)
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30-40% more doomed.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 04:13 PM (Fi81e)

197 I am trending Old Testament, of late, gotta say.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 04:13 PM (Gqar8)

198 Gee, I thought the Constitution said something about the establishment of a state religion.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 30, 2026 04:13 PM (bkuEU)

199 Say what you will about the Amish; they don't drive into holiday crowds or fly airplanes into buildings.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 04:13 PM (ndZc7)

200 Apparently black men DON'T have boundaries, at least when it comes to loudmouthed Arab women. That one cop clearly wanted to pop Kawas in her ugly mouth so badly, his supervisor made him take a step back.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2026 04:14 PM (Riz8t)

201 Do young Amish ever "get the chance"?

It's a custom. It's been illustrated on a TV show. And you sound ignorant as hell about it.
Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 04:08 PM (Fi81e)

The TV shows are fake, and rumpispringa is basically the Amish version of Muslim rape gangs, just without the violence. An Amish person can "sow their wild oats" before a certain point. But that isn't really an out. It's akin to a Muslim not committing rape as long as it's one of those short-skirted non-Muslim women.

The social pressures for Amish to stay Amish are very strong. It's entirely akin to living in a Muslim neighborhood, with the difference that I don't think the Amish throw acid on your face. But ostracism keeps almost anyone from leaving. If you'd prefer I compare the Amish to Scientology, that would work too.

Posted by: the lower depths at June 30, 2026 04:14 PM (b4kuR)

202 Say what you will about the Amish; they don't drive into holiday crowds or fly airplanes into buildings.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 04:13 PM (ndZc7)
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You mean their SUVs don't run over people in holiday crowds.

Posted by: The Press at June 30, 2026 04:14 PM (Fi81e)

203 Pick on the Amish, they don’t fight back.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 04:14 PM (Gqar8)

204 We are doomed.

DOOOOOOOOMED
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 30, 2026 04:10 PM (/mzXQ)

More doomed than yesterday ?

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 04:11 PM (XBi0V)
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30-40% more doomed.

Doom? You're soaking in it.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2026 04:14 PM (Riz8t)

205 165 Was playing around with AI regarding the new breed and what makes them so inherently miserable.

Some responses -

In their parents' home countries, these families belonged to the upper echelons of society. They held immense social capital, prestige, and institutional power. When they move to the U.S., that hyper-elite status does not always translate. Regardless of their wealth, they are often grouped into broad American racial or ethnic minority categories. For a first-generation child, growing up with the awareness that their family is royalty back home, but viewing themselves as just another minority group in America, can breed deep resentment toward the American social hierarchy.
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Interestingly, I had a colleague who rose to become my boss' boss. He came from Ghana, where his family was LITERAL royalty; he was the hereditary king of a tribal nation there ... and you never met anyone who understood and appreciated the American Way more. He acted as a sort of volunteer consul for Ghanaians in our city, helping them learn our exotic ways. And he saved my career on more than one occasion by refusing to entertain bitchy accusations of racism by spoiled "African Americans."

Posted by: werewife at June 30, 2026 04:14 PM (5ayY3)

206 I miss it when Rush called him Cocaine Mitch.

Posted by: Cray Cray at June 30, 2026 04:14 PM (RmciC)

207 DOOOOOOOOMED
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 30, 2026 04:10 PM (/mzXQ)

More doomed than yesterday ?

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 04:11 PM (XBi0V)
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30-40% more doomed.
==
Now with 100% of the minimum daily requirements of DOOM. We aren't allowed by law to give you any less.

Posted by: The Kaboom of blogs at June 30, 2026 04:14 PM (anL5R)

208 Trump needs to re-direct the bombings in Iran to bombing New Yuck and Californicate instead

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now With More Quality Fapness at June 30, 2026 04:15 PM (fapp/)

209 If 5% net of your body mass is composed of parasites, or cancer tissue, are you in good shape? I think my analogy is valid.
Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 04:00 PM (Gqar

5% body weight? That's just a good morning dump.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 30, 2026 04:15 PM (g8Ew8)

210 98 24 They have never hidden their agenda for Ummah, the radical islamists. You will submit or die (I will die).

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 03:30 PM (hzuYO)

I am not the one that will die.
Posted by: Every Leftist Asshat at June 30, 2026 03:48 PM (bl07w
***************
I was not totally clear. I will fight to the death and then cram raw bacon into every orifice I see of the barbarians.

I will not submit to giving up Christianity for their Motarded religion to live. They can kill me instead.

I will glady die if that is a choice as I am not going to hell for a bunch of goats or worshipping a rock.

They can yank my diamond cross off my cold, dead neck.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 04:15 PM (hzuYO)

211
I think the Kentucky legislature took away replacement powers from the governors office recently.

Posted by: Auspex at June 30, 2026 04:16 PM (Y8DZL)

212 201> I compare the Amish to Scientology,

Someone needs to take a course on Mimetic Theory

Posted by: Community Notes at June 30, 2026 04:16 PM (9Hs2w)

213 North Carolina is another state that isn't sending anybody to the 250-year celebration.
Meanwhile, myfox8 reports:
William Craig Durham, 56, of Wilkes County, is being charged with first-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping in connection with the death of United States Postal Service letter carrier Brandi Reynolds. ...
A family member of Reynolds told the judge that Durham had allegedly been threatening Reynolds and had broken into her home in the past. ...
The prosecution also detailed Durham’s extensive prior record, including an assault conviction, several past kidnapping charges, intimidating a witness charges and possession of a firearm by a felon.

North Carolina's government seems not to care about its ~~citizens~~subjects. (Durham's white, not like that matters, NC just loves criminals.)

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 04:16 PM (gKWVE)

214 211
I think the Kentucky legislature took away replacement powers from the governors office recently.
Posted by: Auspex at June 30, 2026 04:16 PM (Y8DZL)

Yes, but the Dem Gov. said it wasn't legal or something...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 04:17 PM (XBi0V)

215 210 98 24 They have never hidden their agenda for Ummah, the radical islamists. You will submit or die (I will die).

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 03:30 PM (hzuYO)

I am not the one that will die.
Posted by: Every Leftist Asshat at June 30, 2026 03:48 PM (bl07w
***************
I was not totally clear. I will fight to the death and then cram raw bacon into every orifice I see of the barbarians.

I will not submit to giving up Christianity for their Motarded religion to live. They can kill me instead.

I will glady die if that is a choice as I am not going to hell for a bunch of goats or worshipping a rock.

They can yank my diamond cross off my cold, dead neck.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 04:15 PM (hzuYO)

So, not PCUSA or ELCA, I gather?

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 04:17 PM (Gqar8)

216 Do not take DOOM if you are allergic to DOOM.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 04:17 PM (ndZc7)

217 Say what you will about the Amish; they don't drive into holiday crowds or fly airplanes into buildings.
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LIES LIES LIES. THEY DON'T FLY PLANES. BUT AS GOD AS MY WITNESS I WAS THERE WHEN A HORSE AND BUGGY WENT RIGHT THROUGH A LINE OF PEOPLE WAITING OUTSIDE THE FESTHAUS IN BERLIN OHIO.

Posted by: Cenk Unhinged at June 30, 2026 04:18 PM (anL5R)

218 I try to explain to local Dems that they are going to be overrun by the insanity out of NYC. We got overrun by NYC libs after 9/11 , then DiBlasio. Now the ones elected to go to Albany from NYC are going to make even more insane stage laws and policies. And Hochul will go along to get along

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 04:18 PM (f6yx7)

219 The social pressures for Amish to stay Amish are very strong. It's entirely akin to living in a Muslim neighborhood, with the difference that I don't think the Amish throw acid on your face. But ostracism keeps almost anyone from leaving. If you'd prefer I compare the Amish to Scientology, that would work too.
Posted by: the lower depths at June 30, 2026 04:14 PM (b4kuR)
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Duh. Like people living in an Amish community aren't going to think that it's a good idea?

They're given the opportunity to live with the "English" and they can choose whether or not to return.

I heard about rumpispringa long before the TV show, and watched a little bit of the show just to see some of the details.

You're really stuck on making the Amish the equivalent to the Muzzies, aren't you?

Yeah, it's JUST like rape gangs!

Bye.

Posted by: The Press at June 30, 2026 04:18 PM (Fi81e)

220 5% body weight? That's just a good morning dump.

* adds "Not being Dr. Pork's plumber" to list of things to be grateful for *

Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2026 04:18 PM (vTZFs)

221
5% body weight? That's just a good morning dump.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
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[hears klaxons sounding at the waste treatment plant]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 30, 2026 04:18 PM (XeU6L)

222 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5fSSRkVtDY

Is Kevin Bacon haram?

Posted by: DaveA at June 30, 2026 04:18 PM (FhXTo)

223 I was not totally clear.
...........
They can yank my diamond cross off my cold, dead neck.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 04:15 PM (hzuYO)

That's not just clear. It's flear.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 04:18 PM (KqZez)

224 North Carolina is another state that isn't sending anybody to the 250-year celebration.

We just returned from the 250 celebration on the mall. It stinks. It's awful. It's the most pathetic excuse for a fair I've ever seen. Sorry to be the bringer of bad tidings.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2026 04:19 PM (Riz8t)

225 38 Archer there is another outcome for Muslim takeover
Jizya, you work and pay Muslims taxes so they don't work
Posted by: Skip
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Pretty sure jizya is the law of the land in the UK, and pockets of the US (Minnesomalia).

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2026 04:19 PM (Dv3i1)

226 So where are we on the 1 to 10 Doom scale?

Posted by: Just for the record at June 30, 2026 04:19 PM (mOAYJ)

227 DOOOOOOOOMED
Posted by: nurse ratched.

Obligatory response
https://youtu.be/iBR5V34o64E

Posted by: NR Pax at June 30, 2026 04:19 PM (/k3in)

228 226 So where are we on the 1 to 10 Doom scale?
Posted by: Just for the record at June 30, 2026 04:19 PM (mOAYJ)

11

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 04:19 PM (XBi0V)

229 We are doomed.

DOOOOOOOOMED
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 30, 2026 04:10 PM (/mzXQ)

More doomed than yesterday ?

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 04:11 PM (XBi0V)
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30-40% more doomed.

Doom? You're soaking in it.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2026 04:14 PM (Riz8t)

You load 16 tons and whaddya get.
another day older and deeper in DOOM!

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 30, 2026 04:20 PM (wVcYX)

230 223 I was not totally clear.
...........
They can yank my diamond cross off my cold, dead neck.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 04:15 PM (hzuYO)

That's not just clear. It's flear.
Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 04:18 PM (KqZez)

Trying to cause a Flear Up?

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 04:20 PM (Gqar8)

231 Joshua Reed Eakle
@JoshEakle
Setting aside half the misinformation in this post, the Amish are also clearly a community that refuses to assimilate to American society.

And yet no one on the right seems to care. Curious.

I can't quote it exactly so I'll paraphrase: this falls under how discourse with the Left is impossible because they pretend not to understand things. It's just a tactic. I despise them for it.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 30, 2026 04:20 PM (sAmhv)

232 It's entirely akin to living in a Muslim neighborhood, with the difference that I don't think the Amish throw acid on your face.
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What a trivial detail.

Except without acid thrown in your face--otherwise JUST LIKE!

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 04:20 PM (Fi81e)

233 >>>Say what you will about the Amish

If you insist. Their Dudes are asshats.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 30, 2026 04:20 PM (dK+Kv)

234 Now the ones elected to go to Albany from NYC are going to make even more insane stage laws and policies. And Hochul will go along to get along
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 04:18 PM (f6yx7)

No. She'll go along to stay alive.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 30, 2026 04:21 PM (g8Ew8)

235 We are doomed.

DOOOOOOOOMED
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 30, 2026 04:10 PM (/mzXQ)

More doomed than yesterday ?

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 04:11 PM (XBi0V)
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30-40% more doomed.

Doom? You're soaking in it.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2026 04:14 PM (Riz8t)

You load 16 tons and whaddya get.
another day older and deeper in DOOM!

DOOOOM on the water
Duh duh duh
Duh duh daduh

Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2026 04:21 PM (Riz8t)

236 “We did NOT come here to coexist. We are superior to everyone else and will not be surpassed. No one is above us. If other religions want to live with us, they have to worship Allah”

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Um, this needs instant deportation, more so than pregnant foreigners.

Posted by: Decaf at June 30, 2026 04:21 PM (ZNpJk)

237 Yes, but the Dem Gov. said it wasn't legal or something...

He could be right but that's a fight that will be had when it's time to have it. What is the makeup of the KY supreme court (or whatever they have)?

Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2026 04:22 PM (vTZFs)

238 So, not PCUSA or ELCA, I gather?
Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 04:17 PM (Gqar

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Lol. Don't get me started on my war with the PCUSA in 2014. I was called a Calvinist by the head of the central FL synod I was being so stubborn in a large meeting in the fight for our church. I said yes when he asked (we were discussing abortion after he cut my mic). He gave up on me after 15min.

Raised conservative PCA, generations of Scots Presbyterians with French Huguenots. A bit stubborn.

Chose to be Roman Catholic this past March for many reasons. No, my 95yr old mother does not know (is PCA).

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 04:22 PM (hzuYO)

239 “We did NOT come here to coexist. We are superior to everyone else and will not be surpassed. No one is above us. If other religions want to live with us, they have to worship Allah”

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Um, this needs instant deportation, more so than pregnant foreigners.

Posted by: Decaf at June 30, 2026 04:21 PM (ZNpJk)

Two chicks at the same time.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 30, 2026 04:23 PM (dK+Kv)

240 Good to have a post like this one every now then to remind us:

Leftists are not the real enemy.

Transsexuals are not the real enemy.

RINOs are not the real enemy.

Even socialists are not the real enemy.

The real enemy is Islam, which uses all the groups listed above as weapons to conquer us.

They don't realize it, but

Leftists are merely tools of the Islamists.

Transsexuals are merely tools of the Islamists.

RINOs are merely tools of the Islamists.

Socialists are merely tools of the Islamists.

Marxism is a blip on the radar of the 1,400-year-long quest by Islam to conquer Earth.

Only when Islam is defeated and extirpated can mankind be truly free.

Posted by: zombie at June 30, 2026 04:23 PM (Av6i5)

241 Lets see Muslins just like the Aimish

Men with beards check
Women wearing lots of clothes check

um okay that's a wrap. Exactly the same.

Posted by: Emily Latella at June 30, 2026 04:23 PM (anL5R)

242 So where are we on the 1 to 10 Doom scale?
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I'd give them a 3. They weren't nearly as convincing as the Road Warriors, nor as athletic as the Steiner Brothers.

Posted by: Crusader at June 30, 2026 04:23 PM (TN0g+)

243 "We will transform the UK into an Islamic state and impose humiliating laws on Christians and other non-Muslims to make them want to convert to Islam."

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This is working out really well for them in UK as their elites all have a humiliation fetish, just look at King Charles. I wonder though how soccer hooligans are seeing this.

Posted by: Decaf at June 30, 2026 04:24 PM (ZNpJk)

244 I can't quote it exactly so I'll paraphrase: this falls under how discourse with the Left is impossible because they pretend not to understand things. It's just a tactic. I despise them for it.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 30, 2026 04:20 PM (sAmhv)
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We got one on this thread.

An Amish lad getting some is JUST LIKE a rape gang, only just with the small detail of ... you know ... violence to force a girl into sex.

And that the Amish counsel him after it's over to come back to the group, that's just like Islam preferring Islam. You know because of all the Amish that decided to continue being Amish, are one-sided on whether or not to be Amish.

Okay, enough troll-feeding for me.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 04:24 PM (Fi81e)

245 Amish and Mennonite communities are all over northeast Ohio, and also anywhere (probably) with good farm land. Even though my family lives cheek by jowl with Amish owned farms I never knew much about them. They've changed, I will say, in that I see Amish riding in truck beds quite frequently now. Never saw that when I was youngrr.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 30, 2026 04:25 PM (KCI+7)

246 DOOOM river
It's guunna take a while
But fate is gonna smile
Some day

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 04:25 PM (MWfyi)

247 Two chicks at the same time.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 30, 2026 04:23 PM (dK+Kv)

Fuckin' A, man!

Posted by: Neighbor Lawrence at June 30, 2026 04:25 PM (wVcYX)

248 Denaturalize these muslims and deport them to Sudan. Place the arab-looking ones in the black part of Sudan and the muslims who look like blacks in the arabic part of Sudan.

Then let the Sudanese Civil War sort them out.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at June 30, 2026 04:25 PM (yO07m)

249 238 So, not PCUSA or ELCA, I gather?
Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 04:17 PM (Gqar
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Lol. Don't get me started on my war with the PCUSA in 2014. I was called a Calvinist by the head of the central FL synod I was being so stubborn in a large meeting in the fight for our church. I said yes when he asked (we were discussing abortion after he cut my mic). He gave up on me after 15min.

Raised conservative PCA, generations of Scots Presbyterians with French Huguenots. A bit stubborn.

Chose to be Roman Catholic this past March for many reasons. No, my 95yr old mother does not know (is PCA).
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 04:22 PM (hzuYO)

Big fistbump. Calvinist here, currently member of Southern Baptist church, because no good Presbyterian church nearby. My church currently will do.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 04:26 PM (Gqar8)

250 Only when Islam is defeated and extirpated can mankind be truly free.

Posted by: zombie at June 30, 2026 04:23 PM (Av6i5)
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The socialists help inflict the Muslims on us.

They both think that they can control the other.

They are equal enemies.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 04:26 PM (Fi81e)

251 Good to have a post like this one every now then to remind us:

Leftists are not the real enemy.

Transsexuals are not the real enemy.

RINOs are not the real enemy.

Even socialists are not the real enemy.

The real enemy is Islam, which uses all the groups listed above as weapons to conquer us.
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It could be argued you have it *backwards*. The Globalists are the enemy--Islam is must one of many tools they are using in an attempt to destroy individualism. Were they to win, the "Elite" would continue living their hedonist life without even a nod to Islam and the rest of us would be just as conquered as any of the other methods they are employing.

Posted by: Crusader at June 30, 2026 04:26 PM (TN0g+)

252
"There is a rumor out that Senator Mitch McConnell is close to death and may die at any time as his health has seriously deteriorated."

What does npr say?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 30, 2026 04:26 PM (Cqx++)

253 'Member when we were told we have to fight them 'over there' so we don't have to fight them here?

Good times...
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 30, 2026 03:26 PM (diia5)

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That's because W brought them all here and lied about it. No wonder W is so friendly with all Dem ex-presidents.

Posted by: Decaf at June 30, 2026 04:27 PM (ZNpJk)

254 I wonder though how soccer hooligans are seeing this.
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Some of our top players are muslims! We had to, otherwise how else are we going to beat Manchester?
-Football hooligans

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2026 04:27 PM (Dv3i1)

255 > I think the Kentucky legislature took away replacement powers from the governors office recently.
Posted by: Auspex at June 30, 2026 04:16 PM (Y8DZL)

Yes, but the Dem Gov. said it wasn't legal or something...
Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 04:17 PM (XBi0V)
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Last I saw, replacing McConnell would be with a special election. The state constitution had said the governor would pick from a list of names provided by the Republican Party. The governor said, nah... it's unconstitutional or something. So the state legislature passed a bill to make replacing a member of Congress who dies, or is ejected, done by a special election.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 30, 2026 04:27 PM (jehhT)

256 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw_cdqQHGA8

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 04:27 PM (Fi81e)

257 Go to the light, Mitch!

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 30, 2026 04:28 PM (wVcYX)

258 Unexpected result of depowering the Five Families? Back then The Boys would have put a stop to this stuff

Posted by: Azjaeger at June 30, 2026 04:28 PM (3/XaG)

259 257 Go to the light, Mitch!
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 30, 2026 04:28 PM (wVcYX)

Fat chance, that.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 04:28 PM (Gqar8)

260 I've been enjoying some of the Amish posts on this thread. I have a good friend who grew up in the Amish community, decided it wasn't for him...and ALSO, when he pointed this out to the elders they suggested he benefit the Amish community in other ways. He (and his brothers) never got baptized to the Amish Church (which signifies remaining)...Instead, he opened up his own contracting business, and eventually became a state politician (who I might add was instrumental in Trump winning PA). You might be able to figure out who it is based on that last tidbit.

My point is this. The Amish lean to the right. Although they dislike the "Chicken Hawk" politicians in either party with vigor. They abhor government over reach in their everyday lives. And, while you and I wish for a smaller government, they wish it to be smaller still.

Posted by: Orson at June 30, 2026 04:28 PM (dIske)

261 Go to the light, Mitch!

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 30, 2026 04:28 PM (wVcYX)

That's just mean . . . and well-deserved.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 30, 2026 04:28 PM (dK+Kv)

262 I'll say this about the Amish... if you're a hunter (especially deer) you don't want them living next to you.
Otherwise, what's not to like?
Wish I had some farmers nearby, instead of an hour away.

Posted by: MkY at June 30, 2026 04:29 PM (q6tQZ)

263 Pray for Muslims all you want but your not going to change them
And most are out to kill you

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 04:29 PM (Ia/+0)

264 Nood

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 30, 2026 04:29 PM (dK+Kv)

265 in that I see Amish riding in truck beds quite frequently now. Never saw that when I was youngrr.
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Its true. They can ride. Not drive. These days. Power tools - frowned upon, but in the furniture factories they aren't using peddle powered lathes. And they have a computer in the back room.

Posted by: Still its a lifestyle choice, just like running a decades long rape gang at June 30, 2026 04:29 PM (anL5R)

266 “We did NOT come here to coexist. We are superior to everyone else and will not be surpassed. No one is above us. If other religions want to live with us, they have to worship Allah”

" We also respectfully request to be shot in the face"

Posted by: Weasel at June 30, 2026 04:29 PM (64qRd)

267
That's because W brought them all here and lied about it. No wonder W is so friendly with all Dem ex-presidents

One of the weirdest things I ever heard was that Baghdad Bob ended up living in a California suburb

Posted by: Azjaeger at June 30, 2026 04:31 PM (3/XaG)

268
That's not just clear. It's flear.
Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 04:18 PM (KqZez)

Trying to cause a Flear Up?
Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 04:20 PM (Gqar

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What is this flear you speak of?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 04:32 PM (hzuYO)

269 Speaking of Amish butter churning, there is a Mennonite colony near where I live, and one of the grocery stores here sells their butter.

Delicious butter. I buy it often. Truly something that will cause terror in the eyes of those who have no taste.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at June 30, 2026 04:33 PM (yO07m)

270 We are doomed.

DOOOOOOOOMED
Posted by: nurse ratched

tinyurl.com/fxn5x7vn

Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 30, 2026 04:34 PM (M0V4/)

271 Power tools - frowned upon, but in the furniture factories they aren't using peddle powered lathes.

I recall an article in Wooden Boat magazine from at least 20 years ago that described large power tools converted to work on compressed air with electric compressors outside the shop. Apparently it's not that electricity itself is haram (SWIDT?) just having it inside the building.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2026 04:34 PM (vTZFs)

272 From above, "Imagine if, in the aftermath of 9/11, someone told you within 25 years someone like this would be getting elected in NYC -- would you have believed it?"

Yes. Eight years from the 1st localized bombing to the 2nd, both centered on the NY - DC corridor, aka the Northeast Megalopolis.

Each caused death and destruction. First some, the second massive but how real change and much broader control of the nation be effected without bringing down the infrastructure and having a huge internal war?

Take over NYC, one of the financial capitals of the world. (The other is London and it, too, is falling.) And take the seat of U.S. government, and epicenter of American political power and international diplomacy.

More of an Art of War "invasion" vs. a contemporary military invasion. And that's exactly what's been going on for decades. But thanks to Trump, and thanks to the possibility of a Trump-like successor, there's no option but to become visible.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 30, 2026 04:34 PM (NFX2v)

273
Amish aren't static in their beliefs; furniture makers in Shipshwanna can have lights, phones, and even connected grid power that they couldn't 25 years ago.

There is a strict branch that used to have land up by Remus and Mecosta that would turn their backs on you when you drove by, not sure if they still exist but the other Amish sort of respected that.

Posted by: Auspex at June 30, 2026 04:34 PM (Y8DZL)

274 At some point we will have to reckon with the fact that Islam is not a religion, but is a political system at direct odds with the US Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. As such, it will force some difficult discussions here, and at times some very tense confrontations.

Posted by: Black JEM at June 30, 2026 04:38 PM (GZYu7)

275 I'm here to represent the order of sliced bacon

Posted by: Ernest T Bass at June 30, 2026 04:51 PM (jrgJz)

276 270 We are doomed.

DOOOOOOOOMED
Posted by: nurse ratched

tinyurl.com/fxn5x7vn

Posted by: Stu Podaso

LOL!

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 30, 2026 04:55 PM (xIWND)

277 So this is an Islamic country now?

Hold my BEER, bitches.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 30, 2026 05:03 PM (gfO9L)

278 That's because W brought them all here and lied about it. No wonder W is so friendly with all Dem ex-presidents.
Posted by: Decaf at June 30, 2026 04:27 PM (ZNpJk)

Can this bullshit stop?

Evil Muslims were here BEFORE the all of a sudden hated Bush 43.

You idiots act like this country was Muslim free before 2001 or something. Most assuredly, it was not.

(Rolls eyes) FFS

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 30, 2026 05:07 PM (gfO9L)

279 Imagine if, in the aftermath of 9/11, someone told you within 25 years someone like this would be getting elected in NYC -- would you have believed it?

Sadly, yes, I would have. I even said it at the time. Though I will admit I thought it would take closer to 35 years. But still technically within one generation.

Posted by: GWB at June 30, 2026 08:25 PM (kU0PQ)

280 "The Amish? The people who have been in America since its founding, produce virtually no crime, consume almost no welfare, and don't demand the country be changed for them?"

And who are also very much in line with their fundamental religious beliefs with the rest of the country? They are Christians, if a little heterodox. They believe in self-governance and a common morality, and not submission to Allah.

Posted by: GWB at June 30, 2026 08:31 PM (kU0PQ)

281 Time for concerned citizens to start extra judicial executions of traitors inside the United States of America

Posted by: Matthew at June 30, 2026 08:57 PM (OdsgZ)

Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Boys in Girls Sports

SO CLOSE TO PRIDE MONTH?!!? SO CLOSE TO PRIDE MONTH?!!!

The holding is 6-3, but the three liberals joined with parts of it so parts of it are actually unanimous.

Coney-Barrett and Roberts joined the conservatives in this one because this case is about protecting Muh Feminism.

Remember, even super-feminist JK Rowling is on the right side of this issue.

Note the decision is about state bans on men in girls' sports. It's not about Trump's executive order to deny funds to states that allow men to beat up girls in sports.

And it doesn't ban men from girls' sports, just upholds states' rights to ban men from girls' sports.

Fox News
@FoxNews

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just handed states a major victory in one of the country's most closely watched culture battles: protecting girls' and women's sports.
In a 6-3 ruling along ideological lines, the court upheld laws in Idaho and West Virginia banning transgender students from competing in women's and girls' school sports.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh writing in his opinion, "The term 'sex' in Title IX... cannot plausibly be interpreted to refer to anything other than biological sex... The Court concludes that separate sports teams for biological males and biological females are reasonable given the inherent physical differences between the sexes."

The Supreme Court upheld state-level bans on transgender competitors playing girls' sports in Idaho and West Virginia in a landmark decision with major implications for more than half the country where similar policies are in place.
In a 6-3 opinion, in which the liberal justices concurred and dissented in part, the high court determined that neither state had violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by enacting the bans.
But the majority opinion also underscored the importance of treating transgender athletes with respect.
"Most of the biological female and transgender student-athletes who are involved in transgender sports disputes around the country are teenagers or in their early twenties," Republican appointed Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in the majority opinion.

"Those student athletes want to play sports. Their desire to compete warrants respect. No student-athlete on either side of the issue, whether a biological female or transgender, deserves to be ostracized or vilified."

What does this virtue signaling have to do with the actual issue here? Their words -- dicta, it's called, judicial ramblings with no actual precedential power -- will be used by liberal courts to justify the overturning of restrictions on transgenders in bathrooms and the like, claiming that this decision stands for the proposition that transgenders must not be "ostracized or vilified."

Two transgender athletes waged similar challenges against the bans, arguing that they flouted equal protection rights under the 14th Amendment and statutory law prohibiting discrimination.
...

The decision in the cases, Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B. P. J., marks the first time the Supreme Court has dealt with the fraught culture war issue of transgender competition in girls' sports.

Via Ed Morrissey: the key part of the decision.

In assessing the reasonableness of the regulations, we also must recognize the distinctiveness of competitive sports--and the safety and competitive fairness issues that can arise when females are forced to compete against males.
With respect to safety, allowing biological males to play on women's and girls' sports teams can put women and girls at significant risk of injuries. The safety risks are particularly severe in contact sports.
And as to competitive fairness, allowing biological males to play on women's and girls' sports teams can put female athletes at a serious disadvantage. That is because sports are generally zero sum. Allowing a biological male athlete to compete on a girls' team necessarily displaces or disadvantages a female athlete--replacing her on the roster, knocking her out of the starting lineup, reducing her playing time, depriving her of a medal, and the like. That hard reality of sports cannot be ignored or swept under the rug. On the contrary, that reality must and does inform interpretation of the term "reasonable" in the Javits Amendment.
Whether biological males may participate on women's and girls' sports teams may be a debated policy question. But the legal question for Title IX purposes is whether West Virginia may limit women's and girls' sports teams to biological females. As a matter of text and history, West Virginia may do so.

Apparently the three liberals (excluding Coney-Barrett and Roberts) agreed that Title IX plainly speaks of "sex" and not "gender expression" so Title IX cannot be claimed to grant rights to men to beat up girls in sports.

But they did find that the Equal Protection Clause just might!

Gina Milan
@ginamilan_
Ketanji Brown Jackson: "A transgender woman penalized for being perceived as aggressive has experienced discrimination "on the basis of sex" just as much as a cisgender woman has, no matter that the transgender woman's behavior matches expectations of her sex assigned at birth."
She's actually INSANE.

Ketanji Brown Jackson: �A transgender woman penalized for being perceived as aggressive has experienced discrimination "on the basis of sex" just as much as a cisgender woman has, no matter that the transgender woman's behavior matches expectations of her sex assigned at birth.�� pic.twitter.com/Whd7rTyeCz
— Gina Milan (@ginamilan_) June 30, 2026

NBC "News" warns viewers that they're about to read the words from a Supreme Court opinion, and those words will include the "triggering" and hateful phrase "biological males."

Liberal media corporation NBC warns its viewers that they are reading quotes from the Supreme Court majority ruling that states can ban male participation in competitive female sports in schools and universities. Leftists find �biological male� triggering. pic.twitter.com/lx1j7cA7L4
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) June 30, 2026

The blonde "woman" here is a man who is a doctor who performs transgender procedures on children.

We are all Julia Hartley-Brewer:

HW: �People like you shouldn�t get too involved in medicine, because of the harm you cause�.

JHB: �People like you, and I mean this very respectfully, should be in prison. Genuinely�. pic.twitter.com/COGsPP5y5K
— Rebel Ada (@DearRebelAda) June 30, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:15 PM

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1 Win some lose some, I guess.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 30, 2026 02:15 PM (u73oe)

2 Otters called

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 30, 2026 02:16 PM (u73oe)

3 States that want it are just gonna chose to allow transfreaks to continue to play so it's a Meh ruling to me....

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 02:17 PM (XBi0V)

4 dicta, it's called
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Sounds sexy.

Posted by: E Jean at June 30, 2026 02:18 PM (KqZez)

5 Coney-Barrett and Roberts joined the conservatives in this one

Fuck. You.

A nutless wonder and a brainless c*nt.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 30, 2026 02:18 PM (M0V4/)

6 Leftists find “biological male” triggering.
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PARTY OF SCIENCE

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 02:19 PM (KqZez)

7 So the orcs are now legally pouring over the ramparts of the citadel....but they can't cross-dress while doing so.

I call that a qualified win.

Posted by: Dr. T at June 30, 2026 02:20 PM (jGGMD)

8 The dope KBJ couldn't tell you what a woman is but she can define "cisgender."

Posted by: mr tmz at June 30, 2026 02:21 PM (rJ48h)

9 Fuck. You.

A nutless wonder and a brainless c*nt.
Posted by: Stu Podaso

Now now, you can't expect Comey Barrett to be anything else than a nutless wonder, she never had nuts in the first place.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at June 30, 2026 02:21 PM (vJrRc)

10 People who support the trans psychosis and especially those doctors who performed these mutilations even on adults should be facing execution.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 02:21 PM (R+iUD)

11 "A transgender woman penalized for being perceived as aggressive has experienced discrimination "on the basis of sex" just as much as a cisgender woman has, no matter that the transgender woman's behavior matches expectations of her sex assigned at birth."

I've never seen an actual woman punch some guy in the head because he won't call her ma'am.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 02:21 PM (sKqQm)

12 she never had nuts in the first place.
Posted by: FeatherBlade

Just the ones she gargled to get a law degree.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 30, 2026 02:22 PM (M0V4/)

13 I want California to react to this by passing a law mandating that all girls' sports should only be played by trannies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 02:23 PM (qd4Mv)

14 "Win some lose some, I guess."

This compared to birthright citizenship aint squat.

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 02:23 PM (MWfyi)

15 Don't forget Slaughter got slaughtered and now every 'independent' agency that Congress has created is now part of the Executive Branch.

Well except the Federal Reserve for now.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 30, 2026 02:23 PM (2GVsD)

16 Imagine a society so farcically degraded and a "court" so ridiculous that such a question is even a question. That's what you're stuck in. Pathetic.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 30, 2026 02:23 PM (U/Byj)

17 15 Don't forget Slaughter got slaughtered and now every 'independent' agency that Congress has created is now part of the Executive Branch.

Well except the Federal Reserve for now.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 30, 2026 02:23 PM (2GVsD)

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While laying groundwork for all the "independent" agencies to be declared outright unconstitutional.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 02:24 PM (qd4Mv)

18 Six justices have watched Kindergarten Cop. Three justices have not.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 30, 2026 02:24 PM (u73oe)

19 18 Six justices have watched Kindergarten Cop. Three justices have not.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 30, 2026 02:24 PM (u73oe)

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The three couldn't get past the trigger warning.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 02:24 PM (qd4Mv)

20 That we had to have a SC decision that allows states to ban men in women's sports is nothing to be proud of .

It should have been states that wanted to allow men in women's sports filing their suit and the SC shooting them down.

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 02:24 PM (04gcy)

21 >>> 16 Imagine a society so farcically degraded and a "court" so ridiculous that such a question is even a question. That's what you're stuck in. Pathetic.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 30, 2026 02:23 PM (U/Byj)

That too.

Commies fuck up EVERYTHING.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 02:24 PM (R+iUD)

22 Wait does this mean I can't make cute asian girls wax my lady balls in the US?

Posted by: Jessica Yaniv at June 30, 2026 02:25 PM (sKqQm)

23 Those student athletes want to play sports. Their desire to compete warrants respect. No student-athlete on either side of the issue, whether a biological female or transgender, deserves to be ostracized or vilified."

So girls play girls and boys play boys... problem solved.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 30, 2026 02:25 PM (NnhvP)

24 That Ketanji is one for the ages.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 30, 2026 02:26 PM (guGkK)

25 So the headline on ESPN is "Supreme Court upholds state laws banning transgender athletes". AP article, of course. But the headline and pretty much the full article just describes how 'transgenders have been banned'! It's never stated what transgenders have been banned from. Literally. It does not say "transgender girls and women [who are males] can be banned by state law from participating in WOMEN'S SPORTS"... Just that transgenders have been banned... Exactly the propaganda that gins up these tranny mass murderers and all the Leftists that support them...

Posted by: bearski at June 30, 2026 02:26 PM (Bhsk7)

26 Their desire to compete warrants respect. No student-athlete on either side of the issue, whether a biological female or transgender, deserves to be ostracized or vilified."

In each of these cases the tranny can try out for the boys team

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 02:26 PM (sKqQm)

27 24 That Ketanji is one for the ages.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 30, 2026 02:26 PM (guGkK)

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Meaning I'm going to be in my 80s when she's off the court.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 02:26 PM (qd4Mv)

28 Remember, even super-feminist JK Rowling is on the right side of this issue.

She's caught enough flak that she might want to watch Citizen Vigilante.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2026 02:26 PM (mXpUo)

29 Anyone know of any birthright "tourism" outfits planning an IPO? I want in. Gonna be bigger than US Steel.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 30, 2026 02:26 PM (U/Byj)

30 I still say we should call their bluff and say biological males that fully transition and cut off their junk can compete in female sports .

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 02:27 PM (04gcy)

31 words will include the "triggering" and hateful phrase "biological males."

REEEEEEE!! Penis people!!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 30, 2026 02:27 PM (Kt19C)

32
What about birthright transgender semi-automatic Federal executive firing?

Posted by: Frank Barone at June 30, 2026 02:27 PM (OkYzo)

33 Their desire to compete warrants respect. No student-athlete on either side of the issue, whether a biological female or transgender, deserves to be ostracized or vilified."

In each of these cases the tranny can try out for the boys team
Posted by: 18-1

Can't hack it. That's why the boy went fem.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2026 02:27 PM (mXpUo)

34 Rowling is a doctrinaire third generation feminist.

She just didn't agree with the move to 4th generation feminism/trannyism and for that, to the left, she is literal Hitler.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 02:27 PM (sKqQm)

35 RO Khanna of California is probably balls deep in 'birthright tourism.'

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 30, 2026 02:28 PM (2GVsD)

36 29 Anyone know of any birthright "tourism" outfits planning an IPO? I want in. Gonna be bigger than US Steel.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 30, 2026 02:26 PM (U/Byj)

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Stephen Miller is going to write an EO that Trump will sign under the powers properly protected in Hawaii v Trump that all women under 40 are now banned from travel to the United States unless they pass a pregnancy test saying that they are not pregnant.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 02:28 PM (qd4Mv)

37 I have no idea what Justice Jackson said. No idea.

Posted by: NPR Authentic Frontier Gibberish Expert at June 30, 2026 02:28 PM (XE5AP)

38 KBJ should be held up as the example of why there was a comment about wondering if a person of color was qualified or was a DEI pass thru. Her entire career, including her appointment and confirmation was just that. She is so far from Clarence Thomas intellect and legal mind, as is a kindergarten play is from Shakespeare.

Posted by: Jen the original at June 30, 2026 02:28 PM (W4X2O)

39 30 I still say we should call their bluff and say biological males that fully transition and cut off their junk can compete in female sports .
Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 02:27 PM (04gcy)

Yeah, if these people really believed that there's no differences between men and women, especially in athletics, they'd just make all sports unisex and let the chips fall where they may.

Posted by: Thrawn at June 30, 2026 02:28 PM (KKMoa)

40 I don't need a trigger warning.

Posted by: pookysgirl, biological female at June 30, 2026 02:28 PM (b0Q8g)

41 34 Rowling is a doctrinaire third generation feminist.

She just didn't agree with the move to 4th generation feminism/trannyism and for that, to the left, she is literal Hitler.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 02:27 PM (sKqQm)

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For the sake of progress, the modern left should take her house and give it to Palestinian refugees.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 02:28 PM (qd4Mv)

42
This is how I remember it: Trans Women are the ones with the thing that goes up.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 02:29 PM (KqZez)

43 Stephen Miller is going to write an EO that Trump will sign under the powers properly protected in Hawaii v Trump that all women under 40 are now banned from travel to the United States unless they pass a pregnancy test saying that they are not pregnant.

I don't see this working.

Frankly the Jackson option of ignoring the court would be significantly more likely to succeed. Just keep deporting the kids of illegals.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 02:29 PM (sKqQm)

44 “A transgender woman penalized for being perceived as aggressive has experienced discrimination "on the basis of sex" just as much as a cisgender woman has, no matter that the transgender woman's behavior matches expectations of her sex assigned at birth."

She is the best parroter of Critical Race Theory in the history of stupid people who have been told what to think, not how to think.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 02:29 PM (/FMtk)

45 I have no idea what Justice Jackson said. No idea.
Posted by: NPR Authentic Frontier Gibberish Expert

Neither does she.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2026 02:29 PM (mXpUo)

46 I have no idea what Justice Jackson said. No idea.

Neither does she, it's all about 'feelings.'

Wait has Affirmative Action Jackson ever ruled that she is indeed a woman?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 30, 2026 02:30 PM (2GVsD)

47 For the sake of progress, the modern left should take her house and give it to Palestinian refugees.

Don't forget we get to visit her house first!

Posted by: Some Paki that recently watched A ClockWork Orange at June 30, 2026 02:30 PM (sKqQm)

48 Coney-Barrett and Roberts joined the conservatives in this one because this case is about protecting Muh Feminism.
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It's a big win for women, which they can celebrate right up until they're cornered by migrant rape-gangs.

Posted by: Methos at June 30, 2026 02:30 PM (vSvIl)

49
What about urinals in womens restrooms? Think of the chicks with dicks!

Posted by: Frank Barone at June 30, 2026 02:31 PM (OkYzo)

50 “A transgender woman penalized for being perceived as aggressive has experienced discrimination "on the basis of sex" just as much as a cisgender woman has, no matter that the transgender woman's behavior matches expectations of her sex assigned at birth."

She is the best parroter of Critical Race Theory in the history of stupid people who have been told what to think, not how to think.
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 02:29 PM (/FMtk)

She's also wrong - they are being discriminated against because of their ability to inflict harm on girls and women.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2026 02:31 PM (uhVAy)

51 can't say anything good, so I'm not sayin' nuffin.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 30, 2026 02:31 PM (VyBeY)

52 I mean this quite respectfully, you should rot in gaol.

LMAO.

When they say "With all due respect," that means none is due. With all due respect, your genitals should burst into flames while I point and laugh with great respect.

Posted by: spongeworthy at June 30, 2026 02:31 PM (sLLbN)

53 It's a big win for women, which they can celebrate right up until they're cornered by migrant rape-gangs.

Oy as we tell'em just lay back and think of England!

Posted by: The cops in Britain at June 30, 2026 02:31 PM (sKqQm)

54 I strongly suspect the votes in all these big cases are horse-traded and negotiated.

"I'll vote with you one this, and you'll have a majority, in exchange for you voting with me on that."

I always suspected this was how the sausage was fucked, but on the Roberts court it seems more obvious.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 30, 2026 02:31 PM (iFTx/)

55
Is Rowling still living in Enga-land?

Posted by: Auspex at June 30, 2026 02:31 PM (Y8DZL)

56 I doubt KBJ wrote that gibberish, probably one of her clerks did. If she did no way in hell could she understand it, because a lot of people a lot smarter than her have any idea what she's blithering about

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 02:31 PM (f6yx7)

57 I have no idea what Justice Jackson said. No idea.
Posted by: NPR Authentic Frontier Gibberish Expert

Neither does she.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2026 02:29 PM (mXpUo)

"You don't need to understand what comes out of your piehole as long as everybody else does."

-- The Wit and Wisdom of Kamal Harris, large print edition

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 30, 2026 02:32 PM (guGkK)

58 43 Stephen Miller is going to write an EO that Trump will sign under the powers properly protected in Hawaii v Trump that all women under 40 are now banned from travel to the United States unless they pass a pregnancy test saying that they are not pregnant.

I don't see this working.

Frankly the Jackson option of ignoring the court would be significantly more likely to succeed. Just keep deporting the kids of illegals.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 02:29 PM (sKqQm)

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The illegal inflow is done and has been for more than a year.

Now, it's just the deportation machine (biggest in history before OBBB reinforcements amounting to $150 billion plus the new $70 billion from the recent shutdown win), kicking out everyone here and then building more walls around legal immigration.

Every visa class is down double digits from students to H1-Bs. Trump has travel bans in place for more than 30 countries already and limitations on another 70.

Hawaii v Trump asserted that the president has full authority over immigration. And Trump has been using that authority since January of last year. And the court system has backed him up on everything except the birthright citizenship case.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 02:32 PM (qd4Mv)

59 Keir Starmer, "it is racist to think of England!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 30, 2026 02:32 PM (2GVsD)

60 Frankly the Jackson option of ignoring the court would be significantly more likely to succeed. Just keep deporting the kids of illegals.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 02:29 PM (sKqQm)

They are undocumented so there is no proof they were ever here.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2026 02:32 PM (uhVAy)

61 30 I still say we should call their bluff and say biological males that fully transition and cut off their junk can compete in female sports .
Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 02:27 PM (04gcy

But they are still stronger, bigger, they still have the advantage. They just also have a gaping, poo smelling wound, too.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 02:32 PM (p4NUW)

62 This is how I remember it: Trans Women are the ones with the thing that goes up.
Posted by: ..

Replace the word trans with the word fake.
Trans = Fake

Trans Woman = Fake Woman
Trans Man = Fake Man

Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2026 02:32 PM (mXpUo)

63 Now female athletes can compete against other women and get abused and beaten and punched for being the wrong skin color, just like Caitlin Clark!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 30, 2026 02:33 PM (iFTx/)

64 None of these trannies that are in the news competing against women are transitioned. They still have their wedding tackle.

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 02:33 PM (04gcy)

65 >>> 36 29 Anyone know of any birthright "tourism" outfits planning an IPO? I want in. Gonna be bigger than US Steel.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 30, 2026 02:26 PM (U/Byj)

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Stephen Miller is going to write an EO that Trump will sign under the powers properly protected in Hawaii v Trump that all women under 40 are now banned from travel to the United States unless they pass a pregnancy test saying that they are not pregnant.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 02:28 PM (qd4Mv)

Nope. No exceptions and make it under 50, because fuck you*, that's why.

How many "high school age" "children" are already in the US?

*The immivaders, not the JM.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 02:34 PM (R+iUD)

66 60 Frankly the Jackson option of ignoring the court would be significantly more likely to succeed. Just keep deporting the kids of illegals.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 02:29 PM (sKqQm)

They are undocumented so there is no proof they were ever here.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2026 02:32 PM (uhVAy)

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Hospitals grant birth certificates.

Though, that can become harder to prove later if not kept by the individual (hospital will retain their copy on file, of course), decades pass, and there's struggles to prove that you are the Juan Rodruiguez who says he was born in that US hospital.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 02:34 PM (qd4Mv)

67 Hmmm.... so... bit O/T but...

Supremes said that they have to count ballots postmarked by Election Day.... does that also include postmarks from foreign post offices?

You know, for those absentee ballots from our new Foreign living Citizens, who have a RIGHT to vote?

One Supreme Court Judge once said the Constitution is not a suicide pact... he was correct, but the interpretations of the Constitution by the Supreme Court, is.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 02:34 PM (mP0Kj)

68 I still say we should call their bluff and say biological males that fully transition and cut off their junk can compete in female sports .
Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 02:27 PM (04gcy

But they are still stronger, bigger, they still have the advantage. They just also have a gaping, poo smelling wound, too.
Posted by:

I'll extend an olive branch. IF they have cut off before the age of seven.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2026 02:34 PM (mXpUo)

69 63. Comment of the thread.

Posted by: Jen the original at June 30, 2026 02:34 PM (W4X2O)

70

This is just one more step to disallowing fine men like Scott Weiner to rape young boys, which he must be allowed to do! To ban raping of young boys is homophobic. Men should be allowed to rape young boys in the ass, why is there such a fuss about it?

What, are people secretly in the closet about raping young boys in the ass or something?

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at June 30, 2026 02:35 PM (et1vG)

71 Now female athletes can compete against other women and get abused and beaten and punched for being the wrong skin color, just like Caitlin Clark!

Now now it isn't just skin color, the white lesbians in the WNBA hate her as well

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 02:35 PM (sKqQm)

72 70

This is just one more step to disallowing fine men like Scott Weiner to rape young boys, which he must be allowed to do! To ban raping of young boys is homophobic. Men should be allowed to rape young boys in the ass, why is there such a fuss about it?

What, are people secretly in the closet about raping young boys in the ass or something?

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at June 30, 2026 02:35 PM (et1vG)

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Scott Weiner? That center-rightist who only hides behind his queerness in order to block critique of his center-rightness from the left?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 02:36 PM (qd4Mv)

73 There that quote of some commie saying, "the kink is to force people to believe ridiculously false things, or at least force the to say they believe".

So 2+2=5, men can decide to be women, and elections are clean. Yes, those pushing that are really communists, and they win (some) elections.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 30, 2026 02:36 PM (vbXSk)

74 >>> 61 30 I still say we should call their bluff and say biological males that fully transition and cut off their junk can compete in female sports .
Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 02:27 PM (04gcy

But they are still stronger, bigger, they still have the advantage. They just also have a gaping, poo smelling wound, too.
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 02:32 PM (p4NUW)

I see I'm not the only one in a Mood.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 02:36 PM (R+iUD)

75 Now female athletes can compete against other women and get abused and beaten and punched for being the wrong skin color, just like Caitlin Clark!
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Problem is, Brett the male Griner is still playing in the DNBA.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2026 02:36 PM (mXpUo)

76
a) Boo-hoo.
b) Fuck 'em.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 30, 2026 02:36 PM (wtvvX)

77 But they are still stronger, bigger, they still have the advantage. They just also have a gaping, poo smelling wound, too.
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 02:32 PM (p4NUW)

Not accurate and why you don't see any fully transitioned tranny playing against women .

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 02:36 PM (04gcy)

78 Keir Starmer, "it is racist to think of England!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 30, 2026 02:32 PM (2GVsD)

Dark. I love it.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 02:37 PM (KqZez)

79 Hospitals grant birth certificates.

Though, that can become harder to prove later if not kept by the individual (hospital will retain their copy on file, of course), decades pass, and there's struggles to prove that you are the Juan Rodruiguez who says he was born in that US hospital.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 02:34 PM (qd4Mv)

Birth Certs are given by the Hospital, and then immediately put into a State or County data base, who then has the duty to maintain those records.

And beyond a cursory series of questions about maiden names and such, there is no check at all about getting a birth cert.... had to do it for Mom when she was 80 to get Real ID.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 02:37 PM (mP0Kj)

80 I would assume the permanent wound where you genitals used to be would impact your ability to play any physical sport...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 02:37 PM (sKqQm)

81 Tucker Carlson (, probably) all of the bad Supreme Court stuff today was that Jew Kagan 's fault

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 02:37 PM (f6yx7)

82 I would assume the permanent wound where you genitals used to be would impact your ability to play any physical sport...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 02:37 PM (sKqQm)

Well that's John Roberts out of any real competition then

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 02:38 PM (KqZez)

83 Kagan is clearly the smartest of the leftist judges. Corrupt to the core but she's no idiot unlike her allies

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 02:38 PM (sKqQm)

84 >>> 77 But they are still stronger, bigger, they still have the advantage. They just also have a gaping, poo smelling wound, too.
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 02:32 PM (p4NUW)

Not accurate and why you don't see any fully transitioned tranny playing against women .

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 02:36 PM (04gcy)

Er, what do the fully mutilated lose off that list? I suppose if your body isn't producing testosterone any more strength would decline but your bone and muscle structure, and your height, don't change.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 02:39 PM (R+iUD)

85 So NOW Jumanji is a biologist?!

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at June 30, 2026 02:39 PM (vra3d)

86
I'll extend an olive branch. IF they have cut off before the age of seven.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2026 02:34 PM (mXpUo

Ha! I am not going to advocate for harming children, because their mom’s should have their heads chopped off if they do this. That said, there would still be differences is skeletal structure and muscle mass. I know this concept is one Kentanji really struggles with, but biology is what biology is. There just isn’t enough lipstick in the world to make a boy a girl. We are different, not better, not worse, but different. And those differences are by design.

You know what we really need? People stopping their attempts to play God. God has this, God knows what he is doing. I wonder how many other problems could be solved just with this one thing.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 02:40 PM (pZEOD)

87 Kagan is clearly the smartest of the leftist judges. Corrupt to the core but she's no idiot unlike her allies

That's kind of like having the bragging rights for owning the tallest building in Topeka.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 30, 2026 02:40 PM (guGkK)

88
Biological male is the only type of male. There is no other.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 30, 2026 02:40 PM (VWtfl)

89 86 Well said, Piper.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 02:41 PM (77rzZ)

90 It's not very fair to have a guy go up against a girl in sports.
Nobody wants to see their daughter get the hell beat out of her by a guy who is bigger, stronger and an asshole for even wanting to do that to a girl. These dudes are assholes and chicken shits, they don't want to go up against other dudes and have the shit kicked out of them.

Posted by: Case at June 30, 2026 02:41 PM (IY9No)

91 Go ahead and make fun of KBJ now. In 15 to 20 years she'll be Chief Justice KBJ and will make the newcomers on the Court appear reasonable.

Posted by: Mr. Sunshine at June 30, 2026 02:41 PM (anL5R)

92 There are birth certificates and certificates of birth.

One the government has based on the info the hospital gives them. The other is what the hospital gives you.

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 02:41 PM (04gcy)

93 "14 "Win some lose some, I guess."

This compared to birthright citizenship aint squat.

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 02:23 PM (MWfyi) "

this.

there is no joy in Mudville. also, it's too bleeping hot.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 30, 2026 02:41 PM (VyBeY)

94 I guess it's time to come clean. I'm a biological 2 Spirit. I know, it explains so much.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 02:42 PM (KqZez)

95 And it doesn't ban men from girls' sports, just upholds states' rights to ban men from girls' sports.
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A ban is law. I should hope the Court is not making law-like things.

But the Court has already disgraced itself today. They actually cite the opinion of a lower court?!

Judges are the biggest threat to self-rule in America. Bar none.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 02:42 PM (Fi81e)

96 You know what we really need? People stopping their attempts to play God. God has this, God knows what he is doing. I wonder how many other problems could be solved just with this one thing.
Posted by: Piper

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2026 02:43 PM (mXpUo)

97 91 Go ahead and make fun of KBJ now. In 15 to 20 years she'll be Chief Justice KBJ and will make the newcomers on the Court appear reasonable.

Posted by: Mr. Sunshine at June 30, 2026 02:41 PM (anL5R)

=======

Most chief justices were appointed to be chief. Reinquist was the last one promoted from inside the court to chief in the 80s.

I doubt Jackson gets promoted to chief.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 02:43 PM (qd4Mv)

98 Wait does this mean I can't make cute asian girls wax my lady balls in the US?
Posted by: Jessica Yaniv

I guess that would be up to the Michigan legislature. But I'm pretty sure it means you can't do it in Tulsa.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2026 02:43 PM (vTZFs)

99 @91 if KBJ is the Chief Justice there won't be any other justices as the USA will be gone

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 02:43 PM (f6yx7)

100 I still say we should call their bluff and say biological males that fully transition and cut off their junk can compete in female sports .
Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 02:27 PM (04gcy

But they are still stronger, bigger, they still have the advantage. They just also have a gaping, poo smelling wound, too.
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 02:32 PM (p4NUW)

That still lets the pervs into the women's restrooms, changing rooms and room with them on the road and even at school by force.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2026 02:45 PM (uhVAy)

101 ou know what we really need? People stopping their attempts to play God. God has this, God knows what he is doing. I wonder how many other problems could be solved just with this one thing.
Posted by: Piper

You should know. You met Him

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 02:46 PM (KqZez)

102 You cannot live alongside these people. They will destroy you!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 30, 2026 02:46 PM (x8PQF)

103 Not accurate and why you don't see any fully transitioned tranny playing against women .

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 02:36 PM (04gcy)

I am 5’1 and weigh less than 130 pounds. I am also fit and have a pretty decent amount of muscle. Do you think this person

https://tinyurl.com/3k6n8cd8

Isn’t going to have an advantage on me? Nikkie was transitioned as a child. 6’2.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 02:46 PM (p4NUW)

104 You know what we really need? People stopping their attempts to play God. God has this, God knows what he is doing. I wonder how many other problems could be solved just with this one thing.
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 02:40 PM (pZEOD)
__________

"I AM GOD"

-- Assholic Narcissist Doctors Everywhere

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 30, 2026 02:46 PM (iFTx/)

105 99 @91 if KBJ is the Chief Justice there won't be any other justices as the USA will be gone
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 02:43 PM (f6yx7)

Probably, but I'd note that the Chief is not guaranteed to be in the majority at any point. Warren Burger was pretty famously unpopular with the other justices and unable to cobble together majorities. The few he did (like on obscenity) created totally unworkable rules.

Posted by: the lower depths at June 30, 2026 02:46 PM (b4kuR)

106 Biological male is the only type of male. There is no other.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 30, 2026 02:40 PM (VWtfl)
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They changed that in Tranny Wave #2.

The camel's nose used to say "Sex is different from gender. Male and female are sexes. Man and woman are genders."

So there could be "transwomen" but no "transfemales". You can't change your sex.

Wave #1 was arguably more observant of biology. But still argued that you can have your own personal social construction with millennia of vetting. That's where the dumb part came in.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 02:46 PM (Fi81e)

107 You know what we really need? People stopping their attempts to play God. God has this, God knows what he is doing. I wonder how many other problems could be solved just with this one thing.
Posted by: Piper

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2026 02:43 PM (mXpUo)

All leftists and a good chunk of churchgoers don't really believe in God anymore.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2026 02:47 PM (uhVAy)

108
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 02:34 PM (mP0Kj)

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HAHAHA you optimistic sucker. A ton of states let you return your ballot from overseas via fax or email.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 02:47 PM (XJ22o)

109 ou know what we really need? People stopping their attempts to play God. God has this, God knows what he is doing. I wonder how many other problems could be solved just with this one thing.
Posted by: Piper

You should know. You met Him
Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 02:46 PM (KqZez)
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*golf clap*

It's on the green.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 02:47 PM (Fi81e)

110 Oh, I misread "US" as "UP" as in Upper Peninsula. Now my snark makes no sense. As usual.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2026 02:47 PM (vTZFs)

111 I don’t understand how this perversion of common sense and law was effected to begin with.

When I was growing up, any male who tried to worm his way into female sports (or the locker room) would have been forcibly ejected. “Get outta here!”.

It couldn’t have been any kind of natural progression or grass-roots thing. Transexuals and crossdressers were a fairly obscure subset. Then, all of a sudden, seemingly overnight it was trannies this, trannies that, trannies everywhere. This is an engineered phenom.

Most disturbing is the medical and science industry professing to not understand basic genetics, psychiatry doing a 180 and the rest of it. Sick beyond word, grooming children. Early molestation is a proven method of screwing over personalities. Termed “trauma based conditioning”.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 02:47 PM (1WKhx)

112 I'll extend an olive branch. IF they have cut off before the age of seven.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2026 02:34 PM (mXpUo)

No, that olive branch can go in the poo hole. Never. Plenty of guys love sports that never got to play due to poor athleticism or some other issue; the loose screws don't get to beat up girls just because they reaaaaaallly want to...

Posted by: Nelly at June 30, 2026 02:48 PM (6+ehB)

113 I have no idea what Justice Jackson said. No idea.

Say, listen to me, banjo eyes, what right you got to stop a lady enjoyin' herself? Ain't nobody in this world like my honey cake.

Posted by: Kunta Kinte Jackson at June 30, 2026 02:49 PM (K5H/e)

114 People stopping their attempts to play God. God has this, God knows what he is doing. I wonder how many other problems could be solved just with this one thing.
===
The core of progressive ideology is that they are god. There is no GOD to them. To them your rights do not come from God, they come from government. So the government can grant, take away, or change them. Ultimately, they deny God every chance they get, because they deny reality. They want to live in a world of their own creation - not God's creation. They are attempting to erect a fantasy construct. Their attempts to control everything, including others who do not agree with them is ultimately not just futile, but also destructively dangerous. It is a wildly neurotic dysfunction (to psychologize it). To use classical terms, they are demonically oppressed, at least.

Posted by: Mr. Sunshine at June 30, 2026 02:49 PM (anL5R)

115 71 Now female athletes can compete against other women and get abused and beaten and punched for being the wrong skin color, just like Caitlin Clark!
Posted by: 18-1

While we're on the subject of fakes...

Posted by: Auspex at June 30, 2026 02:49 PM (Y8DZL)

116 You know what we really need? People stopping their attempts to play God. God has this, God knows what he is doing. I wonder how many other problems could be solved just with this one thing.
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 02:40 PM (pZEOD)

GOD IS NOT THE BOSS OF ME!!!

Posted by: Every Leftist Asshat at June 30, 2026 02:50 PM (bl07w)

117
if KBJ is the Chief Justice there won't be any other justices as the USA will be gone
Posted by: Smell the Glove

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

We would doubtless see some very very very very bad oral argument and majority opinion writing, but chief justice's opinion/vote counts the same as every other justice in granting cert and deciding cases, so there's that.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 02:51 PM (XJ22o)

118 Most disturbing is the medical and science industry professing to not understand basic genetics, psychiatry doing a 180 and the rest of it. Sick beyond word, grooming children. Early molestation is a proven method of screwing over personalities. Termed “trauma based conditioning”.
Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 02:47 PM (1WKhx)

Lysenkoism was preferred over Darwin in the USSR because it thought animals by force of will could made changes stick, just like communism will evolve the true men into something better.

Science is not immune to ideologic takeover and never has been.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2026 02:51 PM (uhVAy)

119 Science is not immune to ideologic takeover and never has been.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2026 02:51 PM (uhVAy)

Exhibit 1: Man Made CO2 Globull Warmering.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 02:54 PM (mP0Kj)

120 Never could have imagined. 001 percent of the population damn near hijacked science itself.

The Ts are ruining it for everyone.

There's a couple Ts who work here as nurses.. as the rest of the country rightfully moves on with their lives, these.... Things continue to wallow in their self deluded fantasy of "It's Ma'am!"

Posted by: Melodicmetal at June 30, 2026 02:55 PM (61TgR)

121 Is Kitanji Brown Johnson the dumbest judge to serve on the Supreme Court? How did any Republican vote for her?

Posted by: Darth Randall at June 30, 2026 02:56 PM (dvvVb)

122 >>> 111 I don’t understand how this perversion of common sense and law was effected to begin with.

When I was growing up, any male who tried to worm his way into female sports (or the locker room) would have been forcibly ejected. “Get outta here!”.

It couldn’t have been any kind of natural progression or grass-roots thing. Transexuals and crossdressers were a fairly obscure subset. Then, all of a sudden, seemingly overnight it was trannies this, trannies that, trannies everywhere. This is an engineered phenom.

Most disturbing is the medical and science industry professing to not understand basic genetics, psychiatry doing a 180 and the rest of it. Sick beyond word, grooming children. Early molestation is a proven method of screwing over personalities. Termed “trauma based conditioning”.
Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 02:47 PM (1WKhx)

*tee hee*

Posted by: see eye ay at June 30, 2026 02:56 PM (R+iUD)

123 Ketanji Brown Jackson: "A transgender woman penalized for being perceived as aggressive has experienced discrimination "on the basis of sex" just as much as a cisgender woman has, no matter that the transgender woman's behavior matches expectations of her sex assigned at birth."

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This is the same reasoning Gorsuch used to force companies to allow men to use women's restrooms at their businesses.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 30, 2026 02:56 PM (Af+g1)

124 121 Is Kitanji Brown Johnson the dumbest judge to serve on the Supreme Court? How did any Republican vote for her?

Posted by: Darth Randall at June 30, 2026 02:56 PM (dvvVb)

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Considering how corrupt the Senate has a long history of being before the Civil War, I bet there are a handful of men who served on SCOTUS who were borderline retarded as well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 02:57 PM (qd4Mv)

125 Science is not immune to ideologic takeover and never has been.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2026 02:51 PM (uhVAy)

Exhibit 1: Man Made CO2 Globull Warmering.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 02:54 PM (mP0Kj)

Exhibit 2: Public Health response to AIDS. Think what would happen if the response to a cholera epidemic was to refuse to clean up the water supply.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2026 02:57 PM (uhVAy)

126 GOD IS NOT THE BOSS OF ME!!!
Posted by: Every Leftist Asshat

Ima stand waaaaaay over there. >>>>>>>>

Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2026 02:57 PM (mXpUo)

127 What passes for “smart” and “educated” these days is pernicious strain of pseudo-intellectualism.

It’s mumbo-jumbo quackery. It used to be quite difficult to be admitted to most if not all colleges and universities. Merely having the scratch was not enough.

You’ll get accused of being “anti intellectual “ but this is a false choice. They are largely imposters, without particular aptitude or experience or demonstrated competence in a given field.

Meritocracy is hated with the passion of a thousand burning suns. Ultimately installing incompetent, unqualified individuals into leadership roles or positions of great responsibility is kind of a kink, consequently.

I did not have this on my radar growing up. I watched with disbelief in some areas of academia, but was naive in the extreme. “Well there’s no way these nutbars will have anything to do in the hard sciences, mathematics, engineering, chemistry, etc. They’d never in a million years allow that sort of nonsense.”

Oops

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 02:57 PM (1WKhx)

128 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 02:58 PM (2YhKe)

129 125 Exhibit 2: Public Health response to AIDS. Think what would happen if the response to a cholera epidemic was to refuse to clean up the water supply.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2026 02:57 PM (uhVAy)

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It was announced yesterday that the girl who played the ghost girl in the American version of The Ring and voiced some role in Lilo and Stitch, who died recently, died of AIDS.

Haven't heard of a reasonably famous person dying of AIDS in a while.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 02:58 PM (qd4Mv)

130 I don't think there should be any separation at all in sports based on sex. One team...best players make the team (sex is not a qualifying factor).

Though, in today's world, that might seem extreme; it isn't. Instead it is a rebuke on feminism. Men and women are not equal on the court, fiield, or diamond, despite the tripe they've been spouting out over these last six decades.

One team, where anyone is elligible would prove that.

And here's the point that many cringe at because they KNOW it's true. Women's sports in almost every capacity is nothing more than Patronization.

Posted by: Orson at June 30, 2026 02:58 PM (dIske)

131 Somewhere, in the bowels of Big Pharma, there's documentation how they created this whole trans bullshit in an effort to play God.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 02:58 PM (2YhKe)

132 SPONGE!!!

I need to go stock up on colorful 'splodey things for the weekend.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 02:58 PM (R+iUD)

133 130
And here's the point that many cringe at because they KNOW it's true. Women's sports in almost every capacity is nothing more than Patronization.

Posted by: Orson at June 30, 2026 02:58 PM (dIske)

=======

*nods sagaciously*
-The WNBA's PnL

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 02:59 PM (qd4Mv)

134 Never could have imagined. 001 percent of the population damn near hijacked science itself.

The trannies didn't hijack science. The forces of evil and ignorance did. They want a superstitious population that they can rule over like priest-kings. They want Zardoz.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 03:00 PM (ExV1e)

135 I don’t understand how this perversion of common sense and law was effected to begin with.
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They wanted to visit each other in the hospital

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 03:00 PM (KqZez)

136 210 Internal Collapse: Overstretched IRGC Faces Chaos as Kurdish Fighters Ignite Multiple Fronts Inside Iran

Senior IRGC Navy officer dies in car crash as insurgencies escalate across western Iran

Posted by: SMOD at June 30, 2026 02:58 PM (RHGPo)

======

False. The IRGC is unified, cannot splinter, and is stronger than ever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 03:00 PM (qd4Mv)

137 129 Rock Hudson is the last one I can remember.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 03:00 PM (77rzZ)

138 In a sane universe this sort of shit would be unnecessary.

But... here we are.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 30, 2026 03:01 PM (jehhT)

139 The trannies didn't hijack science. The forces of evil and ignorance did. They want a superstitious population that they can rule over like priest-kings. They want Zardoz.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 03:00 PM (ExV1e)
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Orange nappies will soon be all the rage...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 30, 2026 03:01 PM (gnNyN)

140 "Most of the biological female and transgender student-athletes who are involved in transgender sports disputes around the country are teenagers or in their early twenties," Republican appointed Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in the majority opinion.

"Those student athletes want to play sports. Their desire to compete warrants respect. No student-athlete on either side of the issue, whether a biological female or transgender, deserves to be ostracized or vilified."

Law has nothing to do with feelings. This statement makes you completely disqualified to rule on things pertaining to LAW because what you just said has NOTHING to do with the f*cking decision to NOT let boys beat the shit out of girls.

Lord love a duck we're so incredibly f*cked as a society and a nation going forward.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 03:01 PM (2YhKe)

141 Cough up my 1st Place medals, "Lia."

Posted by: Riley Gaines at June 30, 2026 03:01 PM (y2qFh)

142 three dots - first laugh I've had today thanks

a dark laugh, but still

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 30, 2026 03:01 PM (j+aD2)

143 @Breaking911
·
23m
TRUMP: I would like to congratulate President Xi, and the Great Country of China, on their massive Birthright Citizenship WIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 03:02 PM (ZxPkt)

144 am I the only one who thinks Ilona Maher is a guy?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 30, 2026 03:02 PM (j+aD2)

145
We have a local high school girl's softball umpire who's a guy in his 60's who wears makeup and dresses up as a woman and yells at players and their parents all he wants.

Trans is about hating on normal people.

Posted by: Auspex at June 30, 2026 03:02 PM (Y8DZL)

146 Stupid job getting in the way of my afternoon tomfoolery. Speaking of, exactly one month left to retirement. W00t!!

Posted by: Heavy Meta at June 30, 2026 03:02 PM (NgqoH)

147 Internal Collapse: Overstretched IRGC Faces Chaos as Kurdish Fighters Ignite Multiple Fronts Inside Iran

Senior IRGC Navy officer dies in car crash as insurgencies escalate across western Iran

Posted by: SMOD at June 30, 2026 02:58 PM (RHGPo)

That would imply that a portion of the populace is rising up. I've been reasonably informed that this is impossible.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 03:02 PM (ExV1e)

148 TRUMP: I would like to congratulate President Xi, and the Great Country of China, on their massive Birthright Citizenship WIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP

ha ha

another dark laugh moment

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 30, 2026 03:02 PM (j+aD2)

149 Most chief justices were appointed to be chief. Reinquist was the last one promoted from inside the court to chief in the 80s.

I doubt Jackson gets promoted to chief.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 02:43 PM (qd4Mv)

For now, being the most junior justice, is relegated to the Cafeteria Committee where she gets to listen to complaints about the food, etc. She also is the one that has to open the door in the private conference room where the justices meet. I can almost picture Alito saying "Hey KBJ, didn't you hear the ding-dong of the doorbell? You ding-dong!"

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 30, 2026 03:03 PM (N39Ws)

150 I'm always surprised when government does 'the right thing'. It's almost like witnessing an accident of some kind.

Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 03:03 PM (ZxPkt)

151 Is Kitanji Brown Johnson the dumbest judge to serve on the Supreme Court?

Probably. The floor is open for other nominations.

How did any Republican vote for her?

The usual suspects: Collins, Murk, and Mitt.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2026 03:03 PM (vTZFs)

152 You know what we really need? People stopping their attempts to play God. God has this, God knows what he is doing. I wonder how many other problems could be solved just with this one thing.
Posted by: Piper
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Chesterton's fence is about humility.

Modern Mad Scientist Man has no humility, because there's nothing to be humble to, but millennia of "backward people" getting things wrong.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 03:03 PM (Fi81e)

153 these.... Things continue to wallow in their self deluded fantasy of "It's Ma'am!"
———

There is a practical component. White males are at the very very bottom of the virtue signaling stack.

But there is a “remedy” now. Start wearing a dress and call yerself Gertie. Demand everyone else do the same.

Now yer a “protected class” and at, or near the top of the stack. Hiring, firing, & retention all look much more favorable now, compared to when you was just boring Bob in accounting.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 03:03 PM (1WKhx)

154 Cardinal Carlo Caffarra warned society faces a frightful "anti-creation" strategy that attacks the pillars of marriage and the family. He cited a private letter from Sister Lúcia of Fatima which stated: "The final battle between the Lord and the reign of Satan will be about marriage and the family." The late Italian Cardinal expanded on these threats during public addresses, particularly at the Rome Life Forum. His core warning that Satan was hurling an "ultimate and terrible challenge" at God by attempting to construct an "anti-creation," which strikes specifically at marriage and the family. The Decisive Issue: He often highlighted Sister Lúcia's encouragement that "anyone who works for the sanctity of marriage and the family will always be fought and opposed in every way, because this is the decisive issue." Laws and Cultural Shifts: He heavily criticized legislative changes that redefine fundamental building blocks of society, warning against the ennoblement of behaviors contrary to God's design.

Decades before gay marriage and the trans stuff . . .

Posted by: I dropped something at June 30, 2026 03:03 PM (anL5R)

155 >>> 136 210 Internal Collapse: Overstretched IRGC Faces Chaos as Kurdish Fighters Ignite Multiple Fronts Inside Iran

Senior IRGC Navy officer dies in car crash as insurgencies escalate across western Iran

Posted by: SMOD at June 30, 2026 02:58 PM (RHGPo)

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False. The IRGC is unified, cannot splinter, and is stronger than ever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 03:00 PM (qd4Mv)

B+

The People of Iran are unified, along with the Global South, in defiance of the JOOOligarchs of the imperial US.

Try harder, dude.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 03:03 PM (R+iUD)

156 147
That would imply that a portion of the populace is rising up. I've been reasonably informed that this is impossible.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 03:02 PM (ExV1e)

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Mobs killing local warlords has its uses.

It's not a great unifying force for political action, though. There are real limits.

Iran's GDP has collapsed in half in the last 4 months. It can't import anything anymore even with the MOU because no one wants to port at Bandar Abbas because the IRGC keeps firing on people and has actually stolen the goods from 3 vessels in the last couple of months.

People are probably well into malnutrition and might be outright starving.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 03:04 PM (qd4Mv)

157 That would imply that a portion of the populace is rising up. I've been reasonably informed that this is impossible.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 03:02 PM (ExV1e)

Well, they rose up before, and initially (197

not for an Islamic Republic per se.

That said, I need to see some tangible evidence of progress other than Tousi or whoever just asserting things. I think the emigre's reliability on what's going on internal is weak and just them trying to wish things into reality.

Posted by: the lower depths at June 30, 2026 03:04 PM (b4kuR)

158 It was announced yesterday that the girl who played the ghost girl in the American version of The Ring and voiced some role in Lilo and Stitch, who died recently, died of AIDS.

Haven't heard of a reasonably famous person dying of AIDS in a while.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 02:58 PM (qd4Mv)

The media complex has moved on from AIDS to other funding vectors.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2026 03:04 PM (uhVAy)

159 I'm always surprised when government does 'the right thing'. It's almost like witnessing an accident of some kind.

Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 03:03 PM (ZxPkt)
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Ours is a Lie-first government.

Which means it does not see itself responsible to the voters. It just knows that voters can hold it accountable.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 03:04 PM (Fi81e)

160 151 How did any Republican vote for her?

The usual suspects: Collins, Murk, and Mitt.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2026 03:03 PM (vTZFs)

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The worst showing for a Democratically appointed SCOTUS justice ever.

Previous worst was Sotomayor who got 9 GOP votes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 03:05 PM (qd4Mv)

161 I remember the first salvos against J. K. Rowling about a decade ago, on Robert Stacy McCain's blog ("The Other McCain" - AKA the Good One). She was called a TERF - "Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist". All because she called a man a man, just as a deer is a deer and is not a horse.

The reason she reads as smug or annoying on her Twitter is because, again, a decade of this. She didn't bend the knee, so she was made a target of Rule #12 - "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." However, she's still here, and she still has her fortune from her creation of the Harry Potter universe. Even if they're trying to Modern-Audience-Remake the hell out of it now.

Considering how many people have their phones surgically attached to their irises nowadays, it was amazing (even magical) to consider how many people, children even, bought her books. To read!

How many folks admitted to college this year cannot even read the whole first page of the first novel? Simply are not able to?

Posted by: G. Quagmire at June 30, 2026 03:05 PM (4h45B)

162 151 Is Kitanji Brown Johnson the dumbest judge to serve on the Supreme Court?

Probably. The floor is open for other nominations.

How did any Republican vote for her?

The usual suspects: Collins, Murk, and Mitt.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2026 03:03 PM (vTZFs)

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I think if we go back far enough we'll find one or two who spent way too much time around lead paint and had similar intellectual difficulties.

Posted by: Orson at June 30, 2026 03:05 PM (dIske)

163 It was announced yesterday that the girl who played the ghost girl in the American version of The Ring and voiced some role in Lilo and Stitch, who died recently, died of AIDS.

Haven't heard of a reasonably famous person dying of AIDS in a while.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 02:58 PM (qd4Mv)
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Trump's fault, obviously.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 03:05 PM (Fi81e)

164 155 B+

The People of Iran are unified, along with the Global South, in defiance of the JOOOligarchs of the imperial US.

Try harder, dude.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 03:03 PM (R+iUD)

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Needs a reference to Epstein.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 03:05 PM (qd4Mv)

165 Trump must:
- fire every Obama and Biden hire
- close the border and shut down all entry visas until Congress defines a citizen

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 30, 2026 03:06 PM (sibvL)

166 163 It was announced yesterday that the girl who played the ghost girl in the American version of The Ring and voiced some role in Lilo and Stitch, who died recently, died of AIDS.

Haven't heard of a reasonably famous person dying of AIDS in a while.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 02:58 PM (qd4Mv)
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Trump's fault, obviously.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 03:05 PM (Fi81e)

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Thanks Obama.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 03:06 PM (qd4Mv)

167 Gina Milan
@ginamilan_
Ketanji Brown Jackson: "A transgender woman penalized for being perceived as aggressive has experienced discrimination "on the basis of sex" just as much as a cisgender woman has, no matter that the transgender woman's behavior matches expectations of her sex assigned at birth."

She's actually INSANE.
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She's making progress(ive). At least she willing to tell us what one kind of person is a "woman".

Posted by: mrp at June 30, 2026 03:06 PM (rj6Yv)

168 that separate sports teams for biological males and biological females are reasonable given the inherent physical differences between the sexes.

Some people see this as a radical statement...
"There are NO PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES! Men and Woman are the SAME!" --some blue-haired nose-ringed lesbian

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 03:07 PM (l3cgK)

169 165 Trump must:
- fire every Obama and Biden hire
- close the border and shut down all entry visas until Congress defines a citizen

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 30, 2026 03:06 PM (sibvL)

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He's fired a lot, and we get stories every week of new firings.

Trump's ability to kill entire visa classes is limited. Certain classes are statutorially outlined and the administration is under the obligation to issue in certain cases (spousal visas, for instance).

Still, his administration is limiting as much as possible. 50% as many green cards issued in the last fiscal year than the previous year under Biden.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 03:08 PM (qd4Mv)

170 A leftist who only wants to imprison her interlocutor is a big improvement over the O'Brien character from todays Morning Report, who wants to see his political opponents executed.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 30, 2026 03:08 PM (0ChAx)

171 Where did this latest verbal excrescence “the Global South” come from?

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 03:08 PM (77rzZ)

172 That would imply that a portion of the populace is rising up. I've been reasonably informed that this is impossible.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 03:02 PM (ExV1e)

Doesn't have to be the populace - could be the Army, or another faction. I assume other factions are not thrilled with the IGRC popping off missiles and such because odds are high that if any true diplomatic settlement happens they will be out, one way or another.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2026 03:08 PM (uhVAy)

173 Trump must:
- fire every Obama and Biden hire
- close the border and shut down all entry visas until Congress defines a citizen

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 30, 2026 03:06 PM (sibvL)
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After all, the feudal claim was made by the King, the chief executive officer of England. Trump occupies the office of chief executive officer. So, Trump should be able to decide who stays and who goes.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 03:08 PM (Fi81e)

174 "...expectations of her sex assigned at birth."

Am I the only one that is bothered by the phrase "sex assigned at birth"? I wasn't a good student, and biology wasn't my strong suit. But I'm pretty sure sex/gender is assigned at conception. Not when the Dr is spanking your ass to make you cry.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 30, 2026 03:09 PM (N39Ws)

175 cisgender
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Can we ditch this make-believe word?

Posted by: Orson at June 30, 2026 03:09 PM (dIske)

176 Those student athletes want to play sports. Their desire to compete warrants respect. No student-athlete on either side of the issue, whether a biological female or transgender, deserves to be ostracized or vilified."
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Had to virtue signal didn't he.

Why oh why do so many people feel the need to be liked? I don't care if you are an asshole as long as you make a good decision. Shut up and make a good decision. If you are a plumber who came to unplug my toilet, do not waste time telling me about your charitable contributions, or your volunteer work - you git. You have one job. Do it. And do it quietly. FFS!

Posted by: ranty mcranterson at June 30, 2026 03:09 PM (anL5R)

177 173 After all, the feudal claim was made by the King, the chief executive officer of England. Trump occupies the office of chief executive officer. So, Trump should be able to decide who stays and who goes.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 03:08 PM (Fi81e)

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Except the Fed.

Trump has to give reasons for firing someone from the Fed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 03:09 PM (qd4Mv)

178 It was announced yesterday that the girl who played the ghost girl in the American version of The Ring and voiced some role in Lilo and Stitch, who died recently, died of AIDS.

Haven't heard of a reasonably famous person dying of AIDS in a while.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 02:58 PM (qd4Mv)
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Trump's fault, obviously.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 03:05 PM (Fi81e)

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Thanks Obama.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 03:06 PM (qd4Mv)
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She was reportedly a heavy junkie and living homeless on the streets with some rando "boyfriend" at the time of her death.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 30, 2026 03:09 PM (iFTx/)

179 "Is Kitanji Brown Johnson the dumbest judge to serve on the Supreme Court?"

Just because they say stupid shit doesn't prove they're stupid.

Everything they say is for public consumption.

Posted by: davidt at June 30, 2026 03:09 PM (Q+gd/)

180 "The final battle between the Lord and the reign of Satan will be about marriage and the family."
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Well, you know what side we're on, here.
-Obergfell, Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2026 03:10 PM (Dv3i1)

181 Trump has to give reasons for firing someone from the Fed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 03:09 PM (qd4Mv)

They're ugly and their mama dresses them funny.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 03:10 PM (ExV1e)

182 >>> 171 Where did this latest verbal excrescence “the Global South” come from?
Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 03:08 PM (77rzZ)

I've seen it a couple other places, seems to be a more recent commie shorthand for 'oppressed brown peeples'. Except of course it includes places like Iran and such that are NOT in the South, but they don't like the US.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 03:10 PM (R+iUD)

183 Where did this latest verbal excrescence “the Global South” come from?
Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 03:08 PM (77rzZ)

Its pretty old, but came more into prominence due to the Ukraine War was as the West, versus Russia/China tried to win over the less aligned nations usually in the Southern Hemisphere.

US policy seems to be detaching South America at least from any 'global' group

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2026 03:11 PM (uhVAy)

184 She was reportedly a heavy junkie and living homeless on the streets with some rando "boyfriend" at the time of her death.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 30, 2026 03:09 PM (iFTx/)
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So you agree, it's Trump's fault.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 03:11 PM (Fi81e)

185 Still, his administration is limiting as much as possible. 50% as many green cards issued in the last fiscal year than the previous year under Biden.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 03:08 PM (qd4Mv)
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No question we will see even more restrictive entry rules, especially after this morning's decision firmly legalizing birth tourism.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 30, 2026 03:11 PM (0ChAx)

186 Where did this latest verbal excrescence “the Global South” come from?

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 03:08 PM (77rzZ)
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Everybody who eats chitlins.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 03:12 PM (Fi81e)

187 Did the opinion include any quotes from the Scottish Common Law?

Posted by: mrp at June 30, 2026 03:12 PM (rj6Yv)

188 185 Still, his administration is limiting as much as possible. 50% as many green cards issued in the last fiscal year than the previous year under Biden.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 03:08 PM (qd4Mv)
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No question we will see even more restrictive entry rules, especially after this morning's decision firmly legalizing birth tourism.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 30, 2026 03:11 PM (0ChAx)

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And we have final confirmation that the US population actually shrunk in Trump's first year.

But, remember, immigration enforcement stopped after Minnesota because it fell out of the headlines.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 03:12 PM (qd4Mv)

189 Is Kitanji Brown Johnson the dumbest judge to serve on the Supreme Court?"

Just because they say stupid shit doesn't prove they're stupid.

Everything they say is for public consumption.
Posted by: davidt at June 30, 2026 03:09 PM (Q+gd/)
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This. I don't think she's stupid in the sense of low-IQ semi-retardation. She's just a pure ideolog that gets forced into idiotic positions to serve her ideology. She knows full well what a "woman" is. She is one. She knows full well what a "man" is. She married one. But she is sworn unto death to a ideology that demands she claim not to know.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 30, 2026 03:13 PM (iFTx/)

190 "...expectations of her sex assigned at birth."

Am I the only one that is bothered by the phrase "sex assigned at birth"? I wasn't a good student, and biology wasn't my strong suit. But I'm pretty sure sex/gender is assigned at conception. Not when the Dr is spanking your ass to make you cry.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 30, 2026 03:09 PM (N39Ws)

it's just a verbal trick to make it seems like sex is fluid and not a permanent characteristic.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2026 03:13 PM (uhVAy)

191 Did the opinion include any quotes from the Scottish Common Law?

Posted by: mrp at June 30, 2026 03:12 PM (rj6Yv)
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Kagan: "If it's ne Scottish, it's crap!"

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 03:13 PM (Fi81e)

192 .expectations of her sex assigned at birth."

Am I the only one that is bothered by the phrase "sex assigned at birth"? I wasn't a good student, and biology wasn't my strong suit. But I'm pretty sure sex/gender is assigned at conception. Not when the Dr is spanking your ass to make you cry.
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Oh yeah. This is the base premise lie of all time -- that you are assigned a sex a birth. Its not like its a diagnosis. Its a recognition of a pre existing fact. You have a cock and balls, or a cooter. Your eyes a blue or brown. Your hair blonde. Those things weren't assigned at birth by your doctor or your parents. Those things, exist, in fact, just like your genitalia. Its not just a name like Bob or Mindy, Queef. FFS.

Posted by: ranty mcranterson at June 30, 2026 03:13 PM (anL5R)

193 Sort of related:

I just realized I missed those "Enhanced Games" they held in Vegas. You could slop down as many steroids and other drugs as you see fit, then bench press a pick-up truck. I wanted to see some no-holds barred competition.

Posted by: Orson at June 30, 2026 03:13 PM (dIske)

194 cisgender
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Can we ditch this make-believe word?
Posted by: Orson at June 30, 2026 03:09 PM (dIske)
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Or, we ditch any SCOTUS justice who used it

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 30, 2026 03:14 PM (0ChAx)

195 And, to bring around a tangential thought.

What is the average number of jobs the US economy should add in a year if the population is actually declining?

We're used to 150,000-250,000 being added every month as a sign of a healthy economy, but that's in the context of population growth.

What's a marker of a healthy jobs economy in a country where the population is actually decreasing in raw numbers?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 03:14 PM (qd4Mv)

196 And, to bring around a tangential thought.

What is the average number of jobs the US economy should add in a year if the population is actually declining?

We're used to 150,000-250,000 being added every month as a sign of a healthy economy, but that's in the context of population growth.

What's a marker of a healthy jobs economy in a country where the population is actually decreasing in raw numbers?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 03:14 PM (qd4Mv)
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Jello

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 30, 2026 03:15 PM (iFTx/)

197 a cold-hearted adventurer who seduced his way into a fortune.
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Is there an online How-To? Asking for a friend...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 30, 2026 03:15 PM (XeU6L)

198 175 cisgender
_____________________

Can we ditch this make-believe word?

Posted by: Orson at June 30, 2026 03:09 PM (dIske)

Normal and abnormal...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 03:15 PM (l3cgK)

199 Sort of related:

I just realized I missed those "Enhanced Games" they held in Vegas. You could slop down as many steroids and other drugs as you see fit, then bench press a pick-up truck. I wanted to see some no-holds barred competition.
Posted by: Orson at June 30, 2026 03:13 PM (dIske)

It turned out that in most cases the Enhanced peeps weren't better and did not break actual records. Or our regular athletes are already cheating.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2026 03:15 PM (uhVAy)

200 196 What's a marker of a healthy jobs economy in a country where the population is actually decreasing in raw numbers?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 03:14 PM (qd4Mv)
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Jello

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 30, 2026 03:15 PM (iFTx/)

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There's always room for Jello.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 03:15 PM (qd4Mv)

201 @ginamilan_
Ketanji Brown Jackson: "A transgender woman penalized for being perceived as aggressive has experienced discrimination "on the basis of sex" just as much as a cisgender woman has, no matter that the transgender woman's behavior matches expectations of her sex assigned at birth."

You saying you couldn't say what a woman was during your confirmation hearing should've gotten you laughed off the planet instead being confirmed as an SC Justice.

That is the most embarrassing moment in US Judicial history, hands down.

You're a f*cking clown, wrapped in an enigma, surrounded by a third chromosome.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 03:16 PM (2YhKe)

202 I think boys should also be allowed to have boy only sports teams, locker rooms and clubs.

Girls invaded the boys’ spaces first. Remember when Condi Rice was finally allowed to join Augusta?

I think men deserve men’s spaces without women.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 30, 2026 03:16 PM (I+dEf)

203 >> cisgender
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Can we ditch this make-believe word?

Posted by: Orson at June 30, 2026 03:09 PM (dIske)

Normal and abnormal...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 03:15 PM (l3cgK)
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Sane

Insane

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 30, 2026 03:16 PM (jehhT)

204 Did the opinion include any quotes from the Scottish Common Law?
Posted by: mrp at June 30, 2026 03:12 PM (rj6Yv)

If yer neighbor's sheep is on yer land, it's a date! -- Scottish Common Law

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 03:16 PM (ExV1e)

205 I don't think she's stupid in the sense of low-IQ semi-retardation. She's just a pure ideolog that gets forced into idiotic positions to serve her ideology. She knows full well what a "woman" is. She is one. She knows full well what a "man" is. She married one. But she is sworn unto death to a ideology that demands she claim not to know.
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Yup. She owes her position to this ideology. Everything she has. It is her identity now. She'll go to the wall for it. Barring a Pauline conversion experience. Which, now that I think about it, would be HILARIOUS.

Posted by: ranty mcranterson at June 30, 2026 03:16 PM (anL5R)

206
There's always room for Jello.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 03:15 PM (qd4Mv)

PUDDING POPS!!!

Posted by: Bill Cosby at June 30, 2026 03:16 PM (2YhKe)

207 That is the most embarrassing moment in US Judicial history, hands down.

You're a f*cking clown, wrapped in an enigma, surrounded by a third chromosome.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 03:16 PM (2YhKe)

Think Dredd Scott still takes the first place.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2026 03:17 PM (uhVAy)

208 Am I the only one that is bothered by the phrase "sex assigned at birth"? I wasn't a good student, and biology wasn't my strong suit. But I'm pretty sure sex/gender is assigned at conception. Not when the Dr is spanking your ass to make you cry.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 30, 2026 03:09 PM (N39Ws)
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The biggest disconnect is: It's not assigned.

Your DNA is your build instructions. There is no you without your DNA. Sex is part of your build instructions.

Anything else is colloquial-ludditism.

It's like Dawkins theory of "memes", he said something like "as a gene leaps from body to body, a meme jumps from brain to brain".

It was one of the most incompetent phrasings I've seen. There IS NO "body" to leap to before the combination of DNA makes it.

Yes, credentialed scientist (Zoology) can make luddite-ish models.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 03:18 PM (Fi81e)

209 Man I pity the law clerks that have to write Jackson-Brown's opinions. Imagine having swallow the cognitive dissonance and write to counter factual garbage of her opinions. I suppose they could be "true believers", but wow.

Gawd are we a laughing stock.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at June 30, 2026 03:18 PM (7Pnfz)

210 Yup. She owes her position to this ideology. Everything she has. It is her identity now. She'll go to the wall for it. Barring a Pauline conversion experience. Which, now that I think about it, would be HILARIOUS.
Posted by: ranty mcranterson at June 30, 2026 03:16 PM (anL5R)

Doubt that happens - plenty of Justices go liberal can't think of any reverse cases.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2026 03:18 PM (uhVAy)

211
I think men deserve men’s spaces without women.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 30, 2026 03:16 PM (I+dEf)

I believe it's a two way street. Men can have men spaces just as women can have women spaces.

Man caves, she sheds.....It's all fine.

The fact that we're blowing up everything for the sake of .1 of society that has been destroyed by bad parents, big pharma and leftist lunatics is REALLY pissing me off.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 03:19 PM (2YhKe)

212 What's a marker of a healthy jobs economy in a country where the population is actually decreasing in raw numbers?
$20, same as in town

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 30, 2026 03:19 PM (Kt19C)

213 This. I don't think she's stupid in the sense of low-IQ semi-retardation. She's just a pure ideolog that gets forced into idiotic positions to serve her ideology. She knows full well what a "woman" is. She is one. She knows full well what a "man" is. She married one. But she is sworn unto death to a ideology that demands she claim not to know.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 30, 2026 03:13 PM (iFTx/)
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And that's enough to disqualify her for a seat on the US Supreme Court. But the Senate is infested with pompous nitwits who view their own seat as a fief and estate. So they'll vote for anyone if that vote will ensure another six years of the good life.

Posted by: mrp at June 30, 2026 03:19 PM (rj6Yv)

214
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This is just one more step to disallowing fine men like Scott Weiner to rape young boys, which he must be allowed to do! To ban raping of young boys is homophobic. Men should be allowed to rape young boys in the ass, why is there such a fuss about it?

What, are people secretly in the closet about raping young boys in the ass or something?

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at June 30, 2026 02:35 PM

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Hear him! Hear him!

Posted by: Fake Afghan 'Refugee' at June 30, 2026 03:19 PM (azNOR)

215 210 Yup. She owes her position to this ideology. Everything she has. It is her identity now. She'll go to the wall for it. Barring a Pauline conversion experience. Which, now that I think about it, would be HILARIOUS.
Posted by: ranty mcranterson at June 30, 2026 03:16 PM (anL5R)

Doubt that happens - plenty of Justices go liberal can't think of any reverse cases.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2026 03:18 PM (uhVAy) j

These days when Paul becomes Pauline...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 03:20 PM (l3cgK)

216
The trannies didn't hijack science. The forces of evil and ignorance did. They want a superstitious population that they can rule over like priest-kings. They want Zardoz.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 03:00 PM (ExV1e)

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Brothers! We must purge this heretic in the name of the God Emperor!!

Posted by: High Marshall Helbrect of the Black Templars at June 30, 2026 03:20 PM (dvvVb)

217 Why not have just tranny teams and leagues. Just trannies, no straights. Problem solved.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 30, 2026 03:20 PM (g8Ew8)

218 The fact that we're blowing up everything for the sake of .1 of society that has been destroyed by bad parents, big pharma and leftist lunatics is REALLY pissing me off.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 03:19 PM (2YhKe)

The Transes will take out the Feminists eventually, men make better women because the Testosterone gives us insane energy for stupid actions.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2026 03:21 PM (uhVAy)

219 PUDDING POPS!!!
Posted by: Bill Cosby at June 30, 2026 03:16 PM (2YhKe)

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With a slight dusting of methaqualone.

Posted by: Orson at June 30, 2026 03:21 PM (dIske)

220 Why not have just tranny teams and leagues. Just trannies, no straights. Problem solved.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 30, 2026 03:20 PM (g8Ew

There aren't enough to go around.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2026 03:21 PM (uhVAy)

221 Girls invaded the boys’ spaces first. Remember when Condi Rice was finally allowed to join Augusta?

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 30, 2026 03:16 PM (I+dEf)

I've watched a LOT of older kids comedy shows, mainly because they didn't piss me off. While they were always big on girlllll power, I don't recall storylines where girls had to play on boys teams.

There were plots where the boys had teams and the girls didn't but not plots where a girl had to play on a guys team. That was always an adult comedy plot....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 30, 2026 03:22 PM (Sco7b)

222 hat is the most embarrassing moment in US Judicial history, hands down.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 03:16 PM (2YhKe)
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That's why I said yesterday, the Court is free to disgrace itself and its "profession".

I think Dred Scott was worse, actually. Taney emptied the whole outhouse for that one. And created a court-amplifying "substantive due process" to boot!

It used to be, as Judge Bork explained, that the people had a role in "due process", it meant decided by whatever process these things are decided.

Then the court decided that it has to have a cut in everything. So "substantive due process" is that almost everything has to be reviewed by a court, using lawyer logic and judge precedent, which the People have remote influence on.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 03:22 PM (Fi81e)

223 These days when Paul becomes Pauline...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 03:20 PM (l3cgK)

He was Saul before and Paul after IIRC

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2026 03:22 PM (uhVAy)

224 Why not have just tranny teams and leagues. Just trannies, no straights. Problem solved.

Suggested team name: Four on the Floor.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 30, 2026 03:22 PM (N39Ws)

225 THE BOSS HAS A NOOD

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 03:22 PM (Ia/+0)

226 I see the shell necklace Kenjabi continues not to understand biology.

I think the grossest example of trans crapola, other than them winning races with great pride, is a story I read about last month. Wrestling. Where the transcretin monster fingered a girl through her uniform in a hold and got away with it.

As I keep saying, my father would have done their gender surgery for free.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 03:23 PM (hzuYO)

227 There aren't enough to go around.
Posted by: Oldcat

High turnover rate from the suicides as well.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 30, 2026 03:23 PM (/k3in)

228
No question we will see even more restrictive entry rules, especially after this morning's decision firmly legalizing birth tourism.

Posted by: Huck Follywood

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

(shrug)

They brought it on themselves.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 03:24 PM (XJ22o)

229 Doubt that happens - plenty of Justices go liberal can't think of any reverse cases.
==
Clarence MFing Thomas. He was an very angry young man - black panther almost. totally straightened his shit out.

Clarence Thomas in his own words is a great documentary. Love the guy. No bullshit from him.

Posted by: ranty mcranterson at June 30, 2026 03:24 PM (anL5R)

230 213 This. I don't think she's stupid in the sense of low-IQ semi-retardation. She's just a pure ideolog that gets forced into idiotic positions to serve her ideology.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 30, 2026 03:13 PM (iFTx/)
________________________

She's, also, below average intelligence or she would be more clever in her delivery. You and I could present ideology in such a way that it would seem believable or maybe even vague enough to suggest a thoughtful alternative view.

She doesn't have that capacity and doesn't comprehend to necessity of being able to do so.

Posted by: Orson at June 30, 2026 03:25 PM (dIske)

231 There aren't enough to go around.
Posted by: Oldcat

We're working as fast as we can!!
- Your friendly local primary school teachers

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2026 03:25 PM (Dv3i1)

232 201 @ginamilan_
Ketanji Brown Jackson: "A transgender woman penalized for being perceived as aggressive has experienced discrimination "on the basis of sex" just as much as a cisgender woman has, no matter that the transgender woman's behavior matches expectations of her sex assigned at birth."
*********
F Paul Ryan for recommending this idiot!

Posted by: redridinghood at June 30, 2026 03:26 PM (NpAcC)

233 The trannies didn't hijack science. The forces of evil and ignorance did. They want a superstitious population that they can rule over like priest-kings. They want Zardoz.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 03:00 PM (ExV1e)
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I concur, but there is grant money going out there so that diplomaed academics can peer review shit that bootstraps their concepts into "Science".

Remember the whole "skin-suit wearing" thing.

And then they'll use their leverage in whatever institutions they get into to crowd out the true Scientific understanding of sex.

There are colloquial "realities" that crowd out rigorous understanding. For example, I cited Dawkins "meme theory" above. Most people think a "meme" is a picture with words, and very few know that it was a quasi-sciency notion that Dawkins shat out.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2026 03:27 PM (Fi81e)

234 Melania just noted her support for the alphabets to include the + on X in her response the to SCOTUS ruling on men in women’s sports. Oh boy….

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 03:28 PM (pZEOD)

235 210 Yup. She owes her position to this ideology. Everything she has. It is her identity now. She'll go to the wall for it. Barring a Pauline conversion experience. Which, now that I think about it, would be HILARIOUS.
Posted by: ranty mcranterson at June 30, 2026 03:16 PM (anL5R)

Doubt that happens - plenty of Justices go liberal can't think of any reverse cases.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2026 03:18 PM (uhVAy)

Just making a funny how Pauline is the actual feminine of Paul...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 03:30 PM (l3cgK)

236 She's, also, below average intelligence or she would be more clever in her delivery. You and I could present ideology in such a way that it would seem believable or maybe even vague enough to suggest a thoughtful alternative view.

She doesn't have that capacity and doesn't comprehend to necessity of being able to do so.
Posted by: Orson
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I would agree. For a shop or fast food clerk, she is probably ok with her iq, but not at the Supreme Court. She has been promoted beyond her competence and to make matters worse, this sort of person will purposefully hire mediocrities worse than her as clerks so as to not be shown up.

Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 03:34 PM (E4rtv)

237 Too bad for the sons of illegal alien invaders, er, American citizens. Now they can't go in the changing rooms with little infidel girls.

Posted by: p-squared at June 30, 2026 03:54 PM (0prFs)

Ro Khanna Promises to Fight the Oligarchs, Tax the Rich, and Imprison "the Epstein Class" While Driving a $190,000 Range Rover, Owning Family Golf Courses, and Taking Elevators In His Mansion

If you've somehow missed this goblinoid, Ro Khanna is running for president. He first attempted to cast himself as a "reasonable" Democrat who believed in the American dream and thought we should transcend racial and gender differences, not dwell on them.

That didn't sell. So Ro Khanna 2.0 joined with Thomas Massie in fighting "the Epstein class," doubling down on identity politics, and dropping his support of business to crusade as a full-bore communist class warrior.

But don't notice his immense wealth, which he selfishly hoards for himself and attempts various tax schemes to protect from the IRS.

Andrew Kerr
@AndrewKerrNC

NEW: @FreeBeacon
has the receipts on Ro Khanna's obscene, oligarchic wealth:
--his 2 kids (under 10yrs old) own 3 private golf courses in Ohio (not kidding)
--his wife drives a $190,000 luxury Range Rover
--his house has a 4-story indoor elevator

His two kids, both younger than 10, own three golf courses? That totally doesn't sound like a tax scam at all!

Steve Guest
@SteveGuest
Must read exposé: "How Progressive Class Warrior Ro Khanna Lives Like the Oligarchs He 'Fights,' With In-Home Elevator, $190K Range Rover, and Family-Owned Golf Courses."
"Rep. Ro Khanna (D., Calif.) has emerged as a potential contender for the Democratic presidential nomination while denouncing the ultra-rich who "hoard wealth and engage in financial speculation." But the progressive, Silicon Valley congressman and his family live a life of staggering luxury, fueled by dynastic wealth they did not earn and protected by the same thicket of trusts, anonymous corporations, and foundations that Khanna condemns.
Khanna lives in a $6 million, 8,000-square-foot luxury home with a four-story elevator and so much premium marble that even the two laundry rooms have marble counters.
The Northwest Washington, D.C., home is now for sale, as the Khanna family prepares to move to an even larger, more expensive house a few miles away in the Northern Virginia suburbs. Khanna's two children, who are minors, have large ownership shares in three private golf clubs, a significant stake in a $65 billion wealth management firm, and investments in hedge funds that focus on distressed debt, of which Khanna has been critical. Khanna's wife drives a $190,000 Range Rover she was so displeased with that she sued the dealer."

The Free Beacon:

'Ro' Me the Money! How Progressive Class Warrior Ro Khanna Lives Like the Oligarchs He 'Fights,' With In-Home Elevator, $190K Range Rover, and Family-Owned Golf Courses.

Khanna's ultra-wealthy family depends on the same kind of secretive financial accounting and unearned wealth that he criticizes on the stump

Andrew Kerr
June 30, 2026

Rep. Ro Khanna (D., Calif.) has emerged as a potential contender for the Democratic presidential nomination while denouncing the ultra-rich who "hoard wealth and engage in financial speculation." But the progressive, Silicon Valley congressman and his family live a life of staggering luxury, fueled by dynastic wealth they did not earn and protected by the same thicket of trusts, anonymous corporations, and foundations that Khanna condemns.
Khanna lives in a $6 million, 8,000-square-foot luxury home with a four-story elevator and so much premium marble that even the two laundry rooms have marble counters. The Northwest Washington, D.C., home is now for sale, as the Khanna family prepares to move to an even larger, more expensive house a few miles away in the Northern Virginia suburbs. Khanna's two children, who are minors, have large ownership shares in three private golf clubs, a significant stake in a $65 billion wealth management firm, and investments in hedge funds that focus on distressed debt, of which Khanna has been critical. Khanna's wife drives a $190,000 Range Rover she was so displeased with that she sued the dealer.
A Washington Free Beacon investigation into Khanna's finances finds that the progressive truthteller's lifestyle is funded by his wife, Ritu Ahuja Khanna, an heiress to her father's Cleveland auto parts fortune.

Oh, I thought he was some kind of tech mogul who at least earned his money, which would explain his previous support of tech moguls who earn fortunes.

But nope, he just married the rich girl and inherited her father's money. He is, as Hercule Poirot might say, a cold-hearted adventurer who seduced his way into a fortune.

An analysis of Khanna's financial disclosures reveals his gilded life is enriched by the same sort of investment vehicles that Khanna has said he has a "moral" duty to oppose and that Khanna's family is a beneficiary of the "New Gilded Age" he condemns.
Khanna's family wealth comes from his father in law, Monte Ahuja, an Indian-born, Cleveland auto parts magnate turned investor and philanthropist. Like many of the global ultra-rich with generational wealth, Ahuja has set up various trusts and other financial models to benefit his children and grandchildren. These complex financial structures are deliberately opaque, but Khanna, as a member of Congress, is legally required to disclose his family's financial affairs to the public. This visibility, however, has been somewhat obscured by Khanna's decision to file his financial disclosures in the old analog format, effectively rendering it immune to a thorough examination without the use of sophisticated data analysis tools.
In 2024, Khanna's financial disclosures clocked in at 333 pages of non-text-searchable tables, listing over 3,000 individual assets owned by him, his wife, and his children, with each asset having ticked one of 13 available boxes corresponding to an asset valuation range. Put together, those assets are worth anywhere from $103 million to more than $340 million, according to a Free Beacon review. It's possible that the net worth of Khanna's nuclear family could far exceed $340 million. He reported a total of 10 assets held by his wife and two children--including the stakes they hold in three golf clubs--as simply being worth more than $1 million with no disclosed ceiling.
For his two young children, Khanna reported in 2024 they own between $26 million and more than $73 million in irrevocable trusts, a wealth transfer vehicle that could shield them from future inheritance taxes.
Khanna's wife purchased the couple's current Washington, D.C., home through one of her trusts in 2020 for $3.15 million, real estate records show. The house, which is located in an enclave of newly constructed luxury homes in Northwest D.C., is less than a mile from a private school for young children, which counted Khanna's wife as a member of its parents association through 2023.

Read the whole thing.

The Marxist�s favorite trick:

Convincing citizens that someone else�s money is actually the government�s

Such that when a wealthy person doesn�t want to give his wealth to the government, he�s actually stealing from �the people� pic.twitter.com/asa5Fes8N0
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) June 30, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:18 PM

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1 DEPORT!

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 01:18 PM (ugc0u)

2 FIRST!!!!

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 01:18 PM (ugc0u)

3 OK, I've done all that is required.

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 01:19 PM (ugc0u)

4 He might be an ollie gock but he's the good kind!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 30, 2026 01:21 PM (Cqx++)

5 I nooded. I'm surprised no one else did before me.

Posted by: the lower depths at June 30, 2026 01:23 PM (b4kuR)

6 Good. Get those little assholes working early.

If your kid doesn't own golf courses by the time he or she is age ten, you're doing America wrong.

Or fraud wrong...

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 30, 2026 01:24 PM (Sco7b)

7 How’s his pants crease? That’s what’s important.

Posted by: Pete Bogs Agentic alter ego at June 30, 2026 01:24 PM (Cmww0)

8 In 2024, Khanna's financial disclosures clocked in at 333 pages of non-text-searchable tables,
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Sue him for violating Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

ALL publicly available government documents are supposed to meet accessibility requirements under Title II ADA.

The fact that he's deliberately circumventing this LAW means he should be sued and held liable for his actions.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 30, 2026 01:24 PM (gnNyN)

9 Hmm. A commie hypocrite.

I shall alert the media.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 30, 2026 01:24 PM (guGkK)

10 When does foreign aid run out of money?

Posted by: I gotta ask at June 30, 2026 01:25 PM (2Ez/1)

11 I love that there are still people who believe exposing hypocrisy on the left will ever move the needle.

ALL leftists say the following:
Yes, I'm rich or am trying to become rich.
Yes. I want to take all your money.
Fuck you, pay me.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 30, 2026 01:25 PM (xA5g+)

12 You know, our country would look far different in the political class feared us a little more. I don’t mean physical violence here, but I do mean removed from office as immediately as possible. Thune should fear his constituents far more than he fears a half dead, or maybe at this point, fully dead, Mitch McConnell.

By the way, his family is asking for privacy. Is he still fogging a mirror?

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 01:26 PM (Dd38x)

13 "While Driving a $190,000 Range Rover"

That's it? Just a RR? There is a RR on every other block in Manhattan. They barely make a dent in the ceiling of the really rich.

I would think a status-conscious woman with such immense wealth would be in a Cullinan, Bentayga, or Urus.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 30, 2026 01:26 PM (iFTx/)

14 Sue him for violating Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 30, 2026 01:24 PM (gnNyN)

Can any Joe Shmow sue him or does it have to be a government group?

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 30, 2026 01:26 PM (Sco7b)

15 I remember fondly the Christmas I found a golf course under the tree. The only drawback was that Santa gave my sister two.

Posted by: Pete Bogs Agentic alter ego at June 30, 2026 01:26 PM (Cmww0)

16 The phrase "the Epstein class" always means either conservatives or Jooooos.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2026 01:27 PM (QZThv)

17 The only drawback was that Santa gave my sister two.
Posted by: Pete Bogs Agentic alter ego at June 30, 2026 01:26 PM (Cmww0)

Sister earned it....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 30, 2026 01:27 PM (Sco7b)

18 A Wealth tax on Congresscritters of 10% a year!!! For the Children!!!

Posted by: Hal Dall MD at June 30, 2026 01:28 PM (xZmOg)

19 Please oh please let Rho Khanna be the dem nominee in 28. That would be popcorn time… guaranteed Vance (or Rubio or DeSantis) win

Don’t get me wrong; the retard would get gobs of votes because we have gobs of retards voting (and gobs of fake ballots). But as close to an assured win as is possible in the country these days. Reagan 84 landslides not gonna happen again in my lifetime anyway…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 01:28 PM (D2O3S)

20 I hear Rho Khanna's kids are dynamite at exterminating the gophers.

Posted by: Carl Spackler at June 30, 2026 01:28 PM (guGkK)

21 Interesting theory - NPR announced that Alioto was retiring, and then quickly retracted the story.

Did Alioto tell the person who he suspects of being the Supreme Court leaker this, just to see if it would leak?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 30, 2026 01:28 PM (aD4fx)

22 I would think a status-conscious woman with such immense wealth would be in a Cullinan, Bentayga, or Urus.

Same, but the RR specifically is the name with the cachet so that's what women go for. Car guys know about the other 3, Karen who runs your HOA doesn't.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2026 01:28 PM (QZThv)

23 Can any Joe Shmow sue him or does it have to be a government group?

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 30, 2026 01:26 PM (Sco7b)
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I think anyone who can demonstrate "harm" because they can't access the tables would be able to sue. So, someone who uses assistive technology like a screen-reader.

Tables on websites and electronic documents have be formatted and tagged in a very particular way to make them accessible with assistive technology.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 30, 2026 01:28 PM (gnNyN)

24 Ro Khanna: Not an American name.

Get these fucking leeching foreigners out of my country!!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 30, 2026 01:29 PM (g8Ew8)

25 All these champaign socialists are after unlimited power, nothing more. Their strategy is to fool the proletariat to vote for them. The working class in the USA sees through this BS, and they only hook champaign socialists wanabees, who think that we the people should subsidize their Forever Student lifestyles.

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 01:29 PM (ugc0u)

26 Do you wonder why our institutions are so intent on protecting people with names like Khanna?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 30, 2026 01:30 PM (BI5O2)

27 Is Ro named for the off-brand boner pills that are sometimes advertised on Fox?

Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2026 01:30 PM (QZThv)

28 24 Ro Khanna born in Philadelphia, PA.

Posted by: Sleepy Joe at June 30, 2026 01:30 PM (nvKZ7)

29 He’ll be ok with lefties as long as he’s sufficiently anti Israel.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 30, 2026 01:30 PM (u73oe)

30 Michael Moore - I know - laughed his Socialism all the way to the bank. And still pretended to be "common". As did many before and after.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 01:30 PM (KqZez)

31 THREE HOUSES SHOULD BE THE LIMIT FOR ANYONE!!!

Posted by: Comrade Bernie Sanders at June 30, 2026 01:30 PM (guGkK)

32 I think anyone who can demonstrate "harm" because they can't access the tables would be able to sue. So, someone who uses assistive technology like a screen-reader.

Tables on websites and electronic documents have be formatted and tagged in a very particular way to make them accessible with assistive technology.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 30, 2026 01:28 PM (gnNyN)

Interesting.
Thanks Perfessor!

Back to projects.

Snowflake's inside but active. This is usually 5 to 8 hour nap time in my room. Hmmmm.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 30, 2026 01:30 PM (Sco7b)

33 I would think a status-conscious woman with such immense wealth would be in a Cullinan, Bentayga, or Urus.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 30, 2026 01:26 PM (iFTx/)

Wait until the Atlantic magazine profile that tells her story of an idyllic childhood on the reservation. Growing up at one with nature. Learning the timeless rhythms of the seasons. Her moccasins had no holes.

Posted by: Pete Bogs Agentic alter ego at June 30, 2026 01:31 PM (Cmww0)

34 Ro Khanna born in Philadelphia, PA.
Posted by: Sleepy Joe at June 30, 2026 01:30 PM (nvKZ7

Is he one of the Back Bay Khannas?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 30, 2026 01:31 PM (guGkK)

35 13 "While Driving a $190,000 Range Rover"

That's it? Just a RR? There is a RR on every other block in Manhattan. They barely make a dent in the ceiling of the really rich.

I would think a status-conscious woman with such immense wealth would be in a Cullinan, Bentayga, or Urus.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 30, 2026 01:26

And the house in Alpharetta has an elevator. She needs to up her game, doesn’t she.

Though my children don’t own golf courses…so there is that.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 01:31 PM (Dd38x)

36 and Imprison "the Epstein Class"

I find it amusing that the people that want to legalize paying a 17 year old (boy) for a beejer also use this phrase "The Epstein Class" as if to refer to others

The Epstein documents show a bunch of celebs, academics and leftwing pols associating with Epstein in various ways...but they don't mean these people - a couple of these academics faced minor consequences and the left's argument was this was a violation of those "Epstein Class" member's rights to free association and speech...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 01:31 PM (sKqQm)

37 Khanna moved to California in late 2003, near as I can tell, having been raised in the Philly area and attended college at University of Chicago (Where fun goes to die") and Yale Law School (of course). He tried to run for Congress immediately, failed, worked for a couple of law firms for a few years and then taught part-time after his marriage in 2015. He moved to Washington soon thereafter, having finally got into Congress in 2017.

So his brief sojurn in California got him a job, and his wife got him FU money.

His FIL must really be disappointed in him, since he is a well-known GOP donor and big supporter of capitalism.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 30, 2026 01:32 PM (25DXE)

38 I would think a status-conscious woman with such immense wealth would be in a Cullinan, Bentayga, or Urus.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 30, 2026 01:26 PM (iFTx/)
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The Urus is a tarted-up Audi Q6 and is driven by finance bros who happened to have kids with their trophy wife.

Not sure an Indian woman would be caught dead in a British car, for reasons, so the Rolls and Bentley are out.

Posted by: ballistic at June 30, 2026 01:32 PM (oqH4h)

39 The elevators at Villa Cicero each have full time attendants.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 30, 2026 01:33 PM (guGkK)

40 Bezos's ex is one of the richest people in the world and perhaps the richest woman

She's given $0 to charity though she does fund leftwing terrorist groups. Oddly no one is calling on her to give poor people money...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 01:33 PM (sKqQm)

41 The phrase "the Epstein class" always means either conservatives or Jooooos.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2026 01:27 PM (QZThv)

In this case it is the *real* Epstein Class just slapping a convenient label on their enemies while continuing to pedo and child sex party their way to hell.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 01:33 PM (KqZez)

42 The phrase "4 story indoor elevator" strikes me as funny, too. Elevators are typically indoors, and if her house has 4 stories that's a far more damning thing for wealth than not wanting to do 4 flights of stairs.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2026 01:34 PM (QZThv)

43 I would think a status-conscious woman with such immense wealth would be in a Cullinan, Bentayga, or Urus.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 30, 2026 01:26 PM

It's just until the Maybach is delivered.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 30, 2026 01:34 PM (Wnv9h)

44 Rho-AOC!

The prez ticket with the least number of letters!! And smallest number of little gray cells (h/t Hercule Poirot)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 01:35 PM (YetvJ)

45 The elevators at Villa Cicero each have full time attendants.

Elevator operators, you say?

Posted by: Electric Callboy at June 30, 2026 01:35 PM (QZThv)

46 Interesting.
Thanks Perfessor!

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 30, 2026 01:30 PM (Sco7b)
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The other "tell" that he's deliberately circumventing the letter and spirit of the law is that he's submitting them as "analog" format. In other words, some poor schmuck is being paid minimum wage (or less) to type everything up on an IBM Selectric. Those are then being submitted in physical form and then some other poor schmuck turns them into non-OCR PDFs (images) for digital archiving.

Though there are some wonderful tools that can turn images like that into a fully readable document now, thanks in part to AI.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 30, 2026 01:35 PM (gnNyN)

47 Ro Khanna born in Philadelphia, PA.
Posted by: Sleepy Joe at June 30, 2026 01:30 PM (nvKZ7)

Fine.

Then he should be named Rob Kaine.

I have no patience for this shit.

Change your names like my family did, or go back where people are named weird crap like "Khanna."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 30, 2026 01:35 PM (BI5O2)

48 At this point, we need an age limit and a wealth limit for the presidency. I want a middle class dude as president. No older than 60.

Posted by: The Sanhedrin at June 30, 2026 01:35 PM (FEAjO)

49 Country clubs have changed from being owned by old, white Northeasterners who hated Jews to young People of Color who hate Jews.
Progress!

Posted by: Wally at June 30, 2026 01:36 PM (0e5Te)

50 I find it amusing that the people that want to legalize paying a 17 year old (boy) for a beejer also use this phrase "The Epstein Class" as if to refer to others
______

Nevermind that Trump was disgusted by him and kicked him out when he found out what he did, and that many lefty pols and celebs never repudiated their association with Epstein, even after his conviction, the phrase "The Epstein Class" is used to refer solely to Trump.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2026 01:36 PM (Dv3i1)

51 Man, that AOC is a rabid bitch. As she ages she is getting mentally uglier by the day. She herself is worth millions, iirc, thanks to the mysterious alchemy of modern day politics, so I sure don't understand her sounding so bitter.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 30, 2026 01:36 PM (25DXE)

52 So the Epstein criminals basically woke up one day and said "hey if we pin Epstein on Trump, we can pretend it wasn't actually us all along". Thus the birth of this "Epstein Class" bs.

Remember - Epstein was all just a fake phony comet pizza conspiracy theory according to them until they found a way out: Projection and Gaslighting.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 01:36 PM (KqZez)

53 I don't know WTF is up with Massie but I bet it's weirder than we realize.

... ok I think that about pretty much *everything*.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 01:36 PM (R+iUD)

54 Khanna lives in a $6 million, 8,000-square-foot luxury home with a four-story elevator

How else am I to get the gold bars down to the vault?

Posted by: (Hey, did you rock and roll) Ro Khann! at June 30, 2026 01:37 PM (i14TE)

55 One thing I do have to say there though, few people that would vote for Ro care that he is a hypocrite.

The FSA army is solely motivated by who will give them the most free shit and nothing else.

Not only will the FSA not care that he is rich, if he promises to rob Musk and take half for himself while giving them the other half to them they'd all claim he is the greatest hero and humanitarian the world has ever seen.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 01:37 PM (sKqQm)

56 This guy could go away and live a life of luxury and leisure but no he has to stick around and impose his animal farm fantasy on the rest of us.

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 01:37 PM (MWfyi)

57 Country clubs have changed from being owned by old, white Northeasterners who hated Jews to young People of Color who hate Jews.
Progress!

I wouldn't join any club that would have me as a member.

Posted by: Groucho Marx at June 30, 2026 01:37 PM (guGkK)

58 Not sure an Indian woman would be caught dead in a British car, for reasons, so the Rolls and Bentley are out.
Posted by: ballistic at June 30, 2026 01:32 PM (oqH4h)

If I was rich, would I have a Bentley along with all my other cars?

You damn right I would.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 30, 2026 01:37 PM (g8Ew8)

59 In other words, some poor schmuck is being paid minimum wage (or less) to type everything up on an IBM Selectric.

To be fair, the Selectric and Selectric II have the best keyboards ever made. If I could get paid to type on one I'd do it.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2026 01:37 PM (QZThv)

60 Remember - Epstein was all just a fake phony comet pizza conspiracy theory according to them until they found a way out: Projection and Gaslighting.

I do see leftists occasionally mentioning Pizzagate stuff now which is hllarious.

Not only did they spend the whole of the Biden Junta years arguing there were no Epstein files they spent 8 years arguing Pizzagate was an op to distract the rubes run by Trump...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 01:38 PM (sKqQm)

61 How can it be legal for a minor to own a golf course?

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 01:39 PM (77rzZ)

62 If Trump were the fascist the commies say he is, he would have confiscated Ro's golf courses, re-branded them as TRUMP courses, and held some big non-PGA but yuge payout tournaments on them. With hot chicks as caddies.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 01:39 PM (R+iUD)

63 Not sure an Indian woman would be caught dead in a British car, for reasons, so the Rolls and Bentley are out.
Posted by: ballistic at June 30, 2026 01:32 PM (oqH4h)

Both Rolls and Bentley are German.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 30, 2026 01:39 PM (guGkK)

64 >>> 61 How can it be legal for a minor to own a golf course?
Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 01:39 PM (77rzZ)

Reparations, or something.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 01:40 PM (R+iUD)

65 Ro Khanna sounds like the name of a Mos Eisley slumlord who's always trying to pick up some strange at the Cantina.

Posted by: far cry at June 30, 2026 01:40 PM (wBRco)

66 and if her house has 4 stories that's a far more damning thing for wealth than not wanting to do 4 flights of stairs.

We need the downstairs pool to be handicapped-accessible for our staff!

Posted by: Ro Khanna at June 30, 2026 01:40 PM (i14TE)

67 Change your names like my family did, or go back where people are named weird crap like "Khanna."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

I have to admit, it is weird seeing Jews with names like "Dovid" or "Davide". I don't remember them growing up.
I mean, if you want to pronounce DavEEeed in front of your peers, go for it, but why make me memorize your name in print. I'm probably going to be forgetting your face anyway because I gotta deal with pretentious buffoons elsewhere.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 01:40 PM (gKWVE)

68 Keys to wealth:

-Starting a quality learing center
-be the right kind of gigolo

Posted by: Cray Cray at June 30, 2026 01:41 PM (RmciC)

69 Oh no!

Won't anyone think of the poor oligarchs and the international elites?

We must elect a good conservative to protect them from people like Ro Khanna.

The royal families and international bankers have had it tough enough already! They shouldn't have to endure.....taxation!

Posted by: Conservative Millenial at June 30, 2026 01:41 PM (nYWR7)

70 61 How can it be legal for a minor to own a golf course?
Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 01:39 PM (77rzZ)

Reparations, or something.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 01:40 PM (R+iUD)
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I imagine it's actually owned by the trust that has the child's name on it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 30, 2026 01:41 PM (gnNyN)

71 How can it be legal for a minor to own a golf course?
Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 01:39 PM (77rzZ)

Usually through a trust; the property is in a minor's name, but controlled by an adult executor until some date after his 18th birthday.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 30, 2026 01:41 PM (BI5O2)

72 Honestly I don't get wanting a fleet of cars if I was rich.

One reliable car for normal operation and if I lived in the NE/North one car that can handle snow and ice.

Though I guess if my goal was to pick up women then yes I'd need a third fancy car of some sort - something Italian that break all the time but looks cool when it is working...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 01:41 PM (sKqQm)

73 The other "tell" that he's deliberately circumventing the letter and spirit of the law is that he's submitting them as "analog" format. In other words, some poor schmuck is being paid minimum wage (or less) to type everything up on an IBM Selectric. Those are then being submitted in physical form and then some other poor schmuck turns them into non-OCR PDFs (images) for digital archiving.

Though there are some wonderful tools that can turn images like that into a fully readable document now, thanks in part to AI.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 30, 2026 01:35 PM (gnNyN)

At least he didn't submit scrolls...

I'd still like to see that body to start investigating Congress critters to see how 'people' like Pelosi are worth tens of millions.

I'll leave that for "Nothing will happen" guy while I get back to work.

Thank you for the informative break.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 30, 2026 01:42 PM (Sco7b)

74 Ro Khannah? More like, Jo Mamma!

(high five!)

Posted by: Cray Cray at June 30, 2026 01:42 PM (RmciC)

75 I would think a status-conscious woman with such immense wealth would be in a Cullinan, Bentayga, or Urus.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 30, 2026 01:26 PM (iFTx/)
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The Urus is a tarted-up Audi Q6 and is driven by finance bros who happened to have kids with their trophy wife.

Not sure an Indian woman would be caught dead in a British car, for reasons, so the Rolls and Bentley are out.

Posted by: ballistic at June 30, 2026 01:32 PM (oqH4h)
_______

RR is British too -- or at least as British as Rollie (owned by BMW) or Bentley (owned by VW).

Urus is on the same platform as the Q8. Finance bros get the Revuelto or Temerario. The Urus is for the older guys and rich housewives to drive when they need more space than the Revo or Teme. A new Urus performance model is being launched tomorrow. Probably north of $500k.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 30, 2026 01:42 PM (iFTx/)

76 Not sure an Indian woman would be caught dead in a British car, for reasons, so the Rolls and Bentley are out.
Posted by: ballistic at June 30, 2026 01:32 PM

She is driving a Range Rover.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 01:42 PM (Dd38x)

77 67 I have to admit, it is weird seeing Jews with names like "Dovid" or "Davide". I don't remember them growing up.
I mean, if you want to pronounce DavEEeed in front of your peers, go for it, but why make me memorize your name in print. I'm probably going to be forgetting your face anyway because I gotta deal with pretentious buffoons elsewhere.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 01:40 PM (gKWVE)

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My Italian students when I lived in Italy always called me by the Italian version of my name.

And I'd correct them. There's no E at the end of my name. Say it right. Plus, you know, you're in an English class.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 01:42 PM (qd4Mv)

78 Okay…. I misspelled Ro as Rho… who the heck knows it’s a weird name

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 01:42 PM (YetvJ)

79 The elite Marxists don't live like citizens

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 01:42 PM (sgkY8)

80 He still has to own a residence here in California, wonder what that looks like and where it is?

Posted by: beckster at June 30, 2026 01:43 PM (kX27y)

81 Though I guess if my goal was to pick up women then yes I'd need a third fancy car of some sort - something Italian that break all the time but looks cool when it is working..

I give you...

https://tinyurl.com/4w6vbkwd

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 30, 2026 01:43 PM (guGkK)

82 "Ro Khanna is running for president"

I mean, sure, why not? If we're all going to go down, might as well get it over with.

Posted by: cheshirecat at June 30, 2026 01:43 PM (E4Afo)

83 Of Course: The Five Liberal Supreme Court Justices (Including Liberals Roberts and Coney-Barrett) Decide the 14th Amendment Can Go Blow, Anyone Born in the US is a US Citizen

Ever notice that the nazgul with vagina always vote this way.

/ just saying...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 30, 2026 01:44 PM (/lPRQ)

84 79 The elite Marxists don't live like citizens
Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 01:42 PM (sgkY

Yet, their always behind the elite environmentalists.

That's the life...

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 30, 2026 01:44 PM (Sco7b)

85 Ro's real first name is Rohit which is quit common among Indians. It means first rays of the sun or red

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 01:44 PM (sKqQm)

86 The elite Marxists don't live like citizens
Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 01:42 PM (sgkY

----
They ARE the citizens.

The rest of us are their subjects.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 30, 2026 01:44 PM (gnNyN)

87 they're...

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 30, 2026 01:44 PM (Sco7b)

88 Remember. Money is evil and demeaning women is wrong. Every good progressive knows that.

So what do blacks, the core Democrat "progressive" voting bloc, immortalize in popular "song" again?

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 01:44 PM (KqZez)

89 82 "Ro Khanna is running for president"

I mean, sure, why not? If we're all going to go down, might as well get it over with.

Posted by: cheshirecat at June 30, 2026 01:43 PM (E4Afo)

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He's going to spend more money on his race for president than he will raise himself. He will get 15th in New Hampshire and 20th in SC.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 01:45 PM (qd4Mv)

90 How can it be legal for a minor to own a golf course?
Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 01:39 PM (77rzZ)

Reparations, or something.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 01:40 PM (R+iUD)
_____

Easy and legal. The minor doesn't own the golf course directly. The minor owns shares in -- or more likely is a beneficiary in a trust that owns shares in -- a company that owns a company that owns a company that owns the golf course.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 30, 2026 01:45 PM (iFTx/)

91 I'm shocked that someone as wealthy as Ro Khanna's wife would marry him, is not a looker.

Posted by: Jaimo at June 30, 2026 01:45 PM (2noDb)

92 "Rohit" is short for Rollin in Money Piece of Shit

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 01:46 PM (KqZez)

93 "It's a trust!" -- John Roberts

I'm *sure* that Ro Khanna isn't spending any earnings out of the kids' trusts for himself.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 01:46 PM (R+iUD)

94 I saw some young-ish socialists on some podcast. I'm not sure if they were candidates for something, or just random 'tards (BIRM).

They were both in agreement about a 100% tax on the rich - but arguing about whether it should apply to individuals over $500k or $250k annual income.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 30, 2026 01:46 PM (BI5O2)

95 She is driving a Range Rover.
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 01:42 PM (Dd38x)
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lol yeah, missed that

Posted by: ballistic at June 30, 2026 01:46 PM (oqH4h)

96 Hey, let's have Hasan Piker as his running mate. I mean, he's a birthright citizen and is old enough, I think. Then bring in Mandami as the Secretary of the Treasury. It'll be a big hit.

Posted by: cheshirecat at June 30, 2026 01:46 PM (E4Afo)

97 How can it be legal for a minor to own a golf course?
Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 01:39 PM (77rzZ)

Josiah was king at age 8… 2 Kings 22

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 01:47 PM (D2O3S)

98 The Soviet collectivization of agriculture is a study of just how fucking moronic Socialists are. “Kulaks” was one term.

You will own nothing, and they will kill you for merely pointing out “Hey, maybe this isn’t going to work, guys”. Naturally, it didn’t. Epic famine and starvation - millions died in Ukraine, some of the best farmland on the planet, due to starvation.

The Bolsheviks needed hard currency, so what little Wheat that was produced was diverted for Export. Possession of a single wheat berry would get you shot, family exiled to a gulag.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 01:47 PM (oAa51)

99
there are some wonderful tools that can turn images like that into a fully readable document now, thanks in part to AI.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

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

ChatGPT will read fuzzy print on a jpeg. Just image the darn documents and it could be done in a day or two, considering it would need a final pass by human eyeballs.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 01:47 PM (XJ22o)

100 Keys to wealth:

-be the right kind of gigolo
Posted by: Cray Cray at June 30, 2026 01:41 PM

This man understands.

Posted by: John Forbes Kerry at June 30, 2026 01:47 PM (kgE5c)

101 WHAT THE FUCK, *Supreme" Court??!?

Just popped in to read the posts, and the atrocity appeared.

It is getting closer to "dissolving the political bonds" and altering or abolishing our government.

Good grief.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 30, 2026 01:48 PM (qpYnZ)

102 Didn't see this mentioned in the SCOTUS thread but they have granted cert to Viramontes v Grant challenging Cook County IL's "assault weapon" ban. It's potentially good news given that most of the 2A cases have been falling our way lately.

This might be a good time to throw some love towards your favorite 2A group. Personally, I am an NRA Life Member but my $$ go to the Second Amendment Foundation and the Firearms Policy Center.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2026 01:48 PM (vTZFs)

103 considering it would need a final pass by human eyeballs.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 01:47 PM (XJ22o)

You made something highly benign sound really gross

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 01:49 PM (KqZez)

104 Not sure an Indian woman would be caught dead in a British car, for reasons, so the Rolls and Bentley are out.
Posted by: ballistic at June 30, 2026 01:32 PM

She is driving a Range Rover.
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 01:42 PM (Dd38x)

Pleasing to inform you that we own Range Rover now. Thank you come again.

Posted by: India at June 30, 2026 01:49 PM (2U6WJ)

105 They were both in agreement about a 100% tax on the rich - but arguing about whether it should apply to individuals over $500k or $250k annual income.

If you talk with leftwingers they are all onboard with the notion of a 100% tax on anyone that makes more then them.

And it is funny if a wealthier leftist starts talking with a less wealthy one because the former might start with "People that make more then $1M a year should be taxed at 100%" while the poorer one wants it at $100K which would hit the wealthier one...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 01:49 PM (sKqQm)

106 With hot chicks as caddies.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 01:39 PM (R+iUD)

This could cause me to resume playing golf.

Posted by: Pete Bogs Agentic alter ego at June 30, 2026 01:49 PM (Cmww0)

107 Josiah was king at age 8… 2 Kings 22

I don't remember voting for him.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2026 01:49 PM (vTZFs)

108 Posted by: John Forbes Kerry at June 30, 2026 01:47 PM (kgE5c)

Isn't that John Heinz Kerry?
I thought he married the ketchup queen?

Posted by: Reforger at June 30, 2026 01:49 PM (0dsIZ)

109 Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 30, 2026 01:48 PM (qpYnZ)

I saw that chyron at the gym this morning and made the call to not be posting in here until a few hours and posts later. Nothing I had to say would have been an asset to this blog or its commenters excepting maybe some feds.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 01:50 PM (gKWVE)

110 "But nope, he just married the rich girl and inherited her father's money. He is, as Hercule Poirot might say, a cold-hearted adventurer who seduced his way into a fortune."

Ah, so the John Kerry way to gain wealth.

Posted by: Thrawn at June 30, 2026 01:50 PM (KKMoa)

111 Bernie Sanders , the King of Tax the rich is himself rich.... I guess he means those other rich

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 01:51 PM (XBi0V)

112 110 "But nope, he just married the rich girl and inherited her father's money. He is, as Hercule Poirot might say, a cold-hearted adventurer who seduced his way into a fortune."

Ah, so the John Kerry way to gain wealth.
Posted by: Thrawn at June 30, 2026 01:50 PM

My mama always said it was just as easy to fall in love with a rich man as a poor one! 😂

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 01:51 PM (Dd38x)

113 Isn't that John Heinz Kerry?
I thought he married the ketchup queen?
Posted by: Reforger at June 30, 2026 01:49 PM

Yes, he married his second wife's first husband's trust fund.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 30, 2026 01:52 PM (kgE5c)

114 The marxists are unafraid to show their true colors, thanks to a progressively stupid populace.

Good job, public school system, and religious denominations that embrace faggotry without question.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 30, 2026 01:52 PM (qpYnZ)

115 At least he didn't submit scrolls...
---------
I prefer clay tablets. They break.

Posted by: Ea-Nasir at June 30, 2026 01:52 PM (amcLV)

116 110 "But nope, he just married the rich girl and inherited her father's money. He is, as Hercule Poirot might say, a cold-hearted adventurer who seduced his way into a fortune."

Real men earn their fortunes, through things like usury, money-changing, and government contracts.

Posted by: Conservative Millenial at June 30, 2026 01:53 PM (nYWR7)

117
114 The marxists are unafraid to show their true colors, thanks to a progressively stupid populace.

Good job, public school system, and religious denominations that embrace faggotry without question.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 30, 2026 01:52 PM (qpYnZ)

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Eh.

The outright communists who just won primaries in NYC, blue enclave, are now denying that they're communists.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 01:53 PM (qd4Mv)

118 Posted by: Irony at June 30, 2026 01:52 PM

Reading comprehension isn't really your strength, is it?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 30, 2026 01:53 PM (kgE5c)

119 118 Posted by: Irony at June 30, 2026 01:52 PM

Reading comprehension isn't really your strength, is it?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 30, 2026 01:53 PM (kgE5c)

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I was gonna have fun with it, but dude's already banned.

Oh well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 01:53 PM (qd4Mv)

120 And anyone who complains about their Range Rover is just stupid. For years now it's not a matter of IF it will break. It's a matter of how often will it break. Major breaks. Like 3.6 major repairs in 100,000 miles.
Range Rovers are pieces of shit built to the highest standards.

Posted by: Reforger at June 30, 2026 01:53 PM (0dsIZ)

121 I'm shocked that someone as wealthy as Ro Khanna's wife would marry him, is not a looker.

Liberal women marry for access to power. Hillary Clinton was patent zero for making that obvious.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2026 01:53 PM (GAoSt)

122 This is just the left demonstrating the advantages of our political class, a socialist legislature and a fully compliant judiciary.

They've done quite well for themselves.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 30, 2026 01:54 PM (jehhT)

123 Ah, so the John Kerry way to gain wealth.
Posted by: Thrawn at June 30, 2026 01:50 PM (KKMoa)
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As with the earlier John of Gaunt, his principal talent was marrying rich women.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 30, 2026 01:54 PM (amcLV)

124 The Soviet collectivization of agriculture is a study of just how fucking moronic Socialists are. “Kulaks” was one term.

==

Before they got to the Kulaks the entire march through all the other classes is a study of how wonderful Socialism is. Kulaks were the last ones to be mowed down.

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 01:54 PM (ugc0u)

125 Early on the Bolshevik revolutionary & Communists were frugal and lived like ascetic monks or whatever.

That soon changed by the 1920s and the age of “privileged” comrades - Dachas, special retail outlets with luxury goods available to the favored sons was born. Not for you, Comrade.

If you see a line forming, better get in it. The rumor is, they might have shoes this month!! Let’s find out..

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 01:54 PM (oAa51)

126 LOL he's Brown Mitt Romney.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at June 30, 2026 01:54 PM (ssz2a)

127 112 Piper, my Mom would say the same thing to me about girls.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 01:55 PM (77rzZ)

128 I'm shocked that someone as wealthy as Ro Khanna's wife would marry him, is not a looker.

Bored upper class Indian women love leftwing politics.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 01:55 PM (sKqQm)

129 She is driving a Range Rover.
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 01:42 PM (Dd38x)
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lol yeah, missed that

Range Rover is okay. It's owned by the same Indian company that makes rattletrap Tata buses and trucks.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 30, 2026 01:55 PM (guGkK)

130 126 LOL he's Brown Mitt Romney.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at June 30, 2026 01:54 PM (ssz2a)

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Mitt Romney got the Salt Lake City Olympics running decently well.

What's Ro done remotely like that?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 01:55 PM (qd4Mv)

131 Sorry, missed last thread... but it's worse then people imagine.

First, the Supremes said dual citizenship is legal.

Then said every American Citizens has a RIGHT to vote.

Then put in Mail in voting, with States giving everyone a mail in ballot, with no ID check.

So, a ChiCom can come here, give birth, and take the kid home, who 18 years later can register to vote ONLINE (with no ID check) to any local address, then once in the system, change their address for voting.

Under the current rules imposed BY the Supreme Court, our elections can now easily and LEGALLY be tainted by Foreigners who never even lived here.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 01:55 PM (mP0Kj)

132 How can it be legal for a minor to own a golf course?
Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 01:39 PM (77rzZ)
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why would it not be?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 30, 2026 01:55 PM (HThDH)

133 Range Rover is okay. It's owned by the same Indian company that makes rattletrap Tata buses and trucks.

The large red DO NOT REDEEM button on the dashboard is the first clue.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2026 01:55 PM (GAoSt)

134
He's going to spend more money on his race for president than he will raise himself. He will get 15th in New Hampshire and 20th in SC.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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

Sorry, billionaires, Trump was in another category.

Posted by: Kids: do not try this at home. at June 30, 2026 01:56 PM (XJ22o)

135 128 I'm shocked that someone as wealthy as Ro Khanna's wife would marry him, is not a looker.

Bored upper class Indian women love leftwing politics.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 01:55 PM (sKqQm)

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Upper caste Indian women are the most oppressed people in the world because of British colonialism.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 01:56 PM (qd4Mv)

136 Ro and Bernie should compare notes.

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 01:57 PM (04gcy)

137 Tax other people's money!!!!

- Democrats

Posted by: Darth Randall at June 30, 2026 01:58 PM (dvvVb)

138 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 01:47 PM (XJ22o)

Speaking of British cars, nice hash.

Posted by: far cry at June 30, 2026 01:58 PM (wBRco)

139 Mitt Romney got the Salt Lake City Olympics running decently well.

What's Ro done remotely like that?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 01:55 PM (qd4Mv)
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And Romney created a hugely successful business.

Khanna married a daughter of a guy who created a business.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 30, 2026 01:58 PM (HThDH)

140 120 And anyone who complains about their Range Rover is just stupid. For years now it's not a matter of IF it will break. It's a matter of how often will it break. Major breaks. Like 3.6 major repairs in 100,000 miles.
Range Rovers are pieces of shit built to the highest standards.
Posted by: Reforger at June 30, 2026 01:53 PM (0dsIZ

I drove the heck out of my Land Rover. I miss that car, I fit so much stuff in it, it was unbelievable. I traded it in on the mini cooper, which is a 2024. The Land Rover was a 2012. It never had an issue. I would get a Defender if I was in the market.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 01:58 PM (hftzA)

141 Ro Khanna

Sounds like a super-villian...
or a Browns fan.

Posted by: DaveA at June 30, 2026 01:58 PM (FhXTo)

142 134
He's going to spend more money on his race for president than he will raise himself. He will get 15th in New Hampshire and 20th in SC.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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

Sorry, billionaires, Trump was in another category.

Posted by: Kids: do not try this at home. at June 30, 2026 01:56 PM (XJ22o)

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Trump was wealthy, but that's not why he won.

He won because he said the unsayable and got airtime for the message to get out. The media propped him up because they thought he would destroy the GOP, and the GOP was happy to oblige because there was no one the GOP hated more in 2015 than the base.

He said things people agreed with but no one else in the race (save Cruz in some instances) would come close to saying.

Remember when Scott Walker was going to be the Trump killer? He was going to take his great success in WI and just float to an easy 2nd place in the polls without trying. Building on his likeable charm and boringness combined with policy wins at the state level to appeal to the voters.

And then he went from "hard-nosed union fighter" to "wishy-washy say-nothing but definitely don't mean it on the most important issue of the day, immigration".

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 01:59 PM (qd4Mv)

143 Upper caste Indian women are the most oppressed people in the world because of British colonialism.

A town I lived in had one black family but had a massive influx of Indians.

One of the black family's kids got in trouble for fighting at school and suddenly there was an "anti-racism" group arguing the school was racist and picking on the kid and the group was all Indian women.

Once the issue with the kid faded this new "anti-racism" group changed to arguing the town had to pay for Indian celebrations like Diwali and such hiring the businesses of those Indian women's husbands to provide the decorations/food/etc...

Funny how all this works huh?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 01:59 PM (sKqQm)

144 His net worth is north of $200MM.

Real man of the people. Glad he's down with the struggle. That will come in handy when the leopard decides to eat his face.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at June 30, 2026 01:59 PM (NgqoH)

145 Mitt Romney got the Salt Lake City Olympics running decently well.

What's Ro done remotely like that?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 01:55 PM (qd4Mv)

It was better than decent. Actually made a profit.

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 01:59 PM (04gcy)

146 >>> 131 Sorry, missed last thread... but it's worse then people imagine.

First, the Supremes said dual citizenship is legal.

Then said every American Citizens has a RIGHT to vote.

Then put in Mail in voting, with States giving everyone a mail in ballot, with no ID check.

So, a ChiCom can come here, give birth, and take the kid home, who 18 years later can register to vote ONLINE (with no ID check) to any local address, then once in the system, change their address for voting.

Under the current rules imposed BY the Supreme Court, our elections can now easily and LEGALLY be tainted by Foreigners who never even lived here.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2026 01:55 PM (mP0Kj)

I wonder how much, or how little, the chinks had to pay Roberts.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 02:00 PM (R+iUD)

147
a ChiCom can come here, give birth, and take the kid home, who 18 years later can register to vote ONLINE (with no ID check) to any local address, then once in the system, change their address for voting.

Posted by: Romeo13

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In principle it's awful, but I'm less worried about those people than I am about people like Hasan Piker, who were born here, whisked back to Turkey for all of his formative years, and then came back to join the Destroy America movement.

I wouldn't be surprised if the 18-year-old Chinese American kid voted Republican.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 02:00 PM (XJ22o)

148 And Romney created a hugely successful business.

Khanna married a daughter of a guy who created a business.
Posted by: H

I thought Romney’s business was consulting and teaching other companies how to devour themselves, maximize profits in the short term, then escape before the edifice collapsed. I don’t think BCG and McKinsey et al create any real wealth…. I admit I could be wrong

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 02:01 PM (YetvJ)

149 Speaking of Turkey I see the FNM whining that Israel recognized the Armenian genocide while still fighting jihadis in Gaza or as the FNM puts it "the Gaza genocide"

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 02:01 PM (sKqQm)

150 How does financial disclosure work with putting assets in his kids names?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 30, 2026 02:02 PM (4KUe5)

151 149 Speaking of Turkey I see the FNM whining that Israel recognized the Armenian genocide while still fighting jihadis in Gaza or as the FNM puts it "the Gaza genocide"

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 02:01 PM (sKqQm)

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The misuse of the word genocide is a genocide on the English vocabulary.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 02:02 PM (qd4Mv)

152 Trump won the first time for one reason only.

Build the Wall.

Unfortunately we still don't have the big beautiful wall paid for by Mexico. Next best thing though is Trump 2.0 border /immigration enforcement.

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 02:02 PM (04gcy)

153 The Land Rover was a 2012. It never had an issue. I would get a Defender if I was in the market.
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 01:58 PM (hftzA)

My wife's friend got the average back up. That thing lived at the dealership.

Posted by: Reforger at June 30, 2026 02:02 PM (0dsIZ)

154 ....so much premium marble that even the two laundry rooms have marble counters.

I'm good to go..... I only have one laundry room and it only has granite.

Plus I did the demo and entire refurb and built all the cabinetry and I built the whole house myself 35 years ago.

Posted by: hate_the_deepstate at June 30, 2026 02:03 PM (2Dncg)

155 >In principle it's awful, but I'm less worried about those people than I am about people like Hasan Piker,

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I find it darkly amusing to hear a Turk screech about genocide. Excuse me, Mr. Piker, Armenia and Greece would like a word.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at June 30, 2026 02:03 PM (NgqoH)

156
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 01:59 PM (qd4Mv)

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Yeppers, that's the category I was referring to. (It's a one-man category.)

Posted by: Kids: do not try this at home. at June 30, 2026 02:03 PM (XJ22o)

157 During clot shot mania the one guy on my team that said out loud the shot didn't work as he had gotten it and then gotten a bad case of COVID and he sure as hell wasn't going to get a booster was a Chinese immigrant...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 02:03 PM (sKqQm)

158 The misuse of the word genocide is a genocide on the English vocabulary.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 02:02 PM (qd4Mv)
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I don't get it.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 30, 2026 02:03 PM (amcLV)

159 >>> 152 Trump won the first time for one reason only.

Build the Wall.

Unfortunately we still don't have the big beautiful wall paid for by Mexico. Next best thing though is Trump 2.0 border /immigration enforcement.
Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 02:02 PM (04gcy)

Require anchor babies to dig some pre-determined minimum of the Dignity Canal in order to claim their so-called birthright.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 02:04 PM (R+iUD)

160 The Turkish colonization of Constantinople and western Asia minor ties to about the same time frame as European colonization of the New World.

Odd that the people bitching about American "stolen land" don't have the same problem with Turkey...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 02:04 PM (sKqQm)

161 How does financial disclosure work with putting assets in his kids names?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 30, 2026 02:02 PM (4KUe5)

With the lawyers his money can afford I'm pretty sure however it works will be in his favor.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 02:05 PM (KqZez)

162 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 02:01 PM (YetvJ

I won't say you're wrong . You're just not exactly right.

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 02:05 PM (04gcy)

163 152 Trump won the first time for one reason only.

Build the Wall.

Unfortunately we still don't have the big beautiful wall paid for by Mexico. Next best thing though is Trump 2.0 border /immigration enforcement.

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 02:02 PM (04gcy)

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https://x.com/derzum_/status/2063354458046636145

We're building five miles of wall a week.

Just because it's not happening in front of you, doesn't mean it's not happening.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 02:05 PM (qd4Mv)

164 Hasan knows about genocide given that he and his incl had a show called “The Young Turks.”
FFS, it’s a joke on people who don’t know history, they are seemingly proud of “The Young Turks” murderous ways.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 30, 2026 02:06 PM (4KUe5)

165 158 The misuse of the word genocide is a genocide on the English vocabulary.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 02:02 PM (qd4Mv)
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I don't get it.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 30, 2026 02:03 PM (amcLV)

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hey

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 02:06 PM (qd4Mv)

166 The misuse of the word genocide is a genocide on the English vocabulary.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 02:02 PM (qd4Mv)
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I don't get it.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

Typo. He meant to say "decimation."

Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2026 02:06 PM (vTZFs)

167 159 Require anchor babies to dig some pre-determined minimum of the Dignity Canal in order to claim their so-called birthright.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 02:04 PM (R+iUD)

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Travel ban on all women under 40.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 02:06 PM (qd4Mv)

168 Yeah but, what's his stance on Palestine? Isn't getting out and chanting "From the river to the sea!", and/or "Abolish ICE!" really the key to getting Dem votes these days, regardless of everything else? It's the new 'get out of jail free card', that being green used to be (a la John Kerry & Al Gore)

Platner, AOC, Bernie... All multimillionaires (or brats thereof) who are awash in Dem popularity while championing wealth redistribution...

Posted by: bearski at June 30, 2026 02:06 PM (Bhsk7)

169 I was wondering if “Ro” placed assets in his kids names to avoid including them in Congressional disclosure forms. Sounds like he’s already making it intentionally difficult to access.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 30, 2026 02:07 PM (4KUe5)

170 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 02:05 PM (qd4Mv)

You know what year it is right?

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 02:08 PM (04gcy)

171 Trump just congratulated Xi and China on their big win today in SCOTUS with the Birthright Citizenship ruling... Love Trump's snark

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 02:08 PM (XBi0V)

172 Build the Wall.

Unfortunately we still don't have the big beautiful wall paid for by Mexico. Next best thing though is Trump 2.0 border /immigration enforcement.

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 02:02 PM (04gcy)

They've been building several miles of wall every week.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 30, 2026 02:08 PM (xA5g+)

173 Someone pointed out that Elon, the richest man on the planet, owns zero yachts and owns no homes.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 30, 2026 02:09 PM (OTdqV)

174 170 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 02:05 PM (qd4Mv)

You know what year it is right?

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 02:08 PM (04gcy)

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There are two aspects to what I linked to.

The first is that 500 miles were built in his first term.

The second is that 5 miles are being build a day now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 02:09 PM (qd4Mv)

175
I find it darkly amusing to hear a Turk screech about genocide. Excuse me, Mr. Piker, Armenia and Greece would like a word.
Posted by: Heavy Meta

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Has anyone told him to check his privilege? Or start paying reparations?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 02:09 PM (XJ22o)

176 Love Trump's snark
Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 02:08 PM (XBi0V)
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He can be one sarcastic dude.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 30, 2026 02:09 PM (amcLV)

177 172 They've been building several miles of wall every week.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 30, 2026 02:08 PM (xA5g+)

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False.

The NYT doesn't talk about it, so it's not happening.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 02:09 PM (qd4Mv)

178 We can have a wall *and* a canal!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 02:10 PM (R+iUD)

179 Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 02:02 PM (04gcy)

Trump did not win because of build the wall. That is a highly questionable distillation of what happened in 2016.

Trump won principally because he understands marketing and branding AND how to fight. Better than anyone in politics.

He also had a major gap created by the America Hating Democrats and Lying Republicans (BIRM) and decided to take ownership of every scrap they tried to leave behind.

Trump knew how to speak, how to stand behind his words and most of all how to win. It didn't hurt that he can be quite entertaining when he speaks. Build the wall was part of that but only a part.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 02:10 PM (KqZez)

180 148 I thought Romney’s business was consulting and teaching other companies how to devour themselves, maximize profits in the short term, then escape before the edifice collapsed.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Exactly. A founder sees his business grow then looks for a way to extract the money for his children.

The big target for these firms is now HVAC companies with staffs who have real life experience and can charge increasing amounts. The payout for the originators of a couple local firms has been staggering.

Posted by: Auspex at June 30, 2026 02:10 PM (Y8DZL)

181 We can have a wall *and* a canal!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 02:10 PM (R+iUD)
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Can we add Uncle Palp's flypaper zone?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 30, 2026 02:11 PM (amcLV)

182 Elon can't build a home because "PopeHat" will doxx its location so antifa can burn it.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 02:12 PM (gKWVE)

183 Those are very nice golf courses his kids have ownership in. Not putt putt or chintzy. country clubs.

Money making machines.

Posted by: Czverik Construction at June 30, 2026 02:12 PM (anL5R)

184 Posted by: Lizzy at June 30, 2026 02:07 PM (4KUe5)

I would say that's a given but who knows.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 02:12 PM (KqZez)

185 Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 02:10 PM (KqZez)

That's a reasonable opinion. Kudos.

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 02:13 PM (04gcy)

186 Elon doesn’t own a house? What, does he rent?

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 02:13 PM (77rzZ)

187
Those are very nice golf courses his kids have ownership in. Not putt putt or chintzy. country clubs.

Money making machines.
Posted by: Czverik Construction

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What's percentage of the membership is Black?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 02:14 PM (XJ22o)

188 169 I was wondering if “Ro” placed assets in his kids names to avoid including them in Congressional disclosure forms. Sounds like he’s already making it intentionally difficult to access. Posted by: Lizzy

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If you read the article, you'll see this is all driven by the wife's father. I seriously doubt Ro has any say in it. He definitely married into it and of course doesn't want these wealth redistribution policies applied to him / his family. But I'm pretty sure he didn't have a direct hand in how anything is structured, and it doesn't sound like much or anything is in his name. The father-in-law made all the money and is deciding how to tax-shield it (and create a dynasty of self-loathing uber-wealth leftists to try to destroy a self-determining society to keep themselves on top; in a fair world, the kids would eat him alive while he still had his faculties; only fair for Dr. Frankenstein to face his creations)

Posted by: bearski at June 30, 2026 02:15 PM (Bhsk7)

189 187
Those are very nice golf courses his kids have ownership in. Not putt putt or chintzy. country clubs.

Money making machines.
Posted by: Czverik Construction

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What's percentage of the membership is Black?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 02:14 PM (XJ22o)

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Never enough.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 02:15 PM (qd4Mv)

190 I'm going to invoke the specter of MATH here and note that a rate or 5 milers pey day should have a US - Mexico border wall completed in ~389 days (and that's the total, not checking on how much has already been completed).

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 02:15 PM (R+iUD)

191 Off topic
Ibthink this us basucally Harrisburg
SWATARA TOWNSHIP, Pa. —
A 10-year-old boy was charged after stabbing a Dollar Tree employee multiple times during an attempted robbery in Dauphin County, according to the Swatara Township Police Department.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 30, 2026 02:15 PM (Wx316)

192 Man of the people hate-whitey Jeremiah Wright lived on a golf course. Can't imagine the dude ever saw a single black man he didn't choose to see.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 02:15 PM (KqZez)

193 Nood

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 30, 2026 02:15 PM (u73oe)

194 Money making machines.
Posted by: Czverik Construction

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What's percentage of the membership is Black?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 02:14 PM (XJ22o)

Colored Boy? Why you #%*^+#% ( grinds the spikes off the golf shoe )

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 02:16 PM (04gcy)

195 Elon can't build a home because "PopeHat" will doxx its location so antifa can burn it.
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Elon is going to pay someone else to build a home the way he wants it. It will be in their name, but they will be under contract to him so he can live there and do what he wants with it while he is alive on condition of secrecy. On his death, it transfers to his heirs at an agreed price.

Posted by: Popehat is a drooling imbecile because the hat doesn't make you Pope either at June 30, 2026 02:16 PM (anL5R)

196 I don't get it. (Well, I do, because people are irrational.)

The Dems say, "Vote for us! We will restrict access to everything that is nice or necessary and we will have exclusive power over who gets to enjoy these things!"

And somehow, some people find this proposal appealing.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at June 30, 2026 02:17 PM (pAWWf)

197 >>> 182 Elon can't build a home because "PopeHat" will doxx its location so antifa can burn it.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 02:12 PM (gKWVE)

Hmm.

Speaking of flypaper zones... it would be a shame if Elon had an address in Texas, maybe in one of the more swampy areas where there's plenty of cover for feral pigs.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 02:17 PM (R+iUD)

198 180 148 I thought Romney’s business was consulting and teaching other companies how to devour themselves, maximize profits in the short term, then escape before the edifice collapsed.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Exactly. A founder sees his business grow then looks for a way to extract the money for his children.

The big target for these firms is now HVAC companies with staffs who have real life experience and can charge increasing amounts. The payout for the originators of a couple local firms has been staggering.

Posted by: Auspex at June 30, 2026 02:10 PM (Y8DZL)

Consultants don't buy up these firms, they get hired to run or advise them by PE firms, who are the buyers. Consultants spread "best practices" and act as a buffer for taking blame for decisions management wants to make. Sometimes best practices are really better, sometimes they're a fad.

Buying a business and destroying it is a losing proposition, but there are incentives to take lots of risk and use lots of debt.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at June 30, 2026 02:18 PM (okun6)

199 NOOD

SCOTUS

Oh look, now they're all biologists (except one)

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 02:18 PM (R+iUD)

200 190 I'm going to invoke the specter of MATH here and note that a rate or 5 milers pey day should have a US - Mexico border wall completed in ~389 days (and that's the total, not checking on how much has already been completed).

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 02:15 PM (R+iUD)

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That's current rate. Current rates don't always continue forever, but there is significant progress happening now.

And no one knows about it, cares about it, and actively denies that it's happening.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 30, 2026 02:19 PM (qd4Mv)

201 f you read the article, you'll see this is all driven by the wife's father. I seriously doubt Ro has any say in it. He definitely married into it and of course doesn't want these wealth redistribution policies applied to him / his family.
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Monte Ahuja is a big donor in Cleveland. University Hospitals build a very large satellite hospital a couple years ago - Ahuja Medical Center - named for him.

Posted by: Popehat is a drooling imbecile because the hat doesn't make you Pope either at June 30, 2026 02:19 PM (anL5R)

202 5 miles a week / 5 miles a day

220/221

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 02:19 PM (04gcy)

203 @164 Lizzy, that fact Ana Kasparian, of Armenian ancestry, is one of the faces of the Young Turks show tells me that she should never be listened to. Ever

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 02:19 PM (f6yx7)

204 hat's current rate. Current rates don't always continue forever, but there is significant progress happening now.
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I told you. I said it was going to be YOOOOGGGGGEEE. And it is. Beautiful. Really great. Big Wall. The Best. When it is finished, I'm going to put my name on it. In GIANT GOLD LETTERS. So Big you can see it from space.

Posted by: Donnie Two Scoops at June 30, 2026 02:21 PM (anL5R)

205 Trump just congratulated Xi and China on their big win today in SCOTUS with the Birthright Citizenship ruling... Love Trump's snark
Posted by: It's me donna

Good for Trump. Giving Roberts and the rest a good jab because that's what they did - gave the Chicoms a gift along with the rest of the foreigners who have been using the 14th to abuse US citizenship.

Posted by: Cheri at June 30, 2026 02:22 PM (oiNtH)

206 Okay, sure, he's four-story home elevator wealthy.

But is he Mitt Romney garage car-elevator wealthy?

mindfulwebworks.com/doodles/the-third-dimension

Posted by: mindful webworker - with a dog on the roof at June 30, 2026 02:23 PM (FL3q9)

207 NOOD

I say again

NOOD

Stop being like me!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 02:23 PM (R+iUD)

208 @168. bearski

Yeah, those very wealthy politicians who live the good life want to spread the wealth around. NOT THEIR wealth mind you, but anyone else's is fine with them. They may figure out a way to take others money for themselves, because you can't have enough. One day these people will know what hell fire feels like.

Posted by: Case at June 30, 2026 02:27 PM (IY9No)

209 Buying a business and destroying it is a losing proposition, but there are incentives to take lots of risk and use lots of debt.
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Well, lets say you are a rich psychopath invited to sit on the board of directors of say, a really large medical provider. Now technically that provider is a charity. It does okay, some years better than others. But has managed to expand massively because it has massive name recognition and can secure lots of money in loans due to lots and lots of brick and mortar collateral. Ooops. Overextended? Well we'll have to break this up a bit to get out from under - lets do sale and lease back of some of our brick and mortar. We can avoid real estate taxes, but trade for rent but also get an influx of cash now. (Did i not mention i have an interest in the company that is going to do the sale an leaseback arrangement?? Trifles) Oh, oopsy, we are still underwater, well maybe we should sell part of our operations to Hospital Corp of America . . . ( I mean its not like I have any interest in them either maybe some stock . . .) Do you think these things don't happen?

Posted by: Are you really sure, you are getting good advice from people who have your interest at heart? at June 30, 2026 02:29 PM (anL5R)

210 Internal Collapse: Overstretched IRGC Faces Chaos as Kurdish Fighters Ignite Multiple Fronts Inside Iran

Senior IRGC Navy officer dies in car crash as insurgencies escalate across western Iran

Posted by: SMOD at June 30, 2026 02:58 PM (RHGPo)

211 Ro Khanna Promises to Fight the Oligarchs

I shall fight them on the beaches of the Riviera. I shall fight them on the grounds of my estate, and I shall fight them on the fairways of my golf courses. I shall never surrender!

Posted by: Ro Khanna at June 30, 2026 03:36 PM (i14TE)

212 Read the whole thing?

Come here tonight North TX and make me.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 30, 2026 05:00 PM (gfO9L)

Of Course: The Five Liberal Supreme Court Justices (Including Liberals Roberts and Coney-Barrett) Decide the 14th Amendment Can Go Blow, Anyone Born in the US is a US Citizen

The Five Horsemen make a mockery of the law yet again.

That's the full awful left-wing holding.

The liberals make two extraordinary claims. First, they claim that the 14th Amendment is based on the ancient British rule of the king being sovereign over anyone born in his lands. But even there they're forced to admit that that rule did not confer full jurisdiction over the person -- and it's silly to claim the one is based on the other anyway, as Thomas points out in his dissent.

The other absurd horse they ride is that the Dred Scott decision was bad bad terra-bad and therefore, they seem to believe, they are required to create a fake rule that is 1000% the opposite of that.

But that was taken care of -- the 14th Amendment was adopted precisely to repudicate Dred Scott and declare that former slaves born in the US, who also are not subject to any other jurisdiction but the US -- former slaves have no homeland or nation they owe primary allegiance to -- are US citizens.

So why even discuss Dred Scott? It was specifically repudiated and has nothing to say about the Amendment adopted specifically to repudiate it.

But they spend a huge chunk of their opinion discussing it because their own arguments are weak so they have to set up a straw-man -- if we don't adopt this fake rule and ignore the "subject to the jurisdiction" qualifier of the 14th Amendment, we're essentially re-implementing Dred Scott and that's just terrible, right?

JUSTICE THOMAS, with whom JUSTICE GORSUCH joins,
dissenting.
This Court's decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, 19 How.
393 (1857), would have permanently denied citizenship to
blacks as "a subordinate and inferior class." Id., at 404--
405. After the Civil War, the Reconstruction Congress over-
ruled Dred Scott, first with the Civil Rights Act of 1866,
then with the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amend-
ment. Both the Civil Rights Act and the Citizenship Clause
guaranteed citizenship to persons born and domiciled in the
United States regardless of their race. Neither guaranteed
citizenship to persons who were not domiciled in the United
States.
Blacks were entitled to citizenship because they were
Americans. They had no other homeland, owed no alle-
giance to any foreign power, and were subject to no other
authority. They "fought and bled in the same battles,"
"gained and gloried in the same victories," and were "liable
to be called upon to defend [America] in time of war" along-
side every other citizen. 2 Life and Writings of Frederick
Douglass 256, 266 (P. Foner ed. 1950) (Douglass). The Cit-
izenship Clause thus guaranteed them the "dignity and
glory of American citizenship," so as to ensure that they
would never be treated as second class under the law.
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U. S. 537, 555 (1896) (Harlan, J.,
dissenting).
The same could not be said for the children of foreign tem-
porary visitors. Foreign temporary visitors were attached
to their home country, lacked similar bonds to this country,
and would not be called upon in time of war. Americans,
consistent with their settler ethos, believed that citizens
were the people who called a place home. Accordingly, dom-
icile--a person's legal home--played a key role in both state
and national citizenship in America. A person was a "citi-
zen" of the state where he had his "domicil." Barber v. Bar-
ber, 21 How. 582, 599 (1859). When foreigners temporarily
visited, their "national character" was unchanged. The Ve-
nus, 8 Cranch 253, 278--279 (1814). Such visitors were
"strangers," not "subjects." Id., at 278. A person born here
but domiciled in a foreign land was therefore considered "as
much a stranger to the country as his father." 1 H. St.
George Tucker, Commentaries on the Laws of Virginia 57
(1836) (Tucker).
That is why, when Dred Scott went to court, he argued
that to be a "citizen," "it is only necessary that he should
have acquired a domicil." Brief for Plaintiff in Dred Scott v.
Sandford, D. T. 1855, No. 7, p. 6. (Brief for Dred Scott). Af-
ter this Court held that Scott was not a citizen because he
was black, Republicans in Congress, such as Representa-
tive John Bingham, stated that a person was a citizen if he
was "born and domiciled" in the United States. Cong.
Globe, 35th Cong., 2d Sess., 983 (1859). Scott was a citizen,
in their view, because he was born to Americans, not to
"temporary sojourners." Cong. Globe, 35th Cong., 1st Sess.,
210 (185 (statement of Rep. Bliss). As Frederick Douglass
had put it, the freedmen sought citizenship "not as aliens
nor as exiles," but as "Americans." 2 Douglass 255 (empha-
sis added).
Congress implemented the principle that citizenship fol-
lows birth and domicile in the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and
then in the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amend-
ment. The Civil Rights Act guaranteed citizenship to per-
sons who were both "born in the United States" and, as rel-
evant here, "not subject to any foreign power." Act of Apr.
9, 1866, 14 Stat. 27. The phrase "not subject to any foreign
power" excluded from citizenship children of foreign tempo-
rary visitors, who were subject to the power of their home
nation. See, e.g., The Pizarro, 2 Wheat. 227, 246 (1817); The
Venus, 8 Cranch, at 278--279. The Citizenship Clause,
which the same Congress passed shortly after the Civil
Rights Act, was understood to have the same meaning. It
guaranteed citizenship to persons who were both "born . . .
in the United States" and "subject to the jurisdiction
thereof." Amdt. 14, �1.
A person was subject to the jurisdiction of the govern-
ment of his domicile. "Domicil" was "the foundation of ju-
risdiction over persons." 1 T. Twiss, The Law of Nations
239 (1861) (Twiss). The government of a person's domicile
had broad power over that person, including with respect to
his personal affairs, his conduct abroad, his personal taxes,
and the mutual duties of protection and allegiance. So, as
the Senator who introduced the Citizenship Clause ex-
plained, "the word 'jurisdiction,' as here employed, ought to
be construed so as to imply a full and complete jurisdiction
. . . the same jurisdiction in extent and quality as applies to
every citizen of the United States now." Cong. Globe, 39th
Cong., 1st Sess., 2895 (1866) (statement of Sen. Howard).
After all, Congress "would have no right to make citizens"
of "persons temporarily resident." Id., at 572 (statement of
Sen. Trumbull).
The Citizenship Clause was consistently interpreted not
to apply to the children of foreign temporary visitors, who
were by definition not domiciled in the United States. Re-
gardless of administration or party, the Federal Govern-
ment for decades after ratification regularly denied claims
to citizenship by children who were born in the United
States but not domiciled here. When a child was "born" in
the United States to parents "domiciled" abroad, he was
"not, therefore, under the statute and the Constitution a
citizen of the United States by birth." Letter from Sec. of
State T. Bayard to B. Winchester (Nov. 28, 1885), in 2 F.
Wharton, Digest of International Law 399--400 (2d ed.
1887) (Wharton Digest). Scholars agreed: A child "born
within the territory of the United States, of alien parents"
was not a citizen unless his parents were "permanently
domiciled within the United States." W. Robinson, Notes
on Elementary Law 70 (1875). This Court agreed: The Cit-
izenship Clause "exclude[d] from its operation children of
. . . citizens or subjects of foreign States born within the
United States." Slaughter-House Cases, 16 Wall. 36, 73
(1873). And, Congress agreed: The Citizenship Clause did
not extend to a child born here but "subject to any foreign
power." See Enforcement Act of 1870, �18, 16 Stat. 144
(reenacting Act of Apr. 9, 1866, 14 Stat. 27). As Justice
Harlan would write in his dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson, 163
U. S. 537, the Citizenship Clause "gave citizenship to all
born or naturalized in the United States and residing here."
Id., at 563 (emphasis added).
The Court offers a different account. American citizen-
ship, the Court says, was based on a medieval English "feu-
dal" principle, according to which each person "owed per-
sonal service to the lord of the soil" as his "master"--a
perpetual servitude that was "born with the child and only
ended in the grave." 2 Cong. Rec. 3282 (1874) (statement of
Rep. Cox). Americans, the Court says, adopted this feudal
principle as a rule of American citizenship "with little fan-
fare." Ante, at 4. Then, according to the Court, the Recon-
struction Congress codified that feudal principle with the
words "not subject to any foreign power" in the Civil Rights
Act and "subject to the jurisdiction thereof " in the Citizen-
ship Clause. Then, the Court says, the Clause's meaning
was definitively settled by dicta in United States v. Wong
Kim Ark, 169 U. S. 649 (189.
With due respect, the Court's account is not historically
accurate. The Court says that the Citizenship Clause in-
corporated the English feudal principle that subjects owed
lifetime servitude to the King who owned the soil on which
they were born, but Americans--unsurprisingly--rejected
this feudal principle. The Court's theory of American citi-
zenship is based on the opinion of a New York assistant vice
chancellor in an inheritance dispute called Lynch v. Clarke,
1 Sand. Ch. 583, 584--585 (N. Y. Ch. 1844). Ante, at 6--10.
But, the assistant vice chancellor's reasoning, whatever it
was worth, was not even followed in New York by the time
of the Citizenship Clause. Finally, the Court reasons that
dicta in Wong Kim Ark settled the meaning of the Clause.
But, Wong Kim Ark itself emphasized that its holding was
limited to persons domiciled in the United States. And,
scholars and government officials continued to agree after
Wong Kim Ark that the Citizenship Clause did not extend
to the children of foreign temporary visitors. The rule re-
mained what it always was: A child born on American soil
of "a stranger or traveler passing through the country, or
temporarily residing here," was "not a citizen." H. Black,
Handbook of American Constitutional Law 634 (3d ed.
1910).
The Court today takes the extraordinary step of holding
facially unconstitutional the President's Order excluding
from citizenship the children of foreign temporary visitors
and illegal aliens. In doing so, the Court adds to the sad
history of the Fourteenth Amendment, which was designed
and understood to secure equal rights for the freed blacks
but has instead been repurposed for political projects that
the Reconstruction Congress did not support. Because
many potential applications of the President's Order are
consistent with the original public meaning of the Citizen-
ship Clause, I respectfully dissent.

And Alito's dissent:

JUSTICE ALITO, dissenting.
This is one of the most important decisions in the history
of the Court, and in my judgment, the Court has made a
serious mistake. As interpreted by the Court today, the
Fourteenth Amendment confers citizenship on virtually
everyone who happens to be born in this country, including
the children of "birth tourists," women who come here solely
for the purpose of giving birth to a child and then promptly
return home. Careful analysis of the text of the Fourteenth
Amendment and the process that led to its adoption shows
that it does not degrade the concept of United States citi-
zenship in this way. Instead, the Fourteenth Amendment
confers citizenship on only those children who, at birth, owe
allegiance solely to this country.
Respecting this interpretation would not require uproot-
ing the millions of children who were born here to mothers
who entered or remained in this country illegally. Those
children are not responsible for their parents' violation of
our immigration laws, and their plight is the result of a long
period during which a coterie of actors--Executive Branch
officials, States and cities, and a variety of private groups--
sent the message to would-be immigrants that our
immigration laws should not be taken too seriously. This
message, coupled with ineffective or unenthusiastic en-
forcement, spurred massive illegal immigration and the
growth of a large contingent of people who were born here
to mothers unlawfully present in this country. Some mem-
bers of this group have lived here for years, and they have
a strong moral claim to be able to remain in the land where
they grew up.
Congress can and should address their situation. The
Fourteenth Amendment dictates who must be a citizen, but
it does not address who may be a citizen by Act of Congress.
Congress has conferred citizenship on many people who are
not made citizens by the Fourteenth Amendment, including
children born abroad to American citizen parents. These
people and the millions of immigrants who have been natu-
ralized are no less American than those who are fortunate
enough to be born here.
For these reasons, the original meaning of the Fourteenth
Amendment does not require inhumane results, and we
should not adopt an erroneous interpretation of the Four-
teenth Amendment simply out of fear of the consequences
of "rocking the boat" or as a reaction to current immigration
policy.
Nor should we take the position that our hands are tied
by dicta in a sprawling 19th-century opinion that is, to put
the point gently, very far from a model of careful judicial
craftsmanship. Too much is at stake.
United States citizenship is precious. Anyone who has
attended a ceremony where citizens are naturalized can see
that message on the faces of those who take the citizenship
oath. Before saddling the Nation with a medieval rule, we
had better be certain the Constitution requires it.
The Court's account of the birthright-citizenship rule in
American law is roughly as follows. After American inde-
pendence, the British rule of birthright subjecthood was
modified in just one way (to take account of Indians who
lived under tribal governance), but otherwise the rule was
transplanted intact to American soil. As modified, the rule
was that a child born in this country is automatically an
American citizen unless the child is born to tribal Indians
or to a diplomat with immunity from legal process. During
the period before the Civil War, the rule's status was firm.
After the war, Congress codified the rule in �1 of the Four-
teenth Amendment. And in United States v. Wong Kim Ark,
169 U. S. 649 (189, this Court issued a binding precedent
confirming what Congress had done.

Alito makes some strong points about the majority of liberals' insane claim that a rule of the British monarchy deciding who was a subject of the king's tyrannical power should dictate the rule of the American democracy about who is granted the rights and priviliges of citizenship.

Subjecthood and citizenship aren't the same, you know.

Every step of this story is incorrect. The Declaration of
Independence repudiated the foundation on which the Brit-
ish rule was based. See infra, at 5. From 1776 until the eve
of the Civil War, the status of the rule in this country was
unsettled. There is no evidence establishing that the Con-
stitution's references to citizens incorporated the British
rule, infra, at 5--8, and until the eve of the Civil War, there
was little litigation about the meaning of American citizen-
ship, infra, at 9--11. After the war, Congress finally adopted
a constitutional provision, �1 of the Fourteenth Amend-
ment, making certain persons citizens at birth, but that
provision differed substantially from the British rule. It
specified that a person born here is not a citizen unless his
allegiance to the United States is unimpaired by any obli-
gations to a foreign power. Infra, at 11--22. And while
Wong Kim Ark included dicta suggesting that the Four-
teenth Amendment incorporates the British rule, its actual
holding was much narrower, infra, at 22--28, and under
that interpretation, respondents' challenge to Executive
Order No. 14160, Protecting the Meaning and Value of
American Citizenship, fails, infra, at 36--39.
I
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According to the Court, the Fourteenth Amendment's Cit-
izenship Clause codified the British rule of birthright
subjecthood with only one new exception, which was needed
to accommodate the unique status of American Indians.
That is a curious claim, and it is ironic that the Court
should embrace it only days before we celebrate the 250th
anniversary of our Declaration of Independence, which em-
phatically renounced the foundation on which the British
rule rested.

That rule did not concern "citizenship." There was no
such thing as a "citizen" of England, Scotland, or Ireland.
The inhabitants of the British Isles were the King's "sub-
jects." As Sir Edward Coke explained in Calvin's Case, 7
Co. Rep. 1a, 77 Eng. Rep. 377 (K. B. 160, they acquired
that status automatically at birth, and they retained it, like
it or not, until they died. Id., at 4b, 77 Eng. Rep., at 382;
see id., at 9b, 77 Eng. Rep., at 388 (even a subject who ab-
jures the realm "oweth the King his ligeance"). This status
arose from a feudal understanding of the origin of govern-
mental authority and the relationship between those who
govern and those who are governed. The King's authority
was understood to come from God. Id., at 12b--13a, 77 Eng.
Rep., at 390--391. As Coke put it, a King ruled by the law
of nature. Ibid. And birth established the bond between
King and subject, id., at 4b, 77 Eng. Rep., at 382, just as
birth establishes the bond between parent and child.
In Calvin's Case, the question was whether a man born
in Scotland was a subject of King James I of England, who
acceded to the thrones of both Scotland and England before
the man's birth. Id., at 2a, 77 Eng. Rep., at 379. In a fa-
mous speech to Parliament, James I forcefully explained his
views about the source of his authority and his relationship
with his subjects. The King, he proclaimed, sits "upon
GOD[']s throne" and is the "father of his people." March 21,
1609 A Speach to the Lords and Commons of the Parlia-
ment at White-Hall, in The Political Works of James I,
p. 307 (C. McIlwain ed. 191.

Well this sucks.

We need a real conservative justice to at least win most of these 5-4.

Eric Schmitt will introduce a Constitutional amendment to wipe away this stain:

Senator Eric Schmitt
@SenEricSchmitt
The Supreme Court's birthright citizenship decision is wrong, dangerous, and disastrous for American sovereignty and the American people. If we can't fix it with ordinary legislation, then we must do what the Constitution commands in moments of national crisis: We must amend the Constitution and restore American citizenship. We must again put "We the People" first.
The Supreme Court's decision constitutionalizing unlimited birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens and temporarily present aliens is wrong--and disastrous for our sovereignty and the future of our republic.
The decision exposes America to grave national security risks and threatens to erode the integrity of the core of American self-government: citizenship.
Citizenship is more than paperwork issued by the government. It is more than a bureaucratic label that grants access to government programs.
Citizenship is the covenantal bond between a nation and its people.
In a republic like ours, that bond carries enormous weight. In the United States, sovereignty does not belong to a king or a ruling class. It belongs to the American people themselves.
Citizenship defines the legal recognition of who the American people are.
Citizenship defines the political community that governs the United States.
It defines who exercises the sovereign authority of this republic.
But under the Supreme Court's erroneous interpretation, the Constitution now requires citizenship for anyone who happens to be born on U.S. soil.
Even if their parents entered the country illegally. In other words, even if the American people--the citizenry--have prohibited those parents from entering our territory.
Even if they are here only temporarily as tourists or on student visas.
Even if they have no intention of joining the American nation.
That is a dramatic departure from how serious nations understand citizenship. Under the Supreme Court's decision, citizenship no longer reflects allegiance or loyalty to a country and its laws. It becomes an administrative status to be seized by interlopers.
This ruling is the final alarm bell.
The bond of American citizenship has slowly eroded through a series of Supreme Court opinions, congressional actions and inactions, and circumstances the Framers of our Constitution and the Fourteenth Amendment could not have foreseen.
The result is a constitutional order in which the American people are losing control over the most basic question in any republic: who belongs to the political community that governs the nation.
This has been the central fight of my work in this important year for American national identity. I led an amicus brief in this very case. I convened a hearing on birthright citizenship and the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. I have pressed this issue because citizenship is the threshold question of the republic. If we lose control of citizenship, we lose control of self-government itself.
In the wake of an erroneous Supreme Court ruling like this one, Congress has a duty to examine the Constitution's text, the historical record, and the policy consequences.
Congress also has the power to respond.
When the Court mistakenly interprets a statute, Congress can amend the statute through bicameralism and presentment.
But when the Court entrenches its mistake as a constitutional command, the remedy must match the injury. Congress can propose an amendment under Article V, and the states can ratify it. That process is purposefully difficult. It requires two-thirds of each chamber of Congress and ratification by three-quarters of the states.
Here, the Supreme Court issued a constitutional ruling. Ordinary legislation cannot repair the damage. A constitutional amendment is now required.
Accordingly, I will be announcing a forthcoming constitutional amendment to restore the sacred bond between American citizens and their government.
That amendment will restore the original American understanding of citizenship. It will restore the right of the American people to define their own political community. And it will ensure that citizenship once again reflects allegiance, permanence, and membership in the American nation.
This amendment accords with the text, history, and tradition of the Constitution and the American conception of citizenship.
It restores the principle embodied in the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the law that formed the basis for the Fourteenth Amendment. As my amicus brief in this case explained, the law contained a citizenship provision establishing that "all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power" would be granted birthright citizenship.
That provision was understood to grant birthright citizenship to children born of parents domiciled in the United States while clearly excluding children born to foreign parents temporarily visiting the United States.
And as my brief recounts, the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted to constitutionalize the Civil Rights Act of 1866. The original American understanding of citizenship was never a suicide pact. It was never a weapon for illegal entry, temporary presence, demographic conquest, or foreign influence.
Left unaddressed, this Supreme Court decision will destroy the republic. A nation that cannot determine who belongs to its political community will lose control of its sovereignty and its unique character and traditions as new generations of unassimilated foreigners are automatically granted citizenship.
We have seen exactly what this process looks like as foreign communists have essentially taken over New York City politics. We cannot allow this Supreme Court decision to consign the rest of our nation to the same fate.
Today is a sad day in the history of our republic. But America and the Constitution have survived for 250 years because each generation has had patriots who, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, valiantly fought back the existential threats this great nation has faced.
Our generation's existential threat is a hostile takeover through mass migration.
We must--and we will--honor the patriots who came before us by doing our part to ensure we pass on America, the Constitution, and our nation--the real versions, not desiccated husks.
That work begins with restoring the right of the American people to decide who joins the political community that governs the United States and exercises the people's sovereignty.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:10 PM

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1 St?

Posted by: Clay at June 30, 2026 12:11 PM (5Rf2z)

2 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at June 30, 2026 12:11 PM (Lx4gz)

3
hi

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 12:12 PM (XJ22o)

4 Pessimism spares me from disappointment once again.

Onto the midterms.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 30, 2026 12:12 PM (Aol+p)

5
ace, thanks for digging in. I knew you'd do it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 12:13 PM (XJ22o)

6 The block quotes are formatted weird today. Props to ace for the new html tomfoolery!

Posted by: No Name Today at June 30, 2026 12:13 PM (8mulE)

7 Did something just happen?

Posted by: Becasue I thought nothing ever happens at June 30, 2026 12:14 PM (2Ez/1)

8 Eric Schmitt will introduce a Constitutional amendment to wipe away this stain:

Nothing will happen.

Posted by: That Guy who intones, sonorously, "Nothing will happen." at June 30, 2026 12:14 PM (0sNs1)

9 If the authors of the fourteenth meant that anyone born here is a citizen, then why didn’t they just say that? Guess I’m not smart enough to be a Supreme Court justice.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 30, 2026 12:14 PM (u73oe)

10 The Supreme Court is simply, completely removed from American life and the current prevailing crises of our time. They just live wholly segregated lives in an artificial ecosystem, transfixed on legalisms, precedents and penumbras.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 30, 2026 12:14 PM (E2lD7)

11 It's interesting that this is even under discussion... can anyone imagine this even being considered under the reign of Teh Won?

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 12:15 PM (XuXeR)

12 I have no idea how they grappled with the fact that hundreds of thousands of American Indians were born in the United States without becoming United States citizens, until the 1920s.

Prior to the 1920s, most tribes were sovereign - if you were Sioux, you were a citizen of the Sioux Nation, not the United States.

There was a naturalization process for Indians to become US citizens, if they wished, but it wasn't a given.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 30, 2026 12:15 PM (aD4fx)

13 The Birthright decision makes no sense, is not what the intent of the amendment is as expressed by the writers of the amendment and is a wholly made concoction of the courts.

I see no way forward except the implementation of strenuous and rigorous immigration and border enforcement and the immediate expulsion of any foreign woman in the custody of the United States to either their home country or to a location outside of the country to await any proceedings and proceedings will be conducted via CCTV.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 30, 2026 12:15 PM (XV/Pl)

14 Nothing will happen.
Posted by: That Guy who intones, sonorously, "Nothing will happen." at June 30, 2026 12:14 PM

++++++++

Whew. That's a relief.

Posted by: Becasue I thought nothing ever happens at June 30, 2026 12:15 PM (2Ez/1)

15 Eric Schmitt will introduce a Constitutional amendment to wipe away this stain:

Yup. That'll do it.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2026 12:15 PM (vTZFs)

16 8 Eric Schmitt will introduce a Constitutional amendment to wipe away this stain:

Constitutional amendment? How many years would that take? Ridiculous.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 30, 2026 12:15 PM (E2lD7)

17 Two bad decisions in as many days thanks to the 5 liberals on the court.

This country is fucked.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at June 30, 2026 12:16 PM (qoLdL)

18 >>>The block quotes are formatted weird today. Props to ace for the new html tomfoolery!

when you cut and paste from a decision, they have all of these line-breaks hard-coded into the text. Sometimes I go in and attempt to remove them all, but it's a real pain in the ass, and I didn't feel like doing it for all of this text.

Posted by: Lamont the Big Dummy at June 30, 2026 12:16 PM (1wjle)

19 So vile that Barrett and Roberts did this the week of the 250th. There won't be a 300th for sure.

Posted by: Josh Brolin's Blistered Taint at June 30, 2026 12:16 PM (Oungn)

20 Being anti-racist is a good position to have, because it means anyone you are against is racist.

Posted by: PG at June 30, 2026 12:16 PM (5tjvu)

21 "This ruling is the final alarm bell."

"Hold our beer." - SCOTUS

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 12:17 PM (Jr5Lq)

22 what makes it really hard to remove the line-break code is that it's invisible, and I have to go in and delete all spaces between words I think might have the line break between them.

A real pain in the ass and with all of this text, I just couldn't do it.

Posted by: Lamont the Big Dummy at June 30, 2026 12:17 PM (1wjle)

23 I wonder if Barrett and Roberts have any comprehension of what they've done?

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 30, 2026 12:17 PM (E2lD7)

24 well, i guess keep the border closed and no tourist visas for women of child bearing age from places like china. a partial solution here is better than none

Posted by: gnats local 678 at June 30, 2026 12:17 PM (CWTWj)

25 Wong Kim Ark?
Does that come with an egg roll?

Posted by: Not exactly a legal scholar at June 30, 2026 12:18 PM (2Ez/1)

26 I don't want to hear any empty, howling rhetoric on Truth Social. I'm sick of it. Put together a plan and take action.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 30, 2026 12:18 PM (E2lD7)

27 Citizenship is the covenantal bond between a nation and its people.
-
It should be.

It isn't because we have tolerated far too many people, especially these courts, who do not share the founding values of this country, nor it's allegiance to God as the source of the Rights we claim, to continue to live among us.

That needs to stop. Deport the illegals. Exile the progressives. Execute any who don't leave voluntarily.

It probably won't have to go that far if they believe we're willing to go that far, but our current insistence on going along to get along just cannot continue.

Posted by: Methos at June 30, 2026 12:19 PM (vSvIl)

28 One of my cats repudicated this morning and it took a whole roll of paper towels to mop it up.

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 12:19 PM (Jr5Lq)

29 TL/DR

What movie was this reviewing?

Posted by: mindful webworker - Obsession? at June 30, 2026 12:19 PM (/4mOE)

30 "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."

how does this apply toa tourist visa newborn who gets taken to another country when like 10 days old and lives elsewhere for 18 or more years? does it?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at June 30, 2026 12:19 PM (CWTWj)

31 >>I see no way forward except the implementation of strenuous and rigorous immigration and border enforcement and the immediate expulsion of any foreign woman in the custody of the United States to either their home country or to a location outside of the country to await any proceedings and proceedings will be conducted via CCTV.
__
Amen. Expand Gitmo.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at June 30, 2026 12:19 PM (bNf8H)

32 JUSTICE THOMAS, ... dissenting.

This Court's decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, 19 How. 393 (1857), would have permanently denied citizenship to blacks as "a subordinate and inferior class." ... Blacks were entitled to citizenship because they were Americans. They had no other homeland, owed no allegiance to any foreign power, and were subject to no other authority.

He writes very beautifully.

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 12:20 PM (6wpGE)

33 all of their writings obscure one CLEAR thing that nations borders are not permanent. the maps used in the writing of the 14th amendment did not have the same frontier we have today.

Posted by: paulnjax at June 30, 2026 12:20 PM (PPnyU)

34 Good afternoon Ace.
During the debates about the 14th amendment the Michigan senator argued for a limited interpretation of equal protection as applying only to freed slaves. A Conn senator argued that it should be expansive. The Michigan senator won out in how it was written.
However the courts have decided like the Conn senator won.
Same here

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 12:20 PM (f6yx7)

35 29 TL/DR

What movie was this reviewing?
Posted by: mindful webworker - Obsession? at June 30, 2026 12:19 PM (/4mOE)

"How the West Was Lost"

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 12:20 PM (6wpGE)

36 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 12:20 PM (7Q7Ca)

37 When Thomas writes a dissent, he gives a scolding. When Sotomayor or KBJ write a dissent, they are throwing a tantrum.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 30, 2026 12:20 PM (2RJDy)

38 America will be majority Chinese in 25 years.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 12:21 PM (7Q7Ca)

39 The term "birth right" itself is completely twisted. By any reasonable understanding it should refer to the procreation process, that is a woman gives birth and so the child receives the citizenship of the parents.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 30, 2026 12:21 PM (Vh9CX)

40 When Thomas writes a dissent, he gives a scolding. When Sotomayor or KBJ write a dissent, they are throwing a tantrum.
Posted by: tankdemon at June 30, 2026 12:20 PM (2RJDy)

This is the difference between having a brain and receiving a liberal education.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 12:21 PM (7Q7Ca)

41 Somewhat related: I've seen several comments on X noting that Germany's loss to Paraguay after listless play in the World Cup is going to boost the votes for the AfD.

Why? The "German" team is no longer German, but is rather multinational, and the resulting poor quality of play is symbolic of what has been happening to Germany as a whole.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 30, 2026 12:21 PM (aD4fx)

42 I wonder if Barrett and Roberts have any comprehension of what they've done?
Posted by: Ordinary American at June 30, 2026 12:17 PM (E2lD7)
------------

Of course they do--they've prevented antifa from sending goons to threaten them and their families.

Posted by: meerkat at June 30, 2026 12:22 PM (mxEar)

43 How many times have Roberts and Barrett stuck the knife in us? It must be nearing a record.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 30, 2026 12:22 PM (E2lD7)

44 Constitutional amendment? How many years would that take? Ridiculous.
Posted by: Ordinary American at June 30, 2026 12:15 PM (E2lD7)

The support isn't there, so I don't see it happening anytime soon. However, the 26th amendment was passed after only 100 days. That's the one that lowered the voting age to 18 in the 1970s. From the time it passed Congress until the states ratified it: 100 days.

If the support is there, it can happen quickly.

Posted by: No Name Today at June 30, 2026 12:23 PM (8mulE)

45 >>> If we can't fix it with ordinary legislation, then we must do what the Constitution commands in moments of national crisis: We must amend the Constitution and restore American citizenship. We must again put "We the People" first.

Trump needs to order all U.S. bound pregnant women turned around and otherwise women provide a negative pregnancy test result as a condition of entry. Furthermore, all women illegals must be immediately rounded up and detained for expedited removal as threat to national security.

I am not joking.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 30, 2026 12:23 PM (dK+Kv)

46
This here from the dissent:

"Foreign temporary visitors were attached to their home country, lacked similar bonds to this country, and would not be called upon in time of war."

Uh, all male U.S. citizens are required by law to register with the Selective Service System. This applies even if they're overseas.

The usual (and lamentable) 5-year statute of limitations applies, so I'm sure the Chinese and Muslim anchor boys know enough not to "return" to their "native land" to do their mischief until they're 30 years old.

But we could still start enforcing this wherever possible.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 12:23 PM (XJ22o)

47 Fuck John Roberts -
Women shouldn't be on the Bench.

Posted by: garrett at June 30, 2026 12:23 PM (/ytnd)

48 There was a flurry briefly by NPR falsely stating that Alito was retiring.

I posit to you: do we really need to replace the next outgoing Justice? The left keeps talking about "packing the Court", how about "shrinking the court". Make all ideological rulings 6-6 and stalemate the Court if it can't property make a ruling. It cannot be any worse than it is now, can it?

Posted by: cheshirecat at June 30, 2026 12:23 PM (E4Afo)

49 Of course they do--they've prevented antifa from sending goons to threaten them and their families.
Posted by: meerkat at June 30, 2026 12:22 PM (mxEar)

The cruel truth for them is that they haven't done that at all.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 30, 2026 12:23 PM (E2lD7)

50 Posted by: Lamont the Big Dummy at June 30, 2026 12:17 PM (1wjle)

Noted. But I still like to snark.

Posted by: No Name Today at June 30, 2026 12:24 PM (8mulE)

51 Despite all the other wins, this one in many ways was the most important. Sure, smashing independent agencies, giving Trump the power to fire subordinates, and stopping Hawaii's "vampire law" for gun owners are all important, but screwing up birthright citizenship in many ways makes things moot, and it can change the nation's demographics and voter base, which changes politics and politicians supported, eventually changing the nation and culture.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 30, 2026 12:24 PM (uaWfi)

52
If the support is there, it can happen quickly.
Posted by: No Name Today

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

Another lickety-split amendment was the one to repeal Prohibition. It can be done.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 12:24 PM (XJ22o)

53 The only good news from this clusterfuck of a decision is that it doesn't change anything.

We've been living in a world of unlimited birthright citizenship for 100 years. No president -- not even conservative heroes like Reagan -- would touch it. Trump took a shot. He missed.

We have lost nothing. We are where we were 24 hours ago. Sure, if we won it would have been Absolutely Fucking Yuge.

It's like playing the Powerball. If you win, your life is changed forever. If you lose, your life isn't changed at all. You've lost nothing.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 30, 2026 12:24 PM (iFTx/)

54 Totally unsurprising. Now we need a legislative fix( yeah I know, good luck with that )

Posted by: steevy at June 30, 2026 12:24 PM (YwEeS)

55 But when the Court entrenches its mistake as a constitutional command, the remedy must match the injury. Congress can propose an amendment under Article V, and the states can ratify it. That process is purposefully difficult. It requires two-thirds of each chamber of Congress and ratification by three-quarters of the states.
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Which mean is won't happen.

The foreigners control the vote producing and counting procedures of too many states for that to be possible.

Posted by: Methos at June 30, 2026 12:25 PM (vSvIl)

56 I see this getting overturned in twenty years.
If the country survives that is.
As it is, this is a dagger poised over the heart of America. The SAVE Act becomes crucial now. Clean up voter roles, keep power in the House and Senate, get better judges.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 30, 2026 12:25 PM (2WIwB)

57
*shrugs*

This Court decison was predictable in the same way as the sturm und drang in the Congress about SAVE.

There is always a push and pull in a system like ours. Institutions will throw the occasional treat to the subject classes, particularly if they're looking restive, today.

But they'll sooner kill the Gracchi brothers or lock up Donald Trump than give an inch toward a populist reform that limits their power, today.

Anchor babies and vote fraud are both core & salient features of our ruling class' Current Year Project, and they won't countenance any contradiction from the Court or Congress, and these ruling class Institutions wish to remain ruling class Institutions, so they won't offer it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 30, 2026 12:25 PM (BI5O2)

58 Reminder that there have been only two real "proposition nations" in modern history.

One is the U.S. The other was the Soviet Union.

Posted by: Dr. T at June 30, 2026 12:25 PM (jGGMD)

59 Deport the parents, keep the kids.

If you're here on a visa and give birth, your visa automatically expires. The kid stays, you leave.

Call it the Roberts and Barrett Rule

Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 30, 2026 12:25 PM (M0V4/)

60 Time for Trump to pack the court. Add enough Justices to offset the two dipshits and a few more for good measure. Thirteen sounds like a proper number.

Posted by: Rotkappchen at June 30, 2026 12:25 PM (j3Fsw)

61 I am not joking.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 30, 2026 12:23 PM (dK+Kv)

I know you're not, but you might as well be. Because that will never happen.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 30, 2026 12:25 PM (E2lD7)

62 Hey at least they threw us a bone with no women in men's sports, right?

:facepalm:

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 30, 2026 12:26 PM (IhL8c)

63 57 Well put.

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 12:26 PM (Jr5Lq)

64 "Time for Trump to pack the court. Add enough Justices to offset the two dipshits and a few more for good measure. Thirteen sounds like a proper number."

Like Trump has been doing a bang-up job in his nominations to the Court recently. Sure, let's add a few more Barretts. How about an illegal lesbian Syrian whilst were at it?

Posted by: cheshirecat at June 30, 2026 12:26 PM (E4Afo)

65 "The only good news from this clusterfuck of a decision is that it doesn't change anything."

That's kinda my feeling about this. If it had never been heard, what would be different?

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 30, 2026 12:27 PM (DZ9Lv)

66 of course they did.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 30, 2026 12:28 PM (VyBeY)

67 Movie review length too

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 30, 2026 12:28 PM (Kt19C)

68 'A real pain in the ass and with all of this text, I just couldn't do it.'

Maybe there's a way to sic an AI on that, if it's just a reformatting task. Meanwhile, thanks for the hard work

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 12:28 PM (Jr5Lq)

69 Good afternoon Ace and everyone
The Bastards kept opened up birther tourism

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 12:28 PM (sgkY8)

70 This is so make or break everything.

השם ירחם

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 30, 2026 12:28 PM (x8PQF)

71
But we could still start enforcing this wherever possible.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

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

What am I talking about? We could repeal the statute.

If ANY anchor boy shows up ANY time in his whole damn life without having registered for the draft, it's off to Leavenworth and he gets stripped of his citizenship for committing a federal crime.

At a minimum, start enforcing this law.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 12:28 PM (XJ22o)

72 Alito’s dissent is great, thanks for posting it.

John Roberts and his all girl fan club have defined “subject to the jurisdiction of” as including every sentient being inside American boundaries, except for space aliens in UFO’s and Bigfoot. And even they may have a claim.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 12:29 PM (orF8y)

73 "Deport the parents, keep the kids."

Call it the reverse Elian Gonzales rule.

Posted by: cheshirecat at June 30, 2026 12:29 PM (E4Afo)

74 How about an illegal lesbian Syrian whilst were at it?
Posted by: cheshirecat

How about we change the y to a b?

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 30, 2026 12:29 PM (DZ9Lv)

75 So...what now?
Along with the moslem infection there is a narrowing gap of survival.
Sorry Fenlonspoke, but the harsh truth is violence will likely come from all that do-goodery of the recent past. Probably for carving out an island of retreat if nothing else.

What solutions to the on-going troubles do any Morons have? More talky talk? Some hopes and prayers? Putting our future in the Hands of the Almighty for a just and right end?

What? If not that, what?

The moslems will not confer and discuss, they will begin anew to bleed the US and dance and shout. The moss-kuh building projects will start and they will gleefully use Christian churches as anchors for the New Middle East. Your asses will be in the air five times a day and you'll LIKE it you raysis or you'll be enslaved or dead.

"Not aaallll..." Spare me the explanations of population assortment, please. The US is going exactly the way of Yerrp and the UK and I don't see a plan to prevent it.

Posted by: He who questions all of it at June 30, 2026 12:29 PM (pcjfs)

76 The Democrats are right, we need to pack the court. Now. LOL

Posted by: Mad Max in VA at June 30, 2026 12:29 PM (udRx+)

77 No men in women's sports, I mean.

Crumbs from the table so the left can call SCOTUS a bunch of right-wing fascists, even as the court gives them the feast.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 30, 2026 12:29 PM (IhL8c)

78 Well, the USA lasted 249 years. More than the Europeans thought it would.

This ruling really went above and beyond to put an exclamation point on such an absurd reasoning.

All they had to say was Congress needs to address this, not an EO. But clearly Roberts and Barrett like fucking us.

Posted by: Sharpie at June 30, 2026 12:30 PM (kmOt8)

79 That's kinda my feeling about this. If it had never been heard, what would be different?
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 30, 2026 12:27 PM (DZ9Lv)

We could have continued to tell ourselves that maybe things could change.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 12:30 PM (orF8y)

80 Anchor babies and vote fraud are both core & salient features of our ruling class' Current Year Project, and they won't countenance any contradiction from the Court or Congress, and these ruling class Institutions wish to remain ruling class Institutions, so they won't offer it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 30, 2026 12:25 PM (BI5O2)

boom. this.

(I like Current Year Project, good phrase reflecting modern attitude)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 30, 2026 12:30 PM (VyBeY)

81 I think the reconstruction amendments are unconstitutional.

Posted by: Reforger at June 30, 2026 12:31 PM (0dsIZ)

82 "Well, the USA lasted 249 years. More than the Europeans thought it would."

Well, we shall be remembered for our air conditioning, massive stadia, and Ranch dressing and Texas BBQ at least. It's a good legacy to leave behind.

Posted by: cheshirecat at June 30, 2026 12:31 PM (E4Afo)

83 "What? If not that, what?" That's a poser fer sure.

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 12:31 PM (Jr5Lq)

84 Great few days for America in time for the 4th! Trump getting pounded over and over by the Supremes!

Posted by: Sid at June 30, 2026 12:31 PM (/lHN7)

85 Where's the guy who always defended McConnell because "at least he got good judicial appointments?"

Thanks for nothing, guy.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 12:32 PM (RIvkX)

86 Eric Schmitt is a Senator to watch in the future. Although a first termer heis determined to not be a back bench drone. And, get this, his mind is right.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 12:32 PM (Gqar8)

87 We have lost nothing. We are where we were 24 hours ago. Sure, if we won it would have been Absolutely Fucking Yuge.

It's like playing the Powerball. If you win, your life is changed forever. If you lose, your life isn't changed at all. You've lost nothing.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

==

I think though officially ajudicating this and letting the world know is a step backwards.

I wouldnt be surprised if you suddenly see hundreds of thousands if not millions now claim to be US citizens since they were born here?

Posted by: Sharpie at June 30, 2026 12:32 PM (kmOt8)

88
Which mean is won't happen.

The foreigners control the vote producing and counting procedures of too many states for that to be possible.
Posted by: Methos

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If we can keep up with the border control and the de-frauding of the vote, our kids might get it overturned when they're 29 like us.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 12:32 PM (XJ22o)

89
Well, we shall be remembered for our air conditioning, massive stadia, and Ranch dressing and Texas BBQ at least. It's a good legacy to leave behind.
Posted by: cheshirecat at June 30, 2026 12:31 PM (E4Afo)

And Buc-Ee's!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 12:32 PM (7Q7Ca)

90 "I wonder if Barrett and Roberts have any comprehension of what they've done?"

They have pleased the communist pope

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 30, 2026 12:32 PM (Aol+p)

91 All they had to say was Congress needs to address this, not an EO. But clearly Roberts and Barrett like fucking us.

Posted by: Sharpie at June 30, 2026 12:30 PM (kmOt

And that sucks, because I hate fucking Roberts.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 12:32 PM (orF8y)

92 Where's the guy who always defended McConnell because "at least he got good judicial appointments?"

Thanks for nothing, guy.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

==

Obviously McConnell sucks but Trump put Barrett there. Because he didnt want another rape opp like they did to Kavanaugh.

Posted by: Sharpie at June 30, 2026 12:33 PM (kmOt8)

93 Sadly, this will all end in blood, as has always been the case. Time after time, country after country, the 'elites' are presented with the opportunity to turn away from the coming slaughter and always they refuse. I don't know when or where it will start but it is as sure as the sun rising in the east.

Only a politician, or a lawyer, or a combination of the two could miss it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 12:33 PM (ExV1e)

94 They screwed us

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 12:33 PM (sgkY8)

95 Kind of weird that the two justices with foreign born adopted children are the leads in this decision. I'm not sure what , if anything, it means

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 12:34 PM (f6yx7)

96 though I gotta say, The Blade up @ 53 makes a valid point, too.

not a step back; we are just where we were yesterday.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 30, 2026 12:34 PM (VyBeY)

97 Today is a good flearing all around.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 12:34 PM (KqZez)

98 What a shocking turn of events. There are your McConell judges everyone always loved.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 30, 2026 12:34 PM (Aoykm)

99
How about we change the y to a b?
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal

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The r to a b.

And you made me get that in my browser history again, dammit.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 12:34 PM (XJ22o)

100 Wong Kim Ark?
Does that come with an egg roll?
Posted by: Not exactly a legal scholar at June 30, 2026 12:18 PM

Only if you order six.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 30, 2026 12:35 PM (kgE5c)

101 Foreigners applying for immigrant visas and certain non-immigrant visas are required to pass a medical examination conducted by a physician approved by a US Embassy or consulate.

_________________________

So, block entrance to any female 7 months pregnant or later. That takes care of the legal applicants. And, those illegally crossing the border illegally, are basically down to nil.

Posted by: Orson at June 30, 2026 12:35 PM (dIske)

102 Ace,
Great coverage and write-up
Am hitting the tip jar.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 30, 2026 12:36 PM (2WIwB)

103 The elites on really both sides of the aisle just have no idea what is happening. They see a brown nosing servant of theirs that works for cheap when they interact with illegal aliens. They think its no big deal.

They dont see entire cities that look like the 3rd world full of these people.

Posted by: Sharpie at June 30, 2026 12:36 PM (kmOt8)

104 I thought the Court had already interpreted the 14th a couple times already to give us this shit. That's what I had been saying. I read it years ago.

I also expected the current court to enshrine this shit but I had hoped they wouldn't.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 12:36 PM (KqZez)

105 "The r to a b.

And you made me get that in my browser history again, dammit."

Oh, now I get it. Syrian-->Sybian.

Why not? Some of the Justices just love riding us and f*cking up over.

Posted by: cheshirecat at June 30, 2026 12:36 PM (E4Afo)

106 We need a real conservative justice to at least win most of these 5-4.

==

Yes we do. And then we can revisit and reverse this pile.

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 12:36 PM (ugc0u)

107 " ... and always they refuse. "

*in a Cowardly Lion voice*

"Ain't it the truth? Ain't it the truth!"

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 30, 2026 12:36 PM (VyBeY)

108 I'd love to see President Trump get the military funded and anything else truly essential and then just veto everything until this is fixed and the SAVE Act passed.

After the mid- terms.

Go out on a warpath....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 30, 2026 12:37 PM (Sco7b)

109 I always say the only good thing Mitch did was keep Garland off the SC

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 12:37 PM (f6yx7)

110 Roberts and Barrett sure love them some birth tourism.

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 12:37 PM (ugc0u)

111 This case was always going to be an uphill climb. The text of the 14th amendment is pretty non-restrictive aside from Indians. You have to go into the same kind of weeds liberals use to deny the plain text of the 2nd amendment to make the 14th mean what we want.

Relying on SCOTUS to fix Congress' century-long refusal to do their fucking job is not the solution.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2026 12:37 PM (QZThv)

112
We have lost nothing. We are where we were 24 hours ago.

Posted by: Elric The Blade

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

Not quite, because the decision referred to the amendment itself. Even if Congress passed a law restricting birthright citizenship per our wishes, how would it even be granted cert? "We already decided that." The fundamental is already settled.

But I also don't know much about try, try again in this context.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 12:37 PM (XJ22o)

113 Hey America, Celebrate 250 Years.

We had a good run. I feel highly blessed that for that flash of human history that only a few hundred million people could enjoy a true High Trust, prosperous and freedom loving country
that tens of billions of people over the span of world history never got to really experience, that I was here for the majority of my life to enjoy it.

Now returning to the Thousand Years of Darkness as the last bastion of high trust society (save perhaps Japan - for now) that all of Creation has had to endure since expulsion from The Garden.

Posted by: Community Notes at June 30, 2026 12:38 PM (U4c/V)

114 How long until there will be more US citizens who fully grew up in China than live within our own borders?

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at June 30, 2026 12:38 PM (ERYKL)

115 Well, the USA lasted 249 years. More than the Europeans thought it would.

This ruling really went above and beyond to put an exclamation point on such an absurd reasoning.
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And yet people will still pretend to have something to celebrate on Saturday.

Posted by: Methos at June 30, 2026 12:38 PM (vSvIl)

116 Roberts and Barrett sure love them some birth tourism.
Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 12:37 PM (ugc0u)

We know who's bought and paid for by China. That f*cking billionaire asshole that's funding the destruction of the US along side Soros is a REAL pain in the ass.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 12:38 PM (7Q7Ca)

117 The United States of America stands in the way. And because it stands in the way, it must be destroyed.

It is altogether too powerful, rich and free. Its people are straightforward, industrious, largely content, and barring grievous provocation, peaceful. When roused, there is no force on earth that can contend against us when we are angry and united in purpose.

So, our destruction is to be carried out from within.

God willing, the people will be roused, and will motivate the frauds who "represent" us to change the ridiculous situation that now permits our enemies to claim citizenship, diluting not only our rights as actual citizens, but forever tarnishing the glory of US citizenship.

Posted by: Happy 250 USA it was a great run baby at June 30, 2026 12:38 PM (jvkDG)

118 The r to a b.
And you made me get that in my browser history again, dammit.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

I'm still working on my 2nd cuppa. But I'm glad you fixed it for me. Your browser history includes a certain purchase?

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 30, 2026 12:39 PM (DZ9Lv)

119 "Eric Schmitt will introduce a Constitutional amendment to wipe away this stain"

They'll get to it right after the SAVE Act.

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 12:39 PM (MWfyi)

120 always say the only good thing Mitch did was keep Garland off the SC

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 12:37 PM (f6yx7)

And that was for Hillary.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 12:39 PM (KqZez)

121
So vile that Barrett and Roberts did this the week of the 250th. There won't be a 300th for sure.
Posted by: Josh Brolin's Blistered Taint

Will there be a 260th?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 30, 2026 12:39 PM (Cqx++)

122 Great, black pillers arrived. No, America is not over, and a setback with the Liberals Roberts and Barrett is not the death of the USA as we know it.

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 12:39 PM (ugc0u)

123

GW Bush is a piece of trash.

Because he is such a piece of shit, I actually do wonder about how all those sand lawyers made it to the cockpits of those planes.

Kinda all very convenient.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at June 30, 2026 12:39 PM (et1vG)

124 I think the tax code is the way to address at least some of this.

Congress has wide latitude on passing tax legislation, usually just needs a bare majority. Not the 60+ Senators.

Tax the fuck out of any foreigner that touches our soil. If they have a kid here, that's a tax. Our tax code has all sorts of provisions for people living abroad.

This has ALWAYS been about money for these people. You take away that incentive and these people wont be a problem.

Posted by: Sharpie at June 30, 2026 12:39 PM (kmOt8)

125
81 I think the reconstruction amendments are unconstitutional.
Posted by: Reforger at June 30, 2026 12:31 PM (0dsIZ)

LOL. Did you know that among legal scholars, the 14th has long had the reputation as being the Amendment that Swallowed the Constitution and rewrote it completely, in its own image?

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 12:39 PM (orF8y)

126 "Eric Schmitt will introduce a Constitutional amendment to wipe away this stain"

They'll get to it right after the SAVE Act.
Posted by: fd"

And then...

Posted by: Guy who always says "Nothing will happen" and is usually right at June 30, 2026 12:40 PM (MWfyi)

127 The block quotes are formatted weird today. Props to ace for the new html tomfoolery!
Posted by: No Name Today at June 30, 2026 12:13 PM (8mulE)

Just be happy we're not dealing with grey boxes, italicans, bold underlines and blown margins........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 12:40 PM (7Q7Ca)

128 An executive order was a quick way to fix it. It did not work. We need a better way.

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 12:40 PM (ugc0u)

129 Roberts and Barrett sure love them some birth tourism.
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Check me if I am wrong, but I seem to recall Barrett adopted a foreign kid, and so did Roberts.

Just an observation.

Posted by: Happy 250 USA it was a great run baby at June 30, 2026 12:40 PM (jvkDG)

130 Tax 'em. Tax the hell out of them.

Posted by: What my dad would've said at June 30, 2026 12:40 PM (2Ez/1)

131 95 Kind of weird that the two justices with foreign born adopted children are the leads in this decision. I'm not sure what , if anything, it means
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 12:34 PM

It means nothing because the citizenship of those children were not at issue. Those children have parents who are citizens. They are citizens under a section of the constitution not in dispute. A legally adopted child is absolutely no different than a child who was biologically born to the adoptive parents. This includes their birth certificates listing the parents and there is zero notation of an adoption on a birth certificate.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 12:40 PM (p4NUW)

132 "Let 100 million Chinese birth tourists bloom ... "

Mao and Xi

Posted by: illiniwek at June 30, 2026 12:41 PM (vbXSk)

133 USSC has no use for FACTS or LOGIC!!!!

Posted by: We're demographically fucked at June 30, 2026 12:41 PM (TbWk/)

134
Your browser history includes a certain purchase?
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal

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Your honor, I was merely conducting research.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 12:41 PM (XJ22o)

135 If we can keep up with the border control and the de-frauding of the vote, our kids might get it overturned when they're 29 like us.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 12:32 PM (XJ22o)

Yeah, I'm sure we can trust the normies to pay attention long enough to see it through.

As long as gas is cheap.

Posted by: Methos at June 30, 2026 12:42 PM (vSvIl)

136 An executive order was a quick way to fix it. It did not work. We need a better way.
Posted by: runner
==
I like where Trump was coming from, but I dont think he understood the gamble and what happens if you lose.

This was basically the worst case scenario and the question has now been answered.

Posted by: Sharpie at June 30, 2026 12:42 PM (kmOt8)

137 What solutions to the on-going troubles do any Morons have? More talky talk?
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Nah I think putting violent threats online is probably the smart way to go. Litter ace's hard earned pages with it to show how conservative and "tough" we all are. Then it's not just talk.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 12:42 PM (KqZez)

138 The place called United States isn’t over. It will exist as a physical place. The American you and I think of when we think America is long gone. That went away about 20 years ago.
Posted by: Heroq at June 30, 2026 12:41 PM (Y6Wgg)

Welll, No one told me ! If someone told me , I would have moved to Switzerland !

🤪

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 12:42 PM (ugc0u)

139 @111

>>Relying on SCOTUS to fix Congress' century-long refusal to do their fucking job is not the solution.

This isn't even a congress thing anymore, SCOTUS has ruled that anyone born in the US regardless of circumstances is a US Citizen as enshrined in the 14th.

Forget about amendments, that's not happening, ever.

So again, the only way forward is rigorous interior, border and visa enforcement.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 30, 2026 12:42 PM (XV/Pl)

140 Why not colonize/conquer the whole world to make this a moot point?

Posted by: Serious Cat at June 30, 2026 12:43 PM (xqQi7)

141 "The place called United States isn’t over. It will exist as a physical place. The American you and I think of when we think America is long gone."

E pluribus pluribus. From many, many.

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 12:43 PM (Jr5Lq)

142 Hey...

Maybe the Constitution really IS a suicide pact!

#mindblown

Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 12:43 PM (ZxPkt)

143 Tariffs were another challenge to a core & salient feature of our ruling class' Current Year Project, and look at how that came acropper, for instruction.

This is a globalist project, and the national governments who enact this agenda barely matter in these calculations, except as executors... how much do you think any of these people care about the wishes of the people they lord over, and whose interests are *not* in play?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 30, 2026 12:43 PM (BI5O2)

144 Can't every Dreamer just say "actually I was born here" and just get rubber stamped as citizens?

How do you disprove what an illegal alien did or did not do?

Posted by: Sharpie at June 30, 2026 12:43 PM (kmOt8)

145 We have lost nothing. We are where we were 24 hours ago.

Posted by: Elric The Blade

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

Not quite, because the decision referred to the amendment itself. Even if Congress passed a law restricting birthright citizenship per our wishes, how would it even be granted cert? "We already decided that." The fundamental is already settled.

But I also don't know much about try, try again in this context.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 12:37 PM (XJ22o)
______

There was zero-point-zero chance that Congress was ever gonna do shit about this. Punting it to Congress would have gotten us nowhere. Congress is effectively an enemy of the American people, conspiring with foreign invaders to take us over. That's why Trump took the shot that he did.

We had BRC yesterday. We have it today. We'll have it forever. That's just reality.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 30, 2026 12:44 PM (iFTx/)

146
One thing I'm curious about, do dissents ever come up in subsequent cases? I suppose this could come back to a different court someday. Would Thomas's dissent be quotable as an argument to overturn Trump vs Barbara?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 12:44 PM (XJ22o)

147 Heinlein had it right. When we start America over, citizenship must be earned. No more magic soul or letting retards vote.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 30, 2026 12:44 PM (4eAUY)

148 110 Roberts and Barrett sure love them some birth tourism.
Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 12:37 PM (ugc0u)

Check out their kids. A window to what they think. Perhaps. Maybe.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 12:44 PM (Gqar8)

149 wait, what happened to commenter Heroq ??

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 12:44 PM (ugc0u)

150 @129

>>Just an observation.

Roberts Adopted Irish Venezuelans and Barret adopted African Asians.

Very queer.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 30, 2026 12:44 PM (XV/Pl)

151 I just looked up Senator Schmitt. He's the guy who made that diving catch in the congressional baseball game. Wrote a book "How to Beat the Left in Court." So maybe the right temperament for a good fight.

Posted by: Wenda at June 30, 2026 12:44 PM (AZWHC)

152 Still doesn't mean the parents are citizens. First plane, train, get on your horse and ride, for them. They can take their American citizen offspring with them or into foster care for them.

Posted by: nooneyouknowyouknow at June 30, 2026 12:45 PM (Iwv3U)

153 I have no idea what's going to happen next week. Much less what's going to happen 20 years from now,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 30, 2026 12:45 PM (2sfNr)

154 wait, what happened to commenter Heroq ??

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 12:44 PM (ugc0u)

Whatever has happened to him many times before

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 12:45 PM (KqZez)

155 Check out their kids. A window to what they think. Perhaps. Maybe.
Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 12:44 PM (Gqar

I was warned about Barrett when she was nominated. And Roberts...yeah, I want Rehnquist II.

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 12:45 PM (ugc0u)

156 They were not going to allow the president to do this by executive order. Misconstruing Constitutional provisions is the court's job.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at June 30, 2026 12:45 PM (wGerL)

157 I guess if Roe vs Wade can be overturned, so can this. But by then it will be too late.

But the posters are correct in that Congress can't really "undo" this if its considered a constitutional right by the 14th amendment.

Thats why this ruling is so nasty.

Posted by: Sharpie at June 30, 2026 12:45 PM (kmOt8)

158 I guess if Roe vs Wade can be overturned, so can this. But by then it will be too late.

==

There you go.

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 12:46 PM (ugc0u)

159 145 We have lost nothing. We are where we were 24 hours ago.

Posted by: Elric The Blade

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

Not quite, because the decision referred to the amendment itself. Even if Congress passed a law restricting birthright citizenship per our wishes, how would it even be granted cert? "We already decided that." The fundamental is already settled.

But I also don't know much about try, try again in this context.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 12:37 PM (XJ22o)
______

There was zero-point-zero chance that Congress was ever gonna do shit about this. Punting it to Congress would have gotten us nowhere. Congress is effectively an enemy of the American people, conspiring with foreign invaders to take us over. That's why Trump took the shot that he did.

We had BRC yesterday. We have it today. We'll have it forever. That's just reality.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Probably not because the nation will cease to exist. Like the Dred Scott decision, this judicial activist decision (a non judicial activist decision would have punted it to Congress), is likely to hasten the breakup of the US. Probably violently.

Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 12:46 PM (E4rtv)

160 If the support is there, it can happen quickly.
Posted by: No Name Today at June 30, 2026 12:23 PM (8mulE)

The way I understand it is this:

To even begin this, 2/3rds of the States' Legislatures would have to request this process to begin.

States then have to elect Delegates to go and propose the Amendment

Immediate butt fuckery immediately would ensue as some would demand 2nd Amendment be deleted amongst a fuck ton of other ridiculous non-sense. Not to mention all the Grandstanding for Social Media Click Bait.

We wouldn't even get past step 1. But if it did, In the end nothing would get done. Because it is now obvious some States/Territories have turned this little loophole into Big Money via Birth Tourism, Federal Welfare Bucks, and Manipulating the Census to rig representation in the House.

We wouldn't even get a stupid T-Shirt for this. And everyone would have horrible hangovers.

Posted by: tryhardneckbeard at June 30, 2026 12:47 PM (lLeLE)

161 Save Act is 80/20 issue.

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 12:47 PM (ugc0u)

162 I wonder if the ruling would have been different if Europe was burning and all of their leaders and intellectual elites were being chased through the streets, tortured, and dismembered?

After watching their families be brutally slaughtered and having everything taken away.

The marshmallows to cure anger, frustration and depression haven't kicked in yet.

Others are right. There are other ways to fight this.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 30, 2026 12:47 PM (Sco7b)

163 Whatever has happened to him many times before
Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 12:45 PM (KqZez)

New name, same old guy, right on schedule.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 30, 2026 12:47 PM (BI5O2)

164 Whatever has happened to him many times before

He's a concerned Christian. Sometimes the mask slips.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2026 12:47 PM (QZThv)

165 have no idea what's going to happen next week.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 30, 2026 12:45 PM (2sfNr)

This is why they say never meet your heroes. Feet of clay

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 12:48 PM (KqZez)

166 We had BRC yesterday. We have it today. We'll have it forever. That's just reality.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

==

I guess I'n the Eeyore here, but I would argue at least legally, we did not.

We never had a SC determine that all illegals born here are automatic US citizens. We do today.

Posted by: Sharpie at June 30, 2026 12:48 PM (kmOt8)

167 Birthright citizenship, as it is currently applied, rests on a court decision to mean “any child born in the US under any circumstances”. The interpretation of ‘resident’ is wildly broad. This is currently insanity, when illegal aliens and citizens of other countries deliberately come here to drop children with US citizenship. There’s a statistic I’ve seen where China alone will have a million children with US voting rights in a few years.

The Trump EO was and is not the proper vehicle for revising the existing interpretation, but I had hoped the ensuing court case would. The oral arguments seemed to miss the point, and possibly the entire case before the Supremes was too narrow to alter the existing interpretation.

IMO, the Constitutional amendment is fine as written, the interpretation of resident is insane. We have too much of congress that has been bought by globalists to fix the situation by either legislation or amendment. If this court couldn’t see the need to fix this issue, I fear it remains unfixable.

Posted by: Advo at June 30, 2026 12:48 PM (jO4mz)

168
There was zero-point-zero chance that Congress was ever gonna do shit about this. Punting it to Congress would have gotten us nowhere. Congress is effectively an enemy of the American people, conspiring with foreign invaders to take us over. That's why Trump took the shot that he did.

We had BRC yesterday. We have it today. We'll have it forever. That's just reality.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

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

Ick. True.

Well, fire up the remedies. Like I said above, get fucking serious about the federal felony of failing to register for the draft, regardless of where you are on the planet. Any Birthright Boy who shows up here who didn't register by age 25 goes to Leavenworth, for the maximum sentence.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 12:48 PM (XJ22o)

169 Anchor babies forever

Oh well, all things die, even nations. Especially nations, frankly.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 30, 2026 12:49 PM (xcxpd)

170 There's not going to be a COnstitutional Amendment to fix this, we can't even get voter ID to 50 votes in the Senate.

Posted by: Sharpie at June 30, 2026 12:49 PM (kmOt8)

171 Constitutional Amendment to fix this is a pipe dream. Don;t even go there.

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 12:50 PM (ugc0u)

172 There was zero-point-zero chance that Congress was ever gonna do shit about this.
........
We had BRC yesterday. We have it today. We'll have it forever. That's just reality.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

A truly conservative court would have done something about it as evidenced by the 3

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 12:50 PM (KqZez)

173 157 I guess if Roe vs Wade can be overturned, so can this. But by then it will be too late.

But the posters are correct in that Congress can't really "undo" this if its considered a constitutional right by the 14th amendment.

Thats why this ruling is so nasty.
Posted by: Sharpie

Technically, a future court could overturn the decision because the whole 14th Birthright issue was irrelevant to the core holding that the President may not dictate birthright citizenship via an executive order. Thus, obiter dicta on the rest of the blathering by the majority.

So a future court, COULD, mind you, distinguish this decision from a future one if Congress passes a law. Immigration and naturalization is a plenary power of Congress, not the courts. If Congress even wanted to, it could also do a Bricker amendment stripping the Court of any jurisdiction in immigration cases (see Ex Parte McCardle).

But the current limp dicked Senate majority under Thune would never even consider it nor would it blow up the filibuster over it. Corporations want their cheap ass labor yo.

Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 12:50 PM (E4rtv)

174 103. They dont see entire cities that look like the 3rd world full of these people.
Posted by: Sharpie

Hell. They don't see the other half of their counties abutting on those cities because they're too busy with environmental issues like grabbing more "greenery" natural land zone buffers, greenway paths, reconstructing round-a-bouts in roads through their towns to make them so much slower to navigate and therefore undesirable for travel. (A Buttigieg stunt in Indiana.)

Oh, and separating major state roads for bike paths, ergo the non-elite can almost NOT drive for fear of striking gig workers, environmentalists, and children that go unattended and wild.

Lastly, they spend a lot of time keeping their children in private schools (including Quaker, Muslim) and "better" universities so they "fit in" with both transnational elitists and our own homegrown commie A-holes.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 30, 2026 12:50 PM (NFX2v)

175 "Pew Research (for 2023): An estimated 4.6 million U.S.-born children were living with at least one unauthorized immigrant parent. Annual births to unauthorized or temporary-status mothers were about 320,000 (9% of ~3.6 million total U.S. births), with roughly 245,000–300,000 specifically tied to unauthorized parents in recent years."

This does not include a large number of "birth tourists" that returned to China or Mexico (or points unknown) over the decades. It was long ago popular for (even middle class?) Mexicans to give birth in USA so they could at some point claim their prize money.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 30, 2026 12:50 PM (vbXSk)

176
John Roberts and his all girl fan club have defined “subject to the jurisdiction of” as including every sentient being inside American boundaries, except for space aliens in UFO’s and Bigfoot. And even they may have a claim.
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When a Daddy Bigfoot loves a Mommie Space alien very much, and Mommie Space alien give birth on US soil, eventually that offspring can vote!!! Isnt that wonderful.

Posted by: ACB explaining the 14th amendment to her kids and you at June 30, 2026 12:50 PM (jvkDG)

177 170 There's not going to be a COnstitutional Amendment to fix this, we can't even get voter ID to 50 votes in the Senate.
Posted by: Sharpie
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Well, after the Civil War, the 13th to the 15th that eliminated the Dred Scott decision came about precisely because ratification of such was necessary to rejoin the Union.

Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 12:51 PM (E4rtv)

178

Technically, a future court could overturn the decision because the whole 14th Birthright issue was irrelevant to the core holding that the President may not dictate birthright citizenship via an executive order. Thus, obiter dicta on the rest of the blathering by the majority.

So a future court, COULD, mind you, distinguish this decision from a future one if Congress passes a law. Immigration and naturalization is a plenary power of Congress, not the courts. If Congress even wanted to, it could also do a Bricker amendment stripping the Court of any jurisdiction in immigration cases (see Ex Parte McCardle).

But the current limp dicked Senate majority under Thune would never even consider it nor would it blow up the filibuster over it. Corporations want their cheap ass labor yo.
Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 12:50 PM (E4rtv)

👆👆

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 12:51 PM (ugc0u)

179 Oh well, all things die, even nations. Especially nations, frankly.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 30, 2026 12:49 PM (xcxpd

Yup.

Nations aren't your mother, or even a beloved dog.

When they're no longer fit for purpose, toss them in the trash.

This one has been stinking for awhile.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 30, 2026 12:51 PM (BI5O2)

180 LOL. Did you know that among legal scholars, the 14th has long had the reputation as being the Amendment that Swallowed the Constitution and rewrote it completely, in its own image?
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 12:39 PM (orF8y)

No, but good to know. My arguement comes from Nevada and Vermont. Half the states were not present to grant statehood to them. Therefore that is a recognition of the Southern states being no longer a part of the United States. The United states then defeated the Confererate States of America. A country they recognized and waged war upon. The reconstruction amendments were hurried in before the defeated Confederate States America went through the voting to join again. The newly conquered territories were not and still are not part of the United States as spelled out in the Constitution OR Nevada and Vermont aren't.

Posted by: Reforger at June 30, 2026 12:51 PM (0dsIZ)

181 *That is not a middle finger! It's an index finger!

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 12:51 PM (ugc0u)

182 Eric Schmitt will introduce a Constitutional amendment to wipe away this stain:

Let's see. Two hundred or so comments. Surely someone has said of this constitutional amendment: Ain't never gonna pass, right?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2026 12:52 PM (1Ff7Z)

183 I write it yesterday so this is only a repeat: SCOTUS sucks. When they get it right (and to be fair they’ve been right a lot recently) it’s really only by accident. Blind squirrels and acorns…

Regardless, I’m deeply offended that every year we sit around with bated breath awaiting the “wisdom” to be passed down from on high by 9 mediocrities in black robes. That is the opposite of representative government… now excuse me while I go chew some nails

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 12:52 PM (YetvJ)

184 But chin up, in a deeply conservative red state like West Virginia, a high school is allowed to have a policy doesn't have to let a dude with a dick play on the girls softball team.

Posted by: Sharpie at June 30, 2026 12:52 PM (kmOt8)

185
Technically, a future court could overturn the decision because the whole 14th Birthright issue was irrelevant to the core holding that the President may not dictate birthright citizenship via an executive order.

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

I thought the core holding was that the 14th guarantees birthright citizenship, regardless of which branch says otherwise.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 12:52 PM (XJ22o)

186 End dual citizenship. That way illegal aliens aren't citizens since they are citizens of their mother's nation. In the case where the parents are not from the same nation, Roberts could logically prevail but if momma's going bye-bye, I bet most would choose to have the child go home with them.

Also, it would make those adults who have chosen to get foreign citizenship surrender their US citizenship.

Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at June 30, 2026 12:52 PM (6BjcW)

187 Incidentally, Markwayne Mullin said we'll have exceeded the 2025 total of deportations by mid-August. So on pace to almost double, and that's not counting self-deports.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2026 12:52 PM (QZThv)

188 I'm just surprised the Supremes didn't wait until Friday to drop the ruling, just to dig the knife in even more.

"Happy 4th of July, everyone. Have fun at the wake."

Posted by: cheshirecat at June 30, 2026 12:53 PM (E4Afo)

189 Stop all immigration and do not allow any female tourist.
No more hib.
We do not need any more people here.
Tourists require a passport which is issued at our discretion.

Posted by: MAC V SOG at June 30, 2026 12:53 PM (P4Pk9)

190 A real pain in the ass and with all of this text, I just couldn't do it.
Posted by: Lamont the Big Dummy at June 30, 2026 12:17 PM (1wjle)

I got to thinking about this and there is a simple way to fix that kind of text in the future.
1. Get Notepad++. It's a freeware text editor for Windows.
2. Paste the text into a new document.
3. Go to the Edit menu and choose Replace.
4. Put in \r\n in the "Find what" box.
5. Put a space in the "Replace with" box.

Done! all the hard coded new lines will be replaced with a single space. If needed, you can always add line breaks as you see fit.

Much easier than doing all that by hand.

Posted by: No Name Today at June 30, 2026 12:53 PM (8mulE)

191 Mama always said, "SCOTUS is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

Posted by: Forest Gump at June 30, 2026 12:53 PM (wVcYX)

192 Incidentally, Markwayne Mullin said we'll have exceeded the 2025 total of deportations by mid-August.

==

when he was not in charge..OK! Good Work!

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 12:53 PM (ugc0u)

193 Turnaround visibly pregnant women.

Ai say dogs can smell pregnancy.
That will catch some (most) of the early stages.

Make them sign a paper acknowledging that it is a felony crime to defraud the US gov and give birth while on Visa. You're anchor baby may be a US citizen but you're going to break rocks for a spell. Also you'll never be allowed in US again.

Every visting women must visit a pregnancy check clinic every 2 months and subject to urine test.

Posted by: hate_the_deepstate at June 30, 2026 12:53 PM (2Dncg)

194 How would about a quarter to a third of the states withdrawal & fix drivers licenses that can allow non citizen voting in their states?

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 30, 2026 12:54 PM (NFX2v)

195 It means nothing because the citizenship of those children were not at issue. Those children have parents who are citizens. They are citizens under a section of the constitution not in dispute. A legally adopted child is absolutely no different than a child who was biologically born to the adoptive parents. This includes their birth certificates listing the parents and there is zero notation of an adoption on a birth certificate.
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 12:40 PM (p4NUW)

It speaks to the disloyalty of their parents to the nation.

Posted by: Methos at June 30, 2026 12:54 PM (vSvIl)

196 Vermont was admitted as the 14th state in the 1790s, Reforger. You thinking of West Virginia?

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 12:54 PM (77rzZ)

197 The good news is when the Court is fully leftard we won't have any more June suspense about the decisions. Or November. Or any time.

In fact the true suspense will be what cases they take up and even that will only be the ones where they can do lasting damage.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 12:54 PM (KqZez)

198 I guess I'n the Eeyore here, but I would argue at least legally, we did not.

We never had a SC determine that all illegals born here are automatic US citizens. We do today.

Posted by: Sharpie

De facto Elric is right. But this shoves the unpleasant mess into the political system and is likely to be a new litmus test for any GOP appointed justice--and Roberts just stained his tattered judicial legacy even more. ACB will have a similar legacy to Sandra Day O'Conner who made a mess of constitutional interpretation.

Court decisions on the Constitution are not meant to be warm fuzzy self congratulatory social virtue signalling.

Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 12:54 PM (E4rtv)

199
I’m deeply offended that every year we sit around with bated breath awaiting the “wisdom” to be passed down from on high by 9 mediocrities in black robes.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt

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Caesar's thumb. We still live that way.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 12:55 PM (XJ22o)

200 Someone noted this morning that both Barrett and Roberts have adopted children from foreign countries. Mmmm, makes one wonder.

Posted by: Jen the original at June 30, 2026 12:55 PM (EUX8s)

201 LOL. Did you know that among legal scholars, the 14th has long had the reputation as being the Amendment that Swallowed the Constitution and rewrote it completely, in its own image?
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 12:39 PM (orF8y)

I've been calling it the "Kitchen Sink Amendment" for years.

Posted by: pookysgirl at June 30, 2026 12:55 PM (OzDqF)

202 The reconstruction amendments were hurried in before the defeated Confederate States America went through the voting to join again. The newly conquered territories were not and still are not part of the United States as spelled out in the Constitution OR Nevada and Vermont aren't.
Posted by: Reforger at June 30, 2026 12:51 PM (0dsIZ)

You’re not wrong, but…. People take this the wrong way, and don’t quite understand the truth of it.

But in a very real sense, the original Constitution died at Appomattox.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 12:55 PM (orF8y)

203 Fine.

Every illegal in this country needs to register for the draft before they can receive any benefits.

They're subject to the jurisdiction thereof now. Get subjected to it.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 30, 2026 12:56 PM (xA5g+)

204 With due respect, the Court's account is not historically
accurate. The Court says that the Citizenship Clause in-
corporated the English feudal principle that subjects owed
lifetime servitude to the King who owned the soil on which
they were born, but Americans--unsurprisingly--rejected
this feudal principle.
_____

"With due respect,". This is great. How much respect is due to someone who gets the most basic thing wrong? Very little, I would say, and I suspect that's what Thomas is saying here.

Also, whatever happened to "No Kings"!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2026 12:56 PM (Dv3i1)

205 We won't have Thomas and Alito forever.

Posted by: Eromero at June 30, 2026 12:56 PM (LHPAg)

206 And no more dual citizenship

Posted by: MAC V SOG at June 30, 2026 12:56 PM (P4Pk9)

207 If one ascribes to the idea that we, the US citizens who base our right to be a US citizien on a marketbasket of entanglements, with place of birth but one of them and another being subject to being compeleted to die in war for the nation, this catastrohic birthright ruling guts all that and compels us to hand over our sovereign sense of self and ownership to any interloper that manages to kick in our national front door and loots that which makes us American. Worse is we no longer have any say about any of this. The long road to destroying what it means to being an American citizen finally succeeded. The road to our destruction is now paved. God help us because we can't seem to do it for ourselves anymore.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 30, 2026 12:56 PM (obVEo)

208 "Turnaround visibly pregnant women."

Require a pregnancy test, you're pregnant, you stay at home. No visa.

Posted by: cheshirecat at June 30, 2026 12:57 PM (E4Afo)

209
I can see this is an unpopular decision around here.

But, it's differences of opinion that make horse racing, and luckily, your opinions don't count!

Posted by: Caracalla at June 30, 2026 12:57 PM (BI5O2)

210 It's just sickening that we "technically" have a 6-3 majority but our side constantly finds a way to score a goal for the other team.

Can you imagine if there were 6 justices that were Dem appointed how "bold" they would be with remaking America in their image?

Posted by: Sharpie at June 30, 2026 12:57 PM (kmOt8)

211 Unsurprising and yet still disappointing.

Posted by: Darth Randall at June 30, 2026 12:57 PM (dvvVb)

212 If this "birthright citizenship" ruling holds, and is unable to be thwarted by either clarifying legislation or by Constitutional Amendment, then it should become the policy of the United States that every "birthright baby" upon that baby's 18th birthday shall be immediately inducted into the US military, and shall immediately and accordingly report for duty; and that failure to do so is equivalent to desertion, or if that person has fled the US then that person shall be extradited back to the US for a desertions courts martial.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at June 30, 2026 12:58 PM (bufu1)

213 Nations aren't your mother, or even a beloved dog.

When they're no longer fit for purpose, toss them in the trash.

This one has been stinking for awhile.

How many times in the history of mankind has a failed nation or government been replaced by a better one? 1776 was an anomaly and 1991 (USSR) was a mixed bag.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2026 12:58 PM (vTZFs)

214 Also, it would make those adults who have chosen to get foreign citizenship surrender their US citizenship.
Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey

Noooo!!!!
-Rosie O'Donnell

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2026 12:58 PM (Dv3i1)

215 elaboration. I worked with an engineer who was going through the immigration process from India. She said when things would go badly she and her husband would say, "well we can always go back if things get worse." (This was when deep state operatives were stalling visa renewals in Trump I). However, when her baby was born, according to her, she had to burn that bridge because India does not recognize dual citizenship, her baby was American or Indian.

Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at June 30, 2026 12:58 PM (6BjcW)

216 Any Birthright Boy who shows up here who didn't register by age 25 goes to Leavenworth, for the maximum sentence.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

It's not the draft, it's selective service and it needs to be extended to females too.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 30, 2026 12:58 PM (DZ9Lv)

217 Court decisions on the Constitution are not meant to be warm fuzzy self congratulatory social virtue signalling.
Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 12:54 PM (E4rtv)
Aye aye!

Posted by: Eromero at June 30, 2026 12:59 PM (LHPAg)

218 196 Vermont was admitted as the 14th state in the 1790s, Reforger. You thinking of West Virginia?
Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 12:54 PM (77rzZ)

Maybe. Been a while since I have thought about it.

Posted by: Reforger at June 30, 2026 12:59 PM (0dsIZ)

219 Third world adoption was always a flaming red flag with that one. The only missing element to white woman virtue signaling was not transing them.

Posted by: Josh Brolin's Blistered Taint at June 30, 2026 12:59 PM (Oungn)

220
>>Just an observation.

Roberts Adopted Irish Venezuelans and Barret adopted African Asians.

Very queer.
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Yup. A person's background and life decisions tell you more about them than their political party affiliation.

That and danger hair. And a job as a college professor.

Posted by: observer at June 30, 2026 12:59 PM (jvkDG)

221 "It's not the draft, it's selective service and it needs to be extended to females too."

Bring back the compulsory 2 year service in the Forces as well.

Posted by: cheshirecat at June 30, 2026 12:59 PM (E4Afo)

222 A nation has a right to protect itself.
Anchor babies are just another facet of invasion....NOT immigration.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 30, 2026 01:00 PM (2WIwB)

223 Third world adoption was always a flaming red flag with that one. The only missing element to white woman virtue signaling was not transing them.
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there's still time!!!

Posted by: ACB at June 30, 2026 01:00 PM (jvkDG)

224 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 12:48 PM (XJ22o)

American citizens living abroad have to pay income taxes on their worldwide income. There is a Foreign Earned Income Exclusion, but it does not cover investment income. I want billions of taxes collected from these people. Freeze accounts.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at June 30, 2026 01:00 PM (wGerL)

225 I don't know if (BI5O2) is an intentional troll or not (hence, no quote) but technically, it ain't wrong.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2026 01:00 PM (vTZFs)

226 How many times in the history of mankind has a failed nation or government been replaced by a better one? 1776 was an anomaly and 1991 (USSR) was a mixed bag.

The USSR breakup went well for pretty much everyone except Russia itself, if you're resigned to the fact that the Balkans are gonna Balkan.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2026 01:00 PM (QZThv)

227 I thought the core holding was that the 14th guarantees birthright citizenship, regardless of which branch says otherwise.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Nope, it is obiter dicta, not that you would get that from the media. There was no law of Congress at issue in the case (cites to the citizenship laws of 1940 were not core to the case). In this case, like Wong Ark Kim, it dealt with administrative actions only, not the power of Congress.

So yes, like the death penalty, if Congress speaks, another bite at the apple is possible (especially as Kavanaugh argues just this point in his concurrence. Happened quite a bit over Roe jurisprudence.

So it takes one justice being replaced on the current court majority and by making the ruling prospective based on a new Congressional law, removes the messiness of revoking current citizenship.

Trump forced the court majority to rub its faces in shit with this decision and it is probably not going to be as long lived as ACB or Roberts would have hoped. And it blows up for good the rather stupid arguments put forward by Shipwrecked Crew commentator that ACB and Roberts are pragmatists. This as far from pragmatic as it can be.

Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 01:01 PM (E4rtv)

228 An executive order was a quick way to fix it. It did not work. We need a better way.
Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 12:40 PM (ugc0u)

Oooh, call me! Call me!!

Posted by: Sanders at June 30, 2026 01:01 PM (5xuJ/)

229
Eric Schmitt will introduce a Constitutional amendment to wipe away this stain

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I'm good with this. Although it has failed, the Equal Rights Amendment was good for whipping up attention, feminist activism, and money-raising for decades. That is, it helped the people who were pushing it.

Maybe at some point -- like the next 9/11 -- sentiments on BR will have changed.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 01:01 PM (XJ22o)

230 And this is what we get with a 6-3 majority.

Man, Republicans weren't kidding when they said they can't do anything until they have two veto proof supermajorities, the Presidency, a 9-0 Supreme Court, academia, the insurance industry, the arts, Broadway, Rosie O'Donnell's house, The View, the filthy liberal microbes on Robert DeNiro's taint, and a 60 plus percent majority of alien life forms, known and unknown.

Then they can get something their voters want done. Donate today.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 01:01 PM (KqZez)

231 Well, the left just ignores rulings it opposes.... and suffers no recriminations.

We've got 2 years. Fuck 'em. Ignore it. Ramp up the baby deportations to 11.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 30, 2026 01:01 PM (jehhT)

232 It's just sickening that we "technically" have a 6-3 majority but our side constantly finds a way to score a goal for the other team.

Can you imagine if there were 6 justices that were Dem appointed how "bold" they would be with remaking America in their image?
Posted by: Sharpie at June 30, 2026 12:57 PM (kmOt

ACB and Roberts are modern day Jim Marshall’s…. But they don’t score touchdowns for the other team only once. And they don’t belong in the HoF

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 01:01 PM (D2O3S)

233 Too much spinning, and side arguments. Revisit when we have a normal court be and be done with it. Hopefully there will be challenge to some sane law passed by congress, and then 5/4 sane majority will rule the insane notion that the King and his "Jurisdiction" are still relevant in the USA.

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 01:01 PM (ugc0u)

234

According to Duck Duck Go...

The last time the U.S. Constitution was amended was on May 7, 1992, when the 27th Amendment, concerning congressional pay, was ratified.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 30, 2026 01:01 PM (Cqx++)

235 I honestly believe that the trend among my peers and slightly older parents to adopt foreign children - even in cases where they were fertile or even had their own kids - has lead to a desire to "share the wealth" of foreign child support vis-a-vis generous immigration to the USA.

and this.

it's a stain on Gen X tbh. some of the smartest people I know adopted eastern euro kids instead of having their own, not in addition! but because "we don't want to overpopulate"

ok so Mr and Mrs 130 IQ don't procreate instead they're bailing out FAS adopted 30 year old "kids". sounds great.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 30, 2026 01:02 PM (j+aD2)

236 *rule that the notion that ..not what I typed

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 01:02 PM (ugc0u)

237 "Third world adoption was always a flaming red flag with that one. The only missing element to white woman virtue signaling was not transing them."

*looks towards Hollywood actresses*

Posted by: cheshirecat at June 30, 2026 01:02 PM (E4Afo)

238 The media of course calls it a " major blow to Trump". Which is all that matters to them. No it is a major blow to the United States.

Posted by: steevy at June 30, 2026 01:02 PM (YwEeS)

239 "The last time the U.S. Constitution was amended was on May 7, 1992, when the 27th Amendment, concerning congressional pay, was ratified."

But of course, and they did it tout suite, I bet.

Posted by: cheshirecat at June 30, 2026 01:02 PM (E4Afo)

240
So yes, like the death penalty, if Congress speaks, another bite at the apple is possible (especially as Kavanaugh argues just this point in his concurrence. Happened quite a bit over Roe jurisprudence.

Posted by: whig

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Ah. Thanks for that flarification.

(iykyk -- if you don't know, all will soon be flear)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 01:03 PM (XJ22o)

241 ACB and Roberts are modern day Jim Marshall’s…. But they don’t score touchdowns for the other team only once. And they don’t belong in the HoF
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

If Jim Marshall had played for the '72 Washington Redskins and caught Yepremian's fumble, it would've been 21-0 Miami.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 30, 2026 01:03 PM (DZ9Lv)

242 Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 01:01 PM (E4rtv)

I have tried and tried to tell people for years that the Roberts pragmatism or "integrity of the court" line is pure psy op. He is owned and operated through and through. He doesn't give a fuck how anyone sees him or his court, only his masters.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 01:03 PM (KqZez)

243 We’re doomed.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 30, 2026 01:03 PM (EitEl)

244 233 Too much spinning, and side arguments. Revisit when we have a normal court be and be done with it. Hopefully there will be challenge to some sane law passed by congress, and then 5/4 sane majority will rule the insane notion that the King and his "Jurisdiction" are still relevant in the USA.

good prescription runner

yeah and I think the anti-invasion sentiment is rising and it won't be stopped by this or anything else.

so like Nova was saying, just keep pushing on deportation and immigration restrictions

just keep after it. the tide IS turning despite lame-ass "elite" Xers like Amy and John.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 30, 2026 01:03 PM (j+aD2)

245 So much for "No Kings".

Posted by: Hal Dall MD at June 30, 2026 01:04 PM (xZmOg)

246 Senator Eric Schmitt
@SenEricSchmitt
The Supreme Court's birthright citizenship decision is wrong, dangerous, and disastrous for American sovereignty and the American people. If we can't fix it with ordinary legislation, then we must do what the Constitution commands in moments of national crisis: We must amend the Constitution...
_____

Why can't we fix it with legislation? Just get majority passed legislation that says the court got it wrong, put in Thomas' and Alito's dissents, and say the court can't change the meaning of words written by duly elected legislators, and bar the courts from ruling on it any further.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2026 01:04 PM (Dv3i1)

247 Don't like the ruling. But at least Ace has some news this week. Last week he was digging for something or anything.

Posted by: Case at June 30, 2026 01:04 PM (IY9No)

248 Also, it would make those adults who have chosen to get foreign citizenship surrender their US citizenship.
Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at June 30, 2026 12:52 PM (6BjcW)

I guess you don’t know that SCOTUS has already ruled that laws against dual citizenship are unconstitutional. Did it in the 60’s.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 01:05 PM (orF8y)

249 yeah and I think the anti-invasion sentiment is rising and it won't be stopped by this or anything else.

so like Nova was saying, just keep pushing on deportation and immigration restrictions

just keep after it. the tide IS turning despite lame-ass "elite" Xers like Amy and John.
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 30, 2026 01:03 PM (j+aD2)

yes , it is absolutely rising, otherwise the Save Act would not be 80/20 issue !

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 01:05 PM (ugc0u)

250
Then they can get something their voters want done. Donate today.
Posted by: ...

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lollol. Another candidate for Top Ten!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 01:05 PM (XJ22o)

251 210 It's just sickening that we "technically" have a 6-3 majority but our side constantly finds a way to score a goal for the other team.

Can you imagine if there were 6 justices that were Dem appointed how "bold" they would be with remaking America in their image?
Posted by: Sharpie

It was really five to four. Kavanaugh had a concurrence that technically joined the majority in ruling Trump did not have that power but punted it to Congress whether it did. And Kavanaugh's concurrence is what needs to be followed by future court litigation. After either Roberts, Sotomayor, or one of the other justices on the majority step down. Or if the GOP decides to call the Dems bluff and expand the court to 13-15 which is not looking that bad now. 13 would make it one justice per circuit.

Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 01:05 PM (E4rtv)

252
Why can't we fix it with legislation? Just get majority passed legislation that says the court got it wrong, put in Thomas' and Alito's dissents, and say the court can't change the meaning of words written by duly elected legislators, and bar the courts from ruling on it any further.

This.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 01:05 PM (sKqQm)

253 Don't like the ruling. But at least Ace has some news this week. Last week he was digging for something or anything.

Posted by: Case at June 30, 2026 01:04 PM (IY9No)

It's too much news. It's too much fucking news.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 01:05 PM (KqZez)

254 it's a stain on Gen X tbh. some of the smartest people I know adopted eastern euro kids instead of having their own, not in addition! but because "we don't want to overpopulate"

ok so Mr and Mrs 130 IQ don't procreate instead they're bailing out FAS adopted 30 year old "kids". sounds great.
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 30, 2026 01:02 PM (j+aD2)

I’m GenX…. I’m offended!!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 01:05 PM (YetvJ)

255 The media of course calls it a " major blow to Trump". Which is all that matters to them. No it is a major blow to the United States.

Trump is the beam in their eye. It's funny sometimes to listen to NPR while driving and notice how everything is Trump's fault.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2026 01:07 PM (vTZFs)

256 it's a stain on Gen X tbh. some of the smartest people I know adopted eastern euro kids instead of having their own, not in addition! but because "we don't want to overpopulate"

That's a class thing, not a generational thing. Gen X is responsible for both of Trump's wins.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2026 01:07 PM (QZThv)

257 I’m amazed how little citizenship means to these jerks. They can’t even write their majority opinion to make sense. So, expect every pregnant legal/illegal woman to visit our country when close to birth.

Posted by: Unkaren at June 30, 2026 01:07 PM (4P2g0)

258 I guess you don’t know that SCOTUS has already ruled that laws against dual citizenship are unconstitutional. Did it in the 60’s.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Another Warren court era 5-4 decision ripe for overturning.

Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 01:08 PM (E4rtv)

259 I’m GenX…. I’m offended!!

Im Gen X of course too!

I can't tell you how many of my peers - who were and are happily married and not infertile - chose ON PURPOSE to adopt foreign bc "save teh erf"

meanwhile they were stealing those kids in South and Central American and supporting terrible PRC male-child-preference systems.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 30, 2026 01:08 PM (j+aD2)

260 Can't every Dreamer just say "actually I was born here" and just get rubber stamped as citizens?

==

I thought the exact thing.

"My momma had me in our little one bedroom apartment in Colorado and was too afraid to come out of the shadows to register my birth."

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 30, 2026 01:08 PM (qBdHI)

261 BRING BACK REHNQUIST !

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 01:08 PM (ugc0u)

262 Or if the GOP decides to call the Dems bluff and expand the court to 13-15 which is not looking that bad now. 13 would make it one justice per circuit.
Posted by: whig

That would be an absolute disaster. You would end up with no clear majority opinion - just a bunch of pluralities and dissents. In fact, you might end up with a bunch of affirmances of circuit court decisions because no majority can agree on a result.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 30, 2026 01:08 PM (DZ9Lv)

263 44 Constitutional amendment? How many years would that take? Ridiculous.
Posted by: Ordinary American at June 30, 2026 12:15 PM (E2lD7)

The support isn't there, so I don't see it happening anytime soon. However, the 26th amendment was passed after only 100 days. That's the one that lowered the voting age to 18 in the 1970s. From the time it passed Congress until the states ratified it: 100 days.

If the support is there, it can happen quickly.
Posted by: No Name Today at June 30, 2026 12:23 PM (8mulE)

Then there's the 27th Amendment, which took more than two centuries between being approved by Congress (as part of thr Bill of Rights in 1789) and getting ratified (when Michigan approved it on May 7, 1992.)

Posted by: tankdemon at June 30, 2026 01:08 PM (2RJDy)

264 Trump is the beam in their eye. It's funny sometimes to listen to NPR while driving and notice how everything is Trump's fault.

It's the "bitch eating crackers" effect, as AtC taught us on X a few weeks ago. If you really hate someone, everything they do is awful.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2026 01:08 PM (QZThv)

265 I guess you don’t know that SCOTUS has already ruled that laws against dual citizenship are unconstitutional. Did it in the 60’s.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 01:05 PM (orF8y)

I did not know. It kind of flies in the face of the preamble, doesn't it?

Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at June 30, 2026 01:08 PM (6BjcW)

266 supporting terrible PRC male-child-preference systems.
Posted by: Black Orchid

Given China's self-inflicted predicament and likely implosion, why is that so bad?

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 30, 2026 01:09 PM (DZ9Lv)

267 Democrats can't win elections legally, so this SC decision was pre-ordained.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 30, 2026 01:09 PM (CHHv1)

268 257 I’m amazed how little citizenship means to these jerks. They can’t even write their majority opinion to make sense. So, expect every pregnant legal/illegal woman to visit our country when close to birth.
Posted by: Unkaren
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They are globalists that float around across borders. Many of those Justices go abroad to Euroland to be feted and celebrated like Roberts. That is the problem in the West, the globalists literally float from nation to nation seeing only Potemkin reflections of problems created by anarchy caused by illegal and legal immigration.

Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 01:10 PM (E4rtv)

269 Given China's self-inflicted predicament and likely implosion, why is that so bad?

Yeah, China is fucked, and the fact that it's their own fault makes it extra delicious.

Now if we could just get feminism kicked out of Japan and Korea so they start having kids again.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2026 01:10 PM (QZThv)

270 More and more I wish Bush had elevated Thomas to the chief justiceship.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 30, 2026 01:10 PM (2RJDy)

271 Given China's self-inflicted predicament and likely implosion, why is that so bad?

lol I guess not

those girls are all doing great. some of the other adoptees, not so much.

I just mean it was a pretty big cultural trend 20-30 years ago and it's having its effect now. it affected this ruling.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 30, 2026 01:10 PM (j+aD2)

272 I did not know. It kind of flies in the face of the preamble, doesn't it?
Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at June 30, 2026 01:08 PM (6BjcW)

Yep. But as John Roberts will tell you, the Preamble is just “ aspirational”.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 01:10 PM (orF8y)

273 I found the news "racist thing" in a post by one Kiandria Demone...helping your kids by a house.

Someone posted that she recently found out some people help their kids come up with a down payment and Demone's response? Its racism. Because only white people do it.

Now...I suspect East Asians, Indians, etc all do it as well because most people do want to help their kids and if you have the resources to do so will but good to know this is yet another racist thing.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 01:11 PM (sKqQm)

274 "The last time the U.S. Constitution was amended was on May 7, 1992, when the 27th Amendment, concerning congressional pay, was ratified."

But of course, and they did it tout suite, I bet.
Posted by: cheshirecat at June 30, 2026 01:02 PM (E4Afo)

Fun fact: It required 203 years to be ratified. A feat only possible because the amendment did not include an expiration date.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 01:11 PM (ExV1e)

275 I'm thinking John Roberts may have been more destructive than Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

Posted by: Sharpie at June 30, 2026 01:11 PM (kmOt8)

276
expect every pregnant legal/illegal woman to visit our country when close to birth.
Posted by: Unkaren

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

There are remedies. Sorry for reposting a gazillion times, but obviously pregnant women entering on tourist visas have to open their wallets to Border Patrol to show that they have enough money to cover labor and delivery if they pop before their visa expires.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 01:11 PM (XJ22o)

277 140 Why not colonize/conquer the whole world to make this a moot point?
Posted by: Serious Cat at June 30, 2026 12:43 PM

*bats eyelashes*

Posted by: Greenland at June 30, 2026 01:11 PM (2Ez/1)

278 I have tried and tried to tell people for years that the Roberts pragmatism or "integrity of the court" line is pure psy op. He is owned and operated through and through. He doesn't give a fuck how anyone sees him or his court, only his masters.

--

When I'd read he was very good friends with Boasberg, that cinched it. Not that I didn't believe what I always knew him to be prior, but yeah, that sealed it. He's a disgrace. And he doesn't care.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 30, 2026 01:11 PM (qBdHI)

279 I think America is the bitch eating crackers.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 01:12 PM (KqZez)

280 We can tell the middle class left to enjoy the birthright citizenship right while you can, because soon the hardcore left will shoot you in the head

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 01:12 PM (f6yx7)

281 In the interest of keeping families together, send them all back to Their country of origin. The kids can come back when they’re 18 and then serve in the military. They can go visit mom and dad and abuela.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 30, 2026 01:12 PM (Xwwcf)

282 I’m amazed how little citizenship means to these jerks. They can’t even write their majority opinion to make sense. So, expect every pregnant legal/illegal woman to visit our country when close to birth.
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The USA is a free block party. Except you don't have to live on the block. Just waltz in and eat and drink all you want for free! What could possibly go wrong!

Posted by: All the idiots on the Supreme Court at June 30, 2026 01:12 PM (jvkDG)

283 I'm thinking John Roberts may have been more destructive than Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

===

We new exactly where Ginsburg stood, no gaslighting.

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 01:12 PM (ugc0u)

284 "Fun fact: It required 203 years to be ratified. A feat only possible because the amendment did not include an expiration date."

Ah. I would have thought any amendment to feed the trough further for congresscritters would have sailed in.

Posted by: cheshirecat at June 30, 2026 01:12 PM (E4Afo)

285 Fantastic timing - the whole world just visited and realized our country is pretty damn good. Now they hear they can drop a baby and there's their ticket!

Posted by: 496 at June 30, 2026 01:13 PM (1OIAD)

286 A new amendment? Yeah that will work, never. Stick a fork in us, we're done as a country. Sorry, not voating our way out of this cluster, now. Had a good run of 250 years. Just getting by on inertia now, which will stop soon. We have maybe 10 years at best as the "USA".

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd. at June 30, 2026 01:13 PM (pZ64F)

287 That would be an absolute disaster. You would end up with no clear majority opinion - just a bunch of pluralities and dissents. In fact, you might end up with a bunch of affirmances of circuit court decisions because no majority can agree on a result.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal

So is the birthright decision. We won't have a country much longer at this rate and the Muzzies have specifically targeted this country for conquest. Institutions like Scotus have abjectly failed as has Congress in abandoning their role to promote America rather than their multiple foreign interests and affections.

And that is because the ruling class in the West are anti nationalism, anti their existing populations, and anti borders. Last time such a combo ruled the West, we got WWI and the Napoleonic Wars which might as well have been called pre WWI.

Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 01:13 PM (E4rtv)

288 I would be greatly amused if Trump took a page from Jackson, noted the decision, and kept deporting the kids of illegals.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 01:13 PM (sKqQm)

289 I am going to call it the Longshanks Decision. They said the illegals are allowed to breed us out.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at June 30, 2026 01:14 PM (vra3d)

290 Twitter/X seems to be stuck

Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 01:14 PM (ZxPkt)

291 The key to effective immigration policy, and to keep our status as a sovereign nation, has always been sane immigration law and effective border control. We failed utterly and miserably at that. For decades.

If you don't want your house crawling with rats, you stop them from getting in. You don't invite them in and then try to get rid of them. Immigration is exactly the same.

The reality is that under democrap presidents, we have invited in tens of millions of invaders and allowed them to stay pending their immigration cases. During that time, they were technically legally here.

If they had a baby, that baby would be a citizen -- even if we won the BRC case. Because nobody disputed that the children of foreigners legally here would be citizens.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 30, 2026 01:14 PM (iFTx/)

292 "There are remedies. Sorry for reposting a gazillion times, but obviously pregnant women entering on tourist visas have to open their wallets to Border Patrol to show that they have enough money to cover labor and delivery if they pop before their visa expires."

I wouldn't even let it get that far. Blood test for pregnancy before visa approval. If you are pregnant, you stay home until you pop your kid.

Posted by: cheshirecat at June 30, 2026 01:14 PM (E4Afo)

293 Have only read a bit of the ridiculous and catastrophic ruling, but seems the key part. The complete fabrication of the import of the 14th, total disregard of its context and explicit purpose as clearly explained by those who wrote and passed it. Didn't realize they beclowned themselves with bizarre and comical excursions into British monarchical concepts.

The 250th is already hollow and unintentionally ironic for so many reasons, but this fresh and histrionic example of the lawlessness of the judiciary and the collapse of the system is like a skyrocket illuminating the scene.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 30, 2026 01:14 PM (U/Byj)

294 I’m amazed how little citizenship means to these jerks. They can’t even write their majority opinion to make sense.

As with everything that comes out of leftwing judges this has nothing to do with the law or Constitution. They had an outcome and the opinion they wrote is them torturing words to try and come up with an argument for their ruling

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 01:15 PM (sKqQm)

295 Apparently the Constitution IS a suicide pact.

Posted by: alanon at June 30, 2026 01:15 PM (jHMkm)

296 When I'd read he was very good friends with Boasberg, that cinched it. Not that I didn't believe what I always knew him to be prior, but yeah, that sealed it. He's a disgrace. And he doesn't care.
Posted by: Lady in Black

He could be made to care. He is in the FISA intercepts as well so I wonder what shit he and Norm Eisen got up to in the Czech Republic all those years ago. That is how Roberts spent his summer vacay one year---"Norm Eisen, a former U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic and prominent anti-Trump legal strategist, revealed that Chief Justice John Roberts stayed for a week at his 150-room estate in the Czech Republic while Roberts was serving as Chief Justice. Eisen described Roberts as a "good friend" and stated they collaborated on "American and European rule of law issues,""

Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 01:15 PM (E4rtv)

297 And now, Your favorite President "

"Trump:

The Supreme Court upheld Birthright Citizenship, which is too bad for our Country, but we can easily make it up in Congress through Legislation, with the support of the President, that has now been determined during this process. No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary! Congress should start TODAY to work on ending expensive and unfair to our Country, Birthright Citizenship. They will have my Complete and Total Support!
President DONALD J. TRUMP"

As I was saying....

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 01:15 PM (ugc0u)

298 God may be speaking to Ireland, will they listen? -

@TheBritishIntel
CONVENT AND ST PATRICK BURIAL SITE BURN DOWN IN DOWNPATRICK, MEDIA SAYS NOTHING

Yesterday the convent and the burial place of Saint Patrick himself in Downpatrick was reduced to ashes.

Locals say it was arson. The resting place of the patron saint of Ireland set on fire, and the legacy media has nothing to say. The politicians have nothing to say.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2026 01:15 PM (Dv3i1)

299 270 More and more I wish Bush had elevated Thomas to the chief justiceship.
Posted by: tankdemon at June 30, 2026 01:10 PM (2RJDy)
Oh yeah, me too.

Posted by: Eromero at June 30, 2026 01:16 PM (LHPAg)

300 "There are remedies. Sorry for reposting a gazillion times, but obviously pregnant women entering on tourist visas have to open their wallets to Border Patrol to show that they have enough money to cover labor and delivery if they pop before their visa expires."

I wouldn't even let it get that far. Blood test for pregnancy before visa approval. If you are pregnant, you stay home until you pop your kid.
Posted by: cheshirecat

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There's all sorts of remedies, but John Roberts ruled you're not allowed to even ask on the Census if someone is here legally?

How do you think things like pregnancy tests are going to go down legally?

Posted by: Sharpie at June 30, 2026 01:16 PM (kmOt8)

301 hey are globalists that float around across borders. Many of those Justices go abroad to Euroland to be feted and celebrated like Roberts. That is the problem in the West, the globalists literally float from nation to nation seeing only Potemkin reflections of problems created by anarchy caused by illegal and legal immigration.
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They are bought and paid for. Their allegiance is not to us.
The United States of America stands in the way. And because it stands in the way, it must be destroyed.

It is altogether too powerful, rich and free. Its people are straightforward, industrious, largely content, and barring grievous provocation, peaceful. When roused, there is no force on earth that can contend against us when we are angry and united in purpose.

So, our destruction is to be carried out from within. By Quislings Frauds and Traitors

Posted by: All the idiots on the Supreme Court at June 30, 2026 01:16 PM (jvkDG)

302 Bet there's a whole lot of Springfield, OH Haitian women right now doing all they can to start premature labor and give birfs before they get sent home.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 30, 2026 01:16 PM (qBdHI)

303 When I'd read he was very good friends with Boasberg, that cinched it. Not that I didn't believe what I always knew him to be prior, but yeah, that sealed it. He's a disgrace. And he doesn't care.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 30, 2026 01:11 PM (qBdHI)

I did not know.. but why am I not surprised… at all?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 01:17 PM (D2O3S)

304 Didn't realize they beclowned themselves with bizarre and comical excursions into British monarchical concepts.

The 250th is already hollow and unintentionally ironic for so many reasons, but this fresh and histrionic example of the lawlessness of the judiciary and the collapse of the system is like a skyrocket illuminating the scene.
Posted by: rhomboid

They misread British law as well. Sojourners was a thing. And as Enoch Powell explains to Dick Cavitt, not quite what Roberts and ACB along with the Howler Monkey triplets said,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVFh_CNePJc

Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 01:17 PM (E4rtv)

305 Fantasy, I know. Trump should just come to the dais and say, "You know what, we don't deserve a 250th birthday party. The left is correct, being American is meaningless. The party is cancelled. Go fuck yourselves. HAVE A NICE DAY."

Posted by: cheshirecat at June 30, 2026 01:17 PM (E4Afo)

306 There's all sorts of remedies, but John Roberts ruled you're not allowed to even ask on the Census if someone is here legally?

How do you think things like pregnancy tests are going to go down legally?
Posted by: Sharpie

Not quite. That was Roberts being a shithead arguing that the APA was not followed as it every question on the survey followed the APA to get there. It was and is a discretionary action by the agency and not even reviewable under the legal regime at the time.

Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 01:19 PM (E4rtv)

307 With ObamaCare and this decision, Roberts goes down as one of the destructive Justices of all time.

Clearly Alito and Roberts are in a battle to determine the equilibrium of the Court. Barrett has clearly chosen her side.

We got the Roe v. Wade reversal from Barrett, and now we pay a price for years to come. No more women on SCOTUS.

Posted by: alanon at June 30, 2026 01:19 PM (jHMkm)

308 Wow. So much doom and gloom and end-of-the-world hysterics. Yes, we lost. Yes, The Blade is disappointed. Yes, the two RINOs on the Court fucked us yet again.

But ... so what? The immigration regime today is exactly the same as it was yesterday. Anchor babies and birth tourism babies were citizens yesterday. They are citizens today.

Nothing has changed -- nada -- other than some potential Congressional remedies that was never ever ever gonna happen anyway.

Everyone: Relax. Put out the fire in your hair. We live to fight another day.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 30, 2026 01:19 PM (iFTx/)

309 The Five Horsemen judges never explained exactly what people are NOT "subject to the jurisdiction thereof", did they?

So they just ignored it, yes, but with no explanation at all, that I saw. Maybe they tried to cover it (like with a pillow) with the incorrect thing about British subjects. They just think we should be nicer, and not so racist and xenophobic, I suppose.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 30, 2026 01:19 PM (vbXSk)

310 I found the news "racist thing" in a post by one Kiandria Demone...helping your kids by a house.

Someone posted that she recently found out some people help their kids come up with a down payment and Demone's response? Its racism. Because only white people do it.

Now...I suspect East Asians, Indians, etc all do it as well because most people do want to help their kids and if you have the resources to do so will but good to know this is yet another racist thing.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 01:11 PM

Oh, ffs...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 30, 2026 01:19 PM (kgE5c)

311 Boned. No change as current, but boned. Trains, planes, and automobiles make this a crisis. Immigrants sailing on old ships or even new ships made it tolerable.

Nevertheless, it calls for an administration to pregnancy test visitors to stop. Also must pass new laws against birth tourism (maybe there are already?), but CA and others won't enforce. The court always puts these extraordinary steps in play.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 30, 2026 01:19 PM (n5tGW)

312 296 When I'd read he was very good friends with Boasberg, that cinched it. Not that I didn't believe what I always knew him to be prior, but yeah, that sealed it. He's a disgrace. And he doesn't care.
Posted by: Lady in Black

He could be made to care. He is in the FISA intercepts as well so I wonder what shit he and Norm Eisen got up to in the Czech Republic all those years ago. That is how Roberts spent his summer vacay one year---"Norm Eisen, a former U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic and prominent anti-Trump legal strategist, revealed that Chief Justice John Roberts stayed for a week at his 150-room estate in the Czech Republic while Roberts was serving as Chief Justice. Eisen described Roberts as a "good friend" and stated they collaborated on "American and European rule of law issues,""
Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 01:15 PM (E4rtv)

You're only allowed power if they have leverage and dirt on you. It's like being a Scientologist. Or a Dionysian.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 30, 2026 01:19 PM (xcxpd)

313 290 Twitter/X seems to be stuck
Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 01:14 PM
+++++++

Unplug it, count to ten and plug it back in.

Posted by: Tech Support at June 30, 2026 01:19 PM (2Ez/1)

314 "The last time the U.S. Constitution was amended was on May 7, 1992, when the 27th Amendment, concerning congressional pay, was ratified."

But of course, and they did it tout suite, I bet.
Posted by: cheshirecat at June 30, 2026 01:02 PM (E4Afo)

Of course. Introduce a pay cut to $50k per year, plus staff expenses and franking, then build a few high-rise studio apartment blocks and make them live there during sessions. No need to buy expensive houses or have lavish parties. They can have a bar and meeting rooms in each building. Which will have 24 hour cam and sound surveillance.

Oh, and they have to wear livery too.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2026 01:20 PM (1Ff7Z)

315
Blood test for pregnancy before visa approval. If you are pregnant, you stay home until you pop your kid.
Posted by: cheshirecat

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I'm okay with that. And the test is done on embassy or consulate premises by a thick-boned nurse named Inga who does not understand humor.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 01:20 PM (XJ22o)

316 Would love to hear Rush Limbaugh's take on this. He never panicked and always brought reasonable arguments to his show. He said he'd tell us when it was time to panic and I don't think he'd say it's time yet

Posted by: 496 at June 30, 2026 01:20 PM (1OIAD)

317 297 And now, Your favorite President "

"Trump:

The Supreme Court upheld Birthright Citizenship, which is too bad for our Country, but we can easily make it up in Congress through Legislation, with the support of the President, that has now been determined during this process. No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary! Congress should start TODAY to work on ending expensive and unfair to our Country, Birthright Citizenship. They will have my Complete and Total Support!
President DONALD J. TRUMP"

As I was saying....
Posted by: runner
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Trump never gives up which is totally unlike every other GOP president of recent history--including Reagan.

Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 01:20 PM (E4rtv)

318 Effective immediately, I hereby order that all foreign females be barred entrance into the United States and all visas granted to females be cancelled, and all pending and future visa applications to females be denied.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: Donnie Two Scoops at June 30, 2026 01:20 PM (jvkDG)

319 Notre Dame College Republicans
@NDRepublicans

Barrett is an absolute disgrace to the Notre Dame name. We apologize on her behalf to all who will suffer the devastating consequences of infinity third-world migration.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 30, 2026 01:21 PM (NpAcC)

320 Enough with the ludicrous fantasies of barring pregnant foreigners from entry. That is, those you even have any control over (though the illegal flow has been - temporarily - reduced quite effectively). Would never happen, and would be "struck down" by a court in a picosecond if it did. On what basis? That's a funny sort of question when dealing with the wreckage of our constitutional system. No sensible or even non-insane basis required.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 30, 2026 01:21 PM (U/Byj)

321
Someday we're going to lose Thomas, and that will be a sad, sad day for our country.

Posted by: Frank Barone at June 30, 2026 01:21 PM (OkYzo)

322 316 Would love to hear Rush Limbaugh's take on this. He never panicked and always brought reasonable arguments to his show. He said he'd tell us when it was time to panic and I don't think he'd say it's time yet
Posted by: 496

It isn't but it is simply another bit of knowing that GOPe incorporated wants desperately to go back to before Trump existed. Doesn't change anything effectively but will encourage a political response of some kind. And that is unlikely to be favorable to this decision.

Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 01:21 PM (E4rtv)

323 As with everything that comes out of leftwing judges this has nothing to do with the law or Constitution. They had an outcome and the opinion they wrote is them torturing words to try and come up with an argument for their ruling
Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 01:15 PM (sKqQm)

I have an affliction that I follow pro football. There’s a guy named Mike Florio that does something called Pro Football Talk (PFT). He’s a former lawyer… well still a lawyer but not active, his main job now is PFT.

Anyway Florio will often say that the NFL (Roger Goodell and the league office… Park Ave NYC) runs the league not based on law or published rules and logic. They determine what outcome they want and tell their lawyers: Construct an argument to get there.

Sounds like lefty SCOTUS justices…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 01:22 PM (D2O3S)

324 Fantasy, I know. Trump should just come to the dais and say, "You know what, we don't deserve a 250th birthday party. The left is correct, being American is meaningless. The party is cancelled. Go fuck yourselves. HAVE A NICE DAY."

That's what the left has been calling for him to do. They're *big* mad about the fact that there's a big round anniversary and they aren't in charge and skimming the money spent on it for the DNC, which is part of what this idiotic algae thing is about.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2026 01:22 PM (QZThv)

325 Schlicter has an interesting perspective over on Townhall....

Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at June 30, 2026 01:22 PM (RIyP7)

326 NOOD - Rho Kanna is another rich "socialist".

Posted by: the lower depths at June 30, 2026 01:23 PM (b4kuR)

327 Trump never gives up which is totally unlike every other GOP president of recent history--including Reagan.
Posted by: whig

Correct! That's why I'm suspicious of the R's that are immediately jumping to the "we need an amendment" solution and skipping over many other easier to accomplish remedies and mediations.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2026 01:23 PM (Dv3i1)

328 Everyone: Relax. Put out the fire in your hair. We live to fight another day.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 30, 2026 01:19 PM (iFTx/)

There is no fire in my hair. I am flear eyed as can be.

There is room here to mourn what could have been. And to curse the fact that our "conservative" court chose to go beyond a punt and into their usual (when it suits them) construction of law.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 01:23 PM (KqZez)

329 AtC:

The courts will not save you. The courts should not save you.

Anyone who says differently is selling something.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2026 01:23 PM (QZThv)

330 Apparently the Constitution IS a suicide pact.
Posted by: alanon at June 30, 2026 01:15 PM (jHMkm)

Yes it's akin to a husband who respects his vows, but has a wife who keeps giving him the clap, and kids who look like a Benetton ad.

This isn't working for us. It hasn't for a long time.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 30, 2026 01:25 PM (BI5O2)

331 "The courts will not save you. The courts should not save you."

True, but they shouldn't be holding the torch to the haystack in the barn, either.

Posted by: cheshirecat at June 30, 2026 01:25 PM (E4Afo)

332 What is Trump smoking? Anything resembling a fix getting through the Senate? Zero chance.

Besides - and whig can probably enlighten here - doesn't the "ruling" rule out any "fix"? They absurdly claim to believe the 14th answers the question. Legislation can't repeal an amendment. So any "fix" is ipso facto unconstitutional until the 14th is repealed.

Correct?

Posted by: rhomboid at June 30, 2026 01:25 PM (U/Byj)

333 The courts will not save you. The courts should not save you.

Anyone who says differently is selling something.
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Correction: anyone who says differently is probably a lawyer and billing by the hour.

Posted by: Donnie Two Scoops at June 30, 2026 01:25 PM (jvkDG)

334
The key to effective immigration policy, and to keep our status as a sovereign nation, has always been sane immigration law and effective border control. We failed utterly and miserably at that. For decades.

Posted by: Elric The Blade

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So true. The deliberate inertia regarding remedies we actually had right at hand. What a way to run a country. But good news: it's changing, for now, and if we can sustain this change -- which should behave something like a juggernaut -- we can start acting like a sovereign nation again.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 01:25 PM (XJ22o)

335 47 Fuck John Roberts -
Women shouldn't be on the Bench.
Posted by: garrett at June 30, 2026 12:23 PM (/ytnd)

Amen. We. Are Fucked.

As in, FUCKED.

Posted by: Bladerunner2019 at June 30, 2026 01:25 PM (hg9DX)

336 You're only allowed power if they have leverage and dirt on you. It's like being a Scientologist. Or a Dionysian.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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A) Roberts committed obstruction of justice in hindering the investigation into the leaking of the Dobbs decision.

B) Roberts is the supervising justice of the FISA court and its misuse for criminal purposes by his friend Boasberg and Democrats means that he himself has violated privacy rights under color of the law protected by US civil rights laws.

C) His wife is a top legal recruiter making millions by directing legal talent to the top law firms on commissions. Those top law firms routinely appear before the court as counsel and thus Roberts has a direct financial interest in pleasing those law firms.

D) The illegal adoption of his children--Ireland does not permit foreigners adopting Irish children (due to widespread problems of abuse). His skirting of those laws by arranging the Irish woman to go to Venezuela for birth and thence adoption of those Irish citizen kids is illegal.

Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 01:26 PM (E4rtv)

337 Trump knows how to not look like a loser. We will miss that when he goes. Bigly.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 01:27 PM (KqZez)

338 can't repeal an amendment. So any "fix" is ipso facto unconstitutional until the 14th is repealed.

Correct?
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Depends on the make up of the court. They could call that "dicta" which is not precedent and basically ignore it.
The problem with the Courts is, there are too many rationalizations that have been ginned up over the years to get the end result wanted in a particular case. And these rationalizations once utilized, can be trotted out again as a reason to do whatever is wanted by the majority. Basically, a life time supreme court of 9 can do whatever the fuck they want if they get a majority. Because there is always some way around it. Constitution be damned. It means what we want it to mean.

Posted by: Humpty MFing Dumpty at June 30, 2026 01:29 PM (jvkDG)

339 Besides - and whig can probably enlighten here - doesn't the "ruling" rule out any "fix"? They absurdly claim to believe the 14th answers the question. Legislation can't repeal an amendment. So any "fix" is ipso facto unconstitutional until the 14th is repealed.

Correct?
Posted by: rhomboid

Nope, technically Roberts and ACB were bloviating about the 14th. See Kavanaugh. It was the classic example of extraneous reasoning not needed to address the issues of the case. In this case, it was whether the President had the authority by executive order solely to reject administratively any claims by children born to foreigners who were not here legally or as tourists were not US citizens. Given previous rulings, that would seem to be so as Congress in previous decisions has been given almost plenary power over naturalization as it is a enumerated power. Contra Afroyim v. Rusk which is another 5-4 legally dubious Warren court relic on dual citizenship.

And Congress has several means to hurt Scotus--e.g. jurisdiction stripping (see Ex Parte McCardle and the Bricker Amendment in the 50's) on immigration, it can also expand the court which the Democrats are likely to do anyway.

Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 01:32 PM (E4rtv)

340 Any word from Trump? He's been awfully silent on this so far.

Is that good, or is that bad?

By the way, what did Jackson babble in her decision?

Posted by: cheshirecat at June 30, 2026 01:35 PM (E4Afo)

341 Which is why I believe the President should be allowed to dismiss supreme court justices other Republican Presidents of have appointed in the past.

Posted by: stv at June 30, 2026 01:35 PM (ODbzh)

342 I'm halfway through reading Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail, a deeply disturbing and haunting dystopic vision of invasion by the 3rd World. This decision just green-lighted the invasion. Thanks Amy Coney - you faithless bitch.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at June 30, 2026 01:37 PM (KQmzo)

343 Oh, and fuck Rick Scott. He's trying to put Birthright clauses in the KIDS act. Bloody catch 22: turn down Digital ID, you turn down Birthright restrictions. Go piss up a rope.

Posted by: cheshirecat at June 30, 2026 01:38 PM (E4Afo)

344 thank God we have a conservative scotus.....just imagine if we..............????????

Posted by: uncouth jay marks at June 30, 2026 01:43 PM (uc/1V)

345 The last time the U.S. Constitution was amended was on May 7, 1992, when the 27th Amendment, concerning congressional pay, was ratified.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 30, 2026 01:01 PM (Cqx++)

the 27th Amendment was one of the original 12 Amendments offered as the Bill of Rights. Only 10 of those survived for ratification, up until this one was resurrected and ratified.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at June 30, 2026 01:45 PM (bufu1)

346 239 "The last time the U.S. Constitution was amended was on May 7, 1992, when the 27th Amendment, concerning congressional pay, was ratified."

But of course, and they did it tout suite, I bet.

Actually, what became the 27th Amendment was originally one of the Amendments proposed for the Bill of Rights. There were 12 proposed back then, but only 10 of them survived ratification. This pay raise one had been lying dormant for 200 years before being ratified.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at June 30, 2026 01:48 PM (bufu1)

347 Not going to blow a fuse over this as it was expected. Wrong but not surprised.

All I can do is pray for an ammendment or change for my sons and grands in the future.

Prayer is often all you have and can do with any problem you alone can't control.

SCOTUS has a couple of judges who are running scared. Others who are biased. And sadly very few, like Alito and Thomas, who rule on the law and for our country.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 02:00 PM (hzuYO)

348 I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel a lot better reading the dissents and knowing that the truth is known -- just ignored by 5 people.

Posted by: lurk at June 30, 2026 02:06 PM (wOK9Z)

349 If the Senate is unable to pass the SAVE Act, there is no way it would pass such an amendment, despite both enjoying overwhelming majority support of the public.

Posted by: Butch at June 30, 2026 02:07 PM (98xTj)

350 And Demonrats think they need to pack the court...

Posted by: Dave Amundsen at June 30, 2026 02:12 PM (6ReSc)

351 So the Constitution, in the wrong hands, is a suicide pact after all.

When my mother, may she rest in peace, was watching Barrett's confirmation hearings, her assessment was "she's got crazy eyes." Also, "she's nuts."

Posted by: Peter B at June 30, 2026 02:15 PM (VTbl0)

352 I guess you don’t know that SCOTUS has already ruled that laws against dual citizenship are unconstitutional. Did it in the 60’s.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Another Warren court era 5-4 decision ripe for overturning.

Posted by: whig at June 30, 2026 01:08 PM (E4rtv)

You'd think a dual citizen would be 'subject to another nation's jurisdiction' just like a foreign ambassador and their children would not be US Citizens.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2026 02:25 PM (uhVAy)

353 SCOTUS has a couple of judges who are running scared. Others who are biased. And sadly very few, like Alito and Thomas, who rule on the law and for our country.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2026 02:00 PM (hzuYO)

I wouldn't give them the credit of just being fearful. Those two have been giving strange, variant decisions for their entire tenure. Here a hands off one, there a massively intrusive one, on one side then the other. They are a third faction.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2026 02:27 PM (uhVAy)

354 So, combining the recent Supreme Court Rulings, it appears that China can have its birth tourist babies vote enmasse after the early election returns, and we have to accept the ballots as long as they bear a Chinese postmark before election day.

What an exciting and brave new world we live in!

So many, many ways to cheat!

Posted by: Thatch at June 30, 2026 02:28 PM (i0077)

355 Chief Justice John Roberts now joins Chief Justice Roger Brook Taney in infamy.

Posted by: EssTu at June 30, 2026 02:34 PM (QvkYK)

356 Its time for fucking WAR....

Posted by: Fisht at June 30, 2026 02:35 PM (BHEHK)

357 When my mother, may she rest in peace, was watching Barrett's confirmation hearings, her assessment was "she's got crazy eyes." Also, "she's nuts."
Posted by: Peter B at June 30, 2026 02:15 PM (VTbl0)

I was excited at Barrett’s early discussion, when her nomination was put on hold for her to replace Ginsburg at a later date. In the meantime, I saw a lot of things about how her religious views informed her legal opinions, and she didn’t possess the same sort of legal philosophy that made Alito, Thomas, and Scalia so indispensable.

By the time Barrett’s nomination came around, I was desperately hoping someone else would come up. All the things I read about “the rest of her story” turned out to be true.

Posted by: Advo at June 30, 2026 03:18 PM (jO4mz)

358 >>Chief Justice John Roberts now joins Chief Justice Roger Brook Taney in infamy.

LOL

And Earl Warren

Posted by: lurk at June 30, 2026 03:26 PM (wOK9Z)

359 And so, how goes ICE now?

What kind of "history" will those brave feds have?

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 30, 2026 04:39 PM (NFX2v)

360 What do you know... all the nazgul with vag voted for this abomination.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 30, 2026 05:22 PM (/lPRQ)

361 Did anyone ever bother reading Dred Scott? Blacks shall have gun rights, property rights, voting rights, while the dissent said no they wouldn't.

Posted by: MikeN at June 30, 2026 06:25 PM (cuzmw)

362 So 18 months late, the worthless republicans in congress are going to start a constitutional amendment to fix this? And presumably fix the laws as much as they can?

Why didn't they do this in January 2025? Why haven't they done ANYTHING at all to support Trump against the various court cases blocking his initiatives?

F'ing worthless. Every one of them.

Posted by: Frank Nobody at June 30, 2026 07:51 PM (75cud)

363 I respectfully dissent
Well, Mr Thomas, disrespectfully dissent from the majority. They are liars and thieves. And they have concocted the same sort of bulls**t justifying the desired ends as the Blackmun Court did with Roe v Wade - sewn out of whole cloth, and making a silk purse into a sow's ear.

So 18 months late, the worthless republicans in congress are going to start a constitutional amendment to fix this?
Posted by: Frank Nobody at June 30, 2026 07:51 PM (75cud)

No amendment necessary. Just a law with two sentences:
The Supreme Court is wrong. "Under the jurisdiction thereof" means a person legally residing in America long-term, not a visitor or alien who is subject to a foreign power by birth or allegiance.

Posted by: GWB at June 30, 2026 08:02 PM (kU0PQ)

364 BTW, the "feudal rule" the majority of idiots cite is one we FOUGHT A WAR AGAINST IN 1812! It was precisely this "You were born on what we considered British soil (the now United States) so you are still a British subject, and we can therefore snatch you to crew our naval vessels (slavery, really).

We KILLED BRITISH CITIZENS in order to ensure that rule did NOT apply to our folks.

Posted by: GWB at June 30, 2026 08:06 PM (kU0PQ)

The Morning Rant

Open Thread! The Rant disappeared into the ether!

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!

Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

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1 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at June 30, 2026 11:02 AM (NcvvS)

2 rst

Posted by: Reforger at June 30, 2026 11:02 AM (0dsIZ)

3 It's lonely here.

Posted by: Jaimo at June 30, 2026 11:02 AM (2noDb)

4 Probably best that the rant disappeared.

We're all going to be here bitching about Amy and John.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 30, 2026 11:02 AM (xA5g+)

5 Ether ore.

Posted by: sifty boones at June 30, 2026 11:02 AM (6V14C)

6 >>The Rant disappeared into the ether!

Hate when that happens.

Posted by: Nazdar at June 30, 2026 11:03 AM (NcvvS)

7 Looks like I won't be dining on everyone's hats.

Posted by: ballistic at June 30, 2026 11:03 AM (oqH4h)

8 Article V....NOW!
Both parents to be US citizens for child be a US citizen
Term Limits on Congress(Senate max 3 terms, HoR max 6 terms) and the Supreme Court (20 years, one term)

Posted by: cheshirecat at June 30, 2026 11:03 AM (E4Afo)

9 Do we have to stay on an open topic for 100 posts or can we discuss how colossally fucked up is the Supreme Court?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 11:03 AM (ExV1e)

10 "The Rant disappeared into the ether!"

Pass me some ether. I could use a puff right now.

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 11:03 AM (Jr5Lq)

11 So what laws can we get passed that prevents these spawn from getting benefits if their parents are illegal aliens. Where does it say in the 14th amendment that these spawn are due free shit from our coffers. Think of the money we could save.

Posted by: Jaimo at June 30, 2026 11:03 AM (2noDb)

12
ALITO IS RETIRING

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 11:03 AM (XJ22o)

13 I'm not gonna pretend I'm not disappointed in the SCOTUS ruling, but it was expected.. Even Trump said as much.. Here's hoping he has some other way to "fix" this

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 11:03 AM (FtULh)

14 EO, one is not considered in this country until one is officially admitted here through proper entry procedures and certified in this country. Therefore, even though one may be physically in country, for legal purposes, they are not here.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 11:04 AM (vPv7/)

15 Where in the f' is Birth Tourism in the Constitution?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 30, 2026 11:04 AM (obVEo)

16 So we lost both Freddy the German and now the Orange army. I'll miss that bus.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 30, 2026 11:04 AM (l26NL)

17 "ALITO IS RETIRING"

I'd rather Roberts retire, and then he can go to those cocktail parties in peace.

Posted by: cheshirecat at June 30, 2026 11:04 AM (E4Afo)

18 ALITO RETIRES!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 30, 2026 11:04 AM (xA5g+)

19 If your dog ate your homework that's still more dog than the art thread.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 30, 2026 11:05 AM (Kt19C)

20 Who's saying Alito is retiring?

Posted by: Jaimo at June 30, 2026 11:05 AM (2noDb)

21 12
ALITO IS RETIRING
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 11:03 AM (XJ22o)

Damn... Trump will never get another as Conservative through the Senate.. We'll get another Amy coney island Barrett

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 11:05 AM (FtULh)

22 So sick about this.

It's always the liberal decisions that justices are fine being "bold" with.

We get excited that Trump gets to fire someone and the Left gets excited when they force gay marriage down all 50 states.

Posted by: Sharpie at June 30, 2026 11:05 AM (iZHgT)

23 12
ALITO IS RETIRING

Posted by: Blonde Morticia
---

He'd better take Robert's with him.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 11:05 AM (vPv7/)

24 "I'm not gonna pretend I'm not disappointed in the SCOTUS ruling, but it was expected.. Even Trump said as much.. Here's hoping he has some other way to "fix" this"

There are many ways to fix it. Debanking, prohibited visa for 3rd trimester entry, etc. But an EO by Trump can be overturned by the next president.

Posted by: cheshirecat at June 30, 2026 11:05 AM (E4Afo)

25 And suddenly the Senate races in Maine and Georgia become absolutely critical.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 30, 2026 11:05 AM (xA5g+)

26 "Who's saying Alito is retiring?"

NPR.

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 11:05 AM (Jr5Lq)

27
Open Thread!

*starts sacking and pillaging*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 11:05 AM (O0L8i)

28 I'd rather Roberts retire, and then he can go to those cocktail parties in peace.

Roberts isn't done f---ing us yet.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 30, 2026 11:06 AM (aD4fx)

29 oh mfer ALITO! stick around you!

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 30, 2026 11:06 AM (j+aD2)

30 Welcome to the United States boarding area!
If you're female, you must be over age 60 to enter.
Enjoy your stay.

Posted by: Stateless - He's not heavy, he's my dog! at June 30, 2026 11:06 AM (Sco7b)

31 ALITO RETIRES!
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL!

I know this sounds terrible, but no more women on the court. I'm tired of emotions over logic.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 30, 2026 11:06 AM (l26NL)

32 Men can't pretend to be women in sports ball!!!

Posted by: Martin Tell at June 30, 2026 11:06 AM (OTAXA)

33 Holy shit, NPR just retracted the Alito story.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 30, 2026 11:06 AM (xA5g+)

34
Another decision was something about campaign finance, also trannies in women's sports.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 11:06 AM (XJ22o)

35 Roberts and Amy will never ever retire

Amy will join the Girls Group

and so will Johnette

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 30, 2026 11:06 AM (j+aD2)

36 Oh crap. I hope Trump doesn’t screw up Alito’s replacement.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 11:06 AM (77rzZ)

37 "There are many ways to fix it." Shut down the H1Bs.

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 11:06 AM (Jr5Lq)

38 NPR just took this article down says it was posted in error.

Posted by: Jaimo at June 30, 2026 11:06 AM (2noDb)

39 33 Holy shit, NPR just retracted the Alito story.

well fingers crossed because we need Alito

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 30, 2026 11:06 AM (j+aD2)

40 >>> 324 Damn Barrett turned out to be a shit. Who put her in Trumps ear for the SC?

Posted by: Reforger at June 30, 2026 11:02 AM (0dsIZ)

Mitch.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 30, 2026 11:03 AM (xA5g+)

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at June 30, 2026 11:06 AM (R+iUD)

41 "NPR just took this article down says it was posted in error."

Tell me why taxpayer money was funding this again?

Posted by: cheshirecat at June 30, 2026 11:07 AM (E4Afo)

42 Praying we don't get another Justice Anal Coney Ferret to replace Alito.

Be right back. A bird from Guatemala just laid an egg in the tree out front so I need to go pay for the egg's schooling.

Posted by: sifty boones at June 30, 2026 11:07 AM (6V14C)

43 Pass me some ether

- Richard Prior

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 30, 2026 11:07 AM (Kt19C)

44
Holy shit, NPR just retracted the Alito story.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider

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

omg those idiots. Here's what they authoritatively reported:

"Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the Supreme Court's opinion reversing Roe v. Wade, is retiring, the court announced Tuesday."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 11:07 AM (XJ22o)

45 I know this sounds terrible, but no more women on the court. I'm tired of emotions over logic.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually

==
Amen to than.

Sandra Day OConnor was a mess that went off her feelings and so is Barrett

Posted by: Sharpie at June 30, 2026 11:07 AM (4bbcN)

46 6-3 means even if ACB hadn't been her awfl self, still wouldve gone their way.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 30, 2026 11:08 AM (0JWOm)

47
It seems Trump learned the lessons from his first term, so I'm confident he won't be listening to the Federalist Society again.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 11:08 AM (O0L8i)

48 I'd rather Roberts retire, and then he can go to those cocktail parties in peace.
Posted by: cheshirecat at June 30, 2026 11:04 AM (E4Afo)

Presumably Alito didn't want to risk a Ginsberg situation.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 11:09 AM (ExV1e)

49
Where in the f' is Birth Tourism in the Constitution?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

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

Right in the 14th, comrade. Now go pay your tax.

Posted by: Justice Roberts at June 30, 2026 11:09 AM (XJ22o)

50 47
It seems Trump learned the lessons from his first term, so I'm confident he won't be listening to the Federalist Society again.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 11:08 AM (O0L8i)

You still have to get them through the Senate

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 11:09 AM (FtULh)

51 No one here is really surprised about the ruling are they? Barrett and Roberts are predictable.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 11:09 AM (Gqar8)

52 "There are many ways to fix it."
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Introduction the new Pee On A Stick passport.

Posted by: From Ronco at June 30, 2026 11:09 AM (2Ez/1)

53
Oh, we're sorry, it's Jackson that's retiring.

/s

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 11:09 AM (O0L8i)

54 I hope this energizes the MAGA base for the mid-terms, we really need it.

Posted by: cheshirecat at June 30, 2026 11:09 AM (E4Afo)

55 Commenting present
Can't see much out in sun now

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 11:10 AM (sgkY8)

56 Aren't there more rulings due today ?

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 11:10 AM (FtULh)

57
MUNKEY

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 30, 2026 11:10 AM (hpF/D)

58 And suddenly the Senate races in Maine and Georgia become absolutely critical.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 30, 2026 11:05 AM (xA5g+)

Since the new Court session starts in October, hopefully we'll have the new justice in place before the mid terms.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 11:10 AM (ExV1e)

59
You still have to get them through the Senate

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 11:09 AM (FtULh)

____________

Shufflin' Joe had no problem getting the DEI lunatic through.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 11:10 AM (O0L8i)

60 I'm not a fan of online betting, but I suggested to my son this morning that he bet heavily against a Tricentennial as a retirement plan instead of a 401k.

Posted by: sifty boones at June 30, 2026 11:10 AM (6V14C)

61 NPR.

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 11:05 AM (Jr5Lq)

And they retracted the article.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 30, 2026 11:10 AM (PLxDd)

62 We all know Roberts is a Bush alligned shitheal but damn.
Barrett is just an embarrasment.
Those other 3 clowns are just fucking stupid.

Maybe it is time to expand the court. Put like 10 more judges on it. Better yet 10 non lawyers. I want a mechanic and a engineer and a few lay people in there to mix it up a bit.

Posted by: Reforger at June 30, 2026 11:10 AM (0dsIZ)

63 I’m surprised it was a 5.5 to 3.5 ruling. I was expecting 7-2.

Not that it matters in the end. It’s a loss. A bigly yuugely big loss.

Posted by: Heroq at June 30, 2026 11:11 AM (3wCO0)

64 I hope this energizes the MAGA base for the mid-terms, we really need it.
Posted by: cheshirecat

==

I think it feels rather defeating.

Posted by: Sharpie at June 30, 2026 11:11 AM (4bbcN)

65
Open Thread! The Rant disappeared into the ether!

The Rant might have been lost, but we still have Munkey.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 30, 2026 11:11 AM (hpF/D)

66 Shufflin' Joe had no problem getting the DEI lunatic through.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 11:10 AM (O0L8i)

One word.. Kavanaugh

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 11:11 AM (FtULh)

67
Aren't there more rulings due today ?
Posted by: It's me donna

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

They came down. Title IX and campaign donors. I think the Title IX one went the right way.

Posted by: Justice Roberts at June 30, 2026 11:11 AM (XJ22o)

68 Aren't there more rulings due today ?

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 11:10 AM (FtULh)

They also released a ruling striking down limitations on the amount of money a political party can spend on a candidate's campaign as violation of the First Amendment.

In a time when the RNC has a bazillion dollars and the DNC has negative seventy, this could be significant.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 30, 2026 11:11 AM (xA5g+)

69
Yikes, sock off.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 11:11 AM (XJ22o)

70 Well. What's done is done. I'm still going to 4th of July in Put-In-Bay, so I expect I'll be surrounded all weekend by mostly actual citizens during this.

It would have made the weekend much sweeter if we had won, though.

Posted by: cheshirecat at June 30, 2026 11:11 AM (E4Afo)

71 Except for ideologues most people won’t even notice the ruling. People generally are not very politically engaged.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 11:12 AM (Gqar8)

72 So if a sodomite from Gomorrah gets pregnant, flys to new york city and has an asshole baby on the tarmac, is it a "citizen" or does the ground crew just clean it up?

I see a new lawsuit coming!

Posted by: Questions at June 30, 2026 11:12 AM (K5H/e)

73 And suddenly the Senate races in Maine and Georgia become absolutely critical.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 30, 2026 11:05 AM (xA5g+)

Since the new Court session starts in October, hopefully we'll have the new justice in place before the mid terms.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

==

You dont leave this to chance, it needs to happen before the election

Posted by: Sharpie at June 30, 2026 11:12 AM (4bbcN)

74 No details but it looks like SCOTUS has ruled in favor of state laws banning trannies in women's sports. I guess one logical implication is that "sex" in Title IX means biological sex. Which, yeah duh, but now it's in writing.

As for Alito, I'm going to hope that he has pre-arranged a nominee with Trump for whatever that's worth.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2026 11:12 AM (vTZFs)

75 ALITO IS NOT RETIRING

NPR IS RETARDED

[/outside voice] There, does *that* get everyone's attention? ;P

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at June 30, 2026 11:12 AM (R+iUD)

76 Made you look!

Posted by: National Panhandler Radio at June 30, 2026 11:12 AM (2Ez/1)

77 I imagine the left's plans to pack the court would alleviate this sort of thing from happening to them.

The conservatives in this country really need to adopt the tactics the left uses if they really have any interest in saving the Republic. John and Amy are not the only problem here.

Reluctance to do the hard, messy work that the left is already engaged in is a bigger one.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 30, 2026 11:12 AM (jehhT)

78 And that explains the transgender in school ruling. Soften the blow with a major win.

Posted by: cheshirecat at June 30, 2026 11:12 AM (E4Afo)

79 Something different

A patrol of 6 IRGC going into Iran's northern area got into a fire fight with Kurds. The IRGC have retrieved four bodies of their comrades.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 11:12 AM (vPv7/)

80 Ooops.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 11:12 AM (R+iUD)

81 "Men can't pretend to be women in sports ball!!!"

looks like they left it up to the states, from what I can tell. They allowed the one state (in the case?) to keep mean (with gender dysphoria) out, and probably several other states will follow. But probably not all states will agree.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 30, 2026 11:12 AM (vbXSk)

82 I would have rather won on Birthright citizenship than abortion.

Also way more popular of an issue with the general public.

Posted by: Sharpie at June 30, 2026 11:12 AM (4bbcN)

83 Well, the President is allowed to prevent any class of people from entering the country.

Foreign women younger than 60 are a class of people.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at June 30, 2026 11:13 AM (FYwRX)

84
Since the new Court session starts in October, hopefully we'll have the new justice in place before the mid terms.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

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

I'm sorry I quoted SCOTUSblog on that (which was quoting NPR), because it seems to be a big PSYCH!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 11:13 AM (XJ22o)

85 They allowed the one state (in the case?) to keep mean (with gender dysphoria) out, and probably several other states will follow. But probably not all states will agree.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 30, 2026 11:12 AM (vbXSk)

Thereby exacerbating the flood of normals out of California.

Federalism is the least crappy way of running a country.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 30, 2026 11:13 AM (xA5g+)

86 Holy shit, NPR just retracted the Alito story.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider

I'm conflicted. I'd like to believe this, but, NPR.

I think we should reduce the Supreme Court to seven justices. At most. Let two retire without replacement.

Or pack it to seventeen while Trump is President.

Oh, wait, wait. Trump's judge judgment hasn't been all that great.

/rant

Posted by: mindful webworker ranting and raving at June 30, 2026 11:14 AM (/4mOE)

87 Maybe pass some sort of "birth tax" on foreigners?

Roberts seems to love the tax excuse.

Posted by: Sharpie at June 30, 2026 11:14 AM (4bbcN)

88 The Slaughter case, overturning precedent, returns us to a spoils system where a president can “clean house” every four years, destroying our professional, independent civil service.

The government is so big that this statement is silly.
The federal government is roughly 2.7 million people. No administration is capable of replacing that many people in 4 or 8 years.
Of course, you could terminate 2.7 million people in 4 years.

The top political mangers are already part of a "spoils system". This ruling merely dips a little further into the managerial hierarchy.

Posted by: SMOD at June 30, 2026 11:14 AM (RHGPo)

89 I would have rather won on Birthright citizenship than abortion.

Also way more popular of an issue with the general public.

Posted by: Sharpie at June 30, 2026 11:12 AM (4bbcN)

No.

If we could only get one, striking down Roe v. Wade was it.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 30, 2026 11:14 AM (xA5g+)

90 64 I hope this energizes the MAGA base for the mid-terms, we really need it.
Posted by: cheshirecat

==

I think it feels rather defeating.

Posted by: Sharpie at June 30, 2026 11:11 AM (4bbcN)

Probably need to go touch grass then...b/c this ruling effectively changed nothing, and fully clarified the way forward.

Posted by: Nova Local at June 30, 2026 11:15 AM (tOcjL)

91 As a Catholic, I can only say....I'm sorry. Maybe you should have kept us papists out.

Paradoxically, we do make very good killers though.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 30, 2026 11:15 AM (1S/J9)

92
Well, the President is allowed to prevent any class of people from entering the country.

Foreign women younger than 60 are a class of people.
Posted by: Richard Cranium

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

Not only do we do that, but we can, and do, prevent anyone from entering on a tourist visa unless they have a return ticket and enough money to cover any obvious pending medical issue.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 11:15 AM (XJ22o)

93 >>> 68
==
They also released a ruling striking down limitations on the amount of money a political party can spend on a candidate's campaign as violation of the First Amendment.

In a time when the RNC has a bazillion dollars and the DNC has negative seventy, this could be significant.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 30, 2026 11:11 AM (xA5g+)

Hopefully there will be another set of Coincidences! this fall, similar to what we've been seeing in South and Central America.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 11:15 AM (R+iUD)

94 The only solution I see to today's birthright decision is to not let pregnant women come into the US. It should be an item checked on entrance cards given by all carriers flying, floating, etc. before they get off. A false statement is punishable by a fine and immediate deportation.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 30, 2026 11:15 AM (g8Ew8)

95 Supreme Court just took restrictions off political spending! A BIG WIN FOR REPUBLICANS and, more importantly, The First Amendment! President DONALD J. TRUMP

_BIG WIN: The United States Supreme Court just RULED AGAINST MEN PLAYING IN WOMEN'S SPORTS. Wow! That takes that ridiculous situation off the table!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP

_Trump’s efforts to reverse birthright citizenship may succeed with or without SCOTUS
Several bills, most notably the Birthright Citizenship Act in 2025, seek to end or sharply restrict automatic birthright citizenship by amending the Immigration and Nationality Act
_justTheNews

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 11:15 AM (vPv7/)

96 NPR claimed the court announced it. If that were true, it would be everywhere immediately.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 30, 2026 11:16 AM (g/cZn)

97 The Rant should simply be: John Roberts is asshoe.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 30, 2026 11:16 AM (YJPnY)

98 Much to admire in civil war era leaders, especially Lincoln (of course), but damn… whoever wrote the 14th amendment was on some bad drugs that day. The text of that amendment is just shitty; bad, opaque writing….

Of course ACB and Roberts would fuck it up even if it was written perfectly…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 11:16 AM (4dZtR)

99 Just thinking that Mitch McConnell can die a happy man. His hand picked Justice ACB has stuck it to Trump and the nation. He also helped this Chinese buddies. Enjoy honking on the devil's bobo for all eternity Mitch

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 11:16 AM (f6yx7)

100 Sock change. We're still f*cked. That is all.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 30, 2026 11:16 AM (kgE5c)

101 Barrett seems to be ultra-Catholic. She's quasi-conservative where the church is conservative, and liberal where it's liberal.

The next justice needs to be an evangelical protestant.

Posted by: toby928(c) at June 30, 2026 11:16 AM (4NO2D)

102 Probably need to go touch grass then...b/c this ruling effectively changed nothing, and fully clarified the way forward.
Posted by: Nova Local

==

Youre right about needing to touch the grass, but I think it clarified things in a bad way.

They have now been officially blessed and recognized that the tactic of sneaking over here and having a kid was a smart move and you will be rewarded.

Posted by: Sharpie at June 30, 2026 11:16 AM (4bbcN)

103 90 - you are correct. It changes nothing and it will continue on like it has been for decades. Now we know what immigration laws we need to have on the books to prevent the birth tourism aspect. Not much we can do about what is already here.

Posted by: Jaimo at June 30, 2026 11:16 AM (2noDb)

104 The Rant should simply be: John Roberts is asshoe.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 30, 2026 11:16 AM (YJPnY)

Even if he voted with Americans this time, America would still have lost. Because Amy.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 30, 2026 11:17 AM (xA5g+)

105 101 Barrett seems to be ultra-Catholic. She's quasi-conservative where the church is conservative, and liberal where it's liberal.

The next justice needs to be an evangelical protestant.
Posted by: toby928(c) at June 30, 2026 11:16 AM

From Alabama.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 11:17 AM (Dd38x)

106 Slightly less than topped-up on whelm about the tranny sportsball thing.

Rome is burning to the ground but at least the gladiators will now be properly sorted into common sense categories.

Posted by: sifty boones at June 30, 2026 11:17 AM (6V14C)

107 Even if NPR has pulled their story, they probably didn't just pull it whole cloth out of their nethers. If they were going to do that, they'd make it about Thomas. So I won't be surprised if he does announce some time soon.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2026 11:17 AM (vTZFs)

108 The Deep State is real, and is there in the SC in plain view.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 11:17 AM (Gqar8)

109 The Rant disappeared into the ether!

the rantiferous aether?

Posted by: anachronda at June 30, 2026 11:17 AM (v3pYe)

110 "NPR claimed the court announced it. If that were true, it would be everywhere immediately."

I'll guess: AI brain fart.

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 11:17 AM (Jr5Lq)

111 CBS this morning had the tranny ruling and showed the breakdown of the Supreme Court.

3 Liberals and 6 Conservatives.

As others pointed out. President Trump came back smarter and I'm sure he has other ideas.

Still, I may have several handfuls of marshmallows. The official food of sudden, mild depression.

Also, partly brought on by damn AI....
Take over the world my ass.

Posted by: Stateless - He's not heavy, he's my dog! at June 30, 2026 11:17 AM (Sco7b)

112 105 101 Barrett seems to be ultra-Catholic. She's quasi-conservative where the church is conservative, and liberal where it's liberal.

The next justice needs to be an evangelical protestant.
Posted by: toby928(c) at June 30, 2026 11:16 AM

From Alabama.
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 11:17 AM (Dd38x)

The odds of that happening are virtually nil.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 11:18 AM (Gqar8)

113 People used to drink ether. Was a big problem in Ireland.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 30, 2026 11:18 AM (w/h84)

114 ================

Not only do we do that, but we can, and do, prevent anyone from entering on a tourist visa unless they have a return ticket and enough money to cover any obvious pending medical issue.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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It's our country. Don't we have the right to refuse entry to anyone we choose?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 11:18 AM (vPv7/)

115 our new poster Sharpie is an op.

don't listen to its defeatism

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 30, 2026 11:18 AM (j+aD2)

116 I can't remember if ACB was from the Ivy League or not, but any of *those* asshoes definitely need to be off the list.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 11:18 AM (R+iUD)

117 Flaming Alito Skull should be up soon

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 11:18 AM (KqZez)

118 The next justice needs to be an evangelical protestant.
Posted by: toby928(c)

==

Yea, no offense to Catholics here, but you're over represented on the Court and the Jesuit/Catholic influence is very liberal.

Posted by: Sharpie at June 30, 2026 11:18 AM (4bbcN)

119 75 ALITO IS NOT RETIRING

NPR IS RETARDED

--

CORRECTION:
NPR IS AHOLE LIAR

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 30, 2026 11:18 AM (0JWOm)

120 Venezuelans deported from the U.S. were killed hours later in powerful quakes

146 Venezuelan nationals who landed in Caracas after being deported from the U.S. on Wednesday. Passengers on that plane, which included women and children, were being processed in a guarded hotel in La Guaira when powerful twin earthquakes struck, according to family members. The building they were in pancaked.

... last I checked, the Trump Administration has no control over the Earth's tectonic system.

Posted by: SMOD at June 30, 2026 11:19 AM (RHGPo)

121 From Alabama.
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 11:17 AM (Dd38x)

So you’re applying? My vote you have

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 11:19 AM (YetvJ)

122 Roberts isn't done f---ing us yet.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

Pick em': Birthright Bob, Affordable Care Bob

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 30, 2026 11:19 AM (obVEo)

123 109.

It was smoked by rantifarians.

Posted by: sifty boones at June 30, 2026 11:19 AM (6V14C)

124 >>> 108 The Deep State is real, and is there in the SC in plain view.
Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 11:17 AM (Gqar

Yes.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 11:19 AM (R+iUD)

125 The Rant should simply be: John Roberts is asshoe.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 30, 2026 11:16 AM (YJPnY)

That's axiomatic.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 30, 2026 11:20 AM (PLxDd)

126 Trump had better get a good conservative judge and nominate him quickly. Don Willett would be good.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 11:20 AM (f6yx7)

127 Yea, no offense to Catholics here, but you're over represented on the Court and the Jesuit/Catholic influence is very liberal.
Posted by: Sharpie

None taken. I studied at a Jesuit uni and they are definitely loosey goosey libs.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 30, 2026 11:20 AM (0JWOm)

128
Can't stump the Trump

Can't contorted the Orchid

I tried but you know what I mean

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 11:20 AM (KqZez)

129 Open Thread! The Rant disappeared into the ether!

First World Problems - my comment didn't show up!

Posted by: t-bird at June 30, 2026 11:20 AM (T7fic)

130 Justice DeSantis

Posted by: sifty boones at June 30, 2026 11:20 AM (6V14C)

131
As a Catholic, I can only say....I'm sorry. Maybe you should have kept us papists out.

Paradoxically, we do make very good killers though.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 30, 2026 11:15 AM (1S/J9)

We should probably talk.

Posted by: The Mormons at June 30, 2026 11:21 AM (hpF/D)

132 I don't even trust DeSantis to be as conservative as what is needed on the court.

Posted by: Jaimo at June 30, 2026 11:21 AM (2noDb)

133 You had two Americans on a court of nine; the change down to 1 doesn't make a real difference. Also, it's a worthless institution that will consistently do the wrong thing at every critical juncture, as it always has.

Why worry about Court picks? It's all a shitshow.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 30, 2026 11:21 AM (BI5O2)

134 Probably need to go touch grass then...b/c this ruling effectively changed nothing, and fully clarified the way forward.

Posted by: Nova Local

Yep. Status quo ante. Even the reprehensible reasoning is effectively how it was presented by its partisans. This was a long shot from the start and, honestly, we kind of had to know that.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at June 30, 2026 11:21 AM (OUMaO)

135 According to police, Bush aimed a black handgun at the back of the other man’s head and demanded he hand over his belongings. Instead, the victim turned around, grabbed the handgun, and threw it into the front yard.

Both men wrestled Bush to the ground, tied him to the front railing of the property with a nylon strap, and called police.

Posted by: SMOD at June 30, 2026 11:21 AM (RHGPo)

136 Never mind about a new judge though Willett would be good

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 11:22 AM (f6yx7)

137 axiomatic > lemmatic > corollaryatic

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 11:22 AM (Jr5Lq)

138 Venezuelan nationals who landed in Caracas after being deported from the U.S. on Wednesday. Passengers on that plane, which included women and children, were being processed in a guarded hotel in La Guaira when powerful twin earthquakes struck, according to family members. The building they were in pancaked.

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So what?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 30, 2026 11:22 AM (BI5O2)

139 Trump getting anyone through the Senate now for the SC would be tough tough tough. Not saying impossible but judging from the SAVE Act situation twould we hard.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 11:23 AM (Gqar8)

140 Roberts is only 71. I keep hoping he throws in the towel and spends more time in Maine.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 30, 2026 11:23 AM (YJPnY)

141 The Roe v. Wade of our day.

At least we won't have to hear about how great Amy Commie-Barret is, henceforth; right?

Posted by: lurk at June 30, 2026 11:23 AM (wOK9Z)

142 @118 Agreed. Am seeing my church as the channel for a lot of rotten shit in this country.

Case in point -- went to church on Memorial Day as I know a few guys who were killed in the service. Pope Bob the Jagoff just designated it as some other bullshit feast day so instead of a nice Memorial Day service on a Monday morning we get ponderous crap.

One of my professional Irish uncles was a priest who left the order after hooking up with a nun (?!). They got married, he became a lawyer, and was one of the guys who helped usher in Colorado as a gay Democrat mecca. And their kids are both atheists.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 30, 2026 11:23 AM (1S/J9)

143 On June 30, 2026, a ransomware group has reportedly compromised Tata Electronics, Apple's manufacturing partner in India, leaking sensitive data including supplier lists and unreleased iPhone 18 Pro images on the dark web. This incident poses a significant threat to Apple's carefully constructed global supply chain, which relies on numerous suppliers for its components. The leaked information could potentially damage Apple's relationship with Tata and provide competitors and counterfeiters with critical insights into Apple's manufacturing processes...The leaked documents, which include over 200,000 files detailing exclusive suppliers for key components, underscore both the strengths and vulnerabilities of Apple's supply chain.

Posted by: SMOD at June 30, 2026 11:23 AM (RHGPo)

144 _BIG WIN: The United States Supreme Court just RULED AGAINST MEN PLAYING IN WOMEN'S SPORTS. Wow! That takes that ridiculous situation off the table!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Um, no. They ruled that states can ban it, not that that they must. So expect the usual suspects -- CA, NY, OR, etm. -- to pass laws the other way.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2026 11:23 AM (vTZFs)

145 Baked two loaves of my 5-seed sourdough beginning at dawn today. One weighs 1000g and the other 666. Pumpkin, sunflower, sesame, flax, and chia seeds give them a nice texture.

Posted by: M. Gaga at June 30, 2026 11:23 AM (zeLd4)

146 132.

Short of digging up John Wayne, I think that's all we got on the bench.

All the rest are candy-asses or Persons of Vagina Feelings.

Posted by: sifty boones at June 30, 2026 11:24 AM (6V14C)

147 were being processed in a guarded hotel in La Guaira when powerful twin earthquakes struck, according to family members. The building they were in pancaked.

So you're saying non-criminals had better odds...

Posted by: t-bird at June 30, 2026 11:24 AM (T7fic)

148
... last I checked, the Trump Administration has no control over the Earth's tectonic system.

Posted by: SMOD at June 30, 2026 11:19 AM (RHGPo)

___________

Or of crappy Chavez-Maduro era construction.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 11:24 AM (O0L8i)

149 Venezuelan nationals who landed in Caracas after being deported from the U.S. on Wednesday. Passengers on that plane, which included women and children, were being processed in a guarded hotel in La Guaira when powerful twin earthquakes struck, according to family members. The building they were in pancaked.

----

So what?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 30, 2026 11:22 AM (BI5O2)

So TRUMP KILLED THOSE PEOPLE!!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 30, 2026 11:24 AM (xA5g+)

150 Venezuelan nationals who landed in Caracas after being deported from the U.S. on Wednesday. Passengers on that plane, which included women and children, were being processed in a guarded hotel in La Guaira when powerful twin earthquakes struck, according to family members. The building they were in pancaked.

Hawaiian judge declares quake unconstitutional and orders the building un-pancaked and the deportees resurrected in 3...2...1...

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at June 30, 2026 11:24 AM (OUMaO)

151 gladiators will now be properly sorted into common sense old greek homo categories.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 30, 2026 11:24 AM (Kt19C)

152 Yet another exmaple of the 'dog not barking'.

If we had certain feralgov agencies (fully?) on the side of America this would never have gotten to this point, or at worst, certain *other* justices would suddenly have the urge to Spend More Time With Their Families.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 11:24 AM (R+iUD)

153 The next justice needs to be an evangelical protestant.
Posted by: toby928(c) at June 30, 2026 11:16 AM

From Alabama.
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 11:17 AM

One word: Roy Moore

Posted by: toby928(c) at June 30, 2026 11:24 AM (4NO2D)

154 Man named Santa Claus among 11 busted in undercover Louisiana child sex predator sting

... now that is perverted

Posted by: SMOD at June 30, 2026 11:24 AM (RHGPo)

155
It's our country. Don't we have the right to refuse entry to anyone we choose?

Posted by: Braenyard

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

Yes we effing do. And we can impose very strict and detailed requirements on those we let in.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 11:24 AM (XJ22o)

156 144 _BIG WIN: The United States Supreme Court just RULED AGAINST MEN PLAYING IN WOMEN'S SPORTS. Wow! That takes that ridiculous situation off the table!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Um, no. They ruled that states can ban it, not that that they must. So expect the usual suspects -- CA, NY, OR, etm. -- to pass laws the other way.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2026 11:23 AM

It is a states right thing if we are to believe in our Republic. But what it does mean is those states who do ban it can’t be forced to accept them. Which is a positive.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 11:25 AM (Dd38x)

157 Um, no. They ruled that states can ban it, not that that they must. So expect the usual suspects -- CA, NY, OR, etm. -- to pass laws the other way.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2026 11:23 AM (vTZFs)

Trump likes to let the commies explain when it's something like this. Let them brag about it

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 11:25 AM (KqZez)

158 135 According to police, Bush aimed a black handgun at the back of the other man’s head and demanded he hand over his belongings. Instead, the victim turned around, grabbed the handgun, and threw it into the front yard.

Both men wrestled Bush to the ground, tied him to the front railing of the property with a nylon strap, and called police.

I guess W is tired of painting.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 30, 2026 11:26 AM (g/cZn)

159 But what it does mean is those states who do ban it can’t be forced to accept them. Which is a positive.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 11:25 AM (Dd38x)

And those states will continue to lose Representatives and Electoral Votes.

Which is also positive.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 30, 2026 11:26 AM (xA5g+)

160 The bggest ahole in the UK, Sir Keir Starmer is to replace the Royal Navy’s destroyers with smaller, cheaper warships under new military spending plans to be revealed this week. The Navy aims to replace the current fleet of six Type 45 missile-defence ships with the new Common Combat Vessel (CCV) from the early 2030s.

Posted by: SMOD at June 30, 2026 11:26 AM (RHGPo)

161 140 Roberts is only 71. I keep hoping he throws in the towel and spends more time in Maine.

Posted by: Huck Follywood
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He looks sickly to me. Something is wrong with him.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 11:27 AM (vPv7/)

162 The next justice needs to be an evangelical protestant.
Posted by: toby928(c) at June 30, 2026 11:16 AM

From Alabama.
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 11:17 AM

One word: Roy Moore
Posted by: toby928(c)

...oh dear God no, don't even mention that name, let him stay in whatever retirement he's in...

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at June 30, 2026 11:27 AM (OUMaO)

163 >>> 160 The bggest ahole in the UK, Sir Keir Starmer is to replace the Royal Navy’s destroyers with smaller, cheaper warships under new military spending plans to be revealed this week. The Navy aims to replace the current fleet of six Type 45 missile-defence ships with the new Common Combat Vessel (CCV) from the early 2030s.
Posted by: SMOD at June 30, 2026 11:26 AM (RHGPo)

THAT will show Poo Tin!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 11:27 AM (R+iUD)

164 So now can we make a rule about who is eligible to run for President going forward? Define natural born and native born properly like it always used to be before Obama.

Posted by: Jaimo at June 30, 2026 11:27 AM (2noDb)

165
The next justice needs to be an evangelical protestant.
Posted by: toby928(c)

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

More "which religion is the best and which is the worst" around here. Bah. I hope the next justice is dull and secular.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 11:27 AM (XJ22o)

166 If you hate Big Pharma, a glance at the PFE chart will cheer you up a bit.

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 11:27 AM (Jr5Lq)

167 Santa Claus

now that is perverted

Posted by: SMOD at June 30, 2026 11:24 AM (RHGPo)

Yeah because regular child sex rings are one thing but calling yourself Santa is a bridge too far? What do you think these people are like, exactly??

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 11:27 AM (KqZez)

168 I remember when, back in the dim reaches of time, many were very enthused over Amy Coney Barrett. I am trying to recollect Why.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 11:27 AM (Gqar8)

169 168 I remember when, back in the dim reaches of time, many were very enthused over Amy Coney Barrett. I am trying to recollect Why.

not me!

never me

I am a woman I know we probably aren't cut out for logic and non-subjective critical thinking

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 30, 2026 11:28 AM (j+aD2)

170 I seem to remember reading recently about a fed judge of either Chinese or Vietnamese extraction that is youngish and tough as nails in the Alito, Thomas mold. I think his name is Ho. No jokes, Ho. I want him I think.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 30, 2026 11:28 AM (l26NL)

171 165 - I think everyone is going on past experience, and the Catholics haven't held up well.

Posted by: Jaimo at June 30, 2026 11:28 AM (2noDb)

172 96 NPR claimed the court announced it. If that were true, it would be everywhere immediately.

it was in the penumbra of an announcement

Posted by: anachronda at June 30, 2026 11:28 AM (v3pYe)

173 >>> 168 I remember when, back in the dim reaches of time, many were very enthused over Amy Coney Barrett. I am trying to recollect Why.
Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 11:27 AM (Gqar

Same reason as enthusiasm for others, especially as you go back further in time. Because THEY LIED, is how. We just didn't realize HOW MANY FUCKING LIARS we were dealing with.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 11:28 AM (R+iUD)

174 133 Why worry about Court picks? It's all a shitshow.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

You won't even remember this when there's 17 members and the senators from Puerto Rico and D.C. demand trans, lesbian, queer and questioning representation.

Posted by: Auspex at June 30, 2026 11:28 AM (Y8DZL)

175 I'm a wedding and funeral Roman Catholic and the high and mighty Catholics can be very sanctimonious in there political beliefs, especially the leftists.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 11:28 AM (f6yx7)

176 168. She is a very good-looking lady.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 11:29 AM (77rzZ)

177 Venezuelans deported from the U.S. were killed hours later in powerful quakes

146 Venezuelan nationals who landed in Caracas after being deported from the U.S. on Wednesday. Passengers on that plane, which included women and children, were being processed in a guarded hotel in La Guaira when powerful twin earthquakes struck, according to family members. The building they were in pancaked.

... last I checked, the Trump Administration has no control over the Earth's tectonic system.
Posted by: SMOD at June 30, 2026 11:19 AM

It's like when the Greens saved some oil-soaked otters and nursed them back to health. When they released them in the harbor in front of an exuberant crowd, they were immediately eaten by orcs.

Posted by: toby928(c) at June 30, 2026 11:29 AM (4NO2D)

178 I remember when Amy coney island barrett was up for consideration there was another Woman from Florida I believe also being considered and she was ultra conservative. If my memory serves me right a lot of us here at the time were pulling for her.... She was of Cuban descent I believe

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 11:29 AM (FtULh)

179 err .. orcas

Posted by: toby928(c) at June 30, 2026 11:29 AM (4NO2D)

180 121 From Alabama.
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 11:17 AM (Dd38x)

So you’re applying? My vote you have
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026

I would certainly be the counter to all females are emotional wrecks.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 11:29 AM (Dd38x)

181

151.

In the Ancient World, most anti-homo sentiment was caused by the Olympic wrestlers using up all the olive oil.

Posted by: sifty boones at June 30, 2026 11:29 AM (6V14C)

182 maybe NPR's source for Alito's retirement was the same person who leaked Dobbs.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at June 30, 2026 11:29 AM (sS4aU)

183 Barrett seems to be ultra-Catholic. She's quasi-conservative where the church is conservative, and liberal where it's liberal.

The next justice needs to be an evangelical protestant.
Posted by: toby928(c) at June 30, 2026 11:16 AM (4NO2D)
=====

She seems to be fairly solid on 2nd Amendment decisions, so there's that.

Posted by: mrp at June 30, 2026 11:29 AM (rj6Yv)

184 I am trying to recollect Why.
Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 11:27 AM (Gqar

She's kind of hot.

Posted by: Reforger at June 30, 2026 11:29 AM (0dsIZ)

185 Posted by: SMOD at June 30, 2026 11:21 AM (RHGPo)

Why do you post this sort of shit? There is no link, no context, and it is obvious that you are cutting and pasting with no thought about the topic at hand.

Maybe start your own blog!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 30, 2026 11:29 AM (PLxDd)

186 During his first term, Comptroller Mejia looked into the city's liability payments, particularly for the LAPD. It turns out, annual liability payouts are a $320 million black hole that's more than tripled just since 2022. In a city with a ONE BILLION DOLLAR deficit.

But somebody (or somebodies) in Los Angeles apparently doesn't want Mejia looking into the city's soaring liabilities. According to a City Watch L.A. report, Mayor Bass's budget cuts include "reducing positions tied to accounting, payroll approval, and financial reporting" in Mejia's comptroller office, weakening "the city’s ability to monitor spending in real time, manage long-term fiscal planning, and maintain accountability when every dollar matters."

Posted by: SMOD at June 30, 2026 11:30 AM (RHGPo)

187 I remember when, back in the dim reaches of time, many were very enthused over Amy Coney Barrett. I am trying to recollect Why.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 11:27 AM (Gqar

That picture of her with a blank notepad, smirking at the dems trying to trip her up.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 30, 2026 11:30 AM (xA5g+)

188 Just finished The Morning Report. (Thank you, as always, Mr. JJ.) Favorite stories today:

"Batman of Lagos de Moreno". (Hello. Hollywood? ...Hollywood? You there? ...Never mind. Too busy spending WAY more money than they'll ever make, on woke, I'm sure.)

And Banana Ball. I wanna go!

Posted by: Lady Who Refuses to Follow Your Schedule at June 30, 2026 11:30 AM (JCLJi)

189 It is a states right thing if we are to believe in our Republic. But what it does mean is those states who do ban it can’t be forced to accept them. Which is a positive.

It's absolutely a positive. What it isn't is what Trump said. But then no one has ever accused him of being overly nuanced.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2026 11:30 AM (vTZFs)

190 With regard to Amy Coney Barrett being good on the 2nd, apparently the left doesn't seem to care much about that right now.

Posted by: Jaimo at June 30, 2026 11:30 AM (2noDb)

191 orcs.
Posted by: toby928(c) at June 30, 2026 11:29 AM (4NO2D)

Grashnak, no!

*crunch crunch crunch*

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 11:30 AM (Ot/FD)

192 ...oh dear God no, don't even mention that name, let him stay in whatever retirement he's in...
Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at June 30, 2026 11:27 AM

Having Roy get made would be like we was all made.

Posted by: toby928(c) at June 30, 2026 11:31 AM (4NO2D)

193 "No.

If we could only get one, striking down Roe v. Wade was it.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 30, 2026 11:14 AM (xA5g+)"

Gee, stem foreign invasion or prevent my enemies (who are enabling that invasion) from murdering their own kids? This is not a hard decision. Fuck their kids, what about MY kids, who have to run the gauntlet of illegals when we go out, and who are significantly poorer for their presence in the millions?

People need to get their priorities in order. Not to mention, without a sane interpretation of the 14th we are virtually guaranteed to have rivers of blood later on.

Address the traitors, expel the invaders, THEN worry about abortion. Nobody aborting kids is any countryman of mine in the first place.

Posted by: heya at June 30, 2026 11:31 AM (QfB9d)

194 Hi, folks! Back from my weekend trip to CA. Amazingly, they do not tax you for leaving.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 30, 2026 11:31 AM (/k3in)

195 I am a woman I know we probably aren't cut out for logic and non-subjective critical thinking

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 30, 2026 11:28 AM (j+aD2)

If it makes you feel any better (it won't) most men these days aren't faring much better

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 11:31 AM (KqZez)

196 Traditionally æther.

Had trouble finding the æ on my keyboard.

Æther or.

Posted by: mindful webworker just raving at June 30, 2026 11:31 AM (/4mOE)

197 We need Elric, RMBS, Smell the Glove, Whig, or one of our other legal Hordelings on the Court.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 11:32 AM (77rzZ)

198 Stop putting women in charge.

Posted by: That's right, I typed it at June 30, 2026 11:32 AM (2Ez/1)

199 168. She is a very good-looking lady.
Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 11:29 AM (77rzZ)

She’s better than average but I’d omit the word “very” from your description

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 11:32 AM (YetvJ)

200 At least John Robertscare will have a legal bathhouse to go to now.

Gotta get that AIDS thing kicked back into gear now that Pride grift garbage is going snooth.

Posted by: sifty boones at June 30, 2026 11:32 AM (6V14C)

201 198 Stop putting women in charge.
Posted by: That's right, I typed it at June 30, 2026 11:32 AM (2Ez/1)

Liberal women

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 11:32 AM (FtULh)

202 You soros police what undefeatable!

Posted by: Paul, who enjoys the sexual affections of dogs at June 30, 2026 11:32 AM (4sd1X)

203 Shut up, dunce.

Posted by: toby928(c) at June 30, 2026 11:33 AM (4NO2D)

204
I remember when, back in the dim reaches of time, many were very enthused over Amy Coney Barrett. I am trying to recollect Why.
Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 11:27 AM (Gqar

Because she's a lying sack of monkey poo, like almost every other GOP-adjacent lawyer. She made all the right noises to get nominated and confirmed, then she started to be her commie fellow traveler self.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 30, 2026 11:33 AM (hpF/D)

205 >>> 197 We need Elric, RMBS, Smell the Glove, Whig, or one of our other legal Hordelings on the Court.
Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 11:32 AM (77rzZ)

Whaddya mean ONE?

How about all of them. The current idiots will just have to make room, by Spending More Time With Their Families.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 11:33 AM (R+iUD)

206 Fuck their kids, what about MY kids, who have to run the gauntlet of illegals when we go out, and who are significantly poorer for their presence in the millions?

People need to get their priorities in order. Not to mention, without a sane interpretation of the 14th we are virtually guaranteed to have rivers of blood later on.

Address the traitors, expel the invaders, THEN worry about abortion. Nobody aborting kids is any countryman of mine in the first place.

Posted by: heya at June 30, 2026 11:31 AM (QfB9d)

We're not talking about the people doing the aborting or the people aborting their kids. We're talking about the kids themselves.

You and I are speaking two different languages.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 30, 2026 11:33 AM (xA5g+)

207 Geez - can’t even string 5 words together without a typo.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 11:34 AM (Gqar8)

208 I am a woman I know we probably aren't cut out for logic and non-subjective critical thinking
Posted by: Black Orchid

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My sister had converted to Baha'i. In their religion they believe in equality of sexes, and they elect councils - local, national, who csn be either sec.
But for their global council, they can only elect men.

Why? The founder (or his son, I forget) simply said - it may seem unfair now, but ONE DAY THE REASON WILL BE AS FLEAR AS THE SUN.

Now I understand their reason.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 30, 2026 11:35 AM (OTdqV)

209 I remember when, back in the dim reaches of time, many were very enthused over Amy Coney Barrett. I am trying to recollect Why.
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That picture of her with a blank notepad, smirking at the dems trying to trip her up.

The left has their traps that they keep falling into and so do we. One of ours is assuming that anyone not on "their" side is automatically on "our" side and will stay there. Repeated disappointment has not taught us much. It works better for the left because hardly anyone ever gets more conservative once in office.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2026 11:35 AM (vTZFs)

210 A million Chinese votes and a million mail-in ballots.

And all the gd time in the world to count them.

What could go wrong?

Posted by: sifty boones at June 30, 2026 11:35 AM (6V14C)

211 Flear is a cromulent word.

Posted by: toby928(c) at June 30, 2026 11:36 AM (4NO2D)

212 The founder (or his son, I forget) simply said - it may seem unfair now, but ONE DAY THE REASON WILL BE AS FLEAR AS THE SUN.

Now I understand their reason.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 30, 2026 11:35 AM (OTdqV)

LOL vmom @ that typo

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 11:36 AM (KqZez)

213 "Geez - can’t even string 5 words together without a typo."

I sure am glad I spell-checked 'corollary' before hitting post. Man, I was WAY off!

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 11:36 AM (Jr5Lq)

214 Typos r me

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 30, 2026 11:37 AM (OTdqV)

215 214 Typos r me
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 30, 2026 11:37 AM (OTdqV)

And me

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 11:37 AM (FtULh)

216 212 The founder (or his son, I forget) simply said - it may seem unfair now, but ONE DAY THE REASON WILL BE AS FLEAR AS THE SUN.

Now I understand their reason.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 30, 2026 11:35 AM (OTdqV)

LOL vmom @ that typo
Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 11:36 AM (KqZez)

Has a LEARING CENTER vibe to it.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 11:37 AM (Gqar8)

217 Do they make sunscreen for flear?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2026 11:37 AM (1z8ji)

218 213 "Geez - can’t even string 5 words together without a typo."

I sure am glad I spell-checked 'corollary' before hitting post. Man, I was WAY off!
Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 11:36 AM (Jr5Lq)

I’ve been cursing at autocorrect incessantly the last few days….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 11:38 AM (D2O3S)

219
With regard to Amy Coney Barrett being good on the 2nd, apparently the left doesn't seem to care much about that right now.
Posted by: Jaimo at June 30, 2026 11:30 AM (2noDb)

Because the commies decided that they NEED the 2nd. So that they can shoot kneeling Kulaks in the back of the neck.

On the other hand, it shows that even the commie cocksuckers know that government-issued arms will take entirely too long to be released to them.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 30, 2026 11:38 AM (hpF/D)

220 With regard to Amy Coney Barrett being good on the 2nd, apparently the left doesn't seem to care much about that right now.
Posted by: Jaimo at June 30, 2026 11:30 AM (2noDb)
====

The latest decision with major impact was the one that overturned Hawaii's CCW private property permission scheme, which required citizens with CCW permits to get specific permission from companies and property owners to enter the property. That has, or should have, impact on NY's anti-Bruen gun control regime.

Posted by: mrp at June 30, 2026 11:38 AM (rj6Yv)

221 _Trump’s efforts to reverse birthright citizenship may succeed with or without SCOTUS
Several bills, most notably the Birthright Citizenship Act in 2025, seek to end or sharply restrict automatic birthright citizenship by amending the Immigration and Nationality Act
_justTheNews
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 11:15 AM (vPv7/)

Presumably, that is why Roberts declared that the Constitution said that everyone is a citizen provided that they hate that Trump person.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 11:38 AM (ExV1e)

222 According to a City Watch L.A. report, Mayor Bass's budget cuts include "reducing positions tied to accounting, payroll approval, and financial reporting" in Mejia's comptroller office, weakening "the city’s ability to monitor spending in real time, manage long-term fiscal planning, and maintain accountability when every dollar matters."

This reminds me of a old Soviet joke that ends with ...

then Brezhnev said, 'pull down the shades and pretend the train is moving'

Posted by: SMOD at June 30, 2026 11:38 AM (RHGPo)

223
>>Editors Note: Earlier today we erroneously published a story saying that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was retiring. He has not announced his retirement and we have retracted the story.
June 30, 2026

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My God, what asses. How do you screw up that big?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 11:39 AM (XJ22o)

224 NPR: ALITO IS RETIRING!

NPR, 12 hours later:

Never mind, never mind, just kidding.

Just wanted to remind you all of the high quality of our reporting work.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 11:39 AM (edUvp)

225 The New Republic: Democratic Centrists Need to Stop Saying “Both Sides” Have “Extremes”
Yes, democratic socialists are left of traditional Democrats. But they aren’t remotely as radical—or anywhere near as powerful—as the MAGA right.

If the left were as extreme as the right, people would have stormed the WH by now. Perhaps Trump keeps doing crazy shit to try to provoke people into civil war in order to declare Martial Law.

what is it the extreme left wants? Healthcare for everyone, affordable housing, cheaper groceries, free education...so radical man.

One extreme is mass deportations and concentration camps, the other extreme is universal healthcare. There is no comparison here. One is rooted in compassion, the other is not

Only in America can you be just vaguely left of center and be called a “dangerous radical”. The actual left is SO MUCH FURTHER than the happy, smiling Democratic Socialists and “Nordic Model” SocDems.

Be happy that they aren’t all flag waving Commies like me.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 30, 2026 11:39 AM (uaWfi)

226 224 NPR: ALITO IS RETIRING!

NPR, 12 hours later:

Never mind, never mind, just kidding.

Just wanted to remind you all of the high quality of our reporting work.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 11:39 AM (edUvp)

Paul should apply.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 11:39 AM (Gqar8)

227 The two best justices currently on the Supreme Court are Bush appointees. I must say I appreciate the irony.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 30, 2026 11:40 AM (u73oe)

228 Barret is on the Supreme Court for the same reason Cavernous Nostrils had (and still surprisingly has) fans.

Anything above an Idaho Four with two X chromosomes makes the GOP go apeshit in support without thinking.

See also: Coulter, Kelly...

Posted by: sifty boones at June 30, 2026 11:40 AM (6V14C)

229
I know a lot of Hordians get disappointed by Trump's SC picks, but they write their opinions based on thr law. Sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. The Three Disgraces write their opinions based on their feelz and torture the law into conforming with it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 11:40 AM (O0L8i)

230 …Both men wrestled Bush to the ground, tied him to the front railing of the property with a nylon strap, and called police.
Posted by: SMOD

*searches on "Bush" to find out what this is about*

We all know Roberts is a Bush alligned shitheal…
Posted by: Reforger

Hmm. Don't think that was it.😒

Posted by: mindful webworker seeking relevance at June 30, 2026 11:40 AM (/4mOE)

231 what is it the extreme left wants? Healthcare for everyone, affordable housing, cheaper groceries, free education...so radical man.

One extreme is mass deportations and concentration camps, the other extreme is universal healthcare. There is no comparison here. One is rooted in compassion, the other is not

FREE everything !

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 11:40 AM (FtULh)

232 The bggest ahole in the UK, Sir Keir Starmer is to replace the Royal Navy’s destroyers with smaller, cheaper warships under new military spending plans to be revealed this week. The Navy aims to replace the current fleet of six Type 45 missile-defence ships with the new Common Combat Vessel (CCV) from the early 2030s.

Posted by: SMOD at June 30, 2026 11:26 AM (RHGPo)

In other words they'll be dumpster diving behind home depots for discarded defective yang poon bathtubs.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 30, 2026 11:41 AM (snZF9)

233
Several bills, most notably the Birthright Citizenship Act in 2025, seek to end or sharply restrict automatic birthright citizenship by amending the Immigration and Nationality Act
_justTheNews
Posted by: Braenyard

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

I don't know how that's gonna work considering the majority said the guarantee is in the amendment itself. Anyone know what nuance in the Birthright Citizenship Act manages to restrict citizenship without reinterpreting the 14th?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 11:41 AM (XJ22o)

234
Just wanted to remind you all of the high quality of our reporting work.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 11:39 AM (edUvp)

___________

If we gave them more money, they could get their story straight.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 11:41 AM (O0L8i)

235 Only in America can you be just vaguely left of center and be called a “dangerous radical”. The actual left is SO MUCH FURTHER than the happy, smiling Democratic Socialists and “Nordic Model” SocDems.

Be happy that they aren’t all flag waving Commies like me.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 30, 2026 11:39 AM (uaWfi)

They should be happy we're not as dangerous as they pretend we are.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 30, 2026 11:41 AM (xA5g+)

236 @197 I would rule against carrots in chili

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 11:41 AM (f6yx7)

237 Do not take Flear if you are allegic to Flear.

Posted by: The FDA at June 30, 2026 11:41 AM (eOFY+)

238 229
I know a lot of Hordians get disappointed by Trump's SC picks, but they write their opinions based on thr law. Sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. The Three Disgraces write their opinions based on their feelz and torture the law into conforming with it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 11:40 AM (O0L8i)

Sometimes they write based on the law. Sometimes.

The other three mostly don't. (Kagan at least knows the law, even as she works to subvert it)

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 30, 2026 11:42 AM (xcxpd)

239 Remember when the OScare Decision was 8D chess by Roberts to get Mittens Romney elected - Mittens!!!!! - and I (and others) was like "no Roberts is owned please stop". Those were good times.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 11:42 AM (KqZez)

240 198 Stop putting women in charge.
Posted by: That's right, I typed it at June 30, 2026 11:32 AM (2Ez/1)

Liberal women
Posted by: It's me donna

Mister, we could use a woman like Margaret Thatcher again.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 11:42 AM (ndZc7)

241 My God, what asses. How do you screw up that big?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 11:39 AM

Screwed up, or run to prank conservatives right after the Court screwed us?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 30, 2026 11:42 AM (Wnv9h)

242 Anyone know what nuance in the Birthright Citizenship Act manages to restrict citizenship without reinterpreting the 14th?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Deport all pregnant non-citizens

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 30, 2026 11:43 AM (0JWOm)

243 To gain persepctive on the court, we had very few losses this term. The can't fire the Fed decision might be our biggest loss (b/c that does change the rules and the Fed can swing elections easily with their actions), birthright was status quo, and Trump got personally screwed...and I can't think of anything else that made us sad.

68 decisions - 65 for us (or at least not against us), with 67 of those expected (only the Fed wasn't). I'd say we did pretty well.

Posted by: Nova Local at June 30, 2026 11:43 AM (tOcjL)

244 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 11:44 AM (7Q7Ca)

245 Flear has been determined by the State of California to cause cancer.

Posted by: The FDA at June 30, 2026 11:44 AM (eOFY+)

246
NPR, 12 hours later:

Never mind, never mind, just kidding.

Just wanted to remind you all of the high quality of our reporting work.
Posted by: Tom Servo

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

Honestly, it was less than 12 minutes later. Thank God we're no longer subsidizing that dump.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 11:44 AM (XJ22o)

247
I guess W is tired of painting.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles
--

He's lucky they weren't Republicans or they may have...you know.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 11:44 AM (vPv7/)

248 This SC decision will lead to the destruction of the United States. Period.

They're already taking massive advantage of the 'birth tourism' industry created in countries that hate America and want her dead.

This will accelerate it. We're doomed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 11:45 AM (7Q7Ca)

249 244 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 11:44 AM (7Q7Ca)

About damned time!! Have you been off slacking?

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 11:45 AM (Gqar8)

250 243.

12 firing squad members.

Only one has a loaded rifle.

Posted by: sifty boones at June 30, 2026 11:45 AM (6V14C)

251 So they're really going with "The DSA is actually just slightly left of center but actually practically the middle, and really they're kind of just actually between the Mainstream Right and Far Right when you think about it"?

Certainly a take....

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 11:45 AM (KqZez)

252 FLEAR ME!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 30, 2026 11:45 AM (xcxpd)

253 "Do not take Flear if you are allegic to Flear."

If it were a drug name, it would be flearomoxamab. Closest brand name that AI can find is Fleer chewing gum.

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 11:45 AM (Jr5Lq)

254 225 The New Republic: Democratic Centrists Need to Stop Saying “Both Sides” Have “Extremes”
Yes, democratic socialists are left of traditional Democrats. But they aren’t remotely as radical—or anywhere near as powerful—as the MAGA right."

Yes, because calling for all Jews to be rounded up and thrown into camps is nowhere near as extreme as wanting to limit immigration.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 11:45 AM (edUvp)

255 247
I guess W is tired of painting.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles

You know who else got tired of painting...

Posted by: Obligatory at June 30, 2026 11:45 AM (eOFY+)

256 44
Holy shit, NPR just retracted the Alito story.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider

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

omg those idiots. Here's what they authoritatively reported:

"Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the Supreme Court's opinion reversing Roe v. Wade, is retiring, the court announced Tuesday."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 11:07 AM (XJ22o)

Blonde Morticia, remember NPR is fake news.

Posted by: Joemarine at June 30, 2026 11:46 AM (y171U)

257 The one hope I do have is that this decision can be revisited by a more conservative SC. Naturally they would first have to go back to the original intent that the 14th amendment was intended only for freed slaves to start.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 11:46 AM (f6yx7)

258 Flear has been determined by the State of California to cause cancer.
Posted by: The FDA at June 30, 2026 11:44 AM (eOFY+)

Life has been determined by the State of California to cause cancer.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 11:46 AM (7Q7Ca)

259 what is it the extreme left wants? Healthcare for everyone, affordable housing, cheaper groceries, free education...so radical man.

-
So Santa?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 11:46 AM (ndZc7)

260 Closest brand name that AI can find is Fleer chewing gum.

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 11:45 AM (Jr5Lq)

Which came with Fleer baseball cards!!

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 11:47 AM (KqZez)

261 Shufflin' Joe had no problem getting the DEI lunatic through.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

All he had to worry about was opposition from the republicans. If the dems were as studiously inept Trump could get any one he wanted. He could have Conan the barbarian issuing opinions from a throne of skulls.

Posted by: Clay at June 30, 2026 11:47 AM (5Rf2z)

262 “Fleer” is an actual word. It means to show contempt for something or someone.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 11:47 AM (77rzZ)

263
About damned time!! Have you been off slacking?
Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 11:45 AM

Work does sometimes interfere.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 11:47 AM (7Q7Ca)

264 259 what is it the extreme left wants? Healthcare for everyone, affordable housing, cheaper groceries, free education...so radical man.

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So Santa?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 11:46 AM (ndZc7)

And a Pony - but No White Ponies!!!

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 11:47 AM (Gqar8)

265
Trump got personally screwed...

Posted by: Nova Local

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That's kind of what it amounts to because Trump has rightly given up on Congress and done what he had to do via EO. He got somewhat personally screwed because he fought so hard. Kudos to the man.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 11:47 AM (XJ22o)

266 I must not flear.
Flear is the mind-killer.
Flear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my flear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the flear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

Posted by: Bene Gesserit at June 30, 2026 11:47 AM (PLxDd)

267 Justice Flear is retiring???

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 11:48 AM (KqZez)

268 My God, what asses. How do you screw up that big?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 11:39 AM

Maybe a pre-written, "canned" story kept on file that they can trot out when and if he does retire? Every so often news media release obits on folks who haven't died.

Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2026 11:48 AM (1z8ji)

269 263
About damned time!! Have you been off slacking?
Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 11:45 AM

Work does sometimes interfere.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 11:47 AM (7Q7Ca)

Yeah. That Original Sin Codicil.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 11:48 AM (Gqar8)

270 what is it the extreme left wants? Healthcare for everyone, affordable housing, cheaper groceries, free education...so radical man.

Let's not forget about something else for everyone.

Posted by: Incels at June 30, 2026 11:48 AM (0sNs1)

271 Every green-haired weirdo, muz, and AWFUL is going to be showing their ass this weekend trying to ruin the holiday.

And that is just Congress.

Posted by: sifty boones at June 30, 2026 11:48 AM (6V14C)

272 214 Typos r me
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 30, 2026

I will take the task of getting tshirts printed for this club. It seems strangely appropriate.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 11:48 AM (Dd38x)

273 242 Anyone know what nuance in the Birthright Citizenship Act manages to restrict citizenship without reinterpreting the 14th?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

As I've posted before, the 1924 Indian Citizenship Act demonstrated that Congress has the power to interpret and redefine the boundaries of the 14th.

American Indians were explicitly excluded by the strict wording of the 14th. Congress changed that, without needing to change the Amendment itself.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 11:49 AM (edUvp)

274 So Santa?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 11:46 AM (ndZc7)

Too soon

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 11:49 AM (KqZez)

275 Well, I guess there's not much more to talk about today. The seeds of destruction have been fertilized. Just waiting for the toxic plants to bloom in a few decades. Fortunately, I don't have a few decades left. But, my kids do. Good thing they're mestiza, they may be spared the brunt of the cultural destruction of western culture.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2026 11:49 AM (1Ff7Z)

276 Stop putting women in charge.
Posted by: That's right, I typed it
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Rather broad brush.
England could use a little Margaret Thatcher right now.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 30, 2026 11:49 AM (XeU6L)

277 Don't Flear the Reaper

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 11:49 AM (f6yx7)

278
The Head Ewok must be carefully combing quotes from the 194-page pdf with the pro-birthright opinion and embellishing the story with some patented inimitable humor. It's going to be nuclear when the new thread is up.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 11:49 AM (XJ22o)

279 And a Pony - but No ~~White~~ Yellow Ponies!!!
Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 11:47 AM

FIFY.

Posted by: Hunter Brandon at June 30, 2026 11:49 AM (0sNs1)

280 The Birthright decision makes no senese, is not what the intent of the amendment as expressed by the writers of the amendment and is a wholly made concoction of the courts.

I see no way forward except the implemntation of strenuous and rigours immigration and border enforcement and the immediate expulsion of any foreign woman in the custody of the United States to either their home country or to a location outside of the country to wait an proceedings.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 30, 2026 11:49 AM (XV/Pl)

281 I'd bet a dollar that Proctor & Gamble considered Flear as a product name at one time or another, but rejected it for some reason.

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 11:49 AM (Jr5Lq)

282 63 I’m surprised it was a 5.5 to 3.5 ruling. I was expecting 7-2.

Not that it matters in the end. It’s a loss. A bigly yuugely big loss.
Posted by: Heroq at June 30, 2026 11:11 AM (3wCO0)

I am surprised it got that far. No other Pres would have tried to abolish it. Thank you PDJT for trying.

Posted by: Joemarine at June 30, 2026 11:50 AM (y171U)

283 Nothing to Flear but Flear Itself. -FDR, doddering communist simp

Posted by: sifty boones at June 30, 2026 11:50 AM (6V14C)

284 Never Flear, Underdog is Here!

Posted by: For those over 29 at June 30, 2026 11:50 AM (eOFY+)

285
Don't Flear the Reaper
Posted by: Smell the Glove

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

I move that we canonize "flear" the same way we did "willow."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 11:50 AM (XJ22o)

286 A meme is born.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 11:50 AM (Gqar8)

287 I saw Strangely Appropriate open for Big Twin Evo in Bobby's Backyard in '95

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 11:50 AM (7Q7Ca)

288 This SC decision will lead to the destruction of the United States. Period.

They're already taking massive advantage of the 'birth tourism' industry created in countries that hate America and want her dead.

This will accelerate it. We're doomed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 11:45 AM

I don't see how it could accelerate any more than we had during the four years biden was president. And yes the next democrat president will throw the border wide open again.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 30, 2026 11:51 AM (0N4FZ)

289 I wonder if there are any foreign 'patrons' who contributed to this result. There are more than one who would benefit.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 11:51 AM (R+iUD)

290

My God, what asses. How do you screw up that big?

With the support of Listeners like You.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 30, 2026 11:51 AM (g/cZn)

291 About damned time!! Have you been off slacking?
Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 11:45 AM

===

Work does sometimes interfere.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 11:47 AM

A man's got to know his priorities.

Posted by: Det. Harry Callahan at June 30, 2026 11:51 AM (0sNs1)

292 M O O N, that spells Flear.

Posted by: Tom Cullen at June 30, 2026 11:51 AM (eOFY+)

293
I'd bet a dollar that Proctor & Gamble considered Flear as a product name at one time or another, but rejected it for some reason.
Posted by: gp

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

They probably had a 5-hour meeting over "Fleer" vs "Flear"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 11:51 AM (XJ22o)

294 Poor vmom. But Flear as Day is probably the unintentional funniest phrase of the first half of 2026.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 11:51 AM (KqZez)

295 254 225 The New Republic: Democratic Centrists Need to Stop Saying “Both Sides” Have “Extremes”
Yes, democratic socialists are left of traditional Democrats. But they aren’t remotely as radical—or anywhere near as powerful—as the MAGA right."

Yes, because calling for all Jews to be rounded up and thrown into camps is nowhere near as extreme as wanting to limit immigration.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 11:45 AM (edUvp)

oh, if only that were true ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 30, 2026 11:51 AM (VyBeY)

296 It's Procter, not Proctor. I guess the bet's off.

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 11:52 AM (Jr5Lq)

297 Sorry Flear as the Sun. Even funnier.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 11:52 AM (KqZez)

298 293
I'd bet a dollar that Proctor & Gamble considered Flear as a product name at one time or another, but rejected it for some reason.
Posted by: gp

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

They probably had a 5-hour meeting over "Fleer" vs "Flear"
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 11:51 AM (XJ22o)

And a committee, and a subcommittee

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 11:52 AM (Gqar8)

299 289.

Cartels and China have big checkbooks.

Posted by: sifty boones at June 30, 2026 11:52 AM (6V14C)

300 what is it the extreme left wants? Healthcare for everyone, affordable housing, cheaper groceries, free education...so radical man.
---------

Everywhere is freaks and hairies
Dykes and fairies, tell me, where is sanity?
Tax the rich, feed the poor
Till there are no rich no more

Posted by: Ten Years After at June 30, 2026 11:52 AM (XeU6L)

301
My God, what asses. How do you screw up that big?

With the support of Listeners like You.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles

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

Haha! I nominate for Top Ten.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 11:52 AM (XJ22o)

302 F'learing centers!

Posted by: Racist Troglodyte at June 30, 2026 11:53 AM (0sNs1)

303 I know a lot of Hordians get disappointed by Trump's SC picks, but they write their opinions based on thr law. Sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. The Three Disgraces write their opinions based on their feelz and torture the law into conforming with it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 11:40 AM (O0L8i)
=====

I'm not a legal scholar, but what I've noticed is that the current SC is decidedly conservative in the way its decisions are based on Article responsibilities as stated in the Constitution. The Court majorities have been averse to making law from the bench and have repeatedly placed remedies for conflicting lower court decisions in the hands of the federal and state legislatures. For example, the recent mail-in ballot decision.

Posted by: mrp at June 30, 2026 11:53 AM (rj6Yv)

304 Would flearing center be considered crossing the streams

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 11:53 AM (KqZez)

305 So the Birthright Citizenship is worse case scenario, worse than I had feared. They didn't even toss a bone to the right to say that Congress can change the law if they want.

So, we're back to Constitutional Amendment required to overturn the SCOTUS. Otherwise it's birthright citizenship, all the way.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 11:53 AM (edUvp)

306 It's Procter, not Proctor. I guess the bet's off.
Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 11:52 AM (Jr5Lq)

Procter? I 'ardly knew 'er.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2026 11:53 AM (1z8ji)

307 We need Elric, RMBS, Smell the Glove, Whig, or one of our other legal Hordelings on the Court.
Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 11:32 AM (77rzZ)

Whaddya mean ONE?

How about all of them. The current idiots will just have to make room, by Spending More Time With Their Families.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Manfred the Heat-Seaking Oboe would be an improvement over most of those clowns.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at June 30, 2026 11:54 AM (OUMaO)

308 They probably had a 5-hour meeting over "Fleer" vs "Flear"
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 11:51 AM (XJ22o)

And a committee, and a subcommittee
Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 11:52 AM (Gqar

Ahem.

Posted by: Accenture Consulting at June 30, 2026 11:54 AM (eOFY+)

309 301
My God, what asses. How do you screw up that big?

With the support of Listeners like You.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles

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Haha! I nominate for Top Ten.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 11:52 AM (XJ22o)

It is good, but you know how feckless doof is. He is the King of Feck.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 11:54 AM (Gqar8)

310
Open Thread! The Rant disappeared into the ether!

Ether it did disappear or it did no...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) - Humiliate! Humiliate! Humiliate! at June 30, 2026 11:54 AM (s9VOe)

311 306 lol

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 11:54 AM (Jr5Lq)

312 They probably had a 5-hour meeting over "Fleer" vs "Flear"
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 11:51 AM

Ending when one of their trademark lawyers pointed out that "Fleer" is a bubble-gum and trading card company.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at June 30, 2026 11:54 AM (0sNs1)

313 Flear causes hesitation and hesitation will cause your worst flears to come true.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 30, 2026 11:54 AM (u73oe)

314
I don't see how it could accelerate any more than we had during the four years biden was president. And yes the next democrat president will throw the border wide open again.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 30, 2026 11:51 AM (0N4FZ)

Those that run the industry will be embolden because it's all good and legal.

We will be overrun with Chinese and islhamic 'citizens' in the next 20 to 25 years and the republic will fall.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 11:54 AM (7Q7Ca)

315 I don't see how it could accelerate any more than we had during the four years biden was president. And yes the next democrat president will throw the border wide open again.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 30, 2026 11:51 AM (0N4FZ)
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Under DJT, we now have net immigration outflow for the first time in years (ever?).

Posted by: mrp at June 30, 2026 11:55 AM (rj6Yv)

316 Out before 35 people start trying to convince me that this piss running down our back from the SCOTUS is rain and gumdrops.

Posted by: sifty boones at June 30, 2026 11:55 AM (6V14C)

317 NPR is retiring!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 30, 2026 11:55 AM (Cqx++)

318 We have nothing to Fleer but Fleer itself.

Posted by: Reforger at June 30, 2026 11:56 AM (0dsIZ)

319
Posted by: SMOD at June 30, 2026 11:30 AM (RHGPo)

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Thanks for posting about this. I don't see how that city and state continue to function. But, well, the country itself is approaching $40 trillion in debt. Scary.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 11:56 AM (XJ22o)

320 Hard to overstate how bad this is.

I applaud Trump pushing back but I think the EO should have been dropped rather than than enshrining birthright citizenship into law when it was clear the courts were going in this direction.

And we need more evangelicals on the court

Posted by: Maroon at June 30, 2026 11:56 AM (yMZiH)

321 You know who else got tired of painting...
Posted by: Obligatory

Hunter Biden, when his paintings mysteriously stopped selling for millions of dollars around the same time his dad left office?

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 30, 2026 11:56 AM (uaWfi)

322 @305

>>So, we're back to Constitutional Amendment required to overturn the SCOTUS. Otherwise it's birthright citizenship, all the way.

It's a wholly made concoction of the court, the intent of the 14th was literally to deal with the status of freed slaves. That's it.

Again, the only way forward is aggressive immigration and borer enforcement. No foreign born woman can be allowed to step foot on US soil.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 30, 2026 11:56 AM (XV/Pl)

323 I can see flearly now, the rain has gone...

Posted by: Johnny Nash at June 30, 2026 11:56 AM (eOFY+)

324 NPR is retiring!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 30, 2026 11:55 AM (Cqx++)

Wasn't it, at least, defunded?

Or did Lord God King Boasberg declare it funded?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 11:56 AM (7Q7Ca)

325 Fleer vs Flear. We need a meme ruling here.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 11:57 AM (Gqar8)

326 Yes, the constitution is a suicide pact.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 30, 2026 11:57 AM (Cqx++)

327 Blonde Morticia, remember NPR is fake news.

Posted by: Joemarine at June 30, 2026 11:46 AM (y171U)

Appears we've been fleared by NPR once again!

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 11:57 AM (KqZez)

328 Which came with Fleer baseball cards!!
Posted by: ..
__________

I made the mistake of getting back into cards in the late 80s, early 90s garbage wax period. I must have thousands of worthless Fleer and other cards. Went big on Carlos Baerga rookies.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 30, 2026 11:57 AM (XvL8K)

329 Google Translate contends that 'flear' means 'fly' in Frisian. No joke.

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 11:57 AM (Jr5Lq)

330 King Flear was Shakespeare’s biggest flop.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 11:57 AM (77rzZ)

331 And the angel appeared to Mary, saying flear not

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 11:58 AM (Gqar8)

332 And now, for some comedy relief, Justice Jumanji.

Ketanji Brown Jackson: “A transgender woman penalized for being perceived as aggressive has experienced discrimination "on the basis of sex" just as much as a cisgender woman has, no matter that the transgender woman's behavior matches expectations of her sex assigned at birth.”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 11:58 AM (ndZc7)

333 Fleer vs Flear. We need a meme ruling here.
Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 11:57 AM

The origin of the meme spelled it FLEAR.

Momma named him Flear, Imma call him Flear.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 11:58 AM (7Q7Ca)

334 325 Fleer vs Flear. We need a meme ruling here.
Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 11:57 AM (Gqar

Hear, heer.

Posted by: Reforger at June 30, 2026 11:59 AM (0dsIZ)

335 So, we're back to Constitutional Amendment required to overturn the SCOTUS. Otherwise it's birthright citizenship, all the way.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 11:53 AM

Yep and we will go through cycles. when a democrat president is in office the border will be wide open, when a republican gets in power the border will be closed. On the plus side SCOTUS ruled in favor of Trump on all sorts border/immigration issues that Trump was sued on for closing the border.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 30, 2026 11:59 AM (0N4FZ)

336 How about writing a law which states that any room in which a non-citizen pregnant woman delivers a child is deemed to be a temporary embassy of that woman's home country.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2026 11:59 AM (1z8ji)

337 Carlos Baerga joined the Mets and gained like 40 pounds of fat.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 11:59 AM (KqZez)

338 Yes, the constitution is a suicide pact.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 30, 2026 11:57 AM (Cqx++)
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Charleston, SC 1860

Charleston, SC 1865.

Posted by: mrp at June 30, 2026 11:59 AM (rj6Yv)

339 At this point I'm wondering why I should recognize the citizenship claims of Supreme Court justices, given their lack of loyalty to the nation.

Posted by: Methos at June 30, 2026 12:00 PM (vSvIl)

340 338 Yes, the constitution is a suicide pact.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 30, 2026 11:57 AM (Cqx++)
=======

Charleston, SC 1860

Charleston, SC 1865.
Posted by: mrp at June 30, 2026 11:59 AM (rj6Yv)

Heh. Also the birth of FAFO.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 12:00 PM (Gqar8)

341 Is that overeducated dip shit blonde still running NPR? If so she should be canned for this blunder

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 12:00 PM (f6yx7)

342 Out before 35 people start trying to convince me that this piss running down our back from the SCOTUS is rain and gumdrops.
Posted by: sifty boones at June 30, 2026 11:55 AM (6V14C)

No, no, no...it's rainbows and unicorns and skittles!

Posted by: SCROTUM at June 30, 2026 12:00 PM (K5H/e)

343 SC really fleared us good on this one.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 12:00 PM (KqZez)

344 I wish I had a dollar for every sex the Left claims exists.

I'd have two dollars, and a fistful of counterfeits.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 30, 2026 12:01 PM (0sNs1)

345 The birthright citizenship case is a clusterfuck.

The majority went further than it had to. Instead of just saying "this has to be done by Congress, not by EO," they went all the way and held that the 14A guarantees citizenship to the anchor babies of foreign invaders. It's a bad as it could have been.

The dissent is right on the money. Alas, it is a dissent.

The only good news is that this doesn't change anything. Trump took a shot at a long-standing left-wing fetish. He lost. But this only means we are were we have been for at least 50 years.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 30, 2026 12:01 PM (iFTx/)

346 329 Google Translate contends that 'flear' means 'fly' in Frisian. No joke.
Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 11:57 AM (Jr5Lq
And wich side were Frizians on?

Posted by: Eromero at June 30, 2026 12:01 PM (LHPAg)

347 Yep and we will go through cycles. when a democrat president is in office the border will be wide open, when a republican gets in power the border will be closed. On the plus side SCOTUS ruled in favor of Trump on all sorts border/immigration issues that Trump was sued on for closing the border.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)

It's still a ratchet effect. We somehow never clear out as many as get shoveled in.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at June 30, 2026 12:01 PM (OUMaO)

348 Carlos Baerga joined the Mets and gained like 40 pounds of fat.
Posted by: ...
________

Yes, but he was the shit with the Indians. I was convinced he was a future HOFer. That whole team was loaded.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 30, 2026 12:02 PM (XvL8K)

349 The only surprise in the birthright decision is that they didn’t punt.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 30, 2026 12:02 PM (u73oe)

350 “Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.”
—Galatians 5:1

Stand for one's convictions even in the face of trial.
And the USSC is a bunch of poop heads!

Posted by: Diogenes at June 30, 2026 12:02 PM (2WIwB)

351 339 At this point I'm wondering why I should recognize the citizenship claims of Supreme Court justices, given their lack of loyalty to the nation.
Posted by: Methos at June 30, 2026 12:00 PM (vSvIl)

Because sadly, what you or I "think" about the issue doesn't matter one bit. What matters is what directions will be followed by the courts. If the courts say "you get a license, you get benefits, you can vote" then they get a license, they get benefits, they can vote.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 12:02 PM (edUvp)

352 when a republican gets in power the border will be closed

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)
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Ummm

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 12:03 PM (KqZez)

353 It can be lunch time

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 12:03 PM (sgkY8)

354 He can write an EO saying, unless you have been legally admitted into country, even though your body is here, technically you are not here. Therefore entitled to no rights whatsoever.

We have laws less logical than that. And we enforce them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 12:03 PM (vPv7/)

355 349 The only surprise in the birthright decision is that they didn’t punt.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 30, 2026 12:02 PM (u73oe)

That was my guess yesterday. The checks must have cleared.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 12:03 PM (Gqar8)

356 CBD has done right well generating comments and engagement with today's Rant!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 30, 2026 12:03 PM (0sNs1)

357 Best. Rant. Ever.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 30, 2026 12:03 PM (wBaIH)

358 The Court majorities have been averse to making law from the bench
_____

Legislature writing the law: "subject to jurisdiction thereof" means a resident with no loyalties or obligations to foreign nations.

Supreme Court: No, we define what that means, and it is opposite of what the legislature meant.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2026 12:03 PM (Dv3i1)

359 "And which side were Frisians on?"

It had to think for several seconds to come up with that one.

If Gilbert and Sullivan were still around, they'd steal "'flear' means 'fly' in Frisian" in a heartbeat.

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 12:04 PM (Jr5Lq)

360
Is that overeducated dip shit blonde still running NPR? If so she should be canned for this blunder
Posted by: Smell the Glove

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

Be hilarious if she was replaced by an even less qualified nonbinary POC.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 12:05 PM (XJ22o)

361 Because sadly, what you or I "think" about the issue doesn't matter one bit. What matters is what directions will be followed by the courts. If the courts say "you get a license, you get benefits, you can vote" then they get a license, they get benefits, they can vote.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 12:02 PM (edUvp)

Courts, like any other part of government, only have authority because we consent to them.

We need leaders who won't consent to the courts.

Posted by: Methos at June 30, 2026 12:05 PM (vSvIl)

362
We should probably talk.
Posted by: The Mormons at June 30, 2026 11:21 AM (hpF/D)

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Forget you, apostates.

Posted by: Pete Hegseth at June 30, 2026 12:05 PM (FEAjO)

363 >Ketanji Brown Jackson: “A transgender woman penalized for being perceived as aggressive has experienced discrimination "on the basis of sex" just as much as a cisgender woman has, no matter that the transgender woman's behavior matches expectations of her sex assigned at birth.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 11:58 AM (ndZc7)

wut

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at June 30, 2026 12:05 PM (0bjKf)

364 This is about us, isn’t it?
— Indians not taxed

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 12:05 PM (77rzZ)

365 349 The only surprise in the birthright decision is that they didn’t punt.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 30, 2026 12:02 PM (u73oe)

That was my guess yesterday. The checks must have cleared.
Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2026 12:03 PM (Gqar

====

As an X post linked at Insty put it, there were no leaks on the decision, no security fences surrounding the SC Building, no police or NG posted for riots, so - baked in the cake.

Posted by: mrp at June 30, 2026 12:06 PM (rj6Yv)

366 Lots of rumors that Mitch McConnell is knocking on death's door. He'll be replaced by a democrat won't he? Fun times.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at June 30, 2026 12:06 PM (V362x)

367 And frankly, we need to stop clinging to the foolish notion that voting is a solution to these people.

Posted by: Methos at June 30, 2026 12:06 PM (vSvIl)

368 So the Supreme Court is now 5-4 Liberal majority. Barrett is a disgrace

Posted by: Jonah at June 30, 2026 12:06 PM (YCxFk)

369 328 Which came with Fleer baseball cards!!
Posted by: ..
__________

I made the mistake of getting back into cards in the late 80s, early 90s garbage wax period. I must have thousands of worthless Fleer and other cards. Went big on Carlos Baerga rookies.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
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Same here Biff - Mark McQuire and Sammy Sosa come immediately to mind. LOL.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at June 30, 2026 12:07 PM (VkY89)

370 Supreme Court: No, we define what that means, and it is opposite of what the legislature meant.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2026 12:03 PM (Dv3i1)

And sadly, the Supreme Court has now ruled that, if you can be arrested by a local cop for jaywalking, then you are "subject to the jurisdiction of."

In fact, it's even worse than that. If you can be arrested for entering the country illegally, then you are automatically "subject to the jurisdiction of".

Every person in this nation is now "Subject to the jurisdiction of" except for space aliens in UFO's and Bigfoot.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 12:07 PM (edUvp)

371 SCOTUS didn’t even bother looking at what the drafter or the 14th Amendment said. They just listed what a bunch of dumbasses thought in meant.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 30, 2026 12:07 PM (w/h84)

372 >>The majority went further than it had to. Instead of just saying "this has to be done by Congress, not by EO," they went all the way and held that the 14A guarantees citizenship to the anchor babies of foreign invaders. It's a bad as it could have been.
---

I'll wait for the Ewok before I put the Ronson to my head.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 12:08 PM (vPv7/)

373 No.kent gov has to choose a Republican by law. Andy Barr just won gop primary, for his seat

Posted by: Jonah at June 30, 2026 12:08 PM (YCxFk)

374 Just declare that citizen children of illegal aliens are wards of the state, put them in orphanages, and ship their illegal moms and dads home. It can't be done, but it would be fun to see the reaction.

Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at June 30, 2026 12:08 PM (6BjcW)

375
Ketanji Brown Jackson: “A transgender woman penalized for being perceived as aggressive has experienced discrimination "on the basis of sex" just as much as a cisgender woman has, no matter that the transgender woman's behavior matches expectations of her sex assigned at birth.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 11:58 AM (ndZc7)

wut
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell

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

I'm not sure, but I think she even effed up on "transgender woman," which is the opposite of a transwoman. Is that flear?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 12:08 PM (XJ22o)

376 We need leaders who won't consent to the courts.
Posted by: Methos at June 30, 2026 12:05 PM (vSvIl)

I've long maintained that Bukele is the best leader by far in the western hemisphere, but it'll be a very long time before someone like that will be in power here. I shudder to think at the circumstances that could bring it about.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 12:09 PM (edUvp)

377 Pessimism saves me from disappointment again. On to the midterms.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 30, 2026 12:09 PM (Aol+p)

378
I think the blog should have a built-in spellcheck making "flear" acceptable instead of putting a squiggly red line under it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 12:09 PM (XJ22o)

379 371 SCOTUS didn’t even bother looking at what the drafter or the 14th Amendment said. They just listed what a bunch of dumbasses thought in meant.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe
--

It was political. When Roberts leaves next year he'll be replaced by a true conservative and it'll be dumped.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 12:09 PM (vPv7/)

380 I'll wait for the Ewok before I put the Ronson to my head.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 12:08 PM

What? Flaunt long-standing, indeed hoary and lost-in-the-mists-of-time Horde tradition???

An iconoclast you are.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 30, 2026 12:10 PM (0sNs1)

381 Ketanji Brown Jackson: “A transgender woman....
-----
wut
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell

Forget it Frank. It's Stupidtown.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2026 12:10 PM (vTZFs)

382 I'll wait for the Ewok before I put the Ronson to my head.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 30, 2026 12:08 PM
++++++++

Sitting right here.

Posted by: Your trusty Zippo lighter at June 30, 2026 12:11 PM (2Ez/1)

383 John Bingham said it didn’t apply to patents owning allegiance to any foreign sovereignty. But why do I know, he just wrote the f’ink thing.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 30, 2026 12:11 PM (w/h84)

384 No.kent gov has to choose a Republican by law. Andy Barr just won gop primary, for his seat
Posted by: Jonah
__________

That law arguably violates the state constitution. Beshear will pick a dem and invite the court battle to get his name in the news for 28.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 30, 2026 12:11 PM (XvL8K)

385 369. 80’s junk is moving up though, some good cards in there

Posted by: Jonah at June 30, 2026 12:11 PM (YCxFk)

386 The dissent from KBJ on the trans case as cited above clearly rivals Kamala in authentic leftist gibberish

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 12:11 PM (f6yx7)

387 Nood supremes

Posted by: Clay at June 30, 2026 12:11 PM (5Rf2z)

388
I've long maintained that Bukele is the best leader by far in the western hemisphere, but it'll be a very long time before someone like that will be in power here. I shudder to think at the circumstances that could bring it about.
Posted by: Tom Servo

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

Was Bukele less constrained by El Salvador law than any US president could ever be, though? Doesn't he have fuck-you power that a US president just doesn't have?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 12:12 PM (XJ22o)

389 384. Barr will be in the Senate by Jan.

Posted by: Jonah at June 30, 2026 12:12 PM (YCxFk)

390 So with the trans decision, we don't have to put up with the "preferred pronouns" BS anymore?

Posted by: mrp at June 30, 2026 12:12 PM (rj6Yv)

391 Right click and select, 'add to dictionary'.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 12:12 PM (vPv7/)

392 Beshear will pick a Dem and by the time the court decides, Andy Barr will have won the election and been sworn in

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 12:13 PM (f6yx7)

393 China is to be the biggest beneficiary of the SC ruling.

That tells me exactly who is on the Chinese payroll..........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 12:13 PM (7Q7Ca)

394 nood

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 12:13 PM (Jr5Lq)

395 Ace is up with guess what topic

And the longest block quotes ever

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=420356

Posted by: mindful webworker noodling at June 30, 2026 12:14 PM (/4mOE)

396 Lots of rumors that Mitch McConnell is knocking on death's door. He'll be replaced by a democrat won't he? Fun times.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at June 30, 2026 12:06 PM

He will even though state law requires the governor to appoint a person from the same party. beshear has refused to say if he will abide by the new law if mcconnell dies and needs to be replaced but he did call the law unconstitutional.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 30, 2026 12:14 PM (0N4FZ)

397 Roberts knows congress will never get 60 votes in senate for any major legislation besides the budget. Traitor needs to retire before Alito

Posted by: Jonah at June 30, 2026 12:15 PM (YCxFk)

398 ===============

Was Bukele less constrained by El Salvador law than any US president could ever be, though? Doesn't he have fuck-you power that a US president just doesn't have?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia
---

He cleared out some judges. Said crooked judges will ruin your country.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 12:16 PM (vPv7/)

399 Well. What's done is done. I'm still going to 4th of July in Put-In-Bay, so I expect I'll be surrounded all weekend by mostly actual citizens during this.
==
Oh, a Northcoaster eh? Likewise. Try and avoid the drunks at PIB - or if you can't beat em, join em.

Posted by: Gaybe Malodorous at June 30, 2026 12:16 PM (jvkDG)

400 NPR 100% had the Alito story pre-written, like every news organization does for the deaths of celebrities and other predictable events. There have been multiple cases of stories like that going live when they shouldn't have.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2026 12:16 PM (QZThv)

401 duh

Posted by: sock remover at June 30, 2026 12:16 PM (jvkDG)

402 The dissent is right on the money. Alas, it is a dissent.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 30, 2026 12:01 PM (iFTx/)

The good: So was Grutter v. Bollinger dissent, IIRC.

The bad: It took 20 years to percolate before Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard made that a reality.

Will the Republic last another 20 years? Dunno. But that's on SCOTUS, which made an apparent overstep here as you note.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 30, 2026 12:16 PM (dK+Kv)

403 Dems delve into Marxism, and red state Kentucky elects a lefty. WTF

Posted by: Jonah at June 30, 2026 12:17 PM (YCxFk)

404 Every person in this nation is now "Subject to the jurisdiction of" except for space aliens in UFO's and Bigfoot.
==
I believe this is incorrect. Bigfoot and space aliens are also subject to the jurisdiction of the US. Thus, if Bigfoot impregnated a space alien, and the space alien gave birth on US soil, then the resulting offspring would be eventually entitled to vote.

So, we got that going for us!

Posted by: Mr. Sunshine at June 30, 2026 12:21 PM (jvkDG)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Virgin, the Christ Child, and Saint Anne, known as "Saint Anne"
Leonardo da Vinci

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

Comments

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1 Not the sharpest blade in the drawer.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at June 30, 2026 09:31 AM (w9Wax)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 09:31 AM (2YhKe)

3 1

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 09:31 AM (sgkY8)

4 Art!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 30, 2026 09:31 AM (kgE5c)

5 yow!

Posted by: cmeat at June 30, 2026 09:31 AM (R11M+)

6 The Virgin, the Christ Child, and Saint Anne, known as "Saint Anne"

You know you're an alcoholic when you repeat yourself.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 09:31 AM (2YhKe)

7 Lovely

Posted by: Tuna at June 30, 2026 09:32 AM (lJ0H4)

8 Or a podium
This is fantastic, but then wasn't done by som Impressionist hack

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 09:32 AM (sgkY8)

9 dominant trait!

Posted by: cmeat at June 30, 2026 09:32 AM (R11M+)

10 Jesus lays hands on the armadillo and cures it of leprosy.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at June 30, 2026 09:32 AM (w9Wax)

11 No dog or boobs, known as no dog or boobs.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 30, 2026 09:32 AM (Kt19C)

12 Saint Anne, known as "Saint Anne."

But her friends call her 'Saint Anne.'

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 30, 2026 09:33 AM (kgE5c)

13
You can tell they're related. Just look at the feet.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 30, 2026 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

14 The saints were angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at June 30, 2026 09:34 AM (2Ez/1)

15 Yes, lovely!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 30, 2026 09:34 AM (X8xt3)

16 Saint Anne is the Virgin Mary's mother, right?

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 30, 2026 09:34 AM (ibDUx)

17 Kid's thinking lamb chops for supper...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 30, 2026 09:35 AM (jehhT)

18 another angle shows the gap teeth.

Posted by: cmeat at June 30, 2026 09:35 AM (R11M+)

19 The goat: ‘thank god these are Jews. My future descendants will not be as lucky.’

Posted by: Elric the Blade at June 30, 2026 09:35 AM (qLMMh)

20 That likeness of Christ as we know Him is jawdropping.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 09:35 AM (KqZez)

21 Religious art gives me the willies

give me a Bierstadt landscape

Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 09:35 AM (ZxPkt)

22 When a church near me was remodeling, they got rid of a number of their statues. I was able to grab a 5-foot one of St Anne.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 30, 2026 09:35 AM (qRla/)

23 Is Mary wearing blue jeans?

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 09:35 AM (77rzZ)

24 Saint Anne?

Love her reel!

https://youtu.be/NWOo9T0L98c

Posted by: Bluegrass instrumental fan at June 30, 2026 09:36 AM (2Ez/1)

25 Saint Anne is the Virgin Mary's mother, right?
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 30, 2026 09:34 AM (ibDUx)

Yes.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 30, 2026 09:36 AM (qRla/)

26 Why is Christ twisting the head off the lamb?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 09:36 AM (ExV1e)

27 Is Mary wearing blue jeans?
Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 09:35 AM (77rzZ)

You're thinking of the Reverend Blue Jeans.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 30, 2026 09:37 AM (qRla/)

28 The Virgin, the Christ Child, and Saint Anne, known as "Saint Anne"

I think the redundancy is that the painting is formally named ‘Virgin, the Christ Child, and Saint Anne’ but it’s commonly just called ‘Saint Anne’

Posted by: Elric the Blade at June 30, 2026 09:37 AM (qLMMh)

29 Chain reaction.

Posted by: davidt at June 30, 2026 09:37 AM (Q+gd/)

30 Saint Anne is the Virgin Mary's mother, right?
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 30, 2026 09:34 AM

Yes...her parents were Joachim and Anna.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 30, 2026 09:37 AM (kgE5c)

31 12 Saint Anne, known as "Saint Anne."

But her friends call her 'Saint Anne.'
__

aka "Tater Salad"

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2026 09:37 AM (Dv3i1)

32 26 showing him where the peanut butter is.

Posted by: cmeat at June 30, 2026 09:38 AM (R11M+)

33 No, that is not a puppy.
No, you can't have a puppy.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2026 09:38 AM (mXpUo)

34 Saint Anne is the Virgin Mary's mother, right?
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 30, 2026 09:34 AM (ibDUx)
*****
Yes

Posted by: redridinghood at June 30, 2026 09:38 AM (NpAcC)

35 It amazes me that someone like da Vinci in the 15th century could paint this very well.

Posted by: dantesed at June 30, 2026 09:38 AM (Oy/m2)

36 27 in mary janes.

Posted by: cmeat at June 30, 2026 09:38 AM (R11M+)

37 Jesus lays hands on the armadillo and cures it of leprosy.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at June 30, 2026 09:32 AM

*golf clap*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 30, 2026 09:38 AM (kgE5c)

38 Leonardo definitely had a certain look when it came to the faces of females.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 30, 2026 09:38 AM (snZF9)

39 Saint Anne, known as "Saint Anne."

But her friends call her 'Saint Anne.'
__

aka "Tater Salad"
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2026 09:37 AM (Dv3i1)

She didn't know how many bouncers it would take to throw her out of the bar but she knew how many they were planning on using.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 09:39 AM (ExV1e)

40 Beautiful. Da Vinci could paint.
Would hang.
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 09:39 AM (f6yx7)

41
Yeah, let's take the baby to the edge of a cliff...

Posted by: Auspex at June 30, 2026 09:39 AM (Y8DZL)

42 Leonardo definitely had a certain look when it came to the faces of females.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 30, 2026 09:38 AM (snZF9)

He also appears to have a thing for elongated second toes.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 09:40 AM (ExV1e)

43 41 works with sheep.

Posted by: cmeat at June 30, 2026 09:40 AM (R11M+)

44 27 Is Mary wearing blue jeans?
Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 09:35 AM
###

Forever.

https://youtu.be/-L8e3-dpl8E

Posted by: Neil Diamond at June 30, 2026 09:41 AM (2Ez/1)

45 Oh, no. I had to spank Jesus once when he was little...

Posted by: St. Anne at June 30, 2026 09:41 AM (Pu/zx)

46 Yeah, let's take the baby to the edge of a cliff...
Posted by: Auspex at June 30, 2026 09:39 AM (Y8DZL)

They believed he could fly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 09:41 AM (2YhKe)

47 I have a Saint Anne statue given to me by a priest friend.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 30, 2026 09:41 AM (NpAcC)

48 When a church near me was remodeling, they got rid of a number of their statues. I was able to grab a 5-foot one of St Anne.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 30, 2026 09:35 AM

Nice. Did you ever visit Gargoyles, Grotesques & Chimeras on Newbury Street back in the day? It had a lot of that sort of thing for sale.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 30, 2026 09:41 AM (kgE5c)

49 He also appears to have a thing for elongated second toes.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

My DiL has really, really long toes like that.. mine are short and stubby.

Posted by: Tuna at June 30, 2026 09:42 AM (lJ0H4)

50 Thanks, Horde, for covering all of the possible Saint Anne, known as "Saint Anne" jokes so I could just relax and read them.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at June 30, 2026 09:42 AM (pAWWf)

51 It amazes me that someone like da Vinci in the 15th century could paint this very well.

Posted by: dantesed at June 30, 2026 09:38 AM (Oy/m2)

The sistine chapel would blow your mind. To paint that well while laying on your back for 4 years to do it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 30, 2026 09:42 AM (snZF9)

52 He also appears to have a thing for elongated second toes.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 09:40 AM (ExV1e)

That's a MAN baby!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 09:42 AM (2YhKe)

53 49 about tuna half inches?

Posted by: cmeat at June 30, 2026 09:42 AM (R11M+)

54 >45 Oh, no. I had to spank Jesus once when he was little...

Posted by: St. Anne at June 30, 2026 09:41 AM (Pu/zx)

Once...

Posted by: Jesus at June 30, 2026 09:42 AM (NgqoH)

55 What is the kid doing to the poor lamb??!? - PETA

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 30, 2026 09:43 AM (2GVsD)

56 51 i found the tile floor amazing.

Posted by: cmeat at June 30, 2026 09:43 AM (R11M+)

57 This proves that Jesus was non-binary.

Posted by: James Talarico at June 30, 2026 09:43 AM (2YhKe)

58 "Saint Anne is the Virgin Mary's mother, right?"
------

Or as Jesus would refer to her: "Grammy."

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 30, 2026 09:44 AM (2Ez/1)

59
Wikipedia says Saint Anne had black or olive skin, so...

Posted by: Auspex at June 30, 2026 09:44 AM (Y8DZL)

60 Once...

Posted by: Jesus at June 30, 2026 09:42 AM (NgqoH)

OMG 😂😂😂😂😂

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 09:44 AM (KqZez)

61 I like the straight diagonal line of adoration from Saint Anne to Mary to the Christ child to the sheep (representing His flock) to which He is tending.

The lines of the arms and legs accentuate the diagonal.

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at June 30, 2026 09:44 AM (I0N4X)

62 Wikipedia says Saint Anne had black or olive skin, so...
Posted by: Auspex at June 30, 2026 09:44 AM (Y8DZL)

Wikipedia is a liberal shithole.

Posted by: James Talarico at June 30, 2026 09:45 AM (2YhKe)

63 how far outside jerusalem do you need to travel before you can see mountain spires like that?

Posted by: cmeat at June 30, 2026 09:45 AM (R11M+)

64 Shyte.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 09:45 AM (2YhKe)

65 Leonardo ran out of paint for the background.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 30, 2026 09:45 AM (2GVsD)

66 Wikipedia just banned one of its co-founders for pointing out it has become a Leftist biased pesthole.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 30, 2026 09:46 AM (2GVsD)

67 >>>20 That likeness of Christ as we know Him is jawdropping.

Posted by: ...
---

Babies all look alike to me. What's up with this one? A little LBJ pull on the lamb's ear?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 09:46 AM (vPv7/)

68 Leonardo makes both Mary and her mother appear about 49 years old. When Christ was the age depicted, Mary would have only been about 15 or 16.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 30, 2026 09:46 AM (jQARP)

69 ...and by "tending" I mean "tugging on its ears"

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at June 30, 2026 09:46 AM (I0N4X)

70 65 it might be a drop cloth background that they are posing in front of.

Posted by: cmeat at June 30, 2026 09:46 AM (R11M+)

71 OT: There is no fencing around the Supreme Court.

We all know what that means.

On topic: I have in my head that Jesus was trying to ride that sheep, and I'll not be dissuaded.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 30, 2026 09:47 AM (xA5g+)

72 Once...

Posted by: Jesus at June 30, 2026 09:42 AM (NgqoH)

OMG 😂😂😂😂😂
Posted by: ...

THAT'S what she said!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2026 09:47 AM (mXpUo)

73 Art's no supposed to be realistic it's supposed to be evocative.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 09:47 AM (vPv7/)

74 The sistine chapel would blow your mind. To paint that well while laying on your back for 4 years to do it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Great little book by Ross King on the painting of that ceiling.."Michaelanglo and the Pope's Celing".

Posted by: Tuna at June 30, 2026 09:48 AM (lJ0H4)

75 68 Leonardo makes both Mary and her mother appear about 49 years old. When Christ was the age depicted, Mary would have only been about 15 or 16.

Posted by: tankdemon
---

She gave birth when she was 12?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 09:49 AM (vPv7/)

76 Willow'd:

373 No love for "Bust A Move?"
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 30, 2026 09:17 AM (qRla/)

Young MC - Bust A Move
https://youtu.be/xy4FXhkm6Nw

He is still around, and apparently figured out how to use AI in the part of the process where samples used to go. I've linked this 2024 track in the ONT comments before, it's kind of hypnotic:

Young MC - "Fun Part" (Official Video)
https://youtu.be/4VCOIAtBNGQ

Posted by: SciVo at June 30, 2026 09:49 AM (Sy6m/)

77 This is an amazing painting. Da Vinci avoids the often wooden facial expressions typical of 15th century art. The expressions here are natural and so expressive. The detail of the surroundings are realistic and the colors throughout are natural. Even the unfinished mountains in the background (crayon? charcoal?) could have come from a photo. The painting is not loaded with religious symbols but shows the holy family in an entirely human moment which, to me, makes it both pleasant and emotional.

An artist could, and should, spend months or more studying how this painting was created. It is more instructive and impressive than the Mona Lisa.

CBD, thanks. This art is a wonderful way to start the day.

Posted by: JTB at June 30, 2026 09:49 AM (yTvNw)

78 There's a lot of lap-sitting going on.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 09:51 AM (RIvkX)

79 Since it’s DaVinci I’m sure the technical execution is superb… but any picture with one lady sitting on another lady’s lap with a baby around as well… not so sure about it. The saint should perhaps be hovering over the scene…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 09:52 AM (YetvJ)

80 I have always loved this one especially because Mary is sitting on her mama's lap. Saint Anne has her "baby" too!

Posted by: skywch at June 30, 2026 09:52 AM (uqhmb)

81 71 OT: There is no fencing around the Supreme Court.

We all know what that means.
___

Having to apply kremlinology analysis to Supreme Court rulings is un-American.

On Topic: Which of Talarico's gospels has Jesus and family spending a summer in the Dolomites?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2026 09:53 AM (Dv3i1)

82 But her friends call her 'Saint Anne.'
__

aka "Tater Salad"
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2026 09:37 AM (Dv3i1)
====

Is that some sort of Lutheran delicacy?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 09:53 AM (RIvkX)

83 Did you ever visit Gargoyles, Grotesques & Chimeras on Newbury Street back in the day? It had a lot of that sort of thing for sale.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 30, 2026 09:41 AM (kgE5c)

No. There's a similar shop in my city that sells occult items along with discarded church statues and such. I go in there every now and then to rescue the stuff from our pagan population.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 30, 2026 09:53 AM (qRla/)

84 once again suggesting the theory that beautiful art does not inspire rapid commenting.

Posted by: cmeat at June 30, 2026 09:53 AM (R11M+)

85 DaVinci was fascinated with the Alps. He climbed to a high altitude where the ancient limestone deposits displayed fossils of shells, etc. Wonder how much his science mind was blown by the implications.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at June 30, 2026 09:53 AM (w9Wax)

86 Now, now, Baby Jesus. We mustn't pull the ears off the lamb.

--Saint Anne, commonly known as Saint Anne.

Posted by: No Name Today at June 30, 2026 09:55 AM (8mulE)

87 100 comment rule. [CBD]

Posted by: steevy at June 30, 2026 09:55 AM (YwEeS)

88 The sistine chapel would blow your mind. To paint that well while laying on your back for 4 years to do it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Great little book by Ross King on the painting of that ceiling.."Michaelanglo and the Pope's Celing".
Posted by: Tuna at June 30, 2026 09:48 AM (lJ0H4)

I love The Agony and the Ecstasy with Charleton Heston and Rex Harrison. When will you make an end of it? When I am finished!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 09:55 AM (YetvJ)

89 Nice. Did you ever visit Gargoyles, Grotesques & Chimeras on Newbury Street back in the day? It had a lot of that sort of thing for sale.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 30, 2026 09:41 AM (kgE5c)
====

Yes!

I got a gargoyle for the baby's nursery.

Posted by: Rosemary Woodhouse at June 30, 2026 09:55 AM (RIvkX)

90 68 Leonardo makes both Mary and her mother appear about 49 years old. When Christ was the age depicted, Mary would have only been about 15 or 16.
Posted by: tankdemon at June 30, 2026 09:46 AM (jQARP)
——

Quite common to depict unreasonable ages at the time. In the Pieta, Mary is holding a dead Jesus and she looks younger than him.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at June 30, 2026 09:55 AM (qLMMh)

91 100 comment rule. [CBD]

Posted by: steevy at June 30, 2026 09:56 AM (YwEeS)

92 antonio lopez de santa anna, also known as antonio lopez de santa anna.

Posted by: cmeat at June 30, 2026 09:57 AM (R11M+)

93 In two shakes of a lamb's tail.

Posted by: Just the punchline at June 30, 2026 09:57 AM (2Ez/1)

94 Wonderfully done...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 09:57 AM (FtULh)

95 88 Yeah, Linus, that’s a great flick.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 09:57 AM (77rzZ)

96 Michelangelo didn’t paint the Sistine chapel ceiling on his back. That’s a very enduring myth, but he painted the ceiling standing up on special scaffolding he designed. It was the intense physical strain from leaning back and painting upwards for 4 years that left him physically broken.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at June 30, 2026 09:59 AM (qLMMh)

97 "--Saint Anne, commonly known as Saint Anne."
++++

Why the redundancy?

Posted by: Larry, brother of Darryl and Darryl at June 30, 2026 09:59 AM (2Ez/1)

98 "--Saint Anne, commonly known as Saint Anne."

But everyone knew her as Nancy.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 30, 2026 10:00 AM (9KCLn)

99 "--Saint Anne, commonly known as Saint Anne."

But everyone knew her as Nancy.
Posted by: Tonypete

My name's Jeff

Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2026 10:01 AM (mXpUo)

100 Something that makes this painting special is the three generational aspect, unusual when dealing with Mary and Christ. Anne is looking with love and pride at her daughter just as Mary is looking at Christ. That, to my mind, adds a very human element to a religious image. No halo, no heavenly 'glow', just the love of grandmother to daughter to baby.

Posted by: JTB at June 30, 2026 10:01 AM (yTvNw)

101 @96

>>It was the intense physical strain from leaning back and painting upwards for 4 years that left him physically broken.

So he wasn't quite as brilliant as advertised.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 30, 2026 10:02 AM (XV/Pl)

102 "96 Michelangelo didn’t paint the Sistine chapel ceiling on his back. That’s a very enduring myth, but he painted the ceiling standing up on special scaffolding he designed. It was the intense physical strain from leaning back and painting upwards for 4 years that left him physically broken."

There was a freeware VR app on the sistine chapel that included a portion of standing on that scaffolding and trying to paint a portion - you really did get an idea of the posture/strain Michelangelo must've gone through, and the app overall did well at getting the perspective and scale across.

Posted by: MD Mike at June 30, 2026 10:02 AM (YWgF5)

103 Saint Anne chooses her grandma name:

https://youtu.be/FEnw-TDuwn0

Posted by: It's a Southern Thing at June 30, 2026 10:04 AM (2Ez/1)

104 Well, give the people what they want . . .

Mamdani Admits Anti-Israel Sentiment Led to Election Victories By His Radical NYC House Candidates

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 10:04 AM (ndZc7)

105 Amy Day Comey O’Connor is the David Souter of Rehnquists.

Posted by: Heroq at June 30, 2026 10:04 AM (AiNp4)

106 Mamdani Admits Anti-Israel Sentiment Led to Election Victories By His Radical NYC House Candidates
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 10:04 AM (ndZc7)

What’s there to admit? That was the entire campaign.

Posted by: Heroq at June 30, 2026 10:06 AM (AiNp4)

107 Posted by: steevy at June 30, 2026 09:56 AM (YwEeS)

That is in some part because now when rightists protest, 'Antifa' fascist street goons show up to crack skulls, while cops stand in alert readiness to protect the thugs from eeeebil Reich-wing self-defense. The Big Media demonization of the Proud Boys was because they were short-circuiting the Assailants' Veto, which TPTB had blessed and maybe even engineered.

Posted by: SciVo, known as "SciVo" at June 30, 2026 10:06 AM (Sy6m/)

108 I really like this painting.

FoxNews -SC upholds tranny sports bans.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 30, 2026 10:06 AM (Sco7b)

109 BREAKING: 1st decision down from Kavanaugh...girls can have girls sports in schools. Vote is confusing b/c 2 liberals concurred in part and dissented in part, and I don't care to figure out if it was the same part.

So 6-3 with possible 8-1 on parts...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 30, 2026 10:06 AM (tOcjL)

110 Whoa...CBS broke into "Let's Make a Deal" for the trannies.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 30, 2026 10:07 AM (Sco7b)

111 Supreme Court upholds laws banning trans athletes.

Posted by: Case at June 30, 2026 10:07 AM (IY9No)

112 112 Supreme Court upholds laws banning trans athletes.
Posted by: Case at June 30, 2026 10:07 AM (IY9No)

A win... I'll take it

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 10:08 AM (FtULh)

113 87 He was, get this, lying
Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA), who told the New Republic he would not send a delegation to the fair in honor of America 250 after his administration said it canvassed opinions among Pennsylvania businesses and told the reporter, “None of them were interested.”
Posted by: steevy at June 30, 2026 09:55 AM (YwEeS)

You broke the 100 comment rule!!1 (so I have to quote the whole thing)
Anyway, after canvassing New York City businesses, Don Corleone finds that nobody is interested in prosecuting the so-called "mafia" which does not exist.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 10:08 AM (gKWVE)

114 Sad that such common sense has to be "upheld" by the courts.

Posted by: steevy at June 30, 2026 10:08 AM (YwEeS)

115 Could it be that the "official" name is the longer one mentioning Jesus, Mary and Saint Anne, but it's colloquially known as "Saint Anne".?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 30, 2026 10:08 AM (GaEpB)

116 115 Sad that such common sense has to be "upheld" by the courts.
Posted by: steevy at June 30, 2026 10:08 AM (YwEeS)

True

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 10:09 AM (FtULh)

117 The word you're looking for is transexual.
Gender refers to possessive pronouns.

Posted by: Please make a note of it at June 30, 2026 10:09 AM (2Ez/1)

118 BREAKING: 1st decision down from Kavanaugh...girls can have girls sports in schools. Vote is confusing b/c 2 liberals concurred in part and dissented in part, and I don't care to figure out if it was the same part.

So 6-3 with possible 8-1 on parts...
Posted by: Nova Local

Justice Jackson is dissenting on the grounds that because we don't know what a woman is it is impossible to issue an opinion.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 30, 2026 10:09 AM (obVEo)

119 >>Supreme Court upholds laws banning trans athletes

Winning...

Posted by: one hour sober, commonly known as "one hour sober" at June 30, 2026 10:09 AM (J4Dwc)

120 Whoops, I thought it was a 50 comment rule since I saw a few off topics. My bad.

Posted by: steevy at June 30, 2026 10:09 AM (YwEeS)

121 Couple of rocket surgeons.

Joy Behar Joins Larry David in Mocking America’s 250th

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 10:09 AM (ndZc7)

122 great ruling on female sports! ok yay

I know the other one is gonna suck so

trying to enjoy the upcoming holiday anyway!

and this was a great ruling

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 30, 2026 10:10 AM (j+aD2)

123 I always hold up Santa Anna as an exemplar of history's worst, most inept, most amoral and destructive leaders. People who ruin their countries through incompetence, malice, and vanity.

If Pancho Villa had served 11 terms as Mexico's Presidente, the country would probably be better off.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 30, 2026 10:10 AM (BI5O2)

124 CNN said yesterday, birthright citizenship is today too.
I hope it's a day of liberal tears.

MS Now - the DEI team is talking about the civil rights yawn yada yada yada

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 30, 2026 10:10 AM (Sco7b)

125 The Bundesmarine has just cancelled the F126 frigate programme.

The F126 frigate project was envisioned as a six ship multi-mission class under Ursula van der Leyen's leadership. Total cost was supposed to be ten billion Euros but the programme has been bedeviled with 'little' problems like the software used by the Dutch company to design the frigate was incompatible with the computers in the German shipyards.

Delivery dates slipped until 2027 for the first ship and the costs for the whole class ballooned to an estimated EIGHTEEN billion Euros. After spending three billion Euro the whole programme has been cancelled in favor of a smaller eight ship frigate class that is only supposed to cost TWELVE billion Euro.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 30, 2026 10:10 AM (2GVsD)

126 News story seen: World Cup has given Boston's dating scene a kick start.

Now...the World Cup had a bunch of tourists come here for a very short time so I think dating isn't the right term more like..."World Cup has given Boston's one night stand scene a kick start."

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 10:11 AM (sKqQm)

127 121 Couple of rocket surgeons.

Joy Behar Joins Larry David in Mocking America’s 250th
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 10:09 AM (ndZc7)

Sorry.. No matter the vile you spew the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is coming on July 4th...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 10:11 AM (FtULh)

128 Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA), who told the New Republic he would not send a delegation to the fair in honor of America 250 after his administration said it canvassed opinions among Pennsylvania businesses and told the reporter, “None of them were interested.”

I can confirm he was lying. or at least, the CoC of PA didn't contact any businesses.

I work with PA businesses and some of them are really pissed off. they are working with the CoC now to get the booth looking good!

Josh is a snake. he LIED.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 30, 2026 10:11 AM (j+aD2)

129 Saw this on Insty. You don't say...

Barrett’s supporters inside the White House — including White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and Vice President Mike Pence — moved quickly to lock in their pick before Trump could change his mind. They ran out the clock.

Posted by: steevy at June 30, 2026 10:11 AM (YwEeS)

130 PS re Josh Shapiro, he needs to figure out that when the leopards come for his face, the party of "please stay off our faces" is just going to point and laugh. See also Scott Wiener (well, for those guys who haven't seen it already).
There are plenty of Jews whose faces I'd be happy to protect from leopard attacks, including some Democrats, but Shapiro can get fucked. In his face.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 10:12 AM (gKWVE)

131 MS Now - the DEI team is talking about the civil rights yawn yada yada yada

civil rights for troons

dear Lord whatever

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 30, 2026 10:12 AM (j+aD2)

132 Same as yesterday. Loss on the big thing (anchor babies and mail in votes) win on the small thing (trannys and firing people).

The trannys in sports thing is at the end of the day a minor thing. It doesn’t affect most people’s lives. But millions of anchor babies voting affects everyone.

Posted by: Heroq at June 30, 2026 10:12 AM (AiNp4)

133 News story seen: World Cup has given Boston's dating scene a kick start.

Now...the World Cup had a bunch of tourists come here for a very short time so I think dating isn't the right term more like..."World Cup has given Boston's one night stand scene a kick start."

Posted by: 18-1

Boston is going to have their own Tartan Army in 9 months.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2026 10:12 AM (mXpUo)

134 If Pancho Villa had served 11 terms as Mexico's Presidente, the country would probably be better off.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Columbus, NM would likely look like the NORK DMZ.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 30, 2026 10:12 AM (obVEo)

135 CNN said yesterday, birthright citizenship is today too.
I hope it's a day of liberal tears.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 30, 2026 10:10 AM (Sco7b)

There is no fencing around the Supreme Court and there have been no leaks.

That indicates 6-3 or 7-2 against Trump.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 30, 2026 10:12 AM (xA5g+)

136 "Delivery dates slipped until 2027 for the first ship and the costs for the whole class ballooned to an estimated EIGHTEEN billion Euros. After spending three billion Euro the whole programme has been cancelled in favor of a smaller eight ship frigate class that is only supposed to cost TWELVE billion Euro."
++++

Amateurs.

Posted by: The ZUMWALT Class destroyers at June 30, 2026 10:12 AM (2Ez/1)

137 132 Same as yesterday. Loss on the big thing (anchor babies and mail in votes) win on the small thing (trannys and firing people).

I think the firing people was a big one

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 10:13 AM (FtULh)

138 the "firing people" thing is actually huge

really huge

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 30, 2026 10:13 AM (j+aD2)

139 I go in there every now and then to rescue the stuff from our pagan population.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 30, 2026 09:53 AM

Good plan.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 30, 2026 10:13 AM (kgE5c)

140 Thinking it through Boston women probably would prefer a "date" with someone in a skirt so them liking the Scots does make sense.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 10:14 AM (sKqQm)

141 Did you ever visit Gargoyles, Grotesques & Chimeras

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https://tinyurl.com/39yabu9y

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 10:14 AM (ndZc7)

142 Reason no Ounts was in the painting?

Posted by: Eromero at June 30, 2026 10:14 AM (LHPAg)

143 As I understand the Title IX ruling it is left up to the States to decide what to do. This is going to awkward in California since the Communists are hell bent to force guys into girls sports.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 30, 2026 10:15 AM (obVEo)

144 Thinking it through Boston women probably would prefer a "date" with someone in a skirt so them liking the Scots does make sense.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 10:14 AM (sKqQm)

I don't know if this is true.

Over and over and over, we've seen videos of leftist women complaining that the manly man they're dating turned out to be conservative.

"Why are all the men I attracted to conservative?!??!"

Well... Because you're attracted to men, schmoopy.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 30, 2026 10:15 AM (xA5g+)

145 There is no fencing around the Supreme Court and there have been no leaks.

That indicates 6-3 or 7-2 against Trump.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 30, 2026 10:12 AM

Sadly, I think this is the case.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 30, 2026 10:15 AM (kgE5c)

146 There was a story a while back where the Scots were drinking the Boston Bars out of beer and they were pretty much left with Bud Light.

Back to projects.

Hmmm...CBS showed a breakdown of the SC with 3 libs and 6 conservatives. Always leave them laughing.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 30, 2026 10:15 AM (Sco7b)

147 I was told the World Cup would be a massive failure because ice didn’t allow any foreigners in. And the entire world was boycotting Trump too.

Was I lied to by the msm? Say it ain’t so.

Posted by: Heroq at June 30, 2026 10:16 AM (AiNp4)

148 136 "Delivery dates slipped until 2027 for the first ship and the costs for the whole class ballooned to an estimated EIGHTEEN billion Euros. After spending three billion Euro the whole programme has been cancelled in favor of a smaller eight ship frigate class that is only supposed to cost TWELVE billion Euro."
++++

Amateurs.
Posted by: The ZUMWALT Class destroyers at June 30, 2026 10:12 AM (2Ez/1)
Like rubber ducks in a bath tub.
H. Rickover

Posted by: Eromero at June 30, 2026 10:16 AM (LHPAg)

149 Did you ever visit Gargoyles, Grotesques & Chimeras

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https://tinyurl.com/39yabu9y
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 10:14 AM

*snort*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 30, 2026 10:17 AM (kgE5c)

150 One saint is like, awe come here. The other has that I’m about to whoop some ass look. I guess the Christ child had some moments.

Posted by: JROD at June 30, 2026 10:17 AM (1+Mqc)

151 If the troops hadn't loaded up their wagons and made the arduous trip across rivers, mountains, and plains in the face of Indian attacks we wouldn't even have a California or Portland!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 10:17 AM (ndZc7)

152
Lamb, therefore art.

Nice.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 10:18 AM (O0L8i)

153 “we wouldn't even have a California or Portland!”

Would be heavenly.

Posted by: Heroq at June 30, 2026 10:18 AM (AiNp4)

154 There was a story a while back where the Scots were drinking the Boston Bars out of beer and they were pretty much left with Bud Light.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 30, 2026 10:15 AM

I love the interview with the Scot who said "They ran out of beer...all they had was Bud Light."

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 30, 2026 10:19 AM (kgE5c)

155 117 The word you're looking for is transexual.
Gender refers to possessive pronouns.

Posted by: Please make
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You mean, queer.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 10:19 AM (vPv7/)

156 128
Josh is a snake. he LIED.
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 30, 2026 10:11 AM (j+aD2)

He's a politician. It's another day that ends in the latter "Y".

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 30, 2026 10:19 AM (N39Ws)

157 Leonardo da Vinci is no Thomas Kinkade. It had to be said.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 30, 2026 10:19 AM (obVEo)

158 Well... Because you're attracted to men, schmoopy.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 30, 2026 10:15 AM (xA5g+)

*thumbs up*

Posted by: Jerry Seinfeld at June 30, 2026 10:20 AM (P7vXf)

159 St Anne is Mary's mom, so that's 3 generations in the painting

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 30, 2026 10:21 AM (yw9lQ)

160 I don't view the Supreme Court deciding that is legal to ban men from women's sports as a little thing at all. This was clearly an attempt by the communists to further degrade western society which is fight taking place on many fronts.

Every battle we win is a step toward restoring our society and there is no bigger fight.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 30, 2026 10:21 AM (viF8m)

161 154
I love the interview with the Scot who said "They ran out of beer...all they had was Bud Light."
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 30, 2026 10:19 AM (kgE5c)

Which implies Budlight Beer. Q.E.D.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 30, 2026 10:21 AM (N39Ws)

162 Lamb, therefore art. Nice.

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No Dog. Not Art.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 30, 2026 10:21 AM (obVEo)

163 It's going to look bad for Shapiro if there is a coalition of PA businesses on the Mall all of whom go on viral podcasts explaining what a turd their governor is.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2026 10:21 AM (gKWVE)

164 Otto Penn also known as, "Otto Penn"

Posted by: Otto Penn at June 30, 2026 10:22 AM (sJHOI)

165 160 I don't view the Supreme Court deciding that is legal to ban men from women's sports as a little thing at all. This was clearly an attempt by the communists to further degrade western society which is fight taking place on many fronts.

Every battle we win is a step toward restoring our society and there is no bigger fight.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 30, 2026 10:21 AM (viF8m)
Restoring civilization.

Posted by: Eromero at June 30, 2026 10:23 AM (LHPAg)

166 Justice Jackson is dissenting on the grounds that because we don't know what a woman is it is impossible to issue an opinion.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 30, 2026 10:09 AM (obVEo)

Oh noes he din int!

Posted by: Kunta Kinte Jackson at June 30, 2026 10:23 AM (K5H/e)

167 105 Amy Day Comey O’Connor is the David Souter of Rehnquists.
Posted by: Heroq at June 30, 2026 10:04 AM (AiNp4)

Rehnquist was a reliable conservative vote who understood, probably better than any other rightleaning GOP court pick, that the Court was political in nature and sought to move it rightward as a first principle. Anyone shitting on Rehnquist has no idea what they are talking about.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 30, 2026 10:23 AM (DL7HR)

168 I love the interview with the Scot who said "They ran out of beer...all they had was Bud Light."
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 30, 2026 10:19 AM (kgE5c)

Which implies Budlight isn't Beer. Q.E.D.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 30, 2026 10:21 AM

FIFY.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 30, 2026 10:23 AM (kgE5c)

169 Josh Shapiro is an asshole. No businesses from PA would participate. What a fucking lie.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 30, 2026 10:23 AM (P7vXf)

170 I *think* that critter is supposed to be a lamb, which seems appropriate, but maybe Leonardo was having a case of the Mondays when he painted it.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 10:23 AM (R+iUD)

171 Damn limeys!

British juvie facility in trouble for using children’s therapy ferrets to kill rats

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 10:24 AM (ndZc7)

172 It's going to look bad for Shapiro if there is a coalition of PA businesses on the Mall all of whom go on viral podcasts explaining what a turd their governor is.
Posted by: gKWVE

Nice write up over on Insty about the effort to get PA businesses to step up and get the booth running.

Posted by: Tuna at June 30, 2026 10:24 AM (lJ0H4)

173 163 It's going to look bad for Shapiro if there is a coalition of PA businesses on the Mall all of whom go on viral podcasts explaining what a turd their governor is.

well, they aren't going to do that. that would be dumb. the left is very petty and will shut you down.

but they are stepping up and participating! I'm very proud of them. show him up just by being positive and doing stuff, going around that twatwaffle.

the only one who won't help is Hershey, which is a mega-international-corp now and sucks beyond the telling of it.

they bought up Wilbur chocolates and now they stink ice. my favorite chocolates!

Ashers still rules tho.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 30, 2026 10:25 AM (j+aD2)

174 British juvie facility in trouble for using children’s therapy ferrets to kill rats
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In trouble for what, exactly? Unless they call their juvenile delinquents "rats", then I can see a possible issue.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2026 10:25 AM (Dv3i1)

175 From the Morning Report:

Rare tick-borne virus turns deadly fast as US cases reach record high, experts warn

Typical panic porn piece about a disease diagnosed in 78 people in the U.S. last year.

Ironically, in this instance, setting one's hair on fire might be an effective preventive measure against the virus-carrying ticks.

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at June 30, 2026 10:26 AM (I0N4X)

176 169 Josh Shapiro is an asshole. No businesses from PA would participate. What a fucking lie.

it was an obvious lie

even Fetterman basically said it was.

lol you go lumpy!

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 30, 2026 10:26 AM (j+aD2)

177 Lamb, therefore art. Nice.

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No Dog. Not Art.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions

Lambs are dog adjacent.

Posted by: Tuna at June 30, 2026 10:26 AM (lJ0H4)

178 174 British juvie facility in trouble for using children’s therapy ferrets to kill rats

jeez let ferrets be ferrets!

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 30, 2026 10:26 AM (j+aD2)

179 171 Damn limeys!

British juvie facility in trouble for using children’s therapy ferrets to kill rats
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 10:24 AM (ndZc7)
Citizen Ferret.

Posted by: Eromero at June 30, 2026 10:27 AM (LHPAg)

180 Blurry.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2026 10:27 AM (mPXxA)

181 SCOTUS either screws the pooch or splits the baby. No chance of a clear moment of sanity.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 30, 2026 10:28 AM (31O/V)

182 Hollywood! Am I right?

[Former child star] Daveigh Chase’s official cause of death has been confirmed.

The “Ring” star’s primary cause of death was listed as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), according to a Los Angeles County Medical Examiner report obtained by Page Six Monday.

Also listed was chronic polysubstance use, which is described as the use of more than one drug in a short period of time, per Cleveland Clinic.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 10:28 AM (ndZc7)

183 Of fuck me. I meant Kennedy not Rehnquist.

Too early in the morning.

lol

Posted by: Heroq at June 30, 2026 10:28 AM (AiNp4)

184 Ironically, in this instance, setting one's hair on fire might be an effective preventive measure against the virus-carrying ticks.

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me!
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Read that the cartel's are sending them across the border for dual purpose; spoil our food supply and make us sick. Either way is a win for them. Disrupt the economy too.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 10:29 AM (vPv7/)

185 >>> 145 There is no fencing around the Supreme Court and there have been no leaks.

That indicates 6-3 or 7-2 against Trump.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 30, 2026 10:12 AM

Sadly, I think this is the case.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 30, 2026 10:15 AM (kgE5c)

I'd expect our derp state twats only to put fencing up as a propaganda measure, to show how a 'no' to birthright citizenship would stir up the far-right mobs to get all insurrectiony and stuff. However, the no-leaks bit is not encouraging.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 10:29 AM (R+iUD)

186 Rare tick-borne virus turns deadly fast as US cases reach record high, experts warn

Typical panic porn piece about a disease diagnosed in 78 people in the U.S. last year.

Ironically, in this instance, setting one's hair on fire might be an effective preventive measure against the virus-carrying ticks.
Posted by: muldoon,

Since I died already from Covid, tax cuts, net neutrality and killer bees I kinda don’t care.

Posted by: Heroq at June 30, 2026 10:29 AM (AiNp4)

187 Damn limeys!

British juvie facility in trouble for using children’s therapy ferrets to kill rats
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 10:24 AM

I damn thee, Limeys!

Posted by: Navin R. Johnson at June 30, 2026 10:29 AM (kgE5c)

188 Then there's the Scottish World Cup fan who wants to stay in the U.S. for a spell and is applying for a some sort of visa that will allow him to do so.

Problem for him is that he has over a decade's worth of anti-Trump posts on his social media pages.

Ha, good luck on your visa pursuit, bawbag.

Posted by: one hour sober, commonly known as at June 30, 2026 10:30 AM (J4Dwc)

189 Woke is like Kryptonite.

Supergirl didn’t just flop at the box office this weekend; it is a flop of epic proportions, an abysmal failure that will be remembered only as a failure.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 10:30 AM (ndZc7)

190 Odds on Roberts declares Birthright is not a tax thus pack sand America; plus how do you like your 250th Bday now?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 30, 2026 10:30 AM (obVEo)

191 d expect our derp state twats only to put fencing up as a propaganda measure, to show how a 'no' to birthright citizenship would stir up the far-right mobs to get all insurrectiony and stuff. However, the no-leaks bit is not encouraging.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 10:29 AM (R+iUD)

I don't know if anyone would even believe that.

Nobody boards up their store because Republicans might riot.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 30, 2026 10:32 AM (xA5g+)

192 168 "wet air beer" is how it appeared on von stuke's menu.

Posted by: cmeat at June 30, 2026 10:32 AM (R11M+)

193 So what else is new?

Tim Graham: Left Feminist Fashionistas Uncork Ugliness Against Usha Vance

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 10:32 AM (ndZc7)

194 I have t followed the supergirl thing at all.
Was it super woke where everyone is gay or tranny? Or just typical we have to get a diverse cast woke, like every movie.

Posted by: Heroq at June 30, 2026 10:32 AM (AiNp4)

195 Could it be that the "official" name is the longer one mentioning Jesus, Mary and Saint Anne, but it's colloquially known as "Saint Anne".?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 30, 2026 10:08 AM (GaEpB)

More than could. Is be.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 10:33 AM (KqZez)

196 Then there's the Scottish World Cup fan who wants to stay in the U.S. for a spell and is applying for a some sort of visa that will allow him to do so.

Problem for him is that he has over a decade's worth of anti-Trump posts on his social media pages.

Ha, good luck on your visa pursuit, bawbag.

Posted by: one hour sober, commonly known as at June 30, 2026 10:30 AM (J4Dwc)

This is exactly why I didn't freak out when Markwayne Mullins said all these Temporary Haitian-Americans could apply for assylum.

He said there were three options.
1 - apply for assylum.
2 - apply for a visa.
3 - go the fuck home.

And good luck with your application!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 30, 2026 10:33 AM (xA5g+)

197 I'd wager PA isn't going to the only state bucking their TDS afflicted governor and participating in the 250th.

And the ones "officially" skipping it are not sending a "state delegation" to the fair. I'd still bet on all states having some sort of representation there. Bad look for the state governments that bag it. But... whatever. Virtue signaling is important.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 30, 2026 10:34 AM (jehhT)

198
SCOTUS upholds birthright citizenship.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 10:34 AM (XJ22o)

199 Lambs are dog adjacent.
Posted by: Tuna at June 30, 2026 10:26 AM
++++

And they eat ivies.

Posted by: The nursery rhyme at June 30, 2026 10:34 AM (2Ez/1)

200 Birthright is out.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 30, 2026 10:35 AM (obVEo)

201 Birthright - against trump.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 30, 2026 10:35 AM (obVEo)

202 Posted by: Heroq at June 30, 2026 10:32 AM (AiNp4)

It's just a steaming pile of shit with an ugly hero who doesn't care about anything because she's that cool and above it all. Apparently someone eats shit in it.

The surprising thing to me is the critics aren't even pretending his time but I can't figure out why. They almost always pretend.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 10:35 AM (KqZez)

203 >>> 191 d expect our derp state twats only to put fencing up as a propaganda measure, to show how a 'no' to birthright citizenship would stir up the far-right mobs to get all insurrectiony and stuff. However, the no-leaks bit is not encouraging.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 10:29 AM (R+iUD)

I don't know if anyone would even believe that.

Nobody boards up their store because Republicans might riot.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 30, 2026 10:32 AM (xA5g+)

What was their excuse for putting up fencing all around Congress during the transition to the Brandon admin?

But it would require WORK to put fencing again.

... hey wait, there's a bunch of unemployed bureaucrats ...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 10:35 AM (R+iUD)

204 Birthright - against trump.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions

As expected. At least the road forward is clearer.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at June 30, 2026 10:36 AM (OUMaO)

205
Decision 6-3, Court struck down the EO, 194-page opinion. Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch wrote dissent.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 10:36 AM (XJ22o)

206 An interesting view of the Renaissance is that it is a rebellion, not a revival. "We don't like calculus, we are going back to geometric algebra." It was doomed at its start.

Posted by: Oglebay at June 30, 2026 10:36 AM (2ap+5)

207 The Virgin, the Christ Child, and Saint Anne

…and a… lamb?

For completeness's sake

Posted by: mindful webworker checking in for the day at June 30, 2026 10:36 AM (/4mOE)

208 201 Birthright - against trump.
____

Enough with this for or against Trump spin. The fact is Trump is fighting for America, so this would be a loss for America (and the rule of law).

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2026 10:37 AM (Dv3i1)

209 "[Former child star] Daveigh Chase’s official cause of death has been confirmed.

The “Ring” star’s primary cause of death was listed as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), according to a Los Angeles County Medical Examiner report obtained by Page Six Monday.

Also listed was chronic polysubstance use, which is described as the use of more than one drug in a short period of time, per Cleveland Clinic.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 10:28 AM"

+++++++

Police suspect fair play.

Posted by: The ghost of Dennis Miller at June 30, 2026 10:37 AM (2Ez/1)

210 >>> 204 Birthright - against trump.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions

As expected. At least the road forward is clearer.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at June 30, 2026 10:36 AM (OUMaO)

Is it wrong to suggest - nevermind, I'll just type and delete.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 10:37 AM (R+iUD)

211 Decision 6-3, Court struck down the EO, 194-page opinion. Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch wrote dissent.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

We knew that one wasn't going to our way.

Posted by: Tuna at June 30, 2026 10:37 AM (lJ0H4)

212 205
Decision 6-3, Court struck down the EO, 194-page opinion. Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch wrote dissent.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 10:36 AM (XJ22o

Why wait so long to release this ? Should have done it earlier in the year.. Of course we all expected as much

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 10:37 AM (FtULh)

213 Confirmed. Anchor babies are citizens.

No surprise really.

Posted by: Heroq at June 30, 2026 10:38 AM (AiNp4)

214 Convert the Chinese birthing centers to abortion centers.

Call it the 731 option.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 30, 2026 10:38 AM (1S/J9)

215 Roberts and Barrett again.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 30, 2026 10:38 AM (viF8m)

216 This Dem Congressional Candidate Praised Stalin, Communism

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And this Dem and this Dem and . . .

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 30, 2026 10:38 AM (ndZc7)

217
I mean, not wrote it, but dissented

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 10:38 AM (XJ22o)

218
Tick or Treat

The CDC's infectious disease choir
Warns of consequences most dire
So come on all you hicks!
Let's go to war against the ticks!
Come on people! Set your hair on fire!

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at June 30, 2026 10:39 AM (I0N4X)

219 Can we get people to stop adopting overseas babies please.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 30, 2026 10:39 AM (1S/J9)

220 And fucking Kavanaugh that pussy.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 10:39 AM (KqZez)

221 >>> 215 Roberts and Barrett again.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 30, 2026 10:38 AM (viF8m)

She really does use margarine in her baking, doesn't she.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 10:39 AM (R+iUD)

222 Well....we're fucked. It's time to Article V this.

Posted by: cheshirecat at June 30, 2026 10:39 AM (E4Afo)

223
Holy fuck Roberts decided on substance, not just whether it's the executive or the legislature:

Roberts concludes that children born to parents who are in the United States unlawfully or temporarily are "born in the United States" and "subject to the jurisdiction thereof." "Under the Constitution, they are citizens at birth."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 10:40 AM (XJ22o)

224
This is extremely fucked -- Roberts said the 14th Amendment ITSELF says they're citizens.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 10:41 AM (XJ22o)

225 Deport the parents anyway.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 10:41 AM (R+iUD)

226 The Virgin, the Christ Child, and Saint Anne dated to c. 1501–1519.
Leonardo da Vinci

The Virgin, the Christ Child, and Saint Anne is a prominent subject in Christian art. It portrays the generational lineage of Jesus: Saint Anne (the mother of Mary), the Virgin Mary, and the infant Jesus. This motif has inspired some of history's most celebrated masterpieces.

The most famous depiction is Leonardo da Vinci's unfinished oil painting, The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, created around 1501–1519. In this High Renaissance work, Mary is seated on her mother's lap while she tries to restrain the Christ child, who is grasping a sacrificial lamb that symbolizes his future Passion.

Wikipedia, in part, "It is likely that the painting was commissioned by King Louis XII of France following the birth of his daughter in 1499, but never delivered to him.[1] Leonardo probed into incorporating these figures together by drawing the Burlington House Cartoon (National Gallery)."

It's lovely. Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 30, 2026 10:41 AM (NFX2v)

227

Meh... As long as a conservative is President there's no problem with birthright citizenship because no one is getting across the border to drop a kid... Of course if a Dem is President......

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 10:41 AM (FtULh)

228
"Citizenship, then and now," Roberts concludes, "was the right to have rights--to freely participate in our political community. The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to 'every free-born person in this land.' We keep that promise today."

ugh

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 10:41 AM (XJ22o)

229 I said this was bad or worse and yep... Roberts chose worse. They've enshrined it now.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 10:41 AM (KqZez)

230 Also listed was chronic polysubstance use, which is described as the use of more than one drug in a short period of time, per Cleveland Clinic.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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He od'ed. Over loaded a depleted system.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 10:42 AM (vPv7/)

231 Congress can (but won't) pass a law called "Restore the 14th Amendment" that says their co-equal branch of government wrote birthright citizenship into the amendment illegally, legislation is reserved for the legislature, and that "subject to the jurisdiction" means what it says.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2026 10:42 AM (Dv3i1)

232 This birthright ruling is a huge win for the Communists who are hell bent to change the population. Ilhan Omar would disagree.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 30, 2026 10:42 AM (obVEo)

233 Leftists will be setting up back alley artificial insemination centers across the country.

Posted by: Oglebay at June 30, 2026 10:42 AM (2ap+5)

234
Meh... As long as a conservative is President there's no problem with birthright citizenship because no one is getting across the border to drop a kid... Of course if a Dem is President......
Posted by: It's me donna

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

I was thinking along these lines. Keep them out to begin with, and we shouldn't have to worry.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 10:42 AM (XJ22o)

235 I see Muldoon comments, but no limerick.

In that case, a toon (not mine) I have had up for days to pass along
https://bit.ly/it-rhymes

Posted by: mindful webworker passing a toon along at June 30, 2026 10:42 AM (/4mOE)

236 ugh that is a god-awful ruling

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 30, 2026 10:42 AM (j+aD2)

237 The commies would still do you know what to Cuck Roberts today and probably all the rest if they could. That's the amoooozing part.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 10:42 AM (KqZez)

238 If you like your overseas baby, you can keep your overseas baby.

Posted by: Any Boney Carrot at June 30, 2026 10:42 AM (2Ez/1)

239 223
Holy fuck Roberts decided on substance, not just whether it's the executive or the legislature:

Roberts concludes that children born to parents who are in the United States unlawfully or temporarily are "born in the United States" and "subject to the jurisdiction thereof." "Under the Constitution, they are citizens at birth."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 10:40 AM (XJ22o)

Yes, he did. At least it now clarifies the way forward...closed borders, permanentky limited immigration...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 30, 2026 10:43 AM (tOcjL)

240 Oh FFS.

Nothing is permanent just because some retard judge in a dress said it's super-duper for-reals permanent.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 10:43 AM (R+iUD)

241 "Citizenship, then and now," Roberts concludes, "was the right to have rights--to freely participate in our political community. The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to 'every free-born person in this land.' We keep that promise today."

ugh
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Affordable Care Bob strikes again.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 30, 2026 10:43 AM (obVEo)

242 3 of the 5 GOP justices appointed this century have been abysmal failures. Whoever is doing the vetting is either incompetent or playing for the other side.

If instead of 2 conservatives we would have had 4 conservatives, the country as we know it today would be vastly different and better.

Posted by: Heroq at June 30, 2026 10:44 AM (AiNp4)

243 I guess we have to make sure we don't let in any Chinese in to have babies here or make immigration rules such that if you're pregnant you can't come here. Or how about not letting anyone in that doesn't belong here.

Posted by: Jaimo at June 30, 2026 10:44 AM (2noDb)

244 Interesting that there's no rioting at the Supreme Court today. Had that been likely I wonder if the ruling would have been different. It apparently has some influence on the judiciary in certain situations.

No, I don't wonder why.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 30, 2026 10:44 AM (jehhT)

245 foreign adopters - and a lot of Xers did this - are a huge problem culturally for the US

and btw, a lot of them secretly or not so secretly regret it.

and they want to "share the wealth"

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 30, 2026 10:44 AM (j+aD2)

246 Today, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of women and girls.

Ketanji Brown Jackson, who couldn't define a woman in the past, is part of the minority

Posted by: SMOD at June 30, 2026 10:44 AM (RHGPo)

247 Yes, he did. At least it now clarifies the way forward...closed borders, permanently limited immigration...Posted by: Nova Local

Plus end chain migration.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 30, 2026 10:44 AM (obVEo)

248 244 Interesting that there's no rioting at the Supreme Court today. Had that been likely I wonder if the ruling would have been different. It apparently has some influence on the judiciary in certain situations.

as does SWATting, which clearly influenced Amy and Kav

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 30, 2026 10:44 AM (j+aD2)

249 Nothing is permanent just because some retard judge in a dress said it's super-duper for-reals permanent.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Which is true--Dred Scott got put paid to eventually, after all--but the real problem is the damage done in the meantime.

And there's going to be a lot of it.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at June 30, 2026 10:45 AM (OUMaO)

250 Packing ballot boxes and birthing centers. Fucking awesome.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 30, 2026 10:45 AM (P7vXf)

251 247 Yes, he did. At least it now clarifies the way forward...closed borders, permanently limited immigration...Posted by: Nova Local

Plus end chain migration.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 30, 2026 10:44 AM (obVEo)

That, too. Trump can now work to push those policies in his last 2 years+...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 30, 2026 10:46 AM (tOcjL)

252 Regret it?

Posted by: Dark Lix. at June 30, 2026 10:46 AM (DZ9Lv)

253 I was thinking along these lines. Keep them out to begin with, and we shouldn't have to worry.
____

We'll never allow illegals to come into the country. We'll give them all sorts of legal status like H1-B, or TPS, CBP app, or whatever. No worries!!!
-Bush, Romney, Thune, McConnell, Kasich, etc.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2026 10:46 AM (Dv3i1)

254 Kind of a bad day to post that painting.

I don't like to see children as enemies, but we have to adapt to the current circumstances...especially when you see stories like "Should White People Stop Having Babies."

Every single one of those children is a Trojan horse.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 30, 2026 10:46 AM (1S/J9)

255 Big surprise that justices with foreign adopted babies ruled in favor of foreign babies.

These people are fucking garbage.

Posted by: Heroq at June 30, 2026 10:46 AM (AiNp4)

256 Birthright citizenship upheld. Don't know the over/under yet.

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 10:46 AM (Jr5Lq)

257
Oh FFS.

Nothing is permanent just because some retard judge in a dress said it's super-duper for-reals permanent.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

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It's gonna be hard, though, since Roberts said it's the 14th itself that guarantees birthright citizenship.

Kavanaugh dissented on that part, btw. Said it was the EO that was wrong. Says the EO conflicts with the federal law "nless and until Congress enacts" new legislation.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 10:47 AM (XJ22o)

258 It is interesting that the court did permanently end unlimited TPS while giving all babies citizenship...seems they are clearly making their desired way forward clear...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 30, 2026 10:47 AM (tOcjL)

259 >>Don't know the over/under yet.

Illegal aliens over

American citizens under

Posted by: JackStraw at June 30, 2026 10:48 AM (viF8m)

260
Birthright citizenship upheld. Don't know the over/under yet.
Posted by: gp

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You could say it was 5.5 - 3.5 because Kavanaugh ruled against Trump but only because the EO was wrong. The rest of the majority said it's in the amendment itself, grrrr.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 10:48 AM (XJ22o)

261 256 Birthright citizenship upheld. Don't know the over/under yet.
Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 10:46 AM (Jr5Lq)

6-3, but reasoning differed on some of it for Kavanaugh...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 30, 2026 10:48 AM (tOcjL)

262 As I predicted, Benedict Roberts and Commie Island Barrett fuck the nation on "Birthright Citizenship."

* "Conservative" Battered Syndrome engaged *

Posted by: ShainS at June 30, 2026 10:48 AM (t/lcw)

263 Does this just strike down the executive order and the right of a president rule on this? Or does it make a fundamental resolution of the argument of jurisdiction?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 30, 2026 10:49 AM (DAZST)

264 Glenn R. says "Congress can still make it a felony to enter the United States for the purpose of having a child, or to facilitate that, of course." Not that I'm holding my breath, but Congress could also write a law saying, no, invader babies are NOT citizens and SCOTUS can eat shit.

The commies think they can just 'rule-based' their hallucinated utopia into existence, but...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 10:49 AM (R+iUD)

265 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. I'm sad like that lamb getting strangled. No Geezer Golf today. Sigh.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 30, 2026 10:49 AM (2WIwB)

266 Affordable Care Bob declared, "squat and pop is the law." He just handed the Jacobian revolutionaries a huge win and they most assuredly know it.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 30, 2026 10:49 AM (obVEo)

267 "The rest of the majority said it's in the amendment itself, grrrr."

*Sigh*

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 10:50 AM (Jr5Lq)

268 266 Affordable Care Bob declared, "squat and pop is the law." He just handed the Jacobian revolutionaries a huge win and they most assuredly know it.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 30, 2026 10:49 AM (obVEo)

Yeah, but they still have to get into this Country to drop one....

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 10:50 AM (FtULh)

269 211 Decision 6-3, Court struck down the EO, 194-page opinion. Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch wrote dissent.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

We knew that one wasn't going to our way.

Posted by: Tuna
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Roberts looks tired. He may be replaced next year.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 10:51 AM (vPv7/)

270 250 years is about right for an empire. This ruling while not unexpected is just about the final nail in the coffin.

Rule of law doesn’t mean anything anymore. Without that you have nothing but a place and people who are in the place. That’s not a country.

Posted by: Heroq at June 30, 2026 10:51 AM (AiNp4)

271 Affordable Care Bob declared, "squat and pop is the law." He just handed the Jacobian revolutionaries a huge win and they most assuredly know it.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 30, 2026 10:49 AM (obVEo)

Yeah, but they still have to get into this Country to drop one....
Posted by: It's me donna

We are one bad election away from that...See Biden..

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 30, 2026 10:51 AM (obVEo)

272 This was basically the worst case scenario, thanks Roberts. Blank check to sneak in and have a baby.

My hope was some muddled "Congress needs to address this" but no.

Posted by: Sharpie at June 30, 2026 10:51 AM (Bjzmv)

273 Joy and Larry can go screw themselves
Guess they wanted a monarchy or Communism

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 10:51 AM (sgkY8)

274
Does this just strike down the executive order and the right of a president rule on this? Or does it make a fundamental resolution of the argument of jurisdiction?
Posted by: Mr. Peebles

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That was Kavanaugh's baby-splitter (so to speak) when he joined the majority, but the rest said the 14th itself gives the birthright.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 10:51 AM (XJ22o)

275 Trump could declare that no non-citizen pregnant woman may remain in the US past 24 weeks (which is already in place on cruise ship travel)...a return home for pregnancy.

Posted by: Nova Local at June 30, 2026 10:51 AM (tOcjL)

276 >>Yeah, but they still have to get into this Country to drop one....

Just a reminder, Guam is considered US territory for citizenship purposes and it's a lot closer to China than the west coast.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 30, 2026 10:52 AM (viF8m)

277 276 >>Yeah, but they still have to get into this Country to drop one....

Just a reminder, Guam is considered US territory for citizenship purposes and it's a lot closer to China than the west coast.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 30, 2026 10:52 AM (viF8m)

I'm trying to counter my own pessimism

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 10:53 AM (FtULh)

278 I almost wish this had not been put in front o fthe Court unless we knew we were going to win because I think it's now a big step backwards.

Everyone can come out of the shadows now and declare themselves citizens,

Posted by: Sharpie at June 30, 2026 10:53 AM (Bjzmv)

279 That was Kavanaugh's baby-splitter (so to speak) when he joined the majority, but the rest said the 14th itself gives the birthright.

yes that would have been an acceptable decision.

as it is it re-writes the 14th to comport with the travesty that the Left has turned it into.

tbh I feel like American women are happy with just adopting foreign kids rather than carrying their own kids. plus the gay guys! so they're just peachy with this idiocy.

eventually no one will carry kids, it will be external wombs or some such. I mean, unless civilization collapses of course.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 30, 2026 10:53 AM (j+aD2)

280 It can be written that one is not in this country until officially admitted here through proper entry procedures. Therefore, even though one may be physically in country, for legal purposes, they are not here.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 10:53 AM (vPv7/)

281
Yeah, but they still have to get into this Country to drop one....
Posted by: It's me donna

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

One way CBP is actively preventing this is that if an obviously pregnant woman is entering the country on something like a tourist visa, she's got to show she has enough money on her to afford the hospital stay. No relying on EMTLA. Vive le skyrocketing medical costs?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 10:53 AM (XJ22o)

282 ugh that is a god-awful ruling

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 30, 2026 10:42 AM (j+aD2)

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"We have ruled that The U.S. Constitution is, in fact, a SUICIDE PACT! Thank you for your attention to this matter." -- SCOTUS

Posted by: ShainS at June 30, 2026 10:53 AM (t/lcw)

283 Just a reminder, Guam is considered US territory for citizenship purposes and it's a lot closer to China than the west coast.
Posted by: JackStraw

Good thing they're as screwed on baby-making as we are...

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at June 30, 2026 10:54 AM (OUMaO)

284 278 I almost wish this had not been put in front o fthe Court unless we knew we were going to win because I think it's now a big step backwards.

yep Sharpie good point

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 30, 2026 10:54 AM (j+aD2)

285 >>> 276 Yeah, but they still have to get into this Country to drop one....
==
Just a reminder, Guam is considered US territory for citizenship purposes and it's a lot closer to China than the west coast.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 30, 2026 10:52 AM (viF8m)

Give them their independence on our 250th.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 10:54 AM (R+iUD)

286 Went for a walk and came back finding that the SC says we have a lot more citizens. I hope the GOPe likes their slave labor at the moment because the Communists are going to use this to grow there power. Of course Congress could act.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 10:54 AM (f6yx7)

287 >>I'm trying to counter my own pessimism

No way to sugarcoat it, it was a bad decision for us. Congress can take steps to limit it but without a new Constitutional Amendment we are stuck with this awful situation.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 30, 2026 10:54 AM (viF8m)

288 Squat & Pop sounds like some kind of drive through birthing center franchise you'd find in Vegas.

Posted by: But that's just me at June 30, 2026 10:54 AM (2Ez/1)

289 281 - I don't give a shit whether the visitor has money to pay the medical costs, it's that her spawn will have citizenship.

Posted by: Jaimo at June 30, 2026 10:54 AM (2noDb)

290 281
Yeah, but they still have to get into this Country to drop one....
Posted by: It's me donna

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One way CBP is actively preventing this is that if an obviously pregnant woman is entering the country on something like a tourist visa, she's got to show she has enough money on her to afford the hospital stay. No relying on EMTLA. Vive le skyrocketing medical costs?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 10:53 AM (XJ22o)

I'd have them show the return airline ticket...and arrest if she misses the flight...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 30, 2026 10:55 AM (tOcjL)

291 eventually no one will carry kids, it will be external wombs or some such. I mean, unless civilization collapses of course.

Posted by: Black Orchid
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You should have two more to set example and assist the balance.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 10:55 AM (vPv7/)

292 Maybe we can clarify the rules for people running for president that were always obvious until Obama.

Posted by: Jaimo at June 30, 2026 10:55 AM (2noDb)

293 We also really need to address surrogacy. 1 guy in China has had over 100 babies via surrogates.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 10:56 AM (Dd38x)

294 We should have maternity ward built in Guantanamo. Send all pregnant illegals there. The Supreme Court's decision must be respected!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2026 10:56 AM (Dv3i1)

295 >>> 278 I almost wish this had not been put in front o fthe Court unless we knew we were going to win because I think it's now a big step backwards.

Everyone can come out of the shadows now and declare themselves citizens,
Posted by: Sharpie at June 30, 2026 10:53 AM (Bjzmv)

Maybe, maybe not. Would it have been better to let this rot continue without pushing it in people's faces until much too late?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 10:56 AM (R+iUD)

296 Larry David, A New York Jew hates America.
Never saw that coming.
Lol

Posted by: Sun Sets In The West at June 30, 2026 10:56 AM (TSRtE)

297 I bet a bunch of trips are getting booked now...."I'm not pregnant, I'm just fat. "

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 10:57 AM (FtULh)

298 Or the back seat of a Greyhound bus, rolling down highway 41.

Posted by: Rambling Man at June 30, 2026 10:57 AM (2Ez/1)

299 Trump could declare that no non-citizen pregnant woman may remain in the US past 24 weeks (which is already in place on cruise ship travel)...a return home for pregnancy.

Posted by: Nova Local at June 30, 2026 10:51 AM (tOcjL)

The left won't let the government see what books you check out.

You think they're going to let the Trump Administration compel pregnancy tests?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 30, 2026 10:57 AM (xA5g+)

300
I almost wish this had not been put in front o fthe Court unless we knew we were going to win because I think it's now a big step backwards.

Posted by: Sharpie

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Trump is a fighter who will try everything. So we know what we have to do now, which is to tighten up the borders even more. Stricter requirements for any kind of visa, eyes on pregnant visitors.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 10:58 AM (XJ22o)

301 Birth Tourism. Where is the f' is that in the Constitution?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 30, 2026 10:58 AM (obVEo)

302 This is the worst decision in the last 30 years, way worse than Obamacare.

We just got fucked like no other by two squishy Republicans.

I think putting this in front of the SC was too much of a gamble and shouldn't have happened.

Posted by: Sharpie at June 30, 2026 10:58 AM (iZHgT)

303 300 - and stop the H1B Visas and any other kind that keep jobs from Americans. These companies can go piss up a rope, if they don't like it they can set up shop in whatever hellhole they want to get their employees from.

Posted by: Jaimo at June 30, 2026 10:59 AM (2noDb)

304 This is a great time for a Monty DOOM thread.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 30, 2026 10:59 AM (xA5g+)

305 We never get what we want from our judges, the Left never has this problem.

Posted by: Sharpie at June 30, 2026 11:00 AM (iZHgT)

306 301 Birth Tourism. Where is the f' is that in the Constitution?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 30, 2026 10:58 AM
+++

Just inside the penumbra.

Posted by: Ruth Buzzy Ginzberg at June 30, 2026 11:00 AM (2Ez/1)

307 Aren't there still a couple of rulings left ?

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 11:00 AM (FtULh)

308 ok sharpie we get it you don't have to repeat yourself

now I think you're a FUD op

yes it sucked but it was a VERY sticky situation on the ground and while I'm not happy we have a lot of positive progress going on in the US right now.

not time to fall apart

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 30, 2026 11:01 AM (j+aD2)

309 >>> 302
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I think putting this in front of the SC was too much of a gamble and shouldn't have happened.
Posted by: Sharpie at June 30, 2026 10:58 AM (iZHgT)

But that's a problem by itself, isn't it.

People need to see things as problems for something to happen.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2026 11:01 AM (R+iUD)

310 >>I think putting this in front of the SC was too much of a gamble and shouldn't have happened.

In some ways nothing has changed. We were already handing out citizenship like candy to anyone who had a baby here.

Now the issue will start to get the attention it deserves and we can fight back. This was always a long shot but the battle lines are now clear.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 30, 2026 11:01 AM (viF8m)

311
I'd have them show the return airline ticket...and arrest if she misses the flight...
Posted by: Nova Local

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

The video I saw, I'm pretty sure the CBP officers did this, but the woman was visibly so far pregnant that it was clear she would probably not make it out of the country before giving birth. So they turned her around.

This could lead to some intrusive treatment at ports of entry, but we set the rules for entering our country.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 11:01 AM (XJ22o)

312 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at June 30, 2026 11:01 AM (NcvvS)

313 I am glad the pop and drop is now the law. I am going to rent houses in nice neighborhoods and have all kinds of broodmares from all over the world come here and have all kinds of new citizens.

For a fee of course.

Posted by: Mark Cuban at June 30, 2026 11:01 AM (K5H/e)

314 Damn Barrett turned out to be a shit. Who put her in Trumps ear for the SC?

Posted by: Reforger at June 30, 2026 11:02 AM (0dsIZ)

315 Supreme Court strikes down spending limits on political parties.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 30, 2026 11:02 AM (xA5g+)

316 btw this is NOT worse than the Ocare decision dear Lord wtf

it is bad tho. I'm not happy. there are a lot of moving parts here tho and Congress and the Executive do still hold the reins (as they should).

all the amendments were dumb after the Bill or Rights lol

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 30, 2026 11:02 AM (j+aD2)

317 NOOD

Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at June 30, 2026 11:02 AM (6BjcW)

318 I've seen (reproduced in books) da Vinci's preliminary studies for this painting. Based on what I've seen and read, he struggled with its composition. While this is speculation on my part, those preliminary sketches show a certain frustration, particularly with the Saint Anne figure. But then, da Vinci was a perfectionist. I imagine he was frustrated a lot. Geniuses often are.

Posted by: troyriser at June 30, 2026 11:02 AM (v1M8F)

319 "stop the H1B Visas"

CONCUR!

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 11:02 AM (Jr5Lq)

320
Aren't there still a couple of rulings left ?
Posted by: It's me donna

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Something came down about campaign finance, but I wasn't paying attention lol. We've got all the opinions for the day.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 11:03 AM (XJ22o)

321
HOLY FUCK

"Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the Supreme Court's opinion reversing Roe v. Wade, is retiring, the court announced Tuesday."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 11:03 AM (XJ22o)

322 Trump is a fighter who will try everything. So we know what we have to do now, which is to tighten up the borders even more. Stricter requirements for any kind of visa, eyes on pregnant visitors.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 10:58 AM (XJ22o)

Agree times 1000

Posted by: MAC V SOG at June 30, 2026 11:03 AM (P4Pk9)

323 "This could lead to some intrusive treatment at ports of entry, but we set the rules for entering our country.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2026 11:01 AM"
+++

Introducing my new Pee On A Stick visa kit!

Posted by: Ron Popeil at June 30, 2026 11:03 AM (2Ez/1)

324 Damn Barrett turned out to be a shit. Who put her in Trumps ear for the SC?

Posted by: Reforger at June 30, 2026 11:02 AM (0dsIZ)

Mitch.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 30, 2026 11:03 AM (xA5g+)

325 Alito retiring? WTF? Noooooooo.

Posted by: Heroq at June 30, 2026 11:09 AM (3wCO0)

326 Why not? The Supreme Court is a shitshow. It's the oldest tumor in this raddled old body politic, and it's rapidly augering in to late Republic chaos.

At the same time, the midterm outlook is fair-to-poor. Might as well throw the dice and see if Trump can get some young Torquemada through these cucks and onto the bench at the midnight hour.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 30, 2026 11:12 AM (BI5O2)

327 The only solution I see to today's birthright decision is to not let pregnant women come into the US. It should be an item checked on entrance cards given by all carriers flying, floating, etc. before they get off. A false statement is punishable by a fine and immediate deportation.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 30, 2026 11:13 AM (g8Ew8)

The Morning Report — 6/ 30 /26

Good morning kids. And so here we are saying farewell to June and the first half of 2026. Perhaps more surreal than that is the fact that this Saturday marks the 250th birthday of our nation. It all seems so surreal in that although the crass commercialism that was in your face for almost a year before the Bicentennial is nowhere to be found 50 years on as we approach our semiquincentennial. In a way it is kind of a troubling barometer of the disunity of our nation and society. As I and others have pondered the mixed signals emanating from the political landscape. How can we reconcile the coming of the Donald Trump era and all the promise of a return to some semblance of America as founded with the rise of tyrannical dictatorial anti-American/Western madness in the form of the Democrat/Socialist party.

As friend and friend of the blog Prof. Victor Davis Hanson elucidates in his latest outing:

It is fascinating but ultimately depressing to watch old-style Democrats say or do anything to avoid the new mob of Robespierres. Democrat candidates who recently begged for a Schumer/Pelosi/Jeffries endorsement now are telling them to get in line at the guillotine.
Jewish American Democrats are terrified that what happened to the primaried and defeated Rep. Dan Goldman of New York, an arch-Trump hater, could befall them. Goldman’s obnoxious showboating hatred of Trump and championing of neo-socialist agendas offered no defense against the Jacobins’ antisemitism and hatred of Israel.

And his noting of the guillotine is not merely a rhetorical flourish but given who and what we're dealing with perhaps prescient:

Andy O’Brien, the communications director for the Maine AFL-CIO, a statewide federation of 160 local unions, posted on social media, suggesting Democrats who refuse to support Democrat U.S. Senate nominee Graham Platner should face execution after a “revolution.”

And given the track record of Antifa, BLM and the Soros District Attorneys and thoroughly corrupt judges, you can bet your bottom dollar that is not mere hyperbole.

Well, there are the Democratic Socialists, and then of course there are the Democrat Socialites

Rep. Ro Khanna (D., Calif.) has emerged as a potential contender for the Democrat presidential nomination while denouncing the ultra-rich who "hoard wealth and engage in financial speculation." But the progressive, Silicon Valley congressman and his family live a life of staggering luxury, fueled by dynastic wealth they did not earn and protected by the same thicket of trusts, anonymous corporations, and foundations that Khanna condemns.

Oh, a slimy scumbag chutzpocritical hypocrite. I'm shocked, et tu Comrade Colonel Sanders, of the multiple multi-million dollar Vermont ski chalets?!

No flame throwers aimed at them, eh Antifa?!

On that note, I give you this little item.

Cops arrested a man outside a church in High Point, North Carolina, who allegedly had two flamethrowers, over 500 rounds of ammunition and other weapons.
High Point Police Department (HPPD) officers responded at approximately 10:15 a.m. June 28 to a report of an armed man in his vehicle outside Wesley Memorial Church, according to a police statement. The caller alleged that the man was dressed in camoflage garb. An off-duty officer in the church responded and was soon joined by additional officers. The man was arrested “without incident” and no injuries were reported, police said. . . Police identified the suspect as 44-year-old William S. Milliken III of Thomasville. Prosecutors charged him in part with “possession of weapon of mass destruction, impersonation of law enforcement officer, and possession of control substance schedule II.” Milliken’s truck was searched after he was taken into custody, police said. Officers found a CO2-powered launcher crafted to look like a handgun, a pair of flamethrowers, a pair of crossbows, over 500 rounds of ammunition, three knives, and oxycodone pills, according to the HPPD. (RELATED: ‘Teen Takeover’ Chaos Spreads After Masked Individual Pulls Out Apparent Flamethrower)

I'm sure he was just setting up for the church's July 4th festivities, nein?!

Aside from this, there is one story that is disturbing in the extreme.

Officials charged a 10-year-old Missouri boy with murder after he allegedly shot a 7-month-old baby in the head execution-style June 26, according to a report.
St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD) officers responded to the incident just after 4:00 p.m. and found the baby, identified as 7-month-old Kiyomi Parker, within the residence, according to an SLMPD press release. The baby died from her wounds. Homicide Detectives and Child Abuse Detectives later opened an investigation into the incident and learned that an unidentified 10-year-old boy shot the child, the SLMPD alleged. Witnesses said the 10-year-old retrieved a gun and shot the infant, according to court documents cited by First Alert 4. The boy confessed that he shot baby in the head, WTHR13 reported, citing a probable cause statement. . . Officers allegedly learned that Ca’Marion Pawnell, the baby’s father, stored a gun beneath a mattress in one of the residence’s bedroooms by interviewing witnesses, including the 10-year-old. The minor confessed that he was aware of where the firearm was and had retrieved it before, according to the court documents.

Well chalk up another one for LBJ's Great Society — or if Barack Obama had a son, he'd be Ca’Marion. I think this story should be emblazoned on the side of his Godzilla urinal-looking Presidential Library in (Jekyll'n) Hyde Park.

Have a good day,

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Victor Davis Hanson: The new socialist movement believes it can remake America—but its growing radicalism may prove the very thing that drives voters away and fuels a counterrevolution.
The New Socialists: Elite, Ungrateful, and Toxic as Ever

THE IRAN CONFLICT, "PEACE DEAL" (aftermath??)

The conflicting narratives from the U.S. and Iran cast doubt on the potential for meaningful progress in resolving tensions.
Trump Announces Iran Talks, Iranian Official Denies They Are Scheduled After Weekend Strikes.
The track record for another Iran Deal is as bad as it gets.
When Has Negotiating With Islamic Terrorists Ever Worked?

* * * * *
Iran's players face the regime before every opponent.
World Cup Hostages
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Andy O’Brien, the communications director for the Maine AFL-CIO, a statewide federation of 160 local unions, posted on social media, suggesting Democrats who refuse to support Democrat U.S. Senate nominee Graham Platner should face execution after a “revolution.”
Labor Union Leader: Execute Democrats Who Break with Graham Platner via Firing Squad
Police identified the suspect as 44-year-old William S. Milliken III of Thomasville. Prosecutors charged him in part with “possession of weapon of mass destruction, impersonation of law enforcement officer, and possession of control substance schedule II.”
Man Allegedly Arrested Outside Church With Flamethrowers, 500 Rounds Of Ammo
According to sources familiar with the matter, the grand jury in Manhattan has issued subpoenas as part of a probe launched by U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton for the Southern District of New York, one of the country’s most powerful districts for federal prosecutions. Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche authorized the investigation as the Trump administration seeks to crack down on fraud, money laundering and other financial crimes in the multibillion-dollar nonprofit industry.
Report — Follow the Money: DOJ Probes China-Based Billionaire Neville Roy Singham’s Funding of U.S. Leftists
"No Kings" is not an organization. It's a brand — a coalition model with Indivisible, MoveOn, and the group 50501 serving as the national coordinating backbone, providing training, digital tools, permits, and organizational infrastructure to hundreds of local groups that plug in underneath. The DSA is one of those groups, and their participation isn't accidental or incidental. It's official policy.
'No Kings' and the DSA
"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
By separating the spatial effects and then measuring the indirect “spillover effects,” this research paints a clearer picture of immigration’s overreach into communities, theoretically spread over the whole country.
New Study: Immigration Caused 40% Of Your Rent Hikes Over 10 Years
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
On Monday, Donald Trump sealed one of the most lasting parts of his legacy. In Trump v. Slaughter, the Court reaffirmed and reinforced the authority of presidents to determine who will carry out the functions of the Executive Branch. In so doing, the Court overruled one of the long-standing limits of presidential power in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States.
Jonathan Turley Op-Ed: Supreme Court allows Trump to say ‘you’re fired’ to meddling bureaucrats
Taken together, Cook and Slaughter reveal a chief justice once again attempting to split the baby between constitutional principle and institutional pragmatism.
John Roberts: Presidents Have Executive Power. Also John Roberts: No, They Don’t
This ruling reshapes the federal bureaucracy by allowing the President greater control over independent agencies, potentially preventing “unfireable” officials from undermining the agenda of elected officials.
Supreme Court Restores Presidential Power to Fire Federal Officials, Overturning 90-Year Deep State Shield.
Federal regulators, states, and tribes are battling over who controls sports betting.
The Coming Supreme Court Showdown Over Prediction Markets
Trump’s first term provided a hiatus from the abuse heaped on us by a profusion of regulations issued by an Administrative State. The second is off to an even better start.
Donald Trump – Regulation Buster
Betsy McCaughey: In 2023 and twice in 2024 a hesitant US Supreme Court declined to hear building owners’ challenges to New York state’s rent regulations. Lower courts acknowledged the regulations diminished the value of rental properties but said the state was balancing the rights of owners with the need to protect tenants. At the time, Justice Clarence Thomas said the constitutionality of New York’s rent regulations is “an important and pressing question” — and that he looked forward to a rent-control case that clearly demonstrates the government going too far to take an owner’s property.
Mamdani’s rent-freeze win could come back to bite him — at the Supreme Court

WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
The state coverups continue.
French Woman Prosecuted for Telling the Truth About Muslim Rapists
Why Muslim rape gangs are more common in northern Europe and the UK than elsewhere.
Jihadis Prefer Blondes
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS
“'Palestinian' Mexican American” Democrat blames Israel for fourth consecutive loss.
Munichian Candidate Update
SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
The Supreme Court’s decision may mark the end of Trump’s legal avenues to overturn the $5m judgment. Carroll has also won a separate defamation case against Trump, with an $83 million judgment, which he is also appealing.
Supreme Court Declines Trump’s Appeal in E. Jean Carroll Lawsuit.
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The group has been in turmoil amid growing revelations that dozens of “journalists” on its list were active combatants for Hamas and other militant Islamic groups
Committee To Protect Journalists Ousts Anti-Israel Heiress From Its Board As Group Launches Full Review of Its Controversial ‘Journalists Slain in Gaza’ List
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Crude now trades near $68 per barrel, but gasoline prices have declined more slowly.
Trump Demands Gas Retailers Slash Prices, Warns Of ‘Big Problems’
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
The hare-like panic is already traveling rapidly through the West, but the tortoise is slowly coming through with different information.
All Eyes On The Tortoise For The Plastics-In-Blood Panic
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Officers allegedly learned that Ca’Marion Pawnell, the baby’s father, stored a gun beneath a mattress in one of the residence’s bedroooms by interviewing witnesses, including the 10-year-old. The minor confessed that he was aware of where the firearm was and had retrieved it before, according to the court documents. (LBJ's Great Society strikes again - jjs)
REPORT: 10-Year-Old Accused Of Shooting Baby In Head Execution-Style
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Despite resistance from the teachers’ unions, we must implement merit-based pay for teachers and expand parental choice to improve educational outcomes.
Two Winners in Education: Merit Pay and School Choice
SECOND AMENDMENT
Virginia Scope reporter Brandon Jarvis published Campbell’s ruling, wherein he wrote, “…the Motion for Preliminary Injunction enjoining the Defendants from enforcing the subject Firearms Ban and Magazine Bans as contemplated by the recently enacted Senate Bill 749 and House Bill 217 is GRANTED.”
In the Nick of Time: NRA Secures Injunction Against Virginia ‘Assault Weapons’ and Magazine Ban
THE 2020 AND OTHER ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
The Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruled that state laws allowing for the counting of mail-in ballots after election day are not in violation of federal law, a blow to the Republican National Committee and President Donald Trump’s administration. (a nearly mortal blow to our republic - jjs)
SCOTUS Rules 5-4 to Permit Counting of Mail-In Ballots that Arrive After Election Day
Trump said the ruling was proof that Republicans needed to pass the Save America Act.
Trump Reacts To ‘Tremendous Loss’ At SCOTUS
The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday tossed out several proposed ballot measures that would have asked voters to redraw the state’s congressional maps before the 2028 election.
Blue State Supreme Court Derails Democrats’ Redistricting Push
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
Luna accused Gallego in April of sexual misconduct and campaign finance violations, prompting a months-long investigation by the committee. In a letter to Gallego, the committee concluded there was no evidence the senator violated any federal laws or Senate rules.
Senate Ethics Panel Tosses Out Complaint Against Eric Swalwell’s Buddy Ruben Gallego
"How communist of you."
Mamdani Darling Had Burner Account Flooded With Communist Fan Fiction
Khanna’s ultra-wealthy family depends on the same kind of secretive financial accounting and unearned wealth that he criticizes on the stump
‘Ro’ Me the Money! How Progressive Class Warrior Ro Khanna Lives Like the Oligarchs He ‘Fights,’ With In-Home Elevator, $190K Range Rover, and Family-Owned Golf Courses.
POLITICS
A majority of Democrat respondents, 55%, said they would rather live outside the United States than remain here. To which many of us might respond: What’s stopping you?
New Poll: Majority of Democrats Would Prefer to Live Overseas Than in the US
Do you have any idea what the DSA stands for? . . .
10 Questions Every Democrat Must Now Be Made To Answer
In other words, more than 90% of congressional Democrats declined to sign onto a statement opposing socialism, at a time when Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) candidates are surging. Yet rather than mount a group effort to stop the growing rise of socialism, most Democrats appear to have no problem with it.
The DSA Is The Logical Conclusion Of Democrats’ Insane, Anti-American Positions
Democrats didn’t stop them from taking over their party, but we can and must stop them from taking over entire state governments and our nation.
The DSA Takes Over The Democrat Party
Young and college-educated voters in denser urban areas formed a core bloc for many candidates aligned with the socialist left over the past few months, an analysis of primary election data found.
Here Are The Voters Backing Democratic Socialists
This failure is causing profound harm to America and Americans.
Congress Is No Longer Performing Its Constitutional Function
How a VIP dinner dustup became a social media myth.
John Thune and the Tempest in Rapid City
Nancy Pelosi is starting a new career at age 86, teaching at the Nancy Pelosi Institute for Representative Democracy at the University of California, Berkeley. We applaud her for planning an active life in retirement after Congress. But the name of her new institute — well, that’s a bit rich. A more accurate name would be: The Pelosi Institute for Partisanship in the Pursuit of Power. Because that is a more accurate description of her career.
Malig-Nancy Pelosi’s legacy: Power above all
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
The Great Replacement is a ‘conspiracy theory’ no more.
French Leftist Crows About How the French Are Being Replaced
An admission despite a decade-long effort to purge mass migration-critical officers.
German Police Officers: ‘This Country Is Finished’
They call him the "Batman of Lagos de Moreno.”
Authorities Hunt ‘Mexican Batman’ After Vigilante Justice
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
A rare and potentially fatal tick-borne illness currently spreading across the United States can be traced back to a 1958 case involving a young boy on a farm. The disease, known as Powassan virus, was named for the Ontario town near where it was first discovered.
Rare tick-borne virus turns deadly fast as US cases reach record high, experts warn
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
...Mayor Jacob Frey (D), who did so to support “our LGBTQIA+ neighbors.”
Democrat Minneapolis Mayor Lifts Ban on Gay Sex Bathhouses (prepping for an Obama visit- jjs)
Some members have vowed to continue the fight to keep the organization all female.
Daughters Of The American Revolution Betrays Its Mission By Rejecting Resolution To Keep Its Ranks Female
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Christian Toto: Misogyny! Superhero fatigue! Oh, and the movie is flat-out terrible, they admit
Legacy Media Mourns ‘Supergirl’s Box Office Collapse
But first, what exactly is Banana Ball? Imagine baseball and the circus had a baby that was naturally gifted in musical theater. This game is baseball with a sense of humor. "You've got to think differently," says owner Jesse Cole, "whatever is normal, do the exact opposite."
Banana Ball Proves That the Free Market Still Knows Best
To many younger Americans today, 'socialism' sounds less like state control and more like economic fairness — perhaps even a lifeline.
When the American Dream Dies, Socialism Rises
HITHER & YON
The story of the Jewish romance with the Left begins with the labor movement of the early 20th century—and it is one Ungar-Sargon recounts in vivid detail.
Book Review: ‘The Jews and the Left’ by Batya Ungar-Sargon

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1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 30, 2026 07:05 AM (0N4FZ)

2 Unmm, more people fighting for limited housing resources made the price go up?

Madness.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 30, 2026 07:11 AM (XV/Pl)

3 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 07:11 AM (u82oZ)

4 Top 10.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 30, 2026 07:12 AM (1IhIV)

5 thank you, JJ!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 30, 2026 07:12 AM (VyBeY)

6 "Ca’Marion Pawnell"

So much for the Rap career.

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 07:13 AM (MWfyi)

7 *Cops arrested a man outside a church in High Point, North Carolina, who allegedly had two flamethrowers, over 500 rounds of ammunition and other weapons.*
+++++

One flamethrower a month ought to be enough for anybody.

Posted by: Karen McAwfl at June 30, 2026 07:15 AM (2Ez/1)

8 There's Only The Fight™.

Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at June 30, 2026 07:16 AM (2Ez/1)

9 Thank you JJ. Morning all

It is surreal to me that I remember the bicentennial in 76… 50 years ago! Is the possible??

In my head anyway it was a much bigger deal in 76 than this milestone is this year. Much less hoopla

50 years long time. Reminds me of how Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died 50 years to the day after the Declaration. I always that was a remarkable “coincidence”… and by coincidence I mean ordained by God…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 07:17 AM (YetvJ)

10 NPR would like you to know:

”Venezuelans deported from the U.S. were killed hours later in powerful quakes".

Does NPR know how many American lives were saved because they were there and not here?

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 07:19 AM (MWfyi)

11 Happy Tuesday

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 30, 2026 07:19 AM (/+uur)

12 I hate autocorrect with the burning passion of a thousand suns. It sometimes makes my comments look like gibberish. Maybe ALL my comments are gibberish anyway. I should at least briefly scan before hitting post but impatience doncha know… the world must see my brilliant musings now!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 07:21 AM (YetvJ)

13
Wow! A nice, bright, shiny Morning Report!

*accidentally breaks something*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 07:21 AM (O0L8i)

14 Thank you J.J.

Hope you are doing well.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 07:21 AM (u82oZ)

15 Does the Vigilante Batman call duct tape "Bat Tape"?

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 07:21 AM (MWfyi)

16 It’s sad that even before I saw that the shooters name was Ca’Marion, I knew he was black.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 07:22 AM (orF8y)

17 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 07:24 AM (sgkY8)

18 Ca’Marion Pawnell
So much for the Rap career.

We want to help you, Mr. Pawnell. My brother and I run a privately-funded program to rehabilitate culturally disadvantaged people. We'd like to supply you with a home of your own, a car, a generous bank account, and employment with our company.

Posted by: Randolph Duke at June 30, 2026 07:27 AM (K5H/e)

19
Long day awaits. Call Her Majesty at 7:00, exercise Diana, drop off dry cleaning, stop at Lowe's and Kroger, get the garbage down to the road, then mowing and trimming.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 07:28 AM (O0L8i)

20 “Taking all spillover effects into account, a simultaneous 1 percentage-point increase in immigration in all PUMAs is associated with an average increase in native rent of 1.46 percent,” Dr. Richwine’s abstract reads.

Supply and Demand Who da hell would have thunk that?

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 30, 2026 07:28 AM (/+uur)

21 And some of them are wondering why "The Media" is dying a miserable and comedic death.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 07:29 AM (Ot/FD)

22 14 Thank you J.J.

Hope you are doing well.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 07:21 AM (u82oZ)

Hanging in there. Off for my regular MRI...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 30, 2026 07:30 AM (x0n13)

23 "Majority of Democrats Would Prefer to Live Overseas Than in the US"

I would prefer they live overseas too.

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 07:30 AM (MWfyi)

24 23 "Majority of Democrats Would Prefer to Live Overseas Than in the US"

I would prefer they live overseas too.
Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 07:30 AM (MWfyi)

Over, under, either works for me.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 07:31 AM (Ot/FD)

25 So much for all that "you people don't have a monopoly on Patriotism" stuff, huh?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 07:32 AM (Ot/FD)

26 It is surreal to me that I remember the bicentennial in 76… 50 years ago! Is the possible??

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 07:17 AM
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Something I've been paying attention to for quite a while now: I'll be in a fast food place, a grocery store, or a big box store, or even at a gas pump and I'll make note of the background music playing. Frequently it's a song I remember from high school, which was 50 years ago. And it's not a remake. It's the exact SAME recording from 50 years ago.
So, in 1975 was the background music recordings from 1925?
No, it wasn't.
I don't know what any of this means, but once you start listening for it, it's pervasive.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 30, 2026 07:33 AM (2Ez/1)

27 The ongoing scandal deepened last month after the Free Beacon reported that the CPJ had been quietly removing some militants’ names from its list of deceased "journalists" without publicly acknowledging the changes, and that the CPJ’s board of directors is brimming with anti-Israel sentiment with virtually no dissenting voices.
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Inherited great wealth is evil, I have come to believe. If the Committee To Protect Journalists did not have this billionaire heiress on it, they might be more credible, and less inclined to claim Israel is the bad guy in the Hamas fight.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 30, 2026 07:33 AM (rnoq1)

28 "the very thing that drives voters away."

Voters? F*ck voters. That's the point or goal -- to reach a post-voter or post-electoral socialist empire, to nullify the whole premise of voters and voting and accountability. It's so regressive and humiliating for a good socialist to have his credentials and performance, or his ideology's moral supremacy and right to rule, judged.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 30, 2026 07:34 AM (b4LBp)

29 18 - good one. Took me a second.

Posted by: Jaimo at June 30, 2026 07:35 AM (2noDb)

30 fd & Warai-otoko

North Korea would welcome new farm workers with open arms. Just think of the dating market for big, strong, American women with a nose ring to be led by NK men.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 07:35 AM (u82oZ)

31 "I'll be in a fast food place, a grocery store, or a big box store, or even at a gas pump and I'll make note of the background music playing. Frequently it's a song I remember from high school, which was 50 years ago. "

"The Girl From Ipanema" is timeless.

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 07:35 AM (MWfyi)

32 "The Girl From Ipanema" is timeless.
Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 07:35 AM (MWfyi)

BECAUSE TIME IS A FALSE CONSTRUCTION OF WHITE TRICKNOLOGY

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISSBERGER at June 30, 2026 07:36 AM (Ot/FD)

33 “The conflicting narratives from the U.S. and Iran cast doubt on the potential for meaningful progress in resolving tensions.
Trump Announces Iran Talks, Iranian Official Denies They Are Scheduled After Weekend Strikes.“

This is something where I honestly don’t understand Trumps motivations; I try to make sense of them and can’t. Over the last two days, he posted on Truth Social multiple assurances that Iran was coming back for more negotiations today, in Doha. The Iranian Foreign Ministry openly laughed at these claims and poured scorn on them, saying that they weren’t gonna negotiate shit anymore. Both accused the other side of lying.

So what happened? Today, Jared Kushner went to talk to some Qatari officials. Nobody from Iran showed up, obviously the “negotiations” are dead. Why pretend they’re not?

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 07:36 AM (orF8y)

34 Randolph Duke

I don't get it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 07:37 AM (u82oZ)

35 This suit focuses on the narrow case of so-called “zombie” apartments — units that stand empty and unrented due to a 2019 state law that tightly restricts how much owners can pass along to tenants when they spend what’s needed to get apartments up to code.

That leaves an estimated 57,000 zombie units sitting vacant, exacerbating the housing crunch and impoverishing building owners.

57000/2300000=2.4%

Socialist rules always always distort markets.

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 30, 2026 07:38 AM (/+uur)

36 Tom Servo

The target for all the negotiations hogwash is the easily spooked oil markets. Lower crude oil prices lead to midterm election success.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 07:39 AM (u82oZ)

37 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 07:40 AM (ExV1e)

38 So what happened? Today, Jared Kushner went to talk to some Qatari officials. Nobody from Iran showed up, obviously the “negotiations” are dead. Why pretend they’re not?
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 07:36 AM (orF8y)

There could be some small measure of petty dickishness involved.... "Look! Look! I'm negotiating! See! Wow, look at all the negotiating!"

Militarily, there's not much left to do but wait until the next phase of beating their asses begins anew. Let them scuttle around and generate intelligence for us while we bide our time. Might as well stand on the ropes and work the crowds, meanwhile.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 07:40 AM (Ot/FD)

39 So, in 1975 was the background music recordings from 1925?
No, it wasn't.
I don't know what any of this means, but once you start listening for it, it's pervasive.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 30, 2026 07:33 AM (2Ez/1)

Go to a slum dog C-store and listen to the stations theys gots playn. Someone gets shot or raped in the first 60 seconds of a song.

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 30, 2026 07:41 AM (/+uur)

40 >The conflicting narratives from the U.S. and Iran cast doubt on the potential for meaningful progress in resolving tensions.
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I nominate the above for Understatement of the Year

Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 07:42 AM (ZxPkt)

41 Rep. Ro Khanna (D., Calif.) has emerged as a potential contender for the Democratic presidential nomination while denouncing the ultra-rich who "hoard wealth and engage in financial speculation."

Khanna lives in a $6 million, 8,000-square-foot luxury home with a four-story elevator and so much premium marble that even the two laundry rooms have marble counters.
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Ro Khanna may not be the worst Democrat, since he hasn't publicly called for executions yet, but he certainly is right up there on the Hypocritical List. Vast wealth, all gifted to his wife and their children from her entrepreneurial father, make his material life possible. If he truly believes what he claims, he and she would renounce every penny, give it to the Treasury, and move into a Soviet style apartment. What a POS.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 30, 2026 07:43 AM (mnE7t)

42 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 07:43 AM (RIvkX)

43 She claims officers told her that identifying the suspect would be difficult because of a large backlog of 6,000 similar cases they were investigating involving ‘African and Black migrants’.

In fact, Muslims make up 10% of the French population, but an estimated 70% of the rapists.

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 30, 2026 07:43 AM (/+uur)

44 The DAR article hits home. Mrs VIA is currently working on her eligibility to join, and is facing the moral dilemma of should she join the organization or not. Apparently there were more shenanigans taking place with the vote that took place. Including locking folks inside the room for hours with no breaks for the bathroom to wear down the older more conservative members who were voting.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 30, 2026 07:43 AM (iMotb)

45 I used to have a different nic

Good morning! Hope you are doing OK. And keeping Texas free.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 07:44 AM (u82oZ)

46 Ro Khanna makes my skin crawl

He is a perfect Democrat
1. A dummy
2. Inherited wealth
3. Will to power

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 07:44 AM (RIvkX)

47 *Go to a slum dog C-store and listen to the stations theys gots playn. Someone gets shot or raped in the first 60 seconds of a song.*
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Sitting right here at the redneck bar, boss.

Posted by: Mama, trains, trucks, prison, and getting drunk at June 30, 2026 07:45 AM (2Ez/1)

48 So, in 1975 was the background music recordings from 1925?
No, it wasn't.
I don't know what any of this means, but once you start listening for it, it's pervasive.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 30, 2026 07:33 AM (2Ez/1)

My personal conviction is that the music of the 70s and 80s was peak. Nothing better…. They’ll be playing it in a hundred years still

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 07:45 AM (YetvJ)

49 My personal conviction is that the music of the 70s and 80s was peak. Nothing better…. They’ll be playing it in a hundred years still
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 07:45 AM (YetvJ)

You really don't hear a lot of 60's music out in public anymore that isn't Beatles or Stones. You never hear Motown just out in a grocery store. Not sure what the significance is, just an observation really.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 07:47 AM (Ot/FD)

50 Village Idiot's Apprentice
Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Obviously the DAR needs Mrs. VIA's help. She can leave if it is overrun, and the offical organization becomes a skin-suit over a communist wreck.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 07:47 AM (u82oZ)

51
French Leftist Crows About How the French Are Being Replaced

German Police Officers: ‘This Country Is Finished’

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Every single sentient person knows and sees what's happening to Western Europe. There is only one solution left and that is (violent) revolution to take these countries back, hang the traitors that allowed it to happen, and kick out every usurper muslim that was thrown the welcome mat.

If these things don't happen, Western Europe is done. I don't think enough people have any understanding just what is happening or how bad it is...or how utterly traitorous those in authority that have cultivated the demise of these countries are. I'm sorry to say that violent revolution is the only thing they have left. IMO...

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 30, 2026 07:47 AM (qBdHI)

52 Andy O’Brien, the communications director for the Maine AFL-CIO, a statewide federation of 160 local unions, posted on social media, suggesting Democrats who refuse to support Democrat U.S. Senate nominee Graham Platner should face execution after a “revolution.”
Labor Union Leader: Execute Democrats Who Break with Graham Platner via Firing Squad

As I noted in the Tech Thread, Graham "Maine Fuhrer" Platner just *looks* like he affects a cringe-inducing, poorly done, faux Irish accent when he's drunk. Now I'm not saying that anyone should be executed for that, but it would certainly be disqualifying for public office.

Posted by: SciVo at June 30, 2026 07:48 AM (Sy6m/)

53 Voters? F*ck voters. That's the point or goal -- to reach a post-voter or post-electoral socialist empire, to nullify the whole premise of voters and voting and accountability.

I honestly think that gives the DNC way too much credit. I've seen nothing resembling a cohesive plan out of them.

Used to be - you'd see a general coordination around election cycles. Two year kinda' plans. You could definitely see it out of the GOP after the Tea Party Wave. A coordinated effort to coopt what new members they could, and expel the rest, even if it cost them a couple cycles. It worked. They'd like to do it again regarding Trump - but they just can't pull it off now. Too many moles to whack. Just too much effort.

You definitely saw a DNC plan during Covid. But now ? They can't "plan" more than over a weekend until the next new cycle. I don't think they'll be much of a party in twenty years or so. Don't know if the GOP will be either. I'll put all my chips in on fractures in both parties. I think we get at least three before its over. Maybe four.

Posted by: Spring Reverb at June 30, 2026 07:48 AM (WeKpa)

54 So, in 1975 was the background music recordings from 1925?
No, it wasn't.
I don't know what any of this means, but once you start listening for it, it's pervasive.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 30, 2026 07:33 AM (2Ez/1)

In Spotify sales and other current indicators of taste, people under 30 much prefer music from the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s to anything that’s been mainstream over the last 20 years, with only a couple of exceptions.
Turns out we lived through a golden age of popular music. Who knew?

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 07:48 AM (orF8y)

55 In my head anyway it was a much bigger deal in 76 than this milestone is this year.

In 1976, Democrats were still in the "pretending to be Americans" phase.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 07:49 AM (ExV1e)

56 Warai-otoko

Time winnows popular music to only a few hits representative of an era. This is easily seen in classical music, and what gets played of music from 200 years ago. Only a few of those musicians are heard today.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 07:49 AM (u82oZ)

57 >>> 70s and 80s was peak. Nothing better…. They’ll be playing it in a hundred years still

Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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The music of the years of each generation is peak. Then the generation goes away and so does the music.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 07:50 AM (vPv7/)

58 box office analysts on Sunday noted an uncomfortable truth: Female-led superhero movies have been rejected almost uniformly over the past five years or so, perhaps reflecting a resurgent misogyny among the core fan base, which is largely male.
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Yeah, that's it NYT. You nailed it. The "Supergirl" movie sank beneath the waves because the customers free choice not to waste their hard-earned money on it is because they are misogynists, even the females customers, and not because the movie sucks donkey balls.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 30, 2026 07:50 AM (CSa7p)

59 China Imposes Export Curbs On 40 Japanese Firms As Tensions With Tokyo Rise
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This is good. The Japanese are already on the ware with China this is all Takaichi needs to gather national support.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 07:50 AM (vPv7/)

60 Only a few of those musicians are heard today.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 07:49 AM (u82oZ)

Poor Buxtehude.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 07:50 AM (Ot/FD)

61 The boy confessed that he shot baby in the head, WTHR13 reported, citing a probable cause statement. . . Officers allegedly learned that Ca’Marion Pawnell, the baby’s father, stored a gun beneath a mattress in one of the residence’s bedroooms by interviewing witnesses, including the 10-year-old. The minor confessed that he was aware of where the firearm was and had retrieved it before, according to the court documents
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Dollars to donuts Ca'Marion is a felon.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 07:51 AM (RIvkX)

62 more people fighting for limited housing resources"

Where exactly is this mythical "house shortage"? I suppose building a house is just not possible, no?

Heh

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 07:51 AM (XuXeR)

63 60 box office analysts on Sunday noted an uncomfortable truth: Female-led superhero movies have been rejected almost uniformly over the past five years or so, perhaps reflecting a resurgent misogyny among the core fan base, which is largely male.
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Yeah, that's it NYT. You nailed it. The "Supergirl" movie sank beneath the waves because the customers free choice not to waste their hard-earned money on it is because they are misogynists, even the females customers, and not because the movie sucks donkey balls.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 30, 2026 07:50 AM (CSa7p)

Do they have a companion theory on why no women are watching any of this shit, either?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 07:51 AM (Ot/FD)

64 Salty!

Read the article that JJ linked to. And keep in mind that it only skims the surface aft the battle that has been going on within the ranks. Another organization being destroyed from within, and worn like a skin suit while demanding respect.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 30, 2026 07:51 AM (iMotb)

65 What are the classic rap music recordings people will still be listening to in fifty years?

Posted by: I gotta ask at June 30, 2026 07:52 AM (2Ez/1)

66 The Iran situation has descended into farce.

This is how you get endless wars.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 07:52 AM (RIvkX)

67 The DAR article hits home. Mrs VIA is currently working on her eligibility to join, and is facing the moral dilemma of should she join the organization or not. Apparently there were more shenanigans taking place with the vote that took place. Including locking folks inside the room for hours with no breaks for the bathroom to wear down the older more conservative members who were voting.

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It really sickens me. I'm not, to my knowledge, eligible to be part of the DAR. Mr. Black's deceased grandmother was, however. Speaking for myself, I would simply have no desire to be part of organization, however revered they may be, if they don't even have the will to say that a dude with a penis can't pretend to be a woman and therefore, a member.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 30, 2026 07:52 AM (qBdHI)

68 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2026 07:52 AM (mXpUo)

69 > "Majority of Democrats Would Prefer to Live Overseas Than in the US"
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Incentivize it for them. It'd be worth it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 30, 2026 07:52 AM (jehhT)

70 "Majority of Democrats Would Prefer to Live Overseas Than in the US"

I would prefer they live overseas too.
Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 07:30 AM (MWfyi)

But... on their way out the door, they must surrender their citizenship. I'd be willing to hand them $500K to do so. A bargain in the long term.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 07:53 AM (ExV1e)

71 The bawbag is here.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 30, 2026 07:53 AM (J4Dwc)

72 Braenyard

China is being asshole to East Asia and their PLA officer corps. Hard to believe China will not pull a Great Purge or a reaction begins to stop one.

Xi has worries.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 07:53 AM (u82oZ)

73 16 It’s sad that even before I saw that the shooters name was Ca’Marion, I knew he was black.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 07:22 AM (orF8y)

The shooter was an unidentified 10-year-old boy. Ca’Marion Pawnell was both the possessor of the gun, which he kept under a mattress, and the father of the 7-month-old baby Kiyomi Parker who was killed.

Posted by: SciVo at June 30, 2026 07:55 AM (Sy6m/)

74 The target for all the negotiations hogwash is the easily spooked oil markets. Lower crude oil prices lead to midterm election success.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 07:39 AM (u82oZ)

And the even more easily spooked American voter, whose average IQ appears to hover around that of navel lint.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 07:55 AM (ExV1e)

75 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 07:55 AM (2YhKe)

76 "What are the classic rap music recordings people will still be listening to in fifty years?
Posted by: I gotta ask "

White & Nerdy

Ok I know this is all very important stuff but you have to check out the Secondhand Movie Co's $10 production of Star Wars.

youtube.com/watch?v=oa2livPC0h0

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 07:55 AM (MWfyi)

77 Supreme Court Declines Trump’s Appeal in E. Jean Carroll Lawsuit.

Despite John Roberts' efforts, in the end there will be no way to be "balanced". It's the same as trying to give a little bit to evil, a little bit to good. In the end, what you're doing is evil by helping evil. Take on those politically charged cases, you asshole. You're holding up Wyle E. Coyote's umbrella to the falling boulder of political bias in judges on your bench and across the country.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 07:55 AM (l3cgK)

78 China is being asshole to East Asia and their PLA officer corps. Hard to believe China will not pull a Great Purge or a reaction begins to stop one. Xi has worries.

You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.

Posted by: Boris Yeltsin at June 30, 2026 07:56 AM (WeKpa)

79
Pulled the Who's "Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy" 1971 vinyl out yesterday by random, amazed by it.

Posted by: Auspex at June 30, 2026 07:56 AM (Y8DZL)

80 The virus is primarily transmitted to humans through the bite of an infected woodchuck tick or deer tick. Like other tick-borne illnesses, Powassan is most prevalent from late spring through mid-fall, when tick populations peak and outdoor activity increases.
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Great. Yet another tick-transmitted virus with no cure.

Why are there ticks, except to kill humans who venture outdoors?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 30, 2026 07:56 AM (w+leU)

81 "Majority of Democrats Would Prefer to Live Overseas Than in the US"

Their terms are acceptable.

Posted by: Delurker at June 30, 2026 07:56 AM (2Drhq)

82 There's probably a volume argument to me made (size, not decibels...)

Music from 1970-2000, you could even toss in up to 2010, spawned a ridiculous number of genres and subgenres. The music industry was all over the place.

After, you get homogenized Unigenre post-disco sludge-hop where the only thing that changes between acts are the face tattoos and the clothing.

People go to those decades now because that's where all the options are.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 07:56 AM (Ot/FD)

83 In Spotify sales and other current indicators of taste, people under 30 much prefer music from the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s to anything that’s been mainstream over the last 20 years, with only a couple of exceptions.
Turns out we lived through a golden age of popular music. Who knew?

Posted by: Tom Servo
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The crap of today doesn't elevate the music of the 70's.
Seventy's music appears elevated because today's is a choice between bubble gum elevator, angst and anger whereas much of the base of 70's was rooted, not necessarily expressed, but foundational in traditional forms.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 07:57 AM (vPv7/)

84 I don't think enough people have any understanding just what is happening or how bad it is"

It's bad. FWIW, check out Germany's once stellar rail system. It's a pathetic joke today.... and the weather reports are crap, too... one of the sooper hot days in the news of London was actually 80F. Hardly a heat wave, yet so many seem panicked.

Sad, really.

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 07:57 AM (XuXeR)

85 Good morning! Hope you are doing OK. And keeping Texas free.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 07:44 AM (u82oZ)

I do what I can wrt Texas. I have an appointment on Monday for a 2nd opinion (3rd, really, I suppose) on the cancer but that's more about having the treatment done in the city in which I live rather than having to drive into downtown Austin every day for a month or so while also being emotionally unstable due to the hormone treatments.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 07:58 AM (ExV1e)

86 70 "Majority of Democrats Would Prefer to Live Overseas Than in the US"

No they wouldn't. They just say they would.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 30, 2026 07:58 AM (b4LBp)

87 "You're holding up Wyle E. Coyote's umbrella to the falling boulder of political bias in judges on your bench and across the country."
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 07:55 AM

LOL.
Instant classic.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 30, 2026 07:59 AM (2Ez/1)

88 Do they have a companion theory on why no women are watching any of this shit, either?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 07:51 AM (Ot/FD)
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The Times? Well, I'd imagine they are very disappointed women movie goers do not realize they have a gender-based responsibility to but tickets to stinker films.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 30, 2026 07:59 AM (w+leU)

89 Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 07:52 AM (RIvkX)

Play stupid neocon games, win stupid neocon prozes.

The worst part is, Trump knew better. He was against this shit from the moment he came down the golden escalator. Until he suddenly wasn't.

Posted by: Delurker at June 30, 2026 07:59 AM (2Drhq)

90 You really don't hear a lot of 60's music out in public anymore that isn't Beatles or Stones. You never hear Motown just out in a grocery store. Not sure what the significance is, just an observation really.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 07:47 AM (Ot/FD)

My HEB plays stuff from, probably, the '70s through 2000 or so. I assume they rotate from a list of "Songs to Make Our Customers Feel Old" compilations.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 07:59 AM (ExV1e)

91 "...but an estimated ~~70%~~99% of the rapists."

FIFY

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 30, 2026 07:59 AM (qFwJc)

92 The target for all the negotiations hogwash is the easily spooked oil markets. Lower crude oil prices lead to midterm election success.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 07:39 AM (u82oZ)

That must be it - but it can’t work well when every Iranian official at every level is laughing and turning around, dropping their pants and showing their backsides to us, like that line of Scots in Braveheart.

And they’re crazy. If we try not paying attention to them, pretty soon they’ll launch a bunch more missile strikes, just to make sure we have to pay attention to them. Why? Because they’re crazy that way.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 08:00 AM (orF8y)

93 78 China is being asshole to East Asia and their PLA officer corps. Hard to believe China will not pull a Great Purge or a reaction begins to stop one. Xi has worries.

You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.

Posted by: Boris Yeltsin at June 30, 2026 07:56 AM (WeKpa)

Or sit on it for the rest of your life...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 08:00 AM (l3cgK)

94 "Majority of Democrats Would Prefer to Live Overseas Than in the US"

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Institute a massive "exchange student" program. Sign up on getthehelloutofamerica.com and we'll trade your pampered, whiny, ignorant a$$ with one of the 10s of 1000s of others who came to America during the World Cup and love it here.

The only stipulation is that you sign away your right to ever claim American citizenship again when you realize your gross mistake and are living in some hellscape with no air conditioning, 1 year waiting periods for your cancer surgeries, jail time for tweets, and the raping of you or your female family members at the hands of Mohammad's filthy madmen.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 30, 2026 08:01 AM (qBdHI)

95 "Majority of Democrats Would Prefer to Live Overseas Than in the US"

No they wouldn't. They just say they would.

If they were serious, they'd talk about secession or - for those in the North East - a merge with Canada. But as you said, they are not.

Wouldn't work for New York City or Philly at any rate. But NH, VT, CT, and the MassHoles ? I doubt there would be all that much fuss, honestly. Other than those that just couldn't bear to see four less stars on the flag.

I'm a big believer sometimes in addition by subtraction.

Posted by: Spring Reverb at June 30, 2026 08:01 AM (WeKpa)

96 "Dollars to donuts Ca'Marion is a felon."

And not eligible to own a firearm?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 30, 2026 08:02 AM (qFwJc)

97 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at June 30, 2026 08:02 AM (53oGX)

98 99% of therapists "

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Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 08:02 AM (XuXeR)

99 86 70 "Majority of Democrats Would Prefer to Live Overseas Than in the US"

No they wouldn't. They just say they would.
Posted by: Ordinary American at June

Oh they do, but it is because they believe the bs it’s better than here, and they truly have no idea. The reason people keep wanting to come here is not because things are amazing everywhere else.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 08:03 AM (Dd38x)

100 The Times? Well, I'd imagine they are very disappointed women movie goers do not realize they have a gender-based responsibility to but tickets to stinker films.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 30, 2026 07:59 AM
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And buy tickets to our lousy-ass games.

Posted by: The WNBA at June 30, 2026 08:03 AM (2Ez/1)

101 In Spotify sales and other current indicators of taste, people under 30 much prefer music from the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s to anything that’s been mainstream over the last 20 years, with only a couple of exceptions.
Turns out we lived through a golden age of popular music. Who knew?
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 07:48 AM (orF8y)

I've seen youtube reactors break down into tears when someone convinces them to finally start listening to older stuff.

It's also amusing when they find out that the Righteous Brothers, Bobby Caldwell, and the singer from Wild Cherry are all white even though the last should come as no surprise to anyone given the name of the song they react to.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 08:03 AM (ExV1e)

102 I saw Buck Farack open for Buck Cherry at Trees in '03.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:03 AM (2YhKe)

103 And buy tickets to our lousy-ass games.
Posted by: The WNBA"

And free dildos!

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 08:04 AM (XuXeR)

104 88 Do they have a companion theory on why no women are watching any of this shit, either?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 07:51 AM (Ot/FD)
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The Times? Well, I'd imagine they are very disappointed women movie goers do not realize they have a gender-based responsibility to but tickets to stinker films.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 30, 2026 07:59 AM (w+leU)

Technically, the movie does have a higher percentage of women than any DC recent release (normally, DC is high 60s%-low 70s% men for viewship...this one was 59% OW and going down)...so more men did fail to show than women, but at those numbers, some normal women viewers also stayed home...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 30, 2026 08:04 AM (tOcjL)

105 NEW YORK is SAVED!!!!!

Dave Portnoy is mulling a run against Mamdani for mayor.........

3am Pizza and obnoxious sports reporting for everyone.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:05 AM (2YhKe)

106 The only stipulation is that you sign away your right to ever claim American citizenship again when you realize your gross mistake and are living in some hellscape with no air conditioning, 1 year waiting periods for your cancer surgeries, jail time for tweets, and the raping of you or your female family members at the hands of Mohammad's filthy madmen.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 30, 2026 08:01 AM (qBdHI)

Well that and when they find out you can’t just move and park in another country. You have to go through all kinds of things. Unless you are from Thirdworldistan.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 08:05 AM (Dd38x)

107
Oh they do, but it is because they believe the bs it’s better than here, and they truly have no idea. The reason people keep wanting to come here is not because things are amazing everywhere else.
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 08:03 AM (Dd38x)

And every time one of them moves to their utopia country, they beg and cry until they can come back. Even the scrunts that move to Canada.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:06 AM (2YhKe)

108 People go to those decades now because that's where all the options are.

Posted by: Warai-otoko
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Today your choice is the various forms of corporate garbage coming from the popular formats. Recently, a few commenters here have posted EweTube presentations that are quite good.
That's where the better music is, Independents. They don't have to appeal to corporate MBAs to publish, they get together, make something appealing and publish it themselves. This non-traditional publishing therefore requiring non traditional search on our part to find it.

I bookmark presentations commenters bring because I have no foo.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 08:07 AM (vPv7/)

109 >The Iran situation has descended into farce.

Posted by: San Franpsycho
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True
at first I was all in- we were bombing the shit out of the bad guys, we were going to liberate the Iranian people and they would be free-
Now, I'm just 'enough already'
NFL training camps open soon!

Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 08:07 AM (ZxPkt)

110 3am Pizza and obnoxious sports reporting for everyone.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:05 AM
+++
And me.

Posted by: Thai food at June 30, 2026 08:07 AM (2Ez/1)

111 Spotify sales and other current indicators of taste, people under 30 much prefer music from the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s to anything that’s been mainstream over the last 20 years, with only a couple of exceptions.
Turns out we lived through a golden age of popular music. Who knew?

Posted by: Tom Servo
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Music from that era had melodies, harmonies, key changes, and was written by musicians. Music today is written by machine, and both the voices and the instruments are autotuned to death. Music peaked in the late 1970s.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 30, 2026 08:07 AM (y1q/Y)

112 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. A nice 67 degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor, though the temperature is going to climb at least 20 degrees before the day ends. Ugh.

I spent yesterday doing nothing. I don't have the energy to comment here or work on my book, but I must at least do the book today.

I have some other thoughts (ugh, I hear you say), but need to make tea first.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 30, 2026 08:07 AM (qRla/)

113 China is building new coal fired power plants daily. India is an unmitigated shithole.

But France blames the US for a heat wave rolling through Europe.

F*ck off, fags.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:08 AM (2YhKe)

114 Music peaked in the late 1970s.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 30, 2026 08:07 AM (y1q/Y)

The 80s beg to differ...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 30, 2026 08:08 AM (tOcjL)

115 >What are the classic rap music recordings people will still be listening to in fifty years?

Posted by: I gotta ask
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"Funky Cold Medina"
Tone Loc

https://youtu.be/WOkn90h_VWg

Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 08:08 AM (ZxPkt)

116 It really sickens me. I'm not, to my knowledge, eligible to be part of the DAR. Mr. Black's deceased grandmother was, however. Speaking for myself, I would simply have no desire to be part of organization, however revered they may be, if they don't even have the will to say that a dude with a penis can't pretend to be a woman and therefore, a member.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 30, 2026 07:52 AM (qBdHI)

Saddens me as well. My mother and sister are both past heads of the DAR Chapter in Phoenix, they are sickened by this idiocy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 08:08 AM (orF8y)

117 I spent yesterday doing nothing. I don't have the energy to comment here or work on my book, but I must at least do the book today.

https://youtu.be/fLexgOxsZu0

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 08:09 AM (ExV1e)

118 NYC: We need help!

Gozer: Choose the form of your destructor...........

NYC: Never Forget!!! *elects Zohran Mamdani*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:09 AM (2YhKe)

119 H8ers of America can go would be a boon to the country

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 08:10 AM (sgkY8)

120 True
at first I was all in- we were bombing the shit out of the bad guys, we were going to liberate the Iranian people and they would be free-
Now, I'm just 'enough already'

That was always the fear. If we were going to supply small arms and arm a coup ? Great. But we NEVER finish the job. Never.

I'm skeptical about use of force, always, because of that. Regardless of who is in charge.

Posted by: Spring Reverb at June 30, 2026 08:10 AM (WeKpa)

121 Now, I'm just 'enough already'
NFL training camps open soon!

Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 08:07 AM (ZxPkt)

Hide your women and children!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:11 AM (2YhKe)

122 Friend of mine in Los Angeles wanted to relocate to Spain to help his brother and niece after his brother was laid up from an accident. Incredible hoops he had to jump through by Spanish government. Had to demonstrate liquid finances to support himself for one year, needed a complete physical by doctors certified by Spanish authorities, character references.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 30, 2026 08:11 AM (b4LBp)

123
I have some other thoughts (ugh, I hear you say), but need to make tea first.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 30, 2026 08:07 AM (qRla/)

I'm willing to bet no one said ugh.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:12 AM (2YhKe)

124 South Korea is planning to invest $520 billion to expand chip production at Samsung and SK Hynix.
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Samsung is off the market here. If you want to buy it's on the Korean market at ~240. SK Hnix is privately owned. The only other company that makes DRAM is MU, an American company going for 1300. It was 20 last year.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 08:12 AM (vPv7/)

125 One example of modern music: Taylor Swift concerts are entirely recorded. Both the singing and the music are prerecorded and those on stage are just miming. It is documented on Wings of Pegasus.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 30, 2026 08:13 AM (y1q/Y)

126 > Well that and when they find out you can’t just move and park in another country. You have to go through all kinds of things. Unless you are from Thirdworldistan.
Posted by: Piper
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This is true.

The videos of Americans, distraught over Trump fleeing to Canada only to realize they can't 'just' move there are hilarious. The couple at the border, realizing they're going to have to return to the states after selling everything off is especially amusing.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 30, 2026 08:13 AM (jehhT)

127 >>obnoxious sports reporting

Portnoy is a University of Michigan alum. Obnoxious fandom runs deep through Ann Arbor.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 30, 2026 08:13 AM (J4Dwc)

128 Only can think of two rap songs that will have resonance - one is “Baby got back”.

The other is thanks to Steve Inman and his Ludacris cam. “Move, bitch, get out da way! Get out da way bitch, get out da way!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 08:13 AM (orF8y)

129 Friend of mine in Los Angeles wanted to relocate to Spain to help his brother and niece after his brother was laid up from an accident. Incredible hoops he had to jump through by Spanish government. Had to demonstrate liquid finances to support himself for one year, needed a complete physical by doctors certified by Spanish authorities, character references.
Posted by: Ordinary American at June 30, 2026 08:11 AM (b4LBp)

Just tell them that you're a North African socialist who wants to rape the Spanish women. The current government will pay for your airfare.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 08:14 AM (ExV1e)

130 The other is thanks to Steve Inman and his Ludacris cam. “Move, bitch, get out da way! Get out da way bitch, get out da way!”
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 08:13 AM (orF8y)

There's a bluegrass version of that song out there somewhere. It's high comedy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:14 AM (2YhKe)

131
I have a nephew who owns a pizza joint in Chicago whose claim to fame is debating Portnoy on the definition of Neopolitan style on one of his YouTube videos.

Posted by: Auspex at June 30, 2026 08:14 AM (Y8DZL)

132 Authorities Hunt ‘Mexican Batman’ After Vigilante Justice

Sí.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 08:14 AM (l3cgK)

133 And every time one of them moves to their utopia country"

"Bbbut the hotel was awesome, with great views, and the servants, er...employees were so respectful! And the food! You can't get this anywhere else!

/pretty much sums it up

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 08:15 AM (XuXeR)

134 There's a bluegrass version of that song out there somewhere. It's high comedy.

Now search "Gin and Juice" by The Gourds.

Posted by: Spring Reverb at June 30, 2026 08:15 AM (WeKpa)

135 But France blames the US for a heat wave rolling through Europe.

F*ck off, fags.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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News for Macron, it's going to get hotter.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 08:16 AM (vPv7/)

136
News for Macron, it's going to get hotter.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 08:16 AM (vPv7/)

"Go F*CK your MOTHER!!!!! Oh....wait........."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:16 AM (2YhKe)

137 News for Macron, it's going to get hotter."

And then colder.

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 08:17 AM (XuXeR)

138 Friend of mine in Los Angeles wanted to relocate to Spain to help his brother and niece after his brother was laid up from an accident. Incredible hoops he had to jump through by Spanish government. Had to demonstrate liquid finances to support himself for one year, needed a complete physical by doctors certified by Spanish authorities, character references.

==

All these countries' abysmal leaders run together, but wasn't it just recently that Spain's prime minister gave the green light to the 500k (and we know it will be much more) "immigrants" to come live in Spain? Something tells me those types of requirements will be immediately waived for those "marginalized" peoples.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 30, 2026 08:17 AM (qBdHI)

139 One example of modern music: Taylor Swift concerts are entirely recorded. Both the singing and the music are prerecorded and those on stage are just miming. It is documented on Wings of Pegasus.

So you're saying Milli Vanilli were just ahead of their time?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 30, 2026 08:17 AM (qRla/)

140 Doggie Style > Napoleon Style

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:17 AM (2YhKe)

141 News for Macron, it's going to get hotter."

And then colder.

Not to mention those transition times where its just kind of all over the place. Happens twice a year now !!!

Posted by: Spring Reverb at June 30, 2026 08:17 AM (WeKpa)

142 Thank you JJ Sefton! Off to fight the war against my lazy nature. Catch y'all later.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 30, 2026 08:18 AM (t93WW)

143 128 Only can think of two rap songs that will have resonance - one is “Baby got back”.

The other is thanks to Steve Inman and his Ludacris cam. “Move, bitch, get out da way! Get out da way bitch, get out da way!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 08:13 AM (orF8y)

https://youtu.be/5PaUTnk9k9Y&t=48s

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 08:18 AM (l3cgK)

144 So you're saying Milli Vanilli were just ahead of their time?"

I want my MTV....

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 08:18 AM (XuXeR)

145 Napoleon ate pizza?

Posted by: Who knew at June 30, 2026 08:19 AM (2Ez/1)

146 125 One example of modern music: Taylor Swift concerts are entirely recorded. Both the singing and the music are prerecorded and those on stage are just miming. It is documented on Wings of Pegasus.

Posted by: Thomas Paine
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and poor Millie Vinilli were ridiculed and put out of business.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 08:20 AM (vPv7/)

147 Interesting piece on how Trump got bamboozled into that loser Coney-Barrett instead of Barbara Lagoa. In part, credit Pence.

https://tinyurl.com/y6mvntf9

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 30, 2026 08:22 AM (b4LBp)

148 SO-

I hope everyone is mentally prepared for the SCOTUS ruling on birthright citizenship.

Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 08:22 AM (ZxPkt)

149 Only can think of two rap songs that will have resonance - one is “Baby got back”.

The other is thanks to Steve Inman and his Ludacris cam. “Move, bitch, get out da way! Get out da way bitch, get out da way!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 08:13 AM (orF8y)

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The first rap song I ever heard was "Rapper's Delight" by the Sugarhill Gang in '79 -- and I thought it was unique, clever, & funny.

It's been ALL downhill ever since ...

Posted by: ShainS at June 30, 2026 08:22 AM (t/lcw)

150 All these countries' abysmal leaders run together, but wasn't it just recently that Spain's prime minister gave the green light to the 500k (and we know it will be much more) "immigrants" to come live in Spain? Something tells me those types of requirements will be immediately waived for those "marginalized" peoples.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 30, 2026 08:17 AM (qBdHI)
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I see them lined up at the Spanish consulate every morning.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 08:22 AM (RIvkX)

151 One example of modern music: Taylor Swift concerts are entirely recorded. Both the singing and the music are prerecorded and those on stage are just miming. It is documented on Wings of Pegasus.

Posted by: Thomas Paine

I saw a Hagar led Van Halen once. Before they played Right Now, Sammy came on the mic and announced the guitar at the beginning was pre-recorded by Eddie because he wanted to play the piano in front of the crowd, proving he could actually play the piano.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:22 AM (2YhKe)

152 Interesting piece on how Trump got bamboozled into that loser Coney-Barrett instead of Barbara Lagoa. In part, credit Pence.

https://tinyurl.com/y6mvntf9

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 30, 2026 08:22 AM (b4LBp)

Well, Trump IS a stupid poopyhead, so........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:23 AM (2YhKe)

153
Any Boney Carrot.

Posted by: I just like typing that at June 30, 2026 08:23 AM (2Ez/1)

154 What are the classic rap music recordings people will still be listening to in fifty years?
Posted by: I gotta ask

"Me So Horny" and "Hoochie Mama" are favorites at my local Winn Dixie.

Posted by: The 2 Live Crew at June 30, 2026 08:23 AM (K5H/e)

155 143 128 Only can think of two rap songs that will have resonance - one is “Baby got back”.

The other is thanks to Steve Inman and his Ludacris cam. “Move, bitch, get out da way! Get out da way bitch, get out da way!”
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Classic exemplars of high art. Fifty years from now they will be studied and taught by musicologists at Julliard.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 08:24 AM (vPv7/)

156 Yeah I’m not even following all that closely what’s going on with Iran and the faux negotiations anymore. It’s all a farce and kabuki theater. I’d like to think Trump is playing 4D chess but he’s not; I can’t understand his approach. My best guess is he’s kicking the can down the road continually because he wants to win the midterms… the whole thing is discouraging to me. I had such high hopes after we took out a few layers of their leadership and thought imposing the blockade was brilliant…. Somehow we lost our way when everything turned to “negotiations” sigh… I’m gonna try to ignore and hope we get off any fantasy of a deal

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 08:24 AM (D2O3S)

157 Rap on Muzik?

Rapper's Delight by Sugarhill Gang would probably work. Unedited too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 30, 2026 08:24 AM (jehhT)

158 Anyway. . .

I missed Ace's thread yesterday about the Dems' trashing of the 250th. There are a few flags and bunting around my little neighborhood, but while I have always celebrated the Glorious Fourth, this year holds no real joy for me.

I should never have joined Facebook (I only did for the Theda Bara club there) and I really should never have got into the habit of reading comments connected to anything Trump. It both pisses me off and depresses me immensely to see how many Dems are cheering the states refusing to join in the State Fair and how eager they are to share pictures and stories about how poorly-attended the event is. The overwhelming sentiment now is that it should all be put on hold until the next Dem president, and then celebrate. And the kicker to that is that these assholes know the right is too damned polite to boycott a Dem-led celebration of America.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 30, 2026 08:24 AM (qRla/)

159 SO-

I hope everyone is mentally prepared for the SCOTUS ruling on birthright citizenship.

Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 08:22 AM (ZxPkt)

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Prediction: The SCOTUS (primarily Benedict Roberts and Commie Island Barrett) will over-promise and under-deliver. Because racist AND indeed The Constitution IS IN FACT a Suicide-Pact!!!

/I hope-to-God I'm wrong ... but as a retired engineer, I always assume worst-case scenarios.

Posted by: ShainS at June 30, 2026 08:24 AM (t/lcw)

160 I had some rap I had recorded off the Fairleigh Dickinson University radio station when I was living in Newark. This was before all the gangsta influence, it was all about the rhyming.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 08:25 AM (RIvkX)

161 So you're saying Milli Vanilli were just ahead of their time?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 30, 2026 08:17 AM (qRla/)

If Milli Vanilli had been WHITE WOMEN, they'd have been hailed as music geniuses. -- Music Commentary by La'Qeesha

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 08:26 AM (ExV1e)

162 One example of modern music: Taylor Swift concerts are entirely recorded.

Here's my theory - like a lot of stuff now, for many attending a concert or movie or sporting event is a virtue signal. Same for many ever with their home viewing choices. Same goes for shopping choices. This crosses across all demographic lines.

There was a time when people put down their money and expected to be entertained. See STYX getting booed off stage in Texas for picking there, off all places, to debut Dennis De Young's idea of Rock Opera.

Bad idea, Dennis. Wrong place, wrong time.

But now ? Sure, you can't argue taste. You always won't convince me that everybody in that area paid because they just love to watch Angel Reese brick every damn shot she threw up.

Posted by: Spring Reverb at June 30, 2026 08:26 AM (WeKpa)

163 154 What are the classic rap music recordings people will still be listening to in fifty years?
Posted by: I gotta ask

"Me So Horny" and "Hoochie Mama" are favorites at my local Winn Dixie.

Posted by: The 2 Live Crew at June 30, 2026 08:23 AM (K5H/e)

Songs to serenade a woman by...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 08:26 AM (l3cgK)

164 65 What are the classic rap music recordings people will still be listening to in fifty years?
Posted by: I gotta ask at June 30, 2026 07:52 AM (2Ez/1)

I consider this a classic, and the video is great too:
Kanye West - Gold Digger ft. Jamie Foxx
https://youtu.be/6vwNcNOTVzY

This one may be studied, because it has levels; he's so close to a truth, yet tragically blind to much bigger liars purporting to be on his side. It also has a sick beat, and an amazing fanvid by macten:
Nas - Sly Fox (Video)
https://youtu.be/mYruoi9ZuNk

Posted by: SciVo at June 30, 2026 08:27 AM (Sy6m/)

165 I'm planning to attend a celebration the next town over on Saturday, and I fully expect a bunch of superannuated hippies to be there protesting. If so, I'm going to unload on their asses. I am sick and tired of keeping silent in the name of courtesy.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 30, 2026 08:27 AM (qRla/)

166 Who is Taylor Swift?

Posted by: Posterity at June 30, 2026 08:27 AM (w66Vz)

167 @AmericaReal3

PSA: WARNING!
SCAM ALERT!

Be on the lookout for these two women.
They are hanging out around Port Charlotte, FL Walmart parking lot.

When you are putting your groceries away they ask you for a ride to McDonald's.

They are very convincing and very hot!

Once in your car... this one takes her clothes off and starts climbing all over you, while she keeps you busy, the other one takes your wallet.

I've had mine taken on June 20th, 24th, the 26th.. twice yesterday and probably 2 more times tomorrow. 😳

You've been warned

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 08:27 AM (vPv7/)

168 I hope everyone is mentally prepared for the SCOTUS ruling on birthright citizenship.

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Not making any predictions, but I will say this. I'm expecting the exact ruling I don't want. Since there's nothing I can do about it, I'm devoid of reaction.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 30, 2026 08:28 AM (qBdHI)

169 Andy O’Brien, the communications director for the Maine AFL-CIO, a statewide federation of 160 local unions, posted on social media, suggesting Democrats who refuse to support Democrat U.S. Senate nominee Graham Platner should face execution after a “revolution.”

The left tells me everyone at the J6 protests was a traitor and insurrectionist because someone showed up with a toy gallows. But let me guess calling for murdering masses of citizens is (D)ifferent.

Also, someone should ask this guy what he thinks of The Night of Longknives since he wants to replace it for his personal fuhrer.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 08:28 AM (sKqQm)

170 I was into the early 80's rap scene. Run DMC was alright, but I got more into the 2 Live Crew, NWA, Eazy-E, Ghetto Boys era of rap. Throw in some Eric B and Rakim and Public Enemy just for fun.

Sure it was raunchy, but the stolen samples and music was damn catchy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:28 AM (2YhKe)

171 for many attending a concert or movie or sporting event is a virtue signal."

And don't confuse "paid" with "attending"...

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 08:28 AM (XuXeR)

172 148 SO-

I hope everyone is mentally prepared for the SCOTUS ruling on birthright citizenship.
Posted by: Don Black at June

This is so funny, I was just thinking the same thing. I have resigned myself to this being, at best, SCOTUS saying you can’t EO this, it has to come from Congress, so Congress DO SOMETHING. And then Congress won’t. Because do they ever do anything? Honestly, y’all. Saving our country is not going to happen by relying on the schmucks in DC. It’s changing the dynamics where semi normal people can run without 1. Needing 18 gazillion dollars and 2. Unreachable purity tests 3. Being torn apart for anything and everything, unless of course you are a nazi running as a democrat.

I would go to Congress, but I am nobody with nothing to my name except a little bit of common sense. I am no Ted Cruz intellectually, but I think I am a probably brighter than AOC. And I never have married my brother.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 08:28 AM (Dd38x)

173 Well, Trump IS a stupid poopyhead, so........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:23 AM (2YhKe)
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Neither is he some secret genius playing 4-D chess.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 08:29 AM (RIvkX)

174 Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Bring a 6'7" guy dressing in all black with no smile on his face to protect you.

Leftist regard even gentle factual criticism as heresy.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 08:29 AM (u82oZ)

175 168 I hope everyone is mentally prepared for the SCOTUS ruling on birthright citizenship.

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Not making any predictions, but I will say this. I'm expecting the exact ruling I don't want. Since there's nothing I can do about it, I'm devoid of reaction.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 30, 2026 08:28 AM (qBdHI)

I expect it at no better than 7-2 against Trump on this.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 08:29 AM (l3cgK)

176 152 Well, Trump IS a stupid poopyhead, so........
Posted by: Sponge

The BEST poopyhead ever, such a great poopyhead, nobody else in the world has a better one, you can't believe how awesome, etc.

Posted by: Auspex at June 30, 2026 08:29 AM (Y8DZL)

177 I've had mine taken on June 20th, 24th, the 26th.. twice yesterday and probably 2 more times tomorrow. 😳

You've been warned
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 08:27 AM (vPv7/)

Indeed.

Time to go buy a bunch of wallets.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 08:29 AM (Ot/FD)

178 Piper

I'd vote for you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 08:29 AM (u82oZ)

179 Unbelievable Damage": 131-Mph Windstorm Snaps Wind Turbines In Half Across South Dakota

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 08:29 AM (vPv7/)

180 Turnout. Turnout. Turnout.

It's the X Factor in our politics. If you're only one in a million who are voting then the chances that your vote will decide the outcome are infinitismal. So why bother to vote?

Group solidarity. This is too often to the Left's advantage. Trump's trying to change that. Let's hope he awakens the Sleeping Giant to have terrible resolve before the Midterms.

Posted by: Ignoramus at June 30, 2026 08:29 AM (dtajH)

181 someone should ask this guy what he thinks of The Night of Longknives"

That was what, a hunndert years ago or sump'n?

/history. It's what's for dinner

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 08:30 AM (XuXeR)

182 179 Unbelievable Damage": 131-Mph Windstorm Snaps Wind Turbines In Half Across South Dakota

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 08:29 AM (vPv7/)

So fewer birds being chopped up for a while?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 08:30 AM (l3cgK)

183 Mornin’, All.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 08:30 AM (77rzZ)

184 Taylor Swift amuses me.

She has moderate musical talent but incredible business talent.

And she has gotten the Karen set which laments about "the rich" and global warming to plunk down thousands of dollars to watch one of the richest people in the world burn more fossil fuel personally then probably any other person on the planet.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 08:30 AM (sKqQm)

185 I have resigned myself to this being, at best, SCOTUS saying you can’t EO this, it has to come from Congress, so Congress DO SOMETHING. And then Congress won’t. Because do they ever do anything?

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That's my opinion. At best, it will be tossed to Congress, who is as worthless as it gets. Except sending $billions to Ukraine. They get right on that. For anything remotely associated with preserving and protecting the American people? Not so much.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 30, 2026 08:31 AM (qBdHI)

186 I hope everyone is mentally prepared for the SCOTUS ruling on birthright citizenship.
Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 08:22 AM (ZxPkt)

Sure - the Dred Pirate Roberts and Amy Boneless will join the Wicked Sisters Three.

At that point ? Its a character study. Kav may side with the Right on this one, since its failure theatre. Gorsuch will take Strict Constructionism to who knows what ends ? If he found something that he thought justified Soylent Green ? Well, Green for everybody.

Gorsuch is truly Lawful Neutral. Don't trust him. Rome could be burning right outside his window - and he'd still have that nose in an obscure text looking for the answer to some judicial riddle.

Posted by: Spring Reverb at June 30, 2026 08:31 AM (WeKpa)

187 178 Piper

I'd vote for you.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 08:29 AM

Thank you! I would pick my staff from this board. It would be amazing. We would be like the Island of Misfit Toys goes to Washington. And then we would shock the world with our superior abilities.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 08:32 AM (Dd38x)

188 Nas - Sly Fox (Video)
https://youtu.be/mYruoi9ZuNk
Posted by: SciVo at June 30, 2026 08:27 AM (Sy6m/)

Throws GWBush and Fox News under the bus but no mention of MSNBC, ABC, CNN or CBS news.........Imagine that.

Plus, I find that style of rap annoying as f*ck.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:32 AM (2YhKe)

189 I hope everyone is mentally prepared for the SCOTUS ruling on birthright citizenship.

Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 08:22 AM (ZxPkt)
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They also have the trans gender ruling today. Yesterday not great, today could be worse.

Posted by: WisRich at June 30, 2026 08:32 AM (mMoRd)

190 Incentivize it for them. It'd be worth it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 30, 2026 07:52 AM (jehhT)

I would prefer they try underseas

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 08:32 AM (KqZez)

191 Be on the lookout for these two women."

Sadly, local wally world has Mcd's inside.

Therefore, you're more likely to be jostled aside by two broad of beams on their 'lectroid scooters than anyone else...

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 08:32 AM (XuXeR)

192 Turnout. Turnout. Turnout/i]

Yep. There is a class of right leaning voter that seems to only turn out when Trump is on the ballot.

We should point out to those people - you see some of Trump's initiatives that you want stalling? That's because he doesn't have a friendly congress which is up for election this Nov....(and obviously primaries as well scattered over various times)

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 08:33 AM (sKqQm)

193
Neither is he some secret genius playing 4-D chess.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 08:29 AM (RIvkX)

Can't be. He's a stupid poopyhead. No genius there.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:33 AM (2YhKe)

194 My buddy Paul z"l was CFO of a rap record label. He would send me cuts from albums he knew I would find especially offensive. Like when I was working in child welfare he sent me a song called "My Babymomma"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 08:33 AM (RIvkX)

195 Another classic that will put the women you love in the mood.

"Back To The Hotel".

Posted by: N2Deep at June 30, 2026 08:33 AM (K5H/e)

196 Today Is International Asteroid Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 30, 2026 08:34 AM (NpAcC)

197 At ABC: "How the Slinky was discovered by accident in the 1940s"

tl;dr: Discoverer stepped on it in the dark, and injured his foot on its razor-sharp pointy end. Darn kids never put their toys away,

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 08:34 AM (Jr5Lq)

198 175 168 I hope everyone is mentally prepared for the SCOTUS ruling on birthright citizenship.

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Not making any predictions, but I will say this. I'm expecting the exact ruling I don't want. Since there's nothing I can do about it, I'm devoid of reaction.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 30, 2026 08:28 AM (qBdHI)

I expect it at no better than 7-2 against Trump on this.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 08:29 AM (l3cgK)

Only hope is Roberts wrote both decisions yesterday, right, on the firing fed decisions, so he's not the author. So, either a wacko liberal or a hardcore conservative has this one (Thomas hasn't written one of the last 10)...or Gorsuch does (b/c he also hasn't)...if it's Gorsuch, he probably went with the 4 and it's a Trump loss...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 30, 2026 08:34 AM (tOcjL)

199 The other is thanks to Steve Inman and his Ludacris cam. “Move, bitch, get out da way! Get out da way bitch, get out da way!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 08:13 AM (orF8y)

There’s a hilarious scene in Two and a Half men where Jake has this song as his ring tone. Jake is off to parts unknown with the daughter of the hugely muscled next door neighbor who shows up at the door angry his daughter is not to be found. Charlie nervously says let’s call Jake to settle this… whereupon Jake’s cellphone sitting nearby starts to ring with this song… making huge and menacing dad even more agitated. Charlie nervously fidgets as the ring tone goes on and on. Hilarious

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 08:34 AM (YetvJ)

200 18-1

Feed Me!

Posted by: The Barrel at June 30, 2026 08:34 AM (u82oZ)

201 Venezuelan Housing Projects Collapsed "Like Sandcastles" As Twin Quakes Expose Socialist Rot
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Noticed in the clips that the hi-rises collapsed like cards while one and two story mom and pop strip centers appeared relatively undamaged.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 08:34 AM (vPv7/)

202 Unbelievable Damage": 131-Mph Windstorm Snaps Wind Turbines In Half Across South Dakota
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 08:29 AM (vPv7/)

And you know they were all locked down and producing zero energy whatsoever because they can't function in winds over 35 mph without burning up.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:34 AM (2YhKe)

203 Good morning Horde thx JJ, hope you and Mrs JJ are well.
The French parliament lady cheering the replacement of the French should read VDH piece about the modern Robespierre and our Dems trying to avoid being victims. Of course since she apparently doesn't know the history of her own nation's revolution, VDH piece would not take

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 08:35 AM (f6yx7)

204 Rap is not music. Period.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 08:35 AM (77rzZ)

205 Another classic that will put the women you love in the mood.

"Back To The Hotel".
Posted by: N2Deep at June 30, 2026 08:33 AM (K5H/e)

'Wasn't Me' - Shaggy

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:35 AM (2YhKe)

206 Rap is not music. Period.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 08:35 AM (77rzZ)

It's poetry in motion.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:35 AM (2YhKe)

207 The French parliament lady cheering the replacement of the French should read"

That's rayciss. Or something.

Try "Camp of the Saints"

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 08:36 AM (XuXeR)

208 Shooting a 7-month-old baby... That "youth" needs to never see the outside of an institution.

Posted by: pookysgirl loves her babies at June 30, 2026 08:36 AM (Wt5PA)

209 It's poetry in motion."

Blondie - Rapture

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 08:36 AM (XuXeR)

210 When were those VZ high rises built?

In earthquake prone regions there are usually more significant building codes.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 08:36 AM (sKqQm)

211 Venezuelan Housing Projects Collapsed "Like Sandcastles" As Twin Quakes Expose Socialist Rot
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To save money, Hugo Chavez was encasing Styrofoam in cement and using that as walls.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:36 AM (2YhKe)

212 Has ace given up on the crows? I miss most of the day threads.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 08:37 AM (u82oZ)

213 The French parliament lady cheering the replacement of the French

In the old days this would have led to some lamp post decorating.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 08:37 AM (sKqQm)

214 209 It's poetry in motion."

Blondie - Rapture
Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 08:36

Aerosmith - Walk this Way

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 08:37 AM (Dd38x)

215 NY judge just gave the Chinese anti commie billionaire 30 years in prison for fraud. He was arrested in 2023 and held with no bond.

The Lefty judicial system in NY is so crooked you can't just assume the guy is guilty of the charges. How much did the CCP influence his damaged investors to testify against him. How did his relationship with the Right influence the jury and judge? The Left is directly responsible for my doubt. I really despise them.

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 08:37 AM (04gcy)

216 Whites vs. Reds? Who will be our Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 30, 2026 08:38 AM (E58gv)

217 Blondie - Rapture
Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 08:36

Aerosmith - Walk this Way
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 08:37 AM (Dd38x)

Anyone mentioning "Roll the Bones" winds up like Doof.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:38 AM (2YhKe)

218 Also, ugh. It's already in the 80's and muggy. Feh.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 30, 2026 08:39 AM (E58gv)

219 As noted by those above, the Birthright case is framed as whether Trump can act alone by executive order and we can expect the answer to be No.

But I expect the ruling to be clear that Congress has the authority.

Trump is about to campaign as if he's on the ticket, and in a very real sense he is. A central theme will be the call for a Republican House and Senate to give the people what they want.

Posted by: Ignoramus at June 30, 2026 08:39 AM (dtajH)

220 Noticed in the clips that the hi-rises collapsed like cards while one and two story mom and pop strip centers appeared relatively undamaged.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 08:34 AM (vPv7/)
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It has me wondering how many of these buildings were of Chinese construction.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 08:39 AM (RIvkX)

221 Hugo Chavez was encasing Styrofoam in cement"

Actually, that's ok - it's the missing heavy wire mesh and using it as a load bearing wall that's the problem...

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 08:39 AM (XuXeR)

222 I try not to think about it because… depressing. But E Jean Carroll obviously fabricates a story, stealing it from a TV show and from this story is awarded huge $$ from juries. And judges refuse to fix this farce of justice… not even SCOTUS?? Depressing

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 08:39 AM (YetvJ)

223
O.J. Dindu Nuffin.

Posted by: Auspex at June 30, 2026 08:39 AM (Y8DZL)

224 Here comes a run of 100's for NTX.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:39 AM (2YhKe)

225 >Today Is International Asteroid Day.
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aim for the US Capitol dome

Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 08:40 AM (ZxPkt)

226 Aerosmith - Walk this Way"

Run DMC....

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 08:40 AM (XuXeR)

227 @170 Sponge, I always thought Run- DMC first album was great. Never got much more into hip-hop or rap therefore.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 08:40 AM (f6yx7)

228 A central theme will be the call for a Republican House and Senate to give the people what they want.
Posted by: Ignoramus at June 30, 2026 08:39 AM (dtajH)

"That's not who we are."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:40 AM (2YhKe)

229 NY judge just gave the Chinese anti commie billionaire 30 years in prison for fraud.

I read a couple of stories about him none of which said what the fraud was exactly. They hint he stole money people gave him to invest on their behalf but they don't say that he did either....so what exactly did he supposedly do?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 08:40 AM (sKqQm)

230 One of my favorite things is to catch all the stuff old country used to sneak in. And I'm talking back in the day.

Of course, you had Conway - who wasn't sneaking a damn thing. That man was just a straight up creeper.

But then you had stuff like Buck Owens and the Buckaroos singing "Wham, Bam, Thank you Ma'am". And no, no the Dean Martin tune. COMPLETELY different lyrics.

That little number got cut in '64. Played on National TV not long after on the Buck Owens show. Catchy tune. Listen real good to the lyrics.

Posted by: Spring Reverb at June 30, 2026 08:41 AM (WeKpa)

231 All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

We have no Pattons. Or do we? ADM Brad Cooper seems competent.

Can we flip Mattis to become a patriot?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 08:41 AM (u82oZ)

232 Friend of mine in Los Angeles wanted to relocate to Spain to help his brother and niece after his brother was laid up from an accident. Incredible hoops he had to jump through by Spanish government. Had to demonstrate liquid finances to support himself for one year, needed a complete physical by doctors certified by Spanish authorities, character references.
Posted by: Ordinary American

He should have simply said, allah snackbar!
They would have waived the entry requirements, gave him a villa & $10k a month.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2026 08:41 AM (mXpUo)

233 212 Has ace given up on the crows? I miss most of the day threads.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 08:37 AM
+++++++

Nevermore.

Posted by: The Ravens at June 30, 2026 08:41 AM (2Ez/1)

234 Thereafter not therefore. Damn autocucumber

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 08:41 AM (f6yx7)

235 The birthright ruling is going to either be bad or worse. I'm hoping for just bad.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 08:42 AM (KqZez)

236 Trump is about to campaign as if he's on the ticket, and in a very real sense he is. A central theme will be the call for a Republican House and Senate to give the people what they want.
Posted by: Ignoramus at June 30, 2026 08:39 AM (dtajH)

Give the people what they want. Now that is a novel idea. Hey GOP Congresscritters? You see this?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 30, 2026 08:42 AM (N39Ws)

237 Friend of mine in Los Angeles wanted to relocate to Spain"

Did he kinda like the music?

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 08:42 AM (XuXeR)

238 Of all possible outcomes to the war in Iran, the fixation some had on """liberating"""" the Iranian people was always the silliest thing to wish for.

How? Why? To what end?

Even if the Islamic theocracy goes down the tubes, Iran would necessarily have another form of ruthless autocracy, or Islamism would immediately return - no democratic system can withstand that many Muslims.

The only way those people were getting """liberated""" was with a PERMANENT American presence to keep them """liberated""" until the very instant some far-flung future government decided to withdraw, at which point - Islamism immediately returns.

Our options with regard to regime change boiled down to "US backed puppet warlord" or "very direct, physically present US administration of a fake democracy." Liberation was always out of the question.

But for some, the fantasy of dragging Muslims into modernity will simply never die. It's their white whale.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 30, 2026 08:42 AM (BI5O2)

239 ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and units of the Kurdish opposition group Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) clashed near Mahabad in western Iran on Sunday, two days after another clash in the area left two members of the Iranian security forces dead and two others wounded.
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Most reports were unclear about who were killed but they do say four bodies were recovered. - Guess those weapons they stole from Trump were put to good use.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 08:42 AM (vPv7/)

240 Labor Union Leader: Execute Democrats Who Break with Graham Platner via Firing Squad

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"Unexpectedly."

Posted by: ShainS at June 30, 2026 08:43 AM (t/lcw)

241 Nevermore.
Posted by: The Ravens"

Can we quote you on that?

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 08:43 AM (XuXeR)

242 NY judge just gave the Chinese anti commie billionaire 30 years in prison for fraud.

I read a couple of stories about him none of which said what the fraud was exactly. They hint he stole money people gave him to invest on their behalf but they don't say that he did either....

so what exactly did he supposedly do?
Posted by: 18-1

Fail to cut party members in.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2026 08:43 AM (mXpUo)

243 When were those VZ high rises built?

In earthquake prone regions there are usually more significant building codes.
Posted by: 18-1

Commies don't care about codes.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 30, 2026 08:43 AM (1IhIV)

244 130 The other is thanks to Steve Inman and his Ludacris cam. “Move, bitch, get out da way! Get out da way bitch, get out da way!”
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 08:13 AM (orF8y)

There's a bluegrass version of that song out there somewhere. It's high comedy.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:14 AM (2YhKe)

The super-White harmonious pop cover of Easy E's "Boyz-N-The-Hood" is actually pretty good, I recommend:
Dynamite Hack - Boyz In The Hood
https://youtu.be/EZNFo5lL4iw

Posted by: SciVo at June 30, 2026 08:43 AM (Sy6m/)

245 Rap is not music. Period.
Posted by: Bulg

I don't understand why the C in crap music is silent.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 30, 2026 08:44 AM (UpPD+)

246 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 08:39 AM (YetvJ)

That she couldn't provide a date that it happened or even a year , should have had it thrown out immediately . I can't think of on issue that would be more prejudicial to a defendant than not being able to dispute an allegation with an alibi because the plaintiff won't provide a date the offense allegedly occurred.

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 08:44 AM (04gcy)

247 There are rap songs I like, and you cannot discount the creativity involved in many (not all) of the work. Eminem is a genius. You may not like the lyrics, but the way he can put words together is insane. Killshot (in response to MGK Rap Devil) shows this. And shows MGK got a little big for his britches there.

Takashi 6ix9ine is gross, but he can put together a banger.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 08:44 AM (Dd38x)

248 Our Country is Screwed

I got a begging letter from the state GOpe.

I returned it with red marker saying "No SAFE Act, no vote or money".

I am registered independent, so they are reaching far and wide for donors.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 08:45 AM (u82oZ)

249 News for Macron, it's going to get hotter."

And then colder.

==

Sorcerer ! How did you know?!

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 08:45 AM (ugc0u)

250 The other is thanks to Steve Inman and his Ludacris cam. “Move, bitch, get out da way! Get out da way bitch, get out da way!”

Every time I'm behind a large slow moving group that won't let anyone pass on a sidewalk that song goes through my head

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 08:45 AM (sKqQm)

251 Y’all disappoint me. I was really hoping for a Vanilla Ice call out.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 08:45 AM (Dd38x)

252 Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 08:44 AM (Dd38x)

That sounds like an art critic gaslighting me telling me how great a Rothko painting is.

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 08:46 AM (04gcy)

253 Also - must give mad supports to the great hillbilly food invention (just back from the greater NWVa area)... the Pepperoni Roll.
With hot cheese.

A diet treat...

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 08:46 AM (XuXeR)

254 New Poll: Majority of Democrats Would Prefer to Live Overseas Than in the US
A majority of Democratic respondents, 55%, said they would rather live outside the United States than remain here. To which many of us might respond: What’s stopping you?

And once they're overseas, they long to come back. They know this is the greatest country in the world, and it kills them.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 30, 2026 08:46 AM (NpAcC)

255 I heard the ladies are insane there. And they sure know how to use it.

Posted by: Spring Reverb at June 30, 2026 08:46 AM (WeKpa)

256 235 The birthright ruling is going to either be bad or worse. I'm hoping for just bad.
Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 08:42 AM (KqZez)

Hey, I'm the pessimist here....

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 08:46 AM (pmOux)

257
When Has Negotiating With Islamic Terrorists Ever Worked?

We can negotiate which ear we put the bullet into when they're throwing Molotovs.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 30, 2026 08:47 AM (hpF/D)

258 NWS has upgraded N IL to Extreme Heat Warning. 'Stay away, Extreme Heat! This is your last warning!' But Heat never listens.

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 08:47 AM (Jr5Lq)

259 “Sand Castles” - virtually the literal truth. In China, India, and other 3rd world spots where buildings collapse, it’s common to find that the contractors used twice as much sand as was proper in the concrete mix, to cut costs. And no rebar.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 08:48 AM (orF8y)

260 >There are rap songs I like, and you cannot discount the creativity involved in many (not all) of the work.
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I'll stick with The Ray Conniff Singers

listen to this Beatles cover!

https://youtu.be/qDHInS9DZyM

Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 08:48 AM (ZxPkt)

261 What we have now, and have had for decades, is already untenable nonsense. There's nothing the SCOTUS is going to do to make it worse.

"Enshrined"? It's already enshrined without their help. You want it unshrined, some hacks in robes won't help you get there.

The Supreme Arbiters of Law in a land that ignores Law entirely anyway doesn't really make much of a difference whatever they happen to say.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 08:48 AM (Ot/FD)

262 Y’all disappoint me. I was really hoping for a Vanilla Ice call out.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 08:45 AM (Dd38x)

Peanut butter and jelly. Bacon and eggs. Piper and Vanilla Ice.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 08:49 AM (KqZez)

263 There are rap songs I like, and you cannot discount the creativity involved in many (not all) of the work.

Sure I can. Just like this. Observe ...

... all rap sucks. Sucks when somebody straight from the hood does it. Sucks when a white guy in a cowboy hat does it. The End.

Posted by: Spring Reverb at June 30, 2026 08:50 AM (WeKpa)

264 Well, it's 73F in London, and 68F at Dunkirk... guess the summer long heat dome/wave/whatever didn't last.

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 08:50 AM (XuXeR)

265 Hey, I'm the pessimist here....

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 08:46 AM (pmOux)

I've always considered you something of a realist, with very occasional flutters of genuine hope.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 08:50 AM (KqZez)

266 "But I expect the ruling to be clear that Congress has the authority."

The same thing as losing the case.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 30, 2026 08:51 AM (b4LBp)

267 >>@AsraNomani
·
14m
Replying to
@AsraNomani

>>@bitcoinpolicy and 8 others

>>‼️ Why does this matter? Lawmakers and Justice, Treasury and State Department officials are investigating to see if the people and orgs in the Singham network are voices for China and "malign foreign influence" without registering as "foreign agents," as required by law.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 30, 2026 08:51 AM (viF8m)

268 redridinghood

The fact that 55% of 30% of the population wants to leave the US is, in a way, proof that American values are winning. That is around 6 million people that want to leave. I like the trend line.

Note, this is out of sight of the loathsome Media.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 08:51 AM (u82oZ)

269 266 "But I expect the ruling to be clear that Congress has the authority."

The same thing as losing the case.
Posted by: Ordinary American at June 30, 2026 08:51 AM (b4LBp)

Yup... And Congress will so squat as usual

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 08:51 AM (pmOux)

270 And once they're overseas, they long to come back. They know this is the greatest country in the world, and it kills them.

The issue is they want free shit.

Since America is the richest large country in the world it has the most wealth to loot.

So asking why leftists want to live in America while claiming America sucks is like asking a Swede in 900 AD why he keeps going back to France/England even if he thinks they are worthless Christian pansies.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 08:51 AM (sKqQm)

271 >>Congress Is No Longer Performing Its Constitutional Function

Link goes to this page.

Posted by: Nazdar at June 30, 2026 08:51 AM (NcvvS)

272 Y’all disappoint me. I was really hoping for a Vanilla Ice call out.
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 08:45 AM (Dd38x)

My former step-brother went to high school with him. Robbie Van Winkle was his name back then.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:51 AM (2YhKe)

273 I've always considered you something of a realist, with very occasional flutters of genuine hope.
Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 08:50 AM (KqZez)

That's how I like to see myself. An optimistic realist.

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 08:51 AM (04gcy)

274 That's how I like to see myself. An optimistic realist.
Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 08:51 AM (04gcy)

"Whatever will happen will be the best that could possibly happen, which just so happens to suck."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 08:53 AM (Ot/FD)

275 248 Our Country is Screwed

I got a begging letter from the state GOpe.

I returned it with red marker saying "No SAFE Act, no vote or money".

I am registered independent, so they are reaching far and wide for donors.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 08:45 AM (u82oZ)

Nicely done!

Registered independent here (NH) as well. Only communications house OCiS gets is from the Democrats. The NH Republican party is nothing short of a laughing stock. They are trying to ram Scott Brown (MA carpetbagger) for Jeanne Shaheen's seat. He's a repeat loser when trying to get a US Senate seat in NH.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 30, 2026 08:53 AM (N39Ws)

276 There's a woman named Silki on YouTube who addresses geological and volcanos. She's a German and I believe has a science doctoral in geology.
Anyway she was showing some of what passed for the building materials in Venezuela which may have led to an extent increased number of collapsed buildings. It looks like China's Tofu Dreg construction

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 08:53 AM (f6yx7)

277 I am registered independent, so they are reaching far and wide for donors.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 08:45 AM (u82oZ)

Me too...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 08:53 AM (pmOux)

278 ... all rap sucks. Sucks when somebody straight from the hood does it. Sucks when a white guy in a cowboy hat does it. The End.
Posted by: Spring Reverb at June 30, 2026 08:50 AM (WeKpa)

...even Convoy? The original rap song?

Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at June 30, 2026 08:53 AM (6BjcW)

279
271 >>Congress Is No Longer Performing Its Constitutional Function

Link goes to this page.
Posted by: Nazdar at June 30, 2026 08:51 AM (NcvvS)

There’s breaking news - they gave that up 80 years ago, at least.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 08:54 AM (orF8y)

280
Can we flip Mattis to become a patriot?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 08:41 AM (u82oZ)

Probably not. I'm increasingly convinced that he was always little more than a self-important blowhard glory hound whose only real talent was in turning a phrase.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 30, 2026 08:54 AM (hpF/D)

281 Y’all disappoint me. I was really hoping for a Vanilla Ice call out.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 08:45 AM (Dd38x)

I mean, I AM Disappoint......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:54 AM (2YhKe)

282 Y’all disappoint me. I was really hoping for a Vanilla Ice call out.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 08:45 AM (Dd38x)

Peanut butter and jelly. Bacon and eggs. Piper and Vanilla Ice.
Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 08:49 AM (KqZez)

What no love for Andrew Dice Clay?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 08:54 AM (D2O3S)

283 On further reflection, human nature being what it is, this is probably the rap most likely to still be listened to 50 years from now:

Dirt Nasty & Mickey Avalon - My Dick [MUSIC VIDEO]
*NSFW* https://youtu.be/smsiGETScR0 *NSFW*

No really, even with headphones, it isn't appropriate for anywhere in public. But it's funny! I have put it on a dive bar's jukebox through TouchTunes before (wildly inappropriate, but... dive).

Posted by: SciVo at June 30, 2026 08:55 AM (Sy6m/)

284 Mike Benz explained that one of the tools the CIA/State/USAID used over the years to help shape narratives in countries they were looking to do regime change was influence in the music industry. He claims that this was a very real took they used to help mold societies to their purposes.

USAID has been kneecapped and now for the first time in decades there is no rap song in the Top 40.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 30, 2026 08:56 AM (viF8m)

285 ... all rap sucks. Sucks when somebody straight from the hood does it. Sucks when a white guy in a cowboy hat does it. The End.
Posted by: Spring Reverb

Jazz is the music of the DEVIL.

Posted by: Spring Reverb's grandfather at June 30, 2026 08:57 AM (gKWVE)

286 That's how I like to see myself. An optimistic realist.

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 08:51 AM (04gcy)

You're pretty optimistic.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 08:57 AM (KqZez)

287 Were the beatniks spouting poetry to the beat of their bongo drums rappers?

Posted by: davidt at June 30, 2026 08:57 AM (Q+gd/)

288 Get ready to take it in the ass for a second time from ACB on birthright citizenship. She is trampling the constitution one issue at a time.

Posted by: Travis T at June 30, 2026 08:57 AM (KAa/S)

289
What no love for Andrew Dice Clay?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 08:54 AM (D2O3S)

I don't remember him having a stellar rap carrer.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:58 AM (2YhKe)

290 So it's a music thread?

Posted by: Just got here at June 30, 2026 08:58 AM (2Ez/1)

291 Posted by: JackStraw at June 30, 2026 08:56 AM (viF8m)

There is also blacktose intolerance to consider

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 08:58 AM (KqZez)

292 But for some, the fantasy of dragging Muslims into modernity will simply never die. It's their white whale.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 30, 2026 08:42 AM (BI5O2)
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This may be, but only because I know that Iranians are a Western-oriented people, and that Islam is alien to them and imposed upon them by a radical clique which seized power and installed a muslim terror state in place of the Pahlavi monarchy, which kept the radicals in check and oriented their foreign policy with the West.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 08:58 AM (RIvkX)

293 Rap is a significantly easier music style then traditional modes of singing.

So there can be creativity in it, sure, but its a much easier medium and requires both less singing and song writing talent.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 08:59 AM (sKqQm)

294
There is also blacktose intolerance to consider
Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 08:58 AM (KqZez)

There's a reason they stuck old ass Snoop Dogg with even older ass Martha Stewart.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:59 AM (2YhKe)

295 Rap got it's biggest boost from Blondie's "Rapture". Pretty good song . Plus Debbie Harry

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 08:59 AM (f6yx7)

296 290 Not if we’re talking about rap.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 08:59 AM (77rzZ)

297 >>So it's a music thread?

No, it's a rap thread.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 30, 2026 09:00 AM (J4Dwc)

298 ... all rap sucks. Sucks when somebody straight from the hood does it. Sucks when a white guy in a cowboy hat does it. The End.
Posted by: Spring Reverb

Cowboy Troy WAS the worst thing to ever happen to country music......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 09:00 AM (2YhKe)

299 And please never put another woman on SCOTUS.

Posted by: Travis T at June 30, 2026 09:00 AM (KAa/S)

300 I've heard some rap lyrics I thought were clever and well performed, but it's not my genre genrally.

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 09:00 AM (Jr5Lq)

301 "What the people want" is not what SCOTUS or the GOP want. It's the "this is fine" meme with the dog in a burning room. The dog being our political and judicial betters.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 30, 2026 09:00 AM (jehhT)

302 289
What no love for Andrew Dice Clay?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 08:54 AM (D2O3S)

I don't remember him having a stellar rap carrer.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:58 AM (2YhKe)

But could knock nursery rhymes out of the park.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 30, 2026 09:00 AM (N39Ws)

303 Rap got it's biggest boost from Blondie's "Rapture". Pretty good song . Plus Debbie Harry

That woman loved coke and hated bras ..what more could you want in a pop star?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 09:00 AM (sKqQm)

304 Militarily, there's not much left to do but wait until the next phase of beating their asses begins anew. Let them scuttle around and generate intelligence for us while we bide our time. Might as well stand on the ropes and work the crowds, meanwhile.
=====

THIS

And find out NATO's next idiocy so we have time to prepare other air routes.

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 30, 2026 09:01 AM (M0f+C)

305
But could knock nursery rhymes out of the park.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 30, 2026 09:00 AM (N39Ws)

Valid.

And Ford Fairlane was actually a pretty decent movie.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 09:01 AM (2YhKe)

306 That woman loved coke and hated bras ..what more could you want in a pop star?
Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 09:00 AM
++++

You know about the cup sizes?

Posted by: Frank Costanza at June 30, 2026 09:01 AM (2Ez/1)

307 "Straight Outta Compton" (2015) is a pretty good movie, surprisingly.

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 09:01 AM (Jr5Lq)

308 >>Rap got it's biggest boost from Blondie's "Rapture". Pretty good song . Plus Debbie Harry

Walk This Way, Run DMC and Aerosmith.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 30, 2026 09:02 AM (viF8m)

309 I think Billie Eilish probably has a nice voice but the German talk-rap shit she does is nauseating. The singing equivalent of a nosering and blue hair. I guess I'm old or whatever but if you have that kind of ring in your voice, use it.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 09:02 AM (KqZez)

310 And Ford Fairlane was actually a pretty decent movie.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 09:01 AM (2YhKe)
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He was great in that Woody Allen movie too.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 09:02 AM (RIvkX)

311 I keep forgetting that this may be considered rap:

Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch
https://youtu.be/xat1GVnl8-k

Posted by: SciVo at June 30, 2026 09:02 AM (Sy6m/)

312 Anyway she was showing some of what passed for the building materials in Venezuela which may have led to an extent increased number of collapsed buildings. It looks like China's Tofu Dreg construction
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 08:53 AM (f6yx7)

I’ve seen many note that the difference between functional countries and the 3rd World countries is how they respond to disasters. If something like that happened in the US, for example, we would put a huge emphasis on building codes and inspections to see that it doesn’t happen again.

But take a situation like Ferry disasters in the Philippines. Every 3 or 4 years, there will be sad news of some overloaded island ferry that suddenly sank, taking 8,000 people to the bottom with it. Everyone laments the loss for a day or two - then goes right back to doing the same thing with the same worn out overloaded ferry’s, so that the same disaster happens over and over and over again.

They just don’t care. Not enough to do anything about it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 09:03 AM (orF8y)

313 Amish Paradise was a good Rap song...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 09:03 AM (pmOux)

314 You know about the cup sizes?

She was certainly not well endowed but she made it work

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 09:03 AM (sKqQm)

315 He was great in that Woody Allen movie too.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 09:02 AM (RIvkX)

I can't say that I've ever actually seen a Woody Allen movie. What was it called?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 09:04 AM (2YhKe)

316 Amish Paradise was a good Rap song...

The fact that Weird Al can wander into the genre and hit it out of the park provides more evidence for my theory that rap is singing on easy mode

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 09:04 AM (sKqQm)

317 This may be, but only because I know that Iranians are a Western-oriented people, and that Islam is alien to them and imposed upon them by a radical clique which seized power and installed a muslim terror state in place of the Pahlavi monarchy, which kept the radicals in check and oriented their foreign policy with the West.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 08:58 AM (RIvkX)

Yeah, Iran has its own old civilization, the one Islam tried to snuff out. That civilization has much in common with our values, not sure we can teach them much more. But we can set the conditions, dictated by our own interests, that will allow the ayatollahs to completely fall. USSR fell because of enormous pressure from the outside.

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 09:04 AM (ugc0u)

318 >>Rep. Ro Khanna (D., Calif.) has emerged as a potential contender for the Democrat presidential nomination while denouncing the ultra-rich who "hoard wealth and engage in financial speculation."

NJNBHN

Why would he even think he has a chance?

Here's a tip: don't just look at his prolific portfolio and frequent stock trades, look at the activity of his kids' trades.

*They're in grade school wink, wink

Posted by: Lizzy at June 30, 2026 09:05 AM (X8xt3)

319 The only rap number I like is the one in the opening scene of The Music Man.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 09:06 AM (77rzZ)

320 There is also blacktose intolerance to consider
Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 08:58 AM (KqZez)
__

Blacktose intolerance, aka n***** fatigue.

Chris Rock had something to say about that, as well as my parents.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 30, 2026 09:07 AM (c/QKZ)

321
Gangsta rap became irrelevant once Easy-E died. His solo stuff was scary as shit, like a barely literate shrimp serial killer confessing his crimes on tape.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 30, 2026 09:07 AM (hpF/D)

322 >I think Billie Eilish probably has a nice voice but the German talk-rap shit she does is nauseating.
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impressive rack though

Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 09:07 AM (ZxPkt)

323 "The same thing as losing the case."

Disagree. It will frame the issue clearly and then Trump will run on it.

"And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the goin' gets tough... The tough get goin'! Who's with me? Let's go!"

Posted by: Ignoramus at June 30, 2026 09:07 AM (dtajH)

324 >>The fact that Weird Al can wander into the genre and hit it out of the park provides more evidence for my theory that rap is singing on easy mode

And that Weird Al is talented.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 30, 2026 09:07 AM (X8xt3)

325 >>‼️ Why does this matter? Lawmakers and Justice, Treasury and State Department officials are investigating to see if the people and orgs in the Singham network are voices for China and "malign foreign influence" without registering as "foreign agents," as required by law.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 30, 2026 08:51 AM (viF8m)

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Now do Bubba and his Lady Macbeth, Gore, The DogEater and his tranny lover (we're gonna need to be A LOT MOAR specific), and Xi Butt-Bitch Gruesome Newscum.

Posted by: ShainS at June 30, 2026 09:08 AM (t/lcw)

326 No mention of the Humpty Dance?

Wipeout? (collab with the Fat Boys and the Beach Boys making it the Fat Beach Boys)

I am disappoint.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 30, 2026 09:08 AM (wVcYX)

327 I think Billie Eilish probably has a nice voice but the German talk-rap shit she does is nauseating.
----

impressive rack though
Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 09:07 AM (ZxPkt)

And forever bitch face.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 09:08 AM (2YhKe)

328 >>>I think Billie Eilish probably has a nice voice but the German talk-rap shit she does is nauseating.

Are you referring to the whisper-like singing thing?
I hate that.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 30, 2026 09:08 AM (X8xt3)

329 impressive rack though
Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 09:07 AM
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So you DO know about the cup sizes?

Posted by: Frank Costanza at June 30, 2026 09:09 AM (2Ez/1)

330 ...even Convoy? The original rap song?
Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at June 30, 2026 08:53 AM (6BjcW)

Don't know what you would call that one. But I hated it. Like nails on a chalkboard.

I was born in '72. So I didn't know anything when it came out in '75. But they were still playing it in 1980 for crying out loud. I couldn't ask for Mom or Dad to turn the station - because that alone got your ass beat back then.

Posted by: Spring Reverb at June 30, 2026 09:09 AM (WeKpa)

331 >>And forever bitch face.

Serious Sanpaku eyes. Freaky!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 30, 2026 09:10 AM (X8xt3)

332 "hey baby is your name Keurig cause you look like you rockin some k cups there awwww yeah"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 09:10 AM (Ot/FD)

333 Billie Eilish

She has Curves.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 09:10 AM (u82oZ)

334
I was born in '72. So I didn't know anything when it came out in '75. But they were still playing it in 1980 for crying out loud. I couldn't ask for Mom or Dad to turn the station - because that alone got your ass beat back then.
Posted by: Spring Reverb at June 30, 2026 09:09 AM (WeKpa)

I was born in '71 and have it on my playlist.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 09:10 AM (2YhKe)

335 The Socialists who are always screeching about how 'Reich wingers' are a threat to public order are in fact the ones who are the threat.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 30, 2026 09:10 AM (2GVsD)

336 Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 30, 2026 09:07 AM (c/QKZ)

The Democrat Party has turned on blacks and most don't even realize it. You feel it yet?

I find it sad, even though the majority that are being set up for a yuge fall would happily see me and mine buried.

They will always come back during election year and pretend, the way the Left still claims to be on a woman's side. But the truth is much uglier.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 09:10 AM (KqZez)

337 >So you DO know about the cup sizes?

Posted by: Frank Costanza
---
of course
there's A, B, C, and D. That's the biggest.

Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 09:10 AM (ZxPkt)

338 Sponge!!

Salty!!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 30, 2026 09:10 AM (c/QKZ)

339 Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 30, 2026 09:10 AM (c/QKZ)

*hugs*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 09:11 AM (2YhKe)

340 Rapper's Delight

Posted by: The Sugarhill Gang at June 30, 2026 09:11 AM (wVcYX)

341 {{{SMH}}}

Hope you and Ex-Ex are thriving.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 09:12 AM (u82oZ)

342 No mention of the Humpty Dance?

Read up on that guy - he died from fent in 2021 - thanks China and Tony Fauci!

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 09:12 AM (sKqQm)

343 The only rap number I like is the one in the opening scene of The Music Man.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 09:06 AM (77rzZ)

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I am disappoint that NOBODY had the good sense to turn George C. Scott's "Patton" opening monologue into a rap song.

I mean, they could have even probably hired Muldoon to make it rhyme on the cheap ...

Posted by: ShainS at June 30, 2026 09:12 AM (t/lcw)

344 Weird Al and Yoko Kanno are very talented.

They should do a collab, it would be a riot of awesome.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 30, 2026 09:12 AM (2GVsD)

345 July 4th, 1776, is not the nation's birthday. It was conception day. Details here: https://shorturl.at/ZWZxy

Posted by: IanDeal at June 30, 2026 09:12 AM (KlMx/)

346 >>Now do Bubba and his Lady Macbeth, Gore, The DogEater and his tranny lover (we're gonna need to be A LOT MOAR specific), and Xi Butt-Bitch Gruesome Newscum.

My belief is that Singham is basically a front for the CCP like Soros is for the CIA. Some of the money he sends to far left groups in the US is his but a lot is probably from the CCP.

BLM is part of that network. I don't think it was a coincidence that Governor Jazz Hands' Minnesota was ground zero for BLM rioting after Floyd. Hopefully, some of these networks will be exposed.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 30, 2026 09:12 AM (viF8m)

347 "of course
there's A, B, C, and D. That's the biggest."
---
I think there's also a "K."
Is that even bigger?

Posted by: Brasserie novice at June 30, 2026 09:12 AM (2Ez/1)

348 "hey baby is your name Keurig cause you look like you rockin some k cups there awwww yeah"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 09:10 AM (Ot/FD)

Consider that stolen.

Posted by: Count de Monet, motoboatin' fool at June 30, 2026 09:13 AM (wVcYX)

349 Off to teach my last class!

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 09:13 AM (hftzA)

350 >> He replied, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

Luke 10:18

Tropic Lightning

Posted by: Marcus T at June 30, 2026 09:13 AM (zJUfk)

351 The Democrat Party has turned on blacks and most don't even realize it. You feel it yet?
___

I was never part of the plantation, so nothing to feel, though I have noticed that the grievance hierarchy has changed.

In the hoods, on the plantations, the rules are the same.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 30, 2026 09:13 AM (c/QKZ)

352 206 Rap is not music. Period.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 08:35 AM (77rzZ)

It's poetry in motion.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
--

It will go down in history as a marker of our corruption alongside women with beards and hairy dicks.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 09:13 AM (vPv7/)

353 Off to teach my last class!
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 09:13 AM (hftzA)

Retiring after death?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 09:13 AM (2YhKe)

354 >So you DO know about the cup sizes?

Posted by: Frank Costanza
---
of course
there's A, B, C, and D. That's the biggest.
Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 09:10 AM (ZxPkt)

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E-Cup > World Cup

Posted by: ShainS at June 30, 2026 09:14 AM (t/lcw)

355 Last class of the day or are you hanging up the exercise attire?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 30, 2026 09:14 AM (2GVsD)

356 That would be much more ominous if you announced you were going to teach THEIR last class.

Posted by: Spring Reverb at June 30, 2026 09:14 AM (WeKpa)

357 It's amusing how the entire genre of rap went from "skibbidy boopity let's get funky I love dancing woo" to "I commit rape arson and murder because i'm terrified of anything thinking i might be a homosexual"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 09:14 AM (Ot/FD)

358 JackStraw
Find the Networks is a good site.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 09:14 AM (u82oZ)

359 Are you referring to the whisper-like singing thing?
I hate that.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 30, 2026 09:08 AM (X8xt3)

Sprechgesang (German for "spoken singing") is a vocal technique midway between speech and song. Performers use specific rhythms and loose, approximate pitches, hitting a note only to let the voice rapidly fall away. It conveys dramatic intensity without traditional melodic singing. Probably popularized by Kraftwerk in the 1980s. This is her "modern" take on it.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 09:14 AM (KqZez)

360 Good morning! You know who never split a baby? Solomon.

Posted by: Oglebay at June 30, 2026 09:15 AM (2ap+5)

361 "Life begins at G cup"

Posted by: Some former commentator at June 30, 2026 09:15 AM (wVcYX)

362 I am registered independent, so they are reaching far and wide for donors.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 08:45 AM (u82oZ)

Me too...
Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 08:53 AM (pmOux)

I'd normally have been Independent but ridding the world of John Cornyn took precedence.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 09:15 AM (ExV1e)

363 Much nicer, more pragmatic bunch !

"The front page of the Iranian newspaper Hamshahri carries a clear and harsh message calling for Trump’s assassination.

The cover shows an image of Trump with a target marked on his face and a laser aimed between his eyes. At the center of the page, the main headline reads: “Revenge is certain.”

Below it appear the words of the Leader of the Revolution: “The war criminals must be grabbed by the collar.”

Another line reads: “Avenging the blood of the martyred Imam and the martyrs is at the top of the people’s demands.”"

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 09:15 AM (ugc0u)

364 >because i'm terrified of anything thinking i might be a homosexual"
_____

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Posted by: George and Jerry at June 30, 2026 09:16 AM (2Ez/1)

365 Has Billie Elish returned the stolen land her mansion sits on?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 30, 2026 09:16 AM (2GVsD)

366 >>>Eminem is a genius. You may not like the lyrics, but the way he can put words together is insane. Killshot (in response to MGK Rap Devil) shows this. And shows MGK got a little big for his britches there.

Takashi 6ix9ine is gross, but he can put together a banger.

Posted by: Piper
---

You need an intervention.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 09:16 AM (vPv7/)

367 runner

Why does Iran have power to run websites or print newspapers?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 09:16 AM (u82oZ)

368 Whites vs. Reds? Who will be our Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 30, 2026 08:38 AM (E58gv)

I'm waiting for our own Ehrhardt Brigade.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 30, 2026 09:17 AM (qRla/)

369 >> Rap is not music. Period.

I've seen comments on X about how hiphop industry is not doing so well since USAID money was cutoff.
I have no idea how the two would be related; however, it was obviously forced on us to replace rock music.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 30, 2026 09:17 AM (X8xt3)

370
It will go down in history as a marker of our corruption alongside women with beards and hairy dicks.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 09:13 AM (vPv7/)

That's quite a leap.

Rap music lead to trannies.

Every rap song I ever heard wasn't very 'LGBT' friendly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 09:17 AM (2YhKe)

371 was never part of the plantation, so nothing to feel, though I have noticed that the grievance hierarchy has changed.

In the hoods, on the plantations, the rules are the same.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 30, 2026 09:13 AM (c/QKZ)

Interesting. {{SMH}} btw

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 09:17 AM (KqZez)

372 That top picture, if those two had a love child would it be called Maodami?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 30, 2026 09:17 AM (2GVsD)

373 No love for "Bust A Move?"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 30, 2026 09:17 AM (qRla/)

374 Why does Iran have power to run websites or print newspapers?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 09:16 AM (u82oZ)

They paid their electric bills....

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 09:18 AM (ugc0u)

375 >Eminem is a genius. You may not like the lyrics, but the way he can put words together is insane. Killshot (in response to MGK Rap Devil) shows this. And shows MGK got a little big for his britches there.

I can't f*cking STAND his 'rap style.'

I wouldn't put it anywhere near the 'genius' category.

More 'annoying as f*ck.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 09:18 AM (2YhKe)

376 Would you like some musical accompaniment to this morning's discussion of bigguns?

Posted by: Joe Walsh at June 30, 2026 09:18 AM (wVcYX)

377 I'd normally have been Independent but ridding the world of John Cornyn took precedence.

Sometimes, to do good, you gotta' do a little bad.

* salute *

Posted by: Spring Reverb at June 30, 2026 09:18 AM (WeKpa)

378 Rock 'n Roll is here to stay!

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 09:19 AM (ugc0u)

379 -Below it appear the words of the Leader of the Revolution: “The war criminals must be grabbed by the collar.”

Another line reads: “Avenging the blood of the martyred Imam and the martyrs is at the top of the people’s demands.”"

Posted by: runner
--

Another day in la la land.
Paging votermom, votermom to the red phone.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 09:19 AM (vPv7/)

380 Sprechgesang (German for "spoken singing") is a vocal technique midway between speech and song.

**Rex Harrison has entered the chat**

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 30, 2026 09:19 AM (qRla/)

381 Rock 'n Roll is here to stay!
Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 09:19 AM (ugc0u)

Rock and roll ain't noise pollution.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 09:19 AM (2YhKe)

382 No love for "Bust A Move?"

The chic shaking her ass in the video with the stop sign patch on each cheek was nice. I'd mute the TV when it came on.

Posted by: Spring Reverb at June 30, 2026 09:19 AM (WeKpa)

383 It's pretty clear that much of rap and other "representatives" of black "culture" such as Jasmine Crockashit are a modern Democrat take on blackface. Instead of using white people to caricature the black race, they use willing blacks.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 09:20 AM (KqZez)

384 In the hoods, on the plantations, the rules are the same.

Aka tribal rules. Humans haven't really progressed from that bunch of apes at the beginning of 2001.

"You are not of the Body."

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 30, 2026 09:20 AM (2GVsD)

385 328> Whisper-like singing hate

Maybe you will love Mongolian and Tuvan throat singing.

Posted by: Community Notes at June 30, 2026 09:21 AM (nAS9C)

386 Hello, I'm Johnny Cash.

Posted by: Zombie Johnny Cash at June 30, 2026 09:22 AM (wVcYX)

387 >>Sprechgesang (German for "spoken singing") is a vocal technique midway between speech and song. Performers use specific rhythms and loose, approximate pitches, hitting a note only to let the voice rapidly fall away. It conveys dramatic intensity without traditional melodic singing. Probably popularized by Kraftwerk in the 1980s. This is her "modern" take on it.

Thanks - not a fan of this, either!!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 30, 2026 09:22 AM (X8xt3)

388 >Maybe you will love Mongolian and Tuvan throat singing.
Posted by: Community Notes at June 30, 2026 09:21 AM
+++++

https://youtu.be/nWglfC5CNS4

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at June 30, 2026 09:22 AM (2Ez/1)

389 On a different note.. It's interesting to see all the soccer fan foreign visitors praising the US while the Democrats are tearing it down...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 09:23 AM (pmOux)

390 Singing is just sustained talking.

Watch as I tutor these 4 untrained school board members.

Posted by: Professor Harold Hill at June 30, 2026 09:24 AM (wVcYX)

391 389 On a different note.. It's interesting to see all the soccer fan foreign visitors praising the US while the Democrats are tearing it down...
Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2026 09:23 AM
++++

This is a fun song:

https://youtu.be/EYpxcbKnqEs

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 30, 2026 09:25 AM (2Ez/1)

392
Takashi 6ix9ine is gross, but he can put together a banger.

Posted by: Piper

Never hard of that. Search. Videos. Click first one.

That's f*cking horrible.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 09:25 AM (2YhKe)

393
367 runner

Why does Iran have power to run websites or print newspapers?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 09:16 AM (u82oZ)

Dangerous question. The answer might lead to the conclusion that the threat to shut it off was just a huge bluff that got called.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 09:26 AM (orF8y)

394 Rock 'n Roll is here to stay!
Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 09:19 AM (ugc0u)

It will never die.

Posted by: Sha Na Na at June 30, 2026 09:26 AM (wVcYX)

395 Rex Harrison did patter numbers. Not sure that’s the same thing as this sprechgesang stuff.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 09:26 AM (77rzZ)

396 It's me donna

Except for the Japanese fan, most come from failed states. I include the EU in that list.

So the US wins by comparison, outside of major cities.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 09:27 AM (u82oZ)

397 She Bangs!

Posted by: William Hung at June 30, 2026 09:27 AM (wVcYX)

398 Just lemme hear some of that rock n roll music

Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 09:27 AM (ZxPkt)

399 378 Rock 'n Roll is here to stay!

Posted by: runner
---

Rock and roll is built upon traditional forms of music that can be traced back to Bach.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 09:28 AM (vPv7/)

400 She Bangs!
Posted by: William Hung at June 30, 2026 09:27 AM (wVcYX)

She Bop!

Posted by: Cindy Lauper at June 30, 2026 09:28 AM (2YhKe)

401 But for some, the fantasy of dragging Muslims into modernity will simply never die. It's their white whale.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 30, 2026 08:42 AM (BI5O2)

I think Americans have hope because the majority of Iranians aren't Muslim. A survey from either last year or the year before had a third of Iranians self-identifying as Muslim. This is despite it being the state religion, the IRGC probably at their most paranoid, and locked-down media.

I'm not on the Make Zorastrianism Great Again train. But I *am* intrigued by reports of Jesus Christ Himself appearing in Iranian dreams.

Posted by: almost all of the Persians pookysgirl has met are cats at June 30, 2026 09:28 AM (Wt5PA)

402 I'm. A. Rocket. Man.

Posted by: Shatner at June 30, 2026 09:28 AM (Q+gd/)

403 Although, I guess I spelled it wrong.

Don't have much respect for Lauper, so I don't care.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 09:28 AM (2YhKe)

404 Breaking: scotus says anchor babies have 30 days post Election Day to vote.

Posted by: Heroq at June 30, 2026 09:29 AM (AiNp4)

405 I love rock and roll
So put another dime in the jukebox, baby

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 09:29 AM (ugc0u)

406 SO-

I hope everyone is mentally prepared for the SCOTUS ruling on birthright citizenship.
Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 08:22 AM (ZxPkt)
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SCOTUS is going to say only the legislature can change the law and kick it to Congress

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 30, 2026 09:29 AM (zxAjZ)

407 Dangerous question. The answer might lead to the conclusion that the threat to shut it off was just a huge bluff that got called.

Posted by: Tom Servo
---

Be not forgetting that he wants the citizenry to survive intact.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 09:29 AM (vPv7/)

408 Just lemme hear some of that rock n roll music
Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 09:27 AM (ZxPkt)

It's got a backbeat you can't lose it.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 30, 2026 09:30 AM (wVcYX)

409 SCOTUS is going to say only the legislature can change the law and kick it to Congress
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 30, 2026 09:29 AM (zxAjZ)

Congress always has to make laws. Except when it comes to liberal pet causes like gay marriage. Then scotus makes the law.

Posted by: Heroq at June 30, 2026 09:31 AM (AiNp4)

410 And as we impatiently talk around the IRGC are killing each other off. Not to mention their little foray up north.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 09:31 AM (vPv7/)

411 Congress always has to make laws. Except when it comes to liberal pet causes like gay marriage. Then scotus makes the law.

==

It's a tax!

-- Justice It's a Tax

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2026 09:31 AM (ugc0u)

412 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 09:32 AM (2YhKe)

413 402 I'm. A. Rocket. Man.
Posted by: Shatner at June 30, 2026 09:28 AM

Jus' rike me!

Posted by: Kim Jong Un at June 30, 2026 09:32 AM (2Ez/1)

414 Call me a relic, call me what you will
Say I'm old-fashioned, say I'm over the hill
Today's music ain't got the same soul
I like that old time rock and roll

Posted by: Bob Seger at June 30, 2026 09:32 AM (wVcYX)

415 Noodus gratia artis

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

416
Be not forgetting that he wants the citizenry to survive intact.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 09:29 AM (vPv7/)

That doesn't matter!!!!! KILL THEM ALLL!!!!!!

Supid poopyhead.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 09:32 AM (2YhKe)

417 LOL

Politico: Energy experts said gas prices would stay high. Why were they wrong?

Uhm because experts are wrong about just about everything. Yet imbeciles in the msm keep listening to them.

Posted by: Heroq at June 30, 2026 09:33 AM (AiNp4)

418 Politico: Energy experts said gas prices would stay high. Why were they wrong?
--------

Because they were lying.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 09:34 AM (KqZez)

419 I'm. A. Rocket. Man.
Posted by: Shatner at June 30, 2026 09:28 AM (Q+gd/)

There was recently an "Original Set Tour" of TOS Enterprise in upstate NY. The Shat was there.

I wish I had known. I'd have emptied my bank account to have been there.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 30, 2026 09:34 AM (qRla/)

420 there are a lot of rock songs about rock

Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 09:34 AM (ZxPkt)

421 Ca'Marion. Legit question, what is the apostrophe for?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2026 09:34 AM (Dv3i1)

422 I'm not on the Make Zorastrianism Great Again train. But I *am* intrigued by reports of Jesus Christ Himself appearing in Iranian dreams.

Posted by: almost all of the Persians pookysgirl
---

Haven't heard about the dreams but that's wonderful.

Don't think the Zoroastrians are pledged to kill or enslave us either.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 09:36 AM (vPv7/)

423 I thought the Styx Roboto Tour was awesome. But I'm not from Texas.

Posted by: Jaimo at June 30, 2026 09:39 AM (2noDb)

424 373 No love for "Bust A Move?"
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 30, 2026 09:17 AM (qRla/)

Young MC - Bust A Move
https://youtu.be/xy4FXhkm6Nw

He is still around, and apparently figured out how to use AI in the part of the process where samples used to go. I've linked this 2024 track in the ONT comments before, it's kind of hypnotic:

Young MC - "Fun Part" (Official Video)
https://youtu.be/4VCOIAtBNGQ

Posted by: SciVo at June 30, 2026 09:44 AM (Sy6m/)

425 369 >> Rap is not music. Period.

I've seen comments on X about how hiphop industry is not doing so well since USAID money was cutoff.
I have no idea how the two would be related; however, it was obviously forced on us to replace rock music.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 30, 2026 09:17 AM (X8xt3)
If I want to be entertained by music, I'll put on some music. I won't put on expletive screaming hate rhymes.

Posted by: Eromero at June 30, 2026 10:05 AM (LHPAg)

426 It’s likely that Goldman’s loss isn’t because he isn’t antisemitic enough. It’s more likely that he isn’t left enough. What is wearing the skin suit of the formerly Democratic Party has always rigorously enforced purity standards, but those standards are now well left of just socialist values.

Clinton and Obama left a massive vacuum in party leadership, a void that Pelosi and Schumer didn’t have enough influence on a national scale to fill. The emerging democratic leadership is both hard core communist and largely Muslim. I think there is significant conflict coming, whether between free and totalitarian America or within the Democratic Party I don’t know.

Posted by: Advo at June 30, 2026 10:18 AM (jO4mz)

427 Are DSA candidates really "surging"? Aren't they being elected by 9% of the voters in rotten boroughs?

Posted by: toby928(c) at June 30, 2026 11:11 AM (4NO2D)

428 Pawnell, 19, allegedly confirmed the gun belonged to him and he had placed it beneath the mattress. Pawnell has been charged with one count of second-degree felony murder, one count of endangering the welfare of a child resulting in death, and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child creating substantial risk, according to court documents. He remains held without bond, First Alert 4 reported. (RELATED: Inmates Seize Control Of Jail, Take Officers Hostage)

Pawnell is the father of the baby but who is the father of the 10 year old and 7 year old and who is/are the mothers (s)?
---------------------------------------

Prosecutors charged the 10-year-old with first-degree murder in juvenile court. He’s seemingly the youngest person in the history of Missouri to face a murder charge, the outlet reported.

Pawnell and the 10-year-old’s relationship is unclear, according to the New York Post. A 7-year-old child was inside the residence when the alleged shooting took place, First Alert 4 reported.

Posted by: beckster at June 30, 2026 11:31 AM (kX27y)

429
421 Ca'Marion. Legit question, what is the apostrophe for?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2026 09:34 AM (Dv3i1)
----------------
I was also curious:

Apostrophes in black names came about for two reasons. In one case if it's La' or De' it can mean junior or the second. Such as a man being named Darius and naming his son La'Darius. The other reason is the French language's influence on southern African-Americans.Jul 6, 2024

Posted by: beckster at June 30, 2026 11:47 AM (kX27y)

Daily Tech News 30 June 2026

Top Story

South Korea is planning to invest $520 billion to expand chip production at Samsung and SK Hynix. (Tom's Hardware)

Well, sort of. Only about $20 billion of that is direct South Korean public spending, with the remainder coming from regional governments and private investment.

The government will also help fast-track approvals to bring construction plans forward by as much as twelve years.
Meanwhile the Big Three - Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix - have been hit with a private antitrust lawsuit by litigants in California. (Tom's Hardware)

The suit seems to be focused on decreased production of DDR4 and DDR3, which is legal, but alleges they colluded to do so, which may not be.

Tech News

IMEC has laid out its roadmap towards a 0.3nm process in 2038. (Tom's Hardware)

The article notes that this is marketing nonsense - well, the part you can read doesn't, but it's there in the details that you can't read - with actual feature sizes in the 10-20nm range. Since a single silicon atom has a diameter of 0.2nm, you can rest assured they're not building circuits that size.

The 0.3nm instead refers to the effective density thanks to increased use of 3D production to stack transistors vertically.
The Steam Cube hasn't even started shipping and the first clones are here. (Tom's Hardware)

Meta PC's Steamroller is a micro ATX system with a Ryzen 9600X and a Radeon 7600 - both a little faster than the components in the Steam Machine - 16GB of DDR5 RAM, 8GB of VRAM, and a 1TB SSD, for $1299.

It ships with SteamOS, so no Windows tax.
Everything new is old again: Nvidia's RTX 3060 has returned from the dead. (Tom's Hardware)

It was a pretty decent card, and its 12GB of VRAM gives it a boost over current 8GB models like the 5060 and the base model 5060 Ti
It can also run PhysX games, which Nvidia half-killed on the 5000 series. But now so can AMD graphics cards. (WCCFTech)

Thanks to open-source library ZLUDA.
The war against woke could end US science as we know it. (The Verge) (archive site)

Promise?

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Yes. Sure.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:35 AM

Comments

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 04:37 AM (Ia/+0)

2 w00t 2nd

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 04:37 AM (6wpGE)

3 Mornin'

Think I'll take a walk. Gonna be steamy later.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 30, 2026 04:40 AM (sAmhv)

4 >>>The ware against woke

There's a pun there.

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 04:45 AM (6wpGE)

5 I'm glad I quit gaming when I did. There is no keeping up with this foolishness. And my wallet thanks me. Maybe I should invest, billion dollar industry.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 30, 2026 04:48 AM (fkjGs)

6 Boogie Pimps - Somebody to Love

um

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 04:49 AM (6wpGE)

7 Boogie *Pimps*

Wonder what that'll do to my For You feed?

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 04:50 AM (6wpGE)

8 Howdy, med problems are keeping me up today, so I'm surfing laptops. I've decided that building a new rig is to much of an issue and I can have portability so it's time to shop.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at June 30, 2026 04:51 AM (Q/FnY)

9 Hitting that long road
See you when I get there

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 04:51 AM (Ia/+0)

10 >>>The war against woke could end US science as we know it

Or, more honestly--as the author of that way-too-long article allows in the very last sentence:

“We are going to see devastation to our federal grant programs like we’ve never seen before in this country if this is allowed to go forward.”

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 04:54 AM (6wpGE)

11
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 30, 2026 05:09 AM (AMvSw)

12 The war against woke could end US science as we know it. (The Verge)

Somebody want to volunteer to read and summarize that?

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 05:10 AM (6wpGE)

13 from the Verge article (about halfway):

Scientists, it turns out, often know good science when they see it.

A little snippy, there, eh?

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 05:19 AM (6wpGE)

14 Evening, late toilers. Morning, early risers. Whass happenin'?

83 F. at 4:20 am. Horrifying, esp. since I was planning to work out in it. Long ago, Dr. Cooper in Aerobics advised that if temps were over 90 F., to reduce exercise or change to the early morning or evening. Excuse me, Doctor Sir, but what do ya do when the early morning and evening heat-index temps are *also* over 90?

Though he lived in South Texas for much of his life, and was an active runner himself, so he knew about that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 30, 2026 05:21 AM (wzUl9)

15 We had an Osterizer like the one in the ONT. It worked great for easily 2 decades.

Until a spoon slipped out of my hand and bent the blades beyond repair.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 30, 2026 05:23 AM (qFwJc)

16 The tail end of The Eagle Has Landed w/ Michael Caine is on Movies! Odd; I've read the book multiple times, but have never seen the film.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 30, 2026 05:23 AM (wzUl9)

17 moar from the Verge article:

“People who come from minority communities tend to work on subjects related to health disparities or other things,” Berg says. “Not everybody, but some of them do.”

...

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 05:30 AM (6wpGE)

18 I looked over the ONT and its black-and-white photography. I love that stuff. Somewhere I have an Ansel Adams print or two of the Southwest, and will put them up when I have room, aka, when I have my house.

Maybe it's because I grew up with B & W TV and watching even color movies on it. The crispness and starkness of B & W images make them seem more real, somehow, more immediate, than does the color palette of the actual world.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 30, 2026 05:31 AM (wzUl9)

19 Verge article, summary:

Orange Man Bad

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 05:33 AM (6wpGE)

20 Today's devotional from "The Upper Room"
Is by a person from Australia and concerns "Each
One's purpose" Psalm 92:1-156

https://tinyurl.com/yc7feyjy

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 30, 2026 05:33 AM (Yl2Ob)

21 Mornin' Horde.

Well I guess we won't be able to count on the South Korean government in any antitrust investigation of SK Hynix or Samsung this time round, not with how much money is being shoveled at them to address the memory scarcity problems.

And we all know what happens when government throws a lot of money at a problem: The solution usually takes longer, costs 10 times more than it should, and arrives broken, if it arrives at all. Yay.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 30, 2026 05:38 AM (O7YUW)

22 @19/m: "ALL Verge articles, summary: Orange Man Bad"

Fixed that for you.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 30, 2026 05:40 AM (O7YUW)

23 “We are going to see devastation to our federal grant programs like we’ve never seen before in this country if this is allowed to go forward.”
Posted by: m

Faster?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 30, 2026 05:43 AM (sAmhv)

24 22 @19/m: "ALL Verge articles, summary: Orange Man Bad"

Fixed that for you.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 30, 2026 05:40 AM (O7YUW)

Thank you.

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 05:44 AM (6wpGE)

25 NPR was all on this yesterday. Trump is running all the scientists out of the country.

Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at June 30, 2026 05:48 AM (6BjcW)

26 25 NPR was all on this yesterday. Trump is running all the scientists out of the country.
Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at June 30, 2026 05:48 AM (6BjcW)

https://www.npr.org

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 05:49 AM (6wpGE)

27 Yesterday FenSpouse called me over to the room where our computer is. I thought he was showing
Me the latest problem with it. but instead he opened the window curtain outside and there sitting on the ground was dear little spotted fawn
It's probably eating our lillies, but it is cute.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 30, 2026 05:49 AM (Yl2Ob)

28 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 30, 2026 05:33 AM (Yl2Ob)

Fear not! 😊 Psalm 52 for the devotional does not have 152 verses. only 15.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 30, 2026 05:52 AM (Yl2Ob)

29 moar NPR:

'Supergirl' has a solid hero but could use a better villain

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 05:58 AM (6wpGE)

30 7 Boogie *Pimps*

Wonder what that'll do to my For You feed?
Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 04:50 AM (6wpGE)

Not enough, but I can fix that!

This is a great song, I love it:
Butthole Surfers - Pepper
https://youtu.be/KRXty8lDUW0

I prefer this over Rage Against The Machine's cover:
Cypress Hill - How I Could Just Kill a Man (Official HD Video)
https://youtu.be/Yg-RIOATCbU

I'm conflicted about this performance, but at least it made me feel something?
Nirvana - Rape Me (Live At The Paramount, Seattle / 1991)
https://youtu.be/ly1lWkRwm6g

I have not yet compared the other (newer) official lyric video:
Noah Kahan - Dial Drunk (Official Lyric Video)
https://youtu.be/m9Kev73C2cc

Posted by: SciVo at June 30, 2026 06:02 AM (Sy6m/)

31 ***South Korea is planning to invest $520 billion to expand chip production at Samsung and SK Hynix.
---

Samsung is off the market here. If you want to buy it's on the Korean market at ~240. SK Hnix is privately owned. The only other company that makes those do hickeys is MU an American company going for 1300. It was 20 last year.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 06:04 AM (vPv7/)

32 I'm back

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 06:04 AM (sgkY8)

33 Posted by: SciVo at June 30, 2026 06:02 AM (Sy6m/)

Nope. Not gonna do it. Wouldn't be prudent.

(Heavy on the "prude.")

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 06:05 AM (6wpGE)

34 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 30, 2026 06:05 AM (Hbeqj)

35 Good morning! The neighbor next door sold his house to some outfit that's renovating it before selling it and they've come to the stage where they're going to paint the exterior. I saw that they'd caulked the eaves in prep for paint and masked the windows, then I realized they'd painted the brick. White. Very, very bright white.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 30, 2026 06:05 AM (3Ope8)

36 Today is the last of the first half of the year.

Reminds me: This afternoon I need to set my 1971 watch, which does not have a quick-set date feature, ahead to the 31st, so that tomorrow morning it will read the 1st.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 30, 2026 06:06 AM (wzUl9)

37 Musical Interlude

Is she some school teacher? Seems like she's trying to entice those kiddos...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 06:06 AM (l3cgK)

38 TechCrunch: "Ford rehires 'gray beard' engineers after AI falls short"

https://tinyurl.com/ma6vz6ru

Snippet: { To be clear, this doesn't mean Ford is abandoning its AI plans entirely. Instead, it's using the rehired employees - referred to as "gray beard" engineers - to train younger staff and reprogram AI tools. }

So reality is re-asserting itself (as it always does), but some executives are still huffing the AI copium as hard as they can. Got it.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 30, 2026 06:07 AM (O7YUW)

39 I think Jefferson Airplane when I hear that song...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 06:07 AM (l3cgK)

40 @35/CrochetyOldJarhead: "... then I realized they'd painted the brick. White. Very, very bright white."

Graffiti artists everywhere: Blank Canvas!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 30, 2026 06:08 AM (O7YUW)

41 Painting brick has become a fad in my neighborhood. I don't get it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 06:12 AM (vPv7/)

42 Pretty one-story house in the neighborhood where I grew up had white-painted brick and very dark green, almost black, fake shutters.

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 06:15 AM (6wpGE)

43 This is the Last Day of Pride Month, so get your Pridin' in NOW!!

Posted by: Pride Month PSA, Did We Mention it's PRIDE MONTH at June 30, 2026 06:20 AM (CpcAD)

44 Decided to postpone my work out until tomorrow. Time for some breakfast!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 30, 2026 06:22 AM (wzUl9)

45 mornin yall. The year is half over and I still need a haircut. Sometimes is seems like am not making any progress,

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 06:22 AM (MWfyi)

46 moar NPR:

'Supergirl' has a solid hero but could use a better villain
Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 05:58 AM (6wpGE)
---
Wait...I thought Supergirl WAS the villain...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 30, 2026 06:22 AM (gnNyN)

47 43 This is the Last Day of Pride Month, so get your Pridin' in NOW!!
Posted by: Pride Month PSA, Did We Mention it's PRIDE MONTH at June 30, 2026 06:20 AM (CpcAD)

Speaking of which:

@Breaking911
16h
A Los Angeles man has been arrested after allegedly firing a BB gun at naked cyclists riding through downtown Los Angeles.

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 06:23 AM (6wpGE)

48 Brick gets painted often

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 06:24 AM (sgkY8)

49 Saw a thing over at Insty about the movie Logan's Run. The book was so much better, but hey...Jennie Augutter and Farrah Fawcet...

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 30, 2026 06:25 AM (3Ope8)

50 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at June 30, 2026 06:27 AM (V0/Sp)

51 Nope. Not gonna do it. Wouldn't be prudent.

(Heavy on the "prude.")
Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 06:05 AM (6wpGE)

Then I won't bother reposting the ones I took out to appease the server filter (too many links? accused me of looking like spam). Those were some real doozies!

Posted by: SciVo at June 30, 2026 06:28 AM (Sy6m/)

52 43 This is the Last Day of Pride Month, so get your Pridin' in NOW!!

Posted by: Pride Month PSA, Did We Mention it's PRIDE MONTH at June 30, 2026 06:20 AM (CpcAD)

I don't want to know what or where you're putting your Pride in...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 06:28 AM (l3cgK)

53 Yeah but the book didn't have Jennie.
One book I have wanted to read was Walkabout, it is different than how the movie was presented

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 06:28 AM (sgkY8)

54 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: No. You can't.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 30, 2026 06:28 AM (amcLV)

55 47 43 This is the Last Day of Pride Month, so get your Pridin' in NOW!!
Posted by: Pride Month PSA, Did We Mention it's PRIDE MONTH at June 30, 2026 06:20 AM (CpcAD)

Speaking of which:

@Breaking911
16h
A Los Angeles man has been arrested after allegedly firing a BB gun at naked cyclists riding through downtown Los Angeles.

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 06:23 AM (6wpGE)

Airsoft, man...
Anyway, it's illegal to fire BB guns and Airsoft rifles where I live...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 06:29 AM (l3cgK)

56 This is the Last Day of Pride Month, so get your Pridin' in NOW!!

Posted by: Pride Month PSA, Did We Mention it's PRIDE MONTH at June 30, 2026 06:20 AM (CpcAD)
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Wrath Month is gonna be LIT!!!

Posted by: That guy who thinks Wrath Month is gonna be LIT at June 30, 2026 06:30 AM (amcLV)

57 Anyway, it's illegal to fire BB guns and Airsoft rifles where I live...

I bet you can buy there though.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 30, 2026 06:31 AM (3Ope8)

58 Jennie Agutter plays the English girl that Irish spy Donald Sutherland romances in The Eagle Has Landed.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 30, 2026 06:31 AM (wzUl9)

59 Meanwhile the Big Three - Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix - have been hit with a private antitrust lawsuit by litigants in California.

Hynix Hijinks...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 06:31 AM (l3cgK)

60 57 Anyway, it's illegal to fire BB guns and Airsoft rifles where I live...

I bet you can buy there though.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 30, 2026 06:31 AM (3Ope

Oh yeah, I can.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 06:32 AM (l3cgK)

61 Wrath Month is gonna be LIT!!!
Posted by: That guy who thinks Wrath Month is gonna be LIT at June 30, 2026

***
I'm ready for Lust Month.

Gluttony, though, is right out. It makes it darn difficult to enjoy Lust Month.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 30, 2026 06:32 AM (wzUl9)

62 Don't pump it too many times it would give a good sting.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 06:34 AM (vPv7/)

63 55 47 43 This is the Last Day of Pride Month, so get your Pridin' in NOW!!
Posted by: Pride Month PSA, Did We Mention it's PRIDE MONTH at June 30, 2026 06:20 AM (CpcAD)

Speaking of which:

@Breaking911
16h
A Los Angeles man has been arrested after allegedly firing a BB gun at naked cyclists riding through downtown Los Angeles.

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 06:23 AM (6wpGE)

Airsoft, man...
Anyway, it's illegal to fire BB guns and Airsoft rifles where I live...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 06:29 AM (l3cgK)

Is it illegal to ride bikes naked in public?

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 06:34 AM (6wpGE)

64 61 Wrath Month is gonna be LIT!!!
Posted by: That guy who thinks Wrath Month is gonna be LIT at June 30, 2026

***
I'm ready for Lust Month.

Gluttony, though, is right out. It makes it darn difficult to enjoy Lust Month.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 30, 2026 06:32 AM (wzUl9)

Sloth Month sucks...takes a month to poop.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 06:35 AM (l3cgK)

65
*storms in*

Didn't I tell you to clean this place up? It looks like the wreck of the Hesperus!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 06:36 AM (O0L8i)

66 Selective prosecution is pernicious. How can a person know which laws are being enforced?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 30, 2026 06:36 AM (qFwJc)

67
pride
greed
lust
envy
gluttony
wrath
sloth

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 06:36 AM (6wpGE)

68 Donald Sutherland is a fine actor, but Eagle and The Great Train Robbery decisively show that he can't do a convincing Irish dialect.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 30, 2026 06:36 AM (amcLV)

69 Is it illegal to ride bikes naked in public?

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 06:34 AM (6wpGE)

Yup. Also illegal to ride on the streets without a helmet, yet a few years back the state had this huge bike ride event, and traffic was stopped to allow tons of bicycles to ride down major streets, cops handling the traffic...very few were wearing helmets, but the popo did nothing. I doubt any bike infractions were ticketed that day.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 06:37 AM (l3cgK)

70 "Forget it Jake, it's Los Angeles."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 30, 2026 06:37 AM (qFwJc)

71
pride
greed
lust
envy
gluttony - food thread
wrath
sloth - pet thread

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 06:38 AM (6wpGE)

72 68 Donald Sutherland is a fine actor, but Eagle and The Great Train Robbery decisively show that he can't do a convincing Irish dialect.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 30, 2026 06:36 AM (amcLV)

So?

Posted by: John Wayne as Genghis Khan at June 30, 2026 06:38 AM (l3cgK)

73 71
pride
greed
lust
envy
gluttony - food thread
wrath
sloth - pet thread

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 06:38 AM (6wpGE)

gun thread may cover more than one...pride, greed, lust, envy

Posted by: John Wayne as Genghis Khan at June 30, 2026 06:38 AM (l3cgK)

74 So?
Posted by: John Wayne as Genghis Khan at June 30, 2026 06:38 AM (l3cgK)
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Dude - the studio was abusing their contractual rights on that one.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 30, 2026 06:39 AM (amcLV)

75 Apparently, IIRC, Dick Van Dyke's cockney accent in "Mary Poppins" was ridiculed too.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 30, 2026 06:39 AM (qFwJc)

76 66 Selective prosecution is pernicious. How can a person know which laws are being enforced?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 30, 2026 06:36 AM (qFwJc)

By breaking them

Posted by: John Wayne as Genghis Khan at June 30, 2026 06:39 AM (l3cgK)

77 off sock...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 06:39 AM (l3cgK)

78 Sloth Month sucks...takes a month to poop.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026

***
That story on the ONT about the wombat that craps cubical poop . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 30, 2026 06:39 AM (wzUl9)

79 As Affordability Fears Mount, $100,000 Salary Considered Low-Income In 7 California Counties...
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Ya hoooo

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 06:40 AM (vPv7/)

80 79 As Affordability Fears Mount, $100,000 Salary Considered Low-Income In 7 California Counties...
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Ya hoooo

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 06:40 AM (vPv7/)

$100,000 monthly?

; )

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 06:41 AM (6wpGE)

81 78 Sloth Month sucks...takes a month to poop.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026

***
That story on the ONT about the wombat that craps cubical poop . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 30, 2026 06:39 AM (wzUl9)

Borg cubes! Get ur Borg cubes here!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 06:42 AM (l3cgK)

82 Apparently, IIRC, Dick Van Dyke's cockney accent in "Mary Poppins" was ridiculed too.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 30, 2026 06:39 AM (qFwJc)
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As a kid, I didn't notice it. As an adult...

Funny - well, for certain values of funny - story on that is that they hired a dialect coach for him, but the dialect coach could do a Cockney dialect, either. TBF, it's one of the more difficult dialects for a non-native speaker to get a handle on.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 30, 2026 06:42 AM (amcLV)

83 * coach could NOT do*

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 30, 2026 06:43 AM (amcLV)

84 65
*storms in*

Didn't I tell you to clean this place up? It looks like the wreck of the Hesperus!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 06:36 AM (O0L8i)

We're practicing for Sloth month!

Posted by: The Horde at June 30, 2026 06:44 AM (CpcAD)

85 82 Apparently, IIRC, Dick Van Dyke's cockney accent in "Mary Poppins" was ridiculed too.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 30, 2026 06:39 AM (qFwJc)
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As a kid, I didn't notice it. As an adult...

Funny - well, for certain values of funny - story on that is that they hired a dialect coach for him, but the dialect coach could do a Cockney dialect, either. TBF, it's one of the more difficult dialects for a non-native speaker to get a handle on.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 30, 2026 06:42 AM (amcLV)

I've never seen a cock with a knee...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 06:44 AM (l3cgK)

86 To all the sailors at sea, all the pilots in the air. Put away your watches.
==
"White Time": Dutch Professor Argues That Time Itself Is Racist

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 06:44 AM (vPv7/)

87 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at June 30, 2026 06:44 AM (2Ez/1)

88 I think I will open Chapter Two of Beelink Follies today.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 30, 2026 06:45 AM (CHHv1)

89 You could make a case that Sutherland's Devlin, though a proud Irishman -- hating the English so much he was aiding the Germans, like a lot of Irish then -- nevertheless had lived in England so long he had picked up some of their speech patterns.

Jack Higgins wrote a later novel with Devlin as the lead; I'll have to look it up to see which book it was.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 30, 2026 06:46 AM (wzUl9)

90 88 I think I will open Chapter Two of Beelink Follies today.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm
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What happened?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 06:47 AM (vPv7/)

91 72 68 Donald Sutherland is a fine actor, but Eagle and The Great Train Robbery decisively show that he can't do a convincing Irish dialect.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 30, 2026 06:36 AM (amcLV)

That is surprising. He looks like he should be able to. Some people, though, just *look* like they do the most atrocious, mangled Irish accent when they're drunk...

Posted by: Maine Fuhrer at June 30, 2026 06:48 AM (Sy6m/)

92
"White Time": Dutch Professor Argues That Time Itself Is Racist

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 06:44 AM (vPv7/)

_____________

*deletes comment about CPT*

Nothing will happen to this professor. But if you or I suggest trannies might not be right in the head, ooh doggies!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 06:49 AM (O0L8i)

93 "White Time": Dutch Professor Argues That Time Itself Is Racist"

Even more so than Newsweek?

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 06:49 AM (MWfyi)

94 I've never seen a cock with a knee...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 06:44 AM (l3cgK)

a peyro-knee?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 06:50 AM (Ot/FD)

95 Touch the Devil was the Higgins novel in which Devlin is the lead. Apparently, too, there was a sequel to Eagle Has Landed, in which Kurt Steiner (Michael Caine's character in the film) has survived the earlier mission, and is imprisoned in Britain. Devlin is persuaded by the German High Command to rescue Steiner from the Tower of London! I need to find this one!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 30, 2026 06:50 AM (wzUl9)

96 hating the English so much he was aiding the Germans, like a lot of Irish then --
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By no means all. During the Blitz, fire companies from the Republic on their own hook went to help out bombed cities. There's a story that, in Belfast, one man was knocked unconscious, and when he woke, seeing trucks from the Dun Laoghaire fire brigade, thought he'd been blown all the way to Dublin!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 30, 2026 06:50 AM (amcLV)

97 Latvia has announced confirmation its government has inked a new deal for Ukraine to assist in a Ukrainian drone manufacturing plant on Latvian soil, right near the border with Russia, as well as close to the Belarusian border

Ironically the spillover has come from Ukrainian drones.
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Just when you thought it couldn't get any stupider.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 06:52 AM (vPv7/)

98 94 I've never seen a cock with a knee...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 06:44 AM (l3cgK)

a peyro-knee?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 06:50 AM (Ot/FD)

::: golf clap :::

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 06:52 AM (l3cgK)

99 94 I've never seen a cock with a knee...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 06:44 AM (l3cgK)

a peyro-knee?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 06:50 AM (Ot/FD)

When your meat has a knee is pepper-o-knee...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 06:53 AM (l3cgK)

100 "Time itself"? Not "Wypipo's perception of time"?

The actual time-like parts of the various dimensions of spacetime?

If you're going to say something preposterous about physics, at least make it involve quantum chromodynamics. That could at least plausibly lead to a sensible punchline.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 06:53 AM (Ot/FD)

101 100 "Time itself"? Not "Wypipo's perception of time"?

The actual time-like parts of the various dimensions of spacetime?

If you're going to say something preposterous about physics, at least make it involve quantum chromodynamics. That could at least plausibly lead to a sensible punchline.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 06:53 AM (Ot/FD)

There is a lot of color in those words...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 06:54 AM (l3cgK)

102 He looks like he should be able to.
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Some people just aren't good with accents and dialects. I have no idea what John Malkovitch thought he was doing with that weird Russian accent in Rounders.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 30, 2026 06:54 AM (amcLV)

103 Byeee...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 30, 2026 06:55 AM (amcLV)

104
The attitude of the Irish during WWII was that they did not want to see Britain beat, but nearly beat.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 06:55 AM (O0L8i)

105 97 Latvia has announced confirmation its government has inked a new deal for Ukraine to assist in a Ukrainian drone manufacturing plant on Latvian soil, right near the border with Russia, as well as close to the Belarusian border

Ironically the spillover has come from Ukrainian drones.
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Just when you thought it couldn't get any stupider.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 06:52 AM (vPv7/)

What the hell is wrong with the Baltics? That is a perfectly transparent "let's you and him fight" setup. A NATO country, putting a legitimate military target right on the border? Oh, they *know* what they're doing. Bastards.

Posted by: Maine Fuhrer at June 30, 2026 06:55 AM (Sy6m/)

106 If you're going to say something preposterous about physics, at least make it involve quantum chromodynamics. That could at least plausibly lead to a sensible punchline.

Posted by: Warai-otoko
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She wears a Wokie Rag, all things western are racist. Time is an artifact of White control.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 06:57 AM (vPv7/)

107 As Affordability Fears Mount, $100,000 Salary Considered Low-Income In 7 California Counties...
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Ya hoooo

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 06:40 AM (vPv7/)

CA is so dang expensive because (in order of importance as I see it):
1. Scarce resource of land near beautiful ocean and beaches — Govt has no influence; it is what it is
2. Minimal supply of housing — Govt big influence with lots of insane regulations
3. State income tax near 10% — By definition bad govt
4. High gas prices — By definition bad govt with high gas taxes and punishing refineries
5. High sales taxes — Govt the culprit
6. High electric bills — See #4 govt punishes energy production
7. High cost of eating out (fast food or sit down restaurant) — Govt problem with insane minimum wage

So CA’s govt has a huge hand in 6 of the 7… I’m sure other items could be added to this list.

Summary: CA would probably be more expensive even with good state government because it’s a beautiful place… but it wouldn’t be anywhere near as bad as it is…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 06:57 AM (D2O3S)

108

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at June 30, 2026 06:57 AM (fqYPV)

109 Pork loin $.19 a pound in late 1965, all kinds of Philadelphia Bulletin stuffed down the walls

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 06:59 AM (sgkY8)

110 A NATO country, putting a legitimate military target right on the border? Oh, they *know* what they're doing. Bastards.
Posted by: Maine Fuhrer at June 30, 2026 06:55 AM (Sy6m/)

If NATO were anything more significant than a passel of pimps and layabouts, its member nations would have banded together and beat the everloving shit out of Moscow on day 1 when they invaded. Ukraine not being in NATO wasn't relevant. The point of the organization is to check Russian aggression, and they demonstrated they have no interest in checking Russian aggression. They dithered and shilly shallied and demanded Uncle Sam do the entire lift alone. Uncle Sam, being King Pimp of Slut Mountain, figured it was too much work and there was far more money to be made in letting the meat grinder grind unhindered.

Worrying today about anything NATO is or isn't, or does or doesn't do, is for entertainment purposes only.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 07:02 AM (Ot/FD)

111 {sigh}

/sock off

Posted by: SciVo at June 30, 2026 07:02 AM (Sy6m/)

112 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 07:02 AM (u82oZ)

113
Pork loin $.19 a pound in late 1965, all kinds of Philadelphia Bulletin stuffed down the walls

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 06:59 AM (sgkY

____________

Everybody reads the Bulletin.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 07:03 AM (O0L8i)

114 NPR would like you to know ”Venezuelans deported from the U.S. were killed hours later in powerful quakes".

Damn that Trump!

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 07:03 AM (MWfyi)

115 114 NPR would like you to know ”Venezuelans deported from the U.S. were killed hours later in powerful quakes".

Damn that Trump!

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 07:03 AM (MWfyi)

They're right...those Tren de Aragua divine sparks should have been made to live with those same NPR reporters...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 07:04 AM (l3cgK)

116 G'mornin' everyone!

destroy "science" as we know it? G-d speed the work!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 30, 2026 07:04 AM (VyBeY)

117 "For almost five years, Daniel had been living in Jacksonville, Fla., where he worked in construction. Oswadeliz Nuñez says her son's only crimes were crossing the border illegally and a misdemeanor for driving without a license."

And for that he was sentenced to death by earthquake.

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 07:06 AM (MWfyi)

118 I remember one of the intro sequences to The Mary Tyler Moore Show in the '70s. Mary Richards is at the supermarket, and her expression of disgust as she looks at the price of meat (yet tosses it into her cart anyway) is classic.

We wish we could have 1970s meat and other prices back. Doritos, .69 for a full bag, nearly $4 now. Decent if not high-end whiskey, $5-7 a fifth, $4 for vodka and gin. .55 for a gallon of regular, .50 for a quart of name-brand oil. . . .

(Yeah, I know, they had depressed wages and high home interest rates, okay, okay. . . .)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 30, 2026 07:06 AM (wzUl9)

119 114 NPR would like you to know ”Venezuelans deported from the U.S. were killed hours later in powerful quakes".

Damn that Trump!

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 07:03 AM (MWfyi)

And the Joos with their earthquake machines!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 07:06 AM (l3cgK)

120 117 "For almost five years, Daniel had been living in Jacksonville, Fla., where he worked in construction. Oswadeliz Nuñez says her son's only crimes were crossing the border illegally and a misdemeanor for driving without a license."

And for that he was sentenced to death by earthquake.

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 07:06 AM (MWfyi)

Amazing. Trump planned it with the Joos.--Cucker Qatarlson

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 07:07 AM (l3cgK)

121 With apologies to Morgan Freeman's famous line, time to get busy shavin'!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 30, 2026 07:08 AM (wzUl9)

122 Hillary Clinton

We can scare our grandkids with stories about you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 07:10 AM (u82oZ)

123 J.J. Is nood

Posted by: Tuna at June 30, 2026 07:10 AM (lJ0H4)

124 National Panhandler Radio is still in business?
Who knew?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 30, 2026 07:10 AM (2Ez/1)

125 77 degrees at dawn, aargh

guess it's gonna be another steamy one here

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 30, 2026 07:12 AM (VyBeY)

126 Posted by: Maine Fuhrer at June 30, 2026 06:48 AM (Sy6m/)

LOL

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 07:16 AM (6wpGE)

127 destroy "science" as we know it? G-d speed the work!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 30, 2026 07:04 AM (VyBeY)

The 'science' of flattering the priors of gov't grant administrators is, naturally, suffering such a crisis of quality as to invite scorn. Even highly cited studies, published in gold-standard journals, have a coin-flip chance of being replicable. And how 'scientific' are they really, when they're not following the Scientific Method?

2020 Article: "Is science in trouble? An insight into the reproducibility crisis"
varsity.co.uk/science/20244

Posted by: SciVo at June 30, 2026 07:20 AM (Sy6m/)

128 China Imposes Export Curbs On 40 Japanese Firms As Tensions With Tokyo Rise
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This is good. The Japanese are already on the ware with China this is all Takaichi needs to gather national support.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 07:21 AM (vPv7/)

129 85 here. Little A/C's pumping it's heart out.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 07:23 AM (vPv7/)

130 Come September and October, the "conservative" inter-webs and pod-cast oracles will start their "weak on the second amendment" click bait chants.

Then yammer about the death of the republic.

Ayn Rand was right.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at June 30, 2026 08:24 AM (9X60i)

131 sock off

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at June 30, 2026 09:30 AM (w9Wax)

Monday Overnight Open Thread - June 29, 2026 [scampydog]

~~Born~~ Barn Again

Your Monday dose of CBD has been temporarily interrupted. Please accept this budget-friendly ONT instead. Less refined, with a side of excessive content.

*****

The theme tonight is black and white. Before we dive into the monochrome, let’s go with some whimsical content.

Hell yeah! It is Combine Demolition Derby Time!

The combines have entered the arena (link goes to wikipedia)

Competitors typically remove heavy or unneeded parts of the combines before competitions and reinforce the front, or header, of the vehicle.[3] A vehicle is deemed eliminated once its header section is destroyed or the combine is immobilized. Competitors attempt to use the header to pop other vehicle's tires, rupture their drive belts, or tear off their header.[4] The competitions can end in ties if the only remaining machines become inextricably tangled together.[5] The competition in Lind, Washington often includes multiple heats, including rounds for event veterans, rookies, and consolation rounds for losers.[6] In Michigan, there is a derby circuit with competitions in several towns.

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Before the Scots arrived for their World Cup adventure - with cones, drank everything in sight, and somehow won over America, Boston had a different kind of overflow problem.

The Great Molasses Flood of 1919

The tank, 50 feet high and 90 feet in diameter, contained 2.3 million gallons of molasses originally destined for use in a munitions plant.
The tank, though only a few years old, seemed shaky. People who lived and worked in the North End said the tank shuddered and groaned when the company filled it.
Shortly after noon, the tank collapsed with a thunderous roar. The ground shook, and witnesses said the rivets popping out of the tank sounded like machine gun fire.

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Things nobody really wants to know. The ONT is here for you

Why wombat poop is cube shaped

Humans may be fascinated by cubes, but only one animal poops them: the bare-nosed wombat. This furry Australian marsupial squeezes out nearly 100 six-sided turds every day—an ability that has long mystified scientists. Now, researchers say they have uncovered how the wombat intestine creates this exceptional excrement.

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Things We All Knew Before the Internet Arrived.

The lost art of the handwritten note and stationery sets. Who remembers the Onion Skin and Bristol Board paper?

There really is something meaningful about a hand written note on stationary.

Who still takes the time to send hand written notes?

Another household name that pops up every holiday season is Current. The brand was launched by Bill and Mary Gick in their Colorado Springs basement in 1950. Their idea was simple but clever: create high quality, personalized greeting cards and sell them directly to customers through mail order catalogs. Current was one of the first companies to really master the catalog approach, and their colorful, customizable products quickly found a dedicated fan base.

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Hello 80's Ladies.

The rise and fall of shoulder pads.

A brief history of shoulder pads
Using padding to alter the shape of our clothing isn’t a new concept — it dates back to the 1870s and 1880s, when padding was used for the bustles of women’s dresses to extend the fullness at the back.
However, the origins of the fashion shoulder pads we know and love today go back to Princeton University football players in the late 19th century, who developed the pads for protection — but the trend didn’t begin to enter women’s fashion until the 1930s.

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If dogs could talk 😂🤣😂 pic.twitter.com/qdzN58CKjx
— Mongo (@mongoliciouss) June 5, 2026

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Black and White Photography.

This isn’t the Art Thread (which is awesome, btw). Nobody needs to put on a beret and explain how the weathered fence post is “engaging in a silent dialogue with the setting sun, the wheat field, and the passage of time.”

But there is something different about black and white photography. Texture. Mood. Sometimes nostalgia. Removing color somehow makes your eyes work harder - noticing details, shadows, contrast, lighting, expressions, and little things you might have ignored otherwise.

Black and white takes something away and somehow can reveal more.

So no deep analysis, no pretending every old barn is having an existential conversation. Just some cool images, some great photography, and a chance to enjoy what the camera caught.

Enjoy.

Variety of images

Now in the digital age, making black and white is a choice you can make after you shoot the images – which gives you options we didn’t have in the film days. So I wanted to share some B&W images to get you thinking about the possibilities.

Marianna Roussou

15 Landscape Photos

Marco Nurnberger

Acceptable Rhino

Allesandro Marena

Batch of 60

Frederica Giordano

⚫️Everything fits together here .#blackandwhite #monochrome #blackandwhitephotography #bnw_captures pic.twitter.com/jlxAVcLdCD
— Maksymilian (@Maksymilian2026) June 5, 2026

Black and White 39 .. 🇩🇪 #blackandwhitephotography #photographyIsArt #mobilephotography pic.twitter.com/F8G3hLERRK
— Francisco Benfica (@fbenfica) June 4, 2026

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Burning Monday Questions

If you buy a bigger bed, do you have more bedroom?

At what point does a pile become a heap?

Why do noses run and feet smell?

If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

Alarm goes off? Or does it go on?

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On theme musical interlude. Chris Isaak. Bonus for the 'Rons - Helena Christensen.

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Spin up a milshake or malt.

Groovy

I have nothing against the stainless steel finish, but I still have memories of the green fridge and dishwasher from my parents' own home. Today, my mother's kitchen has all white appliances, including the microwave.

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Hey, I hear there’s this little 250th thing happening.

We might as well talk about it. All the Smarty Readers here know, but those that don't.... Since a big part of any celebration of THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD involves the stars and stripes, here’s a refresher on the proper care, display, and respect for the American flag.

Clothing and Old Glory

One of the most common points of confusion: the Flag Code’s restrictions apply to actual United States flags, not to clothing or products that happen to feature a stars-and-stripes pattern. A T-shirt printed with red, white, and blue stripes isn’t a flag. A bandana with a flag motif isn’t a flag. Wearing these items doesn’t violate the code. The prohibition on using the flag as a costume means you shouldn’t cut up or drape an actual flag over yourself — it doesn’t extend to patriotic-themed apparel.

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This ONT was brought to you by: Put A Pickle In Your Shitty Beer.

SoDak. That tracks. The pic above was a Busch Latte. It did not ruin the pickle spear. Nor did it improve the beer.

South Dakota, Mallory told me, is famous for its "pioneer preservation sensibility" and penchant for pickling everything from green beans to watermelon rinds. She says the addition of the pickle works best when it's "paired with a light domestic lager-style beer, like Bud Light or PBR. The base beer has to have a pretty clean, mild flavor for it to work."

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This ONT was brought to you by the mistaken belief that one can outrun a tornado.

Was thinking a different kind of tornado, but this will do.

Disclaimer: This ONT was not involved with the Great Giraffe Getaway. If you encounter another Wandering Giraffe - they are not funded by, affiliated, endorsed, or even aware of the AoSHQ Limited Liability Empire (LLE). This ONT may contain trace amounts of facts, rumors, and speculation.

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1 Every day in every way
ONTs are getting better and better.

Usually.

Posted by: mindful webworker - laughing all the way at June 29, 2026 10:00 PM (/4mOE)

2 wooo

Posted by: morigu at June 29, 2026 10:00 PM (RDxgA)

3
Scheherazade

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 10:00 PM (UsddL)

4 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 29, 2026 10:01 PM (9KCLn)

5 I have that blender.

Posted by: Don Black at June 29, 2026 10:03 PM (ZxPkt)

6 I drove my Electra 225 in a demo derby. Lasted about 90 seconds before I got pushed up over the fence. Best car for demo is an old Imperial. Very strong frame, doesn't fold up.

Posted by: gp at June 29, 2026 10:03 PM (Jr5Lq)

7 Has Sophie cunningham been called RACIST yet for pointing at a black player?

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 29, 2026 10:04 PM (THY4u)

8
This evening was the latest sunset for me at ~35N.

Aphelion will be pretty late this year, July 6. It was the 3rd last year. The Moon takes the blame for that wide variation each year.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 29, 2026 10:04 PM (w6EFb)

9 > it dates back to the 1870s and 1880s, when padding was used for the bustles of women’s dresses to extend the fullness at the back.

I like big butts and I cannot lie

Posted by: Victorian Horndog at June 29, 2026 10:04 PM (IG3/x)

10 Doggo! Well done. Excellent ONT content. Thank you!

Posted by: TRex - monochrome dino at June 29, 2026 10:04 PM (IQ6Gq)

11
*aims at spittoon*
*misses*

Good evening, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 10:05 PM (O0L8i)

12 If I had been here earlier I wouldn't be this late.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at June 29, 2026 10:05 PM (ZAfEX)

13 Ahh....Black & White....

Posted by: Joemarine at June 29, 2026 10:06 PM (y171U)

14 Yikes! Scampy🐕‍🦺! Oh so lovely to see you!
And Hordians!
So much love😕❣❣❣

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 29, 2026 10:06 PM (uTEOj)

15 Good evening and thank you Scampy.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 29, 2026 10:06 PM (NnhvP)

16 Good evening morons en bedankt Hondo

We had that exact same Osterizer.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 29, 2026 10:06 PM (RIvkX)

17
Has Sophie cunningham been called RACIST yet for pointing at a black player?

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 29, 2026 10:04 PM (THY4u)

___________

Hear tell she's available. If I wasn't already taken...

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 10:07 PM (O0L8i)

18 Hey, publius: have you seen this?

Took me a few tries, but I finally managed it. Fun.

https://iss-sim.spacex.com/

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 29, 2026 10:07 PM (IG3/x)

19 We visited the site of the Molasses Flood when we were in Boston last year. They put a baseball diamond there.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 29, 2026 10:08 PM (RIvkX)

20 Yes, the last two photos would look completely different in color. Not as impressive, and the color would take center stage instead of composition.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 29, 2026 10:09 PM (1Ff7Z)

21 But there is something different about black and white photography.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:00 PM

Ansel Adams!

https://www.anseladams.com/

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 29, 2026 10:09 PM (PLxDd)

22 Hopefully Freddy the German isn't disappeared once he gets back home. Or any of the other Euros who dared to wave their nations' flags or spoke well of the US.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at June 29, 2026 10:09 PM (C1H7N)

23 And yeah...my dog says feed me...I say yes my mistress🐈‍⬛!!!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 29, 2026 10:09 PM (uTEOj)

24 Perused the content. No objections.

Someone explain: I've seen the video clip and the memes. But, what's the pointing gal pointing for?

And I read that they caught the runaway giraffe.

Posted by: mindful webworker - free the longnecks! at June 29, 2026 10:10 PM (/4mOE)

25 Happy Monday Everyone!

Thank you for ONT Mr. Doggo!

Enjoying a nice cool evening here in Southern California. Sun going down, shadows lengthening...

Hope everyone is well and has a good week at work or whatever else we all fill our days with.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 29, 2026 10:10 PM (QGaXH)

26 I call B&W the "Beautify" filter.
What else take a battered, rusty wreck of an old car and make it look beautiful?

Posted by: KCSteve at June 29, 2026 10:10 PM (2+WvJ)

27 Never liked the shoulder pad look. Shoulder pads are for linebackers, not ladies.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 29, 2026 10:11 PM (1Ff7Z)

28 Mmmmm…peak Joan Collins…mmmmmm…

Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 10:11 PM (77rzZ)

29 Who still takes the time to send hand written notes?

Postcards. I still send them. Although I usually buy them ahead of time on eBay because (a) they’re cheaper, and (b) they look nicer, than modern postcards.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 29, 2026 10:11 PM (RyXxL)

30 Good evening Horde and all above with the nice ONT words.

Posted by: scampydog at June 29, 2026 10:12 PM (41CYW)

31
We visited the site of the Molasses Flood when we were in Boston last year. They put a baseball diamond there.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 29, 2026 10:08 PM (RIvkX)

______________

The Purity Distilling Conpany eventually was subsumed into what is now LyondellBasell Industries, which still has an alcohol plant in Ohio.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 10:12 PM (O0L8i)

32 >> Hey, publius: have you seen this?

No, and thanks! Very cool.

Methinks I'm gonna need some practice.... Playing around just now, let's just say my approach was somewhat off-nominal.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 29, 2026 10:12 PM (w6EFb)

33 Oh wow that is exactly the Osterizer I grew up with! Made a thousand milkshakes in that thing.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 10:12 PM (orF8y)

34 Some of these flag etiquette rules are new to me...

"When displayed from a staff in a church or auditorium, the flag belongs in the position of honor at the speaker’s right (the audience’s left)."

Posted by: Joemarine at June 29, 2026 10:13 PM (y171U)

35 Woot! Lots of content, Scampydog. Pretty sure I have been to Lind, WA. Just off the highway between Ritzville and the Tri-Cities. Near some of the channeled scablands.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 29, 2026 10:13 PM (1z8ji)

36 Ansel Adams!

https://www.anseladams.com/
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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Yes, for sure. Great b/w.

Posted by: scampydog at June 29, 2026 10:14 PM (41CYW)

37 I'm so happy Scampydog didn't kill himself with a disclaimer typo. That would have been a bad ending.

There are stupid people about. I saw someone who lived on the 6th floor of a 20 story building who didn't like the view from his corner balcony. To improve it, he decided to remove the support post on the outside corner.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 29, 2026 10:14 PM (qx7Zg)

38 Combine demolition derby looks like a hoot.

Posted by: huerfano at June 29, 2026 10:15 PM (VJX5o)

39 ***molasses originally destined for use in a munitions plant.>>>
-
What were they going to do with molasses in a munitions plant?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 10:16 PM (UsddL)

40
"When displayed from a staff in a church or auditorium..."

I'm as patriotic a son of a bitch as they come, but a church should not have a flag. It's the house of the Lord, Whose Kingdom is not of this world.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 10:16 PM (O0L8i)

41 Thanks for the girthy Monday Night ONT, scampydog!

*pats head lovingly*

Who's a good boy! Yes, you!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 29, 2026 10:16 PM (D/6p1)

42 There are stupid people about. I saw someone who lived on the 6th floor of a 20 story building who didn't like the view from his corner balcony. To improve it, he decided to remove the support post on the outside corner.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 29, 2026 10:14 PM (qx7Zg)
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Was this in Shenzen? Because it sounds like Shenzen.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 29, 2026 10:16 PM (RIvkX)

43 Nice groin vault.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 29, 2026 10:16 PM (u/oMr)

44 Ansel Adams!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 29, 2026 10:09 PM (PLxDd)

Poser. Nowhere as good as Henri Cartier-Bresson!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 29, 2026 10:17 PM (1Ff7Z)

45 Oh wow that is exactly the Osterizer I grew up with! Made a thousand milkshakes in that thing.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 10:12 PM (orF8y)

Graham Platner has an Oysterizer, but you cannot see it unless he forgets to zip up his fly.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 29, 2026 10:17 PM (1z8ji)

46 I never watch the wnba. But this Sophie whoever she is is a hottie.
If they had more players like her, I just might watch it.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at June 29, 2026 10:17 PM (aLUNq)

47 Anyway Doggo...thanks for being here...good boy!!! Sit! Good dog! Here's a cookie! woof!!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 29, 2026 10:17 PM (uTEOj)

48 I keep trying to watch this police bodycam video, but something in it is very distracting.

https://youtu.be/sQAZdHuHfNM

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 29, 2026 10:17 PM (f0sNM)

49 Willowed a bit: The Nazis did that too. If you don't learn from history...something..something
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

I get a lot of YouTube vids in my feed of stories of German POWs during WWII that arrive in Texas or Wisconsin or anywhere really. The propaganda was strong with them but became to soften immediately following their first meal. Real meat, real coffee, real milk, weird foods they'd never seen (like biscuits and gravy) but devoured, portions they couldn't believe. They began to realize they'd been lied to.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 29, 2026 10:18 PM (l26NL)

50 There are stupid people about. I saw someone who lived on the 6th floor of a 20 story building who didn't like the view from his corner balcony. To improve it, he decided to remove the support post on the outside corner.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 29, 2026 10:14 PM (qx7Zg)
=====

Was this in Shenzen? Because it sounds like Shenzen.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 29, 2026 10:16 PM (RIvkX)

I don't remember if the location was mentioned. China is my guess, though.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 29, 2026 10:18 PM (qx7Zg)

51 Pretty sure I have been to Lind, WA. Just off the highway between Ritzville and the Tri-Cities. Near some of the channeled scablands.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Yessir. Just southish of Ritzville.

Posted by: scampydog at June 29, 2026 10:18 PM (41CYW)

52 So how much of a weirdo do you have to be to study wombat poop?

Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 10:18 PM (77rzZ)

53 lol!
Combine Demo Derby. EFFF YEAH BABY!
Only in ‘Merica!
I mean, where else?
I LOVE this country!

Posted by: Gunslinger at June 29, 2026 10:18 PM (Mxkwh)

54 Whos' the tornado girl?

Posted by: Eromero at June 29, 2026 10:19 PM (LHPAg)

55 What were they going to do with molasses in a munitions plant?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 10:16 PM (UsddL)

Maple syrup was becoming too expensive?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 29, 2026 10:19 PM (1z8ji)

56 So how much of a weirdo do you have to be to study wombat poop?
Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 10:18 PM (77rzZ)

At least they didn't turn them into loaded dice for D&D ... or did they?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 29, 2026 10:19 PM (qx7Zg)

57 Fighting with 3 AI Agents, I think I'm going to lose this one.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 29, 2026 10:19 PM (XV/Pl)

58 But there is something different about black and white photography. Texture. Mood.

Perfectly encapsulated by Barn Again. The left picture is more visually interesting than the right side. Right pic looks flat. Dead even. The left has texture and tells a story of what used to be, and decay. Much more a story of the passage of time.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 29, 2026 10:20 PM (1Ff7Z)

59 Nice to see you COMM! And thanks for the cookie.

Posted by: scampydog at June 29, 2026 10:20 PM (41CYW)

60 I drove my Electra 225 in a demo derby. Lasted about 90 seconds before I got pushed up over the fence. Best car for demo is an old Imperial. Very strong frame, doesn't fold up.

Posted by: gp at June 29, 2026 10:03 PM (Jr5Lq)

I thought they banned those from demo derby for that exact reason. They were tanks.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 29, 2026 10:20 PM (snZF9)

61 I have that blender.

I have three versions of that blender. The generic, pictured. The Imperial. And the Galaxie. I keep the Galaxie on the counter. Technically I bought the extras because I wanted to have a backup in case one dies, but they don’t seem to die. Really, I bought them because (a) they’re dirt cheap, and (b) I bought the generic new, I saw the Imperial and thought it looked better and maybe I should have a backup, and then I saw the Galaxie and it looked even better, and really, I should have two backups.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 29, 2026 10:20 PM (RyXxL)

62 Thanks for the ONT.

Pickles in beer.

Ok, youre welcome to it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 29, 2026 10:21 PM (zZu0s)

63 I don't hang around early ONT's much but I wanted to hopefully just drive-by and catch COMMarie real quick and say I hope you are doing okay.

Posted by: ... at June 29, 2026 10:21 PM (vE0+H)

64 Sorry I'm late, there was a breakdown in negotiations between the gremlins and the kobolds. Things got ugly.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 29, 2026 10:21 PM (aCynU)

65 I traded in my Oster blender after a whole lotta years of loyal use. Got a Vitamix. I must say, the Vitamix is like the Oster on turbo. It's a great blender!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 29, 2026 10:21 PM (D/6p1)

66 Mmmmm…peak Joan Collins…mmmmmm…
Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 10:11 PM (77rzZ)

(shakes head at Bulg's incorrect statement)

Joan Collins as Edit Keeler.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 29, 2026 10:22 PM (1Ff7Z)

67 Scampydog! Excellent content. Good dog!

Posted by: tankdemon at June 29, 2026 10:22 PM (aCynU)

68 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 29, 2026 10:22 PM (sAmhv)

69 I drove my Electra 225 in a demo derby.

My first car was a Buick Le Sabre, which, as I recall, is one of the Electra’s sisters. Boat of a car, but a dream to drive, even the horribly out-of-shape one I had.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 29, 2026 10:22 PM (RyXxL)

70 29 Who still takes the time to send hand written notes?

Postcards. I still send them. Although I usually buy them ahead of time on eBay because (a) they’re cheaper, and (b) they look nicer, than modern postcards.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 29, 2026 10:11 PM (RyXxL)
***********
I still send Christmas cards to friends and family. Sometimes sympathy cards.

The last handwritten note to my husband was last year. He found this on the coffee maker thing (Keurig) that uses pods:

"Hi. I'm sorry for the mess, but it blew up and I tried to clean but I cannot deal with it. Going back to bed."

The pod was old and puffed up. There are no warnings about this that I recall. It went everywhere into the machine and I could not cope.

I have switched to black teabags since then.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 10:22 PM (hzuYO)

71 I am trying to think of alcohol that would be complimented by vinegar.

Not coming up with much. Not many savory alcohols.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 29, 2026 10:23 PM (zZu0s)

72
*breaks treat in half*

*gives it to scampy*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 10:23 PM (O0L8i)

73 Thanks for the ONT, Doggo!

I have Mom's old blender; it's an "Osterizer Imperial VIII"
Darned thing is *heavy* and yes, we made many milkshakes with it!

Posted by: JQ at June 29, 2026 10:24 PM (rdVOm)

74 *breaks treat in half*

*gives it to scampy*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 10:23 PM

Was it a shrimp?

Posted by: JuJuBee at June 29, 2026 10:24 PM (tM5h4)

75 What were they going to do with molasses in a munitions plant?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 10:16 PM (UsddL)

Make some sweet little bombs?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 29, 2026 10:24 PM (1Ff7Z)

76 What were they going to do with molasses in a munitions plant?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 10:16 PM (UsddL)

Turn it into rum to turn into ethanol for use in making gunpowder?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 29, 2026 10:24 PM (ntqEh)

77 I had better go make some supper.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 29, 2026 10:25 PM (1z8ji)

78 Black and white photography can be pretty cool looking. One time when we went to sturgis, which was before digital cameras became popular, Mrs B shot a few roles of black and white film. It made a lot of things feel more historic. Rushmore, devils tower, buildings in Deadwood, various scenery, etc, looked really cool in black and white.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 29, 2026 10:25 PM (snZF9)

79 Well this was fun!

By the way, everyone looks better in black and white photos. They hide a multitude of sins.

Posted by: Piper at June 29, 2026 10:25 PM (hftzA)

80 63 ...
Thank you love!❣❣

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 29, 2026 10:25 PM (uTEOj)

81 I am trying to think of alcohol that would be complimented by vinegar.

Not coming up with much. Not many savory alcohols.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 29, 2026 10:23 PM

I'm still trying to wrap my head around dill pickle flavored potato chips.

Posted by: JuJuBee at June 29, 2026 10:25 PM (tM5h4)

82 49

The U.S. followed the Geneva Convention scrupulously. Most of the POWs had more personal space in the camps than they did back home as free men.

Those who wanted to work picked apples, etm.

On VE Day, the U.S. govt was surprised to discover that many of the Germans didn't want to go home! They had hooked up with local girls... while picking apples, etm.

But... they had to go home. Because rules.

Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 10:26 PM (RCjYY)

83 Well, since I had a brilliant comment that no one saw, I will bring it forward.

Has anybody here ever had zebu?
Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 07:54 PM (77rzZ)

[ . . . ] And also the Cebu, that you meet in the zoo,
Can be buggered if you are sure just what to do,
You will need a large mattress upon which to fall--
but the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 29, 2026 10:26 PM (rbvCR)

84 Jaques henri latrigue has entered the chat

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 29, 2026 10:26 PM (Kt19C)

85 66 I wasn’t saying that the pic up top was peak Joan Collins. Peak Joan Collins was that Star Trek ep that she was in.

Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 10:26 PM (77rzZ)

86 I have Mom's old blender; it's an "Osterizer Imperial VIII"
Darned thing is *heavy* and yes, we made many milkshakes with it!

---------

Sounds like a blender that could dominate the Balkans.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 29, 2026 10:26 PM (u/oMr)

87 also, I have that exact model of Osterizer on my counter, in running condition.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 29, 2026 10:26 PM (rbvCR)

88 Scamps!
What a wonderful Ont!

Thank you!

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 29, 2026 10:27 PM (yEz+x)

89 I'm still trying to wrap my head around dill pickle flavored potato chips.
Posted by: JuJuBee at June 29, 2026 10:25 PM (tM5h4)

I have decided they are almost good. Just a variation on salt and vinegar chips.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 29, 2026 10:27 PM (zZu0s)

90 "Boat of a car, but a dream to drive"

It was very nice for $250. All the electrics and pneumatics broke down after a couple years.

"They were tanks."

The ass-end on this 1960 Imperial just shouts "HIT ME!"
youtube.com/watch?v=xtsfyBcTymA

Posted by: gp at June 29, 2026 10:27 PM (Jr5Lq)

91 7 Has Sophie cunningham been called RACIST yet for pointing at a black player?
Posted by: Lemmiwinks

Of course. She was called a racist even before this. Too lazy to look it up.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 29, 2026 10:28 PM (sAmhv)

92 48 I keep trying to watch this police bodycam video, but something in it is very distracting.

https://youtu.be/sQAZdHuHfNM
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 29, 2026 10:17 PM (f0sNM)

Woman in video kinda looks like Kat Timpf from Fox....mebbe it's the glasses....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 29, 2026 10:28 PM (QGaXH)

93
On VE Day, the U.S. govt was surprised to discover that many of the Germans didn't want to go home! They had hooked up with local girls... while picking apples, etm.

But... they had to go home. Because rules.

Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 10:26 PM (RCjYY)

_____________

America: a country so awful it's prisoners of war want to stay.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 10:28 PM (O0L8i)

94 The U.S. followed the Geneva Convention scrupulously. Most of the POWs had more personal space in the camps than they did back home as free men.
Posted by: mnw

The sense I get is we were so scrupulous in the hopes they would treat our boys well.

Narrator: But they did not.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 29, 2026 10:29 PM (l26NL)

95 Sophie Cunningham is not bad looking.

Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 10:30 PM (77rzZ)

96 I'm still trying to wrap my head around dill pickle flavored potato chips.
Posted by: JuJuBee at June 29, 2026 10:25 PM (tM5h4)

I have decided they are almost good. Just a variation on salt and vinegar chips.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 29, 2026 10:27 PM (zZu0s)

Dill pickle slices on soda crackers. Poverty snacks for a kid like me. Man, that sounds good right now.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 29, 2026 10:30 PM (0aYVJ)

97 I got home from the range hungry. Diced some Campari tomatoes, sautéed in olive oil, added some leftover spaghetti noodles, a minced garlic clove, S&P, fresh basil, & grated parmigiana. Simple but very good. Added benefit of using cooked, cold pasta is it turns into a resistant starch which is much better for you. 2 weeks to Nationals!

Posted by: lin-duh at June 29, 2026 10:31 PM (VCgbV)

98 America: a country so awful it's prisoners of war want to stay.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 10:28 PM (O0L8i)

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I had a parrot once. I wanted to get rid of it so I put the cage on the balcony and left it open. He wouldn't leave either.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 29, 2026 10:31 PM (u/oMr)

99 Japan’s loss today hit harder than DE. Say what you will, all you soccer nay sayers, but the World Cup is bringing out a lot of positive we haven’t felt for awhile now.

Posted by: Piper at June 29, 2026 10:31 PM (hftzA)

100
Sounds like a blender that could dominate the Balkans.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 29, 2026 10:26 PM (u/oMr)

__________

France, at least.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 10:31 PM (O0L8i)

101
Has Sophie cunningham been called RACIST yet for pointing at a black player?
Posted by: Lemmiwinks

She might get stabbed in the heart!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 29, 2026 10:31 PM (Cqx++)

102 Two comments:

1. The poor baby! Defooted!

B. Ask Mis Hum about what humanitarians eat.

Thanks for the ONT, Doggo!!

Posted by: LRob in OK at June 29, 2026 10:32 PM (Jr+re)

103 Japan’s loss today hit harder than DE. Say what you will, all you soccer nay sayers, but the World Cup is bringing out a lot of positive we haven’t felt for awhile now.
Posted by: Piper
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Agree. Been pretty positive for the USA and all the travelers.

Posted by: scampydog at June 29, 2026 10:33 PM (41CYW)

104 They're not too far away from knifing Clark on the court.

Posted by: Midnight Rambler at June 29, 2026 10:33 PM (C1H7N)

105 Speaking of black-and-white photos, O. Winston Link did some great stuff.

Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 10:33 PM (77rzZ)

106 Jaques henri latrigue has entered the chat
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 29, 2026 10:26 PM (Kt19C)

Wasn't Arnold Palmer from Latrigue?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 29, 2026 10:33 PM (1Ff7Z)

107 At WSJ: "Chatbots Are Replacing Therapists With Little Scientific Evidence Behind Them"

If it's a choice between expensive hard-to-schedule human talk therapists who can't cure you, vs free always-available chatbots who can't cure you, I'll take vanilla.

Posted by: gp at June 29, 2026 10:33 PM (Jr5Lq)

108 > Methinks I'm gonna need some practice.... Playing around just now, let's just say my approach was somewhat off-nominal.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 29, 2026 10:12 PM (w6EFb)

Yeah, it's trickier than it looks.

I was just able to finish my second successful docking in a row, but there numerous...less successful dockings before that.

"Two dockings since last fatal crash". That would look good on a safety award, eh?

I wonder if I should send Musk my resume.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 29, 2026 10:33 PM (IG3/x)

109
Agree. Been pretty positive for the USA and all the travelers.

Posted by: scampydog at June 29, 2026 10:33 PM (41CYW)

___________

The New York Times is telling them, "Don't believe your lying eyes! This country sucks."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 10:35 PM (O0L8i)

110 "Nobody needs to put on a beret and explain how the weathered fence post is “engaging in a silent dialogue with the setting sun, the wheat field, and the passage of time.”

Well...crap.
*throws beret back on the shelf*

Posted by: Diogenes at June 29, 2026 10:35 PM (2WIwB)

111 I wasn’t saying that the pic up top was peak Joan Collins. Peak Joan Collins was that Star Trek ep that she was in.
Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 10:26 PM (77rzZ)

Yeah, as Edith Keeler. JC looked better to me as a younger woman than as the Dynasty character. She looks mean in that pic up top. Seems to be a nice person, though.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 29, 2026 10:35 PM (1Ff7Z)

112 Dutch score against filthy, treacherous Moroccans.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 29, 2026 10:35 PM (l26NL)

113 > Yeah, it's trickier than it looks.

I think the problem there is that even though your brain knows the physics and that you're not going to lose any velocity (linear or angular) when you stop burning, your reflexes don't.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 29, 2026 10:36 PM (IG3/x)

114 Diced some Campari tomatoes, sautéed in olive oil, added some leftover spaghetti noodles, a minced garlic clove, S&P, fresh basil, & grated parmigiana.
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I have been trying unsuccessfully for the last 35 years to explain to Mrs. F. that this is not "spaghetti sauce."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 29, 2026 10:36 PM (RIvkX)

115 Dutch score against filthy, treacherous Moroccans.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 29, 2026 10:35 PM (l26NL)

If only they were able to do that in real life . . .

Posted by: Kindltot at June 29, 2026 10:37 PM (rbvCR)

116 At WSJ: "Chatbots Are Replacing Therapists With Little Scientific Evidence Behind Them"
Posted by: gp

So just like therapists.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 29, 2026 10:37 PM (l26NL)

117 Color does cover some things up.

Your eyes actually look for contrast - it's how you see in the dark. You have twice as many rods (b&w) in your eye as cones. Your eyes were made for that to be more distinct and identifiable. Then the cones give you color, and your brain is like, "Wow, that new girl is really cute!" right in front of the current gf (who is beautiful) and you forget all about the dark and light stuff.

Which is a big reason I do not like modern TVs or color-pushed photographs (though some filter work is ok, if it can help with contrasts). The colors always look wrong to me. I can even spot some of the more subtle filters (or effects in digital photography) because the color is just wrong - usually because it makes the contrasts too obvious.

I shot a few rolls of B&W in my day, and I enjoyed it.

Posted by: GWB at June 29, 2026 10:37 PM (kU0PQ)

118 The ass-end on this 1960 Imperial just shouts "HIT ME!"
youtube.com/watch?v=xtsfyBcTymA

Posted by: gp at June 29, 2026 10:27 PM (Jr5Lq)

A friend of mine used to collect those. We used to call him Jesus Chrysler. He had a bunch of them up to 1965, which was a nice crown coupe. All in nice shape, all with 413 engines. They were party barges.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 29, 2026 10:38 PM (snZF9)

119 93
On VE Day, the U.S. govt was surprised to discover that many of the Germans didn't want to go home! They had hooked up with local girls... while picking apples, etm.

But... they had to go home. Because rules.

Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 10:26 PM (RCjYY)

_____________

America: a country so awful it's prisoners of war want to stay.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

That's been happening for a while. Hessian soldiers that were captured during the Revolutionary war were given the option to go back to whatever German state they lived in or be given acreage of land in the west (PA, Ohio, etc) and stay in America. Lots of them did. Good choice.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 29, 2026 10:38 PM (sAmhv)

120 Say what you will, all you soccer nay sayers, but the World Cup is bringing out a lot of positive we haven’t felt for awhile now.
Posted by: Piper at June 29, 2026 10:31 PM (hftzA)

We certainly like the people who came over. Don't care about the games at all. (shrug)

Now, they need to go home and start slapping around their pols since they've found out they are being lied to about us.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 29, 2026 10:38 PM (1Ff7Z)

121 Of course. She was called a racist even before this. Too lazy to look it up.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 29, 2026 10:28 PM (sAmhv)

You know who else was called a racist?

Posted by: ... at June 29, 2026 10:38 PM (vE0+H)

122 Pretty sure I have been to Lind, WA. Just off the highway between Ritzville and the Tri-Cities. Near some of the channeled scablands.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Yessir. Just southish of Ritzville.
Posted by: scampydog at June 29, 2026 10:18 PM

***

My college roommate's dad was the Ford Dealer in Ritzville.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 29, 2026 10:39 PM (2WIwB)

123 "All in nice shape, all with 413 engines. They were party barges."

Very cool collection!

Posted by: gp at June 29, 2026 10:39 PM (Jr5Lq)

124 It was very nice for $250. All the electrics and pneumatics broke down after a couple years.

I think my LeSabre cost $400 or $600. But it was a convertible. Manual. The motor for automatically raising and lowering the top was disconnected and in the trunk, and I never bothered to try to hook it back in.

With the top down it could hold a whole lot of college students.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 29, 2026 10:40 PM (RyXxL)

125 So..this is probably neither nor there...
Today I proudly hung my American Flag outside. I sooo love seeing it flying outside. Feels pretty nice💯!!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 29, 2026 10:40 PM (uTEOj)

126 94

Nazi Germany, like the Confederacy, had problems feeding and housing POWs decently-- while losing an existential war.

Returned U.S. POWs usually said their biggest problem had been boredom, however. (Returned from Germany and Italy, that is... NOT from the Japanese accommodations).

Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 10:40 PM (RCjYY)

127 66 Mmmmm…peak Joan Collins…mmmmmm…
Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 10:11 PM (77rzZ)

(shakes head at Bulg's incorrect statement)

Joan Collins as Edit Keeler.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 29, 2026 10:22 PM (1Ff7Z)

She was definitely NOT peak in that pic.

In Space:1999, OTOH…(Mission of the Darians)

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 29, 2026 10:40 PM (gfO9L)

128 125 So..this is probably neither nor there...
Today I proudly hung my American Flag outside. I sooo love seeing it flying outside. Feels pretty nice💯!!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 29, 2026 10:40 PM (uTEOj)

for the first time in years, I don't feel like I should raise my American flag... upside down (sign of distress when at Sea).

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 10:41 PM (mP0Kj)

129 My Osterizer has one toggle switch; off, momentary, and on. It'll make margaritas like no other blender I've seen.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 29, 2026 10:41 PM (fkjGs)

130 Now, they need to go home and start slapping around their pols since they've found out they are being lied to about us.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 29, 2026 10:38 PM (1Ff7Z)

As well as talking to their fellow citizens back home about how life is here.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 29, 2026 10:42 PM (gfO9L)

131 In junior high I took a photography class. It was all black and white, because part of the class was developing our own film, and making prints, and B&W was far simpler. I got some great shots, most of which I have lost over the years.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 29, 2026 10:42 PM (0aYVJ)

132 126 94

Nazi Germany, like the Confederacy, had problems feeding and housing POWs decently-- while losing an existential war.

Returned U.S. POWs usually said their biggest problem had been boredom, however. (Returned from Germany and Italy, that is... NOT from the Japanese accommodations).
Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 10:40 PM (RCjYY)

Hmm.... I notice that we never talk about Ally POWs held by Italians... and how they were treated.

I really have no idea.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 10:42 PM (mP0Kj)

133 Actually, Edith Keeler was smoking hot.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at June 29, 2026 10:42 PM (RIvkX)

134 Your eyes actually look for contrast - it's how you see in the dark. You have twice as many rods (b&w) in your eye as cones.

Posted by: GWB at June 29, 2026 10:37 PM (kU0PQ)

The Paolo agrees, as he has, how you say, more rods than other men.

Posted by: The Paolo at June 29, 2026 10:43 PM (1Ff7Z)

135 111 Yeah, I never thought much of either Joan Collins or Linda Evans in Dynasty, but, forced to choose, would definitely’ve gone with Joan.

Now Pamela Sue Martin as Fallon, on the other hand…hubba hubba hubba..:

Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 10:43 PM (77rzZ)

136 B&W film had the advantage of being something everyone could develop in a darkroom.

And a good bit of fun could be had in said darkroom with a partner of the opposite sex.

It was just a question of what developed first ...

Posted by: browndog says woof at June 29, 2026 10:43 PM (3sXRv)

137 Sugoi ne minna.

Universal Studios Japan has a Frieren attraction.

Need to win the lottery nyah.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2026 10:43 PM (2GVsD)

138
I'd like to see a book on German POWs in the US during WWII. An interesting story. Seems the early prisoners were ordinary schlubs who were no problem, but when the SS guys came over things got more tense.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 10:43 PM (O0L8i)

139 I coded a Turing machine this weekend, just for fun. The excitement never ends around here.

Now I'll see if I can get investment capital to build a Turing machine datacenter.

Posted by: gp at June 29, 2026 10:44 PM (Jr5Lq)

140 133 Actually, Edith Keeler was smoking hot.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at June 29, 2026 10:42 PM (RIvkX)

Shut up Wessley...

Edith Keeler was very Pretty... but not teh Hawt.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 10:44 PM (mP0Kj)

141 POWs in Italy, do not expect much truth in Von Ryan's Express but prisoners there were.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2026 10:44 PM (2GVsD)

142
Hmm.... I notice that we never talk about Ally POWs held by Italians... and how they were treated.

I really have no idea.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 10:42 PM (mP0Kj)

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Von Ryan's Express by David Westheimer describes life in an Italian POW camp.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 10:45 PM (O0L8i)

143 My college roommate's dad was the Ford Dealer in Ritzville.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 29, 2026 10:39 PM (2WIwB)

The Ritzville Brothers were pale imitations of the Marxville Brothers.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 29, 2026 10:45 PM (1Ff7Z)

144 Hmm.... I notice that we never talk about Ally POWs held by Italians... and how they were treated.
Posted by: Romeo13

I don't think there were any. Kidding, Italian friends!

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 29, 2026 10:46 PM (l26NL)

145 139 I coded a Turing machine this weekend, just for fun. The excitement never ends around here.

Now I'll see if I can get investment capital to build a Turing machine datacenter.
Posted by: gp at June 29, 2026 10:44 PM (Jr5Lq)

Guess I'll fire up the ENIGMA machine and start sending messages to the High Command.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 29, 2026 10:46 PM (2WIwB)

146 143 My college roommate's dad was the Ford Dealer in Ritzville.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 29, 2026 10:39 PM (2WIwB)

The Ritzville Brothers were pale imitations of the Marxville Brothers.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 29, 2026 10:45 PM (1Ff7Z)

So.... Marx was better than putting on the Ritz?

Who woulda thunk THAT?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 10:46 PM (mP0Kj)

147 Hmm.... I notice that we never talk about Ally POWs held by Italians... and how they were treated.

I really have no idea.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 10:42 PM (mP0Kj)
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The Italian Army spent most of its time in the south of France and Albania.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at June 29, 2026 10:47 PM (RIvkX)

148 The Italian Army spent most of its time in the south of France and Albania.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at June 29, 2026 10:47 PM (RIvkX)

Uh... African campaign?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 10:48 PM (mP0Kj)

149 In junior high I took a photography class. It was all black and white, because part of the class was developing our own film, and making prints, and B&W was far simpler. I got some great shots, most of which I have lost over the years.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 29, 2026 10:42 PM (0aYVJ)

I kept my stuff - even the test prints - in a binder. They're in the garage, but too buried to pull out. I think MisHum posted some I sent him in one of the early Hobby Threads.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 29, 2026 10:48 PM (1Ff7Z)

150 WLOX TV-13 Biloxi, MS on German POWs in Mississippi

https://youtu.be/YVyT0jPemVk

35-minute video on German POWs in Mississippi

https://youtu.be/y8Dt7aj1pkI

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2026 10:48 PM (2GVsD)

151 I'd do handwritten notes but no one could read them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 10:48 PM (UsddL)

152 Oh yeah, forgot we captured about 100k Italians when the Axis surrendered in North Africa.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2026 10:49 PM (2GVsD)

153 Italy held a considerable number of Allied prisoners. Mostly downed airmen. As were U.S. POWs in Germany.

Britain had a lot more men in the ranks captured, bc Dunkirk.

Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 10:50 PM (RCjYY)

154 LeVar Burton voice over:

This furry Australian marsupial squeezes out nearly 100 six-sided turds every day

And that's the origin of the saying, "If my aunt was a wombat, she'd shit bricks."

The more you know (Insert rainbow shooting star graphic here)

Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 29, 2026 10:50 PM (nbLIj)

155 There's a small Confederate POW cemetery in Madison, WI. During the Woke Iconoclasm, the local lefties made a big stink about it, got a plaque removed.

So I looked up the Civil War newspaper articles from the time of their arrival. The POWs were welcomed cordially. Even though they were enemies at time of war. Unfortunately, they didn't do well in the cold weather.

Posted by: gp at June 29, 2026 10:50 PM (Jr5Lq)

156 151

*fistbump*

Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 10:50 PM (77rzZ)

157 Speaking of German POWs, my grandfather would "hire" them to help with the farm and get the crops in since all our boys were otherwise engaged. Anyhoo, he spoke Texas German which is a kind of patois of German and English mashup and he'd have lunch with the POWs and chat.

Neighbors accused him of being a member of the Bund. Grandmother never let German be spoken in the home (she was Scottish). My dad couldn't speak a bit of German.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 29, 2026 10:51 PM (l26NL)

158
Italy held a considerable number of Allied prisoners. Mostly downed airmen. As were U.S. POWs in Germany.

____________

Lots of Brits captured in the Med (e.g. Tobruk) got fobbed off on the Eyties.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 10:52 PM (O0L8i)

159 I'd like to see a book on German POWs in the US during WWII. An interesting story. Seems the early prisoners were ordinary schlubs who were no problem, but when the SS guys came over things got more tense.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 10:43 PM (O0L8i)

***

Back in the 70's young Lieutenant Diogenes was stationed in Germany. I got to know the Forstmeister (the forest manager) for the training area at Grafenwoehr where we did field training. He had be captured in Africa and spent the war at a camp in Chicago. He learned English. His last job was driving an American general around. Interesting guy.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 29, 2026 10:52 PM (2WIwB)

160 Acceptable Rhino

Bring 'em back alive
_Frank Buck

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 10:52 PM (UsddL)

161 Fighting with 3 AI Agents, I think I'm going to lose this one.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

All three are named Agent Smith and look identical?

Posted by: mindful webworker - the may tricks at June 29, 2026 10:52 PM (/4mOE)

162 There's a small Confederate POW cemetery in Madison, WI. During the Woke Iconoclasm, the local lefties made a big stink about it, got a plaque removed.

Posted by: gp at June 29, 2026 10:50 PM (Jr5Lq)

F those bastards. Was it ever returned to its place?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 29, 2026 10:53 PM (1Ff7Z)

163
Filthy Moroccans tie it up.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 10:53 PM (O0L8i)

164 161 Fighting with 3 AI Agents, I think I'm going to lose this one.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

All three are named Agent Smith and look identical?
Posted by: mindful webworker - the may tricks at June 29, 2026 10:52 PM (/4mOE)

TAKE THE RED PILL!

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 10:54 PM (mP0Kj)

165 Chris Isaak channeling Chris Rea.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 10:55 PM (UsddL)

166 So, no one picked up on my mention of Pamela Sue Martin.

Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 10:55 PM (77rzZ)

167 Uh... African campaign?
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 10:48 PM (mP0Kj)
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They barely beat the Ethiopians and weren't around for very long.

North Africa, not a factor.

Strategically, the Italian Armed Forces were useless and mostly just in the way.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 29, 2026 10:55 PM (RIvkX)

168 "F those bastards. Was it ever returned to its place?"

I don't know, but I doubt it, because Mad City is crazy woke. I did go up there to visit it, took some pics.

Posted by: gp at June 29, 2026 10:56 PM (Jr5Lq)

169 No love for the Waring Blender? That's what we had.
We made milkshakes.

We bought a new couch and armchair last week. For due diligence, we looked at upholstery samples to see if there was one we liked better.
One caught my eye- a tabby weave in cream, oatmeal, pumpkin and avocado.
"Look, honey- what a blast from the past!"
"Actually-" said the salesman, "that colorway is coming back."

Oh please, no.

Posted by: sal at June 29, 2026 10:56 PM (f+FmA)

170 Have any of the husbands considered this:

At my last colonoscopy I had the doctor write a note to my wife stating that my head was NOT up there...

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 29, 2026 10:57 PM (qx7Zg)

171 Osterizer and Amana Radar Range, feed me Seymour.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 10:57 PM (UsddL)

172 Some German POWs worked at the Gerber (baby food) plant in Fremont, Michigan, near where I grew up. There is a plaque outside the plant describing it. I can’t imagine getting shipped back from West Michigan to post-war Germany.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 29, 2026 10:58 PM (RyXxL)

173 158

I'm surprised to learn that Axis forces in North Africa were able to transport POWs back to Europe at all.

There was a brief window of opportunity when they could've evacuated most of the Afrika Corps ... but they didn't.

I'm surprised they had enough ships available to transport POWs.

Something I found interesting:

Within DAYS after Rommel arrived, they started making Jews register and wear yellow stars.

Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 10:58 PM (RCjYY)

174
Strategically, the Italian Armed Forces were useless and mostly just in the way.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 29, 2026 10:55 PM (RIvkX)

____________

Mussolini was so stupid. Should have stayed non-belligerent. At least Franco recognized that Spain was in no shape to do anything and could only lose by coming in.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 10:58 PM (O0L8i)

175 No red-blooded American gives a damn about which fag country is beating up which other fag country in kickball.

Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 10:59 PM (77rzZ)

176 I should go to bed. Saijo is taking up a lot of space here for a dog that weighs 25 pounds!

Posted by: Piper at June 29, 2026 10:59 PM (Dd38x)

177 170 Ha!

Posted by: gp at June 29, 2026 10:59 PM (Jr5Lq)

178 Franpsycho, the Italian navy (Reggia Marina) was more than just in the way in the Med. They were a potentially serious threat and the Royal Navy's main concern (next to the Luftwaffe) for the early years. If they'd had more fuel, they might have caused more damage than they did.

Their frogmen were also excellent and essentially blazed the path for modern special naval warfare concepts.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 29, 2026 11:00 PM (U/Byj)

179 — it doesn’t extend to patriotic-themed apparel.
--

Had a pair of red, white and blue striped pants. Stripes came together at the knee then went back to the cuff. Just call me Uncle Sam's nephew.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 11:00 PM (UsddL)

180 Woman in video kinda looks like Kat Timpf from Fox....mebbe it's the glasses....
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It's the bewbs

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 29, 2026 11:01 PM (f0sNM)

181 I can’t imagine getting shipped back from West Michigan to post-war Germany.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 29, 2026 10:58 PM (RyXxL)

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They could have spent their last few weeks in Detroit, you know, to get acclimated.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 29, 2026 11:01 PM (u/oMr)

182 I'm pretty sure some Italian units went to the eastern front too. Internet says more than 250K.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 29, 2026 11:01 PM (oIVsY)

183 175 No red-blooded American gives a damn about which fag country is beating up which other fag country in kickball.
Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 10:59 PM (77rzZ

I do.

Posted by: Piper at June 29, 2026 11:02 PM (Dd38x)

184 6 I drove my Electra 225 in a demo derby. Lasted about 90 seconds before I got pushed up over the fence. Best car for demo is an old Imperial. Very strong frame, doesn't fold up.

Posted by: gp
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Was it the Imperial that pushed you over the fence?
Surely not a Ford or a Chevy.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 11:03 PM (UsddL)

185 4 Jul 1942.

8th Air Force baptism by fire was carried out by crews of the 15th BS(L). It was a series of four attacks.

A three ship of RAF Boston IIIs, two flown by American crews attack Fliegerhorst De Kooy. The AA is so terrific that Capt. Kegelman's plane has an engine shot away and he barely makes it back to England. Lt Loehrl's plane was not so lucky as the intense AA set his plane fire and his plane would crash in shallow waters off Holland. Loehrl's body would never be recovered, his bombardier Lt. Marshall Draper became the 8th Bomber Command's* first POW.

*VIII Fighter Command's first POW would be the XO of the 31st FG flying a Spitfire Mk V when he tangled with FW 190s over France.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2026 11:03 PM (2GVsD)

186 183 Piper, why?

Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 11:03 PM (77rzZ)

187 So, no one picked up on my mention of Pamela Sue Martin.
Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 10:55 PM (77rzZ)

S'ok, but... I can't really remember much of what she was in. Nancy Drew?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 29, 2026 11:03 PM (1Ff7Z)

188 Didn't Mussolini attempt to invade the Balkans, and got hopelessly bogged down such that Hitler had to send German troops to ave their hides?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 29, 2026 11:03 PM (1z8ji)

189 159

Future U.S. Attorney General Nick Katzenbach was able to study law while he was a POW in Germany. The Germans didn't care whether or not he had law books, and somehow he got them.

Katzenbach wrote about his experiences as a POW.

Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 11:04 PM (RCjYY)

190 Oh yes the Italians contributed forces to Barbarossa (more really to the follow-on campaigns). Ditto the Hungarians and Romanians (and Spain). A few years back I read a small memoir by a surviving Italian soldier who made it out of the USSR. "Few Returned" I think it's called. As grim and amazing as you would imagine.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 29, 2026 11:04 PM (U/Byj)

191 I need to proofread before I hit post next time. Yikes.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2026 11:05 PM (2GVsD)

192 Nothing against Fords. Guy I rode to school with had an old Ford Galaxie 500, 390, Holley 4bbl, 4 on the floor w/positraction.
Rides to school were an event.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 11:05 PM (UsddL)

193 I always enjoyed the apocryphal quite by Churchill, when he found that the Italians were part of the Axis powers.
“Well it’s only fair, we had to take them last time.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 11:05 PM (orF8y)

194 handwritten notes… Wish I could.

Sad to relate, my hands are rather uncooperative anymore, and I prefer to type rather than try my illegible scrawls. I should've been a physician.

Not that my handwriting was ever very pretty. I tended to use a kind of cursive-block lettering combo. How those gals in grade school had such perfect cursive I've never understood. Mom, too.

Alas, my piano playing is hindered, too.

I read that Renoir in advanced years had such terrible arthritis that he would have to have the paintbrush taped to his hand.

I'm too young to be so crippled.😶

Posted by: mindful webworker with flailing fingers at June 29, 2026 11:05 PM (/4mOE)

195 AOP, yep. And the Balkan distraction may have delayed Barbarossa by a few weeks, which obviously was a bad thing for the krauts, given the lovely December weather during which they came *this* close to taking Moscow.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 29, 2026 11:05 PM (U/Byj)

196 Kareem, I'm still not sure how Freddy's going to get all his souvenirs back to Germany. I think he's going to need ten suitcases.

@SkylarSkyer
I came to America with 2 suitcases.
I now have 4.
These extra 2 cases are filled with ranch, variety of seasonings, chic fil a sauce, Reece’s peanut butter cups, beef jerky, root beer, Gatorade, kraft mac & cheese, pancake syrup and pop stars.

Pop stars, loool...pretty sure she could fit Ariana Grande and Sabrina Carpenter in the same carryon.

Also TSA/customs has said it will confiscate all their liquids? So good luck.

Posted by: LizLem at June 29, 2026 11:06 PM (gWBY1)

197
Didn't Mussolini attempt to invade the Balkans, and got hopelessly bogged down such that Hitler had to send German troops to ave their hides?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 29, 2026 11:03 PM (1z8ji)

______________

Supposably that delayed Barbarossa by a month and if Hitler had that month blah blah blah.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 11:06 PM (O0L8i)

198 "Was it the Imperial that pushed you over the fence?
Surely not a Ford or a Chevy."

I wasn't keeping track. The thing I found hardest to do was to make a legal hit (front or back, not side.) As soon as I'd accelerate, the devious drivers would turn their side toward me. My rear frame folded under, and if I hadn't got pushed over the log, I wouldn't have gotten far anyway, with my rear wheels almost off the ground.

Posted by: gp at June 29, 2026 11:06 PM (Jr5Lq)

199 Their frogmen were also excellent and essentially blazed the path for modern special naval warfare concepts.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 29, 2026 11:00 PM (U/Byj)
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Thanks, I'm very uninformed about naval matters.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 29, 2026 11:06 PM (RIvkX)

200 187 Poseidon Adventure. And Fallon in the first years of Dynasty.

Young Bulg found her very attractive.

Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 11:07 PM (77rzZ)

201 I don't know, but I doubt it, because Mad City is crazy woke. I did go up there to visit it, took some pics.
Posted by: gp at June 29, 2026 10:56 PM (Jr5Lq)

If you don't want statues of Jeff Davis and other CSA leaders, that's one thing. But, to defile the graves of regular soldiers is another. These bastards aren't half the men our ancestors were. They aren't heroes, they're f'n commie bastards without honor and don't deserve to live here. I'd say round them up and push them out over China or North Korea and let them live their vaunted socialist ideals there.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 29, 2026 11:07 PM (1Ff7Z)

202 Reggia Marina battleship Roma was sunk by a German Fritz X guided bomb after Italy surrendered.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2026 11:07 PM (2GVsD)

203 "So, no one picked up on my mention of Pamela Sue Martin."

I saw her boobs.

Posted by: gp at June 29, 2026 11:07 PM (Jr5Lq)

204 Mussolini was so stupid. Should have stayed non-belligerent. At least Franco recognized that Spain was in no shape to do anything and could only lose by coming in.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 10:58 PM (O0L8i)

Churchill tried, but no soap.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 29, 2026 11:09 PM (1Ff7Z)

205 British Chariots were basically copies of what the Italian frogmen used.

There was a plot by those same Italian frogmen to sail via submarine to New York City to sink some shipping. But Italy switched sides before it could be carried out.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2026 11:09 PM (2GVsD)

206 And I honestly thought the pickle in beer was one of those pineapple in koolaid, diabetes inducing concoctions. Glad to be proven wrong?

Posted by: LizLem at June 29, 2026 11:09 PM (gWBY1)

207 Texas

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqBCurSwK3k

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 11:09 PM (UsddL)

208 178

I dissent from the view (posted above somewhere) that Italian troops were useless.

The Germans in N. Africa did something they called "corset stiffening"-- integrating German soldiers into Italian units. The Germans reported that these hybrid Italo-German units performed equally as well as the Wehrmacht.

Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 11:10 PM (RCjYY)

209 Reggia Aeronautica fought in the Battle of Britain. CR.42 biplanes.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2026 11:10 PM (2GVsD)

210 There are several good videos on UToob about German POWs in the US. One good one is about the camp at Concordia, KS. Many POWs returned to the US as immigrants, married women they'd met as prisoners. Same thing in Canada.

A former Navy nurse at a volunteer thing years back talked about how the POWs would come to pick fruit at her family's farm in AZ.

A favorite story is of the two Germans who "escaped" the minimal security camp at Windsor, CA (now wine country). Sheriff and locals got quite excited. They found the guys lazing on the beach (I think near Jenner). They said they just wanted to see the Pacific. Not related but geographically proximate was the story of an Italian POW who worked at a winery/vineyard, returned after the war, and ended up a major figure in the winery, which was a prominent one.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 29, 2026 11:11 PM (U/Byj)

211 Also TSA/customs has said it will confiscate all their liquids? So good luck.

Posted by: LizLem at June 29, 2026 11:06 PM (gWBY1)

UPS to the rescue!

https://youtu.be/OKdz037-Ljg

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 29, 2026 11:12 PM (qx7Zg)

212 I need to proofread before I hit post next time. Yikes.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Heh. I had that "sinking feeling" when I hit the publish button on the post tonight. Wonderful time to remember that I didn't spell check anything.

Posted by: scampydog at June 29, 2026 11:12 PM (41CYW)

213 Do I want to click on this link?

"Influencer, 36, found dead inside suitcase in short-term rental apartment."

I don't think that was the influence you were aiming for, was it?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2026 11:12 PM (2GVsD)

214 You know, I am going to take a controversial stance. One for which CBD and JJ will probably want to string me up.

I am not a huge fan of pastrami. I mean, it's ok. But given a choice between good roast beef and pastrami, I'll take the roast beef.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 29, 2026 11:13 PM (mPXxA)

215 213 Do I want to click on this link?

"Influencer, 36, found dead inside suitcase in short-term rental apartment."

I don't think that was the influence you were aiming for, was it?
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2026 11:12 PM (2GVsD)

WTF? Wait, wasn't this a thing a few years ago?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 29, 2026 11:13 PM (mPXxA)

216 186 183 Piper, why?
Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 11:03 PM

It’s actually a fun game to watch, our Outlaws actually demonstrate the behaviors we claim to want from professional sports players (sportsmanship, giving glory to God together as a team, being humble), the level of excitement this has generated across the US has been a fun ride, and again, the games are actually fun to watch. I thought I would hate it. I live with an Italian. I had to watch it. I realized it was a great sport. If you haven’t watched, I suggest you take in some of the FIFA games and see what I am talking about. You might be surprised.

Really going to bed now. Night, all!

Posted by: Piper at June 29, 2026 11:13 PM (hftzA)

217 The Germans in N. Africa did something they called "corset stiffening"-- integrating German soldiers into Italian units. The Germans reported that these hybrid Italo-German units performed equally as well as the Wehrmacht.
Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 11:10 PM (RCjYY)
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So what you're saying is the Italians were unreliable without German bayonets poking them in the back?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 29, 2026 11:14 PM (RIvkX)

218 Franpsycho, a good book on the topic is "Struggle for the Middle Sea" by Vince O'Hara, an historian who lives down here (I've met him at several conferences). The Italian naval threat was a very serious matter for British operations.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 29, 2026 11:14 PM (U/Byj)

219 "I am not a huge fan of pastrami."

I haven't seen REAL pastrami in decades.

Posted by: gp at June 29, 2026 11:14 PM (Jr5Lq)

220 I read somewhere that when Churchill learned that Italy had joined the Tripartite Pact with the Germans, his response was, "It's only fair. We had them last time."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 29, 2026 11:14 PM (u/oMr)

221 Take care Piper and give Soup a ruffle for me.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2026 11:14 PM (2GVsD)

222 Columbian model. 36.

I am wondering if her boyfriend did indeed care whether she did Onlyfans with some 'friends.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 29, 2026 11:15 PM (mPXxA)

223 Also TSA/customs has said it will confiscate all their liquids? So good luck.

Posted by: LizLem at June 29, 2026 11:06 PM (gWBY1

Expensive to ship too. I was going to ship three containers of peanut butter to Mr. H and Friends so he could try different ones, but it was going to cost over $150, so I didn't. Funny that peanut butter has a large import duty on it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 29, 2026 11:15 PM (1Ff7Z)

224 But given a choice between good roast beef and pastrami, I'll take the roast beef.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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I like 'em both. If forced to only eat one for the rest of my time, I'd choose the roast beast.

Posted by: scampydog at June 29, 2026 11:15 PM (41CYW)

225 "Influencer, 36, found dead inside suitcase in short-term rental apartment."

I don't think that was the influence you were aiming for, was it?
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2026 11:12 PM (2GVsD)

Ira Einhorn, call your office.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 29, 2026 11:15 PM (1z8ji)

226 204 Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia forced Britain and France to cut ties with him and thrust him into Hitler’s embrace. What a stupid move on his part:

Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 11:15 PM (77rzZ)

227 Aetius

You might be thinking of the Texas killer of two women who stuffed them in suitcases.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2026 11:16 PM (2GVsD)

228 Roast beast?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2026 11:16 PM (2GVsD)

229 The Italians had some excellent ground forces, but their leadership was terrible. Not the mixed units, but Italian ones - their "elite" elements.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 29, 2026 11:17 PM (U/Byj)

230 213 Do I want to click on this link?

"Influencer, 36, found dead inside suitcase in short-term rental apartment."

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I sense a movie pitch:

Working title: Death Rides The Luggage Carousel

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 29, 2026 11:17 PM (u/oMr)

231 220

I've always liked what Churchill said about De Gaulle's Free French forces in Britain: "The heaviest cross I had to bear during the war was the Cross of Lorraine."

Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 11:17 PM (RCjYY)

232 Or maybe the story out of New Orleans after Katrina of the guy killing his girlfriend and stuffing her in a wooden chest.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2026 11:17 PM (2GVsD)

233 Thanks, I'm very uninformed about naval matters.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 29, 2026 11:06 PM (RIvkX)

Me too.

Posted by: Yoga master at June 29, 2026 11:17 PM (1Ff7Z)

234 I'm pretty sure some Italian units went to the eastern front too. Internet says more than 250K.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 29, 2026 11:01 PM (oIVsY)

Both Italy and Spain supplied troops for the Eastern front. When the Spanish reached the end of the contract time they told the Germans they were going home and the Germans gave them transport. When the Italians got to the end of their contract the Germans told them to keep fighting.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 29, 2026 11:17 PM (rbvCR)

235 Roast beast?
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Grinch Who Stole Christmas. Grinch carved the roast beast - which most interpreted as roast beef.

Posted by: scampydog at June 29, 2026 11:18 PM (41CYW)

236 203 Really? More details are required,

Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 11:18 PM (77rzZ)

237 "You might be thinking of the Texas killer of two women who stuffed them in suitcases."

The lady who zipped her boyfriend up in a suitcase and sat and taunted him as he suffocated, and videoed it. IIRC, her path to justice has been crooked.

Posted by: gp at June 29, 2026 11:18 PM (Jr5Lq)

238 Working title: Death Rides The Luggage Carousel

Cue up that scene from Airplane!

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2026 11:18 PM (2GVsD)

239 Blind taste test I dare you to tell pastrami from corned beef.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 29, 2026 11:19 PM (3msSP)

240 Poseidon Adventure. And Fallon in the first years of Dynasty.

Young Bulg found her very attractive.
Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 11:07 PM (77rzZ)

Didn't watch Dynasty, my mom did so I knew most of the character names. Don't remember her in PA. Was she the older sister of the boy who told someone to shove it?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 29, 2026 11:19 PM (1Ff7Z)

241 rhomboid sfpl has got it! Thanks.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 29, 2026 11:19 PM (RIvkX)

242 Kindltot the Spanish were motivated volunteers IIRC, the "blue" division. Don't think there were many volunteers among the Italian, Romanian, and Hungarian forces.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 29, 2026 11:19 PM (U/Byj)

243 "Really? More details are required,"

She did a prison shower scene, and a magazine photo with some bush.

Posted by: gp at June 29, 2026 11:20 PM (Jr5Lq)

244 228 Roast beast?
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2026 11:16 PM (2GVsD)

Where is he wrong?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 29, 2026 11:20 PM (mPXxA)

245 Blind taste test I dare you to tell pastrami from corned beef.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 29, 2026 11:19 PM (3msSP)
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Tell me you're not from Flatbush without telling me you're not from Flatbush.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 29, 2026 11:20 PM (RIvkX)

246 "Tornado girl" is Sophie Cunningham. She is the enforcer on the Indiana Fever that protects Caitlin Clark.

Sophie is only 6'1" and 165#, but what matters is the size of the fight in the dog. Her backdown factor is set on zero.

She is also MUCH cuter when not in enforcer mode.

For the Morons:

https://tinyurl.com/2twfwtd5

https://tinyurl.com/2vr5ccak

https://tinyurl.com/sen3jcxp

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at June 29, 2026 11:20 PM (HlyYF)

247 153 Italy held a considerable number of Allied prisoners. Mostly downed airmen. As were U.S. POWs in Germany.
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Family friend was shot down over Italy. Farmers took him in, nursed him back to health and secured him back over the line.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 11:20 PM (UsddL)

248 Working title: Death Rides The Luggage Carousel

Cue up that scene from Airplane!
Posted by: Anna Puma

My friend thought we should disguise ourselves as luggage at the airport.

I said "Let's not get carried away".

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 29, 2026 11:21 PM (l26NL)

249 239 Blind taste test I dare you to tell pastrami from corned beef.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 29, 2026 11:19 PM (3msSP)

Unless paired with cabbage... actually you are right.

But corned beef should be minced with potatoes. 'Hashed' if you will.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 29, 2026 11:21 PM (mPXxA)

250 Franpsycho, great! A few years ago my female supervisor pointed out that the public library was a good option instead of $25 for a book I might not like and would have to find room to keep. Years later, my shelves have only added a few items but I've read a gazillion titles. Even better, the public library here's in a network with the universities, so I'm able to get some pretty obscure (invariably WWII) titles too.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 29, 2026 11:21 PM (U/Byj)

251 When I was growing up in Phoenix, my dad showed me some old wooden barracks in what is now Papago Park. They were used to house Luftwaffe officers late in the war, and security was only a couple strands of barbed wire because, where ya gonna go?

Still one of the most enterprising organized an escape one night (wasn’t hard) because he’d gotten hold of a map that showed the Gila River about 60 miles south, and the map showed it flowed into the Colorado and then to Mexico. He figured they’d make a crude raft and get out of the country.

So they escaped, and made the hard walk over 60 miles of desert by night, made it to the Gila - and to their complete surprise, learned that rivers in southern Arizona are nothing but sand for about 10 months a year. Never heard of anything like that back in Germany.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 11:22 PM (orF8y)

252 Then there is Bully Beef.

Reviled along silverbeets by American forces in New Guinea. The 418th NFS actually celebrated when their chow hall burned down.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2026 11:23 PM (2GVsD)

253 240 Yes, she was the older sister who took care of her little brother, and led them both to safety.

Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 11:24 PM (77rzZ)

254 "Blind taste test I dare you to tell pastrami from corned beef."

I'd take that bet.

Posted by: gp at June 29, 2026 11:24 PM (Jr5Lq)

255 I believe Franco only sent one DIVISION to the Eastern front-- the Blue Division. It was an all-volunteer outfit.

That was it, IIRC.

Italy, like Spain, probably would've been of more use to Germany as a pro-German neutral, i.e., as Spain and Portugal were.

Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 11:24 PM (RCjYY)

256 A funny and completely predictable story is that quite a few American POWs in Italy were missing for a bit. They woke up to find the guards gone and gates open, and many took off (against orders and, generally, a dangerous thing to do).

Friendly farmer. Friendly young American Friendly farmer's got a daughter. Italy. Small amount of math required. I think they finally found most of them, but the story itself is beautiful.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 29, 2026 11:25 PM (U/Byj)

257 Thanks for the black and white photography section. When you want to empathize shapes/patterns and textures, colors can be distracting. The mood shifts as well. The same scene in color and black and white can have an entirely different feel. I don't believe Ansel Adams' mountain landscapes would be improved with color.

If I were to get back into photography, especially with film, it would be black and white. A greater challenge in some ways and it offers more latitude in developing and printing.

Posted by: JTB at June 29, 2026 11:26 PM (yTvNw)

258
Italy, like Spain, probably would've been of more use to Germany as a pro-German neutral, i.e., as Spain and Portugal were.
Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 11:24 PM (RCjYY)

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Can you imagine what it would have been like if the Irish had sent troops to fight alongside Germany?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 29, 2026 11:26 PM (u/oMr)

259 What would your status be if you were freed like that? Found the gates open one day and no guards.

Posted by: Reforger at June 29, 2026 11:27 PM (0dsIZ)

260 Ireland?

Let me introduce you to Plan Kathleen.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2026 11:28 PM (2GVsD)

261 Tom Servo, I recall that story. U-boat officer, right? Generally POWs in the US didn't try to escape. Most just enjoyed their unbelievable good fortune. There were "hard cases", which we concentrated in a few camps. Really encourage people to watch some of the videos. It's an entirely unsurprising yet feel-good story. Serious enemies come to America and ..... well, minds change.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 29, 2026 11:29 PM (U/Byj)

262 Yes, she was the older sister who took care of her little brother, and led them both to safety.
Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 11:24 PM (77rzZ)

(calls up imdb to see when PA hit theaters)

Ah, yes. Wasn't noticing women yet.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 29, 2026 11:29 PM (1Ff7Z)

263 "When displayed from a staff in a church or auditorium..."

I'm as patriotic a son of a bitch as they come, but a church should not have a flag. It's the house of the Lord, Whose Kingdom is not of this world.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 10:16 PM (O0L8i)

Generally speaking, between Anglicans and Calvinist Protestants, American churches put the flag in their churches because of Paul's (God's) admonition about obeying the rulers over you and Jesus' bit about "render unto Caesar." It is a way of declaring that, while we have no king but Jesus, we are still citizens of this earthly nation and obey it. It helps that the Founders took "Providence" and God so seriously that the idea our nation as "God-given" runs through the nation's very essence.

Posted by: GWB at June 29, 2026 11:29 PM (kU0PQ)

264 Reforger I'm not sure your Geneva protections change if you walk from an abandoned camp. But the chances of those protections being ignored or not understood increase quite a bit. Thus the standard orders to remain in place. Also, camps were generally marked and known, so Allied air could avoid hitting them. Smart move was to stay put.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 29, 2026 11:31 PM (U/Byj)

265 255 Portugal was actually pro-Allies (see, e.g., Casablanca), but didn’t want to officially join the Allies out of fear that that would cause Franco to join the Axis:

Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 11:31 PM (77rzZ)

266 What would your status be if you were freed like that? Found the gates open one day and no guards.
Posted by: Reforger at June 29, 2026 11:27 PM (0dsIZ)

Walking corpse? Spy?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 29, 2026 11:32 PM (1Ff7Z)

267 246: Sophie Cunningham is also a black belt Taekwando I think.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 29, 2026 11:32 PM (sAmhv)

268 257 Thanks for the black and white photography section.
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Glad you enjoyed them. And I like how you described them and the process.

Posted by: scampydog at June 29, 2026 11:33 PM (41CYW)

269
Okay, enough with the docking from me for now. I was getting so deep into that, time was getting away from me.

6 degrees of freedom is a bitch. You've got your 3 translational axes to worry about, and then 3 degrees of attitude angles. Doesn't matter if you get the nose pointed right, you've got to get lined up translationally as well.

I got within 10 m range, and then my x and y translation wouldn't stabilize right -- it was always drifting, and then I'd get obsessed with trying to get that steady, and then my attitude would start drifting.

Time to abort for a while.....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 29, 2026 11:33 PM (w6EFb)

270 Hilarious observation by someone the other day online.

US is the first country to host a World Cup while attacking the country of one of the participating teams.

Sort of an "America, f**k yeah!" moment, mixed with "WTF?".

Posted by: rhomboid at June 29, 2026 11:34 PM (U/Byj)

271 231 220

I've always liked what Churchill said about De Gaulle's Free French forces in Britain: "The heaviest cross I had to bear during the war was the Cross of Lorraine."
Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 11:17 PM (RCjYY)

My grandpa fought in WWI. When the Americans got to France, the French tried to tell them how the French would use those troops. Grandpa explained that Pershing just told them to step aside and let the professionals get to work.

Apparently that didn't change much over the years. Hence, Cheese-eating Surrender Monkeys.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 29, 2026 11:34 PM (bl07w)

272
Let's just say if you were waiting on me to dock, you'd better pack a lunch or ten.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 29, 2026 11:34 PM (w6EFb)

273 Outta left field but I would love to hear Stewart Copeland jam with Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 29, 2026 11:34 PM (DZ9Lv)

274
Portugal allowing access to the Azores was a great benefit to the Allies.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 11:34 PM (O0L8i)

275 Is Gracie the Giraffe still on the lam?

Posted by: Common Tater at June 29, 2026 11:35 PM (FihSa)

276 Thus the standard orders to remain in place. Also, camps were generally marked and known, so Allied air could avoid hitting them. Smart move was to stay put.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 29, 2026 11:31 PM (U/Byj)

The US prisoners in The Great Raid stayed put too. They started to eat the Japanese food, but the soldiers returned.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 29, 2026 11:35 PM (1Ff7Z)

277 ====
So what you're saying is the Italians were unreliable without German bayonets poking them in the back?

Posted by: San Franpsycho
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It takes a leader. A Hungarian general came over here some time ago and taught our lads to march, I believe.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 11:35 PM (UsddL)

278 267 246: Sophie Cunningham is also a black belt Taekwando I think.
Posted by: Puddleglum
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I too read that. Also reported she was the placekicker for her HS football team.

Posted by: scampydog at June 29, 2026 11:35 PM (41CYW)

279 Family friend was shot down over Italy. Farmers took him in, nursed him back to health and secured him back over the line.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 11:20 PM (UsddL)

My uncle flew many many missions over Italy. He never once talked about any of it.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 29, 2026 11:36 PM (bl07w)

280 Bulg how does "Casablanca" fit into Portugal's situation? Just not making the connection.

In any case you are correct. Lisbon was of course the center of Axis/Allied espionage and hijinks, since all the players were there. One of the many amazing operations in which the UK played the krauts like a fiddle was based there.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 29, 2026 11:36 PM (U/Byj)

281 USS New Orleans. Pearl Harbor. 7 Dec 1942.

Ship was tied to pier power with no boilers lit. So ammunition for the 5in AA guns had to be manually passed up, to encourage morale to accomplish this Herculean task, Chaplain Maurice Forgey would slap backs and offer encouragement to the sailors and Marines. He was reported to have uttered the now famous phrase, "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition."

In 1944 he would publish a memoir of USS New Orleans battles in the Pacific until a Japanese Long Lance torpedo blew her bow and #1 8in turret off. It would be titled And Pass the Ammunition.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2026 11:37 PM (2GVsD)

282 250 Franpsycho, great! A few years ago my female supervisor pointed out that the public library was a good option instead of $25 for a book I might not like and would have to find room to keep. Years later, my shelves have only added a few items but I've read a gazillion titles. Even better, the public library here's in a network with the universities, so I'm able to get some pretty obscure (invariably WWII) titles too.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 29, 2026 11:21 PM (U/Byj)

The public library in Anchorage is a great place to watch mating pairs of addicts go at one another on the nice, comfy, overstuffed furniture.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 29, 2026 11:38 PM (bl07w)

283 It takes a leader. A Hungarian general came over here some time ago and taught our lads to march, I believe.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 11:35 PM (UsddL)

Vas?

Posted by: Baron Von Steuben at June 29, 2026 11:39 PM (1Ff7Z)

284 Pershing just told them to step aside and let the professionals get to work.

Apparently that didn't change much over the years. Hence, Cheese-eating Surrender Monkeys.

Posted by: tcn in AK
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Yo, get out the way bitch.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 11:39 PM (UsddL)

285 I read an interesting account of the only German POW to escape from a prison camp in North America, & make it all the way back to Germany. He was imprisoned in Canada.

He was a Luftwaffe pilot. He got across the U.S.-Canadian border., during the two year period when America was still neutral.

Then, he phoned the German embassy in Washington, and they facilitated his entry into Mexico. From Mexico, he took a ship to Spain. From Spain, it was easy for him to arrange travel back to Germany.

He was later killed in action. He went to a lot of trouble just to die.

Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 11:40 PM (RCjYY)

286 OrangeEnt, Cabanatuan? The raiders took the prisoners back with them through the lines (one of the many amazing aspects to the operation).

One guy was deaf and in the john when the raid took place and emerged from the latrine to find an empty camp. I think some Filipino guerrillas still there found him and got him to the escape caravan.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 29, 2026 11:40 PM (U/Byj)

287 Is Gracie the Giraffe still on the lam?
Posted by: Common Tater
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She is back in captivity and planning her next escape.

Posted by: scampydog - Steve McQueen Style at June 29, 2026 11:40 PM (41CYW)

288 So, POW in camp then AWOL if you walk out?

Yet Article 3
"If I am captured I will continue to resist by all means available. I will make every effort to escape and aid others to escape. I will accept neither parole nor special favors from the enemy."

I found a friendly farmers daughter when I "escaped". Decided the best way to aid in the war was to stay with her.

It really doesn't say much about what else to do afterward.

Personally I would have found some guns and raised hell until they killed, or captured me again.

Posted by: Reforger at June 29, 2026 11:41 PM (0dsIZ)

289 287 Is Gracie the Giraffe still on the lam?
Posted by: Common Tater
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She is back in captivity and planning her next escape.
Posted by: scampydog - Steve McQueen Style at June 29, 2026 11:40 PM (41CYW)

You go, girl.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 29, 2026 11:41 PM (bl07w)

290 He was later killed in action. He went to a lot of trouble just to die.
Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 11:40 PM (RCjYY)

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Hard to make a sequel to that movie.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 29, 2026 11:42 PM (u/oMr)

291 mnw

You are talking about Franz von Werra. First photo that usually pops up when searching his name is of him posing with a lion cub.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2026 11:42 PM (2GVsD)

292 128 for the first time in years, I don't feel like I should raise my American flag... upside down (sign of distress when at Sea).
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 10:41 PM (mP0Kj)

I used to put my American flag postage stamps on envelopes upside down as a silent protest during the Obama years....Biden years too but hardly mail anything by then.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 29, 2026 11:44 PM (QGaXH)

293 Chuck Yeager was shot down over Germany and escaped and evaded, making his way to neutral Switzerland iirc. After repatriation he demanded to be sent back to his unit to continue fighting. This wasn’t ordinarily done or allowed, as knowledge of resistance units or friendlies would be tortured out of a POW if re-captured.

He kept at it, eventually garnering an audience with the man himself, General Eisenhower.

Ike said something like “I just wanted to actually meet the guy who can go back home to the states but refuses”. Yeager was authorized to go back to his unit and fly more combat missions. Quite the guy.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 29, 2026 11:44 PM (FihSa)

294
Vas?

Posted by: Baron Von Steuben
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My apologies, I should have known that you were a Prussian.
Conflicts

War of the Austrian Succession
Siege of Prague
Seven Years' War
Siege of Prague
Battle of Kunersdorf
Siege of Kolberg
Siege of Schweidnitz
American Revolutionary War
Valley Forge
Battle of Monmouth
Battle of Blandford
Siege of Yorktown

Awards Cross of the Order of De la Fidelite

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 11:44 PM (UsddL)

295 I used to put my American flag postage stamps on envelopes upside down as a silent protest during the Obama years....Biden years too but hardly mail anything by then.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone)
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Horde mind. Did the same here, ARiK.

Posted by: scampydog - Steve McQueen Style at June 29, 2026 11:45 PM (41CYW)

296

See Joan Collins in Land of the Pharaohs

www.imdb.com/title/tt0048283

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 29, 2026 11:45 PM (Cqx++)

297
George Springer rounds the bases on a little-league home run against - who else? - the Mets.

https://youtu.be/ke9qHl1NopI

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 11:45 PM (O0L8i)

298 Ike said something like “I just wanted to actually meet the guy who can go back home to the states but refuses”. Yeager was authorized to go back to his unit and fly more combat missions. Quite the guy.
Posted by: Common Tater at June 29, 2026 11:44 PM (FihSa)

Yeager was an SOB, but he was our SOB.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 29, 2026 11:46 PM (bl07w)

299 One guy was deaf and in the john when the raid took place and emerged from the latrine to find an empty camp. I think some Filipino guerrillas still there found him and got him to the escape caravan.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 29, 2026 11:40 PM (U/Byj)

Might have been. It was a movie, so I'm sure liberties were taken with the facts.

Posted by: Baron Von Steuben at June 29, 2026 11:46 PM (1Ff7Z)

300 "Land of the Pharaohs" (1955) added to my list, thanks!
ok.ru/video/6691606301211

Posted by: gp at June 29, 2026 11:48 PM (Jr5Lq)

301 Hadrian

RE: Portugal and the Azores:

The U.S.made Portugal an offer it couldn't refuse: allow us to put military bases in the Azores, or else will take the Azores by force. If Portugal makes us go to all that trouble... say goodby to the Azores forever.

Germany didn't protest too much about the Azores, because Portugal was the source of Germany's wolfram, which was used to harden steel. That's what Germany cared about, not the Azores.

By the time Portugal permitted the U.S. to put airbases in the Azores, the Azores were the least of Germany's problems.

Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 11:49 PM (RCjYY)

302 Went to school with a girl whose dad was blonde, blue eyed, read, wrote and spoke high German. He was captured 3 times. He would kill a guard and put on his uniform. Worked his way up to an officer's uniform then command a driver to take him to the front where he crossed the lines and went back to work.
Nice guy, don't touch his daughter.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 11:49 PM (UsddL)

303 Lt. Karl Timmermann was the first American officer across the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen.

He was born in Germany in 1922, his father had served in the American expeditionary Force in the Great War. After the armistice he went AWOL and shacked up with a German girl. The whole family would return to the father's rural hometown but for his whole short life Karl had to live under the cloud of his father's actions. Karl would die in 1951.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2026 11:49 PM (2GVsD)

304 Montmorency Falls! I had a database conference in Montreal last year, and my wife was so jealous I brought her along. He took a bus to Quebec City that stopped at the falls long enough to hike to the top.

Posted by: frammish at June 29, 2026 11:49 PM (rcENI)

305 Whatever I said about Cabanatuan was from the book "The Great Raid" by Breuer (as modified by my memory and/or brain damage). Not the movie. Though the deputy commander of the raiders (IIRC) was an adviser on the movie.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 29, 2026 11:50 PM (U/Byj)

306 There’s some strange story behind an obvious Asian POW captured during the D-Day landings.

The story goes he was a Korean captured by the Japanese and ended up fighting for the Nazis or some whacked out scenario like that. Poor SOB.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 29, 2026 11:50 PM (FihSa)

307 126 94

Nazi Germany, like the Confederacy, had problems feeding and housing POWs decently-- while losing an existential war.

Returned U.S. POWs usually said their biggest problem had been boredom, however. (Returned from Germany and Italy, that is... NOT from the Japanese accommodations).
Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 10:40 PM (RCjYY)

Early in my career I worked for a guy who was a bomber pilot in WWII. He was shot down over Germany, bailed out and was picked up by a German patrol the minute he hit the ground. He said they were very professional. Relieved him of a few items (watch, cigarettes, etc), took him straight to a Doctor to treat a nasty cut on his head he got bailing out of the plane, then a brief interrogation and off to a POW camp. He said it was stark but not deprivation, just boring.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 29, 2026 11:51 PM (QGaXH)

308 Joan Collins was a pretty woman. A naturally pretty woman.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3a8Seh3Cp4

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 11:53 PM (UsddL)

309 If you were a Terrorflieger and had to bail out after a raid in Germany, then you prayed the military, even the SS, would get to you first. Because it was like 50/50 the German civilians and police would lynch you on the spot.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2026 11:54 PM (2GVsD)

310
And now the Dutch go home.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 11:54 PM (O0L8i)

311 Morocco moves on. Won on penalty kicks.

Posted by: scampydog - Steve McQueen Style at June 29, 2026 11:54 PM (41CYW)

312 291

Thanks. I either never knew his name, or else I forgot it.

Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 11:54 PM (RCjYY)

313 280 The folks trying to get out of Casablanca sought transit through Lisbon, where refugees fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe were able to find ready transport out. That was one historical detail that the movie got right: Salazar’s Portugal was very sympathetic to the Allied cause.

Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 11:57 PM (77rzZ)

314 I have photocopies, archived at the East Riding Archives, of letters penned by my ancients. The content is interesting, and the handwriting remarkable.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 29, 2026 11:57 PM (XeU6L)

315 He went to a lot of trouble just to die.
Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 11:40 PM (RCjYY)

If that wasn't a Raylin Givens line in "Justified", it should have been.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 29, 2026 11:57 PM (ntqEh)

316
No more AC for you, Dutchies.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 11:58 PM (O0L8i)

317
Maybe we could send them and the Germans Care packages with barbecue and jerky.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 11:59 PM (O0L8i)

318 Bulg, thanks, got it. Good point.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 30, 2026 12:00 AM (U/Byj)

319 It depended on the location, and stage of the war.

The locals often would kill you with a pitchfork. Getting picked up by the local Polizei might have been a reprieve from getting beaten to death. After all you just got done dropping bombs on them. But the Gestapo interrogators were assholes, and they had very good intelligence, the bastards. Your home address, family members, all sorts of things.

One of my customers was Loren Darling, a waist-gunner on a B-17 piloted by “Rosy” Rosenthal, another guy they broke the mold after they made him. His plane and crew were the only ones that made it back after a mission, albeit all shot to hell.

Mr. Darling always had a huge smile on his face whenever I talked to him. Always. Really nice guy. I knew he was a B-17 guy during the war, but I wish I would have spent more time with him.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 12:00 AM (FihSa)

320 Common Tater that's a true story. Korean, impressed into Japanese military service, is captured by the Soviets (presumably at Khalkin Gol, not sure). Ends up being impressed into Red Army service. Is captured by the Germans, who put him in some "osttruppen" unit ("volunteers" and people of varying motivations but limited military value mostly from eastern Europe) that ends up near Utah beach on D-Day. Captured by us. Thus endeth his service in 3 different armies in WWII.

One soldier said to a senior officer at Utah early in the operation, after his unit's interpreters couldn't talk to their prisoners due to limited German capability among them, "sir, just who are we fighting here?".

Posted by: rhomboid at June 30, 2026 12:03 AM (U/Byj)

321
Hot damn, I docked it.

Got the tip right in the hole, steady as she goes. Slow and easy.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 12:04 AM (w6EFb)

322 321 Well done!

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 12:04 AM (Jr5Lq)

323 280

Casablanca is one of the best films ever made, imo.

However, historical accuracy was not it's strong suit.

The story goes that when the historical inaccuracies, & things that just plain didn't make any sense, were pointed out to director Michael Curtiz, he replied, "Don't vorry. I make it go so fast, nobody notice."

Posted by: mnw at June 30, 2026 12:04 AM (RCjYY)

324 317
Maybe we could send them and the Germans Care packages with barbecue and jerky.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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If it could get past customs it would be insidious.
Random acts of food.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 12:05 AM (UsddL)

325 Yeager, of all people, was an avid Backpacker. He liked to take long hikes into the Sierra lakes and go fishing for a week or two.

He would have Air Force planes airdrop supplies in. RHIP, I guess. Good training, too. His buds pulled a fast one on him, in lieu of the customary steaks, one time they dropped a load of frozen fish-sticks. He got pretty irate about that, because they had already had all the fresh fish they could eat, and the airdropped canister had fallen into an almost inaccessible location.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 12:06 AM (FihSa)

326 There were two endings filmed to "Casablanca", the one we know was used after some test screenings - I think.

Did the other one survive, such that we can watch it?

Posted by: rhomboid at June 30, 2026 12:07 AM (U/Byj)

327 Hot damn, I docked it.

Got the tip right in the hole, steady as she goes. Slow and easy.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 12:04 AM (w6EFb)

You have, how you say, made Paolo very proud.

Posted by: The Paolo at June 30, 2026 12:07 AM (1Ff7Z)

328 No letters of transit?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 30, 2026 12:09 AM (Cqx++)

329 Just getting here, but a hell of an ONT, scampydog, I guess it is simply speaking my language tonight. I am so old that most of my really young pictures are in black and white.

Cheers Horde!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 30, 2026 12:09 AM (ibDUx)

330 138
I'd like to see a book on German POWs in the US during WWII. An interesting story. Seems the early prisoners were ordinary schlubs who were no problem, but when the SS guys came over things got more tense.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 10:43 PM (O0L8i)

I've seen a video on the tube of ewes that alleges the Japanese POWs freaked out because their first meal was white rice- which was usually what was fed to condemned prisoners in Japan.

As with everything like that on the net of inters I wonder if it's true.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 30, 2026 12:10 AM (QGaXH)

331 Suppertime

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 12:10 AM (UsddL)

332 The story goes that when the historical inaccuracies, & things that just plain didn't make any sense, were pointed out to director Michael Curtiz, he replied, "Don't vorry. I make it go so fast, nobody notice."
Posted by: mnw at June 30, 2026 12:04 AM (RCjYY)

When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

(rips up story)

Posted by: Maxwell Scott at June 30, 2026 12:10 AM (1Ff7Z)

333 Historically speaking, Casablanca is worthless, But, like Shakespeare’s “histories,” it doesn’t matter. The story is what matters.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 12:10 AM (77rzZ)

334 UW travelers from N.E.W. (North East Wisconsin) to Madison are still processing the tornadic-collapse of the Culvers Barn (https://tinyurl.com/muxmevy7) on 10.

Posted by: techsan at June 30, 2026 12:10 AM (uNveu)

335 Went to school with a girl whose dad was blonde, blue eyed, read, wrote and spoke high German. He was captured 3 times. He would kill a guard and put on his uniform. Worked his way up to an officer's uniform then command a driver to take him to the front where he crossed the lines and went back to work.
Nice guy, don't touch his daughter.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 11:49 PM (UsddL)

I went to school with a chick who wanted my ass in the worst way. She was cute, with serious bazooka boobs. They were neighbors with a kid I went to school with, and I would see this chick's father outside. Occasionally he would say things to me from his driveway. I swear he was SS, thick german accent, cold eyes that would bore through you. The neighbor on the other side was also a kid I went to school with, and at the last high school reunion he said "dude, he was a creepy nazi!!". Needless to say I didn't go near his daughter. I found out recently she never married. Now there's a surprise.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 30, 2026 12:11 AM (snZF9)

336 326

I never heard anything about two different endings. Possible, I guess.

I read a short biography of Michael Curtiz, the director, & I don't recall any mention of that. Perhaps the 2 different endings were in the screenplay, as alternatives, but only the one we knew ever got filmed.

Posted by: mnw at June 30, 2026 12:11 AM (RCjYY)

337 Just getting here, but a hell of an ONT, scampydog, I guess it is simply speaking my language tonight. I am so old that most of my really young pictures are in black and white.

Cheers Horde!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 30, 2026 12:09 AM (ibDUx)

Like many of us, we didn't have color then....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2026 12:11 AM (1Ff7Z)

338
315 He went to a lot of trouble just to die.
Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 11:40 PM (RCjYY)

If that wasn't a Raylin Givens line in "Justified", it should have been.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 29, 2026 11:57 PM (ntqEh)

Reminds me of The Outlaw Josey Wales.
Wales : “ you some kind of bounty hunter!”
Gunman: “a man’s got to make a living.”
Wales: “Dyin’ ain’t much of a living.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 12:12 AM (orF8y)

339 Oyasumi

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 30, 2026 12:12 AM (2GVsD)

340 320 What’s the Korean dude’s name?

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 12:13 AM (77rzZ)

341 OrangeEnt, Cabanatuan?
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See also:
Rescue at Los Baños: The Most Daring Prison Camp Raid of World War II.

A good friend of mine was an Alamo Scout and participated.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 30, 2026 12:13 AM (XeU6L)

342 A couple Kraut POWs managed to escape briefly from a camp in Arizona or someplace like that. But the maps they had weren’t particularly accurate, or at least the “river” named they were following was dry as a bone and they didn’t get too far.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 12:15 AM (FihSa)

343
This is how you do it: When you start out, get your Y and Z translational position dead on center. Don't worry about your attitude angles. Piddle around with that, slow and steady, not too much thrust either way. Get it dead on zero and holding steady.

Now, adjust your attitude. Pitch, roll, and yaw. Get them zeroed and steady. Make sure they're holding and as close to zero as you can.

Check Y and Z translation, make sure it's holding zero. So now, we've got our tip, our probe, our shaft lined up straight with the waiting ISS hole.

Now, we thrust along X and start moving in. Attitude held the whole way with me, but I had to keep bumping the Y and Z translation. Keep your closing speed to about 0.2 m/s, roughly. Too fast and you can't adjust the Y and Z fast enough.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 12:15 AM (w6EFb)

344 Hadrian I know I've seen titles for such books (POW experience in the US) but never wrote them down. Like I said above, a good start are the various videos on UToob. The one about Concordia is good and pretty representative I think.

Hard cases were segregated by the US as they revealed themselves and concentrated in a few camps. Most prisoners were pretty apolitical and of course the safety, food, reasonable work, amenities, and friendly locals made most of them pretty good citizens, er, prisoners.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 30, 2026 12:15 AM (U/Byj)

345 A good friend of mine was an Alamo Scout and participated.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 30, 2026 12:13 AM (XeU6L)

Pretty good record they had.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2026 12:16 AM (1Ff7Z)

346 328

The "letters of transit" were a film concept that must be overlooked, because close scrutiny would be fatal.

Posted by: mnw at June 30, 2026 12:16 AM (RCjYY)

347 340 320 What’s the Korean dude’s name?
Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 12:13 AM (77rzZ)

Yang Kyoungjong.

Posted by: Reforger at June 30, 2026 12:16 AM (0dsIZ)

348 The amazing thing about Casablanca is that they started shooting with only a partial script and a few ideas. They wrote the movie as it was filmed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 12:16 AM (orF8y)

349 Maybe we could send them and the Germans Care packages with barbecue and jerky.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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If you've never read it, 'The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour'

https://shorturl.at/ecHw4

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 30, 2026 12:17 AM (XeU6L)

350 Humans may be fascinated by cubes, but only one animal poops them: the bare-nosed wombat. This furry Australian marsupial squeezes out nearly 100 six-sided turds every day—an ability that has long mystified scientists. Now, researchers say they have uncovered how the wombat intestine creates this exceptional excrement.

Obviously, they poop cubes because they're still 8-bit animals who never got an upgrade to 16-bit, much less 32 or 64.

Posted by: mikeski at June 30, 2026 12:19 AM (VHUov)

351 150 WLOX TV-13 Biloxi, MS on German POWs in Mississippi

https://youtu.be/YVyT0jPemVk

35-minute video on German POWs in Mississippi

https://youtu.be/y8Dt7aj1pkI
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2026 10:48 PM (2GVsD)

My dad was discharged in Mississippi. He told a story of some German POW officer taking inventory of what he and his buddies were 'supposed' to have been issued:

Watches? Dad: "Nobody gave us any watches..."

This.,,that.. ? Same answer...don't got....

German in increasingly tense voice: Bullets? X number of rounds...?? Where are they?

My dad: they're in your friends a**es back in Germany....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 30, 2026 12:20 AM (QGaXH)

352 347. Thanks, Reforger!

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 12:20 AM (77rzZ)

353 Well, I am done with buddy's Gravely mower. I think there is something fundamentally wrong with the hydraulics. It moves, forwards and back, and steers, but it has no speed, and little power. I mowed with it for an hour or more, and it did a fine job of cutting grass, but it bogged badly on hills, and my yard is not super steep. I had to replace the hydro drive belt, and was able to get a good-fitting one at the local ag dealer. Fixed a tire that kept going flat, freed up the stuck seat adjusting tracks, and raised the seat by an inch and half by fitting pieces of 1X2 between the seat tracks and the seat pan.

Turns out he bought this thing at an auction, minus engine, and dropped in an engine from another mower. I am wondering, did previous owner have trouble with the hydraulics, got a huge quote on repairs, and decided to keep the good engine and auction off the hulk.

My ancient Dixon mower will run circles around this thing, and is much less tiring to operate.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2026 12:21 AM (1z8ji)

354 So now, we've got our tip, our probe, our shaft lined up straight with the waiting ISS hole.
Posted by: publius

There is no way you typed that with a straight face.

Posted by: mikeski at June 30, 2026 12:22 AM (VHUov)

355 Early in my career I worked for a guy who was a bomber pilot in WWII. He was shot down over Germany, bailed out and was picked up by a German patrol the minute he hit the ground. He said they were very professional. Relieved him of a few items (watch, cigarettes, etc), took him straight to a Doctor to treat a nasty cut on his head he got bailing out of the plane, then a brief interrogation and off to a POW camp. He said it was stark but not deprivation, just boring.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 29, 2026 11:51 PM (QGaXH)

I did a kitchen for a guy who was a ball turret gunner on a B17. Small dude, so no surprise he was in the ball turret. He got shot down during some of the first missions. Spent 3 years as a POW. He said he slept outside for most of it, and only ended up with slight knee problems from his experience. He was 63 when I did the kitchen in around 1990. He was full of piss and vinegar, but funny as all hell. He was doing a good amount of work in the house himself. I would make a suggestion and the next day it was already done. Unreal energy he had.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 30, 2026 12:22 AM (snZF9)

356 If you've never read it, 'The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour'

https://shorturl.at/ecHw4
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 30, 2026 12:17 AM (XeU6L)

How the fuck was the Berlin Airlift "Americas finest hour"?
That author can fuck right off.

Posted by: Reforger at June 30, 2026 12:23 AM (0dsIZ)

357 I’m pretty sure that Claude Rains knew his lines regardless of the script. Maybe “Cuddles” Sakall, too.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 12:24 AM (77rzZ)

358 A good friend of mine was an Alamo Scout and participated.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 30, 2026 12:13 AM (XeU6L)

Pretty good record they had.
Posted by: OrangeEnt
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His own brief online account of his service is the most self-deprcating thing I have ever read.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 30, 2026 12:24 AM (XeU6L)

359 348

I've read this, & believe it to be true, not apocryphal:

Orson Welles ad libbed the "cuckoo clock" dialogue in The Third Man.

I suspect Welles ad libbed it; that it wasn't in the script; but everyone loved it. So they added it to the script, & used it. I doubt he ad libbed the finished version seen in the movie.

Posted by: mnw at June 30, 2026 12:25 AM (RCjYY)

360 Oh wait. It was a Kennedy thing.
Got it. It had to have been the best planned thing ever in history.

Posted by: Reforger at June 30, 2026 12:25 AM (0dsIZ)

361 Actual Newsweek headline

Plummeting Gas Prices Could Bring New Economic Headaches

🤣🤣🤣

Just when you through the msm reached peak be-clowning, they surprise you.

Posted by: Heroq at June 30, 2026 12:26 AM (enQFn)

362 *Pours a Chivas for Debby*

*Make L.I. Iced Tea for self*

Hi, Debby! I spent the afternoon pulling/cutting ivy and morning glory from a space out back of the house. A real mess! Spent extra time in the shower, with hot water aimed at my poor back & shoulders....

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 12:27 AM (rdVOm)

363 >> There is no way you typed that with a straight face.

Heh. The fun with this is to make do this ridiculous double entendre stuff dead pan, with a poker face. Try to crack everybody up, while maintaining an air of "what's so funny?", and then triple down on it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 12:27 AM (w6EFb)

364 353 My Dad loved his Gravely back in the day.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 12:27 AM (77rzZ)

365 354 Ha!

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 12:27 AM (Jr5Lq)

366 “For you, the war is over”.

Landing in Switzerland, a disabled bomber, one wasn’t exactly a POW but one was detained for the duration. One might think a crew or two might decide to abscond to Switzerland and sit out the rest of the war. Seems tempting, considering the life expectancy of a B-17. If you’re losing 5 or 10 per cent of the airplanes every mission, and you have to complete 25 missions (later extended to 30, then 35), do the math.

But this didn’t happen. I really can’t figure out how those guys kept getting in those planes. Day after day.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 12:28 AM (FihSa)

367 Just when you through the msm reached peak be-clowning, they surprise you.
Posted by: Heroq at June 30, 2026 12:26 AM (enQFn)

I think they have quite a way to go. If they pull into the studio in a clown car, in sad clown makup and costumes, and talk about uplifting news stories in a sepulchral tone, they're getting close.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 30, 2026 12:30 AM (qx7Zg)

368 The Alamo Scouts were an ad hoc unit and had no table of organization & equipment (TO&E).

_While not on missions, Alamo Scout teams were assigned as bodyguards for General Krueger

_ performed 110 known missions behind enemy lines, mainly in New Guinea and the Philippines, without losing a single man.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 12:31 AM (UsddL)

369 Just when you through the msm reached peak be-clowning, they surprise you.
Posted by: Heroq
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We could do MSM headlines and think pieces all day, everyday in the comments. Not a day has gone by since 1980something that I haven't thought, "Who the hell believes this crap?" They (the msm) really are the grad school clowns. They think playing chopsticks with their eyes closed makes them Chopin.

Posted by: scampydog at June 30, 2026 12:31 AM (41CYW)

370 So wombats really do shit bricks.

What a world, what a world.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 12:31 AM (orF8y)

371 KIDS act passed the house. If you like not having to show your ID to get online I urge you to contact your senator and let them know.

Posted by: Chudley Moore at June 30, 2026 12:31 AM (HQti0)

372
Seriously, the ISS docking simulator is fun:
https://iss-sim.spacex.com/

Give it a try. Slow and steady, and line up as dead-on as you can get it when you start moving in. When you get close, which for me was about 20 m, slow down to a crawl, because any little wiggle there will be amplified looking at the crosshairs.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 12:33 AM (w6EFb)

373 So wombats really do shit bricks.

What a world, what a world.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 12:31 AM (orF8y)

Feed 'em scrap plastic bottles, and train them to shit Legos. Profit!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2026 12:33 AM (1z8ji)

374 DX conditions to Asia were excellent on 15m today. I worked BH8ABY in Chengdu, DS5USH Korea, and several new Jap stations. I looked up Chengdu: population 21M. I usually like to cruise the cities I work on Google street view, but China doesn't allow that.

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 12:34 AM (Jr5Lq)

375 Switzerland treated interned allied flyers no better, and sometimes worse, than the Germans treated POWs, from what I've read.

Late in the war, the treatment got better-- for obvious reasons.

I think Switzerland could accurately be categorized as a pro-axis neutral nation, at least before 1944.

Posted by: mnw at June 30, 2026 12:34 AM (RCjYY)

376 Chris Isaak’s Wicked Game is my favorite modern song.

Posted by: French Jeton at June 30, 2026 12:34 AM (j0T5y)

377 My uncle was a bombardier in WW2, he is buried in Holland. He was sort of small too, but he was one heck of an athlete, college all-American on both offense and defense in college. We lost a lot of good people between Vietnam and Korea and WW2, which as I now must call WW11 since Ilan Omar has declared it so. Please get these ungrateful grifters out of our country.

By the way, is the US mint issuing any sesquicentennial coins? I try to set aside any bicentennial quarters that I find, but there aren't so many of them anymore.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 30, 2026 12:34 AM (ibDUx)

378 But this didn’t happen. I really can’t figure out how those guys kept getting in those planes. Day after day.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2026 12:28 AM (FihSa)

Balls bigger than the airplane tires, thats how.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 30, 2026 12:37 AM (snZF9)

379 By the way, is the US mint issuing any sesquicentennial coins? I try to set aside any bicentennial quarters that I find, but there aren't so many of them anymore.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
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Good evening, DDS. I am still going through the coins that my father had. He had quite a few of those bicentennial quarters. Kind of fun and nostalgic.

Posted by: scampydog at June 30, 2026 12:37 AM (41CYW)

380 Boobs. I’m thinking specifically of Madeline Smith.

Gotta do something to cheer myself up.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 12:38 AM (77rzZ)

381 I'd forgotten all about Chris Isaak until tonight.

Hi, DDS.

Posted by: mnw at June 30, 2026 12:39 AM (RCjYY)

382 --------
We could do MSM headlines and think pieces all day, everyday in the comments. Not a day has gone by since 1980something that I haven't thought, "Who the hell believes this crap?" They (the msm) really are the grad school clowns. They think playing chopsticks with their eyes closed makes them Chopin.

Posted by: scampydog
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Think up some hoi ti toi tiname (The Pacific) for the news paper. There are so many contributors here the big job would be editor.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 12:40 AM (UsddL)

383 By the way, is the US mint issuing any sesquicentennial coins? I try to set aside any bicentennial quarters that I find, but there aren't so many of them anymore.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 30, 2026 12:34 AM (ibDUx)

They have already started with some. Quarters, mostly. This shows all of them, in an uncirculated set.

https://tinyurl.com/2em5re53

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 30, 2026 12:40 AM (qx7Zg)

384 Carried over from Quick Hits (I had a day and I'm catching up):

48 Puppeteer tranny should have changed his last name to Geppetto and I'm really upset he didn't. What a missed opportunity.
Posted by: banana Dream at June 29, 2026 06:50 PM (3uBP9)

I was too busy with/recovering from a family reunion to actually participate in the ONT of songs you could listen to 100 times straight, but I considered "Gepetto". Well, the answer was no, but "Sad Dress" from the same album was yes. After all, when I first got Star (1993) on CD, I put it on repeat.

And then did it again the next day.

And the day after that. (People don't even know what madness headphones saved them from.) I don't know how many hundreds of times I've heard it.

More topical, but not as relistenable:
Belly - Gepetto (Official Video)
https://youtu.be/SBi676v4Gs4

The actual 100x-in-a-row candidate:
Belly - Sad Dress (Audio)
https://youtu.be/JdNhA3XaP9E

Posted by: SciVo at June 30, 2026 12:43 AM (Sy6m/)

385 'Land Of The Pharaohs (1955)' Eye-popping color in that print.

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 12:43 AM (Jr5Lq)

386 They have already started with some. Quarters, mostly. This shows all of them, in an uncirculated set.

https://tinyurl.com/2em5re53
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 30, 2026 12:40 AM (qx7Zg)

There are pennies in those sets...

Posted by: Reforger at June 30, 2026 12:45 AM (0dsIZ)

387 an uncirculated set.

https://tinyurl.com/2em5re53

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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They should have been made of silver.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 12:48 AM (UsddL)

388
Oh, update on my 96 yr old mother. A doctor there at the hospital got to looking at her history and got to wondering. So far, we though the problem was just due to fluid build up (chronic venous insufficiency that's been there for over 10 years) and heart failure.

She's got old-age wear-and-tear heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. That's different from heart failure with reduced EF. He noted her heart wasn't that bad, and got to wondering. Cellulitis had developed, which was being treated since last week.

He wondered if there was a blood clot that was actually the root cause, and ordered some deep ultrasounds.

Turned out she did had several clots, and that's been the problem this whole time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 12:55 AM (w6EFb)

389 By the way, is the US mint issuing any sesquicentennial coins?
****

Debby, yes. And, as a bonus, they are minting 250,000 with a special seal. To make it interesting, they are not being issued as rolls but are being randomly inserted. I have not seen a picture of one yet. So, check your quarters. They were issued starting yesterday.

Posted by: clarence at June 30, 2026 12:57 AM (VTmfE)

390 Turned out she did had several clots, and that's been the problem this whole time.
Posted by: publius
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Glad you/she are getting some answers.

Posted by: scampydog at June 30, 2026 12:58 AM (41CYW)

391 Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 12:55 AM

Prayers continuing!

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 01:00 AM (rdVOm)

392
The doc there said that this can be tricky. You think condition A is being caused by X, and X may be a big part of it, but something else could still be going on. Then you just go down that road, getting confirmation bias going on.

He was sort of fresh eyes on this problem. He just noticed the cellulitis wasn't that bad, he didn't think, yet a lot of redness. And her heart wasn't that bad relatively speaking, and so got to wondering.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 01:03 AM (w6EFb)

393 337 Just getting here, but a hell of an ONT, scampydog, I guess it is simply speaking my language tonight. I am so old that most of my really young pictures are in black and white.

Cheers Horde!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 30, 2026 12:09 AM (ibDUx)

Like many of us, we didn't have color then....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2026 12:11 AM (1Ff7Z)

One of my favorite Calvin and Hobbes strips was one where Calvin asks dad why old photographs are all in black and white. The dad launches into an explanation that color didn't come to the world before 19-something....before that the world was black and white...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 30, 2026 01:03 AM (QGaXH)

394 Bicentennial coins. Doesn't seem that long ago. My oldest brother graduated that year. Instead of school colors, they wore red, white and blue gowns.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 30, 2026 01:04 AM (fkjGs)

395 Link for new coins@389
https://onlylinks.cc/NzlB

Posted by: clarence at June 30, 2026 01:07 AM (VTmfE)

396 Bicentennial coins. Doesn't seem that long ago. My oldest brother graduated that year. Instead of school colors, they wore red, white and blue gowns.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

That's cool!

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 01:09 AM (rdVOm)

397 My oldest brother graduated that year. Instead of school colors, they wore red, white and blue gowns.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
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That's pretty cool.

Posted by: scampydog at June 30, 2026 01:10 AM (41CYW)

398 Turned out she did had several clots, and that's been the problem this whole time.
Posted by: publius
****

She's very lucky that was caught. My mom died of a blood clot that broke up and caused a heart attack.

Posted by: clarence at June 30, 2026 01:11 AM (VTmfE)

399 He was sort of fresh eyes on this problem. He just noticed the cellulitis wasn't that bad, he didn't think, yet a lot of redness. And her heart wasn't that bad relatively speaking, and so got to wondering.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 01:03 AM (w6EFb)

Prayers up. publius.
Sometimes a fresh set of eyes can work wonders.

Posted by: Reforger at June 30, 2026 01:14 AM (0dsIZ)

400 Well this is confusing. There's another video for "Gepetto"? It wasn't *that* good. Oh, it's for the "(Single Remix)" version.

Still, there are better songs, even on the same album, that didn't get *one* vid. Music industry is wack, man.

Better music video, still not a 100x song:
Belly - Gepetto (Video)
https://youtu.be/gQlk8eKdIIA

Another 100x candidate like "Sad Dress":
Belly - White Belly (Audio)
https://youtu.be/TGR2nWEMwMs

Posted by: SciVo at June 30, 2026 01:14 AM (Sy6m/)

401 Starting in 1975, there was this *huge* build-up to our Bicentennial celebration... a nation-wide party was going to happen, and everyone & every business wanted a part of it. So freaking awesome!

Now? Buncha whining TDS b1tches gotta drag it all down for the rest of the country... sling misery every which way and balk at the tiniest spark of patriotism. Asshoes.

Fly the flag and make everything red, white & blue-- F the whiners!!!

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 01:16 AM (rdVOm)

402 www.reddit.com/r/calvinandhobbes/comments/
qiu2sj/the_world_was_black_and_white/

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 30, 2026 01:16 AM (DZ9Lv)

403 My mom died of a blood clot that broke up and caused a heart attack.
Posted by: clarence
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Mine was adjacent - aneurysm. Brain shut down on burst. 2 days shy of her 54th - which is pretty damned young, considering the...umm... well... many of us.

Posted by: scampydog at June 30, 2026 01:17 AM (41CYW)

404 I must have 100's of the bicentennial quarters. I have a few of those 1 gallon glass wine jugs filled with change. I was tossing those things into the jugs for years. For some reason I still run across them over the last few years, more than usual, and thinking about it made me check my pocket just now, and sure as shit I got one. Its almost like a shitload went into circulation not long ago. I think it may be relatives that got into dead relative's stash and are spending them.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 30, 2026 01:19 AM (snZF9)

405 Starting in 1975, there was this *huge* build-up to our Bicentennial celebration... a nation-wide party was going to happen, and everyone & every business wanted a part of it. So freaking awesome!

Now? Buncha whining TDS b1tches gotta drag it all down for the rest of the country... sling misery every which way and balk at the tiniest spark of patriotism. Asshoes.

Fly the flag and make everything red, white & blue-- F the whiners!!!

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 01:16 AM (rdVOm)

yeah, lots of people here need to be bulldozed into the sea.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 30, 2026 01:22 AM (snZF9)

406 One of my favorite Calvin and Hobbes strips was one where Calvin asks dad why old photographs are all in black and white.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

https://tinyurl.com/2mcepfkj

CALVIN: Dad, how come old photographs are always black and white? Didn’t they have color film back then?
DAD: Sure they did. In fact, those old photographs are in color. It’s just the world was black and white then.
CALVIN: Really?
DAD: Yep. The world didn’t turn color until sometime in the 1930s, and it was pretty grainy color for a while, too.
CALVIN: That’s really weird.
DAD: Well, truth is stranger than fiction.
CALVIN: But then why are old paintings in color?! If the world was black and white, wouldn’t artists have painted it that way?
DAD: Not necessarily. A lot of great artists were insane.
CALVIN: But … but how could they have painted in color anyway? Wouldn’t their paints have been shades of gray back then?
DAD: Of course, but they turned colors like everything did in the ’30s.
CALVIN: So why didn’t old black and white photos turn color, too?
DAD: Because they were color pictures of black and white, remember?

Posted by: mikeski at June 30, 2026 01:23 AM (VHUov)

407 Starting in 1975, there was this *huge* build-up to our Bicentennial celebration... a nation-wide party was going to happen, and everyone & every business wanted a part of it. So freaking awesome!
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Yes. It was infectious, carefree, fun, and prideful. As our friend Miklos once said, "Nostalgia, it's a helluva drug." And he was right.

Posted by: scampydog at June 30, 2026 01:24 AM (41CYW)

408 Well it's 2 and a half centuries, so only half the people get it. Spirit of '76 did have a nice ring to it. And, damn! Where's our Evel Knieval of today?

Posted by: Rex B at June 30, 2026 01:25 AM (rgnea)

409
He's got her on blood thinner pretty good now, breaking up the clot. However, this will be another tricky balance to maintain. She's got ITP, platelet count trying to crash. And they're treating that and I have found the right dosages of the stuff they treat that with.

And she's a fall risk on top of that. Adding blood thinners to that is not too good. So, there's an option to put a little filter thing in her vein going back to the heart to stop any future blood clot mess from getting back up to her heart and lungs. While not too big of deal, she is 96.

So, this another risk vs benefit equation to figure out with her.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 01:27 AM (w6EFb)

410 I'm ordering two of each of those sets for my grandkids so when 300 comes around they'll have them.
My grandma had a 5 gallon glass water jug about half full of the bicentenial quarters when she passed away. My uncle got them. I wouldn't put it past him to spend them.
I'd actuall bet he's spent them.
I should call him.

Posted by: Reforger at June 30, 2026 01:27 AM (0dsIZ)

411 JQ, re: the Bicentennial, I believe you were in Spokane those days. We were coming off of Expo '74, it was kind of like a freight train - rolling right into '75 and '76.

Posted by: scampydog at June 30, 2026 01:29 AM (41CYW)

412
I got interested in just how accurate that ISS docking simulator was, and had Grok go over it. Turns out the gravity model it uses (the complex tidal field) is pretty crude. Trying to do it accurately would be just too much for such a web-based program like that. It gives you some drift behavior, but it's not that accurate. The idea is just to give you some drifting behavior that annoys you enough as the real thing would.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 01:30 AM (w6EFb)

413 JQ, re: the Bicentennial, I believe you were in Spokane those days. We were coming off of Expo '74, it was kind of like a freight train - rolling right into '75 and '76.
Posted by: scampydog

Not quite.. We moved out of Spookaloo in '73. I never got to see Expo! But, yeah, there was a BFD for a few years LOL.

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 01:33 AM (rdVOm)

414 The whole country was bicentennial crazy. There was frigging TV movies, shows, the works. Everybody was in on it. I was in Jr high at the time and the school was nuts with decorations. We picked up a lot of miserable assholes over the last 50 years.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 30, 2026 01:35 AM (snZF9)

415
I was 9 years old in '76, but I remember all the bicentennial stuff. It was a big deal for everyone.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 01:36 AM (w6EFb)

416 I rode the carousel at Riverfront Park in '81. It had been restored by then. It was at Nat Park when I was very little and Dad had to lift me up so I could reach for the rings!

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 01:38 AM (rdVOm)

417 Boy, the summer of '76 was my time to shine. I ended up on cereal boxes everywhere. Man!

Posted by: Bruce Jenner at June 30, 2026 01:39 AM (rgnea)

418 412 publius
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Damnit, you did it again - got my nerd brain going.

I suspect the programmer optimized for the human problem rather than the physics problem. As you mentioned, complicated to code - get a believable drift to force one to fly/dock the way a real astronaut would. Perhaps not to reproduce orbital mechanics perfectly. Reproduce the mental workload to dock? I dunno - probabaly thinking that because I am certain I could not code it.

Posted by: scampydog at June 30, 2026 01:40 AM (41CYW)

419 417 Boy, the summer of '76 was my time to shine. I ended up on cereal boxes everywhere. Man!
****

And now you are fruit loops.

Posted by: clarence at June 30, 2026 01:41 AM (VTmfE)

420 I rode the carousel at Riverfront Park in '81. It had been restored by then. It was at Nat Park when I was very little and Dad had to lift me up so I could reach for the rings!
Posted by: JQ
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The Loof Carousel!!!

Posted by: scampydog at June 30, 2026 01:41 AM (41CYW)

421 The Loof Carousel!!!
Posted by: scampydog

Yep. Beautiful work of art.

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 01:42 AM (rdVOm)

422 >>>That's pretty cool.

Posted by: scampydog

>If I recall correctly, my brother was a white star in the field, a sea of blue based on his last name. They mapped out the flag by seating order and last name. It was pretty cool.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 30, 2026 01:42 AM (fkjGs)

423 Its about what time I thought it would be

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 01:43 AM (Ia/+0)

424 Yep. Beautiful work of art.
Posted by: JQ
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Had some content in draft about the Loof a year or so ago. Thought it too narrow of a topic. Meaning, you - me, and other Spokanites would have nerded out on it. Kind of an interesting back story/history on that carousel.

Posted by: scampydog at June 30, 2026 01:44 AM (41CYW)

425 We cried when Natatorium Park closed. Mom & Dad would take us there often, because it wasn't expensive.

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 01:44 AM (rdVOm)

426 Well, it's almost 2AM. Just thought I'd mention that. Good night all.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 30, 2026 01:47 AM (CHHv1)

427 'Night, BC! Sleep well. Hope Robert the Cat (TM) behaves!

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 01:49 AM (rdVOm)

428 Hey guys,

We have a launch in about 4 hours.

Northrop Grumman - Pegasus XL
Stargazer - SWIFT Boost Mission - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: June 30, 2026
Launch Time: 6:23 a.m. EDT (1023 UTC, 12:23 CEST)

https://youtu.be/lOZ2dc-e4NI

Posted by: Joyenz at June 30, 2026 01:50 AM (2F0/Y)

429 >> Perhaps not to reproduce orbital mechanics perfectly. Reproduce the mental workload to dock?

That's it, looks like. Give you enough annoyance factors to simulate the real thing, but the actual drift would be different. I also imagine the computational load would be pretty big, especially for a web application thing like this.

Asking Grok, the computational load for a high-fidelity tidal field simulation wouldn't be that bad on modern hardware, but when you add the graphics and other stuff, it's just much candy for a nickel for that web-based application.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 01:52 AM (w6EFb)

430 Supreme court to decide birthright citizenship. Dumpsters should have their citizenship taken away and prevented from voting ever again! Breaking dump tells gasoline retailers to lower prices before the midterms or else! Retailers tell dump you a commie now price fixing?

Posted by: raimondo at June 30, 2026 02:04 AM (0LZay)

431 At least PDJT isn't *emptying the strategic petroleum reserve* to bring down gas prices. Unlike sponge-brain Bidumb.

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 02:09 AM (rdVOm)

432 Good Night Everyone!

Thank you again Scampydog

Someone needs to go find a lake to jump into....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 30, 2026 02:10 AM (QGaXH)

433 Dumbocrats should be declared terrorists, stripped of citizenship & deported to Haiti or North Korea or Sudan.

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 02:11 AM (rdVOm)

434 Wouldn't be an ONT without a Retardo comment. Typical name calling and insults. I think someone was touched, repeatidly at one of those pride marches.

Posted by: scampydog at June 30, 2026 02:11 AM (41CYW)

435
Hey Rainmando, do you wish we had Biden back?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 30, 2026 02:13 AM (azNOR)

436 LOL, Doggo! Rainman likely enjoyed it. Hope s/he/it made a few nickels. Its mommy needs the money for her next fix.

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 02:15 AM (rdVOm)

437
Well, I think this is the bottom line on the simulator accuracy. If you're going to get to down to high gravitational accuracy, then there's other non-gravitational effects (drag, solar radiation pressure, venting from the ISS, which is going on all the time) that will affect things on the same order of magnitude. So, if you're going to be accurate with one thing, it's no good unless you're accurate with everything else.

And, then you'd need to start modelling the exact behavior of the Dragon's thruster, and the jitter and error in their behavior......

NASA's own flight simulators do all that. And they are big, expensive, and computationally intensive. So, if you were really going to dock to the ISS, you'd train on the fully Monty simulator. :-)

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 02:18 AM (w6EFb)

438 Posted by: raimondo at June 30, 2026 02:04 AM (0LZay)

Did you hit your head? Your "team" is constantly accusing petroleum companies of colluding to inflate gas prices. Now you suddenly, conveniently "forget" your own beliefs?

Posted by: SciVo at June 30, 2026 02:19 AM (Sy6m/)

439 Closet queens here telling me their repressed homosexual fantasy!

Posted by: raimondo at June 30, 2026 02:19 AM (0LZay)

440 Stop projecting, rainman. Homo. LOL!

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 02:21 AM (rdVOm)

441 Posted by: raimondo at June 30, 2026 02:19 AM (0LZay)

Hey, everybody!

Behold! The inclusive & tolerant political Left.

Bwahahahaha

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 02:24 AM (rdVOm)

442 @440 Thats you closet queens projecting. Your greatest fear is they you will be found out!

Posted by: raimondo at June 30, 2026 02:25 AM (0LZay)

443 Stop projecting, rainman. Homo. LOL!
Posted by: JQ
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Best to just let him go - he is in his fantasy/fan fiction phase. Reading his horoscope.

Posted by: scampydog at June 30, 2026 02:25 AM (41CYW)

444 Congrats, rainman. You've hijacked the thread. Eat sh1t.

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 02:26 AM (rdVOm)

445 Why... rainman... it's still PRIDE MONTH!

WTF is wrong with you?! There's nothing wrong with being gay!

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 02:28 AM (rdVOm)

446 @441 with reasonable people I will be reasonable and with unreasonable people I will be unreasonable! I am not a closet queen like so many here.

Posted by: raimondo at June 30, 2026 02:28 AM (0LZay)

447 Dumbocrats should be declared terrorists, stripped of citizenship & deported to Haiti or North Korea or Sudan.

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 02:11 AM (rdVOm)

I find that acceptable.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 30, 2026 02:28 AM (snZF9)

448 >>>Closet queens here telling me their repressed homosexual fantasy!

Posted by: raimondo

>I still haven't heard whether raimondo has hit the tip-jar or not. Dude, if you come here to talk shit, at least make a contribution for your efforts.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 30, 2026 02:29 AM (fkjGs)

449 Rainman is a closet queen! LOL!

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 02:30 AM (rdVOm)

450 Rainman is a closet queen! LOL!

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 02:30 AM (rdVOm)

Wasn't that an ABBA song?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 30, 2026 02:32 AM (snZF9)

451 It’s a little humid here. The wood steps and the concrete in the garage have started sweating like a hot yoga class.

Posted by: scampydog at June 30, 2026 02:33 AM (41CYW)

452 I was 9 years old in '76, but I remember all the bicentennial stuff. It was a big deal for everyone.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 01:36 AM (w6EFb)

I was 21. Get off my lawn.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 30, 2026 02:34 AM (w6EFb)

453 Rainman's just pissed off because his mommy got the crabs and then napped on the basement couch, so now rainman has them too.

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 02:35 AM (rdVOm)

454 I was 21. Get off my lawn.
Posted by: Miley
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I was looking for a lawnmowing job. Was 7 in '76.

Posted by: scampydog at June 30, 2026 02:35 AM (41CYW)

455
And Scampy, if your nerd brain is interested, the gravitational modelling for orbital proximity operations are called the Clohessy-Wiltshire (CW) equations.

A complication I wasn't even thinking of. Suppose we naively maintain an inertial attitude reference frame, to keep things simple, so there's no rotating frame effects. Well, from that frame, the ISS would rotate around use once per orbit, as well as the big ol' Erf looming close by.

We must use a rotating frame for these maneuvers for that reason, to keep the ISS stationary. And the CW equations are done in that rotating frame. So there's centrifugal and Coriolis terms in addition to the (time-varying) tidal tensor terms.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 02:35 AM (w6EFb)

456 Oh! Has Publius mentioned that we broke a record for highest dew point this afternoon? Over 80. Tell 'em, hon.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 30, 2026 02:37 AM (w6EFb)

457 It's been cool & cloudy here the last few days. Windy, with a little rain. Not enough rain, so I'll need to water the yard this week. At least it was cool enough to get some major weeding done. So much still to do!

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 02:38 AM (rdVOm)

458
Yes, I mentioned it an earlier thread. Dew point of 81F, the highest my little weather station has seen since I put in it in May 2024.

It hit 79-80F last year a time or two.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 02:39 AM (w6EFb)

459 Damn. Back into the high 80s this week, 90s next week.

Won't be any relief again until September. Ugh.

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 02:42 AM (rdVOm)

460 We must use a rotating frame for these maneuvers for that reason, to keep the ISS stationary. And the CW equations are done in that rotating frame. So there's centrifugal and Coriolis terms in addition to the (time-varying) tidal tensor terms.
Posted by: publius,
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And I thought quadrature equations were a pain in the ass.

Posted by: buddhaha at June 30, 2026 02:44 AM (UsS7O)

461
I do not know what the official highest dew points for this area are. GSP doesn't make that easily available that I can find. But it's somewhere. My late cousin would've known how to find it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 02:44 AM (w6EFb)

462 455 publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Sometimes I hate you - in a friendly, dumb-dumb way. My brain just went recursive - solving one problem only to find 40 new I'd not considered. Now I have friction/space, drift, no gravity, temperature impacts. Yep, you’re operating several floors above my current orbital mechanics elevator. Great example of the difference between a simple looking problem and the actual physics problem. Of which, I am over the tips of my skis.

Posted by: scampydog at June 30, 2026 02:45 AM (41CYW)

463 Ahhh, summer of 1976-- wearing cut-off jean shorts & halter tops. Not a care in the world beyond swimming and partying with friends, and getting home "on-time" to stay out of trouble.

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 02:56 AM (rdVOm)

464 G'night, Horde. Thanks to CBD for letting me jump back in for an evening. Best place and best people on the internet.

Posted by: scampydog at June 30, 2026 02:56 AM (41CYW)

465 https://youtu.be/gh6BfGdffQw

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 02:57 AM (rdVOm)

466 'Night, Doggo! Thanks again for making a great ONT!

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 02:58 AM (rdVOm)

467 Sweet dreams Horde, one kid moves across the country and another kid and his wife come home for the 4th of July. I have been cleaning, I am so very sleepy.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 30, 2026 02:59 AM (ibDUx)

468 'Night, Debby! Happy times!

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 03:01 AM (rdVOm)

469
If you're interested in how this behaves, imagine you're in a circular, equatorial orbit around the Erf. This keeps things simple. Imagine at the starting point, the earth is below your feet. You maintain inertial attitude, that is, you're not rotating. One half orbit later, the Erf is now above your head. And when you complete one orbit, the earth is under your feet again.

If you want to keep the Erf fixed under your feet, you need to rotate at exactly your orbital period. One RPO, one revolution per orbit.

They call this LVLH attitude: Local vertical, local horizontal. On this ISS, up, radially, is the Z axis. The X-axis points along the direction of the orbit, and the Y-axis is normal to those.

And that is a rotating frame of reference, of course.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 03:01 AM (w6EFb)

470 Damn. Back into the high 80s this week, 90s next week.

Won't be any relief again until September. Ugh.

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 02:42 AM (rdVOm)

Yeah, not looking forward to it. I did a ride with some of the dudes in our group yesterday. We left at 7am to ride to some really good breakfast place in the livable part of the pine barrens 50 frigging miles away. I asked why they would do this, and so frigging early no less. They said it was supposed to rain later in the day, and its going to be brutal hot starting this week, so it might be the last good window. I guess they had a point.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 30, 2026 03:02 AM (snZF9)

471 They said it was supposed to rain later in the day, and its going to be brutal hot starting this week, so it might be the last good window. I guess they had a point.
Posted by: Berserker

Agree. Do it while it's nice out!

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 03:05 AM (rdVOm)

472 Ahhh, summer of 1976-- wearing cut-off jean shorts & halter tops. Not a care in the world beyond swimming and partying with friends, and getting home "on-time" to stay out of trouble.

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 02:56 AM (rdVOm)

Ah yes, the tube top era. I remember it like it was yesterday. The single greatest piece of women's clothing ever invented. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 30, 2026 03:05 AM (snZF9)

473 I did some yard work yesterday, in the wind & light rain... Why? Because it's so much better than working under *blazing sun* and 90+ degrees, that's why!

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 03:07 AM (rdVOm)

474 Agree. Do it while it's nice out!

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 03:05 AM (rdVOm)

Hell yeah yeah, not sitting over an engine running 180 degrees in that heat. No frigging way. Not doing the ball burner, nope. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 30, 2026 03:08 AM (snZF9)

475 My parents did not approve of my wearing tube tops in public. Only at the beach (with parents around) or while in our yard.

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 03:10 AM (rdVOm)

476 Tube tops weren't really that comfortable. They'd always shift downward. I preferred halters anyway. They stayed put!

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 03:12 AM (rdVOm)

477 My parents did not approve of my wearing tube tops in public. Only at the beach (with parents around) or while in our yard.

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 03:10 AM (rdVOm)

All the girls in Jr high were wearing them to school. I still remember the colors. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 30, 2026 03:13 AM (snZF9)

478 Your school was much more permissive than mine, Bers! We were not allowed to show our "bare midriff" so tube tops and even halter tops were no-no at school.

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 03:15 AM (rdVOm)

479
Now, imagine you have a buddy in orbit with you. He starts out a little below you, between you and the earth. Just a few feet below you, say. Imagine, you're both in the original pure inertial attitude configuration.

Over one orbit, you see your buddy below revolve around you! After on half orbit, his feet are now "above" your head, with the big ol' Erf above your head as well.

From your POV, your close buddy is orbiting around you. Sort of makes docking a bit aggravating, doesn't it?

Now, you go into LVLH mode. Your buddy stays below you and doesn't orbit, but guess what? He's now rotating! To you, he looks like he's spinning around. He's not really rotating, you are.

So, your buddy needs to start rotating the same as you. Now, it looks he's staying put.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 03:18 AM (w6EFb)

480 I remember making "bandana blouses" too-- just 4 bandanas, sewn together, corners turned & hemmed at the top and stitched shut at the sides. Fun! And those were allowed at school.

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 03:19 AM (rdVOm)

481
And now, the final complication. When your buddy is below you, he's actually in a slightly lower, and therefore faster orbit. So his own LVLH rotation rate has to be every so slightly faster......

Over time, as you go around and around, your buddy is going to drift away relative to you because of that faster orbit. The closer you are initially, the slower that drift rate, and difference in relative rotation rate is. But it's there, and over time adds up.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 03:21 AM (w6EFb)

482 We embroidered flowers & patterns on our jeans, too.

My fave jeans were Levis Super Bells. One pair was low-rise, pink, with dual zippers. The other was yellow, with two rows of gold studs down the outside of both legs.

Far out!

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 03:24 AM (rdVOm)

483 >>>h yes, the tube top era. I remember it like it was yesterday. The single greatest piece of women's clothing ever invented. lol

>How could anyone forget the beer can/soda can hats? Somebody always had one of those.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 30, 2026 03:28 AM (fkjGs)

484 I have switched to black teabags since then.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 10:22 PM (hzuYO)

I too have switched, though it was more to save money and also cut down on caffeine. Coffee keeps getting more expensive, and with lifelong insomnia, I should really avoid anything that would provoke it further.

Lipton Yellow Label, with just enough half & half to cover the bottom of the cup, is.. acceptable.

Posted by: SciVo at June 30, 2026 03:29 AM (Sy6m/)

485 >How could anyone forget the beer can/soda can hats? Somebody always had one of those.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

Oh yes! If you knew how to crochet, you could make your own!

And then there were the vinyl wrappers, printed to look like soda pop labels, that you could wrap around beer cans & be inconspicuous...

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 03:31 AM (rdVOm)

486 I drink *one cup* of real coffee when I wake up each day. No more after that. *sigh* Because it F's me up to drink any more afterward.

Blood pressure is good, so far.

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 03:34 AM (rdVOm)

487
Now, imagine it's the 1960s, and you're just working this out for the first time. Rendezvous and docking in orbit. And you're using 1960s technology.

It wasn't just the astronauts who needed the Right Stuff. It was the engineers, mathematicians, and physicists who needed it as well. You needed the Right Stuff in your particular area of expertise to make all this work.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 03:36 AM (w6EFb)

488 Our wedding pictures are black and white.
A shot of the bride, a shot of the couple, a shot of the wedding party. 2 copies of bride pic (one for her mother), 3 copies of couple pic (one for each family), 9 copies of party (one for each member and one each for family). $70. Color would have been $175 IIRC.
We picked b&w. That extra $105 was almost a weeks pay which would pay a months rent and 2 weeks of groceries.

Posted by: buddhaha at June 30, 2026 03:52 AM (JNHlW)

489
Buzz Aldrin's MIT Ph.D thesis was in orbital rendezvous and guidance techniques. They called him at NASA, not entirely affectionately, "Dr. Rendezvous".

In the early days, they naively underestimated these "orbital tidal effects" we'll call it. The reason was the earth's tidal field is very tiny. Close enough, it should be close to inertial free-space behavior. That's true, and it would be say in a radial free fall.

But in orbit, it's that fast rotation I was going on above that makes things far more significant. It's a small tidal field, but it's rotating around very fast, and that makes all the difference.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 03:55 AM (w6EFb)

490 489 Buzz Aldrin's MIT Ph.D thesis was in orbital rendezvous and guidance techniques. They called him at NASA, not entirely affectionately, "Dr. Rendezvous".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 03:55 AM (w6EFb)

publius, what's negative about that nickname?

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 03:56 AM (6wpGE)

491 >> what's negative about that nickname?

Buzz could have sort of an abrasive personality, and be quite a stickler for things. So you had him "lording over" you might say people on doing things right. Oh, look out, her comes Dr. Rendezvous, everybody stand at attention.

This wasn't any big deal really, it was just one of the little friction and irritations amongst them all.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 03:59 AM (w6EFb)

492 491 >> what's negative about that nickname?

Buzz could have sort of an abrasive personality, and be quite a stickler for things. So you had him "lording over" you might say people on doing things right. Oh, look out, her comes Dr. Rendezvous, everybody stand at attention.

This wasn't any big deal really, it was just one of the little friction and irritations amongst them all.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 03:59 AM (w6EFb)

haha I see; thanks

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 04:00 AM (6wpGE)

493 469 If you're interested in how this behaves, imagine you're in a circular, equatorial orbit around the Erf. This keeps things simple. Imagine at the starting point, the earth is below your feet. You maintain inertial attitude, that is, you're not rotating. One half orbit later, the Erf is now above your head. And when you complete one orbit, the earth is under your feet again.

If you want to keep the Erf fixed under your feet, you need to rotate at exactly your orbital period. One RPO, one revolution per orbit.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 03:01 AM (w6EFb)

Reading that made me dizzy!

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 04:03 AM (6wpGE)

494 The weather report in the Babylon DC area is 'EXTREME HEAT WARNING AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!! I think the local wx reports should tone it down a bit.

So, it's summer, in other words. Might try to golf later. Just 9 holes. Suppose to be in the upper 90s later.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 30, 2026 04:10 AM (sAmhv)

495 >> Reading that made me dizzy!

Yep, this can get you going in circles, literally. If you're interested, just draw a little diagram. You want to go around the earth, but you're not rotating as you go around.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 04:17 AM (w6EFb)

496 495 >> Reading that made me dizzy!

Yep, this can get you going in circles, literally. If you're interested, just draw a little diagram. You want to go around the earth, but you're not rotating as you go around.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 04:17 AM (w6EFb)

I was picturing the It's A Small World After All graphic, where there are about a dozen children holding hands, facing forward, standing on an image of the world, everybody's feet on the ground!

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 04:23 AM (6wpGE)

497 >>>You want to go around the earth, but you're not rotating as you go around.

For that, I picture a cutout of a person, and keep him standing upright while I circle him around the globe.

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 04:24 AM (6wpGE)

498 https://youtu.be/BHcYFxU4fMo

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 04:30 AM (rdVOm)

499 >> keep him standing upright while I circle him around the globe.

That's it exactly.

Now, doing that, move him around 90 degrees, one quarter of circle. Now, how much do you need to rotate him and it what direction, to get his feet pointing at the earth (center) again?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 04:31 AM (w6EFb)

500 https://youtu.be/xN_3nib4r3Y

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 04:32 AM (rdVOm)

501 1976 was fun...

Good night, horde.

Posted by: JQ at June 30, 2026 04:33 AM (rdVOm)

502 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 04:37 AM (6wpGE)

503 TECH THREAD IS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 04:37 AM (Ia/+0)

504 499 >> keep him standing upright while I circle him around the globe.

That's it exactly.

Now, doing that, move him around 90 degrees, one quarter of circle. Now, how much do you need to rotate him and it what direction, to get his feet pointing at the earth (center) again?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 04:31 AM (w6EFb)

I'm picturing that! The numbers aren't coming to me--because I'm undercaffeinated? Thanks, publius. Love reading your stuff.

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 04:40 AM (6wpGE)

505 >> The numbers aren't coming to me--because I'm undercaffeinated?

You'll see you need to rotate him exactly 90 degrees, and in the same direction as the orbit.

If you're going around CCW, he needs to rotate CCW, and at the same rate as the orbit, one revolution around his axis per orbit. He's just like the Moon, keeping his same face, his feet here, pointed right at the earth as he goes around.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 04:46 AM (w6EFb)

506 505 >> The numbers aren't coming to me--because I'm undercaffeinated?

You'll see you need to rotate him exactly 90 degrees, and in the same direction as the orbit.

If you're going around CCW, he needs to rotate CCW, and at the same rate as the orbit, one revolution around his axis per orbit. He's just like the Moon, keeping his same face, his feet here, pointed right at the earth as he goes around.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 04:46 AM (w6EFb)

That is clear! I was meanwhile looking up circles and angles. I do get what you wrote, here, now!

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 05:00 AM (6wpGE)

507 >>>one revolution around *his* axis per orbit

That's clarifying.

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 05:02 AM (6wpGE)

508 >> That's clarifying.

Excellent. Rotation and revolution together can get confusing. We're following a circular path around a center, and also rotating about our own axis.

In 3D space, these are different, and independent. On the ground, say driving a car in a circle about some point, we naturally rotate about our axis as we do that, because the steering naturally makes the nose point in the direction of travel.

But in 3D space, that doesn't have to apply.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 05:07 AM (w6EFb)

509
And with that, I'm gonna pack it in. We can continue tomorrow night ONT, if you're interested.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 30, 2026 05:08 AM (w6EFb)

510 Loving it, publius. Thanks!

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 05:45 AM (6wpGE)

511 We actually still have that exact blender, Harvest Gold. Still runs just fine.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 30, 2026 08:24 AM (5xuJ/)

512 avocado.

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1 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2026 07:31 PM (Ia/+0)

2 Why are there dead birds hanging off the cows horns?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 07:32 PM (hzuYO)

3
*enters with tray of drinks for everyone*

*trips over threshold*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 07:33 PM (O0L8i)

4 As to Sudan, the RSF is besieging another city: El-Obeid.
They got El-Fasher earlier. That city no longer exists.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 29, 2026 07:34 PM (gKWVE)

5
Germany loses to Paraguay in the penalty shootout. Har, har.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 07:35 PM (O0L8i)

6 Sudan 2006"

Looks like Sudan, 1050...

Posted by: man at June 29, 2026 07:35 PM (XuXeR)

7 *trips over threshold*

Didn't spill anything, didja?

Posted by: man at June 29, 2026 07:36 PM (XuXeR)

8 Some tribes in Africa raise cattle to drink their blood. I'm sure they use other parts when the time comes, but until then...

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 29, 2026 07:37 PM (l26NL)

9 wa wa Watusi.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 29, 2026 07:38 PM (afJtY)

10
Didn't spill anything, didja?

Posted by: man at June 29, 2026 07:36 PM (XuXeR)

___________

Sorry, I'll get a mop and broom.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 07:38 PM (O0L8i)

11 As the Cafe is what got me interested
Why do wild animals ask humans for help

https://tinyurl.com/ytxs2m9d

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2026 07:39 PM (Ia/+0)

12 Also, Sudan 3006.

Posted by: Ambiguously Gay Richard Simmons at June 29, 2026 07:40 PM (P1gLH)

13 The hangy thing on the horns.. Sudanese version of dice hanging on the rear view mirror.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 29, 2026 07:40 PM (afJtY)

14 Them are some big horns!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 29, 2026 07:41 PM (NnhvP)

15 Lesson o' the day: "zero carb" flour tortillas are very thin and soft and lack load bearing capacity.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 29, 2026 07:41 PM (vTZFs)

16 The lack of AC in the euros is just a method of passive euthanasia of the elderly. Of their lower classes. That's their culture. Like the rape of the young girls is passive sterilization. Of their lower classes. The elite see themselves as a wholly separate humanity with the rest being inconvenient pesky herds of bipedal animals to be managed and culled when necessary.

Posted by: banana Dream- What the left want for here at June 29, 2026 07:41 PM (3uBP9)

17 Last week's successful conclusion gave us three blissful weeks at 100%!

(Big Penguin did try to slip one in on Friday, but Ace thwarted their dastardly plot by cleverly pasting the link from below into its place. Thanks, Ace!)

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 29, 2026 07:41 PM (0sNs1)

18 Neat photograph, Ace.

This photograph is titled "Dinka Group at Pagarau Cattle Camp, Southern Sudan" and was taken by Sebastião Salgado in 2006.It is part of his celebrated "Genesis" series, which documents landscapes and communities that have remained largely unchanged.The image captures the close symbiotic relationship between the Dinka people and their cattle, including traditional practices such as using cowpat ash for insect protection.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 29, 2026 07:41 PM (NFX2v)

19 *trips over threshold*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 07:33 PM (O0L8i)

*sputters*

*blinks*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 29, 2026 07:42 PM (RIvkX)

20 flat out like a llama drinkin

Posted by: banana Dream at June 29, 2026 07:42 PM (3uBP9)

21 I'd lay odds the dudes in the top photo are currently culturally enriching Minneapolis or Portland Maine.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at June 29, 2026 07:43 PM (GTqXr)

22 Sorry, I'll get a mop and broom.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 07:38 PM

Come see me when you're done.

Posted by: The Barrel at June 29, 2026 07:43 PM (0sNs1)

23 Evenin’, All. Thank you for being my online buds.

Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 07:43 PM (77rzZ)

24 Photo is spooky. I like it.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 29, 2026 07:44 PM (zYpTz)

25 Free Jackie!!!

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 29, 2026 07:45 PM (ceJ0R)

26 13 The hangy thing on the horns.. Sudanese version of dice hanging on the rear view mirror.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 29, 2026 07:40 PM (afJtY)

*snort

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 29, 2026 07:45 PM (zYpTz)

27 Yaks are cool.

Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 07:45 PM (77rzZ)

28 Why are there dead birds hanging off the cows horns?
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 07:32 PM

Crows who fail their training programme have to be disposed of somehow.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 29, 2026 07:45 PM (0sNs1)

29
Sudan 2006"

Looks like Sudan, 1050...

Which looks like Sudan 2525

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 29, 2026 07:46 PM (Cqx++)

30 Ah. South Sudan has been independent since 2011.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 29, 2026 07:47 PM (gKWVE)

31 Why are there dead birds hanging off the cows horns?
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 07:32 PM (hzuYO)

Live one's won't stay put.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 29, 2026 07:47 PM (zZu0s)

32 I though those were headlights.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 29, 2026 07:48 PM (Cqx++)

33 A Yak picture and a Yak mention. Thank you,ace

Posted by: Ben Had at June 29, 2026 07:48 PM (afJtY)

34 Some dogs just will not get fetch. Everything is mine! mine! mine! all things are mine!

You can't even try multiple objects seeing if they will drop one to fetch the other. No they will try to pick up all objects in their mouth and stand guard over the rest. Eventually you'll throw something and they give you a look, "do you expect me to get that? Why would you expect that?" and they're done.

Other dogs, they were born wanting to do it. I had a beagle that loved it but they love chasing things and bringing it back instinctively.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 29, 2026 07:48 PM (3uBP9)

35 I just realized that although you can all see the sidebar with the info about contacting me for grammie winger's address, you may not have seen my update on the Saturday morning prayer thread which prompted this. In a nutshell, she is hospitalized with sepsis and cannot eat or walk. This follows months of difficult cancer treatment and serious surgery. So, if you would like to drop her a note, please do contact me for her address (she told me to give it to anyone who wants it).

moroncookbook at gmail dot com

Thanks to all those who have already written - by the end of this week she should be getting some lovely mail!

Posted by: bluebell at June 29, 2026 07:49 PM (afFes)

36 5
Germany loses to Paraguay in the penalty shootout. Har, har.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 07:35 PM (O0L8i)

I know I was on the edge of my seat for that one.

Well.

No, no I wasn't.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 29, 2026 07:49 PM (bl07w)

37 Yakkity Yak

(Don’t talk back)

Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 07:50 PM (77rzZ)

38 Yaks are cool.
Posted by: Bulg

There's a Tibetan restaurant in Golden, CO that serves yak.

Best yak I've ever had. Only yak I've ever had.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 29, 2026 07:50 PM (l26NL)

39 bluebell, thank you for doing this. You are the best.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 29, 2026 07:50 PM (afJtY)

40 Germany eliminated in WC. I could care less, but I feel sad for Freddy.

Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 07:50 PM (RCjYY)

41 Ben Had, I know she got your gift already and loves it!

Posted by: bluebell at June 29, 2026 07:51 PM (afFes)

42 40 Germany eliminated in WC. I could care less, but I feel sad for Freddy.
Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 07:50 PM (RCjYY)

Phrasing, people.

"eliminated?" in "WC?"

They were pooped out and flushed?

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 29, 2026 07:52 PM (bl07w)

43 The video mentions a very good possibility one animal interaction with a human might work down it lineage. One animal has a good interaction others later know when in desperate need a human might help.

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2026 07:53 PM (Ia/+0)

44 I better get to bed
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2026 07:54 PM (Ia/+0)

45 2 Why are there dead birds hanging off the cows horns?
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

That's not too too bad. (I thought they might be shrunken heads.)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 29, 2026 07:54 PM (NFX2v)

46 Take out da paypus an duh trash!

Yakkity Yak. Don't talk back!

*trying to summon Kelly Preston*

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 29, 2026 07:54 PM (0aYVJ)

47 I had an Antique Buffalo
My dire wolf and saber tooth ate it

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 29, 2026 07:54 PM (/+uur)

48 Has anybody here ever had zebu?

Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 07:54 PM (77rzZ)

49 29 Cabot

That's funny. Probably true, too.

Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 07:54 PM (RCjYY)

50 Why are there dead birds hanging off the cows horns?
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 07:32 PM (hzuY
----------
Forget it, Christy, it's Somalia.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 29, 2026 07:55 PM (amcLV)

51 Awwww. Thank you for the sea otter, ace. I don’t care what the guys say about you. You’re ok.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 29, 2026 07:55 PM (6+jBu)

52 One animal has a good interaction others later know when in desperate need a human might help.
Posted by: Skip

I read about a theory that racoons are becoming domesticated. Their snouts are becoming shorter. I guess that means something.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 29, 2026 07:56 PM (l26NL)

53 It was nice and hot in my part of Canada too.

I...,
-hedged the bushes
-put more stones by my monkey statue
-mowed two yards
-did the edging and cleanup with leaf blower for both yards.

I'll wash windows tomorrow.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 29, 2026 07:56 PM (Sco7b)

54 >>>Looks like Sudan, 1050...

Posted by: man

>Looks like Minnesota 2026.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 29, 2026 07:56 PM (fkjGs)

55 I just had my pigmie mammoth house trained
And he ran away and joined the circus

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 29, 2026 07:57 PM (/+uur)

56 The image captures the close symbiotic relationship between the Dinka people and their cattle, including traditional practices such as using cowpat ash for insect protection.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 29, 2026 07:41 PM (NFX2v)
----------
We should get them together with some Peruvian natives and have and Inca-Dinka Do.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 29, 2026 07:57 PM (amcLV)

57 UC Berkeley launches Pelosi Project

🙄

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 29, 2026 07:58 PM (NFX2v)

58 I'll wash windows tomorrow.
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 29, 2026 07:56 PM (Sco7b)
=====
They should buy you dinner at Mendy's!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 29, 2026 07:58 PM (RIvkX)

59 There was a dog that got loose and was running through the neighbourhood this morning.

Happy to be free and fast as hell.

Facebook people were tracking him down.
Hope they got him.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 29, 2026 07:59 PM (Sco7b)

60 McDowell's

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 29, 2026 07:59 PM (EGW4m)

61 Second Best fucking farside
Parachute experience
Gator Farm

two frames side by side

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 29, 2026 08:00 PM (/+uur)

62 Ace just likes sea otters because of their resemblance to Ewoks.

Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 08:00 PM (77rzZ)

63 I...,
-hedged the bushes
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 29, 2026 07:56 PM

You had permits from zombie Bob Ross, I presume?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 29, 2026 08:00 PM (0sNs1)

64 I could have been first but I was sharpening my ox.

Posted by: fd at June 29, 2026 08:01 PM (MWfyi)

65 UC Berkeley launches Pelosi Project

🙄
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 29, 2026 07:58 PM (NFX2v)
=====

Let me guess, something about using babies to prolong her life?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 29, 2026 08:01 PM (RIvkX)

66 Best yak I've ever had. Only yak I've ever had.
Posted by: Blutarski

There is a yak ranch close by. The owner raises them primarily for their undercoat - think wool (not hair! damnit) not for their meat. They act like big dogs and are gentle as all get out but don't really know their own strength. The really crazy thing is, they don't stink like cattle. Pretty much they don't smell at all. Even their manure doesn't smell too bad.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 29, 2026 08:01 PM (9KCLn)

67 They should buy you dinner at Mendy's!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 29, 2026 07:58 PM (RIvkX)

They made me two beautiful sub sandwiches.
I just finished 1.5.
I need to go lay down.

Beautiful friends. Momand I were blessed they moved here.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 29, 2026 08:01 PM (Sco7b)

68 UC Berkeley launches Pelosi Project

🙄
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 29, 2026 07:58 PM

Paul finally reveals what he'd do if he had a hammer?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 29, 2026 08:02 PM (0sNs1)

69 That last video of the blind dog; my sister's male Persian kittuh, as he got older, he lost his sight. He would still try to play as much as his old bones could take. She would roll a toy across the floor and he'd hear it, then go hunt for it. When he found it, he'd bat it around. Ole Casper was a nice kittuh.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 29, 2026 08:02 PM (sAmhv)

70 Today was terrible. I couldn't even get a haircut. I'm just gonna do it myself.

Posted by: fd at June 29, 2026 08:02 PM (MWfyi)

71 Let me guess, something about using babies to prolong her life?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 29, 2026 08:01 PM (RIvkX)

I was going to guess stock trading class.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 29, 2026 08:02 PM (zYpTz)

72 48 Has anybody here ever had zebu?
Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 07:54 PM (77rzZ)

Like widdlebest
more gamey

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 29, 2026 08:03 PM (/+uur)

73 Nurse Ratched, we don’t often agree, but I agree with you on your hatred of summer.

Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 08:03 PM (77rzZ)

74 48 Has anybody here ever had zebu?
Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 07:54 PM (77rzZ)

He ate my begonia and shat in the driveway.
2 HOA fines.

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 29, 2026 08:04 PM (/+uur)

75 On Monday, the NRA secured a preliminary injunction against enforcement of Virginia Governor “Spooky”’s “assault weapons” and 15-plus rounds magazine ban.

Posted by: SMOD at June 29, 2026 08:05 PM (O7XEN)

76 70 Today was terrible. I couldn't even get a haircut. I'm just gonna do it myself.
Posted by: fd at June 29, 2026 08:02 PM (MWfyi)

My best friend at the watering hole said his barber gal hands smell like vajaja.

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 29, 2026 08:05 PM (/+uur)

77 It's going to be over 100 later this week in Babylon DC. You know, summertime, in DC.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 29, 2026 08:05 PM (sAmhv)

78 Best Farside
Nursery School
Dingo Breeders

hahahahaha

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 29, 2026 08:06 PM (/+uur)

79 75 On Monday, the NRA secured a preliminary injunction against enforcement of Virginia Governor “Spooky”’s “assault weapons” and 15-plus rounds magazine ban.
Posted by: SMOD

I got emails from GOA and VCDL stating that too.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 29, 2026 08:07 PM (sAmhv)

80 Nancy Pelosi will teach new generation of drunks at UC Berkeley after retiring from Congress

Posted by: SMOD at June 29, 2026 08:07 PM (O7XEN)

81 I got emails from GOA and VCDL stating that too.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 29, 2026 08:07 PM (sAmhv)

goyim of America
and
Virginia Clueless Drunks Library

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 29, 2026 08:08 PM (/+uur)

82 UC Berkeley launches Pelosi

Posted by: banana Dream at June 29, 2026 08:10 PM (3uBP9)

83 Walking thru pets r us
yak chow
zebra chow
zemu wfto
no zemu chow

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 29, 2026 08:10 PM (/+uur)

84 From the when you think you've done a good deed dept.
Last Friday on the way home from town I see a guy sitting back in the trees holding a Need Food sign.
Today he is still sitting in the same spot. I gotta do something, right? I call the sheriff's office. Nope, he's in the city limits. I get transferred to the police dept. They go check him out, tell him he can't ask for food or money .
I didn't help and probably made it worse. I should have just bought him some cheap burgers and left it at that.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 29, 2026 08:11 PM (afJtY)

85 He ate my begonia ~~and shat~~ etm. in the driveway.
2 HOA fines.
Posted by: r hennigantx at June 29, 2026 08:04 PM

FIFY, using our just-taught* acronym.

* we don't want Ace to think you didn't read the previous Thread's content, lest you disappoint him.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 29, 2026 08:11 PM (0sNs1)

86 82 UC Berkeley launches Pelosi
Posted by: banana Dream at June 29, 2026 08:10 PM (3uBP9)

Into the sun I hope

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 29, 2026 08:12 PM (/+uur)

87 Germany loses to Paraguay in the penalty shootout. Har, har.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 07:35 PM (O0L8i)
---

Mengele's ubermenschen FTW!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 29, 2026 08:13 PM (kpS4V)

88 The heat index got to 115 today. That's about 98 in real degrees. That just the way it is here. There's a Sun up there. Good for solar power generation to run our All American Air Conditioners.

Posted by: fd at June 29, 2026 08:13 PM (MWfyi)

89 85 He ate my begonia and shat etm. in the driveway.
2 HOA fines.
Posted by: r hennigantx at June 29, 2026 08:04 PM

FIFY, using our just-taught* acronym.

* we don't want Ace to think you didn't read the previous Thread's content, lest you disappoint him.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 29, 2026 08:11 PM (0sNs1)

Eric the Midget

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 29, 2026 08:14 PM (/+uur)

90 78 Best Farside
Nursery School
Dingo Breeders

hahahahaha
-----

Falconers Club
(((Thick hedge)))
Teacup Poodle Fanciers Society

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 29, 2026 08:15 PM (kpS4V)

91 *enters with tray of drinks for everyone*

*trips over threshold*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 07:33 PM

Sheesh.
You just can't get good help these days.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 29, 2026 08:15 PM (2WIwB)

92 Falconers Club
(((Thick hedge)))
Teacup Poodle Fanciers Society
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 29, 2026 08:15 PM (kpS4V)

tff

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 29, 2026 08:17 PM (/+uur)

93 All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

Except for AfD, Germany has lost all expertise. The country is a failed state. The elites did it with net zero policies.

And now their highly touted footbul team looses to Paraguay. Paraguay!!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 29, 2026 08:17 PM (u82oZ)

94 87 Germany loses to Paraguay in the penalty shootout. Har, har.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 07:35 PM (O0L8i)
---

Mengele's ubermenschen FTW!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 29, 2026 08:13 PM (kpS4V)

Best Germans won

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 29, 2026 08:18 PM (/+uur)

95 88 The heat index got to 115 today. That's about 98 in real degrees. That just the way it is here. There's a Sun up there. Good for solar power generation to run our All American Air Conditioners.
_-_

9% relative humidity here, big fire from Hwy 165 to Beulah - one of those they have to just evacuate ahead of and get out of the way 'til the wind dies-down a bit. Just smoke out my way...

Posted by: Don in SoC at June 29, 2026 08:19 PM (QsMc1)

96 Seen on X:

I broke up with my girlfriend because I like my women like I like my coffee: without some other dude's dick in it.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 29, 2026 08:20 PM (IG3/x)

97 Don in SoC

Lots of fires around St. George, Utah.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 29, 2026 08:20 PM (u82oZ)

98 Has anybody here ever had zebu?

Some of y'all know what this is without clicking.

https://youtu.be/_uv8Ej4CEoQ

Posted by: Oddbob at June 29, 2026 08:21 PM (vTZFs)

99 Rodrigo Borgia

It's a grudge breakup. That guy had it in for you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 29, 2026 08:22 PM (u82oZ)

100 Bummer of a birthmark, Hal.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 29, 2026 08:23 PM (yEz+x)

101 I didn't help and probably made it worse. I should have just bought him some cheap burgers and left it at that.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 29, 2026 08:11 PM (afJtY)

Such a hard call. Around here, when I'm in the city, there's three or four at every major intersection, and in the grocery store parking lots. Who drops them there? Who picks them up? Where do they go? How much do they collect?

Gotta be in bad shape to stand in the heat or the cold all day, right? But it seems organized, and I don't know if they're legit or not. Was a time, I'd prefer to donate to a homeless shelter, but now that those frauds have been exposed, I don't know what to do to help homeless or desperate people.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 29, 2026 08:23 PM (zYpTz)

102 97 Don in SoC

Lots of fires around St. George, Utah.
_-_
...and summer has just begun - this could be a rough one.

Posted by: Don in SoC at June 29, 2026 08:24 PM (QsMc1)

103 Boneless chicken farm

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 29, 2026 08:24 PM (yEz+x)

104 Latte, Jim?

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 29, 2026 08:24 PM (zYpTz)

105 103 Boneless chicken farm
_-_
The things you see when you don't have your camera, eh?

Posted by: Don in SoC at June 29, 2026 08:25 PM (QsMc1)

106 {{{nurse ratched}}}

Just because you are awesome.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 29, 2026 08:25 PM (u82oZ)

107 Beware of Doug

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 29, 2026 08:25 PM (zYpTz)

108 Gotta be in bad shape to stand in the heat or the cold all day, right? But it seems organized, and I don't know if they're legit or not. Was a time, I'd prefer to donate to a homeless shelter, but now that those frauds have been exposed, I don't know what to do to help homeless or desperate people.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

It's organized. I've seen them dropped off.

Posted by: Tuna at June 29, 2026 08:26 PM (lJ0H4)

109 I broke up with my girlfriend because I like my women like I like my coffee: without some other dude's dick in it.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 29, 2026 08:20 PM (IG3/x)
-----

I'm flashing back to witnessing chief selectees' coffee cups being violated on the watchfloor.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 29, 2026 08:26 PM (kpS4V)

110 In England there was an extremely popular band circa 1980 called The Jam. The writer, singer and guitar player is named Paul Weller. Remains popular there, known as The Modfather. He has taken to performing concerts with Hamas flags behind the band and a Hamas circle on the bass drum. You have to wonder if he gives the full Hamas concert experience, with the audience being raped and killed after the show. Even on his fan sites it seems maybe 60-70 percent think he's nuts

Posted by: Azjaeger at June 29, 2026 08:26 PM (3/XaG)

111 SoC means State of Confusion. Fixed it.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at June 29, 2026 08:27 PM (QsMc1)

112 Beware of Doug
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 29, 2026 08:25 PM (zYpTz)

Years ago, I had a boss named Doug. He had that one framed on his wall.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 29, 2026 08:27 PM (0aYVJ)

113 65. Let me guess, something about using babies to prolong her life?
Posted by: San Franpsycho

In a sense. And for the greater good.

The Nancy Pelosi Institute for Representative Democracy, or NPI, will be a hub for research, teaching and civic engagement rooted in a shared commitment to advancing the public good. Through faculty research initiatives, undergraduate courses and a visiting fellows program, the institute will explore what impedes progress and how best to solve political problems, from polarization to the future of artificial intelligence.
...
Basing the institute at Berkeley means it will serve a student body where one-quarter of undergraduates are the first in their family to attend college and 27% receive federal Pell Grants, which are reserved for undergraduate students who display exceptional financial need.

Another dedicated, loyal 'army' for the cause.

---
Not for a minute do I believe she doesn't approve of AOC.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 29, 2026 08:27 PM (NFX2v)

114 I keep seeing a story pop up on various sites about some scatterbrained idiot running for Mayor in Hamilton, Ontario...who insists on using a sock puppet to campaign.

I hate to say it, but the Babylon Bee's days are numbered...we're moving well beyond parody.

Posted by: Orson at June 29, 2026 08:27 PM (dIske)

115 Dash, the odd part is this guy is almost a mile out of town and sitting 100 feet off the road. My business partner drives past there everyday and never saw him.and neither did the cops

Posted by: Ben Had at June 29, 2026 08:28 PM (afJtY)

116 Salty!

Ben Had!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 29, 2026 08:29 PM (o1/gN)

117 101

I can make a suggestion. Ignore the beggars & send a generous donation to the Salvation Army.

Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 08:29 PM (RCjYY)

118 Was a time, I'd prefer to donate to a homeless shelter, but now that those frauds have been exposed, I don't know what to do to help homeless or desperate people.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

Volunteer to cook at a soup kitchen. Me and Marine went every third Friday of the month and cooked from scratch a meal for 75-100 homeless
folks. It was organized by a patient of mine and I asked him if we could come and help. Marine needed 100 hours of community service as a graduation requirement.

It was a great experience for both of us. We prepped and cooked and served and cleaned up with about five other people. It was busy and chaotic and HARD. But. It was nice to get a smile
And a thank you from someone who had nothing else to give.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 29, 2026 08:29 PM (yEz+x)

119 Miss Erma Girls Home Away Middle School Boarding
Pakistan Mens Cricket and Rape Club

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 29, 2026 08:29 PM (/+uur)

120 >>It's organized. I've seen them dropped off.

When I lived in Boston I walked to my office downtown in nice weather. In the morning I would see guy out begging on the same street corner and in the evening on my way home there was a women in the same spot.

One day I went home midday to let a repair guy in my place and I saw the woman drive up in a good condition late model Toyota. She got out of the car, gave the guy the keys and they swapped roles. Shift change.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 29, 2026 08:30 PM (viF8m)

121 Salty,
You know I adore you.

Be well, sweet man.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 29, 2026 08:31 PM (qJGuG)

122 Seen on X:

I broke up with my girlfriend because I like my women like I like my coffee: without some other dude's dick in it.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 29, 2026 08:20 PM (IG3/x)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 29, 2026 08:33 PM (zZu0s)

123 "I think those might be ankole cattle" Cattole.

Posted by: gp at June 29, 2026 08:33 PM (Jr5Lq)

124 I have to remember that one.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 29, 2026 08:34 PM (zZu0s)

125 SMH !!

Posted by: Ben Had at June 29, 2026 08:34 PM (afJtY)

126 Dew point hit 81F this afternoon, which is the highest since I got this weather station 2 years ago.

Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at June 29, 2026 08:34 PM (XVbII)

127 {{{SMH}}}

Very nice place you bought. With off the grid heat in the winter. Impressive.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 29, 2026 08:34 PM (u82oZ)

128 I am proud to announce that I am converting to Islami-Fascism-Communism to remain in the Demo-Rat-Socialist Party.

Plus, I have now known skills and need to keep my job as a Senator from a state that is populated by losers and idiots.

I intend on learning more about how Trump is hurting Socialists, Communists, and Poor Muslims Terrorists around the world.

Thank You and Praise Mandami........

Posted by: Cluck Schoemer at June 29, 2026 08:35 PM (xl8DV)

129 heat dome > heat boater > heat beanie

Posted by: gp at June 29, 2026 08:36 PM (Jr5Lq)

130 My fave beggar story.

Able-bodied (seemingly) Caucasian male holding,"Will work for food" sign...

Standing right under a fast food Help Wanted sign, saying, "We pay daily!"

Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 08:37 PM (RCjYY)

131 Dew point hit 81F this afternoon, which is the highest since I got this weather station 2 years ago.
Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at June 29, 2026 08:34 PM (XVbII)

Yeah, it is muggy as fuck here too (well, sweaty sauna sex.) Per the weather app, the dew point is only 74.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 29, 2026 08:37 PM (zZu0s)

132 My best friend at the watering hole said his barber gal hands smell like vajaja.
Posted by: r hennigantx at June 29, 2026 08:05 PM (/+uur)
=====

Is she hawt?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 29, 2026 08:37 PM (RIvkX)

133 68. Paul finally reveals what he'd do if he had a hammer?
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Paul, 86, survived a kidney transplant last year thanks to a donor daughter.

Nancy just can't get rid of him!

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 29, 2026 08:38 PM (NFX2v)

134 SanFranpsycho, was today Boy F's first day at work?

Posted by: Ben Had at June 29, 2026 08:39 PM (afJtY)

135 Not for a minute do I believe she doesn't approve of AOC.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 29, 2026 08:27 PM (NFX2v)
=====
She endorsed Connie Chan to succeed her, not the p3do who had his face eaten off by his own fanbois.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 29, 2026 08:41 PM (RIvkX)

136 Volunteer to cook at a soup kitchen. Me and Marine went every third Friday of the month and cooked from scratch a meal for 75-100 homeless
folks.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 29, 2026 08:29 PM (yEz+x)

That is a lovely thing to do, and when my own life is not so hectic, I will look for a place to do that. Now, while I am caring for Mom, I am more in a position to donate money. Salvation Army was a good suggestion.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 29, 2026 08:41 PM (zYpTz)

137 SanFranpsycho, was today Boy F's first day at work?
Posted by: Ben Had at June 29, 2026 08:39 PM (afJtY)
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Thanks for asking, Wednesday.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 29, 2026 08:42 PM (RIvkX)

138 132 My best friend at the watering hole said his barber gal hands smell like vajaja.
Posted by: r hennigantx at June 29, 2026 08:05 PM (/+uur)
=====

Maybe she has a second job at a seafood restaurant.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 29, 2026 08:43 PM (g8Ew8)

139 I like my women like I like my coffee: without some other dude's dick in it.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

good luck finding coffee in most major cities

Posted by: gKWVE at June 29, 2026 08:44 PM (gKWVE)

140 Maybe she has a second job at a seafood restaurant.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 29, 2026 08:43 PM (g8Ew

====

Yes. Perhaps she is an oyster shucker as a side hustle.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 29, 2026 08:45 PM (RIvkX)

141 "Volunteer to cook at a soup kitchen."

I washed dishes. I was glad to do it. You know who never volunteers to help? The people who come in for the free meal. That ought to change.

Posted by: gp at June 29, 2026 08:45 PM (Jr5Lq)

142 He should ask 'Do your fingers ever feel 'not so fresh'?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 29, 2026 08:45 PM (zZu0s)

143 She endorsed Connie Chan to succeed her, not the p3do who had his face eaten off by his own fanbois.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 29, 2026 08:41 PM (RIvkX)
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Okay WUT?! I need background on this face munching incident.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 29, 2026 08:46 PM (kpS4V)

144
I can make a suggestion. Ignore the beggars & send a generous donation to the Salvation Army.
Posted by: mnw

I used to until they went woke.

https://tinyurl.com/2p34afse

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 29, 2026 08:47 PM (Cqx++)

145
Okay WUT?! I need background on this face munching incident.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 29, 2026 08:46 PM (kpS4V)

___________

The pedo said he didn't believe Jews should be sent to the gas chamber and the Commie-Musloid alliance boiled him in oil.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 08:48 PM (O0L8i)

146 Hey, SMH!

Hey, Nurse!

Hey, Salty!

Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 08:48 PM (77rzZ)

147 Evening, Ace, and Cafe patrons!

I finished work on the riding mower, AOP said Gravely.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 29, 2026 08:48 PM (1z8ji)

148 I'm flashing back to witnessing chief selectees' coffee cups being violated on the watchfloor.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 29, 2026 08:26 PM

And this, this is one of the prime reasons pants are required on the Book Thread.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 29, 2026 08:49 PM (0sNs1)

149 Ace just likes sea otters because of their resemblance to Ewoks."
"Posted by: Bulg

I cannot unsee this.

Posted by: fly gal at June 29, 2026 08:49 PM (Ql5Kr)

150 Bulg

Hello.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 29, 2026 08:50 PM (u82oZ)

151 Hey, Ben Had!

Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 08:50 PM (77rzZ)

152 Bulg, Good evening.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 29, 2026 08:50 PM (afJtY)

153 Time to take down the flag, and get ready for tomorrow.

May you all be blessed with bliss, and cooling zephyrs.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 29, 2026 08:50 PM (u82oZ)

154 She endorsed Connie Chan to succeed her, not the p3do who had his face eaten off by his own fanbois.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 29, 2026 08:41 PM (RIvkX)
----

Okay WUT?! I need background on this face munching incident.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 29, 2026 08:46 PM (kpS4V)

The sad saga of Scott Weiner, a queer Jewish politician who got chased out of a tranny rally because he wasn't quick enough with a Hamas endorsement, mashed up with the "Face-Eating Leopard Party" meme.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 29, 2026 08:52 PM (YYotJ)

155 Salvation Army was a good suggestion.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 29, 2026 08:41 PM (zYpTz)

Not so much. They support abortion on demand. Gotta watch out for that crap.

Try Tunnels to Towers.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 29, 2026 08:52 PM (bl07w)

156 Has anybody here ever had zebu?
Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 07:54 PM (77rzZ)

Isn't that an awfully personal question?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 29, 2026 08:52 PM (1z8ji)

157 Brazil escaped with a win against Japan.
Netherlands Morocco on deck.

Posted by: World Cup Update at June 29, 2026 08:53 PM (Kk0zf)

158 Samaritans Purse?

Posted by: Ben Had at June 29, 2026 08:54 PM (afJtY)

159 Donate food, never cash.

Posted by: gp at June 29, 2026 08:54 PM (Jr5Lq)

160 I wore my otter shirt to the zoo the other day and at least a dozen people complimented me on it.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 29, 2026 08:54 PM (amcLV)

161 >>> 143 She endorsed Connie Chan to succeed her, not the p3do who had his face eaten off by his own fanbois.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 29, 2026 08:41 PM (RIvkX)
----

Okay WUT?! I need background on this face munching incident.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 29, 2026 08:46 PM (kpS4V)

Sorry, Eris, it's only a metaphorical description of Scott Weiner getting verbally attacked by tranny red guards.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 29, 2026 08:54 PM (R+iUD)

162 The sad saga of Scott Weiner, a queer Jewish politician who got chased out of a tranny rally because he wasn't quick enough with a Hamas endorsement, mashed up with the "Face-Eating Leopard Party" meme.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

I read somewhere (maybe here) before the race he was all in on Hamas, but flip flopped for the election. Imagine, a jew that supports Israel. The temerity!

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 29, 2026 08:55 PM (l26NL)

163
Donate food, never cash.

Posted by: gp at June 29, 2026 08:54 PM (Jr5Lq)

__________

*runs to pantry*
*stacks cans of okra on counter*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 08:55 PM (O0L8i)

164 Goats need dinner, will be back later.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 29, 2026 08:55 PM (R+iUD)

165 It was a great experience for both of us. We prepped and cooked and served and cleaned up with about five other people. It was busy and chaotic and HARD. But. It was nice to get a smile
And a thank you from someone who had nothing else to give.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 29, 2026 08:29 PM (yEz+x)

I used to wash dishes at Covenant House, before they abandoned all Catholic identity and went hard on abortion "rights." It was quite rewarding to think I was helping kids not have to be on the street. But, like most "charities," they ended up getting funding from the various USAID grifting schemes and went full retard.

I can't wash dishes for a place that takes teenage girls to Planned Barrenhood.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 29, 2026 08:55 PM (bl07w)

166 I didn't help and probably made it worse. I should have just bought him some cheap burgers and left it at that.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 29, 2026 08:11 PM (afJtY)

You can be certain he was Jonesing for a kale smoothie.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 29, 2026 08:56 PM (1z8ji)

167
You can be certain he was Jonesing for a kale smoothie.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 29, 2026 08:56 PM (1z8ji)

___________

To come to the defense of kale, it's good in soup in place of spinach.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 08:59 PM (O0L8i)

168 The ACB authored opinion on Election Day is worse than I thought. After reading the opinion it’s probably the most despicable piece of extra constitutional insidiousness I have ever read. She whole cloth changed the meaning of Election Day as understood since the founding. It’s no longer an immutable, unchangeable day. She invented a moving target that isn’t based on any constitutional principle. It’s an insidious and probably deliberate disaster.

Posted by: Vengeance at June 29, 2026 09:00 PM (DD6gL)

169 155

I'm kind of hard-wired to support The Salvation Army, I guess.

If instead of the ever-popular "Will Work For Food" sign, the guy's sign read, "Need a Drink Bad," I'd give the guy a couple of bucks.

I really WOULD. I can relate.

Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 09:01 PM (RCjYY)

170 As an aside: I love Rush, but Presto sucked balls.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at June 29, 2026 09:02 PM (0aYVJ)

171 SCOTUS also has zero interest in secure and fair elections. They keep saying how the court has little to no role in elections and then belch out bad gas like this ruling which poisons the electoral process.

Posted by: Vengeance at June 29, 2026 09:03 PM (DD6gL)

172 If instead of the ever-popular "Will Work For Food" sign, the guy's sign read, "Need a Drink Bad," I'd give the guy a couple of bucks.
Posted by: mnw

I had a bum approach me for $5.00 while I as at a gas station in a dodgy part of town. I asked what he needed it for and he said he needed to buy some liquor. I gave him $10.00 for his honesty.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 29, 2026 09:04 PM (l26NL)

173 I think the riff on Scott Wiener's face was from the old meme of the volunteer working for the Face Eating Leopard Party.
They never think the leopard will eat their face too.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 29, 2026 09:04 PM (gKWVE)

174 171 SCOTUS also has zero interest in secure and fair elections. They keep saying how the court has little to no role in elections and then belch out bad gas like this ruling which poisons the electoral process.
Posted by: Vengeance at June 29, 2026 09:03 PM (DD6gL)

And yet it was the Supremes who made dual citizenship legal... when in the past if you voted in a foreign election, you had to give up your US citizenship...

Thus allowing millions of dual Mexican / American citizens the ability to vote in both elections... and they do.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 09:06 PM (mP0Kj)

175 172

My other self!*

*(That's what Shakespeare has Richard III say to the assassin, btw.)

Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 09:09 PM (RCjYY)

176 tcn,
This place only served homeless men. They had to already have a plan and placement in a program somewhere. They had been screened. Otherwise I would not have put my teenage boy in a position of having to defend his mom.

There were some scuffles. And some ornery patrons. But. The fact was we worked. We chopped onions and garlic and vegetables and fried chicken and pork chops and made lasagna from scratch.

Marine was the baker. He made the cookies and the pies and the brownies. And he LOVED working his ass off and having folks come back for seconds.

Not giving money. Giving time directly to the needy. Not up to me to judge if they are just working the system. Just work and serve.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 29, 2026 09:10 PM (yEz+x)

177 ***Supreme Court Rules That the Chief Executive Does In Fact Have the Power to Fire His Own Executive Branch Employees***

Jolly good day for us. A song for them.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVEATF7VNTk

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 09:11 PM (UsddL)

178 176

Beautiful. I respect that.

Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 09:12 PM (RCjYY)

179 Panhandling is legal (now) in Illinois. They swarm the major intersections, slowing and stumbling into traffic. Illinois responded to the problem by putting up signs everywhere saying 'Panhandling is dangerous.'

If people would stop giving panhandlers handouts, the panhandlers would disappear.

Posted by: gp at June 29, 2026 09:12 PM (Jr5Lq)

180 Give them a pair of new socks. It’s a kind of hobo currency. Keep a pack of freshies in your car for when you're out and about. You can put water flavor packets in there too. Mosquito netting. Get creative with a sock package. Doubles as a football, pillow, iphone stand…

Posted by: H at June 29, 2026 09:13 PM (w8ire)

181 Growing up not too far from Amarillo, Texas, it took me a bit when I was a youngster to understand what panhandle meant as a verb:
https://youtu.be/RuSJvmtZmJY

Posted by: Don in SoCo at June 29, 2026 09:14 PM (QsMc1)

182 Not giving money. Giving time directly to the needy. Not up to me to judge if they are just working the system. Just work and serve.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 29, 2026 09:10 PM (yEz+x)

Indeed. It isn't really charity if you expect results.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 29, 2026 09:15 PM (bl07w)

183
Her Majesty was stopped at a light. At the corner was a panhandler with a dog. She gave him a handful of dog biscuits. The panhandler did not appreciate it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 09:16 PM (O0L8i)

184 180 Give them a pair of new socks. It’s a kind of hobo currency. Keep a pack of freshies in your car for when you're out and about. You can put water flavor packets in there too. Mosquito netting. Get creative with a sock package. Doubles as a football, pillow, iphone stand…
Posted by: H at June 29, 2026 09:13 PM (w8ire)

Hobo is one thing, bum is another.

In Anchorage, the addicts have better winter clothing than I do. They have nice new tents to live in, they are allowed to crap in the creeks and parks and pretty much anywhere they like, they aren't required to get sober to stay in nice warm shelters if they so choose, and they are never busted for trespassing, public inebriation, or drug dealing.

But I would be.

They can take their socks and stuff them down their throats.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 29, 2026 09:18 PM (bl07w)

185 I don't think today's SCOTUS decision about "Vote By Mail" is THAT bad, based on their previous atrocities. The mail-in ballots DO have to be postmarked by election day.

Their birthright citizenship decision, due to arrive any day now, is gonna be FAR worse, & have much greater real world consequences, imo.

The birthright tourism industry will be doing their Sloopy dance.

Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 09:18 PM (RCjYY)

186
Sad to relate, the Yankees are losing to the Tigers, 7-0 in the 7th.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 09:18 PM (O0L8i)

187 To come to the defense of kale, it's good in soup in place of spinach.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 08:59 PM (O0L8i)

Kale is not food. Even animals won't eat that crap.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 29, 2026 09:19 PM (bl07w)

188 It isn't really charity if you expect results.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 29, 2026 09:15 PM (bl07w)
---------
You know who else expects results?

Posted by: Dr. Raymond Stantz at June 29, 2026 09:22 PM (amcLV)

189 "Hobo is one thing, bum is another."

I think they're pretty much the same. There's some nostalgic folklore fondness around the concept of the 'hobo' that seems off. In the hobo heyday, I doubt that people wanted them in their neighborhoods, 'charming, picturesque, and friendly' though the legend now suggests hobos were.

Posted by: gp at June 29, 2026 09:22 PM (Jr5Lq)

190 Her Majesty was stopped at a light. At the corner was a panhandler with a dog. She gave him a handful of dog biscuits. The panhandler did not appreciate it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 09:16 PM (O0L8i)

Panhandling is a business. Some of the practitioners are very well off.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 29, 2026 09:23 PM (1z8ji)

191 They can take their socks and stuff them down their throats.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Agreed.

But I will cook and serve them a hot, healthy meal made with love. And serve and say “I hope you get better.”

That pisses them off sometimes.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 29, 2026 09:25 PM (XTjcx)

192
The birthright tourism industry will be doing their Sloopy dance.

Hang on!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 29, 2026 09:27 PM (Cqx++)

193
"Hobo is one thing, bum is another."

I think they're pretty much the same.

____________

Maybe today, but a long time ago a hobo was willing to work for his dinner while a bum was just a bum.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 09:27 PM (O0L8i)

194
Maybe today, but a long time ago a hobo was willing to work for his dinner while a bum was just a bum.

In a galaxy far far away.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 29, 2026 09:29 PM (Cqx++)

195 I rewatched Adams on HBO to get into the spirit of the 250th. I'd forgotten how good it was. I don't know how historically accurate it is, but it's well made.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 29, 2026 09:29 PM (l26NL)

196 "a long time ago a hobo was willing to work for his dinner"

On that criterion, I nominate Shane among the best hobos. Hates stumps with a vengeance.

Posted by: gp at June 29, 2026 09:30 PM (Jr5Lq)

197
I don't know how historically accurate it is, but it's well made.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 29, 2026 09:29 PM (l26NL)

___________

Did they have him presenting his credentials to George III? Interesting encounter between the two.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 09:31 PM (O0L8i)

198 The birthright tourism industry will be doing their Sloopy dance.

Posted by: mnw

I expect the USSC to split the baby. Exclude future arrivals, allow anchor's here citizenship. The kind of crap ruling Roberts is good for.

Posted by: MkY at June 29, 2026 09:32 PM (q6tQZ)

199 185 I don't think today's SCOTUS decision about "Vote By Mail" is THAT bad, based on their previous atrocities. The mail-in ballots DO have to be postmarked by election ***

Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 09:18 PM (RCjYY)

I agree The real fraud issues are with the ballot harvesting and dirty voter rolls.

Posted by: LASue at June 29, 2026 09:33 PM (lCppi)

200 Germany loses to Paraguay in the penalty shootout. Har, har.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 07:35 PM (O0L8i)

It's sad because now Freddy the German fan will go home and stop tweeting happy discoveries about America.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 29, 2026 09:33 PM (DoBxX)

201 Panhandling is a business. Some of the practitioners are very well off.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Read Conan Doyle's "A Red Headed Stranger". Panhandling for good money ain't a new idea.

Posted by: MkY at June 29, 2026 09:34 PM (q6tQZ)

202 Did they have him presenting his credentials to George III? Interesting encounter between the two.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

That's one of the best scenes. Adams is instructed how to approach the throne by bowing deeply times going in, then three times going out without turning his back on the royal person. The king seemed really unfocused, staring off in the distance. I guess he later went insane.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 29, 2026 09:34 PM (l26NL)

203
It's sad because now Freddy the German fan will go home and stop tweeting happy discoveries about America.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 29, 2026 09:33 PM (DoBxX)

____________

Time for him to return to the Fatherland and tell his fellow citizens that their state-run media has lied about America for time immemorial.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 09:35 PM (O0L8i)

204 "The Red-Headed League" added to my list, thanks!

Posted by: gp at June 29, 2026 09:35 PM (Jr5Lq)

205 4 As to Sudan, the RSF is besieging another city: El-Obeid.
They got El-Fasher earlier. That city no longer exists.

Posted by: gKWVE
--

Is that the one that was divided in half, south and north, one half Christian and the other Islam?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 09:36 PM (UsddL)

206 Time for him to return to the Fatherland and tell his fellow citizens that their state-run media has lied about America for time immemorial.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Nooooo
Can't we keep him and send Ilhan Omar there in exchange?
Pleeeease?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 29, 2026 09:37 PM (DoBxX)

207 Turf in awful condition. Come on Mexico it’s soccer your thing. Do better.

Posted by: World Cup Update at June 29, 2026 09:38 PM (Kk0zf)

208 >
Maybe today, but a long time ago a hobo was willing to work for his dinner while a bum was just a bum.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 09:27 PM (O0L8i)

Yes. Hobos were migrant workers, back in the day when white people used to be migrant workers. Likely not the upper crust of society, but they did work for a living. At least sometimes.

Another difference is that hobos are mobile, pretty much by definition, while bums tend to stake out a fixed piece of turf and hang on to it.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 29, 2026 09:38 PM (IG3/x)

209 203
It's sad because now Freddy the German fan will go home and stop tweeting happy discoveries about America.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 29, 2026 09:33 PM (DoBxX)
___________

Time for him to return to the Fatherland and tell his fellow citizens that their state-run media has lied about America for time immemorial.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
---

They will be point men when they get back home.
Imagining the competitors have similar experiences.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 09:39 PM (UsddL)

210 2 Why are there dead birds hanging off the cows horns?
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 07:32 PM (hzuYO)
Well, where would you carry them?

Posted by: Eromero at June 29, 2026 09:40 PM (LHPAg)

211 > Panhandling for good money ain't a new idea.
Posted by: MkY at June 29, 2026 09:34 PM (q6tQZ)

Tell us about it. In a good year we eat up >90% of the donations, leaving

Posted by: Charitable Foundation Management at June 29, 2026 09:40 PM (IG3/x)

212 Germany stole the game from us in 2002. For that they will also be FOAD for me. Paraguay beating them is chef’s kiss.

Posted by: World Cup Update at June 29, 2026 09:42 PM (Kk0zf)

213 That’s what kills me about the limousine liberals.

They would NEVER cook at a soup kitchen and serve and clean up and not poast about their virtue.

They love to tell others to donate. But they never do.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 29, 2026 09:42 PM (nhNYD)

214 MASA -- Make America Sudan Again !!!!!

Posted by: Cluck Schoemer at June 29, 2026 09:43 PM (xl8DV)

215 Sanders - Mandani 2028

Obamacare for everyone and Chicks for free ..........

Posted by: Cluck Schoemer at June 29, 2026 09:46 PM (xl8DV)

216 Hoboes rode the rails. They (supposedly) had a code of conduct or near enough. They had an informal network and pretty much knew everyone, and what railyards were OK, where certain farmhouses along the way might provide a meal.

Riding the rails was dangerous, the railroads have their own right of way going back to the original grants, and had their own police and nobody asked too many questions if somebody disappeared off a boxcar outside of Cheyenne. It’s a very cold, loud, and dirty way to travel.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 29, 2026 09:47 PM (74/ii)

217 > Obamacare for everyone and Chicks for free ..........
Posted by: Cluck Schoemer at June 29, 2026 09:46 PM (xl8DV)

I think you mean "checks for free".

Posted by: O'CrazyHo-Tittycaca at June 29, 2026 09:47 PM (IG3/x)

218 Paraguay, the only South American country without beach front property. Totally landlocked. History is mostly made up of there neighbors invading them, for whatever reason. But they beat Germany, so there is that. Good for them. Bummer for 'Freddy'. Glad he saw real America.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 29, 2026 09:47 PM (sAmhv)

219 Well, where would you carry them?
Posted by: Eromero at June 29, 2026 09:40 PM (LHPAg)

Hanging them anyplace else on the cow would be udderly ridiculous.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 29, 2026 09:48 PM (1z8ji)

220 Word I learned today: 'shilajit.' Some kind of exotic tar. It looks like it sounds.

Posted by: gp at June 29, 2026 09:49 PM (Jr5Lq)

221 Paraguay, the only South American country without beach front property. Totally landlocked. History is mostly made up of there neighbors invading them, for whatever reason. But they beat Germany, so there is that. Good for them. Bummer for 'Freddy'. Glad he saw real America.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 29, 2026 09:47 PM (sAmhv)

There's another landlocked country, Bolivia you me.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 29, 2026 09:50 PM (1z8ji)

222 Word I learned today: 'shilajit.' Some kind of exotic tar. It looks like it sounds.
Posted by: gp at June 29, 2026 09:49 PM (Jr5Lq)

Whale sperm.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 29, 2026 09:51 PM (g8Ew8)

223 Sudan 2006"

Looks like Sudan, 1050...

Posted by: man at June 29, 2026 07:35 PM (XuXeR)

Its the one constant in the universe.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 29, 2026 09:52 PM (snZF9)

224 This reminds me:

It once occurred to me that the most horrifying article of clothing for an animal rights tard would be one of those jackets that the sailors in Moby Dick (and presumably in real life) used to make from the skin of a whale cock.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 29, 2026 09:53 PM (IG3/x)

225 221: Oh yea, Bolivia.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 29, 2026 09:54 PM (sAmhv)

226 I read that someone in ME took Freddy moose hunting. So, there's that, even if Col. Strasser's boys didn't make it all the way to the finals.

Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 09:54 PM (RCjYY)

227 It's sad because now Freddy the German fan will go home and stop tweeting happy discoveries about America.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 29, 2026 09:33 PM (DoBxX)
___________

Time for him to return to the Fatherland and tell his fellow citizens that their state-run media has lied about America for time immemorial.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

The Nazis did that too. If you don't learn from history...something..something

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 29, 2026 09:55 PM (snZF9)

228 Para!!
Uru!!

It’s all gay.

Posted by: World Cup Update at June 29, 2026 09:55 PM (Kk0zf)

229 It once occurred to me that the most horrifying article of clothing for an animal rights tard would be one of those jackets that the sailors in Moby Dick (and presumably in real life) used to make from the skin of a whale cock.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 29, 2026 09:53 PM (IG3/x)

Handy, though. Rub it, and it becomes a tent.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 29, 2026 09:55 PM (1z8ji)

230 229 Ha!

Posted by: gp at June 29, 2026 09:56 PM (Jr5Lq)

231 Sorry, Eris, it's only a metaphorical description of Scott Weiner getting verbally attacked by tranny red guards.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 29, 2026 08:54 PM (R+iUD)
---

Awww. I wanted it to be some weird intersection betwixt Norwegian Black Metal and CommieNazis.

Yeah, I saw Weiner get screamed at by the mob. Why the fuck is ANYBODY concerned with Gaza, let alone the rainbow pioneers?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 29, 2026 09:56 PM (kpS4V)

232 Considering all the shit going down in the world, I had a major personal victory this evening.

I achieved "first light" on my telescope this evening! I was able to finally get a decent focus on Venus this evening with my new astrophotography rig.

It's a bit more complicated than it sounds because there is no eyepiece to look through. You have to have a chain of electronic instruments working properly to bring an image up, to a screen.

Yayyyy!!!!

Posted by: pawn at June 29, 2026 09:57 PM (XGbvx)

233 213 That’s what kills me about the limousine liberals.

They would NEVER cook at a soup kitchen and serve and clean up and not poast about their virtue.

They love to tell others to donate. But they never do.

Every evening starting around 5 PM it is Donate to everything commercials....

1. The Elderly Jews in Ukraine
2. Save the Elephants from Ivory poachers
3. Islamic Relief USA working on the ground in Palestine?
4. Food insecurity for America's Children
5. Children only get one meal a day when school is out
for summer

etc............

Tax Hollywood at 100% to end thise crisis now !!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at June 29, 2026 09:58 PM (X7dyz)

234 Sure was hot today.

Glad we have a/c!

Mwah haah haaaa

Posted by: mindful webworker - laughing all the way at June 29, 2026 09:58 PM (/4mOE)

235 I expect the USSC to split the baby. Exclude future arrivals, allow anchor's here citizenship. The kind of crap ruling Roberts is good for.

Posted by: MkY at June 29, 2026 09:32 PM (q6tQZ)

I would not get my hopes up on that at all. It's gonna be a full 90 yard punt and maybe worse - explicitly enshrining it in the legal code.

Posted by: ... at June 29, 2026 09:59 PM (vE0+H)

236 Heh.... I put that into Grok and one of the intermediate messages was "analyzing the practicality of whale penis leather".

Grok says there were indeed items made from whale penis leather, but that making a practical tailored jacket would likely require the skin of more than one penis.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 29, 2026 09:59 PM (IG3/x)

237 Yeah, I saw Weiner get screamed at by the mob. Why the fuck is ANYBODY concerned with Gaza, let alone the rainbow pioneers?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 29, 2026 09:56 PM (kpS4V)

If the Nazis were as incompetent at genocide as Israel seems to be, Europe would have had 8 million more Jews in 1945 than it did in 1939.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 29, 2026 09:59 PM (1z8ji)

238 Cool stuff pawn

Posted by: ... at June 29, 2026 09:59 PM (vE0+H)

239 At least hoboes had cigarette trees, the lucky bastards.

Posted by: gp at June 29, 2026 10:00 PM (Jr5Lq)

240 I wouldn't be surprised if the Europeans returning home from the World Cup are subject to extra scrutiny from their governments. Especially Brits or Germans who dared to wave their flags in publlic.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at June 29, 2026 10:00 PM (C1H7N)

241
Food insecurity for America's Children

____________

I don't have enough chocolate ice cream.

*holds up bowl*
*makes big, sad eyes*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 10:01 PM (O0L8i)

242 The ONT awaits

NOOOOD

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=420273

Posted by: mindful webworker - go for it! at June 29, 2026 10:01 PM (/4mOE)

243 233

Could be worse.

I get Jon Ossoff and James Talarico FR solicitations.

Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 10:01 PM (RCjYY)

244
Has anybody here ever had zebu?
Posted by: Bulg at June 29, 2026 07:54 PM (77rzZ)

[ . . . ] And also the Zebu, that you meet in the zoo,
Can be buggered if you are sure just what to do,
You will need a large mattress upon which to fall--
but the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 29, 2026 10:03 PM (rbvCR)

245 Like widdlebest
more gamey
Posted by: r hennigantx at June 29, 2026 08:03 PM (/+uur)

That's gnus to me

Posted by: Kindltot at June 29, 2026 10:05 PM (rbvCR)

246 On Monday, the NRA secured a preliminary injunction against enforcement of Virginia Governor “Spooky”’s “assault weapons” and 15-plus rounds magazine ban.
Posted by: SMOD at June 29, 2026 08:05 PM (O7XEN)

And apparently in retaliation the VA state police started slow-rolling background checks for all weapon purchases.
Harmeet Dhillon says the civil rights division is warming up their pliers.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 29, 2026 10:07 PM (rbvCR)

247 Paraguay, the only South American country without beach front property. Totally landlocked. History is mostly made up of there neighbors invading them, for whatever reason. But they beat Germany, so there is that. Good for them. Bummer for 'Freddy'. Glad he saw real America.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 29, 2026 09:47 PM (sAmhv)

The only beach front property that Bolivia has is currently occupied by Chile since the War of the Pacific in 1883, and they won't give it back. It's only real access to the sea is to the Atlantic, via the Amazon.

Bolivia, like Paraguay, both have navies. The Paraguayan Naval dress uniform is modeled on the German WWII naval uniform, and the Bolivian is modeled on the WWI British naval uniform.
Their admirals oversee river boats.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 29, 2026 10:22 PM (rbvCR)

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Quick Hits

Far left teacher marries Gaza rando to make him a citizen and give him the right to vote in the US.

A radical, Israel-hating California teacher claimed she married a Gaza resident online to help him gain American citizenship -- and push her pro-Palestinian agenda.
Laura Pinho, a dance teacher at Canoga Park Senior High School in California, announced her nuptials in a wild June 16 CODEPINK Zoom webinar called "Challenging Zionism In Our Schools."
When CODEPINK activist Marcy Winograd congratulated her on her marriage and asked her to share details about her life, Pinho, 51, launched into a pedantic monologue about how she only married Salem S.E. Abu Amra to advance "Palestinian rights and freedoms."
"I have power as an American citizen. I have a passport that I was just born with, and how can I live in this world if I don't make every effort to equalize the playing field on whatever way that I can," she said in the webinar, first uncovered by the North American Values Institute.
Englewood New Jersey Mayor Michael Wildes -- who is also an immigration attorney and former federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of New York -- told The Post that Pinho is playing with fire.
"She can be prosecuted criminally, brought up on federal conspiracy charges. Marriage fraud is one of the top five crimes you can perpetrate including terrorism and drugs. The fact that somebody would be foolish enough to say they actually did it makes it actionable for the federal government to investigate," Wildes said.

Marrying someone to obtain a green card is federal crime and can carry a five-year prison sentence and up to a $250,000 fine, according to the Department of Justice.
The odd couple tied the knot April 5 in Utah, which allows marriages to be conducted via Zoom, according to records posted online by the Utah County Clerk and obtained by Israeli nonprofit NGO Monitor.
Utah allows virtual marriages in which both parties aren't in the same location so long as they have secured a Utah County marriage license and provide valid ID and two witnesses, who also don't have to be physically present in the state.

By the way, she's cucking her child's father, whom she lives with.

The bride has a 5-year-old child with Derek J. Reid, 51, an improv coach who also lives at her address, according to public records.
Reid told The Post that he and Pinho were domestic partners and never officially married, and that they're currently separated and the two sleep in different rooms at the same address. He said he had no knowledge of her marriage to Abu Amra.
...
"She's been radicalized -- I don't know anything about that... the crowd she runs with... I'm worried for her," Reid said.
...
She claimed she first met her husband through mutual friends on Facebook and donated an undisclosed amount of money to him, and he proceeded to message her to say thanks.
...
Pinho heads her school's Students for Justice in Palestine club and bragged about injecting her virulent anti-Israel politics into her dance curriculum.
She posted video from a school cultural event in which her students performed the "Dabke Dance" -- a Palestinian folk dance that has come to be associated with terrorism.
...
She boasts that she steered her students into radical anti-Israel protests.
"Students have rights, powers and abilities. . . . they do the fighting, they do the protesting, and we are there to guide them. . . . that is the role that I have found as one of the co-sponsors actually for the Students for Justice in Palestine Club," she said.
Pinho has a long history of antisemitic posts on social media.

Obviously this far-left teacher is a big fan of Noted Conservative Influencer Candace Owens:

Guess the BMI of the UN's (racist, pro-Hamas) special rapporteur on "Health."

There are suspicions that Jill Biden's "book sales" were almost all coordinated purchases of the book by Biden-aligned PACs in the first hours it was available, to fake big first week sales:

streiff
@streiffredstate

no secret here. Campaigns and aligned 501c3 mass purchase books to hand out at rallies, in the case of c3, the funds are tax deductible. The book sales end up as income for the author.

Mark Hemingway
@Heminator
Just a reminder--the whole list is fake, and doesn't necessarily represent actual sales. The NYT has defended their bestseller list in court as an editorial product.

�No money for schools.� NYC has a $43 billion dollar school system whose funding has gone up as enrollment has gone down. It has the highest per-student expenditure in the nation of up to $40K a year. 28-29% of students test proficient in math and reading (NAEP). https://t.co/ohjgMMt4eT
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) June 28, 2026

She's retconning her history of zero male interest.
— ℝ𝕠𝕔𝕜𝕖𝕥 (@rdbrewer4) June 28, 2026

Meet Scarlett Gillespie, a candidate for mayor in Hamilton, Ontario

He pretends to be a woman and uses a sock puppet his speeches

Canada is a circus pic.twitter.com/cJh14D0gyx
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 29, 2026

Bill Maher told JD Vance that the right has to stop claiming that an election (2020) was illegitimate because they lost.

Here�s Bill Maher�s show the day after Trump�s inauguration in 2017. They claimed Trump didn�t legitimately win. pic.twitter.com/b30U7FBaFY
— MAZE (@mazemoore) June 29, 2026

Seth Dillon
@SethDillon
He lied right to Alex's face and pretended his position is that we just don't know yet why Charlie was killed. But just days ago, he said it was "obviously" not because of his position on transgenderism. He said it was because of Charlie's evolving views on Israel. And yet here he is denying that he ever took that position. He gaslights and lies to every person who even gently challenges him.

Compilation of Tucker Carlson claiming he never said things he clearly said. pic.twitter.com/dkRFee6N3P
— Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) (@TheMilkBarTV) June 29, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:30 PM

Comments

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1 WIlllowed: DM sez tonite's moonrise at 7.56pm ET will be pretty. Look to the SE.

Posted by: gp at June 29, 2026 06:34 PM (Jr5Lq)

2 This post brought to you by the good people of Gillette.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at June 29, 2026 06:37 PM (CwhoI)

3 Wow
Leftists are scum
Is etm. real?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 29, 2026 06:37 PM (DoBxX)

4 Prosecute the dancing traitor and anti Semite!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2026 06:37 PM (Yl2Ob)

5 Two out of three ain't bad.

Better than what I expect out of political podcasters.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 29, 2026 06:37 PM (rbvCR)

6 Tlaleng Mofokeng. That is one seriously obese MOFO alright.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 29, 2026 06:38 PM (bl07w)

7 You know, if she brings her hubby over and he does the alans snackbar thing on her neck I wouldn't mind.

Posted by: steevy at June 29, 2026 06:38 PM (YwEeS)

8 Somebody should tell those fuzzy-pitted biddies that nobody was going to talk to them anyway, and now they just stink.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 29, 2026 06:39 PM (bl07w)

9 First it was not shaving, then it's dyeing, now we're back to not shaving.

Nobody cares, feminists. Just say you aren't interested in men and go from there. It's okay.

Even if it mean you have to sacrifice your "Sexual Empowerment" and "Abortion" merit badges.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at June 29, 2026 06:39 PM (vJrRc)

10 Bitch be crazy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 29, 2026 06:39 PM (zZu0s)

11 Laura Pinho, a dance teacher at Canoga Park Senior High School in California

Is Pinho short for Pin-headed Ho?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 29, 2026 06:39 PM (l3cgK)

12 I have to look this bitch up.

I bet she's a real hottie.

By the way, Hobo Acheivement Complete,
Worked for food.

My friends yard for sandwiches.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 29, 2026 06:40 PM (Sco7b)

13 Even if it mean you have to sacrifice your "Sexual Empowerment" and "Abortion" merit badges.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at June 29, 2026 06:39 PM (vJrRc)

Kinda hard to shout your abortion if you aren't ever going to have sex. But I guess they shout anyway.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 29, 2026 06:40 PM (bl07w)

14 You know, if she brings her hubby over and he does the alans snackbar thing on her neck I wouldn't mind.
Posted by: steevy at June 29, 2026 06:38 PM (YwEeS)

How is this different from being a passport bro? Besides one of the pair being sort of hot, I mean.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 29, 2026 06:40 PM (rbvCR)

15 All of the bitches be crazy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 29, 2026 06:40 PM (zZu0s)

16 CODEPINK activist Marcy Winograd

-----

Most AWFL name ever. Almost impossible so, but for it being Marcy instead of Karen.

All Power to the Winograd Soviet!!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 29, 2026 06:40 PM (BI5O2)

17 A radical, Israel-hating California teacher claimed she married a Gaza resident online to help him gain American citizenship -- and push her pro-Palestinian agenda.

Easy rejection - marriages arranged solely for immigration purposes are not valid for immigration purposes.

Immigration officials have been known to separate couples and ask them questions (a classic is "which side of the bed do you sleep on").

Since the guy isn't even in the United States, he has zero chance of getting a spousal visa to enter the United States, unless INS completely screws up.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 29, 2026 06:41 PM (aD4fx)

18 Just really agitated at some of the SC decisions and what's likely to come with the birthright citizenship case.

It's going to be a depressing 250 year American anniversary this July 4 if that goes against us. Fuck Roberts and Barrett is all I can say. Willing to destroy what's left of this country to try and earn kudos from people that would string them up if they could.

Posted by: Sharpie at June 29, 2026 06:41 PM (FjEv5)

19 >>Laura Pinho, a dance teacher at Canoga Park Senior High School in California, announced her nuptials in a wild June 16 CODEPINK Zoom webinar called "Challenging Zionism In Our Schools."

There's Neville Singham again.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 29, 2026 06:41 PM (viF8m)

20 Tucker has early Alzheimers, or he'll say anything if the money is right.

Posted by: huerfano at June 29, 2026 06:41 PM (VJX5o)

21 One must hope Laura reaps what she sews
Burka wearing slave would be nice to see

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2026 06:41 PM (Ia/+0)

22 11 Laura Pinho, a dance teacher at Canoga Park Senior High School in California

Is Pinho short for Pin-headed Ho?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 29, 2026 06:39 PM (l3cgK)

It is clear she only did this for the attention, which proves it is all a bullshit act. You don't advertise your "virtue" (such as it is) and still call it virtue, but there she is, bragging that she took one for the team.

And now she is going to jail. Too bad, so sad.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 29, 2026 06:41 PM (bl07w)

23 Pinho needs to travel to Gaza and perform her conjugal duty.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 29, 2026 06:42 PM (afJtY)

24 "Graham Platner is ahead of Collins by 2 points in new NYT poll.

One of the most intriguing details: She has a 21-point lead among non-college voters as Platner has made centering the working class the center of his campaign."

not again...

Posted by: runner at June 29, 2026 06:42 PM (gAb7M)

25 At first when scrolling past that thumbnail I thought 'Scarlett Johanssen'? But then I saw all the tattoos and general... puffiness.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 29, 2026 06:43 PM (zZu0s)

26 Darializa Avila Chevalier looks like a freaking Pixar movie character. Like this chick:

http://tiny.cc/3ku5101

Posted by: bonhomme at June 29, 2026 06:43 PM (mkw2N)

27 Before the armpit hair, that babe must have beating off the guys with a stick.

And I love the 'Look at It' on her shirt.

I respectfully decline.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 29, 2026 06:44 PM (Sco7b)

28 Regular, working class sees Platner is a frigging fraud. They better get out and vote, and not give up.

Posted by: runner at June 29, 2026 06:44 PM (gAb7M)

29 "She can be prosecuted criminally, brought up on federal conspiracy charges. Marriage fraud is one of the top five crimes you can perpetrate including terrorism and drugs. The fact that somebody would be foolish enough to say they actually did it makes it actionable for the federal government to investigate," Wildes said.
In a nutshell, she's a dumb bitch.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 29, 2026 06:44 PM (0Htd1)

30 Does Tucker not know that he is recording himself? Does he have multiple personality disorder? He contradicts himself with such conviction.

Posted by: DJ at June 29, 2026 06:45 PM (uosPt)

31 Darializa , another fraud who spent decade or there abouts on her Phee H Dee.

Posted by: runner at June 29, 2026 06:45 PM (gAb7M)

32 23 Pinho needs to travel to Gaza and perform her conjugal duty.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 29, 2026 06:42 PM (afJtY)

Pinho needs to travel to Gaza....

and stay there. If she's really down with the struggle, I mean. Otherwise she's just whistling Dixie.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 29, 2026 06:46 PM (bl07w)

33 tcn, about your son's document. That is what your Congressman is for.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 29, 2026 06:46 PM (afJtY)

34 Does Tucker not know that he is recording himself? Does he have multiple personality disorder? He contradicts himself with such conviction.
Posted by: DJ at June 29, 2026 06:45 PM (uosPt)

He has many fans. I suspect they have the same disorders as Cucker.

Posted by: runner at June 29, 2026 06:46 PM (gAb7M)

35 Since the guy isn't even in the United States, he has zero chance of getting a spousal visa to enter the United States, unless INS completely screws up.

It should be noted that she hasn't committed a Federal crime until he submits an application for a spousal visa, with her as a sponsor.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 29, 2026 06:46 PM (aD4fx)

36 N.b., on the Hot/Crazy Matrix chart, all chicks are a minimum of four (4) on the Crazy scale. Bitches like that are the reason.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 29, 2026 06:46 PM (V+4tn)

37 Never mind the hairy pits I just noticed the considerable beer belly...

Posted by: steevy at June 29, 2026 06:46 PM (YwEeS)

38 Improv coach sounds like a job one of the Bluth kids would get on Arrested Development.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 29, 2026 06:46 PM (3uBP9)

39 If Pinho went to Gaze she'd be pricked more times than a pin cushion.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 29, 2026 06:48 PM (afJtY)

40 30 Does Tucker not know that he is recording himself? Does he have multiple personality disorder? He contradicts himself with such conviction.
Posted by: DJ at June 29, 2026 06:45 PM (uosPt)

He's a high functioning psychopath. He lies like he breathes. He assumes he can say whatever he likes and people will be so polite they will never challenge his veracity. As far as he is concerned, yesterday never happened.

My son is the same way, but less intelligent. If I call him on a lie, he just changes the subject or he gets belligerent. Not a great way to cope with the real world, but there ya go.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 29, 2026 06:48 PM (bl07w)

41 "By the way, she's cucking her child's father, whom she lives with."

She is a deranged leftist, but not "cucking" as I understand it. Her (fake) marriage is not about sex, just a political statement (for which she should go to prison, since it was not just a "free speech" statement, but an actual crime).

Posted by: illiniwek at June 29, 2026 06:48 PM (vbXSk)

42 Feel sorry for the 5-year old.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at June 29, 2026 06:49 PM (eStot)

43 All of the UN Special Rapporteurs it's like a rogues gallery of freaks, weirdos, and perverts with an international flair.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 29, 2026 06:49 PM (RIvkX)

44 33 tcn, about your son's document. That is what your Congressman is for.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 29, 2026 06:46 PM (afJtY)

Tried that too. No dice. The law is apparently quite clear.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 29, 2026 06:49 PM (bl07w)

45 Does Tucker not know that he is recording himself? Does he have multiple personality disorder? He contradicts himself with such conviction.

Kind of fascinating innit? It's like he wakes up in a whole new world every day.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 29, 2026 06:49 PM (vTZFs)

46 These are the Crazy Years.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 29, 2026 06:50 PM (kpS4V)

47 Reality is malleable to a sociopath depending on whatever they can get you to believe in the moment.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 29, 2026 06:50 PM (RIvkX)

48 Puppeteer tranny should have changed his last name to Geppetto and I'm really upset he didn't. What a missed opportunity.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 29, 2026 06:50 PM (3uBP9)

49 tcn, damn. I should have known you have researched every option.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 29, 2026 06:51 PM (afJtY)

50
6 Tlaleng Mofokeng. That is one seriously obese MOFO alright.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 29, 2026 06:38 PM

------

And the standard woke whining and lying out of this land whale's pie hole. South Africa really punches above its weight in producing disgraceful evil clown politicians.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 29, 2026 06:52 PM (VWtfl)

51 A radical, Israel-hating California teacher claimed she married a Gaza resident online to help him gain American citizenship -- and push her pro-Palestinian agenda.

Announcing committing immigration fraud? Bold strategy.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 29, 2026 06:52 PM (+9wcF)

52 I had a friend who lived for a few years in Carson California. Went to school with mostly black and hispanic kids. he was very white, with the Scottish surname and everything. But, he was one of those rare people blessed with a genuinely charming personality. Not the slick huckster type. he was just a legitimately nice guy. Prolly what kept him from being shanked in cafeteria.

He later moved to Colorado, and it took him some time stop punctuating his sentences with "an' shit."

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at June 29, 2026 06:52 PM (0aYVJ)

53 Point of clarification, that 43B for nyc schools is for operating expenses, there are two other funds for capital expenses that total another 25B.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 29, 2026 06:53 PM (XV/Pl)

54
Is Pinho short for Pin-headed Ho?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Pinholio!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 29, 2026 06:53 PM (Cqx++)

55 >>> These are the Crazy Years.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 29, 2026 06:50 PM (kpS4V)

The beginning of, yes. Could be a few, a decade, a millennia, hard to tell without a Hari Seldon of our own.

Posted by: banana Dream - to mix scify universes at June 29, 2026 06:53 PM (3uBP9)

56 The tats look worse than the hair.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 29, 2026 06:53 PM (Cqx++)

57 "a dance teacher at Canoga Park Senior High School in California."
____________________________

How's that reading, writing and arithmetic coming in Canoga Park Senior High School? Oh, look, this school district falls within the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)...and ranks in the lower 50% of education nationwide.

Let's hope that dancing class includes a pole, because we're educating future strippers. SCHOOLS NEED MORE MONEY...to create better strippers.

Posted by: Orson at June 29, 2026 06:54 PM (dIske)

58 Trump is the Mule.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 29, 2026 06:54 PM (Cqx++)

59 OT- Clarence Thomas refuses to be baited by reporter on upcoming Supreme Court decisions. "Twitchy" site video:

https://tinyurl.com/4pvbynjs

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2026 06:55 PM (Yl2Ob)

60 In Ireland, someone burned down the final resting place of St Patrick.

Who wants to bet it was a Muslim "refugee?" If this doesn't wake the Irish up, nothing will.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 29, 2026 06:56 PM (mkw2N)

61 Etm. - "et merda"

It pays to increase your word power!

Posted by: Sunday Morning Book Thread at June 29, 2026 06:57 PM (gnNyN)

62 Darializa hasn't finished he PhD in sociology. She was studying the impact of immigration policy and deportation on people of black Latino ancestry. She's taking a big leap there, and she still can't finish it after 7 years

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 29, 2026 06:57 PM (f6yx7)

63 Monaco's first terrorist attack - a bomb critically injured an Ukrainian oligarch and his family.

The oligarch had been sanctioned by Zelensky.

Any bets who did it?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 29, 2026 06:57 PM (aD4fx)

64 DJ: "He contradicts himself with such conviction."

That is a sign of socio/psychopathy. He proffers weak to no caveats like, "I don't think I said that" or "I might've thought that but changed because ...". It's the conviction to sternly signal essentially "how dare you make such a claim and you shouldn't investigate further" that makes it so unsettling.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at June 29, 2026 06:58 PM (oji8u)

65 I write-off most of these commies as buffoons, but Chevalier seems genuinely dangerous to me.

Posted by: Halfhand at June 29, 2026 06:58 PM (9MUFz)

66 After Trump, the deluge.

Posted by: steevy at June 29, 2026 06:59 PM (YwEeS)

67 Monaco's first terrorist attack - a bomb critically injured an Ukrainian oligarch and his family.

The oligarch had been sanctioned by Zelensky.

Any bets who did it?

==

MI6 ?

Posted by: runner at June 29, 2026 07:00 PM (gAb7M)

68 From above, "Guess the BMI of the UN's (racist, pro-Hamas) special rapporteur on "Health"

Tlaleng Mofokeng is a South African physician who is the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health. She campaigns for universal health access and HIV care.[1] She was named one of the BBC's 100 Women in 2021. Wikipedia

Universal health access. Heh.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 29, 2026 07:00 PM (NFX2v)

69 > She was studying the impact of immigration policy and deportation on people of black Latino ancestry.

A dissertation so worthless, it should be printed on toilet paper.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 29, 2026 07:01 PM (mkw2N)

70 >>> It's the conviction to sternly signal essentially "how dare you make such a claim and you shouldn't investigate further" that makes it so unsettling.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at June 29, 2026 06:58 PM (oji8u)

His enormous overinflated ego and superiority don't help either.

Posted by: DJ at June 29, 2026 07:01 PM (uosPt)

71 that's right, steevy!

no SAVE act, not-happy-fun-camps by 2030

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 29, 2026 07:02 PM (VyBeY)

72 Universal health access. Heh.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 29, 2026 07:00 PM (NFX2v)
---
In her case, she needs an entire universe to provide her healthcare...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 29, 2026 07:02 PM (gnNyN)

73 MI6 ?

SVR?

GU?

SBU?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 29, 2026 07:02 PM (aD4fx)

74 We must have public schools, otherwise our young children will not be able to read and write and learn about American history. They will be illiterate and roam the streets stabbing and raping and stealing and who knows what else without our public school system...I mean...err...well...who else is going to babysit the monsters until death or prison takes them off my hands?

Posted by: New York Dumb Ass at June 29, 2026 07:03 PM (og9zY)

75 I mean, the Democrats have not even tried to hide the retribution they intend to mete out.

Posted by: steevy at June 29, 2026 07:03 PM (YwEeS)

76 Liberal women are now growing out their armpit hair so men won’t talk to them..

What? No, "I'd hit it," from the morons?
Armpit hair, crazy lady glasses, tattoos. What's not to like?

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 29, 2026 07:04 PM (0Htd1)

77 SVR?

GU?

SBU?
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 29, 2026 07:02 PM (aD4fx)

No, MI6.

Posted by: runner at June 29, 2026 07:04 PM (gAb7M)

78 N.b., on the Hot/Crazy Matrix chart, all chicks are a minimum of four (4) on the Crazy scale

Errbyody crazy. Its just a matter of finding the kind of crazy that you can live with. I'm not joking we all have mental damage just like physical damage. Nobody blinks about needing glasses or having lupus, but we act like only some very few people have mental issues. WE ALL DO.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 07:04 PM (UZCuZ)

79 I mean, the Democrats have not even tried to hide the retribution they intend to mete out.

They started out claiming they were being forced into it Trump's "crazy unprecedented crusade to attack his political enemies" until they were buried in an avalanche of Obama- and Biden-era political attacks on enemies, particularly Biden-era.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 07:06 PM (UZCuZ)

80 When the last sane person leaves CA wall it off and turn off the electric to the region. Happy my granddaughter got out and her mom and stepdad are working on moving.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at June 29, 2026 07:06 PM (2NHgQ)

81 What? No, "I'd hit it," from the morons?
Armpit hair, crazy lady glasses, tattoos. What's not to like?
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 29, 2026 07:04 PM (0Htd1)
----
The Paulo has *some* standards.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 29, 2026 07:06 PM (gnNyN)

82 The tats look worse than the hair.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 29, 2026 06:53 PM (Cqx++)

I'd say she probably could make it work if she wasnt a miserable bitch.

True for most folks, I'd say.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 29, 2026 07:06 PM (zZu0s)

83 Clip of Neville Singham on Newsmax right now.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at June 29, 2026 07:07 PM (3ImbR)

84 > Liberal women are now growing out their armpit hair so men won’t talk to them..

We already know to avoid them by their bad dye jobs, nose jewelry, scribble tattoos, big glasses, and gunts. I don't think the armpit hair is going to move the needle.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 29, 2026 07:07 PM (mkw2N)

85 I need a whole new vocabulary for these freaks.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 29, 2026 07:07 PM (afJtY)

86 >> I mean, the Democrats have not even tried to hide the retribution they intend to mete out.

It's not like they've been shy about it in the past.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 29, 2026 07:07 PM (viF8m)

87 I know there are some Rush fans here. I saw them in Fort Worth last night

Go see them
New drummer is legit
Geddy sounds better than he did 15 years ago
Alex is Alex

Posted by: Oh noes! at June 29, 2026 07:08 PM (+abK1)

88 Kinda hard to shout your abortion if you aren't ever going to have sex. But I guess they shout anyway.
Posted by: tcn in AK

I believe they use turkey basters.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 29, 2026 07:09 PM (0Htd1)

89 "Geddy sounds better than he did 15 years ago"

He's 'gently' screwing the cat with a jalapeño pepper.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 29, 2026 07:10 PM (zZu0s)

90 I'm surprised armpit hair chick doesn't have a septum piercing. It's kind of off-putting that she doesn't.

Also, the pit hair thing is not new for them.

Posted by: She Hobbit at June 29, 2026 07:10 PM (z/ed7)

91 I write-off most of these commies as buffoons, but Chevalier seems genuinely dangerous to me.
Posted by: Halfhand at June 29, 2026 06:58 PM (9MUFz)

She goes through every day of her life hating anyone not like her and would gladly shuttle the cattle car doors closed on you as you are whisked off to the labor camp.

Her ilk ran Treblinka, the gulag camps and the farms of "Kampuchea". Evil person.

Posted by: Seen Her Type Before at June 29, 2026 07:12 PM (og9zY)

92 I believe they use turkey basters.
Posted by: nerdygirl

I just figured they lie about being pregnant so they can virtue signal by faking an abortion.

Posted by: She Hobbit at June 29, 2026 07:13 PM (z/ed7)

93 Easy rejection - marriages arranged solely for immigration purposes are not valid for immigration purposes.

Immigration officials have been known to separate couples and ask them questions (a classic is "which side of the bed do you sleep on").

Since the guy isn't even in the United States, he has zero chance of getting a spousal visa to enter the United States, unless INS completely screws up.

Or, let him in for the laughs. Just keep ICE agents nearby in case he goes Aloha Snackbar on people other than his wife.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 29, 2026 07:13 PM (tUj8P)

94 Etm. Many thanks for teaching me something today, Ace.

I think that chick growing out her armpit hair has nothing to worry about regarding men talking to her. Her eyeglasses, tattoos and general hideousness are warning signs. Plus the ever present nose ring. No worries!

I'm wondering if she walks around proudly with her pits showing now. Hands up don't shoot or speak?

I feel sorry for parents of these freakoids and any boys who have to figure this out, etm. But at least there are signs!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 07:14 PM (hzuYO)

95 The armpit hair girl has a Trigglypuff lite thing going on

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 29, 2026 07:14 PM (f6yx7)

96 "and uses a sock puppet for his speeches" --> back in '80, i was too young to vote. my best friend would have voted for jerry brown because of the special effects he used in his speeches. one i recall had the left side of his body stretched out and fading into the background.

Posted by: anachronda at June 29, 2026 07:16 PM (sGtp+)

97 YD's rape dogs would give that pig a pass.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 29, 2026 07:17 PM (afJtY)

98 Really feeling the tattoo hate today. Oh well, i don't have the pit hair, crazy glasses, etm.. Maybe there's hope for me. (Ya, know, if I wasn't already spoken for.)

Posted by: She Hobbit at June 29, 2026 07:17 PM (z/ed7)

99 My friends just delivered TWO HUGE homemade subs they made for doing their yard.

Summer Sausage with tomatos and onions and turkey and pickles.

See, there are good sane, people in Canada. Although sock puppet dude...lol. we were one more year away from Biden delivering speeches in that manner.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 29, 2026 07:17 PM (Sco7b)

100 I saw a meme the other day that you know it's time to shave your legs when your leg hair gets split ends.

Unsure about armpit hair rules.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 07:18 PM (hzuYO)

101 84 > Liberal women are now growing out their armpit hair so men won’t talk to them..

We already know to avoid them by their bad dye jobs, nose jewelry, scribble tattoos, big glasses, and gunts. I don't think the armpit hair is going to move the needle.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 29, 2026 07:07 PM (mkw2N)

Simpler, its so they can say it is THEIR CHOICE by growing armpit hair that Men are not talking to them...

When actually they are just ugly, and no Men have been talking to them for a lonnngggg time.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 07:19 PM (mP0Kj)

102 What? No, "I'd hit it," from the morons?
Posted by: nerdygirl

waaaayyy ahead of you

Posted by: the ugly stick at June 29, 2026 07:19 PM (gKWVE)

103 100 I saw a meme the other day that you know it's time to shave your legs when your leg hair gets split ends.

Unsure about armpit hair rules.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 07:18 PM (hzuYO)

LOL... when X Wifey or X Lady friends would shave their legs? Unless there was some big event going, it was a sign I was gonna get laid that night.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 07:20 PM (mP0Kj)

104
Most AWFL name ever.

_________

Melissa White-Blanc

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 07:20 PM (O0L8i)

105 Rush Died When Neil Died. without HIM they are just a pair of one hit wonders.

I don't care if she is good or not. Do something original

"cough" my favorite headache "cough"

"He's 'gently' screwing the cat with a jalapeño pepper."

Ahahahahahahahhahhaha

Posted by: Ernest T Bass at June 29, 2026 07:20 PM (jrgJz)

106 Meet Tlaleng Mofokeng, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on health.

-----

She needs to go on a Mofokeng diet.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at June 29, 2026 07:20 PM (PdPYx)

107 73 MI6 ?

SVR?

GU?

SBU?
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 29, 2026 07:02 PM (aD4fx)

KAOS?

Posted by: Maxwell Smart.... at June 29, 2026 07:22 PM (mP0Kj)

108 Since the guy isn't even in the United States, he has zero chance of getting a spousal visa to enter the United States, unless INS completely screws up.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 29, 2026 06:41 PM (aD4fx)

Is it wrong of me to hope that she sends him a boatload of money to do this, and then he can't get the visa, but keeps the money?

I mean, too bad for her kid, but this would make me laugh.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 29, 2026 07:22 PM (zYpTz)

109 Cave Johnson, that's the thread winner. I barley manged to swallow my bourbon while reading that. Well done.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 29, 2026 07:23 PM (afJtY)

110 California has dropped the charges on the guy who set the Palisades fire. "Not Enough Evidence".

Welp, I guess that's that then. The left can get one of their brownshirts to kill off the inhabitants of a range of land they want to seize and its all good. Barely an inconvenience.

Posted by: banana Dream - Eminent Domain, but first we kill you at June 29, 2026 07:23 PM (3uBP9)

111 Some tattoos can be sexy. Its all about presentation.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 29, 2026 07:23 PM (zZu0s)

112 She needs to go on a Mofokeng diet.
Posted by: Cave Johnson

Oh that's good! lol

Posted by: She Hobbit at June 29, 2026 07:24 PM (z/ed7)

113 There was a muslim dude I saw on Detroit tv running for office.

Endorsed by BERNIE and the UAW.

A lot of people are too stupid to live.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 29, 2026 07:25 PM (Sco7b)

114 Vacation in Delaware at Rehoboth, Fenwick Island, Dewey Beach & get a free copy of Jill's new book, now replacing the Gideon Bible.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 29, 2026 07:25 PM (NFX2v)

115 That photo of Candance Owens brings back memories of the older Pennsylvania Turnpike Lehigh Valley Tunnel before all the renovations.

Posted by: Orson at June 29, 2026 07:25 PM (dIske)

116 This has nothing to do with immigrants marrying, but wacko all the same.

Someone my DIL knows is "separated" from her baby daddy. They are white people from MN (I know!!!). They have 3 kids, one a set of twins who are out of control. Baby daddy claims he was tricked into them. Mama told all of her dirty laundry all over the school. I honestly would have vanished before telling a soul.

Here's the issue: the mother (who is educated and attractive) does not have her name on the titles to the house or car. The car was repo'd. Somehow she coughed up money to stay in the house a bit longer.

As they are not married (common law?) there is no alimony, child support, etm. One or the other of her parents fly to help her once a month from MN. I have problems understanding why she does not move back. I admit to wanting her to. DIL feels sorry for her and is a nicer person than I am. I smile and say hi is all I can do.

I keep asking my husband how anyone could do this with a tiny grain of sense? What on earth? I was a crazy dingbat but I knew I should be married before kids and get my name on everything. Therefore I am smarter than one person on the planet.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 07:27 PM (hzuYO)

117 Cave Johnson, that's the thread winner. I barley manged to swallow my bourbon while reading that. Well done.

Seconded.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 29, 2026 07:28 PM (ceJ0R)

118
Paraguay defeats Germany in a penalty shootout.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 07:29 PM (O0L8i)

119 Notorious BFD, hi, darlin

Posted by: Ben Had at June 29, 2026 07:30 PM (afJtY)

120 Laura Pinho, a dance teacher at Canoga Park Senior High School "

There's a useful class.

Posted by: man at June 29, 2026 07:30 PM (XuXeR)

121 Hiya, BH!

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 29, 2026 07:30 PM (ceJ0R)

122 All Power to the Winograd Soviet!!
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 29, 2026 06:40 PM

Ah Winograd, ah Winograd, ah Winograd, ah Winograd

In the commune, the mighty commune,
The AWFLs sleep tonight.
In the commune, the mighty commune,
The AWFLs sleep tonight.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 29, 2026 07:31 PM (0sNs1)

123 Le CAFE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2026 07:31 PM (Ia/+0)

124 Errbyody crazy. Its just a matter of finding the kind of crazy that you can live with. I'm not joking we all have mental damage just like physical damage. Nobody blinks about needing glasses or having lupus, but we act like only some very few people have mental issues. WE ALL DO.

Ah, your Wife reads the forum too I see. Nicely done, I must say!

Posted by: Common Tater at June 29, 2026 07:32 PM (OQcP8)

125 Tlaleng Mofokeng. That is one seriously obese MOFO alright.
Posted by: tcn in AK

You should see this one MP from Wales. She's at least 400 lbs., black muslim. She's got one of those faces that are so fat you wonder how she can see out of her eyes. Oh, and she's the Minister of HEALTH!

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 29, 2026 07:32 PM (l26NL)

126 we act like only some very few people have mental issues. WE ALL DO.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 07:04 PM (UZCuZ)

Facts!

*fistbump

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 29, 2026 07:33 PM (zYpTz)

127
Laura Pinho, a dance teacher at Canoga Park Senior High School "

There's a useful class.
Posted by: man

Maybe that's one of those FAME high schools?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 29, 2026 07:34 PM (Cqx++)

128 The MilkbarTV guy is very talented at doing these mash-up videos.

Does anybody ever challenge Tucker with those? I suppose those who interview him need to keep video clips of him handy so they can disprove him when he denies his own words.

I really do wonder what happened to him. He just sailed right around the bend and crashed through the guardrail.

Posted by: bluebell at June 29, 2026 07:35 PM (afFes)

129 LOL... when X Wifey or X Lady friends would shave their legs? Unless there was some big event going, it was a sign I was gonna get laid that night.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 07:20 PM

So X Wifey had her lady friends shave their legs as an indirect signal? That implies a high degree of observational talent on your part!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 29, 2026 07:36 PM (0sNs1)

130 60.In Ireland, someone burned down the final resting place of St Patrick.

Who wants to bet it was a Muslim "refugee?" If this doesn't wake the Irish up, nothing will.

Posted by: bonhomme

Can't make a lot of money off St. Patrick. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Ireland's tribute to the 44th U.S. President is the Barack Obama Plaza, located in Moneygall, County Offaly, on the M7 Dublin-Limerick motorway. It is a unique highway rest stop featuring an Irish-American visitor center, a mini-museum dedicated to Obama’s ancestral roots in the town, and bronze statues of the Obamas. was erected following their famous 2011 visit to the village.

Coffee bars, EV charging stations, Papa John's, etc. It's a hoot.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 29, 2026 07:37 PM (NFX2v)

131 Regardless of futile protestations, on the Hot/Crazy chart, Chicks always start out at a minimum of four (4). Deal

Posted by: Common Tater at June 29, 2026 07:38 PM (OQcP8)

132 Tlaleng Mofokeng, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on health is silent on the health of Israelis but very loud about the health of Gazans.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 29, 2026 07:38 PM (RIvkX)

133 Yeah... I'm sure the cis-whatevers tell her to shave her disgusting body all the time.

Normies don't talk to fat ugly cunts like her, and they never have, and that's why she's an internet mutant now.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 29, 2026 07:44 PM (BI5O2)

134 Nood

Cage

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 29, 2026 07:49 PM (Sco7b)

135 Cafe

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 29, 2026 07:49 PM (Sco7b)

136 Tcn, further to what you and 44 and 33 describe, we had a similar experience with my wife, who was born in Germany in 1955 to 2 US citizens, her father was stationed in Germany as an Army colonel. She had a German birth certificate, plus a State Department naturalization certificate when they moved back to the States in 1957, when she was 2 years old.

In order to get a passport last year, as you describe, we were required to send originals to the State Department. I was VERY hesitant, since these were 60+ year old documents that could never be reproduced. I finally bit the bullet, because my wife really wanted to go on this international trip. I sent the originals to the State Department with her passport application by registered mail, and lo and behold, they were sent back within a month by registered mail and the passport was approved!

Purely anecdotal, and every situation is different, but I was for once impressed by the Federal Government!

Posted by: jayhawkone at June 29, 2026 08:37 PM (QSaoA)

137 How do you know that the "gotcha" videos of Tucker are not AI fakes?

Posted by: Bert the Samoan Lawyer at June 29, 2026 10:55 PM (r9NPr)

138 thanks for ent.
as per vance/ maher... maher's statements were the day after inauguration. he's scolding vance about 2020.
not that there aren't endless examples of dems election denying.

Posted by: cmeat at June 30, 2026 01:17 PM (R11M+)

Supreme Court May Decide Birthright Citizenship Case This Week; RNC Sues Colorado Over Allowing Birth Tourism Foreigners Who Never Even Set Foot in Colorado to Vote There

In the next few days, we may find out if we have a country or not.

May be. The Disney Groomer Corporation is sad.

The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to weigh in this week on President Donald Trump's attempt to end birthright citizenship by executive order, a move which would upend more than a century of legal precedent and a national tradition that have said babies born on American soil are automatically American citizens.
The ruling, one of the most highly anticipated of the year, is a major test of Trump's unprecedented assertion of presidential power in his second term with major stakes for millions of children and their families.

What is birthright citizenship?
Birthright citizenship is the idea that a child automatically becomes a citizen of the country in which they are born, regardless of the immigration status of their parents.
It reflects the principle of jus soli, or right of the soil, extending citizenship purely on the basis of geographic location.
By contrast, many countries extend citizenship under the principle of jus sanguinis, or right of blood, which is determined by the nationality of a child's parents regardless of the location of birth.
How does birthright citizenship work in the U.S.?
With few exceptions, all babies born on U.S. soil become U.S. citizens.
For the approximately 3.6 million children born in American hospitals every year, the birth certificate alone has been the key to obtaining Social Security numbers, passports and early life benefits.
Into adulthood, the birth certificate has been universally recognized as proof of citizenship for such things as voter registration, employment, home loans and military service.
What does the Constitution say about birthright citizenship?
The 14th Amendment, which was ratified in 1868 to address the legal status of former slaves and their descendants, says plainly that all "persons born or naturalized in the U.S. and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" are citizens.

If they meant to say that all persons born in the US were citizens, they would have just said that. Instead they added an additional qualification: "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof." That is, not subject to the jurisdiction of a foreign country, that is, not a citizen of another country.

Congress later codified the same language in federal citizenship law enacted in 1940.
Courts and the government have repeatedly interpreted the 14th Amendment to unambiguously confer citizenship on all children born in the U.S., including babies of unauthorized noncitizens and temporary residents, such as asylum seekers, international students, tourists and seasonal workers.

Yes, they have done so by completely ignoring the qualification that you need to be born in the US and be subject to the jurisdiction of the US and not to another country.

Will the Supreme Court agree, finally? I doubt it. Coney Barrett's inclinations are always towards the liberal status quo, unless the case is so clear that it overrides her inclinations. Kavanaugh and Gorsuch both side with liberals in many cases. And Roberts, of course, invented "it's a tax" out of whole cloth -- this had never even been argued by Obama, for the obvious reason that he swore up and down that Obamacare was not a new set of taxes -- to side with the liberal establishment after a brutal influence campaign directed at this weak, status-seeking man.

Meanwhile, in Colorado, we see anew the problem with allowing automatic birthright citizenship. Many people who were born in the US only due to birthright tourism -- flying to the US within a week of delivering a baby to secure that baby US citizenship, before flying back home, usually to China --are permitted to vote in Colorado despite having never, ever actually been residents of Colorado.

Not just birthright citizenship, but birthright permanent voting rights for foreigners living in foreign adversary nations.

The Republican National Committee on Friday filed suit in Denver District state court against Secretary of State Jena Griswold, challenging her office's policy of allowing overseas voters who have never set foot in Colorado to cast ballots in state elections.
Filed just four days before Colorado's primary election, the suit argues Griswold's implementation of the state's overseas voter law runs headlong into the Colorado Constitution's residency requirement.
Griswold is also a candidate for Colorado attorney general in the June 30 Democrat primary.
"Residency is not inherited and cannot be established by proxy," the complaint reads. "An individual who has never personally made Colorado his or her home has not 'resided in this state' within the meaning of Article VII of the Colorado Constitution."
Griswold's office claims that "if you are a United States citizen who has never lived in the United States, you can register to vote in Colorado if your parent, legal guardian, spouse, or domestic partner was a resident of Colorado before leaving the United States."
The complaint argues that allowing residency for voting to pass by proxy through a parent or spouse is unconstitutional, regardless of what the legislature or the secretary of state says.
Joining the RNC in the suit are Douglas County Clerk and Recorder Sheri Davis and U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank, who represents the Colorado Springs area.
The plaintiffs argue the policy is a partisan issue as well as a legal problem, pulling no punches on this point: "it is well understood that the overseas civilian voting bloc, which is partly comprised of these illegal never-resident voters, overwhelmingly supports and votes for Democratic Party candidates."

The latter from Stephen Green of Instapundit.

Also from Green:

Publius
@OcrazioCornPop
Trump, 2018: "Haiti is a sh!thole country."
Hollywood Libs: "Haiti is a great, truly beautiful country. Trump is a r*cist!"
Trump (& SCOTUS), 2026: "Temporary means temporary, Haitians have to return home to their great, truly beautiful country."
Hollywood Libs: "Haiti is a sh!thole country. They must be allowed to stay forever."
CHECKMATE, LIBTARDS.
WHY ARE HOLLYWOOD LIBS LIKE THIS?

Trump, 2018: "Haiti is a sh!thole country."

Hollywood Libs: "Haiti is a great, truly beautiful country. Trump is a r*cist!"

Trump (& SCOTUS), 2026: "Temporary means temporary, Haitians have to return home to their great, truly beautiful country."

Hollywood Libs: "Haiti is a� pic.twitter.com/MIihPkcYot
— Publius (@OcrazioCornPop) June 27, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:30 PM

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1 I worry about this one.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 05:32 PM (hzuYO)

2 Thanks, Ace!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2026 05:32 PM (iMotb)

3 No way.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 29, 2026 05:32 PM (ibDUx)

4 In the next few days, we may find out if we have a country or not

Don't wait. Buy ammo now.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 29, 2026 05:33 PM (2WIwB)

5
Hey kidz. Great day of posting, ace!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 29, 2026 05:33 PM (XJ22o)

6 In the next few days, we may find out if we have a country or not.

We don't.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 29, 2026 05:34 PM (ExV1e)

7 I was surprised by the Mail in Ballot decision... wonder if they made a deal to give the Lefties Judges that if they did not bitch too much about the Birthright citizenship question.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 05:35 PM (mP0Kj)

8 RNC Sues Colorado Over Allowing Birth Tourism Foreigners Who Never Even Set Foot in Colorado to Vote There
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NO STANDING!!

Posted by: Federal TDS Judge at June 29, 2026 05:36 PM (Fi81e)

9 Shithole or not a shithole? Depends on the narrative we need.
The Left

Posted by: steevy at June 29, 2026 05:37 PM (YwEeS)

10 Hollywood opinions are particularly ridiculous. Pay no attention to the fake people.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 29, 2026 05:37 PM (BFjnM)

11 WHY ARE HOLLYWOOD LIBS LIKE THIS?

Cognitive dissonance is all they've got upstairs.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 29, 2026 05:37 PM (O7YUW)

12 I bet the SC punts on this one.

Posted by: tubal at June 29, 2026 05:38 PM (Gqar8)

13 Birth tourism babies automatically become American citizens, and they can vote in perpetuity in American elections without residing here, but their ballots have to be post-marked no later than election day.

Another wise and fair decision!

Posted by: Chief Justice Roberts at June 29, 2026 05:38 PM (ciDxf)

14 > permitted to vote in Colorado despite having never, ever actually been residents of Colorado.

I see how this can gum up Senate and Presidential elections by handing control over to China — especially now since Colorado is party to NPVIC.

But how do Congressional districts work? Through random lottery, or do Chinese nationals with US birth certificates get their ballots marked and routed to Congressional Districts that need some padding?

Posted by: Community Notes at June 29, 2026 05:38 PM (U4c/V)

15 Anchor babies are critical to the ruling class project.

I wouldn't hold my breath, here.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 29, 2026 05:38 PM (BI5O2)

16 "the issue is never the issue. the issue is always the revolution."

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 29, 2026 05:39 PM (VyBeY)

17 I worry about this one.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 05:32 PM

Pretty sure that Trump is going to lose this one. SCOTUS may try to split the baby on their decision but I doubt it. The 14th amendment is ambiguous at best and we do not have the insights of the people who wrote it immediately after the civil war. We have some writings from that period that show they were only concerned with granting citizenship for freed slaves, but that's about it.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 29, 2026 05:39 PM (0N4FZ)

18 I should re-register to vote in CO.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 29, 2026 05:39 PM (R+iUD)

19 willowed from pevious thread.

357 linen clothes.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:33 PM (uhVAy)
Mint Julips.
Posted by: Eromero at June 29, 2026 05:35 PM (LHPAg)

Posted by: Eromero at June 29, 2026 05:39 PM (LHPAg)

20 10 Hollywood opinions are particularly ridiculous. Pay no attention to the fake people.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 29, 2026 05:37 PM (BFjnM)

If'n they believe in Haiti so much, why don't they invest some of their Hollywood bucks there?

Help Haiti grow.... oh.. wait... the crime and corruption is so bad the business would go under? Geee....

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 05:39 PM (mP0Kj)

21 I'm not optimistic on this one.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 29, 2026 05:39 PM (viF8m)

22 Haiti: An argument for colonization

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 29, 2026 05:39 PM (XeU6L)

23 12 I bet the SC punts on this one.
Posted by: tubal at June 29, 2026 05:38 PM (Gqar

Think they will once again use the 'important question' dodge? Saying Congress must intervene on the question?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 05:41 PM (mP0Kj)

24 A 28-year-old man was killed in a crocodile attack on a popular beach in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, on Friday evening, according to state authorities.

A warning sign on beach near the Marriott Resort Puerto Vallarta in a handout photo taken on Saturday, June 27, 2026, and supplied to ABC News.
Jamie Yetter
The victim, who was from Mexico, was on the beach in front of the Marriott Puerto Vallarta Resort and Spa when he was allegedly attacked by the reptile and dragged out to sea.
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Firstly, it isn't just Democrats who are out to kill you.

Secondly, don't go to Mexico. Just doesn't pay.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 29, 2026 05:41 PM (BFjnM)

25 I bet the SC punts on this one.
Posted by: tubal

Yeah, I'm thinking it will be some kind of narrow ruling like an administration can ban pregnant women from travel to the US but they can't stop the attachment of citizenship to a kid born in the US by a fraudulent foreigner.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 29, 2026 05:41 PM (diia5)

26 Have nothing to do with Haiti would be my advice but no one asked.

Posted by: tubal at June 29, 2026 05:41 PM (Gqar8)

27 I mean, has Haiti really ever been great?

The revolution in 1791 was a massacre followed by a dictator and it's been downhill ever since.

How many times has the U.S. sent the military to Port-au-Prince in the past 150 years just to keep them from genociding each other?

If it's already great, then go home and make it better.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 29, 2026 05:41 PM (6ydKt)

28 The president can ban “any alien or class of aliens..”

Cool, then ban all pregnant women from entering the country.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 29, 2026 05:42 PM (u73oe)

29 We have some writings from that period that show they were only concerned with granting citizenship for freed slaves, but that's about it.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 29, 2026 05:39 PM (0N4FZ)
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Because that was the express purpose of the amendment.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 29, 2026 05:42 PM (BFjnM)

30 4> Comey deciding that her children will live in a shithole

My guess is that the justices have life-time appointments, looked at the actuarials and figured that they would be dead before the world descends into a Thousand Years of Darkness due to the last candle of Liberty being violently snuffed out.

Their progeny be damned.

Posted by: Community Notes at June 29, 2026 05:42 PM (U4c/V)

31 The argument that everybody in the US is "subject to the jurisdiction" because they can be arrested for breaking US laws is ridiculous.

Can you imagine if we arrested a foreigner and we said to their home country "Shut up, you have no say, they are subject to our jurisdiction!"?

We wouldn't be getting people back from other countries either, would we? Because they were busted over there, "subject to their jurisdiction" in the same sense, right?

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 05:43 PM (Fi81e)

32 So here's a question. American Samoans are, in actual fact, not US citizens. They are "US Nationals." Whatever the heck that means.

They cannot vote in the US, but they don't pay federal taxes (through a grant of Congress, actually. They probably would prefer to pay federal taxes: they are lower than American Samoa territorial taxes!).

So can an American Samoan come to, say, Michigan and vote? If two American Samoan people have a kid in Missouri: what is the kid: a national, or a citizen? Can a US citizen who moves to Pago Pago vote in American Samoan elections?

Some of these questions apply to Guam and Puerto Rico too, but I think American Samoa is unique.

More to the point: why should a chinese baby born in San Fran international airport just outside the baggage claim have more rights than an American Samoan?

Posted by: SimoHayha at June 29, 2026 05:43 PM (/ZkOF)

33 The only thing nice I can say about those celebs is that Susan Sarandon once had nice sweaters

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 29, 2026 05:43 PM (f6yx7)

34

"if you are a US citizen who has never lived in the US, you can register to vote in Colorado if your parent, legal guardian, spouse, or domestic partner was a resident of Colorado before leaving the US."

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If I described this contorted contrived "right" to a Chinese friend she'd think it was crazy. How many other states do this?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 29, 2026 05:43 PM (XJ22o)

35 Will they betray us again? Or should I say, will Roberts and his mousy mini-me Barrett betray us again?

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 29, 2026 05:43 PM (fZiTB)

36 Any comments on Supreme Court Overrules Humphrey’s Executor?

Posted by: tybee refugee at June 29, 2026 05:43 PM (fg922)

37 7 I was surprised by the Mail in Ballot decision... wonder if they made a deal to give the Lefties Judges that if they did not bitch too much about the Birthright citizenship question.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 05:35 PM (mP0Kj)

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I hope you are correct on this! Gives me hope! Please!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 05:44 PM (hzuYO)

38
Wonder if this is true?

Publius
@OcrazioCornPop
·
1h
🚨 DID YOU KNOW: On the NIGHT Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, Mitch McConnell called Trump and TOLD him 2 things:

1. "First, I’m putting out a statement that we’re filling the vacancy."

2. "You’ve GOTTA nominate Amy Coney Barrett.”

They rammed her through the Senate in under 5 weeks before the 2020 election.

Did McConnell sabotage Trump intentionally or was it just bad judgment?

Posted by: beckster at June 29, 2026 05:44 PM (kX27y)

39 I bet the SC punts on this one.
Posted by: tubal at June 29, 2026 05:38 PM (Gqar
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Like it's a first-down surprise.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 05:44 PM (Fi81e)

40 We have some writings from that period that show they were only concerned with granting citizenship for freed slaves, but that's about it.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 29, 2026 05:39 PM (0N4FZ)
===========================
Because that was the express purpose of the amendment.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 29, 2026 05:42 PM

And it would have been cut and dried if they actually wrote that in the amendment but they chose not to for various political reasons.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 29, 2026 05:44 PM (0N4FZ)

41 Haiti: An argument for colonization
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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Only a racist right-winger would say that.

Posted by: Papa Doc Duvalier at June 29, 2026 05:44 PM (XeU6L)

42 Since it’s getting close, time to lay a marker on how the birthright citizenship case will go.
John Roberts will hold that there is no guarantee of birthright citizenship in the constitution, BUT that the model for dealing with it is the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, which required an act of Congress. He will further hold that the Executive does not have the power to make a change through an EO only, but that this is an exclusively legislative power.

Amy Barrett and the 3 stooges will join in the ruling.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 05:44 PM (orF8y)

43 Jennifer Welch: “They’re so terrified that Zohran Mamdani or Barack Obama isn’t white, but they’re smarter, they’re better looking, they’re more liked. Black excellence exposes white mediocrity and they can’t stomach it”

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Oh. Well, that explains it then.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at June 29, 2026 05:44 PM (OYBsn)

44 Did McConnell sabotage Trump intentionally or was it just bad judgment?

Posted by: beckster at June 29, 2026 05:44 PM (kX27y)
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Yes.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 05:44 PM (Fi81e)

45 Haiti is a craphole country and a dangerous place. I buy that the Haitains fled danger. But they CAME from there, and Haitians are the reason for the danger. Its their home, they made it that way. Why bring them here??

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:45 PM (UZCuZ)

46 Birth tourism babies automatically become American citizens, and they can vote in perpetuity in American elections without residing here, but their ballots have to be post-marked no later than election day.

Another wise and fair decision!
Posted by: Chief Justice Roberts at June 29, 2026 05:38 PM (ciDxf)
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When you think about it, anchor babies function as a sort of tax on working Americans. So, it's a tax.

Posted by: John Roberts, Epstein Island Visitor at June 29, 2026 05:45 PM (BFjnM)

47 The revolution in 1791 was a massacre followed by a dictator and it's been downhill ever since.

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But for the space of a year, this too is the story of the country Haiti revolted against.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 29, 2026 05:45 PM (BI5O2)

48 Jennifer Welch would be wise to NEVER comment on another’s looks.

Posted by: tubal at June 29, 2026 05:45 PM (Gqar8)

49
If two American Samoan people have a kid in Missouri: what is the kid: a national, or a citizen?

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

Pretty sure that's a citizen. Even if they're two Syrian terrorists whose bomb woopsied and didn't detonate and they're in jail and woops again one of them was pregnant. Birthright!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 29, 2026 05:46 PM (XJ22o)

50 How many times has the U.S. sent the military to Port-au-Prince in the past 150 years just to keep them from genociding each other?

If it's already great, then go home and make it better.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 29, 2026 05:41 PM (6ydKt)

Time to turn our heads and let them genocide each other. We can't stop them from doing it, but we can keep that culture out of here.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 29, 2026 05:46 PM (zYpTz)

51 I can't predict what the Supreme Court will do I was certain they'd never overturn Roe v Wades, so that's what my crystal ball is worth.

My guess is that there are some deals being made: you vote for this and I'll vote for that, despite how they are supposedly all about justice and the constitution. But I have a bad feeling about the birthright thing, no matter how obviously they should clearly shoot it down.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:46 PM (UZCuZ)

52 Birthright citizenship decision has me worried, I won't lie.
KTE was born while we were H1-B, and KTY was
born while we were green card holders.
Hoping that if there are sweeping changes it will be "going forward" basis.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 29, 2026 05:47 PM (eZ5tL)

53
9 Shithole or not a shithole? Depends on the narrative we need.
The Left
Posted by: steevy at June 29, 2026 05:37 PM

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Schrödinger's shithole.

Posted by: John Bolton at June 29, 2026 05:47 PM (azNOR)

54 It's not a checkmate. It's gaslighting which is just one of many tools at their disposal.

(A) and (not A) - is not a flaw, it is a weapon

Posted by: banana Dream at June 29, 2026 05:47 PM (3uBP9)

55 The Associated Press
@AP
Iran has been eliminated from the World Cup in heartbreaking fashion, narrowly failing to advance past the group stage in a politically charged tournament where the team played its matches amid tight restrictions imposed by the United States.

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And where was Mohammad?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at June 29, 2026 05:47 PM (OYBsn)

56 Reading the tealeaves !

Posted by: runner at June 29, 2026 05:47 PM (gAb7M)

57 Haiti: An argument for colonization
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 29, 2026 05:39 PM (XeU6L)
***************************

Action is evidently necessary and no doubt it would be a mistake to postpone it long.

Posted by: Zombie Woodrow Wilson at June 29, 2026 05:48 PM (ciDxf)

58 Haiti is a beautiful country. Spectacular natural beauty. But there’s … cannibals.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at June 29, 2026 05:48 PM (qLMMh)

59 Hoping that if there are sweeping changes it will be "going forward" basis.

They can't ex post facto citizenship away, but they CAN say "from this point on, no more." I just fear they will let it lie.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:48 PM (UZCuZ)

60 58 Haiti is a beautiful country. Spectacular natural beauty. But there’s … cannibals.

==

And voodoo.

Posted by: runner at June 29, 2026 05:48 PM (gAb7M)

61 I’ve no illusions that the Court will hold with a plain reading of the 14th.

It isn’t even debatable really. Hell, the guy who wrote the Amendment explained this. Allowing for US Citizenship of illegal aliens is just legal fairy tale mumbo-jumbo by quacks, clowns wearing a robe And demanding Respect.

Some ideas are so stupid, only an intellectual could believe them. Or profess to, anyway. It’s more correctly a form of warfare. They have learned to profit from it, as well as destroy the existing political structure, so it is wildly popular.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 29, 2026 05:49 PM (2jLYo)

62 The US occupied Haiti from 1915-1934, 1994 and 2004. The Clintons occupied it after 2011. It still sucks epically

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 29, 2026 05:49 PM (f6yx7)

63
Any comments on Supreme Court Overrules Humphrey’s Executor?
Posted by: tybee refugee

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

Well hell, it happened.

"in reaching that decision, the court overruled its 91-year-old decision in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States"

--SCOTUSBlog

We don't seem to be celebrating it much, maybe because we're prepping for the birthright blackpill.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 29, 2026 05:50 PM (XJ22o)

64 Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 29, 2026 05:47 PM (eZ5tL)
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You're good: in plain language, the Feds can't look back when changing a law, and this will no doubt get punted in some manner to the legislature.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 29, 2026 05:50 PM (BFjnM)

65 Lets just get this over with and lose. Its clear its coming.

I think the best we can hope for is some kick the can "Congress needs to address this" ruling.

My fear is a full throated "anyone born here, including illegally to an invader, is a full fledged citizen"

It's always the liberal side that the courts are "brave" on.

Posted by: Sharpie at June 29, 2026 05:50 PM (m7YgG)

66 Cannibals and Voodoo - but hey we can change them!! Just some money and a military policing presence!!

Posted by: tubal at June 29, 2026 05:50 PM (Gqar8)

67 >>Haiti is a beautiful country. Spectacular natural beauty. But there’s … cannibals.

Probably wise to avoid the gang leader nicknamed "Barbecue".

Posted by: JackStraw at June 29, 2026 05:50 PM (viF8m)

68 The SC is not going to slaughter a ruling class sacred cow like this one. They're free to throw certain milk-bones to the Right, but shit like this is out-of-bounds.

Similar to Congress, with SAVE. These guys aren't about to commit treason against their class.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 29, 2026 05:50 PM (BI5O2)

69 My guess is that there are some deals being made: you vote for this and I'll vote for that, despite how they are supposedly all about justice and the constitution. But I have a bad feeling about the birthright thing, no matter how obviously they should clearly shoot it down.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:46 PM (UZCuZ)
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They are expressly not supposed to be voting.

That would mean that they have become the super legislature that invalidates the entire enterprise.

They should have no other standard than what does a proper interpretation of the laws ratified by the people or passed by the people's representatives entail or allow?

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 05:50 PM (Fi81e)

70 Since it’s getting close, time to lay a marker on how the birthright citizenship case will go.
John Roberts will hold that there is no guarantee of birthright citizenship in the constitution, BUT that the model for dealing with it is the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, which required an act of Congress. He will further hold that the Executive does not have the power to make a change through an EO only, but that this is an exclusively legislative power.

Amy Barrett and the 3 stooges will join in the ruling.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 05:44 PM

That was pretty much my thought when I said they will try to split the baby on their decision. Drop back and punt it back to congress to articulate a federal statute for anchor baby status based on the 14th amendment. As you noted they have done it before but they will most likely not do it this time.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 29, 2026 05:51 PM (0N4FZ)

71 52 Birthright citizenship decision has me worried, I won't lie.
KTE was born while we were H1-B, and KTY was
born while we were green card holders.
Hoping that if there are sweeping changes it will be "going forward" basis.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 29, 2026 05:47 PM (eZ5tL)

You were here legally, with permission, thus under the Jurisdiction of.

I would submit this is for those on Tourist Visas, or illegals, not here with a valid Work Permit or Green Card.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 05:51 PM (mP0Kj)

72 The Associated Press
@AP
Iran has been eliminated from the World Cup in heartbreaking fashion, narrowly failing to advance past the group stage in a politically charged tournament where the team played its matches amid tight restrictions imposed by the United States.

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And where was Mohammad?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at June 29, 2026 05:47 PM (OYBsn)
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AP says it was Trump's fault that Iran lost.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 29, 2026 05:52 PM (BFjnM)

73 Haiti is a beautiful country. Spectacular natural beauty. But there’s … cannibals.

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And shakedowns by the police of people who look like they can afford to hand over money.

But other than cannibals and corruption, it has some nice beaches.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 05:52 PM (Fi81e)

74 I've seen people mention this, ATC has on the twitters, but the absence of leaking from the commies that leak stuff they don't like in order to target justices for violence means they like the direction the SCOTUS discussions are going. If the commies didn't like the decision we would have already heard about it.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 29, 2026 05:52 PM (3uBP9)

75 I am 90% sure they keep birthright as is. Roberts is a coward, Barrett is a typical bleeding heart woman.

Posted by: steevy at June 29, 2026 05:53 PM (YwEeS)

76 72 The Associated Press
@AP
Iran has been eliminated from the World Cup in heartbreaking fashion, narrowly failing to advance past the group stage in a politically charged tournament where the team played its matches amid tight restrictions imposed by the United States.

-
And where was Mohammad?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at June 29, 2026 05:47 PM (OYBsn)
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AP says it was Trump's fault that Iran lost.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 29, 2026 05:52 PM (BFjnM)

So, another Reason to Support President Trump?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 05:53 PM (mP0Kj)

77 ... wonder if they made a deal to give the Lefties Judges that if they did not bitch too much about the Birthright citizenship question.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 05:35 PM

Or they're going to f*ck us twice in one week.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 29, 2026 05:53 PM (kgE5c)

78 As was mentioned in an earlier thread, I have some sympathy for the SC, in that problems the legislative branch should fix gets passed on to them- the Supremes don't have to face re-election every few years, so let's make them do it. But being cowards for the most part, they respond like the cowards they are. For the most part. I expect a coward's decision, with the dissent coming from those who are not cowards. Happy to be wrong.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at June 29, 2026 05:54 PM (QaH55)

79 That damn Musk!

https://tinyurl.com/4umcx7pn

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at June 29, 2026 05:54 PM (OYBsn)

80 42> SCOTUS's version of King Solomon's Splitting the Baby

Except SCOTUS is cool with the bloody mess. They perceive themselves as immune.

The problem though with waiting on Congress is that we know exactly what they will do — just look at SAVE America Act.

America had a good run. Glad to be a part of that tiny window of time, enjoyed by only a few hundred million people out of the billions who have suffered under tyranny throughout all of human history.

Posted by: Community Notes at June 29, 2026 05:54 PM (9Hs2w)

81 The only thing nice I can say about those celebs is that Susan Sarandon once had nice sweaters
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 29, 2026 05:43 PM (f6yx7)

Shows you how long ago that photo was taken. They're probably down to her waist, now.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 29, 2026 05:54 PM (k9OZB)

82 What are "early life benefits?"

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 29, 2026 05:54 PM (Cqx++)

83 Did iran play against any JOOOOOS?

Posted by: torabora at June 29, 2026 05:54 PM (4tOtz)

84 63 it was good, it was nice. They exempted the Fed though, the one that needs it he most.

Posted by: steevy at June 29, 2026 05:54 PM (YwEeS)

85 Where can we place our bits?

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2026 05:55 PM (Ia/+0)

86 Babylon Bee has their SCOTUS review of the Mississippi decision up:

"Woman rules it's OK to be late"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 29, 2026 05:55 PM (Ttn/0)

87 >>We don't seem to be celebrating it much, maybe because we're prepping for the birthright blackpill.

It was ace's first post of the day.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 29, 2026 05:56 PM (viF8m)

88 Haiti makes me believe in demons. That place is horrific

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:56 PM (UZCuZ)

89 The US occupied Haiti from 1915-1934, 1994 and 2004. The Clintons occupied it after 2011. It still sucks epically
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 29, 2026 05:49 PM

*waves from 1994*

Now let's talk about the smell....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 29, 2026 05:56 PM (kgE5c)

90 Breaking NBC: Senate Ethics Committee dismisses misconduct complaint against Ruben Gallego

Posted by: Frank Barone at June 29, 2026 05:57 PM (OkYzo)

91 That damn Musk!

https://tinyurl.com/4umcx7pn
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at June 29, 2026 05:54 PM (OYBsn)
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As usual, when PBS gets it wrong, it is 100% wring.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 29, 2026 05:57 PM (Ttn/0)

92 Zombie Woodrow Wilson
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I heard your guns, in the harbor at Vera Cruz.

Posted by: Warren Zevon at June 29, 2026 05:57 PM (XeU6L)

93 Any changes made to immigration status in past have always been "from that point forward".

No Ex Post Facto laws.

In fact, in determining someone's citizenship or legal residency status, critical moments (when they were born + where, or where they resided at a given point in time) will be compared against the citizenship/immigration law at those times.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 29, 2026 05:57 PM (O7YUW)

94 One of the facets of this that doesn't get enough play is that foreign intelligence agencies exploit this process incessantly. In 2010 ten Russian known spies entered this country and gave birth. However, they were never able to "groom" the child to get into a position to compromise because the pseudo-parents were found out and arrested.

Another case occurred in Virginia. The Valery/Smirnov Case: An undercover Russian couple living in Arlington, VA, operating as "Michael Zottoli" and "Patricia Mills". They had a 1 year old and a 3 year old at the time...but they were found out.

China has a system in place to do this, and the child grows up in China, but holds a US citizenship. When they become adults, the come here and infiltrate. Standard Chinese espionage procedure.

Posted by: Orson at June 29, 2026 05:57 PM (dIske)

95 Birthright citizenship decision has me worried, I won't lie.
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Not me. Judges will continue to disgrace themselves, or we'll see a modicum of move back to the Constitution.

I do not expect judges to wholesale stop disgracing themselves and their profession. That would be hoping too much.

A judge went against black-and-white of the Temporary Protection Act for Haitians. Congress, who can restrain the lower judiciary by law expressly said that the courts could not review an executive reversal of the Temporary protection, but a judge had to chime in because a Democrat sued Trump.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 05:58 PM (Fi81e)

96 C'mon, let's be fair to Haiti -- they've only been independent for TWO HUNDReD AND TwENTY FUCKIN' YEARS and haven't had time to get their shit together yet. Also, they're burdened with COUNTLESS ACRES OF FERTILE SOIL, PLENTY OF RAINFALL AND A PERECT CLIMATE as well as ENDLESS BEAUTIFUL BEACHES AND COASTLINE, so we shouldn't expect them to make much of their dire situation.

Posted by: zombie at June 29, 2026 05:58 PM (Av6i5)

97 Shows you how long ago that photo was taken. They're probably down to her waist, now.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 29, 2026 05:54 PM (k9OZB)

Oh, she's got enough money to have them fixed when they get low.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 29, 2026 05:58 PM (zYpTz)

98 I made a new term:

Shitlibic Principle -

The proposition that the range of possible observations that could be made about the SCOTUS is limited by the fact that observations are only possible in the type of outcome that violent crazed shitlibs would inform observers of in the first place.

Posted by: banana Dream - Look I'm Shakespeare! at June 29, 2026 05:59 PM (3uBP9)

99 I've seen people mention this, ATC has on the twitters, but the absence of leaking from the commies that leak stuff they don't like in order to target justices for violence means they like the direction the SCOTUS discussions are going. If the commies didn't like the decision we would have already heard about it.
Posted by: banana Dream

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It's actually a smart read imo.

If the SC struck down birthright citizenship, 100% it would be leaked.

Posted by: Sharpie at June 29, 2026 05:59 PM (+8UYc)

100 If the courts let CO do that then every blue state will do it and the same foreigners will vote in every state. That one absolutely has to be stopped or it will fester into millions.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 29, 2026 06:01 PM (n5tGW)

101 71> I would submit this is for those on Tourist Visas, or illegals, not here with a valid Work Permit or Green Card

And here is exactly why SCOTUS will keep the status quo or write some convoluted mess that is, at best, a speed bump.

The amount of weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth to get their anchor-babies sanctioned. Do babies dropped by H1B temporary "workers" get their anchor baby blessed as US citizen? Every sob story and legal argument will be pitched endlessly and pushed by every Leftist into Olympic Levels of Emotional Extortion.

Posted by: Community Notes at June 29, 2026 06:01 PM (nCgQz)

102 It will be 5/4 against the Republica and Thr USA is finished

Posted by: Gonzotx at June 29, 2026 06:01 PM (xoYx8)

103 What'd Humphrey do? Just sayin' some people need executin'.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 29, 2026 06:01 PM (3uBP9)

104 100% it would be leaked or the Justices had a CTJ meeting with staff and threatened them with their life if there was a leak.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 29, 2026 06:02 PM (afJtY)

105 Birthright citizenship is a scam

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2026 06:02 PM (Ia/+0)

106 C'mon, let's be fair to Haiti -- they've only been independent for TWO HUNDReD AND TwENTY FUCKIN' YEARS and haven't had time to get their shit together yet. Also, they're burdened with COUNTLESS ACRES OF FERTILE SOIL, PLENTY OF RAINFALL AND A PERECT CLIMATE as well as ENDLESS BEAUTIFUL BEACHES AND COASTLINE, so we shouldn't expect them to make much of their dire situation.
Posted by: zombie at June 29, 2026 05:58 PM

Except for the part when the government told them to cut down trees for firewood during the embargo in the early 90s and the idiot inhabitants cut down so much wood that the fertile soil all washed down the hills into the harbor. There are places there that look like desert due to deforestation.

As we said at the time, evacuate the population somewhere, mulch the top 3 feet of Haiti, plant trees, then send them all back after a few years to start over.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 29, 2026 06:03 PM (kgE5c)

107 If birthright citizenship is ended I'll solicit everyone here with a hat they don't want anymore to send it to me so I can then eat it.

Posted by: ballistic at June 29, 2026 06:04 PM (5aZAZ)

108 The amount of weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth to get their anchor-babies sanctioned. Do babies dropped by H1B temporary "workers" get their anchor baby blessed as US citizen? Every sob story and legal argument will be pitched endlessly and pushed by every Leftist into Olympic Levels of Emotional Extortion.

Posted by: Community Notes at June 29, 2026 06:01 PM (nCgQz)
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I agree. The Time of Bold Men has passed.

Trump may be its last gasp. Perhaps Vance. But until we suffer more for bad choices, we will comfort ourselves into rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, so to speak.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 06:04 PM (Fi81e)

109 The US occupied Haiti from 1915-1934, 1994 and 2004. The Clintons occupied it after 2011. It still sucks epically

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 29, 2026 05:49 PM

1994 wasn't really an occupation we just sort of let them empty the country out after the president was deposed. Whoever supported him made a mad scramble to get to the US in anything that could float. We were stationed at GITMO when the haitian boat lift happened. The Navy and Coast Guard brought over 15,000 smelly nasty haitains to GITMO that they had intercepted at sea.

We set up a tent city for them and they eventually were all able to go to the states on the taxpayers dime including the 1,500 of them that were HIV positive after a judge ruled they could no longer be held in "prison" just because they were hiv positive.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 29, 2026 06:04 PM (0N4FZ)

110 If birthright citizenship is ended I'll solicit everyone here with a hat they don't want anymore to send it to me so I can then eat it.

Posted by: ballistic at June 29, 2026 06:04 PM (5aZAZ)
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What about pudding cups?

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 06:05 PM (Fi81e)

111 I think the best we can hope for is some type of convoluted decision. I hope to be shocked and sending hats to ballistic.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 29, 2026 06:06 PM (n5tGW)

112 If the theory is that the 3 are taking turns, it will probably be Gorsuch allowing birthright citizenship...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 29, 2026 06:06 PM (tOcjL)

113 WHY ARE HOLLYWOOD LIBS LIKE THIS?

Low IQs and herd mentality.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 29, 2026 06:06 PM (xvV+O)

114 If birthright citizenship is ended I'll solicit everyone here with a hat they don't want anymore to send it to me so I can then eat it.

Posted by: ballistic at June 29, 2026 06:04 PM (5aZAZ)
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What about pudding cups?
Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 06:05 PM

There wouldn't be enough pudding in the world.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 29, 2026 06:06 PM (kgE5c)

115 94> China infiltrates with anchor baby saboteur.

It really doesn't matter. China breached US databases ages ago. They don't even need to have an anchor baby, just add/modify records in the voting, SSI and other record databases.

Or simply bribe bureaucrats to make the child a citizen.

With nearly a dozen states refusing to show their election databases, its most likely that they are hiding a pattern of them doing this already.

Posted by: Community Notes at June 29, 2026 06:06 PM (nCgQz)

116 I have a solution. All cheap birthing center motels owned by foreigners are designated ad hoc foreign soil, and you gain the citizenship of the designation of said owner.

The population of Indian citizens would skyrocket.

Posted by: Orson at June 29, 2026 06:06 PM (dIske)

117
Hate has no home here!!! Love is love!!! Free Luigi!!!

Wait, where's my Xanax?

Posted by: Amy Commie Barrett at June 29, 2026 06:07 PM (ceJ0R)

118 CNN was saying the decision is tomorrow.

But CNN.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 29, 2026 06:07 PM (Sco7b)

119 C'mon, let's be fair to Haiti -- they've only been independent for TWO HUNDReD AND TwENTY FUCKIN' YEARS and haven't had time to get their shit together yet. Also, they're burdened with COUNTLESS ACRES OF FERTILE SOIL, PLENTY OF RAINFALL AND A PERECT CLIMATE as well as ENDLESS BEAUTIFUL BEACHES AND COASTLINE, so we shouldn't expect them to make much of their dire situation.

Yeah we have to be realistic here. Haiti should be a rich paradise, not a demon-ridden hell hole with cannibals. Its not like there is no other place in the region that has figured it out and got rich and happy.

Its not the area. Its not the slavery history. Its not the color of their skin. There's something wrong with the people there; there's something evil in that culture.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 06:07 PM (UZCuZ)

120 I should re-register to vote in CO.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 29, 2026 05:39 PM (R+iUD)
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You misspelled "additionally register."

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 29, 2026 06:08 PM (xvV+O)

121 "I would submit this is for those on Tourist Visas, or illegals, not here with a valid Work Permit or Green Card."
Posted by: Romeo13

Maybe SCOTUS will "split the baby", somewhere along those lines. Automatic citizenship for illegals and "birth tourism" is insane, yet congress will not address it unless we can get more MAGA, fewer socialist/globalist RINOs.

But I'd rather not have the millions of Indians or others (that are not becoming American) getting citizenship for their spawn, either.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 29, 2026 06:08 PM (vbXSk)

122 Commies have a plan.

Posted by: Accomack at June 29, 2026 06:08 PM (/Chlc)

123 Haiti has given us Barbancourt rhum. Take the rhum. Leave everything else.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at June 29, 2026 06:08 PM (QaH55)

124 I think the best we can hope for is some type of convoluted decision

Yeah even if they don't uphold the stupidity of birthright citizenship the writer of the amendment clearly did not mean... I think they'll punt and ban only some weird exceptions.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 06:09 PM (UZCuZ)

125 Take a look at a satellite image of Haiti and it's island neighbor.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 29, 2026 06:09 PM (n5tGW)

126 The problem with Haiti is that it is full of Haitians.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 29, 2026 06:09 PM (bl07w)

127 Birthright citizenship is a scam
Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2026 06:02 PM (Ia/+0)
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It is. Ambiguities should not be resolved as "What the text allows" but also "What is in the country's interest for it to mean?"

And I mean "interest" in the old-fashioned way. Not "Well, it is in our 'interest' to be more touchy-feely country that our abstract ideals argue we should be." But what is arguably in America's best economic and logistical interest.

I'm not against aspirations, I'm just against them in the same way that the Constitution should not be a feel-good suicide pact sense. Unless we as a people have explicitly decided this is what we are going to do.

Not some telephone game in the fucking courts!!

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 06:09 PM (Fi81e)

128 I think Barrett fears for her children's safety, and that influences her opinions. She never should have taken the position if she spooks that easily.

Maybe we should establish a minimum age for justices. Make sure they have a few decades of experience judging cases.

Posted by: Weak Geek at June 29, 2026 06:09 PM (yRCXf)

129 The problem with Haiti is that it is full of Haitians.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 29, 2026 06:09 PM (bl07w)
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I tried to take care of that problem.

Posted by: Baby Doc Duvalier at June 29, 2026 06:10 PM (Fi81e)

130 117
Hate has no home here!!! Love is love!!! Free Luigi!!!

Wait, where's my Xanax?
Posted by: Amy Commie Barrett at June 29, 2026 06:07 PM (ceJ0R)

Maybe she meant "Haiti" has no home here? Good sign.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 29, 2026 06:10 PM (bl07w)

131 What about pudding cups?
Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 06:05 PM (Fi81e)
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I will eat the hats while I soak my entire lower body in a horse trough full of pudding.

Posted by: ballistic at June 29, 2026 06:11 PM (5aZAZ)

132 >>Commies have a plan.

It was announced today that a big part of that plan, Neville Singham, is being investigated with a grand jury in New York.

Really looking forward to seeing what comes from that.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 29, 2026 06:11 PM (viF8m)

133 Trump v. Slaughter - Sounds like an episode of GI JOE where Trump is airdropped into a Cobra compound where they are developing a giant battle robot named SLAUGHTER, and Trump whips its ass. Midway episode there's a 15 second spot on why you should look both ways before crossing the street or you'll cause a wreck like a freaking commie.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 29, 2026 06:11 PM (3uBP9)

134 This whole controversy was the basis for a "Chico and the Man" episode. Chico brought a pregnant woman across the border so her baby would be born a U.S. citizen.

I thought that was so wrongheaded. Haven't changed my opinion.

Posted by: Weak Geek at June 29, 2026 06:12 PM (yRCXf)

135 "There's something wrong with the people there; there's something evil in that culture." Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Voodoo and Creole (language and tradition?) like small parts of Louisiana. Seems I recall voodoo was part of some Bond movies ... maybe it is more widespread than I know of.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 29, 2026 06:12 PM (vbXSk)

136
Birthright citizenship decision has me worried, I won't lie.

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I'm doing a little better since Trump closed up the borders and started throwing people out.

I watched a video put out by CBP of stopping an obviously pregnant woman trying to enter on a tourist visa and lying about the advanced state of her pregnancy, determining that she didn't have enough money for a hospital visit, and sending her home.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 29, 2026 06:12 PM (XJ22o)

137 Yeah even if they don't uphold the stupidity of birthright citizenship the writer of the amendment clearly did not mean... I think they'll punt and ban only some weird exceptions.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 06:09 PM (UZCuZ)
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The one thing I can say about Roberts is that he rarely gives us a no-exit plan and has given us a foothold that we can, with the will, change later. Even if it can't change now.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 06:12 PM (Fi81e)

138 It was announced today that a big part of that plan, Neville Singham, is being investigated with a grand jury in New York.

Really looking forward to seeing what comes from that.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 29, 2026 06:11 PM (viF8m)
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Probably not much if the grand jury is in New York.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 29, 2026 06:13 PM (gnNyN)

139 I think Barrett fears for her children's safety, and that influences her opinions. She never should have taken the position if she spooks that easily.

Yeah she does not strike me as someone who comes to a conclusion based on rigid, cold logic

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 06:14 PM (UZCuZ)

140 If a citizen adopts a child, is the child granted citizenship?

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 29, 2026 06:15 PM (zYpTz)

141
140 If a citizen adopts a child, is the child granted citizenship?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 29, 2026 06:15 PM (zYpTz)

I believe so; but it’s an interesting question.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 06:16 PM (orF8y)

142
Why should people on work permits get citizen babies? Those visas have to be renewed every 1-3 years. Their kids can get the citizenship of their parents.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 29, 2026 06:16 PM (XJ22o)

143 Yeah we have to be realistic here. Haiti should be a rich paradise, not a demon-ridden hell hole with cannibals. Its not like there is no other place in the region that has figured it out and got rich and happy.

Its not the area. Its not the slavery history. Its not the color of their skin. There's something wrong with the people there; there's something evil in that culture.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 06:07 PM

haiti shares and island with the dominican republic which is a rich and prosperous nation. Same island, same resources but two vastly different outcomes* The only real difference between the two countries is that haiti was settled by african slaves.

*cannibals not withstanding.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 29, 2026 06:16 PM (0N4FZ)

144 My gut feel is we lose this case. At least a 7-2 ruling.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 29, 2026 06:17 PM (l3cgK)

145 I don't see any way ACB and Roberts do the right thing with birthright citizenship.

Posted by: shenanigans at June 29, 2026 06:17 PM (ZDltW)

146 128> Maybe we should establish a minimum age for justices.

You must have a Y chromosome.

Posted by: Community Notes at June 29, 2026 06:17 PM (a3CJ+)

147 >>> The one thing I can say about Roberts is that he rarely gives us a no-exit plan and has given us a foothold that we can, with the will, change later. Even if it can't change now.
Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 06:12 PM (Fi81e)

He's a large, ungainly sack of shit, that while not immovable, requires a great effort over time to amend.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 29, 2026 06:17 PM (3uBP9)

148 Live and let Die, that was a fun one.
Roger Moore escaped from the alligator island by running across the alligators.

And Jane Seymour!

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 06:18 PM (orF8y)

149 ACB or Biden's pick instead?

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 29, 2026 06:19 PM (DZ9Lv)

150 As far as I understand it, the Dominican Republic was a slave plantation colony as well, and rebelled against the Spanish government for independence. They had to fight Haiti several times as well.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 06:20 PM (UZCuZ)

151 >>Probably not much if the grand jury is in New York.

Maybe. I heard they were going after him for money laundering and likely have the proof. I doubt Xi would turn him over to the US for prosecution, he's part of the team, but we might get irrefutable proof of foreign money funding a lot of anti-American stuff in the US like BLM.

Democrats are way behind in the cash drive because a lot of the money being funneled to them and their causes is drying up.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 29, 2026 06:20 PM (viF8m)

152 Democrat/Socialist/Commies never miss a trick, do they?
And you know judges see what their game is but don't give a sh*t. We are going to lose our country if this keeps up.

Posted by: Case at June 29, 2026 06:20 PM (IY9No)

153 I didn't think there was much chance for Birthright Citizenship to go Trump's/Our way, but then again I was pretty sure the ballot case was going to...So I'm a bad reader of the Court..

Posted by: It's me donna at June 29, 2026 06:20 PM (FtULh)

154
If a citizen adopts a child, is the child granted citizenship?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

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Adoptees can be in a very weird and difficult legal zone. I knew someone in that situation.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 29, 2026 06:21 PM (XJ22o)

155 I'm going to hold out for a win on anchor-baby citizenship. At least a small win.

Just 'cause.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 06:22 PM (Fi81e)

156 That Singham dude is kinda hot.

Posted by: Amy Commie Barrett at June 29, 2026 06:22 PM (ceJ0R)

157 The Dominican Republic is no paradise. Remember when their only positive figue Big Papi was assaulted on the neach?

Good times.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 29, 2026 06:22 PM (wBaIH)

158 151 >>Probably not much if the grand jury is in New York.

Maybe. I heard they were going after him for money laundering and likely have the proof. I doubt Xi would turn him over to the US for prosecution, he's part of the team, but we might get irrefutable proof of foreign money funding a lot of anti-American stuff in the US like BLM.

Democrats are way behind in the cash drive because a lot of the money being funneled to them and their causes is drying up.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 29, 2026 06:20 PM (viF8m)

Yes, cutting out one of the legs of their grift cycle (Tax money-> fake charities and NGOs -> Democrat party) can have that effect.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 29, 2026 06:22 PM (l3cgK)

159 152 Democrat/Socialist/Commies never miss a trick, do they?
And you know judges see what their game is but don't give a sh*t. We are going to lose our country if this keeps up.

Posted by: Case at June 29, 2026 06:20 PM (IY9No)

Some judges are deeply involved in the game.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 29, 2026 06:23 PM (l3cgK)

160 In the next few days, we may find out if we have a country or not.

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I'm expecting we'll be fucked again vis-a-vis "Birthright Citizenship" by Benedict Roberts and "severely-conservative" Coney Island Barrett.

Posted by: ShainS at June 29, 2026 06:23 PM (HjEU2)

161 >> If a citizen adopts a child, is the child granted citizenship?

Amy Coney Barrett could tell you for sure cause she's got a couple from Haiti.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 29, 2026 06:23 PM (viF8m)

162 140 If a citizen adopts a child, is the child granted citizenship?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 29, 2026 06:15 PM (zYpTz)

My son is from Guatemala. We had to jump through a lot of hoops to bring him here, and it took a fair bit of paperwork, plus being fingerprinted twice, paying $300 in crisp $20 bills to the American Consulate in Guatemala for his visa, legally adopting him again in the US, and then the granting of his Certificate of Citizenship.

We are not allowed to make a copy of that Certificate--for some reason that is illegal. Neither will they issue another one if it is destroyed somehow.

He still doesn't have a passport, because they required that we send his Certificate THROUGH THE MAIL to Louisiana for some special asshat to review it to issue a passport. They just couldn't do that in Alaska, or Wisconsin for that matter. We said NO.

If he needs one in the future, he will just have to take it in person to Louisiana or risk losing his only proof of citizenship.

He is a citizen, but you couldn't tell that from these idiots.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 29, 2026 06:23 PM (bl07w)

163 Isn't last day in June deadline for Supreme Court decisions?

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2026 06:24 PM (Ia/+0)

164 If a citizen adopts a child, is the child granted citizenship?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 29, 2026 06:15 PM
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Hubby & his XW adopted a foreign-born child in the late 1980s. They had to *apply* for him to receive U.S. citizenship.

Posted by: JQ at June 29, 2026 06:25 PM (rdVOm)

165 I don't see how they can split the baby with this ruling...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 29, 2026 06:25 PM (FtULh)

166 If a citizen adopts a child, is the child granted citizenship?

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 29, 2026 06:15 PM

We had a guy in the Navy that was adopted by US parents. I think he was canadian. This guy's family did not know they had to do paperwork after the adoption to make him a citizen and we only found out when they did a background check on him that he wasn't a US citizen. They filled out the papers and got it rushed through the state department so we didn't have to kick him out of the Navy.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 29, 2026 06:26 PM (0N4FZ)

167 I think there are only 2 countries in the world that do this bullcrap, one being us.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 29, 2026 06:26 PM (n5tGW)

168 165 I don't see how they can split the baby with this ruling...
Posted by: It's me donna at June 29, 2026 06:25 PM (FtULh)

Well, you take an ax...

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 29, 2026 06:26 PM (bl07w)

169 ...
We are not allowed to make a copy of that Certificate--for some reason that is illegal. Neither will they issue another one if it is destroyed somehow.
...

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 29, 2026 06:23 PM (bl07w)

You should be able to petition the court or whatever Fed agency issued the certificate for certified copies.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 29, 2026 06:26 PM (l3cgK)

170 You should be able to petition the court or whatever Fed agency issued the certificate for certified copies.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 29, 2026 06:26 PM (l3cgK)

We tried that. It is illegal to do so.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 29, 2026 06:27 PM (bl07w)

171 168 165 I don't see how they can split the baby with this ruling...
Posted by: It's me donna at June 29, 2026 06:25 PM (FtULh)

Well, you take an ax...

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 29, 2026 06:26 PM (bl07w)

Yes, but do you cut lengthwise or width-wise? Or will it be some Frankenstein snip and sew job?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 29, 2026 06:27 PM (l3cgK)

172 He is a citizen, but you couldn't tell that from these idiots.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 29, 2026 06:23 PM (bl07w)

Thanks for the explanation, tcn.

Yeah, I would not be letting that document out of my possession, either. Better to travel with it to wherever they demand you go.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 29, 2026 06:27 PM (zYpTz)

173 170 You should be able to petition the court or whatever Fed agency issued the certificate for certified copies.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 29, 2026 06:26 PM (l3cgK)

We tried that. It is illegal to do so.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 29, 2026 06:27 PM (bl07w)

Who or what agency issued the certificate?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 29, 2026 06:28 PM (l3cgK)

174 " Remember when their only positive figue Big Papi was assaulted on the neach?"

What is a neach?

And what s a leppo?

Posted by: illiniwek at June 29, 2026 06:28 PM (vbXSk)

175
I think there are only 2 countries in the world that do this bullcrap, one being us.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk

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There's a handful of them, and the others are mainly shitholes.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 29, 2026 06:28 PM (XJ22o)

176 You should be able to petition the court or whatever Fed agency issued the certificate for certified copies.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 29, 2026 06:26 PM (l3cgK)

We tried that. It is illegal to do so.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 29, 2026 06:27 PM (bl07w)

Who or what agency issued the certificate?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 29, 2026 06:28 PM

Probably the state department.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 29, 2026 06:29 PM (0N4FZ)

177 174 " Remember when their only positive figue Big Papi was assaulted on the neach?"

What is a neach?

And what s a leppo?

Posted by: illiniwek at June 29, 2026 06:28 PM (vbXSk)

Don't worry, it's only a figue of him.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 29, 2026 06:29 PM (l3cgK)

178 175> There's a handful of them, and the others are mainly shitholes.

And if Birthright remains unchanged, the US will join them as a shithole.

Posted by: Community Notes at June 29, 2026 06:30 PM (a6PrB)

179 In 11 years, the first Chinese baby that my cousin birthed will be 18. The Court better get their shit together or the Democratic Socialists will be permanently entrenched.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 29, 2026 06:30 PM (38i2N)

180 Joining late - but if Foreign nationals who happened to be birthed on US soil send in their ballots which are post marked on Election Day (because anyone can get the stamp) - what are we the US People prepared to do?

That’s is what this is coming to.

When are we ready to say No More?
And what then happens?

Posted by: CtSpursman at June 29, 2026 06:30 PM (1jbkT)

181 I don't see how they can split the baby with this ruling

Oh, something like "coming here temporarily cannot be used for citizenship but if you come here for asylum or come through the system to stay here it works"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 06:30 PM (UZCuZ)

182 So it's illegal for the Government to issue a copy of a document created by the Government that substantiates the Citizenship status of somebody? That...seems whack.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 29, 2026 06:31 PM (l3cgK)

183 If they meant to say that all persons born in the US were citizens, they would have just said that. Instead they added an additional qualification: "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof."

Most American Indians weren't citizens until the 1920's, despite having been born in the United States - they were citizens of the Sioux Nation or whatever.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 29, 2026 06:31 PM (aD4fx)

184 I said for awhilethey will split the baby
Those who are citizens, those who aren't
What rules God only knows, but they will try it

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2026 06:31 PM (Ia/+0)

185 184 I said for awhilethey will split the baby
Those who are citizens, those who aren't
What rules God only knows, but they will try it

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2026 06:31 PM (Ia/+0)

It's a tax--John Roberts, Chief Scrotum

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 29, 2026 06:32 PM (l3cgK)

186 DM sez tonite's moonrise at 7.56pm ET will be pretty. Look to the SE.

Posted by: gp at June 29, 2026 06:32 PM (Jr5Lq)

187 >>>WHY ARE HOLLYWOOD LIBS LIKE THIS?

Because they're afraid of being ousted from the tribe and cast into the outer darkness. That's why they express the curiously same opinions on every topic.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at June 29, 2026 06:33 PM (CwhoI)

188 140 If a citizen adopts a child, is the child granted citizenship?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

Used to be they'd have to submit a naturalization application for the kid of some sort

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 29, 2026 06:33 PM (DoBxX)

189 nood

Posted by: gp at June 29, 2026 06:33 PM (Jr5Lq)

190 " I don't see how they can split the baby with this ruling..." Posted by: It's me donna

idk, maybe they say no to "birth tourism", or foreigners that come with intent to give birth and go home with their "anchor baby" to raise in their home country, but with the "US Citizen" bonus.

Less likely they could say illegals don't get the anchor baby status, only those here on green cards or other legal status. But "who knows" with Coney Island Beret and "It's a Flucking TAX" Roberts. (and maybe even Gorsuch?)

Posted by: illiniwek at June 29, 2026 06:34 PM (vbXSk)

191 I was surprised by the Mail in Ballot decision... wonder if they made a deal to give the Lefties Judges that if they did not bitch too much about the Birthright citizenship question.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 05:35 PM (mP0Kj)
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Those of us who rightfully castigated the federal courts for making up new laws from the bench can't complain too much when the Supremes point out that the Constitution makes clear which branch of government has determinate authority for election law. It isn't the Executive Branch.

The SC is stating that if mail in ballots cannot be counted if received after polls close on election day, then election law must contain the specific language to make that happen. Congress must pass the the Save America bill to save America.

Posted by: mrp at June 29, 2026 06:38 PM (rj6Yv)

192 6 In the next few days, we may find out if we have a country or not.

We don't.
Posted by: I used to have a different

The country I grew up in no longer exists, surveillance everywhere, Republicans look like 60's Democrats, Democrats look like communists and the communists no longer hide.

Buy ammo, you're going to need it. :/

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at June 29, 2026 06:40 PM (Q/FnY)

193 Trump (& SCOTUS), 2026: "Temporary means temporary, Haitians have to return home to their great, truly beautiful country."

However, Haitians in the United States hold legal presence through multiple separate and distinct immigration pathways, meaning they are not under just one blanket status. While many Haitian nationals were granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) , a significant number entered the country legally through the Humanitarian Parole program.These two programs operate under entirely different legal frameworks and requirements.

Most Afghans who arrived in the U.S. following the fall of Kabul in 2021 were admitted under Humanitarian Parole. While some individuals later obtained Temporary Protected Status (TPS), the Department of Homeland Security officially terminated the TPS designation for Afghanistan on July 14, 2025. AND...

Ukrainians are currently under both Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and Humanitarian Parole, depending on how and when they arrived in the United States. These are two completely separate immigration programs.

They've all produced many children.

Then there are Dreamers. Michelle O addressed the issue in her speech at the Tower opening.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 29, 2026 06:42 PM (NFX2v)

194 Considering all the shit going down in the world, I had a major personal victory this evening.

I achieved "first light" on my telescope this evening! I was able to finally get a decent focus on Venus this evening with my new astrophotography rig.

It's a bit more complicated than it sounds because there is no eyepiece to look through. You have to have a chain of electronic instruments working properly to bring an image up, to a screen.

Yayyyy!!!!

Posted by: pawn at June 29, 2026 09:45 PM (XGbvx)

195 Re 190: Since the lawsuit is about whether someone can show up with a kid, assert they were born here then vote in Colorado Elections without having been a resident, I'm going to guess they limit the scope of whether non-residents can vote in local elections, and asset that you have to be a Colorado resident to vote in Colorado elections.

They then punt on everything else involved in the case.

Posted by: Voyager at June 30, 2026 01:25 AM (lk05u)

Another (Expected) Deadly Heat Wave Hits Europe, With Some Beginning to Doubt the Green Left's Dogmatic Opposition to Air Conditioning

Europe is so beaten by the heat that they're willing to entertain embracing the unfashionable American preference for air-conditioning.

How will they reverse their decades-old determination to let the elderly die in heat waves?

As the BBC shows us: Simple! They'll now say that air conditioning is a sad but necessary response to global warming!

Air conditioning creates political divide after France records hottest day
With temperatures soaring, France is being forced to re-think its longstanding reservations about one possible answer to climate change: air-con.
This week debate about la clim (climatisation) has once again burst out, with Marine Le Pen on the populist right urging a mass subsidised roll-out and traditionally hostile Greens conceding that some air-conditioning may now be inevitable.
Currently the country has a low take-up, with only 25% of households equipped with an air-con unit. In Spain and Italy the figure is 50%, and in the US and Japan 90%.
French hospitals and schools are also only rarely equipped. Thousands of schools have had to shut this week, and medical and nursing staff complain of conditions fast becoming intolerable.
But with temperatures nudging 40C - Tuesday was France's hottest day on record - there has been a rush to buy portable air-conditioning appliances, just to let children enjoy a few hours in class, or for suffocating apartment-dwellers to make it through the night.
And more and more, it seems, long-standing opponents of air-conditioning - mainly on the environmentalist left - recognise that it is bound to be part of the country's response to global warming.
This week the head of the Ecologists party Marine Tondelier broke something of a taboo when she said that air-conditioning would be needed in schools and hospitals.
"There are places where we just can't do without it now," she said.
Her break with what she called "anti-clim dogma" is significant because until now the Green movement in France has regarded air-conditioning as the worst of solutions to climate change.

Germany also doesn't have "air con" in hospitals, including in cardiac care units, where you'd think a hospital would want patients to be as stress-free as possible.

In fact, in Germany, they're telling family members of heart attack victims to bring in their own ice-packs for patients recovering from a coronary.

Frenchies are "storming" stores to buy the last few air conditioning units in the country.

Shoppers desperate to escape Europe's brutal heat wave stormed a French store for air conditioners and fans, shoving and scrambling for the last cooling units.
The chaotic scenes unfolded this week at a store in Chambray-les-Tours, where dozens of people waited outside before rushing through the doors as the security shutter rolled open, according to The Sun.
Footage on social media shows shoppers elbowing their way through the crowd and clambering over one another to snatch portable air conditioners and fans from the shelves.

Within seconds, the display had been stripped nearly bare.
The buying frenzy comes as much of Western Europe swelters through a record-breaking heat wave that has pushed temperatures above 104 degrees Fahrenheit in parts of France, Spain, and neighboring countries.
The extreme heat has already taken a deadly toll.
French Sports Minister Marina Ferrari posted on X that at least 55 people have drowned across France as residents sought relief from the soaring temperatures in rivers, lakes and other waterways.
Among the most heartbreaking cases was the death of a 3-year-old boy who became trapped inside a family car in Saint-Gratien, outside Paris, on Wednesday, authorities said.
The child climbed into the vehicle after his father told him to take a nap, but the car's child-lock system engaged, trapping him inside as outside temperatures climbed above 85 degrees.
He was discovered about 45 minutes later but could not be revived.

They're limiting sales of alcohol to try to reduce the rates of heat-related hospitalizations:

"We are reaching a saturation point in hospital facilities," Paris police chief Patrice Faure said Thursday.

This is pure European neofeudalism: The EU commission wants to show that its doing its part to reduce "global warming" by turning off AC in part of the building.

Specifically, the eight lower floors where the plebes work.

The top seven floors where the elites work will have full AC:

Pieter Cleppe
@pietercleppe
The EU Commission in Brussels has shut off airco, but only for the lower floors, where the lower ranks work:
"It's like feudalism," a Commission official working on a lower level of the Berlaymont, granted anonymity to speak freely, told POLITICO on Friday, referring to the fact that upper floors housing commissioners got to keep their AC on. A second official agreed it was a "disgrace."

The European Commission's headquarters was forced to shut down its air-conditioning system on Friday due to the heat wave.
Staff working at the Berlaymont building received a text at midday, reading: "BERL -- URGENT -- Due to extreme weather conditions, forced shut down of air cooling system from floor 1 to 7 for the rest of the day."
The 13-story building is home to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, her 26 commissioners and about 3,000 staff. Von der Leyen works on the 13th floor, and most of her commissioners' offices are housed on floors eight or above.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:31 PM

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1 OH NO!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 29, 2026 04:31 PM (N1tpc)

2 ....anyway

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 29, 2026 04:32 PM (N1tpc)

3 The people (of Europe) have voted, and now they must be punished with their choice.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 29, 2026 04:32 PM (N1tpc)

4 I guess I should nood... but it's so hot, I don't wanna.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 29, 2026 04:32 PM (N1tpc)

5 Summer arrives... unexpectedly.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 29, 2026 04:33 PM (ExV1e)

6 Europe is so beaten by the heat that they're willing to entertain embracing the unfashionable American preference for air-conditioning.
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Maybe there's hope for Europe. I blame it on the World Cup being in America.

Posted by: WisRich at June 29, 2026 04:34 PM (G0vdT)

7 So the schools in France are not out yet?

Posted by: Alice Cooper at June 29, 2026 04:35 PM (nvKZ7)

8 I bet Trump would knock a point, point and a half off those 15 percent tariffs for you if you asked.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 04:35 PM (uhVAy)

9 The labour government spokescreeps have literally come out and said that air conditioning is bad, because if people were comfortable and not dying of heat stroke, they would not buy into the global warming scam. That, plus several green party members made the point that without AC, many more people will die, and people dying is the prime goal of their party.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 29, 2026 04:35 PM (0U5gm)

10 The left doesn't care if old people die.

They only care if they can use it to attack the right.

Otherwise, they're happy to decrease the strain on their evil socialist healthcare systems. (See: Canada and ease of getting MAID vs. ease of getting a dr's appt.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 29, 2026 04:35 PM (N1tpc)

11 I've been arguing with Grok this afternoon about the drone/airliner situation. I'm pretty sure we are going to see an airliner on approach in the NE taken down in the next couple days.

Posted by: pawn at June 29, 2026 04:36 PM (XGbvx)

12 Europe is so beaten by the heat that they're willing to entertain embracing the unfashionable American preference for air-conditioning.

Regrettably, this would require an electrical system which produced enough power for the poors and that is tantamount to American witchcraft so you'll all have to continue dying. -- European betters

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 29, 2026 04:36 PM (ExV1e)

13 The labour government spokescreeps have literally come out and said that air conditioning is bad, because if people were comfortable and not dying of heat stroke, they would not buy into the global warming scam. That, plus several green party members made the point that without AC, many more people will die, and people dying is the prime goal of their party.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 29, 2026 04:35 PM (0U5gm)

I bet their offices are air conditioned.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 04:36 PM (uhVAy)

14 It's Europe. Probably more the smell than the heat.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 29, 2026 04:36 PM (wCTP0)

15 Make no mistake, had Kamala won, she'd be banning AC in the US as well.

Saw a photo of some Euro who'd run a vent pipe from his EV into his house.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 29, 2026 04:36 PM (3cUTc)

16 I want Ursula's elevator to stop and get stuck on the 7th floor, the doors open 2 inches and can't close or open any further, and have to sit in that humid, stank air for 8-12 hours as engineers struggle and fail to pry the doors open further or fix the elevator. Better yet, have 5-6 "Asian" men in the elevator with her, with their personal hygiene habits as well.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at June 29, 2026 04:36 PM (KFbdf)

17 Maybe instead of department stores, the euros should 'storm' the EU Commission HQ and see if that stupid cvnt can fly.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 29, 2026 04:36 PM (R+iUD)

18 But, but. Europeans are some much more sophisticated than us ugly Americans!

Posted by: Danger Hair Karen at June 29, 2026 04:36 PM (IYeV+)

19 It's always such a tragedy when people suffer for their own stupidity.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 04:36 PM (edUvp)

20 They always hate to admit we're right about anything. Always, always.

I hope they are washing their clothes more frequently with all this heat, in their teeny-tiny Barbie washers that take 3 hours to run a small load.

Posted by: bluebell at June 29, 2026 04:36 PM (afFes)

21 It is not too far to go to say that AC changed America and opened up areas of the country to development and expansion. Not a luxury for many many of us but a necessity. Yay Mr Carrier!!

Posted by: tubal at June 29, 2026 04:37 PM (sgO4s)

22 Specifically, the eight lower floors where the plebes work.

The top seven floors where the elites work will have full AC:
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Come on Ace, don't be anti science. Everyone knows heat rises so that's were the nice A/C needs to go....those top floors.

Posted by: WisRich at June 29, 2026 04:37 PM (G0vdT)

23 The child climbed into the vehicle after his father told him to take a nap, but the car's child-lock system engaged, trapping him inside as outside temperatures climbed above 85 degrees.

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That is a pretty clever child lock system. Killing children in the name of a the climate cult.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 29, 2026 04:37 PM (0U5gm)

24 How will they reverse their decades-old determination to let the elderly die in heat waves?
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Why by putting an age restriction on A/C.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 04:37 PM (Fi81e)

25 No AC? Poor Euros. They've become accustomed to it, per many YT vids. Maybe time for them to go home after the WC and make some changes.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 29, 2026 04:37 PM (1Ff7Z)

26 Europe is a dog turd wrapped in a brow paper bag inside an empty 40 oz can of Olde English 800.

Posted by: Zombie Winston Churchill at June 29, 2026 04:37 PM (K5H/e)

27 I find in incredible that hospitals don't have air conditioning. What a disgrace!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2026 04:38 PM (Yl2Ob)

28 >>> 23 The child climbed into the vehicle after his father told him to take a nap, but the car's child-lock system engaged, trapping him inside as outside temperatures climbed above 85 degrees.

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That is a pretty clever child lock system. Killing children in the name of a the climate cult.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 29, 2026 04:37 PM (0U5gm)

No one could break a fcking window to get the kid out?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 29, 2026 04:38 PM (R+iUD)

29 "The child climbed into the vehicle after his father told him to take a nap, but the car's child-lock system engaged, trapping him inside as outside temperatures climbed above 85 degrees.

He was discovered about 45 minutes later but could not be revived."

You should probably note that is 85C, not 85F.

85F means I wake up sweaty. 85C means I don't wake up.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 29, 2026 04:38 PM (N1tpc)

30 Wouldn't be a shame if the engineers accidentally reversed which floors did and didn't have A/C and then either went on strike or took their monthly 4=week holiday?

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at June 29, 2026 04:39 PM (KFbdf)

31 I've been arguing with Grok this afternoon about the drone/airliner situation. I'm pretty sure we are going to see an airliner on approach in the NE taken down in the next couple days.
Posted by: pawn at June 29, 2026 04:36 PM (XGbvx)

Airports have plenty of detectors for unknown signals and aircraft already. You might do better blasting the gates than trying to hit an aircraft in flight, even landing.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 04:39 PM (uhVAy)

32 >>It is not too far to go to say that AC changed America and opened up areas of the country to development and expansion. Not a luxury for many many of us but a necessity.

When I lived in Tucson, there were almost no houses with AC Units. Just the trusty Swamp Cooler.

Posted by: garrett at June 29, 2026 04:39 PM (/ytnd)

33 You call it "deaths from a heatwave*," I call it "improved solvency for our free health care."

/s/ European Bureaucrat

* Or cold snap, I don't care--it's all old and sick people dying either way.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 29, 2026 04:40 PM (3cUTc)

34 They always hate to admit we're right about anything. Always, always.

I hope they are washing their clothes more frequently with all this heat, in their teeny-tiny Barbie washers that take 3 hours to run a small load.
Posted by: bluebell at June 29, 2026 04:36 PM (afFes)
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Well, from the rhetoric I've heard over and over from the left, they don't want to "encourage" the idea that we were "right about something".

Because then, you see, we'll get the idea that we're "right" about Nazism, and you got your next Third Reich situation.

Everything is about the short-circuits in their brains.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 04:40 PM (Fi81e)

35 Every time an old white person dies an air-conditioned Eurocrat in Brussels gets a thrill up its leg. It really is just ritualistic human sacrifice.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at June 29, 2026 04:40 PM (V362x)

36 I think one of the reasons for this is that heat waves kill off primarily the old and infirm, and the governments want to cull their pensioners, who also utilize the most health care services generally. Get rid of those useless eaters.

Posted by: They really do want you to die at June 29, 2026 04:40 PM (TbWk/)

37 French Minister of Ecology aggressively makes fun of people advocating for air conditioning by observing air conditioning doesn't fix climate change.

http://tiny.cc/vbu5101

Posted by: bonhomme at June 29, 2026 04:40 PM (mkw2N)

38 oh my god! Temperatures above 85 degrees!

My long range forecast for the next 14 days: mostly sunny with highs in the upper 90s every day.

Euros call that global warming. We just call it summer in Texas.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 04:40 PM (edUvp)

39 Europe never really got rid of feudalism, did they? There's still a small, indolent elite busily employed making everyone below them miserable.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at June 29, 2026 04:40 PM (CwhoI)

40 No one could break a fcking window to get the kid out?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Only mohammedans are allowed to carry weapons, and they aren't going to help.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 29, 2026 04:41 PM (0U5gm)

41 >>>They'll now say that air conditioning is a sad but necessary response to global warming!

The USA has Global-Warmed Europe into submission.

USA! USA! USA!

Posted by: No Name Today at June 29, 2026 04:41 PM (8mulE)

42 I like seeing all the memes that start with:

"I'm proud to be an American...where at least I have AC!".

Posted by: Thrawn at June 29, 2026 04:41 PM (KKMoa)

43 Of a piece with Germany decommissioning all its nuclear plants, right before the UKR war started.

Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 04:41 PM (RCjYY)

44 When I lived in Tucson, there were almost no houses with AC Units. Just the trusty Swamp Cooler.

Posted by: garrett at June 29, 2026 04:39 PM (/ytnd)
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And a swamp cooler was a pretty good substitute.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 04:41 PM (Fi81e)

45 I hope the Europeans here for the WC and who are enthusiastic about America enjoy the air conditioning.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2026 04:41 PM (Yl2Ob)

46 >>Europe is a dog turd wrapped in a brow paper bag inside an empty 40 oz can of Olde English 800.

You forgot the Late Stage Syphilis.

Posted by: garrett at June 29, 2026 04:41 PM (/ytnd)

47 In France they're running out of cooled spaces to store the recently deceased bodies...

Because France only lets you have air conditioning once you're dead.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 29, 2026 04:41 PM (N1tpc)

48 Wow, I didn't imagine even in Europe that hospitals didn't have A/C.

Been a while but last time I was in a Costco they had a fan that got crazy cold. And do these europeans not know how to watch youtube and create a temporary cooler for the hottest days.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 29, 2026 04:41 PM (n5tGW)

49 Van der Link and her SS are the above floors the untermenchen are not allowed. No clues here.

Posted by: Eromero at June 29, 2026 04:41 PM (LHPAg)

50 I think they call this summer....

Posted by: It's me donna at June 29, 2026 04:41 PM (kgetQ)

51 "I'm proud to be an American...where at least I have AC!".

Posted by: Thrawn at June 29, 2026 04:41 PM (KKMoa)
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And I won't forget the men who died to save that right for me.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 04:41 PM (Fi81e)

52 My long range forecast for the next 14 days: mostly sunny with highs in the upper 90s every day.

Euros call that global warming. We just call it summer in Texas.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 04:40 PM (edUvp)
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We're actually supposed to hit 102 for a couple days at the end of the week. Not unheard of around here, but it's early in the summer for that.

Posted by: bluebell at June 29, 2026 04:42 PM (afFes)

53 And if my parents had been in a hospital with temperatures over 100 degrees after heart surgery, they would have died. And had they done so, I could see wearing a vest like the one in the picture. But the little lumps wouldn't have been ice packs.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at June 29, 2026 04:42 PM (KFbdf)

54 I find in incredible that hospitals don't have air conditioning. What a disgrace!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2026 04:38 PM (Yl2Ob)

I had just moved into my first place with airconditioning in the 1990s when Chicago when a heatwave and power outage killed about 700 people. Of course, the aircon didn't work.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 04:42 PM (uhVAy)

55 Come on Ace, don't be anti science. Everyone knows heat rises so that's were the nice A/C needs to go....those top floors.
Posted by: WisRich at June 29, 2026 04:37 PM (G0vdT)

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It's trickle-down air-conditioning!

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at June 29, 2026 04:42 PM (V362x)

56 >>85F means I wake up sweaty. 85C means I don't wake up.

85C means you're on fire.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 29, 2026 04:42 PM (viF8m)

57 I heard on Dallas talk radio this morning that in england the "climate police" were going around and ordering people to remove AC units from their houses or face arrest.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 29, 2026 04:42 PM (0N4FZ)

58 How did everyone survive before A/C was invented? We only had ceiling fans in my elementary school in Louisiana and we only had an attic fan at home until we bought a window unit a year after we moved in.

I guess it's more brutal in a densely populated city in multi storied buildings. I do remember one summer in NY where I had no A/C . Box fan in the window was my only relief.

Posted by: polynikes at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (04gcy)

59 You should probably note that is 85C, not 85F.

85F means I wake up sweaty. 85C means I don't wake up.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 29, 2026 04:38 PM (N1tpc)

85C is 185 degrees F.
I don't think it was 185 degrees F in France.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (edUvp)

60 42 I like seeing all the memes that start with:

"I'm proud to be an American...where at least I have AC!".
Posted by: Thrawn at June 29, 2026 04:41 PM (KKMoa)

And we don't make old people die
When the temp hits 113

Posted by: Green Death Cult at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (TbWk/)

61 "At least it's a dry heat," said every Texan.

Posted by: 13times at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (6iKlf)

62 from the rhetoric I've heard over and over from the left, they don't want to "encourage" the idea that we were "right about something".
Because then, you see, we'll get the idea that we're "right" about Nazism, and you got your next Third Reich situation.

They keep this up, in 15 years the survivors of the purge are going to put up statues to that fucking guy.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (gKWVE)

63 "Airports have plenty of detectors for unknown signals and aircraft already. You might do better blasting the gates than trying to hit an aircraft in flight, even landing."

Well they don't seem to be working very well.

Maybe you should share this technology with the Russians.

Posted by: pawn at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (XGbvx)

64 Europe never really got rid of feudalism, did they? There's still a small, indolent elite busily employed making everyone below them miserable.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at June 29, 2026 04:40 PM (CwhoI)
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And teaching them to internalize the virtues of being deprived.

... in a "socialism"

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (Fi81e)

65 >>We're actually supposed to hit 102 for a couple days at the end of the week. Not unheard of around here, but it's early in the summer for that.

It's a balmy 56 degrees out, today. Rain, too.

Posted by: garrett at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (/ytnd)

66 I saw a sign at work here that said re: preventing heat stress/exhaustion- 'minimize or eliminate caffienated beverages'. And thought back to the two cups of coffee I had drank this morning 'Ill risk it.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (zZu0s)

67 "This is pure European neofeudalism: The EU commission wants to show that its doing its part to reduce "global warming" by turning off AC in part of the building.

Specifically, the eight lower floors where the plebes work.

The top seven floors where the elites work will have full AC:"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHA

/takes a breath in my air conditioned office

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

It's what you wanted Euro-trash. This is what you voted for. The "elite" were NEVER going to suffer with you.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (N1tpc)

68 32
>It is not too far to go to say that AC changed America and opened up areas of the country to development and expansion. Not a luxury for many many of us but a necessity.

When I lived in Tucson, there were almost no houses with AC Units. Just the trusty Swamp Cooler.
Posted by: garrett at June 29, 2026 04:39 PM (/ytnd

You are made of sterner stuff than I. Been to Tucson. Easy Bake Oven Town.

Posted by: tubal at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (pw8Ee)

69 It's trickle-down air-conditioning!
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at June 29, 2026 04:42 PM (V362x)
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This guy get's it!

Posted by: WisRich at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (G0vdT)

70 When I lived in Tucson, there were almost no houses with AC Units. Just the trusty Swamp Cooler.
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Swamp Cooler works fine in the desert.
Keeps it livable.

But in a swamp like Houston?
I still can't figure how folks settled the South without AC.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (3cUTc)

71 It is humid and hot as fuck here though.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 29, 2026 04:44 PM (zZu0s)

72 Pallets and pallets of window shakers at Wal Mart

Posted by: hurricane567 at June 29, 2026 04:44 PM (+ayKE)

73 And do these europeans not know how to watch youtube and create a temporary cooler for the hottest days.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 29, 2026 04:41 PM (n5tGW)
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They're learning. I saw a video yesterday that was put up two weeks ago by a good ol' American showing how to use frozen water bottles attached to the back of a fan to cool a room. 99% of the comments were grateful Europeans.

Posted by: bluebell at June 29, 2026 04:44 PM (afFes)

74 Social Media is bombarded with ITS HOT SO AMERICA SUCKS AND WE HAVE TO PAY MORE TAXES AND HAVE A ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT! Right now. And a host of misleading or fake pictures like melted traffic lights (the result of a scooter fire) and train tracks a mess (because the Danish used a soft meltable product for the base of the track, not the steel its self).

the A/C comments are the most hilarious though. They're screaming that Americans with air conditioning are WHY its so hot in Europe and the USA!!!!1!1!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 04:44 PM (UZCuZ)

75 Of a piece with Germany decommissioning all its nuclear plants, right before the UKR war started.
Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 04:41 PM (RCjYY)

They used to have France build them right on the border and sell them the power, because morality stops right there. Now, they are more honest but a lot dumber.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 04:44 PM (uhVAy)

76 Of a piece with Germany decommissioning all its nuclear plants, right before the UKR war started.

At least the Krauts have admitted that getting rid of their nukes was really, really, stupid. It takes a lot to get the Krauts to admit they were dumkopfs.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 29, 2026 04:44 PM (Riz8t)

77 61 "At least it's a dry heat," said every Texan.
Posted by: 13times at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (6iKlf)

Knock it off, Hudson.

Posted by: Sgt. Apone at June 29, 2026 04:44 PM (TbWk/)

78 > When I lived in Tucson, there were almost no houses with AC Units. Just the trusty Swamp Cooler.

Swamp coolers can work very well in dry climates, although they can spread dangerous mold spores and other things that grow on the cooling pad.

Unfortunately, a lot of low education poor people in humid places have swamp coolers. They don't seem to understand it's a terrible solution for their humid location.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 29, 2026 04:44 PM (mkw2N)

79 > Commission President Ursula von der Leyen tells staffers to eat cake.

At least the shrew didn't offer all of the elites (and their families) with offices on floors 8-13 to resume their duties at Davos — on taxpayer's dime — until the temperatures subside.

Posted by: Community Notes at June 29, 2026 04:44 PM (xE0sV)

80 >>> 57 I heard on Dallas talk radio this morning that in england the "climate police" were going around and ordering people to remove AC units from their houses or face arrest.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 29, 2026 04:42 PM (0N4FZ)

Wouldn't it be interesting if the A/C issue was what finally hmm, caused European citizens to insist on their rights.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 29, 2026 04:45 PM (R+iUD)

81 Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 04:42 PM (uhVAy

I understand about power outages. I don't understand a hospital deliberately choosing not to have air conditioning, and I am sorry about the people who died In Chicago.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2026 04:45 PM (Yl2Ob)

82 El Nino. It's a real thing.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 29, 2026 04:45 PM (viF8m)

83 One should thinknif Global warming was a problem that air conditioning would be a priority. But Global warming is their main concern so stick it Europeans because your not paying enough to stop it and your paying the piper.you

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2026 04:45 PM (Ia/+0)

84 >>You are made of sterner stuff than I. Been to Tucson. Easy Bake Oven Town.

Lived there for 6 years or so...never once had AC of any kind.

It's a dry heat.

Posted by: garrett at June 29, 2026 04:45 PM (/ytnd)

85 Social Media is bombarded with ITS HOT SO AMERICA SUCKS AND WE HAVE TO PAY MORE TAXES AND HAVE A ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT! Right now. And a host of misleading or fake pictures like melted traffic lights (the result of a scooter fire) and train tracks a mess (because the Danish used a soft meltable product for the base of the track, not the steel its self).

the A/C comments are the most hilarious though. They're screaming that Americans with air conditioning are WHY its so hot in Europe and the USA!!!!1!1!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 04:44 PM (UZCuZ)

Europe's weather comes from Canada, not the USA. We are too far south even if it moved that far. USA's hot weather comes from the Gulf, at least in the midwest.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 04:45 PM (uhVAy)

86 82 El Nino. It's a real thing.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 29, 2026 04:45 PM (viF8m)

It has a name

Posted by: It's me donna at June 29, 2026 04:45 PM (kgetQ)

87 Green politics is 50% graft and 50% neo-feudalism

Posted by: 18-1 at June 29, 2026 04:46 PM (sKqQm)

88 86 82 El Nino. It's a real thing.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 29, 2026 04:45 PM (viF8m)

It has a name
Posted by: It's me donna at June 29, 2026 04:45 PM (kgetQ)

It does? What's its name?

Posted by: Who's buried in Grant's tomb? at June 29, 2026 04:46 PM (TbWk/)

89 I heard on Dallas talk radio this morning that in england the "climate police" were going around and ordering people to remove AC units from their houses or face arrest.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 29, 2026 04:42 PM (0N4F
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I suspect they would only arrest the pasty white violators.

Posted by: bluebell at June 29, 2026 04:46 PM (afFes)

90 This week the head of the Ecologists party Marine Tondelier broke something of a taboo when she said that air-conditioning would be needed in schools and hospitals.

Which is long overdue. france has a surplus of electricity generation as they have a ton of nuclear plants. They have so much electricity they sell it to other EU countries and are the largest electricity exporter on the continent. It is stupid they have not embraced AC for at least their most vulnerable citizens.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 29, 2026 04:47 PM (0N4FZ)

91 > "At least it's a dry heat," said every Texan.

I've been to the interior of Florida in the middle of summer. It's absolutely miserable. The "dry heat" line is a cliche, but it's absolutely correct. Dry heat is far superior to humid heat.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 29, 2026 04:47 PM (mkw2N)

92 But in a swamp like Houston?
I still can't figure how folks settled the South without AC.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (3cUTc)

I remember traveling through St Francisville, La (southern swamp region) about this time one summer.

100 degrees. 100 percent humidity.
dead stillness. the only wind was the from the mosquito wings around our arms and faces.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 04:47 PM (edUvp)

93 When I lived in Tucson, there were almost no houses with AC Units. Just the trusty Swamp Cooler.

Posted by: garrett at June 29, 2026 04:39 PM (/ytnd)
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And a swamp cooler was a pretty good substitute.
Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 04:41 PM (Fi81e)

Listening to Adam Carolla rant about the swamp cooler he had to grow up with was pretty funny.

Posted by: polynikes at June 29, 2026 04:47 PM (04gcy)

94 You should probably note that is 85C, not 85F.

85F means I wake up sweaty. 85C means I don't wake up.

If you wake up to 85K, it might feel a bit nippy.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 29, 2026 04:47 PM (Riz8t)

95 How did everyone survive before A/C was invented? We only had ceiling fans in my elementary school in Louisiana and we only had an attic fan at home until we bought a window unit a year after we moved in.
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that's where I'm at.
I lived in those days.
105+ days in the summer.
No AC.
School didn't have AC, just open the north windows.

Did we all stink horribly but none of us knew it 'cause we all stunk?
Were we just used to it?

I do know that one of the reasons smoking was so acceptable is it was very good at masking funk.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 29, 2026 04:47 PM (3cUTc)

96 >>> 70
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I still can't figure how folks settled the South without AC.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (3cUTc)

A few people did. There was a yuge population shift towards the south and west after A/C became available to regular shmoes.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 29, 2026 04:47 PM (R+iUD)

97 Full disclosure it is the humidity I hate. We keep the AC at 80 during the summer. No humidity in the house is great.

Posted by: tubal at June 29, 2026 04:47 PM (sgO4s)

98 Euro governments are so worried about the energy grid's inadequacies being revealed that they are banning use of A/C and putting them into buildings.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 04:47 PM (UZCuZ)

99 the A/C comments are the most hilarious though. They're screaming that Americans with air conditioning are WHY its so hot in Europe and the USA!!!!1!1!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 04:44 PM (UZCuZ)

You know, I wish they were right. Because I'd respond "You're welcome for WWII and the last 80 years of protecting your ungrateful asses. And, oh by the way, better get your kneepads and lip balm. You're going to need it."

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at June 29, 2026 04:47 PM (KFbdf)

100 It's what you wanted Euro-trash. This is what you voted for. The "elite" were NEVER going to suffer with you.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (N1tpc)
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The trick is to make them think suffering is virtue to be proud of.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 04:48 PM (Fi81e)

101 Well, if nothing else, I admire Europe's consistent dedication to stupidity and self-sacrifice. They actually believe what their selling.

It makes me wonder what else we could get them to swallow.

Posted by: Orson at June 29, 2026 04:48 PM (dIske)

102 You know, I wish they were right. Because I'd respond "You're welcome for WWII and the last 80 years of protecting your ungrateful asses. And, oh by the way, better get your kneepads and lip balm. You're going to need it."
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at June 29, 2026 04:47 PM (KFbdf)

All that goat-flavored dick...

Posted by: Spotted! at June 29, 2026 04:48 PM (TbWk/)

103 There were posts noting heat rises hence the upper floors needing ac versus those super cool lower floors where the heat was escaping from. However, why was the 8th floor the point where the rising heat decided to do its dirty work? Why not the 4th? The 6th? Did someone run around with a temp gun and determine the point it became too much was the 8th floor and above?

Posted by: Piper at June 29, 2026 04:48 PM (hftzA)

104 Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 04:42 PM (uhVAy

I understand about power outages. I don't understand a hospital deliberately choosing not to have air conditioning, and I am sorry about the people who died In Chicago.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2026 04:45 PM (Yl2Ob)

In the older days, a similar situation would have everyone sleeping outside, or opening up windows like in the movie "Rear Window". In Chicago too many elderly were too afraid of crime to leave home or open up windows and died.

The next year or so an almost identical situation happened and the city was proactive in getting elderly free transport to malls and airconditioned areas and very few deaths were attributed to the heat.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 04:48 PM (uhVAy)

105 We have the swamp cooler. But also not in a high humid area. But it will keep it chilly. My wife apparently likes living in a freezer so I have to put on clothes in the summer.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 29, 2026 04:48 PM (n5tGW)

106 One of the guys at my golf course just put a HVAC system in his golf cart. Put solar panels on the roof to assist in lengthening the run time.

Posted by: polynikes at June 29, 2026 04:49 PM (04gcy)

107 How did everyone survive before A/C was invented?

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We survived. We weren't as comfortable. But we survived.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 04:49 PM (Fi81e)

108 >>> 92
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I remember traveling through St Francisville, La (southern swamp region) about this time one summer.
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Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 04:47 PM (edUvp)

Why?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 29, 2026 04:49 PM (R+iUD)

109 85C is 185 degrees F.
I don't think it was 185 degrees F in France.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (edUvp)

I believe they were referring to the temperature inside the locked car with the windows rolled up. 185 seems a bit high but it can get a bit warm.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 29, 2026 04:49 PM (ExV1e)

110 Well, if nothing else, I admire Europe's consistent dedication to stupidity and self-sacrifice. They actually believe what their selling.

It makes me wonder what else we could get them to swallow.
Posted by: Orson at June 29, 2026 04:48 PM (dIske)

15 percent tariffs for them and 0 for us is a good start. The EU finally agreed to that.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 04:50 PM (uhVAy)

111 How did everyone survive before A/C was invented?

They were smart enough to stay out of the heat ?

Posted by: It's me donna at June 29, 2026 04:50 PM (kgetQ)

112 I don’t have air conditioning in my apartment. It is uncomfortable when it’s over 80. 90 is right out.

We had a couple days in a row of over 100 in 2021. Everyone was still required to wear those silly stupid ineffective masks too.

So
Dumb

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 29, 2026 04:50 PM (QBhXE)

113 What are the odds you need special badge privileges to access those upper floors of the building.

No sneaking upstairs to cool off prole.

Posted by: Beartooth at June 29, 2026 04:50 PM (IYeV+)

114 06 One of the guys at my golf course just put a HVAC system in his golf cart. Put solar panels on the roof to assist in lengthening the run time.
Posted by: polynikes at June 29, 2026 04:49 PM (04gcy)

Good for him. Caddyshack worthy.

Posted by: tubal at June 29, 2026 04:50 PM (sgO4s)

115 People on social media are posting maps of Europe showing the heat but they are coloring it hilariously. One I saw started at orange for 16-20 celsius which is like.. 50s. Red was normal room temperature, then it got scarier and scarier. Why? Just to mislead people and make it seem worse than it really is.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 04:50 PM (UZCuZ)

116 This makes me want to send a Euro a video of a chihuahua in a little back yard dog house with a great big AC unit plugged into it. He'll be laying there with his head hanging out the door, and the AC unit will be blowing on his ass.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 04:50 PM (edUvp)

117 I would recommend leaving NATO for this issue alone. A people who are too stupid for too arrogant to not adapt properly to their environment aren't worth defending.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 29, 2026 04:50 PM (f6yx7)

118 How did everyone survive before A/C was invented?

They were smart enough to stay out of the heat ?

Well, except for mad dogs and Englishmen.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 29, 2026 04:50 PM (Riz8t)

119 Also why is AC an issue and not heat? That produces carbon, too probably more.

Posted by: Piper at June 29, 2026 04:51 PM (hftzA)

120 You should probably note that is 85C, not 85F.

85F means I wake up sweaty. 85C means I don't wake up.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at

Um no. 85c is 185f.

Posted by: Dandalo at June 29, 2026 04:51 PM (3QsZU)

121 France gets 65-70% of its electricity from carbon-free nuclear power, so wtf is the "but muh climate" problem with having A/C? Are they just so anti-American that they won't adopt one of our best inventions?

Posted by: the dandy at June 29, 2026 04:51 PM (8l8nW)

122 Let me remind you in this thread: Hollywood elites are cooling the outdoors down in Universal Studios theme park, where every ride exit is a gift store and Hollywood "hates Capitalism".

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 04:51 PM (Fi81e)

123 22> Science lecture on heat convection

Likewise, cooler air sinks, to match the their excrement that gravitationaly flows.

Posted by: Community Notes at June 29, 2026 04:51 PM (pawvM)

124 There were posts noting heat rises hence the upper floors needing ac versus those super cool lower floors where the heat was escaping from. However, why was the 8th floor the point where the rising heat decided to do its dirty work? Why not the 4th? The 6th? Did someone run around with a temp gun and determine the point it became too much was the 8th floor and above?
Posted by: Piper at June 29, 2026 04:48 PM (hftzA)
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Cause that's were the Directors and executives work.

Posted by: WisRich at June 29, 2026 04:51 PM (G0vdT)

125 "At least it's a dry heat," said every Texan.
Posted by: 13times at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (6iKlf)

Comments like this come from people who've never set foot in Houston, or San Antonio, or Dallas, or Austin, or...

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 29, 2026 04:51 PM (ExV1e)

126
In fourteen hundred ninety two
Columbus sailed the ocean blue
and eventually, the New World had AC

Posted by: Don Black at June 29, 2026 04:51 PM (ZxPkt)

127 I'm surprised they aren't pimping the benefits of mass deaths towards reducing global warming.

Posted by: Darth Randall at June 29, 2026 04:51 PM (dvvVb)

128 It will interesting in a few weeks when thousands of Europeans leave the US after the WC and head home, many with a new found respect for the US.

Most people don't react well when they discover their government has been lying to them all their lives and their standard of living is a choice made by bureaucrats in Brussels.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 29, 2026 04:51 PM (viF8m)

129 Peons don't need AC, let them use ice cubes.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 29, 2026 04:52 PM (B0dAE)

130 Also why is AC an issue and not heat? That produces carbon, too probably more.

Posted by: Piper at June 29, 2026 04:51 PM (hftzA)
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Rice paddies produce more methane than cow farts.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 04:52 PM (Fi81e)

131 I remember traveling through St Francisville, La (southern swamp region) about this time one summer.

100 degrees. 100 percent humidity.
dead stillness. the only wind was the from the mosquito wings around our arms and faces.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 04:47 PM (edUvp)

That's just down the road from Angola

Posted by: polynikes at June 29, 2026 04:52 PM (04gcy)

132 I remember traveling through St Francisville, La (southern swamp region) about this time one summer.
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Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 04:47 PM (edUvp)

Why?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 29, 2026 04:49 PM (R+iUD)

One of those things that seemed like a good idea right up to that point.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 04:52 PM (edUvp)

133 111 How did everyone survive before A/C was invented?

They were smart enough to stay out of the heat ?
Posted by: It's me donna at June 29, 2026 04:50 PM (kgetQ)

You worked from first light to maybe noon and took a few hours off until the temp started dropping again (as late as 4-5pm).

There's also a reason sweet tea was invented. The liquid and ice refreshed you, but the sugar also helped restore/rebalance your body.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at June 29, 2026 04:52 PM (KFbdf)

134 I saw the stats over the weekend that something like five times more euros die from winter cold than summer heat. It isn't just a summer thing. They don't have any type of HVAC.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 29, 2026 04:52 PM (0U5gm)

135 How did everyone survive before A/C was invented?

You get more used to hot weather and adapt to it so its less awful. You stop doing stuff during the hottest part of the day (siesta!). You leave windows open all night when its cooler and shut them in the morning to try to keep it somewhat cooler inside. You sleep outdoors or on a breezeway porch when you can. You take trips to get out of town to the mountains or the beach for cooler air. You sprinkle the lawn and play in the sprinkler. You dress as cool as you can. You had fans all over to help move the air around so its a little cooler.

Like Axeman said, it sucked but you could make it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 04:53 PM (UZCuZ)

136 Hot air rises...which makes no sense for that tyrantress to shut down AC for the first 7 floors.

I think this is the line that needed to be crossed for the revolutions to begin. Hundreds of thousands of World Cup fans, with their new love of the USA, will be returning to this insanity.

I can handle cold rooms but not hot rooms. I would die, too, without AC. The insanity of hospitals floors me. Schools without AC would lead to anarchy quickly.

UK demanding AC units be removed is just the start after being arrested for memes. I will be watching.

They found AC and freedom in the USA for our 250th Birthday. They found university football stadiums seating over 80k in air conditioning. They found free refills, Waffle House,Walmart and Bucees and ice in their drinks! The long hot days will exacerbate their homesickness for the USA.

This will not stand! Bangs sterling topped cane!

Slaps Starmer and gives him an iced coffee enema!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 04:53 PM (hzuYO)

137 >>> 116 This makes me want to send a Euro a video of a chihuahua in a little back yard dog house with a great big AC unit plugged into it. He'll be laying there with his head hanging out the door, and the AC unit will be blowing on his ass.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 04:50 PM (edUvp)

This is a real thing (scroll down a little):
https://shorturl.at/RErB3

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 29, 2026 04:53 PM (R+iUD)

138 91 > "At least it's a dry heat," said every Texan.

I've been to the interior of Florida in the middle of summer. It's absolutely miserable. The "dry heat" line is a cliche, but it's absolutely correct. Dry heat is far superior to humid heat.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 29, 2026 04:47 PM (mkw2N)

I really liked the climate at Huachuca for this very reason. All the heat, none of the humidity. Now I live in Houston. 9 months of swampass.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 29, 2026 04:53 PM (VZZ3b)

139 There is a validity to only cooling the upper floors, if you keep the doors to the stairwell open.

Cold air falls.

Heat only "rises" because the colder, denser air falls.

But it's funny that it does seem to have an elitist feel to it.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 04:54 PM (Fi81e)

140 90 in California is nice.

Fuck those assholes right to hell for ruining everything else about the state.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 29, 2026 04:54 PM (zZu0s)

141 How did people survive before air conditioning?

Men in 1776 at Independence Hall would wear a undershirt, a shirt, vest, overcoat, neck covering, oh and a hat to keep out the heat

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2026 04:54 PM (Ia/+0)

142 I will admit that I've gotten use to A/C and would not be happy without it .

Posted by: polynikes at June 29, 2026 04:54 PM (04gcy)

143 I'm surprised they aren't pimping the benefits of mass deaths towards reducing global warming.

Some cynical types are suggesting that not having AC around kills off the elderly and sickly so they are less a burden on their "free" healthcare systems. And I think that they want people to be miserable and suffer in the heat so the global warmening thing is more believable.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 04:54 PM (UZCuZ)

144 I'm surprised they aren't pimping the benefits of mass deaths towards reducing global warming.

Posted by: Darth Randall

They are. I have video of Boris Johnson and others explaining in their own words that the reason for net zero policy is to reduce the world's population.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 29, 2026 04:54 PM (0U5gm)

145
At least it's a dry heave.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 04:54 PM (Fi81e)

146 They're screaming that Americans with air conditioning are WHY its so hot in Europe and the USA!!!!1!1!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 04:44 PM (UZCuZ)

The AC units are blowing hot air outside which forms a heat current and travels to Europe. It's science. -- Fauci

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 29, 2026 04:55 PM (ExV1e)

147 High heat and humidity - move sloooow, and learn the wisdom of manana.

Posted by: tubal at June 29, 2026 04:55 PM (pw8Ee)

148 The "dry heat" line is a cliche, but it's absolutely correct. Dry heat is far superior to humid heat.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 29, 2026 04:47 PM (mkw2N)

Agree, sort of after growing up in the South and living in the West.

However, I learned that the Arizona heat is oven heat and prefer sweating vs it evaporating before you cope. I'd rather sweat than bake under the broiling sun.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 04:55 PM (hzuYO)

149 This is a real thing (scroll down a little):
https://shorturl.at/RErB3
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 29, 2026 04:53 PM (R+iUD)

LOL! We should start up a charity for the poor Euros, offer to send them some of these for them to sleep in.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 04:56 PM (edUvp)

150 Europe is so beaten by the heat that they're willing to entertain embracing the unfashionable American preference for air-conditioning.

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There are a number of reasons why Euros don't have near as much or as good A/C. But whatever is going on, it's an Article of European Faith that any deficiency is America's Fault, and it's also not a deficiency because it is Better Than How Those Louts Do It.

This is like saying "Here are the people embracing the unfashionable American preference for not having malaria." This shit ain't a choice, Pierre. If you Euros had the wherewithal to catch up to 1970s America, you'd be sitting in your nicely chilled pied-a-terre, sipping wine and dick, and ruminating on how A/C was actually a French idea in the first place.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 29, 2026 04:56 PM (BI5O2)

151 There is a validity to only cooling the upper floors, if you keep the doors to the stairwell open.

Cold air falls.

Heat only "rises" because the colder, denser air falls.

But it's funny that it does seem to have an elitist feel to it.
Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 04:54 PM (Fi81e)
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Elitist: Close the damn doors!

Posted by: WisRich at June 29, 2026 04:56 PM (G0vdT)

152 141 Actually I have no idea how they all didn't die of heat stroke

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2026 04:56 PM (Ia/+0)

153 European governments discourage or outright ban AC because they don’t have the power generation capability to support it. The whole “we don’t use it because we don’t want to” is bullshit.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 29, 2026 04:56 PM (u73oe)

154 Togas do not sound so bad, do they?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 29, 2026 04:56 PM (zZu0s)

155 Europe never really got rid of feudalism, did they? There's still a small, indolent elite busily employed making everyone below them miserable.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at June 29, 2026 04:40 PM (CwhoI)

At least the elites in feudal times had to do some honest work -- hold courts, fight bandits, go to war to justify their position.

Socialist leaders have no such requirement.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 04:57 PM (uhVAy)

156 111 How did everyone survive before A/C was invented?

They were smart enough to stay out of the heat ?
Posted by: It's me donna at June 29, 2026 04:50

It is the reason for the siesta. That aside, many didn’t survive the heat and the AC was ultimately invented to address that need. Here in the historic homes turned museums, you can see all kinds of really cool house fan contraptions to bring a breeze through. It is also why old houses in the south have sleeping porches.

Posted by: Piper at June 29, 2026 04:57 PM (hftzA)

157 Let the peasant suffer and die. Serve funereal cake to the survivors.

Posted by: little people at June 29, 2026 04:57 PM (ehY6c)

158 saw the stats over the weekend that something like five times more euros die from winter cold than summer heat. It isn't just a summer thing. They don't have any type of HVAC.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 29, 2026 04:52 PM (0U5gm)

That's interesting if accurate.

Posted by: polynikes at June 29, 2026 04:57 PM (04gcy)

159 If Europe starts using A/C it will definitely kill what is left of the Spotted Owl population in the Falklands !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at June 29, 2026 04:57 PM (TghYn)

160 Peons don't need AC, let them use ice cubes.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 29, 2026 04:52 PM (B0dAE)
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Besides they will cool down as we pee on them. -- Euro Elites

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 04:57 PM (Fi81e)

161 154 Togas do not sound so bad, do they?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 29, 2026 04:56 PM (zZu0s)

"I agree, bae-by!" - says the 300+ lbs, blue haired "zir".

Posted by: Thrawn at June 29, 2026 04:57 PM (KKMoa)

162 We survived. We weren't as comfortable. But we survived.
Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 04:49 PM (Fi81e)
_____________________

Eh, we're pretty adaptable. You spend just a marginal period of time in a place that is HOT, or the opposite COLD, and you adjust. It took me about 3 winters when I returned to the Mid-Atlantic states from northern New England to start wearing winter coats again.

The worst times are the transition..late spring to early summer. But after that people adjust and the Summer heat is an afterthought. Extreme events are an inconvenience, but rarely life threatening unless you do something stupid.

BTW, those of you without AC....get a window fan (one that slides into the sill slot. It does two things...improves air circulation, and will pull in cooler night air in the evening. Also, use your ceiling fans in the winter, not the summer. Hot air rises...it just blows it down to you in the summer.. You use the ceiling fans in the winter.

Posted by: Orson at June 29, 2026 04:58 PM (dIske)

163 I been to Nevada in August and 120 degrees, anything you touch including cement burns you.

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2026 04:58 PM (Ia/+0)

164 The most convincing argument I heard from brits for why they reject air conditioning is "because then we'd have nothing to complain about"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 04:58 PM (UZCuZ)

165 “Let them eat cake, i mean heat…”

Posted by: Ursula von der Leyen at June 29, 2026 04:58 PM (XodLO)

166 However, I learned that the Arizona heat is oven heat and prefer sweating vs it evaporating before you cope. I'd rather sweat than bake under the broiling sun.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 04:55 PM (hzuYO)

When I was 18 and 19 I did contract construction work in the summer there. I would never feel myself sweat, but at the end of the day my arms and my clothes would be caked with dried salt. You had to really keep track of your electrolytes in that situation, or you're going to drop out and not know why.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 04:58 PM (edUvp)

167 Posted by: Piper at June 29, 2026 04:57 PM (hftzA

Shotgun houses.

Posted by: polynikes at June 29, 2026 04:59 PM (04gcy)

168 European women do not shave their armpits from what I heard.....

Imagin what it must smell like in a French Cafe recently !!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at June 29, 2026 04:59 PM (TghYn)

169 Togas do not sound so bad, do they?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 29, 2026 04:56 PM (zZu0s)

Togas were just for formal occasions. Men wore Tunics - no sleeves, above the knee. Very cooling. At one point Julius Caesar was scandalizing Rome by wearing long sleeves with some fringe.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 04:59 PM (uhVAy)

170 The child climbed into the vehicle after his father told him to take a nap, but the car's child-lock system engaged, trapping him inside as outside temperatures climbed above 85 degrees.

This doesn't make sense. Dad told kid to take nap where? In the car? With windows rolled up? During a heat wave? Does not compute.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 29, 2026 04:59 PM (Hbeqj)

171 [Makes old school WWF Degeneration X "suck it" motion toward Europe]

Posted by: ballistic at June 29, 2026 05:00 PM (5aZAZ)

172 >>I been to Nevada in August and 120 degrees, anything you touch including cement burns you.

One year when I was in Tucson we had 120+ for almost a straight month.

It was nuts.

Still. Managed to get in a Mt Bike Ride and a pitch or two of climbing every one of those days.

Posted by: garrett at June 29, 2026 05:00 PM (/ytnd)

173 I do like the attic fan. Open the windows and turn it on. You'll get a nice 10-15mph wind coming through the windows.

Posted by: polynikes at June 29, 2026 05:00 PM (04gcy)

174 101 It makes me wonder what else we could get them to swallow.
Posted by: Orson at June 29, 2026 04:48 PM (dIske)

102 All that goat-flavored dick...
Posted by: Spotted! at June 29, 2026 04:48 PM (TbWk/)

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 29, 2026 05:00 PM (ExV1e)

175 The extreme heat has already taken a deadly toll.

French Sports Minister Marina Ferrari posted on X that at least 55 people have drowned across France as residents sought relief from the soaring temperatures in rivers, lakes and other waterways.

I take it that "Drowning Due to Swimming to Cool Down" is now a sport in France?

Why they don't they have the Minister for Climate Change on webcam from his air-conditioned office and ask him about the topic?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 29, 2026 05:00 PM (6ydKt)

176 Imagine Illan Omar sitting next to you in Paris today ....

Posted by: Mike Hunt at June 29, 2026 05:00 PM (Ozvsj)

177 Togas do not sound so bad, do they?
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togas were more formal wear; everyday wear were tunics.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 29, 2026 05:01 PM (3cUTc)

178 It is also why old houses in the south have sleeping porches.

I was just resting my eyes!

Posted by: wide awake porch at June 29, 2026 05:01 PM (X+NGn)

179 111> Hasn't read "Cool How air conditioning changed everything" by Salvatore Basile

Sweating and stinking was such a virtue and status marker that when Willis Carrier's first "air conditioner" was formed specifically to act as a dehumidfier, it never occurred to anyone that mechanically cooled air could be something to desire.

In fact, ice vendors rallied against mechanical cooling because they saw it as a threat to their business model.

The Amish condemned even the fan because of Amos 4:13 "He [God]...who creates the wind..." meant that it was only God's domain to make a breeze.

Posted by: Community Notes at June 29, 2026 05:01 PM (BvPIe)

180 My grandmother's house (where we had an apt for my first 10yrs) had 14' ceilings with transom windows in each room to catch breezes. Under the shade of giant oak trees it was not too bad. I guess there were fans as I don't remember.

My grandfather decided before I was born that I would never have to suffer without AC and installed a window unit in my nursery.

The only other time I was without AC was in college and as a newlywed in the Intermountain West with 100yr old houses. When I was hugely preggers with #1, my husband got a window unit for our bedroom that summer or he probably never would have slept at all.

I don't even care if AC is the cause of "climate change" and my fault! Take that, Greta, how dare you?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 05:01 PM (hzuYO)

181 Europe, despite its rich history and beautiful architecture, antiquities and beautiful scenery has turned into an absolute hellscape in nearly every way possible.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 29, 2026 05:01 PM (qBdHI)

182 Imagin what it must smell like in a French Cafe recently !!!!

Babylon Bee: Heat Wave So Intense The French Are Considering Wearing Deodorant

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:01 PM (UZCuZ)

183 They mock our A/C but what they consider a heat wave is what much of the USA calls "summer."

Posted by: Delurker at June 29, 2026 05:02 PM (2Drhq)

184 If you are losing 100K + to heat... are you First World Nations?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 05:02 PM (mP0Kj)

185 saw the stats over the weekend that something like five times more euros die from winter cold than summer heat. It isn't just a summer thing. They don't have any type of HVAC.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 29, 2026 04:52 PM (0U5gm)

That's interesting if accurate.

Posted by: polynikes

I looked it up - per The Lancet, globally it is 9 to 1 death from cold versus heat, but Europe only numbers won't be that bad.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 29, 2026 05:02 PM (0U5gm)

186
Some mewling French functionary says the US bears significant blame for the heat wave.

So I wonder: how long does carbon dioxide remain in the atmosphere to cause heat waves that make mewling French functionaries mew? I've seen things that say that half is absorbed by the ocean or vegetation in 20-30 years. So, because our output is declining and lots of what we generated is no longer around, shouldn't he be blaming the heathen Chinee, who pump out more than three times as much?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 05:02 PM (O0L8i)

187 Also Babylon Bee: "James Bond Granted License To Kill Anyone With An Air Conditioner"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:02 PM (UZCuZ)

188 The extreme heat has already taken a deadly toll.

French Sports Minister Marina Ferrari posted on X that at least 55 people have drowned across France as residents sought relief from the soaring temperatures in rivers, lakes and other waterways.

I take it that "Drowning Due to Swimming to Cool Down" is now a sport in France?

Why they don't they have the Minister for Climate Change on webcam from his air-conditioned office and ask him about the topic?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 29, 2026 05:00 PM (6ydKt)

Note to Euros: Keep your Heads ABOVE the water line.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:02 PM (uhVAy)

189 BTW, those of you without AC....get a window fan (one that slides into the sill slot. It does two things...improves air circulation, and will pull in cooler night air in the evening. Also, use your ceiling fans in the winter, not the summer. Hot air rises...it just blows it down to you in the summer.. You use the ceiling fans in the winter.
Posted by: Orson at June

Fans cool people, not rooms. So use that ceiling fan, going in the right direction, when you are on the room during summer.

Posted by: Piper at June 29, 2026 05:02 PM (hftzA)

190 A Turkish guy shot and killed six people in Germany. Religion of peace again

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 29, 2026 05:03 PM (f6yx7)

191 I been to Nevada in August and 120 degrees, anything you touch including cement burns you.

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2026 04:58 PM

I remember getting on the liberty boat in Mombasa Kenya New Years eve 1987. It took us 45 minutes to get from the carrier to the liberty landing on that converted one lung diesel cattle barge. I had a sunburn by the time we got there. It was 110 degrees and about 95% humidity. I don't think I dried out for the entire 5 day port visit in more ways than one.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 29, 2026 05:03 PM (0N4FZ)

192 When I was 18 and 19 I did contract construction work in the summer there. I would never feel myself sweat, but at the end of the day my arms and my clothes would be caked with dried salt. You had to really keep track of your electrolytes in that situation, or you're going to drop out and not know why.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 04:58 PM (edUvp)
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I hung insulation in the Colorado River tri-state area.

What you mainly feel is the gradual buildup of the oil, as I remember it. When you hang fiberglass insulation, you have to be covered head-to-toe, and often in housing structures without A/C.

Bullhead City, AZ could be the hottest spot on the map, and +20 degrees over Death Valley at times.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 05:03 PM (Fi81e)

193 182 Imagin what it must smell like in a French Cafe recently !!!!

Babylon Bee: Heat Wave So Intense The French Are Considering Wearing Deodorant
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:01 PM (UZCuZ)

Maybe the stench will keep the Moslems from raping the French babes?

Oh... wait... they are probably really used to it... Burkas in heat gotta be smelly.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 05:03 PM (mP0Kj)

194 Also, use your ceiling fans in the winter, not the summer. Hot air rises...it just blows it down to you in the summer.. You use the ceiling fans in the winter.
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not where it's hot and humid.

Sorry, my ceiling fan is 24/7/365.

I need that air circulation.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 29, 2026 05:03 PM (3cUTc)

195 > How did everyone survive before A/C was invented?
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one solution was, rooms had high ceilings, with transoms at the top for warm air to escape

Posted by: Don Black at June 29, 2026 05:03 PM (ZxPkt)

196 Wearing a Roman tunic for a whole day including out in public is on my bucket list. I need to hit a Tunics-R-Us.

Posted by: Delurker at June 29, 2026 05:04 PM (2Drhq)

197 I will give credit where due for Europe: there are not a lot of bugs to fly in open windows without screens. Odd that I noticed this but I did.

I also cannot survive without screens on windows. And out West it isn't as bad as the farm. If you did not have screens you'd die from a bug bite disease before lack of AC.

I feel really sad for the fans of the World Cup going back to the UK and Europe from our beautiful air conditioned country. With AC in our big cars and trucks.

They can bite me.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 05:04 PM (hzuYO)

198 And I think that they want people to be miserable and suffer in the heat so the global warmening thing is more believable.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 04:54 PM (UZCuZ)

Same thing with the "Unhoused". They want to keep the druggies and borderline-muggers roaming the parks so that idiots will vote for somebody to "do something". By spending on more services for the Unhoused.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 29, 2026 05:04 PM (gKWVE)

199 Another great idea is the nine foot ceiling. That, along with ceiling fans gets you halfway there, just need to get the humidity out.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 29, 2026 05:04 PM (0U5gm)

200 170> Doesn't understand Darwin by Proxy

The average IQ is 100.

Many rules are written in blood. Few people have real world experience of sitting in an oven hot car when outside temps exceed body temperature.

Posted by: Community Notes at June 29, 2026 05:04 PM (BvPIe)

201 I built a graph I've been putting on Twixxer responses a lot: it shows the "Carbon emissions" by nation between the USA and Europe, India, and China.

The "emissions" are in that order. US is the lowest.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:04 PM (UZCuZ)

202 French Sports Minister Marina Ferrari posted on X that at least 55 people have drowned across France as residents sought relief from the soaring temperatures in rivers, lakes and other waterways.

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Just think of all the lives they saved by forgoing A/C.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 05:04 PM (Fi81e)

203 171 [Makes old school WWF Degeneration X "suck it" motion toward Europe]
Posted by: ballistic at June 29, 2026 05:00 PM (5aZAZ)

Crotch chops FTW!

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at June 29, 2026 05:04 PM (KFbdf)

204 So I wonder: how long does carbon dioxide remain in the atmosphere to cause heat waves that make mewling French functionaries mew? I've seen things that say that half is absorbed by the ocean or vegetation in 20-30 years. So, because our output is declining and lots of what we generated is no longer around, shouldn't he be blaming the heathen Chinee, who pump out more than three times as much?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 05:02 PM (O0L8i)

Much faster than that - CO2 dissolves into the oceans and is consumed by plants. There's a reason its only 432 parts per million.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:05 PM (uhVAy)

205 Note to Euros: Keep your Heads ABOVE the water line.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:02 PM (uhVAy)

You gotta wonder how many of those that drowned were migrants who didn't know how to swim but went for it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 29, 2026 05:05 PM (6ydKt)

206 Meanwhile... SNOW warnings in Wyoming, Montana, Idaho.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 05:05 PM (mP0Kj)

207 I think this is the line that needed to be crossed for the revolutions to begin. Hundreds of thousands of World Cup fans, with their new love of the USA, will be returning to this insanity.

The EU does not require AC because, in 20 years, 90% of the population in the EU will be from hot countries.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 29, 2026 05:05 PM (ExV1e)

208 Today in Vegas it will be 103F. 120F is bearable because of 5% Humidity and using your brains to not walk your dog at 3 PM..

You do most of your outside chores before Noon and then work inside until sunset. Main reason for suffering through hot summers is because......

Mild Winters and No Snow or Freezing Temps....

Rather sweat then freeze......

Posted by: Jackson K. at June 29, 2026 05:05 PM (KmLJe)

209 Do they have any data centers?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 29, 2026 05:05 PM (Cqx++)

210 Also, use your ceiling fans in the winter, not the summer. Hot air rises...it just blows it down to you in the summer.. You use the ceiling fans in the winter.
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A lot of ceiling fans have a switch to push or pull the air.

Posted by: polynikes at June 29, 2026 05:05 PM (04gcy)

211 I saw two maps of the posted on X the other day. Each map had temperature readings posted on it from different locations around the UK.

One map was current and one was from something like 10 years ago. The temperatures were almost identical from the 2 different times all over the map but the graphics were a tad different. The older map just had the numbers with slight indicators of heat. The recent one was blood red all over.

European media is at least as bad as ours.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 29, 2026 05:06 PM (viF8m)

212 I hope they are washing their clothes more frequently with all this heat, in their teeny-tiny Barbie washers that take 3 hours to run a small load.

Posted by: bluebell at June 29, 2026 04:36 PM (afFes)

This is not an exaggeration.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 29, 2026 05:06 PM (PLxDd)

213 Babylon Bee: Heat Wave So Intense The French Are Considering Wearing Deodorant

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:01 PM (UZCuZ)
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They surrender.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 05:06 PM (Fi81e)

214 It is hot as balls here in Chicago.

Posted by: DaveA at June 29, 2026 05:06 PM (FhXTo)

215
Sorry, my ceiling fan is 24/7/365.

I need that air circulation.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Same here. It makes a noticeable difference in all seasons.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 29, 2026 05:06 PM (0U5gm)

216 Piper, those 2-way window fans with one side blowing in fresh air and one side blowing out old air are really outstanding.

Posted by: Delurker at June 29, 2026 05:06 PM (2Drhq)

217 202 French Sports Minister Marina Ferrari posted on X that at least 55 people have drowned across France as residents sought relief from the soaring temperatures in rivers, lakes and other waterways.

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Just think of all the lives they saved by forgoing A/C.
Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 05:04 PM (Fi81e)

Marina Ferrari... sounds like a French built Speed Boat?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 05:06 PM (mP0Kj)

218 Do they have any data centers?

Lots but yeah the Chinese push to limit data center generation in the US is going nuts right now. Turns out its only hot because of data centers, they are the sole and exclusive cause of heat in the world.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:07 PM (UZCuZ)

219 But I've been to Independence Hall, The Room- it's not as big as you might think- and I'm sure being stuck in there with July heat and humidity, combined with the clothing styles of the day, must have been miserably hot.

Posted by: Don Black at June 29, 2026 05:07 PM (ZxPkt)

220 hospitals without ice machines? really?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 29, 2026 05:07 PM (VyBeY)

221 My A/C has developed a terrible rattle but I'm still using the hell out of it!

Posted by: Delurker at June 29, 2026 05:07 PM (2Drhq)

222 >> You had to really keep track of your electrolytes in that situation, or you're going to drop out and not know why.

Drink Brawdo!

Posted by: the dandy at June 29, 2026 05:07 PM (8l8nW)

223 Sorry, my ceiling fan is 24/7/365.

I need that air circulation.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Same here. It makes a noticeable difference in all seasons.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 29, 2026 05:06 PM (0U5gm)

Definitely helps in the summer

Posted by: It's me donna at June 29, 2026 05:08 PM (kgetQ)

224 A friend of mine grew up in SC without AC. I have no idea how he lived though 3/4s the year of 90+ temperatures with complimentary humidity

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 29, 2026 05:08 PM (wBaIH)

225 Do they have any data centers?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 29, 2026 05:05 PM (Cqx++)
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You can't have my water!

I. DRINK. YOUR. WATER!

Posted by: AM at June 29, 2026 05:08 PM (Fi81e)

226 Wearing a Roman tunic for a whole day including out in public is on my bucket list. I need to hit a Tunics-R-Us.
Posted by: Delurker at June 29, 2026 05:04 PM (2Drhq)

https://www.etsy.com/market/reenactment_clothing_roman?

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:08 PM (uhVAy)

227 Same thing with the "Unhoused". They want to keep the druggies and borderline-muggers roaming the parks so that idiots will vote for somebody to "do something". By spending on more services for the Unhoused.
Posted by: gKWVE

Yep. They enjoy terrorizing the public.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 29, 2026 05:08 PM (EKbN/)

228 Wearing a Roman tunic for a whole day including out in public is on my bucket list. I need to hit a Tunics-R-Us.

Posted by: Delurker at June 29, 2026 05:04 PM (2Drhq)

I am going to be very disappointed in you if you do not wear a gladius with your tunic.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 29, 2026 05:09 PM (PLxDd)

229 Watching the World Cup fans walking into giant covered stadiums which have AC is funny . They can't have AC in their houses or apartments and we air condition an 90000 seat stadium.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 29, 2026 05:09 PM (f6yx7)

230 You can't have my water!

Little known fact: data centers consume water, its gone, destroyed when it enters the building. It doesn't flow through and enter the system, its not vapor, its just gone, poof! like magic.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:09 PM (UZCuZ)

231 The people in the lower seven floors of the EU Commission building should have shut down all business and gone home, leaving dear Ursula and her upper nobility in their nice air-conditioned offices.

Posted by: RebeccaH at June 29, 2026 05:09 PM (VFung)

232 216 Piper, those 2-way window fans with one side blowing in fresh air and one side blowing out old air are really outstanding.
Posted by: Delurker at June 29, 2026 05:06 PM

If we ever lose one of our units at the house, I will remember this. But please, don’t let that happen. lol. At least not both at the same time.

Posted by: Piper at June 29, 2026 05:09 PM (hftzA)

233 A friend of mine grew up in SC without AC. I have no idea how he lived though 3/4s the year of 90+ temperatures with complimentary humidity
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 29, 2026 05:08 PM (wBaIH)

South Ohio is 90/90 in the summer with no cooling ocean nearby.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:09 PM (uhVAy)

234 True, we didn't have A/C in our apartment until I was about twelve. And there wasn't any in my classrooms until I got to college. Somehow we survived Sept.-Nov., and March-May, without cooling: windows open, fans I think in the upper windows in the cafeteria and gym, etc. The music rooms, the band and the vocal music classes, had air, but that was probably to keep the instruments from rotting in damp heat.

But I don't think we had anything like 104 F. in actual temps then. With heat index, sure, but not the base temp.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 29, 2026 05:10 PM (wzUl9)

235 People in Europe freak out when it hits 90F.
It's at around 100F with this wave, and I'm sure that's with the humidity.

That's no different than here in where the temps were getting to 97 and a heat index of 100+.

That's why we have AC.

If they want to sweat it out and lose a few eggs for the Climate omelette to appease Gaia, then I say go for it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 29, 2026 05:10 PM (6ydKt)

236 One thing I like about the small apartment we live in currently, is that the temperature is cooler than the outdoors in summer, and warmer in the winter. Last summer we turned on the AC twice or thrice, and for only a couple hours at a time. We get a lot of indirect sunlight, but not much direct.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at June 29, 2026 05:10 PM (0aYVJ)

237 The European Left want heat deaths. This pads their stats about the evils of Global Warming which allows them to take more money and power.

Posted by: 29Victor at June 29, 2026 05:10 PM (0MjtC)

238 Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:08 PM (uhVAy)

Hey, those prices aren't bad! Maybe I'll throw in a subligaculum. Freeballing in a tunic might sound like a better idea than it actually is.

Posted by: Delurker at June 29, 2026 05:11 PM (2Drhq)

239 >>A friend of mine grew up in SC without AC. I have no idea how he lived though 3/4s the year of 90+ temperatures with complimentary humidity

My ex sister and brother in law retired to South Carolina. He doesn't even leave the house in the summer unless it's an emergency. Way too much humidity for me.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 29, 2026 05:11 PM (viF8m)

240 Well, the main problem is that Europe simply does not have the infrastructure nor the transmission capacity to have widespread air conditioning.

At least the Japanese widely adopted Air Conditioning.

So they good.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 29, 2026 05:11 PM (XV/Pl)

241 We rarely get above ninty here with an occasional 100.. After a few days the fog comes in from the coast and cools it down again..

Posted by: It's me donna at June 29, 2026 05:11 PM (kgetQ)

242 You can't have my water!

Little known fact: data centers consume water, its gone, destroyed when it enters the building. It doesn't flow through and enter the system, its not vapor, its just gone, poof! like magic.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:09 PM (UZCuZ)
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That's what they are telling me.

AM drinks all the water, and the rest of us, for the good that AI will provide, will have to get by with occasional drops.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 05:11 PM (Fi81e)

243 Sorry, my ceiling fan is 24/7/365.

I need that air circulation.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Same here. It makes a noticeable difference in all seasons.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 29, 2026 05:06 PM (0U5gm)

Definitely helps in the summer
Posted by: It's me donna at June 29, 2026 05:08 PM (kgetQ)

I have little personal fans ready in places I sit for a while. Haven't even turned on the A/C to cool so far here in California.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:11 PM (uhVAy)

244 People with A/C aren't as scared of Global Warming. The people must remain scared!

Posted by: 29Victor at June 29, 2026 05:11 PM (0MjtC)

245 SE Pennsylvania puts Georgia to shame. It's heat is less humid, too.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 29, 2026 05:12 PM (NFX2v)

246 I bet the EU assholes in Brussels have A/C.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 29, 2026 05:12 PM (EKbN/)

247 @Polymarket
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43m
JUST IN: Public pool in Germany evacuated after dozens of French men allegedly jumped the fence, entered without paying, & clashed with staff.
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'French men'

riiiight

Posted by: Don Black at June 29, 2026 05:12 PM (ZxPkt)

248 Garrett,
It's 50 degrees here in Bozeman. My phone tells me the feels-like temperature is 34!

And the 3d straight day of rain, with another 3 predicted.

I'm not complaining. Do you think this takes care of our fire season?

Posted by: Wenda at June 29, 2026 05:13 PM (AZWHC)

249 Those mini-splits are pretty cheap, and easy to install. They have the bonus of being "energy efficient" since they use "heat pump" technology (so Europeans can be happy they "killing the environment" a little more slowly).

Posted by: illiniwek at June 29, 2026 05:13 PM (vbXSk)

250 The European Left want heat deaths. This pads their stats about the evils of Global Warming which allows them to take more money and power.
Posted by: 29Victor at June 29, 2026 05:10 PM (0MjtC)

I love how the weather reports are all in fiery hellscape red when showing 80 degree F temperatures. Such fools they are there.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:13 PM (uhVAy)

251 How will they reverse their decades-old determination to let the elderly die in heat waves?

As the BBC shows us: Simple! They'll now say that air conditioning is a sad but necessary response to global warming!

the fact that those pesky americans are forcing us to use air conditioning just illustrates the depth of the perfidity of orangemanbad!!

Posted by: yerp at June 29, 2026 05:13 PM (sGtp+)

252 JUST IN: Public pool in Germany evacuated after dozens of French men allegedly jumped the fence, entered without paying, & clashed with staff.
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It was just the regulars avoiding the slick.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 05:13 PM (Fi81e)

253 This is not an exaggeration.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 29, 2026 05:06 PM (PLxDd)
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I know. I was thinking specifically of the one in my sister-in-law's place in London. She hated it but could do nothing about it as it was a rental place.

Posted by: bluebell at June 29, 2026 05:13 PM (afFes)

254 Seriously... 50 years.

It's been 50 years since central air was de riguer in American new builds.

Joe Biden was a new Senator when America kicked back and cooled down.

The drip coffeemaker had just debuted on the market courtesy if Mr. Coffee, so it was around this time we passed them up on the coffee front, too.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 29, 2026 05:13 PM (BI5O2)

255 Maybe the Europeans can start putting ice in their water. As a suggestion.

Posted by: Piper at June 29, 2026 05:14 PM (hftzA)

256 What is the equivalent of 'Drive 100, Freeze a Yankee' ?

Posted by: MikeN at June 29, 2026 05:14 PM (4uWCj)

257 Another factor in Euro air conditioners is the cost for them. Europeans are on the whole poorer than the USA, plus their energy prices are outrageous. And, in some places (like England) they add a surcharge if you have air conditioning. So its hella expensive not only to buy one, but run one.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:14 PM (UZCuZ)

258
The US has AC in 90% of its houses. It's 91% in Japan and 86% in Korea. Guess who gets all the blame?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 05:15 PM (O0L8i)

259 My obituary in the UK would read:

"She died from blunt trauma trying to keep her AC window unit from being removed. Fought bravely with her narwhal spear and gravely wounded officials who required surgery to their nethers. They killed her before she dumped boiling oil on them, which was the plan. Said to tell you her violent death was totally worth it and she chose this as her hill to die on."

Also, Paris must really be a stink hellscape this summer. We rode a train in early June from Paris to Salzburg and two moose slimes were nearby. They don't wear deodorant, ever. Neither to many Europeans. Pee You!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 05:15 PM (hzuYO)

260 It's 50 degrees here in Bozeman. My phone tells me the feels-like temperature is 34!

And the 3d straight day of rain, with another 3 predicted.

I'm not complaining. Do you think this takes care of our fire season?

Posted by: Wenda at June 29, 2026 05:13 PM

On the morning news this AM we saw a winter storm warning up by you.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 29, 2026 05:15 PM (0N4FZ)

261 Innovations like direct-to-chip and immersion liquid cooling can eliminate traditional water cooling altogether in favorable climates.

Many modern data centers now partner with local municipalities to use recycled, non-potable wastewater for their cooling operations instead of drawing from drinking water supplies.

Facilities in drought-prone areas are moving toward dry cooling towers and closed-loop systems to minimize evaporation, though this often comes with a trade-off of higher electricity usage.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 29, 2026 05:15 PM (NFX2v)

262 Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:08 PM (uhVAy)

Hey, those prices aren't bad! Maybe I'll throw in a subligaculum. Freeballing in a tunic might sound like a better idea than it actually is.
Posted by: Delurker at June 29, 2026 05:11 PM (2Drhq)

I have gotten a few things from Etsy with success, though not recently.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:15 PM (uhVAy)

263 Eurpoe seems a primitive place. Needs civilizing.

Posted by: tubal at June 29, 2026 05:15 PM (Gqar8)

264 South Ohio is 90/90 in the summer with no cooling ocean nearby.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:09 PM (uhVAy)

That cooling ocean only helps with some breezes occasionally.
Mostly what it offers is a hella lot of moisture from the Gulf Stream spreads out to the Appalachians and gets stuck here.

If you live right on the coast it's nicer.
Further inland it's moist and hot.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 29, 2026 05:16 PM (6ydKt)

265 260 It's 50 degrees here in Bozeman. My phone tells me the feels-like temperature is 34!

And the 3d straight day of rain, with another 3 predicted.

I'm not complaining. Do you think this takes care of our fire season?

Posted by: Wenda at June 29, 2026 05:13 PM

***********
Jealous, I am. Send some of that south of you, please.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 05:16 PM (hzuYO)

266 And I'm proud to be an American
Where at least I have AC
And I won't forget the French who tried
To take that right from me
And I'd gladly sit down in my room
And enjoy that sweet cold air
'Cause there ain't no doubt
I love this chill
God bless my Frigidaire

Posted by: cheshirecat at June 29, 2026 05:16 PM (E4Afo)

267 Hunter is having a sale on Vagisil Odor Block Wash

Free shipping to Europe and order before midnight you get a free poster of "Big Mike" Benching 500 lbs.

Exclusive price of 100 EUROS per 8 Ounce tube...

Take it from me, Hunter knows that smell from personal experience from $2 Hookers in Burkina Faso when he went with me.

I just sniffed their hair and Hunter...... Well you know ....

Posted by: Blo Jiden at June 29, 2026 05:17 PM (dm7SR)

268 Eurpoe seems a primitive place. Needs civilizsing.
Posted by: tubal at June 29, 2026 05:15 PM (Gqar

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Fixed

Posted by: Brits at June 29, 2026 05:17 PM (Fi81e)

269 Also, Paris must really be a stink hellscape this summer. We rode a train in early June from Paris to Salzburg and two moose slimes were nearby. They don't wear deodorant, ever. Neither to many Europeans. Pee You!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 05:15 PM (hzuYO)

Confirmed. And the women in their head-to-toe slave costumes might be worse than the men.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 29, 2026 05:17 PM (PLxDd)

270 Sorry, my ceiling fan is 24/7/365.

I need that air circulation.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Yes. I can do without AC* as long as the air in the room is moving about. I have a small fan on my desk at work for just that purpose.

*unless it gets really hot. And I have the AC on in my vehicles pretty much all summer. Except for the short drive home. My office stays really cool and I'll drive with the windows down in order to thaw out.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at June 29, 2026 05:18 PM (0aYVJ)

271 Germany also doesn't have "air con" in hospitals, including in cardiac care units, where you'd think a hospital would want patients to be as stress-free as possible.

In fact, in Germany, they're telling family members of heart attack victims to bring in their own ice-packs for patients recovering from a coronary.

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I would not live in Germany if you paid me. What is even worse is that they, like the EU bosses in Brussels, are hypocrites. I was in Berlin in August 2024 and the hotel I stayed at was air conditioned. This tells me that they know tourists and visitors will not stand for un-airconditioned hotels but their schweinherds deserve no better.

Posted by: Decaf at June 29, 2026 05:18 PM (ZNpJk)

272 269 Also, Paris must really be a stink hellscape this summer. We rode a train in early June from Paris to Salzburg and two moose slimes were nearby. They don't wear deodorant, ever. Neither to many Europeans. Pee You!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 05:15 PM (hzuYO)

Confirmed. And the women in their head-to-toe slave costumes might be worse than the men.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 29, 2026 05:17 PM (PLxDd)

Thus the livestock popularity.

Posted by: tubal at June 29, 2026 05:18 PM (Gqar8)

273 Here is another gotcha the British Subjects have to deal with if they think they can escape the heat in their cars....

Vehicle Air Conditioning Fines:

While there is no fine for excessive home use, you can face a surcharge/fine for using air conditioning in a stationary car. Under UK emissions laws, leaving your car engine running while parked just to keep the AC on is considered unnecessary engine idling.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 29, 2026 05:18 PM (XV/Pl)

274 Another factor in Euro air conditioners is the cost for them. Europeans are on the whole poorer than the USA, plus their energy prices are outrageous. And, in some places (like England) they add a surcharge if you have air conditioning. So its hella expensive not only to buy one, but run one.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:14 PM

And that makes zero sense in france as almost all of their electricity is from nuclear power. That is the cheapest form of electricity generation as the french recycle their spent fuel into more fuel for their reactors. It is EU government regulations and fees that jack up the cost there.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 29, 2026 05:18 PM (0N4FZ)

275 Germany also doesn't have "air con" in hospitals, including in cardiac care units, where you'd think a hospital would want patients to be as stress-free as possible.
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Nah, it's cool.

Posted by: The Guide Stones at June 29, 2026 05:19 PM (Fi81e)

276 It's snowing in higher elevations of Wyoming now.
They're expecting 6 to 12 inches in places.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 29, 2026 05:19 PM (6ydKt)

277 Something light hearted to cheer up with:

NEW: Los Angeles man arrested after shooting naked people with a BB gun as they rode their bikes through downtown Los Angeles.

Hundreds of people were spotted riding without clothes for the World Naked Bike Ride.

LAPD says a man dressed in all black riding a scooter started shooting the cyclists with a BB gun.

https://tinyurl.com/2j9vc4x2

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:19 PM (UZCuZ)

278 How will I sleep tonight knowing that my use of AC is making things ever worse for people sweating in Paris? (Probably pretty well since my room will be nice and cool.)

Posted by: Dave at June 29, 2026 05:19 PM (sbsMc)

279 But I don't think we had anything like 104 F. in actual temps then. With heat index, sure, but not the base temp.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 29, 2026 05:10 PM (wzUl9)

My Brother just turned 70 last weekend... Mom used to tell the story that on his birthday it was hottest day she could remember, at 114.

Funny, just went and tried to look at the historic online Temp records for my town... and from what I remember, they are not correct... not even close.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 05:19 PM (mP0Kj)

280 254 Seriously... 50 years.

It's been 50 years since central air was de riguer in American new builds.

Joe Biden was a new Senator when America kicked back and cooled down.

The drip coffeemaker had just debuted on the market courtesy if Mr. Coffee, so it was around this time we passed them up on the coffee front, too.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 29, 2026 05:13 PM (BI5O2)

***********
My parents built their house in 1964 and had central AC.
Over 60yrs.

I doubt many in the UK or Europe can fathom central AC. How are you going to remove that, beetches? Turn off my power? Try harder.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 05:19 PM (hzuYO)

281 The US has AC in 90% of its houses. It's 91% in Japan and 86% in Korea. Guess who gets all the blame?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 05:15 PM (O0L8i)
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Is that really true, that 90% of homes here have a/c? I would have guessed far fewer. In the New England town where my husband is from, no one we know has it. As a kid we lived in both Northern and Southern California and neither house had it. My brother and his family live outside L.A. and don't have it. My other brother lives outside Seattle and they don't have it.

Or does the 90% include room-size a/cs? Maybe that's it.

Posted by: bluebell at June 29, 2026 05:20 PM (afFes)

282 Everybody. Into the pyoo-ul.

Posted by: Delurker at June 29, 2026 05:20 PM (2Drhq)

283 People focus on the cool part of using AC for us old folks, but the other big benefit is pollen-free filtered air; a lot of us develop sinus and pollen allergies as we hit our 60's.
I used to be Mr Windows Open in nice weather, but now they stay closed all year just to keep the air dust and pollen free. Just another reason to thank the ancestors that yeeted themselves out of Ye Olde Country.

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at June 29, 2026 05:20 PM (Ft5W9)

284 I think the real reason the eurotrash are opposed to AC is their power grid won’t handle it. AC is a power hog eating big watts and big volts.

Yes, they have lotsa EV charging stations, but those are strategically located. That’s not the same as 10s of millions of europoean firing up AC wherever they may live.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at June 29, 2026 05:20 PM (qLMMh)

285 That cooling ocean only helps with some breezes occasionally.
Mostly what it offers is a hella lot of moisture from the Gulf Stream spreads out to the Appalachians and gets stuck here.

If you live right on the coast it's nicer.
Further inland it's moist and hot.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 29, 2026 05:16 PM (6ydKt)

Prevailing winds come from the inland in the US, so the Gulf stream is not hugely important in weather here. Now, it certainly keeps Europe from being Permafrost, seeing how it is so far North.

I'm sure you can have 'reverse flow' at times like Chicago with its Lake Effect snows.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:21 PM (uhVAy)

286 I would not live in Germany if you paid me. What is even worse is that they, like the EU bosses in Brussels, are hypocrites. I was in Berlin in August 2024 and the hotel I stayed at was air conditioned. This tells me that they know tourists and visitors will not stand for un-airconditioned hotels but their schweinherds deserve no better.
Posted by: Decaf at June

But you had to have your key in the holder to turn it on (and the lights) so you couldn’t keep it comfortable while you were gone, though, right? I don’t think I have ever been in a hotel in Europe without that. Older ones, maybe.

Posted by: Piper at June 29, 2026 05:21 PM (hftzA)

287 191 - according to (if I remember correctly) MIL-STD 810, Earths most extreme temp/humidity conditions occur on the coast of the Red Sea; like you were describing, or a bit worse ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 29, 2026 05:21 PM (VyBeY)

288 The 13-story building is home to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, her 26 commissioners and about 3,000 staff. Von der Leyen works on the 13th floor, and most of her commissioners' offices are housed on floors eight or above.

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Who builds a 13 floor building and then installs the queen of Europe on the 13th floor?

Posted by: Decaf at June 29, 2026 05:21 PM (ZNpJk)

289 LAPD says a man dressed in all black riding a scooter started shooting the cyclists with a BB gun.

https://tinyurl.com/2j9vc4x2
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:19 PM (UZCuZ)

Good! A bazooka would be better! I find the nekkid bike rides totally disgusting and try not to think about it.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 05:21 PM (hzuYO)

290 While there is no fine for excessive home use, you can face a surcharge/fine for using air conditioning in a stationary car.

Yeah people are literally doing that, rigging up a hose from the car through windows. I feel it.

'Cause there ain't no doubt
I love this chill
God bless my Frigidaire

(salutes)
(eagle screams overhead)

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:21 PM (UZCuZ)

291 My office stays really cool and I'll drive with the windows down in order to thaw out.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at June 29, 2026 05:18 PM (0aYVJ)

Heh...early in my career I had a job that required a bunch of computers, so my office was kept very cold. I remember thinking that a three-piece suit is the way to go.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 29, 2026 05:21 PM (PLxDd)

292
Late to the thread, but for heaven's sake, AC has been standard in businesses and schools in Asia for decades. Europeans might be amazed by a trip to South Korea.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 29, 2026 05:21 PM (XJ22o)

293 Yeah, American hospitals are DOPE AF.

Most people don't like it cold enough to dry-cure meat. Especially my wife, who enjoys being roasted alive.

But hospitals? They understand me and my temperature needs.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 29, 2026 05:22 PM (BI5O2)

294 UK emissions laws, leaving your car engine running while parked just to keep the AC on is considered unnecessary engine idling.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 29, 2026 05:18 PM (XV/Pl)

That's bad, but we're not far off.
The county I live in made it illegal to leave your car running in a parking lot (gas/retail) to prevent car theft.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 29, 2026 05:22 PM (6ydKt)

295 We're about 15 degrees cooler this year then most years...

High of 86 when normally it's past 100...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 05:22 PM (mP0Kj)

296 I love this chill
God bless my Frigidaire
Posted by: cheshirecat at June 29, 2026 05:16 PM (E4Afo)
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*applause*

Posted by: bluebell at June 29, 2026 05:22 PM (afFes)

297
By the way, when a Turkish doctor is calling you out for primitive hospital practices, you've regressed.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 29, 2026 05:22 PM (XJ22o)

298 Wearing a Roman tunic for a whole day including out in public is on my bucket list. I need to hit a Tunics-R-Us.
Posted by: Delurker at June 29, 2026 05:04 PM (2Drhq)

They have them on Amazon.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 29, 2026 05:22 PM (zZu0s)

299 292
Late to the thread, but for heaven's sake, AC has been standard in businesses and schools in Asia for decades. Europeans might be amazed by a trip to South Korea.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 29, 2026 05:21 PM (XJ22o)

Europistan is racing to third world status.

Posted by: tubal at June 29, 2026 05:22 PM (Gqar8)

300 I don’t think I have ever been in a hotel in Europe without that. Older ones, maybe.

Posted by: Piper at June 29, 2026 05:21 PM (hftzA)

Any card works.

F*ck them and their authoritarian tendencies.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 29, 2026 05:23 PM (PLxDd)

301 You know that Fishy smell after a herd of Raghead Babes walk by...

It reminds me of those 100F days in Desert with the Goats.... That fragrant smell of Goats.....

Smells like........ "VICTORY".....

Posted by: Hussan the Goat Man at June 29, 2026 05:23 PM (xl8DV)

302 Totally off topic, but I just figured out how Clint Eastwood's character in Unforgiven got sick. It was the pigs!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 29, 2026 05:23 PM (diia5)

303 "At least it's a dry heat," said every Texan.
Posted by: 13times at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (6iKlf)

Comments like this come from people who've never set foot in Houston, or San Antonio, or Dallas, or Austin, or...
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 29, 2026 04:51 PM (ExV1e)

No kidding! Houston is miserable this time of year. Actually, from about late April to almost the end of October, I barely go outside.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 29, 2026 05:23 PM (k9OZB)

304 This is how you know what's a real issue.

People come from all over the world to go to Disney. People come from all over the world to go to Cedar Point and King's Island.

So, it seems that people would come from all over the world to visit Universal Studios park.

But the world bitches about us cooling our homes. A lot of foreigners have to have noticed that Universal is cooling the out of doors!! Who have you ever heard bitch about that? (Besides me, that is).

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 05:23 PM (Fi81e)

305
Who builds a 13 floor building and then installs the queen of Europe on the 13th floor?
Posted by: Decaf at June 29, 2026 05:21 PM (ZNpJk)

More floors between her and the bloodthirsty mobs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 05:24 PM (O0L8i)

306 Yeah, American hospitals are DOPE AF.

holy crap yes. I spent a week in one because of a horrendous throat infection that nearly killed me and I was stunned. It was like being in a resort staffed by cute girls and super nice doctors.

Except the surgeon that cut out the infection in my throat and cleaned it up. He was a total stereotype of the cold, arrogant, heartless surgeon. Dude had all the empathy of a Cylon.

But the place was incredible, the food was even good.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:24 PM (UZCuZ)

307 282 Everybody. Into the pyoo-ul.
Posted by: Delurker at June 29, 2026 05:20 PM (2Drhq)

My pool is over 80 degrees... kinda like getting into a bath tub.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 05:24 PM (mP0Kj)

308 But I don't think we had anything like 104 F. in actual temps then. With heat index, sure, but not the base temp.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 29, 2026 05:10 PM (wzUl9)

My Brother just turned 70 last weekend... Mom used to tell the story that on his birthday it was hottest day she could remember, at 114.

Funny, just went and tried to look at the historic online Temp records for my town... and from what I remember, they are not correct... not even close.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 05:19 PM (mP0Kj)

Increased urbanization does make the area of the city warmer than the ambient country around it, but there were plenty of 100 degree days in the country before they started mucking with the measurements. That's what the 'heat waves' were. 90 degrees in August is just normal in flyover country.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:25 PM (uhVAy)

309 284> Doesn't understand European seasonal electrical loads

Western Europe uses 35% more electrical energy in the winter — primary drivers lighting, heating than it uses in the summer — primary drivers air conditioning.

Posted by: Community Notes at June 29, 2026 05:25 PM (a6PrB)

310 We hold these truths to be self evident. That all Europeans are fucking retarded.

Posted by: Thomas Jefferson at June 29, 2026 05:25 PM (u73oe)

311
No kidding! Houston is miserable this time of year. Actually, from about late April to almost the end of October, I barely go outside.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 29, 2026 05:23 PM (k9OZB)

Got in a little while ago from mowing the back acreage. Yes, I was on a riding mower but still it was two hours work. Yes, it was hot. Yes, I was happy to come back inside. But I could have stood it a lot longer.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 05:26 PM (O0L8i)

312 UK emissions laws, leaving your car engine running while parked just to keep the AC on is considered unnecessary engine idling.
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I think most European cars don't have remote start for the same reason.

Posted by: WisRich at June 29, 2026 05:26 PM (G0vdT)

313 It's not just people that need the A/C. Lot's of other stuff needs to be kept cool, or cooler, or it ceases to function. Ah, the perils of the modern world...

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at June 29, 2026 05:26 PM (QaH55)

314 Actually is dry heat here in northern CO. Right now it's 85 degrees and 17% humidity. I guess that counts? Is there an official threshold for dry heat?

Posted by: Delurker at June 29, 2026 05:26 PM (2Drhq)

315 Seriously, European health care facilities are starting to sound like those nasty clinics in Cuba where the average citizens (as opposed to party elites and medical tourists) go for what is dubiously called "treatment".

Posted by: Paco at June 29, 2026 05:26 PM (2L+MU)

316
Who builds a 13 floor building and then installs the queen of Europe on the 13th floor?
Posted by: Decaf

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The first floor might be the Erdgeschoss and the other floors are 1-12.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 29, 2026 05:26 PM (XJ22o)

317 Except the surgeon that cut out the infection in my throat and cleaned it up. He was a total stereotype of the cold, arrogant, heartless surgeon. Dude had all the empathy of a Cylon.

But the place was incredible, the food was even good.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:24 PM (UZCuZ)

My broken arm surgery doctor was pretty chill. Threw in a free carpal tunnel procedure for nothing.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:26 PM (uhVAy)

318 "Who builds a 13 floor building and then installs the queen of Europe on the 13th floor? "

to ask the question is to answer it, innit?

minions of stan

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 29, 2026 05:27 PM (VyBeY)

319 I am going to go teach a few classes. In my air conditioned studio.

Posted by: Piper at June 29, 2026 05:27 PM (hftzA)

320 We hold these truths to be self evident. That all Europeans are fucking retarded.

Posted by: Thomas Jefferson at June 29, 2026 05:25 PM (u73oe)
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I petitioned for "whack", but it's too late at this point.

Posted by: James Madison at June 29, 2026 05:27 PM (Fi81e)

321 Actually is dry heat here in northern CO. Right now it's 85 degrees and 17% humidity. I guess that counts? Is there an official threshold for dry heat?
Posted by: Delurker at June 29, 2026 05:26 PM (2Drhq)

well 50 percent at least. 17 is surely dry.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:27 PM (uhVAy)

322 I'm sure you can have 'reverse flow' at times like Chicago with its Lake Effect snows.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:21 PM (uhVAy)

It's warm, hot & wet from May to October here.
It only gets worse if we have a tropical storm or hurricane.

There's a large El Nino this year so they're predicting less North Atlantic and Gulf hurricanes, but also wetter weather, which we have been getting some rain lately.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 29, 2026 05:27 PM (6ydKt)

323 I would not live in Germany if you paid me. What is even worse is that they, like the EU bosses in Brussels, are hypocrites. I was in Berlin in August 2024 and the hotel I stayed at was air conditioned. This tells me that they know tourists and visitors will not stand for un-airconditioned hotels but their schweinherds deserve no better.
Posted by: Decaf at June

But you had to have your key in the holder to turn it on (and the lights) so you couldn’t keep it comfortable while you were gone, though, right? I don’t think I have ever been in a hotel in Europe without that. Older ones, maybe.
Posted by: Piper at June 29, 2026 05:21 PM (hftzA)
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Depends on the hotel. I’ve never had that problems, but I’ve booked any hotel or Airbnb anywhere that doesn’t have central air. And I never travel anywhere during the hot seasons.

I spent too much time traveling for business all around the deep south, and hot humid places like Japan, in the summer heat. I had no choice. I was paid to do it. But for personal travel? Nah.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at June 29, 2026 05:27 PM (qLMMh)

324 In the days of my callow youth I remember sleeping in the summer in front of a box fan under just a sheet.

On the Gulf coast.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 29, 2026 05:27 PM (2Ez/1)

325 But the world bitches about us cooling our homes. A lot of foreigners have to have noticed that Universal is cooling the out of doors!! Who have you ever heard bitch about that? (Besides me, that is).
Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 05:23 PM (Fi81e)

Just doing our part to fight Globull Warmering!

Posted by: Dot, the Warner Sister at June 29, 2026 05:28 PM (mP0Kj)

326
to ask the question is to answer it, innit?

minions of stan
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 29, 2026 05:27 PM (VyBeY)

"The Whore of Babylon", as mentioned in Revelation?

Posted by: Thrawn at June 29, 2026 05:28 PM (KKMoa)

327 I hope they are washing their clothes more frequently with all this heat, in their teeny-tiny Barbie washers that take 3 hours to run a small load.
Posted by: bluebell at June 29, 2026 04:36 PM (afFes)

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Saw that when I visited family in Germany some years ago and thought surely they could have got a bigger and faster washer for a family of six.

Posted by: Decaf at June 29, 2026 05:28 PM (ZNpJk)

328 It's not just people that need the A/C. Lot's of other stuff needs to be kept cool, or cooler, or it ceases to function. Ah, the perils of the modern world...

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at June 29, 2026 05:26 PM (QaH55)
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Yes, computers.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 05:28 PM (Fi81e)

329 >> Is there an official threshold for dry heat?

If a swamp cooler would work nicely and make the air comfortable, that's an official "dry heat". :-)

Meanwhile, a wet heat here. Dew point hit 81F on my little weather station earlier today, right after a little shower.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 29, 2026 05:28 PM (w6EFb)

330 310, preach it! our forebears left for good reason!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 29, 2026 05:28 PM (VyBeY)

331 When I have been to Colorado I turn to jerky. Dry damned place.

Posted by: tubal at June 29, 2026 05:29 PM (Gqar8)

332 We hold these truths to be self evident. That all Europeans are fucking retarded.

Posted by: Thomas Jefferson at June 29, 2026 05:25 PM

"It is wrong...to be French."

- Al Bundy

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 29, 2026 05:29 PM (kgE5c)

333 Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:27 PM (uhVAy)

Having less than one-half of one percent of your state's surface covered in water comes in handy sometimes.

That sounds like a stat that has to be made up, but it's true.

.4%.

Posted by: Delurker at June 29, 2026 05:29 PM (2Drhq)

334 No kidding! Houston is miserable this time of year. Actually, from about late April to almost the end of October, I barely go outside.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 29, 2026 05:23 PM (k9OZB)

Houston is coastal, like New Orleans. Inland Texas is dryer.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:29 PM (uhVAy)

335 And I do love living in the South.

But... I didn't have A/C until I was 34. Because where I lived, it wasn't necessary.

On days like today, I walk from my meat locker of an office into the wall of stifling, superheated water outside, and think of my A/C, shake my fist at Mother Nature, and think "hahaha haha, take that, bitch."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 29, 2026 05:30 PM (BI5O2)

336 I still want to know what the Scots wear under their kilts.

I realize this is not the point, Ace, but I did wonder this when they were in Miami with their bagpipes as they had to be sweaty. The kilts are wool.

And with that I shall go do some laundry and be productive for an hour. Things were not productive this past week and I have more I have to do.

I have a tragic life.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 05:30 PM (hzuYO)

337 This is a timely post for me. My air conditioner is on the fritz and the HVAC guy can't come until tomorrow. It is 91 degrees outside and 78 degrees in my house, so, hell on earth.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 29, 2026 05:30 PM (0Htd1)

338 Was in a hotel not long ago. Set the thermostat to 65 degrees when I went to bed and slept great.

'murrica

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 29, 2026 05:30 PM (2Ez/1)

339 But you had to have your key in the holder to turn it on (and the lights) so you couldn’t keep it comfortable while you were gone, though, right? I don’t think I have ever been in a hotel in Europe without that. Older ones, maybe.

Posted by: Piper

I always put a business card in the slot. The slot is not magnetic, but just an optic sensor. Never had a problem with the AC turning off.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 29, 2026 05:30 PM (0U5gm)

340 When I have been to Colorado I turn to jerky. Dry damned place.

Posted by: tubal at June 29, 2026 05:29 PM (Gqar

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Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 05:30 PM (Fi81e)

341 Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 29, 2026 05:28 PM (w6EFb)

I've used swamp coolers in CO, they work great.

Posted by: Delurker at June 29, 2026 05:30 PM (2Drhq)

342 Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:27 PM (uhVAy)

Having less than one-half of one percent of your state's surface covered in water comes in handy sometimes.

That sounds like a stat that has to be made up, but it's true.

.4%.
Posted by: Delurker at June 29, 2026 05:29 PM (2Drhq)

Hard to make a lake when the state is a mile high and tilted on both side downward like a shingled roof.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:30 PM (uhVAy)

343 wouldn't know exactly where in the lineup, Thrawn, but on that team for sure.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 29, 2026 05:31 PM (VyBeY)

344 Got in a little while ago from mowing the back acreage. Yes, I was on a riding mower but still it was two hours work. Yes, it was hot. Yes, I was happy to come back inside. But I could have stood it a lot longer.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 05:26 PM (O0L8i)

I'm just not cut out for hot weather. I'll take a cold day any day over the heat. I'm like the Snow Miser, but he's a better dresser.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 29, 2026 05:31 PM (k9OZB)

345 I'm currently sitting outside, by choice! in 90 degrees with 53% humidity. If I'm sitting still, I'm perfectly comfortable. The AC inside was getting too cold for me. It'll feel good again after I sit out here for a while.

Unbelievable that hospitals and schools other public buildings don't have AC in Europe. Aren't they all nuclear powered anyway? Surely they could pump it up a little.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 29, 2026 05:31 PM (zYpTz)

346 337 This is a timely post for me. My air conditioner is on the fritz and the HVAC guy can't come until tomorrow. It is 91 degrees outside and 78 degrees in my house, so, hell on earth.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 29, 2026 05:30 PM (0Htd1)

I am seriously sorry and recommend you lie quietly in the coolest room, nekkid with iced wash cloths and cold drinks of whatever you feel like drinking.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 05:31 PM (hzuYO)

347
The US has more extreme temperatures and more extreme weather. We've developed machines and technology to cope with it. (Western) Europe is just a different place. More moderate in both. They've never seen the need to plan for extremes. They've sneered at us for doing so and now they're feeling the effects of not doing so.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 05:32 PM (O0L8i)

348
American hospitals are DOPE AF.

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You'd want to rent a room in them. One hospital near me has a giant lounge with a picture gallery and giant leatherette couches specifically for crashing on. I was visiting someone post-op, and a music student from a local high school came in and played some flute pieces for her. It had a pullout couch in the room so a visitor could doze or even in some cases spend the night. The food was great. A dietician came in and planned her meals with her personally. A physical therapist came in and kindly walked her around the floor.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 29, 2026 05:32 PM (XJ22o)

349 I still can't figure how folks settled the South without AC.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (3cUTc)
High ceilings, tall windows and doors.

Posted by: Eromero at June 29, 2026 05:32 PM (LHPAg)

350 >>On the morning news this AM we saw a winter storm warning up by you.

It snowed in the Utah mountains.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 29, 2026 05:32 PM (viF8m)

351 When I have been to Colorado I turn to jerky. Dry damned place.
Posted by: tubal at June 29, 2026 05:29 PM (Gqar

I visited CO a time or two and drove across it once. If you blocked out the Rockies it was Northern Indiana.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:33 PM (uhVAy)

352 you can rig up your own swamp cooler with a fan and a Styrofoam cooler with water in it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:33 PM (UZCuZ)

353 Nood, y'all

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 05:33 PM (hzuYO)

354 Increased urbanization does make the area of the city warmer than the ambient country around it, but there were plenty of 100 degree days in the country before they started mucking with the measurements. That's what the 'heat waves' were. 90 degrees in August is just normal in flyover country.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:25 PM (uhVAy)

Its the other way around. Internet says the peak temp ever for June in my town is THIS YEAR at 102.

I specifically can remember many times it was well above 110.

Oh, and as I said above, this year has a pretty mild summer so far...

So, what do I believe, what AI is telling me? or the memories of living here on and off for 67 years?

Interesting.

Posted by: Dot, the Warner Sister at June 29, 2026 05:33 PM (mP0Kj)

355 I still can't figure how folks settled the South without AC.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (3cUTc)
High ceilings, tall windows and doors.
Posted by: Eromero at June 29, 2026 05:32 PM (LHPAg)

linen clothes.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:33 PM (uhVAy)

356 Aren't they all nuclear powered anyway? Surely they could pump it up a little.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 29, 2026 05:31 PM (zYpTz)

France gets 70% of their power from nuclear.

They just don't want everybody to have it.
Because of the Climate Gods.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 29, 2026 05:34 PM (6ydKt)

357 linen clothes.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:33 PM (uhVAy)
Mint Julips.

Posted by: Eromero at June 29, 2026 05:35 PM (LHPAg)

358 I still can't figure how folks settled the South without AC.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (3cUTc)
High ceilings, tall windows and doors.
Posted by: Eromero at June 29, 2026 05:32 PM (LHPAg)

They cooked in outbuildings and outside a lot.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:35 PM (uhVAy)

359 @TheBritishIntel
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1h
🇬🇧 CONVENT AND ST PATRICK BURIAL SITE BURN DOWN IN DOWNPATRICK, MEDIA SAYS NOTHING

Yesterday the convent and the burial place of Saint Patrick himself in Downpatrick was reduced to ashes.

Posted by: Don Black at June 29, 2026 05:36 PM (ZxPkt)

360 CONVENT AND ST PATRICK BURIAL SITE BURN DOWN IN DOWNPATRICK, MEDIA SAYS NOTHING
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Then torch the mosques.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 29, 2026 05:36 PM (BI5O2)

361 NOOD

SCOTUS

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 29, 2026 05:38 PM (R+iUD)

362 >> Right now it's 85 degrees and 17% humidity.

Just ran the numbers on that with an online psychrometric calculator thingy. That comes out to dew point of 35F and a wet bulb temp of 58F.

Theoretically, the wet bulb is how low a swamp cooler could lower the temp. Of course, it can't reach that low efficiently (and you wouldn't want 100% air anyway). But that shows under those conditions a swamp cooler would work like a charm.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 29, 2026 05:39 PM (w6EFb)

363 I keep the floor Ac unit I bought in WA state after some very hot days. You vent them out the window. They work really well. The central works well at this house.

What we used to do, when we didn't have AC was take a drive in the car. The AC worked there and you could cool down with a short drive.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 29, 2026 05:41 PM (bkuEU)

364
Looking this up, a decent swamp cooler can get the output air temp down to about 85% of the dry bulb and wet-bulb difference.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 29, 2026 05:44 PM (w6EFb)

365 Ive got someone else's unopened ballot from earlier this month.
So im going to be able to open it, vote it, and mail it in and California has to count it.

Posted by: torabora at June 29, 2026 05:50 PM (4tOtz)

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